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Airwavz Solutions Appoints Chris Zack as Chief Revenue Officer
The addition of Chris Zack in the role of Chief Revenue Officer is an asset to Airwavz and we welcome his insights and leadership as we continue our explosive growth in the CRE sector.
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Executive Tapped to Drive Revenue-Generation Strategy and Execution
Airwavz Solutions, Inc., a provider of in-building wireless infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Chris Zack to the role of Chief Revenue Officer. In this capacity, Zack is responsible for strategic development and execution of initiatives that support Airwavz's continued explosive growth and expansion into new markets in the commercial real estate sector.
During his more than 20-year career in technology infrastructure, Zack has held various sales and development roles with some of the most recognizable brands, including Verizon, AT&T, SBA Communications, ExteNet Systems and Mobilitie, where he has a proven track record of scaling business development organizations and securing investment rights for wireless infrastructure.
Over the past decade, Zack has focused on the contractual and financial modeling to support both the needs of commercial real estate owners and investors and the wireless carriers. Zack has negotiated numerous master agreements with REITs and portfolio owners for both cellular and Wi-Fi network investments as well national technology upgrades by the carriers.
"The addition of Chris in the role of Chief Revenue Officer is an asset to Airwavz and we welcome his insights and leadership," said Brad Davis, CEO of Airwavz. "His achievements as a leader in results-focused organizations will be invaluable to Airwavz's continued growth as we deepen and expand our relationships in current markets and look towards future opportunities."
"I am excited for the opportunity to join the seasoned executive team at Airwavz," said Chris Zack, CRO of Airwavz. "Our approach to addressing in-building wireless coverage and capacity is unique in terms of how we productize the investment for both the wireless carriers and commercial real estate owners. Our model translates into value creation for the commercial real estate industry by enhancing the competitiveness of their building assets, attracting and retaining tenants, and enabling increased building rents."
Airwavz Solutions is a telecommunications infrastructure company serving both the commercial real estate industry and the major wireless carriers by providing innovative in-building wireless solutions. Airwavz designs, installs, owns and operates wireless infrastructure inside commercial office and hospitality buildings in dense metropolitan areas, ensuring building tenants and guests receive exceptional cellular service while also ensuring wireless carriers can improve coverage and increase capacity throughout their networks. To learn more visit www.airwavz.com.
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Folk tales and traditional fairytales have survived because they tackle themes which remain relevant to each generation. Hollywood has long been drawn to these timeless tales but in order to make them appealing to a wide-ranging, increasingly younger, audience, they have tended to either remove or gloss over some of the darker elements which frequently form the heart of the story.
Ballet company director Holly Noble is presenting a new version of the Snow White legend, called Snow, which tackles the whole concept of self-image in the social media age.
Holly says that she enjoys creating contemporary ballets which bring the dance form into the modern age. She says that the story of Snow White provided the perfect metaphor for our view of self-worth for Instagram generation. The magic mirror is now replaced by the mobile phone screen reflecting false images of the unobtainable perfect life and a constantly changing new look.
Holly will be premiering her new production at DanceEast this weekend before it heads off on a UK tour.
What attracted you to do a ballet about Snow White and was it hard to rescue the original story from the 'cleaned up' Disney version?
So have you had to change the story alot to bring it up to date?
HN: "It's the original story but as seen through a modern lens. Snow White doesn't have a wicked step-mother instead her nemesis is a very vain, self-absorbed tatooed lady who is seeking constant justificiation for how she looks. We don't have a prince in it, we stick to the original version where the poisoned apple falls from her mouth, so there is not a love story as such, it is much more about looking at the role of women and how they interact with one another.
Was it a challenge to bring out some of the darker aspects of the story following years of pantomime and Hollywood cartoons had banished the moral lessons?
NH: "I think modern culture has sanitised many of the original stories and it's hard to combat this. I have three year old twins and they are all ready fully in the grip of Disney and these are the stories that they know. I think, as a result, that the original stories do come as a shock because they can be very shocking and I think in the #MeToo era, I think there are conversations that we need to be having earlier in life and the story is a good vehicle to explore those ideas.
So where have you set this story?
Snow, by Holly Noble Dance Company, is being premiered at The Jerwood DanceHouse on Ipswich Waterfront on Saturday November 24.


The truth is out there, and sometimes you just have to be brave enough to share it. That's often easier said than done, but this week's guest was ready to do so. A son of Hollywood royalty, Mr. Christopher Peters was on Brainwaves to talk about his extraterrestrial experiences for the first time ever. We promise you're not going to want to miss this ep!


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Sadie Robertson's Boyfriend and Siblings
You may have seen her at Duck Dynasty or made a motivational speech somewhere, but still, the teenager goes through normal things that people at their age go through. So, for those of you who don't believe it, here's how we're going to get to the bottom of this. Let's start by checking out Sadie Robertson's boyfriend.
Sadie Robertson's Boyfriend
We all agree that unlike most teenagers out there, Sadie has to live not only with her relationships under the supervision of God and her parents but also with the public at large. So, like everyone else out there, their fans and haters alike, let's check out Sadie Robertson's friend(s).
Sadie Robertson's Boyfriend: Blake Coward
That's friend number one, they've been together for a while and it was a shock to everyone when they split up, but before we jump to the end of their story, let's take a look at the beginning. Sadie met Blake at a softball game at her cousin's school, Madison Academy.
He later asked her out for a date and they really understood each other, which led him to visit her in Louisiana a month later, then the rest was history. The two were so good together for many different reasons, but one important thing was that they shared the same beliefs and values.
Here's what she Inside Edition said, 'My friend is very supportive of me when I publicly present my decision to stay pure until marriage. I think it's also important because as teenagers we always get "the talk" from adults… It's another thing to hear about it from someone who's going through it with you.
The couple supported each other in their separate efforts, but sometime in 2016, after two years together, Sadie brought some sad news to the world. The couple had split up, but they claimed it was the best. Here's how the star finished the video in which she informed her fans about the whole subject.
'Blake and I had a good relationship. He's a good guy and whoever ends up with him is a happy girl. Separations are only a part of life. They just are. It's sad, it really is, but God has someone good for you, don't forget that.'
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Sadie Robertson's Boyfriend; Trevor Knight
This will not go down as the longest relationship in history as it lasted only 2 months. Sometime in July 2016, the teen began dating the quarterback for the Texas A&M Aggies, Trevor Knight. The two were in fact married via a journey they had both undertaken.
She said to Entertainment Tonight, "He had begged me because every year he goes on a mission to Haiti and he saw that I was going to Haiti and he saw that I was going to Haiti. We just kind of connected through it, a lot of friends in the beginning. When they finally met, she took the first step and asked him to take her to a Justin Bieber concert.
Months later they were off, and a few months later they called it off. Sadie told us weekly," Trevor is a great guy, but our schedule is just so busy, he's in the middle of the football season, and I'm about to start my tour, so the timing just didn't work out.
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Sadie has two sisters and three brothers. But they are not just biological siblings, the family has opened their doors and hearts not only once, but three times for children. Rebecca (28) was an exchange student promoted by the Robertson's and later adopted, Willie also known as Lil Will (16), was adopted by the family when he was five weeks old.
Korie, her mother, had always been a strong supporter of adoption, and that was what she had to say about the moment she adopted her little boy at the Angels in Adoption Gala: "From the moment we learned of [Lil Will], he belonged to us, I swear I had contractions the night before my departure and took him to the nursing home where he lived. He is our child, just like our biological children.
Only last year there was a new addition to the family, the family adopted a 13-year-old boy named Rowdy. In January the family announced that they were about to adopt a new child, in September all details were cleared and he officially became a member of the Duck Clan. Here are the names of other children.
The other Robertson brothers and sisters are Bella (14) and Luke (21). Here is what Korie had to say about the whole thing: "Children are never easy, but they are always worth it.
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REPUBS MAKE HISTORY WITH VOTE TO BLOCK ALL WITNESSES IN 'SHAM' IMPEACHMENT TRIAL: 'BradCast' 1/31/2020
Guest: Roosevelt University political scientist David Faris...
While it seemed impossible previously, Republicans in the U.S. Senate appear to have outdone their phony confirmation proceedings for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in late 2018, with their sham Impeachment "trial" of Donald John Trump. As we went to air for today's BradCast, the Senate was preparing to vote on whether witnesses would be blocked from a Senate Impeachment Trial for the first time in U.S. History. By the time we got off air, the shameful, dirty deed was done. [Audio link to full show is posted at end of article.]
The day of the fateful vote began with yet another explosive piece of breaking news from the New York Times, reporting that Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton's forthcoming book charges that "More than two months before he asked Ukraine's president to investigate his political opponents" Trump directed Bolton "to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton." Moreover, the paper reports, Bolton describes an Oval Office conversation on the matter in early May of 2019 "that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the president's impeachment defense."
Yes, that's right. The Trump attorney now leading his defense in the Senate trial, who has accused Democratic House Managers of "hiding the facts" in their arguments in favor of two Articles of Impeachment against Trump, is now allegedly a co-conspirator in the very plot that resulted in only the third impeachment of a U.S. President in history. Little wonder they'd prefer to have no witnesses testify.
Bolton has stated he would be willing to testify in the trial, as has Lev Parnas, a right-hand man to Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer at the center of the scheme to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations of Joe Biden before Trump would agree to a White House meeting or release $391 million in military assistance to war torn Ukraine. On Friday morning, Parnas' attorney submitted a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, explaining his client's willingness to testify at the trial with relevant information that alleges Trump, Mulvaney, Vice President Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Senator Lindsey Graham, Congressman Devon Nunes and many others worked on Trump's plot to force Ukraine to help him undermine the 2020 Presidential election. So, yes, as Gordon Sondland said weeks ago, "everyone was in the loop. So, yeah, no witnesses please and thanks.
Despite all of that astonishing news --- and all that has come before it --- by the end of today's program, Republicans in the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51 to 49, would vote to block subpoenas for all witnesses and documents in the Impeachment Trial, for the first time in U.S. history. Only two Republican Senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah, were willing to cross the aisle to vote with all 47 Democrats to call for witnesses. We discuss the pathetic excuses offered by supposedly "moderate" GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and the retiring Lamar Alexander of Tennessee for voting against witnesses. That vote now paves the way for an acquittal vote for the President. One of the few remaining questions by show's end was when that vote may come. As of this hour, it may now happen next Wednesday, the day after the President's State of the Union Address on Tuesday night --- but we'll see.
Another major question of note is what price, if any, Republicans may ultimately pay for what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described after the vote as the GOP's act of "perfidy...where the Senate did not live up to its responsibilities, turned away from truth, and went along with a sham trial." With "no witnesses and no documents", he described the proceedings as "not a real trial" and "a tragedy on a grand scale."
We're joined today by DAVID FARIS, Associate Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University, author of It's Time to Fight Dirty, to discuss today's historic events, and his two most recent columns at The Week, where he is a regular contributor. In one, he finds fault with the House Democrats' strategy of sending over the Articles to the Senate too quickly and, in the other, with McConnell's strategy of blocking witnesses. Faris describes the latter as a "rare blunder" for the Republican leader and explains why. I disagree with him on the latter, as he and I discuss what all of this may now mean for Republicans, for Democrats, for the President and for the voters who will kick off the 2020 Presidential Election in Iowa this coming Monday.
"I don't know that there's anybody who could look at the Senate this week and say that a fair trial happened here," Faris tells me. "What McConnell did was he handed Democrats a bat to beat them with for the next eleven months about the legitimacy of the trial in the Senate."
Article Categories: BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Impeachment, John Bolton, Accountability, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Rudolph Giuliani, Democrats, Republicans, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Lindsey Graham, Lisa Murkowski, KPFK, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, BradCast, Ukraine, Adam Schiff, Mike Pence, Devin Nunes, Election 2020, Mick Mulvaney, Lamar Alexander, William Barr, Lev Parnas, Pat Cipollone
Trump Impeachment Trial a 'Moment of Reckoning' for Nation, Republican Party: 'BradCast' 1/22/2020
Guest: Martin Longman of Washington Monthly and Progress Pond...
Our special coverage of the ongoing U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of Donald John Trump continues on today's BradCast following Tuesday's marathon session that ended at nearly 2am in the nation's capital, before beginning again with opening arguments on Wednesday. [Audio link to full show is posted below.]
On Tuesday, Republicans voted repeatedly along party lines to block 11 different amendments proposed by Democrats to allow for various first-hand witnesses to Trump's alleged High Crimes and Misdemeanors and documents being withheld by the White House that underscore other evidence in the two Articles of Impeachment.
Republican Senators blocked amendments proposed by Democrats to subpoena documents from White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney; Documents from the State Department detailing the President's call with Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelinsky, as Trump withheld military assistance and a White House meeting in hopes of strong-arming Ukraine's new anti-corruption President to announce (not to carry out, just to announce) investigations into Trump's potential 2020 political rival Joe Biden; Documents from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which the President illegally ordered to withhold nearly $400 million in Congressionally-appropriated military assistance; Documents from the Pentagon where officials were reportedly troubled about potential violations of law in withholding the funds; a subpoena for Mulvaney himself to give testimony in the trial; A subpoena to two OMB staffers who carried out the hold on military assistance to the war-torn country; A subpoena for Trump's own former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who regarded Trump's Ukraine scheme as a "drug deal" and who has said he'd be willing to testify if subpoenaed by the Senate because, as he claims, he knows more about all of this than is currently publicly known.
In vote after vote, Republicans voted as a block, with 53 votes, to deny every Amendment offered by Democrats, even against ensuring votes for subpoenas at a later date or to have the Chief Justice authorize subpoenas if the Republican-appointed John Roberts, who presides over the trial, felt any particular witness or document would have probative value by being relevant to the case. "One side is not afraid of a fair trial," lead House Manager Adam Schiff argued, "one is terrified" that the truth might come out.
Meanwhile, Trump offered false comments to reporters overseas at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he echoed his previous lies that he would "love" to have Bolton and Mulvaney and his Sec. of State Mike Pompeo and former Energy Secretary Rick Perry testify at the Senate trial, but he just can't allow it due to "national security" and "executive privilege" concerns.
Back home, the White House team's public defense at the first day of the trial was not well received, even by Republicans, including Chris Wallace of Fox "News" (which is now, unlike actual news outlets like CNN and MSNBC, breaking away during trial coverage for commercials and regular programming, while leaving the impeachment proceedings in a little silent box in the corner of the screen), the House Republicans' own Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley, and George Conway, the longtime Republican attorney and activist husband of Trump's Senior White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway.
In a blistering interview with CNN on Wednesday, George Conway charged that Senate Republicans "don't want to hear the evidence because they know the truth, they know he's guilty"; that the charges against Trump are "much, much more serious" than those against Bill Clinton during his impeachment (on which Conway worked); that Trump is a "pathological liar" who "needs to be removed now" from office, because he is "thoroughly unfit for office". Kellyanne's husband also said that he is "deeply saddened" by what has happened to his Republican Party, but sees this historic event as a "moment of reckoning" for the nation and his party.
We're joined today by MARTIN LONGMAN (long known as "BooMan" to many old time progressive blog readers) from Washington Monthly and Progress Pond, for commentary as the Democratic House Managers begin their first day of opening arguments (which could also be their closing arguments if Republicans vote again next week to block witness subpoenas following the White House attorneys' opening argument). We also discuss the rules for McConnell's "scam trial" and why it is that Republicans seem to "lose every round and still win on the scorecard" --- not just in this matter, but going back as far as the Florida 2000 election.
Finally, we close with a few audio clips from Tuesday, when Democratic House Manager Rep. Jerrold Nadler accurately charged that Trump's lawyers "lie and lie and lie and lie", and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone said in response --- with a straight face --- that "President Trump is a man of his word." The heated late-night exchange resulted in a reprimand for both sides as Tuesday's marathon 13-hour session drew toward its close.
But we close today with a clip from Rep. Schiff's opening argument, citing a chillingly apt warning from founder Alexander Hamilton about "a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents...despotic in his ordinary demeanour [and] known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty [who] is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty --- to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion --- to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day --- It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may 'ride the storm and direct the whirlwind."
Article Categories: Fox 'News', BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Impeachment, John Bolton, Mainstream Media Failure, U.S. Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Jerrold Nadler, KPFK, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, BradCast, Ukraine, John Roberts, Adam Schiff, Chris Wallace, Kellyanne Conway, Mick Mulvaney, OMB, George Conway, Pat Cipollone
Senate Impeachment Trial Begins With a Trial About Holding a Trial: 'BradCast' 1/21/2020
Republican Senate votes to block document, witness subpoenas as White House offers remarkably hypocritical defense...
"Can I get a witness?" That appears to be the big question, at the moment, for Democrats in the historic U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald John Trump. On today's BradCast, we offer special coverage of the beginning of the trial, which, at least for today, is turning out to be a trial about whether there will be a real trial or not, with evidence, documents and witnesses, as Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his caucus seem prepared to do everything in their power to ensure there will not be such an actual trial. [Audio link to show is posted below.]
Before we get to today's action in the Senate, we bring you up to date on the holiday weekend's pre-trial briefs presented by the Democratic U.S. House Managers, who are serving as prosecutors for Trump's two Articles of Impeachment on Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress, and the brief responses filed by the White House defense team.
Newly added to to Trump's legal team is hypocritical TV attorney Alan Dershowitz, who spent his weekend arguing on the Sunday news shows that the Articles were invalid because they did not include a specific crime. "You need proof of an actual crime," he argued. That, by way of contrast with Alan Dershowitz in 1998 during the Bill Clinton impeachment when he argued, literally, "it certainly doesn't have to be a crime" that qualifies a President for impeachment.
Trump's 6-page response to the Impeachment Managers 111-page brief describes the Impeachment as a "brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election" (which is what he is actually accused of doing in the Articles for which he is being impeached), and as "nothing more than a dangerous attack on the American people themselves and their fundamental right to vote." That's right. Donald Trump is now pretending to be concerned with the "fundamental right to vote." That, in the middle of an impeachment trial where he is accused of attempting to cheat in his 2020 reelection contest by withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in Congressionally-allocated military aid for war-torn Ukraine in hopes of forcing them to create dirt he can use against Joe Biden and other Democrats.
Tuesday's opening agenda was on the adoption of McConnell's proposed rules for the trial that would postpone votes on whether to include witnesses and documents previously blocked by the White House during the House's initial impeachment inquiry (the basis of Article 2's Obstruction of Congress charges) and even evidence gathered during the House Inquiry itself. Under McConnell's resolution, both sides would spend days in opening statements, and then take as many as 16 hours of written questions from Senators before they even vote on whether to allow witnesses or not. Legal observers have noted that is the opposite of how actual trials are carried out.
We share audio from today's terse opening statement by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, followed by an extended excerpt from lead House Manager Adam Schiff on the unprecedented attempt to exclude all witnesses and documents from a Senate impeachment. No trial in the upper chamber of Congress has lacked witnesses since the founding of our nation.
As we went to air for today's BradCast (and as we write tonight), all Democratic amendments to McConnell's resolution, attempting to subpoena documents from the White House, the State Dept. and elsewhere, and for witness testimony, have been rejected along strict party line votes with all 53 Republicans voting to table the amendments, and all 47 Democrats voting to move forward with the subpoenas.
Also today, a few quick points of news elsewhere regarding the public fight to stop the controversial certification of new, 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems in Los Angeles County and the massive gun rights demonstration (over nothing) held on the Martin Luther King Day holiday in Virginia.
Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report, with exceedingly disturbing news about ocean warming, slightly more encouraging news about Wall Street beginning to wake up to worries about our climate crisis, and a big loss (for now) in the federal climate change lawsuit filed by a group of kids in California...
Article Categories: California, BRAD BLOG Media Appearance, Virginia, Impeachment, Accountability, U.S. Senate, Democrats, Republicans, Chuck Schumer, Los Angeles, KPFK, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Climate change, NRA/Gun Violence, BradCast, Ukraine, Adam Schiff, Election 2020, Wall Street, Pat Cipollone, VSAP, Alan Dershowitz


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I am wondering if this is because i was posting similar messages in different groups? Perhaps my content was seen as spam and I was logged out by the system because of it?
Hm, I have never seen this before.
It's possible that the forum content might have been rejected as duplicate - I see a a place in bbPress where such detection takes place - but it definitely should not have logged you out.
Given #3642, it could be that there is a specific problem with the way that your browser/setup is handling WP-related cookies. In the absence of other reports, I will assume for the time being that this issue is peculiar to your setup.
I'm assigning this ticket to Dan to do some additional experimentation regarding duplicate forum posts in different groups. Dan - the potentially problematic line in bbPress is wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/functions.php, where it checks `bbp_check_for_duplicate()`. Can you play with this a bit to see what you find?
Let's move this back into a named milestone when we've got a better sense of what our next steps are. Dan, please do continue to take a look at it.
Just looking at the code the check for duplicate content really shouldn't have kicked you out - nothing in bbpress itself does, it just cancels the post and throws an error message. The check does provide an action hook triggered by an attempt to post duplicate content, but I couldn't find anything that hooked into that to take any further actions.
I ran into an issue where I'm getting the "page not found" page when I try to go to groups' forums on my local install. I need to spend some time figuring out why that is, but it'll be tough to really test until I figure that out. Sorry!
ran into an issue where I'm getting the "page not found" page when I try to go to groups' forums on my local install. I need to spend some time figuring out why that is, but it'll be tough to really test until I figure that out. Sorry!
See #3649. cherry-pick db6cc8978b50e70f06641f1 from the master branch.
Just getting back around to this - looks like my version of wp-content/plugins/cac-bp-custom-includes/forums.php has the changes that were introduced in the changeset you linked me to, but I'm still getting "Page not found" when I try to visit a hidden group's forum. Will continue to look into it.
Okay. Maybe worth closing if we can't find anything; I can reopen if I do. Up to you whether you want to keep looking.
If this hasn't come up again maybe it isn't something we need to spend more time working on.
In terms the trouble I was having accessing group forum pages, I noticed that I didn't have bbPress activated on my local install. I activated and could access forum pages, but none of them were set up yet. Boone - is bbPress activated on the live Commons and being used for the group forums?
Boone - is bbPress activated on the live Commons and being used for the group forums?
Yes. You might need to run the bbPress 1.x migration script; look in Dashboard > Tools > Forum. If you have problems, let me know and I can look into generating a fresh SQL export.
I agree with this. I'm going to close the ticket.


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MP requests review of Windows 10 for compliance with Russian laws - report
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MOSCOW, August 11 (RAPSI) - Vadim Solovyov, a parliament member representing the Communist Party, has addressed Prosecutor General Yury Chaika with a request to check whether the new Windows 10 operating system complies with the Russian laws, Izvestia newspaper reports on Tuesday.
"According to the user agreement, the operating system automatically collects and stores the user's browser history, passwords, names of the hot spots the user connects to and passwords to those. Also, the company reserves the right to provide fragments of personal correspondence and other collected personal data upon request from special services, as well as publish and use the data at its own discretion," the request says as quoted by Izvestia.
Solovyov claims that, according to the Russian law, collection and processing of personal data in Russia is only authorized by organizations registered as personal data controllers while disclosure of such information is prohibited unless specified by law.
Since many Russian institutions use Windows OS, this could potentially lead to leaking of classified information to foreign special services. Basically, it is espionage, the parliament member believes.
Solovyov requests an inspection of the company and "action to block the website for downloading this software."
Microsoft told Izvestia that the data can only be collected with the user's consent.
Starting July 29 and for 12 months, the new operating system Windows 10 may be installed for free on the computers using the previous version. Within the first 24 hours of the release, some 14 million users across the world downloaded the OS.
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Thank you for the excellent responses to my post sounding out the idea of a book for believers. With such a great many excellent suggestions, I got fired up and ready to go. I made a little list of points, and then figured I'd best see what's out there already, so I fired up the Fire. I've downloaded and read a ton of samples from various books on atheism. Many of my fellow FreethoughtBloggers were authors or contributors. This has convinced me of two things: 1) I am in distinguished company, and 2) I had probably better get off me arse and write a book on atheism. So it's in the works.
Even though I think I found the book.
Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary seems perfectly suited for handing to those believers in your life who can't handle The God Delusion and other atheist classics. Ken was the real deal. He was a child of missionaries. He was conservative evangelical. He became a missionary himself. He went to Africa in order to bring the word of God to tribes that didn't have a written language yet, and hadn't heard the supposed good news. Then doubt came crashing in. He followed the evidence, read the Bible closely, read all the apologetics he could get his hands on, considered what various freethinkers had to say, and in the end, became an atheist.
This book was written for believers, by a former believer. He's married to a believer, many of his friends are believers, so he's had all the experience he needs showing respect for the person while defending freethought. He's faced all the questions and comments from believers who just can't quite grasp why he lost his faith. He's confronted the No True Christian fallacy head-on. You know, the variation wherein the believer-told-atheist is told they were never a true believer to begin with: he eviscerates that argument. Politely. This gentleman has a way of staying unfailingly polite while thoroughly destroying the myriad arguments and apologetics believers throw our way.
While he's not quite a new or Gnu atheist, he doesn't throw any of us under the bus, either. Early in the book, in a section entitled "My approach to my readers," he gives a spirited defense of Dawkins – by quoting Isaiah of all things! Gorgeous.
This is a long book, but it didn't really feel long to me. It was a fascinating journey through various trails of doubt, all leading up to the conclusion that Christianity isn't the truth, there is very probably no god, and the life of an atheist isn't filled with horrors, but wonders. This is a man who's read the theologians, too, so he can't be tarred with that "but you haven't read X" brush. The courtiers can try their reply on him all they like. He has studied Imaginary Fabrics in depth. He has even read On the Luminescence of the Emperor's Feathered Hat with a mind that wished to be convinced of the magnificence of same. And in the end, after years of study, after considering pretty much every argument for the classic yet cutting-edge fashions of the Emperor, he has determined that the Emperor is, in fact, nekkid. Only I don't think he'd put it quite like that: more along the lines of, "I'm afraid the Emperor is unclothed" would be more like it. As I said, unfailingly polite whilst standing firm on the facts.
There are times when I squirmed a bit – Ken sometimes seems to miss the godly life a little too much – but then I hit the end this evening, and it's a megadose of pure awesome. Sort of a one-two knockout: he just annihilates the goodness of a religion that preaches hell, then invites the believers to come on in to the secular waters – they're fine! He concludes with a secular dream that had this Gnu Atheist standing up and applauding.
This book, I think, is the one you can hand to that true believer in your family. I don't know if they'd read it all the way through. I don't think they'd come away feeling any better than if they'd read Dawkins or Hitchens or Harris or Christina. In fact, I think it'll be worse – with us icky new atheists, they can other the hell out of us. But against Ken, they haven't got a defense. He knows all the verses, all the apologetics, and he speaks their language intimately. He knows precisely where the cracks are, and while his crowbar may have a velvet cover, he's still busy wedging it in and splitting the whole edifice of faith apart. He explains exactly what atheists are and why while never failing to respect the believers. Their only defense against this is going to be not reading it. But they should. So should we.
The book is available on Kindle, Nook and a variety of other e-book platforms for $.99. Ninety-nine cents. You can get a paper copy for $9.95 for the luddites in your life. And if you were planning on donating to charity, you can tick off two tasks at once: he's donating the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, and PATH.
Why, you may ask, am I still planning to write a book for believers after this? A few reasons. This is a long book. I'm going to do up something short. Also, I found all sorts of awesome books on atheism I need an excuse to read. I can be all like, "Yeah, this isn't for pleasure, you know. It's totes work!" And then I can stick them in a bibliography, so that believers who truly want to understand this atheism stuff can go on to read about how we can have Sense and Goodness Without God, how we go about Raising Freethinkers and Parenting Beyond Belief, and how we navigate holidays with The Atheist's Guide to Christmas. Among many, many others. And, last but absolutely not least, you all came up with some excellent suggestions, and I think together we can come up with something brief yet awesome. A gateway drug to all the other atheist goodness, if you will.
But if you need something immediately, and you've got a believer in your life who will at least read a few pages before screaming "SATAN!" and running away, Why I Believed is an excellent choice.
This is a man who's read the theologians, too, so he can't be tarred with that "but you haven't read X" brush. The courtiers can try their reply on him all they like. He has studied Imaginary Fabrics in depth. He has even read On the Luminescence of the Emperor's Feathered Hat with a mind that wished to be convinced of the magnificence of same.
Oh, naive woman. You say he's read "On the Luminescence of the Emperor's Feathered Hat," but has he read both the book of that title by Scotus and the one by Eriugena? Because if he hasn't, then whichever one he hasn't read, that will turn out to be the real one you need to read.
It looks like a really good book for me too. I'd love to read about his experiences coming from such a strong religious background.
An excellent recommendation, thank you.
Yeah, I do believe DWB et al. will be getting a dollar from me. Sounds interesting.
I think the fact that he does not require monetary compensation for the work he put in to writing his book says a lot. It says even more about all those preachers who claim to be channeling a god but still charge you an arm and a leg to read all about it.
"Stenger makes a convincing case that Christianity held back the progress of science for one thousand years" (from Amazon). How does he deal with the case of China?
What does he say about Penrose's ideas about quantum theory and consciousness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind)?
I read this book and highly recommend it.
Why, you may ask, am I still planning to write a book for believers after this?
to which I answer, because you care?
thanks for mentioning this book, Dana. I'm passing your review along.
O.K. Dana, I busted out the $.99(!)downloaded and read "Why I Believed" this weekend. Highly recommended! I agree that this would be a great book to give to someone who was having doubts about theism, but would be turned off by the harsh tone of some other writers. Also, Mr. Daniels has an extensive list of references, many of which I'm looking forward to checking out. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention!
Thanks so much for your generous review/plug of my book! I would have responded earlier, but I was in the middle of the Carribean on our 20th anniversary cruise when you notified me of the review, and my subsequent e-mail reply to you bounced back for some reason.
My hesitancy to wear the Gnu Atheist badge is probably due more to my desire to avoid making unnecessary waves with my family than to any real objection against the Gnus' position. I do enjoy reading and learning from just about anything that comes out from Dawkins, Harris, Dennett, Stenger, et al, but I've found there's a niche for wrapping the Gnus' crowbar in a little velvet (as you so aptly put it) before wielding it against the beliefs of some believers. It seems that different approaches are needed to suit the variety of personalities and stages of belief of our common target audience, so I have nothing against the Gnus–it's just that a certain subset of believers won't ever deign to read them (the same could be said for my softer approach, for that matter).
A small point of clarification–I actually haven't read that many theologians, though I have read a number of apologists (perhaps I'm making an artificial distinction). Counter-apologists like John Loftus, Richard Carrier, and Robert M. Price are more technical and better read than I am, and I don't present a great deal of new ground in my book, but I do hope my story and my approach will continue to serve as a gentle but effective guide for those groping their way out of the fog of faith.
Dana, I look forward to your book–do let me know when it comes out! I've read through a few of your posts and enjoy your poignant prose–you know how to turn a phrase!
I do have some questions for you, because I do believe in God. And am curious how you would answer them. But in all fairness before I send them I felt like I should read this book first. It nice that it can be had on Kindle for 99 cents. I'm looking forward to what Daniels has to say. I plan on keeping an open mind, and they claim this book should be read by believers and nonbelievers so it'll be interesting to see what is written.
I know I read Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion' and found most of his was really against the catholic religion and really wasn't true for some other religions. He struck me like a magician bringing up a topic and then getting sidetracked to something else and not answering the topic to my satisfaction, and like you said his stuff is inflammatory – which was a turn off for me.
I just wanted to say I bought this book because of this review (and the reviews on Amazon), and my wife and I absolutely loved it. We're definitely going to be letting some of our family members borrow it.


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Furman Theatre Students Revel in New Play "John Proctor the Villain"
April 13, 2019 April 13, 2019 Sandy Staggs
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There is a world premiere, and then there is a "new" play.
Furman University Theatre students have the rich understanding of the difference as they receive a master class level experience with a brand new drama by Kimberly "John Proctor the Villain," a modern twist on "The Crucible" conveyed through the prism of the #MeToo.
Presented in partnership with The Farm Theater (NY), Centre College (KY), and Rollins College (FL), Furman Theatre's is the third production of Kimberly Belflower's new play as part of The College Collaboration Project, which helps emerging playwrights develop culturally relevant plays.
Set in a high school in rural Georgia, a scandal rocks the community just as an English class is debating Arthur Miller's "The Crucible." The fate of John Proctor and the doomed Abigail is reexamined as real-life rumors force the students to "grapple with allegations that are coming out in their town and how they relate to 'The Crucible'," according to director Maegan McNerney Azar.
All season The Farm Theater and students from the three institutions have worked with Belflower to look into every angle of the #metoo movement and participate in the work-in-progress.
The Farm Theater, named after minor league baseball farm teams that are training grounds before the pros, is structured after the National New Play Network's "rolling world premiere" in which three professional theatres in fairly quick succession share the honor, artistic knowledge, experience, and risk of launching a brand new work.
Kimberly has been very available remotely throughout the intensive work-in-progress and some students went up in August to meet with her at Centre College in Danville, KY, Azar said, where they studied character breakdowns and "personal perspectives on how they were raised and topics such as gender, gender roles, sexual harassment and sexual assault."
"Her conversation with the students was already informed by two other productions and Kimberly really knows this script," Azar said.
The playwright was also been on hand and in person just before tech week and for opening night, consulting with the actors, the creative team, and dramaturg and associate Professor of Theatre Caroline Davis, she said.
"The process has been a lot of fun, and very informative and educational for them" to engage in the rewriting process of a workshop production.
Azar also "expects more rewrites after our show before the actual world premiere and professional production in June."
And after each performance, Furman Theatre continues the conversation with a variety of guest speakers on topics from the show, including the playwright and Padraic Lillis (Artistic Director of The Farm Theater), who can receive instant audience feedback); as well as esteemed Furman faculty members such as Dr. Marion Strobel (history), Dr. Marian Burky (feminism and religion), Dr. Scott Henderson (sex education), and more.
The latter topic is germane to the play as the English class also doubles as Sex Education. No, that is no typo.
Early in the process, Azar said her group spent a day discussing sex education literacy and was bowled over by "how vastly the students' exposures to sex education differed depending on where they grew up: big city, small town, religious environment, etc. It was incredible, the half-truths, the untruths, the blatant lies that people were told," she added. "And many schools don't even talk about consent."
This show is for mature audiences due to language and sexual content.
"John Proctor is the Villain" runs through April 13 at 8 p.m. and with two 3 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14 at The Playhouse at Furman University, 3300 Poinsett Highway in Greenville. For tickets, call Box Office (864) 294-2125 or visit this LINK.
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Starwood may sell St. Regis New York to break up its portfolio
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The St. Regis hotel, located on 55th Street near Fifth Avenue
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. may be in talks to sell properties including the St. Regis New York as part of a goal of finding buyers this year for its remaining hotels, valued at $1 billion, Chief Executive Officer Tom Mangas said.
Sovereign-wealth funds continue to have a strong appetite for hotels in gateway cities as they seek to diversify their holdings, Mangas said on Starwood's fourth-quarter earnings conference call Thursday. He declined to comment in detail when asked about the prospect of selling assets including the St. Regis in Manhattan and the Westin Maui Resort & Spa because talks might be under way, he said.
"There is high interest for assets that are one of a kind, like the St. Regis New York," Mangas said in response to a question about possible interest from sovereign-wealth funds and high-net-worth buyers. "I don't want to comment too much about where valuations are or will be because we might be working on trying to lock down specific valuations."
Starwood is on course to complete a planned takeover by Marriott International Inc. by the middle of the year, Mangas said. While market volatility, which has made it harder to raise debt financing, makes a rival offer to Marriott's unlikely, there's still a chance an outside bidder could emerge, he said. Hyatt Hotels Corp. and Chinese companies reportedly pursued Starwood before Marriott prevailed with a winning offer in November.
The company is focused on selling North American and European properties, while economic turmoil in Latin America makes sales there more difficult, Mangas said.
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The News Makes You Stop …..
Editor's Note: This blog is going to take a long weekend and be back next week.
Today In The News:
Two Michael Cohen Stories that the news networks reported differently.
1. The Anti Cohen Story:
After fanatically denying in his testimony last week that he ever asked for a pardon, this report released this morning:
Michael Cohen told his attorney to seek a pardon from President Trump. Mr. Cohen, a former lawyer for Mr. Trump, directed his attorney last spring to inquire about the possibility. Even his lawyer acknowledged the request.
One more strike against his credibility.
2. But, the New York Times reported this story instead of that:
Cohen Offers Documents in Bid to Show Trump Lawyers Helped With False Testimony
President Trump's former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, brought drafts of a 2017 statement he made to Congress, along with emails with Mr. Trump's lawyers about its drafting.
Comment: It's clear Michael Cohen is no witness to have on a stand. The sooner he begins serving his sentence, the better off we are.
In the never ending Trump/Russia story get ready for lots of noise today as Paul Manafort gets sentenced. Forget it has nothing to do with the President and the election, the MSM will cover this like Watergate 2.
He is scheduled to be sentenced today on tax and bank-fraud charges. The sentence could see him spend much of the rest of his life in prison.
Now, if he never got involved with the Trump campaign he would still be freely roaming the world today.
The President has talked so much about the U.S. trade deficit and the need to fix it. He has cancelled deals, forced issues and even put tariffs out there. So what has happened?
The U.S. trade deficit on goods hit a record high in 2018.
The deficit on goods grew 10% last year to $891.3 billion.
U.S. imports grew 7.5%, while exports increased just 6.3%.
Economists say the shortfall was fueled by tax cuts and spending increases that juiced demand from U.S. consumers and businesses as growth slowed around the world.
So if they're right, the U.S. economy was robust and the world's wasn't so we consumed more goods. That's god but the deficit was negative.
Meanwhile the Democrats are continuing to divide as a party:
They split over how to respond to comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D. Minn.). A vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism that was sparked by her comments has been delayed. The draft resolution by Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats didn't name Ms. Omar, but condemned "allegations that Jews should be suspected of being disloyal neighbors or citizens
"We're working on language," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
The far left of the Democratic party is akin to the anti tax group that impacted the Republicans eight years ago. This divide can be even wider and in a general election devoid of "Russian Influence" and other charges will hurt them badly.
With all the noise at the border, Sen. Lindsey Graham said this yesterday:
"It is no coincidence that these two groups — unaccompanied minors and family units — are crossing the border at an alarming rate. Our immigration laws require that both unaccompanied children and family units be released into the interior of the United States after apprehension. This is due to two legal loopholes… the Flores settlement agreement and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Flores requires children, or… family units, to be released after 20 days in custody," said Graham.
"The TVPRA requires unaccompanied alien children from noncontiguous countries to be released to Health and Human Services care facilities instead of being sent back to their countries of origin," he said.
Under the act, children from Mexico and Canada can be returned to their countries — but the provision doesn't apply to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, an omission Graham wants fixed.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said that 63 percent of illegal border crossings would be addressed just by changing those laws.
Think about that, 63%. Makes you ask, do our elected officials want a solution?
Finally, just to be sure as we all know that as much as things change they remain the same. This from the WSJ today
Thousands of Troops Sent to U.S.-Mexico Border
Amid the Mexican Revolution, President William Howard Taft mobilized nearly 20,000 U.S. troops to the southern border. The move marked a strategic shift after the U.S. had largely stayed out of events to the south. It was believed that the real intention was to prevent any damage to American property during the revolution, which would last until May 1920.


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Starboard: The Kubernetes-Native Toolkit for Unifying Security
There are lots of security tools in the cloud native world, created by Aqua and by others, for identifying and informing users about security issues in Kubernetes environments. However powerful and useful they might be, they tend to sit alongside Kubernetes, with each new product requiring users to learn a separate set of commands and tools in order to operate them and find security information. Here in the Aqua Security open source team, we've been thinking about what a Kubernetes-native, integrated security experience might involve, and today, we're excited to release Starboard, an Apache 2.0 licensed toolkit for finding risks in your Kubernetes workloads and environments.
Starboard integrates existing Kubernetes tools, not just from Aqua but also from third-party projects, into the Kubernetes experience. This video shows how Starboard enables results from vulnerability scanners, workload auditors, and configuration benchmark tests to be incorporated into Kubernetes CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) and from there, accessed through the Kubernetes API. Users familiar with kubectl or with a dashboard tool like Octant can find security risk information at their fingertips.
"The Starboard project leads the way in Kubernetes-native security reporting." said Bryan Liles, Senior Staff Engineer at VMware. "Using this approach, Octant users can view the details of security risks exactly where they belong, alongside the Kubernetes resources to which they apply."
In this first release of Starboard we're providing a kubectl plugin, a set of custom security resources definitions, a Go module, and an Octant plugin to enable a range of use cases. By following our Getting Started guide you can access the following types of security information through the Kubernetes API:
Vulnerability information in your running workloads, scanned using Trivy
Workload audits provided by Fairwinds Polaris
CIS benchmark results per node provided by kube-bench
Pen-testing results provided by kube-hunter
"Running and managing multiple Kubernetes security tools is a major challenge," said Robert Brennan, Director of Open Source at Fairwinds. "We're excited to see Fairwinds Polaris helping security and DevOps teams validate their configurations as part of the Starboard project."
For Aqua's customers, we also provide a proof-of-concept implementation of a webhook integrating Aqua vulnerability scan results into Starboard.
Puja Abbassi, Developer Advocate and Product Owner at Giant Swarm, supports this approach:
"We strongly believe that Kubernetes-native interfaces are the future of our community. I'm really excited about Starboard, as it creates exactly that for the security side of Kubernetes and removes the need to learn and integrate with proprietary systems."
This first release is illustrative of the range of results that can be incorporated into the Starboard approach. Before discussing the roadmap, let's consider the motivations behind this project.
Motivation: The Kubernetes Security Tool Landscape
Looking at existing Kubernetes security tools you can quickly realize two things. On one hand they differ in many ways, i.e. have different capabilities, data models, output sinks, license, maturity level, and credibility. On the other hand, they usually have the same or very similar modus operandi:
Discover Kubernetes objects via the Kubernetes API or by parsing descriptor YAML files
Invoke some kind of risk evaluation against those objects (for example, run a Trivy binary executable to find container image vulnerabilities, invoke a Go function to check the SecurityContext of a given Pod, or use some Rego rules to evaluate a Pod spec)
Output a risk assessment report, typically to stdout or to a file, often in JSON or YAML with a free-style schema.
It's not easy to deal with the results from these different, standalone Kubernetes security tools. With all these heterogeneous data models it's very hard to take advantage of all the features provided by a given tool, let alone combine the results from several different tools.
What if all the Kubernetes security tools spoke the same language that everyone knows and understands? Similar to the standardized and well-known Pod spec, we could come up with the schema for a vulnerability, a risk assessment check, an allowed or denied vulnerability, or maybe even a scanner config. What if you could combine the results from different tools to give an easy-to-understand overview of current security status? This would allow security vendors to focus on what they do best, while others could consume the data in the homogeneous format.
Starboard illustrates how the outputs from different security tools can be stored and combined using native Kubernetes approaches:
Storing results in Kubernetes CRDs that can be queried using the Kubernetes API
Using Kubernetes Operators to efficiently manage security assessments of different resources within the cluster
Leveraging Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC) to make it easier to control who has access to different security reports
Using Kubernetes Operators to aggregate results, using flexible policies, into Kubernetes-native CRDs
Let's explore some specific scenarios where Starboard can help.
Starboard Use Cases
Security Tool Kit for Development Teams
One idea behind Starboard is to help development teams deliver secure and compliant applications from the get-go. As shown in the figure below, Dave Loper is using kubectl to deploy and test his applications. He can now use a familiar kubectl starboard plugin interface to scan his application's container images, to find potentially dangerous and exploitable vulnerabilities. He can also look for configuration issues that might affect stability, reliability, and scalability of his deployment. This effectively implements the "shift left" security principle, giving Dave Loper information he can use to improve the security of his application.
Dave also uses Octant, a Kubernetes introspection, and object management platform. With Starboard Octant plugin we're extending Octant to present vulnerability and configuration audits in a user-friendly manner. A similar approach could be used to build custom dashboards or extend pluggable third-party UIs like the OpenShift Web Console.
Using CRDs allows administrators to take advantage of Kubernetes RBAC, limiting Dave's access so that he can only query the security reports for the projects he is involved in.
Security Tool Kit for Enterprise DevOps
Manual scanning through the command line is useful, but it has its limitations: it doesn't scale well with a huge number of Kubernetes workloads and / or multi-tenant clusters as is the case for enterprises.
We're working on a Starboard Security Operator that provides a better option for these scenarios, constantly monitoring Kubernetes-native resources, such as Deployments, and running appropriate scanners against the underlying deployment descriptors. The scan reports can be saved as custom resources in the same instance of etcd used by the Kubernetes cluster running the workloads, or an etcd instance external to the cluster.
Because they are accessible over the Kubernetes API, the vulnerability reports or any other security audits can be used to build or integrate with dashboards tailored for SRE and Security teams.
The same data can be used by a future Starboard Admission Webhook to accept or reject new deployments based on security policies put in place, e.g. number of critical vulnerabilities found in a container image. This policy enforcement could be based on the results from a range of third-party security tools integrated with Starboard.
Tool Kit for Security Product Development
Starboard provides a Go module to help integrate additional security tools into the framework.
Many tools may be able to reuse one of the existing CRDs for the tool's results. For example, all image scanners report similar information about package vulnerabilities – they may have differing degrees of accuracy, but the content of the results looks very similar whichever scanner you use. Our vision is that CRDs should be reused where possible to aid re-use and pluggability.
We'll soon be publishing a detailed spec for the custom resource definitions so that third parties can add Starboard-compliant CRDs for cases where the existing set doesn't already meet their needs, and we're interested to hear feedback from users on.
Today's release gives a flavor of Starboard's potential, but we have lots of ideas for extending and improving this in the future – and we'd very much welcome your feedback.
Our plans include creating a flexible, pluggable Starboard Security Operator that enables a "roll-up" of security risk information in each namespace and across the cluster so that users can easily identify the highest risks. As described in the Enterprise DevOps scenario, we are also planning a Starboard Admission Webhook that can take policy decisions based on the security information from any Starboard-compatible CRD.
But most importantly, our plans will evolve based on feedback from users. So please give Starboard a spin, and let us know what you think!
Liz Rice is the VP of Open Source Engineering at cloud native security specialists Aqua Security, where she works on container-related open source projects including kube-bench and kube-hunter. She chairs the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee, and in 2018 was Co-Chair of the CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Copenhagen, Shanghai and Seattle. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.
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I love soup. It's the one thing I don't mind making, and it's such a comfort food through the Autumn and Winter! Especially with some delicious chunky bread.
I've grown up with my Mom making homemade soup all the time, and it's a tradition that I do now too. She has her own special recipes that are family favourites, and I love experimenting with my own made up recipes to find some new family favourites too 🙂 This was one of those experiments over Christmas. And as we currently have icicles hanging on the tree outside – yes, ice in Florida! – I'm going to defrost some of the excess batches from the freezer and enjoy the warming goodness, while the palm trees face the sleet and cold beyond the window.
1. Preheat oven to 400°F/200°C. Cut the acorn and butternut squashes in half, scoop out the seeds and place on a baking tray. Lightly drizzle with olive oil and a light sprinkle of salt. Roast in the oven, cut side up, for 45 minutes to an hour (until lightly browned). Set aside to cool.
2. In a large saucepan add a little oil and cook the onions until slightly softened, add the garlic. Stir and cook for 2-4 minutes until the garlic becomes fragrant.
3. Mix the vegetable stock cube with some boiling water to disolve, add to pan. Then add the sweet potatoes and carrots. Pour boiling water until just covering the vegetables, stir and simmer for about 25 minutes (until the sweet potatoes are softened), stirring occasionally.
4. Using a spoon, scoop out the acorn and butternut squash flesh, discarding the skin. Add the flesh to the saucepan and mix in well. Simmer for another 5 minutes.
5. Blend soup with a handheld blender, or regular blender (whichever you prefer!), and serve hot. Top with sour cream and cheese if desired, and chunky bread.
When the excess soup has cooled down, you can pour it into freezer containers to store for a later time. We always have 2 or 3 different kinds of homemade soup in the freezer – it's so easy to defrost and reheat.
I love peas. In the age old question of "what luxury item would you take to a desert island with you?" it would be peas without a doubt! Fresh garden peas (or frozen ones) though, not the canned variety because that's just blasphemy.
When my husband and I first started dating he bought me a surprise gift and gave me the hint that it was green, my immediate (and jokey) reply was "is it peas?!" and joking aside, I would have still been a happy girl if it was hehe.
So I decide to put my pea obsession to good use and make a garden pea soup 🙂 I didn't follow a recipe, I made it up as I went along! But it's quick and simple to do, very few ingredients and you can add more or less of each of them – or throw some more in there like adding a carrot or two, some leeks maybe, even some fresh mint or bacon at the very end. That's why I love soups, they're so versatile!
Add some butter to a large saucepan and cook the chopped onions until soft, add the crushed garlic and stir through, leave to cook for 2 minutes.
Add the peas – they don't need to be defrosted, just add them right from the freezer bag, or shell them from the pods if you're using fresh peas.
Stir and add the stock and extra water. You can add more or less stock and water depending on how thin/thick you would like your soup to be.
Stir through and leave to simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Blend in a blender or food processor then stir in the cream if using it (we decided not to). This is also the point where you could add chopped up cooked bacon and/or mint.
Even though we decided not to use the cream in the soup itself, we drizzled a little bit on top of each portion before serving. You could also add a few crispy bacon bits on top, or some grated parmesan cheese. …Or even all three!
We had a bowlful each, with some Warburton's Seeded Batch, and it was delicious! I'm definitely going to make it again but with some parmesan shavings and bacon bits to top it off. This was so quick and easy to make and I'm all for ease when it comes to cooking!
This will be my post for this week's Hearth And Soul Blog Hop 🙂 Be sure to check out the other recipes on there this week and to follow my blog for more tasty treats!
So the snow started on November 30th and kept coming over December 1st, which made me decide to go for a walk in it to the local nature reserve 🙂 For the amount of snow that fell, we only had about 1″ that stuck.
The walk to the nature reserve follows a country lane, just one car wide.
Yes, that is a lake! Frozen and covered with a perfect, white blanket of snow, trapping the tree branches like hands holding onto the water.
At the side of the lake is the entrance to the nature reserve and it runs all the way alongside it.
Spiny hands playfully reached out as we passed by, a dusting of snow in their cupped palms.
I've never really found holly to be "pretty", but the deep green, vivid red and brilliant white combination just struck me as a beautiful mix.
I have quite a bit of catching up to do! My lack of blogging during December, and the first part of January, has left me with a stack of photos to post!
We had a really snowy winter in England, it started at the end of November/start of December and only really started to let up after the New Year. I live close enough to a town to get supplies, but far enough on the outskirts that our roads don't get gritted…which led to a lot of snow days!
Eventually my 2 cats ventured out, with very confused looks on their faces and leaving just as confused tracks in the snow.
I decided to leave a mark of my own – not exactly imaginative but hey it was cold out there!
All along our road, modern-day snowy tracks in the wake of our neighbours venturing out.
With little Jack Frost on a cold winter's day.
Making a pond all quiet and still.
And quickly he turned the water to ice.
We've had a lot of snow and cold weather here the past couple of weeks, but for three nights in a row we had freezing fog. The temperature was horrid but the results from it were beautiful!
I just never realised how many spiders we have on the conservatory! Thankfully they are all outside! lol!
Nope, those aren't thorns on that bush, it's all ice!
The photos don't really do justice to how beautiful everything was. All the trees were white; coated with icy armor. It was breathtaking but unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me then!


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DJ Mbenga:
At the core, the role and significance of a player such as DJ Mbenga is at most, two rungs above that of Adam Morrison on the ladder of value as far as the Lakers roster is concerned. However, if there is one great difference, it's that Mbenga is a much more crucial player if there is an injury to Andrew Bynum as has been the case the last three years. In 2008, that burden of "fill in and just don't mess it up" fell heavily upon the shoulders of Ronny Turiaf and Lamar Odom, which ultimately was what hurt the team most against the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.
DJ plays at a much different tone than Ronny and LO. Mbenga is a serviceable back-up big man and he proved that if he's out on the floor, what you're going to get is strong rebounding, shot blocking, hustle and the occasional drizzling of points. One of his stronger outings this past season came against the New Orleans Hornets last November during which he had 10 points (5-9), 12 rebounds and four blocks. Late in the year, when Andrew Bynum went down with the Achilles tendon injury, Mbenga was given a decent chunk of his vacated minutes. In April, at Minnesota, DJ had a solid offensive game with 11 points on 5 of 7 from the field.
Yes, the numbers are not ever going to cause your heart to skip a beat, but bottom line, this guy always stays ready to play. Championship teams need great chemistry and by all accounts, DJ's teammates have nothing but good things to say about him and he's even known to be a personal favorite of Kobe Bryant. Lastly, Mbenga also played a pivotal role in challenging Bynum every day in practice, especially in test runs returning from injury rest. Keeping the complete picture in mind, I'll give the main man of "Bangin with Mbenga" a grade of C, a mark that I find fair and just.
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Route 58 is a  road that stretches from Route 50 in Lihue to the junction of Wapaa Road with Hawaii 51 near Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai island.

Route description
Route 58 begins at an intersection with Route 50 at the Kukui Grove Shopping Center, one of the few major shopping areas on Kauai island.  Called Nawiliwili road, it heads southeast and loses the grassy median to become a two lane road. Route 58 comes to an end at Wapaa Road while Route 51 (Rice Street) continues back north from the coast. About halfway down route 58 is the Grove Farm Museum.
From the southern end of route 58, Niumalu Road provides access to Nawiliwili Beach Park and Niumalu Beach Park.

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Event Description : THEATRE : Natyaved Theatre Group presents "Ward No. 6" Hindi Play.
The story is set in a provincial mental asylum and explores the philosophical conflict between Sadanand a patient, and Dr. Sharma the head of the mental hospital . Sadanand denounces the injustice he sees everywhere, while Dr. Sharma insists on ignoring injustice and other evils; partially as a result of this way of thinking, he neglects to remedy the shoddy conditions of the mental ward. Eventually Dr. Sharma's mental health deteriorates. He himself becomes a patient of the hospital and dies soon thereafter.


Darsan Contracting recognizes that an inground swimming pool is a long term investment which will increase the value of your home as well as provide years of enjoyment with family and friends.
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There are two types of concrete pools; gunite and shotcrete. Gunite is a dry mixture of sand and cement which is pumped out through a hose using specialized machinery and compressed air. The dry mixture meets water in the hose as it is sprayed onto the pool's steel walls and is used to form the strong and durable concrete shell of the pool. Shotcrete is a concrete mixture that is premixed at a concrete plant to the required specifications. It is sprayed onto the pool's steel walls creating one continuous strong surface. Once the gunite or shotcrete shell has dried, the interior surface of the pool is then finished with a Marbelite coating. Marbelite is a plaster finish that adds colour and texture and is hand trowelled to provide a smooth but slip resistant finish.
Vinyl lined swimming pools are built using high quality galvanized steel walls that have been computer engineered. A concrete floor surface is installed. The steel walls are custom fitted with a 30 ml to 40 ml durable vinyl liner.
The inground swimming pool construction process will include layout, excavation, grading, forming and installation of the pool walls, bottom, plumbing, and co-ordinating final inspections. Choosing a reputable swimming pool company with a good history, references, and technically competent experts, will ensure a worry-free inground swimming pool construction experience. By using innovative and unique designs along with industry leading construction techniques, top rated pool equipment and accessories, we can create the backyard retreat you've been dreaming of.


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Approval Addiction
by Joyce Meyer
Mass Market|Sep 2010
There is an epidemic of insecurity in society today. Many people suffer from an unhealthy need for affirmation. They are not capable of feeling good about themselves. For some the quest for approval becomes an actual addiction, as they seek...
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There is an epidemic of insecurity in society today. Many people suffer from an unhealthy need for affirmation. They are not capable of feeling good about themselves. For some the quest for approval becomes an actual addiction, as they seek self-worth from the outside world because they can't find it within themselves. Joyce Meyer understands the need for seeking approval from others to overcome feelings of rejection and low self-esteem. The good news, she says, is that there is a cure. God provides all the security anyone needs. Her goal is to provide a pathway toward freedom from the approval addiction.
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Publisher Faithwords
Publication Date Sep 2010
Sales Rank 9710
Joyce Meyer is one of the world's leading practical Bible teachers. A New York Times bestselling author, her books have helped millions of people find hope and restoration through Jesus Christ. Time magazine has identified her as one of the most influential evangelical leaders in America.
Through Joyce Meyer Ministries, she teaches on hundreds of subjects and has authored over 100 books, which have been translated into over 100 different languages. More than 32 million of her books have been distributed free of charge around the world, and each year, millions more copies are sold. The missions arm of Joyce Meyer Ministries, Hand of Hope, undertakes outreach around the globe, including food provision, medical aid, homes for orphans, and programs targeting human trafficking. In their hometown, Joyce and her husband Dave also operate the St Louis Dream Center, a hands-on inner city ministry.
Each year, Joyce conducts a dozen conferences - both in the US and internationally - teaching practical principles from God's Word that help people to enjoy their everyday lives to the full. For over three decades, Joyce's annual women's conference has attracted thousands of women from all over the world to her hometown St Louis, Missouri. Joyce also has a television and radio show, Enjoying Everyday Life, which is broadcast worldwide to a potential audience of 4.5 billion people.
Joyce was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in St Louis in 1943. From childhood, she had a born-again faith, but suffered sexual abuse at home, then an abusive first marriage that involved her in petty crime. She married Dave Meyer in 1967, and experienced an anointing in the spirit in 1976 after intense prayer. During the 1980s, Joyce built a local reputation as a popular Bible teacher, and started her own radio ministry. At her husband Dave's suggestion, she commenced her television ministry in 1993.
Over the years, God has provided Joyce with many opportunities to share her testimony and the life-changing message of the Gospel. From her battle with breast cancer to the struggles of everyday life, Joyce speaks openly and practically about her experiences so others can apply what she has learned to their lives. Hers is an incredible testimony of the dynamic, redeeming work of Jesus Christ. She believes and teaches that regardless of a person's background or past mistakes, God has a place for them and can help them on their path to enjoying everyday life.
Joyce holds an earned PhD in theology from Life Christian University in Tampa, Florida; an honorary doctorate in divinity from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and an honorary doctorate in sacred theology from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Joyce and her husband Dave are the parents of four grown children and they make their home in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Home / Science and Tech / Electrify America Launches Mobile App to Enhance Electric Vehicle Charging Experience
Electrify America Launches Mobile App to Enhance Electric Vehicle Charging Experience
Company Offers Charging Membership Options; Plans a 20 percent price reduction off current rates
Electrify America today announced the launch of a mobile app, available for both Android and iPhone. The company's first-ever app allows users to manage the entire charging session on their phone, increasing convenience for electric vehicle (EV) owners.
The company also is introducing two charging membership plans called Electrify America Pass and Electrify America Pass+. In addition, Electrify America will be changing its introductory charging cost pricing, currently at 30 to 35 cents per-minute, and will implement a roughly 20 percent reduction on those prices, depending on regions and local utility rates.
"We are committed to increasing EV adoption and are constantly innovating to make the charging experience as convenient and accessible as possible," said Giovanni Palazzo, president and CEO at Electrify America. "With our new app, we put all the information and capabilities you need to charge your EV right in your pocket, making charging with us easier than ever. Combined with our new membership plans, we are streamlining the charging experience at our ultra-fast chargers."
Mobile App: Thanks to easy-to-navigate features, the Electrify America app offers a seamless charging experience:
Locate a Charger: Find a charging station near you and get directions. The Locate a Charger feature shows you the charging stations in your area, how many of each type of charger are at the station, and which ones are currently available. Become a member of Electrify America Pass and you can see the charging status of vehicles currently using the chargers and get notified when a charger becomes available.
Pay for a charge: Upload your payment information into the app and pay for your charging session through your phone. You can also see prices before you charge, by selecting a station where you'd like to view the charging costs.
Track your charging session: While your vehicle is charging, you can check its progress in real time. If your vehicle communicates charging information, the app will show you your battery's current state of charge (SOC) and the time until your battery reaches "bulk" charge, typically around 80 percent SOC. You also can choose to get notifications when your charging session has started, slowed and stopped. Once your session is complete, the app will provide a receipt.
Membership: With the launch of the Electrify America app, the company is also introducing two new membership plans which will be available starting in late May and include:
Electrify America Pass: Includes the standard per-minute cost plus a $1 session fee
Electrify America Pass+: A subscription plan with the lowest per-minute price and a $4 monthly subscription fee. Members will receive an additional discount off of the standard pricing.
Pricing: Electrify America charging is priced by the minute. The company has created an all-new pricing structure to prepare for future EVs capable of charging from 50kW up to 150kW and 350kW. Under the new Electrify America pricing structure, per-minute costs are dependent on the power level at which the car is charging and the state where the charger is located.
There will be three power levels for pricing: 0 – 75 kW; 76kW – 125 kW; and 126kW to 350kW.
Complete pricing information is available www.ElectrifyAmerica.com/pricing and will be updated in late May when the new pricing structure is in place. The mobile app and membership will be released later in May.
Since installing its first ultra-fast DC fast charging station in Chicopee, MA, on May 2, 2018, Electrify America has accelerated the pace of installations nationwide. The company plans to install, or have under development 484 charging stations with more than 2,000 DC fast chargers by the end of 2019. The stations are located in 17 metropolitan areas, and along high-traffic corridors in 42 states and the District of Columbia.
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Rep. Bass Elected Chair of Congressional Black Caucus
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmember Karen Bass (D-Calif.) was elected to chair the Congressional Black Caucus during the 116th Congress. Members of the Caucus will chair five full House Committees in addition to at least 28 House Subcommittees in the coming Congress.
The New Caucus:
On January 3rd, the Congressional Black Caucus will add 9 new representatives to their caucus, growing their numbers to 55, making it the first time ever that the Caucus will have more than 50 Members. The Caucus will also chair five full House Committees in addition to 28 House Subcommittees.
Since its establishment in 1971, the CBC has been committed to using the full Constitutional power, statutory authority, and financial resources of the federal government to ensure that African Americans and other marginalized communities in the United States have the opportunity to achieve the American Dream. As part of this commitment, the CBC has fought to address critical issues such as voting rights, criminal justice reform, equal access to quality education.
The New Chair:
Rep. Karen Bass became the first-ever African American woman to become Speaker of any state legislature in the United States in 2008. During her time as Speaker of the California State Assembly, California faced its worst economic recession since the Great Depression. Rep. Bass worked with then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Cogdill, California State Senator and former Senate Republican Leader; Darrell Steinberg, California State Senator and Democratic Senate President pro Tem; and Michael Villines, California State Assembly Member and former Assembly Republican Leader, to pass a budget that eventually earned her and the three other legislators the 2010 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their bipartisan negotiating efforts.
Elected to Congress in 2010, Rep. Bass is soon to become the Chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, a position she will use to continue her work to build capacity in African countries and examine voter suppression, mass incarceration and recently implemented immigration policies under the lens of global human rights abuses. She also serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary, on which she will continue to push for criminal justice reform and hold the Department of Justice and the rest of the Trump administration accountable for their conduct.