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Cancer center to open in Newport Beach after $14M office trade
Deal sets price-per-square-foot record for OC buildings larger than 10k sf
Feb.February 13, 2019 12:00 PM
By Gregory Cornfield
Annette Walker, president of City of Hope Orange County and 1601 Avocado Avenue (Credit: CBRE)
City of Hope National Medical Center has purchased an office building in Newport Beach for $14.2 million.
With about 12,500 square feet of space, the price averages out to about $1,132 per-square-foot — a record high in Orange County for buildings with more than 10,000 square feet, according to CBRE, which represented the seller in the deal.
The Newport Diagnostic Center sold the office building. The companies announced the deal this month.
The two-story property is located at 1601 Avocado Avenue, next to the Newport Center retail complex. City of Hope plans on renovating the building and opening a clinic later this year to treat about 3,500 cancer patients.
City of Hope also plans to open a $200-million main campus at the Orange County Great Park in Irvine in 2022
Newport Beach is home to 1.38 million square feet of medical office space with a 5.9-percent vacancy rate and no new developments under construction, according to CBRE. The firm projects that Orange County will see rents grow by more than 30 percent over the next five years due to low vacancy rates and increasing job growth.
Chipotle signed a deal last July to take over two floors at the Newport Center complex. In September, Lincoln Property Co. and Angelo Gordon & Co. acquired the 181,000-square-foot Redstone Plaza at 1300 Dove Street, and an 83,000-square-foot office nearby at 1201 Dove Street, both in Newport Beach. The joint venture paid $62 million for the former and $26 million for the latter, The Real Deal reported.
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Rexford Industrial adds to LA portfolio with $100M in acquisitions
Cushman's West Coast chief talks expansion, DTLA market, the death of the starving baby broker & more
Luzzatto Co. assembling creative office hub in West Adams
Faring makes $30M assemblage play on WeHo/LA border
Graymark, Nuveen pay $97M for El Segundo creative office
Startup brokerage HelloOffice expands to LA, hires former top LA Realty broker
Clarion pays $77M for La Mirada industrial project


Mahindra has added a new car to their electric vehicle portfolio. After launching vehicles like e-Verito, e-Supro van, the company has now launched the 4-door variant of the e20 christened as e2oPlus. The electric hatchback will be available in three variants and the prices start from Rs. 5.46 lakh while the top end variant carries a sticker price of Rs. 8.46 lakh.
The bigger 4-door version of the e20 now gets 150 litres of extra space and the car has indeed become very spacious. As of now, the new e2oPlus will be sold in the Indian market and there are no plan for exporting the car to the international market anytime soon.
The bigger version of the car also gets a new grille, similar to the one we see on the Scorpio. The length now stands at 3590mm, which is 310mm longer than the 2-door e2o. The hatchback comes a long list of equipment that includes GPS enabled navigation system and an on-board computer that analyses various data from the car and warns the driver about the depleting range of the car. The control monitor is touch-sensitive and is very easy to use.
The e20Plus gets similar mobile control features like the e20 where one can connect to the car through an app on smartphone. The app can switch on the air conditioner of the car remotely and can also lock/unlock the car. There is a SOS function that can squeeze out around 7-10 km of range from 10 per cent of battery.
The lower and the mid variant of the e20Plus comes with a range of 110 km. The top-end of the car comes with a new 3 phase induction motor which increases the power output to 40 BHP and maximum torque of 91 Nm. The motor also uses much more reliable 210ah lithium-ion batteries that increase the range to 140 BHP.
The motor can take the car to a top speed of 85 km/h. The batteries take up to 9 hours to charge completely. The car also gets an automatic gearbox with boost mode that can really push the car very hard.


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EMMETT, Idaho (KLIX)-Investigators say a Treasure Valley man's motorcycle ended up 30 yards off the road in a fatal accident Saturday morning west of Emmett.
At about 9 a.m. William Miller, age 58, of Emmett, died when he went through a stop sign at an intersection near Letha and ended up in a field, according to Idaho State Police. Miller had not been wearing a helmet and was thrown from the motorcycle.


First off, I want to thank Rob Lee for asking me to provide a keynote presentation to the 2012 SANS Forensic Summit (presentation slides are available here). It was truly an honor, and once again, I was blessed to be in the presence of so many great speakers, and some of the brightest minds in the community. Also, I have to give a heartfelt thanks to the wonderful SANS staff who made the entire conference possible. Without your work and dedication, the summit wouldn't be the incredible resource that it is.
I attended a number of presentations while at the summit and I thought I'd share my thoughts and views about each of them, as well as the summit as a whole. Hopefully, others will do the same.
Det. Cindy Murphy's keynote was well thought-out and very well received. Cindy is a well-known figure within the DFIR community, and her presentation really addressed a lot of the aspects of sharing within the community that many of us have been talking about for sometime. One of the strengths of the community that Cindy mentioned was that we all have different perspectives, and we can use that fact to build up the community as a whole. However, one of the weaknesses of the community is that we don't share those perspectives.
At the same time, I also think that Chris Pogue hit the nail on the head when he made his comment about sharing IOCs...no individual or organization is going to share their 'secret sauce'. Within the community, there are a number of businesses, and the nature of a business is to make money. If you're giving away your competitive advantage, you're not making money. This is just one of the obstacles to sharing within the DFIR community, and hopefully by engaging more, we can discuss ways to overcome some of these obstacles.
Alissa Torres had an excellent point regarding not staying "in your lane" with respect to what you do. I completely agree with her sentiment, and anyone who attended her presentation could clearly see how learning pen testing techniques from her co-workers has benefited her.
Nick Harbour of CrowdStrike gave an interesting talk on anti-forensics. It was interesting to see some of the techniques that could be used discussed, and I spent most of the presentation thinking to myself, "how would we detect that?" For instance, one of the techniques Nick mentioned for communicating off of a system was to launch IE as a COM object, and send data out in that manner. This is nothing new...I remember the Setiri presentation at BH 2002 discussing a similar approach. But the fact is, it can still work to hide activity from a particular area of analysis.
I enjoyed seeing Chris Pogue back in action again with his Sniper Forensics 3: The Hunt presentation. You can find previous iterations of Chris's presentations here and here.
Elizabeth Schweinsberg took an interesting approach in her presentation on Registry analysis - she crawled an AV website to collect data on reported Registry modifications made by various malware, and presented that data as a means for targeting your response and investigations. This was very interesting, and discussing it with her afterward, I think it would be a great idea to do that with other AV vendors, as well. I agree that this is not the idea data set...after all, AV companies receive samples of malware out of context and over the years some of the Registry artifacts associated with malware have been self-inflicted (that is, a result of how the AV analyst launches the malware). But, it's the best data we have available. One of the interesting statistics that Elizabeth came up with was the continued wide-spread use of the Run key as a persistence mechanism. Even after returning from the conference, I still see malware that uses this key for persistence.
In her presentation, Elizabeth also provided something of a showdown between GRR, RegRipper, and Registry Decoder, using various criteria. In some ways, I think it was good to show the differences in the tools, but in others, I didn't follow the reasoning for holding up tools against a criteria for which they were neither designed nor written. After all, to say that tool X wasn't scalable, when it wasn't necessarily written to be scalable, isn't necessarily giving the tool a fair representation. RegRipper was designed from the beginning to provide the ability for the community to write plugins, and one of the criteria that it was measured against was the ability to extract data from the RunOnce key. Elizabeth was correct in that the plugin did not exist when she was testing the tool, but is that really a "con" (as opposed to a "pro") statement about the tool? Also, I found myself thinking on my flight home that if Elizabeth had contacted me during her testing, I could have provided that plugin or anything else she needed. After I got home, I reached to her and found out that she had, in fact, written her own module but not included that in the presentation. I look forward to future conferences where both Elizabeth and other members of the Google team will be presenting.
The last presentation of the conference was from Carbon Black's CEO, Mike Viscuso. In his presentation, Mike demonstrated the value of Cb without ever describing Cb in detail, and for the nature of the conference, I think it was very important that he not cross that line into a vendor presentation. Instead, Mike clearly illustrated the need for the concept behind Cb, which was to redefine the data set that we, as incident responders, want access to when responding. As a result, there were several excellent questions that came up, mostly from folks who had (understandably) never heard of nor looked at Cb. The first comment during the Q&A session included asking if, by identifying a new 'data set' that DFIR folks would like to have available would put our current IR folks out of work, and to be honest, nothing could be further from the truth. Cb, and tools like it, are changing the face of incident response, but not in a way that puts current IR staff out of work...rather, it requires a change in the business model that is currently in use. The emergency model of IR is not sustainable; this is true for the consulting company that provides the service, as well as their customers. Moving to a proactive, "security camera" approach does not remove the need for highly skilled responders, it simply changes the business model to one that is more advantageous, more sustainable, and much easier to manage from a budget perspective than the current model. And this is applies to both sides of the equation, both the consultants and their customers.
A final thought about the presentations, and the summit in general...this is a great opportunity for folks who attend the conferences to really network and engage, particularly with the authors and presenters. The SANS Summit is a small conference (when compared to others) and provides a fantastic opportunity, not just for networking in general, but also for attendees to engage in a direct and meaningful manner with the speakers. It doesn't matter whether you've got questions or just really liked what you heard, you can walk up to the presenter and say something. After all, if you're 20 feet from the presenter, why send an email or Tweet saying that you liked the presentation...why not just walk up to the presenter, introduce yourself, and tell them directly? The size of the summit really facilitates that kind of close, direct interaction.
At the recent SANS DFIR Summit, Corey Harrell, Christopher Witter and I had a chance to chat with someone from Syngress Publishing, who proposed a new business model for DFIR materials to us, and I wanted to get a feel for how others felt about it.
Right now, for a new author, it can take a long time to get material out into a book format. My first book took about a year to write, and then 3 1/2 months to get through printing. Some authors don't get beyond the initial couple of chapters before walking away from the project. Writing a book can be a daunting, and often overwhelming project, and even if it is finished, it can take a year or more before any of the information appears in the public.
The new model takes a different approach. Instead of full books, authors will write "modules", 30 - 120 page packages of what might be part of a book, but stand alone in and of themselves. If you've see WFAT 3/e, you'll see that there are several of chapters in the book that could be provided in this manner, perhaps with some additional work. These modules would be provided much quicker, going through the same review process but being shorter, would be available in a much quicker time frame. Initially, they would be available in electronic format, (hopefully) at a reduced price. This way, if you were waiting for WFAT 3/e to come out because you were interested in chapters 3 and 5, you wouldn't have to wait a full year or more for the materials. Instead, you would have access to them in a much quicker time frame, and then as other modules came available, you would be able to combine the modules into print material.
This model reduces the time in which material is available, reduces the cost-of-entry for the material, and takes a great deal of burden off of the author, as well. Rather than being engaged in a project that is a year long, the author might be engaged for only 2 months at a time. Technical reviews would be much quicker, as would the overall final review before going to "printing". This model also allows for updates...if you purchase a module, there will be an update model available for you to get the latest and greatest version of the module.
From a topics perspective, look at it this way...take one chapter from WFAT 3/e, perhaps expand it a bit with some applicable screen captures or other applicable material, and consider that a module.
Given all of this, I wanted to get some feel from the community at large as to (a) how you feel about this approach, (b) what topics you might like to see covered, and (c) who might be interested in providing this material. Feel free to comment here, or email me at keydet89 at yahoo dot com.
One of the aspects of Windows analysis that I discuss in the courses we're offering is that the version of Windows you're analyzing is significant. For example, as of Windows Vista, updating of file system last accessed times, as a result of normal user behavior, is disabled by default. However, even though we can't look to file accesses times as an indication of when a user accessed the files, there are a number of artifacts on Windows systems, in particular Windows 7, which will tell us not only that a user accessed a file (based on the context of those artifacts), but also when. As such, we can add category IDs or tags (i.e., "[File Access]") to those events (something that I've discussed previously) in order to make them much easier to identify in timelines, as well as in other reporting formats.
One of the ways that LNK files are created on a system is that a user will double-click a file which is located somewhere on that system, on removable media, or even on a network share. When this happens, a shortcut file that points to the target will be created in the user's Recent folder. The operating system will select the appropriate application (based on the extension of the target file) with which to open the file.
On Windows 7 systems, we now have new Task Bar artifacts called Jump Lists available for analysis. The AutomaticDestinations Jump Lists are produced by activities very similar to those associated with LNK files, with the added advantage that the Jump Lists are associated with an application (based on the AppID), as well as with a user.
Let's say that the user accesses a Word .docx file by double-clicking it. When this happens, an LNK file is created, and a Jump List associated with the version of MS Word installed on the system is created, if it doesn't already exist. These Jump Lists are based on the MS Compound Document format, and an entry that contains an LNK stream is created within the Jump List file, and a structure is added to the DestList stream within the Jump List. When the file is accessed and the DestList stream structure is added, the time of the activity is included within that structure. This time can be used to illustrate the most recent time the user accessed that file.
As the LNK streams that point to the target file are not files themselves, they do not have MACB file system times specifically associated with each of them. They do contain the MA.B times of the target file, embedded within the stream, as they follow the binary format specification described by MS.
There are a number of Registry keys (specifically within the user's NTUSER.DAT hive file) that maintain references to files that the user has accessed. Some, such as the RecentDocs key, maintain simply names of files, while others, such as the Paint subkey beneath the user's Applets key (see the RegRipper applets.pl plugin), provide the full path to the file. Many of these keys also contain Most Recently Used entries, indicating that the key's LastWrite time may reflect when the appropriately listed file was most recently accessed.
There are a number of file formats that allow for metadata to be stored within the file itself. MS Office has long been known for providing a good deal of (potentially embarrassing) metadata. While more recent formats of MS Office documents don't contain as much metadata as previous versions, we may still be able to use this information to provide indications of file access.
Let's not forget that previous versions of each of the artifacts we've discussed so far may be located within available Volume Shadow Copies; as such, we may want to take a targeted (perhaps even laser-focused) approach to parsing previous versions of each of these artifacts for comparative, historical data.
As you can see, even though the updating of last access times for files is disabled by default on Windows systems as of Vista, this doesn't mean that we can't determine when a user accessed particular files.
I finished up leading a Timeline Analysis Course on Tuesday afternoon, ending two days of some pretty intensive training. One of the things I find when I'm putting presentations or courses together, and then actually giving the presentation, is that I very often end up learning a good deal along the way, and this time around was no different. As has happened in the past, what I learn leads me to revisit and possibly even modify tools or analysis techniques, and again, this time was no different.
One of my biggest takeaways from the training is that I need to reconsider how at least some of the available time stamped data is presented in a timeline. One of those items is how Prefetch file metadata is represented and displayed; I've since updated the parsing tool to address this particular item. Another, and the one I'm going to discuss in this blog post, is how Windows shortcut (LNK file) information might be displayed in a timeline, or more specifically, what information about LNK files might possibly need to be presented in a timeline.
So, as a bit of background, I've been thinking quite a lot lately about how to better take advantage of timeline data. As I was putting the timeline course together, it occurred to me that I was going to be spending a good deal of time describing to attendees how to create a timeline, and even walking them through this process with demonstrations and hands-on exercises, but spending very little time discussing how to actually analyze the timeline data. The simplest answer is, it depends. It depends on your exam goals, why you're performing the exam, and why you created a timeline in the first place. It occurred to me that I was making an assumption that most analysts would have a good solid justification for creating a timeline as part of their analysis process. If that were the case every time, I wouldn't have folks signing up for a timeline analysis course, would I? I'm not saying that analysts don't have a justification for creating a timeline, but sometimes that justification be, "...that's what we always do...", or "...that's what I did last time."
Timeline analysis is something of a data reduction technique...we go from a 500GB hard drive or image, to somewhere around a GB or so of data, and we then arrange it based on a time value in the hopes of obtaining some context and increasing our relative confidence in the data that we're looking at; that's the goal, anyway. But by grabbing just the data directly associated with a time value, we end up performing a great deal of data reduction. Even so, we still need a means for directing our analysis, or getting the cream to rise to the top of the container.
Something I'd discussed in a previous blog post was the concept of categories for events. Rob Lee has done some considerable work in this area already, providing a color-coded Excel macro that implements the category ID scheme he's identified via resources such as the SANS DFIR poster. Regardless of the method used to identify event types or categories, the idea is to develop some method to assist the examiner in her analysis of the timeline. After all, if you have something of an idea of what you're looking for, then finding it might be a bit easier if you classify various events by type or category, and then have some means to identify the events accordingly (via color, a tag or identifier, etc.).
As you can see, we have a number of data elements available to us once we've decoded the binary contents of the LNK file, any of which (or any combination of which) may be relevant or significant to our analysis. For example, as the LNK file was found in the user's Recent folder, we can assume that the existence of the file indicates some form of user activity; that is, the user must have done something, must have performed a specific action (such as double-clicking the file) that caused that LNK file to be created.
Next, we have the path to where the target file was located within the file system, as well as the MA.B times of the target file at the time that the shortcut was created. That might be significant to your analysis, as it demonstrates both knowledge of and access to a file, and will persist even after the target file is no longer available.
Had the LNK file been located on the user's Desktop and pointed to an EXE target file, this might illustrate specific actions taken by the user, such as installing an application. This might also indicate program execution, rather than file access.
If the target file in the shortcut is a document or image, this might also illustrate program execution. Launching the shortcut would cause the Windows system to reach into the Registry in order to determine which application with which files with the target file's extension are associated. For example, let's say a shortcut "points to" a .avi video file. On some systems, launching a shortcut that points to a video file might cause Windows Media Player to be launched automatically; on other systems, it might be another application all together. Either way, the existence of an LNK file might also illustrate program execution or application launch.
Finally, we see that the last item visible in our example is called "vol_type", which refers to the type of volume where the target file was at the time of the activity. In this case, the C:\ volume is a "Fixed Disk"; if it wasn't, would that be significant? For example, if the volume type were "removable media" or a "network share", would that be significant to your exam? In some cases, it could very well be, and we might look to that information for indications of access to or use of removable storage devices, or of network shares.
Perhaps the idea here isn't to classify LNK files into a single category, but instead filter the various data items found within LNK files based on a set of rules, and produce timeline events based on the output of each of the rules, where appropriate. This might mean that for a single LNK file, we might end up with multiple events in our timeline.
As I've been preparing for our upcoming timeline analysis course, I've been putting some work into updating some of the tools that I use for creating timelines, which are also provided to attendees for their use, along with the other course materials. Some of the updates I've been doing are intended to bring a new level of capabilities to the analyst, and really illustrate the power that timelines bring to an analyst.
One of the things Rob Lee has talked about in his timeline analysis courses is the idea of "pivot points", events within a timeline that would likely serve as anchor points for our analysis, or for what you're interested in determining. I've had some conversations with folks at work and some extensive email exchanges with Corey Harrell lately, both of which have involved determining what some of these pivot or anchor points might be. One place from which I've obtained pivot points is the initial triage phone call with the customer; maybe the customer had logged into a system and found that, at some point, WinRAR had been installed. Or maybe they saw a pop-up from the AV application. Or maybe banking or credit card fraud was reported by the bank to have occurred on a certain date, so you know that access to a system had to have occurred prior to that date. The point is that we usually have some piece of information that leads us to the decision to create a timeline; after all, we wouldn't simply create a timeline "...because that's what we've always done." I say, nay, nay...we're not likely to index an entire image unless we're planning to perform a keyword search, and we're equally unlikely to create a timeline unless we have a good reason for doing so.
My point is this...when we sit down to analyze an acquired image, how many times have we opened the image in our commercial analysis framework and just started poking around aimlessly? The answer is probably...far too often. What if I had a timeframe ("prior to April 5th"), or better yet, a specific event ("WinRAR was installed") that led me to creating a timeline? I would then have a specific point within the timeline that I could go to in order to begin my analysis.
During the recent Intro to Windows Forensic Analysis course, one of the attendees asked me, "How do you determine the goals of your analysis if your customer doesn't even know them?" Well, the fact of the matter is that they will know their goals, even if they don't know it...as an analyst, it's your job to work with them and draw that out. Start with something simple, such as why the customer called you in the first place, or what led them to identify a system that they want you to acquire and analyze; now you just need to determine, analyze for what? Sometimes, this can involve something (AV alert, pop-up, etc.) having occurred on a specific date, and that's a start...you'll at least know that you're looking for an event that occurred on a certain date, and that would be your initial anchor point.
When I'm building at timeline, I like to use LogParser to extract data from the Windows Event Log (*.etvx) files. I then use a Perl script, evtxparse.pl (provided as a standalone Windows executable), to transition the resulting .csv format logs into TLN format for inclusion into the timeline. One of the tool updates I've completed recently is to add an event ID mapping capability to evtxparse.pl: as it parses through the output of LogParser, for each event, it checks a lookup table, based on event source and event ID pairs, for an identifier of what type or category the event is, and adds an identifier or tag to the event description. For example, there are event records that tell you when a program has been installed, removed, or launched. There are event records that tell you when the system has been connected to a wireless access point. And there are a LOT of event records that indicate login attempts, either locally or remotely. As I was working my way through an analysis, I thought that it might be useful to be able to quickly see at a glance what I was looking for...login events, program execution, etc.
Note: While I refer to the tools as Perl scripts, I also provide course attendees with copies of the scripts compiled into Windows executables via Perl2Exe.
The event ID mapping file is a flat text file, and in my modifications to the evtxparse.pl script, I included the ability to add comments to the file. As part of my research, I've included links to Microsoft resources (as comments) that identify what certain events mean; so, it's not me saying that a particular event means that a program was installed, it's Microsoft stating that that's what the event identifies, and I provide a link a vendor resource that analysts can use to validate that information. This provides a great facility for an analyst to not only easily research the event, but also add their own event identifiers. I've also taken this a step further by adding similar identifiers to the TLN output of other tools, including the RegRipper plugins and other data parsers that are provided along with the course materials.
Another potential means for identifying pivot or anchor points for your analysis is to add an additional layer of filtering to the tools. For example, I wrote a RegRipper plugin that replicates Mandiant's shimcache.py Python script, and we know from the published research that the entries identify programs that had been executed on the system. Now, what if we were to not only tag these entries in our timeline as identifying program execution, but also scan each entry and identify those in particular that were run from a directory that includes the word "temp" in the path (such as "Local Settings\Temp" or "Temporary Internet Files")? With all of the available data in a timeline, adding tags to identify pivot or anchor points in this way would likely be extremely useful.
This isn't anything new, and I'm not the only one to look at things this way. At the SANS360 event last year, Rob Lee spent his 6 minutes talking about an Excel macro he had created to color code events in a similar manner, so that they could be easily identified in the output of log2timeline. Rob's also created a poster of these event categories.
Now that I have just the remote login messages, I can (a) parse these into a timeline, and (b) quickly write up a Perl script that will run through the information in the .csv file and provide me with a list of unique IP addresses.
Again, I'm not averse to using other tools, and definitely would not advocate against the use of other tools. This is simply how I prefer to go about creating timelines, and I think that it serves as an excellent foundation from which to teach timeline creation and analysis.
I posted recently on the host-based analysis topic, and just yesterday, I finished up teaching the first rendition of the ASI Intro to Windows Forensic Analysis course, which focuses on host-based analysis. I'm really looking forward to teaching the Timeline Analysis course in a week and a half. As with analysis engagements, I tend to take things that I learned in a recent engagement and apply them to future work; the same is true with the training I provide. I've been spending a considerable amount of time over the past 12 or so hours going back over the course I just taught, and looking at ways to improve not only the next iteration of the course, but also to improve the next course that I teach.
Both of the courses are two days long, and I try to have a good deal of hands-on work and exercises. As such, folks planning to attend the course should have some experience in performing forensic analysis, and also be comfortable (not expert, just comfortable) working at the command line. I found that a great way to illustrate the value of certain artifacts is to provide tools and exercises that illustrate the value of a particular artifact. As such, I provide a number of my own tools, which I've updated in functionality. I also provide various sample files so that folks attending the course can practice using the tools.
As an example, I provide the tools discussed here, including pref.exe. I also provide sample Prefetch files extracted from an XP system, as well as others extracted from a Vista system. In the Intro course, we walk through each artifact, and provide several means for extracting the data of value from each. In some cases, I only talk about various tools and provide screen shots, as due to the license agreements, I can't distribute copies of the tools themselves.
Both courses start off with the core concepts; the why of what we're doing, before we step off into the how. In the Intro course, I spend a good deal of time talking about using multiple data sources to illustrate that something occurred. In our first exercise scenario, we look at how to determine the active users on a system, and discuss the various sources we can look to for data; while some of these data sources may appear to be redundant, we want to look to them in order to validate our other data, as well as provide a means of analysis in the face of counter- or anti-forensics activities, no matter how unintentional those activities may be. The reason for this is two-fold...first, some data sources are more easily mutable than others, and may be changed either over the course of time while the system is active, or changed intentionally. I've had exams where one of the initial steps taken by administrators, prior to contacting our IR team, included removing user accounts. As such, another reason for making use of redundant data sources is to address those times when the one data source we usually rely on isn't available, or isn't something we necessarily trust.
Another area we look at in the Intro course is indications of program execution. We look to a number of different locations within a Windows system for indications of programs having been executed (either simply executed on the system, or those that can be associated with a user), and as such, we use a number of RegRipper plugins that you won't find anywhere else, and are only provided in conjunction with the courses. There's one to parse the AppCompatCache value data (as well as run checks for any program paths with 'temp' in the path), another to display the information in TLN format for inclusion in a timeline, as well as others to query, parse and display other Registry data that is relevant to indications of program execution, and other categories of activity.
We also discuss Volume Shadow Copies, as well as means of accessing them when analyzing an acquired image. In the course, we focus on the VHD method for accessing VSCs, but we also discuss other means, as well. I stress throughout the course that the purpose of accessing various artifacts in this manner is to let the analyst see what's available, so that they're better able to select the appropriate tool for the job. For example, if you're accessing VSCs a great deal, perhaps it would be valuable to use techniques such as those that Corey's blogged about, or use something like ShadowKit, or perhaps take advantage of the VSC functionality included in TechPathway's ProDiscover.
One of the things I really like about these training courses is engaging with others and discussing how to go about performing host-based analysis based on identified goals.


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YSU Professor to Tour NASA Space Flight Center
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Adam Earnheardt, chairman of the Department of Communication at Youngstown State University, will visit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland Friday as part of tour for social media influencers.
The tour group was chosen because of their ability to reach broad audiences on social media. The Goddard Center houses NASA's Atlas, short for Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System, and is the building site for the Global Ecosystem and Dynamics Investigation, or GEDI, satellite, which will use laser ranging to produce 3-D maps of Earth's surface. Atlas launches in 2018 and GEDI in 2019.
"I'm the furthest thing from a NASA scientist, but I am passionate about space exploration, which is exactly what NASA is looking for in events like this – people who can help translate what they do into social media content that helps build public support for future missions," Earnheardt said in a release.
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Discussion in 'All Other Software' started by glaze, Jul 18, 2006.
I have roughly 178 contacts added through MSN Messenger 7.5. They appear coorectly in web messenger however only about 28 appear in Windows Live Messenger. I use a gmail account with a .NET passport, however I don't do anything with my contacts in gmail. Any help/suggestions greatly appreciate, thanks.
"Due to a connection problem, changes you make might not be applied to other computers you use"
Since I let messenger cache itself on my computer instead of only online my contacts stay and I can still message them. If I didn't I would probably be suffering the same fate as you. After doing some searching I kind of think MSN is having some server issues (possibly related to the coming Yahoo integration). Heres a link you may find interesting reading and after come to the same conclusion as me .... wait it out and things will return to normal.


Here comes another new casino for you to read about! I am very excited to be reviewing the House of Jack Casino, as it comes from an ownership group that has had lots of success over the years. I am going to look at all aspects of this Australian-themed site, covering their promotions, their games catalog, and their VIP program amongst other details.
When I review a new casino, I am always looking for ways the site stands out in a very competitive market, as well as any red flags which may cause me concern. What will you get from reading this page? A comprehensive, honest review of this casino - I tend to be brutally honest when I find things I don't like. Hopefully, at the end of this review, you can make an informed decision about whether or not to make a deposit at House of Jack. Let's go!
I really like what I see here at House of Jack. At first, I was concerned that this was a site that was only going to be open to players from New Zealand and Australia, but once I found that many other countries are able to play here, it improved the overall rating. As you will read from my comprehensive review, adding this Down Under flare to an excellent casino offering should bring my readers a lot of pleasure. Having the games available in play money format means there is no risk in signing up for the site.
The site offers a great variety of games from multiple software providers. The only reason I have not given this section a higher grade is that you might not be able to see some of the games from where you are playing due to restrictions placed on the casino operator by their software partners.
I have not found any complaints online about slow payment or non-payment, which is a wonderful sign. The site offers multiple e-wallet solutions which they claim have instant payouts (aside from the 4-24-hour internal pending period). For a new site, it offers a large selection of payment options, and there seem to be no signs of fees on the player side. I always recommend using the e-wallets although there are the traditional credit and debit card options available as well.
I like the layout of the Welcome Bonus, as it is split over multiple deposits. There isn't a no-deposit bonus available, which is a bit of a knock on the site. I like that there are multiple ongoing promotions, which shows me that the marketing team is always working. However, the low score comes from the lack of information about the VIP program, which is a big part of how I calculate ROI for my readers. If the site improves this part of the site, I will immediately give them better marks for the Bonus section.
The site has many ways to contact them, and they are available 24 hours a day on Live Chat. I tested this by reaching out late at night and was pleased to have someone receive my request within two minutes. Add in a comprehensive FAQ section, and you cannot go wrong with the customer support being offered at House of Jack. Hopefully, you won't need to use it much, but it is reassuring to know that there is someone available at any time of day that you may have an issue arise.
I really like the way the website is laid out, as it gives players a ton of information without seeming too clogged with text. One minor change I would like to see is a filter of the games by the software vendor, which would make it far easier to sift through the hundreds of slots titles. Aside from that, I think the management team has built a very modern looking site which should be easy to navigate even for the most novice players.
Although the site does not currently offer a native app for their games, the mobile site is excellent, and you should have no problem playing your favorite games on your phone or tablet. The games are all available through your browser, and while the website is pared down compared to the PC version, you can easily access the games lobby, which is really why they received such a high rating.
House of Jack is a new entrant in the online casino market, having launched in 2017. The site is owned by the StarPartners group, who also own Casino Mate, a brand you may have heard of previously.
The casino is licensed in Curacao, which means that the owners weren't too concerned about receiving a European license. The Curacao gaming license is relatively simple to acquire and truth be told I don't think it actually helps players at all. Most casinos who get their license from this island nation are either required to do so by a software partner or plan to take action from American gamblers.
After finding out everything I can about the casino's background, it is time for me to turn my attention to the casino itself. Typically, I like to click about the site to see how the navigation is, and how cluttered the site looks to a user. I was very pleased with the overall layout of the House of Jack website. Not only are the tabs all listed on the top of each page, but the information on each page is laid out in an easy-to-read manner without a bunch of banners all over the place. This is clearly a more modern design for an online casino site, which is a breath of fresh air to this reviewer.
I like to get in a good few hours of playing to bring you a complete look at the casino offering. This time I decided to play in the evening, which meant I was a little more tired than normal, but I promise that didn't affect my session!
One thing you are going to notice when you are reading this review is that some of the games I am listing are not visible in your lobby. This is due to some of the House of Jack software partners prohibiting their games from being accessed by certain countries. This is additional ringfencing on top of the country restrictions already imposed by the site itself. As a result, while the game selection is exceptional regardless, for some of my readers, it will be more expansive.
I am surprised that a casino launched in 2017 doesn't offer Live Dealer games. These games are widely available and have become very popular with players in the last few years. I am hopeful that once the site has a few years under its belt, it decides to expand into this arena.
For me, this is the perfect number of different software partners to have at a casino. Some sites that have up to twice the number of vendors can feel overwhelming, while this number of partners gives House of Jack well over 500 games for players to choose from without being too cumbersome.
The main reason for having so many different software providers is to be able to offer a wide array of content in the slots catalog. The first thing I noticed when I clicked on the games lobby was that this casino wants you to try their games without making a deposit. I appreciate the fact that House of Jack is using that "soft-sell" approach to the games - we all know a casino wants you to play for real money, but advertising that you can give the games a shot for nothing takes the pressure off the new player.
You can find a full list of progressive slots jackpots, as well as some of the games that make each of these software providers a success in their own right. Personally, I am always happy when I find the Betsoft games in a casino lobby - their 3D slots titles are some of the most advanced in the industry and feature storylines and characters that find me getting lost in a session very quickly.
Video Poker is a game that is very popular with a small population of casino gamblers, but I think that is because not enough people have tried the game. For my money, Video Poker offers you the best odds combined with the speed of play that comes from a slot machine.
I am always looking for the best pay tables when I search out video poker in my reviews. The good news for my readers is that I see many games that are available in the House of Jack lobby that have favorable odds. If you are playing the max coins and perfect drawing strategy, games like All Aces pay out at almost 100%. How can you turn these odds down?
Any casino that offers Microgaming software is going to have a great selection of Table Games, and House of Jack is no exception. What I like the most about these games, especially as someone who has to play casino games all day as a job, is the number of Blackjack variants in the lobby. Microgaming has figured out how to keep lovers of 21 occupied with some side bets and rule changes that will keep you playing for longer. I like the fact that I can switch between single and multi-deck options.
Getting your money to and from House of Jack seems to be quite a smooth process. Without having to worry about accepting deposits from U.S. players, the casino is able to offer some of the most well-known payment methods. I checked the Terms and Conditions and didn't see anything listed for fees, which is also outstanding news for players. The maximum withdrawal amount is $10,000 per week, which is a problem I hope all my readers face at some point in their playing time with this casino.
These days, where a casino can stand out, especially a new one, is with a series of attractive promotions. I am typically leery of a new casino that seems to be giving away too much to new players, as this is a slippery slope to running out of operating cash. When I checked out the bonuses at House of Jack, I was pleasantly surprised to see a good balance between multiple offers and decent bonus percentages.
*20 Spins a day over the next 10 days on STICKY BANDITS.
I would like to see all three bonuses set at 100%, but that is me just being a bit nit-picky. A couple of things to take note of here: the maximum winnings you can cash out from your bonuses is $5,000 (totally fine by me), and the wagering requirement for this offer is 50x the bonus amounts. While this may seem high, there is no wager limit as long as you make 100 bets. Overall, this is a pretty solid Welcome Bonus which gives you a very good chance of converting the bonus dollars.
I am highlighting this promotion as this is one that the casino is offering in conjunction with Betsoft. This is common practice, where a software provider will kick in some cash to help promote a specific game.
The promotion is a raffle offer, which means you don't have to win a leaderboard to qualify for a prize. You will receive a ticket in the raffle for every $30 you wager on this particular slot machine, and the grand prize in the raffle is $1,000.
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Waiting for your winnings is a drag, so our withdrawals are quick as a flash.
We want your Jack's Pack experience to be as smooth as a good cognac, so we've got specially-trained team members who will take your calls, and answer your chats and emails whenever you need them to.
What's an exclusive club without a few fun perks, right? Well, when you're part of the Pack, Jack's got your back!
There aren't any details on how many levels the program entails, or exactly what you have to do to qualify. Basically, the site says that your play needs to stand out and then you can email the VIP team to see if you qualify. Personally, I like to have all the parameters laid out for me, and many other sites already make this available to players.
House of Jack is so excited for you to play their games via mobile that it has a whole page of the website dedicated to the mobile games. Now, there isn't all that much to tell you there except that you can continue your first-rate gaming experience on the go via your phone or tablet.
The games are all non-download at House of Jack, which means you can access them via the browser on your mobile device. The software has been formatted to fit the smaller screen sizes, and the games I tried all had excellent speed with no lag time. Mobile play is the way of the future, so it is good to see House of Jack so focused on their mobile offering, although I would like to see a couple of device-specific promotions posted as well.
Now, the casino is clearly being marketed to players from Australia and New Zealand, so I was a bit concerned when I started to research the customer support section. Thankfully, I found very quickly that the support team is available 24/7, which is important for those of us who don't live Down Under.
I want to highlight a couple of items from the Support area. First, they have a password reset link right on the page, which I think is brilliant as this is probably the most common player request. Also, the site has a detailed FAQ section, with over 40 answers to common queries.
If you need to contact the casino, you can do so via telephone (beware of long distance charges), Live Chat, or email.
Overall, I am happy with what I found during my review of House of Jack. As you can see from my ratings, there are some minor changes that the site could make to radically improve their offering. This is typical of new sites, so I am giving the owners the benefit of the doubt to react to reviews like this one and make the necessary adjustments.
Even though this site is directed to Australian and Kiwi players, it is open to most countries in the world, and I am happy to recommend House of Jack to my readers. This casino has a wide array of games and promotions that suit the needs of all types of casino players.
House of Jack currently offers the following currencies: USD, CAD, AUD, RUB, NZD, and EUR. Of course, you may have a different local currency, so when you deposit it will be converted to the currency of your choice (you get to make that decision in the registration process at the casino).
No! All of the games at House of Jack are available in Free Play mode. This is great for a new player or someone who is interested in trying out a game or slot machine that they haven't seen before. The gameplay is exactly the same in the play money versions, so when you are ready to switch to playing for real cash, you won't notice a difference.
Is playing at this casino safe?
I believe that playing at this casino is as safe as any online casino could be. It has no complaints against it for shady behavior or payout issues, so for me, that is a good sign. Sites that are licensed by jurisdictions like the UK or Malta may be a little safer when it comes to regular audits etc., but I am sure you will be safe at House of Jack.
Why can't I see some of the games you wrote about?
Some casino software companies allow their licensees to accept play from anywhere, while others impose their own set of restrictions. As a result, when we write these reviews, it is entirely possible that where the reviewer is sitting, they can see games that others cannot and vice versa. The best way to find out what games are available is to load the site while reading our review.
Why don't some of the games open when I click on them?
This is typically a local problem with your device or laptop. If you can't see the games when you try to play them, then you should check to see if you have the latest versions of Java and Flash installed. These are the programming languages used for the non-download games. Once you have the latest release, you should have no issue playing the game. If the issue persists, then reach out to customer service.


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You don't have to be a millionaire to enjoy and live on this New York classic wood yacht by Airbnb
by Neha Tandon Sharma
Almost every dreamer's bucket list includes visiting New York City and sleeping in a superyacht! The classic yacht Crown Goose, available through Airbnb, is a way to tick these boxes in one go. An experience like no other, this yacht will not take you and five other guests anywhere (it's New York, why leave?) as the wooden vessel is stationary but offers enough entertainment onboard.
Accommodation is comfortable and spread across four bedrooms, five beds, and one and a half bathrooms for $311 a night, offering panoramic views of the New York Harbor. The yacht also features a bunk bed perfect for kids and teens. The pet-friendly Airbnb ensures a good time with an array of books and a sound system to enjoy some tunes while taking in the city views.
For the sake of a relaxed experience and to provide a much-needed digital break, there's no Wi-Fi or TV onboard the all-wood yacht. Another way to de-stress is by stirring up delicacies in the galley kitchen equipped with essential cooking utensils, a fridge, microwave, electric stove, oven, and toaster. The interiors look vintage and charming, with rich wooden construction, plush rugs, and chairs. Situated in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, there is plenty to do, from renting bikes to dining out at one of the area's notable restaurants. Crown Goose is ideally located in the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, where guests can do everything from renting bikes to dining out at one of the notable restaurants.
Airbnb user Cheryl reviewed, 'The Crown Goose was a wonderful adventure! The nighttime views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty are gorgeous. One thing to remember, boats are COLD in the winter. Nat did provide space heaters that saved us. Other than the cold weather, it was a great stay.' It looks like you don't have to choose between Brooklyn and Manhattan when you can be in the middle of it all and on a cute yacht, no less!
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Today we have some interesting news for you – the Torrent plugin for TeamCity!
With this plugin, users and build agents can download TeamCity build artifacts faster, especially in a distributed environment.
For those of you who are not familiar with BitTorrent – this is a peer-to-peer protocol. It means there is no single server for shared files. Instead, the files can be downloaded from peers that already have these files or parts of them.
Still, a server is required to find peers. This server is called a torrent tracker. To download a file, a peer must have a torrent file describing the required file. With this torrent file, the peer goes to the torrent tracker, and the tracker provides addresses of other peers in the network sharing the file.
A peer that does not have the file yet but wants to download it is called a leech. A peer that has the file and wants to share it is called a seeder.
So what TeamCity Torrent plugin does – it turns TeamCity into a torrent tracker for all published artifacts greater than the specific size: by default, the artifacts of size less than 10 megabytes are not available via the BitTorrent protocol as it is not very efficient for small files. Additionally, the TeamCity server becomes a seeder for these artifacts. So for every artifact there is always one seeder in the network.
On top of that, when an agent decides to download an artifact dependency, it can choose to use the BitTorrent protocol instead of HTTP if there is more than one seeder available. Once the agent downloads the file, the agent itself automatically becomes a seeder for this file. When the agent publishes the artifact to the TeamCity server, both the server and agent start seeding it. So if you use TeamCity artifacts a lot, eventually you'll end up with quite a number of agents seeding artifacts. Not only does this increase the speed of the artifacts delivery to agents, but it also reduces the load on the TeamCity server.
Finally, the users who have Torrent clients installed can also download files from TeamCity via the BitTorrent protocol.
The plugin is compatible with version 8.1, so to try it, you need to install the latest TeamCity EAP build. Grab the plugin here and install it as usual.
Please try this plugin and let us know what needs to be improved!
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What about a remote agent publishing build artifacts? Do they still need to be uploaded to TC first, or can they be seeded right away?
We don't use BitTorrent protocol to publish artifacts to server.
However, as of 8.1, all artifacts that agent produces during build execution are stored in the local (agent's) artifacts cache. And agent seeds its artifacts directly from cache.
In two words, artifacts can be available before they are uploaded to TC if you have a corresponding torrent file. But TC cannot reuse these artifacts before they are completely uploaded to server.
Could you specify which ports need to be reachable for this to work ? With my current firewall settings on the server, I can download the torrent file, but the peers are unreachable.
Both agents and server bind on the first available port in 6881-6889 interval.
Just TCP, or UDP as well ?
What about the tracker ?


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Barriers in education: 'Bridging the digital divide more pressing now than ever'
By Fatima Hudoon on 11th September, 2020
FEATURES: education
Lockdown left many pupils without laptops, it meant missing out on vital learning, school work piling up and stress increasing. As schools tentatively reopen, bridging the digital divide will be a key challenge.
When lockdown began in March and schools shut their doors for pupils, online learning was an obvious safe alternative. But what about those who didn't have access to the right devices – or none at all?
"My laptop was quite slow. So doing work on it just wasn't easy. I got frustrated", 14-year-old Mariama says who lives in Horfield and goes to John Cabot Academy.
With limited resources, Mariama felt overwhelmed, "the amount of work that they were setting and within such a short period of time! It was just building up and building up."
"I think [Covid-19] just highlighted the inequalities that always existed, it just heightened them."
In April, the government announced they would give laptops and routers to pupils who needed it the most – Year 10s, care leavers and pupils with social workers. But nationally, a third of school trusts received fewer than ten laptops for their eligible Year 10 pupils while 27 Trusts received only one. Though 540,000 pupils were eligible for the government scheme, only 220,000 laptops were delivered to schools by August.
Although pupils have returned to school now, with increasing cases in schools and local lockdowns coming into effect across the country, bridging the digital divide is more important than ever to tackle educational inequality.
School work piling up
When teaching suddenly switched to online learning, Shaheim, 15, and Mariama, whose laptops were frustratingly slow were left to fend for themselves in the middle of the academic year.
"I had a computer but it was very very old. I got it when I was two", Shaheim says, who lives in Redfield and goes to City Academy Bristol. "It was really hard and I didn't have the space to do the work", he adds.
For pupils like Mariama and Shaheim, no laptop during lockdown meant missing out on vital learning, school work piling up and stress increasing.
Mariama, who was in Year 9 when her school closed, was excluded from the scheme and had no access to a printer for over a month.
"We weren't even allowed to photocopy… I had to go to school and get all my books and copy out the questions", Mariama says. "It was quite stressful."
Samantha Williamson is the headteacher at Merchant's Academy, a secondary school in Withywood, one of the most deprived areas in the city. "It's been really tough. We're pretty sure we've got about 25% of young people in any one year group who don't have any regular access to adequate technology", Williamson says, who recently appeared in our Bristol Unpacked episode on education.
Merchant Academy only received 22 laptops and only Year 10s were eligible for the scheme as they prepared for their GCSEs. "So it only scratches the surface of the digital divide. There's so much more to be done on that."
Teachers had to produce physical copies of work set for students who couldn't access the online content alongside making one-to-one calls to offer support.
There were also delays in handing laptops out to pupils. Shaheim's school, for example, could only offer him a laptop toward the end of lockdown. "They were handing out laptops for the summer. But obviously that's quite delayed", Shaheim says.
Fortunately for Shaheim and Mariama, a local grassroots organisation, Integrate UK, gifted them laptops to use during lockdown.
Existing educational inequality
Early on in lockdown, Integrate UK, a Bristol-based grassroots youth organisation campaigning for gender and racial equality, purchased 16 laptops with help of a grant for their young people, who mainly come from economically deprived areas of the city.
Amaal Ali, Integrate UK
"[With the laptop] I could do my work, receive feedback, go over it again and then send it to the teacher. It made things more efficient", Shahiem says, who is entering his final year.
Amaal Ali, Project Officer at Integrate UK, raises concerns about less focus being given to year groups like Year 7, 8 or 9 during lockdown.
She recalls working with one Year 7 pupil, who couldn't access the different online learning portals and was: "doing his work through his iPhone" during lockdown, Amaal explains. She adds that many young people felt guilty for not being able to do the work.
Shaheim empathises with his classmates without laptops or internet at home. "A lot of teachers would get mad at people for not doing work but wouldn't know the reasons why they're not doing work in the first place – like not having access to a laptop", Shaheim says. "It seemed really really unfair."
Even with a laptop, Mariama adds, she had been struggling to keep up with the work set.
Integrate UK was lucky to be able to offer online tutoring to their young people which both Shaheim and Mariama have benefited from. But Amaal acknowledges that there are many young people out there who don't have that access to support.
Looking ahead, the biggest challenge for schools this academic year is how to bridge the educational gap further widened by Covid-19 and school closure. Merchant's Academy already knows which young people didn't access online learning as frequently. These pupils will get priority on catch-up classes, Williamson says.
"Throughout the academic year we're going to do some assessments. We really need to find out where the kids' gaps in their learning are and work it out from there. We'll identify who needs it most", she adds.
Other schools in the city are taking similar measures early on in the year to prevent affected pupils from further falling behind.
The government states more laptops and tablets will be made available to pupils in different year groups this academic year. It would mean other year groups would finally benefit.
As talks of a second wave continue, bridging the digital divide across communities has even more pressing.
"[Addressing] that digital divide is important whether we're in a Covid-19 period or not, to be honest with you. But Covid-19 has really highlighted it", Williamson says.
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Broads Authority set navigation tolls for 2018
The Broads Authority has agreed a 3% increase for tolls for all categories of boats in 2018 in line with the current rate of inflation (CPI) following consultation with the Tolls Review Group and the Navigation Committee.
The increase is predicted to generate an income of £3.3M in 2018 providing funds for additional work to maintain the navigable waterways. This is likely to include:
the purchase of more plant and equipment for bankside tree and scrub management (hydraulic tree sheers, an excavator and extra NATO floats) to manage areas of overhanging vegetation, fallen trees and roots obstructing waterways
purchase 5 new safety speed signs (following a successful trial this year) to help combat speeding which can lead to erosion of the banks
provide for additional costs of existing work such as dredging and maintaining moorings to cover inflationary pressures.
It was also agreed that no further changes were required to the pricing structure of tolls following a major review this year and that the printing of adhesive toll plaques would be stopped permanently (other than for short visit tolls) following a successful two year trial.
The new simpler toll structure based on the size of boats in square metres was implemented this year and effectively reduced the charges for smaller boats with 44% of all boats seeing a reduction whilst larger boats were charged more. It is thought that this move helped to reverse the decline in the numbers of smaller private boats using the broads with an increase of 10% in these categories in 2017 whilst numbers of larger private craft were virtually unchanged (3 less boats over 50 square meters). The hire boat fleet which had previously also been in decline has increased by 13 craft in 2017 and this has thought to be largely due to better working with the tourism industry under the aegis of Broads Tourism and marketing of the Broads National Park.
John Packman, Chief Executive of the Authority said:
"The Broads Authority is entirely dependent on the income from our boat owners to fund the costs of maintaining the navigation area in the Broads National Park. It is worth noting that we are the only major navigation authority in the UK that does not regularly receive central funding for this role.
"The Authority's review of the tolls system last year appears to have helped raise the number of smaller private motor boats, and this combined with the good news about the hire fleet has generated more income than we had anticipated. The result is that the Broads Authority can increase its maintenance work and I am delighted that the members of the Authority have agreed to the purchase of new equipment to mechanise the management of bankside trees and scrub."


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In this series of blog posts, I will take you through the steps involved in the design, architecture, and implementation of a fully functional Enterprise Blockchain Application. I will do so by sharing content from various stages of developing a sample application for Loan Origination and Payment on Blockchain. If you follow through the end of this series, you will have a better understanding of the internal working of the blockchain application.
We are building this application in IBM Blockchain Platform 2.0 Beta. Please check out my previous post — Design and Architecture of a Blockchain Application for better continuity.
Chaincode is the "smart contract" of Hyperledger Fabric. They encapsulate business logic and can be written in Go, Node.js or Java. Yes, Fabric is polyglot and can provide a runtime sandbox for the chaincode to run in the above-said programming languages.
All chaincodes must implement "Chaincode" interface. This interface provides two key functions Init and Invoke.
Init will be called once when you instantiate the chaincode or upgrade a chaincode. Use this to initialize or migrate a state.
ChaincodeStubInterface provides useful functions to query and update the states in the ledger and to invoke other chaincodes. In our case, we will use PutState to store the new loan request onto the ledger in the default channel (by installing and instantiating this chaincode in default channel) and hence making it available for all the parties in the network.
Pay attention to the stub.SetEvent this is an instruction for the chaincode to emit an event when the transaction (PutState) is committed. This is the event to which our Event hub will listen and react to.
Make sure you have only one event per transaction.
Use GetQueryResult to query your ledger. You can use "selector" to query the underlying CouchDB ledger like in the sample below.
In conclusion, you can write a simple chaincode using the shim interfaces Chaincode and ChaincodeStubInterface.
Hope you found this short post useful. The next post in the series will be on the Java Fabric client SDK showing how the chaincode functions can be invoked, integrating your enterprise applications to the blockchain behind the scenes. Hang tight you are only a few steps away from fully understanding the internals of a fully functional blockchain application.
With the multitude of devices owned by consumers today and the large amount of time they spend using them daily, businesses are realizing the powerful impact that good software can have on driving revenue. Software provides a personalized, direct way for businesses to reach their customers, and it is continually being used by forward-thinking firms to come up with new and original ways to accomplish business goals.
Tag : Branded Software, Software is Your Brand, UX/UI.
OFS invites you to enjoy a complimentary copy of Forrester Resear ch, Inc.'s report Software Must Enrich Your Brand! Learn how software is driving your 21st century brand and how it has become core to your business success!
Tag : Branded Software, Forrester Report, software as a brand.
Software is Your Brand – NJTC Event Tomorrow!
For all companies now, regardless of whether they make cars or appliances, sell insurance or rent apartments, software is driving more and more of their revenue. Whether through innovative mobile apps, responsive social media, gamified websites, embedded software or sophisticated back-end transaction engines, businesses now must leverage all these tools to compete for market share. For companies that have never thought of themselves as being in the software business, it's time to think again.
Guest Speaker John McCarthy, a VP & Principal Analyst from Forrester Research, Inc., will provide major insights on how the software assets of a company represent a key part of the brand experience and the firm's differentiation.
Whether its mobile banking apps on phones, infotainment systems in cars, or the proactive diagnostics running in wind turbines or washing machines in homes, the user experience determines how the customer perceives the product and the brand. This change creates huge new requirements around how software products are developed, how mobile apps are built and how IT systems are designed. The session will look at the services and business implications and opportunities behind the software-as-the-brand dynamic. This program will be a wake-up call for many organizations and a warning to IT departments who wish to avoid being banished to the back office forever.
With 27 years of experience at Forrester, John McCarthy is a key contributor to Forrester's work on predicting the business impact of technology. John has more than 12 years of insight into the development of a global delivery model for IT services and product development.
OFS, a premier Product Development Services Company, helps software vendors and forward-thinking corporations to innovate using software in a more strategic way to drive and increase market share.
OFS provides software-enabled businesses with product engineering skills to help build web-based and mobile software products (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows) that drive revenue for their business. In 2009, OFS (www.objectfrontier.com) began executing a strategy for growth by hiring sales and delivery experts, putting new processes and infrastructure in place, and growing its offshore team substantially to prepare for new business. As a result, OFS has expanded rapidly in the North American market, adding several multi-billion dollar companies to its client list. OFS has tripled in size since then and now has a team of over 400 professionals spread across its US offices in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Atlanta, and its offshore facility in Chennai, India.
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Going through your daily routine at home and at work, if you stop and notice, you will find that software is playing an ever larger role in your everyday activities. No longer is software confined to your computer. It is spreading to meet your needs wherever you are and whenever you need it. Software is on your phone, your car dashboard, your refrigerator door, your home security system, even your athletic shoes! It's replacing the need for books, televisions, GPS's, checkbooks, and other standalone items. With the combination of mobile, smart products, social media, data visualization and analytics, software is starting to invade every aspect of our lives as businesses realize the incredible opportunity it offers them to provide their products and services in a new way.
With this pervasion of software in today's world, even though your firm may not be in the tech business per se, you are starting to see that software is becoming a daily means by which your customers engage with your business. Software that gives your customers new, easier, faster access to your products and services is becoming a major way to differentiate yourself from your competitors, regardless of what you make or do. Having innovative features and a compelling design that engages your customers actually gets you new business in today's fast-paced, mobile world. That's because no one has time today to tolerate anything less than the convenience that good software brings.
For example, a bank that provides a mobile app with the ability to deposit checks while on-the-go, or an auto insurer with an easy-to-use mobile app for capturing photos and data at a collision scene will now drive new customers to their business based primarily on the ease and accessibility that their company's software innovation provides. This is especially true with the millennial generation, who only interact with companies that let them conduct their entire relationship through a mobile device. Therefore, software must now be considered an integral part of a company's brand regardless of what their underlying product or service actually is.
In effect, because of this new reality, software is now what defines your brand.
It is the software that operates at key mobile customer touchpoints, defines the interaction with the consumer, and, ultimately, acts as the main product differentiator.
Look out for OFS's next blog article which will highlight the software endeavors required of companies in in each industry in order to stay competitive in today's tech world.
The session will look at the services and business implications and opportunities behind the software-as-the-brand dynamic. This program will be a wake-up call for many organizations and a warning to IT departments who wish to avoid being banished to the back office forever.
Tag : Branded Software, Revenue-Driving Software, Software is Your Brand, User Experience.
Even though you may not be a tech company, in today's world software has become a daily means by which your customers engage with your business. With mobile devices, your brand is now wherever your customers are. They need not be physically in your store, at your branch, or in your office to buy your product or receive your services. Interacting with your brand is as quick as the tap of a screen, anywhere.
This software that ties in with your products and services has become a major way to differentiate yourself from your competitors. Having innovative features and a compelling design actually gets you new business in today's fast-paced, mobile world. That's because no one has time today to tolerate anything less than the convenience that good software brings. For example, a bank that provides a mobile app with the ability to deposit checks while on-the-go, or an auto insurer with an easy-to-use mobile app for documenting a collision at the scene will both get new business because customers are making decisions with their money based on the ease and accessibility that a company's software innovation provides. Therefore, software must now be considered an integral part of a company's brand regardless of what their underlying product or service actually is.
In effect, because of this new reality, software now is your brand.
(Forrester Research, Inc., Non-Tech Companies Become The New Market For Software Product Development Services, August 2013).
Because software is now your brand, you must invest in it as a competitive differentiator for your business. This means much more than just another project for your IT department. You must consider software like one of your products and put the same innovation and design into it as you do your underlying offerings. A great place to start is by examining the user experience (UX) your software provides. Companies like Disney, Apple, and Starbucks are known for valuing customer experience above all else, realizing that creating a positive experience for their customer in turn creates a lasting relationship with their brand.
Indeed, because of the way Apple revolutionized UX with the iPhone several years ago by introducing a clean, simple, attractive, and ─ most importantly ─ intuitive UI, there's now an expectation for today's technology to provide a similar experience. An older, clunky UI that's not user-friendly or innovative can actually drive users to reject your brand. It's 2013 and mobile users no longer have the patience to struggle through inadequately designed apps and interfaces. If your software is frustrating, they can easily turn to another brand that gets it right.
1. Does my UI appeal to my user's persona and needs?
Conduct surveys and interviews to assemble information on your users, and use it to evaluate whether your UI connects with this audience. It must feel natural and intuitive to your customer base and it must delight them with unexpected features and clever design.
2. Does my UI help accomplish my business objectives?
What do you want your users to get out of their experience with your software? Your UI should guide them through the steps you'd like them to take in interacting with your brand.
3. Does my UI embrace the concept of less is more?
Designing a UI that's attractive but simple is often more complex, but it will allow users to easily engage with your brand without having to stop and think, "How does this work?" Their time can instead be focused on your brand, your products, and your services, rather than spent in frustration that they'll forever associate with your name.
4. Does my UI reflect the results of usability testing?
Consult the results of usability testing on your software to see how your users actually interact with what you've built, and then use your findings to direct your improvements.
Make software your ally in differentiating your brand from your competition. Investing in a well-designed, intuitive UI for software that provides a desired convenience will allow your users to have a positive UX when engaging with your software, reflecting positively on your brand.
Tag : Branded Software, User Experience, UX/UI.


Nokia has announced the availability of an app called Vyclone for Windows Phone 8. This app allows Windows Phone 8 users to create a single video based on multiple footage from multiple people at the same time.
Vyclone allows you to mix video taken on your smartphone using footage taken by other people filming the same event. "Just shoot something with your friends; Vyclone does the rest. In a few moments it synchronizes and edits everyone's clips to create one movie with all the angles cut together. You get the raw footage too. So if you like, you can remix it to make your own director's cut. And when you're happy with your masterpiece, Vyclone makes it easy to share. It's filming genius," the app description reads.
The app is a pretty cool idea that simply allows you to mix together different videos from the same event, so create one single video showcasing different angles of the event. Once you create the video, you can either leave it as private or publish it to social media networks. The app is available for free in the Windows Phone Store and has already received well over a dozen positive reviews. Hit the download link below to snag it.


Before the Internet, you would just sit in an armchair with a book open on your lap, staring into space or staring at a decorative broom on the wall—kind of shifting back and forth between those two modes of being.
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