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Randolph County Circuit Court Judge Jaymie Godwin Wilfong denied two requests to reconsider sentences Wednesday.
Attorney Dwight Hall filed both motions on behalf of his clients.
Wilfong denied the request to reconsider the 20-50 year sentence given to Joshua Jones. 20, of Montrose. Jones was sentenced on Nov. 14 after he pleaded guilty on Aug. 6 to two counts of felony second-degree sexual assault. Jones admitted he had forcible sexual intercourse with his underage female cousin.
"Mr. Jones is 20 years old at this time," Hall said. "The evaluation at the Anthony Center listed him for placement there."
Hall asked the court to consider placing Jones at the Anthony Center as opposed to the prison sentence.
"He would get out at the age of 40 with no education and no work history," Hall said. "You are looking at a young man with no chance. At least give him a chance at life."
Randolph County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Parker said the state "strongly opposed" a sentence reduction.
Wilfong denied Hall's request.
- Hall also asked the court to reconsider the sentence given to Patrick Herald Hedrick, 44. Hedrick was sentenced to two years consecutively on two misdemeanor counts of failure to update registry. Since he was sentenced, Hedrick was arrested for DUI while he was on probation.
"He lived with his 80-year-old grandma, who has been in a convalescent center since," Hall said. "If he were to get out he could take care of her."
Hall said Hedrick was harmless and if alcohol is a concern a new provision could order that he attend Alcoholics Anonymous and have random testing.
"Him sitting in jail is doing no one any good," Hall said.
Parker opposed the reconsideration and said that Hedrick does pose a danger to the public.
Wilfong denied Hall's motion.
- Hall also filed a motion to reduce the $75,000 cash only bond on behalf of Steven Smith, 30, of Elkins. Smith is charged with a felony count of burglary and a misdemeanour count of providing false information.
Smith is accused of breaking into an Elm Street residence with his wife, Corcia Smith, 33, of Elkins on Oct. 3. Hall said the Elkins Police Department located Corcia Smith in the basement of the home and gave officers a false name. He said after multiple interviews with the police, she eventually gave officers Steven Smith's name.
"She said Mr. Smith was with her," Hall said. "There is no other evidence."
Wilfong asked if Randolph County Magistrate Court found probable cause in the case.
"Yes, but I don't know on what," Hall said. "During the fourth interview she gave her real name and said he was with her. The charge is based on the word of a woman who gave false statements to the police."
Parker argued that the bond was set so high because Smith is new to the area and could be a flight risk. Parker added that information from Corcia Smith suggests there may also have been a firearm in Steven Smith's possession during the burglary.
"His wife said he busted out a window, climbed out and ran," Parker said. "There was a broken window at the scene."
Parker objected to the bond reduction. Wilfong did not lower the $75,000 cash bond, but did modify it to cash, surety or property.
- Wilfong also accepted a plea agreement for Brian Broseker. Broseker was facing four felony charges including three counts of attempted malicious wounding and one count of destruction of property. Broeseker appeared with attorney Raymond LaMora.
Broseker was not indicted on the charges, but agreed to enter an "information." Wilfong explained the move allowed Broseker to waive his right of being indicted by the grand jury. Part of the agreement includes Broseker paying full restoration for damage done to car.
"I was at the house with my girlfriend," he said. "Someone came to pick her up and I went outside to see who it was. He pulled a gun on me and I beat his car."
He is facing 1-10 years and a fine of $2,500. In the agreement it is recommended that he be sentenced to an alternative sentence. Wilfong ordered a pre-sentence investigation and set sentencing for Dec. 20 at 10:30 a.m.
- Benjamon Contrell appeared with attorney Andrea Roberts to set a date for his trail. Contrell is facing six counts of failure to register as a sex offender. Wilfong set a pre-trail conference for Jan. 30, jury selection for Feb. 5 and the trial for Feb. 6.


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UPDATE: Dallas real estate executive acquitted of assault in Irving polo mallet case
A prominent Dallas real estate professional could learn his fate today on a misdemeanor assault charge in connection with a 2009 Irving polo mallet swing that knocked a man unconscious and gave him a concussion.
Authorities say Vaughn Erwin Miller, 50, struck Jorge Cernadas, 29, in the head on purpose during a match at the Las Colinas Equestrian Center. Miller's defense attorney says it was an accident in an inherently dangerous sport.
This case is interesting in part because Miller is the president of the retail division of Henry S. Miller Brokerage LLC and the great-grandson of Henry S. Miller Sr. But it's also important because as defense attorney J. Michael Price II argued on Tuesday, it's rather unusual that someone would be in criminal trouble for an act committed between the lines of a sports field.
"We're talking about prosecuting acts on a playing field," Price said in a Dallas County courtroom Tuesday. "It was in the field of play within one second."
Miller faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault in the incident. If convicted by a six-person jury, he could face up to one year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
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Price said in his closing argument that this case is not about a criminal act.
"We're here because of civil lawyers. We're here because of this," Price said as he held up a $1 bill for the jury of four men and two women. "Because of money."
Price argued that Miller has wealthy rivals who were upset with him because his polo team was so dominant and because Miller launched his own polo club that was essentially wiping out the Las Colinas one where the alleged assault occurred. Price said it's those rivals who helped set Cernadas up with high-profile attorneys including former District Attorney Bill Hill, former prosecutor Toby Shook and former U.S. Attorney Michael P. Carnes.
They came after Miller for money and when they didn't get it, Price said, they went to the police five months after the alleged assault.
Cernadas has also sued Miller in Dallas County in connection with the incident and that case is pending. Carnes is his attorney in that lawsuit.
"It was only a crime after money wasn't paid," Price said. "Don't let people abuse and manipulate the criminal justice system."
Prosecutors countered that what Miller did is a crime and always has been. Miller was playing in a manner that was way beyond how a reasonable polo player would act or expect, they said.
"This is about someone who lost it," said prosecutor Jody Warner.
She said Miller believed Cernadas had fouled him and he was upset the referees did not call the foul. So he swung his mallet at the victim's head, she said.
Jurors are now deliberating in the case. If convicted, the judge would handle sentencing.
UPDATE at noon:
The jury acquitted Miller after a little more than an hour of deliberations.


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Yesterday, DailyTech covered
shocking allegations by an esteemed sea-level expert that the IPCC
modified climate data and committed other violations in an
attempt to falsely portray accelerating sea level rising. If
true, perhaps the IPCC should have learned to be more
Greenland's melt is accelerating, according to a new
study published as part of long-ongoing research at the Colorado
University at Boulder on climate change. In 2007, the summer
melt record was surpassed by 10%. CU Boulder notes that record
breaking melts are nothing
new to Greenland; the last 20 years have brought 6 record melts,
with record melts in 1987, 1991, 1998, 2002, 2005 and 2007.
base cause is clearly a surface air temperature rise. Since
1991, extensive data shows that temperatures over Greenland's ice
sheet increased approximately 7 degrees Fahrenheit on average.
report by CU Boulder seemed objective and balanced in its
observations. It helpfully noted that the ice level actually
had increased slightly at higher elevations due to increased snowfall
over the past decade, however, it noted that this increase was not
enough to offset the sharply escalating melting.
Konrad Steffen, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences which headed the study, gave a presentation on
his team's research to the American Geophysical Union held in San
Francisco from Dec. 10 to Dec. 14. The paper that the
presentation is based on, titled "Melt season duration and ice
layer formation on the Greenland ice sheet," was published in
the peer-reviewed Journal of Geophysics Research and is available
here (PDF).
At the presentation, Professor Steffen put the
melt in context saying, "The amount of ice lost by Greenland
over the last year is the equivalent of two times all the ice in the
Alps, or a layer of water more than one-half mile deep covering
Washington, D.C."
Professor Steffen explained how his
team used Defense Meteorology Satellite Program's Special Sensor
Microwave Imager aboard several military and weather satellites to
map the melt. Professor Steffen supplemented this data with
polled data transmitted via satellite from 22 stations on the
Greenland ice sheet known as the Greenland Climate Network, which he
and the University personally maintain.
Lubrication from the
melting is one important factor that is speeding up the melt, as
explained in Professor Steffen's research. He stated, "The
more lubrication there is under the ice, the faster that ice moves to
the coast. Those glaciers with floating ice 'tongues' also will
increase in iceberg production."
If global warming
critics or believers hope to use the melt as a quick smoking gun to
prove sea level change, they shouldn't hold their breath.
Greenland is slowly and steadily contributing 0.5 mm of world sea
level in melt water a year. If all of Greenland's ice sheet
melted, it is estimated that it would raise the global sea levels 21
feet, but for now it is just gradually raising them with time.
However, deep tunnels in the ice known as moulins are
speeding the rate at which water is evacuated into the sea.
With record melts, glacier lubrication, and these tunneling phenomena
Professor Stephen expects the current yearly sea level contribution
of 0.5 mm/yr to quickly rise.
He thinks that IPCC may have
missed the boat on both ends -- overestimating sea level rise now,
and underestimating future sea rise for the remainder of the
century. Professor Steffens has publicly stated that based on
his understanding of Greenland's current melting process that sea
level rise will significantly beat the estimates for 21st century sea
level rise made by the IPCC Panel held in 2007.
Steffens works for CIRES, which is a joint venture of CU Boulder and
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He
and his team will continue to provide a voice of scientific reason in
the global debate over whether melting is increasing
or decreasing,
with his team's diligent analysis of melting in Greenland.
quote: Where does the myth come from? Naturally enough, there is a kernel of truth behind it all. Firstly, there was a trend of cooling from the 40's to the 70's (although that needs to be qualified, as hemispheric or global temperature datasets were only just beginning to be assembled then). But people were well aware that extrapolating such a short trend was a mistake (Mason, 1976) . Secondly, it was becoming clear that ice ages followed a regular pattern and that interglacials (such as we are now in) were much shorter that the full glacial periods in between. Somehow this seems to have morphed (perhaps more in the popular mind than elsewhere) into the idea that the next ice age was predicatable and imminent. Thirdly, there were concerns about the relative magnitudes of aerosol forcing (cooling) and CO2 forcing (warming), although this latter strand seems to have been short lived.The state of the science at the time (say, the mid 1970's), based on reading the papers is, in summary: "…we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course. Without the fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate…" (which is taken directly from NAS, 1975). In a bit more detail, people were aware of various forcing mechanisms - the ice age cycle; CO2 warming; aerosol cooling - but didn't know which would be dominant in the near future. By the end of the 1970's, though, it had become clear that CO2 warming would probably be dominant; that conclusion has subsequently strengthened.


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You could feel it in the air Wednesday night at UB's Center for Performing Arts.
Glen Campbell's fans were nervous for him as they waited for his show to begin.
You could see it in their eyes. They knew the 76-year-old singer and guitarist suffers from Alzheimer's disease. They knew what effect that horrible disease can have on a person's behavior. They were worried how it would all play out on a brightly-lit stage in front of thousands of people. They knew there was no place for Glen to hide.
In the end, the night's performance turned out just fine.
It was far from a perfect show. Campbell forgot some lyrics, wandered about the stage, made a few goofy remarks and at one point, started playing the same song twice in a row. But he also put on a very entertaining and powerful concert, one that had some of his fans wiping away tears after the last song.
His voice was very strong and clear on some songs; not so great on others. But he had fun joking with the audience – sometimes poking fun at himself and his waning memory skills. And his guitar work was nothing short of spectacular.
Someone forgot to tell his fingers that Campbell has Alzheimer's disease.
On song after song, he fired off beautiful, high-speed solos that drew one ovation after another. When he was soloing on the six-string, it was almost like Campbell was lost in his own little world. He was like a young buck again, an excited young rocker just starting out as a Hollywood session musician.
"I'm happy to be here. You know that?" he said after one such solo, his face breaking out in a huge grin.
Packing 17 songs into an hour, Campbell showcased many of his most popular hits, including his great work with songwriter Jimmy Webb. He also performed several poignant songs from his brilliant, autobiographical 2011 album, "Ghost On The Canvas."
Helping him through the night was a solid six-piece band that featured his lovely daughter, Ashley; his sons Shannon and Cal; and his 35-year musical director, pianist and buddy, TJ Kuenster.
It was touching, and at times, a bit funny, to watch his young daughter help Campbell through the show's rough spots.
"Who wrote this one?" Campbell asked, as he prepared to play one of his biggest hits, "Galveston."
"Jimmy Webb!" his daughter said.
"Who?" Campbell asked.
"Jimmy Webb!" she repeated.
"That's right, Jimmy Webb," Campbell finally agreed.
Campbell's "Goodbye Tour," which began more than a year ago, is a triumphant but very bittersweet end to a musical career that began some 70 years ago, when Campbell began to astonish family members and neighbors with his guitar abilities as a little kid in Billstown, Ark.
As a teenager, Campbell was already making a living playing dances and radio shows, and at age 16, he left his hometown to become a full-time professional musician. He moved out to Los Angeles in his early 20s, and – in addition to making a few minor hits under his own name – he became a very in-demand sideman.
Campbell joined pianist Leon Russell, drummer Hal Blaine, guitarist Tommy Tedesco (a Niagara Falls native) and other top musicians in the Wrecking Crew, an elite team of session cats who played on hits by Frank Sinatra, Simon & Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, Nat King Cole and countless other artists.
His first big solo hit was John Hartford's delightful "Gentle On My Mind," which Campbell performed as his opener Wednesday night. After that song hit in 1967, his career took off like a rocket, especially after the Smothers Brothers chose him to host their summer replacement show.
There are few hit songs more memorable than "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston," the three big ones that Webb gave to Campbell in the late Sixties. Campbell sang all three Wednesday night.
Shannon and Ashley Campbell, who call themselves Victoria Ghost, opened the show with a nice 25-minute set of folk and country songs. Both are fine singers, and both of them share their dad's talents with stringed instruments. Cal Campbell is a solid drummer.
A 15-minute intermission followed the opening act. Then, the stage went dark. The band members took their places. After that, we could see two security guys carefully leading Campbell to his spot at center stage. In his white sport coat, pink and black cowboy shirt, black slacks and black boots, he looked pretty good for an old codger.
Audience members, who filled about two-thirds of the place, seemed to be on the edge of their seats as he jumped right into "Gentle On My Mind." About halfway into the song, Campbell unleashed a funky, sparkling guitar solo that had the audience going wild.
Perhaps the happiest moment of the night came when Campbell on acoustic guitar duetted with his banjo-playing daughter on a blistering first-rate version of "Dueling Banjos." The song brought the house down, inspiring the first of several standing ovations.
Other highlights including another fine guitar solo on "Wichita Lineman," a fired-up "Rhinestone Cowboy," and a stark version of Webb's "The Moon's A Harsh Mistress," featuring Campbell's best vocal and his old friend Kuenster on piano.
The night ended on an emotional note with Campbell's take on "A Better Place," a deeply moving ballad from his last album.
There was no mistaking the song's meaning.
"Some days I'm so confused, Lord," Campbell sang. "My past gets in the way.
"I need the ones I love, Lord, more and more each day.
"One thing I know, the world's been good to me. A better place awaits, you'll see."
With that, the old Rhinestone Cowboy took his daughter's hand, bowed deeply at the waist, and left the stage.
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First Lady Michelle Obama said the U.S. is ready to have a female president but said she isn't the one and was quiet when asked whether she thinks former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will win the presidency in 2016.
"She hasn't announced anything, so I'm certainly not going to get ahead of her," Mrs. Obama said in an interview with Parade magazine. She said who will be the first female president depends on "who's the best person out there."
Intense speculation about 2016 has already begun, and Mrs. Clinton is considered a top contender and her supporters are already raising money should she enter the race. Speculation about her chances was fueled in part by a lunch she had last month with President Barack Obama and a separate breakfast with Vice President Joe Biden.
The White House insisted the meetings were chiefly social. But Mr. Biden has hinted he may run in 2016 though it's unclear whether he and Mrs. Clinton would run against each other, considering they both worked closely together.
Mrs. Obama was also asked about the coming 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where in 1963 about 250,000 gathered on the National Mall to protest segregation and got to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
She said she is hopeful about what Mr. King worked for. She also said that having an African American family in the White House does positively affect race relations.
"Children born in the last eight years will only know an African-American man being president of the United States," she said. "That changes the bar for all of our children, regardless of their race, their sexual orientation, their gender. It expands the scope of opportunity in their minds."


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Even after 10 years, it is difficult for Felicia M. Cruz to speak about her war experiences as a Marine in Iraq.
She participated in dozens of supply convoys and became no stranger to enemy fire, often traveling through long stretches of desert to bring fuel, food and ammunition to fellow Marines on the front lines.
"It was surreal when we were under fire, but your instincts and training kicked in. We'd take cover and aim at the enemy," says Cruz, who witnessed her share of carnage from roadside bombs.
One of the most frightening experiences occurred in the middle of the night when she was in a convoy that separated from the main column.
"There are 135 vehicles in a convoy, and we had stopped, and the truck in front of us did not move when the rest of the convoy started up again," Cruz recalls. "We did not have our lights on. We did not want to risk being spotted by the enemy, but 22 trucks were left behind. We couldn't get out of the vehicles because there were trip wires attached to roadside bombs."
Cruz remembers that "we didn't have radio contact. The rest of the convoy had gone so far ahead, and we were out of range. I continued, though, to try and make contact by radio. An hour or two later, when radio checks were done among the trucks that had gone ahead, they realized we were separated.
"The point guard drove back for us, while the rest continued to their destination. We were glad to move because we worried about getting ambushed. Fortunately, nothing happened."
Many times, Cruz wondered whether she would ever return home to the beautiful baby daughter she had left behind. Aaliyah was 16 months old when Cruz was deployed.
"I had a journal and I wrote to her in it. I would tell her my feelings and what was going on," Cruz says. "I wrote in it every free minute I had and let her know I loved her and missed her, thinking she would read it when she got older. I'd left my daughter in the hands of my Aunt Cande in New York City, who I knew would take care of her. That made me feel better."
Toward the end of Cruz's 2003 deployment, she says, two Marines in her unit were in a convoy accident. One died, and the other was permanently disabled.
"It was at night, and they had gotten separated from the main group of the convoy and were speeding to catch up and hit another vehicle head-on," she says. "I was supposed to have been on that convoy that was headed to Kuwait and going back home, but I stayed behind to be one of the last of my unit to leave to make sure my other Marines were safe."
Soon after Cruz returned home, she left the Marines to fulfill her dream of obtaining a college education, first completing an associate degree in substance abuse and mental health counseling at Erie Community College. Now she is in the home stretch of finishing work on a bachelor's degree in social work at Buffalo State College.
Cruz also works part-time in human services for the Greater Buffalo Chapter of the American Red Cross. In addition to that, she serves on various boards in the Hispanic-American community, including the Augustin "Pucho" Olivencia Community Center on Swan Street.
Her mother could not be more proud of her. "My daughter 'leaves no man behind,' a Marine motto. I have seen her making sandwiches and handing them out under the bridges to the homeless. I even know one incident where she took off her coat and gave it to a woman on the street that was coatless. She is my hero," Marguerite Cruz said of her daughter.
And what about the war journal that Felicia Cruz kept in Iraq for her daughter, who is now 11?
"Aaliyah keeps it with her personal possessions," the former Marine says, "and she reads it over and over."
Felicia M. Cruz, 33
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• War zone: Iraq
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Buckwheat wrote:The "something" he describes has exactly the same properties as nibbana: cessation, peace, non-clinging, not dependent on anything in the world.
The something he describes refers to the postmortem arahant. As such, it is conceptual proliferation maintaining a view of partial eternalism.
Buckwheat wrote:Again, he says, in sililar terms to what the Buddha says repeatedly, that the arahant neither exists nore does not exist after death, so you are accusing him of saying something that he did not say.
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Holstein Association USA to Host Nine Regional Member Meetings
Holstein Association USA to Host Nine Regional Member Meetings
Holstein Association USA is currently planning nine regional member meetings that will be held nationwide between December 2011 and March 2012. Members are encouraged to attend the meeting in their area to hear the latest updates on Association business, and provide feedback on programs and services. At least one member of the Holstein Association USA board of directors and one staff member will lead each meeting, so it is an excellent opportunity for face-to-face interaction with Association leadership. Following are the dates and locations for the upcoming meetings, in chronological order.
Region 7 - December 2, 2011
Oklahoma City, OK
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Best Western Saddleback Inn & Conference Center (Patio Room)
4300 Southwest Third Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73108
In conjunction with the Oklahoma Holstein Meeting
Region 1 - January 20, 2012
Syracuse, NY
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Sheraton Syracuse Univ. Hotel & Conf. Ctr.
801 University Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210
In conjunction with the New York All-Breeds Convention
Region 9 - January 25, 2012
Phoenix, AZ
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Phoenix Airport
3220 S. 48th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85040
In conjunction with this meeting, there will be a dairy conference on genomics. Call Kelli at 800.952.5200, ext. 4124 to RSVP for complimentary lunch by Monday, January 16.
Region 4 - February 4, 2012
Pigeon Forge, TN
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Holiday Inn Pigeon Forge
3230 Parkway, P.O. Box 1383
Pigeon Forge, TN 37868
In conjunction with the Tennessee Holstein Meeting
Region 3 - February 11, 2012
Mount Pleasant, MI
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort
6800 E Soaring Eagle Blvd
Mount Pleasant, MI 48858
In conjunction with the Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference
Region 8 - February 18, 2012
Bow, WA
12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Skagit Valley Casino Resort
5984 N Darrk Lane
Bow, WA 98232
In conjunction with the Washington Holstein Meeting
Region 2 - February 24, 2012
Lancaster, PA
7:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Doubletree Resort by Hilton Hotel Lancaster
2400 Willow Street Pike
Lancaster, PA 17602
In conjunction with the Pennsylvania Holstein Convention
Region 5 - February 24, 2012
Waupaca, WI
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Waupaca Ale House Sports Bar & Conference Center
201 Foxfire Drive
Waupaca, WI 54981
In conjunction with the Wisconsin Holstein Convention
Region 6 - March 28, 2012
Sioux Falls, SD
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Sheraton Sioux Falls Hotel (Fontenelle Room)
1211 West Avenue North
Sioux Falls, SD 57104
In conjunction with the Central Plains Dairy Expo
For complete lodging information, visit www.holsteinusa.com, click on Meetings & Conventions in the main menu, and then Regional Meetings, or go directly to www.holsteinusa.com/meetings/regionalmeetings.html . With questions, or for more information, contact Jodi Hoynoski at 800.952.5200, ext. 4261 or email email@example.com.


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The recent death of Tygart Valley Regional Jail inmate, 36-year-old Charles E. Ellison of Slatyfork, has raised many questions for Mountain State residents.
Perhaps the most pressing question is how did he die and what role, if any, did West Virginia's overcrowded prison system - a key issue lawmakers have repeatedly pledged to address - play in Ellison's death?
Last week, The Inter-Mountain toured TVRJ and talked with administrator Scott Villers about prison overpopulation and its effects locally. Although Villers would not comment on issues that may have factored into Ellison's death, he did say that overcrowding is problem with which TVRJ is continually contending.
Opened in June 2005, TVRJ houses inmates from Barbour, Upshur, Randolph, Pocahontas, Tucker and Taylor counties. As of Wednesday, there were exactly 487 inmates lodged in TVRJ -187 more than the 300 it was designed to hold.
"We've had additional bunks installed to deal with that, but even with additional bedding, we're still overcrowded," Villers said. "We've been averaging over the last several months about 500 inmates."
In many instances two inmates share a cell designed for one, and Villers admits the prison has sometimes had to place three inmates in one cell.
"I know of other facilities that have been so overcrowded they've had to put four to a cell," he said. "We haven't had to do that, fortunately."
Although each inmate has access to sink and toilet inside the cell and sleeps on his or her own mattress, the jail isn't always able to provide everyone with a bed frame on which to place their mattresses - sometimes, prisoners sleep on mattresses on the floor, Villers said.
"This is inmate life," Villers said, motioning at a group of women clad in orange jumpsuits sitting on small, circular seats attached to a steel table. "It's not very glamorous."
If the West Virginia Division of Corrections had more slots open for inmates who have been convicted and sentenced to time in the state penitentiary, overcrowding wouldn't have ballooned into the giant problem it is, Villers said.
Encompassed within the walls of TVRJ is a special housing unit staffed by female correctional officers that houses state-sentenced female offenders from a variety of areas across West Virginia.
"We have 261 females waiting to go to prison (the state penitentiary) housed in this facility," Villers said.
Overpopulated prisons lead to overburdened staff and an increase in inmate-on-inmate violence, Villers explained.
"The work load on the medical staff, the counseling staff and the security staff is increased tremendously," the TVRJ administrator said. "It also creates additional stress on the inmates."
Villers said he's noticed a gradual increase in inmate-on-inmate violence the most apparent form of violence as well as inmate-on-staff violence, which has also risen incrementally.
"Correctional officers are underpaid for the jobs they endure, the duties they provide and the services they perform," he said.
The starting salary for a correctional officer at TVRJ is $22,000, and it's capped somewhere between $32,000 and $36,000, Villers said.
"They make a little better than fast-food wages, but not much," he said. "We deal with the people society doesn't want to deal with."
Many state legislators, like Bill Hartman, D-Randolph, have acknowledged the gravity of the prison overpopulation problem and say lawmakers are trying to hash out a solution.
"It's a very serious problem," Hartman recently told The Inter-Mountain. "I guess there's two or three things proposed. Community corrections has been working very good, but obviously it hasn't kept enough people out of jail. There's the possibility of not returning people on parole for minor violations as well as early-outs for nonviolent offenders, and of course there's a flip side to that."
Instituting adult drug courts across the entire state in combination with beefed up rehabilitation services is one plausible remedy, Hartman said.
In the meantime, Villers and the staff at TVRJ are working to curb the unwanted consequences of overcrowding, such as increased violence.
TVRJ is in the midst of installing 115 surveillance cameras throughout the facility that will monitor the common areas of all housing units, all hallways, classrooms and control posts. Currently, surveillance cameras only record activity in the intake area, where emotions are usually the most raw, Villers said.
"It's going to be a godsend," Villers said. "It's going to go back two years, so any rule violation or any suspicious activity we can confirm or deny, pretty cut and dry."
The project began two weeks ago and is expected to be complete within six months.
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Get hands-on in this two-day introduction to laser cutting. Learn the basics of laser cutting and digital illustration, then design and create your own project to take home.
Designs made in this workshop--such as jewelry or buttons--can be used for project made at Mending Day with Discardia, June 28.
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Using the word "gay" as a noun. This serves the purpose of epitomizing the subject of the noun as completely encompassing the essence of being gay. Not a gay person, but a gay.
"That dude's such a gay"
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Pertaining to an elite society of gay men who pride themselves on an extreme sense of class, style, fashion, and glam. See katherine hepburn. Prefer diamonds over cashmere, cardio over bagels, and flirting over coffee. Not considered a Nancy, but sometimes a Mary. Can always be counted on for the lastest in premium insults, scandal, and fashion hip-tips. See Queer Eye.
Woman: "Oh hell,it's an A-Gay! Quick, hide those shoes from Nine West!"
A-Gay: "Is that a Member's Only jacket? Heavens, I think we just came in close contact with Mad Cow Disease!"
A-Gay: "Is that a Member's Only jacket? Heavens, I think we just came in close contact with Mad Cow Disease!"
AGayによって 2005年12月13日(火)
Person is unaware what is going on or passed out due to the over consumption of alcohol.
yo some guy tried to hook up with me when i was agay
woppoによって 2011年08月06日(土)
A gay man in the fast lane, jetting off to circuit parties or opera premieres, snubbing guys who can't afford to be seen with him, and ordering escorts online like they're pizzas.
"You hear that Dak flew the hustler he picked up at the Black Party home with him?"
"A-Gay to the last."
"A-Gay to the last."
hifrommike65によって 2010年01月02日(土)
Basically a juxtaposition of "a gay", generally used as an insult to someone. Originally a typo, but has advanced to regular usage.
Stfu noob, you is agay.
MavericKによって 2004年07月24日(土)
filipino way of saying ouch
agay ka dako sa imong oten. (i still dont know what it means when she said that)
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The worst movie ever made. It's lack of good dialogue, props, and storyline make it so bad, it's good. It is one of the most entertaining pieces of cinematic stupidity ever made. There is an entire episode of Seinfeld about it.
That movie is funny, but it could never compare to Plan Nine from Outer Space.
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Other local leaders said leadership sometimes comes with the job.
With those and other definitions in mind, Buffalo News reporters and editors identified 25 men and women in leadership positions who could be viewed as having the ability to move the city, county or Buffalo Niagara region forward. Survey respondents were asked to rank those 25 individuals on the effectiveness of their leadership.
The News recognized that such a list of 25 would not include all of the region's top leaders and therefore added an open-ended question to the survey, asking respondents to submit additional individuals they would add to a list of the region's top leaders.
The 149 individuals who responded to the survey listed 87 other individuals.
The vast majority of write-ins were listed once or twice, with a handful of notable exceptions.
The largest number of writes-in went to developer Rocco Termini, who was listed by 15 survey respondents, followed by West Side housing activist Aaron Bartley, listed by 10 different respondents.
Clotilde P.B. Dedecker, head of the Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo, was listed seven times, and Buffalo Assemblyman Sean Ryan and Niagara Falls Mayor Paul A. Dyster were each mentioned five times. No one else was listed more than four times.
In addition to submitting specific names, a few survey respondents wrote that they were disappointed that there weren't more women and that there weren't any African-American businessmen on The News' leadership list. The News' list of 25 included three women and seven minorities, six of them African-American, although none of the six was from the business sector.
A few other respondents observed that the list didn't reflect up-and-comers who represent future leadership.
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A video of a road rage incident with a North Carolina deputy has gone viral online, but the Summerville man who shot it has a history of turning the camera on law enforcement.
Chad Walton, 32, most recently posted a video on YouTube of his tense vehicular jockeying match Monday on Interstate 526 with an Onslow County sheriff's deputy.
The video, which has been viewed more than 600,000 times, is at least one of four that Walton has posted on YouTube chronicling his encounters challenging law enforcement officers. The others involve his interactions with North Charleston police.
Walton said he's not out to get law enforcement. He said he just wants to keep them on the straight and narrow.
"The only thing a video does is keep a cop honest," he said.
In one video recorded by Walton, a North Charleston police officer approaches him at a gas station and tells him she's responding to a complaint because several motorcycles had gathered on the property. He repeatedly questions whether a complaint was actually called in and what basis she had in approaching them.
Another video shows an officer in his squad car approaching a group of motorcyclists in a mall parking lot. Walton questions how safe it is for the officer to be driving over a sidewalk to get to them.
According to Walton, he does it to protect the public and ensure accountability.
"I don't wake up every day saying, 'I'm going to video a cop screwing up so I can ruin their career,' " Walton said. "I don't have issues with authority, I have issues with people who abuse that authority."
North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Walton, like any citizen, is welcome to file a complaint with police if he feels an officer has treated him unfairly or inappropriately.
"We take all concerns from citizens about our officers very seriously, and we do investigate them," he said.
Walton did file a complaint with the North Charleston Police Department last year saying an officer had tailgated him in a reckless manner. The report was found to be "false and not factual," Pryor said.
Latest recording
Walton's latest recording posted on YouTube involves his run-in with former N.C. Deputy Craig Culpepper, who was in the Charleston area for K-9 training. Culpepper is seen on the video pulling his cruiser in front of Walton and hitting his brakes, causing the vehicles to make contact.
The collision caused about $150 of damage to Culpepper's bumper, according to a North Charleston traffic report.
Walton said he was following close behind Culpepper because the deputy was "holding up traffic." But some commenters posting on the YouTube video accuse Walton of instigating the run-in with the deputy.
Walton told The Post and Courier that's unfair. "Anytime anyone films law enforcement doing something wrong, people blame the person who was filming," he said.
Neither Walton nor Culpepper was cited by North Charleston Police in this week's incident, but police said Culpepper contributed to the accident.
Deputy apologizes
Culpepper posted an apology on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
"While driving home I allowed another person to manage my emotions and I made a very bad decision," Culpepper wrote. "As a result of my actions I am no longer a deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff's Office; this I am very hurt by, I loved my job."
Walton said he doesn't feel bad about Culpepper's resignation, and that he's sure Culpepper will get another job in law enforcement.
Walton, who owns Chad Walton Racing, an auto performance and custom shop in Charleston, said it's not fair for people to rehash his criminal record on social media and news websites.
Walton has a criminal record that dates back to 1999 with convictions for failure to stop for blue lights, grand larceny, possession of a stolen vehicle and being a habitual traffic offender, according to State Law Enforcement Division records.
"They've brought up things I've done in my past that I'm not proud of. It's my past, big deal," Walton said. "I've spent the last few years turning my life around."
He was last arrested Dec. 24, 2010, by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office and charged with second-degree assault and battery.
After inviting a woman to his Summerville home, Walton told police his wallet went missing, according to an incident report. When he realized she was leaving his house, he chased her car near South Live Oak Drive and Farrell Street in Moncks Corner, the report stated.
Walton told police he pulled in front of the woman's car and slowed down, causing her to hit the rear of his truck. Witnesses told police Walton approached the woman's car carrying a pellet gun, but Walton denied it.
Walton said he did not want to comment on that incident. He was convicted in 2011 of the assault charge and was placed on probation for one year, according to SLED records.
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Used when referencing something that manly men do not do but is considered common for homosexuals. "ie limp wrist"
Taken from the joke about "the difference between Hitler and a homosexual".
Taken from the joke about "the difference between Hitler and a homosexual".
Passer by: "so there were four guys talking about the twilight series and debating whether it was a romance or a tragedy."
Guy: "they're all 45 degrees"
Guy: "they're all 45 degrees"
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A 45 degree is when a guy is masturbating really fast and he accidently jerks it the wrong way too far and it snaps.
Oh snap!!! Call the ambulance!!! i just 45 degreed myself!!!
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A lazy co-worker that is always leaning (at 45 degrees) on something while everyone else is working.
Travis is leaning again. Man that guy is one lazy motherfucker. He's always at a 45 degree angle. We shall call him "45 Degrees".
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Spider Bites (Black Widow and Brown Recluse) Center - Ames, IA
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Hoard's Dairyman Farm intern enjoyed 3 months in Fort Atkinson
Date:Wed, 09/04/2013
University of Kentucky student had hands-on learning on dairy operation.
by Patti Hurtgen, Hoard's Dairyman Online Media Manager
Makenzie Waymeyer completed her 3-month farm internship in early August. She is a senior at the University of Kentucky majoring in career and technical education, which is the educational path to teaching high school agriculture and serving as an FFA advisor.
Enjoy this short video on Makenzie's summer at the Hoard's Dairyman Farm.
The author is the online media manager and is responsible for the website, webinars and social media. A graduate of Modesto Junior College and Fresno State, she was raised on a California dairy and frequently blogs on youth programs and consumer issues.
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Believe it or not, Art Sponge has been around since 2009. That year coincides closely with when I started spending a significant amount of time everyday browsing through Flickr photostreams, blogs much like this one, and image bookmarking sites such as yayeveryday! (in its previous form that is) or . Later on I set my Tumblr dashboard to endless scrolling and that's where I've lost a large part of my days since.
Along with this habit came the awareness of how much stuff gets lost in this vast web of ours. Yet with time I started also realizing there is a discrepancy between images that aren't credited back to their author simply because of they're floating on a sharing platform such as Tumblr (that's no excuse– but there is a difference between clicking 'reblog' and actually creating a whole new post), or pictures that are sitting on a website's front page or a fully formatted blog post.
I recently came across a great write up by photographer Amy Stein (note to self: feature Amy Stein's photography here asap) who took a great approach to the problem. Her view is that artists cannot avoid having their photos or artworks being shared all over the net, given how the web has become based on social sharing now. Therefore they've got to let it happen, and with the help of others in the artist community those who 'forget' to link back should be reached out to and asked to attribute the work.
"Let's create a kind of attribution Neighborhood Watch where we confront site owners, editors and publishers that post images without crediting the artist and kindly ask them to get with the program." Amy Stein
Personally, I think is a delightful idea– and although it's never been given such a charismatic label, this kind of movement happens all the time in sporadic outbursts around the web. Most recently I came across a post from personal blogger Yoojin Chung who was having exactly this problem, with the help of her followers who sent emails to the offender she got the website owner to attribute her photograph. There are loads of other example of this sort.
So, what's my point? Obviously Amy has done a pretty great job at explaining the problem before me. Well my point returns to this idea of there being two kinds of uncredited images: the ones floating around the platforms, and the ones posted on websites. Most often, the former is a result of the latter. For example, a tumblr-user reposts an uncredited image found on a blog and it just keeps being reposted until nobody has any idea where it originated from.
Resolving this might need more than a Neighborhood Watch which can only be effective if the movement is carried out by significant numbers– reaching out to the platforms themselves seems also very important to me.
From my knowledge, I've rarely seen much of an emphasis put on crediting the origin of images on the formatting back-end of platforms such as Tumblr, Blogger or even WordPress.
What I mean by emphasis is there should be something that intervenes in the writer's process of inserting an image that triggers a search for a link to the image author.
Or at least a caption raising awareness around this issue. Or something. Honestly I'm just throwing a suggestion, but I'm sure many people out there have better ideas on how the great people behind blogging platforms could implement a solution to the problem of unattributed images.
What is your take on this issue? Got any suggestions? Fire away!
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on January 30, 2013 - 10:05 AM
Four people were injured Wednesday morning in a head-on collision between a car and private bus carrying passengers with special needs, according to Eden police.
Police said a car driven by Kevin M. Sprawka, 21, of Gowanda, crossed over the center line of Route 62, near Carpenter Road, colliding with a Carrier Coach bus occupied by 13 people.
Sprawka was removed from his vehicle by members of the Eden Emergency & Rescue Squad, and the Eden Fire Department. He was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center, where he's listed in stable condition.
Traveling in the bus were its driver, a bus aide and 11 passengers, who were attended to by members of Erie County's Specialized Medical Assistance Response Team. Three bus occupants, whose names weren't released by police, were taken to ECMC with minor injuries.
The accident, reported at about 8:30 a.m., closed Route 62, between Sandrock and Pontiac roads, for more than two hours.
Members of the Erie County Sheriff's Accident Investigation Unit and State Police are assisting in the investigation.


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Diamond Peak skier Casey Delaney tore it up to finish second overall in men's giant slalom on Day 1 of the Far West Race Series at Mount Shasta this past weekend, while Payton Norton charged to take second for the men on Day 2.
Athletes from around the Tahoe Basin and as far away as Mammoth made the five-hour journey north to participate in their second Far West Race Series event of the season.
Nearly 80 competitors were in each of the boys and girls fields, and all of them were challenged with steep, firm conditions that made for some hair-raising action, as the course involved a steep pitch out of the start for six turns, funneling into a narrow section and onto a second pitch. On average, the coures was more than a minute long.
"These were some of the toughest race conditions that we've seen for the U14 race group," said coach Raquel Norton.
Winston Pretti (fifth, ninth), and Cory Huber (sixth, 11th) joined their teammates in the top 15. Huber was in fourth place and on his way to a win on Sunday before dramatically crashing his second run due to an equipment failure. Also on Sunday, Noah Cleary was skiing fast when he hooked a tip and ripped out a gate and panel before losing a ski and sliding down the steep pitch in a spectacular crash.
Of the seven Diamond Peak U14 ladies competing, Madison Idso led as her team's top scorer, finishing in the top 10 on Saturday, tying for 10th place. On Sunday, Idso (fifth) continued her reign in the top 10, joined by teammate Sophia Holm (10th), whose stellar Day 2 performance saw her move dramatically in her rank.-
Emily Donahue had consistent results with a 20th on Saturday, followed by a 22nd on Sunday. Teammate Bridgette Johnson improved her 24th from Saturday to take 19th on Sunday, right behind Laurel Taylor. Taylor leapt up the scoreboard on Day 2, jumping from 35th place on Saturday to 18th.
Despite the intimidating conditions, the weekend was marked by outstanding performances by all team members.
"I couldn't be any prouder of the U14 athletes. They've been training hard and it shows," said coach Mark Norton.
Many of Diamond Peak's 23 U14 racers (ages 12 and 13) have been training five days a week to hone their ski racing techniques and tactics.
"The dedication of the skiers and their families continue to amaze us this season," Norton said. "The weekend prior to this race, our athletes were on the slope training in minus 10-degree temperatures before most people had their first cup of coffee."
All of the Diamond Peak Ski Team athletes can be seen skiing in the 2013 UllrFest torchlight parade on Feb. 8 at 5:30 p.m. For more information visit www.dpsef.org.


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on February 16, 2013 - 6:58 PM
A Buffalo woman was charged with felony DWI early Saturday, after a breath test showed her blood-alcohol level at .21 percent, more than twice the legal limit.
Transit Police Officer John Yuhnke said that about 3:45 a.m., he was stopped at a red light at Main and Amherst streets when a vehicle almost rear-ended his car. He said he also saw the vehicle swerving between lanes.
Evette E. Warford, 44, of South Division Street, was charged with felony driving while intoxicated. Police said she had been convicted of DWI n 2004.


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For those of us who were born married, Valentine's Day is sort of the acid test of the relationship.
"Please, don't get me anything. I don't need anything. We can't afford anything this year."
Yeah, sure, Buster. Just try showing up without anything. Talk about cruisin' for a bruisin'.
Valentine's Day is unique among holidays. It's a day to celebrate loving relationships, but unlike holidays such as Christmas, Mother's and Father's Days, it is only about two people - you and your beloved.
As such, it lies at the heart of the deepest of human conditions - the urgency of needing and being needed by another person. Most of us have to have a special connection with one other person to feel whole.
The most successful couples seem to develop much more than the original physical and emotional attraction. At some point, they actually learn to like each other as well as love each other. There's no question that shared memories become part of that bond, too.
So, despite the flippant way this editorial began, it has to be acknowledged that the idea behind Valentine's Day is an important one. It truly isn't just a day to sell heart-shaped boxes of candy, diamonds or dozens of roses.
It's a day to tell that someone special in your life, "I'm glad I found you. . . . I'm lucky I found you."
So trot out the candy, the jewelry and the flowers (you don't want that bruisin'). But don't forget the words, too. They're the most important gift you can give your Valentine.
* Editorials reflect the opinion of the publisher.