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Bennington College, a small college in Vermont, took over the University of the Arts' dance program after the Philly university closed without warning last year. Why? And how? Host Trenae Nuri talks with Laura Walker, president of Bennington College, and Donna Faye Burchfield, director of the dance program, about how this tiny college hundreds of miles away saved a storied dance program in Center City. We're doing a survey to learn more about our listeners. We'd be grateful if you took the survey at citycast.fm/survey—it's only 7 minutes long. You'll be doing us a big favor. Plus, anyone who takes the survey will be eligible to win a $250 Visa gift card–and City Cast City swag. Want some more Philly news? Sign up for our daily newsletter, Hey Philly We're also on Instagram: @citycastphilly Have a question or comment? Call or text us at 215-259-8170 Learn more about the sponsors of this episode:  Babbel - Get up to 60% off at Babbel.com/CITYCAST  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dan brings Ross Bellenoit back for another conversation, his last one was fall of 2016. A lot has been going on: Ross has continued to release music as a solo artist, as part of the face-melting jam band Muscle Tough, and as part of Don McCloskey's live band. On top of it all, he continues to produce records at Turtle Studios, and teach guitar to all ages and levels. Ross talks about growing up in Western Massachusetts (a fact we sort of skipped over last time), his mom's outstanding record collection, playing jazz at a young age, moving to Philadelphia to go to UArts, and staying ever since. Ross' latest LP is a brilliant instrumental jazz album called 'Signals', available wherever you get digital music, as well as on vinyl via his website. 

Jimmy Simpson is an Illustrator & Animation Director. Jimmy has clients such as Nike, Adidas, Apple, and Sony but I'm sure you've seen and shared his work from The New York Times and Spotify. Jimmy and I met when he was at UArts. Best art school in Philly, or was. Even though Jimmy has won a Young Guns award and a Motion award for Best New Talent, he has actually won the best award of them all, the Mom Award, for one of her favorite sons. Please welcome Jimmy Simpson to Wear Many Hats. ⁠instagram.com/_jimmysimpson_ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/rashadrastam⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rashadrastam.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠wearmanyhats.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

We're wheatpasting on the side of an abandoned UArts building in broad daylight with Sean 9 Lugo in late September of 2024. His “Clones of Illadelph” series places animal heads on lifesize paintings of Philadelphians like Black Thought of the Roots, Kobe Bryant and our very own Conrad Benner. We'll talk about his battle with mental health, where the 9 in his name comes from, and the importance of community.

We're back with Season 2 of Art Outside, a podcast from WHYY about the art of our public spaces and the people who create it. We're taking you around Philly to learn about all kinds of art outside. From commissioned works in Love Park and the 9th Street Market. To more ephemeral works like wheatpasting on a shuttered UArts building. As multiple art institutions around the city close, the state of Philly's famed arts world feels particularly fragile. On this season of Art Outside we're thinking about where Philly goes from here as we explore this dynamic world.

After a whirlwind month or so, Democrats were united and ready to celebrate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago - including Pennsylvania politicians, who got some significant stage time. It's back-to-school time again! We check in on what's ahead for the Philadelphia School District and how University of the Arts students who transferred to Temple are settling in. And a historic ocean liner has to leave Philadelphia's pier - so where will it go? Matt Leon talks with KYW Newsradio's reporters about the biggest stories in our region this week. 00:00 Intro 02:08 Democrats show unity at the 2024 DNC (hear the full conversation here) 07:38 What's ahead for the Philadelphia School District this year 13:38 Former UArts students settle into a new home at Temple 18:39 Deptford Township, NJ parents speak out after some almost lost free busing 24:25 The SS United States has to move by September 12 30:26 Stuck bridge in Cape May County briefly messes with Jersey Shore travel To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Turning the University of the Arts' Center City buildings into an arts community would make the city a destination for practicing artists. Elaine Maimon lays out how this could be done.

The recent collapse of several local nonprofit organizations like UArts, leaves us with questions about whether we're in a "nonprofit bubble" and whether that bubble is popping.

Elaine Maimon joins Dr. James Peterson, host of Evening WURDs, to discuss her recent Citizen article about the head-scratching closing of UArts.

University of the Arts' former CFO wants answers about the suddenly-closed school's $40 million funding gap

The Sachairi & Peaches Show finally returns for Season 3, but not in the way neither co-host imagined it would turn out. Adrian Mata and Emma Settles discuss about the closing of the latter's alma mater, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; how alumni, current students, faculty & staff are affected by its sudden shutdown; and what lies ahead for the future of arts education in America. The World Telegram News' Edvardi Jackson also joins Adrian as they dive deeper into the issues that surrounded UArts prior to and after its closing. Join us on Discord to discuss about the media industry with fellow community members and professionals! Bring Your Team to Our Team at Broadcast Plaza. https://discord.gg/Bx3r3ZDmeE Have an animated show or movie you'd like for us to review? Email us at sachairiandpeaches@gmail.com or reach out to us on the following social media handles to send your suggestion in! Main theme and original music composed and produced by Adrian Mata.Additional music has been provided from slip.stream. Follow The Sachairi & Peaches Show:Instagram: @sachairiandpeachesThreads: @sachairiandpeaches Follow Adrian Mata:DeviantArt: @AdrianMata26Instagram: @adrianmata26 and @sachlandhubThreads: @adrianmata26 and @sachlandhubTumblr: @adrianmata26YouTube: @Sachland (Adrian Mata // Sachland) Follow Emma Settles:DeviantArt: @LocalPeachesInstagram: @localpeacheswolf and @localpeaches_studiosYouTube: @localpeachesstudios8124 (LocalPeaches Studios)

We discuss the abrupt closing of Chrissie's alma mater, UArts, and whether it is indicative of a trend in higher education. Are "art" degrees (or most degrees) just useless anyway? Did Covid screw everything up for universities? Have schools invested too much in getting "fancy"? Plus, Chrissie discovers that Walmart has cheap prices, we have a few technical difficulties, and end on a hopeful note that maybe Temple will save the day in the end. Subscribe at https://jenkintownartsgarage.com to get JAG updates delivered to your email inbox so you'll never miss an episode, video, or anything else we cook up! If you'd like to support the show, please consider buying us a coffee at http://jenkintownartsgarage.com/coffee Please like, subscribe, and share the show so the algorithms will notice us! We appreciate you! ━ Episode Links ━━━━━━━━━━━ Philadelphia Inquirier article about UArts closing https://www.inquirer.com/education/uarts-closing-philadelphia-finances-higher-education-20240607.html ━ Chapters ━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 - Introductions 05:20 - UArts Closing Discussion (article) 12:17 - Higher Education Crisis Discussion 34:13 - Chrissie Discovers Walmart is Cheap 36:20 - UArts "The Big Shot" Discussion (photos) 39:47 - Will Temple Save the Day? 40:36 - The Wrap-Up 41:54 - Pod Theme Song ━ Show Links ━━━━━━━━━━━

A longtime university president calls for an independent investigation into what happened at the 150-year-old University of the Arts / UArts

Rage, confusion, grief - saddled with heavy emotions, where do University of the Arts students and staff go now? What steps are being taken to ensure the stories of local Holocaust survivors get passed down to future generations? Why did the Free Library of Philadelphia send out an email saying their beloved Author Events series was cancelled...and then another saying it's still on? Why did North Philly-born hoops hero Dawn Staley break down in tears when she returned to her alma mater? And what were the results of a New Jersey primary election that dealt with an indicted senator and a re-shaping of the Democratic ballot? Matt Leon talks with KYW reporters Tim Jimenez, Shara Dae Howard, John McDevitt, Pat Loeb, and Mike Dougherty to catch you up on what happened this week in Philly. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the Friday News Roundup! Today's topics include the University of the Arts closure, where the city should put the intercity bus station, and the mystery behind Old City's cloud billboard. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by Inga Saffron, architecture columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Conrad Benner, founder of StreetsDept.com, curator at Mural Arts and host of WHYY's Art Outside podcast.  Our Friday news roundups are powered by great local journalism:  University of the Arts closure coverage from the Inquirer It's time for Philly to build a proper bus station. Here are six possible locations. Overbrook Night Market Summer of Wonder Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail at 215-259-8170.  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's another midweek news roundup! The team talks about why the University of the Arts will close later this week, as well as the closing (and subsequent reopening) of Famous 4th Street Deli after health code violations. Plus, a Philly news quiz that you can play along with. Host Trenae Nuri is joined by producer Abby Fritz and arts and culture contributor Charles Tyson Jr. Our news roundups are powered by great local journalism:  The University of the Arts is closing June 7, its president says University of the Arts students protest their school's stunning closure — a shutdown unprecedented in recent higher ed history Famous 4th Street Deli is shut down over health issues; owner says they ‘dropped the ball'  Famous 4th Street Deli reopens after a ‘small army' fixes health issues Read more about our news quiz (spoilers ahead): Sneakerheads line up for Nike Dunk Low ‘Philly' shoes at Center City store The story behind the Nike ‘Philly' Dunks, featuring a color-changing swoosh and plenty of local Easter eggs Philly starts the hunt for an intercity bus station near 30th Street Read more about food safety inspections in Philly here. Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail at 215-259-8170.  Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Schmidt, a caricature artists from Philly, now residing here in RVA, makes his first time ever podcast appearance! This is another brilliant episode where he and I discuss our creative backgrounds, having different skillsets, why he started working on caricatures, artistic influences, his creative process, and of course, AI! —————————————————————— People like raw sh!t 3:19 . AIPh vs UArts 4:31 Matt's creative background 11:21 . Flash animation 18:35 . Adding tools to your arsenal 24:26 . The AI Discussion Pt. 1 28:16 . Why Matt stuck with caricature art 32:58 . Caricature and celebrity artists 38:01 . Music and other creative endeavors 44:26 . Tom Richmond and Dave Malan 49:49 . Working on commissions 57:48 . Creative process for caricatures 1:02:35 . When Matt's not doing caricatures 1:10:58 . Working at events 1:15:41 The AI Discussion Pt. 2 1:35:42 . Inspirational quote and a curve-ball question 1:56:31 —————————————————————— Matt Schmidt https://www.instagram.com/caricaturesbymatt/ https://www.youtube.com/@caricaturesbymatt https://www.caricaturesbymatt.com/ —————————————————————— G Terado https://www.instagram.com/artofgterado/ https://www.facebook.com/ArtofGTerado https://www.youtube.com/@artofgterado https://theartofgterado.square.site

Charles got to sit down with the amazing singer, composer, recording artist, and good friend V. Shayne Frederick.They discuss Shayne's newest album, The King Suite, the history of the Philadelphia musical landscape, classism and jazz, and SO much more!!!To learn more about V. Shayne Frederick:Visit His WEBSITE Follow him on:Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Listen to King Suite-- Please Subscribe and Give Us A Review (5 stars or more, preferably!) SUPPORT US ON PATREONCheck out Medway Pride RadioVisit our Linktree to follow our socialsThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5831047/advertisement

This week's EYE ON NPI is Big In Japan, it's the Renesas RA Microcontroller Series (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/renesas/ra-mcus) available at DigiKey in a wide range of sizes and configurations. With the chip shortage easing up, it's a great time to look at what chips to use for your next design. And while we have covered a ton of Arm Cortex microcontrollers on EYE ON NPI (https://blog.adafruit.com/?s=eye+on+npi+cortex), we haven't yet taken a look at Renesas' RA offerings. Renesas is a company created by the merging of the silicon design groups from Hitachi, NEC and Mitsubishi Electric (https://www.youtube.com/@RenesasPresents), so not surprisingly it's very Japanese-focused and used a lot in Japanese electronics companies but not as often in the USA. However, it's always good to have more competition and with the Arm Cortex standard, it's easy to move from one chip vendor to another without having to do a lot of re-targeting. So let's take a look! We saw Renesas highlighted over on DigiKey (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/r/renesas/ra-mcus) and the same day also received our new Early Access Arduino UNO R4 Minima (https://store.arduino.cc/pages/unor4) for us to use in making sure all our libraries work. The UNO R4 is the long-awaited upgrade to the popular R3 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/arduino/A000073/3476357) which came with an 8-bit, 16 MHz, 16 KB Flash, 2KB SRAM chip. While Arduino has come out with many other dev boards since then, the UNO hadn't got an update to 32-bit in a while. The challenge? Finding an affordable 32-bit chip with native USB, Cortex M3 or M4, good software SDK and 5V compatibility. That last part is the hardest, for example there's no ATSAM chip that has both USB and 5V compliance. An acquaintance just came back from a holiday in Japan and she mentioned that "everything is just...a little better there than here in the US!" and that's how we felt when looking at the RA4M1 datasheet (https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/renesas-ra4m1-group-datasheet) The RA4M1 series is a great pick for an 8-bit upgrade. The core is a Cortex M4 which means you're going to get good speedy computation with built in floating point and DSP instructions. For flash memory, 256 KB stores your code and there's a separate 8KB "EEPROM" like section. For RAM, 32 KB is available. It's got all the peripherals you expect such as timers, DMA, ADCs, USB full-speed, I2C, SPI, and UART as well as some upgrades you can't get on 8-bit chips. For example, the ADC is 14 bits, and there's also a 12-bit DAC. There's 4 internal op-amps and 8 total timers! There's two I2Cs, SPIs and UARTs and also CAN bus. A built in RTC is a true real time clock, with battery backup. There's also capacitive touch sensing and a segment LCD controller - our friend Joey Castillo will love that! (https://www.joeycastillo.com/objects/lcdwing/). In addition - we also saw some really beautiful silkscreen board designs for the Renesas Gadget Series (https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/gadget-renesas) as well as an online code editor for compiling for the chip series. (https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/gadget-renesas/boards/gr-sakura/project-sketch-on-web-compiler) We're hoping some of that work gets revitalized with the many makers folks who will be hacking with the R4. If you can't wait to try the Renesas RA4M1 (https://www.digikey.com/short/wt4b872q) chip out, Digikey has an affordable RA4M1 dev board in stock (https://www.digikey.com/short/3qzr0bbw) which comes with a J-Link on-board debugger with separate USB port, a few onboard peripherals, current sensing jumpers, and tons of GPIO so you can prototype your design quickly. Once you've got your design sorted out, chips are available for immediate shipment in TQFP (https://www.digikey.com/short/f3m2pffz) and QFN (https://www.digikey.com/short/fn2m9bbm). Order these from DigiKey and you will say "Konnichi wa" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konnichiwa) to a new family of microcontrollers by tomorrow morning.

This week's EYE ON NPI will stick by your side like a faithful hound- it's the BeagleBoard.org BeaglePlay® Single Board Computer (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/b/beagleboard/beagleplay). Single Board Computers (SBCs) are like tiny computers that are less powerful than desktops but much better at booting quickly and interfacing with hardware. They also tend to run Linux or BSD because it's easier to get those OS's ported to new chipsets than convincing Apple or Microsoft! This new generation of SBC from BeagleBoard builds on their prior success with the BeagleBoard (https://www.digikey.com/short/1cmb3dtf) and BeagleBone (https://www.digikey.com/short/c52dpz47) by adding a ton more interfaces and connectors so many projects can be built with no soldering. Here's a bullet list to get us started: AM6254 SoC processor 16 GB eMMC storage 2 GB DDR4 memory Supports expansion with OLDI, 4-lane CSI, and QWIIC connectors CSI for compatibility with the BeagleBone AI-654, Raspberry Pi Zero W, and compute modules Full-size HDMI connector Small size: 8 cm x 8 cm USB Type-C® with 5 V @ 3 A input connector mikroBUS connector RJ45 Ethernet connector for Gigabit Ethernet Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz capabilities BLE and SubG MicroSD slot USB Type-A connector at 480 Mbit Grove connector The main processor is the TI Sitara AM6254 (https://www.digikey.com/short/507rmwr2) with quad-core 64-bit A53 and a Cortex M4 coprocessor. This chip is paired with 2 GB of DDR4 RAM and 16 GB of eMMC storage for a powerful AI-ready chipset that has tons of onboard graphics support such as 1080P HDMI and 4 lanes of OLDI/LVDS. This chip has 9x UARTS, 5x SPIs, 6x I2C's, 3x PWM modules, 3x quad encoders, and 3x CAN-FD, and of course some GPIO. Note there's no ADC or DAC - you'd use SPI to connect those externally. Note this board doesn't have a 2x20 header like a Raspberry Pi, or even the dual header strips from the BeagleBone - but in exchange it stuffs a ton of hardware support directly onto the PCB. For example, if you'd like to add a camera, there's an onboard 22-pin 0.5mm pitch CSI FPC connector that is compatible with the Pi Zero camera cables (https://www.adafruit.com/product/5211) - use that adapter to interface with any low cost Pi Camera modules or compatibles. For video output, a vertical full-sized HDMI port will connect to any monitor or display. In fact we plugged in our desktop monitor and powered the Play with a USB wall adapter, and it immediately came up with an X desktop display. Mouse and keyboard can be added via the USB 2.0 socket, a mini hub will allow multiple devices since there's only one type A port. The BeaglePlay does a great job of including everything you may want to expand your Raspberry Pi with. For example, there's a BQ32002 Real Time Clock (https://www.digikey.com/short/p0h10jbq) with a CR1220 coin cell holder right on board - normally that would have to be included as a separate module. A microSD card slot can be used for storing large amounts of data: unlike most SBCs, there's onboard 16GB eMMC so you don't have to juggle SD cards to install the OS. There's also a ton of expansion ports! For I2C, the onboard QWICC (https://www.sparkfun.com/qwiic) JST SH connector lets you use the hundreds of SparkFun sensors as well as any Adafruit Stemma QT (https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-adafruit-stemma-qt/what-is-stemma) devices. For UART/PWM/ADC/I2C/GPIO you can use the onboard Grove connector. Finally, for networking either to the Internet or to a sensor network, there's Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 2.4G and 5G, BLE and Sub-G networking. Yeah that's a lot! It's almost all provided by the onboard TI SimpleLink CC1352P7 (https://www.ti.com/product/CC1352P7) which boasts support for 6LoWPAN, Amazon Sidewalk, Bluetooth 5.2 Low Energy, IEEE 802.15.4, MIOTY, Proprietary 2.4 GHz, Thread, Wi-SUN NWP, Wireless M-Bus (T, S, C, N mode), Zigbee. Note LoRa is not in there, so if you need LoRa that would be added with a separate module. There's also an RJ-11 with Single-Pair Ethernet (https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/08/27/eye-on-npi-harting-single-pair-ethernet-eyeonnpi-digikey-ethernet-digikey-harting-adafruit/) which makes this a good fit to connect to industrial robotics or automation. All this hardware is available at a great price of under $100 at Digi-Key, we already picked one up and we're going to try and get Blinka working on it (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka) so that all of our CircuitPython libraries will 'just run' in CPython. Especially given the ready-to-run Stemma QT / Qwiic port on the side, this is an excellent board for a powerful but solder-free configurable SBC. Digi-Key has tons of BeaglePlay's stock for immediate shipment, so order today (https://www.digikey.com/short/jpztmq3w) and you will be playing with your new BeaglePlay by tomorrow afternoon.

Matty (@teague.miller) and Kikau (@kikautown) get caught up on what is happening! Kikau talks about directing his first show at UARTS and Matty updates Kikau on sabbatical life. They talk about the senior showcase landscape, and debrief about Matty's recent family trip to Disneyland! Follow Carefully Taught on Instagram @CarefullyTaughtPodcast!

A common sentiment shared by a lot of the guests I've had on the podcast is that you can't be what you don't see. That starts at a young age, too — think about the book covers and other visuals you saw as a child and how that's shaped you to where you are now. Luckily, there are dope illustrators like this week's guest, Alleanna Harris, who are creating images that captivate and inspire kids so they can truly see themselves.Alleanna and I went over some of her recent projects, including a portrait of Will Smith she drew in front of The Fresh Prince himself. She also shared her process on how she conveys a book's story through pictures while also making them stunningly appealing. Later, Alleanna talked about growing up in South Jersey, attending UArts, spoke on the benefits of being represented by an agent, and told me what she appreciates the most about her life right now. Alleanna is a rising star, and according to her, a career in the world of illustration is possible! (So keep drawing!)LinksAlleanna Harris' WebsiteAlleanna Harris on InstagramAlleanna Harris on TikTokAlleanna Harris on TwitterBooks illustrated by Alleanna HarrisFor a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.==========Donate to Selma Tornado ReliefWe are raising money for Selma Tornado Relief through United Way of Central Alabama to help serve victims of the tornado that tore through Selma, Alabama on Thursday, January 12th.Click or tap here to donate, or text SELMA to 62644. Send us proof of your donation, and we will match it 100% (up to the first $1,000 donated).Thank you for helping fund Selma's recovery!==========Donate to Revision PathFor 10 years, Revision Path has been dedicated to showcasing Black designers and creatives from all over the world. In order to keep bringing you the content that you love, we need your support now more than ever.Click or tap here to make either a one-time or monthly donation to help keep Revision Path running strong.Thank you for your support!==========Join The Tenth CollectiveAre you a Black designer looking for your next opportunity? Then you should join The Tenth Collective, an initiative from Revision Path and State of Black Design to connect Black professionals in the design and creative industries with companies committed to hiring Black candidates for design and creative positions. And it's 100% free.Members of The Tenth Collective will receive curated introduction requests from companies vetted by us, and you'll only be contacted when a company wants to speak to you.We know that looking for a new opportunity can be tough, especially during these times. Let The Tenth Collective help you out!Click or tap here to join The Tenth Collective today!==========Follow and SubscribeLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows. Follow us, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review!You can also follow Revision Path on Instagram and Twitter.==========Buy Our Merch!Grab yourself a t-shirt or a hoodie and show your support for Revision Path! 100% of proceeds go directly back into production for the podcast.Click or tap here for the Revision Path merch collection on Mon-Cherry.==========CreditsRevision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.Executive Producer and Host: Maurice CherryEditor and Audio Engineer: RJ BasilioIntro Voiceover: Music Man DreIntro and Outro Music: Yellow SpeakerTranscripts are provided courtesy of Brevity and Wit.☎️ Call ‪626-603-0310 and leave us a message with your comments on this episode!Thank you for listening!==========Sponsored by HoverWith over 400+ domain name extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, Hover is the only domain provider we use and trust.Ready to get started? Go to hover.com/revisionpath and get 10% off your first purchase.

Technically, Steve's voice is back, but it's still a little rough at the time we recorded this most excellent pod with the very interesting and talented, Dom & Jesse. With the tag line, "Summer All Year," Dom & Jesse are a double-threat pop act that can play an impressive live show before bringing the beats as an up-and-coming DJ act. With excellent heads for branding and business, these two were a ton of fun to talk to about mentorship, music, surviving the pandemic, the promise and peril of Omegle, and much more. As usual, we end with some very entertaining rounds of A Game Called Something where you will learn that yes, Steve needs a new wardrobe. All that and more...LIVE from the 19046! Topics Discussed: - Welcome Dom & Jesse - Dom & Jesse's Epic Broken Goblet Set - Conception of Dom & Jesse - World Cafe Live Show - https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/7373900/dom-jesse-philadelphia-the-lounge-at-world-cafe-live - UArts & Hustling - Omegle & Pandemic Survival - Music & Branding - https://www.domandjesse.com/music - A Game Called Something - AGCS: What is the perfect theme song for you? - AGCS: What is your favorite piece of clothing the you own or have owned? - AGCS: What is your favorite beverage? - World Cafe Live Show - Feb 17, 2023 - Where to Find More Dom & Jesse - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@domandjesse - TickTock: @domandjesse - Insta: @domandjesse - Web: https://www.domandjesse.com Theme Music: "Off My Mind" by Dom & Jesse

This week's EYE ON NPI has an EYE TO THE SKY, it's a new MAX-M10 series of ultra-low-power GPS modules from u-blox (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/u/u-blox/max-m10-series). u-blox is famous for their high quality GPS modules, they've been making them for about 20 years and they've never stopped iterating on their trusted designs. This new generation of modules, the MAX-M10 series, comes in two flavors for cost vs tracking-sensitivity optimization. The MAX-M10 modules are the same footprint, and both support the four active or soon-to-be-active GNSS constellations: GPS (USA-launched satellite system), GLONASS (Russia), Galileo (Europe) and BeiDou (China) The MAX-M10 is available in S series (https://www.digikey.com/short/r5j974z0) and M series varieties (https://www.digikey.com/short/zp5v73zm). The MAX-M10S-00B S series has a temperature compensated oscillator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oscillator#Temperature) a.k.a TCXO for the frequency tuning, so you'll get better sensitivity and tracking: -167dBm sensitivity compared to the M series' -164dBm, but at higher current draw and pricing. The MAX-M10M-00B M series has a regular crystal a.k.a XTAL, for lower cost and power usage, but will take longer to get initial fix and won't have as good sensitivity. Also, the M series can run 1.8-5.5V, where as the S series is 1.8-3.3V max and has a SAW filter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_(signal_processing)#SAW_filters) and LNA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-noise_amplifier). Both modules have UART and I2C support, which is great news because so many microcomputers and 'controllers do not have lots of spare UARTs. I2C has a built in buffer and you can query the current size and then read bytes out of it. Do note that I2C has clock stretching so you will need to either slow down the baud rate or verify your controller can handle the stretching. For UART mode, default baud rate is 9600 but can be configured higher. Unlike some basic all-in-one modules, the MAX M10s require an external antenna. You can use either passive (https://www.adafruit.com/product/2461) or active antennas (https://www.adafruit.com/product/960), active antenna only needs a few passive components. If you want to really have a fancy setup, you can enable an antenna supervisor circuit which can tell you if the antenna is connected, shorted, or even open. (https://www.u-blox.com/sites/default/files/MAX-M10S_IntegrationManual_UBX-20053088.pdf) The recent GPS modules from u-blox also support their native IoT cloud asset tracking system called CloudLocate (https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/cloudlocate) also known as ThingStream (https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/thingstream) which seems to do a very cool thing where you don't actually need to get a fix or download the ephermeris data, you can stream timing measurement deltas immediately and the calculation of GPS coordinates is done by a computer that has almanac data all loaded up. Of course this works only if you have a LoRa/Cell/WiFi connection already but for asset tracking it's a cute idea! Wanna upgrade your GNSS product to the very latest and greatest u-blox 10th generation series today? You can because the MAX-M10S-00B is in stock right now at Digi-Key for immediate shipment! (https://www.digikey.com/short/1rdqtp9j) And while you're waiting for your next-day shipment to burst out the warehouse doors and make its way into your arms, be sure to sign up for the free webinar on October 12th on Accelerating Your Wireless Solution Development ( https://dky.bz/3E0mPOI) which will use the u-blox XPLR-IOT-1 dev kit (https://www.digikey.com/short/051jv5r0) for quick LTE / NB-IOT / WiFi / GNSS development.

This week's EYE ON NPI is a throwback to the 8-bit era, with a new spin on the classic AVR microcontrollers we've loved for decades: it's Microchip's AVR® DD Family of Microcontrollers (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/m/microchip-technology/avr-dd-family-of-microcontrollers), a powerful update to the powerful and low-power AVR RISC core that came from Atmel. While many folks may be moving to Cortex M0 or RISC-V chipsets to get 32-bit performance, there's still a lot of demand and use for 8-bit microcontrollers. Cost, simplicity, reliability, code-size, and power usage can all be better on 8-bit. If you're only on a 32-bit micro because of peripherals that tend to come with the fancier chips, you might be surprised by what the AVR DD family has to offer. For example, these chips have external interrupts on (just about all) the GPIO pins. There's four 16-bit timers plus one 12-bit (that's *five* total timers!), SPI & I2C, two UARTs, a 10-bit DAC, and 12-bit input ADC that's muxed to almost every pin. In particular, the high-bit ADC and DAC are a little unusual to see in an 8-bit platform. (https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/MCU08/ProductDocuments/DataSheets/AVR32-16DD20-14-Prel-DataSheet-DS40002413.pdf) There's also some funky MCP-specific peripherals that can help reduce BOM cost. For example, CCL/LUT is a peripheral that allows you to make custom logic-lookup-tables for making simple - but very very fast - multi-input logic gates that can use interrupts or peripherals as input. (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/TB3218-Getting-Started-with-CCL-90003218A.pdf) For example, you can make a SR latch, logic gate, or Manchester encoder - you can think of it as like a 'micro' PIO or CPLD. MVIO is a new capability that we haven't seen before, where an IO port can run at a different logic level - either higher or lower than the VCC power. This allows easy bi-directional interfacing of SPI/I2C/GPIO to 3V logic from 5V, or vice versa, without the use of level shifting! (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/Appnotes/GettingStarted-MVIO-AVRDB-DS90003287A.pdf) Perfect if you want to run this main core at 5V for speed and signal strength, but have some 3V sensors to interface to, or run the core at 1.8V for power and IO but have a 3.4V LED you want to light up. Clock rate is up to 24 MHz, can be powered from 1.8 to 5.5V - it's exceedingly rare to find 5V ARM chips - and have FLASH, SRAM, EEPROM and NVM. EEPROM in particular is not common on ARM chips, and some don't even have built in Flash. So think of this as a compact li'l chip with pretty much everything you need to get a product out the door, with a range of memory sizes and physical packages from QFN to DIP! (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/AVR-DD-Product-Brief-DS40002215A.pdf) It's nice to see Microchip is still innovating the AVR line, to make better 8-bit micros that power the electronics around us. For programming, of course you can use MPLAB IDE but we like Arduino compatibility and SpenceKonde's DxCore (https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore) looks like it's adding or added AVR DD support, so you can quickly get going with compiling code and using the basic peripherals in just a few minutes! Best of all, the AVR DD family of parts (https://www.digikey.com/short/m4qb8wf8) are totally in stock at Digi-Key right now for immediate shipment. There's SOIC, SSOP and QFN packages with up to 64KB flash / 8 KB RAM, all for about $1.50 in individuals, $1 in qty. If you're looking for an alternative to the ATmega328, this is a nice step up. We recommend getting started with the AVR DD Curiosity Nano board which is breadboard compatible and has everything needed to get started. (https://www.digikey.com/short/10n70tmc) Order today and you can be MVIOing towards your next AVR 8-bit based product by tomorrow afternoon!

In this episode, we dive deep into Jaye's history as a pioneering student of CAPA and UArts, her journey with LEJA Dance Theater, her reinvention as an author and international award-winning filmmaker…and more! To Learn More Visit: jadadance.com

In this College Deep Dive episode, Kikau and Charlie discuss UArts' Curricular focus on New Work, the realities of going to school in the middle of Philadelphia, and the importance of having a Human Experience in your auditions.  If you want to learn more, check out:  @kikautown Follow Carefully Taught: Teaching Musical Theatre with Kikau and Matty on Instagram: @carefullytaughtpodcast @universityofthearts @thebryndschool  If you have any questions about the college audition process, feel free to reach out at mailbag@mappingthecollegeaudition.com. If you're interested in working with MTCA for help with your individualized preparation for your College Audition journey, please check us out at mtcollegeauditions.com, or on Instagram or Facebook.  Follow Us!  Instagram: @musicaltheatercollegeauditions YouTube: @MTCA (Musical Theater College Auditions)  TikTok: @mtcollegeauditions  Charlie Murphy:@charmur7  Meghan Cordier:@meghanmarie2014 About MTCA:  Musical Theater College Auditions (MTCA) is the leader in coaching acting and musical theater students through the college audition process and beyond with superlative results. MTCA has assembled a roster of expert artist-educators who can guide students artistically, organizationally, strategically, and psychologically through the competitive college audition process. MTCA provides the tools, resources, and expertise along with a vast and strong support system. They train the unique individual, empowering the artist to bring their true, authentic self to their work. MTCA believes that by helping students reveal their potential it allows each school to connect with those who are truly right for their programs, which in turn guides each student toward their best college fit.  About Charlie Murphy:  Charlie is a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's BFA program. As an Actor he has performed with theaters such as: NY Public Theatre's “Shakespeare in the Park”, The Pearl Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Kinetic Theatre Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre of DC. With MTCA [Musical Theater College Auditions -- mtca.nyc], he has been helping prospective theatre students through the college process for over 15 years. As a Teacher and Director, he is able to do a few of his favorite things in life: help students to find their authentic selves as artists, and then help them find their best fit for their collegiate journey. Through this podcast, he hopes to continue that work as well as help demystify this intricate process. This episode was produced by Charlie Murphy. Episode theme music is created by Will Reynolds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Dawson is a New Jersey–based drummer, educator, and clinician. He currently hosts "The Drum Candy" podcast and is copy editor for www.drumfactorydirect.com.  Mike was formerly managing editor for Modern Drummer, the world's most widely read magazine exclusively for drummers. Dawson also produced and co-hosted  The Modern Drummer Podcast With Mike and Mike, along with renowned online educator/clinician Mike Johnston. Additionally, Dawson served as book editor for Modern Drummer Publications, with most recent releases including Progressive Drumming Essentials by drummer/educator Aaron Edgar, Rhythm and Chops Builders and Stick Technique by rudimental specialist Bill Bachman, and Exercises in African-American Funk by top touring drummer Jonathan Joseph and University of Miami faculty member Steve Rucker. In the pages of MD, Michael has authored dozens of artist features, educational columns, and product reviews. Dawson has a bachelor's degree in music education from West Virginia University and a master's degree in music from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He's a senior lecturer in music journalism and drum set at the UArts, and he operates a recording studio out of his home in New Jersey, where he tracks drums and percussion remotely for artists around the globe. Michael recently began subbing for the drumset chair in the hit Broadway musical The Lion King.    Some Things That Came Up:    -Drum Candy Podcast  -The Joys of Pittsburgh -Managing Editor at Modern Drummer Magazine for 16 years  -Positive product reviews -The beauty of entry level products  -Masters Degree in one year  -One journalism class turns to a full time job  -Chart writing and song analysis -Subbing for the Lion King on Broadway  -Choreography of Subbing  -Live Looping and Organic Improvisation  -How to practice creatively -Teaching at The University of The Arts in Philadelphia and West Virginia Wesleyan -The downsides of online teaching -The MD Podcast to The Drum Candy Podcast  -Using Interviews to take a two hour private lesson -Care for Gear -The Recording Custom Birch Hitmaker  -Mike's “Whiplash” moment  -Mike's roles at www.drumfactorydirect.com  -Product Photography -The Fast Five -‘3 Sheets' TV Show  -The John Coltrane Quartert -Alex Van Halen/Will Calhoun       Follow: www.mikedawsondrums.com IG: @mikedawsondrums FB: @mikedawson       The Rich Redmond Show is about all things music, motivation and success. Candid conversations with musicians, actors, comedians, authors and thought leaders about their lives and the stories that shaped them. Rich Redmond is the longtime drummer with Jason Aldean and many other veteran musicians and artists. Rich is also an actor, speaker, author, producer and educator. Rich has been heard on thousands of songs, over 25 of which have been #1 hits!   Rich can also be seen in several films and TV shows and has also written an Amazon Best-Selling book, "CRASH! Course for Success: 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Personal and Professional Life" currently available at:   https://www.amazon.com/CRASH-Course-Success-Supercharge-Professional/dp/B07YTCG5DS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=crash+redmond&qid=1576602865&sr=8-1   One Book: Three Ways to consume....Physical (delivered to your front door, Digital (download to your kindle, ipad or e-reader), or Audio (read to you by me on your device...on the go)!   Buy Rich's exact gear at www.lessonsquad.com/rich-redmond   Follow Rich: @richredmond www.richredmond.com   Jim McCarthy is the quintessential Blue Collar Voice Guy. Honing his craft since 1996 with radio stations in Illinois, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Las Vegas and Nashville, Jim has voiced well over 10,000 pieces since and garnered an ear for audio production which he now uses for various podcasts, commercials and promos. Jim is also an accomplished video producer, content creator, writer and overall entrepreneur.   Follow Jim:   @jimmccarthy www.jimmccarthyvoiceovers.com

Spotify Wrapped has come out and celebrated all creators and BIRDSOFAFEATHER is one of them! AJ The Suburban Princess sums up her interest in growing the show and making it more accessible to those who listen to podcasts. As it originally started as a venting tool for what turned out to be a horrible Phillies season. Eventually became a pod about a surprising Super Bowl Year for the Eagles, to back to the ALMOST complete Sixers BACK to the miserable transitional Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and Sixers seasons plus a quarantine period in three years. It's been helpful to pod and sometimes have guests and eventually a Co-Ed in Eddie B, my former UArts friend. What evolved from this podcast spilled over to You Tube and during quarantine AJ discovered she had to get over her fear of being on video and talking. That's when her on screen podcast #5Questions with was born. Then another idea for a panel show #TheLinkUp was her excuse to grab Twitter friends and ask them questions in no particular order to get to know them. Funny how things can grow into something fun and productive while the world seemed to grind to a halt in 2020. Thanks to Spotify making podcasts FREE for now, but if you pay attention to the newsletters, the paid Subscription option is out there is well. AJ is thankful for the listeners she has now, let's see what the future holds. For now, from me and Eddie B THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE ME!!!

Dan gets to talk to the whole Keely Sibilia crew: Keely, producer Robby Webb, and keyboardist Dan Finn. The band discusses their new LP, 'Death Of A Romantic', how they went into making the record with no material at all, the ups and downs of music school (the three are all UArts alums), growing into an adult from a 20-something, and why they love making music in Philly.

In this episode of the Kickin' It With Campus Life podcast, hosts Chae Harris and Kaitlin Manion dive into how to get connected to the local Philadelphia arts scene. Since we're back on campus, there are many opportunities to get involved with your art form or another art form outside of the UArts community so that you can grow as an artist outside of the classroom. Chae's Pick of the Week: "Clickbait" show on Netflix Kaitlin's Pick of the Week: "The Addams Family" (2019) Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

Trying to connect with your fellow artists? Having trouble finding folks who have the same interests as you? The good news is that you're not alone. In this episode of the Kickin' It With Campus Life podcasts, hosts Chae Harris ‘22 (MBET & Vocal Performance) and Kaitlin Manion (Campus Life) give you some tips and tricks for connecting with your campus community through shows, clubs and organizations, and other UArts resources. Listen on your favorite podcast platform like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and more.

Student Paris Gray '23 (Dance) joins the podcast to talk about their student organization, UArts Ballet Ensemble and their plans for the semester. For the first time ever, The Nutcracker will be brought to the UArts community via the hard work of the Ballet Ensemble. If you liked this podcast, please subscribe and give us a rating. Your support means everything to us! Follow the Office of Campus Life at UArts on Instagram at: @uarts_campuslife Paris's Pick of the Week: The UArts Counseling Center- UArts students can schedule their own free and confidential counseling appointments by emailing counseling@uarts.edu Chae's Pick of the Week: Yebba's Tiny Desk Concert Kaitlin's Pick of the Week: Make Your Damn Bed Podcast

Gab Bonghi is a photographer and visual artist based out of Philadelphia. She's dabbed in design and marketing. Her work has been featured in EATER, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, Eating Well Magazine, NYLON, Saveur Magazine, The Outline, and Thrillist. Some of her clientele include Universal Music Group, Philadelphia Distilling Co., Vernick, Starr Restaurants, DiBruno Brothers, and WTSO. Gab went to UArts like most of my good friends. This is starting to feel like a UArts podcast, no sponsored content. Not an ad for UArts. We had Gab DJ one of our Dahsar Studio events at W/N W/N. Me and Gab met at all the Uarts parties, and then the legendary parties like Milk+ and all the best parties at The Barbary. Get high with Gab Bonghi. Please welcome Gab Bonghi to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/gabonghi instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com

Join podcasts hosts, Chaela Harris (MBET/Vocal Performance ‘22) and Kaitlin Manion for season 2 of the Kickin' It With Campus Life podcast. They will let you know what they have planned for the semester, talk about coming back to campus, and discuss ways you can engage with the UArts community this semester! You don't want to miss this, so make sure you find the Kickin' It With Campus Life podcast on Spotify, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you like to enjoy podcasts. We can't wait to kick it with you! Are you a UArts student who wants to be on the podcast? Send Kaitlin an email at kmanion@uarts.edu

Cam Sizemore is a Cinematographer that has worked on all your favorite films and tv shows. Tv shows such as Daredevil, Master of None, The OA, Crashing, The Godfather of Harlem, High Fidelity, The Flight Attendant, and Gossip Girl. HBO not The CW. Films such as John Wick. That's all I could find. Even though as a first assistant camera operator or second, Cam is also a photographer who shoots on many different film cameras outside of work. All the UArts homies work in film. I didn't go to UArts. We all know each other from Philly. We literally are the Fast and Furious, Vin Diesel Paul Walker Because Family Meme where they say family, 33 times in that movie. Don't fact check me on that. This isn't Hot 97 but this could be the Breakfast Club. We have the Gamay Papi and Mini Mami of the wine world. Please welcome my good friends Cam Sizemore and host Minji Kwon to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/mkwon instagram.com/camsizemore instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com

Mikel  presently makes his home in Germantown Philadelphia, but has travelled the world on his way to being the established and formidable artist he is today.    He  has been featured in international publications and media,  including commercial television, and feature films. He earned a  BFA degree in painting from U Arts in 1986 and also studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1987 he took on a life changing job of being a personal assistant to the great jazz icon Miles Davis and was with him until his death in 1991. This profoundly impacted his life both as an artist and a human being. His art reflects the rich and varied life he has led.  He collages materials and imagery together to create a rich tapestry of meaning and experience.  

This week's EYE ON NPI is easy-as-pie: it's the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC0908-7/14306009), finally available for purchase in tape and reel for manufacturing. The RP2040 is one of the most hotly-anticipated EYE ON NPI's of the year - it's been a few months since we've been enjoying the RP2040 in devboards. Adafruit has featured it in many popular dev boards like the QT Py RP2040 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4900), Feather RP2040 (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industries-llc/4884/14000603) and ItsyBitsy RP2040 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industries-llc/4888/14115610). Thanks to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Adafruit got a few early reels so we could develop our layouts and board designs - that whetted the appetites of a lot of developers who saw the massive number of designs available from Sparkfun, Pimoroni, Seeed and others and wanted to join in the fun! Well, now you can because Digi-Key is stocking the chips in reels for anyone to purchase. They're available in 7" reels (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC0908-7/14306009) with 500 chips in a spool, or in 13" reels (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/raspberry-pi/SC0908-13/14306010) with 3400 chips. At a cost of $1 each pre-quantity (quantity pricing is not yet determined) For that $1, you get a lot of technology: RP2040 Chip features: Dual ARM Cortex-M0+ @ 133MHz 264kB on-chip SRAM in six independent banks Support for up to 16MB of off-chip Flash memory via dedicated QSPI bus DMA controller Fully-connected AHB crossbar Interpolator and integer divider peripherals On-chip programmable LDO to generate core voltage 2 on-chip PLLs to generate USB and core clocks 30 GPIO pins, 4 of which can be used as analog inputs Peripherals 2 UARTs 2 SPI controllers 2 I2C controllers 16 PWM channels USB 1.1 controller and PHY, with host and device support 8 PIO state machines The RP2040 uses the Cortex M0+ core, which is is good for microcontroller projects. It's not fast enough or capable of running Linux like a Raspberry Pi computer but it can run Arduino/MicroPython/RTOS pretty easily. To make up for the M0 core, the chip is run very fast, at ~130MHz, much faster than many of the Cortex M0's we've worked with that tend to run at 48 Mhz or so. Since it is an M0 chip, it does not have a floating point unit or DSP hardware support - so if you're doing something with heavy floating point math, it will be done in software and thus not as fast as a Cortex M4. For peripherals, there are two I2C controllers, two SPI controllers, and two UARTs that are generously multiplexed across the GPIO - check the pinout for what pins can be set to which. There are 16 PWM channels, each pin has a channel it can be set to (ditto on the pinout). While its not a full crossbar-type chip, it's easy to find pins for your peripherals. You'll note there's no I2S peripheral, or SDIO, or camera, what's up with that? Well instead of having specific hardware support for serial-data-like peripherals like these, the RP2040 comes with the PIO state machine system which is a unique and powerful way to create custom hardware logic and data processing blocks that run on their own without taking up a CPU. For example, NeoPixels - often we bitbang the timing-specific protocol for these LEDs. For the RP2040, we instead use PIO object that reads in the data buffer and clocks out the right bitstream with perfect accuracy. Same with I2S audio in or out, LED matrix displays, 8-bit or SPI based TFTs, even VGA! In MicroPython and CircuitPython you can create PIO control commands to script the peripheral and load it in at runtime. There are 2 PIO peripherals with 4 state machines each. While the RP2040 has lots of onboard RAM (264KB), it does not have built-in FLASH memory. Instead, that is provided by the external QSPI flash chip. You will need to provide external FLASH memory using QSPI NOR memory. The flash chip is shared between the program it's running and any file storage used by MicroPython or CircuitPython. We like this GigaDevice chip (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/gigadevice-semiconductor-hk-limited/GD25Q80CSIGR/9484688) but just about any QSPI flash memory will work just fine. You'll also need a 12 MHz crystal and lots of capacitors and some passive components to finish off the design. With top-notch documentation, lots of board examples, firmware-aplenty, and of course a rock-bottom price, its an excellent chip to use for just about anything. Especially with the PIO peripherals, this chip can 'punch up' quite a bit and perform tasks or process data that normally would require much more powerful chips or advanced peripherals - things like cameras, TFT displays, motor drivers, PDM/I2S/PCM encoding and more. Sign up to be notified the moment the RP2040 chips are in stock at Digi-key here (https://www.digikey.com/short/8mt22d38)

In this episode, we welcome back Dante Puleio to nOMad's The Space In Between! As the new Artistic Director of the Limón Dance Company, Dante sits with Phoebe and shares about his transition into new leadership in the midst of Covid and his vision for the company as it heads in it's new direction of honoring the legacy and integrity of Limón's work while integrating the context of these new times. Dante Puleio is a performing artist who began investigating technical development at 19 yrs old in London at the Laban Centre, then Northern School of Contemporary Dance and graduated with his BFA from UArts in Philadelphia. Continuing is education and receiving his MFA from University of CA, Irvine. Dante has performed with the Limón Dance Company, performing in national and international broadway tours, film, television, commercial and industrial work. Dante is currently the Artistic Director of Limón Dance Company. Learn more about Dante on his website: https://www.dantepuleio.com/ Learn more about the Limón Dance Company: https://www.limon.nyc/ Follow Dante on Instagram: @dantepuleio and @limondance Join The nOMad Community! Our community membership program is a global community of yogis, wellness practitioners, healers, travelers, and wanders of all kinds who are in search of a deeper connection with themselves & their world to envision & create a life full of greater possibilities. Through monthly gatherings, workshops, and special offerings you will continue to journey through your own spaces in between. Our mission at nOMad is to offer you new experiences so that you can live a fuller life with more joy, gratitude, confidence, and connection. We are proud of how many people we have reached so far on our path to guide them to do just that. Are you ready to be one of them? Join us now! Click here to learn more about our nOMad Community Membership here: https://nomadalwaysatom.com/community-member Ready to join? Register here and journey in OM with us: https://nomadalwaysatom.teachable.com/p/the-nomad-collective

Bobbi Jene Smith is a part-time faculty member at the Juilliard School in New York City, and guest teaching at NYU and UArts. In 2017 she became a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC).The documentary Bobbi Jene which follows her trajectory of leaving a dance company to create her own work, swept the Tribeca Film Festival, winning best documentary, best cinematography, and best editing in 2017. In 2018, Bobbi starred in and choreographed the feature films Mari directed by Georgia Parris, which premiered at BFI, and Aviva directed by Boaz Yakin. Intro Music: Poet's Row, Young Bones

Students Kymora Corker ’21 (Dance), Tyler Econa ’23 (DPP), and Campus Life staff member, Jheri Wills have been hard at work this past year, helping uplift the university community in many different ways. The DEI Fellows have hosted roundtable discussions for their respective schools, participated in the DEI Committee, and started projects that help art and DEI work come together. This episode will give you more insight into what they do! DEI Fellows Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uarts_dei_committee/ UArts students: Apply to be a DEI Fellow: https://www.uarts.edu/deifellow Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast produced, hosted, and edited by the Office of Campus Life at the University of the Arts. We record on Zoom to connect with students all over the world. Please rate, subscribe and comment!

In a special episode, we asked some seniors in the Class of 2021 to answer the question, "What would you tell your first year self?" They share their wisdom as they reflect back on their experiences at UArts and we can all learn something from them. Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast produced by the Office of Campus Life at the University of the Arts and we record on Zoom since we are remote this year. Help us tell student stories by sharing this with a friend.

Every year, the Office of Campus Life calls upon students, staff, and faculty to nominate UArts students for Student Leadership Awards. Today, we're interviewing the 2021 Student Leader of the Year, student Ishara Serrette (Creative Writing '21) about her time at the University of the Arts, leadership, and her work with Underground Pool. Ishara has conquered a lot during her time at UArts and her story is guaranteed to inspire you. Learn more about the literary magazine and experience the current issue here: https://www.uarts.edu/liberal-arts/underground-pool#anchor-tab-1 Kickin' It With Campus Life is recorded on Zoom, so please excuse our audio at some points. We are dedicated to telling student stories and love sharing them with you. Please do us a favor and rate, leave a review and subscribe.

Kat Mooridian BFA ’21 (Illustration) joins podcast hosts Chae Harris and Kaitlin Manion to discuss their time in UArts’ Honors College and their work with Comics & Prints. Kat has truly made the most out of their experience at UArts and has not only served in leadership roles, but has also dedicated their time to tutoring and working outside the university. Chae's Pick: WTI Magazine Instagram: https://instagram.com/wti.mag?igshid=1hkua8vytcw3j The creator’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/drmgrll?igshid=1lnesva56xn5q Website: https://drmgrlgraphics.myportfolio.com/facetime-photoshoots Kaitlin's Pick: Passion Planner - https://passionplanner.com/collections/shop-all Comics and Prints: Instagram- @comics_and_prints Kat's Info: Instagram @k.mooradian Anthology on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/KatMooradian?ref=shop_sugg Anthology In-store at Phantasm Comics in New Hope, PA Visit Kat's website: kmooradian.com

Welcome!   For all of my listeners who purchased my course on Improving Windows Security - THANK YOU! We have a whopper of a warning this week about what the Department of Homeland Security is planning under the Biden Administration -- They are going to let Big Tech and Private Companies create the NO-Fly and Terrorist Watch Lists on their behalf -- Scary beyond measure.  Then Apple is doing more to protect your privacy.  We have another hack of a Commercial VPN provider and there is more so be sure to Listen in. For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - CraigPeterson.com. --- Tech Articles Craig Thinks You Should Read: DHS Preparing to Use Private Contractors to “Scour Public Data and Social Media” To Compile Dissident Citizens for Watch List and No-Fly Lists Another Reason to hate VPNs -- Feds say hackers are likely exploiting critical Fortinet VPN vulnerabilities Mark Zuckerberg's cell phone number is among leaked personal data from 533 MILLION Facebook users, including two other founders that have been released for FREE by hackers How scammers siphoned $36B in fraudulent unemployment payments from the US Are self-driving cars safe? Will they ever be? Fender bender in Arizona illustrates Waymo’s commercialization challenge Apple is enforcing its new privacy standards and rejecting apps - New wave of App Store rejections suggests iOS 14.5, new iPad may be imminent My biggest complaint about Android? The lack of security updates. Google is trying to solve it -- What we’re expecting from Google’s custom “Whitechapel” SoC in the Pixel 6 NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This Embracing a Zero Trust Security Model Turns out Most Manufacturing, Water Supply, and Power Companies Use Controllers with a Security Severity Score of 10 out of 10 Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Clubhouse is the New Up-and-Comer but  Security and Privacy Lag Behind Its Explosive Growth New York sues to shut down 'fraudulent' Coinseed crypto platform Former SolarWinds CEO blames intern for 'solarwinds123' password leak WhatsApp will basically stop working if you don't accept the new privacy policy TikTok breaching users’ rights “on a massive scale”, says European Consumer Group --- Automated Machine-Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] We're going to be talking about a fender bender in Arizona and when will these autonomous cars be safe, at least measured safe.  We've got a new wave of app store rejections from Apple. That means a couple of things, including better privacy for all of us. Hello, everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today.  This is an interesting question, because we are looking at a future that we assume anyways is going to be full of autonomous vehicles. Why autonomous? What does it mean? There are various levels of autonomous, degrees, if you will. Everything from what we have today in a lot of cars, which is an assist cruise control, that'll keep you a certain distance from the car in front of you. We've got assisted braking control, where the car notices, Oh, wait a minute. Someone just hit the brakes right in front of you. I should apply the brakes and it hits the brakes even before your foot is pushing down.  Another way to do this is if you slam your foot on the brake, the car assumes you know something that it doesn't, and it increases the force that you're pushing down with. So even though you might just hit the brake fast and not necessarily hard the car will make it hard.  If you think about these types of braking, for instance, you can start to realize where we're running into a problem when it comes to defining whether or not autonomous vehicles are safe.  Bottom line is autonomous vehicles, which are all the way on the other side of this scale, it started with the brakes and now is hopefully going to end with a car that just drives itself. That's everybody's goal, Ford and GM and Chrysler- Fiat, whatever they're called nowadays of course, these autonomous vehicle companies, such as Tesla. We're going to see a way of measuring them that's different than we've ever seen before.  Right now, if you have a motor vehicle, you have a driver's license, most likely. And do you have insurance. Again, most likely and you have insurance because stuff happens. You don't really mean to hit something. You don't mean to wander out of your lane and end up in the woods. Right?  There's a lot of different things that can happen to you, including having another driver get into your way. My wife has been rear-ended. I was rear-ended. She had a beautiful little car, a little MG, and I can tell to this day that she absolutely loved that little car and she used to drive it around and go down to work. I think it was at Baxter Travenol and she'd be driving down there, just having a great time in Southern California. While she was at a stoplight and somebody rear-ended her and totaled her car. Which is just an absolute shame that wasn't her fault. Was it?  I got rear-ended, I've been ruined it, I think two or three times, never to the point that she was at, where the vehicle had major damage, let alone have to be written off, but it happened right. People aren't attentive. They misjudged the distance. It might be following too close for the conditions, rain or snow or fog or ice. There's a lots of reasons. So we have insurance and we have a driver's license to prove that we indeed at least understand the basics of driving. We passed a test, right? What is it? 70% pass rate, which frankly, isn't such a great rate if you get right down to it.  Anyway, how do we measure these cars? I mentioned the rear end collisions for a very specific purpose. These autonomous cars are racking up millions of miles on  roads out West, really California, Arizona is a very popular place for them to be tested because they don't have a whole lot of weather conditions to worry about. The roads are there and they're not changing very much, particularly in Southern California. They've all been built and there's not another square inch that isn't paved, including people's front lawn, which just absolutely boggled my mind. Why would you have a cement slab for front lawn anyways? That's California for you. These cars driving millions of miles in California are having accidents. They're not having these types of accidents you and I have.  There is a police report that was obtained by the Phoenix new times this last week that revealed a minor Waymo related crash. Now this crash occurred last October and it isn't the only one. This is, kind of, a pattern, but these have not been publicly reported until now.  I'm going to read here just a quick paragraph from what the new times in Phoenix had to say, "a white Waymo minivan" Waymo, of course, Google's little spinoff, to make these autonomous vehicles. "A white Waymo mini-van was traveling westbound in the middle of three westbound lanes on Chandler Boulevard in autonomous mode when it unexpectedly breaked for no reason." "A Waymo backup driver behind the wheel at the time told Chandler police that all of a sudden the vehicle began to stop and gave a code to the effect of stop recommended and came to a sudden stop without warning." A red Chevy Silverado pickup behind the vehicle swerved to the right, but clipped its back panel causing minor damage." No one was hurt. Overall Waymo has a pretty strong safety record.  By the way, that was from an article over at ARS Technica. They have more than 20 million testing miles in the Southwest United States.  If you think about it.  I was adding these numbers up, 20 million miles. My wife and I, we have put well more than a million miles on cars.  That's what happens when you have eight kids, right? Over the years you rack it up, 250,000 this car, 300,000 on that car. Yeah. It  adds up. That's a lot of miles.  If you start looking at how many miles the average person drives a year and start doing some comparisons with the accident numbers, you'll see really that the autonomous vehicles are having far fewer accidents. Fewer accidents involving a death, which is actually very good, but the accidents it's having, even though they tend to be minor are usually the fault of the other driver. A large majority, in fact of the accidents where these Waymo vehicles, this is according to Waymo, large majority of those crashes have been the fault of the other driver.  So what is the fault of the other driver? Who was at fault here? If that red Chevy Silverado pickup truck hit that Waymo autonomous car, it's the Chevy's fault. Why did the Chevy do it? It isn't just because he's driving a Chevy or because it's red or a pickup, he hit that car most likely, I don't know, I'm not talking to the guy, but most likely because the car did something unexpected.  If you read again, that police report it saying that even the driver quote unquote, in, in the Waymo car, this white minivan, who's sitting there to make sure the minivan doesn't run somebody over, that driver said, it was all of a sudden it began to stop. It all of a sudden began to stop and gave this code about a stop recommended and stopped with a warning. Put all of those things in a pot and stirred up and what do you have? You now have a different way of driving.  See that Chevy Silverado, if he's a good driver, he's looking ahead right down the road. If you look too close in front of you, you're going to be over-correcting. You're going to be steering all over the place. You're not going to go in a straight line. So with experience, you're looking down the road, two, three, four minimum car lengths ahead. Depends how fast you're going and that's where you're aiming.  You don't see an obstruction in front of that Waymo minivan. So you're not starting to slow down. It's just like I come up to your traffic light there's cars in front of me, and that light is red. I'm not going to be accelerating and then leaning on the brake, like so many people do. I see,  there's a red light ahead. There's cars stopped at the light. I'm just going to coast to a stop. Right? Save some energy. You save some brake pads. Stop global warming by not heating up those brake pads.  It's not something most people expect. I've never been rear-ended by doing that, but I've certainly been given the finger for doing that even though I tend to get to the cars in front of me, right? About the time the light turns green.   It's fascinating to look at, but what's going to happen? What is ultimately the way to determine how safe these cars are? We cannot use the types of assessments that our insurance companies are using.  Rear end collisions, like this, rarely get anyone killed. That's where the real high expenses come in.  The driver in the back is usually considered to be at fault.  But, what happens when the self-driving cars suddenly comes to the stop in the middle of the road. It's interesting to think about it, isn't it?   Waymo's vehicles sometime hesitate longer than a human would because they have to do all kinds of computations and consider complex situations that they're not used to.   If you've ever written code, say a hundred lines of code. It's going to be in case with cars millions of lines, but out of a hundred lines of code, about 90% of it is for the edge conditions. In other words, things that are unlikely to happen.  So when something weird happens that car's going to hesitate, and that frankly is a problem, the idiosyncrasies of self driving cars. We're going to talk about a wave of app store rejections by Apple iOS for your iPhone, iPad, et cetera. We'll tell you why right here.  You're listening to Craig Peterson, online Craig peterson.com. Apple is making another major change in order to give us more privacy.  I just started this, Improving Windows Privacy and Security Course. If you using an Apple iOS device, you're halfway there. Hello, everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for tuning in . You can always hear me online@craigpeterson.com slash podcast.  Apple has been really the only major vendor out there in the smartphone industry to really have security as their prime motivation. Okay, you could argue money istheir prime motivation, right?  Apple has always tried to be secure. The hardware is quite secure. They haven't licensed their operating system to third parties and that gives them control. Like you can't have anywhere else.  Think about all of the different Android-based smartphones that are out there. There are thousands of different models.  Within each model, sometimes there are dozens of different hardware configurations. So, Google comes out with a security patch and sends it on out to the vendors, well actually makes it available for the vendors to pick up. Then the vendors go and grab it, and they have to test it, and they have to work in their own code, and then they have to work in all of the device drivers stuff, and they have to package it up.  They have to test it on all of the different models. Just think about Samsung, how many models Samsung has, just by itself, a whole lot of models.  It is almost impossible for Android phones to get security patches. Any Android phone that's more than two years old is guaranteed to not get security patches. I talked last weekend about what Samsung is doing to try and solve this. Finally, they must be listening to the show. Samsung had been more or less supporting it's top of the line models for about two years. If you bought a top of the line Galaxy phone from Samsung or another real top hot model, you might get security updates for a couple of years, and that's kind of it. Forget about it beyond that, which is why I said, if you absolutely must use Android, there's only one vendor you can use in that Samsung.  There's only one model phone that you can buy, which is Samsung top of the line phone, and you have to replace it every two years. So Samsung has come out now and said, We're going to provide support security support for our phones for five years. So they're trying to compete with Apple here. Apple has long provided support for five years. And as we saw just a couple of weeks ago with this big act of zero day attack against Apple iOS devices. They will actually provide security updates for much longer than five years, but it's way easier to provide security updates for 30 models of phones than it is for a few hundred models, which is what Samsung has. Expect Samsung to narrow down their product line and also to only really be providing support for the top models within their product lines.  Now, here's what Apple is doing right now. Apple is starting to reject some of these apps that have been in the app store for a long time, as well as new apps. They're rejecting them for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason is that as of iOS 14.5, Apple is requiring all of the vendors to tell you when you go to the app store, what information of yours they're storing, they're using, and they're selling. Okay. Pretty big deal. Isn't it? It's pretty bad deal, frankly, when you get right down to it for facebook and others. Facebook took out full page ads in major newspapers in the US saying, Oh, Apple can't do this. This is terrible. It's going to destroy a small business.  They said, it's going to destroy small business because Facebook can't pry into our lives as much. You know how it is. People say all the time, they're saying, Hey, I, why am I getting these ads? I've never even searched for it and somehow it's coming up.  There's a number of reasons why, but the bottom line is called big data. These apps like Facebook use all kinds of big data to figure out what we might like and part of that is based on what our friends are searching for. So, it puts together this massive mesh and figures it all out. Something that the Obama campaign really pioneered when Facebook gave them all of the data that they had on everyone and anyone.  I'm sitting here shaking my head because somehow that's okay, but having this Cambridge Analytica company do some of it from a paid standpoint and not get wholesale data somehow that was the most evil thing that ever happened.  They forgot about Obama, but you know, I guess that's political.  I criticize both sides of the aisle. I am an equal opportunity criticizer. They deserve it.  We've got Apple now telling Facebook and every other app developer, you have to tell the users. In fact, if you go right now to your phone, your iPad or your iPhone, or the iPod touch, you'll see if you go to the app and you scroll up. You can open a little tab and that tab will all of a sudden become a very big part of the screen because it's tell me what this app is doing with my data. If you don't tell it, Apple's going to block you from the store.  Google has, of course, a bunch of apps. You've probably used them things like Google maps, which I try not to use. Use the Apple maps its gotten much, much better than it was, and they're not tracking you and selling your data like Google does. Google has its own little app for doing searches. Of course, you've got Google Chrome, all these different things from Google. Google stopped updating their apps on the Apple app store because Apple was telling Google, you have to tell people what your doing with their data. Google didn't want to do it. We just want to update the apps, kind of, loophole that was in this whole thing.  They can't not update it forever. Now we're seeing rejections of these developers.  Here is a few lines again from ARS Technica, from a rejection letter that some developers received. "We found in our review that your app collects user and device information to create a unique identifier for the users, devices, apps that fingerprint the user's device in this way are in violation of the Apple developer program license agreement and are not appropriate for the app store."  Now, we're not talking about the fingerprint, as in the fingerprint reader, we're saying that they are looking for unique information about the phone, so they know it's you, they can put it all together. That letter goes on specifically, "your app uses algorithmically converted device and usage data to create a unique identifier in order to track the user."  Apple is really making it clear now to developers. To the ire of Facebook and Google and other companies who rely on that type of tracking to maximize the advertising revenue.  I can understand that, right. I really can. It's also clear that this app tracking transparency means that apps that are trying to track you by any means without your consent are going to face rejection. Bravo to Apple, yet again.  Now I'm not so happy about the statement they made this week. Yeah, Georgia. That's another thing entirely.  Stick around everybody. We will be right back talking more about technology. We're going to talk a little bit about what Google's planning to do in order to help with all of  these Android developers and people that are selling them. Carriers, et cetera. How's Google is going to help them with their security updates. This is an interesting way to do it. It's exactly what Apple's been doing.  You're listening to Craig Peterson. Apple's really gotten into the chip business and it isn't just because they wanted a chip for their iPhone that they could control.  In fact, Apple has even gone further and looks like Google's going to do the same. Hello, everybody. Craig Peterson here.  Google has been an interesting beast over the years. Remember they used to say that their motto was don't be evil. Then a few years ago they removed it from the website and evil seems to be their middle name, a little bit.  One of the things Google has been doing is offering an operating system that can be used and is being used to run almost anything. We're talking mostly, however, about smartphones, certainly by number.  That's called Android. Android was a little operating system, of sorts, that was developed by a kid actually Google bought it from him. They have continued to develop on it. It's not a bad little platform. The biggest problems with it really have to do with what I talked about a little earlier, the security, right? Getting the updates.  I mentioned how Apple really has a walled garden. They have their own environment where everything is contained so they can control it all. Google cannot control anything other than the Google pixel phone.  It cannot control what Samsung is doing with the operating system, Android can run on pretty much any chip that's manufactured from Intel chips, through all of these, a little fast chips, these snapdragons and many others that have been used over the years. There's a lot of them.  One of the biggest problems, of course, is the chip set. I've mentioned that Google can come out with an operating system release to fix some security problems, and then those are pushed out, but nothing's done by the carrier or maybe the developer of the handset. What Google's decided to do is make their own walled garden.  If you buy an Apple iPhone, you buy an Apple iPad, or you buy a new Apple Mac, they're all using the same basic chip set that's designed by Apple. They have some fabs where they're making some of these components. Apple has done that so again, they can control it even better. They don't have to pay that exorbitant Intel tax.  Also over at Apple trying to figure out how can we avoid the Qualcomm tax. It isn't just a Qualcomm, you know, I say tax, as in you pay way more for Intel than you would for another equivalent or better chip. In fact, I have an Apple right in front of me here, an Apple Mac. This is a Mac mini M1 based. It is way faster and cheaper than the Intel version.  You can still get the Intel version of the mini $200 more. There's your Intel tax. And it's about half the speed for some of these things.  For instance, Adobe said that this mac with the Apple chip set in it can be twice as fast as the Mac, same Mac with an Intel processor.  Apple is moving away from not just Intel now, but from Qualcomm. Google wants to move away from Qualcomm.  In many of these smartphones, including the pixels, they're using a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The Qualcomm makes a lot of different types of chips. They also tend to make the radio chips that are in our smartphones. The radio chips are used to talk to the cell towers, just send data to send our voice. That's what they're used for.   Apple is hiring developers right now to develop their own chip set. It might not be there for 5G. It might be 6G. In fact, that's what the advertisements for those jobs were about as 6G. But they're going to move away from all of these standard devices that are very expensive and hard to control.  Google is saying the biggest problem we have with making sure that users of the Android operating system get updates is Qualcomm. Interesting, isn't it?  Google is coming out with, what's known as a system on a chip, SOC. What that is, think of the motherboards of years past.  One of my first computers was an IBM three 60 30 mainframe, and this thing was huge and not much power.  It's just amazing to think about, but it really could sling data around even way back then. It was a nice little computer, if you will. Think about how big that motherboard was. Yeah. It had the main processor. You had the memory controllers, the bus controllers, you had everything right that needed to be there to support it. All of your IO stuff. I might have had serial UARTS built into it, et cetera, et cetera. A system on a chip is basically you got one chip and that's pretty much all you need. Obviously you got to have memory and you're going to have some sort of storage, other more permanent storage devices, but that's the basics of what a system on a chip is.  Google reportedly anyways, that the pixel six is expected to ship with Google custom white chapel is what it's going to be called system on a chip internally.  It's referred to as a GS101. And that GS could be for Google silicone. There's all kinds of people speculating that seems to be the kind of the big one.  There is a pixel six in the works. We do know that. Nine to five Google, is a website out there and they've done a lot of little spying on what's going on, but apparently it's a, I'm not going to get into all of the details, but basically it's going to have three CPU cores in it and everything. It's going to be really quite nice. A large arm core for single threaded work loads and three medium cores for multi work. We've had a problem over the years. How do you make your computer faster? And you can use Intel's approach, which is let's just throw more processors at it. That's great if the software you're using can handle multithreaded environments where you have multiple processors. Okay. You got multiple processors, but how about the access to the memory? What if the process is all one access to the same area of memory at the same time? Then you have to start blocking. It gets very complicated, very fast. Intel chips fade very, very fast. You don't have to get to too many CPU's before all of a sudden the addition of one more CPU cuts the performance of that new CPU by 50%. It really doesn't. It really doesn't take much.  They're all trying to get away from Intel. Many of them have, right? Obviously Google Android phones outside of Google as well have been based on non-Intel hardware for awhile, but they're also now trying to get rid of Qualcomm. And I think that's a good thing. Ultimately, it's going to help out a lot. We're going to see more of this thing in the future, and we're all going to benefit from it, right?  With the Google having control over their system on a chip, at least their pixel, it's going to make their life easier, which means if you buy a pixel, you're probably going to be able to get the upgrades better. Thinking in the back of my mind that maybe Samsung is looking to do the same thing. Maybe Samsung's looking to move away from the Qualcomm chips and move to Google's new system on a chip. I have no idea. I have no inside information, but that would seem to make sense for me, particularly if they want to provide support for years. By the way, Google is in the embarrassing position of offering less support for Android devices than Samsung, which is now up to three years of major updates, which by the way, is Qualcomm's maximum. Samsung has four years of security updates for some of their devices as well.  Stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson.  You can find me online@craigpeterson.com. Don't go anywhere. You've heard about the no fly list, right? Yeah. How about the terrorist and other watch lists? These lists that people have found it's impossible to get their names off of, even when there was no reason to be there in the first place?  Well, I got some news. Hi, everybody. Craig Peterson here.  Department of Homeland security has been criticized for many things over the years. One of the things that's been criticized quite a bit about is this watch list that they maintain. They have a watch list for no fly. People get put on that watch list.  It was originally intended to be, we know this guy's a terrorist, so we're going to put them on, right.  It's not always the way it goes. It starts out almost innocuous and before you know, it, there's all kinds of people getting caught in this big, big net.  That's what's been happening lately and it's going to get worse because the Department of Homeland security has decided that they are going to hire regular old companies to help develop this no fly list and also this terrorist watch list.  Apparently these companies are going to be looking through all kinds of public data, maybe some private data, social media in order to provide information for this new domestic terror watch list. So you look at that and say, okay, I can see that.  We've talked to before problem, man, 20 years ago, I think I was talking about these data aggregators and the problems they create. Cause they're taking public records, they're putting them all together. They're figuring out how it all meshes together and they come up with a pretty accurate picture of who you are.  Now, I've got to say when I've had them on my show here before I was talking to them and said, okay, I want to look up my own records. So I looked them up on their platforms. I did not see a single one that was more than about 30% correct about me.  Now, this was again, some years ago. I think it's been probably almost a decade since I last spoke with the data aggregators. They really are trying to blend into the background, nowadays. This data that's put together by these artificial intelligence systems is not necessarily that accurate and that gets to be a real problem.  So who is DHS gonna hire? Well, from the description that has been reported on here by the Conservative Tree House, it is going to be big tech, specifically, Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and more.  DHS is going to put them under contracts to hire and organize internal monitoring teams to assist the government by sending information on citizens, they deem dangerous again, what could go wrong?  Our government is not allowed to spy on us. How many times have we talked about this? You have of course the five eyes and then they added more and more. These are governments that spy on each other's citizens for each other.  So for instance, US cannot spy on US citizens. So we have an arrangement with the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, to spy on the US citizens for us that makes sense to you. Can you believe that?  We spy on their citizens for them and they spy on our citizens for us and all is good.  What's happening here is The Department of Homeland security realizes it cannot spy on us directly.  This is what they've been doing for very long time, they go to the data aggregators and they pull up the data that they want.  They want to see if this guy maybe selling illicit drugs and they pull up public records. What cars does he have? How many homesdo they own?  Who's he dating?  Has she all of a sudden been buying diamonds and mink coats? What's going on here?  So now we're seeing that the US intelligence apparatus. It's really now going live quickly, to put together lists of Americans who could be potential threats to the government and need to be watched. Now it's all well, and good. It's just like president Biden this week saying, Oh, we're going to have these red flag laws. We're going to stop the sale of certain types of firearms and things. It all sounds good. The reality is we have known about some of these people before, right? This is all just a red herring that the federal government is doing right now because the real problem is these terrorists, the domestic and otherwise that have shot up schools have almost always been reported to law enforcement as dangerous people. Some of them have even been on lists that say they cannot buy firearms, and yet they get firearms. Bad guys.  It's like here in the US. Where does our fentanyl come from?  We're not making a domestically. Our fentanyl is coming from China often through Mexico, and it is killing people here in the US. The whole George Floyd incident, and what's happening with fentanyl in his system, right. The question is, did the police operate properly? What killed him? According to the coroner's report? It was the fentanyl. that killed him.  One way or the other that fentanyl got here from China and is being used on the streets and people are dying from it. Fentanyl's illegal. How, how could they possibly get it? It's illegal for a felon to be in possession of a firearm. How did it felon get the firearm? The police were warned about people in San Bernardino, California, they were warned. The people in that business told the police. We were calling. we're really worried about this guy and nothing happened. So now what are we going to do? We're going to cast an even wider net, when we cannot take care of the reports that come in right now. We're going to get even more reports and they're going to be coming from these AI systems. Again, what, what could possibly go wrong here? It's absolutely incredible. They look at these reports, they try and determine are these actionable, the FBI or other law enforcement agencies. They've been deciding no, it's not actionable. They've been right sometimes and they've been wrong other times. This is a real problem.  What shocked me is NBC news with Andrea Mitchell, NBC news. Not a centrist news organization, very far left. NBC news is even reporting on this. They're realizing the consequences. Here's a quote from NBC. "DHS planning to expand relationships with companies that scour public data for intelligent and to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans." "The department is also contemplating changes to its terrorist. Watch listing process." Absolutely amazing. "Two senior Biden administrative administration officials told NBC news that Homeland security whose intelligence division did not publish a warning of potential violence before the January sixth Capitol riots, is seeking to improve its ability to collect and analyze data about domestic terrorism, including the sorts of public social media posts that threatened a potential attack on the Capitol." "DHS is expanding its relationships with other companies that scour public data for intelligence. One of the senior officials said, and also to better harness the vast trove of data it already collects on Americans, including travel and commercial data through customs and border protection, immigration, customs enforcement, the coast guard, secret service, and other DHS components". There you go from NBC news. So remind yourself what the FBI contractors with access to the NSA database already did in their quest for political opposition, research and surveillance, and then get everything we were just talking about. The director of national intelligence declassified, a FISA judge's ruling. So this is judge James Boasberg, 2018 ruling, where the FBI conducted tens of thousands of unauthorized NSA database queries. Do you remember that story? Very, very big deal. This judge obviously passing these things out like candy and the FBI misusing its power and authority. Again, what could possibly go wrong?  By the way, President Obama apparently has been telling us that we should use the no fly list to keep people from owning guns.  There's already a database maintained by the FBI.  This whole thing is, as I said, a red herring things are going to get really bad if law enforcement does this. Frankly, they're going to do it. There's no two ways about it.  We have to be more careful about keeping our information, our data private. That's what this whole course that started last week was all about. Improving your Windows privacy and security. Locking it down because the way Microsoft ships windows and the way it installs and configures itself by default does not keep your data private. That's a problem. So that's what we're going through. Hopefully, you were able to get into that before we closed it Friday night.  Remind yourself of this and just keep chanting nothing bad could happen here, right? Ah, the joys of all of these computers and databases and the way the work in nowadays.  By the way, if your information is out there at all, even if you use fake names and numbers and addresses and things like I do when it's not required. Right.  I don't lie to the bank. I don't lie to the IRS. Nobody else needs to know the truth. Even if you have been, keep it private, good chance that they know who you are and where you are. Crazy. Crazy.  Hey, visit me online. Craig peterson.com. Make sure you subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Hi everybody. Of course, Craig Peterson here. We're going to talk today about these drone swarms, your personal privacy risk tolerance breach highlights here over orgs individuals. What's going on? Ransomwares way up. As usual, a lot to talk about. Hey, if you miss part of my show, you can always go online to Craig peterson.com. You'll find it there. If you're a YouTube fan CraigPeterson.com/youtube.  This is really an interesting time to be alive. Is that a good way to put it right? There used to be a curse "May you live in interesting times" Least that was the rumor.  One of the listeners pointed this out, there was a TV show that was on about five years ago, apparently, and it used this as a premise. I also saw a great movie that used this as a premise and it was where the President was under attack. He was under attack by drones.  The Biden administration has a policy now where they're calling for research into artificial intelligence, think the Terminator, where you can have these fighting machines.  These things should be outlawed, but I also understand the otherside where if we don't have that tech and our enemies end up having that tech, we are left at a major disadvantage. Don't get me wrong here. I just don't like the idea of anybody doing Terminators, Skynet type of technology. They have called for it  to be investigated.  What we're talking about right now is the drone swarms. Have you seen some of these really cool drones that these people called influencers? Man, the term always bothers me. So many people don't know what they're doing. They just make these silly videos that people watch and then they make millions, tens of millions, I guess it's not silly after all.  These influencers make these videos. There are drones that they can use if they're out hiking, you might've noticed or mountain biking or climbing. They have drones now that will follow them around, automatically. They are on camera. It's following them. It focuses in on their face. They can make the drone get a little closer or further away. As long as the sky is clear there's no tree branches or anything in the way that drone is going to be able to follow them, see what they're doing and just really do some amazing shots. I've been just stunned by how good they are.  Those drones are using a form of artificial intelligence and I'm not going to really get into it right now, but there are differences between machine learning and artificial intelligence, but at the very least here, it's able to track their faces. Now this is where I start getting really concerned. That's one thing. But they are apparently right now training. When I say they, the Chinese and probably us, too, are designing drones that not only have cameras on them, but are military drones.  They have without them having to have a central computer system controlling them or figuring out targets, they're able to figure out where there's a human and take them out. These small drones, they're not going to take them out by firing, a 50 caliber round at them. These drones can't carry that kind of firepower. It's just too heavy, the barrels and everything else -- it's a part of that type of a firearm.  We're talking about small drones again. So obviously they're not going to have a missile on them either. What they do is they put a small amount, just a fraction of an ounce, of high explosives on the drone.  The idea is if that drone crashes into you and sets off its explosives, you're dead, particularly if it crashes into and sets off explosives right there by your head. Now that's pretty bad when you get down to it. I don't like the whole Skynet Terminator part of this, which is that the drones are able to find that human and then kill them.  Think of a simple scenario where there is, let's say there's a war going on. Let's use the worst case scenario and, enemy troops are located approximately here. You send the drones out and the drone has of course, GPS built into it, or some other inertial guidance system or something in case GPS gets jammed.  That drone then goes to that area. It can recognize humans and it says, Oh, there's a human and it goes and kills the human. Now that human might be an innocent person. Look at all of the problems we've had with our aerial drones, the manually controlled ones, just the ones that we've been using in the last 10 years where we say, okay, there's a terrorist here. Now they fly it in from, they've got somebody controlling it in Nevada or wherever it might be, and they get their strike orders and their kill orders. They go in and they'd take it out. There are collateral damages. Now that's always been true.  Every war.  Look at Jimmy Stewart. For example, a younger kids probably don't know who it is. Mr. Smith goes to Washington was one of his movies.  He had some great Christmas movies and stuff too. Anyhow, Jimmy Stewart was a bomber. I think he was a pilot actually in World War II.  He flew combat missions over Germany. Think of what we did in Germany, in Japan, where we killed thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds, probably of thousands of civilians. We now think, Oh we're much better than that. We don't do that anymore. We're careful about civilian casualties. Sometimes to the point where some of our people end up getting in harm's way and killed.  For the most part, we try and keep it down.  A drone like this that goes into an area, even if it's a confined area, and we say, kill any humans in this area, there are going to be innocent casualties.  It might even be friendly fire. You might even be taking out some of your own people.  They've said, okay we've got a way around this. What we're going to do is we're going to use artificial intelligence. The drone doesn't just pick out, Oh, this is a human. I'm going to attack that person. It looks at the uniform, it looks at the helmet.  It determines which side they're on.  If they're wearing an American or Chinese uniform, whatever, it might be programmed for it again, it goes into the area, it finds a human and identifies them as the enemy. Then it goes in and hits them and blows up killing that person. That's one way that they are looking to use drones. The other way is pretty, scary. It's, you can defend yourself against a drone like that. You've got a drone coming. You're probably going to be able to hear it. Obviously it depends. That drone gets close. I don't know if you've ever had the kids playing with drones, flying them around you, or you've done the same thing. You can always hit it out of the air, can't you?   If you're military and you have a rifle in your arm, you can just use the rifle and play a little baseball with that drone. There's some interesting stories of people who've been doing that already.  What happens if we're not talking about a drone, we're talking about a drone swarm. I don't know that you could defend against something like that. There have been studies that have been done. So think, you think there nobody's really working this suit? No, they sure are.  What's going to happen? Well, the Indian army is one that has admitted to doing tests and they had a swarm of 75 drones. If you have 75 drones coming after you, let's say you're a high value target. There is no way you're going to be able to defend yourself against them, unless you can duck and cover and they can't get anywhere near you with their high explosives. The Indian army had these Kamikaze-attack drones. They don't necessarily have to even have high explosives on them.   This is a new interpretation under Joseph Biden. Mr. President of the Pentagon's rules of use of autonomous weapons. We've always had to have "meaningful human control." That's the wording that they Pentagon uses meaningful human control over any lethal system. Now that could be in a supervisory role rather than direct control. So they call it "human on the loop" rather than "human in the loop." But this is a very difficult to fight against.  The US army is spending now billions of dollars on new air defense vehicles. These air defense vehicles have cannons two types of missiles, jammers.  They're also looking at lasers and interceptor drones, so they can use the right weapon against the right target at the right time. That's going to be absolutely vital here because it's so cheap to use a drone. Look what happened. What was a year plus ago now? I'm trying to remember, Central America, Venezuela, somewhere in there where El Presidente for life was up giving a speech. I'm sorry. I didn't mean that to be insulting, but that often is what ends up happening. A drone comes up and everybody's thinking: Oh, it's a camera drone, wave to the camera thing. It got very close to the President and then blew up. On purpose, right? They were trying to murder the president. That's a bad thing. He was okay. I guess some of the people got minor injuries, relatively speaking. When we're looking at having large numbers of incoming threats, not just one drone, but many drones, many of those drones may be decoys.  How cheap is it to buy one of these drones? Just like the ones that were used in China over the Olympic stadium, where they were all controlled by a computer. You just have these things, decoys, all you need is a few of them that can blow up and kill the people you want to kill very concerning if you ask me.  We're paying attention to this as are other countries as they're going forward.  We're going to talk about building your privacy risk tolerance profile, because if you're going to defend yourself, you have to know what you're going to defend against and how much defense do you need? Hey, we take risks every day. We take risks when we're going online. But we're still getting out of bed. We're still going into the bathroom. We're still driving cars. How about your online privacy risk tolerance? What is it? Hi everybody. Thanks for joining me.  We all take risks, and it's just part of life. You breathe in air, which you need. You're taking the risk of catching a cold or the flu, or maybe of having some toxic material inhaled. We just don't know do we?  Well on any given day, when we go online, we're also facing risks. And the biggest question I have with clients when I'm bringing businesses on or high value individuals who need to protect themselves and their information is: okay... what information do you have that you want to try and protect? And what is your personal privacy risk tolerance? So we build a bit of her profile from that and you guys are going to get the advantage of doing that right now without having to pay me my team. How's that for simple?  First of all, we got to understand that nothing is ever completely safe. When you're going online, you are facing real risks and no matter what people tell you, there is no way to be a hundred percent sure that your data is going to be safe online or that your individual personal, private information is going to be safe while you're online. And there's a few reasons for this.  The most obvious one, and the one we think about, I think the most has to do with advertising. There are a lot of marketers out there that want to send a message to us at exactly the right time. The right message too obviously? So how can they do that? They do that by tracking you via Google. So Google that's their whole business model is to know everything they can about you and then sell that information. Facebook, same thing. Both of those companies are trying to gather your information. They're doing it when you are not just on their sites, but when you are on other people's sites. Third party sites are tracking you. In fact, if you go to my website @ craigpeterson.com, you'll see that I do set a Facebook cookie. So I know that you're on Facebook and you visited my site and you might be interested in this or that.  Now I'm not a good marketer. Because I'm not using that information for anything, at least not right now, hopefully in the future, we'll start to do some stuff. But that's what they're doing. And the reason why I don't think it's a terrible thing don't know about you. I don't think it's bad that they know that I'm trying to go ahead and buy a car right now. Because if I'm trying to buy a car, I want advertisements about cars and I don't want to advertisements about the latest Bugatti or Ferrari, whatever it might be. I want a Ford truck, right? Just simple something I can haul stuff around. You already know I have a small farm, and I need a truck because you need one. I'd love to have a front loader and everything too, those costs money and I ain't got it. So that makes sense to me.  And now there's the other side, which is the criminal side. And then there's really a third side, which is the government side. So let's go with the government side here. In the United States our government is not supposed to track us. Now I say "supposed to," because we have found out through Edward Snowden and many other means that they have been tracking us against the law. And then they put in some laws to let them do some of it, but our government has been tracking us. And one of the ways it tracks us is through the "five eyes" program and now that's been expanded and then expanded again. But the five eyes program is where the United States asks the United Kingdom. Hey, listen. Hey bro. Hey, we can't and we're not allowed to track our citizens, but your not us.  How about we have you track,  Trump and his team? Yeah, that's what we'll do.  So there's an example of what evidence is showing has happened. So they go to a third party country that's part of this agreement,d where all of these countries have gotten together, how signed papers and said, yeah, we'll track each other citizens for each other. And that way the United States could say, Hey, we're not tracking you. And yet they're tracking because they're going to a third party country. And the United States, if you are going out of the country, then again, they can track you. Any communications are going out of the country. So that's the government side. And then of course, there's governments that track everything. You look at China and how they control all of the media. They control all of the social networking sites. They basically control everything out there.  We have to be careful with all of that stuff because it can and will be used. And we've seen it has been used to really not just harass people, but do things like throw them in prison disappear them. Look at what just happened in China, with the head of China's biggest company, basically the Amazon competitor over there. And he disappeared for months and then came back, just praising the Chinese Communist government and how great it is to have all of these people over there. Just telling them what to do and how to do it.  We obviously don't live in China. We obviously, I think have oligarchs nowadays. We have people who are rich, who are running the country. They're giving money to campaigns, they get the ear. You seen all of the bribery allegations against the Biden crime family, or his brother, his son, other members, himself as well, based on a hundred Biden's laptop. So I don't trust government for those very reasons.  The hackers let's get into the hackers here. When it comes to hackers, there are, again, a few different types. You've got hackers that are working for governments. And what they're doing is in the case of a small government, like North Korea, they're trying to get their hands on foreign currencies so that they can use those currencies to buy grain, to buy oil, coal, whatever it is they might need to buy. You have governments like China and Russia that are trying to basically run World War three. And they're out there with their hacking teams and groups and trying to figure out how do we get into the critical infrastructure in the United States? Okay. So this is how we get in. Okay. We're in over there. So if we ever want to shut down all of the power to New York City, this is what we do.  Now remember, that's what happened back in, in when was that 2004, I guess that was, yeah. I remember I was down in, I was heading actually to New York city and then all of a sudden, all of the power went out. That apparently was an accident, but it didn't need to be an accident. There are all kinds of, allegations about what actually happened there. But that's why China and Russia are trying to get into our systems. And then they obviously want to play havoc. Look at the havoc that was caused in the U S economy by this China virus that came obviously from China for Huan. if they wanted to shut down our economy, they now have proof that's all it takes. And they are working on the genetics of some of these viruses over there in China. And they're trying to modify the genes and they are the running experiments on their troops to enhance them, to make these super soldiers that maybe, need less sleep or less food are stronger or et cetera, et cetera, they are doing that.  So China is a real threat from just a number of different ways. What would it be like if they could shut down our banking system or make it so we don't trust it anymore?  Okay. That's part one of your Personal Privacy Risk Tolerance Profile. Stick around because we're going to talk more about this and what you can do to help you have privacy. What is your online, personal privacy risk tolerance? It's going to vary, I help high value individuals. I help businesses with this, and now I'm helping you as well. So let's get into part two. Craig Peterson here.  When people ask me, what should I do? That is a very nuanced question. At least it's a very nuanced to answer because you could say something like: if you want to be private, use Signal for  messaging and useTorr for web browsing, that's fine. And it works in some ways and not in others. For instance, Tor is a web browser that is like a super VPN.  It is set up so that you're not just coming from one exit point, you're coming from a whole bunch of different points on the internet. So it's hard to track you down. The problem, however, with Tor is the same problem that you have with VPN services. And I talk about this all the time. VPN services do not make your data secure. It does not keep it private. And in the case of VPN services that you might get for free or even buy, and also the case with Tor. Using those VPN services that can make you less secure again. Why did Sutton rob banks? He robbed banks because that's where the money was, where he is a bad guy going to go. If they want easy and quick access to lots of peoples. Private information?  They're going to hack a VPN server aren't they? Yeah. And if they can't hack the VPN server, why not just have server space in the same data center that VPN provider is renting their space from and then hack it from there, try and get in from there. Or maybe get into the service; the data centers will logs or the VPN servers logs, because even when they say they don't log, they all log, they have to log, they have to have your information otherwise, how can they bill you? And the ones that say we don't log, which are those people are "lieing" by the way. But those guys that have these VPN servers and they're trying not to log, they're trying not to log where you're going. They get fooled all of the time as well. Because their servers have logs, even if they're deleted and disappear.  So I just wanted to make it clear that you, I, if you have a low risk tolerance, when it comes to your privacy, Tor is not going to do it for you. VPN services are not going to do it for you. You have to look at all of the individual things you're doing online and then decide based on those. What is it that is the most. Beneficial for you in that particular case. Okay.  So Signal, I brought it up. So let's talk about it for a minute. Signal is the messaging app to use bar none. Signal is encrypted and do, and it is known to be highly secure, which again, Doesn't mean it's a hundred percent, but with Signal, you can talk to people on other platforms. You can have a Mac and talk to somebody on a, on an Android or a windows device.  But another consideration is who are you talking to? If you're talking to other people that have Macs and you don't want your information to get out, but you're not horrifically worried about it, right? You want it to be private. You want end to end encryption. You're better off using iMessage on your Mac.  If you're on Windows or Android, there are not any great built-in messaging apps. WhatsApp. If you listened last week and I've got it up on my website, WhatsApp is not great. They claim it's not horrible, but why would you use it if there's a question use Signal instead. All right. So there's just a lot to consider when we're talking about it, but here is your big bang for the buck thing. That you can do. And that is use password manager. Now we talked about how Google Chromium Google's Chrome and of course now Microsoft edge. Actually it was the other way around Microsoft edge came up with it first and now Google's adding it. But Edge has this password manager built-in. That's all well and good, but I don't know, trust those. I use a third party password manager that is designed for password management and that's all the company does. They're focused on the security behind it, which is why I recommend 1Password and lLastPass. 1Password being my absolute favorite. Use those password managers. That's the biggest bang for your buck if you have a low tolerance for your information, getting out. All right?  Now that will help to enforce good password habits. It will generate passwords for you, both of those, and it'll generate good passwords and it'll keep them for you, which is really great. If you don't want to be tracked while you're browsing online, you can use an ad blocker. I have a couple of webinars I've done on that. If you want a video of one of those webinars to go through that talks about these different blockers ad blockers and others. I'd be glad to send you a link to one of them, but you're going to have to email Me@craigpeterson.com. And I will send you a link to one of those webinars I did on that stuff. No problem. But some websites are going to break when you use an ad blocker. So sometimes you have to turn it off and you have to turn it back on. The ones I tell you  how to use and how to configure, I actually show you a step-by-step we walked through it. Those allow you to turn off that particular ad blocker on an individual site that was broken because of the ad blocker. So pretty straightforward. You don't have to remember to turn it all on and all off. All right.  Now studies are showing that people are concerned about their privacy. In fact, I believe last I saw said that I think it was about 70% of Americans believe that their smart phones are being tracked by advertisers, and the tech companies provide them with the information.  May, 2020 Pew research report talked about this, but 85% of consumers worry, they can trust corporations with their data. So what do you do? Because. Most people don't have the support or the tools. They don't have. I have the money, they didn't get a big inheritance. They're not a high value individual that needs my help and can afford it -- where we go through everything that they do and make sure they have the best solution for each thing, including banking, including going online and trading stocks, all of that stuff. You gotta be very careful with all of that stuff.  I'm really sad that I have to say this here, but there are no online privacy solutions that will work for everybody. And there are no solutions that work in every situation either. So what you need to do is understand what you care the most about. And I think for all of us, what we should care the most about is our financial situation and anything associated with that: our intellectual property, if we're businesses, our bank accounts, all of that sort of stuff is stuff we really should be concerned about. And that means you need to watch it. Make sure you're not sharing stuff that you really don't want to share. Okay?  So even privacy experts like myself, don't lock everything down. We locked most of it down. Particularly since we have department of defense clients, we have to maintain a very high standard.  All right. Stick around and visit me online. CraigPeterson.com. Make sure you sign up for my newsletter. You'll get all of the latest news and the tips I send out every week. I don't want to leave you hanging. We're going to get into a few more things to consider here, because obviously we are going to share some of our personal information. So I'm going to tell you how I share my personal information and it might be a bit of a surprise. Hello everybody. Thanks for listening.  We all enjoy products and services, and that's what I'm saying. When when I talk about security experts, we don't lock everything down. I've used 23 in me. I did that thing, of course, I'm sending in my DNA. That's been an issue in some cases, but that's what I did. I use these online map programs. I use Google maps. I use weighs more than Google maps. I use Apple maps cause I'm trying to figure out how do I get to where I want to go in a reasonable amount of time. But what I do is I lie about the answer to the security questions. Okay. I don't want them to know my dad's name. My mother's maiden name, the street. I was, I grew up on my first school, my first car, none of their business. Because it's a lot of that information is actually publicly available. How many of us on LinkedIn have right there in our profile? Yeah I went to McGill university or I w I grew up here's pictures of my childhood home, and that picture has GPS coordinates in it. So if we use the real information. We are giving away way too much. I use a little phrase I coined here, which is lie to your bank. And you might remember. I did a show on that sometime ago. And the idea here is in your line to the bank about your financial situation, it's nothing like that. You're lying to your bank about this personal information. They don't need to know these personal questions. They give you for their security questions. It's really important to understand all of this stuff. Okay. For instance, this is Jennifer Granick, she's at the ACL, you and she said her dad died recently. And the accountant said it's really important to report the death to credit companies because the answers to many of the security questions are on the public death certificate. So answers to security questions really can be a nightmare, but that doesn't mean you have to give them the right answers. So for instance, I found a site online. I should try and dig that up again, but it generated fake identities. And I had a generate like 5,000 of them for me thinking, okay, they might go at some point and it even generated fake social security numbers, fake phone numbers, names, addresses, everything, everything you'd need for a fake identity. And the idea here isn't to cheat anybody out of anything. The idea is, Hey, Mr. Website, you don't know, you don't need to know who I really am. So on some websites, I'm female some websites I've, I'm only 30 years old on other websites. I'm 80 years old. It doesn't matter. You can call it a lie if you want. But in reality, you're just trying to keep your information straight not and another advantage. Of these password managers. Cause you're trying to keep your information straight, right? It's hard to remember a lie and you have to tell a lie to enforce a lie. You're not, all that stuff your mother told you. And she's right about that too, by the way. But if you're using a password manager, what I do is I create a unique email address. In fact, my email addresses are extremely unique, so I'll use a plus sign as part of my email address and my mail server knows. Oh, okay. That's just Craig trying to track who is using. That email address. So I'll have Craig plus YouTube for instance, or@mainstreamdotnetorcraigpeterson.com. I actually have a whole bunch of domains that I use as well. And if you want a secure email service have look at proton mail. They're actually very good from a security standpoint. So there's nothing illegal about giving them this information. Yeah. You're lying to them, but you gotta keep your lies straight. Another reason to use a password manager because I have the password manager generate my. My password I put in the email, which is unique for every website I go to, I never use that same email address twice if I can avoid it. And then I, and I use aliases too in my email server. And then I go and in my notes section for that website in my password manager, I put in the answers to the security questions and I just make stuff up nonsensical stuff. So it's asking what my first car, it might be a transformational snooze. There you go. I just made something up. So I'll put those notes into my notes in my password manager and save them. So if I ever have to do some sort of a recovery with those guys, it's going to be simple. Because I just look in my password manager, I got to go in there anyways to get my password right. And my email address or username to login. And there it is, there's my security questions. And then the password manager, cause I'm using one password. It has a little database, it keeps and everything in there

Calling all UArtists! We're talking about your favorite things: community and collaboration! Hosts Chae Harris and Kaitlin Manion dive into ways UArts students can connect with folks within our community in a safe, positive manner. While this episode is geared towards our UArtists, these tips can be adapted to fit any college campus. Chae's Pick of the Week "Reminiscing" by The Little River Band Kaitlin's Pick of the Week Raspberry Zinger Tea Check out UArts Office of Campus Life on Instagram! @uarts_campuslife

Student Jamie Kaufman joins the podcast to talk about how she started teaching virtual voice lessons during the pandemic. Hosts Chae and Kaitlin talk to Jamie about she manages her time, what tools she uses to teach her lessons, and why she decided to jumpstart this passion of hers earlier than expected. Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast dedicated to telling UArts student stories. We record on Zoom with new episodes going live every Thursday.

When was the last time you celebrated yourself? When was the last time you reflected on your goals? Hosts Chae Harris and Kaitlin Manion dive into their own personal strategies of reflection and discuss how to apply them to your own life. While it may seem like the way of the world to keep going and going without any reward, that's not always the best thing for your mental health. Other topics in this episode include burnout and how to identify it, resources to lean on in case you need some assistance, and the value of accountability buddies. You even get to hear a little bit about Chae and Kaitlin's own personal goals! Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast dedicated to telling the stories of UArts students and speaking about topics that could relate to our community of artists. We record on Zoom since we are remote this semester. Please leave us a rating and subscribe. We are so happy you are here! Chae's Pick: Disclosure (2020) film, Netflix Kaitlin's Pick: Sit With Whit (@sitwithwhit)

UArts student Gabby DiMarco is President of the UArts Games Club, which welcomes all gamers to join them for everything from video games to board games. As long as you have an interest in gaming, you have a place in this student organization. Gabby talks about how UArts Games Club has found community during the pandemic and how this student organization creates an inclusive environment. Hosts Chae and Kaitlin learn more about who is considered a "gamer" and gaming in general. Find Games Club on Instagram at instagram.com/uartsgc Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast dedicated to UArts student stories and is recorded on Zoom. We would love if you subscribed to learn along with us.

Student Kaila Hammonds (Illustration '21) joins hosts Chaela Harris and Kaitlin Manion to talk about how she took her student organization, Lift Every Voice, and turned it into a nonprofit business that she could share with the world. Kaila talks about how she came up with the idea for her organization, which centers around self-awareness. She also discusses how she decided to take a step away from Lift Every Voice to focus on herself and healthy decision-making. Connect with Lift Every Voice on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lift.every.voice/ Visit Kaila's website: https://www.kmonay.com/ Connect with Campus Life on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uarts_campuslife/ The Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast dedicated to telling UArts students' stories. We record on Zoom because we are remote this semester, so the audio may be imperfect. We hope you still come and kick it with us. A big shoutout to student, Steven Pittman for our podcast jingle and student, Hayley Romansky for our podcast artwork.

Student Cory Seals joins the Kickin' It With Campus Life podcast for an episode all about how to amplifying Black voices, finding your advocacy path, and how to take care of yourself as an advocate. Cory, Chae, and Kaitlin discuss the importance of self-research, being willing to learn, and knowing what is best for yourself when it comes to advocacy and self-care. Thank you to Steven Pittman (MBET '21) for our new podcast jingle! Chae's Pick: Malcolm and Marie on Netflix Kaitlin's Pick: Tunde Oyeneyin's classes on Peloton Cory's Pick & Resources: Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens Haymarket Books Noname Book Club Beyond Humanism (but not without it?) by Von Davien Wilson The Kickin' It With Campus Life podcast is dedicated to telling UArts students' stories. We record weekly on Zoom.

In this episode, student host, Chae Harris and staff host, Kaitlin Manion discuss the stigma around attending art school, finding meaning in your class work, creating art for yourself vs. art for profit, and so much more. Along the way, Chae and Kaitlin talk about how to balance different priorities as an artist through time management. Join them as they take a not-so-average approach to time balancing it all! Kickin' It With Campus Life is recorded on Zoom, so our audio isn't always perfect. However, we hope that doesn't hinder from bringing you into our corner of the internet. Chae's Pick of the Week: instagram.com/justwearco Kaitlin's Pick of the Week: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni Time Management Resources: https://www.timecamp.com/blog/2018/07/15-effective-proven-time-management-techniques-2020/ todoist.com Follow the Office of Campus Life on Instagram: @uarts_campuslife Kickin' It With Campus Life is a podcast devoted to telling UArts student stories.

Enjoy this preview of what's to come from the Kickin' It With Campus Life! This is a podcast produced by the Office of Campus Life at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA and hosted by student, Chae Harris and New Student Programming Coordinator, Kaitlin Manion. Each week, they will be diving into topics like self-care for students, creating art during the pandemic, activism, and so much more. Every episode will start off with Chae and Kaitlin talking about something they love and then they'll get into the topic. Our goal is to help share UArts student stories with those inside and outside of our community with new episodes coming out every Thursday. Follow the Office of Campus Life on Instagram at @uarts_campuslife to know when a new episode drops. If you're a UArts student, check out the Keepin' Up With Campus Life email every Monday to find out what Chae and Kaitlin will be talking about the podcast that week. Chae and Kaitlin hope that you'll come hang out with them on the podcast!

Lynn Blackwell Denton is an award winning screenwriter, filmmaker and visual artist. In 2015 her screenplay The Milliner was named Second Finalist in the Bentonville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition juried by actor Bruce Dern. In 2016, Lynn published a novelized version of The Milliner now available on Amazon.com. Lynn began her career as a visual artist and her films evolved from art installations that referred increasingly to women’s stories. TIME FRAME ZIGGURAT, at Nexus Gallery, included a soundtrack and photos of women in her family and their houses; POLLY’S DREAM featured a mixed media, two part installation at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art; and for SOPHIA’S HOUSE, at the PAFA’s Morris Gallery, Lynn built a room-sized installation that celebrated woman as the original creator, inviting female sculptors to refer to early myths in making works emblematic of the first creations. Christina Brandon-Gómez is a bilingual screenwriter and aspiring novelist. She graduated with honors from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (UARTS), where she received her B.F.A in Writing for Film and Television. She has studied creative writing at the University College of London, the College of Santa Fe, and Arcadia University, where she received her M.F.A .Shortly after graduating from UArts, Christina was a contributing writer for Keith Chamberlain's web series, Herrings. Following the death of her father, Christina tackled mental health in Black culture in her script, Small and Mighty, 2019 5Shorts Project finalist, 2020 Black Screenplays Matter semi-finalist, and 2020 Hip Hop Film Festival Official Selection.In 2019, after connecting at a Philadelphia Women in Film and Television (PWIFT) event, Christina began collaborating with artist, writer, and director Lynn B. Denton on the adaptation of Lynn's screenplay and novel, The Milliner. A period drama set in Jim Crow Georgia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Milliners traces the journey of two artisans: Dayo, a black seamstress, and Keziah, a white milliner, as their paths converge while searching for work and being swept up in the mobilization of the women's vote.Christina's teen post-apocalyptic drama, Hoodz, is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit, both at the local and national level. She intends to adapt her short film Small and Mighty into a feature length project.

Check out DanceConnectSeries.com for more information on each guest! Instagram: @danceconnectseries -------- Jazmine Colón is a Philadelphia based dance artist from West Palm Beach, Florida. In West Palm Beach, Jazmine graduated from Alexander W. Dreyfoos Highschool of the Arts. In 2019, Jazmine graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. At UArts, she had the pleasure of performing in works choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith, Andrea Miller, Jesse Zaritt, Sidra Bell, Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, Helen Simoneau, and Beth Gill. She also has had the opportunity to study abroad in France and Belgium, dancing and learning from artists such as Daniel Condomine, Gala Moody, and Clinton Stringer. Jazmine has also danced alongside companies including BODYTRAFFIC, Hofesh Shechter Co., Akram Khan Dance Co., and Chunky Move. After graduating, She was given the opportunity to assist Elisa Clark in the restaging of Mass by Robert Battle, Jimena Paz in the restaging of Stephen Petronio's Lareigne, and Annie Rigney for her new work Etude for Elbow, all at Uarts. She is a current member of Ballet Florida, a South-Florida based dance company. Jazmine is also the small business owner and Designer of the work is never over, creating handmade dance wear that celebrates inclusivity of all bodies. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Dan and Jenny talk about her upbringing in Detroit, Motown, coming to Philly as a student at UArts, learning the Meisner method and how it helped inform her as a songwriter as well as an actor, Canadian rock radio, and striving to be a "valid person". Jenny's new single, 'Higher Self', is out now anywhere you get digital music, along with a video featuring dancer Abigail Kelvas.

Minji Kwon is a graphic designer, dog walker, babysitter, and a snack connoisseur. Amanda Hagenbuch is a photographer, baker, barista, and a musician for her band, Weekend Athlete. The two went to University of the Arts and I know them by going to UArts parties. We talk Philly Naked Bike Ride, Pretzel Ride, and dropping off pastries at Amanda's house parties at 3AM. This episode is not sponsored by Boba Guys. Please welcome Minji Kwon and Syd of Weekend Athlete to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/weekendathleteband instagram.com/mkwon instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh instagram.com/rashadrastam rashadrastam.com wearmanyhats.com dahsar.com

Nico DeJesus is a professional singer, dancer, and actor that was most recently the Assistant Dance Captain and swing at "Pretty Woman the Musical" on Broadway at the Nederlander theater! He can also be seen on film in "Disney's Newsies the Broadway Musical" playing the role of Romeo. While living in Los Angeles, Nico danced on Disney Channel's "Shake it Up" and "That's so Raven." He can also be seen on MTV's "Awkward" where he played the role of Henry. Nico was a featured performer on Jay-Z’s “H to the Izzo” music video where he can be seen rapping along side Jay-Z. He also danced on numerous commercials for Barbie, Warner Bros. Intro: 0:00 How you got into dance and how that love first started?: 0:21 What did your dance training consist of initially?: 2:27 What was it like being a young male in the dance space?: 4:06 What was your support system like at home?: 6:38 How did your experience at a Performing Arts school help you moving forward?: 9:13 Mr. Robinson's impact on you as a dancer and as a man.: 11:55 Decision to pursue higher education and dance.: 14:27 Deciding between UCLA and UArts for college. Dream school or full ride scholarship?: 18:24 Work life balance? Were you able to go on dance auditions during college?: 21:05 Dance studio built at home. What did that resource being readily available do for you?: 23:04 Booking a job with Disney Live after postgrad. What was that transition like?: 25:25 The difficulty an artist faces in between jobs.: 29:49 What you learned from Kumon and how that enhanced your work ethic?: 32:48 Putting in the work to get to where you are.: 36:47 Transitioning and being in New York.: 40:26 What was it like being a Newsie? How did Newsies prepare you for future work?: 47:48 What have you been up to during the pandemic?: 52:20 What would you say to your thirteen-year -old self?: 55:54

BOUJEE MUSTARD (AKA DESTINY WILLIAMS) is a 21-year-old photographer from Philadelphia, Pa. Boujee started photographing events, weddings, and banquets at the age of 14. But once she graduated High School in 2017 a interest in portraits and fashion peaked. Once she begun college she had gained a interest in creating her own sets, and also graphics to promote her own work. Ever since then Boujee has become known for series such as “Thank You” a portrait series where she made a backdrop completely made out of thank you bags, and “FEARNONI**A” where she photographed a group of men to and showcasing the portraits in white spaces. In the series, she recreated a barbershop poster where it showcases different styles and poses of black men, which had gotten a huge response on twitter. Boujee now is finishing her degree at the University of the Arts. She then hopes to continue to expand in the area of fashion & fine art photography.

Creativity thru the lens of an Artistic Director, Educator & Broadway Performer"Creativity is who I am"Kristin Huffman appeared in the Tony award winning Broadway musicalby Stephen Sondheim-"Company". It also won a Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for Best Revival of a Musical in which she played the leading role of “Sarah” as well as flute, sax and piccolo. The production was filmed and aired on PBS's Great Performances.She has a career that has spanned over 20 years professionally performing with operas, theatres, symphonies around the US and she played “Christine” in the European tour of Phantom.Kristin is the Founder and Producing Artistic director of The New Paradigm Theatre (NPT), a professional non profit (501c3) theatre company, whose mission is to foster creative problem solvers, leaders, and global citizens through theatre arts education and productions. www.nptheatre.org. She’s delighted to include college interns from Hartt, UArts, Uconn, WCSU and other colleges in the shows and events. In 2016 sixteen college students from Hartt sang onstage in Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway show “My Love Letters to Broadway” as part of NPT’s college intern program. Kristin is thrilled to include college students whenever she can in these types of shows, as well as master classes with pros from Film/TV and Broadway.As a former Miss Ohio/Runner-up Miss America she continues hosting and producing charity events for NPT that feature her favorite Broadway, Film and TV colleagues often in combination with the NPT Youth Board of directors and college interns.She is a professor at the University of Hartford and trains singer/actors for a life “on the wicked stage”. She is a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG/AFTRA) and she frequently judges international choir competitions in the US and Canada.She graduated Summa Cum Laude from both Capital University Conservatory of Music BM (Music ed: flute and voice concentration) and Northwestern University (Masters of Music- Opera) www.kristinhuffman.com

This week's EYE on NPI looks at a new microcontroller series from ST Micro. Yes, last week was also an ST part - but this one popped into my NPI feed and I just thought it was so interesting, ST gets a double-header! The STM32L4P5 series of chips (https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=%20%09STM32L4P5) looks like an excellent competitor to the Microchip ATSAMD51 (https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=atsamd51) we use so often - with matching-or-better specifications. Let's take a closer look! You can get more spec's about this chip over at ST's website (https://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/stm32-32-bit-arm-cortex-mcus/stm32-ultra-low-power-mcus/stm32l4-plus-series/stm32l4p5-q5/stm32l4p5ce.html). Here's the overview: The Cortex-M4 core features a single-precision floating-point unit (FPU), which supports all the Arm® single-precision data-processing instructions and all the data types. The Cortex-M4 core also implements a full set of DSP (digital signal processing) instructions and a memory protection unit (MPU) that enhances the application’s security. These devices offer two fast 12-bit ADCs (5 Msps), two comparators, two operational amplifiers, two DAC channels, an internal voltage reference buffer, a low-power RTC, two general-purpose 32-bit timers, two 16-bit PWM timers dedicated to motor control, seven general-purpose 16-bit timers, and two 16-bit low-power timers. The devices support two digital filters for external sigma delta modulators (DFSDMs). In addition, up to 24 capacitive sensing channels are available. They also feature standard and advanced communication interfaces such as: four I2Cs, three SPIs, three USARTs, two UARTs and one low-power UART, two SAIs, two SDMMCs, one CAN, one USB OTG full-speed, one camera interface and one synchronous parallel data interface (PSSI). In particular, we like some of the 'upgrades' we see compared to other chips - the roomy 320KB RAM, 5 MSPS 12-bit ADCs (that's the same as a basic pocket oscilloscope!), 9 x 16-bit timers, CAN bus (usually you have to upgrade to get CAN support!), built in op-amps, and... most interesting to me is a built in TFT manager! Not just parallel (6800/8080) style but the 'real' 24-bit TFT with HSYNC/VSYNC/CLK signals! Usually you have to go to a Cortex M7 to get something like that included (see the iMX RT or STM32H7 series for example). 24-bit TFT can be easily converted to VGA (using some resistors) or even HDMI using off-the shelf adapter chips (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/adafruit-industries-llc/2219/1528-1452-ND/5761220) so it's really a neat thing to see. True TFT output is a rarity because of the frame buffer you normally need. From what ST says in the datasheet the way this is managed in RAM is to have a 8-bit palette of 24-bit colors. So for a classic 4.3" TFT display (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1591) that is 480x272 pixels, that would mean 128KB of RAM to address all pixels. A 320x240 display would be only 75KB. The LCD-TFT display controller provides a 24-bit parallel digital RGB (red, green, blue) and delivers all signals to interface directly to a broad range of LCD and TFT panels with the following features: • One display layer with dedicated FIFO (64 x 32-bit) • Color look-up table (CLUT) up to 256 colors (256 x 24-bit) per layer • Up to 8 input color formats selectable per layer • Flexible blending between two layers using alpha value (per pixel or constant) • Flexible programmable parameters for each layer • Color keying (transparency color) • Up to four programmable interrupt events Right now there's only two packages available - a 144 LQFP STM32L4P5ZGT6 (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics/STM32L4P5ZGT6/497-STM32L4P5ZGT6-ND/11590990) and a 169-BGA STM32L4P5AGI6P (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics/STM32L4P5AGI6P/497-STM32L4P5AGI6P-ND/11591137) but according to the datasheet there will be 48, 64 and 100 pin variant QFN & QFP's. For now we recommend picking up the STM32L4P5AGI6PU Discovery also known as STM32L4P5G-DK on Digi-Key (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/stmicroelectronics/STM32L4P5G-DK/497-STM32L4P5G-DK-ND/11613090). Which has a built in debugger/programmer and is directly supported in STM32 Cube IDE. By the way, if you have not yet, subscribe to Digi-Key's new product feed at https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/rss or visit the website (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/) for a nice interface to search through the latest exciting NPIs from Digi-Key! Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/

Lisa Devine is a Social Play Director who has dedicated her career to exploring our culture, its problems, asking the hard questions, and starting conversation toward solutions.Her journey began when a teacher confiscated her book in fourth grade and deemed it unacceptable to be read. The note stapled to the book cover and addressed to her parents is the image that keeps her moving forward in her career.Lisa is an award-winning Off-Broadway director who has juggled the academic and professional theater for over 25 years. As a developer of new plays, she is known for building relationships with playwrights over the years. She worked with Tim Blake Nelson's Eye of God through a 15-year journey with productions in Oklahoma, Chicago, and New York City. These productions received rave reviews, extended runs, and many awards.Lisa is a proud Founding Member and Artistic Advisor to the Off-Broadway company Theatre East. She was recognized as an Innovative Director by TCG and sat on a panel of distinguished directors at the National Conference. She has directed of 100 productions in 10 states.Lisa is a proud college professor who uses her classroom to expand her artistry as she guides her students toward finding their voices. She has taught at prestigious programs at Rutgers, DePaul, UARTS and others. Currently she is on faculty at Brookhaven College and University of North Texas. Teaching awards include Excellence in Teaching, Who's Who, NISOD (State of Texas) and KC/ACTF awards.Using her theatrical skills Lisa has been an Associate Artistic Director, Vocal Coach, Script Doctor, Corporation Communication Specialist, and Conflict Negotiator. Degrees include Master of Fine Arts Oklahoma, Bachelor f Fine Arts from Sam Houston State University and she Associate Member of SDC.We are pleasantly surprised the 'Give Me Twenty' format delivers exactly what we thought: simple questions lead to the most unexpected answers.

Design Contest Wrap Up - Thanks so much to our sponsor, Mouser Electronics for sponsoring the contest. Our Judges will be wrapping up there choices by the next podcast. Thanks to our judges: Joe Grand Whitney Merrill Charlyn Gonda Sophi Kravitz Announcements for the winners the Judges pick will be on the Blog and normal Social Media places Winner of the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Favorite is.... jeffreybernath with the Mouse Controlled Mouse Controller! Thank you to everyone that entered! There is still a chance to win a prize based on who the judges pick. To see all the entries check out Hackaday.io Parker Finishing the Design Contest Trophy Raspberry Pi with the Touch 7” screen Guizero as the application framework WiFi connectivity handling with RaspiWiFi Hiding the cursor with unclutter Getting Mars Weather Data Keeping the Pi from turning off the display and sleeping Stephen Fermentation Controller (still needs a name) Processor: STM32F091RCT 8 UARTS for 6 one wire, one WIFI, one USB Got a nucleo board for development AMW007 dev board for development Takachi FC8-50-25GS enclosure 500mm x 250mm x 75.4mm 19.68” x 9.84” x 2.96mm This size is driven by all the stuff on the bottom panel Buy Display ERM320240SBS-2 LCD Graphic display Already working* Interesting power issue to solve Visit our Public Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!

TBJ112: Matt Niess on The Capital Bones, 3 x 3, and getting help from the "Trombone Angel" Matt Niess is a multifaceted trombonist who served with The U.S. Army Band in Washington, DC and currently serves as Adjunct Associate Professor, Classical and Jazz Trombone at Shenandoah Conservatory. From his bio page: Matt Niess is a cross over trombonist who served with The U.S. Army Band in Washington, DC from 1988-2018 where he played with The Army Blues and The Army Brass Quintet. He is from Levittown, PA where he attended Woodrow Wilson High School. He earned an undergraduate degree in Instrumental Music Education from West Chester University in 1988, a Masters degree in classical trombone performance from George Mason University in 1996 and a DMA in classical trombone performance from The Catholic University of America in 2015. ​He was director of bands at Calvert High School in Prince Frederick, MD from 1986-1988, and has taught on the jazz faculties of Shenandoah, George Mason, and Towson Universities.  He also served as director of jazz studies and professor of trombone at West Chester University from 2003-2007. Currently, he is the professor of jazz trombone at George Mason University and professor of trombone at The Shenandoah Conservatory teaching both jazz and classical. With The Army Blues he has served as Senior Producer and Jazz Coordinator of the Eastern Trombone Workshop producing over 300 concerts at various venues ranging from The White House to the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 2008 he founded the National Jazz Workshop which runs two summer camps and sponsors a year-round honor band. To date over 1,000 students have participated in “NJW”. The year-round band has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Jazz Education Network, New Orleans, St. Louis, Dallas, Blues Alley, and numerous jazz festivals. He is the founder and director of The Capitol Bones, a jazz trombone ensemble, which has received national recognition and was winner of the 1991 International Trombone Association Kai Winging Award. ​He has appeared as a soloist, clinician, and adjudicator at numerous venues including The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, IAJE, JEN, ITA, ETW, MENC, PMEA, VMEA, University of Las Vegas, University of North Texas, West Virginia University, Disneyland & Disneyworld All-American College Band, James Madison University, UARTS, University of Utah, The Nebraska Jazz Orchestra, Longwood College, The U.S. Air Force “Noteables”, Mary Washington College, Shepherd College, University of Kentucky, University of Texas, George Mason University, University of Wisconsin, Towson University, University of North Carolina, Shenandoah University, Longwood College, West Chester University, University of Tennessee and others. With The Army Band he has performed with Clark Terry, Doc Severinsen, Bill Watrous, Phil Wilson, Conrad Herwig, Carl Fontana, Don Menza, Chris Potter, John Clayton, Alabama, Rany Travis, Ertha Kitt, Allen Vizutti, Jon Faddis, The New York Voices, Terrell Stafford, Michael Abene, Dave Steinmeyer, Steve Turre, Tim Hagens, John Swana, James Moody, Buddy DeFranco, Dr. Billy Taylor, Bob Curnow, Mike Tomaro and many others.  Venues include  numerous Universities, schools and jazz festivals, I.A.J.E., ETW, The Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, MENC, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The Monterey Jazz Festival, Elkhart Jazz Festival, International Trombone Festival, National Trumpet Competition, The Trumpet Guild, Performances abroad include Germany, Switzerland, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Russia, Cuba, Afghanistan, Norway and Sweden. As a sideman he has performed with Ray Charles, Franky Valli, Pancho Sanchez, Shirley Jones, The Temptations, Diane Shuur, Joan Rivers, The Ink Spots, Merv Griffin, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra Jr., Ben Vereen, The Four Tops, The Manhattan Transfer, Pia Zadora, The Smithsonian Masterworks Orchestra, David Baker, Bobby Caldwell, The Rob Parton Jazz Tech Big Band, The Gene Krupa Orchestra, Slide Hampton and many others. He has produced CDs with The US Army Blues Jazz Ensemble, The West Chester University Criterions Jazz Ensemble, The Capitol Bones and The Capitol Bones Big Band and has appeared on many recordings to include The Mark Taylor/Steve Fidyk Big Band, The New Gene Krupa Orchestra, The Alan Baylock Big Band, Graham Breedlove, Doug Hamilton, The Mike Tomaro Big Band, over 100 recordings with The Studio A Big Band and The Washington Winds, Warner Bros. Publications, Alfred, FJH Music, Carl Fischer Music, Belwin Publications and Hal Leonard Publications. He has also recorded soundtracks for FOX TV, HBO, Discovery, and TLC. In this fun and lively discussion, we cover: Earbuds From Houston to West Chester Army Band Lance is bad at math (3x7+3=? hint: not 30) Becoming a band director in Frederick MD Meeting the Navy Commodores and finding out about the Army Blues gig Learned jazz In his mind, he's 6'2" Preparing for the Army Blues audition Getting help from the "Trombone Angel" Replacing Harry Watters in the Army Brass Quintet Do everything three times, three times a day Teaching at Shenandoah Saddled with a work ethic USAF Band stories Mike Tomaro National Jazz Workshop The Capital Bones The importance and value of sight-reading skills Charles Colin "Rhythms Complete" book What's the payoff for a piece of music Bill Watrous running sound for The Capital Bones in Rochester New Capital Bones album coming soon Matt's kids are both freaky good musicians The importance of speaking the language of jazz Terry Bingham and a sweaty bald head LINKS: Matt Niess Shenandoah Conservatory bio page The Capital Bones Facebook page Want to help the show? Here are some ways: Help others find the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes. Show us some love on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Help us pay the bills (and get regular bonus episodes!) by becoming a Patreon patron. Show some love to our sponsors: The brass program at The Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University and Parker Mouthpieces (including the Andrew Hitz and Lance LaDuke models.) Tell your friends! Expertly produced by Will Houchin with love, care, and enthusiasm.

BRUH. This man really does it all. When I say multi-dimensional it doesn't even come close to an accurate description. Photographer, director, dancer, model, the list goes on... I met up with Marcus a few weeks ago at a cozy little cafe on Pine Street. He dropped some CRAZY gems on the boy and was hands down one of the dopest artists I've ever had the chance to meet. We talk about what it's like growing up in the "country hood" of Norristown, going to UArts in Philly, and how he manages all of his creative pursuits at the same time. Marcus has such an incredible and compelling story, I hope you learn as much from him as I did. (Frfr, I listened back to the entire episode again this morning because there was so much I missed the first time...) Marcus is currently holding a Casting Call in Philadelphia, March 24th 9am-1pm for multiple projects and creative ventures: "Follow these steps to the T if you want in: (18+ Only) Email 1 headshot + 1 full-body shot minimum (phone pics are ok), name, age, location, height, weight, talents + skills to BRANCH.CASTINGS@gmail.com with CASTING in the subject line, DEADLINE MARCH 21ST for submission." Connect with Marcus: https://www.instagram.com/marcus.branch http://marcusbranch.com/ marcuskbranch@gmail.com Connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/kiaorion https://soundcloud.com/kiaorion kiaorionmail@gmail.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creativecontact/support --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creativecontact/support

Jenny Neff conducts three concert bands at Bala Cynwyd Middle School, is on the NAfME Council for Band Education, and is currently the Interim Director of the Master of Music and Summer Music Studies programs at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Topics: Jenny’s early background as a horn player and the importance of the early support and experiences that she had that led to her career as a music teacher. Jenny’s program at Bala Cynwyd Middle School and the value of having all of the music teachers working together. The transition period known as middle school or as Jenny says “they come in being babysat and they leave as babysitters.” The genesis of her Midwest Clinic Presentation with Scott Watson (Episode 2) and the value of using Skype to have composers work with her band. The Master of Music and Summer Music Studies programs at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Links: Jenny's Creative EDge Enhancing the Ensemble Experience Using Composer Skype Sessions NAfME Council for Band Education The University of the Arts Continuing Studies Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry Strauss: Don Juan Biography: Jenny L. Neff, Ed.D. is in her 25th year of public school teaching, with experience teaching music at various levels K-12 in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. She conducts three concert bands at Bala Cynwyd Middle School in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. She was recently hired by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia as Interim Director of the Master of Music and Summer Music Studies programs. She serves as the Eastern Division Representative for NAfME’s Council for Band and previously served in roles of advocacy and professional development for PMEA districts. She is part of the PMEA mentor teacher program and serves as a trainer for their online Model Curriculum Framework tool. In December 2017, Dr. Neff co-presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, and has also presented sessions for music educators in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Delaware on a variety of topics, including: music standards, curriculum, advocacy, instructional strategies, engaging students, embracing change, and teacher evaluation. Dr. Neff’s doctoral research study was published in the peer-reviewed Pennsylvania Educational Leadership Journal. She has written articles for the PMEA State Journal, and blog posts for NAfME, Zeswitz Music, and J.W. Pepper. She conducted the Concert Band at New England Music Camp for four summers, and has been a guest conductor and clinician in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Previously, she toured Europe for five summers with high school musicians as Symphonic Band Director and String Ensemble Director for American Music Abroad. Dr. Neff received her Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Immaculata University. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Education from Michigan State University where she studied horn with Douglas Campbell and Neill Saunders, and played under the batons of Eugene Corporon, Kenneth Bloomquist, and Leon Gregorian in MSU's top bands and orchestra.

GSoC 2018 Projects announced, tutorial FreeBSD jails with iocage, new Code of Conduct for FreeBSD, libhijack, and fancy monitoring for OpenSMTPD This episode was brought to you by Headlines Google Summer of Code 2018 (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=5) FreeBSD (https://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html) FreeBSD Google Summer oF Code Ideas (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas) You can join #freebsd-soc on the efnet IRC network to chat with FreeBSD developers interested in mentoring student proposals and projects, past FreeBSD/GSoC students, and other students applying to FreeBSD/GSoC this year. NetBSD (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2018/02/12/msg000765.html) You can get a stipend (paid for by Google) and spend a few months getting to know and improving the insides of NetBSD or pkgsrc. ``` The schedule is: 12-27 March Applying 23 April Find out if you were accepted 14 May - 22 August Do the project! We have some suggestions for suitable projects: - ARM EFI bootloader - Using libFuzzer on base tools - Refactoring ALTQ (QoS implementation) and integrating with NPF - Testsuite for libcurses - Improve pkgin Other suggestions and details are at: https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/gsoc/ ``` These projects are suggestions; you can come up with your own. Suggestions for other suitable projects are welcome. Feel free to contact, or chat around on IRC: irc.freenode.org #netbsd #netbsd-code #pkgsrc Haiku (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4821756754264064/) Students: How to Apply for a Haiku Idea (https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2018/students) Project Ideas (https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2018/ideas) > If you have questions you can contact the devs on IRC: irc.freenode.org #haiku FreeBSD Jails with iocage (http://norrist.devio.us/iocage_freebsd.html) Introduction FreeBSD jails allow users to run multiple, isolated instances of FreeBSD on a single server. Iocage simplifies the management of FreeBSD Jails. Following this tutorial, the jails will be configured to bind to an IP address on the jail host's internal network, and the host OS will pass traffic from the external network to the jail. The jails will be managed with Iocage. Iocage uses ZFS properties to store configuration data for each jail, so a ZFS file system is required. Network setup These steps will: Set up the internal network. Enable the pf packet filter Configure pf pass internet traffic to and from the jail. PF is full featured firewall, and can do more than just pass traffic to an internal network. Refer to the PF documentation for additional configuration options. Run the following to configure the internal network and enable pf. sysrc cloned_interfaces+="lo1" sysrc ifconfig_lo1="inet 192.0.2.1/24" sysrc pf_enable="YES" Put the following in /etc/pf.conf ``` Variables ext_if should be set to the hosts external NIC extif = "vtnet0" jailif = "lo1" jailnet = $jailif:network NAT allows the jails to access the external network nat on $extif from $jailnet to any -> ($ext_if) Redirect traffic on port 80 to the web server jail Add similar rules for additional jails rdr pass on $ext_if inet proto tcp to port 80 -> 192.0.2.10 ``` Reboot to activate the network changes ZFS The best way to use ZFS on a VPS is to attach block storage as a new disk. If block storage is not available, you can optionally use a file as the ZFS device. Enable and start ZFS. sysrc zfs_enable="YES" service zfs start ZFS using Block storage List the available disks. If you are using a VPS, the block store will probably be the second disk. geom disk list Create a ZFS pool named jailstore. zpool create jailstore /dev/vtbd1 ZFS using a file Create the ZFS file. dd if=/dev/zero of=/zfsfile bs=1M count=4096 Create a ZFS pool named jailstore. zpool create jailstore /zfsfile Install iocage the easy way pkg install py36-iocage Skip to "Using iocage" Install iocage the hard way Swap file Smaller servers may not have enough RAM to build iocage. If needed, create a swap file and reboot. dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024 echo 'swapfile="/swapfile"' >> /etc/rc.conf reboot Install some build dependencies pkg install subversion python36 git-lite libgit2 py36-pip Building iocage requires the FreeBSD source. svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.1 /usr/src Get the latest FreeBSD ports tree. ``` portsnap fetch portsnap extract ``` + build iocage. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/iocage/ make install Using iocage ``` iocage activate jailstore iocage fetch iocage create -n www ip4_addr="lo1|192.0.2.10/24" -r 11.1-RELEASE iocage start www iocage console www ``` Once you have a shell inside the jail, install and start Apache. pkg install apache24 sysrc apache24_enable="yes" service apache24 start Port 80 on the jail will now be accessible on the hosts IP address. Multiple jails. Additional jails can be installed using the example above. Install the new jail with the iocage create command , but use a different IP address Expose the new jail to the network by adding additional rules to pf.conf. iXsystems SNIA Persistent Memory Summit 2018 Report (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/snia-report-2018/) New FreeBSD Code of Conduct (https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct.html) The FreeBSD Project is inclusive. We want the FreeBSD Project to be a venue where people of all backgrounds can work together to make the best operating system, built by a strong community. These values extend beyond just development to all aspects of the Project. All those given recognition as members of the Project in whatever form are seen as ambassadors of the Project. Diversity is a huge strength and is critical to the long term success of the Project. To that end we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to. This code applies equally to everyone representing the FreeBSD Project in any way, from new members, to committers, to the core team itself. These rules are intended to ensure a safe, harassment-free environment for all and to ensure that everyone feels welcome both working within, and interacting with, the Project. This document is not an exhaustive list of things that you should not do. Rather, consider it a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us and the technical communities in which we participate. This code of conduct applies to all spaces used by the FreeBSD Project, including our mailing lists, IRC channels, and social media, both online and off. Anyone who is found to violate this code of conduct may be sanctioned or expelled from FreeBSD Project controlled spaces at the discretion of the FreeBSD Code of Conduct Committee. Some FreeBSD Project spaces may have additional rules in place, which will be made clearly available to participants. Participants are responsible for knowing and abiding by these rules. Harassment includes but is not limited to: + Comments that reinforce systemic oppression related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, mental illness, neurodiversity, physical appearance, body size, age, race, or religion. + Unwelcome comments regarding a person's lifestyle choices and practices, including those related to food, health, parenting, drugs, and employment. + Deliberate misgendering. + Deliberate use of "dead" or rejected names. + Gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behaviour in spaces where they're not appropriate. + Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop. + Threats of violence. + Incitement of violence towards any individual, including encouraging a person to commit suicide or to engage in self-harm. + Deliberate intimidation. + Stalking or following. + Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes. + Sustained disruption of discussion. + Unwelcome sexual attention. + Pattern of inappropriate social contact, such as requesting/assuming inappropriate levels of intimacy with others. + Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease. + Deliberate "outing" of any private aspect of a person's identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse. + Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent. + Publication of non-harassing private communication with consent but in a way that intentionally misrepresents the communication (e.g., removes context that changes the meaning). + Knowingly making harmful false claims about a person. Interview - Benno Rice - benno@freebsd.org (mailto:benno@freebsd.org) / @jeamland (https://twitter.com/jeamland) News Roundup libhijack in PoC||GTFO 0x17! (https://www.soldierx.com/news/libhijack-PoCGTFO-0x17) Hijacking Your Free Beasties In the land of red devils known as Beasties exists a system devoid of meaningful exploit mitigations. As we explore this vast land of opportunity, we will meet our ELFish friends, [p]tracing their very moves in order to hijack them. Since unprivileged process debugging is enabled by default on FreeBSD, we can abuse PTrace to create anonymous memory mappings, inject code into them, and overwrite PLT/GOT entries. We will revive a tool called libhijack to make our nefarious activities of hijacking ELFs via PTrace relatively easy. Nothing presented here is technically new. However, this type of work has not been documented in this much detail, tying it all into one cohesive work. In Phrack 56, Silvio Cesare taught us ELF research enthusiasts how to hook the PLT/GOT. The Phrack 59 article on Runtime Process Infection briefly introduces the concept of injecting shared objects by injecting shellcode via PTrace that calls dlopen(). No other piece of research, however, has discovered the joys of forcing the application to create anonymous memory mappings in which to inject Code. This is only part one of a series of planned articles that will follow libhijack's development. The end goal is to be able to anonymously inject shared objects. The libhijack project is maintained by the SoldierX community. Previous Research All prior work injects code into the stack, the heap, or existing executable code. All three methods create issues on today's systems. On amd64 and arm64, the two architectures libhijack cares about, the stack is non-executable by default. jemalloc, the heap implementation on FreeBSD, creates non-executable mappings. Obviously overwriting existing executable code destroys a part of the executable image. The Role of ELF > FreeBSD provides a nifty API for inspecting the entire virtual memory space of an application. The results returned from the API tells us the protection flags (readable, writable, executable) of each mapping. If FreeBSD provides such a rich API, why would we need to parse the ELF headers? PLT/GOT hijacking requires parsing ELF headers. One would not be able to find the PLT/GOT without iterating through the Process Headers to find the Dynamic Headers, eventually ending up with the DT_PLTGOT entry. With FreeBSD's libprocstat API, we don't have a need for parsing ELF headers until we get to the PLT/GOT stage, but doing so early makes it easier for the attacker using libhijack The Future of libhijack Writing devious code in assembly is cumbersome. Assembly doesn't scale well to multiple architectures. Instead, we would like to write our devious code in C, compiling to a shared object that gets injected anonymously. This requires writing a remote RTLD within libhijack and is in progress. Writing a remote RTLD will take a while as doing so is not an easy task. Additionally, creation of a general-purpose helper library that gets injected would be helpful. It could aid in PLT/GOT redirection attacks, possibly storing the addresses of functions we've previously hijacked. This work is dependent on the remote RTLD. libhijack currently lacks documentation. Once the ABI and API stabilize, formal documentation will be written. Conclusion Using libhijack, we can easily create anonymous memory mappings, inject into them arbitrary code, and hijack the PLT/GOT on FreeBSD. On HardenedBSD, a hardened derivative of FreeBSD, libhijack is fully mitigated through PaX NOEXEC. We've demonstrated that wrapper-style Capsicum is ineffective on FreeBSD. Through the use of libhijack, we emulate a control flow hijack in which the application is forced to call sandbox_open and fdlopen on the resulting file descriptor. Further work to support anonymous injection of full shared objects, along with their dependencies, will be supported in the future. Imagine injecting libpcap into Apache to sniff traffic whenever "GET /pcap" is sent. In order to prevent abuse of PTrace, FreeBSD should set the security.bsd.unprivilegedprocdebug to 0 by default. In order to prevent process manipulation, FreeBSD should implement PaX NOEXEC. libhijack can be found at https://github.com/SoldierX/libhijack Introduction to POSIX shell (https://sircmpwn.github.io/2018/02/05/Introduction-to-POSIX-shell.html) What the heck is the POSIX shell anyway? Well, the POSIX (the Portable Operating System Interface) shell is the standard Unix shell - standard meaning it was formally defined and shipped in a published standard. This makes shell scripts written for it portable, something no other shell can lay claim to. The POSIX shell is basically a formalized version of the venerable Bourne shell, and on your system it lives at /bin/sh, unless you're one of the unlucky masses for whom this is a symlink to bash. Why use POSIX shell? The “Bourne Again shell”, aka bash, is not standardized. Its grammar, features, and behavior aren't formally written up anywhere, and only one implementation of bash exists. Without a standard, bash is defined by its implementation. POSIX shell, on the other hand, has many competing implementations on many different operating systems - all of which are compatible with each other because they conform to the standard. Any shell that utilizes features specific to Bash are not portable, which means you cannot take them with you to any other system. Many Linux-based systems do not use Bash or GNU coreutils. Outside of Linux, pretty much everyone but Hurd does not ship GNU tools, including bash1. On any of these systems, scripts using “bashisms” will not work. This is bad if your users wish to utilize your software anywhere other than GNU/Linux. If your build tooling utilizes bashisms, your software will not build on anything but GNU/Linux. If you ship runtime scripts that use bashisms, your software will not run on anything but GNU/Linux. The case for sticking to POSIX shell in shipping software is compelling, but I argue that you should stick to POSIX shell for your personal scripts, too. You might not care now, but when you feel like flirting with other Unicies you'll thank me when all of your scripts work. One place where POSIX shell does not shine is for interactive use - a place where I think bash sucks, too. Any shell you want to use for your day-to-day command line work is okay in my book. I use fish. Use whatever you like interactively, but stick to POSIX sh for your scripts. How do I use POSIX shell? At the top of your scripts, put #!/bin/sh. You don't have to worry about using env here like you might have been trained to do with bash: /bin/sh is the standardized location for the POSIX shell, and any standards-conforming system will either put it there or make your script work anyway. The next step is to avoid bashisms. There are many, but here are a few that might trip you up: [[ condition ]] does not work; use [ condition ] Arrays do not work; use IFS Local variables do not work; use a subshell The easiest way to learn about POSIX shell is to read the standard - it's not too dry and shorter than you think. Using standard coreutils The last step to writing portable scripts is to use portable tools. Your system may have GNU coreutils installed, which provides tools like grep and cut. Unfortunately, GNU has extended these tools with its own non-portable flags and tools. It's important that you avoid these. One dead giveaway of a non-portable flag is long flags, e.g. grep --file=FILE as opposed to grep -f. The POSIX standard only defines the getopt function - not the proprietary GNU getopt_long function that's used to interpret long options. As a result, no long flags are standardized. You might worry that this will make your scripts difficult to understand, but I think that on the whole it will not. Shell scripts are already pretty alien and require some knowledge to understand. Is knowledge of what the magic word grep means much different from knowledge of what grep -E means? I also like that short flags allow you to make more concise command lines. Which is better: ps --all --format=user --without-tty, or ps -aux? If you are inclined to think the former, do you also prefer function(a, b, c) { return a + b + c; } over (a, b, c) => a + b + c? Conciseness matters, and POSIX shell supports comments if necessary! Some tips for using short flags: They can be collapsed: cmd -a -b -c is equivalent to cmd -abc If they take additional arguments, either a space or no separation is acceptable: cmd -f"hello world" or cmd -f "hello world" A good reference for learning about standardized commands is, once again, the standard. From this page, search for the command you want, or navigate through “Shell & Utilities” -> “Utilities” for a list. If you have man-pages installed, you will also find POSIX man pages installed on your system with the p postfix, such as man 1p grep. Note: at the time of writing, the POSIX man pages do not use dashes if your locale is UTF-8, which makes searching for flags with / difficult. Use env LC_ALL=POSIX man 1p grep if you need to search for flags, and I'll speak to the maintainer of man-pages about this. FreeBSD Broadcom Wi-Fi Improvements (http://landonf.org/code/freebsd/Broadcom_WiFi_Improvements.20180122.html) Introduction Since 2015, I've been working on improving FreeBSD support for Broadcom Wi-Fi devices and SoCs, including authoring the bhnd(4) driver family, which provides a unified bus and driver programming interface for these devices. First committed in early 2016, bhnd(4) allowed us to quickly bring up FreeBSD/MIPS on Broadcom SoCs, but it has taken much longer to implement the full set of features required to support modern Broadcom SoftMAC Wi-Fi hardware. Thanks to the generosity of the FreeBSD Foundation, I've recently finished implementing the necessary improvements to the bhnd(4) driver family. With these changes in place, I was finally able to port the existing bwn(4) Broadcom SoftMAC Wi-Fi driver to the bhnd(4) bus, and implement initial support for the BCM43224 and BCM43225 chipsets, with additional hardware support to be forthcoming. Now that my efforts on FreeBSD/Broadcom Wi-Fi support have progressed far enough to be generally useful, I wanted to take some time to provide a brief overview of Broadcom's Wi-Fi hardware, and explain how my work provides a foundation for further FreeBSD Broadcom Wi-Fi/SoC improvements. A Brief Background on Broadcom Wi-Fi Hardware Broadcom's Wi-Fi devices are members of the Broadcom Home Networking Division (BHND) device family; other BHND devices include MIPS/ARM SoCs (including Wi-Fi SoCs commonly found in consumer access points), as well as a large variety of related networking hardware. BHND devices utilize a common set of Broadcom IP cores (or "functional blocks") connected via one of two on-chip bus architectures: Hardware designed prior to 2009 used Broadcom's “SSB” backplane architecture, based on Sonics Silicon's interconnect IP. Subsequent hardware adopted Broadcom's “BCMA” backplane, based on ARM's AMBA IP. The IP cores used in earlier SSB-based devices were adapted for compatibility with the new backplane. When BHND hardware is used in a PCI Wi-Fi card, or a SDIO Wi-Fi module, the device's dual-mode peripheral controller is configured to operate as an endpoint device on the host's peripheral bus, bridging access to the SoC hardware: Host access to SoC address space is provided via a set of register windows (e.g., a set of configurable windows into SoC address space mapped via PCI BARs) DMA is supported by the bridge core's sparse mapping of host address space into the backplane address space. These address regions may be used as a target for the on-chip DMA engines. Any backplane interrupt vectors routed to the bridge core may be mapped by the bridge to host interrupts (e.g., PCI INTx/MSI/MSI-X). The host is generally expected to provide drivers for the IP cores found on the SoC backplane; since these cores are found in both BHND SoCs and BHND Wi-Fi devices, it is advantageous to share driver and platform code between the two targets. Modernizing FreeBSD's Broadcom SoftMAC Wi-Fi Support FreeBSD support for Broadcom SoftMAC Wi-Fi adapters is provided by two partially overlapping PCI/CardBus drivers: Legacy Wi-Fi adapters are supported by bwi(4). This driver remains in-tree to support devices incompatible with v4 or later firmware (e.g. BCM4301, BCM4302, BCM4306 rev 1-2), all of which were released prior to December 2002. Modern Wi-Fi adapters are supported by bwn(4), with access to on-chip cores mediated by bhnd(4). Prior to my work porting bwn(4) to bhnd(4), access to on-chip cores was mediated by sibabwn, a PCI/WiFi-specific derivative of the legacy siba(4) SSB bus driver. There were two major limitations to sibabwn that have long blocked adding support for newer SoftMAC Wi-Fi chipsets: the newer BCMA interconnect found in post-2009 hardware was not supported by siba(4), and siba_bwn assumed a PCI/PCIe bridge, preventing its use on FreeBSD/MIPS Broadcom SoCs with interconnect-attached D11 cores. The new bhnd(4) driver family, written as a replacement for siba(4) and siba_bwn, provides: A unified bus driver interface for both SSB and BCMA on-chip interconnects A generic BHND bridge driver framework for host-connected BHND devices (e.g. Wi-Fi adapters, etc) A PCI/PCIe bridge core driver, for PCI-attached BHND devices. An abstract BHND NVRAM API, with support for the varied NVRAM formats found in BHND Wi-Fi adapters and SoCs. Drivers for common BHND platform peripherals (UARTs, SPROM/flash, PMUs, etc) By porting bwn(4) to bhnd(4), we are now able to support existing BCMA devices with MAC/PHY/Radio combinations readily supported by bwn(4), as was the case with the BCM43224 and BCM43225 chipsets. This also opens the door to porting additional PHY support from Broadcom's ISC-licensed Linux drivers, and will allow us to bring up bwn(4) on Broadcom WiSoCs supported by FreeBSD/MIPS. Monitor OpenSMTPD using Logstash and Grafana (https://www.tumfatig.net/20180129/monitor-opensmtpd-using-logstash-grafana/) Logs are usefull. Graphs are sexy. Here's a way to get a view on what happens to your OpenSMTPD traffic, using Web v2.0 tools ; namely Logstash & Grafana. For those who would not be aware of those tools, logstash is some kind of log-parser that can eat syslog formatted logs and write them into elasticsearch ; in “document” format. Grafana is a Web frontend that can dig into various databases and render graphics from requests. I won't go into the whole “how to install” process here. Installation is quite straight forward and online documentation is quite clear. What you need OpenSMTPD deals with emails and logs its activity via Syslog. Syslog is configured to send the logs to Logstash. Logstash has a set of rules configured to transform the text-oriented information into searchable document-oriented data. The transformed data is stored into Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch provides Web API to search and find stuff. Grafana connects to ELS to get data and draw the graphs. Beastie Bits CharmBUG Presentation - Writing FreeBSD Malware (https://www.meetup.com/CharmBUG/events/247995596/) March London *BSD meeting 13/03/18 (http://mailman.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/ukfreebsd/2018-February/014180.html) FreBSD Ports Workshop (https://wiki.freebsd.org/MateuszPiotrowski/Ports/Workshop) The history of NetBSD/atari and support for ATARI compatible Milan / OSC2018Osaka (https://speakerdeck.com/tsutsui/osc2018osaka) SSH Mastery, 2nd Edition (https://www.tiltedwindmillpress.com/?product=ssh-mastery-2nd-edition) *** Feedback/Questions Stephen - Viewer Interview Question (http://dpaste.com/06WTRB9#wrap) pb - trust expanding your 280TB pool (http://dpaste.com/0TZV6CM#wrap) Tim - ZFS questions for the ZFS Man (http://dpaste.com/0759X1E#wrap) Daniel - ZFS full backup question (http://dpaste.com/1SJXSBQ#wrap) ***

M. Carlton joined us to talk about being part of leading professional reverse engineering team at Senr.io. We discussed her Embedded Systems talk about IoT and in particular Devil’s Ivy (Check out the important ROP video to better understand the key concept ). In this particular case, they found that the M300 camera model using GSOAP (SOAP) parse for buffer overflow. Not only did this issue allow spread quickly as a DOS among the M300 cameras but over 200 other Axis cameras (Hurray for code-reuse) due to using the third party code library. M. uses several tools in her work: IDA Pro Binwalk Nmap Debuggers like gdb Multimeters and oscilloscopes VMWare She had some excellent suggestions for improving the odds of NOT getting hacked: Put a password on any consoles and let it be changeable. Anticipate issues by performing security reviews. Be wary of any third party libraries you use. If there are updates to these libraries, prepare to update quickly. Make sure your systems are field patchable/updateable, securely. Limit surface area. Limit the ability for others to analyze your system by removing/disabling consoles, UARTs, features, and JTAG interfaces. Put more gates/obstacles on how easily any found exploits can be used in the system. Unearth any default credentials used in your system and resolve. In the worse case, plan in advance for a security breach to expedite deployment. Have comments or suggestion names for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

Although the festival was put together almost on a whim last year—Settle and her artistic director Cesar Alvarez were seeking a way to use an empty Merriam Theater for two weeks—it became an instant success.

Although the festival was put together almost on a whim last year—Settle and her artistic director Cesar Alvarez were seeking a way to use an empty Merriam Theater for two weeks—it became an instant success.