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1. Print the guides. There is a "Printer Friendly Version" link at the bottom of every guide, you just have to click on it. However, that might be expansive (and probably expensive), because the guides are big, very big. Another downside is that my guides are updated very frequently, so if you print it you'll miss the latest updates.
2. Playing WOW in Windowed Mode feels very comfortable while following along with this guide.
- Keep the guide opened in an internet window
- Log in to World of Warcraft, press Escape and go to Video Options, tick the following boxes:
Click on "Apply".
Your screen will look exactly as if you were playing wow in full screen mode, besides you will be able to ALT-TAB to the guide INSTANTLY.
This is how I play wow while following my guide, when I don't feel like booting up my 2nd computer
70-80 WotLK Guides
- Jame's Alliance Leveling Guide - Borean Tundra (70-72)
- Jame's Alliance Leveling Guide - Howling Fjord (72-74)
- Jame's Alliance Leveling Guide - Dragonblight (74-75)
- Jame's Alliance Leveling Guide - Grizzly Hills (75-77)
- Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Howling Fjord (70-72)
- Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Borean Tundra (72-74)
- Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Dragonblight (74-75)
- Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Grizzly Hills (75-77) - New
1-70 Leveling Guides
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Submitted by Emmaleah on Wed, 2009-04-22 18:26.
Like everyone else, I was eagerly waiting for the zul'drak guide. I love you guides because I HATE being inefficient and running back to the same place I just was because some other quest giver wants something there too (OK, I hate it when its the same quest giver too, but sequential quests can't be helped, that's just sadistic developers). I always knew it was a lot of work to write a guide, but I never comprehended it truely until I decided to try and make an add-on version for zul'drak. I have previously made tour=guides for limited quest circuits and stuff, so I had a clue what I was getting in to, but wow, this is a lot of work, Thanks for taking the time to do it.
Anyway, the point of this (besides saying thanks for your previous contributions) is to say... in researching zul'drak, I discovered that there is a quest from camp Onequah that is unavailable if you have "Into the Breach" from Dragonblight in your quest log or completed. The quest from camp Onequah, "Shifting Priorities",is a better quest (IMHO) because it flies you to Light's Breach (free) thus getting you the flight path without having to run. (the rewards are the same xp and coin). Maybe since if you followed the previous guide you will be at least 77 (I hit 80 in the middle of GH) that isn't a consideration, but I thought it was notable.
Emmaleah == bravely leading the way since ... um a long time ago...
Hey, Jame, I just wanted to
Submitted by Arkaen on Sun, 2009-03-15 01:21.
Hey, Jame, I just wanted to say that I'd personally prefer going to Borean Tundra first on my Horde toon. This is because it gives a great quest reward ax that's about equal to the one from Ingvar.
Next guide - time line?
Submitted by Akao on Tue, 2009-02-17 22:31.
Yo Jame,
I havnt been able to find here nor ur blog about further guides for the rest of Woltk contents - do u have any timelines for those? I used ur Woltk guides so far for 2 chars, one is 77 now and going to grizzy hills So id guess id ding 80 there - or if close then ill instance the rest, so i gain more gold from the 4-5 rest zones Just as i did with my first char, his 80 long ago, he dinged 80 in Zul Drak - even tho i lvl on my own there and in grizzy hills, due to ur guides wasnt there at that time. But i managed to handle Grizzy by my own and Zul drak too, im rather good at that As i acutally managed to get all quests (and the achivements) too - afaik at least. But im waiting for ur guides for the rest of the zones, which hopefully will come in some time. I would like them so i can earn the best amount (and fastest) of gold within those zones i have left on my chars. Always done it that way, also did that in TBC. Where i lvl my 60 to 70, so i had Netherstorm & Valley full of quests where i gained alot of gold from.
Best guides made ever - really zane work u do here Jame.
Jame is working hard on the
Submitted by Jiyambi on Sun, 2009-03-15 01:35.
Jame is working hard on the addon for now, but will be moving on to new WotLK guides after that. I don't think he has a time estimate yet - basically the more help we get testing and improving the addon, the sooner Jame will be free to work on those guides
Just stick to the guide. I
Submitted by Perished on Mon, 2009-02-02 12:45.
Just stick to the guide. I did the same and I'm fine. Just finished the Grizzly Hills Guide with my DK and I'm 79 atm.
Question about northrend
Submitted by multip on Fri, 2009-01-23 04:22.
I'm following your outland guides, and I hit 70 today, but I am 2 levels ahead of your guide. Should I keep following the outland one or go ahead to northrend?
Just keep following the
Submitted by Perished on Mon, 2009-02-02 12:49.
Just keep following the Outlands guide until the end. I did the same and I just finished the Grizzly Hills Guide with my DK, I'm 79 now. So you'll get a lot of gold from finished the rest of the Nordrend Quests when 80.
At the very least you should
Submitted by Gethe on Fri, 2009-01-23 07:10.
At the very least you should finish the zone you are in, at that point you can do either one. I personally recommend getting to the end of the Outland guide and going to Northrend then. You'll probably get to 80 in Dragonblight then all of the quests afterward (5 whole zones) will give gold instead of XP in addition to the reward gold and items.
The quests in northrend don't start going grey until lvl 77 and those are just in the starting areas
Forums Error
Submitted by Rappa on Fri, 2009-01-16 17:52.
Jame, the following error appears when I follow the link to enter the wow formus (Jame's WotLK Blizzard Thread - US Forums):
"An error was encountered while processing your request
[The topic you're looking for is not found]"
Has the forum been moved?
For He's A Jolly Good Fellow
Submitted by quillspin on Fri, 2009-01-16 15:13.
I'm not sure what possesses you to put so much time and effort into creating these wonderful guides for us to enjoy but I know I am forever indebted to you for making my WoW experience a fulfilling one. I've played other MMO's in the past with RL friends and always quit before seeing any endgame content because of the frustration of hours played vs. rewards obtained.
I started playing WoW around Thanksgiving and I'm currently lvl 80 with the achievement for completing all of the Northrend dungeons on regular, and three away from finishing up the heroics! I've found a fun guild and we're heading to our first 25 man Naxx run in a week or so and I'm getting exactly what I've always wanted from an MMO, and I'd have to say it's all because of your hard work and generosity. You seem to take well to our appreciative comments, and I felt obliged to create an account here just so I could post my gratitude. It's not surprising to me that you have a small army of community members helping to create and add to the amazing amount of knowledge already held in this site, and we all await your next installments with bated breath! (I was a bad guide follower and went to Northrend at 70, but mostly because Nagrand was huge and boring to me, but I hit 80 at the very beginning of Zul Drak, so all's well that end's well, eh?)
I'm at 11 days 20 hours played... didn't keep track of the moment I hit 80 though =(.
To my experience with the guide: Amazing leveling experience in general, far surpasses in speed and ease anything I've experienced before, and I would not dream of paying for something similar (or accusing you of theft from said products!). In Northrend I've never consistently exceeded 400k xp/hour, and that's generally only with rested xp... I usually topped out around 350k xp/hour without it's assistance. I'm not sure as to why this may be. I am a new player and the majority of hiccups in my leveling were most likely due to my general lack of knowledge surrounding game/quest mechanics (i.e. where is everything in each new town I encounter, etc.), but my xp rates still seem shabby compared to what you achieved on your OWN hunter toon, which is what I rolled as my first. I figured, "He wrote the guides, he's probably REALLY efficient at following them and running the circuits," but I just thought you might like to get that feedback.
As I think back, I also realized I'm a frequent short break taker when it comes to WoW, and I'd generally leave the game running for the 5 minutes I'd be doing something else, so perhaps that was a factor. In any case, really no complaints, just a bit of food for thought. My only suggestion wouldn't be an actual "improvement" per say, as your guides do exactly what you intended them to do, which is level a character as fast as possible. I wish now, at 80, that I had picked some common pairing of professions (leather working and skinning, mining and blacksmithing, etc.) as I find myself going back and grinding professions now, when I really think they're designed to have been played up with a character. Now you preface your guides by clearly stating that they don't include said profession content, but a friendly reminder perhaps that professions are part of the game and may be a welcome distraction from quest grinding your brains out may not go amiss.
But really, bang up job. And I hope you acquire some benefactor or commissioner or something, because writing guides should really be your full time job.
In Gratitude,
P.S. - I also really identify with your appreciation of passable grammar... I mean come on people. Video games and punctuation are not mutually exclusive.
Submitted by Borger on Tue, 2009-05-19 16:38.
Ive used ur lvling guides since late 2005 when i got my ovn account and while i was lvling my hunter i was very happy to see that even with alt tabbing i was very close to ur estimated XP/hour rate when i was lvling.
In my hones opinion it just shows how efficiant ur guide has been from the beginning, and tbh i have preached the wow-pro gospel like a mad man to ppl in all guilds ive been in asap they ask the usual "where do i go at this lvl" i cba to tell em anymore i just tell em if they wanna statr to lv propperly they should go to this page and start reading, and ofc the first i need to correct em in when they dont wanna pay for such crp, is that its all FREE.
This is by far one of the best sites for a new player to come to. I must say it realy stand under its name WOW-PRO...
Hurry up and get the last
Submitted by Van on Mon, 2009-01-19 23:11.
Hurry up and get the last few zones covered, I had to take my DK from 77 to 80 all on my lonesome, I felt lost without you
(although it has to be said Northrend zones are so much easier to quest in then any of the others, each quest leads to the next).
Don't Wait for Jame's Guide to Continue
Submitted by Khaloc on Tue, 2009-01-20 15:12.
I was going to wait until his Zul'drak quest because I didn't want to mess anything up, because I had gone to Howling Fjord without his help and then when I started using his guide midway I was very confused. After wasting an entire day, I decided to start Zul'drak anyways and so I opened a notepad file and wrote down the names of the quests as I completed them. This way, I could track which quests I had already done and all I would have to do is go to "Edit -> Find" and look for the quests that I hadn't yet completed. Fortunately though, I was able to complete all 100 quests in Zul'drak. I earned the achievement for the zone at the same time that I reached level 80.
thankyou jame so much!
Submitted by wheredididie on Thu, 2009-01-15 02:24.
just made my wow.pro account after having used jame's guides for ages
so i started as a sad old slow levelling level 29 semi-twinked rogue as my friend was 70 and quite rich
then i got banned by my dad for overly playing too much wow, so after i think a year and a half i asked if i could have another chance with wow and he said yes, Great!
so then i got on my rogue and i couldn't remember how to play much and stuff so i looked for levelling guides and i dont remember how, but i found jame's guides.
so i think 2-3 months later my once level 29 rogue is now 70 and i have been recently been playing my death knight whos now 78
now i tell you all this cause my friend who was the 70 who twinked me is now 80 and im finally nearly caught upto him
but what am i waiting on, the zul'drak guide now im patient cause jame's guides are easily the best and i love following them but i want to be 80 like the rest of my guild
who as of the end of the week are kicking any none 80's so i really need the zul'drak guide to finish me off i'm to scared to level by my self after all this time
anyway thankyou for everything jame and i hope you might give me a date of your zul'drak guide hopefully before the end of the week or i'll have to try the last 2 levels by my self, OH GOD!
anyway thankyou for everything youve done for me jame!
Wheredididie - 78 death knight - Frostmourne
wheredidhego - 70 rogue - Frostmourne
Hey Jame i have been a good
Submitted by yennekon on Mon, 2009-01-05 22:48.
Hey Jame i have been a good guide follower..
and now im lvl79 already.. damn it just 1 more level to 80. so what's keeping me from leveling?
my answer is.. im waiting for ur Zul'Drak's guide(Alliance).
come on faster come up with the guide. There's alot of people waiting for your Next Guide. Personally I find your guide very useful. But what could be improved, is that u could add which quest rewards should we take to get additional gold. Since most people are also wanting to earn some extra gold thru selling quest rewards..
In the mean time.. i'll just have to run instance to hit 80.. and i'll be waiting for your next few guide to earn extra gold(compensation at 80)
Buck up..
As someone else mentions,
Submitted by Phaedras on Thu, 2009-01-29 20:14.
As someone else mentions, install Auctioneer from Curse.com and you'll be able to see the vendor value of items in the hover-over tooltip!
Hi, Jame already does a very
Submitted by FraSokWP on Fri, 2009-01-23 21:36.
Jame already does a very very good job with the guides - maybe listing all the rewards and choices are a bit too much then Its absolutly perfected quest-circuiting which allows to level fast and very efficient. What concerns the rewards you asked for: I'd suggest to use an add-on which displays the values of the various items so you can decide if you take the stuff for your character (if it is an upgrade) or which is the itemvalue with the highest sell value.
Dual monitors
Submitted by theromero on Fri, 2008-12-19 11:24.
Jame, if you use Windowed / Maximized like you suggested then on dual-monitors it's really great because your 2nd monitor can have a browser open to the guide and the mouse cursor just smoothly moves from game to browser and back perfectly. No alt-tabbing.
Santa Was Good to Me!!!
Submitted by JamesL85 on Thu, 2009-01-08 07:41.
I hate to brag, but my wife spoils me like no other.
My step-daughter and her husband gave me an autographed #9 Kasey Kahne Budweiser Dodge Charger 1/24th scale replica for Christmas. I'm a HUGE NASCAR fan and an even bigger Dodge fan so this was the bomb!!!
Fortunately, for those of you who are thinking WTF???? My wife did me one better and bought me an Acer 22" wide LCD for one of my three PC's in the basement. My dilemma is that none of my PC's has a decent video card. My Dell Inspiron 9400 has a 256MB video card so the 22" screen is now the second display on my laptop and is the main screen for WoW. I keep a Chrome browser window open to wow-pro so that I can keep up with what to do next and where to go, along with a Dreamweaver window open to track what quests each of my 10 toons have accepted and finished and another window with Excel to keep track of each of the 10 toons professions.
Just thought I'd do a little bragging and give a second vote for dual monitors....LOL
I'm already 76 and still
Submitted by klaus on Sun, 2008-12-14 18:07.
I'm already 76 and still waiting for Jame's Horde Leveling Guide - Grizzly Hills (75-76).Could you plz release part of the guide first?
P.S. I just keep killing mobs in Dragonblight and training my engineering skills these days. Even not start any quest in G Hills because I am afraid I will be confused when following your guide in the future. I think I am too much dependent on your excellent guide. (HK PLAYER )
Submitted by Novacaine on Sat, 2008-12-13 17:33.
Love the guides! Helped me out alot, I went from 70 to 77 in no time but...I'm lost now no more Horde guides beyond 77...I'm sad now...
Anyway, thank you very much for taking the time to write and post these, keep up the awesome work.
Thx for the Guides + Suggestion
Submitted by honj93 on Thu, 2008-12-11 13:48.
First of all I wanted to thank you for this fantastic guides and the timeand effort you've put in making them.
I just thought of a suggestion, it doesn't need to be immediatly, but I thought it would be nice if you put comments on how much playtime it did take for you and how much experience you had in the different steps of the guides, so we can follow better and see if something isn't going right. I know it's heavily gear and rested bonus dependant, but I still would like to see it.
Again ty and continue the good work
Hey Jame
Submitted by FraGsta on Fri, 2008-12-05 05:32.
Jame just like to say thank you for the awesome guides. If I didn't find your guide I would have probably walked away from WoW. Keep up the great work and I cant wait for the release of the 76-80 guides!
Hey Jame
Submitted by maxximumm on Wed, 2008-12-03 05:53.
I've been using your guide off an on for my latest 70 for a while now and i found out that using your guide to know what quests to grab and using quest helper to know the optimum circuit w/out alt tabbing in and out works well. I'd also like to say since i hit 71 ive only been around 300k xp/h what do you suggest could help me bring that up the extra 100k xp.
I've followed your guides
Submitted by TheBaconator on Wed, 2008-12-10 01:31.
I've followed your guides ever since I created a Death Knight and I installed QH just to help myself out and found that it combined with your guide actually makes leveling even easier because I was able to memorize groups of quests I had to do together and then just quickly set those as priority it almost made it seem like I had an in game mod helping me level with your quests. Just thought I would throw that in there.
Hey Jame just wanted to
Submitted by celticpride42 on Mon, 2008-12-01 18:53.
Hey Jame just wanted to start off by saying thank you for the guides!
I just hit 78 and finished grizzly hills. Where would you suggest going next?
new member :)
Submitted by Erec on Sun, 2008-11-30 23:41.
Hello Jame
I have been a follower of your guides for a long time, and I really must say that you inspire me alot in guide writing. I have told all my guild members to also check out you'r site.
I have been waiting for you'r Grizzly Hills guide and now that it is comming on the 5th my question for you is. When are the next guide scheduled?
I know that you are getting alot of the same question from probably all the members but can you post a "temporary" release date it would be great.
Oh and by the way. pardon my english. I'm from Norway and English grammar is not m strong side
Places We Go
Submitted by Tyzers on Sun, 2008-11-30 22:27.
Although I am eagerly awaiting your release of the Grizzly Hills leveling guide, I need to steam onward to 80. In case you catch me up with guide making (sadly to say, this is possible) and so that I know the general outline of which zone to go to in what order, could you post what the order of the zones your guides will progress through?
Thank you!
Submitted by Tyzers on Wed, 2008-12-03 00:13.
Thank you!
Playing and Tabbing
Submitted by icebucket on Fri, 2008-11-28 14:33.
ALT-TAB is *only* slow if you play full-screen. WoW offers to have Full-Screen as a window, if you ALT-TAB then it's blazing fast and you basically have WoW as your windows background. That is how I play with it. I get same FPS anyway.
I will get a secondary monitor soon just for kicks.
Honestly, I play with Lightheaded, Questhelper and TomTom right now. Rather then creating a new add-on I would like to see something like an optimized waypoint library for TomTom(or Cartographer if it's more fitting). The QH auto-suggestions are often dumb as they do not include the follow-up quest knowledge. Longer can be shorter in the long run.
I am also rather casual and it's a pity we don't have anything for Grizlly Hills, as I am 78 already (went for full Tundra, Fjorn and Dragonblight for Loremaster) with only 7 or 8 instance runs.
Great site!
Leveling Plan
Submitted by Zerox on Sun, 2008-11-23 06:03.
Hey Jame,
What is your leveling plan for the rest of Northerend going to be?
For example, currently we have (for Alliance):
Borean Tundra (70 - 72) --> Howling Fjord (72 - 74) --> Dragonblight (74 - 75) --> Grizzly Hills (75 - 76) --> ?.
What comes next?
Look Above You
Submitted by TheBaconator on Wed, 2008-12-10 02:04.
Zul'Drak, Scholazar, Storm Peaks, Icecrown. But according to his blog post you will be 80 if you use rested xp at around the end of Zul'Drak which will allow you to get tons of gold by doing the quests in the other areas.
Grizzly Hills
Submitted by Manovan on Mon, 2008-11-17 16:46.
Is it safe to assume that the delay of the Grizzly Hills guide is due to WOTLK being too time consuming for you? We all want to play the new content after all. I can wait a while longer since I`m still on the Horde Borean Tundra part.
I`ll just go to my DK when I reach the Grizzly Hills part so take your time. I`m just curious if there are any news with updated release dates?
Windowed Mode
Submitted by zenchronus on Sun, 2008-11-16 23:17.
I have a better suggestion... just play in Windowed Mode but go right-click on your start menu and click properties, then check "keep on top of other windows"
That keeps your start bar in front of the game so you can still see the time, browse the net, etc. It doesn't interfere with the game at all, your game is resized to be above the bar.
Hope that helps,
Windowed Mode
Submitted by zenchronus on Thu, 2008-11-20 21:44.
Did you ever try out windowed mode with the start bar up? Here's a screen of how it looks, if anyone is interested.
I just can't stand not
Submitted by zenchronus on Sat, 2008-11-29 22:02.
I just can't stand not having my start bar. I'm addicted to surfing the net so I usually have 4-20 different pages up at once, and I love being able to click them separately rather alt+tabbing. But, to each his own.
Submitted by zenchronus on Mon, 2008-11-17 22:12.
That's how my wife have been playing since I first discovered your guides. We've both leveled Alliance to 70, and aside from skipping quests here and there (we hate collection quests, especially when they're not part of a chain,) we played every moment of the game together and following your guides every step of the way.
Thanks for all your hard work, Jame, and keep it up for the betterment of mankind! (At least that part of it that plays WoW...)
Love your guides...
Submitted by Chingon on Fri, 2008-11-14 22:22.
is there going to be an ingame version, like zygor guides, that you'll make available in the future or will that be more trouble than it's worth?
your guides
Submitted by ryanglavin on Tue, 2009-06-23 19:06.
i know you haven't gotten done with the northrend guides yet, but I would like to point out to you guys, james is systematic. He goes from one zone to the next doing all the quests. Thats a very good thing, because if you are impatient and want to be 80 (if you are not already by following his guides) you can just go to the next zone and do all the quests. Thank you james
hey jame
Submitted by grimdem on Sun, 2009-06-21 21:31.
hey jame i just wanna say thankyou for the great guides and all the effort you have been putting into them.
i have been using your guides for all my toons and they are great and so easy to use, i would truely be lost without them lol
thanks for everything and good luck with futre guides
grimdem (ben)


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Moderator: Cartographers
bryguy wrote:Coleman wrote:This looks pretty educational to me. If you make the drug aligned look really undesirable and very very away from cool (dirty) then I don't see a problem. Make the police look very much like the good guys in this scenario, like the D.A.R.E. dog, Superman and such.
As long as you aren't encouraging anyone to actual be a drug lord and you make the map feel more like you are attacking the drug lord then being one it should be pretty good.
your actually half supporting this idea?!?!?!?!
to me its a HORRIBLE idea!!!!!!!
mibi wrote:you need an update.
mibi wrote:i think you need to simplify the legend if you want to get feed back on this one. No one will give feedback unless they understand whats going on, and currently you have this 'wall of text' thing going on in the legend.
So try sorting out the legend, grouping, reducing, anything you can to make it easy and quick to understand.
Coleman wrote:Yeah, make the bonuses some sort of list column, and the objective a list column. Not sure what to do about the gameplay one though. Guess it'd stay a wall of text in a third column....
Coleman wrote:It's a good idea if it is presented right. You make the drug guys look like all the sterotypical criminals in like Lonney Toons and whatever (old middle aged, unshaven or big and stupid looking, or baby sized with an ugly face, you know, people kids don't idolize at all) and the good guys like the cool police officers in a lot of anti-drug stuff I think it would be funny for us old people and pretty good for the younger players.
edbeard wrote:interesting ideas Rj
But, I think those ideas are more fitting for an entirely new map. I like how the setup is now. It does appear to be complicated, but actually it is very simple. This definitely will be a map where you need to read the instructions a couple times, but hopefully after that it becomes easy like Age of Merchants or Age of Realms.
It's important to be able to move swiftly around the map because of the objectives. You might not be able to stop the main stash, but with the phones you might be able to stop one of the other two territories that the player is holding.
I'm not trying to glorify drug selling. I guess having a map with this theme will be interpreted this way no matter what I do with it. As for the graphics, I hope to have an announcement on that in the next couple days.
Thanks again Mr. Beals. Even though I probably won't implement any of these ideas, I appreciate the time you put into them, and I hope to have more from you in the future.
P.S. Thank you for your constructive criticism. I have given it an appropriate response in my reply to you.
Thank you very much,
edbeard wrote:NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK. NOT LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC FEEDBACK.
edbeard wrote:I'm surprised by you not being able to know what attacks what. Borders are shown and anything that is different from normal is explained in the rules.
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For the time being, the Texas State Bobcats are the only team to be undefeated in their FBS history. Sure, they're just 1-0 all-time, joining the WAC this season after 23 years in the I-AA/FCS Southland conference. But that one was a stylish one. It was a 30-13 walloping of Houston, in Houston, that forced the immediate resignation of the Cougars' offensive coordinator. According to Pregame.com, Texas became only the seventh underdog of 34 points or more to win since 1980, and the first ever 34-or-more dog to win by double digits.
Good enough for 16th in the nation?
Ray Ratto thinks so. The CSN Bay Area writer submitted his Week 2 ballot, and there are the plucky Bobcats, sitting pretty at No. 16. This, despite none of the other 59 polled writers even ranking Texas State.
Polls are Serious Business, and with every ballot being public, it was only a matter of time before people got upset. We received a couple emails from fans angry at Ratto's votes, and someone's already changed his Wikipedia page to reflect his support of the Bobcats. Ratto addressed some of his Top 25 selections, but we figured we'd ask him for some more clarification. Texas State? Really?
Ratto writes in an email:
"My rationale, which I would assume will be dismissed as the ravings of an idiot, is that of all the upsets Saturday, the one foreseen by the fewest people was this one. Texas State dominated the game away from home against a team that averaged nine wins over the last six years in its first FBS game ever. Outgained them by more than 100, had the ball for 43 minutes - that kind of dominated. In fact, it went over so well that Houston fired its offensive coordinator the next day. Is 16 too generous? Probably. Could they disappear next week against Texas Tech? Hell yes they could. It's Week 2. But for one night, with so little data in what is always the worst week of the year for drawing conclusions, I'm fine with them where they are."
That's...actually more thought than probably goes into 95 percent of votes. Is Texas State the 16th best team in the nation? No, and Ratto concedes that. ("Don't steal their moment," he wrote. "It doesn't hurt you any.") But the AP Poll is for fun. For entertainment purposes only. It doesn't factor in to the BCS standings. Think of it like a power ranking, a barometer of the college landscape, calibrated by people who presumably watch a lot of football.
Of course, any power ranking is a lightning rod for misplaced vitriol from commenters who are convinced the voters are biased. The AP voters aren't, of course. But you know who is? The coaches, because they actually have a stake in the results. And for all the flaws and hypocrisy of the Coaches' Poll, guess which one actually helps determine which teams make the postseason?
All of which is to say, who gives a crap if the AP has Texas State 16th, or first, or unranked, or if USC drops to No. 2 despite winning by 39. It doesn't matter. None of this matters. Ratto again:
"Anyone who gets their delicates in a wad over the first week of a non-binding poll probably shouldn't be allowed to watch other people operate heavy machinery."


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Branislav Ivanovic's empty net goal in stoppage time made it a 4-2 final, disappointing Royals supporters who believed their squad could pull out a miracle win when the team led 2-1 at halftime. Calls for the use of video replay in the EPL have been coming from the league's top names for some time now, and this blunder will do nothing to quash them. But here, look at the video evidence for yourself:
(The ESPN call from Ian Darke and Steve McManaman was much more compelling, with both calling the missed offside call "inexcusable.") In the end, it's three points and an additional tally for Chelsea's goal differential thanks to the garbage time strike; every camel's back needs a straw, and fans of the richest soccer league on the planet can only hope their dreams for replay are answered soon.


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Argentinos Juniors' Gaspar Iniguez went directly into the feet of his opponent, resulting in injury and insult: He lost three teeth, but gained a yellow card. If I were him, I'd be most upset about the opponent rolling around in mock pain after stubbing a toe on my face.


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I never watched that, so I don't know. I was more talking about their E3 conferences anyway.
I don't like the Wii-U so far as a gamer, I'm very suspicious of it's lack of... anything i would want.
There are two ways of looking at Jim's frankly brilliantly insightful idea; one is what Jim said. By losing a more narrow focus on games the other systems could be out-flanked by any number of other service based devices like a Smart TV.
The other way is that Sony and Microsoft manage to make legitimately desirable living-room hubs akin to what smartphones managed by moving away from calls and texts. The Wii-U could lose out on a new living-room gold-rush. There is just no way to tell.
Although i don't really buy the idea that the Wii-U is a console with a "Better focus on videogames". From what i've seen so far Nintnedo are once again blowing gimmick smoke up are arses. I don't see the software, all i see is a horrible looking 'social' focused online space and a flashy proprietary control system that no one will ever utilize well. Of course shouting "Tablet!" at idiots sells billions so i guess Nintendo is going to have the last laugh with the worst console... again.
the best news I saw about the wiiU so far was it's support of Unity3d.
If they loosen the reigns on their market and give publishers some freedom it might get some decent third party support and some indie games that seem right up Nintendo's alley.
Well they may have the "worst" console, whatever that means, but if the success is half as good as the Wii, then Nintendo could be laughing again to the bank to have their machines print money.
Smart TVs are generally great, the motion controls could be better. They have all the same problems Kinect does for the Xbox, I wish my Samsung ES8000 didn't rely on it quite so much. For using face book though and for chucking files between TV, phone, tablet and PC (via kies etc) they are awesome.
And if its not as successful as the Wii for no good reason, then they probably won't.
Friend-Codes alone made the Wii a bit of a joke compared to the other systems, their online aspect was embarrassing to say the least. Nintendo is prone to having good ideas and then surrounding them with TERRIBLE ideas. But I'm not going to turn this into another one of my "List of Wii's sins" posts. I just don't think modern Nintendo is capable of making a genuinely well rounded console, my overall experience on the Wii was one of frustration and disappointment at their lack of development.
Nintendo get a free pass on many things that would have any other company laughed out of building. Look at how the Wii's online capabilities developed (or didn't) and then look at the leaps and bounds to PSN. Nintendo simply didn't TRY in most areas that have been the major improvements this generation.
Okay. Notice how Sony is, in a rare action, reusing IP while pushing forward. OR trying to branch out into the Nintendo-style market? How about the overall financial issues they've had. They aren't going bankrupt but as a minor part of larger corporation "hold" might be the order from on high for the betterment of the company because overall Sony has been pushing expensive bleeding edge (read buggy, unfeatured, prototypical EXPENSIVE crap) often before their production can keep up or without returns.
Sony's strategy will either payoff with a big win (possible, just not something you can bet on other than buying more lottery tickets, not a smart strategy) or change so they can expand into new markets or aren't going to do the AAA production escalation deathspiral. However Sony has differentiated itself as the premium electronic entertainment device while not selling well. They are in a bit of a jam. They aren't screwwed. But As I was saying I'm more ready for MS to thrive over Nintendo and Sony to well I don't think they can handle being the most expensive third placer. When Nintendo was doing this bad in market they just carved out a profitable set of niches. Sony has always been the run to #1. That's not a bad thing but MS is the HD #1 in terms of market penetration. Sony is behind MS in the western market overall. And its cost them lots of money to be there. Part of the problem is their strategy was too broad (they won the battle against HD but not the media war as even the Wii and cellphones now stream movies and people are slower to adopt bluray even with HD TVs all over)
I dunno, wouldn´t people rather spend their money on a tablet? More specifically an iPad with a huge library of cheap games and other useful apps? Personally i don´t see this as being as popular as the wii, i don´t really think the casuals want more than Wii sports, and this isn´t wii sports. I just don´t think that Nintendo Land is as appealing.
It might still do well, but i really doubt that they will do AS well as they did before. Also there´s a lot of talk that this console will win, because the other companies have yet to release information about new consoles? I´m just thinking, wouldn´t it just be a matter of announcing mere exclusives on Xbox360 and Ps3 to make them as or more appealing as WiiU? It might be beneficial to us all if they start a new arms race, Sony and MS could race to keep their customers while Nintendo has to release a shitload of games to make people change hardware.
Ya know, I had never really thought about Smart TVs getting in the way of the bigger consoles before. Frankly, I have never REALLY used my Xbox for anything more than gaming, the occasional Netflix, and watching .wmvs from a flash drive. I use my PS3 for Netflix pretty often though. But Sony and Microsoft really WANT their consoles to be the one-stop-shop for all your entertainment, which there'd be no point to once Smart TVs really take off.
Compelling argument, Jim. Competition breeds a better product. Sometimes I wonder if my game console being able to do all of those things are because MS and Sony are wanting to bring gaming into the mainstream or if it is because they want to bring gamers themselves into the mainstream.
Also; thank you for doing that schtick at the end with Bayonetta. This isn't like what happened with Resident Evil - where Nintendo struck a contract with Capcom for a brief period of time, Platinum Games wasn't going to get it out there on their own and no one else wanted to help them. Maybe if more people would have bought the first Bayonetta, Sega wouldn't have been so reluctant to pick up the second.
Yeah, I switch off the video as soon as he talked about how great it is to meet him. Don't really see what so great about Jim.
It's his persona, he doesn't mean it and it's meant as a joke. I can literally feel the sarcasm of what he says radiating out of the screen.
Sony's slippage into third place was the result of an act of hubris that they are incredibly unlikely to repeat. Besides which, the elements for Microsofts western dominance come basically from the self perpetuating cycle of it being seen as the dominant console. Its strength has lay in the third party games it shares with the Ps3 for years, it only succeeds because of a lower price and because it is seen as the ubiquitous console - both of which could easily change in the next generation.
With an early focus on games to contrast it with Microsofts more-than-likely lack of the same (all of their internal studios, and even most of their third party partners, are working on 360 games, with virtually no-one left over to work on the Xbox 720 exclusives), Sony will likely regain the position of dominance they held for the 5th and 6th generation.
You must admit, the Ps3's lack of success can be attributed largely to a freak case of hubris, one incredibly unlikely to repeat itself.
Well sure, I like my Wii so my opinion might be tainted, since I have a steady supply supply of PC games and I hate online multiplayer mostly due to living in Mexico and always having horrendous amounts of lag. So the Sin or whatever you call it of having crappy online is lost on me. Still I am good at ignoring Nintendo's "gimmicks" and concentrate on having fun. I do think the Wii U will be more focused on the hardcore, since they aren't focusing on disrupting the Market at much.
Okay, I'll be less pessimistic about the Wii U now. It still needs to give me some games I would actually play before I get it, though.
You have my sympathies.
It's probably been brought up, but I'll say it anyway. You can turn any TV with as low as composite inputs (and pretty much all have HDMI)into a smart TV by buying one of those Smart-Top Boxes. They're between $50-$100 and replicate the smart TV experience without the need of a monthly subscription. Sure it won't have all of the features of the TV designed to be smart, but it gets the job done about as well as 360 or PS3.
And I just checked Bestbuy's site, Smart TV's aren't even that expensive for a moderate size (Phillips: 32" about $300)
And I'll say this right now, as a long time gamer, the ability to keep gaming while everyone else uses the TV is a godsend. Me playing my game was always outvoted, but now both can happen. Gone are the days of 10 minute journeys to find the next save point while everyone else just sits and gets frustrated we aren't stopping. Picture in picture helped with that a bit, but that feature is a lost art when it comes to modern TVs.
Nintendo Land is certainly not as appealing as Wii Sports. People spend tons of money on tablets and stuff lately so having a more familiar looking console could be beneficial, kids as well love touchscreen devices.
I like the direction you took this discussion, Jim. At times I have wondered about how SmartTV will affect things like XBL, but for some reason never considered it in discussions about next gen consoles.
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Oh really?
Hey, you want to know something cool? Guess what the 360's best selling game of all time is.
...Kinect Adventures! Isn't that brilliant? I mean, it's one of the two 'hardcore' consoles, and its best-selling game is a collection of casual games for a gimmicky controller. Oh the irony...
The Wii does not have bullshit firmware updates, has a very good controller, very good games and for you "hardcore" elitists out there COD: BLOPS. I Love my Wii, Zelda games? yes please, No more Heros? Yes Please, can you hack it to install your own stuff. Yes.
People need to shut up and not have the no true Scotsman argument.
The Wii does not have bullshit firmware updates, has a very good controller, very good games and for you "hardcore" elitists out there COD: BLOPS. I Love my Wii, Zelda games? yes please, No more Heros? Yes Please, can you hack it to install your own stuff. Yes.
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I´ve been in situations where i thought: "hey, this is practically playable" but never have i thought: "this is better than old-school controls!".
Perhaps you don't know, so let me inform you. The presence of optional gimicky controllers on other consoles does not excuse the Wii and Wiiu's default gimicky bullshit controller.
You should also note that best selling doesn't equate to good.
Also, look up the defintion of irony, you don't seem to understand it's usage.
You Nintendo fans are delusional. The Wii had a good controller? Are you fucking kidding me?
OK, the Wiimote I can let go, but how is the Gamepad a gimmick?
All it is is a regular controller with a touchscreen in the middle. Almost exactly the same as what the DS has been offering for a decade now, and what things like smartphones and tablets have turned into the biggest gaming interface in the world.
Seriously, does there not come a point when we can stop referring to the biggest form of gaming in the world as a 'gimmick'. The nature of the word 'gimmick' means something niche, and without any readily apparent potential usage. If touchscreens have managed to become the most popular gaming medium in the world, then does that not mean that they're no longer gimmicks? That they are, in fact, standard? Regular? Normal?
I mean, what's next? Are we still going to refer to analogue sticks and rumble feedback as gimmicks now? Or memory cards? Or non-arcade consoles?
The Wii U has got a touchscreen. They're not this new, unknown technology. You don;t have to be scared of them. Plenty of developers have shown that they can actually work really well if used right. Surely that's something to be optimistic about, right? Rather than needlessly pouring bile onto anything that doesn't follow a twenty year old design template?
No, but if people are going to hold a console up as a 'hardcore' console, it would be nice if it didn't have a motion controller, and its best selling game wasn't a minigame collection for said controller. You know, in the name of consistency and all that...
No, I think I got it pretty well. A gaming base celebrates a console for being hardcore, yet its best selling peripheral is a motion controller, and its most successful game is a casual minigame collection. That's about as ironic as it gets, really. If I were an English teacher, I'd be giving out extra marks for good use of irony there. But thank you for your concern about my comprehension of English. It is duly noted.
Indeed, every time a videogame sends me into a rage, the first thing I do is hose myself down with hamburger condiments. Jim, you're too fucking brilliant for your own good. You're my write-in for President come November.
I share your sentiments on Bayonetta 2 also Jim. Total non-event.
The Wii-U just doesn't look fun to play for me. Plus the screen seems more like a dashboard, which I though a HUD was a step up from.
Sorry but I don't see any reason to pay £400 for a console that will just keep giving us old games with new gimmicks.
In fact I don't see any reason to buy the next Xbox or Playstation either. Games on PC are giving us the option to use controllers more and more now. And with the ability to download whatever games I want I don't see myself going back to consoles.
More on topic now, I can definitely agree that Nintendo do seem to be doing it right so far compared to what Sony and MS are doing, especially compared to MS. The thing is, down the line, I think that the WiiU will end up like the Wii; used as a doorstop or gathering dust away from sight. And to be honest I'm not willing to shell out £400 to find out if that'll happen again.
Well... no. The dreamcast had a memory card in the middle of the controller that didn't affect the gameplay at all. It was just a neat little thing that flashed a bit whilst you played and when you weren't playing you could take it out ( inevitably lose it)and play mini-games on it.
Meh, hardcore gamers are dickheads so what ya gonna do?
BTW, my impression of the Bayonetta WiiU whiners would go a little something more like "Waah waah, I'm a whiny little bitch! Waah waah!"
1. Get your numbers right. The price is now high because it's sold out and people want to earn lots of cash. The premium version was ~£250. £150 is a HUGE difference.
2. I don't think the word "gimmick" applies to touchscreens. The DS proved it's not something niche that won't be used. Also, any tablet and smartphone. Developer showed with many great games that the touchscreen can be used to enchant the gameplay. And there is also the Pro controller. As you could see in the CoD demonstration, you're able to play it normally on the Pro controller. So if the developer don't know how to use the touchscreen, they don't have to.
3.Old games? Please.
4. The WiiU GPU will be a e6760. That's like 4 times stronger than the PS3. The CPU is unknown for now and it has 2GB of ram. I doubt that the difference between the next Xbox and PS will be as big as the current gen difference. At worst, we will get WiiU games with tiny bit worst textures. I highly doubt it will share the same faith as the Wii. Tho my Wii surly isn't gathering dust.
I'm just going to play my PS2 and Xbox until the end of time.
As usual, so very valid points made in this video. With Nintendo once again getting a jump start on the competition, we will see if they capitalize on the head start. I definitely agree Microsoft might be shooting themselves in the foot with the attitude that, "Our online service commands your money". Guess we shall see soon enough.
Ma'am (Or Sir), I resent that. I've played Wii Sports and I've played Nintendo Land. And let me assure you, that if I chose to save one and chose to toss another one in a burning Garbage can, I would take Nintendo Land ever time.
I played it at a WiiU Experience in Washington D.C., and it was indeed a shiner there! It used the all of the controllers intelligently, the mini games were amazing, the game looked beautiful, and it was just so much fun no matter what controller you used or what game you played! What does Wii Sports have? Tennis, Boxing, and Bowling... Snore...
OT: Interesting points Mr. Jim. I'm already excited about the WiiU though.
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One of Obama's first acts in office was to suspend all trials against Guantánamo prisoners for 120 days. And he also announced the closure of the camp within the next year. How soon can we expect the process to start?
Wolfgang S. Heinz: We'll have to wait and see how fast the teams of legal experts get on with studying the pending cases – around 245 of them. There are also considerable differences of opinion within the US government over how exactly to proceed: who to indict, who can return home, for which prisoners is a third host country necessary because of the risk of torture. So the closure won't be a simple case.
Among the estimated 245 prisoners are about 50 who are considered innocent. Some of them are at risk of persecution and torture in their home countries. What will happen to these people?
Heinz: The question is, if the USA doesn't consider these 50 prisoners dangerous, why don't they let them stay in America? Unless they think that the years of imprisonment under very poor conditions mean they are now a threat to security. And in that case they would have to explain why they want to thrust these former inmates on other countries.
The new government has a lot to explain, and it can only do so by looking at the cases and talking to the prisoners.
Is it not time for the EU member states to show responsibility and take in the innocent prisoners? The subject is currently a matter of contention within the European Union and Germany.
Heinz: I think we'll have to wait and see how the individual cases are judged by the US government. What I'd like to see is the flexibility and willingness on the part of Germany and the other European states to take in prisoners from Guantánamo. But only if and when – and I think this is very important – it becomes absolutely clear that Guantánamo would then close down for good.
What we can't put up with is if prisoners are taken in here in Europe on the one hand, and on the other hand Guantánamo or some other form of "Guantánamo light" on the mainland is continued. Otherwise we would be partly responsible for the problem to a certain extent, by taking the pressure off the USA if another, lighter system of preventive custody, which nevertheless remains unlawful, continues to exist.
What exactly is behind such a "Guantánamo light", a Guantánamo on the mainland, as some people fear may come about?
Heinz: There is a discussion in the USA that is being pushed mainly by voices from around the Pentagon. The argument is: we can't sentence the prisoners before federal courts because we don't have sufficient evidence. But we don't want them to be acquitted and then join the terrorists. So we should set up a system of preventive custody.
Preventive custody means: I have indications that someone presents a threat but there isn't enough evidence for a conviction. So I detain the person for a certain period, perhaps even a long period. In this situation, it's not a court that's responsible but the government. The discussion on preventive custody is still ongoing, but the proponents are gaining ground.
How many prisoners are we talking about who are considered a threat? The number going round is 100. Is that figure correct? And how many of the inmates are really from the top level of Al Qaeda or the Taliban?
Heinz: As far as I know there are no precise figures on how many of the prisoners are part of the top ranks of Al Qaeda. That's down to the fact that the US government hasn't issued any sensible information for many years. The basis of the Guantánamo system is secrecy.
One of the few studies on the subject is a report written in 2006 by the American legal experts Mark and Joshua Denbeaux. The used documents from the US Department of Defense to produce their study "Report on Guantánamo Detainees: a Profile of 517 detainees", with two key findings: only five percent of the prisoners were arrested by the US military.
86 percent were passed on by other forces, for example by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. And that was at a time when there was a lot of bounty money changing hands for members or suspected members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
They also found that only eight percent were characterised as "fighters", another 30 percent as "members" of the groups defined as terrorists by the USA, and around 60 percent were merely "associated" with such groups. There is good reason to doubt whether these inmates really are "the worst of the worst", as Defense Secretary Rumsfeld called them.
You mentioned secrecy as the basic structure behind Guantánamo. The argument we've heard is that the US government can't reveal all the evidence in court because that would expose secret service structures. How can the trials be held now?
Heinz: I hope that the Obama government will start out by creating a minimum of transparency. And that they'll listen to both sides − actually standard procedure for a constitutional state: those who are issuing the accusations, essentially the responsible military prosecutors at Guantánamo, the prisoners' lawyers and of course the detainees themselves.
And the cases have to be monitored by an independent government body or the judiciary. I say that because a great deal of the information issued over the past few years by the Bush administration was false and misleading. The government says it hasn't used torture. Of course they used torture, in a large number of cases.
The government says it isn't doing anything unlawful because the legal experts had approved it all. Of course there are all sorts of doubts over whether the way the prisoners are treated conforms with US law, not to mention the USA's obligations under international law, for example under the UN anti-torture convention.
Do you see a need for new legal regulations for dealing with globally active terrorists on the international level? Does international law not fall short on this issue, as internationally active terrorists can't be assigned to a single state?
Heinz: It was an interpretation of the Bush administration, made by the president himself in February 2002, that said that terrorists are not prisoners of war. The majority of international law specialists reject this construal.
There is a very clear legal status for every individual in an armed conflict according to international humanitarian law: either I term someone a soldier, and then they become a prisoner of war if they fall into enemy hands and are protected by the Geneva Convention. Or someone is a civilian and then subject to protection obligations for the civilian population. If there is any doubt, an independent committee in the country itself has to judge the case.
In the case of the prisoners at Guantánamo or other prisoners like those held in Bagram in Afghanistan, the Bush administration invented a third category, the so-called "enemy combatants", in order to detain these individuals without legal protection. In order to interrogate them in a form that contravenes both the UN anti-torture agreement and US legislation.
Aside from this, interested parties in the US are covering up the fact that the normal justice system does actually work when it comes to combating terrorism, of course: more than 100 international terrorism cases have been successfully dealt with by US courts since 1993.
Last year saw the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In Guantánamo, a democratic state has created an unlegislated area: what effects does Guantánamo have on international human rights?
Heinz: Guantánamo is a classic example for a number of practices started by the USA and extended after 2001. We're talking about illicit state activities that have repeatedly led to individual human rights violations and have raised the likelihood of systematic human rights violations.
By undermining even fundamental human rights, the USA has provided a whole load of arguments for many authoritarian states, which have argued similarly on the necessity of emergency and exceptional measures for years. These states now feel it is absolutely legitimate to continue violating human rights, as long as it's in the name of the war on terrorism, or is presented as such.
This policy has also had negative effects on collaboration with other western democracies. These states have had to ask themselves to what extent they can work with such a system under the Bush administration, for example passing on intelligence information on suspects. If I supply this information, which leads to torture as a consequence, that can be seen as part-responsibility.
I hope the closing report of the German parliamentary investigation committee on the Federal Intelligence Service in summer 2009 will provide insights into the German policy and practice in this area. This issue is key for the future, depending on which new practice of combating terrorism the Obama administration creates.
Interview: Sonja Ernst
© Qantara.de 2009
Dr. Wolfgang S. Heinz is a fellow at the German Institute for Human Rights in Berlin, which has published a number of studies on international anti-terrorism measures and human rights. His areas of interest include international and European security policy. Wolfgang Heinz also teaches political science at the Freie Universität Berlin, is a member of the European Council's anti-torture committee and the expert committee of the UN Human Rights Council.
Translated from the German by Katy Derbyshire
The Closing of Guantanamo
Removing the Blot on America's Image
After seven years, the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay is set to close. Not just the camp but the entire system which violates international law needs to disappear, says Daniel Scheschkewitz
Roger Willemsen's "Guantanamo Speaking"
Back to the Dark Ages: Open Season on Prisoners
In his book "Guantanamo Speaking", Roger Willemsen lets former inmates in the American prison camp have their say – creating a comprehensive document of an era stained by the perfidy of degrading interrogation techniques, humiliation and torture. By Martin Gerner
Murat Kurnaz, the "Bremen Taliban"
Inside Guantánamo
Murat Kurnaz, a Bremen-born Muslim living in Germany with a Turkish passport, spent five years in Guantánamo. After reading his recently published book, Julia Gerlach sums up that it is not Kurnaz that is a security risk – but the story he has chronicled


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In fact, there are two ways for you to recover your deleted photos from iPhone. First, you can use a third-party tool to directly scan and recover pictures from your iPhone. Second, if you've synced your iPhone with iTunes, you also can regain your deleted pictures by extracting your iTunes backup file.
2 solutions to recover photos from iPhone
First, get a professional photo recovery for iPhone: Wondershare Dr.Fone for iSO (Win) or Wondershare Dr.Fone for iSO (Mac).
Download the free trial version below to check your deleted photos before you recover them.
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There are two ways for you to recover deleted pictures from your iPhone: Directly scan and recover photos from your iPhone, or scan and extract your iTunes backup file to get photos back. Next, let's check detailed steps below.
This is a guide based on the Windows version of Dr.Fone. If you are a Mac user, you can also read the guide of Wondershare Dr.Fone (Mac) here: Wondershare Dr.Fone (Mac) User Guide.
Solution 1: Directly recover deleted photos from iPhone 4/3GS
Step 1: Select the device to scan
Take iPhone 4 for example. Download Wondershare Dr.Fone (for iPhone 4) and install it on your computer, and then connect your iPhone with your computer, then you'll get the main interface as follow.
Step 2:Enter your iPhone's system and scan it
Before you perform recovery, you ought to enter the system of your iPhone. Follow the steps here:
1.Hold your iPhone and click "Start".
2.Press "Home" and "Power" button at the same time when you click "Start",and hold for 10 seconds. The program will count it for you.
3.After 10 seconds passing, release "Power" and keep pressing "Home" for another 10 seconds.
When you're told that you've successfully entered the system, the program will automatically scan your iPhone for data as follow.
Step 3:Preview and recover deleted iPhone photos
After the scan, you can preview all found data in categories. To preview your photos, you can choose Camera Roll or Photo Stream. Photos found here are not only those deleted, but also includes those still on your iPhone. If you only want to get those deleted pictures, you can refine the result by sliding the button in the red area on the interface below, to only display deleted items. Mark those you want and click "Recover" to save them on your computer.
Note: If you want to import recovered photos back to your iPhone, you can use Wondershare MobileGo for iOS or Wondershare MobileGo for iOS (Mac), which allows you to do it in a few seconds.
Solution 2: Recover photos from iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS from iTunes backup
Step 1:Choose iTunes backup and scan it
When launching the program on your computer, choose "Recover from iTunes Backup File" option on the top, then you'll get the interface below. Choose the iTunes backup of your iPhone, if there are more than one, choose the latest one, and click "Start Scan".
Step 2:Recover deleted iPhone pictures
After the scan, all files in the backup file are displayed for you in well-organized categories. No matter the photo from your camera roll or those you transferred from somewhere else, you can preview them one by one. Then check those you want and click the "Recover" button to save them on your computer.
Note: If you want to import recovered photos back to your iPhone, you can use Wondershare MobileGo for iOS or Wondershare MobileGo for iOS (Mac), which allows you to do it in a few seconds.
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text: Senior LinkAge Line® The free call that does it all! 1-800-333-2433 The Senior LinkAge Line® is the Minnesota Board on Aging's free statewide information and assistance service. The Senior LinkAge Line® service is provided by six Area Agencies on Aging that cover all 87 counties of Minnesota and helps connect you to local services. The Senior LinkAge Line® is answered from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Senior LinkAge Line® makes your life easier Just one phone call to 1-800-333-2433 is all it takes. Senior LinkAge Line® help simplify the complex issues and decisions you face every day as a senior, Baby Boomer, Medicare beneficiary, caregiver or someone trying to reduce prescription drug costs. With a single call to 1-800-333-2433 you will get assistance with looking at your situation to determine what service might be helpful. Senior Linkage Line® not only helps connect you to services in your community, but also provides the actual assistance to help you get the information and personalized help you need to make good decisions. This includes providing face to face help to you in your home and community. The Senior LinkAge Line® has expertise in the areas of : Medicare Prescription Drug Expense assistance for Minnesotans of all ages Health Insurance Counseling Forms assistance, including help applying for Medical Assistance and Medicare options Long-term Care Insurance, including the Long-term Care Partnership Long-term Care Planning Options Caregiver planning and support Grandparents raising Grandchildren The Senior LinkAge Line® provides you with the information, assistance and connection to services to help you make good decisions. Senior LinkAge Line® can connect you with: Financial Assistance Home Care Housekeeping and Chore services Indian Elder Program Legal Assistance Long-term Care Ombudsman Meal Delivery and Nutrition Transitional Consultation Transportation AND many other services to help you remain independent in your community Long Term Care Consultation Expansion During the 2011 Special Session of the Legislature, a new initiative was adopted that requires the Senior LinkAge Line® and Lead Agencies (counties, Tribes to expand access to Long-term Care Consultation to those entering a Registered Housing with Service setting. Read the legislative language, (Subd. 3c Consultation for housing with services.). Started October 1, 2011 all people interested in entering a registered housing with services setting, such as assisted living, must now be offered a long-term care consultation before signing a lease. Individuals calling will be screened for risks and if they are screened at high risk, will be offered a referral to the county team that provides long-term care consultation assessments. Individuals will continue to choose their service provider and will have access to supportive planning for continued community living. For people who continue to transition to registered housing with services, additional resources for aging well and living well including access to caregiver supports and health insurance counseling. Other resources 2016 Senior LinkAge Line® Annual Report Map of the Senior LinkAge Line® contact centers. Map also links the locations of the contact centers for the Disability Linkage Line® and the Veterans Linkage Line™. If your elderly loved one lives outside Minnesota, call the Eldercare Locator at 800-677-1116 or at www.eldercare.gov. www.minnesotahelp.info has a statewide database of community resources with special topic areas containing resources for older adults. If you are looking for information on services for people of other ages available in another state - www.minnesotahelp.info can link you to those resources. The counties provide a MnCHOICES Assessment. These consultants can assist in getting access to the services you need to remain independent. Every Minnesotan, regardless of income, is entitled to a free Long-term Care Consultation. www.minnesotahelp.info can help you find the county long-term care consultation program closest to you. Basics of Dementia - Part One Basics of Dementia - Part Two SharePrint this ArticlePrint ArticleNewsCalendarCalendarNewsCurrent NewsNews ArchiveEvents Calendar


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- "This rat has sold his last stir fry. I want you to take him out"
- ― Joey Leone
Farewell 'Chunky' Lee Chong is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to protagonist Claude by Joey Leone from his garage in the Trenton district of Portland Island, Liberty City.
Claude goes to Joey Leone's garage where Joey tells Claude of a man called Lee Chong who is selling SPANK through his noodle stand. Joey instructs Claude to kill him and to drop by Ammu-Nation in the Red Light District if he needs a weapon. Claude, after going to Ammu-Nation, drives to Chinatown and enters the fish market. He then kills a fleeing Chong, who begins to run to his car.
- The most straightforward method for completing this mission is to enter the alley and take Chong down. However, two Triads, one armed with a baseball bat and the other with a shotgun, are positioned next to Chong's stand, and several more will approach and attack the player.
- Two getaway vehicles are in place on different sides of the alley; the cheapest approach would be to prohibit Chong from using one by either destroying or moving it, park a player's own car nearby, approach from the other side of the alley and chase Chong down. Moving his vehicle is recommended, as Chong is much easier to take down if he does not have a vehicle.
- An easier, but expensive, way of completing the mission is to steal one of the cars, drive it to 8-Ball's bomb shop and have the car rigged with a bomb. The player may then drive the car back to its original place, arm the bomb and approach from the other side. This allows the player to eliminate Chong without the need for a chase.
- There is another way of completing this mission, which is to go to the south entrance of the market, but don't go in. From here you can take a Rocket Launcher and kill Chong, easily completing the mission.
- It is possible to quickly kill 'Chunky' Lee Chong, a video of this can be seen here.
The reward for completing the mission is $10,000. The mission Van Heist is unlocked after completing the mission.
- "Chunky" Lee Chong - Killed by Claude for dealing SPANK.
- Lee Chong's bodyguards - Can be killed by Claude.
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- During the cutscene, there is an instrumental version of "Bump To The Music" by Fatamarse which the original song can be heard on Lips 106 and "See Through You" by Frankie Fame which can be heard on Head Radio.
- Chong's noodle stand de-spawns about ten seconds after completing the mission.
- The mission name may be a refererence to the graphic novel Good-bye, Chunky Rice.
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TAPS 151T: Global Great Books: Dramatic Dialogues (TAPS 351)
The most influential and enduring texts in the dramatic canon from Sophocles to Shakespeare, Chekhov to Soyinka. Their historical and geopolitical contexts. Questions about the power dynamics involved in the formation of canons. This course counts as a Writing in the Major course for TAPS in 2016-17.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
TAPS 160: Performance and History: Rethinking the Ballerina (FEMGEN 160, TAPS 260)
The ballerina occupies a unique place in popular imagination as an object of over-determined femininity as well as an emblem of extreme physical accomplishment for the female dancer. This seminar is designed as an investigation into histories of the ballerina as an iconographic symbol and cultural reference point for challenges to political and gender ideals. Through readings, videos, discussions and viewings of live performances this class investigates pivotal works, artists and eras in the global histories of ballet from its origins as a symbol of patronage and power in the 15th century through to its radical experiments as a site of cultural obedience and disobedience in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Last offered: Winter 2017 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
TAPS 162I: The Idea of a Theater
Examines the idea of a theater from the religious street theater of Medieval York, though Shakespeare's Globe, and onto the mental theater of the Romantic reader and the alienation effects of Brecht's radical playhouse in the 20th cent
Last offered: Winter 2013 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
TAPS 163D: Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge (ENGLISH 163D)
Was the eighteenth century right in proclaiming Shakespeare to be the greatest moral philosopher? What are the ethical challenges Shakespeare's major plays still pose for us? Can we divorce ethical decisions from the contingencies of experience? We will ask a series of normative ethical questions (to do with pleasure, power, old age, self-sacrifice, and truth telling) and attempt to answer them in relation to the dramatic situation of Shakespeare's characters on the one hand and our own cultural situation on the other. The ethical challenge of Shakespearean drama will be set against selected readings in ethical theory.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 5
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Mon, Wed 4:30 PM - 5:50 PM at Lathrop 282 with Lupic, I. (PI)
Instructors: Lupic, I. (PI)
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER |
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Section 02 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 2
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TAPS 167: Introduction to Greek Tragedy: Gods, Heroes, Fate, and Justice (CLASSICS 112)
Gods and heroes, fate and free choice, gender conflict, the justice or injustice of the universe: these are just some of the fundamental human issues that we will explore in about ten of the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI) ; Kim, H. (TA)
2019-2020 Winter
4 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 7
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 200-303 with McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
Instructors: McCall, M. (PI); Kim, H. (TA)
TAPS 177: Dramatic Writing: The Fundamentals (TAPS 277)
Course introduces students to the basic elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter's end.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-CE
TAPS 180Q: Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
Preference to sophomores. Chomsky's ideas and work which challenge the political and economic paradigms governing the U.S. Topics include his model for linguistics; cold war U.S. involvements in S.E. Asia, the Middle East, Central and S. America, the Caribbean, and Indonesia and E. Timor; the media, terrorism, ideology, and culture; student and popular movements; and the role of resistance.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI)
2019-2020 Autumn
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER, WAY-SI |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) |
| Students enrolled: 13 / 16
09/23/2019 - 12/06/2019 Wed 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at Memaud125 with Rehm, R. (PI)
Instructors: Rehm, R. (PI)
Notes: Introductory Seminar. Preference to sophomores; first-year students admitted if space available. Advance sign-up process and deadlines at http://introsems.stanford.edu.
TAPS 197: Dance in Prison: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America (AMSTUD 197, DANCE 197)
This class works collaboratively with a local juvenile hall to use civic engagement and performance to explore the aesthetic, cultural and legal issues in the lives of incarcerated youth. In the process students gain an understanding of incarceration on an immediate and personal scale. Taught jointly by a Dance Studies scholar and a lawyer specializing in Juvenile Justice, we will consider what unique understandings are possible if we position the arts as central to an exploration of punishment, rehabilitation and recidivism in America. The course will examine case studies, historical and contemporary narratives about the social, imaginative and behavioral change possible through arts programs in prison.Half of the class meetings will be in Hillcrest Juvenile Hall in San Mateo, where our class will join with a group of 13-18 year old youths currently detained there. Dance will be used to help shape their individual expressive voices, and ours, through collaborative hip hop dance classes. Books to be read are Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson, and Last Chance in Texas by John Hubner. If you are interested in enrolling in this class, please fill out the following survey to be considered: https://forms.gle/a4fxbBpUbg7t3eM66.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
Instructors: Ross, J. (PI)
2019-2020 Spring
3 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 9 / 10
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Mon, Wed 9:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Memaud125 with Ross, J. (PI)
Instructors: Ross, J. (PI)
TAPS 248: Family Drama: American Plays about Families (ENGLISH 148)
Focus on great dramas about family life (Albee, Kushner, Shephard, Vogel, Kron, Nottage, Parks). Communication in writing and speaking about conflict central to learning in this class.
Last offered: Autumn 2013 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
TAPS 251C: Hamlet and the Critics (ENGLISH 115C, ENGLISH 215C, TAPS 151C)
Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist, materialist, feminist, new historicist, and, most recently, quantitative. The ambition is to see whether there can be great literature without (a) great (deal of) criticism. The challenge is to understand the theory of literature through the study of its criticism.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Questions About Going Into Assad's Syria.
[Originally posted at Notes on Liberty]
The question that many of you will assume I am answering was clearly (and emphatically) intended for someone else, so instead of answering it I'll be making comments that, given the timing and the subject matter, just happen to answer the question anyways. I don't want to do so directly because I would prefer it if Dr. Delacroix kept pestering Brandon and left me out of it. I do not want to draw his ire. I'm too busy with other things. So, this piece, and it's similarity to recent pieces by Brandon and Andrew is coincidence and nothing more, I assure you. Just so you are not totally confused by what I am referring to, here is the question (that I remind you I am not specifically or directly answering):
This is for Brandon:
A question: If you were 100% convinced that Assad of Syria had used chemical weapons on civilians, would it affect your judgment about the desirability of American intervention in Syria? Continue reading