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Clear American-US Airways merger: Our view
- Post-deregulation airline industry has been plagued with too many players fighting for a toehold.
- Three-plus scenario is the end result that industry analysts have anticipated for years.
- Demand that the combined company shed some of its routes and gates as the price of anti-trust approval.
The effort by the Justice Department and six states to block the merger of American Airlines and US Airways is likely to be a popular one. After all, the lawsuit announced Tuesday is aimed at preserving competition in an industry known for cramped planes and an annoying array of nickel-and-dime fees. And there is little doubt that an American-US Airways marriage, which would reduce the field of four major legacy carriers to three, would produce higher ticket prices on certain routes.
OPPOSING VIEW:Ground this anti-competitive deal
But there is more to this than preserving competition at all costs. If that were the only consideration, the antitrust enforcers should have blocked the previous mergers of United and Continental, Delta and Northwest, and Southwest and AirTran. They didn't.
The fact is, the post-deregulation airline industry has been plagued with too many players fighting for a toehold. All four major legacy carriers have been through Chapter 11 bankruptcy at least once, and American is still in it.
Consolidation has helped bring needed stability to an industry that just a few years ago was hemorrhaging money, struggling to cope with rising fuel costs, and plagued by flight cancellations, delays and spotty service. This history needs to be considered, and balanced against a desire to have more carriers.
Competition is great. But fliers will ultimately suffer if it leads to more instability, less investment in new equipment, and frequent flier miles that evaporate when a carrier collapses. The industry could well end up with two major players (United and Delta), with American and US Airways struggling to hang on.
Antitrust experts, using mathematical models to study competition, have long found that an industry of three is a huge improvement over an industry of two, but that a fourth makes relatively little difference.
The US Airways-American merger would still allow for three major legacy carriers, plus a fourth major carrier with a different business model (Southwest) and several niche or regional players, such as Alaska Airlines and JetBlue.
This three-plus scenario would be a suitable compromise between competition and stability. It is certainly the end result that industry analysts have anticipated for years.
The merger does, to be sure, raise some concerns. The combined airline would gain a formidable presence on the East Coast, with US Airways focusing on short hops and American focusing on longer flights.
The new company would be particularly potent in Philadelphia, New York and Washington. At Washington's Reagan National Airport, the combined airline would account for 69% of all flights.
This is reason to demand that the combined company shed some of its routes and gates as the price of anti-trust approval. Indeed, that might well be where the Justice Department and state governments end up. But their hard-line bid to scuttle the whole deal comes off as an overreaction, one that's not in the best long-term interest of the industry or its passengers.
USA TODAY's editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff. Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature.


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I wanted you guys to get another good lesson on manga related stuff. Yesterday I gave you a tutorial on manga faces, today I will be showing you "how to draw manga hair step by step". Again there really isn't too much to say about manga hair because it is just hair. Anime and manga characters are created with different styles of hair for both male and female creations. This tutorial focuses on both male and female styles that are commonly used on the characters that are written for the comics and for the animated cartoons. I also tried created one of my own styles too. Can you tell what style is my own? Anyways, I figure that you can never have too many lessons on anything related to manga and or anime. I really had so much fun with you guys yesterday in the live stream room. I always enjoy drawing in front of you all live because I get helpful pointers and suggestions from my fellow artists. This lesson will be easy to follow which is why I am labeling it under the novice section. I have to go because I have like seven more tutorials to submit. Have fun learning "how to draw manga hair step by step". I will be back in the future with more drawing fun. Peace out guys!
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dgtlrose necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 237 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
I am considering a new logo for my web design company. The company is Digital Rose - with the option of tagging on Design Studio, Web Studio or Web Design to the end. My target market is both male and female, big business and small.
Digital Rose
Design Studio, Web Studio, Web Design, Alternate or None
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Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I am looking for a professional looking logo for my company, Digital Rose. You can tag on Design Studio, Web Studio or Web Design (or some such descriptive ending) if you like, but that is entirely optional - I'm open to whatever works creatively for you.
I'm hoping for a clean, elegant, professional, recognizable logo that is available to me in vector format so I can size it as need be.
I do not have any particular color preferences in mind, so again let your creativity lead the way.
In the past we have tried various rose/flower variations for our logo, but have found it is hard to convey the detail in smaller versions of the logo. That's not to say you can't go the rose route, as long as it scales well to both big and small versions.
Ideally the finished logo will be neither too feminine nor too masculine, but clean, creative and memorable, appropriate to my industry.
Thanks in advance! Â I don't have a lot of cash available for this particular contest, but I am often asked for logo design recommendations from my web clients and would certainly be happy to refer future clients to standout artists I meet through this contest.
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The Amazon Black Friday Deals Week 2012 has launched on Amazon.com. Amazon will again have a week-long Black Friday sale across many product categories.
The Amazon Black Friday 2012 sales is a week long and started on Monday morning. The Amazon Black Friday 2012 Deals Week will feature lots of daily time limited deals that Amazon pre-announces. There are of course many more Amazon Black Friday deals that are offered unannounced. You have to check the Amazon Black Friday page often and of course we will point you to the best deals again this year.
The Amazon Black Friday movie and TV Show sale features a great deal on a Blu-ray movie collection. The Planet of the Apes: 5 Film Collection Blu-ray is on sale for $22.99. This is 53% off list.
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The scheduled Amazon Black Friday deals will be made available through Amazon's Lightning Deal feature. A Lightning Deal is a deal in which a limited number of discounts are offered on an item for a short period of time. Lightning Deals are available, one per customer, until either the promotion period for the deal expires or all the available promotional discounts are claimed. Since Lightning Deals are time-sensitive, it's important to complete your order as soon as possible.
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We will of course point you to the best Amazon Black Friday 2012 deals as soon as they become available. Follow us on Twitter to make sure you do not miss a deal.
Black Friday 2012 is on November 23, 2012, but the actual Black Friday 2012 sales have already launched with the Amazon Black Friday 2012 Sale. Once again the whole month of November will be the filled with great Black Friday deals and sales. I4U News will again report about the best Black Friday deals and the hottest Black Friday ads as soon as they become available.


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Freshman DJ White tallied 20 kills in Harvard's 3-1 victory over Saint Francis (Pa.) on Friday night. (Gil Talbot)
LORETTO, Pa. – The Harvard men's volleyball swept the season series with Saint Francis (Pa.) after defeating the Red Flash 3-1 on Friday night. DJ White recorded 20 kills in the winning effort to help the Crimson to its fifth-straight win.
Harvard opened with a 25-22 win, but Saint Francis evened the score with an identical 25-22 score. The Crimson took the third set 25-23 to set up a decisive fourth stanza.
Harvard jumped out to a 6-4 lead off a setting error by Kyle Beatty. The Red Flash went on a 4-2 run to even score at 8-8. With the mark, 11-11, The Crimson tallied the next three points to go up, 14-11, buoyed by kills by sophomore Nick Madden, Junior Rob Lothman and White. Later in the set Saint Francis cut the Harvard lead to 16-15 off an attack error by Matt Jones. The two teams battled hard but Harvard outlasted the Red Flash, scoring 10 out of 19 points to edge Saint Francis, 26-24, and the match 3-1.
White led the Harvard attack with 20 kills, while Jones was second on the team with 13. Lothman dished out 47 assists, while sophomore Chris Gibbons tallied 13 digs. Jones recorded a double-double as he had his 13 kills along with 10 digs.
Alex Kane led the Red Flash in kills with 21 while Ryan Williams tallied 50 assists. Nicholas Bancroft secured 16 digs. Adam Roche led Saint Francis with five blocks in the match.
The Crimson will look to avenge its loss to No. 7 Penn State earlier in the season, when it heads to State College, Pa. on Saturday afternoon. The Match is slated for 2 p.m.


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Oklahoma flu deaths up to 33 as season winds down
State health officials say 33 people have died from the flu in Oklahoma this season.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health reports more than 1,000 hospitalizations are attributed to influenza so far this flu season, which runs from September until May.
In the 2011-12 flu season, the state recorded 316 hospitalizations and nine deaths.
According to the health department, Tulsa County has recorded the highest number of deaths this season at eight. Oklahoma County reports five deaths, while Comanche County has four deaths.
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Mike Bibby no longer has a home in the NBA, which means that he has plenty of time to attend his son's high school basketball games. Last Friday, Bibby was kicked out of one of his son's games for arguing with the referees, and was escorted out of the gym by a police officer. Thanks to Arizona's ABC affiliate, we have video of the incident.
That's the shit-eating grin of a man who has a long career as an insufferable basketball dad in front of him. Good luck with that, Mike Bibby Jr.
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The Why:
I'd been running Windows Vista for way.too.long. I picked up a copy of Windows 7 (64 bit) back when it was first released, but due to complications with my network card and its inability to support wireless on windows 7 64-bit, I had to leave it on vista until such time as either A) my landlord agreed to drill the holes to bring the internet in through MY level of the house rather than my housemate's, thus letting me get a wired connection, or B) move out of the rental and set up my internet on a wired connection in my own house, or C) drop the money on a different wireless card.
I had to opt for B, moving. Sounds a little crazy, but hey, I'm out of the rental and in a nice house all of my own, starting my life as a homeowner with my husband, in a nice quiet neighborhood without a long commute, with a lovely fenced-in yard just WAITING for a puppy. Now, I have moved, and finally had the chance this week to rush into wiping my system and setting up Windows 7 (after spending about 12 hours on Saturday trying to figure out what box I had packed the OS disk in).
Okay, all well and good. Copy all the necessary files: music, docs, and pix folders... special fonts and backups of my adobe photoshop styles and brushes... and, of course, my WoW screenshots, WTF, and Interface folders. Simple enough, right? Once the slow process of reinstalling WoW on my freshly reformatted harddrive with its shiny new operating system was complete, I copy the files off the portable harddrive I had stored them on and fire up WoW.
My addons aren't up to date. Like, 50 of them aren't up to date. Weeeeird. Little alarm bells start going off in my mind, but I do my best to silence them and go to update them all.
There are addons completely missing. And why is CowTip enabled? I thought I traded that in for TipTac.
...where is Power Auras?
The alarm bells turn into screaming sirens.
I hadn't copied my WTF/interface from the right folder. Or my screenshots, for that matter. The screenshots inform me of the date of the "most recent" picture: 4/27/2009.
Thus began my panic, mitigated only somewhat by the fact that I had backed up a lot of my UI in the form of blog posts. I was thanking the powers that be for server-side macros and whatever muse had nudged me into pasting my Power Auras exports and Grid layout on my blog... and my custom artwork.
My docs/music/etc folders were all fine and current. My WoW data just... wasn't. It had slipped back a year like it had just jumped in Dr. Who's Tardis for a joyride and miscalculated the return date.
As a note, those who know me will say I *never* curse. Those who know me well will say I do curse, but only when it really is important or meaningful. With that in mind...
I have no idea how I made such an error, but I've been paying for it, dearly. I discovered my UI problem about 1.5 hours before a raid on Tuesday.
I also discovered just how quickly I could pull my UI back together into some semblance of "working," and discovered I was lucky that it had only been a year old rather than 2, or 3, or completed GONE.
First priorities: Grid, Keybinds, and no LUA errors.
In this phase I updated addons, downloaded missing addons, reconfigured Grid to my custom settings due to age of the wtf files, and quickly combed WoWhead's ICC boss list for abilities I needed to add back to Grid for boss debuff monitoring.
Grid was still missing a few abilities I hadn't noted or missed in my visual scan of wowhead as I raided this week, resulting in frantic mid-raid additions to my Grid's debuff auras and a panicy reshuffling of what frame section they appeared on, as I couldn't quite remember which of the GridIndicatorCornerIcons locations I had originally used as "top" and "bottom," and some of the locations result in tiny, hard-to-see icons for some bizarre reasons.
Speaking of, here's my list, though it's missing my ToC debuffs atm:
|Center Icon:
Boiling Blood
Death Plague
Dominate Mind
Frenzied Bloodthirst
Frost Blast
Fusion Punch
Gaseous Bloat
Gut Spray
Harvest Soul
Necrotic Plague
Pact of the Dark Fallen
Saronite Vapors
Swarming Shadows
Unbalancing Strike
Unbound Plague
Volatile Ooze Adhesive
Wounding Strike
Top Icon (top right corner left):
Essence of the Blood Queen
Frost Beacon
Gas Spore
Mark of the Fallen Champion
Recently Infected
Sara's Anger
Storm Power
Plague Sickness
Bottom Icon (bottom left corner right):
Gastric Bloat
Iron Roots
Rune of Blood
Sara's Blessing
Yes, I could've broken down and installed the GridRaidDebuffs module... but then I can't split the debuffs up between 3 separate locations, which i find important in cases like Saurfang where a player might get Mark of the Fallen Champion along with Boiling Blood, and then they're taking significantly more damage that I need to heal.
Then I found GridIndicatorSideIcons, and /facepalmed at myself about the whole corners thing.
Beyond that, my keybinds needed to be updated, but fortunately I had quite recently mapped them all out in a handy visual guide. Once again, THANK YOU my bloggy MUSE. Now, I did have to go out and install drivers for my keyboard and mouse, and recreate the custom macros I use for them (in terms of telling the mouse button to push "y" and do it in a way that it doesn't just type "y" into my chat frame, cuz the software is confusing!), but I got it working pretty quick. Thus, the most important raiding aspects of my healer UI: raid frames and keybinds, were fixed.
Second priorities: Power Auras and Cast Bars.
Thank you, dear bloggy muse, for tasking me with posting my Power Auras export strings. It's not all of them, and my poor shaman's are completely gone, but it's at least the big ones that are most important for me as a raider! I even saved my rogue alt's exports.
Quartz just needed some repositioning to allow for the cast bar to not be in the middle of my Grid frames. I also had to edit my settings on texture (I have switched to Melli Dark Rough for most of my bars) and the "interruptable" alerts for target cast, and reposition all of them.
Third priorities: Pitbull and DBM.
Pitbull3 was pretty easy to fix, as I hadn't made any major overhauls to my settings in the past year. I was grateful I hadn't tried to switch to a different addon. I did need to fix their positioning, most notably of my focus frame, since I like having that down where I can quickly see it next to my Grid boxes.
DBM required only a tiny bit more work: aside positioning of the bars, I had switched to a custom skin layout for my timer bars from DamiaUI... but I was prepared for that, and already had given myself instructions on how to add it again. Zing also has a more detailed walkthrough on how to do it, so I was in good hands.
Fourth priorities: the other mods.
Many of the newer (for me) mods useful while raiding needed some setup: SexyCooldown with its personal cooldown bar that I position running vertically up the side of my Grid frames, TargetCharms' positioning on my screen in its preferred place under my chat box, and tweaking TipTac (pictured left) away from its (rather ugly IMO) default settings into a tooltip I'm comfortable using, complete with health/mana bars and guild ranks.
oRA2's mt frames positioning and skin. Omen and Skada's skins. TidyPlates and its module ThreatPlates, with my own settings tweaked to remove the ugly green glow the default settings put on "happy" enemies.
IceHUD's complete configuration, which I had very heavily customized before.
Unfortunately, I had to do these fresh and from memory, as I haven't blogged about these mods before. Something to add to my to-do list?
Fifth priorities: the Gravy.
These are things like adding my list of resurrection macros back into LunarSphere, and re-importing my custom UI art into kgPanels.
ButtonFacade also had a lot of skins to install and add to my Bartender and Buffalo panels. I also needed to install _Cursor and CastDonut... because I really just enjoy those little mods.
I managed to get most of this done while sitting around in Dalaran... and some mid-raid while running back from wipes.
Still to-do:
As a "happy" ending to the story, I have, for the most part, repaired my UI to my liking.
There are still some things that I need to do, though.
RaidCooldowns was also installed, but for some reason, it refused to fire up the /rcd config on command. It's not a mod I actively rely upon in raids, however, and oRA2 emulates it to a limited extent, so it's not a huge priority.
Grid and Power Auras will still be tripping up over the inevitable missing debuffs I forgot to add back in. That'll be an ongoing effort and annoyance for me.
Debuff Filter hasn't gotten much in the way of tweaks the past year for my UI, but I do still need to get into catform and fix its positioning to my preference. I don't use the mod much while healing, but rely on it heavily when feral.
My alts. My poor, poor alts. They still need to be fixed.
The Lesson:
When bringing your UI settings over to a fresh system, make certain that you aren't, for some reason, copying over a set of files that is a year or more old.


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Wrongful Convictions, Wrongful Bias
April 22 marks the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in McCleskey v. Kemp, in which the Court ruled that a defendant cannot rely upon statistical evidence of systemic racial bias to prove his death sentence unconstitutional, no matter how strong that evidence may be. McCleskey has been roundly condemned as a low point in the quest for equality that begs to be revisited. To mark the occasion, every day this week the ACLU Blog of Rights will feature a new post about McCleskey and its legacy. You can read all the posts here, and visit mccleskeyvkemp.com to learn more.
Levon "Bo" Jones spent 14 years on North Carolina's death row for a murder he did not commit, before being exonerated in 2008. Police sought to charge Jones, who is Black, with the murder of a white bootlegger named Leamon Grady, despite obvious flaws in the case and a far more compelling white suspect.
Jones' case is illustrative of a large problem. We know there is a strong link between race and who ends up on death row: studies across the country have repeatedly documented that Black people convicted of killing white people are far more likely to be sentenced to death than white people convicted of killing black people. So perhaps it should come as no surprise that there is also a strong link between race and wrongful convictions.
Nationwide, Black defendants are more likely than their white counterparts to be wrongfully convicted, and defendants charged with crimes against white victims are far more likely to be erroneously convicted than defendants charged with crimes involving nonwhite victims. Despite the fact that there are far more Black homicides with Black victims, an overwhelming 76 percent of all death row exonerees were wrongfully convicted of the murders of white victims.
This pattern is apparent here in North Carolina's death row. Of the seven death row inmates exonerated since North Carolina reinstated the death penalty in 1977, five are Black, and six are nonwhite. All seven exonerees — or 100 percent of North Carolina's death row exonerees — were in cases with white victims.
The explanations for this bias span every stage of the charging and conviction process — from racially biased police investigation and arrest policies, to the harsher treatment and greater suspicion defendants of color face — particularly when charged with crimes against white victims, to unconscious biases at trial and sentencing.
These facts are ones that ACLU client Jones understands all too well. In Jones' case, the key witness against him went to the police three years after the crime, and gave five wildly inconsistent stories about Jones' supposed involvement. The witness had a long history of petty crime and a host of credibility problems. It is hard to imagine police taking seriously this kind of evidence if the defendant were a wealthy white community member. Indeed, the police did not charge the white suspect, even though under the suspect's own self-serving story, he broke into Grady's home and stepped over Grady's body to steal beer from Grady's refrigerator.
The racially biased treatment of Jones did not end with the police. His own trial lawyers never took seriously the possibility that he was innocent, and thus never investigated the case. They failed, for example, to walk over to the district attorney's office to get the contradictory statements made by the witness or to investigate her credibility problems. Instead, they simply focused on trying to convince Jones to plead guilty of a crime he did not commit. At trial, a white judge presided over Jones's case and an all-white jury convicted him and sentenced him to death.
Jones also knows too well the steep cost of wrongful convictions. North Carolina has never compensated him for all of his years behind bars, leaving him and his family to bear the costs alone. He has struggled to find permanent work, as many employers see his murder arrest on a criminal background search and decline to even give him an interview. Instead of a job with retirement benefits or vacation pay, Jones must spend long, hard hours doing day labor work when he can find it. He also missed his daughter's childhood. His daughter was a baby when he was arrested, and was a young adult when he was released from prison. His dear older sister, who believed in his innocence and championed his case all along, passed away last year. He had only few years with her after his release from prison.
The most important payment we can make on the debt we owe Jones and other wrongfully convicted defendants is to break the link between race and the death penalty. Twenty-five years ago this week the United States Supreme Court turned its back on justice for the death penalty when it held in McCleskey v. Kemp that systemic evidence of racial bias in capital sentencing was insufficient to show a constitutional violation.
Thankfully, the North Carolina legislature took an enormous step to reverse the damage of McCleskey when it passed the Racial Justice Act, which allows capital defendants to use statistical evidence of systemic bias in the death penalty to challenge their death sentences. Other states should follow suit.
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Submitted by bubblesoo on Tue, 2008-06-10 21:32.
kk good I aint started ungoro, tyvm will start asap on lvling and hopefully if I have time make some guides myself
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Submitted by Bloodrayneking on Sat, 2008-06-07 13:59.
How on earth did you come up with these guides? They Rock! I have followed 'em from 36-55 after my mate told me. One of my friends was Level 36 when i started this guide and he is now 41, I'm 55. Thanks so much!
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Hey James, I was just
Submitted by 0ogeorgeo0 on Wed, 2008-06-04 22:49.
Hey James,
I was just wandering, do you think it would be better for me to level to 70 without this guide first so I get more of the storyline? Or should I play through the game using this guide, so I get to 70 faster?
Submitted by williamwanzaiyi on Sat, 2008-05-31 07:16.
Hi james !
Fisrt , thanks for your AMAZING GUIDE !!! lol, if it wasn't you , I would still be a lowbie
Anyways, when I was searching the internet today, I found http://wow-powerlevelings.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
it copied your lvl 30-40 guide down about 3quarters of the page, I'm more then 100% certain, since I completed your 30-40 guide.
Once again , thanks for your hard work !!
REvamp guide
Submitted by tsukiyomi117 on Wed, 2008-05-28 22:58.
First thing your guides are amazing James. Should I use your old 41 to 50 guide which I started or switch to your new guide? and abandon old quest?
What spec do you think a
Submitted by katho on Sun, 2008-05-25 03:07.
What spec do you think a level 60 warlock should be for leveling?
Not destro.
Submitted by Nyito on Sat, 2008-06-07 04:06.
Afflic is the best from 1-56, by far. Next to no downtime at all. At 56, when Felguard finally learns all it's abilities, it becomes just as competitive. Destro is never very efficient. You can kill fast by spamming shadowbolts, but this eats mana, leading to alot of downtime. All 3 work, but only two are efficient.
Submitted by Nova on Wed, 2008-05-21 19:13.
Hey Jame's I love your guide and I'm currently using it to level 2 alts and just have one little suggestion to help make things easier for people.
I sometimes exept quest by accident that you dident tell us to get and I would love it if you could at the end of every level put the quest you should have in your log before continueing onto the next level. Just a little change but I think it woud help out alot.
Chapter II Guide
Submitted by slonanik on Mon, 2008-05-19 19:33.
Any update on when the Chapter II (40-50)guide will be done?
Upgraded Guide?
Submitted by slonanik on Sun, 2008-05-18 07:48.
On the "Jame's Alliance leveling Guide - Chapter I (30-40)" link, I notice it is version 2. Is the link for "Jame's Alliance leveling guide - Chapter II (41-50)" also version 2? I didn't see any mention of where Chapter I left off so I'm assuming its not but correct me if I'm wrong.
Small addition
Submitted by Ugljesa on Fri, 2008-05-16 14:41.
Hey mate
great job on the guide, I've been using it recently to level my warlock and for once, I'm not bored of out my skull with leveling cause I know where to go and what to do .
I'm at Theramore in the 30-40 part now, and I've thought of a small addition you could do there. First Aid is generally a great profession to have for all classes, even healers can use it (for leveling, or silence parts in the end game). I've got my FA to 225 and arriving in Theramore, did the Triage quest. It's an easy 5550 xp at level 38, so you may want to bring people's attention to try and do that quest when they're there
Thanks again for a great guide
Submitted by Warlook on Wed, 2008-05-14 16:41.
Hi Jame,
Thanks for the wonderful guide. I was just wondering how long do you think it will take for you to write a 70-80 alliance guide when WoTLK has come out?
Picture Problem
Submitted by Jooze on Wed, 2008-05-07 14:16.
The Map images can't be found on the server and don't show up in the guide. Please fix this !
Thanks a ton!
Submitted by cloverleaf890 on Fri, 2008-05-02 11:14.
Jame, Thanks for the spectacular guides. I can't even begin to wonder how many people I've recommended it to, and how many characters I've used this guide for!
The first time I used it, I got a rogue from 1-60 (Pre BC, almost a year and a half ago) in 10.5 days /played time!
I literally swear by this guide, and am more pleased than ever to see that you're still at hard work making it better, and making new guides! (I've been deployed for the last 14 months)
Keep up the great work, and I'll keep throwing your name out there to my fellow WoW-ers in leveling despair!
Why these guides are so good
Submitted by corsika on Fri, 2008-05-02 08:24.
I see a good lot of praise for these guides, both here in the comments and on other sites/forums. I just wanted to give my take on why I think they're such good guides.
First: They're easy to understand. There's very little discrepancy about where you should go, or what you need to do in a certain situation (and, as people experience problems they say so, which leads us to...)
Second: They're updated. This game changes - a lot; and those changes can easily break things in the game. Also, the author recognizes that he (i think he? apologies otherwise!!) is quite human, and that not everyone thinks exactly the same. So instead of getting all defensive, it's "thanks - fixed!"
Last, but not least: They're modularized. These guides can be used by anyone, whether you're on your first character or you have eight 70's. This means much different playing styles (people throw in dungeons, or questing with friends, or they don't get on much so lots of rested xp.) Personally, I'm leveling a number of toons at the moment, so I'm winding up with a lot of rested. So, after following boston's guide thru 30 (i finished it at 32 or 33 or so on one guy, due to rested xp) and toss in some runthroughs sm for some gear I got, I'm on step 32 or so, but my toon is more than halfway into 37. So if I decide to skip a zone, or a few steps, it's very easy to do this and not get confused about where I'm supposed to go.
So please, as you continue to improve these guides, make sure you keep these attributes, both with updates to existing ones, and new ones (you know you'll be burning to make one when WotLK comes out!!)
Thanks again for these amazing guides,
Submitted by udzinari on Thu, 2008-05-01 22:37.
Thank you Jame!
I have used your guides many times to level my chars and they are great!
1 note though maybe mention Questhelper in recommended addons section?
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Submitted by Retrove on Wed, 2008-04-30 22:38.
Hey, just need to say thank you so much for this awesome guide, I don't think I would ever have the patience to finally get to 70 without this, it made the whole thing a lot easier and quicker, not to mention more fun.
Great work mate, and keep it up for the sake of all players who find levelling very long and sometimes boring!
just wanna say thanks james
Submitted by davee on Mon, 2008-04-28 10:15.
just wanna say thanks james
Small Correction
Submitted by forshizzle654 on Sat, 2008-04-19 03:47.
After you kill tethyr in part 1, you state you should talk to sergeant hamelyn when it is really Amelyn. Very small correction, just thought i might add it incase people were confused when they look him up in thottbot or w/e.
Hi james, i have a question
Submitted by Buldozer on Thu, 2008-04-17 19:31.
Hi James and thanks for all your hardwork.
Im using the old 41-50 guide, can i use the new 50-60 guide with no problem or i will loose quests that i was doing on the old guide? and will i not be able to do quests that was not present on the old guide but are present on the new 41-50 guide to tranfer to the next lvl guide?
Submitted by unknowncripple on Tue, 2008-04-15 19:48.
Lvl 30 - 40 Guide is not displaying in firefox. I was using firefox for 30-40 just fine untill 2 days ago. Now i have to use IE to allo0w the page to be displayed. Just an FYI
Just Wondering.
Submitted by Gudrue on Mon, 2008-04-14 21:48.
Hey James, first of all great guide, got my first character to 70 by following this guide.
What I wanted to ask though was I have a 40 Allaince shaman and was following the new 30-40 guide and now can only use the old 41-50 guide. Should I just wait for the new 40-50 guide or try to adapt the new guide with the old one? Also, when about is the new 40-50 guide coming out for Alliance.
Great guide
Submitted by bigchiefbb on Sat, 2008-04-12 10:02.
i followed your guid from level 32 and i had reached level 60 by level 55 of the guide, this guide rocks and not only this guide rock but all your guides rock make more guides maybe a 20-30 one? keep up the good work im up to the outlands guide after abandoning the 50-60 guide at level 55 part and im already level 65 and im only up to the level 63 part i love this guide
Thanks again for the guides
Submitted by bigchiefbb on Mon, 2008-04-21 16:50.
Thanks again for the guides i finally have my first level 70 and i still havent finished the level 65-70 part, but i will still follow the guide for the money , while following your guide i managed to get enough money for my flying mount and training as soon as i hit 70 and i still have money left over for another 5 mounts i know i suggested more guide but it just struck me... why not make a level 70 only guide helping everyone out with what quests to do where once they hit level 70, Thanks for the link too i hope it will help a lot
Hey Jame, ive been using
Submitted by Selanei on Sun, 2008-04-06 18:49.
Hey Jame, ive been using your guides from lvl 30 -> 50 and im still enjoying them, they are very easy to follow and I have recommended them to various other people =]
ATM im 2 lvls above the recommendation lol, zul farrak managed to lvl me twice when i used the guide that was on this site
Just wanted to express my thanks, keep makin awesome guides
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Submitted by DistinctlyBenign on Sun, 2008-04-06 09:42.
I've yet to use your guide but it looks very nice, however I have a question. I plan on rolling a druid alt soon and I will be following your guide with that and you said to always spec for the most damage. As a Druid would speccing for the most damage be as a Balance druid for the spell DPS, as a Feral druid in cat form for melee DPS, or would they be close enough that whichever I want to play would be fine?
Thanks a ton.
Leveling a druid
Submitted by alexxarian on Thu, 2008-04-17 10:34.
I've leveled my druid with balance speck from 1-50+ and respecked to feral after that. I can honestly say that feral is much, much easier to lvl with, as you virtually get no down time at all. Being balance is enjoyable and totally different but you will constantly be running out of mana and risk dying if that happens while you still have mobs on you. If you are interested in leveling speed then feral is definitely the way to go. I recommend you try balance until lvl 20, which is when you get cat form. That way you will have gotten a bit of a feel to what balance is about. I'd also recommend that you keep 2 or more gear sets, (feral DPS, feral tanking, balance, healing) and try respecking a couple of times as you lvl. If you for example play moonkin at lvls 40-45 and a couple of lvls between 60 and 70 then you should be able to get a proper idea of how it is to lvl and instance with a moonkin.
Hi Jame
Submitted by Kenaimali on Sat, 2008-04-05 09:48.
Thank you a trillion times for this guide, I've used it over and over and this time it's with a Draenei Shaman So I'd like to offer the tactic I use to get the Sealed Folder for the Forsaken Courier.
Basically, you want to keep the bodyguards away from you while you pund on the Courier, this is how I do it:
Get about 40yds from then and let them patrol to you, during that you you put out a stoneclaw totem and a magma totem. Before they get to the totems you pull the courier with a Lightning Bolt to ensure the totems won't pull her. This will separate her from the bodyguards, once you've got her you put an Earth bind totem down to slown down the incoming body guards. After that you just nuke down the Courier who should be down to about 30% by now (I never got a Windfury proc, so it's alot faster if you do). Loot the folder, set down a new Earthbind Totem, cast Ghost Wolf and run away. Obviously this was done as an Enhancement Shaman level 35 but I don't see a faster spec to level with.
Also, is there an estimate on the 40-50 guide?
Dylan B.
Another Method
Submitted by Dominius2885 on Sun, 2008-04-13 02:13.
AWSOME guide. Use it all the time. I have found another way to kill off the courier, and ALL of the body guards. Guessing that if you're looking at this you're a draenei shaman (hopefully enhancement), so here's how it goes. Drop your stoneskin totem when you're just in range for lightning bolt, lightning the courier (which aggs everything). Activate your Draenei healing ability, drop healing stream and magma totems, flameshock the courier. Kill that npc off first, loot incase you die, flameshock whenever you're focused. Keep dropping magma totems, hope for crits, and you should be able to kill everything off without too much trouble thanks to your healing ability and healing stream (and shamans rock). Use a healing potion/mana potion if you have to, though I had a few windfurry procs so didn't have to. By the time you start killing the guards they should be at least half dead, so no biggy!
Hello, Curious if you're
Submitted by Razko on Fri, 2008-04-04 06:32.
Curious if you're taking into account the new quest hub in 2.3.x (forgot which exactly), that goblin town in Dustwallow? Wondering if I should go there myself with my 40 shaman or wait till chapter 2 where you'll have it covered. I just want to experience the content as I haven't seen it yet.
First of all great
Submitted by chris92 on Wed, 2008-04-02 07:31.
First of all great guide
but i have 1 issue, when it says talk to Magister Falris and get his quest, "Losing Gracefully" on my screen it doesnt say he has any quet available
2 Small suggestions
Submitted by andydrew92 on Fri, 2008-03-21 03:49.
Great guides, love them, impressive you did all that work for no pay! Thanks so much.
Cloth!!! As leveling my shaman i noticed i could get a few thousand exp when i passed through a main city by handing in 60 cloth. It might be worth adding this to the guides at the top, as a small suggestion. You could always buy the cloth from the Auction House, gold for exp.
Maps!!! Is there any chance you could have a 2 column format on your guides? Some of the longer routes can be difficult to see because there are 12 or more points, and the map is way off up the page, nowhere to be found.


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Post subject: AE86 suspension
I'm trying to decide what to do for suspension for my Corolla. Currently it's a daily driver but it'll probably retire to only driving to the track and back.
At the moment I've got I've got ST205 Celica GT4 AGX in the front and old worn out TRD yellows(8 way adj. short strokes) along with 8/6 springs.
I've got a few ideas on what to do.
First is to keep the AGX's in the front and just buy a set of TRD blues for the rear and leave it at that but I would like to get rid of the high speed bump to get it more comfortable driving around. These cost 550AUD
Another option I've considered is getting Greddy or G-master coils but I haven't heard much about either other than they are good. Will probably cost me 2k.
One thing I've thought of is to get something made up. I've talked to a mob over the other side of the country and they seem to know what they're doing. Noone seems to valve shocks locally. A mate got some custom coilovers made for the rear of his AE86 and he didn't like them so they were sent to the other side of the country to be revalved. These guys aren't who I talked to.
The place I talked to use QA-1 shocks and recommended Aluminium shocks with a threaded body so I can convert to coilover if I want to rather than the separate spring and shock. That will allow me to move the spring further outward toward the wheel and run a softer spring giving me a softer ride rate for the same roll rate although I don't know if I'll bother with this. The lower mount has been modified to support the weight of the car(in the process of getting a Celica-Supra diff modified to bolt in). Been quoted around 800 for this valved to suit. I dunno what I'll do with the front if I take this option.
The last option is to wait for Tim to do up AE86 suspension but I think that's a while away still.
What do you guys reckon I should do? Is it worth the extra for a good digressive curve that can be altered to suit later on if need be?
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I haven't forgot about the corolla, it's still on the list of cars to do, there's just a couple other ones in front that I have already started working on.
The hard thing about the corolla is the way the fronts are. The greddy's are a good answer to the problem with the new spindle built in. And the rears work well too. The problem with a coilover in the rear is the stock sheet metal isn't strong enough to support both spring and shock loads at that point. So it either needs to be strengthened or you need to keep the setup similar to stock.
For the fronts, inserts are available that could work well. I'm not sure if they fit, but the Koni 8610 and 8611 are good inserts for now a bad price. But then you're still stuck with what you're going to do for the rear. Finding something that could match the koni's would be possible, but I'm not sure how much work it would be and if it would be worth it.
I'm not a fan of mismatched front and rear dampers. It can be alright sometimes if they're similar designed shocks from different manufacturers, but they both should be put together by someone who knows what they're doing.
But as far as off the shelf stuff, I have also heard a lot of good things about the greddy's. I rode in a car with them for a while, they feel good. They're too stiff in compression like most common damper offerings for these cars, but they aren't too bad. I haven't messed with the adjustment to see if they can be made a little softer. But for right now, they're the most complete and well thought out setup for the corolla.
I just wish I had time to get to putting something together for this car. Unfortunately, it probably won't happen for a while.
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Post subject: Re: AE86 suspension
Sounds like you 'might' want to look into some Koni's...
Just before I found out about the Greddy coilovers coming out for the ae86 chassis I spent a week or so emailing back and forth with a guy at koni about options for revalving struts/shocks for the ae86 using already made/existing dampers from other vehicles.
It basically came down to him after looking at some #'s and the info I gave him on what I would be doing with the car (a bit of autox & a lot of drifting) with 6-10kg front springs and 4.7-8kg rear springs being in the possible range of my choice that he recommended using the following since they 'valving' of these should work well with the spring rates, weight, etc of the ae86:
Front - Recommended by KONI:
8610 1437RACE Works better with higher spring rates than MR-2 piece
Rear Recommended by KONI:
95+ Mustang (rear)
Koni 8041-1186S -sport similar valving & externally adjustable as the 82-92 koni
camaro rear sport shocks are not externally adjustable.
OR (even better)
93+ Camaro (rear)
Koni 8242-1006SP1 dual adjustment (compression & rebound)
recommended by KONI:
93+ Camaro (rear)
Koni 8241-1140S -sport Koni states Compression Dampening would be too firm.
The front recommendation is the single adjust front race strut, but there is also a double adjust p# 8611-1259 Race with the same exact dimensions.
Does this help you any, or just add to your woes & confusion on making a decision?
A plus with these (and bilsteins for that matter) is they can be revalved to suit your car.
One of the guys on club4ag has purchased these and I believe he may be testing them this weekend @ the SCCA nationals in his ae86. SO we know they fit... but as to actual performance. I'm still waiting on him to get back to me on how they felt. If you want to keep an eye out for this see here:
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Thanks for your input guys.
Andrew, the koni selection helps me a lot, I don't like the idea of mismatched dampers but if Van86 thinks good of them, I think I will buy them. Then when the spare money comes in, buy either the 8610 or 8611. I'm pretty sure they will fit because I think they are 1.7" OD and my calipers tell me the strut is 45mm ID If the koni guy thinks it will work, who am I to argue.
The decision has narrowed to the Koni recommendations, or DG-5/Greddy OTS coils.
What's your opinion of the koni shocks Tim? I know you probably won't have much to say since you don't have any plots or info about the Mustang rears. Do you reckon follow what the koni man says?
Being able to have them revalved is a bonus but a lengthy process.
I don't think I will bother with the rear coil overs anymore, it was an option if I were to go QA-1 on the rear. I've had the third member modified to take the weight so that's half the equation taken care of but still would have had to do the top. It's wank that the car doesn't really need.
My final thought: I think I'll take the koni's because there is absolutely no support for Greddy or G-master here in Australia, I don't think anyone here has even heard of the G-master coils. Tein is pretty big but they don't seem to offer anything for AE86 anymore and I would still have to ship them to the east coast to have them rebuilt. I guess it's better than having no support.
Thanks again for the help guys. I appreciate it.
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5 Ways Everyone Can Improve Their Restaurant Management
They say to work smarter than harder, and the restaurant industry is no exception to this rule.
Clinging to an outdated management process while continually innovating contests will only make you lose in the long run.
As a manager you will know that the customer experience depends on the food and the service. Recent studies on Yelp customer reviews even show that customers react to poor restaurant experiences with signs of minor trauma!
Nobody wants to be responsible for that, so here are five ways to help improve your restaurant management.
Collect customer feedback
Gathering customer feedback is, and will always be the best place to start when you want to improve. 5 Ways Everyone Can Improve Their Restaurant Management
By asking them to fill in a short survey, leave an online review or comment card content, you can see the areas you like and areas that may require improvement.
Remember to remain unfair while reading your feedback-as hard as possible! Some things may be more useful than others, but it's important not to discard feedback because you do not like it.
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Is your outdated restaurant bookkeeping holding you back?
Time is money and efficiency is always key, so you should look to save time wherever you can.
Newer, more up-to-date software will allow you to manage your inventory, view your menu costs, digitize your invoices and expenses.
You can also send a check to the vendor with just a few clicks, bringing the admin time well while maintaining high levels of transparency and efficiency.
Give your team the tools they need
It looks simple but can make all the difference.
Fully lined with linen, trays, cutlery, glasses and cushions means your team will have everything they need to do a good job.
Keeping you well equipped not only helps the team, it also helps maintain a high level of quality and consistency for customers.
Unpleasant linen and inappropriate linen will not help your reputation.
Give your team an opportunity 5 Ways Everyone Can Improve Their Restaurant Management
While you are fortunate enough to have a passionate and passionate team with a natural tendency towards hospitality, incentivisation goes a long way to maintain a high level of service.
Set goals based on KPIs and customer service targets and reward staff who hit markers.
You can also get into the game to help light up the fire of participation!
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Not only are customers with important business insights to share.
Try to meet team meetings every month or quarter and get feedback delivered by the whole team – cooks, kitcheners, waiting staff, and hosts.
There may be processes that cause friction over the whole team or delay service, thereby bringing this issue open and trying new ways of doing things.
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Upper Midwest wheat breeders continue to be sharply focused on Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) or scab, a disease that has caused billions of dollars in damages to U.S. wheat and barley crops since the early 1990s. Serious scab infections result in lower yields and test weights and also often trigger formation of a primary mycotoxin known as DON (short for deoxynivalenol).
Fortunately, wheat breeders in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota have made substantial strides in developing varieties with moderate resistance to scab.
Hard red spring wheat producers in each state now have a number of varietal options that provide either moderate or intermediate resistance to this disease - while simultaneously possessing very competitive levels of key agronomic traits such as grain yield, test weight and straw strength, along with essential quality traits like protein content and functionality. While the war with scab has not yet been won, substantial headway has been made.
Much of the progress has come because of financial and networking support from the U.S. Wheat &; Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI), affirm plant breeders.
The USWBSI is a USDA-funded national multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research system established to minimize the threat from Fusarium Head Blight. University and USDA scientists from some two dozen states currently receive research funding from USWBSI upon approval of their projects via a rigorous review process.
"A coordinated national approach is more effective than piecemeal state-by-state or region-by-region efforts for continued progress" against scab, says University of Minnesota spring wheat breeder James Anderson. "USWBSI funding keeps some of the best minds in small grains cereals in the U.S. engaged in FHB research."
Karl Glover, spring wheat breeder with South Dakota State University, also places a high value on USWBSI support. "If we hope to continue creating highly moderate-resistant materials (germplasm and cultivars), then USWBSI funding is essential," Glover states.
North Dakota State University spring wheat breeder Mohamed Mergoum underscores the importance of the U.S. Wheat &; Barley Scab Initiative to his program as well.
"We have developed at least nine hard red spring wheat cultivars with excellent agronomic and quality performance and good disease resistance packages - including good levels of FHB resistance," Mergoum reports.
"These cultivars have been dominating the U.S. spring wheat region, generating hundreds of millions of dollars for wheat growers. Likewise, the wheat industry and the export market have benefited tremendously from these high-quality and FHB-resistant cultivars," said Mergoum.


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Anyway, once again, xkcd continues to suck and qwantz continues to be exemplary.
On another note - I've started reading Daisy Owl and it's pretty good.
"[a] vitriolic and bitter collection of unwarranted nastiness about a silly and harmless comic."
Oh, if only more people would admit they have done things wrong.
Honestly though. Dinosaur Comics is made of great deeds. And I think that's the only time he's really unintentionally repeated himself, despite basically using the same structure every day.
I disagree that everyone makes mistakes though. I am infallible.
Of course. I will now admit that I was wrong, and agree that from all I can tell, Rob is infallible. I just ordered the Dinosaur Comics book, though I don't expect anything more than you know, the comics. The Great Outdoor Fight book should be good too.ReplyDelete
Welcome. This is a website called XKCD SUCKS which is about the webcomic xkcd and why we think it sucks. My name is Carl and I used to write about it all the time, then I stopped because I went insane, and now other people write about it all the time. I forget their names. The posts still seem to be coming regularly, but many of the structural elements - like all the stuff in this lefthand pane - are a bit outdated. What can I say? Insane, etc.
I started this site because it had been clear to me for a while that xkcd is no longer a great webcomic (though it once was). Alas, many of its fans are too caught up in the faux-nerd culture that xkcd is a part of, and can't bring themselves to admit that the comic, at this point, is terrible. While I still like a new comic on occasion, I feel that more and more of them need the Iron Finger of Mockery knowingly pointed at them. This used to be called "XKCD: Overrated", but then it fell from just being overrated to being just horrible. Thus, xkcd sucks.
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UW students catch burglar during Badger Game
15-year-old robber allegedly had stolen laptop, backpack full of electronics
MADISON, Wis. — UW students took matters into their own hands Saturday night, catching a burglar in their downtown apartment.
Three burglars struck the home of seven roommates while they were at a neighbor's house on Lathrop Street watching the Wisconsin Badger game Saturday night, according to Madison police.
UW senior Matt DeBoer said one of his roommates looked out a window and spotted someone walking around his room that they didn't recognize.
DeBoer, his roommates and neighbors went to check out the situation and found three men stealing electronics. DeBoer grabbed one of the burglars and his roommates held him until police arrived.
"I just grabbed him and he tried to run," said DeBoer. "Thankfully, my friends were right behind me, so they were able to help restrain him and we called the cops. We were able to catch one of them and no one was hurt, thankfully."
Police said one burglar jumped off a second-floor balcony and another fled out a door.
DeBoer said the 15-year-old suspect they restrained had a stolen laptop in his pants and a backpack filled with the victims' electronics.
The 15-year-old told police he only met the other burglars in recent weeks and didn't know them well. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
Police said they were able to get to the scene quickly because of added patrols following recent home invasions in the area, and they're now investigating whether the suspect may have been involved in those.UW students catch burglar during Badger Game
"These are two very different types of crimes," said Public Information Officer Joel DeSpain. "Burglars typically run when somebody comes home. That's what these guys did, although one didn't run very far and was caught. But the people doing the home invasions, one has a handgun and they're very brazen. They're not running."
One of the other burglars was described as white, 16-19 years old, 5 feet 9 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with a thin build and short, possibly blond, hair. He was wearing a red top and shorts.
The other robber is described as black man, in his late teens, 5 feet 10 inches to 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds with a thick build. He was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and black pants.
If anyone has information on the burglary suspects or the home invasions, they're asked to call Madison police.


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KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven people were killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters demonstrating against the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
The anger over the Quran burning has sparked two days of protests across Afghanistan and tapped into anti-foreign sentiment fueled by a popular perception that foreign troops disrespect Afghan culture and Islam.
The demonstrations prompted the U.S. to lock down its embassy and bar its staff from traveling.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement that clashes during a protest in the eastern province of Parwan left four people dead. It said an investigation was under way to determine what happened.
The other deaths occurred at a U.S. base outside Kabul, where security guards killed one person, and in Jalalabad and Logar province, the ministry said.
The demonstration in Kabul drew thousands of protesters, who chanted "Death to America," hurled rocks and set tires alight outside a complex that is home to foreign contractors, police and some coalition military forces.
PhotoBlog: Protests spread amid Afghan fury at Quran burning
Nearby, angry demonstrators set a fuel truck ablaze on a main highway running east out of the city, sending black smoke billowing into the air.
The apologized Tuesday for the burning of books, including Qurans, which had been pulled from the shelves of the Parwan Detention Facility, adjoining Bagram Air Field, because they contained extremist messages or inscriptions.Video: U.S. apologizes for unintentional Quran burning (on this page)
U.S. Gen. John Allen, the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said after the books had been mistakenly given to troops to be burned at a garbage pit without realizing it.
"It was not a decision that was made because they were religious materials," Allen said Tuesday, one day after Afghan workers at the garbage pit found the books. "It was not a decision that was made with respect to the faith of Islam. It was a mistake. It was an error. The moment we found out about it we immediately stopped and we intervened."
US general: Taliban use of child suicide bombers 'utterly despicable'
A Western military official with knowledge of the incident said it appeared that the copies of the Quran and other Islamic readings in the library were being used to fuel extremism, and that detainees were writing on the documents to exchange extremist messages. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
As Wednesday's rally in Kabul turned violent, city police chief Mohammad Ayub Salangi arrived at the scene with hundreds of reinforcements who broke up the protest.
"They have the right to demonstrate, but they have to do it in accordance with the law," said Salangi's deputy, Daud Amin. "It is their right to demonstrate. ... We are also Muslim and we say it was a wrong action from the Islamic point of view."
UN: Afghan civilian deaths in war reach record high
Several miles away, hundreds of protesters were throwing rocks at Camp Phoenix, a U.S. military base, said Kabul provincial police spokesman Ashmatullah Stanekzai. Shots were also fired in the air at Camp Phoenix.
After the Quran burning was made public Tuesday, more than 2,000 Afghans protested outside the Bagram air base near the capital.
In Parwan, provincial police chief Akram Bigzad said about 2,000 protesters were demonstrating outside a district headquarters when some of them opened fire with weapons.
"In the crowd there were rebels and Taliban who had weapons. They opened fire and fighting started. Four were killed and 10 were wounded. They are Talib," Bigzad said.
A protest in Logar province also turned violent after someone in a group of about 300 demonstrators opened fire on police. Police returned fire, killing one protester, said provincial police chief Gen. Ghulam Sakhi Roogh Lawanay.
Two protesters and two police officers were also wounded, he added. He said the protesters had come from neighboring Wardak province, an insurgent hotbed.
Lawanay said a protest by about 400 people in Logar's capital Pule Alam ended peacefully.
3 Georgians killed
Meanwhile, three Georgian soldiers were killed in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Wednesday, the Georgian defense ministry said, taking the country's death toll to 15.
"Their combat vehicle exploded following an insurgent attack," the ministry said in a statement of the incident in one of Afghanistan's most violent provinces, which neighbors Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was in Helmand on Monday to meet his country's troops, said after the deaths that Georgia stood by its commitment to the increasingly unpopular war, dragged into its 11th year.
"The sacrifice of Georgian servicemen is appreciated by the Georgian people... future generations will live in a united, much stronger and more successful country," Saakashvili said in a statement.
The former Soviet country has over 900 troops supporting the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, including 750 in Helmand. Another deployment of 600-700 will be sent this year, making Georgia one of the largest non-NATO contributors in the war.
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In 1993, filmmaker Jane Campion stunned the world with her soulful, harrowing portrait of warm-blooded lust, "The Piano." Suffering a few creative setbacks over the years, Campion returns to fertile artistic ground with "Bright Star," a similarly heaved portrait of love's unforgiving boundaries. Lacking a certain spark that justifies its excessive length, "Bright Star" does manage to recharge the director's creative batteries, with material that allows Campion to exercise her amazing ability to depict love's ever scarring touch.
The year is 1818, and poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) is unable to shake feelings of failure, teaming up with friend Charles Armitage Brown (Paul Schneider) to work on their creative temperaments. Enjoying annual residence with the Brawne family, John takes a special shine to seamstress Fanny (Abby Cornish), and the two commit to a dance of unconsummated passion, holding their affection in private. As time passes, John comes to the realization that he's unable to marry due to his crushing debt, leaving Fanny in a state of shock, unable to cope with life without her beloved writer.
"Bright Star" is a suffocating exhibition of romantic fixation, but that's compliment. Campion is tremendous with these aching, grasping displays of heartache and social cruelty, finding the core relationship between John and Fanny fertile ground to mount a tragic tale of lovers unable to indulge their mutual heartbeat. Sections of "Bright Star" excited me immensely, especially moments of pure response between the characters, who must cling to the bondage of period decorum to prevent themselves from exploding from the sheer passion of it all. Campion has the characters clawing at walls, swooning through flowery correspondence, and divided monetarily (the ultimate humiliation). While tightly fenced in by the requisite era-specific emotional sedation, the tempest is palpable at every turn.
Fueling the fire are performances from Whishaw and Cornish, the latter delivering revelatory work as the insatiable Fanny: a woman tasting love for the first time and would dig her own heart out with a spoon if ever permanently separated from her beloved John. Cornish displays astonishing unrest in the picture, keeping Fanny a portrait of rumbling romantic instinct rather than someone more conventionally distressed. It's poker-face performance with fringes of emotional ecstasy and catastrophic lament, yet Cornish portions out the fire breathing magnificently.
The real hangnail of the picture is Schneider, who slips on an indistinguishable accent and indicates his way through the film like a madman. It's a frightful performance; the character is intended to read as deceitful and jealous of Keats, but Schneider (forever inconsistent) plays Brown as a whimpering goon, prone to unearned outbursts and unchecked method indulgence. Thank heavens the character isn't around for long.
Discovering pockets of quivering obsession, Campion develops an enthralling rhythm to the feature that helps hurdle the innate immobility of the tea-n-rumor genre. Sadly, the effect doesn't last long enough, with "Bright Star" pushing its luck by inching to the two hour mark. The moony poetic exchanges are appropriate, but unregulated, and Campion doesn't know when to break free. She drags out the suffering 30 extra minutes, punishing the characters for their everlasting faith in romance, making sure the speculative John and Fanny love story is branded as one of chest-scratching tragedy, not exceptional perseverance.


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Les Miserables news, updates, analysis and photos.
The case against Les Miserables
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Many of you have emailed to fret about some of the reviews. Les Miserables is currently sitting at 72% on Rotten Tomatoes and 61% on Metacritic which doesn't suck, no, but there have indeed been certain critics who've been vicious in their disdain: it's so melodramatic, and amateurishly so; there are too many close-up shots when people are singing; there is too much singing. Full Story
Eddie Redmayne's great suit
It's a gorgeous suit. It's a beautiful colour. And he wears it so well. I interviewed Eddie Redmayne at the Les Miserables junket last weekend in New York. He is very, very nice. Doesn't take himself too seriously, is engaging and friendly, seems kind and humble. It's hard to not to be happy for him that he has the opportunity in this film to showcase his talent and variety and the best part about that is that, unlike some of his peers, he's not self-conscious about the role. Full Story
Les Miserables: an underdog?
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The new issue of The Hollywood Reporter features Les Miserables -- its film history, the journey of this particular iteration under the direction of Tom Hooper, the production, and the cast. The story that's told, at least at the beginning of the article, Nate Silver reference notwithstanding, is that this was always a risk. Full Story
Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean
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As mentioned yesterday, I screened Les Miserables in New York on the weekend but reviews are embargoed until closer to the release date. We are allowed however to post reaction to the film. My reaction is that I ugly-cried HARD. And that I love Hugh Jackman. People keep talking about how much weight Anne Hathaway lost to play Fantine. Full Story
Catwoman, Wolverine, and Red Riding Hood
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At the premiere of my favourite movie of the year in Tokyo tonight as they make their way around the world, closer and closer to Christmas Day, as we wait impatiently ... At The Barricade! And then en route to Hollywood & Highland, the Dolby Theatre to fight it out with Argo and Lincoln. Since its screenings last weekend, according to expert "Oscarologist" predictions, Les Miserables has moved ahead of Argo and Lincoln. Full Story
Les Miserables Vogue
And here we are, another year of American Vogue covers, and none of them featured Victoria Beckham. Anne Hathaway is December, understandably. She is Wintour-approved, and Valentino-approved, and she is the star of one of the most highly anticipated movies of the season, my favourite movie of the year, Les Miserables, which just happens to open at Christmas. Full Story
The Cambridges return to the birthplace of their love
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St Andrews! It's so lovely, St Andrews. We were there for 3 days last year to shoot pre-footage in advance of the royal wedding. When I came home I told Jacek we should live there for a while -- the dogs would love it, he could golf every day, and I'd eat haggis all the time. It's a life goal. Full Story
Everybody sings!
Duana left early this morning for a meeting and then I rushed off to the airport to come to New York so... We didn't get to watch this new Les Miserables trailer together holding hands! We didn't get to watch this new Les Miserables trailer together and cry! This time they all sing. Full Story
Les Miserables on Election Night
Two new tv spots were released yesterday for Les Miserables, my favourite movie of the year. I already know it will be. I know I will love it. There is no way I won't love it. The clips were broadcast across several networks during election coverage. Anyway, obviously, I cried during both. Full Story
Les Miserables: the posters
Four new posters for the upcoming Les Miserables -- THE MOST ANTICIPATED MOVIE OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON (Hobbit what?) -- have been released but... and you know how much I love Les Miserables ... I hate them. Hate the cheesy tag lines even if they're germane to the story (Heart Full Of Love on a poster, I don't care how hard you try to argue it, is never not eye-rolly) and hate especially how glossy the women are. Full Story
How many times already?
How many times have you enjoyed the first teaser for Les Miserables? As I mentioned last week, many of the anticipated award films have been rolling out their previews the last couple of weeks. At this rate we should see something soon then from Anna Karenina. So... how's our list looking so far? In no particular order: The MasterAnna KareninaGatsbyDjango UnchainedLincolnLife Of Pi . Full Story


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Top 5 picks for the Wii U launch. A good spread of games for both the lone hardcore gamer or for those looking to play with family and friends.
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Black Ops 2 - preordered
NSMBU - preordered
NintendoLand - included with my Deluxe preorder
ZombiU - preordered
Trine 2 - day one purchase on the eShop
looks like I am all set.
Not a CoD Guy so I'm not picking it up, not a hater of CoD its just not my style.
Imma get Mario U, ZombiU, Darksiders 2, Nintendoland and Sonic Racing the rest of the stuff I want (pikmin, aliens, injustice, wonderful 101, rayman, bayonetta 2, etc) all wont be out til next year
Would get them if i were dumb enough to buy a Wii U , but i prefer to use my cash for True Next Gen consoles like say Xbox/PS or PS/Xbox depends on who release first.