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On this episode of Lead with Heart, I have the honor of speaking with CJ Stewart, a former Chicago Cubs outfielder and the visionary co-founder of the L.E.A.D. Center for Youth in Atlanta.Through the transformative power of baseball and tennis, the L.E.A.D. Center for Youth is empowering at-risk youth, addressing trauma, and creating lasting change. CJ's dedication to empowering youth through sports and the L.E.A.D. Center's innovative approaches to breaking the cycle of poverty and racism are truly inspirational. With over 17 years of impact, there is so much for us to learn from their remarkable journey.In this episode:[02:22] Using sports as a tool to address trauma in children[10:33] The unique challenges that at-risk children face and how the L.E.A.D. Center addresses those issues[14:13] How the L.E.A.D. Center engages youth to become radical philanthropists who give back to the program[20:48] Developing the mental component needed for sports and leadership[25:23] How to make a difference in your own community[34:09] Instilling the value of teamwork into your nonprofitRESOURCESTake the leap into successful fundraising with the Savvy Fundraiser Fundamentals Course. The ultimate guide designed for nonprofits that have been around for a while, but haven't delved into the world oIn 2012, I started a nonprofit in a small village in Malawi, living alone, facing many challenges, I built a successful organization. This book is a tale of resilience, passion, and community strength. Discover the highs, lows, lessons learned, and unforgettable moments that shaped my journey. Whether you're in the nonprofit world, thinking of starting one, or just love a great story, pre-order HERE< As the fundraising engine of choice for over 80,000 organizations in 90+ countries, Donorbox's easy-to-use fundraising tools help you raise more money in more ways. Seamlessly embed a customizable donation form into your website that reduces donor drop-off with a 4x faster checkout, launch a crowdfunding or peer-to-peer campaign, sell event tickets, raise funds on the go with Donorbox Live™ Kiosk, and much more. Learn more at donorbox.org The EmC Masterclass by Dr. Lola Gershfeld will help you enhance your communication skills to raise more revenue for your mission. This groundbreaking Emotional Connection process has been integrated into top universities' curriculum and recognized by international organizations. Use code LEADWITHHEART to enjoy a -10%.CONNECT WITH HALEYHaley is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Certified Stress Management Coach, and Certified EmC train the trainer. She is the Founder of The Savvy Fundraiser, a nonprofit consulting and coaching business. She has worked in both small and large nonprofit teams in the human services, homelessness, and youth sectors; and she specializes in the EmC process, nonprofit leadership, board development, and fundraising. Haley is a passionate, impact-driven, experienced nonprofit professional whose mission is to empower, elevate and engage nonprofit leaders to build healthy, thriving organizations.Instagram: @thesavvyfundraiser LinkedIn: Haley Cooper, CFREWebsite: thesavvyfundraiser.comProduced by Ideablossoms
I have a special episode lined up for you today with guest, Julia Devine, who co-founded Relatable Nonprofit with her business partner Catalina Parker. These two trailblazers left their six figure nonprofit jobs in their mid-twenties to start their own consulting agency. And over the past two years, they've not only built a successful business but they've also launched Relatable Nonprofit to empower other growth-driven women with nonprofit hearts to succeed in consulting.If you have ever wondered about going into nonprofit consulting, then you are not going to want to miss this episode. Julia is sharing some great tips to help you get started.In this episode:[06:48] The high turnover challenge in nonprofits[12:57] The skillsets that nonprofits should be looking for when filling development and marketing roles[18:15] How consulting can provide a viable alternative for those experiencing dissatisfaction in traditional nonprofit roles[22:50] Finding your niche and promoting your consulting business[33:28] Setting clear boundaries as a consultant[39:31] The future of nonprofit consultingRESOURCESTake the leap into successful fundraising with the Savvy Fundraiser Fundamentals Course. The ultimate guide designed for nonprofits that have been around for a while, but haven't delved into the world oIn 2012, I started a nonprofit in a small village in Malawi, living alone, facing many challenges, I built a successful organization. This book is a tale of resilience, passion, and community strength. Discover the highs, lows, lessons learned, and unforgettable moments that shaped my journey. Whether you're in the nonprofit world, thinking of starting one, or just love a great story, pre-order HERE< As the fundraising engine of choice for over 80,000 organizations in 90+ countries, Donorbox's easy-to-use fundraising tools help you raise more money in more ways. Seamlessly embed a customizable donation form into your website that reduces donor drop-off with a 4x faster checkout, launch a crowdfunding or peer-to-peer campaign, sell event tickets, raise funds on the go with Donorbox Live™ Kiosk, and much more. Learn more at donorbox.org The EmC Masterclass by Dr. Lola Gershfeld will help you enhance your communication skills to raise more revenue for your mission. This groundbreaking Emotional Connection process has been integrated into top universities' curriculum and recognized by international organizations. Use code LEADWITHHEART to enjoy a -10%.CONNECT WITH HALEYHaley is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Certified Stress Management Coach, and Certified EmC train the trainer. She is the Founder of The Savvy Fundraiser, a nonprofit consulting and coaching business. She has worked in both small and large nonprofit teams in the human services, homelessness, and youth sectors; and she specializes in the EmC process, nonprofit leadership, board development, and fundraising. Haley is a passionate, impact-driven, experienced nonprofit professional whose mission is to empower, elevate and engage nonprofit leaders to build healthy, thriving organizations.Instagram: @thesavvyfundraiser LinkedIn: Haley Cooper, CFREWebsite: thesavvyfundraiser.comProduced by Ideablossoms
Minimalism is a philosophy we're all familiar with - but it's tenets can be used far beyond household possessions. It's not just about stripping down what is not worth keeping, but also about letting the things that matter most to us take up the majority of our time and attention. OIn this episode we're exploring what minimalism can teach us about our wardrobes, mindless consumption, constant influx of ideas, never-ending to-do lists, long-term storage and nighttime routines. Check out this episode for more on curating a wardrobe you love!
This episode is a special bonus episode with scholar, writer and translator, Shaimaa Abulebda, from within Rafah, in Gaza.Shaymaa's family home in east Khan Younis brings together her 8 married siblings, and for her nieces and nephews, it is their grandparents' house.Shaimaa has lived through the second intifada, and all the aggressions on Gaza since 2008 until this curren ongoing genocide.With dreams of getting a PhD in literature, Shaimaa looked forwad to a bright future. She was lecturing at the Islamic University of Gaza, which has now been destroyed. Since October 7th, Shaimaa and her parents have been displaced three times and are now living in an over-crowded refugee camp in Rafah, where there is no food, clean water or electricity. Shaimaa is currently raising funds so her and her parents can leave Gaza and find safety in Egypt first, before thinking about what could come next.You can donate and support Shaimaa and her family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-evacuate-shaimaa-and-her-parents-from-gaza-oIn her own words, Shaimaa has described the extensive stress, pain and pressure on the people of Gaza, the way in which everyone is losing weight and strength due to forced starvation, how nobody can clean themselves properly, and how Shaymaa's short term memory is being impacted every single day. I invited Shaimaa onto the podcast so she can share her story, and we can hear first-hand what life is like in Gaza, both today but also in the years that Shaimaa grew up.Due to a lack of strong internet connection and a quiet space, this episode has been put together from separate recordings, and Shaimaa recorded her story during the night from a refugee camp. While listening you might hear some sound disturbances and hear background noise: war planes, drones, and other people. ---I'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode, so please do think about leaving a review, and like, subscribe and rate wherever you listen to this show :)Come connect with me on social media - I'd love to chat:www.instagram.com/readwithsamiawww.instagram.com/thediversebookshelfpod Support the Show.
After our unplanned hiatus, we are back with more of The Hobbit! In this episode, we are joined again by our friends Chris and Carlos of the Swolhirrim to help us cover the chapter "Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire" and the end of the movie, "An Unexpected Journey." We discuss:Bilbo's reunion with Gandalf and the dwarves after finding the RingWargs in the book vs the moviesWhy can't Oin tell the difference between a thrush and a raven?And much more!Don't forget to follow the Swolhirrim:- Instagram: instagram.com/the_swolhirrim/- YouTube: youtube.com/@theswolhirrim9201 - TikTok: tiktok.com/@the_swolhirrimYou can find Tolkien with Friends on:- Instagram: instagram.com/tolkienwithfriends - Twitter: twitter.com/tolkienfriends - Patreon: patreon.com/tolkienwithfriends
Keith Bergelt, CEO, Open Invention Network joined us to explore the relationship between IP and open-source, sharing the benefits and challenges of open-source collaboration and Open Invention Network's role in preserving patent freedom Highlights from our chat include: - Insight into the Open Invention Network (OIN) and how it supports innovation - How open-source collaboration and intellectual property collide - An overview of the threats currently facing open-source - The future of open-source and the direction that OIN is headed
Our next topic is on the Kingdom of Khazad-dûm and Kingdom of Moria army lists. Top US player Alisher joins us to debate and rank this ever-popular dwarven faction! Thank you to everyone who submitted their photos for this video; make sure to check out their work on Instagram: @colorsofmiddleearth @factions_of_middle_earth @the.dragon.hoard @alonso_is_op @heroichighlights 00:00 Introduction 00:52 Dúrin, King of Khazad-dûm 06:52 Mardin 09:16 Flói Stonehand 13:55 Balin, Lord of Moria 16:55 Gimli, Son of Glóin 19:45 Ori the Dwarf, Champion of Erebor 21:45 Oin the Dwarf, Champion of Erebor 23:19 Dwarf King 25:07 Dwarf Captain 26:05 King's Champion 27:25 Shieldbearer 29:18 Dwarf Warrior 31:35 Khazad Guard 33:39 Iron Guard 36:22 Dwarf Ranger 38:18 Vault Warden Team 41:01 Dwarf Ballista Video Link: https://youtu.be/LMtdtRup58I Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/IntotheWest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITWpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intothewestpodcast/ Credits: Music: Tavern Loop One by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com) Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OIn this holiday special, since I've been away, I quickly retouch Tank-Garcia & Haney-Loma. Afterwards, I get into the big one: Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford. Also, should Michael Conlan retire? The great performance by Oscar Collazo and Alexis Rocha and finally, a quick preview of the women's undisputed middleweight title fight between Claressa Shields and Marisela Cornejo.Twiiter: @abeg718Instagram: @abeg718
PRIX DU BATIMENT BAS CARBONE Le lauréat est : SOGEPROM REALISATIONS CÔTE D'AZUR “ Intimi” à Saint-Martin du Var (06) Architecte : BDM Bronze + Écovallée Qualité La localisation du projet a inspiré une approche tout en douceur à SOGEPROM, son promoteur. Le village de Saint-Martin-du-Var, authentique petite agglomération provençale de 3 000 âmes blottie autour de sa place centrale, tient à sa tranquillité tout en se montrant accueillant. Le projet « Intimi » participe pleinement à l'Opération d'intérêt national (OIN) soumis au référentiel environnemental Écovallée Qualité de la plaine du Var. Situé à 200 mètres du centre-ville, il se développe selon une logique de « village du quart d'heure », riche de services et de liens de proximité. La résidence propose 56 logements répartis en trois bâtiments de deux niveaux au-dessus du rez-de-chaussée et intègre des jardins privatifs en rez-de-chaussée et de généreuses terrasses aux étages. Elle respecte le style architectural provençal, notamment grâce à ses toitures de tuiles de production locale. Son isolant biosourcé, ses deux réseaux d'eau (dont un de récupération de l'eau de pluie pour les espaces verts et les sanitaires), ou encore la ventilation naturelle de tous les espaces intérieurs, témoignent de la très forte prise en compte de paramètres environnementaux. Pour pousser encore plus loin cette démarche, le programme vise le Label Bdm (Bâtiment durable méditerranéen) niveau Bronze, lequel intègre les trois phases d'un projet (conception, réalisation et exploitation) et donc tous les acteurs concernés par la réalisation du projet. SITE INTERNET : https://www.sogeprom.fr/nice-cote-dazur
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In this episode of The Raz Report, Jason Raznick speaks with Jakub Rehor, Co-founder and CIO of Lucy LabsJason and Jakub talk about:What is a perpetual swap?How To Navigate Crypto VolatilityWhich is a better investment - USDC vs USDTWhat happened with Terra USD?Algorithmic Stable CoinsAdvice for retail crypto investorsAdvice for institutional crypto investorsWhat works in crypto trading vs what works in traditional financeGuest:Jakub RehorCo-founder and CIO of Lucy LabsTwitter: https://twitter.com/jakubrehorLearn more about Lucy Labs here!Host:Jason RaznickFounder, CEO of BenzingaTwitter: https://twitter.com/jasonraznickSign Up to Benzinga Pro today to receive most exclusive interviews, news and stock picks fast!https://pro.benzinga.com/Click here for more episodes of The RazReport.Disclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Transcript:In this edition of the RazReport we have Jakub Rehor Co-Founder and CIO of Lucy Labs. Jason Raznick: This is going to be an exciting one because he has tons of experience working at hedge funds from Third Avenue and just being in this industry, being in the McKinsey. So I'm going to stop talking now and start asking questions, Jakub, you have a lot of interest in experience from crypto to equities being at multi-billion-dollar value fund for many years. But before we get into all that fun stuff, where did you grow up?Jakub Rehor: I grew up in Czechoslovakia, so it was in the 1970s and 1980s. So it was still a communist country and it was a very different place than then living here in the US now.Jason Raznick: So you went through the Velvet Revolution? Jakub Rehor: Yeah. The Velvet Revolution. One thing I might mention, because it has something to do with crypto is there was an interesting currency situation in Czechoslovakia.So you had the national currency, which was the crown and that's what you were to earn and you would spend in regular shops, but you also had hard currency stores that had stuff that the regular shops didn't have. And if you want it to be shopping in those hard currency stores, you need i the special vouchers that that were exchangeable for a higher currency.And you could go into these stores and use these vouchers to pay for, more luxury luxurious stuff. And nobody would really ask you how you got your hands on it. That it was a, it was just considered to be okay. And the third currency that was circulating in the country was the Deutsche Mark.If you were planning to go on a vacation abroad or you were planning to live it up and go to restaurants and buy some souvenirs you would use Deutsche Mark. So there was really like three currencies in circulation in the country. And there was a gray market where people would be changing from one currency to another.So I'm familiar with with a situation where technically you have a single currency, but you have actually in reality, multiple circulating currencies with fluctuating exchange rates. And the connection to crypto is that people are talking about now, oh, why would we even have something like Bitcoin running in parallel with whatever the country currencies is?And it's so strange and there will be never any need for it. And I'm like, no, that's normal to me. I grew up with that. That's just absolutely normal state of affairs.Jason Raznick: And so you going with those multiple currencies, do you think then, like the Bitcoin revolution will be here stay? Jakub Rehor: Oh, it's absolutely here to stay. Nobody will uninvent Bitcoin. We now know that it's impossible. Whatever happens to Bitcoin in itself somebody will come up with a new cryptocurrency. It's just you'll never put this genie back into the bottle. What Bitcoin did was to do something that was considered impossible.Prior to that, a lot of people have tried to create native internet currency, and a lot of them foundered on the same set of problems. They, it was centralized. It was easy to shut down. It was referring to an underlying FIAT or underlying commodity and it was difficult to keep the ledger synchronized around the world.And Bitcoin solved all of these problems. It really, it is a real breakthrough in computer science.Jason Raznick: It brings you back to when you were growing up in Czechoslovakia where there were multiple currencies.Jakub Rehor: Yeah. And the problem that Bitcoin solves are very often not problems that we have here in the US here, the payment systems work pretty well here.Banks work pretty well. You're not worried about your ATM stopping working tomorrow. So explaining the value of Bitcoin to Americans is a little bit like it, it sounds a little bit unreal, the problems that it's trying to solve, but you go outside of the US you go to countries like Cyprus or Lebanon, Venezuela Iran. They get it. They mean they understand that solves their problems today and here.Jason Raznick: So going back to your upbringing, you ended up going to school at Yale. Was that from Czechoslovakia or like how'd you end up in Yale?Jakub Rehor: So I was studying electrical engineering and Czechoslovakia, and I was involved in the students strike.I joined the national student strike coordinating committee, which was part of the Velvet Revolution. We basically built the check internet very early on.We connected all the universities across the country hook them up and we use that network to print and distribute all the materials that the the development revolution leaders were putting out. Our goal was to break the monopoly, the media monopoly that the communist media had and get all this information out into people's hands.And we mentioned to do that in a space of a week, about a week and a half. We we hooked up basically all the printers and copy machines and fax machines that we could get our hands on. And we were printing we're printing posters and materials by the tens of thousands. We had them on all the streets in the country.Jason Raznick: And did it catch on?Jakub Rehor: Yeah. When the student strike started it originally was just a couple of schools and then it snowballed it started at the theater academy. Then, we joined as the electrical engineering and pretty much all the schools very quickly joined on and 10 days after the start of the strike, we were able to organize a general strike where the whole country shut down for 2 hours. To send the message to the government that we can prove that we have general support for what we stand for.And in order to organize the general strike, you really needed to coordinate all this information, get it out, get it into the right hands. Early on we realized that kind of, again, there's a connection to Bitcoin.The problem really wasn't in trying to encrypt the communication on our network. We didn't really care if the secret service was reading us or not, because we were putting it out and posters and all that stuff. Anyway, the real challenge was to authenticate the information. We were worried that the state security would try to inject some provocative material in there to try to disrupt us by sending false information. And there, so authentication was, it was more of an issue than.And it's very similar to Bitcoin where all the transactions are visible to everyone. They're not encrypted, which address sent how much to what address, but the important part is authenticated. You cannot fake sending money. You cannot send money that you don't have.Jason Raznick: So then you make your way to America and you go to Yale. Did that change you? Did the Velvet Revolution shape the person you are today? Jakub Rehor: Yale was a wonderful experience. You are surrounded with a lot of bright, talented driven people and it's it was a great environment to encourage you to go and and pursue whatever interests you have.Jason Raznick: so from Yale, did you go right to your first job?Jakub Rehor: Yep. Went straight to McKinsey. Spent a couple of years at McKinsey doing consulting at various places. Jason Raznick: What kind of companies were you consulting for at McKinsey?Jakub Rehor: It was a very interesting batch of companies. My first client was a, it was an online service, actually, one of the first online services.This was before internet really caught on. So in those days you had the three companies, CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL, and they had a strategic issue. What do we do about this internet thing? Are we just gonna ignore it? Because we have much content on our own network or are we going to take this bet that over the long-term the content that's available on the internet is going to be better than what we have inside our network.And okay. If you decide to take that bet what does it mean? What kind of technology do we have to build? How do we connect our customers with that? How do we do our marketing? It was really interesting times. It was the early days of the internet.Jason Raznick: Is that something that you were striving towards? Jakub Rehor: Yeah. It's like basically whatever I did, I couldn't get away from the internet and the technology. It just follows you everywhere.Jason Raznick: Then you left McKinsey. And is that when you went to Marty Whitman's Third Avenue?Jakub Rehor: Not directly, at first I went to Sanford Bernstein. Then I went to Putnam Investments and then I ended up at Third Avenue. So I actually started doing value investing at Sanford Bernstein. I was an equity analyst and then worked my way up through being more senior, all the way to PM level at the Third Avenue.And so I spent a long time analyzing balance sheets, analyzing companies, analyzing businesses and making investments and running portfolio construction, running a managing risk and all that wonderful stuff.Jason Raznick: So at Third Avenue, we came all the way to PM. How many people were there at Third Avenue?Jakub Rehor: At the time it was about 100 people, about 20 people were in the research department or in the investment.Jason Raznick: What made you want to go from McKinsey to Wall Street?Jakub Rehor: The best part of working at McKinsey was doing the strategy, research and thinking longer term, the hardest part of working McKinsey was doing cost cutting.So one of the studies I was on was that a electrical utility where, they had a capital budget that it was getting a little bit out of control and you had to go in there and start cutting expenses. So you would go and identify the projects that needed to be shut down. And that's it's pretty stressful situation because you talk to people whose jobs are linked directly to these projects.So they know that if this project gets canned, they may have no future of the company. So they will, they try to fight really hard to preserve it. So you end up in this like hand to hand combat where you fighting against the people you're trying to help. It's quite stressful. And it wasn't all that enjoyable.Going into Wall Street and equity investing is very much like becoming a strategy specialist, right? You're thinking about longer-term issues. You spend a lot of time researching what's going on, but luckily you don't have to go there and actually do the hard things that are required to run a business.Jason Raznick: So then you start researching this crypto space. And is that when you're like your co-founders you got ready to create lucky Labs?Jakub Rehor: Yeah, that was pretty much around 2017, early 2018.So my co-founders: One of them came from investment banking and private equity. He was actually the CEO of Lehman Brothers, North American Equity Sales. So he's very familiar with that side of the business, with things like prime brokerage execution, operations, all that stuff. And the other co-founder is a technology specialist and he started his career working at JP Morgan, working on their foreign exchange trading desk.When it first became automated in the early 1990s and his latest project before we started Lucy Labs was he was a consultant for ISDA, which you may be familiar, it is the is the organization that regulates over the counter derivatives trading. And they had a long project stemming from the financial crisis in which they are forcing over the counter traders to put up margin.Historically OTC trades were done without a margin. Which led to problems when Lehman Brothers blew up. And the ISDA, a margin project went on for several years to create the methodology, to calculate margin requirements for any derivative ever traded anywhere in the world. So you can imagine that was a huge project. And our co-founder Rob was was the lead consultant.Jason Raznick: What are the first two things you did Lucy Labs? Jakub Rehor: The first thing was let's figure out what works here. This is a completely new market that we don't know anything about, which is very exciting. A little bit scary too. So we rolled up our sleeves and start figuring out how to do execution here, how to find investment opportunities, how to get historical data, how to put it all together and roll out to an investment strategy.And so we did that, we were a prop trading fund for three years, we were doing it with our own. And investigating as much as we could about the market.Jason Raznick: Are there that work in traditional finance, but don't that don't work in crypto?Jakub Rehor: So I would say even most things in traditional finance don't really work in crypto. So coming in as a value investor, there's really no value investing in crypto. It's very difficult to figure out intrinsic value for any of these projects. People have tried, we have certainly tried it's a very difficult problem.And I don't think that anyone has found a way to make it. What does work is a momentum-based strategies. So momentum is something that has worked on all sorts of assets over long periods of history. And so when we started looking at crypto, we had this theory that, it probably will be working in crypto as well.And we were pleasantly surprised how powerful the momentum factor is within crypto. It is it is actually quite surprisingly powerful. Crypto is very much driven by sentiment by retail trading and a momentum just captures that very well. Jason Raznick: And this volatility is macro volatility. What do you make of it in the crypto space? The past few weeks? Jakub Rehor: We've been in this space for 4 years and this is just par for course, this is actually not even particularly. Painful period in the sense that we've lived through the bear market of 2018, we've lived through the 2000, 20, early years in the bear market in 2018.Just to give you a little comparison, Ethereum was down 95%. From peak to trough in a space of less than a year. That's a very painful situation. Bitcoin was down over 80% peak to trough. So that's what a bear market in crypto looks like. Similarly in 2020 to March, 2020, we went through a 24 hour period in which Bitcoin dropped 50% in 24 hours.In crypto you have to deal with the volatility. Your models have to take that into account. You cannot be leveraged you, your risk management has to be, on top and you just have to expect that there is a, there is always something scary happening.Jason Raznick: How do you guys go about trading in crypto? Jakub Rehor: So we do a bunch of things, so I can describe a few of those things.Let's talk about the momentum trading. We have a pretty active program in which we take long positions in crypto coins when momentum is positive and we go to cash when momentum turns negative. You look at the recent historical performance and in general, there is an autocorrelation of performance. So things in crypto that have gone up recently have a tendency to keep going up and things that have gone down recently have a tendency to go down. So that's the bet you want to be taking. The downside is you will miss the turning point. So when things start bouncing off a bottom or an instinct, things start rolling at the top.You're going to miss that, but that's actually over the long-term, that's a price that's beneficial to pay. So we would when there is a bear market in crypto thing, things start selling off, we will generally go into cash. And that's certainly what we've been doing. Most of this year in that our models started putting us into cash towards the end of last year, towards the beginning of this year.And we were almost completely in cash for the past month or so.And you don't necessarily even need a very elaborate models, any sort of trend model will tell you to get out of the market over the past month or so.Jason Raznick: Okay. So then how do you know when to get in? Jakub Rehor: You wait, you miss the bottom. You see the market turning around, you see the price momentum picking up, and then you jump back on with the expectation that you will probably get in 10 or 15% above the bottom price. But again, in the longterm, that's a very good trade-off to take.Jason Raznick: So are you guys getting back in now?Jakub Rehor: No, we're still waiting for things to stabilize.Jason Raznick: When do you think that will be? Jakub Rehor: One thing I've learned is not to try to predict the markets. it's way too hard. So I, I have no idea when this will turn is there more downside it's possible? Again, in 2018, we've seen 85 to 90% drawdowns in crypto. So it's certainly possible is that what's going to happen? I have no idea. We're going to, we're going to let our models tell us when to get in.Jason Raznick: Are you in straight cash or are you doing stable coins? How do you handle that? Jakub Rehor: There are a number of things you can do in the crypto market if you want to be market neutral. There are strategies that you can do to generate returns. So I can mention a few of them.So one is a trade in crypto that does have a counterpart in traditional markets. And it's called a Basis Trade. The idea here is you may have a derivative, let's say a future that's trading at a different price from the underlying, so you can have a future on Bitcoin trading at a premium to the spot price of Bitcoin.And a simple trade is you can go short the future. You can buy the underlying spot and at the future expiration, that gap is going to close. And you're going to collect that spread. So that's the traditional basis trade that works in traditional markets. People do this in US treasuries and commodities and all sorts of things. But it also works in crypto and in crypto, there's actually a slightly, different version of this.The dominant product in crypto trading is a Perpetual Swap, which looks a little bit like a future, but it has no expiration. And the way the mechanism works is that when there is a difference between the derivative price and the underlying price, there's a funding rate that goes from one side to the other.When the derivative is more expensive than the spot, the people who are long are paying people who are short. So you can put a short position in the perpetual swap. You can put a long position in the spot and collect the funding rates. And that's a trait that historically has been providing returns of about 10% to 15% per year. There are periods when it makes more money than that. When there is a lot of speculative excitement and speculative mania we have seen it book 30%, 40% annualized. And then there are times when people are running away from the market and you will be generating maybe 0% or low single digits.Jason Raznick: I personally put some money in stable coins, USDC right? What you were describing is too complicated for me, I won't understand.Jakub Rehor: Stable coins is a safe place to be when things start falling apart. But of course, stable coins, it's a minefield as well. There are multiple kinds of stable coins. There's the very simple kind of, that works like a money market fund in traditional finance. There it's a fully backed by reserves and the stable coin is just a token. It works like a share in the underlying fund. And the fund hopefully is fully collateralized and it always has a 100% of its assets in cash or cash like products. So USDC is a great example of that, right? That's a that's a stable coin that's fully backed.Jason Raznick: Would you say USDC is very safe?Jakub Rehor: I would. I would put also USDT with USDC. So people think that USDT is an algorithmic stable coin, but it's not. It's exactly the same idea as USDC. They are also backed by reserves. they started disclosing their reserves and the composition of their reserves. So you can look at their statements and figure out what. How well back they are and how much confidence you can have in them. So USDT is actually a fully backed stable coin and it's not subject to the same problem that the algorithmic stable coins have.Algorithmic stable coins are completely different. And there are really two kinds. You could imagine a situation where you do not have US dollar reserves backing you, but you can have crypto reserves backing the dollar peg value of your stable coin.Because crypto is so volatile. What you need to have is you need to be over collateralized, right? If you're issuing $1 worth of stable coins, you probably want to have at least $2 worth of crypto backing you because if crypto falls down 50% you are still fully backed.So over collateralized, stable coins are, they're not necessarily that great because crypto can fall more than 50%, but at least it's a reasonable stab at approaching this problem. There's a whole, another class of algorithmic stable coins that are under collateralized. So they issue $1 worth of liabilities and they have less than $1 worth of assets, and that is crazy stuff. And those are bound to blow up. And Terra USD was definitely one of those where they were under collateralized. They issued billions of dollars worth of the pegged stable coin. And the mechanism that they had was saying if a lot of people come in and try to convert to US Dollar at parody, we have these other things that that we can print unlimited amounts off, and we're going to print this thing and we're going to sell it. And that way we'll generate the value for the stable coin, which obviously is insane because when you have a run on the bank when you have a run on the stable coin, the value of the stuff that you are printing is starting to collapse so you have to keep printing more and more to generate the same amount of value. And you end up diluting that second asset to zero and you end up breaking the peg. Terra USD is not the first one where it happened. There was a bunch of other ones in the past. It is absolutely amazing to me that people keep falling for this. But here we are, people put tens of billions of dollars into this.Jason Raznick: What do you think got people so into it? Jakub Rehor: There's the old saying in the markets, "Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered." People just got really piggish. These 20% yields sound amazing.I think that a lot of people did understand that these yields are unsustainable and they are they were funded by the VC investors or the launch of funds that that Luna the project behind the stable coins raised.So they understood that these 20% yields wouldn't last, but they thought, I'll just collect them for as long as I can and get out. And, as we know, getting out is the hard part.Jason Raznick: Getting out is the hard part. And so when you're in cash, do you guys do just say "Hey, I'm going to buy some USDC"?Jakub Rehor: Sure, we do that. Jason Raznick: What about Terra Luna?Jakub Rehor: No, forget it. Nothing algorithmic. We wouldn't feel comfortable with that.There is actually an interesting innovation going on, so I would say. There is one potential new kind of algorithmic stable coin. That is interesting to watch. It's tiny. It's still an experiment. We'll see if the experiment is successful or not. But the idea is similar to what I just described about the basis trade, right? So when you have a basis trade, you sell a derivative and you buy the underlying spot. What do you actually generate is like a synthetic stable coin. You create a synthetic dollar that. And there are people out there who are trying to generate to create synthetic dollars exactly. By doing this, by putting these offsetting positions on the derivatives and the spot markets, and they're doing it on decentralized exchanges. So that is an interesting idea because it's not really subject to the same risk that the traditional algorithmic stable coins are because even in Iran, you should be able to liquidate both sides and and be able to defend the peg.Now. It's still early days. There's only, I think few million dollars experimenting with this approach. And a lot of this depends on the infrastructure outside of these folks control. If you are issuing a stable coin like that, you need fairly liquid markets in the derivatives that you use to back this up, those markets have to provide a 24 / 7 availability. You have to be able to withdraw money fairly quickly. So the infrastructure really needs to be there. And the danger is that we are still too early and the infrastructure cannot support that. But it's a very interesting.Jason Raznick: And are you guys trying to get involved with these experiments or are you just watching it? Jakub Rehor: We're watching at this point and cheering on from the sidelines.The whole crypto space is a thousand experiments right now.Jason Raznick: Do you think there should be more regulation in the crypto space? Jakub Rehor: Regulation is coming, there is no doubt about it. Regulation makes sense when the market is a little bit more mature and it becomes obvious what is the right thing to do and what is not the right thing to do.Regulators are not really equipped to know upfront. What is a good idea and what is a bad idea. And right now, you see a lot of the regulators around the world, including the US stepping back and trying to figure out what the heck is going on. What should we allow? What should we not allow? And that allows the space to do a lot of experimentation and sort of by learning, we're going to discover what is a good idea and what we should just. Let it happen again.I think algorithmic stable coins is a very dangerous idea and we're getting a lot of evidence for that. And I think the regulation is going to clamp down on that. At the same time, fully backed, reserved stable coins are sailing through this crisis pretty well and I think the regulation again should reflect that and encourage that sort of product as opposed to the more algorithmic ones.Jason Raznick: Who is Lucy? Jakub Rehor: Our CTO came up with that. There was a fairly famous fossil form of the early human, like before humans really evolved to become modern humans. And it's so it's it hearkens to that. It's like early steps in this new world that is being that is developing in front of us.Jason Raznick:What else does Lucy Labs do? Jakub Rehor: So we have a blog on Medium we just launched, a blog talking about crypto products. The first post specifically talks about perpetual swaps. The history of them. It's a product that's unique to crypto doesn't really have an exact equivalent in traditional finance. So we spend a little bit of time explaining how it works and what are the tricky things to be aware of working with that. And we're really enjoying that. So I think we'll be doing a lot more to have that.Jason Raznick: What are perpetual swaps? Jakub Rehor: So perpetual swaps it's super interesting. It's a version of a future. Traditional futures of an expiration. So usually every three months or so the future expires and it's settled either with the underlying or it gets settled in cash. And when the crypto exchanges started taking off, that was the product that they offered and they discovered that retail investors actually had a real trouble.managing Futures, the managing the expirations. People would forget that, third, Friday in June or whatever is the expiration date. And they would log into their account once every two weeks. And one day they would log into their account and their position was gone and they will be like, oh my God, what's happening.The traditional futures turned out to be not a great fit for crypto. So a number of exchanges started experimenting and one of them called Bitmax which was based in Hong Kong in those days they played with different things. They tried to shorten the futures to have expiration every 48 hours then every 24 hours. And finally they decided what if we never expire this thing? Just make it perpetual. Then the issue you have, how do you make sure that the swap price doesn't drift away completely from the underlying, if you don't have expiration that will force those two prices to converge, how do you make sure they don't just, it just doesn't walk off into space.And the innovation they came up with is they first started thinking of referencing some outside interest rate that would and you were to charge the people who were on the wrong side of the trade. So if the future was too expensive they would charge people who were long. And the question is, how do you set an interest rate in crypto, like what is the Bitcoin interest rate? There's really no good answer for that. So they decided let's just generate it from the price itself. Let's just look at the difference between the price of the swap and the price of the underlying. And let's charge that difference.That will force people who are long to be paying a lot of money and hopefully it will incentivize them to close the position and sell the long position, which will force it back to the equilibrium price. And when they first came up with that, nobody knew if it would work or not. It was a real experiment. It was a kind of stab in the dark. And in the first 6 months, it was pretty hairy. The prices were all over the place. The swap price was drifting away from their underlying and it was a little bit chaotic, but after about six months ARPS figured out how to play this game and over the past 2 or 3 years, that market has really matured and it became the predominant way of trading crypto outside of the US. The perpetual swap markets are anywhere on the order of 5 to 10 times greater than the underlying spot markets.Jason Raznick: One of the things you mentioned earlier with Marty Whitman, you are an investigator and you're looking for opportunities to companies and you can value, invest and see stuff that people aren't seeing. Is this similar to that?Jakub Rehor: It's very similar. It's again, you're being a detective and you constantly ask questions like what's going on and why? The way we really wrapped our head around the perpetual swaps was we were taking regular positions in the spot markets, and then we saw liquidity as much better in the perpetual swap so why not start trading that we started trading that. We're getting hit with these funding costs. And we're like, oh, we hate paying these funding rates. Hear me out. What if we start collecting them instead? How would you go about it? And very quickly we figured out, okay, you can create the synthetic position and do this.And yeah, you stay, you learn by doing. The way you discover these opportunities, you are active in the space. You trade, you do experiments and you discover things that you didn't realize were happening and you'll find new opportunities all the time.And we'll help amplify your blog and get people to get the word out.Jason Raznick: What advice do you have for crypto investors?Jakub Rehor: I would say with retail investors, crypto is a very risky, very volatile asset space. You do want to be in it longer term, but be aware that these 80% drawdowns are happening and are likely to happen for the foreseeable future.So position sizing is the most important thing you need to worry about. If things get really tough. Can I survive this, don't put on too big a position and definitely do not put on leverage. Retail investors tend to get in trouble with too much leverage on their positions.But longer term. Crypto is very likely to be around for a long time. And learning about it is best done by trading and being active in the market. Be there and trade it. But keep it Small enough that you can afford the pain of the downturn, similar to what we're seeing today.for institutional investor, my advice is slightly different. I would still say you should be experimenting in this market. The interesting thing is the infrastructure for trading that's being built in crypto markets is, I would say a hundred years ahead of what's in the traditional markets that you are used to, the efficiency and effectiveness of the trading platforms is going to absolutely steamroll, the traditional trading venues.And I would recommend to start learning about how things work there so that when it happens, you'll be prepared. I'll give you an example, the huge difference between a traditional infrastructure and the crypto infrastructure in traditional infrastructure. Let's say you trade futures and the way you to say you're trading futures on wheat, for example.So you have to put up a margin and at the end of each day, your position is marked to market and the exchange calculates any additional margin that's needed. And you have until the next morning to come up with the cash to keep the position. OIn that period between the calculation of the margin and depositing of the cash, the exchanges that.If you actually go bankrupt, the exchange may not be able to collect. And, they have a fund to insure them against that. But it is a real business risk for the exchange, which is why they set the margins very high. To live with having that risk on their balance sheet.So the size of the margin is a function of the payment cycle and the settlement cycle. In traditional finance, the settlement cycle has to be at least 24 hours because the traditional payment rails take 24 hours to get, your payment from your bank to the exchange or the broker.So by nature, they cannot offer high leverage in the products that they. Just because of the settlement counterparty risk issue.You go to crypto exchanges and you realize that they have the recalculate, the margins at a much higher frequency. The exchange. I mentioned BitMax, actually, they started recalculating margin on every tick.So every trade happens, they go and go through a million accounts that they have and recalculate the margin requirements immediately. So they don't have that 24 hour delay for them to be at risk, they can liquidate positions much faster than that. Because of that they can lower their margin requirements. And some of these guys used to offer a 100 times leverage. Thankfully they reduced that now, but you can still get 20 to 25 times leverage on your crypto positions. The exchanges can afford to do that without putting themselves at risk because of this much faster settlement cycle that they have available.Now, if you are an institutional trader and you doing things like hedging, you're doing things like arbitrage. Where do you want to execute? You obviously want to execute at the place with lower margin requirements because you'll have a better capital efficiency. You'll have a higher return on capital.So liquidity is likely to stay at these crypto exchanges that have the newer techniques. And we're seeing that clearly in, for example, the Bitcoin futures market. CME rolled out its Bitcoin futures product in December, 2017. So it's four years now. And they only have about 5% market share in global Bitcoin futures trading, which is amazing.CME is leading venue for derivatives trading. How come they cannot get more market share than that? And the response is because of the, how slow their settlement cycle is. They are requiring 35% margin for any Bitcoin position while the crypto exchanges, they may ask for 3 to 5% margin for the same position.So again, as an institutional investor, you'll be better off trading on these new exchanges.Now these guys, the crypto exchanges are coming into the US so right now, there is a hearing in front of the Congress Senate Agriculture Committee. And and there is a application with the CFTC in which FTX, which is one of the leading crypto exchanges is trying to bring this 24/ 7 trading in commodities with instant margin calculation, and an instant settlement so T plus 0 seconds. If this gets approved and really, there's no reason why it shouldn't be it needs to work its way through the regulatory process, but if this gets approved and you will get a fully regulated exchange with these parameters, can you imagine what that's going to do with people like CME?The reason CME is doing things this way is that's how you did it in 1868. When you were started, when you literally had a guy, in the morning, run to the bank with a check. And deposited with the clerk on the exchange at 7:30 AM. And if the check wasn't there by 8:30 AM, the positions would be liquidated that's and it's baked into all of their systems.They are, it will not be easy for them to upgrade their system to be able to compete with this.Jason Raznick: Do you personally buy Bitcoin or were you an early investor in Bitcoin? Jakub Rehor: Oh yeah, way too early. I bought my first Bitcoin back in 2013 or something like that. It was $14. I was down 80% within a month of my purchase. So yeah, it was a small amount of money.Jason Raznick: Do you have a favorite crypto?Jakub Rehor: I'm still partial of the Bitcoin, my first love.Jason Raznick: The last one is what's your worst or your first job? That's a question I always ask.Jakub Rehor: I did all sorts of things. I painted houses. I work in the fields. I worked in bakeries. So it's a very wide range of things and honestly, they're all fine. I think any job is what you make from it. What you make of it. You can learn a lot of from just painting a house.Jason Raznick: And if people want to check you out, where should they go?Jakub Rehor: We are at https://lucylabs.io/.Jason Raznick: Thank you for coming on the RazReport. We appreciate it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-raz-report/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
This week, we bring it on down to goblin town in an action-packed chapter of The Hobbit, Under Hill and Over Hill. What will happen when Bilbo and company encounter the very mean, very bad Goblin King? That's for Gandalf to know and you to find out.Subscribe or follow along on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Show your support for the podcast by tossing a coin at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod. Follow us on Instagram. Read along with us by picking up The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.All episodes of our recap of Season 1 and 2 of The Witcher on Netflix and our chapter-by-chapter recap of The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski are available now. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. Additional audio is Ave Maria as performed by Kricketune by DuckieBubbles.
This week, we visit the fair valley of Rivendell, home of elves and Elrond as we recap Chapter 3 of The Hobbit, A Short Rest. We learn all about moon letters, the storied relationship between dwarves and elves, and where all of Elrond's good fainting couches are.Subscribe or follow along on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Show your support for the podcast by tossing a coin at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod. Follow us on Instagram. Read along with us by picking up The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.All episodes of our recap of Season 1 and 2 of The Witcher on Netflix and our chapter-by-chapter recap of The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski are available now. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. Additional audio is Ave Maria as performed by Kricketune by DuckieBubbles.
This week, we set off with burglar Bilbo and the dwarves and get into some minor troll-related trouble. Plus, Gandalf disappears, just when he would have been most useful – and not for the last time. Subscribe or follow along on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Show your support for the podcast by tossing a coin at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod. Follow us on Instagram. Read along with us by picking up The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.All episodes of our recap of Season 1 and 2 of The Witcher on Netflix and our chapter-by-chapter recap of The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski are available now. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy.
Join us as we embark on an unexpected journey that all begins with an unassuming hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. Along the way, we'll encounter dispossessed rulers, secret mountain passages, and a fearsome dragon named Smaug. Get your riding cloaks on and we'll away 'er break of day. Subscribe or follow along on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher so you never miss an episode. And if you really like us, review us on Apple Podcasts! Show your support for the podcast by tossing a coin at buymeacoffee.com/midnightpod. Follow us on Instagram.All episodes of our recap of Season 1 and 2 of The Witcher on Netflix and our chapter-by-chapter recap of The Witcher book series by Andrzej Sapkowski are available now. Theme song for Midnight Book Club is Everyone is Happy Here by Meavy Boy. Other music is Concerning Hobbits by Howard Shore.
In “Guard God's Heart”, Rodney shares that not only the world, but Christians in the Church can offend, and grieve the Holy Spirit. Are you guarding God's heart? oIn light of all God has done for us, when we live beneath the life God has intended for us it breaks God's heart. Paul challenges the church to throw off our old sinful nature, like dirty clothes. Let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. We are to put on the new nature of Christ, clothing ourselves in righteousness. Every time we sin or behave beneath the life God has intended for us, we trash our temple – God's temple. We break God's heart when we live beneath the life Jesus intends for us to live. Our response to the promptings of the Holy Spirit is related to how much we love the Holy Spirit. Our response can deepen or create distance in our relationship. If you listen, you might hear the Spirit trying to talk to you about your life. What steps are you willing to take to guard the Holy Spirit's heart from being hurt?
OIn this super l,ong episode the Full GameBrew Crew returns for their annual 24-Hour Charity Stream Podcast! Listen As they discuss everything under the sun from new years resolutions to what ius the best game for a 2 year our to play! Have a Listen and if you want to hang out remember to join the discord!
Stefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out! Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps Guest: Stefano Maffulli Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Compiler - FLOSS
Stefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out! Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps Guest: Stefano Maffulli Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Compiler - FLOSS
Stefano Maffulli joins Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps on this episode of FLOSS Weekly. Phipps does double duty as guest as well as co-host. It's all about the Open Source Initiative, the custodians of what exactly counts as Open Source. That may seem like a solved problem, but cloud computing, machine learning, and Standard Essential Patents present new challenges to face. We talk about these topics and more, so check it out! Hosts: Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps Guest: Stefano Maffulli Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Compiler - FLOSS
Now that the F1 season is done and dusted, it's time for the LB boys to review the predictions we made ahead of the first race - and see just how wrong they were! OIN our Discord: https://discord.gg/dQJdu2SbAmSUPPORT our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latebrakingTWEET us @LBrakingSUBSCRIBE to our podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Now that the F1 season is done and dusted, it's time for the LB boys to review the predictions we made ahead of the first race - and see just how wrong they were! OIN our Discord: https://discord.gg/dQJdu2SbAmSUPPORT our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/latebrakingTWEET us @LBrakingSUBSCRIBE to our podcast!
Inside Track is a series of podcasts and videos presented by movers and shakers in the world of cryptocurrency. The goal of Inside Track is to educate the listener in various topics, from bitcoin to projects to watch out for, from the future of Ethereum to NFTs, from DeFi to the next big thing in cryptocurrency. Inside Track are short bite sized shows presented by people who have developed cryptocurrency projects and are hands on in the industry. They are the best people to learn from.This episode is presented by Daniel Kwak marketing director of Oin Finance.Oin is one of the first DeFi platforms to provide liquidity mining and loans on other top platforms through cross-chain functionality. Daniel has an in-depth knowledge of staking and yield farming and shares that expertise with us here.Are high yields sustainable? How are regulatory challenges going to effect DeFi and staking in particular? and, what are some of the best platforms in the sector?
Intrigued Full Effect: Curious Cases, Disappearances and Other Stuff
OIn this season 4 premiere episode #42 of Intrigued Full Effect I talk to Fidencio Minjares the father of Veronica Reyes-Diaz who vanished on January 17, 2020 from her home in Dover, Florida a town outside of Tampa. Fidencio says his daughter went out for a fun night with a childhood friend came home and was last seen going to her SUV after getting home and putting her kids to bed. This is one of a couple of strange disappearances in the area during that time in 2020. If you have information call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200.
John Callen is a NZ Actor who has been acting for over 40 years. He is most well known for playing Oin in the Hobbit. #thehobbit #oin #peterjackson SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook - John Callen TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Intro 00:45 - Feeling Old Well Shooting The Hobbit/Weight Of Dwarf Suits 03:23 - Getting A Hernia While Shooting The Hobbit 06:19 - Scottish Accent For Audition/Auditioning For Smaug 07:26 - John Redoes His Smaug Audition Voice 08:15 - Voice Acting Got John Into The Industry/Time As A Journalist 11:44 - What Peter Jackson Is Like/LOTR's Affect On NZ Film/TV Industry 16:28 - John Is For A Union In NZ/Hobbit Law 21:51 - Different Views On Hobbit Law/Camaraderie Of Actors On Set 23:42 - Debate Over The Hobbit Law/John's Secret Spy/ 27:20 - John's Experience On Set/Jed Brophy 29:58 - Having To Wait Around On Set/Getting Free Wine 31:59 - What John Would Do While Waiting Around To Be Used 34:23 - Adam Brown/How John Prevented Rashes From Dwarvf Beards 35:39 - Hair For Dwarves Was From Yaks/Food Getting Stuck In The Beard 37:58 - John's Arthritis/Dwarf Hands 40:34 - Beorn's House Set/Set Design 42:54 - Bag End Shoot Between The Dwarves And Gandalf/Ian McKellen Story 45:34 - John Talks Working With Martin Freeman, Billy Connolly and Ian McKellen 48:57 - John Dealing With An Unprofessional Actor While Directing Shortland Street 51:03 - Difference Between Stage Vs Film/TV 53:16 - John's Directing Style/Shortland Street Actor Requirements 55:20 - Time Constraints 57:10 - Comparing Directing Style To Peter Jackson's 58:39 - Peter Jackson's Plans Sometimes Not Coming To Fruition/Lake Town Set Change 1:00:00 - Producing/Story Of Producer Losing Everything 1:04:25 - Unions Vs Non Unions 1:05:26 - Working On The Hobbit Was An Amazing Experience 1:06:41 - Voice Acting On A Star Wars Game 1:09:18 - John Took A Drama School To Voice Acting Sessions 1:10:14 - Doing Audio Books For The Blind 1:11:10 - Where To Follow John Callen
A stranger rides into town... In the tradition oIn the tradition of the classic lone private investigators who right wrongs wherever they go, Mike Donohue is writing the Max Strong series.f the classic lone private investigators who right wrongs wherever they go, Mike Donohue is writing the Max Strong series. Mike reads to us from book 5 in the series, Burn the Night, and we talk about the research he does in the various locations Max goes to and why he finds himself circling back to Max's origins in the next book in the series that he's writing now. If you love Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, or the Spenser series from the late-great Robert B. Parker, you're going to love Max Strong. A reviewer described Max as 'the guy who doesn't have to help, but needs to' and I think that's the perfect summation of this type of hero. Mike has generously offered It's a Mystery podcast listeners a free audio called How to Buy a Shovel. It's a stand-alone short mystery story. Click here to get your copy. If you're looking for new books and authors I've got a treat for you. There are over 70 mystery novels available for you to try - for free! - when you go to:alexandraamor.com/march21 (This offer expires March 31, 2021 so head over there today to take advantage.) Today's show is supported by my patrons at Patreon. Thank you! When you become a patron for as little as $1 a month you receive a short mystery story each and every month. And the rewards for those who love mystery stories go up from there! Learn more and become a part of my community of readers at www.Patreon.com/alexandraamor This week's mystery author Mike Donohue writes crime fiction and suspense novels. His latest release, Burn the Night, is the fifth book in the popular Max Strong thriller series. Born in New Jersey but raised in New England, Mike now lives outside Boston with his wife, two kids, and Dashiell Hammett. Dash is the family dog. When he’s not writing, Mike enjoys triathlons, making pizza, and reading. To learn more about Mike and all his books visit MikeDonohueBooks.com Press play (above) to listen to the show, or read the transcript below. Remember you can also subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts. And listen on Stitcher, Android, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, and Spotify. Excerpt from Burn the Night Max had merged onto the highway, headed back downtown, when he realized what had happened. He sighed, checked his mirrors, and got off at the next exit. He’d dropped the three women off at an old Victorian in Manayunk. It was clear the three were drunk when he picked them up outside the bar, but only one of the three seemed very drunk. The fare from Center City was high enough that Max thought it was worth the risk that he’d be cleaning up vomit before he made the address. All three also seemed very young and it was getting late. He let them in the car. The drunkest girl had been predictably obnoxious and, given the increasingly sour faces of her friends as the trip progressed, Max guessed she was getting on their nerves, too. But, by the time he pulled up outside the slightly dilapidated, pink and white gingerbread on Carson, she’d kept down whatever she ate and drank that night. If it came up again, it would soon be someone else’s problem. He’d stayed and watched as her friends supported the woman up the steep set of stairs onto the house’s sagging front porch and navigated her inside. It was only now, approaching the city again from the northwest on 76E, with the green expanse of treetops from Fairmont Park to his right, that he realized she hadn’t kept it all in. She’d urinated all over the back seat. Max could almost see the statue of old Billy Penn shaking his head from atop City Hall at Max’s naivete. It explained the friends’ demeanors. With the drunk girl sandwiched in the middle, it must have gotten on both of them. At least he had their address, their actual address,
Wayne and Crozier back at it on this New Year's Eve to deliver news on Adidas new Vegan Mushroom sneakers, Garcetti's push to keep Angelenos at home for NYE, and a Christian singer takes to Skid Row.
The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6. Plus, our thoughts on Apple's seeming abandoning of CUPS, the latest and greatest open source podcast player, and an important show update.
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On today’s episode of Solutions for Seniors I’ll be talking about Alzheimer’s disease and communicating with our loved ones. One of the challenges we face caring for our loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease is effectively communicating with them. In an effort to make communication go more smoothly, it helps to understand what the challenges are, and then move forward with solutions that help both you and your loved one. Once we understand the challenge, it can be easier to communicate with your loved one. We need to realize what they are experiencing is a normal part of the disease, and not them. Common Communication Changes with Alzheimer’s Disease· Inability to name objects· Difficulty in finding the correct word for objects, places or people· Inability to recognize a word or phrase· Using a general term instead of specific words and descriptions are vague· Becoming stuck on ideas or words and repeating them over and over· Easily losing their train of thought· Using inappropriatenlanguage during conversation· Increasingly poor written word comprehension· Gradual loss of writing ability· Combining languages or returning to native language· Decreasing levels of speech and use of nonsense syllables· Reliance on gestures rather than speech Studies show that people with Alzheimer’s disease retain a strong desire to communicate, despite their challenges.Simplifying Communication with our loved one with Alzheimer’s Disease· Patience· Show your interest in the subject· Offer comfort and reassurance· Listen for a response· Avoid criticizing, correcting or finishing their thoughts· Avoid arguing· Offer a guess as to what they need· Limit distractions· Encourage non-verbal communication· Be calm and supportive· Focus on feelings, not facts· Pay attention to your tone· Identify yourself and address the elder by name· Speak slowly and clearly· Use short, simple, familiar words and short sentences· Ask one question at a time· Allow enough time for a response· Avoid pronouns and negative statements· Use non-verbal communication· Offer assistance as needed· Be flexible and understanding I have worked with many clients who had Alzheimer’s disease I have used all of these techniques in communicating with my clients and found them to be useful. As an outsider, it can be easier to communicate with someone with Alzheimer’s disease, versus their family who knew the person they were and seeing them struggle is difficult to cope with. Hopefully, these suggestions will make communication easier for your family.Thank you for joining me this week while I talked about communication with our loved ones suffering with Alzhiemers. Oin me next week for another episode on a common challenge we all face as our loved ones age. Stay safe and well.
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Learn about Unified Patents hereCheck out Unified Patents Objective PAtent Landscape OPAL toolRead the Independent economic study for HEVC royaltiesShawn Ambwani LinkedIn profileRelated episode: VVC, HEVC & other MPEG codec standardsThe Video Insiders LinkedIn Group is where thousands of your peers are discussing the latest video technology news and sharing best practices. Click here to join --------------------------------------Would you like to be a guest on the show? Email: thevideoinsiders@beamr.comLearn more about Beamr-------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT (edited slightly for readability)Narrator: 00:00 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 codec nerd and a marketing guy who knows what I-frames and macro blocks are. Here are your hosts, Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 00:19 Well, welcome back to The Video Insiders. Dror, how you doing today? I'm doing great. How are you Mark? I am doing awesome. As always. I am super pleased to welcome Shawn Ambwani who is co-founder of Unified Patents and Shawn is gonna tell us all about what Unified Patents does and we're going to dive into, you know, just a really tremendous discussion. But Shawn, Welcome to the podcast! Shawn Ambwani: 00:46 Hey guys. Thanks Mark. Thanks for, for allowing me to participate on your wonderful podcast. I look at this as similar to 'All Things Considered' and 'How I built this', two of my favorite podcasts. Mark Donnigan: 01:01 Those are awesome podcasts by the way. What an honor? Yeah. Wow. The level that I expect you guys to be at in traffic very shortly. That's right. Well, we hope so to. Well, why don't you introduce yourself you know, and give us a quick snapshot of your background and then let's let's hear about what Unified Patents is doing. Shawn Ambwani: 01:23 It's kind of a, I have an interesting I mean some might say not so interesting, but I think it's interesting background related to this area since, you know, the first startup that I did and the second one were all related to MPEG4. So I co-founded a company called Envivio, which way back when was actually one of the original MPEG4 companies when they just had simple profile actually out there doing encoders and decoders. And then I went to a Korean company called NexStreaming, which actually still exists, which is doing encoders as well, but more for the mobile space and decoders. So it's an area I'm quite familiar with. I wasn't really being an attorney back then. Now I'm kind of more of an attorney than I was back then, but I tried to avoid being an attorney as much as possible in general. Shawn Ambwani: 02:16 And basically I helped co-found a company called Unified Patents. And what unified patents does is it gets contributions from member companies as well as it allows small companies to join for free and they participate in joining what we call zones. And these different zones are intended to protect against what we consider unsubstantiated or invalid patent assertions. And the goal of these zones is to deter those from occurring in the first place. So if you imagine the kind of a technology area, let it be content or let it be video codec in this case or other things as having a bunch of companies that have a common interest in maintaining, you know, patents and ensuring patents that are asserted in that space are valid, which means that no one invented the idea beforehand. And also that it's fairly priced and you know, people are explaining the rationale behind what they're doing and they're not basically just attempting to get people to settle out, not because the assertions are valid or good, but simply because the cost of litigation is so high when it comes to patents. Shawn Ambwani: 03:35 And we want to deter that type of activity because there's been a lot of investment in that activity so far. In fact, most litigation's are by NPE's and so Unified started by doing those zones and, and, and we've have a bunch of them now. We just launched an open source zone in fact, but with you know, Linux foundation and OIN and IBM and others and the video codec zone was something that we were thinking about for a long time. It's something that I'm very familiar with from my past dealings with MPEG LA and other pools. And it was a big issue I think. And it has been a constant issue, which is how do you deal with multiple pools or multiple people asking for money in a standard? How do you deal with the pricing of it? Especially if you're smaller entities and you don't have the information that may be larger companies might have. Shawn Ambwani: 04:26 How do you deal with that and how do you deal with all the invalid assertions that are being done or declarations that occur in this area? How do you figure out who you have to pay? And how much you have to pay. All these add a level of complexity to deploying these standards, which makes adoption harder and creates the uncertainty that causes people to go to proprietary solutions, which I think is a negative in the end. So that's why Unified Patents really created this area and created the video codec zone. And basically we've been pretty, I think, successful so far now actually going through and doing each one of the things we said we were going to do. Dror Gill: 05:06 So what, what are those things basically when you set up a zone and, and want to start finding those patterns that may be invalid how do you go about doing that? What is the process? Shawn Ambwani: 05:18 Yeah, so I mean there's two major things in the SEP zones that it's not, it's not just about finding invalid patents, although I can tell you it's relatively easy to find invalid patents in any of these zones. That's not a difficulty. The hard part is figuring out which ones to go to or which ones are going to be the most interesting to go after. And that takes a lot of art. Essentially identifying them, finding out good prior art that we feel comfortable with, hiring good counsel. There's all kinds of weighing mechanisms that go into it, who the entity is, how it came about, how old the patents are, where it came from. All of these variables go into that kind of equation of when we decide. What's kind of unique about the way we work is we work independently of our members, so our members are funding these activities and some join for free. Shawn Ambwani: 06:11 So we have a number of members of the video codecs and we use all this money and information in our activities to basically go back and decide what to do, with the objective of deterring you know, what we consider bad assertions in this space. And then that's one part of it. The other part of it is that SEP's are all about, you know, an area called FRAND, fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory. And part of all of that involves negotiation. And so what we provide are tools to allow companies to negotiate we think in a fair and more transparent way to licensors as to pricing. But also explaining why the pricing is the way it is. Because one of the problems that we've had in the big picture is that a lot of these licensors have been asking for money, whether their own pools, whether outside of pools, whatever. Shawn Ambwani: 07:12 But no one can really explain why the price is what it is. And I think that leads to a lot of people to just stop paying or stop wanting to get into licensing discussions. And that's not beneficial for the market. And so by explaining how the price comes out the way it is and providing a very, we consider, solid methodology for it, it allows our members but also licensors to better understand who owns what and how much value is in the standard. So what they should reasonably expect to get for that technology and how much licensees reasonably should expect to pay in order to deploy the technology. Mark Donnigan: 07:55 Now my question, you know, Shawn is when you are getting into these conversations with the parties or party that, you know, owns this IP and I'm speaking more around sort of the pricing and the model and that sort of thing. Are you then...is that information available to your members or is it more that you're sort of helping facilitate, helping bring some rationality, you know, so that then that body can turn around and make public: "Hey, great news!" We've decided that all digitally distributed content doesn't carry, you know, a royalty cost. What exactly, I guess what my question is, what exactly is, is your role then in informing the market? Shawn Ambwani: 08:40 I think that, well, I mean there's a number of things to talk about, but what's I think most important is that we, you know, we don't know necessarily what the right price is. We hired an outside economist to look into that and he came back with a pricing range in you know, a report that we gave the highlights too and there was some press over and it's on our website but you can also look at it through a number of particles and basically he came back with a price of between 8 cents and 28 cents I believe if I'm accurate. Is what he believed the estimate to be for the value of the technology including everything. And it ranged based on I think the device and like other factors and stuff like that. Now that high level information we provided publicly and in fact we provided the information on who made the report when it was created and what it was based on. Shawn Ambwani: 09:38 And we even provided kind of the overall methodology of how it was done, which is basically being used at a very high level. They used MPEG LA's AVC license as the starting point or the foundation for deciding what HEVC in this case, which is what he was looking at, pricing should be based on his expert analysis. And then he modified that based on switching costs based on the cost of bandwidth, the cost of storage and quality and other factors basically that are valuable. So, that's where we went. Now, what's important to understand is that we published that information so anyone could take a look at the, at the high level. And the methodology pretty much tells you the roadmap of where we started and how we ended up where we are. The other part is how do you decide who you have to pay and how much each person gets. Even assuming that you figure out that, let's say it's 25 cents, that you think the royalty rate should be for it. And I'm not saying that's the number, but everyone can decide on whatever number they feel comfortable. Our expert created this report and we published it. Other people can create other reports and I'm sure they have their own kind of versions. But what's important for us is that, you know, people should explain why they came out with their pricing. And unfortunately in pools and licensing organizations in general, that just doesn't happen. Dror Gill: 11:05 So basically you're finding economical reason behind a certain price for for this technology. In this case, HEVC. And now companies who want to use HEVC, how do they use this number? Because they have your number, which is the total, and then they have royalty rates that are asked that, you know, certain patent pools are asking and they add up to a different number that could be a higher number. So do they just you know, divide the number that they think is the right one among the different patent pools and pay them the amount they think they should pay or do they just use it as a negotiating tool when they talk to them and, and you know, and negotiate the actual world, the rates that they will have to pay? Shawn Ambwani: 11:52 By providing a lot of this information. Some of it publicly like economic report in some format. The hope is that smaller entities instead of rolling over when licensing people come by and say, Hey, take it or leave it, they really have an ability to make a fair response, a good faith response with information that allows them to then basically justify why they came up with a price and really push back and say, listen, you know, this is what my methodology came out to. Now. It could be right, could be wrong. You know, in the end in FRAND negotiations, I have to make a good faith offer. That's really the intent. So that's an important aspect of pushing back on this kind of, we think less information that is occurring in the marketplace and more fragmentation. And I think they're all interrelated because of the less information you have more fragmentation. Cause if everyone could agree on a price and everyone agreed that this is the fair value for the technology, there really wouldn't be multiple pools in my opinion or multiple licensors, because everyone would know what the number is. And so why would you separate? Dror Gill: 13:07 But basically you're saying that even if a patent pool set, the royalty rates and those royalty rates in some cases are public, at least for some of the patent pools, this is not what a licensor would pay. This is just kind of a starting point for a negotiation and you're providing tools for this type of negotiation. Shawn Ambwani: 13:23 We also think that validity is a big issue because none of these entities look at validity when they're incorporating patents into their pools or into their licensing. It's really up to the licensees or the people who are potentially taking the license to have the responsibility to go out and figure that out, which can be very, very costly. Dror Gill: 13:44 You assume they're valid, right? If they're licensing patents to you, you assume that they're licensing valid patents. Right? These are kind of, you know, respectable patent holders and patent pools. Why would they license something that's not valid? Shawn Ambwani: 13:57 I mean, it's a great point. I mean, the argument would be that they want to license patents. Mark Donnigan: 14:03 That's their business at the end of the day. Yeah. Shawn Ambwani: 14:08 Right. So, you know, if you had a car and you're trying to sell a car, you're going to accentuate the good things about the car. Not that it's a rebuilt or something like that or you know, like it's, it's been, you know, it's been in a crash or accident like, yeah. Like you're going to show what you want to show. Right. And that's natural in any of these cases. The unfortunate fact is that it's very costly to figure out that stuff and there's no really organization you'd think a licensing organization like MPEG LA or others. And I'm not saying MPEG LA is doing a bad job necessarily, I'm just pointing them out as an example, would do a better job of vetting to some degree on that type of activity. But they don't, and I think there's a number of reasons Mark Donnigan: 14:53 Why do they want to do that? I almost liken this to the 500 channel cable bundle of which there's about 15 high quality channels and there's 485 that are anywhere from just a, you know, not, not relevant, not interesting to, you know, to even lower quality than that, but, but you know, but Hey, I got a 500 channel bundle, right? So I feel like, wow, it must be worth $100 a month, you know, or whatever. Shawn Ambwani: 15:23 The idea that that licensing organizations like MPEG LA or (HEVC) Advance or other ones like that aren't doing it to the benefit of their licensors. It just seems ridiculous to me. I mean the people on their, on their management and the people who are actually owning that organization, typically it's managed and owned and administrative fees are paid to licensors. And traditionally the money flows one way from licensees to licensors. It's for the benefit of the licensors. And the rules that they put in are essentially to make sure that those guys are protected. They have no incentive in general of saying people's patents are invalid. And, and that's just a bad fact pattern for them. If basically they get back and say, Hey, listen this patent... Yeah, no, it's bad. Mark Donnigan: 16:16 Exactly. So, so in that context then it completely makes sense that they don't vet you know, at the level that you are and why, you know, Unified Patents needs to exist, you know, is because we need this sort of independent third party. I guess. I, I, you know, that's, that's out there doing this work. Now, Shawn, one of the things that I noticed is you're acting both against NPE's, so, non-practicing entities, and against SEP's. So standard essential patents. What are the issues with SEP's? Shawn Ambwani: 16:51 Well, I mean the general assumption has been, and I don't know where this assumption came from, was that standard essential patents or people who declare their patents to be standard essential are more likely to be valid than other patents. And in the real world where there's litigation and there's challenges and things get checked out or vetted essentially, adversarially, the reality is that standard essential patents in all the studies that have been done fair, far worse, than normal patents do on average. And you know, it's not shocking actually when you think about it. Obviously there's a lot of self selection here, but part of the reason why is, you know, when you're submitting into pools or in when you're getting these patents, when part of a standardization body or doing other activities, there's a lot of other people involved and it's usually built on other ideas that people have had in the past. Shawn Ambwani: 17:59 And it's not surprising that a lot of these patents have underlying ideas that had been done in the past or other people had brought up previously. Sometimes they weren't accepted, sometimes they were or sometimes they were put on hold. Who knows? But there's a lot of prior art oftentimes in these areas. These aren't open fields, these aren't brand new innovations that typically come up. And so that's not surprising. Now, you know, there's also a general belief that standard essential patterns are more valuable. And I think, you know, that's a pretty, I would say, you know, I dunno if it's absolutely valid, but it's not unreasonable to believe that if you declare a patent, as standardized, if you look at the average patent and compared to that patent, it's probably your, it's probably more valuable, at that point. Because you basically said it's part of a standard that people are probably going to adopt at that point versus a patent in general, which you never know most of the time, whether anyone's going to use that patent. Shawn Ambwani: 19:02 I mean the vast majority of patents are never actually used in any way whatsoever. They're not enforceable because they're just ideas that people have most of the time, and these patents are arguable more likely than not to be in a standard and that standard might or might not actually get used in the end. Inherently you get - they're more valuable. The problem is there's tons of over declaration that occurs in this area. There's very little incentive. I mean some places there's more of an incentive than others, but the way MPEG works specifically is that you can do blanket declarations and so you don't have to declare specific patents. And, other standards, you have to basically declare each individual patent that you have. So, I mean, there's all kinds of trade offs, and all these different things, but the reality is that no one really knows exactly how many patents need to be licensed. And that just creates a lot of uncertainty. And you know, a lot of companies who are trying to make money, not off products but off of doing licensing thrive on uncertainty because that's where they can make money. Is basically by, you know, saying, okay, well who knows what can happen, but if you take care of me now, I can make sure that I'm not going to cause you issues. Dror Gill: 20:23 Right. And that's why uncertainty is in the middle of FUD, fear, uncertainty, doubt, which is one of those tactics and uncertainty is definitely a big part of that. Shawn Ambwani: 20:33 Yeah. I mean, the other thing is that companies in general, it seems like a one way street a lot of the time, which is pretty unfortunate in that although I'm not sure if I have a good solution, you know, a lot of companies, the licensors have a way of getting together, agreeing on a price and then licensing through an organization like MPEG LA or others to do that type of activity or Velos (Media), or whatever it is. They choose, you know, they can select a price, they can work together, agree on a price. And the reason why they can do that according to the DOJ is because it's a different product than what's available before. So it decreases uncertainty by making it easier for people to take a license of convenience for that specific technology area. Dror Gill: 21:21 Otherwise, it might might've been considered price setting, Shawn Ambwani: 21:24 Right? Yeah. It would be considered price. It would be considered price setting. But in this case, the argument is always that you can always go to each individual company and get a license or negotiate a separate license. This is a license of convenience for this technology area from all these companies for one price. And that makes it a lot easier for people on both sides to be able to know exactly how much they're going to be getting and how much they're going to have to pay for clearing this risk. Which makes sense. I fundamentally have no problem with pools and what they do. The, the issue comes up is that a lot of these pools, A) don't talk about the pricing, they don't look at the validity. They don't really have a great essentially checking on top of it. And they're very much incentivized to help out the licensors, not the licensees figure stuff out. And what ends up happening is over time you kind of, and you have companies also that are not interested in making products, which is unfortunate. They're just interested in making money off of their licensing. Which is unfortunate because there's a lot of games that can be played in the standardization world to get your stuff in and then get your patents in basically. Mark Donnigan: 22:44 Well, it ultimately, it, it stops innovation. I mean, at the end of the day, you know, and one thing, and Dror and I have talked about this on episodes and we've certainly talked about this a lot, you know, privately within Beamr is, you know, it's a little bit mystifying as well because okay, so HEVC clearly was set back as a result of, of many issues. But you know, largely what we'd been talking about for the last 35 minutes and the adoption of HEVC. And yet these people, as you point out, the licensors, they don't make money if nobody's using the technology. So, so what's mystifying to us is that this is not, you know, it's not like somehow they're getting paid still. You know, even though the adoption of the technology is not in place or it's not being used, they're not getting paid. And so it seems like at some point, you know, a rational actor would stand up and say, wait a second, I'd rather get something rather than nothing! But, it's almost like they, they're not acting that way. Dror Gill: 23:46 But, but it did happen. They did reduce the royalty rate. Yes, yes, yes. Certainly. And they did come to their senses and they did put a cap and then initially it was uncapped and they did remove royalties from content. And you know, they did a lot of things in the right direction after the pressure from the market when they realized they're not going to get anything. And when AV1 started to happen, you know, and they were pressured by that, by a competing codec that was supposedly a royalty free and didn't have these issues. So I think the situation is improved. But you've launched a specific zone. It's called the video codec zone, but basically right now it deals only with HEVC. Shawn Ambwani: 24:33 A lot of these patents that we've challenged relate not just to HEVC but potentially to AV and other codecs like AVC as well. Cause there's such overlap between these things. That's why we generically call it a video codec zone. So, obviously a lot of the things that we've looked at in like the economic report and everything else and landscape, a lot of the focus has been on HEVC. Dror Gill: 24:59 So you examined the HEVC and and you saw this situation that you have three patent pools. One of them hasn't even announced the royalty rates and, and you have a lot of independent patent holders who claim to have standard essential patents for HEVC. And this is kind of your, you're opening a, a situation. So what, what was the first thing that, that you did, how did you start to, to approach the HEVC pattern topic and what actions did you take? Shawn Ambwani: 25:34 Like I said, we've done a bunch of different stuff. We had a submission repo called open, which where we collated all the prior art, not prior art, but submissions into the standard for HEVC and AVC and other standards from MPEG so people can make it easily searchable. In fact, 50% of the priority art that we got for our patent challenges came from the submission repo, which is great, which is basically, you know, previous submissions to the same standard. We have OPAL, which is our landscape tool. And then, you know, obviously we have OPEN which is our evaluation report that I mentioned for HEVC. And then we did a bunch of reviews of validity and challenged a bunch of patents in different licensing entities. I mean, Velos, I think they don't consider themselves a pool. Just to be clear. Dror Gill: 26:29 Because they actually own the patents. They've licensed those patents on their own? Shawn Ambwani: 26:34 Well, I think they just don't consider themselves tackling a patent pool in the way that MPEG LA and HEVC Advanced does simply that would throw them into a different bucket and they would have all kinds of requirements on them that they don't want basically. So you know when the DOJ kind of made the rules or kind of the lawyers decided what the right rules are to make it work, you know like you've got to show your stuff. Basically you got to show your price, you've got to make sure it's reasonable or it's, you know, like there's, there's no most favored nation clause. I mean there is a most favorite nation (MFN) let me rephrase this. So all these things to make sure that everything is very transparent in order to allow this kind of companies to get together and set a price for how much they want to license for it, which typically would have huge anti-competitive or antitrust issues. Right. They made all these rules and Velos I think would not consider themselves technically a patent pool like those guys because that would make them have the similar requirements. Dror Gill: 27:40 So they're like an independent patent holder? Shawn Ambwani: 27:42 I don't really know what they call themselves. I've definitely never heard them say that they're a patent pool. I've heard other people call them a patent pool. I probably have at some point, but I don't really know if they actually consider themselves a patent pool Dror Gill: 27:55 Because I noticed that your litigation was against the patent holders. Companies like GE and KBS and against Velos Media itself. Yeah. Shawn Ambwani: 28:07 Yeah. Well Velos is you know, an unusual beast in that it owns a number of patents that got transferred to it as well as it provides licenses to the people who participated. You know, the other patent holders in general are much more traditional in their patent pool type activity in that the patent holders are different from the people who are doing the licensing. Dror Gill: 28:28 And you're not suing the patent pools like MPEG LA and HEVC Advanced or not your targets? Shawn Ambwani: 28:32 Well, they don't own patents directly, so really nothing to do as far as I know. I mean, you could say, you know, part of it is we're challenging them to a certain degree on their pricing and kind of their whole model of not looking at validity by challenging some of their patents as well as, you know, putting them on notice that as they get more patents in, we might challenge further patents for validity. So why don't they do it ahead of time? I mean, the idea that, you know, validity is a victimless crime if you don't check for validity, it doesn't hurt anyone. It's just not true in my opinion. It's just not true because you are hurting the people who actually innovated. There's a set amount of money that goes to everyone. If you have a bunch of patents and they're just like, you're checking for essentiality before you allow a patent in, you check for validity because there's a bunch of patents that just aren't valid that shouldn't be, they should not be making money off of. It just incentivizes people to get more invalid patents in the same space that they can stick into a pool to get a bigger share of it, like a giant game. Right? Mark Donnigan: 29:43 Yeah, that's a really good point. I'm wondering what is the cost to test for essentiality? Is some of this just sort of practical like it's just either too time consuming or costly to test? Yeah. I mean Shawn Ambwani: 29:58 Esentiality is often times more expensive than validity in some cases, but I mean they do test for essentiality. The companies pay to have their own patents tested often times for essentiality, but there is no test for validity that they enforce. So no one actually does it. You know, if they did ask for it, I'm sure people in some cases would pay for it, but more importantly, people who didn't think their patents would be found valid, probably wouldn't submit them in the first place then. Then there would be, there'd be huge disincentive for people who had that risk of that happening. They just wouldn't submit it, which you know, obviously it's going to hurt the pool because they get less patents. And at the same time, the hope is that people will think twice before they submit stuff they know is crap. Anyway. Mark Donnigan: 30:43 So what is, what is your bar for determining low quality? I mean, what does that process look like? Shawn Ambwani: 30:52 We have a bunch of patents that come into our hopper that we're constantly looking at in every single zone that we're in and we're constantly looking and seeing if it's a valid patent or not. And there's multiple ways of doing that. We have crowd sourcing that we do for that. We just pay people, you know, in order to do prior art experts for example, to do prior art searches. You can prior art search infinitely long these, there's no stopping. You know, what you can do. But you know, in the end there's only so much you can reasonably expect to find. And so from my perspective, you know, there's definitely been situations where we've looked at patents and we've said, okay, we don't think we have good prior art. We're just not going to do anything about it. And that's okay. In fact, I mean it's okay if a licensing entity or licensor has a valid patent, that's perfectly fine with me. Shawn Ambwani: 31:49 I think if they have a valid patent, they should be able to make money off of it. I have no problem with, it should be a fair amount if it's in a standard based on FRAND principles, but in general, people should be able to make money off of a valid patent. The problem is is that a lot of people are making a lot of money, in my opinion, off of a lot of bad patents. And invalid patents, which hurts the people who actually do have good patents because they're getting crowded out, which is sad because that really is the disincentive for innovation then is when the people actually are innovating aren't making money off of it because they're getting crowded out by the people who are just playing a good game. Dror Gill: 32:25 You described earlier the, the process with a standard setting bodies such as MPEG where you declare your patents but you only, you can declare them as, as a pool or as a bunch of patents and not specifically, and then you can basically, Dror Gill: 32:40 You know, create a pool and charge as much as you want if it's under the FRAND principles. Do you think there's anything broken in the standard setting process itself? Do those committees need to do something else in order to make sure that when they create a standard, the situation of royalties of, of the situation of, of IP which is essential to that standard is more well known that you have less uncertainty in that IP? Shawn Ambwani: 33:09 Yeah, I'm not sure. I mean there's always ways of like tweaking the system. Every standards body has different ways of managing it. I mean the only really clean way of doing it is saying it's royalty free and having anyone who participates in the standard agree that it's royalty free. Anything above that, just you know, you can play all these different types of rules and machinations and 3GPP has their own and other people, organizations have their own. But in the end it ends up being the same issue of you know, under declaring over declaring - issues with essentiality, validity, all kinds of other things. So I'm not sure if you, unless you go to that binary level, how much, you know, changing that up is going to change things fundamentally. I think the more fundamental thing is that, you know, the idea that I think the fundamental reason why you have these patent pools and other things like that was to clear risk and decrease uncertainty. Unfortunately I'd say uncertainty is actually increasing in some of these cases not decreasing by all these different groups asking for money at this point, which is unfortunate. Dror Gill: 34:17 No, that's a very interesting insight, really. Mark Donnigan: 34:19 Hey, thanks for joining us, Shawn. This was really an amazing discussion and we definitely have to have a part two. Shawn Ambwani: 34:26 All right, well, thanks for your time, gentlemen. I really appreciate it. Dror Gill: 34:28 Thank you. Narrator: 34:30 Thank you for listening to The Video Insiders podcast, a production of Beamr Imaging limited. To begin using Beamr's codecs today, go to beamr.com/free to receive up to 100 hours of no cost HEVC and H.264 transcoding every month.
OIn this special bonus episode of Outward, Bryan and a guest panel of multigenerational gay men devote a whole hour to The Inheritance, a seven-hour, two-part play by Matthew Lopez that won many awards for its recent run in London and is currently dominating discussions on Broadway. There will be spoilers! While it’s length, ambition, and engagement with the AIDS crisis have invited comparisons to Tony Kushner’s “gay fantasia on national themes” Angels in America, The Inheritance’s driving concern is a bit more personal: If gay men think of ourselves as a community spanning generations, what happens when a huge swath of that community is lost to plague, the survivors deeply traumatized, and younger cohorts must therefore come of age and figure out what it means to be gay in the wake of a tragedy that shapes everything around us? Borrowing a line from E.M. Forester’s Howard’s End, on which the play is based, The Inheritance desperately wants gay men to “connect” across age and loss — but is that kind of connection really possible? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Open Invention Network is taking on patent trolls, Nextcloud releases a statement concerning NextCry, Mozilla and GitLab are expanding their bug bounty programs, and the EFF helps form the Coalition Against Stalkerware.
Microsoft continues to prove how much it loves Linux while Google tries to eat their lunch, mixed news from Mozilla, and good stuff from GNOME. Plus Telegram's cryptocurrency is definitely happening. Honest. Special Guest: Wes Payne.
Microsoft continues to prove how much it loves Linux while Google tries to eat their lunch, mixed news from Mozilla, and good stuff from GNOME. Plus Telegram's cryptocurrency is definitely happening. Honest. Special Guest: Wes Payne.
Microsoft continues to prove how much it loves Linux while Google tries to eat their lunch, mixed news from Mozilla, and good stuff from GNOME. Plus Telegram's cryptocurrency is definitely happening. Honest. Special Guest: Wes Payne.
Dediquem aquesta edició del programa a "Oi Néoi (Els nous)" #OiNéoi, espectacle col·lectiu de #dansa dirigit i coreografiat per Constanza Brncic amb dramatúrgia d'Albert Tola (hem rebut la visita de tots dos, que a més han estat entrevistats en diferents ocasions a #OnaCultural), amb música creada i interpretada en directe per Nuno Rebelo i un equip de més de vint intèrprets-ballarins de diverses edats. Tant la Constanza com l'Albert i una bona part dels intèrprets van iniciar el trajecte creatiu amb el projecte PI(È)CE, produït i impulsat pel Teatre Tantarantana. Aquest cop compten també amb la producció executiva de la sala, Salvador S. Sánchez com a productor i l'espectacle ha estat estrenat al Centre de Cultura Contemporània (#CCCB) de #Barcelona, en el marc del Festival #Grec2019. Hi seran en dos funcions avui 20-7 i demà 21-7, a les 19:30. #dansa #Grec #coreografia #direcció #dramatúrgia #interpretació #música #festivals @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM onadesants.cat
Dediquem aquesta edició del programa a "Oi Néoi (Els nous)" #OiNéoi, espectacle col·lectiu de #dansa dirigit i coreografiat per Constanza Brncic amb dramatúrgia d'Albert Tola (hem rebut la visita de tots dos, que a més han estat entrevistats en diferents ocasions a #OnaCultural), amb música creada i interpretada en directe per Nuno Rebelo i un equip de més de vint intèrprets-ballarins de diverses edats. Tant la Constanza com l'Albert i una bona part dels intèrprets van iniciar el trajecte creatiu amb el projecte PI(È)CE, produït i impulsat pel Teatre Tantarantana. Aquest cop compten també amb la producció executiva de la sala, Salvador S. Sánchez com a productor i l'espectacle ha estat estrenat al Centre de Cultura Contemporània (#CCCB) de #Barcelona, en el marc del Festival #Grec2019. Hi seran en dos funcions avui 20-7 i demà 21-7, a les 19:30. #dansa #Grec #coreografia #direcció #dramatúrgia #interpretació #música #festivals @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM onadesants.cat
Dediquem aquesta edició del programa a "Oi Néoi (Els nous)" #OiNéoi, espectacle col·lectiu de #dansa dirigit i coreografiat per Constanza Brncic amb dramatúrgia d'Albert Tola (hem rebut la visita de tots dos, que a més han estat entrevistats en diferents ocasions a #OnaCultural), amb música creada i interpretada en directe per Nuno Rebelo i un equip de més de vint intèrprets-ballarins de diverses edats. Tant la Constanza com l'Albert i una bona part dels intèrprets van iniciar el trajecte creatiu amb el projecte PI(È)CE, produït i impulsat pel Teatre Tantarantana. Aquest cop compten també amb la producció executiva de la sala, Salvador S. Sánchez com a productor i l'espectacle ha estat estrenat al Centre de Cultura Contemporània (#CCCB) de #Barcelona, en el marc del Festival #Grec2019. Hi seran en dos funcions avui 20-7 i demà 21-7, a les 19:30. #dansa #Grec #coreografia #direcció #dramatúrgia #interpretació #música #festivals @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM onadesants.cat
Dediquem aquesta edició del programa a "Oi Néoi (Els nous)" #OiNéoi, espectacle col·lectiu de #dansa dirigit i coreografiat per Constanza Brncic amb dramatúrgia d'Albert Tola (hem rebut la visita de tots dos, que a més han estat entrevistats en diferents ocasions a #OnaCultural), amb música creada i interpretada en directe per Nuno Rebelo i un equip de més de vint intèrprets-ballarins de diverses edats. Tant la Constanza com l'Albert i una bona part dels intèrprets van iniciar el trajecte creatiu amb el projecte PI(È)CE, produït i impulsat pel Teatre Tantarantana. Aquest cop compten també amb la producció executiva de la sala, Salvador S. Sánchez com a productor i l'espectacle ha estat estrenat al Centre de Cultura Contemporània (#CCCB) de #Barcelona, en el marc del Festival #Grec2019. Hi seran en dos funcions avui 20-7 i demà 21-7, a les 19:30. #dansa #Grec #coreografia #direcció #dramatúrgia #interpretació #música #festivals @OnaCultural @Radioonadesants 94.6 FM onadesants.cat
This week we are discussing Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2 Chapter Five, The Bridge of Kazad-Dûm Characters: The Fellowship! Frodo Sam Merry Pippin Gandalf Gimli Legolas Boromir Aragorn Durin’s Bane Balin, Oin, Ori The Journey The Fellowship make it to the far side of Moria and the Misty Mountains, and exit out into the […]
“Crazy like a Bernie”Over the weekend Senator Sanders launched his first campaign rally in Brooklyn New York – He was introduced by his wife Jane Sanders and a parade of sincere advocates who shared their stories. Then it was off to a packed warehouse in Chicago where Bernie again made his case for worker’s dignity and fundamental economic change. Today we are going to address two challenges you’re likely to hear against Bernie Sanders. First – He’s old. •His ideas are even older – they date back in America to the early 1900’s as an antidote to the great depression and a check on anarcho-capitalism.•He’s 77 years old, but we have video of him making the exact same arguments when he was only 45 years old. I’d rather have somebody who’s been saying the same thing for over 30 years than somebody who had different positions 30 months ago. •Hillary Clinton is 71 years old. Donald Trump is 72 years old. Joe Biden is 76 years old. •The purpose of age is it assumes the candidate represents younger generational interests. But Bernie has more millennial support than candidate in history. oIn the 2016 primaries Hillary got 766K voters under 30 years old, oTrump zoomed past her with 830K oBernie Sanders got over 2M votes by people under 30 years old. oBernie got more youth voters than Barack Obama did in his 2008 campaign, making him hands down the most supported candidate by Millennials in voting history. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/06/20/more-young-people-voted-for-bernie-sanders-than-trump-and-clinton-combined-by-a-lot/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.768ca9f4c8db][https://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11818320/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-2008]Second – Trump WANTS him to win. •A recent poll has Sanders ahead of trump by 11 points in Michigan [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_sanders-6768.html]•In 2016 Sanders was ahead of Trump by 20 points in Wisconsin [https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_sanders-5735.html]•Trump wants Bernie because he likes attacking socialism as a boogeyman, but he underestimates how many 2016 Trump voters Bernie takes away. [Clip from The View]Quote of the Day:Bernie concluding remarks at the campaign kickoff rally in Brooklyn New YorkWrite into the show: FeelBernPod@gmail.com
It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months. Acquisitions, solid releases, a revolution for gaming, politics in the kernel community, Chrome OS coming of age, and more.
It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months. Acquisitions, solid releases, a revolution for gaming, politics in the kernel community, Chrome OS coming of age, and more.
It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months. Acquisitions, solid releases, a revolution for gaming, politics in the kernel community, Chrome OS coming of age, and more.
It is the year 2946 of the Third Age, some five years after the Battle of the Five Armies. A great weight has been lifted from the peoples of the North and their spirits are no longer bound by the yoke of the beast Smaug and the horrors of Dol Guldur. As the fifth anniversary of the great alliance that threw back the armies of goblins and trolls approaches, there comes word that the byways and highways of wilderland are not yet truly safe. Dwarves are missing…! Having accepted the task set by Master Glóin, the Company has begun a dreary journey south along the Running River via the Stair of Girion and into the Long Marsh… Having at last found signs of the passage of the Dwarves Balin and Oin, can the Company find where they went before the pair becomes a troll’s tea? Will the deadly flora of the Long Marsh be the Company’s undoing? Is it Amroth’s destiny to be forever shown up by Falco’s skill with a bow? And what exactly is the Marsh Bell? All these questions and more might be answered in this episode… The game is The One Ring: Adventures over the Edge of the Wild, published by Cubicle Seven Entertainment. The adventure is ‘The Marsh Bell’ from the core rules and as ever, our Lore Master is Dave L, and our cast consists of… Helen – Amroth, an Elf traveler out of Mirkwood Mog – Theodard, a Woodman of the Eaves of Mirkwood Louise – Feorfryn, a Beorning of the lands along the Anduin Hugh – Gamil, a Dwarf of the Lonely Mountain Pookie – Falco Hornblower, a Hobbit of the Shire
The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. On October 10th Microsoft joined the OIN so we invited Patrick McBride the Senior Director of Patents to join us!
The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. On October 10th Microsoft joined the OIN so we invited Patrick McBride the Senior Director of Patents to join us!
The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. On October 10th Microsoft joined the OIN so we invited Patrick McBride the Senior Director of Patents to join us!
Microsoft Joins OIN with Patrick McBride | Ask Noah Show 97 The Open Invention Network is a shared defensive patent pool with the mission to protect Linux. On October 10th Microsoft joined the OIN so we invited Patrick McBride the Senior Director of Patents to join us and explain the implications both to Red Hat as well as the larger Linux community. -- The Cliff Notes -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/97) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #AskNoahShow on Freenode! -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah asknoah [at] jupiterbroadcasting.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) Jupiter Broadcasting (https://twitter.com/jbsignal)
OIn tonight's all new episode of Hot Sugar Tea hosted by India Morel and Ralph Terry, we will be broadcasting live from Exxxotica in Edison, New Jersey with surprise guest all night long as well as having our special guest Urban X Male Talent nominee and recording artist Shaundamxxx who will be performing during Exxxotica and Pipeswell Cornbread Fed 3 event that will be held on Saturday, November 3 in Queens , N.Y. Call us live at 6465954038.
Dans cet épisode, nous relayons des problèmes d'éthique qui nous amènent à devoir considérer le fait que, dans la tech, ce n'est pas si simple. Surtout quand il y a des enjeux avec autant d'argent derrière... Réagissez sur techcafe.fr Soutenez Tech Café sur Patreon [John de John me, Amilek] Discutez avec nous sur Telegram Silicon Valley de larmes Paul Allen, le cofondateur de Microsoft, est mort à 65 ans. Saintes Huiles : Microsoft est OIN et donne sa bénédiction à Linux. Apple, le chevalier blanc du chiffrement ! Les policiers ont de nouveaux stages La politique, c’est fantastique Sans être autiste, Google veut être The Good Censor. Et Dragonfly sinon ? Contrat JEDI : la force est avec Amazon. Richard Branson s’assoit sur 1 milliard de fonds saoudiens… Des fonds qui irriguent largement les “jeunes pousses” de la Silicon Valley. Aimé Hacké : seuls 30 millions de comptes Facebook vraiment compromis. Ouf. Mais maintenant, vous pouvez poster votre chien en 3D… et bientôt en VR. Turfu Magazine LeapCon LeapCon, la première magic conférence de Magic Leap. Balance ton porg : Magic Leap compte sur la puissance de Starwars et ’ILM. Big Girls, you are beautiful : Mica veut devenir la première assistante AR. Andy Rubin a vu “Her”, il a beaucoup (trop?) aimé. Palm lui aurait-il déjà damé le pion ? Atlas se met au parkour. Spot fait des chantiers, mais la nuit c’est le roi de la piste! A votre santé... Google AI détecte les cancer du sein mieux que les toubibs. Après les fitness trackers, les mental health trackers ? Alexa pourrait devenir attentive à votre santé. Pour vous vendre des médocs. En bref Pour ses iPhones, Apple privilégie le Dialog. Apple rachète Asaii iPad pro pour complexifier la gamme DuckDuckGo atteint les 30 millions de recherches par jour ! C’est... 0.2% du marché. Les cryptos font le gros dos, mais tant qu’il y a du malware, y a de l’espoir… Qui a besoin d’une puce ? Les cartes Super Micro étaient truffées de bugs... Oktoberfest suite : la MAJ Windows toujours problématique chez Dell et HP. Intel Core i9 9eme : les CPU pour barbus. 100h / semaine pour finir Red Dead 2 ? It’s not a feature, it’s a bug. Nouveau format d’Adobe très (trop ?) prometteur Bonus GPP : Tu seras un saumon mon fils et la collection WTF. Chez Akata. Guillaume : Raccourcis Participants : Guillaume Poggiaspalla Présenté par Guillaume Vendé
Eric and Jon both use chat support for network gear, the Bloomberg story gets stranger, and a double pile on Facebook and Google Plus. Microsoft joins OIN, opening up its patent portfolio. For fun Eric likes The Good Place, and Jon likes both The Broken Earth trilogy as well as binary layout optimization(??). Intro Frontier Woes Amplifi Teleport Setup Bloomberg Followup More Bloomberg Followup Facebook's Access Token Bug Verge on FB Breach Whatsapp Video Vulnerability Google Plus No More Microsoft Joins OIN The Good Place Codestitcher The Broken Earth
微软公布加入OIN！安卓手机可能要集体降价了
Aqui, na minha experiência com podcaster eu leio a minha primeira na Publishnews. Oin...vergonha! Mas é o pontapé pós inércia profunda.
Aqui, na minha experiência com podcaster eu leio a minha primeira na Publishnews. Oin...vergonha! Mas é o pontapé pós inércia profunda.
OIn this episode we talk to host of WTNH's CT Style and talented event host Ryan Kristafer, Ryan has be a part of many, many food segments we talk the good the bad and the complete disasster of doing live food segments on TV. Also how he got into doing a live morning show will for sure be a topic. Also lots of discussion about events and hosting events. Chef Plum also talks about what does working with private clients do for making the food business a better place. We also drop the news about the new show The Lounge, as well the new project with Edible magazine!
oIn our 27th episode we talk with Molly Rector (@MollyRector), CMO & EVP of Product Management/Worldwide Marketing for DDN. Howard and I have known Molly since her days at Spectra Logic. Molly is also on the BoD of SNIA and Active Archive Alliance (AAA), so she's very active in the storage industry, on multiple dimensions and a very … Continue reading "GreyBeards talk HPC storage with Molly Rector, CMO & EVP, DDN"
OIn this episode we talk about wine, with Wine Enthusiast's Vice President of Media Jay Spaleta! Its all about wine trends and food with a VP of one of the most influential food and wine companies in the world! Wine and food go hand and hand and Jay has the low down on all the trends and wine tips to make all of us a little smarter when it comes to the vino! Also we recap the Baldanzas take over, and what not to do when catering events like Chef Plum... maybe I should take my own advice, all this right here on Plumluvfoods!
Tonight we in Tha Cypher discussing Child Support. When a man or woman is order to pay child support is it helping them be better? Does putting someone on child support make him or her a better parent? Tune In ====> Oin the COnvo 323-443-7518
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Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network, GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen announced her pregnancy. (01:50) Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. (03:00) Segment 1 (04:40) Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel. (06:00) Deb mentioned Linux System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12) Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in 0x25. (19:20) It's possible etymology of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical instrument, not harpy. (31:00) Karen mentioned The Ada Initiative. (32:52) Segment 2 (38:54) Bradley and Karen talk about plans for upcoming shows. Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network, GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen announced her pregnancy. (01:50) Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. (03:00) Segment 1 (04:40) Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel. (06:00) Deb mentioned Linux System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12) Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in 0x25. (19:20) It's possible etymology of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical instrument, not harpy. (31:00) Karen mentioned The Ada Initiative. (32:52) Segment 2 (38:54) Bradley and Karen talk about plans for upcoming shows. Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) This American Life issued a retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24. This American Life released a transcript or mp3 of the audio of the retraction. (02:21) Karen and Bradley introduce the panel. Segment 1 (03:58) This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in places. Segment 2 (32:21) IBM's amicus brief in Bilski clearly shows that IBM is pro-software patent. (33:48) The Linux System Definition which defines the only patents available for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently without consulting the Free Software community. Keith Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012 on the Legal track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29) OIN is a for-profit company. (37:54) IBM has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as TurboHercules (39:22) IBM is the largest software patent holder in the world. (44:27) Red Hat refuses to grant a patent license for patent use in Free software, they have only a weak promise that allows them to sell of patents to others who may enforce against Free Software projects, or which could be revoked. (46:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) This American Life issued a retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24. This American Life released a transcript or mp3 of the audio of the retraction. (02:21) Karen and Bradley introduce the panel. Segment 1 (03:58) This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in places. Segment 2 (32:21) IBM's amicus brief in Bilski clearly shows that IBM is pro-software patent. (33:48) The Linux System Definition which defines the only patents available for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently without consulting the Free Software community. Keith Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012 on the Legal track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29) OIN is a for-profit company. (37:54) IBM has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as TurboHercules (39:22) IBM is the largest software patent holder in the world. (44:27) Red Hat refuses to grant a patent license for patent use in Free software, they have only a weak promise that allows them to sell of patents to others who may enforce against Free Software projects, or which could be revoked. (46:26) Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
That's right, no podcast at the weekend due to traffic problems* but we couldn't let a week go by without a sitting together to waffle on about movies so we're proud to present a special mid-week episode of the McYapandFries movie podcast. (bear with us for the first few seconds of this week's cast , there is a point honest) This week we've got a double whammy of reviews with creature feature "Attack the Block" (in cinemas now) and the film that inspired it's title; South Korea's "Attack the Gas Station", followed up with a review of the tale of a psychotic, psychic, tyre called Robert in "Rubber". We've also got a raft of trailers to review (see links below), lots of news on Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit", and all sorts of gossip on casting news. If you enjoy the show join the fun by emailing us at podcast@mcyapandfries.com or using the form at the "contact us" link above. Until next time... *there weren't really traffic problems, read the news will ya! Show Notes: Latest trailer for "The Adventures Of Tintin" First pics of the Dwarves Nori, Ori and Dori from "The Hobbit" More Dwarven pics from "The Hobbit" this time of Oin and Gloin 2nd Videoblogisode from "The Hobbit" (that's enough Hobbit news for now ) Trailer for Cuba's "Juan of the Dead" Teaser Poster for "The Dark Knight Rises" I shouldn't really post this but... the first trailer for Adam Sandler's "Jack and Jill" Meryl Streep as Maggie Thatcher in the trailer for "the Iron Lady" ..and finally...the Russian poster for "Captain America"
In this episode of Free as in Freedom, Karen and Bradley discuss in the first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public filings related to the Novell sale. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:40) Karen and Bradley discuss an article called The Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was covered some in the tech press, in press outside of technology. Deb Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as did Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06) Bradley mentioned his blog post where he discussed issues of gender equality across all Computer Science, not just the Free Software community. (05:29) Karen mentioned Kirrily “Skud” Robert. (10:27) Segment 1 (32:18) There was an announcement that Novell will be sold (32:15) Karen mentioned that Andy Updegrove blogged twice on the subject (32:30) Karen talked about the 8K filing that Novell made regarding the purchase. (34:30) Karen mentioned a post on groklaw. (42:43) Bradley mentioned that the OIN patent license is incredibly narrow and not particularly useful, because the definition of the “Linux system“ is so narrow, and because OIN is a pro-patent, for-profit company that doesn't have the interest of Free Software at its heart. (45:30) Karen disagrees with Bradley's comments on OIN and thinks his characterization of the patent pool is a serious exaggeration. (46:00) These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported). Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on identi.ca and and Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
In this episode of Free as in Freedom, Karen and Bradley discuss in the first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public filings related to the Novell sale. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:40) Karen and Bradley discuss an article called The Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was covered some in the tech press, in press outside of technology. Deb Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as did Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06) Bradley mentioned his blog post where he discussed issues of gender equality across all Computer Science, not just the Free Software community. (05:29) Karen mentioned Kirrily “Skud” Robert. (10:27) Segment 1 (32:18) There was an announcement that Novell will be sold (32:15) Karen mentioned that Andy Updegrove blogged twice on the subject (32:30) Karen talked about the 8K filing that Novell made regarding the purchase. (34:30) Karen mentioned a post on groklaw. (42:43) Bradley mentioned that the OIN patent license is incredibly narrow and not particularly useful, because the definition of the “Linux system“ is so narrow, and because OIN is a pro-patent, for-profit company that doesn't have the interest of Free Software at its heart. (45:30) Karen disagrees with Bradley's comments on OIN and thinks his characterization of the patent pool is a serious exaggeration. (46:00) These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn of Free as in Freedom, and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0 Unported). Send feedback and comments on the cast to . You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter. Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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