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Krystle Tanner and her mother, Gloria Walker, for years had successfully concealed the true identity of the boy that authorities say they kidnapped from Houston in 2004 when he was just 8 months old.
They hid him in homes in Central and East Texas, kept him out of school and didn't call him by his given name of Miguel Morin, instead renaming him Jaquan. The boy, knowing nothing of who he really was, called Tanner mother and Walker grandmother.
And their secret might never have been discovered if Tanner's newborn son in April 2010 had not tested positive for marijuana. That prompted an investigation by child welfare officials, who were told by Tanner she had another child.
However, attempts to find that other child, who turned out to be Miguel, would go on for nearly two more years as authorities say Tanner and Walker thwarted their efforts through elaborate lies and by secretly shuttling Miguel between homes.
Tanner, 27, and Walker, 50, who each face charges of kidnapping and injury to a child, pleaded not guilty Friday during their first court appearances since being indicted last month.
During the brief court hearing in San Augustine, the women were appointed attorneys, who didn't immediately return phone calls seeking comment. Tanner and Walker each remained in jail on $250,000 bond. Prosecutors said they hope to try the case sometime in August.
Miguel, now 8 years old, is in foster care as a Houston judge waits to hear next month from therapists on when the boy can be reunited with his parents, who are seeking custody despite allowing their four other children to live with another couple.
Investigators believe that in 2004, Tanner, then 19, wanted a child of her own "very badly," said San Augustine County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Gary Cunningham. She lived in the same Houston apartment complex as Miguel and his family, and often baby-sat him.
"Krystle Tanner saw an opportunity, as did her mother, to get this little baby," Cunningham said.
Authorities said that after being taken, Miguel apparently spent much of his time with Walker in a two-story home in Manor, located in the Austin metro area in Central Texas. He also lived with Tanner in a mobile home in San Augustine, a small town nestled in the East Texas woods, about 150 miles northeast of Houston.
During these years, Miguel didn't learn to read or write and never went to school. His long, dark hair, never having been cut, was braided. He was told his birthday was March 26 when it was actually March 1.
The first word of his possible location came in April 2010, when Child Protective Services in San Augustine County began investigating Tanner after marijuana was detected in her newborn son's bloodstream, according to Walker's arrest warrant affidavit. Tanner told CPS she also had a 6-year-old son who lived with her mother in Manor.
Walker denied such a boy existed, and Tanner later recanted her claim.
With no proof of the boy, CPS worked with Tanner, offering parenting classes and other support for her newborn, said CPS spokeswoman Julie Moody.
Nearly a year passed before CPS got another tip, in March 2011, that a half-black, half-Hispanic boy, possibly 5 years old, was living in Walker's home in Manor under harsh conditions, including physical abuse. The boy's description matched Miguel's.
Walker again denied the child's existence, and CPS closed the case in May.
Authorities say Walker brought Miguel to Tanner and he stayed with her until about August, when Walker told her daughter to return him to Manor.
"According to Tanner, upon arriving at Walker's residence, Walker `turned off the lights and would not come outside' but directed Tanner's sister to give her an unspecified amount of cash and instructions to immediately transport the child to (another) sister who resides in Houston," according to the arrest affidavit.
Meanwhile, CPS and the sheriff's office continued investigating Tanner. She changed her description of the boy authorities sought, first referring to him as her brother and later saying he was the son of a woman named "Christy" whom she had met at a park in the nearby town of Center, according to the affidavit.
It wasn't until March 7 that CPS conclusively identified the boy as Miguel. Tanner was arrested March 12 and the next day, one of her sisters called Houston police to say she had the boy.
Cunningham said after her arrest, Tanner claimed she had been brainwashed by her mother into hiding the boy.
Whitney Walker, one of Tanner's sisters who lives in Houston, said Miguel's mother gave the boy to Tanner.
"She said she (Tanner) could have him. She didn't want him," said Whitney Walker, 20.
Authorities in San Augustine County don't believe Miguel was given away.
"I have no doubt that this child was kidnapped," said San Augustine County District Attorney Kevin Dutton.
Miguel's mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, and her husband, Fernando Morin, have four other children, ages 7 to 14, who are living with another couple under an agreement between the two couples, said Champion-Morin's attorney Itze Soliz-Matthews. The attorney would not comment on the arrangement, only saying the Morins are very active in parenting those children and want Miguel back.
"They took her child," she said. "They never had any kind of authority to keep him."
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Harold Daniel Schmidt, 84
FORT HALL- Harold Daniel Schmidt, 84, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, at his residence, surrounded by his family.
Harold spent his early childhood in Nebraska, where he lived on his family's farm. He later moved to Shelley where he attended high school. Harold eventually settled in Fort Hall where he and his wife raised their family together. Harold resided in Fort Hall until his passing.
Harold married Donna Parkin on Aug. 20, 1948 and their marriage was later solemnized in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple in September of 1977.
Harold loved to hunt and to fish. He was also a collector. He loved collecting rocks and antiques. Harold was also an avid gardener and he loved to research family history; and served several years at the Pocatello Family History Center.
Harold was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where he held many callings. He also served for several years in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple.
Harold is survived by his loving wife Donna of Fort Hall; daughter, Marsha (Gary) Delaney of Canyon City, Ore.; son, Stephen (Mona) Schmidt of Blackfoot; daughter, Rhonda (Albert) Silvers of South Dakota; son, Richard Schmidt of Fort Hall; daughter, Cynthia (Pat) Nunez of Lewiston; 21 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren, and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
Harold was preceded in death by his mother and father; infant daughter, Jana Kaye; son, Michael Schmidt; granddaughter, Christine Delaney; and sister, Laburta Pendleberry.
Harold's family would like to give a special thank you to Creekside Hospice, the doctors and staff at Portneuf Medical Center, family and friends.
Funeral services for Harold will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, at the LDS Fort Hall Building on Yellowstone Highway, US Highway 91.
A viewing will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011 at Wilks Funeral Home, 211 W. Chubbuck Road, Chubbuck, and from noon until 12:45 p.m. at the church prior to the service. Interment will follow the service in the Grove City Cemetery in Blackfoot.
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About Kevin O'Connell
In austere, elegant color and black-and-white photographs, Kevin O'Connell captures the vastness of the American Great Plains and the human encroachment onto this landscape. He became enamored with the region during road trips between Chicago and Denver. In his words: "I am haunted by vastness. The experience of a distant unending horizon and an unprotected, vulnerable, existential exposure stay with me always—I have been obsessed with it ever since my early travels across the Great Plains in the late 1970s." His series "Conventional Entropy" is a suite of medium-scale, color photographs focused on the outdated and rusting pipelines, pumps, tanks, and towers formerly used to extract oil from the area. Through these disused pieces of infrastructure, O'Connell hints at fracking—the new method of energy extraction that has replaced them—and its concomitant environmental degradation.
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The Detail will give you that choice. You will make the call and you will have to live with it throuhout the rest of the game.
Brought to you in a graphic novel-styled point-and-click gameplay. Introducing two controversial main characters, balancing on both sides of the thin line called justice, in a world filled with violence, drugs, human trafficking and corruption.
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In the wee hours of the morning, Samsung took to Facebook to at last outline the Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade plans for a number of their high profile 2011 devices.
It won't surprise anyone that the Galaxy S II tops the list for an upgrade in Q1 of 2012, but joining it in the coveted first slot is the much less prevalent Galaxy Note.
Unfortunately those are the only two devices greenlit for a Q1 2012 helping of Ice Cream Sandwich at the moment.
The rest of the "ICS-upgradable GALAXY devices" include the Galaxy S II LTE, Galaxy R, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab 8.9, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. Samsung only indicates that details on the updates for these devices will be forthcoming.
Quick caveat to all you US Galaxy S II owners: I wouldn't start holding your breath until your carrier has weighed in on the matter. It's also worth noting that the special edition Galaxy Tab 10.1 that was given to developers at Google I/O this year has never even seen the Android 3.2 update, so whether Samsung has any plans to continue support for it is unknown.
A perusal of the comments on the announcement show that original Galaxy S and Galaxy Ace owners are the most irate about their devices seemingly coming to the end of their upgradable life. A smattering of original Galaxy Tab owners are chiming in with their disappointment, as well.
With the benefit of letting the other major manufacturers commit to their plans first, it looks like Samsung has drawn a nearly identical line in the sand for upgrading their devices.
Is there anything that you are shocked to not see on this list? If not, what do you feel is the drop dead point for Samsung to get these updates completed without frustrating owners of these devices?
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Harris groped me on live TV: presenter
An English television presenter has described in graphic detail how convicted predator Rolf Harris groped her on live television while she was interviewing him in the mid-1990s.
Vanessa Feltz says she was assaulted by Harris when filming an "on the bed" interview for Channel 4's Big Breakfast show in 1996.
The 52-year-old, who now has a BBC radio show, decided to waive her right to anonymity in the hope of encouraging other women to speak out.
Feltz told UK tabloid the Sunday Express that when Harris put his hand inside her knickers almost 20 years ago, she was "absolutely staggered".
"Somehow I knew I had to do something but I was in the middle of an interview on live television with one of the most famous men in the country," she said.
"What do you do? Stop and tell the viewers: 'Rolf Harris is assaulting me'? I could not do that.
"I was also conscious that we had a lot of children watching and I could not say anything which would upset them."
The presenter believes Harris knew exactly what he was doing "and he was getting excited about it ... doing what he was doing while he was on live television".
Feltz said at the time she realised if she didn't do something dramatic, "his hand would have gained access to the most intimate part of my body".
So before Harris could further assault her while they were both on the bed she threw to a break and moved away.
After the commercials, the convicted Australian predator carried on as if nothing had happened, she said.
Feltz was one of seven women the prosecution couldn't call as bad character witnesses during Harris's trial.
Most were ruled inadmissible by Justice Nigel Sweeney.
Prosecutor Sasha Wass QC had wanted to show the jury footage of Feltz interviewing Harris in 1996.
The presenter first revealed in a 2012 newspaper column that she had been attacked by a "married, avuncular, much-beloved national treasure".
Harris was sentenced on Friday to five years and nine months' jail for indecently assaulting four girls in Britain between 1968 and 1986.
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Since its completion, Hoover Dam has wowed visitors with its sheer massiveness and its ability to create and hold back a reservoir that covers nearly 650 square kilometers (250 square miles). Yet, perhaps even more impressive is the dam's ability to harness the potential energy stored in the reservoir and convert it to electricity. In this video segment, adapted from Building Big, series host David Macaulay explores Hoover Dam's hydroelectric capabilities.
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Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project
IBM Research undertook a challenge to build a computer system that could compete at the human champion level in real time on the American TV Quiz show, Jeopardy! The extent of the challenge includes fielding a real-time automatic contestant on the show, not merely a laboratory exercise. The Jeopardy! Challenge helped us address requirements that led to the design of the DeepQA architecture and the implementation of Watson. After 3 years of intense research and development by a core team of about 20 researches, Watson is performing at human expert-levels in terms of precision, confidence and speed at the Jeopardy! Quiz show. Our results strongly suggest that DeepQA is an effective and extensible architecture that may be used as a foundation for combining, deploying, evaluating and advancing a wide range of algorithmic techniques to rapidly advance the field of QA.
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The film follows a select group of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage. The eccentric brotherhood of attendants consist of grad students, overeducated philosophers, surly artists, middle-age slackers and more.
They hang out at the lot even in their spare time, shooting the breeze or playing a spirited game of "flip cone," just because...they like it there. They conduct their own private "war" against the elites, the pretentious and obnoxious customers who park their BMWs, Hummers, Suburbans and other vehicles.
They study the art of doing nothing and the knack of getting even with rude, SUV-driving dolts who treat them like inferior beings. The gradual devolution from enthusiasm to resentment in the psyches of guys self-aware enough to notice it is an interesting process; in an attempt to distract themselves from the rapidly mounting bitterness, the attendants amuse themselves any way they can-stenciling random messages on the parking gate, writing songs, even dancing for tips.
Through interviews with former attendants who have moved on - you can see that their time at the lot has clearly provided rites of passage and afforded them Zen-like perspective. Most were college students while working there, some are still college students.
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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Neighbors of a Missouri man accused of killing a man, dismembering the body and tossing the victim's arms at bystanders, said the scene left them with nightmares and was "like something out of a horror movie."
Paul R. Potter, 49, of Kirksville, is also accused of setting fires to conceal the crime. He was charged Monday in Adair County with second-degree murder, arson and tampering with a motor vehicle and is being held on $1 million bond. Kevin Locke, the public defender assigned to represent Potter, did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Police officers responding to a call of a vehicle fire Sunday arrived at the housing development in Kirksville, about 200 miles northwest of St. Louis, and saw Potter "throw two objects, later identified as human arms, towards the witnesses," according to a probable cause statement.
Neighbor Jerry Stahl said he was outside Potter's apartment when Potter hurled the victim's arms.
"They hit me. I had blood on me and I've had nightmares since," Stahl told The Kirksville Daily Express. "I couldn't sleep Sunday. I still cry about it. It's horrific."
Martina Mudd, another neighbor, said she was awakened late Sunday by a car horn going off. She went outside to see what was going on and saw firefighters trying to put out a vehicle fire. She then saw police officers running toward another apartment where Potter was throwing things.
Mudd said police arrested Potter and as she moved closer to the objects Potter had thrown she saw what they were.
"That's when I noticed the object he threw were arms," Mudd said. "It was awful. It was like something out of a horror movie, only it was real."
Authorities have not released the victim's name because relatives were being notified.
The Missouri Department of Corrections said Potter was convicted of sale of a controlled substance in 1995 in Linn County and was discharged from probation in 2009.
Marlene Hamman said it's difficult to believe Potter is accused of murder and said several neighbors "are still in shock over it."
"That wasn't the Paul we knew," she said.
Neighbors described Potter as friendly and as someone who would give and borrow cigarettes and had also given $2 to a neighbor as a birthday gift.
"(Potter) was always doing nice things, he was very talkative, and he had a big laugh you could hear through all the apartments," Mudd said. "No one would guess he'd do this, but anyone could snap. You never know about people."
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For the latest post looking at how major brands use social networks I've decided to nominate Whole Foods Market.
For those who aren't aware of the brand, Whole Foods is an increasingly popular natural and organic food store with nearly 300 locations in North America and the UK.
Social media has been an essential part of the brand's success, so it's a great case study for other brands to try and learn from.
This post follows on from similar articles focusing on major brands including Walmart, Macy's, Kroger, Starbucks and Nike...
Whole Foods has managed to attract 1.4 million fans to its Facebook page and keeps its community entertained with several posts per week.
It includes a broad variety of content including recipe ideas, product information, competitions, coupons and questions.
In general the level of interactions appears to be quite low, with fewer than 1,000 'likes' and comments per post. The social team endeavour to provide full responses to the first few comments its receives on each update, but as with most brands it has to ignore a large majority of users as it would take too long to respond to all of them.
Whole Foods doesn't have much of an ecommerce offering at the moment as not all of its outlets allow customers to order online.
Therefore unlike other grocery stores such as Walmart and Kroger it doesn't post loads of product promos and links to its ecommerce site. Instead it has more of a soft sales approach that promotes the benefits of eating healthy, wholesome produce and links to blog posts, videos or its other social accounts.
Whole Foods also posts a lot of content around the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in its products as it's something that the brand is keen to avoid being associated with.
The social team also has to respond to a lot of user comments on the subject and seems to prioritise these above other interactions.
Alongside the main account it appears that all or most of the local outlets have their own dedicated Facebook page. Most have fewer than 10,000 fans, but those in bigger cities such as New York and Chicago have upwards of 60,000.
The local pages are apparently only loosely controlled by head office, so they are largely left up to their own devices. The local community managers do a good job of updating the pages on an almost daily basis with interesting content that reinforces the brand while giving each store its own individual identity.
Whole Foods has a whopping 3.5 million Twitter followers and appears to use its feed primarily as a customer service channel.
The community team responds to upwards of 100 users each day, ranging from complaints to people simply mentioning the fact that they're in a Whole Foods store.
It's a great way of communicating with its customers and creating personal connections with the brand, and as a result Whole Foods has more followers than most of its competitors.
Whole Foods also posts a number of marketing tweets each day that largely follow the same theme as the content posted on its Facebook page. The tweets include recipes, information on GMOs and information how to be more eco-friendly.
The community team also host regular Twitter chats every Thursday, which are cross-promoted through its 'Wellness Club' Facebook app. Recent topics have included pets, Oktoberfest, South African Wines and recipes ideas.
To keep the Twitter chats flowing Whole Foods posts a series of questions around each topic and then other users respond using the hashtag #WFMdish.
As they are hosted at a regular time slot each week the chats have built up quite a large following and it's another way of helping to build customer loyalty using social channels.
As with Facebook, Whole Foods' local stores each have their own dedicated Twitter feeds that tend to have a low number of followers.
In general the local feeds only tweet a few times per day at most and the content focuses on marketing messages and promotions rather than engaging with other users.
Pinterest has proved to be a hugely successful marketing channel for Whole Foods according to its global community manager Michael Aaron Bepko.
It has a whopping 150,000 followers and has pinned 2,600 images across 55 boards. As a result Pinterest overtook Twitter as a referrer to the Whole Foods website in December 2011.
Bepko said that many of its boards are created with the aim of appealing to a broad range of Pinterest users while tying the brand to a certain type of food culture. One example is a board called 'How does your garden grow?' that contains images of people growing their own vegetables.
The idea is that these types of boards will appeal to a number of different interest groups, including craft lovers, gardeners and vegetarians. Once these people have landed on the Whole Foods Pinterest page they are then exposed to other brand-related content such as recipes ideas and products.
And it's the recipe ideas that prove to be the most popular form of content as well as the most successful in terms of traffic referral.
The two most popular images Whole Foods has ever posted are recipes, one of which is for spiced squash spaghetti and has been repinned 68,000 times driving 44,000 views to the website.
Overall, 500,000 visitors from Pinterest have viewed Whole Foods pages 760,000 times. Of that, 80% came from recipes.
Whole Foods is also one of a number of retailers that has run a Pinterest competition, asking users to create boards celebrating motherhood.
It seems the main benefit of the contest was the discovery that people like to share quotes and infographics. This informed Whole Foods' future campaigns and led directly to the creation of a bee infographic.
The community team now creates it content with Pinterest in mind and existing content was edited to make it more pinnable.
As far as I can tell Whole Foods began regularly updating its G+ page at the end of 2011 and kept it up all the way until March 2012, then lost interest and went on hiatus until June 2013.
It now posts content almost everyday but achieves the usual low levels of interaction that we see with pretty much every brand on G+.
The content is actually very engaging and includes a excellent imagery and videos, some of which is used on its other social channels.
Whole Foods has also trialled Google Hangouts as a way of promoting new store openings. This is something that I'm in favour of, as it is a unique tool for Google+ and is a great way for people to communicate with their favourite brands, however I don't think Whole foods executed it particularly well on this occasion.
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This blog was incredibly helpful. I will use some of these tactics with one of our home decor clients today. Excellent way to handle social media management.
Great insights, David. It's nice to see that Pinterest is better referral traffic driver than Twitter. I really like Pinterest and as we can it can deliver great results if it's managed correctly.
I've been analysing Pinterest links for a while and can say that they're 'DoFollow' again. This is another great reason to why to focus on your Pinterest profile optimised.
Based on the data and latest research I've put together 21 ideas , optimisation tips and free tools that will help get the most out of Pinterest.
I would love to hear your thoughts or any other ideas, David.
Thanks a lot for the insightful article.
Great - thanks. We need to look at our social media strategy, but have been putting off a bit. This helps give it a higher priority as it might be that we're spending too much time on Twitter and too little (none!) on Pinterest. Thank you.


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Prolific scribe Greg Pak continues his collaboration with artist Aaron Kuder on the new issue of "Action Comics," which sees Superman reflecting on his younger days before he sets out to battle a new threat, the brutal Beast Lord.
Hero Complex readers can take an exclusive look at the first five pages of issue No. 27, out Wednesday, in the gallery above or in larger versions by clicking on the links below.
The issue opens with Superman flashing back to his childhood — young Clark Kent is determined that this will be the day he will fly. But the boy with the unusual abilities is stopped short when, among the distant sounds of a neighbor snoring and an insect's shell popping, he overhears his adoptive parents whispering to each other about his otherworldly heritage.
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It's a truth the boy had long suspected, but the news comes as a shock nonetheless. The story then moves forward to Superman's present, when he faces the conundrum of what to do with a special ward.
It's unclear whether the cute little shape-shifter in the Fortress of Solitude bears some relationship to Ukur the Beast Lord, who debuts in this issue, but there certainly could be a connection between them.
Since coming to DC after years with Marvel, where his work included runs on "X-Treme X-Men" and a number of Hulk titles, Pak has gotten very involved with Superman books. In addition to taking over writing duties on "Action Comics," paired with artist Kuder, he's launched "Batman/Superman" and penned the Villains Month spotlights for Darkseid, Doomsday and Zod and Doomsday one-shots.
In a 2012 essay for Hero Complex, Pak wrote about his affection for young Clark, saying, "In my mind, Superman is Clark, first and foremost. And I think that experience of being an everyday kid who discovers he has these tremendous powers is what makes the character sing."
– Gina McIntyre and Blake Hennon | @LATHeroComplex
Greg Pak visits Darkseid on Apokolips for Villains Month
'Forever Evil': Geoff Johns, David Finch conspire on Crime Syndicate
Greg Pak: 4 reasons why I love the Man of Steel
Ben Affleck will play Batman opposite Henry Cavill's Superman
Ben Affleck as Batman: Past roles that might inform his performance
Avengers at 50: How Stan Lee, Jack Kirby took on the Justice League
X-Men at 50: 50 images from the Marvel mutants' evolution
Greg Pak on Amadeus Cho and writing beyond stereotypes
From: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/comics/action-comics-preview-supermans-boyhood-flashback-sets-stage-for-beast-lord-battle/


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Yesterday revisited
Where were you then? How you ever had those conversations that start with I remember exactly where I was . . . We certainly have. In a new series that will run in the Tuesday edition of Poteau Daily News we will randomly select a story that ran in the paper sometime in the last 100 years and we will do an update. For example where were you on October 14, 1999 when the brand new Poteau Police Department was officially dedicated? We want to tell you what has changed at the department since that day.


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* Presidential race could hinge on Ohio
* Republican governor touts economic gains
By Samuel P. Jacobs
NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told an Ohio rally on Saturday about a friend's financial hardship, but his party's narrative that President Barack Obama has failed on the U.S. economy may be a difficult sell in the crucial battleground state.
"I've got a buddy who was making 25 (dollars) an hour who went to make 9 dollars an hour as a cashier at a gas station temporarily with no benefits. That's the story of the American economy right now," Ryan told a crowd of 1,000 people at an excavator factory.
With the tight presidential race potentially coming down to a contest over Ohio and its prize of 18 electoral votes, the question of whether the state is in good shape economically is vital.
The Midwestern manufacturing state, where latest polls show Obama holding a slim lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney before the Nov. 6 election, has an unemployment rate of 7 percent, below the national average of 7.8 percent.
In Tuscarawas County, where New Philadelphia is located, the jobless rate in September was 5.9 percent, down two 2 points from September 2011. Obama beat Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the county four years ago.
Appearing in Zanesville on Saturday afternoon, Ryan's argument about the sputtering economy was given a partial rebuke from a surprising source: Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich.
"You know the situation here in our state, as you know, we're doing better," Kasich said in his introduction to Ryan, at the start of a two-day, eight-stop bus tour of Ohio.
Like Florida and Virginia, Ohio is a battleground state home to a Republican governor eager to offer sunny economic news that occasionally sounds different from the picture painted by the Romney campaign.
Kasich outlined the economic success in Ohio since he took office in early 2011. Hundreds of thousands of job losses, he said, had turned into job gains, balanced budgets and a growing government surplus. Kasich said Ohio had become the No. 4 job creator in the country and led all other states in the Midwest.
"Not bad, huh?" he asked.
Kasich did join Ryan in saying the federal government under Obama had hindered, rather than helped that success. Throughout the campaign, Obama has insisted that the decision to inject taxpayer dollars to bail out General Motors and Chrysler saved jobs in Ohio where 850,000 people work in the automobile industry.
Listening to Ryan, who held a rally for 500 people at the Zanesville High School on Saturday afternoon, was Bob Kessler, 61, a small-business owner, who said he had seen those economic gains first-hand.
Kessler, who employs 60 people through his electric sign and outdoor advertising company, said business "is good because we made it good."
"It's better this year, a lot better. We've hired people," Kessler said.
While Kessler said he had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since he cast a ballot in 1976 for Jimmy Carter ("the last mistake I made in politics"), the challenge for the Romney campaign as it scrambles to win Ohio is whether economic recovery in the state will work against Republicans.


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ShoFIGHT 20 Recap: Grove is now Champion, Fickett is now Homeless
It's easy- perhaps even a bit lazy- to compare the embattled MMA fighter Drew Fickett to the similarly troubled Scott Hall. In their primes, both men performed on their respective sport's biggest stages against recognizable names. In Fickett's case, this meant a run in the UFC and notable victories over Dennis Hallman, Kenny Florian, Josh Neer, Josh Koscheck and Kurt Pellegrino.
Yet it's arguable that both men are more famous for their self-destructive, chaotic lifestyles outside of sport than they are for their accomplishments. Both men have well documented struggles with addiction, have been fired from major promotions over their drunken antics and have attempted to stay relevant in their respective sports with increasingly tragic results.
Case in point: Last night's ShoFIGHT 20, which took place on the campus of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. The show was essentially a who's who of washouts from bigger promotions, which included (aside from Fickett) John Gunderson, Karo Parisyan, Kendall Grove, Lyle Beerbohm, Marcus Aurelio, Charles Bennett, "Smilin'" Sam Alvey and Roli Delgado. This card saw Fickett matched up against submission specialist Jonatas Novaes.Read More DIGG THIS


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the stagecraft crew (SCC or the Crew) are the best people you will ever meet, usually consists of asians, the kid who thinks they're beyonce, the mysterious one, the smart kid and the awkward one. Despite looking like a rag-tag bunch of kids they are actually the hipsters of the class and the only reason its a good class. Other groups look at them jealously, wishing to be a part of it. Most of the time they are in group formation making them superior to others. Often conversations will be anything from porn to why people are idiots and deserve to die. Also, they are the best dressed, and as best dressed, they are ready for any occasion because they're badass like that.
I was hanging with the weird kid group and got jealous when I saw the stagecraft crew hanging over there looking like the models they are because I know I will always and forever will be inferior to them. Why can't i be that cool?
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – In what has been an exciting week for King University soccer, two student-athletes earned weekly honors from the Tennessee Sportswriters Association. Chris Hicksearned Men's Soccer Player of the Week and Rayna Spears earned the same distinction on the women's side.
In a victory at Trevecca Nazarene University, the Glaucester, England, native scored what proved to be the game-winner on a shot to the left corner of the net from 12 yards away, giving the Tornado a 2-0 lead in the 76th minute of an eventual 2-1 win.
The freshman also scored the opening goal in the ninth minute of King's 3-2 overtime loss to Mount Olive. Hicks was on the left edge of the 18-yard box when he fired a shot that clipped a defender's back, then grazed the inside edge of the post and buzzed into the back of the net past a diving keeper.
Spears was named the women's soccer player of the week after scoring a goal and tallying an assist to help the Tornado clinch a berth in the conference tournament last week.
The Smyrna, Tenn., native opened the scoring in the seventh minute with her fifth goal of the season in Saturday's 5-1 win over Mount Olive. Lindsay Curtis played a corner kick into the box, which bounced and fell to Spears' feet and was sent into the net. In the 77th minute, Spears played a long ball to Paula Doran, who tapped a pass to Cassie Garland three yards in front of the goal that Garland scored on for the final goal of the match.
Spears ranks second on the club with five goals and 11 points this season. King posted a 1-0 victory over No. 1-seed Lees-McRae on Monday for the program's first-ever Conference Carolinas Tournament win and plays at Pfeiffer University on Thursday in the semifinals at 2:00 p.m.


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Hilary Jones ponders absurdity and farmer's markets
I want to share with you my recent experience at a "Winter Farmer's Market" in Vancouver.
Although I have been to many similar events, for some reason, this time it dawned on me what a farce it is.
The market was packed full of people just like me: middle income, urban, progressive, toting our reusable bags, willing to pay a premium for locally-sourced organic products and desperately wanting to believe that we are part of the solution, not the problem.
We all milled around aimlessly, sampling luxury products such as handmade chocolate and artisan-distilled vodka, comparing a dozen different varieties of heirloom carrots, etc. With every purchase, we could pat ourselves on the backs for being so progressive and "green" and continue to deny our individual and collective responsibility for the impending collapse.
Although valet bicycle parking was available, we arrived in our car from another part of town. Judging by the parking situation, so did the majority of customers. Every vendor (several dozen at least) brought their merchandise in their own trucks from dozens or hundreds of kilometres away and set up their own gas-powered generators to run their refrigeration and other accessories. How is this any better for the planet than driving to the mall to shop at Walmart?
The whole thing just made me sick and I ended up fleeing in disgust and frustration. I don't have children, don't own a home, take public transit to work every day, but I have to admit that I am just as much a part of the problem as the SUV-driving suburbanites with 2.3 children. I am one of those "hard-working taxpayers" that every political party in the Western world attempts to appeal to. I spend my disposable income on travel, technology, entertainment and other useless crap. I salve my conscience by attending protests (when they are conveniently timed and located), donating money to "good causes" and voting for the most "progressive" candidates (or sometimes the lesser of two or three evils).
And by subscribing to Adbusters, the lone voice of sanity in the wilderness of media bullshit. Thank you so much for your existence! Reading your magazine is always a painful but validating experience.
I look forward to every issue and I eagerly await Dec. 19.
— a letter by Hilary Jones, Vancouver, Canada.
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Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm, pg. 13 - a paragraph
"There is a spider, too, in the bathroom, with whom I keep a sort of company. Her little outfit always reminds me of a certain moth I helped to kill. The spider herself is of uncertain lineage, bulbous at the abdomen and drab. Her six-inch mess of a web works, works somehow, works miraculously, to keep her alive and me amazed. The web itself is in a corner behind the toilet, connecting tile wall to tile wall and floor, in a place where there is, I would have thought, scant traffic. Yet under the web are sixteen or so corpses she has tossed to the floor."
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words like bulbous, drab, scant, tossed
mainly tho, it's the pacing and the patience that gets me. Having read the book, I feel as tho the writer re-wrote this paragraph 25 times to get it just right. she foreshadows a tale of a moth in one sentence mixed in here with the spider. she restrains her pen from telling you more, yet. That patience aside, the punctuation forces a pace and spins a reader between the mind of the writer (I) and the description of the scene at hand.


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Urban Garden Center to host 8 schools on March 7, general public March 8
About 600 elementary students, teachers to attend O'ahu Agriculture & Environmental Awareness DayUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Office of Academic and Student Affairs
Miles Hakoda, (808) 382-7431
College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources
Some 600 elementary students and their teachers will meet at UH Mānoa's 30-acre Urban Garden Center in Pearl City on Friday, March 7, when the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources' O'ahu Cooperative Extension Office and Office of Academic and Student Affairs host the 2014 O'ahu Agriculture and Environmental Awareness Day.
Among the many crowd-pleasing ag-themed interactive exhibits will be several new displays, including a demonstration of herbicide ballistic technology, in which paintball-type pellets filled with herbicide are shot at invasive weed trees in hard-to-reach areas. Also new this year will be a presentation on CTAHR's cooperation with the crew of the voyaging canoe Hikianalia to create growing systems for fresh greens on the voyage, and representatives from the Ko'olau Mountains Watershed Partnership will discuss their efforts to protect the forested areas of the Ko'olaus.
Students and teachers from Kalihi Elementary, Kalihi Kai Elementary, Kalihi Uka Elementary, Kalihi Waena Elementary, Kauluwela Elementary, Lunalilo Elementary, Pauoa Elementary, and Pu'uhale Elementary will attend this annual event, which serves a two-fold purpose: To create a greater awareness and understanding of agriculture and the environment among today's students, teachers, and the general public; and to introduce students to career opportunities in agriculture and environmental studies on O'ahu and throughout the state.
The following day, Saturday, March 8, will be the Urban Garden Center's Second Saturday event, which will feature many of the same exhibitors from the day before, as well as the workshop "Pruning and Caring for Fruit Trees," at which certified arborists from the Aloha Arborist Association will show how to maximize fruit from backyard fruit trees.
WHAT: O'ahu Agriculture and Environmental Awareness Day
WHO: UH-Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
O'ahu Cooperative Extension Office
Office of Academic and Student Affairs
Students and teachers invited
WHEN: Friday, March 7, 2014 (schools)
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Estimated peak activity: 10 a.m. (A representative from the City and County of Honolulu, which has provided generous funding for this year's event, will give a short welcome address at 10:15 a.m.)
Saturday, March 8, 2014 (general public)
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
WHERE: UH Mānoa's Pearl City Urban Garden Center
955 Kamehameha Highway, Pearl City, Hawai'i 96782
View photos from the 2013 event here: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/site/Gallery.aspx


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OCN Acquires Illumination Learning
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The Orthodox Christian Network (OCN), a not-for-profit online Christian radio and learning portal, announces the acquisition of Illumination Learning, a not-for-profit, online hub for Orthodox Christian education resources.
"Younger generations are increasingly turning to the Internet to learn and engage the original teachings of Christ nurtured and protected by the Orthodox Christian faith," said Father Chris Metropulos, Executive Director of the Orthodox Christian Network. "OCN is ready and eager to expand our education offerings online."
"Illumination Learning has been blessed to engage thousands of students of all ages throughout the world - children, parents, and adults - to access videos, podcasts, and blogs and learn from some of the great minds in Orthodoxy worldwide," said Jennifer Hock, Founder and President of Illumination Learning. "The OCN expands our reach and resources in providing Orthodox Christian education resources."
"Illumination Learning offers all of us the opportunity to learn without being limited by geography. Think of all the Orthodox speakers you'd love to hear who haven't come to your city or parish. With Illumination Learning, you can travel and learn without ever leaving your house! You can hear theologians from around the world, experts in fields that matter to you, and spiritual giants who proclaim the Gospel with zeal and love. It is the most readily available, easily accessible, and cost-effective way ever to sit at the feet of the greatest Orthodox minds of our time and experience the faith in a new way," continued Jennifer Hock.
Kentucky-based Illumination Learning was founded by Jennifer Hock in 2009 as an Internet hub for Orthodox Christian education. A not-for-profit, Illumination Learning has grown into a large network of thousands of students of all ages - parents, children, godparents, grandparents, educators, and clergy.


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Occurs in 6ft of water and you do not need to be able to swim to participate. Foam buoyancy-support belts are used around the waist/hips and buoyant hand-held barbells assist in keeping you upright and your head out of the water. Zero joint impact with muscle toning and flexibility throughout the entire body is the goal.


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Presented by Charleston Scene and The Post and Courier, the biannual Food Truck Rodeo will lasso up a selection of food offerings, live music, exhibitors and more for a day full of fun in the newspaper's parking lot. Featuring locally owned food trucks with specialties that run the gamut of cuisine, the lineup includes Cast Iron Food Truck, Dulce Truck, Geechee Island Food, King of Pops, Korki's Kafe, Mooses' Mobile BBQ, Refueler's Mobile Cafe, Tokyo Crepes, Outta My Huevos, Baja Burritos and Fat Ninja. Wine and beer will be available for purchase, as well; no coolers are allowed. Live music will be provided throughout the day by Annalise Morelli, Brady Smith, The Red Top Ramblers, Whiskey Diablo, Tidal Jive and South Street. A number of local vendors will be set up, and events will include a costume contest and pumpkin decorating. Attendees are welcome to bring well-behaved, leashed pets, and it's recommended that folks looking to hang out for a while bring lawn chairs as seating won't be provided.
When: 3-10 p.m. Saturday
Where: The Post and Courier parking lot, 134 Columbus St.
Price: Free
more info: www.charlestonfoodtruckrodeo.com
One of the longest standing and most respected artists in American electronic dance music, Bassnectar will be bringing his array of source material to North Charleston. With dubstep, metal, punk rock, hip-hop and EDM influences combined with an "unparalleled" light show, the long-haired Bassnectar aims to "evoke all human senses" with his live performances. Lorin Ashton, the man behind Bassnectar, has performed at such high-profile festivals as Burning Man, Shambala, Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. Currently on his Immersive Music Tour with Koan Sound and ill-esha, Bassnectar is one of the highest-selling EDM artists and has sold-out many of his more than 10,000 non-festival solo shows. One dollar of each ticket sold to each of Bassnectar's shows goes to nonprofit organizations "in an effort to encourage giving, and to promote a strong, informed, empowered community."
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: North Charleston Coliseum, 5001 Coliseum Drive
Price: $35
more info: www.NorthCharlestonColiseumPAC.com, www.BassNectar.net
"And the party never ends!" Those five words are from Robert Earl Keen's calling-card anthem and pretty succinctly sum up his career and life's ambition. Keen, who has been performing for more than three decades and has more than a dozen albums to his name, wants nothing more than to keep the good times rolling. "I always thought that I wanted to play music, and I always knew that you had to get some recognition in order to continue to play music," Keen says. "But I never thought of it in terms of getting to be a big star. I thought of it in terms of having a really, really good career and writing some good songs, and getting on stage and having a really good time." Keen, along with The Danberrys, will bring that good time to local fans this weekend.
When: Friday, doors open at 7 p.m. with the show starting at 8 p.m.
Where: Charleston Music Hall, 37 John St.
Price: $20-$35
more info: charlestonmusichall.com
Edisto Island is jumping on the bluegrass/Americana bandwagon in a big way this weekend by holding the inaugural Edisto Island Bluegrass Festival. With a full day of live music performances, food and beer, they've got the makings of a good event. Food from Po Pig Bo-B-Q, Flowers Seafood Company and McConkey's Jungle Shack will be available for purchase, as will soft drinks, sweet tea, water and beer. Recent Americana Music Honors & Awards winners Shovels & Rope will perform, as will The Lonesome River Band, Frank Solivan and the Dirty Kitchen Band, Southern Flavor Bluegrass, Bluestone Ramblers, Flatt City and Blue Plantation. The family-friendly event will be held rain or shine.
When: 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday
Where: Point of Pines Plantation, Point of Pines Road, Edisto Island
Price: $30 in advance, $35 at the gate
more info: www.edistoislandbluegrass.com
Hosted by the Limehouse family, this fundraiser will benefit The Colleton Center and the continued preservation and restoration of the 700-seat performing arts auditorium. In addition to the polo match, Polo for the Point will include best tailgate and best hat contests, a children's chukker and other kids' activities, a foxhunting demonstration by the Lowcountry Hunt and the traditional stomping of the divots.
When: Sunday; gates open at noon with pre-game activities beginning at 1 p.m. and the match at 2 p.m.
Where: Limehouse Polo Grounds, 2701 Jefferies Highway, Walterboro
Price: $10, kids under 12 get in for $5
more info: 549-8360, www.thecolletoncenter.org
Local nonprofit Possibilities Without Borders and students at the College of Charleston School of Business, Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel are taking on the world's water crisis, which "claims the lives of more people each day than war, natural disasters, AIDS or even hunger." The fifth annual A Global Affair will raise funds to support their cause, Project Okurase, which is focused on a village in Ghana, West Africa. The gala and silent auction includes some pretty amazing items up for grabs, including travel packages to the Emmy Prime Time Awards, NCAA Final Four Championship, U.S. Open Golf Tournament and a trip to Paris. There will be catering and live entertainment.
When: 7-10 p.m. Thursday
Where: Alhambra Hall, 131 Middle St., Mount Pleasant
Price: $60 in advance, $75 at the door
more info: www.possibilitieswithoutborders.org
What girl hasn't wanted to dress as a princess at one point or another? Creative Spark, a nonprofit creative arts school, is offering all ages the chance to dress in their royal fairy-tale best as they host the family-friendly Royal Fairytale Ball. The "magical evening" will include dining with fairytale characters, dancing, arts and crafts, a Princess of Tides boutique, entertainment courtesy of jesters, fortune tellers and fairy face painters, and more. Hors d' oeuvres and desserts will be served, as will beer and wine for adults and special "sparkly royal beverages for each prince and princess." The best dressed royal family will be awarded with a grand prize.
When: 6-8 p.m. Sunday
Where: Creative Spark Arts Center, 757 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant
Price: $15-$40
More info: 881-3780, www.creativespark.org


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Lindsey Vonn Skips Olympics, Walks Runway on Clutches!
Lindsey Vonn walks the runway on her crutches at the 2014 Go Red for Women/The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection Fashion Show held during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on Thursday (February 6) at The Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The 29-year-old skier had to skip the Olympics this year due to an injury and she put her time to good use by walking in the show for charity. At the fashion show, Lindsey met up with fellow former Olympian, Sasha Cohen.
Also pictured inside at the show: Orange Is the New Black's Taryn Manning and singer Colbie Caillat.
FYI: Lindsey is wearing a Cynthia Rowley dress. Sasha is wearing a Marc Bouwer dress. Colbie is wearing a Nicole Miller dress. Taryn is wearing a Carmen Marc Valvo dress.
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ATLANTA - A report shows that plans to privative Atlanta's rapid transit system could result in nearly 800 jobs being cut from the system -- nearly 20 percent of the workforce.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/13UKGbm) that transit officials are downplaying that number.
General Manager Keith Parker acknowledged that a management audit says the transit authority might eliminate nearly that number by outsourcing functions such as cleaning and para-transit service over five years. However, he said he believes many of those people might transfer to whatever private company that will be performing the service.
Union officials and other analysts contend that privatization usually mean forcing down wages and benefits and cutting jobs because private companies need to perform the same work at a lower cost while making a profit.


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Barrick Gold Corp., the biggest miner of the metal by sales, is considering shrinking in size as the company focuses on returns over production volumes, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Sokalsky said.
"Being more profitable is better than being bigger," Sokalsky said yesterday at the Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit in Toronto. "If we divested of some of those smaller, higher-cost assets and came down to a suite of assets that are long- lived and lower-cost and more valuable, I think that ultimately that can be a better investment proposition."
Gold producers are trading at their cheapest in more than a decade relative to the broader market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as investors flee the industry amid rising mining costs, project delays and asset writedowns. Sokalsky, who took over as CEO of the Toronto-based company 11 months ago, is reviewing growth plans and pursuing asset sales as gold trades at a two-year low and is poised to end a rally that has extended for 12 straight years.
Barrick, the owner or part owner of 27 mines, rose 2% to $20.29 at 10:48 a.m. ET in Toronto on Wednesday. The company closed at a two-decade low on April 17, losing its position as the top gold miner by market value to Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. last month.
It makes sense for Barrick to shrink, said George Topping, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co. in Toronto. Selling the company's Australian assets would be "a good place to start," he said. Barrick is working with Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG on a possible sale of Australian mines, two people with knowledge of the matter said last month.
"At the 8 million-ounce level, with 26 or so mines it's very difficult to focus," Topping said yesterday by phone. "In order to have better managerial control you're better off with fewer but much larger assets, preferably in the same north-south time zones."
It's easier to manage a company with fewer assets, said Sokalsky, 55. The location of mines also has taken on a greater importance because of an increase in so-called resource nationalism, in which governments seek a bigger slice of revenue. After a dispute with the Dominican Republic, Toronto- based Barrick on May 8 agreed to amend a lease governing the Pueblo Viejo mine in the country.
Investors including hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson have also pushed for some gold producers to consider separating assets that are located in riskier locations. Johannesburg-based Gold Fields Ltd. in February spun off most of its assets in South Africa, which has been beset by labor disputes and seen a political debate about nationalizing mines.
"Five to 10 years ago a mine in Papua New Guinea might get the same valuation as a mine in Canada in the market place, and I think that's changed considerably," Sokalsky said. "Differentiating the portfolio from a geopolitical standpoint can also change the dynamic of how valuable your assets are."
Barrick said in February it's seeking buyers for its energy unit and a 50 percent stake in the Kabanga nickel project in Tanzania. It's "actively" looking at selling other assets, Sokalsky said yesterday, declining to name them. Barrick won't resort to a "fire sale," he said.
Sokalsky said it's harder to sell assets now than it would have been a couple of years ago because of lower metal prices and equity valuations. The general mood in the gold industry is "anti-M&A," he said.
Mining companies led by BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's largest, are holding the biggest-ever sale of assets this year as producers seek to boost earnings and cut costs, with about $48 billion of mines and assets on the block.
Gold futures for June delivery rose 0.8 percent to $1,388.60 an ounce at 9:42 a.m. on the Comex in New York. The metal has tumbled 17 percent this year and slumped into a bear market last month.
Still, Sokalsky said he doesn't believe the long-term bull market for gold has ended and expects the price will eventually rise to a record. Central bank purchases of gold, high government debt levels and a lack of new supply will support prices for the metal, he said. A rally back to $1,700 to $1,800 an ounce in the next 12 months is probably "achievable," he said.
Sokalsky, who was previously Barrick's chief financial officer, was promoted to CEO on June 6 to replace Aaron Regent, who was fired after the board said it was "disappointed" by the company's share-price performance.
Despite Sokalsky's efforts to cut operating costs, sell underperforming assets and resolve the problems dogging its $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project in the Andes, Barrick's shares have continued to slide, along with those of its peers. Barrick has fallen 42 percent this year while the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Gold and Silver Index has dropped 38 percent.
The 30 companies in the Philadelphia index trade at 1.04 times book value, compared with a 2.48 multiple for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The average ratio for the Philadelphia index in the past 10 years is 2.45, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
There's an opportunity for gold equities to outperform the metal, after two years of trailing gold, Sokalsky said.
"Given the valuations where they are now and the fact that the gold price has come down but the share prices have come down even more, I do think that there is a good opportunity for some of that money to come back into the gold equities," he said.
Barrick hopes to have more clarity within a few months on the future of Pascua-Lama, which lies on the Chile-Argentina border, Sokalsky said. The company said April 24 it was considering options including suspending the project after construction on the Chilean side was halted because a court accepted an injunction filed by indigenous communities concerned about water supplies.
Barrick raised the cost estimate for the project twice last year and said output would be delayed by more than a year, until the second half of 2014. The company, which has invested almost $5 billion in Pascua-Lama, made mistakes at the project, including how it managed environmental controls, Sokalsky said.
"It's an important project for us, but we need the further clarity before we actually spend significant amounts more money," he said.


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KALAMAZOO—Meeting on Thursday, Sept. 20, the Western Michigan University Board of Trustees is expected to consider approval of a proposal to implement a differential tuition policy for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Meeting at 11 a.m. in Rooms 157-159 of the Bernhard Center, the board will hear details of a proposal to adopt a per-credit-hour differential tuition rate to be assessed on all undergraduate students affiliated with the engineering college, effective with the spring 2013 semester. The proposal also calls for elimination of course fees in the college and dedicating revenue from the move to enhance undergraduate curricula and increase financial aid in the college.
Also during the meeting, trustees will consider approval of a lease prepayment agreement between the University and the new WMU School of Medicine, which is a private 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation. The proposed agreement would provide the University with funds sufficient to pay the principal and interest and any additional payments due on bonds the University will issue to renovate the building, which was donated to WMU in December to house the medical school.
In addition, the board is expected to consider purchase from the city of Kalamazoo of a small piece of property adjacent to WMU's Western View Phase II construction project as well as vote on a State Capital Outlay Priority List for the University's required annual submission to the state.
A number of other items round out the board agenda including, a lease agreement for a property on Howard Street as well as reports covering gifts, grants and personnel changes.


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MSE Foundation to Receive The Salvation Army's Community Partner Award
May 5, 2014
ARLINGTON, Va. – Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation will receive The Salvation Army's Community Partner Award on Tuesday, May 13, at United in Service. United in Service is a ceremony in recognition of volunteers and community partners for their compassionate work on behalf of The Salvation Army, which assists people in need throughout the Washington, D.C., region.
"MSE Foundation is honored to receive this prestigious award," said Elizabeth Wodatch, MSE Foundation executive director. "We are thrilled that our partnership with The Salvation Army has been able to engage our players, staff and fans. We look forward to continuing to work with The Salvation Army to help the underserved population in the D.C. area."
The Washington Capitals, Mystics and Wizards provided The Salvation Army with volunteer and financial support throughout 2013-14. In March 2013 Capitals players delivered meals to the homeless through The Salvation Army's Grate Patrol program, while Monumental Sports & Entertainment staff members volunteered in The Salvation Army's Back-to-School Shopping event at Target in Hyattsville, Md., in July. In conjunction with the Capitals and Wizards toy drives, MSE Foundation donated $10,000 to The Salvation Army National Area Command in December. The Salvation Army served as the beneficiary of both the Capitals and Wizards toy drives and was a beneficiary of the Foundation's Family-to-Family program, through which MSE teams adopt families for the holidays. The teams also hosted bell ringers as part of The Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign at home games in December.
"During the holidays, The Salvation Army reaches out to families in need and provides them with food, clothing and gifts," said Paul Hebblethwaite, Salvation Army director of development. "Without partners like Monumental Sports & Entertainment, it would be difficult to respond to the overwhelming need. With Monumental's help, The Salvation Army provided support to more than 6,000 children through the Angel Tree program in 2013."
In 2013 MSE Foundation, along with the Leonsis Foundation, donated more than $1.5 million to local charities. MSE Foundation partners in 2014 include the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, Flashes of Hope, KaBOOM!, Playworks DC, the Potomac Valley Amateur Hockey Association and The Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army National Capital Area Command assisted more than 85,000 individuals last year from families living across the Greater Washington region by providing help and hope through a diverse range of social services. The organization offers emergency eviction and utility cut-off prevention assistance; grocery, clothing and furniture vouchers; meals for the hungry and homeless; support for the disabled, elderly and ill; drug and alcohol rehabilitation; disaster relief; transitional housing for single mothers with children; and character building opportunities for youth.
Monumental Sports & Entertainment Foundation supports the charitable efforts of the professional teams under its umbrella: the Washington Capitals, Mystics and Wizards. MSE is committed to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and focuses on the following five pillars to maximize its impact and engagement with the community: youth basketball and hockey, education and scholarship, pediatric health and fitness, military and veterans' affairs and hunger and homelessness.


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2011: Played in 10 sets...10 kills...six blocks...four digs...recorded four kills versus Suffolk (9/2) and Bridgewater State (10/22)...tallied three blocks against CCNY (9/30) and Bridgewater State (10/22)...had two digs versus Suffolk (9/2).
Off the Court at MIT: Majoring in chemical engineering.
Why I Chose MIT: I chose MIT, not only because of the great education I'd get, but because of the opportunities that I would have here. I can get the best education in the world while playing competitive sports, researching in a lab, and doing almost anything else that I choose while meeting phenomenal people in a great city.
High School: A 2011 graduate of University Laboratory School...captain...all-state...all-star east team...all-metro...District III MVP...three-year letterwinner...was also the captain of the basketball and track and field teams where she earned four and three varsity letters, respectively...captured the state championship in the 4x400 relay and was the runner-up in the 400 meter dash...received all-state and all-metro honors for track and field...academic all-state for all three sports...National Merit Achievement finalist...Wendy High School Heisman...American Chemical Society Scholar.
Club: Red Storm, Louisiana Volleyball Elite, Louisiana Volleyball Baton Rouge.
Personal: Daughter of Julie Harris...mother earned All-America honors in track and field at LSU.


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Make a Gift to Nature Through Your Estate Plans
Making a gift to The Nature Conservancy through your will or revocable living trust is a simple way to support our mission. If you are considering naming the Conservancy in your estate plans when you update your documents, we thank you for standing up for nature's future.
Have you already named The Nature Conservancy in your will? Let us know your plans!
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It is important to schedule a meeting with your attorney and add the correct legal language to your document when updating your will.
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TAMPA, Fla., March 14 (Reuters) - Virginia Edmonds, standing in shallow water, used her legs to slowly nudge an ailing young manatee to one side of a treatment pool. A half dozen other female members of a manatee rehabilitation team hovered close by - one with a syringe - waiting for the signal.
"OK!" Edmonds called, as the others jumped in and threw a mat over the manatee to try and hold it still.
The 545-pound (247-kg) mammal bucked, thrashed, rolled and tossed the women off before he could get his antibiotic injection; just one minor challenge in an effort to rescue and treat members of this endangered species that are dying in record numbers from an algae bloom.
The so-called Red Tide algae bloom has killed a total of 181 manatees so far this year, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
That figure already surpasses the highest number of Red Tide manatee deaths on record - 151 in 1996 - and experts expect the number to keep rising through the spring.
"We'll probably have Red Tide victims several more months," said Dr. Larry Killmar, head of animal science and conservation at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, which is home to the manatee rehab team.
So far 12 rescued manatees have been brought in for treatment from Red Tide poisoning.
"We're not even getting a chance to work on many of them," Killmar said of the large number of deaths. "If we can get them early enough, we can save them."
The problem, he and other experts note, was Florida's warm winter, which appears to have sparked an earlier than normal algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico along a 70-mile (112-km) swath of southwest Florida's coast, home to a large share of the state's estimated 5,000 manatees.
The naturally occurring algae that blooms into Red Tide carries toxins that are usually inhaled by manatees when they come up for air, typically every 20 minutes. But now they're also ingesting the toxins when they eat after the Red Tide saturated sea grasses that the manatees graze on, Killmar said.
The toxins spark seizures and paralyze the manatees, which struggle to breathe or surface for air - causing them to drown.
"Most are passed out when they come in," said Edmonds, the animal care manager of Florida mammals at Lowry Park Zoo. After they're brought in by a rescue team from the wildlife conservation commission, the manatees immediately receive an injection of the anti-toxin atropine and the first of three possible antibiotic injections.
The past few weeks staff members in the zoo's manatee hospital stood in shallow pool waters around the clock to help keep the manatees' heads above water.
"One woke up in 15 minutes," Edmonds said. Others take hours, possibly depending on the length of time they were exposed to Red Tide.
To make room for more critical care patients, two recovered manatees were sent to Sea World last week and three other Red Tide survivors are headed to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park this week.
They can't be released back into the wild until the Red Tide dissipates because they'll migrate back to the same area and become sick once again.
Meanwhile, the others will stay at the zoo's manatee hospital with several other resident patients recovering from a mixture of ailments, including the single biggest killer of manatees - boat strikes.
They'll be monitored and continue to get follow-up antibiotic injections like the one Edmonds and her team were trying to administer to a feisty 2-year-old male manatee on Wednesday.
About 20 zoo spectators had gathered to watch the unexpected display, holding up cameras and placing toddlers on their shoulders to see.
"I want to help," 9-year-old Ben Arnett of Englewood, Florida, whispered to his brother, 11-year-old Josh, an aspiring marine biologist.
Normally it is against state law to touch, chase, harass and - in one recent notorious case that unleashed public outrage and brought criminal charges - to ride manatees. But now fast-thinking residents are playing a critical role in saving them - holding their heads above the water until rescuers could arrive.
The state released a hotline number for residents to call if they see a distressed manatee. "If they didn't have people in the public trying to help," said Lee Ann Rottman, the zoo's animal curator after getting out of the treatment pool, "those manatees wouldn't make it." (Editing by David Adams and Eric Walsh)


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Winner Update! And, our lucky winner is:
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It's that time again…time for me to share my love for dried beans. (I love them for the way that they cook, and for how they help our budget…one "rice and beans" meal a week can really put a dent into your grocery budget!)
Last week, I shared my recipe for Lentil Stew with Pita Chips…and next week I'll be sharing a scrumptious Corn and Bean Chowder recipe. I love Hurst Beans, and I love cooking with their beans. And I'm thrilled to be able to do another giveaway for one of their fabulous clay pots.
They have graciously offered to give away one of their handmade clay cooking pots, made specifically for cooking their beans! Before we get to the giveaway, I thought I'd share a few of the helpful links for cooking with dried beans that we have here on $5 Dinners.
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DENVER – The kind of avalanche that killed four snowboarders and a skier in Colorado over the weekend is among the most difficult to predict and trigger, but it's dangerous because of the amount of snow normally involved.
Saturday's slide near Loveland Pass is called a deep persistent slab avalanche, and backcountry snowboarders and skiers in the area were warned about that kind of avalanche that day.
It's also the same type of avalanche that killed a snowboarder Thursday near Vail Pass.
Ethan Greene of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center said Monday that the danger level Saturday was rated as a 3 on the center's 5-level warning scale.
Typically, avalanches aren't as common in the spring, but new snow in Colorado's mountains have created avalanche conditions more like those usually seen in the winter.


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Bake apple pie per package instructions. Let cool. Once cooled, break up pie with a fork.
Thaw puff pastry sheet at room temperature for 30 minutes.
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Unfold puff pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 3 strips along the fold marks. Place strips 2-inches apart on a baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden. Remove from baking sheet and cool on a wire rack.
In a small bowl combine whipped topping and cinnamon sugar. Set aside.
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(AP) RG3 bobbles, Lions rally to top Redskins 27-20
By JOSEPH WHITE
AP Sports Writer
LANDOVER, Md.
Robert Griffin III went head-first instead of sliding, so when the ball popped out it was a fumble.
Aldrick Robinson had a touchdown catch in his hands, but he couldn't quite maintain possession as he hit the ground in the end zone.
Thanks to the turf, the Detroit Lions ended 74 years of failure in the nation's capital.
The pair of fourth-quarter bobbles sent the Lions on their way to a 27-20 win over the Washington Redskins on Sunday, dropping Griffin and the defending NFC East champs to 0-3.
Matthew Stafford completed 25 of 42 passes for 385 yards with two touchdowns and one interception, and Calvin Johnson and Nate Burleson both had 100 yards receiving for the Lions (2-1).
They beat the Redskins on the road for the first time since 1939, a 21-game streak that comes to a halt as the second-longest in NFL history.
Detroit's last win away from home in the series came in 1935 against the Boston Redskins, two years before the move to Washington.
The score was tied at 17 when Griffin finally looked something like the RG3 of last year, scrambling to make something out of nothing with a 21-yard run deep into the opponent's territory.
But the ball jarred loose as he stumbled forward to give himself up at the 30-yard line.
No big deal if he had slid, a fumble recovered by the Lions because he didn't.
On the next play, Johnson started a drive with a tiptoe catch along the sideline, and David Akers ended it with a 28-yard field goal with 11:08 to play to give the Lions the lead.
The Redskins thought they had gone back in front when Griffin hit Robinson on a post pattern for an apparent 57-yard touchdown with 9:05 to play, but replays showed the ball coming loose as the receiver went to the ground.
Incomplete pass. Those celebrations were for nothing.
The Lions got their insurance touchdown with 3:56 remaining on Stafford's 11-yard pass to Johnson, who had four Redskins around him as he fought his way across the goal line.
Washington pulled within seven with a field goal with 1:40 to play, but a desperation pass on the game's final play fell incomplete.
Griffin completed 32 of 50 passes for 326 yards and had his fourth interception of the season, one shy of his total from all of 2012.
He said leading up to the game that he would run the ball more to give his team a spark.
He rushed only six times for 37 yards, including his first carry out of the zone read this season. The Redskins also scored an offensive touchdown for the first time this season.
The Redskins' defense, which allowed 1,023 yards in the first two games, continues to struggle.
DeAngelo Hall gave Washington the early lead with a 17-yard interception return, but the status quo was restored when the Lions went 85 yards, with Joique Bell breaking three tackles on a 37-yard reception and four more on a 12-yard up-the-middle touchdown run.
Then came a 92-yard drive with completions of 18, 20, 17 and 15 yards, capped when a backpedalling Stafford hit towering tight end Joseph Fauria over the middle for a 5-yard score to give the Lions the lead.
Alfred Morris' 30-yard run in the second quarter tied the score at 14, and Stafford's 41-yard pass to Burleson set up a field goal to put the Lions up 17-14 at the half.
The Redskins tied it in the third quarter on the first NFL field goal by John Potter, subbing for Kai Forbath (groin).
A moment of silence was held before the game for the victims of last week's Navy Yard shooting. The Navy Yard Ceremonial Honor Guard presented the colors for the national anthem.


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Gustavo Arellano video interview in Hatch, N.M.
Two summers ago, I rendezvoused with The Mexican at Crazy Melva's Pepper Pot in Hatch. I was there for green chile for the freezer from Chile Express and Biad. Gustavo Arellano was there for the Chile Festival, in search of stories for his book. We broke tortillas over chile, I green he red. Here is an edited video of that historic lunch.