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Tips to deal with drought-stressed forages
Tips to deal with drought-stressed forages
Put a plan of action in place to make the most of this year's forages.
With extreme drought conditions affecting more than half of the U.S., and in excess of 30 percent of the corn crop rated at poor or very poor conditions – this year's forages are likely to present some challenges.
"Unfortunately you can't control the plant that's presented for harvest," says Martha Baker, dairy nutrition specialist with Purina Animal Nutrition LLC. "But you can control what you do with it."
The upside to dealing with drought-stressed forages is that total plant digestibility tends to go up and they tend to be good quality feeds, because of higher stem to leaf ratios. "Improved digestibility offers some advantages and is something dairy producers and nutritionists need to keep in mind when formulating rations with this year's crop," she says.
To handle and feed drought-stressed forages, Baker offers the following advice:
Decide when to harvest. Knowing when to harvest corn silage may be a challenge this year as some of the corn crop likely did not develop ears because it didn't pollinate. To ease the decision on when to harvest, Baker advises to keep an eye on total plant dry matter; aiming for a total plant dry matter of 30 to 38 percent. "Remember the forages will dry quicker, so be sure to watch the rate at which the plant is maturing and drying," she adds.
Keep an eye on nitrate levels in the corn crop. Baker explains that nitrate levels can be problematic in drought-stressed corn; nitrates start to accumulate in the plant when it stops converting them into plant protein. The bottom 6 to 8 inches of the plant has the highest nitrate levels.
"If you're not dealing with green chop, nitrates shouldn't be an issue because ensiling reduces nitrates by 40 percent," she says. "But if you do feed green chop, consider raising the corn head during harvest, as the herd could experience major toxicity issues if the plant is fed."
To evaluate nitrate levels in the crop prior to harvest, submit a sample to a laboratory for evaluation. Samples should be taken at the height that the plant will be chopped.
Use inoculants. "If you don't normally use inoculants, this year they should certainly be considered," says Baker, not only are the natural bacteria levels lower, the sugars and carbohydrates needed for efficient fermentation will be lower. With forages in such short supply any step that can be taken to reduce dry matter losses should be taken.
Watch for prussic acid poisoning. If you are working with grass hay or haylage, Baker advises to keep an eye out for prussic acid poisoning. "The bottom portion of the stem poses the most danger."
Get a handle on what the forage inventory looks like for your operation. Talk with your nutritionist today to put a plan in place to help control feed cost through 2013 and still allow for high production and a healthy rumen, says Baker, noting that producers may need to look to forage and fiber extenders to fill a void in inventory.
"Regardless of the forages you are presented with, it should always be top of mind to feed every cow, exactly what she needs, where she needs it, when she needs it – nothing more and nothing less," says Baker. This approach will aid dairy farmers in capturing opportunities for improved efficiency.
For more information on feeding drought-stressed forages, contact your local Purina Animal Nutrition representative or go to: www.lolfeed.com.
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Author Affiliations: Section of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Context Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for morbid obesity, which is increasingly recognized as a familial disease. Healthy behavior transmission may be enhanced by family relationships.
Objective To determine changes in weight and healthy behavior in patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and their family members.
Design Prospective, longitudinal, and multidimensional health assessment before and 1 year after index Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery.
Setting An academic bariatric center of excellence, from January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2009.
Participants Eighty-five participants (35 patients, 35 adult family members, and 15 children <18 years old).
Intervention Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery and associated dietary and lifestyle counseling.
Main Outcome Measures Weight and expected body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared). Secondary outcomes were waist circumference, quality of life (36-Item Short Form or Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory), healthy behaviors, eating behaviors, and activity levels.
Results Participants were grouped by relationship to patient for analysis with paired 2-sample t tests. Before the operation, 60% of adult family members and 73% of children of patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery were obese. At 12 months after the operation, significant weight loss was observed in obese adult family members (from 234 to 226 lb; P = .01). There was a trend for obese children to have a lower body mass index than expected for their growth curve (31.2 expected vs 29.6 observed; P = .07). Family members increased their daily activity levels (adults, from 8 to 17 metabolic equivalent task–hours, P = .005; and children, from 13 to 22, P = .04). Adult family members also had improved eating habits with less uncontrollable eating (from 35 to 28; P = .01), emotional eating (from 36 to 28; P = .04), and alcohol consumption (from 11 drinks per month to 1 drink per month; P = .009).
Conclusion Gastric bypass surgery may render an additional benefit of weight loss and improved healthy behavior for bariatric patients' family members.
Despite public health efforts, 26% of American adults are obese and an additional 40% are overweight.1 In 2008, there were 220 000 Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RNYGB) operations performed in the United States.2 Bariatric surgery currently is the only effective and enduring treatment for morbid obesity.3 The benefits of RNYGB include weight loss, resolution of comorbidities, and improvements in overall mortality and specifically mortality related to diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.4,5
The obesity epidemic in the United States is also affecting children, with 18% of children classified as overweight and 15% classified as obese on the basis of body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) for sex and age growth curves.6 The biggest risk factor for becoming an obese child is having an obese parent, and data from the Bogalusa Heart Study7,8 show that childhood obesity is strongly associated with obesity in adulthood.
During pregnancy and delivery, the risk of adverse maternal and fetal outcomes is lower after RNYGB.9 The obesity rate in children of mothers who have had RNYGB is 52% lower after surgery compared with the obesity rate in children born to the same mothers before surgery.10
Weight changes and lifestyle modification may be social contagions. Christakis and Fowler,11 using findings from the Framingham Heart Study from 1975 to 2000, demonstrated that a person's risk of becoming obese is influenced by associating with obese individuals. In that study, a person's risk of becoming obese increased 57% if a friend became obese and 37% if a spouse became obese. The corollary holds true as well: weight loss has been shown to be socially contagious, with greater dietary weight loss achieved if a spouse also enrolls in a weight loss program or if a person participates in a weight loss support group.12 Social support leads to more success in other lifestyle changes. A person is 67% more likely to stop smoking if their spouse also stops smoking.13 If one member of the family makes drastic lifestyle changes following surgery, it is possible that other family members will adopt similar healthy habits.
The efficacy of RNYGB in inducing dramatic weight loss has been well proven in the literature, but few data document weight changes in the patient's family members after RNYGB. To our knowledge, only 1 study14 has examined the effects of bariatric surgery on family members of patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery. The aim of this study was to observe any weight and lifestyle changes in spouses, parents, and children of RNYGB patients in the first year following surgery.
From January 1, 2007, through December 31, 2009, we enrolled 35 families of patients with RNYGB in a prospective, longitudinal, and multidimensional health assessment at an academic bariatric center of excellence. To be included in the study, the family members had to be able to accompany the patient on all clinic visits, and the patient and family members had to live together in 1 domicile. Patients and family members were required to attend 3 patient preoperative educational sessions and all postoperative visits where lifestyle modification was emphasized (at 2 and 6 weeks and at 3, 6, and 12 months).
At each clinic visit, the standardized dietary and lifestyle counseling that accompanies bariatric surgery was given to patient and family members alike. Dietary recommendations to patients and family members specifically included an emphasis on a high-protein, high-fiber, low-fat, and low-sugar diet with small frequent meals consistent with post–gastric bypass surgery recommendations. At each of the 6 daily meals, patients and family members were instructed to have a serving size of 4 to 6 oz (7-21 g) of protein, 0 to 8 g of fat, 0 to 30 g of carbohydrates, and 200 to 300 calories. Family members were encouraged to take a daily multivitamin, with RNYGB patients taking the same as well as supplemental B12, iron, and calcium, as indicated. Lifestyle counseling daily goals included physical activity of 10 000 steps, 8 hours of sleep, alcohol moderation, and avoidance of watching more than 2 hours of television. Eighty-five study participants were followed up, comprising 35 patients, 26 spouses, 3 grandparents (of patients' children), 6 adult children, and 15 children younger than 18. For analysis, spouses, grandparents, and adult children were combined into an adult family group (n = 35). Children younger than 18 are hereafter referred to as the children group (n = 15). Before and 12 months after the operation, all participants were weighed and were given validated questionnaires measuring general health, eating habits, and activity levels.
Obesity in adults is defined as a BMI of 30 or greater. In children younger than 18, obesity is defined as a BMI at the 95th percentile or higher, using the BMI for sex and age growth charts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).15 In adults, changes in weight from before to 1 year after the operation were measured simply as changes in weight. However, in children, weight change alone does not accurately reflect body content because a healthy child is expected to gain appropriate weight during the course of a year. Each child's expected 1-year BMI was compared with their actual 1-year BMI using a paired t test, with P < .05 considered significant.
Several validated questionnaires were administered to patients and their families at the patient's preoperative and 1-year postoperative appointments. The 36-Item Short Form (SF-36), a validated and widely used health survey, was used to measure general health in adult participants. The SF-36 can be scored to produce a total score as well as subscores for the domains of mental and physical health. Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher numbers indicating better health.16 Selected sections from the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire were used to obtain data on television viewing habits and alcohol consumption. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire is used by the CDC to follow state trends in health risk behaviors.17 The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire scores eating habits from 0 to 100 on 3 domains: cognitive control of eating, uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating.18 The Food Frequency Questionnaire is a self-report food recall survey that estimates how frequently the respondents consume foods from the following food groups: dairy, fruits and vegetables, meats, carbohydrates, and junk food.19
A metabolic equivalent task is a measure of energy expenditure. One metabolic equivalent task is equivalent to consuming 1 kilocalorie per kilogram of body weight per hour. The Seven-Day Physical Activity Recall questionnaire has participants estimate daily hours spent doing different activities and can calculate the mean daily metabolic equivalent task–hours of energy expended.20 The Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale is a 12-item questionnaire that evaluates the adequacy of sleep, the restfulness of sleep, and the degree of sleep disturbance. It is scored from 0 to 100, with higher numbers indicating more restful sleep.21
In children younger than 18, validated pediatric questionnaires were used in place of the SF-36, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System questionnaire, and the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale. Information on general health and risk factors was collected via the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, version 4.0, which scores from 0 to 4.0 on 4 generic core scales: physical, emotional, social, and school.22 Information on lifestyle choices and healthy behaviors was gathered using the Health Behavior in School-aged Children questionnaire, a standard questionnaire developed by the International Research Institute and now used by the World Health Organization to follow up changes in healthy behaviors in more than 43 countries.23
All analyses were performed using Stata software, version 7.0 (StataCorp, College Station, Texas). Approval of the Stanford Human Subjects Review Board was obtained, and all participants signed research consent forms.
The demographic distribution of the patient population in our study was representative of the overall patient population undergoing bariatric surgery (Table 1). It should be noted that the patient with RNYGB primarily performed both food acquisition and preparation.
The weight loss observed in patients was typical for patients undergoing gastric bypass at our institution (Table 2). The mean weight of adult family members decreased from 220 to 198 lb but was not statistically significant. However, when adult family members were divided into groups on the basis of obesity before the operation, significant differences became apparent. Obese adult family members underwent significant decreases in weight from 234 to 226 lb (P = .01), whereas weight decreases of nonobese adult family members were not significant (from 180 to 176 lb). Body mass index, a function of weight, underwent similar trends in adult family members. Waist circumference among all adult family member did not change significantly (from 108 to 105 cm), but among obese adult family members, it did change significantly (from 119 to 111 cm) (P = .03). There was no change in the waist circumference of nonobese adult family members, which remained at 99 cm.
Weight changes in children required different analysis to take into account their natural growth. As expected, children gained weight in the year following surgery, from 118 to 126 lb (P = .04). Along with the increases in weight, there were increases in the height of the children, so that there were no significant changes in BMI for all children (from 26.3 to 26.3), obese children only (30.3 to 29.6), or nonobese children only (from 18.3 to 19.8). Body mass index alone does not accurately reflect whether a child is of normal weight because a healthy BMI in children is determined by BMI for sex and age growth curves.15 The BMI for sex and age growth curves from the CDC were used to predict a 1-year postoperative BMI for each child if he or she were to continue along his or her current growth trajectory. These expected 1-year BMIs were compared with each child's observed 1-year BMI with a paired t test. The mean expected BMI of 27.0 was higher than the mean observed BMI of 26.3 for all children. In obese children only, the expected BMI of 31.2 was higher than the observed BMI of 29.6 (P = .07), and in nonobese children the expected BMI of 18.8 was lower than the observed BMI of 19.8. Waist circumference in children is another measure that would be expected to increase appropriately during the course of a year in a growing child. Waist circumference in all children did not change from 84 to 85 cm; in obese children, it remained stable from 91 to 93 cm; and in nonobese children, it did not change (Table 2).
The total SF-36 score for gastric bypass patients improved significantly from 51 to 73 (P < .001) (Table 3). The total SF-36 score among adult family members remained at 73 from before to 1 year after the operation. The SF-36 subscores for the domains of mental and physical health underwent similar changes, with significant improvements in every domain for patients and with no statistically significant changes seen in adult family members (data not shown). Questions from the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey on alcohol consumption revealed decreases in the mean number of alcoholic drinks consumed per month by patients (from 5.1 to 0.2) and by adult family members (from 11.4 to 0.8). The number of hours spent watching television each day is shown in the Figure. Patients and adult family members reported sleeping the same number of hours as before; patients reported that their sleep became significantly more restful, but this change was not observed in family members.
Figure. Mean daily hours of watching television and daily expenditures of metabolic equivalent tasks (METs), before and 1 year after gastric bypass surgery in the patients. The whiskers indicate SD.
As shown in Table 4, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory revealed small increases in the children's quality of life, but these changes were not significant. The Health Behavior in School-aged Children questionnaire showed decreases in the number of hours that children watched television and used a computer daily, but these did not achieve statistical significance (Figure). There was a significant increase in the percentage of children who reported being on a diet (from 25% to 50%) (P = .01).
One year following surgery, both patients and adult family members had significant changes in their eating habits (Table 5). Patients' cognitive control of eating significantly increased from a mean of 47 to 72, uncontrollable eating decreased from 44 to 15, and emotional eating decreased from 56 to 25 (P < .001 for all). Adult family members showed no significant change in cognitive control of eating but did have significant mean decreases in uncontrolled eating from 35 to 28 (P = .01) and in emotional eating from 36 to 28 (P = .04). Children of gastric bypass patients did not undergo significant changes in cognitive control of eating, uncontrolled eating, or emotional eating (Table 5).
The Food Frequency Questionnaire showed significant changes in the food choices of patients, but there were no significant changes in the food choices of adult family members or children. One year following surgery, patients ate fewer mean servings of carbohydrates (from 1.54 to 1.02; P = .001), vegetables (from 2.20 to 1.71; P = .04), and junk food (from 1.31 to 0.64; P < .001) than they did before surgery (data not shown).
Activity levels increased in patients from 11.3 to 14.0 metabolic equivalent task–hours per day. There were significant increases in daily activity levels in adult family members (from 7.8 to 16.8 metabolic equivalent task–hours) and in children (from 12.9 to 22.4) (Figure and Table 5).
Previous studies have shown that obesity may be a social contagion and that by associating with obese individuals a person is more likely to become obese.11 Our study may demonstrate that bariatric surgery in selected populations can provide a reverse corollary and induce weight loss and healthy behaviors in people surrounding the patient.
In our study, weight loss occurred in both nonobese and obese adult family members. The significant weight loss observed in obese adult family members represented a loss of 3% of their total body weight. This weight loss of 3% is within the range of 2% to 5%, which is the 12-month weight loss achieved by overweight women following the Atkins, Zone, Ornish, and LEARN (Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitudes, Relationships, and Nutrition) diets.24 The similarity in 12-month weight loss suggests that living with a gastric bypass patient and undertaking a structured diet plan along with the patient may have an equivalent effect on weight. Adult family members in this study reported significantly less uncontrollable eating and less emotional eating. These data suggest that following surgery, family members were conscious of and attempting to limit maladaptive eating patterns. Furthermore, although family members could have lost similar weight on a structured weight loss program, family members of a person undergoing gastric bypass are more likely to participate in weight loss given the physical proximity to patient's television viewing, exercise options, and/or food selection. Perhaps the best indicator of dietary success is adherence,24 and having a family member undergo weight loss surgery is a powerful reminder for dietary modification.
Seventy-three percent of the children in this study were obese. Following the parent's surgery, these obese children had BMIs lower than those expected by their plotted growth curves. Children were twice as likely to report being on a diet to lose weight 1 year after their parent had gastric bypass surgery, suggesting that having a parent lose weight has children adopt more weight scrutiny. The children in this study also benefited from fewer daily hours of television viewing and from increased physical activity after a parent underwent a bariatric procedure. For this group, the study shows that gastric bypass surgery not only benefits the patient but also may render a halo effect of weight loss and healthy behavior for the patient's family members and children.
Obesity is a family health concern. This study demonstrates that weight loss can be a family intervention whereby family members can mutually support each other in their goal of weight loss. Weight loss surgery for 1 family member may be weight loss for all the family with properly applied dedication and resources. With the steadily increasing use of weight loss surgery, there may be ample opportunity for family members to benefit from tertiary prevention of obesity. Patients undergoing gastric bypass make drastic changes in their eating habits and lifestyle, and it is likely that these new behaviors affect their family members and friends who are themselves at high risk of being obese. Bariatric surgery provides an opportunity for intervention for many individuals beyond the patient. Bariatric surgery programs should encourage family involvement in support groups and education sessions to capitalize on these halo effects. This study demonstrates that performing a gastric bypass operation on 1 patient has a halo of positive effect on the weight, eating habits, activity levels, and health behaviors of the entire family.
Correspondence: John Morton, MD, MPH, Section of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Dr, H3680, Stanford, CA 94305 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: March 21, 2011.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Morton. Acquisition of data: Woodard, Encarnacion, Peraza, and Morton. Analysis and interpretation of data: Woodard, Hernandez-Boussard, and Morton. Drafting of the manuscript: Woodard, Encarnacion, Peraza, and Morton. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Woodard, Hernandez-Boussard, and Morton. Statistical analysis: Hernandez-Boussard and Morton. Obtained funding: Woodard and Morton. Administrative, technical, and material support: Woodard, Encarnacion, Peraza, and Morton. Study supervision: Morton.
Financial Disclosure: None reported.
Funding/Support: This study was supported by the Medical Scholars Program from Stanford School of Medicine.
This article was corrected for typographical errors on Oct 17, 2011.
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firstname.lastname@example.com Local attorney Larry Kobrovsky and the Moultrie News are proud to announce the winners of our annual First Amendment Essay Contest.
This contest is held for middle school students, high school students and adults. A teacher is also awarded for having the most student entries as a way to encourage participation. This year's number of entries was unprecedented, with several hundred middle school submissions.
This year's topic was the meaning of the First Amendment's "Freedom of Religion" clause.
At a time when conflicts between different religious beliefs and non-beliefs are at the heart of nearly every major political issue, the Moultrie News wanted to know what its readers and local students think about the meaning of the First Amendment, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
After winning a federal lawsuit based on the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, longtime attorney Larry Kobrovsky wanted to make people more aware of the language of the Constitution, so he began a community-wide essay contest.
Most people think the First Amendment contains a separation of church and state, Kobrovsky pointed out, when in fact that concept comes from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote after the First Amendment was enacted. Misconceptions like this one are what Kobrovsky hopes to fix. "I'm convinced that the Constitution is the foundation of our way of life and why we're exceptional," he said.
"The more people who are aware of it and wrestle with the language, the better off we'll be."
Special to the contest this year was the addition of a featured judge. Gene Tumbleston, a former prisoner of war during the Korean conflict. With the help of his daughter Joanne Jarman, Tumbleston joined the Moultrie News staff in picking the winners. He is an 81-year-old Mount Pleasant resident. Tumbleston is just one of many POW's who live among us in the Lowcountry. He is an unassuming man - not one to seek attention for his service to the United States and was included this year as a way to commemorate his service.
"This year's program was very special to me," said Kobrovsky. "I just returned from two weeks visiting the villages my mother and father's family came from in Lithuania and in what is now Belarus. This entire area was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the 1500s to 1795 when was it taken over by Russia.
It was part of the Russian Empire until the end of the First World War in 1918," he said.
"In 1918,Lithuania and Poland became independent countries until the 2nd World War.
The Soviet Union took complete control over Lithiania and annexed the eastern third of Poland. Lithuania recently regained its independence and the eastern third of Poland that the Soviet Union had taken over has now become the country of Belarus, when the Soviet Union fell apart."
Kobrovsky's family lived there that entire time. Whatever country won the latest war would impose their religion and language on the conquered. Your rights were defined by your ethnicity and religion. There was no concept or expectation of individual rights or freedom of religion, he explained.
Kobrovksy visited the Memorial Stone written in Yiddish and Lithuanian in memory of the woman and children of Vidukle who were machine gunned and murdered at that site by the Nazis and their local collaborators. Every woman and child, no matter how old or young was marched there and killed. He met a Lithuanian woman there who was a young girl at that time.
"She remembered and decribed everything to me. My mother's family came from this village," he said.
"I truly believe America is a miracle in the history of the world and that our way of life here is guided by the very same principles our essay contest is about. It is best expressed in the quote by Justice Harlan in his Dissenting Opinion in Plessy vs Ferguson 'Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.' Every village in Lithuania has a similar monument and mass grave. All my relatives I grew up with would have ended up in those pits had they not come to America."
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Jody Stallings, a Moultrie Middle School teacher, was awarded $250 for having the most student participation.
Preston Manning, a Bishop England High school student, won first place in the high school division and received $250.
Sydney Memminger, a Charleston Charter Math and Science student, won second place in the high school division and received $100.
Roark Corson, a student at Buist, won first place in the middle school division and received $100.
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Cindy Lee of the Isle of Palms was the adult essay winner and received $250.
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The Durango High School girls basketball team ended its season in style � just not the style the Demons would�ve liked.
The 10th-seeded Demons lost 50-47 to No. 7 Pueblo East in the opening round of the CHSAA Class 4A State Girls Basketball Championships in Pueblo in what DHS head coach Nancy Smith called a �fantastic game.�
�The girls just played their hearts out,� Smith said. �It�s painful for them to lose one close like that, but it absolutely was not because of a lack of effort on their part.�
Smith said the game was tied with about two minutes left before a few Durango turnovers turned into a small lead for the Eagles.
From there, Pueblo East �just held us off,� Smith said, then added a couple of free throws for the final margin.
Molly Barnes led the Demons with 13 points, Emily McCue added 11 points, eight rebounds and three steals, and Katie Wiegert scored eight.
Shanelle Bogus pulled down six rebounds for DHS.
�Got a little bit from everybody,� Smith said.
Durango trailed by one point at the half before taking a slight lead in the third quarter, in no small part because of Dominique Ward�s defensive effort against Pueblo�s best scorer.
Durango ends the season with a 13-10 record, eight wins better than last season�s five-win finish.
Smith said the Demons made progress over the course of the season � one in which they set out to send a message to the rest of Colorado and transform themselves into �the most annoying team in the state.�
�And they have successfully achieved that goal,� said Smith, whose Demons finished 4-6 in the Southwestern League. �We want people to come to Durango and just hate playing us.
�We went out improving and getting better and showing the world that you can�t discount Durango basketball.�


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When you think Atlantic City, casinos and gambling may be the first things that come to mind; but what about waterviews, the boardwalk, the beach, amazing restaurants, world class entertainment and my absolute favorite: the spas? Atlantic City is more than just a town to gamble in, and it's certainly a lot more safer than you think!
For my trip to Atlantic City, I stayed at the Borgata Casino & Spa. Don't mistake the Borgata to simply be a hotel and casino, as it is so much more. Honestly, it's like its own city. It is massive with upscale shops, outrageously delicious restaurants, cafes for a quick treat (Frappacino's at Starbucks and amazing display to delight your tastebuds at Sweets & Eats), an entertainment venue, two spas (Immersion Spa and Spa Toccare), nightclubs and The Water Club. You really have no reason to leave the Borgata with so much to do, BUT you should as Atlantic City has so much to offer. Their tagline, after all is, Do AC!
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Simple question... just wondered what the warranty period is for an M20d mixer in the UK.
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Well... with all the complex (but very necessary) technical questions that get answered here... I thought this was a fairly simple one that someone from Line 6 would have no trouble answering! Anyone from Line 6 got the answer to this?
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Thanks, Silverhead.
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Now, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg has weighed in – and she's all for showing it on screen, though perhaps without some of the gorier details.
"The childbirth – all the scenes, I feel – should be on screen," Rosenberg tells PopSugar. "Would we actually see Edward's teeth through the placenta? I don't think so. I don't think we need to see that."
She adds with a laugh: "If someone needs to see that, I think they should take a look at that."
In the novel, the birth is so difficult that Bella nearly dies, and one book reviewer complained that the scene was so graphic, it "may promote lifelong abstinence in sensitive types."
As the Breaking Dawn film production has been getting closer, Kristen Stewart, in particular, has been curious about that scene. "I haven't seen a script," she told MTV News in January, "but I'm not alone in really, really wondering how they're going to handle that."
Rosenberg, who also wrote the first three films in the series, said last month that she was "deep in the middle" of the script for the two-part Breaking Dawn movie, the first installment of which is due in theaters in November 2011. In the PopSugar interview, Rosenberg says it's been great fun writing the character Bella, in particular, as she evolves.
"I think seeing Bella as a vampire and her adjusting to her powers and embracing them, those are all really fun scenes to write," she says. "Particularly when you picture Kristen Stewart playing her, and the way she's embodied Bella as a sort of awkward, fidgety persona. When she turns into a vampire, all of that goes away."
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The razor-thin presidential race seems to have almost bypassed Buffalo, but some area residents are finding ways to take part in the campaigning anyway – mostly by leaving home.
The Communications Workers of America Local 1122 sent a busload of volunteers to Cleveland on Saturday, and it's just one of several union- and campaign-backed efforts to get Western New York manpower involved in the battle between President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney in the key swing state of Ohio.
Meanwhile, both parties are dipping into one of Buffalo's most abundant resources – lawyers – and deploying them to swing states, where they will be primed to swing into action to deal with voting problems and possible legal challenges to close results.
And all weekend long, as they have for weeks, a group of conservatives will be manning the phones to identify right-leaning Ohio voters and encourage them to get to the polls.
This is how a presidential election plays out for the political class in a non-swing state.
With Obama expected to sweep to an easy victory in cobalt-blue New York, local political types simply go where they're needed.
"We feel it's very important that we go to Ohio and engage voters and get out the vote for President Obama," said James Wagner, president of the CWA local that sent that bus southwest on Saturday. "We'll be specifically targeting labor families."
Families of all types are being targeted in Ohio, and for good reason. The state has sided with the winner in 26 of the 28 last presidential elections, and according to Nate Silver, the statistical guru behind the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog, it's the "tipping point" state most likely to decide the election this year.
That being the case, several local unions have been busing people to the Buckeye State on recent weekends to canvass neighborhoods on behalf of the president, said Richard Lipsitz, president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation.
And that's just part of the president's local get-out-the-vote effort.
Obama for America is "exporting volunteers to Ohio (primarily from Western NY)," said Robert Diamond, the group's New York State director, in a memo Friday.
Local Republicans have been less active in getting boots on the ground in Ohio, and for a reason.
"We haven't been organizing a lot of people to go out of state, because we have targeted races here," said Erie County Republican Chairman Nicholas A. Langworthy.
Those local races center on efforts to defeat Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul, D-Hamburg, and re-elect State Sen. Mark Grisanti, R-Buffalo.
Nevertheless, the Erie County GOP's attorney, Emilio Colaicovo, finds himself in Columbus, Ohio, as part of a team of lawyers prepared to come to Mitt Romney's aid as the election unfolds.
"I'm part of a war room in Columbus where lawyers such as myself will address electoral problems," said Colaicovo, who was asked to join the Romney effort after serving as a local surrogate for the Republican nominee in Western New York.
The central concern will be provisional ballots, which are given to voters who go to the voting stations without the proper proof of Ohio residency, Colaicovo said.
With national polls showing an extraordinarily close race, both sides are lawyering up, and in a big way. The New York Times reported Friday that thousands of lawyers will be deployed to voting places to observe the behavior of poll workers and voters – and to take part in legal action if necessary.
That's expected to happen only if the election hinges on the results in a state that's too close to call on election night, where provisional or absentee or disputed ballots could decide the outcome. Such scenarios are rare, but one unfolded in Florida 12 years ago, when the state's electoral votes and the presidency swung to Republican George W. Bush only after the U.S. Supreme Court said they should.
Not surprisingly, then, other political lawyers – such as Buffalo Democratic operative and former county party chairman G. Steven Pigeon – have found their way to the Sunshine State.
Pigeon is poised to help if legal problems emerge with the vote in Broward County, which includes Fort Lauderdale. He said Republicans are trying to suppress the vote in minority and poor communities, and that could have big consequences.
Pigeon said he's also involved in get-out-the vote efforts in Broward County, in a state where he has political experience dating back decades.
"I'm a utility player," Pigeon said.
Back in Buffalo, longtime Republican activist Russ Gugino is coordinating a call center for Concerned Veterans for America, a 501(c)(4) political organization that is not allowed to directly advocate for Mitt Romney but that nonetheless aims to steer votes Romney's way.
Calling targeted homes in Ohio, the Buffalo volunteers for the veterans group ask voters two questions: if they're happy with the way things are going in the country, and if they have voted or if they are planning to vote.
Those who are unhappy with the way things are going will get a follow-up call on Election Day, encouraging them to vote – and because they're unhappy, they're likely to vote for Romney, Gugino said.
Gary Berntsen, a former U.S. Senate candidate from New York who is now the conservative veterans group's director for the state of Florida, told Gugino that calling the Ohioans would be a good option for the volunteers from Buffalo.
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"Wow, Jacob is such a manwhore."
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A Manwhore is a male that has several key attributes. A typically young (18-25)male who dresses in designer clothing, carries multiple cellphones, has become a master of manipulating women, and makes it his personal mission to sleep with as many different women as possible qualifies as a manwhore. He also has virtually no emmotional attachment to any of his victims. The reputaion of manwhore makes gaining new potential victims somewhat difficult, so most manwhores are forced to switch territories and stomping grounds frequently. However, even in familair enviornments, many manwhores can continue to get laid by playing the "im misunderstood, or "Im just pissed and acting out over a bad breakup" card. A true master in both deception and cunning, a manwhore is any "good girls" worst nightmare come true.
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A sexually active, promiscuous, younger man who often wears alot of flashy jewelery, has greased down, or spiked up hair and keeps a 'chicktionary'. He is well known at most health clinics and may have an STD named after him in his honour. He knows many girls but will often mix up or forget thier names. He will commonly have one or more illegitimate children (though not always, especially in the amateur stage) and his relation with other men is often strained, due to past encounters with girlfriends or wives.
"He slept with your girlfriend's best friend and her sister, and her cousin at the same party! What a man whore!"
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A male who's unleashed himself from the bonds of society; thinking for himself and following his own mental dictates and biological drives. This inherently causes the women around him to fall for him.
That guy's a serious manwhore, he must surf www.manwhore.org all day long!
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A badge of fucking pride.
Yeah I'm a bit of a manwhore. At least I tell the girls that before I get them drunk and fuck them. But they usually think I'm kidding.
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One certain male individual who enjoys the sexual intercourse of others more than average.
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Blaise Flamio looks like a younger, fitter and better-looking version of Rocky Balboa from the "Rocky" movie series.
If you go
What: The 15th James Island Connector Run, featuring a 10K run and bike and a 5K run and walk.
When: 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Where: Cannon Park at Ashley Avenue and Bennett Street, Charleston.
Cost: $30 until 10 p.m. Wednesday; $35 after that.
Benefits: Gavalas Kolanko Foundation, which provides scholarships to disabled students at local colleges.
Registration: In-person registration and packet pick–up will be 2-7 p.m. Friday and starting at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at Cannon Park. Checks and debit/credit cards will be accepted.
Info: http://jicrun.com/ index.htm
The New York native is a dark-featured Italian-American who is muscle-bound, quiet but confident, definitely someone few would want to cross.
Yet the 25-year-old fights an internal battle on a daily basis. Flamio suffers from the effects of injuries suffered in a firefight in the Kandahar valley of Afghanistan in the summer of 2011, where he was serving in the Army's 10th Mountain Division.
"We got there and relieved the 101st Airborne Division," recalls Flamio. "It was a bad area on the border of Pakistan where there were a lot of opium (poppy) and grape fields. Bin Laden had just been killed. Two hundred prisoners had escaped from an Afghan prison and were coming our way.
"One day we went out and got ambushed. One of my friends got killed and a helicopter almost got shot down. It was madness. That's when I was wounded. I was shot with an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade)."
Three pieces of shrapnel blasted into his hip and a bullet went through his calf into his heel.
The injury left him bedridden and then unable to walk without crutches for months. For a year and half, he shuffled in and out of hospitals.
While he looks strapping and healthy today, Flamio still suffers from post-concussive effects of the blast. Every night he has migraine headaches. To ease the suffering, he drinks coffee and keeps his room dark and cold, at about 65 degrees. He manages to sleep only about three to four hours a night. And when he wakes, he feels sick and wants to drive-heave.
Despite all that, Flamio wants to move on with his life. He's started by working to complete his course work at The Citadel where he attended from 2006 to 2009 before volunteering for the Army.
Flamio wants to get his bachelor's degree in English, apply to New York University to get a masters in journalism and write copy for TV news.
Getting help
While the GI Bill covers tuition, he still needed some help with expenses and was among the 13 students receiving a college scholarship from the Gavalas Kolanko Foundation this school year. The foundation raises money primarily through the James Island Connector Run, the 15th of which is Saturday (see box).
Co-founder Nick Gavalas says Flamio's scholarship is the first and not the last one provided to a student at The Citadel. He hopes the award will let other veterans returning to start or complete their education at local colleges know that the foundation is available to help out.
"We know there are a lot of people (veterans) who are back or coming back who are going through school that don't know about us and that we can help," says Gavalas. "To be able to serve Blaise, it's what we're all about."
Gavalas adds that the foundation has approached The Citadel for scholarship nominees for a number of years and "due to circumstances, there weren't many qualified students."
Those qualifications include having a disability, keeping a grade point average of 2.5 or better, and a personal story demonstrating that the applicant won't let their disability hold them back, says Gavalas.
Since 1999, the foundation has given 74 scholarships, which start at $1,500 and go up $500 for each successive year. The foundation works with admissions offices at the College of Charleston, The Citadel, Charleston Southern University, Trident Technical College and the Art Institute of Charleston for nominees and disperses the money via the schools.
Gavalas says he recognized the void in helping disabled college students after meeting Ron Kolanko in 1999. Kolanko had been anonymously supporting students in Pennsylvania and attested to the need.
Giving back
Alex Jackson, a multischolarship recipient, already is giving back, even though he remains a graduate student at the College of Charleston.
Born and raised in Charleston, Jackson was paralyzed from a car accident when he was 9 months old, but he never let the injury stop him from leading an otherwise normal life.
He graduated from West Ashley High School and has a bachelor's degree in media studies from C of C.
The foundation has provided Jackson with three scholarships in college, starting his sophomore year, and one as a graduate.
In the last two years, he has spread the word about the James Island Connector Run by taking fliers to businesses and talking to owners about the importance of the race and the scholarships from a personal standpoint.
His future includes continuing to advocate for people with disabilities, which he does now with a blog called "Tuesday Talk with Alex."
But part of his message encompasses cases similar to Flamio.
"It's often hard to tell who has a disability, not everyone with a disability is in a wheelchair, but they are out there all the same and they want to achieve their dreams just like everyone else," says Jackson.
Reach David Quick at 937-5516 or dquick@postand courier.com.
Blaise Flamio, a veteran wounded in Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 and who is finishing up his school work at The Citadel.×
Gavalas Kolanko Foundation co-founder Nick Gavalas (right) said when the board read the scholarship application from Blaise Flamio (left), "We said, 'Of course he's getting a scholarship.' "×
The 15th annual James Island Connector Run will be Saturday and includes a 10K run and bike and 5K run and walk.×
Blaise Flamio, a veteran wounded in Afghanistan in the summer of 2011, is finishing up his degree at The Citadel.×


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Dallas-based Veritex Community Bank has converted to a Texas chartered-bank effective Dec. 1, the state Department of Bank announced this week.
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Boston Children's Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (BCHNP) is the community behavioral health program in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital. For 13 years, BCHNP has placed social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists in schools and community health centers throughout Boston to provide a comprehensive array of behavioral health services to children and adolescents where they live and learn.
BCHNP focuses its services on Roxbury, Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, and Dorchester—some of the most underserved neighborhoods in Boston—where families name behavioral health as a top health priority. Children growing up in these communities experience high rates of poverty, interpersonal violence, deteriorating social structures, and systemic discrimination, putting them at greater risk for behavioral health problems that impair their academic performance and interpersonal relationships. Yet these children and their families experience formidable barriers when attempting to access high-quality services.
BCHNP seeks to alleviate barriers to quality behavioral health care through its two community-based programs: the School-Based Program and the Community Health Center Program.
The School-Based Program includes partnerships with schools in Boston, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Dorchester, including elementary, K-8, middle, and high schools. Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) social workers and psychologists work onsite to provide clinical, early intervention, and prevention and promotion services to students, and behavioral health training and consultation to school staff. Family engagement is a critical component of BCHNP's work in schools.
Additionally in the fall of 2015, BCHNP is implementing a new initiative for schools in Boston. The Training Access Project (TAP) provides high quality professional development and consultation to educators, leaders, and school staff. The goal of the project is to help build schools capacity to better address the social and emotional needs of their students, staff and community.
The Community Health Center Program includes partnerships with 4 community health centers in Boston, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury. BCH child and adolescent psychiatrists work on-site to provide early identification, assessment, treatment, and care coordination services to children and adolescents receiving primary medical care at the health centers. The psychiatrists also provide behavioral health training and consultation to health center staff.
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To increase access to children's behavioral health services in underserved communities;
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It was the Tavern on Liberty vs. the Campus Shop at Monday night's meeting of the Allentown Zoning Hearing Board.
Plans to transform and revitalize the old store at 23rd and Liberty streets in the city's West End met with strong opposition from the owner of the tavern, which is catty-corner from the store.
The proposal was debated before the city's zoning hearing board for more than two hours, but the board did not make a decision.
It will review testimony and the applicable zoning law, then deliberate and render a decision at a future public meeting.
On another case, the zoning board approved plans to turn the former Penn Allen Glass Company into what one zoner called a mini-shopping center at 513 N. 16th St., another section of west Allentown.
One key issue surrounding the proposed renovation of the Campus Shop on the northwest corner of 23rd and Liberty streets is whether it will add to traffic and parking problems in that neighborhood.
Another is whether all the proposed uses for the place qualify as the continuation of existing and permitted non-conforming uses in that residentially-zoned area of the city.
Developer Jason Lund proposes turning the Campus Shop into a high-end convenience market, which will serve both the surrounding residential neighborhood and students at neighboring Muhlenberg College. He contends most of his customers will walk or ride bicycles to the store.
"Although the property does need to be developed, it's an over-use of the property," argued Gregory Russoli, owner of Liberty Tavern bar and restaurant, which is at 2246 Liberty St.-- on the same intersection as the Campus Shop.
"They're proposing to use every square foot of this building for a commercial use. It's got to have a substantial adverse impact on the neighborhood."
"Parking is the biggest impact it will have on the area. The parking is just going to be outrageous. It's terrible now."
Lund testified he has observed no problems with parking in the neighborhood.
In addition to the convenience store, Lund is proposing renting 60 storage units in the basement of the building and incorporating some kind of restaurant, sandwich shop or coffee shop into that store.
"I'm very concerned there won't be enough parking for both restaurants," said Russoli.
Lund maintained his operation will not compete with any other business in the neighborhood.
When zoning board chairman Dan McCarthy asked Russoli if Lund's proposed uses for the Campus Shop building will put him into competition with the Tavern on Liberty, Russoli said: "Not really. What I offer is nothing like a sandwich shop or a convenience store. We're a neighborhood bar."
Lund said the Campus Shop at 2301 Liberty St. is in disrepair and needs a lot of help.
He's only seen people go to the store to buy lottery tickets or to use its postal substation. "I've seen numerous people walk in and walk out without buying anything."
Lund plans to retain the lottery ticket sales and postal substation, as well as add an ATM machine.
His goal is to create a "boutique-style market that will complement the neighborhood."
In addition to structural improvements inside, the building would get new and larger windows, awnings, rebuilt sidewalks along both streets, increased exterior lighting and a bike rack.
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Lund of Hoboken, N.J., said he is co-founder and managing partner of OSBAAT Development LLC. He explained that acronym stands for "One Small Building At A Time."
He is a real estate broker in New York City who wants to redevelop properties near small college campuses around the country, starting with the Campus Shop.
Lund initially told zoners the new market he proposes for the Campus Shop might be on two levels, with an elevator added. (The building's second floor is now an apartment.)


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BUCKHANNON - A former candidate for Upshur County sheriff has sued the Upshur County Commission in federal court, claiming current and former members conspired to violate his constitutional rights in events surrounding the May 2012 primary election.
David Taylor - who finished second to Mike Kelley in the May 8, 2012, Republican primary for sheriff - filed a federal civil lawsuit Tuesday in the Elkins office of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
The suit names as defendants the current Upshur County Commission President Donnie Tenney, former commissioner Creed Pletcher and current Commissioner JC Raffety, along with the current Upshur County Commission as a political subdivision and the commission's counsel at at the time, Timothy Stranko.
The six-count complaint deals with events beginning in March 2012 that relate to the commission's handling of the contested sheriff's primary race, results of which Taylor unsuccessfully challenged in the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in October 2012.
In the Dec. 2 lawsuit, Taylor charges Stranko and the commission with one state law claim - negligence - and five federal claims, including denial of due process by violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments; civil conspiracy to violate rights; conspiracy to interfere with civil rights; neglect to prevent conspiracy against civil rights; and denial of the right to vote and participate in a fairly conducted election in violation of the First and Fourteenth amendments.
The suit alleges that in March 2012, Taylor conveyed "apprehensions" to Pletcher that Kelley "was not legally eligible and not qualified to be a candidate to run for" Upshur County sheriff because of his employment as chief deputy with the Upshur County Sheriff's Office, as his duties "were connected to federally funded activities in clear and explicit violation of federal law."
Following his loss in May 2012, Taylor sought to have himself declared the winner of the election after it was determined Kelley was ineligible to seek office because it would be a violation of the federal Hatch Act.
That law restricts the political activity, including seeking office in a partisan election, of federal employees and state and local employees whose salary is supplemented by federal funds or who oversee federally funded projects. Kelley both received federal money in his salary, though it was channeled through the county commission, and supervised employees working in federally funded programs as part of his duties.
In permitting the "illegal and unqualified candidacy" of Kelley, Taylor says the commission denied him "full exercise of his franchise as a voter and candidate, thus negating the opportunity to participate in a fairly conducted election, which is a constitutionally protected feature of United States citizenship."
After Kelley won the election, Taylor filed a petition with the commission contesting Kelley's election and asking that he, as the highest vote-getter among the other eligible candidates, be declared the winner - at which point the commission retained Stranko to assist them with the election challenge.
Kelley withdrew from the race on July 16, 2012, after receiving notice from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel that he must either resign from his current post or withdraw his candidacy, according to Taylor's complaint.
A hearing to resolve the election challenge was set for July 18, 2012, just two days after Kelley's withdrawal.
Taylor's suit contends that on July 17, 2012 - one day before the election challenge hearing - a commission employee allegedly emailed a "draft order" prepared by Stranko to Dave Nichols, a legal assistant with the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office, "announcing the (commission's) intentions of dismissing" Taylor's case.
Noting that he uncovered this email through a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the Secretary of State's office, Taylor argues that the commission's "intentional biased and prejudiced pretrial drafting of such an order mortally determined (his) fate previous to the actual commencement of trial, thus negating any chance whatsoever for a trial before a fair and impartial tribunal as Defendants were so thus inclined and predisposed to dismiss (Taylor's) case before it ever got started."
Through a meeting with former Upshur County administrator William A. Parker, who resigned from his post in May 2013, Taylor claims he learned more information that led him to believe the commission had predetermined the outcome of the election challenge hearing before it ever occurred.
On June 2, 2013, Taylor met with Parker, who told him that Raffety "was most vocal of the three Defendant Commissioners statutorily empaneled as a tribunal at expressing hostility and exhibiting biased and prejudiced behavior opposing (Taylor's) state of affairs from the commencement of the filed election challenge," the complaint states.
Parker allegedly told Taylor the commission had been concerned about its federal liability because of Tenney having signed agreements on the commission's behalf involving federal grant monies. The terms of such agreements restrict the political activity, including seeking office in a partisan election, of federal employees and state and local employees whose salary is supplemented by federal funds.
"Mr. Parker confessed to Plaintiff (Taylor) that (the commission's) decision to reject/deny (Taylor's) Petition to Contest the Election (sic) was in essence determined before trial as Defendant Commissioners discussed (to which he was privy to the conversations) at various times pretrial specific needs to protect themselves from the exposure and attachment to federal liability because of Defendant Tenney's signature on all of the 'Standard Conditions and Assurances' agreements involving federal grant monies, stating, 'that was some of their thinking,'" the complaint states.
Taylor also alleges that the commission's "biased and prejudiced behavior" toward him "continues to surge from a preceding reported incident" that took place on April 20, 2011, "and dates subsequent, involving (the commission's) former employee, deputy sheriff Troy A. Brady III." Brady was elected to the Upshur County Commission in November 2012 and currently serves as a commissioner.
Taylor says that in exercising his First Amendment right to file an election challenge, he "exposed" Kelley's and the commission's "defiance" of federal law - specifically the Hatch Act - throughout the 2012 West Virginia primary election.
The commission retaliated against him for doing so, he claims, writing that "Defendants' conspiratorial comeback was invoked and in bad faith exercise of their official duties, (commissioners) denied (Taylor) equal protection of the laws, and/or of equal privileges and immunities under the law and as guaranteed by the Constitution."
Taylor, who is demanding a trial by jury, is asking for damages to compensate him for loss of enjoyment of life, psychological and emotional distress, damage to his reputation, economic damages, any other compensatory damages to be proven at trial, reasonable attorney fees and costs, and prejudgment and post-judgment interest.
In addition, he is requesting "declaratory judgment relief establishing the Defendants above described conduct violated the Plaintiff's (Taylor's) clearly established constitutional rights" and "injunctive relief requiring appropriate training, supervision and discipline in order to remedy all constitutional deprivations, which the Plaintiff (Taylor) suffered."
When contacted for comment, Raffety said he had yet to see a copy of the complaint.
"I will withhold comment at this time until I have an opportunity to review and consult with county's counsel," he said.
Tenney did not return messages seeking comment by presstime.
"The complaint speaks clearly for itself," Taylor said when contacted by The Inter-Mountain Wednesday. He said the commission should not have been in charge of determining the outcome of an election challenge due to a conflict of interest.
"Putting the Upshur County Commission in charge of deciding the election challenge is exactly like putting a bank robber in charge of counting the money to give back to the bank he just robbed - after getting caught red-handed by the police," he said.
Although Taylor appealed an Upshur County Circuit Court decision against him to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the high court upheld the ruling, citing cases as far back as 1898 that declared the runner-up in an election does not automatically become the winner when the top vote-getter drops out.
The county Republican Executive Committee had considered placing Taylor's name on the November 2012 ballot, but opted to go with Dave Coffman by an 8-4 vote.
Coffman defeated independent candidate and former sheriff Sherman Baxa, 4,519 votes to 2,881 votes, in the November 2012 general election.
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