Mr. Prince Kofi Donkor. would like to share this review with you:

Dear Sir/Madam. I am Prince Kofi Donkor, writing you on behalf of my community. The Takwadum community of Western Region of Ghana , West Africa . Being a mining community, we are entitled to mine locally, the mineral resources in our land as permitted by law. In doing so, our community had some quantity of 22 karat GOLD DUST/ALLURVIAL, (AU METAL) for sale. At present, we have 250 kilograms of the Gold Dust, COMMODITY: AU METAL (GOLD DUST/ALLURVIAL). QUANTITY: 250KGS. QUALITY: 22+CARATS 999.5/1000 PURITY. ORIGIN: GHANA . PAYMENT: BY SWIFT OR WIRE TRANSFER OR CASH AND CARRY. PRICE: NEGOTIABLE. COMMISSION: AS AGREED BY BOTH PARTIES. AVAILABILITY: THE PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE AND READY FOR ONWARD SHIPMENT. All along we have been marketing this item through the Agents of the Government. Who charge us ten percent of the product???s value in executing the business? But recently, the King thought otherwise and decided we should seek for direct BUYERS/CUSTOMERS abroad. Being the CHIEF-OF-STAFF of the Palace, and the SECRETARY to the King, I was mandated to carry out this function. I seek your interest as our CUSTOMER/BUYER to buy the Gold Dust. Our prices are good and negotiable based on the quantity purchased. You are free to come to Ghana-West Africa and visit both the mining sites, and the King in his Palace, if you so wish. I hope this offer would interest you, then reply immediately through E-mail: or call telephone :+( 233)266577817. Looking forward to a friendly business transaction with you. Yours faithfully, Mr. Prince Kofi Donkor. Call Telephone :+( 233)266577817. E-mail:princedonkor99@aol.com

I trust you completely oh Prince. Let's do business shall we?

Dear Wayne Havrelly ,

Thanks for your mail and also thanks a lot for being interested in my offer to sale at present 250 kilograms of the Gold Dust.

Sir please I need your advice on how we can start this business.

Thanks,
Mr.Prince Kofi Donkor.
Call me as soon as you receive this mail :+( 233) 266-577-817.

Let's send it into 1-800 for Gold. I think they will give us a really good price for the Gold Dust.

Thanks,

Wayne

Wayne ,

I don't understand what you mean by 1-800? Is it to reduce the quantity of 250kgs of Gold?
Please include your private phone number on your reply for easy communication. I also want to let you know that any information you need concerning this Gold will be provided to you.

Thanks,
Mr. Prince Kofi Donkor.
Call Telephone :+( 233)266-577-817.
E-mail:princedonkor99@aol.com

Yes it is. Not sure if I can handle that much gold at one time. Worried about security. Can you provide a picture of it so I can see what we're talking about?

Thanks,

Wayne

Dear Wayne ,

|Thank you very much for your mail, but it is very important we clear some fact to enable us move ahead successfully without any hitch. The mail I sent you before asking to explain what you mean by 1.800, is because I want to know if you want me to present your request for 1kg 800grams? Because in my mail I explained that we have 250kgs avaliable. It is also important that you let me know if I am right about the 1kg 800grams of Gold Dust, is that going to be 1kg 800grams trail? Do not worry about the security because we shall provide you with certificate of origin, pro-forma invoice, certificate of ownership so for the security your safety is 100% assured.

Please include your private phone number on your reply for easy communication.

Attached to this mail is the copy of the picture you requested for your own better view and understanding.

Thanks,

Mr. Prince Kofi Donkor.

Call Telephone :+( 233)266577817.

E-mail:princedonkor99@aol.com

________________________________________

Thanks for the picture, I now have a better understanding. However, I would like to know a bit more about your background before providing my phone number and personal information. Could you tell me more about your family and provide some photographs. It would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Wayne

Thanks for your mail. I am very sorry for replying it very late, it is because of power failure here.

Concerning your question about my background, I am Prince Kofi Donkor a native of Takwadum community of Western Region of Ghana, the first son of Late Chief Nana Donkor. I am a happily married man with four children, 3 boys and 1 girl.

After the death of my late father, the Community choose me as the CHIEF-OF-STAFF of the Palace, and the SECRETARY to the King. Initially we have been marketing our product through the Agent of Government who charged us 10 percent in every product and now the King thought otherwise and decided with the Community to seek Customers /Buyers abroad and as The Secretary of the King I have to be in charge of the selling that is why I contacted you.

After our discussion with our king this Morning, I am asked to tell you to visit us here in Ghana so you can see the Gold and also our Mining site so you can see things for yourself. You are also free to test the products when you come down to Ghana.

Please I am waiting for your response.

Thanks,
Prince Donkor.

From: Havrelly, Wayne
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 1:26 PM
To: Havrelly, Wayne
Subject: FW: From:Mr.Prince Kofi Donkor. Reply Attached to this mail is the copy

Interesting, thanks for the information.

It just so happens I work in the import export business and have been looking to open up trading channels with countries in west Africa. Do you know anyone in your country who can manufacture pixie dust? If so I'm interested in providing you with more details and information about what we're looking for. I'm planning a possible trip to the Ivory coast in the coming months and would enjoy seeing your operation.

What do you mean by manufacture pixie dust? Is it what we are discussing about coming down to Cote'Divoire. Why can't you come down to Ghana to meet me so that we can finish up with our Gold Business. You did not even give me your number. How can I know if you are interested in this business?

Thanks,
Prince Donkor.
Contact number:+( 233)266577817.

I no longer do business with telephones, strictly computers. We work under the sea in a facility off the coast of Oregon . We find the internet works more efficiently for our purposes. Can you explain where your gold dust actually comes from? I'd like to get an idea of the quality of gold we are talking about. I can assure you if the gold is of top quality, I'm very interested. It was hard to get an idea from the tiny picture you sent me. How can I know if you are for real, if I don't know the quality of the gold? As far as the Pixie dust. It is a type of gold that used to be manufactured at a place called Pixie Land near Lincoln City. It was very high quality but the Pixieland operation closed it's doors more than a decade ago. We still use the term, Pixie dust, meaning very high quality gold. Sorry for that northwest slang. I can assure you I'm very interested.

Sincerely,
Wayne.....

And the conversation goes on........ Join us ...Let's waste their time and save a few consumers. :)

Wayne

Sincerely,

Wayne

I had met Beau Breedlove when I first got the job at KGW when my mother and I drove from Arizona in late August. I needed a place to live quickly, and I was hearing rumblings that I should try this place. We were ushered in and we were introduced to a very attractive man. We were on a budget for an apartment, so he was looking through our options, and we went on a tour of a few apartments we may want to rent. I wasn't looking for a studio, I needed a one bedroom, and so it didn't feel like a good fit.

At the end of our tour, our guide asked us to sit down and fill out a form. It was then and there when I saw his card and was struck by his name. I looked at my mother and said, "Is this his real name?" After all, I'm in television news, where people make up their names every day. We walked out, thinking I'd never hear that name, Beau Breedlove again. I was wrong.

When the scandal broke, my boss came to me and asked me to find Mr. Breedlove. We did, on the street outside the Wyatt, where I ran up to him, cameras rolling, and asked him a couple questions about his relationship with the Mayor.

We got the "money shot" but, for me, it wasn't enough. I still didn't know much about him, what drew him to the Mayor. Was it the power? Was it a casual fling? There were so many questions that were still unanswered.

Fast forward to a weekend where I had left yet another message on his cell phone. "This is Anne Yeager, I'd love to sit down and talk to you."

I started texting him, something that has proven to be a useful networking tool when people just don't feel like talking. Then, I received an answer, that politely said leave me alone. I kept pursuing it. Where are you going to be tomorrow? Can we go hiking together? Can our dogs play together? NO.

So I did what, if you ask my friends and co-workers would think was an impossibility, I did nothing. And I waited. The next night I asked him if we could talk. And then my phone rang. Beau Breedlove asked that we meet for lunch the very next day and we did.

I waited at a restaurant nearby. At 12:00 sharp, he showed up, the very man I first met months before. We started talking and, in my clumsy attempts at humor, he realized he had met me before. Suddenly we made a connection. I am a rare breed, where typically I don't eat lunch. I don't know why, perhaps it drives me more during my day, maybe I fantasize about a larger dinner, whatever. I noticed he was a very picky eater, he ordered a teriyaki steak bowl with the teriyaki sauce on the side, everything protein. When his meal arrived, he meticulously cut his lunch in small, almost tiny bites. He kept cutting, and that really struck me. He was accustomed to details in his meal. Perhaps in a moment of nervousness, he started eating the bread bowl, only to tell me that he doesn't eat bread.

We connected and then I asked him if he would talk to me on camera, no questions I couldn't ask, no topics off the table, and to my pleasant surprise, he agreed. He wanted me to mention that he was involved in the Pixie Project, a local non-profit where unwanted dogs are placed in loving homes. We were to meet that night. The deal was done.

In my business, I could nail down an interview and when the time drew near, I would get a call that my interview subject had cold feet, he had met with a lawyer, who didn't think it was a good idea. My colleagues told me that call would come.

It never did. A half hour late, with his dog by his side, Beau Breedlove, the man at the center of it all, showed up to our offices at KGW. He seemed fearless. I asked him, in excruciating detail, uncomfortable questions. I couldn't help but think, do I want someone to ask me about my sex life, each detail in slow motion.

This, however, was far different. This was a man who could take down the highest elected official in the city of Portland. He is at the center of an investigation involving an attorney general who has taken down the mob. If it was determined that Breedlove, at the age of 17, was sexually excited by his encounters with Adams, a political career could be over.

I sat with him for one hour, asked him every question I could think of, and at the end, he walked out into the night. He wasn't your average 21-year-old man. He was smart, he was focused, and I couldn't help but wonder whether he knew what he was getting himself into. Not at 17, but now.

Sky 8 Pilot Darren Larson and photographer Jim Culp who you see providing traffic information every morning on newschannel 8 are experts in covering events from the air.
I joined them for about 4 hours Thursday afternoon to pinpoint the hardest hit areas in Southwestern Washington. Even some of the Columbia's smaller tributaries like Ostrander Creek near Kelso turned into raging rivers of mud. A log jam covered a culvert which created flooding that impacted several dozen homes along this creek.
Images recorded by our sky 8 camera were remarkable. From a man standing on a single rock in the middle of floodwaters, to neighbors saving whatever they could in rowboats, the pictures showed the true scope of the disaster. However, getting those pictures is not always easy. On Thursday intense rain showers forced us to land in Kelso because we couldn't see and it just wasn't safe to fly. An hour later we made it through the diminishing rain storm to Chehalis where Interstate 5 was closed and hundreds of homes, farms and businesses were under water. It was a surreal sight, but our camera was so covered with water from the trip we couldn't take clear pictures. Darren prompty put down the chopper at the Chehalis/Centralia airport and Jim jumped outside to the tarmac to clean off the lense which is positioned on the front of the helicopter.
It was a strange sensation to see the raging floodwaters held back by a dike that surrounds the airport runway. Without it, the entire airport would have been under 6 feet of water like the rest of this part of Chehalis. Perhaps a similar dike system will eventually protect Interstate 5 and the railway through this area. It's something lawmakers will be debating for many years to come.
Darren and Jim managed to keep everything working on Sky 8 in these challenging conditions. They're a professional team and I had a blast working with them on this story that people in Western Washington won't soon forget. I'm a third generation Western Washingtonian and I know I won't forget it.

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Watch this space for more information to come!

Happy Weather Watching,

Matt Zaffino
KGW Chief Meteorologist

Friday night I met some friends downtown after work Upon returning to my car, someone had smashed a window in my 1996 4Runner (237,000 miles and going strong thank you) and grabbed my briefcase.

I worried about a check made out to me, my checkbook, lamented the loss of some concert tickets and my little digital camera, and most off all the golf ball I had my hole-in-one with. But at least they didn't get my wallet or cell phone.

Well it turns out some thieves have consciences too.

My briefcase magically appeared on KGWs doorstep Monday evening, apparently dropped off by the smashers and grabbers, minus the camera a few other items that could be sold for quick cash.

But they returned everything else, a lot of stuff that would be hard to replace or duplicate. Including the check and my checkbook. And my golf ball. As this election season comes to a close, even thieves give opportunity for hope.

Matt Zaffino
Chief Meteorologist
KGW TV

After nearly six years of bylines for kgw.com, it's time to write a bye-line.

I'm leaving KGW to attend graduate school at Pacific University, where I will pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology. I'm extremely excited to embark on this new endeavor. And yet......

I'll miss the frantic pace of breaking news...

I'll miss having access to a meteorologist on the premises five days a week...

And most of all, I'll miss the faces I've grown used to seeing daily - they are my caffeine...

Caption: Having fun with the ladies of KGW and kgw.com. Left to right: Keely Chalmers, Teresa Blackman, former KGW reporter Jennifer Iveson, Jane Smith and Antonia Giedwoyn

It's been a ball working with kgw.com site manager Frank Mungeam, senior producer Teresa Blackman and David Krough. The full-time kgw.com staff is a small and tight-knit group. I am so happy to have worked with them and I'm proud to call them friends. They are dedicated journalists and excellent people.

Over the last half dozen years, I've written approximately 6,000 stories for kgw.com. Some have made me cry, some have made me curse, some have made me roll my eyes and laugh at the absurdity.

And so, if I may, I would like to impart some parting wisdom I have gleaned over these last few years thanks to criminals and common folks suffering from errors of judgment:

--Never leave a live chicken in a hot car

--Never call 911 because you want the "cute deputy" to come back

--Never leave your name and address at the scene of a bank you've just robbed. (Please don't rob a bank in the first place. If absolutely desperate for cash, you can always sell your plasma.)

--Never steal a pirate -- real or wooden

--Drive very, very carefully when transporting eight colonies of honey bees on Interstate 205

--Never write X-rated e-mails to a coworker - particularly a subordinate - if you are chief of police, or if you aren't chief of police

--If you're going to break the law speeding, don't videotape yourself doing it

--If you're caught speeding 129 mph, don't claim you were looking for your lost wallet

And lastly,

--Never compete with a peacock for candy

Writing for you has been a privilege and a pleasure. Thank you for reading. Maybe some day we'll meet again...

in a therapist's office...my office...

Take care and be good,

Antonia Giedwoyn

We went back to the zoo today for a follow up story. I got to see the baby elephant for the first time. He was still separated from his mother and wailing for her. Zoo staff said he cried all night. The mom responded and sniffed the grates where he is penned. Without the nutrients her milk supplies, the calf could become ill, dehydrated. For now, they are bottle and tube feeding the calf, hoping Rose-Tu will accept him soon.

When you're expecting, you'll hear this comparison. At seven months into your pregnancy your baby is, statistically, the size of a football.

Well, we've hit that mark. Seven months along. (Yep, the suit coats are getting snug - and some of the camera shots are even snugger.) So I pulled a football out of our basement - just to get a feel for the size of our unborn daughter. It's mind-boggling how fast they grow and develop. Just a few months ago she was, again statistically speaking, the size of an olive.

My husband, Damien, and I are experiencing what other first-time parents have already shared - sheer giddiness as that magical "birthday" nears.

Our baby girl is due on Election Day. Presidential elections are always memorable, but for this first-time Mom, this one is shaping up to be extraordinary.

Phelps went to my junior high and high school back in Baltimore. Our paths never crossed, he was graduating from Towson High School in 2003 when I was already reporting for KGW. However, the route Towson kids take is one in the same. Everyone grows up on subs from Harry Little's (the cheeseburger subs are the best), goes shopping at Towson Town Center, and to Ocean City for summer vacations. When you grow up in a suburb like Towson (pop. 51,000), you are bonded with the people who went before you and after you, like Phelps.

I call or text my family every morning after a Phelps win to make sure they were watching. My mother, older brother and twin sisters went to Towson High, as well. We've been Phelps fans since Athens. I still have the unopened Wheaties box in my cupboard. One of our producers at channel 8, Craig Edwards, checked on EBAY for me last week..it hasn't increased in value. But that's not why I have it.

Phelps grew up in the same neighborhood as my mother. It’s called Rogers Forge, a post-world war II brick row house community on the Baltimore County line.

He is the product of a single mother. His mother and father, high school sweethearts, divorced when Michael was about nine. He reportedly doesn’t have much if any contact with his father.

Although Towson High is one of the best public schools in Baltimore County (recently ranked #240 in Newsweek Magazine's Top 1,300 U.S. High Schools), it doesn't have a swimming program, or a pool. The "Generals" have a history of state lacrosse, badmitton and volleyball titles.

So when Phelps wanted to swim, he took lessons at a nearby private boy’s school. The coach recognized his talent and urged his mother to get him into a better facility. At 15, Phelps he made the 2000 U.S. Olympic swim team. He placed 5th in his one event, the 200-meter butterfly. Towson High renamed the street in front of the school "Michael Phelps Way" and the rest is history.

Phelps makes it look so easy, the way his legs undulate when he pushes off from the wall, his ability to hold his breath longer than his competitors and his seemingly effortless glides in the water.

To fuel his machine, he eats eight to ten thousand calories A DAY(that's a lot of Harry Little's subs) !!!!! I'm not sure I eat that much in a week!

There isn't a dearth of sports heroes in Baltimore. Cal Ripken and Johnny Unitas are two of the many. But this one..the human fish..is different, at least to me.

Phelps intends to beat Mark Spitz' record of seven gold medals in one single Olympics. Tonight Phelps made history by becoming the winningest Olympian in history. With each victory, you feel as if you've won. I know I do.

More: Phelps all-time medal winner

Photos: Phelps in Action

Its amazing what those men and women are doing on a daily basis---without a single complaint---at least none that they shared with us.

First, they're drilling over and over in the hot sun. I know I'm a bit of a whimp, but I was soaked in sweat just standing there in 100 degree heat, with no shade, carrying my pen and note pad.

The soliders are wearing helmets so heavy they made my neck hurt--and more importantly, heavy anti ballistic vests that weigh, I think, 40 pounds.

I wore one a few years ago when I embeded with Oregon troops in the desert of New Mexico. I was exhausted after the first day--and I'm pretty sure I cheated and did not wear it to the bathroom at night like I was supposed to.

They're wearing that stuff and carrying weapons and on high alert with the sun blazing down on them and they seemed in a good mood.

Very impressive.

It made me want to pull my sagging stomach in and put my shoulders back--at least while I was around them.

If you have a soldier over there training---preparing mind and body to go to Iraq---you should be proud.

They're an impressive group.

I covered the drowning of Mic Woodrum today. Its a heartbreaker. He'd just returned from a Boy Scout trip and was having fun along the Clackamas river with his family.

His troop leader, John Kunzler told me he'd discovered Mic was not a strong swimmer during scout camp last summer.

But he said Mic loved being with the guys--- and probably could not resist the pull to follow the brother he loved and admired across the river.

We reported all that, but we were not able to get into the terror that no doubt sprang to life as events unfolded.

The older brother Tabor, who is 18, noticed Mic was struggling and went back to save him.

The scout leader says Tabor was actually able to grab Mic for a moment, but he was tired too and the current too strong. He couldn't hang on and the river swept both teens down over fast, deadly rapids.

Tabor barely survived himself and was pulled to shore by people who noticed what was happening.

In an instant, a fun family outing turned into a horrible nightmare---one that hasnt ended for many who loved Mic Woodrum.

Tonight, the family's friends and loved ones and their Mormon Church are offering comfort.

Keep them in your thoughts.

pd

Is this a sign our economy is in a recession? I think many of us would appreciate reading about your most effective haggling techniques, so please share.

As always, if you have information about someone taking advantage of consumers or something that can help them, shoot me an e-mail anytime. whavrelly@kgw.com
Happy Haggling!

What is a total lunar eclipse? It's a bit tricky, but I'll try to explain it. Think of three different balls - one large, one medium, and one small. The large ball is the sun, the medium ball is the Earth, and the small ball is the moon. The light from the large ball, the sun, shines onto the Earth, the medium ball. And our medium ball has a shadow. Every once in a while, the moon's orbit takes it into that shadow of the Earth. And when that happens, a total lunar eclipse occurs. This picture may help.

Photo Courtesy mreclipse.com

A lunar eclipse can be viewed without worrying about taking any safety precautions. You can look directly at the moon, and can use a telescope or even binoculars if you'd like. (A solar eclipse is the type of eclipse that you need to protect your eyes from.)

So what time will all of this astronomical excitement begin? =) The moon will start slipping into the Earth's shadow at 5:43pm PST tonight. The moon will be completely dark - completely in the Earth's shadow - between 7:01pm PDT and 7:51pm PDT. After that, the moon will slowly re-emerge from the Earth's shadow until, at 9:09pm PDT, it will be completely illuminated again.

Enjoy! Feel free to e-mail me with any questions you may have.

Joe

I've covered a fair number of political campaigns and the results of various polls. But I've never been able to get the raw questions that go into polls---until now.
Read excerpt from poll questions
Monday I came into possession of the questions created by Portland company Moore Information, as part of a series of calls made November 11, 2007 to 400 New Hampshire voters.

We've included a link to those questions below:

Pollsters I talked with in Portland said they do not believe the questions are part of a "push poll" a sort of dirty politics way of planting bad---and sometimes false information in the mind of the voters.

They point out that a classic push poll involves two or three questions or statements which are read to thousands of potential voters. The company conducting the push poll does not typically gather demographic information or even record the response. The effort is not geared at data gathering. Its to plant information.

While that may be the definition of push polls amongst pollsters---its not the definition used in New Hampshire.

Under that state's law, a push poll is defined as having all three of the following:

1. The call is on behalf of, in support of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office.
2. The recipient is asked questions relative to opposing candidates which state, imply or convey information about the candidate's character, status, record, or political stance.
3. The call is conducted in a manner likely to be construed by the voter to be a survey or poll to gather statistical data for entities that are independent of any political party, candidate, or interest group.

It also has to be aimed at the general election.

Today (1/16/08), a member of the AG's office will be in Oregon, asking a Multnomah County judge to force company owner Bob Moore, and one of his employees to fly back to New Hampshire and answer questions in front of a grand jury.

Specifically---the AG wants to know who hired Moore to form those questions. Moore won't say.

Under New Hampshire law, if the AG can prove that the questions were aimed at the general election (Moore has said they were aimed at the primary) and that a candidate or campaign paid for them (as opposed to an independent 3rd party trying to gauge who to support) then it would qualify under state law as a "push poll".

What do you think?

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