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In this episode, Josh and Erin delve into the four disciplines that shape a high-value marriage. From vision to communication, pursuit to polarity, each discipline forms the foundation of a partnership that grows stronger with time. Whether you're newly married, in a long-term relationship, or aspiring to build a great marriage in the future, these insights will help you create a lasting, meaningful connection with your spouse.Join us as we break down the essential tools and habits for a fulfilling, balanced relationship that withstands the challenges of life. You'll learn actionable steps to build a marriage that not only survives but thrives.And join the HVM community for Free!https://www.skool.com/hvmc-tribe/about===> Join the weekly newsletter and get your free copy of 5 Steps to Becoming a High Value Man

: In life, winters are inevitable. When challenges hit, it's the prepared who rise above. This episode of the High Value Man Conversation is about building resilience, grit, and mental fortitude. Josh and Erin discuss how to embrace the cold seasons of life with strength and strategy, sharing actionable steps on fortifying your mindset, creating a supportive environment, and pressing forward when others quit. Tune in to learn how to prepare for life's harshest challenges and emerge stronger.And join the HVM community for Free!https://www.skool.com/hvmc-tribe/about===> Join the weekly newsletter and get your free copy of 5 Steps to Becoming a High Value Man

In a world where men are encouraged to go it alone, the reality is that every man needs a sharpened edge—and a powerful brotherhood to keep it that way. Today, too many men are walking through life without close friends, losing their sense of purpose, power, and even happiness. The truth? Iron sharpens iron, and without a strong circle, even the sharpest blade goes dull.In this episode, Josh and Erin break down what it means to forge yourself into a strong, resilient man with a purpose. They dive deep into the power of environment, the importance of choosing the right values, and why it's essential to surround yourself with other men who challenge you to be better.You'll learn the steps to "sharpen your blade" by building meaningful connections and elevating yourself in the process.If you're ready to stop drifting, start growing, and become a man of real impact, this episode will give you the tools to get there. Join us in exploring how to cut through the noise, refine yourself, and live with intention.And join the HVM community for Free!https://www.skool.com/hvmc-tribe/about===> Join the weekly newsletter and get your free copy of 5 Steps to Becoming a High Value Man

1 in 5 men have no close friends, and it's taking a toll on their mental health, happiness, and overall well-being. The truth is, loneliness kills, and the myth of the "lone wolf" is just that—a myth. Real strength comes from building genuine friendships and surrounding yourself with men who have your back.In this episode, Josh and Erin dive deep into the power of brotherhood and how true friendships can be life-changing. They share actionable tips on how to build epic friendships by first becoming the kind of friend you need in your life If you're feeling isolated or stuck, this episode will help you break through the barriers and find the connections that matter most.And join the HVM community for Free!https://www.skool.com/hvmc-tribe/about===> Join the weekly newsletter and get your free copy of 5 Steps to Becoming a High Value Man

The listener on the phone today says she only dates “HVM's.” What exactly IS an HVM? Find out in a Second Date podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The listener on the phone today says she only dates “HVM's.” What exactly IS an HVM? Find out in a Second Date podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Cabral HouseCall of the weekend! I'm looking forward to sharing with you some of our community's questions that have come in over the past few weeks…   Melissa: Hi Dr. Cabral - on my food sensitivity test call, the coach said that there would be concern if a person didn't have any immune reactions to food because food is a foreign invader of the body. I see what she's saying to a certain extent but this was confusing to me because I thought the point of taking the test was to figure out your sensitivities and remove them for a certain period of time then reintroduce them to see if you're still sensitive…the goal being to remove a negative immune reaction and reduce stress on your body. Maybe I was misunderstanding what she was saying but this just sounded counterintuitive to me. Can you please explain? Could the sensitivities be affecting the IgG part of your immune system in which wouldn't you want to remove them?     Dylaini: (Pronounced: Delaney) Hi Dr. Cabral, thanks for all of the knowledge and information you share. I am an RN hoping to make the jump to IHP soon! My son is 13 months old and he's already been on antibiotics 3x… once for fever of unknown origin at 50 days old and 2 other for ear infections. I know you and your coaches don't see kids until three years old. Are there any tips you have for kids under three to rebuild gut Microbiome because of these antibiotics and any suggestions of what to do to instead to avoid them in the future.     Jackie: Hi Dr. Cabral, thank you for all you do. Your team and the work you do have been life changing for me. I struggle with garlic and onions - they cause me to burp & have gas for 48hours. It also take 3-4 days for me stop stinking (even with daily sauna/cardio)- very unpleasant. I don't eat them unless at family or friends or out of my direct control as a common cooking ingredient. Is there anything I can do to help with digestion. For context did big 5 no food intolerances other than eggs/Brazil nuts - FMD 21, HVM, CBO, CBO FIN, & FMD 7. I also ran allergy tests and nothing came back. I take HCL + digestive enzymes with meals to support digestion. Would love your insights     Hannah: Hi Dr Cabral you're so amazing, thanks for all you do! I probably have some insulin resistance (years of high carb/ processed diet) GD during pregnancy (failed by 2 pts) tinnitus acquired during third trimester. Since the tinnitus started I have been determined to turn my health around for me and my family! I tried to do a 36 hour water fast and I became tachycardic, BG 44 after 35 hours and had to eat something. I am 4'11” 96lb, Any advice with how to fast while dealing with hypoglycemia?   Thank you for tuning into this weekend's Cabral HouseCalls and be sure to check back tomorrow for our Mindset & Motivation Monday show to get your week started off right! - - - Show Notes and Resources: StephenCabral.com/3159 - - - Get a FREE Copy of Dr. Cabral's Book: The Rain Barrel Effect - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: CabralSupportGroup.com - - - Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels) - - - Get Your Question Answered On An Upcoming HouseCall: StephenCabral.com/askcabral - - - Would You Take 30 Seconds To Rate & Review The Cabral Concept? The best way to help me spread our mission of true natural health is to pass on the good word, and I read and appreciate every review!  

After working with Satoshi in the early years, and almost 15 years of crypto experience, legend Jeff Garzik shares his story in this exclusive interview. Recently, we did an educational deep dive into several teams working on extending Bitcoin with innovative mechanism designs and Bitcoin L2s on Bitcoin and Beyond. This conversation is a phenomenal next episode in that series. Today, Hemi is attempting to unify Bitcoin and Ethereum. A Bitcoin L2 with customizations to more deeply integrate the top two blockchain ecosystems; Hemi is based on two core innovations: the hVM incorporates new byte codes into the EVM that talk directly to Bitcoin, and Proof of Proof (PoP) consensus which allows Hemi to achieve "superfinality" on Bitcoin. The Bitcoin and Ethereum communities have long been at odds debating the true purpose of cryptocurrency, and best design principles to bring about mass adoption. Jeff calls Bitcoin the "root of the crypto tree" and Ethereum "the grand central station of crypto". With Hemi technology, its possible to unite the two blockchains and maybe the two communities once and for all. Website: https://therollup.co/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1P6ZeYd.. Podcast: https://therollup.co/category/podcast Follow us on X: https://www.x.com/therollupco Follow Rob on X: https://www.x.com/robbie_rollup Follow Andy on X: https://www.x.com/ayyyeandy Join our TG group: https://t.me/+8ARkR_YZixE5YjBh The Rollup Disclosures: https://therollup.co/the-rollup-discl

This week on Truth to Power, we bring you the final highlights from our live broadcast from the 5th Annual Bluegrass VegFest held on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Forward Radio was a proud media sponsor of this year's VegFest, providing wall-to-wall live coverage. Tune in for a sample of Kentuckiana's Largest Vegan Food Festival - a free public event produced by Bluegrass Veg, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, featuring 30,000 sq ft of marketplace halls at the Mellwood Art Center. Learn more at https://bluegrassvegfest.com In this sixth hour of our broadcast, we spoke with Forward Radio volunteers who were enjoying meeting people at VegFest and we shared with you the final keynote and cooking demo, featuring Adriena Dame, the former owner of LOVAFARE, a vegan cafe that once nestled in the Highlands, serving up scrumptious plant-based delights (healthy, gluten-free, soy-free, low-glycemic, primarily oil-free). Hearty bean-based LOVApatties and sandwich spreads/sauces were their specialties. Desserts became neighborhood favorites, and they made a mean Sassy Kale Salad and Nacho Feast. Her lively talk is titled “Sexy Systems + Lemon Blondies: A Healer's Quickie Guide to Scrumptious Self-Care Solutions.” Adriena is the founder of HighVibe Mettaverse, where people come for deep and abiding expressions of loving kindness through bodywork, energy healing, intuitive readings, and vitality coaching. HVM is also home to Louisville's only Thai Metta Bodywork Academy; HighVibe School of Integrative Massage & Bodywork, which is a pre-licensure program for aspiring massage therapists, and a variety of continuing education and personal growth workshops. The company serves a national and international audience using virtual platforms. On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org

God is working through amazing women to bring healing to His Church and to the country. Jenny Donnelly, founder of Her Voice MVMT, joins us to share the powerful story behind this unique women's movement of prayer, healing, discipleship, and action. The foundation is prayer, and one of the key strategies is to protect children from the dangers of the LGBTQ+ agenda. Don't Mess With Our Kids events are happening at every state capitol on April 13, 2024! Don't Mess With Our Kids (dontmesswithourkids.us) HVM (hervoicemvmt.com)

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Our listener says she only dates “HVM's.” What exactly IS an HVM? Find out in a brand new Second Date podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our listener says she only dates “HVM's.” What exactly IS an HVM? Find out in a brand new Second Date podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Exclusive Content HERE: castleclub.tv - https://freshandfit.locals.com/ Wanna be heard? SUPERCHAT BUTTON: fnfsuperchat.com - https://streamelements.com/freshandfitpodcast/tip Fuel Your Day With Coffee from 1775 HERE: https://1775coffee.com/?ref=FRESH ️Rumble️ ➜https://rumble.com/freshandfit -------------------------------- Clips Channel ➜ https://www.youtube.com/c/FreshandFitClips/videos -------------------------------- Purchase Our Merch ➜https://www.freshandfitstore.com/ Get 30% off your first box, plus a FREE gift, when you give Tiege Hanley a try at: https://tiege.com/fnf Use Code "fresh" for discount with Gorilla Mind: https://www.gorillamind.com/fresh Get Your Confidence Back With Blue Chew: https://www.get.bluechew.com/freshfit Order Myron's book "Why Women Deserve Less" here: https://a.co/d/9YdQI9d Girls: https://www.instagram.com/brittneykakalia/ https://www.instagram.com/luvelylex/ https://www.instagram.com/savannahcmiller/ https://www.instagram.com/mackiie89/ https://www.instagram.com/natricious91/ https://www.instagram.com/hazel_addition/ https://www.instagram.com/dreaoeverywhere/ https://www.instagram.com/nika.ox/ Fuel Your Day With Coffee from 1775 HERE: https://1775coffee.com/?ref=FRESH ⏲️ TIME STAMPS ⏲️ 0:00 : Intro 3:15 : Were Back From Our Trip 4:05 : Follow Myron's Twitter http://twitter.com/unplugfitx, http://freshandfit.locals.com/support/promo/CASTLE, http://Rumble.com/freshandfit, & https://www.patreon.com/CEONETWORK 7:50 : The Lady's Age, Name, Dating Status, & Body Count 32:30 : Superchats! 34:05 : How Would You Sell Yourself To a HVM? 15 Secs…Go! 41:50 : (LOWEST PERCENTAGE EVER) Female Delusion Calculator 49:45 : Would You Sue Someone Famous? 51:45 : Superchats! 54:00 : Most Expensive Gift From a Guy You Didn't Like? 01:05:00 : GF/Wives Withholding S3X From Their Man 01:19:35 : Why Women Like Men W/ Pets 01:21:25 : Superchats! 01:27:00 : Video Reaction 01:30:45 : If That Was Your Brother's GF, What Would You Tell Him? 01:35:00 : PT.2 - Video Reaction 01:37:45 : Respect To Women Who Stay After Her Man Cheats 01:41:00 : The Ladies Decide - Ugly & Billionaire Or Pretty & Broke 02:00:10 : Myron's Opinion On Women Voting 02:07:00 : Name a President Or Country 02:11:50 : Superchats! 02:15:40 : Fuel Your Day With Coffee from 1775 HERE: https://1775coffee.com/?ref=FRESH 02:17:50 : What Should Women Do To Get a Man? 02:18:35 : Why Women Allow Men To Cheat? 02:20:10 : Are Myron & Fresh In a Relationship? 02:21:20 : If a Woman Remarries, Is She a 304? 02:22:30 : Having S3X W/ Your Dog??? 02:24:20 : Men Get Rejected Way More Than Women 02:28:15 : Myron & Fresh On Marriage? 02:29:25 : Superchats! 02:36:50 : Last Thoughts 02:45:10 : Last Announcements 02:45:40 : Outro ---------------------------------

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Folgenbeschreibung: In der 2. Folge von „Abrechnungsfuchs - der Podcast“ erfährst du, was unser Lieblingsminister auf Social Media postet und was seine Liebe zu dunkler Schokolade mit seinem Zahnstatus zu tun hat. Außerdem erkläre ich dir den Honorarverteilungsmaßstab (HVM) und warum die Aktion "Zähne zeigen" ins Leben gerufen wurde. Denn dass die politischen Sparmaßnahmen dich in deiner Praxis interessieren MÜSSEN, ist ja wohl klar. Ich möchte dich inspirieren, jetzt aktiv zu werden und so das Beste aus der aktuellen Situation zu machen. Newsletter Du wünschst dir zusätzlich zu den wöchentlichen Podcast-Folgen meinen 0€ Newsletter mit Grafiken, Bildern, gelegentlichen Downloads, Umfragen und mehr? → Abonniere ihn hier https://abrechnungsfuchs.de/newsletter/ Karli bei Youtube Du willst wissen, was dunkle Schokolade mit Karl Lauterbachs Zähnen zu tun hat? →Dann schau hier bei Youtube vorbei Karl Lauterbach bei YouTube

"High-value man," or HVM, is a vague term for a guy who kicks ass in their career and social life. As the name implies, it's a man who brings something to the table in all facets of life. In general that boils down to a few basic traits: Making money & having a strong network of peers." - said Some Nigga On Google The problem is, HVM think they shit don't stink all while stinking up the joint with corny conversation, personalities and a weak sense of self. "Yeah I said it!" Tap in! Musical Intellect: Bryson Tiller x The Game x 2 Chainz Recorded in Dallas, TX @robertsmediagroup ⁣'Tha Reality Is' is powered by Roberts Media Group. For more programming and advertisement opportunities, please visit ⁠www.robertsmediagroup.co⁠.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ If you would like to be a guest on the show or would like us to answer one of your questions from our perspective, email us at ⁠info@tharealityis.com⁠ or leave a message ⁠here⁠ and we'll be sure to answer it on an upcoming episode.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Please leave us a rating or review. We don't care if it's a good review, we don't care if it's a bad review, we just want to hear from you!⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tharealityis/support

In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy discussed the following topics: What Memorial Day means to them. National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) DHS Issues National Terrorism Advisory System    A Vehicle Ramming·        U-Haul Truck Crashes into Security Barrier Near White House; 1 in Custody U-Haul driver identified, charged after crashing truck into barriers near White House. UK: Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) NPSA have released a new Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) video. HVM puts a protective barrier around your site protecting you, your people, and your infrastructure. Protecting Places of Worship. Protecting Places of Worship: Six Steps to Enhance Security Against Targeted Violence; Protecting Places of Worship: Six Steps to Enhance Security Against Targeted Violence Fact Sheet. FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism ICYMI: Security Debrief, 15 June 2020: A Letter to the Trump Administration – Establish a Faith-Based Sector of Critical Infrastructure Blended Threats COSMICENERGY: New OT Malware Possibly Related To Russian Emergency Response Exercises. This newly-discovered malware could disrupt power generation — and do physical damage When Natural Disasters Cause Network Threats. Record-breaking Tonga undersea volcano disrupted satellite signals in space. U.S. and International Partners Release Advisory Warning of PRC State-Sponsored Cyber Activity & People's Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actor Living off the Land to Evade Detection.  China rejects claim it is spying on Western critical infrastructure China Hack Is Latest Challenge for West's Diplomatic Reset With Beijing Quick Hits Ransomware Research Reveals 12 Vulnerabilities Have Become Newly Associated with Ransomware in Q1 2023  Am I Vulnerable to Ransomware? CISA and Partners Update the #StopRansomware Guide, Developed through the Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF). IT Worker Admits Piggybacking on Hacker's Extortion Attempt Ransomware resurgence after ‘strange year' in 2022, insurance data shows THE MONEY MESSAGE GROUP - A NEW RANSOMWARE THREAT New Ransomware Wave Engulfs over 200 Corporate Victims NOAA predicts a near-normal 2023 Atlantic hurricane season  

In this episode of the podcast, Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran share insights and tips on how to navigate a career in cybersecurity. They discuss the importance of having the right mindset, finding the right career path, building a network, and negotiating a salary. Ron and Chris emphasize the value of having a positive attitude and being open to learning and growth. They suggest exploring different areas within cybersecurity to find the best fit for your interests and skills. Additionally, they stress the importance of building a strong network, both online and in-person, to connect with industry professionals and stay up to date on the latest trends and technologies. Ron offers advice on negotiating a salary and knowing your worth. Ron and Chris also encourage listeners to do their research and interview for multiple jobs to get a sense of market rates for different roles. They also discuss the taboo around discussing salaries in cybersecurity and offer suggestions on how to navigate this sensitive topic. Be sure to subscribe to Hacker Valley Studio, the premiere cybersecurity podcast for cybersecurity professionals. NetSPI has a team of skilled pen-testers that can help you find those critical vulnerabilities and become your partner in creating the right remediation game plan for you. Check them out at http://netspi.com/HVM ........................... Links: Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Join our Patreon monthly creative mastermind Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Continue the conversation by joining our Discord

In this episode of the Hacker Valley Studio podcast, hosts Ron and Chris tackle arguably one of the most difficult roles in cybersecurity: Incident Response. Drawing on his years of experience at organizations such as US Cyber Command, NSA, and Netflix, Chris shares his knowledge on what it takes to properly handle Severity 1, 2, and 3 level incidents. Together, Ron and Chris cover everything from the roles and responsibilities of an incident commander to the steps of bringing an incident to a close. Lastly, the two share their tips for improving incident response and steps that individuals and organizations can take to integrate incident command and communication efforts.  Be sure to subscribe to Hacker Valley Studio, the premiere cybersecurity podcast for cybersecurity professionals. NetSPI has a team of skilled pen-testers that can help you find those critical vulnerabilities and become your partner in creating the right remediation game plan for you. Check them out at http://netspi.com/HVM ........................... Links: Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Join our Patreon monthly creative mastermind Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Continue the conversation by joining our Discord

In this episode, Chris and Ron are joined by author, TED Talk presenter, and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure, Mikko Hyppönen, to discuss the past, present, and future of cybersecurity. With over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, Mikko shares his insights on everything from the importance of knowing and understanding the enemy to the security implications of smart devices. Be sure to subscribe to Hacker Valley Studio, the premiere cybersecurity podcast for cybersecurity professionals NetSPI has a team of skilled pen-testers that can help you find those critical vulnerabilities and become your partner in creating the right remediation game plan for you. Check them out at http://netspi.com/HVM ........................... Links: Connect with our guest Mikko Hyppönen on LinkedIn Check out Mikko's book If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable Join our Patreon monthly creative mastermind Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Maxime “Max” Lamothe-Brassard, Founder of LimaCharlie, brings a tech-focused community perspective and a history of working at Google to Hacker Valley this week. Inspired by the internal motivation to empower others and build what didn't exist, Maxime created LimaCharlie to help security teams automate and manage security operations. In this episode, Max walks through his founder's journey and points out the problems that are begging for innovative solutions from the brightest minds in cyber.   Timecoded Guide: [01:59] Improving community & empowering practitioners [06:04] Leaving Google for LimaCharlie [10:55] Unpacking the incentivization problem of cyber  [16:21] Targeted products vs massive suites of problem solvers [21:29] Looking at a red team-less future   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! The Axonius solution correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action — giving IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity. Learn more at axonius.com/hackervalley For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human-delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   Where would you say your passion for improving our community comes from?  From the moment Max opens his mouth to talk about cybersecurity, his passion for the global community of cyber practitioners is clear. It turns out, the community is Max's passion because he's been in so many cybersecurity roles and has experienced so many of the same issues in each position. Suffering pain and fatigue no matter the role shouldn't be the reality for today's practitioners, and Max wants to empower them to do their best, most enjoyable work.  “When I started, the goal wasn't to make the silver bullet that somehow was going to automatically save everybody, but really to just help people that were working and doing their jobs and empower them.”    How was your experience going from Google to having your own thing with LimaCharlie?  Taking the red pill of entrepreneurship wasn't as scary of an experience for Max as one might think. Instead, the product idea behind LimaCharlie existed for years before Max left Google, and everything Max has done in his career prepared him to take that risky step into doing his own thing. When push came to shove, Max was comfortable taking the risk because he knew he would always have opportunities to support the industry, even if he failed. “Really, throughout my whole career, without necessarily knowing at the time, [creating LimaCharlie] was where I was heading. Looking back, I've always been trying to build the thing that didn't exist where I was and push those limits.”    What are there problems in the community or in the industry that you don't see anyone solving yet?  A major opportunity for growth and improvement in cybersecurity is incentivization, according to Max. The debate of what's worth fixing and who should decide on prioritizing vulnerabilities leads to tension and confusion amongst practitioners. The key to this problem might just be finding that special someone to somehow access the information with the right types of models and protocols around risk evaluation. Insurance might be the easiest answer, but Max wants practitioners to explore their potential to solve these problems, too.  “The problem is that, as an industry, for us to make a risk-reward call on security vulnerabilities— it's incredibly difficult for us that are in security every day. Fundamentally, we can't even make that call ourselves.”   What is one topic of division in cyber that you wish we could all come together on?  Division is inevitable in a field that grows as fast as cybersecurity. However, if Max could dream big about a major division to solve himself, it would be that of a red team's purpose. In an ideal security world, people don't need the red team to buy them into cybersecurity. Max hopes that, over time, the industry shifts more towards the blue team, where vulnerabilities are understood as important and worth protecting against without red team demonstrations.  “I hope that, over time, we're able to move away from having to drive this idea that these things are real and they're important because people are already bought into this idea that, yes, we need to defend everything.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Maxime Lamothe-Brassard on LinkedIn Learn more about LimaCharlie on LinkedIn and the LimaCharlie website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Brian Haugli, Founder and CEO of SideChannel, brings his CISO expertise to the pod this week for a discussion about strategy and leadership in cybersecurity. Working alongside CISOs and fractional VCISOs, Brian has seen his share of leadership mistakes and has learned about the purposeful approach that security needs along the way. In this episode, Brian revises the mantra of “people, process, and technology,” to include the first and most important element in your security success: purposeful strategy.   Timecoded Guide: [02:01] People, process, and technology in your leadership strategy [05:12] Tenants of a strong security strategy [13:11] Setting up new fractional CISOs for success [18:29] Creating SideChannel & walking the line between CISO vs consultant [27:44] Thriving professionally by thriving personally   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! The Axonius solution correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action — giving IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity. Learn more at axonius.com/hackervalley For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human-delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   What has been your philosophy throughout the years when it comes to leadership versus technology?  The security adage of “people, process, technology” isn't one combined concept. That is, in Brian's opinion, why so many leaders make the mistake of prioritizing technology as a central part of their strategy. Strategy is not what technology you use, and you can't buy your way out of every security conflict with a shiny new product. Ask yourself what problem you're supposed to solve, not which tech is going to solve your problems.  “Strategy is not technology, it's figuring out what you want to look like when you grow up, in a sense. Everyone jumps to the shiny object. What can I buy to go solve this problem? You never stop and question: Was that the first problem I was supposed to solve?”   What are the tenants of making sure that you've done the work of creating a strong security strategy? The North Star of your security strategy should be the identity and purpose of your business, according to Brian. If you don't have a current assessment of your current capabilities, assets, resources, and objectives, you aren't positioning yourself for success. Strategy comes from a knowledge and understanding of where you are now, and where you need to be. When your company “grows up,” what do you want security to look like for you? Understanding that guides you towards your target state without wasting your time on the wrong problems or objectives.  “I think a lot of people throw strategy around as a grander concept and don't actually think about the elements that need to go into building one. You need to align to a definition that supports your business and outcomes, and that's what is strategic. The idea is not strategic.”   Let's say I'm a brand new fractional CISO and I have my first client. What are the top three questions I'm going to ask of this organization to set me on the right path? When dealing with a new client, fractional CISOs have to understand why they're involved with this client in the first place. Why are you here? Who brought you here? And, most importantly, what is the reason security is being addressed now? A fractional CISO can't defend what they don't know exists, and they can't meet a deadline without first understanding what this company's unique security environment needs are.  “You don't jump into, ‘Okay, well, what's the budget?' No, I like to understand what I have to actually defend and build to, how fast I have to actually make that happen, that then informs and sets up the much better discussion around, realistically, what you should be considering.”   What advice do you have for our audience that is interested in becoming a CISO? Although Brian jokes that he would advise anyone against taking on a CISO role due to the workload, he understands and loves the grind of cybersecurity leadership. To not only survive but thrive as a CISO, Brian believes a practitioner has to keep their love for problem-solving and protecting organizations at the forefront. Still, as passionate as someone might be, Brian also advises knowing when to unplug and unwind to avoid burning out fast in such a strenuous role.  “Look, just take care of yourself. I think exercising is huge. Eat right, sleep right. You've got to take care of your mental health, take care of physical health, you've got to take care of your spiritual health. You've got to do all that, or you're never going to be good professionally.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Brian Haugli on LinkedIn and Twitter Learn more about SideChannel on LinkedIn and the SideChannel website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Allison Minutillo, President of Rebel Interactive Group and Host of the Rebel Leadership podcast, joins the Hacker Valley team this week to talk about her journey from individual contributor to company leader. With a leader's mind and a rebel's heart, Allison wants Rebel Interactive Group to break down barriers and say what needs to be said. In this episode, Allison talks about intuition vs insecurity, practitioners vs leaders, and burning out vs staying invested and engaged in the world around you.    Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Shifting from an employee to a leadership mindset  [07:44] Getting real about leadership struggles on the Rebel Leadership podcast [13:24] Rebelling for the great good of your company & yourself [19:40] Finding career inspiration as a business owner & company president [25:41] Struggling to realize your full leadership potential as an individual   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life!  Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   What went into that mindset shift from individual contributor to leader for you?  Leadership was an appealing concept to Allison, but stepping into the role of President at a company was beyond her wildest dreams. Being close with Bryn, the former President of Rebel, opened her eyes to the qualities of leadership she wanted in herself. However, the true mindset shift from contributor to leader came from Bryn's understanding of Allison's skills. It wasn't until he brought up her being his successor that Allison saw the leader she knew she could be.  “I set my sights on what I thought was high. I started over-talking to [Bryn, at Rebel] because I was so nervous, and he said, ‘No, I'm talking about you being my successor, about you being president of Rebel.' I instantly stopped everything I was saying and it became crystal clear.”   What exactly is Rebel Leadership and how does it relate back to your philosophies? The term “rebel leadership” is a concept that existed before Allison's Rebel Leadership podcast began, but it embodies what Allison hopes Rebel Interactive Group represents for all of their clients. Being a rebel isn't just about breaking the rules or telling it like it is, it's about making a difference. Being a rebel leader is about challenging the status quo for the greater good of your clients, your employees, and your industry. “It's not rebelling for rebels' sake, it's that we're not good with the status quo. We're not okay with it, but we're not careless. We rebel with purpose. It's informed. It's data backed, it's compelling, it's precise, it's meaningful. We are not afraid to state what needs to be said.”    What do you say to those leaders that approach leadership almost like being a martyr?  The hustle and grind of being a leader can feel like endless amounts of hard work. However, in Allison's experience, overworking yourself and refusing to disconnect maximizes the pain, but minimizes what you gain. Burnout is real, and cybersecurity practitioners definitely know burnout can be fatal for your career. Allison advises resting and giving yourself the time to reflect at the end of a long day, instead of forcing yourself to be a martyr.  “Doing that next ‘to-do' list on your couch at 10:30pm when you're spent and you're drained is not going to make you the leader you want to be tomorrow. It's going to make you frustrated and tired and not able to perform at a high level the next day.”   How do you differentiate the good advice of intuition from your inner echo chamber of not-so-good advice? It's easy to get caught up in the eternal inner echo chamber when you're trying hard to learn and reflect on your experiences. Allison has had this happen to her, too; getting caught up reading online comments and letting self-doubt control her thoughts. However, Allison explains that the grit of a true leader can drive you through the setbacks of criticism, whether that criticism comes from outside or within. What matters most is choosing to believe in yourself as a leader.  “That's when grit and will come in, in those moments where you're at the bottom of the barrel. Do you believe in yourself? Are you going to choose to believe in yourself, or are you going to choose to believe the comments?”  --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Allison Minutillo on LinkedIn Learn more about Rebel Interactive Group on LinkedIn and the Rebel website Listen to the Rebel Leadership podcast Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Cody Wass, VP of Services at NetSPI, brings his near-decade of experience to the pod to talk about longevity, development, and leadership. It's no secret that cybersecurity is in need of people. Cody's journey from intern to VP at NetSPI has shown him the importance of training employees, creating opportunities for new graduates, and engaging teams effectively, both virtually and in-person. In this episode, Cody provides the roadmap towards intentional employee investment in the ever-changing cyber industry.   Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Cyber career longevity from NetSPI intern to VP  [07:51] Putting people before process & technology at NetSPI [15:33] Collaboration as the foundation of the cybersecurity industry [18:13] Understanding cyber's entry level position problem [24:12] Investing intentionally in employee development     Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsor NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   You've been at NetSPI for 9 years. When you think about a rewarding feeling in your journey at the company, what comes to mind? Starting his journey at NetSPI as an intern, Cody has had the rare but impactful opportunity to grow alongside the company. Now, as VP of Services, looks back at the lives he's impacted himself and the opportunities he's had to see others grow. Employee development is a huge part of NetSPI's success. Cody is proud to have seen newcomers join his team and become amazing practitioners over the years.   “It's really rewarding seeing people come into this industry as a fresh face with a specific skill set, to watch them grow over and see them really spread their wings, and come out the other side stronger, better, and having a skill set that you never would have imagined day one.”   NetSPI has a very unique culture and philosophy about balancing that duality between technology and people. Could you tell us a little bit about that?  People come first, before process and technology, at NetSPI. While all three elements of this sacred cyber trifecta are important, Cody and his team believe that the balance should focus on making the lives, skills, and experiences of the people at NetSPI better. Process should be taught to the people, with a focus on prosperity and consistency. Technology should be implemented intelligently, with proper training and time given to the people for the best results.  “NetSPI's differentiator is our people, first and foremost, and then, our process and our technology. We have a ton of really cool things we're doing with tech, but the focus is always on: How can you use that tech to make a person more efficient at their job?”   How important is collaboration for you and your team at NetSPI? Collaboration is built into the DNA of NetSPI, from how employees are trained to how NetSPI interacts with the industry around them. Cybersecurity thrives when teams, practitioners, and organizations work together for the sake of the greater good. Even though COVID and remote workers have increased the virtual footprint of NetSPI, Cody still emphasizes the importance of communication and collaboration to his team and to practitioners around the world.  “This industry we work in is super interesting. It'll never be finished; you're never going to learn everything there is about security and be able to call it done. We're far past the point where one person is going to be the expert of everything in cybersecurity.”   For anyone in a cybersecurity leadership position who wants to start to really invest in their people, what would be your recommendation on where to start? Intentionality is vital for the success of any leader trying to invest in their employees. Cody explains that it's one thing for leaders to want to invest in training and professional development opportunities for their team, but another thing entirely when it comes to implementation. If a leader isn't intentional, they won't have clear goals for investment and will risk letting implementation fall to the wayside for the sake of a budgetary line.  “Yes, we are going to be making this investment. It is going to cost us. It will cost us time, it will cost us money, but we are committed to making that investment because we know the payoff in 12 months or 18 months or 24 months is going to ultimately be worth it.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Cody Wass on LinkedIn Learn more about NetSPI on LinkedIn and the NetSPI website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Brad Liggett, CTI Intel Engineer Manager at Cybersixgill, puts on his improv hat and joins the pod ready for anything. After COVID pressed pause on daily life, Brad kept himself sane and gained some new skills by returning to his improv roots (a hobby he had in the ‘90s) and taking up Dungeons & Dragons. In this episode, Brad covers the importance of improv skills in the professional world, the opportunities to add elements of gaming into cyber, and advice for practitioners looking to be more agile.   Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Introducing the unique combination of improv & cybersecurity [05:57] Being a life-long learner in cybersecurity & in improv groups [13:20] Practicing improvisational skills for cybersecurity customer conversations   [18:17] Bringing in games & elements of play into cybersecurity environments [24:38] Advice for a more agile, improvisational tomorrow   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   Is there a skill that you called upon during an interaction with a customer where you really leaned on your improv muscle?  Improv often involves one phrase that Brad believes other industries should incorporate, too: “Yes, and.” In cybersecurity, Brad leans heavily on the “Yes, and,” phrase because it encourages conversations to move forward authentically. Meetings aren't successful when customers and clients feel uncomfortable and unengaged. Being able to think on his feet and prepare for changes makes Brad a stronger, more agile practitioner and communicator. “The whole concept of moving the meeting forward and making sure that there's no uncomfortable silences. Be prepared, have an idea of what you want to talk about, but inevitably, the client you're talking to, everyone's going to be unique.”   What do you think is the glue that holds your interests in cyber and improv together? Being a life-long learner is something extremely important and valuable for Brad. For improv, research on the latest media, memes, and movies influences his work and motivates him to stay up-to-date and involved in some fun research. Cybersecurity is the same way. Brad believes to be the best practitioner and leader for his team, he needs to be knowledgeable about vendors, threats, products, and all things new in the industry. “You always have to be reading, you always have to be aware of what's going on in the environment out there in the world, so that as those things come up, at least you can somewhat talk to them and start to put those pieces together.”   What has been your experience with bringing an element of play into cyber? Cybersecurity can't be all work and no play. Instead, Brad believes that cybersecurity teams should continue to prioritize the gamification of training processes, as well as just letting their teams have a little fun. Sometimes, to build a strong, trusting team, there needs to be an outside outlet for problem solving, puzzling, and creativity. Brad even brought his team at Cybersixgill to a Meow Wolf exhibition this year for that same team building reason.  “We work hard, but we also should make sure that we play, and not only just do that individually, but even as teams, especially now. It's not always going to be about the training aspect, you also have to take that time to bring that team together.”   What is a piece of wisdom that people could take with them into work tomorrow to make them more agile and improvisational? When it comes to agility and improvisational skills, you have to have a strong foundation to build off of. For Brad, taking time for himself and understanding when and how he learns best has been vital to his success. Listening to podcasts at the gym, reading something new at hotels, and getting a good night's sleep are all little things that help Brad consistently become more agile and improvisational at work.  “For me, it's always having some sacred time at the end of the day. There's no TV in my bedroom, and my phone is telling me around 8:30, ‘Hey, it's wind down time,' and that's when I'm getting in the mode for sleep, and then making sure I've got a good night's sleep.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Brad Liggett on LinkedIn and Twitter Learn more about Cybersixgill on LinkedIn and the Cybersixgill website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Listen to Jo and special guest, Jan Beale as they discuss the difference that His Vessel Ministries has made in Jan's lifestyle.  The HVM discipleship program helped Jan establish Godly order in her home. Support the showhttps://www.hisvessel.org/programs

Richard Rushing, CISO at Motorola Mobility, brings his decades of experience to the show this week to talk about leadership, communication, and perhaps most importantly of all: prioritization. After joining Motorola through a startup acquisition, Richard has been a leader in the company and a defining example of what a CISO should be doing: simplifying the complicated. Richard talks about how his role has changed over the last 10 years and what's next for him and for cybersecurity.   Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Ascending into a leadership role in cybersecurity & joining the Motorola team [06:28] Defining CSO & CISO at a time when no one understood cybersecurity [13:01] Communicating with the C-suite about cyber: best practices & tenants [24:37] Harnessing a proactive cybersecurity mindset with prioritization [32:13] Extending your cybersecurity career for decades   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! The Axonius solution correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action — giving IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity. Learn more at axonius.com/hackervalley For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   What was your experience of being a Chief Security Officer in the early 2000s? Richard jokes that he became a part of the cyber industry before the industry was even called cybersecurity, but behind the joke lies the truth that cyber looked extremely different back then. However, no matter how much time passes, Richard is still used to the odd confused looks that come from saying he's a CISO. People misunderstand the role, Richard explains, but at least more people than ever before understand the importance of cybersecurity. “There were a lot of other things that you had to talk about, you had to evangelize a lot coming into this [industry] because a lot of the cybersecurity industry was brand new. People were moving around and trying to figure these things out and everybody struggled.”   How many times would you say you feel like you've had a new job or a new role being in the same role for over 10 years?  Being a CISO has had its ups and downs during the 10 years Richard has spent in that role at Motorola, but the changes have been welcome and interesting. Every few years, the technology landscape changes, and with those changes in tech come massive changes in company ownership, leadership, and security. However, Richard is thankful that through these changes, his core team has stayed the same, giving him a trustworthy group to learn from. “It's always changing, but at the same time, there's some static components. When I came on to Motorola 15 years ago and established teams, most of my team, except for a very small portion of people that retired or left, are still with me today.”   What are your thoughts and best practices for proactive cybersecurity? Although “proactive cybersecurity” has become a buzzword we're all paying attention to, Richard warns that most companies aren't really being proactive with cybersecurity just yet. Instead, what the industry has shifted towards is prioritization. Understanding what's important, prioritizing those aspects of a business, and knowing what you don't have the resources to handle can make the security work you're doing feel more proactive.  “Why do I need to prioritize? Because you're getting more alerts than you have people to be able to handle it, or technologies to be able to handle it in an automated way. So, you have to prioritize what's important.”    What would you recommend people consider to extend their cybersecurity career life as long as you have? After nearly four decades in the industry and over ten years at Motorola, Richard has been in cybersecurity longer than most modern-day practitioners. When asked about his secrets for an extended cybersecurity career, Richard reflects back on his advice around prioritization over “proactive cybersecurity”, and emphasizes the importance of community. Cybersecurity is a collaborative field, and practitioners have to stay open to learning together to succeed.  “In the cybersecurity world, we will talk to our competitors and share what we're seeing. I think that community effort is one of the key things. You have to enjoy what you're doing, reach out and be collaborative with people. Don't be the security guy that people are scared of.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Richard Rushing on LinkedIn and Twitter Learn more about Motorola Mobility on LinkedIn and the Motorola website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase an HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Kenneth Ellington, Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at EY and Founder of the Ellington Cyber Academy, achieves his goal of being on the Hacker Valley Studio this week. From working at Publix in college to becoming an online course instructor, Kenneth's journey into the cyber industry has been heavily influenced by online educators like Chris and Ron. Kenneth covers barriers to entry for cyber, SOAR vs SIM, and how much further we need to go for representation in the industry.   Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Starting a cyber career at the Publix deli counter [05:16] Fighting through introversion to become an online instructor [11:02] Setting equitable & understandable prices for cyber courses [15:54] Looking into the future of SOAR vs SIM to see what's next [19:27] Taking the chance on content creation as a new cyber professional   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   What areas do you feel confident in as a new teacher, and what do you still struggle to get your footing on?  As someone newer to online teaching, having only done it for 2 years, Kenneth is confident in his communication skills, but still struggles with fully grasping new technology. On the bright side, Kenneth believes those technical skills come with time and practice, something he's 100% willing to do. What helps him stand out as a strong teacher is something harder to learn— communication with others and de-escalating stressful situations for students.  “I worked at Publix for four years in the deli, dealing with customers, and that forced me to develop those soft skills about how to talk to people and how to communicate and how to de-escalate situations. That's how I set myself apart.”   What are some of the things that you're thinking about when it comes to setting the pricing for your course content?  No matter how his prices change or how skilled he becomes, Kenneth still believes in fair and equitable pricing for his course content. Considering his experience and expertise, Kenneth charges at least half of what I vendor might charge for similar content and knowledge. However, Kenneth doesn't believe in thousands of dollars being spent on his courses, because he wants entry level students like himself to be able to afford to learn. “I'm very honest with myself, what my skill level is, and the value I bring towards it. Because I've been doing this for over two years, technically, I've gotten a pretty good gauge as to what people are willing to pay for and the value that I can bring.”   Do you have anything you're looking to expand into with Ellington Academy?  While SOAR and SIM are Ellington Academy's bread and butter, Kenneth is looking forward to continuing to expand his expertise and scale his content. A future upcoming goal Kenneth has is giving back to the country of Jamaica, where his family is originally from. Through providing courses or recruitment opportunities, he wants to bring cyber skills to everyone. “From a legacy perspective, I want to leave a positive mark on this world, just to make it better than when I got here. One of my big goals, I don't know if it's gonna happen, but my family is from Jamaica, so I'm hoping I can maybe put ECA there someday.”   What advice would you give to a newbie in cybersecurity looking to start making content?  Kenneth got his start at the Publix deli counter, and he understands that the beginning of someone's cyber journey can look just like his— inexperienced but hungry for knowledge. For newcomers to the industry, Kenneth wants to reassure that you're never too young to teach or too old to learn. Take courses, expand your knowledge, and give back to the people with less knowledge than you through accessible learning content of your own.   “Take the opportunity to try to do something new because your knowledge is valuable, no matter how much or how little that you have. Everybody can learn something from everyone. I always try to help out however I can.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Kenneth Ellington on LinkedIn Check out the Ellington Cyber Academy Learn more about EY on LinkedIn and the EY website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Lesley Carhart, Director of Incident Response at Dragos, takes some time off mentoring cybersecurity practitioners, responding to OT incidents, and training in martial arts to hop on the mics this week. Named Hacker of the Year in 2020, Lesley's impact on the industry stretches far and wide. As an incredible content creator for cybersecurity, Lesley advises listeners on how to find their niche and who to be willing to educate along the way.   Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Giving back to the community through martial arts & cyber education [06:13] Being excluded from the cyber industry & turning to content creation instead [12:33] Comparing incident response in IT vs OT environments [19:46] Dealing with post-COVID problems with the wrong OT systems online [26:51] Finding your cyber niche & exploring education options within it   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human-delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   What inspired you to start creating cybersecurity content? Lesley's cybersecurity content has vastly influenced and impacted many cyber practitioners in the industry, including Ron and Chris. Unfortunately, Lesley's journey into content creation was inspired by the lack of mentorship they received from other professionals when they were starting out. Never wanting anyone to feel the way they did, Lesley created an online world of resources to warmly welcome and educate new practitioners.   “It's not a really glamorous story. When I got into cybersecurity, I wanted to do digital forensics and nobody would help me, nobody would actually take me seriously and give me a shot. Everybody should have a chance to get into cybersecurity if it's something they want to do.”   How has teaching cyber to a general audience been appealing to you? When not educating new cyber practitioners or tearing it up in the martial arts studio, Lesley likes to reach out to their community and give talks to audiences outside of typical tech and security groups. From churches to universities, Lesley loves meeting people outside of the cyber industry. These individuals always offer them a new perspective and a feeling of accomplishment for showing someone something new.  “It's enjoyable to me to find other people out there who want to learn about an entirely new topic and expose themselves to its problems and how it impacts society and things like that. I appreciate that. Cybersecurity is important and it impacts everything around us all the time.”   In your world, where does incident response start, and where does it stop? Like many of cyber's most complicated concepts, the answer to where incident response starts and ends is subjective to certain resources and elements of an organization. Lesley explains that incident response has to be planned and that the planning process has to involve when to declare an incident and when to close the said incident. Without proper planning in advance, an organization is at risk for a crisis that could've been responded to quickly turning into an out-of-control attack.  “There's no perfect defense against an incident, everybody's vulnerable. You do your best to mitigate and avoid having a cybersecurity incident, but there's only so much you can do. Eventually, you have to assume that you're gonna have an incident.”   What piece of advice do you have for anyone looking to share more knowledge and make the cyber industry better?  Although everything in cybersecurity can seem daunting, expansive, and interesting to everyone, Lesley's recommendation to new practitioners is to find a niche in cyber and stick to it for a while. Finding a niche doesn't have to be permanent, but Lesley believes that niche will help you carve out extensive knowledge worth sharing and creating content around. When you discover that niche, don't be afraid to reach out to other industry experts along the way. “Pick an area and then find mentorship in that and try to focus for a couple of years on a particular area. You can always change your mind later on, just like degrees, just like training programs, but it's going to help you a lot to focus for a little while.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Lesley Carhart on LinkedIn, Twitter, and their blog Learn more about Dragos, Inc on LinkedIn and the Dragos website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase Hacker Valley swag at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Are you truly and completely surrendered to God? Listen to Jo as she talks about discipleship at His Vessel Ministries and the process of developing disciplines to live a life with meaning. Learn more about the discipleship opportunities at HVM at www.hisvessel.orgSupport the show

Hacker Valley: On the Road is a curated collection of conversations that Chris and Ron have had during conferences and events around the globe. In this episode, NTT's Dirk Hodgson, Director of Cybersecurity, and Adam Green, Senior Cybersecurity Executive, speak with the Hacker Valley team at CyberCon in Melbourne, Australia. Dirk and Adam cover the intersection of their roles at NTT, their experiences at conferences like RSA, their country's cybersecurity industry, and their team's cultivated trust with clients.    Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Reuniting at CyberCon after years of COVID limiting security conferences [06:30] Differentiating Australia's cybersecurity industry from the rest of the world [10:48] Watching current cyber trends with CMMC & the Essential 8 frameworks [25:41] Creating interpersonal communication in a technology-driven industry [34:58] Building trust by knowing your clients & your adversaries equally   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsor Axonius for bringing this episode to life! Life is complex. But it's not about avoiding challenges or fearing failure. Just ask Simone Biles — the greatest gymnast of all time. Want to learn more about how Simone controls complexity? Watch her video at axonius.com/simone For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   How are Australian cybersecurity practitioners different from the rest of the world? According to Adam, the past 3 years have led to a massive shift in maturity for Australia's cybersecurity industry. Previously, Australia relied on its physical isolation as a country as a means of security, but breaches have become more high profile and more impactful for Australian businesses in recent years. Now, Adam is pleased to see there be a greater understanding beyond the 101 of cybersecurity and more collaboration with security teams. “Three years ago, we used to say Australia was 5 years behind the rest of the world [in cybersecurity]. We used to think, because of proximity to the rest of the world, we were pretty safe, but it's definitely become more of a professional approach to security now.” — Adam   How do your roles as Director and Executive work together at NTT?  For Dirk, cybersecurity is the ultimate team sport— and Adam is an impactful element to his cybersecurity team. While Adam often focuses on strategic planning through his background as a practitioner, Dirk enjoys how his business-driven perspective contrasts with Adam and with other members of the team. With a variety of experiences and perspectives in the room, NTT can cover issues from all sides, instead of falling victim to tunnel vision. “Adam is the person on the team, who's great at that scenario planning piece. ‘Here are the things that are gonna go wrong.' Whereas myself and a couple of the other people on the team, look at that go, ‘What's that going to cost the organization?'” —Dirk   Where are the strengths and weaknesses in communication in cybersecurity? Just like Dirk's thoughts about cybersecurity being a team sport, Adam believes that you have to cultivate a team member-like trust with your clients. The client in an initial conversation might seem defensive of your advice or critical of your actions. However, Adam explains that establishing credibility, especially in the business-focused cyber industry in Australia, goes a long way to creating the opportunity for more casual conversations down the line.  “What we find is, in Australia in particular, it's about not just the company, but you as an individual. Do you have my back? Can I trust you? If I don't like you, will you at least mitigate my risk for me? You have to establish credibility real fast.” —Adam   What advice would you give to someone interested in cultivating more trust between clients and their team? Dirk loves a good James Bond villain, but the average hacker attacking the average business is nothing like the movies. Establishing trust with clients starts with not only understanding what they need, Dirk explains, but also knowing the most likely threats beyond the showstopping Blackhats of media fame. Being able to explain to and protect clients from the most common threats keeps their data safest and strengthens their trust in your team. “I think it's about making sure that you know what the worst case scenario is, what the most dangerous course of action that the attacker or a potential attacker could follow, but also, being able to talk credibly about what's the most likely threat.” —Dirk --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Dirk Hodgson on LinkedIn Keep up with our guest Adam Green on LinkedIn Learn more about NTT on LinkedIn and the NTT website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Alton Johnson, Founder and Principal Security Consultant at Vonahi Security, automates his way out of his pen testing job in this week's episode. An AOl hacking gone wild got Alton into defensive cybersecurity years ago, and now, as the Founder of Vonahi, Alton advocates for automation and efficiency in the pen testing process. Alton talks about his connection to defensive over offensive, customizing a pen test report to your audience, and finding that sweet spot between practitioner and entrepreneur.    Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Learning the importance of automation in defensive cyber [07:48] Connecting with automation & defensive cybersecurity over offensive [12:01] Showing the results that matter to the right people in a pen test report [15:27] Prioritizing exploitations in the world of vulnerability assessments [21:59] Maintaining the cyber practitioner & the entrepreneurial side of Vonahi   Sponsor Links: Thank you to our sponsors Axonius and NetSPI for bringing this episode to life! The Axonius solution correlates asset data from existing solutions to provide an always up-to-date inventory, uncover gaps, and automate action — giving IT and security teams the confidence to control complexity. Learn more at axonius.com/hackervalley For more than 2 decades, NetSPI has helped companies discover and remediate critical security issues through its platform-driven, human delivered security test. NetSPI is much more than a pentesting company, bringing you the most comprehensive suite of offensive security solutions. Visit netspi.com/HVM to learn more.   How have you seen automation change yourself and your role?  As a penetration tester, Alton explains that time is often not on his side. There's a limited amount of time to do an assessment, and the measure of a good pen tester is often determined by fast, high quality reporting. Automating the repetitive tasks of pen testing not only saves time, but Alton believes it genuinely changes the role into something much more efficient, high value, and successful.  “Automation obviously plays a huge part in growing in the career too, because the more you can do, the more value you can provide, and the faster you can provide that value makes you a better pentester.”    How do you convey the story of a red team engagement in different ways so that message is received by everyone in the company?  At Vonahi Security, Alton's team separates pen testing reports into an executive summary and a technical report. The executive summary is high level, demonstrating the impact and severity of what was discovered from a business point of view. Many business executives don't need the technical play by play, which is why that is saved for the technical report. The technical report acts as a scene by scene story of what was done and how to technically fix it. “We separate the two conversations. Here's what we did at a high level to anyone that doesn't really care about the technical stuff, but only cares about how it impacts the business, and then, for the person that has to fix the issues, here's everything that they would need.”   What would you tell the newer generation of cybersecurity practitioners about the offensive side?  When Alton first started his cybersecurity journey, he was very into hacking and coding. That passion for code has served him well, allowing him to become successful enough to start his own business with Vonahi. For the younger generation of cyber practitioners, Alton recommends not skipping that coding education. As technically advanced and automated as cybersecurity tools are, practitioners should be prepared to code when something breaks or doesn't work as intended. “I think coding is extremely valuable, because there's going to be many times that tools that you use don't work and you have to have the experience and knowledge to basically fix those problems with coding.”   What have you learned over the past few years that has helped you to maintain both the technical and business side of Vonahi? 21 Efficiency is the name of the game for Vonahi— and it's the one thing that has allowed Alton to remain in a hands-on pen testing role while still being a business owner. Keeping it efficient is more than just technology and automation. Alton believes his success is a direct result of the efficient technology around him and the hardworking, intelligent, efficient team members working with him at Vonahi. “It is really just about efficiency. We look to all these other leaders, but for me, I like to learn from other people's failures. I don't want to take the same growth processes as the person who failed and didn't do well.” --------------- Links: Keep up with our guest Alton Johnson on LinkedIn and his personal website Learn more about Vonahi Security on LinkedIn and the Vonahi Security website Connect with Ron Eddings on LinkedIn and Twitter Connect with Chris Cochran on LinkedIn and Twitter Purchase a HVS t-shirt at our shop Continue the conversation by joining our Discord Check out Hacker Valley Media and Hacker Valley Studio

Episode 08:  10 Things a High Value Man will do for you Dating. It's become a game of swipe left and right. But does he tick all the boxes? Or just some? How do you know when you've found a ‘high-value man'?    We discuss the 10 most important things to know about a HVM- from a man's perspective! Know the signs to avoid heartache, learn his actions, listen to his words, get into the mind of a HVM and see if your standards match his vibe.   In true Sejuice fashion, we go deeper than just noting the signs.. after all, you gotta be a high-value woman to attract a high-value man! So tune in as we share our experiences and dive into this juicy topic.   Follow us for more on insta @sejuice_podcast 

As a HVM you build your value by taking on challenges, challenges are uncomfortable and the discomfort can be paralyzing… But not when you RELAX.Here is a simple 5 STEP way to RELAX before your next big thing. Rest — 7-8 hours of sleep, deep AND REM, no Alcohol, no tvEnergy — Energy GROWS where FOCUS Goes / focus on HOW can I add valueLearn — Study the topic you are pursuing, PREPARATION is essential competenceAct Often — Take the momentum from one stretch and carry it forward into the next X — EXAMINE THE RESULTS, GET FEEDBACK 

On today's pod we have Punk, Lady D, and Deuce!! Lady D and Punk always put on a show when they get together. Deuce decides to get on camera and face some of the heat!  Per usual things get controversial.. Topics listed below. LET'S GO!!!!!0:00 Intro1:01 Kevin Samuels backlash from Women?4:17 Was K.S a contrarian?14:03 HVM get to pick?21:56 Do short men have a complex?31:33 Door Dash?49:34 Any words for the Haters?54:13 More baby showers than weddings?1:11:18 Shout out to the TikTok community!Subscribe! and rate us on Apple and Spotify! We would appreciate it

Jenny Donnelly interviews grief counselor, Pam Vredevelt, and HVM friend, Madie Hessler, about the journey to healing after experiencing a miscarriage.    Follow us on IG to stay up to date on all things Her Voice! Jenny Donnelly Her Voice Movement   You're invited to join us for our biggest party of the year, the Her Voice National Conference in Portland, OR, July 13-15! Visit hervoicemvmt.com for details and tickets!

The Institute of Harmonic Science (IHS) is a 501c3 nonprofit educational organization established in 2000 and based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. IHS is dedicated to inspiring and growing communities of people who sing together for healing and transformation. The Institute believes singing in harmony integrates the body, mind and spirit while healing the heart of humanity. Higher Vibrations Music is a global outreach program of the Institute. Teaching that the cosmos is inherently musical, the HVM curriculum explores harmony through music, which blends the languages of science, the new physics and spirituality. IHS partners with choirs, educational organizations, houses of worship, healthcare providers, and the scientific community to more fully understand and express harmony. Join HVM founder Harold Moses for an evening of music, reflection, and more as he guides the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab through an experience of relaxation and rejuvenation. Singing Higher Vibrations Music together in Harmony consciously connects us with the wonder and majesty of our Universe and with one another.

http://patreon.com/winecellarmedia.com http://paypal.me/PhoenixAndWilliam What is really behind the mentality of a Kevin Samuels Fan?  What has he been taught by the Man-O-Sphere?  How is he going to treat you?  Why is he targeting you for a... "relationship"?  Where are his High Values coming from?  Who is he socializing among and trying to impress with how he is going to treat you?

http://patreon.com/winecellarmedia.com http://paypal.me/PhoenixAndWilliam What is really behind the mentality of a Kevin Samuels Fan?  What has he been taught by the Man-O-Sphere?  How is he going to treat you?  Why is he targeting you for a... "relationship"?  Where are his High Values coming from?  Who is he socializing among and trying to impress with how he is going to treat you?

https://www.thierryweber.com Comme en sous la forme d'un teaser, je vous ai laissé un indice pour deviner où Yoko et moi allions nous rendre ce week-end. Retour en images mais surtout en émotion pour évoquer cette version VanLife motorisée. Mais de quoi allons nous parler ? C'est ce que nous allons voir ensemble dans cet épisode de EDS. N'hésitez pas à le partager, le commenter et mettre des pouces en l'air, des likes ou des étoiles, ça me ferait plaisir.

What is a “High Value Man?” In this segment of The Neutral Corner Podcast, we dissect Kevin Samuels' criteria for what it means to be an (HVM). We address the question Why do High Value Men, choose submissive women to marry and raise families with? Be sure to tell a friend to tell a friend about The Neutral Corner Podcast available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google and Breaker. Thank you all for the support. Feel free to leave a comment or leave a question and we will discuss it in our next broadcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neutral-corner/message

What is a “High Value Man?” In this segment of The Neutral Corner Podcast, we dissect Kevin Samuels' criteria for what it means to be an (HVM). We address the question Why do High Value Men, choose submissive women to marry and raise families with? Be sure to tell a friend to tell a friend about The Neutral Corner Podcast available on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google and Breaker. Thank you all for the support. Feel free to leave a comment or leave a question and we will discuss it in our next broadcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neutral-corner/message

Roastus Scrotus Deletus. We speak with Zoe Eileen about how early childhood educators in New Zealand encourage preschool boys to be HVM and the significance of gender and gender roles in boys' development.   Atlantic Article on Gender Neutral Play in Sweden:  https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/you-can-give-a-boy-a-doll-but-you-cant-make-him-play-with-it/265977/   Follow us! Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheFemaleDatingStrategy Website: www.thefemaledatingstrategy.com Twitter: @femdatstrat Instagram: @_thefemaledatingstrategy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Female-Dating-Strategy-109118567480771

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This is Part 2 of 3 of our Men of Fire Series titled: Defining a High-Value Man Most women want a good quality man, but does that include the traits of an HVM? Everyone's opinion is different and could be quite subjective. Nevertheless, we (Latonia, Big Boz, and Bazz) discuss in this podcast just that.  So check out some of the traits we researched online (www.lovequestcoaching.com ) and see if any of those apply to you.  MSO figured to be considered an HVM, they should have at least 9 out of the 12 listed below. These traits consist of:He communicates clearly.He’s clear on his intentions.He commits to himself and others.He makes over $120K a year for at least 3-5 years (not all high-earning men are high-value men) – can’t be High-Value and homeless.He loves putting forth effort for a woman.He makes plans and follows through.He CALLS and does not rely on TEXT.He is well knowledgeable in today’s current events (politics, news, etc.)He is a positive goal-driven individual.He doesn’t chase, he attracts.His car and home are clean.He’s fun and unique.Also, this podcast is streamed on YouTube. You can check out the video at: https://youtu.be/ZNBIvvq89_A Stay tuned for part 3.

Hello beautiful people around the world, Welcome back it is time for another Decisive podcast Munich Exclusive its Thursday May 6th 2021, this is episode #72 featuring my guest HVM (NXTOU/MUNICH) he is not new to the series but always delivers a upfront dj set of fine electronic music. Our interview today contains an interesting point of view on life & music. We hope you enjoy this episode feel free to share it with your friends and open minded music lovers. Peace!Short History about HVM. Have you ever tried to measure happiness in BPM? Watching HVM (Häppy van Mazn) while performing his magic on the decks with a perfectly dosed touch – which by the way looks amazing – one will answer: YES. Ever since he first set foot into the Allgäu-Techno Scene Häppy unfailingly amazes everyone shortly after entering the stage. Those ecstatic moments created by the hat lover every night today are not only great scams but pure passion. Not for nothing flaunts „Home of my music” on his chest. Hence, it's very likely to meet him in all those fairytale living rooms of Berlin, aka Wilde Renate & Kater Blau, and that he moves up all Berliners into a stimulating trance on his journey through the multifarious world of music. Another affair of the heart is NXTOU, an aspirant agency, which took in addition to Häppy artists like Stefan Biniak, Julian Wassermann, Nusha, and Jonas Woehl under its wings. Somewhere along the nightlife-road – no one recalls where and when – they found each other. A baseline-raver-symbiosis with his partner in crime Genji Yoshida. Those soulmates shine brighter than any diamond found on this techno planet and manage to beautify the clubs and festivals all across the northern & southern hemispheres.
At the latest after their release “Miura” – signed on Moonbooticas Imprint “Moonbootique” hitting no 9 on the FAZE M. Charts – the world is aware that those two are as thick as thieves. The duo sends – without hesitation – everyone – once the beat drops out to come back at full tilt to find its way into your chest – on a tremendous sound trip shattering every wishful thinking and as a logical consequence piercing marrow and bone to dance. Häppy's music can't be narrowed down to a genre or pattern – it bends the bow from deep-house to techno and burns into the memory of everyone listening to it. However, one thing that his music does with us we know for sure: letting our Endorphins dance while we get goosebumps all our bodies.More Decisive Information Here https://linktr.ee/Decisiveserieshttps://soundcloud.com/haeppysmusichttps://www.facebook.com/haeppyartistpage

Hello beautiful people around the world, Welcome back it is time for another Decisive podcast Munich Exclusive its Thursday May 6th 2021, this is episode #72 featuring my guest HVM (NXTOU/MUNICH) he is not new to the series but always delivers a upfront dj set of fine electronic music. Our interview today contains an interesting point of view on life & music. We hope you enjoy this episode feel free to share it with your friends and open minded music lovers. Peace! Short History about HVM. Have you ever tried to measure happiness in BPM? Watching HVM (Häppy van Mazn) while performing his magic on the decks with a perfectly dosed touch – which by the way looks amazing – one will answer: YES. Ever since he first set foot into the Allgäu-Techno Scene Häppy unfailingly amazes everyone shortly after entering the stage. Those ecstatic moments created by the hat lover every night today are not only great scams but pure passion. Not for nothing flaunts „Home of my music” on his chest. Hence, it’s very likely to meet him in all those fairytale living rooms of Berlin, aka Wilde Renate & Kater Blau, and that he moves up all Berliners into a stimulating trance on his journey through the multifarious world of music. Another affair of the heart is NXTOU, an aspirant agency, which took in addition to Häppy artists like Stefan Biniak, Julian Wassermann, Nusha, and Jonas Woehl under its wings. Somewhere along the nightlife-road – no one recalls where and when – they found each other. A baseline-raver-symbiosis with his partner in crime Genji Yoshida. Those soulmates shine brighter than any diamond found on this techno planet and manage to beautify the clubs and festivals all across the northern & southern hemispheres.
At the latest after their release “Miura” – signed on Moonbooticas Imprint “Moonbootique” hitting no 9 on the FAZE M. Charts – the world is aware that those two are as thick as thieves. The duo sends – without hesitation – everyone – once the beat drops out to come back at full tilt to find its way into your chest – on a tremendous sound trip shattering every wishful thinking and as a logical consequence piercing marrow and bone to dance. Häppy’s music can’t be narrowed down to a genre or pattern – it bends the bow from deep-house to techno and burns into the memory of everyone listening to it. However, one thing that his music does with us we know for sure: letting our Endorphins dance while we get goosebumps all our bodies. More Decisive Information Here https://linktr.ee/Decisiveseries https://soundcloud.com/haeppysmusic https://www.facebook.com/haeppyartistpage

Hello beautiful people around the world, Welcome back it is time for another Decisive podcast Munich Exclusive its Thursday May 6th 2021, this is episode #72 featuring my guest HVM (NXTOU/MUNICH) he is not new to the series but always delivers a upfront dj set of fine electronic music. Our interview today contains an interesting point of view on life & music. We hope you enjoy this episode feel free to share it with your friends and open minded music lovers. Peace! Short History about HVM. Have you ever tried to measure happiness in BPM? Watching HVM (Häppy van Mazn) while performing his magic on the decks with a perfectly dosed touch – which by the way looks amazing – one will answer: YES. Ever since he first set foot into the Allgäu-Techno Scene Häppy unfailingly amazes everyone shortly after entering the stage. Those ecstatic moments created by the hat lover every night today are not only great scams but pure passion. Not for nothing flaunts „Home of my music” on his chest. Hence, it’s very likely to meet him in all those fairytale living rooms of Berlin, aka Wilde Renate & Kater Blau, and that he moves up all Berliners into a stimulating trance on his journey through the multifarious world of music. Another affair of the heart is NXTOU, an aspirant agency, which took in addition to Häppy artists like Stefan Biniak, Julian Wassermann, Nusha, and Jonas Woehl under its wings. Somewhere along the nightlife-road – no one recalls where and when – they found each other. A baseline-raver-symbiosis with his partner in crime Genji Yoshida. Those soulmates shine brighter than any diamond found on this techno planet and manage to beautify the clubs and festivals all across the northern & southern hemispheres.
At the latest after their release “Miura” – signed on Moonbooticas Imprint “Moonbootique” hitting no 9 on the FAZE M. Charts – the world is aware that those two are as thick as thieves. The duo sends – without hesitation – everyone – once the beat drops out to come back at full tilt to find its way into your chest – on a tremendous sound trip shattering every wishful thinking and as a logical consequence piercing marrow and bone to dance. Häppy’s music can’t be narrowed down to a genre or pattern – it bends the bow from deep-house to techno and burns into the memory of everyone listening to it. However, one thing that his music does with us we know for sure: letting our Endorphins dance while we get goosebumps all our bodies. More Decisive Information Here https://linktr.ee/Decisiveseries https://soundcloud.com/haeppysmusic https://www.facebook.com/haeppyartistpage

What to feed? Doesn’t matter but most people want a suggestion. So here is what we suggest to start with: Wolf Run PLUS and Turkey PMR www.RawDogFoodandCo.com For More Great Information on how to get started feeding a raw diet: Watch our new feeders webinar - go here it’s a fun and informative webinar! Also we have (2) feeding calculators - one for adults and one for dogs 68 weeks and younger who are considered puppies. The calculators tell you how much you will start feeding PER DAY. On today's episode: What is complete and balanced? What is PMR, HVM and 80/10/10 What extras should I include in the diet? How often do I rotate and what supplements are best?

Fam, we're back at it with a new bag of tricks! First up, we dive into the hot topic of censorship. Are these social media platforms really infringing on your freedom of speech? And what's all this talk about cleaning up Instagram? It looks like some people using these platforms for their livelihood may need to adapt or reconsider their game plan. Next up we clarify the conversation regarding sexuality in society. It's not a deep dive, but rather, they are some general thoughts to keep your minds churning while I continue to work through the angles.Third, we have commentary and reaction on some of Kevin Samuels' latest callers. This stuff seems unreal, but there appears to be no shortage of these people calling in. Do they really want HVM? Do they want the "love" they say they do? Are they "10s"? Is this real life? I'm not sure--but we get into it and you might be surprised at what you hear!Lastly, my brain was a bit numb from listening to Kevin Samuels' callers. In this segment, I offer you something more. We look back to the wisdom of an ancient Chinese philosopher and we search for meaning in this insanity we call "today." We can stand idly by or we can shape our future!Hit me up and let me know your thoughts!IG: @hiru_artoflife01:11 - Censorship09:22 - Clarification 14:00 - Reaction to Kevin Samuels' Unreal Callers!58:07 - Wisdom of Xunzi

Welcome to Healthcare 360’s One Year Anniversary!  Episode #060 is sure to bring insight and knowledge to you, our Best and Brightest!  Today’s guest spent most of her career focused on medical science, clinical science, and research in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals products and their pathways of care in various areas of treatment.  Now, our guest, Dr. Christina Rahm has vowed to help people find their own paths of empowerment and pursue the best treatments with a focus on wellness and prevention. Christina, along with her dual doctorate and continuous learning, has been CEO and Chairman on the Board of Directors for many companies, foundations, and societies, and has created multiple provisional patents, proprietary formulas, and trade secrets.  In spite of the personal attacks she has endured due to her position on science and her resistance to go along with the mainstream, you will see first hand the honesty and down-to-earth wisdom that Christina shares with us through this platform today.  Thank you for celebrating our 1st Anniversary with our Healthcare360 Team.     The best way you could help us celebrate our first year is to share and provide feedback - If you would like to be a guest or have a conversation about a topic you would like HC360 to discuss, please click below and choose a time to talk with Scott! https://calendly.com/healthcare360/hc360-podcast-inquiry Also check out our newly released podcast videos on YouTube at: Healthcare 360 with Scott E. Burgess https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF3cv3k-mDmXYTIVBY66SMA?view_as=subscriber Thank you for being a part of the Healthcare360 Nation. Healthcare360 Host: Scott E. Burgess www.ScottEBurgess.com Burgess@ScottEBurgess.com Healthcare360 Magic Maker: Michelle Burgess MagicMaker@ScottEBurgess.com Guest Contact Info: Dr. Christina Rahm https://drchristinarahm.com/ drchistinarahm@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/dr-christina-rahm-cook Referenced Info: Nanotechnology Patents Exchange of Energy Dr. Joe Lamelas https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephlamelas/ Non-colonial Antibodies https://www.pfizer.com/ https://www.biogen.com/ https://alexion.com/ https://www.ucb.com/ https://www.bms.com/ Oncology Hematology Renegades Nutraceutical Supplement World Stem Cell World Ukraine, Lebanon, Nigeria, Bosnia, Serbia Vit C, Vit Bs, Trace Minerals, Prebiotics, Probiotics, HOCL (Hypochlorous Acid), Zeolites in IVs China, Vietnam Korea - Algaes Mexico, Middle East - Stem Cells HC360 #058 The Proper human Diet, Performance Science and Consumable Ketones with HVM's Geoffrey Woo https://www.nuvasive.com/ Wellness Healthcare Platform HC360 #034 Integrative Medicine & Healing Complex Chronic Disorders with Renowned Medical Detective Dr. Kenneth Bock Vanderbilt Prolactinoma Pituitary Tumor Spirulina Ketogenic or Mild Hypoglycemia - Slows the Growth of a tumor Zeolites Ortho-Silicic Acid Clays Benzonites Salts Oils Cedar Oil Gabba https://www.harvard.edu/ Exchange of Energy Ortho-Silicic Acid NLP Neurolinguistic Programming Void Foster and Kimberly Gamble: Thrive Documentary https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2063834/ Fluoride - Neurotoxin Pineal Gland Arsenic Detroit, Michigan - add Fluoride Alkaline Water Adrenals Alzheimers and Dementia Spirochetes Lymes Disease Covid Vaccine - Caterpillar Host Aricept https://alzheimersnewstoday.com/alzheimers-disease-treatment/approved-drugs/aricept-donepezil/ APoE Gene Alzheimer's Association https://www.alz.org/ Turmeric Curcumin Resveratrol Black Cumin Seed Olive Leaf Extract Oil of Oregano Saliva Breakdown Cold Pressed Lecithin Chernobyl Ukraine Nuclear Power Disaster Colostrum Oils and Sea Salts, Epsom Salts in Bath Apple Cider Vinegar Hydrogen Peroxide Cure the Cause Book by Dr. Christina Rahm Oxford Studies Hypomanic Covid Sleep is Healing Military, entrepreneurs Psychology Melatonin Dr. Wayne Dyer https://www.drwaynedyer.com/ Energetic Healing Star Dust, OmniPresent Music provided by: IMMEX - Blue Shark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1pmz9IJ1

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We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD's history on EC2. This episode was brought to you by Headlines 128 bit storage: Are you high? (https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-high) For people who have heard about ZFS boiling oceans and wonder where that is coming from, we dug out this old piece from 2004 on the blog of ZFS co-creator Jeff Bonwick, originally from the Sun website. 64 bits would have been plenty ... but then you can't talk out of your ass about boiling oceans then, can you? Well, it's a fair question. Why did we make ZFS a 128-bit storage system? What on earth made us think it's necessary? And how do we know it's sufficient? Let's start with the easy one: how do we know it's necessary? Some customers already have datasets on the order of a petabyte, or 2^50 bytes. Thus the 64-bit capacity limit of 2^64 bytes is only 14 doublings away. Moore's Law for storage predicts that capacity will continue to double every 9-12 months, which means we'll start to hit the 64-bit limit in about a decade. Storage systems tend to live for several decades, so it would be foolish to create a new one without anticipating the needs that will surely arise within its projected lifetime. If 64 bits isn't enough, the next logical step is 128 bits. That's enough to survive Moore's Law until I'm dead, and after that, it's not my problem. But it does raise the question: what are the theoretical limits to storage capacity? Although we'd all like Moore's Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 10^51 operations per second on at most 10^31 bits of information [see Seth Lloyd, "Ultimate physical limits to computation." Nature 406, 1047-1054 (2000)]. A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2^128 blocks = 2^137 bytes = 2^140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2^140 bits) / (10^31 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg. That's a lot of gear. To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc^2, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celcius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg * 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans. Best part of all: you don't have to understand any of this to use ZFS. Rest assured that you won't hit any limits with that filesystem for a long time. You still have to buy bigger disks over time, though... *** dtrace for Linux, Oracle relicenses dtrace (https://gnu.wildebeest.org/blog/mjw/2018/02/14/dtrace-for-linux-oracle-does-the-right-thing/) At Fosdem we had a talk on dtrace for linux in the Debugging Tools devroom. Not explicitly mentioned in that talk, but certainly the most exciting thing, is that Oracle is doing a proper linux kernel port: ``` commit e1744f50ee9bc1978d41db7cc93bcf30687853e6 Author: Tomas Jedlicka tomas.jedlicka@oracle.com Date: Tue Aug 1 09:15:44 2017 -0400 dtrace: Integrate DTrace Modules into kernel proper This changeset integrates DTrace module sources into the main kernel source tree under the GPLv2 license. Sources have been moved to appropriate locations in the kernel tree. ``` That is right, dtrace dropped the CDDL and switched to the GPL! The user space code dtrace-utils and libdtrace-ctf (a combination of GPLv2 and UPL) can be found on the DTrace Project Source Control page. The NEWS file mentions the license switch (and that it is build upon elfutils, which I personally was pleased to find out). The kernel sources (GPLv2+ for the core kernel and UPL for the uapi) are slightly harder to find because they are inside the uek kernel source tree, but following the above commit you can easily get at the whole linux kernel dtrace directory. The UPL is the Universal Permissive License, which according to the FSF is a lax, non-copyleft license that is compatible with the GNU GPL. Thank you Oracle for making everyone's life easier by waving your magic relicensing wand! Now there is lots of hard work to do to actually properly integrate this. And I am sure there are a lot of technical hurdles when trying to get this upstreamed into the mainline kernel. But that is just hard work. Which we can now start collaborating on in earnest. Like systemtap and the Dynamic Probes (dprobes) before it, dtrace is a whole system observability tool combining tracing, profiling and probing/debugging techniques. Something the upstream linux kernel hackers don't always appreciate when presented as one large system. They prefer having separate small tweaks for tracing, profiling and probing which are mostly separate from each other. It took years for the various hooks, kprobes, uprobes, markers, etc. from systemtap (and other systems) to get upstream. But these days they are. And there is now even a byte code interpreter (eBPF) in the mainline kernel as originally envisioned by dprobes, which systemtap can now target through stapbpf. So with all those techniques now available in the linux kernel it will be exciting to see if dtrace for linux can unite them all. Debugging Emacs or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DTrace (http://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/01/17/) For some time Elfeed was experiencing a strange, spurious failure. Every so often users were seeing an error (spoiler warning) when updating feeds: “error in process sentinel: Search failed.” If you use Elfeed, you might have even seen this yourself. From the surface it appeared that curl, tasked with the responsibility for downloading feed data, was producing incomplete output despite reporting a successful run. Since the run was successful, Elfeed assumed certain data was in curl's output buffer, but, since it wasn't, it failed hard. Unfortunately this issue was not reproducible. Manually running curl outside of Emacs never revealed any issues. Asking Elfeed to retry fetching the feeds would work fine. The issue would only randomly rear its head when Elfeed was fetching many feeds in parallel, under stress. By the time the error was discovered, the curl process had exited and vital debugging information was lost. Considering that this was likely to be a bug in Emacs itself, there really wasn't a reliable way to capture the necessary debugging information from within Emacs Lisp. And, indeed, this later proved to be the case. A quick-and-dirty work around is to use condition-case to catch and swallow the error. When the bizarre issue shows up, rather than fail badly in front of the user, Elfeed could attempt to swallow the error — assuming it can be reliably detected — and treat the fetch as simply a failure. That didn't sit comfortably with me. Elfeed had done its due diligence checking for errors already. Someone was lying to Elfeed, and I intended to catch them with their pants on fire. Someday. I'd just need to witness the bug on one of my own machines. Elfeed is part of my daily routine, so surely I'd have to experience this issue myself someday. My plan was, should that day come, to run a modified Elfeed, instrumented to capture extra data. I would have also routinely run Emacs under GDB so that I could inspect the failure more deeply. For now I just had to wait to hunt that zebra. Bryan Cantrill, DTrace, and FreeBSD Over the holidays I re-discovered Bryan Cantrill, a systems software engineer who worked for Sun between 1996 and 2010, and is most well known for DTrace. My first exposure to him was in a BSD Now interview in 2015. I had re-watched that interview and decided there was a lot more I had to learn from him. He's become a personal hero to me. So I scoured the internet for more of his writing and talks. Some interesting operating system technology came out of Sun during its final 15 or so years — most notably DTrace and ZFS — and Bryan speaks about it passionately. Almost as a matter of luck, most of it survived the Oracle acquisition thanks to Sun releasing it as open source in just the nick of time. Otherwise it would have been lost forever. The scattered ex-Sun employees, still passionate about their prior work at Sun, along with some of their old customers have since picked up the pieces and kept going as a community under the name illumos. It's like an open source flotilla. Naturally I wanted to get my hands on this stuff to try it out for myself. Is it really as good as they say? Normally I stick to Linux, but it (generally) doesn't have these Sun technologies available. The main reason is license incompatibility. Sun released its code under the CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL. Ubuntu does infamously include ZFS, but other distributions are unwilling to take that risk. Porting DTrace is a serious undertaking since it's got its fingers throughout the kernel, which also makes the licensing issues even more complicated. Linux has a reputation for Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome, and these licensing issues certainly contribute to that. Rather than adopt ZFS and DTrace, they've been reinvented from scratch: btrfs instead of ZFS, and a slew of partial options instead of DTrace. Normally I'm most interested in system call tracing, and my go to is strace, though it certainly has its limitations — including this situation of debugging curl under Emacs. Another famous example of NIH is Linux's epoll(2), which is a broken version of BSD kqueue(2). So, if I want to try these for myself, I'll need to install a different operating system. I've dabbled with OmniOS, an OS built on illumos, in virtual machines, using it as an alien environment to test some of my software (e.g. enchive). OmniOS has a philosophy called Keep Your Software To Yourself (KYSTY), which is really just code for “we don't do packaging.” Honestly, you can't blame them since they're a tiny community. The best solution to this is probably pkgsrc, which is essentially a universal packaging system. Otherwise you're on your own. There's also openindiana, which is a more friendly desktop-oriented illumos distribution. Still, the short of it is that you're very much on your own when things don't work. The situation is like running Linux a couple decades ago, when it was still difficult to do. If you're interested in trying DTrace, the easiest option these days is probably FreeBSD. It's got a big, active community, thorough documentation, and a huge selection of packages. Its license (the BSD license, duh) is compatible with the CDDL, so both ZFS and DTrace have been ported to FreeBSD. What is DTrace? I've done all this talking but haven't yet described what DTrace really is. I won't pretend to write my own tutorial, but I'll provide enough information to follow along. DTrace is a tracing framework for debugging production systems in real time, both for the kernel and for applications. The “production systems” part means it's stable and safe — using DTrace won't put your system at risk of crashing or damaging data. The “real time” part means it has little impact on performance. You can use DTrace on live, active systems with little impact. Both of these core design principles are vital for troubleshooting those really tricky bugs that only show up in production. There are DTrace probes scattered all throughout the system: on system calls, scheduler events, networking events, process events, signals, virtual memory events, etc. Using a specialized language called D (unrelated to the general purpose programming language D), you can dynamically add behavior at these instrumentation points. Generally the behavior is to capture information, but it can also manipulate the event being traced. Each probe is fully identified by a 4-tuple delimited by colons: provider, module, function, and probe name. An empty element denotes a sort of wildcard. For example, syscall::open:entry is a probe at the beginning (i.e. “entry”) of open(2). syscall:::entry matches all system call entry probes. Unlike strace on Linux which monitors a specific process, DTrace applies to the entire system when active. To run curl under strace from Emacs, I'd have to modify Emacs' behavior to do so. With DTrace I can instrument every curl process without making a single change to Emacs, and with negligible impact to Emacs. That's a big deal. So, when it comes to this Elfeed issue, FreeBSD is much better poised for debugging the problem. All I have to do is catch it in the act. However, it's been months since that bug report and I'm not really making this connection yet. I'm just hoping I eventually find an interesting problem where I can apply DTrace. Bryan Cantrill: Talks I have given (http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/) *** News Roundup a2k18 Hackathon preview: Syncookies coming to PF (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180207090000) As you may have heard, the a2k18 hackathon is in progress. As can be seen from the commit messages, several items of goodness are being worked on. One eagerly anticipated item is the arrival of TCP syncookies (read: another important tool in your anti-DDoS toolset) in PF. Henning Brauer (henning@) added the code in a series of commits on February 6th, 2018, with this one containing the explanation: ``` syncookies for pf. when syncookies are on, pf will blindly answer each and every SYN with a syncookie-SYNACK. Upon reception of the ACK completing the 3WHS, pf will reconstruct the original SYN, shove it through pf_test, where state will be created if the ruleset permits it. Then massage the freshly created state (we won't see the SYNACK), set up the sequence number modulator, and call into the existing synproxy code to start the 3WHS with the backend host. Add an - somewhat basic for now - adaptive mode where syncookies get enabled if a certain percentage of the state table is filled up with half-open tcp connections. This makes pf firewalls resilient against large synflood attacks. syncookies are off by default until we gained more experience, considered experimental for now. see http://bulabula.org/papers/2017/bsdcan/ for more details. joint work with sashan@, widely discussed and with lots of input by many ``` The first release to have this feature available will probably be the upcoming OpenBSD 6.3 if a sufficient number of people test this in their setups (hint, hint). More info is likely to emerge soon in post-hackathon writeups, so watch this space! [Pale Moon] A Perfect example of how not to approach OS developers/packagers Removed from OpenBSD Ports due to Licensing Issues (https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86) FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2018-February/112455.html) Mightnight BSD's response (https://twitter.com/midnightbsd/status/961232422091280386) *** FreeBSD EC2 History (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2018-02-12-FreeBSD-EC2-history.html) A couple years ago Jeff Barr published a blog post with a timeline of EC2 instances. I thought at the time that I should write up a timeline of the FreeBSD/EC2 platform, but I didn't get around to it; but last week, as I prepared to ask for sponsorship for my work I decided that it was time to sit down and collect together the long history of how the platform has evolved and improved over the years. Normally I don't edit blog posts after publishing them (with the exception of occasional typographical corrections), but I do plan on keeping this post up to date with future developments. August 25, 2006: Amazon EC2 launches. It supports a single version of Ubuntu Linux; FreeBSD is not available. December 13, 2010: I manage to get FreeBSD running on EC2 t1.micro instances. March 22, 2011: I manage to get FreeBSD running on EC2 "cluster compute" instances. July 8, 2011: I get FreeBSD 8.2 running on all 64-bit EC2 instance types, by marking it as "Windows" in order to get access to Xen/HVM virtualization. (Unfortunately this meant that users had to pay the higher "Windows" hourly pricing.) January 16, 2012: I get FreeBSD 9.0 running on 32-bit EC2 instances via the same "defenestration" trick. (Again, paying the "Windows" prices.) August 16, 2012: I move the FreeBSD rc.d scripts which handle "EC2" functionality (e.g., logging SSH host keys to the console) into the FreeBSD ports tree. October 7, 2012: I rework the build process for FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 and later to use "world" bits extracted from the release ISOs; only the kernel is custom-built. Also, the default SSH user changes from "root" to "ec2-user". October 31, 2012: Amazon launches the "M3" family of instances, which support Xen/HVM without FreeBSD needing to pay the "Windows" tax. November 21, 2012: I get FreeBSD added to the AWS Marketplace. October 2, 2013: I finish merging kernel patches into the FreeBSD base system, and rework the AMI build (again) so that FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 and later use bits extracted from the release ISOs for the entire system (world + kernel). FreeBSD Update can now be used for updating everything (because now FreeBSD/EC2 uses a GENERIC kernel). October 27, 2013: I add code to EC2 images so that FreeBSD 10.0-BETA2 and later AMIs will run FreeBSD Update when they first boot in order to download and install any critical updates. December 1, 2013: I add code to EC2 images so that FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 and later AMIs bootstrap the pkg tool and install packages at boot time (by default, the "awscli" package). December 9, 2013: I add configinit to FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 and later to allow systems to be easily configured via EC2 user-data. July 1, 2014: Amazon launches the "T2" family of instances; now the most modern family for every type of EC2 instance (regular, high-memory, high-CPU, high-I/O, burstable) supports HVM and there should no longer be any need for FreeBSD users to pay the "Windows tax". November 24, 2014: I add code to FreeBSD 10.2 and later to automatically resize their root filesystems when they first boot; this means that a larger root disk can be specified at instance launch time and everything will work as expected. April 1, 2015: I integrate the FreeBSD/EC2 build process into the FreeBSD release building process; FreeBSD 10.2-BETA1 and later AMIs are built by the FreeBSD release engineering team. January 12, 2016: I enable Intel 82599-based "first generation EC2 Enhanced Networking" in FreeBSD 11.0 and later. June 9, 2016: I enable the new EC2 VGA console functionality in FreeBSD 11.0 and later. (The old serial console also continues to work.) June 24, 2016: Intel 82599-based Enhanced Networking works reliably in FreeBSD 11.0 and later thanks to discovering and working around a Xen bug. June 29, 2016: I improve throughput on Xen blkfront devices (/dev/xbd*) by enabling indirect segment I/Os in FreeBSD 10.4 and later. (I wrote this functionality in July 2015, but left it disabled by default a first because a bug in EC2 caused it to hurt performance on some instances.) July 7, 2016: I fix a bug in FreeBSD's virtual memory initialization in order to allow it to support boot with 128 CPUs; aka. FreeBSD 11.0 and later support the EC2 x1.32xlarge instance type. January 26, 2017: I change the default configuration in FreeBSD 11.1 and later to support EC2's IPv6 networking setup out of the box (once you flip all of the necessary switches to enable IPv6 in EC2 itself). May 20, 2017: In collaboration with Rick Macklem, I make FreeBSD 11.1 and later compatible with the Amazon "Elastic File System" (aka. NFSv4-as-a-service) via the newly added "oneopenown" mount option (and lots of bug fixes). May 25, 2017: I enable support for the Amazon "Elastic Network Adapter" in FreeBSD 11.1 and later. (The vast majority of the work — porting the driver code — was done by Semihalf with sponsorship from Amazon.) December 5, 2017: I change the default configuration in FreeBSD 11.2 and later to make use of the Amazon Time Sync Service (aka. NTP-as-a-service). The current status The upcoming FreeBSD release (11.2) supports: IPv6, Enhanced Networking (both generations), Amazon Elastic File System, Amazon Time Sync Service, both consoles (Serial VGA), and every EC2 instance type (although I'm not sure if FreeBSD has drivers to make use of the FPGA or GPU hardware on those instances). Colin's Patreon' page if you'd like to support him (https://www.patreon.com/cperciva) X network transparency X's network transparency has wound up mostly being a failure (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XNetworkTransparencyFailure) I was recently reading Mark Dominus's entry about some X keyboard problems, in which he said in passing (quoting himself): I have been wondering for years if X's vaunted network transparency was as big a failure as it seemed: an interesting idea, worth trying out, but one that eventually turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. [...] My first reaction was to bristle, because I use X's network transparency all of the time at work. I have several programs to make it work very smoothly, and some core portions of my environment would be basically impossible without it. But there's a big qualification on my use of X's network transparency, namely that it's essentially all for text. When I occasionally go outside of this all-text environment of xterms and emacs and so on, it doesn't go as well. X's network transparency was not designed as 'it will run xterm well'; originally it was to be something that should let you run almost everything remotely, providing a full environment. Even apart from the practical issues covered in Daniel Stone's slide presentation, it's clear that it's been years since X could deliver a real first class environment over the network. You cannot operate with X over the network in the same way that you do locally. Trying to do so is painful and involves many things that either don't work at all or perform so badly that you don't want to use them. In my view, there are two things that did in general X network transparency. The first is that networks turned out to not be fast enough even for ordinary things that people wanted to do, at least not the way that X used them. The obvious case is web browsers; once the web moved to lots of images and worse, video, that was pretty much it, especially with 24-bit colour. (It's obviously not impossible to deliver video across the network with good performance, since YouTube and everyone else does it. But their video is highly encoded in specialized formats, not handled by any sort of general 'send successive images to the display' system.) The second is that the communication facilities that X provided were too narrow and limited. This forced people to go outside of them in order to do all sorts of things, starting with audio and moving on to things like DBus and other ways of coordinating environments, handling sophisticated configuration systems, modern fonts, and so on. When people designed these additional communication protocols, the result generally wasn't something that could be used over the network (especially not without a bunch of setup work that you had to do in addition to remote X). Basic X clients that use X properties for everything may be genuinely network transparent, but there are very few of those left these days. (Not even xterm is any more, at least if you use XFT fonts. XFT fonts are rendered in the client, and so different hosts may have different renderings of the same thing, cf.) < What remains of X's network transparency is still useful to some of us, but it's only a shadow of what the original design aimed for. I don't think it was a mistake for X to specifically design it in (to the extent that they did, which is less than you might think), and it did help X out pragmatically in the days of X terminals, but that's mostly it. (I continue to think that remote display protocols are useful in general, but I'm in an usual situation. Most people only ever interact with remote machines with either text mode SSH or a browser talking to a web server on the remote machine.) PS: The X protocol issues with synchronous requests that Daniel Stone talks about don't help the situation, but I think that even with those edges sanded off X's network transparency wouldn't be a success. Arguably X's protocol model committed a lesser version of part of the NeWS mistake. X's network transparency was basically free at the time (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFreeNetworkTransparency) I recently wrote an entry about how X's network transparency has wound up mostly being a failure for various reasons. However, there is an important flipside to the story of X's network transparency, and that is that X's network transparency was almost free at the time and in the context it was created. Unlike the situation today, in the beginning X did not have to give up lots of performance or other things in order to get network transparency. X originated in the mid 1980s and it was explicitly created to be portable across various Unixes, especially BSD-derived ones (because those were what universities were mostly using at that time). In the mid to late 1980s, Unix had very few IPC methods, especially portable ones. In particular, BSD systems did not have shared memory (it was called 'System V IPC' for the obvious reasons). BSD had TCP and Unix sockets, some System V machines had TCP (and you could likely assume that more would get it), and in general your safest bet was to assume some sort of abstract stream protocol and then allow for switchable concrete backends. Unsurprisingly, this is exactly what X did; the core protocol is defined as a bidirectional stream of bytes over an abstracted channel. (And the concrete implementation of $DISPLAY has always let you specify the transport mechanism, as well as allowing your local system to pick the best mechanism it has.) Once you've decided that your protocol has to run over abstracted streams, it's not that much more work to make it network transparent (TCP provides streams, after all). X could have refused to make the byte order of the stream clear or required the server and the client to have access to some shared files (eg for fonts), but I don't think either would have been a particularly big win. I'm sure that it took some extra effort and care to make X work across TCP from a different machine, but I don't think it took very much. (At the same time, my explanation here is probably a bit ahistorical. X's initial development seems relatively strongly tied to sometimes having clients on different machines than the display, which is not unreasonable for the era. But it doesn't hurt to get a feature that you want anyway for a low cost.) I believe it's important here that X was intended to be portable across different Unixes. If you don't care about portability and can get changes made to your Unix, you can do better (for example, you can add some sort of shared memory or process to process virtual memory transfer). I'm not sure how the 1980s versions of SunView worked, but I believe they were very SunOS dependent. Wikipedia says SunView was partly implemented in the kernel, which is certainly one way to both share memory and speed things up. PS: Sharing memory through mmap() and friends was years in the future at this point and required significant changes when it arrived. Beastie Bits Grace Hopper Celebration 2018 Call for Participation (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/grace-hopper-celebration-2018-call-for-participation/) Google Summer of Code: Call for Project Ideas (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/google-summer-of-code-call-for-project-ideas/) The OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180129190641) SSH Mastery 2/e out (https://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/3115) AsiaBSDcon 2018 Registration is open (https://2018.asiabsdcon.org/) Tarsnap support for Bitcoin ending April 1st; and a Chrome bug (http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00042.html) Feedback/Questions Todd - Couple Questions (http://dpaste.com/195HGHY#wrap) Seth - Tar Snap (http://dpaste.com/1N7NQVQ#wrap) Alex - sudo question (http://dpaste.com/3D9P1DW#wrap) Thomas - FreeBSD on ARM? (http://dpaste.com/24NMG47#wrap) Albert - Austria BSD User Group (http://dpaste.com/373CRX7#wrap)

Episode #70 What a massive fun filled episode! Adam talks about his trip to #RAW and we talk to Zack Becher about the London Grand Tournament where we will be hosting the best Blood Bowl event ever! at the Olympic Stadium! All that along with WoTW, Week in Hobby, HvM and much more!

Episode #58: It's huge! This episode seems to have just kept going, so much to talk about regarding AoS and Blood Bowl, we look at peoples' hopes for GHB 2017 and talk about our lists or lack of for BOBO. We have an in depth look at sponsorship for your blood bowl leagues, we scrutinise Glart Smashrip in player of the week and we have another smashing HvM.

This week on the show, we'll be talking with Paul Schenkeveld, chairman of the EuroBSDCon foundation. He tells us about his experiences running BSD conferences and how regular users can get involved too. We've also got answers to all your emails and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More BSD presentation videos (https://www.meetbsd.com/) The MeetBSD video uploading spree continues with a few more talks, maybe this'll be the last batch Corey Vixie, Web Apps in Embedded BSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbks12Mqpp8) Allan Jude, UCL config (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjP86iWsEzQ) Kip Macy, iflib (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4FRPKj7F80) While we're on the topic of conferences, AsiaBSDCon's CFP was extended (https://twitter.com/asiabsdcon/status/538352055245492226) by one week This year's ruBSD (https://events.yandex.ru/events/yagosti/rubsd14/) will be on December 13th in Moscow Also, the BSDCan call for papers (http://lists.bsdcan.org/pipermail/bsdcan-announce/2014-December/000135.html) is out, and the event will be in June next year Lastly, according to Rick Miller, "A potential vBSDcon 2015 event is being explored though a decision has yet to be made." *** BSD-powered digital library in Africa (http://peercorpsglobal.org/nzegas-digital-library-becomes-a-reality/) You probably haven't heard much about Nzega, Tanzania, but it's an East African country without much internet access With physical schoolbooks being a rarity there, a few companies helped out to bring some BSD-powered reading material to a local school They now have a pair of FreeNAS Minis at the center of their local network, with over 80,000 books and accompanying video content stored on them (~5TB of data currently) The school's workstations also got wiped and reloaded with FreeBSD, and everyone there seems to really enjoy using it *** pfSense 2.2 status update (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1486) With lots of people asking when the 2.2 release will be done, some pfSense developers decided to provide a status update 2.2 will have a lot of changes: being based on FreeBSD 10.1, Unbound instead of BIND, updating PHP to something recent, including the new(ish) IPSEC stack updates, etc All these things have taken more time than previously expected The post also has some interesting graphs showing the ratio of opened and close bugs for the upcoming release *** Recommended hardware threads (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/2n8wrg/bsd_on_mini_itx/) A few threads on caught our attention this week, all about hardware recommendations for BSD setups In the first one, the OP asks about mini-ITX hardware to run a FreeBSD server and NAS Everyone gave some good recommendations for low power, Atom-based systems The second thread (https://www.marc.info/?t=141694918800006&r=1&w=2) started off asking about which CPU architecture is best for PF on an OpenBSD router, but ended up being another hardware thread For a router, the ALIX, APU and Soekris boards still seem to be the most popular choices, with the third (https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/24m6tj/) and fourth (https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/2nblgp/) threads confirming this If you're thinking about building your first BSD box - server, router, NAS, whatever - these might be some good links to read *** Interview - Paul Schenkeveld - freebsd@psconsult.nl (mailto:freebsd@psconsult.nl) Running a BSD conference News Roundup From Linux to FreeBSD - for reals (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/2nqa60/) Another Linux user is ready to switch to BSD, and takes to Reddit for some community encouragement (seems to be a common thing now) After being a Linux guy for 20(!) years, he's ready to switch his systems over, and is looking for some helpful guides to transition In the comments, a lot of new switchers offer some advice and reading material If any of the listeners have some things that were helpful along your switching journey, maybe send 'em this guy's way *** Running FreeBSD as a Xen Dom0 (http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Dom0) Continuing progress has been made to allow FreeBSD to be a host for the Xen hypervisor This wiki article explains how to run the Xen branch of FreeBSD and host virtual machines on it Xen on FreeBSD currently supports PV guests (modified kernels) and HVM (unmodified kernels, uses hardware virtualization features) The wiki provides instructions for running Debian (PV) and FreeBSD (HVM), and discusses the features that are not finished yet *** HardenedBSD updates and changes (http://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2014-11-18/aout-and-null-mapping-support-removal) a.out is the old executable format for Unix The name stands for assembler output, and was coined by Ken Thompson as the fixed name for output of his PDP-7 assembler in 1968 FreeBSD, on which HardenedBSD is based, switched away from a.out in version 3.0 A restriction against NULL mapping was introduced in FreeBSD 7 (https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null.asc) and enabled by default in FreeBSD 8 However, for reasons of compatibility, it could be switched off, allowing buggy applications to continue to run, at the risk of allowing a kernel bug to be exploited HardenedBSD has removed the sysctl, making it impossible to run in ‘insecure mode' Package building update: more consistent repo, no more i386 packages (http://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2014-11-30/package-building-infrastructure-maintenance) *** Feedback/Questions Boris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2kVPKICqj) Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21Fic4dZC) (edit: adding "tinker panic 0" to the ntp.conf will disable the sanity check) Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2zk1Tvfe9) Robert writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s22alvJ4mu) Jake writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s203YMc2zL) *** Mailing List Gold Real world authpf use (https://www.marc.info/?t=141711266800001&r=1&w=2) The (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?r1=373564&r2=373563&pathrev=373564) great (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-November/096788.html) perl (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2014-November/096799.html) event (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2014-November/010146.html) of (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2014-November/010149.html) 2014 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-perl/2014-November/010167.html) ***

1-Germania: al via la maratona negoziale per la grande coalizione...2-GB: l'inverno è alle porte, aumentate del 10% le bollette di luci e gas. L'ex premeir John Major propone una tassa sui profitti delle compagnie energetiche. ..3- USA: Detroit oggi dal giudice fallimentare. Ma la città va avanti grazie agli artisti. 4-Yemen, la vita a Sanaa dopo la rivoluzione. La seconda puntata. ..5-Progetti sostenibili: l'agricoltura di prossimità ..alle porte di Marsiglia. ..6-Musica e nuove tecnologie: ad Apple non piace la concorrenza...7-World music: dall'ex Zaire congo l'album di Jupiter ..

1-Germania: al via la maratona negoziale per la grande coalizione...2-GB: l'inverno è alle porte, aumentate del 10% le bollette di luci e gas. L'ex premeir John Major propone una tassa sui profitti delle compagnie energetiche. ..3- USA: Detroit oggi dal giudice fallimentare. Ma la città va avanti grazie agli artisti. 4-Yemen, la vita a Sanaa dopo la rivoluzione. La seconda puntata. ..5-Progetti sostenibili: l'agricoltura di prossimità ..alle porte di Marsiglia. ..6-Musica e nuove tecnologie: ad Apple non piace la concorrenza...7-World music: dall'ex Zaire congo l'album di Jupiter ..

It may not be well-known but, according to the National Eye Institute, May is Healthy Vision Month. We thought we would help spread the word and enjoy some good music at the same time. Here's what the National Eye Institute wants to tell you: "Millions of people living in the United States have undetected vision problems, eye diseases, and conditions. HVM is designed to elevate vision as a health priority for the Nation by promoting the importance of early detection and treatment, as well as the use of proper eye safety practices, in preventing vision loss and blindness. One of the most important things people can do to protect their vision is to schedule a comprehensive dilated eye exam. In this painless procedure, an eye care professional examines the eyes to look for common vision problems and eye diseases, many of which have no early warning signs. A comprehensive dilated eye exam can detect eye diseases and conditions in their early stages, before vision loss occurs. Early detection and treatment can help to save your sight." With that said, we thought we'd celebrate Healthy Vision Month by spinning some songs that refer, in the title, to sight/vision is some form. Here we go. After deciding on the title for this episode, Chris' first choice came very easily. From 1977's Draw the Line album, we kick things off with Aerosmith performing 'Sight for Sore Eyes.' Aaron starts his sight-related picks with a track from the oft-overlooked 1995 release from Dokken; Dysfunctional. This album marked the return of George Lynch. We spin the opening track, 'Inside Looking Out.' Electric Six Chris decided to do some digging in research for this episode. A nugget was found in the vast space that is youtube with his choice of the track 'Night Vision' off Electric Six's 2005 release Switzerland. Aaron's next pick is 'Eyes of a Strager.' Wait, before you think it's the well-known Queensryche track, think again. This great sing comes from the appropriately-titled Visual Lies album from Lizzy Borden and is a great addition to the show. We return from break one with a selection from Motley Crue's debut album Too Fast for Love. While filled with lots of great hook-y songs, Too Fast....sports one track that fits in with our vision-themed show as we spin 'Starry Eyes.' Up next is Aaron's choice of a bonus track from Ozzy Osbourne's iconic Blizzard of Oz release. Featuring some seering Randy Rhoads guitar work, 'You Lookin' at Me, Lookin' at You' is a testimony to the strength of material being created by the gone-too-soon guitarist and the Prince of Darkness. Chris keeps the Crazy Train on track as we segue into a double-dose of Ozzy with his choice of 'Looking for Tomorrow' from the classic Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album from 1973. One band that doesn't get nearly the amount of recognition it deserves is Turbonegro. We try to alleviate that problem with Aaron's choice of 'If You See Kaye' from their Party Animals album. We close out the show with Chris' choice of a KISS track that appeared on two different albums in the band's catalog with different personnel. 'See You in Your Dreams' was selected from Rock and Roll Over and features some powerful drumming from Peter Criss and a great solo from Ace Frehley. Playing things out this week is a fantastic cover of a sight-related classic that's all about focus. Aaron's choice of At Vance's version of 'Eye of the Tiger' is a motivating way to finish things off. Buy Music! Aerosmith Dokken Electric Six Lizzy Borden Motley Crue Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath Turbonegro KISS At Vance Contact Us!   Rate, Review, and Subscribe in iTunes Join the Fan Page Follow on Twitter E-mail Us Comment Below   Call us on the Hotline! (540) DBGeek - 1 or (540) 342-3351 

De vlotte intellectueel Hans van Mierlo was in de zomer van 1989 de eerste gast van het seizoen. Henk van Hoorn ontving hem in de studio van de Hilversumse VPRO-villa. De oprichter van D’66 en oud-minister van Defensie (in het tweede en derde kabinet-Van Agt) was in de zomer van 1989 fractieleider van en Tweede Kamerlid voor zijn partij. Zijn grote wapenfeit – het tot stand brengen van de paarse kabinetten – zou nog enkele jaren op zich laten wachten. Op 14 oktober 1966 had Van Mierlo – tot dan toe bekend als journalist van Het Handelsblad – samen met 43 andere ‘homines novi’ de ‘sociaal-liberale’ partij Democraten 1966. Hij was destijds 35 jaar en populair. In de Nederlandse samenleving, die sterk aan het veranderen was, raakte hij een gevoelige snaar bij veel (jonge, intellectuele) kiezers. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 wist hij het ongekende aantal van zeven zetels te behalen. In 1989 zat D’66 met 9 zetels in de Kamer en had zowel Hans van Mierlo als zijn partij de pieken en dalen van de politiek leren kennen. ----------------------------------- Biografie Hans van Mierlo geb. 18 augustus 1931 te Breda Van houthakker tot politiek vernieuwer tot éminence grise Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva van Mierlo – naar zijn initialen ook wel HAFMO genoemd – werd in 1931 in Breda geboren. Hij was de oudste zoon van een steenfabrikant, na hem volgden vijf zussen. Een groot deel van de rest van de ‘roomse’ familie Van Mierlo had zich in het bankieren bekwaamd. De kleine Hans groeide in rijkdom op. Hij herinnerde zich nog dat hij daar op een nare manier mee werd geconfronteerd op het plaatselijke voetbalveld: “Ik was rijk en had mooie schoenen met noppen, maar ik kon niet voetballen. De arme jongens konden wel voetballen en droomden over schoenen zoals de mijne”. Met Breda had hij niet zoveel, met Brabant wel: “Ik heb altijd geprobeerd te voorkomen dat ik mijn zachte g zou verliezen. Ik vind zelf de zachte g mooier dan de harde.” Op zijn twaalfde moet Van Mierlo naar een jongenskostschool in Oss en op zijn veertiende plaatsen zijn ouders hem op het beroemde – en beruchte, want zeer strenge – jongensinternaat van de paters jezuïten, het Canisius College in Nijmegen. Hij zit daar elf maanden per jaar, ver van huis. In zijn latere leven had hij elk jaar aan het eind van augustus buikpijn: het schooljaar begon weer. Na zijn schooltijd ging Van Mierlo rechten studeren aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, maar hij vertrok al snel naar het buitenland voor wat minder academischer bezigheden. Hij werd visser in Marseille, hakte hout voor een klooster op een mediterraan eiland, was havenarbeider in Perpignan, redacteur bij de Franse krant L’Indépendant in Zuid-Frankrijk. Bij zijn terugkeer in 1960 besloot hij toch zijn doctoraalexamen te doen. Hij werd meester in de rechten en ging in Amsterdam wonen. Hij woont tegenwoordig nog altijd in het huis aan de Herengracht dat hij toen betrok. Hij begon voor Het Handelsblad te schrijven, eerst als redacteur binnenland, later als hoofdredacteur van de opiniepagina. In 1967 stopte hij bij het Handelsblad, omdat hij, misschien wel tegen wil en dank, naar de Tweede Kamer werd beroepen. Op 30 april 1966 kwam een aantal jonge ‘links-liberalen’ in Amsterdam bij elkaar uit onvrede over de toenemende onduidelijkheid in de Nederlandse politiek. Die onduidelijkheid was ontstaan door een groeiende ontzuiling en ontkerkelijking van de maatschappij. Democraten 1966, afgekort D’66, zag op 14 oktober van dat roerige jaar het levenslicht. 44 Zogenaamde ‘homines novi’, jonge intellectuelen, waren verantwoordelijk voor de nieuwe sociaal-liberale partij. Van Mierlo die door iedereen als leider werd gezien, wilde dat aanvankelijk helemaal niet zijn, het “doet hem teveel aan de oorlog denken”. Hij was niet bedreven in het managen en zijn organisatietalent was ook niet om over naar huis te schrijven, maar hij inspireerde zijn partijgenoten. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 behaalde de partij een voor een nieuwkomer ongehoord aantal van zeven zetels in de Tweede Kamer. Vooral het verkiezingsfilmpje met Hans van Mierlo, die in een oude loden en te grote jas van zijn oom door de regen liep, maakte indruk op het publiek. De opkomst van de jonge ster aan het politieke firmament trok zelfs de aandacht van de New York Times. Die kopte na de verkiezingen met ‘Star Rises in Dutch Politics’. Maar aan het begin van de jaren zeventig stootte Van Mierlo’s innige relatie met de PvdA veel partijgenoten voor het hoofd. Van Mierlo moest plaats maken voor Jan Terlouw, maar bleef lid van de Tweede Kamer om het buitenlandbeleid van de partij te vertegenwoordigen. Zijn politieke loopbaan leek in rustiger vaarwater terecht te zijn gekomen en sommigen dachten dat het misschien wel helemaal was gedaan met de politicus Van Mierlo. Dat veranderde toen hij op 11 september 1981 toetrad tot het kabinet Van Agt/Den Uyl, dat geen lang leven was beschoren. Ruim een jaar later was hij, waarschijnlijk tot zijn eigen opluchting, geen minister van Defensie meer, een baan die hij naar eigen zeggen zeker niet had nagestreefd. De mislukking van het kabinet, en daarmee van Van Mierlo als minister, deed D’66 geen goed bij de verkiezingen. Er gingen elf zetels verloren. Van Mierlo trok zich terug in de Eerste Kamer. Het tij keerde in 1985 toen de oude leider zijn elan ook weer had hervonden. Na de verkiezingen van 1986, die D’66 3 zetels extra opleverde, werd hij weer fractieleider van zijn partij en nam zitting in de Tweede Kamer. De daaropvolgende acht jaar bleef hij dat. Totdat Wim Kok, lijsttrekker van de Partij van de Arbeid, in 1994 de verkiezingen won. ‘Won’ is wellicht een groot woord – de partij verloor twaalf zetels – maar het CDA had het nog slechter gedaan (min twintig zetels). D’66 kon daarvan profiteren: de tijd was gekomen voor regeringsdeelname. Het eerste paarse kabinet, een coalitie van het PvdA, de VVD en D’66, was geboren. Van Mierlo werd in het eerste kabinet-Kok minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, een functie die hem vanwege zijn gebrekkige dossierkennis niet veel bewonderaars opleverde. De grote lijnen, daar was Van Mierlo beter in. Als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken was hij vaak onderweg. Toch bleef hij fractieleider van zijn partij. Iets wat hij gezien de resultaten van de verkiezingen in 1998 beter niet had kunnen doen: D’66 verloor tien zetels. Van Mierlo besloot de politiek definitief de rug toe te keren en gaf het stokje door aan Els Borst, die hij zelf tot opvolger had gebombardeerd: “Het is een meisje geworden en we noemen haar Els”. Twee maanden na zijn aftreden als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken werd Van Mierlo als minister van Staat benoemd. Een jaar na zijn ‘pensionering’, zoals hij het ook zelf noemt, ontmoette Van Mierlo de schrijfster Connie Palmen, bij Cees Nooteboom thuis. Het paar was, tot zijn dood, onafscheidelijk. ----------------------------------------- Hoogtepunten uit het interview "Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar" Hans van Mierlo, boegbeeld van D'66 - ook na een kleine tien jaar dat hij de actieve politiek vaarwel heeft gezegd - heeft niet altijd overal een mening over: "Dat is één van de makken van het beroep, dat je voortdurend moet voordoen alsof je overal iets van vindt, en dat heeft niemand. Dus waarom zou een politicus dat wel doen? HvH: daar wordt ie voor betaald. HvM: daarvoor? Nee, niet om zich te vervalsen. Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar, dat hoeft helemaal niet. Maar dat is de cultuur geworden. Zegt u eens, wat vindt u daarvan?" En hoewel hij geen last heeft van bescheidenheid, heeft ook hij last van onzekerheden: "De angst dat je hoger wordt ingeschat door de mensen dan je zelf vindt dat je waard bent. En dat ik dan moet voldoen aan een niveau en een eis. En dat ik zelf heb opgebouwd, maar dat is met geluk gebeurt en dat er een moment komt, dat voor iedereen zonneklaar duidelijk wordt dat het verwachtingspatroon veel te hoog is. Dat had ik twintig jaar geleden al en daar heb ik nu nog steeds last van. Soort van faalangst, hoewel ik niet van de variant last heb, waarbij functioneren onmogelijk is. Alle toespraken vind ik een opgaaf. Ik probeer het ook altijd zo te krijgen dat ik niet uit mijzelf hoef te praten, maar dat het een vraag is waar ik antwoord op kan geven. De ongevraagde mededeling is zoveel meer pretentieus dan de gevraagde mededeling. Daarom ben ik zo tegen interviews waarin de vragen worden weggelaten. Dat deed Ischa Meijer in Vrij Nederland, nu niet meer. De ongevraagde mededeling heeft veel meer pretentie en krijgt daardoor een hele andere lading en een ander karakter." Henk van Hoorn haalt een uitspraak van Van Mierlo's dochter aan: hij kan beter ophouden met de hele santekraam van D'66, want zonder hem stort de partij toch meteen als een kaartenhuis in elkaar. Van Mierlo denkt dat die mening voortkomt uit frustratie dat hij zo weinig thuis was, want "partijen hangen op gezette tijden in hun geschiedenis altijd van iemand af. En dat zijn de christelijke partijen van hun grote voormannen geweest, dat is de VVD van Wiegel geweest, dat is de PvdA van Den Uyl en nu van Wim Kok. Je moet er nu niet aan denken dat Kok het bijltje er bij neer gooit. Maar het is niet Nederlands om dat te vinden. Er is natuurlijk nu een fase waarin de partij sterk afhankelijk is van mij. Maar dat is al een stuk minder dan drie jaar geleden, toen ik van buitenaf terug moest komen." Helemaal ziek wordt Van Mierlo van de typering 'verpakking', die hem vaak ten deel valt. Hij zou D'66 alleen een gezicht geven, geen inhoud: "Ik vind het zo minachtend om te praten over verpakking, ik vind dat zo'n belediging. Een gezicht, er zit een gloed in die ogen, dat is de ziel. Dat gepraat over verpakking, dat vind ik zo'n minachting. Ik draag het gedachtegoed uit, dat ben ik. Een journalist die iets niet goed onder woorden kan brengen, behoort geen journalist te worden, en voor een politicus geldt hetzelfde. Gelukkig zijn er mensen die zeggen: ”Die van Mierlo zegt vaak wat hij denkt." Dat partijprogramma heb ik zelfs niet helemaal in mijn hoofd, en detail." -------------------------------------------- De interviewer: Henk van Hoorn "Ik zag het wel een beetje als een lakmoesproef voor hem" "Het gesprek met Hans van Mierlo was een strijdgesprek, behoorlijk pittig. Ik lag niet ademloos aan de voeten van de geïnterviewde. Maar dat heb je vaker als je iemand moet interviewen waar je politiek, zeg maar, meer verwantschap mee hebt. Die mensen pak je harder aan. Ik wilde hem toch testen. Van Mierlo was iemand die in de Kamer had bewezen achter zijn standpunten te staan en je wilt dan toch in zo’n gesprek achterhalen tot hoe ver hij gaat, wat hij écht denkt. Daar is zo’n marathoninterview ook bij uitstek geschikt voor. Het was in die zin een soort lakmoesproef voor hem." "Hij begon het gesprek meteen met de mededeling dat hij als politicus voortdurend overal iets van moest vinden. Ja, wat denk je dan? Hij is de geboren aarzelaar. Ik kende hem al heel lang. Ik heb hem letterlijk zien komen. Ik was er als verslaggever bij in Krasnapolsky in 1966 toen hij daar stond te vertellen hoe het allemaal verder moest en ik er met mijn microfoon onder stond. En ik heb hem natuurlijk in de Kamer meegemaakt toen ik bij Den Haag Vandaag werkte. Ik kom niet op feestjes met politici, maar in de wandelgangen kom je elkaar toch regelmatig tegen." "We hadden na het interview allebei het gevoel dat er meer in had gezeten. Niet dat er nog een heleboel onderwerpen niet behandeld waren, maar die paar uur blijken toch te weinig om overal diep op in te gaan. Je moet toch keuzes maken in zo’n gesprek. Het interview duurde op Radio 5 al heel wat minder lang dan daarvoor. Waren het nog steeds vierenhalf uur? Zo zie je maar hoe de tijd vliegt."

De vlotte intellectueel Hans van Mierlo was in de zomer van 1989 de eerste gast van het seizoen. Henk van Hoorn ontving hem in de studio van de Hilversumse VPRO-villa. De oprichter van D’66 en oud-minister van Defensie (in het tweede en derde kabinet-Van Agt) was in de zomer van 1989 fractieleider van en Tweede Kamerlid voor zijn partij. Zijn grote wapenfeit – het tot stand brengen van de paarse kabinetten – zou nog enkele jaren op zich laten wachten. Op 14 oktober 1966 had Van Mierlo – tot dan toe bekend als journalist van Het Handelsblad – samen met 43 andere ‘homines novi’ de ‘sociaal-liberale’ partij Democraten 1966. Hij was destijds 35 jaar en populair. In de Nederlandse samenleving, die sterk aan het veranderen was, raakte hij een gevoelige snaar bij veel (jonge, intellectuele) kiezers. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 wist hij het ongekende aantal van zeven zetels te behalen. In 1989 zat D’66 met 9 zetels in de Kamer en had zowel Hans van Mierlo als zijn partij de pieken en dalen van de politiek leren kennen. ----------------------------------- Biografie Hans van Mierlo geb. 18 augustus 1931 te Breda Van houthakker tot politiek vernieuwer tot éminence grise Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva van Mierlo – naar zijn initialen ook wel HAFMO genoemd – werd in 1931 in Breda geboren. Hij was de oudste zoon van een steenfabrikant, na hem volgden vijf zussen. Een groot deel van de rest van de ‘roomse’ familie Van Mierlo had zich in het bankieren bekwaamd. De kleine Hans groeide in rijkdom op. Hij herinnerde zich nog dat hij daar op een nare manier mee werd geconfronteerd op het plaatselijke voetbalveld: “Ik was rijk en had mooie schoenen met noppen, maar ik kon niet voetballen. De arme jongens konden wel voetballen en droomden over schoenen zoals de mijne”. Met Breda had hij niet zoveel, met Brabant wel: “Ik heb altijd geprobeerd te voorkomen dat ik mijn zachte g zou verliezen. Ik vind zelf de zachte g mooier dan de harde.” Op zijn twaalfde moet Van Mierlo naar een jongenskostschool in Oss en op zijn veertiende plaatsen zijn ouders hem op het beroemde – en beruchte, want zeer strenge – jongensinternaat van de paters jezuïten, het Canisius College in Nijmegen. Hij zit daar elf maanden per jaar, ver van huis. In zijn latere leven had hij elk jaar aan het eind van augustus buikpijn: het schooljaar begon weer. Na zijn schooltijd ging Van Mierlo rechten studeren aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, maar hij vertrok al snel naar het buitenland voor wat minder academischer bezigheden. Hij werd visser in Marseille, hakte hout voor een klooster op een mediterraan eiland, was havenarbeider in Perpignan, redacteur bij de Franse krant L’Indépendant in Zuid-Frankrijk. Bij zijn terugkeer in 1960 besloot hij toch zijn doctoraalexamen te doen. Hij werd meester in de rechten en ging in Amsterdam wonen. Hij woont tegenwoordig nog altijd in het huis aan de Herengracht dat hij toen betrok. Hij begon voor Het Handelsblad te schrijven, eerst als redacteur binnenland, later als hoofdredacteur van de opiniepagina. In 1967 stopte hij bij het Handelsblad, omdat hij, misschien wel tegen wil en dank, naar de Tweede Kamer werd beroepen. Op 30 april 1966 kwam een aantal jonge ‘links-liberalen’ in Amsterdam bij elkaar uit onvrede over de toenemende onduidelijkheid in de Nederlandse politiek. Die onduidelijkheid was ontstaan door een groeiende ontzuiling en ontkerkelijking van de maatschappij. Democraten 1966, afgekort D’66, zag op 14 oktober van dat roerige jaar het levenslicht. 44 Zogenaamde ‘homines novi’, jonge intellectuelen, waren verantwoordelijk voor de nieuwe sociaal-liberale partij. Van Mierlo die door iedereen als leider werd gezien, wilde dat aanvankelijk helemaal niet zijn, het “doet hem teveel aan de oorlog denken”. Hij was niet bedreven in het managen en zijn organisatietalent was ook niet om over naar huis te schrijven, maar hij inspireerde zijn partijgenoten. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 behaalde de partij een voor een nieuwkomer ongehoord aantal van zeven zetels in de Tweede Kamer. Vooral het verkiezingsfilmpje met Hans van Mierlo, die in een oude loden en te grote jas van zijn oom door de regen liep, maakte indruk op het publiek. De opkomst van de jonge ster aan het politieke firmament trok zelfs de aandacht van de New York Times. Die kopte na de verkiezingen met ‘Star Rises in Dutch Politics’. Maar aan het begin van de jaren zeventig stootte Van Mierlo’s innige relatie met de PvdA veel partijgenoten voor het hoofd. Van Mierlo moest plaats maken voor Jan Terlouw, maar bleef lid van de Tweede Kamer om het buitenlandbeleid van de partij te vertegenwoordigen. Zijn politieke loopbaan leek in rustiger vaarwater terecht te zijn gekomen en sommigen dachten dat het misschien wel helemaal was gedaan met de politicus Van Mierlo. Dat veranderde toen hij op 11 september 1981 toetrad tot het kabinet Van Agt/Den Uyl, dat geen lang leven was beschoren. Ruim een jaar later was hij, waarschijnlijk tot zijn eigen opluchting, geen minister van Defensie meer, een baan die hij naar eigen zeggen zeker niet had nagestreefd. De mislukking van het kabinet, en daarmee van Van Mierlo als minister, deed D’66 geen goed bij de verkiezingen. Er gingen elf zetels verloren. Van Mierlo trok zich terug in de Eerste Kamer. Het tij keerde in 1985 toen de oude leider zijn elan ook weer had hervonden. Na de verkiezingen van 1986, die D’66 3 zetels extra opleverde, werd hij weer fractieleider van zijn partij en nam zitting in de Tweede Kamer. De daaropvolgende acht jaar bleef hij dat. Totdat Wim Kok, lijsttrekker van de Partij van de Arbeid, in 1994 de verkiezingen won. ‘Won’ is wellicht een groot woord – de partij verloor twaalf zetels – maar het CDA had het nog slechter gedaan (min twintig zetels). D’66 kon daarvan profiteren: de tijd was gekomen voor regeringsdeelname. Het eerste paarse kabinet, een coalitie van het PvdA, de VVD en D’66, was geboren. Van Mierlo werd in het eerste kabinet-Kok minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, een functie die hem vanwege zijn gebrekkige dossierkennis niet veel bewonderaars opleverde. De grote lijnen, daar was Van Mierlo beter in. Als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken was hij vaak onderweg. Toch bleef hij fractieleider van zijn partij. Iets wat hij gezien de resultaten van de verkiezingen in 1998 beter niet had kunnen doen: D’66 verloor tien zetels. Van Mierlo besloot de politiek definitief de rug toe te keren en gaf het stokje door aan Els Borst, die hij zelf tot opvolger had gebombardeerd: “Het is een meisje geworden en we noemen haar Els”. Twee maanden na zijn aftreden als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken werd Van Mierlo als minister van Staat benoemd. Een jaar na zijn ‘pensionering’, zoals hij het ook zelf noemt, ontmoette Van Mierlo de schrijfster Connie Palmen, bij Cees Nooteboom thuis. Het paar was, tot zijn dood, onafscheidelijk. ----------------------------------------- Hoogtepunten uit het interview "Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar" Hans van Mierlo, boegbeeld van D'66 - ook na een kleine tien jaar dat hij de actieve politiek vaarwel heeft gezegd - heeft niet altijd overal een mening over: "Dat is één van de makken van het beroep, dat je voortdurend moet voordoen alsof je overal iets van vindt, en dat heeft niemand. Dus waarom zou een politicus dat wel doen? HvH: daar wordt ie voor betaald. HvM: daarvoor? Nee, niet om zich te vervalsen. Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar, dat hoeft helemaal niet. Maar dat is de cultuur geworden. Zegt u eens, wat vindt u daarvan?" En hoewel hij geen last heeft van bescheidenheid, heeft ook hij last van onzekerheden: "De angst dat je hoger wordt ingeschat door de mensen dan je zelf vindt dat je waard bent. En dat ik dan moet voldoen aan een niveau en een eis. En dat ik zelf heb opgebouwd, maar dat is met geluk gebeurt en dat er een moment komt, dat voor iedereen zonneklaar duidelijk wordt dat het verwachtingspatroon veel te hoog is. Dat had ik twintig jaar geleden al en daar heb ik nu nog steeds last van. Soort van faalangst, hoewel ik niet van de variant last heb, waarbij functioneren onmogelijk is. Alle toespraken vind ik een opgaaf. Ik probeer het ook altijd zo te krijgen dat ik niet uit mijzelf hoef te praten, maar dat het een vraag is waar ik antwoord op kan geven. De ongevraagde mededeling is zoveel meer pretentieus dan de gevraagde mededeling. Daarom ben ik zo tegen interviews waarin de vragen worden weggelaten. Dat deed Ischa Meijer in Vrij Nederland, nu niet meer. De ongevraagde mededeling heeft veel meer pretentie en krijgt daardoor een hele andere lading en een ander karakter." Henk van Hoorn haalt een uitspraak van Van Mierlo's dochter aan: hij kan beter ophouden met de hele santekraam van D'66, want zonder hem stort de partij toch meteen als een kaartenhuis in elkaar. Van Mierlo denkt dat die mening voortkomt uit frustratie dat hij zo weinig thuis was, want "partijen hangen op gezette tijden in hun geschiedenis altijd van iemand af. En dat zijn de christelijke partijen van hun grote voormannen geweest, dat is de VVD van Wiegel geweest, dat is de PvdA van Den Uyl en nu van Wim Kok. Je moet er nu niet aan denken dat Kok het bijltje er bij neer gooit. Maar het is niet Nederlands om dat te vinden. Er is natuurlijk nu een fase waarin de partij sterk afhankelijk is van mij. Maar dat is al een stuk minder dan drie jaar geleden, toen ik van buitenaf terug moest komen." Helemaal ziek wordt Van Mierlo van de typering 'verpakking', die hem vaak ten deel valt. Hij zou D'66 alleen een gezicht geven, geen inhoud: "Ik vind het zo minachtend om te praten over verpakking, ik vind dat zo'n belediging. Een gezicht, er zit een gloed in die ogen, dat is de ziel. Dat gepraat over verpakking, dat vind ik zo'n minachting. Ik draag het gedachtegoed uit, dat ben ik. Een journalist die iets niet goed onder woorden kan brengen, behoort geen journalist te worden, en voor een politicus geldt hetzelfde. Gelukkig zijn er mensen die zeggen: ”Die van Mierlo zegt vaak wat hij denkt." Dat partijprogramma heb ik zelfs niet helemaal in mijn hoofd, en detail." -------------------------------------------- De interviewer: Henk van Hoorn "Ik zag het wel een beetje als een lakmoesproef voor hem" "Het gesprek met Hans van Mierlo was een strijdgesprek, behoorlijk pittig. Ik lag niet ademloos aan de voeten van de geïnterviewde. Maar dat heb je vaker als je iemand moet interviewen waar je politiek, zeg maar, meer verwantschap mee hebt. Die mensen pak je harder aan. Ik wilde hem toch testen. Van Mierlo was iemand die in de Kamer had bewezen achter zijn standpunten te staan en je wilt dan toch in zo’n gesprek achterhalen tot hoe ver hij gaat, wat hij écht denkt. Daar is zo’n marathoninterview ook bij uitstek geschikt voor. Het was in die zin een soort lakmoesproef voor hem." "Hij begon het gesprek meteen met de mededeling dat hij als politicus voortdurend overal iets van moest vinden. Ja, wat denk je dan? Hij is de geboren aarzelaar. Ik kende hem al heel lang. Ik heb hem letterlijk zien komen. Ik was er als verslaggever bij in Krasnapolsky in 1966 toen hij daar stond te vertellen hoe het allemaal verder moest en ik er met mijn microfoon onder stond. En ik heb hem natuurlijk in de Kamer meegemaakt toen ik bij Den Haag Vandaag werkte. Ik kom niet op feestjes met politici, maar in de wandelgangen kom je elkaar toch regelmatig tegen." "We hadden na het interview allebei het gevoel dat er meer in had gezeten. Niet dat er nog een heleboel onderwerpen niet behandeld waren, maar die paar uur blijken toch te weinig om overal diep op in te gaan. Je moet toch keuzes maken in zo’n gesprek. Het interview duurde op Radio 5 al heel wat minder lang dan daarvoor. Waren het nog steeds vierenhalf uur? Zo zie je maar hoe de tijd vliegt."

De vlotte intellectueel Hans van Mierlo was in de zomer van 1989 de eerste gast van het seizoen. Henk van Hoorn ontving hem in de studio van de Hilversumse VPRO-villa. De oprichter van D’66 en oud-minister van Defensie (in het tweede en derde kabinet-Van Agt) was in de zomer van 1989 fractieleider van en Tweede Kamerlid voor zijn partij. Zijn grote wapenfeit – het tot stand brengen van de paarse kabinetten – zou nog enkele jaren op zich laten wachten. Op 14 oktober 1966 had Van Mierlo – tot dan toe bekend als journalist van Het Handelsblad – samen met 43 andere ‘homines novi’ de ‘sociaal-liberale’ partij Democraten 1966. Hij was destijds 35 jaar en populair. In de Nederlandse samenleving, die sterk aan het veranderen was, raakte hij een gevoelige snaar bij veel (jonge, intellectuele) kiezers. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 wist hij het ongekende aantal van zeven zetels te behalen. In 1989 zat D’66 met 9 zetels in de Kamer en had zowel Hans van Mierlo als zijn partij de pieken en dalen van de politiek leren kennen. ----------------------------------- Biografie Hans van Mierlo geb. 18 augustus 1931 te Breda Van houthakker tot politiek vernieuwer tot éminence grise Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva van Mierlo – naar zijn initialen ook wel HAFMO genoemd – werd in 1931 in Breda geboren. Hij was de oudste zoon van een steenfabrikant, na hem volgden vijf zussen. Een groot deel van de rest van de ‘roomse’ familie Van Mierlo had zich in het bankieren bekwaamd. De kleine Hans groeide in rijkdom op. Hij herinnerde zich nog dat hij daar op een nare manier mee werd geconfronteerd op het plaatselijke voetbalveld: “Ik was rijk en had mooie schoenen met noppen, maar ik kon niet voetballen. De arme jongens konden wel voetballen en droomden over schoenen zoals de mijne”. Met Breda had hij niet zoveel, met Brabant wel: “Ik heb altijd geprobeerd te voorkomen dat ik mijn zachte g zou verliezen. Ik vind zelf de zachte g mooier dan de harde.” Op zijn twaalfde moet Van Mierlo naar een jongenskostschool in Oss en op zijn veertiende plaatsen zijn ouders hem op het beroemde – en beruchte, want zeer strenge – jongensinternaat van de paters jezuïten, het Canisius College in Nijmegen. Hij zit daar elf maanden per jaar, ver van huis. In zijn latere leven had hij elk jaar aan het eind van augustus buikpijn: het schooljaar begon weer. Na zijn schooltijd ging Van Mierlo rechten studeren aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, maar hij vertrok al snel naar het buitenland voor wat minder academischer bezigheden. Hij werd visser in Marseille, hakte hout voor een klooster op een mediterraan eiland, was havenarbeider in Perpignan, redacteur bij de Franse krant L’Indépendant in Zuid-Frankrijk. Bij zijn terugkeer in 1960 besloot hij toch zijn doctoraalexamen te doen. Hij werd meester in de rechten en ging in Amsterdam wonen. Hij woont tegenwoordig nog altijd in het huis aan de Herengracht dat hij toen betrok. Hij begon voor Het Handelsblad te schrijven, eerst als redacteur binnenland, later als hoofdredacteur van de opiniepagina. In 1967 stopte hij bij het Handelsblad, omdat hij, misschien wel tegen wil en dank, naar de Tweede Kamer werd beroepen. Op 30 april 1966 kwam een aantal jonge ‘links-liberalen’ in Amsterdam bij elkaar uit onvrede over de toenemende onduidelijkheid in de Nederlandse politiek. Die onduidelijkheid was ontstaan door een groeiende ontzuiling en ontkerkelijking van de maatschappij. Democraten 1966, afgekort D’66, zag op 14 oktober van dat roerige jaar het levenslicht. 44 Zogenaamde ‘homines novi’, jonge intellectuelen, waren verantwoordelijk voor de nieuwe sociaal-liberale partij. Van Mierlo die door iedereen als leider werd gezien, wilde dat aanvankelijk helemaal niet zijn, het “doet hem teveel aan de oorlog denken”. Hij was niet bedreven in het managen en zijn organisatietalent was ook niet om over naar huis te schrijven, maar hij inspireerde zijn partijgenoten. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 behaalde de partij een voor een nieuwkomer ongehoord aantal van zeven zetels in de Tweede Kamer. Vooral het verkiezingsfilmpje met Hans van Mierlo, die in een oude loden en te grote jas van zijn oom door de regen liep, maakte indruk op het publiek. De opkomst van de jonge ster aan het politieke firmament trok zelfs de aandacht van de New York Times. Die kopte na de verkiezingen met ‘Star Rises in Dutch Politics’. Maar aan het begin van de jaren zeventig stootte Van Mierlo’s innige relatie met de PvdA veel partijgenoten voor het hoofd. Van Mierlo moest plaats maken voor Jan Terlouw, maar bleef lid van de Tweede Kamer om het buitenlandbeleid van de partij te vertegenwoordigen. Zijn politieke loopbaan leek in rustiger vaarwater terecht te zijn gekomen en sommigen dachten dat het misschien wel helemaal was gedaan met de politicus Van Mierlo. Dat veranderde toen hij op 11 september 1981 toetrad tot het kabinet Van Agt/Den Uyl, dat geen lang leven was beschoren. Ruim een jaar later was hij, waarschijnlijk tot zijn eigen opluchting, geen minister van Defensie meer, een baan die hij naar eigen zeggen zeker niet had nagestreefd. De mislukking van het kabinet, en daarmee van Van Mierlo als minister, deed D’66 geen goed bij de verkiezingen. Er gingen elf zetels verloren. Van Mierlo trok zich terug in de Eerste Kamer. Het tij keerde in 1985 toen de oude leider zijn elan ook weer had hervonden. Na de verkiezingen van 1986, die D’66 3 zetels extra opleverde, werd hij weer fractieleider van zijn partij en nam zitting in de Tweede Kamer. De daaropvolgende acht jaar bleef hij dat. Totdat Wim Kok, lijsttrekker van de Partij van de Arbeid, in 1994 de verkiezingen won. ‘Won’ is wellicht een groot woord – de partij verloor twaalf zetels – maar het CDA had het nog slechter gedaan (min twintig zetels). D’66 kon daarvan profiteren: de tijd was gekomen voor regeringsdeelname. Het eerste paarse kabinet, een coalitie van het PvdA, de VVD en D’66, was geboren. Van Mierlo werd in het eerste kabinet-Kok minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, een functie die hem vanwege zijn gebrekkige dossierkennis niet veel bewonderaars opleverde. De grote lijnen, daar was Van Mierlo beter in. Als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken was hij vaak onderweg. Toch bleef hij fractieleider van zijn partij. Iets wat hij gezien de resultaten van de verkiezingen in 1998 beter niet had kunnen doen: D’66 verloor tien zetels. Van Mierlo besloot de politiek definitief de rug toe te keren en gaf het stokje door aan Els Borst, die hij zelf tot opvolger had gebombardeerd: “Het is een meisje geworden en we noemen haar Els”. Twee maanden na zijn aftreden als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken werd Van Mierlo als minister van Staat benoemd. Een jaar na zijn ‘pensionering’, zoals hij het ook zelf noemt, ontmoette Van Mierlo de schrijfster Connie Palmen, bij Cees Nooteboom thuis. Het paar was, tot zijn dood, onafscheidelijk. ----------------------------------------- Hoogtepunten uit het interview "Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar" Hans van Mierlo, boegbeeld van D'66 - ook na een kleine tien jaar dat hij de actieve politiek vaarwel heeft gezegd - heeft niet altijd overal een mening over: "Dat is één van de makken van het beroep, dat je voortdurend moet voordoen alsof je overal iets van vindt, en dat heeft niemand. Dus waarom zou een politicus dat wel doen? HvH: daar wordt ie voor betaald. HvM: daarvoor? Nee, niet om zich te vervalsen. Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar, dat hoeft helemaal niet. Maar dat is de cultuur geworden. Zegt u eens, wat vindt u daarvan?" En hoewel hij geen last heeft van bescheidenheid, heeft ook hij last van onzekerheden: "De angst dat je hoger wordt ingeschat door de mensen dan je zelf vindt dat je waard bent. En dat ik dan moet voldoen aan een niveau en een eis. En dat ik zelf heb opgebouwd, maar dat is met geluk gebeurt en dat er een moment komt, dat voor iedereen zonneklaar duidelijk wordt dat het verwachtingspatroon veel te hoog is. Dat had ik twintig jaar geleden al en daar heb ik nu nog steeds last van. Soort van faalangst, hoewel ik niet van de variant last heb, waarbij functioneren onmogelijk is. Alle toespraken vind ik een opgaaf. Ik probeer het ook altijd zo te krijgen dat ik niet uit mijzelf hoef te praten, maar dat het een vraag is waar ik antwoord op kan geven. De ongevraagde mededeling is zoveel meer pretentieus dan de gevraagde mededeling. Daarom ben ik zo tegen interviews waarin de vragen worden weggelaten. Dat deed Ischa Meijer in Vrij Nederland, nu niet meer. De ongevraagde mededeling heeft veel meer pretentie en krijgt daardoor een hele andere lading en een ander karakter." Henk van Hoorn haalt een uitspraak van Van Mierlo's dochter aan: hij kan beter ophouden met de hele santekraam van D'66, want zonder hem stort de partij toch meteen als een kaartenhuis in elkaar. Van Mierlo denkt dat die mening voortkomt uit frustratie dat hij zo weinig thuis was, want "partijen hangen op gezette tijden in hun geschiedenis altijd van iemand af. En dat zijn de christelijke partijen van hun grote voormannen geweest, dat is de VVD van Wiegel geweest, dat is de PvdA van Den Uyl en nu van Wim Kok. Je moet er nu niet aan denken dat Kok het bijltje er bij neer gooit. Maar het is niet Nederlands om dat te vinden. Er is natuurlijk nu een fase waarin de partij sterk afhankelijk is van mij. Maar dat is al een stuk minder dan drie jaar geleden, toen ik van buitenaf terug moest komen." Helemaal ziek wordt Van Mierlo van de typering 'verpakking', die hem vaak ten deel valt. Hij zou D'66 alleen een gezicht geven, geen inhoud: "Ik vind het zo minachtend om te praten over verpakking, ik vind dat zo'n belediging. Een gezicht, er zit een gloed in die ogen, dat is de ziel. Dat gepraat over verpakking, dat vind ik zo'n minachting. Ik draag het gedachtegoed uit, dat ben ik. Een journalist die iets niet goed onder woorden kan brengen, behoort geen journalist te worden, en voor een politicus geldt hetzelfde. Gelukkig zijn er mensen die zeggen: ”Die van Mierlo zegt vaak wat hij denkt." Dat partijprogramma heb ik zelfs niet helemaal in mijn hoofd, en detail." -------------------------------------------- De interviewer: Henk van Hoorn "Ik zag het wel een beetje als een lakmoesproef voor hem" "Het gesprek met Hans van Mierlo was een strijdgesprek, behoorlijk pittig. Ik lag niet ademloos aan de voeten van de geïnterviewde. Maar dat heb je vaker als je iemand moet interviewen waar je politiek, zeg maar, meer verwantschap mee hebt. Die mensen pak je harder aan. Ik wilde hem toch testen. Van Mierlo was iemand die in de Kamer had bewezen achter zijn standpunten te staan en je wilt dan toch in zo’n gesprek achterhalen tot hoe ver hij gaat, wat hij écht denkt. Daar is zo’n marathoninterview ook bij uitstek geschikt voor. Het was in die zin een soort lakmoesproef voor hem." "Hij begon het gesprek meteen met de mededeling dat hij als politicus voortdurend overal iets van moest vinden. Ja, wat denk je dan? Hij is de geboren aarzelaar. Ik kende hem al heel lang. Ik heb hem letterlijk zien komen. Ik was er als verslaggever bij in Krasnapolsky in 1966 toen hij daar stond te vertellen hoe het allemaal verder moest en ik er met mijn microfoon onder stond. En ik heb hem natuurlijk in de Kamer meegemaakt toen ik bij Den Haag Vandaag werkte. Ik kom niet op feestjes met politici, maar in de wandelgangen kom je elkaar toch regelmatig tegen." "We hadden na het interview allebei het gevoel dat er meer in had gezeten. Niet dat er nog een heleboel onderwerpen niet behandeld waren, maar die paar uur blijken toch te weinig om overal diep op in te gaan. Je moet toch keuzes maken in zo’n gesprek. Het interview duurde op Radio 5 al heel wat minder lang dan daarvoor. Waren het nog steeds vierenhalf uur? Zo zie je maar hoe de tijd vliegt."

De vlotte intellectueel Hans van Mierlo was in de zomer van 1989 de eerste gast van het seizoen. Henk van Hoorn ontving hem in de studio van de Hilversumse VPRO-villa. De oprichter van D’66 en oud-minister van Defensie (in het tweede en derde kabinet-Van Agt) was in de zomer van 1989 fractieleider van en Tweede Kamerlid voor zijn partij. Zijn grote wapenfeit – het tot stand brengen van de paarse kabinetten – zou nog enkele jaren op zich laten wachten. Op 14 oktober 1966 had Van Mierlo – tot dan toe bekend als journalist van Het Handelsblad – samen met 43 andere ‘homines novi’ de ‘sociaal-liberale’ partij Democraten 1966. Hij was destijds 35 jaar en populair. In de Nederlandse samenleving, die sterk aan het veranderen was, raakte hij een gevoelige snaar bij veel (jonge, intellectuele) kiezers. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 wist hij het ongekende aantal van zeven zetels te behalen. In 1989 zat D’66 met 9 zetels in de Kamer en had zowel Hans van Mierlo als zijn partij de pieken en dalen van de politiek leren kennen. ----------------------------------- Biografie Hans van Mierlo geb. 18 augustus 1931 te Breda Van houthakker tot politiek vernieuwer tot éminence grise Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva van Mierlo – naar zijn initialen ook wel HAFMO genoemd – werd in 1931 in Breda geboren. Hij was de oudste zoon van een steenfabrikant, na hem volgden vijf zussen. Een groot deel van de rest van de ‘roomse’ familie Van Mierlo had zich in het bankieren bekwaamd. De kleine Hans groeide in rijkdom op. Hij herinnerde zich nog dat hij daar op een nare manier mee werd geconfronteerd op het plaatselijke voetbalveld: “Ik was rijk en had mooie schoenen met noppen, maar ik kon niet voetballen. De arme jongens konden wel voetballen en droomden over schoenen zoals de mijne”. Met Breda had hij niet zoveel, met Brabant wel: “Ik heb altijd geprobeerd te voorkomen dat ik mijn zachte g zou verliezen. Ik vind zelf de zachte g mooier dan de harde.” Op zijn twaalfde moet Van Mierlo naar een jongenskostschool in Oss en op zijn veertiende plaatsen zijn ouders hem op het beroemde – en beruchte, want zeer strenge – jongensinternaat van de paters jezuïten, het Canisius College in Nijmegen. Hij zit daar elf maanden per jaar, ver van huis. In zijn latere leven had hij elk jaar aan het eind van augustus buikpijn: het schooljaar begon weer. Na zijn schooltijd ging Van Mierlo rechten studeren aan de Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, maar hij vertrok al snel naar het buitenland voor wat minder academischer bezigheden. Hij werd visser in Marseille, hakte hout voor een klooster op een mediterraan eiland, was havenarbeider in Perpignan, redacteur bij de Franse krant L’Indépendant in Zuid-Frankrijk. Bij zijn terugkeer in 1960 besloot hij toch zijn doctoraalexamen te doen. Hij werd meester in de rechten en ging in Amsterdam wonen. Hij woont tegenwoordig nog altijd in het huis aan de Herengracht dat hij toen betrok. Hij begon voor Het Handelsblad te schrijven, eerst als redacteur binnenland, later als hoofdredacteur van de opiniepagina. In 1967 stopte hij bij het Handelsblad, omdat hij, misschien wel tegen wil en dank, naar de Tweede Kamer werd beroepen. Op 30 april 1966 kwam een aantal jonge ‘links-liberalen’ in Amsterdam bij elkaar uit onvrede over de toenemende onduidelijkheid in de Nederlandse politiek. Die onduidelijkheid was ontstaan door een groeiende ontzuiling en ontkerkelijking van de maatschappij. Democraten 1966, afgekort D’66, zag op 14 oktober van dat roerige jaar het levenslicht. 44 Zogenaamde ‘homines novi’, jonge intellectuelen, waren verantwoordelijk voor de nieuwe sociaal-liberale partij. Van Mierlo die door iedereen als leider werd gezien, wilde dat aanvankelijk helemaal niet zijn, het “doet hem teveel aan de oorlog denken”. Hij was niet bedreven in het managen en zijn organisatietalent was ook niet om over naar huis te schrijven, maar hij inspireerde zijn partijgenoten. Bij de verkiezingen van 1967 behaalde de partij een voor een nieuwkomer ongehoord aantal van zeven zetels in de Tweede Kamer. Vooral het verkiezingsfilmpje met Hans van Mierlo, die in een oude loden en te grote jas van zijn oom door de regen liep, maakte indruk op het publiek. De opkomst van de jonge ster aan het politieke firmament trok zelfs de aandacht van de New York Times. Die kopte na de verkiezingen met ‘Star Rises in Dutch Politics’. Maar aan het begin van de jaren zeventig stootte Van Mierlo’s innige relatie met de PvdA veel partijgenoten voor het hoofd. Van Mierlo moest plaats maken voor Jan Terlouw, maar bleef lid van de Tweede Kamer om het buitenlandbeleid van de partij te vertegenwoordigen. Zijn politieke loopbaan leek in rustiger vaarwater terecht te zijn gekomen en sommigen dachten dat het misschien wel helemaal was gedaan met de politicus Van Mierlo. Dat veranderde toen hij op 11 september 1981 toetrad tot het kabinet Van Agt/Den Uyl, dat geen lang leven was beschoren. Ruim een jaar later was hij, waarschijnlijk tot zijn eigen opluchting, geen minister van Defensie meer, een baan die hij naar eigen zeggen zeker niet had nagestreefd. De mislukking van het kabinet, en daarmee van Van Mierlo als minister, deed D’66 geen goed bij de verkiezingen. Er gingen elf zetels verloren. Van Mierlo trok zich terug in de Eerste Kamer. Het tij keerde in 1985 toen de oude leider zijn elan ook weer had hervonden. Na de verkiezingen van 1986, die D’66 3 zetels extra opleverde, werd hij weer fractieleider van zijn partij en nam zitting in de Tweede Kamer. De daaropvolgende acht jaar bleef hij dat. Totdat Wim Kok, lijsttrekker van de Partij van de Arbeid, in 1994 de verkiezingen won. ‘Won’ is wellicht een groot woord – de partij verloor twaalf zetels – maar het CDA had het nog slechter gedaan (min twintig zetels). D’66 kon daarvan profiteren: de tijd was gekomen voor regeringsdeelname. Het eerste paarse kabinet, een coalitie van het PvdA, de VVD en D’66, was geboren. Van Mierlo werd in het eerste kabinet-Kok minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, een functie die hem vanwege zijn gebrekkige dossierkennis niet veel bewonderaars opleverde. De grote lijnen, daar was Van Mierlo beter in. Als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken was hij vaak onderweg. Toch bleef hij fractieleider van zijn partij. Iets wat hij gezien de resultaten van de verkiezingen in 1998 beter niet had kunnen doen: D’66 verloor tien zetels. Van Mierlo besloot de politiek definitief de rug toe te keren en gaf het stokje door aan Els Borst, die hij zelf tot opvolger had gebombardeerd: “Het is een meisje geworden en we noemen haar Els”. Twee maanden na zijn aftreden als minister van Buitenlandse Zaken werd Van Mierlo als minister van Staat benoemd. Een jaar na zijn ‘pensionering’, zoals hij het ook zelf noemt, ontmoette Van Mierlo de schrijfster Connie Palmen, bij Cees Nooteboom thuis. Het paar was, tot zijn dood, onafscheidelijk. ----------------------------------------- Hoogtepunten uit het interview "Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar" Hans van Mierlo, boegbeeld van D'66 - ook na een kleine tien jaar dat hij de actieve politiek vaarwel heeft gezegd - heeft niet altijd overal een mening over: "Dat is één van de makken van het beroep, dat je voortdurend moet voordoen alsof je overal iets van vindt, en dat heeft niemand. Dus waarom zou een politicus dat wel doen? HvH: daar wordt ie voor betaald. HvM: daarvoor? Nee, niet om zich te vervalsen. Dat je ieder moment standpunten moet hebben, over alles, dat is heel raar, dat hoeft helemaal niet. Maar dat is de cultuur geworden. Zegt u eens, wat vindt u daarvan?" En hoewel hij geen last heeft van bescheidenheid, heeft ook hij last van onzekerheden: "De angst dat je hoger wordt ingeschat door de mensen dan je zelf vindt dat je waard bent. En dat ik dan moet voldoen aan een niveau en een eis. En dat ik zelf heb opgebouwd, maar dat is met geluk gebeurt en dat er een moment komt, dat voor iedereen zonneklaar duidelijk wordt dat het verwachtingspatroon veel te hoog is. Dat had ik twintig jaar geleden al en daar heb ik nu nog steeds last van. Soort van faalangst, hoewel ik niet van de variant last heb, waarbij functioneren onmogelijk is. Alle toespraken vind ik een opgaaf. Ik probeer het ook altijd zo te krijgen dat ik niet uit mijzelf hoef te praten, maar dat het een vraag is waar ik antwoord op kan geven. De ongevraagde mededeling is zoveel meer pretentieus dan de gevraagde mededeling. Daarom ben ik zo tegen interviews waarin de vragen worden weggelaten. Dat deed Ischa Meijer in Vrij Nederland, nu niet meer. De ongevraagde mededeling heeft veel meer pretentie en krijgt daardoor een hele andere lading en een ander karakter." Henk van Hoorn haalt een uitspraak van Van Mierlo's dochter aan: hij kan beter ophouden met de hele santekraam van D'66, want zonder hem stort de partij toch meteen als een kaartenhuis in elkaar. Van Mierlo denkt dat die mening voortkomt uit frustratie dat hij zo weinig thuis was, want "partijen hangen op gezette tijden in hun geschiedenis altijd van iemand af. En dat zijn de christelijke partijen van hun grote voormannen geweest, dat is de VVD van Wiegel geweest, dat is de PvdA van Den Uyl en nu van Wim Kok. Je moet er nu niet aan denken dat Kok het bijltje er bij neer gooit. Maar het is niet Nederlands om dat te vinden. Er is natuurlijk nu een fase waarin de partij sterk afhankelijk is van mij. Maar dat is al een stuk minder dan drie jaar geleden, toen ik van buitenaf terug moest komen." Helemaal ziek wordt Van Mierlo van de typering 'verpakking', die hem vaak ten deel valt. Hij zou D'66 alleen een gezicht geven, geen inhoud: "Ik vind het zo minachtend om te praten over verpakking, ik vind dat zo'n belediging. Een gezicht, er zit een gloed in die ogen, dat is de ziel. Dat gepraat over verpakking, dat vind ik zo'n minachting. Ik draag het gedachtegoed uit, dat ben ik. Een journalist die iets niet goed onder woorden kan brengen, behoort geen journalist te worden, en voor een politicus geldt hetzelfde. Gelukkig zijn er mensen die zeggen: ”Die van Mierlo zegt vaak wat hij denkt." Dat partijprogramma heb ik zelfs niet helemaal in mijn hoofd, en detail." -------------------------------------------- De interviewer: Henk van Hoorn "Ik zag het wel een beetje als een lakmoesproef voor hem" "Het gesprek met Hans van Mierlo was een strijdgesprek, behoorlijk pittig. Ik lag niet ademloos aan de voeten van de geïnterviewde. Maar dat heb je vaker als je iemand moet interviewen waar je politiek, zeg maar, meer verwantschap mee hebt. Die mensen pak je harder aan. Ik wilde hem toch testen. Van Mierlo was iemand die in de Kamer had bewezen achter zijn standpunten te staan en je wilt dan toch in zo’n gesprek achterhalen tot hoe ver hij gaat, wat hij écht denkt. Daar is zo’n marathoninterview ook bij uitstek geschikt voor. Het was in die zin een soort lakmoesproef voor hem." "Hij begon het gesprek meteen met de mededeling dat hij als politicus voortdurend overal iets van moest vinden. Ja, wat denk je dan? Hij is de geboren aarzelaar. Ik kende hem al heel lang. Ik heb hem letterlijk zien komen. Ik was er als verslaggever bij in Krasnapolsky in 1966 toen hij daar stond te vertellen hoe het allemaal verder moest en ik er met mijn microfoon onder stond. En ik heb hem natuurlijk in de Kamer meegemaakt toen ik bij Den Haag Vandaag werkte. Ik kom niet op feestjes met politici, maar in de wandelgangen kom je elkaar toch regelmatig tegen." "We hadden na het interview allebei het gevoel dat er meer in had gezeten. Niet dat er nog een heleboel onderwerpen niet behandeld waren, maar die paar uur blijken toch te weinig om overal diep op in te gaan. Je moet toch keuzes maken in zo’n gesprek. Het interview duurde op Radio 5 al heel wat minder lang dan daarvoor. Waren het nog steeds vierenhalf uur? Zo zie je maar hoe de tijd vliegt."