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With the election over, many thought the partisan squabbling in Washington, D.C., might recede. You know, the need for a new farm bill would be addressed, and a chastised Congress and administration would work together to avoid the fiscal cliff and revive our moribund economy. And the positions staked out by both sides on the issues of energy, the deficit, regulation, etc., would be refocused on growth and away from the environment or other interest group-driven issues.
However, such a shift to tackle the big issues seems like a pretty bad bet. Though the Republicans initially signaled a willingness to compromise, Democrats seem emboldened by their narrow victories and are now demanding even more in concessions than they did before the election. Hopefully, it's still about posturing and collecting the spoils of victory; perhaps the focus will shift toward sincere effort at getting something done. That doesn't seem to be the early indication, however.
BEEF Daily Blog: D.C. Politics: From The Farm Bill, To Fiscal Cliff, To The Estate Tax
I think the initial takeaway lesson from this election is what the pundits have been saying for quite some time. The country is more sharply and evenly divided than at any time in its history, short of the Civil War era. The big issues largely will continue to be ignored because the proposed paths are so severely different that compromise isn't a possibility.
While we debate about whether we are to return to the values and principles of the past or embrace the failing European model, the big issues facing this country can't be addressed. Sadly, I think most of the decisions going forward will be dictated to us because of our failure to act proactively now.
The one thing every elected Beltway politician is correct about is that their constituents sent them to Washington because they didn't want them to compromise. I really think we'll see lots of focus on the little things because no one is showing the desire to address the big items.


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New-look Army has to fill big void at QB
When he took over at West Point four years ago, Rich Ellerson broke with tradition and went with a freshman as his quarterback to lead the Black Knights' triple option.
All Trent Steelman did in those four years was rewrite the Army record books. He graduated as the only player in school history to rush for more than 2,000 yards and pass for more than 2,000, and among the records he leaves in his considerable wake, is the school mark of 45 career rushing touchdowns. That's two more than the record set in 1946 by Army's Mr. Outside, the great Glenn Davis, a Heisman Trophy winner.
Last season, Steelman led an attack that rushed for a school-record 4,438 yards. It was just the second time the Black Knights had topped the 4,000-yard mark and the second year in a row (4,158 in 2011). Both marks led the nation.
Big shoes to fill, indeed.
Replacing the 6-foot, 207-pound Steelman as the starter for Friday night's season opener against Morgan State at Michie Stadium is 5-foot-11, 188-pound junior Angel Santiago, who served as the primary backup to Steelman for two seasons. Santiago has appeared in six games in his Army career with one start when Steelman was hurt. He has rushed 53 times for 174 yards and a touchdown while completing 7 of 24 passes for 84 yards.
Santiago and A.J. Schurr, a 6-foot, 185-pound sophomore, have been competing for the starting job and Ellerson expects both to play against the Bears.
''Clearly, both those guys know what we have to do offensively, and they are both players in their own right,'' Ellerson said. ''They are not Trent, but they do extraordinarily well.''
Even without the gritty Steelman, Army remains potent on the ground as six of the top eight rushers from last season's squad that averaged 369.8 yards per game are back.
Leading the way is Raymond Maples, who gained 1,215 yards in 2012, averaging 6 yards per carry. If he has his third straight 1,000-yard season, Maples will challenge Steelman (3,320 yards) for third all-time at Army behind Mike Mayweather (4,299) and Carlton Jones (3,536). Maples and the bruising Larry Dixon combined for 2,182 yards last season - 1,773 rushing and 459 receiving.
So teams might have to think twice about stacking the box to challenge the run, Ellerson is aiming at keeping opponents honest by improving a passing attack that ranked 120th (66.42 yards per game) in 2012.
''We are going to be a good running football team and we are going to be a dynamic option football team that will create opportunities,'' Ellerson said. ''The next step forward is in our ability to take advantage of those opportunities on the perimeter.''
Though Army has done extraordinarily well running the ball and gobbling huge chunks of time off the game clock, that has not translated into victories. The team's collective record the past two years is 5-19 as its defense has been torched time and again.
How bad has it been? Last year, Army rushed for 486 yards, registered 30 first downs, controlled the ball for more than 42 minutes, scored 40 points, and still lost by one point to Northern Illinois, which finished with 515 yards of total offense. The Huskies went to the Orange Bowl and Army went home after losing to Navy 17-13 in the season finale.
The Black Knights finished 2-10.
Clearly, Ellerson expects more from his defense, which finished near the bottom of the national rankings in rush defense (232 yards per game), pass efficiency defense (160.36), sacks (1.25), and turnovers gained (14).
''They are starting to mature, but it's still a relatively young group,'' Ellerson said. ''It is certainly a little longer in the tooth than it's been, so we're going to see some veteran guys who have played a little more football for us. We're going to be a little more athletic, and I think we're going to have a few more weapons on the field defensively.''
The Bears, who play in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, are coming off a 3-8 season and were picked to finish 10th in the preseason MEAC poll. They averaged 292.7 yards per game and gave up 402.9.
Quarterback Robert Council is the leading offensive returner. He completed 98 of 192 passes for 1,115 yards with five touchdowns and four interceptions while rushing 80 times for 302 yards and three scores. Seth Higgins also returns at the position, giving the Bears some experience.
''We're going into the season with two seasoned quarterbacks,'' Morgan State coach Donald Hill-Eley said. ''Those two young men have been doing a great job all camp during the scrimmages of just protecting that football and moving their offense through different transitions.''
Army and Morgan State are meeting for the first time. The Bears play at Division I's second level and are used to facing at least one FBS team a year. The financial gain from playing up comes in handy.
''As I tell the guys, sometimes you have to go into very unusual circumstances to feed your family, and that's what we're doing,'' Hill-Eley said. ''We are going in, but we're not going in limp or with any expectations other than winning.
''We're preparing for them the same way we prepare for anybody else in our conference.''

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Sugary Drinks Linked to Heart Risks in Women
Nov. 14, 2011 (Orlando, Fla.) — Once again, sugar-sweetened beverages are on the firing line. New research shows that two or more sugary drinks a day may increase a woman's waistline and risk of heart disease — even if she doesn't gain weight.
In a study of more than 4,000 people aged 45 to 84, women who drank at least two sugar-sweetened beverages a day were nearly four times as likely to develop higher than normal levels of blood fats called triglycerides in their blood, compared with women who drank less than one a day.
They were also more likely to pack on belly fat. Belly fat has been linked to a number a health risks, including heart disease and diabetes.
And they were four times more likely to have abnormal blood glucose levels, indicating prediabetes.
The risks were higher even in women of normal weight and women who didn't gain weight.
Many people assume that drinking a lot of sugary beverages leads to obesity, and that drives up heart risks, says Christina Shay, PhD, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City.
Although that may occur, weight gain doesn't explain the increased risk of heart disease associated with sugary beverages in this study, she tells WebMD.
Shay presented the findings here at the American Heart Association's (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2011.
Study Doesn't Show Cause and Effect
One in two Americans drinks at least one sugary drink a day, according to the CDC. And one in 20 Americans drinks four or more a day.
In contrast, the AHA recommends that adults and children drink fewer than 450 calories or 36 ounces of sugary drinks per week to prevent heart disease.
"There's a lot of concern," says AHA spokeswoman Alice Lichtenstein, DSc, a nutritionist at Tufts University in Boston.
Although this study does show a link between these heart risk factors and sugary drinks, it's important to note that the study doesn't prove that sugar-sweetened beverages cause heart disease.
The American Beverage Association (ABA), which represents the soft drink industry, agrees. In response to the findings, it issued a statement saying, "This type of study cannot show that drinking sugar-sweetened beverages causes increased risk for cardiovascular disease. It simply looks at associations between the two, which could be the result of numerous other … factors."
Empty Calories
There was no association between drinking sugary drinks and heart disease risk factors in men. That could be because women require fewer calories for metabolism, Shay says. "They may have a greater chance for developing risk factors when a greater chunk of those calories comes from sugar-sweetened drinks."
The bottom line is that sugary drinks are empty calories, says American College of Cardiology vice president John Harold, MD, a heart specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"Cut them out of your diet, and you'll improve your health," he tells WebMD. Harold says he recommends water, bottled or tap, to his patients.
These findings were presented at a medical conference. They should be considered preliminary as they have not yet undergone the "peer review" process, in which outside experts scrutinize the data prior to publication in a medical journal.


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Skip to comments.Congressman Billybob's Speech at Today's March for Justice II
Posted on 04/07/2005 5:29:30 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
Speech Delivered by John Armor, Esq.
March for Justice II
Washington, D.C. / April 7, 2005
Im here today because of a brilliant professor in a course I took almost by accident, 41years ago.
My last semester in college, I signed up for a course in Constitutional Law. It was taught by Dr. William Muir, a young man who was crippled and wore massive leg braces, but his mind was as sharp as any Ive ever encountered.
He had a passion for the Constitution. He taught that passion to me. At Spring Break, when most of my classmates were on the beach for sun, suds and sex, I was in the library, reading dozens of Supreme Court cases for a paper for Dr. Muir.
From that day to this, and to the end of my days, I am dedicated to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Do I believe it is a perfect document? No. Thats why it has an amendment clause.
But I do believe, as Prime Minister Gladstone of England said on its Centennial, it is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man. All but six of the worlds nations have written constitutions. None of those has endured as long, or been as successful, as our Constitution. Most are mere window-dressing, honored more in the breech than the observance.
Now we are in the midst of a war over our Constitution. No shots will be fired. No cities attacked. But make no mistake, this is a war. If we lose it, our Constitution will die.
For three decades, Ive been a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court. For more than three decades Ive practiced there. Ive briefed 18 cases. At the time, I considered that the highest challenge and privilege for any attorney.
My three best known cases were on behalf of presidential candidates: Gene McCarthy in 1976, John Anderson in 1980, and George W. Bush in 2000. Like most Americans, I expected the Court to enforce the Constitution. In those cases it did. But my opinion of the Supreme Court has changed radically in the last two years.
This is the certificate the Court sends you when you are admitted to the Bar of the Court. Theres a dirty little secret about these certificates. About 250,000 lawyers have one of these. You fill out a form, you pay a hundred bucks, and they send you this, suitable for framing.
For more than 99% of the members of the Supreme Court Bar, these are just wall decorations. Perhaps they think clients will walk in, see this, and say, Wow. My attorney must be a sharp cookie. Hes admitted to the Supreme Court.
Like all professional licenses, these only matter when used. The one in a hundred of us who have practiced in the Court have seen a steady deterioration in its decisions in recent years. The Court itself has abandoned the Constitution.
My breaking point was the decision in McConnell v. FEC in 2003. That was the Campaign Finance Reform case. Contrary to the First Amendment, five Justices of the Court decided that Congress could tell American citizens to sit down and shut up in their politics, in the months before federal elections.
Every Justice takes an oath of office to enforce the Constitution. When the Court demonstrated it did not respect the First Amendment, that was the end of my respect for the Court.
There is a black banner on my certificate, because I resigned from the Courts Bar last July after my last case was decided.
This certificate will remain in a closet, turned to the wall, until the Justices on the Court change, and the Court again enforces the Constitution. Until then, I am in mourning for that honorable document.
Last year, constitutional lawyers like me could all see what was wrong with the Court. Now, another case has made the Courts dishonesty so visible that millions of Americans, including non-lawyers, can see the problem. That second case sparked the opposition, and caused this March for Justice II.
In Roper v. Simmons this year, the juvenile death penalty case from Missouri, five Justices decided that evolving standards of decency allowed them to bar state juries from deciding that the very worst of juvenile murderers could be executed. This time, the Supreme Court admitted in its opinion, in front of God and everybody, that they were changing the meaning of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
Not only did the Court rewrite the Constitution in that case, it even rejected its own decision just 16 years ago which upheld such state laws.
Whats wrong with this decision, and others like it?
Lets begin with the basics. We all learned in school that our form of government has three parts, the executive, legislative and judicial branches. This is separation of powers. Each branch as a separate role; checks and balances allow each branch (theoretically) to prevent the others from encroaching on its legitimate powers.
What we see today is a fundamental failure of the American theory of government, led by five Justices who are violating their oaths of office. How do we know that? Lets look at the source materials.
Hear now the words of the Gospel according to John, James and Alexander. Jay, Madison and Hamilton in the Federalist, Chapter 78, wrote this about the federal courts:
The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment....
This was the only time in the Federalist that the authors capitalized whole words. That emphasized their meaning. Federal judges were given great freedom -- lifetime tenure and guaranteed salaries -- to decide the cases before them. But they were expected to obey and enforce the law given to them, including the Constitution.
What is the danger, when Justices take into their own hands not just the enforcement of the law, but the rewriting of the laws they are appointed to enforce?
It is the job of state legislatures and Congress to pass the laws. They are given this authority over us, because we elect them for this purpose. We have the power to defeat them for reelection if we are not content with the laws they pass.
I state this in simplest terms. Because we do not have the power of the ballot box over federal judges and Justices, they cannot possess any LEGITIMATE power to legislate over us.
The potential problem of outlaw judges is not new. Hear now these words from the Gospel according to Tom. Jefferson wrote this to Judge Spencer Roane, in 1819:
Our Constitution . . . intending to establish three departments, co-ordinate and independent that they might check and balance one another, it has given according to this opinion to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of others;. . . . The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
The government of the United States is the second in history to be based on the principle of popular sovereignty, and the first to establish that principle through a written Constitution. That is undermined by an unrestrained judiciary.
Note this statement by Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolutions, 1798:
In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
The entire theory of constitutional law rests on this: as the Constitution itself says, it is the supreme Law. Either it is superior to all other laws, and to all office-holders, or, like most of the worlds constitutions, it is mere decoration. No one is exempt from obedience to the Constitution, especially the Justices of the Supreme Court.
Are there Justices on the Court who see and oppose this danger? Here now these words from the Gospel according to Tony. Justice Scalia wrote this in his stinging dissent from the five-Justice majority in Roper v. Simmons:
What a mockery todays opinion makes of Hamiltons expectation, announcing the Courts conclusion that the meaning of our Constitution has changed over the past 15 years not, mind you, that this Courts decision 15 years ago was wrong, but that the Constitution has changed. The Court reaches this implausible result by purporting to advert, not to the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, but to the evolving standards of decency ... of our national society. It then finds, on the flimsiest of grounds, that a national consensus which could not be perceived in our peoples laws barely 15 years ago now solidly exists. Worse still, the Court says in so many words that what our peoples laws say about the issue does not, in the last analysis, matter.... The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nations moral standards and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures.
In short, what we have here is not evolving standards of decency, but devolving standards of judicial dishonesty. Five Justices of the Court deliberately trampled on the Constitution, and deliberately violated their oaths of office. They did so by violating the plain language of that document, and the plain descriptions of the proper roles of federal judges, as laid out by the Framers.
Outlaws who wear masks and carry guns are a danger to us, one at a time. But outlaws who wear black robes and carry gavels are dangerous to all of us at once. The danger is not just to specific laws, like the juvenile death penalty ones in 19 states. It is to ALL laws, in all states and in the federal government.
After our God-given rights, the Declaration of Independence states our basic political rights:
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government....
This right is guaranteed by the amendment provisions in Article V. We the people are the ultimate sovereign power. We established the Constitution. Through elected representatives in Congress and the state legislatures, we have the power to change it at any time. Most recently, we used that power to establish the Madison Amendment in 1992.
But nowhere does Article V give any power to five Justices of the Supreme Court to amend the Constitution for us (presumably because we were too stupid to realize the need for a particular amendment).
What philosophy do these outlaw Justices follow? Platos Republic provides the answer. In his system, a small number of men would be well-educated in aspects of Greek society. Then, with their special preparation, they would rule over the people as philosopher-kings.
Benevolent dictatorship never was, and never should be, the American system of government. Judges who think that way are UNFIT to sit on any bench at any level in America, most especially on the Supreme Court.
The question then is, how are we going to deal with this assault on the very heart of the theory of American government?
Impeachment of Justices who deliberately violate their oaths of office is not a remedy. A majority of the House might vote to impeach. But not in the foreseeable future will two-thirds of the Senate vote to convict and remove such Justices. Entirely too many Senators like outlaw Justices to impose their personal will whenever they choose. Jefferson himself referred to the remedy of impeachment as a scare-crow.
What other remedies are available?
There is an interim solution to some problems. Congress can withdraw the jurisdiction of the federal courts from cases concerning the Ten Commandments or the national motto, In God we trust. We take matches away from children because they might burn down the house. The same applies to Justices of the Court. They cannot be trusted with the Constitution; they are burning it down a clause at a time.
There are other examples. Consider the frequent cases which drag a highly-paid federal judge and his staff into the T-shirt policy of South Succotash High School. Please. Is that what the Framers created the federal courts for? Take these matches, too, away from childish judges.
The total solution, however, requires replacing the outlaw Justices with ones who will obey the Constitution.
I wont be crass and describe the ages and infirmities of individual Justices. I expect Chief Justice Rehnquist to soldier on to the end of the 2004 Term and then resign. I expect the President to name Justice Scalia to become Chief Justice. That change will make no difference in the Courts balance of power.
The next two resignations from the Court will probably be Justices Ginsburg and OConnor, also in June. Justice Ginsburg has been hard-wired from the beginning that the Court can do whatever it chooses, and should rely on foreign laws and decisions. Justice OConnor did not start out that way; but she has gone over to the dark side recently.
Given the ages of seven of the Justices, President Bush may make more than just three appointments in his final years. The more there are, the more likely the Court as an institution will respect and protect the Constitution for the next generation, rather than subvert and rewrite it.
Replacement of Scalia, OConnor and Ginsburg, is the key to the remedy. The three new Justices named by the President and affirmed by the Senate must be men or women who understand that the role of a Justice is not to rewrite the laws, or worse, to rewrite the Constitution, but to obey and enforce them.
Every nominee for the Court should be asked just two questions: What is the job description of a judge? If the nominee gets that answer right, the next question is: How does your career demonstrate that you live by that description?
Think about it. If you apply to be a fry cook at McDonalds, they expect you to understand the job, and be willing to do it. Why should we expect any less of a Justice on the Court?
Every one of you, every person who hears or reads these words, everyone who genuinely respects the Constitution, must do all you can to encourage the confirmation of law-abiding Justices to those three vacancies.
Because this is a war, we expect the opposition to fight to the death, metaphorically. When it comes to the Supreme Court, some of the Democrats who have filibustered judicial nominees in the past, and threatened to continue that, have backed off. Several have said that for a Supreme Court nominee they will not obstruct an up or down vote.
Lower court vacancies cause years of delay for tens of thousands of civil case trials, involving the interests of millions of Americans. Court-watchers have recognized this problem for years. But most Americans havent seen this as an urgent concern.
The same is not true of an empty chair at the Supreme Court. Even the New York Times might notice that. The American people will not tolerate a two-year delay in filing one of those chairs. Members on both side of the Senate aisle will act to end such a delay, and cause an up-down vote.
We cannot overstate the stakes here. The bloodless but critical battle we are entered into was best described a century and a half ago. From the Gospel according to Abe, in The Gettysburg Address:
... this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
One of the most memorable lines by President Ronald Reagan, and also the symbol of his greatest achievement, was delivered in Berlin when he said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Now it is time for us to say to President George W. Bush that he must end the outlaw behavior of a majority of the Justices. Mr. President, tear down this Court.
This is more important than mere election of a President. That is for only four years. This is for thirty years, and perhaps for the whole future of the Constitution. No retreat, no compromise. We should not falter, we cannot fail.
"In short, what we have here is not evolving standards of decency, but devolving standards of judicial dishonesty."
I hereby nominate Congressman Billybob, Mark Levin and my lovely Ann Coulter to the next three vacancies in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ominous, indeed.
Bump for later. Great piece, John!
Outstanding! Awesome! Needed!
Bump for later read.
BTTT! Good one, CB.
Just e-mailed this to my list. Printed it for later reading. I'm sure I will find enlightenment!
Stellar speech, Congressman Billybob!
Thanks. Good work, marchers! Will read later.
Wish I'd been there.
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This feels like pretty basic stuff to me, but it's incredibly important not to overlook the basics, so let's talk about it.
I was prompted to think about this again when taking questions after talking at the GUADEC conference in Istanbul recently and someone asked about how you design a good experience when you're designing for everyone – technical experts and newbies, people in countries around the world.
Surprisingly, or perhaps not, the answer is quite simple.
Just don't. Don't design for everyone. It's impossible.
All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. Who needs that.
But why does this happen? I call it the myth of the general public.
So, there is this idea of the general public … but have you ever met *anyone* who considers themselves to be 'the general public'? I don't think I have.
This became particularly clear to me on a research project I was working on a few months ago where every single person I met told me about how unique their particular area of interest was, and how my client, a museum, only catered to 'the general public'. The people I talked with complained that museums have 'dumbed down' so much because they are talking to 'the general public' and said that this made museums less useful for them to interact with, because of their specific interest and expertise.
This is what happens when we design for everyone – we 'dumb things down' to the point that they become useless or inefficient for most people. How does this happen? Well, because although everyone in the world might want to use your product or your website, they'll want to use it in a very particular way.
In order to design your product well for them, you need to understand how they'll use it and design to support that behaviour.
But wait! That means that all of a sudden the whole world is not my target audience! Horror!
Never fear, all is not lost. Despite the fact that you've design the experience beautifully for the specific audience (or audiences, you are allowed more than one!) that you have selected and understand well, other users will insist on using your product/service/website even if they are not in your target audience. In fact, the glowing recommendations that your audiences will provide will encourage others to use your service.
Yes, some audiences may have to work a little harder than others, but some audiences are better equipped to work harder. And at least the audience you *really* care about is being well looked after.
Josh Porter in his recently published book 'designing for the social web' (which I recommend that you read because if you don't know everything that's in his book, you should) makes this argument a lot more succintly than I have here so I'm going to quote you a slab:
Get as Specific As You Can
Question: Who is the audience you're targeting?
Wrong Answer: Well, anyone really. Our application has a very broad set of uses.
Right Answer: People who do this very specific activity…
This is a discussion I had with an entrepreneur who was starting a new software company. He was targeting his software at what he called 'the general public'. And on the surface of things, this makes sense. He didn't want to limit his softward by saying that it was for a particular audience, as that would make it harder to swim with the current if that strategy didn't work out. (Investors like flexibility too). For whatever reason, his software ended up being for all audiences.
In practice, however, software built for the masses rarely works. Even in the cases where software has gone to the masses, it started off in a nice and then grew outward, as people realized that it doesn't have to be used in any one way.
Targeting a broad audience is precisely the wrong approach. The more specific you can get about how to use your application, the more your software will resonate with your potential audience.
Del.icio.us, the social bookmarking tool, is about as broad a tool as you can get. Anybody who wants to bookmark web pages can use it. That is to say that their potential audience is everyone on the web.
Byut Del.icio.us doesn't fall into the trap of designing for everyone. They do a good job providing specific use cases.
And, if your software is flexible and can be used by many different types of audiences, choose a few profitable/big ones and be specific about each. The more specific you get, the better.
See. What Josh said. The general public is a myth. Don't design for it.


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The intrepid Android faithful at Phandroid discovered a LinkedIn listing from Motorola for "qualified individuals" to help head up development for a "next generation smartphone platform." (Unfortunately, the page went down while we were reporting this story, but you can still find the job listing at Motorola's official job site without any mention of the "X phone.") The profile specified the qualifications required for the position of senior director of product management at Motorola Mobility.
A while back, the Wall Street Journal reported that Google and Motorola were furiously drawing up plans for an "X phone," a device that would be separate from other phones in development at Motorola, which are often exclusively sold at Verizon Wireless. Dennis Woodside, a former Google sales executive who switched over to chief executive at Motorola, said the company was investing in a new team and technology to produce something "different than the current approaches."
Phandroid notes that development of the X Phone is probably still in its early stages, since Motorola is just now purportedly hiring a manager for its development team. It's possible a prototype won't even be ready for an announcement in May, when Google holds its annual I/O developer conference. Of course, this could all be under wraps to build up hype. We'll keep updating you as we hear more.


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Sourdough Lamb and Rosemary "Cigars"
Another original idea. Lamb/wine braising liquid and ground rosemary mixed to about 75% hydration with KA AP flour. Stretched and folded in the bowl twice over three hours, left on the counter overnight at about 70 degrees. Further bulk fermentation of four or five hours due to the interference of a dentist's appointment. Back out on the counter for an hour, then gently plopped out of the bowl, stretched and treated like grissini, only fatter. Some were shaped with care. A crumb shot of one of these is shown.
This concludes the experiments with flavored liquids for the moment, as I have run out of stuff that needs to get out of the freezer. There is really no limit to what one could come up with. As far as I know, there is not much, if any, of this kind of thing going on beyond the pain marin at Ledoyen in Paris. High end restaurants could have a field day with this approach, and home bakers can dress up their dinner parties with something novel. Crackers and flatbreads are other obvious ways to go.
As always, comment and criticism invited.
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Vintage Air Condition Unit: 1959 Chevy Apache
Cruise In Comfort
Some of you avid readers may know that I swapped the stock dash in my 1959 Chevy Apache to a 1964 Chevy Nova II SS dash. What I was always dreading was the day that I would put A/C in the darn thing. Because of the A/C's space constraints I was uncertain that any aftermarket unit would fit under the passenger side of the dash. I guess I got lucky one day when we had an open house at our CLASSIC TRUCKS HQ and because Rick Love, vice president of Vintage Air and one of the nicest guys on earth, peeked his head under dash. It only took Rick a second to say that he had a universal unit that would fit great and he even had Nova II dash parts that would fit in the stock location.
I was blown away by the discovery, but I still had a few more questions for Rick. I asked about air-conditioning, autocross, and drag racing since those are trends going with truck enthusiasts. Rick said that most A/C compressors while shut off could handle high rpms because the compressor's clutch is disengaged and that the internals were not spinning. However, they do offer a wide-open-throttle switch that disengages the A/C compressor if you decide to floor it.
Since my personal truck will see lots of miles and autocrosses this was good to know. The overall A/C case, hoses, fittings, condenser, and accumulator don't really add a ton of weight and in fact I found the parts rather light. Adding weight to any truck, especially toward the front end, makes the truck feel sluggish, but this was not the case for our Vintage Air unit.
Remember the old days when they said by turning the A/C unit off you would lose tons of mileage? Yeah me too, but nowadays the gasoline is better, we have better compressors, and in some cases fuel injection. I'd rather be in comfort than be sweaty driving through Texas in the summer, wouldn't you?
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Those were the days when I completed my MBA and got a job as a Management trainee in a MNC company in the marketing department. My immediate boss told me that I had to do a do a six months stint directly marketing the soaps and detergent powder.
I was to travel with a distribution van and sell the company's products to the company's retailers and also at the same time elicit from them information about the customer's reaction to our products. The job was exciting because
I used to be treated royally by the company's retailers and pampered and traveling in the Indian countryside was like being in paradise. Luckily for me my ancestral village was in the same region in which I was posted.
I moved to my village and used to attend my job from there. I lived in my grandma's house and they used to pamper me a lot being a male child. My grand father died a long time ago and my grandma used to live with one of her unmarried daughter
that is my mother's sister and my aunt. They had vast ancestral properties and lived comfortably. The village had lot of young girls and most of them were beautiful. In the evenings I used to sit out side and watch the girls pass by and make eyes at me.
This used to be very exciting. Being a village and most of the families related to us in some way of the other, the girls used to come to my grandma's house on some pretext or the other and pick up conversation with me.
I was an object of their fascination because I was educated, young, and handsome and used to be of a jovial nature. Gradually I became close to a girl. Her name was Haasini. Her pet name was Haasi and I too got used to calling her Haasi.
Haasi's house was opposite to my grandma's house and most of the time she used to be in my grandma's house chit chatting with my aunt. She was nineteen years old and was in second year of graduation.
Haasi was a pleasant looking and good-natured girl, soft and warm in nature and always joking. She was five feet five inches tall and had a good body structure with smooth glowing skin and long hair and teeth like pearls.
Sundays we used to sit for game of cards, me, my aunt and other girls. Haasi was good card player and used to win more points. On the particular day she was winning continuously and I was getting irritated because she was taunting me
"you are a educated city guy more intelligent than me yet you lose with me in cards". I decided that in the next game I should win and after the cards were divided I slyly glanced by bending side ways she noticed this and turned her cards
away from my sight upon this I held her wrist and forcibly tried to see the cards in the scuffle though I did not succeed to see the cards my hands brushed her body and her breasts. Her face flushed and I was embarrassed.
After this we settled down and started playing, I was casting sly sidelong glances unnoticed by others at her, she realized this and her this only made her face flush more. After some time we broke up. I could not sleep that night I was thinking about Haasi,
the touch and feel of her body and her breasts was like heaven and I decided, come what may I shall have her. Now she started spending more time with me talking all kinds of subjects after I came home in the evenings from my work with me longing
to pull her towards me and hug her, all the time. On every little pretext I used to touch her and she would smile and blush like a like a beautiful flower. But I could never take courage to hug her. Then on one day as providence would have been my grandma
went to visit her relatives leaving my aunt alone in the house. My aunt asked Haasi to sleep in our house to give her company, as I would be coming home late in the night after a long sales trip. I was aching to come home soon.
When I reached home it was already past midnight and my aunt asked me to take bath and have supper. I noticed two cots with beds side by side one for my aunt and one for Haasi and one a little far away and a little inside for me, in the verandah.
I finished my supper very soon and came to sleep I told my aunt that I was feeling sultry and would like sleep on the cot closer to the one near Haasi because I would get more air there. My aunt reluctantly agreed went to sleep on the cot, which was meant for me.
I lay down watching Haasi, she was looking beautiful in her sari, she rarely wears saris and god knows why she was wearing one today. She was not sleeping and all the while I came and finished supper she feigned sleep lest her sleeping place should be changed by my aunt.
Now I could see a faint smile on her face and her bosom was heaving up and down rhythmically. Slowly I reached out my right had and held the fingers of her right hand. She waited for a moment before closing her fingers on my fingers.
I played with her fingers gently for some time and then started trailing my fingers along the length of the insides of her arm. She convulsed a little. Goose bumps appeared on her hand. I caressed her arm a little more and slowly moved my fingers
to her right shoulder and held her smugly. She smiled a little more. I caressed her shoulder a little and moved my hand down on to right breast lightly and let it lay there without any movement. Her breath quickened, then I started caressing her right breast gently.
I pushed her sari away, she was not wearing any undergarment under her blouse and her nipple became erect immediately. I tweaked it between my thumb and fingers and pulled it gently and she gave a gasp.
Slowly I moved my fingers on to her blouse hooks and started unhooking them one by one the last one was tight and it took me a little more time finally I unhooked it and put my palm on her bare breast and started caressing it first the right and then the left.
She was now moving restlessly and slight moaning with her eyes closed tight. In the meanwhile my aunt moved in her sleep and god knows what went in her mind she turned and looked towards us. It was dark and she could not make out anything and went to sleep again.
Now my hand started its down ward journey and I rested on the flat of her smooth stomach and felt the smooth skin. Then I sought her navel and circled my forefinger around it and inserted my finger in it and twirled it a little she smiled
and caught my hand with her hand and placed it on flat if her stomach. After some time she released my hand and I moved my hand down further. Into her sari and on to her crotch. She immediately caught my hand again.
But did not try to pull it out. I could feel her panties and slowly inserted my fingers into her panties and felt her pubic hair and her mound. After some time she relented her grip on my hand and slowly I started rubbing her pussy lip gently.
I slowly separated them with my fingers and felt their contours she was very wet and oozing all of a sudden without warning I inserted my middle finger into her hot depth. She yelped a little and caught my hand again and tried feebly to pull it out.
I did not relent and let it stay there. Slowly she released her grip on my hand and I started moving my finger in and out of her hot pussy. She was moaning audibly and I put a hand on her mouth and moved on to her cot. She moved and gave me space and I lay down beside her.
She was perspiring on her fore head and I wiped her forehead and held her in my embrace. I kissed her on her lips and parted her lips with my tongue she met my tongue with her and we played for a while both of us drooling saliva.
Slowly I moved my lips to her left nipple and sucked gently, and then I gave it a small bite drawing a yelp from her. I did the same with her other breast and nipple. I slowly pulled her sari to her waist and caressed her long silky legs and kissed them all the way to the crotch.
I put my fingers in her panty band and tugged it down she lifted her hips to let me pull it off her body. I bent down and kissed her pussy lips all the while caressing her mound with my hand she was now oozing profusely and my nose and lips were cover with her juices.
She pulled me up and embraced me tightly. Then I completely took off her sari and covered us with a blanket. I took out a condom from my pocked and pulled off my shorts and embraced her again tightly with my engorged cock between our stomachs
she jerked sharply on the feel of my cock on her stomach. Haasi said, " don't do that, I am afraid". I pleaded with her and told her I had a condom with me and there would not be any problem. She refused and I turned the other side and froze in protest
she hugged be from the back her breasts pressing into my back and her warm thighs against mine but I did not relent after some time she whispered in my ear 'ok'. I opened the condom packet and rolled it over the length of my cock and rolled on to her.
Kissing her on the lips passionately. We embraced and kissed in turns and slowly I lifted my self up on my knees and got in between her legs and raised her knees and spread her legs wide. I rubbed the tip of my cock on her pussy lips
she held my cock in her hand and guided it to the entrance of her pussy opening, slowly I started pushing it inside. It went in a few inches and refused to go any further. I was afraid to push any further lest I might hurt
her but she urged me push harder and I gave a hard push, she winced in pain and I was deeply buried in her to the hilt. It was such a wonderful experience I did not want to pull out again. I embraced her tightly and the whole world came to a standstill
each of us savoring the beautiful pleasurable moments. Slowly I started to move in and out of her gaining momentum with each thrust she was moaning with pleasure and making intelligible sounds. In between I would bend
and suck her succulent nipples and kiss her lips. Then she started thrusting her hips towards me and encircled her legs around my waist and started pulling me towards restricting my movement I too was reaching my climax.
I started thrusting more vigorously and she was thrusting her hips her in a matching motion then the whole world come to a standstill for a moment and I shot my juices forward, she convulsed and contracted her muscles,
she was coming in ripples I slumped on her with my limp cock still in her and slowly drifted into a deep slumber. I woke up an hour later and woke her up too and kissed her passionately on her lips. We dressed up and I moved on to my cot.


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Wal-Mart Bank faces tough opposition
The FDIC could reach a decision about a Wal-Mart bank as early as next month but criticism abounds.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - It's a new year and the fate of Wal-Mart Bank still hangs in the balance.
In July 2005, the world's largest retailer filed an application with the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to operate an industrial bank. The company said the bank would be narrowly focused on processing the company's credit, debit and electronic check payments which could save the company millions of dollars in fees that Wal-Mart (Research) currently pays out to other banking institutions.
But skeptics viewed the proposal with wariness and despite assurances from the company that Wal-Mart, known for its aggressive retailing tactics, has no interest in branch banking, the banking industry has been in an uproar to prevent the FDIC from approving the application.
FDIC spokesman David Barr said the federal regulator is still reviewing the application and a decision could be made between February and May of this year -- a timetable initially set when the application was introduced.
"It's really hard to gauge timing," Barr said. "A lot depends on what negotiations might have to be made and whether we need more information from the applicant."
And members of Congress are also pushing the FDIC to defer any decision until the FDIC's board of directors is complete. The FDIC chairman position has been open since Nov. 15, after Donald Powell left to direct Gulf rebuilding efforts. FDIC Vice Chairman Martin Gruenberg has been acting chairman.
In a letter to the FDIC in December, members of the House Committee on Financial Services said "the application is clearly of sufficient importance to require that it be made by the members of the FDIC Board itself and only by a full Board without vacancies."
Members of Congress went on to ask the FDIC to hold public hearings on the application due to the unusually large response to the Wal-Mart Bank proposal from banks and consumers. Since July, the FDIC has received about 1,700 letters, with the majority of respondents vehemently opposing Wal-Mart's foray into banking.
The FDIC hasn't issued a comment on the letters.
Wal-Mart spokesman Marty Heires said the company hopes that "people understand the scope of the [proposed] bank operation" and insisted that the company, which has 1,100 third-party bank branches already in its stores and 300 more commitments to open branches, isn't interested in opening branches of its own.
The Independent Community Bankers of America, which is leading the charge against the formation of a Wal-Mart bank, isn't buying it.
"Fifteen years ago, Wal-Mart said it had no designs on the grocery business and 20 years ago, they said they had no designs on the hardware business but now they dominate both businesses," said ICBA president and chief executive Camden Fine. "You have to judge future action based on past record."
And while some supporters of the plan have written letters asking the FDIC to approve the application because Wal-Mart will create healthy competition in the banking industry and provide better savings and checking rates to consumers, Fine said that any benefits to the consumer will be short-lived.
"They may be able to bring prices down until they monopolize an area," he said. "But once they have such a concentration and there is no other business to counterbalance Wal-Mart, they will be able to price however they want."
For more on the pros and cons of a Wal-Mart bank, click here.


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By Jamie Crawford
In the annals of American history, the famous photo taken by Pete Souza of President Barack Obama and his national security team monitoring 'Operation Neptune's Spear'–the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden– has achieved icon status. Splashed across newspapers and television screens across the world, the tension in the room seemed palpable to all who saw it. But an interesting footnote to the famous photo is that it was not taken in the actual Situation Room at the White House.
As CNN Terrorism Analyst Peter Bergen reports in his new book "Manhunt," about the decade long search for bin Laden, the room where the photo was taken is actually a smaller room adjoined to the larger Situation Room. Like the Situation Room, the smaller room has secure video and phone communications, but it has a table that can only accommodate seven people Bergen writes, as opposed to the larger table next door which can seat more than a dozen.
Brigadier General Marshall "Brad" Webb, assistant commanding general of Joint Special Operations Command who sits in the center of the famous photo, was monitoring the operation on a screen through a laptop computer. Michael Leiter, then director of the National Counterterrorism Center, went into the room to watch the feed that was being relayed from a secret drone. Secretaries Clinton, Gates, and Vice President Biden soon followed. Moments later Bergen reports, the president walked in and said, "I need to watch this," as he seated himself next to Webb.
In the days and months that followed, many of the people in the room have reflected on that crucial time in U.S. history, what it meant to them, and what they were thinking.
President Barack Obama:
In a recent interview with NBC News, Obama said he thinks the photo was taken at about the time the helicopter went down.
In the days after the raid, Obama told CBS's 60 Minutes that the raid was "the longest 40 minutes" of his life with the possible exception of when his younger daughter Sasha became sick with meningitis when she was three months old.
When they received word the helicopters carrying the Navy SEALs and the bin Laden body had left Pakistani airspace, the first person Obama called was his immediate predecessor, former President George W. Bush to inform him of the operation. Obama also called former President Bill Clinton that evening as well.
Vice President Joe Biden:
Vice President Joe Biden was opposed to going forward with the raid all the way up to the point when Obama made the decision to proceed. In remarks to House Democrats at their annual retreat earlier this year, Biden recalled the final moments before the commander-in-chief made his decision. Obama went around the table of his senior national security team to get their thoughts on whether the operation should go forward.
"He got to me. He said Joe what do you think," Biden recalled. "I said, we owe the man a direct answer. Mr. President, my suggestion is, don't go. We have to do two more things to see if he's there."
Biden told an audience in New York last week that Obama's decision to ultimately go ahead with decision shows the president has a "backbone like a ramrod."
Anthony Blinken – National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden:
On the morning of April 29, President Obama gathered with Tom Donilon, his national security adviser, White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, and his counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, and told the men he had made the decision to go forward with the operation. Anthony Blinken, Biden's national security adviser heard the news shortly thereafter.
In an interview with Bergen, Blinken was somewhat surprised of the decision.
"I thought, 'Man, that is a gutsy call," Blinken told Bergen. "First, we don't know for sure bin Laden is there; the evidence is circumstantial. Second, most of his senior advisors recommended a different course of action."
Obama's presidency and the lessons of history also hung in the balance Blinken thought.
"Leaving that meeting, I think a lot of people had visions of Jimmy Carter in their heads," Blinken told Bergen in reference to the failed attempt by the Carter administration in 1980 to rescue the Americans held hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran.
John Brennan – Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism:
White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan recently told an audience at NYPD headquarters in New York that once Obama made the "gutsy call" to approve the mission, "the minutes passed like hours and days."
When an NYPD official asked Brennan what it was like to be at the White House that evening, Brennan said there "wasn't a sense of exuberance, there were no high fives," he said. "People let out a breath. It was a moment of reflection. This was something we'd all worked toward for a long time."
Brennan recalled leaving the White House at 1:30am and passing by Lafayette Park, where many people had gathered and were chanting, "USA, USA." Brennan said he was hit by a wave of emotion. "I had goose bumps," he said.
James Clapper – Director of National Intelligence:
Clapper told Security Clearance "the tension in the air was palpable" particularly when the helicopter encountered its problem. "There was a lot of tension, and then as it became clear that we were reasonably sure that yes, it was Usama bin Laden, there was, if I can use the phrase, not only emotional closure, but functional closure in that operation illustrated the effectiveness of what an integrated intelligence and operational community could accomplish," he said.
Clapper told Security Clearance he walked with the President through the Rose Garden on their way to the East Room where Obama addressed the nation. It was the first time they had been outdoors for 12 hours, and they could hear the crowds in Lafayette Park. "It was then that it hit me what a momentous event this was, and I'll not forget that" Clapper said.
"It is hard for me to recall a single vignette that carried with it so much importance, and so much symbolism for this country," Clapper said. "As an intelligence professional that has spent 50 years in the business, I cannot remember an event that would approach that raid and its success in my memory."
Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State:
For Secretary Clinton, who was a U.S. Senator from New York on 9/11, the operation provided a sense of closure to her she said recently in an address at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. "We did our very best to try to give the president our honest assessment, and ultimately you know it was his decision which I fully supported because I believed that we had to take the risk and it was a risk."
Watch as Hillary Clinton recounts the mood at the White House during the bin Laden raid.
"It was a pretty intense, tense, stressful time because the people who were actually doing it on the ground were thousands of miles away," she said. "I'm not sure anyone breathed for you know 35 or 37 minutes."
"I wasn't even aware people were taking pictures, the White House photographer obviously was, but you were just so concentrating on what you could see and you could hear. We could see or hear nothing when [the SEALs] went into the house. There was no communication or feedback coming so it was during that time period everyone was particularly focused on just trying to keep calm and keep prepared as to what would happen," Clinton said.
William Daley – White House Chief of Staff:
President Obama's former chief of staff might have come closest to tipping off the press that something monumental was in the works before Obama made his historic address to the nation.
That Saturday evening, Obama, Daley, and many other senior administration officials were attending the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington. George Stephanopoulos of ABC News had heard from someone that the White House had uncharacteristically closed itself to public tours the next morning. "You guys have something big going on over there?" Bergen writes of Stephanopoulos's surprising query to Daley. "Oh no. It's just a plumbing issue," Daley said, seemingly ending the newsman's curiosity.
In an address to a conference of public relations executives in Chicago last week, Daley called that night of the operation at the White House the "biggest moment of my life in a professional sense."
Tom Donilon – National Security Adviser:
"Well, obviously we're thinking about the successful and safe completion of the mission," Donilon told CNN's Candy Crowley a week after the raid. "That was first and foremost in everybody's mind as we were monitoring the mission as it was ongoing."
"You know, as I look at the picture now though, and focus in on the president, having served three presidents," Donilon told Crowley, "you really are struck by these being quintessentially presidential decisions, and you see it in new experiences that you have."
For Donilon, who watched the president receive divided opinions from his advisers on whether to go forward with the mission, "that's what strikes me now, looking at the president, is that we ask our presidents to make these exceedingly difficult decisions," Donilon said. "And at the end of the day, 300 million Americans are looking to him to make the right decision."
Robert Gates – Secretary of Defense:
Gates, who was the only hold over in Obama's cabinet from the previous administration, said for him, the most difficult moment for him that evening was when one of the Blackhawk helicopters carrying a Navy SEALs team crashed in the courtyard of the bin Laden compound.
Like Biden, he was opposed to the operation involving the SEALs. Gates, who spent a majority of his career at the C.I.A. and was the intelligence liaison at the White House in 1980 during the failed attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran, advocated for a much larger operation.
"Well, I think like the rest, I was just transfixed," Gates told CBS's 60 Minutes last year. "And of course, my heart went to my mouth when the helicopter landed in the courtyard, 'cause I knew that wasn't part of the plan. But these guys were just amazing."
Admiral Mike Mullen – Chairman of the Joint Chiefs:
For Mullen, there was also a concern about whether the White House would interfere after the helicopter went down.
Mullen told Bergen his biggest concern "was that someone at the White House would reach in and start micromanaging the mission. It is potentially the great disadvantage about technology that we have these days," he said. "And I was going to put my body in the way of trying to stop that. Obviously, there was one person I couldn't stop doing that, and that was the president."
Audry Tomason – National Counterterrorism Center:
CNN reached out to Audrey Tomason to get her reflections of that evening, but she was unavailable for comment.
Brigadier General Marshall "Brad" Webb – Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command:
Webb was the senior officer in the room from Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The commanding officer of JSOC, Admiral William McRaven, briefed the officials on the operation from his position in Afghanistan. Webb declined to comment to CNN about his role in the operation, or his reflections of the evening.
Denis McDonough – Deputy National Security Advisor:
"I think what strikes me about the picture more than anything is the fact that it speaks to the teamwork that was emblematic," McDonough told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the day after the operation. "The broader teamwork from the IAC, the intelligence community, from the military, from our diplomats, to make sure that this happened in the successful way that it did."
Leon Panetta – Central Intelligence Agency Director:
Panetta, who at that point was the Director of the C.I.A. at the agency headquarters in Langley, VA that evening, but was communicating with Obama and his team via a video link. The Title 50 operation called for the C.I.A. to have operational control, so everyone at the White House was listening to Panetta narrate what was happening.
"There were a number of tense moments going through the operation," now Defense Secretary Panetta said on his way back to the United States from South America last week. "Just the fact that having these helicopters going 150 miles into Pakistan, and the concern about whether or not they would be detected." When one of the helicopters went down at the compound, Panetta said it was "pretty nerve-wracking for a lot of us that, you know, trying to figure out what happens now."
When they received confirmation from the SEAL team that they had killed bin Laden, Panetta said there was a "huge sigh of relief by everybody involved." But with a disabled helicopter down at the compound, it had to be destroyed by members of the team before they were able to leave Pakistani territory. "And so there was a lot of concern about the ability to get everybody back to Afghanistan," Panetta said. "But we were able to do that, and it was at that point that I think everybody kind of looked at everybody and said, 'mission accomplished."
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If I had given a single buck, or made a single phone call for Heidi Rogers, I'd feel scammed.
As it was, I voted for Elizabeth Roberts with enthusiasm. She is a strong advocate for health care, and our current governor has not been a team player.
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