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When you copy part of a numbered list in Word 7 or 97 and paste it into a new document, Word automatically renumbers the first line with a 1. Here's how to preserve your original numbering sequence.
When you copy part of a numbered list in Word 7 or 97 and paste it into a new document, Word automatically renumbers the first line with a 1. Here's how to preserve your original numbering sequence.
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- Company: Urwerk
- Price: About $100,000
- Official Site: Urwerk.com
- Release Date: 2008
A "world's first" in many categories, the Urwerk 202 has a resume almost as impressive as its general aesthetic. This timepiece, compliments of two small turbines on the back, is the first to use a winding system regulated by compression air. And don't overlook the telescopic, retracting minute hands that operate through the middle of three orbiting and revolving satellite hours; yes, the 202's composition boasts a sophisticated complexity that underlies the overall intricacies of this superbly exquisite watch: Aside from the cutting-edge technology, the watch's design and available finishes all rank pretty high on the list of super-distinctive.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a watch more singular than this one, in terms of both its odd beauty and its innovative design. (Since only 200 were produced, it's hard to find one, period.) In fact, you could easily argue that this watch is a one-of-a-kind creation with no equivalent, and such a brazen claim could be predicated on any of the following characteristics: the air-compression winding system, the telescoping hands, the asymmetrical face, and/or the sublime ALTIN edition, which features a special hard-case coating developed by someone like a Lucius Fox. That said, while the many idiosyncrasies of this unconventional watch do make it stand alone, they may do so to a fault. The Urwerk 202 won't mesh well with traditional styles or fly too high with classical tastes, but then again, it may not have been designed for those two categories anyway.
When debating the 202's long-lasting merits, you must be judicious in sorting out the finer details. First, the 202 comes in three rock-solid finishes -- white gold, red gold and ALTIN -- making it readily available, externally, to withstand many tests of time. However, once you look under the hood, you find the casing is filled with twin turbines, air compressors and countless other specialty pieces that require expert attention. You end up with a tough-as-nails shell filled with delicately constructed mechanisms. So, the overall composition is something of a paradox, and the 202's appearance could be summed up in much the same way. It enjoys an unforgettably masculine design, but one so unique it might not be respected for long. At the end of the day, with only 200 in existence, you can bank on the 202 being around for a while, but almost exclusively in the trophy cases of watch collectors.

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In September 2002, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) confirmed that a zebra mussel population was present in Millbrook Quarry, which is located in western Prince William County. While zebra mussels were discovered and removed from a boat at Smith Mountain Lake in 1993 before it was launched, a population had never before been documented in Virginia. Native to the Caspian, Black and Azov seas of eastern Europe, zebra mussels are believed to have been introduced into U.S. waters in 1986 through ballast water discharge in the Great Lakes. As the following map depicts, these invasive mollusks have spread rapidly throughout most of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basin states and now inhabit water bodies in or bordering 25 states. Unlike other freshwater bivalves, zebra mussels can attach to surfaces using their byssal threads, leading to tremendous recreation, wildlife, and economic damage. Zebra mussels can colonize or clog watercraft hulls and motors; smother aquatic wildlife like freshwater mussels and crayfish; and encrust pilings, dams, pipelines, or water treatment facilities. In fact, many water and power facilities in infested areas must regularly treat their systems to keep them free of this exotic species. Additionally, zebra mussels are efficient filter-feeders and can remove microscopic organisms that make up the food base for many native fishes and aquatic wildlife. Given their ability to attach to hard surfaces and survive out of water for up to 7 days, many infestations have occurred by hitching rides on watercraft. The microscopic larvae also can be transported in bilges, ballast water, live wells, or any other equipment that holds water. Because of the potential environmental and economic impacts of zebra mussels, VDGIF is counting on you to help stop the spread of this invasive species by taking the following precautions:
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2012 was a record year for doc2doc in many respects. We have had an unprecedented amount of new members, posts, poll votes and recommends. On behalf of the doc2doc team and the BMJ Group –we would like to say a huge thank you for your excellent posts!
What have been the highlights? I suppose it's objective but as community manager, I would like to point out some general highlights from the year.
Firstly, who could forget the London Olympics and Paralympics! Whilst there was pre-games pessimism, once the opening ceremony had begun most of us were simply hooked. We had several discussions including are athletes superhuman and do paralympians with prosthetic limbs have an unfair advantage? This year will also be remembered for the Fabrice Muamba incident and subsequent discussion, and input we had from a football team doctor about screening players for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Another memorable discussion was Was it wrong to use medical care as a reason to track down Bin Laden? This was a very important issue where politics and medicine intersected. Was this ruse justified and has it jeopardised the validity of future vaccination programmes? This discussion was also picked up by BBC World Service, where our very own Duane argued that this was justified.
The BMJ ran some interesting articles and debates this year which doc2doc reflected. Notably the article stating that doctors should take a neutral stance on assisted dying. The Student BMJ discussion about whether it is acceptable to prostitute yourself to pay your medical school tuition fees was also an electric debate. This year we also covered whether doctors were justified in striking over their pensions.
As always we have a lot of lively debates about medical ethics and spirituality. We had a discussion about patients who believe in karma, parents who believe in divine intervention, should Christian healthcare workers be allowed to wear a cross and is it ethical to stunt the growth of a severely disabled child?
And of course, we had some great discussions about professionalism. Namely, should junior doctors should wear lab coats, should doctors sport facial hair and should doctors self prescribe?
However, the top discussion of the year was Does it matter which medical school you go to? This is of course a topic that everyone has an opinion on and achieved nearly 12,000 views and 900 poll votes.
You can read more about the most popular clinical discussions in doc2doc's clinical champions' favourite discussions of 2012. Below are the highest ranking discussions on doc2doc, with the number of views and replies factored in. Of course, this is just one way of looking at the impact of discussions, and I would encourage you all to post below the discussions that had the biggest impact on you below.
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1. Does it matter which medical school you go to?
2. Should circumcision of both sexes be outlawed unless medically indicated?
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5. Was it wrong to use medical care as a reason to track down Bin Laden?
6. Should Christian health professionals be allowed to wear a cross at work?
7. What barriers or frustrations do you face when managing patients with long term conditions?
8. Should junior doctors wear lab coats?
9. Are doctors justified in striking in defence of their pensions?
10. Should doctors have a social media profile?
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1. What's the best piece of advice you've been given?
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3. Should circumcision of both sexes be outlawed unless medically indicated?
4. Should Christian health professionals be allowed to wear a cross at work?
5. Which theory do you believe best accounts for human evolution?
6. DOCTORS - not using Latin language? Why?
7. Does Study of Islamic Theology Benefit Everyone?
8. Should prisoners on death row be allowed to donate their organs?
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1. Should circumcision of both sexes be outlawed unless medically indicated?
2. 50 things to do before you qualify....
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5. DOCTORS - not using Latin language? Why?
6. What shoes do you wear at work?
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7. Are You Watching 'Junior Doctors: Your Lives in Their Hands'?
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10. Mrs B gets her Personal Health Budget, post NHS Health and Social Care Bill
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady lost his favorite target a couple seasons ago when Wes Welker signed with the Denver Broncos. Despite no longer being teammates, Brady still has concern for his old friend. Welker suffered his third concussion on a hit from Houston Texans safety D.J. Swearinger on Saturday night. The hit may cause Welker to miss a few games to start the season at the least.
On Monday, Brady discussed the hit on his weekly appearance on WEEI's "Dennis and Callahan" morning show. With concussions being such a concerning issue in the NFL, Brady said he teaches his receivers to try to avoid dangerous hits, but in the game of football it sometimes cant be avoided.
"It's a tough thing to see when you see guys get injured," Brady said. "Certainly head injuries, which have been a big topic of conversation the last few years. The NFL and the players association are trying to do the best they can to eliminate those types of injuries, but they're going to come up, because it's a contact sport."
Welker missed the final three games last season when he suffered a second concussion. He wore a special protective helmet when he did return to action, but for a receiver like Welker who spends a lot of time catching balls over the middle, hits like the one he took Saturday night can certainly happen again. Brady feels it is unfortunate that it continues to happen to a player like Welker.
He said, "It's tough to see that happen. A guy like Wes, who's one of my best friends, he's as tough as they come. You hate to see him go through those things, to see it happen for the third time in a little less than a year, it's a tough thing. It's a tough thing for any player to deal with."
Brady also mentioned in the interview that he does brain exercises with body coach, Alex Guerrero, to keep his mind sharp. He doesn't want to be 50 or 60 years old and not be able to function physically or think straight. A physical sport like football has consequences. Brady wants to ensure he stays ahead of those consequences the best way he knows how.


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1. Last night Joffrey was poisoned at his wedding. But how did it happen?!
2. Well, do you remember Ser Dontos? The drunk guy who's been creeping on Sansa?
3. Before Joffrey's wedding, he gives her a necklace. That necklace has seven crystals. This is important!
4. The next day, Lady Olenna, the very badass matriarch of the Tyrells, comes over to Sansa during Joffrey's wedding. She's actually…
5. …pulling off one of Sansa's crystals.
6. In the Game of Thrones universe, there's a poison called "The Strangler." It's made from purple crystallized plants.
7. Lady Olenna then leaves with the missing purple crystal.
8. A bit later Joffrey gets drunk, humiliates Tyrion, and forces Tyrion to be his cupbearer.
9. Tyrion goes to get Joffrey's wine. All the while, Lady Olenna is watching the wine very, very closely.
10. And then Joffrey drinks the wine and dies.
11. Hooray!
12. And no one, except for Ser Dontos and Lady Olenna, was the wiser. That is…unless there were others involved…
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Summer is slowly coming to end and we're all trying to squeeze in the last bit of summer vacationing as much as we can. Labor Day is just around the corner and after that it's time to pack up the summer gear and the white shoes (if you follow that fashion rule!) and pull out the all things long sleeve. But until then, it's time to check out some of the late summer/fall accessories and ready to wear options from Ben-Amun by Isaac Manevitz, Loup Charmant, AS by DF and ASTARS.
For Fall 2014 Ben-Amun by Isaac Manevitz brings to us the Leaves of Gold Collection. The Leaves of Gold Collection feature mixed metals, decadent gold and crystals with darker, moodier colors that are reminiscent of the season's fashion runways. The richness of the collection is representative of the rich colors of the season for timeless jewels that will turn heads year- round with evident nature in all the pieces. Standout pieces include the Gold and Crystal Statement Necklace on Brown Silk Ribbon with Tassels ($945), the Gold and Crystal Statement Necklace with Chain Tassel ($445) and the Gold and Crystal Cluster Earrings ($180). To view more items in the collection visit Ben-Amun at http://www.ben-amun.com/.
From Loup Charmant, who embraces the fuss free appeal of beach dressing the 2014 collection is for the carefree woman. Full of timeless versatility every ready to wear piece is perfectly suited for bed and beach and the quick getaway. With soft pastels mixed with more saturated, but equally dreamy colors like dusty blues, sunset and desert colors make the collection a must have in every city chic with an inner boho heart's closet. Stand out pieces include the Duster ($345), the Safari Shirt ($201) and the Arielle Piping Blouse ($200). To view more items in the collection visit Loup Charmant at http://shop.loupcharmant.com/.
Next up ASTARS who is know for their effortless chic style by combining jersey with with textured and quilted knits look for pieces that are full of clean lines, edgy accents and above all relaxed sophistication. Bringing their motorcycle heritage to the plate look for these following standout pieces like the Meg Banded Moto Jacket ($143), the Cropped Poncho ($92) and the LMD Maxi Dress ($117). For more items in the ASTARS visit http://www.astarswomens.com/.
Lastly AS by DF who has been making a slash with Hollywood's A listers recently, has some of the chicest clothes for the new season. So much so that you may not want to wait that long! Just like its parent company ASTARS, AS by DF loves to mix textiles to create beautifully edgy yet sophisticated silhouettes. The fall palette is more neutral with shades of beige, whites and blacks mixed in with earthy teals and browns. Standout pieces include the Second Skin Leather Jacket in Tar Green ($629), that would look amazing when paired over the All The Way Silk Jumpsuit ($264) and the City Lights Mini ($176) paired with the Safe and Sound Leather Top ($385). To learn more about AS by DF visit their site at http://shop.asbydf.com/.


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Dancers, photographed underwater, with photo montage, accompanied by selected poems from Penguin's "The Gift - Poems by Hafiz the Great Sufi Master" translated by Daniel Ladinsky.
"This is a very distinctive body of work. It's open ended enigmatic narrative is compelling. The romantic/gothic quality of this painterly work, imbued with a modern/surreal sensibility, is tempered with contemporary undercurrents, such as amputation (with frame or surface of water) and duplication (through reflection and displacement in time)."
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When we were young girls, writing the class prophecy, we would "dip our pen into the ink and gaze into the future as far as the eye could see."
But as we grow older and the years pass us swiftly by, we find ourselves dipping the proverbial pen into the ink and looking into the past.
It takes me back one quarter of a century and I see an ambitious little woman making a house-to-house canvass in the rain over gravelled roads full of ruts. Some of the roads were just plain mud. One could not wheel a baby cart over such roads, so this woman carried her baby in her arms.
Her mission was to organize a Mothers Club. The object was to get the things necessary for our new schoolhouse, the pride and joy of the whole neighborhood — the Russell School.
I wonder if anyone would think of starting anything nowadays without a car to hop into and paved highways to sail over, as did Mrs. Genevieve Skyes, first president of this club.
Eight women, seven of them still living, answered the call of this brave woman. We did about everything to make money for the school, for although we had a shiny new schoolhouse, we had little else. The grounds were crude, no fences, no library, no dishes or piano, and they didn't seem to think of asking the school directors to get any of these things. But, with a great deal of enthusiasm, and plenty of good dinners, we had the help of the fathers for almost any scheme we would undertake. In the early days it was no unusual thing when it was pouring rain for the fathers to meet with the mothers on club day. To show our appreciation for their hardy cooperation in all our ideas and notions, we founded an annual Father's Day dinner, a custom we still observe.
The moon played quite an important part in our program there, as we didn't have the lights of machines and didn't enjoy carrying lanterns, so the evening meetings were timed by the calendar and we came home "by the sweet silvery light of the moon."
As I have remarked, we did almost everything to make money: sewed carpet bags, made quilt blocks and had suppers. One of the most unusual was shelling corn. One of our members raised quite a lot of corn, and she made the remark that she had so many chickens to feed, she got very tired shelling corn for them. Mrs. Durgan suggested she have the Mothers Club help her. She asked us to a nice chicken dinner, and after we had eaten as much dinner as her chickens ate corn, we all shelled corn and visited, the same as we do now over our fancy work. Mrs. Phipps got the first prize. I do not remember who got the booby prize, but I do know we shelled a lot of corn.
We had an oyster supper; the soup was made on an elongated heating stove with three good legs and a brick for the other, on the old stage platform of the old hall. The space was very small and three large ladies were on the soup-making committee. I trembled for the big kettle of soup, but nothing happened to it. The soup was very good, it must have been because we didn't take ourselves too seriously, for the old hall was drafty, and the waiters had to carry the soup quite a ways, so it was not very hot delivered.
We have heard so much lately about charter members, and due honor has been given them, but I can't help thinking about one of our members who served the club in every capacity with the exception of vice president. She, too, had to walk a long distance very often, and carry the biggest secretary's book. I really don't know why we had to have such a big book. In the many years she worked for the club, she was seldom absent. Mrs. Ethel Durgan Smith is a representative type of the Mothers Club member.
When speaking of the Mothers Club before a group of Vancouver women, one of them said, "Oh, the Mothers Club, I know of it — it was one of the bright spots of Aunt Jennie's life." And those who knew Mrs. Thompson think the club has justified its existence, if it had no other object, by making her last years a little happier.
We have often been accused of thinking too much about good dinners and good times, but we have done lots of work and were happy together, and when the World War came, we were already organized, and were ready for our Red Cross work, which was so creditably carried on under our able chairman, Mrs. Theresa Morgan.
Every now and again, I meet the friends of members who have passed on. They ask about the Mothers Club and seem interested in us and what we are doing. I would say the Mothers Club has been decidedly worthwhile and an asset to the neighborhood. It is still carrying on and under the leadership of our beloved President Olive Dillon is ready for any work that will help the school and the community.
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There are a few sites on the internet that people just associate with wow gaming. These include world of raids, curse-gaming, wow.com, wowhead and a few others. Very rarely do you come across a site and add it to your 'favorite wow places.' I took one look at wowraid and did just that.
Wow raiders have been handed an awesome resource for news and information regarding the PVE aspect of their favorite game (no I don't mean peggle). Whether you are a hardcore raider or casual pvper, you will find valuable information on this site. Take some time to look through the class loot lists to see what gear options you have in WOTLK raiding, read the mountain of mounts guide if you're an achievement hunter, or maybe you'd like to read an interview with Tom Chilton, lead developer for blizzard. If you're into pve, then this site is definately something you're going to want to bookmark.
There's a lot of information to sort through when bidding, buying, or posting items on the auction house. In fact it's too much for any one ...
PCT means percentage or percentage market value for an item. After you have scanned with auctioneer enough you will have an accurate PCT for...
You mentioned the old essences selling pretty well, undeath being one of the big ones (8g 45s a piece on emerald dream). Well Zul'Mashar...
Of all my posts at Just My Two Copper , I think that this farming spot is going to excite my hunter readers the most. In this article I am ...
Don't forget to pick up the best farming trinket in the game. 1. Fire Revenants of Stormpeaks Eternal fires remain the most expens...
Hey Markco, Just wanted to tell you another gold tip. With patch 3.1 the JC pattern Citrine Ring Of Rapid Healing no longer requires 2 elem...
I requested the following information from Cithan, who had commented anonymously about the subject of speeding up auctioneer scans. His emai...
This post was submitted by Alisha as her application to write here at JMTC. If you enjoyed Alisha's post then please give her a thumbs u...
Mommar here. For anyone that leveled a jewelcrafter during Mists of Pandaria they are very familiar with obtaining patterns for blue le...
Learn world of warcraft bidding practices in this article that will help you win bids more frequently. Here are the four categories you w...
Apparently blizzard is making the vendor price of items appear in the item description of all vendorable commodities in world of warcraft.
So much for vendor searches :(
Honestly though, vendor search is something most auctioneers do for starter cash, not a steady income. Now the only successful vendor searches will come from either idiocy or mistakenly priced goods.
Is this blizzard's first step in producing an in game version of auctioneer?
Purchase an item as a stack of 20 and resell one at a time for 150-300% profit.
Now, remember that this works both ways, particularly for elemental items. Look for goods that have completely different PCT's (that's percentage of market value which the addon auctioneer shows you) and compare 1 item vs 20 items or a comparable stack.
Saronite bars are the best example of this practice, but all this speculation about titanium ore has also produced an oppurtunity for crafty auctioneers. Myself, I purchased 40 titanium ore for 130 gold and then turned them into bars, selling the bars for 10 gold each. I made 70 gold from this the same day I purchased the ore.
Offer services today, whatever your profession is and instead of asking for a tip, charge a steady amount. For instance: WTS Spellpower to weapon, your mats + 10 gold. If someone wants this enchant they'll pay the 10 gold to save time.
Pick locks, cut gems, etc all for a set price... don't rely on random tips for your hard earned profession skills!
Vacation is going great for your auction house master with BBQ's, boat riding, beach parties, and even a few arena games on a laptop under a palm tree. (Ok the last one was a lie but I wish).
Today I want you all to post a comment with your own strategies for making gold, whether it be speculation on 3.2, your current activies or maybe even gold mines of the past. Sharing ideas is the goal of this blog, so get going :)
Be sure to visit the forums for some great Q&A as well as auction house discussion. Definately want to give a shout out to the forum admins and MVP's who have done a marvelous job particularly in the "OMG I Can't Make Gold!" thread.
I'm having this next beer for the blog :)
A toast to the best wow gold making community on the internets!
PS: I've been getting some GREAT emails while on vacation regarding gems and such for the upcoming patch and I'll be making them into posts when I come back from vacation next Tuesday.
Find a Mining, Herbing, or Skinning farmer, even advertise in trade; looking for someone who has tons of your favorite mat and can COD them to you at any time.
Many players don't want to deal with the auction house at all and you can make their lives so much easier by simply buying out their goods at a standard and reliable price. Many dislike the COD option so you will want to find a farmer that usually sells their goods in trade while you are also online.
I've seen several players already advertising in trade and looking to pay titanium ore farmers great money for their goods at fixed prices.
Be sure to be consistent with the price you are offering and try not to spam more than once per minute in trade chat.
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Lògosh of Mug' thol said...
Hello Markco i would just like to say a way i am making money from leveling Jewelcrafting. On my server thorium goes for 28g a stack while all the gems that come from it go from 10-18 gold. Just from prospecting i make a profit. I made about 200 gold back from out of 400 leveling my jewelcrafting. It is quite funny how i can make a profit from it.
This is a great point and maybe if you get bored of collecting all that titanium ore you can go take a lap around darkwhisper gorge and gather some easy money.
You should also make it part of your daily routine to be buying out thorium ore on the auction house.
So titanium ore is becoming an incredibly sought out commodity... all based on speculation for a patch possibly months away!
This will and is already having an effect on the prices of anything built using titanium bars. Titansteel, Titanium Weapon Chain, Enchant Cloak Titanweave, and Titanium Rod will all see huge price spikes once playeres start crafting them with the new titanium prices in mind. If you managed to have a small stockpile of any of these items (lucky!) then you will be able to price gouge and make huge profits.
Let's say I take my ten Titanium Weapon Chains and in one week notice the price has gone up by 10 gold. I can raise my price by 5 gold and be the lowest seller and beat out all the competition for a huge profit, whereas my competetitors would be losing money selling at my price.
I like to call this trickle up wow economics, eventhough it has very little to do with the real world version.
Once you notice the price rising on any of these titanium commodities, go farm some titanium ore and spend some time crafting for huge profits.
That's right, Saronite, the ore that is going to drop like a rock when blue gems become worthless, will also become one of your greatest tools for making money.
Let me show you an example:
Deadly Saronite Dirk - 7 Saronite Bars, 2 Crystallized Air. Right now those mats cost around 18 gold each and the dream shards they disenchant into are worth upwards of 24 gold (it fluctuates down to 19 sometimes). What does this mean for the savy enchanter/blacksmith like myself? For my server it would mean that it's time to buy saronite bars if they drop down to 1.5 gold or less.
Since Saronite Bars vendor for 1.25 gold each, you won't see them drop much lower than 1.5 gold and they're sitting around 2 gold right now anyway.
Get your blacksmith hammer and disenchanting rod ready!
NOTE: You may want to start doing this as soon as saronite bars fall in price becuase with the release of conquest badges for heroics a lot of blues are going to get disenchanted on a more regular basis.
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Check a low level market today.
Look at your tradeskill and look for items that may be valuable to power levelers, low level characters, or even high level characters looking for thrills (i.e. deviate fish). Every profession creates items that can prove to be valuable to someone leveling the same profession or another one. If you are a disenchanter, look for items that can be crafted cheaply due to an influx of low level mats and in turn can be disenchanted into much more valuable materials. For example, Tailoring can make linen items that often disenchant into much more valuable strange dust.
Anyone care to share their own examples of 'low' level items that are actually quite valuable?
Organize your bank space. Move everything into order according to profession. Trust me, this is well worth the effort.
Buy bags that are made for your profession, allowing for larger stashes of items in your particular niche. Some professions, like mining, can be annoying in that not all the items produced or gathered can fit in the same bag (i.e. gems). Be careful and plan out the space you willl need as well as the number of normal, open bag slots you will require.
Be sure to maximize the open slots on your banking character(s) in such a way that you can take as few trips as possible to the auction house in order to sell all of your goods.
Here's a break down of my organization:
Bank alt 1 (Level 70): Alchemy and Herbalism (Guild Bank #1)
Bank alt 2 (Level 70): Random Items from Resale and Vendor Search (Guild Bank #2)
Bank alt 3 (Level 71): Glyphs and all things Inscription (Guild Bank #3)
Bank alt 4 (Level 70): Mining and Gems (Guild Bank #4)
Bank alt 5 (Level 70): Leather Working and skinning (Guild Bank #5)
Bank alt 6 (Level 80): Tailoring - Bags, Cloth, and Bolts (Guild Bank #1)
Bank alt 7 (level 65): Lock Picking (Guild Bank #1)
Bank alt 8 (Level 70): Engineering (Guild Bank #4)
Main (Level 80): Enchanting and Blacksmithing (No personal Guild Bank)
Ah yes, it's time for open thread friday! When I, the gold making master take my leave of my saronite plated throne (don't worry it's warm unlike someone else's throne) and allow you, the lovable amateurs, a chance to make heads or tails out of world of warcraft economics. Are you prepared?
Call of the Crusade is out and so are epic gems! If you didn't know already (where have you been for 48 hours?) then you should definately start farming some titanium ore. Right now it's a total sellers market because people are blindly buying the ore with no idea as to price ranges of the epic gems. My advice is to stockpile 1/4 of what you gather for creating your own gems, keeping in mind that pvp honor and badges of heroism will be tradeable for epic gems as well, and then sell the rest to the greedy populace for insane prices. Be sure to sell this weekend when players who didn't get on during the week will rush to the auction house to see if any ore is left.
Mind sharing your thoughts in the comment section? Or better yet, check out the forum where they are discussing the recent gem developments as well.
Regarding Epic Gems!
OracleMars said...
Dropped 1k on titanium ore. Hoping to get 4.2k back. Thanks for the tip!
Regarding Farming Primal Airs
Antaria said...
Cat's swiftness has no improvement in wrath, and it will beat icewalker for a couple of classesthats why there is still a very reasonable demand and people will actually pay that price (even tho, for 50-100 a piece it would be better to grind it yourself id say)
Regarding Buying at a Different Time
RFairney said...
Enchanting.Even better, find when the prices are highest, do it for a few days to get a handle on the patterns, and price it to sell then.In large servers if people put everything up at raid time for people, they can end up lowering prices significantly! I let mine be undercut, because I know it will sell at 2am when less people are posting mats than buying them
Epic gems will be appearing in the next upcoming content patch 3.2, as well as changes to all other professions in order to compensate for blacksmithing's ability to add two new gems.
Let's think back to Burning Crusade for a second here. What happened to the blue gems of BC once epic gems arrived? Here I'll just tell you straight out: They became practically worthless. If you don't sell your gems now, you won't sell them later either.
There, that's all I have to say about blue gems, now to discuss the epics :D
In the upcoming content patch 3.2 you'll be able to prospect Titanium Ore into these epic gems. You will be able to obtain gems from transmutations (no word on specifics yet, possibly blue gems), pvp turn ins, and emblems oh heroism.
Expect Titanium Ore to go up 3000-5000% these next one to two weeks before they release this patch (atleast two weeks time, maybe a month or more). If you have Titanium Ore I would save it until the price becomes ridiculous and if you don't have Titanium Ore I would definately suggest buying it right now. Just be careful and watch out for prices skyrocketting due to speculation and people thinking that they have to buy as much ore as possible for their gem business.
Remember that prices will continue to rise for titanium ore until there are so many gems that profits suffer from the competition. Then you will slowly see titanium ore fall with the price of gems and eventually settle to what I predict to be around 1000% the current price of titanium ore.
One last point, Titanium Ore is increasingly dissappearing from the auction house due to speculation regarding this patch. Therefore, you should definately consider farming and since Icecrown is the best location for Titanium Nodes (Source) I would suggest checking out Bane's submitted route.
Geese this post just keeps getting longer... here's an excellent email I received a few days ago. I have asked Toriigate to try and come up with another fast search setup for epic gems:
Hi Markco,Torrigate sent me this as well:
Really enjoy your blog, thanks for spending RL time to share with the WoW
community. Toriigate/Hazmats of Ally Onyxia writing in.
Hope I can give back a bit here with my programmer background to help
describe some of Auctioneer's more advanced search features. Especially
since you're on Auctioneering tips.
I've found these two "General" style searches to be invaluable to factory
cut-gem production and JC disenchantables production.
Getting a search of only uncut gems I think is kind of tricky given that you
cannot use iLvl or Quality to differentiate between cut/uncut gems (which is
possible for uncut green gems). This search takes advantage of the raw
uncut gem naming convention of 2 words (ie Scarlet Ruby, Monarch Topaz,
Autumn's Glow, Earthsiege Diamond etc). Rare cut gems are all 3 words.
To lookup just uncut blue gems (check Regex checkbox):
Set Category to 'Gem' and Quality to 'Rare'
Save time getting your mats.
Additionally you can just click 'Invert' if you want to see what is
cheap/expensive in only the realm of cut blues.
Auctioneer/LUA's regex does not support logical "OR"s but you can use a
'set' to get a similar effect. The following search will list anything that
begins with Eternal followed by a word that starts with S -OR- E.
Lookup just Eternal Earths/Shadows:
^Eternal [SE]
Additional information on some of the pattern matching syntax is here:
Here's the revised search string for uncut rare gems – was previously excluding Dragon's Eye and Autumn's Glow:
Arenas are my favorite part of wow (gee did you figure that out yet lol?) and recently my team took a nasty hit from 2555 down to 2402 after a foolish 49 games this week because we felt invincible. We tried to force wins when we shouldn't of and as a result we lost 143 points with a 60% winning record for the week. At first we were pissed as hell, blaming our losses on the lack of balance regarding frost dk's and the ease that shamans have defeating our setup. Then I started thinking, does this really matter? We maintained an 80% win rate against the best teams in the battlegroup to reach 2555 and we did it as possibly the most under represented team makeup in the world. I had a talk with Thunderion (my partner) and we realized that neither of us were really upset that we lost, after all we only had two bad days during a season of mostly excellent play.
Our story is truly incredible when you think about it:
A paladin alt that never played competetive arena and that only had a few hours at level 80 joins up with a prot warrior who was sick of getting destroyed as arms in patch 3.0. The duo then discovers that through careful execution and creative gearing/specing that they can be an impressive comp even against the best on the battlegroup.
Our playstyle is unique even to the few people running the same comp (they do prot/holy paladin whereas thunderion is ret/holy) as the fights become a crazy dance around ret's need to judge and our cooldowns required to kill someone in a cc chain.
I've learned a lot about myself this season as I've been required to run incredible amounts of pve in order to build my "Furious Block Set" and be competetive in arenas. If all we had to do was play 10-20 games per week and if arenas were my sole source of gear then I would be happy playing this game competetively. However, running 14-16 hours a week doing raids has put an unnecessary stress on my life. I haven't decided my next step, but I am certain that if next season I can't build my set out of pvp gear then we will both be quiting arenas. Thunderion will most likely quit the game and I'll be left to play the auction house in order to keep this blog alive. Even if we get gladiator this season I would not want to put the hundreds of hours into pve just to... how did South Park put it... "finally play the game."
Currently I think the state of pvp in this game is pathetic. Our comp is the only one I've seen that truly bounces back and forth between being on offense and being on defense half the game (this is due to cooldowns being up every other minute), whereas other comps tend to pressure the other team for 99% of the match. Healing and Damage is such that simply pressuring your opponent for thirty seconds without being peeled means that they are going to die. Plate means nothing except to other warriors with all the magic and armor ignoring talents on other classes.
Sorry for the QQ, but these are my current thoughts on the game and since many of you read this blog to see what I'm thinking, I figured I should let you know. I also didn't want anyone to think that if my pvp career ended that I would stop blogging about the economics of wow as I've informed many players that this arena season will likely be our last.
So what's the life lesson? If you are spending hours just trying to make this game fun then it's time to move on or try a different aspect of it. Do any of you perform some task in the game in order to fuel another? Such as farming to get an epic mount or doing pve to pvp?
There are so many ways to become an active member of the JMTC community that I would highly suggest trying several if you haven't already. The reward is often a lot more knowledge about making gold in world of warcraft, and it never hurts to try something new! If you are struggling to make gold be sure to post on the forums in the OMG I Can't Make Gold thread.
For the life of me I could not figure out why primal airs were going for 50-100 gold on the auction house. I knew that they were used in leveling some professions as well as twink enchants, so I understood why some level 80's might buy them. Then it hit me, no characters were ever encountering the air elementals while leveling! The two spots you can get primal air are shadowmoon valley and the elemental plateau: both of which a deathknight or other leveling character would never enter because the elemental plateau requires flying and shadowmoon valley is too high level; by then they would be in northrend leveling.
Thus you have a somewhat in demand item with literally no supply. Here's my video on where to farm primal airs, I would suggest parking an alt at either of these locations and then just logging in every once in a while to collect some airs.
Try buying at a different time today.
If you never check the auction house in the morning, get up a little earlier and take a peak tomorrow.
Also, try to check more than once separated by at least 8 hours. You'd be shocked at the changes of prices that can occur in as little as 8 hours.
If you are in the habit of checking once per day then you could be missing out on some great deals!
Also, if you are into the enchanting business you can easily cancel your auctions and relist in order to react to market changes during the same day that you originally posted them.
Expand your bank space. Create a banking alt if you don't have one. You have several options for upgrading your bank, and I'd like to link to this post to help you out.
Remember that you can level a dk and have him within a major city in as little as 1-2 hours. He or she will have some lovely big bags already on the character, as well as 15% movement speed while mounted.
When purchasing your bank bags, keep in mind what professions you have and what your toon will be storing. If you're going to make a glyph hoarder then you will want to purchase a few inscription specific bags in order to save space for other items in the bank.
Keep your bank organized and clean, it really helps in the long run to speed things up.
Suggestion box friday is your chance to be the blog writer! It's when I, the gold making master, step down from my saronite plated throne to allow you, the lovable admiring amateur the chance to make heads or tails of wow economics. Don't worry, this throne ain't frozen since I kept it nice and warm for ya.
Discussion: Today I'm going to be interviewed by Shawn and Patrick from "How I Wow," an audio series that talks with gamers throughout the world that play wow. I will have a link to their broadcast hopefully before Sunday, but I'm not sure how long it takes for them to get everything set up. It may be up to a month before you get to hear the podcast, but I'll let you know asap.
Community Spotlight: A Greedy Goblin
The blog you should all be reading: GreedyGoblin.blogspot.com
This unique blog puts a twist on wow economics by discussing real life as it's related to wow. The articles are interesting, controversial, and often filled with a little goblinish humor. Gevlon, the author of this site, does a fantastic job of creating a down to earth blog that makes you feel like a student in an excellerated class on goblinish wisdom. There is A LOT of material to read on his site, everything from his amazing glyph industry to global economics. Be warned, his writings are not for the politically correct :)
Among his many accomplishments, Gevlon has also hit the gold cap and is going for it on a second server that he recently transferred to. He actually pays a guild for a raid spot for the not so cheap price of 5k gold per week!
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Regarding: Tip #1
dylan said...
Exodar is the best ally city. It's got the shortest AH/mailbox loop. The profession vendors are close to the AH. When you port from Dal you stay on your mount and the port location is the close to the AH. And no morons with choo choo trains.
Anonymous said...
Silvermoon is the closest AH/Mailbox spot. Also you can stay mounted the whole time, making the short walk faster than normal. Remember, I'm talking about the west auctioneer in the southwest auction spot in Silvermoon, not the east one.
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Regarding Hot Gems:
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Well Markco, there is a very very good website that shows what's hot and what's not so hot each day/week.
It's quite valuable to me atm, as it helped me prioritize my wares.
When I post them and for how much, so that the cash flow keeps going.
As this is mainly gathered from all the servers globally, I hope I won't mess up my own realm with this tip =P
Learn to play with it, browse it and use it.


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Tonight it is time for part one of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" reunion show. On Saturday, Carter Matt shared a big preview for the upcoming finale and it is going to be full of drama. This first part has the women all clashing and unable to get along as usual.
Andy will be talking to Tamra Judge about all of the drama. She feels like Shannon Beador had an agenda and was the one starting the drama. She brought up the drama about how the Dubrow's supposedly said they want to take them down. Tamra still says that she never said it, but Vicki Gunvalson says she heard it straight from Tamra. There are even rumors that Tamara made up and you can read more here.
Also Tamra will open up tonight about her son Ryan moving. Viewers will also get to see Vicki's new grandson through Skype. At least there will be a few positive things tonight on the show.
Wet Paint also shared that Shannon says that she will never forgive Heather Dubrow for the stuff that is going on. She has no plans of being friends with her at all. She said that she can forgive, but will never forget. She thought for a second that they were on the way to a friendship, but it doesn't look that way now at all. It will be an interesting season next year if they both return.
Don't miss "The Real Housewives of Orange County" reunion shows on Monday night on Bravo. The first part will air tonight and the drama is going to start. This is one show you will not want to miss.
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I've been looking up information about operating systems lately, and have yet to find an answer to this question. What type of file is an operating system? Would it be an application(.exe), some kind of source file (like .c or .cpp) or something else?
Stated a little differently, because operating systems can be booted off of SD cards and flash drives, what type of file would you save into the removable device that it would use?


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Bryan Cox sat behind the Atlanta Falcons defensive linemen in a darkened meeting room when he told them: "Stay the (expletive) away from my daughter." He didn't want rookie Theo Agnew any closer to his daughter than to follow her Instagram social media account like he already was.
Among the more entertaining aspects of the Hard Knocks series with the Atlanta Falcons on HBO is to witness Cox in his first training camp as the team's defensive line coach.
He has a straightforward approach that blends honesty with humor, such as when he nicknamed one underperforming player "Cupcake" and then stopped calling him that and offered praise when the player improved.
Viewers received more doses of the former New Orleans Saints linebacker in the latest Hard Knocks episode Tuesday night. This was the third of five Hard Knocks programs.
In a later video-review session, after a joint practice with the Texans in Houston, Cox told Nosa Eguae - another rookie, from Auburn - "you're just kind of doing your own thing here.
"I don't know what the hell that is. And that double-team technique you are doing, that don't resemble no (expletive) that I'm teaching, and I'm tired of saying that to you so good luck to however you want to do it. If you ain't listening to me, ain't no sense in me coaching it."
In a scene after the Falcons lost to the Texans in a preseason game, HBO showed Cox with a postgame cigar as he walked toward the team bus. We learned that Cox likes to unwind with a cigar after games at the end of last week's episode.
Cox played the last of his 12 NFL seasons with the Saints, in 2002. During that season, the then 34-year-old Cox told the Times-Picayune he considered himself a player/coach.
Here are more notes from the latest Hard Knocks with the Falcons:
-- J.J. Watt to Falcons coach Mike Smith on rookie tackle Jake Matthews: "Your right tackle, your little rookie, he's going to be a good little player someday." This after Watt manhandled Matthews through the first day of joint training camp practices in Houston.
-- Matthews, the "little rookie" who stands 6-foot-5 and 308 pounds, learned during the game against Houston he would move from right tackle to left tackle. This came after left tackle Sam Baker injured his knee during the game. Offensive line coach Mike Tice told Matthews on the sideline, "Hey, Jake, when you wake up tomorrow you'll be our left tackle."
-- Baker, upon learning the severity of the injury while still in Houston, clutched his iPhone with both hands and said to the camera: "I hope my wife didn't watch this. She'll freak out." Touching personal moment.
-- Linebacker/end Kroy Biermann has mental hurdles to overcome in his return from a ruptured Achilles that cost him most of 2013. "Kroy, you're the leader of this room," linebackers coach Mark Collins said in a one-on-one conversation in a meeting room. "Let me know where you're at." Biermann told Collins he was "a little bit apprehensive with my foot. ... I'm fighting through it."
-- Julio Jones also is not fully confident in return from a foot injury. "I'm still progressing mentally," he said.
-- Injured running back Steven Jackson has begun training with weights. He also is running in a whirlpool. Hamstring issues have limited him in training camp, just as they did in his poorest season as a pro last year.
-- The Falcons finished one practice last week without pads because of hot weather and Georgia. Makes the Saints' move to the cooler climate of West Virginia for three weeks of training camp seem that much smarter.


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Last but not least, these Kazoozles are another new candy offering from Wonka. I was a bit nervous about trying these at first, as I've had the precursor to them, the SweeTart rope. Let's just say I took a bite, realized the two of us didn't get along, and threw the rest away. I recognized the format immediately, a thick chew, similar to red licorice, with a flavored filling on the inside. Since I am willing to give a second (or sometimes a third) chance to any candy, I was curious, and hopeful, to give the new Kazoozles a go.
The Kazoozles come in two flavors, a Cherry Punch, which I have here, and Pink Lemonade . You can read about the latter over on Candyblog.net's review. These smell so strongly and soon as you open the packet. They reek of fresh cherries and fruit punch with the notes of berries, red fruits and pineapple dominating over the rest. I'm happy to say that's faithful with the flavor description! Some might be put off by such a strong aroma, but I admit i really enjoyed it.
The texture is so thick and chewy, I'm immediately in love. It's a nice and thick chew that's soft with just the right amount of give. The blue center is fluffy, kinda like a slick marshmallow. In the mouth it's feels spongy and slippery. As I was eating them I was able to nibble at these, which I appreciate, as it makes the candy last longer for me. It all comes down to the great chew that they have.
The flavor is very intense starting with strong burst of black cherry, which is nicely sweet and very strong. The cherry is thankfully not too bitter or medicinal, and it's a really good cherry red licorice. The punch center tastes just like Hawaiian Punch, strong and fruity with a very sharp tartness to it.
I am very pleased with these and am glad to see such a vast improvement on a product. I've shared these with friends and they've all enjoyed them as much as I did. I hope to start seeing these in stores soon as I know I'll have a craving for these every now and again, when I feel the new for something chewy and sour. I'm also really interested to try the Pink Lemonade flavor so I'm going to keep my eyes peeled.
Rating: Will Eat Again
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The Morning Download: When Google Isn't Evil
The Morning Download cues up the most important news in business technology every weekday morning. Send us your tips, compliments and complaints.
Good morning and welcome to Friday.
Google CIO Ben Fried says "the social contract between IT and users needs to change," and he means it. Fried, speaking at a company sponsored symposium Thursday, explained that devices are available to "Googlers" on an honor system — they can simply take IT equipment they need off a wire shelf, no questions asked. Just like the bicycles that litter the campus in Menlo Park. They are also free to use any technology they want, even from competitors like Apple and Microsoft (a practice more uncommon in Silicon Valley than one would think). Fried says the company trusts its employees to do the right thing; but they also verify. Employees receive an accounting of all the products and services they've consumed at the end of every month so they can compare themselves to their peers.
Fried isn't just trying to be a popular CIO, though. By letting employees take control of their IT consumption, and moving as much mundane IT to the cloud as possible, gives him "incredible focus" for initiatives that truly impact Google's business, CIO Journal's Steve Rosenbush reports. "Instead of worrying about systems that [IT doesn't] get thanked for" even when they run properly, "we can focus on technology that makes a difference, which is what IT should be doing."
Putting IT customers last… again. It may well be in the interest of its shareholders for BMC to sell itself to the highest bidder, as Elliott Management, owner of 6.5% of the company's stock, is demanding. But no one is saying word one about the interests of BMC customers. The shareholder even published a list of vendors it considers appropriate suitors, but many of those vendors already sell products that compete directly or overlap with BMC products, reports CIO Journal. Those types of acquisitions make customers of target companies nervous because their investments in those products are at risk. That's why BMC customers should keep their fingers crossed that if a sale indeed comes to pass, Dell is the acquirer; the computer maker doesn't have a competing product set and has a reputation for treating executives at acquired companies — and their customers — fairly.
Federal CIO freeing public data for commercial use. The federal government's CIO, Steven VanRoekel, says companies will have access to public data in formats suited to web and app development that can help them make better decisions. Companies will have access to data, such as road traffic patterns and the movement of goods through ports, they can use to identify potential new markets, or improve route-planning to avoid roadblocks due to construction projects, he told CIO Journal.
Google to require retailers to pay. Google, in a move to squeeze more cash out of its lucrative web-search engine, is converting its free product-search service into a paid one. Online retailers will now have to bid to display their products on Google's Shopping site. Currently, retailers include their products for free by providing Google with certain data about the products. Google then ranks those products, such as cameras, by popularity and price, reports the WSJ's Amir Efrati. Danny Sullivan, editor of the SearchEngineLand.com blog, wrote on Thursday that the shopping change is "the first time Google will decommission a search product that previously listed companies for free." He added that the move will "likely raise new worries that Google may further cut free listings elsewhere."
Google prevails over Oracle in copyright case. In a landmark IT court case that began on April 16, a federal judge ruled May 31 that Java application programming interfaces used by Google in building the Android mobile device operating system are not protected by copyright. Oracle, the plaintiff in the case and maintainer of the Java programming language as well as organizer of its open source community, said it will "vigorously" appeal the verdict, eWEEK's Chris Preimesberger reports. The company had asked for nearly $1 billion in restitution and an injunction against Google for using the Android OS.
RIM wins court ruling over BBM trademark. While other parts of its business appear to be on the ropes, Research In Motion learned it is free to use the BBM acronym to describe its popular BlackBerry Messenger software. A Canada Federal Court found that the BlackBerry maker's use of BBM did not infringe on the trademark of broadcast measurement firm BBM Canada, which has owned the trademark for more than 50 years, because the two companies operated in different industries, reports CNET's Steven Musil.
Contract notebook makers warn of weakening demand. Major contract notebook personal computer makers are warning of weakening demand and order cuts amid the lingering uncertainty surrounding Europe's debt troubles, after Wistron said Thursday it was lowering its second-quarter shipment forecast due to sluggish demand, Dow Jones Newswires reports.
Nokia just can't win. The WSJ took a peek under the hood of Apple's iPhone 4S and Nokia's top-of-the-line Lumia 900, which sells for $200 less, and finds—surprise—that iPhone components are $19 cheaper. The Journal's Anton Troianovski and Don Clark credit some of the difference to the Nokia's larger screen and more advanced wireless chips, but Apple's command of the electronics supply chain and ability to extract lower prices from supplier deserve much of the credit. The end result: Apple earns nearly twice as much on iPhone sales as Nokia does for the Lumia 900.
Windows 8 locked and loaded. Microsoft has released a near-complete version of Windows 8, a new indication that the company is planning on a September or October release for the final version, reports the WSJ's Shira Ovide. The version, dubbed a Release Preview, locks in the form and features of Microsoft's most dramatic Windows overhaul in over a decade, and shows off several new Microsoft-developed applications for news, music, sports and travel.
Prepaid wireless service lands iPhone. Leap Wireless wins the prize for becoming the first prepaid carrier in the U.S. to offer the Apple iPhone. The company will sell the iPhone 4S for $499.99 and the iPhone 4 for $399.99 to go along with its $55 per month plan. Leap hopes the move will help it retain customers that would otherwise switch should another prepaid carrier offer it, reports the WSJ's Thomas Gryta. Leap's deal with Apple commits it to spending $900 million in volume purchases over three years.
Google spends for top price, top-level domains. Google is pursuing a number of top-level names including .google, .youtube, .docs, and .lol. The announcement in a Google blog post comes a day after ICANN, the international body overseeing Internet addresses, stopped accepting applications for its sale of top-level domains—the part of the URL after the dot. AdAge's Jason Del Rey reports that Google applied for more than 50 top-level domains. Each application costs $185,000.
Skype hits 250 million. Former Skype CEO Tony Bates says that the Internet communication service now has 250 million monthly users, the WSJ's Don Clark reports. The company was purchased by Microsoft in May 2011.
The Dragon has landed. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft capped off a perfect mission Thursday, splashing down off the coast of California. The nine-day mission saw the Dragon docking with the International Space Station, the first time a privately-built spacecraft has done so. SpaceX, founded by PayPal co-creator Elon Musk, is expected to begin regular cargo deliveries to the space station as early as September, reports the WSJ's Andy Pasztor.
Lawmakers fear UN Internet power grab. American lawmakers are concerned that an upcoming United Nations meeting in Dubai to discuss Internet governance could signal an Internet power grab by countries like China, Russia and Iran and other nations with a history of Internet repression, reports Jasmin Melvin of Reuters. "I'm concerned that the next Arab Spring will instead become a Russia Winter where free speech is chilled, not encouraged," said Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (R., Tenn.) in a bipartisan session in Washington D.C.
NorCal vs. SoCal. Speaking at the AllThingsD technology conference, Alpha dog Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel said Google and other technology companies "up north" need to figure out "their dumb pipes" and stop the piracy of intellectual piracy. "Google needs to figure out what they do with piracy. That's the most important thing." Emanuel also shouted down a question from the Verge reporter Joshua Topolsky, reported AllThingD's Peter Kafka who added: "Note to Emanuel: The Verge is a big technology news site. Lots of people read it. Maybe even some of your agents." Speaking later, Google's advertising head Susan Wojcicki called Emanuel's allusions to Google's involvement in piracy "very misinformed."
Amazon to build New Jersey warehouses and collect tax. Amazon plans to build two large distribution centers in New Jersey and will start collecting state sales tax next summer from its customers in the state, Gov. Chris Christie announced. Construction of the warehouses, each projected to be about a million square feet, is scheduled to begin next year, the governor and Amazon officials said Wednesday, and to result in 1,500 full-time jobs and thousands of part-time and seasonal jobs when they are both operating, reports the NYT's N.R. Kleinfeld.
Apple supplier Foxconn under fire again. A China labor watchdog said that workers rights violations continue at factories owned by Apple-supplier Foxconn. "The frontline management continue to impose humiliating disciplinary measures on workers," reads a report by Student & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior. A worker at one of Foxconn's major plants corroborated the group's findings with Reuters reporters: "There hasn't been much change. We are still being pushed very hard," Earlier this year Apple approved a probe of Foxconn's China factories and pledged to improve conditions. Apple CEO Tim Cook repeated the company's commitment in an interview earlier this week.
Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose view of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, general interest magazines and, of course, in-flight publications.
How Kinect spawned a commercial ecosystem. The New York Times looks at how a code-savvy community helped transform Microsoft's Kinect motion-control device from a videogame peripheral into the hub of a commercial ecosystem and asks, "Does progress flow from a corporate entity's offering a whiz-bang breakthrough embraced by the masses? Or does techno-thing success now depend on the company's acquiescing to the crowd's input?" Reporter Rob Walker talks to artists and tinkerers behind a successful coding effort in late 2010 that made a $150 device designed for the Xbox gaming console work with a PC. Microsoft has since released Kinect for Windows and a development kit, spawning "Kinect-centric experiments aimed squarely at the marketplace." A U.C. Berkeley professor tells Walker that mainstream companies are starting to see tech hobbyists as not just consumers, but creative partners. "People are trying to decide for themselves what they want these technologies to mean," he said.
The reaction to the reaction against Facebook. After the IPO fallout, here comes The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal, a self-declared Facebook skeptic, reminding readers that—hello!— the social network still commands 900 million users. Facebook has vast troves of user data standing to benefit from advances in natural language processing and other types of analysis. Add to that the level of user engagement, its dominance in photography in an "increasingly visual Internet," and the fact that four out of five users hail from outside of North America—thus immune to the "hipster backlash" against Facebook in the U.S.—and today's fascination with share prices is nothing but "classic market myopia," he writes. "If you think the Internet is valuable, then you implicitly think Facebook is valuable, too."
GaGa for Google Goggles. Fast Company runs the first of a two-parter on Google's Project Glass, talking to project lead Steve Lee, who says that his team is not dabbling in futuristic eye wear for kicks alone. "I wouldn't be on this project if it was like a five-year endeavor," Lee tells reporter Austin Carr. With the current prototype now making public appearances and some of the functionality—navigation, picture taking, communication—already hinted at in a popular online video, Lee's team now faces the ultimate task of making a "wholly new form factor and device," once found only in science fiction, universally acceptable. "It's risky," he says, "Is it iconic and cool, or iconic and geeky?"
Today's jobs report watched more than usual. Economists expect 155,000 jobs were created in May, with the unemployment rate staying level at 8.1%. (The numbers are out at 8:30 a.m., and if you want live analysis our friends at MarketBeat are live-blogging the festivities beginning at 8.) If the number is very weak, that would suggest March and April's weak jobs performance weren't anomalous.
China manufacturing activity slows. Manufacturing activity in China and across a wide swath of Asia slowed in May, heightening fears that the turmoil in Western economies is dragging down one of the few remaining engines of global growth, the WSJ reports.
ECB President Mario Draghi calls euro zone's current structure "unsustainable." Draghi also said governments must surrender far more budget and regulatory power to a central authority if the currency union is to be saved, the Washington Post reports.
Meanwhile, Spain's central bank said that €97 billion has been pulled out of the country in the first quarter – around a 10th of the Spain's GDP – as concerns mounted over Madrid's ability to contain the financial crisis, the FT reports [registration req'd]. And counting is still going on in the Irish referendum on the EU fiscal treaty, but early unofficial results indicate that nearly 60% backed the "Yes" camp, the BBC reports.


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