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Retired Army general: Lt. Col. Lakin has 'valid point'
'He has right to discovery. Producing birth certificate is very important'
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely
A retired Army general and national-security-policy expert says Lt. Col. Terry Lakin has "a valid point" and should use his "right to discovery" to force the Obama administration to produce proof of his natural-born-citizenship status.
In an interview with Evil Conservative Radio, Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely said, "I think many in the military – and many out of the military – question the natural-birth status of Barack Obama. … I'm not convinced that he is [a natural-born citizen]."
Vallely, CEO of Stand Up America U.S., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961, serving 32 years.
He said he inspected his own long-form birth certificate, and it contains a doctor's name, date and location of birth.
"But he's never been able to produce that," he said of Obama. "His unwillingness to do it also concerns me. I think Lt. Col. Lakin has a valid point. … He refuses to produce a birth certificate that states the witnessing of the birth, the date and who is the doctor. We don't know why he won't come out with that."
As WND reported today, the Army has filed two charges against Lakin, citing alleged violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Articles 87 and 92.
Lakin publicly asked the president to document his eligibility and expressed a willingness to deploy with the 32nd Cavalry Regiment to Afghanistan, without response from the White House.
The filing of charges may, however, be part of the still-unrevealed strategy Lakin and his legal counselors are pursuing.
Asked whether Lakin will have a "right of discovery" during a court-martial – meaning Lakin's legal team could compel the administration to produce proof of eligibility during the course of the government's prosecution – Vallely replied, "Absolutely. Sure, he has a right to discovery. There's no doubt about that. Producing a birth certificate that has all the details on it, it seems to me, is very important."
Vallely added, "You can call witnesses. I would call the state government of Hawaii. I would require [proof of] which hospital he was born in. I'd want verification from the doctor or the nurse or whomever witnessed it that, in fact, it did happen in Hawaii. That has not been done to date. These are questions that have not been answered, and that's what concerns many people."
Vallely said America hasn't seen military officers stepping forward in droves to challenge Obama's eligibility because they know doing so might endanger their careers.
"The officer corps does not want to put itself in any kind of jeopardy because of their position and because of the fact that they don't want to go the political route," he said. "I don't think you're going to get your senior officers or senior political appointees to put themselves on the spot because they're probably afraid that they'll lose their position or promotion, so they'll take no position on it. But if somebody in the lower ranks stands up, they're going to take them on and court-martial them, or attempt to court-martial them. That's the situation."
Vallely expressed deep concern about what he believes is a national drift away from basic constitutional principles.
"That disturbs me more than anything, and that's why we've got to stand up, because we're getting in more trouble," he said. "It's like we're watching Washington burn as Nero watched Rome. What are we doing about it?"
He added, "Only the people can solve this problem. That's why the people must stand up and do what's right for America because we can't go this deviant route anymore. If not, we're lost as a country."
Lakin is not the first officer to raise questions. Others have included Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes and Army reservist Maj. Stefan Cook. But Lakin is the highest-ranking officer to do so.
Besides Obama's actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.
"Where's The Birth Certificate?" billboard helps light up the night at the Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
Because of the dearth of information about Obama's eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?"
The campaign followed a petition that has collected more than 500,000 signatures demanding proof of his eligibility, the availability of yard signs raising the question and the production of permanent, detachable magnetic bumper stickers asking the question.
A new effort now asks those in authority regarding the nation's elections to demand the full proof.
The "certification of live birth" posted online and widely touted as "Obama's birth certificate" does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same "short-form" document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true "long-form" birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.
Oddly, though congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a "natural born citizen," no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama's claim to a Hawaiian birth.
Your donation – from as little as $5 to as much as $1,000 – can be made online at the WND SuperStore. (Donations are not tax-deductible. Donations of amounts greater than $1,000 can be arranged by calling either 541-474-1776 or 1-800-4WND.COM. If you would prefer to mail in your contributions, they should be directed to WND, P.O. Box 1627, Medford, Oregon, 97501. Be sure to specify the purpose of the donation by writing "billboard" on the check. In addition, donations of billboard space will be accepted, as will significant contributions specifically targeted for geographic locations.)
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Marion County will soon have a prenatal care clinic at St. Luke Hospital in Marion.
Dr. Shelley Overholt, a physician with Family Practice Associates of McPherson, will be seeing patients at the clinic. Services will include preconception counseling, prenatal care visits, and postpartum checkup. Lab work and ultrasound studies also may be conducted at St. Luke Hospital under her care.
The clinic will be staffed twice monthly on Friday mornings by appointment only. When weekly visits become necessary, appointments will alternate between McPherson and Marion. Deliveries will be conducted at McPherson Hospital.
Dr. Overholt is a family physician whose practice is primarily young families including obstetrics, office gynecology, and pediatrics. She manages approximately 90 deliveries per year.
Overholt said she thought Marion would be a good location to reach out and see if more families would like to deliver their babies in McPherson.
For inquires or to schedule an appointment, patients may call Overholt's McPherson office at (620) 241-4420.

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At last we're playing live in Copenhagen again! Join us at the awesome rock-club High Voltage for a super hero dress-up-party on February 14th 2015. We'll be dressed up, we'll play rock'n'roll retro tunes, we'll have fun. So will you! Buy tickets via billeto.dk and spread the word! Please like and share the Facebook event linked from the image below.
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Farmingdale State - 66, Maritime - 51
Throggs Neck, N.Y. - Senior guard Timothy Johnson (Queens, N.Y.) and senior center Donald Lawes (Queens, N.Y.) scored 21 and 19 points, respectively as Farmingdale State earned a 66-51 road victory at Maritime on Wednesday evening.
The Rams (12-5, 8-2) jumped out to an early 14-7 lead and used a 9-2 run to extend the advantage to 23-9 with 10:38 remaining in the first half. After six straight Maritime (3-15, 1-10) points, Farmingdale State responded with eight unanswered to open up their largest lead of the game at 31-15. The Rams took a 36-22 lead into the break as Lawes had a first half double-double with 14 points on 7-of-8 shooting and 11 rebounds.
After the Privateers pulled within 10, 37-27, a 10-3 Farmingdale State run increased the lead to 40-27 midway through the second half.
Maritime used three straight 3-pointers to cut the deficit to 54-47 with 4:39 left on the clock, before Johnson connected on a pair at the free-throw line and hit a 3 to bring the Rams lead back to double-digits.
The Farmingdale State defense held the Privateers to only two points the remainder of the game to earn the 66-51 Skyline Conference victory.
Johnson scored a game-high 21 points on 7-of-12 shooting, including 3-for-5 from behind the arc, while Lawes tallied 19 points (8-of-11), had 12 rebounds and four blocks.
Sophomore guard Tim McNamara (Somerville, N.J.) scored a team-high 14 points for Maritime.
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Did Romney's faith cost him 2012 election?
'We prefer someone who is truly a believer in Jesus Christ'
Is the fact that Mitt Romney is a practicing Mormon responsible for his failure to beat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election?
A brand-new book is probing deep into the suggestion Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thought by some Christians to be a "cult," was a significant factor in his defeat.
In "What Went Wrong," best-selling author Jerome Corsi reveals how some major voices in mainstream Christianity went out of their way to make sure the voting public was aware of Romney's beliefs.
Corsi notes that in October 2011, just 13 months before Election Day, Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, caused a commotion at the Values Voter Summit when he warned against voting for Romney because "Mormonism is not Christianity," claiming the decision for evangelical Christians is whether "we prefer someone who is truly a believer in Jesus Christ or someone … who is part of a cult."
Even non-Christians piled on.
The book notes that after the outburst by Jeffress, the next shot came from world-famous atheist Christopher Hitchens.
"The Mormons apparently believe that Jesus will return in Missouri rather than Armageddon: I wouldn't care to bet on the likelihood of either," Hitchens wrote in an October 17, 2011, article in Slate magazine that examined what he characterized as Romney's Mormon problem.
"In the meanwhile, though, we are fully entitled to ask Mitt Romney about the forces that influenced his political formation and – since he comes from a dynasty of his church, and spent much of his boyhood and manhood first as a missionary and then as a senior lay official – it is safe to assume that the influence is not small."
Jerome Corsi's "What Went Wrong" is not only a postmortem analysis of the Republican defeat in 2012 but a critical blueprint for a GOP presidential victory in 2016
Craig L. Foster, who is Mormon and a historian of the faith, studied the 2008 election cycle and claimed there was obvious press bias when the Associated Press published an article in February 2007 titled "Romney family tree has polygamy branch."
In contrast, Corsi explains, "the mainstream media neglected to mention the polygamy at the heart of Barack Obama's life story, in that Obama's father, the Kenyan Barack Obama, had multiple wives and was married to a woman in Africa at the same time he married Ann Dunham and conceived the future president."
One year before the election, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a survey on Romney's Mormon faith, concluding it would be a factor in the GOP primaries, but not in the general election.
The Pew Research Center found that about half of all voters and 60 percent of evangelical Republicans knew that Mitt Romney was a Mormon.
The study also found evangelical Protestants, a key element of the GOP electoral base, are more inclined than the public as a whole to view Mormonism as a non-Christian faith.
Republicans who replied Mormonism was not a Christian religion were found to be less likely to support Romney for the GOP nomination, but these same Republicans were prepared to back Romney overwhelmingly in a run against Barack Obama in the general election.
When asked if the 2012 election were a choice between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, 87 percent the GOP respondents said they would support Romney, compared to only 9 percent who would support Obama.
"There is no evidence that Romney's Mormon faith would prevent rank-and-file Republicans, including white evangelicals, from coalescing around him if he wins the GOP nomination," the executive summary of the Pew report read. "Rather, the same Republicans who may have doubts about Romney's faith are among the most vehement opponents of Barack Obama. Fully 91% of white evangelical Republican voters say they would back Romney over Obama in a general election matchup, and 79% would support Romney strongly. Overall, white evangelicals would be among the strongest Romney supporters if he is the GOP nominee challenging Obama next fall."
As for how Romney himself handled the issue, Corsi explain the strategy was one of silence, treating the issue of Mormonism as a nonissue.
"Immediately after Pastor Jeffress forced the topic of Romney's faith onto the headlines in October 2011," Corsi writes, "reporters trailing Romney in New Hampshire began peppering him with questions. CNN reported that Romney kept silent, shaking hands with crowds in the granite state, while aides shouted, 'No questions,' in an effort to quiet the press."
CNN reported the news media's persistence on the issue irritated the Republican candidate.
"I do press avails and then I answer questions that are important questions in the length that I want to do but what I don't do is in a group like this is [sic] stop and rattle off questions to people just as we walk along," Romney shot back to the press.
In October 2012, about a year after Pastor Jeffress said Romney was in a cult, legendary evangelist Billy Graham, then 93, met with Romney in his North Carolina home.
"It was an honor to meet and host Gov. Romney in my home today, especially since I knew his late father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, whom I considered a friend," Graham said. "I have followed Mitt Romney's career in business, the Olympic Games, as governor of Massachusetts and, of course, as a candidate for president of the United States."
Graham praised Romney's character: "What impresses me even more than Gov. Romney's successful career are his values and strong moral convictions. I appreciate his faithful commitment to his impressive family, particularly his wife Ann of 43 years and his five married sons."
Graham even stressed he prayed with Romney: "It was a privilege to pray with Gov. Romney – for his family and our country. I will turn 94 the day after the upcoming election, and I believe America is at a crossroads. I hope millions of Americans will join me in praying for our nation and to vote for candidates who will support the biblical definition of marriage, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms."
According to exit polls, Romney's faith did not hurt him in the 2012 race.
The Washington Post reported the day after the election that 78 percent of white evangelical Christians went for Romney, up from 74 percent for John McCain in 2008. Moreover, evangelical Christians turned out to vote equally for Romney and McCain, with the Post reporting that white evangelical Christians were 26 percent of the electorate in both 2008 and 2012.
Corsi noted Kathryn Lofton, a professor of religious studies at Yale University, argued persuasively that Romney lost not because he was a Mormon, but because he was not Mormon enough.
"She says that successful presidential candidates explain to the electorate how the strangest parts of themselves make sense," Corsi writes. "She praised Obama for transforming his 'itinerant childhood and complicated genealogy' into a story average Americans could understand and relate to. Romney's mistake, she contends, was his failure to unveil the relationship between his particular religious experience and his vision of America."
Lofton explained:
"He should have announced at every pit stop that he had met the world through his missionary work; that he came from a good Christian home that emphasized the principles of hard work and self-sacrifice; that he keeps a weekly calendar guided by the principles of Stephen R. Covey; and keeps a marriage because he believes those commercials are right – diamonds are forever, and so is this bond. He should have proclaimed his financial success was the result of all this earnestness, and explained private equity as just another way to organize free enterprise. Not because it's a crafty re-framing of his biography, but because it is also true: it's true to the very thing his supporters find so solid, and his detractors find so discomfiting, about Romney."


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Source: Joe Menzer, NASCAR.COM
May 20, 2008
Construction, gathering of mementoes ongoing for 2010
The small clock sits on Winston Kelley's desk, drawing attention with virtually every second that ticks off it.
The digital readout works backward, toward a date now less than a year away -- April 16, 2010 -- when Kelley, executive director of the NASCAR Hall of Fame, expects to receive the keys to the kingdom. It is the date when the construction team currently building the much-anticipated Hall of Fame is scheduled to transfer power to the team, led by Kelley, that will operate it.
"I see it every day because it's right beside my computer," Kelley said of the clock that measures about 3 inches in width and stands about 2½ inches tall. "I don't look at the hours or minutes yet, but I can tell you how many days it is."
That he can. Every day. All you have to do is ask him and he immediately can rattle off how many days are left until he gets to turn the key in the lock on the Hall's door.
On this Wednesday it was 331 days until Kelley and his staff get to throw open the doors and rush in for the first time without feeling like they have to stay out of the way of the guys with hammers and nails. Kelley said a four- to six-week "soft opening" is planned for setting up exhibits and testing everything from light switches to interactive displays before the actual opening to the public can occur in mid-May, about one year from now.
"I equate it to building a house, but hundreds of times over for the number of different light switches you have in there," Kelley said. "If you move into a new house, you might have one light switch that is crossed up and it turns on the fan and you've got to fix that. We hope for zero errors; we know that probably is not realistic."
Already the adjacent NASCAR Plaza office tower is moving swiftly toward completion. The NASCAR Media Group, which will occupy five of its 19 floors, plans to begin moving in by the end of June.
Work on the Hall itself, which is being overseen by the city of Charlotte, is coming along nicely, too. The outside of the building is beginning to take shape, and during a recent tour of the inside it is beginning to take less imagination to see the vision that will include Glory Road, where cars from throughout the history of the sport will be arranged in a sort of timeline that will include banking which simulates that of different tracks; the Hall of Honor which will house exhibits displaying inductees' accomplishments; a state-of-the-art 270-seat theater; and various other artifacts and interactive displays.
"To see it start becoming reality is huge. And when you can go through it, you can see where things are going to be," Kelley said. "Here's where Glory Road and the cars are going to be, and you see how the tracks can be shown and the banking there. You see the Hall of Honor where the inductees are going to be enshrined. ... It's really exciting to see."
Untold stories
As the construction continues at a frenetic pace, head Hall historian Buz McKim continues to work at no less a frenzied tempo to collect the many items that will be needed to fill the Hall and capture the fancy of the more than 800,000 fans it hopes to attract in its first year. (That is expected to fall off to closer to 400,000 in subsequent years -- a projection figure some admittedly have questioned as being too high).
Like Kelley, McKim has been around NASCAR virtually his entire life. His family moved to Daytona Beach, Fla., when he was 12 years old. As it so happened, they lived just down the street from what he found to be a fascinating place called the Museum of Speed, owned at the time by one of NASCAR's founding fathers.
McKim started hanging around the place so much that pretty soon he was hired, more or less, as an under-aged security guard.
"It was an old racing museum that was owned by Bill Tuthill, who was a co-founder of NASCAR. He and Bill France sort of co-founded NASCAR," McKim said. "So I was always around that stuff. I was always meeting the old drivers, because Tuthill knew everybody. People would come in from generations back, and I would get to meet them. I worked in 'security' when I was 12 years old, making sure nobody touched anything.
"So it's like I can look back in these chapters in my life that have brought me to this point, and it's just plain luck. I didn't study it; I didn't go to school for any of it. Maybe it's part of a divine plan, I don't know. I guess this is where I'm supposed to be."
It sure seems that way. Any conversation with McKim is likely to turn into a valuable history lesson of the sport.
For instance, he's an expert on Tuthill. Few casual -- and even many serious -- observers of the sport even know who Tuthill is. Yet Tuthill's story is just the kind that McKim hopes the Hall will be able to tell down to the tiniest detail.
Asked why so few remember Tuthill, McKim answers with a wink and a smile before adding: "We're going to work on that. I'll tell you what Tuthill did, he was the real business brains behind NASCAR. What happened was Tuthill was a great promoter up in the Northeast. He was a former motorcycle racer, and he ran events all over the Northeast.
"Bill France had his little group in the South. So he and Tuthill got together and decided they would have this North versus South deal. Tuthill had his Northern boys with their modifieds and France had his Southern boys. So they all went up to Lonsdale, Rhode Island, which was this high-banked, one-third mile track that seated 30,000 people. And they sold out. Bill France had never seen anything like this, and that's when the light came on."
According to McKim, that was as much the birth of NASCAR as the much more famous meeting that included France, Tuthill and 33 others in the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach only three months later.
"France was like, 'Holy cow!' This was October of '47, and ironically one of France's Southern boys, Fonty Flock, won the race," McKim said. "But he realized how big this could be, so he and Tuthill sat down and they said, 'I think we're onto something here.' Between October of '47 and December of '47, they had laid out a plan to draw the best promoters, drivers, car owners, mechanics to Daytona.
"They were like, 'Let's go ahead and sit down with these guys and tell 'em what our vision is, and see if we can hammer out a uniform set of rules, set up a points fund, a national championship, and we can all prosper from this. ... Let's unify and do everything together and share in this one vision.' They put that all together in about 90 days, if that."
Gathering the stuff
The challenge for McKim and Kelley is to tell the stories of Tuthill and others through what they hope will be the magic of the Hall. It is McKim's charge to collect the artifacts that will do so.
He attacks that job with great relish every day, well aware that one day may bring great and unexpected treasures while others will bear no fruit whatsoever.
"What was great was that we started basically with nothing in the collection. We had one piece, and built from there," McKim said. "We had a basic idea of what the history was that we wanted to tell, what were the highlights -- and then literally had to go out and see what artifacts were related to those events and those people. Did those artifacts exist? Who owned them? And would they be willing to donate or loan them to us?
"So it's been quite a process. It's been over two years that we've been working on this. We have several thousand artifacts that we've been able to either acquire or locate."
Kelley said that he marvels at McKim's ability to keep careful track of what is coming in -- and what they need to go after. But then, Kelley said he always has been amazed at McKim's grasp of NASCAR history, which obviously makes McKim the perfect man for his job.
"I used to think I knew a lot about the history of the sport until I got around Buz," Kelley said. "He isn't one of those guys who wears it on his shoulder and acts like a know-it-all. But I joke all the time about the fact that in the last two and a half years, I think I've stumped him once.
"We'll be sitting around talking about something and I'll be like, 'Are you sure it happened that year? Are you sure that's right?' And then he'll start quoting all this stuff, or he'll know where to look it up and tell me. There was only one time where he thought he was right and he ended up being wrong, but that was one time out of probably hundreds. Most times he doesn't even have to look it up -- but he does anyway just to make sure."
They have to be sure on everything. Of that, they are in complete agreement. That's why Kelley continues to question McKim even when he's already pretty sure the historian is correct on certain facts regarding items they've collected or are pursuing.
"I'm just inquiring because you want to be a perfectionist," Kelley said. "You want everything to be perfect, but life is not perfect. Yet that has to be our objective, for everything to be 100 percent accurate factually.
"There is judgment involved in the artifacts we pick. That's not a thing you can be perfect on -- whether I pick this helmet, or this driver, or this artifact -- but to make sure everything is 100 percent factual is important and you can make certain of that. That is our intention."
McKim said the items he has collected come from many varied sources.
"Everybody has been fantastic, the drivers or ex-drivers, or families of drivers, or fans. It's been amazing," McKim said. "Four or five times a week I get e-mails from someone saying I've got this or I've got that. A lot of times it's nothing special, but sometimes it'll blow you away.
"We found a Bobby Allison Gatorade uniform from a fella who lives up in Mooresville. That was an item we were tickled to death to find."
McKim's favorite item thus far is the information sheet Dale Earnhardt filled out when he began driving in the Cup series in 1975.
"NASCAR News Bureau had all the guys update their personal information every year, so at the archives in Daytona we had several of these. We had three of Ralph Earnhardt's and one of Dale's from '75," said McKim of father and son.
"Dale was living at his Mom's house. It was before he married Teresa. Dale Jr. was 3 months old. And his favorite drivers were Bobby Issac and Richard Petty. He was superstitious of the color green and peanuts, which also showed up on his dad's sheet. His dad was superstitious of green and peanuts. My favorite line -- probably one of the favorite things I've looked at in everything we've ever looked at -- is what he wrote on the line that said to list ambitions other than racing.
"Now this is a guy who lived basically hand-to-mouth at the time. He would borrow money on a 90-day note from a friend of his at the bank so he could buy racing tires. The guy knew Dale probably was good for it because Dale won a lot of races on the local scene. But anyway, under Ambitions Other Than Racing, he wrote NONE with an exclamation point -- and he underlined it. So he was going to be a racer, no matter what. He had that focus. And that really kind of personifies who he was."
Keeping it fresh
In March at Atlanta Motor Speedway, legendary car owner Raymond Parks -- who was in attendance at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach in December of 1947 along with France and Tuthill and the others -- announced that he was donating a number of items to the Hall. Included among them were the championship trophies from NASCAR's first two seasons, the 1948 Modified trophy and the '49 Strictly Stock trophy.
Among those in attendance at the news conference making the announcement were Richard Petty and NASCAR's president Mike Helton.
"When we sit around and talk about NASCAR, I think it's very important for us to remember the beginning of our sport, and Raymond Parks was there," Helton said.
Added Petty: "When racing first started, it was pretty rough. Rough characters, rough cars, rough situations. Mr. Parks brought the sport class. A lot of people looked at that and said, 'If he can do it, we can do it. We can clean the sport up. We can clean ourselves up.'
"It took people like Mr. Parks to lay the foundation that we're still living off of. And without people like him, we wouldn't have the history we have and we wouldn't be where we are today."
By donating the trophies that had adorned his office for six decades to the Hall, Parks ensured that his story will be told and his legacy preserved for generations of race fans to come. Kelley said landing those items was like "finding gold" and he watched Parks' reaction as Petty and Helton hovered over the artifacts following the formal presentation in Atlanta.
"You know, Raymond [who is 94] doesn't say a lot," Kelley said. "But I've been around him enough to be able to look into his eyes and see how he reacted to Richard Petty and Mike Helton admiring the trophies. And they didn't just walk by and glance at 'em. If you noticed, Mike and Richard studied every one of the trophies there. And seeing Mrs. Parks' eyes ... this is their history. They helped build this.
"Talking to the family that is good friends with the Parks' and helped facilitate the whole thing, they said Raymond talked more and beamed more at lunch that day than he had in a long, long time."
A donation such as the one made by Parks serves as a reminder to Kelley of what he and McKim and the rest of the Hall staff are dealing with in terms of the many items that they have been and will be entrusted with over the coming months and years.
"These are individuals' treasures. You've got to be respectful of them," Kelley said. "And that's why our system allows for us to either accept a donation, if that is their preference, or for a loan for a period of time that suits them."
Furthermore, Kelley and McKim said they can envision fans having similar reactions as Parks and Petty and Helton to different items and displays they will discover in the Hall when it opens.
To ensure this, they will regularly change out many of the exhibits. If there is one thing their search for items to fill it already has taught them, it's that they will never be short on interesting artifacts.
That's why they will have six or seven "crown jewel" exhibits that won't change, but everything else will be up for possible switching out with additional pieces that have yet to be collected or have been collected but will be stored and are not yet slated for a specific display.
"We've found a lot of things that we won't be using opening day, but they've given us ideas for future exhibits," McKim said. "The last thing you want to do is get stale in a facility like this. Every museum has the same problem: keeping it fresh for people. Whenever they come in, give them something new to see."
Kelley added: "The first question I remember getting after I took this job, somebody asked, 'What do you think is going to be your biggest challenge?' ... I hadn't even thought about it. But the first thing that comes to mind, from what I do know about the history of the sport and the size of our facility, is that even if the size of our facility was three times as large as it is, we're not going to have enough space to show everything we want to show.
"But that's a blessing more than a curse, because it gives us the opportunity to rotate things out."
Eye on opening day
There is something else on Kelley's desk that catches his eye every day. It is a picture of him as a youth, getting an autograph from Richard Petty at a track in the 1960s. Kelley attended his first race with his father, a former publicist at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in 1964.
Kelley examines the photo of himself and the legendary driver often these days -- after losing track of it for years.
"I stumbled across it about the time I took this job. I remember having had the picture taken, but I really wasn't looking for it," Kelley said. "I just stumbled across it, and here was Richard Petty, the biggest name in the sport, giving me an autograph as a kid.
"Think about it. He's always been that way. I met him for the first time when I was 6 years old in '64. This was later. But the biggest name in the sport has always taken the time for people -- whether it's Bill France Jr., or a little kid or the guy that sells hot dogs. That's the customer service we need to provide to folks."
Much has been written and reported about the Hall since groundbreaking ceremonies were held in January 2007. There have been cost overruns and minor squabbles between the city of Charlotte, which is building the Hall with public money from a hotel tax, and the private sector which is building and will own and operate the adjacent 390,000-square-foot NASCAR Plaza tower.
Officials have joked about the difficulties they've faced when running cable from one building to the other, noting that when the private part of the project crosses over into the public part it becomes a different world. Anything the city works on must be bid out competitively, often slowing down the process in the name of making certain the public money being put up is well spent.
When all is said and done, the project will cost nearly $200 million. But Kelley and other officials have stated that they expect to generate revenue of $10 million to $12 million annually at the Hall while hoping to keep operating costs at less than $10 million.
Folks are clamoring to work there and be part of it. Kelley said some positions he has filled have drawn as many as 675 applicants "and that was back when I first took the job in 2006, so the interest wasn't driven by this economy."
While acknowledging that times are different now than when the project was first announced and launched, the goals remain the same. Finish on time and commence entertaining fans by mid-May of next year.
As Kelley can tell you every time he glances next to his computer, the clock is ticking.
When it strikes all zeroes and the doors to the Hall finally fling open for good, it will be up to others to judge if it is the smashing success he and McKim and others in NASCAR have long envisioned. But Kelley exudes confidence and cannot wait for Judgment Day.
"If people can walk out saying they learned something and had a good time and they were treated like they want to be treated, we will be successful," Kelley said.Tweet


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Arduino Capacitor Selection
Jan 03, 2013, 07:52 pm
I'm putting together my own board based on the Arduino Mega 2560. However, I've come to realize that I don't know much about capacitor selection (or non-theoretical capacitors, in general).
Are the non-polarized caps on the official Arduinos ceramic?
What voltage rating range should I be looking at?
Is there anything else I should know?
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Re: Arduino Capacitor Selection
Jan 03, 2013, 08:23 pm
Yes they are ceramic.
As for voltage anything above the voltage that you are working at is normally fine but to be extra specially sure make sure you only run them at 80% of the rated voltage.
Selection depends on what they are going to be used for. On an arduino it is decoupling so ceramic is the best.
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Jan 03, 2013, 08:34 pm
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I assume these are "bypass" capacitors (between the power supply and ground)? You can use ceramic or monolithic . Really, anything will work*. And, a higher (uF) value won't hurt anything.
The voltage rating on a capacitor simply it's maximum rating** (if you put more than the rated voltage across it, you might fry it). You're probably not going to find any ceramic or monolithic capacitors rated for less than 25V, so that shouldn't be an issue either. It's "good practice" to allow some safety margin... If you have 25 Volts, you should use a capacitor rated for a bit
than 25V.
The only downsides to using a higher value or higher voltage capacitor is physical size and cost. In some applications the capacitor value is more critical, but in
applications a higher value won't hurt. And a higher voltage rating
*Electrolytic and Tantalum capacitors shouldn't be used as bypass capacitors unless you put a ceramic/monolithic in parallel, because these capacitors don't always "act like capacitors" at very-high frequencies. Other types of capacitors (such as film capacitors) would work fine as bypass capacitors, but they are more expensive so they are generally used where the value and tolerance are more critical.
**The voltage rating on a capacitor (or transistor, etc.) is like the maximum weight rating on a ladder. As long as the ladder is rated for your weight or more, it's safe for you to climb the ladder!
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Re: Arduino Capacitor Selection
Jan 03, 2013, 10:33 pm
100nF/0.1uF ceramic caps, 16V/25V/50V are all fine, I go with what's least expensive, such as
0805 not too small for easy handling.
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Jan 03, 2013, 10:48 pm
X7R type capacitors will work. (C0G NPO works too, but expensive for such bypass duties... but if you have overstock of them, use it.)
You need a 0.1uf (a must).
If you also want to parallel a bigger cap, you can use a 10uf - 47uf too... but the 0.1uf is a must have.
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Jan 04, 2013, 03:45 am
Ideally use a 0.1uF cap on each supply lead (including AVcc) and really close to the relevant pin and use a ground-plane (or the best
approximation to a plane you can get).
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Jan 04, 2013, 10:55 pm
Electrolytic - Big values (usually 0.1uF and up to multiple F) in a relatively small space, but horrible at everything else. Typically 5-20% tolerance. Used for anything where large values trump all else, like rectified AC-to-DC PSUs to remove AC ripple, or to store a reserve of power to negate the effects of sudden current draw, PCB inductance, minor continuity issues, etc. They're polarized unless you get bipolar, which is just two polarized stuck back-to-back. Voltages usually range from 5v to 100v. Typical through-hole form factor is radial: a can with legs on the bottom, or screw terminals for really big ones. Electrolytics can be "slow" due to ESL -- equivalent series inductance -- inherent to the package, so a low-value ceramic is often used locally to shunt HF noise. They also "age" more than other types, and will dry out and lose capacitance over time -- especially if they're not frequently used. Cheap as dirt.
Ceramic - Medium values (pF to a few uF) in tolerances of 5-20%, used most often to couple PSU noise to ground due to good ESR/ESL performance. Using a 0.1uF (100nF) ceramic in parallel with a 10-100uF electroyltic is an easy way to keep a nice steady reserve of noise-free power at the Vcc pin of an IC. Small values (10s of pF) are also commonly used for quartz crystal load caps, and RF filters at analog or power inputs. Ceramics are not polarized, and typically come in voltages of 25v to 250v or more. Can be either axial (lead at each end) or radial in through-hole form, usually radial with blue or tan colored disc-like head. Large ones used for AC PSU RF filtering and switch arc prevention are larger, have special safety ratings to fail open, and come in yellow, tan, or black. Cheap for reasonable values.
Film - Small values (pF to nF) with excellent tolerance (up to 0.1%, but normally 1% to 10%) used when performance is crucial. Often used for audio and video circuits, for filters (low/high/bandpass), and the like. Very good ESL/ESR figures. Not polarized. Physically, film caps are extremely large for their values. Typical through-hole forms are either radial blobs in a tan, reddish, or brownish color, or radial rectangular boxes of various shapes and sizes. Relatively pricey, and some niche caps can get ridiculously expensive.
Tantalum - Similar to ceramic, AFAIK. I don't actually know much about tantalum caps, since I've never used them myself (to my knowledge). I think they're polarized, but maybe not always. Someone will need to correct me if I'm wrong there.
Re: Arduino Capacitor Selection
Jan 07, 2013, 04:36 pm
Thanks for the help everyone. Lots of useful info here!
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Re: Arduino Capacitor Selection
Jan 07, 2013, 05:19 pm
Quote from: SirNickity on Jan 04, 2013, 10:55 pm
Tantalum - Similar to ceramic, AFAIK.
Tantalum is nothing like a ceramic. Tantalum is an electrolytic and if the cathode used is MnO2 (which was the most common for a long time), it will have a very high ESR but a relatively low ESL. If the cathode is Polymer (which is newer) the ESR is going to very low. Polymer-based caps are acceptable for mid-to-high frequency bulk decoupling. And by bulk it would be 100s of µF at low voltage, something ceramic isn't good at achieving.
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Jan 08, 2013, 10:30 pm
Ah, thanks James. I appreciate the correction.
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RAYNHAM -- Bridgewater's town government went down to the wire in its negotiations with slot casino applicant Raynham Park over a surrounding community agreement, before the contracted was finalized and announced by the two parties on Tuesday, after assurances were made to provide equitable spending in the regional public school district.
Under the agreement, Bridgewater would receive $150,000 each year from Raynham Park, with a 2.5 percent annual increase if the developers fulfill their plan of securing the state's sole slot casino license and operating a proposed $227 million gambling facility on its longheld dog track property on Route 138 in Raynham.
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Disaster of the Gladden Fields
|Battle of the Gladden Fields
|Conflict: Post-Alliance War
|Date: T.A. 2
|Place: Gladden Fields, north of Rohan
|Outcome: Death of Isildur, loss of the One Ring
The Battle of Gladden Fields was an ambush on Isildur and his personal guard at the beginning of the Third Age. The Dúnedain were outnumbered as much as ten to one. The great Men of Númenor towered above the tallest Orcs, their Swords and Spears far outreached the weapons of their enemies, but the Orcs of the Mountains were stiffened and commanded by grim servants of Barad-dûr. Slowly but steadily the Orcs achieved the upper hand. During the last stand, when it became clear that defeat was imminent Elendur ordered Isildur to put on the ring and flee. Isildur put on the One Ring and fled. When he reached the Anduin, he tried to swim across it, but the Ring betrayed him and slipped off his finger as he swam. As he rose out of the water in the moonlight, prowling Orcs shot him. Arnor never fully recovered from this grave loss of its manpower.
After the fall of Sauron, Isildur, son and heir of Elendil, returned to Gondor. There he assumed the Elendilmir as King of Arnor. He remained in Gondor for a year, restoring its order and defining its bounds; but the greater part of the army of Arnor returned to Eriador by the Númenórean road from the fords of Isen to Fornost. When at last he decided to return to his own realm, he was in haste for he wished to go first to Rivendell, for he had left his wife and youngest son Valandil there. Therefore he decided to take the shortest route by making his way north from Osgiliath up the Vales of Anduin to Cirith Forn en Andrath the high-climbing pass that led down to Imladris.
With Isildur went his three sons Elendur, Aratan and Ciryon and his guard of two hundred knights and soldiers, stern men of Arnor and war-hardened. On the twentieth day they came within sight of the distant forest crowning the highlands, it was raining heavily and the Anduin had swollen with swift water. They wished to gain the ancient paths of the Silvan Elves that ran near the eaves of the Forest near the entrance of the Vales between Lothlórien and Amon Lanc.
So it came to pass that late in the afternoon of the thirtieth day of their journey, they were passing the north borders of the Gladden Fields. The fair day was waning and clouds were gathering above the distant mountains. To their right the Forest loomed above them, suddenly as the sun plunged into a cloud the Orcs attacked.
The Battle
The Dúnedain saw the Orcs issuing from the forest and moving down the slopes yelling their war-cries. In the dim light their number could not be guessed but the Dúnedain were plainly many times, even to ten times outnumbered. Isildur commanded a Thangail to be drawn up, if the land had been flatter or the slope in his favour he would have formed his company into a Dirnaith, hoping to cleave a way through them and scatter them in dismay. Isildur realized that they were on their own: Moria and Lothlórien were far behind and Thranduil was four days' march ahead.
Isildur ordered Ohtar his esquire to take the Shards of Narsil and flee and save the Shards from capture at all costs.
The Orcs let fly a hail of arrows, and then suddenly hurled a great mass of their chief warriors down the slope against the Dúnedain, hoping to break the shield-wall. But it stood firm, the arrows had little effect on the Númenórean armour. The great Men of Númenor towered above the tallest Orcs, their Swords and Spears far outreached the weapons of their enemies. After the initial attack the Orcs faltered and it seemed that they were withdrawing, the Dúnedain had slain many Orcs. Isildur ordered the men to resume the march at once, but he was mistaken. The Orcs of the Mountains were stiffened and commanded by servants of Barad-dûr, and there was cunning and a relentless hatered in their attacks.
The Dúnedain had gone scarcely a mile when the Orcs attacked again. This time the Orcs attacked on a wide front, which bent into a crescent and soon closed into an unbroken ring about the Dúnedain. Isildur could do nothing for he had too few archers to be of any effect and moreover the Orcs were at a distance out of range of even the dreaded steel-bows of Númenor.
The Orcs closed in on all the sides, flinging themselves on the Dúnedain with reckless ferocity. Some of the greater Orcs leaped two at a time, and with their weight dead or alive bore down a Dúnadan, so that other strong claws could drag him out and slay him. The Orcs might have paid five to one in this exchange but for them it was too cheap. Ciryon was slain in this way and Aratan was mortally wounded while trying to save him.
Isildur's Fall
- "My King, Ciryon is dead and Aratan is dying. Your last counselor must advise you, nay command you, as you commanded Ohtar. Go! Take your burden, and at all costs bring it to the Keepers: even at the cost of abandoning your men and me!"
- ― Elendur
As the battle progressed it became clear that defeat was imminent, Elendur sought Isildur who was rallying men on the east side where the assault was heaviest. The Orcs still feared the Elendilmir that Isildur bore on his brow and avoided him. Elendur commanded Isildur to take the Ring and flee, so Isildur put on the Ring and suddenly the Elendilmir of the West which could not be quenched blazed forth. Men and Orcs gave way in fear and Isildur vanished into the night and was never seen again.
Isildur was a man of great strength and endurance such that few even of the Dúnedain of that age could equal. He covered a great distance and when he reached the Anduin, he tried to swim across it, but the Ring betrayed him and slipped off his finger as he swam. As he rose out of the water in the moonlight, prowling Orcs shot him. No trace of his body was ever found by Elves or Men.
Of the two hundred Númenórean knights only three survived. Two of them were Ohtar and his companion who brought the Shards of Narsil to Rivendell. The third was Estelmo, he was Elendur's esquire, and was one of the last to fall; he was stunned by a club and not slain, and he was later found alive under Elendur's body.


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Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play, Vol. 1 – Priestess
Author: Yuu Watase
Series: #1 in Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play
When best friends Miaka and Yui open the pages of an ancient Chinese book, they are transported into the Universe of the Four Gods, a parallel world to ancient China. Now, to escape schoolwork and family problems, Miaka flees to the parallel world, only to find a lot more danger and romance than she bargained for.
So this is the first time I have ever attempted to read a Manga, and i'm fairly confident that it probably won't be the last. As a form of book, it has intrigued me, especially with the wide variety that I see whenever I go to Books A Million, but since I don't really know anyone personally who reads it, I didn't know where to start – and I didn't want to just pick anything and hate it – to find out that it is a bad representation of the genre. But anyones, I ran across a recommendation for Yu Watase's on Goodreads from someone who reads Manga fairly regularly and decided to try it.
I will admit that it did take some getting used to – reading a book from back to front and right to left – and there were a few times that I read parts in the wrong order and was totally scratching my head thinking what the heck…but about half-way through, it clicked and I was able to pick up the pace – i mean, I'm normally not that slow of a reader, but I felt slow trying to get my brain around the different reading style.
The story itself was intriguing and I liked seeing the glimpses into contemporary Japanese life (and if our high school kids think they have it hard, they should go and live in Japan…) – but the time-travel parts at first seemed a bit disjointed and I was only just starting to get into the story when the book ended. Which means, that I am going to have to pick up book 2 and see what happens next…and if its similar, I might as well just grab the entire series…yeah, I'm that much of a dork.
Anyways, the art work was fabulous – i am totally jealous of any person who can write and draw like that. It did remind me of quite a few covers from books that are released by Dreamspinner Press – so I would be interested to know if their cover artist has a background in Manga. And the little sidebars put in by the author, just added to the authenticity of the book – they were quite funny to read. Overall, I'd give it 3 stars, because I did enjoy it and want to pick up the next one. I think that this would probably be a good one for newbies to pick up. Does anyone out there have any other recommendations?


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Here is video footage of Tim's team's Odyssey of the Mind float that participated in the Rutland Halloween parade. It was a rainy night, but these kids spent 2 hours in the rain, some of it pouring to participate. All three of my boys wound up helping out. Tim's the one driving the car (on the float, not the truck pulling it!)
Video courtesy of PEGTV through Tim Vile
Everyone associates Vermont with certain things – maple syrup, fall foliage and skiing. But Halloween? Vermont boasts the country's largest and longest running Halloween parade in the country. The parade takes place every year, like clockwork on Halloween night at 6:30 p.m. This year the Rutland Halloween Parade turns 50. The parade has run every year with the exception of one year, 1962 when it was canceled due to the weather. Last year, one of the original founders of the parade, Tom Fagan died on October 21st. He desired not to miss the parade in the event of his death and there was serious talk about putting him in the parade – despite the fact that he was dead. I kid you not. Ultimately, he didn't make it, but imagine what sort of stories that would have created for generations to come? A parade so good, you even come when you're dead.
The parade, some would argue, lacks the glitz and glamour associated with that other famous Halloween Parade, the one that takes place in Greenwich Village, NYC. Others, like myself, would disagree. The parade takes community to another level, only the way Vermont can do it. Hay wagons and manure spreaders are transformed into floats, school bands, community groups and even the sheep and cows march in the parade. Everyone can march and everyone participates, whether you are the one throwing the candy (Mardi Gras style) or the one in the crowds, collecting it. The streets are lined with people, more people than one would see at any other time in Rutland or at any one place in Vermont for that matter.
We have been attending the parade for years now, even before we moved here permanently. Once the boys found out that you could stand in one spot and collect an entire sack full of candy and assorted goodies, all while being entertained, they were hooked.
This year, Tim's Odyssey of the Mind team will have a float in the parade. This means that two of the boys will be parade participants. I promised them that somehow they wouldn't miss out on the candy, and I guess that I should get cracking on that one, since time is a wastin'.
If you are in the Rutland area, I would highly suggest that you endure the Vermont-style crowds and take in the parade, it is well worth it.


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I was hoping to spend some more time here today doing things that would be interesting to readers, but apparently all you want from me is pictures of "sweaty cock." Fine by me! Either way, it's been the realest, gals.
Thank you so much for being good sports about this. Your text messages and emails were surprisingly kind. This was so much more fun than I thought it would be. You're not the evil screeching lesbian femi-nazi monsters people say you are. Most of you. And, no, your Jezebel isn't ruined forever. Normalcy returns tomorrow.
I encourage you to pop by Deadspin every now and again to say hello. Or you can just follow me on Twitter or something. Frankly, Deadspin rarely writes about actual sports anymore anyway, so I'm sure you'll find something of interest.
On that note, let's part company on good terms. Now go get drunk and make out with random people. You've earned it. We will end with a song that's pretty much a favorite of half the girls I know. So I'm sure some of you will like it.


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"It's like living inside a giant sapphire"
In the early 1950's, the building committee of the First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, CT was evaluating where to put a typical white-steeple New England church on their vacant 11-acre campus. A member of the committee had just returned from a business trip in Michigan. There he saw a church in Midland designed by Alden Dow, a modernist architect. The committee's dialogue changed in mid-stream. The result was a exemplary, modernist sacred space designed by Wallace K. Harrison.
Image (left): First Presbyterian Church in winter, photo: Liz Waytkus
In 1953, after he received the commission to design the sanctuary and the campus, Harrison visited cathedrals in Europe particularly those making use of extensive areas of stained glass. The sanctuary's two long walls … the north wall and the south wall … 200 feet wide and 60 feet high, are set with 20 thousand, one-inch thick chunks of sapphire, ruby, emerald, amethyst, and amber glass. The effect on Harrison when stepping into the sanctuary was … "Have you ever thought what it would be like to live inside a giant sapphire?"
Harrison also designed the campus and the 255 feet Carillon Tower. He chose the themes and designed the abstract stained glass murals … on the north wall depicting the Crucifixion and on the south wall depicting the Resurrection. The First Presbyterian Church of Stamford is the only church Wallace K. Harrison designed. He described it as "the most satisfactory job I've ever done." Substantial descriptions of the building are contained in two major books, Wallace K. Harrison, Architect Victoria Newhouse, Chapter 15, Rizzoli (1989) and Preservation of Modern Architecture Theodore H. M. Prudon, Chapter 16, John Wiley & Sons, (2008).
Image (right): Sanctuary interior, photo: Theo Prudon
Downtown Stamford has grown in the past 60 years to surround the campus. During a typical week hundreds of city residents use the grounds to walk, to jog, and to meditate. During the summer months, Concerts on the Green hosts jazz concerts and family picnicking. In the Fall, bag-pipers and drums march down the main aisle on Scottish Sunday and partner with the organ in playing the Highland Cathedral.
In 2011 an informal group of Stamford and New York City residents, concerned about preserving the campus, founded the Highland Green Foundation (a 501(c)3 public charity). The Foundation established the Wallace K. Harrison Secretariat as an umbrella organization for local and national representatives of architectural and preservation groups interested in preserving modernist architecture. The Foundation held its first Docomomo Day [Docomomo US Tour Day] in 2012.
On the Wallace K. Harrison web site the home page has a map locating the campus in downtown Stamford. The church is located at 1101 Bedford Street, Stamford, CT, a 1.3-mile walk from the Stamford Amtrak station. It is the first express stop for trains from New York City (45 minute ride). Another DoCoMoMo site, the Phillip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, is 7.3 miles and an eighteen-minute car ride from the church. (Also on the web site's Visit Us page is a video www.wallacekharrison.org filmed in part by a drone helicopter, showing the campus and moving into the sanctuary to the strains of Highland Cathedral.) The YouTube video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u12wJ3KmUos.
For information about docent-guided group or individual tours contact firstname.lastname@example.com phone (203) 323-5778.


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Hillary doesn't rule out staying on as Secretary of State
**Written by Doug Powers
If President Obama should win a second term, thanks to the administration's multiple reaction(s) and continued dizzying spin and CYA regarding the Benghazi attack and subsequent investigations, Hillary might not agree to stay on the job as much as she could be forced to keep the gig for a host of reasons.
From Politico:
Hillary Clinton has opened the door slightly to staying on for the start of a second term, according to a new interview with the secretary of state.
Clinton told The Wall Street Journal it was "unlikely" she would stay in her job past President Barack Obama's second Inauguration but suggested the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four American diplomats might cause her to remain for a time.
"A lot of people have talked to me about staying," Clinton said, while declining to name names.
Clinton has previously said in numerous interviews that she planned to leave at the end of Obama's first term.
The White House shudders to imagine having to teach a new SoS to master all the stories they'd be expected to try to keep straight.
However, fear not, because even though Hillary is not yet ruling out staying on as Secretary of State into next year, voters can do it for her on November 6th.
**Written by Doug Powers
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