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Rare earths: The rush to production
STRATEGIC METALS How it cornered the market on 'rare earths' - and why it matters
Rare earths light homes and superdomes, freeway signs and cigarettes. They play multiple roles in phones, computers, windmills and cars. They ease the pain of cancers in the bone, and they're sometimes the treatment itself. They can betray infinitesimal clots in the smallest arteries, and, as independent of morality as Prometheus' flame, guide Hellfire missiles to their ultimate, deadly end.
Their value isn't in their beauty (though they can be pretty enough as faux gemstones) or in their scarcity (they're anything but rare). Their value is in their cultural necessity. Could we live an hour without them? If you ignore their magic for a moment, they become mere commodities - mined, refined, sold and shipped. That's the first problem with rare earths. The second? China supplies more than 97 percent of the global market.
There are 17 metals as critical to the Age of Technology as cement and steel were to the Age of Industry. These rare earths can be found on every continent, yet over the past few decades, China has become the world's nearly sole producer and supplier. In 2010, the world finally realized how much rare earths had invaded everyday living, how important they had become to national defense - and just how political the tenuous supply line from China had become.
On Sept. 10 that year, a 15-man fishing trawler from China ventured into the disputed waters off the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu to the Chinese), uninhabited knobs of land in the East China Sea claimed by both nations. The Japanese Coast Guard responded to the incursion and tried to shoo off the vessel. But instead of leaving, the trawler rammed two of the patrol boats.
Japanese sailors arrested the skipper and his crew, sparking a politically tense standoff between the two nations - and inciting nationalistic riots throughout China that continue today. Four days later, Japan released the crewmen, but retained their skipper.
After another week, Japan's shipments of rare earths from China strangely dried up. Though China denied any purposeful bottleneck of these metallic oxides so essential to Japan's high-tech manufacturing, the perception of a political embargo sent a wave of urgency across the globe. With that six-week-long supply disruption, it was understood just how complete and volatile China's control of the world's rare-earth supply line had become.
Two days into the supply stoppage, Japan released the skipper. Were officials convinced he meant no malice or was it a concession to the Chinese in order to get the rare earths flowing again toward Japan's factories?
It wasn't long before the United States, which had been dependent on China for 90 percent of its rare earths, reacted. About two weeks after the supply disruption, the Center for Strategic International Studies, a Washington think tank, offered a plan of action in case a similar supply block affected U.S. manufacturers. Shortly after that, the U.S. Geological Survey published its first-ever estimate of domestic rare-earth deposits. Before the end of the year, America's only rare-earth mine, which had been shuttered for a decade, bogged down in environmental red tape, received the permits it needed and reopened.
The four months following the purported embargo saw a whirlwind of American political reaction to the sudden realization of China's near-monopoly of rare earths. Was China disrupting the flow of rare earths to show the world its strength or to hide weaknesses in its own supply chain?
Rare earth economy
How can something so pervasive, so much a part of modern life - integral to flat-screen entertainment, Internet dating, warfare and espionage - be controlled by a single nation? Cheap labor, a glut from illegal mining operations and lax or nonexistent environmental controls allowed China to slash expenses and sell low, killing off most of the competition long before the Senkaku incident.
In fact, China had so monopolized the market that the confrontation was little more than a confirmation of the industrial world's rare-earth vulnerability: There was no panic like the one that followed the 1973-74 OPEC oil embargo, just a collective gasp.
The apparent barrage of the post-embargo studies wasn't a hurried, worried response to panic but the coincidental fruition of projects long in motion.
After decades of production, China's big gains in the rare-earth industry were made in the 1990s on the heels of Premier Deng Xiaoping's famous 1992 proclamation: "There is oil in the Middle East, but there is rare earth in China." Of an estimated global production of 133,600 tons of rare-earth oxides in 2010 and again in 2011, China produced 130,000. The remaining 2.3 percent was supplied by India, Brazil and Malaysia.
"It was a surprise to everybody, of course," said Jack Lifton, speaking of the disruption. Lifton is a former chemical engineer and now, with 50 years of globe-trotting from mine to manufacturing plant, a leading authority and investment consultant on rare earths and other strategic metals.
Lifton's view of the incident doesn't fit neatly with the accepted geopolitical mythos. "It didn't seem to affect the actual users. I was in Japan at the time, and no Japanese company would confess they had a problem." Deliveries of rare earths may have been late, but he questioned whether China was sending a message.
"Why was no one panicked?" he asked. "Because they had inventories - a huge amount of illegal material. The official stuff you hear (about the supply disruption) is not based on reality. It's political theater." That official stuff is summed up in a 2012 study by the Congressional Research Service that serves as a blueprint for future production and U.S. independence.
As predicted by the CSIS, the export drop has been precipitous. In 2006 China produced 119,000 tons of rare earths and exported 61,560 tons. By 2011, production remained about level but exports had fallen to 18,600 tons, and this year's quota is on target to hit a mere 13,300 tons. In March, exasperated with the effects of the Chinese near-monopoly, the Obama administration made a request to the World Trade Organization for formal consultations with China, a preliminary step in filing an international lawsuit for hoarding, an illegal trade practice. The European Union and Japan joined the United States in the request.
The supply problem, however, as seen by Lifton, is not so much a politically motivated stoppage as a pragmatic response to China's very significant problem of pirated rare earths - perhaps 40 percent of their total production. "The Chinese are trying to figure out how much of their trade is illegal. This is about lost export taxes, and it's infuriating them."
If the Chinese government shuts down illegal operations, it cuts the global supply. Rare earths are so easily extracted in southern China deposits, according to the USGS, that you just need a front-loader, a dump truck and acid to separate the minerals.
The Congressional Research Service and the U.S. Geologic Survey, however, see China's crackdown on illegal mining operations as only one component of its restriction of rare earths moving into the global market, a condition aggravated by China's business practices of reduced production quotas, decreased export quotas and resulting price increases, and also increased export taxes of up to 25 percent. The supply is further imperiled by an officially nationalized mine-to-magnet strategy in which China plans to use its rare earths for its own manufacturing of wind turbines, consumer electronics and magnets rather than exporting them as before. In response, the U.S. course seems set: expansion of nearly nonexistent domestic rare-earth production in our own mine-to-magnet strategy as outlined by the CRS. The docket of the 112th Congress includes 10 rare-earth-related bills that deal with establishing a domestic supply chain, education and training, national security and new mines. Core mission: critical mineral stockpiling for the military and reviewing an inventory of public lands that have been withdrawn from mineral exploration but which could yield highly prized rare-earth ores.
The future
Demand for the eccentric capabilities of rare earths has grown exponentially - the hybrid car market alone multiplied its use 38-fold between 2000 and 2008. And overall demand is expected to grow 50 percent from 2010 to 2015, with demand possibly exceeding supply by 2014.
The world has responded to the demand for rare earths and the political idiosyncrasies of supply. America's historic, resurrected Mountain Pass mine in San Bernardino County isn't the only rare-earth mine to enter or re-enter the global supply ring. China, the United States, Japan, India and other nations have at least six new mines in the works, though they may not produce until 2015-20.
The start key has not yet been turned at a massive new rare-earth processing plant in Malaysia, the largest in the world outside of China. The project has stirred immense controversy over possible radiation contamination. Although a recent study by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency found the plant clearly safe, opposition to the facility remains strong, with opponents claiming it would produce as much as 50 tons of radioactive thorium annually. Expected to be fully operational last month, it remains in only startup mode.
Rare-earth exploration is occurring in the Arctic regions as well. The global melt-off has uncovered deposits in Greenland, and the proposed Kvanefjeld mine there is optimistically expected to produce 37,000 metric tons of rare earths as early as 2016. China, very interested in the cold north deposits, is lobbying for permanent observer status on the policy-developing Arctic Council while making overtures to Greenland.
New supplies of rare earths will feed an industry that continually finds new applications for the oxides and pure metals. Among their future applications are magnetic refrigeration, high-temperature superconductors and the storage and transport of hydrogen in a post-hydrocarbon economy.
But will even greater advances in technology replace rare earths? Will a new heyday of exploration be as short-lived as the gold rushes of the 19th century?
There certainly will be a day when nanoscale engineering replaces some of their uses, reducing the world's dependence and subsequent demand. Japan's QuesTek Innovations has already sunk big money into research and development of atom-by-atom alloy engineering that will replace some critical rare earths, and NovaTorque, also in Japan, is working on rare-earth-free electric motors. Toyota claims to have developed a hybrid car system that doesn't use rare earths. Also, recycling of rare-earth metals and oxides may be on the verge of profitability, and both Honda and Hitachi are exploring the field. Ames Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, announced late last month that it had made a major step in rare-earth recycling by efficiently removing rare earths from scrap.
Will global exploration, new mines, recycling and coordination of mine-to-magnet production be enough to guarantee the unrestricted supply of rare earths for this Age of Technology? In the near term, China's still holding most of the cards, and rare earths will remain in demand. In the words of Jack Lifton, "Ain't nobody going backward." The United States must diversify its supply lines and is doing so, but to move ahead will also require, at the very least, cooperation among nations.
Brooks Mencher is a Chronicle staff writer and the Insight page designer.


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Second joint DLR and ESA SpaceTweetup at Berlin airshow
The DLR German Aerospace Center and ESA are again inviting 50 of their followers on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to a Tweetup at the ILA Berlin airshow in September. Applications are now welcome.
A Tweetup is an informal gathering of people who use the Twitter social media platform. This time, the selection process includes Facebook and Google+ users.
As with the first European SpaceTweetup in Cologne in September 2011, participants in the #ILAtweetup on Friday, 14 September will be in close and personal contact with European aerospace.
ILA offers a perfect opportunity for this, with over 1000 exhibitors from 47 countries and an extensive flying programme.
Among the exhibitors are ESA and DLR, which is presenting itself both as a research centre for the aerospace sector and as a space agency.
With the support of the German Aerospace Industries Association, DLR and ESA are presenting European space research in two venues.
The Space Pavilion exhibition hall will be filled with fascinating displays. DLR will have its own stand showcasing its aerospace research work.
The Spacetweeps will have access to both venues. The programme for the #ILAtweetup includes:
- meeting European astronauts
- exclusive discussions with DLR and ESA scientists
- guided tour of the Space Pavilion
- guided tour of the DLR stand, including the 'Earth observation island' and the Robomobil
- guided tour of DLR's research aircraft
- meeting with the social media teams from DLR and ESA as well as other European Spacetweeps
- Short presentations from and Q&A sessions with scientists and project managers from DLR and ESA
On 14 September, all #ILAtweetup participants will be able to access ILA 2012 free of charge.
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The sweeping immigration bill outlined by a bipartisan group of eight senators this week represents the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in more than a quarter-century. It's also probably Congress' best chance this year to forge a compromise on an issue it hasn't touched since 2007. But that doesn't mean lawmakers still won't find a way to flub it.
In theory, at least, the Senate compromise bill contains elements of policies both parties say they favor. In its broadest outlines, it would provide a path to eventual citizenship for the estimated 11 million people who are already in the country illegally, which Democrats have long wanted. At the same time, it would force the government to spend some $5 billion beefing up border security over the next decade, while creating a new visa system for guest workers, steps that Republicans have insisted must be part of any comprehensive reform. It would also crack down on businesses that hire illegal workers.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised a vote on the bill later this year, and there's a good chance he can peel off enough Senate Republicans not only to pass the measure but to make it a truly bipartisan effort. Given that four GOP senators have already signed on to the compromise — Marco Rubio of Florida, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Jeff Flake and John McCain of Arizona — it's likely at least a few more moderate Senate Republicans eventually will be persuaded to join them.
A strong showing of bipartisan support in the Senate would put pressure on Republican leaders in the House, where a similar bipartisan compromise is quietly taking shape, to get serious about coming up with its own immigration overhaul. Presumably, the two chambers could then work out their differences and present President Barack Obama, who so far has delayed presenting his immigration reform plan, with a bill for his signature.
But unless the right wing that dominates the House Republican caucus can get over what has been its intransigent attitude toward anything that smacks of a compromise on immigration — particularly Democrats' insistence on creating a path to citizenship for people who have been living here illegally for decades — the reform effort isn't going anywhere this year. If that happens, the onus for the failure will fall squarely on the GOP.
That's bound to hurt the party with Hispanics, the fastest-growing segment of the electorate, who voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in the last election cycle, and it will only raise further questions about whether a party that rarely saw a compromise it didn't dislike — on taxes, the budget, you name it — is really serious about governing.
There are indications that at least some Republican lawmakers are beginning to recognize the box the party has put itself in, at least on immigration issues. Even a tea party conservative like Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has recently softened his tone against a more liberal immigration policy, though his talk of "legalizing" immigrants' presence still stops well short of offering them citizenship. Meanwhile, some evangelical Christian groups are creating some breathing space for fence-sitting GOP lawmakers by urging them to approach immigration issues with the "compassion for the stranger" shown in the Bible.
It's long been a tenet of the Republican Party to oppose immigration reform as an "amnesty" that rewards people for breaking our laws. Never mind that there's no way we're ever going to deport 11 million people. But the GOP's attitude seems to have been that if we can't do that, let's at least make them as miserable as possible.
If even a conservative like Senator Paul has come to realize the self-defeating consequences of such thinking, perhaps there's hope for his counterparts in the House as well. A party that can only deal with how it wishes the world were, rather than how it actually is, is a poor candidate to lead the nation on immigration — or on anything else.


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Introduction: Welcome to the auction house, where the goblins take your items and sell them for you at a small fee. Problem is, a large majority of the community lacks the basic understanding of the fact that the auction house is not just somewhere to sell items. The auction house is a fountain of knowledge regarding item pricing. It is the Azeroth stock market we all invest in. Most importantly, it is the foundation for our economy. Now, mastering the foundation of an economy is next to impossible in real life, as there are thousands of aspects of it. But in Warcraft, you have only to master; the auction house. Master this, and the magic chariot carrying the all those gold coins will arrive right on your doorstep.
Welcome, to Auction Grinding 101, an in-depth guide by the one and only Venorize, exclusively written for MMO-Champion.
Disclaimer: This guide will not a guide to farm auctioneers themself. Leave the poor auctioneers alone, they only have ~3k health and can not defend for themselves! Thanks. -The GCA (The Goblin Community of Auctioneers).
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Table of Contents:
1: General Information
1-A: Auction Houses, Who? What? Where? When? WHY?!
1-B: Mechanics Of The Auction Window.
1-C: Deposit's and Auction Cuts.
1-D: The Hard Facts
2: Preparing for World Auction House Domination
2-A: Another Life To Stash Your Cash
2-B: Learning The Needs Of The People
2-C: Mastering The Professions
3: Bribing The Goblins & Farming Their House
3-A: The Categories of the Economy
3-B: Time Left: Short
3-C: Creating a Monopoly
3-D: Taking care of advantage of the weak.
4: The Best Advantage Of All: Addons
4-A: About These Wonders
4-B: Auctioneer
4-C: Auctioneer
4-D: Market Watcher
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1: General Information
1-A: Auction Houses, Who? What? Where? When? WHY?!
Auction houses are located in every major city for both the Horde and Alliance. Horde auction houses can only display items up for sale by horde, and likewise for the alliance. There is an auction house in Dalaran and Shattrath, but these link back to your home cities. The other faction may not see these auctions either.
Auction houses can also be found in Gadgetzan, Everlook, and Booty Bay. Ratchet does not have one, as auctioneers lives were in danger from the crossfire of alliance attacks. These auction houses are Neutral Auctions... also called Cross-Faction Auction Houses. Any auctions here are viewable by any player, regardless of faction. They do not link to the city auctions however, so viewing auctions here means you only see items posted at neutral auctions. There is two upsides and one downside. The upsides are that a different audience of players can view your items now, and faction-specific items can be exchanged here (Example; Horde buying pets from Alliance Rewards at the Argent Tournament Grounds). The downside, other than the extra travel time to get here, is that the auction house costs are higher. More on this topic covered in 1-C.
Generally when doing some heavy auction house farming for long periods of time, you want to move away from the capital cities. Ironforge and Stormwind are generally the most crowded for the alliance, Orgrimmar for the horde. Generally you would want to avoid these if you experience any type of lag at all. Dalaran is generally one of the more lag-related cities, although now very peaceful and quiet. Every other city is pretty good, and there are banks close to every auction house.
1-B: Mechanics Of The Auction Window.
Okay so now were past the very basics, now onto some mechanics. You know the window, but do you know the mechanics? Believe it or not, there are players who do not know that if you click on the "Time Left" button, it sort's the entire auction house by the time remaining on each auction. So lets cut right to those tabs.
Rarity | Lvl | Time Left | Seller | Current Bid
Rarity - Sorting by rarity does two features. First, obviously it sort's by the rarity of the item. Poor -> Common -> Uncommon (Green) -> Rare (Blue) -> Epic (EPIX!). Second, if sorted with epic's listed first. it places the Cheapest item first.
Lvl - Sorting by level, enough said.
Time Left - An extremely profitable mechanic. Sorts by the auctions that are going to expire the quickest. Short (1-30 min), Medium (30min-2hr), Long(2hr-12hr), Very Long(12hr-48hr). More tips and tricks about this in section: 3-B.
Seller - Not really a big deal except in rare circumstances.
Current Bid - Okay now were talking tricky! No really, pay attention. It's called CURRENT BID. Not current 'buyout' or current 'price'. If you sort by this feature, it will sort the lowest bidding prices. (EXAMPLE: Someone with an item at 3g bid and 10g buyout, will have their item listed before an item at 5g bid and 5g buyout.) Generally most people just buyout an item they want rather than wait. Buyout prices won't be listed cheapest first with this tab, only the rarity tab.
1-C: Deposit's and Auction Cuts.
When placing an auction, it costs a deposit. When an auction sells, we get our deposit back, but we lose a cut of the final price. We lose our deposit if the auction does not sell, which is to prevent people from asking completely unbelievable prices (and hoping someone mis-clicks) without having to pay to do so. Generally, these are common things we all know, but here it will be broken down to it's math. Just how much money are we losing?
Every item has an MSV, a Merchant Sell Value. The MSV determines the costs for deposits.
Alliance/Horde Auction Houses
Deposit (12hr) = 15% of item's MSV
Deposit (24hr) = 30% of item's MSV
Deposit (48hr) = 60% of item's MSV
Neutral Auction Houses (These are much more expensive, hence the downside listed in section 1-A.)
Deposit (12hr) = 75% of item's MSV
Deposit (24hr) = 150% of item's MSV
Deposit (48hr) = 300% of item's MSV
So for example, an item with an MSV of 100 gold, will cost you a pretty 60 gold deposit to auction up for 48 hours.
When an auction is sold, those greedy goblins running the show take a cut. In City auction houses, you only lose 5% of your total sale. However in neutral ones, you lose a whooping 15% of your profits!
1-D: The Hard Facts
Here's a quick list of auction house facts.
- The Auction House timer for expiring auctions works off server time. Even if a server is offline, that timer will tick, and auctions can expire during offline hours, server restarts, and maintenance days.
- You can NOT switch to a character on the same account, and buyout your own auctions to save a deposit fee.
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2-A: Another Life To Stash Your Cash
How many Common (White) items have come across your path, entered your bags, and then been sold straight to the vendor? How many times have you needed something that in the past you know you've vendored?
Let's face it, when it comes to bank and bag space, blizzard really knows how to limit us, to make us think and have to make decisions. That is why the community invented things called Bank Characters long before WoW even existed. A "Bank Character" is an alt character on your account, used basically as storage. Most bank characters are in their own guild by themselves, for the purpose of using a guild bank for extended space. With 7 bag slots at 20 or more slots, and dozens more in a guild bank window, you have all the space you would ever need. While guild tabs can get costly, generally most people only need one or two at most.
Note: The following is considered a Long-Term plan to help with future auction house endeavors.
So what's this all getting at? SAVE EVERYTHING. Do not vendor white trash. Do not vendor anything that has potential value to another player in the game. Over months or years, depending how often you play and your play-style, you can accumulate hundreds of stacks of items that you would have otherwise never farmed or thought twice about. At this point you can start selling stacks of things that almost nobody farms, but a fair amount of players want. This is proven, and a lot of people do it, but it is a long term idea.
In a few months, check that banker's stash in full. You should have been keeping up on things mailed to it and sorted them as you played. You'll find you have stacks and stacks of gems, gear, cloths, materials, and so on. It's incredible how quickly these things add up, and how valuable the stacks can be.
How does this relate to the auction house? Well you'll find that there are times you've stored up stacks of an item that nobody farms. Hence they are worth money. These sell usually pretty quick, so go!
Even without using the long term plan of hoarding items from main characters, you'll find that once you get into the auction house, buying and selling in large quantities will cause your bags to fill quickly... and the extra space on your bank character will come in handy very quickly.
2-B: Learning The Needs Of The People
This is generally the thinking portion. If you don't like to think, too bad! I command you, go get a snack and then come back to learn!
Now lets break down the entire world of warcraft game into sections of what comes into the auction house and what leaves the auction house.
Types of players (and yes, people can be more than one type):
- Quester - Farmer - Raider - PvPer
Quester - Generally a player who quests bring's in everything, because you farm as you quest just by looting creatures. Quest rewards means easy gold, increasing the economy cash flow, and quest items. All disenchanters will disenchant gear they no longer use, and many sell the materials they do not need. So questers provide materials for professions, mostly for enchanting, leatherworking, and tailoring.
- What do they take? Many questers use very little, some use potions but most survive on their own. Questers are usually players leveling, and upgrading gear. So it's safe to say questers generally take out almost as much gear as they put into the auction house, as well as up the Glyph sales.
Farmer - Farmers generally bring in everything. They bring in at least half of all items listed on an auction house. They generally only take out what they need such as potions/elixers, but and very seldomly as they get many from farming to begin with. Generally, they buy/have the best bags to make their time out in the open the most valuable.
Raider - Raiders generally bring in rare and epic BoE equipment. They do bring in enchanting mats from their upgrades, but they buy far more materials from professions that they provide. Raiders also have the greatest need for potions/elixers/flasks/scrolls, and over half of the market for gems are sold to raiders.
PvPer - Providing nearly nothing to the auction house, they generally takes out the same as a raider, considerably less potions/flasks, but nearly the same amounts of gems and enchanting materials.
Generally everything discussed above is simplified like this;
See a few terms show up a few more than others? Well now you know what sells faster than other items. Faster sellers generally have lower costs, as Supply and Demand works it's magic fingers. Items with lower demand will have higher costs. we also see that questers and farmers supply the auction house, raiders and pvpers demand and take from it.
WHY IS THIS ALL IMPORTANT?: Remember that 'thinking' stuff I said we would have to do? We learned that Raiders and PvPvers Demand the most. Farmers and Questers Supply the most. With me here? Good, lets break this down one last time:
Quester - Consistently active, consistently questing.
Farmer - Consistently active and farming. Farmers tend to be more hardcore players, which play all week long.
Raider - 90% of guilds raid on weekdays. Most start monday-friday (or thursday for 4-day raiding guilds). Tuesday is the biggest raiding day, and when all guilds raid. All raids reset, and nearly everyone raids. Flasks, potions, will sell best on this day to raiders, mostly during the afternoon and evening server hours. Gems and enchants, will sell best in the late evening through the early morning hours, as raiders show up with what gear they snatched at their raids.
PvPer - Generally, Pvpers pvp all week long, but more-so on the weekends becuse well... theres more of them, and Battleground-Holiday-Weekends. On the weekends, there is more players online and more players doing battlegrounds. Also, theres rarely many raid's on weekends, so players take this time to pvp. So the economic effect from pvpers will be active most at this time.
Ah, you are starting to understand, young grasshopper. Certian days and certian hours are Much better for attempting to manipulate the auction house! Every server and every guild and every player is different, but these are the most popular trends world-wide.
2-C: Mastering The Professions
There are two big things to realize here. You can profit by leveling a profession, and you can profit after it's maxed. Let's look at every profession and see it's strengths and weaknesses in relation towards auction house success.
Alchemy: You've got it made. Most guild leaders require raiders to flask or pot up. Most riders do so on their own trying to accomplish raids. So 5 times a week, the auction house gets bombarded for hours on end by raiders stocking up for their upcoming raid. You've got a dozen other ways to make profits, and the auction house will help you even more.
Archaeology: The only profit is when you Survey a node, you can get artifact tablets. These tablets are items that can help you complete an artifact faster. They are BoE, and sellable on the auction house.
Blacksmithing: Not much to say here. Pull up your beastly hammer, make rare armors and weapons, sell for profit! There is not a high demand for these, so selling is difficult, AH cuts will be high, but one sale can pay the electric bill for a month! As long as new patterns come out in raids, this profession can continue to flourish throughout the entire expansion.
Cooking: Consumables for raiders and pvpers are a common must, and if you can cook those special foods that are used so often to boost stats, your looking at good profits. Bigger profits for those who have fishing up to par with their cooking.
Enchanting: Selling enchants is rough on the auction house unless someone wants a specific enchant. There is no valid system of browsing enchanted Vellums. All Vellums are considered level 1, and every enchant of every level type will show up on a vague search. Your best profits lay in selling extra materials from your own disenchanting. HOWEVER, you can search the AH.. search all armors by certain level ranges, buy gear that's cheap, disenchant it, and sell the materials for more. An example would be buying level 83-85 greens for 1-30 gold, disenchanting, and reselling the materials you got for 25-75 gold.
Engineering: Generally not a money making profession. Profession-Bags you can create are so common, their price is incredibly low. Anything else you can make is only useable by other engineers. Your best profits rely in selling raw materials you make or farm from mechanical creatures. As of Cata, engineering has more pets with higher value to sell as well. Finally, we have guns. Yet sadly, we have no ammo. With ammunition changes to the game, engineers no longer make it because it currently does not exist. So life is a bit harder for engineers and their ammo farming market... and guns is a difficult market due to the expenses and low needs for them.
First Aid: No market here. Anyone who can use bandages sold on the auction house can make them cheaper.
Fishing: Bigger profits for those who have cooking up to par with their fishing.
Flying: Yes, blizzard has classified this as a profession. No, you can not profit from it by using the auction house. No, you can not fly a goblin auctioneer over the ocean and threaten to drop him if he doesn't give you all the battered hilt's on the auction house. No, I will not be your accomplice.
Herbalism: A farming profession, so naturally profits follows suite. Farm and sell. Research the most common potions made, and try to nab more of the herbs that make them. Flask related mats are crucial.
Inscription: Very profitable to a point. Every new character will need to buy glyphs eventually. An alt that progresses towards max level will need all glyphs. Problem is, your competing against many other inscriptionists and a very small market of players to sell to. Stick towards selling consumables such as scrolls. Scrolls are counted as elixers, and are very strong since cataclysm. The ability to stack scrolls with buffs and cast on friends can make these very appealing once word spreads.
Jewelcrafting: Gems, Gems, Gems. Enough said. Basically all max level players will need and want them. And raiders and PvPers will gem each new piece they get as they progress. There is a big market here, as there has been since the burning crusade. One of the greatest tricks many jewelcrafters pick up on is that raw gems are easy to come by, and sold cheaper than any cut gems on the auction house. Purchase raw gems, cut them into the lovely jewels we all hate, and then repost them for the going rate.
Leatherworking: Like blacksmithing, you make equipment, you sell it. As long as new patterns appear throughout the future, rare and powerful BoE equipment can profit greatly in it's small market. Leg Enchants are most important, being consumable, raiders and pvpers will require these consistantly.
Mining: A farming profession, so naturally profits follows suite. Farm and sell. Generally with mining, hardcore farming for long hours and selling the bars can go a long way, as simple as it sounds.
Riding: Yes, blizzard classified this as a profession as well. No, this does not entitle a dirty sexual act with specific goblin auctioneers to profit. Sorry.
Skinning: A farming profession, so naturally profits follows suite. Farm and sell. Unlike Mining and Herbalism, Skinning only provides to one profession, mainly to leatherworking. So hard-farming will have a lesser benifit, but still a profitable. Due to this, it is best paired with leatherworking.
Tailoring: Like Leatherworking, you make equipment, you sell it. As long as new patterns appear in the future, you'll be set to make important BoE rares/epics to sell. Leg Enchants are most important, being consumable, raiders and pvpers will require these consistantly.
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3: Bribing The Goblins & Farming Their House
3-A: The Categories of the Economy
Okay time to get to the charts. We all know what the Auction House window looks like. We know the categories... or do we? Below, each category is explained, and you can see the areas in which the most focus should be given.
Breaking down the profit area categories will help you get started. Now this ball gets rolling (hope it kills a gnome on it's way!).
Weapon / Armor: This category serves a few purposes. Crafting professions can benifit greatly here, but it is completely dependent on blizzard's release of patterns. As long as new patterns come out as the game and dungeons/gear progress, then this can be a very profitable area for blacksmithing/tailoring/leatherworking. Gear is difficult to sell here, and unless you greatly undercut a going rate, you should not attempt to make this a primary way to make money unless you are experienced in this area. BoE crafted items created from patterns dropped in dungeons and raids (or reputation rewards from raids), are the most valuable and often fetch the highest amounts. If you do not raid, then you have yet another reason to not make this a primary way to profit. Without new patterns, in a few months nobody will want the items you can already make now, and your looking at being unable to sell expensive crafted items. Another feature of these categories as mentioned earlier is for enchanters to search up gear by specific levels to give the maximum amount of dust/shards for an item. In cataclysm, level 83-85 items reap the most benefit. Buying items that are typically cheaper than the cost of dust and shards mean you can double or tripple your money or more, by buying and disenchanting the gear.
Consumable: A big thing about this category is everything is a 1-time use. Meaning there is high demand.. meaning... PROFIT!
Glyph: Once a glyph is learned, you have it forever. This is almost common knowledge now. This means that over time, nearly every max level (and the most active) of players will have all their glyphs. Your market for sales will then turn to new-players and new alts as they level only. With such a selective market, this will make prices fluctuate very high and low amounts on dozens of different glyphs. The market is unpredictable and difficult to farm or profit from. It is not recommend to spend any amount of time in this area.
Trade Goods: There is a lot to cover here. Cloth is the first important thing here. Humanoids drop cloths, and nearly EVERY cloth is worth money. Even linen, yes. Every cloth has it's values, and all clothes should be kept and sold. They are most commonly used in reputation of numerous factions as well as the home city factions. Metal and stone, coves arch stones and mining ores. Meat and Herb are good sections to scavenge through because often people get these without meaning to, and put them onto the auction house and very low prices just to rid them for quick money. Buying and Re-Selling these are fantastic and easy ways to profit. Jewelcrafting doesn't cover gems because obviously gem's has its own meta category. Item enhancement is pretty much a dead category. The only thing that show's on here is Enchanting Vellum, and that is now purchasable from a vendor.
Gem: A jewelcrafter's home, and possibly the bane of existence to a raider and pvper. We all get stuck gemming our gear, and it gets expensive. Gems come from numerous sources other than just being a jewelcrafter or miner. Specific areas, creatures, chests, dungeons, so on... you can find them (I believe in you!).
Okay that's great, we just listed the purpose of each area, but HOW DO WE FARM THEM!? Simple, work the auction house as if it was a running stock market. Treat it like you were a stock broker. Buy low, sell high.
3-B: Time Left: Short
Here begins an important section. A trick not often learned by people trying to master the auction house. We learned earlier in the guide about sorting the auctions by the time limit left before they expire. So let's try this. Open the auction house window, and just press search. This will search EVERY ITEM on your faction's auction house. Usually 20-50 thousand items, depending on your server's size. Now press the "Time Left" tab until all items displayed on the page are listed as 'Short'. You'll see something like this.
So above we see auctions sorted by short. Some glyphs, useless holiday items, not much to see on the very first page. So we keep browsing down and find something of interest.
Okay now you see the type of things you are looking for. I guarantee you that even something as vanilla as Solid Stone has a value more than 1 silver 50 copper. There are people who usually do not give a damn about the bid price, they just want their auction buyout price and forget the rest. You could bid on those, knowing they will expire in the next 1-30 minutes and there are slim chances anyone else will bid on it. Obviously the further down the list, the more time is left on an auction.
Eventually you'll start hitting auctions that have a "medium" time limit. Medium is still good to browse, it means there is 30 mintues to 2 hours remaining. Obviously the further down the list of mediums you get, the longer they have from 30 minutes. You won't always find enough prizes in the "shorts", and the mediums are good enough to look at also. Lets look.
Okay now we have something most interesting. full stacks of Tin Bars, an old vanilla item but something nobody really wants to farm. The fact that there is nearly no supply for it makes it worth more on many servers, as goes many old world vanilla profession items. Don't forget, people will need these still to make alt gear, level engineering/blacksmithing, and more. This looks like it has potential, so let's put 'Tin Bar' in the auction house search box and see what comes up. (Yes you would lose your current search, but you can come back to it, those same auctions will still be there in the next 30 minutes - 2 hours).
Now were showing promise! The tin bar stacks we just saw had a bid price of just over 1 gold. Their 15 gold buyout means nearly nobody will even see them when there is better deals on the page. So the current going rate for Tin Bar stacks of 20 is about 7-8 gold. If you buy all 4 stacks in your original search by just placing the bid (and you'll probably win them), that costs you just over 4 gold. Now if you even re-sell them at an undercut of the going rate of (for example) 7 gold even, all 4 stacks would bring in almost 28 gold after cuts. And after these cuts and the cost of buying them, you still profit at least 22 gold. And all of this takes what, 30 seconds to a minute's worth of work? 22 gold a minute could put bread on the table at dinner time, don't you think? Better than minimum wage!
These are examples remember. There are times where you might find items worth hundreds of gold, and the careless player who placed them up with a bid of a few gold... well..... I think were starting to get the picture. This system takes about 5 to 10 minutes of your time to work, and has potential for very easy profits without having to know much about pricing at all. It's also a fantastic starting point for those who have difficulty farming or figuring out how to get rich like every other player seems to do these days.
3-C: Creating a Monopoly
Follow the example of Walmart and absorb the competition. Without any competitors, your the only Supplier. In an economy of supply and demand, the higher the demand is, the higher the supply must be. With fewer sources to supply something, the few left supplying it can manipulate the situation and take advantage of the poor customers. How this works is simply buying out the other players. I'll give an example to start it off;
Lets say *YOU* put up 25 stacks of cloth, 8 gold each.
Lets say GEORGE puts up 25 stacks of cloth, 5 gold each.
Lets say RALPH puts up 25 stack of cloth, 4 gold each.
Problem is, who is going to buy your cloth at 8 gold each, when there's cheaper right in the same list. So this is where you eliminate them. This can be tricky, and the more popular an item is the harder it is to create a monopoly for it since there will be more suppliers.
Basically you can purchase all of GEORGE's and RALPH's cloths. Now put those cloths back up for 8 gold each. Now you have 75 cloth for 8 gold each, and nobody else is there to compete with you. Now yes your taking a risk. You've created a monopoly and you have to hope nobody else will undercut you. If someone wants that cloth, they will buy it, because you have just created the "going rate". As long as the rate you choose seems reasonable. Putting the cloth at 25 gold a piece would not attract enough attention, and someone else would just go cheaper and have their own monopoly to control. The hardest part about the monopoly is that you have to KEEP AN EYE OUT, and CONTINUE TO BUY the cloth as other people put it up there. Otherwise you've defeated the purpose and cost yourself money.
This is a very effective, but risky and time consuming business, and very difficult to master.
REMEMBER! ** The more popular an item is the harder it is to create a monopoly for it since there will be more suppliers. **
3-D: Taking care of advantage of the weak.
Earlier we discussed sorting the auctions by Seller. In doing so it sort's them alphabetically. Sadly, with thousands of auctions, finding a specific name can take a quite few minutes of clicking the next button. However there is one way this feature can be helpful.
Over time, as your exploring the auction house, you will find an auction Extremely Cheap. I'm talking about (for example) seeing a stack of 20 cloth for 5g when you know that specific cloth should easily sell for 75g a stack. If something like this happens, count your blessings and write the seller's name down. Once written, now search up the full auction house, a blank search. Sort by Seller (sort it alphabetically so that your sellers name is closer to the top. If the name is 'Xifa', reverse sort it with the letter Z on top, to get to the letter 'X' faster.
Once you have found your seller's name, scroll through his list of auctions. Chances are the player either was in a hurry, didn't know the value, or just didn't care. Either way, you can profit. By checking through their auctions there's a fair chance their other auctions have valuable items that are priced to sell fast. Now you can apply that "Buy Low Sell High" tactic.
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4: The Best Advantage Of All: Addons
4-A: About These Wonders
Why addons? Well its true, you can do very well and profit just fine without them. However you really need to think twice about just how long all this takes. Addons can cut down all the leg work to a fraction of the time. Time is money, and less time means more money. You can profit just by saving yourself time. Besides, we all have character to get to max level, who has time to auction all day? Another great reason is that many addons give you features and tricks that simply can not be done in blizzard's interface. A note, many auction addons do take a hefty amount of memory. If your computer is on the slower side of the world, you might want to disable it when you don' plan on using it for a while.
4-B: Auctioneer - http://auctioneeraddon.com
We'll start by listing the most reputable addons out there, Auctioneer. Chances are you've at least heard of it. This addon does more than revamp the auction house window. Once running, you'll notice tool-tips and other features also have nice little bonuses.
For one, all items will have the ability to show detailed auction statistics, such as last seen, current prices, so on. Auctioneer scans the auction house and records the information of every single item. Then it uses this database of information to help you keep track of the current going rates, and how high sales are for that particular item.
Auctioneer also comes as a suite, a complete package of bonus addons that all work with each other. These addons generally give you more tabs at the auction house, meaning more options and more functions to help you claim all that auction house gold. Here is an example screenshot of the Appraiser feature as part of this package.
For the player who wants to go all out, Auctioneer comes highly recommended for the novice user.
4-C: Auctionator - http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ctionator.aspx
A newer addon that spawned at the dawn of Cataclysm. So far this addon has great reviews and is simple and easy to use. Memory usage is much lower than auctioneer too.
Auctionator is new, and building it's reputation, so this one had to be hand tested. This addon features updated tool-tips as well, at a much more simple and easier to read standard. You can see possible profits right on the item for Vendoring it, Auctioning it, or Disenchanting (and selling the mats). Also another fantastic feature for you disenchanters out there, is that this addon can display exactly what possible materials can be disenchanted from the item, as well as their percentages of drop.
4-D: Market Watcher - http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...t-watcher.aspx
This addon is really going deep into 'hardcore merchandising'. If your really financially intrigued at the wow economy, auctions, markets... You might fall in love with this addon. Market Watcher records everything your doing extensively. And what one of the most wonderful features is, that it can graph out it's results!
It's a simple, yet extensive and easy to use addon. It's memory usage is average for an addon of this type, so no biggy. The graph is nice because you can see first hand the economic fluctuation of prices from day to day. For a power user who really wants to get into the economic factors of the game, this addon is one I'll personally recommend.
Well, this is pretty much where we part ways. You've taken it all in and you can use this power for good or evil.
The auction house is the economic structure for WoW, and learning and mastering it is an easy way to profit in this game.
Use the force well, and no, I am not your father.
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A Successful Pan Am Juniors for USA Badminton Players
The Pan Am Juniors international competition is an annual tournament that determines the best junior players in the North and South American continents. The 2008 Pan Am Juniors were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on July 15-20 with 11 countries participating in the team event and over 310 participants competing in the individual events.
The USA Badminton (USAB) team event members were Cheryl Chow (San Marino, CA), Zenas Lam (Mountain View, CA), Calvin Lin (Villa Park, CA), Brendan Lum (San Francisco, CA), Priscilla Lun (San Marino, CA), Beckie Neumann (Manhattan Beach, CA), Howard Shu (Anaheim Hills, CA) and Rena Wang (Arcadia, CA). The team event is played using the Badminton World Federation Sudirman Cup style competition with one point awarded to the winning team in each event (men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles). The five events are played in total for each tie and the team with the best of five points advances to the next round.
Team USA made it easily out the pool play competition with a 5-0 victory over both Mexico and Trinidad & Tobago.
In the quarter-finals of the championship round, team USA drew a tough draw as team Canada got off the first point when Michael Diamond/Surahbi Kadam barely edged out USA's Brendan Lum/Cheryl Chow 16-21, 29-27, 21-14 in mixed doubles. USA quickly countered with a women's singles win by Rena Wang over Jessica Leung 21-10, 21-9 and a men's singles win by Howard Shu over Henry Pan 21-5, 26-24. The 2-1 point edge gave confidence to the USA women's doubles team of Beckie Neumann/Priscilla Lun as they defeated Jessica Leung/Surahbi Kadam 21-12, 18-21, 21-14, to secure the team victory.
The semi-finals were harder as team USA faced last year's runner-up Peru. Peru struck first with a mixed doubles victory by Bruno Monteverde/Katherine Winder over Calvin Lin/Priscilla Lun 21-19, 19-21, 21-15. The close matches continued as Rena Wang again gave USA the point in women's singles with a victory over Claudia Zornoza 21-18, 20-22, 21-13. Peru's Mario Cuba gave his team a 2-1 edge over Howard Shu 15-21, 23-21, 23-21. The US evened the match at 2-2 with a women's doubles victory by Rena Wang/Priscilla Lun over Claudia Zornoza/Katherine Winder 21-11, 21-18. In the deciding final match, Peru's Mario Cuba/Bruno Monteverde stepped up to win the men's doubles over Howard Shu/Calvin Lin 23-21, 21-13. Team USA and their supporters were extremely disappointed at the 3-2 loss to Peru.
Hurt but not out of medal contention, Team USA faced Brazil in the bronze medal round. Brazil got the first point with a mixed doubles victory by Thomas Moretti/Marina Eliezar over Calvin Lin/Cheryl Chow 19-21, 21-14, 21-19. Team USA would not leave empty handed and captured the next three points with a women's singles victory by Beckie Neumann over Renata Carvalho 21-12, 21-11, a men's singles victory by Brendan Lum over Luis Cereda 21-19, 18-21, 21-19 and a women's doubles victory by Rena Wang/Priscilla Lun over Marina Eliezer/Thamie Fontes 21-13, 21-10. Congratulations to team USA on their 3-1 finish over Brazil to capture the 2008 Pan Am Juniors team bronze medal (see team 3rd place picture - team USA on right side).
With the conclusion of the team event, the individual competition began in five age groups (under-11, under-13, under-15, under-17 and under-19), with each having five events (boy's singles, girl's singles, boy's doubles, girl's doubles and mixed doubles). 25 sets of medals were at stake and the USAB team was determined to make up for the team USA bronze by getting individual gold.
In the Under-11 age category, Micaela Lum dominated her field with a triple crown gold medal performance by winning all three of her events (girl's singles, girl's doubles and mixed doubles). Vinson Chiu won two gold in boy's doubles and mixed doubles with Micaela. Crystal Pan partnered with Micaela to also earn a gold medal in girl's doubles.
In the Under-13 age category, Jerry Yang/Zandra Ho received silver medals in mixed doubles. They fought valiantly against Ygor Coelho/Lohaynn Caroline Oliveira of Brazil but fell short 18-21, 19-21. The Brazil team won four of the five gold medals in this age category.
In the Under-15 age category, the USA team dominated this age with five gold medals, three silver medals and four bronze medals. Phillip Chew followed up his US Junior National triple crown gold medal performance by winning Pan Am Junior gold in boy's singles, boy's doubles and mixed doubles events. Iris Wang followed up with two gold medals in girl's singles and with mixed doubles partner Phillip. Andrew Susanto won one gold in boy's doubles playing with Phillip. The USAB team also won all the medals in the girl's singles with a silver medal to Claudia Hardi, and bronze medals to Sharon Ng and Samantha Li.
In the Under-17 age category, Zenas Lam/Brendan Lum won the gold in boy's doubles. A strong team from both Canada and Peru, along with some of the top Under-17 USAB players electing to play the higher age group, made this a very competitive field. The USAB team also received silver medals in mixed doubles by Marvin Lin/Catherine Chiu.
In the Under-19 age category, Rena Wang led the way with two gold medals in women's singles and women's doubles with partner Priscilla Lun. Howard Shu/Cheryl Chow won mixed doubles gold medals to round out the field.
Here is a list of all the USAB participants (see team player picture) and their results (BS is boy's singles, GS is girl's singles, BD is boy's doubles, GD is girl's doubles and XD is mixed doubles) -
Daniel Berdichevsky (Wayland, MA)
Lee Chern (Wayland, MA) - bronze U15BD
Phillip Chew (Orange, CA) - triple crown gold U15BS, U15BD and U15XD
Ryan Chew (Orange, CA)
Brandon Chi (Pleasanton, CA) - bronze U17BS
Catherine Chiu (Newport Beach, CA) - silver U17XD, bronze U17GD
Vinson Chiu (Newport Beach, CA) - gold U11BD and U11XD, silver U11BS
Cheryl Chow (San Marino, CA) - gold U19XD
Claudia Hardi (Irvine, CA) - silver U15GS and U15XD, bronze U15GD
Zandra Ho (Belmont, MA) - silver U13XD, bronze U15GD
Randy Hsia (Arcadia, CA)
Kenneth Hui (Rosemead, CA)
Kevin Hui (Rosemead, CA)
Eric Kuo (Fountain Valley, CA)
Jeffrey Kuo (Saratoga, CA) - silver U15XD, bronze U15BD
Timothy Lam (Mountain View, CA)
Zenas Lam (Mountain View, CA) - gold U17BD
Samantha Li (Chino Hills, CA) - bronze U15GS
Calvin Lin (Villa Park, CA)
Marvin Lin (Villa Park, CA) - silver U17XD
Brendan Lum (San Francisco, CA) - gold U17BD, bronze U17BS
Micaela Lum (San Francisco, CA) - triple crown gold U11GS, U11GD and U11XD
Priscilla Lun (San Marino, CA) - gold U19GD
Beckie Neumann (Manhattan Beach, CA) - bronze U19GD
Sharon Chi-Yee Ng (Sunnyvale, CA) - silver U15GD, bronze U15GS
Crystal Pan (Fremont, CA) - gold U11GD, silver U11GS
Howard Shu (Anaheim Hills, CA) - gold U19XD, bronze U19BS
Andrew Susanto (Orange, CA) - gold U15BD
Iris Wang (Arcadia, CA) - gold U15GS and U15XD, silver U15GD
Rena Wang (Arcadia, CA) - gold U19GS and U19GD
Tiffany Wong (Arcadia, CA)
Darren Yang (Acton, MA)
Jerry Yang (Acton, MA) - silver U13XD
Isabel Zhong (Manhattan Beach, CA) - bronze U17GD
Susana Zhong (Manhattan Beach, CA) - bronze U19GD
At the end, the 35 USAB players earned 12 gold medal finishes, 7 silver medal finishes and 9 bronze medal finishes. Congratulations to the US players on their incredible performance. The successful results of these championships would not be possible without the guidance of the team coaches Joy Kitzmiller and Arnold Setiadi, and the tireless work of the team managers Wayne Lum and Widya Susanto. A special thank you should also go to the tournament organizing committee for an extremely well-run and professional event.
The USAB juniors will prepare to improve on their performance at the next Pan Am Junior international badminton championships in Puerto Rico, August 2009.


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James wrote:I wonder how many level-headed Republicans were really all that worked up prior to this ruling? Heck, I would argue that supporting gay marriage *should* be part of a platform based on reducing government involvement in our lives—it just doesn't jive with the fact that supporting Christian ideals has become a part of the Republican platform and essential to an important political demographic. Most of the level-headed Republicans I've known tossed out half-hearted answers something along the lines of, "I'm opposed, but it's going to happen anyway."
I agree. And to be fair the latter answer is probably the best to give. It is one thing to possess both Christian ideology and Republican ideology and another to push forward both as if in complete harmony.
On the other hand, the people I know who get *really* worked up about the talking points on FOX and Talk Radio hardly missed stride. They went on to explain how SCOTUS doesn't actually have authority to make this ruling, complained about the United States forgetting it's roots as a Christian nation founded on Christian ideals, railed against the liberal judicial system, and generally failed to note that the matter of gay marriage is now essentially settled (insofar as government is concerned). Some tossed Confederate battle flags into their profile pictures and shared upbeat articles celebrating that the gay marriage ruling legalized concealed carry across the country (it was fun backtracking how that interpretation came about).
Agreed. The talking heads and instigators will do what they'll do regardless. Americans grow up with legalistic terms shoved down their throat, but don't distinguish between legal arguments and others.
If there's anyone who should support gay marriage, it should be someone who claims a libertarian foundation. But Ted Cruz? Not surprised in the slightest here... I'm more interested to see if the issue fades out of his conversations as pollsters point out that he's essentially guaranteeing himself no nomination. But maybe a nomination isn't actually his goal? I wonder if some of these people are more interested in increasing their profile within the demographic they play to—or if they really believe they have sufficient national support to carry these views to the White House.
I have a hard time believing that Cruz, and many of these politicians, actually believe they have any chance to succeed at a presidential bid. I agree with your assessment of using it to pander to their demographic, but what I don't understand is that that demographic is (in the long-run) a demographic whose power will continue to fade.
Oh and fun fact I casually read. Since Cruz can't repudiate a SCOTUS decision, his plan is to propose an amendment to put Justices of SCOTUS up for re-election. Because, you know, if you can't get the country's highest court to agree with your argument, hell, just replace them! American judicial integrity be damned! Love it.


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All I can say is ouchie! Those thick brambles can really getcha. Back to those in a minute.
What a day we had today while out Geocaching. We started out fairly early which turned out to be about Eightish. Headed straight towards our first cache in the Southern Raleigh, NC area. Wouldn't you know it that just down the road was a North Carolina original and an addiction to me. Yup the Krispy Kreme donut store was within smelling distance and we had to stop by and get them fresh and oh so yummy.
After I came out of my sugar coated stupor we moved on to the rest of our planned Cache Raid and took on twenty seven geocaches. Unfortunately two of them were DNFs but thems the breaks. We had an absolute blast and yes even when we get scrapes from those nasty brier patches it some how does not hurt so much when you are staring at an ammo box.
All part of the fun and I couldn't think of a better person to go geocaching with than my daughter Miss GeoNess.


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State & National Census Reports are filled with information for genealogists. Both the population & nonpopulation schedules give us insights into the lives of our ancestors. What have you found that is Surprising? Reassuring? Bewildering?
|Thomas Pasquale with this sisters Grace & Carmella
Pasquale is the surname of my husband and his father. Somewhere before that the family was Pascale. Family stories vary as to when and where it was changed. The most popular story involves the usual Ellis Island change. However, I recently found the family in the 1940 US Census, New York State, Westchester County, Somers. I looked for the Pasquale family and found the Pascale family. Interestingly, the 1920 & 1930 Census reports list their name as Pasquale.
Frank Pascale, my husband's grandfather, a naturalized citizen from Italy, was a farm manager. He paid $30 a month for rent and earned an income of $1,200. His wife, also born in Italy, was Jennie Pascale. Their four children were all born in New York State. Augustine, 19, was a farm helper. Thomas, 17; Grace, 15; and Carmella, 7, were all attending school.
With the exception of Frank, I knew all these people and they were all Pasquales. This is another research project for a rainy day.


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|Ethnic Lampshades
To begin with, the items in home decor section of the store is sure to figure in every home maker's wishlist.
Unlike the other retails outlets which caters only to the contemporary taste, The Bombay Store blends well the traditional and modern approach thereby giving the consumers a wide array
of choices.
The archiac lamp shades caught my eye the moment I entered the store. They were beautifully done and came in different colours.
Another intriguing home decor item were t he round shaped woollen balls which anyone would mistakenly take for being kids play item but
it was actually a fancy piece which is quite a 'in-thing' now.
|Fancy Round balls
|Fancy balls as home decor pieces
|Tissue holders
|Trays in the 'India' theme
Another highlight of the store were the Mughal motifs and artifacts which I'm sure are a Bombay Store exclusive. These pretty things serve as perfect gifting options. They not only add to the decor but also bring out the essence of a rich cultural background that the Mughals have brought to India.
|Mughal Motifs
|Traditional clocks to adorn you wall
|Newspaper print umbrella
|India themed Umbrella
The tour ended with on a funny note when I came across a set of T-shirt that associated the major cities of the country. And it goes without saying that the city which amused me the most was Mumbai. Take a look and let me know if it truly depicts the attitude of us Mumbaikars :)
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This book covers the practical considerations and applications in database programming using Java NetBeans IDE, JavaServer Pages, JavaServer Faces, and Java Beans, and comes complete with authentic examples and detailed explanations.
Two data–action methods are developed and presented in this important resource. With Java Persistence API and plug–in Tools, readers are directed step by step through the entire database programming development process and will be able to design and build professional data–action projects with a few lines of code in mere minutes. The second method, runtime object, allows readers to design and build more sophisticated and practical Java database applications.
Advanced and updated Java database programming techniques such as Java Enterprise Edition development kits, Enterprise Java Beans, JavaServer Pages, JavaServer Faces, Java RowSet Object, and Java Updatable ResultSet are also discussed and implemented with numerous example projects.
Ideal for classroom and professional training use, this text also features:
A detailed introduction to NetBeans Integrated Development Environment
Java web–based database programming techniques (web applications and web services)
More than thirty detailed, real–life sample projects analyzed via line–by–line illustrations
Problems and solutions for each chapter
A wealth of supplemental material available for download from the book′s ftp site, including PowerPoint slides, solution manual, JSP pages, sample image files, and sample databases
Coverage of two popular database systems: SQL Server 2008 and Oracle
This book provides undergraduate and graduate students as well as database programmers and software engineers with the necessary tools to handle the database programming issues in the Java NetBeans environment.
Acknowledgments xxv
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
What This Book Covers 2
How This Book Is Organized and How to Use This Book 3
How to Use the Source Code and Sample Databases 5
Instructor and Customer Support 6
Homework Solutions 7
Chapter 2 Introduction to Databases 9
2.1 What Are Databases and Database Programs? 10
2.2 Develop a Database 12
2.3 Sample Database 13
2.4 Identifying Keys 17
2.5 Define Relationships 18
2.6 ER Notation 21
2.7 Data Normalization 21
2.8 Database Components in Some Popular Databases 26
2.9 Create Microsoft Access Sample Database 34
2.10 Create Microsoft SQL Server 2008
2.11 Create Oracle 10g XE Sample Database 61
2.12 Chapter Summary 85
Chapter 3 JDBC API and JDBC Drivers 89
3.1 What Are JDBC and JDBC API? 89
3.2 JDBC Components and Architecture 90
3.3 How Does JDBC Work? 92
3.4 JDBC Driver and Driver Types 95
3.5 JDBC Standard Extension API 99
3.6 Chapter Summary 108
Chapter 4 JDBC Application Design Considerations 113
4.1 JDBC Application Models 113
4.2 JDBC Applications Fundamentals 115
4.3 Chapter Summary 151
Chapter 5 Introduction to NetBeans IDE 155
5.1 Overview of the NetBeans IDE 6.8 156
5.2 Installing and Confi guring the NetBeans IDE 6.8 161
5.3 Exploring NetBeans IDE 6.8 164
5.4 Chapter Summary 312
PART I Building Two–Tier Client Server Applications 317
Chapter 6 Query Data from Databases 319
Section I Query Data Using Java Persistence API Wizards 319
6.1 Java Persistence APIs 319
6.2 Query Data Using Java Persistence API Wizards (JPA) 321
Section II Query Data Using Java Runtime Objects Method 383
6.3 Introduction to Runtime Object Method 383
6.4 Create a Java Application Project to Access the SQL Server Database 384
6.5 Create a Java Application Project to Access the Oracle Database 441
6.6 Chapter Summary 455
Chapter 7 Insert, Update, and Delete Data from Databases 463
Section I Insert, Update and Delete Data Using Java Persistence API Wizards 463
7.1 Perform Data Manipulations to SQL Server Database Using JPA Wizards 464
7.2 Perform Data Manipulations to Oracle Database Using JPA Wizards 482
Section II Insert, Update and Delete Data Using Java Runtime Objects Method 488
7.3 Perform Data Manipulations to SQL Server Database Using Java Runtime Object 488
7.4 Perform Data Manipulations to Oracle Database Using Java Runtime Object 502
7.5 Perform Data Manipulations Using Updatable ResultSet 510
7.6 Perform Data Manipulations Using Callable Statements 522
7.7 Chapter Summary 550
PART II Building Three–Tier Client Server Applications 555
Chapter 8 Developing Java Web Applications to Access Databases 557
8.1 A Historical Review about Java Web Application Development 557
8.2 Java EE Web Application Model 597
8.3 The Architecture and Components of Java Web Applications 599
8.4 Getting Started with Java Web Applications Using NetBeans IDE 611
8.5 Build Java Web Project to Access SQL Server Database 625
8.6 Build Java Web Project to Access and Manipulate Oracle Database 690
8.7 Chapter Summary 764
Chapter 9 Developing Java Web Services to Access Databases 769
9.1 Introduction to Java Web Services 770
9.2 The Structure and Components of SOAP–Based Web Services 772
9.3 The Procedure of Building a Typical SOAP–Based Web Service Project 774
9.4 Getting Started with Java Web Services Using NetBeans IDE 786
9.5 Build Java Web Service Projects to Access SQL Server Database 787
9.6 Build a Windows–Based Web Client Project to Consume the Web Service 795
9.7 Build a Web–Based Client Project to Consume the Web Service 801
9.8 Build Java Web Service to Insert Data into the SQL Server Database 808
9.9 Build a Windows–Based Web Client Project to Consume the Web Service 811
9.10 Build a Web–Based Client Project to Consume the Web Service 815
9.11 Build Java Web Service to Update and Delete Data from the SQL Server Database 819
9.12 Build a Windows–Based Web Client Project to Consume the Web Service 827
9.13 Build a Web–Based Client Project to Consume the Web Service 834
9.14 Build Java Web Service Projects to Access Oracle Databases 840
9.15 Build a Windows–Based Web Client Project to Consume the Web Service 873
9.16 Build a Web–Based Web Client Project to Consume the Web Service 890
9.17 Chapter Summary 904
Homework 905
Index 909
About the Author 919


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Sin for Free!--Albuquerque's Sin Fronteras Film Festival (taking place April 20, 21 and 28) is gearing up with a series of free previews. On Monday, April 2, the festival will screen an English-subtitled print of the Argentine documentary Hotel Gondolin. Director Fernando Lopez Escriva's film examines a group of transgender women who are squatting in a hotel in Buenos Aires and follows their efforts to organize as sex workers. The screening, organized by UNM Students of Latin American Studies, will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. at the UNM SUB theater. Following the 52-minute film, transgender community activists will be on hand to speak and lead a discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
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The Lookout
Neo-noir thriller plays serious mind games
It's the quiet ones you've got to watch out for. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, for example, is one of the quiet ones. After five years of scoring effortless sitcom laughs on "3rd Rock From the Sun," Gordon-Levitt unceremoniously segued his career into a string of fine indie film performances (Latter Days, Mysterious Skin, Brick). Gordon-Levitt's newest film, The Lookout, is one of the quiet ones, too--a low-budget thriller directed by first-time cameraslinger Scott Frank.
Film Review
Turkish drama keeps its mouth shut and its eyes open
Thoughtful, contemplative, taciturn: These are words to describe the Turkish drama Climates. If you're in the mood. If not, then "slooooooooooow" will suffice.
Idiot Box
It's Good to Be the King
"The Tudors" on Showtime
Henry VIII: Fat dude, marriage addict, star of that maddening '60s pop tune. Yeah, we all know him. But Showtime is determined to showcase a different side to the infamous English leader. "The Tudors," premiering this Sunday, gives us a 10-part glimpse into the political backstabbing and naughty backstage antics of the early Tudor court. It's sort of like "The Sopranos" but with fancier clothes and an easier-to-understand accent.
Week in Sloth
The Week in Sloth
"1,000 Places to See Before You Die" (Travel Channel 7 p.m.) This new series is based on Patricia Schultz' best-selling travel book. Of course, she never actually said you had to go to these places. Now, you can simply sit on your living room couch and see them all on a weekly basis.
"Heroes" (Sci-Fi 7 p.m.) Fans can revel in their favorite moments and newcomers can catch up big time with tonight's five-episode marathon from the past season of NBC's superheroic hit.


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Citrix certifications have long taken a solid position in the IT industry. These credentials are solutions-based that reflect the changing needs of IT professionals and organizations. As a certified specialist, an individual can prove that he/she has the real skills and experience necessary to successfully solve Citrix solutions. In 2018 Citrix launched two new Cloud… Read More »


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And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Revelation 8:11 (KJV)
G. Edward Griffin's excellent film entitled 'What in World are they Spraying" educated us all to the deadly toxins that are being sprayed into the atmosphere as those stripes across the sky called 'chemtrails', or 'persistent contrails'. It is geoengineering disaster for us all.
Now comes the follow up film called "Why in the World are they Spraying" that begins to fill in the picture…and its all about world domination.
Who is doing the spraying? This is Satan's design, and Satan's confusion.
Does this fit Scripture's description of 'Wormwood'? How are chemtrails one of the signs of the end times? Do the chemtrails poison the food, so it becomes bitter like the plant wormwood?
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What's a tip for celebrating a holiday or milestone with your kids when your partner isn't able to be there?
No, seriously, I mean it!
I recall Mother's Day 2007. My Navy husband was in the 5th month of a yearlong deployment to Djibouti, Africa. I met some other "geographically single" military moms at an indoor play center to let the kids run off some steam while we chatted. A couple hours later, the kids, sweaty and sufficiently coated in invisible ball-pit bacteria, told us they were starving to death.
The mothers begrudgingly trudged toward the exit. "Ugh," one mom groaned, "I really don't want to cook." "Me neither," another chimed in, her lips stretched downward in an exaggerated frown.
After months of parenting alone, I seriously contemplated eating my daughter's filthy sweat-dampened socks to avoid cooking another meal. "Hey, you guys wanna go out to lunch somewhere?!"
We huddled in the parking lot to plan a lunch outing, but our excitement soon turned to disappointment when we realized that, without a reservation, we'd be lucky to get Slurpies and Slim Jims at 7-11 on Mother's Day.
We said our good-byes again, and slogged to our respective minivans.
Just then, a 150-watt bulb blinked on in my deployment weary brain with possibly the best idea I'd had in my entire life. "I know where we can go!" I blurted. The other moms and their offspring looked to me with hope in their hungry eyes across the quivering asphalt, and I bellowed with outstretched arms like their pseudo savior, "HOOTERS!"
Much as I had predicted, we had the whole place to ourselves, and lazily munched on wings and fries late into the afternoon. The waitresses seemed more than happy to cater to feminine clientele who don't giggle nervously and ogle at their ill-fitting shirts, so the service was excellent. While I did have to wipe drool from my 11-year-old son's chin a time or two, all in all, it was a perfect Mother's Day.
Funny stories aside, there is no reason whatsoever to mope around and feel sorry for yourself when your military spouse isn't able to be there for holidays and special moments. You are not alone -- there are plenty of other military spouses out there who have done it, are doing it, and will do it countless times in the future.
It's kinda silly to continue family traditions if they just won't be the same without your spouse. Instead, pick yourself up, go find other military spouses, and do something different.
It will distract you and the kids, and you might end up with a good story to tell!


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released 24 september 2008
1. Look Up, Hannah!
2. All in one
3. Today is Sunday
4. Black clouds
5. Daydreamday
6. Silverspoon
7. Beacon
8. Undersmile
9. Salt, sand and stone
10. Octobersong
11. The sleeper
12. The shore
13. The sleeper and the shore
14. The owls are not what they seem
Meanwhileproject.ltd started as a one-man-project. After several years of playing guitar in miscellaneous rock bands in Cologne, the idea came to my mind, that it would be the right point of time to make some music on my own. "Meanwhile", I thought, "I could create something different..,, something BIG, maybe an electronic-ambient-guitar album or something…"
I wrote some songs, that wouldn't work with my bands, while I was waiting for a complete change of the life I had before (well, this is probably another story…). So it all started with my guitar, certain effects, a new midi-keyboard and a computer. The first weeks passed away as I had to learn something about using my virtual recording gear, after that I produced several tracks in another wide stretch of time. After a few months of sweat, anger and work I had an output of about 10 songs, completely mixed and mastered. Awesome feeling!
I was happy and proud and – I threw it all away… Well, of course I liked the instruments and sounds, at least somehow, I liked the melodies and for sure I liked the songs as a whole, but… I needed more! I needed REAL drums, a REAL piano and other non-virtual instruments. And, maybe most important, I needed REAL voices, I mean REALLY good singers, because my so well planned electronic-ambient-guitar-chill-out-whatever album was in actual fact going to be a POP album, maybe an alternative-pop-ambient album, or better: an indie-singer-songwriter-folk-alternative-pop-ambient-chill-album!
So another year of rehearsing, recording, erasing, re-recording, mixing and mastering followed. For a limited period of time I played in a band again – with a bass man, a drummer, a trumpet player and two singers. Meanwhile, after taking a really long road, there was this album, pure and organic instrumentation combined with ambient sounds and electronic elements, voices, guitars, beats, REAL drums and more. That's what I wanted, that's what I've got.
My soul is deep-rooted in most different musical styles, so my musical in- and output is kind of versatile. In my opinion a really good pop song has to come up with a devastatingly, emotional melody and a groovy rhythm, but it has to be kind of edgy anyhow.
As a guitarist the "six-stringed axe" means still the most familiar form of expression to me, so this is one of the common themes of the whole album, beside the application of harmonic voices and melodies.
Maybe you'll find references to things you know and hopefully like, but don't forget, I created an electronic-organic-independent-pop-alternative-folk-ambient album, not more or less, even if I totally lost the survey (and never found it again…). Maybe next time I'll do rock music again, or reggae-rock-soul-pop, or… who cares…
About the artist
Meanwhileproject.ltd is M. Adam, family guy, musician and teacher. Today is Sunday is his first official release as a solo artist. He also plays guitar in the two alternative rock bands Lunatic Skydance and Concerto HiFi. M. Adam lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
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Harwood Museum of Art
Judy Chicago collaborated with more than 150 needle workers between 1980 and 1985 to create dozens of images combining painting and needlework that celebrate the birth process – from the painful to the mythical. Sometimes witty and always original, this series celebrates the birth-giving capacity of women along with their creative spirit. Birth Project works have been exhibited in over 100 venues around the country.
Judy Chicago was born on July 20, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. She is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans five decades. Gloria Steinem stated in Interview magazine (2017), "Chicago is not only a pioneer of feminist art; she is arguably its founder, inventor, and chief figurehead." She lives and works in Belen, New Mexico.