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The worst sound in the world is the sound of metal scraping glass. It hurts your ears, your teeth ache, your hair stands on end. It is completely without words, how terrible it is. Yet, it seems, no matter where you are eating, there is always somebody who scrapes their fork or spoon with vigor, as if their food will not taste as good if they do not. Such was the case at dinner every night.
Mother and father are smiling at each other and laughing. What they are laughing at is unknown, but it is probably charming or amusing. Mother and father like to use these words, though they are condescending. Maybe that is why they use them.
Brother is slouched in his chair defiantly. I wish I could slouch like he does without getting yelled at, but it is not lady like. This is a phrase that my mother uses more than what is necessary. I do not understand the purpose of it, being lady like.
Father compliments mother on the wonderful dinner. I refrain from pointing out that it looks and tastes like hospital food, all bland and sterile and healthy. This would be un-lady like and would get me yelled at. It seems I spend too much of my time being yelled at.
Mother used to be a teacher, before she got pregnant with my brother. I am four years older than him, so I barely remember these times. Every so often, when my father is not in the room, she mentions (always barely above a whisper) that she misses her days as a teacher. She misses getting up to something besides more laundry. I do not blame her, though I would never say this out loud, I pity her and her status as a housewife.
My father is a business man, the key word being "busy". He is only home on weekends, making brief appearances for family dinner only. I do not think anybody misses him when he is gone. I certainly do not.
We sit here at the dinner table, all of us smiling politely at each other. Are interactions are not familiar at all, they are the interactions of people that do not really know each other at all and are only around each other out of necessity alone. I do not know or understand why this is. Is this what other families are like? I do not know the answer to this, but I do not care enough to ask.
The meat loaf is much too dry to be edible.
Our eyes are glazed over and our smiles are fake.
Mother makes a comment about the weather, brother slouches, father chuckles suavely.
"May I be excused?"
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Growth Equity in Growth Markets Financial Services
Apis Partners is a Private Equity manager focused on Financial Institutions and related Business Services (FS) in Growth Markets.
Our belief
Apis Partners provides catalyst capital for Financial Services in Growth Markets and aims to have a net positive impact in the communities we invest in.We aim to support growth in the Financial Services industry, which is so fundamentally important to societies and economies and can create an enduring socio-economic impact in Growth Markets. We also believe that now is a better time than ever before to foster reverse innovation - where innovative business models that are conceptualised and scaled in Growth Markets can also find traction and success in developed marketsRead more
Our team: 600 years of collective experience in the Financial Services industry
Managing Partners
Udayan Goyal
Investment team
Rotimi Oyekanmi
Oliver Krantz
Keith Handley
Investment team
Monica Pinto
Asad Naqvi
Alexia Yannopoulos
Investment team
Nic Smalle
Ravi Bhatt
Kiprono Terigin
Investment Committee
Kaj-Erik Relander
Graham Thomas
Michael G. Essex
Sean Park
Regional Investment Partners
Sanjay Sachdev
Matteo Stefanel
Managing Partner
Matteo has a successful track record in private equity and investment banking spanning nearly two decades and focussing specifically on Growth Markets and Financial Services.
Formerly a Senior Partner at The Abraaj Group, the world's leading EM private equity group, he held various roles there, including co-Head of Abraaj's PE Investment Team in Dubai ($7bn), Head of both the Special Situations and the Real Estate Group as well as being a member of the Executive and the Investment Committees.
He was responsible for a number of Abraaj's investee companies (10+), including Network International (payments), Saham Finance (insurance), and Jordan Ahli Bank (banking). Matteo has been a board director of over 20 companies and completed over 100 transactions in Europe (including CEE), South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, throughout his career at Abraaj, at MIG ($7.4bn AUM) where he was briefly CIO, and at Deutsche Bank as MD and co-Head of Emerging Markets in the Financial Institutions Group.
Since 2012, Matteo has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital (2012-14 and 2014-16). Originally from Italy, Matteo has an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Queens College, the University of Oxford.
Udayan Goyal
Managing Partner
Udayan brings to Apis his deep domain expertise and a global network of industry professionals, having co-founded Anthemis (one of the leading VC investors and corporate advisors in Financial Technology).
Formerly, Udayan was MD and Global Head of Financial Technology at Deutsche Bank and prior to that, a member of the European Specialty Finance practice at Credit Suisse. He has advised on a number of flagship PE transactions in the industry, such as Abraaj's AED2bn acquisition of Network International, Helios' acquisition of Interswitch (Nigeria), and Advent and Bain's £2bn acquisition of WorldPay. Additionally, he has been the lead advisor on a number of high profile financial technology and payments transactions including: KKR's USD28bn acquisition of First Data, Visa's IPO, Deutsche Borse's acquisition of ISE, and the Markit Group's acquisition of International Index Corp. Udayan is more recently the co-founder of Anthemis Group, a diversified financial services firm investing in and advising technology-led businesses globally. Whilst at Anthemis, Udayan invested in over 20 companies in the global financial services space.
Originally from India, Udayan has an MA (Cantab) from Trinity College, the University of Cambridge.
Kaj-Erik Relander
Chairman of the Investment Committee
Kaj-Erik has over 30 years experience in venture capital, telecommunications and technology within Europe. Most recently, he was Chief Investment Office at Emirates Investment Authority, having previously served 9 years as Partner at Accel Partners in London.
Prior to this he was President and CEO of Sonera, Finland's largest telecom operator, and also Director at SITRA, a Finnish Technology investment company where he was responsible for private equity investments. Kaj-Erik has served on the board at a variety of international companies including Carrier IQ, VoiceStream Wireless and Turkcell, and is an active member of the World Economic Forum and the EVCA. He holds an MA in Economics from the Helsinki School of Economics (HSE) and an MBA from HSE and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Graham Thomas
Investment Committee
Graham is the CEO of Stage Capital, an independent private equity firm backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Deutsche Bank Private Equity. He has over 23 years of buy side and investment banking experience, both in Growth Markets (particularly in Africa), as well as in Europe and globally.
He was formerly the Head of Private Investments at RIT Capital Partners, a £2.3bn investment trust chaired by Lord Jacob Rothschild, where he also chaired the Executive Committee. Prior to this, Graham was head of Standard Bank Group's Global Principal Investment business, which he established. He joined Standard Bank from MidOcean Partners, formerly DB Capital Partners, where he was one of the Founding Partners. Prior to MidOcean, which he joined in 2001, Graham was Co-Head of the Alternative Telecom Investment Banking Group (Europe) at Goldman Sachs. He has served as a board member of some 20 companies, including Rockefeller & Co, TBIH Financial Services Group and United Biscuits Group.
Graham holds an MA from Oxford University (a Rhodes Scholar) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Degree from the University of Cape Town.
Michael G. Essex
Investment Committee
Michael has over 34 years of emerging markets investment experience in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia regions. He was most recently Director of World Bank Group's International Finance Corporation (IFC), MENA, a position he held from 2005 until his retirement in 2010.
Prior to this, Michael held executive positions in risk management and corporate banking in Asia with Bank of Nova Scotia and in Australia/Pacific with NZI Bank Group. Currently he is Non-Executive Director on the board and audit committee of Ahli United Bank, a pan MENA region commercial bank and NED on the board and investment committee of Macquarie Bank's India Infrastructure Fund, a $1.2Bn fund investing in the country's airports, telecom, power and toll road assets.
Sean Park
Investment Committee
Sean is a well known and much sought after thought leader on the future of financial services. He combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience, informed by over 20 years of experience working at senior levels in capital markets and investment banking.
Sean was formerly on the Global Markets Management Committee at Dresdner Kleinwort where he ran a number of their Global Capital Markets including their Digital Markets Division, where he was instrumental in driving the introduction and adoption of electronic book building in the European Fixed Income Markets. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of Markit Group and Board Chairman of the International Index Company (iBoxx). With a 10-year track record in seed-round digital finance investments with returns ranging from 20x-100x, Sean was a founding investor in Betfair, The Climate Corporation (WeatherBill), Markit and Zoopla, and is currently a Board Director of Trov, Currency Cloud, Blueleaf and Fidor Bank and on the advisory board of Zoopla. He is also the author of the widely read Park Paradigm, a blog focused on the future of finance. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Sean has a BSc in Materials Science from Rice University in Texas, US.
Rotimi Oyekanmi
Rotimi is based in Lagos, Nigeria and is currently the Chairman of Rendeavour West Africa and Chairman of RenMoney MFB. Until 2013, Rotimi was Group Head Ecobank Capital Nigeria, prior to which he was CEO Renaissance Group West Africa and MD of Renaissance Partners (Private Equity arm of Renaissance Group).
Prior to Renaissance Group, Rotimi was for 18 years with African Capital Alliance, where he served as Chief Investment Officer. Previously, he was responsible for establishing the SME Fund for ACA in 2001 and was CEO of the Fund from inception, as well as being a Principal in Capital Alliance Private Equity Fund (Nigeria's first structured fund). Before joining ACA in 1999 he was, for over four years, Executive Director of Ventures & Trusts Limited, a diversified venture capital firm. Previous employment included Prime Merchant Bank in Lagos, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan and Arthur Andersen in Lagos.
Rotimi is the pioneer President of the Venture Capital Association of Nigeria (VCAN). He was a Director of the African Venture Capital Association (ACVA) since 1994 until March 2008 when he was elected as Chairman of AVCA. In 2011 Rotimi served on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Committee to review the potentials for demutualization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Oliver Krantz
Operating Partner
Oliver is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and brings a wealth of technology experience across payments and banking coupled with a considered perspective on disruptive technologies, and practical experience of mobile payments, particularly in Africa. With over 20 years of experience, Oliver is currently an Operating Partner at Apis, in charge of operational improvement directly with Apis portfolio companies. He has held CIO and COO positions in several international corporates in Europe and South Africa including First Data, Telecash and Encorus Technologies. He has also run large data centres, NSPs and operations in the payments space and having architected a successful mobile payment platform for emerging markets, is a strong proponent of new payment technologies that can empower the un- / under banked populations.
Keith Handley
General Counsel
Keith is the General Counsel for Apis Partners LLP and advises on both investment activities and the advisory arrangements of Apis. He has extensive experience in M&A, private equity and regulatory compliance, particularly in emerging markets, gained over more than 25 years.
Keith was most recently the Managing Partner and Group General Counsel for Chayton Capital LLP, an emerging markets focused private equity firm, where he was responsible for all legal and regulatory aspects of the firm and its related investment funds, in addition to managing its European business. Prior to that, he was a Partner at Dentons (formerly Salans) in their Global Real Estate Group's M&A and Private Equity practice.
Keith started his career in London but was based in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam for 10 years with leading US and UK international law firms.
Keith holds an MA (Hons) in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and obtained his professional qualification at the Inns of Court School of Law.
Monica Pinto
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Operations
Monica has over 18 years of experience in direct investing, management and strategy consulting, primarily in growth markets. Prior to Apis Partners, Monica was a Director at Banco Efisa. She was the head of the Business Unit focused on private equity investments, debt financing and corporate finance, in international markets (Africa, India, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Brazil). She was responsible for all management aspects, including P&L, capital allocation, investment criteria, origination, end to end execution of transactions and management of the team. Previously she was a strategy consultant for Marakon Associates. She led teams in Europe and Brazil, for companies like ABN AMRO, Banco Real (Brazil), BBVA, Santander, in a variety of strategic issues. At Procter & Gamble, she worked in Latin America and South East Asia, setting up new companies. Monica holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters Degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (I.S.T) (Portugal) in Computer Science & Systems Engineering.
Asad Naqvi
Managing Director
Asad has over 14 years of experience in private equity investing and corporate finance. Prior to Apis, Asad was a Partner at Wolfensohn Fund Management, a private equity fund specializing in financial services in emerging markets. Asad headed the firm's London office and was actively involved in originating, executing and managing the fund's financial sector investments, ranging from consumer finance lenders to stock exchanges.
Previously, Asad was the Director of Acquisitions & Investments at The Resource Group (TRG), a global investment holding company where his experience included over 10 private equity style investments in the business services sector. Asad started his career at Lazard where he worked on over 10 M&A transactions with an aggregate value of over $14bn. Asad has also served on the board of directors of 4 portfolio companies.
Asad holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.
Nadeem Shaikh
Portfolio Management Committee
Nadeem is a thought leader and practitioner of innovation within financial services and has an unmatched global network within both the startup world and the established corporates.
Before co-founding Anthemis Group, Nadeem was President at First Data Corporation where he held a number of senior roles, including most recently as Head of the Financial Institutions, where he ran a multibillion dollar organization overseeing businesses in over 50 markets. Before that he led the strategy and technology arm at American Management Systems. At Anthemis, he advises international financial services institutions on strategic innovation. He is passionate about supporting the emerging digital financial services ecosystem and to that end, is a dedicated mentor to startups at incubators and accelerators, like Barclays Techstars and Level39. He also serves on the Boards of PayPerks, AFB and OneBento within the Anthemis portfolio.
Nadeem has lived and worked all over the world and now resides in London with his young family. He also is the Board Chairman of CARE, Pakistan's largest educational NGO.
Sanjay Sachdev
Regional Investment Partner
Sanjay is based in India and the US and has spent over 25 years building game-changing asset management businesses in a number of growth markets. He has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Tata Asset Management, based in India. Prior to joining Tata, Sanjay also served as the Chief Executive Officer at Principal PNB Asset Management. He has also served as a Managing Director and Country Manager for India at Principal International Inc and at The Principal International for 12 years, 9 of them in India. He is currently the Chairman of Zyfin, a financial information company based in India.
Alexia Yannopoulos
Alexia has nearly a decade of experience in Financial Services, and she brings an in-depth understanding of financial and operational performance within the industry, having worked on several business transformation programs within the payments and broader financial services industry.
Prior to Apis, she was a VP at Anthemis, one of the leading VC investors and corporate advisors in Financial Technology, where she worked on investments and M&A transactions spanning a broad range of Financial Services, FinTech and Financial Infrastructure.
Previously she worked at Deutsche Bank and at TEMES, an Athens-based developer. During her years at Deutsche Bank she worked in the Financial Institutions team, where she was engaged in a broad array of M&A transactions focused in the MENA region and other high-growth markets.
Alexia has a Bachelors degree from Tufts University and a diploma in Development Politics and Arabic from SOAS.
Nic Smalle
Nicholas has a decade of experience in financial services private equity investing, strategy and management consulting. Prior to Apis, Nicholas was at Old Mutual based in South Africa, where he helped set up a Strategic Investment Fund spanning the African Financial Services landscape, considering both direct investment and partnering with local strategic partners / DFIs. Previously he was an Associate Director at Standard Chartered and part of the Wholesale Banking Strategy team in Singapore. He started his career with McKinsey and Company in London as a Business Analyst, working largely for McKinsey's Finance practice, covering the breadth of the industry. Nicholas holds an MBA from INSEAD, and was also a Shell Scholar at Cambridge University with an MPhil in Bioscience.
Ravi Bhatt
Investment Associate
Ravi has extensive advisory experience within financial services, having worked on a number of strategy and buy-side acquisition engagements in EMEA during his time at Anthemis Group. His interests in technology-led emerging business models in financial services range from alternative currencies and value systems to financial inclusion. Ravi previously interned with the European Natural Resources and Power team within the Investment Banking Division at Nomura.
Ravi graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc (Hons) in Economics.
Kiprono Terigin
Investment Associate
Kiprono has a range of experience in financial advisory, capital structuring, and debt origination in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to Apis Partners, Kiprono worked with JP Morgan's debt origination team in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he covered clients across Sub-Saharan Africa, including financial institutions in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. Kiprono also has experience of working in Kenya, his home country, where he interned with Jumia Kenya, the country's largest eCommerce company (part of Africa Internet Group), and Kestrel Capital, the top stockbroker in the country. Kiprono holds an MBA from INSEAD and graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) in Economics.
Dolapo Agbaje
Investment Associate
Dolapo has wide-ranging corporate finance experience across Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Apis, Dolapo worked for Standard Bank's Telecoms, Media and Technology Group in London. He was involved in the origination and execution of Mergers and Acquisitions and Debt and Equity financings for clients across Sub-Saharan Africa, including several financial technology transactions. Previously, Dolapo was at Deloitte where he was a Manager in the corporate finance advisory practice, advising financial institutions on strategic alternatives and financing.
Dolapo holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Cum Laude) from Dartmouth College and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Fares Al-Haffar
Investment Associate
Fares is an Investment Associate within our London office. Prior to joining Apis Partners, Fares was an Investment Banking Associate at Morgan Stanley, having worked in their London and Dubai offices. Fares has extensive experience in the payments and real estate sectors, having previously worked on a number of landmark transactions both in the Emerging Markets and Western Europe.
Fares earned a BSc in Finance from Bentley University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Olusola Olaosun
Office Manager - Lagos
Olusola has prior working experience in the financial services, education, and pharmaceutical sectors. She has previously worked as an analyst with Lloyds Bank's Remediation Team in the UK. She also has experience working in Nigeria as a Human Resource Officer and Audit Executive. Olusola also served as a customer service officer with one of Nigeria's top banks Access Bank Plc.
Olusola graduated from Covenant University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Language. She also holds an Msc. Degree in Human Resources Management & Development from The University of Salford Business School, UK.
JP Rangaswami
JP is Deutsche Bank's first-ever Chief Data Officer. As Chief Data Officer, he plays a key role in standardising the Bank's processes, tools and governance around information, and in supporting its digital strategy. JP is also a non-executive director of Ribbit – "Silicon Valley's first phone company".
Prior to this he was Chief Scientist at salesforce.com, the world's largest provider of customer relationship-management software, and at BT Group after having been the MD of BT Design (responsible for innovation at the Group). He originally joined BT as CIO of Global Services, supporting large businesses and organizations across the globe. He was named to silicon.com's "Top 50 Agenda Setters in technology" in 2007 and 2008 and was ranked 18th in Wired Magazine's 2009 first UK100 list of Britain's "top digital power-brokers."
Regarded as something of a maverick and an innovator, JP Rangaswami is an outspoken advocate of open source and using emerging and disruptive technologies to improve information sharing, education and collaboration. He is also a keen blogger on his own Confused of Calcutta website. Rangaswami actually started his career as a financial journalist in his home city of Calcutta. He only switched to IT when he first moved to the UK in 1980, writing technical manuals.
Moshe Tamir
Moshe is well known in the financial services innovation world, having spearheaded the development and deployment of multiple award-winning web platforms at Israel's largest insurance company, Migdal, where till recently, he lead the company's strategy, marketing, communication, digital platforms for clients and distribution channels amongst other things.
He currently heads innovation and sales in Generali, one of the world's leading insurance and financial institutions managing assets worth more than 400bn Euros. Moshe brings with him strong knowledge and experience of innovation methodologies in financial services organisations together with strong field experience in the implementation of these initiatives while focusing on transition management activities in traditional insurance companies.
Andrew Veitch
Andrew Veitch brings in-depth knowledge of payment systems, product management, merchant pricing and payment schemes. Positioned across business and technology, he ensures that what has been promised is actually delivered.
With over 20 years experience in the payment industry, Andrew provides considered advice, as he understands the delicate balance between new opportunities and service delivery. His knowledge and approach has resulted in significant revenue growth and process improvement across a diverse set of clients. Andrew held senior positions within Visa and has been involved with payment entities across Europe and on a global basis as a consultant for the past 6 years.
Sabine Some-Mensah
Sabine Somé – Mensah has over 17 years of expertise in business development, agent network management, sales, marketing and hands-on experience in remittances, payments and mobile money. Sabine spent most of her career with the Western Union Company.
Starting in 1998, she spearheaded the development of the agent business model and the introduction of Western Union money transfer services in West Africa. Two years later, Sabine was selected to move to New York to lead business development, diaspora and grassroots marketing efforts for remittances from North America to Africa. Throughout her career at Western Union, Sabine has successfully led sales teams, established and managed agent network distribution channels across Africa, US and Canada. Since 2013, Sabine relocated to Kenya and has been working on mobile financial service projects. She is an expert B2C and B2B marketer particularly in the fields of new product development, communication and go-to-market strategy, customer relationship management and loyalty programs. She is bilingual French and holds an MBA from Central Michigan University (US), a Bachelor in Finance from IFAM (France) and a Certificate in Project Management from Humber College (Canada).
Gavin Holland
Gavin's expertise lies in advising companies on recruiting, developing, and retaining high-performing talent and with them building world-class teams. As Founder of Anthemis Talent, his 15+ years of experience in the industry will help our external clients and our portfolio companies to grow and develop their organisations.
Prior to joining Anthemis, Gavin ran the Financial Services talent business across Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Heidrick & Struggles. In his 13 years there, Gavin worked in the New York and London offices, became one of the youngest Partners in the firm's history at 29, and was recognised internally and externally as one of the very few executive search professionals who really understand the intersect point of the financial services industry with technology, change and innovation.
His recent client work has included hiring the Chairman, CEO, COO, CTO and other C-Level executives across a range of sectors including FinTech, Payments, Consumer Financial Services, Corporate & Investment Banking, Asset Wealth & Alternative Investments, Clearing & BPO. These clients have ranged from the world's most prestigious multi-nationals, to the most disruptive small start-ups. Currently based back in the UK, Gavin has a BSc in Mathematics from Warwick University, and an MBA from Cass Business School.
Yann Ranchere
Yann brings in-depth knowledge of the trends shaping financial services innovation as well as the startups addressing those and has international experience in a broad range of financial services.
He contributes to the Principal Investment activities, with the sourcing and review of potential investments. He is the author of the Tekfin blog and @tek_fin twitter account. Prior to joining Anthemis, Yann worked as a consultant at KurtSalmon in New York in various sectors: retail banking, private banking, capital markets, custody and fund administration and lead the financial services innovation activity in the US. He worked previously in Luxembourg and France. Yann has a Master's degree from french business school ESCP Europe. He lives in Geneva and is an avid skier, windsurfer and photographer.
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Notice: This is a review for both 2 seasons of Sidonia.
Well, well, well, what do we have here? A fully computer generated anime series, based on an incomplete manga by the creator of Blame, with a premise that is basically Attack on Titan in the far future. What could possibly go wrong? Let's analyze the previous elements, one by one; shall we?
1) Fully computer generated. Major disadvantage. CGI sucks ass without a lot of time and effort put into it, something that isn't the case with Sidonia. It does make machines look cool and aliens creepy, which adds to the atmosphere of the series, but when it comes to character designs, it looks very off-putting. Unless you have an extreme tolerance to choppy motions and robot-like characters, you will drop this show like a hot potato.
2) Based on an incomplete manga. Major disadvantage. You are left with no ending, or an anime original one, which will contradict the manga, and nobody will like. Sure, you can always wait a decade until enough material is out, but by then, very few will care anymore, and the difference in technology will be making it even harder to get into.
3) By the creator of Blame. That sounds like a plus, because he excels in mindfuck stories full of machinery and bizarre monsters, but in this case it works against him. This is a much more mainstream type of story, full of anime stereotypes that take it one step away from thinking it is a light novel. The expectations are too high because of his fame, and the final product is disappointing.
4) A premise that is basically Attack on Titan in the far future. That sounds like it doesn't mean anything, when in fact it does. Because of the undeserved praise AOT got, everybody and their waifu are now making shows with the same premise, just to milk those addicted to shock factor and bad storytelling. Meaning, this show is in effect a cashgrab, made on a tight budget just to run to the casual oasis before shows like Black Bullet, Arpeggio of Blue Steel, and Seraph of the End dry completely the money well. And yes, Sidonia began as a manga before AOT, but its adaptation came into being only because of its success.
Well done Sidonia, you already failed before you even began. But for the sake of argument, let's give it the benefit of doubt and assume everything I said so far, are not enough to drive you away from enjoying it… It's still terrible. For the same reasons AOT is terrible.
5) Shock factor. You know the drill; lots of gruesome deaths, destroying the characterization of its cast. It doesn't give them depth, nor does the story become more serious. Wasn't Akame ga Kill enough to realize that? It doesn't help how most characters look the same and move like robots. When they die it's like they get deactivated and replaced by other robots. Also, none of them get enough screen time or feel important enough in the plot, so you don't give a shit when they die.
6) Lack of focus. As for those who survive and live to fight another day, they don't get much fleshing out, because the audience is either too busy staring at the creepy aliens, making bets about who is going to die next, or doesn't give a crap about their personalities because the whole show is an ecchi comedy.
7) Wish fulfillment. For a show that is supposed to be about humanity trying to survive against alien monstrosities, you constantly get fan service moments which break the immersion. There isn't that much of it, but it is more than enough to not take the show seriously. The protagonist feels like he was transferred there from a harem. Weak, passive, constantly bumps into naked women, and feels like he is incompetent in everything. But as soon as things get serious, he will be a super pilot who will be single-handedly wiping out aliens that not even elite groups could scratch. And then he will be cheered by everybody, and all the girls will be after his D, before reverting to his useless mode and keeps bumping on naked women. All this pandering makes him look like yet another Jesus for introverts.
8) Creepy factor. And it's not good fan service either. You can't even enjoy it as guilty pleasure because the characters look like robots. Also, it has some really deviant fetishes that are too gross to even count as sexy. One of the chicks who wants the protagonist's D is a hermaphrodite with cyborg arms, and another chick is an alien freak which can't even speak properly.
9) Unused concepts. There are lots of interesting sci-fi concepts that either don't fit in the setting, or are not used in any good way plot-wise. There is a bear woman with a hook arm that is supposed to be some sort of genetic hybrid. That's so out there; it is never explained, never used in any way, and it belongs to a school comedy. There are people who photosynthesize instead of eating, as well as hermaphrodites; again part of the genetic engineering going on in the future. Those are not relevant to the plot, and are used only for silly comedy and deviant fetishes.
10) Weak mystery. Not even what the aliens are, or what they want means anything in the longrun, since just like in AOT, the show deliberately never explains their motives, as means to keeps them scary by being a mystery, and not a faction with an agenda or characters with personality. And since by now we all know it is always some variation of Soylent Green, you might as well not give a damn about them.
11) Bad storytelling. The show has no idea of how to surprise you without insulting your intelligence. There is a scene where a guy gives the protagonist an inappropriate command, just to fail and be accused of being useless. Everybody indeed accuses the protagonist and doesn't even attempt to verify what exactly happened, even when the whole thing was recorded in the robot he pilots. There is another scene where the protagonist bumps on a secret facility by complete chance, and it turns out he is already chosen as a test pilot there, making all the time spent on the accidental discovery pointless.
12) No objective. The whole show is aimless, since the motives of the aliens are never explained, and all the humans are doing is surviving alien attacks. It is a very passive goal that never fixes the problem, and gets dull very fast if all you get is aliens attack, humans fend them off, aliens attack, humans fend them off. And the worst part is that, this formula can never change, because it will mean the death of everybody and the end of the show.
Thus once again you get a good premise that is ruined by bad handling and I do not recommend it, unless you are one of those people who think that constantly killing robots we don't know or care about is a stroke of brilliance. How about simply watching that wonderful music videoclip by Muse, which happens to share the same name? It doesn't have pitiful CGI and it actually has a cool space western vibe to it. Also, it's retro, so it's better.
Usually I have way different view on everything, but in the case os Sidonia...
I stopped after one episode, because I felt like watching the character-movement will give me a headache.
What a butt-hurted review i have just read. First of all, a lot of mysteryies are left unsolved just becouse the whole serie is most probably to be continued, and honestly, as far as the don't completly screw them, it is ok the way it is, thanks to that it still has potential to be followed by a successfull sequel. The BIGGEST problem with that review is that you simply, don't realize what you have watched "The show has no idea of how to surprise you without insulting your intelligence" DUDE IT IS MECHA, IT DOESN'T NEED TO. Go watch Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei, From The New World, if you want to experience it. Don't rate shounen-mecha as if it was Noitamina ! What Sidonia does well, is its pacing, its ANIMATION, which is innovative and, at some point, ambitious to make. Sidonia is almost perfect within what the good MECHA need to be in ! And I can't simply leave this the way "it is my point of view" becouse 1. You are not opinionated, you are simply WRONG and missing the point of watching MECHA, but what is worse.. 2. you share with it...I am not here to contempt you, you can do whatever you want, but to convey potential readers, that at no condition, should that review have any impactful effect on anyone
PS: i would've written another review of your review undermining almost everything you've written, just let me know, so i could prepare mentaly :v
I thought, in error, that this show might be good. Unfortunately, it's just another predictable grimdark piece of shit. You can tell when a character is about to bite it, because they'll say "Oh boy, I really love being alive!" or somesuch, or they'll suddenly get some backstory where there was none before.
And not only does it not explore more interesting story concepts, in SPACE, it goes with the standard anime privledged versus underdog rival story. Boring predictable piece of shit.
Ive loved your reviews for a long time. Keep it up.
I'm not going to say you're wrong. You're pretty accurate with your review. The biggest flaw to me was probably the bear. That was a horrible choice of character. CGI is usually horrible but they did fantastic with it in this show and I felt it actually helped make a lot of the characters more enjoyable. If it wasn't animated with CGI I feel it would seem a lot like Vandread. Flawed show that ends up being pretty enjoyable as long as you don't go all prude on it. But objectively you're right and justified with your review.


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Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music.
Dukas was born in Paris and studied, under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud among others, at the Conservatoire there, where he was a friend of Claude Debussy. After completing his studies he found work as an orchestrator and critic.
Although Dukas wrote a fair amount of music, he destroyed many of his pieces out of dissatisfaction with them, and only a few remain. His first surviving work of note is the energetic Symphony (1896) which belongs to the tradition of Beethoven and César Franck. It was followed by another orchestral work, L'apprenti sorcier, better known under its English title The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1897), which is based on Goethe's poem 'Der Zauberlehrling'. This piece was used in the Walt Disney film Fantasia, which accounts for much of its fame. Dukas's rhythmic mastery and vivid orchestration are evident in both works.
For the piano, Dukas wrote two complex and technically demanding large-scale works, a Sonata (1901) and Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau (1902), again reminiscent of Beethoven and Franck. The opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue ('Ariadne and Bluebeard'), on which he worked from 1899 to 1907, has often been compared to Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, partly because of musical similarities and partly because both operas are based on plays by Maurice Maeterlinck. The sumptuous oriental ballet La Péri (1912) was Dukas's last major work.
In the last decades of his life, Dukas became well known as a teacher of composition, with many famous students such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen and Jehan Alain. He died in Paris and is one of many famous people to be buried in the Pčre Lachaise cemetery there.
|Villanelle (French Horn and Piano). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Editions Durand. 18 pages. Editions Durand #DF0679700. Published by Editions Durand
|The Sorcerer's Apprentice "By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by James Christensen. For woodwind quintet (flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, horn in F, and bassoon). Woodwind Quintet. Disney. Grade 3. Set of performance parts. Published by Kendor Music Inc"
|Fanfare from La Peri "By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by Kenneth Kemmerer. Brass quintet. For 2 Trumpets, Horn, Trombone, Tuba. Score and set of parts. Published by AK Brass Press"
|Sorcerer's Apprentice (Piano Solo). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Edited by G Sandor. Piano. SMP Level 10 (Advanced). 28 pages. G. Schirmer #LB1738. Published by G. Schirmer
|Fanfare (from La Peri) By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by David Marlatt. For Brass Choir (220.127.116.11.1). Brass - Brass Choir; Masterworks. Eighth Note Publications. Contemporary. Duration 00:01:45. Published by Eighth Note Publications
|Villanelle By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). For horn (or euphonium) / wind symphony or band. Concerto/Instrumental Solo; Transcriptions. Masters Symphonic Band Concert Band. Impressionist; French. Grade 4. Score and set of parts. Composed 1906/1995. Duration 6 minutes. Pu
|The Sorcerer's Apprentice "By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by James Christensen. For Clarinet Quartet. Kendor Ensemble Series. Movie, Disney. Grade 3. Score and Set of Parts. Duration 1:10. Published by Kendor Music Inc"
|L'Apprenti Sorcier (Sorcerer's Apprentice) (2 Pianos 4 Hands). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Editions Durand. 40 pages. Editions Durand #DF0531400. Published by Editions Durand
|Fanfare (To Precede the Ballet La Pí©ri) (Full Score). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Score. Editions Durand. 8 pages. Editions Durand #DF1107700. Published by Editions Durand
|Sonata in E-Flat Minor By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). For Piano. Masterworks; Piano Solo; Solo. Kalmus Edition. Form: Sonata. 20th Century; Masterwork; Romantic. 60 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing
|L'Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) "By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). For Orchestra: 2+1, 2, 2+1, 3+1 - 4, 2+2, 3, 0, timpani, percussion, harp, strings. Tone Poems; Original Works. Masters Study Scores. Post-Romantic. Study score. Composed 1897. Duration 12 minutes. Published by Masters Music Pu
|Villanelle By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Edited by James Chambers. For horn and piano. Published by International Music Company
|The Sorcerer's Apprentice By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by Charles Warren. For brass quintet. Quintet music. Grade 3. Published by Cimarron Music Press
|Fanfare (To Precede the Ballet La Pí©ri) (Set of Parts). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Editions Durand. 22 pages. Editions Durand #DF1107800. Published by Editions Durand
|The Sorcerer's Apprentice By Paul Dukas. For piano. Classical; Disney; Film/TV; Halloween. Piano. 3 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music
|Alla Gitana By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). For alto saxophone / piano. Impressionist. Score & part. Composed 1909. Published by Masters Music Publications Inc.
|Alla Gitana (Saxophone Mib et Piano). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935) and Marcel Mule (1901-2001). For E-flat saxophone and piano. Published by Alphonse Leduc
|The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Scherzo). By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by Frank Winterbottom. BAND SET. Boosey & Hawkes Concert Band. Boosey & Hawkes #M060053856. Published by Boosey & Hawkes
|Villanelle By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). For horn / piano. Score & part. Published by Masters Music Publications Inc.
|Fanfare from La Peri By Paul Dukas (1865-1935). Arranged by David Marlatt. For Double Brass Quintet. Brass Ensemble - Quintet; Masterworks. Eighth Note Publications. Form: Fanfare. 20th Century; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic. 40 pages. Published by Eighth Note Publications


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They have great bagels. Especially when it just came out of the oven. The muffins are great also especially the banana nut and cranberry muffins.
Everytime we have out-of-town guests, we make sure we get Wonder Bagels. Bagels are boiled and baked several times a day, so they are always fresh. And they are the real dear. Because they open at 6 (even on weekends) you can pick up fresh bagels that morning. The name is apt, cuz this place is one of the wonders...
I grew up in Brooklyn and then lived in Manhattan for years. So I know my bagels. Don't know why it took me so long to discover Wonder Bagels. But this is by far the best bagel I have had since moving to Jersey City. I waited in line for 20 minutes and I would do it again without hesitating
The quality of food ranges from a SOHO experience to your neighborhood Deli with all the trimmings. You can stick to a veggie way of life or a not so basic sandwich.
I've been to Wonder Bagels many times and every time the cream cheese is spectacular. If you are a vegan, there is even vegan cream cheese! You can choose from hundreds of bagels and a dozen cream cheeses. I get something different every time, and it's always good quality food.
we've been going to get bagels nearly every Saturday morning for more than 5 years now and absolutely love the flavors :)
if you get there after 8:30-9:00 in the morning the line will be LONG! but people just wait patiently.
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The lines can be long, but definely it's worth the wait. They're the Best in the neighborhood for take out.
I really enjoyed my breakfast here. Bagels were very fresh and the Taylor Ham was delicious. The fresh squeezed OJ was a bit expensive but worth it.
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We went to Wonder Bagels after reading all of the reviews. The bagels were delicious. The bagels were crusty on the outside and were perfectly soft/chewy on the inside. They didn't skimp on the cream cheese either. . They layered it on! Definitely expect a wait but it wasn't too terrible (especially for a Saturday morning). However due to the...
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The kitchen is thick with the smell of grilling fish, its silver skin caught black on the ridges of the cast-iron pan, and blue-grey smoke is billowing through the kitchen door to the garden beyond. There's a sting in the air that catches the throat and eyes. The delicious sting of smoke, sea salt and lemons. God, I love this job.
This summer has been a feast of mackerel (a snip at barely two quid apiece), sardines with their big flavours and little bones, and whitebait, which I buy frozen, shake in salt and peppered flour and chuck into hot oil. If I'm feeling flush I'll pick up a red mullet. When it hits the grill, the smell that ensues is as good as a holiday in the south of France. Even more so if you toss tiny, shiny black olives into the pan and have a bottle of very cold rosé to hand.
One supper I have had about half a dozen times this summer involves nothing more complicated than warming hunks of lemon in a little olive oil in a shallow pan till they colour and soften, then laying gutted whole sardines in the pan with them. The fish cook in a minute or two, and end up scented with the lemon. Sea salt, crusty bread and a glass or two of white wine turns this into a neat little supper.
The downside has been all the bones - the coat hangers that give these fishes their elegant torpedo shape and stop them collapsing into a slimy blob. That's why I love whitebait so much, you just scrunch the immature bones as if they were Twiglets. Fish bones have never had many fans, and are the main reason for people not eating more piscine suppers.
If you run your knife along the backbone of a cooked fish, then retrace your steps with the blade almost flat, you can slide the soft flesh neatly away from the bones. It is one of those small kitchen jobs that gives immense pleasure and partly makes up for all those jobs that don't, like fishing yukky bits out of the plughole. It's so easy to do and puts paid to whingeing by those who like fish, but won't eat it because of the bones. You can do this with trout, salmon and red mullet. Flat fish such as sole and plaice are even easier because the bones are so obvious and widely spaced. Exceptions are the tiny fish such as sardines and anchovies whose bones are more like hairs. To spot these you need either the eye of a kestrel or enough cash to tempt your fishmonger into doing the job for you. Yet somehow I can overlook these little failings. The bones are a pest, but they are part of the deal. Thorns have never stopped us loving the rose.
A salad of red mullett with lime and ginger
A starter should sharpen and excite the appetite. This recipe does exactly that. Serves 2 as a light lunch, 4 as a starter.
2 red mullet, filleted
50ml white-wine vinegar
120ml lime juice (3 to 4 limes)
4 lime leaves
a small carrot
a small onion
a small clove of garlic
a small, fresh red chilli, seeded and very finely sliced
palm sugar
2 whole star anise
1 tsp coriander seed
10 white peppercorns
8 black peppercorns
80ml olive oil
a small knob of fresh ginger - about 1cm long
a little parsley, quite finely chopped
triangles of rye bread, to serve
Pour the wine vinegar and the lime juice into a stainless-steel saucepan. Add the lime leaves, scrunching them slightly to release their fragrance as you go. Scrub the carrot and slice it as finely as paper - you should almost be able to see through it - then peel the onion and slice that similarly. Drop them into the pan together with the garlic, peeled and squashed flat (you just want the merest whiff), the chilli, a teaspoon of palm sugar (though you may need to add more later) and the star anise, coriander seed and white peppercorns. Bring the lot to the boil, add a good pinch of salt, eight black peppercorns, then pour in the olive oil and let the mixture simmer for a minute or to. You want the onion to have softened slightly. Turn the heat off, leave the lid on and let the mixture settle.
Warm a little olive oil in a non-stick pan. Season the red mullet fillets with salt and black pepper and lay them skinside down in the hot olive oil. Seal them - keep the heat high and let the skin colour, then turn them over and let them colour on the other side. Lift them from the pan with a fish slice and place them on a shallow dish.
Grate the ginger into the marinade and stir in the parsley. Taste it, then add a little more palm sugar if you think it needs it. It should have a little kick to it. Spoon it over the fish and leave to cool.
Lift the fish on to plates and spoon over the vegetables and liquor. Serve with triangles of rye bread, buttered if you must.
Grilled squid with thyme and lime juice
I have always seasoned grilled fish with either thyme and lemon juice or coriander and lime. Sometimes rules are for breaking and this is one instance where I found myself breaking my own. We ate this as a light supper with some bread to mop up the juices, but I could have done with some chips, too. Serves 2.
a large, juicy clove of garlic
a handful of thyme sprigs
2 tbsps olive oil
450g cleaned squid (body sacs and tentacles)
For the dressing:
the juice of 2 limes
2 tbsps olive oil
the leaves of a couple of sprigs of thyme
Maldon sea salt flakes
Peel the garlic and crush it to a paste with a pestle and mortar. Strip the leaves from the thyme and mash them into the garlic with the olive oil to give a smoothish dressing.
Give the squid a good once over, removing any stray bits of gut or slime the fishmonger has left behind, and rinse thoroughly. Shake it dry, then cut each sack down the side so that it opens out flat. Take a very sharp knife and score the flesh on one side in a crisscross fashion, but not so deep that you cut all the way through. Turn the squid in the garlic marinade and set aside for a good 30 minutes, or longer.
Make the dressing in a small basin or a screw-top jar by mixing the lime juice, olive oil and thyme leaves together.
Get a ridged griddle hot. Lay the pieces of squid on the ridges and let it grill for a few seconds on each side. It will probably roll itself up into beautiful white curls. Remove it as soon as it is lightly coloured here and there from the grill bars (just a minute or two) and divide between two plates. Tip over the dressing and sprinkle with flakes of Maldon sea salt. Eat while all is hot and sizzling.
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I live in San Jose CA and the meat came from Morris Grassfed Beef and the price/pound is still better than what I can get at the grocery store. I imagine the price difference described by you and Eristone can probably be ascribed to me being in the SF Bay Area and you and Eristone living Somewhere Else.
Plus, I didn't pay for this, my parents did. I was just the one assigned to pick up the beef.
Oh damn, there goes my moderation in this comment section. Oh well.
It's a quarter-cow's worth of (in this case, grass fed) beef for $8.69 a pound. A split half is roughly 90 lbs. total, half ground beef and the rest an assortment. It's basically buying a fully butchered quarter-carcass, so you get approximately the steaks and pieces that you would get if you had literally purchased a quarter of a cow. It's a very good deal on very good beef if you have the freezer space and don't mind having a lot of ground beef.
30-50 hours until space stage? Are you sure you played the same game I did?
I'll grant that if you spent two or three hours designing your creature at each stage plus all the vehicles and buildings you could definitely rack up more than twenty hours by the Space stage, but that's at the far end of the spectrum. I never had the patience for it, so I usually went from speck to spaceship in the span of five or six hours of play.
The outrage over Spore that I recall was more about the fact that the Creature, Tribal, and Civilization stages were so brief and shallow. A lot of the hype for Spore before release was that you supposedly had a third person adventure, a tactical (read: micro heavy) RTS, Civ Lite, and Elite/Colony Management game all wrapped up in a pretty package. The novel gimmick was that you got to do all these Fun Awesome Things with the very species you guided from paramecium to Galactic Powerhouse. The concept was extremely cool.
Instead, the players got an arcade game, a brief third person walking simulator, exactly one match of Warcraft III, the easiest game of Civ possible, and an "epic" space stage that had the grindiest, most boring colony management game I've ever played. And the space combat wasn't any fun either. In fact, the Space section was probably the weakest part of the game, which is why Galactic Adventures brought back the third person adventuring thing with player-made dungeons, which was actually worthwhile.
What? You've completely missed the point.
Everyone since the dawn of time has been able to go to websites like FPSBanana (which still loads slow because apparently it's 2004 or something) and download and install every custom skin/model/voice/particle effect they could possibly want. They can still do this. Thousands of people do. The problem is that such modifications are entirely client side, and thus can only ever be for personal satisfaction.
The point of microtransaction items like "cosmetics in TF2 and shitty mspaint reskins in CS:GO" is for other people to see your fancy hat/weapon. It's to show it off to people other than yourself. Some of it is conspicuous consumption to be sure, but a lot of people like customizing their digital avatars for everyone else to see. That appeal will never disappear. For good or for ill, microtransactions are the lifeblood of many games that millions of people play literally every day. The peak today for DOTA 2 was nearly a million players. League of Legends claims tens of millions of unique players monthly.
Of course valve shutting down these gambling sites is about money. It's also about gambling, but in reality gambling is about money anyways so... yeah. It's just not about mods like you erroneously seem to think it is.
Which is fine by me. I like the longer form of miniseries, it allows the pacing to be more languid. I hold up the Daredevil show in netflix as a good example of this (at least the first season of it). You can compare it directly to the first season of The Flash which is also on netflix, and you can see that the broader strokes allowed by the longer format and lack of forced advertisement breaks makes for a much more engrossing watch. Putting the timing of cliffhangers and story cuts in the hands of the creators instead of the advertising agencies is a huge improvement.
I had no idea the advertisers were so willing to so accurately describe their efforts. It's such a delightful misread that I'm starting to wonder if they were created with intent.
I don't play CS:GO but I have a substantial amount of Fake Digital Stuff in my Team Fortress 2 "backpack". I've spent at least several hundred dollars on completely digital "goods" in TF2 over the years I've been playing it (since open beta, October 2007). Mostly I haven't regretted the individual "purchases" I've made, and to a large part it gives me joy. I budget it as "entertainment" money, so as long as I'm entertained to a degree I deem of sufficient value in exchange for my money, I don't mind giving it to Valve. After all, I've been playing TF2 for nearly ten years and they've been supporting it and adding gameplay (and a huge ton of digital "goods", which is neither here nor there for the sake of this argument). I'm voting with my wallet.
Some players have things called "unusual hats" in their backpacks. They're hats (which are many in TF2) but they're also special. So called "unusuals" have particle effects attached to them. Buzzing flies, or sunbeams, or little clouds, or sprays of confetti, aces of spades, hundred dollar bills, or perhaps little orbiting planets, or a little cloudburst... there's dozens of effects of varying value determined by inherent coolness, appropriateness of effect to headgear (example: buzzing flies is sold for the lowest prices, but buzzing flies on a hat that's a plunger you wear suckered to your head? That's a "valuable" combination!) and rarity of the effect. Unusual hats go from anywhere from twenty, thirty dollars to many hundreds. Still not as much as the knife skins mentioned though, because CS:GO is a more popular game than TF2.
Different items for different circles, but the reason remains the same: Expensive knife skins, rare hats that appear to be literally on fire, the latest iphone, or the flashiest roadster, it's all purchased for other people to look at and say to themselves "that fellow has a fat wallet and I'm jealous of him".
For (extremely roughly) the same reasons that copy-paste commands don't work on bitcoins. Sure, you can duplicate your bitcoins as much as you want (in the case of these knife skins, you can install as many knife-skin mods as you want) but once you transfer those bitcoins to someone else, as far as everyone else is concerned, they belong to that other person. No matter how many knife-skin mods you have installed on your computer, the "digital goods" are in somebody else's safe deposit box.
I recall that Google used to have an option for this sort of thing (it was an option next to the cached page link that would remove that website from the current and future searches) but it wasn't around for very long and my google fu isn't strong enough to find any useful mentions of it.
If you do happen to find a plugin (perhaps a custom search engine for firefox?) that does this, I would be interested to hear about it.
At this point I expect that the supposed cutoff date will roll around, and then one of two things will happen:
1) They start charging whatever they're charging for it. But it won't stop being a "Recommended" update for 7 and 8.1. Meaning of course that some loser will turn updates back on or boot up a laptop that spent seven months without a battery, get updated, and suddenly find their copy of Windows 10 isn't licensed and they have a thirty day countdown. Pay up, sucker.
2) Nothing happens. It remains free. Eventually Microsoft will get around to yanking the updates, but probably not before something like option one happens. Credits to carrots the nagware will stick around though, just different. And no way are the telemetry updates getting removed.
Look deep into your heart. Which one do you think is gonna happen?
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I couldn't make this post before going to bed last night, and now a lot of the fire I felt has gone out. While fundamentally I disagree with most of what Stephen Hill says, how many times do I feel that we need to defend this hill? This has been a common refrain since the advent of citizen media – in blogs, in podcasts, in vlogs. A group of enthused amateurs enters and is excited to create, in text, audio or video. The people who currently make their living creating such look around, sniff and say "the great unwashed cannot match my mad skillz, who really needs this?" The pattern repeats, and I guarantee it will repeat with whatever the next thing is.
This is why I really give a huge amount of credit to people that would be justified in having that mindset and don't, like Tony Kahn. Tony is a pro with many years under his belt and could dismiss the efforts of ordinary citizens to get their stories out easily. Instead, he makes it his work to encourage and enable that. Way to go Tony!
I did two years of producing nationally syndicated public radio, and my experience was radically different from Stephen Hill's. I was doing a scrappy independent production that ran on no money, I was the only employee of the entire thing doing all booking, producing, interviewing, editing, publicity and driving to Fed Ex with the DAT tapes. I never drew a salary and did it entirely for the love of what I was doing. My pay was in self-satisfaction, having the home phone numbers of writers I admire, and bulging boxes of review copy books. Stephen Hill on the other hand presided over a big machine, the Hearts of Space empire of shows, CDs and all that. My public radio experience really and truly was not that different from my podcast experience whereas if he podcasts it will be a radical difference. Bear that in mind as I pick out a few choice bits of his essay and respond.
It's an arguable point for users in the heady days of realizing you are finally being programmed to, but in the medium to long run I don't believe that even niche audiences will sit still for extended doses of amateurish, inconsistent, self-indugent programming, no matter how vertically compelling the subject matter. For niche programs to attract new audiences and hold them over time, they will have to bear at least reasonable comparison to the production standards of mainstream media.
Here is the most visible tell in his poker hand, early on. Stuff that man with straw. Hill seems to be under the impression that there is no self-indulgence in public radio. He must not hear the programs I do. I'm a big fan of This American Life, which I love and is brilliant but is the very model of self-indulgence. People do sit still for it. It's interesting that the only people I ever hear talking about how the public won't listen to anything but slick programming are people that produce slick programming.
Hearts of Space was (is?) an impeccably produced program, highly professional and sounded great from a production standard. I also was unable to listen to it because it didn't do a damn thing for me. It was one of those shows that provoked the "fast twitch" reaction if it came on the radio as we reached for the knob to change stations. I am currently subscribed to over 150 different podcast feeds that cover the entire spectrum of production quality. The one thing they have in common is that they meet my needs, and inform or entertain me or otherwise keep my ears pleasantly engaged. The one with the lowest production quality of all of them still fulfills my needs better than the highly produced Hearts of Space. When I read his statement above, it puts me in mind of the auto industry of a decade ago saying "The public will never go for hybrid cars, that's why we don't make them." Sorry Charlie, but you aren't the ombudsman of public taste. If you were, you shouldn't be using the public as a sock puppet for your own preferences.
Public radio and television have over 50 years experience with this model. It was born of necessity at KPFA in Berkeley in the 1950s, and was ahead of its time in recognizing the kind of direct producer/audience interaction and shared sense of purpose that the Internet now delivers in spades.
But it also has serious disadvantages: even after 40 years of increasingly organized, skillful appeals for voluntary support, only about 10% of the audience actually pays. How podcasters expect a model that has barely worked in the context of full time professional broadcasting by licensed local monopolies to work for even smaller audiences is beyond me. Only a small fraction of programs and services will ever be able to sustain themselves this way. And if they do, most of them will pay a significant price by having to operate on a subsistence economy.
I did two years of Reality Break nationally, got enough funding via underwriting and grants from the beautiful people at KRVS to pay for the whole thing. However, I never earned a cent from any of it. In fact, in 10 months of getting revenue in via my podcast (there was no real attempt in the first 4 months) I have generated more money with this show than I did in the two years on public radio. That's not including the odd bits of things that have been generated on the side (in Doc Searls' terminology "making money because of the podcast, not with it"). On This Week in Tech instead of asking for large donations has people do a subscription of $2/month on an ongoing basis. They have something like 100,000 or more listeners. If 10% of those people signed up, the show would bring in $20K a month. Again, that's not enough for 7 guys to live off of, but it is significant. There are models that will work and do work, and I hope that plenty of them work better than public radio.
I don't know why he expects the standard to be the number of people who can support themselves with it. I can tell you, the thought of making my living off of podcasting was not why I got involved. I do it because it enriches my life, and I hope enriches the life of those who listen to me. That's it. How many people who play the guitar do it to make their living on it? The statement "Only a small fraction of guitar players will ever be able to sustain themselves with music" is true, as is the observation about podcasters. Both fall in that category of insights labeled "true but useless." So what?
I'm stopping here. I've lost interest in this. I don't agree with Hill that what podcasters need is to become more like public radio. I don't think it needs to become more like commercial radio. What it needs is to become something less like anything we know and more like something unique and not yet imagined. That's what I'm banking on.
Here's another very similar take from a Greensboro blogger who argues that they way the current media incumbents do things is the only thing acceptable. Sorry Chewie, I think there is room for all of it and you are not in the driver's seat you think you are. You also attempt to stack the deck by referring to "frat-boy-with-camera downloads". When you stuff the straw man that full, you admit you have a weak argument. My interview with Marjane Satrapi is exactly the kind of stuff you dismiss. Was it worth doing? Fuck yes. Is your point I shouldn't bother? If so, I reject that. Is your point that fewer people will see it than a network broadcast? If so, no shit sherlock. I don't know what your point is. I do know that I am richer for having done the video, and a few people have enjoyed it and been enlightened by it. That's plenty for me and thus I'm delighted that I did it. The fact that you have prejudged the content of citizen media, think you know the subject matter and quality before it has even been produced suggests that you are overreaching on that. I'll still buy you drinks at Flatiron anyway, but you might want to consider waiting to see what people do before deciding they'll never do anything of value.
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Brooklyn Bluesman on
October 26th, 2005 11:32 pm
Sounds like old "Chewie'picked the wrong Zeta Bata Tau to mess with. Here's to the "focused" man with the all-seeing piratecam in his hand. When are you going to sell conversion kits for the "solder-iron impaired" like myself?
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James on
October 27th, 2005 8:22 am
As one of the guys who produces crappy content podcasts, I have noticed one of the big assumptions that the Big Media guys always have. They assume people won't take to podcasting because there are a lot of crappy ones. I find that hard to believe (obviously or I would have to stop podcasting yesterday) because of all the crap in the Big Media outlets.
How many times have you flipped through a half dozen radio stations to find something you accept? How many times have you flipped through a hundred or more tv stations before settling on something that you have already seen? There is already tons of slickly produced crap in the old media venues. Slick production does not equal good.
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Fred on
October 27th, 2005 8:52 am
Well stated. Also I listen to EGC at 1.5x on WM since it plays better that way. I listen to a bunch of podcasts that way, again because it plays better for me.
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Dr Bitz on
October 27th, 2005 11:08 am
I completely agree, and specifically thought of your podcast when he went off about having to have expensive and extensive production facitilies. Love your podcast, keep up the good work!
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Andy on
October 27th, 2005 11:53 am
I call this the "anyone can do _that_" effect.
Every time I hear someone say "well, anyone can do _that_", I know there's something brewing. The corollary to it is that as you point out, almost without exception, the people saying this have a dog in the fight.
As examples that I have watched first-hand, I offer: punk, (white media's view of) rap, desktop publishing, open-source/GPL, photoshop, blogs and now – podcasting.
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Michael Pereckas on
October 27th, 2005 4:30 pm
I keep remembering something Dan Rutter, the Australian gadget reviewer, wrote back in 2001 about making money. Since his staff consists of him and his facilities consist of his bedroom, the amount of money he brings in is quite worthwhile. If a big organization tried to do the same thing, they'd have an office building, a design team, a marketing team, a legal team, a bunch of managers and executives, and so on, and while they'd bring in a lot more money, with all those expenses it would be a major loss.
And obviously, there doesn't need to be revenue in the first place. People who are used to being a part in a big operation for a living seem to have a hard time imagining that something similar to what they do could be an individual's hobby, but we keep seeing that it indeed can be.
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jeff on
October 28th, 2005 12:08 am
I can't listen to many podcasts… too little time. So they really have to offer me something good, quickly. Most don't. Same with a video.
#1 it shouldn't suck
#2 I need to be interested in it
#3 It shouldn't seem like every student film I ever saw
#4 If it sucks after I've waited for it to play, watched dumbass kiddie titles and rips off cheesy music, I'll hold a serious grudge.
I don't care what you put on your blog but if you trick me into thinking I should watch it and then it sucks, then your blog is like a billion other worthless piles of shit that I won't visit ever again.
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EdCone.com on
October 28th, 2005 7:25 am
Production quality and content quality
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Lenslinger on
October 28th, 2005 9:43 am
I'm all for quality content over sky-high production values, but muddled audio, fishbowl focusing and needless camera paning are nothing to be proud of. Is this low-tech approach worthy of all this debate? Hardly, but nor should it be hailed as the vestiges of a new and improved video-realm.
That said, I LOVED Blair Witch Project…
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PXLated on
October 28th, 2005 10:37 am
I find that if there is a niche podcast that really has content I'm interested in but poor production quality I'll still listen unless the quality is just insufferable (and some are). But if there are two podcasts in the niche, one poor and one great, I guarantee you I'll go with the one with better production values.
Therefore, if the mainstream podcasters enter my niche, they will probably be my choice unless the others step up their production quality.
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Cliff Gerrish on
October 28th, 2005 11:40 am
The thing that Stephen Hill doesn't seem to understand is that the distribution model of radio is under attack. Before podcasting there were a limited number of frequencies and the owners of those frequencies controlled content. Because of this a "professional" approach to content was created. Average content on commerical/public radio is of a high standard.
Average content in podcasting is not very good. But commercial/public radio isn't competing with "average" podcasts, they're competing with the best podcasts. And the best podcasts could fill up more than 24 hours in an individual's day.
My letter to Stephen Hill and Steve Gillmor can be found here:
They asked that it be entered into the public dialogue.
I think the key for Pubcasting is that as Podcasting searches for an appropriate business model — Pubcasting needs to follow the same path to ensure its future viability.
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bw on
October 28th, 2005 12:33 pm
hey man
the thing is you and hill are both right!
glad to hear you are making it work.. and making so much great audio!!
you are an inspiration
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Paul on
October 28th, 2005 1:07 pm
Wow, holy shit! Bang, right on the head, I'd say. That's intellectual speak for job well done ol' boy…well anyway… I have always liked your take on the idea because it is different from most everyone I hear talking about this. Everyone is out to look for the next big thing that millions of people will be tuning into. The beautiful thing about this whole citizen media concept is not the millions that won't be tuning in, but the hundreds (thousands?) who will be listening to what one person says…little groups of people in conversation or enjoyment… good stuff…wow, what a time to be alive (and I thought seeing another Batman come out was big!)
keep it up
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Tilted Edge on
October 29th, 2005 1:08 am
I just listened to a bunch of hearts of space promos at their odeo channel. Each show has a different theme with music that is different from the previous shows.
I thought the Japanese theme show sounded like it would be interesting.
One thing they don't play is music by spoiled white brats who were picked on as children and want to get back at the world by screaming into a microphone and playing guitar with so much distorion that it covers up the fact that they can't play. There is enough guitar, drums and bass garage bands int he world and I would be perfectly happy to never hear another one in my life.
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mikel.org | Michael Boyle's weblog on
October 29th, 2005 7:55 am
Dave Slusher, aka
Evil Genius, deconstructs the 'public will never go for amateur stuff' argument that broadcasters (even public or community broadcasters) always trot out in response to citizen-originating media. The post responds to a guest piece by Stephen Hill in …
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johnk on
October 31st, 2005 4:40 am
Public radio is dead. A lot of it sucks. Here in LA, we have a bunch of public stations. One is full of record company AR people, and it's kind of bland (in a pleasant indie-rock nu-soul way). Another sounds like the Republican NPR (or very WASPy snob Democrat). The third is the Pacifica station, and it's fun, especially when it sounds like a podcast. A few years back, a self-described anarchist got in there to clean stuff up (and he did a pretty good job), and opened up several hours to "amateur" activist folks (many of whom had great taste in music), and they tore it up. It's gotten a little boring since, but I'm sure someone likes it.
What I learned there is that it only takes around five shows for someone to sound reasonably good. If you get a dozen motivated people together, you'll find the talent. The activist/amateur shows spun out a few folks who are now regulars on the air. They made some interesting programming, putting a lot of "first and only ____ show in Southern California" shows on.
I also learned that it's tough to do a group program that sounds compelling. Not everyone is cut out for radio. It's hard to find your audience in a tough timeslot, and it's hard to do something different and get people to pay for it.
One other thing they did was smart. They also opened the doors to people going out into the city using mini-discs to record lectures and events, and pulled stuff off the internet, and selected the best from the cornucopia. This produced so many hours of compelling radio, it was obvious people are, pretty soon, going to produce so much great programming that Hi-Fi musicologists like Hill better watch out for their beloved timeslots.
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johnk on
October 31st, 2005 5:02 am
An addendum.
The typical KPFA subscriber is probably a 60 year old white guy with a college education and an income of over $70,000 per year. That's roughly the same as a reader of The Economist, but on the other end of the political spectrum. It's an elite group, and it sounds like it.
I get the impression that public radio is mostly for old folks. When they really push for the foot-in-the-grave demographic, they do better and better. My theory is simple: the audience for public radio is people who were around 30 in 1975, started listening to NPR, and never stopped. It sounds like it.
NPR is the fucking Classic Rock Radio of the educated middle class. Rock on dudes! Pour another glass of syrah for your homies.
Even the youthful shows, like This American Life, which I like, sounds like it's done mostly by 28 year old middle-class college grads who don't like hip hop or metal.
No wonder the youth of today are saying "fuck" on podcasts.
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