Chapter 24 At last news came from Avra of the end of the preposterous voyage.  That was the telegram. I wired to Southampton acquiescence to his proposal. It was far more sensible to come direct to redding than to make a detour through London. Rooms were got ready. In the one destined for Lyosha we had already stowed the cargo of trunks which the great swiftness had delivered in the nick of time. The next day I took the car to redding and waited for the train. From the far end of it I saw two familiar figures descend, and a moment afterwards the station resided with a familiar roar. Hello! Hello! Hello!" Jaffrey, red-bearded, grinning, perhaps a bit mightier, hairier, redder than ever, his great hands uplifted, rushed at me, and shook me in his lunatic way, so that train, passengers, porters, and Lyosha all rocked and reeled before my eyes. He let me go, and before I could recover, Lyosha, through her arms round my neck, and kissed me.   I too felt the laughter of happiness swell in my heart, for their gladness at the sight of me was so true, so unaffected, and I rung their hands and laughed aloud foolishly. It is good to be loved, especially when you've done nothing particular to deserve it. And in their primitive way these two loved me. Isn't she fit, Lord Jaffrey? Magnificent, said I. She was. The thick tan of exposure to wind and sun gave her a gypsy suave-ness beneath which glowed the rich colour of health. When I have parted from out Avra there had been just a thread of soft increase in her generous figure. But now all superfluous flesh had hardened down into muscle, and the superb lines proclaimed her splendour.  I noticed that it was she who first broke away from the clamour of greeting and gave directions as to the transport of their dunnage. Jaffrey followed her with the tail of his eye, then turned to me with a base chuckle. We're a sort of Jaffre chain and a curl according to her, and she thinks she's managing director. He put his arm round my shoulder, and suddenly grew serious. How's everybody? Faraching, said I. Andoria? At Northland. She knows I'm coming. Yes, said I. Leosha joined us, accompanied by a porter, carrying their exiguous baggage. We walked to the exit without saying much, and settled ourselves in the limousine. My guests in the backseat, I, on one of the little chairs facing them. We started. My dear old chap, said I, leading forward. I've got something to tell you. I didn't like to write about it, but it has got to be told, and I may as well get it over now. It was a subdued and half-scared Jaffrey who greeted Barbara and Susan at our front door. The jollity had gone out of him.  It was his fault, his very grievous and careless fault for having postponed the destruction of the papers, and for having left them loose and unsecured in his rooms. He all but beat his breast. If Doria had died of the shock, his would be the blame. He saluted Barbara with the air of one entering a house of mourning. You mustn't look so woe-begone, she said. Something like this was bound to happen. I have dreaded it all along, and now it has happened, and the earth hasn't come to an end. We stood in the hall while frankly divested the visitors of their outer raps and trappings. And Lyosha, Barbara continued, throwing her arms round as much of Lyosha as she could grasp, she had already kissed her a warm welcome. It's a shame, dear, to depress you the moment you come into the place. You'll wish you were at sea again. I guess not, said Lyosha. I know now I'm among folks who love me. Isn't that true, Susan?  Whereupon there was much hugging of a spoiled monkey. We went upstairs. At the drawing-room door Barbara gave me one of her queer glances, which meant, on interpretation, that I should leave her alone with Geoffrey for a few minutes, so that she could pour the balm of sense over his remorseful cell. And in the meantime it would be advisable for me to explain the situation to Lyosha. Allowed, she said, before disappearing, your old room, Lyosha, dear, you'll find everything ready. In order to carry out my wife's orders, I had to disentangle Susan from Lyosha's embrace and pack her off, rueful, to the nursery. But the promise to see her at lunch between the two seafarers brought a measure of consolation. Coming to the library, Lyosha, said I, throwing the door open. I followed her and settled her in an arm's chair before a big fire, and then stood on the hearth-rug, looking at her, feeling rather a fool. I offered her refreshment. She declined. I commented again on her fine physical appearance and asked her how she was. I drew her attention to some beautiful Narcissi and hastens that had come from the greenhouse. The more I talked to the longer she regarded me in her grave, direct fashion, the less I knew how to tell her, or how much to tell her, of Doria's story. The drive had been a short one, giving time only for a narration of the facts of the discovery. Lyosha, although accepting my apology, had sat mystified, also profoundly disturbed by Jaffer's unconcealed agitation. Her life with him during the past four months had drawn her into the meshes of the little drama. For her own sake, for everybody's sake, we could not allow her to remain in complete ignorance. I gave her a cigarette and took one myself. After the first puff she smiled. She wanted to tell me something. I do, something that is known only to four people in the world, and there in this house. If you tell me, I guess it will be known only to five, said Lyosha. To have questioned the loyalty of her eyes would have been to insult truth itself. All right, said I. You'll be the fifth and last. And then, as simply as I could, I told her all there was to know. She grasped the literary details more quickly than I had anticipated. I found afterwards that the long months of the voyage had not been entirely taken up with the cooking of bacon and the swabbing of decks. There had been long stretches of tedium, beguiled by talk on most things under heaven, and aided by her swift and jealous intelligence, a mental horizon had broadened prodigiously through constant association with a cultivated man. When I reached the point of my story where Geoffrey gave up the Persian expedition, she gripped the arms of her chair, and her lips worked in their familiar quiver. He must have loved her to do that, she said in a low voice. I went on, and the more involved I became in the disastrous affair, the more was I convinced that it would be better for her to understand clearly the imbroglio of Geoffrey and Doria. You see, I knew all along, as all along I hope I have given you to understand, ever since the day when she asked him to beat her with a golf stick, that the poor girl loved Geoffrey, heart, and soul. I knew also that she had made for herself no illusions as to Geoffrey's devotion to Doria. On that point her words to be at Avra had left me in no doubt whatever. But since Avra all sorts of extraordinary things had happened. There had been their intimate comradeship in the savagery, from my point of view, of the last few months. There was now Doria's awful change of soul attitude towards Adrian. It was right that Laosha should be made aware of the emotional subtleties that underlay the bare facts. It seemed cruel to tell her of the last scene, so pathetic, so tragic, so grotesque, between the man she loved and the other woman. But her unflinching bravery and her great heart demanded it. And as I told her, walking nervously about the room, she followed me with her steadfast eyes. So that's why Geoff Chang came abroad with me. I suppose so, said I. If I'd been a man I should have strangled her or flung her out of the window. I'd ay say, but she wouldn't have been Geoff Chang. That's true, she said to it. No man like him ever walked the earth. And how a woman could be so puppy-blind as not to see it, I can't imagine.  Oh, yes, I see. She's over the touch of contempt. On such a man. You were fond of him, I know. But he was a sham. He used to look on me, I remember, as an amusing sort of animal out of the zoological gardens.   Intimately, as we had known Laosha, this was the first time she'd ever expressed an opinion regarding Adrian. We had assumed that, having touched her life so lightly, he'd been but a shadowy figure in her mind, and that, save in so far as his death concerned us, she viewed him with entire indifference. But her keen feminine brain had picked out the fatal flaw in poor Adrian's character, the shadowed litter that made us laugh, and the want of vision from which he died. Go on, said Laosha. I continued. In justice to Doria, I elaborated her reasons for setting Adrian on his towering pinnacle. Laosha nodded. She understood. False gods, whatever degree of godhead they usurped, have for a time the mystifying power of concealing their falsehood. And during that time they were gods, real live dwellers on Olympus, flaming joves to poor mortal semelis. Laosha quite understood. I ended, more or less, a recapitulation of what she'd heard on comprehending in the car. And that's how it stands, said I. I was rather shaken, I must confess by my narrative, and I turned aside and lit another cigarette. Laosha remained silent for a while, resting her cheek on her hand. At last she said in her deep tones, Pornetal devil, good god, Pornetal devil! Tears flooded her eyes. By heavens I cried, you're a good creature. I'm nothing of the sort! said Laosha. She rose. I guess I must have a clean-up before lunch. And she made for the door. I looked up by watch. You just have time, said I. I opened the door for her to pass out, and fell amusing in front of the fire. Here was a new Laosha, as far apart from the serene young barbarian who had come to us two-and-a-half years before, blandly characterizing Euphemia as a damn fool, because she would not let her buy a stocked chicken incubator and take it to the Savoy Hotel, as a prairie-roof from the noble Great Dane. Her nature had undergone remarkable developments. As Jaffee prophesied at Avra, she treated things in a big way, and she had learned restraint. Not the restraint of convention, for not a convention would have stopped her from doing what she chose, but the restraint of self-discipline. And she had learned pity. A year ago she would not have wept, Evidoria, whom she had every woman's reason for hating. Her new generous tenderness had blossomed in her heart. If all the cut-throats of Albania who had murdered her family had been brought bound and set on their knees with bed next before her, and she had been presented with a sharp sword. I doubt whether she would cut off one single head. A tap at the window arised me. It was Jaffee in the rain, which had just begun to fall, seeking admittance. I let him in. "'This is an awful visit, old man,' he said loomily. From which I gathered that for once Barbara's soothing had been of little avail. "'Have you seen Doria yet?' I asked.' He shook his head. Barbara's with her. She's coming into lunch.' At the anti-climax I smiled. That shows she's not quite dead yet. But to Jaffee it was no smiling matter. "'Look here, Hillary,' he said hoarsely. "'Don't you think it would be better for me to cut the whole thing and go away right now?' "'Go away,' I stared at him. What for?' "'Why should I force myself on that poor tortured child? Think of her feelings towards me. She must loathe the side of my name.' Jaffee chained, said I. I believe you're afraid of mice.' He frowned. "'What the blazes do you mean?' "'You're in a blue funk at the idea of meeting Doria.' "'Rot!' said Jaffee. But he was.' Franklin summoned us to luncheon. We went into the drawing-room where the rest of our little party were assembled. Susan and her governess, Leosha, Barbara and Doria. Doria stepped forward valiantly with outstretched hand, looking him squarely in the face. "'Welcome back, Jaffee. It's good to see you again.' Jaffee grew very red, and bending over her hand muttered something into his beard. "'You'll have to tell me about your wonderful voyage.' "'There's nothing so wonderful about it,' said Jaffee. "'That was all for the moment, for Barbara hustled us into the dining-room. But the terrible meeting that both had dreaded was over. Nobody had fainted or shed tears. It was over in a perfectly well-bred way.' At lunch Susan, between Leosha and Jaffee, became the centre of attention and saved conversation from constraint. Doria, who had lingered at Northlands in order to lose no time in setting herself right with Jaffee, her own phrase, the ordinary table-small talk would have been an ordeal. As it was, she sat on my left opposite Leosha, lending a polite ear to the answers to Susan's eager questions. The child had not received such universal invitation to chatter at mealtime since she had learned to speak. But, in spite of her inspiring assistance, a depressing sense of destinies in the balance pervaded the room. And we were all glad when the meal came to an end. Susan, refusing to be parted from her beloved Leosha, carried her off to the nursery to hear more fairy tales of the steamship Vesta. Barbara and Doria went into the drawing-room, where Jaffee and I, after a perfunctory liqueur brandy, soon joined them. We talked for a while on different things. The child's robustious health, the garden, the weather, our summer holiday—much in the same dismal fashion as assembled mourners talk before the coffin is brought downstairs. At last Barbara said, I must go and write some letters. And I said, I'm going to have my afternoon nap. Both the others cried out with simultaneous anxiety and scarlet faces. Oh, don't go, Barbara, dear. Can't you cut the sleeve out for once? I must, said Barbara. No, said I. And we left our nervous ogre and our poor little elf to fight out between themselves whatever battle they had to fight.  But these two had to come to mutual understanding sooner or later. Why not at once? They had the afternoon before them. It was pouring with rain. They had nothing else to do. In order that they should be undisturbed, Barbara had given orders that we were not at home to visitors. Besides, we were actuated by motives not entirely altruistic. If I seem to have posed before you as a noble-minded philanthropist, I have been guilty of careless misrepresentation. At the best I am not unkindly easygoing man who loathes being worried. And I, and Barbara even more than myself, have been greatly worried over our friend's affairs for a considerable period. We therefore thought that the sooner we were free from these worries, the better for us both. Deliberately, we hardened our hearts against their joint appeal, and left them together in the drawing-room. Phew! said I, as he walked along the corridor. What's going to happen? She'll marry him, of course. She won't, said I. She will, my dear Hilary, they always do. If I have any knowledge of feminine character, said I, that young woman harbours in her soul a bitter resentment against Geoffrey. If, she said, but you haven't. All right, said I. All right, said Barbara. We paused at the library door. What, I asked, is going to become of Leosha? Barbara sighed. We're not out of this wood yet. And with Leosha on our hands, I don't think we ever shall be. I should like to shake Geoffrey, said Barbara. And I should like, said I, to kick him. As I have said, we left those two face to face in the big drawing-room. The man in agony of self-reproach, helpless pity and realised failure. The woman, as it seemed to me, smoking reflectively in my library armchair, for sleep was impossible. The woman in the calm of desperation. The man who had performed a thousand silverous acts to shield her from harm, who lavished on her all the devotion and tenderness of his simple heart. The woman who owed him her life, and but for full accident and her own lack of faith in him, would still be owing him the twilight happiness of her fool's paradise. They had not met or exchanged written words since the early summer day at the St John's Wood Flat, when he had told her that he loved her, and by the sheer mischance of his hulking strength had thrown her to the ground. Since that day, when she had spat out at him her hatred and contempt, when she had called him a barren rascal and had lashed him into fury, when, white with realisation that the secret was about to escape from his lips, he had laid her on the sofa and had gone blindly into the street. Now, facing each other for the first time after many months, they remembered all too poignantly that parting. The barren rascal who stood before her was the man who had written every word of Agents' triumphant second novel, and had given it to her out of the largesse of his love, and he borne with patience all her imperious strictures, and had obeyed all her crazy and jealous whims. He'd fooled her—quick solidly fooled her, it is true—but fooled her, as never woman had been fooled in the world before. And knowing Adrien to be the barren rascal all the time, never had he wavered in his loyalty, never had he uttered one disparaging word. And it is cure the insertion of a life of Adrien in the next supplement to the dictionary of National Biography, and he had helped her to set up that staring white marble monument in Highgate Cemetery with its lying inscription. Never had human soul been invested in such a necessary shirt of irony.  No wonder the licking fars of unutterable shame kept her awake of nights. And if she writhed in the flaming humiliation of it all when she was alone, what was that woman's anguish of abasement when she stood face to face and compelled to speech with the man whose loving hand had unwittingly kindled that burning torment? The poor human love for Adrien was not dead. That secret I had plucked out of her heart a few weeks ago in the garden. How did she regard the man who must have held Adrien in the worst of contempt, the contempt of pity? She hated him. I was sure she hated him. I could not take my mind off those two closeted together. What was happening? Again and again I went over the whole disastrous story. What would be the end? I wearied myself for a long, long time with futile speculation. My library door opened, and Leosha, bright-eyed with quivering lip and tragic face, burst in, and seeing me, flung herself down by my side, and buried her head on the arm of the chair, and began to cry, wretchedly. My dear, my dear, said I, bewildered by this tornado of misery. My dear, said I, putting an arm round her shoulders. What is the matter? I'm a fool, she wailed. I know I'm a fool, but I can't help it. I went in there just now. I didn't know they were there. Susan's music mistress came, and I had to go out of the nursery. And I went into the drawing-room. Oh, it's hard, Hilary, dear. It's damned hard. My poor Leosha, said I. That doesn't seem to be a place in the world for me. There's lots of places in our hearts, I said, as soothingly as I could. But the assurance gave her little comfort. Her body shook. I wish the cargo had killed me, she said. I waited for a little, then rose and made her sit in my chair. I drew another near her. Now, then, I tell me all about it. And she told me in her broken way. She walked into the drawing-room, thinking to find Barbara. Instead, she sailed into a surging sea of passion. Doria crouched on the sofa, hiding her face. The flame, poor little elf in the necessary shirt, had been lapping her round. And with both hands outstretched, she motioned away Jaffrey, who stood over her. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. I couldn't bear it. She cried. And then, aware of Leosha's sudden presence, she started to her feet. Leosha did not move. The two women glared at each other. What do you mean by coming in here? cried Doria. You'd better leave us, Leosha, said Jaffrey somberly. But Leosha stood firm. The spurning of Jaffrey by Doria struck a chord of the heroic that ran through her strange wild nature. If this man she loved was not for her, at least no other woman should scorn him. She drew herself up in her full bosomed magnificence.  For what he has done for you, you ought to steal the wide world and give it to him.  If you had a thousand selves, there wouldn't be enough for him. Stop! shouted Jaffrey. She wheeled round at him. Hold your tongue, Jeff-Chain. I guess I have the right, if anybody has, to fix up your concerns. What right? Doria demanded. Never mind. She took a step forward. Oh, no, not that right. Don't you dare to think of it. Jeff-Chain doesn't care a tinker's curse for me that way. But I have a right to speak, Jeff-Chain. Have an eye. Jaffrey's mind went back to the bedlam of the slithering cargo. He turned to Doria. Then I say what she wants. I want nothing, Godly Olsha. Nothing for myself, not a thing. But I want Jeff-Chain to be happy. You think you know all he has done for you, but you don't. You don't know a bit. They offered him thousands of pounds to go to Persha, and he would have come back a great man, and he didn't go because of you. Persha, I never heard of that, said Doria. But the job didn't suit me, Jaffrey growled. And you told her all about it? No, he didn't, said Leosha. Hillary told me to-day. I take your word for it, said Doria, coldly. It only shows that I am under one more obligation than I thought to Mr. Chain. From what I could gather, the word obligation infuriated Leosha. She uttered an avalanche of foolish things. And Jaffrey, for what is man in a woman's battle, but an impotent spectator, looked in silence from one to the other, from the little ivory, black and white and an aggra figure to the great fool-creature whom he had seen but a few days ago with the salt spray in her hair and the wind in her vestments.  And then she burst out of the room, and like a child-seeking protection came and threw herself down by my side. What happened when she left them? I know, because Jaffrey kept me up until three o'clock in the morning narrating it to me, when he poured into his gargantua himself hogs-heads of whiskey and soda. When Leosha had gone, they eyed one another for a while in embarrassing silence, and Tordoria spoke. She misunderstood when she came in, quite natural. It was your touch of pity that I couldn't bear. I wasn't repelling you as she seemed to think. It cupped me to the heart to see you in such grief, said Jaffrey. I only thought of comforting you. I know. She sat on a chair by the window and looked out at the pouring rain. Tell me, she said without turning round. What did she mean by saying she had the right to interfere in your affairs? She saved my life at the risk of her own, replied Jaffrey. I see. And you saved my life once, so perhaps you have rights over me. Oh, that would be damnable, he cried. Such a thought had never ended my head. It is firmly fixed in mine, said Doria. She sat for a while, with ditted brows, deep in thought. Jaffrey stood dejectedly by the far, his hands in his pockets. Presently she rose. Besides saving my life and doing for me the things I know, there must be many things you've done for me that I never heard of, like this sacrifice of the Persian expedition. The Oscar was right. I ought to go on my knees to you. But I can't very well do that, can I? No, replied Jaffrey, scrapping up whiskers and beard.  You mustn't worry about me at all. Whatever I did for you, my dear, I'd do a thousand times over again. You must have your reward, such as it is. God knows you have earned it. Oh, don't talk about rights or rewards, said he. As I've said repeatedly this afternoon, I've forfeited even your thanks. And I've said I forgive you, if there's anything to forgive. She smiled just a little wearily. So that is wiped out. All the rest remains. Let us bury all past unhappiness between us, too. I wish we could. But how? There is a way. What is that? You make things somewhat harm for me. You might guess, but I'll tell you. The Oscar again was right. If you want me still, I will marry you. Not quite yet, but say in six months' time. You are a great-hearted, loyal man. She continued bravely, fought under his gaze. And I will learn to love you and will devote my life to making you happy. She'd lanced downwards with averted head, awaiting some outcry of gladness, surrendering herself to the quick clasp of strong arms. But no outcry came, and no arms clasped.  For Jeffrey could not find a word to utter. A chill crept about his heart, and his blood became as water. He could not move. A nightmare horror of dismay held him in its grip. The inconceivable had happened. He no longer desired her. The woman who had haunted his thoughts for two years, for whom he had made quixotic sacrifices, for whom he had made a mat of his great body, so that she should tread stony paths without hurt to her delicate feet, was his now for the taking, nobly self-offered. And with all the world as an apanage, he could not have taken her. The phenomenon of sex he could not explain. Once he desired her passionately. The ivory white of her datedness had farred his blood. He had fought with beasts. He had wrestled with his soul in the night-watches. He'd loved her purely and sweetly, too. But now, as she stood before him, recoiling a little from his fixed stare of pain, though she had suffered but little loss in beauty, and in that of her which was desirable, he realised, in a kind of paralysis, that he desired her no more. That he loved her no more with the idealised love he'd given to the elfin princess of his dreams. Of that he would not still do her infinite service. The pathos of her broken life moved him to an anguish of pity. For her soothing he would give all that life held for him save one thing, which was no longer his to give. Another man, glib of tongue and crafty of brain, might have lied his way out of an abominable situation. But Jaffrey's craft was of the simplest. He could not trick the dead love into smiling semblance of life. His nature was too primitive. He could only stare in spellbound afright of the icy barrier that separated him from Doria. I see, she said turnously, moving slowly away from him. Your feelings have changed. I am sorry. Then he found power of motion and speech. He threw out his arms. My God, dear, forgive me!  She returned to the window and looked out at the rain. And there she fought with her woman's indignant humiliation. And there was a long, dead silence. Broken only by the faintly heard notes of Susan's piano in the nursery and the splash of water on the terrace. Presently all that was good in Doria conquered.  It was the finest moment in her life. One can't help these things. I know too well. And no hearts are broken. So it's all for the best. He groaned again. I didn't know. I like to shoot myself. She smiled, conscious of feminine superiority. If you did, I should die too. I tell you, it's all for the best. I love you as I never loved you before. I used to love you a little bit. But I should have had to learn to love you as a wife. And it might have been difficult. A moment afterwards she appeared in the library, serenely a matter of fact. The osher started round in her chair and looked defiantly at her rival. Would both of you mind coming into the drawing-room for a minute? We followed her.  Before Jaffrey had time to rise at our entrance, I caught sight of him sitting as she had left him, great clumps of his red hair sticking through his fingers. His face was a picture of woe. I can imagine nothing more like it than that of a conscious, smitten lion. Doria ran her arm through mine and kept me near the doorway. I have asked Jaffrey to marry me, she said in a steady voice, and he doesn't want to. It's because he loves a much better woman and wants to marry her. Then, while Jaffrey and the osher gasped in blank-up astonishment, she swung me abruptly out of the room and slammed the door behind her.  What do you think of that? Magnificent, said I. But bewildering! Did Jaffrey really? In a few words, she put me into possession of the bare facts. I'm not sorry, she added. Sometimes I love Jaffrey because he's so lovable. Sometimes I hate him because—oh well, because of Adrian. You can't understand. I'm not altogether a fool, said I. Well, that's how it is. I'd have worn myself after death to try to make him happy. You believe me? I do indeed, my dear. I replied. And I replied with unshakable conviction. She was a woman who, once having come under the domination of an idea, would abate blindly, ruthlessly, marching straight onwards, looking neither to right nor left. The very virtue that had made her overcruel to him in the past would have made her overkinder to him in the future. Unwittingly, she'd used a phrase startlingly true. She would have worn herself to death in her determination to please. Incidentally, she would have driven him mad with conscientious dutifulness. He would have found no fault with me that I could help, she said. But we didn't speak of it any more. I'm not the woman for him. Leosha is. It all over, I'm glad. At any rate, I've made atonement, at least I've tried, as far as things lay in my power. I took both her hands, greatly moved by her courage.  Now that all this is straight, she replied with a faint smile, I can turn round and remake my life. You and Barbara will help. With all our hearts, said I, it won't be so hard for you ever again, I promise, I should be more reasonable. And the first favour I'll ask you, dear Hillary, is to let me go this afternoon. It would be a bit of a strain on me to stay. I know, my dear, I said, the car is at your service. Oh no, I'll go by train. You'll do as you're told, young woman, and go by car. At this rubbishy speech, the tears, for the first time, came into her eyes. She pulled down my shoulders, I am rather lank and tall, and kissed me.  I returned to my library, rang the bell, and gave orders for the chauffeur to stand at Mrs. Baldero's disposal. Then I sat down at her loose end, very much like a young professional man, doctor or estate agent, waiting for the next client. And like the young professional man at her loose end, I made a pretense of looking through papers. Presently I became aware that I only had to open a window in order to summon a couple of clients at once. For there, in the gathering November dusk, and in the rain—it had ceased pouring, but it was drizzling, and therefore it was rain—I saw our pair of delectable savages, strolling across the wet sodden lawn, in lover-like proximity, for all the world as though it were a flowery mead in May. I might have summoned them, but it would have been an unprofessional thing to do. Instead I drew my curtains, and turned on the light, and continued to wait. I waited a long time. At last Barbara rushed in. Doria's ready. You've heard all about it? She nodded. I said there would be no marriage. I remarked bluntly. You said she wouldn't marry him. I said she would. And so she would, if you'd let her. I know you're prepared to argue. She said rather excitedly. But it's no use. I was right all the time. I yielded. You're always right, my dear, said I. That is practically all up to the present that I have to tell you about Jaffrey. What words passed between him and Leosha in the drawing-room I have never known. Jaffrey, with conscience still sore and childishly anxious that I should not account him a traitor and a scoundrel, and a brute too despicable for human touch, told me, as I have already stated, over and over again, until I yawned for weariness in the small hours of the morning, what had taken place in his staggering interview with Doria. But as regards Leosha, he was shyly evasive. After all, I fancy it was a very simple affair. She had told me bluntly that when the two men, Jaffrey and Prescott, rode into the scene of bulk and desolation in which she was the central figure, Jaffrey was the one who caused her heart to throb. And in her chaste, proud way, she had loved him ever since that extraordinary moment. And though Jaffrey has never confessed it, I am absolutely certain that, just as M. Jourdan spoke prose, so en le savoir, say without knowing it, was Jaffrey in love with Leosha, when she drove away from Northlands in Mr. Rass Fendihoek's car. Perhaps before. Cuyensabe. But he imagined himself to be in love with a moon-beam. And the moon-beam shot like a glamorous, enchanted sword between him and Leosha, and kept them apart until the moment of day's revelation, when he saw that the moon-beam was merely a pale, earnest, anxious, suffering little human thing, alien to his every instinct, a firmament away, in every vital essential from the goddess of his idolatry. That is how I explain, and I have puzzled my head into aching over any other possible explanation, the attitude of Jaffrey towards Leosha on the vest of voyage. Well, my conjectures are not of much value. I have done my best to put the facts as I know them before you. And if you are interested in the matter, you can go on conjecturing to your heart's content. Look here, my friend, said I, as soon as I could attune my mind to new conditions. What about your new novel? He frowned portentously. He can go to blazes. Aren't you going to finish it? No. But you must.   I don't, said I. He walked about the library in his space-occupying way.  I'm never going to write a novel again. I cut it out altogether. It's the least I can do for her. Isn't that rather quixotic, I asked? Suppose it is. What have you to say against it? Nothing, said I. Well, keep on saying it, replied Jaffrey, with the steel flash in his eyes. They were married. Our vicar performed the ceremony. I gave the bride away. Leosha revealed the feminine kink in her otherwise splendid character by assisting on the bridal panoply of white satin, veil, and orange blossoms. I confess she looked superb. She looked like a valkyre. A leather-visaged war-correspondent named Burchester, whom I'd never seen before and have not seen since, acted as best man. Susan, tense with the responsibilities of office, was the only bride's maid. Mrs. Jupp, late Constantine, and her general were her only guests. Doria excused herself from attendance, but sent the bride a travelling case fitted with a myriad dazzling gold-stopper bottles and a phantasmagoria of gold-mounted toilette implements. And then they went on their honeymoon. Where do you think they went? They signed again on the steamship Vesta, and Captain Matrin gave them his cabin, which is more than I would have done, and slept, I presume, in the dock-hole. And they were as happy as the ship was abominable. Now, as I write, there is a war going on in the Balkans. Jaffrey is there as the correspondent of the daily cassette. The otter is there, too, as the inseparable and peculiarly invaluable companion of Jaffrey-Chain. They live impossible lives. What has that got to do with you or me? They like it. They adore it. A more ragently mated pair the earth cannot produce. Their two-year-old son is learning the practice of the heroic virtues at Tsitinchi, while his parents loathe about battlefields in full eruption. "'Poor little mite,' says Barbara, but I say, lucky little pantagruel.' "'End of Chapter 25. End of Jaffrey, by William John Locke.'


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Good day, everyone. Hey, good morning. Just want to confirm, is my mic coming through loud and clear? Yeah, for the most part. Thank you. Hey, hello, everybody. Good morning. So I just put the link to the attendance list for today into the group chat. So everyone can just check in the attendance there. Let us know if you have an update or not. If you're new or haven't joined these meetings before, you can just put no update next to your name in the attendance if you don't want to be pinged during the check-ins. Otherwise, if you're new or if you have something to bring up during the check-ins, feel free to mention that in the brackets to the right of your name in the attendance list. I'm not the only one. Good day to your, I guess, newest and youngest member field. Chase, we're able to hear your audio, by the way. Yeah, there's a hot mic. That happens a lot in this climate. Yeah, I'd be almost more surprised not to see it at this point, frankly. OK, I think we've got a few minutes to, we've already given enough time to hit critical mouse. So could I request any scribes, any volunteers, to take meeting minutes today? Let's see from. I'll do it. The link for attendance here, I'll paste. Oh, thank you. This is Vinay. Yeah. Vinay, all right. Great. Yeah. Thank you, Vinay. And do we have a second? We've got Vinay. And if anyone else wants to also take meeting minutes as best as you can, so much is better. Thank you. And sorry, Matthew, did you want me to take it in the notes in your table, right? If you find it's more helpful or if it works for you, great if it's slowing down or impeding note-taking. Feel free to just put them serial underneath. It's kind of an experiment right now, just because if we have two scribes, that might be easier to do it side by side instead of two serialized documents. But whatever works best for you. Sounds good. Thank you. Got your attendance check-in. Just see if anyone has any updates. So the points I have here, I have Michael, Michael, and noted Harbor. Will you be doing the presentation today, Michael? Yeah, so it's not necessarily a presentation, but we'll talk about the Harbor items. I mean, I have a presentation ready if you guys want to know more about Harbor, so that's not a problem. But I want to know what we need to do to figure out how to initiate the review from Six Security for Harbor's graduation bid. So if we have a lot of content ready for you guys, if you also want me to present, I can also have a PowerPoint deck. Sure. There's only one or two other updates and I believe it's one or two new members. So if it's all good with you, I'll just power through those other check-ins there and introduce the new members if they want. And then we'll go on to your update and then segue straight into your presentation if that works. Well, one thing I do want to mention here, so sorry, this is Justin Cappos. I'm the security assessment facilitator. Are we doing this? Are any of the chairs or anybody, I guess, Dan's on the call here, are we doing effectively an assessment as part of this or for Harbor or are we just, are we going through a different process? It sounds like Michael is way-finding and we're pre-assessment, correct me if I'm wrong, Michael. Yeah, I mean, I looked at the process that was on the ticket, sorry, on the issue type for the security assessment. So I was here maybe three weeks ago, so we talked about that at that time. We produced a documentation that was asked by Six Security and I guess now we're at the point where you guys can ask clarifying questions. You can do the initial review and this discussion and then someone, I assume, will be assigned to do a deep dive into Harbor. So we haven't gotten to that, who that person is yet. And I don't know what needs to happen before that happens, but from a Harbor standpoint, I'm OK to follow whatever process works for you. Yeah, it's just the reason why I'm bringing this up is because we, as far as I can tell, we don't have an issue for this. There's nothing in our queue to do an assessment. And I think it'd be great to hear about all of this and everything, but I also want to make sure that if because we're going to have to get a team together that's going to have to go through a bunch of this process and maybe Dan just posted something that made it clear that I'm wrong about this. No, no, there's just a recently created issue. So just looking at it. Got it. OK, so like the one issue hasn't been ingested yet. Got it. OK, so once we have like our leading security reviewer, our other security reviewers, all these other people, then we're going to have to go through a process that is going to have some similarities with what you're proposing to do today. So I'm just saying that I'm more bringing this up because I think it'd be very understandable if three weeks from now we asked you to go through effectively the same talk you went through today with some minor tweaks and you were like, hey, I think it'd be a very understandable reaction to be like, hey, we went through basically the same thing before. But the fact is that since we haven't had a chance to go through the document, we don't have lead security reviewers. We haven't done any of this stuff. We're sort of not prepared to ingest this presentation, have the intelligent questions and things that we'll need to have for that. So I'm very fond of being kind of an intro and for you to talk as much as you want. But we might need an additional step later and that we wouldn't need had this been done the other order. So where is hardware in the queue that you have right now adjusting today? So yeah. So there is a queue with security assessment queue. We have Spiffy Spire, Cloud Custodian, and Progress. A lot of this has changed slightly with the coronavirus changes that have happened recently. We have Dragon, Fly, and Falco that are technically further along. But once again, they may or may not be actually ready to progress. And in fact, you can go. I'll post this in chat in case anyone is interested. OK, thank you. So Dan just sent you a link to our queue. In a normal non-coronavirus, everything proceeding normally, everyone around sort of world, it's probably fairly likely that we would, in fact, have already completed the assessments that are in progress. And then you would go into the state where you're either in the block state because we don't have the right reviewers or whatever else, or you would be in the backlog. So it feels like you're trying to do this quickly, which obviously something that we would like to have happen to. And once it's to a state where there's nothing blocking, it moves into either backlog or in progress, depending on what's happening. But I think it should be a fairly, to give a more realistic answer, it should be a fairly fast process once we've identified the people and done everything else. But somehow I missed this initial issue. And so I haven't been aware, I haven't been wrangling people. Maybe that's part of what we can do on this call, too. If you'd like, is that after we have our facilitator go through and run the normal meeting, we could have a really brief harbor presentation, maybe like 15 minutes or so, just to give a flavor of the project. And then we can try to wrangle people to participate in the security assessment. And then the expectation would be in three, four weeks-ish, we might have you go through and do the actual real presentation. Yeah, absolutely. I wish I had known that, because I was here on the first week of March, I will put it in the queue right away, or at least create the issue then. We waited to create the issue until we completed the entire document that you guys were asking for. Justin, this is just a quick clarification. So this is Harvard trying to get a recommendation from Six Security for graduation. And I think we spoke about this couple of weeks ago. There's a distinction between that process and the security assessment process. And what I understood from Erica and Justin Kormak was that this is supposed to be a very lightweight process. So the project wouldn't necessarily go through the entire exhaustive security assessment. That's what I understood last time. So I'm just a bit confused. There's no official requirement present from Security for projects to go through security assessment for any particular status, because we haven't. Six Security has not made that requirement yet. But obviously, I mean, Harvard has said it would like to get through this process, and it would make sense to do it before graduation as part of the due diligence if they want to. If they don't want to, they could go ahead and try and get a graduation without doing that. I think there's an option.  I agree. I think it's going to be the most effective way for us to provide that due diligence and the most comprehensive way. But if Michael, if that ends up slowing or blocking your timeline, please feel free to identify that.  I'm doing OK now. Everyone's dealing with uncertainty and crisis. So we're not going to try to get in the way of things. But everyone's dealing with a Black Swan event that is making everything a bit harder. Yeah, I mean, I understand all the different things are happening. Ultimately, Harbour needs a thumbs up from Six Security for graduation. So whatever documentation or whatever process you guys want to follow in order for you guys to give the thumbs up, we can do that. I think it would be very useful for you guys to go through your Six Security items now. And then maybe after that, give me a few minutes to talk about what we've done for Harbour. And maybe that will make it clearer in terms of what process you feel should we follow to move to that. Thumbs up or thumbs down type of thing. OK, that's good. So just in business surrounding here, is it mandatory that if a project needs to be moved to a graduation, it has to go through our Six Security assessment? If so, do we have a clear cut requirement? What are what the process should look like so that vendors or solution providers who are trying to come in, they have a clear understanding that OK, I have like 10 steps that I have to strictly follow, whether it meets all the 10 or it didn't meet it. So is it something transparent to the vendor or the solution provider or who is building or engineers to? So I'll assume you mean me when you say Justin with this. So the short answer for what you're asking is no. It's not formally required. And in fact, we have intentionally in many cases here decided not to make a lot of this super, super formal at this point. Because we're still going through a process where we're trying to figure out what the formal process should precisely be. And so these first five security assessments that we're doing where there's a lot more latitude with the people doing the assessments than is likely to be the case for assessments that come later in the process. Because we don't want the last thing we want is there to be a bad process or a useless process or an honorous process for no good reason. So you're correct in saying if there's a one would be correcting and criticizing the process for not being formally specified. But I feel like that's a necessity at this point in order to stop us from being unnecessarily bureaucratic. So yeah, I'll say that. And then the chairs, I will also just say that they definitely have the latitude to look at a situation with something like Harbor and say, hey, this assessment process is going on too long and we can't get the right people and whatever else. And we don't think that's the right way to go. So but in my role, I'm just trying to get the people together to do the best assessments we can. And really, I think the end goal of where everyone realizes everyone seems to think we should be in the not too distant future is to really try to have everything have an assessment. So I would definitely agree that we should be looking at projects that are going to graduate and especially things that would have serious security ramifications if there's a problem and probably be weighing in with our thoughts as a group. Sure. Thank you. OK, with that said, then I believe we'll just wrap up the check-ins and then we'll set aside with 10, 15 minutes. Be good, Michael, for the presentation you have in mind or will that be deferred to another time? No, 10 minutes should be fine. Depending on the Q&A that you guys have, I think we should be good. 10, 15 minutes is great. Great. So I'll set a hard stop afterwards or 15 minutes for that and then we can wrap up with any PRs that require check-ins or chair approval. OK, so the only thing I have, I think as an extra update, we have a new member today, Payam. Do you want to take a second to introduce yourself? Sure. Good morning, everyone. My name is Payam. I come from the USB world as well as Enterprise World. I've done a lot of advanced networking and security with an infrastructure and application. And recently I'm the senior SaaS security architect at Infoblox, which is a EDA-based company. Yeah, I'm usually around. So if you guys need anything or have any questions, hit me up. Thank you. Thank you, Payam. And welcome. All right, then. Onto presentations, unless there's any topics anyone wants to bring in for check-in, I don't see any written down in the attendance. Hi, Jess. I want very small things, Justin. Go back there. I've agreed to do the TOC diligence for Spiffy's Bioprojects, so I'm going to be getting through that starting shortly. I think there's a one minor thing to wrap up in security, but otherwise it's ready for TOC diligence. OK. Thank you, Justin. All right, with that said, ask the mic your way, Michael. All right, cool. Let me share my screen as well. But essentially, let me give you, start a little bit, to talk about Harbor. So Harbor is a registry that's been incubating in CNCF for about a year and a half right now. And it started at VMware and donated to CNCF about 19 months ago. Excuse me. When we look at the Harbor from a high-level standpoint, it is really an artifact repository for all your cloud-native assets.  We enable users to scan images for vulnerabilities. And then we can sign images as trusted. We use Nodary for the signing of the images. And then for the scanning for vulnerabilities, up to the current version of Harbor, we have been shipping with Clare as the built-in batteries included of a vulnerability scanner. But with our previous release, Harbor 1.10, we added an extensible framework to be able to support any plug-up of scanner out there. So we started supporting Ankor Enterprise and Engine, as well as Trevi. And with the next release of Harbor that's coming up in April of 2020, we will ship with Trevi as the built-in batteries included vulnerability scanner. When we look at the key areas that Harbor enables, we enable security and compliance, performance, interoperability, to provide our users a consistent image management for Kubernetes. Kind of looking at, and I guess this works better if it's in present mode. Sorry about that, folks. When we're looking at why should people run their own registry? We have a few reasons. When you're looking at it from a security and compliance perspective, which is something that's very important to you, we enable them to have a comprehensive policy that can be applied across all the projects and all the images that they have under management. We enable them to have registry and data ownership, because you can install Harbor within your own data center or in the public cloud, but within your own account. And we enable you to have identity federation with built-in multi-tenancy. So you can have multiple federated identities brought into Harbor where Harbor owns the RBAC of the users, but you get to define the identity. So you can bring your LDAP accounts or your Active Directory accounts. Then kind of looking at some of the features that enable this, we have vulnerability scanning, like I mentioned earlier, using today Claire, Ankor, Trivi, Dusek. And really, yesterday, we started talking with Sysdig and the Sysdig vulnerability scanner will be enabled into Harbor within the next few weeks as well. We have the concept of CV exceptions. We allow a user to define exceptions for CVs. So for example, a CV was published yesterday and you haven't been able to patch all your images yet.  Maybe you want to add an exception that's time-bombed for the next two weeks so it gives you enough time to fix and patch your applications. We do image signing with Nodary. We enable you to define coders so you can control how much storage is being used. We have retention policies so you can expire images that are based on your compliance policy of your organization. And like I mentioned earlier, we have YDC and LDAP integration using our RBAC and CLI secrets. And the last thing, and this is kind of the multi-tenancy thing, is we allow you to isolate projects where the entire policy is applied on a per-project basis. So you can create a project for Pepsi and a project for Coke. Each of them have their own images and the developers and operators of these two projects can operate independently. At the infrastructure side, we allow you to deploy a harbor on an infrastructure whether it's private, public, hosted or edge. We allow you to have data locality so you can own your data and we're both Kubernetes and Docker compliant. At the scalability and control perspective, as a user you wanna have control access, you wanna control the access to your artifacts and you wanna replicate resources based on business needs. So harbor enables that by allowing you to not only have your artifacts to sit on your own infrastructure, but allows you to replicate to and from harbor by enabling you to create replication adapters to another harbor instance, Docker registry, Docker Hub, Huawei Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud and we're expanding that list pretty much with every release. So harbor can plug and play with pretty much any other registry out there and we can push and pull from those registries to basically create what your harbor environment looks like. And from an automation extensibility standpoint, as a user when you're looking at the registry, you wanna basically install a registry that's plug and play with a lot of the existing investments that you have in infrastructure and services. And some of those things we already talked about, right? The identity federation, that's a big part of that. We have integration with syslog. We have webhooks, so you can do CI CD integration. We have full REST API that basically has 100% compatibility with all the actions you have in harbor and we also have robot accounts for automation. This is kind of our architecture slide. You can see some components are harbor and some of them are not, are basically dependent components. For example, we depend on, we have Postgres as our SQL database. We support block file and object storage. We have Redis for our key value storage. We have chart museum for help support. However, with harport 2.0 that ships next month, we're gonna be full OCI compliant. So you can see chart museum being phased out and OCI is how we're gonna manage all our artifacts. So we'll be able to manage TINA bundles, OPAs, Helm charts, container images, operators, all of them from harbor as OCI compliant files. And then we have notary for signing. The replication providers on the right is what I mentioned and then the scan providers today. This slide was created a few months ago and now we have Dusek and Sysdig will also be added here as well. I don't wanna go too much into the harbor project overview but we have lots of users, lots of product implementations, lots of contributing organizations. And if you kind of look at this, this is kind of our money slide where over 10,000 GitHub stars or close to 10,000 GitHub stars, 170 contributors, more than 10 maintainers, lots of Twitter followers, lots of blogs and webinars and action happening. And you can see that the project is in healthy state from the number of contributions and that steady stream of contributions over time. The extensibility I mentioned earlier on pluggable scanners, we have a fairly simple API that allows any other company to come in and implement it so that we enable our customers and our users to use a scanner of choice. If someone has made an investment in Agua or Anco or any other company, they can plug in their own scanner so they can integrate with the rest of their processes. We're gonna go through the roadmap that way into the interest of time, we have a tremendous number of customers that are using hardware in production and we have a lot of those testimonials in the document that we have prepared for you. So one last thing I wanna show you is the CNCF survey results that came in 2019. You can see the hardware is being used almost by a lot of, I believe there were 137 responses. Harbor is used almost like 30%, 35% in production by those users. So there's a tremendous customer base within the CNCF ecosystem already. Let me exit this really quickly and I'm gonna go to the... This is the issue that I filed on your repo. So I may have mistakenly this, I put project security delete, I put the security delete from the Harbor project. I'm assuming lead security reviewer, someone from your SIG, but we've created the draft document for this review and we already done the TLC presentation already in November of 2019. But kind of looking here at the document that we prepared for you. This is a document you guys can comment on it or read it. And you can see that I tried to create a good timeline of everything that you might have an interest in. We'll have overview background goals and history of Harbor, intended use cases, we'll have project design, run operations, configuration setup, compliance, then we'll have the security analysis vectors that you guys wanted, our security development practices that we have, roadmap as well as some items in the appendix. In addition to this, and this is reference in a couple of areas, we have the full blown document that we have used in our PR for Harbor graduation that has, it's like a 30 plus page document without pictures. With pictures is a lot bigger that contains the entire due diligence for Harbor. And this is also linked from your document, but this is the, like if you sometimes have linked to this, that includes all sorts of items here. Having said that, Harbor has undergone two security penetration reviews so far. One was in August of 2019 by VMware. So VMware paid and hired two, well, they're on a payroll, but we used two security engineers that basically battle tested Harbor. Then we went and got a CNCF sponsored review by cure 53. They identified about six issues. We fixed them all in the next subsequent review of Harbor. And so undergone two PEN tests so far. The second one by cure 53 was across 20 days. That's it. Did you guys have any other questions? I'll, I want to stay within my 10 minutes here. I think Michael is very distant. I've got a question about notary. What types of authentication and encryption are being used with that today? And do you plan on using things like GPG in the future to sign images as well? Or is it just all gonna be notary? So today's just notary, but with one of the things that we're looking into, notary has one big limitation. Like once you sign an image, the URI of the image is embedded into that signature. So the image now is not portable. Or if you port it, then you're losing the ability to enforce the signing. So notary V2 has requirements, including the ones from Harbor to make the signatures portable. So we haven't really looked into a different solution for signing today, but we're open if you guys have a specific recommendation that might work better for us to investigate it. Yeah, I think from a user perspective, I think what's being asked is looking into GPG signing of the images as well and having that support. Okay. Yeah, so we'll go through and I think it might be a good idea. Cameron, if you have interest, maybe you can join the assessment team. I can. Okay. One other thing I'd like to do is, I think one thing that's slightly off here a little bit on the issue that was opened. So first of all, so if Cameron, if you wanna go ahead and add yourself to the issue, you can just edit the issue at the top and say that you're willing to be, I guess, either an additional security reviewer or a lead security reviewer potentially, although this lead security reviewer folks are people that have done an assessment before. The TOC presentation that we're talking about here is actually the presentation of the completed assessment. So I'm gonna uncheck that box here. Yeah, no problem, Justin. All right. And I also, I'd be happy to be a security reviewer for the project, but the harder part has been recently getting someone who's able to lead. Is someone else on the call here has participated in this assessment and willing to do so? So I put my name there. I participated on a recent assessment, but not as a reviewer, but as the author of the assessment of the self-assessment. I can be part of the reviewer process. This is how I want to end here. Okay. So everyone I think should feel free to go in and add themselves here. Do you all have access or am I the only one who can edit this? I think everyone should be able to go in and edit this. Yeah, I was able to edit it and I'm assuming everybody should. Maybe it's just mine that hasn't. I will take a look. Okay, but what we'll do is we should all go through and edit this and add in ourselves if we're willing to be reviewers and then we'll have to go and see who's technically allowed. We have in the past had situations where we've kind of loosened it a little bit. So we'll have to discuss with the chairs and others and see what makes sense, like who's technically qualified and who isn't. But we should be able to hopefully get the team together fairly soon. And then once that happens, then the rest of the process should go fairly quickly. Especially given that you've provided a lot of information and it'll obviously take us a while to look through it and make sure that it's like, we're not missing something important, but in general, the place that's taken the longest time has been the organization doing the initial assessment in a reasonable way. Or at least that's been one of the biggest blockers. So the fact that you've already taken a good stab at it probably will make this process a lot faster. Yeah, sounds good. That's reasonable to me. And by the way, on the GPG signing, I want to add one more thing. We're a CNCF project and one of the key principles of CNCF is that if there is a CNCF project out there that potentially you can manage and build better synergies with, it's preferred. So with Nodori being another CNCF project that's basically part of the reason why we chose that as a project for doing our signatures, but we were looking to GPG as well. The last thing and there's something I forgot to mention earlier, in addition to the security reviews you had with the PEN testing, we also have a pretty well-defined security policy from Harbor that other projects have emulated as well and that's been battle tested we've issued like six or seven advisories already. We have a distributor's list. We have a good way for security researchers to find vulnerabilities and contact us and a few of them have used it already. So we've kind of ironed out that process months ago and it's been working very well for us. I don't know how important it is to you guys, but that's working very well. Great. So I want to call out everyone's been helpful and sort of piling on to enabling process and clarifying and making sure that the learning from Michael in facilitating the security assessment are well-documented and efficient. There's only one I call out, beyond the security assessment is that Harbor is in the process of graduating and Michael correct me if I'm wrong, you've already received due diligence from SIG Storage and SIG Runtime. Yeah, absolutely. So SIG Runtime gave a thumbs up for graduation. SIG Storage, everything was okay except one item and I'll explain it here. It probably doesn't affect you guys. Harbor has many components and if you saw in our architecture diagram, two of them was a home chart as well as the, sorry, two of them were Postgres database as well as the Redis. When we deploy Harbor out of the box using our home chart, we install a single instance of Redis and a single instance of Postgres. And the reason why we don't install them as HAs because there's lots of home charts out there available if you wanted to install it yourself either using the Redis operator or a Redis home chart and install it in an HA, we didn't feel like it was worthwhile for us to duplicate that investment. SIG Storage, some members felt that that was a blocker to them and some members said that's exactly how you should proceed. Batteries included a single instance but there are readily available home charts for doing an HA deployment. So SIG Storage did not give a recommendation for graduation because of that, they said up to the TOC to figure out if this is a blocker or not. But ultimately everything else was good storage except this one point. You got it. So the thing I want to clarify is that new diligence, those processes still largely ad hoc. SIG Security is one of the, we were the sort of original guinea pig of the SIG process. We've been around for the longest and have our own internal processes that we're formalizing and since we've been guinea pigging for so long, we do tend to reflect back into, all right, we're improving the process as we go along and inviting folks to participate in that. So as we kick this off, kick off the assessment, I think it'd be worthwhile for Michael and Justin and I'll invite Sarah if she's well enough to participate to just have a quick breakout meeting to level set on due diligence, manage expectations around the security assessment, length of time on that. And then subsequent to the assessment, we're gonna have an additional step as chairs to move forward or not on our due diligence and our recommendation to the TOC. Sounds good. Justin, I'll ping you offline. That way as you guys finalize the list of reviewers and reviewer helpers, then we can figure out next steps. Maybe we can create a small working group on Slack. Sure, yeah, and I will also say that we won't be, like we certainly out of the assessment wouldn't make a real negative recommendation for lacking something like we're choosing, signature algorithm X over CNIF project Y unless there's some major security reason to make that change. So we're not, it sounds like maybe some of the process you've seen other places where that's not our goal here. Our goal is really to just do a security threat assessment and to be as neutral about it as we can. Yeah, absolutely. And by the way, we like the process that we went through with you guys a lot as well because as I was going through the checklist and trying to think about this from a security standpoint, we didn't identify a CV in Harbor by going through it. So, and we're using it. I didn't call it out in the document to see if you guys see it as well. This is more of a catch the bug type of thing. I'm just kidding. We'll talk about it when we actually meet, but I'll tell you what we identified and how, but when you read my document, you will see it and you will ask and then I'll tell you, yes, we're fixing this and it'll be there in two weeks. Great. Nice. Okay. Thank you, Michael. All right, just going in here. We do not have any issues or PRs for discussion or any noted as requiring chair approval. Are there any PRs that anyone would like to bring up at this time? Okay, great. I'll get it. Oh, I sorry. So, before we get to Dan, I just really quickly say I just reposted the link to the issue here for anyone who had volunteered or was potentially interested in being a security reviewer. Please go and edit the area at the top and add your name and you'll see my name there. That's all. Is it constructive or okay if someone just added on just as say an observer, just engage in the discussions and see how it's done so they could maybe contribute to this one? Yeah, that's perfectly fine. Okay, thank you. Sorry, Justin, where are we going? Where do I add my name, for example? Oh, into the document? Search for my name where it says one more additional reviewers, one or more additional reviewers, which is near the top. Justin, are you gonna be the lead security reviewer because for you, I will probably put your name up on the previous item as the lead security review, right? And then everybody else would add themselves as additional. Well, one of the potential problems with that is we kind of need to get more people to do that and I've done that before, so we're trying to rotate that roll out too. If push comes to shove, things may have to happen, but ideally we would have someone else play that role. Got it. I don't have permissions to edit that. Yeah, I think that's the problem. So please go ahead and just add comments underneath. If you have comments underneath, then go ahead and do that and then I will add you. Awesome, thank you. And then the one thing that's there is, there's that sign off by two chairs on reviewer conflicts. I'm assuming none of you guys, whoever decides to do the review does not have a conflict with Harvard or VMware, right? Yeah, what will happen is, is that we all have to post a little statement in, basically saying we don't and then... Ah, okay, got it, got it. So it'll just be, you'll see a bunch of comments underneath there that say, no, you don't have any of these kind of conflicts. Got it, got it. Okay, I guess back to you, Dan. I have a question. I think we're going into Zoom limbo, can you hear me? Yep, your audio is coming through. Okay. So as we're going into the next month or so, this morning with Liz and Justin Cormack, our TOC liaison, we had a couple of items for feedback to the TOC, specifically, we're looking for, we're talking about Harvard as graduating. Earlier in the ingest process, we have projects coming in at Sandbox or incubating. So we're looking for more clarity on how we direct folks coming in, whether we encourage folks to start with just Sandbox and not push ahead, to incubating, or when it is appropriate for a new project coming into CNSF to peg in. A lot of that at work is getting put onto the things now. We're happy to do that, but we need guidance and we're particularly interested in looking for a robust, no, like how do we rapidly get folks to a decision point. As I'm looking at April, we're talking about potentially having a theme and might end up with all the craziness of coronavirus and COVID-19 fun. It might be more reasonable to peg it into May, but going through a thematic set of meetings where we're inviting projects CNSF and not around identity and really shipping from having ad hoc projects come and present as it rises to, in a particular period, we're diving deep on a topic and coalescing some of our context and information around that. So considering identity, if you, for that, I think we're going to be able to do that. I think we're going to be able to do that. I think we're going to be able to do that. I think we're going to be able to do that. For that initial wave and if you have any suggestions for projects or folks that you'd like to hear from, very interested in getting feedback on that. I'll create an issue around it. Okay, thank you, Dan. So it doesn't appear that there's any peers beyond for discussion or anything requiring chair approval. So at this point, let's just open the floor. If anyone has any questions or wants to address people on the call, now's your chance. So follow this is underwood, following up on Dan's solicitation there. So do we have a official liaison with distributed identity foundation? No, we don't. So Sarah's also been engaged in Boston and had plugged into that, but we definitely do not have someone on the inside of security that is interested in engaging there. There's a bit of a, you know, interesting sort of philosophical journey that I expect there where, you know, a lot of the larger sort of corporate, you know, side of things are less interesting.   Got it. So I'll put this in the notes so that our note taker doesn't have to fill this out. So I only attended one meeting, but it's a Microsoft guy leading it. And he's extremely disciplined, almost to the brink of hostility to managing the time when they meet for an hour. They get a lot done in an hour. It is kind of blockchain centric, but they're holding that implementation design stuff at day at this point, then trying to work on a spec, which I think is going to be fruitful at some point. The NIST people are interested in this from a federation point of view. So I mentioned the liaison thing to them, which basically just meant they put it in the notes. That somebody thought that might be a good idea. Nothing official was set up, but, you know, I think it looks like this would be one of the useful things. And not because of who they are, but because of the people that are running the show. So I'll put in the notes. Great. Thank you, Mark. Yeah, I put a note for you to do that, Mark. Thank you for that. I'm curious. Do you can see there's a, there's a, there's a, you know, that Mark, thank you for that. I'm curious. Do you consider like I'm, I'm from VMware. And if I joined at the harbor assessment, do you consider this is a conflict because harbor is like, not a VMware project with the CNCF project? I don't know. Just curious. So we expect out the conflicts of our bag. It's in the security reviewer under the assessment guide. I think it's specified that that's a soft conflict. I believe that basically you just have to say that you're from VMware, but you don't directly want on the project and you would still be able to do the review. Thank you. Yeah. I believe the only blocker that a soft conflict is, is that you can't be a lead reviewer. It's my understanding. Yep. I think that's right. So is that a common criteria soft versus hard conflicts, hard conflicts, it's a no go versus soft just has to be noted or documented in events. Yeah. So, so we defined this in the, the assessment guide.  Thinking through it. So basically, I think we defined that half conflicts. You can't be a lead reviewer, but soft conflicts, you can be a regular reviewer. Sorry for. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. How complex you can be review or soft conflicts you can be a lead, you, you can't be a lead review. But you can be a regular versus lead reviewer on a soft conflict. Yes. Yeah. All right. We still have a four or five minutes, four heart stop. Are there any other topics anyone wants to raise? Okay. Thanks everyone for joining today. Stay healthy and have a great day. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you for allowing us to come and talk to you guys. Have a great day. Good to have you. Okay. Thank you. Very interesting. Thanks everybody.


So, we proved the existence of a large mountain range that was present 600 million years ago. This large mountain formed when Africa and South America were together in a single continent, so-called Gondwana, and we found rocks from localities in Africa and in South America and indicated that there was a big mountain chain running all across the region of the size of the mountain range that was available to nowadays in Malaya. And the mountain range has since been eroded, but while it was eroding, a large amount of sediment was shed down to the ocean to sustain the evolution of life. This is a very simple model of how the continental crust floats on top of the mantle. As we can see here, the big peaks are supported by very deep roots. We have seen pressures that are 30,000 to 40,000 times atmospheric pressure. And under these pressures, we form special minerals that are a key. They are an indication that these rocks were once at these 100 km depths. So what we then do, we go into our laboratory and try to reproduce the conditions in the interior of the earth. Here we have these big pressures that are able to produce the pressures and temperatures in the earth's interior. So what we can do is we produce a very small powder. We put it in a capsule and then we put it at 30,000 to 40,000 times atmospheric pressure, temperatures of 700 degrees and we let it cook for one week. During this week, we create our own small rock in the laboratory. We can compare then the chemical composition of what we produce in our artificial rock with the natural rock. And once they match up, we know the conditions at which both they form. And to exactly know when our mountain form and our deep rock form, we extract tiny minerals from the rock and we measure the composition using this large instrumentation, colonio microprobe. When the crystal form at depth and it contains uranium, that over time decay to lead and by measuring the amount of uranium and lead in the crystal, you can calculate the age. So we have to put together different pieces of the jigsaw by combining samples provided by our collaborator from Brazil with expertise and analytical instrument available here at ANU. And by analyzing tiny crystals, you could reconstruct the existence of a mountain 600 million years ago.


I came out in 2018, late 2018 and sort of was googling sort of places and areas of support and things and that's when I came across all sorts. Having that certainty and how I felt and how I wanted to identify was certainly a challenge for me. LGBT plus youth can just come to our space, come to their space and just be their true authentic self.


An input English sentence is converted into an embedding to represent meaning. We add a positional vector to get the context of the word in the sentence. Our attention block computes the attention vectors for each word. Only problem here is that the attention vector may not be too strong. For every word, the attention vector may weight its relation with itself much higher.  We are more interested in interactions with different words. And so we determine like eight such attention vectors per word and take a weighted average to compute the final attention vector for every word. Since we use multiple attention vectors, we call it the multi-head attention block. The attention vectors are passed in through a feedforward net one vector at a time. The cool thing is that each of the attention nets are independent of each other.


The spatiotemporal characteristics of temperature extremes over Antarctica are largely unknown, but using quality-controlled daily datasets from Antarctic weather stations, it is shown that annual maximum and minimum temperatures exhibit a decreasing pattern over Antarctica from the coast to inland regions. This feature holds for the warmest daily maximum and coldest daily minimum temperatures, which define the intensity of extremes, but not for the number of warm, cold, days measuring the frequency of extremes, which show limited dependence on latitude or elevation. During 1970 to 2000, temperature extremes in the South Orkney Islands and on the margins of East Antarctica show opposite trends, especially with a significant increasing and decreasing trend in warm events, respectively. During 1999 to 2013, the intensity and frequency of extreme temperatures decrease significantly over West Antarctica, but the trends vary greatly across sub-regions of Antarctica. These results help to decipher the climate regimes of Antarctica, fill current gaps in the map of global climate extremes, guide the future design of Antarctic observational networks, assess the capability of re-analysis datasets and climate models. This article was authored by Ting Wei, Qing Yang, and Ming Hu Ding. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Hi everyone. I'm going to start with the problem. This was an observation originally made by the art historian David Buxton who noted that in northern Ethiopia during the transition to Christianity the people of the Highlands built their churches in design of old oxomite palaces or elite buildings. This design is laid out in a plan for towers and architecture in stone and timber frame known as monkey heads. The argument is simple. Two buildings of two areas look alike and implies some sort of continuity, something that lasts into the transition to Christianity. But what does this continuity actually mean? What does it tell us about Ethiopian society? I'm going to propose that it shows us a process of community building associated with commemoration of the dead and I'm going to explain how it's related to the innovation of traditions such as a Christian test car that helped to define different types of cosmopolitanism than we've known in the West. Now we'll start with this idea of cosmopolitanism. So I'm less interested in how cosmopolitanism has been used as an analytical category or an ethical project in Apia and others but we can certainly talk about that in questions. And instead I want to examine the social process by which cosmopolitans are made. A cosmopolitan is a world citizen or someone who sees themselves as belonging to a world community in its original formulation. A cosmopolitan is someone whose identity is rooted not in their local or national affiliations but who operate more as belonging to a global community across such boundaries. The outcome of cosmopolitanism is the rise of the individual. Anthropologists have noted that in many societies people often see themselves as families or social groups more than they see themselves as individuals meaning that they operate on obligations and motivations to each other more than their own individual free will. But whenever society starts to depend on long-distance trade groups break apart and people start living as individuals. We see this in Western history as emphasis shifts from common to private spaces and domestic structures. We also see it in the dissolution of group eating habits and the shift from group funerary ritual to individual burial and preservation. But the thing is this doesn't just happen in the West because dual processional and collective action theory archaeologists observe these kinds of patterns all over the world. So it may not be an idiosyncratic Western trade but it might actually be part of social process. This is because of how long-distance connections are mediated. Say you have a person. Through their body this person can easily interact with people nearby and form a group. However to interact with people far away the body can't communicate that far on its own. So those interactions take place through objects and material culture. This may still form some sort of imagined community but the lives are now defined by alienation and individualism because the immediate experiences are with objects instead of actual people. This is a phenomenon where I spend more time talking on my phone or talking on my phone with my friends in Austin than I do with my own neighbors. This is why even though we often take cosmopolitanism and globalism as celebrations of interconnection and diversity many times they come across more like celebrations of consumerism. The eating of the global, the eating of all things for it. Now when you go to Ethiopia today people often oftentimes think that globalizing means eventually their culture is going to have to look much more like individualist, Frenzy or Western culture. And when families have to send members off to college or find jobs in other regions of Ethiopia or the Middle East people fear those family relationships weaken and so yeah it starts to look like that's how things are going to happen. This is a big concern in Ethiopia today and it often gets talked about in terms of the traditional versus the modern or Habesha culture versus Frenzy or Western culture. However this is where Buxton's argument comes in. I propose that it tells us a different story. So this story begins around the first four centuries AD at Oksum. The Oksumai kingdom was the first major polity in the Ethiopian Eritrean highlands known to archaeology. The kingdom was centered on its capital of Oksum and as a trading power Oksum linked the African interior to the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean worlds. Through these proto-global connections Christianity entered Oksum at least by the 4th century AD but likely sooner and supplanted local polytheistic traditions in the following centuries. Symbols of the pre-Christian religious traditions remain today in the form of the Oksumai stele or large funerary monuments carved from granite. There are hundreds of these stele but the most famous are the six largest that were carved to look like multi-storied houses or palaces. Now in Buxton's argument the similarity and design between Oksumai elite houses and later Christian churches suggests a connection. However I would also add to this the Oksumai stele whose elite forms also incorporate the house symbolism in its design. This is necessary because now we're not just trying to compare a domestic to a ritual building of two eras but two ritual buildings where we see many of the same functions. So now we're simply trying to understand why the use of domestic symbolism on ritual buildings is important. To understand that we have to look at the common practices that went on around these buildings and the role they played in society and two important ones were group burial and rites of ancestor veneration and commemoration. So I'm going to go through this kind of quickly but I can certainly answer any questions on it that might be needed. But at its most basic the stele is the burial marker and it seems to mark groups rather than individuals. Burials tend to cluster around stele in groups of three or more both in the northern and the Judith stele fields as you can see in the the plant here where the dotted circles represent where burials were found. Bodies are often jumbled together and it's hard to find actual individual Oksumai in the group burial assemblages. Larger tombs also have group-oriented layouts where it is difficult to identify a head chamber. Along with this in front of the house stele are carved bowls which have been interpreted as spaces for the placement of of ablutions and offerings and rites of commemoration. Archaeologists have long noted the importance of such practices to building social groups through common history and social memory especially with monuments right. So these imply coming together events that help strengthen local relationships through memories of the dead. I've also argued that Neville Chittic's stratigraphy and representation of elements points to rituals of post-mortem manipulation secondary burial where bones are removed from graves for social rights and later re-deposted. These practices are often ethnographically associated again with rights of ancestor veneration and social memory. The importance of family grouphood may be the source of this house symbolism. At Oksum today this seems to originate with the the tour guide agency rather than anyone else but they often saw tourists at the largest tomb at Oksum. The mausoleum was actually made to look like the the inside of a stele which so you have the profile map at the bottom the plan on the top if you turn the profile map 90 degrees you can start to see kind of their resemblance and it's it's quite superficial but what might actually start to support their case is that the inside of the of the tomb was plastered to look like solid nephelin cyanide which is the same granite from which the seal of a cart and this plaster seems to have no other plastering properties. It seems then that the family in this tomb desired to be buried in something like the stone house to seal symbolizes. We can argue that this group identity is then tied to the house symbolism. The Oksum family saw themselves as a social house and took the material house as a metaphor of their groupness. What this reveals is the importance of communal burial and memory of and the memory of the dead and making these the open social unit. This is what lasts through time. When the highlands convert to Christianity over the course of the third to the sixth centuries AD churches quickly became associated with burial. The first cathedral at Oksum was built on the old stele field and two further tombs you can see the plans here were mounted by the silica churches four kilometers to the north. Other early Oksumite churches such as Appiata, George's Hill, Debra Dama, Wichigolu, as well as later churches and the Lawson Mountains all follow this pattern. You can see one of the burial crypts here. While these churches appear to be focal points for burial there has been little archaeology in the Christian period and so we don't know how these groupers were organized or commemoration rituals prevailed up this time. For this I turn to historical sources later in the Christian era. This means we have a huge gap in our timelines so be aware of that. But looking at historical sources we see a familiar focus on burial community building and commemoration rites that go on with the church. Travelers from the 16th to the 19th centuries all report that social life in the Christian highlands evolved around the church. The dead were buried either in churches or church precincts matching the link between churches and burials seen in the unknown segment of the Christian period. From these accounts we can argue that the idealized social unit was at the level of the Christian community. However though the unit of social organization may shift or may not shift the practice of community building through social memory does not. The church is involved in all aspects of social life but commemoration of the dead holds a special place. Travelers all report on mourning ceremonies where entire communities assemble for rites of displaying grief often with professional musicians and sacrifices offerings and lavish bees. These are the tusk cars or the drawing of tears.  And so I'm not quite sure that frequency is an exaggeration. Parkins also explains that anyone who does not show to these ceremonies is not regarded as a threat that's a quote. Francisco Alvarez attests to the presence of the tusk cars in the 16th century the earliest known record of their existence. We then see a transition from pre-Christian family to the Christian community but at least some of the ritual practices that built those groups remain the same. Now because of this gap in research we don't know if this is a direct continuity or a reemergence of similar traditions. We cannot say when the tusk car actually begins but we can start to understand why it begins. Social memory and commemoration were central in the building of the social unit. That unit once defined by the house eventually became defined by the church. And this package that includes rites of death and social memory as a way to keep people together as either continued or reinvented in the Christian era. The Ethiopian tusk car may well be a production such rites. Christianity arrived as a foreign faith but how it became an Ethiopian one helps us to understand continuity as a social process through histories of change. We can then turn again to Buxton's argument. Two buildings look alike. The argument is very simple but wrapped around those buildings is a story far greater. Sometimes we act if our societies are all on a line that we're all all of history is moving towards Western culture and those that do not sufficiently look Western are thought to have fallen behind so that this is the outcome of all society. That outcome is our version of cosmopolitanism which is very individualist very consumerist and forsakes people for the idea of them. Ethiopia shows us something different. A cosmopolitan does not a world community but plays on the world stage. That the world isn't just the modern and the traditional but that traditions are made to help people create different versions of modernities. In Ethiopia traditions such as the tusk car helped to define a cosmopolitanism focused on the local but flowing with the global. It keeps bodies in a rampant. It keeps people together. So today Ethiopia is one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world. Bollywood, Turkish, Korean and Brazilian soap operas and Chinese exchange to find the everyday experience and cosmopolitan cities such as Otis push people towards individual life but even there a one bedroom apartment is many times just as expensive as a two bedroom apartment because family will not be separated by the walls of the house and even there people will drive themselves into debt to hold a tusk car because family may not be forgotten and because family friends and communities must come together always to be made new. And just as in its history Ethiopia changes only in its own way and only to keep its own way. Thank you.