Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference 2018 - San Antonio

The Texas edition of Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference will take place September 17-19 at the Hyatt Regency in San Antonio, TX. This event provides a unique education experience that blends together the digital forensics and cybersecurity industries for collaboration between government and private sectors. The purpose is to raise international awareness of developments, teaching, training, responsibilities, and ethics in the field of IT security and digital forensics. Educational sessions cover a wide range of topics within the following primary tracks from which 23.5 CPE credits can be earned: • Audit/Risk Management • Forensics • Investigations • Information Security

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What Research Can Tell Us About “Super Champion” Athletes

Today's guest post comes from Matt Kuzdub.

Wouldn’t it be great if we had the magic formula when it came to building the ultimate sporting champion? Or how bout a step-by-step recipe? Just add 10 years of skill training, a half-decade of physical development and a sprinkle of mental skills...and voila, a world-class competitor is served!

Jokes aside, this topic of ‘what it takes to get to the top’, is eternally interesting. Whether you’re a coach, parent or athlete, achieving high levels of success in your chosen sport, is often a lifelong dream. But very few actually get to realize these dreams.

Why is that? Why do some achieve greatness while others are left wondering where it all went wrong? Coaches and athletes aren’t the only ones asking themselves these questions. Researchers also want to gain more insight into this puzzle - now more than ever.

This article will explore some of the newest research on this topic - particularly by a group of applied researchers, Dave Collins and Aine MacNamara. Their work will help us attempt to solve the perpetual question - what separates the greats from the almost greats?

In particular, we’ll look to their research to aid us in distinguishing between, what they classify as ‘Super Champions’ (SC), ‘Champions’ (C) and ‘Almost Champions’ (AC). A secondary aim of this post is to explore their claim - that adversity (whether related to sport or life), plays a pivotal role in the success (or failure) of an athlete. In revealing their findings, we’ll look at how each class of athlete responds to setbacks, how a support team ‘should’ act and the characteristics necessary for athletic excellence.

Super Champions Have a ‘Learn From It’ Attitude Towards Setbacks

Note, before we continue, it’s important to know that SC were defined as athletes who not only competed at the highest level, they won multiple international championships at that level. Conversely, C competed at the highest level, but did not have the same pedigree of success (1 or none when it came to championship victories). AC consisted of athletes who achieved well at the youth level but only competed at the second tier professionally.

According to Collins et al (2017), the biggest factor that separates SC from C and AC is a ‘learn from it’ attitude. There’s no argument that all athletes, at some point in their careers, experience adversity, challenges and what Collins calls “the rocky road” - these setbacks aren’t reserved for the chosen few. Ultimately, it’s the response to this that enables some to flourish while others to wither away.

Take for example, what one Almost Champ recalled of a serious injury:

“I sort of lost enthusiasm for it because I did not feel like it was – I almost felt let down, especially before the second operation. . . why was my injury different from anyone else’s, how come mine had to be 14 months for the same surgery that someone else had done for 3 months.”

Even Champs - those who competed at the highest level of their sport - echoed similar sentiments, blaming injury for their lack of progress:

“Well the sort of 10 to sort of 17, 18 years should be a natural yearly progression. But because I broke my arm, I wouldn’t say I didn’t improve but I just stood still. Well I’d say I didn’t improve, I just sort of stood still for 18 months. And it was an issue because when my arm got fixed I hadn’t grown, and everyone else seemed to have grown.”

Super Champs had a completely different outlook when it came to a traumatic setback, like an injury. By no means was it an easy situation - they also felt the disappointment, the frustration, but rather then blaming and projecting to external factors, they framed the incident as an opportunity for growth:

“That injury was pretty crucial I think. . .I was going well before it but the disappointment. . .the pain. . .it just kicked me where it hurt and I was determined to get back.”

And another SC had this to say about the prospects of throwing in the towel after an injury:

“No never, never ever thought about giving up. There was days when I was like ‘Why is this happening to me? I’m so frustrated, what am I going to do? How long is it going to take me to get back?’ But then the other days were like, ‘right what do I need to do? I’m going to do this, do this and get back’. But I never ever thought I wanted to quit. I think I still would have worked hard and still trained and done everything I could have done. But I think it gave me a different mental capacity. Because I’d never had to deal with anything like that before, so I definitely did think it changed me and made me achieve what I then went on to achieve.”

Given these reactions, you get the sense that Super Champs use setbacks as motivation, a driving force that catapults them to not only get back to where they were pre-injury, but to learn from the experience and to be better than ever. It’s difficult to explain exactly why that is - researchers (Collins et al 2016) suggest that high achievers may have better inherent coping habits. But further to that, they argue that these SC either don’t acknowledge the setback the same way as low achievers OR they don’t perceive the ‘trauma as traumatic as others do.’

On the flip side, this self-defeating attitude, most commonly typified by the behaviors of Champs and Almost Champs, inhibits growth. For instance, instead of putting things into perspective and finding solutions after a setback, low achievers would do the opposite:

“rather than staying at training and thinking ‘right I’m going to work hard, I’m going to really focus on my crossing, or really focus on that,’ I did no extra work. I didn’t go in the gym, I didn’t eat the best foods.”.

High achievers, on the other hand, saw the same challenge in a completely different light:

“Not making that selection, especially after all that work. Several others just said f*#! it, but I was never ever going to let them beat me. I just did double everything!”.

And beyond the setbacks, even when things were going well, Super Champs were striving for more:

“I was never kind of satisfied, I was never like ‘Oh I’ve done it now’ I was always like ‘This is the first step of my journey’”.

Many factors contribute to the above responses to setbacks and challenges. One area where researchers seem to point the blame are Talent Development (TD) pathways. The argument being that these centers for excellence are actually ‘smoothing’ the road for young up-and-coming athletes. The adversity necessary for growth, from their point of view, isn’t seen until later in a TD athletes’ career, when it’s perhaps too late. To resolve this, they propose that ‘structured traumas’ be strategically implemented into the programs of emerging sports stars.

These ‘manufactured traumas,’ according to Collins, could include training with a new group, being de-selected from a camp or a temporary increase in training load. Is this the answer? Whether it is or not is still up for debate - but one thing’s for sure, the path to the top is anything but linear.

Sure, many young athletes excel and progress rapidly early on. As they get older, however, and begin competing with others of similar class, that progress comes to a sudden halt - at times, it can even mean a step or two back (not something youth super-athletes are accustomed to).

How many Michael Jordans, Roger Federers and Tiger Woods’ are there? Not many. Some of the greatest athletes of all-time had to overcome adversity, naysayers and their own internal demons just for a shot at competing at the highest levels of their sport. Tom Brady is just one example - drafted at no. 199 in 2000.

It’s not that the AC can’t make it, it’s that they lack certain mental traits and skills to stay the course, especially in the face of adversity. The best of the best, on the other hand, according to Savage et al (2017) perceive their personal potential as significantly higher, following a setback. Those ‘rocky road’ moments leave a lasting impression on Super Champs - propelling them to learn and grow.

While this attitude by no means guarantees their spot in the history books….it at least gives them a fighting chance.

Quiet Leaders - The Role of Coaches and Parents

But perhaps it’s not the athlete’s fault. Research seems to indicate that there’s both a nature and nurture element to coping with adversity. Some athletes are born with personality traits that favor key mental aspects like optimism, hardiness and resilience. That doesn’t mean that these attributes can’t be developed. So instead of throwing in the towel, support staff should frame these ‘tough’ moments as opportunities for skill building and character growth.

But according to Collins, a big difference exists between the involvement of coaches and parents of SC versus those of C and AC. Interestingly, SC recalled their parents being supportive but not very closely involved in the process. In other words, they would encourage their children to pursue their goals, drive them to and from practices, attend games and cheer from a distance but they would leave the nitty gritty details to coaches. Here’s one account from a SC:

“[my parents were] not really pushy, it was kind of just gentle encouragement. They were never really involved, they’d just come and watch me, support me. But they never wanted to know what I was doing training wise and they never really got involved in that way, and that helped.”

ACs, on the other hand, were constantly being pushed by parents and coaches. To the point where one athlete actually felt as if the joys of sport were taken from them:

“My parents, dad especially was always there. . .shouting instructions from the touchline, pushing me to practice at home. Really, I just wanted to be out with my mates, even though we would still be kicking a ball around. I felt like [sport] stole my childhood.”

A few years ago, coaching Britain’s next female tennis hope, I encountered a similar experience - a father who attended every session, not as a casual observer, but as a vocal distraction. He would shout when he thought his daughter’s effort was lacking, grimace when she missed a forehand by mere inches and not once did he have a kind word to say. The result of this constant bombardment...at 15 years old, this rising star left the game and never returned.

This isn’t just a one off example, this happens all too often in youth sport today - parents obsessing over their children’s every sporting move.

What About Coaches?

When it comes to coaches, there was a clear dichotomy between the experiences of Super Champs, and Champs/Almost Champs. These mid to low achievers seemed to work with coaches who were either always in their face or looking for a way to ‘ride the athlete to the top.’ One athlete stating - coach was ‘always wanting to dissect my performance...He was very intense and, as I got older, it really started to antagonize me.” An Almost Champ had a similar recollection:

“X was the driving force. When I was younger, he would collect me from home, drive me to the club, train me then drive me back. . .talking about [sport] all the way. Let me tell you it was f∗∗∗∗∗ intense.”

Contrast these experiences to that of Super Champs:

“I think [coach's name] was great in the fact that he never wanted to rush anything whereas I always did. I wanted to be better, and I wanted to start winning things straight away. He always had in his mind that it was a long journey. And that’s the sort of thing that worked so well, he developed me as an athlete really slowly so I would always achieve the things I wanted to achieve later on in my career.”

Many successful coaches across a variety of sports realize the commitment involved at the top. They understand that athletes are devoting their lives to sport and this constant analysis and over-analysis of practices & games can be too much. It’s another form of stress. One pro hockey coach says that most of the time, he’s talking about anything but hockey with his players. That’s not to say there isn’t a time and place to ‘dissect’ a performance, but when it’s constant, that’s when it can be detrimental.

Perhaps a better option, one that ALL elite coaches use, is to simply engage in regular debriefs. After a practice, a game or a season, it’s absolutely vital that athletes sit down with a member of their support team for a review. These debriefs, according to elite coaches and researchers, can be more important than practices - the key is to know your athlete and when the right time to talk is (it can happen directly after a practice/game or several days afterwards...each athlete is different).

But it is a time where full transparency and honesty are at the forefront. Didn’t have the right mindset at practice, the athlete has to know. Focus and concentration on relevant tasks were absent, that’s a talking point. The truth has to come out. The important thing to remember here is:

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Overall, it’s a facilitative approach, rather than a directive one, that seems to contribute to that ‘learn from it’ attitude seen in high-achievers while low-achievers, having too much info thrown their way, have a poor time coping with adversity. Thus, coaches and parents can adapt their involvement to fit the needs of each individual athlete. While researchers agree that an expert (like a mental skills coach) is likely needed to help shift the mentality of many athletes, they still advocate that coaches be a big part of the process - echoing the words of experts because of their day to day involvement with the athlete.

The ‘Unique’ Traits of Super-Champs

These findings are taken from only a handful of studies - and less than 100 athlete responses. So there’s still a lot we can learn - but some of the early signs are promising. For one, we now know that high-achievers internalize setbacks, go through a reflective process, which ultimately drives their behaviors in a positive manner. Low-achievers, on the other hand, seem entirely ‘reactive’. As we noted above, this is likely a combination of Super Champs ‘learn from it’ approach to challenge and their encouraging (but not overbearing) support structures.

Furthermore, at this level, all athletes have at one point (whether at the youth or senior level) been internationally successful. We can’t tell for sure whether a gap in skill or physical stature existed - if it did, it was likely small. The main differences between the best and the rest, according to Collins, were the psycho-behavioral characteristics of Super Champs - including commitment, coping with pressure, self-awareness, goal setting, effective imagery and more (for the full list, here is a link to the study itself).

Researchers once thought these characteristics were solely developed after a traumatic event - the literature terming this ‘post-traumatic growth theory’. The premise being that athletes need regular opportunities to deal with traumatic events and that these events in themselves, build the necessary mental skills & behaviors, over time. In other words, ‘talent is caused by trauma.’

Recently, however, autobiographies from several Olympic swimming champions (Howells and Fletcher 2015) found that they didn’t have to learn anything new when coping with a trauma, rather, they used skills that were already established. Other Olympian medalists (Sarkar et al 2015) supported this and concluded that “performers should be given regular opportunities to handle appropriate and progressively demanding stressors, be encouraged to engage with these challenges and use debriefs to aid reflection and learning.”

The take-home, athletes need to possess some of these skills and traits before being encountered with a trauma or setback. As Savage et al 2017 exclaim, talent isn’t caused by trauma per se, ‘talent needs trauma.’

Inevitably, what this tells us is that even when things are going well, coaches should be constantly seeking to improve all facets of an athlete’s game - including aspects that aren’t necessarily as noticeable as a player’s batting skills or squat strength. But how often do we take part of a training session to improve imagery skills? Or to improve one’s self-awareness? Overall, mental toughness isn’t a result of suicide drills and grinding training sessions. As coaches, we must plan the development of these skills just as meticulously as we would a block of strength & power training.

Lastly, from a research perspective, we’re only scraping the surface of what we know about ‘super champion’ performers. A lot of the same can be true in practical settings - even elite coaches aren’t always sure why a certain athlete had great success, while another didn’t. This, however, is a starting point - if we have an idea as to which behaviors are championing vs those which are defeating, we can devise a proactive plan to facilitate the growth of the latter. For the moment, it’s up to coaches to facilitate rather than direct, the athlete’s growth - mental, physical or otherwise - and treat the training process as a playground for learning.

References

Collins, D. and Macnamara, A. (2017). Making Champs and Super-Champs—Current Views, Contradictions, and Future Directions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.

Collins, D., Macnamara, A. and McCarthy, N. (2016). Putting the Bumps in the Rocky Road: Optimizing the Pathway to Excellence. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

Collins, D., MacNamara, Á. and McCarthy, N. (2016). Super Champions, Champions, and Almosts: Important Differences and Commonalities on the Rocky Road. Frontiers in Psychology, 6.

Howells, K., and Fletcher, D. (2015). Sink or Swim: Adversity and Growth-related Experiences in Olympic Swimming Champions. Psychol. Sport Exerc. 16, 37–48.

Sarkar, M., and Fletcher, D. (2014). Ordinary Magic, Extraordinary Performance: Psychological Resilience and Thriving in High Achievers. Sport Exerc. Perform. Psychol. 3, 46–60.

Savage, J., Collins, D. and Cruickshank, A. (2016). Exploring Traumas in the Development of Talent: What Are They, What Do They Do, and What Do They Require?. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 29(1), pp.101-117.

About the Author

Matt Kuzdub, MSc, (@CoachKuzdub) is the content creator at Mattspoint, an online tennis and strength and conditioning resource for coaches, players, and tennis enthusiasts. Matt has helped tennis players at all levels—from juniors to the professional ranks—achieve high levels of performance on both the national and international stages. Mattspoint is steadily establishing itself as a go-to source for cutting-edge tennis and fitness research, articles, and training videos.

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BlackLight 2018 R3 Is Now Available From BlackBag

BlackLight 2018 R3 is officially released and it includes two of the most anticipated features of the year: APFS Snapshots and support for all GrayKey images. What's New and Improved? - Comprehensive report options - APFS Snapshots - Streamlined support for all GrayKey image formats - iOS Hidden Photos - Enhanced Windows Memory Support To learn more about the latest BlackLight release, click here.

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Rare opportunity to own two premier new purpose-built rental building in British Columbia’s fastest growing municipality. Langford Towers features two buildings on separate property titles. A shared underground parkade with 137 spaces joins the buildings and includes right-of-way easements. Offers will be considered for Tower A, Tower B or both buildings combined. Preference will be given to offers for both buildings combined.

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Park George by Concord Pacific in Surrey

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ICDF2C 2018 – New Orleans September 10-12

From the 10th to the 12th of September 2018, Forensic Focus will be attending ICDF2C in New Orleans.Below is an overview of the subjects and speakers that will be featured at the conference. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us know in the comments. Monday September 10th Following the general welcome and a keynote by Dr. Deborah Frincke from the NSA, the first full session will be on carving and data hiding. After lunch two workshops will be run by security experts Riscure, looking at how to extract secrets from encrypted devices. Read More

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Crossfit and Confirmation Bias

Last month, I published a blog about the importance of building strength in the teenage years. In case you missed it, you can read it here.

The gist was that strength is foundational to many other athletic qualities: power, stability, endurance, and even mobility. In short, building strength in untrained lifters is low-hanging fruit that can have a massive impact on other domains. However, if you train many of the qualities higher up on this pyramid early in a training career, you don't see very profound changes to athleticism. It's why the kid who just does agility ladders doesn't get much more agile, and the cross-country runner can't go faster just by running slow.

As is always the case with my new articles, I sent it out to my newsletter list - and there are always a dozen or so people who'll reply to the article. One, in particular, stood out for me:

"This reads as an incredible endorsement of multimodal training like Crossfit! Which highlights the very different skills in the article! Thanks for sharing!"

This is an incredibly well-intentioned person, but unfortunately, he could not be any more incorrect. And, it's a nice illustration of the confirmation bias we often encounter in the training world.

This gentleman really loves Crossfit, and that's fine. He can train a bunch of different qualities and have a lot of fun. That does not mean, however, that concurrent training of all these qualities is a way to optimize long-term athletic development in teenagers (or any age of athletes).  His confirmation bias leads him to believe that what he enjoys (and likely what has worked for him) will be good for every scenario he encounters.

Sure, you can build a lot of these qualities simultaneously, especially in untrained individuals. However, you are not going to develop a 95mph fastball or run a 10-second 100m dash if you're consistently rowing 1000m, doing sets of 15 power cleans, or rocking kipping pull-ups like they're going out of style. And, you're going to have a much harder time staying healthy as you embark on these goals, as each sport has unique energy systems requirements and position-specific demands. How often do you see aggressive hip-shoulder separation, appreciable single-leg work, and end-range shoulder external rotation in the typical Crossfit program?

Again, if you want to do these things, by all means, go for it and have fun - but don't confuse them with a plan that's optimized for athletes. Random programming might keep training novel, but it delivers random results - and athletic success is much more the result of targeted efforts to meticulously address the growth windows one can identify. In short, you can't take general solutions to specific problems.

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Webinar: Using Technology To Find Information Faster And Build Stronger Cases

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Digital Forensics News August 2018

The DFRWS 2018 challenge is now available on GitHub. The submission deadline is the 20th of March 2019. CCL group discuss the question of how iOS artefacts are showing up in Windows investigations. Susteen's new field acquisition device supports the acquisition of evidence from mobile devices in the field. Delyjester talks about the forensics of Cortana on Android and gives some useful tips. The latest version of Oxygen Forensic Detective has been released, featuring the ability to decrypt WhatsApp backups, import GrayKey images, and acquire locked Samsung devices. Archer Forensics shows readers how to look through the Reddit app, and talks about what your tools won't tell you. Mediaclone have released a new product which allows for complete forensic investigation in the field.

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Susteen’s new Field Acquisition Device is available worldwide for purchase. Finally add an affordable, cutting edge, mobile forensic device to your arsenal. Acquire evidence in the field, export for analyzing back in the lab. Acquire data in minutes instead of hours and instantly view on the scene! Affordable: Introductory pricing under $1,000 Breakthrough Technology: Mirror and acquire any evidence found on the phone, including encrypted and cloud based apps like Snapchat, Facebook messenger, Viber, WhatsApp and more. Real-Time Acquisition: Acquire the evidence you need for the time period you need. Select from the last 30 minutes, 24 hours, week, month, all or anything in between! Get the evidence that is pertinent to live situations. •Designed for rugged use in the field. •Easily switches between acquiring data from Android to iOS mobile and tablet devices. •Touch screen with evidence search and reporting. •Fast acquisition process allows for immediate data retrieval to help the situation on scene. •Compatible Export for evidence analysis in the lab. •Designed for easy use with minimal training. Training provided at no cost via on-demand. •64-bit computing See the Future of Mobile Forensics

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Register For Webinar: Using Griffeye Technology To Increase Efficiency

On August 28, Griffeye is hosting a webinar on how to create more efficient workflows using the Griffeye Technology. You will learn how to use different techniques and tools to reduce workload and generate better results. A significant challenge to investigators and their teams is the slow and laborious process of manually reviewing millions of seized images and videos. So, in this one and a half-hour webinar we will demonstrate how the Griffeye Technology can be used as a part of your digital investigations to increase efficiency, reduce workload and achieve better results. Not only will it decrease the time it takes to locate possible victims but also reduce the exposure to the material. In the webinar, you will learn all about: • Using the power of filters • De-Duplication of matched files • Database Matching techniques to exclude known files • Workflows to maximize results and minimize exposure • Using Griffeye’s newest technologies and how to use them in your workflows • Features that are currently in development and coming soon Presenter: Eric Oldenburg, Law Enforcement Liaison, Griffeye Date / Time: Tuesday August 28th, 3pm CST Register here

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Interview With Eric Oldenburg, Tech Evangelist, Griffeye

Eric, tell us a bit about your background and how you became an investigator. I was a police officer with the Phoenix Police Department in Arizona for 24 years. 15 years of that was working with crimes against children. But even before that, when I started off on the Vice squad, I knew I wanted to be an investigator. Going to Vice was a stepping stone for me – a way to learn how to go undercover, how to handle cases, how to­ take on a case load. How did you get involved with CSA investigations? In 2001, our police department got a charter with the Internet Crimes Against Children taskforce (ICAC), which is one of 61 federal taskforces in the United States. I tested to go there – mostly because of the technology. I did the job from 2001 to 2005. By then I needed a break. Read More

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If You Could Only Pick One…

Review Of Forensic Falcon-NEO From Logicube

Reviewed by John (Zeke) Thackray, Churchill Fellow, FSS Dip. The objective of this article is to share an independent review and actual hands-on, in the field experience when gathering evidence using the Logicube Forensic Falcon®- NEO. The most important phase of any digital investigation is the initial preservation and verification of potential evidence. If this is not achieved in a safe and reliable manner any future analysis may be jeopardized and considered inadmissible. This review is designed to assist organizations or individuals to streamline that process when considering the use of the Logicube Forensic Falcon®- NEO without the influence of the manufacturer or other third-party competitors. Initially the testing conducted was performed in a controlled laboratory QA process. After proven concepts and manufacturer claims were validated, an extensive evaluation in a live environment with real evidence was made. Read More

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Drone Forensics Gets A Boost With New Data On NIST Website

by Richard Press, NIST Aerial drones might someday deliver online purchases to your home. But in some prisons, drone delivery is already a thing. Drones have been spotted flying drugs, cell phones and other contraband over prison walls, and in several cases, drug traffickers have used drones to ferry narcotics across the border. If those drones are captured, investigators will try to extract data from them that might point to a suspect. But there are many types of drones, each with its own quirks, and that can make data extraction tricky. It would help if investigators could instantly conjure another drone of the same type to practice on first, and while that may not be possible, they can now do the next best thing: download a “forensic image” of that type of drone. Read More

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Beaufort Landing at Hampton Cove

Beaufort Landing by Polygon Homes is a new collection of townhomes located in the vibrant masterplanned community of Hampton Cove. This project will offer 124 3 & 4 Bedroom charming Seaside- inspired townhouses. Nestled between a marina and a golf course, walking and biking trails surround the neighbourhood, and a beautiful new riverside linear park will give residents a natural place to explore their own backyard. Beaufort Landing residents will also enjoy exclusive access to The Hampton Club, a private clubhouse featuring over 12,000 square feet of resort-style amenities.

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Winona on Cambie Corridor

Winona by Raichu Development Group is a new six-storey condo development located just steps from Winona Park, on Vancouver’s Westside. This project will offer an intimate collection of studio, one, two and three-bedroom homes. Transit-oriented development means local shops, restaurants, and amenities are but a short walk away at Marine Gateway, or just hop on the Canada Line to whisk you to far more options in less than 20 minutes, without worrying about gas or parking.

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Belmont Residences in the heart of Langford

Belmont Residences by Ledcor Property Development is a new five-storey condo development located in the heart of Langford on Vancouver Island. This project will offer 80 1-, 2- & 2 bedroom + flex condominiums, sizes range from 622 to 1224 square feet. Starting from the low $300,000s to low $600,000s*. Belmont Residences West building starts in September, and will soon rise along the Galloping Goose Regional Trail adjacent to the Thrifty Foods-anchored, 160,000 square foot Belmont Market Shopping Centre currently under construction on lands formerly occupied by Belmont Secondary School. Completion is anticipated for early 2020.

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All Time Most Popular Posts (2011-2018)

ALL-TIME (2011-2018) Ed. Note: I will be taking some reflective time off from blogging during the coming months. So far, we have had over 500,000 visits, published over 1,200 posts, and have over 3,000 followers. Thank you! In the meantime, use the search engine on this site to find something you may be looking for. And, at all times, press on!

1. Why Police Matter

2. Principles of Leadership

3. How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison

4. Making Choices: The Moral Aspects of Policing

5. Hazing and Bullying in the Police Academy

6. The Seven Necessary Steps — Step 1: Not Just For Police!

7. How Should Police Present Themselves?

8. On Hiring a Chief of Police

9. What About CompStat and Crime Reduction?

10. Can and Should Police Investigate Themselves?

 

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Fitness Business Success: Maybe You Aren’t as Prepared as YOU Think You Are

A few weeks ago, we took our three-year-old twin daughters blueberry picking. They had an absolute blast - so you could say that they are very passionate about blueberry picking. In fact, they are quite certain that they are the best blueberry farmers on the planet today.

Here’s the thing, though: they really don’t know much about blueberries. And, they don’t even know what they don’t know.

Addison refused to take her sunglasses off, so she could barely tell the difference between the ripe ones and the ones that needed to stay on the branch for longer to ripen.

Lydia got so excited that she tripped over an irrigation hose.

In short, their passion left them nothing short of blind and disoriented with respect to the competencies it takes to become a successful blueberry farmer.

Sadly, this example is not much different than where many fitness professionals are at the start of their career. They're wildly passionate about fitness and really enjoy working out, so why not make it into a career?

Wikipedia defines the Dunning–Kruger effect as "a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is."

In other words, you think you're going to be the varsity quarterback, but you're actually only skilled enough to be the carrying water bottles out to the JV squad. This is the harsh reality of most fitness businesses: they're often based too much on passion and not enough on specific career capital (which I previously wrote about here and here).

As a result, people who open gyms get surprised by a lot of things. Start-up costs are higher than anticipated. Generating leads is tougher than they'd expected. Managing growth proves challenging because they've never had to manage employees or pay attention to client retention strategies. They don't realize how complex managing finances is. There aren't enough hours in the day to get to everything they need to do when both working IN the business and ON the business. The list goes on and on.

And, I'd argue that these issues are even more prevalent in the fitness industry than in other entrepreneurial realms. There's a lower barrier to entry in the industry, significant initial start-up costs for gyms, and a service-oriented business model that presents unique challenges. In short, there are a lot of reasons why gyms either fail or really struggle to get by.

My Cressey Sports Performance business partner, Pete Dupuis, has a MBA and consults for various gym owners on a daily basis to help them avoid these common pitfalls. We've been at this for over 11 years and have two facilities still going strong, and a huge part of that success is the significant work we do behind the scenes to make sure we're a well-oiled machine and just just a "workout place" started because we were passionate.

With that in mind, last year, we offered our Business Building Mentorship for the first time. It sold out quickly and received outstanding feedback - so we've decided to offer it again. It'll take place October 15 at our Hudson, MA location (alongside our fall seminar). If you're interested in attending, you can learn more and register HERE.

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Have Your Say In The House Of Lords’ Select Committee On Science And Technology

Controversy has been raging around ISO 17025 ever since the standard was adopted for digital forensics back in October 2017. Although many people who work in the industry agree that standardisation is advisable and probably necessary if we are to keep moving forward, there have been many criticisms of ISO 17025 and its effectiveness when it comes to digital forensics. The baseline of the problem seems to be that ISO 17025 was not specifically designed for digital forensics; instead, it takes the standards of ‘wet’ or traditional forensics and applies them to computing devices. This has a number of issues, not least the fact that technological advances are constantly happening; in a field where most large apps are being updated a couple of times per month as a minimum, it becomes very difficult to properly standardise tools and methodologies. Read More

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Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 8/9/18

Examine More Data Than Ever Before With Oxygen Forensic Detective 10.4

The latest version of our flagship software, Oxygen Forensic® Detective is now live and available for download by customers with current licenses. In addition to added support for dozens of application updates, version 10.4 offers several major new features to enable investigators to extract and examine more data than ever before.

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An Unnecessary Harshness

If you were to ask me what is different from my time in policing compared with that of today I would say that today’s policing appears to be more harsh and stringent; that is, “unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses.”

Permit me first a disclaimer. It is probably not the actual state of American policing but rather one that is sensed by far too many of our citizens through various police images, actions and statements.

Is it necessary for police to be harsh? I don’t think so. I say this having survived many years on the street during two major social conflicts in our country: assuring the civil rights of all citizens and protests against the Vietnam War.

I say this also having been a chief of police for many of those years. It is simply not true that police officers, in order to do their job well, have to be harsh, stringent, officious or uncaring. In reality, I the opposite is true – fair and respectful policing involves care and compassion from others. This also involves an herculean control of how one uses force is in achieving the police mission.

Now if I, with over 30 years police experience and another two decades watching and writing about police, have come to this observation, how about others? Especially those who have the most contacts with police: the poor and those of color.

And is this not the “trust” problem? And does not the failure in many citizen’s eyes of the inability of their police to control use of deadly force, a big part of the problem and the feeling in the community that police are overly harsh and uncaring?

In order to field a more compassionate and caring police will take at least as long as it took to morph into what we have today — and that will take at least ten years. But if the change is ever to happen, it must begin now — with all of us.

If we look at how this came about we can trace it to the development of SWAT and drug and anti-violence street crime teams and what many of us call today as the militarization of our nation’s police. We also cannot overlook the overall arming of America, our collective disinterest in controlling firearms, and the most unsettling recent event of “stand your ground” legislation.

We are becoming a harsh people by ignoring the plight of the others among us: immigrants, homeless, and the chemically addicted along with those among us without health care. Among our fellow citizens (and often family members), we have failed to effectively respond to these social problems without resorting to public sanction, arrest and imprisonment; that is, harshness.

This is a time to re-assess our founding and governing values and to educate, train, and develop a police service that models these values and reinforces them with each and every contact they have with fellow citizens. Press on!

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SuperImager 8” NVMe+SATA Combo Portable Complete Field Forensic Investigation

MediaClone new product release: A portable powerful multi ports Forensic Imager and a Complete Forensic Field Investigation unit, running Linux/Win open OS in a dual boot, that supports many different kinds of digital storage devices includes the latest of NVMe SSD. The unit has two built-in NVMe ports which enable the user to image from one Suspect NVMe SSD to one Evidence NVMe SSD at a high-speed of 93.7GB/min. The unit is supplied with two PCIE U.2 external cables plus two external NVMe to M.2 adapters with mounting and locking brackets. The external PCIE U.2 cables provide a flexible solution to cover both NVMe M.2 and 2.5” U.2 SSD form factors. In addition, the unit has two built-in SATA ports, one e-SATA port (4 via the supplied TB Expansion Box), eight USB3.0 ports and a high-speed Thunderbolt 3.0 port with 40Gb/s bandwidth. The SuperImager application allows the user to image drives across ports and interfaces, for example, image an NVMe SSD to a SATA drive or image an NVMe SSD to a USB flash drive, and so on.

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Reducing The Mental Stress Of Investigators

by Eric Oldenburg, Griffeye We recently met up with Eric Oldenburg, Griffeye’s new Law Enforcement Liasion in North America, and heard about his new role. Here, he explains how reducing mental stress for investigators is a driving force for him, one that led him to work for Griffeye, and why the mental health of investigators is a subject that we must talk more about. In 2001 I started working with child sexual abuse crimes at the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce (ICAC). Looking back, I can’t think of any other work that is more fulfilling, but before taking the job I had no idea how mentally difficult it would be. At that time, I don’t believe anyone had a great understanding of the trauma that it causes investigators and examiners to see it. But when you break it down, and you really think about it, you are watching children being abused, which is a terrible and unnatural thing. So as a result, it comes with a lot of problems. Read More

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1. Hazing and Bullying in the Police Academy

2. Being an (Uncomfortable) Prophet

3. Police Reform: An Impossible Dream?

4. An Unusual Experience of Police Reform: The Republic of Georgia

5. Principles of Leadership

6. How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison

7. On Police Reform in Ukraine

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Police Reform: An Impossible Dream?

Over half a million police in 18,000 decentralized police agencies, when and how can reform ever begin? Or is it “an impossible dream?”

I have to admit that looking back over almost 60 years, I see improvement — more police are college educated, more diverse (women, blacks, Hispanics), and have technologies that most of us could not even have dreamed of in the 1960s.

Yet I have a nagging feeling that, perhaps, the actual practice of policing has not improved as much as I hoped it would have. I say this understanding that I have been influenced (as you have) by a flood of on-line videos that have captured the worst of police practices. But I think I know what good policing is — and could be. And it’s not the standard I see today.

The explosion of personal phones with video capability have documented far too many of these questionable, often illegal behaviors by our police; behaviors that a decade ago would have gone unreported and only noticed by few, if any, bystanders. Often eyewitness reports with quickly countered by an official denial of police misbehavior.

In light of this, how do community members press public officials, including their chief of police, to be more transparent and willing to improve police practices — especially in light of the fact that most communities of color simply do not trust the police who work among them?

Here are some ideas. They are not exhaustive (for more thorough recommendations read the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing). Being able to accomplish even one of these recommendations would be a strong step forward. Accomplishing all of them would be significant reform with many lasting benefits to your community.

1. Establish, train, and passionately promote the value that the police department exists to protect and save human lives. This should be evident in how deadly force and high-speed pursuits are regulated, including the department’s response to all shooting victims (“scoop and emergency room runs, and availability of hemostatic bandages and Naloxone to save lives on the street). See also the PERF report, Guiding Principles on Use of Force.

2. Require all police applicants to hold a 4-year liberal arts degree from an accredited institution and that they be emotionally sound and mature and have already internalized the values in which the department aspires.

3. Increase initial training for all police recruits to 12 months and monitor that training (which should include topics such as police-racial history in the United States, response to the mentally ill, and de-escalating conflict situations along with more standardized police training).

4. Upon academy graduation, require new police officers to continue their training with a Field Training Officer for a period of at least one year.

5. After initial and field training, require an additional year of probation while the officer works without a coach.

6. Institute and require the practice of Procedural Justice within the ranks of the police department and in all contacts with community members.

7. Develop and improve leaders who are good listeners, respectful, collaborative, helpful to subordinates, and know how to improve the systems in which they work.

8. Implement Community Oriented Policing not as a program but the Way police services are delivered. Identify and share with the community measurable goals to evaluate its implementation and permeability.

9. Do the same (#8 above) with Problem-Oriented Policing.

10. Periodically and consistently survey the community as to how the department is trusted among those who have used its “services.”

11. Develop a commitment to institute more neighborhood foot officers and wean away from traditional 9-1-1 call-driven policing. Strengthen community safety resources and capabilities and work collaboratively with neighborhood residents on solving problems they identify.

12. Hold meetings periodically with neighborhood residents; be open, listen, and helpfully respond to their concerns. Get closer to those who are served.

For working police officers, change can begin with YOU, with small improvement steps beginning with your next police contact.

Significant improvement in policing will not come about through presidential commissions, consent decrees, elected officials, or even strong, committed police leaders.

Instead, I believe it will come about when individual police officers make an honorable commitment to being fair and respectful in everyone of their community contacts and at all times (not just when people are being nice and cooperative).

It’s true, change first begins within us — and then in and with everything we do.

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Logicube's Next-Gen Falcon-NEO: Overview Video

Want to learn more about Logicube's next-generation forensic imaging solution? Ultra fast imaging speeds of over 50GB/min, simultaneous imaging from 4 sources to 8 destinations, image from PCIe to PCIe, 2 X 10GbE network connections -designed to streamline the evidence collection process. Check out the Falcon-NEO overview video here!

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Interview With Brian Hill, Director of Training, Oxygen Forensics

Brian, you're Director of Training at Oxygen Forensics. Tell us about your role; what does a typical day in your life look like? As Director of Training my goal is to not only develop content to help Oxygen Forensics customers implement our products in their investigations, but also build a knowledge base for them to be successful investigators in the long term as new technologies and techniques hit the market. This involves researching the latest trends and technologies, maintaining our live and online certification trainings, presenting webinars on investigative techniques, and scheduling classes around the world to ensure our users worldwide have access to development opportunities. Read More

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Register For Webinar: Getting Past Encrypted Backups

So you’ve extracted an encrypted smartphone backup. What do you do next? Join us next week for a webinar during which Oxygen Forensics Director of Training Brian Hill will walk attendees through how to access and use data from iOS and Android backups in Oxygen Forensic® Detective. In this one-hour session, Brian will cover: • How to unlock and decrypt smartphone backups using built-in Passware Kit Mobile • How to retrieve password lists to unlock backups • How to use your own password lists in Oxygen Forensic® Detective Date/Time: August 7, 2018 10:00am CST / 4:00pm BST Register here

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