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Tampa Bay Downs launches its 87th season with when the gates open Saturday on Lambholm South Cotillion Festival Day, with a full card of two-year-old races celebrating the track's heritage of developing future equine stars.
Opening Day festivities begin at 8 a.m. (EST) in the Picnic Pavilion Area with the always-popular Breakfast Buffet, which is $6.95 and includes free grandstand admission, a racing program and a chance to watch horses work out and meet trainers and jockeys (tickets must be purchased beforehand in the track's general office).
Saturday's card is highlighted by a pair of $75,000, six-furlong stakes for two-year-olds: the 28th running of the Inaugural Stakes for colts and geldings and the 34th edition of the Sandpiper Stakes for fillies. Brave Dave and Crumb, both victorious in stakes competition three weeks ago in Miami, headline the two contests.
Brave Dave, a Florida-bred son of Put It Back who has already won $226,100 in his brief career, will face five rivals in the Inaugural. His November 10 victory in the restricted Jack Price Juvenile Stakes at Calder was his third stakes triumph, including a score in the Grade 3 Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park in New Jersey on September 2.
Owned by David Melin and Laurie Plesa and trained by Laurie's husband, Eddie Plesa Jr., Brave Dave will be ridden in the six-furlong Inaugural by Angel Serpa, the third-leading jockey last season at Tampa Bay Downs.
Brave Dave's rivals include unbeaten gelding Purple Egg, trained by Jane Cibelli and ridden by Roberto Alvarado Jr., and improving gelding Capital City, trained by David Fawkes and ridden by Juan Leyva.
Crumb, a filly who has never finished out of the money in four career starts, is the probable favorite for the Sandpiper Stakes, also at six furlongs. Owned by Eric Wirth and trained by Larry Bates, the dark bay daughter of Graeme Hall won the state-bred Joe O'Farrell Juvenile Fillies Stakes on November 10 at Calder. Leyva has been named to ride Crumb.
The eight-horse field for the Sandpiper also includes the Fawkes-trained Vitameta, who has two victories sandwiched around a fifth-place finish in the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes at Saratoga, and Kirk Ziadie-trained runner R Free Roll, a two-time winner bred and co-owned by Bradenton, Florida-based masonry executive Richard Averill.
Following a successful 2011-12 season and the success of several of its graduates and horsemen in the recent Breeders' Cup, Tampa Bay Downs is riding a wave of momentum that has trainers, jockeys and fans in a "can't-wait" mood for opening day's 12:35 p.m. first-race post time.
"We're thrilled to start a new season and confident our racing product will continue to attract nationwide attention and gain new fans for our sport," track Vice President and General Manager Peter Berube said.
"By starting with a card devoted to two-year-olds -- many bred in Florida -- we are able to showcase the state's robust breeding industry and build excitement for our three-year-old program, which is the centerpiece of our meeting every year."
Perennial leading Tampa Bay Downs trainer Jamie Ness returns to the track on Florida's west coast, seeking an unprecedented seventh consecutive Tampa Bay Downs title (he tied with Kathleen O'Connell for the 2009-10 crown and again with Gerald Bennett two years ago). Ness saddled a track-record 79 winners last season.
With 362 winners in 2012 through November 20, Ness is close to nailing down his first national wins title. But his presence hasn't scared off the likes of established conditioners such as Bennett, O'Connell, Jorge Navarro, Jane Cibelli, Leigh Delacour, Bernell Rhone, Thomas Proctor and Joan Scott from mounting their own assaults on the top spot.
Most of the top jockeys from the 2011-12 season also are returning, including runner-up Ronnie Allen Jr., who has won four Tampa Bay Downs riding titles; Daniel Centeno, who won four consecutive track titles from 2006-10; rising star Angel Serpa, third last season with 72 victories; and veteran Scott Spieth, who claimed career victory No. 4,000 here last season.
Throw in such established journeymen as Willie Martinez, who won the recent Breeders' Cup Sprint on Trinniberg, plus Dean Butler, Daniel Coa and Ricardo Feliciano, and it seems certain the jockeys race will again go down to the final weeks of the meeting.
The 91-day meeting, which runs through May 5, is highlighted by the track's annual Festival Day on March 9. That lucrative card features the Grade 2, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby for three-year-olds, which has been a stepping stone to Kentucky Derby glory two of the past six years, along with the Grade 3, $150,000 Hillsborough Stakes on the turf for fillies and mares and the $100,000 Suncoast Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.
Breakfast Buffet attendees are encouraged to remain for a 10 a.m. handicapping seminar featuring Peter Mallett, author of the annual "Betting Tampa Bay Downs" guides and co-author of "Crushing the Cup," a yearly handicapping guide to the Breeders' Cup.
In addition to the established lunch and dining areas throughout the facility, Tampa Bay Downs is adding a barbecue-style food truck from Di Legge's Old City Grill at the north end of the grandstand.
Tampa Bay Downs is open every day except Christmas and Easter for simulcast wagering. For additional information, please visit tampabaydowns.com.

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Danny Battochio ended a brilliant junior hockey career yesterday in a very inappropriate way.
THE OTTAWA 67'S GOALIE --- the heart and soul of this team for the last two seasons -- was sitting on the bench.
He was there while an extra attacker tried to extend the 67's season in the dying seconds of Game 6 at the Civic Centre. But time expired and the Ottawa was eliminated from the OHL playoffs by a 3-2 loss to the Peterborough Petes.
The Ottawa players saluted the fans from centre ice after the teams formed their lines for the customary post-series handshake.
And as the 67's skated off the ice, Battochio stopped a few feet from the edge of the sheet, turned toward the fans and delivered a final salute.
The fans responded with a rousing ovation.
"I really love this place and it's too bad it has to end right now, " said Battochio, fighting back tears in the Ottawa locker room after his team's first-round elimination.
The 20-year-old Sudbury native ended up giving 67's fans a memorable goaltending performance after arriving in the city at the start of training camp three seasons ago as a longshot walk-on.
He played late that year, but suffered a seizure at home during the Christmas break, caused by a malformed vein near his brain. But after surgery, he returned to action last season and became the 67's MVP.
"He's come out and put his heart on the line every single game he plays," said 67's winger Jamie McGinn. "It's going to be sad to see him leave."
"I can only hope in the future that good things happen for him, because he made good things happen for us," said 67's coach/GM Brian Kilrea.
Ottawa tried to extend the Eastern Conference quarter-final to a decisive seventh game in Peterborough, but the 67's ran out of time.
Down 3-1 heading into the final period, the 67's gained some hope when Matt Lahey tipped a Derek Joslin shot behind Petes goalie David Shantz with 6:19 remaining.
Ottawa stormed the Petes in the final minutes and nearly sent the game into overtime.
McGinn had the best chance in the final minute when the puck squirted out of a scramble onto his stick at the side of the net.
But the second-year winger got tackled as he shot, and the puck ricocheted off the post and stayed out of the net.
"I thought it might hopefully hit the back of (Shantz) and go into the net," said McGinn who scored an overtime winner last year to knock Peterborough out of the playoffs. "It was close. I just wish I could go back there and put it in the net."
The Petes broke open the game in the middle period, breaking a 1-1 tie with goals from Fredrik Naslund, his second of the game, and Steve Downie while dominating the 67's 10-3 in shots.
"Throughout the whole year, they've given us a tough time, especially in their own rink," said Petes defenceman and Russell native Trevor Hendrikx, who led his team with eight points during the series .
"It was just nice to come out with a great effort and get this win."
The 67's were missing winger Brett Liscomb, who received a five-game suspension from the OHL for slurring Downie during Friday's overtime loss in Peterborough.
"The difference was their best players were their best players continually, and they got the job done," said Kilrea.
As for his own future, the 71-year-old Kilrea said he plans on being behind the bench again next season.
"What else would I do?" he said. "I'd still come to the rink and I'd still be a pain in the ass to be around. I'd want to be here anyways, and there's nothing else for me. I just want to be at the rink."
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Unfortunately, STN is a horrible non-prof. First, all the board members are family, and this should be a red flag. They're breaking the law in a multitude of ways and believe because they are serving the Lord its ok. I was apart of STN for two year, and all those who write positive comments really were keep on the outside and never saw how things were really done. Working with Non-prof's now I look back and laugh at how horrible STN was. I believe if you are a Christian and you know of all the horrible things STN does, you can not support their organization. I could write pages about it but I think my point is made.
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Welcome to week 3 of my Halloween shopping series.
While I usually get most of my more unique and special items from places like Homesense, there are some practical Halloween decorating items you can get at cheaper stores.
Glittery pumpkins from Wal-Mart
I don't typically buy much of my main decor from these shops, but they are good for some of the basic Halloween decorating items.
Instead of buying the expensive witch's hats from the decorating stores, I buy the dollar store versions and then spice them up with some sparkly spiders from Michael's.
The dollar store is excellent for little Halloween crafts for kids, and kids at heart. I think my mum thought it was pretty funny when my boyfriend and I were sat at the dining room table painting Frankenstein and this little ghosty on a Saturday night. Poor Frank's head is chipping!
Orange and purple Halloween lights are one of my favourite things about decorating for Halloween. I always get mine for about a dollar a set at the dollar store, and buy a few packs so I can put them allover.
Sometimes you'll find some treasure on clearance in the days following Halloween. I've had this little lantern from Target for years.
And these sweet little Halloween stuffs were gifts from my boyfriend this year. Dollar store!
Purple Halloween lights
Dollar store crow
Dollar stores and superstores like Wal-Mart and Target can have a few cutesy things for Halloween decorating. Usually there is nothing very unique, or if you enjoy a bit of a gothic decorating style, nothing high quality enough to leave out year round. Little tidbits can be found however! I think the basics like cobwebs, lights, and extra kitschy garlands are best bought on the cheap, and you usually can't find those things at higher end stores anyway.
I hope you enjoyed this instalment of my Halloween Shopping series. Next week will be my final instalment and will be about costumes and clothing for the modern witch.
After that two blog parties will take us through to the end of October. My my Autumn is flying by!
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Obstruction of justice covers a broad range of criminal charges that can be filed when a suspect somehow impedes or stands in the way of a criminal investigation or prosecution.
A recent example is the charging of Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, a Kyrgyzstani cab driver who was accused of obstructing a government probe into the Boston Marathon bombing. According to Reuters, Matanov had been friends with accused bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsanaev but allegedly lied about his connections to the brothers when questioned by police.
So what are the most common charges associated with obstruction of justice?
Lying to Officers
While you certainly have the right to refuse to answer police questions or ask for an attorney to be present, but you don't have a constitutional right to lie to law enforcement.
Making false or fictitious statements to federal law enforcement is a form of obstruction of justice, and it's also a felony. If you willfully defraud a federal officer who is questioning you -- even on a questionnaire -- you could be facing up to five years in prison.
Matanov reportedly faces three separate charges for making false statements concerning his relationship to the Tsarnaev brothers. And because the investigation dealt with terrorism, each charge carries a possible eight-year prison term.
Hiding or Destroying Evidence
If you willfully hide or destroy evidence to hamper an investigation, you likely have committed some form of obstruction. Concealing, altering, or destroying evidence or documents in order to impede or obstruct a federal investigation is a serious felony with a 20-year maximum penalty.
The evidence doesn't necessarily need to be physical either. In Matanov's indictment, prosecutors allege that he knowingly deleted information from his Internet search history related to the Tsarnaevs as well as hundreds of files after learning the FBI might contact him.
Common Law Obstruction
Many states also recognize a more general crime of common law obstruction of justice, which generally refers to interfering with a criminal investigation. These laws may be used to punish acts which on their own may seem harmless but are intended to influence or impede an investigation.
Suspects may be charged with this common law form of obstruction for persuading a witness not to testify, even if their acts do not rise to the level of witness intimidation.
If you or someone you know is concerned about obstruction of justice charges, you'll want to consult an experienced criminal defense attorney as soon as possible.
Related Resources:
- Man charged with obstructing Boston bombing probe (The Associated Press)
- Officer Arrests Woman Who Lied to Avoid Ticket (FindLaw's Blotter)
- Barry Bonds Convicted: Guilty of Obstruction of Justice (FindLaw's Tarnished Twenty)
- Federal Judge Sentenced to Almost 3 Years for Obstruction of Justice (FindLaw's Courtside)


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D.C. firefighters called in the police after finding what appeared to be a weapon inside a home on fire Monday night.
The fire broke out about 7:30 p.m. in the basement laundry room of an off-campus home where American University students live.
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Hundreds of Dartmoor ponies have been slaughtered and sold to zoos to feed lions and tigers after the market for ponies all but collapsed because of the recession. Experts are now warning that the breed is facing extinction unless urgent measures are taken to stabilise the population.
The small, hardy ponies have roamed Dartmoor for centuries. In the past they were working animals used in mines and quarries but more recently they have become popular with riding schools and private owners who want a small horse for their children.
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Thanks! I'm really excited, although it doesn't pay that great. Not yet - these big name companies are typically where you start out because everybody applies there and they know that. But having your name associated with them gets your resume noticed down the line. Its what I want - a development job and maybe I can land there permanently.
I'll be testing directx drivers on their internal GPU's. Right now the big issue Windows 8 compatibility it appears. If I say more I may be violating some privacy agreement I'm finding out about.
One of the guys I interviewed with is also writing an Android App. He says he put about 400 hours into after work and on weekends. I 'm still not exactly sure what it does after seeing it (something about starcraft - it does look really nice) and he's got it on hold right now . I'm hoping maybe we can tag team our apps as soon as we start.
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A Chilean man was terrified when the elevator he was in began speeding upward with the doors open in a building over the weekend. After a few seconds without slowing, the lift hit the top floor of the building, injuring the man in the process.
According to an unofficial translation of a report from BiobioChile about the incident, the out-of-control elevator shot up 30 floors within 20 seconds, going up to 50 mph. The man inside at the time, identified as Jose Vergara Acevedo, sustained injuries to his head and was transferred to the hospital by rescue crews.
Watch the alarming footage that shows Acevedo hitting the buttons on the elevator control panel, trying to get the lift to stop:
The cause of the malfunction was not identified at the time of BiobioChile's report.
Someone claiming to be an elevator technician on Reddit though said they've seen this type of issue before.
"I think it's a very rare combination of faults in the safety circuit and a malfunction in the brake on the motor, nothing to stop the counterweight from shooting down the shaft and conversely slamming the lift into the ceiling. A lot of things have to go wrong before this happens," the Redditor going by symo420 wrote.


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All phases of the game seemed to be on for the Padres in their 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Strong pitching from Eric Stults and the bullpen meant zero runs after the first two batters of the game.
On the mound
- After giving up a leadoff triple, Eric Stults calmed down and pitched a beauty. The only run came on a groundout, as the Cubs were unable to figure out Stults' change of speed, which led to a lot of swings and misses. He was taken out in the sixth inning after striking out Nate Schierholtz on three pitches. His final line: 5.2 IP 5 H 1 ER 1 BB 3 SO 1 HBP
- Huston Street made another appearance and, once again, was impressive. Street came in in the ninth inning and had a quick 1-2-3 inning, including two strikeouts. The Padres' setup man and closer look to be a dangerous combination, as neither Joaquin Benoit or Street has given up a run this spring.
At the plate
- OF Seth Smith reached base on each of his three plate appearances and had two RBIs, including a double to score the first run of the game for the Padres and a single later with the bases loaded.
- SS Everth Cabrera continues to prove he can do it all at the plate as he walked, had two hits, and a sacrifice bunt. Cabrera also led off an inning three different times, reaching base twice, giving the Padres confidence he can be a good leadoff hitter moving forward.
- Tommy Medica, who played first base today, crushed a ball in the fourth inning over the left-center wall for a two=run home run. That was Medica's third home run of the spring, moving his RBI count up to eight.
Worth Watching
Following Josh Johnson's injury, the back end of the rotation will be more important than ever to watch. The first three spots are set with Andrew Cashner, Ian Kennedy, and Tyson Ross. Stults will likely be fourth in the rotation now and might have calmed down some early spring training worries as he pitched well for the third straight game.
"The last two starts he's thrown the ball well. I think that the first couple starts the first part of spring he didn't feel real comfortable with his release point and really he wasn't finishing his pitches … he wasn't quite getting out over his right side."
-Bud Black on Eric Stults finding his rhythm
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Dell open source computers with No OS, can I load Mepis?
Can I buy one of these computers from Dell with No OS and load MEPIS on it with this Free DOS loader they include?
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FreeDOS is just another OS. It's the open-source, mostly binary-compatible version.
That would just mean you wipe the hard-drive and install your favorite distribution on there, instead of using FreeDOS. If you want to keep it... Hmmm... Put another hard-drive and install on that, or get the latest version of FreeDOS and install it on another partition on the same drive.
IOW, use either or both, but it'd be better to install FreeDOS *then* Linux, to take over the MBR. That'll allow you to boot FreeDOS from grub/lilo.
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I have three N series computers from Dell. One runs CentOS, and the other two, Slackware 10.2 and 11. The FreeDos disk comes seperately IF you want to install it. Otherwise, just partition and format the unformatted hard drive and install Linux. You shouldn't run into any problems.
11-30-2006 #4
OK guys, assume you're dealing with a Windows idiot that wants to switch, someone that has used DOS in the past (I'm 47 years old) but does not know anything at all when it comes to loading Mepis or any other Linux OS on one of these "Dell Open Source Computers" with no OS.
Give us Windows idiots a process to follow taking into consideration that I have the Dell Box with the FREE DOS disk and a Simply Mepis CD with Linux on it.
How do I get going here?
I need a step by step (I'm a Windows dummy)
11-30-2006 #5
Mepis offers you a chance to format and partition your hard drive during install with the QTparted partitioning utility. If you've ever used Partition Magic for Windows, it's very similar. If you haven't, just take your time and really look over what you are doing before committing to any partitioning scheme. Also, understand that it might take a few attempts at installing before you get it just the way you want it. Everything you'll ever need to know about how to partition, format and install Mepis can be found here. So when you feel like you're ready, open the cd tray, insert the Mepis CD, boot it up and find and run the install utility. The install is very intuitive and easy to follow. Take your time with it and I'm sure you'll be sucessful.
By the way, you're in the good hands of a 49 year old. Would I steer you wrong?
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put the linux disk in the cd drive and boot from it, click next a few times, reboot....
11-30-2006 #7
Dan and Dean, we know you guys would never give bad advice to a new Linux user!
Thanks guys, you make it sound like an idiot can do this!
Give me one good reason to partition the hard drive Dan, I've never wanted to do it, maybe if you give me the pros and cons I will try one day!
11-30-2006 #8Originally Posted by avc
With Windows, you make one NTFS or Fat32 partition and install. With Linux, you should at least create a root partition and a swap partition as per the instructions I linked for you. A separate partition for /home is a very good idea for when you need to re-install or upgrade. It will allow you keep your valuable files there safe from being overwritten and lost.
Of course, if it isn't worth it to you to invest in the addition five minutes it may take to do it right, then format the whole drive as ext3 and proceed with the install...
12-01-2006 #9
Thanks Dan, that's all the reason I need, I will follow through and refer back to this thread when I'm installing Mepis on the new box!
Remember, you must have a lot of patience when dealing with Windows Idiots!
Thanks for taking the time to educate others!
PS: Bill Gates hates you!
12-06-2006 #10
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That's how the Seahawks are going to win games this season – by keeping new quarterback Tarvaris Jackson's pass attempts around, say, eight or nine a game.
Maybe that's low, especially when behind 28-0. The point is, with two veteran, quality tight ends and an offensive line of five athletic nasties clearing space for Marshawn Lynch's Beastquakes, a heavy emphasis on the rush reduces the chances for Jackson, the weak link, to make game-losing mistakes.
The addition this week of Zach Miller, whom Huskies football fans may remember from his studhoss days at Arizona State, makes the two-tight-end formation that head coach Pete Carroll always has always loved a real possibility.
In signing Miller to a hefty, five-year $34 million free-agent contract, $18 million guaranteed, the Seahawks burned through a lot of their remaining room under the salary cap. But more important, they improved a strength.
That's the surprise in the Miller signing – rather than filling an obvious hole, they upgraded a position that already had a quality starter, John Carlson.
At least that's how it appears. Absent an actual pads practice until Thursday, much less even a pretend game, no one is certain of anything. The Seahawks open the exhibition season Aug. 11 in San Diego, and by then a half-dozen blown hammies and twisted knees can change everything.
But as long as we all agree that so far all field matters in the NFL are currently acts of imagination, well, Carroll is entitled to a dream state without end.
"We've added another really good football player to our team," he gushed this week, and for once was not over-selling. "Anyone that thinks (Carlson will be traded) just doesn't get it. They will play in tandem. They'll be thrilled with the flexibility.
"I'm really hoping that this is going to be difficult for our opponents because of the matchups we'll be able to create."
Besides being mid-20s guys in their primes who can block as well as catch, Miller and Carlson (6-5, 250 pounds each) together mean that, along with Lynch and wide receivers Mike Williams and Sidney Rice, the Seahawks can start five big, proven veterans who can block, receive and run well. That is a rare collection of attributes, and a startling makeover on offense.
Because the offensive line will start two rookies (James Carpenter, John Moffitt), a second-year left tackle (Russell Okung) and a third-year center (Max Unger) the firepower may not be evident for awhile. But whenever those guys get to the point of reacting instead of thinking, the Seahawks offense will amass many yards on fewer possessions.
Jackson? He's proven to be an excellent hander-offer. The other stuff – you know, passing — is supplemental. Gravy. A fifth ace. A .275 hitter in the eight-hole.
When he does throw, the scouting reports say that the main virtue of Rice (6-4, 202), acquired as a free agent from Minnesota where he was a teammate of Jackson's, is an extraordinary ability to catch most anything thrown in his zip code — high, low, behind, ahead. Which should help cover Jackson's weakness.
And if the passing target is either tight end, the chance for coverage by a little guy one-on-one is high.


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According to GuruFocus updates, these Guru stocks have reached their 52-Week Highs: Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE:CVC), The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), Continental Resources (NYSE:CLR), TJX Companies Inc. (NYSE:TJX), and Cenovus Energy (NYSE:CVE).
Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE:CVC) Reached the 52-Week High of $34.05
Cablevision Systems Corp. is one of the nation's entertainment and telecommunications companies. Cablevision Systems Corp. has a market cap of $10.22 billion; its shares were traded at around $34.05 with a P/E ratio of 22 and P/S ratio of 1.3. The dividend yield of Cablevision Systems Corp. stocks is 1.5%. Cablevision Systems Corp. had an annual average earning growth of 6.8% over the past 10 years.
On November 4, Cablevision Systems Corporation reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2010. Third quarter consolidated net revenues grew 5.6% to $1.808 billion compared to the prior year period, reflecting solid revenue growth in Telecommunications Services and Rainbow, offset slightly by a decline at Newsday. Consolidated adjusted operating cash flow grew 3.6% to $661.7 million and consolidated operating income grew 8.3% to $401.2 million, both compared to the prior year period.
Cablevision Systems Corp. is in the portfolios of Chase Coleman, Steven Cohen, Bruce Koyner, George Soros, Jim Simons, Mario Gabelli, Brian Rogers, Murray Stahl, and Jeremy Grantham.
In August, Sell: Executive Vice President & CFO Michael Huseby, Sell: SVP&Controller&PrinpAcctgOffr Wm Keith Harper, and Sell: Sr. VP & Treasurer Kevin Watson sold shares of CVC stock.
The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU) Reached the 52-Week High of $19.75
The Western Union Company is a provider of global money-transfer services. Western Union has a market cap of $12.95 billion; its shares were traded at around $19.75 with a P/E ratio of 14.6 and P/S ratio of 2.5. The dividend yield of Western Union stocks is 1.4%. Western Union had an annual average earning growth of 3.2% over the past 5 years.
The Western Union Company is in the portfolios of John Griffin, Steven Cohen, Paul Tudor Jones, Bruce Koyner, Louis mOore Bacon, Todd Combs, Mark Hillman, Bill Nygren, Jeff Auxier, Ron Baron, John Buckingham, David Dreman, Donald Yacktman, Chris Davis, and Chuck Royce.
In November, Sell: EVP, Sr. Admin. Officer David Schlapbach sold 25,444 shares of WU stock.
Continental Resources (NYSE:CLR) Reached the 52-Week High of $61.18
Continental Resources is a crude-oil concentrated, independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Continental Resources has a market cap of $10.4 billion; its shares were traded at around $61.18 with a P/E ratio of 37.7 and P/S ratio of 16.6.
On November 3, Continental reported net income of $39.1 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2010. Net income included a pre-tax property impairment charge of $14.7 million and a $24.2 million loss on mark-to-market derivative instruments. The loss on derivative instruments was comprised of a $36.6 million unrealized loss, offset partially by a $12.4 million realized gain. The third quarter 2010 impairment charge and $36.6 million unrealized loss together reduced net income per share by $0.19.
Continental Resources is in the portfolios of Steven Cohen, Richard Aster Jr, John Keeley, and Jeremy Grantham.
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TJX Companies Inc. (NYSE:TJX) Reached the 52-Week High of $47.71
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On January 6, the TJX Companies, Inc. reported December 2010 sales results. Sales for the five-week period ended January 1, 2011, were $3.0 billion, up 6% over the $2.9 billion achieved during the five-week period ended January 2, 2010. For the 48 weeks ended January 1, 2011, sales reached $20.6 billion, up 8% over the $19.0 billion achieved during the 48-week period last year. Consolidated comparable store sales for the five-week period ended January 1, 2011 increased 2% compared to last year. For the 48-week, year-to-date period, consolidated comparable store sales increased 4% compared to last year.
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Cenovus Energy (NYSE:CVE) Reached the 52-Week High of $33.35
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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. The V&A holds an extensive collection of wallpaper, textile and tile designs.
William Morris & Wallpaper Design
Morris's name and reputation are indissolubly linked to wallpaper design, but there is a tendency to over-estimate the influence he had in this field, at least in his own lifetime. Morris designs seem to have satisfied a widespread desire for pattern in a way which the more formal and didactic designs of the reformers such as Jones and Pugin never did. Morris also transformed the way in which people of relatively modest means decorated their houses. By designing and selling all the ingredients of the Morris style in a single outlet,allowing the householder to furnish in a co-ordinated fashion.
A William Morris and William De Morgan Tile-Panel
The early commissions of Morris and Company for decorative work at St James Palace (1865-67), the Green Dining-Room in the V&A (1866) and at No. 1 Palace Green (1868) are well documented, as well as being for Morris and his still fairly new firm important milestones towards success.
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The Arts and Crafts Movement began in Britain around 1880 and quickly spread to America, Europe and Japan. Inspired by the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris, it advocated a revival of traditional handicrafts, a return to a simpler way of life and an improvement in the design of ordinary domestic objects. In 2005, the V&A hosted the exhibition 'International Arts and Crafts'.


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You know, it sure wasn't the safest thing to do as a kid……that whole riding a bike down a hilly dirt road with no hands thing. No helmet, no pads, no protection at all–and those are some of my fondest memories!
What would those kids that were us back then have to say to the kids of today? ("You wear what? On where? Why??") What about the parents? ("You let your kid wear that? On where? Why??") Especially when it comes to riding in a car! I can remember moving all around our family van as my Dad was cruising down the highway. Nowadays, you just about get arrested for that. At the very least, the video someone has taken on their phone in the car behind you of your kid moving all over your van gets posted on CNBC, Fox News and any other T.V. show that will have panel after panel of so-called "experts" deliberating and arguing back and forth about the merits and pitfalls of such actions in today's society.
So what would they say about "Yard Darts"?
Remember those? Two colored plastic circular tubes the diameter of a pencil made two big rings that were the targets (the boring part); then, four darts–two sets of two different colored 12-inch long, plastic-finned, 3-sided tops with heavy metal bases that came to a point–completed the ensemble (the exciting part). Ours were in a cardboard box with those happy 1970's family posers throwing the darts at the other team's target. Nothing but good, safe, family fun, right?
What did kids do with this family-fun game when the parents weren't around? What every kid did! Throw those sharp pieces of kid-dom fun straight up into the air as high as possible and try to calculate trajectories to see if they've gotta run like a banshee to avoid being pinned to the ground. We had that big side yard to do it in, too! As I recall, sometimes my brother and I would spread out on the side yard and lob them into the air to see how close we could come to the other brother without him actually having to move.
Yep….not smart. But it sure was fun. And very memorable. Mostly due to the fact that neither one of us ever got hurt playing with those things (God was certainly true to my mother's prayers for our protection growing up). So what's available now? Maybe a Nerf version of what used to be a thrill ride for a kid–something "safe" and non-threatening. That's like giving a kid a chocolate cake without the frosting. No thanks. Give me the real thing. We've become too "safe-sensitive" in today's culture–not that I want to go out and buy a real Yard Darts game for my kids. But I do recognize a tendency in myself and my parenting to be over-protective and unwilling to just let my boys be the kids that they are…kids that want to do things that in my adult mind seem unsafe and unwise. Yet what did I do as a kid? Some of the exact same things I catch them wanting to do.
Us adults need to remember what some of the joys of being a kid are. And when you stop and think about it, those childhood experiences really all come down to this: sometimes the best teacher for a kid is the freedom to experience something for himself.


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TRB Plans EMS Transport Safety Summit
Safety advocates from EMS and beyond will celebrate Leap Day with a special summit in Washington, D.C., focusing on EMS Safety Systems, Strategies and Solutions.
The one-day Feb. 29 workshop is sponsored by the U.S. government's Transportation Research Board, which has a subcommittee devoted to EMS safety. It will present an interdisciplinary "state of the art" in transport safety issues and approaches, including technologies now available and under development, as well as covering human-factors issues and ongoing research and research needs. Proceedings will be broadcast by satellite to the concurrent EMS Today show in Baltimore.
Past TRB EMS summits have involved representatives from NHTSA, the DOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems office, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Homeland Security and other top agencies and subject-matter experts, as well as state directors and other top EMS officials. For more information see Objective Safety.


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An NC-17 rating is nearly a kiss of death for a theatrical release, and it severely limits the number of theaters willing to show a film. The MPAA originally slapped the upcoming "Blue Valentine" with just such a rating for a sex scene between a married couple, played by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, who are stuck in the middle of a rapidly dissolving union. Today the news came down that the NC-17 rating was reversed, changing the rating to a much less restrictive R, after Harvey Weinstein personally argued for the film in a hearing.
Here's part of the press release courtesy of Deadline:
The Classification and Rating Appeals Board today overturned the NC-17 rating given to the movie "Blue Valentine". The Classification and Ratings Administration (CARA) had assigned the move the NC-17 rating for "a scene of explicit sexual content." The film is now rated R, on appeal, for "strong graphic sexual content, language, and a beating."
While that's good for the film, which by every account I've seen is wonderful, but somehow addition of the phrase "and a beating", somehow makes it sound far more severe than "explicit sexual content". Maybe that's just me.
"Blue Valentine" follows the story of Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams), who, over the course of a single night, attempt to save their crumbling marriage. Here's the trailer.


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Top 10 Free to Play Publishers
[Editor's Note: Before embarking on his own startup, contributing writer Adam Martin was CTO at NCsoft Europe. Adam is a voracious gamer with a professional background split between programming and business. He blogs at T-Machine and can be reached at adam.m.s.martin at googlemail.com]
At FreeToPlay.biz, we've spent a lot of time examining how free-to-play (F2P) games work: their advantages, challenges, demographic appeal, etc. But we haven't yet looked as closely at who makes these games what they are and who shapes the future of the F2P sector: the Publishers.
In the online games industry, there are three separate categories:
- Who makes the games? (the "Developers")
- Who funds and markets the games? (the "Publishers")
- Who supplies the games to the users? (the "Operators")
Historically, the core games industry (i.e. retail) has had just two categories: Developers and Publishers. With the advent of online games, a major offshoot of Publishers has appeared: Operators, who take none of the up-front risk of a traditional Publisher and focus instead on capitalizing on the game once it's made (usually by taking it to territories and languages that the original publisher cannot reach).
This article looks at the Publishers: the businesses that take the bulk of the risk by financing the game. If a game is fully developed, and launched, but fails to earn out, the Developer makes no profit but no loss; the publisher, on the other hand, makes a net loss of whatever the development cost was, minus the game's revenue.
Operators don't usually enter the picture until the game has already gone to market in at least one territory, and set an expected level of popularity / revenue, so they have the lowest risk of all. Ultimately, the Publishers have the greatest control over what future games get developed.
For each Publisher, we start with their Name, Country, Incorporation year, and 2008 revenues (as estimated by the company in their latest financial report, or as estimated by me based on similar companies and markets).
1. Nexon, South Korea, 1994, $300m (est)
Nexon is probably the most famous of the F2P publishers, thanks to two hugely successful games - MapleStory (2003) and KartRider (2004) - which have both attracted many tens of millions of players. Although MapleStory came first and has been the bigger global success with over 100 million players internationally, KartRider did much better in its home market of South Korea. Some reports allege KartRider has been played at one time or another by more than a third of the population of the country.
But it's not just about sheer number of players. Nexon has also consistently made a huge amount of money out of their virtual item sales revenue model, with quoted revenues of $230m revenue for 2005, most of it coming from F2P offerings. Unfortunately, the Korean head office has been uncharacteristically quiet (for a Korean company) for the last few years, with the only good data coming from Nexon Publishing North America, a subsidiary with a games operations office in Los Angeles and an original game development studio in Vancouver, Canada.
Apart from pioneering the use of F2P, it's worth noting that Nexon was also a pioneer of subscription-based online games. They developed one of the first ever MMOs in Asia - The Kingdom of the Winds (1996) (subs). One of the lead programmers, Jake Song, left to be part of a newly-founded company - NCsoft - and develop their first MMO, Lineage (1998). NCsoft is now one of Nexon's major competitors. Lineage for many years held the world record for largest number of players for any MMO, and NCsoft is still an almost entirely subscription-based MMO publisher.
2. Giant Interactive, China, 2004, $240m (est)
Giant Interactive is currently the top Chinese F2P publisher by revenue, although if NetEase's rumoured conversion from subs to F2P for their main games goes ahead, Giant could slip down to a close second. Giant was founded by Shi Yuzhu, who made a fortune from selling diet-supplement pills... and then lost it all when the original Giant Group went bankrupt in 1997. He made a personal comeback with a new company based on similar pills, Nao Baijin ("Brain Platinum") - and an exceptionally aggressive and intensive marketing campaign - then went on to found Giant Interactive in 2004.
Which all helps to explain Giant's leading game, ZT Online (2006), which with around 10 million players and an ARPU of over $40 a month generates the bulk of their revenue. That ARPU figure stands out for being around 50% higher than most other operators.
Shi's Nao Baijin pills were helped to huge sales through a massive nationwide marketing and sales team, and for Giant he went a similar route, using a thousands-strong sales team to personally visit the Internet Cafe's around China and promote the game. This contrasts with the other online game publishers and operators, who - like their Western counterparts - generally do their marketing through much cheaper means, such as online advertising and industry events like conferences. According to the company's website, they now have over 3,000 sales and marketing people. It seems fair to say that this is a marketing-lead business, and that we can expect to see Giant consistently getting every ounce of revenue out of its games over the coming years.
The creation of an alternative, Pay-to-Play (PTP) version of ZT may be an example of this. ZT Online PTP (2008) comes with a $2 / month flat subscription, or $0.01 an hour, and no item-purchasing allowed. Where operators and publishers go for parallel monetization, its nearly always the other way around: making available an F2P version of an existing subs game. Indeed, NetEase appears to be doing that right now with their major titles, in an attempt to shore-up the losses in players they've seen, with many of them allegedly moving to ZT.
3. Perfect World, China, 2004, $200m (est)
Perfect World (which is the name of both the company and their first MMO) is a Chinese MMO company that has developed and launched seven games in four years. Like all the Chinese MMO publishers, they are young, and yet have seen huge revenues on the back of massive player numbers and rapid, consistent, growth.
Interestingly, their first MMO was a traditional RPG using the subscriptions model, but for the sequel, Perfect World II (2006), they decided to switch to an item-sales F2P model.
Although (like many of the Chinese publishers) largely unknown in the Western world, they established a USA subsidiary in April 2008, and so that may well change fairly rapidly.
For 2008 Q2, their ARPU for paying customers is a decent but not unusual $27 per month.
4. Disney, USA, 1994, $1000m (entire online division)
Disney is the largest of the US companies making major use of F2P at the moment. Like Nexon, their earliest forays into online gaming were subscription based, with the likes of ToonTown Online (2003), which was also one of the first virtual worlds aimed at children, and peaked at over 1 million subscribers. They later acquired Club Penguin (2005), one of the biggest Western F2P games, acquiring approximately 10 million new users. Outside of children's MMOs they've been less successful, and although they've used F2P in major MMO titles such as Pirates of the Caribbean Online (2007), it's not been so well received, with numerous accusations that the F2P element was too heavily crippled.
TTO pioneered child-safe worlds, with features such as SpeedChat to protect children from other players, whose identity can never be confirmed. To those afraid that F2P worlds allow for "anyone" to play, without any way to identify them, it's worth noting that the subs-only TTO had the same problem, and never completely avoided it. Interestingly, in 2007 Disney switched TTO to F2P.
5. CJ Internet, South Korea, 2000, $180m
CJ Internet has around 23 million people playing games at its NetMarble games portal. CJ Corporation (which acquired Plenus/NetMarble in 2004 and renamed it to CJ Internet), was originally a sugar-producing subsidiary of Samsung, and so the CJ stands for Cheil Jedang (lit "first sugar"). This may sound strange, but is a classic example of South Korean Chaebol (family-owned, government assisted, major corporations with ownership of businesses across a very wide spectrum of unassociated industries).
Their best-known game is probably Sudden Attack (2005), a clone of the hugely successful Counter-Strike (2000). Interestingly, CS's owner, Valve Software, has commissioned Nexon to develop an "official" F2P version of CS for the Korean market, named Counter -Strike Online, due out in 2008.
Elsewhere, CJI appears to have taken a leaf out of EA Sports' book by licensing the MLB (Major League Baseball) club names, logos, and famous players for use in their MaguMagu online Baseball game.
6. Gameforge, Germany, 2003, $100m (guess)
With 60 million users, Gameforge is one of the biggest Western F2P publishers. Although they have never released revenue figures, their quoted 11 million "active" players suggest an annual revenue figure somewhere in the region of $75m - $150m. Given that their games tend to be light browser-based games, I'm guessing they're at the lower end of the spectrum.
They started off only running their in-house developed browser-based games, with the biggest (around 2.5 million players) being OGame (2002), but in the last few years they've branched out, and now operate several client-based games imported from Asia. One of those, Metin 2 (2007?), was originally launched as a subs game in Germany, and then switched to F2P for the localized versions launched throughout Europe. As a private company, figures are hard to get hold of, but they have quoted an ARPU of $26 for the 1.1 million M2 players in Europe (although its not completely clear if that includes the German subscribers).
Gameforge is particularly interesting because by focussing on rapid, high-quality localization of games to different languages (they claim to have localized into 25 distinct languages already) they've successfully moved from simple game developer to a major importer/operator of South Korean games. This is almost the opposite of Acclaim, but they've done it more slowly and until last year self-funded, so they appear to be taking the slower, harder, but more defensible and lucrative approach.
7. HanbitSoft, South Korea, 1999, $65m
HanbitSoft came to fame in 1999 for being the South Korean distributor of Blizzard's multiplayer (but non-MMO) StarCraft (1998), a best-selling game in USA/Europe, and one of the biggest-selling games ever in South Korea. SC was monetized as boxed retail sales only, with no ongoing revenue stream, and in South Korea became (and still is) a major competitive sport, with two TV channels running their own live SC leagues.
However, right now HanbitSoft is probably best known outside Asia for being the main publisher of the failed Hellgate:London game from the now-defunct, ex-Blizzard-led, Flagship Studios. They're one of the few companies in this list to have made a substantial net loss on funding games, and it's interesting that this happened with a game that most closely bridged the game between "traditional mainstream Western action game" and "F2P MMO". Hellgate had a troubled development and probably failed for many reasons, but one of the frequently cited complaints was that the monetization model was neither F2P nor subscription, but a mix of the two. This appears to have fared poorly.
In May 2008, T3 Entertainment, best known as the developers of Audition Online (published by Yedang Online), became the largest shareholder in Hanbitsoft. This may be T3's first move into being a major publisher in their own right.
8. Bigpoint, Germany, 2002, $25m (est)
Bigpoint has been through two name-changes, starting out as "m.wire", a self-publishing developer of browser-based sports games such as IceFighter (2003) and Soccer Manager (2004). In 2005 they underwent a change of name to better reflect this specialization, becoming "e-sport", before switching the company name to match their gaming portal - bigpoint.com - in 2007. Their portfolio now is diversified away from sports games.
Bigpoint may appear at first glance to be nothing more than a smaller version of Gameforge (see above), with around one third of the annual revenues, and half the number of players, and a narrower portfolio (unlike GF, BP hasn't started to operate any Asian games, nor branched out into client-based online games). That changed earlier this year when the 3 main VCs (all low-end investors) exited in a buyout split between the CEO, another VC fund, and ... NBC Universal, selling 70% of the company for $110 million. The link with NBCU has already started to show, with their SCI FI channel website now carrying two item-based F2P games from Bigpoint (although not exclusively). This buyout made clear the company's intentions: they swapped a group of small European funds for a 35% stake from a mainstream USA-based entertainment giant (more than $15b a year in revenue).
There are also signs that they may be one of the first wave of companies to get F2P games on PlayStation 3. To date, all games distributed via the PSN store have been allowed free demos but with extremely limited functionality. Now, along with demoing one of their games running on a PS3, Bigpoint's CEO has stated that their games will be available on console "with free registration as usual, and ready to play right after download".
That gives Bigpoint two major relatively untapped markets for their style of F2P, and with their powerful media partner, they may yet leapfrog Gameforge and secure a large chunk of one or both of those markets.
9. Frogster, Germany, 2005, ? (Frogster's IR website is offline)
Over the past ten years there's been a clear trend for the young, fast-grown, cash-rich South Korean online game companies to look for their next round of growth in the West, and so establish subsidiaries in Europe and the USA, starting with NCsoft's acquisition of Destination Games in 2001. Frogster is one of the first companies to actively reverse that trend by taking wealth generated in Europe and the USA, and establishing a subsidiary in South Korea. This subsidiary is managed by a previous General Manager of Gravity, a Japanese online games publisher (non-F2P).
Originally formed as a management buyout of a standard middle-tier PC games publisher, Frogster has been focussing on repurposing as a pure MMO publisher / operator, and spun off it's conventional PC games division in 2007. Like a couple of operators and publishers, they've been switching or parallelizing their subscription games over to F2P, e.g. in 2008 they added an F2P server to Bounty Bay Online (2006).
10. Zynga, USA, 2008, ? and Social Gaming Network, USA, 2008, ?
For the final entry, we're going with something a bit different: not one company, but two, and not based on revenues, but on market and consumer base. And both companies are less than a year old. There's a reason for this: unique in the F2P world, they've both risen to fame (and around 50 million users each) on the back of other people's hosting platforms in the guise of Social Networking sites, especially Facebook. They're included as a pair because, to be honest, there's so little to distinguish between them.
They represent a second wave of disruptive F2P businesses, thanks to that tie-in with the major Social Networks; without any partnership deal, in less than a year they've achieved user figures - as high as 18 million active - that are a notch faster again than the super-fast-growing Chinese F2P publishers. We're seeing them uncharacteristically early - it took the games industry a good 5 years to even notice the existence of games like Runescape (now running at well over 1 million subscribers). So it's no surprise that things like revenue levels are unquoted and relatively meaningless for these two - those will become established over the coming year or so. What we're looking at here is very early businesses whose only direct, clear, measurable value (and indicator of probable lasting success) is the huge audience they command. These are almost typical web businesses, not games businesses, but the expectation among many is that with hindsight we'll look back and say that they were the start of the new combined web + games industry, which is widely expected to eclipse traditional games.
Of course, they could easily sputter and fail (although it's quite hard not to be profitable when you've got tens of millions of users), so they're here at number 10.
Notes on inclusion
Direct revenue comparisons are difficult
Approximately 1/3 of publishers don't publish their revenues, and another 1/3 don't separate out their F2P revenues from their other revenue. The most accurate known figures are quoted for each company, sometimes these are F2P revenue, other times it's an aggregate including non-F2P and even non-games revenue.
Many Operators think of themselves as Publishers
There are different definitions of "Publisher", and the line between the two is often blurred. I've tried to include only companies who are are substantial publishers by the risk definition given above, but some publishers may have been accidentally categorized as operators. A followup article will look at the companies who are primarily Operators.
Companies have to be mostly F2P
Several major companies with large revenues have been excluded because the vast majority of their online-game revenue comes from subscriptions. Only companies that gain the bulk of their revenue from F2P, or have made major switches from subs to F2P, are included here.
Perhaps I don't understand the classification system but Tencent, NHN, and Shanda all book more revenue in a single quarter than some of the companies on this list book in an entire year. Do you not see them as "Publishers"?
Also, mixing revenues and user metrics in a single list leads to misleading results in my opinion. Zynga is a top 10 F2P publisher but Neowiz is not? SGN is on the list but Playfish is not? Kinda odd if you ask me.
Adrian, great stuff here. I'm confused as well why Tencent, NHN, and Shanda are not incorporated?
Thanks for the comments, all the companies you suggested are important in their own right and I considered including them here. In the end I looked at more than 80 publisher/operator/developer companies to get down to this list of 10. Sadly I found that unless you actually work inside the companies, and can see exactly what they're doing, this is often a blurry area (made less clear by the lack of public info, and then on top of that by the lack of English translations of a lot of the info that is public). Along the way I found a substantial number of quoted, apparently reputable, pieces of info (including annual revenues, game/IP ownership, etc), including in some otherwise reputable sites, that I already knew to be false. It's tricky!
In the end I had to make some judgement calls on what to include and what not to include, and what to punt to future articles on Operators. I may have chosen poorly, you're welcome to disagree .
FYI reasoning behind the three you bring up (all of which are particularly interesting):
Tencent charges subscriptions to play most of their games, and nearly all their revenue comes from the subs, as far as I could tell from the relatively small amount of verifiable info I could find.
NHN similarly.
Shanda is by far and away the largest revenue online game company in China, as far as I could tell, but seems to make the bulk of its income from operating other people's games, rather than publishing them.
Tencent I was quite confident of, the other two were edge cases we were still debating up until the last moment. So, if you can find some data to show one way or the other, that would be great!
PS: errors and omissions are my fault, not Adrian's .
Thanks for responding, Adam.
I had some of the same questions for Adam when he submitted the article, and came to realize the dilemma he explains here after talking to him.
I have some information (not public) that would put one of the aforementioned companies on this list, but obviously can't use it.
It's a large industry and as much as possible Adam has held to a strict definition of "publisher" using only verifiable information.
Ultimately, I'd love to hear additions and revisions with citations where possible. Perhaps we can grow and refine this list into THE resource for F2P pubs.
Thanks for all your comments!
Adam – outstanding work here. Thanks for the separation of companies that have to be mostly f2p vs. those that collect subscriptions and dabble in the f2p market.
In addition to creating a 'ones to watch' list here, you've also provided a go to reference for stats, figures, and numbers on most of the publishers listed. Thanks!
Looking forward to said future article on the operators.
1) Gravity is not a Japanese publisher. They are a Korean developer. They have a Japanese subsidiary but again, they are the developer of Ragnarok Online and now RO2.
2) You're not considering NCSoft in this mix? With their Lineage franchise, City of Heroes franchise, Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars?
3) NHN is not subscription based.
4) How are you differentiating between being an operator and a publisher? Shanda is, btw, a publisher.
5) Hanbitsoft lost money on their attempt to develop an independent MMO called Tantra, lost the distribution right for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne to Sonogong, lost a horrific amount of money for Granado Espada…the list goes on and on. And yet you list them in your top 10, while overlooking the rest of the successful game portal sites and independent large to mid-sized publishers of Korea.
And where are the other countries in this mix? Though they may not come up to the surface, there are numerous publishers in different countries that do successfully – and could compete with the list you put out.
Joymax (Silkroad Online) generates revenue comparable to Bigpoint but was missing from the list – what is the criteria you have for ranking these companies?
Numerous North American companies besides Nexon quietly make revenues that would push a few of these companies off the list – if the list is based on annual revenue alone. Our industry may not be known for publicly publishing figures and numbers – but the facts are still there if you do a little bit of digging.
If you're interested in finding out more facts about Asia & North America free-to-play market figures, please contact me at my email address.
Thanks for the information, especially on HanbitSoft's chequered past. A couple of things spring to mind:
Gravity – my understanding was that GungHo (http://www.gungho.co.jp/english/) is a Japanese conglomerate that owns a publisher, called Gravity, that owns a South Korean developer, also called Gravity (c.f. http://www.gungho.co.jp/english/about/group.php). Perhaps I should have listed them as GungHo instead of as Gravity, or put both names side by side?
NCsoft – all the games you list apart from one are subscriptions, and the one that isn't is a retail boxed product. None of them are F2P. Having worked at NCsoft for a couple of years, I can confirm they are not an F2P publisher, hence they are not included in this list.
Any more info you can share on companies missing from the list etc will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Mary – some good points which I agree with.
I would like to discuss this more but cannot get your email from the system. Perhaps you would be as kind as to contact me at phil [at] psfei [dot] co [dot] uk?
HanbitSoft was recently purchased by T3.
Frogster is an operator, not a publisher, based on their interaction with the developers.
Either do it right, or don't mix everything… You can't make worldwide F2P overview in few paragraphs.
There are publishers, developers and operators. Each of them mix & matches their duties, by sublicensing, licensing in, licensing out in different territories.
There is value for non-IPO dudes, market cap (for those gone through IPO) and revenues.
There are different delivery methods: downloadable games, persistent browser based games (astrum online/bigpoint/gameforge), thin clients (Java/ActiveX)
There are different biz models – f2p, subscription, ads, activation that could be mix & matched: _ads_ on the site, _trial_ up to level 10, _subscribe_ to unlock further and remove ads, _pay_ more to get more money.
This post could only be called "some random companies". Writing a decent industry overview or region analytics takes many sleepless weeks of filtering based on facts, not assumptions.
"That ARPU figure stands out for being around 50% higher than most other operators."
I guess that covers only Chinese operators. The reason is that the GDP per capita in China is considerably low (~5000 USD). An ARPU of over $40 a month is common in richer countries like South Korea or Russian Federation. We personally treat an ARPU of under $40 as "low". "Decent" ARPU for us floats around $50-$70.
Runescape is the #1 f2p game not those loser games… Runescape has 15 MILLION active free users, 135,000,000 + accounts created, 23 skills, and 100+ quests. Some people have been playing since the beginning (2001) and they have not finished the game yet. This game is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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The Korean F2P are the strongest for now.
Hi Adam,
How do you differentiate between Publisher and Operator?
Some of these companies only have 1-3 very successful games. I'm surprised Disney made it on this list but I guess they do make F2P games that target young kids. I don't think they make as much for their free to play games though.
I think IGG should've been listed here.


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