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About a month ago, I got an email from Patrick Kelly, one of the owners of Sea Islands Local Outlet (SILO), about a truly wild coincidence. Patrick shared with me that SILO's supplier for wild Alaska seafood is Steve Sturman, owner of Fred's Alaska Seafood (www.fredsalaskaseafood.com) based in Kenai, Alaska.
SILO's selling seafood from Alaska is the only exception SILO makes to its policy of offering only locally-grown or produced food. Wrote Patrick, "We make the exception because Steve comes down here, and he brings the salmon that he catches himself. He recently told me that your column is in their newspaper in Kenai, which I thought was a pretty cool connection. We thought it may make an interesting column sometime to draw the connection and also how SILO is a great resource for local food."
I thought it was a pretty cool connection, too. Each week, I strive to keep the column presented to the folks in Alaska just as relevant as it is for readers here in South Carolina. Thanks to Steve and Patrick, today's piece fits like a glove.
As the former manager of Beaufort's Habersham Farmers Market, Patrick Kelly recognized a need to improve how local growers/food purveyors could better connect with a community that valued having access to the kind of ultra-fresh, high quality foods they supplied. That increasing demand was met about a year-and-a-half ago with the establishment of Sea Islands Local Outlet (SILO), located at 7A Market Street, in Habersham Marketplace in the Burton area of Beaufort, which Patrick identifies as being "part a ready-to-go and once-a week pick-up shopfront, part Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and part food co-op." As such, SILO, which Patrick owns with wife Lauren and Garrett and Katie Budds, is a kind of online farmers market, where each week the growers/producers log onto the website (www.silo-beaufort.com) and update the products they assess SILO members can pick up that week. Items offered by SILO's growers/producers include fruits and vegetables; dairy and eggs; meat; seafood (wild Alaskan seafood), baked goods; grains, nuts and honey; herbs and spices; coffee and teas; prepared foods and canned items; flowers and plants; crafts; and more. While the public may purchase merchandise at the shopfront without a membership, membership is required to shop online - Monday through Wednesday, from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m., after which orders may be picked up on "market" day at SILO-Habersham, the following Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. (The annual $50 membership fee typically offers better pricing when shopping online, as well as other benefits. Also, SILO extends folks the ability to purchase items from the online market twice to test the program before being charged the annual fee.
For details, go to www.silo-beaufort.com. With the addition of Erik Thyberg, Market Manager, SILO has expanded its hours to Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, call 843-321-8990, email firstname.lastname@example.com or go to www.silo-beaufort.com.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at email@example.com or 683-0375.
The wild-caught salmon used for this recipe courtesy Sea Islands Local Outlet (SILO)/Fred's Alaska Seafood ("From Our Nets, To Your Steps")
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2 frozen wild Alaska salmon fillet portions, ½ pound each
Vegetable oil
Creole seasoning
½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, plus more as needed
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
1 shallot finely minced
½ cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
1 teaspoon Creole seasoning, plus more to taste
Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Remove salmon from packaging, rinsing off any ice glaze under cold running water; pat dry with a paper towel. Lightly brush both sides of the salmon with some vegetable oil, then lightly sprinkle with the Creole seasoning, again on both sides. Set a large non-stick skillet set over medium-high heat, adding just enough oil to make a light film. When the oil is hot and shimmering, add the salmon, skin side up, and cook until nicely browned, about 1 minute. Turn the salmon over and cook for another minute. Remove the salmon from the skillet with a spatula, transferring the salmon to a rimmed baking sheet. Roast for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until the fish is still a little rosy on the inside. (Do not allow salmon to overcook as the salmon will cook a little more when it is added to the sauce.) While the salmon is roasting, make the sauce: wipe clean the skillet used to cook the salmon with a paper towel. In the cleaned skillet, over medium-high heat, heat half the butter (4 tablespoons), with the oil. Add the shallot and sauté for 2 to 3 minutes until soft. Add the wine, vinegar and seasoning. Continue to cook until mixture is reduced by half. Lower heat to low, then whisk in remaining butter, adding more butter as needed. If you haven't already removed the salmon from the oven, remove it from the baking sheet and place into the skillet with the sauce. Cook for a minute or two more, gently swirling salmon around the pan and spooning with sauce to coat, adjusting seasoning to taste. Place salmon on a serving plate, pouring some of the sauce over the salmon to serve. Makes 2 servings.
Wild-caught salmon is sustainable because it is caught in a way that does not harm the environment or pollute the ocean with waste the same way that farm-raised salmon does. The easiest way to make sure your salmon is sustainable is to buy Alaska salmon because all Alaska seafood is wild and sustainable. (Sustainable seafood is the only kind of seafood that Alaska harvests.) The Alaska Seafood logo pictured here was attached to the packaging on the salmon carried by SILO from Fred's Alaska Seafood. For further information on wild Alaska seafood, go to www.alaskaseafood.org.
Buttermilk makes this cornbread moist. Make it with either Palmetto Farms' stone-ground white or yellow cornmeal. To see Palmetto Farms' full line of products, go to www.palmettofarms.com.
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1½ cups Palmetto Farms stone-ground yellow or white cornmeal
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
¼ to ½ cup granulated sugar (depending on level of sweetness desired), optional
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups buttermilk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place the vegetable oil in a 10-inch cast iron skillet and place the skillet into the oven. While the skillet is heating, blend the cornmeal with flour, sugar, salt and baking soda. Stir in the buttermilk, egg and butter, mixing just until combined. Pour mixture into hot skillet, then bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until top bounces back slightly when touched with your finger. Serve warm. Makes 8 to10 servings.


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The paper describes an implemented system for automatic form processing that structures user interactions according to an extensible lattice of presentation classes (an HTML3 extension to HTML input types) and uses an explicit representation of forms and queries to automatically recover from user input errors and to operate over multiple transport media -- presently the World-Wide Web and email.
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RIVERSIDE >> Testimony resumed this morning in the federal trial for two Inland Empire men accused of planning to engage in a violent jihad against American targets overseas.
Nolan Avery, the manager at LAX Firing Range in Inglewood, said suspects Ralph De Leon, Miguel Santana and a "Middle Eastern man in his 40s" went to the range on Sept. 10, 2012. De Leon and Santana rented AR-15 assault rifles and Glock 17 pistols and practiced shooting, Avery testified.
Avery said the three stood out because they didn't blend in and their IDs indicated they were from Ontario and Upland. There are shooting ranges in the Inland Empire, including one off the 10 Freeway in Ontario, he continued.
An FBI agent testified Thursday about finding a membership card and passes to L.A. shooting ranges and a Corona paintball park, as well as Post-It notes about traveling to Afghanistan, in De Leon's wallet.
Prosecutors allege the defendants honed their shooting skills at firing ranges and paintball facilities and exercised, at the suggestion of suspect Sohiel Omar Kabir, to build their strength in preparation for their trip overseas.
De Leon, 25, of Ontario, and Sohiel Omar Kabir, 36, of Pomona are standing trial in U.S. District Court in Riverside on five counts of conspiring to kill, kidnap or maim American targets including "officers and employees of the United States" and military personnel, to provide material support to the terrorist organization al-Qaida, and to receive al-Qaida-backed military training to benefit the terrorist organization. They face life in federal prison if convicted of all charges.
Two other men arrested and initially indicted in the case, Santana, 23, of Upland and Arifeen David Gojali, 23, of Riverside, have pleaded guilty and are expected to testify against Kabir and De Leon during the trial, which is expected to last 20 days.
Today, a video was shown in court of De Leon firing AR-15 on firing line at LAX Firing Range. Avery said the older man with De Leon and Santana paid for everything with cash, about $170.
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Avery replied, "No." A criminal conviction would preclude someone from being allowed to possess or use firearms, he said.
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At CSAA's upcoming annual meeting—to be held on Marco Island, Fla., Oct. 22 through 26—there will be a panel devoted to cybersecurity, which the association announced more about this week.
I spoke with Jay Hauhn, CSAA's executive director, recently about the meeting as well as other focuses for the association.
Hauhn said that the annual meeting's cybersecurity panel was going to approach the subject in a new way, looking to focus on what companies should do about cybersecurity.
"We are not going to repeat what has been done ad-nauseum and have someone stand at the front of the room and scare everyone about cyber threats," Hauhn told SSN. "We are going to focus on something actionable. We are having experts talk about how to put a cyber protection program together."
The panel, entitled "Cyber Security is a Business Risk (Not Just an IT Risk)," will include Justin Bailey, AvantGuard's COO, Todd Neilson, president for Secuvant Security, Sascha Kylau, VP of central station solutions and service at Onetel, and Steve Butkovich, CPI Security Systems' chief technology officer.
CSAA is going to be looking at cloud based central station automation platforms in a similar way at the meeting, Hauhn said. The panel will not only approach the features of the cloud, but what businesses' cost savings could be and how they can get started with a cloud based platform.
Currently, the association has an early bird rate for the meeting, which ends this Friday, Sept. 9.
CSAA is also keeping an eye on other emerging technological issues. Hauhn mentioned that the industry is changing, and standards are needed for newer technologies; CSAA recently put out the call for SMEs to assist with new technology standards.
"Monitoring life safety events in the traditional central station model remains our core business. That will not change. However, new innovative applications and services are being offered by our members. Best practices need to be created, that outline the actions monitoring centers take in this expanding environment," said Hauhn.
"For example, when a service that monitors an asset in motion requires a dispatch of police or EMS, we have to be able to accommodate the asset traversing municipalities," he said.
It has been about a month since I used this space to talk about the rising need for cybersecurity, a topic that is increasingly popping up in conversations within the physical security space.
Just this week, a report on the Cyber Security Market from global research firm MarketsandMarkets shows that the cybersecurity market is estimated to grow from $122.45 billion in 2016 to $202.36 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 10.6 percent. North America is expected to hold the largest share of the cybersecurity market in 2016 due to the technological advancements and early adoption of cybersecurity in the region, the report found.
The major forces driving the cybersecurity market, the study found, are the rise in security breaches targeting enterprises and need for stringent compliance and regulatory requirements, as well as the growing security needs of Internet of Things (IoT) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trends and increased deployment of web & cloud-based business applications.
This rise in cybersecurity breaches is the reason why Surveillance Systems Incorporated, a Rocklin, Calif.-based security integration company, recently launched a new cybersecurity division, SSI Threat Protect.
In my conversation with SSI president Todd Flowers, he shared with me an ironic, yet poignant story about an inexpensive drone he had ordered that arrived on day one of the Threat Protect division launch. Flowers said drones are a part of the physical security space he is excited about, and thought it would be cool to use the drones for prizes—"a fun little thing to do for some customers," he said.
"The first day I launched our new cyber division, this drone shows up, and I plug it in—the interface is super easy and it is on Wi-Fi—but it won't work," Flowers explained. "So I get my IT guy over and he pulls up the network and turns off our firewall to see what is going on. Now this thing is just supposed to work internally on Wi-Fi and does not require the Internet, but when he turns off the firewall, this thing starts transmitting packets of data to Japan and Korea. The drone was trying to transmit internal information from our servers, and basically opened up a pipeline of critical information to servers in Japan and China."
Although this scary situation was remedied immediately, it exemplifies what Flowers said he sees happening within the next five years: "The physical side of what we do and the cyber side of security will converge," he said.
Are you ready for it?
In a recent SSN News Poll readers said that DIY offerings can add new streams of revenue to a traditional security business and open a company up to new customers. A couple of those respondents specifically pointed to the DragonFly offering from Honeywell, which pairs DIY installed equipment with professional monitoring.
Earlier this year, Bart Didden of USA Central Station started a new venture, Security Dealer Network, or SDN, to help dealers offer the DragonFly product with professional monitoring from USA Central.
This week, SDN announced that its heard some positive feedback from dealers.
"As a professional security dealer and installer, I've been concerned about the quick growth of DIY security products. The DragonFly Security System gives me the chance to get a piece of that business, along with the confidence that my customers are getting the quality of products that I would want to represent my name," Kimberly Rescigno, director of sales and marketing for Security Specialists in Stamford, Conn., said in a prepared statement.
"This program gives us the ability to offer a tried and true product with a high performance rating as a DIY product. There is absolutely no risk for us to participate. And the upside—a new source of profits that could be substantial," Patty Terada, president of Alarm & Access Control Technologies, Inc., located in West Linn, Ore., said in the announcement.
Joseph V. Bonafede, president of Technocality Inc. of Hamilton, N.J., said in a prepared statement. "Anyone on the front lines who is selling and installing security systems knows that DIY video and security products have become a main source of competition. As the old saying goes, 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.' That's exactly what SDN allows dealers to do with its unique do-it-yourself video surveillance products and central station monitoring offering.
SSN spoke with Didden in Las Vegas at this year's ISC West to hear about some of the initial responses to SDN and the DragonFly offering. Click here to watch the ssnTVnews interview.
With all of the technology available today, the world we live is becoming much smaller.
And it is also becoming a much more connected world, where systems and technologies are talking with each other, and more and more products are working with each other, all in an effort to provide the most cutting-edge and user-friendly experience for customers.
One look no further than what is going on in the residential space, with the emergence of the smart home, and smart everything, for that matter—thermostats, lights, doorbells, refrigerators—you name it.
Just this week alone, there have been a number of big announcements from major players in the smart home world, from Amazon, Google, Apple, Coldwell Banker, and even Facebook.
This week Amazon Echo announced that it now works with Sonos, the popular speaker manufacturer, so homeowners can tell Alexa to play something from their Spotify account, for example, using their voice alone. And Amazon continues to partner with companies to bring voice control to the smart home world.
And as Google prepares to launch Google Home to compete with Amazon Echo, it was announced this week that engineers responsible for the Nest Labs platform will move to Google to work on smart home projects for the company.
Also this week, Coldwell Banker announced that it is now promoting smart home staging kits that include August, Nest and Lutron products, all in an effort to be at the forefront of this smart home movement. This announcement from Coldwell Banker comes on the heels of Apple announcing that it is working with homebuilders—Brookfield Residential, KP, and Lennar—to support Apple's HomeKit in new properties.
As if that is not enough smart home news for one week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at a Facebook internal Q&A session in Rome, that he has been working on a project using AI software solutions from the engineers at Facebook to build a Smart House solution in his own home that he hopes to be able to show publicly in the next month.
While more and more companies enter the smart home space and become connected, so to speak, we are entering into an era of interoperability, where making everything work seamlessly together will become a necessity rather than a luxury, and an industry where partnering with others to maximize the customer experience will become the norm rather than the exception.
In the past couple of weeks, Monitronics has announced new benefits for active members of AARP and AAA, offering benefits both to members signing up for services with Monitronics as well as members who are current customers.
"These partnerships are set up uniquely utilizing various co-marketing strategies to make their respective member aware of the value and benefits that Monitronics can provide," Frank Guido, Monitronics' CMO, told Security Systems News in an email interview.
"These initiatives were started many months ago, but has been a strategic focus to fuel growth opportunities with high quality, well recognized partners," Guido said. "We are targeting channels that are synergistic to our business and the potential partner's business. We are selectively targeting similarly partnerships that provide win-win-win opportunities for customers first, our partner and Monitronics.
The company announced its partnership with AAA on Aug. 23, which named Monitronics as "the AAA-branded provider for professionally installed residential security monitoring in the organization's Ohio valley and Mid-Atlantic regions, which covers 11 states, including OH, KY, KS, IN, VA, WV, MD, DE, CT, PA, NJ, plus Washington DC."
"AAA Alliance is a large regional club for AAA with a member base of over 5.5 [million] members. These members also have excellent attributes and are similar to our base," Guido said.
Brian St. Leger, managing director, discount partnerships and business for AAA Club Alliance, said in a prepared statement, "We are excited to partner with Monitronics to provide a valuable service at an exclusive discounted rate to our members.
"We know our members are active, traveling and out enjoying the world and this will help bring them peace of mind while they're away from their home," St. Leger said in the announcement.
AAA members signing up with the company will get discounts on a specialized AAA package, while members who are already customers will be offered discounts on additional equipment.
AARP members who sign up with Monitronics will receive equipment and free activation "as well as $5 off their monthly monitoring fee," the company said in an Aug. 11 announcement. Existing customers who are also AARP members will be offered discounts when they add on equipment in the future.
"AARP has a 38M member base and is highly respected brand. Their member base has many positive attributes and similarities to our customer base," Guido said. "Monitronics felt that it could provide AARP members with the best value proposition and service for security and automation. This was affirmed by AARP in the selection of Monitronics in their extensive RFP process."
How much overlap exists between these organizations' memberships and Monitronics' current customer base? "While there may be some overlap, these organization are vast and provide different avenues to reach new subscribers," Guido said.
Eagle Eye Networks, based in Austin, Texas, announced today that it has awarded $1.25 million in Drako Cloud Security Grants to schools throughout the United States.
Dean Drako, Eagle Eye Networks' president and CEO, told Security Systems News that with so many deserving applications continuing to come in, he felt it was important to not only increase the grant money available but to also extend the application deadline (originally July 1) to Dec. 1.
"The applications that we received, some of them are heart-wrenching—it was just unreal to hear some of the stories of these schools in or near bad neighborhoods that are isolated and continuously experiencing problems but couldn't address them because of a lack of funding," said Drako. "So these grants will allow these schools to put in some basic video surveillance that will really help the school as well as the parents and students. This is one of the ways we can give back."
A broad range of public and private schools have already been awarded the Drako Grant for a fully functional security camera system—including cloud management and recording, mobile phone remote access applications, cameras, networking equipment to connect IP cameras, and secure gateways to the cloud—at no cost for one year.
These cloud-based systems will not only help to improve school safety, but provide first responders with easier access. With Eagle Eye's "First Responder Real-time Video Access," which was announced at ISC West in April, Eagle Eye Security Camera VMS administrators have the option to pre-designate first responders who can receive immediate real-time security camera access during emergency situations; the cameras are shared only when an authorized user activates first responder access.
"Because Eagle Eye is a cloud-based system, we have all of that video up in the cloud and giving access to people can be managed, controlled and highly secure while it also can be done very dynamically," said Drako. This is key for first responders, for example, who are heading to the site for whatever the situation is, as they can access the video on their smart phone or android device. Police HQ can also have access to the video and tell officers where to go, for example, all in real time, he noted.
"I am a firm believer in security and video surveillance," said Drako. "Video is going to become a ubiquitous part of our lives—and security—and I think that that is going to happen primarily in the cloud. Just like email has moved nearly 100 percent to the cloud, video surveillance is going to move almost entirely to the cloud over the next 10-20 years."
He continued, "There are compelling advantages to cloud-based surveillance systems, and I want schools to experience these advantages as we try to make schools safer."
As the new editor of Security Systems News, I am grateful to my predecessor, Martha Entwistle, for all that she has done for the publication. Martha, who had been with SSN for more than a decade, six of those years as editor, raised the newspaper to new heights, while maintaining the high standards SSN has come to be known for.
As we begin a new era here at SSN, it is exciting to take the helm, especially with newly promoted managing editor Spencer Ives helping me to steer the ship during this pivotal time in a quickly evolving and growing security industry. And as we strive to continue and build upon the strong tradition of editorial excellence here at the publication, we are eager hear from you, our readers, on what issues and topics are most important to you.
We also invite you to attend our upcoming second annual Cloud+ conference, which is set for Nov. 29 and 30 in the tech-savvy city of Austin, Texas. You can take a look at our educational program at www.ssncloudplus.com, as well as register for what is shaping up to be an ideal forum to investigate the successes early adopters and innovators are having using cloud technology, which is no longer the future—it is here!
In addition to Cloud+, we here at SSN are also beginning to put together the program for our TechSec Solution's New Technology Conference, which is Feb. 27-28, 2017, in Delray Beach, Fla. Whether you are a security director, IT professional, integrator, consultant, distributor, manufacturer or other security professional, this two-day event is the gathering place for security thought leaders to discuss the industry's new and emerging technologies.
And speaking of conferences, I am excited to be attending the ASIS 2016 conference in Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12-15. For those of you who will be there as well, I encourage you to reach out to me to set up a time to meet, or just stop by the SSN booth to say hello!
For the first time, PPVAR is looking to offer online operator training. Yesterday, the partnership put out the call for volunteers that would like to help write modules for this training.
The call was a "great success," with 47 total registrants, individuals had registered for it, PPVAR's immediate past president Steve Walker told SSN in an email interview.
Part of the call covered PPVAR's mission and approach, as well as its overall objective with the training. "The process of finding volunteers for any worthwhile initiative is difficult because qualified people have so many demands on their time," Walker said. "Therefore, we want our volunteers to understand the value of what we are trying to accomplish while also explaining how the process will ensure that we use their time respectfully, efficiently and effectively."
PPVAR has hired a professional training firm to do most of the "leg work," he said. "[O]ur volunteers will provide the creative oversight needed for ensuring a great final product that is creative, accurate, meaningful and effective."
"The ideal volunteers are people with experience in using verification technologies (audio and video) in monitoring centers today—people that can draw on their own experiences to know what works and doesn't work in the real world. Owners, central station personnel (leaders and trainers) were all represented in the call," Walker said.
"Our end goal is to develop seven different online training modules that will be useful for central station employees and PSAP employees, alike," Walker said.
There are seven tracks that PPVAR is focusing on. According to PPVAR, the goal is to have the first module done in the next 30 to 60 days.
"Crime in Progress Verification Monitoring – Introduction," which focuses on audio and video verification as compared to other methods of reducing false alarms.
"Design of a Video Verified System," which covers information on how verified systems are installed, as well as software platforms specifically for video verification.
The "PSAP Communications" module covers communication between operators and PSAPs regarding verification.
"Video Threat Levels and Flowchart" focuses on how operators should execute decision making within the Threat Level Flow Chart, as described in the Video Alarm Verification Best Practices.
The "Design of an Audio Verified System" track will cover the installation of an audio verified system, as well as software platforms specifically for audio verification.
"Audio Threat Levels and Flowchart" looks at how operators should execute decision making within the Threat Level Flow Chart, as described in the Video Alarm Verification Best Practices.
The final module, "Verification and Insurance Impacts," is designed to make insurance agents able to better advise clients on options available in mitigating costs related to crime.
Tunstall Americas announced its new Vi+ personal emergency response system earlier in the month, with an integral sensor for ambient temperature. Yesterday, the company announced that extreme temperature monitoring will be provided free of charge to its subscribers.
"Record breaking heat across the United States this summer prompted Tunstall Americas to offer Temperature Extremes monitoring free of charge to subscribers of their home based medical alert service," the company said in the release.
"Environmental changes indicate that the frequency and severity of heat waves will continue. We are pleased that we are in a position to offer this potentially lifesaving benefit to our current and future subscribers of our Vi Medical Alert System at no additional cost," Casey Pittock, president and CEO of Tunstall Americas, said in a prepared statement.
The system will look for temperatures either above 89 degrees Fahrenheit or below 50 degrees, at which point the subscriber or caregiver will be notified.
Extreme temperatures specifically concern many of the typical PERS users. "Tunstall's core base of subscribers, the elderly, individuals with chronic conditions, and other at risk populations have been reported to be the most vulnerable to extreme heat related illness," the company said.
Tunstall Americas operates its own monitoring centers in New York and Rhode Island.
If you aren't that worried about cybersecurity and the threat of a ransomware attack, you should be.
According to a new report, "State of Ransomware," which was sponsored by Malwarebytes and conducted by Osterman Research, nearly 40 percent of businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the last year. Of these victims, more than a third lost revenue and 20 percent had to stop business completely.
And that doesn't even include the companies that aren't reporting being attacked. According to FBI Section Chief Philip Celestini, who was a featured speaker at ESX 2016 in Fort Worth, Texas, 80 percent of companies that have been attacked by ransomware "are not reporting it to law enforcement," he said. The FBI is reaching out to the industry, Celestini said, for its help in spreading the word of the importance of cybersecurity and working with law enforcement to minimize loss.
According to the FBI, ransomware attacks went from causing $25 million in losses to $200 million in just the last year in the U.S., as well as an astonishing $2 trillion in cyber crime losses worldwide.
According to Nathan Scott, senior security researcher at Malwarebytes and a ransomware expert, over the last four years, "ransomware has evolved into one of the biggest cybersecurity threats in the world, with instances of ransomware in exploit kits increasing 259 percent in the last five months alone. Until now, very few studies have examined the current prevalence and ramifications of actual ransomware incidents in the enterprise."
Some other key U.S. findings from the study include:- Security attacks with ransomware are increasing: Nearly 80 percent of U.S. companies have suffered a cyber attack in the last year and more than half experienced a ransomware incident. US organizations are the most attacked among the countries surveyed. - Email is the top vector for spreading ransomware: More than half of the U.S. attacks originated with email.- Upper management and C-Level executives are at a higher risk: 68.4 percent of U.S. respondents noted ransomware attacks impacted mid-level managers or higher, while 25 percent of incidents attacked senior executives and the C-Suite.- Cybercriminals held high-value data for ransom: Nearly 80 percent of the U.S. organizations breached had high-value data held for ransom.- Attacks are impacting more than initial endpoints: More than 40 percent of ransomware attacks in all four countries were successful in impacting more than a single endpoint, with nearly 10 percent of the attacks affecting more than one-quarter of the endpoints in the business.- Current enterprise security measures are weak against ransomware: Almost half of ransomware incidents in the U.S. occurred on a corporate desktop within the enterprise security environment.- Ransomware remediation takes hours: 44 percent of attacks on U.S. companies forced IT staff to work more than nine hours to remediate the incident. Globally, the figure is 63 percent of incidents that took more than nine hours to remediate.
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Cacophony or Consensus? Snapshots of a Complicated AIDS Conference
July 21, 2014
The International AIDS Conference is a unique animal. With multiple stages and sites, now online as well as in person, it's nothing so much as an interlocking puzzle that can't be pulled apart; a complicated, unduplicated interplay of seekers, strategists, stakeholders, spokespeople and creators of spectacle undergirded by an almost impossible amount of data.
Here are some quick hits from a conference whose cacophony of communication tilts wildly from hopeful to dire to inspiring to discouraging, and back again.
The Conference Opens: Tribute, Testimony on Loss, Progress and the Way Forward
AIDS 2014 began, officially, on the evening of July 20, with an opening session featuring remembrances of the six individuals who lost their lives en route to the gathering, as passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
As relayed by TheBodyPRO.com's Myles Helfand:
And then the conference, which flexed its muscles with a series of pre-conferences and satellite sessions over the weekend (like this skills-building workshop on trans MSM, covered by TheBodyPRO.com's Mathew Rodriguez), plunged into the myriad of issues that affect, and are affected by, the global pandemic.
Here's some more on what emerged -- we'll keep them coming, so do keep your eyes on TheBodyPRO.com's conference coverage.
Remember, there are lots of ways to dive into the conference online, including apps. As always, keep in touch and share your perspectives and questions on the news and events with us.
Key Populations?
You'll be hearing a lot about "key populations" in the coming days. But what's that mean? As explained by AVAC's Mitchell Warren, it's "current global health lingo for often-marginalized populations that are heavily affected by the AIDS epidemic including gay men and other men who have sex with men, people in prison, people who inject drugs, sex workers and transgender people."
The Melbourne Declaration says that we'll never defeat HIV unless we do right by key pops:
Ring true to you? You -- and your organization -- are invited to add your endorsement to the declaration.
"Undetectability for All" Takes the Stage
New PEPFAR Ambassador Deborah Birx told AIDS.gov in a video interview that she sees a high level of coalescence in the priorities across stakeholders:
Undetectability was undeniably the top issue of the day for a broad swath of nearly 50 groups worldwide whose statement inspired activists to stretch a banner across the stage as the much-orchestrated, high-level political meeting opened on the first day of the conference:
At the session, according to UNAIDS, Executive Director Michel Sidibé called for a new set of treatment targets by 2020. "These include that 90% of all people living with HIV know their HIV status, 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection receive HIV treatment and 90% of all people receiving HIV treatment have durable viral suppression."
The agency explained that "these new targets will reflect a new paradigm for HIV treatment: targets for each stage of the treatment continuum, rather than a single number of people who initiate treatment; recognition not only of the life-saving therapeutic benefits of HIV treatment, but also its prevention potential; and a commitment to leave no one behind in the push to link all people living with HIV to treatment services."
How About #LGBTMatters?
One of the notable aspects of the conference is the open-to-the-public Global Village, where anyone and everyone can come for a free, vibrant parallel conference with distinct networking zones, civil society exhibitors and an almost overwhelming array of events. This will be the first year the Global Village will feature a transgender networking zone, called Trans People Step Forward!
But when the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) found out that there would no longer be an LGBT networking zone -- a conference staple -- it sounded an alarm called #LGBTMatters.
The hashtag has reached far and wide, allowing LGBT people and allies who can't make it to Melbourne to speak out. IGLHRC will bring their words to the Global Village and the main conference alike -- a mission, it says, that is made even more important by the reality that many LGBT people are excluded, harassed, criminalized or attacked by their own governments around the world. As the conference proceeds, #LGBTMatters will be used to weigh in on presentations that aren't paying due attention to LGBT, well, matters.
On Another Note: Superstars' Videos on Sustaining the Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
A common theme in HIV is the need to bridge generations in our efforts. It's no easy feat. But two videos to be released at the conference at least confirm that two generations of pop superstars are devoted to efforts to draw attention and resources to the epidemic.
Katy Perry said she worked with UNICEF on the "Unconditionally" video "in support of the 35 million people living with HIV, especially the young people who often suffer in silence." She's now also dedicated the video to the HIV/AIDS leaders who perished on flight MH17, and to all the victims of MH17.
Sir Elton John, whose foundation is pivotal in supporting HIV/AIDS efforts, released a welcoming message and video called "AIDS: Living in the Shadows" that will be screened at the conference on July 22, followed by a panel discussion:
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For the last few days, all our meals have included magazine recipes. My stack of cut-out pages actually got a little shorter for a change. The first item I have to mention is the slow-roasted tomatoes from the March 2008 issue of Food and Wine. There's a note about how less than perfect tomatoes can be used for this, and it will still be very good. So, of course, it's fantastic when the tomatoes are perfect. Thick slices of tomatoes are topped with a nicoise olive, basil, rosemary, and olive oil paste. Then, they are roasted at a low temperature for one and a half hours.
To understand this dish, imagine the best flavor aspects of tomatoes and olives with the volume turned up, so to speak, about 20 times. The intensity of the tomatoes' sweetness accompanied by the olives' brininess was really amazing. The tomatoes retain a bit of texture but become more tender and delicate after roasting. I realized I was being cautious as I scooped up each slice so as not to spill any of the ethereal olive oil-tomato liquid that pooled around the platter. I didn't want to waste any of it. There were other items included in this meal, but I can't remember what they were. Grilled chicken, maybe? Nothing else mattered once I tasted these tomatoes.
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The following is a news release from Gov. Bobby Jindal:
Governor Bobby Jindal announced Friday that he will seek legislation to improve gun safety in Louisiana by enabling the state to report an individual's eligibility to purchase firearms based on mental health records to the federally administered National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) database.
"Too often, both in Louisiana and in states across the nation, the mentally ill are slipping through the cracks and getting lost in the system," said Jindal. "In order to protect these individuals and the communities they reside in, it is imperative that we take proactive steps to prevent them from harming either themselves or others."
Currently, the federal government operates the NICS database to prevent potential gun buyers with a criminal history or severe mental health illness from purchasing firearms.
Seventeen states already have laws that require courts to report mental health eligibility to the NICS, including AL, CT, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, NV, NY, ND, OR, TX, VA and WI.
In Louisiana, current state statute prohibits reporting mental health eligibility to the NICS database. Under Governor Jindal's proposal, Louisiana will be authorized to provide mental health eligibility to the NICS database.
No actual medical records will be shared, and the state will have the authority to request the removal of an individual from NICS should that person be deemed mentally competent by health care professionals.
"As a strong supporter of Constitutional gun rights, I fully believe that we can defend our Second Amendment right to bear arms and defend our children too," said Governor Jindal. "This proposal is a common-sense way to protect our kids, our families and our loved ones."
To enhance gun safety and mental health reporting standards in Louisiana, Governor Jindal's proposal will:
-- Authorize the state to confidentially share an individual's eligibility to purchase a firearm based on his or her mental health records, such as those involuntarily committed to mental health facilities, and mandate that the State Supreme Court report eligibility to the NICS, in full compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The State Supreme Court will collect and transfer eligibility status to the NICS the same way criminal data is currently reported.
-- Define situations where mental health eligibility must be reported and when a person would be disqualified from purchasing a firearm. This determination will be made by a court. Criteria will include whether or not a person is deemed to be a danger to himself, herself or others as a result of mental illness; whether or not a person is deemed incapable of managing his or her own affairs; whether or not a person has been found not guilty by reason of insanity or other mental disease or defect in a criminal case; whether or not a person has been found guilty but insane in a criminal case; whether or not a person has been found incompetent to stand trial; and whether or a not person has been formally and involuntarily committed to a mental institution or asylum.
-- Define situations when the state may request to have an individual deemed competent by health care professionals removed from the NICS database. The "relief from disabilities" provision will protect the rights of healthy, law-abiding citizens and allow Louisiana to utilize federal funding for NICS.


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- 30A Songwriters Festival 8 - 9 August 2014
- Headliners Announced: Frightened Rabbits and The Undertones
- Over 30 musical performances
Stendhal Festival of Art have announced the first part of their musical line-up for the 2014 festival at Ballymully Cottage Farm on August 8 and 9, 2014. Critically acclaimed, Scottish Indie rockers Frightened Rabbit and legendary outfit The Undertones headline the festivals 5 stage musical extravaganza.
Stendhal organiser Ross Parkhill said he is delighted with how this year's line-up is shaping up so far. "I am absolutely thrilled at being able to announce some of the names that we have done today," he said. "Frightened Rabbit are a band we have been following for some time now and are incredibly excited to have them on the bill this year. They are a band that have an already stellar back catalogue of songs and have the potential to be one of the biggest things in British Music; they are that good."
He added: "There is nothing I can really say about the Undertones that hasn't been said before. They are true musical royalty in our part of the world and to have an act of their calibre coming along to play Stendhal is a delight for us. "
Add to that the talents of Paddy Casey, Bronagh Gallagher, Tucan and everyone else we have announced so far and this year' line-up is shaping up to be perhaps the best one we have had at Stendhal."
Stendhal have also announced a strong Irish line-up including performances from; The Emerald Armada, Making Monsters, Ports (formerly Little Bear), Go Wolf, The Clameens, Paddy Nash and The Happy Enchiladas, Malojian, Ciaran Lavery, In An Instant, Bakken, Exit Pursued By Bear, Ryan McMullan, The Bobbie Harvey Band, Pitcher of the Moon, Glenn Rosborough, The Wood Burning Savages, August, Dramatic Tiger Club, Limavady Big Band, Troublesome Bucks, Paul Tully, Boxcutter, Los Dramáticos, Ard Ri, Teknopeasant and Silences.
Stendhal also welcomes back The Burning Glass with English folk outfit Edwin Brooks and Donegal based SlowPlaceLikeHome making Stendhal debuts along with fellow Donegal natives The Henry Girls, The Inishowen Gospel Choir and Sligo Bluegrass six-piece, Rackhouse Pilfer.
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By now you've undoubtedly heard that an exclusive version of America's precious Call of Duty franchise is on its way to the Land of the Red Dragon. (Or wait, isn't Wales the Land of the Red Dragon? Shut up, I'm trying to talk about China here.) And if you're an unwavering CoD superfan, you're probably feeling a bit of jealousy, especially if the PC is your system of choice.
i wouldn't play it anyway, Even if it was free.
Well said good sir
i couldn't be jealous of anyone living in china this free cod is a bit of a relief to them no?
It's obvious geekparty has clue none about China. Nobody in their rights minds are jealous of anything China has to offer especially working at gun point for slave wages and the highlight of your day is to commit suicide so your horrible life will end already.
Geekparty you do realize China has nets in place to catch suicide jumpers from killing themselves at sweat shops all over their country. If not, now you do know.
Never put China and jealous in the same sentence unless you're a sadist.
It's so cute when people like @Brutallyhonest have never been to a country, but act like they're experts.
And by "cute" I mean "highly ignorant"
Not that China's an amazing place to live, but it's nowhere near the picture you're painting, either.
I'm going to guess you're American.
@ MattS Don't be so quick to judge every American as ignorant. Jumping to conclusions just makes you look stupid. I hate that other countries act as if morons only exist in America, idiots are all over the world and if you don't know that you're the one that's ignorant. Anyways, What did he say that is wrong?
China is known for its terrible working conditions, sweat shops, long hours, high suicide rate, you name it, stating facts that don't put a country in a positive light doesn't make you a hater or ignorant, but assuming someone is because they do makes you ignorant. You do know that there is a reason all of our factories get moved over there right?
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OT: I'm not jealous that they're getting this.
He said:
"Nobody in their rights minds are jealous of anything China has to offer"
A load of crap. There are a lot of really good jobs in China for expats. Not everyone in China works in a factory.
He said:
"especially working at gun point"
"highlight of your day is to commit suicide"
Nope. That's not a highlight in anyone's day.
"Geekparty you do realize China has nets in place to catch suicide jumpers from killing themselves at sweat shops all over their country."
The nets around the building are at Foxconn. One factory that happened to hit headlines because it's the one Apple uses. Not every factory. One.
So from start to finish his comments were filled with sensationalist and utterly incorrect statements. Clearly someone who has not been there, and that kind of sensationalism comes from the American media more than anywhere else, which is why I made the guess I did.
China is not an ideal place to work, especially for factory workers, but China has a large (and growing) middle class, and minimum wages in many working-class jobs are improving.
There's the real facts. From someone who has been to China.
@MattS I simply skimmed over those statements like " the highlight of your day is to commit suicide so your horrible life will end already." Because they're obviously exaggerated and not meant to be taken literally. Also I don't believe he said every factory has them? He may have been wrong in saying that they're all over the country but he wasn't wrong to point them out. Also it's not just American media that does this, its all media, its almost the entire point of media and that's why I do my own research and don't watch the idiotic news because its all run by biased morons anyways. Well my points here are:
1. Don't be so quick to judge.
2. Don't deny china could use some improvement, they seem to have little to no interest for the individual. I'm not saying that as fact its simply what I gather from their actions. What I feel would help most is new leadership.
3. Lastly where you're from doesn't have anything to do with who you are as a person. So enough of these idiotic stereotypes put on people's personalities based on where they live.
@Brutallyhonest STFU you know nothing about China,
you know only bullshit that your TV shows.
I've been there and there's no sutch thing as slavery, people working in factorys live an averege life.And there's more truth and order than in any western country...
I've been to China kriauciuniux... and you're wrong on every single part. I was in Beijing and found the living conditions and poverty within that country appalling. I was living in Korea at the time, so I wasn't comparing it with the western world, but other countries from the orient.
The people of China live very very underprivileged lives for the most part, apart from the odd wealthy controlling few (as always).
the only thing good about china is Chinese food, and if you are there visiting from a first world country.
Sounds like MattS preferes a hammer and sickle over a hamburger. China sucks and always will.
He's not making stuff up matts and you know it. The Foxcon Mega factory is legal slavery. You get 12 years in prison for trying to form a union. Your forced to live in a small apartment with 8 other people. You work 31 hour shifts for 30 cent a hour. And yes they have up nets to stop the employees from jumping to their deaths. Your just a Chinese national trying to do damage control. Now get your sorry butt back to Wikipedia and edit out all the bad things said about China. Just like your commie overloards ordered to you to.
Maybe they are stealing sales tactics from crack dealers! Get them hooked then hike the price!
Well they get stuck with the Free to play model. But its really pay to win model. They gonna rape their small made in China wallets
well it's basically advertisement for current and future COD games.
Because their milking tactics failed in China and not as many people played or bought the game year after year, unlike North american idiots, they released this free to get players addicted.
Once the fanbase increases there, all support for this free game will stop and activision will expect them to buy the real games.
Haha, yeah :)
And, btw China. It's FREEDOM, not FREE COD.
@omi25p Then why even come on here and comment on the article??
Isnt the whole point of the comment systems to tell your opinion on the subject.
Why even comment on my comment asking why i commented in the first place. HMMMMMM
Well you've been on this site for over 2 years now and still only have 2 bubbles so I guess that obviously means you know what you're talking about -_-
who said we were jealous of China?
geekparty.com did.
And they're wrong. Who wants rehashed content with a pay-to-win model of CoD?
Just because western gamers don't see the appeal to F2P P2W models, doesn't mean China doesn't either. Look up Combat Arms, and see the demographic on that game.
most production is located in china...wouldnt be surprising for them to become the richest nation sooner or later...plus ip mans from china, the most bad ass dude there was at least in the movies anyway lol. shit without china wed be paying much more for our consoles, clothes, cars, etc. if we had all our production back here, yes unemployment rates would be close to zero but our people arnt willing to slave for 2$ an hour.
The reason it is free is because of how the Chinese model handles games. Nothing to be jealous of. Actually I don't think we are jealous.
I wouldn't be surprised if Activision is planning such a movement for other countries.
... and insane piracy
@dirthurts - that's why they release games as Free-to-play in China. Otherwise they'll get pirated.
This way the 1 per cent of people that would spend money on the game can support it, without piracy killing the company in the process.
It is in the pipes, we can all see it.
"Free-to-Play" aka "nickel and dime you at every wall" or "pay-to-win" models are slowly entering the industry.....
Go try to play SimCity Social....its not even SimCity anymore, but EA is going to make massive amounts of money off it.....
lol Activision dose not know the word "Free" they will find a way to make them pay
Most likely a multiplayer level cap, which would put non payers at a big disadvantage
Confirmed to have so-called "microtransactions".
Micro, my ass.
Yep, that's funny alright.
Whoever would have thought that a company that employs thousands of people would need to make some money from the work they do?
really @summons75?
I'll be getting a free map called Terminal pretty soon from Activision.
Seems like that's free to me.
Considering how messed up China is politically I'd say it would take more than free games to make me envious of them.
well china is now the new super power...you and your politically.
You should take up stand up comedy because that is laughably incorrent.
Actually AO1JMM Grap may not be correct but give it a few years or decades and he might be.
Look online bbc did a good documentary on it, China is the growing superpower right now, its overtaken Japan to become the worlds second largest economy and whilst the western world slows its still growing.
Look it up on google, might be surprised by what you find
This article makes me laugh.
I just find it stupid how Activision has made a game for a Chinese audience yet they've promoted it in english with english voice actors (bu the sounds of the trailer)
Wait I'm confused? Jealous of not being able to play COD free... yeah I'll come back to this when Warface drops for free.
Here is Activision's thinking...
China Population: 1.3 billion
World population: 6.7 billion
lure them in with free game, once they become addicated like many CoD fans are, RAISE PRICE TO TREE FIDDY!
Half off if dey find the Loch Ness Monster!
I highly doubt that would happen.
This game just has micro-transactions slapped all over it.
Now they have to figure out if people in China actually like FPS's...
Nah just look into the fine print.
"Call of Duty Free-To-Play. Free is classified as, initially free to "Play" but will "encourage" money exchanges in the amount of ten times what a standard game costs"
At the end of the day, idiots will go and spend 100 bucks on the game, and we will never see a 60 dollar full retail game again
Good lord, I'm an American, I in no way, shape or form will ever be jealous of China. I played the Call Of Duty games they are getting 5 years ago.
You will be, China literally own America now.
I live in America, and i am very jealous of this idea of a good economy. I have been told stories of such a thing, but i am scared to think about it.
Are you jealous over dictatorships too? Or how about only being able to have a set amount of kids?
@chunkylove. none of that. I like to pick out different things, but the economy is the only thing that china has against me. I'm not into killing my second born. I am not a supporter of a vast majority of their ideals, but when the US is in sever debt to a country that was somewhat recently a 3rd world country then they have to be doing something right, but i rarely think about it.
They basically have slaves, thats why they are not in debt anymore.
They have their entire country working in slave factories, but pay them pennies to call them workers. Its hard for any other country to compete when China openly has horrible working conditions and low as hell pay. So all the greedy corporations build their products there, then sell em at high prices here. I'm not jealous of it, look at how many economies (including the US) could shoot right back up the charts if those jobs went elsewhere? Yet the only way to do it is to literally open slave camps and say have fun....
That probably won't be long, China is basically killing themselves literally with pollution and diseases....Then again China is already buying out American companies....last month they bought a few chains and even a bank.
Ok , get set, ready.... RANT
It comes down to China's Economies....
Thats right , there is Two...
One , an international currency based around the world Stock markets...
Two, An Internal currency that is for the chinese, its one that can not be exchanged for foreign currency...
thats how they do it. They keep it devalued by such a system, and in essence allows cheap slave labour.
Its been around for years.. I was in Beijing in 1982 (when they first openly invited westerners) . and even then, We had to convert our Australian Currency to "Friendship Money". This currency we could not exchange back to AUS dollars when leaving..
Interestingly, there was one , one only multilevel dept store that had products you could only purchase with "Friendship Currency"... And no, it wasn't aimed at foreigners, it was the only way a local could buy products that weren't available anywhere else.. Like a washing machine !!!
Call it what you will, lets say an incentive.... but everyone there loved doing business with us...
Rant over...
BTW, Everyone was absolutely delightful and friendly.
Americans buy everything, Asians sell everything Hahahahahhh!!!
I wish theyd just sell the online parts of CO4 and WAW
I loved those ones
Jealous?! I actually felt sorry for them because the game looked so watered down compared to the other versions....
Which ended up in a shitty microtransaction.
Chinese people don't like violent shooters. In fact they have several shooting games in china that are only played by a small hardcore crowd. This is just activision throwing the free hand of dice in hopes to hit big, then they'll charge. Nothing to lose for them, but there chances are slim to none. There culture is far different from ours.
Screw COD they have been killed off their own series.
China is a scary country when you actually research it. They're the next superpower.
It's just a different culture. People tend to play video games in internet cafes and not at their house so they play F2P as buying a physical copy just wouldn't make sense.
read the article its not a different culture, consoles are illegal to have in your house not that they just want to be more social, the only legal way to play a game is at an internet cafe or something.
And then on top of it the maps are from like cod3 and 4 and the first modernwarfare so who still wants that here?
Its cool, i got blacklight retribution.
imagine, call of duty for free, all the good features enhanced and all the crap cut out.
I'm too angry with china atm for killing an unborn 7month baby.


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Katel should release an album entitled: "faux intellectual shit parade" Look the issue is really simple. Terrorism is the tactic of an inferior force who believes that through random violent conflict one can further their political objective. It is distinguished from war by the fact that those who wage war are usually understood to be officially (state) sanctioned combatants who use violence to further their political agenda. Neither definition has any referent to a just cause.
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Ferguson at Old Trafford: The Early Years (1986 – 1990)
Alex Ferguson arrived at Old Trafford on 6 November 1986. Manchester United lay in second-last position in the old First Division, and the dressing room was rife with big personalities who had won little and drank heavily.
Matters on the pitch couldn't have appeared much worse. A fading giant of yesteryear, a talented squad hit with injuries and internal problems endured a woeful start to the 1986/87 season under the charismatic Ron Atkinson.
Atkinson had arrived for the start of the 1981/82 season with a reputation built on a progressive team he forged at West Brom Albion, reaching the quarter finals of the UEFA Cup in '78/79 and even beating United 5-3 at Old Trafford that season, before finishing as high as fourth in 1980/81.
Atkinson's expensively assembled squad at Old Trafford, including Bryan Robson Remi Moses (both from former club West Brom), Frank Stapleton (Arsenal), Ray Wilkins (AC Milan), Gordon Strachan (from Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen), Paul McGrath (St Patrick's Athletic), and the brilliant Belfast youth Norman Whiteside, stormed to third place finishes in the league (1981/82 and '82/83), won the FA Cup twice (1982/83 and '84/85), and even reached the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup (1983/84).
But a bad run of results at the tail-end of the 1985/86 season, which United had actually started with ten straight wins, saw the team finish in a distant fourth to Liverpool yet again with immense pressure from fans for Atkinson's removal. Things worsened with a horrendous start to the 1986/87 season and, with the team's 1-4 loss at home to Southampton in the League Cup, "Big Ron"'s fate was sealed. Tasked with the job of winning the league, Atkinson couldn't deliver, and the club now entered their 20th year without the title.
In came Alex Ferguson.
Beleaguered by injuries and bad form, the Scot – who has gone on to win 13 league titles at Manchester United – was shocked to also find a culture of underachievement, excessive drinking, and substandard physical fitness.
Clashes with the big personalities of the club's star players followed, and – in an uncompromising act that acted as a precedent that would last at the club even until the present day – it was the players who were shipped out, and not the manager. In 1989, with no ceremony or argument, the George Best of his day, Norman Whiteside, was despatched to Everton for £600,000, while the team's defensive man-mountain, Paul McGrath, was sold to Aston Villa for £400,000.
The message was clear to those who remained, including Captain Marvel himself, Bryan Robson. There was a new sheriff in town, and it was his way or the highway.
Within the workings of the club itself, Ferguson was also confronted by a poor youth structure and no scouting system to speak of. 35 miles down the M28, meanwhile, Liverpool Football Club had just won the domestic FA Cup and league 'Double' – only the fifth team to ever do so, and had already amassed four European Cups, two UEFA Cups, and sixteen English First Division titles. United, by contrast, had not been champions of European since 1968 and had not won the League since 1967.
When we think about what Manchester United means as an institution and even as a brand in the commercialised world of football in the twentieth century, we must remember where the club was on that dreary, grey day in Manchester on 6 November, 1986.
The idea of United being rebuilt into the most successful club in England, eventually surpassing Liverpool's record tally of 19 a few short weeks ago, with a further two European Cups proudly on display in its now-bulging trophy cabinet, three Doubles and even one, unparalleled Treble, not to mention being the most supported team in the entire world, would have been rejected as a storyline too fanciful even for Roy of the Rovers. It was simply not possible.
Except it was.
Ferguson immediately and literally drew up a youth scouting network on maps he had had purchased of the Greater Manchester area, making sure to cover every corner of the city. One of his early, and potentially most inspired, acts was to prise a fourteen-year-old Ryan Giggs away from Manchester City to join a revolution that would eventually culminate in the famed 'Class of '92', which also held in its ranks the likes of Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, and a young lad from Essex called David Beckham.
In doing so, Ferguson secured the playing future of the club beyond the world of immediate results managers so often thrive or die by.
It is said that the FA Cup third round win over Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest in January 1990 saved Ferguson's job after over two years of largely unfulfilled promise on the pitch, despite high-profile and high-transfer fee signings in the likes of Brian McClair, Steve Bruce, Viv Anderson, and Jim Leighton, Neil Webb, Paul Ince, and Gary Pallister.
This, however, is actually untrue: so convinced was Martin Edwards and the Manchester United Board of Directors that Ferguson's work in recasting even the very foundations of the club, particularly around the establishment of a strong and robust youth academy, that sacking Fergie was never even considered.
The dawn of a new era of glory and prosperity has often been traced back to the moment when one of the first batch of 'Fergie's Fledglings', Lee Martin, scored the winning goal in the FA Cup Final Replay of 1990; the first trophy of an incredible 38 honours the Scot has won at Manchester United.
Others may more convincingly argue, however, that the club that Manchester United are today was only ever made possible by the direction Alex Ferguson, backed by the club's far-sighted Board of Directors, set towards working on when he began to instil an exceptionally high standard for his players, resulting in a winning mentality, allied with a rediscovery of the importance of youth that was first introduced at the club in the old glory days of that other great Scot, Sir Matt Busby.
The period 1986 to 1990 was a hard and often grim time for Manchester United fans on the pitch, watching their neighbours in Liverpool continue their long and unrelenting march to domestic dominance, but – in hindsight, at least – the work conducted by Ferguson behind the scenes that revitalised the entire fabric of the Old Trafford outfit would prove to be the beginning of a period of even greater success than their Merseyside rivals had ever experienced, or even that the fans themselves could have then conceived.
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