Podcasts about mstp

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Show Summary In this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. They discuss the unique aspects of Case Western's three MD programs, the significance of research in the application process, and what makes an applicant stand out. Christian emphasizes the importance of quality experiences and reflections in the application essays and advises applicants to submit their applications when they are in tip-top shape, rather than rushing to submit on the first day. He also discusses the culture at Case Western, describing it as laid-back, balanced, and invested in the success of its students. Show Notes Thanks for tuning into the 571st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. Just go to accepted.com/medquiz, complete the quiz and you'll not only get an assessment but tips on how to improve your chances of acceptance. Plus, it's all free.  I'm delighted to introduce today's guest, Christian Essman, senior director of admissions and financial aid and fellow podcaster and host of the All Access Med School Admissions Podcast.  Christian, thank you so much for joining me today on Admissions Straight Talk. [1:31] Hi, Linda. Delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Let's start with some just really basic information about Case Western University's medical school programs. Can you give a 30,000-foot perspective or view of the three MD programs that it offers? [1:39] Certainly. We're a bit unique in that we have not one, not two, but three different pathways to an MD/MD-PhD. The first one is the university program, which is our four-year MD, which is a traditional four-year degree. Then we have our MD-PhD program, which is a medical scientist training program, and that's about eight or nine years. MSTP actually started at Case Western back in the 1950s, by the way. It's the longest NIH-funded program ever in the history of the universe. And then the one in the middle is unique. I don't know if the word boutiquey is a word, but it's boutiquey. Our Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. So these are all three Case Western programs. They're under the umbrella of the university and they're all Case Western students, but we have three tracks. So the one in the middle, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, is a five-year MD and it's for students who really like research. Really, really, really like research. But maybe advancing to an MD-PhD is not an educational goal to be in school for eight or nine years and getting a PhD, but they really like research. And so the reason why it's five years is because they thread research throughout the entire five years that you're there. And at one point students will step away usually after the second year to do 12 months of research with the results of hopefully having some publishable results. And so it's for students who might be considering MD-PhD, maybe they're also applying to MD-PhD. So it's one in the middle there and so that's why we have three different tracks. It's a bit unique. It is unique. I don't know of any other school that has that three structured program. [3:36] When people apply to us in AMCAS, they apply to Case Western and then in the secondary application, they can indicate which program or programs plural that they want to apply to. And so you could apply to the university program and the Cleveland Clinic program and then you get separate admissions decisions. We review them separately. So it's two for one or three for one if you want to think of it that way. But I will say this. Very few students apply to all three. Usually, if you're interested in MD-PhD, that's what you're applying to, and then maybe add in Cleveland Clinic,

Will you have enough money to retire? What does that even mean? In this pod, our guest physician financial coach, Elisa Chiang, M.D. Ph.D. breaks down Trading time for money and money for timeWorking harder vs creating valueThe FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) movement and why it doesn't always mean living by austerity rulesThe risk of relying solely on retirement accounts to fund your post-career lifeHer biggest financial mistakeHow identity influences spending habitsIncorporating real estate into an investment portfolioGuest Bio: Elizabeth ‘Elisa' Chiang, M.D. Ph.D. is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeon who found her way into personal finance and real estate investing during her MSTP program, aspiring for FIRE long before it became mainstream. Battling burnout from her work in a hospital system, she turned to real estate as her avenue to financial independence, complemented by her newfound passion for life coaching. With active involvement in rental properties and passive investments in syndications and real estate funds, Elisa now helps others achieve financial independence while embracing life's journey. Learn more at https://www.growyourwealthymindset.com/Love medicine, but the job itself leaves a lot to be desired?I work with many docs in your shoes. To learn more about 1-on-1 coaching, start here.For full show notes of this episode and all sorts of other goodies, visit our podcast websiteWe discuss:Why a high income does not equate to wealthWorking harder vs creating valueOnce debt is gone, attention to money can dwindle Finding a place to start investing can be overwhelming and lead to inertiaHow to navigate a scarcity mindsetHow identity influences spending habitsMoney can buy time, but there's a catchElisa's biggest financial mistakesHow to decide if a real estate investment is a good (or bad) dealElisa's big-picture financial strategyReal estate investing for positive cash flowIf you only think about maxing out your retirement account, you probably won't retain the same lifestyle when you stop workingBeyond real estate investing, what are other areas for investment to produce cash flow?F.I.R.E Financial Independence Retire Early | Survival, Regular, and Fat FIREHow to figure out how much FIRE money you'll need to stop workingWill my retirement funds actually last? Rate of withdrawal and sequence of returns risk Fat FIRE | Spending more in retirement than you did while workingMentioned in this episode:4 Free Resources specifically designed to address pain points in medical practiceScripting your least favorite conversations The Driveway Debrief My 4 favorite documentation templates The quick and dirty guide to calling consultsFree Resources LinkThe Flameproof Course. Sept 10, 2024Real-time instruction with Rob Orman, MD, and Scott Weingart, MD. Specific tools and strategies for anti-burnout, career longevity, and self-mastery. From a recent Flameproof graduate, "I went from constantly dreading work and thinking of quitting to being able to enjoy shifts on a regular basis."Flameproof Course

Uncover the essentials of BACnet integration in Episode 451 of the Smart Buildings Academy Podcast with Phil Zito. This episode is an invaluable resource for professionals embarking on BACnet integration projects, offering a comprehensive overview of BACnet protocols, communication methodologies, and practical integration strategies. Whether you're tackling a retrofit or adding new components to your building automation system, Phil's expert insights will guide you through the complexities of BACnet integration. Episode Highlights: BACnet Basics: Phil introduces BACnet as the standard protocol for building automation, explaining its role in structuring communication and defining data structures within BAS environments. Understanding BACnet Objects: Delve into the world of BACnet objects, including devices, inputs, outputs, and values. Learn about the significance of discovering device objects and the process of mapping points within a BAS. MSTP vs. IP Integration: Explore the differences between BACnet over Master-Slave/Token-Passing (MSTP) and BACnet over Internet Protocol (IP), including their application scenarios and challenges in integration processes. Integration Fundamentals: Phil provides a step-by-step guide to BACnet integration, covering essential aspects such as wiring, baud rates, MAC addresses, and device IDs, ensuring a smooth integration experience. Real-World Integration Scenarios: Gain insights into practical BACnet integration examples, including troubleshooting tips and strategies for overcoming common integration challenges. Phil Zito's expertise shines in this episode, offering listeners a deep dive into BACnet integration tailored for both novices and seasoned professionals in the building automation field. If you're looking to enhance your understanding of BACnet and improve your integration skills, Episode 451 is a must-listen, equipped with the knowledge and confidence to tackle BACnet integration projects successfully.

Dr. Olujimi Ajijola is a leader in physician-scientist education and directs both the PSTP and MSTP at UCLA. He earned his BS from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, his MD from Duke, and his PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology from UCLA. He completed residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by fellowships in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at UCLA. Today, Dr. Ajijola shares his thoughts on how and why we train physician-scientists - and what needs to change to keep the workforce robust and relevant. Dr. Ajijola's Faculty Page: https://mstp.healthsciences.ucla.edu/people/olujimi-ajijola-md-phd/ Credits: Executive Producers: -       Bejan Saeedi -       Joe Behnke -       Michael Sayegh -       Carey Jansen -       Nielsen Weng Faculty Advisors  -       Brian Robinson -       Mary Horton -       Talia Swartz -       Chris Williams -       David Schwartz Twitter: @behindthescope_ Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1 Website: behindthemicroscope.com

In this episode, we discuss with Isaiah Swann, an MSTP trainee and Student Representative on the NCAA Board of Governors, his career path and progress so far, and we gain insights from his good experiences, hear how he maintains work-life integration, and we produce an episode that is one of the best so far! -- Isaiah Swann -- Link to Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaiah-swann-640187134/ -- Isaiah Swann Biography: Isaiah Swann is a student in the Medical-Scientist Training Program and Cell & Developmental Biology Graduate Program at the University of Virginia. Originally from Marietta, Georgia, Isaiah completed a degree in neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas and a postgrad year at the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery at Vanderbilt University before arriving at UVA in 2021. Broadly, he is interested in neurology and expanding our understanding of basic cellular processes in neurons, such as how elements of the neuronal cytoskeleton contribute to axon pathfinding and proper synapse formation. While passionate about research and medicine, he believes it's important to lead a fulfilled life outside of work; Swann enjoys spending his free time sampling local restaurants with friends, making music, watching reality tv shows, and exercising. --

Noch einmal sind die Unterschiede zwischen den zivilen Strafverfahren und den Militärstrafverfahren Thema. [Markus J. Meier](https://www.rechtskraft.ch/team/markus-j-meier/) erörtert mit [Duri Bonin](https://www.duribonin.ch) die Unterschiede zwischen den Strafbefehlsverfahren (StPO 352 ff.) und den Strafmandatsverfahren (MStP 119 ff.). Der Gesetzgeber wüsste eigentlich, wie es rechtsstaatlicher ginge. Aber natürlich: Wenn man immer mehr Strafnormen erlässt, ohne bei den Staatsanwaltschaften das Personal angemessen aufzustocken, verzieht die Effizienz zwangsläufig die Rechtsstaatlichkeit mitunter bis zur Unkenntlichkeit. Die Unterschiede hierbei ist zwischen den einzelnen Kantonen erheblich. Schliesslich unterhalten sich Markus und Duri über die Strafverteidigung in Militärstrafverfahren. Als Strafverteidiger erhält man Einblicke in die unglaublichsten Fälle und arbeitet eng mit sehr unterschiedlichen und spannenden Menschen zusammen. Im Podcast [Auf dem Weg als Anwält:in](https://www.duribonin.ch/podcast) versucht der Anwalt Duri Bonin gemeinsam mit seinen Gesprächspartnern (Beschuldigte, Verurteilte, Staatsanwälte, Strafverteidiger, Gutachter, Opfer, Unschuldigte, Schuldige …) zu ergründen, wie diese ticken, was sie antreibt und wie sie das Justizsystem erleben. Behandelt werden urmenschliche Themen. Bei genauerem Hinsehen findet man Antworten auf eigene Fragen des Lebens und der Gesellschaft. Links zu diesem Podcast: - [Strafprozessordnung](https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2010/267/20230123/de/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-cc-2010-267-20230123-de-pdf-a-1.pdf) (StPO) - [Militärstrafprozess](https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/filestore/fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/1979/1059_1059_1059/20230101/de/pdf-a/fedlex-data-admin-ch-eli-cc-1979-1059_1059_1059-20230101-de-pdf-a-1.pdf) (MStP) - Mein Gast [Markus J. Meier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-j-meier-611a3299/) - Anwaltskanzlei von [Duri Bonin](https://www.duribonin.ch) - Titelbild [bydanay](https://www.instagram.com/bydanay/) - [Lehrbücher für Anwaltsprüfung und Anwaltsmanagement](https://www.duribonin.ch/shop/) Die Podcasts "Auf dem Weg als Anwält:in" sind unter https://www.duribonin.ch/podcast/ oder auf allen üblichen Plattformen zu hören

In der Schweiz kommen zwei Strafprozessordnungen zu Anwendung, abhängig davon, ob die zivile Strafbehörde oder die Militärjustiz zuständig zeichnet. Die beiden Strafprozessordnungen folgen unterschiedlichen Strafverfolgungsmodellen. [Markus J. Meier](https://www.rechtskraft.ch/team/markus-j-meier/), der heutige Gast von [Duri Bonin](https://www.duribonin.ch), ist neben seiner Anwaltstätigkeit als Untersuchungsrichter und Auditor in der Militärjustiz tätig. Also genau der richtige Gesprächspartner, um das Strafverfolgungsmodell der Militärjustiz (mit dem Untersuchungsrichtermodell I) demjenigen der zivilen Strafverfahren (mit dem Staatsanwaltschaftsmodell II) gegenüberzustellen: Was sind die Vor- und Nachteile der beiden Modelle? Das Gespräch dreht sich um Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Effizienz, Unabhängigkeit, Unmittelbarkeit und Öffentlichkeit von Gerichtsverhandlungen. Als Strafverteidiger erhält man Einblicke in die unglaublichsten Fälle und arbeitet eng mit sehr unterschiedlichen und spannenden Menschen zusammen. Im Podcast [Auf dem Weg als Anwält:in](https://www.duribonin.ch/podcast) versucht der Anwalt Duri Bonin gemeinsam mit seinen Gesprächspartnern (Beschuldigte, Verurteilte, Staatsanwälte, Strafverteidiger, Gutachter, Opfer, Unschuldigte, Schuldige …) zu ergründen, wie diese ticken, was sie antreibt und wie sie das Justizsystem erleben. Behandelt werden urmenschliche Themen. Bei genauerem Hinsehen findet man Antworten auf eigene Fragen des Lebens und der Gesellschaft. Links zu diesem Podcast: - Mein Gast [Markus J. Meier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-j-meier-611a3299/) - Anwaltskanzlei von [Duri Bonin](https://www.duribonin.ch) - Titelbild [bydanay](https://www.instagram.com/bydanay/) - [Lehrbücher für Anwaltsprüfung und Anwaltsmanagement](https://www.duribonin.ch/shop/) Die Podcasts "Auf dem Weg als Anwält:in" sind unter https://www.duribonin.ch/podcast/ oder auf allen üblichen Plattformen zu hören

I was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. I attended University of Illinois for undergraduate, then Northwestern University for MD/PhD training (MSTP). I matched for AP/CP at Northwestern University Department of Pathology, where I additionally served as Chief Resident during my PGY3 year. I continued at Northwestern for GI and Liver Fellowship training. I am currently Assistant Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University, where I focus on GI sub specialty for daily sign out.  My academic interests and area of research includes molecular alterations in colorectal carcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors, and also inflammatory bowel disease (especially dysplasia arising in inflammatory bowel disease). Additionally I am interested in pathology education and increasing pathology representation among URMs at the residency and medical school levels, but would like to expand to include pre-medical school opportunities. Personal interests include my family (especially my 5 year old daughter), biking/cycling, soccer, and classical music.Twitter: @d_escobar_mdphd

Dr. Holly Bauser-Heaton is an assistant professor and interventional pediatric cardiologist and physician-scientist at Sibley Heart Center at Children's Healthcare of Altanta. She is also a co-director of the MD-PhD program at Emory University. She earned her MD and PhD at Indiana University, completed residency in pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and fellowship at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. Today she shares her journey to becoming a physician-scientist in a procedural field, and her thoughts on moving physician-scientist training forward as a co-director of an MSTP. Without further ado, here is my conversation with Dr. Holly Bauser-Heaton. Credits: Our thanks to Dr. Bauser-Heaton for being on the podcast. Follow Dr. Bauser-Heaton on twitter: @hbh_mdphd Dr. Bauser-Heaton's Faculty Page: https://www.pedsresearch.org/people/faculty/holly-bauser-heaton-md-phd Host: Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh Associate Producer – Josh Owens Faculty Advisors – Dr. Mary Horton and Dr. Brian Robinson Twitter: @behindthescope_ Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1 Website: behindthemicroscope.com

If you want to know more about Medical Scientist Training Programs (MD/PhD), then this is the episode for you! You will hear from a leader in the MSTP community, Mr. Brian Sullivan, the Executive Director of the MSTP at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.  As Director of the largest MSTP in the US, Mr. Sullivan brings a wealth of knowledge as he walks us through the intricacies of this unique biomedical research training degree and discusses some of the little known and subtle nuances of what makes for a strong MSTP applicant.  If you find this podcast to be a helpful resource, RATE, REVIEW, & SUBSCRIBE please!  It helps others find it! Send me your recommendations for future medical schools that you'd like to hear featured! Send it to: allaccess@case.edu    Visit our website for more information on this episode and others.  https://linktr.ee/allaccessmedschool     RESOURCES:  Washington University School of Medicine MSTP CWRU School of Medicine MSTP List of MSTP Programs AAMC MSTP Resources AAMC Tools for MSTP Applicants Gaps between college and starting an MD-PhD program are adding years to physician-scientist training time Long-Term Trends in the Age of Principal Investigators Supported for the First Time on NIH R01-Equivalent Awards CONTACT:  mstp@email.wustl.edu 

Dr. Abby Hardy Fairbanks, medical director of Iowa City's Emma Goldman Clinic joins co-hosts MSTP students Madi and Riley, and M2s Mao and Tyler to help us understand how the recent SCOTUS decision striking down abortion as a federally protected right will affect their training. The changes may extend beyond OB-Gyn training to affect other specialties...as well as the trust that confidentiality brings to the doctor-patient relationship. Also, Dr. Hardy-Fairbanks talks about the advocacy roles physicians can take on, from state-house lobbying to voting to just being there for their patients. CONTENT WARNING: We're discussing a controversial subject. The opinions expressed are not those of the University of Iowa. Listener discretion is advised.

Does the financial language seem so complicated? Are you a physician looking to grow your income? This episode is definitely for you! Dr. Elisa Chiang MD, PhD. is a practicing ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon, a certified life coach, and the host of Grow Your Wealth Mindset podcast. She dove into the world of personal finance and investing when she was in the grad school years of the MSTP (combined MD/Ph.D. program) 19 years ago and has flourished since then. Dr. Chiang now helps health care professionals feel confident about managing and investing their money to build wealth that enables them to reach financial freedom.Tune in as she shares tips for overcoming burnout, getting out of the trap of the arrival fallacy, and building your path to financial independence while enjoying the journey to get there. In a nutshell, we chat about:Why physicians need to understand money and the difference that makesSome of the biggest mistakes she has seen the physician community makeWhat investing and wealth looked like for Dr. Chiang when she started 19 years agoHow to become financially literateStrategies to stay away from growing into your income…and so much more!Featured in the Show:Website: https://growyourwealthymindset.com   Instagram: @growyourwealthymindsetYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WealthyMindsetMD Grow Your Wealthy Mindset on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GrowYourWealthyMindsetMore from Doctors Changing Medicine:Join the Doctors Changing Medicine Community HEREYouTube Channel

Dr. Chiang and I talked about the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement and what this means for your life. We also explore how our beliefs about money drive our actions. We also talk about burnout and how that fast-tracked her FI journey. Elizabeth Chiang, or Elisa for short, is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeon as well as a life coach. She dove into the world of personal finance and investing as a graduate student during her MSTP (combined MD/Ph.D. program) and set her mind toward FIRE before the term became popularized. She became a certified Life Coach through the Life Coach School so she can help others battle burnout, build wealth, and make every day closer to their ideal life. To learn more about Elisa or to work with her, visit her website at www.GrowYourWealthyMindset.com. Connect with Dr. Chiang GrowYourWealthyMindset.com YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/WealthyMindsetMD Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowYourWealthyMindset Facebook Group Women Physicians Creating Wealth https://www.facebook.com/groups/862065417721814 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GrowYourWealthyMindset Linked In www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-chiang-0582a432 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/urcaringdocs/message

Applying to MD/PhD programs? Here's what you need to know [Show Summary] Dr. Herman “Flash” Gordon, an Accepted consultant and former chair of the University of Arizona Tucson College of Medicine's admissions committee, provides a deep dive into the application process for MD/PhD programs, highlighting crucial preparation tips.  Interview with Dr. Herman “Flash” Gordon [Show Notes] Welcome to the 453rd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for tuning in. Do you want to get accepted to medical school this cycle? We have a webinar that's just perfect for you. You're invited to the webinar titled Start Medical School in 2023: How to Get Accepted This Year. Watch the webinar here. Our guest today is Dr. Herman AKA "Flash" Gordon, Accepted consultant and former chair of the University of Arizona Tucson College of Medicine's admissions committee. Dr. Gordon also served on PhD admissions committees while at the University of Arizona. Since joining Accepted, he's guided clients to acceptance at MD, PhD, and MD/PhD programs, sometimes to several acceptances at those programs. Dr. Gordon has been on Admissions Straight Talk several times in the past, and it's my distinct pleasure to have him on again today.  We're going to focus this show on MD/PhD admissions. How and when did you get involved in med school admissions and then specifically the MD/PhD world? [1:58] I started on the University of Arizona admissions committee about a decade ago. It was one of these things that's like, "Oh, it's your turn to take on a big service job." I knew nothing about what I was getting into, although I was teaching med students. It was interesting. I very quickly learned that it was actually a great committee and that for everyone who was on it, they felt like it was the best service they had ever done. It's a major responsibility, you're determining people's futures, you're shaping the class that you're going to teach, it's just a great opportunity. And you're doing positive things; it's not like a disciplinary committee or something like that. How long were you the chair of the committee and roughly how many applications did you evaluate in that period? [3:06] I was on the committee for four years, and I was chair for the last two years. At the committee level, about 600 applications make it through the interview and then go on to the full committee. So that's 600 a year of which, as chair, you have to look at all of those. But when you're on a subcommittee, or at least we ran with subcommittees, then you get about a fifth of those, so 120 or so. It's a lot of work. For a typical admissions committee member, it's about 200 hours which is a lot. As chair, it's probably closer to 600. Although I had done PhD admissions in neuroscience, I was new to how the MD/PhD admissions worked. Different schools do it differently. At the University of Arizona, there was a separate MD/PhD committee and both that committee and the regular MD committee had to accept the applicant. So it was this sort of parallel process. At some schools, the MD/PhD committee has more autonomy, you have an allotted number of slots and get to fill them however you want. But there is a very large component of both sides having to accept you. They have to accept you as a clinician, and they have to accept you as a researcher. Are there different kinds of MD/PhD programs? And if so, what are some of the major categories? [4:54] I think the biggest distinction is whether it has an MSTP or not. The MSTP is an NIH funded program that basically pays for a certain number of students to be in an MD/PhD program each year, so that gets you a full ride. While you are doing your research component, you're getting a stipend as well as having your tuition paid so you're acting as a graduate student during that time.  There are other programs which don't have an MSTP. They all aspire to have an MSTP because it's a load of money and it allows you to attra...

On this week's 51%, we wrap our series speaking with women religious leaders and scholars. Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis discusses her work at the Jannah Institute, an Islamic school for women. Uzma Popal, director of the Capital Region's Muslim Soup Kitchen Project, shares how charity is a pillar of her faith. And Stanford University's Dr. Amina Darwish challenges the perception of Muslim women in the U.S. Guests: Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis, founder of the Jannah Institute; Uzma Popal, director of the Muslim Soup Kitchen Project; Dr. Amina Darwish, Associate Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life at Stanford University 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. This week, we're wrapping our series speaking with women religious leaders and scholars. By now, at part four, we've spoken to women from various backgrounds about their beliefs. My hope in doing this, as someone who doesn't know much about religion, was to hear directly from women about how they worship, why they do it, and what they see as the greatest challenges in their faiths - because while a lot of today's mainstream religions are traditionally male-led, women are increasingly stepping up to the plate. Today, we're wrapping the series by speaking with three well-versed Muslim women. Our first guest is Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis, the founder and chairman of the Jannah Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. Haifaa Younis is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with roots in Iraq, and she says she started the Jannah Institute in 2013 to offer an Islamic education for women, by women. Haifaa Younis always wanted to dive deeper into her faith, and before starting the Institute, she went on her own journey in search of knowledge — a mission that proved somewhat difficult in the U.S. at the time. After trying various remote learning methods, she packed up her life and moved to Saudi Arabia, where she graduated from the Mecca Institute of Islamic Studies. "There, actually, is where I met the woman scholars. Before that I have not – maybe I've read about them before, but there I definitely met [them]. I learned 90% from woman scholars, with really deep knowledge," says Younis. "And the beauty when you learn from a woman – and this is not because of gender – is just because, as a woman, you know she goes through what you are going through. It's closer. So it doesn't mean the man doesn't do it, but it's just something a little bit [closer]. I didn't know this ‘till I felt it, ‘till I tried it. What kinds of classes are you teaching at the Jannah Institute? At the Jannah Institute, what we offer, there is a broad spectrum, because there's so many things you can learn about Islam. So we divided it into the main two things: the holy book itself, and then what we call Islamic study. So the holy book [courses are] if people want to learn how to read. Remember, the holy book, the Quran, is in Arabic, and the majority of the women that live in the west don't speak Arabic, and they don't know how to read. So we offer them courses from the basics, from literally the alphabet, to becoming an expert in reading. Then, if someone knows how to read, but they want to memorize – it's a huge virtue to memorize – we offer that too. Then we offer, if you want to read but you want to read perfect – how you study academically. How do you read it? It's a whole subject. That's one. And then the other, which is much more needed, is basically, “What does Islam say? What does Islam teach? How can I practice my religion living in the west, in 2022, as a professional woman, as a mother, as both?” And this is what we offer. We started in 2017, giving six-to-eight week courses, once a week or twice a week. And then last year in March, we call this “The Year of Knowledge: What Every Muslim Woman Should Learn About Islam.” And we designed it in a way that it is the traditional books and the traditional sciences, but in a practical way, and that the ordinary woman – the goal is not to graduate scholars, I told the woman from day one – the goal is you learn your religion, and how you apply it in your daily life. So what are some of the ways that students are taking those lessons into their daily lives? Whenever we are learning, the first question comes in how to apply it. So when we finished our first semester, we had the final exam. And at the end, there was a question, and I told the students, “This is not going to be marked.” And the question was, “What did this subject change in your life? And how did you apply it in your daily life?” So for example, when we were teaching the woman about prayers, how you pray – not supplication, how you perform, we call it “Sana” in Islam. And then we taught them all of it, the connection to God and everything. So what they wrote was amazing. Like, “I always used to look at it as a duty, I have to do it. I never thought of it as it is a connection with my creator. And now I take my time to do it.” The science of the Quran, which is very academic, and it's not easy – they said, “Although it is challenging, and a lot of new information, it's changed the way I look to the book itself. Like, ‘How am I, as a woman living in this day and age, how do I apply it? How do I learn it? And how do I teach it to my children and apply it in my home?'” So basically, it's a practical theory, but we bring it to practice always. And you went to school to memorize the Quran, correct? Yes. Yes, definitely. Was that like? How do you break up such a large text to put it down to memory? The younger you are the better, because your brain is not busy yet. So usually, either you do it yourself – a lot of people do it, but it takes much longer. Or you do it with a teacher one-to-one. Or the best way, where everyone will advise you, is you go to school. And usually there are small classes, eight or nine in the class. And you all memorize the same. The teacher is usually very expert. Usually, the way they do it, to make it easy: it's 30 parts. So they usually divided over three years, and every year you memorize 10 parts. The irony, if you want to use the word, and the challenge, is that you can forget it very easily. So when you memorize, you have to keep reviewing. So you build up…and you get tested and tested and tested. So you sit in front of the teacher, and you don't have the book, she opens it to any page, and then she says, “Read from the following.” What does worship look like to you? To me, and I have seen it also as we are teaching, what has the most impact is when you start learning about your creator. Because whatever we say, and we say, “Yeah, I know, I know, I know.” But when you start studying in detail – so we believe in a creed, that he is the only creator and the Prophet, peace be upon him, is the messenger. And then when you look at who is he, like we spend 13 weeks studying “Who is he?” This really had an impact on me before the students. One of the sayings says, “He created us, and he doesn't need us.” And he gives to us constantly and never runs out, if you want to use this word, of continuous giving. I always tell the students: take a break. Just think about this, close your eyes and see, “Who is he?” So when you want something, why do you ask from people? Why don't you go and ask from the source? And the source will make me subcontractors, if you only use the word, do it. So the most important to me personally, as a woman, is this connection, this personal connection. Anywhere I want to go – I don't need anybody, I just sit and I talk to him. And if you know his words, the holy book, it's even better, because now you're talking to him with his own words and spirit. Islam is a very spiritual religion, and many people don't know that, unfortunately. Even Muslims don't know that. There's a lot of spirituality and personal connection. And you don't get the peace that we are supposed to get from religion, unless you have this. One thing I've been asking my guests is, do you see any opportunities or obstacles in your religion? I would call them both. Because the obstacle is, I will call it one of the most misunderstood religions – because of many reasons, you probably know, working in the media. But this obstacle is the opportunity. This is how I look at it. For example, I cover my hair, right? So people will ask me about this. Well, this is an opportunity. I can look at it as an obstacle – “Well, they have labeled me” – but no, I look at it as an opportunity to explain to people what is my religion. Since I am doing it – I am convinced that I didn't do it for any other reason than to please Him, God – then this is the opportunity. I've been a professional lay woman for years, studied all in the western world. I have always had people, when they asked me, the first thing I say to myself is, “They don't know, there is no other reason they are asking. And this is the opportunity.” And this is what I teach, also, at the Jannah Institute. I always tell the women, “When you are in that grocery shop, this is your opportunity to practice what you are learning.” One of the teachings of the Prophet is to not get upset, don't get angry. So you go to the grocery shop, and the cashier is busy or made a mistake. Because we are so much used to everything going our way, we get upset. But remember what you learned and apply it, especially as a Muslim woman. And that's the opportunity. Do you have either a favorite religious message, or story, or person from the Quran that you'd like to share? Oh, I have lots of stories. My friends know that. But one story is not about me, but I was there. And I'm talking to you about the connection because I saw the connection on the spot. This is in the holy month of Ramadan. The last 10 days of Ramadan is a very highly spiritual time, when many go for exclusion. We call it the “Aitikaf,” when you go alone, and it's really highly recommended to do it in the mosque. So here I am. This is years ago, with another woman who I don't know. And we were in the mosque, in the holy mosque in Makkah, which is so crowded. Jesse, you're talking about millions, not one or two. And then you are up all night praying, and in between they give you a break, but if you want to leave the mosque, go out and eat and come back, you will miss the prayers. So whatever food you have [you eat], usually it's a cheese sandwich, maybe a piece of food. And this is for 10 days. So at the end, this woman, young woman at that time, in her 20s – you know that giving, generous person? Anybody wants anything, I was watching her, for 10 days, she gives it. So she came to me at 3 a.m. We were sitting together, exhausted. And she looked at me and she said, in her own slang language, “I am dying for a piece of meat.” And I looked at her and I was like, “Where are we going to get meat? We are in the mosque with this millions.” Not even five minutes [later], a woman comes in, sits in front of us with a container. She opens the container, and guess what's in the container? Meat, cooked meat in tomato sauce. We looked at her, we don't know this woman. She said, “By God, this was cooked at home, and you all are going to eat.” And I looked at her like, “What connection you have, that you only wanted food, and he gave it to you within five minutes.” Amazing, amazing. But to have the connection, you have to sacrifice, you have to work for him, and give for him, and do what he wants from you. And it's amazing what you get back. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. That's all the questions that I had for you off the top my head. But is there anything that I'm missing that you'd like me to know? Or that you'd like our listeners to know? Thank you so much, and thanks for everyone who's listening to me. I would ask everybody who's listening to us: don't judge people. Learn, ask, and ask with a smile. And believe me, everybody will be more than happy [to help]. But don't judge anybody just because they look different. Especially women, just because they look different or maybe they have an accent. Believe me, this is what we believe in Islam: we all were created from dust, and we all got to go back to dust. One thing we've seen over the course of these episodes is how many people worship through service, and our next guest, Uzma Popal, is no exception. Popal has long been a member of the Al-Hidaya Center in Latham, New York, and since 2017, she's been the director of the center's Muslim Soup Kitchen Project. The charity, which helps families across the Capital Region, says it's served roughly 42,000 meals since 2014 - and the projects keep coming. I sat down with Popal to learn more. How did you get involved with the organization? So I actually grew up here, I came to America when I was nine years old. I had heard about the Muslim Soup Kitchen Project a while ago, and at that time, I was mother of two: my kids were around 10, 11. And I really wanted them to learn to give to the needy, and to help others. Because we have a lot that He has blessed us with, but I wanted my children to be able to be grateful and to give back. In our faith, charity is one of our pillars. We can't even really call ourselves Muslims if we don't give in charity. And when this, MSTP, came into my lap, I knew that this is something I really wanted to do. Tell me a little bit about what the project does. How often do you hold soup kitchens, and where do you operate? So MSKP, Muslim Soup Kitchen Project, has many programs underneath its umbrella. We serve monthly soup kitchens, monthly meals to local shelters in Schenectady, Albany, and Troy. We serve about 300 to 500 meals. On top of that, once a year we do the National Soup Kitchen Day, in which we serve over 1,200 meals just locally, and we extend to multiple shelters in Albany. There's also monthly drives that we do. So maybe in winter we do coats and socks and hats and stuff like that. When school starts around August, we do school supplies, and then we do fresh vegetables and fruit, things like that. So we do that every month. We have a donation center that we collect those things, and then we distribute it to local refugees, local families in need. In our holidays, we have either Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr. So one of the holidays is where we sacrifice meat, and we actually donated over 1,500 pounds of meat to local families in need. These are just a few of the things that MSKP does, along with, you know, visiting the sick and the elderly. That's another thing in our religion, is that we look out for our elders. Just the idea of putting your parents or somebody into the nursing home, it's like a foreign thought for us. I know it can't be helped sometimes, because people have to work. We understand that, you know, just because you put your parent in a nursing home doesn't mean you don't love them. Of course, everybody loves their parents. But in our culture, it's more, “They took care of us, now we have to take care of them.” So in the community, if there's somebody that doesn't have a family member, or they're alone, it's a community's job. It's their right upon us that we have to check on them. As you're helping people with these projects, what are the things that you often see them struggling with? What are some of the things that you're seeing out there in the community? Especially with COVID right now, you know, some people have temporarily lost their jobs. And everything is so expensive – even food, everything is rising. So even people that may have lived normally, without feeling the pain of all this, they are starting to feel that. And we also have the refugee group that has come, and we work closely with USCRI. When the refugees come, they contact us and we try to help them get resettled as much as possible. So for the Muslim refugees that come, some of the things that we provide for them, like welcome packages, may have their prayer rugs, as well as the Quran. Not only that, but before they can find permanent housing or apartments – USCRI finds it for them – so in that meantime, they are in a hotel, and they have no money, they don't have food stamps or anything like that. In order to help them with that, we actually provide lunches. You mentioned that there are different things you guys are looking for different times of the year. What are some ways that people can help out with the soup kitchen project right now? One thing that we're always in need of obviously, is volunteers. And people can go to our website, they can email mskp@al-hidaya.org. So they can even email us and say, “Hey, we want to volunteer,” and we can get them started. I like to see what the volunteers are into, what they like to do, and then we try to find the right spot for them. Another way people can donate is they can donate toiletries, or cleaning supplies, because these are the types of things that food stamps doesn't cover – but they're expensive. What was it that made you want to get more involved with your faith? Or has this always been a part of your life? Oh, yeah, definitely. The main reason I'm doing this and being part of this is because of my faith. We have the Quran, the holy book, and after that, we have Hadith. The Hadith is all the Sunnah, which is the sayings of the Prophet and the things he did. So it'll say, “Give charity,” but then the Hadith will tell us how to give charity, and who to give to charity. And one thing that always stands out to me is, it says, “One cannot be a Muslim, unless they want for their brothers what they have for themselves.” So when you think about that, how can I eat food, and be OK with that, knowing that my neighbor, or somebody I know, is starving and going hungry? And then another thing that I really like is, when it comes to charity, it says charity begins at home. So I can't go and help the community when my own children are starving, you know? That just doesn't make sense. So I see it as a circle that grows. It's all about intentions. So if we do something, it depends what your intention is. For example, if I said, “I like your shirt” in a cynical or wrong way, where it hurts your feelings – like, yeah, I said, “I like your shirt,” but am I going to get a good deed or a bad deed? You know, obviously, it's a bad deed, because what was the intention? So if I say, “I like your shirt” [and mean it] – which I do, by the way – I get a good deed for that. If I sit down and I watch a movie with my family, and I did it with the intention that, you know, I want to spend time with my family, that's good, I get a good deed for it. And I don't know too much about too many other faiths and everything, but in one day, every action, everything that I could do, I could get a reward for it. National Muslim Soup Kitchen Day is scheduled for May 28th with participating soup kitchens across the U.S. For additional info on donations and more about the charity, check them out at al-hidaya.org. Our last guest today has actually already been mentioned on this program before. Dr. Amina Darwish is a close friend of last week's guest, Sangeetha Kowsik, and she does quite a lot of work as a spiritual advisor and the Associate Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life at Stanford University. She originally got her doctorate in chemical engineering before switching career paths and choosing to pursue Islamic scholarship. What made you want to steer your life toward studying Islam? I don't know if I should call them spiritual crises, because they ended up being spiritual awakenings. But when I was 16, I decided like, “You know, this whole praying five times a day thing is a lot of work. I'm either going to do it for me, or I'm not going to do it at all.” And I started reading the Quran mostly to like, argue with my mom. If I was gonna be like, “Oh, I'm not gonna pray anymore,” then I could rebut what she was saying based on this text. And I remember reading it for the first time, and by the end of it, I was like, “Shoot, I think I'm still Muslim. I have to keep praying. I think I should do this now.” And I remember once going to a conference, and it was a discussion on spirituality, and Imam Ghazali is like one of the most renowned Muslim mystics in Islamic history. And I remember hearing his book, it's called The Alchemy of Happiness – and I was like, “Where has this been my whole life?” I still have my notes about like the spirit and the ego, and how your spirit existed before your body, and it still remembers the presence of God, and it's always yearning for and it's always yearning for this, like, timeless existence. That was actually the beginning of me trying to learn and study Islam more seriously. Unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots on the internet. And when you research things online about Islam, the junk that they say about women is ridiculous. I grew up in a Muslim family, I lived in Kuwait for a long time, I've lived in Muslim societies, and I knew what they were saying was just not true to the lived reality. And I also knew deep in my heart, like, I know God's not a misogynist. And there were so many women in the life of Prophet Muhammad, that anytime someone's like, “Oh, women can't do this,” I'm like, “Let me tell you about a woman in the life of Prophet Muhammad who did.” There's a woman that goes to the Prophet, peace be upon him, and she asks him, she's like, “Why in this verse are men mentioned more than women?” And my response every time I present this – this woman was later widowed, Prophet Muhammad marries her later in her life – and I'm like, if people ask who wants to marry the crazy feminist woman that's like, “What about this thing?” The answer's Prophet Muhammad, and people who are actually following his footsteps. So I like this woman. And I'm so grateful for all of those examples of women in the life of Prophet Muhammad. And I feel like very few people know about them. Are there any other things that you feel people misunderstand about your faith? That seems to be the biggest one. I've lived in different parts of the country, so I lived in Ohio, and I remember showing up to spaces where I'm the Muslim representative, and someone's like, “Islam oppresses women.” And I'm like, “My dude, they sent me. What are you talking about?” I'm just so confused. And it's odd, because I feel like, especially as women, we struggle claiming [our] space and claiming [our] expertise – and I'm standing in this space, and I'm like, “No, I'm the expert in this room about Islam. And you're not going to tell me what it is.” We had a guest speaker, it's actually the first event I did at Stanford. Dr. Donna Austin is a professor at Rutgers University, and she had a discussion on the women in Malcolm X's life. His sister, Ella Collins, was the one that got him transferred, and advocated for him to get transferred to the prison that had the library. And that's how he learned how to read. He memorized a dictionary. And without his sister, he wouldn't have been there. And she talked about his sister, she talked about his mother, she talked about Dr. Betty Shabazz – like, we celebrate him, and we forget to mention the women that made him who he is. He couldn't have been that person without her, and this unspoken emotional labor that a lot of the times women do. And she was talking about [how] loving someone that society has deemed unlovable is an act of resistance. And it's an act of beauty. And that really resonated with me. Because even in the story of Moses, and I think this is true in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures, a lot of the women in history are unnamed. And it talks about his sister, it talks about his mother, it talks about his adoptive mother, and you see all of these women that healed him, carried him through his trauma, and protected him, and gave him the opportunity to become who he was. So then he can walk into the court of Pharaoh be like, “Let me tell you about God. Even though you're trying to kill me.” It's such a badass moment, but he couldn't have been there without the love these women gave him. I've been teaching the life of Prophet Muhammad for a number of years now, and a lot of the times the feedback I got from people was like, “This is the first time I've heard these particular stories.” I'm named after Prophet Muhammad's mom, so of course, I'm gonna talk about his mom. I'm talking about his mom a lot. Other times, you're like, ‘OK, this is where he was born.” [I start the story at] “No, this is everything that was happening in his society when he was born.” His father passed away when his mom was still pregnant, this pregnant widow is carrying all of this. And that's the beginning of his life. Tell me a little bit more about Muhammad's mother. Sadly, she passed away when he was six years old. He had so much trauma as a child. And even the Quran later addresses it and says, “You were an orphan and we sent people to love you.” Because if you look at a tribal society, the most vulnerable person is the orphan. And there's so much celebrating that child and protecting that child. And not just protecting that child with like, here we give, we donate. No, people loved him, people took him in. And it's fascinating that like, that was part of God helping him through his trauma. When he was much, much later in his life – he's in his 60s, he's achieved this success of his message spreading everywhere, people are recognizing him for the leader that he is. And he stops by the place where his mother is buried, and he's just gone for a long time. And then they send someone to go find him, and they just find him standing right next to where his mother was buried, just crying, just missing her. She clearly gave him so much love, and believed in him so much, that he was able to carry through the rest of his life knowing he was loved. That love is healing, it gives people resilience. I was talking to a student earlier today that's telling me about her fiancée. She's like, “It's getting really exciting, I think I'm gonna marry him.” And one of the conversations we had reflected on the story of Moses, and like, “If you marry him, do you think in 10 years that your prayers will be better? That they'll be deeper, they'll be more meaningful?” And she's like, “Yeah, I think so.” Then he is your spiritual partner. That's awesome. For those who don't know, let's just go over some of the basic beliefs in Islam and the ways that you worship. Most basic belief is just the oneness of God. There's one God, he sends prophets to tell us about – I want to say himself, just because English doesn't have a genderless, singular [pronoun]. Arabic does, which I'm grateful for. Even just putting God, when you say “he,” it becomes so limiting. God by design is one, and only God can be one, because only God is perfect and unique in their oneness. All the rest of us need other people. What daily practice looks like? I mentioned the five daily prayers, they're based on the position of the sun. They're at different times, just spread out throughout your day. They're very small circuits. It's also a physical prayer, so you're in different physical positions – there's a point where your head is above your heart and you're standing, there's a point where you're bowing and your heart and head are level, there's a point where your face is on the ground, and your heart is above your head. And there's different things that you're saying in each of those positions. And it's very personal, [but] you can do it in a group. It looks like people standing in rows doing yoga together, which I think is hilarious. In the same way that Muslims are talked about a lot, unfortunately, in the news, in very negative light, very rarely is everyday Muslim life actually discussed. The most consistent thing that is said in the prayer is “Allahu Akbar,” “God is greater.” This is, by design, not a complete sentence because you can, in your own mind, like “God is greater than whatever I was worried about before I started the prayer.” “God is greater” than this. I can personalize it, I can make it my own experience. And unfortunately, a lot of Americans will hear the words “Allahu Akbar,” and they're like, “Oh, no, this is something bad.” And that makes me sad. Like, I say it a lot. Any practicing Muslim says that a lot. And it feels so insulting, that someone can commit an evil act, say it once, and somehow their once becomes more valuable than my 100 times a day. Me and every other practicing Muslim. Overall, do you have any religious stories or messages that you'd like to share? So Prophet Muhammad's wife narrates the greatest number of narrations from him. He passed away, and she, for the rest of her life, carried on his message. Up to a third of Islam came to us from this woman, and such detailed things of like, “This is the procedure he followed in his shower.” Who would be able to tell us that besides his wife? And any time there's someone that is insulting to Muslim women, I'm like – first of all, go talk to one. I promise we're a force to be reckoned with. And two, a third of Islam came to us through a woman. We wouldn't know so much of our religion without her, and it's not like the other two thirds was all men. The other two thirds included both men and women. Muslim women have always been at the forefront of our faith: the first martyr was a woman, the first believer was a woman. There's so many firsts in Islam. One of my favorites, the oldest running degree-granting university in the world is the one in Fez in Morocco. It was opened by a woman by the name of Fatima al-Fihri. There was a moment where the [former] president of Harvard, at some point, was like, “Women are just not as good at math.” And then he got himself fired and replaced by a woman, which was perfect poetic justice. Thank you, whoever did that. But I remember when he said that, and we were having a discussion at the mosque, and I was like, “No, no. This university was credited of introducing the Arabic numerals that we now use to Europe. So we all wouldn't do math the way that we do without this particular woman, let alone every woman that has been.” I mean, like, women were at the beginning of computer science, and now our image of a computer scientist is a man. And it just it's not giving credit where credit is due. You've been listening to 51%. A big thanks, again to Dr. Amina Darwish, Uzma Popal, and Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis for participating in this week's episode — and thanks to you for joining us in this special series. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram at @51percentradio. Until next week, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

On this week's 51%, we wrap our series speaking with women religious leaders and scholars. Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis discusses her work at the Jannah Institute, an Islamic school for women. Uzma Popal, director of the Capital Region's Muslim Soup Kitchen Project, shares how charity is a pillar of her faith. And Stanford University's Dr. Amina Darwish challenges the perception of Muslim women in the U.S. Guests: Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis, founder of the Jannah Institute; Uzma Popal, director of the Muslim Soup Kitchen Project; Dr. Amina Darwish, Associate Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life at Stanford University 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King, our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is "Lolita" by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. This week, we're wrapping our series speaking with women religious leaders and scholars. By now, at part four, we've spoken to women from various backgrounds about their beliefs. My hope in doing this, as someone who doesn't know much about religion, was to hear directly from women about how they worship, why they do it, and what they see as the greatest challenges in their faiths - because while a lot of today's mainstream religions are traditionally male-led, women are increasingly stepping up to the plate. Today, we're wrapping the series by speaking with three well-versed Muslim women. Our first guest is Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis, the founder and chairman of the Jannah Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. Haifaa Younis is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with roots in Iraq, and she says she started the Jannah Institute in 2013 to offer an Islamic education for women, by women. Haifaa Younis always wanted to dive deeper into her faith, and before starting the Institute, she went on her own journey in search of knowledge — a mission that proved somewhat difficult in the U.S. at the time. After trying various remote learning methods, she packed up her life and moved to Saudi Arabia, where she graduated from the Mecca Institute of Islamic Studies. "There, actually, is where I met the woman scholars. Before that I have not – maybe I've read about them before, but there I definitely met [them]. I learned 90% from woman scholars, with really deep knowledge," says Younis. "And the beauty when you learn from a woman – and this is not because of gender – is just because, as a woman, you know she goes through what you are going through. It's closer. So it doesn't mean the man doesn't do it, but it's just something a little bit [closer]. I didn't know this ‘till I felt it, ‘till I tried it. What kinds of classes are you teaching at the Jannah Institute? At the Jannah Institute, what we offer, there is a broad spectrum, because there's so many things you can learn about Islam. So we divided it into the main two things: the holy book itself, and then what we call Islamic study. So the holy book [courses are] if people want to learn how to read. Remember, the holy book, the Quran, is in Arabic, and the majority of the women that live in the west don't speak Arabic, and they don't know how to read. So we offer them courses from the basics, from literally the alphabet, to becoming an expert in reading. Then, if someone knows how to read, but they want to memorize – it's a huge virtue to memorize – we offer that too. Then we offer, if you want to read but you want to read perfect – how you study academically. How do you read it? It's a whole subject. That's one. And then the other, which is much more needed, is basically, “What does Islam say? What does Islam teach? How can I practice my religion living in the west, in 2022, as a professional woman, as a mother, as both?” And this is what we offer. We started in 2017, giving six-to-eight week courses, once a week or twice a week. And then last year in March, we call this “The Year of Knowledge: What Every Muslim Woman Should Learn About Islam.” And we designed it in a way that it is the traditional books and the traditional sciences, but in a practical way, and that the ordinary woman – the goal is not to graduate scholars, I told the woman from day one – the goal is you learn your religion, and how you apply it in your daily life. So what are some of the ways that students are taking those lessons into their daily lives? Whenever we are learning, the first question comes in how to apply it. So when we finished our first semester, we had the final exam. And at the end, there was a question, and I told the students, “This is not going to be marked.” And the question was, “What did this subject change in your life? And how did you apply it in your daily life?” So for example, when we were teaching the woman about prayers, how you pray – not supplication, how you perform, we call it “Sana” in Islam. And then we taught them all of it, the connection to God and everything. So what they wrote was amazing. Like, “I always used to look at it as a duty, I have to do it. I never thought of it as it is a connection with my creator. And now I take my time to do it.” The science of the Quran, which is very academic, and it's not easy – they said, “Although it is challenging, and a lot of new information, it's changed the way I look to the book itself. Like, ‘How am I, as a woman living in this day and age, how do I apply it? How do I learn it? And how do I teach it to my children and apply it in my home?'” So basically, it's a practical theory, but we bring it to practice always. And you went to school to memorize the Quran, correct? Yes. Yes, definitely. Was that like? How do you break up such a large text to put it down to memory? The younger you are the better, because your brain is not busy yet. So usually, either you do it yourself – a lot of people do it, but it takes much longer. Or you do it with a teacher one-to-one. Or the best way, where everyone will advise you, is you go to school. And usually there are small classes, eight or nine in the class. And you all memorize the same. The teacher is usually very expert. Usually, the way they do it, to make it easy: it's 30 parts. So they usually divided over three years, and every year you memorize 10 parts. The irony, if you want to use the word, and the challenge, is that you can forget it very easily. So when you memorize, you have to keep reviewing. So you build up…and you get tested and tested and tested. So you sit in front of the teacher, and you don't have the book, she opens it to any page, and then she says, “Read from the following.” What does worship look like to you? To me, and I have seen it also as we are teaching, what has the most impact is when you start learning about your creator. Because whatever we say, and we say, “Yeah, I know, I know, I know.” But when you start studying in detail – so we believe in a creed, that he is the only creator and the Prophet, peace be upon him, is the messenger. And then when you look at who is he, like we spend 13 weeks studying “Who is he?” This really had an impact on me before the students. One of the sayings says, “He created us, and he doesn't need us.” And he gives to us constantly and never runs out, if you want to use this word, of continuous giving. I always tell the students: take a break. Just think about this, close your eyes and see, “Who is he?” So when you want something, why do you ask from people? Why don't you go and ask from the source? And the source will make me subcontractors, if you only use the word, do it. So the most important to me personally, as a woman, is this connection, this personal connection. Anywhere I want to go – I don't need anybody, I just sit and I talk to him. And if you know his words, the holy book, it's even better, because now you're talking to him with his own words and spirit. Islam is a very spiritual religion, and many people don't know that, unfortunately. Even Muslims don't know that. There's a lot of spirituality and personal connection. And you don't get the peace that we are supposed to get from religion, unless you have this. One thing I've been asking my guests is, do you see any opportunities or obstacles in your religion? I would call them both. Because the obstacle is, I will call it one of the most misunderstood religions – because of many reasons, you probably know, working in the media. But this obstacle is the opportunity. This is how I look at it. For example, I cover my hair, right? So people will ask me about this. Well, this is an opportunity. I can look at it as an obstacle – “Well, they have labeled me” – but no, I look at it as an opportunity to explain to people what is my religion. Since I am doing it – I am convinced that I didn't do it for any other reason than to please Him, God – then this is the opportunity. I've been a professional lay woman for years, studied all in the western world. I have always had people, when they asked me, the first thing I say to myself is, “They don't know, there is no other reason they are asking. And this is the opportunity.” And this is what I teach, also, at the Jannah Institute. I always tell the women, “When you are in that grocery shop, this is your opportunity to practice what you are learning.” One of the teachings of the Prophet is to not get upset, don't get angry. So you go to the grocery shop, and the cashier is busy or made a mistake. Because we are so much used to everything going our way, we get upset. But remember what you learned and apply it, especially as a Muslim woman. And that's the opportunity. Do you have either a favorite religious message, or story, or person from the Quran that you'd like to share? Oh, I have lots of stories. My friends know that. But one story is not about me, but I was there. And I'm talking to you about the connection because I saw the connection on the spot. This is in the holy month of Ramadan. The last 10 days of Ramadan is a very highly spiritual time, when many go for exclusion. We call it the “Aitikaf,” when you go alone, and it's really highly recommended to do it in the mosque. So here I am. This is years ago, with another woman who I don't know. And we were in the mosque, in the holy mosque in Makkah, which is so crowded. Jesse, you're talking about millions, not one or two. And then you are up all night praying, and in between they give you a break, but if you want to leave the mosque, go out and eat and come back, you will miss the prayers. So whatever food you have [you eat], usually it's a cheese sandwich, maybe a piece of food. And this is for 10 days. So at the end, this woman, young woman at that time, in her 20s – you know that giving, generous person? Anybody wants anything, I was watching her, for 10 days, she gives it. So she came to me at 3 a.m. We were sitting together, exhausted. And she looked at me and she said, in her own slang language, “I am dying for a piece of meat.” And I looked at her and I was like, “Where are we going to get meat? We are in the mosque with this millions.” Not even five minutes [later], a woman comes in, sits in front of us with a container. She opens the container, and guess what's in the container? Meat, cooked meat in tomato sauce. We looked at her, we don't know this woman. She said, “By God, this was cooked at home, and you all are going to eat.” And I looked at her like, “What connection you have, that you only wanted food, and he gave it to you within five minutes.” Amazing, amazing. But to have the connection, you have to sacrifice, you have to work for him, and give for him, and do what he wants from you. And it's amazing what you get back. Well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. That's all the questions that I had for you off the top my head. But is there anything that I'm missing that you'd like me to know? Or that you'd like our listeners to know? Thank you so much, and thanks for everyone who's listening to me. I would ask everybody who's listening to us: don't judge people. Learn, ask, and ask with a smile. And believe me, everybody will be more than happy [to help]. But don't judge anybody just because they look different. Especially women, just because they look different or maybe they have an accent. Believe me, this is what we believe in Islam: we all were created from dust, and we all got to go back to dust. One thing we've seen over the course of these episodes is how many people worship through service, and our next guest, Uzma Popal, is no exception. Popal has long been a member of the Al-Hidaya Center in Latham, New York, and since 2017, she's been the director of the center's Muslim Soup Kitchen Project. The charity, which helps families across the Capital Region, says it's served roughly 42,000 meals since 2014 - and the projects keep coming. I sat down with Popal to learn more. How did you get involved with the organization? So I actually grew up here, I came to America when I was nine years old. I had heard about the Muslim Soup Kitchen Project a while ago, and at that time, I was mother of two: my kids were around 10, 11. And I really wanted them to learn to give to the needy, and to help others. Because we have a lot that He has blessed us with, but I wanted my children to be able to be grateful and to give back. In our faith, charity is one of our pillars. We can't even really call ourselves Muslims if we don't give in charity. And when this, MSTP, came into my lap, I knew that this is something I really wanted to do. Tell me a little bit about what the project does. How often do you hold soup kitchens, and where do you operate? So MSKP, Muslim Soup Kitchen Project, has many programs underneath its umbrella. We serve monthly soup kitchens, monthly meals to local shelters in Schenectady, Albany, and Troy. We serve about 300 to 500 meals. On top of that, once a year we do the National Soup Kitchen Day, in which we serve over 1,200 meals just locally, and we extend to multiple shelters in Albany. There's also monthly drives that we do. So maybe in winter we do coats and socks and hats and stuff like that. When school starts around August, we do school supplies, and then we do fresh vegetables and fruit, things like that. So we do that every month. We have a donation center that we collect those things, and then we distribute it to local refugees, local families in need. In our holidays, we have either Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr. So one of the holidays is where we sacrifice meat, and we actually donated over 1,500 pounds of meat to local families in need. These are just a few of the things that MSKP does, along with, you know, visiting the sick and the elderly. That's another thing in our religion, is that we look out for our elders. Just the idea of putting your parents or somebody into the nursing home, it's like a foreign thought for us. I know it can't be helped sometimes, because people have to work. We understand that, you know, just because you put your parent in a nursing home doesn't mean you don't love them. Of course, everybody loves their parents. But in our culture, it's more, “They took care of us, now we have to take care of them.” So in the community, if there's somebody that doesn't have a family member, or they're alone, it's a community's job. It's their right upon us that we have to check on them. As you're helping people with these projects, what are the things that you often see them struggling with? What are some of the things that you're seeing out there in the community? Especially with COVID right now, you know, some people have temporarily lost their jobs. And everything is so expensive – even food, everything is rising. So even people that may have lived normally, without feeling the pain of all this, they are starting to feel that. And we also have the refugee group that has come, and we work closely with USCRI. When the refugees come, they contact us and we try to help them get resettled as much as possible. So for the Muslim refugees that come, some of the things that we provide for them, like welcome packages, may have their prayer rugs, as well as the Quran. Not only that, but before they can find permanent housing or apartments – USCRI finds it for them – so in that meantime, they are in a hotel, and they have no money, they don't have food stamps or anything like that. In order to help them with that, we actually provide lunches. You mentioned that there are different things you guys are looking for different times of the year. What are some ways that people can help out with the soup kitchen project right now? One thing that we're always in need of obviously, is volunteers. And people can go to our website, they can email mskp@al-hidaya.org. So they can even email us and say, “Hey, we want to volunteer,” and we can get them started. I like to see what the volunteers are into, what they like to do, and then we try to find the right spot for them. Another way people can donate is they can donate toiletries, or cleaning supplies, because these are the types of things that food stamps doesn't cover – but they're expensive. What was it that made you want to get more involved with your faith? Or has this always been a part of your life? Oh, yeah, definitely. The main reason I'm doing this and being part of this is because of my faith. We have the Quran, the holy book, and after that, we have Hadith. The Hadith is all the Sunnah, which is the sayings of the Prophet and the things he did. So it'll say, “Give charity,” but then the Hadith will tell us how to give charity, and who to give to charity. And one thing that always stands out to me is, it says, “One cannot be a Muslim, unless they want for their brothers what they have for themselves.” So when you think about that, how can I eat food, and be OK with that, knowing that my neighbor, or somebody I know, is starving and going hungry? And then another thing that I really like is, when it comes to charity, it says charity begins at home. So I can't go and help the community when my own children are starving, you know? That just doesn't make sense. So I see it as a circle that grows. It's all about intentions. So if we do something, it depends what your intention is. For example, if I said, “I like your shirt” in a cynical or wrong way, where it hurts your feelings – like, yeah, I said, “I like your shirt,” but am I going to get a good deed or a bad deed? You know, obviously, it's a bad deed, because what was the intention? So if I say, “I like your shirt” [and mean it] – which I do, by the way – I get a good deed for that. If I sit down and I watch a movie with my family, and I did it with the intention that, you know, I want to spend time with my family, that's good, I get a good deed for it. And I don't know too much about too many other faiths and everything, but in one day, every action, everything that I could do, I could get a reward for it. National Muslim Soup Kitchen Day is scheduled for May 28th with participating soup kitchens across the U.S. For additional info on donations and more about the charity, check them out at al-hidaya.org. Our last guest today has actually already been mentioned on this program before. Dr. Amina Darwish is a close friend of last week's guest, Sangeetha Kowsik, and she does quite a lot of work as a spiritual advisor and the Associate Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life at Stanford University. She originally got her doctorate in chemical engineering before switching career paths and choosing to pursue Islamic scholarship. What made you want to steer your life toward studying Islam? I don't know if I should call them spiritual crises, because they ended up being spiritual awakenings. But when I was 16, I decided like, “You know, this whole praying five times a day thing is a lot of work. I'm either going to do it for me, or I'm not going to do it at all.” And I started reading the Quran mostly to like, argue with my mom. If I was gonna be like, “Oh, I'm not gonna pray anymore,” then I could rebut what she was saying based on this text. And I remember reading it for the first time, and by the end of it, I was like, “Shoot, I think I'm still Muslim. I have to keep praying. I think I should do this now.” And I remember once going to a conference, and it was a discussion on spirituality, and Imam Ghazali is like one of the most renowned Muslim mystics in Islamic history. And I remember hearing his book, it's called The Alchemy of Happiness – and I was like, “Where has this been my whole life?” I still have my notes about like the spirit and the ego, and how your spirit existed before your body, and it still remembers the presence of God, and it's always yearning for and it's always yearning for this, like, timeless existence. That was actually the beginning of me trying to learn and study Islam more seriously. Unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots on the internet. And when you research things online about Islam, the junk that they say about women is ridiculous. I grew up in a Muslim family, I lived in Kuwait for a long time, I've lived in Muslim societies, and I knew what they were saying was just not true to the lived reality. And I also knew deep in my heart, like, I know God's not a misogynist. And there were so many women in the life of Prophet Muhammad, that anytime someone's like, “Oh, women can't do this,” I'm like, “Let me tell you about a woman in the life of Prophet Muhammad who did.” There's a woman that goes to the Prophet, peace be upon him, and she asks him, she's like, “Why in this verse are men mentioned more than women?” And my response every time I present this – this woman was later widowed, Prophet Muhammad marries her later in her life – and I'm like, if people ask who wants to marry the crazy feminist woman that's like, “What about this thing?” The answer's Prophet Muhammad, and people who are actually following his footsteps. So I like this woman. And I'm so grateful for all of those examples of women in the life of Prophet Muhammad. And I feel like very few people know about them. Are there any other things that you feel people misunderstand about your faith? That seems to be the biggest one. I've lived in different parts of the country, so I lived in Ohio, and I remember showing up to spaces where I'm the Muslim representative, and someone's like, “Islam oppresses women.” And I'm like, “My dude, they sent me. What are you talking about?” I'm just so confused. And it's odd, because I feel like, especially as women, we struggle claiming [our] space and claiming [our] expertise – and I'm standing in this space, and I'm like, “No, I'm the expert in this room about Islam. And you're not going to tell me what it is.” We had a guest speaker, it's actually the first event I did at Stanford. Dr. Donna Austin is a professor at Rutgers University, and she had a discussion on the women in Malcolm X's life. His sister, Ella Collins, was the one that got him transferred, and advocated for him to get transferred to the prison that had the library. And that's how he learned how to read. He memorized a dictionary. And without his sister, he wouldn't have been there. And she talked about his sister, she talked about his mother, she talked about Dr. Betty Shabazz – like, we celebrate him, and we forget to mention the women that made him who he is. He couldn't have been that person without her, and this unspoken emotional labor that a lot of the times women do. And she was talking about [how] loving someone that society has deemed unlovable is an act of resistance. And it's an act of beauty. And that really resonated with me. Because even in the story of Moses, and I think this is true in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptures, a lot of the women in history are unnamed. And it talks about his sister, it talks about his mother, it talks about his adoptive mother, and you see all of these women that healed him, carried him through his trauma, and protected him, and gave him the opportunity to become who he was. So then he can walk into the court of Pharaoh be like, “Let me tell you about God. Even though you're trying to kill me.” It's such a badass moment, but he couldn't have been there without the love these women gave him. I've been teaching the life of Prophet Muhammad for a number of years now, and a lot of the times the feedback I got from people was like, “This is the first time I've heard these particular stories.” I'm named after Prophet Muhammad's mom, so of course, I'm gonna talk about his mom. I'm talking about his mom a lot. Other times, you're like, ‘OK, this is where he was born.” [I start the story at] “No, this is everything that was happening in his society when he was born.” His father passed away when his mom was still pregnant, this pregnant widow is carrying all of this. And that's the beginning of his life. Tell me a little bit more about Muhammad's mother. Sadly, she passed away when he was six years old. He had so much trauma as a child. And even the Quran later addresses it and says, “You were an orphan and we sent people to love you.” Because if you look at a tribal society, the most vulnerable person is the orphan. And there's so much celebrating that child and protecting that child. And not just protecting that child with like, here we give, we donate. No, people loved him, people took him in. And it's fascinating that like, that was part of God helping him through his trauma. When he was much, much later in his life – he's in his 60s, he's achieved this success of his message spreading everywhere, people are recognizing him for the leader that he is. And he stops by the place where his mother is buried, and he's just gone for a long time. And then they send someone to go find him, and they just find him standing right next to where his mother was buried, just crying, just missing her. She clearly gave him so much love, and believed in him so much, that he was able to carry through the rest of his life knowing he was loved. That love is healing, it gives people resilience. I was talking to a student earlier today that's telling me about her fiancée. She's like, “It's getting really exciting, I think I'm gonna marry him.” And one of the conversations we had reflected on the story of Moses, and like, “If you marry him, do you think in 10 years that your prayers will be better? That they'll be deeper, they'll be more meaningful?” And she's like, “Yeah, I think so.” Then he is your spiritual partner. That's awesome. For those who don't know, let's just go over some of the basic beliefs in Islam and the ways that you worship. Most basic belief is just the oneness of God. There's one God, he sends prophets to tell us about – I want to say himself, just because English doesn't have a genderless, singular [pronoun]. Arabic does, which I'm grateful for. Even just putting God, when you say “he,” it becomes so limiting. God by design is one, and only God can be one, because only God is perfect and unique in their oneness. All the rest of us need other people. What daily practice looks like? I mentioned the five daily prayers, they're based on the position of the sun. They're at different times, just spread out throughout your day. They're very small circuits. It's also a physical prayer, so you're in different physical positions – there's a point where your head is above your heart and you're standing, there's a point where you're bowing and your heart and head are level, there's a point where your face is on the ground, and your heart is above your head. And there's different things that you're saying in each of those positions. And it's very personal, [but] you can do it in a group. It looks like people standing in rows doing yoga together, which I think is hilarious. In the same way that Muslims are talked about a lot, unfortunately, in the news, in very negative light, very rarely is everyday Muslim life actually discussed. The most consistent thing that is said in the prayer is “Allahu Akbar,” “God is greater.” This is, by design, not a complete sentence because you can, in your own mind, like “God is greater than whatever I was worried about before I started the prayer.” “God is greater” than this. I can personalize it, I can make it my own experience. And unfortunately, a lot of Americans will hear the words “Allahu Akbar,” and they're like, “Oh, no, this is something bad.” And that makes me sad. Like, I say it a lot. Any practicing Muslim says that a lot. And it feels so insulting, that someone can commit an evil act, say it once, and somehow their once becomes more valuable than my 100 times a day. Me and every other practicing Muslim. Overall, do you have any religious stories or messages that you'd like to share? So Prophet Muhammad's wife narrates the greatest number of narrations from him. He passed away, and she, for the rest of her life, carried on his message. Up to a third of Islam came to us from this woman, and such detailed things of like, “This is the procedure he followed in his shower.” Who would be able to tell us that besides his wife? And any time there's someone that is insulting to Muslim women, I'm like – first of all, go talk to one. I promise we're a force to be reckoned with. And two, a third of Islam came to us through a woman. We wouldn't know so much of our religion without her, and it's not like the other two thirds was all men. The other two thirds included both men and women. Muslim women have always been at the forefront of our faith: the first martyr was a woman, the first believer was a woman. There's so many firsts in Islam. One of my favorites, the oldest running degree-granting university in the world is the one in Fez in Morocco. It was opened by a woman by the name of Fatima al-Fihri. There was a moment where the [former] president of Harvard, at some point, was like, “Women are just not as good at math.” And then he got himself fired and replaced by a woman, which was perfect poetic justice. Thank you, whoever did that. But I remember when he said that, and we were having a discussion at the mosque, and I was like, “No, no. This university was credited of introducing the Arabic numerals that we now use to Europe. So we all wouldn't do math the way that we do without this particular woman, let alone every woman that has been.” I mean, like, women were at the beginning of computer science, and now our image of a computer scientist is a man. And it just it's not giving credit where credit is due. You've been listening to 51%. A big thanks, again to Dr. Amina Darwish, Uzma Popal, and Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis for participating in this week's episode — and thanks to you for joining us in this special series. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram at @51percentradio. Until next week, I'm Jesse King for 51%.

Dr. Bert Shapiro is a legend in the MSTP world. He received his bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, his Ph.D. from Harvard University, before becoming faculty at Harvard. He later went to the NIH where he spent the rest of his career, spending his final 17 years heading the MSTP which oversees the T32 awards that support dual-degree training at over 50 programs nationwide. Today, Dr. Shapiro shares his incredible perspective on the history of the MSTP and physician-scientist pathway, with an eye to the future of what medical-scientist training may hold. Credits: Our deepest thanks to Dr. Shapiro for being so gracious with his time and wisdom and for all that he has done for the MSTP community throughout the years. Link to the Shapiro Award: https://mdphdassociation.org/shapiro-award Host: Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh Faculty Advisor – Dr. Brian Robinson Twitter: @behindthescope_ Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1 Website: behindthemicroscope.com

For Kevin, the job of the artist is to find things in the world that are beautiful- or have the potential to become beautiful. While many things may not initially seem - beautiful, all it takes is a change in angle, lighting, or color to bring out their true character. Something that is beautiful to him is not just something that is nice to look at, but something that fills your mind with wonder- something that makes you stop and think. Kevin is a senior from Boston, studying biochemistry, Spanish, and studio art at Vanderbilt University. On campus he conducts colorectal cancer research in the King lab at ESB and is also a member of the SyBBURE Searle Undergraduate research program. Kevin has also been the president of the Kefi Collective, Vanderbilt's public arts organization, for two years. After graduating, he intends to attend medical school for an MSTP program. In this episode, Kevin takes us back in time to when he first fell in love with art, the transformative evolving relationships, and its delicate balance with nature, gymnastic, music and science. Let's dive right into it!

In this episode, I converse with Prof. Ryan Flynn, an Assistant Professor at Boston Children's Hospital in the Stem Cell Program and in the Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department at Harvard University. Ryan completed his M.D. and Ph.D. in Cancer Biology in the MSTP at Stanford University and received his B.S. in Biology from MIT. The Flynn lab develops chemical tools to study the interface of RNA biology and glycobiology in the context of cell state transitions and cell-cell communication. We talk about his incredible journey in basic science after initially wanting to become a surgeon; outstanding mentors like Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, a legendary figure in RNA biology, and Carolyn Bertozzi, a pioneer of glycobiology; fascinating research on glycans and developing tools for glycobiology; starting a lab during a pandemic; and many more things!!

Welchen Behörden obliegt die Durchsetzung des staatlichen Strafanspruchs? Ausgehend von der Staatsanwaltschaft (Art. 16 StPO; GOG) schlagen Duri Bonin und Gregor Münch den Bogen zur Jugendanwaltschaft (JStG; JStPO; GOG), der Bundesanwaltschaft (Art. 16 StPO; StBOG) und zum Militärstrafrecht (MStP; MStG). Bei einem Freispruchbier kam die Idee auf, die Strafprozessordnung Artikel für Artikel zu besprechen: Deshalb treffen sich Duri Bonin und Gregor Münch jeden Freitag in den "Heiligen Stunden" des 5-Uhr-Clubs und diskutieren einen Artikel der Strafprozessordnung. Wann macht Aussageverweigerung Sinn? Weshalb braucht es Teilnahmerechte? Wie läuft eine Einvernahme ab und wie ist die Stimmung im Einvernahmeraum? Wann finden die meisten Verhaftungen statt? Diesen und noch viel mehr Fragen gehen Duri und Gregi in diesem Podcast nach. Links zu diesem Podcast: - Absichtserklärung zum gegenseitigen Verhalten im Rahmen des Strafprozesses zwischen dem Schweizerischen Anwaltsverband und der Bundesanwaltschaft: https://www.sav-fsa.ch/de/documents/dynamiccontent/absichtserklaerung_ba_-_sav_d.pdf - Schweizerische Strafprozessordnung (StPO): https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20052319/index.html - Gesetz über die Gerichts- und Behördenorganisation im Zivil- und Strafprozess (GOG): http://www2.zhlex.zh.ch/appl/zhlex_r.nsf/0/DAF68F66878846FAC12583C300528BBC/$file/211.1_10.5.10_104.pdf - Anwaltskanzlei von Duri Bonin: http://www.duribonin.ch - Anwaltskanzlei von Gregor Münch: https://www.d32.ch/personen - Titelbild bydanay: https://www.instagram.com/bydanay/ - Lernhilfen für die Anwaltsprüfung: http://www.duribonin.ch/lernhilfen/ Weitere Podcastreihen von Duri Bonin: - Auf dem Weg als Anwältin: https://anwaltspruefung.podigee.io - Interview aus dem Gefängnis: https://gefaengnis.podigee.io - Frag den Anwalt: https://anwalt.podigee.io - Mit 40i cha mers mit de Tiger: https://40i.podigee.io Diese Podcasts sind auf allen üblichen Plattformen zu hören

Being accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) is key to making the School of Medicine an academic medical center, and the LCME wants to know what our students think. Medical students Maani Kamal (MS4, MD program) and Colin Quinn (GS1, MSTP program) talk with Dr. Vickers about their co-chairing the Independent Student Analysis, a student-led survey about key aspects of the School of Medicine, and how the ISA team got more than 95 percent of their classmates to participate.Learn more about LCME accreditation at go.uab.edu/lcme.

On this episode of Black in Science, I talk to the amazing Future Double Dr. Tonya Aaron, who's currently enrolled as an MD/Ph.D student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During the interview, Tonya recounts the details of her youth while growing up as a child of two immigrants in Florida before transitioning into her time as an undergraduate STEM major and student athlete. After disclosing what events led to her decision to pursue two advanced degrees simultaneously, Tonya describes her experience thus far in her MSTP program and the immunology-based research she's doing for the Ph.D portion of her degree. To close things out, Tonya shares a few pearls of wisdom on the importance of cultivating connections, minority representation and a healthy work-life balance. If you've enjoyed listening to Tonya's episode and wish to contact her with questions, feel free to reach out via: Instagram: @taaron24 Twitter: @taaron24 Email: Aaron.tonya24@gmail.com

We talk with Dr. Adam Bailey, a clinical pathology fellow, and Sasha Dmytrenko, an MSTP student, about their work investigating extra-pulmonary effects of COVID-19, specifically on the heart.

Casey Vieni is an MSTP MD/Ph.D. student at New York University. He specializes in structural and microbiology and currently works at Bhabha / Ekiert Labs in New York, NY. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to make 'Dean TV' your favorite podcast on Apple Podcasts, follow, and please share it with a friend... It helps a lot. Thanks, and I'll see you at the next one. - DP --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deanpagano/message

Washington University School of Medicine's unique approach to admissions [Show summary] Dr. Valerie Ratts, Associate Dean for Admissions at Washington University School of Medicine, explores what’s unique about the medical school’s approach to admissions, including what COVID-related changes applicants can expect this year. Interview with Dr. Valerie Ratts, Associate Dean for Admissions at Washington University School of Medicine [Show notes] Dr. Valerie Ratts earned her MD at Johns Hopkins, where she also did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology and a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology. She joined the Washington University faculty in 1994 and is currently Associate Dean for Admissions, as well as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Can you give an overview of Washington University School of Medicine's program, focusing on its more distinctive elements? [1:37] Washington University School of Medicine is an amazing medical school. The thing that I'm the most proud about right now is that we are about to implement a new curriculum, an innovative curriculum, called the Gateway Curriculum. We're looking at how to educate in medicine a little bit differently. We are going to educate our students while thinking very carefully about what their passion and pathway will be in medicine. We will be working to enhance their exposure to the areas of academic medicine that we think are very important for physicians. That includes research, medical education, advocacy, inquiry, and  innovation. The other thing about WashU that we think is particularly important, besides our science, is that this is a place where we pride ourselves on creating a culture that is incredibly supportive for our students, a culture of collegiality and collaboration. Academic medicine implies that the graduates are going to become professors or continue doing research. Is that a focus, or do you see your grads going into primary care? [2:56] That's part of the new curriculum, recognizing that physicians go into various areas of medicine, and that we're ready to support them and enhance their education to be ready for those various areas of medicine (again, medical education, research, inquiry, innovation, and advocacy). We want to expose them to those areas, give them the skill set that they need and the experiences, so that when they graduate, when they complete their residency and fellowship, they can use that skill set to go into a career in all of those different areas. That's how we look at academic medicine. It's not just research, though research is very important. hbspt.cta.load(58291, 'ac360b0f-fe6d-4846-8573-f8705e225171', {}); You have one of the biggest medical sciences programs, don't you? [3:52] Yes. The MSTP program is a signature program here. It's one of the longest running and largest physician sciences programs in the country. Research has placed us on the map here at WashU, but I always say, research is more than just pipetting away in the lab. Basic science is incredibly important. And we are very good at that. But research, I always say, is asking a question, collecting data of some type, whether it's basic science data or question surveys, and using that data to answer the questions and think of more. Physicians have to be involved in making sure that we get healthcare to the population. That's particularly important. We know that there are social determinants of health, and we are positioned to make a difference, and we think that we need to actively teach our students how to do that, give them the skill set, give them the exposure. What is the WashU secondary like? [5:14] The WashU secondary application is a pretty short application. In fact, we pride ourselves on having one of the shorter secondary applications. It's actually part of our claim to fame there. It has a little bit of demographic information.

Moving to a new place can be daunting–but it's an amazing opportunity! (This episode is brought to you by Pattern Life. We hope you'll check out their disability insurance offerings for docs at http://patternlife.com/partner/shortcoat.) Listener Noodles (not her real name) is planning to go to med school in a new state, perhaps. What's it like, she wondered, moving to a new state for med school? And Lex Turesboreme is back to ask how MSTP student Miranda Schene and M1s Brandon Bacalzo, Maggie Jakubiak, and Kenzie McKnight deal with an inevitable part of med student life–their families' medical questions. Got a question we can help with? Call 347-SHORT-CT or email theshortcoats@gmail.com. We'll talk about it on the show! This Week in Medical News: A Texas nursing home medical director has decided it's a good idea to do what he's calling an “observational study” of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine on his elderly patients with COVID-19. And we can't help but discuss the president's thoughts on disinfectant and the VP's coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx's rather visible reaction.

Chris Peek is an MD-PhD Student at Vanderbilt University. We caught up with him in January on the Vanderbilt campus and asked him about his experiences in the MSTP and his goals for his training and career. In the second half of this episode, we talk to him in mid-April after coronavirus had thrown a wrench in graduate and medical education and discuss how life has changed while we all shelter at home. Credits: Our thanks to Chris Peek for joining us! Host: Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh Associate Producer – Josh Owens Faculty Advisor – Dr. Brian Robinson Twitter: @behindthescope_ Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1 Website: behindthemicroscope.com

Robert Wardlow is a graduating MD/PhD Candidate at JHUSOM. He will be matching into Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery. He is originally from southern New Jersey and earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Mary Horton is a former Co-Director of the Emory MSTP and current Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Professional Development at Laney Graduate School at Emory. Over the years, Mary played a huge role in the Emory MD/PhD program, from setting the culture, to recruiting applicants, to managing the MSTP grant, in addition to guiding each and every student along this long and often fraught training path. Today she shares with us her story and her perspective after 20 years in the MD/PhD world. Credits: Our thanks to Mary Horton for taking the time, as she always has, to sit down and chat with a few MD/PhD students. Host – Bejan Saeedi Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh Faculty Advisor – Brian Robinson, MD-PhD Twitter: @behindthescope_ Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1 Website: www.behindthemicroscope.com

Joshua Y.C. Yang, M.Eng. is a MD-PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) in the Department of Bioengineering and an MBA student at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also a co-founder of KIT Bio, Inc., a biotech startup that has raised $3.8 million to develop noninvasive diagnostics for kidney injury detection. Prior to medical school, he attended UC San Diego on a full-ride through the Jacobs School Scholarship and completed a Masters degree in Translational Medicine jointly offered at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley. With business, medical, and bioengineering backgrounds, he interfaces between these different realms to push the boundaries of how noninvasive, point-of-care technology can change clinical management paradigms and provide access to care to those traditionally underserved.

IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS: How her body of work was born. The body has it's own intelligence. Holistic Pelvic Care is like Feng Shui for the pelvic bowl. Shifting the alignment to increase energy flow. How she integrated energy work into her more mechanical/symptom-based training Western Medicine has not had language for energy/chi. Energy work gets more to the root and is more gentle, hence more effective, and helps with trauma. (This was missing in both of our training systems.) We invite more practitioners to expand the box they were trained in! How she has balance motherhood and busy practice, and how challenging that can be when children are so bonded to the physical body. Why women's health bodywork has been so unknown. How we inherit and embody the gifts and wounds of our lineage, how the body keeps a record, and how to access the gifts and potentials inside our family wounds. Working with ancestor energy. "Stay open. Be respectful. Stay out of your ego. Get to work." The shut down and wounding feminine from the patriarchy exists in EVERYONE She defines feminine as the sacred ability to receive -- this is equally stripped away in all genders and sexes. Repairing this wound creates whole new patterns in the masculine. The work our time is to repair the feminine and heal our masculine forms. We talked about what this looks like. Our current wounded masculine systems behave like cancer. Integrating the feminine and restoring the sacred is the key to healing. Special Guest: Tami Lynn Kent, MSTP.

CTN 308: ControlTalk NOW -- Smart Buildings VideoCast and PodCast for week ending Mar 24, 2019 features Young Gun Brent Burrows, a Systems Integrator with ENTEK, who explains Alarm Fatigue, and much more,  ENTEK provides HVAC, Building Automation and Energy Services  in the Atlanta, GA, area and throughout the continental United States, Puerto Rico, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam. Are You ready? Is Your AI Device Smarter than a six year old? Our transcription service, as you will see is not! I tried to correct as many errors as possible in the transcript of Episode 308, but could not get them all, so be kind as you read this: Episode 308 ControlTalk Now The HVAC and Smart Buildings Podcast Eric Stromquist: Do you suffer from alarm fatigue? Well four out of five facilities managers iand HVAC controls professionals do. So what exactly is this insidious disease and how can you cure it? Hi, I'm Eric Stromquist from controltrends.com and stromquist.com. And on this week's episode we're going to dive deep and into alarm fatigue and how you can solve it. Our guest this week is a young integrator out of Atlanta, Brent Burrows, he's a young gun. So Brent is going to be with us. The whole show is going to be fantastic. We get Brent's perspectives which are just absolutely stellar. So the other thing you need to know is that controlledtrends on our youtube channel, controlltrends smart buildings, youtube channel. We've started a new video series called HVAC tech school and it's designed specifically for the HVAC technician and we get into everything from how to size a valve to how to troubleshoot a gasregulator and topics specifically for the HVAC technician. So take a minute, subscribe to the Youtube Channel. All right, relax. Enjoy the show. Eric Stromquist: Alright here we go. One, two, three. Welcome to ControlTalk Now, the Smart Buildings podcast for the week ending March 24 2019 this is episode this is the show where we talk about all things smart controls, HVAC controls and pretty much anything else we want to. And I tell you what, I've got two legends today. One is the one, you know, Ken Smyers, the man, the myth, the legend, the control man from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And joining us today is a legend in his own right is ControlTrends Young Gun Brent Burrows, from Atlanta, Georgia. Brent is with Entek.. He's one of the rising stars in the controls industry. And if you were at the 2018 CONTROLTRENDS AWARDSawards, you know that Brent was inducted into The Young Guns class of 2019. So fellas, welcome to the show. Eric Stromquist: Well thank you Eric. Yeah, you took away all my firepower I suppose to get some of that introduction on Brent Burrows. But uh, yeah, we got a real live young Gun here and uh, it, it, it's so good to see the right, it looks like the type of guy who's going to be taking our place one day. So he's, he's learning, he's got some great background. He's a true integrator, does everything from the programming side of it. And it was all about analytics, but he could do, you could do the terminations to make stuff work. So that's a welcome to the show Brent. Brent Burrows: It's good to have it. And that's what they're talking about on the show every once in a while. I really appreciate it guys. And uh, yeah, actually the only real thing I have in my office, the Home Office here, uh, you know, I may have to make up some more awards for myself or some certifications. Eric Stromquist: No, no young guns. Pretty much all you need man. And now you're 60 and a young gun or 65. I can send Claire and a young gun then you're doing really, really good. Okay. Brent man would move. You know, we're talking about young guns and may one of the wraps that the young guns, the millennials get his man, they just can't be on time. I know this year here, but tell us about our other guest where is he? Brent Burrows: who else was supposed to be on the show with us. Uh, I, that's going to be my new cohost, Aaron Gorka. Ah, I'm not exactly sure where Aaron is now. Maybe they don't do daylight savings time in Canada or different things. He didn't, he didn't change his clock around. Eric Stromquist: Right. Well, in fairness they are, and man, he has been traveled a lot here and Gorka from ANT technologies, one of the hardest young working guys in the industry. Uh, he is, uh, does the podcast, next generation innovation and brand. I guess the big news is you're going to be joined and Aaron as his cohost. Brent Burrows: Yeah. Um, so, um, I had been reading some stuff lately and you know, I listened to you guys on a control talk now on iTunes and I'd always wanted to get into pocket casting and uh, and it just so happened I was featured on a, on an episode, um, a few months back and just really enjoyed it. I've worked with Aaron, we actually use aunt technologies, um, to do a track or project side. And uh, so me and him get along and you know, we vibe well. So I reached out to reach out to you and was like, Hey, what do you think this idea? And uh, and you were all for it gave Aaron a call. He was excited to have a cohost. So that's what we're going to be doing. Eric Stromquist: Well, I can't wait for you guys to take to work together. Aarons just doing a fantastic job so far and it's kind of fun with the cohost, you know, so the, but if you're going to get good at this, you have to practice saying this right off the bat. The man, the myth, the legend, let me hear you say it because if something ever happens to me, you know, it's going to be between you and Aaron to step in. But Kenny is very picky about who gets to be his is to introduce them. So one time, Brent, you're on, here's your audition, Brent Burrows: here's the audition, alright, we're on control. Taught now, you know, and in memory of the late, great. Eric, strong quick. No, he's in a better place now. But I am your new cohost and I am going to introduce the man, the myth, the legend Ken Smyers: Ken Smyres take it over again. Right. That was awesome man. He passed it. He might, he might not even wait for me to die, man. He might just nice. Did you guys read the second brand? You just put no, he might. He might give me the boot right after the show did. That was a little too good bread, but well listen dude, before we get into more of the show, talks about what you do and, and in tech, I've known your dad for years and a, you guys have a fabulous company, but, but talk about about Entek and what you guys do. Brent Burrows: Uh, so in tech where our ar can about a local, regional, regional and a national company, uh, have handled, you know, many national accounts over the years. Uh, so we have that side of the business and then we have more of our, uh, what I'd call our local and core business here in Atlanta. Um, we specialize in commercial office space. Um, but you know, also do, you know, hospitals, industrial work, really anything you need, um, we can provide the service and the expertise to work in those areas. So we do anything ranging from, you know, mechanical service, installation retrofits and then, you know, hopping into the controls, the building automation, you know, H Vac, lighting, integration, all of that stuff. And we even do system access controls everywhere. So in tech really is a great one stop shop to fill all your building needs. Ken Smyers: Yeah. One of the things that I saw on the site and we'd talked offline, there is analytics and the impact we have one of our posts we'll be talking about here as we review the posts. So you're actually a delving into analytics now. Tell us about some of your experiences so far. What do you think? Is that, is that the next great a goldmine to dig into? Brent Burrows: Well analytics, no, it's, it's been around, um, in, in the HVAC industry for, for a little while now. And it's kind of, you know, it's interesting, you'll go to these conferences or you know, you'll read stuff and you've got, you know, you got kinda these bud buzzwords or one of the big ones that are, and you know, when I kind of look at buzzwords, there are a lot of terms that people throw around, but then they'll just kind of throw it around and they don't know the meaning of it and they're just like, oh yeah, Iot and analytics and, uh, and you'll just see them, they pop up a lot of conferences, but, uh, but you know, really, uh, been seeing analytics get hammered for the last couple of years now. And basically, you know, one of the great things that you can kind of, they're doing in the industry now, you know, what, you know, everything being more standardized, like, you know, backnet lawn, um, you know, different protocols come then normalizing the data. And then a, you know, a huge one that I know you guys have talked a lot about and they got the big accounts coming up is haystack. Um, you know, basically being able to take all the data in your building, you know, sensor information, uh, whether it's, you know, discharge temps, she knows zone temps, uh, you know, all those things and you're building lighting levels, all this stuff and take it in and get that data. So you kind of get to that point with an integration and it's like, okay, well let's just say, you know, I got a 10 story building, uh, so, you know, got 10 air handlers, chiller plant, and then, you know, depending on the level of integration, let's say I've got 20,000 data points in my building, you know, what are you really doing with that? They're there are, they're acting out there and they're just doing their thing. But you know, unless you can hire somebody 24, seven to watch those sites and be like, oh, this is doing this, this is doing this. Um, it's, it's, it's hard to keep track of it. You kind of get into this, uh, you know, very responsive state. Um, you know, trying to manage the building. It's not forward thinking. It's not really effective. So analytics comes in and does, is it basically, it's like, you know, it is, it's, it's a 24, it's 24, seven program that looks at your building, looks at your data and can alert you to the issues going on. And then also in some cases make responsive writes back to correct issues. Eric Stromquist: Well, that's well said. Well said. And then I think one of the things that Kenny has sort of picked up early on in, and you were talking about sky spark a little bit because that's what you're working with. But, uh, you know, for years back, even when your dad and I were doing this stuff, you know, those old guys, I mean you could always alarm, right? But it got to the point that he had so many alarms, just like my emails, you just become null and void to me just don't pay attention to anymore. So it seems like one of the things analytics allows you to do is to write rules, for example. So if something goes out of temperature for a while, you could give an expert at a time before it sends out an email or an alarm. You could also maybe we'd send a command to say, hey, try to reset it or whatever before you do that. And so are you finding that that's driving some of your customers interest into it or her? What sorts of things when, when they say analytics, like I said, it's a buzz word, but when they come to you or do they actually know what they want her, it's just, hey, I want an analytics package and you shouldn't have to talk him through it. Brent Burrows: Uh, so it, it's interesting you were talking about, uh, my dad, uh, uh, actually met with him this week and he brought up some of the alarming going on from the 90s, and he was, uh, so, uh, I won't name them, but you know, big retail client, um, and they, you know, obviously they have sites all around the country and, uh, they had like a fax machine that sat on the side of this room and this thing continually like it reports and the, I think they actually set up a system where it just like fed into like a dumpster or shredded all it did for 24 hours a day. And they were like, he was like, what is that? There was like, oh, that's the, uh, that's the alarm matrix. Yeah, I remember those things. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but you don't know the, to Eric's point, uh, I think, um, we've seen several, uh, programs now coming out like controls, condoms, coming up with Detroit with the Cochrane supply, Scott Cochran and his team put together this thing. Raven, where you could really, you could eliminate anything. You didn't want to hear all the chief, you know, and just, just get to the nuggets that you needed to know. And then they teamed that down so much that it would be in a proximity presentation. So top chef, chef get that right. We don't want people to think, okay, go ahead. I'm sorry, but God, we got that quick. I'm sorry I couldn't, I'm spit balling here too, but no, go ahead. Saving, saving, saving. Um, so the, the thing that Scott Cochran believed in is it Derek's point that we're so overwhelmed with this is data being pushed at us that we ignore it. Now again, we've always self defense mechanisms. We turn off our phones, we don't have to hear the pagan, you know, and then, but then you really could miss that one really important alarm because you're so, you know, unconditioned to respond to it. The uh, that stuff became packing. They had say, generate so much. I. Dot. Matrix printing stuff that no, he didn't shred but then that shredding to him went back, got recycled back in the, in the shipping department. But I'm so yeah, so a, the raven thing was a real clever a response. So that not only did you restrict the amount of alarms you got, but they were, they were sent specifically to who needed it and it reduced all that additional traffic. Eric Stromquist: So yeah, Brent is a cool app if you haven't seen it. It actually works like with you know, notifications on your iPhone and stuff like that. So you can just set up just the notifications you want to see. So, uh, Scott Cochran's one clever dude and controls con's going to be a great conference and uh, we get, we actually have a discount code for that, don't we county. So we should do, if you put any controlled trends when you registered and put it in a controlled trends, you get a 10% discount and that you'll get 15 but I know it's just a matter of time for you blonder and it's going to cost you an alternate code, a code word. You get 20% off if you mentioned chafing cause that's right. So you are going to be a great cohosts. He's good. He's picking right up on this. Uh, but uh, but so what else? So the analytics, are these primarily the facilities managers asking for this or should it go on up higher? Cause I know you, you know, Dana and the rest of year or down to the rest of your sales staff deals at the c level suite a lot. Is it mainly being pushed down from the c level suite or consulting engineers asking for it? Or how is this even coming into consciousness? Well, it's a, it's interesting. So I'm going to go back real quick to the original question that you asked and mentioned something that, uh, you know, it Kinda all goes along with, uh, with the APP. You're talking about the raven, the alarms, and you mentioned that, you know, just kind of getting, you know, hounded with all this data. And it really does, you know, whether it's, you know, cause I'll, I'll copy myself on the emails most of the time for the alarms. And you know, sometimes it'll just, I think I went through this morning, there was a point that went in and out of alarm, I didn't delete like 600 emails. Brent Burrows: You get into the point of getting alarm fatigue. So yeah. So in the process, let's just say that you have something that does, does alarm and you get, you know, over the course of three or four months, 600 emails, you're going to be like, oh no, just delete all those. Don't worry about that. And sandwiched in there and one or two of those. Yeah. What was important data. So that's why it's important, you know, when you're doing the integration is the freestyle. Yeah. Make sure you set up, you know, your alarms and your, so there are going to be alarms that happened, but you know, maybe just only send out, you know, prioritize with your alarm classes. Um, but, but then to get back to a, to what you're mentioning about what level do you kind of see the requests from analytics coming? Um, I think it really depends. Uh, so a lot of what we, uh, we deal with customers we deal with in the Atlanta market. Um, you know, we'll go into existing buildings and whether, you know, we're upgrading them from, you know, DDC from the 90s or just straight pneumatics and everything, uh, you just hit it. There are different levels of involvement from, you know, different companies and, you know, different positions. So, all right know, I've got to figure out what's going on and I cannot, I don't have the time to pour through this site and I don't want to, you know, pay a monitoring company, you know, just every, every month. Because you know what, that's great. You know, the, there were a few people that we followed around in Atlanta or would go to and there was like, oh yeah, we paid this company $2,000 a month. Just watch this. It's like, but it takes you six hours to get him on the phone. And then sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. But they'll always let you know when that checks in the mail. The, um, the analytic thing, one of the big impulse or impacts was when Niagara JACE started coming with 25 free analytic points to get you a taste of it, you know, and then we started to see people dabble at it, but we really didn't have a whole lot of, uh, you know, takers. And then once they got into it, uh, so it all became, you know, a basically about templating it. But, uh, the Phil fearless fills Zito had a really nice, uh, extract on when he did a synopsis on end for about what he said that what they added to inform and to analytics too. Dot. Oh, was that make capabilities where the preexisting analytic data model it was in, it was inherent embedded a base algor algorithm library and then a realtime on premise analytic control. So one of the things that we saw now was that people, if they wanted to start to dabble, they got a good free tastes that, or a complimentary tastes of analytic points that they could take a couple of points and do exactly what you're saying. Pick out the top, maybe ones that you're getting those multiple alarms, you know, and then have it so that you could control the amount of alarms that you got from that point. So, uh, again it's, it's still, it's just touching the, uh, the, you know, the top of the iceberg because a sky founding of course was the, the industry leader. I mean they basically defined analytics to us. Well, no, it's cool. We can, I've got a question where I think we might have a new vocab word here and I wonder if you've heard of this before. No, no, no, no, no, no. Alarm fatigue has the first time I heard that if you heard the term alarm fatigue before, actually I have this, but I heard it said in that perspective, that context. But you're right, I mean, so I think Brent is coach and he's got his first new phrase, alarm fatigue. Okay. We're, we're going to give you a nickname or get you a tee shirt. It'd be Brent Burroughs alarm fatigue. So I did write that down though. So that's a great one brand. I like that a lot. So bread for our integrators out there who may be, have not gotten into analytics or you know, Skype specifically sky foundry, um, kind of walk them through. I mean, how difficult is it? Is it to get started with it because know there are a lot of integrators, outdated, heard of analytics and maybe you know, think they can do it or don't think they can do it, but what do they need to know? If you're just starting to scratch your ears, assistant center grader and you haven't worked with analytics, sort of walk them through it. Uh, so obviously, you know, um, like the sky spark, um, sky spark software, you know, like anything else, uh, to be able to sell it, you know, you have to get signed up with a distributor, all that. Um, so, you know, first need to find somebody that can not distribute it. And it's really important, you know, when you're kind of going into a new software, I believe this with anything, is to make sure that you've got a good support channel. Um, you know, like in between you and then, you know, and sky foundry, which I'll say for sky foundry, their online database of like help, documentation, everything. It's phenomenal. Um, I have used that a ton. It'll actually basically walk you through setting up site, uh, comes with a great demo site so you can look at how everything's set up and then, you know, reverse engineer. Cause you know, as a, as a systems integrator or you know, anything else, it's, it's similar. You know, it's, it's just like physically, you know, kinda like building an engine or something. How do you really figure out how an engine works? Well, take one apart and put it back together and you're going to have a good idea of what those components do, where they go and everything. Same thing applies to the software. So, uh, getting started there. Go ahead. Eric Stromquist: No, that's a good analogy. And you know, and I think that's where you're talking about the division of labor and, and the, and the support structure, you know, some of the, some of the great products. And so the great applications that have failed, uh, did so not because it wasn't a great application is because people didn't take to it well, they didn't have a support structure, he didn't have that engaging support that you're talking about. And some of these new people, new products and solutions we see coming in, especially in North America, you know, the, the contracting mentality as they wanted so they can understand it and they want to be able to do that physically create an analogy. So this is how you put it together and it's how you take apart and by the time you do that, you know, the steps are all procedural and the methodologies very consistent and then you get really good at it. I think the, the commitment, this guy foundry is significant, but once you get there, you've got it's money well spent and you just, it's a gold mine, right? Can, it will listen and Brent, this is a, that a, you're going to probably have to do with Aaron Gorka called stable datum, right? Because we, as we're assuming that our entire audience listening to the show right now understand what Skype boundary disguised park is. So Kenny, if you don't mind, would you just give our audience just a quick overview of what it is because I think people have heard of analytics, they've heard of data, but they may or may not have heard of skies park. Uh, if they don't listen on a regular basis. Kenny, let's give our audience a little stable datum on exactly what guys foundry isn't what sky's parks are. Ken Smyers: All right. Well, you know, I would recommend everybody to Google or not Google, but to come to our website control to trends. And then just to take a look at John Patsy or look at sky found in there because we have multiple videos of John explaining it, what it is through interviews or whatever. But essentially the synopsis, The Sky Spark is an open analytic platform from sky foundry that automatically analyzes building data from sensors, automation systems, meters and other smart devices to provide useful building insights, sky spark insights, help facility managers, building owners and business managers identify trends, issues, faults, correlations. And opportunities for cost reductions and building improvements. Uh, and then also the, the, the growth of it. You know, so we were asking about, you know, who wants it and how is it implemented? And it comes from all different dimensions. It doesn't come from consistently the COO or the CTO or you know, a smart building owner. It comes from people that have problems that need them fix. So just give me an idea. There's more than 10,000 facilities around the globe that are using sky spark right now. They analyze buildings, data over 650 million square feet of buildings. Imagine that. Then they went over a billion. And by the way, that's further on, but commercial buildings, apartment buildings, apartment complexes, hotels, resorts, data centers, industrial facilities, educational campuses, government buildings, large multi-use retail spaces and other large complex facilities. But if you remember the one crazy thing about it is we start small with one building using the sky, spark and sky foundry or analytics, you know, because there'll be other versions of analytics. But in order to get to the smart cities, you've got to start small. It's a modular thing. So you'd go from one building building. Exactly. But this whole thing crescendos into a smart city where you're, everybody is getting that data there knowing that usages and aren't in and we're occupancies are they knowing when they have about, you know? Right, right. And I think, you know, again, John Petze used to be president of tritium, one of the brightest guys on the planet. Great Drummer too. Buddy rich has nothing on John Petze. But uh, you know, we only all went sky spark first came out or sky founder first came out. It was kind of cost prohibitive almost just simply because to connect the data points together really required somebody to go in and link this to this, to this, to this, to this. But that's all changed now. It's gotten super formed. Super, Super Price Competitive Kenny because of drum roll. HAYSTACK CONNECT. I tried to download, try new vocab words. I need another cup of coffee. That's a good one buddy. I know you want to do that. And Yeah, because again, we're trying to promote project haystack to the best of her abilities and really get the community excited about it. But I think we're getting other people excited about it. I think there's people that are learning outside of the HVC, bas industry that understand that haystack tagging. For instance, we had Samsung, uh, from, uh, the smart car. Don't trick me again here. Most of name again, can we need first and last name for try again? Go, go, go, go, go, go to the Control Trent website, highlight her name and then have Google pronounced that JMC futurist, right when, anyhow, she took the, the haystack tagging to heart and talk. It was an, you know, it's, it's just absolutely vital to eliminate all the friction and bring down to two. We're belongs as quickly as possible. There should be cooperative. You ready for an analogy? Haystack tagging is to sky foundry every other analytics or control system as gasoline is to a car. What do you, what do you think about how, how bad is like, you know, uh, I mean, you know, and not another analogy. I think one of the great things about having haystack, it's, it's basically this organization that says, yes, you know, hey guys, instead of re reinventing the wheel, here you go, we're going to give you the tools or instead of making all your own custom stuff, here's the tools to do it. You know, it'd be kind of like every kind of like, you know, I guess it's, you know, not using haystack tagging. I feel like doing your analytics to standardize it. It's kind of like going back to the, you know, Dark Ages or the prehistoric times of, you know, where you just have different tribes and they have like all their own forms of communication. Like, you know, I don't, most marriages, well, you know what I do, I think that's going to, that's going to work there because if you hear John pets he talking about, he actually gets mad, he'll, he'll start out real calm and mellow and hills. He'll start saying, but, uh, his patients in the industry I think is waning because it's a choice. And you know, again, a lot of people have, you know, big legacy investments and they've got, you know, look at corporations are run and, and they, they really truly have to control the rate of adoption and, and, and is it his money comes it. I mean we had the guy from Sweden tell us, you know, all these things could have been fixed many, many, many years ago if there wasn't a, you know, an economic reason not to do it. So brand have an economic reason to get them right. Now where I am, Brent needs to know this, cause I know your listener brown button it Kenny. This is the part of the show where we come up with are conspiracy theories. Okay. Okay. No, no, no, no, no. And I want to do something right now too. It's certain, Huh? Jam Fee. So that's not sued. Sud h a JMT j a m t h e. Dot. The Jaffe. Right. This Suda Hey, you know what I practice, come on. Say it. And you know what? I'm going to sit on this one because I, I haven't had a chance to write it down and sanded it out. But I think this is like a good idea for like a new bit. Eric Stromquist: You should do Kenny Kenny's words a week and put a word down and then have them like phonetically sounded. I know Kenny. No, no, we got one of this when Kenny's word of the week. Shaef Chase, rub your face with a scarf or something and you scraped, I think he's in a different context today, which is like the data was shaved off of the sound. No, it was to do with the wheat and, and the other stuff. Boys in the shaft, not the shape. You're not going here. Let's get back to those two words are a little too close. Well, you know what I think so. I have a lot of those. So look at that. That's a good sign. That means that your brain's working. Okay, so let's get back to Brent. Meanwhile, back to Brent. So Brent, again speaking to integrators out there that maybe haven't taken the punch to do an analytics and his specific way sky founder, you sort of walk them through the steps, you know, they can call Ken or Eric, that should be your distributor., STROMQUIST.COM And after you get with your distributor, what happens next? So after you get with your distributor, uh, hopefully they can set you up on SKY FOUNDRY Um, so you can get into the resources you can access. Um, it's pretty cool once you get everything set up. Um, sky spark actually has a demo and all you have to do is just pretty much upload the demo and then you can go through all the steps, all the steps they give you online. Brent Burrows: They give you like a five part, um, kind of do it yourself. Um, you know, set up the data points and you know, add the equipment, add the points, add the tags, go, go view the data and do everything. So you get practice, like kind of like we talked about putting something together. So you get practice doing that and then you start going, all right, I can see this, I can see how this will work. Uh, and then after you do that, you're going to want to go to one of the sky's spark, uh, analytics, uh, classes. Typically I think it's like a two or a three day class. Um, they get you all set up on there. After that you are going to be able to, uh, to sell the product and uh, and really do it. Um, and one of the cool things is, is basically, you know, if I had to like look at it and you know, just look at, you know, your customer set and figure out 10 rules, figure out 10 things that you want to look for. You know, the last thing you want to do is be like, oh, I got to come out with, you know, 500 something rules or I've got to figure out how much, you know, k w port per square foot. You know, when people, uh, you know, have a Dell computer or laptop in there, it's like, okay, just, just kind of back it off. Keep it simple to start, like one of the biggest ones, uh, that, that I see and you know, I see it around Atlanta a lot. You've got these, um, these old [inaudible] use that still have to use pneumatic a pneumatic actuators. So, and you'll see that and you'll see, you know, you'll use a DDC controller, goes to a, uh, goes to a transducer and then that sends the air pressure pneumatic actuator and you know, it, they've, they have it that way because the cost to retrofit one of those, as you know, it's like four hours and you know, maybe like a $340 part, you guys posted something a long time ago and I think strong Quist offered a retrofit part. It's for those, uh, to basically take that internal damper and then change it over to, you know, have an external, yeah, it was, it was trying, I wasn't sure if we were mentioning manufacturers or anything. So I remember that then. And we'll, you know, we saw a lot of that too. Yeah, that was a, that was an excellent demo and I'm very successful to do, to kind of move things on. I don't know. Hang on real quick. I can't, if you don't mind. There's one other thing I wanted to sort of bring around because Brent, I think it was brilliant. You know all the rules come up with 10 you can, you can come up with, so for example, for our property management people out there, you got building a and it is using 50,000 kw per month. You've got building B, it's using 25,000 kw month and you've got building c, which is just in 150,000 kw a month. Which one is most energy efficient? One uses the most energy. Well and you do that, that's easy. But you know, basically it, you can Kinda, you can organize the data because you know, what if one is a single story building, how many square foot, how many people are occupied. So you, and part of the reason I brought that up was you used the term earlier, which for our owners out there who might not think this was, I didn't think this way, it was explained to me part of what Brent's companies able to normalize your data because oddly enough, the small, the one with the least amount you spend the amount of money on might be the most energy efficient, the one that you're spending the most on because this maybe 10 times bigger might be your most energy efficient. So unless you can normalize it. Eric Stromquist: And what I mean by normalizes taking random data points or data points, bringing them together and setting their criteria like square foot footage, occupancy times a number of people and that, so that's a big part of us gotta be one of the first ones that you guys would go for. I would take if you have multiple facilities. Right. So, um, so I'll go, I'll go back. It was just kind of that the brief example with the damper, and I know I was kind of explained some technical stuff on it, but it's, you know, like a real real simple rule is like, you know, and you can compare it, you know, how many VAVs PKI use, things like that. Kind of like you're talking about. But you know, the big ones that you can see, you know, a Vav is it open at 100% not satisfying the CFM. Brent Burrows: So either we've got mechanical problem, we've got a design problem, you know, somewhere in the chain. And also the biggest thing, one of the things I see the most money wasted on, like with that particular style of box is this thing has electric heat strips in it. So electric heat, huge energy user. I mean just unbelievable. So it's got the heat going, right? Trying to satisfy the space and you've got a bad damper bladder and there that's not in 600 800 cfm through. So I'm simultaneously heating and cooling space. I'm basically dehumidifying your space when you get to pay for it. As long as this thing has occupied and you know, put that over a 15 story building and let that happen, you know, uh, on a cup on each floor. And just remember that the first real calm I become, and you've met right? You know, Smith and he said that, uh, their biggest, um, why I got this one. Can I do this one? Okay. You just cause I don't, I normally don't know much about, I do know this. So Brandon, Darryl Smith, random Microsoft campus back when Kenny and I first met him, and this is the best example of alarm first as rules base did I ever heard. And what Daryl was saying was a, this huge campus, huge, huge energy bills. They never got an alarm because the Microsoft campus was the most comfortable campus. You could be anywhere. All those buildings were comfortable. They put in a program similar to sky's bar and they realize the reason their energy was so high and the reason nobody complained about the temperature was that their heating and cooling ran at the same time to maintain temperature. They had no idea that was happening until they put the analytics package. And so then what happened, consequently, after that was, uh, you know, they fixed that problem. They started getting a lot of alarms and Bill Gates got mad at Darryl Smith. So there you have it. You have anything you want to add to that, Kenny? I'm sorry. No, no, no. It was, it was the whole thing we said to you, you know, some of the things that they were saying is the valve of the heating valve was clogged, blocked, open, you know, it wasn't Seton properties. So then it was leaving too much heat into the space and an air conditioning or the, you know, Viv is letting, calling in. So the bottom line was that you could have no, uh, alarms are no complaints that nobody's complained about the temperature of being too hot, too cold, but that's not necessarily a good thing. So what they started to analyze, uh, was if the state changes doesn't change over a certain period of time, that there's reason for concern, something that should be going up and down based on different, uh, the different, uh, aspects of the building, different times of day, different whatever. But nothing should stay the same. No temperatures and stayed 72 for longer than maybe like 60 minutes. And if it does, that'd be one of the rules we'd say somebody needs to look at it probably got, you know, something's going on there that you said requires some investigation. But um, I am, I'm a little bit concerned that we're, we're going to get the time, uh, isn't slip away so we should throw in some of these posts so that they get more friends. Comments on your bread. Eric Stromquist: This is part of the audition here. Now we're going to go through some post of the week and you got to make it yet like really astute comments about them. Okay. I don't want to suppress them cause you know, you're, you're a systems integrator and you bring like a different perspective. Absolutely. Is this relevant to your world or not? You know, what's one posts you want to talk about? For now, we'll just go kind of lighthearted cause uh, you know, again, the two and you know, nuggets to take away into some of this has kind of superficial stuff with like the next post you want to talk about and get Brent's comments on is the, the new facility manager might be a robot. Uh, and how will artificial intelligence affect your building? We know from Ken Sinclair that artificial intelligence is common. It's a real thing, how quickly they adoption rate's going to be and whatever. Or is it happening with or without our knowledge? Uh, and he calls it automated, intelligent, not intelligence, artificial intelligence. So the question would ask you there is that you, do you think that artificial intelligence has a foothold already? Uh, w what's the adoption rate with your end of the world or your from your perspective? Um, Brent Burrows: so, uh, in, in terms of, of running buildings right now where we're at and you know, Atlanta, Georgia, um, I haven't seen a whole lot of artificial intelligence in a, and the particulars particular areas where at, um, obviously that's the way am, I mean every, everything's moving that way, you know, whether we still really haven't seen a whole ton of, you know, a voice stuff come in to, you know, the building automation world. So I feel like you're going to see that come in and then you're going to see AI. But that's kind of the analytics thing too, is, you know, and we were talking about earlier, you know, it used to be you'd pay somebody to monitor this and they would watch it and now you have a computer that's doing it, you know, a, a program that that just looks at. It looks at rules, it compares the data, and then it gives you an outcome. So go ahead. So based on how you define artificial intelligence, in many cases, some of it's already there, it's just not called artificial intelligence. God was charging two grand a month to technical data. I mean he's already been replaced by a robot. Right. Which is a shame. That'd be a sweet deal. So Eric, uh, so I got it said Jan, Jan. Okay. Now, so the next, the Kenny, he's like, it's not jam. J A M is Shanthi. It's a softer version. Okay. So if we're doing artificial intelligence, let's take this thing to the next level. And we had this very intelligent futurist and she is the real McCoy. She is internationally, globally recognized for her, her understanding and divisions that are coming. You know what our world is going to look like in five 10 15 years. But she did this thing on smart buildings and powering smart buildings, smart cars and the whole idea of sustainable building, sustainable energy cars that are driving and they're basically collect the energy, putting in a battery. The car gets to the building that it works, it's parked at and plugs in and instead of the building powering the car up again, cars powering the building up in an emergency situation that you could really exploit this cause it's just moving energy. You know, cars are literally collect the energy and then moving them to where they needed nick actually plug into a building. Um, not, not that we're going to see this anytime soon, but what do you think that, uh, the Atlanta metropolitan area is that, is that kind of technology receptive? You see that? I know that a, with Eric, with your smart car, you're a customer, your test, the, one of your biggest issues at first was the charging stations. They could be busy, it might not be available, but you know, it was, it was trying that new technology. Does it fit, do you see us moving a year end of the world there, uh, Brent taking, adopting that kind of technology or is it kind of an out there kind of like, I dunno, I'm sure had you asked the question, you know, 20 or 30 years I had like, had you asked when maybe Eric and my dad were working together a little bit, like, you know, hey, where are you thinking we're going to be in 30 years with us in buildings? It's like snack. I'd be met that it's not going to matter. All our cars going to be flying around anyway. It's kind of local conceptions out there. Oh, we'll get to your point. I mean, I look at this thing every day and I'm all, I marvel over the iPhone every day because I just, I can't get over it. Cause my wife's German, she talks to her sister's like we're talking, you know, across the street. And it doesn't cost a dime. They used to be my third biggest expense. You know, we had mortgage, car and then phone. Right. Well, you know, Kenny, I had been on my, I'm like, rephrase the question a little bit because you know, I think the car was just sort of an example of the fact that you could use a battery to power building and Nissan actually did with their corporate headquarter and a suit. The JMT talks a lot about, uh, about the fact that you can now contribute to the grid and said you're just drawing off the grid. And I think a more Germane sort of, uh, uh, question might be do see a day where maybe Ken Smyers: the batteries are powering the buildings. Um, yeah, I mean, you know, tech technology continues to evolve and to just things that you just never thought were possible. Kind of like, you know, like the analogy there of a, you know, thinking about a battery charging and building. I mean, you know, absolutely. It's possible. What, you know, what Ken just talked about, you know, with that right there, I'm sure you guys saw him back in the, uh, you know, maybe even the 80s, the early nineties. Like what are the first cell phones look like? Where did the first computers, they'll quite white mainframes hold clinic rooms and now this is more powerful than the first computer mainframe huge rooms that were created. I'm really glad you cleaned that up for me cause I'm not, hang on, hang on. I'm not done yet. I've got a Mike, my conspiracy theory and then you can come back to you Ken. So I have a conspiracy theory cat because Brent, you know, you guys hard Johnson controls is wanting the lines you handles was Honeywell on this tech Johnson controls is one of the largest car battery or manufacturers in the world. Okay. So you start thinking about that and then you put into the fact that Tesla developed something called the power wall, right in California. What that because you know, you could have the solar energy coming in but you pretty much had to use it or lose it. What the power wall, you were able to store it. Okay. So I think Johnson and Tesla are getting together right now. I think what's going to happen is you're going to have solar panels on the building. There's going to come down to some sort of a power wall that will hold the charge, that will charge the battery and then the battery will charge the building. Well Eric, to your point, I think, uh, I'm glad you did it cause I was thinking the same thing. We know that Johnson controls made a major investment and batteries. And one of the scenarios we saw Brent was really cool was that, you know, uh, with a DC AC wars mobile. Derek and I used to cover the Westinghouse versus Tesla and how, uh, it was a power station thing who could transmit the power of the further Stacy one but DC. Now it's coming back in. And many people were saying, why are we taking power, making it a scene and converting it back to DC inside of a building since every something inside of the buildings operating on DC. What about we put a big battery in the basement in, you know, some mechanical room or whatever and we power it up. And from there we power the entire building with 24 volts DC. Ken Smyers: And then you have power over ethernet and we have all these really incredible ideas. But so to your point, and I agree with you 100%, it's not, it's just a matter of when we get the opportunity to deploy these technologies are here. It's just, it's in the economic constriction. It says the economic, you know, friction, you gotta, you gotta make money and people have to transition from one technology to the other. But it doesn't mean it's not going to have, it's just the question of when. Right. So I, you know, it's really interesting to about, um, you know, buildings doing that. Obviously it'd be much easier, you know, as with anything, um, you know, if you're building a brand new building to be able to Spec that stuff and then absorb it into the cost of, you know, of doing the building as opposed to looking at a building that has everything that has ac powered, whether, you know, lighting, HPAC equipment, you know, literally everything and being like, all right, we're going to rip all this stuff out and then we're going to put all of this and, and it's going to cost you, you know, x and whoever owns the building or she come managers of the building, it's like, no, we're not. It's a great point, Brent and know that my father in law lives in New Mexico, right? And they used to subsidize solar panels, but then the electric company, conspiracy theory started, you know, not making as much money so they don't subsidize any more. So now it's cost prohibitive to do it. But I tell you what, I think, uh, I want to get back to Ed Tech and your dad a little bit because your dad is when I got to be kidding me, your dad is one of the brightest businessmen know. And when your dad would say is, if you want to have heard him say this over the years, you want to paint it blue, I'll paint it blue. You want to back you on a battery power building, not give you a battery painted battery power building. Right. So, uh, uh, and I, and I think at the end of the day, it's, this is, you know, a lot of conjecture on our part. It's fun to talk about, but at the end of the day, uh, what's going to make the most sense for the owners is what they're going to do. Yeah. My favorite ones are listen to the Paul Oswald and listen to, uh, George Thomas from contemporary controls. The, these guys are the more senior faculty in our, in our industry and they say, you know, we keep talking about this absolutely wowed off the wall technology when we still don't fix belts and we still don't do it. Most primordial maintenance you need, uh, you know, and keeping the motors running and stuff like that. So I think what you have to do is you have to keep one foot on its tectonics. It's moving and shifting when it applied. Yeah. Plate tectonics. There we go. Brent and we still have a vocabulary from you yet. What have we done? We got it. Tig. Hold on. Protect. Yes. Right. I'm sorry I got circled them when you said that. I will give you credit when I like something that somebody says something cool, I write it down and at the end of it when we have to write the show notes up or whatever, I can run through all these little circles, nuggets there and alarm fatigue is circled. We're going to, we're going to take this thing into a macro level again, and we're going to shift gears and just security, cybersecurity. We're going to go into your version of cybersecurity. How often you bump into it, what does it, what does it scare you to death or you got to, you got a handle on it. What's, what's going on from your perspective? Brent Burrows: Um, you know, cyber security, obviously you now have extremely important, I would say as important as, uh, eh, as anything you're, you're really doing in a building, you know, as long as you know you're not, when you're putting in controls, you're not just absolutely wrecking the equipment. What's the, the other thing, keeping, you know, unauthorized people from entering your site? Um, if you can isolate it. That, and that's the biggest thing was cybersecurity, uh, that I'm kind of saying, um, from our end is things need to be isolated. Um, so like you really do, you need to have like, you know, for your h Vac, building automation, security access, all that stuff. Um, like to isolate it if you can on, on separate networks. I mean, you know, you don't have to look far, uh, with different, you know, cybersecurity issues and large retailers, whether it's through, you know, the credit card scanners or you know, however these hackers get in to access, you know, a bunch of people's personal data at places. Like it's just kinda like, holy crap. I thought that was a very unimportant, this thing just turns the lights on, turns the lights off and now they've got access to, you know, social security numbers of all the data that we're keeping over here. So, um, there's some really cool products out there. I'm like, you know, one that y'all rep, uh, that, uh, yeah, that, that's it. I really liked that. Um, you want to talk about security like that is that, that is the deal. Um, the, the ease access is, you know, not as much like, you know, you can't just start grabbing a bunch of random devices and, and doing it. There's got to be a little bit more prep work, but you want to talk about secure and a and manage like dad is awesome. So it's not that expensive dye tee people. Cause I guess a part of the question would be are you running it up when you put a system or the it people now more concerned or they come, do you say you're going to try to what to my network or I know you guys work on a different sort of size building and stuff like that, but uh, yeah, uh, I actually had a meeting with a, with a 19 manager, um, just just recently within the last couple of weeks. And he was wanting to know like a, you know, what are you going to do or how does this need to be set up and everything like that. And uh, it's, it, it's a good conversation to be able to have with them in person. Like don't try and pass it off to someone else that isn't going to be working on the technical side because it's just that then things get misinterpreted and people get defensive. You're not putting this on my network and all this, you know, it turns into like a little peon contest when you don't need it. It's just, you know, a good conversation to have. And that's one of the things Tridium does a good job with is, you know, they have a, they've got it out there. I'm not sure what the most updated version is, but it's called the hardening guide, which, uh, um, basically goes through and it'll tell you how to most securely set up your system. And if you can go through that with an eye with, you know, manager or, or whoever, then everybody can be comfortable. All the data can all be out there. And then, you know, you make sure that you're putting in the most secure option. You know, so ironic you said that because I sent that to somebody this morning. Um, the issues were on the audit trails and about, you know, uh, who gets into the system and then when I have as the Niagara for hardening, it's from six 28, 2018. So I'm sure there's one, uh, more recent than that, but you're exactly right. It's, uh, I think it's a 48 page document. Let's see. Yeah. And it really goes deep dives into a 42 pages. So, um, but what we have, uh, for, for the controlled trans community is we have a responsibility to keep, keep cybersecurity as a concurrent trend is the top trend. We post the NIST released in ist and they give us, you know, the checklists and take people on an individual level and organizational level, uh, you know, a corporate level and then a city level. Ken Smyers: So we have two posts that I just want to bring them up real quick. One is the, a Schneider electric has a cybersecurity, a Webinar you can sign up for and it has a, a lot of great information. And then two, for the people that are really in the business dot have deep, we have a smart and secure city, the community challenge expo and Washington DC July 10th and 12th. And it's about security. Cybersecurity on a, on a macro level. So, and ist the US Department of Homeland Security and sciences, the technology, are they basically the sponsors of it? It's a free registration is free, but you have to preregister it's required for attendance. You can't just walk in there online and we have a hot button to it. But so cybersecurity is, you're right. So Brent, Brent, you just hit three correct answers in a row. So we're going to over and cybersecurity is one. It's as important as anything else. We're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're working with now if we have to have a responsibility, we have to own that responsibility and learn about it. We don't necessarily have the solution for it, but we can be part of the solution or part of the problem. Well said. Well said. Well, listen, dude, uh, let's, let's talk about a couple more things. A couple of other vets and then we're probably going to need to hop off here. But, uh, where Brent, you gotta talk to your dad about this cause you want to go to this conference? Edi. Oh, easy. Easy. I know they call it easy time. What are the dates on these? Okay, you want to go to Amsterdam with this bra? Yes. Sounds great. Yes we do. It's, it's May 17th through the 19th, and it's going to be in Amsterdam and it's going to be an extraordinary event. We're taking the lid off this thing now because, uh, there's, um, the importance of it is growing. Uh, what ECI is doing is they're going to really walk us through the roadmap and they'd been the innovators. It'd probably been the strongest leading innovator company of all the recent companies for just the, the ability to get things done quickly. Put an FSL server size to controller inside of a regular, you know, fit the build of a, of a know basically a controller that it's core for core processors, quad core processors and, and, and it just sort of new paradigm as shaking all the other vendors in there. You're doing something incredible now. They're kind of, they were going to reduce it. They're going to get fs 20. So it's going to use smaller compact is you had the same from inability. It's just cost less money. And so they do the wireless thing. So they've got the FTO for coming out and all those things. Clever and amazing thing. Lim who in charge came up with some very, very interesting things. Eric Stromquist: No, Kenny, you're, you're, you're so right about the technology. But listen, let's focus on the event itself because these guys know how to throw a party where up go to Europe. Okay. And write it off on your taxes. These guys, you'll learn stuff. But man, we've been to all the major soccer stadiums. I made these guys know how to throw a party. It is the best time you'll have. You'll learn a lot. You meet integrators from all around the world now Kenny, Brett and I are going to be there. Maybe Aaron Gorka even show up if he gets out of bed long enough to see what's going on here. But uh, but so that's going on. We've got that. We got real calm. Be Con coming up Kenny in Nashville, Tennessee and then we've got the Afore mentioned a HAYSTAK CONNECT. Hey look, get started. We got to start at the beginning here. We got national [inaudible] you got, what do you mean? We have to start at the beginning to see that much 26 this week we got a major event down in Baltimore. And anybody close to that, you go to it. It's one of the best, uh, you know, uh, in, in our, each department of the country and is great to network and get great training. Uh, it's start, just wait, we have controls con coming up May 2nd through the fourth up there in Detroit. And I'll tell you why that's another one. We have a discount code putting in control trends when you registered. Then we go to project haystack. Okay. May 17th and 18th. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. May I have, we just had the post up so, uh, that's on the side. You can go to the site and check it out, but I'm just with my, my, my emphasis is on bang, Bang, Bang. But the, uh, it's gonna be uh, uh, a resort area too. That's extraordinary. Anyhow, you're right, it's at the Paradise Island, Paradise Island. And uh, it's May 13th through the 15th. I ride right before we go to go to Holland. But it last but not least, June 11th through the 14th real calm. I be con that's going to be in Nashville, Tennessee. And we also have a controls trans code coming from Jim Young and the, excuse me, Howard Berger and Lisa, which too. So we're excited about it because we're starting as a pivot point for this, this incredible information. Obviously people can't make it to all of them, but that's where you need to do your homework. If you're an integrator and you're learning about this stuff, uh, you know, you might want to go to a haystack because you can start using that template. If you're, you're into the integration and you want to work with the latest and greatest set of tools, do you need to get the easy Ios Global World Conference? You get the additional benefit of some travel and they do have a spectacular today program. Uh, and then if you're in the real estate business and you're servicing people that make the need to know how they can make a smarter, more intelligent, more connected building, then you need to go to real calm. So hang on. There's one more county. Hmm. Very well done. That was nicely done. Okay. Very succinct to the point. I love it. Now, if you need an integrator to put all this great technology and we know a pretty good one in Atlanta on name Entech Brett, tell us how people get hold of Edtech and, and some of the things you guys do, Brent Burrows: uh, to get ahold of Entek.com. Uh, you know, go to our website, all the contact information, um, or call Eric and he'll get you over to us. Um, but, uh, but what we do is we try to offer, you know, an an all in one solution. You know, we'd like to thank you. Now we'll do a little bit of everything. What we'll do. Anything that you let us do, you know, Kinda like you said before, you want me to paint it green, I'll paint it green. Yeah. Um, so, uh, so, you know, we do a, the HPAC controls, uh, cardax card access, integrating those systems together. Uh, and then the mechanical HPAC, uh, you know, do all that systems analytics. Um, you know, we try and be, you know, either an all in one solution or if, you know, take one. No, extremely happy with your mechanical company. We'd love to do your controls, vice versa. Eric Stromquist: Well, the other thing too, Brent and I want to bring up your dad and your company has and more national account work. So if you're a big box or even a little box retailer that has multiple locations across the United States, your dad's been doing that for the last 40 years with major accounts. So, you know, a lot of times people that they like assist and they want something put in and uh, uh, I'm going to tell us about your dad before we go. You'll like this canning, uh, all across the country. So you guys do national accounts as well and do a great job with that. So here's the story. How many of you know who doctor Laura is? I don't. Oh Gosh. He had to talk to her. She was like a battle ax. It's like, you know, you've got to be tough. You've got to do this and you, you know kind of like a doctor Phil on steroids, although Dr Phils Kinda cuter and she is but uh anyway your dad is doing a borders bookstore and doctor Laura is, they're doing a book signing and your dad's up on a ladder working, not working on the Vav box and all of a sudden he hears this voice, hey come over here and move these books and he kind of looks down and goes, who's doctor Laura or she's asking me to go do some stuff. So I just waved at her and went right back up and just anyone you ever get a chance to talk to branch dad had worlds, one of the funniest guys and then she wanted the best story tellers rent. Man, thank you so much for being on the show this week. Very excited about what you and Erin, you're going to come up with a herons. Episode seven is up on control, a controlled product. I'm going to see control controlled fence.com was a great episode and I guess starting at episode eight will probably be you and him working together. So excited about that and they controlled trans community is lucky to have you on board, so thank you for doing this. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me looking forward. All right, so now, now I know you normally listen to the podcast so we got to practice this outro, Ken Smyers: two more things real quick. I'm sorry this is part of the show. Okay, go ahead. Well anyhow, uh, we do have a shout out. We want to shout out to Bill Schafer. He commented on the Scott Cochrane, um, article that we posted in Scott's comments and the, you know, just to give you an idea of the flavor and the interesting inputs we get controlled transits that I've read Scott Cochrane's article on automated buildings. I've been involved in a couple of projects with temporary networks were necessary. So I found Stanford solution. Interesting. Your article left me with a couple of questions and thoughts about using Ip controllers versus MSTP controllers and how vendors in it departments handle them. And so we have, uh, an opportunity for we forward that to Scott for a response, but we invite all our control trans community to please, these are the kinds of conversations and dialogues we'd love to have because everybody benefits from it. You might get your own little answer. Uh, you know, you might get your own private answer or young interest answer, uh, responded to, but we all benefit from it. And then last but not least, I want to compliment Eric Strom quest, who's the most hardest working creative, innovative social media guy out there? Eric, he put up four youtube videos. Tell us, tell us about each one real quick. One minute or less on each one of them. Eric Stromquist: Why? Can't really remember all. But as we said on the show last week, we get content up quicker on the youtube channel. So Brent, I don't know about you, but you know how long, a lot from youtube. So we get a lot of questions. Like, for example, we have one on, what's the difference between two way and three way valves, which a ghuy like you knows , but we created a video for that. Uh, and so we are going to be putting more and more HVAC TECH TRAING VIDEOS on our YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Youtube content up here. So please subscribe to the channel. New Speaker: stromquist.com dmsconytrols.com ent https://kit.com/ControlTrends/gear-we-use-to-shoot-the-show https://kit.com/ControlTrends/books-we-recommened

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We look at an OpenBSD setup on a new laptop, revel in BSDCan trip reports, and visit daemons and friendly ninjas. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD and the modern laptop (http://bsdly.blogspot.de/2017/07/openbsd-and-modern-laptop.html) Peter Hansteen has a new blog post about OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/) on laptops: Did you think that OpenBSD is suitable only for firewalls and high-security servers? Think again. Here are my steps to transform a modern mid to high range laptop into a useful Unix workstation with OpenBSD. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is that whenever I'm out and about with my primary laptop at conferences and elsewhere geeks gather, a significant subset of the people I meet have a hard time believing that my laptop runs OpenBSD, and that it's the only system installed. and then it takes a bit of demonstrating that yes, the graphics runs with the best available resolution the hardware can offer, the wireless network is functional, suspend and resume does work, and so forth. And of course, yes, I do use that system when writing books and articles too. Apparently heavy users of other free operating systems do not always run them on their primary workstations. Peter goes on to describe the laptops he's had over the years (all running OpenBSD) and after BSDCan 2017, he needed a new one due to cracks in the display. So the time came to shop around for a replacement. After a bit of shopping around I came back to Multicom, a small computers and parts supplier outfit in rural Åmli in southern Norway, the same place I had sourced the previous one. One of the things that attracted me to that particular shop and their own-branded offerings is that they will let you buy those computers with no operating system installed. That is of course what you want to do when you source your operating system separately, as we OpenBSD users tend to do. The last time around I had gone for a "Thin and lightweight" 14 inch model (Thickness 20mm, weight 2.0kg) with 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD for system disk and 1TB HD for /home (since swapped out for a same-size SSD, as the dmesg will show). Three years later, the rough equivalent with some added oomph for me to stay comfortable for some years to come ended me with a 13.3 inch model, 18mm and advertised as 1.3kg (but actually weighing in at 1.5kg, possibly due to extra components), 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and 2TB harddisk. For now the specification can be viewed online here (https://www.multicom.no/systemconfigurator.aspx?q=st:10637291;c:100559;fl:0#4091-10500502-1;4086-10637290-1;4087-8562157-2;4088-9101982-1;4089-9101991-1) (the site language is Norwegian, but product names and units of measure are not in fact different). The OpenBSD installer is a wonder of straightforward, no-nonsense simplicity that simply gets the job done. Even so, if you are not yet familiar with OpenBSD, it is worth spending some time reading the OpenBSD FAQ's installation guidelines and the INSTALL.platform file (in our case, INSTALL.amd64) to familiarize yourself with the procedure. If you're following this article to the letter and will be installing a snapshot, it is worth reading the notes on following -current too. The main hurdle back when I was installing the 2014-vintage 14" model was getting the system to consider the SSD which showed up as sd1 the automatic choice for booting (I solved that by removing the MBR, setting the size of the MBR on the hard drive that showed up as sd0 to 0 and enlarging the OpenBSD part to fill the entire drive). + He goes on to explain the choices he made in the installer and settings made after the reboot to set up his work environment. Peter closes with: If you have any questions on running OpenBSD as a primary working environment, I'm generally happy to answer but in almost all cases I would prefer that you use the mailing lists such as misc@openbsd.org or the OpenBSD Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2210554563/) group so the question and hopefully useful answers become available to the general public. Browsing the slides for my recent OpenBSD and you (https://home.nuug.no/~peter/openbsd_and_you/) user group talk might be beneficial if you're not yet familiar with the system. And of course, comments on this article are welcome. BSDCan 2017 Trip Report: Roller Angel (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2017-bsdcan-trip-report-roller-angel/) We could put this into next week's show, because we have another trip report already that's quite long. After dropping off my luggage, I headed straight over to the Goat BoF which took place at The Royal Oak. There were already a number of people there engaged in conversation with food and drink. I sat down at a table and was delighted that the people sitting with me were also into the BSD's and were happy to talk about it the whole time. I felt right at home from the start as people were very nice to me, and were interested in what I was working on. I honestly didn't know that I would fit in so well. I had a preconceived notion that people may be a bit hard to approach as they are famous and so technically advanced. At first, people seemed to only be working in smaller circles. Once you get more familiar with the faces, you realize that these circles don't always contain the same people and that they are just people talking about specific topics. I found that it was easy to participate in the conversation and also found out that people are happy to get your feedback on the subject as well. I was actually surprised how easily I got along with everyone and how included I felt in the activities. I volunteered to help wherever possible and got to work on the video crew that recorded the audio and slides of the talks. The people at BSDCan are incredibly easy to talk to, are actually interested in what you're doing with BSD, and what they can do to help. It's nice to feel welcome in the community. It's like going home. Dan mentioned in his welcome on the first day of BSDCan that the conference is like home for many in the community. The trip report is very detailed and chronicles the two days of the developer summit, and the two days of the conference There was some discussion about a new code of conduct by Benno Rice who mentioned that people are welcome to join a body of people that is forming that helps work out issues related to code of conduct and forwards their recommendations on to core. Next, Allan introduced the idea of creating a process for formally discussing big project changes or similar discussions that is going to be known as FCP or FreeBSD Community Proposal. In Python we have the Python Enhancement Proposal or PEP which is very similar to the idea of FCP. I thought this idea is a great step for FreeBSD to be implementing as it has been a great thing for Python to have. There was some discussion about taking non-code contributions from people and how to recognize those people in the project. There was a suggestion to have a FreeBSD Member status created that can be given to people whose non-code contributions are valuable to the project. This idea seemed to be on a lot of people's minds as something that should be in place soon. The junior jobs on the FreeBSD Wiki were also brought up as a great place to look for ideas on how to get involved in contributing to FreeBSD. Roller wasted no time, and started contributing to EdgeBSD at the conference. On the first day of BSDCan I arrived at the conference early to coordinate with the team that records the talks. We selected the rooms that each of us would be in to do the recording and set up a group chat via WhatsApp for coordination. Thanks to Roller, Patrick McAvoy, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, and all of the others who volunteered their time to run the video and streaming production at BSDCan, as well as all others who volunteered, even if it was just to carry a box. BSDCan couldn't happen without the army of volunteers. After the doc lounge, I visited the Hacker Lounge. There were already several tables full of people talking and working on various projects. In fact, there was a larger group of people who were collaborating on the new libtrue library that seemed to be having a great time. I did a little socializing and then got on my laptop and did some more work on the documentation using my new skills. I really enjoyed having a hacker lounge to go to at night. I want to give a big thank you to the FreeBSD Foundation for approving my travel grant. It was a great experience to meet the community and participate in discussions. I'm very grateful that I was able to attend my first BSDCan. After visiting the doc lounge a few times, I managed to get comfortable using the tools required to edit the documentation. By the end of the conference, I had submitted two documentation patches to the FreeBSD Bugzilla with several patches still in progress. Prior to the conference I expected that I would be spending a lot of time working on my Onion Omega and Edge Router Lite projects that I had with me, but I actually found that there was always something fun going on that I would rather do or work on. I can always work on those projects at home anyway. I had a good time working with the FreeBSD community and will continue working with them by editing the documentation and working with Bugzilla. One of the things I enjoy about these trip reports is when they help convince other people to make the trip to their first conference. Hopefully by sharing their experience, it will convince you to come to the next conference: vBSDCon in Virginia, USA: Sept 7-9 EuroBSDCon in Paris, France: Sept 21-24 BSDTW in Taipei, Taiwan: November 11-12 (CFP ends July 31st) *** BSDCan 2017 - Trip report double-p (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170629150641) Prologue Most overheard in Tokyo was "see you in Ottawaaaaah", so with additional "personal item" being Groff I returned home to plan the trip to BSDCan. Dan was very helpful with getting all the preparations (immigration handling), thanks for that. Before I could start, I had to fix something: the handling of the goat. With a nicely created harness, I could just hang it along my backpack. Done that it went to the airport of Hamburg and check-in for an itinerary of HAM-MUC-YUL. While the feeder leg was a common thing, boarding to YUL was great - cabin-crew likes Groff :) Arriving in Montreal was like entering a Monsoon zone or something, sad! After the night the weather was still rain-ish but improving and i shuttled to Dorval VIARail station to take me to Ottawa (ever avoid AirCanada, right?). Train was late, but the conductor (or so) was nice to talk to - and wanted to know about Groff's facebook page :-P. Picking a cab in Ottawa to take me to "Residence" was easy at first - just that it was the wrong one. Actually my fault and so I had a "nice, short" walk to the actual one in the rain with wrong directions. Eventually I made it and after unpacking, refreshment it was time to hit the Goat BOF! Day 1 Since this was my first BSDCan I didnt exactly knew what to expect from this BOF. But it was like, we (Keeper, Dan, Allan, ..) would talk about "who's next" and things like that. How mistaken I was :). Besides the sheer amount of BSD people entering the not-so-yuuge Oak some Dexter sneaked in camouflage. The name-giver got a proper position to oversee the mess and I was glad I did not leave him behind after almost too many Creemores. Day 2 Something happened it's crystal blue on the "roof" and sun is trying its best to wake me up. To start the day, I pick breakfast at 'Father+Sons' - I can really recommend that. Very nice home made fries (almost hashbrowns) and fast delivery! Stuffed up I trott along to get to phessler's tutorial about BGP-for-sysadmins-and-developers. Peter did a great job, but the "lab" couldn't happen, since - oh surprise - the wifi was sluggish as hell. Must love the first day on a conference every time. Went to Hackroom in U90 afterwards, just to fix stuff "at home". IPsec giving pains again. Time to pick food+beer afterwards and since it's so easy to reach, we went to the Oak again. Having a nice backyard patio experience it was about time to meet new people. Cheers to Tom, Aaron, Nick, Philip and some more, we'd an awesome night there. I also invited some not-really-computer local I know by other means who was completly overwhelmed by what kind of "nerds" gather around BSD. He planned to stay "a beer" - and it was rather some more and six hours. Looks like "we" made some impression on him :). Day 3 Easy day, no tutorials at hand, so first picking up breakfast at F+S again and moving to hackroom in U90. Since I promised phessler to help with an localized lab-setup, I started to hack on a quick vagrant/ansible setup to mimic his BGP-lab and went quickly through most of it. Plus some more IPsec debugging and finally fixing it, we went early in the general direction of the Red Lion to pick our registration pack. But before that could happen it was called to have shawarma at 3brothers along. Given a tight hangover it wasn't the brightest idea to order a poutine m-(. Might be great the other day, it wasn't for me at the very time and had to throw away most of it :(. Eventually passing on to the Red Lion I made the next failure with just running into the pub - please stay at the front desk until "seated". I never get used to this concept. So after being "properly" seated, we take our beers and the registration can commence after we had half of it. So I register myself; btw it's a great idea to grant "not needed" stuff to charity. So dont pick "just because", think about it if you really need this or that gadget. Then I register Groff - he really needs badges - just to have Dru coming back to me some minutes later one to hand me the badge for Henning. That's just "amazing"; I dont know IF i want to break this vicious circle the other day, since it's so funny. Talked to Theo about the ongoing IPsec problems and he taught me about utrace(2) which looks "complicated" but might be an end of the story the other day. Also had a nice talk to Peter (H.) about some other ideas along books. BTW, did I pay for ongoing beers? I think Tom did - what a guy :). Arriving at the Residence, I had to find my bathroom door locked (special thing).. crazy thing is they dont have a master key at the venue, but to have to call in one from elsewhere. Short night shortened by another 30minutes :(. Day 4 Weather is improving into beach+sun levels - and it's Conference Day! The opening keynote from Geist was very interesting ("citation needed"). Afterwards I went to zfs-over-ssh, nothing really new (sorry Allan). But then Jason had a super interesting talk on how about to apply BSD for the health-care system in Australia. I hope I can help him with the last bits (rdomain!) in the end. While lunch I tried to recall my memories about utrace(2) while talking to Theo. Then it was about to present my talk and I think it was well perceipted. One "not so good" feedback was about not taking the audience more into account. I think I was asking every other five slides or so - but, well. The general feedback (in spoken terms) was quite good. I was a bit "confused" and I did likely a better job in Tokyo, but well. Happened we ended up in the Oak again.. thanks to mwl, shirkdog, sng, pitrh, kurtm for having me there :) Day 5 While the weather had to decide "what next", I rushed to the venue just to gather Reyk's talk about vmd(8). Afterwards it was MSTP from Paeps which was very interesting and we (OpenBSD) should look into it. Then happened BUG BOF and I invite all "coastal Germans" to cbug.de :) I had to run off for other reasons and came back to Dave's talk which was AWESOME. Following was Rod's talk.. well. While I see his case, that was very poor. The auction into closing was awesome again, and I spend $50 on a Tshirt. :) + Epilogue I totally got the exit dates wrong. So first cancel a booking of an Hotel and then rebook the train to YUL. So I have plenty of time "in the morning" to get breakfast with the local guy. After that he drives me to VIARail station and I dig into "business" cussions. Well, see you in Ottawa - or how about Paris, Taipei? Bind Broker (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/bind-broker) Ted Unangst writes about an interesting idea he has He has a single big server, and lots of users who would like to share it, many want to run web servers. This would be great, but alas, archaic decisions made long ago mean that network sockets aren't really files and there's this weird concept of privileged ports. Maybe we could assign each user a virtual machine and let them do whatever they want, but that seems wasteful. Think of the megabytes! Maybe we could setup nginx.conf to proxy all incoming connections to a process of the user's choosing, but that only works for web sites and we want to be protocol neutral. Maybe we could use iptables, but nobody wants to do that. What we need is a bind broker. At some level, there needs to be some kind of broker that assigns IPs to users and resolves conflicts. It should be possible to build something of this nature given just the existing unix tools we have, instead of changing system design. Then we can deploy our broker to existing systems without upgrading or disrupting their ongoing operation. The bind broker watches a directory for the creation, by users, of unix domain sockets. Then it binds to the TCP port of the same name, and transfers traffic between them. A more complete problem specification is as follows. A top level directory, which contains subdirectories named after IP addresses. Each user is assigned a subdirectory, which they have write permission to. Inside each subdirectory, the user may create unix sockets named according to the port they wish to bind to. We might assign user alice the IP 10.0.0.5 and the user bob the IP 10.0.0.10. Then alice could run a webserver by binding to net/10.0.0.5/80 and bob could run a mail server by binding to net/10.0.0.10/25. This maps IP ownership (which doesn't really exist in unix) to the filesystem namespace (which does have working permissions). So this will be a bit different than jails. The idea is to use filesystem permissions to control which users can bind to which IP addresses and ports The broker is responsible for watching each directory. As new sockets are created, it should respond by binding to the appropriate port. When a socket is deleted, the network side socket should be closed as well. Whenever a connection is accepted on the network side, a matching connection is made on the unix side, and then traffic is copied across. A full set of example code is provided There's no completely portable way to watch a directory for changes. I'm using a kevent extension. Otherwise we might consider a timeout and polling with fstat, or another system specific interface (or an abstraction layer over such an interface). Otherwise, if one of our mappings is ready to read (accept), we have a new connection to handle. The first half is straightforward. We accept the connection and make a matching connect call to the unix side. Then I broke out the big cheat stick and just spliced the sockets together. In reality, we'd have to set up a read/copy/write loop for each end to copy traffic between them. That's not very interesting to read though. The full code, below, comes in at 232 lines according to wc. Minus includes, blank lines, and lines consisting of nothing but braces, it's 148 lines of stuff that actually gets executed by the computer. Add some error handling, and working read/write code, and 200 lines seems about right. A very interesting idea. I wonder about creating a virtual file system that would implement this and maybe do a bit more to fully flesh out this idea. What do you think? *** News Roundup Daemons and friendly Ninjas (https://euroquis.nl/bobulate/?p=1600) There's quite a lot of software that uses CMake as a (meta-)buildsystem. A quick count in the FreeBSD ports tree shows me 1110 ports (over a thousand) that use it. CMake generates buildsystem files which then direct the actual build — it doesn't do building itself. There are multiple buildsystem-backends available: in regular usage, CMake generates Makefiles (and does a reasonable job of producing Makefiles that work for GNU Make and for BSD Make). But it can generate Ninja, or Visual Studio, and other buildsystem files. It's quite flexible in this regard. Recently, the KDE-FreeBSD team has been working on Qt WebEngine, which is horrible. It contains a complete Chromium and who knows what else. Rebuilding it takes forever. But Tobias (KDE-FreeBSD) and Koos (GNOME-FreeBSD) noticed that building things with the Ninja backend was considerably faster for some packages (e.g. Qt WebEngine, and Evolution data-thingy). Tobias wanted to try to extend the build-time improvements to all of the CMake-based ports in FreeBSD, and over the past few days, this has been a success. Ports builds using CMake now default to using Ninja as buildsystem-backend. Here's a bitty table of build-times. These are one-off build times, so hardly scientifically accurate — but suggestive of a slight improvement in build time. Name Size GMake Ninja liblxt 50kB 0:32 0:31 llvm38 1655kB * 19:43 musescore 47590kB 4:00 3:54 webkit2-gtk3 14652kB 44:29 37:40 Or here's a much more thorough table of results from tcberner@, who did 5 builds of each with and without ninja. I've cut out the raw data, here are just the average-of-five results, showing usually a slight improvement in build time with Ninja. Name av make av ninj Delta D/Awo compiler-rt 00:08 00:07 -00:01 -14% openjpeg 00:06 00:07 +00:01 +17% marble 01:57 01:43 -00:14 -11% uhd 01:49 01:34 -00:15 -13% opencacscade 04:08 03:23 -00:45 -18% avidemux 03:01 02:49 -00:12 – 6% kdevelop 01:43 01:33 -00:10 – 9% ring-libclient 00:58 00:53 -00:05 – 8% Not everything builds properly with Ninja. This is usually due to missing dependencies that CMake does not discover; this shows up when foo depends on bar but no rule is generated for it. Depending on build order and speed, bar may be there already by the time foo gets around to being built. Doxygen showed this, where builds on 1 CPU core were all fine, but 8 cores would blow up occasionally. In many cases, we've gone and fixed the missing implicit dependencies in ports and upstreams. But some things are intractable, or just really need GNU Make. For this, the FreeBSD ports infrastructure now has a knob attached to CMake for switching a port build to GNU Make. Normal: USES=cmake Out-of-source: USES=cmake:outsource GNU Make: USES=cmake:noninja gmake OoS, GMake: USES=cmake:outsource,noninja gmake Bad: USES=cmake gmake For the majority of users, this has no effect, but for our package-building clusters, and for KDE-FreeBSD developers who build a lot of CMake-buildsystem software in a day it may add up to an extra coffee break. So I'll raise a shot of espresso to friendship between daemons and ninjas. Announcing the pkgsrc-2017Q2 release (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2017/07/10/msg025237.html) For the 2017Q2 release we welcome the following notable package additions and changes to the pkgsrc collection: Firefox 54 GCC 7.1 MATE 1.18 Ruby 2.4 Ruby on Rails 4.2 TeX Live 2017 Thunderbird 52.1 Xen 4.8 We say goodbye to: Ruby 1.8 Ruby 2.1 The following infrastructure changes were introduced: Implement optional new pkgtasks and init infrastructure for pkginstall. Various enhancements and fixes for building with ccache. Add support to USE_LANGUAGES for newer C++ standards. Enhanced support for SSP, FORTIFY, and RELRO. The GitHub mirror has migrated to https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc In total, 210 packages were added, 43 packages were removed, and 1,780 package updates were processed since the pkgsrc-2017Q1 release. *** OpenBSD changes of note 624 (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/openbsd-changes-of-note-624) There are a bunch, but here are a few that jump out: Start plugging some leaks. Compile kernels with umask 007. Install them minus read permissions. Pure preprocessor implementation of the roff .ec and .eo requests, though you are warned that very bad things will happen to anybody trying to use these macros in OpenBSD manuals. Random linking for arm64. And octeon. And alpha. And hppa. There's some variation by platform, because every architecture has the kernel loaded with different flavors of initial physical and virtual mappings. And landisk. And loongson. And sgi. And macppc. And a gap file for sparc64, but nobody yet dares split locore. And arm7. Errata for perl File::Path race condition. Some fixes for potential link attacks against cron. Add pledge violations to acct reporting. Take random linking to the next stage. More about KARL - kernel address randomized link. As noted, a few difficulties with hibernate and such, but the plan is coming together. Add a new function reorder_kernel() that relinks and installs the new kernel in the background on system startup. Add support for the bootblocks to detect hibernate and boot the previous kernel. Remove the poorly described “stuff” from ksh. Replace usage of TIOCSTI in csh using a more common IO loop. Kind of like the stuff in ksh, but part of the default command line editing and parsing code, csh would read too many characters, then send the ones it didn't like back into the terminal. Which is weird, right? Also, more importantly, eliminating the code that uses TIOCSTI to inject characters into ttys means that maybe TIOCSTI can be removed. Revamp some of the authentication logging in ssh. Add a verbose flag to rm so you can panic immediately upon seeing it delete the wrong file instead of waiting to discover your mistake after the fact. Update libexpat to version 2.2.1 which has some security fixes. Never trust an expat, that's my motto. Update inteldrm to code based on Linux 4.4.70. This brings us support for Skylake and Cherryview and better support for Broadwell and Valleyview. Also adds MST support. Fun times for people with newish laptops. *** OPNsense 17.1.9 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-17-1-9-released/) firewall: move gateway switching from system to firewall advanced settings firewall: keep category selection when changing tabs firewall: do not skip gateway switch parsing too early (contributed by Stephane Lesimple) interfaces: show VLAN description during edit firmware: opnsense-revert can now handle multiple packages at once firmware: opnsense-patch can now handle permission changes from patches dnsmasq: use canned –bogus-priv for noprivatereverse dnsmasq: separate log file, ACL and menu entries dynamic dns: fix update for IPv6 (contributed by Alexander Leisentritt) dynamic dns: remove usage of CURLAUTH_ANY (contributed by Alexander Leisentritt) intrusion detection: suppress “fast mode available” boot warning in PCAP mode openvpn: plugin framework adaption unbound: add local-zone type transparent for PTR zone (contributed by Davide Gerhard) unbound: separate log file, ACL and menu entries wizard: remove HTML from description strings mvc: group relation to something other than uuid if needed mvc: rework “item in” for our Volt templates lang: Czech to 100% translated (contributed by Pavel Borecki) plugins: zabbix-agent 1.1 (contributed by Frank Wall) plugins: haproxy 1.16 (contributed by Frank Wall) plugins: acme-client 1.8 (contributed by Frank Wall) plugins: tinc fix for switch mode (contributed by Johan Grip) plugins: monit 1.3 (contributed by Frank Brendel) src: support dhclient supersede statement for option 54 (contributed by Fabian Kurtz) src: add Intel Atom Cherryview SOC HSUART support src: add the ID for the Huawei ME909S LTE modem src: HardenedBSD Stack Clash mitigations[1] ports: sqlite 3.19.3[2] ports: openvpn 2.4.3[3] ports: sudo 1.8.20p2[4] ports: dnsmasq 2.77[5] ports: openldap 2.4.45[6] ports: php 7.0.20[7] ports: suricata 3.2.2[8] ports: squid 3.5.26[9] ports: carootnss 3.31 ports: bind 9.11.1-P2[10] ports: unbound 1.6.3[11] ports: curl 7.54.1[12] *** Beastie Bits Thinkpad x230 - trying to get TrackPoint / Touchpad working in X (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-July/313519.html) FreeBSD deprecates all r-cmds (rcp, rlogin, etc.) (http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-commits-all&m=149918307723723&w=2) Bashfill - art for your terminal (https://max.io/bash.html) Go 1.9 release notes: NetBSD support is broken, please help (https://github.com/golang/go/commit/32002079083e533e11209824bd9e3a797169d1c4) Jest, A ReST api for creating and managing FreeBSD jails written in Go (https://github.com/altsrc-io/Jest) *** Feedback/Questions John - zfs send/receive (http://dpaste.com/3ANETHW#wrap) Callum - laptops (http://dpaste.com/11TV0BJ) & An update (http://dpaste.com/3A14BQ6#wrap) Lars - Snapshot of VM datadisk (http://dpaste.com/0MM37NA#wrap) Daryl - Jail managers (http://dpaste.com/0CDQ9EK#wrap) ***

Dave is no scientist, but he is 'science-adjacent.' This week, after having read of research involving the benefits to brain function conferred by Marmite consumption, he conducts his own experiment on SCP hosts John Pienta, Kaci McCleary, Aline Sandouk, and Nathan Miller. Will they be able to use their new Marmite-based powers to pass Dave's Pop Quiz and identify actual Amazing Health Products You Can Get? Listener Hannah wants to know all about the medical science training program lifestyle, and how it differs from the MD student experience, and since Aline is an MSTP student herself, Hannah's in luck. And 23andMe has finally received approval from the FDA to offer genetic screenings for defects that either one already knows about or that knowing about might do more harm than good. Listeners, if you like what you hear today, please leave us a review on iTunes!

In part four of this series, I sit down with Cody Stothers, an MD/PhD student in his second year of training. Cody has a really unique journey to the Vanderbilt MSTP, that all started with strong grade school science and an even better Vanderbilt summer research internship program for high school students called 'The Aspirnaut'. We discussed why Cody decided to join the MSTP, and how he his navigating his new career in science and medicine. The Aspirnaut: http://www.aspirnaut.org/ The Vanderbilt MSTP: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/

In part three of this four part series, I sit down with Dr. Bruce Carter, Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Carter is a faculty advisor for the Vanderbilt MSTP, which means he mentors students throughout all phases of the program, and has enormous insight into the MD/PhD training process. We discussed the experiences he has had mentoring MSTP students, with all the struggles and triumphs that an 8 year program can bring. Dr. Carter's lab: http://www.brucecarterlab.com/ Vanderbilt MSTP: https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/mstp/

In part two of this four part series, I sit down with Megan and Tanner Freeman, M4 MSTP students in the Vanderbilt MD/PhD program (and just weeks away from graduation). We discuss their experience in the Vanderbilt MSTP over the past 8 years, and get a few insights from 24th grade.

В гостях linkmeup в этот раз Влад Канайкин — мой коллега, инженер Хуавэй. Обсуждаем семью протоколов STP, их преемников — TRILL и SPB — и альтернативы — RRPP, REP. Скачать файл подкаста. Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с помощью BT Sync (код: BYENRHD5UNKD5ZDIYFSB63WG2PEY2GIUN) или с яндекс-диска. Хронометраж: 0:00:00 — 0:13:50: Вступление и новости. 0:13:50 — 0:16:00: Влад Канайкин. О себе. 0:16:00 — 0:33:15: STP, 802.1d. 0:33:15 — 0:45:40: PVST/PVST+. 0:45:40 — 1:00:00: RSTP. 1:00:00 — 1:43:00: MSTP. 1:43:00 — 1:55:09: Альтернативы STP. Презентация к рассказу Влада: Новости: BGP. Telecom Malaysia, у вас маршруты убежали (link)Япония и Южная Корея запустят пилотную сеть 5G к 2018-му году (link)Сколково и Ростелеком объявили конкурс проектов в области телекоммуникаций. (link)О некоторых вопросах информационной безопасности Российской Федерации(link) Полезные ссылки.blog.ipspace.net/2015/06/another-spectacular-layer-2-failure.html cciethebeginning.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/differences-between-pvst-and-pvst/ blog.ine.com/2008/07/17/pvst-explained/ blog.ine.com/2010/04/05/understanding-stp-and-rstp-convergence/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24062-146.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24248-147.html blog.ine.com/2010/02/22/understanding-mstp/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/multiple-instance-stp-mistp-8021s/116464-configure-pvst-00.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/DC_Infra2_5/DCInfra_5.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/flexlink.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/metro/me3400/software/release/12-2_40_se/configuration/guide/scg/swrep.html www.h3c.com/portal/download.do?id=681124 www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/vss.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/design_guide_c07-625857.html nanog.org/meetings/nanog50/presentations/Monday/NANOG50.Talk63.NANOG50_TRILL-SPB-Debate-Roisman.pdf

В гостях linkmeup в этот раз Влад Канайкин — мой коллега, инженер Хуавэй. Обсуждаем семью протоколов STP, их преемников — TRILL и SPB — и альтернативы — RRPP, REP. Скачать файл подкаста. Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с помощью BT Sync (код: BYENRHD5UNKD5ZDIYFSB63WG2PEY2GIUN) или с яндекс-диска. Хронометраж: 0:00:00 — 0:13:50: Вступление и новости. 0:13:50 — 0:16:00: Влад Канайкин. О себе. 0:16:00 — 0:33:15: STP, 802.1d. 0:33:15 — 0:45:40: PVST/PVST+. 0:45:40 — 1:00:00: RSTP. 1:00:00 — 1:43:00: MSTP. 1:43:00 — 1:55:09: Альтернативы STP. Презентация к рассказу Влада: Новости: BGP. Telecom Malaysia, у вас маршруты убежали (link)Япония и Южная Корея запустят пилотную сеть 5G к 2018-му году (link)Сколково и Ростелеком объявили конкурс проектов в области телекоммуникаций. (link)О некоторых вопросах информационной безопасности Российской Федерации(link) Полезные ссылки.blog.ipspace.net/2015/06/another-spectacular-layer-2-failure.html cciethebeginning.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/differences-between-pvst-and-pvst/ blog.ine.com/2008/07/17/pvst-explained/ blog.ine.com/2010/04/05/understanding-stp-and-rstp-convergence/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24062-146.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24248-147.html blog.ine.com/2010/02/22/understanding-mstp/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/multiple-instance-stp-mistp-8021s/116464-configure-pvst-00.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/DC_Infra2_5/DCInfra_5.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/flexlink.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/metro/me3400/software/release/12-2_40_se/configuration/guide/scg/swrep.html www.h3c.com/portal/download.do?id=681124 www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/vss.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/design_guide_c07-625857.html nanog.org/meetings/nanog50/presentations/Monday/NANOG50.Talk63.NANOG50_TRILL-SPB-Debate-Roisman.pdf Url podcast:https://archive.org/download/linkmeup-V028/linkmeup-V028.mp3

В гостях linkmeup в этот раз Влад Канайкин — мой коллега, инженер Хуавэй. Обсуждаем семью протоколов STP, их преемников — TRILL и SPB — и альтернативы — RRPP, REP. Скачать файл подкаста. Добавить RSS в подкаст-плеер. Скачать все выпуски подкаста вы можете с помощью BT Sync (код: BYENRHD5UNKD5ZDIYFSB63WG2PEY2GIUN) или с яндекс-диска. Хронометраж: 0:00:00 — 0:13:50: Вступление и новости. 0:13:50 — 0:16:00: Влад Канайкин. О себе. 0:16:00 — 0:33:15: STP, 802.1d. 0:33:15 — 0:45:40: PVST/PVST+. 0:45:40 — 1:00:00: RSTP. 1:00:00 — 1:43:00: MSTP. 1:43:00 — 1:55:09: Альтернативы STP. Презентация к рассказу Влада: Новости: BGP. Telecom Malaysia, у вас маршруты убежали (link)Япония и Южная Корея запустят пилотную сеть 5G к 2018-му году (link)Сколково и Ростелеком объявили конкурс проектов в области телекоммуникаций. (link)О некоторых вопросах информационной безопасности Российской Федерации(link) Полезные ссылки.blog.ipspace.net/2015/06/another-spectacular-layer-2-failure.html cciethebeginning.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/differences-between-pvst-and-pvst/ blog.ine.com/2008/07/17/pvst-explained/ blog.ine.com/2010/04/05/understanding-stp-and-rstp-convergence/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24062-146.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/spanning-tree-protocol/24248-147.html blog.ine.com/2010/02/22/understanding-mstp/ www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/lan-switching/multiple-instance-stp-mistp-8021s/116464-configure-pvst-00.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/DC_Infra2_5/DCInfra_5.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/flexlink.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/metro/me3400/software/release/12-2_40_se/configuration/guide/scg/swrep.html www.h3c.com/portal/download.do?id=681124 www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst6500/ios/12-2SX/configuration/guide/book/vss.html www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-5000-series-switches/design_guide_c07-625857.html nanog.org/meetings/nanog50/presentations/Monday/NANOG50.Talk63.NANOG50_TRILL-SPB-Debate-Roisman.pdf Url podcast:https://archive.org/download/linkmeup-V028/linkmeup-V028.mp3

Host: Vincent Racaniello Guests: Ben Fensterheim, Megan Freeman, Bobak Parang, and Meredith Rogers Vincent returns to Vanderbilt University and meets up with Ben, Megan, Bobak, and Meredith to learn about life in the Medical Scientist Training Program. Links for this episode MTGR1 and intestinal secretory lineage allocation (Faseb J) Coronaviruses induce macropinocytosis (mBio) PD-1 and respiratory virus reinfection (J Immunol) Vanderbilt MSTP on Facebook Video of this episode: view at YouTube Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv

Two current MSTP students join Ben to talk about the combined MD/PhD program at Pritzker: what they like, what they don't like, and what advice they have for those looking into similar pathways. If you have questions for us, please send them to pritzkerquestions@gmail.com. Click here to get the full transcript for this episode.