Friday, November 30, 2012

Internet Entrepreneurs Earning Big Commissions As Sports Betting ...

The Internet is rife with opportunities in information and business. Entrepreneurs have utilized the relatively new medium to create businesses and earn themselves sizeable amounts of cash. For the regular user looking to earn money, there is seemingly no end of schemes to join. But few of these can match the potential earning power and ease of online sports betting affiliate programs. The online affiliate program offers all Internet users the opportunity to create their own business from home. The simplicity is possibly the greatest thing about the affiliate program. There are only a few things that you need, a website, sign up to a sport betting affiliate program and then some space on your site to squeeze in a few advertisements. As with all simple business opportunities, it may appear too good to be true, but the fact is that affiliate programs produce result after result for hundreds of thousands of web users each and every year. Earn up to 35% for life!

Affiliate programs are fundamentally a way for large websites to gain free advertising. Without having to pay any cash up front, the affiliate program works as a supply and demand enterprise. The demand is from the sport-betting site that requires new customers to keep generating new capital, and the thousands of affiliates supply this. The affiliate program allows websites to spread their net to encompass a vast section of the Internet, without ever having to pay a penny. The affiliates are rewarded on delivery of a new fully paid up customer, as are the sports betting sites. The benefits for both parties speak for themselves. On the sports betting side, the site achieves a new customer and all of the profits and bonuses that arise from them. Whilst the affiliate generates between 20 and 35% of the players lifetime money generated for the betting site.

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Affiliates with an entrepreneurial perspective cab easily generate a significant profit from their small business. With an affiliate earning up to 35% of players total lifetime money, it does not take too long to amass a clientele that will generate a significant amount. Therefore if marketed right a site can start turning their revenue into extra revenue, by utilizing profits and reinvesting in further advertising opportunities. Smaller businesses may not see the need to reinvest valuable revenue, but for those with a taste for entrepreneurial marketing the opportunities are there to make your site a big earner. It stands to reason that an affiliate stands a greater chance of attracting new customers to their client?s external sites, if they can first attract more to their own site. The more people passing through the more likely somebody is to click on the advertising banners. Increasing a sites visibility is not always simple but there are a number of options available to website owners, with any budget. SEO documents, blog entries, forum posting and advertising through major search engines or other sites can all help lead valuable customers to your sites door. Then all you have to do is sit back and wait for them to click the links and earn your business some serious revenue.

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Source: http://every1bets.com/internet-entrepreneurs-earning-big-commissions-as-sports-betting-affiliates/

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

I have maxed pretax 401k contributions, should I ... - Roth IRA News

Basically I see 3 options here. And one is the standout.

Here?s why I say that.

Since you?ve maxed out your contributions to the 401, you have basically these 3 options.
1. Put taxable money into the 401 at work
2. Put the money into a conventional IRA (But, at your income, you probably wouldn?t get the tax deductions.)
3. Put the money in a Roth IRA and pay taxes on it once.

Personally, for this situation, the 401 at work would be my last choice, simply because it limits what you can invest the $$ into to what?s offered in your company?s plan. There are simply a LOT more options elsewhere that can get you some pretty serious returns. And, overall, putting the money somewhere other than the 401 gives you more diversification.

Plus, if you put over contributions into the 401, that?s all got to be tracked and accounted for somewhat differently than your normal contributions, etc. So, if you ever leave that employeer (which you?re likely to do) and rollover that 401, then there?s more paperwork to consider, ?..That?s just a headache, not a mojor consideration. But, when taken in light of what?s next.

So, that leaves the two IRA choices.

Optimally, I would say the Roth.
1. With that Roth you pay taxes this year on the money you put in, but never pay taxes again on any of the gains or withdrawals. That can add up to a really big tax savings over a couple decades.
Case in point. Say you have 5K to drop into the Roth this year. If you have 20 years to go until retirement and that money gets 10% a year, it will grow to 33+K. I?d rather pay the taxes on it when it?s 5K. (With a conventional IRA you don?t pay the taxes on the 5K , but do later on the 33K. You do the math. And like I said, you probably would not be able to deduct the conventional IRA contributions anyhow.)

2. With a Roth, once it?s been around more than 5 years, you can actually take out your contributions ( not the gains?.) without paying any taxes or penalties on them, since you already paid the taxes the year you contributed them. Which gives you a little more flexibility if you want it. And you can?t do this with a conventional IRA.

Kick it around. Just some food for thought.

Source: http://rothira.solve-up.com/roth-ira/i-have-maxed-pretax-401k-contributions-should-i-now-add-post-tax-contributions/

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Keep data roaming charges under control with Globalgig

The Globalgig mobile hotspot, just announced by Voiamo, is the solution to outrageous data charges when you travel. ?You purchase the Globalgig hotspot for $119, choose a data plan, and you’ll be able to use your data while at home or while traveling to other specific countries for no extra charges. ?When you travel to [...]

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Awaiting President Obama in Myanmar by Rebecca Palmstrom

Public Radio International (PRI) and BBC World Service, "The World" by Rebecca Palmstrom on 11/16/2012

President Obama is due to visit Myanmar (also known as Burma) on Monday. It?s a sign of how far the Asian country has come on reform in the past few years. Many Burmese are welcoming Obama?s visit, including young people who are studying the American system of government. Becky Palmstrom spoke with some of them at a campus in Yangon. ?Read more...

Source: http://journalism.berkeley.edu/stories/3978/

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Wrestling: Washington opens season with two wins

The Cedar Rapids Washington wrestling team encourages their teammate at the tri-team wrestling meet held at Cedar Rapids Washington on Tuesday November 27, 2012. (Justin Torner/Freelance)

CEDAR RAPIDS ? Cedar Rapids Washington?s Tyler Burkle was a man with a plan.

The Warriors? junior sought the advice of head coach Matt Hatcher for a strategy between matches and it paid dividends, leading to a good start to his?plans of an improved season from a year ago.

Burkle posted two wins, helping host Washington to wins over Maquoketa and Marion?on Tuesday night. Burkle scored a pin in the Warriors? 39-30 win over the Indians, and a major decision in a 43-33 win against the Cardinals.

?It was nice,? the Warriors 160-pounder said. ?Last year I didn?t do too well. Coming into starting 2-0 is a really good confidence booster. It was nice to help out the team, too.?

He sought help for his second match, asking Hatcher how to counter the stronger, more physical foe. He implemented an attack to stay in good position and use an outside single-leg attack. He scored a couple takedowns, building a 6-3 lead before pinning the Indians? Romello Olds in?3:44.

?I went out there and did it,? Burkle said. ?I knew he was a stronger guy and a little shorter with more power. I didn?t want him to get me in anything I didn?t want to get in and control the match.?

Hatcher was impressed with Burkle?s initiative and how he was able to put together a solid performance.

?It?s a step in the right direction,? Hatcher said. ?It?s what we?ve been we?ve been trying to get out of him the last couple years.?

The success is an example for his teammates to follow. Pay attention and listen to your coaches, because?they can put you in position to win.

?He made a game plan and stuck to it,? Hatcher said. ?The outcome was exactly what we told him.?

The Warriors won eight weights against Marion, sealing the victory with heavyweight Zac Gillis? 3-2 overtime win over Mitch Ross. Mason Byrne (120), Trey Schuler (126) and Hunter Swartz (220) added falls for Washington.

In the opener, Washington was powered by forfeits, winning eight weights including a fall from Jared Eicher (170) and a decision by 120-pounder Devin Dills.

?They got more excited (in the second round),? Hatcher said. ?These kids are new and new staples, so to speak. ? We have new kids that have to make their mark and new kids who are just plain new. They fought pretty hard. The effort was there.?

Marion (1-1) dropped Maquoketa, 42-31. Levi Lochner (145) and Dakota Peterson (17o) recorded two pins apiece.

Five Cardinals were 2-0 Tuesday night. Logan Mayberry (152), Justin Zeimet (182) and 220-pounder Alex Eggers scored two falls. Dillion Pieper added a pin and decision at 106, while Beau Bowman (113) had a pin for Maquoketa (0-2).

AT C.R. WASHINGTON

C.R. Washington 43, Maquoketa 33

285 pounds ? Zac Gillis (CRW) won by forfeit; 106 ? Dillion Pieper (MAQ) pinned Mat DeCamp, 1:01;113 ? Beau Bowman (MAQ) won by forfeit; 120 ? Devin Dills (CRW) dec. Zach Koppes, 12-7; 126 ? Trey Schuler (CRW) won by forfeit; 132 ? Tyler Bierbaun (CRW) won by forfeit; 138 ? Jacob Boatwright (CRW) won by forfeit; 145 ? Jacob Kloft (MAQ) dec. J.P. Mercado, 8-4; 152 ? Logan Mayberry (MAQ) pinned Evan Lehrman, 1:59; 160 ? Tyler Burkle (CRW) major dec. Hunter Hessong, 11-2; 170 ? Jared Eicher (CRW) pinned Ty Thede, 4:57; 182 ? Justin Zeimet (MAQ) pinned Mason Gee, 3:59; 195 ? Noah Williams (CRW) won by forfeit; 220 ? Alex Eggers (MAQ) pinned Hunter Swartz, 1:47.

C.R. Washington 39, Marion 30

113 pounds ? Mason Hiler (M) won by forfeit; 120 ? Mason Byrne (CRW) pinned Jared Almandinger, 2:30; 126 ? Devin Dills (CRW) won by forfeit; 132 ? Trey Schuler (CRW) pinned Tevin Mull, 4:50; 138 ? NIck Kramer (M) dec. Jacob Boatwright, 8-3; 145 ? Levi Lochner (M) pinned J.P. Mercado, 3:15; 152 ? Evan Lehrman (CRW) dec. MIles Martens, 8-1; 160 ? Tyler Burkle (CRW) pinned Romello Olds, 3:44; 170 ? Dakota Peterson (M) pinned Jared Eicher, 1:40; 182 ? Dalton Gardner (M) dec. Mason Gee, 12-7; 195 ? Noah Williams (CRW) dec. Kyle Grandon, 12-8; 220 ? Hunter Swartz (CRW) pinned Jacob Ottaway, 1:46; 285 ? Zac Gillis (CRW) dec. Mitch Ross, 3-2 (OT); 106 ? Klein Walker (M) pinned Mat DeCamp, :38.

Marion 42, Maquoketa 31

106 pounds ? Dillion Pieper (Maq) dec. Klein Walker, 7-0; 113 ? Beau Bowman (Maq) pinned Jared Almandinger, 3:44; 120 ? Zach Koppes (Maq) major dec. Mason Hiler, 15-1; 126 ? Double forfeit; 132 ? Tevin Mull (Mar) won by forfeit; 138 ? Nick Kramer (Mar) won by forfeit; 145 ? Levi Lochner (Mar) pinned Jacob Kloft, 1:46; 152 ? Logan Mayberry (Maq) pinned Miles Martens, 1:19; 160 ? Romello Olds (Mar) pinned Hunter Hessong, :26; 170 ? Dakota Peterson (Mar) pinned Ty Thede, 1:26; 182 ? Justin Zeimet (Maq) pinned Dalton Gardner, 4:00; 195 ? Jacob Ottaway (Mar) won by forfeit; 220 ? Alex Eggers (Maq) pinned Kyle Grandon, 1:02; 285 ? Mitch Ross (Mar) won by forfeit.

Source: http://iowaprepsports.com/2012/11/27/warriors-open-season-with-two-wins/

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Ford Hybrids' Fuel Economy Failing To Live Up To EPA Ratings ...

green car reports logo v200 Ford Hybrids Fuel Economy Failing To Live Up To EPA Ratings?This is starting to look not so good.

It appears that two new hybrid cars from Ford?the 2013 C-Max Hybrid hatchback and the 2013 Fusion Hybrid sedan?may not deliver real-world gas mileage that?s anywhere near their 47-mpg EPA ratings.

Automotive journalists have been quietly discussing this for a few weeks, since Ford began releasing C-Max and 2013 Fusion vehicles into media test fleets.

C-Max Hybrid: stretching to hit 40 mpg?

It?s still early yet, and it?s possible that gas mileage may improve slightly in the cars once several thousand miles have accumulated on each one.

But Green Car Reports has tested the C-Max twice, once at Ford?s media drive and once over a quick weekend route.

In the first case, the C-Max delivered 37 mpg over 50 miles of mixed freeway and urban driving. Over our weekend route, we got 40 mpg over 240 miles, mostly at freeway speeds.

And other outlets had similar results.

Most awkwardly for Ford, Larry Vellequette of Automotive News has documented his struggles to achieve anything close to 47 mpg in the C-Max Hybrid he bought for family use.

His average gas mileage was 37 mpg.

Vellequette even got chief engineer John Davis to show him the most fuel-efficient driving techniques, but he still couldn?t approach a sustained 47 mpg.

Moreover, the eight C-Max Hybrid owners who have submitted their real-world mileages to FuelEconomy.gov averaged just 40.7 mpg.

2013 Fusion Hybrid too?

Now tests are starting to emerge for the 2013 Ford Fusion Hybrid, the most fuel-efficient model of the company?s new mid-size sedan.

And, again, they seem to be far below the EPA numbers, which duplicate those of the C-Max Hybrid at 47 mpg for all three ratings: city, highway, and combined.

Jason Harper, testing the Fusion Hybrid for Bloomberg, got 36.9 mpg.

Gary Gastelu, testing the hybrid sedan for Fox News, wrote, ?Even though I intentionally left my lead shoes at home and light-footed the Fusion Hybrid as much as possible (proving once and for all that I can, in fact, drive 55 mph) I took a lot of work to get it anywhere near 40 mpg, let alone that magic 47 mpg mark.?

Only two owners have submitted real-world ratings for the 2013 Fusion Hybrid to FuelEconomy.gov, but their average was even worse: 35.0 mpg.

Last generation: on the money

The discrepancy is all the more surprising because the last-generation Ford hybrids seemed to hit their mileage numbers on the nose.

The late Escape Hybrid, rated at 29 mpg in its all-wheel drive model, generally achieved 28 to 32 mpg.

In our test of the last-generation Lincoln MKZ Hybrid, we registered 40.5 mpg over a 250-mile route with a majority of highway mile?better than its combined EPA rating of 39 mpg.

Similarly, The Car Connection got around 40 mpg on its week-long test of 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid.

Moreover, all members of the Toyota Prius line of four vehicles appear to deliver real-world mileage within about 10 percent of their combined EPA ratings.

Those are 50 mpg combined for both the Prius Liftback and the new Prius C subcompact, and 42 mpg for the Prius V wagon.

Power too tempting?

We spoke with three separate Ford engineers and executives at last week?s C-Max Energi media event, asking them why the real-world figures might be so different from the EPA ratings.

Each noted?as if in unison?that different owners will achieve different mileage results, that efficiency depends greatly on driver behavior, and that customers have told Ford about real-world mileages both above and below the 47-mpg combined rating.

Pressed further, one engineer noted that because the newest hybrids have a great deal more power than comparable Prius models?54 hp more, as Ford touts in its marketing?it may be that drivers are tempted to use that power.

Heavy acceleration and spirited driving, he suggested, could do some serious damage to mileage figures achieved with a light foot and a great deal of pre-planning.

What mileage do you get?

We think there will be more to this story in the months ahead, as more and more C-Max Hybrids and Fusion Hybrids hit the streets.

Certainly the lure of a compact five-door hatchback and a mid-size sedan (a nice-looking one at that) that each achieve 47 mpg is undeniable.

But as Hyundai and Kia just recently found out, when the truth comes out, it?s not pretty?and if mistakes in testing were made, it can cost the company a lot of money.

We invite owners of both the C-Max Hybrid and the new 2013 Fusion Hybrid to share their real-world mileage in the Comments below.

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This article originally appeared at Green Car Reports.

Source: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/11/27/ford-hybrids-fuel-economy-failing-to-live-up-to-epa-ratings/

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Markets greet Greek deal with measure of relief

An investor walks in front of the stock price monitor at a private securities company Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Asian stock markets rose Tuesday after talks over Greece's financial crisis ended with an agreement on how to reduce its debt load, paving the way for the cash-strapped country to receive the next installment of a bailout loan. (AP Photo)

An investor walks in front of the stock price monitor at a private securities company Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Asian stock markets rose Tuesday after talks over Greece's financial crisis ended with an agreement on how to reduce its debt load, paving the way for the cash-strapped country to receive the next installment of a bailout loan. (AP Photo)

(AP) ? A deal to give Greece more cash was greeted by a measure of relief in markets Tuesday, though concerns remained over the country's ability to implement its required reforms as the economy shrinks.

In the early hours of Tuesday, Greece's euro partners and the International Monetary Fund agreed to release vital loan payments totaling some ?44 billion ($57 billion) and introduce a series of measures designed to reduce the country's massive debts to a more manageable level within a decade. These include reducing the interest rates Greece has to pay on the loans and a still-vague bond buyback program.

Though the deal avoids an imminent bankruptcy of Greece, the country still has to implement wide-ranging cuts and reforms in the months and years ahead. Many in the markets think that will be too much for a country that's about to enter its sixth year of recession and a society struggling to cope with rising poverty levels and an unemployment rate of 25 percent.

"Clearly Greece undoubtedly has the capacity to throw further bad news over the coming months and years although for now such risks should be laid low meaning that the eurozone crisis should remain off the boil into year end," said Jane Foley, an analyst at Rabobank International.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 0.4 percent at 5,808 while Germany's DAX rose 0.5 percent to 7,326. The CAC-40 in France was 0.2 percent higher at 3,509.

The main index in Athens, however, was down 1 percent as investors had hoped for a little more debt relief from the deal.

The euro also gave up some earlier gains to trade 0.4 percent lower at $1.2943.

Wall Street was poised for a flat opening as investors continue to monitor negotiations over the U.S. budget. The White House has to agree a deal with lawmakers to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax increases and spending cuts at the start of next year.

"Investors are still very aware of the impending fiscal cliff at the end of the year," said Craig Erlam, market analyst at Alpari. "Until we see progress here, risk appetite is likely to remain low in the U.S."

Earlier, most Asian markets posted gains. Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 0.4 percent to close at a seven-month high of 9,423.30 while South Korea's Kospi rose 0.9 percent to 1,925.20

Hong Kong's Hang Seng lost 0.1 percent to 21,844.03. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.3 percent 1,991.16, its lowest close in nearly four years. On Jan. 23, 2009, the index closed at 1,990.66. The smaller Shenzhen Composite Index plummeted 3 percent to 765.52.

Oil prices edged higher, with the benchmark New York rate up 14 cents at $87.88 a barrel.

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Resultly Mobile App Keeps You In The Loop On All The Things

Screen Shot 2012-11-27 at 8.20.23 AMOur Northern Meetup tour was chock-full of great surprises, but none stand out in my mind like Resultly. It's a mobile app that keeps you up-to-date on... (wait for it...) anything. So let's say you're looking for a job in the fashion industry, or are super interested in the still-developing Apple Maps story, or let's say that you have been waiting to see The Black Keys in concert but shows always seem to sell out before you can grab tickets. Resultly fixes all of that, and all from the comfort of a native app on your iPhone.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Syrian jets bomb rebel bases near Turkey border

BUKULMEZ, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrian warplanes bombed two rebel bases near the Turkish border on Monday sending hundreds of people fleeing across the frontier.

The attacks on the Free Syrian Army positions (FSA) in Atima and nearby Bab al-Hawa came a day before NATO and Ankara were due to start assessing where to station surface-to-air missiles on the Turkish side of the 900-km (560-mile) boundary.

Turkey, a big supporter of rebels fighting to oust Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, has repeatedly scrambled jets along the border. It has also responded in kind when shells from the conflict have landed inside Turkey, underlining fears Syria's 20-month-old revolt could spread to destabilize the region.

Ankara has rejected Syrian complaints that the NATO Patriots were "provocative" and stressed they would be used only to defend Turkish territory, not to create a no-fly zone inside Syria that rebels have long demanded as a way to neutralize Assad's massive air power.

Syrian planes dropped around six bombs on a rebel base near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, said activists.

"There were lots of people injured ... I saw many wounded people on the border before I was brought here," FSA member Mahmoud Ahmad told Reuters after arriving in Turkey for treatment.

The attack also flattened tents being set up nearby for displaced people inside Syria by a Turkish charity, but no one was inside them at the time, Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency reported. Reuters television footage showed tattered shelters and a bomb crater near a line of tanks.

Two Syrian jets fired five rockets at an FSA base in Atima, around 2km (1 mile) from the border, said opposition activist Ahmed, who lives nearby. "Three have hit farm areas and another two hit buildings near the base."

Rebels fired anti-aircraft guns at the jets but they were flying too high to be hit, activists said. "I think the reason for the raid may have something to do with increased weapons movements (from Turkey)," Ahmed said.

Several hundred Syrians fled into Turkey after the Atima raid and were being taken care of by the Turkish army.

The Turkish Anatolian news agency said an anti-aircraft shell fired during clashes in another Syrian border town, Harem, hit the roof of a house in the Turkish district of Reyhanli but caused no casualties.

Syrian rebels have been tightening their hold on farmland and urban centres to the east and northeast of Damascus, and have seized a string of military bases in the past 10 days.

PATRIOT DEPLOYMENT

A joint Turkish-NATO team will start work on Tuesday assessing where to put Patriot missiles, how many will be needed and the number of foreign troops to be sent to operate them.

Turkey is reluctant to be drawn into the fighting, but the proximity of Syrian bombing raids to its border is straining its nerves. It is worried about its neighbor's chemical weapons, the refugee crisis on its border, and what it says is Syrian support for Kurdish militants on its own soil.

Activists say more than 40,000 people have been killed in Syria's civil war, which started with peaceful demonstrations for reform but grew into demands for the overthrow of 42 years of dynastic rule by Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking to the Austrian paper Der Standard, urged Assad to consider a political settlement with the opposition.

"The military option is not sustainable. The conflict should be resolved via a political process. (Assad) should realize that he has gone too far, too deep, and how can he continue this way? He should listen to what his people would like," he said.

Attacks by mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad's forces have become increasingly effective and deadly. The president, from Syria's Alawite minority which is linked to Shi'ite Islam, has responded with devastating artillery and air bombardment.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their country and more than 2 million more have been displaced. The opposition said last week $60 billion would be needed for reconstruction.

With winter coming, the suffering will grow as displaced families seek food, medicine and shelter. The U.N. chief said only 40 percent of needed humanitarian aid has been made available.

EUPHRATES DAM CAPTURED

The military installations rebels have captured in the last 10 days include a major facility in the northern province of Aleppo and several bases around the capital Damascus.

On Monday activists said rebels took control of the Tishreen dam on the Euphrates river, east of the city of Aleppo. Internet video footage showed gunmen inside what appeared to be the control room, undamaged following the rebel capture.

Other footage showed rebels opening up ammunition boxes, including one marked RPG (rocket-propelled grenades), which they said were seized from Assad's forces holding the dam.

On Sunday rebels said they had captured a helicopter base east of Damascus, their latest gain in a battle that is drawing nearer to Assad's seat of power in the capital.

The Marj al-Sultan base, 15 km (10 miles) from Damascus, is the second military facility on the outskirts of the city reported to fall to Assad's opponents this month. Activists said rebels destroyed two helicopters and taken 15 prisoners.

"We are coming for you Bashar!" a rebel shouted in an internet video of what activists said was Marj al-Sultan. Restrictions on non-state media meant it could not be verified.

The rebels have been tightening their hold on farmland and urban centres to the east and northeast of Damascus while a major battle has been under way for a week in the suburb of Daraya near the main highway south.

"We are seeing the starting signs of a rebel siege of Damascus," opposition campaigner Fawaz Tello said from Berlin. "Marj al-Sultan is very near to the Damascus Airport road and to the airport itself. The rebels appear to be heading toward cutting this as well as the main northern artery to Aleppo."

Assad's core forces, drawn mainly from his Alawite sect, are entrenched in the capital.

(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Erika Solomon in Beirut, Jonathon Burch in Ankara and Michael Shields in Vienna; Writing by Dominic Evans; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-jets-bomb-rebel-bases-near-turkey-border-032620562.html

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First gas tanker crosses Arctic

A large tanker carrying liquified natural gas (LNG) is set to become the first ship of its type to sail across the Arctic.

The carrier, Ob River, left Norway in November and has sailed north of Russia on its way to Japan.

The specially equipped tanker is due to arrive in early December and will shave 20 days off the regular journey.

The owners say that changing climate conditions and a volatile gas market make the Arctic transit profitable.

Long-term preparation

Built in 2007 with a strengthened hull, the Ob River can carry up to 150,000 cubic metres of gas. The tanker was loaded with LNG at Hammerfest in the north of Norway on 7 November and set sail across the Barents Sea. It has been accompanied by a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker for much of its voyage.

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The ship, with an international crew of 40, has been chartered from its Greek owners Dynagas by the Russian Gazprom energy giant. It says it has been preparing for the trip for over a year.

"It's an extraordinarily interesting adventure," Tony Lauritzen, commercial director at Dynagas, told BBC News.

"The people on board have been seeing polar bears on the route. We've had the plans for a long time and everything has gone well."

Mr Lauritzen says that a key factor in the decision to use the northern route was the recent scientific record on melting in the Arctic.

"We have studied lots of observation data - there is an observable trend that the ice conditions are becoming more and more favourable for transiting this route. You are able to reach a highly profitable market by saving 40% of the distance, that's 40% less fuel used as well."

Shale of the century

But melting ice is not the only factor. A major element is the emergence of shale gas in the US.

The Norwegian LNG plant at Hammerfest was developed with exports to the US in mind. But the rapid uptake of shale in America has curbed the demand for imported gas.

Meanwhile in Japan, in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, there has been a growing interest in alternative power sources, especially gas.

"The major point about gas is that it now goes east and not west," says Gunnar Sander, senior adviser at the Norwegian Polar Institute and an expert on how climate change impacts economic activity in the Arctic.

"The shale gas revolution has turned the market upside down; that plus the rapid melting of the polar ice."

He stresses that the changes in climate are less important than the growing demand for oil and gas.

"The major driver is the export of resources from the Arctic region, not the fact that you can transit across the Arctic sea."

There is an expectation that because of changing climactic conditions, sea traffic across the northern sea route will increase rapidly. 2012 has been a record year both for the length of the sailing season and also for the amount of cargo that has been shipped.

But Gunnar Sander says there are limits to the growth and some perspective is required.

"Nineteen thousand ships went through the Suez canal last year; around 40 went through the northern sea route. There's a huge difference."

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Build a Soft Focus Filter for Your DSLR with a Sink Drainer

Build a Soft Focus Filter for Your DSLR with a Sink DrainerUsing a soft focus filter makes for flattering portraits and dream-like effects, but that comes at a cost. For about $6 you can make your own that offers the same benefits with a cool, unique look.

Through a contest, DIY Photography learned of this fun project by photographer Nick Cool. He took a stainless steel small-hole sink filter and an inexpensive camera filter that fit his lens' thread size and created a unique soft focus filter on the cheap. The project involved drilling a bunch of strategically-placed holes and fitting the sink filter into the lens ring. The filter resulted in photos with a soft look almost reminiscent of a painting. If you want to take some unique images and have a couple of hours on your hands, check out the full details of the project over at DIY Photography.

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AP PHOTOS: Scenes from Bangladesh factory fire

The blaze broke out at the seven-story factory just outside Bangladesh's capital Dhaka late Saturday. More than 100 bodies had been found by Sunday morning.

The cause of the blaze was not immediately clear, and authorities have ordered an investigation.

Bangladesh has some 4,000 garment factories, many without proper safety measures. The country annually earns about $20 billion from exports of garment products, mainly to the United States and Europe.

Here are photos of the deadly fire and its aftermath:

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What a difference a year makes in October total sales and average prices of residential real estate in the Seacoast.

While improvements in those categories were spotty in a comparison of October to September, the improvements are dramatic for last month versus October 2011, according to an analysis of data from the Rockingham County Registry of Deeds.

Data was gleaned for single-home and condominium sales in Brentwood, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Greenland, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Portsmouth, Rye, Seabrook and Stratham.

The total value of sales for this region in October was $60.1 million, a 17 percent jump over September and a 51.2 percent leap over October 2011.

The number of transactions also jumped: There were 117 house sales and 64 condo sales in October; 99 house sales and 50 condo sales in September; versus 85 house sales and 25 condo sales in October 2011.

"The Seacoast Board of Realtors is encouraged by the continued market improvement, considering how far we've come," said Lauren Kane, board president.

With what she called "continued soft sales prices," she expressed concern that future deficit-cutting measures in Washington, D.C., could harm the housing market.

"We are hopeful that the president will work with Congress to support the continuation of the mortgage interest deduction and allow for loosening of credit standards, both of which will ensure continued market recovery," she said.

Communities that saw significant increases in both home and condo sales values include Exeter, Hampton and Stratham in the year-over-year numbers.

In Exeter, the total value of sales in October was $7.2 million. In October 2011 it was $4.1 million. Stratham's total was $4.4 million in October and was $1.7 million the previous year. Average prices were also on the uptick for both homes and condos in year over year comparisons.

The average price of a home that sold in the region in October was $467,034, while the average price of a condo was $262,532. That compares with $393,830 for a home in October 2011 and $213,559 for a condo.

In September, the average price of a home was $421,229 and the average price of a condo was $318,581.

There were ups and downs through specific communities. In Portsmouth, for example, average prices in October were lower than they were in September and in October 2011.

The Seacoast Board of Realtors' analysis of its 13 sample towns showed a 47.5 percent increase in single family sales over a year ago. It said October was the fourth straight month that sales exceeded 2011 levels and the eighth of 10 months that registered gains. The towns are Seabrook, Hampton Falls, Hampton, North Hampton, Rye, New Castle, Portsmouth, Newington, Greenland, Stratham, Exeter, Newfields and Newmarket.

It noted the number of active single-family listings reached the lowest total for the year, a statistic that could forecast increased prices over the winter.

On the foreclosure front, according to the N.H. Housing Finance Authority, there were 263 foreclosure deed recordings in New Hampshire in September, a decrease of 13 percent from foreclosure deeds in September 2011, and a decrease of 6.7 percent from the prior month.

The cumulative total for January through September 2012 is nearly 4 percent below the same period in 2011 and 13 percent below the same period in 2010.

"With signs of improvement in overall economic conditions, as well as some improvement in the statewide and regional housing markets, there is reason to believe the number of new foreclosures in New Hampshire will continue to decline," the authority said in a statement. "However, the likely pace of improvement in foreclosures will be slow. During that time period, the negative influence of foreclosed and distressed properties on the housing market will continue."

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For a searchable database of property transfers and real estate transactions for the Portsmouth region and southern York County, visit www.seacoastonline.com/property-transfers.


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5 Reasons PC Gaming Is Better Than Consoles | N4G

The Games Cabin: Gaming on PC has its downfalls, yesterday I posted ?5 Reasons Why The PC Is The Worst Platform To Game On? explaining the problems the PC has.

That?s not to say the PC is all bad, in fact it?s far from it.

Today, as promised, I?m going to explain why the PC is also the best platform to get your gaming buzz off. (PC, PS3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360)

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Direct GolfUK, Europe?s leading multi-channel golf retailer, is celebrating after winning an award for one of the best PR/Marketing Teams at the Pro Shop Europe Industry Awards 2012.

The star-studded awards ceremony took place on 15th November at the world renowned Wentworth Golf Club, Surrey and were hosted by leading golf trade publication, Pro Shop Europe, with Direct Golf UK shortlisted for PR/Marketing team of the year.

Speaking after collecting the award, John Andrew, Chairman, said: ?This is testament to how hard the Direct Golf marketing team have worked in 2012 ? a very difficult year for the sport. To be collecting this award is an honour at such a magnificent event and my congratulations go to the Pro Shop Europe team for a job well done.?

With hundreds of entries, each nominee for the 2012 awards were judged by a panel of industry experts, which included Doug Poole ? Chairman of the British Golf Industry Association, Eddie Bullock ? Captain PGA GB&I 2011-2013, Mike Harris ? Editor, Golf Monthly magazine, Alex Perry ? Editor golfmagic.com and Matthew Gillingham ? PGA professional and 2011 winner of PGA Professional of the Year.

?On a night dominated by the biggest brands in the game, it was huge honour to be the only retailer nominated for any of the awards and huge achievement to be short-listed,? added Class AA PGA Professional Andrew.

Direct Golf UK?s marketing team has enjoyed a successful and busy year with innovative promotions at The Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Anne?s as well as gift card campaigns across all the leading consumer golf titles; while increased media exposure, courtesy of the Sports PR company, Pure Sports Marketing, has ensured Europe?s leading multi-channel golf retailer is never too far away from the headlines.

Established in 1991, Direct Golf UKremains 100% privately owned by its founder and Chairman, John Andrew. From one store on Leeds Road in Huddersfield, 21 years on Direct Golf boasts 21 stores across the UK, over 300 staff including 50 PGA professionals, a 75,000 sq ft warehouse, an online TV channel www.directgolftv.com and the largest, most responsive, database of golfers on the way to becoming the leading multi-channel golf retailer in Europe.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

4 Critical Online Marketing Mistakes

When it comes to marketing your business website you should look at hiring an elite Phoenix web design company such as HireAWiz. We have proven that we know how to help our clients grow the next level and want to help yours grow but if you decide that you want to try to market your business on your own then I caution you there are some mistakes that end up costing online businesses big bucks. Let?s look at some of the mistakes that as a Phoenix web design company we notice online companies making ?and then wondering why their online marketing strategy didn?t payoff. Before we go through this list one thing to remember is online marketing is an investment.

  1. Knowing your client ? ?You would be surprised how many people when asked who their companies target audience is say everybody. Well that is great that your product or service can be used by everyone but you have a target audience that is the majority of your customers and you need to figure out who your target audience is.
  2. SEO -?Many of online businesses don?t run an SEO campaign for their businesses. They generally determine that either it is too expensive or it takes to much time. Well your business is put at a huge disadvantage by not ranking in the search engines.
  3. Being Tricky ? Don?t think that you are smarter than the search engines and do things that are unethical because they will find you. When the search engines determine that the reason you are ranked is because of shady things you have been doing they will penalize your website making it nearly impossible to become ranked.
  4. Content ? You must always add fresh content to your website. Have you ever been to a website where you know they haven?t updated their content since they built their website. This has 2 negative effects on your business. 1 it is not appealing to your customer and 2 it hurts your SEO campaign.

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Friday, November 23, 2012

Israel desire to attack Iran "childish": Ahmadinejad

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Israel has a "childish" desire to attack Iran and Tehran is capable of defending itself, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday.

"They wish to hurt the Iranian nation. They are waiting for the chance. They known that Iran does not attack anybody and they know that Iran knows how to defend itself," he told a news conference in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

"We don't accept the hegemony of Israel. They wish to attack Iran but it is like a childish desire."

He was speaking after attending a summit of developing nations.

Six world powers agreed on Wednesday to seek renewed talks with Iran as fast as possible, reflecting a heightened sense of urgency to resolve a long rift over Tehran's disputed nuclear activity and avert the threat of war.

Their call coincided with growing evidence of Iran expanding nuclear capacity in an underground bunker virtually impervious to attack and follows the November 6 re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama, which has cleared the way for new contacts.

Senior diplomats from the six countries - the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - met in Brussels on Wednesday to consider new negotiating tactics despite abiding skepticism that a deal with Tehran can be reached.

Analysts warn that a window of opportunity for a negotiated solution is narrowing because of growing alarm over Tehran's nuclear course in Israel, the Middle East's only nuclear power which has threatened to bomb the atomic sites of its arch-enemy.

(Reporting by Randy Fabi and Mehreen Zahra-Malik in Islamabad and Justyna Pawlak in Brussels; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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Michael Berry: When Picking Mineral Stocks, It&#39;s Management ...


Michael Berry believes the declining dollar is the real driver behind the gains in gold and silver and that silver is undervalued relative to gold. In this interview with The Gold Report, Berry, co-founder of Discovery Investing and pioneer of the Discovery Investing Scoreboard, discusses the factors that are now driving valuation and highlights some micro-cap stocks that the market has ignored.

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The Gold Report: When you look at the PHLX Gold/Silver Index (XAU) between mid-May and mid-July, there's a perfectly beautiful double bottom. It looked like a big W. Since the beginning of October all commodities have broken down a bit, but that double bottom was so pronounced. Do you attach any significance to it?

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Michael Berry: George, when we used to see a "W" pattern we would say "WOW" and when we identified a double top "M" we would say "Mother"! There is a dominant secular quality-of-life cycle in the world, a very long-term cycle, so in the short run, we're going to have runs up and then declines. The Federal Reserve is going to continue to attempt to inflate and devalue the dollar value relative to other currencies and relative to gold and silver. And it is going to do it for the next three to five years, for however long it takes. Just take a look at Japan for a view of the future. My sense is that there's a very firm bottom on both gold and silver that has been identified by the double bottom you are referring to.

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TGR: Quantitative Easing (QE) 3 is gearing up. We know that central banks are now buyers of gold and not sellers as they were in the 1990s. How much inflation do you anticipate we could see in North America?

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MB: The Fed wants to see asset inflation, particularly in housing; we're seeing a little bit of that now. A housing recovery is the big bet by the Fed. But we're also seeing inflation in food and energy, though that is not considered in the statistics. We're going to see more of it because ultimately as we go through this process of quantitative easing, demand is going to increase, as are prices. However, make no mistake, we're still on the knife's edge. The reason why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has said the Fed is going to keep short interest rates at zero for the next two to three years and is going to print $40?80 billion (B)/month is because he sees that the deflation possibility is not yet off the table. This financial repression not only punishes seniors who have bond portfolios but also life insurance companies and pension funds who are becoming more underfunded with the low rates. Recently several of the Federal Open Market Committee governors have even opined for even more QE.

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The Fed wants to stimulate inflation to avoid a deflation at any cost. Printing money debases the currency. It's not so much that gold or silver have gone up in price, in spite of apparent downward manipulation in the futures markets. It's that the dollar has declined in value relative to other assets and currencies. We will see this inflation affect all hard assets and real money. Whether or not it will actually inflate the economy and create jobs?the new focus of the Fed?is another issue, of course.

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TGR: Could we be looking at stagflation?

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MB: Yes, we could be. We could also be looking at deflation. The more work I do, the more I see the Fed beating its head against the wall in an apparent liquidity trap. The more I see the economy moving sideways with growth that doesn't replace jobs, the more I'm worried about actual deflation. Remember that when you must de-lever (extinguish bad debts) in a no-growth or negative-growth economy, it is a very dangerous situation.

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Deflation is a phenomenon that the Fed doesn't really know how to deal with because when you're in a deflation, you're trapped in a downward spiral and you have to create a new credit cycle, so you have to wipe out all the old credit or the markets will do it for you. We're not even close to that situation yet. Stagflation would be better than deflation. We will surely have some kind of inflation along with it. Investors are going to have to protect themselves, and that's why I think having claims on some of these hard assets, particularly gold and silver, is important.

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TGR: With President Obama re-elected, is anything different going to happen in our economy?

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MB: From an economic perspective, it wouldn't have made any difference if Romney had won rather than Obama, in terms of the ability to fire up this economy, to erase the bad debt and to move forward. Neither of them had or has a plan to move us forward to a new sustainable credit cycle. So in that respect, no.

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On the other hand, I do believe that President Obama views the economy as an entitlement economy and that tax rates must increase. In my opinion, Nov. 6 effectively marked the formal beginnings of the U.S. economy as an "entitlement economy" where wealth transfers will be the dominant economic flows for years.

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That is a very serious negative for U.S. investors at this time. I do think there will be a 12th-hour reconciliation on the fiscal cliff in which the Republican House will concede on higher tax rates. I recently spoke on the topic at the Hard Assets Conference in San Francisco; my presentation was titled "Fiscal Cliff, Sequestration and Discovery Investing." It's worth a read. President Obama wins on this issue whether we go over this "cliff" or he gets his increased taxation on the "wealthy." I am very much concerned that it will be hurtful in terms of stalling the U.S. economy.

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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that an encounter with the Fiscal Cliff will cost the economy between 0.5% and 1% of GDP. I don't look for a very high-growth economy as we go down the road. There are trillions of dollars that must be taken out of it at this stage. In 2013, the Fiscal Cliff would remove $500B and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) would cost another $200B for 28 million new AMT taxpayers.

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TGR: Mike, I want to ask you about your 10-point discovery model for emerging companies. Have you revised anything about your model since the downturn of 2008?

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MB: No, we just sharpened our focus since 2008. The system worked beautifully. There are no changes, just enhancements. There are 10 basic factors in the Discovery Investing Scoreboard (www.discoveryboard.com) (DiS) that address very different issues. We really wanted to better define those issues, so we worked on that. We have about 1,200 users on the system now. We cover about 840 companies?some biotech, quite a few mining and resource companies and some high-tech and infrastructure companies. We can access all companies on the Canadian, American, Australian and Hong Kong exchanges.

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We still look for world-class assets, but most important, even critical, we look for world-class management. With emerging companies, mediocre management is anathema.

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We break all these factors down into multiple sub-components. For example, a world-class asset would have sub-factors such as grade, tonnage, infrastructure and location and these may be further broken into components.

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We look for catalysts for value change, either creation or destruction. We look for sustainability of operations?cash flow, royalties, etc. About a year and a half ago, we began to talk about the most important factor not being world-class asset availability but sustainability. Can a company sustain itself as the market for funds went dry? That is where we are today. Rather than changing the factors, in the DiS we simply allow the user to change the emphasis on the current factors to reflect what is really driving the market now.

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TGR: In picking mineral stocks, what is the most important fundamental factor?

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MB: It depends where you are in the economic cycle, but almost always, management, management, management?is the most important factor. A great management team can create value in a mediocre project. A lousy management team?there are a lot of them out there?can destroy value in a great project by diluting recklessly, by wasting money on overhead, by chasing the flavor of the day, by giving $0.05 stock to friends and family and by too much diversification with properties. So management expertise and track record are almost always the most important factors.

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TGR: Does the market pay any attention to drill core results anymore, especially in micro-cap stocks?

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MB: Yes and no. In some sectors drill results work today, and in some sectors they don't matter. We've gone through cycles in the '90s: There was the Diamond bubble in the Northwest Territories, there was a bubble in uranium in 2004, followed by lithium, rare earths and now graphite. Part of this is a natural shift in technology, lithium ion batteries, for example, and part is an attempt by the junior space to capitalize on an opportunity. At any given point when we're in one of these technology sub-cycles, if a company gets good drill results, the stock appreciates and then recedes. One only has to see Molycorp Inc.'s (MCP:NYSE) share price journey to realize what happens when investors lose confidence in a sector.

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My son Chris Berry, who works with me, tracks industrial minerals and notes there are now 75 companies in the burgeoning graphite space. At the beginning of the year there were about seven. We will end 2012 with 10 times the number of junior graphite exploration companies than we began the year with. This is clearly not sustainable. He will be presenting on the very topic at the Mines and Money Conference in London on Dec. 4 and the Industrial Minerals Graphite Conference on Dec. 5, also in London.

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In other sectors, the copper sector, for example, this is not happening. A great copper drill result? Who cares, even though copper is really becoming scarcer every day and it's more difficult to find a world-class copper deposit. Even gold?with great drill results, a company still has to go out there and explain it and sell the world-class potential.

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TGR: One thing on copper. It's around $3.46 or $3.50/pound (lb) right now. It appears to have solid support around $3/lb. Is that a profitable level for copper miners?

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MB: It all depends. Is it oxide copper? Is it open pit? Is it underground? Are there by-products like molybdenum and gold? Is it a porphyry or a massive sulphide? What country is it in? Peru, Indonesia and some other countries right now are not very welcoming to copper miners. While $3.50/lb ought to work, it all depends on the grade and the factors mentioned above.

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Normally, companies produce what we call a preliminary economic assessment that tries to do an early discounted cash flow with as much as we know about the deposit. For example, there are three companies at Yerington, Nevada, now: Nevada Copper Corp. (NCU:TSX) has a great deposit, Quaterra Resources Inc. (QTA:TSX.V; QMM:NYSE.MKT) owns the water rights and the center of the deposit, and Entr?e Gold Inc. (ETG:TSX; EGI:NYSE.MKT) owns the Ann Mason porphyry. A major like Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX:NYSE) is likely to ultimately consolidate Yerington; it probably won't be any of these three junior companies. Copper at $3.50/lb works in the oxide portion called MacArthur that Quaterra owns, but I don't know if it works in the Nevada Copper case, where some of its deposit is going to be underground.

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TGR: In the late summer, you commented that the market was scared, especially of the mineral mining micro caps. You said that you thought the TSX Venture Exchange, which is full of resources stocks, had put in a bottom. Even though these mineral stocks and commodity stocks have given back some over the past six weeks, do you believe this positive uptrend is going to continue?

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MB: In the long run, yes. You want to be in a position where you have studied your companies, studied your commodities, and picked great management teams that will acquire great assets and you're ready. Most of these TSX Venture companies are all still extraordinarily cheap. I don't think they're going to get much cheaper. I do think the TSX Venture Index has put in pretty close to a bottom, but it could be a long time, a year or two, before we see the emerging world start to build out again. A lot will depend upon resolution of the Fiscal Cliff drama and Europe. I'm certainly a long-term investor. I'm prepared to wait, and I'm looking around for great values now. If a company can sustain itself through a year or two, I'm a big buyer at this stage.

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TGR: Let's talk about the micro-cap companies that you've written about.

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MB: Chris Berry covers industrial minerals. Northern Graphite Corporation (NGC:TSX.V; NGPHF:OTCQX), Talison Lithium Ltd. (TLH:TSX) and Ur-Energy Inc. (URE:TSX; URG:NYSE.MKT) are a few he covers. Many of these metals or minerals have increased in price based on Chinese demand and also because they control production of much of these markets. There is a lot of opportunity but you have to find the right management team, find the right deposit and you have to be prepared to hang in there with it. This is especially true given the gloomy near-term outlook for economic growth (and hence industrial demand) in much of the world today.

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Another company that I really like that generates cash is Revett Minerals Inc. (RVM:TSX; RMV:NYSE.MKT). Revett Minerals is a copper-silver miner in Troy, Montana. It is profitable and is producing positive cash flow. Revett has perhaps the best copper-silver concentrate in the country, and it sells it all over the world. It also has a second deposit that has been held up in litigation for a while. I think it is going to get the right to mine it. It's a beauty. It's a couple hundred million ounces silver and a couple billion pounds (Blb) copper. Here's a company that's trading for about $3.40/share today. It's worth a lot more. I know the management team, which has turned Revett around. It was a $0.07/share stock two or three years ago, and management has done a great job on it. I'm very pleased to be an owner of Revett as well, and I think it's cheap.

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TGR: Three months ago Revett Minerals reconfirmed its adjusted production guidance levels for fiscal 2012 at 1.3 million ounces (Moz) silver and 10 million pounds copper. The company is valued at $117 million (M). All of these charts are ugly; it's not just this one. Is there a major disconnect?

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MB: Companies like Revett are excellent fish bait. Larger companies like Hecla Mining Co. (HL:NYSE), Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp. (CDM:TSX; CDE:NYSE) and midtier producers have to be looking at Revett now and trying to figure out the Revett story. By that I mean that Revett owns Rock Creek in addition to the Troy mine. It is an extremely valuable asset for which it is not yet receiving any value because of environmental concerns. Revett is a cheap stock. Even though it produces good profit numbers, the market yawns it off. Revett is generating lots of cash. Rock Creek has 250 Moz silver and 2 Blb copper that I think it is going to get a chance to produce. However, I bet it's taken out before that happens.

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In some cases, there is just so much undervaluation in the market right now that this is the time. If you can find great management?and Tom Patton at Quaterra, Steve Alfers at Pershing Gold Corp. (PGLC:OTCBB) and John Shanahan at Revett are indeed excellent managers?and then line up your 10 factors using the Discovery Investing Scoreboard, which we provide on a complimentary basis, then you're off to the races in a year or two.

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TGR: Revett looks like a successful turnaround story.

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MB: John Shanahan is the CEO. I know him very well; he's done a wonderful job. He has a happy crew. He has several hundred people in northern Montana that he's employing. It's just a good, all-around story. Revett is going to new resources within the Troy mine itself. He's done an extraordinarily good job in turning things around. When we first became involved with Revett the shares were trading for $0.07.

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TGR: Give us another example, Mike.

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MB: I have to mention Quaterra, which also doesn't get any love. Here's a company with 6?7 Blb copper in various levels of resource at Yerington, Nevada. Yerington is the next major copper district in the U.S.; Quaterra also has 35% of the Herbert Glacier discovery.

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The last 23 holes on the Herbert Glacier averaged 0.5 oz gold. I think the Herbert Glacier discovery will have 0.5 Moz Measured and Indicated gold in an NI 43-101 in Q1/13. Quaterra is a company that has 35% of that discovery. It is a major, high-grade gold discovery within 20 miles of Hecla's Greens Creek and 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene's mine near Juneau. Grande Portage Resources Ltd. (GPG:TSX.V) owns the other 65% of the Herbert Project.

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Quaterra also owns 50% of the Nieves Silver property in Mexico. The Nieves property has 110 Moz silver, open-pittable. We think it may be worth $100?200M in total. Furthermore, Quaterra just announced another major discovery hole on the Nieves property 2 kilometers west of the open-pit discovery. They drilled a hole with an interval of 0.8 meters of 54 ounces of silver. This suggests the Nieves silver deposit is much larger than the 110 Moz currently in the preliminary economic assessment, in my view.

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Quaterra is a company with some tremendous discoveries; it is trading at $0.38/share. Again, nobody cares. It's up to Quaterra now to monetize some of these discoveries?the Herbert Glacier would be one, Nieves Silver would be another one?and focus maybe on the Yerington copper deposit. Again, I own a lot of this stock. I've owned it for years. I know CEO Tom Patton extraordinarily well. I believe in Todd Hilditch, a new director, and Steve Dischler, who is running the operation at Yerington for the company. Sometimes these things happen in their own time; that appears to be the case here. I should also point out that a group called Blackberry Holdings, of which I am a member, owns the other 50% of the Nieves project.

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TGR: The Herbert Glacier, as the name implies, is under a glacier. It may be a high-quality resource, but can you get to it?

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MB: Herbert Glacier itself has been receding since 1740, according to scientific studies from the U.S. Geological Survey. The six parallel veins are exposed and not under the glacier at all. I've been up there twice to monitor progress. The six parallel veins are mesothermal and they go very deep; they all appear to contain high-grade gold and silver and tungsten in some cases. Quaterra has identified both shallow high-grade and deep high-grade gold, so this mine will be underground. None of the veins that Quaterra has drilled to date is under the glacier. The only problem has been actually drilling it because it is pretty rough terrain. I believe it will be a mine, though there's a long way to go yet. Quaterra and JV partner Grande Portage will step back 10 miles from the glacier and go underground, if not a much larger gold miner. It won't have any impact on the glacier at all.

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TGR: But is it very hard to reach?

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MB: Two mines are already up there and in operation, Hecla's Greens Creek and Coeur's Kensington mine. So this will eventually be mined. There is a paved road to within 20 miles of the Herbert site. Currently all drilling is facilitated by helicopter. As I have said, it won't be mined, in my opinion, by either Quaterra or Grande Portage. It will take a major miner that has the wherewithal to affect things in Washington D.C., to get this into production, but it will be mined eventually.

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TGR: So you're also positive on Grande Portage, which owns 65% of Herbert Glacier?

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MB: I'm positive on Grande Portage because it's a $0.15/share stock, and I'm guessing?you can't hold me to this?that it could show 0.5 Moz gold in the Measured and Indicated early in the next year at Herbert Project. So right away, you're saying to yourself, this stock is awfully cheap. I think there are 80M shares outstanding. It's a minuscule market cap.

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TGR: $11M. It's just unbelievable to see.

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MB: The market doesn't care. There are many other examples like that at present. Grande Portage's problem could be that it could be taken out by somebody bigger for much less than it's worth, in the ground anyway.

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TGR: And Coeur d'Alene is close by?

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MB: Coeur d'Alene has the Kensington mine about 30 kilometers (km) north and I'm guessing it really would like to have this feed. Please remember that Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska had a lot to do with getting Kensington permitted and into production. Hecla is about 20?25km south at Greens Creek and is a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit. You could actually barge material from Herbert. At Herbert, you wouldn't even have to have a plant.

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TGR: What about some silver companies?

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MB: I like the silver producers. Silver is quite undervalued relative to gold. Ultimately, silver has more utility than gold because in a good market, silver is an important industrial mineral. It's a high-tech mineral. In a bad market, it's money. The gold/silver ratio is around 51:1, well out of whack.

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A company like Alexco Resource Corp. (AXR:TSX; AXU:NYSE.MKT) interests me a lot. Alexco is mining very high-grade silver in the Yukon and it could be a consolidator, looking for other companies. I like the management team there. I don't own it yet, but I'm looking for an entry point.

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I think Hecla and Coeur d'Alene are cheap. They've had some problems recently. Hecla is going to reopen its Lucky Friday property. Unfortunately, there was a death at Lucky Friday a year or so ago, and it was shut down. It has written off about $8M to fix that problem. I think Hecla and Coeur could be midtier consolidators as well.

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Endeavour Silver Corp. (EDR:TSX; EXK:NYSE; EJD:FSE) is another company I like. It recently bought the El Cubo mine. It has done a great job. Endeavour has three producing mines in Mexico.

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TGR: Any other silver producers?

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MB: Actually there are two more gold plays I'd like to mention. I've owned Geologix Explorations Inc. (GIX:TSX; GIXEF:OTCQX) for a long time; it's a Mexican gold/copper play. I like the stock a lot. It vibrates around the mid-$0.20s/share with good deposits and has done a good job of raising money. It deserves better. It hasn't received those kudos yet, but I think it's worth owning. Geologix has learned to survive quite well, so I'm very positive on it.

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One stock I should mention is Pershing Gold, a very interesting play. Its Relief properties sit at the bottom of the Black Ridge Fault in northern Nevada. It's in that line of companies that go north to south from Terraco Gold Corp. (TEN:TSX.V) to Midway Gold Corp. (MDW:TSX.V; MDW:NYSE.MKT) to Coeur d'Alene's Rochester mine, on down to a second Coeur d'Alene mine, and then you have Pershing. It's elephant country for gold.

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Pershing Gold has its own fully permitted leach pad and almost new plant. It has about a 250,000 ounce (250 Koz) resource. It's a really good opportunity now, one that people should be looking at. It's a cheap stock. Pershing spun off a company called Valor Gold Corp. (VGLD:OTCBB), and owns a significant position in Valor. Pershing Gold is a very early name, but it has huge potential.

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Pershing Gold's chairman and CEO, Steve Alfers, ran the royalty business at Franco-Nevada Corp. (FNV:TSX; FNV:NYSE). He has an encyclopedic knowledge of the gold space, especially in Nevada, and has assembled a great team. I've been out to see the company's properties near Lovelock, Nevada. I think Pershing will have 700?800 Koz Indicated and Inferred gold in Q1/13, as well as an NI 43-101. Pershing Gold is definitely one to watch because it's in the right place, with the right team?and it is very cheap. Coeur d'Alene recently bought 10M shares of Pershing Gold. It's a very interesting play.

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TGR: You mentioned Terraco a moment ago. Do you follow it?

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MB: Terraco has a great management team in CEO Todd Hilditch, VP Charlie Sulfrian and Ken Snyder as the consulting geologist who's famous for discovering the Ken Snyder mine. Hilditch is young, aggressive, understands valuation and monetization. The company has the property called Moonlight just north of Midway Gold. For $20M Hilditch bought the Midway royalty from underneath Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:TSX; ABX:NYSE) at Spring Valley. Today, the ownership piece of that royalty is worth $60?80M. The company is trading at around $0.19/share. It's one thing to monetize a deposit; it's another thing to monetize a royalty. We think Hilditch can monetize that royalty with any number of financial companies tomorrow. Todd also has the strong support of Haywood behind Terraco, which is quite impressive.

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Terraco is a company you really want to have a look at. It has a good management team. It has about 1 Moz gold Indicated and Inferred in Idaho as well. It'll be open-pittable. It is doing metallurgical tests now to determine recoveries.

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For somebody who doesn't want to take a lot of risk, you can put a little portfolio together of Geologix, Terraco Gold, Pershing Gold and Grande Portage, and you're going to get some value out of that portfolio down the road.

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TGR: Thank you so much for your time. It's been a pleasure, as it always is.

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MB: Thank you.

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From 1982?1990, Michael Berry served as a professor of investments at the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, during which time he published the book "Managing Investments: A Case Approach." He has managed small- and mid-cap value portfolios for Heartland Advisors and Kemper Scudder. His publication, Morning Notes, analyzes emerging geopolitical, technological and economic trends. He is a guest lecturer at the Federal Reserve Bank. Berry travels the world with his son, Chris, looking for discovery opportunities for his readers.

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DISCLOSURE:
1) George S. Mack of The Gold Report conducted this interview. He personally and/or his family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: None.
2) The following companies mentioned in the interview are sponsors of The Gold Report: Northern Graphite Corporation, Revett Minerals Inc., Grande Portage Resources Ltd., Endeavour Silver Corp., Geologix Explorations Inc., Pershing Gold Corp. and Terraco Gold Corp. Ur-Energy Inc. is a sponsor of The Energy Report Streetwise Reports does not accept stock in exchange for services. Interviews are edited for clarity.
3) Michael Berry: I personally and/or my family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: Northern Graphite Corporation, Revett Minerals Inc., Quaterra Resources Inc., Terraco Gold Corp., Grande Portage Resources Ltd., Geologix Explorations Inc., Pershing Gold Inc., Endeavour Silver Corp., Talison Lithium Ltd. and Franco-Nevada Corp. I personally and/or my family am paid by the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. I was not paid by Streetwise Reports for participating in this interview.

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