Podcast appearances and mentions of Gavin Smith

Dank Dealz Spunday Sunday with Fuzzy Fritz and Gavin Smith and Robert Planet on Sub FM 22nd February 2025 - https://www.sub.fm

This feels like the biggest episode ever! Don't miss these stories! Justin and Eric are joined by our friend and artist Reese Porter @justreese.art to talk about our experiences at Granite State Comic Con for the 40th Anniversary of the TMNT! We are telling some stories of who we met including the artists, writers, Movie and cartoon actors as well as the great fans that we got to finally meet in person. Mentioned in this episode: @Hughrookwoodart the 2024 Granite State Sketch off Champion. Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Kenn Scott, Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Judith Hoag, Mike Rooth, Mr Eclectables, Ben Bishop, Mateus Santolouco, Christopher Lefevre, Erik Burnham, Aaron Bartling, Fero Pe, Camillo DiPietrantonio, Corey Smith, Sarah Meyer, Jim & Kathy Lawson, Eric Talbot, KC Wilson, Aaron Hazouri, Ethan Volnugis, Michael Dooney, David Avallone, Steven King, RZP, Chris Vance, Papa Cebo, Randy Macarthur/ Mac's Auction House, The Bishkids, Rob Denner, Benjamin Baldwin, Joey from Ninja Toitles, Jamie Johnson, Freddie Williams II, Jon Sommariva, Gavin Smith, the Escorza Brother, Luis Antonio Delgado and more! We discuss the Turtle sewer lair with Brandon Berry from Feature Presentation @now4yourfeature And we talk to the Geek Gossip Podcast's Artie and Jack about the 40th anniversary Mirage Comics Panel they ran by themselves. @thegeekgossip_podcast We had an interview with the Your Childhood was Trash podcast that the audio did not come out, so we will catch them another time, but also check out the @ycwcast A Pizza Recipe on top of all of that too!

At Granite Con 2024, Turtle Tracks host Brian VanHooker hosted the IDW Comics panel with a wide array of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artists and writers. The lineup included TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, writers Tom Waltz and Erik Burnham, as well as artists Ben Bishop, Sarah Myer, Mateus Santoluoco Fero Pe, Gavin Smith, Luis Antonio Delgado and the Escorza Brothers. Audio provided by Granite Con owners Chris Proulx and Scott Proulx, as well as BNH Photography owner Brian William. Sound Engineering by Ian Williams. Follow TURTLE TRACKS PODCAST on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/turtle_tracks_podcast/

From issue #2 of the TMNT Black, White and Green comic, we present Buddycount! Written and art by Gavin Smith. Casey Jones teams up with Michalengelo to take down the dreaded Viper Boys Gang in this team up adventure.

In episode 78 the Investing in Impact podcast, I speak with Gavin Smith PhD, Managing Director, Head of Equity Research and Sustainable Investing for PGIM Quantitative Solutions, on his journey into sustainable investing and the evolution of ESG and SDGs.Gavin Smith, PhD, is the Managing Director and Head of Equity Research and Sustainable Investing at PGIM Quantitative Solutions. In this role, he leads the integration of ESG factors into the firm's investment platform and oversees research and analysis for Quantitative Equity portfolios.Prior to this, Gavin was a portfolio manager and a key member of PGIM's Research team, focusing on alpha and implementation strategies. Before joining PGIM, he led the North American Quantitative Research team at Macquarie Capital and held research roles at Barclays Capital and Plato Investment Management in Sydney, Australia.Gavin holds a BComm (Honors) in finance from the University of Wollongong and a PhD in finance from the University of New South Wales, Australia.TakeawaysGavin's dual role combines quantitative equity research with sustainable investing.The evolution of ESG has been significant since the Paris Climate Accord.Data quality is crucial for effective ESG and SDG investing.Key metrics for evaluating companies include carbon emissions, water usage, and diversity.Engagement with companies is essential for improving data transparency.SDGs provide a framework for assessing the impact of investments.Greenwashing poses a challenge in identifying truly sustainable companies.The future of sustainable investing relies on better data and education.Investors are increasingly interested in the financial performance of sustainable companies.The integration of ESG and SDGs can lead to more impactful investment strategies.Thrive in the Impact Economy.Join 20k+. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for the latest news, exclusive interviews, and curated products that drive the Impact Economy. Our mission is to highlight and celebrate the founders, creators, investors, and conscious brands shaping the future of conscious business and philanthropy.To learn more, please visit causeartist.com

Writing comics is one thing, but editing them, running a kickstarter AND a weekly substance is a lot of work, but Sarah Cooke (No Spell Last Forever) makes it look easy! This week she joins the gang to talk about her journey into the world of comics creation, creativity, working on IP characters and the similarity between comics and poetry. Theres also great indie books of all genres and topics and plenty more to check out. Oh, and there's some VERY immature humour at the start, so be warned. :) Great stuff to check out this week - Sarah Cooke, Faster Than Light, No Spell Lasts Forever, Bridlington Comic Con, Alien Books, Nexus, Space Boy and the Future King, Fist oThe Life of Death of Brave Captain Suave, Lifes a Party: Fathers Daze, Sean Azzopardi, Boo Rudetoons, Dead Legends, James Maddox, Gavin Smith

As the Managing Director at Pizza Pilgrims, Gavin Smith has built an impressive career in operations, working for previous brands such as Wahaca, Browns Restaurants and Mitchells & Butlers.In this episode, Gavin shares his expertise on negotiation tactics, maintaining food quality, and the critical role of customer feedback. We'll also discuss how COVID-19 has accelerated the importance of delivery, the impact of delivery on traditional restaurant operations, and innovative strategies to meet consumer demands. Links MentionedGavin Smith on LinkedInPizza PilgrimsLike the show? We'd be hugely grateful if you could help us spread the word by taking 1 minute to leave us a rating and review on your podcast platform of choice. Full instructions at https://www.thedelivery.world/ratingsandreviews

This week on Ready 2 Retro features the very talented Gavin Smith who is a freelance artist based in Indiana. Gavin's work is featured all over your local comic book store as he's worked on projects such as Heart Piercer, The Last Ronin, TMNT main series, Godzilla: Sons of Giants and so much more! In this conversation we talk all things turtles, nostalgia and Gavin's personal journey in being an artist who is living his dream!And of course, if it a TMNT related conversation, you know Joey from @ninjatoitles will be on with us!  

Send us a Text Message.In December 2020, Timothy Saunders discovered a horrific scene in his daughter's home on Cemetery Road. His daughter, Risa Saunders, lived in the house with her husband Daniel Long, and three sons named Gavin Smith, Gage Ripley, and Jameson Long. The crime that had occurred in their small West Virginia home scarred their small town. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/badactspodPodMoth: https://podmoth.network/Ad: Thick Thighs and Creepy Vibes – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thick-thighs-and-creepy-vibes/id1736179086 Episode Source List:https://www.scribd.com/document/563634116/Gavin-Smith-Order-Granting-Motion-To-Transfer https://www.scribd.com/document/613242520/Gavin-Smith-Verdict-Form https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/kanawha_valley/girlfriend-testifies-told-smith-to-hurry-up-and-kill-family/article_51e06d70-74ad-5d1a-bdb7-1578d66654e4.html https://www.wsaz.com/2023/01/17/teen-sentenced-life-murdering-4-family-members/  https://wchstv.com/news/local/relationship-between-teenagers-accused-in-quadruple-elkview-murder-a-perfect-storm https://wchstv.com/news/local/teen-gavin-smith-who-killed-4-family-members-was-on-video-call-with-girlfriend-rebecca-walker-during-shootings-elkview-west-virginia   https://wchstv.com/news/local/teen-who-was-accessory-in-elkview-murders-reports-to-prison https://wchstv.com/news/local/state-rests-case-in-murder-trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-four-members-of-his-family “His Parents Didn't Like Me.” Signs of a Psychopath. Season 8, Episode 4. https://apps.wv.gov/OIS/OffenderSearch/DOC/Offender/Search https://www.waybrightfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Risa-Mae-Saunders?obId=19320947 https://www.adamsfamilyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Daniel-Dale-Long?obId=19333105 https://www.waybrightfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Gage-Xavier-Ripley?obId=19320965 https://www.waybrightfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Jameson-Aries-Long?obId=19320973

Our Leaders' Conference this year is exploring healthy church leadership by looking to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, and learning to love like Jesus. In this episode, Phil Topham (Executive Director) and Adrian Reynolds (Head of National Ministries) discuss what you can expect from the conference: the theme, the programme, the speakers, the seminars and tracks, the venue, and the post-conference event. Book before the end of September to get an advance discount. Show notes 2024 FIEC Leaders' Conference - book now (fiec.org.uk) The Ministry of Administration (with Gavin Smith) (fiec.org.uk) The Church Office (thechurchoffice.co.uk) Practical Shepherding (practicalshepherding.com) The Unhurried Pastor, Brian Croft (thegoodbook.co.uk) You can get more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website. About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC's official podcast, where you'll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. About FIEC: We are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a fellowship of Independent churches⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Follow FIEC on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - What is the Leaders' Conference? 05:02 - Who is the conference for? 06:24 - Brian Croft 08:38 - Bible teaching on the Good Shepherd 11:42 - Seminar sessions 18:16 - New seminar tracks for new and experienced church leaders 23:34 - Gathering in Blackpool 25:58 - New post-conference event

Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime by Jason Aaron and a host of supremely talented Italian artists, Cormac McCarthy's The Road adapted by Manu Larcenet from Abrams, Warren Ellis' Scars, Love Addict: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Koren Shadmi from Top Shelf, Destro #1 by Dan Watters, Andrei Bressan, and Adriano Lucas, TMNT: Black, White and Green and Gavin Smith, Second Hand Love by Yamada Murasaki from Drawn & Quarterly, plus a whole mess more!

Comic Reviews: DC DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack by Joe Corallo, Rye Hickman My Adventures With Superman 1 by Josie Campbell, Pablo Collar, Nick Filardi Marvel Ultimates 1 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee Wolverine: Blood Hunt 1 by Tom Waltz, Juan Jose Ryp, Guru-eFX X-Men 35/700 by Gerry Duggan, Al Ewing, Kieron Gillen, Joshua Cassara, Phil Noto, Lucas Werneck, Leinil Francis Yu, Walter Simonson, Mark Brooks, John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna, Jerome Opena, Luciana Vecchio, Stefano Caselli, Sara Pichelli, Romulo Fajardo Jr., David Curiel, Laura Martin, Sonia Oback, Marcio Menyz, Matt Hollingsworth, Matthew Wilson; Chris Claremont, Salvador Larroca, Guru eFX; Jed MacKay, Gail Simone, Javier Garron, Morry Hollowell Marvel Unlimited Infinity Paws 10 by Jason Loo, Nao Fuji X-Men: From the Ashes Dark Horse Beyond the Pale 1 by Christopher Emgard, Tomas Aira Canto: A Place Like Home 1 by David Booher, Drew Zucker, Vittorio Astone Image Falling in Love on the Path to Hell 1 by Gerry Duggan, Garry Brown, Chris O'Halloran Precious Metal 1 by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, Matt Hollingsworth Scarlett 1 by Kelly Thompson, Marco Ferrari, Lee Loughridge IDW Godzilla Rivals: Mothra vs. Hedorah 1 by Josh Trujillo, Josh Cornillon Monster High Pride 2024 by Hannah Templer, Siobhan Keenan TMNT Alpha by Jason Aaron, Chris Burnham, Brian Reber; Tom Waltz, Gavin Smith, Ronda Pattison Boom Profane 1 by Peter Milligan, Raul Fernandez, Giada Marchisio Dynamite Vampirella: Dark Reflections 1 by Tom Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson, Daniel Maine Oni Cult of the Lamb 1 by Alex Paknadel, Troy Little, Nick Filardi Mad Cave Mammoth 1 by Paul Tobin, Arjuna Susini, Pippa Bowland OGN Countdown The New Girl by Cassandra Calin Robot Dreams by Sara Varon Griz Grobus and the Tale of Azkon's Heart by Simon Roy, Jess Pollard, Sergey Nazarov Barda by Ngozi Ukazu Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti, L.S. Biehler Sink or Swim by Veronica Agarwal, Lee Durfey-Lavoie Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag Additional Reviews: Fallout s1, Acolyte eps 1 and 2, Doctor Who, My Adventures With Superman 2.4, X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus vol 2, Hailey's On It s1 News: Avengers Assemble by Steve Orlando, new Hunger Games book and movie, Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Evangeline Lilly retiring from acting, Netflix animation announcements, Omninews, Jeph Loeb Last Halloween artists announced, Autumn Kingdom by Bunn and Mitten Trailers: Alien Romulus, Wallace and Gromit Comics Countdown (05 June 2024): 1.     Love Everlasting 15 by Tom King, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth 2.     Batman 148 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez, Tomeu Morey 3.     Duck and Cover 4 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque 4.     Ultimates 1 by Deniz Camp, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee 5.     TMNT Alpha by Jason Aaron, Chris Burnham, Brian Reber; Tom Waltz, Gavin Smith, Ronda Pattison 6.     Boy Wonder 2 by Juni Ba, Chris O'Halloran 7.     Falling in Love on the Path to Hell 1 by Gerry Duggan, Garry Brown, Chris O'Halloran 8.     Space Ghost 2 by David Pepose, Jonathan Lau, Andrew Dalhouse 9.     Poison Ivy 23 by G. Willow Wilson, Haining, Arif Prianto 10.  Birds of Prey 10 by Kely Thompson, Robbi Rodriguez, Gavin Guidry, Jordie Bellaire  

This week I'm joined by the epic duo of GAVIN SMITH (Dead Legends, TMNT) and RICH DOUEK (Drive Like Hell, Wailing Blade) who chat about the debut issue of their new Dark Horse Comic HEARTPIERCER! Check out Heartpiercer! Website: Rich - https://linktr.ee/rdouek Gavin - https://t.co/YZTpNmiCnL COMICS-COFFEE-METAL is hosted by DON CARDENAS Twitter: https://twitter.com/doncardenasart Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doncardenasart Website: https://ww.doncardenasart.com EMAIL: comicscoffeemetal@gmail.com #comics #FantasyCpmics #comicspodcast --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/comicscoffeemetal/support

August 2024 Solicits Comic Reviews: Marvel Amazing Spider-Man: Blood Hunt 1 by Justina Ireland, Marcelo Ferreira, Roberto Poggi, Rachelle Rosenberg Doom 1 by Sanford Green, Jonathan Hickman, Rachelle Rosenberg Venom: Separation Anxiety 1 by David Michelinie, Gerardo Sandoval, Romulo Fajardo Jr. Marvel Unlimited Infinity Paws 7 by Jason Loo, Nao Fuji Kid Juggernaut: Marvel Voices by Emily Kim, Minkyu Jung Dark Horse Heartpiercer 1 by Rich Douek, Gavin Smith, Nicholas Burgdore Masters of the Universe: Revolution 1 by Rob David, Tim Sheridan, Ted Biaselli, Daniel HDR, Keith Champagne, Brad Simpson Image Monolith 1 by Sean Lewis, Valerio Giangiordano, Ulises Arreola Magma Scale Trade 1 by Steve Orlando, Megan Huang, Shawn Lee IDW Godzilla 70th Anniversary Special by James Stokoe; Dan DiDio, Joelle Jones, Marco Lesko; Danny Lore, Sebastian Piriz; Donny Winter, Matt Frank; EJ Su; Adam Gorham, Adam Guzowski; Casey Gilly, Liana Kangas, Brittany Peer; Michael Conrad, Gege Schall; Natasha Alterici Mad Cave Sanction 1 by Ray Fawkes, Antonio Fuso, Emilio Lecce Ahoy My Bad: Escape From Peculiar Island 1 by Bryce Ingman, Mark Russell, Peter Krause, Kelly Fitzpatrick Valiant X-O Manowar: Invictus 1 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Fernando Heinz Furukawa, Nobi Titan Gun Honey: Collision Course 1 by Charles Ardai, Ang Hor Kheng, Joao Rodri ComiXology Raise Hell 1 by Jordan Alsaqa, Ray Nadine OGN Countdown Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins – Beauregard Lionett by Mae Catt, Marisha Ray, Matthew Mercer, Guilherme Balbi, Diana Sousa, Ariana Maher Summer Vamp by Violet Chan Karim Choose Your Own Adventure: Forecast From Stonehenge by Stephanie Phillips, Dani Bolinho Kingdom Riders by Shannon Denton, Marcus To, Luis Antonio Delgado Grand Slam Romance: Major League Hotties by Ollie Hicks, Emma Oosterhous Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo Young Hag and the Witches' Quest by Isabel Greenberg Additional Reviews: IF, X-Men '97 finale, Doctor Who s14e3, Batman: The Detective News: Cage returning to voice Spider-Man Noir in a Prime series, Road House sequel, Agatha All Along release date, Ella Purnell cast in horror film about Killer Squirrels, Sesame Street comic from Oni, Natasha Lyonne joins FF, Dazzler creative team, Iron Fist special, Storm creative team, Lemire returning to DC, Eisner noms, Hawkeye s2 greenlit, release dates for three Blumhouse sequels, Silk Spider Society show scrapped, new Endless casting Trailers: Megalopolis, Wicked, Dune Prophecy Comics Countdown (15 May 2024): 1.     Doom 1 by Sanford Green, Jonathan Hickman, Rachelle Rosenberg 2.     Dark Ride 12 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas 3.     Uncanny Valley 2 by Tony Fleecs, Dave Wachter 4.     Outsiders 7 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Robert Carey, Valentina Taddeo 5.     Redcoat 2 by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, Brad Anderson 6.     Green Lantern 11 by Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Amancay Nahuelpan, Romulo Fajardo Jr 7.     Fishflies 6 by Jeff Lemire 8.     I Heart Skull-Crusher 3 by Josie Campbell, Alessio Zonno, Angel De Santiago 9.     Action Comics 1065 by Joshua Williamson, Rafa Sandoval, Miguel Mendonca, Alejandro Sanchez 10.  Displaced 4 by Ed Brisson, Luca Casalanguida, Dee Cunniffe

The third time is certainly the charm as Rich Douek returns to CBY's Crytpid Creator Corner to chat about Heartpiercer from Dark Horse Comics. Rich has teamed with artist Gavin Smith for this dark, fantasy story about Atala, a warrior who thought she was saving the World but ultimately doomed it. Issue #1 hits your LCS May 15th. Rich and I chat about the origins of this story, working with Gavin Smith, mixing fantasy and horror, and what he learned working on the Road-Sea-Breath trilogy. I'm a big fan of Rich's writing and it's always a treat when he's on the podcast to chat about comics.  Make sure to check out our monthly crowdfunding comics feature book: Super Kaiju Rock n Roller Derby Fun Time Go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Church governance and policies can feel like a distraction from gospel ministry. How can we see them in their rightful place as part of that ministry itself? In this episode of In:Dependence, Phil Topham (FIEC Executive Director) is joined by Becky Thomas (FIEC Church Governance Advisor) and Gavin Smith (Christchurch Newport and The Church Office) to discuss why church policies are important to ministry and how churches can get help to put them in place for the good of their people and the good of the gospel. You can watch a video of this episode and get more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website. Show notes How to Do Nothing (Leaders' Conference seminar) (fiec.org.uk) The Church Office (thechurchoffice.co.uk) Church Policies and Templates (fiec.org.uk) Complaints Policy template (fiec.org.uk) FIEC Values (fiec.org.uk) The Ministry of Administration podcast episode (fiec.org.uk) About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC's official podcast, where you'll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. About FIEC: We are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a fellowship of Independent churches⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Follow FIEC on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X

I first came across Callum Jones only recently when I was trying to find out more about the ‘Norwegian double threshold method' and I came across his and Gavin Smith fantastic podcast called ‘Conversations About Running.' Callum Jones is a competitive runner himself over 1500m to 10km and also a coach at; ‘Train Smarter, Run Faster' with famed Kenyan Coach, Hugo Van den Broek (who he has studied extensively under). He's also the head of marketing and a coach at ‘Running Trips' a company that does training camps in Kenya. He has a girlfriend from Norway, so has spent a considerable amount of time in Norway trialing the Norwegian Double Threshold Method. He lives in Cornwall and runs for the Bristol track club. Last year, Callum travelled to Sierra Nevada and trained with the Norwegian Athletics Federation with athletes like, Simen Halle Haugen, Narve Gilje Nordas and Hendrik Ingebrigtsen. He's a fantastic resource of running and coaching knowledge. It was fantastic talking to him today about the Norwegian double threshold method, and what training is like in Kenya, as well as his personal experiences with running himself. I hope you enjoy this chat, I certainly enjoyed hearing about how different cultures tend to train.

In this podcast, we discuss an in-depth conversation with Gavin Smith, an expert in financial management and analysis for construction businesses. The primary focus is on overcoming common financial hurdles such as cash flow issues and understanding profit and loss statements, aimed at enabling business owners to scale their operations effectively.   Gavin Smith's career spans over 20 years, initially in accounting and auditing with KPMG, followed by commercial finance roles in a global marketing agency, and finally as an entrepreneur in Australia, starting businesses in hospitality and Pilates studios. His unique approach combines technical accounting skills with practical business ownership experience, offering a distinctive perspective on financial management.   We delve into the necessity for construction businesses to be proficient in managing their numbers, emphasising the importance of cash flow forecasting, profit understanding, and making strategic decisions based on financial insights. Gavin Smith outlines a three-part strategy focusing on simplifying financial data, knowing the crucial numbers to track, and effectively using this information to guide business decisions. He criticises the profit-first methodology for oversimplifying financial management and discouraging a deep understanding of financial statements.   By presenting a simplified approach to financial analysis, including categorising expenses into five key areas and utilising ratios for performance benchmarking, Gavin advocates for empowering business owners with the knowledge and tools to use their financial data proactively. This approach aims to support business growth, strategic planning, and operational adjustments based on a thorough understanding of one's financial position.    Links:www.theprofitanalyst.com https://developcoaching.co.uk If you'd like to discuss fast-tracking your results, book in a free call - https://www.developcoaching.co.uk/schedule/ If you'd like help growing your business join my private Facebook group - https://m.facebook.com/groups/constructiontradesaccelerator

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE CRIME CONTENT, PLEASE CHECK THE RELEVANT TIMESTAMPS. (12:02) - Mashenka Reid/ Gavin Smit Mashenka Reid's mother left their family in late 2023.  After that, Mashenka, at age 17, was asked by her father to stay home from school most days in order to care for her younger, disabled siblings.  In February 2024, Mashenka asked her father to goto the store to get pizza ingredients.  While he was gone, Mashenka got online and figured out how to use her father's gun.  When he returned home from the store, Mashenka allegedly shot both him and her little brother dead.  In the height of the Covid Lockdown in 2020, Gavin Smith's family forbade him to see his girlfriend, Rebecca.  Gavin was 16 at the time.  Investigators would later find over 15,000 Facebook messages between the two.  In December 2020, Gavin called Rebecca on FaceTime – he was holding a gun and a knife.  Rebecca encouraged Gavin to kill his family so that the two could be together.  Gavin murdered his mother, step-father and two younger brothers while on the call.  After the murders, Gavin texted Rebecca and said “Ok baby, I'm a murderer. In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss two cases of Kids Who Kill – Mashenka Reid and Gavin Smith.      Read our blogs for these cases We are now on Patreon!  Thank you for your support This episode is sponsored by: FUM – Start the year off right with The Good Habit by going to TryFum.com/tcs and getting the Journey pack today.  Fum is giving listeners of the show 10% off with code tcs.  Cerebral - Cerebral is here to help you achieve your mental wellness goals with professional therapy and medication management support – 100% online.  Go to Cerebral.com/podcast and use code TCS to get 15% off your first month

This episode of Crypto Cast features James Burnie in conversation with Gavin Smith and Marcie Terman from DataFort, a prominent player in data management solutions. Gavin and Marcie explore the present AI landscape, addressing crucial questions about its capabilities for businesses. They offer valuable insights into the ongoing AI debate, addressing concerns and illuminating the tangible impact AI can make across different industries.

This show is brought to you by our show sponsor Riverside.fm - https://creators.riverside.fm/MyBusinessPlaybook.Use our code MyBusinessPlaybook to get 15% off your new Riverside account today.In this episode, we've got Gavin Smith from the Profit Analyst to help you unlock financial clarity in your business. Gavin shares a three-step framework to help you navigate the world of business finance.You'll Learn:Gavin's three-step framework for profitHow to simplify and interpret complex financial reportsGavin's simple formula to increase your profitWhy regularly reviewing profitability, net worth, and cash flow is essential for successLinks and resourcesExplore more at The Profit Analyst and discover Gavin's offerings.Follow Gavin on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/theprofitanalyst/Download Gavin's FREE Profit Calculator here: https://pages.theprofitanalyst.com/calculator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Administration is a spiritual gift to serve the church (1 Corinthians 12:8). What is the role of an administrator in church life, and how can they be supported best? In this episode of In:Dependence, Phil Topham (FIEC Executive Director) is joined by Gavin Smith (Christ Church Newport) to discuss the role of administrator in the church, where it fits into church life, and support and resources for administrators. You can watch a video of this episode and get more resources for church leaders on the FIEC website. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:02 - The role of an administrator 08:37 - 'The Church Office' 14:12 - What policies should churches have in place? 18:41 - First steps for smaller churches 22:53 - Delegating administration responsibilities 27:51 - What policies do churches often miss? Show notes The Church Office (thechurchoffice.co.uk) Essential Employment Policies and Procedures Every GB Church Should Have (thechurchoffice.co.uk) thirtyone:eight (thirtyoneeight.org) Christian Safeguarding Services (thecss.co.uk) About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC's official podcast, where you'll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. You can access video podcasts by subscribing to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠the FIEC YouTube channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. About FIEC: We are ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a fellowship of Independent churches⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Being part of FIEC links you to a growing number of Independent evangelical churches and there are now more than 50,000 people who are part of churches affiliated to FIEC. Follow FIEC on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X

In episode 8 of Collect Call, Suge reflects on how his instinct to be loyal led to him making decisions that he now understands were stupid. He covers situations with Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and others where he let his loyalty dictate his actions. Suge talks about how he never fit in with the music industry and some of the secret things that go on behind the scenes, sharing a new perspective on the recent allegations surrounding Sean “Puffy” Combs. He explains why Tupac performed “California Love” without Dr. Dre on Saturday Night Live on February 17, 1996, due to a shocking revelation made by Dr. Dre to Suge and Tupac just a few days prior. Suge and Dave talk about how someone has hacked Suge's Twitter and Facebook accounts and has been illegally posting a lot of false and inflammatory content.  3:50 Dr. Dre gets punched in his face at the Vibe Awards show in 2004 and Suge gets blamed  5:29 Suge gets shot at the Shore Club in Miami at a Kanye West party in 2005 and describes his dealings with Kanye at a deposition for a lawsuit related to the incident 10:12 In the mid-1990's, Johnnie Cochran introduces Suge to Robert Kardashian because of problems they were having with Kim Kardashian's first husband, Damon Thomas, who was also doing production work for Suge. Suge reveals that he made a promise to Kim's dad to always look out for his kids, so years later, when people wanted to push up on Kanye, he didn't allow it to happen because of his loyalty to Kim Kardashian's father. 12:31 Suge is shot 7 times at One Oak club in Hollywood in 2014 during a Chris Brown party, after Katt Williams had asked Suge to meet him there 14:08 Suge tells a story of hanging with Leonardo DiCaprio at One Oak at a different time in the past 14:53 Suge shows up at base camp for production of the movie Straight Outta Compton and police officers there tell him that Dr. Dre had something to do with him being shot at One Oak 16:00 Suge talks about case of John Creech who got convicted in 2017 in California of manslaughter for the death of Gavin Smith and how he got so much less time than Suge did, citing racial bias 17:41 Suge recalls how good he felt back in 1989/1990/1991 when he first got in the music business because he was changing rules of the music business that had been the same since the 1960's 18:05 Suge talks about the lavish Christmas gifts he got for Jimmy Iovine and his former wife Vicki that were never reciprocated 21:48 Suge says he was never accepted by the people in the music industry he wasn't going to be a house n****. He talks about secret things that go in the entertainment industry, and why men don't consider themselves to be gay 23:11 Suge talks about how Puffy's mother ran a whore house when he was young and how that might have affected him 24:12 Suge discusses how they worked out their differences with meetings in the red room and reveals how during one meeting Dr. Dre admitted to being bisexual 29:00 Suge talks about how his Twitter and Facebook have been hacked and how his son Legend runs his official Instagram page NEW EPISODES OF COLLECT CALL WITH SUGE KNIGHT ARE RELEASED WEEKLY Make sure you comment, like and subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Visit the @BreakbeatMedia YouTube page for video versions of our shows, https://www.youtube.com/@breakbeatmedia This episode is sponsored by Rocket Money. Stop paying for all those unwanted monthly subscription charges, go to https://Rocketmoney.com/Suge for details.  This episode is sponsored by Microdose. Go to https://microdose.com and use code: collectcall to get free shipping and 30% off your first order. Executive Producers: Dave Mays (@therealdavemays) & Brett Jeffries (@igobybrettj) Executive Producer: Toi-Lin Kelly Editor & Producer: Trae Quaintance for Black Wolf Agency Producer: Christopher Samuel (@Christylezz) Audio: Tsun4miBeats Sound effects: Envato Elements IG: @BreakbeatMedia @OfficialSugeKnight @TheRealDaveMays Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, host Brian VanHooker chats with Gavin Smith of IDW comics. Gavin has done work on the ongoing IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and he discusses what influenced his take on the TMNT. He also talks growing up in the TMNT fandom during Turtle-Mania. Sound Engineering by Ian Williams

This week's episode has all the toppings. Kevin Eastman, Jeff Rowe, Tom Waltz, Gavin Smith, Vincenzo Federici, Sarah Myer, Ben Bishop, Esau Escorza, and Isaac Escorza. If you're a shellhead, you're already flipping out. If you're not, you soon will be. There is no better time to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan. No matter your favorite iteration, there is a comic, cartoon, or movie for you. Brought forth from the sewers nearly forty years ago by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, the Ninja Turtles have since been filtered through numerous creative minds. From the moment the first toy was conceived, reinvention became critical to their success, and with each new interpretation, something radical was injected into their DNA. Currently, we have a new movie (TMNT: Mutant Mayhem) streaming on Paramount+, the monthly ongoing IDW series, the Saturday Morning Adventures spin-off, and several gnarly crossovers, including encounters with Stranger Things and Street Fighter. In February, The Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution will hit comic book shops, satisfying a ravenous craving we've been holding onto since the first bestselling series dropped.  We transformed New York Comic-Con into a TMNT expedition. First, we spoke with Kevin Eastman one-on-one, navigating his experience with outside creative influence and exploring exactly how he felt about the changes and additions made to the lore in TMNT: Mutant Mayhem. Second, we moderated the big Saturday panel, "TMNT: The Next Mutation of Turtle Power from IDW Publishing," which featured all the totally tubular people listed in the first paragraph above.  Today's episode gets into everything that's cooking over at IDW, from exclusive details about The Last Ronin II to Sophie Campbell's historic climax on the main IDW line to director Jeff Rowe's dreams for a Mutant Mayhem sequel. We've discussed the Ninja Turtles several times before (see the links below), and it's all been building toward this episode. As always, Omnibus, the Digital Comic Store and Reader, sponsors our Referrals segment. This week, we selected two comic book titles on the app that satisfy this episode's themes. We won't spoil what they are here, but if you click the links below, you'll be immediately escorted to the books. Brad's Referral Lisa's Referral Keep up to date on all things Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by visiting the IDW Publishing page. And track all the creators through the various social media channels: Kevin Eastman (Website, Twitter, Instagram) Jeff Rowe (Twitter, Instagram) Tom Waltz (Twitter, Instagram) Gavin Smith (Twitter, Instagram) Vincenzo Federici (Twitter, Instagram)  Sarah Myer (Website, Twitter, Instagram) Ben Bishop (Website, Twitter, Instagram) The Escorza Brothers (Instagram) Other Relevant TMNT Links: Erik Burnham on CBCC CBCC covers TMNT FINAL ROUND OF PLUGS (PHEW):   SUPPORT THE PODCAST BY JOINING OUR PATREON COMMUNITY. Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, Virginia on 11/5 at 4:00 PM for our History of Violence screening, co-sponsored by Four Color Fantasies. Don't forget! Watch the latest episode of The B&B Show, where Brad and Bryan Review the Hottest Cinematic Releases. And, of course, follow Comic Book Couples Counseling on Facebook, on Instagram, and on Twitter @CBCCPodcast, and you can follow hosts Brad Gullickson @MouthDork & Lisa Gullickson @sidewalksiren. Send us your Words of Affirmation by leaving us a 5-star Review on Apple Podcasts. Continue your conversation with CBCC by hopping over to our website where we have reviews, essays, and numerous interviews with comic book creators. Podcast logo by Aaron Prescott @acoolhandfluke, podcast banner art by @Karen_XmenFan.

Twenty-six years ago, for the 35th New York Film Festival, curators Gavin Smith and Mark McElhatten introduced the festival's experimental sidebar, Views from the Avant-Garde.While their inaugural program featured names like Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, and Nathaniel Dorsky, it also opened a space where voices experimenting with cinema's language might meet new audiences. In the festival's intervening years, the vocabulary around this type of cinema evolved and Views from the Avant-Garde has since transformed, first into Projections and then into its most recent incarnation, Currents.When Currents was first announced in 2020, it was also the first year of Docs in Orbit, and every year since, it's been where we have encountered gems of the festival to bring into conversation, such as My Mexican Bretzel by Nuria Giménez (NYFF58), A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia (NYFF59), and Rewind & Play by Alain Gomis (NYFF60).So, for this year's edition, we decided to focus more intently on their programming to get a behind-the-scenes look at their curatorial approach. In today's episode, I sit down with the curators of Currents at the 61st New York Film Festival. Our guests are Aily Nash, Rachael Rakes, and Tyler Wilson. They put together an exciting collection of films, which we'll explore, and what sets Currents apart from other programs in New York and abroad. Moderated by Emile KleinSHOW NOTES / FILMS AND BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEMan in Black by Wang Bing, Last Things by Deborah Stratman, The Human Surge 3 by Eduardo Williams , Slow Shift by Shambhavi Kaul, A Prince by Pierre Creton, The Night Visitors by Michael Gitlin, The Fist by Ayo Akingbade, Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza, Live from the Clouds by Mackie Mallison, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Thien An Pham, Mangosteen by Tulapop Saenjaroen, Bold Eagle by Whammy Alcazaren , Coral by Sonia Oleniak, ALLENSWORTH by James Benning, Ungentle by Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe, and Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel (revised edition with new forward by Herb Shellenberger)FOR GUEST BIOS AND MOREhttps://www.docsinorbit.com/nyffImage: Film at Lincoln Center NYFF61 poster by Jim JarmuschFor show notes visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit for updates.

This week we welcome Gavin Smith, Head of Data Analytics at Orlando Pirates to the show. I have been looking forward to this conversation with Gavin for several months, ever since he participated in an awesome panel during WFS Africa. And the wait was well worth it. With Gavin, we speak about: The role that Data Science plays at Orlando Pirates. The frameworks and models that Gavin has developed for himself to perform his role more effectively. The future of data analytics in football, including the role of emotional intelligence in player performance. This was so much fun and hope you also enjoy it! Remember, WFS Europe is approaching (September 20-21). Don't miss out on the opportunity to help shape the future of football! Head over to www.worldfootballsummit.com to buy your ticket. World Football Summit is where the football industry meets. This podcast is for leaders who want to shape the future of the football (or soccer) industry. On this show, we will bring you closer to the people and the organizations who are driving change in the sports business industry all over the world. You can learn more about us on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our weekly newsletter Our official ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube channel

Estudiantes, today's lesson begins around the 16:22 mark, this would mean you are skipping our weekly banter AND our weekly star student, but as we know to each their own. Gavin Smith, now 18 years old, was recently found guilty during a trial in December 2022 of first-degree murder for the deaths of his stepfather, Daniel Dale Long, mother, Risa Mae Saunders, and brother, Jameson Long. He was found guilty of second-degree murder for the shooting death of his other brother, Gage Ripley. We will also speak about the involvement of his 17 year old girlfriend and accomplice, Rebecca Walker. Listen for more details. Sources: 1.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-8ir9UNsSk  2.) https://people.com 3.) https://wchstv.com 4.) https://wvmetronews.com 5.) https://www.oxygen.com 6.) https://www.wsaz.com/2023/01/17/teen-sentenced-life-murdering-4-family-members/  7.) https://wchstv.com 8.) https://lawandcrime.com   Check out our socials for more content from us: LEAVE US A REVIEW TO BECOME OUR NEXT STAR STUDENT! Amazon Storefront - all your must have items recommended by us! MERCH IS HERE - *NOW LOOKING FOR A NEW GRAPHIC DESIGNER EMAIL IF INTERESTED* Instagram Buy me a Coffee TikTok: @brantyyy_ and @southern.math.teacher Email Us your teacher stories to: teacherstalkcrimepodcast@gmail.com Email Us with any topics or cases you would like us to cover in the future.

It has been 50 years since the HMNZS Otago and HMNZS Canterbury sailed to the Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia to protest French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Sailors on both vessels witnessed tests while they were there. At the time, little was known about the impacts of radiation exposure but a University of Otago study conducted in 2020 found that navy veterans who were aboard the ships have higher rates of cancer than the general population. Gavin Smith was on board the Canterbury as a lead engineering mechanic. He is now president of the Mururoa Nuclear Veterans Group and advocates for genetic testing for Mururoa veterans and their descendents. Smith spoke to Kim Hill.

The Rockstar Dad Show is hosted by Jaret Reddick and Gary Wiseman from Bowling For Soup. This week on the Rockstar Dad Show join them as they share their experiences as rockstar dads, covering topics like mental health and nostalgic childhood memories. In this episode, they interview Gavin Smith, a talented live band photographer, offering a unique perspective on the world of rockstar dads. Tune in for laughter, inspiration, and relatable stories on the “Rockstar Dad Show.” The post The GREATEST Rockstar Photographing Dad! | Rockstar Dad Show appeared first on idobi.

The Rockstar Dad Show is hosted by Jaret Reddick and Gary Wiseman from Bowling For Soup. This week on the Rockstar Dad Show join them as they share their experiences as rockstar dads, covering topics like mental health and nostalgic childhood memories. In this episode, they interview Gavin Smith, a talented live band photographer, offering a unique perspective on the world of rockstar dads. Tune in for laughter, inspiration, and relatable stories on the “Rockstar Dad Show.” The post The GREATEST Rockstar Photographing Dad! | Rockstar Dad Show appeared first on idobi Network.

May 1st: Gavin Smith Goes Missing (2012) An affair can be devastating. It can also, sometimes, be deadly. On May 1st 2012 a man disappeared without any warning. It would take years to find out that the affair he was having may have actually cost him his life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Smith_(film_studio_executive), https://abcnews.go.com/US/happened-day-hollywood-exec-gavin-smith-missing/story?id=26731919, https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-creech-sentencing-2170919-story.html, https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/fox-executive-manslaughter-murder-killing-gavin-smith-john-creech-sentence/24057/, https://people.com/crime/gavin-smith-murder-dateline-preview/, https://thecinemaholic.com/john-lenzie-creech-now-where-is-gavin-smiths-killer-today/

In today's episode, I sit down with Gavin Smith, who is the school leader of one of the top performing high schools in Massachusetts, Boston Latin Academy. Gavin and I have crossed paths many times in our efforts to empower students in Boston towards realizing their greatest aspirations and I've always been impressed by his ability to create cool, innovative opportunities for his students to explore the world outside their school through meaningful community partnerships. 8th grade students at BLA recently spent their winter break at MIT exhibits on biases in AI. Gavin and I talk leadership, representation in the classroom in a world with AI, and explore critical questions in AI rollout. Enjoy today's episode and share your reactions on our twitter: @TheAIEdConvo Let's jump in...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I was at the big ISE pro AV trade show a few weeks ago, I yet  again saw several products that were billed as holograms, even though they didn't even loosely fit the technical definition. I am always paying attention to news and social media posts that use that terminology, and once in a while, I come across something that actually does start to align with the true definition of holograms and holography. Like Voxon, which operates out of Adelaide, Australia. Started years ago as a beer drinking and tinkering maker project in a garage, Voxon now has a physical product for sale that generates a visual with depth that viewers can walk around and see from different angles. That product is mainly being bought by universities and R&D teams at companies to play with and learn, but the long game for Voxon is to produce or be the engine for other products that really do live up to the mainstream, Hollywood-driven notion of holograms. I had a great chat with co-founder and CEO Gavin Smith. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT Gavin, thank you very much for joining me. I know you're up in Scotland, but you are based in Adelaide, Australia, correct? Gavin Smith: Yes, that's right. I'm originally from Scotland. I grew up here, spent the first part of my life in the north of Scotland in Elgin, and then I went to university in Paisley, Glasgow and then eventually, after working for 10 years in the banking sector, I immigrated to Australia and I've lived in Adelaide for the last 14 years.  That's quite a climate shift!  Gavin Smith: Yes, it is a climate shift. I was speaking to my wife the day before, and it was about 40 degrees there, just now they're having a heat wave, whereas up in Elgin here, it's about 1 degree at the moment. Yeah. I'm thinking, why are you there in February? But on the other hand, why would you wanna be in Adelaide if it's 40 Celsius?  Gavin Smith: I quite like the cold. I prefer to be in this temperature right now than 40 degrees, that's for sure.  Oh, I just spent 45 minutes with my snow machine clearing 25 centimeters of snow off my driveway, so I wouldn't mind being in Adelaide today.   Gavin Smith: Thankfully I can have the best of both worlds. I'm heading back there in about a week and a half time.  I was intrigued by your company. I saw a couple of LinkedIn posts with embedded videos and thought that's interesting and I wanted to speak more. So can you tell me what Voxon does?  Gavin Smith: Yes, sure. So Voxon is a company that started in about 2012-2013, and it came out of two joint research projects. One was me and my friend Will, based in Adelaide, we had a Thursday Night Lab Session, as we called it, where we went to the shed and we drank a few beers and we tried to invent things. It was a bit weird, science-esque. So this wasn't exactly a lab?  Gavin Smith: It was a shed. Let's face it, with a beer fridge and there was a lot of machinery, which was in various stages of repair. We used to get hard rubbish off the right side of the road in Adelaide and take it apart and see what we could make.  It was just amateur invention hour. But it was at the start of that project, we built fairly rudimentary machines, CNC machines and we took apart laser scanners and were just inquisitive about how they work from a mechanical point of view. But that then turned into more of a, let's see how far we can push ourselves and learn new stuff, and we've been inspired by sci-fi, Star Wars, all those sorts of things. So we said, let's try and make the sort of 3D display that we'd seen in the movies and those science fiction movies always had the same type of display, and that wasn't a screen, that wasn't a headset. It was always some sort of floating image that you could walk around and you could look out from any direction and the common name for that in popular media was a holographic display. That's what people called it. So that's what we set out to build, and we very quickly figured out that this type of display had to be something to do with projecting images or dots onto some sort of surface that moved and that's because in order to render these little dots that make up the image, inside a space that had physical dimensions, you couldn't make the lights just appear on air. We figured you, you might be able to do some sort of gas or some sort of lasers and things like that. But the way we approached it was starting off by just shaking business cards back and forwards and shining lasers on them, and then that made a line because of persistence of vision.  I always think that Neanderthal man invented the volumetric display because they probably waved burning embers around on the sticks at nighttime and drew those patterns in the air and those patterns really only existed because of the persistence of vision and the extrusion of light through a volume of space, and so that's what we decided to do, and we realized if you could draw a line, then if you could control the laser and turn it off and on again, you could draw a dot. And so we did that by cutting the laser beam with a rotating CD that was stuck on a high-speed drill with some sticky tape on it. We chopped the laser into little bits, and by controlling the speed of the laser, we ended up having a single dot, which we referred to as a voxel, that's what we Googled that a dot in space is referred to as a voxel and then we extrapolated from there and say if we're building these images out of little pixels of light or voxels, we need more and more of these dots, and when you do the math you quickly realize that you need millions of dots of light or volume to make an image, and that's difficult. And really that started us down the road of experimenting with video projectors, with lasers with all sorts of things and more and more advanced moving surfaces, and eventually, we made a small helical display using a vacuum-formed helix that we basically made in Will's wife's kitchen when she was out, in the oven, and yeah, we created a very small image of an elephant. You might call it a hologram at the time. That's what we called it at the time, but it was a volumetric swept surface image. The terminology I'll go into a bit more detail, but at the time it was just a hologram to us, and we thought this was amazing and we'd never seen it before. So we put a video of it on YouTube and some guys in America who were unbeknown to us doing the same project got in contact with us and push came to shove, we decided to join forces and form Voxon, and that was back in 2013.  So when you created this little elephant, was that like a big ‘aha' moment? Like, “Oh my God, we figured this out”? Gavin Smith: Yes, very much so. We believed at the time, we were the first people to do this. In fact, we weren't. But it was the first time we'd seen this type of image, and it was literally spine tingly amazing, to see a truly three-dimensional object that you could look down from, above, from the sides, from any angle, and it filled a space the same way as you or I fill a space in the physical world, you could measure its length that's spread, that's height and even its volume in gallons or liters. It had a tangible existence in the physical world and not on a screen as other 3D images tend to do. At this point, was this a stationary object?  Gavin Smith: Yes, at this point the elephant was stationary and the way I'd created the elephant was we'd figured out, in order to make this elephant, we first needed to have the swept surface moving. So that was the helical screen, which was spinning at about 900 RPM on a very small electric motor and then we had a video projector that we'd managed to get going at about 1,200 frames per second, and in order to create the images, which were cross sections, helical cross sections of an elephant, that was all done offline. So the way I approached that was, we used software called 3D Studio Max, which is a design software, and in that, I modeled a helix and an elephant, and I then intersected the helix with the elephant in the software, rotated the helix digitally, and then I rendered out the resultant cross-section, the boolean operation of one on the other, and this is like taking a drill and drilling a hole into the ground and looking at just a helical core sample. So really it was like a CT scan of this elephant, but just slice at a time, and then I rendered those images to a file. I wrote some software to convert it to a new video format that we had to invent to compress all that data into this high-speed image stream, and then projected that onto the helix. Now, of course, the timing of the images and the rotation of the helix were not in sync, and so much like an old CRT screen where the vertical shift is not dialed in, the elephant would drift out the top of the display and come back in the bottom, and at that point, we knew that this was all about a combination of mathematics, optics, precision, and timing. And to make it interactive, we'd have to write a real-time computer program capable of generating these images in real-time, and that was the next part of the puzzle. This was a work working prototype basically.  Gavin Smith: This was a working prototype, yeah.  How big was it?  Gavin Smith: The helix was very small. It was about five centimeters in diameter, about an inch and a half in diameter, and about an inch tall. But because the projector that we used was a Pico projector at the time, and it was about half the size of a pack of cards. This tiny little thing that we got off the internet from Texas Instruments, and you could focus it at about one centimeter away. So all those little pixels were infinitesimally small, so it was a very high-resolution display and very small, and we realized to get these number of frames per second, we'd have to take advantage of one of the most incredible pieces of engineering ever conceived, in my opinion, and that is the DLP chip from Texas Instruments invented by Larry Hornbeck who passed away several years ago, sadly, and that is an array of mirrors that is grown on a chip using photolithography, the same process as you create microchips, and that array of mirrors contains upwards of a million mirrors arranged in a two-dimensional array, and they can tilt on and off physically about 30,000 times a second. And that's called a MEMS, a microelectromechanical display or in optical terms, a spatial light modulator. So it's something that turns the light on and off at ultra-high speed, and those on-off cycles are what give us our Z-resolution on the display. So that's the slices that make up the display. Wow. So where are you at now with the company now that you've formed it and you've grown it, what's happened since that very first prototype elephant? Gavin Smith: Following that we realized that my programming skills were finite. I'd spent 10 years as a COBOL programmer in banking, and I wasn't up to the task of writing what was needed, which was a low-level graphics engine. This didn't need a mainframe, no, and we couldn't afford a mainframe, even if we wanted one. So we looked up on the internet to see who we could find in terms of programming to join the company, and there were two programmers who stood out. They were referred to as the top two programmers in the world and were John Carmack of Oculus, and then there was Ken Silverman who wrote the graphics engine for Duke Nukem back in the late 90s, so we contacted Ken. John wasn't available so we contacted Ken and demoed to him at Brown University in Rhode Island where he was working subsequently as basically a computer programmer teacher with his dad, who was the Dean of Engineering there, and Ken really liked what we were doing and his understanding of mathematics and foxholes and 3D rendering really made him think this was something he wanted to be involved in. So he joined our company as a founder and chief computer scientist, and he has led the development of the core rendering engine, which we call the Voxon Photonic engine and that's really our core IP, it's the ability to tick any 3D graphics from a third party source, from Unity, from a C program or something else, and turn it into a high speed projected image, which can be processed in such a way as to de-wrap them when they're projected, so they're the right size. We use dithering in real time to make color possible, which is similar to newsprint, CMY newsprint in the newspaper, and this all basically allows us to project images onto any type of moving surface now and do it in real-time and make applications that are much bigger and extensible so we can plug it into other programs or have people write their own programs for our displays. So you've emerged from being an R&D effort in the shed to a real company to having working prototypes and now you're an operating company with the product.  Gavin Smith: I like to say we've emerged, but I'd very much say we're still crossing the chasm, so to speak, in terms of the technology landscape. After that initial prototype, we spent many years batting our heads together, trying to work as a team in America, and eventually, Will and I decided to raise some money in Australia and set up the company there. We raised about a million and a half Australian dollars. It was about a million US dollars back in 2017, and that was enough to employ some extra engineers and business development, and an experienced COO and start working on our first product, which was the VX1. Now, the VX1 was a different type of display. We decided not to do the helix back then, and we decided to make a different type of display, and that was a reciprocating display and so we invented a way of moving a screen up and down very efficiently using resonance. It's the same I guess mechanical thing that all objects have, and that is at a certain frequency, they start vibrating if there's a driving vibration force. So the Tacoma Bridge falling down when the wind blew at the right speed was an example of when resonances destroyed something. But an opera singer, breaking a glass at the right pitch is another example of something that vibrates due to a striving force, and so we found out if we built a screen, which was mounted on springs that were of a very particular weight, and the springs were a very particular constant of Young's modulus, we could vibrate that subsystem and the screen would vibrate up and down very efficiently and very fast, fast enough that you couldn't see the screen. So that's what the VX1 became, and onto the back of that screen, we project images and those images from a swept volume, and the VX1 had a volume of about 18x18x8 cm, I think it's about 7 inches square by about 3 inches tall, and we have a single projector mounted inside of that and a computer and a ton of electronics keeps it all in sync, and we built a software API for it and a library of programs that come built into it. So it's off the shelf, you turn it on and it works. And so we built that back in 2017 and over the last five years, it's evolved into something which is very reliable and now, you can't tell them apart when they're manufactured at the start, each one might look different with hot glue and duct tape and all the rest of it. But now we have a complete digital workflow. We outsource most of the manufacture of the parts and we do final assembly software, QC, and packaging up and then ship them out to companies we've sold probably about 120 VX1s globally since 2017, and those have gone out to companies all around the world, like Sony, MIT, Harvard, CMU, Unity, BA Systems, Verizon, Erickson, a lot of companies and they've bought them and they're generally going into explorative use cases.  Yeah, I was going to say, it sounds like they're going into labs as opposed to stores.  Gavin Smith: Yeah, they're not going into stores. The VX1 is really an evaluation system. It's not prime time ready for running all day long, and the reason for that is it has a vibration component to it, and also the refresh rate of the VX1 is actually variable within the volume. It's hard to explain, but the apparent volume refresh rate is 30 hertz in the middle and 15 hertz at the poles and so it has a little bit of flicker. But in a dark environment, it's really spellbinding and it's actually used in museums. There's some in Germany and a science museum there. It's been used in an art exhibition  in Paris, where the art was created by David Levine and MIT Media Lab and it's frequently used in universities and it pops up in all sorts of trade shows, and it's always a talking point and it always gathers a crowd around it, and what we like to say with the volumetric display from a marketing point of view, or really a description of what it is, it's really about creating a digital campfire. That's the kind of user experience.  It's gathering people around something intimately in a way that they can still have eye contact and maintain a conversation, and each person has their own perspective and view of the 3D data.  The scale you're describing is still quite small and that seems to be What I've experienced with, when I've seen demonstrations at the SID trade show of light field displays. They're all like the size of a soda bottle at most.  Is that a function of just the technology, you can't just make these things big? Gavin Smith: You can make them bigger, and we have since that point. The biggest display that we've made so far was one that we just delivered to BA Systems in Frimley near London, and fo that one, we've gone back to the helical display for that particular one, and it's. 46 centimeters in diameter and 8 centimeters deep. So that's about nine times the volume of the VX1. So that's a much bigger display.  Now you can, with a swept volume, you can go as big as you'd like within the realms of physics, and what I mean by that is with a rotating display, you can make the display as big as something that can rotate at a speed that's fast enough to make the medium kind of disappear. So if you think about propellers and fans, for example, I've seen pedestal fans that are a meter in diameter running faster than we run our display, and with rotating displays, it's easier to do because you have conservation of momentum and you have inertia which drives the display around, and yet you can rotate the volume as well, have it enclosed so that you're not generating airflow as a fan does.  So for example, if you have a propeller-shaped blade encased in a cylindrical enclosure, and that enclosure is spinning, then you don't get the air resistance you get with a fan and the display that we made for BA Systems is ultimately silent and flicker-free because we're running at exactly 30 hertz throughout the volume, which means you don't get flicker, but reciprocating displays, ones that go up and down, scaling them is more of a challenge because you're having to push the air out the way up and down, and as the size of the screen moving up and down gets bigger, if you're projecting from behind, for example, you also have to start considering things like the flexing of the substrate that you're projecting onto. For a front projection display where you project down from the top, we can go bigger because you can make a very lightweight, thicker screen out of exotic materials and those are materials that are very light but very stiff. Things like air gels and foamed metals, and very lightweight honeycomb structure so that way you can go bigger but we may need to move into the realms of using reduced atmospheric displays, partial vacuums, and things like that to reduce the resistance or using materials that are air permeable, such as meshes that move up and down very quickly. And we have done experiments with those and found that we can go a lot bigger.  However, with the current projection systems that we're using, you then have to increase the brightness because the brightness of the image is also stretched out through a volume. If you imagine a home cinema projector projecting 3k or 4k lumens, you have to consider that each of the images that it's projecting is pretty much evenly lit in terms of all the pixels that you're projecting. Whereas what we are doing is we are projecting these thousands of images, we're only illuminating the cross-section of every object. So we're maybe only using 1% of the available brightness of the projector at any one time, unless you project a solid slice all the way across, which is really you're building up this construct, which is how I explain it to people as it's very similar to 3D printing. If you look at how a 3D printer works, we are doing exactly the same thing, except we are printing using light instead of PLA and we're printing thousands and thousands of times faster.  In digital signage, the thing that always gets people nervous is moving parts, and that directly affects reliability and longevity. How do you address that? Gavin Smith: So the VX1 is a good example of moving parts in a display that isn't yet ready for long-running and when I say long-running, we do have it in exhibitions, but we have recently engineered it in such a way that the parts that may break or will break are the four springs that drive the machine, and those have been engineered to resonate at particular frequency. Now after several hundred million extensions of those springs, they can fatigue and they will fatigue break and that's something that we're working on, and that might be a month or three weeks of running 24/7, and so we've made those springs user replaceable. You can change them in two or three minutes for a fresh set. So it's almost like the mechanical profile of something like an Inkjet printer where you have to change the cartridge every so often. And we find with mechanical stuff, people accept mechanical things in their lives as long as the maintenance/utility ratio is at a level they can accept like bicycles, cars, and things like that. You maintain them as long as their utility outweighs the inconvenience of the repair. Now for projection equipment and things like that in digital signage, there are a lot of two-dimensional technologies that are ultra-reliable on those things, big LED panels, 2D video projectors and just lighting. You can turn them on and leave them and you should be okay. So in our rotating displays and we have another rotating display that we're working on, which we can't discuss just now cuz it's still under NDA, is part of the reason we're going down that rabbit hole or going down that design sort of path because we can make rotating displays, which are very reliable, they're effectively like a record player. You turn it on and it spins around and you could leave it and come back in three weeks and it would still be spinning around, and also a rotating display if properly manufactured within tolerances won't cause the vibration, and the vibration is really the thing that can cause the issues because vibration can lead to fatigue and failure in electrical components, electronic components, small cracks in circuits, and things like that. So from our point of view, we're going towards rotating mechanics because that ultimately allows us to make things which are reliable enough to be used in a wide range of industries including digital signage, advertising, medical imaging and gaming, and many more. In my world, there are all kinds of companies who are saying that they have holographic products of some kind or another. As somebody who's doing something that sounds very much like a hologram or close to what we thought of when we all saw Star Wars, what do you think of those things?  Gavin Smith: I don't like to be a troll, first of all on LinkedIn, and so I try to shy away from saying, look, that's rubbish. But what I try to do is politely point out how things work when it's not clear from someone's post how something might work or where it's misleading. Now if you look at the term hologram, it comes from the Greek, hólos and grammḗ, which means the whole message, and in a way, I tend to think of an actual hologram, which is created using lasers, laser interference patterns, and light beams and things like that they don't represent the whole message. Because if you take your credit card out, which is one of the few places you will see a hologram you'll notice that you can't look down on the hologram from above, you can't turn the card over and look at it from the back. They are a limited view of something, and so the term hologram has become, as you say, in popular fiction, and popular media, it's really a catchall for anything that is sci-fi 3D related, right? And it's misused, everyone calls it a hologram, and our staff sometimes call it a hologram. I like to say it's not a hologram because it has a lot more features than a hologram. Holograms have some really interesting properties, one of which is that you can cut a hologram into 10 little pieces and it turns into 10 individual little holograms, and that's a really interesting thing. But holograms from a 3D point of view don't exist in signage anywhere. They simply don't. The terminology used to describe things that you see in signage and popular media is completely misused, and I like to go through them and categorize them into different things. And those are, first of all, volumetric displays of which we're the only company in the world that's making a commercial volumetric display. There's one other company Aerial Burton, who are based in Japan that makes a volumetric display, but it's a very high-tech scientific prototype that uses lasers to explode the air and has very low resolution. And then you've got autostereoscopic 3D displays, and they broadly fit into the categories of lenticular displays which are as you probably know LCD panels, which have got a plastic lens array on them that allows you to see a left and a right image, and those left and right images can give you a stereoscopic view. I would call them stereoscopic displays because they're not 3d. You can't look at them from any direction and they don't physically occupy three-dimensional euclidean space, which is what the real world is, and those types of displays come in different formats. So you get some with just horizontal parallax, which means you can move your head left and right and see a number of distinct views. You've got some that you can move up and down as well, and also get a little bit of vertical parallax as well, and there's probably five or six companies doing those sorts of displays. You've got Looking Glass, Lightfield Labs, Acer, and Sodium, so that area can grow. The physical size of those displays can get bigger, but the bigger they get, the harder it is to move further away because you're pupil distance means it's harder to get a 3D view, and also with any display like that, the 3D image that you see because it's the result of you seeing two independent images with your left and right eye, that 3D image can never leave the bounds or the window of the display, and that's something in advertising, which is very misused a lot, they show a 2D monitor with the image leaping out beyond the border of the monitor, and that just can't happen. That breaks the laws of physics, and so that's the kind of three auto stereoscopic 3D landscapes, and it's hard to say that autostereoscopic, 3D display because people zone out and they go, is it a hologram? And no it's not.  The other types of 3D that are popular just now are obviously, glasses-based display, AR, VR, mixed-reality, and we don't really, we don't really mind about that or care about that because it's something you have to put something on your head, and that's our different thing really. So those offer you an immersive experience where you go down a rabbit hole and you're in another world and that's not what we are about. And then you've got the fake 3D displays, which are not 3D stereoscopically but appear that way, and that's where I get slightly annoyed by those displays, but I understand there are people making types of signage I guess you would say, that is perfectly suitable for a scenario and those are things like Pepper's ghost which is when you reflect a 2D image off a big piece of glass or plexiglass, and that's the pepper, the famous one, the Tupac hologram at Coachella. I met the guy and spoke to him. He's a really lovely guy and I had a good chat about that, and he knows full well that it's an illusion, but it's the illusion that Disneyland has been using for many years, and it's a perfectly good illusion for a seated studio audience because they see someone on stage and they're doing it now with the, I think the ABBA Show in London is a similar type of setup.  They call them holograms, but it's a 2D picture that's far enough away that you can be made to believe that it's three-dimensional and it might exist at different levels like a diorama. You could have a stack of images, on fly screens or whatever, that appear to be layered, but ultimately they are 2D, and then the one that's come out recently, which causes probably the most amount of confusion for people are the anamorphic projections on large billboards, and everyone's seen these displays on LinkedIn and YouTube, and they tend to appear on large curved billboards in parts of China where the rental of the billboards is sufficiently cheap as you can put these big images up there, film them from one particular spot in 2d, and then put that on LinkedIn and have people comment on it and say, wow, that's an amazing hologram. Even though a) they haven't seen this in real life and b) it's not a hologram and it's not even three-dimensional. It's a perspective-based 2D trick, and so one of our challenges is expectation management, and that is people see large-scale fake 2D images, and fake 3D images and then they conclude that it must be possible and they want to buy one, and then when they see yours they go, oh, it's much smaller than I imagined, and you feel like saying, it's real. It's actually based on science, and you could walk around it. And that's the challenge we're at just now. Trying to move away from this feeling that you have to have the biggest display in the world for it to be valid, and a lot of the business for us and a lot of the inquiries we get are from the likes of the Middle East, where they want to build very big, very impressive, very bright, very colorful displays and they say, we want a hologram that will fit in a football stadium and fly around in the sky, and you have to say well, that's great, but that's also impossible using anything that's even imaginable today, let alone physically achievable, and so yeah, we are very much a case of trying to be as honest as we can with the limitations, but also with the opportunities because regardless of the fact that our technology is relatively small compared to large screen billboards, we have got the ability to create sci-fi-inspired interactive displays that you can put in personal spaces, in museums, in galleries, in shopping centers, and they really do look like something up close under scrutiny that you might see in a Marvel movie, and that's the kind of relationship we're trying to find with other companies as well. There are other types of the display as well. You probably talked to Daniel about some of his displays, which are levitating grains of dust and things like that, and the challenge I have with them is yes, you can make a 3D image, but you have to look at how long it takes to make that 3D image and they're really more akin to painting with light. It's long-exposure photography. You have to manipulate something and move it around over a long period of time to bring it, to build a single image, and scaling those types of displays is impossible. It's the same with laser-based displays, whenever you're moving a single dot around, you run out of resolution extraordinarily fast because it's a linear thing, and even with Aerial Burton exploding the air with a laser they can only do about 1000 or 2000 dots every second, and that breaks down to being able to draw maybe a very simple two-dimensional shape whereas to draw a detailed image, an elephant or anything like that, that we've displayed in the past, it requires upwards of 30 or 40 million dots a second to do that with each image, each volume contains millions of dots.  Where do you see this going in, let's say, five years from now? And are you at that point selling products or are you licensing the technology to larger display manufacturers? Or something else? Gavin Smith: So at the moment what we're doing is we're looking for projects that we can scale and one of the first projects that we're working on just now and the technology can be applied to a range of different industries. As you can imagine, any new display technology. You could use it for CT scans, you could use it for advertising, for point of sale, for a whole lot of different things. But you have to choose those projects early on when the technology is immature, and that is low-hanging fruit if you want to use that term, and so our low-hanging freight at the moment, we believe is in the entertainment industry, digital out-of-home entertainment to be specific, which is the likes of video gaming and entertainment venues, and so 2018, we were in the Tokyo Game Show with one of our machines, and we were situated next to Taito at the company that made Space Invaders, and their board came across their senior members and they played with our technology and they really liked it. And so we entered into a conversation with them and over several years, we have built a Space invaders arcade machine called Next Dimension, and that's using our rotating volumetric display with three projectors each running at 4,000 frames per second and a large rotating volume, and we've written a new Space Invaders arcade game and Taito has granted us the license to bring that to market. In order to do that, we're now doing commercial testing and technical testing which involves taking the technology into venues, play testing it and getting feedback from the venues on the suitability of the game and the profitability of it as a product. So with that game, our plan is to follow in the footsteps of the previous Space Invader game, which was called Frenzy made by Roth Rolls. It sold 3000 or 4000 units globally. So if you could do that, it would be a profitable first venture in terms of bringing technology to market, and at the moment, we're looking to raise some capital. We need to raise $2-3 million USD to do the design from the manufacturer for that and build the first batch of machines which would be rolled out globally.  Now, that's really seen for us as a launch of technology using the IP of Space Invaders as a carrier, a launch vehicle for the technology, but once launched and once our technology is widely known and understood, what we then plan to do is build our own revenue generating model and technology platform that can be deployed to venues around the world who can use this as a kind of an entertainment device where you can run different IP on it from different vendors and do a sort of profit share with the venue owners. So a cinema, Chucke CheeseB, Dave & Busters, those types of venues, as well as bowling alleys, VR arcades, and all those types of entertainment venues that currently is starting to grow in strength, largely because people are now looking for entertainment experiences, not necessarily just staying at home.  COVID obviously threw a curve ball our way as well. When our Space Invaders machine was sent to Japan for testing, COVID had just happened so it went into internal testing within Taito, and then Square Enix who owns Taito, their parent company decreed that Taito would no longer manufacture arcade machines but would license their IP only so that kind of threw a spanner in the works and they've come back to us and said, we'd love the game, but we want you to bring it to market, not us. So that's one thing we're working on just now. There's a video of Space Invaders: Next Dimension on YouTube that you can look at, and it's a really fun experience because it's a four-player game. We've added the volumetric nature. You can fly up and down during sub-games. You can bump your next-door neighbor with your spaceship and get a power-up. It really is for us a way of saying, look, this is a new way, it's a new palette of which to make new gaming experiences and the future is really up to the imaginations of people writing software.  All right. That was super interesting. I learned a lot there and some of it is, as often the case, I understood as well. Gavin Smith: That's great. I'm glad you understand. It is a hard thing to wrap your head around, especially for us trying to demonstrate the nature of the technology in 2D YouTube videos and LinkedIn videos, and you really have to see it with your own eyes to understand it, and that's why this week I was over for a meeting with BA Systems, but I took the opportunity to spend several days in London at a film Studio in SoHo, in London, the owners very gratefully let me have a demonstration group there, and I spent two days last week demonstrating the product to ten or so companies come in and see the technology, and it's only then when they really start to get their creative juices flowing and that's where POCs projects kick-off.  So that's what we're looking for just now, are companies that have imaginative people and they have a need for creating some new interactive media that can be symbiotic with their existing VR and AR metaverse type stuff. But really something that's designed for people up close and personal, intimate experiences.  If people want to get in touch, where do they find you online?  Gavin Smith: So we have a website, which is just www.voxon.co. Voxon Photonics is our Australian company name, and you can find us on LinkedIn. Actually, my own personal LinkedIn is generally where I post most stuff. That's Gavin Smith on LinkedIn, you can look me up there around, and then we have the Voxon Photonics LinkedIn page and we're on Twitter and Facebook and YouTube as well. We have a lot of videos on YouTube. That's a good place to start. But if you wanna get in touch, contact us via Voxon.co. Drop us an email and we'll be happy to have a meeting and a video call.  All right, Gavin, thank you so much for spending some time with me.  Gavin Smith: My pleasure. Thanks very much for having me.

On this episode of Voice Of GO(r)D I had the great pleasure of speaking with my old mate Gavin Smith, quite possibly one of the world's best and most experienced truckers, hailing all the way from New Zealand. Gavin has had quite a life, including service in The Royal New Zealand Navy, and working in many places around the world, including several seasons up on The Ice Roads of the Northwest Territories where I first met him. Gavin relays much of his history on the road to us, as well as the service he is currently rendering to his fellow Veterans. The Veterans Group of which Gavin is the current president - https://www.mururoaveterans73.nz/ An article describing the work they do and challenges they face - https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114545821/grandchildren-of-mururoa-nuclear-veterans-face-ongoing-medical-problems Email me - gordilocks@protonmail.com My Substack - autonomoustruckers.substack.com Twitter - @driverautonomy

This week, a judge sentenced a juvenile to three life sentences in the murder of four family members. Last month, a jury found Gavin Smith, now 18, guilty of killing his mother, stepfather, and two younger stepbrothers on December 9, 2020. Their bodies were found by family members a few days later.   If you like TRUE CRIME TODAY - and want AD FREE episodes, Be sure to sub to our premium channel on APPLE PODCASTS! http://shorturl.at/uLTWX  Get access to: -Ad Free EXCLUSIVE BONUS Series from True Crime Today. -Advance Episodes -Ad Free Episodes 

When film executive Gavin Smith vanishes, Los Angeles detectives search for clues amid reported sightings and suspicious circumstances. The case takes a dramatic turn when Gavin's wife reveals painful secrets. Keith Morrison reports. 

Chris sits down and has a chat with his buddy Gavin Smith about everything and nothing all at once! It's Gavin's 5th time on the pod! 5 Timers Club!!! Listen and subscribe at: http://tototpodcast.com Please subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes! And follow us on all platforms: @tototpodcast Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/GyrTcZaq Wanna help out the show? Head over to http://patreon.com/tototpodcast Leave us some love/hate, suggest a guest, or tell us your own tour story on the TOTOT Hotline: (765)372-8818 Band Sponsor: Debt Cemetary http://facebook.com/debtcemetary http://instagram.com/debtcemetary https://open.spotify.com/artist/1EkMWHCLERhAMnksdUWPsF?si=zEuzQPYJSkSNKeKM5iNYeA TOTOT Radio: The Frickashinas http://facebook.com/thefrickashinas http://instagram.com/thefrickashinas https://open.spotify.com/artist/57sOW5MjhXDVoK2fgCwqNW?si=gQ2PFD3oRVCaExltXjA-mA Buy some TOTOT gear: https://roaddogsupply.com/totot-podcast-merch Artwork by: Sara http://instagram.com/roaddogsupply Become a sponsor: tototpodcast@gmail.com Donate on Venmo: @christopherswinney Follow Chris's new band, Fire Sale, on FB and IG! ( @firesaleisaband )  https://open.spotify.com/artist/13M5w7mNimLCU8yU3Kkd5w?si=6btTujB5RdCbUJC1f4-2cA Buy some merch @ http://firesaleisaband.com   Check out Chris's old bands on Spotify! Chronic Chaos: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3g21wPm2j0Z3QnFNZs1jPP The Widow Jenkins: https://open.spotify.com/album/42Bsz2Hf68nZ4nCivbRCB1 Sign up for our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/f2020be8cb73/totot-mailing-list For other cool podcasts, check out our network: http://soundtalentmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

IDW artist Gavin Smith is our guest today. Our guest today is best known for his works on the IDW Star Trek comics the "Mirror War". Cover artist for the upcoming issue TMNT #134, Gavin has also worked on books such as The Accelerators, Have you any Fear?, The Good Fight ( with Mark Waid), Human City, Ghost in the Shell, and Dead Legends! Listen in on our conversation about turtles with Gavin and be sure to follow him on Instagram and Twitter @Gavinpsmith. Check out the New Pizza recipe the BLT! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/epictalesfromthesewers/message

Alli, Cindi and Gavin discuss ~ The culture of Louisiana, traditions of the home, the iconic style of Ralph Lauren, the power of Dallas, his 33-year fashion career, and our mutual passion for the Sotheby's brand and our team at Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty. “Diana Vreeland said, ‘It's not about the dress, but the life you lead in the dress.' So for me, it's not about the address, but the life you live in the address. When you think of it that way, you have to feel good in it, just like your favorite outfit.” - Gavin Smith, Global Real Estate Advisor at BFSIR

This week sees another episode of our Movie Gifts podcast. It's like Secret Santa but for movies—each participant picks a title for another that the recipient hasn't seen. It's a fun way to share enthusiasms and gain new insights on old favorites. For this round, Film Comment co-deputy editors Devika Girish and Clinton Krute invited FC contributor Nathan Lee and former FC editor Gavin Smith, two longtime friends, who were eager to assign each other movies. For Gavin, Nathan selected Paul W. S. Anderson's action-packed 2008 remake Death Race. For Nathan, Gavin chose Larry Cohen's 1976 apocalyptic sci-fi stunner God Told Me To. Devika and Clint were a little less considerate to each other: Clint gifted Devika the toxic 1979 football drama North Dallas Forty, while Devika gifted Clint her childhood favorite, Baby's Day Out, a madcap live-action cartoon about a sadistic baby running wild in the streets. Movie Gifts, or Movie Torture? Listen to find out. MUBI is offering a 30-day free trial for all Film Comment listeners. Get access to the special offer here: https://mubi.com/promos/flc?utm_source=film%20at%20lincoln%20center&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=us_mubigo_flcargento_filmcomment And be sure to learn more about how you can get a free ticket to a theater each week with MUBI GO, included with your subscription, here: https://mubi.com/go/us?utm_source=film%20at%20lincoln%20center&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=us_mubigo_flcargento_filmcomment

The mysterious disappearance of handsome Hollywood film executive Gavin Smith gets stranger and stranger… depending on who's telling the story. In their first ever True Crime TV Club Redux, Christopher and Eric pit two dueling true crime shows-- each covering the same crime--against each other to find out which one told the truth and which one stretched the facts to breaking. It's Episode 47, season 25 of DATELINE, entitled Dark Valley, vs THE PERFECT MURDER, Season 5, Episode 9, a show already guilty of straight-washing the murder of a closeted gay man (See "TDPS Presents Christopher & Eric" Episode 69). May the best true crime story teller win!

Chris sits down and has a chat with his buddy Gavin Smith about Spotify! Listen and subscribe at: http://tototpodcast.com Please subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes! And follow us on all platforms: @tototpodcast Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/GyrTcZaq Wanna help out the show? Head over to http://patreon.com/tototpodcast Leave us some love/hate, suggest a guest, or tell us your own tour story on the TOTOT Hotline: (765)372-8818 Band Sponsor: Blackcat Manor http://facebook.com/blackcatmanorband https://open.spotify.com/artist/5o8JYD916sO3CDiaXAG4rW?si=LHYgYAKQS5qRSBvsrABDiw Buy some TOTOT gear: https://roaddogsupply.com/totot-podcast-merch Artwork by: Sara http://instagram.com/roaddogsupply Become a sponsor: tototpodcast@gmail.com Donate on Venmo: @christopherswinney Follow Chris's new band, Fire Sale, on FB and IG! ( @firesaleisaband )  https://open.spotify.com/artist/13M5w7mNimLCU8yU3Kkd5w?si=6btTujB5RdCbUJC1f4-2cA Buy some merch @ http://firesaleisaband.com   Check out Chris's old bands on Spotify! Chronic Chaos: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3g21wPm2j0Z3QnFNZs1jPP The Widow Jenkins: https://open.spotify.com/album/42Bsz2Hf68nZ4nCivbRCB1 Sign up for our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/f2020be8cb73/totot-mailing-list For other cool podcasts, check out our network: http://soundtalentmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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“Teach the youth to play Chess not Checkers, and coach them to be better than you!” - Gavin  Welcome back family! This week I am joined by Jamaican born and Uniondale, NY raised Gavin Smith.  Educator • Agitator • Activist • Runner.  He's an ambassador for Lululemon, Vice Principal at Fenway High School, and always championing life.  Join us as we discuss how he left what no longer served him and actively steps into his greatness every day through fitness.  You won't want to miss how he is navigating predominately White spaces to reallocate resources and give back to the community!  In this episode you can expect to hear:  • The mental health effects of a kid from a lower-middle-class family in an EXTREMELY wealthy school system. • How ONE decision changed Gavin's life trajectory • How parting from your past can be the most fruitful decision • What it looks like when people highlight talents within YOU that you don' see in yourself  • Gavin's role in restructuring a traditional school system Connect with us:   @fitnessincolor_  @sidbap  @gav0h  ——————————————————  Every day you have a choice. Choose wisely. “Roxbury is the Black Mecca of Boston and it is an honor to get to run past such rich Blackness everyday” - Gavin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fitness-in-color/support

The Systems That Bind pt. 2 WHBLE founder, Ah-Keisha McCants talks with Educator and Assistant Principal at Boston Public Schools Gavin Smith about teacher messaging to students, encouraging agency and achievement within urban schools, the role of double consciousness in Black youth, and the reclamation of liberation in the face of systemic oppression. Gavin Smith is an educator, and Assistant Principal in Boston Public Schools. He is the former runner up for Teacher of the Year in Massachusetts where he taught biology for 7 years. Gavin is of Jamaican origin and spent the majority of his childhood between Jamaica, West Indies and Long Island, New York. He has worked at a variety of schools in Boston including alternative high schools, charter high schools, and exam schools. Gavin is a firm believer [in] education being a means of social change, and an advocate for children as a member of the mentoring group Minds Matter Boston. He is the co-founder of YMOC (Young Men of Color), a group designed to create safe space for intergenerational conversation and community building amongst men of color in the Boston area. Gavin holds degrees from Northeastern University, Simmons University, and Boston College. He is an avid runner, Knicks fan and lover of all things black. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whble/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whble/support

Is this the widest gulf in quality between the two shows under discussion in Blotter history? Maybe! But Netflix's new three-part series on the "Commission Case" that brought down the New York Mob is disciplined, compelling, and reminds me and guest Jeb Lund that Rudy Giuliani didn't always completely suck at everything...and that barbers really have a challenging job sometimes. The Perfect Murder, meanwhile, is also compelling, but risibly acted, weirdly production-designed, and hilarious in a way that brings to mind a certain [ploop!]. It's so memorably bizarre that at least it "honors" Gavin Smith by stamping his case indelibly into our memories, but we really shouldn't be giggling at a true-crime story. Wear a crop top to the cop shop for The Blotter Presents, Episode 152. SHOW NOTES Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia  Brian Tallerico's review at RogerEbert.com The NatGeo series whose junket found SDB sitting next to Michael Franzese The Perfect Murder S05.E09, "Jump Shot"  "The Ploop Incident" The Quaid In Full podcast Jeb Lund on Twitter

Eli Elezra attempts "Ask Me Anything" on 2+2 to promote upcoming book, results in scamming accusations (topic starts at 0:24:24 mark). Should 2+2 publish books by scammers or other disgraced poker players? (1:46:08) For the record: Druff clarifies a few details about last week's AsianSpa death story (1:58:24). Former PFA guest Jonny Ferrari claims Gavin Smith's death was due to "something hereditary" (2:07:23). WSOP releases full 2019 schedule (2:21:45). Disgraced Epic Poker head & former WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack named President of XFL (2:58:16). Shaun Deeb taunts Daniel Negreanu on Twitter about recent engagement (3:29:25). Terminally ill man chooses to meet Negreanu as his Dream Foundation trip (3:40:26). Ali Fazeli sentenced to 18 months for Super Bowl ticket scam (3:49:30). Sheldon Adelson found to have links to 2018 DOJ Wire Act reinterpretation (3:55:19). Pennsylvania informs casinos to comply with new Wire Act rules (4:02:10). Bellagio dealer refuses tip from poker player Johnnie Moreno (4:06:13). Editorial: Why not to jump to conclusions from viral social media stories (4:33:34). PCA $25k event winner was tip-shamed by Sam Grafton (5:10:23).

New way to donate to show or freeroll with debit card (topic begins at 0:25:14 mark). Gavin Smith dies unexpectedly, poker community starts Gofundme for his kids (0:30:46). Druff admits to engineering 2015 cover-up of death of well-known poker social media figure (1:55:25). High buyin WSOP events announced, Main Event now allows Day 2 entry (2:18:33). DOJ reverses 2011 Wire Act opinion which was previously favorable to poker (2:47:34). Chino Rheem wins PCA Main Event -- will he pay creditors? (3:21:43) DraftKings "Sports Betting National Championship" ends in controversy, lawsuit (3:49:05). Phil Galfond's site has job opening for "Game Integrity Manager" - will Druff apply? (4:20:12) "HQ Trivia" scandal highlights problem with contests-for-real-money apps (4:40:00). tradershky co-hosts.