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How to Select the Best Digital Publishing Platform for eBook Publisher
By Mike Harman | Digital Publishing | 0 comment | 15 February, 2021 | 4
Publishers are always faced with the dilemma of which digital publishing platform to select for their content. With so many publishing platforms available, publishers often find it difficult to choose one that best suits their requirements. The best digital publishing platform would be the one which ensures that you can create and publish the content easily, without any difficulty or assistance.
It should be a platform that brings your vision to life by adding interactive elements, offering responsive design, and eventually delivering engaging content for your users.
This blog covers all the features that you must look for while selecting a digital publishing platform. The rise in eLearning in recent years has also given rise to all the supporting industries which offer services like digital publishing, graphic designing, content creation, book conversion, etc.
Publishing platforms are competing with one another, claiming to offer the best services. Being aware of the types and features of various digital publishing software will help you make an informed decision.
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Easy-To-Use Interface:
Not every publisher is well-versed with coding languages. Working on HTML and XML codes could be a nightmare for most. You would probably need someone to help you work on such a platform. What's the point in investing in a platform which you cannot operate?
There are companies which offer end-to-end ePublishing services, right from the conversion of the manuscript to the distribution of eBooks. The content creation interface must be designed in a user-friendly manner.
Publishers must be able to create and publish their eBooks themselves, without any technical difficulty. This is possible only with an intuitive platform design.
If a publisher has to keep calling up the tech support guys for every other step, it becomes a hindrance and is frustrating. So, one must look for a tool which has an easy to use interface, allowing smooth creation and publishing of eBook.
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Check the Type of Content Layout That is Supported:
We know that when it comes to digital content, we have two types of layout- fixed and reflowable. Fixed layout is used when the content has a lot of images, and we use a reflowable layout for books that are text-heavy. Depending on the kind of content that you want to publish you need to make a choice between the two.
If you want to publish only novels, then you would have to go for a platform which supports the reflowable format. But what if someday you want to experiment with something new and create an eBook with images and diagrams? Instead of shifting from one platform to another, look for a publishing platform which supports both the layouts, so that you can select a format as per your requirement.
Check The File Formats That Are Supported:
Now that you've checked whether the publishing platform supports fixed and reflowable format, the next thing you want to consider is the type of file that it supports. For example, does the publishing platform support multiple file formats like ePUB, Mobi, AZW? Or does it support only one file type?
We suggest that you look for a platform which definitely supports ePUB, irrespective of whether it supports other file formats or not. Because ePUB is a widely used eBook format accepted by most of the eReaders. It will thus, help you reach a wider audience and increase your readership. Hence, you need to have an option to publish your content in ePUB format.
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Compatibility with Multiple Operating Platforms:
iOS, Windows and Android are some of the popular operating systems used by most users. For a publisher, it is important for the software to work on multiple platforms. This will help you achieve wide distribution and develop a large user base.
Even for a user, it is important that the content must be accessible across all platforms. If your content can be accessed on just one operating system, you lose out on the other readers. And people are not going to switch their devices only to read your eBook. So, look for a software which will help you publish on multiple operating systems.
Allows Interactivities:
Interactivities are a must in an eBook. That's what makes eBooks more popular than regular textbooks. Look for the types of interactivities that the publishing software offers. See if it supports videos and audio files. Also, check if there's a limit to the number of interactive elements that can be added to the eBook.
The platform must support HTML interactivities as most of the Flash-based elements are moving to an HTML platform. See that the platform also provides an offline reading feature to provide users with 24×7 access to your eBook.
Interactivities make your eBooks more engaging. Having plenty of interactive elements will keep the users engaged in the content. Hence, this is one of the most important aspects that you should look for while selecting a digital publishing platform for your eBook.
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Provides Statistical Analysis:
Apart from interactive elements, look for other features that the ebook publishing platform offers. Analytics is an important feature which lets you analyze the distribution and consumption patterns of your eBook. It gives you a detailed insight into the performance of your eBook. Having an in-depth report of your eBook's performance helps you plan your distribution process, make changes, or create a better book next time.
You can check how many users have downloaded your book, how many have read them through etc. All these statistics can be viewed in a comprehensive manner, if your publishing platform offers an analytics feature.
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Data Security:
Ensure that the platform offers data security. DRM is crucial for any eBook. Because it regulates your distribution and controls user access. Having an option to secure your file ensures that only people with appropriate access codes can read your eBook.
It prevents your content from unauthorized use, theft, online piracy etc. Hence, make sure that your publishing platform gives proper licenses and access codes for your eBook.
Check the Pricing:
Once you've narrowed down on all the required features in a publishing platform, you need to look at the pricing of the software package. If you find a platform which has all the best features, but the price seems a bit too high, you could possibly think of it as an investment.
You are getting the best product which would help you design a compelling eBook for your audience. Most of the companies offering digital publishing solutions allow users to try the software for a limited period of time, either for free or for a nominal fee.
This will help you to get an understanding of how the software functions and if it suits your requirements. So, download a trial version and check which one you want to use for your digital publication.
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Publishers want to provide their users with amazing reading experience through the best digital publishing platform which will digitally enrich their eBook. To take your quest for best digital publishing platform a step further, you can build a feature-rich eBook platform with an SDK tool by plugging it into your application.
Kitaboo SDK is one such lightweight library of APIs, codes and other rules for developing and transforming your reader platform. It allows you to customize and embed Kitaboo reader's features into your own app creating an end-to-end reader experience. Be it your LMS or a bookshelf or any other application that demands content rendering, Kitaboo SDK is your answer!
Delivering a customizable reader and user experience forms the core of Kitaboo SDK features. Learn more about its features and benefits here. If you want to know how you can leverage Kitaboo SDK to integrate interactive capabilities into your reader app, you can request a demo.
Finding out the best digital publishing platform could be time-consuming, but it's worth the effort. Using SDK tool is a time-efficient way to design an engaging eBook and provide a better reading experience.
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EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ITS 73RD FESTIVAL
5 July 2019 – Article Author Film Festival Team
The 73rd edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival has closed with a year of increased audience numbers, packed public screenings and special events and an array of high profile talent in attendance.
This year the Festival showcased 121 new features, including 18 feature film World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, 8 European Premieres and 78 UK Premieres from many countries across the globe reaching 70,000 Festival-goers including 15,000 attendees enjoying the Festival's weekend of outdoor screenings, as part of Film Fest in the City with Edinburgh Live. More than 500 filmmakers were in attendance this year to support their films with over 800 press and industry delegates and 270 youth delegates also present.
"It has been another great year with a massive feel-good factor from all of our different audiences. From media and general public through to guests and our own staff there has been a real sense of enthusiasm and passion for the festival and our cultural delivery. From the acclaimed Spanish retrospective through to well-received new films there is a real sense that EIFF is building on the stellar reputation we have around the world. We are already looking forward to 2020." - Mark Adams, EIFF Artistic Director
"EIFF is unashamedly international and outward-looking in its programming and its reach, with 58 countries (and 60 languages) represented through the programme, our filmmaker and industry guests, and our truly multi-national team delivering the event. We're delighted that audiences and guests have responded so positively to the programme and the broader Festival experience." Ken Hay, CEO Edinburgh International Film Festival
As previously announced, winning films this year included Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's directorial debut Farming which won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film as well as lead actor Damson Idris winning the Award for Best Performance in a British Feature Film; the Award for Best International Feature Film was won by Miia Tervo's Aurora, which received its UK Premiere at this year's Festival; the Award for Best Documentary Feature Film went to Ben Asamoah's first feature film Sakawa and the Award for Best Short Film went to Anca Damian's The Call. The winner of this year's EIFF Works in Progress was Women Behind the Wheel: Unheard Voices on the Pamir Highway by Hannah Congdon and Catherine Haigh, and the EIFF Youth New Visions short film competition in the 14-18 age category was won this year by The Processing Room by Cameron Lambert and Red Hill, made by Laura Carreira, in the 19-25 age group.
The Audience Award was won by David McLean's Schemers and this year's McLaren Award for Best New British Animation went to Fokion Xenos' Heatwave.
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It would be a great wrong for me to allow today to pass without pausing to thank the families (current and past) who have lost loved ones in the defense of our country.
I seem to have been hit harder and become much more sensitized to the commercialism that today (and this weekend) has been draped with this year for some reason.
To help, I have spent some time over the weekend at the following places on the web using the time I have been granted off from work to consider and reflect what this day means for myself, my family, and my communities.
Thank you for your sacrifices, they are not -- and will not be -- forgotten in our home.
Here is a quick hodge-podge of linkage this somber day off for some of us.
Everything you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset feature - Troy Hunt's blog - wonderfully deep post on strategies for designing a "reset password" feature.
Serva 32/64 - free/portable multi-server platform.
Critical hole in Seagate BlackArmor NAS - The H Security: News and Features - oh snap!
OutlookAddressBookView - NirSoft - new/free tool to display and export Outlook Address book information.
MRTG Quickstart (by Tony Fortunato) - LoveMyTool blog.
How To: Read CID on SD card - GetUSBInfo blog. Very interesting information.
Windows credentials dumper - tippage via TinyApps bloggist to the Quarks PwDump tool. Read the QuarksLAB Blog for more information. One of the reasons I've wanted to build a new virtualized session of XP recently.
Data Recovery SOS - Eassos interesting freeware tool for recovery of lost/deleted files. I've got more than a free excellent freeware file-recovery tools and this has been added to that pile. Spotted in this AddictiveTips post: Eassos Recovery: Recover Lost Partitions & Deleted Data From Hard Disk.
Bonus find, Eassos PartitionGuru Free (link at the bottom of the page). Really slick and neat tool for both file and partition recovery..as well as some additional disk info/tool features.
How to find computer model name or serial number in Windows 7 - Windows Club tip. From CMD "wmic csproduct get name" done.
Directory Monitor - freeware - BrutalDeveloper - Another interesting tool to monitor changes to a folder and can run as a service. Reminded me of Track Folder Changes.
Precision and purpose: Ubuntu 12.04 and the Unity HUD reviewed - Ars Technica - As I've been getting ready for my updated Xplico post, I've been working in the latest builds of Ubuntu, which use the "Unity" interface. It has taken a while to get used to, but is very slick and handy.
I'm still getting up to speed in Active Directory administration and operations. I've come a long way but have a long way to go in feeling more comfortable in my day-to-day operations support. If anyone has any tips, book (or e-book) recommendations, or virtual server/lab resources they could recommend, I would be grateful. I'm less interested (for now) in building/deploying AD environments from the ground up, and more focused on how to actually improve my reporting and object administration in the immediacy.
I've been working through/with the following freeware resources and find them very helpful, but I really need to have a safe way to practice and poke things (as in not on our live domain) as well as find a more formalized and structured study process to get up to speed in "boots on the ground" AD administration.
ADManager Plus - ManageEngine provides an extensive list of specialized tools for AD administration…all free.
PowerGUI.org - Free Windows Powershell Community Tool coupled with the AD-Network Admin PowerPack and a few other Active Directory plug ins.
Useful commands for Windows administrators - well organized and offered by Rob van der Woude on his website.
Active Directory - Petri.co super-list of tips and tricks.
Continuing in the troubleshooting theme today, here are a couple of solutions I worked out playing with some virtualization software and machines this weekend.
When I moved to my "then new" laptop, I ended up discarding a lot of virtual machine images I had been keeping around to testing and lab-work. One of which was an XP tester build in Microsoft's Windows Virtual PC.
While Virtual PC on XP had been pretty easy to use, the "embedded" operation of it in Windows 7 is a bit more of a headache. (Note: I wonder if Windows 8 will retain an "XP Mode" feature? Anybody know?). So I had dumped them when I started using Oracle VM VirtualBox.
Last week I needed to do some work in XP again and decided to grab one of Microsoft's IE App Compat VHD's over at the Microsoft Download Center. I snagged the tiny (by comparison Windows_XP_IE6.exe) package. They also have some larger Vista/Win7 VHD packages also.
While these do time out/expire (they can be "re-armed" following the instructions on the download page above), they provide a quick and easy way to grab and run XP for testing purposes.
While I was able to get the XP VHD working just fine in Virtual PC on my Windows 8 system, I wondered if the performance would be better in VMware Player. It also has slick support for "Unity" which is a "XP Mode" feature that doesn't require you to be using Windows 7 in Professional/Ultimate builds.
So I figured I would just convert the VHD file and convert it to the VMWare format and roll on.
First I tried StarWind Free V2V converter. Downloaded and installed OK with no fuss, however when I tried to launch the converted VMDK file in VMware, it bombed out. That said, I'm still keeping it around as I suspect something else was going on and it wasn't an issue with the software.
Next I read about WinImage which per a handy post from VMpros, can convert VHD to VMDK. However since it is trial-ware, I decided to skip that option.
Finally, I settled on the free VMware vCenter Converter. Download requires registration with VMware but it was painless and the application was a breeze to use. In no-time it converted my VHD file to VMDK format and I had it running in VMware Player. For a good walkthrough check out this AddictiveTips post Convert & Use Your Physical Machine In VMware, VirtualBox & Virtual PC.
Well…not really. See as I found out (and should have remembered but it has been too long) the Microsoft IE Tester images are set up only for Virtual PC specific "hardware". By that I mean while you can convert them to another virtualization platform, XP will then see that your "hardware" has changed and require re-activation and require you to put in a fresh product key from scratch to activate it. I suppose a clever person could work around it and get it working in VMware, but that would seemingly violate the EULA agreement for these packages.
Like I said, this lead to a dead-end, but it was fruitful in finding the Microsoft IE Tester packages are still available for use and (for a bit longer) still offer XP as an option. Also, I found the VMware vCenter Converter software to be wonderful to use and am sure I will rely on it more in the future.
After the dead-end above, I remembered I still had an old XP Home (SP1a) install disk and license I had bought when I built my first small-form-factor desktop. Since that time, all the newer systems we bought came pre-loaded with Vista/7 so eventually that SFF system (and the XP load) were wiped clean and while the SFF box patiently waits re-purposing to FreeNAS one day, the XP Home OS has not been used since.
So I used it to build/activate a fresh install directly in VMware Player and got it fully patched/updated and running smoothly for all my XP testing needs.
After all the fun I was having getting these virtual systems tweaked, on a whim I decided I wanted to check out Chromium OS.
I decided to take the easy way out and use a "Vanilla" build of the Chromium OS builds by Hexxeh. I downloaded the VirtualBox file, got it configured in VirtualBox and launched away.
Only while it ran fine, I couldn't get though the first-launch setup landing page I because the "network" was unavailable and no networks were offered. I was using "NAT" setting but no dice.
I did some digging and found that there were a number of folks with Questions Tagged With network - CrOS QA in the forums.
Took a while but I finally figured out the trick (at least if you NAT for network connection on VirtualBox).
Go into the Network settings for your ChromiumOS virtual machine. if you NAT by default it should look like this.
Next click the "Advanced" triangle (as shown above) to expand it.
Change the adapter type to an appropriate "Intel PRO" interface. Your options may appear differently from the one I selected below.
Save your settings and re-launch the virtual machine.
This time the network was available and I was able to complete the setup and running of Hexxeh's ChromiumOS build with no issues.
I need to play more with it before posting my opinions but it worked just fine.
Tip # 5 - VirtualBox supports Windows 8 "natively" now.
In my recent Windows 8 GSD blog post I bemoaned being able to successfully install the VirtualBox additions into my Windows 8 Consumer Preview build in VirtualBox.
Thanks to the comments of a kind anonymous tipster, I realized many older "how-to" instructions on the process on the web recommended selecting "Windows 7" as the OS type during the creation process, then running the VirtualBox Additions in "Compatibility Mode" to install. The newer versions of VirtualBox now offer "Windows 8" as an OS type during the virtual machine setup process and if done so, you can just run the Additions "as-is" with no need to do so in Compatibility mode. They go on just fine.
Anyway…by the time I had already figured this out I had since followed an Install Windows 8 Consumer Preview on VMware Player that worked so seamlessly I don't think I'll use VirtualBox for Windows 8 testing at this time. YMMV.
Get the Download – Oracle VM VirtualBox along with the matching VirtualBox 4.1.16 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack that is also on that page.
By no means complete, these sites seem to have great tips on virtualization platforms.
Virtualization Resource Site: Articles & Tutorials - VirtualizationAdmin.com - Check the sidebar for great linkages.
VMPros - Lots of good community expert posts here!
Earlier this week I built a fresh virtual machine of Windows XP Home for use in long-term XP fiddling.
I wanted to use my Logitech Cordless Desktop LX 710 laser keyboard/mouse set with it; specifically the LX7 mouse which has handy left-wheel & right-wheel click support. I think these are called the "Tilt-wheel plus" feature. I set these to copy & paste functions and can really scream through work. It takes Logitech SetPoint software drivers to enable these extra click-button features fully.
So I hopped over to the page above and then to the downloads link,stepped through the options, and came up to the XP SetPoint 6.32 download page for this particular model (which I suspect it is for most all SetPoint hardware…).
Downloaded the file (setpoint632_smart.exe) and proceeded with the install.
Rinse/repeat. This time it went on "successfully." However when I went to configure the click buttons, the options weren't there.
Curiously, I now had the Logitech folder in my Program list, but the "Mouse and Keyboard" launch icon pointed to nowhere.
Tried a few more times and each time resulted in either the same error as before, or a "successful" install with no actual installation of the core SetPoint application into my Program Files folder.
Getting a bit frustrated, I checked out a few things.
First I chased the SetPoint software location via the application shortcut being created. It kept pointing to a non-existent "C:\Program Files\Logitech" folder. Hmm. For some reason it appears the folder wasn't being made.
At first a folder "SetPointSI_1" is created, followed by a secondary "SetPointSI32_1" folder, then contents of which are pulled down from the web. Once the installation process is completed, the contents of these folders are removed. I also found that during the installation process you can copy these folders/contents to another location to preserve them after the installation completes and the originals are removed.
Unfortunately, manually running these "recovered" installers didn't result in getting SetPoint correctly installed on my XP system, nor did trying to manually install the drivers. I really needed the SetPoint application itself to install.
A long survey on Google found quite a lot of users on the web (not just XP users) who just could not get SetPoint to install on their systems using the intelligent/web-based SetPoint installer download; along with many very clever…but usually ineffective tips on getting it going.
Eventually I found this post in a Logitech forum: Unable to install Setpoint 6.32 on Windows 7 x64 - Logitech Forums.
"Meltech" recommended installing in a Clean Boot mode. I didn't feel like trying that, however the poster also offered 32/64 bit download links.
Interestingly, these were not the setpoint632_smart.exe file, but links to the standard SetPoint installation packages. I downloaded and used the 32-bit (setpoint632.exe) file.
It went on with no drama and voilà, this SetPoint installer created the missing C:\Program Files\Logitech" folder with all the contents. I was able to then set my mouse-wheel-tilt-clicky buttons just fine!
Repeating the process and carefully keeping an eye on it, this installer unpacks itself to "C:\Documents and Settings\userprofile\Local Settings\Temp\Logitech" and creates a "SetPoint_1" folder.
Comparing this folder against the "SetPointSI32_1" folder from the other installer finds a lot of similarities and differences. Bottom line is that the "full" installer brings a lot more files to the party than the web-based intelligent installer.
If you are having issues with the Logitech intelligent/web-based "Smart installer package", try the "full" version instead. Yes it is a larger download, but doesn't seem to present any installation issues.
Or…you can carefully read the Logitech download page for your specific product (doh!) and get it directly from that page (example below).
Hopefully this post will help someone else who is struggling to get a "clean" install of Logitech SetPoint running on their Windows system; just give the "Full" version a try.
So Many Links…So Little Time!
Busy day today. Chores to do inside the house and out. And links galore spilling out of my Firefox sidebar, ripe for posting.
Adobe - Security Bulletins: APSB12-13 -Security update available for Adobe Shockwave Player.
Adobe - Web Players - Links to download Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Shockwave.
QuickTime for Windows update plugs security holes - The H Security: News and Features - And then when you are done with Adobe, go grab the latest QuickTime player update.
As if the usual bane of telemarketers isn't enough to wade through almost every day and night, now we are seeing a renewed push of the fake-tech-support calls. Enterprise IT shops are even having to now send notices across their employee-base to remind them that they haven't been outsourced to these callers and that employees should always make sure they are talking to the right IT guys and gals. Some places are event starting to black-list some of these third-party remote control sites to clamp-down the borders against these calls.
Troy Hunt has a series of great posts that tell you just about everything you need to know about these scams. I've posted them before but Troy's writings are so good, they need another mention.
The guys and gals over at SANS have gotten into the game as well.
They have opened up two (same) locations for you to report any fake-tech-support calls you may get for intel-gathering purposes. Knowledge is power!
Kyle Beckman has written an outstanding series of posts at 4Sysops blog on folder redirection in Windows. Definitely worth taking some notes from.
"Could not reconnect all network drives" - TinyApps.Org. Great tip and trick for delaying (slightly) the mapping of network drives until the network is fully available after login.
Batch-Convert XLSX To XLS Without MS Excel Or An Online Converter - New tool reviewed by AddictiveTips. Get the tool here from the author.
Jarfix - free tool to fix broken "jar" file associations in Windows. I needed this after the last Java Runtime update I applied to my system. After installation, I could no longer run the Java-based Software Protection Initiative - Encryption Wizard tool as I had before. I tried several times to update the file-associations but no dice. Then I found this tool, and once executed…problem solved!
Likewise, a few months ago I had re-installed Google Earth but for some reason, lost all indications on how to launch it…no icon on the desktop. None in my "Start" list. Nada. Uninstalled/reinstalled. Still the launcher icon was no-where to be found. Finally found this link: Google Earth icon has disappeared from my PC : Fix my problem - Google Earth Help Downloaded the Google Earth Icon Restorer and ran it. Again, problem solved!
Mirekusoft Install Monitor -freeware Installation management software. (Note site down at time of posting) - I have a number of system change monitor/detectors I rely on to monitor how and where a software install impacts a system. Each one takes slightly different approaches. So I read with interest about this new installation monitor/logger. It runs as a service so it catches all installations and documents where in the file-system and registry the bits go. Drawbacks? Maybe a bit unstable and if a program was already installed prior to installing this tool, it doesn't well-catch the updated installation bits. All that said, it might be worth looking into…particularly in a lab/test-bench setting where you need to document where install bits go before deploying them. See this CSArchive.Net Mirekusoft Install Monitor post for some screenshots while the main site is down. Alternative programs to consider: Total Uninstaller by martau.com (free-trial/$) or Revo Uninstaller Freeware.
Leelu Soft: Watch 4 Folder 2.3 and Track Folder Changes are two other utilities you may want to check out.
Group Policy Central - new blog to me about Group Policy topics, including some Win 8 items and findings. Doesn't appear to be updated quite as frequently as I would like, but since it is new, I'll probably find more than enough material here to keep me busy until the next post comes out.
NetBScanner - New tool from NirSoft - NetBIOS scanner. Provide a IP range and get IP addresses, WS Names, Workgroup membership as well as MAC address. Super nice GUI. Add this right now to your network toolbox! Reminds me of the CLI tools (work good for me) NBTScan and the similarly named nbtscan. More info on NetBScanner at this AddictiveTips review.
wpic v1.0.0 - woanware - A "simple console web page capture tool based on Chromium project that captures an entire web-page. Reminded me of IECapt which is an IE based web-page capture tool that I use daily for some data archiving.
NETRESEC CapLoader - Not free - interesting tool to process large network PCAP files and filter flows of interest. See this CapLoader Demo - YouTube for more info.
Curiously, there was this related post The Adventures of Packet Tracy, PI over at wirewatcher blog on parsing down large PCAP sets for URLs of interest.
HolisticInfoSec: toolsmith: Buster Sandbox Anayzer - Detailed information and walkthrough regarding a new release of Buster Sandbox Analyzer back in April.
In a GSD post On the Hunt… I detailed a quite involved process in hunting down/validating network connections and mapping them to specific switch ports. Over at LoveMyTool blog, Tony Fortunato posted a short video on how to find out which switch port the client is connected to. Pretty standard stuff. However, I'm always putting a sharp eye on these just in case I find a new or better technique. And I did! For whatever reason (Cisco IOS updates?) we've seriously lost our ability to search for MAC addresses in the Cisco Network Assistant product. We are not alone as others are encountering issues as well. Anyway, we have some workarounds in the GUI but they are a bit time intensive looking through many, many switch port connections. So like Tony, I find it (generally) faster to just telnet to each switch, run a "show mac address-table" and list the MAC/Port associations and look for the target MAC. On 48-port switches, that is a lot of searching. Tony's video taught me the following trick; "show mac address-table |include <mac address>" Including the pipe-include lets me pop just the single MAC I want. Sweet!
More here: Cisco IOS "include" filter. And for the full list of powerful Cisco CLI options, check out this Cisco IOS Terminal Services Configuration Guide, Release 12.2 - Regular Expressions [Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.2 Mainline] at Cisco Systems . Note your Cisco IOS version may render some of these commands a bit different, if supported at all. You probably also want to tuck away this Regular Expressions (PDF) for reference as well.
Finally, over at Anything About IT blog, Alex Verboon posted this Script for finding Executables that are command-line programs via a free utility IsCommandLineApp by Helge Klein. Might be useful in incident-response.
In my recent Forensically Sound: Quick Post #3 I posted a number of links touching on early forensic surveys of Windows 8 "release" builds. I warned that none of these observations are 100% guaranteed to be present and accounted for in the final baked version, but they are good starting points. Troy Larson wisely commented on that post "Regarding Windows 8 forensics: I would be careful of relying too much on the public preview versions for detailed forensic analysis. Offsets and formats can still change." Noted! So with Troy's perspective firmly fixed in mind, here are a few more links touching on early (very early) Win 8 forensic notes and observations.
Windows 8 Forensics Part 3 -Post by Ethan Fleisher on file history saving.
File Formats ZOO - Hexacorn blog - file sector header information for common file formats.
File Formats ZOO – Installers - Hexacorn blog - likewise for software installer files.
The Curious Case of the Forensic Artifact - Hexacorn blog - in which the process of solving a curiosity is illuminated.
RegRipper: Update, Road Map, How not to get p0wned by RR v2.5, and Approximating Program Execution via VSC Analysis with RegRipper - Windows Incident Response blog -- my o my how RegRipper has grown!
More About Volume Shadow Copies - Journey Into Incident Response: Corey Harrell dishes more on VSCs.
Related…VSC Toolset Update: Browsing Shadow Copies - Digital Forensics Stream post by Jason Hale with interesting comment thread follow up.
TypedURLs (Part 1) and TypedURLs (Part 2) - Crucial Security Forensics Blog posts by Paul Nichols.
Addressing Malware Issues from an Operational Perspective - Crucial Security Forensics Blog post by Michael Robinson. Great quick read on malware in the organization and changes that may be needed in operations.
Resurrecting "Dead" Images for Live Analysis - Crucial Security Forensics Blog post by Mark A. Wade.
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools (Amazon link) - New book by Cory Altheide, Harlan Carvey. It's a book after my own heart! Open Source/freeware (closed-source) tools for for/secs.
Windows Live Messenger – MessengerCache folder Forensics from the sausage factory. This post was very interesting as it took a fresh look at what may be a commonly used application on some Windows systems.
A recent round of migrating users into a new AD domain (and some folder rcopy/redirection work on the side) has left a few users with missing data post-migration. I have tons and tons of tools to recover deleted data from a drive. The sysadmin I was working with reached for a new one to me in our troubleshooting work together, FreeUndelete over at OfficeRecovery.com. Did the job nicely and the customer had their files restored in no time. I offered my own recommendations in thank-you. In doing so I spotted that Kickass Undelete recently got bumped up to 1.3 beta version. Others I like include Recuva. I also learned (via this AddictiveTips blog post) about Orion File Recover Software Free. I also saw this review at AddictiveTips blog for Wise Data Recovery freeware software. For even more tools, check out this GSD post File Recovery Extravaganza.
PhotoGrok: EXIF-Based Image & File Viewer With Metadata Filters - AddictiveTips blog. I have more than enough EXIF-data/File-Viewer apps than I really need, but I'm a sucker for a new utility so I went ahead and downloaded the PhotoGrok tool and was quite pleased with the effort. It's a nice tool. However, when I went to try to uninstall it, it wasn't listed in my Add/Remove program (errr, make that Programs and Features) list. Nor could I find a link to an uninstaller in my program file list.
Now how do we uninstall this? Unfortunately, the otherwise well-written FAQ didn't seem to spell out the method. Yikes. Time for some deeper digging.
Turns out PhotoGrok is a Java WebStart application.
To remove you can follow the principle outlined in this post: How to Clear the Java Web Start Cache as explained by a different software vendor. This post Clearing the Java WebStart Cache by NGS has some better screen-captures (although they may be outdated a bit if you have a more recent Java build on your system…it should work well enough to get you what you need to know). Still not sure? See this final set of screen-caps for a newer Java build: Java Web Start 1.6 beta2 Review courtesy of UCWare.com.
See, no need to panic! Easy-peasy if you want to strike it from your system.
Luckily, I had a backup plan. Booted the system in my custom WinPE, used the embedded tools to off-line authenticate to the whole-disk encrypted system drive, then used NTPWEdit 0.3 to update the Admin password accordingly. Reboot. On the local system admin account now, added tech to the admin group. enabled the disabled account, good to go.
See also Password Renew at sala source (which I understand doesn't play well under WinPE).
"This new live CD includes the latest version of ophcrack 3.4.0. It is built on Slitaz GNU/Linux 4.0, the latest version of this great live CD. Christophe Lincoln from Slitaz helped us to enhance the scripts for partitions and tables detection. A new ncurses interface is also available to help users look for tables on other drives or interact with ophcrack. Finally a live CD without tables has been released as well for users that already downloaded or bought tables. The directory containing the table files must be placed inside another directory called tables in order for ophcrack to find them automatically."
Last weekend I finally got around to installing the latest Windows 8 Consumer Preview version (x32 flavor) in a virtual machine.
Overall the process went very smooth, however for some reason I never could get the latest version of VBox Additions installed in it. Everything seemed to go OK but eventually it appears the associated PnP drivers would fail installation and it would roll back. Yes, I was installing them in "Windows 7" compatibility mode. Yes, I tried installing them in safe-mode. Yes, I even tried unpacking the virtual additions exe and manually installed the drivers in "legacy mode" via the hardware and devices module. No dice. I don't recall having any problems under the Developer's Version of Win8.
All that said, I do have a fully working version of Win 8 CP now and I'm getting more familiar with navigating around in it. It is not quite fully intuitive yet swapping around between the "Metro" interface and the desktop and the different "tile" applications. However I'm getting a bit better at it. Practice makes perfect.
I'm keeping the topic heading structure from the last post. Seems to break things down logically and well and makes managing my to-be-blogged pile for Windows 8 much easier to handle.
Index of /virtualbox/ - Because sometimes I want to view the download index.
virtualbox.org • View topic - Problem installing GA - Poor forum user "aaaaagh." I totally get it! My install kept bombing out at the "(3) ERROR: 2 - RETURN UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices." section line. Usually screwed up the video as well requiring a repair/recovery via safe-mode to get things going again.
Post Update - The night of this post I went ahead and did install Windows 8 CP in VMWare Player. I ended up just loading a fresh install of x32 bits as I got a bad SHA1 hash match after the first download of x64 ISO attempt. I didn't feel like burning into my monthly ISP bandwidth quota sucking down another attempt. I'll save the x64 for the "Release Preview" version next month. The setup was easy-peasy on VMWare using the WIndows 8 Forums walkthrough post linked above. I had NO issues installing the VMWare Tools pack once I had the OS running. Win 8 performance in VMWare was simply amazing in comparison to the VirtualBox load. Both are set to two processors, both are set to 2 GB system RAM, the only real "difference" is that the VirtualBox graphics is set to 256 MB while the VMWare is using 896 MB. I'm not certain if that alone is enough to describe the difference in feeling between them. I do know that I feel much more positive in how the Win 8 OS responds and operates in VMWare. I'm a Microsoft Virtual PC guy, followed by VirtualBox--primarily for Linux builds. That said, while I have used VMWare Player before, it was mostly just using VMWare pre-built system packages I had downloaded. Based on my new experience with VMWare Player and Windows 8, I'm going to seriously have to consider which platform I want to use next virtualized system I need to build. This is in line with the a previous Win8 linkpost comment left by "Anonymous" last month also touting the surprising performance difference in VMWare over VirtualBox. I can now independently confirm that tippage. VMWare Player + Windows 8 previews--highly Valca recommended!
Windows 8 Web setup, how can I delete it?
Quite a few new articles on new features and functions in Windows 8.
Windows "To Go" is basically a feature in Windows 8 that allows it to run "full OS" from a supported USB storage device like a flash drive or external hard-disk drive. Here's new news on the topic.
Even more tweaking tips these past few weeks!
The first link is almost a manifesto on the new "Metro" interface. Probably will take most folks a long time read-though and may need several passes to fully digest. Gotta hand it to Microsoft, they've committed to the new interface…like-it-or-not.
I figured it's a great starting point and provides a fair context for the follow-on links that consider that new Windows 8 GUI. I'm still not sold, but I'm going take an "okra" approach. I like okra but it took me a long time getting to that point. Now I can't imagine not having it in my gumbo or fried on the side along with catfish fillets. I really like the under-the-hood improvements I have read so far that are being served up in Windows 8. So it seems that to get them, I'm going to have to learn to tolerate the slime-factor as I prepare/tweak/bend Windows 8 to my own enjoyment.
Windows 8: Does Metro actually work? - ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley "All About Microsoft" page dishes it up.
Progress is being made on several piles of links I've come across but haven't posted yet. It is actually turning out to be a good thing culling them down like these.
The links below were in a For/Sec/Net folder I was using to hold blog material under that subject until it got too full and too old for me to continue dropping items in there. Some went back to late 2011!
Yesterday I decided to do some Spring cleaning and deal with it. I dumped a LOT of links that seemed either dated or just not as important now as they seemed to be back then.
What remains below are links that I still wanted to document for research/reference. I did update/supplement some of them with some new material if applications the original links I captured have been updated.
Anyway, here you go if you are interested.
Using Wireshark to Support the Application (by Tim Poth) - LoveMyTool blog - video presentation on Wireshark techniques for troubleshooting network issues.
Network Mystery #2 (by Betty DuBois) - LoveMyTool blog - video presentation on analysis of a slow network performance situation.
Wireshark in the Large Enterprise (by Hansang Bae) - LoveMyTool blog - video presentation on the role Wireshark can play in a large network environment.
Using Wireshark's Editcap to Reduce Your Trace File Size (by Tony Fortunato) - LoveMyTool blog - short (7m) video on splitting capture files to make capture file more manageable.
Ostinato: Craft and Play Packets (by Joke Snelders) - LoveMyTool blog - Overview of the packet crafter and traffic generator application Ostinato.
PDD - Packet Dump Decode (by Joke Snelders) - LoveMyTool blog - packet/hexcode dumping/conversion too.
NetworkMiner 1.3 Released - NETRESEC blog - old news for a great program.
No more Wine - NetworkMiner in Linux with Mono - NETRESEC Blog - I just followed these steps and got NetworkMiner running perfectly in Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend. Sweet.
Magic Tree from Gremwell - Interesting tool to help manage network scan data. Works with nmap.
Home of 0x4553-Intercepter and 0x4553-NAT or Intercepter-NG - very interesting pen-test/sniffing tool that can parse out quite a lot of items.
Facebook Forensics - Help Net Security - Points to paper published by Valkyrie-X Security Research Group on Google Docs or download it in PDF format.
Bypass Vulnerabilities in Squid and McAfee Web Access Gateway - SpiderLabs Anterior blog.
Lost a Windows Registry key? Yaru can recover it - BetaNews blog - review of (YARU) Yet Another Registry Utility tool.
Carving Symantec VBN Files - Security Braindump - guide on using QExtract to remove SAV quarantined files for incident analysis. However it has limitations and Bugbear provides some tips on an alternative method of extraction.
Purchase information such as your e-mail address and name of iTunes song removed - Caschys Blog (GTranslated) - I've been meaning to post this for a while. Caschy illustrates how if you buy songs via iTunes the file gets embedded with the purchaser name/email address. I thought this might have some possible use when looking forensically at a system/files.
Proceedings of The 9th Australian Digital Forensics Conference - I may have posted this before, but it contained a lot of great presentations and whitepapers I had to relink.
Scan it & Dump it!
MoonSols DumpIt goes mainstream ! - MoonSols - ISC Diary | MoonSols Dumpit released...for free!
Volatility: Advanced Memory Forensics - Released to version 2.0 back in August 2011.
Hexacorn Application Monitor - Hexacorn Blog. Related blog post: How to use HAM?
TrID - Marc Pontello - Utility to ID files from their binary signature. Def database gets updated often so keep it fresh!
FileMind Pro Beta 0.6 - Metability Software - Super cool tool to find/review/manage file metadata.
FileMind QuickFix - Metability Software - and a free tool to scrub metadata from files.
Know Your Files - Metability Software blog. Not updated recently but still good info.
TZWorks LLC Prototype Downloads for Forensic tools - TZWorks list of lots of super-cool freeware utilities.
Free Computer Forensic Software downloads and Secuirty Tools - Forensic Computing Ltd. - Great list of tools.
CAINE Live CD - computer forensics digital forensics - "SuperNova" version 2.5.1 has been out.
DEFT 7.1 ready for download - Released April 2nd with more than a few updated packages and fixes.
Ubuntu - Now at 12.04 release version. I prefer to use this for my own self-installations of Xplico and Network Miner packages.
Ubuntu 12.04 and VirtualBox Image - Xplico team has released a VirtualBox image built on Ubuntu 12.04 which includes their Xplico 1.0.0 version (if you don't want to build it yourself!).
ubuntu [Xplico Wiki] - Now you can use the Xplico Repository or one of several terminal scripts to easily (and I mean REALLY EASILY) get the Xplico NFAT application going! Super sweet.
I first learned about Maltego when I read this fun post Using Maltego CaseFile to map The Spy Hunter at the wirewatcher blog.
Basically this tool lets you organize your intelligence and forensic investigation information in new and graphical manners to better show relationship between elements. Check out the bottom of this page for some screenshots and links to more presentations.
It comes in both a commercial and community edition.
Maltego 3.1.1 Community edition released - Maltego Blog - info on the latest version release.
Maltego Blog: Maltego CaseFile Beta released - has 10min video on an earlier version with links to the beta version 1.0 downloads.
Maltego 3 > Community Edition - registration page. Registration is required to use the community edition.
Note: I'm still playing with the version 1.0 beta version and haven't upgraded yet to the version 3.1.1 community edition. The version 1.0 so far has been meeting my basic "play and learn" needs, FWIW.
Next up…new material fresh out of the bakery ovens.


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THE BFAWU STRONGLY URGES ALL ITS MEMBERS TO VOTE LABOUR THIS THURSDAY
This election is about the country we want to live in. One in which currently people use foodbanks; our NHS is forced to sell off land to fund vital services; and our ex-servicemen are allowed to live on the streets.
Theresa May has claimed she will be the only one to get a good deal in Brexit talks. She couldn't debate Jeremy Corbyn or even write a manifesto ready for the election that she called, so how can we trust her to be ready. Corbyn has been rightly applauded for putting together a costed and well thought out manifesto that has changed the whole debate in the election. On Brexit, which we campaigned for as a Union, she was a strong supporter of remain and is now claiming to be a Brexiteer in a remarkable transformation to a EU leave advocate: you simply cannot believe a word she says. Her threats to withdraw co-operation from the EU on counter terrorism and the ridiculous suggestion of declaring war on Spain, are not the signs that she can negotiate any deal with the EU; in fact, she has marginalised us in her short time as Prime Minister as pictures showed when she was ignored by the other EU members.
Worried that they may have to start paying tax, the media barons have launched a disgusting tirade of lies and smears attacking Jeremy Corbyn, whilst choosing to ignore the fact that the Tories have a real IRA terrorist in their Party (who is a sitting councillor in Croydon) and a Peer who claimed to have laundered IRA cash. This tactic is being used to distract attention from the reality that, as the Home Secretary, it was Theresa May who was responsible for cutting 20,000 Police Officers which the Police Federation had said would put citizens at risk. It was May who allowed IS Libyan fighters into the country. It was May that cut the detention period from 28 to 14 days, but now wants to put back to 28. Far from having a strong record of improving safety of people in the UK, she has proved to be insincere, weak and wobbly: just like her crumbling election campaign.
This election is about how we want our society to be, and the type of community we want to live and work in. With Labour, the abolition of zero hours contracts, the right to a contract of employment, and a £10 minimum wage, would be life changing for 5.6 million of our fellow citizens that will mean them being lifted out of poverty. The ending of tuition fees means that our children would have a real choice of deciding to go into higher education, or entering the workplace, and it will also mean they won't be burdened from the beginning of their lives with a mountain of debt. Our pensioners won't be left to die this winter because they will have to choose between heating and eating: a reality of the Tories policy to remove the winter fuel allowance. Labour has committed to the triple lock protecting our pensioners pay, and the right to retire remaining at 66, not rising to 70, which is the suggestion of the Tory party. Homes will not just for those that can afford £250,000, but council housing will be built to ensure that once again our children will be able to find a decent home. Voting Labour means your Nan won't lose her home through the death tax.
Voting Labour this Thursday is a vote for our children and a better future. Voting Labour means that our work places and our rights will be strengthened. Voting Labour on Thursday will build a more secure stable community. Voting for Labour on Thursday will mean we all win.
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package im.actor.core.modules.encryption.entity;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import im.actor.core.entity.encryption.PeerSession;
import im.actor.runtime.bser.BserObject;
import im.actor.runtime.bser.BserValues;
import im.actor.runtime.bser.BserWriter;

public class UserSessions extends BserObject {

    private int uid;
    private ArrayList<PeerSession> sessionDescriptors;

    public UserSessions(int uid, ArrayList<PeerSession> sessionDescriptors) {
        this.uid = uid;
        this.sessionDescriptors = sessionDescriptors;
    }

    public int getUid() {
        return uid;
    }

    public ArrayList<PeerSession> getSessionDescriptors() {
        return sessionDescriptors;
    }

    @Override
    public void parse(BserValues values) throws IOException {
        uid = values.getInt(1);

        sessionDescriptors = new ArrayList<>();
        List<byte[]> desc = values.getRepeatedBytes(2);
        for (byte[] b : desc) {
            sessionDescriptors.add(new PeerSession(b));
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(BserWriter writer) throws IOException {
        writer.writeInt(1, uid);
        writer.writeRepeatedObj(2, sessionDescriptors);
    }
}

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// Copyright © 2002-2005 Canoo Engineering AG, Switzerland.
package com.canoo.webtest.security;

import com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration;
import com.canoo.webtest.interfaces.IConnectionInitializer;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import java.security.Provider;
import java.security.Security;

/**
 * @author Carsten Seibert, Dierk Koenig
 */
public abstract class AbstractConnectionInitializer extends SecurityConstants implements IConnectionInitializer {
	private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(AbstractConnectionInitializer.class);
	protected static final String SUN_JSSE_PROVIDER_CLASS = "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider";
	protected static final String SUN_SSL_PROTOCOL_HANDLER_PACKAGE = "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol";
	protected static final String PROTOCOL_HANDLER_KEY = "java.protocol.handler.pkgs";
	protected static final String TRUST_STORE_KEY = "javax.net.ssl.trustStore";
	protected static final String TRUST_STORE_PASSWORD_KEY = "javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword";

	public static String getExternalProperty(final Configuration config, final String propertyName) {
		return config.getExternalProperty(propertyName);
	}

	protected static void logProperty(final Configuration config, final String propertyName) {
		LOG.debug("Ext property: " + propertyName + "=" + getExternalProperty(config, propertyName));
	}

	public static boolean isProtocolHttps(final Configuration config) {
		return Configuration.PROTOCOL_HTTPS.equals(config.getProtocol());
	}

	protected static boolean hasProvider(final Class providerClass) {
		LOG.debug("Looking for provider class " + providerClass);

		final Provider[] list = Security.getProviders();
		for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
			final Provider provider = list[i];
			LOG.debug("Checking: " + providerInfoString(provider));
			if (provider.getClass().equals(providerClass)) {
				return true;
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

	static void logSecurityProviders() {
		Provider[] providers = Security.getProviders();
		for (int i = 0; i < providers.length; i++) {
			LOG.info("Security Provider " + i + ": " + providerInfoString(providers[i]));
		}
	}

	private static String providerInfoString(final Provider provider) {
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
		sb.append(provider.getName());
		sb.append("\n\t").append(provider.getInfo());
		sb.append("\n\t").append(provider.getClass().getName());
		sb.append("\n\tversion: ").append(provider.getVersion());
		return sb.toString();
	}

	protected static void installJsseProviderIfRequired(final String providerClassName) throws ConnectionInitializationException {
		Class providerClass;

		try {
			providerClass = Class.forName(providerClassName);
		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			throw new ConnectionInitializationException("Class " + providerClassName + "not found! Is JSSE correctly installed?");
		}
		if (!hasProvider(providerClass)) {
			try {
				LOG.info(providerClassName + " not present. Current Providers are:");
				logSecurityProviders();
				Security.addProvider((Provider) providerClass.newInstance());
				LOG.info(providerClassName + " added. Providers are now:");
				logSecurityProviders();
			} catch (Exception e) {
				String message = "Can not instantiate class " + providerClassName + "!";

				LOG.info(message, e);
				throw new ConnectionInitializationException(message);
			}
		}
	}

	protected static void setSystemProperty(final String key, final String value) {
		LOG.debug("Set " + key + " to " + value + ", was " + System.setProperty(key, value));
	}
}


Antique mantle clock made of rare and unusual Siena marble with bronze mounts. The bronze casting is very well modelled and with good precise details. The mechanism is marked Sironval Jeunne, who was an important Paris clock maker.


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Gene Tang, head of Professional Services for Rackspace Asia, receives the Managed Cloud Service Provider award.
Rackspace's status as the number one managed cloud provider was reinforced this week when the company won the managed cloud service provider category at the 2018 NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who voted for us; your continuous support of Rackspace drives us to work even harder to serve our customers.
We're delighted to have earned this prestigious honor as recognition of our strength managing customers' multi-cloud environments and enabling businesses to stay ahead of the digital transformation curve.
As organizations gradually move workloads onto a combination of cloud platforms as part of their shift towards adopting multi-cloud strategies, it is valuable to engage a managed cloud service provider to help align IT priorities. With Rackspace experts certified in every leading cloud technology, we are in the ideal position to help navigate and operate within these complex environments.
Our teams support and manage the world's leading cloud platforms across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, VMware and OpenStack. As part of that support, we provides 24x7x365 access to our 'Fanatical Experience' — the results-obsessed customer service that's been part of our DNA for the past two decades.
Now in its seventh year, the NetworkWorld Asia Information Management Awards is widely known in the region for its work honoring Asian leaders in information security, storage and data management, and the huge advances made in these fields over the last few years.
Gene Tang, Head of Professional Services for Rackspace Asia, received the award from Alvin Aw, head of IT, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson at the award ceremony at Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel.
The judging process for this award involves many important people in our field. To win we had to have the nod from leading industry players, our peers, leading journalists and NetworkWorld Asia magazine readers from the Asia Pacific region.
This award is just the latest we've earned across the IT industry, globally and regionally, including being named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Managed Service Providers Worldwide.
In Asia Pacific, Rackspace earned a top spot in the 2018 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting, was named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hybrid Cloud Hosting in 2017 and was named Managed Cloud Service Provider of the Year by Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific in both 2016 and 2017. Datapipe, which Rackspace acquired in 2016, was named the only Leader in the Forrester Wave: Hosted Private Cloud Services In Asia Pacific in the second quarter of 2017.


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Shaq Says There Could Be Problems Between LeBron and Kyrie Behind Closed Doors
By Jonathan Sherman
Could a possible rift between the Cleveland Cavaliers' two biggest stars, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving, be taking place behind the scenes? That might be the case according to 15-time All-Star and member of one of the more famous NBA duos in history, Shaquille O'Neal.
O'Neal joined Bleacher Report to discuss the recent reports of potential trades that had Irving leaving the Cavs, and how they might be clues pointing to trouble brewing in Cleveland.
"I think there may be some problems between one and two," Shaq said. "Just think about it, when you have one and two and they do so well, then all of a sudden somebody gets talked about being moved, gotta be a problem. If everything was going peaches and cream we wouldn't be having this conversation. So I think behind closed doors somebody's not happy."
There's no solid proof to back up O'Neal's claims but both stars have recently come forward to express their discontent with the unexpected nature of the Cavs' current offseason. Even if there is a rift, however, all hope is not lost. O'Neal and former teammate Kobe Bryant proved years ago that you don't have to like your teammates to win, as the two famously won three straight NBA championships together despite feuding regularly off the court.
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GIE+EXPO's outdoor demonstration area has expanded to 20 acres for the 2016 event.
New this year, the co-located Hardscape North America (HNA)'s demo area is moving to a paved area adjacent to the turf, increasing the available space to more than 20 acres and making way for more GIE+EXPO demo exhibits.
The outdoor demonstration area will be open Oct. 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Oct. 21, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. It features hands-on exhibits displaying new products and equipment, including hand-held and walk-behind equipment, ride-on mowers, light construction equipment and UTVs.
Access to the demo area is included in the registration fee. Contractors interested in learning about hardscape techniques can upgrade their registration to include six demonstrations covering topics such as paver installation, basic wall building and lighting installation. New this year, the format for the hardscape demonstrations will be a continuous build, which will happen during show hours in the HNA Outdoor Arena with 1-hour demonstrations starting at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
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Guys, Why is there no mention of the location in either of these articles about seminars / conferences? At least this one has a date.
Chris, thanks for pointing this out. Both articles have been updated. Thanks for reading.


Just adding the phrase e-money into an internet search engine will bring up a tremendous list of strangely known as foreign currencies you have most likely never ever heard of. There are actually although a number of large on-line foreign currencies which are accepted by many vendors, companies and outlets.
Many of us have noticed the fake web sites on the market.
Just putting the word e-foreign currency into an internet.
For many people the very thought of having an online e-money might be a scary issue. We have.
One of the primary e-currencies that has been close to for over 5 years is E-gold. It becomes an online repayment program backed by actual rare metal. You own an account, just like a banking account, as well as your gold is saved in that. E-precious metal on their own usually do not acquire or promote e-golden, you must do that with an e-currency exchange exchanger. Upon having e-rare metal with your account it is possible to spend it with any merchant who will take settlement that way.
Another good e-money is Pecunix. This really is once more an online payment process that is certainly supported by gold. Pecunix fundamentally works exactly like E-precious metal, therefore they do not purchase and then sell their own currency exchange, and it is yet again saved in the account you have with them.
An e-money exchanger turns dollars to the chosen e-money and spots it within your bank account for you to invest as you like. Cash can be shipped to an exchanger by many methods, but the most famous are financial institution transfer and Paypal.
After you have mailed your funds through your preferred strategy the exchanger transforms it to no matter what e-money you might have made a decision to use and spots it in the account you may have provided them. Understand that all exchangers cost a payment to accomplish the transformation for you.
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A Harpenden filmmaker has made a documentary about domestic abuse which will premiere at the St Albans Film Festival.
The film, entitled 'What Doesn't Kill Me', is the first feature film of director Rachel Meyrick, who grew up in Harpenden and attended college in St Albans. It aims to shine a light on domestic abuse and the fact that many dangerous men are granted custody of children.
The film will premiere at the Maltings Theatre at 7pm on Thursday, June 28 as part of the fifth St Albans Film Festival this summer, and Rachel will host a Q&A following the screening.


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Тополоваць () — населений пункт у Хорватії, в Сисацько-Мославинській жупанії у складі міста Сисак.

Населення
Населення за даними перепису 2011 року становило 897 осіб.

Динаміка чисельності населення поселення:

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Середня річна температура становить 11,27 °C, середня максимальна – 25,93 °C, а середня мінімальна – -5,68 °C. Середня річна кількість опадів – 911 мм.

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Населені пункти Хорватії

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In this project activity, which is a strategic fit in the scheme of initiatives of GPIL, we aim to conserve natural resources while generating electricity to the tune of 7 MW. This is accomplished by using waste heat flue gases emanating from another facility which is an adjunct to a mini-steel plant. These hot gases produce steam by heating up water for power generation. Thus, we save conventional fossil fuel in power generation, which is one of the sustainable development co-benefits the project offers through technological excellence.
• Eliminating thermal pollution, as had these gases not been tapped for power generation, would have been released in the atmosphere and degrade the neighbourhood's environment.
• Eliminating fly ash generation by ensuring solid waste management techniques.
• Curtailing emission of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere amounting to an average annual CO2 emission of around 17,829 tons.
• Offering increased employment within and outside the Company for skilled manpower and professionals as well as for semi-skilled and unskilled manpower.
• Opening up Community Centres and Skill Development Centres in the surrounding villages by utilizing a part of the revenue arising out of this plant and associated steel manufacturing facilities.


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Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan also highlighted defense diplomacy steps taken to advance foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran including constructive engagement with countries across the globe as evidenced by full implementation of S-300 contract, signing defense cooperation agreements with Russia, China, Oman, South Africa and Iraq as well as effective assistance to legal governments of Iraq and Syria in the fight against terrorism.
"Defense Ministry also proved its capabilities in contributing to national development by development management of Makran coasts and finalization of its comprehensive plan, self-sufficiency in anti-corrosion pipes in the oil, gas and utilities industries as well as organizing of helicopters in crisis management to reduce injuries related to accidents and natural disasters," the official underscored.
Dehghan, while stressing that significant measures have been taken in missile, air, sea, land, telecommunications, electronics, optics, engineering, legal and welfare arenas, concluded "the coming year also great and precious achievements will be attained thanks to Iranian scientists, professionals and craftsmen who will dramatically boost national development as well as operational and combat capabilities of the Armed Forces.
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ummertime in London brings the annual RA summer show which we love to go to, and this year it was the prints and the wintery pictures that I loved so much...Bryanston Square by Eileen Hogan, the one with the tree drawn in charcoal on watercolour paper was spectacular - Roy Wright, as was the amazing landscape of the battle of the unicorns, all made with wire armature and elastoplast!
Tea at the Wolsey afterwards is part of the treat!
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A total of 6,000 Iraqis, mostly the rich, are flocking to Turkey every day for a stay in Istanbul, botox, permanent make-up or hair therapy.
Most of the Iraqi Kurds coming to Turkey have at least $10,000 with them, according to İrem Bayram, said a board member of a leading bus company, while she was speaking to Hürriyet during a road trip from Arbil to Turkey last week.
The passengers are usually families in all tours when Batumi is excluded, she said, adding that those who go to the Georgian capital also prefer gambling, which is illegal in Turkey.
They rather prefer a $90 bus trip to a plane, as the price goes down to $80 from Dohuk, to avoid a long voyage to the airport. Besides, buses are more effective than planes as they carry more luggage.
The number of people carried to Turkey from the northern Iraq only by two leading companies stands at 900 daily.
Abdul Wahab Barzani, the public order official at the Habur border gate, confirmed the number of daily entries to Turkey at 6,000. The figure is higher between spring and fall, he said.
Bayram said Iraqi Kurds prefer Istanbul to European countries. Istanbul is the first pick but the southern province of Mersin is also very popular. The resort province of Antalya, a top destination for Russian tourists also, also receives a higher number of Iraqi tourists in the summer.
A typical tour to Istanbul from Arbil takes 25 hours. According to the company executive, this is not a big deal for the customers, who are fond of long stopovers. Cizre, the first stop after the Habur border gate, is a great stop for kebab lovers. Gaziantep on the way offers the best addresses for baklava, the Turkish dessert. Turkish soap operas with Kurdish subtitles offered on seatback systems, also add to the joy of traveling.
Passengers bound for Istanbul stay at least 10 days in the largest city of the country.
Not historic or natural beauties but shopping is the top reason for a trip to Istanbul. Men also have hair implant treatment in the city, while many Iraqi women undergo other plastic surgeries. Laser eye surgery is also widespread.
Ahmet Şimşek, a passenger who works as a manager at a construction company, said he visits Turkey twice a year for 20 days.
"Turkey is like my home," he said praising the country for having a comfortable lifestyle.


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Post Sridevi's Demise, Arjun And Anshula To Move In With Janhvi And Khushi Kapoor?
Since the untimely demise of legendary actress Sridevi on February 24, the Kapoor family has been standing strong alongside each other through the tragedy. Arjun Kapoor and Anshula Kapoor stood rock solid with their father Boney Kapoor and stepsisters Janhvi and Khushi Kapoor in their trying times. Now, according to the reports Arjun might move in with Boney, Janhvi, and Khushi Kapoor. Arjun and Anshula who have always maintained a cordial relationship with their stepmother Sridevi, have lived on their own terms even after their mother Mona Kapoor passed away in 2012.
According to Deccan Chronicle sources,"So far, Arjun and his sister Anshula Kapoor have led pretty much independent lives, away from their father's family. But now Arjun feels his father and his stepsisters — Janhvi and Khushi — need him. He has begun to feel as protective towards his stepsister as he does towards his own sister Anshula."
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With his wrinkled face and sweet look, the bulldog has always been a challenge to artists. Nearly every art form has reproduced this breed.
The Bulldog is undeniably one of the most documented of all dog breeds appearing under various guises, in drawings and paintings going back several centuries.
The essence of the bulldog personality was also captured in sculptures, carvings, etchings, art photographs and figurines.
Besides in the most valuable collectibles in the hands of private collectors and museums, the Bulldog also appears in contemporary and everyday objects, like decor objects, gift ideas, furniture, bulldog stamps, and bulldog fashion wear.
Numerous Bulldog "aficionados" all over the world share the passion for collecting bulldog objects.
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De Hanwha Finance Classic (Koreaans: 한화금융 클래식) is een jaarlijks golftoernooi voor vrouwen in Zuid-Korea, dat deel uitmaakt van de LPGA of Korea Tour. Het werd opgericht in 1990 als het Seoul Women's Open Golf Championship (Koreaans: 서울여자오픈골프선수권대회) en vindt sindsdien telkens plaats op de Golden Bay Country Club in Taean.

Het toernooi wordt gespeeld in strokeplay-formule van vier ronden (72-holes). Echter, van 1990 tot 1997 werd het gespeeld in een 54-holes toernooi.

Winnaressen

Golftoernooi in Zuid-Korea
Golftoernooi van de LPGA of Korea Tour


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Monday, Oct. 20, 2014
Editor Kyle Valenta joins Final Cut
Kyle Valenta
NEW YORK --
Final Cut, with offices in L.A., NY and London, has added editor Kyle Valenta to its roster. For the past year he has been traveling around the world, freelancing on projects for Apple and Facebook. Valenta's recent credits include Apple's "Your Verse" iPad campaign, including the anthem ad featuring Robin Williams' recitation of Walt Whitman's "O Me! O Life."
Prior to that, Valenta spent almost a decade at Joint Editorial where he edited for some of Wieden+Kennedy's top clients, including Cannes Lion-winning efforts for such brands as Nike, Livestrong, Dodge and Procter & Gamble.
Valenta will be moving from Portland, Ore., to Final Cut's NY office. He will also be actively working in the company's L.A. and London offices.
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Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014
Tony Pace named ANA chairperson; new members elected to board of directors
Tony Pace, newly elected chairperson of the ANA.
ORLANDO, Fla. --
The ANA (Association of National Advertisers) elected Tony Pace, global chief marketing officer at Subway, as its new chairperson and Marc S. Pritchard, chief brand officer at The Procter & Gamble Co., as vice chair. In addition, 10 new marketing executives were elected to the board of directors. The officers and board members were approved by the ANA membership at its annual conference held in Orlando, Florida, from October 15-18.
The new members of the ANA Board are: Debra Berman, senior vice president, marketing at JCPenney; Roel de Vries, corporate vice president, global head of marketing, communication and brand strategy at Nissan Motor Co.; Natalia Franco, executive vice president, chief strategy and brand officer at California Pizza Kitchen, Inc.; Jack Haber, vice president, global advertising and digital at Colgate-Palmolive Co.; Jack Hollis, vice president, marketing at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.; Gerald E. Johnson II, chief diversity officer and senior vice president, marketing, stroke and multicultural at The American Heart Association; Kristin Lemkau, chief marketing officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Chantel Lenard, director, U.S. marketing at Ford Motor Co.; Alison Lewis, chief marketing officer, consumer family of companies at Johnson & Johnson; and Rodney Williams, senior vice president, Moët Hennessy USA, LVMH Moët Hennessy
"We are excited to welcome our new directors to their role for the upcoming year, and sincerely thank our departing board members for their strong leadership," said Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the ANA. "The industry knowledge and marketing expertise the ANA Board of Directors brings to its role will help guide the organization as we drive marketing excellence and leadership throughout the industry.
Friday, Oct. 17, 2014
Matt Denten joins Momentum Worldwide as exec creative director
Matt Denten
CHICAGO --
Matt Denten, formerly of Arc Worldwide, has joined brand experience agency Momentum Worldwide as sr. VP, Midwest executive creative director, based in Chicago. Effective Monday, October 20, Denten will lead Momentum's creative teams in St. Louis and Chicago in the conception and execution of marketing solutions for brands including the U.S. Army, Mondelēz International, United Airlines, Energy Upgrade California, and Constellation Wines.
Over the past 16 years in Chicago at Arc Worldwide, he rose to the rank of sr. VP, creative director with award-winning work for clients such as MillerCoors, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola and McDonald's. A highlight of his work at Arc was the Coca-Cola Arctic Home campaign which won at the The One Show. He also led the Miller High Life Veterans program where Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were welcomed home from overseas with High Lifes; this work was honored with two Reggies. Further, he led agency efforts to reinvent McDonald's retail identity.
In addition to The One Show and the Reggies, Denten's work has been recognized by a variety of shows including the Effies, POPAI, Hub and Design of the Times. Denten has also served as a judge of the Pro Awards in 2011 and 2012. As well, he is an adjunct professor at Loyola University in Chicago, leading a graduate level promotional marketing course this past summer.
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014
Guillermo Vega named ECD at 72andSunny's NY office
Guillermo Vega (l) and James Townsend
72andSunny has just opened a New York office, hiring Guillermo Vega as executive creative director. Vega formerly served in the same ECD capacity at Wieden+Kennedy São Paulo, which he helped to launch, growing it from three employees to 100-plus staffers in four years and winning clients like Nike, Coca-Cola, Levi's and Heineken. He joined W&K from Y+R, where he worked for over 13 years, rising to Regional Creative Director and overseeing Latin America from the Y&R headquarters in New York. He also worked as global CD for Dell and Bacardi, as well as the group CD for Virgin Atlantic and VH1.
Guillermo will be lead 72andSunny's New York office along with managing director James Townsend, who will be relocating to NY from the Los Angeles office. While in L.A., Townsend played an active role in the work and partnership with brands like Samsung, ESPN, Truth, and more. Townsend will continue to lead the Samsung brand.
The New York staff currently consists of 40 designers, writers, strategists, social media planners, brand managers, and content production people. They will initially support primarily the Samsung and Smirnoff brands.
72andSunny's NY office occupies 13,000 square feet on the top two floors of 30 Cooper Square in the heart of the East Village.
Robert Herman named managing director at Furlined
Robert Herman
SANTA MONICA, Calif. --
Robert Herman has joined Furlined in the newly created role of managing director. His 15 years of experience as one of the founding partners and managing director of Stink London brings new international perspectives to Furlined where he now teams with company founder and president Diane McArter.
"Moving to L.A. is an exciting creative adventure. Together with Di [Furlined's McArter], our directors and the amazing team of people that are Furlined, we're re-envisioning the production company of the future. Projects like Intel's 'The Power Inside' directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon is an example of the added creative value we're committed to bringing to our clients and the talent we represent," said Herman. "Ted Pauly's 'Climate Name Change' illustrates Furlined's ongoing commitment to creating powerful content that helps shift perceptions and promote positive actions and outcomes. It's pieces like these and the thinking that's coming out of Furlined that made this one of my easiest decisions ever."
McArter noted, "Rob is joining us at the perfect time. Coming off Furlined's record performance last year, we see new opportunities to redefine the way business is done in our industry. It's a time for new thinking and innovative brand building and our combined skills and energy can deliver on that promise."
Former JWT exec Maedel joins Grace Blue Asia
Helen Duffy (l) and Michael Maedel
SINGAPORE --
Global executive search firm Grace Blue is opening an office in Singapore to join its locations in New York and London. Continuing to work with communications companies, media, creative and advertising agencies, Grace Blue Asia will expand the company's footprint, fill key leadership positions and provide further support for the increasingly commonplace global search briefs in Asia-Pacific. Michael Maedel, former president of JWT Asia-Pacific, will spearhead the new Asia office as he joins Grace Blue as executive chairman. Grace Blue London partner Helen Duffy has relocated to the Singapore office.
"Asia-Pacific is a widely disparate region, with different approaches to marketing and media, but the common threads are enormous potential for growth, but a lack of enough world-class leadership talent," said Maedel. "Grace Blue Asia aims to leverage the company's existing European and U.S. experience to better answer global briefs and help businesses in the region find the very best people to fill their senior management positions."
Ronny Northrop named exec creative director at Y&R California
Ronny Northrop
SAN FRANCISCO --
Ronny Northrop has been appointed executive creative director of Y&R California. Based in San Francisco, Northrop will play an integral role in the creative product of the agency, leading creative teams and directing Y&R California's new creativity and innovation lab, dubbed "Wrestling Club." He reports directly to chief creative officer Mimi Cook.
Northrop started his career as a copywriter at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, where he worked on MINI Cooper, truth and Virgin Atlantic, among others. Then, as copywriter and creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, he created digital and integrated work for brands like got milk?, HP, Rolling Rock and Sprint, the latter of which he helped the agency to secure as a client. While serving in a first-of-its-kind hybrid role at Goodby designed to foster projects centered on innovation, Northrop helped launch Hacking Autism, a program that works to crowd-source software ideas for apps that help people with Autism find a voice. Hacking Autism has been picked up by Autism Speaks and is now the organization's largest initiative to date globally. Between Goodby and Y&R, Northrop freelanced at agencies and organizations including Alex Bogusky's Common, Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners and 72 and Sunny.
Northrop's work has been awarded by numerous industry shows, including a handful of Gold Cyber Lions and a D&AD Black Pencil. He has been a judge for One Show Interactive, the Andys, the Kellys and the Radio Mercury Awards.
MPC Creative London appoints Sophie Gunn as exec producer
Sophie Gunn
LONDON --
Sophie Gunn has been named executive producer of MPC Creative London, the content production division of MPC. In her new role Gunn will be working closely with Ben Cyzer, head of creative strategy for MPC Creative, an operation which maintains a core team of directors, producers, creatives, technologists, developers and strategists.
Gunn brings with her extensive experience across agency, VFX and motion design production and until recently has been overseeing the growth and development of the MPC Motion Design studio, which specializes in dynamic motion graphics, design, illustration and animation.
Already in her new role at MPC Creative, Gunn has been instrumental in the production of 19 online films for adidas including the Predator Instinct, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the eponymous boot and starring German football champion Mesut Özil.
The news of Gunn's appointment comes alongside the recent naming of Zak Thornborough to EP of MPC Creative in the U.S.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014
RPA hires Jason Tarantino as VP, strategic planning director
Jason Tarantino
Independent ad agency RPA has hired Jason Tarantino, most recently group planning director at Media Arts Lab, for the role of VP, strategic planning director. Reporting to David Berne, RPA's sr. VP, director of strategic planning, Tarantino will direct planning for Intuit Small Business as well as play a key role supporting business development.
Tarantino brings more than 14 years of experience to RPA in both digital and traditional advertising, brand and CRM strategy, e-Commerce innovation, social media planning and product development across a diverse range of industry verticals.
At Media Arts Lab, Tarantino co-managed a team of more than 30 planners and researchers, and directed strategy on a number of key initiatives across the Apple business. Previously, he worked at The Martin Agency on the Walmart account. Tarantino also had stints at Wieden+Kennedy, R/GA and Razorfish. While at R/GA, he received a Jay Chiat award for research innovation for Nike ID and a Cannes Silver Lion and Webby for work with Verizon Broadband.
"RPA gets that the line between digital and traditional media has been erased and that there is no longer a need for a distinction between digital and brand planning. This idea parallels my perspective and provides an incredible opportunity for me and my planning colleagues to change how we approach work. In this advertising world without artificial borders, defining a single-minded proposition across channels is no longer relevant," said Tarantino.
Cutters signs editor Andrea Mendoza
Andrea Mendoza
Editor Andrea Mendoza has joined the roster of Cutters New York. Mendoza comes over to the global editorial company from Austin, Texas, where she has been active in both the Hispanic and English-language markets for the past eight years, with stops at Beast and charlieuniformtango.
Mendoza started her career in NYC with stints at Epoch Films, Ohio Edit and Mad Mad Judy, but the allure of her home state's creative capital drew her back to Austin. Mendoza's editing experience includes high-profile campaigns for clients including AARP, Century Link, Dominos, Goya, Home Depot, Snickers and The Texas Lottery.
At Cutters New York, Mendoza joins staff editors Steve Bell, Scott Gibney and Nadav Kurtz, each of whom is available for projects anywhere. Cutters maintains studios in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, NYC and Tokyo. Elizabeth Krajewski is Cutters NY's exec producer.


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2. Squirrels soon join them. They maybe trying to find a place to settle in if they haven't already.
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Zorki 1 - very good condition - look foto !!!
Zorki 1 is a 35mm rangefinder camera with M39screwmount interchangeable lens manufactured by KMZ plant in Krasnogorsk, Moscov, USSR, between 1948-56. Зоркий = Zorkiy, means "Sharp Sighted". Zorki cameras have their roots in the FED line of Leica copies. During World War II, the Ukrainian camera factory FED was evacuated west to escape advancing German troops. After the war the FED factory had troubles getting the FED camera (the first ever Leica copy) back into production. Because KMZ plant had escaped destruction, that company started making the FED camera under a joint FED-Zorki logo in 1948. When FED got back in operation, KMZ continued to produce the rangefinder cameras under the Zorki trademark (some intended for export) and made some design changes.


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