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*** The Myrtle Beach at Georgetown basketball games scheduled for Tuesday night have been rescheduled for Feb. 5.
*** All three campuses of HGTC are closed Tuesday. Monitor the website and media for any updates regarding reopening.
*** The Georgetown County School District's "All-County Band/Chorus Concerts" which were scheduled for this Thursday and Friday at Waccamaw High School have been cancelled.
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WACO (November 8, 2012) -- Baylor women's tennis head coach Joey Scrivano announced the addition of California prep standout Kiah Generette (Signal Hill, Calif.) to his squad for the Spring 2013 term.
"Kiah has a really bright future," Scrivano said. "We are thrilled that she has decided to play her collegiate tennis at Baylor. Our main objective is to help prepare her for the WTA tour, if that's the path she chooses to pursue."
"Baylor is a well-know, reputable school with a tennis program that has had a great amount of success," Generette said. "The coaches and various staff are so passionate and caring with what they do, I know there is no way that I can fail at Baylor."
Generette is currently ranked as the No. 9 recruit in the country and the No. 3 player in the state of California by tennisrecruiting.net.
"Kiah has a solid foundation to build on," Scrivano said. "She is very athletic. You can see she has the potential to play at the next level. It is now just a matter of refining her game and adding another weapon or two."
In 2012, Generette has won a trio of events including the USTA National Open held in Lakewood, Calif. In that tournament, she defeated five other players ranked in the top 60 by tennisrecruiting.net. Generette also picked up wins at the 55th annual Long Beach Junior Tournament and the USTA 50K Women's Sacramento Qualifying Wild Card Tournament.
"Kiah has a unique tennis background, in that her father has coached her from day one," Scrivano said. "He has done a remarkable job to get her to this level. It is quite impressive the success that she has had at the junior level."
"My game is extremely powerful and because of this, I have a lot of weapons in my arsenal and I am able to hit winners from any part of the court," Generette said.
Generette chose Baylor over LSU, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M.
"I'm looking forward to being in a new environment," Generette said. "Coming from California, I imagine it's going to be quite different, but I am excited for the new challenges and being able to grow as an individual, while being surrounded by great athletes with similar goals."

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The shocking thing about the Legacy Stable barn fire last Saturday was not just the event itself, but the tremendous outpouring of support and encouragement from the Aiken community and the entire Thoroughbred industry.
We are thankful to God for the circumstances that allowed all of our horses to be safely rescued.
We're thankful for the multitude of people instrumental in the rescue effort and those still supporting us in our relocation and rebuilding program.
We lost saddles, tack, feed, computers, supplies, irreplaceable pictures and memorabilia, but found a new respect and love for our friends and acquaintances who jumped into action and came to our aid.
We know it is dangerous to mention names as we'll inevitably omit dozens who gave or offered assistance, but we must mention a few.
We will be eternally grateful to Evan, Gene, Victor, Oscar and all of our friends from the wedding party who swiftly and professionally evacuated our horses to safe places. A huge thanks to Director of Public Safety Charles Barranco and the brave firefighters who responded quickly, brilliantly and professionally, containing a very hot and dangerous blaze.
Thank you to Louise Mellon for opening her barn and paddocks.
Thanks to Tim and Jennifer Mansell, Robbie and Thalia Stoddard, Dr. Caleb Harms, Jack and Sarah Swartz, all of our off-duty employees, Elias, Alberto and Javier and their wives who bedded stalls, hung buckets, relocated horses, supplied water, brought feed, etc.
Thanks to Tim Jones for loaning us wheelbarrows, saddles, bridles and even a barn had we needed it so we could continue the training schedule for our horses.
Thank you to Lydia Herrick and the gals at Aiken Saddlery for unbelievably great prices on tack & supplies as we rebuild. Thanks again to the Mansells who were instrumental in acquiring 22 fans graciously donated by Lowe's.
This has been a very humbling time for us as we've received so much love and support when there are hundreds in the community with much more serious needs.
That does not diminish our love and appreciation for everyone's support.
May God bless you all!
Ron Stevens and Brad Stauffer
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Professor Deborah Barnbaum received the 2012 Distinguished Honors Faculty Award at the annual Senior Honors Luncheon.
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HAZARD – Knott County Judge-Executive Randy Thompson will report to a federal prison next month unless a judge rules that he can remain free while a federal appeals court considers a request for a new hearing.
Thompson and three others, John Mac Combs, Phillip Champion, and Ronnie Adams, were convicted in 2008 of using public funds to influence the general election of 2006, during which Thompson was first elected county judge. He won a second full term in office in 2010.
Thompson and the others appealed their convictions, which were recently upheld by a three-judge panel in September. Thompson is now requesting a new hearing with a federal appeals court, though his request has not yet been ruled upon, and as of press time no new hearing has been scheduled. Thompson recently received notice from the U.S. Marshall's Service that he is to report to the Federal Correctional Institute in Lewsiburg, Pn. on Nov. 6.
In a request filed Friday, Oct. 19 in U.S. District Court, Thompson's attorney, Kent Wesberry of Louisville, notes that his client has remained free for a number of years after he was indicted on federal vote-buying charges in 2007, and has proven that he is not a flight risk, even after his conviction. Wesberry requests that Thompson remain free on the same bond until a ruling is issued on their petition for a new hearing.
In the event that a new hearing is declined or his request for an extension of bail is denied, Wesberry requests that Thompson remain free until at least the first of the year in order to prepare for a transition of his duties in Knott County.
"As the court is aware, Thompson served as Knott County Judge Executive and it will take some time to transition his responsibilities prior to the surrender date," the request reads.
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MILWAUKEE, WI ---The Chicago Wolves opened this year's Amtrak Rivalry series against the Milwaukee Admirals on a sour note, dropping a 7-4 decision Friday night at the Bradley Center.
Four different players scored for the Wolves as forwards Brett Sterling, Jordan Schroeder, Tim Miller and defenseman Mark Matheson lit the lamp for Chicago.
Milwaukee (5-6-0-0) opened scoring early as left wing Kevin Henderson took a feed from defenseman Victor Bartley and knocked home a goal past Wolves netminder Eddie Lack at 3:44 of the first period.
Schroeder had the equalizer for Chicago (7-4-1-0) 90 seconds later, beating Admirals goaltender Magnus Hellberg glove side at 5:11.
With the score knotted at one, Milwaukee broke away with two goals in under two minutes, first from right wing Taylor Beck and then right wing Patrick Cehlin.
In a 3-1 hole, the Wolves went to the power play and Matheson went five-hole on Hellberg to bring the Wolves within one at 9:55.
Before the close of the first frame, Milwaukee would fire one more past Lack, this time off a point shot from defenseman Scott Valentine.
Lack (6-3-0) stopped nine of 13 shots before giving way to Matt Climie at the start of the second period.
Sterling cut into Chicago's deficit midway through the second period, rifling a shot top-shelf past Hellberg sending him to the bench in favor of Jeremy Smith.
Hellberg kicked out 13 of 16 shots in 31:03 of action, while Smith (3-6-0) posted 14 saves on 15 shots to earn the win.
Admirals center Austin Watson closed out the frame with a quick wrister past Climie at 19:50 to give Milwaukee a 5-3 advantage.
The third period saw Milwaukee open a 7-3 lead with goals from Beck and defenseman Mike Moore before Miller closed the game's scoring with a marker at 12:35.
Chicago will wrap up its five-game road trip with an Illinois Lottery Cup game against the Peoria Rivermen on Friday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.
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First Period---1, Milwaukee, Henderson 3 (Bartley, Blum), 3:44; 1, Chicago, Schroeder 4 (Rodin, Tanev), 5:11; 2, Milwaukee, Beck 2 (Mueller, Bang), 6:47; 3, Milwaukee, Cehlin 5 (Watson), 7:46; 2, Chicago, Matheson 1 (Sweatt), 9:55 pp; 4, Milwaukee, Beck 3 (Valentine, Mueller) 16:37. Penalties---Ekholm, Milwaukee (holding), 8:21; Blum, Milwaukee (holding), 14:07; Rodin, Chicago (hooking), 18:47.
Second Period---3, Chicago, Sterling 4 (Schroeder, Hunt), 11:03; 5, Milwaukee, Watson (Puustinen, Cehlin), 19:50. Penalties---None.
Third Period---6, Milwaukee, Beck 3 (Moore), 2:05; 7, Milwaukee, Moore 2 (Puustinen, Cehlin), 11:12; 4, Chicago, Miller 1 (Longpre), 12:35. Penalties---Sterling, Chicago (boarding), 9:03; Watson, Milwaukee, (high-sticking), 13:23; Pinizzotto, Chicago (fighting), 17:53;
Latta, Milwaukee (fighting), 17:53; Longpre, Chicago (slashing), 18:16.
Shots on goal---Chicago: 13-10-8—31; Milwaukee: 13-11-4—28. Power plays---Chicago 1-3; Milwaukee 0-3. Goalies—Chicago, Lack (9-13), replaced by Climie (12-15) at 20:00. Milwaukee, Hellberg (13-16), replaced by Smith (14-15) at 31:03. A---5,526. Referee---Jarrod Ragusin and Ryan Hersey. Linesmen---Alex Stagnone and Al Stensland.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - The Chattanooga Lady Mocs softball team dropped two games on its final day in Clearwater, Fla., falling to both Quinnipiac and Fordham.
Chattanooga 8 - Quinnipiac 11
Quinnipiac struck first in the top of the first inning with three runs on three hits. A single drove in one run before a two-run home run from catcher Jordan Paolucci extended the lead to 3-0.
Chattanooga was able to gain a run back in the second inning on a sacrifice fly ball to right field off the bat of senior Ninjja Suetsugu (Sao Paulo, Brazil) to score Kasey Tydingco (Fairfield, Calif.), but the Lady Mocs jumped ahead in the third on a three-run home run from freshman Anyssa Robles (Lawrenceville, Ga.) to take a 4-3 lead. The homer is Robles' first career bomb.
Quinnipiac tied it back up in the fourth inning before taking the lead for good in the sixth inning. Seven runs scored in the top of the seventh inning with all coming on two outs. Quinnipiac recorded seven hits, with six coming on two outs, before freshman Rachel Albritton (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) was brought on to close out the long inning.
The Lady Mocs managed four runs to cut the lead to three. Suetsugu reached on an error and Yoshi Hooks (Cleveland, Tenn.) pinch ran for the senior before Kaiti Dutton (Tulsa, Okla.) singled to board two runners. A single from Sara Poteat (Thomaston, Ga.) loaded the bases and a passed ball allowed Hooks to score from third. A double from Alyssa Taylor (Oragne, Calif.) drove in two runners and a double from Robles rounded out the scoring for Chattanooga.
Both teams were scoreless in the final inning as UTC came up just three runs short of the Bobcats.
Chattanooga 1 - Fordham 9
For the third time on the 2013 season and third time in Florida, Chattanooga fell to the Fordham Rams. The 9-1 victory for the Rams ended the Lady Mocs' evening in five innings as UTC was only able to plate one run, coming in the fourth inning.
Starting pitcher Albritton was touched up for three runs on four hits through 2.1 innings pitched, allowing two home runs. Deason came on in relief and didn't fare much better against the Rams, going 1.2 and giving up six runs.
Fordham struck for one run in the second inning on a solo home run to left off the bat of Gabby Luety but busted it open in the third on three hits. Two home runs advanced the Ram lead to 4-0, and five runs on four hits in the bottom of the fifth totaled Fordham's nine runs.
Chattanooga was able to score one run in the fourth to get on the board as Robles singled to lead off the inning and a single from Sarah Beth Roberts (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.) boarded two runners. Suetsugu reached on an error and groundout from Rieck scored one runner.
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Comments On Jul 28, 2015:THE ZSTART WAS THE PERFECT WAY FOR MY WIFE TO BE ABLE TO RIDE ALONG WITH ALL OF US IN THE WOODS AND STILL BE ABLE TO RACE IN THE XC RACES WITH US AND NOT WORRY ABOUT HAVING TO STALL IT NUMEROUS TIMES TRYING TO TAKE OFF AND CONSTANTLY BURNING UP FRICTION AND STEEL PLATES. THE Z START CLUTCH IS A MUST FOR ALL BEGINNERS AND FOR YOUR WIFE/GF WHO ISNT EXPIERENCED WITH USING CLUTCH!!!! EXCELLENT PRODUCT!!!!
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Comments On Dec 30, 2014:Install was straight forward, as I have never done anything mechanical with the clutch itself. I will be using it for recreational use and XC racing. Last year I had a bit of trouble with fatigue continuously using the clutch lever in tight spaces. I'm sure this will help with that issue. Anyway, riding around the yard and on my track behind my house, I don't know why I didn't purchase any sooner.
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Comments On Oct 28, 2014:I should have gotten a Rekluse when I first bought the bike. Very easy to install. I have average mechanical skills and it took about an hour at the most to install and test.. No more stalling in corners when I locked the rear brake. No more stalling anytime for that matter.
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Comments On Jun 09, 2014:I have always had great lever control, and this clutch wasn't something that was going to make me faster . After getting used to the new YZ 450 feel I have to say it is much more fun to ride. you loose some hit but gain in technical climbs and sections.
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Comments On Apr 10, 2014:this is a really cool piece of equiptment for my bike. kind of expensive but worth every penny. no more stalling out. EVER. no more feathering the clutch. I never have to touch the clutch lever while riding if I don't want to. you can idle in gear with your hands off the bars and it will move if you apply the throttle if not it will idle. BUT even if you leave it in gear the machine acts like it is in neutral, so don't park on a hill and make sure your machine is strapped down good. also you lose the ability to bump start it, but hey ive got electric start so who cares! awesome awesome awesome
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Comments On Jan 22, 2014:Yes its cheating. No I don't care. Seriously one of the best things I've ever done for my bike. The clutch is just like a normal clutch above 2500 rpms or so. Pull the lever, or don't, up to you. Below 2500 the clutch takes care of itself. On slow and technical trails, its an amazing addition. Hit that rut and bike suddenly stopped? No prob the engine is still running. Yeah the price is high, but once you run it you'll wish you'd bought one years ago.
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"Amazon has never made a dime on paper" - err. Last Fiscal year was the only year prior to 2006 that Amazon lost money, and that was due to one quarter of write-offs. You may want to read up on a company before you write about them (this trend by Apple bloggers is very annoying). At the very least, stop contributing to the cycle of ignorance.
Apple, Amazon, and the weaponization of profit
Apple makes more money than any other company save those with oligopoly control of limited fossil fuel resources, yet they're perpetually punished by Wall Street and called doomed by financial-not-really-analysts. Amazon has seldom made a dime on paper and yet they're the darling of Wall Street and can do no wrong with market makers. Yet both are among the most successful companies in recent history. Why the difference? Benedict Evens on Twitter:
Amazon manages net income to zero the way Tim Cook manages inventory to zero
MG Siegler on TechCrunch:
The goal is actually to not make a huge profit too early, and Bezos manages it perfectly. You want to avoid showing your cards too early as you continue to lay the groundwork for an ever-larger business. Occasionally, you'll have to show those cards and win a hand to prove that you can. But the rest of the time you call and fold, as you await the monster to take the entire pot.
John Gruber on Daring Fireball:
The key to Bezos's genius, though, is in how he's set the expectations from Amazon's investors. They're seemingly all on board with this strategy, and, in return, this permission to run at break-even has made Amazon impossible for need-to-turn-a-profit businesses to compete with. That's what makes Amazon "the anti-Apple", as MG writes. Apple is a formidable competitor because it's so massively profitable; Amazon is a formidable competitor because it has permission — even encouragement — from its investors to run the operation at break-even.
On the surface it appears to be nothing more nor less than a riff on the old "perception is reality". Amazon has brilliantly set expectations to the point where they can, so far, operate with impunity when it comes to their stake holders. The potential for profit is so much more compelling than profit alone, that everyone is willing to mortgage today in hopes of tomorrow.
Apple, meanwhile, has failed to - or doesn't care to - set expectations from stake holders so they're punished for success, and the money they generate in the present is meaningless to a market whose eyes are always fixed on the future.
In other words, Amazon is giving up profit to offer great prices, Apple is making profit by offering great products. And the financial world appreciates the former far more than the latter.
It's tough to compete with Apple on product experience, but other companies are doing it. It's even tougher to compete with Amazon on price, and it doesn't seem like they're slowing down. If Apple vs. the DOJ is any indication, breaking Amazon's hold on prices won't be easy either.
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Apple, Amazon, and the weaponization of profit
Yeah, I meant "barely a dime", fixed. You're not arguing the core thesis, though, are you, that Amazon sacrifices profitability to invest back into their business?
Also, I'm no more an "Apple blogger" than you're an "anti-Apple commenter". If you think the theory is wrong, don't name call, show your work.
Otherwise you're worse than what you're complaining about.
"barely a dime" - In it's lifetime Amazon has amassed over 4b in profit (how on earth do you think Bezos can afford to do all those great things?). I guess that is subjective, but it is a bit unusual that you consider billions to be such a small number. Again, it would help if you did some basic research.
"You're not arguing the core thesis, though, are you, that Amazon sacrifices profitability to invest back into their business?". Perhaps. Look at last quarter, why do you think Amazon lost money? Was it investing back into their business? Nope, they claim it was due to unfavorable exchange rates. hmm. what else was different about last quarter? The largest difference (-50% or -650m) was for "Sales and maturities of marketable securities and other investments". Amazon has increased the the acquisition of assets (Seattle offices cost them 1.4b alone) and that does fit your argument, but the numbers show much more complexity than a simple blanket statement can provide.
"Also, I'm no more an "Apple blogger" than you're an "anti-Apple commenter"" - considering I never even mentioned Apple makes your comment a bit odd and telling. If you are not an Apple blogger, what do you blog on then?
4b in lifetime profit is extremely tiny considering they have a 137 billion market cap. They have lots of revenue, which they immediately spend on things to grow the business. Apple had ~7 billion in profit over the last 3 months, so yes, 4 billion is "barely a dime".
You definitely did mention Apple - "You may want to read up on a company before you write about them (this trend by Apple bloggers is very annoying). "
What is your point.
They are a reseller no different then WalMart.
APPLE designs, produces, markets, sells all it's own product.
What is someone peeved because the talk garbage and never bought Apple?
I bet you voted for Obama too!?
Whiners with buyers remorse are annoying.
I'm sorry did I step on your toes.
Funny Apple basher can run amuck, but put them in their place and oooohh, stick to the subject.
Do you ever read what the anit-Apple knuckle draggers post here?
Probably not.
Amazon has "made" over 5 billion in selling (or using this product to pay employees or fund purchases) AMZN. Think about that for a bit. Amazon has used its highly over-inflated share price to fund most of it expansion. When the share price drops (and it will at some point) like a stone off a cliff, Amazon will have lost its primary ability to purchase companies, reward employees and fund expansion.
RE-selling, not selling. They produce nothing.
Oh, wait, the kindle.
Sigh, my hopes of a troll free day with honest criticism and no one rudely attacking the writers have died once again... My condolences Rene.
Well, ok they have made a dime. But their profit is out of step with other companies with their market cap. This Seeking Alpha article is a little old, but it points out the same basic things that are being discussed here by Rene, Gruber and Siegler. http://seekingalpha.com/article/402321-will-amazon-ever-be-profitable
What's bitter about this piece? Amazon has done a better job when it comes to the markets than Apple. And dismissing everything Siegler or Gruber writers is your prerogative, but is probably a mistake.
Everyone is biased - including you - it's those who pretend otherwise that need to be avoided.
Bitter: Apple perpetually punished by Wall Street (untrue BTW);
Bitter: Amazon darling, can do no wrong
Of course we are all biased, that's why we comment on your pieces. The problem is when the bias introduces too much distortion. Apple was a Wall Street darling for almost 10 continuous years and you call it "perpetually punished".
I don't dismiss their pieces, but I always know before hand that, wharever the subject, if its an opinion piece it will be pro-Apple, like both were on payroll, only they're not.
Do you even know that Siegler is part of Google Ventures? And have you read any of Rene's pieces over the life of this web site, even going back to tipb? And gruber simply speaks his mind. A LOT of his stuff is very much critical of Apple. Just because you don't like Apple doesn't mean the facts can be ignored.
Amazon can do no wrong with the face lodged so far up BO's butt just like google.
Isn't "oligopoly control of limited resources" a bit redundant??
Rene, the market price is based on supply and demand and free market economics state that the price is determined by supply and demand based on all knowledge being out there in the market. Based on what you are stating, the market is saying Amazon has much more potential based solely on it's P/E ratio. That is all nothing more, nothing less and this could all change tomorrow.
Another biased article: "any other company save those with oligopoly control of limited fossil fuel resources" Samsung mobile division is more profitable than Apple and they dont control any fossil fuel.
Amazon is popular because it provides goods and services at cheaper prices and lower profit margins. Not every company needs multi-billion profits every quarter.
Apple had its fair share of Bull-run in the past when they were the darling of the wall street, now its time to get back on ground.
Multi billion profits? Heck if Amazon makes multi million profits its a shock. And I hate when people use the excuse that Amazon is just plowing profits back in to the business. Excuse me but there are lots and lots of companies with huge R&D budgets that also are profitable. I find it quite odd that Amazon seems to be the only company out there where not being profitable is a-OK with Wall Street. Wall Street seems to be banking on profits to come in the future even though there is zero evidence of it (how many years now have we been told profits are coming?). Yet with Apple they seem to have zero faith that Apple will be able to do anything in the future to increase revenues and profits. Amazon is given the benefit of the doubt that future profits will come, yet Apple isn't afforded the same benefit of the doubt when it comes to new products. Double standard much?
Something else incredibly annoying is this meme that Bezos is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. All basically in defense of Amazon not reporting profits, or reporting a small profit when they want to. Wow so all these other Fortune 500 CEOs would be so much smarter, would be playing chess too, if they just made sure not to show quarterly profits? That's the dumbest thing ever.
This is my personal opinion, but I think the biggest reason investors are losing faith in Apple has more to do with their potential risk in losing value in a saturated market w/o introducing groundbreaking new products. I mean look at the data, except for the US smartphone market, which arguably has matured, Apple continues to cede numbers to their competitors. Granted Apple is more profitable by far, but how long will / can that last. I think investors look at Amazon as the next GE. If one of their businesses struggles, so what, they have their grocery or Kindle or fine art business that may drive revenue. Is it fair to ask Apple to introduce a groundbreaking product every year, probably not, but what else can / does an investor have to rely on to ensure long term growth.
Disclaimer: I own Apple stock.
Just like with politics, business has it's golden children and those that work hard, prove themselves and still the get the crap beaten out of them daily.
Apple has continued to prove it self while also going through the spectacle of growing before everyones very eyes.
And as for Amazon, they sell Apple products.
I have used them in my portfolio and do to this day.
My broker laughed at me a few years back when I bought shares. I laughed directly back in his face when he said he should have bought some.
It is all due to the battle with microsoft. Will they ever shake that stigma?
Too many pissed investors. HA HA HA to all you ney sayer that laughed at my investment and patronage for a great company with GREAT products.
Rene first you are comparing market reporting to market valuation. Amazon has a market cap -- or perceived total value of $135B. Apple is at $423. That means investors value Apple's worth at over 3 times Amazon's worth.
Second the notion that Apple doesn't or didn't set expectations is absolutely ridiculous. Apple was on a roll, setting profit and sales records, with incredible and seemingly sustainable growth. As such, investors ascribed the perceived value to it of over $630B. Apple has NOT maintained that growth. As such, investors have since ascribed a different value.
Where your article is somewhat accurate is in the determination of value. Yes, investors derive value differently for different companies. Apple is predominantly a products company, in a category where margins are going to be squeezed and competition is getting fiercer. Amazon is a retailer and services company. Yes they have some of their own products, but as another commenter said, Amazon is probably more similar to Walmart than Apple. Kind of like comparing Apples to ... well you know.
Your anger is plainly misplaced and your writing misguided. Yes, some value was removed from poorly reported information, but then again Apple gains from the massive media attention around product releases. Barely any other new product launch gets that kind of attention. But most of the inflated value was erased because Apple couldn't maintain it's growth path. Whether it's unfair that the market cap came down because of this inconsistent growth or because it was unfairly overvalued when most people should have known their growth would have to slow, who knows.


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Monday, July 15, 2013
Mount Pleasant product and swimming standout Megan Kingsley made a verbal commitment to the University of Georgia, according to her Twitter account.
"Proud to say that I'm going to be a part of the Georgia class of 2018!! Officially a Georgia dawg!! #CommittedToTheG," Kingsley (@Megs_Kingsley) tweeted on Monday. She is a member of the Mount Pleasant Swim Club and rising senior at Wando.
Kingsley experienced the Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Ga. – home of the Bulldogs – last weekend at a sectional meet. She earned second place in the 200-butterfly event.
A decorated youth swimmer, Kingsley claimed third in the 200 fly at last year's Pan Pacific Championships and 11th during the Olympic Trials.
National championship
Two former Wando High School sailing team members won the Club 420 National Championship Regatta on Lake Geneva, Wis. this past weekend, defeating a field of 60 other crews from all over the country.
Carter Cameron, 16, and Ian Dilling, 18, won the first race of the event and sealed their victory by coming in 11th, eighth and seventh in the following races, according to a news release.
Cameron and Dilling won by five points over the runner-up team. Their performance was highlighted by rallies in the third and fourth races. In the third race, they were in the middle of the fleet after two of the three total legs before passing about 20 boats to grab eighth place. In the fourth race, they overcame eight boats on the final leg for seventh place.
Cameron is a rising junior at Wando. Dilling graduated this past spring and is attending the College of Charleston.
The boat class during the championship was the 420, which are 14-foot sailboats raced with two-person crews.
Junior Regatta
Watch out for a cluster of opti sailors next month. The ninth annual Mount Pleasant Junior Regatta will be held Aug. 10 at Hobcaw Yacht Club.
Registration is open for all skill levels. The regatta strives to encourage participation from children who have "basic boat handling skills" but may not have extensive racing experience, according to a news release.
Boat classes will be optimist – green, white, blue and red, sunfish, 420 and laser. Optimists and 420 boats are limited and available on a first-come basis. Reserve one of these classes by calling Tina Carter at 849-2061.
Pre-registration forms are available at Mount Pleasant Recreation Department offices or may be obtained by downloading them online at www.tompsc.com. Participants may register online, as well. The entry fee before Aug. 2 is $20 per boat and $25 the day of the event.
On race day, registration is held from 10-11 a.m., the skippers' meeting immediately follows, lunch is served from 11:15-11:45 a.m. and races begin around 12:30 p.m.
Erik Clark may have graduated in the spring from Wando, but he's still adding to his trophy shelf. Clark, who joins the College of Charleston men's soccer program, received All-American honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Clark is a first-time recipient of the award. Forty-nine high school student athletes were named to the NSCAA High School All-America Teams. He was one of four South Carolina players on the boys and girls teams – two S.C. boys and two S.C. girls.
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Christ Our King-Stella Maris student Justin Pelic is making a name for himself in track and field. Pelic qualified for the Hershey's Track and Field Games North American Finals, held Aug. 1-4 in Hershey, Penn.
He will compete in the 100-meter event in the 11-12 boys division. Pelic is one of nine South Carolina participants, and the only Lowcountry representative.
The rising seventh grader won two gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter dashes during the state Hershey Track Meet at Park West last month.
Palmetto Christian Academy girls basketball standout Corey Caulder is continuing her pursuit of a Division I scholarship through the summer Amateur Athletic Union circuit.
Caulder, who plays on the 76ers Elite team with players from South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia, helped the 76ers win the Super Showcase tournament and then grab fifth in the AAU national tournament.
Both events are attended heavily by collegiate scouts and coaches. Caulder is a rising junior.
Jarrett Swan, a rising junior at Charleston Southern and a Mount Pleasant native, tied for 10th place at the Carolinas Amateur golf tournament held at Kiawah Island´s Ocean Course this past weekend.
Swan had a three-shot lead going into the final round on Sunday but shot an 81 to finish seven strokes back of Carter Jenkins, of UNC Greensboro.
The Ocean Course was the site of last August's PGA Championship.
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Donna J. (Woolley) Hinkle of Gleneig, Maryland, passed away peacefully June 29, 2013. Donna was the beloved wife of Phillip Hinkle, devoted mother of Brady Hinkle and Kayleigh Hinkle, loving daughter of Craig and Elizabeth Woolley, Fayston, VT. Also survived by brother Mark Woolley, children Mercedes and Connor of Warren, VT, and brother Chet Woolley, wife Suzanne, children Nigel and Liam of Volcano, HI.
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A new mobile home park got a thumbs up from the Aiken County Planning Commission, making it one of the first to go through the complete application and approval process.
The vote to approve the application was unanimous on Thursday during the Commission's regular meeting – Commissioners Christian Lentz, Terri Turner and Don Toole were not present.
A mobile park will be placed on a plot of land at 245 Wire Road in Aiken where Georgia-Carolina Bonds is currently located.
The lot is a little more than 9 acres and will include 33 mobile homes.
Edgebert Wilson, who submitted the application, said the land located behind the business is not currently in use, and he said this would give him an opportunity to help citizens in the community.
Before 2006, anyone who wanted to establish a mobile home park didn't have to go through the Planning Commission, but it was later made a requirement, said County Planning Director Stephen Strohminger.
Strohminger said past applicants have either withdrawn plans or changed them to a point in which they no longer met the County's definition of a mobile park.
The County considers five manufactured homes or more on a parcel of land a mobile home park. A mobile home park must be on a lot larger than 5 acres, according to the County's land management ordinance.
In other business, the Commission recommended Council approve the rezoning of a host of tax parcels in the Montmorenci area but suggests gathering more public input.
Council has expressed its desire to hold another public hearing regarding the issue.
The proposal was initially to rezone the tax parcels from rural development, which allows a wide variety of uses, to the much more restrictive residential-horse business district.
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Amy Banton is the County reporter for the Aiken Standard and has been with the publication since May 2010.
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I don't think that Christians should go around guilt-ridden if they engage in this practice. On the face of it, this seems like a natural sexual safety value for single men—especially younger men in their sexual prime. Like learning how to walk or perform other athletic activities, this form of sexual experience and physical experimentation may train an unmarried young man in attaining some degree of mental and muscular control so that he is not a total novice on his wedding night. . . . I can't say absolutely if it is right or wrong, but I tend to deem it permissible under some circumstances.
("Too hot to handle - 2", 7-15-04)
Hays has been on a roll lately, in obsessing over sexual matters, that he delights in relating to the Catholic Church. In one post, he claimed that the martyrdom of St. Sebastian as depicted in Catholic art "betrays the homoerotic and sadomasochistic undercurrent in major streams of Catholic piety". In another sewer-inspired masterpiece ("Nuns gone wild!"), Hays took a biblical passage and came very close to mocking it (and God Himself), writing, among other ridiculous things: "dear old Dave . . . should produce a Spring Break video of the Poor Clares." In yet another one for the ages, Hays had some ludicrously juvenile fun at the expense of nuns, by pursuing a sadomasochistic theme:
Following recent revelations that his predecessor used to perform self-flagellation, Benedict XVI has issued an Apostolic Letter instituting the Order of Carmelite Dominatrices. In place of the standard habit, the habit of Carmelite dominatrices consists of a leather catsuit and stiletto thigh-boots. Benedict XVI also amended the Codex Iuris Canonici to include a new provision on holy spanking. Carmelite dominatrices will be assigned to the pope, the college of cardinals, and visiting bishops to assist the princes of the church in their sanctification.
("Carmelite dominatrices," 2-17-10)
All this from a man (himself single at age 50, for the record) who defends masturbation. Hays, shortly afterwards, made several other remarks along these pitiful lines:
But because the Roman Church flagrantly disregards the teaching of Scripture, it ends up codifying pagan perversions. In Catholic spirituality, piety and immorality become indistinguishable. . . . Catholic dogma which actually underwrites its masochistic brand of self-mortification.
("Saints or pain freaks?", 2-18-10)
Catholicism substitutes fetishism for real grace. It fetishises "holy" persons, buildings, paintings, furniture, relics, &c. . . . Protestants are supposed to defer to Catholic fetishism. Catholics wax indignant of you dare to treat their ascriptively holy persons as ordinary men and women like you and me because, deep down, there is no depth to Catholic piety. In practice, externals are all they've got. So they cling to their externals for dear life. . . . for them, ascriptive holiness trumps actual holiness.. . . Catholics wax indignant over sadomasochistic comparisons while they remain blithely oblivious to the sadomasochistic spirituality which is codified in their own theological system.
("Catholic fetishism," 2-19-10)
Catholic culture tends to swing back and forth between viewing women as saints and woman as whores–without much in-between . . . Catholic piety fosters a two-story morality: a nunnery or monastery on the second floor, but downstairs is another story–in more ways than one.
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Whether or not it's a "disordered act" is the very point at issue. All you're doing is to parrot what your denomination tells you. . . . another example of why Catholics can't have grown-up conversations about sexuality. All we get from the likes of you are adolescent snickers. The message that sends to young people is to seek advice from anyone other than a Catholic. No wonder their priests abuse underage boys–with the tacit consent of Catholic laymen.
Whether or not masturbation is immoral is the very issue in dispute. It's moral status is an issue which needs to be argued, not assumed. And this is an issue which confronts every teenage boy, so it merits a serious and respectful analysis.
This is one reason, though not the only one, why the Catholic church has so many sex scandals. The inability to have an adult discussion of human sexuality.
i) Among other problems, the Roman church is the victim of its own legalism. Legalism treats innocent or debatable practices as if they were guilty practices.
The inevitable result of legalism is to precipitate the very thing it fears. By creating a list of pseudo-sins, it ends up fostering reactionary types of genuine immorality that are worse than anything it was trying to avoid in the first place.
ii) The Roman church suffers from a number of sexual hang-ups. This is reflected on such issues as "artificial" contraception [a practice that Calvin and Luther deplored], clerical celibacy [urged by Jesus (Mt 19:10-12) and Paul (1 Cor 7:7-8, 17, 32-35, 38) for those who are called to it], and the perpetual virginity of Mary [a belief accepted by Calvin, Luther, and many other "Reformers"] – including the Gnostic/Docetic refinement of her virginity in partu.
By fixating on pseudo-sins, by treating what is innocent or natural as if it were guilty, the end-result is to engender aggravated forms of immorality.
Yet these aggravated sins don't bother them nearly as much as the pseudo-sins.
iii) Hence, Catholic epologists express perfunctory gestures of disapproval for priestly abuse, yet they continue to defend and subsidize the denomination which institutionalizes clerical concubinage and priestly pederasty.
You can't get any worse than that, but nothing is too bad for a good Catholic. Hence, there's never a dearth of Catholic lawyers on retainer of the Diocese to intimidate victims and stonewall authorities.
The church of Rome might as well redesign the architecture of its churches to reflect its de facto policy: have a daycare in the basement to serve as a harem for the priest, have a law office in the rectory to defend the priest or bishop who's caught in the act. One-stop shopping.
[engaging in a silly attempt at a reductio ad absurdum of traditional Christian (not just Catholic) ethical principles] i) A wet dream also creates an organism without copulation. Therefore, a wet dream is an intrinsically evil act and disordered on many levels. . . . So if I listen to my favorite music or munch on a chocolate ice cream cone for my own enjoyment, then I'm guilty of an intrinsically evil and disordered act. . . .
i) That depends on how you define lust. Is finding a beautiful woman attractive ipso facto lustful? Should beautiful women be required to don Burqas?


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Ryan Couture is going to be in over his head.
i think you guys aren't realizing that ryan just beat kj noons (who i think is a better boxer than ross and noons has also fought higher caliber opponents).
i give ryan a legitimate chance at winning.. if he can get inside, bully pearson a bit and not just stand in front of ross and try and kickbox with him, i think he can win this fight.
lemme touch your feet
Ryan can turn this into a dogfight against the cage and has some underrated BJJ, but I've seen all but one of his pro fights and IMO, he wouldn't even make it out of a TUF house as a winner and from that, there's no way I'd book him against a top 20, heck 30 LW....
Couture just fought (and was gifted a decision) a competitive fight with KJ Noons. I don't think Pearson is really a tougher match-up than KJ.
LW is a pretty stacked/talented division. Not really a lot of "easy" matches to make for him...
I don't feel this is a horrible match up for Couture. Ross looked good against george sot, but he is just one win removed from being ko'd by Cub. I think Couture could get in and clinch and take him to the ground. Should be a good fight.
couture won. plain and simple. it was a close fight and a victory could be argued either way.. no one dominated the other, but in the end, couture was the winner.
and fedorlei, would you not call noons a top 20 or 30 lw? i think that's a bit of a stretch. noons is def top 20 imo and duarte is no joke either. his stand up, especially in that weight class, is dangerous.
i think noons and duarte are both easily UFC caliber fighters. anyone who is fighting in the UFC is easily a top 30 fighter in their weightclass.
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The commission isn't going to step in and stop a fight because it is a bad matchup....These guys are grown men and they both accept the fight.
It's obvious what is going on. Does Ryan have a chance? Of course he has a chance, it's a fight. But track records, IMO, show that Ryan is well out of his league here. I don't care who wins honestly, but I don't see it going well for Couture.
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Originally posted by TalulaRose
Actually post some reasons. Compare and contrast. No sense in reading the same non-reasons over and over again. [mod edit]
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Originally posted by TalulaRose
Oh yeah, GW2 doesn't have food that heals on critical hits or anything.
And if TSW passive skills count as skills so do GW2 traits (60 major and 15 minor per profession, 480+120 total).
So yeah, in GW2 you can create a build that sacrifices defense for damage and critical change and then use food that heals on crit, or create a build that allows you to dodge more often or sacrifice damage so you can stay there blocking and have to move less.
Currently playing: GW2
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Originally posted by muffins89
What are you implying? That "themepark" MMOs don't have any depth in their combat? Please don't tell me that sandboxes have more depth!
@OP, I like the combat in Guild Wars 2. But as someone who has spent 1-3k on GW1, I can definitely say that GW2 has less depth to it. This doesn't mean it is shallow. It just means that GW1 had incredible customisation. No other MMO has such customisation as GW1. It's beyond me why ArenaNet decided to reduce the number of skills and make the skills bound to a weapon. I find it so annoying that my first 5 skills are chosen for me and I can only choose utility skills. They even impose limitations on how you chose your second 5 skills. You always need to have 3 utilities, 1 heal and 1 elite. Did I say that you only have a handful of elite skills? GW1 had 1500+ skills among 10 classes which works out between 100-150 per class. It was incredible variety.
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Originally posted by muffins89
That would be where you are 100% wrong.
If your good enough and smart enough you can tackle enemies much stronger then you are.
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Originally posted by Mardukk
Sadly this is true. With max gear and all traits the game become way to easy, even dungeons, which are suppose to be hard...
Hard Mode is needed!!!
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
To be honest, when it comes to building a character for Combat, GW 2 and TSW are streets ahead of the competition in terms of meaningful choices and ability to create a concept you want to play... I love them both for this reason.
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Originally posted by Rayshe
Clearly you haven't played much GW2.
Currently playing: GW2
Originally posted by fivoroth
As someone that has spent close to 10K hours in GW1 I can tell you that from those 100-150 skills per profession only 10-20 per profession were actually any good outside some narrow farm build.
The number of skills in GW1 that are simply outclassed or so situational that you are better bringing a skill that is generally more useful is mind numbing.
The choice in GW1 was between having a good build or having bad builds.
GW1 give a better illusion of freedom and variety than GW2, I'll give you that.
Example: GW1 Warrior in PvE (one of the professions that have the highest amount of viable builds).
Start by adding the sunspear warrior skill whirlwind attack. Add the kurzick/luxon warrior skill "Save Yourselves!". Get "For Great Justice!".
Axe - Why the hell are you using axe in PvE?
Hammer - Elite: Earth Shaker. No point using any other hammer elite. Then you either use Crushing Blow or Pulverizing Smash. Finish with Crude Swing.
Sword: Dragon Slash and Hundred Blades are both usable. Add Sun and Moon Slash. Maybe add Body Blow (strength).
Tactics: useless outside some narrow build/farm.
Strength: Enraging Change and Flail are usable although the "Deldrimor rank skill" "Drunken Master" or pure consumables are better options.
That is the PvE GW1 Warrior 150 skills reduced th a dozen skills.
Currently playing: GW2
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
With this much customisation and more doesn't that infer depth?
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Originally posted by Gaia_Hunter
You can go on and on, however it would be repetitive. No matter what spec you play it will be a dps spec, the cc effects are marginal and merely exist to accent DPS which is what GW2 pvp is all about, layers of dps. The boredom factor sets in when you realize that you cannot make a functional healer, CC, Support build that is not really just a DPS build with some perks. You quickly find out after a few weeks of never ending theory crafting and searching other builds online, that you are confined to play, conditions, bunker, roamer or some other Crit heavy build.
Its basically like saying there are countless ways to accept Jesus Christ as your savior, it doesn't really mean you have options. In GW2 if you have a build that even uses another RUNE this is different from the other guy who also plays ranger, you feel like you won a small victory. Slave 48 hours theorty crafting your necromancer only to find out some guy named Clerk already came up with the exact same thing down to the armor and weapon sigils. You of course tried vampirism early on to find out how terrible it was, or some other things that LOOKED really cool. But you ended up with this damn condition build you hate playing, you roll an alt, thinking things will be different with a Mesmer or thief, but no.
Combat feels empty and dull to me, GW2 pvp is not something people give up as a l2p issue its something that you stop doing because you don't hate yourself. Just my opinion maybe, but I played a lot of mmorpgs, GW2 pvp combat is fine the first month or so until the lack of debth really sets in.
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Originally posted by Neo_LibertyOriginally posted by Eluldor
If your talking about point and click or action combat then Tera has GW2 beat. For some reason GW2 combat feels diconnected, you don't feel like you are actually connecting with the mobs. Tera is way more connected, moving and blocking and not getting hit is far more rewarding in Tera ,GW2 feels slow in comparrison. When it comes to builds the The Secret World whoops GW2 all day long, it's laughable to even think that GW2 has more combat options than TSW.
Originally posted by Faelsun
Opposed to the awesome PvP MMORPGs where you are CC'ed until you die or CC them until they die or the most healers win.
And fotm was a word specially coined for GW2, right?
In other games all the possible builds are equaly viable and succesful and you are a snowflake!
Healing, dealing damage, supporting and CCing in the same character is boring but spending an entire match/dungeon just healing, ccing, tanking or dealing damage is the pinnacle of diversity and variation.
Currently playing: GW2
Originally posted by muffins89
After you added all the extras you pretty much have combat that has more depth than most MMOs. Only one I can think of off the top of my head with more depth would be Vanguard.
Pushing more buttons =/= depth.
Not as in depth as GW1 though, but that wasn't a MMO.
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Originally posted by evilastroOriginally posted by muffins89
Yeah Vanguard is vast , 16 classes with all of them having two or more stances. The shammy is three classes in one, let's face it everything about Vanguard trumps GW2 except graphics and the cities.
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Originally posted by Faelsun
As someone who is not a rabid fan of GW2 and am fairly reticent about the vertical gear progression issues, I would have to say that the thing that really attracts me to this game outside of exploring the awesome world the dev's built is the combat. The combat is deceptively simple, but in theory quite complex.
PvP is one thing, but PvE is another and I find that the non-dps effects can be very important especially while soloing. In groups, it is a mixed bag because it seems that dps still reigns over other effects.
Also, the game is yet young and I feel that ANet have nerfed the non-dps effects for some odd reason. If they ramped them up to the potency of GW1, I think we would be seeing that the game is actually not that shallow combat-wise. It is just that at the moment, dps is king and that is an issue that requires looking at quite closely in my opinion.
Originally posted by Rimmersman
Is there any obscure or very small population MMORPG that doesn't trump GW2 in your opinion? :)
Currently playing: GW2
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You know you dont need to bash everyone who comes to the MMORPG forums and says they are enjoying a game. Sometimes you can simply be pleased that they are having fun, rather than trying to pull the rug out from under them and bash them for daring to appreciate the product they bought.
This tends to be one of the reasons why people end up getting disheartened and leaving, and then those of you who bashed them can't work out why your server is now empty.
OP - glad your enjoying it, and your right, the combat is fun :)
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Originally posted by Rimmersman
I play a mesmer. The point is to avoid having the mobs connect with me. Moving, dodging, sowing confusion amongst the enemy... quite rewarding in GW2. What's fun is being able to take on practically anyone in WvW (except thieves... still working on that...) and being able to walk away with a win, and if they reinforce I can use clones, invisibilities, etc. to escape while they stay behind attacking that which isn't there. I can't say about TSW and a comparison about the numbers of builds that are viable... but I remember in GW1 there were thousands, quite literally, of bulds you could use. The problem, though, was that of those many thousands relatively few were actually viable. It doesn't matter if you can have ten thousand potential builds if only twenty are actually viable. In GW2, by design, there are little to no non-viable builds. Every build can be used rather well so long as you match your playstyle to the build you create. Is that true in TSW? No idea. But quantity doesn't always equate to depth. Quality within the quantity is far more significant.
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Originally posted by muffins89
I agree. It's not as "in depth" as it first appears, but that doesn't make it worse than any other MMO.
Originally posted by Volkon
I've already reduced the GW1 Warrior hundred of skills to a dozen viable skills (viable as in not outclassed for general PvE).in this thread.
I've only play TSW during the free month but I'vent seen anything to prove TSW doesn't suffer the same problem (easy to get non viable builds and reduced number of viable builds).
And anyway you are also limited due to the fact you need a builder and a finisher, which leaves 3-4 open slos (most builders work for all the weapons, healing weapons generally require 1 builder for each).
Then you have the passives.
Passives are pretty much the equivalent to GW2 traits that you only max at level 60 once you reach the Grandmaster tier, but somehow for GW2 the character developement ends at level 30 or before, according to those that don't like the game.
The moment you choose your 2 weapons (or a role) in TSW the number of skills you can choose from is extremely reduced.
And what is currently the best build for group healing? I remember that when I was playing Fist was the way to go for healing.
Again the biggest difference is that it is much easier to see what everyone should be doing and what failled with a tank-healer-dps game than it is to see in GW2.
The transition from open world play -> dungeon-> optimized dungeon run is bigger than in games running the holy trinity.
Going from open world to dungeon most GW2 players will notice they are dying much more often and they will start increasing their defenses (or rez zerging the dungeons and then raging in the forums that GW2 has no team work).
Then players will start discovering stacking might with combo fields, or stacking protection or armor of chaos is really good.
After that players will understand that dispite the fact there is no holy trinity a warrior is much better at dealing damage than a engineer and that guardians are much better at support than thieves.
So warrior players will drop defense for damage once again and rely on the support of classes better at supporting to stay alive and clear of conditions.
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