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I don't really hold high hopes for any game to measure up to my standards. I'm a specific person looking for a specific game that will probably never be developed unless I do so. I do like the stale form still and grinding end game, it's what I do instead of playing Farmville/CoD for 6-20 hours a day. The limiting factor really should be the story of the game, not that arbitrary wall that magically appeared when the last one came out. Bringing down that "wall of infinite height" and replacing it with a castle or town that gets levelled would be so much more interesting. The less companies tell us, the more we want to explore and the more we want to play. Take a line from the Myst games and leave out the story or the hotbar.
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I agree that the standard model has grown stale. I tried about a week of Conan and D&D before saying "wow clone" and being bored.
I don't think the answer is balancing the Sandbox level, though. I think it's about content. A lot of games have you running minor variations of the same 20 quests over and over (eve, city of heroes). And others let you run the same dungeon as many times as you'd like (wow, everquest, etc ...)
It would take some serious design and truly clever engineers to get around the resource issues, but how about a game that remembers your state? Rolling Content. Timelines - both personal and game wide. That's what I'm talking about. Sure - it would seperate players a bit. "Sorry - I already killed that dude in another quest - can't tank it for you".
But it would bring us closer to the old fashioned paper and pencil games that the original MMOs were trying to emulate in the first place. And it would help restore the Sense of Adventure and make us feel like our quest lines are more unique.
Heck - people would reroll new characters just to be able to go through the content they missed the first time through. And not just because it was "grey" - but because their actions made it unavailable.
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Eww, eww, eww, eww! You actually LIKE that crap?! I don't even really know where to start with those comments. That stuff I put in red...that would completely obliterate absolutely everything that makes Eve unique and worth playing. I'm pretty sure that the day even one of those aspects gets put into the game is the day when 90% of the playerbase cancels their subscriptions.
That "Wait 10 years to get useful skills"...did you even try to look at any of the guides? With a little bit of planning and focused skill training you could be very effective at one of several major roles in either single player or multiplayer aspects in under three months, and a valuable asset to your corpmates.
"Yay, mine for 5 hours"...don't like mining? Then pick one of the other SEVERAL DOZEN different activities that you could do instead.
"Oh fun, just lost my ship"...then learn how not to lose it next time, and there are many techniques that can be used for this. That's part of the fun; coming up with your own strategies to AVOID losing your ship and watching them work, and the sense of satisfaction you get from overcoming that challenge.
Going by that statement about you HAVE to be able to max your character in a month and go for end game, you're obviously completely addicted to the traditional WoW-like themepark MMO. Eve Online is therefore completely beyond you, and there's nothing I can tell you that could change that. Sorry, but this just isn't your game, and I recommend you try something else.
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Joined: 4/14/11
I agree with this post.
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Joined: 1/13/10
Single player RPGs is the way to go. Don't care much about this genre anymore. Not sure what am I even doing here tbh.
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Joined: 4/07/04
You had me until the end, when you left Guild Wars 2 off the list of games that may refresh the stale genre. Arenanet are innovating the genre in the exact way one would want a developer to go about doing so. They've redesigned the Fantasy MMORPG from the ground up. They didn't feel beholden to old design strategies when developing the game, but nor did they throw out things that work for their game, just because they are similar to things that have been done before. They determined what they wanted the game to provide to players and then worked at finding the best way to provide the desired experience, while actively working to eliminate most of the negatives of previous MMORPG design strategies.
Not only do they have the right approach to design, but they are fortunate enough to have the money, support and freedom granted them by Arenanet to develop an innovative game with out fear of the money being cut off or having a premature release forced upon them.
We won't know exactly how well it all works until we play Guild Wars 2, but they are attempting some serious innovations to the genre and going about it in exactly the right manner, with the support of a Publisher that is willing to give them the resources and time they need to achieve success. To neglect them from the article seems like a very deliberate and petty snub.
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Joined: 7/09/04
If you can't kill it, don't make it mad.
Originally posted by Valgar1
Well... Then you are going to be waiting for a long, long time... ALL the investor/suit types care about is the ROI (Return on Investment). Thats why they (not the Dev's) are in control of what does and doesn't get done. When one is risking tens of millions of (other peoples money) taking risks with that money is usually well down the list of aceptable activities. Hence the endless stream of games using pretty much the same dynamics.
Until the cost of producing these games comes WAY down, thats simply the reality that we will continue to see.
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I agree 100%.
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Originally posted by Comaf
1. Warhammer Online (Face palm...).
2. EA pulled the plug on the Ultima MMO
3. EQ2... (Need I say more?...). Now EQ is going F2P.
4. I'd settle for having the original Vanguard cleaned up, and re launched, with a decent marketing budget. But thats NOT going to happen. The only question now, is *when* (not if) SOE is going to pull the plug.
5. Ashrons Call 2 (Turbine and Microsoft messed it up so badly, that they eventually pulled the plug (right after selling us an expansion of course...)).
So far, there really isn't a good record for follow up games. I'm rather disappointed that ToR didn't turn out better. Given the huge budget, there really isn't any excuse for many of the ill considered design choices, and rough edges found in the 30's and higher (level wise).
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Joined: 11/27/11
First of all, you may want to check the by-line again. Bro is a very gender-specific term.
Secondly, yes. If you want to take it that far, Deus Ex might as well be another dolled-up Wolfenstein. XD
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Joined: 11/27/11
I'd like to point out that MMORPG.com gives us free reign on what we write. None of us are obligated to agree with everyone else. In fact, there's probably a reason why a non-fantasy column has steadfastedly refused to comment on SWTOR so far.. *cough*
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Joined: 10/19/09
With what we have recieved in SWTOR I think the answer is definitely Yes MMO's have grown stale. So long as people keep buying into the next MMO that clones WoW's mechanics (and yes argue as much as you like that SWTOR doesnt except I bought it and played it enough to recognise that it is 90% wowclone) then this is where the genre will remain.
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Originally posted by TheCrow2k
I agree, we need to stop buying into hype. The industry needs to know that MMO is getting stale, the faster the better. That being said I dont agree with the article. We are not growing, in fact we are going backwards.
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Joined: 5/10/11
MMOs are stale to people because they probably play too many MMOs. MMOs are not stale to people who are newer to them or are not burnt out on playing World of Warcraft like the writer of this article. The problem is the writer of this article has been playing a lot of the same thing and not playing anything different.
If you ask a person who plays Modern Warfare 3 if it is stale they will answer, no. If you ask a person who has quit playing MW3 if it is stale, they'll answer yes.
In time you will find all of the games you listed as "not being stale" as stale. It won't even take that long to hit that point. It will feel fresh for a month and then stale for another.
For the record FPS titles are not stale. The genre has many sub-genre elements. An outsider to it will just see "oh you shoot a gun that's JUST LIKE COD." But if you play MW3, BF3 or Halo 3 you will see massive differences in the play. There are not that many FPS titles out there that do well without being innnovative. It is not a bunch of clones being pumped out.
But most people will look at the graphical screen shot and say OMG SAME GAME.
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The saddest thing about the MMO genre is that the Saga of Ryzom's code is open source.
I have always thought that the team who takes Saga of Ryzom and makes it look less 1999 and more 2010+ with much of the features we've been spoiled by (and visuals that aren't so weird, to put it plainly) would probably have one of the best MMOs ever made.
That said, WoW proves there is a large enough group of people out there who enjoy being told what to do to get the next purple which is no different than the purple they are replacing which is very slightly different from all the purples everyone else is wearing.
I miss our genre.
At one time we had EQ, UO, DAoC, AC, and SWG. All bringing different things to the table, all with pretty similar levels of market share. Now we have WoW and WoW in space. There are a whole bunch of MMOs on the horizon but unless they bring the AAA experience (which doesn't require AAA a budget... remember Allod's?) they will just be another crater in this pock faced landscape that is MMOs.
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Microsoft finded Vanguard, then screwed the devs. Sony picked it up and screwed the game even more.
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Funny to see that all MORPGS are WOW with a coat of paint, when WoW was just EQ1/AC/DAOC with a coat of paint as well. Everyone seems to forget that the MMORPG business didn't start with WOW at all.
The only thing that wow brought to the genre back then was retarded artstyle. In 7 years it evolved, of course, especially pvp wise, but the crap artstyle remained. Only MOP (not the rappers) seems to finally change this a little.
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A good though provoking article with lots of thought provoking comments. Overall, a good read. Thanks.
As for my thoughts about MMORPGs in general, I am not so sure. I think the staleness of MMOs is being brought about by market and economic factors. The development of this genre of games has exploded in cost. The first generation of them could be make for less than ten million dollars, now it takes hundreds of millions and that is with every cost cutting measure you can throw at it.
Games like Blizzard's WoW are unique; I doubt there will ever be another game whose sales are anywhere near those experienced by that specific product. Yes, no matter how much it pains me, games are a product. They are designed to be enjoyed then updated or expanded by the player or discarded by the player at the player's option. In today's market there are simply too many games out there to allow another smash like WoW. The best I think any company can realistically hope for is what SW:ToR has done, two million plus in box sales during the first month is nothing to sneeze at.
There have been a lot of MMOs that have tried to be different but being different is usually punished by poor retention rates. Games like Vanguard had great ideas and goals but were rushed to market before the game was actually playable. Who rushed it, I doubt we will ever really know but I think we can blame the CEO and the publisher for at least part of it.
Back when MMORPGs required a lot of time, most gamers had the time. These days most gamers don't have the time, they want to jump on play a little and jump off. Most modern players simply don't want to take a more than a month or two to reach max level, they want to be effective now. Simply put, they want as much as they can get as soon as they can get it.
I think MMOs have become the "fast food" of the gaming industry. So much as become about how much can I get as fast as I can, which has really hurt those gamers that don't mind spending time crafting their characters (on line persona's).
As for the OP's comments about First Person Shooters, she is dead on. Pick up weapon, use weapon to damage things/opponents, move on to next thing/opponent. At least most of the modern MMOs have a little more to offer than that, sometimes very little more.
Just my two cents.
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Originally posted by 77lolmac77
It will be funny seeing clones trying to steal titans glory.At least this time we will not be victims of their clones again and we will be laughing of their tries.
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All good post, but one never hit exactly....
The reason for the clones? Taking a leap cost money that could be lost in that leap. APB prime example, the idea and concept was great, the execution was not and even after all said and done the devs openly admitted they fell flat and got relaxed once they had a working prototype , key word prototype. Once it started selling pre-orders they where done and never finished the half baked code. Money became tight and people got greedy.
World Of Warcraft = Proven Model. Simple as that, in business this is this only thing that will sell. Indi companies can attempt to make something unique, but many players today expect quality. While a unique Indi game might have what players are looking for like sieging that DAOC brought with cumbling walls etc... they graphics and gameplay are expect to be that of a AAA title. Sure indi companies can get a small faithful following, but the only thing that will change this whole genre is when warcraft finally becomes nocraft and no one plays it or any new title that comes out that is like it.
I think the author said it best, the only time this will happen is in fact, time... when games that are released with the WoW quality yet fail to get any population or for that matter profit, will the industry finally take a step back and say...
"hmm. I think this genre is dead or need inovation, who want's to take the next big chance on a new gamble?"
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who has best one ? and what is all the different ?
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I've wondered about this too. The gas piston conversion kits are becoming as standard as any other accessory. I know not all accessories parts are of a high quality and I imagine this is no different.
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I had one of Adams Arms 5.45 ar-15 with piston, had not shot it yet , I may giving it try
OUCH those uppers are spendy. Maybe a dumb question , but, why would the gas piston upper be any better than a regular gas tube upper? Especially sense I'm so fussey about keeping my guns so squeeky clean. Is there any particular reason it would be more desirible to have the piston upper as apossed to the standard upper. I seemed to have seen something about changing calibers easy in an add I saw somewhere. You guys helped out in my decision on the x39 upper and wondered if this type upper would allow me to make my AR Bushey more versital, caliber wise. I'd still like to ring out anouther caliber or 2 outa my AR platform without having to sell the farm to do it. School me on these things will ya. Man it would be nice if they came up with something like the MG42's where you just pull a lever and change out a barrel. I really know nothing about these uppers and what the advantages would be in swapping it out for one of these spendy piston units, wouldn't it be heavyer with more moving parts? Help!!
well the reason I ask because I am building few 5.45x39 SBR upper, and with surplus ammo sometime just get a bit dirty , I think , piston upper will be less has failure rate then gas .
i have been shooting 5.45x39 and 7.62x39 with the ar-DI system for some time haven't had any problems yet. i have been shooting the dirty shit too like yugo corrosive.
i keep saying i'll try out a piston system. but other barrels,rails and what not just keep jumping up in my way!
im not sure who has the best one. the one ive had on my 5.45 ar i built is the ati - adams arms piston retrofit system. i got it from copes a few months back when it was on sale and installed it myself. the hardest part (for me) was driving the bushing square into the upper where the gas tube went through. it has worked great so far and has been really reliable, no stove pipes or feed issues, so its not under powered or short stroking (my concerns before i installed it). the only bad part is that they recommend a metal iron sight the gas block. ive had my magpul mbus on it (so far and she hasnt melted yet...) until i can buy a quad rail that will fit the piston under it. it makes me take that upper out more often because i dont have to scrub the hell outta it when i shoot my stash of cheap surplus, and no more rust around the gas rings on my bolt.
I have the same question. Also, some have been known to cause damage to the buffer tube threads in the lower from the carrier tilting.Or so I have read. I want to install one but dont want to damage anything.
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iPhone 4S part costs breakdown compared to Nokia Lumia 900 illustrate Apple's insane margins
Recent research from iSuppli shows that even though the iPhone 4S is more expensive than the Lumia 900, Apple actually pays less per part than Nokia does. The biggest individual price difference is between displays; Apple pays $37 for theirs, Nokia pays $58. All told, Apple pays $190 in parts, while Nokia pays $209, which leads to Nokia making a $241 margin per device, and Apple making $459.
To be fair, Apple has some pretty great agreements in place with manufacturers thanks in no small part to the massive scale at which they place orders, plus the Lumia 900 has a bigger screen and an LTE antenna to pay for. In any case, when boiling costs down to a per-device basis, it's easy to see why Apple is sitting on a mountain of cash. You would think that Nokia would have mastered churning out a bajillionty phones at scale and reaping the benefits of scale, but those glory days of the dumbphone reign are long gone, and clearly not translating well to their future in smartphones.
As much as we can on Nokia for having such slim margins, that's more a result of their market position rather than cause of it; Windows Phone is still very young, and even though it's set to overtake BlackBerry market share given its current momentum, it will be a long time still before Nokia (or anyone else) will be able to see the same margins as Apple.
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iPhone 4S part costs breakdown compared to Nokia Lumia 900 illustrate Apple's insane margins
This is based purely on component cost otherwise the writer would have stated it. Apple is just over charging its customers!!!
Are you really that stupid? The R&D alone could be in the hundreds of thousands dollars, if not, millions. There's overhead like salaries...software and hardware engineers don't come cheap, lab supplies and other misc equipment. Then there's the general costs of doing business and paying taxes. And oh, don't forget, Apple also has to make a profit. Yeah I said p-r-o-f-i-t. I don't know any company who is in business to break even or lose money, do you?
But obviously it's possible that the reason for the large margin is to cover the cost of their own OS. They're excluding software costs, but that doesn't mean the cost isn't there.
That said, the costs are probably somewhat negligible, and apple is probably pulling in a fair bit of extra cash, simply because they can. People will buy their devices at that price, so why not charge that much? I'm certain their reinvesting all that money into R&D on the next big thing, right? RIGHT!?
The cost to develop the OS verse the cost the buy the OS. Either way each is paying for the OS they are using. Since Apple is sitting on a huge mountain of cash and iOS is not a very impressive OS compared to all the other modern ones, I don't think the costs going to the OS development in anyway justify those margins.
gosh, reading comments on this site is really painful. There are too many uneducated people in the world. Simon clearly doesn't understand the concept of a margin. Those numbers from isuppli have next to no meaning. Erik, you don't know the first thing about operating systems design.
Apple spends less because they do it in such a greater volume! It should be basic common sense here. They outpace Lumia 900's by many many many many times over (and I believe things like screens are used in the ipod touches too making it such a larger order than just iphones)
With volume comes lower cost.
And the profit margin is made off the carriers. Very few people are buying them at $649.
You have absolutely no clue of the scope of Samsung's current domination in consumer electronics, do you? Samsung wouldn't be supplying Apple unless they were making money off them.
And I'd wager there is nobody else who could reliably supply Apple with all their components in the insane numbers they buy them at.
Whether developed in house or purchased from another developer both companies are paying for the software. The margins wouldn't change for that unless one was actually paying more which is unlikely if you were to average out salaried staff verse a license agreement. You need to remember that the company they are licensing from also needs to pay their staff salaries.
As for the Apple Tax, BMW isn't known for using older tech (in comparison to current competitor offerings) to cut their costs.
Actual truth is apple is over charging its customers and everyone with an itoy has been duped into thinking everything is as usual... The "experience" as some of you put it does not cost the premium you are being charged!!!
you realise you sound twice as stupid the second time you put this down right ?
I have always said Apple is taking advantage of their customers and their customers boast about it with great pride ["richest company", "piles of cash", etc].
You don't quite understand what he said, do you?
If you want to pay more than something is worth and are happy about it, well good for you. But there is no doubt Apple is taking advantage of consumers, their profit margins, piles of cash, and huge market gains are indisputable proof of that. Good for shareholders and that current "root of all evil 1%", not so good for consumers and the "99%", but the 99% still supports it anyway. Get the irony?
Not clever at all. A product may cost only a few dollars to manufacture, but what you are ignoring is the research costs, development, testing, capital outlay. You cannot compare companies by calculating their margins on their components.
Using the same approach we could say that Apple gives their customers more in the way of software, research, etc. Which is why Apple has such a devoted following. Their products are more often than not industry changing. It costs money to do that kind of R&D.
A very biased article...
I also have to agree that this is not a clever article. There are the indirect costs of these devices like production labor, machine maintenance, for parts for suppliers and final assembly at Foxconn, R&D at Apple, software development costs, shipping and international taxes like what you said. Granted even after all those costs, Apple makes high margins for every device but its not $459 per iPhone.
This article shouldn't have been posted without looking at the whole picture.
thank you!! some people with sense.
Some time ago I have bought a very nice painting for my bedroom.
I paid it 400Euros and I really love it.
Actually the painter paid 10 Euro for the large canvas and 15 euros for the paint, plus around 40 Euro to place it in a nice Frame.
Did I overpay the painting?
Some things are wort more than the amount of the single parts...
Some things are, some things aren't.
Usually the things that are don't have competition that is offering better at a lower prices.
Of course the Lumia costs more to produce, it has better components and is made at smaller volumes. No mystery there.
And I wouldn't call a $241 margin "slim". Granted, we don't know the backend costs, and I'd wager that it is more expensive for Nokia to license WP than it is for Apple to support iOS, which hasn't changed a much since it was introduced. But there is no doubt Apple is milking consumers for all they're worth, and their fans respond with "thank you sir may I have another?" Personally, I don't understand that mentality. But if you're happy, good for you.
I guess what folks are forgetting is that Apple isn't funneling all that margin on hardware into software development, hence the huge wad of cash they have on hand. Some of this, of course, is taken up by assembly costs, shipping from China to wherever, etc but that something that Nokia also has to pay and while Nokia doesn't have to foot the full bill of developing the OS the license is probably not free and goes at least partly to cover that (if MS is hopping to turn a profit on it).
Did anyone overpay, well for an Apple product you always overpay. But if its what you want then you have to pay for it what the person selling it is willing to charge. If people didn't buy iPhones at a $649 retail price Apple would not be able to charge it. They would have to lower price, therefore lower margin, therefore have less to bank.
Then we have the fact that most people who buy iPhones in America don't pay full price unless they simply gotta gotta have the newest every year. They buy not from Apple but from AT&T, Sprint, Verizon who don't pay retail either, and you pay whatever their discounted price from Apple is plus profit for the carrier over the duration of the contract (this is what makes the iPhone 3gs a very expensive $.99 phone). Thats how people who have no jobs can be on daytime judge shows suing a former boy/girlfriend for breaking their iPhone.
Oh and lets not get into taxes. I recall reading recently that using creative loopholes Aople pays some minute percentage in tax. Way lower a percent than an average middle class American does. Obviously needing the breaks as indicated by their huge bank account. That, I think, is way more interesting than how much they charge over what the components cost.
Why can't people keep emotion and economics separate?
How much does it 'cost' to produce a bottle of sugar water (Coke), and how much do you pay for it?
Probably the dinner your mom cooks at home is far better while being practically free, yet you go to a premium restaurant and pay a lot more.
Accept the fact that Apple's smart enough to have got the economics right. Stop envying them.
A bottle of pop has a lot of marketing and transportation costs involved. And Coca-Cola is not sitting on $100 Billion cash.
Home cooking is not free, nor should you consider your mom's time to cook as free. Retaurants, believe it or not, are a cut-throat industry with slim margins and fickle customers. Ask anybody who has owned one.
It's not about envy, I'm perfectly happy with my Android phone and its capabilities. It's about consumers not only willingly paying more for a product than it's worth, but then bragging about how much money the company is making. That mentality is amusing and puzzling to me.
lets not forget, that nokia still sells millions of crap phones around the world, for im sure more then the cost of manufacturing 10 fold. they are making plenty of money where they can, & are offering this phone at a reduced price to compete w/ an already dominate proven phone thats crushing their attempts at smartphones. i remember yrs ago wanting what i thought was an incredible nokia phone, that wasnt offered in the USA & would have cost me over $700. and looking back, if i had got that phone, i was paying for gimmicks & the nokia name not what the phone was worth. extra costs are needed to support future development, new products, & evolution of devices & software. im not a fan boy of any manufacture, but business is business.
I don't know why everyone is making such a big deal about what everyone else pays for their stuff (phone, car, ect.) If I am happy with the price I pay, and you are happy with the price you pay, then everyone should be happy. Besides most people but their phones on contact for $200 and turn around and sell their iPhones for $500 and their Androids for $150.
Not for nothing, but the Lumia is a very nice phone, I have seen a few people with them and messed with a few in the stores.
Very nice, I just think AT&T is garbage thats all.
Nokia was here a long time before Apple started putting out cell phones.
It is amusing that people are so up in arms about this. All rational companies want to produce goods for the lowest possible cost, and sell them for the highest possible price. Apple is just inordinately good at it, as Cook has been able to negotiate/strongarm low component prices, with as an end result a product that people are willing to pay a premium to get. Any company would love to be in that position.
Nokia will not achieve those margins unless and until they can make a phone with a similar level of demand, which is not likely. It is far more likely that some circumstance (or Apple misstep) will curtail the extraordinary demand for iPhones, and Apple's margins will shrink. If they get complacent or disdainful of their developers -- like they did with the Mac -- it will happen. The longer they stay paranoid, the longer they can stave it off.
[sarcasm] These profits are obscene, Obama should go after the Apple fatcats just has he has championed the common mans cause against Wall Street, Big Pharma, and Big Oil. [/sarcasm]


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By William P. Barrett and Janet Novack
With a Parade of fancy fraud cases centered on Wall Street so much in Vogue, here is Chatter about a swindle lacking Glamour but still possessing a certain amount of Allure. A man not a New Yorker nicked Condé Nast, the magazine publishing empire full of Self-esteem, for $8 million simply by sending one email.
But the rich folks who own Condé Nast–the uber-billionaire brothers of Si and Donald Newhouse–got Lucky; the loot was retrieved largely intact.
There's a big cautionary tale in this for accounts payable departments everywhere, be they north, south, east or W.
The Details are set out for all to see in a civil lawsuit filed extremely quietly last week in Manhattan federal court not by Condé Nast or its parent, Advance Publications, but by the local U.S. Attorney's Office acting on their behalf. The named defendants are two sums of money–$7,870,530.02 and $47,137.91, to be exact–that until federal investigators intervened had been sitting in accounts at an obscure bank branch in Texas. Technically, the feds, alleging wire fraud, filed a forfeiture action, presumably as a step toward returning the stash to Condé Nast.
The account holding the larger sum was in the name of Quad Graph. If that seems vaguely familiar, it's maybe because it's very similar to Quad/Graphics Inc., a publicly traded company that prints famous magazines like the Condé Nast titles and, for that matter, Forbes. The account with the smaller sum was in the name of one Andy Surface, whose picture also adorns this post. You'll learn a little more about him; the feds say both accounts were in his Portfolio.
The really scary part is that this deal went down as easily as a stroll through the Golf World. We can't summarize it any better than the lawsuit:
In early November, Condé Nast received an "Electronic Payment Authorization" form by email at its offices in … New York. The form appeared to have been sent by Quad/Graphics. The form requested that Condé Nast direct payments for Quad Graphics to the Quad Graph Account, and provided account information. Condé Nast filled out the form and returned it by facsimile from its offices in … New York to the facsimile number provided in the form. Following Condé Nast's receipt of the "Electronic Payment Authorization" form, Condé Nast started making payments for Quad/Graphics bills by ACH transfer from a Condé Nast account with JPMorgan Chase Bank in New York to the Quad Graph Account.
For the rest of the year–and, the lawsuit says, after that one email–Condé Nast Wired $8 million to Quad Graph.
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In the days since the investigation and lawsuit against Compass Academy founders Jonathan "Jay" and Tracy Brooks was made public, much has changed.
Jay Brooks issued a statement on the school's website and via social media, denying all allegations made by the Attorney General's Office, which include fraud, lying to investors and the Securities Commission and the misappropriation of funds invested in the Compass Academy project.
On Wednesday, just a few hours before Jay Brooks' statement was issued, 33 people were added to the mortgaged property – bought by Brooks in May 2012 for $300,000 – on which the school is being built.
Those people and their investments – which total $5.544 million worth of Compass Academy securities – are now part of the public record.
In all, $3.5 million of the funds came from Aiken and Graniteville investors. One small investment came from Augusta, with the rest of the funds provided by four Texas-based individuals who invested between $271,171 and $683,091.
That piece of property also has someone else with a claim on it – Attorney General Alan Wilson.
On behalf of the Securities Division of the AG's Office, attorney Tracy A. Meyers filed a "lis pendens." Meaning "a suit pending," the filing gives notice that there is a claim on the property, and the filing informs the general public that there is a claim against it and the title is not free and clear.
This claim comes from the complaint filed against Jay Brooks, Compass Academy and his other companies, which holds substantial penalties of $10,000 per act, if he is found guilty.
But Jay Brooks says he does not believe he is guilty of anything. Tracy Brooks, who handles all matters relating to Compass Academy, posted a statement on the schools' website late Thursday evening.
The statement attacked the Aiken Standard's reporting of the lawsuit as "ripe with lies" and "horribly malicious." Also in the statement, Jay Brooks offered denials of certain aspects of the AG's complaint and the Aiken Standard's story.
The denials were laid out numerically.
"1. I am not facing criminal charges."
This is true, no criminal charges have been filed against Jay Brooks. However, his case is under "criminal review" by the AG's Office.
"2. My securities licenses have not been revoked."
True, Brooks' licenses are not revoked, but he cannot use them as the case against him has caused them to be suspended until further review.
"3. I did not lie to the Attorney General's office."
The Securities Division said it stands by its pleadings, which make multiple, explicit references to Jay Brooks lying. "Defendant Brooks lied, among other things, about the number of his and (J. Brooks Financial's) clients invested in BREH and Compass; the circumstances of one or more of his investments; representations made in connection with one or more investments; and the securities underlying one or more of the investor's investment," the complaint states.
"4. There have been no ill gotten gains."
The Attorney General's complaint states the Brooks "on one or more occasions, misappropriated investor funds for personal use."
"5. I committed no fraud or deception."
"Defendants have, on one or more occasion, in connection with the offer or sale of a security ... engaged in an act, practice or course of business that operates or would operate as a fraud," the complaint accuses.
Jay Brooks' statement goes on to say that "we" have provided all receipts and bank statements, as well as a list of lenders to the AG's office.
The AG's office has received all of the documents most-recently requested from Jay Brooks and his financial firms. However, his wife Tracy Brooks, who runs school operations, has an appointment Monday regarding missing receipts and the reasons that they are missing.
On Friday, a judge granted a 10-day extension for records to be collected and examined. The Securities Division is working with the couple to try and get the matter resolved before they have to report back to Circuit Court Judge Casey Manning. If no resolution is reached, a public court hearing on the matter will be scheduled.
Repeated requests for comment from Jay Brooks and his attorney Stan Jackson were not returned Friday.
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All-Female Team Poison Ivy to Play Division 1 at World Cup Asia 2012
For the last 7 years, Team Poison Ivy has been gracing the paintball community with an attractive (and deadly) female roster, ready and willing to compete against any opponents that get put in front of them. In 2012, Poison Ivy has made a few key pick ups that are going to help them compete against the worlds best at the 2012 World Cup Asia, including Karoline Seheim, Linda Graue, and their newest roster addition/coach Christopher Rønneberg from Drammen Solid.
"It is fun to see that in the last few years, the amount of females playing paintball is growing rapidly" mentions team co-founder Linn Andersen. "We attended WCA in 2011 and are excited to be back to the beautiful island of Langkawi and to experience what the organizers say will be even better then the last year. We didn't think it would be possible to top last year's event, but we're sure that if anybody can do it, it's the WCA organizers."
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And last, but not least: our coach, and co-player this time, Christopher Rønneberg from Drammen Solid
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Grammy Awards? Academy Awards? Harold and Marvin's Best Toy of the Year award? Bah, we don't need those steeenking awards. Not when we're about to introduce the 2003 McFarlane Toys Achievement Awards on spawn.com.
There will be two separate (but linked) polls that go live on the Sports and Toys message boards at spawn.com Friday, Dec. 19th, voted on by the members of the spawn.com community. Winners will be announced Monday, Jan. 5.
Board moderators Jon Goff and Mark Weber will set up pinned polls on the boards with several categories each for board members to vote in. The polls will have "hidden results" (even from us) and will be shown when the pre-set timer expires. After the polls expire, the results will be tabulated and the results of your voting given on the board and in a wrap-up news story.
Best Facial Likeness
Best Lineup
Best Boxed Set
Sports Figure of the Year
Best Pose
Best Surprise Figure
Best 12-inch Figure
Best Exclusive Figure
Favorite Sports Series
Best Paint Application
Figure of the Year (Non-Sports)
Line of the Year
Best Likeness - Movies (Human), Music
Best Representation - Movies (Machines, Non-Humans)
Best Representation - Comics, Video Games
Best Accessory
Best Packaging
Best Boxed Set
Best Pose
Best Paint Application
Best Exclusive
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Be sure to check out those threads and make your (electronic) voice heard on your favorite McFarlane action figures of 2003.


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Thursday, March 14, 2013
The ongoing debate between two hospitals was opened once more two weeks ago as county residents heard from Roper St. Francis Hospital.
Roper and Trident Health System filed Certificate of Need applications that were both accepted in June 2009. Roper's proposed facility would be in the Carnes Crossroads community of Goose Creek and Trident's located 12 miles away in Moncks Corner.
While Roper has maintained the population growth in Berkeley County could support two, Trident says there only needs to be one centrally-located hospital in Berkeley County, in Moncks Corner.
Executives from Roper hosted a forum on the afternoon of Feb. 18 at the clubhouse of Del Webb for citizens of the gated retirement community in Cane Bay Plantation, off U.S. 176.
Citizens heard from Roper President and CEO David Dunlap and Chief Strategy Officer and CEO Doug Bowling, who gave presentations then took questions. Most of the roughly 10 residents who stepped up to the microphone appeared frustrated at the delays and said they favor Roper building at Carnes Crossroads.
Many questions and some suggestions revolved around how to speed up the process.
The two hospitals have been suing, countersuing and appealing cases in state courts.
"Trident filed suit to stop our project," Bowling said. "That forced us to file to stop theirs. We had to or else the court would not hear our case. Trident filed to expand their Summerville facility. We had to file suit against that."
Bowling said Trident's logic is that Dorchester County can support a larger facility than the one proposed in the more populated Berkeley County.
According to the presentation, Trident filed a request in September for the administrative law court judge to reconsider his decision, which was upheld by the judge in October.
In November Trident appealed again. A May court date is set for a hearing on the Summerville Medical Center expansion.
"Our position is pretty clear," Bowling said. "Berkeley County could support two hospitals. We said both are justified. We feel that we fought hard for Berkeley County."
"This is the largest county in South Carolina that does not have two hospitals," Dunlap said.
"It's about our health and our lives," one citizen said. "What can we do to expedite this matter?"
Dunlap asked citizens to continue to show their support with letters to the editor and by contacting Trident.
"If they hear from you that is probably the most powerful message you can send," Dunlap said. "Public pressure…that's what businesses respond to."
"Trident would have to drop their appeals to speed up the process," Bowling said.
Dist. 100 Rep. Eddy Southard (R-S.C.), a Moncks Corner resident, said he was at some of the Columbia hearings.
"I can see a need where they need two," Southard said. "I will see if there's anything that can be done to speed it up."
He said the state legislature supported both hospitals. The decision is economic, he said, adding that he would love to see an Outback Steakhouse in Moncks Corner but added that's probably not going to happen based on economics.
Goose Creek City Councilmember Kimo Esarey spoke, saying the city supports Roper's stance of building both hospitals.
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Google rarely preannounces new features, so I was really surprised to see a video that highlights some upcoming Blogger features. Google's video does a great job at enumerating the latest Blogger improvements, while asking people: "Have you looked at Blogger lately?".
Google plans to unveil a completely new Blogger interface, mobile templates for blogs (which are already available at Blogger in Draft) and a feature that lets you find related posts and videos.
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Cheap Buzz: On the Border
This week, we checked out the drinks at On the Border. Chips and margaritas: perfect for Cheap Buzz. What we found: some mediocre drinks but one surprise winner. More
This week, we checked out the drinks at On the Border. Chips and margaritas: perfect for Cheap Buzz. What we found: some mediocre drinks but one surprise winner. More
Typically, the chain restaurants that I visit serve up watered down punches full of sugar and artificial coloring. They don't have bitters, they don't muddle much, and they count on America wanting a sweet, diluted elixir to make a little bit of hooch go down. But the drinks at Dave and Buster's stand out a bit from the pack: first of all, they're mighty strong. More
Buffalo Wild Wings aren't all bad. They tend to be big and lively and feel like sports bars, with huge screens on the wall for my Steelers games. Beyond the wings, they have Naked Chicken Tenders (grilled tenders with no breading) which are a rare chain restaurant order that's not awful for you. (Hey, I write about McFlurry's all day; I'm allowed my off-duty low-carb diet.) And finally (to negate that last sentence), it has an awesome beer list. But at Cheap Buzz, it's about the cocktails. And that, my friends, was a learning experience. More
I have to admit up front that I'm a huge fan of the Garden; I used to eat there about twice a week in high school. Breadsticks, never-ending salad, and spaghetti with meatballs—I loved them. And I loved that every Olive Garden had the same pictures on the walls, and played the same Frank Sinatra songs ("Fly me to the moon...") But nostalgia only goes so far. The food might still be tasty, in that comforting generic-and-heavy way. But their specialty cocktails? That's another story. More
Want to get messed up? Head to Applebee's. This kid only had the apple juice, and blew a 0.10. I headed over there to check out the margarita menu, and I was pretty impressed. More
It comes as no surprise that PF Chang's cocktails are prepared for the Middle American mallgoer's palate. In some cases, they're interesting—even enjoyable—renditions of classic cocktails. In others, they're as sugary as their General Tso's Chicken. More
Trader Vic's is Cheap Buzz with emphasis on the buzz. The drinks were powerful and—to my surprise—not too sweet. Of course, part of the fun is the presentation. More
As far as fast-casual restaurants go, Chevys Fresh Mex ranks pretty high up there. Fresh pico de gallo, tortialls made throughout service, sizable portions. But, as we've seen, sometimes a place to get a good, cheap meal isn't the best place to get good booze. I set out to see what the watering hole at Chevy's had to offer. More
Ruby Tuesday has been duking it out with T.G.I. Friday's in strip mall parking lots for decades. And if you had to ask me, I'd say Ruby Tuesday is winning. Like Boston Market, Ruby Tuesday's has decided, despite the poor economic times, to up the ante. Founder Sandy Beall has poured $100 million into his restaurants, hoping to revitalize the brand. As noted in the New York Times, the furniture is nicer now—all leather and dark wood—and the menu features "fancy" fare. So, have the cocktails kept up with the upgrade? In this edition of Cheap Buzz, we decided to find out. More
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Did you know every 30 minutes in the U.S., a child dies or is injured by a gun? Determined to make a dent in these statistics, Kai Kloepfer, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair1 (Intel ISEF) 2013 Grand Award winner, developed a biometric gun safety that requires an authorized fingerprint to work.
In the wake of mass shootings at Columbine and Aurora, Coloradans have seen more than their share of lives cut short due to gun violence. Kai Kloepfer, a 16-year-old from Boulder—less than an hour's drive from Columbine and Aurora—grew up hearing these stories, made all the more poignant because they hit so close to home. What's more, these were not isolated events. Across the country, people were dying as a result of mass and accidental shootings, often as a result of firearms landing in the wrong hands. Hundreds of children are wounded or die each year in the U.S. as a result of accidental shootings, most often when they "play" with a gun they have found in their own or a friend's home.
To Kloepfer, a budding engineer with a desire to use his talents for good, the death of innocents was unacceptable.
Observing that many of these incidents involved someone other than the owner of the gun, Kloepfer—winner of the Intel ISEF 2013 Grand Award—investigated how to create a lock that would prevent unauthorized users from pulling the trigger. His solution: the Biometric Electromechanical Firearm Safety, a device that identifies the fingerprints of a user and either grants or denies access to operation.
Kloepfer's design uses a built-in, high-quality scanner that charts the ridges and valleys of a fingerprint while the user is holding the gun in the natural shooting position and compares it to the fingerprint scans of authorized users. If the fingerprint is a match, the mechanical lock is released and the gun can be fired. If the fingerprint isn't a match, the gun remains locked and inoperable. Furthermore, Kloepfer's high-tech lock is extremely accurate: 99.99 percent, even with partial prints.
As a result, home safety could be vastly improved, preventing unauthorized users, such as children, from firing weapons they might find. Additionally, because the lock can be programmed for up to 999 users per gun, it could have applications in law enforcement and military settings. The fingerprints of all officers in a precinct or soldiers in a unit could be stored in a database embedded in each weapon, allowing all approved parties access to the weapons for their team. At the same time, criminals and enemy combatants would be prevented from firing these weapons if in their possession.
Kloepfer has given considerable thought to how to prevent hacking or fooling the database. To tamper with the embedded database of the device in a privately-owned gun, one would have to gain physical access, and such tampering would be clearly evident. In settings where weapons can be used by multiple users, the system could be vulnerable to attack if the guns are connected (via USB cable) to a computer network. Some of this risk could be mitigated by never connecting the control computer to the network or by enhancing network security features. Finally, though the severed finger of a registered user could currently be used to fool the device, specialized technology exists that could allow only a living, attached finger to activate the sensor.
Kloepfer is currently in the process of patenting his design, after which he intends to approach gun manufacturers and defense contractors to license or sell his design.
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There are many problems with Google's services lately. After Google Groups had some temporary glitches, some people report that Google switches them to random accounts.
Jvy Loh writes on his blog about the incidents:
"It started off when I was using gg docs and after closing 1 of my docs, I was returned to my 'doc home', however, someone else's email was reflected at the top instead of mine. It disappeared soon after before I could catch what was going on. (...) Lately, the google problem came up again. Nearly everytime I boot up my computer, and login to google toolbar or gmail, I began to notice that when I went further to click on other google services, e.g. gg reader, very often I went into someone else's reader. Not just their email id replacing mine at the top, it was literally someone's reader. I could read their feeds and so on. (...) The MOST SERIOUS thing so far is that you can accidentally made changes to other user's account while you think you are modifying your own. I realized that when I was making changes/adding items, like adding a bookmark, adding a feed into my reader, and adding notes to my notebook, adding gg gadgets to my igoogle, rearranging my igoogle layout, the changes all went to the other party, not mine, and hey this is scary!"
He also mentions that the users seem "to be originating from the same city, which is Singapore, and I suspect some of them are students, by browsing through the gg reader feeds presented to me, and supposingly 'my bookmarks'. (...) Not only did it appear in Singapore, those users seem to be from the same organization, which are local universities, 1 from NTU, and some may be from NUS, and fyi the 2 top universities in Singapore are located in the west of Singapore, and I am in the north-west, which is pretty near to each other."
Other Google user complains over at Google Groups: "Whenever I use Google Reader, I would 'cross-over' to another user's account."
And another one: "I've been login to other users today, seeing their feeds instead of mine. I login to gmail and google reader. While reading the feeds halfway I would see my feeds change into other user's [feeds], my account will also change to other google user account."
Other report from a regular reader of this blog: "While I was reading posts in Google Reader today, my account was switched to someone else's account. The account name on the upper right corner changed and I could see all his or her subscriptions in my Google Reader. I closed the Reader and open it again. Nice! I could read another person's subscriptions. I tried iGoogle and it was also changed."
It seems that this isn't an isolated incident and it may have something to do with Google cookies and Google Reader, but it's not very clear. If you had similar problems or you know what causes them, please let us know.
Update. Matt Cutts, from Google, posted this: "Given that most of these reports are coming from a single area (Singapore), it sounds like an ISP isn't handling their connections correctly. We've certainly seen ISPs mess up their proxies before. I'll still ask about this though."
Update 2. Jvy Loh writes: "Since last Saturday [July 22] after Google Reader was patched (need confirmation from Google whether the Google Reader or local ISP proxy/cache played a bigger part in this security problem), I have not noticed any more security glitches. Two other Singapore users who contacted me also reported no more security issues since then. So, we have enough reasons to think that the security issues related to what I have reported have been eliminated."
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|Did it twice this summer
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2010
|Did it twice this summer with my students from North Cascades Wild. Wonderful - a great mix between elevation gain, views all around, and lots to learn from the fire lookout, Daniel, up there!
|Posted Sep 11, 2010 4:52 am
|A Great Opener For Summer
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2010
|The boat approach made this a unique hike. This peak might have the most scenic trail head I have ever seen. Also, I enjoyed the company of the group so much that I think it was my favorite part of the trip.
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 11:07 pm
|Far from Desolate
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2010
|Excellent views, weather, companions. WA P3k 17/52
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 10:35 pm
|Unbelievably Awesome Trip!
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2010
|As far as one-day trips go, I could not have envisioned or asked for anything much better than our experience...
The first awesome warm weather day of Spring, team-operated boat rides, trail walking, snowy ridge, a fire lookout, the most fantastic far-ranging views I have ever seen from one location in the North Cascades, and absolutely wonderful hiking/boating partners to share the experience with. One of the best experiences I have ever had in the Washington Cascades. Period.
Two of us then summited Mount Baring the following day, making the weekend have approximately 10,000' total elevation gain. Woohoo!
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 10:08 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 12, 2010
|Best hike of the year, so far...
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 2:45 pm
|complete solitude
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2003
|This is one of my all-time favorite hikes. I went up alone, and as it was still fairly early in summer, the lookout cabin was locked up. There was no one out hiking, no boats on Ross Lake, hardly anyone even at the floating cabins. With the exception of the flies, it was total solitude and silence at the peak...a really great memory.
|Posted Dec 31, 2009 12:15 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 1993
|Did the first time as a boy scout on a canoe trip on Ross Lake. Did the second time as a troop leader with my troop during a canoe outing. Maps and pics at http://www.willhiteweb.com/washington_climbing/desolation_peak/ross_lake_034.htm
|Posted Sep 3, 2009 4:24 am
|Route Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: 20 September, 2004
|Kayaked in from the north end of the lake. The lookout was already locked up, but we were rewarded with excellent views of the Hozomeen Peaks.
|Posted Dec 23, 2005 12:49 am
|Route Climbed: Date Climbed: Aug 2001
|A beautiful mountain with wonderful views...Hozomeen to the north, Ross Lake to the west, Jack Mountain to the south...
I accessed the mountain via water taxi ($110), thereby shaving off a considerable amount of hiking. Still, the hike gained 4800 feet in 4 miles lake to summit. Worth every ounce of effort.
|Posted Feb 18, 2004 9:58 am


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A 32-year-old Wagener woman reported an unknown subject forced entry into her Big Branch Road residence on Thursday.
A 28-year-old Aiken woman reported in June an unknown subject used her identity to apply for at least five student loans and other loans from other banks.
A 35-year-old Beech Island woman reported on Wednesday an unknown subject forced entry into her Bell Drive residence and took items.
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An 89-year-old Aiken woman reported on Wednesday a 17-year-old male subject took one of her checks from her checkbook from her Willow Wood Drive residence.
A 22-year-old Aiken man reported on Monday an unknown subject threw eggs at his vehicle and deflated the tires at his Wrights Mill Road residence.
A 65-year-old Aiken man reported earlier this month his motorcycle was taken from the driveway attached to his Hill Head Street residence.
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A woman was placed under arrest and given two citations after trying to shoplift at the Whiskey Road store on Wednesday. The female subject attempted to take a "Noah" DVD and a "The Walking Dead Seasons 2" DVD.
An Aiken Middle School student was placed under arrest and released on Wednesday after a student's mother reported the subject took her son's iPhone 4s.
Officers responded to a past tense shoplifting at the Richland Avenue store after a male subject exited the store with two paint cans, three spray paint cans, adhesive tape and one LED light kit.
An Aiken woman reported last week an unknown subject took her coin purse out of her dresser in her East Gate Drive residence.
A 20-year-old Aiken woman was taken into custody after taking two pair of jeans, one shirt and seamless leg wear valued at $59.41 from the Whiskey Road store on Tuesday.
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Officers responded to a 36-year-old male trespassing at the Academy Sports on Fabian Drive on Wednesday.
A 29-year-old Aiken man reported on Wednesday an unknown subject slashed the front passenger tires on his Summerwood Way residence.
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A 25-year-old Aiken woman reported on Thursday an unknown subject took two TVs out of her Laurens Street residence.
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Rivalry revisited
The last time the R-S Central and East Rutherford boy's basketball teams locked horns it was high-scoring affair that the Cavaliers (12-4, 5-1 SMAC) eventually claimed with an 81-76 victory. Tonight the Hilltoppers are looking to be on top at the final buzzer when they host their cross-county rival.
Central (10-8, 3-3 SMAC) has shown flashes of throughout the season to suggest that they're one of the top teams in the conference but have yet to stake their claim.
"Seven of our eight loses come to teams that are ranked in the state or honorable mention. We need to get to the next level and beat one of those teams," said Central head coach Greg Wright. "East Rutherford is one of the best teams around. A win would give our kids a world of confidence."
Jay Blanton led the Hilltopper attack during the first meeting with 28 points anchored by eight 3-pointers.
"For us that's part of our game-plan," Wright said. "We've got to get open looks and knock down 3-point shots. But we can't just rely on the 3-point line. We've really worked on our screening. We really need to set screens in order to get open space on the floor and make shots."
East head coach Brad Levine hopes his Cavaliers limit Central's effectiveness from long range.
"We separated from him some," Levine said about Blanton's big game. "When you get good looks like that they're a lot easier to make. We're hopefully not going to let him have those easy looks."
Levine had very few good things to say about his team's performance back on Dec. 18 despite the win.
"I don't think we defended them very well. We didn't do anything well except for score," Levine said. "I think they'll be ready to play. We always get their best shot. But if we give them our best shot than I think we'll be okay."
For Central it comes down to protecting the basketball.
"We've worked all week just trying to really take care of the basketball," Wright said. "We went back and watched film and we turned the ball over at inappropriate times that led to some easy points for them."
As effective as the perimeter game was for each team in the previous meeting (each team made nine 3-pointers), it may come down to who plays larger in the paint.
"We still need to get the ball inside to Rashaun [Whitesides] and Jaylen [Hollis] and let them use their post moves to their advantage," Wright said. "We gave up way too many second chance points. Hopefully we can rebound the ball better."
This game represents pride for Central but East needs a win to stay in the conference race after falling to Shelby last week.
"We have a little incentive now that we're one down (in confernce play)," Levine said. "If we don't play good tomorrow night than a conference championship may just be a dream."
One thing is for sure come 7:30 p.m. at The Palace, the place will be electric.
"It's a little more emotionally energized," Levine said. "These boys know each other so it's a little like a backyard game. No matter the differences in the teams, it's always been a game that people come out and watch."
If each team puts up the points they did in the first meeting than tonight will be nothing short of entertaining, but Levine doesn't see a repeat performance for either team.
"If they play as well as they did last time than anything could happen. We know their team better by now, I know my team better and the better ball teams play better games in the second half of the season," Levine said. "I'm not as worried about R-S as much as I am East Rutherford. If we play well that's all I can ask. We aren't a team that gives up 75-plus points a game, that's not how we play. If that happens than it means R-S played one heck of a game."
Tipoff is slated for 7:30 p.m. in Rutherfordton.
Lady Cavaliers seek revenge
Before the boys take the court tonight they ladies from each school will battle for country supremacy as Central looks to sweep East and the Lady Cavaliers aim to even the season series after losing round one 61-52.
"I know they're going to come out strong with a desire to beat us," said Central head coach Darius Fuller. "But we will definitely match their intensity because we want to do the same to them."
Central will lean on their strong starting five but Fuller is more concerned about the big-3 of East Rutherford.
Rachel Camp is the obvious star for the Cavs but Shay Dewberry and Justina Greene are quietly powering the charge.
"We just want to know where their best players are at all times," said Fuller. "We can't sleep on Dewberry and Greene because they will hurt us."
To slow the Cavs attack the Hilltoppers must avoid foul trouble.
"We'll try our best to stop their penetration to the goal and their 3-point shot. We want to at least get a hand in their face," Fuller said. "If we play smart then some of our concerns will take care of themselves."
As far as the offense is concerned , Fuller is leaving his game-plan status quo.
"We're just going to play Lady Hilltopper basketball. We're still fighting to be a conference champion," Fuller said. "For me to change up too much would be crazy; we're having success."
After a dominating win over Chase on Tuesday night, East head coach Larry Ross has just one thing on his mind...revenge.
"Hopefully on Friday we can go up to R-S and get a little payback for them beating us the first time and get back into the conference race," Ross said.
Tipoff is set for 6 p.m. in Rutherfordton.


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