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In this episode, Bill interviews Kenneth Heinz, President of HFR, to explore the evolving landscape of hedge funds. Kenneth shares insights into HFR's growth from its inception in 1992 to its current position as an industry leader. The conversation delves into hedge fund strategies, performance benchmarking, and the role of transparency in driving trust and innovation. Kenneth also highlights emerging trends such as the rise of pod shop structures, the growing impact of cryptocurrency, and the importance of democratization in investment strategies. Listen in!
This is Part 2 in a 2-part episode: Madelyn, Mike, and I continue our discussion about our Holiday From Real cruise experience. We answer fan-submitted questions about the experience, talk about favorite sets, songs, and moments, and we even give our suggestions about what could make this cruise even better! Plus, our predictions for 2026! Holiday From Real shared fan playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4WZOFaYjXmB0zDrRsVjrKb0zIVUg0U2h&jct=9HVR9eVIxTG3RZH2TRhmZA Steve's HFR videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX_KsnmAMJngRR1jq_rPAy-fGij49-psX
Mike and Madelyn join the show to tell us about their Holiday From Real cruise experience! Three people who had three different experiences on the boat discuss some favorite moments, unique experiences, and of course the live music! This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Holiday From Real shared fan playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4WZOFaYjXmB0zDrRsVjrKb0zIVUg0U2h&jct=9HVR9eVIxTG3RZH2TRhmZA Steve's HFR videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX_KsnmAMJngRR1jq_rPAy-fGij49-psX
Press X Join the Press X Discord: https://discord.gg/MAXtvmv2rw Topics: Nintendo files patent for new Switch cartridge https://mynintendonews.com/2024/08/09/nintendo-files-patent-for-new-switch-cartridge/ Rachael Lillis, voice actor of Misty, Jessie, and Jigglypuff in Pokémon, dies at 46 https://x.com/TheVeronicaT/status/1823000035883438271 IMDb says she did 423 episodes of Pokémon, not including movies https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510418/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_0_nm_8_in_0_q_Rachael%2520Li Doom + Doom II Enhanced surprise-released with tons of new features https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/article/doom-doomii-release-notes?linkId=100000279162898 New, upgraded version of SNES Doom coming from Limited Run Games https://x.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/1821643514750378183 Ready at Dawn, 20-Year-Old Studio and Developer of The Order: 1886, Shuttered by Meta https://www.ign.com/articles/ready-at-dawn-vr-studio-that-once-worked-on-god-of-war-shuttered-by-meta Krafton purchases, revives Tango Gameworks and Hi-Fi Rush IP https://www.gamespress.com/en-US/KRAFTON-Strengthens-Global-Presence-Through-Strategic-Integration-of-T includes HFR director John Johanas https://x.com/johnjohanas/status/1822804769699946697 Halloween is getting 2 new games, one made in UE5 with John Carpenter "intimately involved" https://www.ign.com/articles/halloween-unreal-engine-5-john-carpenter-boss-team-games Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Collection – wide retail release for PS4, Switch launches October 8 in the west https://www.gematsu.com/2024/08/final-fantasy-i-vi-pixel-remaster-collection-wide-retail-release-for-ps4-switch-launches-october-8-in-the-west Dragon Ball Project: Multi announced as a MOBA for PC and mobile, regional beta test August 19 - September 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6bowq2uQM0 A new Sunsoft retro compilation brings three Famicom games to the west for the first time https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-new-sunsoft-retro-compilation-brings-three-famicom-games-to-the-west-for-the-first-time/ Sega says its Gamescom line-up includes an unannounced game https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-says-its-gamescom-line-up-includes-an-unannounced-game/ Box Office: ‘It Ends With Us' Scores $50 Million Opening Weekend, ‘Borderlands' Flops With $8.8 Million https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-it-ends-with-us-beats-exectations-borderlands-flops-1236103106/ Questions from Discord: Joe: Forgive me as I'm not sure if I even know what this question means, but which Mario character has the most aura? brasop: What's everyone's favorite co-op experience been? I've started the Borderlands series with my brother in online co-op and having a great time. And now that the original Doom 1 & Doom 2 re-release is out, we're swapping between that and Borderlands; it's been awesome so far. What we're playing: Mary: Final Fantasy 16 ✅ John: Ys V (finished), Dragon Quest III Greg: Apex Legends Brett L: CFB 25, Ratchet and Clank Brett M: BONER JAMS ‘98
La fertilité des êtres humains chute dans toutes les régions du monde. En Suisse, un couple sur six est concerné par cette maladie qui se définit par le fait de ne pas réussir à concevoir un enfant au bout d'une année de rapports réguliers non protégés. Pour autant, la plupart des traitements de PMA (procréation médicalement assistée) ne sont pas remboursés par l'assurance maladie, ce qui crée un tourisme médical vers des contrées moins chères, au bénéfice de lois moins restrictives. Même si l'infertilité occupe la scène médiatique, elle demeure un tabou et génère une grande souffrance. Les traitements restent très lourds à vivre à la fois physiquement et psychiquement. Une forte pression sociale s'exerce sur les couples, et en particulier les femmes, qui n'ont pas d'enfant. Production : Laurence Difélix Réalisation: Sandro Lisci Les invitées: Dorothea Wunder Médecin spécialiste FMH en gynécologie obstétrique, formation approfondie en médecine de la reproduction et endocrinologie gynécologique – Hôpital Cantonal Fribourg, HFR. & Laure de Jonckheere Conseillère en santé sexuelle et reproductive, travaille dans le domaine de la PMA depuis 2005 au CPMA - Lausanne.
Why do some films shot in higher frame rates look so weird? We explore the history of the 24 frames per second standard, the filmmakers who are pushing the envelope on frame rates, and how those technological changes affect the viewing experience of film.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
La fertilité des êtres humains chute dans toutes les régions du monde. En Suisse, un couple sur six est concerné par cette maladie qui se définit par le fait de ne pas réussir à concevoir un enfant au bout d'une année de rapports réguliers non protégés. Pour autant, la plupart des traitements de PMA (procréation médicalement assistée) ne sont pas remboursés par l'assurance maladie, ce qui crée un tourisme médical vers des contrées moins chères, au bénéfice de lois moins restrictives. Même si l'infertilité occupe la scène médiatique, elle demeure un tabou et génère une grande souffrance. Les traitements restent très lourds à vivre à la fois physiquement et psychiquement. Une forte pression sociale s'exerce sur les couples, et en particulier les femmes, qui n'ont pas d'enfant. Production : Laurence Difélix Réalisation: Sandro Lisci Les invitées: Dorothea Wunder Médecin spécialiste FMH en gynécologie obstétrique, formation approfondie en médecine de la reproduction et endocrinologie gynécologique – Hôpital Cantonal Fribourg, HFR. & Laure de Jonckheere Conseillère en santé sexuelle et reproductive, travaille dans le domaine de la PMA depuis 2005 au CPMA - Lausanne.
BELIEVERS BE ATTITUDES Series| BEATITUDES (4)| CHIMDI OHAHUNA. Bible Text: Matthew 5 1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. The first "be attitude" of the believer is to need God very much as a child of God. Never have enough of Christ. The second "be attitude" (Beatitude) reveals how we enjoy comfort via the person of the Holy Spirit. The third reveals how Meekness helps us in times of emotional highs to not curse God or hurt others. Meekness speaks/reveals the believer's absolute faith in God. This episode covers the fourth "be attitude"- Hunger for Righteousness (HFR) & Thirst for Righteousness (TFR). The blessing of God is made available to believers in different categories. The manifestation of the blessing is the proof that indeed we've been blessed. The thirst for righteousness TFR is the sincere milk of the word of God. Drinking fluid cannot take the place of food in the body. You may be hydrated but not nourished. The thirst for righteousness is the need to be hydrated in the spiritual. Hunger for righteousness, HFR gives us strength. If our strength fails... Is needed to stand in the evil day & the devices of the enemy. This is needed to exercise & appropriate the righteousness of God. HFR is the source of empowerment to exercise our place in Christ Jesus. Aldo used to pull down strongholds. TFR & HFR are needed to fully live the life of Christ and help us work the works of God. Pray for grace to discern when you TFR & HFR, so we can go for filling & more filling with the righteousness of God. Listen to this episode as a family and learn great lessons from the first Beatitude taught by our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is Lord. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gracelife-comi/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gracelife-comi/support
Show Notes Apple Vision Pro Preorders, Masters of the Air, HFR, and an Historic Oscar Nomination — Sigmund and Devon share their experiences with Apple Vision Pro preorders, highlight Apple Original war drama series Masters of the Air ahead of its debut this weekend, and break down all of the Apple FYC news in the wake of BAFTA and Oscar Awards nominations. — Highlight Masters of the Air Masters of the Air (Novel) Apple Vision Pro Making Apple Vision Pro Apple Vision Pro - Guided Tour tvOS 17.3 and Other Updates Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 17.3 with Collaborative Playlists, Stolen Device Protection, New Black Unity Wallpaper, and More 2024 Black Unity Collection Trailers The New Look Messi's World Cup: The Rise of a Legend Constellation News First Look at The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin Matthew Cassinelli's Netflix Shortcuts A Survey of Popular Apps Currently Compatible With Apple Vision Pro Extras Masters of the Air — An Inside Look Peek Into the Emmys Night Afterparty with Apple TV+ Paul Walter Hauser's Emmys Acceptance Speech NASA Vending Machine: For All Mankind S4 Exit Interview with Ben Nedivi & Matt Wolpert HIIT with Jamie-Ray featuring Trainer Joe Wicks Strength with Kim featuring Trainer Joe Wicks Joe Wicks: Music That Moves Me 15 Minute High Energy HIIT Workout with Special Guests from Apple Fitness+ | Joe Wicks Up Next Echo Wish Migration Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Ferrari WWE Royal Rumble — Send us a voice message all week via iMessage or email to magic@macstories.net. Sigmund Judge | Follow Sigmund on X, Mastodon, or Threads Devon Dundee | Follow Devon on Mastodon or Threads View our Apple TV release calendar on the web. Subscribe to our Apple TV release calendar. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass. Subscribe to Apple TV+. Subscribe to MLS Season Pass. Magic Rays of Light is a podcast from MacStories.net.
2023 was a big year for Harlem's Fashion Row, the agency that launched in 2007 to connect brands and designers of color. To start, the company partnered with H&M, Tommy Hilfiger, Nordstrom, and Abercrombie & Fitch; launched the combined e-commerce site and Black and Latinx designer directory, HFR & Co.; and published a coffee-table book, “Fashion In Color.” Similarly, the company's list of 2020 accomplishments was long. “2020 was a pivotal year for us,” said Brandice Daniel, founder and CEO of Harlem's Fashion Row, on the Glossy Podcast. “We started our nonprofit, Icon360; we got a million-dollar donation from the CFDA and Vogue; and Anna Wintour had me in her editor's letter in August. It opened up so many doors for HFR.” During the episode, along with discussing fashion's fluctuating prioritization of inclusivity over the last four years, Daniel shares her secrets to driving deals between emerging designers and mega fashion companies and her hopes for fashion's future.
The ladies are joined by Brandice Daniel. Brandice, CEO and Founder of Harlem's Fashion Row, has over 12 years of experience in fashion ranging from retail, buying, costing, and production. In May 2007, Brandice created HFR and produced the first fashion show which received critical acclaim and a mention in Women's Wear Daily. The ladies discuss her phenomenal career in fashion and her new book "Fashion In Color". brandicedaniel.com Get Your Book Here! https://fashionincolorbook.com/products/fashion-in-color-volume-i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The ladies are joined by Brandice Daniel. Brandice, CEO and Founder of Harlem's Fashion Row, has over 12 years of experience in fashion ranging from retail, buying, costing, and production. In May 2007, Brandice created HFR and produced the first fashion show which received critical acclaim and a mention in Women's Wear Daily. The ladies discuss her phenomenal career in fashion and her new book "Fashion In Color".brandicedaniel.comGet Your Book Here! https://fashionincolorbook.com/products/fashion-in-color-volume-i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, we dive into the captivating journey of fashion designer Nicole Benefield, exploring her path from childhood inspirations to becoming a renowned designer. Host Brandice Daniel, founder of Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR), leads the conversation, uncovering the remarkable story of Nicole's career in the fashion industry. Part 1: The Early Years and Beginnings Childhood Fascination with Fashion: - Nicole shares her early fascination with fashion and how her mother's sewing machine became her first tool for creativity. Inspiration from Family: - The influence of her family, particularly her stylish grandmother and resourceful mother, played a pivotal role in shaping Nicole's passion for fashion. Pursuing Design Education: - Nicole's decision to attend the prestigious Parsons School of Design in New York City and how she ended up there through a serendipitous journey. Foundation Year at Parsons: - The significance of the foundation year at Parsons in exploring various art mediums, three-dimensional design, and its impact on her design philosophy. Part 2: The HFR Show and Beyond Getting Noticed by HFR: - Nicole's entry into Harlem's Fashion Row through a recommendation and her experience in showcasing her collection during the HFR show in 2022. The Power of Feedback: - How constructive feedback and learning from the first show influenced her approach to the second show in 2023. Design Philosophy: - Nicole's desire for people to feel comfortable and chic when wearing her collections, emphasizing the importance of everyday wear. Macy's Window Display: - The excitement of being featured in the windows of Macy's during Black History Month and the impact it had on her brand. Upcoming Projects: - Nicole's future plans, including her focus on sophisticated yet casual designs, made-to-order collections, and potential collaborations. Thank you for joining us on this inspiring journey through the world of fashion with Nicole Benefield. To stay updated on her latest collections and projects, you can follow her on Instagram @nicolebenfield_portfolio and visit her website at www.nicolebenfieldportfolio.com. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for more fascinating conversations with creative minds in the fashion industry.
If you're worried about the volatility of today's economy, then this is a can't-miss episode. Join our conversation with Rychen Jones about the importance of building meaningful relationships to thrive in a shifting market. You'll also hear a fun story about how a board game became a cornerstone for his real-life triumph in the realm of real estate, so tune in! Key takeaways to listen for Understanding recession from a financial advisor's POV Advantages of investing in real estate of different states The impact of having the right mentor Actionable tips for the beginner real estate investor Benefits of finding your niche in business Resources mentioned in this episode Zillow Monopoly National Association of REALTORS® About Rychen Jones Rychen is a REALTOR® with Presidio Real Estate – The GDP Group in the Salt Lake City, UT area. He is a REBAC education certified instructor and teaches multiple designation and elective continuing education courses, including those he has created himself. He currently holds the CRS, CRB, SRS, ABR, and PSA designations and the RENE, REI, and HFR certifications. Before transitioning to real estate in 2018, Rychen spent 12 years working as a financial advisor. He has qualified multiple times for the Salt Lake Board of REALTORS® annual REALTOR® 500 award. He is an avid runner and golfer and has completed 26 marathons, seven 50-mile ultra-marathons, and four half-Ironman triathlons. He and his wife and their five kids currently live in Sandy, UT. Connect with Rychen Podcast: House Money on Apple Podcasts Instagram: @rychenfamous YouTube: Rychen Jones Facebook: Rychen Jones Email: rychen@gdputah.com Connect with Leigh Please subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or the Podcasts App on your phone, and never miss a beat from Leigh by visiting https://leighbrown.com. DM Leigh Brown on Instagram @ LeighThomasBrown. Subscribe to Leigh's other podcast Real Estate From The Rooftops Sponsors Video Boss Agent – 3-Day Video Boss Bootcamp Is your business feeling stagnant and lifeless? It's time to breathe new life into your YouTube channel and watch your client list grow without burning your budget. Join an exclusive 3-day Video Boss Bootcamp from Monday, Nov. 27th - Wednesday, Nov. 28th, and turn your YouTube channel into a powerful lead generation machine. Link: https://videobossagent.com/leighbrown/ Leigh Brown University – New On-Demand Training How to Dominate During This Recession! Enroll Now to get ahead of the curve and learn how to manage changing markets, the action steps for what to do, and most importantly, what to say so that you can secure listings, assist more buyers, and grow your business no matter what the market is doing. Link: http://dominatethisrecession.com
4 of the HFR lads on the pod today, Stuart, Olly, Darren and Stephen. We chat;Feedback on the podOlly's mystical predictions Everton / DycheOnana - What's his name?West HaaaamNUFC v LiverpoolGood old STATSSubscribe, comment, let us know your thoughts. Feedback welcome. A 5 star review would be very greatly received Enjoy.-----------------------------------------------------------X - @wearehfrInsta - wearehfrEmail - info@wearehfr.comWebsite - www.wearehfr.bigcartel.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
They say big risks lead to big rewards. But there has to be a strategy behind taking the leap.Brandice Daniel calls this a cliff jump. As the founder and CEO of Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR)she's a force in the fashion industry, disrupting the status quo to make room for designers of color through partnerships. Now Brandice is also investing in future generations of industry leaders.In this episode, Brandice breaks downs how she started HFR despite the no's she initially received, the advantages of being the underdog and an outsider, and the unique ways she forges partnerships. Stay Connected to the Next Best Thing Community on Instagram @thenextbestthingact About Brandice:brandicedaniel.comProud fashion outsider and Memphis native Brandice Daniel is founder and CEO of Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) and ICON360. Brandice created HFR in 2007 to bridge the gap between multicultural designers and the fashion business by providing opportunities to showcase their skills and abilities in an industry that is often non-accessible to them through fashion shows and other events. She has been featured in WWD, Harper's Bazaar, NY Times, Good Morning America, ESSENCE Magazine, BET, Vogue, and more. Brandice has been a guest judge on Project Runway, a guest on the Drew Barrymore Show, and is a member of Gucci's Changemakers Council. She's also shared her talent as a speaker at Ted X Memphis, the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit, and the Forbes CMO Summit. Brandice has led collaborations while creating opportunities for designers, with brands like Banana Republic, Janie and Jack, American Girl, and the most historic, Nike and Lebron James.When she's not being an entrepreneur, speaker, and author, she's a wife to Rich and mother to her beautiful little Sky Grace.
In this very special episode of Navigating Major Programmes, Riccardo is joined by Divya Shah, a prominent name in Canada's infrastructure network through her work as a project finance professional focusing on investment and infrastructure—and Riccardo's wife. In their conversation, Riccardo and Divya discuss her unique perspective on the intersection of private and public sectors for effective decision making and leadership, along with her experience as a woman in infrastructure as a whole. Key Takeaways:Finding the sweet intersection of financing and infrastructureHow to manage direct and indirect stakeholder expectationsLessons learned from navigating project finance during the credit crisisDealing with gender bias during conflict If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. The conversation doesn't stop here—connect and converse with our community: Riccardo Cosentino on LinkedInDivya Shah on LinkedIn Use this link to find advice, guidance and sponsorship at the Women In Infrastructure website Transcript:Riccardo Cosentino 0:05 You're listening to navigate major problems, the podcast that aims to elevate the conversations happening in the infrastructure industry and inspire you to have a more efficient approach within it. I'm your host Riccardo Cosentino I bring over 20 years of major product management experience. Most recently, I graduated from Oxford University's a business school, which shook my belief when it comes to navigating major problems. Now it's time to shake yours. Join me in each episode as a press the industry experts about the complexity of major program management, emerging digital trends and the critical leadership required to approach these multibillion-dollar projects. Let's see where the conversation takes us. Over the last 15 years Divya Shah has built a name for herself in Canada's infrastructure network through her work as a project finance professional focusing on investment in infrastructure. Her extensive resume includes a wide variety of capital markets roles such as public private partnerships, refinancing, mergers and acquisition, real estate investment, private lending and credit. In today's episodes of navigating major programs, Riccardo Cosentino and Divya discuss a unique perspective on the intersection of private and public sectors for effective decision-making leadership along with your experience as a woman in infrastructure as a whole. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today on navigating major programs. I'm here today with Divya Shah, how're you doing? Divya Shah 1:37 I'm doing really great. Thank you for having me here. Riccardo Riccardo Cosentino1:41 it's great to have you here. Great to have you here. Why don't we jump right into it? And why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself? What is your current role in infrastructure? Divya Shah 1:51 That's a great place to start. So as of today, I am with the Canada infrastructure bank. I'm a managing director here. I've been at the bank for now five years, and I head up all our initiatives from an investment perspective in the trade and transportation sector. This includes everything from investing and structuring investments in ports, airports. It includes passenger rail, intercity rail, it includes freight, so short line and mainline, essentially anything that helps moves goods and people, between cities and between countries to help improve GDP, improve operational efficiencies, and allows for enabling of movement and economic growth. Riccardo Cosentino2:38 sounds really interesting. How do you how do you get into it? How do you do? Actually, let's go backwards? How did you get into infrastructure first? Divya Shah 2:47 Oh, that's such a long story. I would say, from a factual perspective, I got into infrastructure almost 15 to 17 years ago in 2006. And opportunity came by my desk to interview for a analyst position at a newly formed company called Infrastructure Ontario. I was rushed leave out from an MBA school and was really not interested or actually didn't even know about the world of infrastructure. Infrastructure construction building was so far from my world of finance that I laughed when that opportunity came to my desk. And I will say, I'm glad I went for the interview, I had to be coaxed to go for the interview. But I'm so glad I went for the interview, because my life has not been the same. And so I joined this newly formed provincial agency called Infrastructure Ontario, it was set up to procure large infrastructure projects, primarily hospitals in those days, for the province of Ontario. It was not a policy shop, it was an execution shop. And the whole idea there was they were looking at this new model called public private partnerships, which was, you know, created out in the UK. And there was a little bit of dabbling out in BC, but it was never done in Ontario. And they were looking for finance professionals. They were looking for technical professionals. And we all came together. I think we were I was a part of the first 100 people at the company. And it was fascinating because it was not just about infrastructure. It was about creating something new, not from scratch, but made in Ontario from scratch, and it was a really a lot of fun. Riccardo Cosentino4:35 I guess that's where you and I met. Divya Shah 4:37 That's where we met. You know, I mean, you know, didn't think I would find a husband here in this industry, but c'est la vie 15 years later, Riccardo Cosentino4:46 but okay, so it sounds like it was a little bit of a surprise for you to end up in infrastructure. What was your career aspiration before you bumped into infrastructure and area? What was it What was your dream job? What kind of career were you pursuing? Divya Shah 5:03 Well, like I think, with anyone who goes through MBA school, bright eyed, my aspiration was to be a banker, banker doing pure finance, like raising money for a corporation, and, you know, mergers and acquisitions. And those were the things that you learned about an MBA school and, and this is the part that I find really interesting, right? Going to MBA school, nobody mentioned the words project finance, real property, public private partnerships, this is not even a spectrum of things that you talk about. So, yeah, I wanted to be a banker and not in infrastructure, who is I think, for me, the definition of infrastructure was lame it was roads and things that, you know, people with that who wanted to be the hybrid of finance did not even dabble in, so, yeah, quite, quite far from where I am today. Riccardo Cosentino6:01 Okay, so if that was your expectation, there was uhm, pressure of infrastructure. What was a surprise you the most about the industry? Divya Shah 6:09 You know, what, how much I love it. I will say that, for me, looking back, I don't think I would want to do anything else. And what's really interesting in the job that I do right now, is I do investment. I'm actually a banker, but I am a banker for infrastructure investments. So way I'm doing what I really wanted, but in a very different industry. So going back to your question, what surprised me a lot, yeah, I, I will say I can't believe how much I enjoyed it, and enjoy it not enjoyed. And I will say it's, it's the tangible nature, it's, you know, in the world of finance, a lot of times you, you don't see the end product of what you are doing other than in the balance sheet or bottom line. Whereas in infrastructure, you actually see the tangible worth of what you have, you know, spend some time or money or energy in and you can see a hospital, you can see the roads, you can see the benefits, it brings to a public perspective, you know, had Ontario not built all the hospitals we built back in 2000s, I have no clue what we would have looked at and what we would have done during COVID. So you can really see the difference. And for me, that was really cool. The other things that really surprised me was how complex and how many stakeholders you have to think about, you have to think and direct and indirect. So, you know, we always think about you have the public side, which is all the layers of government, you have the private side, which is the lenders, the equity, the builders, the operators, but then you have the public side and their perception. And I always am amused because you think that that everybody understands that building large infrastructure, public infrastructure projects takes so long, everybody understands the long lead item of it. But then the public just gets impatient. And the questions always from the public are well, we gave you money like five years ago, and how come we haven't seen all of it been distributed deployed? And how come we're not seeing so much infrastructure being built immediately. And I find thinking about those stakeholders and trying to find Win Win is probably one of the most rewarding parts of what we do. And I don't know how you feel about it. Riccardo Cosentino8:33 Well, yeah, I'm a little different. I always envisioned the a career infrastructure. I'm a civil engineer, I went I end up building surveyor before I became a civil engineer. So I've always, always been fascinated by civil infrastructure. My anecdote is, I remember as a child, driving on the highways of Italy, going through the upper 90s, we had the mountain in the center of Italy. And we were going through this humongous viaducts This spans across tunnels between the mountains. And I remember looking at it and thinking, how did they build this? I mean, you literally have pylons coming out the ground with a road coming out of the mountain with a tunnel. And I always wonder how the building is. That's where my curiosity started. And as everything else I had to figure it out. And so I went and got a degree that tells me how you build viaducts in the middle of the mountains. Okay, so you talked about what was surprised you by the industry? I think you told us about the highlights. Actually, I don't think you told us what would have been the highlight so your career so far? Divya Shah 9:44 So I'll try to pick a few because I think I've been really lucky as a human to be a part of the industry just as it was starting to boom like crazy and the things I would pick out as project highlights would be my first one. Last one, where I was still super young, super inexperienced. But boy, it was such a good ride. That has to be the Niagara health system. The reason why I pick it is because it was one of those projects where it was very early days. And it was right in the middle of the credit crisis. It is the only project I know of where our lenders called a MAC clause, which is a material adverse clause, because of the credit crisis and lack of availability of fun funding and financing available. And that led to, you know, six months of intense negotiations between us and the private sector. But what was really cool is, after that, it led to a number of different changes, and improvements that we made to our processes and our contracts. And you know, it for me, it really, it really helped me understand the crux and the fundamentals of project finance, of capital markets, of what each player brings to the table what they really want out of the transaction, I would say it was it, if my learning curve was very steep, this is the project that just like killed it for me from a learning perspective. There on I would say the other funky like, so I like a lot of funky projects. And, you know, being an infrastructure, Ontario, we got to do a lot of firsts. So I will say that the second highlight of my career, I think, is helping build the Panama athletes village. And you know, we looked all over the world, and typically building Olympic villages or building things like that are pretty complex, because they can go bad really, really quickly. So we had to find a way that we had to build really fast on time on budget. But also make sure that, you know, we were not we were successful in selling these as condos and not taking back, you know, immense amount of real estate risks. So I think we found a hybrid combination of real estate, and infrastructure dbf, fixed priced, kind of a hybrid contract, which was really cool. That also allowed us to think about how we would evaluate and incentivize and align the interests of developers and contractors and lenders. So that really helped me, you know, merge two different infrastructure industries together, I think, which has been really helpful for me, as we move forward on thinking about revenue deals. And then I would say most recently, the highlight for me or an almost, you know, what I see as a change in how I view infrastructure is the work that we did in the development and feasibility studies. For the via HFR project. You know, I usually am never involved in the early stages of planning, design feasibility, you know, what is in alignment, and what's the root option, these are things that were always decided for us finance years, we finance and we execute. So this was completely different, like we were involved very early to look at from a fundamentals perspective, whether this would be a good business case for the CIB, to invest in and, and that that led to a whole journey of creating a project for the market in an industry that is quite mature. So for me, it was really neat to be a part of the world in a very early stage, because I've seen it from, you know, procurement, construction operations, but never the development side. So this was very cool for me. Riccardo Cosentino13:41 Very interesting. Yeah, I mean, obviously, I know, I know, all the steps in your career. So all of this sounds quite familiar. But let's maybe let's change gears a little bit. I mean, you know, you are we are working in a male dominated the industry, you know, you are one of the few females, that is part of the industry, what challenges have you faced so what challenges do you face in a male dominated industry? Divya Shah 14:07 I mean, I always find this question, really interesting, but also really difficult in one way, but what I start saying is the following, you know, I mean, construction and infrastructure has always been a male dominated industry. And you, me as a female, my, my best example is, when I go into a meeting, and I look around, and I see only men, my heart thinks every time that happens, and I just had a conversation the other day on International Women's Day, in fact, about with another colleague of mine, who is much elder to me, or mentored me, and, and we were comparing notes where, you know, 15 years early for her, she always this was just her experience. And her question back to me is, you know, Divya, do you see a difference in meetings when you go into the meetings and she was surprised when I said no, the meetings are still male dominated, you go in, maybe there's another female, from a legal perspective, or from a finance perspective, but 90% of the times, it's always male dominated and, and you know what, like you over time you, you grow a thick skin, you work really hard, and you can cut out the noise. But it is always shocking. And I still, unconsciously always look around the room. And notice, notice that and I would say, you know, from a challenges perspective, because it's been male dominated for, you know, hundreds of years, there are, I would say, there are biases and their labeling. And I think these two are the biggest challenges that I faced, you know, very often the work that we have to do is conflict driven, itis negotiation, its disputes, which means there's a lot of discussion, and there's a lot of conversations that you have to have, sometimes in a very challenging manner, because you are a, you're doing due diligence. And I find, you know, it's very easy for someone to label a woman as being aggressive, or a woman being, you know, too emotional, too sensitive. And I find those labels are what then pigeonhole us into not being more successful, or as successful as our male counterparts. And, you know, we've sat across tables where I've seen people who are as emotional as I am, and as a female, you get labeled, but as a male, you'll never get labeled emotional or sensitive, or, you know, in fact, being aggressive for a male is actually a positive, not a negative attribute. So, for me, I think those are the ones that impact me the most. And then I would say, the only other thing is, you know, because, again, it's been inherently male dominated industry, to find champions and sponsors, is difficult on its own. So you know, you have to find ways to create that, but on its own, you know, usually you prefer like-minded people, so you gravitate towards what you know what you understand. So, unfortunately, you have a men who prefer or find it easier to sponsor other men. And so I think those are combinations, a lot of that is changing. But I would say not fast enough, and not with enough gusto and not enough bandwidth. Riccardo Cosentino17:39 Okay, so you talked about many things here. So I'm gonna try to unpack a couple of there. But you mentioned mentors and champions and allies in the industry, which are very important. have you actually been able to find a female mentor in this male dominated industry? And if yes, was it? Was it helpful? Divya Shah 18:02 Absolutely. So I'm really lucky, I live in Canada, and very early in our industry back in 2008, almost, so I joined infrastructure, Ontario in 2006, two years after, there was a group that was created that was called the women and infrastructure. And this was literally created by two lawyers who were the story goes sitting at a bar and looking around and thinking, Okay, we're the only two lawyers around female lawyers around and, you know, this industry is growing, and we need to find more like us together. And that lead to what's called the women in infrastructure. And it's a hugely successful group. I've been a part of it for 15 years as a committee member for over 10 years. And I have found that that's the place where we have connected and we have found women from either equity players, capital markets, legal services, government services. And you know, the idea there is to come together to support mentor, champion and sponsor, it's also a group that brings around awareness of things that are happening in the industry or to help promote more women in industry. You know, it could even be simple things like how do you improve your resume and provide support from a, you know, a reference perspective, if I'm looking for a job? So I would say yeah, I am super lucky to be a part of this group and to be around to see this group grow, because now we have factions across the country and in the US, and I would say, this is the group that has helped me find confidence in myself. It has helped me find job opportunities, as I've been moving in my career, and, you know, it's been a constant source of advice, guidance and sponsorship. Riccardo Cosentino19:59 Okay, so you We talked about the highlights and the lowlights of your career and infrastructure, the lowlights being, you know, one of the few female in the boardroom, the labels against the put on women for forbid themselves and for negotiating, the way they negotiate or the behave the way they behave, with the highlights being the woman in infrastructure network and the support that that provides to women in infrastructure. So given all of those factors, would you help encourage more women to pursue a career in infrastructure? Divya Shah 20:36 Absolutely. I would say be like me Be curious. Even if you only care about finance, the world of project finance in our space is just phenomenal. And if you think of the big things that we're talking about today, especially climate change, climate change, infrastructure is a very big part of climate change. You know, everything about decarbonization, carbon sequestration, transmission lines, all of these things are all infrastructure. And, boy, it's a great time to be where we are. And so I would encourage everyone around to think about this space, not as how I did not having any knowledge, which was it's lame, and it could be boring, and how long the deals would take. But we're changing the world one project at a time. And that's really cool. Riccardo Cosentino21:30 I'm glad that a non-engineer feels as passionate about infrastructure as engineers. Okay, I think that's all we have time for today. Thank you very much for joining me in in this podcast. Hopefully, we'll be able to have you back on maybe some of the topics that we were going to cover in future podcasts. Divya Shah 21:48 Thank you, Ricardo. And this has been a real pleasure and wish you all the best on your podcast series. I look forward to hearing more of your LinkedIn articles because they've been really helpful. Thank you. Riccardo Cosentino 21:57 Thank you. Bye now. That's it for this episode on navigating major problems. I hope you found today's conversation as informative and thought provoking as I did. If you enjoyed this conversation, please consider subscribing and leaving a review. I would also like to personally invite you to continue the conversation by joining me on my personal LinkedIn at Riccardo Cosentino. Listening to the next episode, we will continue to explore the latest trends and challenges in major program management. Our next in-depth conversation promises to continue to dive into topics such as leadership risk management, and the impact of emerging technology in infrastructure. It's a conversation you're not going to want to miss. Thanks for listening to navigate the major programs and I look forward to keeping the conversation going Transcribed by https://otter.ai Music: "A New Tomorrow" by Chordial Music. 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Foram catorze anos de espera pela continuação do filme de maior bilheteria de todos os tempos. Valeu a pena? Nossa conversa passou pela relevância cultural, pelas questões tecnológicas (vai ver em 3D? HFR? IMAX? IMAX 3D HFR? A gente te ajuda a decidir), e mergulha (sacou?) no filme que está seguindo os passos do antecessor em quase todos os aspectos. De qualquer maneira, ficou claro que não dá pra apostar contra o James Cameron.[0:00:00] Intro[0:34:48] SPOILERS Avatar The Way of WaterPra falar com a gente: podcastcatchingup@gmail.com facebook.com/podcastcatchingup instagram.com/PodCatchinUptwitter.com/PodCatchingUptwitter.com/ddonatotwitter.com/odesinformante YouTube Catching Up Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Zum dreizehnten Mal wird zum Kaffee-Genuss und Themen-Erguss geladen, also kommt herbei denn… Die Geeks verwöhnen ihre Gaumen mit einem köstlichen Tässchen im Café auf dem Hogwarts Campus und erörtern, wie der namensgebende Titel rund um den Ort qualitativ ausgefallen ist. Das Eis brechen Tjorben, Steven und Cengiz jedoch bei voller Fahrt und seichtem Seegang, als Antwort auf die Frage „Sinkt Jack in Imax und HFR anmutiger?". Widmung erhält auch ein weiteres Schiff, unter der DC Universe Flagge, das unter dem Beschuss von Gun am Grund neben Jack Platz nimmt. Anschließend tritt unser Trio in die Fußstapfen der Mario Bros, auf der Jagd nach einem Pilz, wenngleich dieser auch infketiös gefährlich ist. Wie schlagen sich "die letzten von uns" im Kampf gegen diese Bedrohung? Diese und weitere Themen erwarten euch in dieser magisch, feucht-fröhlichen Ausgabe des Geek Café!
Wenn die Podcast-Aufnahme länger ist, als der über 3 Stunden lange Film über den es geht, dann muss es irgendwie interessant sein. Denn ganz so einfach ist die Sache mit James Camerons Avatar nicht. Das Sequel AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER ist aktuell in aller Munde und gesehen hat den Film auch schon fast jede/r Film-Enthusiast*in und noch viele andere mehr. Und auch wir konnten uns es nicht nehmen lassen wieder mal ins Auto zu steigen und uns den Film (teilweise zum dritten mal) in IMAX anzuschauen. Doch wo teilweise von Minute 1 an große Begeisterung vorherrschte, da kristallisierte sich schnell auch in unseren Gesprächen eine gewaltige portion Skepsis heraus. Das Avatar Franchise rund um Zoe Saldana und Sam Worthington hält eben so viele Themen bereit, das wir gar nicht wussten, wo wir anfangen - und auch nicht wo wir aufhören sollten. Und so wurde es eine XXXL Folge, die chaotischer mal wieder kaum sein könnte und die wahrscheinlich immer noch nicht alle Aspekte des neuen Mega-Blockbuster abdeckt. Und ob wir am Ende wirklich schlauer waren? Naja, hört selbst.... 0:00:00 Auslug nach Karlsruhe mit Joschi 0:07:53 Vier Jahre zuvor... Wir blicken zurück (zu Folge 6) 0:13:44 Unser selbstgefälliges Gequatsche? 0:24:46 Avatar 2009 bis heute 0:56:55 Avatar heute und in Zukunft 1:24:55 Avatar Ausflug im IMAX (in 3D in HFR) 1:45:03 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Review 2:36:03 AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Spoilerteil Unser IMDb Profil: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur148075747/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neueheldenpodcast Andy auf Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/fronherr Hier geht's zu Joschis Podcast: https://anchor.fm/joschua-sedlacek
[ATELIER] Dans le cadre de sa mission de veille technologique et d'assistance aux acteurs des métiers techniques de l'audiovisuel et du cinéma, la CST propose un nouveau site internet dédié 100% à la technique. De la captation à la postproduction, jusqu'à l'exploitation, ce site proposera des outils de mesures et de calibrations avec des fichiers vidéos test, des utilitaires dédiés à la couleur et au "color management », un comparateur de projecteurs numérique, des dossiers techniques de tous niveaux (technicien débutant à expert) sur des technologies actuelles (HDR, HFR, Stéréoscopie, les systèmes audio immersifs , Projecteurs laser, DCP,… ). Une partie sera également dédiée aux questions techniques et normatives du cinéma numérique.Intervenant : Eric Cherioux - Directeur Technique à la CST Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Hurra! Endlich ist Avatar 2 da! Spektakuläre Bilder verbunden mit einer mäßig bis mittelmäßigen Geschichten und klischeehaften Charakteren. Darüber müssen wir sprechen! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 00:00:00 Willkommen auf Pandora... wieso nur? 00:04:03 Warum sind wir hier, was denken wir allgemein über Avatar 2? 00:11:38 Einige Momente, die uns aufgefallen sind... 00:26:27 Die Figuren... eine Klischeeparade 00:41:48 Die Schildkröten-Wale 00:48:13 Spekulationen über die kommenden Teile 01:13:20 Die EMOTIONALSTE Szene!! 01:19:45 Das 3D und das HFR... wat ne Maloche 01:29:39 Ein Fazit Musik: Fighter von Tristan Barton - lizenziert durch Artlist.io Bild: © 2022 20th Century Studios
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We take a trip to London to see Avatar: The Way of Water again, this time on the biggest screen in the country at the BFI IMAX, in high frame rate and 3D. We discuss the difference in experience between seeing it here and at the IMAX Digital cinema at Cineworld Broad Street, where we saw it previously. Mike questions why the film switches between 24fps and 48fps, rather than sticking with the high frame rate throughout - director James Cameron describes how HFR assists in making 3D imagery less difficult to resolve, and implies that he limits its use to avoid the so-called "soap opera effect" that made the Hobbit films and Gemini Man look so cheap, but Mike doesn't buy that it's necessary to keep returning to 24fps, and thinks Cameron's a big scaredy-cat. José, on the other hand, can't seem to tell the difference between the frame rates at all. We also discuss what a second viewing of the film brings into focus that we hadn't put our finger on before, Mike comparing it to the nature documentaries that IMAX have produced for years, and José implores the film community to drop its snootiness and embrace the opportunity to see such a marvellous spectacle while it's still in cinemas. It's really special. Recorded on 3rd January 2023.
Avatar : La Voie de l'Eau de James Cameron avec Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis
On the latest episode of the pod, we're returning to the world of Pandora with James Cameron's highly anticipated sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. It's been thirteen years since Cameron dominated the box office with the original film, and he's back with a 192-minute science fiction opus that promises to blow the original's groundbreaking effects out of the water. Does Cameron pull it off? We break down our feelings about this cinematic event, from the experience of seeing it in IMAX 3D, to Cameron's use of HFR to fully transport his audience to the oceans of Pandora. Elsewhere, we debate the merits of the film's story, and discuss whether it improves on our grievances with the first film, or doubles down on them. It's safe to say that when it comes to the film's stunning visual effects, there's no argument that this level of spectacle only comes around whenever Cameron decides it's time to bless us with a new movie. Was it worth the thirteen year wait? Are we excited for three more sequels? Tune in to Breaking Canon Podcast to find out! Breaking Canon Rating: 8.7/10Hosts:James Callahan [Twitter: @nahallacsemaj]Julius Freeman [Twitter: @A_Lucid_Comic]Julz Saito [Twitter: @julzsaito]Music:Brian Wood [Twitter/Instagram]Follow us on: Twitter | Instagram | TikTokQuestions or comments? Email us at: breakingcanonpodcast@gmail.com
Il Brutto Il Cattivo - Il meglio e il peggio di cinema e serie tv
James Cameron ci riporta su Pandora con Avatar - La via dell'acqua, il sequel del film con il maggiore incasso della storia del cinema. I confini del mondo immaginato 13 anni fa dal regista si allargano sempre di più e ci mostrano la ricchezza naturali del pianeta e un nuovo popolo che vive sul reef. E così parte almeno un'ora e mezza di documentario in altissima risoluzione e HFR del National Geographic. A quanto pare Il Brutto non ha apprezzato, Il Cattivo si è entusiasmato. E voi cosa ne pensate? Iscrivetevi al podcast, cliccate sulla campanella per ricevere gli aggiornamenti, condividetelo con gli amici e (in)seguiteci su Spotify, Apple Podcasts e tutte le app di ascolto gratuite per podcast. Link diretto allo show ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://open.spotify.com/show/06wRlaUWQ5NdWusO25uqZk?si=4PkqQwHCT86xZaWk5pDiHA Link su Audible https://www.audible.it/pd?asin=B0BL9FP3QJ&source_code=AITtm161101121020J&share_location=podcast_show_detail ➡️PAGINA FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ilbruttoilcattivo2.0
Välkommen till Audiovideoklubben. En podcast om regissörer och filmserier med Viktor Estemar Landegren och Alexander Wahlgren.I säsongsfinalen av miniserien om James Cameron pratar Alex och Viktor om Avatar: The Way of Water.Viktor klagar på Hot Snacks, Alex kan inte sluta prata om HFR och Kate Winslet har hållt andan i 7 minuter helt i onödan.Camerons karriär sammanfattas och det svaras på lyssnarfrågor om boktips samt pratas om HFR, Sean Connery, Hobbit-filmerna, Lejonkungen 2, HFR, Avatar-franchisens framtida titlar, tapeter, Sam Worthingtons utveckling som skådespelare och även HFR.Vad tycker Viktor om CGIn? Var det värt 13 års väntan? Har Cameron uppfunnit en tidsmaskin?Detta och mycket, mycket, mycket, mycket mer i det längsta AVK-avsnittet hittills.Nästa vecka: Tomten är far till alla barnen.Gilla, dela och sprid gärna våra inlägg. Det hjälper oss verkligen att nå ut till nya lyssnare i poddbruset!Följ oss gärna på Instagram, Twitter och Facebook.Hjälp oss nå våra mål genom att bli en Patreon på Audiovideonattklubben där du kan ta del av extramaterial som tack för ditt stöd.Patreon.com/audiovideoklubbenInstagram.com/audiovideoklubbenFacebook.com/audiovideoklubbenTwitter.com/audiovideoklubb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastOn this SPECIAL EDITION of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS Bailey Bass, Jamie Flatters, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, and Jack Champion of Avatar: The Way of Water. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, "Avatar The Way of Water" begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure.Listen to The Movie Podcast interview now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube
Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcastDaniel, Shahbaz, & Anthony review James Cameron's AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, "Avatar The Way of Water" begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive and the tragedies they endure. The film stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Jemaine Clement, Brendan Cowell, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald, with Sigourney Weaver returning in a new role. Avatar: The Way of Water releases exclusively in theatres December 16, 2022 by 20th Century Studios.Listen to The Movie Podcast review now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.caContact: hello@themoviepodcast.caTHE MOVIE PODCAST ON ET CANADA!THE MOVIE PODCAST MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE!FOLLOW USDaniel on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdShahbaz on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdAnthony on Twitter, Instagram, and LetterboxdThe Movie Podcast on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube
Välkommen till Audiovideoklubben. En podcast om regissörer och filmserier med Viktor Estemar Landegren och Alexander Wahlgren.I det åttonde avsnittet av miniserien om James Cameron pratar Alex och Viktor om Avatar.Viktors surgubbe har tagit semester, Alex vill att Cameron ska vara olycklig och Michelle Rodriguez spelar en tuff brud med hård attityd.Det pratas om Titanic-scoret, Gollum, Zoe Saldanas karriär, Alita Battle Angel, Pocahontas, the Omen, hur Avatar sabbade Viktors kärlek för Cameron, Enter the Matrix, Spider-man, Camerons inställda rymdresa, The Assignment, HFR och 3D.Varför ska Cameron göra Avatar-filmer resten av sitt liv? Har Avatar ett kulturellt fotavtryck? Varför får Giovanni Ribisi roller?Detta och mycket, mycket mer i veckans AVK.Gilla, dela och sprid gärna våra inlägg. Det hjälper oss verkligen att nå ut till nya lyssnare i poddbruset!Följ oss gärna på Instagram, Twitter och Facebook.Hjälp oss nå våra mål genom att bli en Patreon på Audiovideonattklubben där du kan ta del av extramaterial som tack för ditt stöd.Patreon.com/audiovideoklubbenInstagram.com/audiovideoklubbenFacebook.com/audiovideoklubbenTwitter.com/audiovideoklubb Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Stadia ist am Ende, das Disco Elysium-Sequel ist in Gefahr und - das Schlimmste - Skull & Bones wurde verschoben! Aber keine Angst, es gibt auch gute Neuigkeiten, etwa zu Legacy of Kain. Außerdem: Unsere Eindrücke zu Valkyrie Elysium, NieR Automata, Voice of Cards, Dioefield Chronicle, Sam & Max und mehr! Viel Spaß mit Hooked FM Folge 391! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:06 - Wild Hearts von Koei Tecmo / EA Originals 7:48 - Horizon: Zero Dawn Remaster-Gerüchte 13:54 - Legacy of Kain-Umfrage von Crystal Dynamics 21:24 - Skull & Bones auf 2023 verschoben 24:14 - Google Stadia am Ende 32:26 - Disco Elysium-Probleme 39:19 - Werbung: Audible.de/hooked & Amazon-Affiliate, getshirts-Shop, Video-Empfehlungen 40:29 - Valkyrie Elysium 59:13 - NieR Automata auf der Switch 1:04:31 - Voice of Cards: Beasts of Burden 1:14:55 - The Diofield Chronicle 1:36:42 - Sam & Max Save the World Remastered 1:44:14 - Avatar, HFR & mehr, Tom-Edition 1:52:47 - Robins Famoses Formel 1-Fest 2:03:38 - Die Podcast-Produzent*innen
Wir reden diese Woche viel über Anime, es gibt nämlich erstes Bildmaterial zur Umsetzung von NieR Automata, ein Onimusha-Anime wurde angekündigt und Tom hat sich Cyberpunk: Edgerunners angesehen. Außerdem: Ein neues Iron Man-Spiel, Silent Hill-Gerüchte und unsere Eindrücke zu Prodeus, Hyper Demon, Monkey Island und mehr - viel Spaß! Sponsoring: Schnapp dir den NordVPN-Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/hookedfm! Jetzt risikofrei testen mit der 30-Tage-Geld-zurück-Garantie! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:03 - Neues Iron Man von EA Motive 9:18 - Silent Hill: The Short Message 12:37 - Nier Automata ver1.1a Anime 17:44 - Onimusha Anime 24:49 - WERBUNG: NordVPN.com/hookedfm 27:02 - Prodeus 39:45 - Hyper Demon 47:52 - Steelrising (& Soulstice) 56:52 - Return to Monkey Island 1:08:46 - Horizon: Forbidden West 1:23:29 - Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 1:30:52 - Avatar (Teil 1 & 2, HFR & mehr) 1:54:06 - Die Podcast-Produzent*innen
Das Freiburger Parlament zwingt das HFR zu einem grösseren Effort für die deutschsprachigen Patient:innen. Dies im Rahmen der neuen Strategie, welche das HFR verfolgt. Weiter in der Sendung: * Im Kanton Freiburg können die Stimmbürger:innen über eine Initiative für günstigere Krankenkassenprämien abstimmen. * Im Kanton Wallis wird ein grosses Pumpspeicherkraftwerk eingeweiht.
Der Walliser Verfassungsrat beschäftigt sich aktuell mit den demokratischen Rechten von Ausländerinnen und Ausländern. Sie sollen in der neuen Verfassung auf Gemeinde-Ebene mitbestimmen und auch gewählt werden dürfen – mit gewissen Einschränkungen. Weiter in der Sendung: * Guter Sommer für die Seilbahnen: Im Fünfjahresvergleich konnten die Bahnen in der Region zulegen. * Offensive für mehr Lehrpersonen: Der Kanton Bern prüft, wie er es Berufsleuten einfacher machen kann, auf den Lehrerberuf umzusatteln. * Überlastung Freiburger Spital: Um dem Personal mehr Luft zu verschaffen, schreibt das HFR sieben befristete Vollzeitstellen aus.
The most wonderful time of the year for style mavens is right around the corner and I'm not talking about Christmas. New York Fashion Week is quickly approaching and just in time for the festivities, I'm chatting it up with Brandice Daniel, the founder of Harlem's Fashion Row. HFR is the premier agency creating a bridge between brands and designers of color in fashion through brand strategy, collaborations, new media, experiential marketing, recruiting, and pipeline programs. Long before inclusivity became a widely accepted goal across the fashion industry, Harlem's Fashion Row has been championing and uplifting designers of color. Listen in and Brandice talks about her initial cliff-dive into entrepreneurship, how nurturing relationships has contributed to HFR's success, and why having clarity can elevate your brand. Produced by Dear Media
ASX 200 finished the week up 50 points to 6579 (0.8%) as US futures rose and industrials firmed. Positive week for the ASX up 104 points (1.6%). The banks were mixed today as the bond yields collapsed, with the 10-year dropping to 3.69% as recession fears continue. CBA rose 0.5% but the other three big banks slipped with the Big Bank Basket exactly unchanged at $158.57. MQG rallied another 1.1% and MFG up 7.4% on the finalisation of the sale of Guzman and Gomez. Insurers flat on yield moves. Industrials better with bond proxies strong, TCL up 0.9%, REITs doing well led by GMG up 3.3% and healthcare also in favour still CSL up 1.4% and RMD firing up 2.7%. RHC remain well below the bid price only up 0.6%. Consumer stocks also in demand, COL up 1.1%, WES up 1.8% and WOW better by 1.3%. Old skool platform stocks improving REA up 8.2% and DHG rallying 7.2%. Tech was soaring, especially bombed out second liners firing up. DUB up 25.7% and 360 up 24.9% with BNPL doing very well, ZIP up 21.6%. WTC rallied 8.4% and the All-Tech Index rallying another 6.3%. Resources were interesting again. Weakness abounds but the lithium stocks soared higher after a week to forget. VUL rallied 26.8% on very good news from a new strategic partner. PLS rose 8.8% and LTR up 10.8% as book squaring and confidence returned. BHP dropped 1.2% with other iron ore players under pressure together with base metals, S32 down 1.5%. Oil and gas also on the nose with WDS down 1.7% and BPT falling 2.5%. Gold miners mixed. In corporate news, CWN is no more, done and dusted, BFG fell 19.4% on an update, HFR soared 24.3% on news from Spain on construction approvals and BET up 20.0% on announcing a 10% share buy-back. Asian markets firm with HK up 1.6% and Japan up 1.2% despite higher CPI numbers. 10-year yields 3.69%. Why not sign up for a free trial? Get access to expert insights and independent research and become a better investor.
Rob is back from Cinemacon in Las Vegas and he gives us a full report on today's ROADTRIPPIN' podcast (while he's driving down the 10 and then taking the exit to the 15 and then ...).Of all the studio presentations made during the convention, Disney seemed to be the most impressive. They understood the assignment (as the meme goes) and made sure to provide enough, in-depth looks at their major projects without grinding everyone down with the sheer weight of all the movies planned for release in the next 12-18 months.But the one thing that stood out most for Rob was the presentation of the second Avatar movie. AVATAR: THE WAY OF THE WATER was shown on an IMAX screen in an HFR (high frame rate) format that allows for excruciating image detail. Everything about the presentation was perfect, according to Rob, and the effect was as planned.But there are unintended consequences that come with these AVATAR movies, I think. While people like to complain that the first film was just DANCES WITH WOLVES or FERNGULLY in space, it seems they're missing a few, key points.First off, if a movie-goer thinks that every story shown on the silver screen needs to be truly unique in order to be worthy of their time - they're over-estimating both the value of their time and the number of story archetypes that exist in the world.That number would be seven.Yes. Only seven.Sure, there are twists and turns and other ways to disguise an archetype so it feels different or unique. But it's just a disguise, folks. And that's okay. There's plenty of room for innovation - and, in reality, it's those innovations we fall in love with. Characters, setting, dialog, romance. It's the seasoning on the steak that makes us eat it up.Here's a link to a great article on the seven classic story archetypes: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/a-guide-to-story-archetypes#what-is-an-archetypeThe other point that people - especially critics - miss with movies like AVATAR (and, I presume, its sequel) is that they often can't tell the difference between a movie with a message and a message disguised as a movie.AVATAR is a movie with a message. Some people call it "woke" and, in the true sense of "wokeness," it is. But the term "woke" has been appropriated and given a negative connotation now. The term actually refers to becoming aware of a greater, more important situation that has always existed but ignored or unacknowledged for a long time.Today, the term is used almost exclusively in the context of racial relations. But in the case of AVATAR (and, I presume, AVATAR 2), the "woke" messaging is not just about the biases the humans express toward the Na'vi, but more importantly, the way humans seem to be unaware of the deep damage they do to the planet Pandora.The movie sets up the situation and then demonstrates the problem, allowing the viewer to arrive (or awaken) to the conclusion. The story definitely delivers a message (as stories are wont to do) and that message is woke.But that's a far different approach than what we see with movies and television shows that start with the message first and then try to construct a contrived series of events, loosely connected with a narrative, and then try to pass that off as a story. It's not. It's a lecture.Rob can probably point to dozens of examples of this in nu-Trek, and he's not wrong. In fact, Patrick Steward admitted in an interview on NPR's Fresh Air a couple of years ago, that this was what interested him about Star Trek: Picard in the first place. That may explain how story development is done on ST:PICARD and why we're getting what we're getting in nu-Trek, altogether.I've written more about the importance of the AVATAR franchise and James Cameron, in general, on the ROADTRIPPIN' blog today. You can check it out on our website: https://postgeeksingularity.com/roadtrippin-with-rmb/And remember, you can always send us a letter. Just click on the "Contact Us" button in the main navigation of our website at postgeeksingularity.com and you'll be able to send us a message to let us know how we're doing and what's on your mind.We look forward to hearing from you.I invite you to listen in on my weekday conversations with my friend and business partner, Robert Meyer Burnett, as we talk about the things we love: great movies, inspiring television programming, nostalgic genre entertainment, and pop culture.This episode streamed on April 29, 2022.
Dogwood Gaming - Indie Game Studio DJ is joined by special guests Sam and Tyler of Dogwood Gaming to discuss the handful of video games that their team has made. We talk about Ashes of Kanaka, STATIC, Private Detective Punch Drunk, and K'nife Fight, all available on STEAM. We also discuss their Kickstarter for the Ashes of Kanaka remake in Unreal Engine. Thanks for listening, and be sure to share us with a friend. Dogwood Gaming Links: Website: https://dogwoodgaming.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dogwoodgaming Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ashesofkanaka/ashes-of-kanaka Half Full Reviews Links: Website: https://www.halffullreviews.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HFR
World of Warships - Video Game Join DJ and JJ on this week's episode of the Half Full Reviews Podcast! We talk all about the video game World of Warships, and Netflix's Skinwalker Ranch TV Series. Get more of our content @ https://www.halffullreviews.com/ Support us on Patreon @ https://www.patreon.com/HFR
Mikael used to manage a billion dollars for a prized hedge fund, received the HFR award for "The European Hedge Fund Of The Decade (2000-2009)”, and is a decamillionaire. He hosts several podcasts including "Future Skills, "25 minuter", and "Outsiders." If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.
Mikael used to manage a billion dollars for a prized hedge fund, received the HFR award for "The European Hedge Fund Of The Decade (2000-2009)”, and is a decamillionaire. He hosts several podcasts including "Future Skills, "25 minuter", and "Outsiders." If you enjoyed this episode, please consider to rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes. It takes less than 60 seconds and it really makes a difference. Rate, review, and subscribe at HardyHaberland.com/iTunes.
Human Fluid Rot has been performing energy filled, crowd oriented harsh noise since 2005. Originally from south Florida, HFR has been scouring the US and neighboring islands with brief but intense electronic performances including shows and festivals from California to the Dominican Republic with hopes to expand further into the world. HFR creates a hardcore and chaotic atmosphere. Audiences are always encouraged to physically interact with each other as well as with the performer. During HFR sets, nothing is off limits. Crowds have been seen moshing and even crowd surfing making Human Fluid Rot performances unmissable. Learn more on Robbie's story as a noise musician and an indpendent artist on Dreams Not Memes Podcast , please note due to minor internet connection errors there are minor audio hiccups. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanfluidrot/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TLgzpXpux3Fzmq83CNnWz Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/human-fluid-rot/1581681457 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B09CWML4F5/human-fluid-rot Bandcamp: https://humanfluidrot.bandcamp.com/ TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd61Hjcy/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humanfluidrot Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/c0ncentrati0n
Stylingtipps von Fans, in der U-Bahn letztes Date wiedergetroffen und unser Videodreh mit Madsen in Berlin! Außerdem ist diese Woche FC Baum bei uns zu Gast: Als Sänger der Band "Halz Maul und Spiel" erlebte er am eigenen Leib, wie es ist einen Plattenvertrag zu unterschreiben und trotzdem nicht voranzukommen: Produktionshölle & waren sie Killerpilze 2.0? Exklusiv diese Woche bei "Wir waren Mal Stars!". https://www.instagram.com/vivalabaum/ Hochschule Fresenius: https://hs-fresenius.de/berufsbegleitend/?utm_source=mediascale&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=HFR-21-002&utm_content=zebra-wirwaren-mal-stars_007?crmid=aCbKchHcAaAaAa
Es ist soweit! Wir reden über die Schattenseiten des Musikbusiness! Wieso wir die schlimmsten Verträge in der deutschen Musikgeschichte unterschrieben und von unseren Produzenten um mehr als 100.000 Euro verarscht wurden! Wie sie unseren Bandnamen sicherten und ein neue Band mit anderen Mitgliedern gründeten! Wie sie private Videos von uns zu YouTube hochluden und uns damit fertig machen wollten! Außerdem gehts um unseren Gerichtsstreit vorm Landgericht und weshalb ihr Nandi Bushell auschecken solltet! Das alles gibt es diese Woche bei einer neuen Folge: "Wir Waren Mal Stars!" (Ach, und außerdem eine "Neustart"-Jazz Version) https://hs-fresenius.de/berufsbegleitend/?utm_source=mediascale&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=HFR-21-002&utm_content=zebra-wirwaren-mal-stars_007?crmid=aCbKchHcAaAaAa
Wir feiern unsere erste Veröffentlichung als "Nevada Tan" seit 15 Jahren! Außerdem besucht uns Nini Tsiklauri, die zu der Zeit als sie bei Schloss Einstein und den Wilden Kerlen schauspielerte, sich mitten im Urlaub in einem Kriegsgebiet wieder fand. Aus ihrem Heimatland Georgien konnte sie gerade noch so fliehen, um über die Türkei zurück nach Deutschland zu kommen! Von diesen Erlebnissen geprägt, lies sie das Schauspielern und Singen hinter sich und studierte Politikwissenschaften in Österreich. Sie ist jetzt Europapaaktivistin und diese Woche zu Gast bei Wir Waren Mal Stars. Hochschule Fresenius: https://hs-fresenius.de/berufsbegleitend/?utm_source=mediascale&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=HFR-21-002&utm_content=zebra-wirwaren-mal-stars_007?crmid=aCbKchHcAaAaAa
Heute besucht uns David's Freundin Anni: Wie ist das, wenn ein Millennial und eine Gen-Z zusammen eine Beziehung führen? Außerdem kündigen wir unsere LIVE EP an & erzählen, wie K.I.Z. uns fälschlicherweise gedisst haben! Achso, und weiß sie wer "Darkwing Duck" ist? Diese Woche bei "Wir Waren Mal Stars". Hochschule Fresenius: https://hs-fresenius.de/berufsbegleitend/?utm_source=mediascale&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=HFR-21-002&utm_content=zebra-wirwaren-mal-stars_007?crmid=aCbKchHcAaAaAa
Diese Woche besucht uns die wundervolle Paula von Schnapsidee (Musikproduzentin, Podcasterin, Gangmitglied). Als Schreibepartnerin und beste Freundin gehört sie mit zu unserer Crew und redet mit uns über unsere Nightliner-Unfälle, Überdosen Alkohol und ja, Pornos! Den ersten Teil dieser EXTRALANGEN Folge gibt es bei "Schnapsidee", der Podcast über Liebe, Love und Sexy Sein! Deshalb geht erst rüber und hört euch bei "Schnapsidee" PART 1 an! Natürlich überall wo's Podcasts gibt! Hochschule Fresenius: https://hs-fresenius.de/berufsbegleitend/?utm_source=mediascale&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=HFR-21-002&utm_content=zebra-wirwaren-mal-stars_007?crmid=aCbKchHcAaAaAa
E04: In this episode, The Video Insider's catch up with industry expert, Tim Siglin, to discuss HEVC implementation trends that counter previous assumptions, notable 2018 streaming events, and what's coming in 2019. The following blog post first appeared on the Beamr blog at: https://blog.beamr.com/2019/01/01/2018-the-year-hevc-took-flight/ By now, most of us have seen the data and know that online video consumption is soaring at a rate that is historically unrivaled. It's no surprise that in the crux of the streaming era, so many companies are looking to innovate and figure out how to make their workflows or customers workflows better, less expensive, and faster. In Episode 4 of The Video Insiders, we caught up with streaming veteran Tim Siglin to discuss HEVC implementation trends that counter previous assumptions, notable 2018 streaming events, and what's coming in 2019. Tune in to hear The Video Insiders cover top-of-mind topics: HEVC for lower resolutions Streaming the World Cup Moving from digital broadcast to IP-based infrastructure What consumers aren't thinking about when it comes to 4K and HDR Looking forward into 2019 & beyond Tune in to Episode 04: 2018, the Year HEVC Took Flight or watch the video below. Want to join the conversation? Reach out to TheVideoInsiders@beamr.com TRANSCRIPTION (lightly edited to improve readability only) Mark Donnigan: 00:00 On today's episode, the Video Insiders sit down with an industry luminary who shares results of a codec implementation study, while discussing notable streaming events that took place in 2018 and what's on the horizon for 2019. Stay tuned. You don't want to miss receiving the inside scoop on all this and more. Announcer: 00:22 The Video Insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video, as seen through the eyes of a second generation Kodak nerd and a marketing guy who knows what I frames and macroblocks are. Here are your hosts, Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 00:40 Welcome, everyone. I am Mark Donnigan, and I want to say how honored Dror and I are to have you with us. Before I introduce this very special guest and episode, I want to give a shout of thanks for all of the support that we're receiving. It's really been amazing. Dror Gill: 00:58 Yeah. Yeah, it's been awesome. Mark Donnigan: 00:59 In the first 48 hours, we received 180 downloads. It's pretty amazing. Dror Gill: 01:06 Yeah. Yeah, it is. The industry is not that large, and I think it's really an amazing number that they're already listening to the show from the start before the word of mouth starts coming out, and people spread the news and things like that. We really appreciate it. So, if it's you that is listening, thank you very much. Mark Donnigan: 01:29 We really do aim for this to be an agenda-free zone. I guess we can put it that way. Obviously, this show is sponsored by Beamr, and we have a certain point of view on things, but the point is, we observed there wasn't a good place to find out what's going on in the industry and sort of get unbiased, or maybe it's better to say unfiltered, information. That's what we aim to do in every episode. Mark Donnigan: 01:57 In this one, we're going to do just that. We have someone who you can definitely trust to know what's really happening in the streaming video space, and I know he has some juicy insights to share with us. So, without further ado, let's bring on Tim Siglin. Tim Siglin: 02:15 Hey, guys. Thank you for having me today and I will definitely try to be either as unfiltered or unbiased as possible. Mark Donnigan: 02:21 Why don't you give us a highlight reel, so to speak, of what you've done in the industry and, even more specifically, what are you working on today? Tim Siglin: 02:31 Sure. I have been in streaming now for a little over 20 years. In fact, when Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen came on as the editor at StreamingMedia.com, he said, “You seemed to be one of the few people who were there in the early days.” It's true. I actually had the honor of writing the 10-year anniversary of Streaming Media articles for the magazine, and then did the 20-year last year. Tim Siglin: 02:57 My background was Motion Picture production and then I got into video conferencing. As part of video conferencing, we were trying to figure out how to include hundreds of people in a video conference, but not need necessarily have them have two-way feedback. That's where streaming sort of caught my eye, because, ultimately, for video conferencing we maybe needed 10 subject matter experts who would talk back and forth, and together a hundred, then it went to thousands, and now hundreds of thousands. You can listen in and use something like chat or polling to provide feedback. Tim Siglin: 03:31 For me, the industry went from the early revolutionary days of “Hey, let's change everything. Let's get rid of TV. Let's do broadcast across IP.” That was the mantra in the early days. Now, of course, where we are is sort of, I would say, two-thirds of the way there, and we can talk a little bit about that later. The reality is that the old mediums are actually morphing to allow themselves to do heap, which is good, to compete with over the top. Tim Siglin: 04:01 Ultimately, what I think we'll find, especially when we get to pure IP broadcast with ATSC 3.0 and some other things for over-the-air, is that we will have more mediums to consume on rather than fewer. I remember the early format ways and of course we're going to talk some in this episode about some of the newer codec like HEVC. Ultimately, it seems like the industry goes through the cycles of player wars, format wars, browser wars, operating system wars, and we hit brief periods of stability which we've done with AVC or H.264 over the last probably eight years. Tim Siglin: 04:46 Then somebody wants to stir the pot, figure out how to either do it better, less expensively, faster. We go back into a cycle of trying to decide what the next big thing will be. In terms of what I'm working on now, because I've been in the industry for almost 21 years. Last year, I helped start a not-for-profit called Help Me Stream, which focuses on working with NGOs in emerging economies, trying to help them actually get into the streaming game to get their critical messages out. Tim Siglin: 05:18 That might be emerging economies like African economies, South America, and just the idea that we in the first world have streaming down cold, but there are a lot of messages that need to get out in emerging economies and emerging markets that they don't necessarily have the expertise to do. My work is to tie experts here with need there and figure out which technologies and services would be the most appropriate and most cost effective. Mark Donnigan: 05:46 That's fascinating, Tim. Tim Siglin: 05:48 The other thing I'm working on here, just briefly, is we're getting ready for the Streaming Media Sourcebook, the 2019 sourcebook. I'm having to step back for the next 15 days, take a really wide look at the industry and figure out what the state of affairs are. Dror Gill: 06:06 That's wonderful. I think because this is exactly the right point, is one you end and the other one begins, kind of to summarize where we've been in 2018, what is the state of the industry and the fact that you're doing that for the sourcebook, I think, ties in very nicely with our desire to hear from you an overview of what were the major milestones or advancements that were made in the streaming industry in 2018, and then looking into next year. Dror Gill: 06:39 Obviously, the move to IP, getting stronger and stronger, now the third phase after analog and digital, now we have broadcast over IP. It's interesting what you said about broadcasters not giving up the first with the pure OTT content providers. They have a huge business. They need to keep their subscribers and lower their churn and keep people from cutting the cord, so to speak. Dror Gill: 07:04 The telcos and the cable companies still need to provide the infrastructure for Internet on top of which the over-the-top providers and their content, but they still need to have more offering and television and VLD content in order to keep their subscribers. It's very interesting to hear how they're doing it and how they are upgrading themselves to the era of IP. Tim Siglin: 07:30 I think, Dror, you hit a really major point, which is we, the heavy lift … I just finished an article in ATSC 3.0 where I talk about using 2019 to prepare for 2020 when that will go live in the U.S. The heavy lift was the analog to digital conversion. The slightly easier lift is the conversion from digital to IP, but it still requires significant infrastructure upgrade and even transmission equipment to be able to do it correctly for the over-the-year broadcasters and cable. Dror Gill: 08:07 That's right. I think on the other hand, there is one big advantage to broadcast, even broadcast over-the-air. That is the ability to actually broadcast, the ability to reach millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of people over a single channel that everybody is receiving. Whereas, because of historic reasons and legacy reasons in IP, we are limited, still, when you broadcast to the end user to doing everything over unicast. When you do this, it creates a tremendous load on your network. You need to manage your CDNs. Dror Gill: 08:46 I think we've witnessed in 2018 on one hand very large events being streamed to our record audience. But, on the other hand, some of them really failed in terms of user experience. It wasn't what they expected because of the high volume of users, and because more and more people have discovered the ability to stream things over IP to their televisions and mobile devices. Can you share with us some of the experience that you have, some of the things that you're hearing about in terms of these big events where they had failures and what were the reasons for those failures? Tim Siglin: 09:30 I want to reiterate the point you made on the OTA broadcast. It's almost as if you have read the advanced copy of my article, which I know you haven't because it's only gone to the editor. Dror Gill: 09:42 I don't have any inside information. I have to say, even though we are the Video Insiders. Mark Donnigan: 09:47 We are the Video Insiders. That's right. Dror Gill: 09:49 We are the Video Insiders, but … Mark Donnigan: 09:49 But no inside information here. Dror Gill: 09:51 No inside information. I did not steal that copy. Tim Siglin: 09:55 What I point out in that article, Dror, I think which will come out in January shortly after CES is basically this. We have done a good job in the streaming industry, the OTT space of pushing the traditional mediums to upgrade themselves. One of the things as you say with OTA, that ability to do essentially a multicast from a tower wirelessly is a really, really good thing, because to get us to scale, and I think about things like the World Cup, the Olympics and even the presidential funeral that's happened here in December, there are large-scale events that we in the OTT space just can't handle, if you're talking about having to build the capacity. Tim Siglin: 10:39 The irony is, one good ATSC transmission tower could hit as many people as we could handle essentially globally with the unicast (OTT) model. If you look at things like that and then you look at things like EMBMS in the mobile world, where there is that attempt to do essentially a multicast, and it goes to points like the World Cup. I think one of the horror stories in the World Cup was in Australia. There was a mobile provider named Optus who won the rights to actually do half of the World Cup preliminary games. In the first several days, they were so overwhelmed by the number of users who wanted to watch and were watching, as you say, in a unicast model that they ended up having to go back to the company they had bid against who had the other half of the preliminaries and ask them to carry those on traditional television. Tim Siglin: 11:41 The CEO admitted that it was such a spectacular failure that it damaged the brand of the mobile provider. Instead of the name Optus being used, everybody was referring to it as “Floptus.” You don't want your brand being known as the butt of jokes for an event that only happens once every four years that you have a number of devotees in your market. And heaven forbid, it had been the World Cup for cricket, there would have been riots in the street in Sydney and Melbourne. Thank goodness it was Australia with soccer as opposed to Australia with cricket. Tim Siglin: 12:18 It brings home the point that we talk about scale, but it's really hard to get to scale in a unicast environment. The other event, this one happened, I believe, in late 2017, was the Mayweather fight that was a large pay-per-view event that was streamed. It turned out the problem there wasn't as much the streams as it was the authentication servers were overwhelmed in the first five minutes of the fight. So, with authentication gone, it took down the ability to actually watch the stream. Tim Siglin: 12:53 For us, it's not just about the video portion of it, it's actually about the total ecosystem and who you're delivering to, whether you're going to force caps into place because you know you can't go beyond a certain capacity, or whether you're going to have to partner up with traditional media like cable service providers or over-the-air broadcasters. Mark Donnigan: 13:14 It's a really good point, Tim. In the World Cup, the coverage that I saw, it was more of, I'd almost say or use the phrase, dashed expectations. Consumers, they were able to watch it. In most cases, I think it played smoothly. In other words, the video was there, but HDR signaling didn't work or didn't work right. Then it looked odd on some televisions or … Tim Siglin: 13:40 In high frame rate … Tim Siglin: 13:43 20 frames a second instead of 60 frames a second. Mark Donnigan: 13:48 Exactly. What's interesting to me is that, what I see is, the consumer, they're not of course walking around thinking as we are, like frame rate and color space and resolution. They are getting increasingly sensitive to where they can look at video now and say, “That's good video,” or “That doesn't look right to me.” I know we were talking before we started recording about this latest Tom Cruise public service announcement, which is just super fascinating, because it … Tim Siglin: 14:24 To hear him say motion interpolation. Mark Donnigan: 14:26 Yeah. Maybe we should tell the audience, for those, since it literally just came out I think today, even. But you want to tell the audience what Tom Cruise is saying? Tim Siglin: 14:38 Essentially, Tom Cruise was on the set of Top Gun, as they're shooting Top Gun. Another gentleman did a brief PSA for about a minute asking people to turn off motion interpolation on their televisions, which motion interpolation essentially takes a 24-frame per second and converts it to 30 frames per second by adding phantom frames in the middle. Because Mission Impossible: Fallout is just being released for streaming, Cruise was concerned and obviously others were concerned that some of the scenes would not look nearly as good with motion interpolation turned on. Tim Siglin: 15:17 I think, Mark, we ought to go to a PSA model, asking for very particular things like, “How do you turn HDR on? How do you …” Those types of things, because those get attention in a way that you and I or a video engineer can't get that attention. Dror Gill: 15:33 How do you know if what you're getting is actually 4K or interpolate HD, for example? Tim Siglin: 15:38 Especially in our part of the industry, because we will call something OTT 4K streaming. That may mean that it fits in a 4K frame, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's that number of pixels being delivered. Dror Gill: 15:52 It can also mean that the top layer in your adaptive bit rate stream is 4K, but then if you don't have enough bandwidth, you're actually getting the HD layer or even lower. Tim Siglin: 16:01 Exactly. Dror Gill: 16:02 Even though it is a 4K broadcast and it is 4K content. Sometimes, you can be disappointed by that fact as well. Mark Donnigan: 16:11 I have to give a very, very funny story directly related, and this happened probably, I don't know, maybe, at least 18 months ago, maybe two years ago. I'm sitting on an airplane next to this guy. It's the usual five-minute, get acquainted before we both turn on our computers. Anyway, when someone asks, “What do you do?” I generally just say, “I work for a video software company,” because how do you explain digital encoding? Most people just sort of stop at that, and don't really ask more. Mark Donnigan: 16:44 But this guy is like, “Oh, really?” He said, “So, I just bought a 4K TV and I love it.” He was raving about his new Samsung TV. Of course, he figured I'm a video guy. I would appreciate that. I said, “Hey.” “So, you must subscribe to Netflix.” “Yes. Yes, of course,” he says. I said, “What do you think of the Netflix quality? It looks great, doesn't it?” Mark Donnigan: 17:10 He sort of hem and hawed. He's like, “Well, it really … I mean, yeah. Yeah, it looks great, but it's not quite … I'm just not sure.” Then, I said, “I'm going to ask you two questions. First of all, are you subscribed to the 4K plan?” He was. Then I said, “How fast is your Internet at home.” He's like, “I just have the minimum. I don't know. I think it's the 20 megabit package,” or whatever it was. I don't remember the numbers. Mark Donnigan: 17:38 I said, “There's this thing.” And I gave him like a 30-second primer on adaptive bit rate, and I said, “It is possible, I have no idea of your situation, that you might be watching the HD version.” Anyway, he's like, “Hah, that's interesting.” I connect with the guy on LinkedIn. Three days later, I get this message. He says, “I just upgraded my Internet. I now have 4K on my TV. It looks awesome.” Mark Donnigan: 18:04 On one hand, the whole situation was not surprising and, yet, how many thousands, tens of thousands, maybe millions of people are in the exact same boat? They've got this beautiful TV. It could be because they're running some low-end router in the house. It could be they truly have a low end bandwidth package. There could be a lot of reasons why they're not getting the bandwidth. They're so excited about their 4K TV. They're paying Netflix to get the top layer, the best quality, and they're not even seeing it. It's such a pity. Tim Siglin: 18:37 I had a TSA agent asked me that same question, Mark, when I came through customs. I'm like, “Sure. I'll stand here and answer that question for you.” The router was actually what I suggested that he upgrade, because he said his router was like this (old unit). Mark Donnigan: 18:53 In a lot of homes, it's a router that's 15 years old and it just isn't (up to the task). Tim Siglin: 18:58 But it brings out the point that even as we're talking about newer codecs and better quality, even if we get a lower sweet spot in terms of 4K content (streaming bandwidth), or as we found in the survey that we worked on together, that using HEVC for 1080p or 720p, if the routers, if the software in the chain is not updated, the delivery quality will suffer in a way that people who have a tuned television and seen the consistent quality aren't certain what to do to fix when they use an over-the-top service. Tim Siglin: 19:34 I think this is a key for 2019. As we prepare for ATSC 3.0 on over-the-air broadcast where people will be able to see pristine 4K, it will actually force those of us in the OTT space to up our game to make sure that we're figuring out how to deliver across these multiple steps in a process that we don't break. Dror Gill: 19:54 You really see ATSC 3.0 as a game-changer in 2019? Tim Siglin: 19:59 What I see it as is the response from the broadcast industry to, A) say that they're still relevant, which I think is a good political move. And, B) it provides the scale you were talking about, Dror. See, I think what it does is it at least puts us in the OTT space on notice that there will be in certain first world countries a really decent quality delivery free of charge with commercials over the air. Tim Siglin: 20:31 It takes me back to the early days of video compression when, if you had a good class-one engineer and an analog NTSC transmission system, they could give you really good quality if your TV was tuned correctly. It only meant having to tune your TV. It didn't mean having to tune your router or having to tune your cable modem, having to tune your settings on your TV. I think that's where the game-changer may be, is that those tuner cards, which will send HDR signaling and things like that with the actual transmission, are going to make it much easier for the consumer to consume quality in a free scenario. I think that part of it is a potential game-changer. Mark Donnigan: 21:19 That's interesting. Tim, we worked together earlier this year on a survey, an industry survey that I think it would be really, really interesting to listeners to talk about. Shall we pivot into that? Maybe you can share some of the findings there. Tim Siglin: 21:38 Why don't you take the lead on why Beamr wanted to do that? Then I'll follow up with some of the points that we got out of it. Mark Donnigan: 21:46 Obviously, we are a codec developer. It's important for us to always be addressing the market the way that the market wants to be addressed, meaning that we're developing technologies and solutions and standards that's going to be adopted. Clearly, there has been, especially if we rewind a year ago or even 18 months ago, AV1 was just recently launched. There were still questions about VP9. Mark Donnigan: 22:19 Obviously, H264 AVC is the standard, used everywhere. We felt, “Let's go out to the industry. Let's really find out what the attitudes are, what the thinking is, what's going on ‘behind closed doors' and find out what are people doing.” Are they building workflows for these new advanced codecs? How are they going to build those workflows? That was the impetus, if you will, for it. Mark Donnigan: 22:49 We are very happy, Tim, to work with you on that and of course Streaming Media assisted us with promoting it. That was the reason we did it. I know there were some findings that were pretty predictable, shall we say, no surprises, but there were some things that I think were maybe a little more surprising. So, maybe if you like to share some of those. Tim Siglin: 23:12 Yeah. I'll hit the highlights on that. Let me say too that one of the things that I really like about this particular survey, there was another survey that had gone on right around that time that essentially was, “Are you going to adopt HEVC?” What we took the approach on with this survey was to say, “Okay. Those of you who've already adopted HEVC, what are the lessons that we can learn from that?” Tim Siglin: 23:36 We didn't exclude those who were looking at AV1 or some of the other codes, even VP9, but we wanted to know those people who used HEVC. Were they using it in pilot projects? Were they thinking about it? Were they using it in actual production? What we found in the survey is that AVC, or H.264, was still clearly dominant in the industry, but that the ramp-up to HEVC was moving along much faster than at least I … I believed. Mark, I told you when we started the survey question creation, which was about a year ago and then launched it in early 2018, I expected we wouldn't see a whole lot of people using HEVC in production. Tim Siglin: 24:23 I was pleasantly surprised to say that I was wrong. In fact, I think you mentioned in our recent Streaming Media West interview that there was a statistic you gave about the number of households that could consume HEVC. Was it north of 50%? Mark Donnigan: 24:40 Yeah, it's more than 50%. What's interesting about that number is that that actually came from a very large MSO. Of course, they have a very good understanding of what devices are on their network. They found that there was at least one device in at least 50% of their homes that could receive and decode, playback, HEVC. That's about as real world as you can get. Tim Siglin: 25:06 What was fascinating to me too in this study was, we asked open-ended questions, which is what I've done in the research projects for the last 25 years both the video conferencing and streaming. One of the questions we asked was, “Do you see HEVC as only a 4K solution or do you see it as an option for lower resolutions?” It turned out overwhelmingly, people said, “We not only see it for 4K. We see it for high-frame rate (HFR) 1080p, standard frame rate 1080p, with some HDR.” Tim Siglin: 25:40 Not a majority, but a large number of respondents said they would even see it as a benefit at 720p. What that tells me is, because we had a large number of engineers, video engineers, and we also have people in business development who answer these questions, what it tells me is that companies know as we scale because of the unicast problem that Dror pointed out in the beginning that scaling with a codec that consumes more bandwidth is a good way to lose money, kind of like the joke that the way a rich man can lose money really fast is to invest in an airline. Tim Siglin: 26:19 If indeed you get scale with AVC, you could find yourself with a really large bill. That look at HEVC is being not just for 4K, HDR, or high frame rate in the future, but also for 1080p with some HDR and high frame rate. It tells me that the codec itself or the promise of the codec itself was actually really good. What was even more fascinating to me was the number of companies that had AVC pipelines that were actually looking to integrate HEVC into those same production pipe. Tim Siglin: 26:55 It was much easier from a process standpoint to integrate HEVC into an AVC pipeline, so in other words, H265 into H264 pipeline than it was to go out of house and look at something like AV1 or VP9, because the work that was done on HEVC builds on the benefits that were already in place in AVC. Of course, you got Apple who has HLS, HTTP Live Streaming, and a huge ecosystem in terms of iPhones and iPads, laptops and desktops supporting HEVC not just as a standard for video delivery, but also with the HEIC or HEIF image format, now having all of their devices shoot images using HEVC instead of JPEG. That in and of itself drives forward adoption of HEVC. I think you told me since that survey came out, probably now seven months ago, you all have continued to see the model of all-in HEVC adoption. Dror Gill: 28:03 This is what we promote all the time. It's kind of a movement. Are you all in HEVC or are you doing it just for 4K, just where you have to do it? We really believe in all-in HEVC. Actually, this week, I had an interesting discussion with one of our customers who is using our optimization product for VOD content, to reduce bit-rate of H.264 (streams). He said, “I want to have a product. I want to have a solution for reducing bit-rates on our live channels.” Dror Gill: 28:32 So, I asked them, “Okay. Why don't you just switch your codec to HEVC?” He said, “No, I can't do that.” I said, “Why not?” He said, “You know compatibility and things like that.” I asked, “Okay. What are you using? What are you delivering to?” He said, “We have our own set-top boxes (STB), IP set-top boxes which we give out to our customers. Well, these are pretty new.” So, they support HEVC. I'm okay there. “Then we have an Apple TV app.” “Okay, Apple TV has a 4K version. So, it supports HEVC. All of the latest Apple TV devices have HEVC. That's fine.” “Then we have smartphone apps, smart TV apps for Android TV and for the LG platform.” Dror Gill: 29:15 Obviously, TV's support 4K. So, I'm okay there. With delivering to mobile devices, all the high-end devices already support HEVC. He was making this estimate that around 50 to 60% of his viewers are using devices that are HEVC capable. Suddenly, he's thinking, “Yeah, I can do that. I can go all in HEVC. I will continue, of course, to support H.264 for all of the devices that don't support HEVC. But if I can save 50% of the bandwidth to 50 to 60% of my customers, that's a very big savings.” Mark Donnigan: 29:48 What's interesting about this conversation, Dror, is first of all I'm pretty certain that the operator you're talking with is different than the operator that I shared, found the exact same thing. This is a consistent theme, is that pretty much in developed parts of the world, it really is true that 50% or more of the users can today receive HEVC. This number is only growing. It's not like it's static It is just growing. Next year, I don't know if that number will be 60% or 70%, but it's going to be even bigger. Mark Donnigan: 30:27 What's fascinating is that, again, we've said earlier, that the consumer is getting just more aware of quality, and they're getting more aware of when they're being underserved. For operators who are serving to lowest common denominator, which is to say, AVC works across all my devices, and it's true. AVC works on all the high-end devices equally well, but you're under-serving a large and growing number of your users. Mark Donnigan: 31:01 If your competitors are doing the same, then I guess you could say … well, “Who are they going to switch to?” But there are some fast-moving leaders in the space who are either planning or they're shortly going to be offering better quality. They're going to be extending HEVC into lower bit rates or lower resolutions, that is, and therefore lower bit rates, and the consumers are going to begin to see like, “Well, wait a second. This service over here that my friend has or we have another subscription in the household, how come the video looks better?” They just begin to migrate there. I think it's really important when we have these sorts of conversations to connect to this idea that don't underserve your consumer in an effort to be something to everybody. Tim Siglin: 31:57 I would add two other quick things to that, Mark. One is, we've always had this conversation in the industry about the three-legged stool of speed, quality and bandwidth in terms of the encoding. Mark Donnigan: 32:09 That's right. Tim Siglin: 32:09 Two of those are part of the consumer equation, which is quality and bandwidth. Then, oftentimes, we've had to make the decision between quality and bandwidth. If the argument is ostensibly that HEVC as it stands right now, had a couple years of optimization, can get us to about, let's say, 40%. Let's not even say 50%. For equivalent quality, it can get us to 40% bandwidth reduction. Why wouldn't you switch over to something like that? Tim Siglin: 32:39 Then the second part, and I have to put a plugin for what Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen and the Streaming Media team did at Streaming Media West by having Roger Pantos come and speak, Roger Pantos being of course the inventor of HLS, and I'm not a huge fan of HLS, just because of the latency issues. But he pointed out in his presentation, his tutorial around HLS that you can put two different codecs in a manifest file. There is absolutely no reason that an OTT provider could not provide both HEVC and AVC within the same manifest file and then allow the consumer device to choose. Tim Siglin: 33:22 When Dror mentioned the company who has the OTT boxes that they give away, they could easily set a flag in those boxes to say, “If you're presented with a manifest file that has AVC and HEVC, go with HEVC to lower the bandwidth, overall.” The beauty is it's a technical issue at this point and it's a technical implementation issue, not a ‘can we make it work?' Because we know that it works based around the HLS. Mark Donnigan: 33:54 This is excellent. Tim, let's wrap this up, as I knew it would be. It has just been an awesome conversation. Thank you for sharing all your years of collective experience to give some insight into what's happening in the industry. Let's look at 2019. I know we've been talking a little bit about … you've made references to ATSC 3.0. Some of our listeners will be going to CES. Maybe there's some things that they should be looking at or keeping their eyes opened for. What can you tell us about 2019? Tim Siglin: 34:35 Here's what I think 2019 is bringing. We have moved in the cloud computing space and you all are part of this conversation at Beamr. We've moved from having cloud-based solutions that were not at parity with on-premise solutions to actually in 2018 reaching parity between what you could do in an on-premise solution versus the cloud. Now, I think in 2019, what we're going to start seeing is a number of features in cloud-based services, whether it's machine learning, which the popular nomenclature is AI, but I really like machine learning as a much better descriptor, whether it's machine learning, whether it's real-time transcoding of live content, whether it's the ability to simultaneously spit out AVC and HEVC like we've been talking about here that the cloud-based solutions will move beyond parity with the on-premise solutions. Tim Siglin: 35:35 There always will be needs for the on-premise parts from a security standpoint in sort of the industries, but I don't think that will inhibit cloud-based in 2019. If people are going to CES, one of the things to look at there, for instance, is a big leap in power consumption savings for mobile devices. I'm not necessarily talking about smartphones, because the research I've done says the moment you turn GPS on, you lose 25% of battery. Tablets have the potential to make a resurgence in a number of areas for consumers and I think we'll see some advances in battery (capacity). Tim Siglin: 36:19 Part of that goes to HEVC, which as we know is a much harder codec to decode. I think the consumer companies are being forced into thinking about power consumption as HEVC becomes more mainstream. That's something I think people should pay attention to as well. Then, finally, HDR and surround sound solutions, especially object placement like Dolby Atmos and some of these others, will become much more mainstream as a way to sell flat panels and surround sound systems. Tim Siglin: 36:56 We sort of languished in that space. 4K prices have dropped dramatically in the last two years, but we're not yet ready for 8K. But I think we'll see a trend toward fixing some of the audio problems. In the streaming space, to fix those audio problems, we need to be able to encode and encapsulate into sort of the standard surround sound model. Those are three areas that I would suggest people pay attention. Mark Donnigan: 37:25 Well, thank you for joining us, Tim. It's really great to have you on. We'll definitely do this again. We want to thank you, the listener, for supporting the Video Insiders. Until the next episode. Happy encoding! Announcer: 37:39 Thank you for listening to the Video Insiders Podcast, a production of Beamr Imaging Limited. 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