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Richard Ofori kept his first Africa Cup of Nations 2019 clean sheet for Ghana against Cameroon at New Suez Stadium
Saturday, 29 June 2019
Mauritania 0-0 Angola, New Suez Stadium
Both sides failed to find the back of the net.
Cameroon 0-0 Ghana, Ismailia Stadium
Both sides faied to find the back of the net.
Benin 0-0 Guinea-Bissau, Ismailia Stadium
Both sides failed to find the back of the net.
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Bongani Zungu netted a winner for South Africa against Namibia at Al-Salam Stadium
Friday, 28 June 2019
Tunisia 1-1 Mali, New Suez Stadium
Diadie Samassekou opened the scoring for The Eagles and Wahbi Khazri levelled matters for The Carthage Eagles.
Morocco 1-0 Ivory Coast, Al-Salam Stadium
Youssef En-Nesyri netted a winner for the Atlas Lions. With this match result, Morrocco secured their last 16 knockout spot.
South Africa 1-0 Namibia, Al-Salam Stadium
Bongani Zungu netted a winner for Bafana Bafana.
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AmaZulu have parted ways with Marc van Heerden on mutual grounds.
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Bloemfontein Celtic signed Harris Tchilimbou from Free State Stars on a two year deal. Tchilimbou netted six ABSA Premiership goals last season for Ea Lla Koto.
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Michael Olunga netted a brace for Kenya against Tanzania at 30 June Stadium
Thursday, 27 June 2019
Madagascar 1-0 Burundi, Alexandria Stadium
Marco IIaimahatitra netted a winner for the Berea.
Senegal 0-1 Algeria, 30 June Stadium
Youcef Belaili netted a winner for The Dessert Foxes. With this match result, Algeria secured their last 16 knockout spot.
Kenya 3-2 Tanzania, 30 June Stadium
Happygod Msuvan opened the scoring for the Talifa Stars. Michael Olunga equalized Harambee Stars. Tanzania took the lead again through to Mbwana Samatta. Johanna Omolo levelled matters for Kenya. Michael Olunga completed his brace and also netted a winner for Kenya.

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Well, while recently trawling the net I cam across a veritable goldmine of Father Francis albums for sale, and I can tell you from experience that once you have gone down that particular rabbit hole there's no return. You see, Father Francis has released 41 – yes, 41 – albums. And then there's the DVDs, the joke books, the Father Francis tea towel… He also likes to crochet, and Dr Who fans can by a Tom Baker scarf, hand crocheted by their favourite Franciscan, for just £9 (plus P&P) from his website.
But let's put the Catholic homeware aside for a moment, as were here to talk about the music.
Father Francis's take on the John Lennon classic Imagine comes from his 31stalbum, Ave Maria. I cannot imagine (if you'll excuse the pun) how this came about. There's no way that the Lennon Estate would have ever given permission for Father Francis to change the lyrics of Lennon's anti-religion epic in to this anodyne paean. It defies belief. Every line, every message, every single sentiment in the original has been twisted. 'Imagine there's no heaven' becomes 'Imagine there's a heaven'; 'No hell below us, above us only sky' becomes 'there's a hell below us, you'd better choose before you die'. It's simply abominable. And while we're on the subject, Father, why is it 'Imagine there's a heaven' anyway? Surely if you believe ion such things then there's no 'imagine' about it at all?
The album also includes such perverse covers as I Just Called to Say I Love You, Sylvia's Mother and The Living Years. This is hateful stuff… although the contrarian in me would simply love to hear Father Francis tackle a whole album of Andy Partridge's atheistic compositions. 'Dear God, glad you got my letter, thank you for making it all better down here… We all need another 10p on a pint of beer…' And I need to buy a copy of his album of Abba covers, Thank You For the Music, if just to hear what he makes of Does Your Mother Know.
The good Father is still preaching today, and still doing good works: he's particularly interested in helping raise funds for starving children (and that's a very good thing indeed). In fact he seems like just the kind of priest you'd hope for: humble, wise and kind. It's just a shame he feels the need to perform musical transubstantiation in this way.
Anyway, here's two cuts from Ave Maria, Imagine and He's My Forever Friend. And yes, I know it's the wrong cover image (above) but the sleeve of Pot Luck is so ridiculous that I just had to share it.
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Pasting up ADN in the '80sJanuary 6, 2010 at 10:24 am | Posted in alaska, anchorage | 2 Comments
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We didn't call it ADN in those days. The crew in the Production Dept. knew it as "The Knightly Blues" [not sure why it was knight instead of night, that was a private joke I didn't get]. I worked as a pasteup artist there for four months in 1983 and about a year and a half in 1986-87. I was thinking about those times recently as ADN has been shrinking, cutting staff and looking more and more endangered.
In 1983 they were four years into new ownership and publisher Kay Fanning was still on board. There was a good sense of camaraderie and mission, as we took on the entrenched, conservative Anchorage Times. The entire staff was assembled in the loading dock area periodically for pep talks. The new ownership wasn't necessarily popular amongst the locals. I was glad they saved the left-leaning paper, but there was clearly a culture clash underway with McClatchy bringing in columnists and features that were popular in Sacramento and Fresno but untested here. Suffice to say that Miss Manners didn't make much of an impression on the rough and tumble atmosphere of Spenard, Muldoon and the Mat-Su. By my second stint, they had moved to their new location near DeBarr and Bragaw, and the dynamic was a little different. We had a lot more room, interactions were more formalized. The investment of new offices indicated they were confident they were going to beat down the Times permanently.
Each day's edition was assembled from a variety of sources — advertsting sections, pre-printed and shipped from elsewhere, were collated on an assembly line in the press room with sections [laboriously] produced in-house, then bundled and shipped out for delivery. ADN employed close to 500 people then, and the Anchorage Times had about half that many. Together they had almost 90,000 subscribers, and the peak of their competition in the mid-'80s.
This will be tough to explain to people younger than me who don't recall a non-computerized world; or in my case, a time when the computers didn't do very much. Terminals in use in the 1980s ADN editorial offices didn't have a WYSIWYG interface, and the Compugraphic machines used in the Production Dept. didn't even have much of a screen — just a couple lines of characters flying by, in a slight delay from real time with markup codes displayed along with words.
All of the editorial and ad content that was text only, scrolled slowly out of two machines [redundancy in case one was broken] on 3″, 6″ and 12″ wide white chemical-coated paper. Each letter was individually exposed to the paper, by shining a light through a filmstrip [one strip for each font] attached to a high speed spinning drum. The drum moved at varying distances from the paper roll in order to change font size. All of this, and the accompanying offset printing press, allowed a drastic increase in speed of production and allowed reporters to work on stories hours closer to when the finished papers left the building — compared to the hand-set metal type era that preceded.
The crew of pasteup artists assembled all of the pages and advertisements in the in-house produced sections. The 'A' and 'B' sections of the paper were finished up just before deadline, minutes before the first proofs rolled off the press at around 1:00 AM. The rest of the sections [Sports, Comics, Lifestyles, magazine, TV guide, etc.] were completed a few hours or up to a week before.
When I first walked into the Production Dept. on a Spring '83 afternoon, it was located in a compound on Potter Dr. just east of C St., in a collection of office-warehouse buildings. It was cramped, bursting at the seams, a buzzing hive of frenetic activity; people rushing around carrying folders and loose stacks of paper, carefully stepping around obstacles and others rushing frantically in the other direction. There was a bank of tall cabinets with an inclined surface for building pages, where several people worked on a dozen or two pages simultaneously; and three rows of desks for building advertisements adjacent, where eight or ten people were working on ads in various stages of completion. A lot of the workers, and the editors, advertisting reps, typesetters and several others overseeing the work were smoking cigarettes, and there was a thin haze of smoke floating in the upper volume of the room, and floor fans set in the corners attempting to purify the atmosphere.
But before I saw anything else, the first person I encountered looked at me through coke bottle thick glasses, and with a perfect cat-like voice purred, "Rrrowr! Don't step on my tail!", and I looked at the floor and noticed he was holding a long ribbon of rows of tiny type that was dangling in loops and splayed out on the floor, blocking the narrow circulation path I was negotiating. This guy [who was the editor's brother, I later learned] was building the classified ad pages — arguably the most challenging daily task in the department. In order to be more competitive, the classified deadline was set at 2:00. Around 2:30 the entire collection of classifieds spun out of the machine on a 3″ wide strip. Then the margins were trimmed, run through a trimmer with two razor wheels, set a distance apart to trim as close as possible to the lines of text on both sides. Then hot wax was applied by running the several foot long ribbon through another machine. Both the trimming and waxing required a lot of finesse, and there were plenty of ways it could go wrong.
Now our hepcat classified artist had assembled all the parts, but there was plenty more to do before he could put the dozen pages to bed by the end of his shift at 4:00. [Incredibly, I thought] he built the whole section by beginning and the end and working his way back to the front page, cutting in the number of ads that fit in each of 12 columns per page, adding section headers separately. In the other part of the paper the gutters between columns were about 1/8″ wide, but the classified columns almost touched, and he added hairline border tape gutter lines separately.
Some of the ads [real estate, cars and employment, etc.] included custom company logos. These logos were provided separately and each one was pasted in over a place marker that was part of the ribbon of print. The logos were called "bugs". [Everything had a weird word there — I joked at first about needing a decoder ring, but one just had to learn and deal with it, and it was sort of fun… though I was tempted to pick up the phone, dial someone's extension at random and just pile on all the jargon at once: "Yeah, i put the bug on the old maid, and the slug nipped the story while we were waiting for art, but we put it to bed."] The places where a bug needed to go were marked thusly:
But after too many of these were accidentally printed, the marker was changed to:
# # #
I gained even more respect for the classified guy, after I found out more about what was involved building the other parts of the paper.
All of the pages and ads were accompanied in their production journey by an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet [green for pages, pink for ads]. The green page was a 'dummy' [a sketch indicating position of headlines, stories, ads and other elements on each page. The pages were built on heavy paper 'flats' [somewhere between card stock and poster board] with the column layouts and page border pre-printed in non-photo blue with the newspaper's logo at the top.
When the stories appeared, usually in groups, a page at a time the pasteup artist rapidly built them in place according to the dummy. The stories were sent out a couple inches too long, and the pasteup artists tacked them down gently at first, starting at the beginning and fitting everything in, with the remainder of the story parked in the margin on the RH side. When it was ready, an editor was called in to make "cuts", by crossing off sentences or parts of sentences to be removed, counting individual lines and making sure the story would fit in the space provided. Sometimes the story below would be moved up or down a little, if one story could be more easily cut than the other. A lot of times the story 'jumped' to the back page of the section or an interior page, so that had to be coordinated. Then the cuts were made by x-acto knife, with the editor watching over the shoulder. If a sentence was shortened, the pasteup person had to cut out a period and move it into place, on a tiny triangle and held in place with a tiny piece of tape!
The page pasteup artists, the sharper ones at least read the stories as the pages were built, and sometimes made helpful suggestions. You know how, sometimes you're reading a story and the first time someone is mentioned, they are mentioned by full name and explanation of their role — and each further mention is by surname only? And sometimes sloppy editing can result in the first mention being deleted, and you're reading along, and Simpson said the timing was unfortunate because the spokesperson got ahead of the CEO… and wait a second, who the hell is Simpson? The sharp pasteup people caught these and similar lousy edits, and would point them out. "Are you sure about this one?"
Building display advertisements was not always the most appetizing task. A lot of work, not as rewarding as working on pages. We had to deal with the ad sales reps, if there was anything we really couldn't figure out that couldn't be ironed out in the normal back and forth of proofs and revisions. Some of the reps seemed sort of crazy. My overactive imagination pictured them trying to sell ads for seven papers at once, getting clients confused and simultaneously handling sales of salad bowl sets, hair dye and Russian brides. [They seemed that stressed out!] Certain ads were a hell of a lot of work, a nightmare really — such as those 2/3 page Brown Jug ads that were crammed full of price listings in type as small as the classifieds. Edits couldn't be reliably done by x-acto only, since the typesetters had limited capability of retrieving previous work, you had to be cautious that errors previously corrected didn't reoccur. Anything that wasn't type [or borders and lines, done with tape] was custom logos, photos or graphics [all called "art"] that had to be shot by the Camera Dept. [they also photographed the pages for turning them into press plates, and "stripped" the negatives that were the intermediary step, removing dust, hairs, shadow lines caused by pasteups on too-thick paperboard], converting photos into benday dot images. There was sometimes a "screen" [gray-tone appearance] that was part of a graphic, or spot color/s [solid or screened] that were done via overlays, cutting amber colored film off a clear plastic backer on a light table, and adding target marks in the margins to align the overlays for the camera. My experience with silkscreen printing in college art classes well-prepared me for cutting overlays at ADN.
There were many sideline tasks that I loved. Probably the best was building the comics pages. All of the pages, Monday through Saturday were assembled on Saturday night. Each strip was cut out from a photo reduction of a proof as it arrived from the syndicator in the mail. My experience building those pages in 1987 led me to suggest changes a few years later — it was my idea to put the strip titles and bylines vertically on the side, as they are today, rather than above the strip as they used to be.
I got frustrated at the compartmentalization of roles there. "We've had trouble with artists here before," the Production shift supervisor told me once. I didn't see it that way, of course; strongly believing that suggestions for improved procedures, modes and process should be considered on their merits, regardless of where they came from. A typesetter buddy and I talked about the culture there on a slow night while we were reorganizing clip art galleys in the ad dept. next door. She said, "Well, they'll just tell you they've been running newspapers for 150 years and you don't know what you're talking about."
I've often wondered whether more imaginative leadership could have prepared them for the current crisis, especially since it was predicted since around 1990 or before. When I think about my experience there, I remember that we got a lot done [an impossible amount, really], we integrated new technology and techniques and were pretty nimble and dedicated. There was a sense of urgency and an aspiration of quality that was diminished, I think by removing their competitor in '92.
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Great memories. I started my career in journalism as a pasteup artist at the Anchorage Times in the late 1980s. I eventually became a photographer and a features writer for the Times. And I was there on that summer day in '92 when the doors closed for good. The contacts I made there led me on a great adventure as a journalist that took me around the world. I still have a scar on my left-hand index finger from repeated slices of the x-acto knife. I love that scar. Your post really captured what it was like – the scene was the same in the Times building on Fourth Avenue. I can almost feel the hot wax on my fingers. Thanks.
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Home >> Uk + Ireland >> England >> Yorkshire >> North Riding, Parishes >> Aysgarth >>
AYSGARTH: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1834.
"AYSGARTH, a parish in the wapentake of Hang West."
"ASKRIGG, with the village of Bainbridge and neighbourhood,
Askrigg is a small market-town and township, in the parish of Aysgarth, in the western division of Hang wapentake, in the North Riding; 241 miles from London, and 57 W.N.W. from the city of York; situated near to the north side of the river Ure, and consists of two small streets, built on the sides of the roads leading to Lancaster on the west, and that running to Kirkby Stephen on the north-west. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in husbandry, and others in wool-combing, the manufacturing of knit hosiery and dressing of flax. In the neighbourhood are lead mines, but they are not very productive. Askrigg is one of the stations appointed by the new Boundary Act for receiving votes at the election of members of parliament for the north riding of the county. The places of worship are a chapel of ease, under Aysgarth, dedicated to St. Oswald, & one belonging to the Wesleyan methodists. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the vicar of Aysgarth; the present minister is the Rev. Richard Wood. Here are six alms-houses, for as many poor widows, founded and endowed by Christopher Alderson, and a free grammar school, founded by Anthony Benson, in the 43rd of Elizabeth. The appearance of the country around here is of a romantic character, wild and mountainous, its natural beauties enhanced by many waterfalls that dash over precipices, and whose waters enrich the valleys as they run murmuring through them. The market-day here is held on Thursday; and the fairs are May 12th, the first Thursday in June, the 11th and 12th of July, and October 28th, for cattle. The population of the town-ship, in 1821, was 765, and in 1831, 737. Bainbridge is a small village, in the same parish as Askrigg, one mile S.W. from that town, situated upon the river Ure. Here are a methodist chapel and a friends' meeting-house; also a free grammar school, which has a small endowment. The township contained, in 1821, 872 inhabitants, and in 1831, 881."
"HAWES, a small market town and chapelry, in the parish of Aysgarth, in the western division of Hang wapentake, North Riding, is 252 miles from London, and six from Askrigg. The town is situated on a branch of the river Ure ; the houses being chiefly built of stone, have altogether a neat and respectable appearance. The manufactures here are not of a various character ; they consist principally of knit hosiery, caps, &c. with some other woollen articles, two extensive water mills being employed in their fabrication. Lead mines are in the neighbourhood, but they are not worked to much profit. The places of worship are a chapel, under the establishment, and one each for the society of friends and the Sandemanians. The curate of the church is the Rev. John Whaley, and the living is in the gift of the land owners. In 1764 a free school was founded, with a small endowment, and the school house was erected by subscription : there is also a well selected subscription library.
The general aspect of the country is mountainous and barren, interspersed with fertile spots -- a relief to the prospect, which otherwise would be quite destitute of interest. In this vicinity is a magnificent water fall, called 'Hardraw Scarr' or Force, well worth visiting ; the perpendicular fall is 102 feet.
The market day is on Tuesday, and the fairs are, Tuesday in Whitsun week, and the 28th and 29th of September. There are also cattle fairs held on every alternate Tuesday, from the last Tuesday in February to Whitsuntide. In 1821 the number of inhabitants in the chapelry amounted to 1,408, and in 1831, 1,559. Gayle, or Gale, is nearly adjoining to Hawes, and may be said to be a member of that town, its population being returned therewith."
[Transcribed by Steve Garton ©2000 from
Pigot's directory (Yorkshire section) 1834]


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We just received a few photos of one of Paolo Soleri's arcology models on exhibition in West Hollywood.
The ARC VILLAGE arcology model, designed by Paolo Soleri as part of the "Arcology – City in the Image of Man" series, is at display at the MAK Center – Schindler House in West Hollywood from May 8. to August 4. 2013.[photos: courtesy MAK Schindler House – Joshua White]
The model is part of the "Everything Loose Will Land" exhibition. This exhibition explores the cross-pollination that took place between architects and artists in Los Angeles in the 1970's.
MAK Center Schindler House is located on 835 N. Kings Road in West Hollywood. The exhibition is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 6 pm.
This exhibition is scheduled to travel to Yale School of Architecture Gallery in New Haven where is scheduled to open from August 28. to November 9. 2013.


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Oil workers sue Shell, Enbridge over platform fire injuries
Three oil workers have reportedly sued Shell and Enbridge over alleged injuries sustained in a recent platform blast in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The three workers claim they sustained severe injuries and have asked for $1 million in damages, Reuters has reported.
The incident happened on November 9, when a fire broke out on the Shell-operated Enchilada oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, spurring Shell to shut in the platform.
A total of 46 crew members were evacuated from the platform to a lifeboat and were then transferred to a nearby platform, Salsa, by the offshore supply vessel C-Liberty. Initial reports claimed that two workers had been injured.
The U.S. safety authorities in November informed that a 54-year-old male suffered from flash burns and a concussion, and a 29-year-old male suffered a sprained wrist and a concussion. Shell launched an emergency helicopter and medevaced both people and transferred them to the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. It's not clear who the third worker is, nor what injuries he sustained.
Asked for a comment on the lawsuit, a Shell spokesperson told Offshore Energy Today: "Since this is pending litigation and the incident is still under investigation by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Enbridge, we respectfully decline to comment."
Enbridge, which operates a pipeline running from the platform, did not reply to our request to comment at the time of writing.
The Enbridge Offshore-operated Garden Banks Gas Pipeline extends from Garden Banks Block 128 to South Marsh Island Block 76, where it interconnects with four existing interstate pipelines to move gas onshore.
The pipeline transports production originating from the Auger platform in Garden Banks Block 426, the Enchilada platform in Garden Banks Block 128, the Baldpate platform in Garden Banks Block 260, the platform in South Marsh Island (SMI192) and the Magnolia Platform in Garden Banks 783.


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Is Coca-Cola shifting blame for obesity away from bad diets?
THE Coca Cola Company and its prime products- Coke, Fanta and Sprite- have been enmeshed in controversy in recent times.
Last week, most of the top newspapers and journals in the United States and Britain such as New York Times, Medical News Today, The Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, DailyMail UK among others were awash with stories on how Coca Cola was funding scientists who shift blame for obesity away from bad diets.
However, the Chief Technical Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, Dr. Ed Hays, in a statement made available to The Guardian through its local subsidiary, Coca Cola Nigeria, dismissed the reports but admitted funding research to find solutions to global chronic diseases' crisis.
Setting the record straight on Coca-Cola and scientific research, Hays said: "As the Chief Technical Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, I am responsible for developing new beverages, ensuring that all of our drinks are safe and overseeing our scientific research partnerships – and I was dismayed to read the recent New York Times' inaccurate portrayal of our company and our support of the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN).
The story claimed Coke is funding scientific research to convince people that diets don't matter – only exercise. In fact, that is the complete opposite of our approach to business and well-being and nothing could be further from the truth."
Hays admitted that the Company funds scientific research through GEBN and are proud to support the work that scientists such as Dr. Jim Hill and Dr. Steve Blair do – because their type of research is critical to finding solutions to the global obesity crisis. "At Coke, we believe that a balanced diet and regular exercise are two key ingredients for a healthy lifestyle and that is reflected in both our long-term and short-term business actions," he said.
Hays added: "In fact, not only have we joined with America's food and beverage industry to promote moderation and healthy eating across the United States, we are doing this globally. "Our business strategy is for more people to enjoy our products more often, but with exactly the size, calories and content that fit their lifestyles.
At Coke, we believe that a balanced diet and regular exercise are two key ingredients for a healthy lifestyle and that is reflected in both our long-term and short-term business actions. In fact, not only have we joined with America's food and beverage industry to promote moderation and healthy eating across the United States, we are doing this globally.
And from top to bottom at Coca-Cola, we have called on our people to innovate on more natural products, to create low-and-no calorie options – and to simply make our packages smaller."
Hays said people are smart and they are buying the products that fit their lives – whether water, juice, diet or full calorie drinks – Coca Cola is listening and responding. "Coca-Cola has always stood for quality and integrity with a commitment to serve our customers and communities.
These are our foundational values that we apply to every drink we serve and every philanthropic donation we give," he insisted. However, Nigerian and African nutritionists are unanimous that the upsurge in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Nigeria is not due to increase in intake of beverages or any single nutrient but overindulgence in 'poor diets'/processed foods and sedentary lifestyles.
The nutritionists asked Nigerians to go back to traditional foods, reduce their intake of processed foods and increase their physical activities.
The New York Times report Writing for New York Times, Anahad O'Connor, said: "Coca-Cola, the world's largest producer of sugary beverages, is backing a new 'science-based' solution to the obesity crisis: To maintain a healthy weight, get more exercise and worry less about cutting calories. "The beverage giant has teamed up with influential scientists who are advancing this message in medical journals, at conferences and through social media.
To help the scientists get the word out, Coke has provided financial and logistical support to a new nonprofit organization called the Global Energy Balance Network, which promotes the argument that weight-conscious Americans are overly fixated on how much they eat and drink while not paying enough attention to exercise."
The group's vice president, Steven N. Blair, an exercise scientist, says in a recent video announcing the new organization:"Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is, 'Oh they're eating too much, eating too much, eating too much' — blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks and so on. And there's really virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact, is the cause."
Health experts say this message is misleading and part of an effort by Coke to deflect criticism about the role sugary drinks have played in the spread of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
They contend that the company is using the new group to convince the public that physical activity can offset a bad diet despite evidence that exercise has only minimal impact on weight compared with what people consume.
This clash over the science of obesity comes in a period of rising efforts to tax sugary drinks, remove them from schools and stop companies from marketing them to children.
In the last two decades, consumption of full-calorie sodas by the average American has dropped by 25 percent. A public health lawyer, said Michele Simon, said: "Coca-Cola's sales are slipping, and there's this huge political and public backlash against soda, with every major city trying to do something to curb consumption," "This is a direct response to the ways that the company is losing.
They're desperate to stop the bleeding." Coke has made a substantial investment in the new nonprofit. In response to requests based on state open-records laws, two universities that employ leaders of the Global Energy Balance Network disclosed that Coke had donated $1.5 million last year to start the organization.
Since 2008, the company has also provided close to $4 million in funding for various projects to two of the organization's founding members: Dr. Blair, a professor at the University of South Carolina whose research over the past 25 years has formed much of the basis of federal guidelines on physical activity, and Gregory A. Hand, dean of the West Virginia University School of Public Health.
Records show that the network's website, gebn.org, is registered to Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, and the company is also listed as the site's administrator.
The group's president, James O. Hill, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, United States, said Coke had registered the website because the network's members did not know how. "They're not running the show," he said. "We're running the show."
Coca-Cola's public relations department repeatedly declined requests for an interview with its chief scientific officer, Rhona Applebaum, who has called attention to the new group on Twitter.
In a statement, the company said it had a long history of supporting scientific research related to its beverages and topics such as energy balance.
The statement said: "We partner with some of the foremost experts in the fields of nutrition and physical activity. It's important to us that the researchers we work with share their own views and scientific findings, regardless of the outcome, and are transparent and open about our funding."
Blair and other scientists affiliated with the group said that Coke had no control over its work or message and that they saw no problem with the company's support because they had been transparent about it.
But as of last week, the group's Twitter and Facebook pages, which promote physical activity as a solution to chronic disease and obesity while remaining largely silent on the role of food and nutrition, made no mention of Coca-Cola's financial support.
So far, the social media campaign has failed to gain much traction: As of Friday, the group had fewer than 1,000 followers on Twitter. The group's website also omitted mention of Coke's backing until Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an obesity expert at the University of Ottawa, wrote to the organization to inquire about its funding.
Blair said this was an oversight that had been quickly corrected. "As soon as we discovered that we didn't have not only Coca-Cola but other funding sources on the website, we put it on there," Blair said. "Does that make us totally corrupt in everything we do?" Coke's involvement in the new organization is not the only example of corporate-funded research and advocacy to come under fire lately.
The American Society for Nutrition and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics have been criticized by public health advocates for forming partnerships with companies such as Kraft Foods, McDonald's, PepsiCo and Hershey's. Dietitians have also faced criticism for taking payments from Coke to present the company's soda as a healthy snack.
Critics say Coke has long cast the obesity epidemic as primarily an exercise problem. "The message is that obesity is not about the foods or beverages you're consuming, it's that you're not balancing those foods with exercise," Dr. Freedhoff of the University of Ottawa said. Now, public health advocates say, Coca-Cola is going a step further, recruiting reputable scientists to make the case for them.
Dr. Hill, the nonprofit's president, is a co-founder of the National Weight Control Registry, a long-term study of people who have lost weight, and has served on committees for the World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health. The American Society for Nutrition refers to him as "a leader in the fight against the global obesity epidemic."
Barry M. Popkin, a professor of global nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Coke's support of prominent health researchers was reminiscent of tactics used by the tobacco industry, which enlisted experts to become "merchants of doubt" about the health hazards of smoking.
Marion Nestle, the author of the book "Soda Politics" and a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, was especially blunt: "The Global Energy Balance Network is nothing but a front group for Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola's agenda here is very clear: Get these researchers to confuse the science and deflect attention from dietary intake." Funding from the food industry is not uncommon in scientific research. But studies suggest that the funds tend to bias findings.
A recent analysis of beverage studies, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, found that those funded by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, the American Beverage Association and the sugar industry were five times more likely to find no link between sugary drinks and weight gain than studies whose authors reported no financial conflicts.
Funding from the food industry is not uncommon in scientific research. But studies suggest that the funds tend to bias findings. A recent analysis of beverage studies, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, found that those funded by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, the American Beverage Association and the sugar industry were five times more likely to find no link between sugary drinks and weight gain than studies whose authors reported no financial conflicts.
On its website, the new nonprofit promises to be "the voice of science" in discussions about healthy lifestyles and contends that the concept of energy balance provides "a new science-based framework" for achieving a stable body weight.
The group says there is "strong evidence" that the key to preventing weight gain is not reducing food intake — as many public health experts recommend — "but maintaining an active lifestyle and eating more calories."
To back up this contention, the group provides links to two research papers, each of which contains this footnote: "The publication of this article was supported by The Coca-Cola Company."
Genesis of the controversy In March, Hill, Blair, and Hand announced the creation of the organization in an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. They argued that the public and many scientists largely overlooked physical inactivity as a cause of obesity. They said they were creating the Global Energy Balance Network to raise awareness "about both sides of the energy balance equation."
The editorial contained a disclosure that the group had received an "unrestricted education gift" from Coca-Cola. In response to a request made under the state Freedom of Information Act, the University of South Carolina disclosed that Dr. Blair had received more than $3.5 million in funding from Coke for research projects since 2008.
The university also disclosed that Coca-Cola had provided significant funding to Dr. Hand, who left the University of South Carolina last year for West Virginia.
The company gave him $806,500 for an "energy flux" study in 2011 and $507,000 last year to establish the Global Energy Balance Network.
It is unclear how much of the money, if any, ended up as personal income for the professors. "As long as everybody is disclosing their potential conflicts and they're being managed appropriately, that's the best that you can do," Dr. Hand said. "It makes perfect sense that companies would want the best science that they can get." The group's president, Dr. Hill, also has financial ties to Coca-Cola.
The company last year gave an "unrestricted monetary gift" of $1 million to the University of Colorado Foundation. In response to a request made under the Colorado Open Records Act, the university said that Coca-Cola had provided the money "for the purposes of funding" the Global Energy Balance Network.
Dr. Hill said he had sought money from Coke to start the nonprofit because there was no funding available from his university. The group's website says it is also supported by a few universities and ShareWIK Media Group, a producer of videos about health.
Dr. Hill said that he had also received a commitment of help from General Mills, as well as promises of support from other businesses, which had not formally confirmed their offers.
He said he believed public health authorities could more easily change the way people eat by working with the food industry instead of against it.
Controversial recommendation: Combining greater exercise and food intake On its website, the group recommends combining greater exercise and food intake because, Dr. Hill said, " 'Eat less' has never been a message that's been effective. The message should be 'Move more and eat smarter.' "
He emphasized that weight loss involved a combination of complex factors and that his group's goal was not to play down the role of diet or to portray obesity as solely a problem of inadequate exercise. "If we are out there saying it's all about physical activity and it's not about food, then we deserve criticism," he said. "But I think we haven't done that."
But in news releases and on its website, the group has struck a different tone. "The media tends to blame the obesity epidemic on our poor eating habits," one recent news release states. "But are those french fries really the culprit? Dr. Steve Blair explains that you shouldn't believe everything you see on TV."
In the news release, Dr. Blair suggests that sedentary behavior is a bigger factor. Most public health experts say that energy balance is an important concept, because weight gain for most people is about calories in vs. calories out. But the experts say research makes it clear that one side of the equation has a far greater effect.
While people can lose weight in several ways, many studies suggest that those who keep it off for good consume fewer calories. Growing evidence also suggests that maintaining weight loss is easier when people limit their intake of high glycemic foods such as sugary drinks and other refined carbohydrates, which sharply raise blood sugar.
Physical activity is important and certainly helps, experts say. But studies show that exercise increases appetite, causing people to consume more calories. Exercise also expends far fewer calories than most people think.
A 12-ounce can of Coca-Cola, for example, contains 140 calories and roughly 10 teaspoons of sugar. "It takes three miles of walking to offset that one can of Coke," Dr. Popkin said. In one of the most rigorous studies of physical activity and weight loss, published in the journal Obesity, scientists recruited 200 overweight, sedentary adults and put them on an aggressive exercise program.
To isolate the effects of exercise on their weight, the subjects were instructed not to make any changes in their diets. Participants were monitored to ensure they exercised five to six hours a week, more than double the 2.5 weekly hours of exercise recommended in federal guidelines.
After a year, the men had lost an average of just 3.5 pounds, the women 2.5.
Almost everyone was still overweight or obese. "Adding exercise to a diet program helps," said Dr. Anne McTiernan, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. "But for weight loss, you're going to get much more impact with diet changes."
But much like the research on sugary drinks, studies of physical activity funded by the beverage industry tend to reach conclusions that differ from the findings of studies by independent scientists.
Last week, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana announced the findings of a large new study on exercise in children that determined that lack of physical activity "is the biggest predictor of childhood obesity around the world."
The news release contained a disclosure: "This research was funded by The Coca-Cola Company." Kelly D. Brownell, dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke, said that as a business, Coke "focused on pushing a lot of calories in, but then their philanthropy is focused on the calories out part, the exercise."
In recent years, Coke has donated money to build fitness centers in more than 100 schools across the country. It sponsors a program called "Exercise is Medicine" to encourage doctors to prescribe physical activity to patients.
And when Chicago's City Council proposed a soda tax in 2012 to help address the city's obesity problem, Coca-Cola donated $3 million to establish fitness programs in more than 60 of the city's community centers.
The initiative to tax soda ultimately failed. "Reversing the obesity trend won't happen overnight," Coca-Cola said in an ad for its Chicago exercise initiative. "But for thousands of families in Chicago, it starts now, with the next push-up, a single situp or a jumping jack."
Nigerian nutritionists address beverages' link to NCDs, erectile dysfunction, piles Can regular intake of beverages such as soft drinks, chocolate, coffee, and fruit juices lead to non communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, erectile dysfunction, piles, cancer and kidney failure? Former President of NSN, Prof. Ignatius Akhakhia Onimawo had told The Guardian: "Now some of the causes of NCDs arises from so many factors.
One is that we have changed our diets so much that most of our diets no longer contains fibre because we take a lot of processed foods so the fibre that would have helped to lower the density of such foods in terms of sugar content energy and the rest is removed."
He continued: "Lifestyle has changed, we are very sedentary these days, we don't exercise as we use to do before and when you don't exercise most of the energy you eat is converted to fat and gradually you become overweight and from there to obesity. Once you become obese many things can happen to you. You are now predisposed to so many NCDs.
So people who are obese are normally advised to change their lifestyle so that they can exercise more, give their muscle tone what we call metabolic tone then if you are able to do that even if you are fat and you are highly energetic, you are involved in exercises you are not likely to have problems."
A professor of nutrition at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State and past President NSN, Tunde Oguntona, told The Guardian: "I am not aware of any publication that has associated sugar sweetened drinks with obesity directly. We have always known that the issue of obesity is a complex one that involves lifestyle, food intake, sedentary lifestyle and so on.
We have always known that the degree of relationship has not been fully established." "Sugar, table sugar has not been implicated directly in the cause of obesity or NCDs. On the other hand there are other factors like sedentary lifestyle, sitting down all day and not doing exercise that is a major contribution to obesity."
Associate professor of nutrition at the University of Maiduguiri, Borno State, Dr. Mrs. Elizabeth Chibuzor, told The Guardian that there is no straightforward answer to whether beverages such as Coke, Fanta or Sprite can cause NCDs because for every NCDs there are factors, multi-factorial variables that are associated with the disease."
Chibuzor said a recent study conducted by her team showed that more thin people than obese people in the sample population had diabetes because they ate foods high in fat and starch, and low in protein.
A consultant nutritionist and the Health and Wellness Manager for Coca Cola Central, East and West Africa, Julia Otaya, in a paper titled: "Soft Drinks Linkage to NCDs: Myths or Facts?" said the risk factors of NCDs are poor diet, excessive intake of calories, low physical activities and tobacco intake.
Otaya explained: "Basically what I am trying to communicate is that when it comes to the golden rules of nutrition, eating a variety of foods is very important and moderation is important depending on someone's energy needs that is very important. But when you look at the incidences of NCDs, the risk factors are actually very clear.
They are poor diet, excessive intake of calories and very low levels of physical activity has actually been mentioned as one of the main causes of non communicable diseases. I think those are some of the issues that we actually need to address.
We cannot be able to target a single nutrient as the cause of NCDs." "The World Health Organisation (WHO) actually just give specifically what are the causes and they actually mentioned tobacco, alcohol intake and of course the whole issue of obesity that leads to many other diseases and for me the take-home message is for you to ensure you lower the risk of you getting NCDs.
Take care of your diet, watch your weight, engage in physical activity because it is important and then an intake of lots of fruits and vegetables in the diet is very important and then the intake of fibre, that is also very important and of course other lifestyle changes.
So that will be my take-home message. Let us not target one single source of nutrient as a cause of NCD because it is multifactorial," he said.
On the link of sweetened beverages to erectile dysfunction, Otaya said: "Apparently some of the myths that have been mentioned is that people think that erectile dysfunction is actually caused by taking sugar-sweetened beverages but when you look at the erectile dysfunction it is clear it is because of medical-related or physical reasons like having a chronic disease even being obese or having prostate cancer or undergoing surgery in the prostate area.
I mean the causes of erectile dysfunction are very clear so we cannot actually say that intake of sugar sweetened beverages can cause erectile dysfunction." On the link of soft drinks such as Coca Cola to piles, the nutritionist said: "Sugar sweetened beverages have not been pointed to be the cause of piles.
I mean the causes of pile are very clear, it is either you are constipated or you have diarrhea. Those are actually the major causes of pile.
Of course diet plays a very big role so if you have a diet that is deficient of fibre, for example, you will be constipated and chances are that you can actually get pile. I don't think that sugar sweetened beverages on their own can actually cause piles because there are many other factors."
Reacting to the safety of the colouring agents and sweetners used in making soft drinks including Coca Cola products, Otaya said: "It is not about saying that aspartame is healthy, is it safe?
When you look at the list of sweeteners that have been recommended by European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) and United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) aspartame is actually one of the sweeteners that have been actually recognized as safe and they can be used as a sweetener. "So many studies have been done and it has been really researched and it has really been endorsed as safe although we also have negative studies that have associated aspartame with cancer but they can actually not been proven but it is actually recognized as safe and can be used as a sweetener."
Public Affairs and Communications Manager for Coca Cola Nigeria, Clems Ugorji, said there is a role for beverages and that includes soft drinks, and juices in a healthy nutrition, not just for the individual but for the nation as well. "So it is important for us to create partnerships with these critical stakeholders who can understand the issues and help us in the dissemination of these information and that is what we have started," he said.
Ugorji further explained: "The truth of the matter is that we need to make the messages as balanced and credible as possible and coming from us as a company alone is not the best way but creating partnership of trusted stakeholders who together with us can create these messages and express these messages will help the process."
He said Coca Cola provides choices for people. "We have a portfolio of beverages that addresses people's needs at different life stages, different life occasions and different life situations.
So basically we recognize the fact that people want beverages to refresh themselves and we also recognize that one beverage alone will not satisfy the needs of everybody which is the reason why we offer people choice."
If you have issues and you think that sugar is not good for or you do not like the taste of sugar, we offer you alternatives which is why we have Coke Lite and of course we have the Coke Zero which we are proud to say we are going to be launching in Nigeria early next year because right now it is not in the market, but we have concluded plans to have it launched in Nigeria early next year.
We also have juice for people who think they want something that contain a lot more nutrition than just sparkling soft drinks, we have got juice, we have got the table water," he also added.
Ugorji said the third part of the Coca Cola programme has to do with active living because they realized that today lifestyles are changing, people are forced not necessarily by choice but because of conditions to live more sedentary lifestyles. "You find out that children and teenagers have nowhere to go and exercise themselves and play.
When those of us here were growing up we can play outside in the communities and all of that but today because of security issues and because of lifestyle changes you find out that children are boxed up in the home," he said.
Ugorji said Coca Cola is trying to create an outdoor activity and one of the things, which they have done at a very big stage, is Copa Coca Cola in order to encourage teenagers to exercise themselves.
He said the organization has set up clubs Eva Fun Walk clubs encourage people to see the benefits in active living. "Not just telling them because when you tell people and you don't create the opportunity it is almost useless but you educate them and you create the incentives and the platform for them to be able to do this," Ugorji said.
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Episode 6 Review of the Year
Dec 31st, 2017 by spoiltmilk
Episode 6 - Review of the Year.
Chris Hammond, Katty and The Hobo discuss our films of the year and put our suggestions forward for our Top 3 movies of 2017.
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Austria / USA
2019 (n°72)
65 cm
Indian rosewood
Ebony - 52 mm
Body length : 480 mm - Body width : 275/240/360 mm - Body depth : 93/94 mm
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Sold - a new one is coming soon
Michael Cadiz was born in 1983 near Baltimore. He started playing guitar at the age of eleven and continued his musical studies in Paris with Jean-Pierre Billet and in Chicago with Sergio Assad. He studied lutherie with Rick Davis in Seattle, then in Oregon with Robert Ruck. In 2016 he set up his workshop in Graz, Austria.
When we go through his biography, we perceive in this young luthier something of the order of movement, energy, generosity, freedom... these endearing aspects of his personality seem to be found in this magnificent guitar.
The superb aesthetics and perfectly executed lutherie work was already noticeable in the photos we received, but this impression is multiplied tenfold when we open the case for the first time and discover this instrument.
For the sound aspect, the best is to listen to what the luthier himself says about it : « I've recently made a few changes in my approach to this model. I've felt that, while the lively and lush response of the traditional Torres sound can be very impressive, intimate and alluring, it can sometimes lack a bit of balance and evenness in higher frequencies. I've addressed this in some of my recent versions of this model by ever so slightly adjusting the soundboard and side construction. While, maintaining a low body resonance slightly above F#, I feel that it keeps the traditional allure, but greatly increases the balance and evenness of decay in the trebles. It also disciplines the basses in a way that allows for a slightly larger dynamic range. I also believe that it balances and cleans up the overall frequency response and allows it to project better in a larger room.
"My friend Stefan Skrilecz stopped by yesterday morning to try out a new guitar and record a couple pieces, before I ship it out to Galerie des Luthiers in Lyon. No added reverb. No edits. Two cameras and a Zoom H5. About a meter away from the guitar." Michael Cadiz


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Explore Hotel Bayerischer Hof Inzell
Surrounded by the picturesque Chiemgau Alps, rests the soothing resort Hotel Bayerischer Hof Inzell.
Far from the hectic mass tourism hotspots, yet so close to the Alpine highlights, you find the comfort of your home away from home.
Summer or winter - our guests are drawn to the authentic Upper Bavarian culture and Alpine landscape, to regain strength and to use the countless sports activities.
Experience genuine traditions.
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Polymorph is a thermoplastic polymer which melts at 62°C and consists of small off-white plastic granules. By heating these granules in hot water the user can easily melt the pellets to form a transparent flexible material. Once melted the opaque white pellets fuse together, become transparent and soften, allowing the user to form the plastic by hand into unique shapes. Polymorph has unlimited uses, from prototyping new products, creating gadgets and toys to replacement parts and general DIY repairs. This is the strongest Polymorph available on the market and it's immense strength makes it's DIY possibilities huge. Adding colour to Polymorph or painting finished products allows an even more impressive range of shapes and ideas to be created.
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S'mores Brownies – Rich, fudgy homemade brownies on a graham cracker crust topped with toasted marshmallows and bits of chocolate!
If you have met me or been here before, you know my favorite dessert are homemade brownies. Just basic fudgy brownies are my ultimate weakness. There are a ton of brownie recipes on the blog already.
You can definitely make these s'mores brownies using a brownie mix if you want, but there is just something about brownies from scratch that make them special. Homemade brownies are just a handful of ingredients to make, so almost as easy as the box mix.
These S'mores Cookie Bars are always a huge hit, so I decided to take the same idea, and make them with brownies. Rich, fudgy brownies on top of a graham cracker crust, that are then topped with toasted marshmallows, and more chocolate. It is seriously like heaven in every bite.
S'mores desserts always seem to win people over. S'mores Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies are definitely chocolate-y and cure all those chocolate cravings. Chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows together just make for a tasty treat.
- Butter vs vegetable oil – really either works, it depends on the recipe. I usually use oil, but have a couple recipes with butter. Butter can be a little more greasy if you use too much. And it gives it a slightly different flavor. But both work and taste great.
- Cocoa powder vs melted chocolate – again both work. You can even look at the back of your cocoa powder container to see what the substitution is. So if you don't have one, you can definitely substitute the other.
- Use a spatula – you do not need an electric mixer for brownies, just a bowl and a spatula.
- Pans – I like a metal baking pan for baking brownies. Glass works, but I think the texture is different. I don't get the same edges when I used glass.
Often times s'mores are reserved for the summer, because you need it to be nice out to have a fire. But these brownies make it so you can have them any time of the year. Bring them to your Memorial Day get together, or make for Valentine's Day, or make them just because you want a gooey and chocolate-y dessert!
If you have a chocolate lover in your life, you need to make these s'mores brownies for them. They will forever be in your debt. I mean just look at that gooey, fudgy brownie!
S'Mores Brownies
Rich, fudgy brownies on a graham cracker crust topped with toasted marshmallows and bits of chocolate!
Graham Cracker Crust
- 3/4 cup graham crackers, , crushed
- 2 Tbls sugar
- 3 Tbls butter, , melted
- 3/4 cup butter, , melted
- 3/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups marshmallows
- 2 Hershey candy bars, , broken in pieces
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 8x8 inch baking pan with foil.
- Mix together graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and melted butter. Press into the bottom of the baking pan. Bake for 8 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the brownie batter. Mix together melted butter and cocoa powder. Add sugar and eggs, and mix until well combined. Mix in flour and salt until everything is well blended. Pour over baked graham cracker crust.
- Return to the oven and bake fro 30-35 minutes, until brownies are almost fully cooked. Remove from oven and turn on the broiler.
- Top the brownies with marshmallows and broken pieces of candy. Return to the oven, and heat until marshmallows are golden brown (2-3 minutes). Watch carefully.
- Remove from oven, and allow to cool completely before slicing.
Nutrition Information
Serving Size12 Servings
Amount Per ServingCalories 389Total Fat 19gSaturated Fat 10gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 86mgSodium 283mgCarbohydrates 51gFiber 2gSugar 37gProtein 5g
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Gaining Efficiencies in a Cybersecurity Ecosystem
August 28, 2018
In cybersecurity, with threat attack surfaces growing larger each day because of cloud, mobile, social media and IoT, it's harder than ever to keep track of what's going every moment. How can you know what tools you need, where to automate and when you need human eyes? It is a delicate combination leading to the ideal state every organization aspires to: Efficiency.
How can you best get out of the cycle of adding disparate tools and a growing pile of logs leading to more and more alerts that require investigation? Throwing more money at the problem, without knowing where you stand, where you are going, and where you need to be, only adds to the issues.
Efficiencies can be gained in different ways and to varying degrees based on the approach taken and involve technical and operational modifications. But the truth is, there's not one fix. Every environment is unique and requires a custom solution. It could be new tool(s), more analysts, leveraging existing tools, investigating new technology (orchestration, remediation), getting the right people to manage it, and having part or all of this work together.
But at the end of the day, you have to take a hard look and stop the patchwork security program. Security operations teams must focus on technical and operational efficiencies. Analyzing the current system, whether with a partner, internally, or both and then acquiring the right tools, the right people, and conducting the right monitoring – is the solution achieving this result.
In the E is for Efficiency white paper, Optiv and Momentum Cyber address increasing security operations efficiencies through SAO solutions and services.