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How’d you go with your product search?

Here’s another way to help you find out if there’s a market for your idea.

Go to http://ezinearticles.com/ or http://new-list.com/ and you can subscribe to e-zines that have your keywords as topics in them.

When these e-zines come in, you can check out what the competition are doing with the type of advertisements they are running.

Also go to different newsgroups such as http://groups-beta.google.com/and see what people are talking about, and what thair problems are.

If you can find a recurring problem being spoken about, then it might mean there is an opening for you to create a product you can create to provide a solution.

Don’t forget to look in Google and some of the other search engines to see how many people have paid for sponsored links.

If there’s no competion then it might mean that there is no market.

Competition is good! You want to find markets that people are already making money in, because this means there’s a market for your idea.

This a key point and one that is missed by lots of people. To many people look for markets where there is no competition and wonder why people aren’t buying their products. You have to be prepared to do some research.

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Details of the All American Gold Card Application can be found online and you can also apply online to see if you are approved for the All American Gold card issued by USA Credit. This card was created with those with poor credit or no credit in mind. If you are trying to rebuild your credit from past credit problems or if you are a young person that has not yet established any credit on your own, you can greatly benefit from using this credit card.

There is an account set up fee of $149.95 that you will gave to pay to get this card issued to you. As an added bonus with the card, you can access your credit report for free for the first 30 days after getting the card. The All American Gold Card promises a “No credit check or credit turndown” policy which means virtually everyone who applies is approved as long as they provided correct information on the application.

This card is a retail credit card and can only be used for purchases made on the USA credit sponsored website or their selected catalogs. You can’t use it for regular purchases such as your groceries, gas, etc. However, the credit card and credit line is reported to a major credit bureau so it is a great opportunity to rebuild or establish credit to your name.

The All America Gold card has no APR, no credit check to apply, is low cost for a credit-establishing card, has no annual fee but an initial setup fee of $149.95, a maximum credit limit of $6,000 and no minimum credit limit. There is a $10 late payment fee. To qualify for the card, you must be at least 18 and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (excluding Wisconsin), with an active checking account, a monthly household income of at least $800 and no un-discharged bankruptcies. There are no employment verifications.

For more information or to apply for the All American Gold Card, Beth Derkowitz recommends Find Credit Cards.

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Unless you are a subscriber to Robert Bishop’s Gold Mining Stock Report, you may not have heard about this budding uranium development company. The company’s share price had a healthy rally after the San Francisco Gold Show, last November, when Kilgore Minerals (TSX: KAU) was discussed as a potential takeover candidate. Shares in this little-known minerals company catapulted from the C$0.50 - 0.60 range to as high as C$1.13/share by February 6th. Pinetree Capital (TSE: PNP), itself a red-hot stock whose shares have quadrupled since early November, announced it had purchased approximately 10.5 percent of Kilgore Minerals (and if the convertible securities were exercised, its ownership could reach 12.9 percent).

What is the excitement over Kilgore Minerals? Norman Burmeister is hardly the promotional type. Even his good friend, letter writer Robert Bishop, describes the company as non-promotional. During our interview, it occurred one might think of Kilgore Minerals as a uranium company inside a gold exploration company. That should become apparent as you continue reading this. And the question was posed to Mr. Burmeister, “At the end of this year, will Kilgore be better known as a gold or uranium company.” After a long pause, he responded, “The objective here is to build a mining company.”

Far from the very promotional Howe Street area, where the majority of the TSX Venture exchange companies have offices, Burmeister is nearly reclusive in a small town in Wyoming. “It’s about ten miles to the nearest stop light,” he told StockInterview. Actually, Dubois, Wyoming where you’ll find Mr. Burmeister is less than 80 miles away from Yellowstone National Park. (Keep driving west on US 287, and you’ll be in Montana.) When we hear a company CEO talking up that he’s going to build a mining company, the phrase “grain of salt” comes to mind. But a careful review of Mr. Burmeister’s resume will snap even the most cynical out of that frame of mind, starting with his graduation from the Colorado School of Mines as a geological engineer. (See bio snapshot at the end of the article.) He’s found and developed a gold mine, found deposits, sold them to a major company. Been there, done it, and now he’s ready for something even bigger.

Kilgore Mineral’s Uranium Projects

Now, Burmeister has got three gold and 12 uranium properties. The uranium properties are convincing, and the company plans a drill program on one, in Nevada. “We are in the process of permitting one property for a summer drill program. It’s a Nevada property that was drilled out by Utah Mining and Construction, which became a division of General Electric. It subsequently became Pathfinder Mines, when GE was ordered to divest their uranium mining and producing facilities.” He’s referring to the company’s 46-claim Mountain West property in Elko, Nevada. One might suspect the hand of Dr. Dieter Krewedl in this property selection. Dr. Krewedl was vice president of exploration for Pathfinder in 1990 - 1995 (and also serves on the board of directors of Strathmore Minerals).

“It’s not the largest property in our portfolio, but it’s handy,” Burmeister said humbly. “It’s in a good jurisdiction in ELKO County, Nevada. It’s something that we can get permitted and move forward. It’s a relatively low cost type of operation. It’s something we think our company with our resources can advance significantly within a budget that isn’t going to commit the company’s entire resources.” Burmeister believes the Nevada uranium asset may have a good grade. “It’s near surface with essentially a low stripping ratio, so it could be mined with a slot type of mining operation,” he explained. When a deposit is relatively shallow, the slot type mining method can be used, similar to how a quarry is mined.

His two Wyoming properties in Crook County, comprising 122 claims, were previously drilled by different major companies in each of the three claim blocks. Homestake Mining drilled over 3,000 holes as late as the mid 1980’s on the 48-claim New Group block. In one area alone, within a 40-acre tract, over 250 holes were drilled (about six holes per acre). Bethlehem Steel’s 2 claims in the Oshoto Group consist of an admittedly a small property. “But it is right in the center of what was developed in the late 1970’s,” Burmeister insisted. The joint venture, between Bethlehem Steel and a California-based oil company, did a successful test ISL operation on the property in 1979. As they were winding down the test, and evaluating the results, they had to contend, as did many other uranium exploration companies, with the public outcry after Three Mile Island.

Another uranium property block, the 72-claim Wood Group, was also extensively drilled, by Homestake and Pioneer Nuclear. It is estimated several hundred holes explored the property, and 115 holes were drilled on one 160-acre tract. Burmeister hinted his uranium package was still being assembled. The company’s website notes, “The Company will continue its efforts on the location and acquisition of historic data associated with its portfolio of uranium properties.”

What tickles Norman Burmeister’s fancy about this area? “It is the Inyan Kara group,” he said. His leases are part of a much larger package. “There is roll front Cretaceous sediment that surrounds the Black Hills. We have properties on northern part of the system in Montana, we have properties on the western flank, and this is in addition to lands on the roll front on the eastern flank of the Black Hills.” And what makes this important? “It’s the equivalent to the stratigraphic unit that has been highly productive in the Powder River Basin,” explained Burmeister. “It’s also been productive at its southern extremity in South Dakota in the Edgemont District.”

Others have been announcing uranium leases in Wyoming, and the state has become a hotbed of claims announcements in recent months. How did Kilgore Minerals come across these? “We came by some information in a package of data we purchased that included the definitive location of the roll front,” explained Burmeister. “I don’t think that information was widely known. That’s why these leases were not picked up in the past. I think folks didn’t know where that roll front was. That roll front was defined by a major uranium company with over 15 years of exploration in the area, having drilled I don’t know how many thousands of reconnaissance drill holes of these things, like one per square mile, over several counties: northeastern Wyoming, southeast Montana, and western South Dakota. That information led to the definition of the roll front where these uranium deposits occur.” With that said, Mr. Burmeister is quietly confident.

The Kilgore Gold Project

But which project gets Norman Burmeister talking breathlessly? Ask him about the company’s Kilgore gold property in southeastern Idaho. “I’m very excited about this project,” said Burmeister. “It was a property that was very high on Echo Bay’s list. At the time they were active, Echo Bay was one of the major gold explorers of the world. They had a very large budget. This was one of their top projects, possibly even their top project.” Indeed, Echo Bay had drilled 122 holes (82,987 feet of drilling) in 1994-96, and bought out Placer Dome for 100 percent ownership of the property. The collapse of junior gold exploration in 1997 led to the project (and all Echo Bay projects) being shelved. Kennecott, Placer and Pegasus each drilled the gold property between 1983 and 1994. Kilgore Gold (wholly owned subsidiary of Kilgore Minerals) acquired 100-percent ownership of the property, after the exploration industry had contracted. The smart buy at the bottom of the cycle, which is what Norman Burmeister did.

During 2006, the main show for Kilgore Minerals will likely be the summer drilling program on the Kilgore gold property, comprising 150 unpatented claims over an area of approximately 4.7 square miles. The technical report (National Instrument 43-101) was filed on the property by G.H. Rayner and Associates, which estimated 218,000 ounces of gold indicated and 269,000 ounces of gold inferred. To ascertain that estimate, nearly 200 diamond and reverse circulation drill holes for more than 126, 000 feet were completed. Major gold companies spent more than $8 million to bring this property to this level of understanding.

As a resource, less than 500,000 ounces is a small deposit. However, a drill intersection, during the summer 2004 drill program, struck a 10-foot section averaging 0.465 ounces/tonne or 14.5 grams per tonne gold. Designated the “Elsa Zone” discovery hole, the intersection found that gold sample more than 4,600 feet from the 487,000-ounce gold resource.

A preliminary structural investigation by Stanton W. Caddey, a highly respected geological consultant, concluded in an October (2003) report:

“The Kilgore prospect area represents a high quality gold project, much of which remains to be drill tested. Most the previous drilling was focused along a peripheral or satellite segment of the main hydrothermal system. The primary exploration potential is for a bonanza, epithermal, gold-rich vein system localized along the major N60W-trending McGarry Canyon NW fault zone and subordinate faults in the area referred to as Dog Bone Ridge Exploration potential at the Kilgore property for more than doubling the present gold resource with further exploration drilling is regarded as excellent.”

In May 2004, Mine Development Associates of Reno, Nevada completed a scoping level update of Echo Bay’s 1996 initial engineering assessment of the Kilgore project. Neil B Prenn, P.E., agreed this is a large epithermal gold deposit, hosted in volcanic and sedimentary rocks, and the resource is hosted within quartz stockwork and in silicified sedimentary rocks. In reviewing Echo Bay’s work, he observed that instead of calculating a reserve for the property, they described an “estimate with high confidence, the potential mineable part of the resources,” at 10.087 million tonnes, averaging 1.28 grams/tonne, containing 417,000 ounces of gold. The engineer concluded, “The project appears to have reasonably attractive economics if the ‘potentially mineable material‘ can be doubled at $375/ounce gold price.”

Burmeister believes the best is yet to come. His summary of Echo Bay’s previous drilling was simple and to the point, “They were focused on a low-grade open pit occurrence, which is very nice. It has a significant resource. In their enthusiasm to move that particular aspect of the project forward, I think they did not have the chance to step back and look at the overall hydrothermal system, which we have done. Burmeister added, “We think the best may be yet to come by exploring for a high grade underground type of operation which is very much in favor these days.”

The successful drill hole was a blind discovery at 410 feet of depth. Burmeister clarified, saying “The first hole that we drilled, we were successful in discovering a ‘blind’ high grade occurrence of gold beneath the barren sinter.” He realized the mistake made during the 2004 drill program, “In our enthusiasm to get our arms around this target area, which we call the Dog Bone Ridge area, we took enormous step-outs, and never offset that high grade hole. Subsequent holes were all interesting, museum quality realgar mineralization and stibnite mineralization, which are diagnostic of the epithermal model we’re testing. We got anomalous gold, but we didn’t get any ore grade material.”

The Dog Bone Ridge area, as determined by geochemistry, geophysics, geology and structure, is at least 6,000 feet long and 1,800 feet wide. Burmeister explained his better understanding of the target area, “We think this is a very recent geological occurrence, and has not been eroded. Typically, there is no gold on the surface on these systems. It comes as the result of boiling. The gold is precipitated out at that level and does not reach the surface. We’re actually dealing with a paleo-surface. Our discovery hole was deeper in the system, below the zone of boiling. So I don’t think the other drilling we did, the other core holes, they did nothing but reinforce our interpretation of the system.”

In July, Kilgore Minerals will proceed where drilling left off in 2004. A recent news release announced, “The summer 2006 drill program is expected to commence in July with the first holes designed to offset the Elsa Zone discovery. There are a number of Elsa ‘look-alike’ definitive targets within the overall Dog Bone Ridge target area that will also be tested.” How does Norman Burmeister explain this in layman’s terms? “We’re going to offset that discovery hole and find out what that’s all about,” he told StockInterview. “We’ll go about the business of evaluating that project because it’s all prospective. We were targeting a projected structural intersection of which there are many. The success we had with that first hole, it’s not unique in terms of what we know in the geophysics, the geology, the structure and the geochemistry. That’s not to say that all of those targets are going to be successful, but the size of this system indicates it can host a very significant resource.”

It was an exciting discovery hole, and the summer 2006 drilling program could spell success if drilling results match Burmeister’s enthusiasm. In closing, he said, “That hole could well be right smack in the middle of an ore body. We don’t know what the orientation of the zone is, because with one hole, it is impossible to know what the dip and the strike is. We don’t know if it’s close to true width or we hit it at the high angle. But, it’s very exciting.”

Stay Tuned.

James Finch contributes his articles to StockInterview.com and other publications. You can read his archived stories by visiting http://www.stockinterview.com

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Here is how economies really work in a nutshell. This is an extremely obvious economic fact that most people completely forget. If people work together in harmony value is created. If people fight among one another value is destroyed.

Nothing in the world we perceive is in itself of value at all. Only those things that at least two people agree are of value become worth something. Ponder this forcefully for a moment. Is gold really of value at all? It is just an inert metal. There are tribal societies who do not perceive any value whatsoever in gold. You can’t eat it, drink it, or smoke it so it definitely does not directly change the way you feel. The only reason it is value is because people in general say so!

I was listening to a lecturer who is extremely competent at changing people’s belief systems. I was amazed to hear him talk about the creation of fiat currency, money that is not backed by a physical commodity, as a bad thing. This to me was impressive. Here was a very intelligent person implying that an inert metal was somehow valuable in itself completely oblivious to the fact that the gold standard caused as many problems as it solved for country economies!

The gold standard did impose a common standard of value for all national currencies that gave some stability to international trade and investment, dampened interest rate fluctuations, and stimulated the expansion of commerce and investment abroad. In addition the gold standard imposed economic discipline on a country but these advantages were offset by a number of limitations such as the necessary maintenance of free trade, restriction of a country’s money supply by its gold stock making a nation unable to respond to problems of lagging economic growth or rising unemployment.

Now I want you to ponder the stock market. If gold has no inherent value then of what value is a stock? Again, a share of a stock is only of valuable if at least two people consider it valuable. Stock market pundits push things like earnings and healthy financial statements both of which are subject to creative reporting within legal yet wide accounting standards.

Inside corporate executive have been caught red handed in the last few years cooking the books making estimates of any fundamental share value highly circumspect. Again, it all goes back to whether there are more people buying or selling a company’s stock and executive corporate insiders with their gifted stock options are the biggest beneficiaries of the corrupt Wall Street machine.

Corporate America owns the American media. Executive insiders control corporate America. Don’t let Wall Street fool you into thinking that the path to stock market investing riches is through laborious financial analysis because it is a fool’s journey. Learn to read how the public’s emotions in the stock market are being manipulated by unseen corporate forces and you will have the best shot at coming out way ahead!

Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. a.k.a. “The Wallet Doctor” can teach you how saving the daily price of a cup of coffee at Starbucks can make you a millionaire in the stock market through long term stock investing. Dr. Brown’s website is: http://www.walletdoctor.com/

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Wish to experience the thrill of choosing mom’s favorites and packing them in a gift basket for her delight? If you do, your wish can come true because there are hundreds gift baskets for mom to choose from.

You can either choose from a large selection of ready-made baskets or you can customize your baskets selecting the items you think mother will love.

Warm Sentiments, Harry and David, Design-it-Yourself Gift Baskets, Gourmet Gift Baskets, Adorable Gift Baskets, Nostalgia Baskets, Book Baskets, Green Mountain, Vermont, Hershey, Ghirardelli, and many more companies provide delicious and delightful baskets for all occasions, be it a birthday, Christmas, anniversary, or any other special day.

Contents of the baskets vary, ranging from food to body and bath products. Gourmet offers a huge collection of gift baskets to choose from. Chocolate, coffee, Italian, fruit, pizza, popcorn, spa, sweet, grilling or BBQ, dried fruits and tea are some of the many choices that can be arranged beautifully and filled with high quality products. You can also choose a ready-made basket and add your own special touches.

A wide range of flowers, wines, food, and fruit baskets in amazing designs are available from Harry and David, Warm Sentiments, Wine Country Gift Baskets, and Adorable Gift Baskets. Most companies provide free ground shipping with satisfaction guarantee

If your mother likes to read, Book Baskets specializes in baskets filled with books, just give them idea about what mom likes to read and they will do the rest. Baskets are a wonderful way to show mom how much you care for her and a great way for you to be creative with a basket full of love.

Gifts For Men provides detailed information about gifts for men, birthday gift for him, anniversary gift for him, gift basket for him and more. Gifts For Men is the sister site of Wholesale Embroidered Hats.

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Transferable skills can be defined as those skills or abilities that can be applied equally from one job to another. They are skills that graduates have gathered through volunteer work, sports, hobbies, community work, and can be used in their new careers. The importance of transferable skills for graduates cannot be overstated. There is a growing demand from employers, for strong graduates with desirable transferable skills.

In this day and age, employers expect graduates to not only have knowledge of their area of study or expertise, but to have the inherent and learned ability to adapt to the new working environment they will be joining, bringing exceptional communication skills, the ability to lead and be led, and the proven ability to function efficiently and effectively.

Transferable Skills and Education

Education does not mean simply to impart knowledge, but to contribute to the holistic development of the student. Skills, such as communication skills, planning skills, and multi-tasking skills, among others, are known as transferable skills, and are also alternately called ‘key skills,’ ‘generic skills,’ or ‘core skills.’

In the ever-changing employment market, there is an increasing need for graduates to move away from the conventional market, as there is a diverse range of jobs for them. They need to perform efficiently as soon as they take up their new appointment, utilizing the many transferable skills they may have picked up during their education. Today’s work environment strongly endorses the transferable skills in a graduate seeking employment.

There is research going on to identify the type of transferable skills that are required by graduates. The scope of the research, among others, includes:

Identifying transferable skills valued by employers

Ascertaining the importance of transferable skills when recruiting graduates

While recruiting graduates, ‘transferable skills’ is a more sought after factor as opposed to academic record and relevant work experience. Developing transferable skills that would be an asset in a work environment is a major concern for graduates. In the fast-paced work environment, employers are looking for graduates who can fit into their organizations; can add value and learning quickly.

More and more organizations and employers are looking to employ graduates, who not only are experts in their career field, but also are competent in other realms of the business world including communication, networking, team building, and career management.

Some of the transferable skills, which employers look for, are:

Delegating responsibility
Dealing with crises
Attending to visual detail
Assessing and evaluating own and others’ work
Time management
Multi-tasking
Presenting written and oral material
Handling complaints
Keeping records
Coordinating activities
Planning and arranging activities
Utilizing specific computer software
Training or teaching others
Motivating others
Identifying and managing ethical issues

Organizations with affirmative recruiting objectives will recruit earlier, even before the end of the academic year, allowing them first pick in graduates.

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Every Olympic athlete has at least one coach. The top ones hire their own personal coach.

I’ve had my own mentor-coach in network marketing since 1991. One person actually once told me he thought it was a weakness for “people like you to admit that you need a coach to help you.”

A weakness???

I replied that having a coach was (and is) one of the smartest things I have ever done.

A coach keeps you accountable and focused. There are just soooooo many opportunities in MLM to get sidetracked.

Pro athletes like Tiger Woods, Bobby Bonds, Peyton Manning, all the big stars, have several coaches. Each coach teaches their own specialty.

How To Choose A Coach

I’ve been married almost 35 years. If I wanted marriage counselling, would I talk to someone who’s never been married? How about someone who’s graduated from college with 3 or 4 degrees and never been married? Would I go to someone who’s been married for 2 years or 5 years, when I’ve been married for 34 years? Would I go to someone married 10 years, with no children?

Or would I talk to someone who’s been married 30 or 40 years or more and who has raised a couple healthy, happy kids?

Who would you want to get your coaching from? Somebody who has experienced it, or somebody who hasn’t?

Many of the coaches today in network marketing have NEVER built an organization! Or they built it 5, 10, 15 years ago, but they can’t build it today.

As the old saying goes, “if you can’t do, teach.”

So these MLM coaches go out and teach people how to do what they can’t do. What they did 10 years ago worked 10 years ago. But it doesn’t work today.

So instead of being on the cutting edge of technology and learning (and USING!) the state-of-the-art in network marketing business-building, they put themselves up as a coach.

I’ve even seen one coach who shows you his huge downline geneology. If you look closely, you’ll notice it’s from 12 years ago. He hasn’t done anything since.

If you’re going to be coached, you want to be coached by somebody who is doing it NOW, someone who is active today.

It’s crazy, but there are even people who promote it as a virtue that they no longer do network marketing. They’ll tell you now they can be objective. They’ll tell you that you don’t need to worry about them recruiting you into some other business.

Here is the truth: if you can actually do network marketing, there’s a lot more money in it than there is in coaching - AND you can do the coaching anyway, while you’re building your business.

So why isn’t this person in network marketing anymore?

Easy. It’s because they can’t do it. Plain and simple, they can’t build it.

It is completely insane to choose as your coach someone who is not currently successful at network marketing. You are being ripped-off, plain and simple.

I’ve even talked to a couple of these “unbiased” MLM coaches who don’t like network marketing. They don’t believe in it. Yet they will gladly take your money to coach you to success in network marketing!

One more thing … 90% of these coaches tell you that YOU have to change. They say you have to get out of your comfort zone, become this “A” type personality. And THAT is the reason it doesn’t work.

Those “A” personalities can go out and do anything and be successful at it. But 92% of the world can’t do that. And when you go out there telling them they have to change, it’s no wonder there’s such a high failure rate in network marketing.

Here’s What I Think:

1. You’re perfect just the way you are.

2. You need belief in yourself, belief in the business.
3. Learn some skills.
4. Take action.

And to coach somebody in network marketing, the biggest thing they need coaching on is their belief. They don’t believe in the industry, their company, or themselves.

Most top business people have (or once had) a true mentor, someone who’s done it before and knows what to do. The person with a mentor has a big advantage. Tom “Big Al” Schreiter was my mentor for 15 years, and I never even joined his business! I would be honored to be YOUR mentor, no matter what company you are in.

As your coach, I will believe in YOU until you can believe in yourself!

Visit long-time network marketer Michael Dlouhy at http://www.AskMichaelDlouhy.com/. Michael will be your coach, mentor, and ally. He’ll train you online and by conference call, 15 hours a week, no matter what company you’re in, to build a large, profitable, high-retention organization, easily & consistently, thru education & teamwork.

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Coin collecting is not a hobby that you can learn over night. It takes time to do, but if you have the passion for it it is well worth doing and something you will get a lot out satisfaction from.

If you only collect coins as an investment it may work for a while but soon enough you will give up because like anything in life there bumps along the way and if you do not have the passion to see them through this might put you off persisting with it.

To be successful you need to take in as much information on coin collecting as you can. Reading magazines, subscribing to on line or off line newsletters and talking to dealers are good sources of finding and gathering information. On the net you can find lots of news sites that relay the latest information as it happens. Using these resources effectively will make you a successful collector, but trying to collect without applying the basics will lead you to failure.

You must learn to know what is the value of the coins so “grading” coins is a skill you need to learn as soon as you can. This is a skill you will need if you intend to trade coins for greater valued coins when the opportunity arises, as well as making sure that you never get scammed.

Patience is a prerequisite for a successful coin collector. The best collectors in the world have often waited years for the opportunity to buy a coin they wanted for their collection. Less patient collectors have been known to buy a fake coins to complete their collection simply because of their impatience and this can be costly and disheartening.

Gaining the mentality of a successful coin collector is something you should strive to achieve. Being too eager can make you rush into buying without checking up on the coin you are wanting to add to your collection. So always make sure you trust the source you buy from or that the information you received about a coin you received is also genuine and trust worthy.

Starting out in coin collecting can be initially hard to do but if you study the market carefully for at least 3 to 6 months to get the basics right, then when you start trading for real you will not make the same mistakes many new comers make.

When starting out and throughout your coin collecting hobby you need to set goals every step of the way. Never run before you can walk is a phrase that applies very well to this hobby. Learning and applying the basic slowly and steadily will make you an expert in the long run and you will reap the benefits by becoming a successful coin collector if not a rich one.

James Ross is the web master of Collectible coins info a website totally dedicated to coins collecting. For more articles and information please find out more at http://collectible-coins.info

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Matthew 27:50-54: “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks split . . .”

The crucifixion of Jesus literally was an earthshaking event. Meditating on the event, it appeared to me that creation trembled and quaked over what puny men had done to their creator, as though that when a nation rejects God, that nation invariably experiences upheavals and finally oblivion. As the Psalmist noted, “The wicked shall be turned into hell and all nations that forget God” (Psalm 9:17).

God takes a nation’s mocking of Him and what belongs to Him seriously. Belshazzar, the king of Babylon during the captivity of Daniel, learned this first hand. Daniel recorded that, some time after Babylon sacked the Jewish temple and carried off the consecrated worship accessories, “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in the presence of the thousand. While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave commandment to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzer had taken from the temple which had been in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

“In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace . . . Now all the king’s wise men came but they could not read the writing . . . Then Daniel was brought in before the king . . . [and said,] ‘You have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and . . . have drunk from them. And you have praised the gods . . . which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. Then the fingers of the hand were sent from Him and this writing was written. And this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

“‘This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom and finished it: Tekel: You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting: Pares: Your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.’

“In that very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans was slain. And Dirius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old” (Daniel 5:1-30). God’s warning to Belshazzar occurred almost immediately after the handwriting appeared on his palace wall. In a single night, the powerful, majestic, tremendously feared, presumably unshakable, Babylonian Empire toppled and passed into the shadows of history. “That very night” Belshazzar’s kingdom fell to the Medes and Persians.

Media was the ancient name for north-western Iran. The inhabitants were called Medes or Medians and were descendants of Noah’s son, Japheth. After the Medes participated in the capture of Babylon (Isaiah 13:17 and Jeremiah 51: 1-24) many centuries after their ancestor’s death, Darius the Mede - so-called because his father, Ahasuerus, was of Median ancestry - became the new ruler of Babylon.

Persian history began with the Indo-European nomads of South Russia, who most likely entered the Iranian plateau during the second millennium BC. The nomads, known as “Fars,” began their Iranian community as a small province on the Persian Gulf. Its people were of the Aryan race, descended from Japheth, the son of Noah. Their community was bordered on the north by Media, on the south by the Persian Gulf, on the east by Carmania, and on the west by Elam. Though at first, the Fars’ province was subjected to the Medes, after revolting under Cyrus the Great, it became the principle power in the conquering of Nebuchadnezzer’s empire. Known as the Persian Empire it became the most far-flung of the Oriental empires, conquering and ruling over all the regions from India to Ethiopia. Its capital was Susa, called in the Bible “Sushan the Palace” (Esther 1:2). Though seemingly all powerful, the Persian Empire was itself eventually was conquered and subjected by Alexander the Great in his quest for world dominion. He, in turn, died at an early age and his empire was partitioned by his generals, who ruled the divided empire in his stead. Each of these kingdoms eventually was conquered by Rome.

There is no permanency for a nation that forgets or out-rightly rejects God. In our era, the Soviet Union is a quintessential example of this truth. It leaders often vaunting their atheism, it disintegrated at the instigation of an American president who knew and loved God. Even so, America also is being weighed in the balances by God. And though we grieve to mention it, America also is found wanting. In the last several decades, our nation has had one president assassinated, one attorney general also assassinated, a civil rights leader assassinated, an entire administration quake and then fall, and an attempted presidential assassination.

In our lifetime, America has experienced race riots, youth rebellions, the undermining of family values, the abortion of millions upon millions of pre-born infants, the acceptance of the homosexual agenda, legal wedges driven between parents and their children, God shut out of the classroom and replaced by humanism, which is undermining our schools and all levels of our governments.

It may be a beneficial, though not very pleasant thing, to experience social earthquakes. I know a literal earthquake can be terrifying and I can think of nothing as attention-getting as one. I served a lengthy tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force, and was assigned to Japan, an island nation prone to devastating earthquakes. More than once I felt tremors under my feet. Imagine if you will, taking off and landing a plane, when the runway suddenly begins heaving and rolling. Thankfully, no one at our airfield ever was hurt as a result of an earthquake, but we certainly were apprehensive.
Yes, an earthquake certainly catches one’s attention, and this is what occurred at the crucifixion of Christ. “The earth shook, the rocks split apart, the graves broke open, and many of God’s people who had died were raised to life. They left the graves and after Jesus rose from death, they went into the Holy City, where many people saw them. When the army officer and the soldiers with him who were watching Jesus saw the earthquake and everything else that happened, they were terrified and said ‘He really was the Son of God!’” (Matthew 27:51-54; “The New Testament in Today’s Modern English”: The American Bible Society“).

There may be times when personal “earthquakes” shake our own lives. As we pass through them, it will stabilize and bless us to meditate on things that cannot be shaken:

The Word of God Cannot be Shaken!

In Psalm 138:2 David wrote: “I will worship toward your holy temple, And praise Your name For your lovingkindness and Your truth: For you have magnified Your word above Your name” (Psalm 138:2). “The New King James Version.”

We should permit these words of David to saturate our souls. He is exalting because God rests His reputation upon the truthfulness of His word. Governments may lie, persons may be untruthful, legislators and other may not keep their promises, but God’s word never fails; He rests His reputation upon His truthfulness. His word cannot be shaken. It never returns void.

The Word of Jesus Christ Cannot be Shaken!

Referring to His second coming, Jesus states: “But in those days, [Matthew 24: 29, includes the word ‘immediately’ before the following phrase] after the tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken. And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory . . . Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass away” (Mark 13:24-25 & 31). Our Lord assures us that His word is eternally more durable than heaven itself. It shall never pass away! As finite creatures, we find it impossible to fathom such mysteries.

How can the powers of the heavens be shaken, thereby creating what amounts to heaven-quakes? The Pulpit Commentary states: “The powers may here mean those great unseen forces of nature by which the universe is now held in equipoise. When the Creator wills it, these powers shall be shaken.”

How can words [promises] endure forever? As this author meditated upon this question, he concluded that this is possible only when an eternal redeemer such as our Lord Jesus Christ makes the promises. As to His other eternal promises to us, when he transforms us like unto His own image, we shall be continuing recipients of all of them, among them the promise that where He is we also shall be.

The Person of God Cannot be Shaken!

Some time ago, the author listened to a radio discussion by two liberal women ministers. They were discussing their plans to change the Bible by removing all masculine gender references to God and replace them with the neuter. Of course, we all realize that God is neither male nor female; He is God. Nonetheless, condescending to our finite comprehension, He inspired the Holy writers to refer to His in the male gender. Not only so, but He chose to send us His Son, in the form of a man. In doing so God did not discriminate against women; rather, he created in Jesus Christ the second Adam, to regain for those who trust Him that which the first Adam lost because of his disobedience.

God is eternally God, eternally the same. His person cannot be shaken or changed, nor can that of His Son. However, in condescending to take the form of a man, the Lord Jesus Christ made an eternal sacrifice by stooping to become eternally identified with us as the Eternal Man.

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© Joseph Perrello (Josprel)
Josprel@verizon.net

Josprel has been an ordained minister for some fifty years. He is a prolific writer, whose stories and articles have appeared in print and the web. He currently is authoring two novels, “Beloved Apostate” and “Kanfal.”

During his many years of ministry, Josprel has pastored three churches, including one in Attica, New York, the location of America’s most bloody prison riot. Josprel was pastoring in Attica during that time and, as did other pastors in the town, he counseled the families of the prison security officers being held hostage by the inmates.

Afterward, at the request of the Attica Prison administration, Josprel conducted weekly three-hour Bible studies. The studies lasted for four years, when Josprel turned them over to another pastor, due to demands on his time - a five-time weekly radio program, a large congregation, new members classes, church administration, a building program during which the congregation constructed a large new sanctuary and an education wing.

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