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Accuse president of meddling with scholarships Nearly all the members of a board overseeing the prestigious Fulbright scholarships resigned Wednesday (June 11) in protest of what they call the Trump administration's meddling with the selection of award recipients for the international exchange program. A Philipstown resident, Sophia Ptacek, earlier this year lost her Fulbright fellowship to spend nine months working on industrial decarbonization and air pollution reduction for a Colombian government ministry. "I'm holding on to hope that it could still happen," said Ptacek, who grew up in Garrison and Cold Spring and attended the Poughkeepsie Day School. "But I am in limbo. It's sad." Ptacek last year completed a dual master's program at Yale University in environmental management and public health. She also was selected for a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship, part of a U.S. State Department international exchange and education program suspended by the White House in February. Ptacek wanted to help reduce air pollution in Colombia. "There's quite a lot of manufacturing and heavy industry, and as a result, a lot of air pollution that has public health impacts for communities near these plants," she said. The Fulbright board resignations were first reported by The New York Times. A statement published online by members said the administration usurped the board's authority by denying awards to "a substantial number of people" who already had been chosen to study and teach in the U.S. and abroad. Another 1,200 foreign award recipients who were already approved to come to the U.S. are undergoing an unauthorized review process that could lead to their rejection, the board members said. "To continue to serve after the administration has consistently ignored the board's request that they follow the law would risk legitimizing actions we believe are unlawful and damage the integrity of this storied program and America's credibility abroad," the statement reads. Congress established the Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago to promote international exchange and American diplomacy. The highly selective program awards about 9,000 scholarships annually in the U.S. and in more than 160 other countries to students, scholars, and professionals in a range of fields. All but one of the 12 board members resigned, according to Carmen Estrada-Schaye, who is the only remaining board member. "I was appointed by the president of the United States and I intend to fill out my term," Estrada-Schaye said. Award recipients are selected in a yearlong process by the State Department and other countries' embassies. The board has had final approval. The recipients who had their awards canceled are in fields including biology, engineering, agriculture, music, medical sciences, and history, the board members said. All the board members who resigned were selected under former President Joe Biden. The State Department, which runs the scholarship program, said they were partisan political appointees. "It's ridiculous to believe that these members would continue to have final say over the application process, especially when it comes to determining academic suitability and alignment with President Trump's Executive Orders," the department said. "The claim that the Fulbright Hayes Act affords exclusive and final say over Fulbright Applications to the Fulbright board is false. This is nothing but a political stunt attempting to undermine President Trump."

Philipstown resident sees program frozen If things had gone as planned, Sophia Ptacek would be making the final arrangements for her Fulbright fellowship, a nine-month stint working on industrial decarbonization and air pollution reduction for a Colombian government ministry. But because the Trump administration paused funding for her program, the 28-year-old is living with her parents in Philipstown and checking her email. "I'm holding on to hope that it could still happen," said Ptacek, who grew up in Garrison and Cold Spring and attended the Poughkeepsie Day School. "But I am in limbo. It's sad." Ptacek last year completed a dual master's program at Yale University in environmental management and public health. She also was selected for a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship, part of a U.S. State Department international exchange and education program suspended by the White House in February. Founded in 1946, the Fulbright program typically awards 9,000 scholarships each year to promote international cooperation and an exchange of ideas. "The freeze on State Department grant programs threatens the survival of study abroad and international exchange programs that are essential to U.S. economic and national security," said Fanta Aw, executive director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, based in Washington, D.C. "Halting inbound and outbound exchanges shuts the United States off from a vital flow of ideas, innovation and global understanding and influence, creating a vacuum that could easily be filled by competing nations." Ptacek wants to help reduce air pollution in Colombia. "There's quite a lot of manufacturing and heavy industry, and as a result, a lot of air pollution that has public health impacts for communities near these plants," she said. The details of her fellowship were still being confirmed, but Ptacek was scheduled to travel to Bogotá to work for the ministry of health, environment or energy and mines. Last month she received an email telling her to "pause making travel arrangements" because of "ongoing administrative issues affecting the transfer of funds from the U.S. State Department to Fulbright implementing partners." Last week she received a second email informing her of layoffs at the Institute for International Education, the organization that administers her program. As to what happens next, "I have no clue," said Ptacek. Because of the uncertainty, she has taken a job with Turner Construction helping clients figure out how they can implement energy-efficiency measures, electrification and building decarbonization, she said. She'd also like to work in maritime decarbonization, moving ships and ports away from fossil fuels to mitigate climate change and reduce air pollution.

Dead Airwaves Episode 51 SNOW by Kathryn Ptacek Read by Nancy Bueler All rights, copyright belong to Kathryn Ptacek, used by permission of the Author. Kathryn Grant, née Ptacek (born September 12, 1952) is an American writer and editor. Since 1981, she has published science fiction, fantasy, horror, suspense, and romance short stories and novels under her maiden and married names, and under the pseudonyms Les Simons, Kathryn Atwood, Anne Mayfield, and Kathleen Maxwell. She is the editor and publisher of the writers-market magazine The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets. Kathryn Anne Ptacek was born on September 12, 1952, in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, but she was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She received her B. A. in Journalism, with a minor in history, with honors from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974.[1] She was married to Charles L. Grant from February 1982 until his death in 2006. She has also edited several anthologies of short stories. Her short story "Each Night, Each Year" was nominated for the 1989 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mslade/message

Branding is an important part of any business and this holds true for physicians as well. It helps to establish trust and create an identity, so clients can get an idea of who you are before they decide to become your patient. Through the use of brand and video, Dr. Ty Ptacek has discovered the answer to the common question: “How do you get patients when you don't have any?” In this episode, Dr. Ptacek will join the show to share some of the wisdom he has picked up along the way from starting in family medicine, to ultimately being an interventional pain doctor and building a very successful practice. Learn more: https://apmsuccess.com/181                         Watch the video: https://apmsuccess.com/181v   

Jennie and Dianne are joined by Drifter and Gypsie of the Rebel at Large Adventure podcast for a special Friday the 13th...err... Thursday the 13th visit to the Hope Moravian Cemetery, located in Hope, New Jersey. This cemetery is featured in the movie Friday the 13th in which its high arched, cast iron front gate, with the name lettered through the arch, has become iconic with horror movie fans. However,  Hope, New Jersey is one of the earliest planned communities in America, having been established by German Moravians in 1769. This Ordinary Extraordinary community suffered its share of hardships, triumphs, and spooky superstitions. To hear more from Drifter and Gypsie, be sure to subscribe to their podcasts, the Rebel at Large Adventure Podcast and The Worn Out Boots Podcast, visit their websites: https://rebelatlarge.com/https://www.google.com/amp/s/rebelatlarge.com/2022/09/07/the-worn-out-boots-podcast/amp/Resources used to research this episode include: Snat, Brian. "Moravian Cemetery - Hope, NJ." https://www.waymarking.com/. 19 Apr. 2010. www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm8MFJ_Moravian_Cemetery_Hope_NJ. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022. "Friday the 13th Filming Locations ." https://fridaythe13thfilms.com/. fridaythe13thfilms.com/bts/locations/part1/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.French, Mio. "History of Hope, NJ." http://www.innatmillracepond.com/. www.innatmillracepond.com/history.php. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.Ptacek, Kathryn. "Stones of Silence ." https://njskylands.com. njskylands.com/hschurchwc. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.Gormly, Kellie B. "The 1980 Slasher Movie ‘Friday the 13th' Was Filmed at This Boy Scout Camp in New Jersey ." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/. 26 Oct. 2021. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-1980-slasher-movie-friday-the-13th-was-filmed-at-this-boy-scout-camp-in-new-jersey-180978933/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022. "Who are the Moravians? ." http://www.hopemoravianchurch.org. www.hopemoravianchurch.org/who-are-the-moravians.html. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.Reports, Staff. "Hope conducts Memorial Day services ." https://www.therepublic.com/. 30 May 2022. www.therepublic.com/2022/05/30/hope-conducts-memorial-day-services-2/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.Macdonald , D., & McAdams, N. (2015). The Woolverton Family 1693-1850 and Beyond. (Vol. 2, 945) Lulu.com.Rosenfeld , Lucy D., and Marina Harrison . History Walks New Jersey: Exploring The Heritage of the Garden State. Brunswick , Rutgers University Press, 2006, pp. 77-79.Archives, Moravian. "A brief history of the Moravian Church Southern Province ." https://www.moravian.org/. www.moravian.org/southern/2018/05/a-brief-history-of-the-moravian-church-southern-province/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.New Jersey , Preservation . "Hope Village ." https://www.preservationnj.org/. www.preservationnj.org/listings/hope-village/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.N.J., Weird. "Shades of Death Road ." https://weirdnj.com/. weirdnj.com/stories/shades-of-death-road/. Accessed 18 Sep. 2022.

As we see more patients who have had Covid-19, we ask psychiatrist, Dr. Imaan Alaidroos, to speak with us about the neuropsychiatric impact of the disease. In this episode, Dr. Alaidroos outlines the treatments that are currently being studied for the neuropsychiatric symptoms of Covid-19. We also chat about the implications of these symptoms for the field of mental health. Hosts: Alan, Toshia Guest: Imaan Alaidroos, MD References: 7. Qureshi, A. I., Baskett, W. I., Huang, W., Shyu, D., Myers, D., Raju, M., Lobanova, I., Suri, M., Naqvi, S. H., French, B. R., Siddiq, F., Gomez, C. R., & Shyu, C. R. (2021). Acute Ischemic Stroke and COVID-19: An Analysis of 27 676 Patients. Stroke, 52(3), 905–912. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031786 8. Helms J, Kremer S, MerdjiH, Clere-JehlR, Schenck M, KummerlenC, et al. Neurologic features in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection. N EnglJ Med. 2020;382:2268–2270. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc2008597. 9. FerrandoSJ, KlepaczL, Lynch S, TavakkoliM, DornbushR, BaharaniR, Smolin Y, Bartell A. COVID-19 psychosis: a potential new neuropsychiatric condition triggered by novel coronavirus infection and the inflammatory response? Psychosomatics. 2020;61:551–555. doi: 10.1016/j.psym.2020.05.012. 10. Parra A, JuanesA, LosadaCP, Álvarez-SesmeroS, Santana VD, Martí I, et al. Psychotic symptoms in COVID-19 patients. A retrospective descriptive study. Psychiatry Res. 2020;291:113254. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113254. 11. Farooq, S., Tunmore, J., Wajid Ali, M., & Ayub, M. (2021). Suicide, self-harm and suicidal ideation during COVID-19: A systematic review. Psychiatry research, 306, 114228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114228 12. Stefano, G. B., Büttiker, P., Weissenberger, S., Ptacek, R., Wang, F., Esch, T., Bilfinger, T. V., & Kream, R. M. (2021). Biomedical Perspectives of Acute and Chronic Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19. Current neuropharmacology, 10.2174/1570159X20666211223130228. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.2174/1570159X206662112231 13. de Erausquin, G. A., Snyder, H., Carrillo, M., Hosseini, A. A., Brugha, T. S., Seshadri, S., & CNS SARS-CoV-2 Consortium (2021). The chronic neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID-19: The need for a prospective study of viral impact on brain functioning. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 17(6), 1056–1065. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12255 14. PashaeiY. Drug repurposing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: Could these drugs help fight COVID-19 and save lives? J. Clin. Neurosci. 2021;88:163–172. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2021.03.010. 15. Dąbrowska, E., Galińska-Skok, B., & Waszkiewicz, N. (2021). Depressive and Neurocognitive Disorders in the Context of the Inflammatory Background of COVID-19. Life (Basel, Switzerland), 11(10), 1056. https://doi.org/10.3390/life11101056 Kępińska AP, Iyegbe CO, Vernon AC, Yolken R, Murray RM, Pollak TA. Schizophrenia and Influenza at the Centenary of the 1918-1919 Spanish Influenza Pandemic: Mechanisms of Psychosis Risk. Front Psychiatry. 2020 Feb 26;11:72. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00072. PMID: 32174851; PMCID: PMC7054463.

Historically, have some companies underestimated the importance of product marketing for their bottom line? Lubor Ptacek, Vice President of Product Marketing at the fleet management and software development company Motive, shares why he believes modern metrics are finally shining a light on the true “value” of the product marketing department. Tune in to learn from Lubor about the versatile communication skills that every product marketing leader should have.Tune in to learn:About Motive and Lubor's role at the company (4:10) About Motive's major rebrand (7:15) What marketing trends Lubor is following (28:45) What metrics Motive takes into account (40:00)Mentions:“Subscription Fatigue and the Need for Meta-Subscriptions” (Lubor on Tech blog post by Lubor Ptacek)Marketing Trends is brought to you by Salesforce Marketing Cloud. For more great marketing insights, sign up for The Marketing Moments newsletter. You'll get ideas to help you build better customer relationships, invites to upcoming events, and access to the latest industry research. Subscribe at https://sforce.co/MarketingMoments

Andy is a best selling author, entrepreneur of 14+ years, community builder, Certified Mental Health Paraprofessional, and Certified Christian Life Coach helping women break free from autopilot and into their God-aligned potential!Growing up, Andy's life was anything but a picket fence fairytale. Despite the odds, Andy became the first in her family to earn her college degree as a graduate from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication and a Minor in Interpersonal Communication.She went on to receive a Rocky Mountain Emmy nomination as a producer at ABC 15 and even worked in PR with local and national clients. As her family started to grow, Andy left the corporate world and co-founded Liquis Digital in 2008.After her brain cancer diagnosis in 2015, Andy recovered from treatment in an unconventional way by competing nationally in Olympic Weightlifting for two years. She then went on to write a best selling memoir, became a Christian Youth Coach for Arizona's largest youth ministry, a Certified Mental Health Paraprofessional, and a Certified Christian Life Coach working with women and teen girls who want to live better than ever.To connect with Andy:Websitehttps://andythenewgirl.com/the-book/ Bookhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1733325514?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860Rooted Teenshttps://rootedteens.com The Uncommon Coachhttps://www.theuncommoncoach.net/To follow What's Your Story on Instagram visit http://www.instagram.com/whatsyourstory.podcastHannah Conway is a Lifeway author, a speaker and a women's ministry director in her local church. To connect with Hannah visit http://www.hannahrconway.com or follow her on Social Media:  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hannahrconway Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hannahrconway_authorStephani Cook is an Enneagram life coach, speaker, podcast host and the creator of On Purpose Coaching. Through On Purpose Coaching she helps others to improve relationships and to discover intentional abundant living. To connect with Stephani  visit http://www.stephanicook.org or follow her on Social Media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/stephaniscookInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/stephani_cookTo purchase Oh How He Loves Us:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XZM7G9B/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_PQBGDX2CCW3CV74DEV26For tickets to On Purpose Live August 12th, 2022 visit:https://www.stephanicook.org/servicesoffered Cover photo by Alison Weakley Photographyhttp://www.alisonweakleyphotography.comSupport the show (HTTPS://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyspodcast)

Angie May and Andy Ptacek share all about partnering to create a coaching network and teen mentorship! Angie holds her Master's degree in Christian counseling and addictive disorders, is an Enneagram leadership coach, and certified life coach. Andy Ptacek is a best selling author, entrepreneur of 14+ years, and a Christian-based certified life coach. Angie and Andy are long-time friends who are both moms of teens and are extremely passionate about GROWING exceptional communities that GROW individuals! They have launched two businesses together: The Uncommon Coach and Rooted Teens - Mentorship Community for Teen Girls We talk about the following and more! 1. Power of a live event to launch a program 2. Partnering in business - the light bulb moments 3. What works best in group coaching to foster participation and engagement 4. Launching a teen mentorship program and a network for coaches. Connect with Andy and Angie! The Uncommon Coach and Rooted Teens - Mentorship Community for Teen Girls The Uncommon Coach Network (@the.uncommon.coach) • Instagram photos and videos Rooted (@rooted.teens.mentorship) • Instagram photos and videos Listen to the previous episode to hear Andy Ptacek beautiful story of renewal: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4-live-your-best-life-with-andy-ptacek-be-new/id1542582216?i=1000505915211

Andy Ptacek is a brain cancer warrior, best-selling author, entrepreneur of 14+ years, national speaker, community builder, experience creator, and Certified Christian Life Coach helping women break free from autopilot so they can confidently step into a purposeful, God-aligned life!

“Inoperable brain tumor” - those words set off a journey of self-discovery that changed everything.  Bruce and Andy Ptacek share their story walking through what was essentially presented as a death sentence for this young wife and mother.  After being diagnosed, they went on a healing journey, which made their marriage and faith stronger.  They each share their unique experiences facing this fire and how shifting your perspective can change you from feeling damaged and broken to being a new and better version of yourself.  Listen in to be inspired to be new again.   Connect with Andy: For speaker bookings, coaching programs, and download her free resources to get started: https://andythenewgirl.com Instagram: @andythenewgirl Facebook:  Andy Ptacek   Connect with Us: Follow on Instagram -  @throughthefireshow @jeffshirrell  @tierneyshirrell   To personally connect with Jeff, schedule a free coaching consult, or join his men's mastermind-like community, go to the free Facebook group Your Story to Glory: www.facebook.com/groups/yourstorytoglory   To personally connect with Tierney, schedule a free coaching consult, or join her women's community, go to the free Facebook group Live BOLD Movement: www.facebook.com/groups/liveboldmovement   Thank you and God bless!

For this episode, I sat down with Andy Ptacek to discuss her journey to becoming her most confident self. She shares her story of being diagnosed with brain cancer, decisions she made to change her life, and why she advocates for everyone to start living in their God-aligned potential. Andy is one of the most incredible women I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, and it was truly an honor to talk with her about her perspective on life. This episode is definitely going to inspire you to take action and start living your life with intention!Andy is a best selling author, entrepreneur of 14+ years, community builder, Certified Mental Health Paraprofessional, and Certified Christian Life Coach helping women break free from autopilot and into their God-aligned potential!In this episode we talk about:Why pregnancy made her feel extremely sexyThe importance of living your life on purposeBeing diagnosed with brain cancer at age 32We wake up each day ON PURPOSE with the opportunity to be new againChoose to see the opportunities and not the obstaclesUsing her experience to help others become "new again"We are not alone! There is someone who can relate to anything you are going throughCONNECT WITH ANDY PTACEKandythenewgirl.comInstagram: @andythenewgirl                      CONNECT WITH KELCY AND FIND YOUR SEXY:www.findyoursexy.coInstagram: @kelcyvalletta

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Have you ever wanted to be someone new? Andy was able to do this under very difficult circumstances when she was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. She had to work through anxiety, patience, and healing to find herself again, and her experiences have led her to help others stop living a life of stagnancy to living a life full of alignment in Christ.   

Episode 105 brings Cindy Ptacek back to the guessy gal chair! Houston, we've got accents. This week we admire a tasteful boot and we're feeling epic despite daggers under the table. The big question is who is on a horse? David's going Super-Saiyan feline. Foster's a self-declared woodland creature. Cindy won't let go of the horse. Enjoy. #MareBnB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b01S7EBQztk (Reveal) https://www.audioobscurapod.com/listen (Follow) Audio Obscura on your pod-catcher of choice so you never miss an episode! Leave us a review on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-obscura/id1449162828 (Apple Podcasts) and let us know what you think, it really helps us out. Check us out on the web and listen to our back catalog: https://www.audioobscurapod.com/ (audioobscurapod.com) Support the show and get access to bonus content and unedited episodes by visiting https://www.patreon.com/audioobscurapod (patreon.com/audioobscurapod) Social Media: http://facebook.com/audioobscurapod (Facebo)http://twitter.com/audioobscurapod (ok) http://twitter.com/audioobscurapod (Twit)http://instagram.com/audioobscurapod (ter) Instagram If you have any feedback or your own suggestion of a unique piece of audio that you'd like to see included in a future episode, drop us a line at audioobscurapodcast@gmail.com.

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Episode 19 - New Again with Andy Leigh Ptacek On Today's episode I had the pleasure to interview Andy Leigh Ptacek. Andy is a best selling author, entrepreneur of 13 + years, national speaker, community builder, experience creator, and Certified Chistian Life Coach helping women break free from autopilot so they can confidently step into a purposeful, God-aligned life!  She shared her story on how the word “cancer” turned her world 360 degrees into a more meaningful, purposeful life and taught her how to turn all obstacles into opportunities.      If you enjoy this episode, please let us know by leaving a 5 star review on the Podcast App (iTunes).   If you have any suggestions on a topic you would like to hear on this podcast or  for more information you can visit us at www.claritaescalante.com    Connect with Andy Instagram: @andythenewgirl Facebook:  Andy Ptacek Complimentary Mind, Body & Spirit Workbook: https://andythenewgirl.com/resources/mind-body-spirit/ Renew You 1-on-1 Program: https://andythenewgirl.com/renew-you/ Personal Coaching: https://andythenewgirl.com/personal-coaching/

What if you could protect & pass something on forever? Teri Ptacek has been doing just that with land for decades as Executive Director of the Agricultural Stewardship Association. As Teri nears retirement, she shares lessons on leading a not-for-profit, what she believes she's really protecting and why it's important to believe in goodness. www.agstewardship.org To learn about ASA & land conservation www.BuildUponTheGood.com *Special thanks to Sean Kelly and The Samples for use of "Streets in the Rain"  www.TheSamples.com

How do you practice leading with empathy? How do you develop such a skill? How to be empathetic yet assertive? We discussed this and more with Azeneth Ferrero Russell and Michal Ptacek! About the guests: Azeneth Ferrero Russell is the Global Business Evolution Director at CEMEX, a global building materials company, and the Country Manager of Neoris, a Digital Accelerator and partner of some of the biggest companies in the world providing Tech Consulting services in every continent. With more than 20 years of experience in leading board-level transformation initiatives, she provides leadership to digital transformation programs designed to enhance customers' experience. As the head of NEORIS Prague, she supported AGILE teams composed of members of more than 30 nationalities who were responsible for the development and delivery of CEMEX Go, instrumental to the overall digital transformation journey of CEMEX, and an example of diversity and new ways of working. Azeneth has lived as a permanent resident in 5 countries (Mexico, US, UK, Switzerland and Czech Republic) and has conducted digital programs in many others. Michal Ptacek is the Founder and CEO of CzechCrunch and has been an IT guy since he was a kid. As he says, it all started when his uncle gave him a Commodore 64 computer and Michal instantly fell in love with it, especially with programming in BASIC :) Few years later Michal started to develop websites and then got into game development, and made his first adventure game. In 2014 Michal founded CzechCrunch and currently leads a team of 18 people, who are trying to disrupt the Czech media ecosystem. Besides that Michal also runs a side project - Officelovin.com - focused on showcasing the world's best office design and still does some programming out of pure passion for creativity. Tips on enhancing empathy: Read Radical Candor Get a mentor Travel the world Bonus tip from FP - Meditate

The Sponsor: If you're buying or reselling, talk to Matt Demorest at HomeSure Lending now and see if you can't lock in a low rate while it lasts. He's a rad dude, and hasn't recently made MSU change its name or made you listen to Dickie V for five minutes in the middle of a broadcast. Previously: 1879, 1893, 1901, 1918, 1925, 1932, 1940, 1947, 1950, 1964, 1973, 1976, 1980, 1985 p.1& p.2, 1988, 1991, 1999, 2003, 2011 p.1 & p.2 [Writeup and player after THE JUMP] 1. Football in 1956 (starts at 1:00) F. Scott Fitzgerald was a super weird fan. Eisenhower vs. Stevenson. Platooning is out, T-formation passing and facemasks are in. Rose Bowl has a no-repeat rule. Ohio State is banned from the postseason. The Pac falls apart because every school is selling each other out. Everybody's playing each other. Racism: South is still segregated, North has an unofficial quota system so every team has one Black guy. At Michigan: Slippery Rock scores, a dog that makes a dashing goal line stand, and the Salk polio vaccine. 2. Fucking Kramer (starts at 31:34) courtesy Peg Canham-Keeley (left) Had a sweeter shooting stroke than Caleb Houstan. Created the modern tight end who's both offensive tackle and downfield receiving threat. “It was like having a license to play 12 guys” –Lombardi. At his funeral they asked the assembled “Who's ever been kissed on the mouth by Ron Kramer” and everyone raised their hand, including the media, and Don Canham's wife. Was to Michigan fans of his day as Denard is to modern fans. Never lifted a weight. “Big” scandal before 1956: his GPA is a 2.01 because Michigan just gives solid letter grades, but you need a C+ average, and Look Magazine reports Kramer shouldn't be eligible. 3. The Team Besides Kramer (starts at 00:00) The size of squads are just starting to balloon in this era, and Michigan is up to 60 players from 40 two years prior and 32 two years before that. Team was made of ends, I guess because they all wanted to play for Oosterbaan the way Juwan Howard has all the bigs. Tom Maentz is 6'3/210, Kramer is 6'3/216 and four guys they can play behind them. Jirm Orwing and Al Sigman are vets but they're hoping Willie Smith “who rocks the scales at 237” pushes Sigman. Agile and speedy guards in Dick Hill and Varv Nyren. Hill already a star. No depth--moved a guy from end.  New center is Mike Rotunno who also switched from End. They get back Gene Snider who started in 1954 but was ineligible in 1955 and is a solid linebacker. Big backfield with Herrnsten (6'2) and Ptacek (6'1) coming up from freshman. Nobody's much of a passer they worry. Ptacek (“Tah-check”) is a “locomotive” type and their best passer. Pace is the better runner but not a great defender, gained 10 pounds in the offseason. 4. The Games, Part I (starts at 1:3259) 9/29: #7 Michigan 42, UCLA 13. UCLA finished #4 in the AP last year after losing a close Rose Bowl to MSU, but PCC sanctions came down and all of the 1955 starters were ineligible to play for half a season. Sanders staggered all of their suspensions. Stars were back Donnie Long, Guard Esker Harris, Center Jim Matheny, and back Bruce Ballard. They were a single-wing team as well but passed a lot, going 9/22.  UCLA had four fumbles. Michigan just ran the ball for 234 yards. Went 4/9 passing including a 70-yard TD to Ron Kramer from Terry Barr. Kramer and Maddock each kicked three XPs. 10/6: #5 Michigan 0, #2 MSU 9. Duffy's 3rd season, coming off their 9-1 1955 “national championship year” when they only lost to Michigan and won a fantastic Rose Bowl that ended on a last-second field goal the kicker thought he missed and the ref had to convince him otherwise. Again game played in Ann Arbor--1953 was last time we went to EL but they had just added 9000 seats and were planning to add the 2nd decks in 1957. Coming off a 21-7 win over #12 Stanford, so this is a game of top 5s. Got over 100k in the stadium (101,001 is the listed and the capacity). State has Clarence Peaks, who went 7th overall in the draft. Michigan dominates statistically but can't punch it in, Herrnstein throws an awful INT setting up an MSU field goal. Herrnsten fumbled in the 4th Q and set State up at the 21, and they scored for the 9-0 score. Reel is on youtube. 10/13: #12 Michigan 48, #15 Army 14. Second year in a row playing at Michigan Stadium, shows how far Army's fallen? Big game that draws a national audience despite both teams falling to Tier #2 by now. 10/20: #8 Michigan 34, Northwestern 20. Ara Parseighian's first year, they used to yell “Rose Bowl!” if they got a first down. 10/27: #5 Michigan 7, Minnesota 20. WTF! Big upset on homecoming. Michigan scores quickly then Injuries: Lost Terry Barr (ankle) Kramer starts playing cornerback on defense for him. Pace, Orwig, and Hill went out. Time ran out at the end of the 1st half with Michigan on Minnesota's 4 yard line. Minnesota's “blitz offense” took over in the 4th Q after Michigan had a 7-0 lead at halftime and 7-6 lead at the end of the 3rd Q. Ran a hurry-up offense from the Wing-T and Michigan's “defensive timing was thrown off” by it. Two last-chance drives ended on downs to set up another Minnesota score, and the last drive ended on an INT in the endzone. Box score shows the yards and stats were close. #1 Michigan State was upset by 1-3 Illinois the same day, which meant Iowa and Ohio State were the only undefeated/untied B10 teams (Minnesota had a tie with NW) 11/3: #17 Michigan 17, at #7 Iowa 14. Check out the route to get there: Remember this the next time you're crying bored on I-94. Forest Evashevski's Iowa--only game they lost all year, second year in a row M was the only loss of the Rose Bowl winner, and 4th close game in a row he lost to his alma mater. No wonder the guy went nuts. Mike Shatusky, 3rd string RHB scored two second-half TDs to bring M back from down 14-3. Last one was at 1:06 in the game. Best UM played all year, coming up in big moments. 5. The Games, Part II (starts at 2:14:37) 11/10: #10 Michgian, Illinois 7. Wing-T team with a great backfield and one great guard. Revenge for the loss in 1955. This was a weird year for Illinois--two ties and lots of very close games, beat #1 MSU and Cal in a 2-5-2 season. Star cornerback/halfback Abe Woodson (who became one of the best kick returners of the 1960s in the NFL) had three second-half TDs and also set hurdles records. RB Dale Smith was good too, and UM was focused on stopping Bobby Mitchell and Larry Jefferson who'd torched them in ‘55. Smith scored on a left pitchout on their first drive--just a great individual play--but Michigan tightened up and ran all over them (328 yards, 120 from Pace). Took control on a Statue of Liberty play on 4th and 4 at the Illinois 12. Crowd cheered when Iowa beat Minnesota, which kept Michigan in the Big Ten title race (needing help from OSU to beat Iowa). Also we hate Minnesota. Would have been extremely unfair for M to go to the Rose Bowl--it was based on wins and Michigan had a 7th Big Ten game. 11/17: #10 Michigan 49, Indiana 26. Offense took over, but only 58,515 showed up (still a record for attendance, 566,093, breaking the 1949 record by 3k.) Kramer made one of his “miracle catches” and was all over the place, including a Woodsonesque interception and two more bat-downs in keeping IU's QB Steve Filipowski to one reception. Nobody mentioned the Heisman. Bittersweet win because Ohio State lost to Iowa, which gave Iowa the Big Ten championship. Michigan, with a win over Iowa and an extra Big Ten game, would have been able to go with a victory over Ohio State next week. 11/24: Michigan 19, at #12 Ohio State 0 Rivalry becoming #1 for Michigan? Blanking OSU isn't even above the fold in the Daily!!!! But 10k rooters went. Clearly the #1 for OSU: “For the almost fanatical Ohio crowd, the defeat meant “a poor season.” In Ohio, the Michigan-Ohio game often means the success or failure of a whole year. Also the Buckeyes “only” won six games this year. Woody Hayes in Year 6. OSU was playing for a 3rd straight Big Ten conf title. SCANDAL: OSU gets a slap on the wrist: Big Ten investigated Woody's loans to players, Woody refused to provide any accounting of his loans. Investigation also found “serious irregularity” in their off-campus work program. Probation for one year and ineligible for the Rose Bowl, which they weren't eligible for anyway. Tragically talented: Woody has a great line and backfield (11 guys drafted). One of those players is Jim Parker, the best G in the country. Outland winner. Went 8th overall and tackle Bill Michael went 16th overall. Woody is so confident he won the toss and chose the wind (that's not deferring--M got both kickoffs). Fumble luck favors Michigan: OSU lost all 4 of theirs, Michigan recovered all three of theirs. But Michigan's defense knew Woody was going to keep it to the ground and tightened up against the run, playing Kramer like a Viper. Kramer is outstanding in his final game. Literally flying through the air on some of his tackles. Delicious Woody tears: On Ohio State fans. Wrap: Heisman vote this year was LUDICROUS. Everyone but Tennessee fans and the worst Domers agrees who should have won. -------------------------------------------- MUSIC: "Green Door”—Jim Lowe "Why Do Fools Fall in Love”—Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers “I'm in Love Again”—Fats Domino “Long Tall Sally”—Little Richard “Across 110th Street”

How does RNA work to protect your brain and keep it safe after a traumatic event? Micro RNA can play an important role in healthy brain development. Without key micro RNA, the development of the brain can run out of control. Without key microRNA, your can develop neurodevelopmental disorders. Without oxygen your neurons starve, so how can you protect them?  How can you use mRNA to make neurons more resilient and recover after a lack of oxygen? Getting proteins across the blood brain barrier is tricky, so can they be snuck in via mRNA? Using mRNA, you can produce proteins to add brain recovery right where they're needed most. Reference: Vijay Swahari, Ayumi Nakamura, Emilie Hollville, Hume Stroud, Jeremy M. Simon, Travis S. Ptacek, Matthew V. Beck, Cornelius Flowers, Jiami Guo, Charlotte Plestant, Jie Liang, C. Lisa Kurtz, Matt Kanke, Scott M. Hammond, You-Wen He, E.S. Anton, Praveen Sethupathy, Sheryl S. Moy, Michael E. Greenberg, Mohanish Deshmukh. MicroRNA-29 is an essential regulator of brain maturation through regulation of CH methylation. Cell Reports, 2021; 35 (1): 108946 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108946 Merlin Crossley,Dean of Science and Professor of Molecular Biology. (2021, April 09). Explainer: What is rna? Retrieved April 13, 2021, from https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-rna-15169 Yuta Fukushima, Satoshi Uchida, Hideaki Imai, Hirofumi Nakatomi, Kazunori Kataoka, Nobuhito Saito, Keiji Itaka. Treatment of ischemic neuronal death by introducing brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA using polyplex nanomicelle. Biomaterials, 2021; 270: 120681 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.120681

Big data in transportation and logistics, tort reform, insurance rates, autonomous vehicles, and avoiding lawsuits, are just some of the topics discussed in this week's episode. James welcomes friend and Lockton VP, Tom Ptacek, and Tom brings his 40 years of experience in the insurance industry to discuss a plethora of topics within the transportation and logistics space. They discuss the driver shortage issue, and what trucking companies can do to help attract top talent. How companies should view big data, and what kind of trends are emerging in this space, plus how the ‘little' guys can take advantage of the data that top companies are gathering. They also talk about how the pandemic has affected the supply chain, and why we're seeing a sudden shortage in shipping containers. To watch the video episode, visit: https://youtu.be/JaZhfa25YQM (https://youtu.be/JaZhfa25YQM) There's so much incredible information in this episode. This episode is also sponsored by Sand Shark Oilfield Services. To connect with Isaiah visit Isaiah {at} sandsharkofs.com To connect with James or learn more, visit BlindSpotsPodcast.com

This week I chat with neighborhood brewery owner Greg Ptacek. Greg is passionate about not only growing rural, but also about giving back to his community. Greg and I chat about economic development, food insecurity in rural communities, his brewery and so much more. This episode is a little longer than others, but trust me, you will be glad you listened all the way through. www.johnniebyrd.beer Instagram: @johnniebyrdbrewingco Facebook: johnniebyrdbrewing If you could, give Rural Is Cool a 5 Start Rating on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you listen! This helps more people like you find us! While you are there, click subscribe so you do not miss an episode. Artwork by Kaci Schacht @kcschacht_art Mike_Tabbert: Twitter & Instagram Twitter: @RuralIsCool ruraliscoolpod@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ruraliscool/message

I am so grateful to have the honor of Andy Ptacek joining us to share her story. She is pure inspiration to live life intentionally and through a mind, body and spirit experience. Andy is a best selling author, national speaker, community builder, experience creator, and faith based mentor helping women heal their identities so they can live NEW AGAIN. Andy is hosting an event, Renewal Day, April 24, 2021 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Find out all of the details for this life changing event at https://andythenewgirl.com/renewal-day/ Connect with Andy! https://andythenewgirl.com/ https://www.instagram.com/andythenewgirl https://www.facebook.com/AndyTheNewGirl New Girls private Facebook group Thanks for listening and supporting small business and our community! I would love to connect with you at https://www.instagram.com/eventivebrush, in our private Facebook group where we continue the conversation and in our newsletter where we share event planning tips and advice to grow your business and build community. You will receive an email with the "Steps for Planning a Business Event" as soon as you join the party! We would love to hear what resonated with you on this episode! Please share and tag us on Instagram and your feedback will be re-posted! I would truly appreciate your 5 star review and rating so we can continue to grow this podcast and share the stories of entrepreneurs. Thanks for the support! Sarah Brush EVENTive Brush https://www.instagram.com/eventivebrush www.eventivebrush.com

Cis Scherpereel praat in deze aflevering over spelenderwijs leren of game based learning met Mike Ptacek van Play it Safe. Samen met zijn compaan Brecht Kets en een klein team is hij een meester in het maken van games voor bedrijven. Hun doel is levens te redden met hun game based veiligheidsopleidingen en daarvoor ontwikkelen ze een platform. De youtube van game based learing worden is hun missie. Opgelet: na deze podcast zal je ànders nadenken over hoe je je personeel in jouw bedrijf beter kunt opleiden. Druk maar alvast op start.

Greg Ptacek is the President of Johnnie Byrd Brewing Company in Wayne, NE – Nebraska's first benefit corporation brewery – before which he was Director of Economic Development for the City of Neligh, NE. We talk about his rural small town upbringing, his commitment to rural development, and the inspiration behind his founding Johnnie Byrd Brewery.

Known worldwide for her llama mug, we're joined by improviser Cindy Ptacek! In this episode, we're plugging our 2021 episodes and dishing out alpaca water bottles. We chastize child mic technique while suggesting smart campaign practices. Foster recounts his birth as a full-grown man and wants us to know he watches Dr. Who. David loses it with his favorite AO clip yet and demands to know where the adults are. Cindy wants to know how the economy is dirty. Enjoy. #IvoteToby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI9Gj7YfBVk (Reveal) http://www.audioobscurapod.com/listen (Subscribe) on your pod-catcher of choice so you never miss an episode! Leave us a review on https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-obscura/id1449162828 (Apple Podcasts) and let us know what you think, it really helps us out. Social Media: - http://facebook.com/audioobscurapod (Facebook) - http://instagram.com/audioobscurapod (Instagram) - http://twitter.com/audioobscurapod (Twitter) If you have any feedback or your own suggestion of a unique piece of audio that you'd like to see included in a future episode, drop us a line at audioobscurapodcast@gmail.com.

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Looking for a little distraction? Decided to self-isolate for a while and need to break the tedium? Here's a solution that needs no prescription. Listen to the latest (in a series of many) edition of The Slightly Different Radio Show and you'll hear Was (Not Was), Admiral Fallow, Rainer & Das Combo, Christina Pluha & L'Arpeggiata, Jack Bruce, Bad Livers, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Angélique Kidjo and- amongst sundry others - E.K.'s No.1 Band. What's not to like? Well, listen and you can decide.

Looking for a little distraction? Decided to self-isolate for a while and need to break the tedium? Here's a solution that needs no prescription. Listen to the latest (in a series of many) edition of The Slightly Different Radio Show and you'll hear Was (Not Was), Admiral Fallow, Rainer & Das Combo, Christina Pluha & L'Arpeggiata, Jack Bruce, Bad Livers, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Angélique Kidjo and- amongst sundry others - E.K.'s No.1 Band. What's not to like? Well, listen and you can decide.

Quick reminder that we will be hosting our next THE APPRENTICESHIP™ on Saturday, January 25th at The Rack Athletic Performance Center in Atlanta, GA!     These are highly interactive 2 day workshops where professionals of all kinds can rehearse for and refine their strategies for life's biggest moments. Whether it is a contract negotiation, interpersonal conflict, hiring new staff or leading a team in general The Apprenticeship™ is focused on creating a new type of educational experience for today's leaders that is execution focused.         Please see these links below for more details!     Have more questions about The Apprenticeship™? Check out our FAQ page: https://artofcoaching.com/the-apprenticeship-faqs/       Want to host an Art of Coaching Apprenticeship™? visit https://artofcoaching.com/the-apprenticeship/ and fill out the form and we will get right on it!       Receive a $180 discount on The Apprenticeship™ anywhere in the world by taking AND passing Brett's online course "Bought In": https://courses.artofcoaching.com/signup/         This information is kept free by our partnership with Momentous. To learn more about Momentous and what they do to help our community go to livemomentous.com/brett. As part of the Art of Coaching audience, you can receive $20 off your 1st order of Momentous by using code BRETT20 at checkout. (Minimum purchase amount of $50).       I want to ask you a question real quick... how many people do you know could be diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor?  Yet they go on to become a national level weightlifter, they're nominated for an Emmy, they've written their own book, they are a marketing director at their own business, and on top of all that they are a mother.  Well that is exactly what today's guest, Andy Ptacek, has accomplished.  Today is unlike any interview I've had in the past and that is no knock on any of our previous guests.  This is an episode that is so special for so many different reasons.  If there is any episode where it really talks about how the weight room transcends into the boardroom, life, and how strain can really amplify our ability as people and professionals in a myriad of different ways, this is it.  If you have any questions after this episode, reach out to Andy as she is a tremendous resource.  Enjoy!   Topics Andy and I discuss today:   Andy's introduction The earth-shattering news of receiving word that you have an inoperable brain tumor and how the fear of not being able to raise your own children kicks in The battles along the way after having a brain tumor surgically removed and learning how to overcome this adversity How Andy processed that her life was on a short clock and how her reality became a gift The challenges of continuing to train in weightlifting with a PICC line IV How Andy got to the good place she is in now by using perspective and being so aware of the journey she was on   Reach out to Andy: Via Andy's personal website: andythenewgirl.com Via business website: liquisdigital.com Via Instagram & Twitter: @andythenewgirl     Sign up for my course: https://courses.artofcoaching.com/signup     Follow me on social media:     Via Instagram: @coach_BrettB     Via Twitter: @coach_BrettB     Subscribe to my youtube channel:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChxkPJr4WMhAeQUlOu6ld-w     Learn More About My Courses, Clinics, and Live Events At: artofcoaching.com

Have you ever let a challenge or a difficult experience in your life start to define WHO you are and how you see yourself? Our guest today knows a thing or two about that, and she’s now sharing her story in the bestselling book “New Again” in hopes of helping others find new perspective on life, and the inevitable challenges that come with it.   At the peak of the recession, Andy Ptacek co-founded a marketing company. 10 years and a thriving business later, Andy was diagnosed with brain cancer--what her first doctor called “IN-OPERABLE” brain cancer--at just 32 years old with 2 little boys at home.   Understandably, It rocked everything. First, in a scary way. Then, in a grateful way. The journey was agonizing at times, but perspective taught her that she wasn’t damaged. The experience actually grew her self-awareness, her ability to love, her patience, her worldview, and her faith.   The “old Andy” had grown into something new –something better– and she believes we all are capable of this, even without a massively traumatic experience to shake us awake.   In this episode we talk about: Choosing to pivot and why Andy started a business in the middle of a recession What Andy’s battle with brain cancer taught her about priorities and gratitude Learning to be “new again” after a traumatic experience Connect with Andy! instagram.com/andythenewgirl www.andythenewgirl.com Let’s connect! instagram.com/powerhouse_women instagram.com/llindseyschwartz facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity

After being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, cancer actually made her better. After this life altering trauma, my guest Andy Ptacek, has gained so much perspective and realized she wasn’t damaged. This experience grew her self awareness, her ability to love, her patience, her world view, and made her new again. Listen to this episode to be inspired to be new again, too. The "old" Andy had grown into something "new," something better. She believes we all are capable of this, even without a massive traumatic experience to shake us awake. For More Info Go To: https://feelamazingnaked.com/episode036

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In the first hour, host Nathan Sather began by visiting with Dr. Travis Ptacek about the tough spot that some medical professionals could be placed in when it comes to following orders or living out their Catholic faith. Dr. Ptacek also talked about the prayer needs of those in various medical fields and the upcoming White Mass in the Diocese of Rapid City. Nathan then sat down with Colleen Samson, Jody Clemens, and Pastor Dave Motta to talk about this year's 40 Days for Life effort and how you can be a part of praying in front of your local abortion mill. Finally, our host had a chance to talk with Angela Gross, a teacher at St. Joseph's School in Moorhead, MN, about the great honor she recently received.

Today's podcast reflected the true heartbeat of NTi with three women to one man as Co-host Dusty Kuhn and guests Manuela Ptacek from Arbonne and Amy Chandler from Your Social Bark shared their incredible stories of being women and being moms in business... it was fantastic! Truth is, Manuela is one of America's best-kept networking secrets and one of the greatest examples of a Go-Giver you will have ever met. In addition, not only is Amy Chandler a mom, she works full-time as an insurance agent at the Dale Skidmore Allstate Agency and is building her own social media marketing company called, Your Social Bark! All three of these women are examples of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and today's show, though a bit long, demonstrates true courage in the business community in and around Knoxville, TN! To learn more about joining an NTi meeting near you or to start a meeting in your community, check out NTi online at https://www.NetworkingTodayIntl.com!

I talk with fellow Chicago Bears fan about all things tech. React, Graph, startups, and community in general. John is a Skyline Technologies Principal Consultant where his current focus is on solving problems using cloud technologies to reach users on their phone, their PC or while they are talking in their living room. During his career he has developed solutions to solve problems for a wide variety of industries. Examples include virtually melting down nuclear reactors, pricing over 10 billion dollars in consumer goods orders, and mobile applications for music festivals. He live in Appleton, WI with his wife and a gaggle of children who are usually playing music, running or shining. Follow him on twitter @jptacek or on his blog at https://www.jptacek.com Links: https://www.thatconference.com/jptacek https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnptacek/ https://www.jptacek.com https://www.skylinetechnologies.com

Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers. Headlines [Other big ZFS improvements you might have missed] 9075 Improve ZFS pool import/load process and corrupted pool recovery One of the first tasks during the pool load process is to parse a config provided from userland that describes what devices the pool is composed of. A vdev tree is generated from that config, and then all the vdevs are opened. The Meta Object Set (MOS) of the pool is accessed, and several metadata objects that are necessary to load the pool are read. The exact configuration of the pool is also stored inside the MOS. Since the configuration provided from userland is external and might not accurately describe the vdev tree of the pool at the txg that is being loaded, it cannot be relied upon to safely operate the pool. For that reason, the configuration in the MOS is read early on. In the past, the two configurations were compared together and if there was a mismatch then the load process was aborted and an error was returned. The latter was a good way to ensure a pool does not get corrupted, however it made the pool load process needlessly fragile in cases where the vdev configuration changed or the userland configuration was outdated. Since the MOS is stored in 3 copies, the configuration provided by userland doesn't have to be perfect in order to read its contents. Hence, a new approach has been adopted: The pool is first opened with the untrusted userland configuration just so that the real configuration can be read from the MOS. The trusted MOS configuration is then used to generate a new vdev tree and the pool is re-opened. When the pool is opened with an untrusted configuration, writes are disabled to avoid accidentally damaging it. During reads, some sanity checks are performed on block pointers to see if each DVA points to a known vdev; when the configuration is untrusted, instead of panicking the system if those checks fail we simply avoid issuing reads to the invalid DVAs. This new two-step pool load process now allows rewinding pools across vdev tree changes such as device replacement, addition, etc. Loading a pool from an external config file in a clustering environment also becomes much safer now since the pool will import even if the config is outdated and didn't, for instance, register a recent device addition. With this code in place, it became relatively easy to implement a long-sought-after feature: the ability to import a pool with missing top level (i.e. non-redundant) devices. Note that since this almost guarantees some loss Of data, this feature is for now restricted to a read-only import. 7614 zfs device evacuation/removal This project allows top-level vdevs to be removed from the storage pool with “zpool remove”, reducing the total amount of storage in the pool. This operation copies all allocated regions of the device to be removed onto other devices, recording the mapping from old to new location. After the removal is complete, read and free operations to the removed (now “indirect”) vdev must be remapped and performed at the new location on disk. The indirect mapping table is kept in memory whenever the pool is loaded, so there is minimal performance overhead when doing operations on the indirect vdev. The size of the in-memory mapping table will be reduced when its entries become “obsolete” because they are no longer used by any block pointers in the pool. An entry becomes obsolete when all the blocks that use it are freed. An entry can also become obsolete when all the snapshots that reference it are deleted, and the block pointers that reference it have been “remapped” in all filesystems/zvols (and clones). Whenever an indirect block is written, all the block pointers in it will be “remapped” to their new (concrete) locations if possible. This process can be accelerated by using the “zfs remap” command to proactively rewrite all indirect blocks that reference indirect (removed) vdevs. Note that when a device is removed, we do not verify the checksum of the data that is copied. This makes the process much faster, but if it were used on redundant vdevs (i.e. mirror or raidz vdevs), it would be possible to copy the wrong data, when we have the correct data on e.g. the other side of the mirror. Therefore, mirror and raidz devices can not be removed. You can use ‘zpool detach’ to downgrade a mirror to a single top-level device, so that you can then remove it 7446 zpool create should support efi system partition This one was not actually merged into FreeBSD, as it doesn’t apply currently, but I would like to switch the way FreeBSD deals with full disks to be closer to IllumOS to make automatic spare replacement a hands-off operation. Since we support whole-disk configuration for boot pool, we also will need whole disk support with UEFI boot and for this, zpool create should create efi-system partition. I have borrowed the idea from oracle solaris, and introducing zpool create -B switch to provide an way to specify that boot partition should be created. However, there is still an question, how big should the system partition be. For time being, I have set default size 256MB (thats minimum size for FAT32 with 4k blocks). To support custom size, the set on creation "bootsize" property is created and so the custom size can be set as: zpool create -B -o bootsize=34MB rpool c0t0d0. After the pool is created, the "bootsize" property is read only. When -B switch is not used, the bootsize defaults to 0 and is shown in zpool get output with no value. Older zfs/zpool implementations can ignore this property. **Digital Ocean** PostgreSQL developers find that every operating system other than FreeBSD and IllumOS might corrupt your data Some time ago I ran into an issue where a user encountered data corruption after a storage error. PostgreSQL played a part in that corruption by allowing checkpoint what should've been a fatal error. TL;DR: Pg should PANIC on fsync() EIO return. Retrying fsync() is not OK at least on Linux. When fsync() returns success it means "all writes since the last fsync have hit disk" but we assume it means "all writes since the last SUCCESSFUL fsync have hit disk". Pg wrote some blocks, which went to OS dirty buffers for writeback. Writeback failed due to an underlying storage error. The block I/O layer and XFS marked the writeback page as failed (ASEIO), but had no way to tell the app about the failure. When Pg called fsync() on the FD during the next checkpoint, fsync() returned EIO because of the flagged page, to tell Pg that a previous async write failed. Pg treated the checkpoint as failed and didn't advance the redo start position in the control file. + All good so far. But then we retried the checkpoint, which retried the fsync(). The retry succeeded, because the prior fsync() *cleared the ASEIO bad page flag*. The write never made it to disk, but we completed the checkpoint, and merrily carried on our way. Whoops, data loss. The clear-error-and-continue behaviour of fsync is not documented as far as I can tell. Nor is fsync() returning EIO unless you have a very new linux man-pages with the patch I wrote to add it. But from what I can see in the POSIX standard we are not given any guarantees about what happens on fsync() failure at all, so we're probably wrong to assume that retrying fsync() is safe. We already PANIC on fsync() failure for WAL segments. We just need to do the same for data forks at least for EIO. This isn't as bad as it seems because AFAICS fsync only returns EIO in cases where we should be stopping the world anyway, and many FSes will do that for us. + Upon further looking, it turns out it is not just Linux brain damage: Apparently I was too optimistic. I had looked only at FreeBSD, which keeps the page around and dirties it so we can retry, but the other BSDs apparently don't (FreeBSD changed that in 1999). From what I can tell from the sources below, we have: Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD: retrying fsync() after EIO lies FreeBSD, Illumos: retrying fsync() after EIO tells the truth + NetBSD PR to solve the issues + I/O errors are not reported back to fsync at all. + Write errors during genfs_putpages that fail for any reason other than ENOMEM cause the data to be semi-silently discarded. + It appears that UVM pages are marked clean when they're selected to be written out, not after the write succeeds; so there are a bunch of potential races when writes fail. + It appears that write errors for buffercache buffers are semi-silently discarded as well. Interview - Kevin Bowling: Senior Manager Engineering of LimeLight Networks - kbowling@llnw.com / @kevinbowling1 BR: How did you first get introduced to UNIX and BSD? AJ: What got you started contributing to an open source project? BR: What sorts of things have you worked on it the past? AJ: Tell us a bit about LimeLight and how they use FreeBSD. BR: What are the biggest advantages of FreeBSD for LimeLight? AJ: What could FreeBSD do better that would benefit LimeLight? BR: What has LimeLight given back to FreeBSD? AJ: What have you been working on more recently? BR: What do you find to be the most valuable part of open source? AJ: Where do you think the most improvement in open source is needed? BR: Tell us a bit about your computing history collection. What are your three favourite pieces? AJ: How do you keep motivated to work on Open Source? BR: What do you do for fun? AJ: Anything else you want to mention? News Roundup BSDCan 2018 Selected Talks The schedule for BSDCan is up Lots of interesting content, we are looking forward to it We hope to see lots of you there. Make sure you come introduce yourselves to us. Don’t be shy. Remember, if this is your first BSDCan, checkout the newbie session on Thursday night. It’ll help you get to know a few people so you have someone you can ask for guidance. Also, check out the hallway track, the tables, and come to the hacker lounge. iXsystems Cryptographic Right Answers Crypto can be confusing. We all know we shouldn’t roll our own, but what should we use? Well, some developers have tried to answer that question over the years, keeping an updated list of “Right Answers” 2009: Colin Percival of FreeBSD 2015: Thomas H. Ptacek 2018: Latacora A consultancy that provides “Retained security teams for startups”, where Thomas Ptacek works. We’re less interested in empowering developers and a lot more pessimistic about the prospects of getting this stuff right. There are, in the literature and in the most sophisticated modern systems, “better” answers for many of these items. If you’re building for low-footprint embedded systems, you can use STROBE and a sound, modern, authenticated encryption stack entirely out of a single SHA-3-like sponge constructions. You can use NOISE to build a secure transport protocol with its own AKE. Speaking of AKEs, there are, like, 30 different password AKEs you could choose from. But if you’re a developer and not a cryptography engineer, you shouldn’t do any of that. You should keep things simple and conventional and easy to analyze; “boring”, as the Google TLS people would say. Cryptographic Right Answers Encrypting Data Percival, 2009: AES-CTR with HMAC. Ptacek, 2015: (1) NaCl/libsodium’s default, (2) ChaCha20-Poly1305, or (3) AES-GCM. Latacora, 2018: KMS or XSalsa20+Poly1305 Symmetric key length Percival, 2009: Use 256-bit keys. Ptacek, 2015: Use 256-bit keys. Latacora, 2018: Go ahead and use 256 bit keys. Symmetric “Signatures” Percival, 2009: Use HMAC. Ptacek, 2015: Yep, use HMAC. Latacora, 2018: Still HMAC. Hashing algorithm Percival, 2009: Use SHA256 (SHA-2). Ptacek, 2015: Use SHA-2. Latacora, 2018: Still SHA-2. Random IDs Percival, 2009: Use 256-bit random numbers. Ptacek, 2015: Use 256-bit random numbers. Latacora, 2018: Use 256-bit random numbers. Password handling Percival, 2009: scrypt or PBKDF2. Ptacek, 2015: In order of preference, use scrypt, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2. Latacora, 2018: In order of preference, use scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2. Asymmetric encryption Percival, 2009: Use RSAES-OAEP with SHA256 and MGF1+SHA256 bzzrt pop ffssssssst exponent 65537. Ptacek, 2015: Use NaCl/libsodium (box / cryptobox). Latacora, 2018: Use Nacl/libsodium (box / cryptobox). Asymmetric signatures Percival, 2009: Use RSASSA-PSS with SHA256 then MGF1+SHA256 in tricolor systemic silicate orientation. Ptacek, 2015: Use Nacl, Ed25519, or RFC6979. Latacora, 2018: Use Nacl or Ed25519. Diffie-Hellman Percival, 2009: Operate over the 2048-bit Group #14 with a generator of 2. Ptacek, 2015: Probably still DH-2048, or Nacl. Latacora, 2018: Probably nothing. Or use Curve25519. Website security Percival, 2009: Use OpenSSL. Ptacek, 2015: Remains: OpenSSL, or BoringSSL if you can. Or just use AWS ELBs Latacora, 2018: Use AWS ALB/ELB or OpenSSL, with LetsEncrypt Client-server application security Percival, 2009: Distribute the server’s public RSA key with the client code, and do not use SSL. Ptacek, 2015: Use OpenSSL, or BoringSSL if you can. Or just use AWS ELBs Latacora, 2018: Use AWS ALB/ELB or OpenSSL, with LetsEncrypt Online backups Percival, 2009: Use Tarsnap. Ptacek, 2015: Use Tarsnap. Latacora, 2018: Store PMAC-SIV-encrypted arc files to S3 and save fingerprints of your backups to an ERC20-compatible blockchain. Just kidding. You should still use Tarsnap. Seriously though, use Tarsnap. Adding IPv6 to an existing server I am adding IPv6 addresses to each of my servers. This post assumes the server is up and running FreeBSD 11.1 and you already have an IPv6 address block. This does not cover the creation of an IPv6 tunnel, such as that provided by HE.net. This assumes native IPv6. In this post, I am using the IPv6 addresses from the IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation (i.e. 2001:DB8::/32). You should use your own addresses. The IPv6 block I have been assigned is 2001:DB8:1001:8d00/64. I added this to /etc/rc.conf: ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1" ifconfig_em1_ipv6="inet6 2001:DB8:1001:8d00:d389:119c:9b57:396b prefixlen 64 accept_rtadv" # ns1 The IPv6 address I have assigned to this host is completely random (with the given block). I found a random IPv6 address generator and used it to select d389:119c:9b57:396b as the address for this service within my address block. I don’t have the reference, but I did read that randomly selecting addresses within your block is a better approach. In order to invoke these changes without rebooting, I issued these commands: ``` [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo ifconfig em1 inet6 2001:DB8:1001:8d00:d389:119c:9b57:396b prefixlen 64 accept_rtadv [dan@tallboy:~] $ [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo route add -inet6 default 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 add net default: gateway 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 ``` If you do the route add first, you will get this error: [dan@tallboy:~] $ sudo route add -inet6 default 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 route: writing to routing socket: Network is unreachable add net default: gateway 2001:DB8:1001:8d00::1 fib 0: Network is unreachable Beastie Bits Ghost in the Shell – Part 1 Enabling compression on ZFS - a practical example Modern and secure DevOps on FreeBSD (Goran Mekić) LibreSSL 2.7.0 Released zrepl version 0.0.3 is out! [ZFS User Conference](http://zfs.datto.com/] Tarsnap Feedback/Questions Benjamin - BSD Personal Mailserver Warren - ZFS volume size limit (show #233) Lars - AFRINIC Brad - OpenZFS vs OracleZFS Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

In the second hour, Dr. Travis Ptacek shared his journey from atheism to Catholicism and how his conversion impacted his medical profession. He also previewed the upcoming White Mass for health care professionals in the Diocese of Rapid City. Host Fr. Brian Gross then spoke with Colleen Samson for an update on the 40 Days for Life Fall Campaign effort in North Dakota. Finally, Fr. Gross was joined by Ed Konieczka, Assistant Director of University Ministry at the University of Mary, about the upcoming Prayer Day event.

“Inoperable brain cancer”. These were the words spoken by the team of doctors who met with Andy and her family to share with her the devastating news of what was causing her extreme and sudden headaches. Andy Ptacek; wife, daughter, friend, and mother of two small boys would now be facing the greatest challenge any of us could ever imagine - defeating brain cancer. The Backstory: Andy and her husband were featured on the Money Peach Blog in the very early days when the blog was first started. They had an amazing success story of paying off $75k of debt in only 7 months (see link for show notes below). A year after paying down their debt, they would soon face an even greater challenge: an inoperable tumor found on the outside of Andy’s brain. The good news: After multiple attempts to have Andy to share her NEW success story, she finally gave in and agreed to the interview. She knew this would be a tough conversation and asked her husband Bruce to sit in with us during our conversation (you will notice him pop in the background of the interview). During our conversation, Andy shares her view on what really matters most in life when you stare into the eyes of what she perceived as her own mortality. • What did Andy promise herself when she was diagnosed? • How did she find the strength and motivation to stay positive through it all? • What happened that caused her to almost give up? • What did she do just 1 year after brain surgery? (This will absolutely shock you!)
 Note: Many of you may be asking why I would interview Andy’s story of survival on the Money Peach Podcast. This is a fair enough question and you will understand why in the end. Hint: Money touches every aspect of your life. Even the parts you never think about...like inoperable brain cancer. All the show notes, links, and anything Andy and I mentioned can be found at http://www.moneypeach.com/session61

Researchers have never identified a biological process linking sleep and depression – until now. Study leader Louis Ptacek and his team at the University of California, San Francisco found a gene mutation in a family suffering from both a chronic sleep disorder and seasonal depression. The team engineered mice and fly models with the genetic mutation to see how changes in light exposure, or the length of daylight, affected behavior. "And since we had generated the animal models of the human mutation and showed that they have a circadian phenotype, we tested whether they had a depression-like phenotype." It turns out that extreme changes in light exposure, such as that caused by very short days, elicited depression-like behavior in mice. Although animal models cannot be directly extended to humans, Ptacek says the study suggests a mechanism behind these disorders in people. "Part of our mission moving forward is to really push the notion that we can improve health through better sleep."

We talk to John Ptacek about AngularJS. Big-o notation. The worst programming language ever. Emailing hardware to outer space.

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On the Novemeber 29, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody we re-broadcast a show from May, 2011 that was never podcast.  The show featured Kansas City NBC Action News investigative reporter Russ Ptacek discussing his work on the Bannister Federal Complex and the workers there who were sickened by exposure to toxic substances. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us 

A neuroscientist discusses the genetics of morning larks.

"Thomas Ptacek and Dave Goldsmith present the results of Matasano Security's research into the resilience of Enterprise Agents: the most dangerous programs you've never heard of, responsible for over $2B a year in product revenue, running on the most critical enterprise servers from app servers to mainframes. WHY THIS TALK? 1. Enterprise Agents are their own worms, preinstalled for the convenience of attackers. We found critical, show-stopping vulnerabilities in every system we looked at. 2. It's a whirlwind tour of the landscape of internal security. We reversed proprietary binaries, deciphered custom protocols, and cracked encryption algorithms. 3. It's a call to arms. Applications running behind the firewall aren't getting audited. While vulnerability research talent fights over the scraps of Windows OS security, hundreds of thousands of machines remain vulnerable to attacks most people thought were eliminated in the early '90s For the past 12 months, Matasano Security has conducted a research project into the security of internal applications. Our theory? That any code which doesn't run in front of a firewall, exposed to Internet hackers, is unaudited, wide open-fertile ground for ever-adapting attackers. Our findings? Tens of applications reversed, proprietary protocols deciphered, "state-of-the-art" XOR encryption algorithms cracked, and it's worse than we thought. Perhaps more than any other software, save the operating system itself, insecure systems management applications pose a grave threat to enterprise security. They're the Agobot that your administrators installed for you. Internal security is a nightmare, and things are going to get worse before they get horrible. "

Intrusion detection systems have come a long way since Ptacek and Newsham released their paper on eluding IDS, but the gap between the attackers and the defenders has never been wider. This presentation focuses on the two weakest links in the current generation of intrusion detection solutions: application protocols and resource limitations. Complex protocols often have the most dangerous flaws, yet these protocols are barely supported by most intrusion detection engines. Like any other networking component, intrusion detection gear often has a "fast path" for normal traffic, and a "slow path" for handling exceptions. By seeking out and finding the "slow path", an attacker can control the resource usage of the system and bypass nearly any state engine or signature. This presentation will dive into practical attacks on the current generation of IDS and IPS solutions and demonstrate just how evil a few extra packets can be.

Thomas Ptacek and Dave Goldsmith present the results of Matasano Security's research into the resilience of Enterprise Agents: the most dangerous programs you've never heard of, responsible for over $2B a year in product revenue, running on the most critical enterprise servers from app servers to mainframes. WHY THIS TALK? 1. Enterprise Agents are their own worms, preinstalled for the convenience of attackers. We found critical, show-stopping vulnerabilities in every system we looked at. 2. It's a whirlwind tour of the landscape of internal security. We reversed proprietary binaries, deciphered custom protocols, and cracked encryption algorithms. 3. It's a call to arms. Applications running behind the firewall aren't getting audited. While vulnerability research talent fights over the scraps of Windows OS security, hundreds of thousands of machines remain vulnerable to attacks most people thought were eliminated in the early '90s For the past 12 months, Matasano Security has conducted a research project into the security of internal applications. Our theory? That any code which doesn't run in front of a firewall, exposed to Internet hackers, is unaudited, wide open-fertile ground for ever-adapting attackers. Our findings? Tens of applications reversed, proprietary protocols deciphered, "state-of-the-art" XOR encryption algorithms cracked, and it's worse than we thought. Perhaps more than any other software, save the operating system itself, insecure systems management applications pose a grave threat to enterprise security. They're the Agobot that your administrators installed for you. Internal security is a nightmare, and things are going to get worse before they get horrible. "

Intrusion detection systems have come a long way since Ptacek and Newsham released their paper on eluding IDS, but the gap between the attackers and the defenders has never been wider. This presentation focuses on the two weakest links in the current generation of intrusion detection solutions: application protocols and resource limitations. Complex protocols often have the most dangerous flaws, yet these protocols are barely supported by most intrusion detection engines. Like any other networking component, intrusion detection gear often has a "fast path" for normal traffic, and a "slow path" for handling exceptions. By seeking out and finding the "slow path", an attacker can control the resource usage of the system and bypass nearly any state engine or signature. This presentation will dive into practical attacks on the current generation of IDS and IPS solutions and demonstrate just how evil a few extra packets can be.

Since last year's Black Hat, the debate has continued to grow about how undetectable virtualized rootkits can be made. We are going to show that virtualized rootkits will always be detectable. We would actually go as far as to say they can be easier to detect than kernel rootkits.

Since last year's Black Hat, the debate has continued to grow about how undetectable virtualized rootkits can be made. We are going to show that virtualized rootkits will always be detectable. We would actually go as far as to say they can be easier to detect than kernel rootkits.