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PLEASE ENJOY this RGW article from December of 2012 republished to remind you of the corruption in Central West Virginia where BAD COP after BAD COP cover for each other and if girls in WV get arrested chances are they will have to deal with sexual molestation of some type with no consequences brought against authorities that take advantage of the situation.
By Tammy Rucker – Baisden/ Editor Edison – CalPatty Press Editor
"It seems all my life I made poor decisions, made them on emotion instead of thought. I never did foresee the punishment I would ultimately pay, or the nightmares I continue to suffer to this very day!"
For the record I'm "Tink" this is my story of mistakes, wrong roads chosen and the injustice of misuse of power and preying on the vulnerable by the people chosen, and paid to uphold the law in the name of JUSTICE.
Where everything went wrong in my life I can't truly pin point. I do however, make no excuses for myself nor do I minimize my behavior. I was wrong in regard to breaking the law, there was no doubt about it. I was mixed up in a life of drugs and countless run ins with the law. It was a matter of time before I found myself behind bars. I was in and out of the local regional jail. I soon knew everyone in the facility, some friendly some not. Sooner or later I made bond and was returned to the life of drugs and bad company I kept until the next time I would be back in jail.
One day out of the blue my phone rang, it was the prosecutor's office informing me they finally had enough to indict me on meth lab charges. I knew I would be going to prison soon.
Having been in and out of the regional jail I was more than familiar with how things worked inside. The guards, also known as Correction Officers run the place, answered to no one (not that they would listen anyway).
Terry miller was the head honcho at the time I was subsequently arrested on the drug charges and he had a blind eye to everything that goes on either above or below the line of legality.
The guards at the regional jail were paid to bring in drugs cigarettes or whatever they could get by with depending on the times, and depending who was in charge and running the show at that given point in time.
There were sexual relationships between guards and sexual relationships between inmates and guards at the regional jail I was in whether an inmate wanted the sex or not!
Regional Jail executive director Terry Miller was fired in October 2010.
Miller was suspended after two female employees in the jail authority's central office – including Miller's former personal secretary – filed sexual harassment complaints against him.
The female workers alleged Miller made unwanted sexual advances and retaliated against them when they rebuffed his overtures, according to letters the employees' attorney sent to the state.
It was a common occurrence to hear a cell door open at 2 am when everyone was to be in lock down. The C O's as we called them often covered for each other as no one made a move without someone in the tower (where the main controls were ) someone had to open the cell doors from the control tower above. Every night someone's cell was opened, as I laid in absolute fear and silence praying my door wouldn't open until one night, my door did open in the middle of the night!
Cell checks are what the actual action taken by the guards is called in a situation where the guards came to the women prisoners long after midnight. I recognized the CO that came into my cell that night as one of the friendlier guards.
His name was John Walls an ex-cop from I believe Chesapeake. I never felt afraid of this man or even the least suspicious, he had never seemed to pose a threat to anyone. John Walls was known around the jail as someone that was secretly handing the girls candy and gum. I could have never been more wrong about this man that turned out to be a monster, and the candy and gum thing took on a complete an utter new perspective.
I was told I was going to medical which seemed a little odd as women's medical calls were normally around the afternoon as women inmates were to have no contact with the male inmates.
On the way down the long corridor I was pulled into a "sally port " a small room designed to securely enter a pod with 2 sliding doors on both sides, one door doesn't open until the other is shut. These controls are all manipulated by someone else in the tower above.
What was called "the tower "was an upstairs facility that look into the pods, and usually more than one pod at a time, which I believe that would be a group of four in which a guard or C O (correctional officer) monitored pods — Cell checks are not suppose to be an action taken by the guards in which they are to touch you in anyway, even if they did suspect you of having contraband. The Sgt in charge would be called for that, but cell checks digressed into a situation where the guards came to the women prisoners long after midnight, and sometimes removed them, which is not in the manual, or is considered normal procedure by any pale of anyone's imagination. I recognized the CO that came into my cell that night as one of the friendlier guards, as I stated before, but this night something was definitely not right, I could feel it intuitively.
As I was pulled into this " sally port " area I knew something was up " there are no cameras in certain parts of the facility " these are called BLIND SPOTS CO Walls told me as he used his body and pushed himself into me pushing me against the wall roughly!! In a complete state of shock I froze.
I'm sure I stopped breathing and could only hear my heart beat like someone playing a drum to every beat, with his right arm he held me against the wall as his other hand slipped into my pants and his mouth covered mine. I struggled but at a hundred pounds was no match for this upholder of justice known as a CO or Corrections Officer.
I began to cry as he penetrated me with his fingers then all of a sudden he released me and whispered in a voice that made me shiver …
"This isn't over, you're going to be here for a long time you will beg for it before it's over!"
He pushed the tower button and led me sobbing back to my cell!
I had been there no more than six weeks at the time of this vicious sexual attack that both hurt my mind and my body, for there is something terribly wrong about being held a prisoner, and then sexually abused. The misuse of power is not only terribly wrong, but leaves you with a sense of violation that is hard to describe in words.
For quite a while after that sexual attack, that froze me in fear and terrified me to the bone, I often asked myself … "Am I such a horrible person that I deserved this? Were my poor judgments pertaining to drugs so bad that I should live in fear and be tortured?"
My answer to myself then was … "If I hadn't done the things I did, or been involved in the drug world and ran with questionable associates I wouldn't be here to have to go through this ordeal!" I blamed myself! In my mind I was questioning truly if I deserved what had happened to me by the awful man and jail guard.
The torment, the degradation, the hate I suddenly felt for myself and life altogether was more than I could bare being locked in a prison night after night, a prison more horrible than anything I could have ever imagined when I was on the outside, with my fast friends, going fast, and doing drugs!
Every night I waited for the cell door to slide open, I slept during the day and bit my nails to bloody nubs every night as every sound, every footstep brought a special hell that struck down deep to my very soul!!
Days went by with no further incident from the CO that violated me sexually, but then word came down that he was assigned outside the facility on hospital duty. (that is a situation when an inmate is in the hospital and is secured around the clock with an armed escort)
The inmate was a female and had reported to hospital staff that she was forced to have oral sex with CO Walls while at the hospital. An internal investigation began and he never returned to duty. A lot of rumors started, but as far as I know no charges were ever filed.
"I thought that finally the nightmare was over for me, however, little did I know at the time, the Nightmare of being incarcerated in a West Virginia Regional Jail had really only just begun!"
After hearing about the sexual assault of the fellow-female inmate, I filed a grievance and explained that sexual misconduct involving that same corrections officer had also occurred with me!
A grievance goes up the chain of command to the head CO and if warranted up to the branches to Terry Miller the administrator of the regional jail authority. I was called into the head CO's office to discuss the grievance where I was pretty much interrogated and finally dismissed after several hours and never heard another word until I was contacted by the other girls attorney in regard to the sexual assault on her. At this point, because of the veiled threats made to me in the administrative office, and the contact from the attorney, I was in great fear of any retaliation from the very guards and corrections officer that were sworn to uphold the law. Because of the threats from the jail authority, I soon learned to keep my mouth shut, and was left alone for a short while, but that situation didn't last long!
One night a voice quietly whispered over the intercom in my cell I heard … "You are so sexy in the shower Miss Rucker… "
Little did I know at the time the real nightmare had just begun, and the nightmare, that I had previously lived through was about to travel to new heights of terror!
I asked who I was speaking to, moments passed before he answered ," It's me CO Kessell," he replied. "Come closer to the box so no one will hear us! "
And just then, my cell door slid shut!
For those that don't know in every cell is an intercom box to the tower for emergencies such as fights or any other reason to speak to the CO in the tower. The way the tower is laid out they can see both showers in the pod and obstructing any visible points including the showers is a write up (violation) and could land you in isolation .
I knew who CO Kevin Kessell was. He was young and thin and very cocky about himself. Kessell was always bragging about the car he was driving a mustang or something to that effect.
Kessell was also dating a female CO, her last name I believe was Seymore. She was young and athletic, but like him, very cocky and sure of herself and also judgmental of others.
Rumor was they were on again and off again, a rocky relationship to say the least….
All inmates had daily contact with the CO's they delivered our food, escorted us to visits, to medical, delivered our mail, and did cell checks at least three times a day. It's not like you could avoid those corrections officers when you are an inmate in a West Virginia Regional Jail.
CO Kessell at first played like a good guy, but no one was stupid he told me how John Walls told the other CO's that I belonged to him and didn't want anyone else to mess with me, he then asked if he had ever hurt me. I couldn't bring myself to answer that question and he didn't force the issue, Kessell at first didn't seem like the arrogant cocky person he truly is, at that time.
At first Kessell talked a lot about life in general, and then, that led to the rumors going around the jail about who was having SEX with whom, and the trouble that was unfolding within the facility.
At this time I was in general population "A" pod which consisted of convicted felons waiting for prison, we talked almost every day he worked. CO Kessell would bring me extra clothes and rolled up inside were cigarettes, a lighter and liquor!
Every day at the jail, I thought he was just being my friend, and most likely I should have known this bringing me comforts one would find at home would also come with a price, that possibly had a penis attached. And that attachment to the price was not a situation I ever thought I would find myself in, and as a woman sex is something you should enjoy with your partner not something a jail guard takes from you because he feels you owe it to him.
One night CO Kessell wasn't there with the goodies and it was as normal as a regional jail could be when they suddenly locked everyone down . Nobody knew what was going on .The next morning Kessell told me that two male inmates were put on the recreation yard from lock down with one of the females from protective custody already out there ,she was raped and beaten by both of them!
The CO's claimed it was night time and they didn't know, or some farfetched excuse that made no sense. Nobody, not any prisoner, or inmate, should be raped by other inmates, but especially if you are someone that is in protective custody. Also, as a general rule anyone in protective custody is never to be left unattended. Obviously someone wanted this inmate harmed, and harmed she was. Brutally raped by two male inmates and beaten and abused, which has a serious effect on a person's mental condition while incarcerated.
Charges were filed against the two inmates that raped the female in PC and the officers were put on leave. I later heard she settled for an unknown amount against the regional jail and was released.
Around that same time, I also noticed my situation of being brought contraband by CO Kessell was growing a bit awkward. Kessell would scream at me for what seemed no reason He would accuse me of things, and he would ask questions about matters that I considered none of his business. Kessell went through my mail (which is checked for contraband and opened) and he found a letter my ex had wrote, this was the first time I saw the monster within.
One night not long after the rape of the woman in protective custody at about 3am my cell door slid open. I was groggy and still half asleep. I stood up from my cot just in time to catch a back hand to the face landing me square in the eye!! I felt the swelling start immediately! It was CO Kessell! He grabbed me by hair and pulled me to him hard against his chest and starting saying how sorry he was, and that I shouldn't have communication with anyone from my past, as if that was any of his business!
I didn't realize the tears streaming down my face until he started trying to kiss them away!
Just then, after the explosion of being smacked across the face, and then consoled like a little girl that fell down, which was a situation that was making my head spin, Kessell just disappeared as fast as he appeared in my cell.
I was in a state of shock! It all happened so fast, I was just trying to gather in all that was happening, by now all I could think was … "What the hell just happened ?"
"That low-life monster CO Kessell had finally showed his true colors. I couldn't run I couldn't tell! I was confused about everything and couldn't believe all that was happening as it was happening all around me … I laid on my mat and thought that one day I would go home no matter what happened in here!"
The next day at cell check one of the other guards, a female CO noticed my swollen and bruised face, she insisted on knowing what happened. I said nothing, hung my head and refused to speak. I know her compassion to be real, however I had seen the realization of retaliation far too many times. I would say nothing !
For my own protection jail authorities then concluded, I should be sent to isolation, locked down 23 hrs out of the day. Three CO's escorted me to the lock down pod, no witnesses and I found myself at the mercy of the facility.
From here on in every day seemed like a bad dream I could now wake up from. I wish I could put in words how awful it is to be locked up all alone, being haunted by what bad thing might happen to me next, and just when I was the most spooked, I could see the guards coming, and then my cell would open as I was told to shower! If I refused I would often find myself handcuffed to the fire escape on the recreation yard at 3 am, I remembered the girl that was beaten and raped on the rec yard is that going to happen to me?
I also could be denied phone privileges, and if I did not do what was requested by the CO or guard. CO Kessell rewarded me with cigarettes fast food or bourbon or anything to ease his conscience for what he was doing, and all the while, I didn't know I was being seduced into sexual relations that were very unwanted on my end of things.
It wasn't long before Co Kessell would come to my cell, and of course now I was more isolated so he his effort mixed with sugar coated words took the abuse to a sexual touching level.
By this time of my incarceration, I had learned to survive all the horrible things done to me by making myself numb to the sexual things that were being forced on me.
I can't really truly tell you all how difficult it is for me to even speak of my ordeal. I hope that none of you have to go through being sexually assaulted inside a West Virginia Regional Jail, for it is a living hell on earth. The sounds of the sex are horrifying, along with the visual aspects and the touching.
Sex can be a three dimensional hell when in a jail atmosphere and environment, so I just closed my eyes and, I imagined my family and going home someday, maybe, and I thought about Glenda the good witch of the north, and Dorothy who was lost and how I knew she was just something you saw in the movies, but really she really knew there was no place like home … no place like home, so I just endured what was being forced on me and tried not to vomit everywhere and make a mess of my surroundings.
"Then came the night I feared most when CO Kessell entered my cell with a crazed look in his eye! I knew at that moment I might never go home. Kessell burst into my cell in a fit of jealous rage and was convinced I was talking to another CO!! He pushed me into the wall I threw up in my hand while trying to defend myself as best I could. Kessell grabbed my hand and twisted it!"
"I literally heard the bones pop in my hand as the pain took me to my knees he kicked me with his boot landing in my ribs, and then CO Kessell spit on me and left!"
After the attack by CO Kessell I had no idea what was going on. I tried to gather it all in, what he was screaming about, but I had no idea what it was all about really. I had not spoken with any other CO, and then the next day he seemed calmed down, but acting strangely, while my hand started to shake just thinking about it all. I started to shake and could not stop.
Kessell came into my cell again, and this time he asked me to shower, but with another girl. I was so glad I was not going to get beaten or roughly grabbed sexually, that I didn't argue or fight it. I just did what was asked of me. The other female inmate and I danced for him and finally he told us to return to our cells and brought us contraband as a reward. I never felt so humiliated in all my life! The dancing nude was every bit as bad as the sex, and this time, I could start to feel myself slip mentally, I was in dire need of some counseling, but how could I get counseling while being held a prisoner and made to perform awful acts?
"I looked down one morning, just before being fed breakfast and my hand was still somewhat disfigured. My thumb was dislocated and completely out of joint and it would stay that way for quite some time!"
"There was no way I could go to medical and try to explain this, or I would be beaten and raped by male inmates after being taken to the rec yard at 3am and handcuffed like that girl that was brutally assaulted, for everyone knew that was a set up!".
"Night after night, again and again, there was no one to tell, nowhere to run and no way to fight back!"
One late night as CO Kessell was leaving my cell the nurse (Laura) and a female guard (nurses are escorted through the facility) caught him leaving my cell and there was a report filed and he told me to tell them he was bringing me something and I did. There was no way out for me I thought of ending my own life a few times but thought to myself if I do leave this world it won't be at my own hands!
Like a BAD MOON rising, the day came when I realized I was late with my monthly. I cringed at the thought of possibly being pregnant with the baby of CO Kessell. I had been incarcerated for over the limit of coming in pregnant, so we are talking about close to a year now at five weeks late.
I told Kessell, that I thought I was pregnant with his child. Within two weeks he quit his job as a corrections officer and went to work with the Charleston fire dept. Still no period came and then one nite at Med call I confided in a nurse that I needed a pregnancy test. I will never forget the look on her face! She was with a female CO and I was taken directly to medical and on the way they asked me who the father was, possibly thinking it was another inmate.
I told them with an emotionless straight face "its a CO." This rang some bells on the way to the medical infirmary because this was the same nurse who saw Kessell leaving my cell.
All of a sudden I guess everything fell into place and suddenly made sense to the nurses and jail authorities. For right at this moment in time they realized they were going to be exposed for something horrible, a rape in jail that resulted in a pregnancy, and if this information ever got out, it could really do some damage.
This time the truth was certainly long overdue. I no longer cared about repercussions or retaliation from CO Kessell's jail authority friends or co conspirators. I made it through all of this and there was nothing anyone at the jail could do to me that hadn't been done already.
The medical staff took some blood for the pregnancy test and informed me it would take a few days to get the results. Meanwhile the State police made a half-assed effort to take a statement from me. In the next room was CO Kessell himself and he gave a confession, but did not tell everything, but did tell enough to get him arrested. Kessell was bonded out before the doors ever shut behind him.
Kessell joined the military shortly before I was shipped to prison. The test came back negative and I was given medicine (to treat anxiety they said).
I started my period the same day I got the news of the negative test, which turned out to be most painful of all days strangely enough. I was locked in a cell alone, staring out the window for what seemed like forever, I wasn't allowed visits from my family nor mail from anyone, and I never felt so all alone, the entire time I had been incarcerated as I felt at that moment.
When my food tray was brought to me, it was by no other than C O Seymore. Kessell's on again off again girlfriend who now had an attitude, well needless to say I didn't eat what she served.
I had to have surgery to put my thumb back where it was suppose to be.
I was allowed nothing for pain. Officially my injury was a slip and fall by their accounts. I was treated badly by prison authorities, after the word got out and charges filed and seemed that things remained like that for a very long time because they could no longer hide the truth.
"I finally broke the silence ….I faced the injustice…..but I couldn't stop it! Rape and sexual assaults are still happening in the regional jails and they are still covering it up. There are still people living in the silence just like I have had to do!"
Finally, after going through an intense RSAT program and I am clean 6 yrs now…I own a house, have a family, but the monster still steals my dreams at night!
I still hear that door shut behind me, but in the day time, in the light, I am as free as a little bird…
I look up to that little bird
That glides across the sky
He sings the clearest melody
It makes me want to cry
It makes me want to sit right down
And cry cry cry
The Supreme Commander of the Secret Seven Coalition reports that the same day, the latest Revenge of the Ghost Wolf EXPOSE on inmates being molested in the regional jails entitled "Breaking the Silence …" was published, Friday, December 28th a former corrections officer at North Central Regional Jail was arrested for sexual misconduct with an inmate. Now how is that for timing …
West Virginia State Police say 19-year-old Jerrel Jones of Parkersburg was arrested Friday. He was charged with six counts of imposition of sexual acts on a person incarcerated or under supervision.
State Police Trooper J.R. Barker arrested Jerrel Jones after an investigation that began Dec. 2, when State Police received a complaint that Jones had been having sex with a female inmate.
The female inmate victim said she began having sex with Jones when she was first incarcerated in early November 2012, according to a criminal complaint filed in Doddridge County Magistrate Court, but it was not her idea at all to have sex with the corrections officer. She felt she had to do it, to get along in jail and was scared.
Trooper Barker interviewed Jones, who allegedly admitted that he had exposed and felt the breasts of the young woman and then inserted his penis into the mouth of the inmate and ejaculated, which also included other sex acts with the victim at least five times.
The arrest is the latest black eye for corrections officers. Fifteen officers are on suspension at Western Regional Jail for various charges. Another officer, William Roy Wilson, (see below) was charged in September with sexually abusing three female inmates at Southern Regional Jail.
Corrections Officer in Doddridge County Faces Sex Charges
|Imprisonment Status: Pre-Trial Felon
|Full Name:
|Jones, Jerrel Jacob
|6' 0"
|220 lbs.
|Birth Date:
|Booking Date:
|Central Regional Jail
|Imprisonment Status:
|Pre-Trial Felon
Offender Court Order Information
|Court Info Number
|Issuing Agency Location
|DODDRIDGE COUNTY – Bail Amount: $120,000.00
Jones was arraigned Friday in Doddridge County Magistrate Court.
It was not immediately known whether he had an attorney.
Height: 5ft 10in Weight: 240 lbs. AGE/DOB: 10/29/1984
Booked: 9/20/2012 Booking ID: 999089382
Negro West Virginia Corrections Officer William Roy Wilson, 29, was charged with four counts of imposition of sexual acts of persons under supervision recently which included forcing white women inmates to suck his dick !
The Negro CO — jail guard charged with sexually abusing three women at a West Virginia lockup since May has been accused of misconduct before and has been sued 11 times for similar allegations, a lawyer for alleged victims said just 13 weeks ago.
William Roy Wilson, 29, of Beckley, was being held on $75,000 bond in an isolation cell (protective custody) at the same Beaver jail where he's worked since September 2008. Just last September 2012 he was arrested … being booked on the 20th for sexual acts with inmates after taking some serious Beaver from the white women at Beaver jail.
State Police by some fucking miracle charged the Negro CO with four counts of imposition of sexual acts of persons under supervision, saying he gave Southern Regional jail inmates cigarettes in exchange for black dick Glenville State College style!! It is the first criminal charge Wilson has faced, said jail authorities , although several civil suits have been filed against him.
Attorney Mike Woelfel, who has sued correctional official's dozens of times for sexual assault and harassment in West Virginia facilities, said the civil cases against Wilson go back to 2010. Two were settled for terms Woelfel said he could not disclose, and nine are still pending in Kanawha County Circuit Court, but why in the hell jail authorities still kept him employed is anybody's guess, other than what the fuck else can you expect from some dumb fucking West Virginia Public Officials that are nothing but West Virginia University KNOW IT ALL — KNOW NOTHINGS like Steve Canterbury Administrative Director of the West Virginia Supreme Court that make their own rules and don't consider themselves or the state of West Virginia part of the rest of the United States of America, and feel no need to follow normal laws and mores.
The above article has been a Central West Virginia Secret Seven Coalition publication published on the 28th of December 2012 in conjunction with Tammy Rucker-Baisden and Dan Bingman all rights reserved. ©


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Brazil had the largest net forest loss of any country between 1990 and 2010. Perhaps for this reason, in 2008 Brazil pledged to reduce the rate of deforestation in Brazil's Legal Amazon to 80 percent of historical rates by 2020 as part of its National Climate Action Plan. Since an enormous stock of carbon remains trapped in Brazil's Amazonian forests, saving these lands could dramatically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
New economic models suggest that deforestation could be greatly reduced by 2030 simply by changing the economics of raising cattle. You can get a reduction forest clearance by taxing land on which cattle is pastured conventionally or by subsidizing land on which cattle is pastured semi-intensively. Both work, but the tax saves slightly more forest, and thus offers more greenhouse gas abatement.
And cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Seventy percent of formerly forested land, and 91 percent of land deforested since 1970, is used for livestock pasture. It is possible, however, to graze cattle in what's called a semi-intensive system, in which livestock feeding is based on a combination of pasture grazing and harvested forages. When utilized properly, this system can double the productivity of pasturelands compared to conventional land management practices.
The new paper models the impacts of two policies: a tax on land-intensive grazing, and a subsidy for semi-intensive grazing. The models revealed how each affected greenhouse gas emissions, land use, agriculture, and commodity markets. The authors also incorporated different trade scenarios to examine how international movement of cattle products and beef consumption would be affected by the tax or the subsidy.
The tax ended up raising the price of beef, which discouraged all livestock raising, including the adoption of the semi-intensive system. But the tax did save forest because the higher beef prices discouraged both exports and domestic consumption.
Under the subsidy, the decreased cost of beef production in Brazil led to increased exports and beef consumption. Even though less forest was cleared for each unit of beef produced, this ultimately caused continued deforestation and greenhouse gas emission. Even so, the pace went down, so either policy would achieve more than half of Brazil's deforestation policy targets.
Land use is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil and other emerging economies. This model suggests that a tax, a subsidy, or a combination of the two methods can encourage intensive pasturing and land sparing. They might be an effective way for these countries to balance agricultural development with forest protection.
PNAS, 2014. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307163111 (About DOIs).

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RICHMOND – Racing is in the blood of Alex Nagy's family.
Nagy's father turned him on to racing motorcycles. Nagy's son, Alex Jr., has raced since he was 4. And Nagy's daughter, Jamie, 19, also races.
But now the sport that Alex Nagy loves is under assault, the victim of a law meant to protect children from lead toys. The law has been applied to mini bikes and smaller ATVs, and that could mean that racing for 12-year-old Alex Jr. might be endangered.
"It's definitely impacted us," Alex Sr. said. "It's difficult to buy parts, and you can't buy bikes for kids 12 and under."
Last year, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act was signed into law by President Bush. Prompted by concerns over tainted products from China, the legislation strongly was supported by Republicans and Democrats. The law specifically targeted lead in toys.
However, the law also has been applied to mini bikes and small ATVs that are built for children 12 and younger. Like larger motorized vehicles, the mini bikes have lead in their batteries and in some engine parts.
The law was crafted with toys that young children might put in their mouths, a fact that has Nagy and the motorcycle industry chagrined.
"Kids are not licking the handlebars or batteries," Nagy said. "They have gloves on. Goggles. A helmet. They do not come in contact with the bike. Usually it's the adults who work on the bikes."
For mini bike enthusiasts, the law and its fallout is an example of good intentions gone awry.
The bikes generally go between 25 mph and 30 mph. During a race, on a course with obstacles, speeds tend to top out at 20 mph, Nagy said.
It is a fun family sport, Nagy said. But he fears that the ban could be the end for young racers.
Nagy is one of Steven Frye's biggest customers at SF Performance in Prairie Grove. Frye said that upward of 40 percent of his business could be affected by the ban. SF Performance modifies the bikes. And they sell after-market parts such as tires and there is the racing equipment and upkeep items, such as oil.
"This couldn't come at a worse time," Frye said. "It's already slow. This is going to hurt my business even more."
In the past, the smaller bikes, even though they were made for riders 12 and younger, sometimes were bought by adults who would modify them, or by teenagers who would ride them just for fun. No more. Manufacturers have ceased all sales because of the way the law has been interpreted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
At Honda Northwest on Route 14 in Crystal Lake, the mini bikes no longer are on the sales floor. The store has put the bikes into a storage area.
"It really hurts the kids more than us," said Jason Siegel, Honda Northwest general manager.
Mini bike sales are a small percentage of most dealer's business. For Honda, the law primarily is affecting three models. But dealers also lose out on the sale of accessory items. The biggest issue for Siegel and other dealers is the fact that the law is being applied to something it was not meant to be applied to.
"I think it's ridiculous," Siegel said.
Rich Carter, spokesman for 16th District Congressman Don Manzullo, R-Ill., said that the law clearly was not meant to be applied to smaller ATVs and mini bikes. Carter said language in the law specifically stated that exemptions should be considered for some products.
However, the Consumer Product Safety Commission on March 11 issued its final rule on the matter and focused on the wording of the law. The commission wrote that, based on the law, it must determine that lead from a product or material will not "result in the absorption of any lead into the human body."
The commission wrote that "Had Congress not included use of the word 'any', the Commission ... would have had the authority to have considered whether the requirement could be met if there were some low amount of absorption of lead."
"Clearly, this was not the intent of the bill," said Jonathan Lipman, spokesman for 8th District Congresswoman Melissa Bean, D-Ill. "We were aware of this situation and awaiting the final rule. Now that the rule has been issued, we'll be working with other congressional offices to see if there's any solution."
Two Montana legislators have taken up the issue.
Last week, Senate Democrat John Tester introduced the Common Sense in Consumer Product Safety Act of 2009. If approved, the bill would exempt vehicles designed for children 7 years old and older. House Republican Dennis Rehberg has introduced similar legislation.
For now, the small ATVs and mini bikes will remain unsold at dealerships. And sport enthusiasts such as Nagy have little recourse but to wait for a solution.
"You hope that the politicians are elected to represent you," Nagy said. "It doesn't seem like that sometimes. It's kind of sad."


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I just got my W520 last week (2720QM, 16GB RAM, Optimus, 160GB SSD, Win7 64 bit with SP1, 1.25 BIOS reported as 1.24).
I'm still getting used to the laptop (the keyboard is great but feels cramped when compared to other 15 inch laptops I have used in the past) - but the one thing that I find somewhat annoying is the fan noise. The fan comes on after I start using a few applications (Word, Outlook, etc. not even a browser) and then never ever seems to stop. I can feel the cold air blowing out the exhaust vents, but this never stops.
I have the 160GB SSD; so the noise must be the fan - assuming it is just one fan that cools heatsinks that connects both the CPU as well as graphics chipsets.
I've tried disabling Optimus and sticking with Integrated graphics in the BIOS, but that did not seem to make a difference.
I tried changing the power plan in Windows to something less aggressive, but no change again.
I work in an office where everyone has a laptop - and I was sitting at table with 5 others using laptops from various brands (we have 3 different vendors); and the moment I shutdown my machine, the silence caused others to look up.
I wouldn't say that the laptop is overly loud; but it is audible especially in a quiet environment where ambient noise is not so present.
Any thoughts on this?
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what you need is a TPfancontrol utility. It is a 3rd party great program, and it can manage your fan speeds much better than thinkpad itself. I also wonder, why they are soo loud. Happily, the lowest setting on W520 is 2000 rpm, and this is very silent. On my older T60 it was 3000 rpm, and thats loud.
Hope it helps.
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It really is the Fan that is unreasonably loud.
You can see on my thread, that I had the same problems:
I also suggest using TPFanControl.
I found out, that the BIOS puts the fan always to 3000 RPM, even when the computer is not working.
I now set up TPFanControl like this:
// Manual speeds for reference
// 0 0rpm
// 1 1800-2000rpm
// 2 2300-2500rpm
// 3 2500-2700rpm
// 4 2700rpm
// 5 3000rpm
// 6 3200-3300rpm
// 7 3500-3800rpm
// Celsius/FanCtrl/BiosCtrl/CtrlNWrite
Level=35 1 1 1
Level=42 2 2 1
Level=46 3 3 1
Level=50 4 4 1
Level=52 5 5 1
Level=54 6 6 1
Level=56 7 7 1
Level=60 128 128 1 //BIOS-Mode
Level=70 64 64 1
With these settings, my W520 goes rarely over Level 2 e.g. over 2500rpm. In BIOS Mode it always would be set to level 5 e.g. 3000rpm
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As I mentioned in my original post I tried disabling Optimus altogether in the BIOS. When you boot into Win7, and open up Device Manager, you see only the Intel Integrated HD Grpahics option. But as I also mentioned in my original post, this did [not] make any difference to the fan noise.
I did try the TPFanControl utility and this did result in reducing fan noise; but what was a bit disappointing was that the heat build up was quite noticeable - it just was not warm, but the bottom of the laptop got quite hot and the little air that was blowing out of the exhaust vents was also hot. I tried experimenting a bit with different setting values (default seems to be for the T61) and the end result was that I could not reduce the heat build up to something I personally felt was ok (e.g. lukewarm). When I did not use the TPFanControlUtiliy, the laptop bottom as well as the air blowing out of the exhaust vents always felt 'cool'.
In the end I gave up with TPFanControl - a cooler laptop that runs with a bit of a noise is better than one that heats up potentially reducing the life of components inside.
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wrote:Hi,what you need is a TPfancontrol utility. It is a 3rd party great program, and it can manage your fan speeds much better than thinkpad itself. I also wonder, why they are soo loud. Happily, the lowest setting on W520 is 2000 rpm, and this is very silent. On my older T60 it was 3000 rpm, and thats loud.Hope it helps.
No. What we need is a supported solution from Lenovo. My recommendation is to fix this in Power Manager by showing the fan speeds and allowing some adjustments by the user.
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I have the same problem with the laptop blowing cool air. In a classroom setting which I'm using this laptop for, I would like a solution from Lenovo, at least have an option from the software to minimize fan usage in maximum power save mode.
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Check out some of the other forum sections dude...I'm pretty sure this is just an issue across this whole generation....
Someone screwed up quite badly....My only question is how did they not notice this before releasing the product?
I myself am a T420s user with this exact issue and I'm currently getting by with TPFC - I believe they've already fixed this issue for the x220 via a BIOS update but it seems the rest of us have been left behind for now.
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Yeah, reading through the other forums,it seems to be an issue with all the new T420, T520, W520. I suspect they more or less build on the same cooling/thermal management scheme... hope this gets fixed soon, so the fan turns off at least when the machine is just idling.... I could imagine that egineering has been playing it safe so far with conservative cooling settings until they have more long term data to adjust the standard parameters to reduce fan noise, which inevitably makes the system temperature rise....
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I just applied new bios (Ver. 1.26) update. This has reduces fan noise quite a bit.
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Watch the 'House of Rothschild' http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=12139; "The Rothschilds govern a Christian world. Not a cabinet moves without their advice. They stretch their hand with equal ease from Petersburg to Vienna.. to Paris.. to London.. to Washington. Baron Rothschild, the head of the house, is the true King of Judah… the Messiah so long looked for… He holds the keys of peace or war…" [minute 22:22, written in 1835] "Religion is no longer able to guarantee the governments that the people will remain peaceful. The Rothschild system of loans can perform the task much better… It possesses the moral force or power religion has lost. It can act as a surrogate for religion. Indeed it is a new religion… Strangely enough it is once again the Jews who invented this new religion." –Heinrich Heine, The Baths of Lucca, 1830 [minute 26]
"My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!" — Baudelaire, 1864
If Santa Cruzians want to battle over what to make of Thrive, right there on the Gambles' home turf, the rest of us might step aside and take a lesson. There's not a New Age enclave in America that isn't feeling some pain by now. A Progressive commentator at Praxis writes, "So we and many others (including some interviewed in this film) are wondering out loud, What the bleep is actually going on?"
I'll toss in the pitch for MIND CONTROL on the grounds that no legitimate political party seeking public endorsement would commit something to print as contemptible as the last sentence on the THRIVE Environment Solution: "Labeling of food- such as GMO's proposed in Stage 2 (limiting government) – would no longer be mandatory or enforced by government. Rather, people would be forced to compete… In fact, GMO's would likely be obsolete because their vendors would be continually sued for violating others and would become unable to purchase insurance..." Nobody at Praxis seems to have noticed that some of the Thrive Solutions website pages are void of content (i.e. Science, Spirituality) so this veil gets pretty thin exposing THRIVE as a strawman for progressivism (gradualism) in the Dialectic.
Crop circles, UFOs, and alien abductions, as subjects with a long and murky past in hardcore mind control, suggests going soft doesn't change anything –it's still hardcore. So what are the makers of Thrive trying to prove? Is this a "mass-action social experiment"?
Kabbalah worship: The Meru Foundation is a Young-supported and inspired group that applies the Theory of Process to the Kabbalah: "The Hebrew letters are said to connect our inner wisdom with our outer knowledge… it should be no surprise that the model human hand designed by Meru Foundation, whose two-dimensional outlines look like the Hebrew letters, is actually a clearly defined section of a torus!" http://www.arthuryoung.com/meru.html; http://www.meru.org/
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Nearly 100 Freightliner workers chanted in front of the Gastonia plant Tuesday afternoon.
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The rally was the second of the day for employees who hope negotiations will lead to a strong three-year contract.
Ginger Ramsey stood with friends and co-workers wearing her bright orange union shirt and holding a rally sign. Ramsey, who has worked at Freightliner for 20 years, said she hopes negotiations will mean pay raises, better health insurance and a focus on work place safety.
She has confidence that production will continue to pick up at the parts plant.
�We are going strong right now,� she said.
Tuesday�s first rally started at 5:30 a.m., just before the start of the first shift. The second was before the afternoon shift.
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Drivers honked their horns or pumped their fists as they drove in and out of the plant.
Men and women waved signs that read �You sell it here, buy it here� or �WARNING: Will Strike if Provoked.�
Mike Leonhardt has worked at Freightliner for 15 years.
He stood along Tulip Drive before his shift Tuesday.
�We�re just doing a gate rally supporting our (union) board,� he said.
The current union labor contract between Freightliner workers and parent company Daimler Trucks North America expires Friday.
Tuesday�s rally was organized by the United Auto Workers Local 5286 in Gastonia.
Chapter Vice President Jeff Conner held a banner during both rallies.
�It shows solidarity and support, knowing we�re all behind the bargaining committee,� he said.
The labor contracts between the UAW and Daimler Trucks will affect workers at three North Carolina manufacturing plants, including the Mount Holly medium-duty truck plant, the Gastonia parts plant and the heavy-duty truck plant in the Rowan County city of Cleveland.
Negotiations began Tuesday, according to David Giroux, spokesman for Daimler Trucks North America.
Daimler considers the process confidential, he said.
The UAW chapters in Gastonia and Mount Holly each represent more than 1,000 employees.
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The bonus one will get from studying the old parish books is the history lesson one can extract from the records. People are described and identified by their residences and also by their cabezas de barangay. Aside from the genealogy research, I had a grand time savoring the names of old, old places that we still call by the same names today. There was a heady feeling to read a name in 1830 that we know to still exist today–180 years later. At the same time that it also dawns on you that big everyday place names of the present were virtually non-existent at that time.
The older places had native names, ancient designations and old Visayan terms that today are very hard to decipher and unkindly given to confabulations instead (Ylaud, for instance). And the Spanish-named ones we'll have to say came about quite late in history–say late Spanish up even to the American period already.
Let us then examine the two major place names–the barangays and the sitios. The facts ventured in the following sub-pages are not confined to what could be found in the records. A fair litany of Carcar's place names behooved that at least a cursory research be made using other materials available.
But for many of these places, there is nothing definitive to be found regarding the origin of their names, and to immediately settle on one meaning, or legend, or myth as being it, as we are wont to do (the sige na lang mentality), would only close the book where the call is for an open mind instead. Let us simply present the possibilities then.


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Anthony Weiner often is described in the press as the protégé of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the powerful Washington player who ranks third in the Senate Democratic caucus. Weiner worked on Schumer's congressional staff and then won Schumer's former seat in 1998, with Schumer's endorsement. He also clearly learned from the senator's knack for getting in the news.
But the similarities end there. In fact, a better role model for Weiner might have been Ed Koch, the former three-term New York City mayor who had previously served in Congress. Like Koch, Weiner has cultivated an image as an aggressive New Yorker with the attitude of someone with mayoral ambitions, rather than remaining a Washington legislator. Weiner also has tried to assemble the same political coalition that Koch relied upon: middle-class, outer-borough white ethnics who lean left on most domestic issues but more rightward on foreign policy and crime, coupled with reformist, left-wing professionals.
As Steve Kornacki explains in Capital New York, Weiner's recent star turn as an outspoken proponent of liberal causes, such as single-payer health insurance, was as much about running for mayor as an indication that he had developed greater interest in national issues. Weiner's heightened national profile, along with his strong showing in the 2005 Democratic mayoral primary, had made him the frontrunner for mayor in 2013.
Weiner's spectacular implosion over the last week means he almost certainly will not run for mayor two years from now, leaving the field for the top job in the nation's biggest city wide open. "Whether Anthony has made that decision or not, he can't win," says Bill Cunningham, a New York political consultant who worked for Mayor Mike Bloomberg. "He will not be mayor. He has a lot of money in the bank, but when you're in the situation he's in, it often turns into your legal fund."
So who is helped, and who is hurt, by Weiner's meltdown, and who are we likely to see in City Hall in 2014? Here's a guide to the Weiner scandal's political winners and losers.
Potential Winners
• New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio: The biggest winner is probably de Blasio, who occupies an unusual office that roughly translates to "mayoral candidate-in-waiting." De Blasio, who represented most of Park Slope, Brooklyn—where Weiner grew up—in City Council, is a good-government liberal whose base is rooted in "brownstone Brooklyn" and organized labor. With Weiner in the race, de Blasio might not have even dared to run. But with the congressman out, he may see an opening to pick up many Weiner supporters, positioning himself as both the outer-borough candidate and the liberal spokesman for gentrified Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer: Stringer is not well-known in the outer boroughs, and so his strategy, say New York political observers, will be to run the table in Manhattan and get into a runoff. That would have been hard with Weiner likely winning much of the Upper West Side liberal vote. But now, especially if de Blasio doesn't run, Stringer might vie for the influential New York Times endorsement, and also the limousine-liberal votes in some outer-borough enclaves such as Brooklyn Heights and Riverdale. Stringer's slim chances may have just been slightly widened.
• City Council Speaker Christine Quinn: Quinn, who lives in Chelsea, would be the first woman, and first openly gay person, to serve as New York mayor, and she has been unofficially running for years. She was expected to be one of Weiner's chief rivals in 2009, but a scandal broke in 2008 involving accusations that she earmarked funds for phony nonprofits in order to create a slush fund to dole out political patronage spending. Seeing that she was weakened in the next election cycle, Quinn heartily endorsed Mayor Bloomberg's scheme to overturn the city's term-limits law so he could run for reelection—and she could wait until 2013, when memories of the allegations would have faded. The result? She ceded the anti-Bloomberg vote to Weiner. Those voters may not go to her with the congressman out of the race, but maybe some of his Queens supporters will.
• New York City's Congressional Democrats: With New York state set to lose two congressional seats, the city is likely to lose one district when congressional boundaries are redrawn this year. Parties protect their incumbents in the redistricting process, but Weiner is an incumbent who no one will feel obliged to protect. "If he steps down, the interim congressman will have no seniority," says Cunningham. "So you're going to have a freshman or a very damaged congressman, while other congressmen will plead with the state legislature to take their seniority into account." Democratic state legislators, who aren't especially close to Weiner, are now free to carve up his district, in conjunction with eliminating one Republican seat upstate. Other Democratic congressmen, such as Rep. Greg Meeks, who also hails from Queens and whose district was thought to be potentially on the chopping block, should breathe a sigh of relief.
Potential Winner—or Loser
• Former City Comptroller Bill Thompson: In 2009, Bloomberg looked unbeatable, with his solid record on crime and education and his infinite personal war chest. Weiner bowed out when Bloomberg got the term-limits law changed. Thompson, an African-American veteran of local politics who is not known for his charisma, surprised local observers by losing to Bloomberg by only 4.5 percentage points, despite being outspent 14 to 1. Having taken up much of Weiner's anti-Bloomberg mantle, and with a base among the city's large black population, Thompson might be more inclined to run again, seeing a clearer path to the Democratic nomination without Weiner in the field. On the other hand, the template for minority candidates in New York often is to hope that the white candidates will split the white vote, as Weiner and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller did in 2005, allowing Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer to win the Democratic nomination. If Thompson does run, he may pick up Weiner voters who are more mainstream outer-borough Democrats, and anti-Bloomberg voters, but he may also be hurt if a sufficient portion of the white vote coalesces around one candidate.
Potential Losers
• City Comptroller John Liu : Liu, New York's first citywide Asian-American elected official, won his job in 2009 with a "rainbow coalition" of African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. If Thompson is enticed into the race by Weiner's absence, Liu, who is assumed to be running for mayor, will see some of his demographic pie sliced off. "Liu's problem is, how does he create a citywide coalition with Thompson in the race?" says Cunningham. "If Thompson gets in, it could hurt Liu because he has to figure out how to build a coalition with Thompson taking the lion's share of African-American votes."
• Outer-borough white Democrats: The two main white candidates—Stringer and Quinn—both hail from Manhattan. If de Blasio runs, he will try to replace Weiner as the candidate of the ignored outer-boroughs, but he comes from a somewhat Manhattanized portion of Brooklyn. The outer-borough white ethnic bloc, which once exercised vast influence in city politics, hasn't put one of its own in City Hall since Abe Beame in 1973, and isn't likely to this time either.


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The Award season just went by and by the time it culminates at Oscars, one pretty much has a good idea of how celebrities are going to dress and the style they would choose to follow. Oscars brought in drama but a lot of it was rather littered with conventional choices. However a lot of actresses did manage to turn heads for all the right reasons on the red carpet. Read the rest of this entry »


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ROME (RNS) The Vatican said Monday (March 17) that Pope Francis will preside over a prayer vigil dedicated to victims of mob violence in Italy and their families.
It's a sensitive issue for Francis after a famed anti-mob prosecutor last year said the pope's financial reforms were making mob bosses "very nervous" and could expose the pope to assassination plots.
The special service, to be held Friday (March 21), is expected to include at least 700 Italians who lost a family member to violence connected to Italy's various organized crime organizations.
"The meeting with the pope is a gift for the families of innocent victims," said the Rev. Luigi Ciotti, the Turin-based priest who will host the prayer vigil, calling Francis' decision to attend a symbolic nod "to our fragile and wounded humanity."
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Over at Eurogamer today is my review of Gas Powered Games' new action-RPG Space Siege. The demo really got folks' backs up, but does the full game better realise Diablo in space? Or in space, can no-one hear you snore? (trad).
It's like a hobo convincing himself he's a businessman purely because he found a knackered briefcase in a skip and stole a suit from a charity shop.
I wonder if we'll see Chris Taylor et al rabidly defending this game, or if they realise it's a colossal cock-up and will keep quiet. Perhaps they should be outspoken – Dennis Dyack has probably managed to flog a fair few extra copies of his own lacklustre (though significantly more entertaining than this) sci-fi action-RPG, Too Human, by being/pretending to be absolutely batshit crazy on the internet. But ack, what a shame. Please get Demigod right, GPG. (The tinfoil hat part of me, incidentally, wonders if perhaps this was a concious rush-job to raise quick cash for GPG's move into self-publishing. A intensely paranoid theory, but it would make me feel better about Space Siege).


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AFTER SEN. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held the Senate hostage Wednesday in order to warn that American citizens could be targeted by drone strikes on U.S. soil, he was rightly taken to task for gross and irresponsible mischaracterizations of the Obama administration's policy. We've got another complaint: Mr. Paul and his followers are distracting attention from the real issues raised by the administration's secret warfare.
Mr. Paul's filibuster was triggered by the response of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to the question of whether the president "has the authority to order lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without a trial." Mr. Holder's unremarkable answer was that the administration had no intention of ever using such force but that "in an extraordinary circumstance," such as the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it would be "necessary and appropriate" for the president to order military action inside the United States.
From that answer, Mr. Paul and allies such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) somehow concocted the absurd notion that Americans "sitting quietly in cafes" could be blasted by Hellfire missiles. No, they couldn't be, as Mr. Holder made clear in a letter to Mr. Paul on Thursday. But the reality is that Americans who become combatants for forces with which the United States is at war, such as al-Qaeda, are legitimate targets. If one such enemy combatant attempted to crash an airliner into the Capitol, the president would be at fault if he did not deploy the Air Force in defense.
But enough about Mr. Paul: The fact that his paranoid fantasies gained some traction is testimony to the administration's real failures in managing its counterterrorism campaigns. Mr. Obama has chosen to carry out hundreds of drone strikes against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, including one against a U.S. citizen, without any public accounting. Justice Department memos authorizing the attacks have not been disclosed; only this week were senators on the intelligence committee allowed to read them. The White House has devised a process for adding names to a target list for drone strikes but has never revealed even its outlines. Instead, it insists on its righteousness and invites Americans to trust that its decisions are justified.
That is not how a democracy should operate. As we have previously argued, there is no cause for most of the secrecy in which the drone operations are shrouded. The political backlash against them, both at home and abroad, could be diminished if the administration were to conduct strikes with regular military forces, rather than the CIA, and report on them as it does all other military operations. More important, the administration could greatly increase the legitimacy and sustainability of the strikes by openly laying out the criteria under which they can be carried out and by seeking congressional authorization. That framework could include special measures for the targeting of U.S. citizens, such as review by a secret court when practicable. It could also give Mr. Obama the explicit authority to expand the use of drones to countries where al-Qaeda is establishing itself, such as Mali and Syria.
Mr. Holder acknowledged to a Senate committee before Mr. Paul spoke that "there is a greater need for transparency" about the drone war and that he expects Mr. Obama to speak about it. A presidential speech would certainly be welcome. But only disclosure and congressional authorization will solve this problem.
Read more on this debate:
The Post's View: Pulling the U.S. drone war out of the shadows
James Robertson: Judges shouldn't decide about drone strikes
Eugene Robinson: Assassinations by remote control
Dana Milbank: 'Trust me' is not enough on drone warfare
John B. Bellinger III: Will drone strikes become Obama's Guantanamo?


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If you're shopping for a bargain-priced GPS, searching for the previous year's models is often a good place to start. One of the current best finds is the Garmin Nuvi 265WT. While it still carries a hefty list price of $220 on the Garmin Website (as of 1/21/2011), you can generally find it online for $100 less.
The 265WT is essentially a 4.3-inch widescreen version of the older Garmin 265T. It shares an otherwise identical feature set with its 3.5-inch-screen sibling. Though included in Garmin's 200 series of Nuvis aimed at entry-level buyers, the 265WT includes features often found only in midlevel or premium-priced devices.
When it first shipped, Garmin broke ground by offering a built-in traffic receiver with subscription-free, advertising-supported lifetime traffic alerts. While driving, you'll occasionally get a pop-up alert for one of the advertisers, but it doesn't happen too frequently, and the ads are fairly easy to ignore. The Nuvi 265WT will evaluate a traffic alert and offer to reroute you around it for your current route. Alternatively, it will alert you to traffic on your current road if you aren't currently using the device for turn-by-turn directions. You don't need to be guided around too many traffic jams to really appreciate the value of this feature.
Like the 265T, the 265WT includes Navteq maps for the U.S. and Canada. Map upgrades aren't included with the product, but are available by separate purchase. As with all Garmin Nuvis, the user interface on the 265WT features Garmin's "Where to" and "View Map" main menu, so the UI makes navigating easy.
The Nuvi 265WT also includes a Bluetooth speaker phone interface. In my tests, it connected properly with my phone, but unlike the Bluetooth interface found on Garmin's premium products, the 265WT does not have the ability to read the contact list out of your phone. Still, in states like mine (New Jersey) that require you to use a hands-free device while driving, the Bluetooth interface can be very handy.
The Eco-route feature uses the mileage performance that you input for your car and the current fuel price to estimate the cost of your trip. There's even a "Less fuel" routing option in addition to the traditional shortest-route and fastest-time routing profiles. You can also take the "eco challenge" and let the 265WT evaluate your driving habits. As you might suspect, rapid starts and stops, as well as speeding, hurts your score.
Compared to the competition's current crop of 4.3-inch GPS devices, the Nuvi 265WT does lack a couple of features. For example, it doesn't have highway lane guide, a feature that shows you the correct lane for a highway maneuver. Newer competitors not only show you the correct lane, but also include the "green" highway road signs you'll see. The 265WT also does not include multisegment routing that lets you specify multiple destinations within a single trip.
Still, if you want an affordable 4.3-inch GPS device with the friendly Garmin navigation experience, it's hard to miss with the Nuvi 265WT. It's an "oldie but goodie," and it remains one of my favorites.
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The heat is being turned up on big propane companies who last summer quietly reduced the amount of fuel in canisters that are attached to backyard grills without telling their customers, according to a pair of federal lawsuits.
The propane companies named in the suits said they cut the amount of fuel in each tank to avoid raising prices last summer when energy prices soared. Propane prices have since plunged, however, yet the practice of putting 15 pounds of gas in a 20-pound tank continues.
Attorneys, who are seeking class-action status in both suits, say the companies failed to give fair warning to customers.
"When you're paying more for less it affects people in the long run and it affects their pocketbooks," said Eric Gibbs, an attorney representing a California man in a case filed against FerrellGas on June 4 in the U.S. District of Kansas.
Gibbs' client noticed there was less fuel when he lifted the tank at home, he said.
The second case, filed on June 9 in the U.S. District of Northern California, involves four plaintiffs who are suing FerrellGas and AmeriGas.
FerrellGas sells propane under the Blue Rhino brand.
That suit accuses the two companies of violating consumer protection laws in 36 states and the District of Columbia.
"The case is about customers being told they were receiving a full tank when they weren't, and these companies' nondisclosures that they were short-filling the tanks," said attorney Dan Kurowski.
The industry has typically sold 20-pound tanks with 17 to 18 pounds worth of fuel, the shortage allowing the gas to safely expand when heated.
In a statement, Valley Forge, Penn.-based AmeriGas called the legal claims "misguided," saying it changed the labels on its tanks to reflect the lower amount of fuel.
The company, however, said it was "very concerned to learn that some consumers may feel they were not adequately informed and we're committed to taking additional steps if needed to protect their trust and confidence in us."
When asked what those additional steps might be, company spokesman Bill Katz said the company hoped "to have something to announce in the next couple of weeks."
Spokesmen for Overland Park, Kan.-based FerrellGas didn't immediately return phone calls.