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Monday, December 7, 2015
November 2015 federal polling averages
The Conservatives averaged 24.5%, a drop of over seven points, while the New Democrats were down almost six points to 14%.
The Bloc Québécois averaged 4.5%, while the Greens averaged 4%.
The Liberals led in every region except Alberta, with 44.5% in the Prairies, 51.5% in British Columbia, 52.5% in Quebec, 55% in Ontario, and 68% in Atlantic Canada. The Liberals were in second with 33.5% in Alberta.
The New Democrats were in second only in Atlantic Canada, where they stood at 15%. They had third place showings in the rest of the country, with 14.5% in British Columbia, 9% in Alberta, 15.5% in the Prairies, 14% in Ontario, and 15% in Quebec.
The Bloc Québécois held the second spot in Quebec with 17.5% support. The Greens had their best result in British Columbia, where they were at 9.5%.
I haven't yet updated the three-election projection model to incorporate the 2015 federal election results, but based on the 2011 three-election model these numbers would deliver the following seat ranges:
Liberals: 231-278 seats
Conservatives: 51-92 seats
New Democrats: 5-10 seats
Bloc Québécois: 0-6 seats
Greens: 1 seat
Early days, of course, and the polls have little practical impact. But it does suggest that Canadians are reacting favourably to the Liberals' first weeks in office.
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Trudeau's doing a great job of looking reasonable and sounding intelligent as he runs his new government. At the same time, the opposition is either leaderless or adrift or both, depending which party you look at.ReplyDelete
Trudeau's big numbers are good news for him, but I don't think they're particularly bad news for anyone else.
- Anonymous07 December, 2015 15:39
It seems the only issue is nannies on the public payroll (as has happened with every PM with small children). The numbers seem to be saying 52% are OK with it.ReplyDeleteReplies
These polls pre-dated that issue.Delete
Nannies are a precursor of things to come. It reflects on the PM's judgment and particularly that of his senior staff.
I don't think it does. As PM, living in an official residence, Trudeau should get a budget to run his household, yes?Delete
The nannies would be part of that. I don't see how this is an issue at all.
Ronald, sorry, but just silly partisan politics. He gets staff to help him work as PM, and to think he doesn't get it to help out with his kids, is just silly. We're a little more objective on 308 and don't fall for that National Post clickbait.Delete
Ira I completely agree. It's just typical Con to pick some minor thing and blow it out of all sight to attack, attack, attack !!Delete
Matt over at WarrenKinsella.com got it exactly right. Trudeau's comments about the UCB and people like himself (millionaires) not receiving it has done damage to his credibility, when he turns around and expenses for nannies he was previously paying for out of pocket.
Trudeau would receive the UCCB regardless of hiring a nanny (or two) or not. The issue that Trudeau raised was that of the $8000 a year tax credit, which gives those earning over $50K a year a discount of $311.50 along with $720 in payments for UCCB everyone (regardless of need). The first helps the rich disproportionately, and the second was just partisan vote-buying (basically a tax on being childless).
I don't know if Harper expensed nannies for Benjamin and Rachel, who were 6 and 9 when he won his first election in 2006. There were and are more serious issues to be discussed.
Peter, they are continuing to follow the American Republican playbook. When will they learn that completely turns off an intelligent, educated Canadian public. Look at their poll numbers. 24% has been their base for a while.Delete
I think that number can be partially taken as a collective sigh of relief that Mr. Harper has been sent out to graze.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think Matt you are dead on. Harper hatred is still here and alive and well.Delete
And things like yesterdays bleats by the Cons on responding to the Throne Speech only ensures the Con hatred is alive and well. Seems the Cons can't lose their Harper control !!
Seems like some in the Liberal party can't leave Harper! He is no longer the leader so your anti-Harper statement really provokes an image of "Peter Meldrum" as someone living in and obsessed by the past.Delete
During the Chretien years, the Liberals would float in the 50-60% stratosphere between elections and then float back into the low 40s-high 30s during elections. I figure that was due to the weak opposition getting little coverage as the main opposition parties (Bloc and Reform) didn't even compete across the country, while the two others(PCs and NDP) were too small and weak during the 90s to be viable alternative governments. Once the election was on, though, the Liberals were vulnerable to attacks on all sides (particularly the PCs, as both Charest and Clark had enough campaign experience to keep their party from oblivion).ReplyDelete
I would not be surprised if we had a short phase of Liberal poll dominance now, as both the Conservatives and the NDP have leadership questions preventing them from making much headway. In the meantime, the Liberals have a pretty easy job on the economic front (a small deficit, average-to-good unemployment numbers) while the one controversial foreign policy decision (war in Syria) has already been made. The Liberals will likely keep doing well until a new Conservative leader gets a honeymoon period.
When will you run the model for SK and MB?ReplyDelete
I don't understand why some in the media were declaring the Trudeau honeymoon to be over. There was a CBC at issue debate, and articles on most major newspapers either questioning or claiming the honeymoon is coming to an end.ReplyDelete
I watched CP24's Nathan Downer say the Trudeau honeymoon is over since he was "under fire" from opposition in the House! Jeeze...
Who actually assumed that swing Liberal voters would start to get remorse one month into the new government?
As for the opposition. I feel Ambrose is effective at holding the fort as interim CPC leader. She can pull off a "moderate" face while still talking about small-c conservative issues. It's clear the Tories have no heir apparent and they are likely to delay their leadership contest till 2017. Whatever happens, the party really need to address some of the unhealthy behaviour that occurred during the Harper era.
As for the NDP, Mulcair needs to go. It was painful watching him in the House (i.e. spinning election results, invoking Jack Layton, accusing the Liberals to be the same as the Tories, milking redundant issues like Canada Post). If the Liberals govern firmly on the centre-left, the federal NDP may slide into irrelevancy.
I've seen and heard several things lately about this projected change in the voting system, Some say the Govt simply has to pass a bill, others say a referendum is needed and others think Constitutional change. What's right ??ReplyDelete
I doubt it requires constitutional change. Didn't two provinces have a referendum on changing their respective electoral systems? It failed in both provinces.Replies
Constitutional change is not required, and neither is a referendum, though some believe that it is right to hold a referendum on such a change.Delete
Yes Eric that is definitely the feeling I got from several pundits. I personally don't see any need for a referendum and it seems places that have tried them the proposals have failed. So just do the thing but give us a proviso if the change does notwork out well we can reveert.Delete
Election to the House of Commons is governed under the Parliament of Canada Act. Amendment to the Act could change the way M.P.s are elected within certain restraints: The current seat total by province would need to be maintained for example.Delete
Legally a change to the electoral system would not require constitutional change per se. However, since that particular change would in effect re-write the 1867 covenant and constitutional settlement, a moral imperative exists and perhaps even a constitutional convention that change be adopted into the Constitution. Trudeau's proposed changes would contradict and contravene the pre-amble to the Constitution Act, 1867: "Whereas the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick have expressed their Desire to be federally united into One Dominion under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Constitution similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom:
Surely, a referendum on the issue should for moral reasons if no others, be subjected to a vote by the people, failure to do so would reek of gerrymandering and electoral collusion.
Neither a constituational change nor a referendum are not morally required. Various parts of the UK have implemented various types and extents of electoral reform since 1867, and there is no written UK Constitution for the Canadian standard to be compared against. The strongest argument for a constitutional change would be to make the future undoing highly unlikely (just as the success of such a convention would be highly unlikely in the first place).Delete
Firstly, large swathes of the UK Constitution are written: Magna Carta, the Forest Charter, the Lege Ine, The Charter of King Alfred, the Reform Acts and all Acts of Parliament, Court Judgements, certain international treaties, the coronation oath, the list is so numerous that I will stop here.
Secondly, No part of the UK has implemented electoral reform.
Thirdly, you write constitutional change is not required but, the 21 British North America Acts refute your assertion since, many were implemented to effect change far less substantial than a change in the voting system.
Fifthly, the will of the people should be respected and observed. Why should Canadians allow politicians draw up a new electoral system? The job rightly belong to the people. It is their Government and their electoral system-It only makes moral sense and common sense such dramatic change be ratified publicly!
Fourthly, You ignore Canadian history and precedent that clearly and unequivocally favour both constitutional discussion and agreement. As was the case in 1982 and in the subsequent discussion and referenda both in Quebec and across Canada on the Meech and Charlottetown Accords.
Finally, your opening line is baseless and simply wrong! Not "normally required"? We have not enacted a change to the voting system before so, how can it be "normally required" or not? Secondly, in provinces that have tried to enact change referenda were held! That is what is "normal" Mapleson, electoral change requires a vote, that is what precedent, history, common sense and Canadians deserve.
The normal practice as followed in Ontario, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, is to subject electoral change to a referendum as did the City of Vancouver, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.Delete
One could argue following on WGS's point in regards to the preamble that since, the UK has held a referendum on just this question proper Canadain constitutional principle would follow the British example and a referendum is required to uphold the spirit of the Constitution as encassed and written in the pre-amble to the Constitution Act, 1867. I think this all the more clear after listing my examples above: Surely, if the people of Vancouver are deemed worthy to vote on their electoral system-all Canadians should enjoy that same privilege! I think Trudeau on shaky ground here especially with his planned quasi-constitutional Senate reforms. It is a bad idea to let a single man decide the selection process for members of both Houses of Parliament.
Justin should be careful lest the constitutional file be his undoing.
This question really shows the failure of the 1982 Constitution and the limits of written constitutions. The Parliament of Canada Act is a constitutional document it is not part of the written Constitution and therefore not subject to the constitutional amending formula. Although in most countries how Parliament's houses are elected form a part. In the Canadian constitution this is implied and subsequent legislation form the procedural context.
This question was a major sticking point in the Confederation debates and it would be inconceivable to most Fathers of Confederation that the Government of the Day, The Twenty-ninth Canadian ministry. At the moment there is not even a commitment to have a national discussion to replace a system that has served us for 168 years
First, the difference between a Constitution and the legislation that you mentioned it the ability to be revised, abridged, or contradicted. In Canada, we can refer to the Supreme Court when Parliament tries to contravene the Constitution Act. In the UK, the courts are much more limited. If the extensive list were comprehensive, there wouldn't be an ongoing effort in the UK to formulate an explicit constitution.
Second, both Ireland and Scotland have implemented forms of hybrid voting. The justification of their parliamentary bodies being devolved from the House of Commons.
Third, 8 of the BNA Acts were modifying the distribution of representatives and new provinces entered the Confederation, 2 changed the national boundaries, 3 were over transfer payments and the balance between federal and provincial, 2 were temporary for war, 4 were for social programs and the mandatory retirement age, and one affected power over changes in the constitution. The main issue is that the only ones implemented by Canada were the changes to the balance of representation and the mandatory retirement age.
Fourth, the failure of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords is the primary reason for my pessimism about ever having a constitutional amendment while Quebec is part of the Confederation. There are three possible outcomes of trying: Trudeau makes a place in the history books by having Quebec accept the Constitution (highly unlikely); Trudeau marks another chapter in failed discussions and negotiations having waited political good will and taxpayer money to no end; or Trudeau proceeds with reform after a failed agreement and renews the Separatist movement.
Fifth, only the CPC wasn't running on a platform of electoral reform. A clear majority voted for other parties. Beyond which, if an IRV system is implemented, the "dramatic change" is just being able to give a second or beyond choice on the ballot. Anyone that prefers a FPTP system could continue as such by only giving a first choice. If another system were proposed from the multi-party consultation process, then my position might change based on the specifics (for example, any change to electoral district size should be put to a referendum).
Finally, you misread my opening line: it says Morally, not NorMally.
Your First paragraph is simply not correct: Parliament can refer legislation both to UK Courts including; the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and to supra-national Courts such as the European Court of Human Rights. These bodies have the ability to curtail Government action as do Courts in the United States.Delete
Your second paragraph is not correct and contradict your previous statement: "Various parts of the UK have implemented various types and extents of electoral reform since 1867". Firstly the Republic of Ireland is not part of the UK obviously! Secondly neither in Eire nor Scotland are the current voting system a reform of a previous voting system-both in Scotland and Eire the voting systems came about through independence for Eire and devolution with Scotland! They are the original voting systems!
Surely, if a Constitutional amendments were necessary for the redistribution of seats one is required for a change in the electoral system! Anytthing less is simply undemocratic and anyone purporting change without a constitutional amendment is someone less than a democrat. Your fourth point simply reinforces mine-We have enacted constitutional change for much less than a change in the electoral system therefore, the proper process and procedure is one that follows proper constitutional change and constitutional agreement!
Fourthly, if you are afraid of constitutional change because Quebec may disagree-how then can you propose a course of action that once again fails to gain the consent of Quebec? Is there not a greater likelihood that change to the electoral system will inflame tensions in Quebec? Chretien gave Quebec a veto: Chretien after the 1995 referendum passed a motion in the Commons: (N)ot to make any constitutional change that affects Quebec without Quebecers' consent". If Parliament feels bound by the Nickel Resolution surely, this promise to Quebec should be respected?
Finally, it is dishonest to equate a vote for the NDP or Liberals as a vote in favour of electoral reform. That was not the ballot question: it was one of many different and diverging policies put forth by all parties. As for your first line it is still wrong! Since, morally it is encumbent on the Government at least if they wish to uphold the spirit and meaning of the Constitution to subject such change for a vote.
Why you wish to remove this subject from democratic legitimacy is beyond me. It is pretty obvious that if such a change were enacted without a vote the next Government may face a question of legitimacy; I can only conclude you are afraid of democracy , perhaps you are a dyed-in-the-wool Liberal partisan who prefers Liberal dictatorship over democracy and fairness?
The UK has had a Supreme Court since 2009 due to the 2005 Constitutional Reform Act. It's part of the UK's effort to write the unwritten. If you want to bring the ECHR into things, the UK elects MEP according to proportional representation. Ireland was part of the UK between 1867 and its independence, and furthermore Northern Ireland is still part of the UK.Delete
Redistribution of seats materially affects the balance between the provinces, so it requires constitutional amendment, if not agreement. Changing the electoral system does not change the electoral balance between the provinces. I will admit to being less than a democrat, as I'm a monarchist. However, you aren't providing any evidence or support for your argument, only throwing around supposed insults and circular reasoning.
Chretien's promise still stands. Electoral reform isn't a constitutional change, thus it's not a constitutional change without the support of Quebec.
There were questions of legitimacy for the Harper majority, and there are questions of legitimacy for Trudeau (particularly CPC partisans complaining that the LPC hasn't faces as harsh criticism of their legitimacy). I would gladly support a successful amendment to the Constitution, however, I think it's very unlikely to happen as well as not a moral imperative.
It is painfully obvious a constitutional convention exists that change in the electoral system be subject to a vote. This is what happened in Britain , BC and Ontario and was guaranteed by New Brunswick and Quebec. The only reason Trudeau is against a vote is because he knows he will lose. Trudeau has shown his true colours-He is not a democrat. A Democrat would not be afraid of a vote-Trudeau is clearly terrified.Delete
Are you now supporting a constitutional convention or a plebiscite referendum vote? In the cases of the UK, BC, and ON, the voters in the referendum had the power to alter their systems. With the Canadian Federal government, that power resides in the provinces. Thus it is either a referendum has no binding outcome, or a round of provincial negotiations that isn't related to being democratic.Delete
Was Harper "clearly terrified" to implement his triple-E Senate? Or was he just a political realist that pursued policy implementation where and when he could?
Honestly Ron I don't know. I've heard so much stuff and no definitive answer.ReplyDelete
This is very interesting. Note the sourceReplyDelete
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Alberta Transportation expects to start construction on the southwest ring road within the next two years, with hopes of opening the major route running through Tsuu T'ina Nation lands by 2020.
But project leaders admit the massive undertaking — including 31 kilometres of roadway, 20 new interchanges and 66 bridge crossings — will have big challenges like building through the environmentally-sensitive Paskapoo Slopes and Weaselhead areas.
And neighbouring residents still worry about increased congestion, noise and bright lights along the route which will see up to eight-lanes of traffic in many areas, with estimates of up to 100,000 vehicles daily.
"We understand this is the best-case scenario we could get. It is a compromise," said Allie Tulick, president of the Lakeview Community Association.
"But we are still very concerned about a lot of things. Will it actually reduce traffic congestion, or will it make it worse in some areas?
"And what about the Weaselhead? Lakeview is very worried about it and we're just more vocal. What about all those other people that come from all over Calgary to use it every weekend?"Alberta Transportation will coordinate the project in two phases, focusing first on the south leg through the reserve, and completing land transfers between the federal government and First Nations. After contracts are tendered and awarded, work should begin on that leg sometime in 2016.
Soonafter, work will begin along the west leg, running south from Highway 1 through Paskapoo Slopes, then just east of 101 Street and finally to a new interchange at Sarcee and Glenmore Trail S.W. just as the road heads south into the reserve.
Since that section is shorter and less complicated, officials hope both legs should open at about the same time.
But Garry Lamb, urban construction manager with Alberta Transportation, admits several sections along the route will pose major challenges, including building through the environmentally-sensitive Weaselhead and Paskapoo Slopes areas.
"Parts of the Weaselhead will be different when we are finished with this road," said Lamb, explaining that sections will be graded higher with the freeway running well above sensitive lands.
"We are continuing to work closely with Alberta Environment to ensure as minimal impacts as possible."
Paskapoo Slopes, just south of where the existing northwest Stoney Trail ends, will also be affected as that interchange is expanded and the ring road will continue south through the slopes.
Because the hill, just west of Canada Olympic Park, is already very steep, contractors will have to remove millions of cubic metres of rock and dirt to reduce the hill's grade.
"These are very steep grades, we're moving five million cubic metres of dirt, and two million cubic metres of rock," Lamb said.
As well, a massive new intersection upgrade where Sarcee Trail becomes Glenmore Trail, which will have dozens of new on and off ramps directing traffic in all directions.
"It looks a bit like a bunch of spaghetti," Lamb said, explaining at a map of the intersection's aerial view.
Most communities that run along the southwest ring road, which will reach six to eight lanes in most areas, are fairly well setback of the new road, including Lakeview and Lakeview Village.
But Tulick says she still worries about significant noise and bright light coming from the road into the quiet, upscale community.
"We also wonder what the new interchange at 37th street and Glenmore Trail will bring, how much more congestion will that be?"
Other communities along the city's west edge, like The Slopes and Aspen Woods, may also face increased traffic and noise near their homes.
"We want to make sure that, as the process goes, we deal properly with traffic congestion and sound attenuation," said Coun. Richard Pootmans who represents those areas.
Julie Radke, city project manager for the southwest ring road integration project, said the City of Calgary will continue to work alongside Alberta Transportation, Alberta Environment and the Tsuu T'ina Nation to ensure the least amount of negative impact possible on residents.
At the same time, commuters are expected to face faster, free-flowing commutes with more options to travel north to south in the city.
"We're really happy it's moving forward. We're creating another north-south route that will alleviate traffic congestion."


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Readercon Schedule
For my stalkers, here are the panels I will be on at Readercon:
The program guide is now online as a PDF, and it's full of interesting stuff. Two films are worth noting: the Thursday night (10pm) showing of The Polymath, or The Life & Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman and this item Friday night:
Friday 2:00 PM, Salon F: Panel
Triumphing Over Competence. Matthew Cheney, Carl Frederick, Adam Golaski (L), Theodora Goss, Claude Lalumiere, Cecilia Tan
Jeff VanderMeer created an online ruckus with the assertion that today's short fiction market has been overwhelmed by "the triumph of competence." We can think of nothing less useful than a debate between those who agree with VanderMeer and others who feel we are in a Golden Age of short fiction, since the presence of both camps argues convincingly that any response to today's short fiction market is subjective. Instead, let's ask: what practical things can we do to make things better, regardless of how good we think they are now? What can we do to promulgate the writing of more (or "even more") great stories? And what can we do to help readers find stories they'll love, especially if they've been burnt out by over-exposure to the merely good?
Saturday 10:00 AM, Salon G: Panel
The Career of James Patrick Kelly. Matthew Cheney, F. Brett Cox (L), Matthew Jarpe, Michaela Roessner, Sarah Smith
The program guide is now online as a PDF, and it's full of interesting stuff. Two films are worth noting: the Thursday night (10pm) showing of The Polymath, or The Life & Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman and this item Friday night:
9:00 ME Tom Disch's "Winter Journey." (40 min.) Almost exactly a year after the death of his longtime partner Charles Naylor in September 2004, Tom Disch began writing a sequence of poems, which he shared on his blog. Eventually there were 31 of them. He titled the sequence "Winter Journey" after Schubert's lieder cycle "Winterreise" (a work Naylor loved). Elizabeth Hand calls the sequence "an extraordinary efflorescence of grief ... tragic, bitter, bleakly funny, romantic, heart-rending—and also accessible. I can imagine, by some divine fluke, the book becoming a surprise, posthumous bestseller—an irony Disch would have appreciated." When the sequence was completed, Disch contacted friend and filmmaker Eric Solstein, and asked if a reading of the work might be videotaped to serve as a suicide note. At its conclusion, he said, he would kill himself, the attendant publicity hopefully contributing to the success of the recording. A deal was struck between Tom and Eric—the taping would proceed if the suicide were postponed for some indefinite period of time. This will be the first public showing of "Winter Journey." The poems are to be published later this year, by Payseur and Schmidt, with a DVD of the reading included.(Disch's suicide on July 4 has been on my mind ever since I learned about it. The best obituaries I've read so far are by John Clute and Liz Hand.)


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Thanks to a link from the Engineer, I have been looking into the fact that a LOT of these white top executives have and are lying about their resumes. This is just more of the blatant privilege that a lot of white people will deny even exist.
The reason this is privilege is because they were taken at their word without any scouring and searching that most minorities have to endure before qualifying for a job. These companies did no checking, no inquiring as to the legitimacy of these people's resume claims.
With a little research, that maybe these companies SHOULD have done, I have found that this is a bigger problem than is being reported. And when it is being reported we see that it is being called things like "fudging on their resume" or "incorrectly advised." This wording makes it sound cute, when it is anything but cute. These were out and out lies, blatant fraud.
We constantly wish to talk of the deviance of this or that minority and pretending as if cases and situations like these don't exist. I actually doubt very seriously if a lot of prominent black, Latino or some other minority were to be busted lying and committing fraud in order to gain employment or promotions would be held up for the entire country to point the finger at.
The latest transgressor is the COO of Perma Fix named Larry McNamara. They will think of some form of appropriate actions other than firing because they feel that somehow he was still well qualified even without a college education. This is yet another revelation of white men being qualified over all those college educated minorities, just like Devah Pager's study.
They are qualified even after displaying that they have very little honesty, integrity, moral value or trustworthiness that should be expected of anyone who is in a position of power. Why don't we start weeding out these impostors and replace them with well qualified individuals who HAVE busted their tails to get that education, experience or other qualifications no matter their race, gender, creed or sexual orientation?
Here is just a small listing of these unqualified white men who have been hired over more qualified minorities and others:
Ronald Zarrella, Bausch & Lomb, CEO – falsely claimed an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
George O'Leary, ex-Notre Dame Football Coach – falsely claimed to have a master's degree in education from New York University and to have played college football and earned three letters while doing so.
Marilee Jones, Admissions Dean for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – falsely claimed to be a "scientist with degrees in biology from Rennselaar Polytechnic Institute and the Albany Medical College," and to have her doctorate.
Kenneth Lonchar, CFO of Veritas software – falsely claimed he earned an accounting degree from Arizona State University and was a Stanford MBA graduate.
Jeff Papows, CEO of Lotus Corporation – falsified his military record (he was a lieutenant not a captain), feigned his education (he doesn't have a Ph.D. from Pepperdine University) and claimed he was an orphan (his parents are alive and well).
Dave Edmondson, CEO of RadioShack – falsified his résumé by claiming to have a degree in psychology from Pacific Coast Baptist College in California (though the school doesn't offer a psychology program), along with a degree in theology from the same unaccredited college.
Bryan J. Mitchell, Chairmen of MCG Capital – falsely claimed that he was a graduate of Syracuse University.
And last but not least James J. Minder, Chairman of the Board of gun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson Corporation. But it was revealed that Minder had served some 15 years in prison in the 1950s and 60s for a series of armed robberies and an attempted escape.
And somehow this man is a better qualified candidate than the plethora of other people who kept their noses clean and actually did graduate from college. When we stop allowing "this" type of affirmative action to take place, then maybe we won't need any other type of affirmative action.
But we know that this type of affirmative action is never quite as offensive as the false thinking of a black person sneaking into the old boys' network while being totally unqualified. But we can always extend a break for those who lie their way to the top using privilege.


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Owner's Comments
The Knoxville specimen - the finest known for the date.
Expert Comments
Q. David BowersThe following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Coinage Context
Another export issue: Like its immediate predecessors, Liberty Seated dollars dated 1860 are believed to have been intended primarily for use in the export trade to China. (As Jim Loyd has pointed out (letter to the author, March 22, 1992), if indeed the coinage was intended for shipment to China, it would have been more economical to have shipped Nevada-mined silver to San Francisco for coinage. Of course, New York and other Eastern ports had trade with China, too.) They never were available from the Mint at face value, and all were paid out at $1.08 each to bullion dealers, banks, and others who fed them into the Orient trade. A small percentage of the mintage circulated domestically after the resumption of specie payments in autumn 1876, the results of the acts of January 14, 1875 and April 17, 1876.
Numismatic Information
Circulated grades: Despite a relatively high circulation strike mintage, worn examples are few and far between on the market today. This date seems to be slightly more available than the 1859, but opinions differ. Writing in 1982, Donald Vettel stated that in EF grade 1860 dollars were the scarcer of the two. ("Some Thoughts on Liberty Seated Dollars: A Scarcity and Price Analysis." The Gobrecht Journal, July 1982.)
Mint State grades: The 1860 is likewise very scarce in Mint State. When seen, examples often have a partially prooflike surface. The mint frost on typical specimens is apt to be satiny rather than deeply coruscating and frosty.
Circulation strikes ignored: There was virtually no collector interest in circulation strike Liberty Seated dollars of any kind during this era. Numismatists desiring date sequences of dollars (mintmarks were completely ignored) were satisfied with Philadelphia Mint Proofs, which probably accounted for the placing of fewer than a dozen Proofs in cabinets each year during the decade of the 1840s, and increasing numbers after that, reaching a production of several hundred pieces by 1859. Still, despite mintages which sometimes met or broke the 1,000 mark, Proof dollars were not popular, and many coins were spent once the novelty of owning them passed. The number of unimpaired Proofs surviving from the total mintage of the 1860s is undoubtedly on the order of 50% to 60%, some of the reduction being attributed to coins never released and subsequently melted, and the rest to attrition: spending, cleaning, friction from other coins, improper storage, etc.
Proofs: By 1860 the Mint issue price for a copper and silver Proof set climbed from $2.02 (for $1.94 face value of coins) to $3, for a set which contained a copper-nickel Indian cent, silver three-cent piece, half dime, dime, quarter dollar, half dollar, and silver dollar, again $1.94 face value. This premium of $1.06 represented a charge of 55% over face value for each coin. Proof dollars were sold for $1.60 each in 1860 (and also in 1861; not in later years). (Per letter from R.W. Julian to the author, March 20, 1992.)
By July 1, 1867 the $3 charge for a set was still in effect, (Per "Circular letter in Relation to American Medals and Cabinet Coins, July 1,1867," quoted by Breen, p. 28.) although by this time several new denominations had been added, namely the bronze two-cent piece, and the nickel alloy three-cent and five-cent pieces. On a pro-rata basis, a Proof 1860 dollar would have cost about $1.50, but it was customary to charge proportionally more for smaller denominations. Perhaps on its own a Proof 1860 dollar should have been priced in the $1.25 range but, as noted, the price was just $1.08.
Proof production of the 1860 dollar was abnormally large: 1,330 pieces, the highest Proof figure in the entire Liberty Seated series, all delivered on March 8th. Only 527 were eventually sold, and the rest were consigned to the melting pot. R.W. Julian has written the following on the subject: ("Philadelphia Coinage Statistics: 1853-1873." Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine, August 1964.)
The 1860 Proof coinage of dollars is not the same as the coinage of the other denominations heretofore printed for 1860. The extra 330 pieces coined were produced because the Mint felt that there would be an extra demand for these over the other silver Proofs; this points out that in addition to Proofs being sold in sets, single pieces were sold very frequently, For example, in April 1860, there were 69 full silver sets sold (presumably including a copper-nickel cent in each set) plus 10 silver dollars, 3 half dollars, 16 dimes, 14 half dimes, 16 trimes and 10 cents. It would appear that the Mint officials were wrong in believing that a large number of dollars would be sold beyond the regular set sales because after 1860 all silver coins were made in the same amounts for Proof sets.
Circulation strikes:
1. Normal Date: Breen-5463. Circulation strikes are all of one general type, although minor varieties in date positions occur. Some Mint State pieces survive, some of which are prooflike and can be confused with Proofs. On the reverse of some high grade coins there is unfinished die surface in the lower right half of the shield interior.
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown
Circulation strike mintage: 217,600; Delivery figures by day: March 3: 14,000; March 13: 12,000; March 14: 14,000; March 19: 12,000; March 26: 15,000; March 27: 5,000; March 30: 13,000; May 11: 20,000; May 25: 12,200;June 18: 14,000; September 27: 23,000; September 28: 13,000; October 26: 17,000; October 31: 4,000; November 5: 8,000; November 8: 5,000; November 19: 1,000; December 27: 15,400.
Estimated quantity melted: Unknown
Characteristics of striking: Usually well struck. Many higher grade coins show prooflike surfaces.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: None
Despite a large mintage, circulation strikes are rare; many were sent to China, where they were melted.
Additional Information
Snowden Describes the Minting Process
The following is from A Description of Ancient and Modern Coins in the Cabinet Collection at the Mint of the United States, by Mint Director James Ross Snowden, 1860, and describes the process of minting coins:
"The system of the present day, although much more multifarious in its details than the ancient process, requires no such army of employees; the whole force employed in the United States Mint, including officers, does not exceed 170.
"Bullion is brought to the mint in every form; amalgamations from the ore, coins, both foreign and domestic, bars, plate jewelry, etc., and these present many grades of quality, some being nearly pure; the remainder representing all the grades of fineness from that down to three thousandths. Some of it is perfectly ductile and easily worked, while a portion is brittle and requires to be toughened. A deposit of gold is often found to contain a large portion of silver which requires to be separated by chemical agents; all these facts are ascertained by the investigations of the Assay Department.
"The process is as follows: The deposit, upon being received, is weighed by the proper officers, and then sent to the deposit melting room, where the deposit is melted in a mass and cast into a bar; this bar is numbered, and a slip cut from it and sent to the assay department: here, by assaying this slip, the amount of pure metal contained in the entire deposit is ascertained. To do this with exactness requires a very careful and accurate manipulation. The operations of this department are intricate, and as they require an extended description for which we have not sufficient space, we are compelled to omit it and return again to the deposit. Its value having been ascertained by the assay, it is ready for the refining process.
"This is not strictly a Mint operation; in some countries these preliminary processes have to be performed by private refiners. But at the Mint of the United States, departments have been provided in which the silver is separated from the gold, the refining and standardizing of the metals, and casting them into ingots or small bars from which the coins are to be made, are performed. The bars or ingots thus produced are about 12 inches long, half an inch thick, and from one to two-and-a-half inches in width, according to the size of the coin for which they are intended. These bars, before being wrought, have to be assayed, in order to test their fineness, and those which are found to be either above or below the legal limits in fineness are returned to the melting room to be remelted and cast at the proper rate.
"The ingots, having been approved, are first brought to a red heat in order to anneal and render them sufficiently ductile to be rolled with facility; they are then passed between hardened steel rollers, driven by a steam engine, which are so .. _ .. arranged that they can be adjusted with the greatest nicety in order to reduce the bar very nearly to the exact thickness required for the coin. In this form they are taken to the drawing bench, driven by the same engine, in which the strip is drawn slowly through the drawing dies, or plates of the hardest steel accurately adjusted to reduce the strips to their proper thickness. The strip, thus prepared, is next passed through the cutting press, also moved by steam, and pieces or planchets of the proper size are cut from it. The punch moves with such rapidity that 160 pieces on an average are cut out in one minute.
At the completion of this part of the process, which leaves the strip full of holes, it is folded up and returned to the melting pot. "The planchets are now carried to the coining room, where, in order to raise the edge of the planchet to protect the surface of the coin, they are passed through the milling machine. The planchets are fed to this machine through an upright tube, and as they descend from the lower aperture, they are caught upon the edge of a revolving wheel and carried about a quarter of a revolution, during which the edge is compressed and forced upon-the space between the wheel and the rim being a little less than the diameter of the planchet. This apparatus moves so nimbly, that 560 half dimes can be milled in a minute; but for large pieces the average is about 120.
"The planchets are next to be cleaned, annealed, and whitened; after which, in the case of the gold, they are adjusted in their weight, piece by piece. (Note: At the French mint this is done by the aid of an ingenious machine of French invention, a sample of which now stands in the Cabinet of the United States Mint. At our mint this is done entirely by hand.) The silver pieces, however, having been tested by samples from each strip, are allowed to pass until after coinage, when their weight is proved in bulk.
"The planchets are now ready to receive the last impression which is to render them a perfect coin. This most important office is performed by the coining press, which we have before mentioned. This machine receives the planchets in a tube from the hand of a workman; as the coin reaches the bottom of the tube it is seized between a pair of fingers and carried forward and deposited within a steel collar between the dies; and while the fingers are expanding and returning for another planchet, the dies close upon the one within the collar, and by a rotary motion are made to impress it silently but powerfully. The fingers, as they again close upon a planchet at the mouth of the tube, also seize the coin, and while conveying a second planchet on to the die, carry the coin off, dropping it into a box provided for the purpose-and this operation is repeated ad infinitum. These coining-presses are of various sizes to suit the different denominations of coins. The usual speed of striking is 60 pieces per minute for the half dollar; 75 for the quarter dollar; and 90 for the dime and half dime.
"The coining dies, it will be necessary to state, are prepared by engravers specially maintained at the Mint for the purpose. The process of engraving a die consists in cutting the devices and legends in soft steel, those parts being depressed which in the coin appear in relief. This having been finished and hardened, constitutes an 'original die;' which being the result of a tedious and difficult task is deemed too precious to be directly employed in striking coins, but is used for multiplying dies. It is first used to impress another piece of soft steel, which then presents the appearance of a coin, and is called a hub. This hub being hardened, is used to impress other pieces of steel in like manner, which being exactly like the original die, are hardened and used for striking the coins. A pair of these will, on an average, perform two weeks' work."
Silver to China
The Bankers' Magazine, August 1860, pp. 126-129, gave the following information:
Imports from China and Singapore into the United States consisted mainly of tea and silk. During the year from April 1, 1859 to March 31, 1860, 47 ships left New York for China, and seven left Boston, a total of 54, as compared to 34 during the preceding period.
It cost about $5 to $10 per ton to ship tea and miscellaneous articles from China to the Eastern ports of the United States, and $15 to $20 for silk goods.
On a fiscal year basis, April 1 through March 31st, the following trade was done with China, in each instance showing a large surplus of imports (primarily paid for in silver) over exports. During the year 1850-1851 $2.5 million value of goods was exported and $ 7.1 million was imported. 1851-1852 exports totaled $2.7 million, imports $10.6 million; 1852-1853 exports $3.7 million, imports $10.6 million; 1853-1854 exports $1.4 million, imports $10.5 million; 1854-1855 exports $1.7 million, imports $11.0 million; 1855-1856 exports $2.6 million, imports $10.0 million; 1856-1857 exports $4.4 million; imports $8.4 million; 1857-1858 imports $5.7 million, exports $10.6 million; 1858-1859 exports $7.1 million, imports $10.8 million.
The following amounts of bullion and specie were exported, against very small imports: 1850-1851 $147,475 bullion and specie exported, little or no imports (no record of imports); 1851-1852 $19,728 exported, $281 imported; 1852-1853 $489,344 exported, no imports; 1853-1854 $155,588 exported, $108,174 imported; 1854-1855 $674,983 exported, no imports; 1855-1856 $633,592 exported, $1,000 imported; 1856-1857 $295,913 exported, no imports; 1857-1858 $2,691,639 exported, no imports; 1858-1859 $566,724 exported, $2,920 imported. The total for 1850 through 1859 amounted to $5,674,986 worth of bullion and specie exported, against only $112,375 imported.
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Police Department Increases Enforcement On I-70 For Spring Break
COLUMBIA - The Columbia Police Department Traffic Unit said Friday it will increase enforcement on I-70 during spring break to reduce traffic crashes.
"Last year, I-70 had the most crashes of any street in the city of Columbia during spring break," said Officer Latisha Stroer, public information officer for the Columbia Police Department. She said that accidents happen mostly because somebody is distracted, like talking on cell phone or texting.
Traffic unit officers will be looking for vehicles that are following too closely and speeding on I-70 through the city of Columbia limits. The speed limit on that particular stretch drops to 60 miles per hour instead of 70 miles per hour.
Stroer said drivers should check out MoDOT's highway conditions website to make sure if there are no delays, accidents or road constructions.
"There will be officers that will be working overtime and it is paid by the grant of Missouri department of Transportation Highway Safety Division," said Stroer.


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Story highlights
- Accused terrorist Adis Medunjanin's trial begins Monday in New York
- Prosecutors say he and two others were trained by al Qaeda in Pakistan
- They planned to detonate explosives on New York subways, they add
- A defense lawyer contends that "the government is just wrong"
A federal prosecutor on Monday described a Bosnian immigrant accused of plotting to bomb New York's subway system as an "al Qaeda terrorist," an assertion the defense said was "just wrong."
An extensive roster of convicted terrorists are lined up to testify against Adis Medunjanin during his trial in New York, which began Monday with opening statements.
Prosecutors allege that Medunjanin traveled to Pakistan's tribal belt with two friends, where he sought to join the Taliban but ended up being recruited by al Qaeda to perform a suicide mission back in America.
He and two others, they claim, eventually hatched a plan to rig backpacks with explosives and blow them up on New York subway stations.
Medunjanin's co-defendants -- Zarein Ahmedzay, an immigrant from Afghanistan, and Najibullah Zazi, an immigrant from Pakistan -- have already pleaded guilty to the same charges.
"In September of 2009, three men were prepared to strap bombs to their bodies and go into crowded subways," Assistant U.S. Attorney James Loonam told jurors in his opening statement Monday.
"These men were al Qaeda terrorists," Loonam claimed.
Angry at the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, the three went to Pakistan's tribal belt -- "the center of al Qaeda activity against the United States" -- to join the terrorist group, according to Loonan.
Once there, the federal prosecutor said, the men were given "special treatment" and "private training by al Qaeda" because of their coveted status as U.S. citizens.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Robert Gottlieb accused the prosecution of using incendiary rhetoric to inflame the jury.
"These are all words the government knows will scare you beyond belief and shake you to the core," Gottlieb said of terms like "terrorist" and "al Qaeda."
"The truth is Adis Medunjanin is not a terrorist. ... In this case, the government is just wrong."
Later Monday, Ahmedzay took the stand and described how his former high school classmate Medunjanin turned him on to the teaching of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The American-born Muslim cleric was targeted and killed in a September 2011 drone attack in Yemen.
Zazi, who pleaded guilty last year to a plot to detonate explosives in the subway system in September 2009, is expected to testify Tuesday.
Medunjanin's trial is expected to last three weeks.


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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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
TGR: Could we be looking at stagflation?
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.
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.
TGR: With President Obama re-elected, is anything different going to happen in our economy?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
TGR: In picking mineral stocks, what is the most important fundamental factor?
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.
TGR: Does the market pay any attention to drill core results anymore, especially in micro-cap stocks?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 Entrée 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.
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?
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.
TGR: Let's talk about the micro-cap companies that you've written about.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
TGR: Revett looks like a successful turnaround story.
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.
TGR: Give us another example, Mike.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
TGR: But is it very hard to reach?
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.
TGR: So you're also positive on Grande Portage, which owns 65% of Herbert Glacier?
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.
TGR: $11M. It's just unbelievable to see.
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.
TGR: And Coeur d'Alene is close by?
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.
TGR: What about some silver companies?
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.
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.
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.
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.
TGR: Any other silver producers?
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.
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.
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.
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.
TGR: You mentioned Terraco a moment ago. Do you follow it?
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.
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.
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.
TGR: Thank you so much for your time. It's been a pleasure, as it always is.
MB: Thank you.
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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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.
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