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A campaign to plant 2,013 trees in 2013 is launched
The Isle of Man's Woodland Trust is encouraging people to be more "eco-friendly" this Christmas as part of a new tree planting initiative.
The trust is asking people to send specially designed Christmas e-cards instead of traditional cards with the money going towards tree planting.
The trust's Nula Perrin, said: "For each e-card sent the trust will plant a tree in Manx countryside in 2013".
The charity aims to plant 2,013 broad leaf trees in 2013.
According to the charity 1.7 per cent of the island is covered in trees compared to 6 per cent in UK.
Ms Perrin said the Plant a Manx Tree in Twenty One Three campaign could significantly increase the island's tree coverage.
'Great visual pleasure'
As part of the initiative volunteers are being sought to help with the gathering of seeds and planting.
The majority of the broad leaf trees which will be planted early next year have been grown from seeds on the island.
Environment minister Phil Gawne said: "It's a fantastic scheme and one that we fully support.
"The Isle of Man does have a low percentage of tree coverage compared to the UK so the more trees planted the better."
Chairman of the Woodland Trust Professor Simon Maddrell said: "We aim to plant at least 2,013 trees next year and, if we can, more than that."
He added that whilst the main aim of the campaign was to "increase ecological diversity", it would also add "great visual pleasure."
The Woodland Trust would like to hear from any individuals, schools or groups who would like to help.
Following the outbreak of ash dieback disease in the UK, the trust is not planting ash trees.


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Locally, on Durward Street in Chula Vista, a pit bull attacked a man and his shepherd. "A neighbor who witnessed the attack grabbed a .32-caliber handgun and shot the pit bull at close range twice. When the dog kept biting the shepherd's neck, the neighbor placed the gun to the pit bull's head and fired again, killing it." In Ramona, "Two pit bulls mauling a penned steer were shot to death...by a sheriff's deputy trying to stop the attack.... The steer's bellowing awakened the owner.... When the deputy arrived, the two dogs were biting the steer's head and would not let go."
In Imperial Beach, "A neighbor's pit bull got into Rich Evans' yard and mauled the family's 10-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, Coco.... Coco was submissive during the attack.... Neighbors tried spraying water and hitting the dog with a hoe during the attack, but it would not stop." When sheriff's deputies "arrived, they sprayed the dog with Mace and shot 30 pepper balls near the dogs. According to a sheriff's report, a deputy fired seven times at the dog after it charged at two officers, but the dogs were so bloody, they couldn't tell if they were hit.... The owner got rid of the dog right away, and no one knows where it is, including city officials. The neighbors later moved."
It's true: pit bulls can attack and kill. But does such notoriety tell us anything reliable about the dog, or does it tell us -- more accurately, I think -- the degree to which we misrepresent bad dogs themselves? For example, it's not true that pit bulls are the lone killer dogs. One study found that between 1979 and 1998, one-third of the 238 fatal attacks on humans in the United States were committed by pit bulls. Though two-thirds of the fatalities came from other breeds, somehow the pits still receive the killer-dog badge.
Another exaggeration: you're more likely to be bitten by a pit bull than another dog. In fact, of the 4.7 million annual dog bites (800,000 require medical attention, of which 77 percent are facial), far more of the bites are from German shepherds, huskies, and Doberman pinschers than from pit bulls. (Anecdotal evidence suggests that the number, although not the severity, of bites by dachshunds, schnauzers, and chows is higher.) However, again, people infer from press stories which feature tales of pit bulls locking their jaws and never letting go that pits are the most threatening of all dogs. That threatening aspect -- pit bulls seem to be the al-Qaeda of the animal kingdom -- has been fostered by gangs and other militarized sects in our culture, reinforcing the idea that within the breed there's a kind of latent inflexibility. This tenaciousness many people admire, and from the admiration come a host of human associations. The pit bull's mettle is characteristic of Marines and wrestlers, of stock traders and hostile takeover artists, of criminal defense attorneys (tagged as pit-bull personalities), and of war leaders: Winston Churchill's bulldoggedness against the Luftwaffe becomes George W. Bush's pit-bullishness against Saddam Hussein.
It's hard to say, reliably, what a given pit bull will do. As for temperament, few breeds differ more within the breed than the pit bull. From Chihuahua to Saint Bernard, breed similarity is the norm. But for pit bulls, the question remains open: how much is this pit bull dangerous or tractable? There seem to be three general types, each one based on the degree to which the dog has been socialized with other dogs and with people. One pit bull, typically with mixed blood or an unknown lineage, has barely been socialized; it's been raised (say, by a drug dealer) to follow orders: attack and maul anyone who is not its owner. Another (like Riley) has been bred to be dog-aggressive and has fought in a pit to please its owner. This dog is also trained to never attack a person, since the handler is always in the pit while his dog is trying to tear the other dog apart. Still another is a dog that's never been fought and has a pedigree or an owner's promise of one. This pit bull has been brought up in a loving home but may still have a trace of Mike Tyson in his system.
Or it may be that that bit of killer instinct is attributable not so much to the dog as to us. Our fear that the dog is going to behave savagely, especially around small children, may be exactly what the dog is responding to when it strikes out with tooth and claw. That doesn't mean the dog is more likely to attack people who are afraid of it. But it does mean that our current unease around the pit bull, fraught mostly with fearful expectation and the odd drop of veneration, goes a long way in determining how the dog will be conditioned -- or not -- to human society.
The paragon of pit-bull love is Bubba the Bruiser. That's his registered name; Bubba is his call name. He's harmless, says his owner, Corbin Dailey, a stocky Navy enlistee who last year lived in Tierrasanta with wife Cherlyn and their two young sons, Levi and Logan. Bubba's seven and Halloween's his birthday. He's been bred from championship bloodlines -- mating selections of pit bull champion show dogs (pits compete in conformation, weight pulls, herding, obedience, and sanctioned "bite sports" such as those used to train police dogs). To buy Bubba, Dailey dealt with a reputable man who raised purebred American pit bull terriers in Indiana. "I dealt with him," Dailey says, "because I didn't want a dog who was going to be mean to my children." Bubba rolls on the floor with the kids. He's a hulk of a dog, like those old floor-model Hoover vacuum cleaners.
Bubba is papered by the American Dog Breeders Association, which, according to its website, is the world's "largest registration office [for] the American Pit Bull Terrier." (The American Kennel Club recognizes only two breeds descended from pit bulls: the American Staffordshire terrier and the Staffordshire bull terrier; it does not recognize the American pit bull.) The American Dog Breeders registers only the "purebred pit bull terrier." The group neither denounces nor promotes pit-bull fighting, although another dog group, bulldogbreeds.com, contends that the American Dog Breeders Association's goal is "to register, promote and preserve the original American Pit Bull Terrier fighting-type dog." The association has recorded pedigrees of American pit bull terriers since 1909.

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|Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]
Yvette Cooper: The Committee's purpose is not to comment on the structure of the British legal system, and, as I am not a lawyer, I have no intention of doing so.
The purpose of the amendment is to make it clear where the burden of proof lies in the defence. It is right that the burden of proof should lie with the prosecution once someone has offered evidence that they have a defence under the Bill. The clause is intended simply to get the balance right and to ensure that the things that the defendant in such a case must prove are reasonable in respect of banning tobacco advertising.
Mr. Wilshire: That will not do. I appreciate that the Minister is not a lawyer and, therefore, cannot necessarily give detailed answers, but the Government owe it to the Committee to ensure that someone can answer the legal questions. I challenge the concept of the need to specify that the matter is for the prosecution to prove, rather than the defence.
The Minister says that we cannot consider the British legal system because that would be to go down another route, but that is exactly what we have to do. Surely we are here to deal with the vagaries of the British legal system? If we do not, how can we be satisfied that the Bill is sensible within the framework of that system? When the Bill is enacted, the only way in which it will be tested will be in the courts. The vagaries of the British legal system and how its courts work will be the way in which the Bill is tested.
Column Number: 131I find it strange that it seems necessary to specify that the defence must not prove something, and I have heard no explanation why. I was under the impression, and the Minister has said nothing to dissuade me, that defences never had to prove anything in court, and that in a criminal court it was entirely up to the prosecution to prove a case and, unless the case was proved beyond all reasonable doubt, it fell.
The clause has been included for a reason, which cannot be to clarify an existing state of play. If the Minister cannot give us the legal explanation why it is necessary, will she arrange for someone else to do so and to write to the Committee with the answer?
Yvette Cooper: I have made the role of the clause clear. The previous wording, which did not include the clause, might have required a defendant to prove his defence on the balance of probability. That is the nature of the
Mr. Wilshire: Will the Minister give way?
Yvette Cooper: If the hon. Gentleman wants to hear my answer
Mr. Wilshire: Why would it be necessary in a criminal court for the defence to prove something? Surely that is what happens when the balance of probabilities is involved, in a civil court? Before the Minister gives the rest of her explanation, she cannot pass over the comment that it would otherwise have been necessary. Why?
Yvette Cooper: If the hon. Gentleman is so convinced that the clause is unnecessary, he is at liberty to vote against it, as this is a stand part debate. The Bill sets up an offence that the prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt. Defences are set out in the Bill. The question is, on whom does the burden of proof lie in respect of those defences?
Mr. Kelvin Hopkins (Luton, North): Surely there can be no harm in restating a principle of British justice in a Bill that may tread new ground in British law? The Bill goes too far to make it as easy as possible for tobacco companies to avoid prosecution, by making it hard to secure a prosecution. Obviously, they will be punished as appropriate, but the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Mr. Wilshire) has a pointthe clause restates a principle of British justice. However, it is right that the clause is in the Bill.
The Chairman: Order. This is too long for an intervention.
Yvette Cooper: My hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Mr. Hopkins) is correct. The clause is partly a response to recent case law and partly to concerns raised in both Houses about clarifying where the burden of proof lies. Without the clause, the previous wording may have required defendants to prove their defence on the balance of probabilities. The prosecution must prove the offence beyond reasonable doubt, but defendants would have had to prove their defence on the balance of probabilities.
Column Number: 132Recent case law has made it clear that the principle by which a person is innocent until proven guilty may be breached. The clause has been included in the Bill to put the matter beyond doubt and make it clear that the only burden on the defendant is to provide evidence. The burden of proof falls to the prosecution, once the defendant has provided evidence in the case.
Mr. Wilshire: The longer the Minister talks, the more complicated the debate becomes. Every time that she is pushed to produce an explanation, she produces part of it and then falls back on some reference. Last time it was, ''We shouldn't discuss the principles of British justice,'' but we need to. This time it was, ''It is necessary because of recent case law.'' If she had said that the first time, there would have been no need for the second explanation. However, saying that the clause depends on recent case law is not sufficient. If people read our debate when a case is coming to court, they will need to know which cases we have in mind. What recent case law? Let us put on record the cases that led to the clause.
The hon. Member for Luton, North cannot be allowed to get away with his intervention without comment. He said that somehow or other we seem to be making things as easy as possible for the tobacco companies to do this, that or the other. With the greatest respect, we are making is as easy as possible for the innocent to be found innocent of charges brought in court, which has nothing to do with tobacco companies. If someone is innocent, they must be found innocent.
If the prosecution cannot prove its case, a person is innocent. That is what this debate is about. If we are making it as easy as possible for justice to be done, I would say, ''Amen'' to that and I do not apologise. Tobacco companies should be able to go about a lawful trade unhindered in a legal way as innocent organisations. On the other hand, if a tobacco company breaks the law, it should be prosecuted. It is for the prosecution to prove the case.
The hon. Gentleman also said that it was a good idea to spell out the principles. He should think carefully about that. Why is it a good idea in this clause but not in others? He should have realised by now that I am happy to have a lengthy debate on the principles underpinning each clause with regard to British justice. One cannot pick and choose and say, ''Let's have some principles here and ignore principles somewhere else.'' His intervention must be challenged on those grounds.
Will the Minister tell us what recent case law?
Yvette Cooper: The most recent cases were those of Lambert, in which the House of Lords ruled on the provision in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 requiring a defendant to prove something in order to establish a defence. That must be read as requiring the defendant to give only sufficient evidence that he did not know somethingan evidential rather than a legal burden of proof.
Column Number: 133That case was followed by the Carass case in the Court of Appeal. I have clearly set out the purpose of the clause. If the Opposition are unhappy, I suggest that they vote against it.
Mr. Wilshire: Thank you. If we had had that explanation and the case law 20 minutes ago, we would not have needed the debate.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 17 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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Aes dhammo sanantano… 'This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible' – Buddha repeats this again and again that this is the eternal law. What is the eternal law? Only love dispels hate, only light dispels darkness. Why? Because darkness in itself is only a negative state; it has no positive existence of its own.It does not exist really – how can you dispel it?You cannot do anything directly to darkness. If you want to do anything to darkness, you will have to do something with light. Bring light in and darkness is gone, take light out and darkness comes in. But you cannot bring darkness in or out directly – you cannot do anything with darkness. Remember, you cannot do anything with hate either.
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And that's the difference between moral teachers and religious mystics: moral teachers go on propounding the false law. They go on propounding, "Fight with darkness – fight with hate, fight with anger, fight with sex, fight with this, fight with that!"
Their whole approach is, "Fight the negative," while the real, true Master teaches you the positive law: aes dhammo sanantano – the eternal law, "Do not fight with darkness." And hate is darkness, and sex is darkness, and jealousy is darkness, and greed is darkness and anger is darkness. Bring the light in.
How is the light to be brought in? Become silent, thoughtless, conscious, alert, aware, awake – this is how light is brought in. And the moment you are alert and aware, hate will not be found. Try to hate somebody with awareness. These are experiments to be done, not just words to be understood.
Try to hate somebody consciously and you will find it impossible. Either consciousness disappears, then you can hate; or if you are conscious, hate disappears.Consciousness and hate can't exist together. There is no co-existence possible: light and darkness cannot exist together – because darkness is nothing but the absence of light.
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree,
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Indulge in food and sleep,
And you too will be uprooted.Buddha says: Remember, if you depend on the senses you will remain very fragile — because senses cannot give you strength…they cannot give you a constant foundation. They are constantly in flux; everything is changing. Where can you have a shelter? Where can you make a foundation?
One moment this woman looks beautiful, and another moment, another woman looks beautiful. If you just decide by the senses, you will be in constant turmoil – you cannot decide because senses go on changing their opinions. One moment, something seems so incredible, and another moment, it is just ugly. And we depend on these senses.
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The eye is only an aperture. Who is behind the eye?
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Diary writing is an art of self-documentation that is virtually as old as writing itself. It is also a dying art. A respectable population of journal-keepers there may still be, but aside from these committed wordsmiths, society at large is simply not finding the time to keep a log. That's a shame.
It also seems like an unnecessary chore. The huge quantity of digital data we produce on a daily basis, if collated, could provide a fairly accurate picture of our by-the-minute activities. Such an idea may seem somewhat futuristic, but this is the ambition which drove development company Dexetra to create the life-logging app, Friday. But this six-man team wanted to go beyond a simplistic journal; Binil Anthony, co-founder and CMO of Dexetra, outlined the vision to me — "to find info of an externality, we have Google and a lot of other search engines. But how do we search for things in our personal lives?"
A good question. With Friday, Dexetra intended to capture much of the data generated in daily phone use and combine it with the natural language processing engine found in their first app, Iris, in order to create a voice-searchable personal database. An incredible concept, for sure, but has it worked?
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Not soon after it was announced, a copycat attempt of Siri for Android was created: Iris ("Siri" backwards). Though it is nice to see developers attempt to bring some of iOS's finer points to Android, there is definitely some way to go yet.
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Nate just can't catch a break. A down on his luck trumpet player, the guy is now the target Happy Shannon, the city's most notorious hustler. Seems Happy doesn't take too kindly to Nate for boinking Happy's late wife. After being kidnapped and set to be rubbed out in the desert, Nate is rescued by indians and happens upon a circus in the desert. The circus is home to Lily, a birdwoman who actually has wings on her back. Nate helps Lily escape her forced carnival life and takes her to the big city with plans to present her to Happy in exchange for his life. Things change, of course, when Nate starts to fall in love with Lily.
Poor Mickey Rourke. After his comeback with THE WRESTLER and starring in THE EXPENDABLES, he ends up in this film. PASSION PLAY garnered some rather not so nice word-of-mouth from the crowds at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, where director Mitch Glazer had to defend the version being shown at the festival as being unfinished. Well, that was his explanation for the stinker that crowds were witnessing. With the film now on DVD and Blu-Ray, is this supposed new cut any improvement over the wreck that was shown at the festival? Even though I never saw the festival cut, after seeing this version of the film, it's hard to imagine PASSION PLAY being any worse.
Where does one begin? I guess you can start with the casting of the roles, which look to have been an experiment gone wrong. Pitting Mickey Rourke against Bill Murray is laughable to begin with. We know Bill Murray can be a dickhead, but not one that seems hell-bent on killing someone at a moment's notice. Bill acts like he's either half-interested or half-asleep with his delivery, but still manages to come off as somewhat of a charmer. Rourke let it be known that the film was garbage, and tries his best to work with the shoddy material, but it's a struggle. Then again, everyone seems to be struggling with the mountains of dialogue in the film, which is probably why Murray seems like he's ready to fall into a coma. As for Megan Fox, she spends much of the time being teary-eyed, upset and over-emoting. At least she looks good doing it. Oh, and keep selling the fact that you have those awful CG wings, too!
Moving on, the film is what you'd call the definition of pretentious. From what I gather, PASSION PLAY is Glazer's attempt to portray Rourke's character in a Christ-like fashion. That is, the character of Nate goes through a time of suffering and eventual redemption, but it's all done in a painfully slow, ham-fisted and clich�d way. Nate's idea for busting Lily out of the circus? To put her in a glass box to once again be gawked at by curious onlookers and to appease Happy. Oh, and if you're wondering, there is a sex scene involving Nate and Lily, complete with those wonderful CG wings! And is it just me, or does it seem creepy how both Rourke's and Murray's characters fawn over Lily? Both men are pushing 60, and Megan Fox is 25. Yeah.
The only sort of good thing I can say about this film (other than the end credits) is cinematographer Christopher Doyle's attempt to get some sort of visual richness out of this thing. Aside from the obvious green screen shots, there's a sort of attempt at adding a dreamy sort of feel to the film. That comes crashing down once you're hit with a mountain of dialogue and half-assed acting.
PASSION PLAY is an exercise is torture. Not only do you know that there are Oscar-nominated actors caught in this film trying to salvage something out of this clusterf*ck, but the dialogue, story and just plain absurd attempts at being 'arty' bombard you until you're left curled up in the corner, begging for it to stop. If you're hankering for Megan Fox, watch JENNIFER'S BODY. For Mickey Rourke? THE WRESTLER. For Bill Murray and Mitch Glazer? You can knock off both by watching SCROOGED. This film? Use it as a practical joke on someone you really hate.
Video: Sporting a 1080p 2.39:1 widescreen transfer, the film looks good. The Blu-Ray provides some great detail, making the crappy CG wings look crappier and Mickey and Bill's aged faces look worn without any DNR to smooth things out. There's a fine level of grain throughout, but never distracting.
Audio: The film is also equipped with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track that isn't as good as the transfer, but delivers when needed. There aren't a lot of ambient or directional effects in the film, but that leaves room for the dialogue to take center stage, clear and free of distortion.
The only extra to be found is the film's trailer in standard definition, no less. I guess Glazer gave up trying to defend his film with any sort of commentary. That, or no one wanted to pony up any more money for him or his film.
What do you get when you take two Academy Award-nominated actors, a 'promising' young actress and a director's lifelong dream film? Utter disbelief at how sh*tty of a film the results turn out to be. If seeing Meghan Fox with crappy CG wings clutching an awe-struck (or dumbfounded) Mickey Rourke and flying against a painfully obvious green screen is your thing, fast forward to the end of the film. Everything else before it might as well make room for heavy drinking.


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Most Westerns make you feel a little distant from the adventures on the screen.
Western landscapes are vast, lonely places, Western heroes are men of few words with shadowy pasts, and the historical period of Westerns creates a temporal feeling of distance. Remoteness, in fact, is basic to the Western. It's part of what people mean when they speak of these films as ''mythic'' and ''larger than life.''


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Wed, 14 July 2010
I am very pleased to announce the Live Music Podcast Facebook page has surpassed the 100 mark. Thanks to everyone for joining up and helping me reach this goal! I am now one step closer to having more fans than the pickle.
The White Stripes - Manchester, TN - 6/17/07
The White Stripes - Indianapolis, IN - 7/9/02
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Sat, 12 June 2010
First off the Live Music Podcast Facebook fan count has increased its number to 96 and is incredibly close to my goal of 100 so thank you and welcome to the new fans. With any luck by the next podcast it'll be over that magic 100 number.
Check out tour dates for the Jack Johnson here.
Direct download: livemusicpodcast_066.mp3
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Wed, 26 May 2010
I hadn't heard acoustic versions of any of OK Go's songs until seeing this, very cool. I do miss the laser guitars a little bit though.
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Tue, 25 May 2010
Here's a quick follow up video to the last podcast. Enjoy!
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Wed, 19 May 2010
Real quick I want to bring attention to the Live Music Podcast Facebook Fan page where the total number of fans is now up to 92. First off thanks to everyone already there, but I think it would be great to get that number over 100. If you haven't joined or know someone that you think might please let them know. To do this click the Like button on the Facebook gadget.
Check out tour dates for the Barenaked Ladies here. A massive amount of live shows are also available in the Live Concert Downloads section there.
Direct download: livemusicpodcast_065.mp3
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Tue, 4 May 2010
Right now you can download the latest album from Backyard Tire Fire for only $5 on Amazon MP3. That's a very high rock to cash ratio.
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Mon, 3 May 2010
I wish I could have gotten this posted earlier but better late than never. Today at 5PM CST The Dead Weather will be performing their new album Sea of Cowards, streamed live via their MySpace page. Should be interesting to say the least.
Also Sea of Cowards will be officially released on May 11th so mark that date on your calendars!
Support the artists by buying music and watching them live!
Check out tour dates for The Dead Weather here.
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Thu, 29 April 2010
I want to start this episode by giving a big shout out to the developers of the Audacity project. This is the software I use to put together this podcast and I just downloaded the latest version which includes a much improved Noise Removal utility. Hopefully you will notice much clearer sounding intros and outros going forward!
Take the Live Music Podcast listener survey here!
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Berlin, Germany - 5/22/03
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Podcast #40: Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 - Asheville, NC - 12/13/08
Direct download: livemusicpodcast_064.mp3
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Thu, 15 April 2010
Here's another excellent hour of music from ACL's video archives featuring Wilco.
Click on Jeff Tweedy's beard to watch the show!
Support the artists by buying music and watching them live!
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Sun, 11 April 2010
"Before I get into the music portion of the show I want to use this episode to officially announce the Live Music Podcast's Youtube video channel. Some of you may have already noticed this down the left side of the home page but if you haven't been there in a while I encourage you to check it out. It is especially fitting to make this announcement now because the featured band for this episode is also featured in one of the videos posted there.
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Charlie Hunter Trio - Minneapolis, MN - 3/1/10
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|Serena Silvester
Posted: Nov 5 2017, 01:43 PM
Free night to do what I want.
Serena had wanted to have some time her own for few hours. So the woman had sent her kid to her parent's house so she could go outside and have some fun her own. That's who she had ended up in some bar. she just had walked around and done some shopping for herself until it began to rain outside. So she walked into some random bar.
Now she was sitting here near the bar and was drinking some wine she had ordered. Since she wasn't big drinker for sure when she wasn't sure what else she should order. she hasn't drunk alcohol since the on a night where she got knocked up. so this was basically one of her few nights where she ends up in the bar.
she had no idea what will happen today. She had really no real plans. She decided to see how this night will go. She knows her kid is safe with her parents and she doesn't have to worry about her today. So she tried to enjoy her own freedom until it will last. She listened to the music around her and was drinking her wine. Same time did listen what others talked there around her, she had no idea how to make conversation there with people.
Tag: Jaxton, Shark Jaxton Graves - Notes: I hope this works.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Nov 7 2017, 11:51 PM
Laying on his couch, Jax pondered. Just what sort of day would be today? Well, by all accounts and purposes, today was just like any other when he had nothing going on. It was him, watching reruns on the television and not doing anything. Only getting up to use the washroom or grab a bite to eat. There wasn't any practice, be it band or quodpot, and there wasn't any party plans either. So it was just him, chilling alone in his home.
Normally his roommate would be there, but he had buggered off to do some sort of thing. Quite frankly he forgot what. Flipping through the television stations, Jax sighed as he couldn't seem to find anything new on. Though he did stop when it showed an episode of Kids In The Hall. That shit is always a good time in the making.
Just laying back and watching the shenanigans going on on the television, his phone started to vibrate. Without turning his gaze from the tv, he reached for his phone and picked it up. Finally breaking eye contact, he glanced down and saw he had a text from Ed. Well, that is shocking. Reading the text, it seemed that he wanted to meet up for some drinks.
Well how about that, Jax has something to do tonight. With a quick text back saying alright, Jax turned the tv off and went into his room to get ready. Just a simple set of clothes would be alright. Some jeans and a blue tee, nothing extravagant or elaborate. Running his hand through his long curly hair, he started to make his way to the foyer of the apartment.
Putting on his sneakers and leather jacket, Jax made sure he had his wallet and made his way out of his home, locking the door behind him. It wasn't far from where he lived. Maybe five blocks at best? And it would be an enjoyable time just hanging out with a friend and having a drink. Though hopefully it would happen. Ed has a penchant for flaking at the last minute.
Walking down the busy streets, Jax put his hands into his jacket pocket and just enjoyed the fresh busy air. Though it was also enjoyable to just see all the different people walking along the sidewalks, it was always so busy and bustling. What could be possibly better? Probably nothing, that's what. Or, maybe a few things. Okay a lot of things. Like sports for one. And music. Such thoughts continued within his head for the entire walk towards the bar that he was to meet at.
Upon arriving, he looked about for his friend outside. Though maybe he was inside. And it did look like it was about to rain. So, staying inside would be a good call on his part. Entering the local bar, Jax gazed around and pondered what sort of people there would be. Though whatever he thought wasn't even close to what would be there. Which was of course, not many people. It was a sparse bar at most, but that was okay. Him and Ed would just relax and have a pretty chill conversation.
At that moment, his phone started to vibrate in his pocket. Taking his hands out of his coat pocket, he reached into his pants pocket and pulled out his phone. It was Ed, and once again he was cancelling at the last minute. Prick. But Jax was out now, might as well just chill and have a drink or two. No harm in it. Also no full moon tonight, so win for him.
Approaching the bar, Jax ordered a beer and watched the tv that was located in the upper right hand corner of the bar and watched the hockey game that was playing. New Jersey Devils vs the Toronto Maple Leafs, interesting. Hopefully the Devils would win, would be an embarrassment to lose to the Maple Leafs. With a sigh, he was passed his beer from the bartender. A nod was exchanged and he started to sip his beer.
Hearing the door opening, he turned his head to see a woman walking in, one who looked out of place to this sort of establishment. Ignoring it, Jax turned his head back towards the tv and continued to watch the game. However a few minutes passed, and his team wasn't doing so hot. So, in the interest of not seeing such a disappointment, he turned away from the television. Upon doing so, he saw the drink that the woman was having.
Wine? At a bar? Well, he has seen weirder things there. Taking his beer (and a swig) he had decided to walk over to her. "Hey." he said with a smile towards the woman in question. "I was just sitting over there, and it looked like you could use somebody to converse with. If you don't mind?" he asked, leaning against the bar while looking at her. She did seem pretty attractive, but that is neither here nor there.
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|Serena Silvester
Posted: Nov 8 2017, 05:18 AM
Free night to do what I want.
Serena was drinking her wine there slowly. She knew this wasn't probably something you should drink in the bar but she didn't care about it right now. It has been very long time since when she has been in one. So she really isn't sure if she does an even right thing here today. Probably she shouldn't have ordered wine but something else.
The woman knows that she might seem so lonely here with her drink and she was. She didn't really have with noone do spend her time with. She didn't want always spend time with her daughter. She needed at times have friends company too but today didn't seem to be the day. She really wished she could have more friends.
She looked around the bar and wondered if there was someone she knew or not. At the end, she didn't find anyone who she knew. Everyone seemed to be strangers to her. Which made her sigh there. She didn't really wanna spend her entire night to be a loner but she wasn't even sure with whom she could go talk with. She wasn't so confident about talking with a stranger as she used to be in past.
She was surprised when someone came over her and talked with her. She looked at the male and could tell she was about same age as her. Maybe even younger. She didn't really care about his age right now. She smiled towards him and wondered what she should say back.
"Oh, hey," she said with a small smile. "I won't mind really some company. It would be nice actually," she said. "Oh I'm Serena," she did introduce herself there too. She figured it would be a good idea to know each other's names when they will end up spending some time together.
Tag: Jaxton, Shark Jaxton Graves - Notes: I hope this works.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Nov 18 2017, 09:07 PM
With a smile, Jax took a seat next to the lady. She introduced herself as Serena. Placing his bottle of beer onto the bar, he extended his hand towards her. "Nice to meet you Serena, I'm Jaxton. But my friends call me Jax." he introduced himself in turn to her with a smile. Running a hand through his messy hair, he picked up his beer bottle once again.
"So I take it you don't come here often?" he asked, nodding towards her glass of wine. He rarely, if ever, saw someone drinking wine at a bar. Though really, he doesn't go to bars all that often. Parties yes, bars? Only when his friends ask him to tag along. Taking a swig of his beer, he let out a small laugh. "Though really, it's cool to see someone who throws caution to the wind and get what they want." he said, leaning against the bar now.
Turning his head sideways at Serena, he still had his smile on. She seemed to be a lady of about… late twenties, early thirties? He couldn't really tell. Nor was it any of his business. But thinking about what sort of small talk he could get into with this lady. Music? That is safe. Sports? She didn't really seem like a sports person, but she could surprise him. Maybe asking her what she does for a living? Though she would ask his, and he wasn't sure if she was a muggle or a wizard.
But he can hedge on safety, right? "So, what do you do for a living?" he asked, then mentally hitting himself for asking such a stupid question. If she asks what he does, he'll have to use his band as a cover. Even though they aren't that big or anything. Which sucks, but that is life.
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|Serena Silvester
Posted: Nov 19 2017, 09:08 AM
Free night to do what I want.
Serena looked at the male who had come to talk with her now. He didn't know him and he didn't really know her too. "It's nice to meet you too, Jax," she said with a small smile on her face. She decided to go with the shorter name for now. She did take a sip of her own drink there even too.
"Of course not. It has been years since I have been one of these places," she said there honestly. There was no point in lying really. Also, she was drinking a wine in the bar, what was the very unusual thing to do as she has learned already. She just didn't want beer or whiskey right now. But maybe later. "Well I figured I should drink something at least, what isn't water?" she asked there it basically as a question. "Never really been much into beer or whiskey," she added there.
To be honest even Serena wasn't sure what to talk with this man exactly but when he asked what she does as living she thought what to say. Should she say she is a witch or not. She wasn't sure what the other male was. Muggle or not.
"Well I work as a professor," she said there now something as her job. She wasn't sure if she should say Ilvermorny or not. It was hard to tell if the m a le was wizard or not really. So she kept that info out. "What about you?" she asked back there now.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Nov 20 2017, 06:02 PM
Running a hand through his hair and took a swig of his drink. Jax looked at his drinking companion for the time being and just wondered what her life story is. He could tell that she wasn't one to getting out to a bar so often, and her words confirmed it. He smiled at her words and nodded his head. "Well, no worries. Not much has changed in regards to what this kind of place offers." he said, leaning against the bar.
When she asked her question, he let out a small laugh. "There are many things you can drink, and it isn't limited to just beer or whiskey at a bar." he started, turning his head towards the rack of alcohol lined along the wall. "You got bourbon, rum, vodka, absinthe, different kind of cocktails, and many more mixes." he continued, pointing at different bottles as he went along mentioning.
Nodding his head in affirmation to what he had said, he turned back towards her and asked his stupid question. "Nice, what do you teach? And where about? Maybe I went to that school." he asked, upon hearing what she does for a living. Maybe that could open up an avenue of dialogue? He didn't really know, it was all a wonder. When she turned the question on him, he rubbed his chin in thought. What should he go with?
Oh, he can be vague as hell. "I play sports, but on the side I'm the frontman for a band." he said, it was vague and only half truths. Jax didn't know much about this lady, except her name is Serena and she is a professor who doesn't get out to the bars often enough. Which quite frankly, is a shame. Parties are so much fun, and you get to meet so many cool people.
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|Serena Silvester
Posted: Dec 31 2017, 10:32 AM
Free night to do what I want.
Serena nodded her head there well. The bar itself hasn't really changed much for sure she has to admit it. Well, some drinks are new ones for sure for her. "Well you are true about that," she said there with a small smile on her face.
She listened what Jaxton said there now and she nodded her head there. "Oh those cocktails seem like the interesting idea actually," she said there with a small smile on her face. She really thought so there now. She even sure what cocktail she should take there now, there were probably many different ones. "What cocktails tastes good even?" she asked there now.
Serena thought if she should say the school name or not. "Ilvernmorny," she whispered there now. Not sure if the male has heard about it or not. She couldn't say it out loud there. Just in the case. "And about magical creatures," she added again in a whisper.
She nodded her head there. "What kind of sport?" she asked there now. She was curious about it too. Well, just she had to take her job and kid. So she didn't really have time to go the bars.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Mar 20 2018, 08:43 PM
Jax Graves
Unlike his uncle, Jax is more of a social drinker. He doesn't drink at home alone, or drink copious amounts of alcohol. He actually doesn't trust alcoholics at all, and finds them to be lower than some people. Mostly due to his firsthand experience of how angry drunks can be. He still carries the emotional scars from that. So the fact that he knows so much about alcohol is really interesting. But that is neither here nor there, he is here to have a good time, and he just met this enchanting person.
391 - Serena Silvester - Sorry its so late <3
|Serena Silvester
Posted: Apr 2 2018, 04:42 AM
Free night to do what I want.
When it comes to drinking then Serena hasn't really done it much lately. So she doesn't have much knowledge of the drinks now, which seems so odd. Then again the woman has focused on reaching the kid and her work. Today is one of the free nights over the months of the period. She knows she shouldn't spend it out here drinking but this is what she seems to do today. She hopes she won't regret it.
She listened what Jaxton said there about cocktails. She thought a bit before she even began to answer there. She wanted to think over what she likes. "Well I'm more sweet thing kind of person and I wouldn't like something that gets me easily drunk. So something sweet what doesn't get me drunk easily," she said with a small smile on her face. She hoped there is something like that. She didn't have very good knowledge of drinks for sure.
Serena sighed and then smiled there at Jaxton there now. She thought if she should say it again or not. "Erm. Ilvermorny," she said in the whisper but a bit louder, so he could hear her but not people around her really. She hoped he was magical like her. So she won't embarrass herself there now. She just would make a lie when he wasn't one.
She listened what Jaxton said there now. "Like Rugby?" was her thought there now. So it wasn't exactly that but was similar to that. She thought a bit there and same time looked at him. Trying to study him there now. "You mean Quodpot?" she asked there now in the whisper, so loud that Jaxton could hear her there now. She hoped she was right now. She knew that game of course.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Apr 18 2018, 01:22 AM
Jax Graves
Okay so, Jax might know a thing or two about alcohol. Despite how much he detests drunks. He's a bit complex, enjoying to instead drink with others and enjoy maybe a bit of the sweet drinks, and not getting drunk. Stopping at the tipsy portion really, as long as he can keep his bodily functions intack. So upon hearing that she likes sweet things, and hopefully something that doesn't get her too drunk, his mind started to go through the list of things that her personally enjoys to drink. As those very things are his own likes, despite the occasional bitter drink.
444 - Serena Silvester - Jax has now caught onto the conversation xD
|Serena Silvester
Posted: May 7 2018, 03:41 AM
Free night to do what I want.
Lately, Serena has been a good citizen and avoiding drinking. Just because her expierences haven't been so great. Well basically she even had her own kid when she drunk at some party, so it was just one-night stand basically. Nothing very serious. After that, for awhile she avoided drinking out much. She just didn't want the same thing to happen again and then again she had to take care of her own child and think about her health too.
She listened what drink Jaxton suggested now. "Oh, that sounds interesting. Might give it try then," she said with a small smile on her face. She had no idea if it was any good or not. She hoped that the male was right about it. So she turned towards the bartender, who wasn't far from them. "Could I have one Strawberry Margarita?" she asked there now that bartender, who soon began to make her drink.
"I'm not kidding you," she said there with a smile now awhile the bartender gave to her new drink. Serena looked at it and wondered if she should really try it. Basically, her wine glass was empty anyway. She did eye the drink awhile she listened what Jaxton said there now about her Quadpot team.
"Oh, that's pretty nice team. I think. Not so familiar with all the teams lately. I teach actually Care of Magical Creatures," she said in lowed voice there too. So people won't really hear her. She didn't really wanna some muggles or so people hear what she was saying there now. "It's something I was always good at awhile I was at school," she added. She finally now took a sip of her drink too. "Oh this is good," she decided to speak up.
|Jaxton Graves
Posted: Jun 9 2018, 12:18 AM
Jax Graves
Bringing the bottle of beer to his lips, Jax pressed it against them and tilted it upwards, allowing the brackish liquid to flow past and into his mouth. The taste of the bitter alcoholic beverage calmed him, though he didn't like to admit it. Drinking alcohol, however a thing he likes to do, still reminded him of his alcoholic uncle - and how when he got drunk he would become abusive towards his family. The anger that got shown, and the things thrown about and the words that were said… Jax did whatever he could to protect his cousins from that sort of behaviour.
445 - Serena Silvester - Hope you like it <3
|Serena Silvester
Posted: Jul 29 2018, 11:09 AM
Free night to do what I want.
Serena took a sip again from her drink.
Well, she is sure she wouldn't end up here so often really. She has to raise her child in the first place to be a good person. She knows that she can't drink so much as in the past. Some things have changed for her. Her priorities right now are basically her child and work. She wants to keep them both. She can't lose them for sure.
"Oh, that's nice to know," she said with a small smile there now. She looked at the bartender and noticed that he was making her drink there now. All she had to do was now wait for it to be done so she can drink it. She soon looked back at the male beside her when she heard him to speak again.
"Well yeah. Just there are so many teams and it's hard to keep up with them. And I haven't really had much time to go watch them to play," she said there with a small smile. Raising kid alone as a single mother wasn't an easy task for sure. Most of her days went on it in the past. Now she needs to find some time to herself too. "But it's good that you do something you love," she said with a small smile on her face. "Oh yes, the drink is good. Thanks for recomending it," she added.
"It's not an easy job but it's something I love yes. Even if teaching kids can be hard at the times. Still, I wouldn't do anything else really," she said with a small smile again. She loved her job for sure. Even if it took in the past years away from her kid but now while she is in Beauxbatons she can see her more often.
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Eco-friendly materials, systems, and construction are easy to control when you own the factory, and that is the case with MkDesigns. Efficiency also increases, giving mkDesigns the ability to create a uniquely designed mkSolaire house from start to finish within 8-14 months. Their easy 6-step process allows the client to more accurately predict pricing of their final custom mkSolaire much earlier than other custom homes, and the turnaround of the product keeps prices within the range of the prediction, which otherwise can be influenced over time by the economy.
Standard green aspects of the mkSolaire include Icynene insulation, high-performance mini-duct/hi-velocity mechanical system, bamboo or reclaimed wood flooring, countertops containing recycled paper, recycled glass tile, on-demand water heaters, and water-saving dual-flush toilets. The mkSolaire projects already underway are costing roughly $200 to $250 per square foot including all costs after permits. While the total cost will vary due to location and the actual design, mkDesigns will do their best to provide you with an energy-efficient, sustainable home that perfectly suits your lifestyle and budget.
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Why sell branded virtual goods? Advertising or ecommerce revenue? August 20, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in advertising, business models, digital goods, games 2.0, mmorpg, virtual goods, virtual worlds.
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Yesterday's WSJ noted that retailers and manufacturers were increasingly selling their branded virtual goods inside virtual worlds:
Retailer Kohl's Corp. this month launched a new line of apparel, but the plaid skirts and printed T-shirts won't be sold in its 957 stores. Instead, it's selling them on Stardoll.com, a virtual community for teens and tweens where kids can fork over "Stardollars" — purchased online at a nominal sum — to buy apparel for their online characters…
This month, casual-wear maker K-Swiss Inc. and lingerie and swimwear designer Eberjey rolled out virtual clothes on There.com. And in late July, retail pioneer Sears Holdings Corp. opened its first online boutique featuring back-to-school apparel and dorm-room furniture on teen site Zwinky.com
Virtual Worlds News noted a few other brands also participating on There.com
… music merchandiser Bravado, and the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum are now peddling their virtual wares in There.com. Each will establish specialty shops to sell branded goods for There.com avatars. There.com has sold virtual goods as part of brand campaigns before, most recently for NaCo, but has also popular for large, branded environments, such as those for Scion, Coke, and CosmoGIRL!.
So far the brands seem to be getting good results; according to Virtual Worlds News:
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal article on apparel marketing in virtual worlds reports that the Zwinky boutiques "logged 750,000 visitors and sold 850,000 virtual items during their first 16 days through mid-August." Meez CEO Sean Ryan followed up on his personal blog that 700,000 Sears items have been adopted so far by his users. There's likely some overlap in users, but that's over 1.5 million branded items distributed in just two of the properties. The campaign will run through the end of the month
However, these retailers and manufacturers are not selling virtual good for the revenue. Rather they are doing it for the promotion and advertising. Says the WSJ:
"It's really a way to get shoppers to test-drive your product," said Carlos Mejia, chief financial officer of Eberjey, a maker of lingerie, swimwear and sleepwear. The brand, which largely sells to women ages 20 to 45, hopes to attract teenagers with its virtual line.
Penney decided this year to put back-to-school outfits on Yahoo after learning that, during a seven-week experiment last summer, 1.5 million avatars wore its clothing on Yahoo and 5 million Penney outfits were tried on. "It casts a very modern, current light on the brand with teens," says Mike Boylson, Penney's chief marketing officer. Before Penney's presence on Yahoo, "perhaps J.C. Penney wasn't on their radar before," he says.
Sears is marketing its virtual boutiques on billboards in the virtual world, and is hosting daily fashion shows on the site promoting its products through the end of August.
Adds Richard Gerstein, the Sears CMO:
Teens and tweens are making more and more of the purchase decisions, or at least influencing that decision. Mom already knows that Sears provides trusted value and quality, but we need to prove to the teens and tweens that we have the apparel and styles to help them "arrive" at school this year with confidence…. And as we continue to expand our outreach to the tween demographic it is increasingly important to expand our marketing strategy to include the mediums where tweens are spending most of their time.
The focus on marketing can create a tension within virtual worlds about how to price these virtual goods. On the one hand, to drive revenue and create value in the brand, you want to price these items at a premium. On the other hand, to get the broadest possible reach and trial, you want these items to be at the free tier. Online trial will hopefully lead to more real world sales. Anecdotally at least, it seems to be working:
The online pitches are striking a chord with Jen Rediger's daughters, 13-year-old Tyler and 9-year-old Kenzie. In the first week that the Kohl's store opened on Stardoll, they spent about 70 Star Dollars, or $7, on virtual skirts and shoes. Ms. Rediger, 32, an interior designer who lives in Hoschton, Ga., says she doesn't mind her daughters being exposed to such marketing because "it's not worse than what they see on television."
Tyler has already asked her mom to take her to Kohl's to buy the real versions. "They look really cool on my doll," she says. "It's my style so I think I'll wear it a lot."
Facebook has already taken this approach with its branded gifts. I suspect that we'll see the model move more firmly in the direction of advertising, with most branded virtual goods being made available for free.
Nexon's Maplestory sold $30m of digital goods in the US in 2007 May 27, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in digital goods, games, games 2.0, gaming, mmorpg, virtual goods.
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The WSJ had an article on Friday about Nexon and the virtual goods model. Not new news to most readers of this blog but some good information nuggests in the article:
Prepaid cards used to buy Nexon game items are now the second best-selling entertainment gift card at Target Corp. stores in the U.S., after cards for Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, Target says…
Nexon's biggest hit in the U.S. so far is MapleStory, an online role-playing game popular with teenagers in which players assume the identities of warriors, magicians and thieves and collectively fight monsters. The game has 85 million users globally, of which 5.9 million are registered in the U.S. Last year players world-wide bought more than 1.3 million articles of clothing and more than one million hair makeovers for their MapleStory characters. Nexon's U.S. revenue last year more than tripled to $29.3 million from $8.5 million the prior year.
With $30m in US sales and 6m US registered users, assuming a 20% "active player" rate and 10% "buyer rate", that implies an ARPU of $20/mth which sounds about right and is consistent with number we've seen from games in Asia. It sounds like the US will be following very similar models of virtual goods monetization that we've seen in Asia.
Monetizing MMOG players without creditcards through retail May 21, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in business models, digital goods, games, games 2.0, gaming, mmorpg, virtual goods.
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Raph's latest post says that there is a market glut of MMOGs, but most of them will survive. In passing, he shows a picture that is worth a thousand words:
… here is the rack of game cards available at Target — snapped this weekend, and strongly reminiscent, finally, of similar shots I have taken in Korea, Japan, and China. For years, there was no such rack in the US. Then it was just a couple of cards, and only at some checkouts. Now it gets a rack right between the TV box sets and the top pop albums (you can see REM's latest CD there, abandoned on the top shelf).
Besides the cards you maybe expect to see, like Club Penguin, WoW, and Zwinky, there's also a large stack of 'em for gPotato games (Flyff, Shot Online, etc) And Acclaim, which make their living by bringing over games from Korea. There's WildTangent cards, and the Gaia cards are almost sold out. The diversity is interesting, as is the lack of cards for most of the core gamer MMORPGs. The strong presence of the often-marginalized Korean games is telling.
One of the challenges in monetizing MMOGs through virtual goods in the US has always been finding a way to sell them to young players who don't have credit cards. Gaia even employs 3 people whose sole job it is to open snail mail envelopes full of cash that people send in for virtual goods.
Pre paid cards at retail are an excellent way to monetize this audience. I have heard from a number of MMOG companies that they have seen a substantial increase in both ARPU and velocity of spending since releasing these cards. Watch this space.
Free to play arguments February 27, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in advertising, business models, casual games, digital goods, freemium, games, gaming, virtual goods.
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At GDC the argument continues over whether free to play and microtransactions are the future of games, or whether single sale and subscription models will continue to hold sway.
As I've opined in the past, the economic principle of marginal cost pricing suggests that free to play models will become dominant. At a round table on digital goods business models at GDC, one of the EA folks working on Battlefield Heroes noted that their surveys found that hardcore gamers and older gamers objected the most to digital goods, but that casual and younger players accepted it without comment. If the future of gaming is about breaking beyond the hardcore to the mass market, those defending the old models may be missing the larger opportunity.
Russell Carroll has an interesting post at GameSetWatch that sheds some further light on this issue. It is ostensibly about piracy in the casual game business and opens with the stat:
"It looks like around 92% of the people playing the full version of [the game] Ricochet Infinity pirated it."
Carroll asks, if piracy can be stopped, can sales be increased by 12x? (i.e. would all the pirate players buy). After looking at all the methods by which the company could reduce piracy, and the impact of these methods on both downloads and conversion rates, he concludes:
As we believe that we are decreasing the number of pirates downloading the game with our DRM fixes, combining the increased sales number together with the decreased downloads, we find 1 additional sale for every 1,000 less pirated downloads. Put another way, for every 1,000 pirated copies we eliminated, we created 1 additional sale.
Though many of the pirates may be simply shifting to another source of games for their illegal activities, the number is nonetheless striking and poignant. The sales to download ratio found on Reflexive implies that a pirated copy is more similar to the loss of a download (a poorly converting one!) than the loss of a sale.
Think about this from the other direction. Currently, for every 1000 players, 80 bought the game and 920 are playing a free, pirated version. So the company makes around 80 x $20 = $1,600. If they were to eliminate piracy, they would sell one additional game, so their revenue would be $1,620.
At a recent panel on casual games, Alex St John said that he was able to sell advertising to support casual games monetizing at 15c/gameplay and that he was sold out of inventory.
To make $1,620 on advertising at 15c/gamplay, the 1000 players would on average need to play the game about 11 times each, which doesn't seem unreasonable. (This assumes that the source of advertising dollars will be scalable.)
If you add to this a digital goods opportunity, the alternative becomes more interesting. Daniel James (CEO of Three Rings) has said in the past that the ARPU from digital goods is about the same as that from subscription, but with a distribution curve that looks more like a power curve – some heavy spenders and a long tail. An industry rule of thumb for digital goods monetization is around 5-10% of players will pay. Applying the same metrics to this game suggest a digital goods revenue stream in the $1,000-$2,000 range, incremental to the advertising revenue.
And finally, this doesn't even begin to address the question on how many more players will play the game if the free period is not limited to 60 minutes. These incremental players all become candidates for monetization by both advertising and digital goods. Crossing the Penny Gap can dramatically cut the universe of users, as Josh Kopelman has noted before.
I would advise game designers to consider baking digital goods and advertising opportunities into the core mechanics of their new games so that they have the flexibility to explore both these business models as well as the proven subscription model.
UPDATE: Carroll has more data on his casual game pirating experience here.
Freemium service models – paying for convenience in games February 20, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in asynchronous gaming, business models, digital goods, freemium, mobile, subscription, virtual goods.
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Last week I noted that free-to-play games will become increasingly dominant. I've also noted in the past several use cases for the digital goods business models that will be one of the primary monetization mechanisms for free-to-play games. Selling increased functionality can result in user dissatisfaction if players perceive that the only way that they can "win" is to buy more powerful in game functionality. This can be managed through the use of a dual currency system, as Matt Mihaly noted in a guest post.
One other monetization mechanism that free-to-play games can offer is services. Some games, especially real time strategy games, can be somewhat inconvenient to play because they require constant monitoring and occasionally require actions to be taken in game at a certain time. Gameplay can inconveniently interfere with other activities, like work and sleep.
Travian is a good example of this. In Travian each action takes a certain amount of time, and there is no way to "queue up" orders (e.g. if you want to upgrade your mine after you've finished upgrading your farm field), or to "schedule" orders to be carried out at a certain time (e.g. if you want to time a raid on another village to be coordinated with another attack). Instead, Travian requires a player to be in the game at a specific time to give an order.
Offering a player the ability to queue up orders or schedule orders as a premium service is a non controversial way to monetize users. Players who do not want to play can be just as effective as players who are willing to pay (they just need to be able to get online at the right times to give their orders). Players who pay for the service are paying simply for convenience, not for additional in game power.
Managerzone's mobile premium service is another example of such a service. As I noted previously, the mobile service gives a player certain alerts and allows a player to take a number of actions in the game from their mobile phone, without having to log on to the website from a computer. This makes the game much more convenient to play, but again doesn't disadvantage a player who choses not to pay for the mobile service since they can still do everything from the website. It looks like Blizzard may also be considering a mobile version of World of Warcraft.
I'd be interested to hear from readers of other examples of games monetizing premium services.
High prices can increase perception of value January 29, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in digital goods, framing, signalling, virtual goods.
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A recent study by Stanford and Caltech found that increasing the perceived price of a bottle of wine increased the ACTUAL and perceived enjoyment that tasters derived from drinking the wine:
According to researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology, if a person is told he or she is tasting two different wines—and that one costs $5 and the other $45 when they are, in fact, the same wine—the part of the brain that experiences pleasure will become more active when the drinker thinks he or she is enjoying the more expensive vintage…
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The researchers recruited 11 male Caltech graduate students who said they liked and occasionally drank red wine. The subjects were told that they would be trying five different Cabernet Sauvignons, identified by price, to study the effect of sampling time on flavor. In fact, only three wines were used—two were given twice. The first wine was identified by its real bottle price of $5 and by a fake $45 price tag. The second wine was marked with its actual $90 price and by a fictitious $10 tag. The third wine, which was used to distract the participants, was marked with its correct $35 price. A tasteless water was also given in between wine samples to rinse the subjects' mouths. The wines were given in random order, and the students were asked to focus on flavor and how much they enjoyed each sample.
The participants said they could taste five different wines, even though there were only three, and added that the wines identified as more expensive tasted better. The researchers found that an increase in the perceived price of a wine did lead to increased activity in the mOFC because of an associated increase in taste expectation.
The ability of "framing" to impact perceived value is consistent with the signalling function of digital virtual goods in the gifting use case.
Facebook digital gifts worth around $15m/year January 23, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in 3423228, digital goods, facebook, gifts, virtual goods.
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Although Facebook has primarily focused its monetization efforts on advertising, it has also experimented with digital goods. There are three typical use cases for digital goods; (i) increased functionality (ii) self expression and (iii) communication. Facebook's Gifts fall into the third category, whereby a particular communication is emphasized because a gift has a price associated with it, thereby creating some scarcity value.
Facebook creates a certain fixed number of each type of gift. When the number remaining for any particular gift drops below 100,000, Facebook displays the number left. The most common size runs are 100,000 and 1,000,000 but they range as high as 10,000,000 and as low as 15,000.
We noted the number of available gifts of each type over a seven week period to be able to better understand the sales rate of digital gifts. Excluding free gifts, we found that the average number of sales per week for a gift was 846. Since there were 322 gifts available for sale when we completed our last survey (Jan 8th), that implies that Facebook is selling just over 270k digital gifts per week. At $1 per gift, that implies an annual run rate of just under $15m. Facebook sometimes allows users to pre pay for gifts at a discount if you buy multiple gifts, so this number may be slightly lower.
The top four fastest selling gifts were the only four free gifts, all sponsored by an advertiser. On average these gifts were given at a rate of over 150k/week. This is a rate almost 200x faster than the regular Facebook gifts and speaks to the penny gap.
Holiday themed gifts (e.g. Santa hat, eggnog, Happy New Year!) dominated the list of top selling paid gifts, averaging 4,755 sales per week. Romantic gifts (e.g. "Be Mine" cookie, chocolates in a box) also sell better than average. This reinforces the use case of communication as these gifts all have a clear communication overtone, relative to gifts without a clear message (e.g. an espresso bean, a beach ball or a lemon).
WordPress doesn't let me upload excel spreadsheets, so a .pdf is available below.
I suspect that as we see more social games emerge on Facebook we will see digital goods that take advantage of the other two use cases, increased functionality and self expression.
NOTE: I updated this estimate in September 2008 and concluded that Facebook was on a run rate to sell $35M in digital gifts.
EA launches free to play MMO for Western users January 21, 2008Posted by jeremyliew in business models, digital goods, games, games 2.0, gaming.
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Although EA has experimented with free to play MMOs in Korea before, Battlefield Heroes, being launched this summer, is its first free to play MMO aimed at a western market. They will be employing a digital goods model to monetize. With EA now joining Sony and other big western game publishers to employ this model, it is starting to look pretty mainstream. Battlefied Heroes will be more casual than previous incarnations in the franchise. NY Times notes about EA's Korean launch, FIFA:
E.A.'s most recent experiment with free online games began two years ago in South Korea, the world's most fervent gaming culture. In 2006, the company introduced a free version of its FIFA soccer game there, and Gerhard Florin, E.A.'s executive vice president for publishing in the Americas and Europe, said it has signed up more than five million Korean users and generates more than $1 million in monthly in-game sales.
Players can pay not only for decorative items like shoes and jerseys but also for boosts in their players' speed, agility and accuracy. Mr. Florin said that while most users do not buy anything, a sizable minority ends up spending $15 to $20 a month.


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Theophile-Catherine loaned to Saint-Etienne
Saint-Etienne have completed the signing of Cardiff City full-back Kevin Theophile-Catherine on a season-long loan deal.
The Ligue 1 outfit will also have the option to buy the defender at the end of the 2014-15 campaign, with Cardiff ready to offload the player after just one season in the Welsh capital.
Theophile-Catherine, who arrived on a four-year deal from Rennes for a reported £2.1million last September, made 28 Premier League appearances for Cardiff before their eventual relegation to the Championship.
And the 24-year-old revealed his excitement at returning to France.
"I am very happy to arrive at the ASSE," he told the club's official website. "ASSE is a great club, a legendary club.
"Many people in my family are fans of Saint-Etienne, I'll have the pressure at home
"I cannot wait to experience the atmosphere of Geoffroy-Guichard.
"When the opportunity to return to France - especially at Saint-Etienne - presented itself, I did not hesitate."