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Guests: Patrick McDonald, Tony Perkins, Patrick Murphy, Tammy Duckworth,
Stephen King
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Silence of the Nittany Lions.
Let`s play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I`m Chris Matthews out in Los Angeles. Leading off
tonight: When silence isn`t golden. The most compelling question
surrounding the Penn State sexual abuse scandal is why didn`t anyone say
anything? Why didn`t they do anything?
Late this afternoon, the university placed assistant coach Mike
McQueary on paid administrative leave. He`s the graduate assistant who
reported seeing Jerry Sandusky raping a child but did not tell the police.
The more we learn, the harder it is to believe that Sandusky`s alleged
crimes were not known, or at least suspected, by a large circle at Penn
State and in the college football universe. Among our guests tonight is a
young man who was abused as a young boy and knows why victims and the
adults who should be protecting them remain silent.
Plus, is it possible that Mitt`s it? Is there anyone left to
challenge the candidate Republicans hate to love, Mitt Romney? "The Daily
Show With Jon Stewart" declared the race over, for example, last night.
But just as some were about to close the books on the GOP race, here comes
a CBS News poll today that shows Herman Cain in the lead, with Romney only
tied -- yes, tied -- with Newt Gingrich for second place.
Also, President Obama today called on businesses to embrace America`s
veterans and help put them to work and make them leaders in the community.
It`s Veterans Day. Why is it so hard for America`s veterans to find jobs?
And I`ve been thinking a lot lately about Jack Kennedy with the
release of my new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero." Now this question
raised by Stephen King. What if he hadn`t been assassinated? How would
the world have been different? King has written a novel, "11/12/63," it`s
called, that tries to answer that very question.
Finally, "Let Me Finish" tonight with the disturbing feeling you get
when authority figures let you down.
We start with the very topic -- that very topic, the Penn State sexual
abuse scandal. Ed Rendell is the former governor of Pennsylvania and now
an MSNBC political analyst. And Patrick McDonald was 12 years old when he
was sexually abused by his Scoutmaster. He`s now a member of an
organization called Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. He`s also a
columnist for the DailyBeast.
Patrick, thank you so much for coming on tonight. We were talking
beforehand, and I do salute you for your openness about this troubling
situation in our lives today. Tell about what you learned as a victim.
PATRICK MCDONALD, DAILYBEAST.COM: Well, I mean, certainly, that`s a
very broad question in terms of what we learned -- what I learned as a
victim and what other victims experience.
MATTHEWS: Why don`t people tell on each other? Why don`t adults do
their job as grown-ups and report horrible criminal behavior by other
MCDONALD: Well, there are usually -- there are usually a couple
reasons for that. Number one is they suspect that things are going on and
they`re not willing to be wrong in terms of challenging an abuser and
removing a child from that environment. And really, who cares if you`re
wrong, if you make a mistake in terms of protecting a kid? But they`re not
necessarily willing to do that.
Or number two is they have some other motives in terms of being quiet
about the abuse. You know, I can`t speak to what may -- who may have
benefited from being quiet at Penn State, how McQueary may have benefited
from a long-term career, how Paterno may have benefited from a long-term
career by being quiet and protecting the organization, as well as
protecting their friend.
And at the end of the day, you have an obligation as a member -- and
Chris, we talked about this earlier -- as a member of the human race --
forget your legal obligations. You have a responsibility to kids that are
in your charge or that you witness, whether you`re responsible for them or
not, to protect them by any and all means necessary.
MATTHEWS: Well, how did it feel as a young -- and we have tremendous
memories of growing up at the -- in our early -- in early teens and before
that. I remember a lot of what it was like to be that age. And I think
you, obviously, do. What was it like back then to think about the adults
who were covering up, who refused to come to your aid when they knew
something was up that was bad about this behavior by this Scoutmaster?
MCDONALD: Well, it certainly leads you to believe that you are
completely alone in this battle. And you don`t have any resources
necessary to escape. You`re not big enough to get away. You don`t
necessarily have the courage. And so you count on somebody else to protect
you. You count on somebody else to watch your back.
And when that doesn`t happen, then you`re forced with believing,
whether it`s right or not, that you are completely and utterly alone in
this world. And I would tell you, as an adult, you can kind of rationalize
that away, but as a child, there is nothing more terrifying than knowing
that -- what`s about to happen to you and that nobody is going to come to
your defense.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of this decision by Penn State an hour ago
to put on -- to put Mike McQueary, the guy who allegedly saw a child being
raped -- and that`s the right word for it -- and really, just think about
how bad it could be because that`s how bad it was, apparently. He`s on
paid leave right now. What do you think of that?
MCDONALD: I think that Penn State and everybody in the
administration, first of all, should be incredibly ashamed of themselves.
They clearly are not willing to progress forward past this and look at what
kind of good things can come out of this. They`re unwilling to do that.
If they were, they would find every person that has a fingerprint on
this cover-up. They`d find them and they would fire them, and that would
be that. There`d be no, We`re going to put you on paid administrative
leave. We`re going to put you on unpaid administrative leave. It would
be, You knew this or you should have known that, and you did nothing? You
did not meet your moral obligations at all? Go away.
And until that happens, Penn State is going to be looked at almost as
a laughingstock of an organization, where they do not care whatsoever about
kids, where they -- that`s -- their entire organization is around that.
And they choose to ignore it.
MATTHEWS: Pat, I want to get to the Penn State situation with
Governor Rendell in just a moment, right after this. But I want you both
to watch this. On ABC this morning, George Stephanopoulos interviewed the
mother of victim number one in this case, the boy who was allegedly
subjected to oral sex and fondling on at least 20 occasions by coach Jerry
Sandusky. Her voice was changed and her image obscured, the mother`s, to
protect her identity, obviously. Let`s listen to her.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, "GOOD MORNING AMERICA": Why do you think your
son never told you?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I think it was a lot of embarrassment. He
was letting (ph) me hints to figure it out. And I did eventually figure it
STEPHANOPOULOS: And when you finally did have the chance to have a
heart-to-heart with your son, years after the relationship first began,
tell us about that. What happened?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We had a discussion where, you know, I had said,
you know, If -- you know, Maybe we should have, you know, come to this
conclusion earlier. You should have told me. And he was like, Well, I --
you know -- he said, I didn`t know what to do. I just didn`t know what to
do, and you just can`t tell Jerry no.
MATTHEWS: Governor, you`re a Penn State fan, as well as a Penn fan.
You went to Penn. But I think I know (ph) a little bit about that feeling
up at Happy Valley up there, that sense, almost a religious sense of the
importance of Paterno and that football program. What`s your sense of it,
as this thing`s really come open now?
ED RENDELL (D), FMR. PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR: Well, I think the
university has to do what Patrick says. They have to really wipe the slate
clean and start anew.
And they`ve got to emphasize that Penn State is more than just a
football program. Under Graham Spanier`s leadership, it`s become one of
the great public universities in the country, one of the best academically,
and it`s more than just football. And that`s a point that ought to be
But they need to put all of this behind them. They need to understand
the reality here is, if in 2002, whether it`s coach Paterno, athletic
director Curley, Mr. McQueary -- if someone had reported it to the police,
there are at least five young men who wouldn`t have had their lives
unalterably changed in what happened in 2003, `04, `05, `06, `07 and `08.
And that`s an incredible tragedy. It`s horrific.
MATTHEWS: Governor, it reminds me of my church, you know, where the
sense of omerta, of looking out for your adult colleagues takes precedence
over taking responsibility for the safety, really, the moral safety,
psychological, physical safety of young people in loco parentis, who are
basically in your charge.
RENDELL: It`s absolutely true. There`s that sort of, Circle the
wagons, and protect the institution or protect our guy.
But let me ask you a question, Chris. Did they protect Jerry
Sandusky? If they had turned Jerry Sandusky in in 2002, he would have a
lot less criminal instances on his blotter and he would have perhaps gotten
a shorter jail sentence. Right now, if he`s convicted, he may be in jail
the rest of his life. Did they help him?
MATTHEWS: So are you with Pat, Pat McDonald, who in principle thinks
they have to clean the slate up there?
RENDELL: I think we...
MATTHEWS: They have to remove all vestiges of responsibility for this
RENDELL: Absolutely because that`s a statement that, We`re taking it
seriously. We understand what was done. We understand the incredible harm
that was done to young people`s lives.
Pat may corroborate this, but it`s a pain, it`s an emotional scarring
that will probably exist your entire life. And in some cases -- Pat`s
obviously come back, but in some cases, you never regain a normal sense and
a normal balance.
So Penn State`s got to make a statement that this is tremendously
important to us. We take it seriously. We want to start anew. We`re
going to develop a whole new culture.
MATTHEWS: You know what`s so hard, Governor, and Pat -- and you`re
not part of this, Pat, but Governor Rendell and I are part of it as
Pennsylvanians. It`s so much good up against so much bad. It`s just hard
to deal with. Graham Spanier up there has done -- as you said, done a
wonderful job as president up there, with his music department, with his
fine arts department, all across the board.
That school has become so good at turning out with these kids that
don`t come there with a lot of money. They`re average kids with average
income and parents. And this guy gives them a first-rate education. And
this horror, you know, on top of that -- it`s just -- it`s just tragic, you
RENDELL: There`s no question. And Chris, Joe himself -- I mean,
obviously, this is a horrible black mark on his balance sheet. But Joe
Paterno did a whole lot more than just football. He helped the university.
He and his wife gave millions of dollars to the university. He helped
virtually every charity, Salvation Army, you name it, in Pennsylvania. He
did a lot of good, and it`s tragic on the level that this may be what he
winds up being remembered for.
MCDONALD: Well, if I can add...
MATTHEWS: Pat, get in here.
MCDONALD: If I can respond to that just for a minute, is...
MATTHEWS: Please.
MCDONALD: ... all the good, perhaps, that he`s done in the past,
myself and the hundreds of thousands if not millions of others that are
like me, and the boys that were abused by the assistant coach -- we don`t
really care. We really don`t care.
As far as we`re concerned, every other good thing that he did is wiped
out and was a sham because what we really saw is the person that Joe
Paterno is. He comes across as somebody who`s going to look out for his
best interests and the best interests of his organization, aside from his
obligation to everybody else.
So I don`t care to hear another sob story or sob comment...
RENDELL: It`s not a sob story, Patrick.
MCDONALD: ... about all the great things he did!
RENDELL: It`s not a sob story.
MCDONALD: I don`t -- we don`t care about it.
RENDELL: It`s a realization that people are human beings. And none
of us are perfect. What he did is horrific, and not thinking about the
kids and the kids that could potentially be injured is a tragedy. And it`s
nothing that he can ever make up for.
But when you look at individuals, you have to look at the totality of
their lives. And again, does this wipe out a lot of the good that he did?
Sure it does. You`re absolutely right. And again, there`s no way of
apologizing to the kids who came after, who would have been saved had they
reported this.
MCDONALD: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Last word, Patrick.
MCDONALD: You know, I guess the last thing that I`d say is, you know,
to the young man who actually came forward, and to those that were involved
with this, when you`re out there and you feel as if you are completely
alone and you don`t have any support, I would tell you that you have a
tremendous amount of support. There are millions of us around. And if you
feel lost...
MATTHEWS: What`s the name of your group again? Put it up there on
the screen.
MCDONALD: The name of the group that I would talk to is RAINN.org --
R-A-I-N-N.org. It`s an organization that`s designed specifically to either
prevent sexual abuse or to give people resources necessary to rebound from
MATTHEWS: You`re an honorable man. You`re a great man, a courageous
guy. I`m so glad you came on to give a firsthand account of when it`s like
to be a victim. And that is the paramount concern we have tonight. Thank
MCDONALD: Thanks, guys.
MATTHEWS: Governor Rendell, you`re a great man. Thanks for coming
on. Patrick McDonald, tank you.
Coming up, back to politics. Is there anyone left standing who can
challenge Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination? This is a revoltin`
development for the conservatives of this country. A new CBS poll shows
Herman Cain in the lead, with Romney tied with Newt Gingrich. As William
Bendix said years ago, "What a revoltin` development."
I`m out here in Los Angeles, as I said. Tonight, I`ll be on Bill
Maher`s show tonight, on "Real Time" on HBO, talking about my book, "Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero," which I`m proud to say is number three now on "The
New York Times" and several other best-seller lists in its first week out
there, fighting for the top.
You`re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: President Obama`s in San Diego today. The president and
first lady Michelle Obama will watch tonight`s big basketball game between
North Carolina, the Tarheels, and Michigan State, the first ever to be
played on board a naval aircraft carrier. The game will be take place on
the USS Carl Vinson, docked at the navel base Coronado. The Vinson is the
carrier the Navy used, by the way, to carry -- actually, to bury Osama bin
Laden at sea after Navy SEALs tracked him down earlier this year.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Well, it`s been a bad week for
conservatives looking for a viable alternative to Mitt Romney. Herman Cain
continued to be dogged, as we know, by allegations that he sexually
harassed women, and Rick Perry made sure he`ll go down in the annals of
debate history thanks to his brain freeze the other night. And
conservatives` new best hope, if you can believe it -- and want to believe
it -- is Newt Gingrich. He`s inching up in the polls.
But can Herman or Newt or any other candidate beat Romney? This is an
amazing development politically. I don`t think I can ever remember
anything like this until going back to maybe the Republican fight in `64.
The guys at NBC`s "First Read" seem to have their doubts. They wrote
yesterday they don`t see anybody beating Romney. "Mitt Romney`s path to
the GOP presidential nomination is now wide open. In fact, not since Bob
Dole in `96 has a candidate been such a clear front-runner right before the
primaries and caucuses begin."
Well, two new polls out today show there is still a strong desire on
the part of many Republican conservatives to find someone else besides
Romney to be their nominee. The CBS poll shows Romney -- look at this
number here -- Romney tied for second with New! Herman Cain continues to
lead, but both he and Romney -- oh, God! -- are down dramatically from last
month. So Romney`s had as bad a time as Cain, with Cain losing a lot of
ground with women, obviously. Romney drops 7 points.
The McClatchy Marist poll out today shows Romney in the lead, but
followed closely by Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain. Is there a viable
alternative to Mitt Romney for the nomination, especially for
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council and David
Corn is an MSNBC political analyst and bureau chief for "Mother Jones."
Tony, I`ve been thinking about you a lot. I do trust your conscience.
You`re more conservative than me on cultural and moral issues, maybe,
although I`m not sure. When it comes to actual morality, I think we may be
closer than you`d believe.
But here`s my question. How can somebody on the religious right, who
basically takes their cues in politics from their religious beliefs and
moral beliefs put out there somebody like Herman Cain, with all these
questions about him? Let me just call them questions at this point, but
enough of them to weigh you down a bit in terms of wanting to get a good
verdict out of it?
TONY PERKINS, FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: I think that`s a fair
question. And I think the question now that`s being asked -- conservatives
are saying, you know, Are these allegations cooked up by these women? Are
they true? Is Herman Cain, you know, a master chef of deception? And
that`s going to be a deciding factor for the outcome of his candidacy.
I think some look and see how front-runners have been -- kind of found
some weakness or some allegation. They`ve been attacked.
MATTHEWS: Sure.
PERKINS: They`re waiting to see if these things are true.
And if they are, I do believe that people will leave Herman Cain very
quickly. And as you said, he`s declined some in the polls, but that
support has actually gone to Newt Gingrich.
I mean, Michele Bachmann -- Michele...
MATTHEWS: Well, what do you make of that? Newt Gingrich -- I`m not
against people having multiple, serial marriages. I`m not in the business
of justifying that.
MATTHEWS: A lot of people I know are happily married for the second
time, sometimes the third time.
In fact, I bumped into an old friend of mine the other day. He`s on
his forth. I`m not here to judge. I`m not a minister. I`m not a man of
the cloth. In fact, I don`t really judge people myself on that. I think
people should seek happiness on Earth in a reasonable way and in a moral
OK. Now, Newt Gingrich, three times married, Opus Dei, right-wing
Catholic, is he OK with you? Are you OK with him?
PERKINS: You know, this issue came up when he was kind of toying with
the idea of running four years ago. And he addressed those issues.
And I absolutely do agree he has serious problems with women,
conservative voters. I think they will give somebody one pass, but I do
think he has a difficulty that he may not be able to overcome. But this is
what he has done in the debates. He has not been out front and won every
debate, but he`s kind of had this -- every time he`s said something, it`s
been pretty good.
I mean, he`s a pretty smart guy.
MATTHEWS: I know that.
PERKINS: And he has kind of been a senior statesman and he`s brought
some clarity to these debates. So I think people are giving him a second
MATTHEWS: I will get to you, David, in a second.
MATTHEWS: I want to get to Tony here because I find him fascinating,
because I do trust him.
Suppose you go to -- you go to the supermarket like I do occasionally
for the family. And you go and you look in the grapes collection. And all
the grapes are all rotten. So you don`t buy any grapes that day.
PERKINS: You buy bananas.
MATTHEWS: What happens when you go to your Republican candidates and
they`re all rotten this year? Do you not buy any?
PERKINS: Well, I think that is a challenge. And that`s why I think
you see people...
PERKINS: I`m not saying they`re all rotten. I`m just saying there
are actually some good candidates, but they have all had kind of a -- they
have been out front. Michele Bachmann was out front for a while. You know
she was attacked and she went down in the polls. Rick Perry was greatly
anticipated to enter the race and he has underperformed.
Then you see Herman Cain. But you -- look, it`s really interesting,
Chris. Herman Cain, despite these allegations and charges, is maintaining
his lead even in this poll out of Iowa. He`s dropped, but he`s still
ahead. It tells me that people are not ready to go to Mitt Romney and
settle on him as the nominee.
MATTHEWS: That`s it.
David, get in here, because, analytically, you`re a man of the left,
but this is so weird, this, a party that can`t find someone they like.
CORN: Your analogy is that a piece of bruised fruit might do better
than Mitt Romney. That may come at the end of the day.
But to win over the long run, you need three things. I will make it
simple for Rick Perry here. You need money, organization, and seriousness.
And none of these challenges that have come up, you know, as the non-Mitt
candidate have had all three, while Mitt Romney does.
And there`s one other thing I would add to that. You need to be able
to survive scrutiny. And Newt Gingrich up to now has had the advantage of
low expectations. The media hasn`t gone and looked at the 17 organizations
he`s running -- he`s run.
One good example, the other night at the debate, on CNBC, they asked
him about $300,000 he was paid by, what was it, Freddie or Fannie, and, you
know, when they were trying to get political influence in Washington to
keep the regulators off their back. He said that they turned to him
because he was a historian and he would give them historical lectures.
I spoke to someone at Fannie Mae about that and they were laughing
about this. He wasn`t telling the truth. No one`s really dug into a lot
of these things and 30 years of political controversies. So he may come up
for a while, but he`s going to fall down like everybody else, like we see
Herman Cain now. You may be left with Mitt Romney because there`s nobody
else in the barrel of apples.
PERKINS: David, I agree. I agree with you, David. I would just add
one kind of component, just a little twist on what you said, is I think the
candidate has to be trustworthy. People have to trust them, in that what
they say is what they do.
And sometimes we`re seeing rhetoric, but a record that doesn`t match
the rhetoric.
CORN: That is the Mitt Romney problem, yes.
PERKINS: Yes, absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Well, here`s Herman Cain yesterday joking -- and I think he
was joking -- about -- with a supporter about something that`s not really
funny, Anita Hill, the woman who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual
Let`s listen to his fun here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you hear the latest news today? Anita Hill is
going to come out...
HERMAN CAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Is she going to endorse me?
MATTHEWS: Well, today, Herman Cain said his comment was in no way
intended to be an insult to Anita Hill or anyone else.
CORN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Well, I don`t how to put these things in context anymore.
Obviously, he thought it was real hoot. But I don`t think you should judge
a guy on what he says is funny in a weird -- look, I don`t think Anita
Hill`s charges were anything but serious. They were serious as hell.
MATTHEWS: And that situation was not fun when you were Clarence
Thomas or Anita Hill. It was a dramatically bad situation for both
parties. I think she was right.
But I have got to tell you, there was nothing funny about it. I don`t
know why they think it`s funny.
MATTHEWS: Let me go back to David Corn.
CORN: Yes. Yes.
MATTHEWS: Who`s going to be the Republican nominee, if you had to put
big money on it?
CORN: Well, I wouldn`t put big money, but I think you have got to bet
with Mitt Romney now. He`s the only guy who has been able to make it this
far without looking like a total fool.
There is the trustworthiness question that Tony`s brought up, and he`s
going to have to continue to navigate that. But at the end of the day,
he`s not a piece of rotten fruit, which may be what determines who wins the
Republican nominee -- nomination.
MATTHEWS: Go back to Tony for a second.
Tony, could you live with him as your nominee?
PERKINS: Well, we`re not there yet.
MATTHEWS: The religious right people?
PERKINS: We`re not there yet. We`re going to see where we win.
Sometimes you got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and
I`m holding right now.
MATTHEWS: You think you might stay out of this race altogether if
it`s him?
PERKINS: Well, no, no, not at all.
What I`m saying, at this point in the process, we`re still a long way
from the convention and this being settled. And as long as there are one
or more conservatives -- or two or more conservatives in this race, I`m not
weighing in for any particular candidate.
MATTHEWS: Do you wish Huckabee was running?
PERKINS: I will say this. I told Mike this when we were talking, as
he was making his decision. Had he gotten in, I would have supported him
from the very beginning.
MATTHEWS: Yes, that`s what I think. I think Huckabee...
CORN: Maybe Tony`s hoping for Rick Santorum to get his turn.
MATTHEWS: No, no, no, no.
PERKINS: Everybody else has had their day in the spotlight.
MATTHEWS: That`s sarcasm, but there`s four guys that should...
CORN: No, I`m serious. No, I`m serious, Chris.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let`s go. We go -- there are so many guys. The bench
is better looking than the people on the field.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, thank you very much, David Corn.
And we all agree the bench looks great right now.
Tony Perkins, thanks for that.
I think Huckabee, I think Mitch Daniels, I think Chris Christie, I
think Jeb Bush, I think Haley Barbour are all better as a group than the
team on the field on the Republican side.
Up next, Jon Stewart weighed in on the circus that is the Republican
field too. He`s next in the "Sideshow."
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MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now for the "Sideshow."
First up, leader of the pack by default. As we talked about earlier,
Mitt Romney`s front-running status seems to be mostly the result of the
surge-and-tank pattern. Surge and tank is the phrase, pattern we`re seeing
from his opponents. And plenty of people are noticing.
Let`s see how "The Daily Show" summed up Romney`s ongoing secret to
success on last night`s show.
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART": In our coverage
of Romney`s clinching debate, we need not even show you highlights of
STEWART: ... but merely the spontaneous combustion of his opponents.
Chief Romney rival in the polls, Herman Cain. Guy is in the middle of
a scandal involving his treatment of women.
HERMAN CAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We didn`t hear about it in
the previous Congress -- previous Congress because Princess Nancy sent it
to committee and it stayed there.
STEWART: Princess Nancy. There`s only three times you should ever
use that term, with an actual female member of the royal family, a new
Maltese puppy you got, and, oh, what`s the third?
STEWART: Many Republican faithful thought Perry would be the answer
to their prayers, but it turns out he was the answer to ours.
MATTHEWS: Well, that`s for sure. Could there be any greater gift to
late-night comedy than the past few weeks of the Republican race? Answer:
And finally, I`m out on the West Coast this week and last night I
stopped by "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" to discuss my new book, "Jack
Kennedy: Elusive Hero."
Well, we had a great discussion on Kennedy`s presidency, Jay and I.
And I shared with Jay my discovery about Jack`s most famous line. Let`s
hear it from the interview.
JAY LENO, HOST, "THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO": Jack Kennedy`s
famous speech about ask not what you can do for you, what you can for your
MATTHEWS: Yes.
LENO: But in your book, you say he didn`t actually write that.
Tell that story.
MATTHEWS: He went to Choate school, which is a private boarding
school up in Connecticut. And I had heard the rumor that maybe he got the
ask not what your country can do for you, what -- ask what you can do for
your country, from his headmaster.
His speechwriter thought it might be true, but never could prove it.
So I went up there. They pulled open a looseleaf book. And I open up the
looseleaf book. And it was the headmaster`s daily sermon notes. And it
had the date, the number of the hymns, and then it had an essay that said,
the youth should always ask of his alma mater, not -- and then quotes --
"not what she can do for him, but what he can do for her."
LENO: Oh, see? So there.
MATTHEWS: And I found it. I found where it came from.
LENO: A 60 -- 50-year mystery right here.
MATTHEWS: It was a heroic moment, by the way, Kennedy`s
administration, in the country`s history. And I`m bringing it back to life
as best I can in my book. Thanks again to Jay for having me on.
Up next, the Senate voted overwhelmingly for President Obama`s jobs
bill for veterans. Today`s Veterans Day, by the way, of course. Those who
are off today know it. Why is it so difficult for America`s veterans
coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan to find work here in their home
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CNBC "Market Wrap."
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: On this Veterans Day,
let us commit ourselves to keep making sure that our veterans receive the
care and benefits that they have earned, the opportunity they defend and
deserve, and above all, let us welcome them home as what they are, an
integral, essential part of our American family.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.
That was, of course, President Obama today at Arlington National
Cemetery. Returning veterans today, by the way, face a rough job market,
as you might expect. And for veterans who have served since 9/11, the
unemployment rate is 12.1 percent. And that, of course, is significantly
higher than the national rate of unemployment of 9 percent.
Joining me now are two Iraq war veterans, Tammy Duckworth, who was an
assistant secretary in the Department of Veterans Affairs and is currently
running for Congress out in Illinois, and former Congressman Patrick
Murphy, who is currently running to be the attorney general of
Thank you both for joining us.
Tammy, can you start off and give us your expertise now on the
particular job requirements or availability of people coming back from the
service that perhaps the hiring people in this country don`t understand?
TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D), ILLINOIS CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think
that people don`t realize how well-trained our veterans are and how hard
they`re willing to work.
And, in fact, our veterans are probably one of the few groups of
people who have guaranteed the quality of their work with their lives.
When my crew chief gave me the keys to my Black Hawk and said, hey, I
checked the oil levels and I twisted all the safety wires, he didn`t just
hand me the keys and walk away.
He climbed in the back of that aircraft and he guaranteed his work by
getting on that aircraft and going on that mission. I think any employer
should be proud to hire someone who`s willing to work that hard.
MATTHEWS: Is one of the things you have in the service the ability to
learn? You`re -- you`re learning all the time. And therefore you can
learn something new the next day. That learning skill that you have to be
drilled in, in the military day in -- isn`t that something that the
employer would look for?
DUCKWORTH: I think employers would absolutely look for that.
And these folks are, as we used to say in the Army, force multipliers.
They`re not only going to be learning all the time. They`re going to be
leaders. They`re going to bring up the productivity and the willingness of
the rest of your workers to be creative and to troubleshoot and to problem-
solve. Our veterans can really be someone who will bring your business up
a notch.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask Patrick Murphy to join us right now.
Patrick, you have been in politics, you have been in Congress, you
have served the Bucks County area for a while. Let me ask you about the
difference now than the way it was say in even in the Vietnam era. In the
Vietnam era, you had guys and women -- guys who were drafted all the time.
So everybody was eligible for the draft who was healthy.
So everybody was sort of in it together. People knew people in the
service because their buddies in school who sat next to them in school or
roommates were getting drafted. Today, the military is a small part.
President Obama pointed out the small number of service members that
make up the population. Let`s listen to the president on the point, and
you follow up here, how isolated that community is getting.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This generation of service
members, this 9/11 generation, has borne the burden of our security during
a hard decade of sacrifice. Our servicemen and women make up less than 1
percent of Americans. But also more than 1 million military spouses and 2
million children, and millions more parents and relatives, all of whom have
shared the strains of deployment and sacrifice on behalf of the country
that we love.
MATTHEWS: You know, I was thinking, Patrick, my friend, it was like the
Amish. It`s almost like the military had become a separate community. And
I say that in the highest possible respect, from the everyday person who
doesn`t perhaps know a relative, hasn`t got a spouse, doesn`t hang out in
the community where other service people live.
Isn`t that a big problem?
PATRICK MURPHY, IRAQ WAR VETERAN: It is a big problem, Chris. And I agree
with you.
And I agree with President Obama. There`s not a lot of families in America
that have skin in the game. It`s not their sons and daughters. It`s not
their nieces and nephews.
And I will tell you, you know, there are a new generation of military
veterans that are trying to give back to their country. Leaders like Tammy
Duckworth -- I mean, she is an incredible, inspirational leader. And she`s
going to be congresswoman from Illinois. And I can`t wait to see that
But I tell you, that`s why it`s great to see younger folks get in in
politics and get in public service, and continue the military. You know,
Joe Klein had a piece in "Time" magazine, and he said it`s pure public
And your book, the Jack Kennedy book, on page 66, Chris, you write, you
know, war forges you forever. And that`s what Jack Kennedy said. And it
just gives you a love of your country that you want to give back.
You don`t care about Democrat or Republican. You just want to do right by
your brothers and sisters in arms and also by your neighbors and your
MATTHEWS: Tammy, you said something -- the president actually said
something, I think you can follow up on it today, which was so important.
He didn`t say treat veterans like victims, do them a favor.
He said the community leaders, local mayors and people like that, county
commissioners, bring these people into your leadership force. These are
natural leaders. Urge them to join you in leadership. Not to be
supplicants, but to be leaders.
I thought it was so bracing that he did that today. He didn`t do the
usual, give them a break. He said, bring them into the ranks of
TAMMY DUCKWORTH, IRAQ WAR VETERAN: Absolutely. And our military men and
women, from the first day you show up at basic training, you`re getting
leadership training. You`re ready to take the next step.
You know, if your buddy falls or your sergeant falls, you`re ready to step
forward and pick up that rifle and carry on with the mission.
And I think the president is absolutely right. Chris, if you look back to
World War II and look at what the greatest generation did when they came
home, they became our nation`s leaders. They became the Bob Doles, the
Daniel Inouyes, the Jack Kennedys, that move this country forward and built
the middle class.
We have that opportunity again with this new greatest generation. They`re
going to lead this country back into strength and they`re going to be the
future of our nation. We just have to give them a shot at it.
MATTHEWS: Well-said, thank you, Tammy Duckworth. Good luck in your race.
Patrick, go ahead, last 10 seconds.
MURPHY: And, Chris, I would disagree. I mean, listen, it`s not just going
to happen because it should happen. It`s going to happen because we pass
bills like happened yesterday in the Senate, the veterans jobs bill. They
broke it down finally into smaller pieces, it passed 95-0, and it gives
basically tax credits to businesses to hire these leaders, these military
leaders back into the ranks of the employment.
And there`s almost 1 million veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan that are
unemployed. We need to get it done, we need Congress to act.
And have a great Veterans Day, Chris, and everyone. Thanks so much for
having us on.
MATTHEWS: Happy Veterans Day to everyone out there. To those who have
served our country, thank you for your service if you`re watching right
now, and your families. And I mean it.
Up next, what if John F. Kennedy had lived? We`ve got an interesting
theory coming out from the great, brilliant Stephen King, who`s written a
novel about what would have happened had he not been killed that day.
Stephen King, who can scare the bejesus out of you sometimes, is going to
tell us a story of mixed development, I must say. I`m not sure this is a
good ending either.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Florida Senator Marco Rubio doesn`t seem to be losing support
after embellishing his family history. A new Quinnipiac poll of Florida
voters finds Rubio`s approval rating hasn`t budged. He`s at 49 percent
approve, 31 percent disapprove.
Two months ago, those numbers were virtually identical. Rubio long held he
was the son of exiles who fled Castro`s Cuba, but last month "The
Washington Post" reported that his family came to this country before
Castro took power.
We`ll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We`re back.
My next guest is known for his suspenseful and scary works of fiction. But
his newest book is quite a departure for him, a work of historical fiction,
of which the protagonist travels back in time to save President John F.
Kennedy. So, how would a country had been different of Kennedy lives?
Stephen King`s newest novel known -- is called "11/22/63" is out this week.
Stephen, thank you for joining us.
I think there are some interesting parallels between the times, in November
22nd, 1963 and right now. When Kennedy was driving to the airport in Fort
Worth that morning, on the ay to Dallas, he was talking to Jim Wright and
John Connelly. They were on the car with them. And he`s trying to figure
out why Dallas was so right wing, so ferociously right wing, while Fort
Worth was this calm, yellow dog Democrat working class town.
How today do you see these parallels of this horrific right wing anger,
crankiness, or worse, and what it was like down there, the city he went
into, in Dallas?
STEPHEN KING, AUTHOR, "11/12/63": Well, you know, I`ve been looking at
some YouTube clips from 1962 and 1963. And the rhetoric then and the
rhetoric now is virtually interchangeable. I saw a clip with a
televangelist named Bill James Hargis and it could be Pat Robertson or any
Tea Partier today.
The hate is still around and the disaffection with politics in Washington.
And these are real.
You know, some of the clips from Dallas at that time. There`s one of Adlai
Stevenson being bat by a protester sign and Larry Bird Johnson got spat
upon by Chamber of Commerce ladies. And that was in Dallas.
MATTHEWS: Yes. That morning, he said, we`re going to nut country today.
Are we in nut country today?
KING: I think so. You know, I already had the idea for this book in 1971
and I`m really glad that I didn`t try to write it then because I think it
was too close, too many of the actual real life players were still alive.
Jacqueline Kennedy was still alive, and, of course, both of the kids.
And so, I kind of mothballed the idea. And I started to think about it
again in 2008, because there are a lot of parallels between John F. Kennedy
and Barack Obama. The age, they`re both young politicians, they both spent
a short time in the Senate. They both have beautiful wives. They both
have beautiful kids.
Also, there`s been this sort of atmosphere of real hate and obstructionism
that surrounded both men.
So, I began to think history repeats itself, and at that point I thought to
myself, I really like to write this book. And one of the things that I
kind of like to say is, here is where hate will get you eventually, this is
what happens. Finally, it`s the barrel of a gun.
MATTHEWS: Yes, but it was a communist sympathizer. That`s one of the
great ironies of history. It was Lee Harvey Oswald, the man of
extraordinary left by our standards, who killed him.
So, how do you put that together with the right-wing mood of Dallas?
KING: Well, it`s certainly a contrast between the mood, and I think a lot
of people in Dallas assumed at the time that it was somebody right wing or
somebody associated with the CIA, or this, that and the other thing. But
the fact is Oswald`s communist tendencies were basically the outgrowth of a
disturbed mind. He was somebody who wanted to be famous.
When he and Marina flew back to the United States -- well, they came back
on a ship, but they flew from New Jersey to Fort Worth to be with Lee`s
brother Robert. He told Marina all the things that they were supposed to
say when they were greeted at the airport by throngs of reporters. When
nobody showed up, he was a really unhappy camper.
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about your novel --
KING: He was a fame junky, Chris.
MATTHEWS: I know.
Look, I loved your novel "Pet Cemetery." Like everybody else, I couldn`t
get it out of me. I thank you for that, for the months and years, I
couldn`t get that horror story out of my head or my soul. Thank you for
that, Stephen King.
KING: You`re more than welcome for that.
MATTHEWS: But this one, I understand from people who have read it, they
say that although you talk about history being intervened with, with
Kennedy surviving and going to a second term, it was like resurrection
ain`t so pretty, buddy, right?
KING: Well, I talked a bit with Doris Kearns-Goodwin and her husband, Dick
Goodwin, and I talked with my wife, who is a history major back at the
University of Maine, and said, well, look, suppose this didn`t turn out for
the best. Suppose Kennedy had lived and things went south anyway, give me
a plausible scenario for some of the things that might have happened.
And what everybody sort of agreed on was that, again, you know, the
parallel between Barack Obama and Jack Kennedy is, neither one of them
seemed to be able to find the levers that move the House and the Senate
with any real consistency.
And Lyndon Johnson was a past master at that. And when Johnson succeeded
to the presidency --
MATTHEWS: Yes, I agree with you,
KING: -- he was able to fulfill on a lot of the Kennedy
MATTHEWS: And he had one other advantage.
KING: Whether or not Kennedy could have done it.
And there`s also the question about what Barack Obama will be able to do,
assuming he is elected to a second term, with McConnell and Boehner and the
people who stand against him.
MATTHEWS: You`re a great --
KING: Let me ask you something, Chris.
MATTHEWS: I have to go. Real quickly, what, go ahead, Stephen.
KING: I wanted to ask you if you thought that Joe Biden would be able to
find those levers if he were to become president later on?
MATTHEWS: We`ll have to talk after the show. I think Joe Biden has great
strengths that don`t always become obvious. I think he`s a very, very
smart political leader who`s in second place right now. Maybe he would be
good in first place. But think we`re both going in the same direction.
Thank you very much. Your book, Stephen, it`s called "11/22/63." It`s
about what might have been. Thank you so much. You`re a genius.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with some advice for Penn State as it tries
to rebuild its reputation.
You`re watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with this:
Nothing is more disturbing than having someone in a position of moral
authority who behaves in a lowly way. We are taught, most of us, to look
up to people in authority -- church leaders, firefighters, police, those
who teach us, to see them ago being on a higher moral plain. Their
positions tell us to respect them, to be guided by them, to see them in a
special moral rank, one well above us.
And then there come those times in our lives when we are jolted by the G-
force of someone in just such a position acting totally against the
character their positions suggest for them. I think of the New York police
just going on trial for drug dealing and other corruption.
My church has been the most dramatic example of men held high in our public
consciousness who have turned out to be hidden criminals in our midst,
protected by their colleagues at the expense of those young boys they have
sexually exploited and psychologically wounded, perhaps for life.
Why? Why did grownups at Penn State become the cover-up squad? Why do men
who must have known and been individually aghast at what they saw or heard
not act out of that disgust? They must have known at the instance they
learned it.
Perhaps it goes back to my own deepest advice I give to graduates at
colleges like Penn State -- if you don`t enter a world like big-time
college football or Washington, D.C. politics with a solid moral grounding
of what is right and what is wrong, you are unlikely to learn it in that
arena. It`s something you must have walking in at first day and fight
never to lose, that basic human knowledge of what is right and what is
As Penn State says good-bye to Joe Paterno -- Joe Pa as they have long
cheered him on big game days -- I hope, don`t you all, that they will
welcome back those basic values lost in the hunt for the next win on
Saturday, because what makes college football, win or lose, great, what
makes trying to for personal and team glory and all the other fund and
challenging contest on this earth is the abiding respect for those values
that we all know are greater still.
That`s HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
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Five Steps to Effective Keyword Research
If you have a compelling desire to conduct your own keyword research (and your business can afford you the spare time to do so!), the following excellent article by Lisa Barone should provide you with an insight into the level of detail and expertise to come up with the correct keywords to target in the major search engines.
There's no getting around it. Keyword research is a vitally important aspect of your search engine optimization campaign. If your site is targeting the wrong keywords, the search engines and your customers may nevër find you, resulting in lost dollars and meaningless rankings. By targeting the wrong keywords, you not only put valuable advertising dollars at risk, you are also throwing away all the time and energy you put into getting your site to rank for those terms to begin with. If you want to stay competitive, you can't afford to do that.
The keyword research process can be broken down into the following phases:
Phase 0 - Demolishing Misconceptions
Phase 1 – Creating the líst and checking it twice
Phase 2 – Befriending the keyword research tool
Phase 3 – Finalizing your líst
Phase 4 – Plan your Attack
Phase 5 - Rinse, Wash Repeat
Phase 0 - Demolishing Misconceptions
One of the most common misconceptions about conducting keyword research for a search engine optimization campaign is the belief that you already know which terms a customer would use to find your site. You don't. Not without first doing some research anyway. You may know what your site is about and how you, the site owner, would find it, but it's difficult to predict how a paying customer would go about looking for it.
This is due to site owners evaluating their site through too narrow of a lens, causing them to come up with words that read like industry jargon, not viable keywords. Remember, your customer probably doesn't work in the same industry that you do. If they did, they wouldn't need you. When describing your site or product, break away from industry speak. Your customers aren't searching that way and if you center your site on these terms, they'll nevër find you.
Another misconception is that generic or "big dollar" terms are the most important for rankings, even if the term you're going after has nothing to do with your site. Imagine a women's clothing store trying to rank for the term "google". Sure, thousands of searchers probably type that word into their search bar daily, but they're not doing it looking for you. They're looking for Google. Being ranked number one for a term no one would associate with your site is a waste of time and monëy (and it may get you in trouble!). Your site may see a lot of traffíc, but customers won't stick around.
Phase 1 – Creating the líst and checking it twice
The initial idea of keyword research can be daunting. Trying to come up with the perfect combination of words to drive customers to your site, rev up your conversion rate and allow the engines to see you as an expert would easily give anyone a tension headache. The trick is to start slowly...
The first step in this process is to create a líst of potential keywords. Brainstorm all the words you think a customer would type into their search box when trying to find you. This includes thinking of phrases that are broad and targeted, buying and research-oriented, and single and multi-word. What is your site hoping to do or promote? Come up with enough words to cover all the services your site offers. Avoid overly generic terms like 'shoes' or 'clothes'. These words are incredibly difficult to rank for and won't drive qualified traffíc to your site. Focus on words that are relevant, but not overly used.
If you need help brainstorming ideas, ask friends, colleagues or past customers for help. Sometimes they are able to see your site differently than the way you yourself see it. Also, don't be afraid to take a peek at your competitor's Meta Keyword tag. What words are they targeting? How can you expand on their keyword líst to make yours better? It's okay to get a little sneaky here. All's fair in love and search engine rankings.
Phase 2 – Befriend the keyword research tool
Now that you have your líst, your next step is to determine the activity for each of your proposed keywords. You want to narrow your líst to only include highly attainable, sought-after phrases that will bring the most qualified traffíc to your site.
In the early days of SEO, measuring the "popularity" of your search terms was done by performing a search for that phrase in one of the various engines and seeing how many results it turned up. As you can imagine, this was a tedious and ineffective method of keyword research. Luckily, times have changed and we now have tools to do the hard part for us.
By inputting your proposed keywords into a keyword research tool, you can quickly learn how many users are conducting searches for that term every day, how many of those searches actually converted, and other important analytical information. It may also tune you in to words you had previously forgotten or synonyms you weren't aware of. There are lots of great tools out there to help you determine how much activity your keywords are receiving.
Here's a few of our personal favorites:
Overture Keyword Selector Tool:
Overture's Keyword Selector tools shows you how many searches have been conducted over the last month for a particular phrase and lísts alternative search terms you may have forgotten about. Our only complaint with Overture is that they lump singular and plural word forms into one phrase. For example, "boots" and "boot" would appear under one category of "boot". This can sometimes cause problems.
Wordtracker is a paid-use tool that lets you look up popular keyword phrases to determine their activity and popularity among competitors. Their top 1000 report lísts the most frequently searched for terms, while their Competition Search option provides valuable information to determine the competitiveness of each phrase. This is very useful for figuring out how difficult it will be to rank for a given term. It may also highlight hidden gems that have low competition-rates, but high relevancy.
Trellian Keyword Discovery Tool:
This is a fee-based tool where users can ascertain the market share value for a given search term, see how many users search for it daily, identify common spellings and misspellings, and discover which terms are impacted by seasonal trends (mostly useful for PPC).
Google AdWords Keyword Tool:
Google's keyword PPC tool doesn't provide actual search numbers for keywords. Instead, it displays a colored bar, giving users only an approximation. Still, it may be useful.
Google Suggest:
Google Suggest is a great way to find synonyms and related word suggestions that may help you expand your original líst.
If those don't tickle your fancy, we'd also suggest Bruce Clay's Check Traffíc tool, which estimates the number of queries per day for that search term across the major search engines.
Keep in mind that you're not only checking to see if enough people are searching for a particular word, you're also trying to determine how competitive that phrase is in terms of rankings.
Understanding the competition tells you how much effort you will need to invest in order to rank well for that term. There are two things to pay attention to when making this decision: how many other sites are competing for the same word and how strong are those sites' rankings (i.e. how many other sites link to them, how many pages do they have indexed)? Basically, is that word or phrase even worth your time? If it's not, move on.
While you're testing your new terms, you may want to do a little housekeeping and test the activity for keywords your site is already targeting. Keep the ones that are converting and drop the losers.
Phase 3 – Finalizing your líst
Now that you have your initial líst of words and have tested their activity, it's time to narrow down the field and decide which terms will make it into your coveted final keyword líst.
We recommend creating a spreadsheet or some other visual that will allow you to easily see each word's conversion rate, search volume and competition rate (as given to you by the tools mentioned above). These three figures will allow you to calculate how viable that term is for your site and will be a great aid as you try and narrow down your focus.
The first step in narrowing down your líst is to go through and highlight the terms that most closely target the subject and theme of your web site. These are the terms you want to hold on to. Kill all words that are not relevant to your site or that you don't have sufficient content to support (unless you're willing to write some). You can't optimize for words that you don't have content for.
Create a mix of both broad and targeted keywords. You'll need both to rank well. Broad terms are important because they describe what your web site does; however, they won't íncrease the level of qualified traffíc coming into your site.
For example, say you are a company that specializes in cowboy boots. It may be natural for your site to focus on the broad search terms "boots" and "cowboy boots". These words are important because they tell the search engines what you do and may íncrease your visitors, but the traffíc you receive will be largely unqualified. Customers will arrive on your site still unsure of what kind of boots you sell. Do you offër traditional cowboy boots, stiletto cowboy boots, toddler cowboy boots, suede cowboy boots or women's cowboy boots?
By only targeting broad terms, customers won't know what you offër until they land on your site.
Targeted terms are often easier to rank for and help bring qualified traffíc. They also make you a subject matter expert to the search engines, since the targeted terms strengthen the theme created with the broader phrases.
Sticking with our example, targeted terms for your cowboy boots site may be "men's cowboy boots", "blue suede cowboy boots", "extra-wide women's cowboy boots", etc. Broad search terms may bring you the higher levels of traffíc, but it's targeted, buying-oriented terms like these that will maximize conversions.
Phase 4 – Plan your attack
So you made your líst of about 10-20 highly focused keywords, now what do you do with them? You prepare them for launch!
Chances are, if you did your keyword research right, at least some of the words on your líst already appear in your site content, but some of them may not. Start thinking about how many pages you'll need to create to support these new words, and how and where your keyword phrases will be used.
We typically recommend only going after three or four related keywords per page (five if you can balance them properly). Any more than that and you run the risk of diluting your page to the point where you rank for nothing. Make sure to naturally work the keywords into your content and avoid over-repetition that may be interpreted as sp@mming. Your content should nevër sound forced.
Your on-page content isn't the only place where you can insert keywords. Keywords should also be used in several other elements on your site:
- Title Tag
- Meta Description Tags
- Meta Keywords Tag
- Headings
- Alt text
- Anchor Text/ Navigational Links
You've spent a lot of time molding your keywords; make sure you use them in all the appropriate fields to get the maximum benefit.
Phase 5 - Rinse, Wash Repeat
Congratulations. Your initial keyword research process is behind you. You've created your líst, checked it twice, made friends with the keyword research tools and are now off to go plan your attack. You're done, right?
Unfortunately, no. As your customer's and your site's needs change over time, so will your keywords. It's important to keep monitoring your keywords and make tweaks as necessary. Doing so will allow you to stay ahead of your competition and keep moving forward.
About The Author
Lisa Barone is a senior writer at Bruce Clay, Inc


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MekaGojira3k wrote:I'm watching the 2nd season of Working!!!, which is nowhere near as hilarious as I found it last time around. Though, I'm only 2 episodes in. I'm planning on re-watching Evangelion in a few days, too.
MekaGojira3k wrote:I guess Working!! was just working itself up again, I've loved the last few episodes, but episode 8 of season two is especially great/fun.
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It's on Netflix stream. Pretty interesting and different. Immortal 18th Century alchemists running around as gangsters in 1930s NYC.
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By Marie McCullough
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA — If you were unaware caffeine was creeping into foods until recently, when Wrigley was blasted for putting the stimulant in a new gum, here's the latest buzz: The growing list of so-called energy foods includes such famous names as Frito-Lay's Cracker Jack'D. There's also Jelly Belly Extreme Sport Beans, Hershey's Ice Breakers Energy mints, and Kraft Foods MiO Energy liquid water enhancer.
Caffeine can now be consumed in waffles, maple syrup, cookies, gums, gummy bears, popcorn, marshmallows, hot sauce, jerky and more, made by small Internet entrepreneurs.
Even the Food and Drug Administration was only vaguely aware of this trend. For one thing, these are novelty and niche products that aren't on grocers' shelves yet. For another, manufacturers don't have to tell the agency when they add the habit-forming chemical to foods – not even candy and snacks likely to appeal to children.
All the makers have to do is list caffeine as an ingredient on the label. The total amount? They needn't say.
As caffeinated foods come on the market, "we've got no heads-up about them," said Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at FDA.
Wrigley's Alert gum was the tipping point. Calling it "one more unfortunate example," Taylor said the FDA would investigate the safety of caffeine in foods, particularly the effects on children and teens. He anticipates a crackdown.
A regulatory buzzkill won't be quick or easy. So-called energy foods reflect cultural, commercial, and consumer factors, just like two other public health betes noires – caffeinated energy drinks and sugary sodas. Although Wrigley promptly said it would "pause" production of its Alert gum "out of respect" for the FDA, other companies are showing no such restraint.
"Until we're able to marshal the (scientific) evidence to take regulatory action, it's the decision of these companies whether they should be marketing these products," Taylor said.
Along with reams of research on coffee, the FDA and its advisers will no doubt review data on a newer source of zip: energy drinks. A tsunami of brands flooded the U.S. market after Red Bull's 1997 debut, with many sold as dietary supplements, a barely regulated category. This year, projections are that $19 billion worth of energy drinks will be glugged, mostly by adolescents and young adults.
In moderate amounts, caffeine can ward off drowsiness and improve alertness. Caffeinated coffee, studies suggest, reduces the risk of gallstones, Parkinson's disease, diabetes and suicide.
But moderation is not the mantra of energy drinks and shots, or of its main customers – young males. With names like Full Throttle, Monster, Rockstar and Hardcore Energize Bullet, these quaffs typically have two to seven times as much caffeine as a can of cola.
Colas are the only foods with an FDA caffeine limit – 71 milligrams in a 12-ounce can – although most brands have far less. In comparison, a 5-ounce cup of coffee has about twice as much on average, or 115 milligrams.
Studies have linked energy-drink consumption to inadequate sleep, obesity, bad grades, depression, risky behavior such as unsafe sex and "toxic jock identity" (basically, belligerence).
"Caffeine-loaded energy drinks have now crossed the line from beverages to drugs delivered as tasty syrups," said a 2010 editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Despite such pointed – some would say overwrought – warnings, only a sub-genre of energy drinks has been reined in. After reports of deaths and hospitalizations linked to caffeinated alcoholic drinks, the FDA in 2010 sent warning letters to the makers. The buzzed boozes, or at least the caffeine in them, vanished.
One reason caffeine is so lightly regulated is that it is "Generally Recognized As Safe" (GRAS) by experts when consumed normally, which for many years meant in coffee or cola. The FDA allows manufacturers to determine whether a new food ingredient, or a new use of an old ingredient, is generally safe.
"What we've seen, first with energy drinks, is caffeine moving into other products" besides coffee, Taylor said. "Manufacturers are adding higher levels of caffeine, and it's being marketed in a different way."
In March, 18 physicians and researchers sent the FDA a letter that concluded the caffeine levels in energy drinks are not safe under the GRAS standards. That echoed the American Academy of Pediatrics, which in 2011 said the scientific evidence showed "caffeine and other stimulant substances contained in energy drinks have no place in the diet of children and adolescents."
Beverage makers say the alarms are unfounded and unfair.
"It's something we're prepared to work around," he said. "There are other stimulants you can put in food. We have alternatives. We have backup plans – and we have to."


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The past couple days, I have had the immense pleasure of helping organize #WeNeedDiverseBooks with some amazing people – (You may have seen me tweeting already from my @Latinaish account as well as my personal @TracyDeLopez account.) The campaign is described in detail below, but it is basically a call for more diversity in books – something many of us have been talking about for a long time. I remember when Latinas for Latino Lit launched with this same mission, and through that I had the opportunity to express my views on the topic, as well as host authors René Colato Laínez and Meg Medina here on my blog. So I am really excited to see so many people coming together, from la comunidad Latina and beyond – to hopefully bring about some real change in the publishing industry. I hope you'll join us! – Tracy López
A Joint Message From The Organizers of #WeNeedDiverseBooks, And Details On How You Can Get Involved:
Recently, there's been a groundswell of discontent over the lack of diversity in children's literature. The issue is being picked up by news outlets like these two pieces in the NYT, CNN, EW, and many more. But while we individually care about diversity, there is still a disconnect. BEA's Bookcon recently announced an all-white-male panel of "luminaries of children's literature," and when we pointed out the lack of diversity, nothing changed.
Now is the time to raise our voices into a roar that can't be ignored. Here's how:
• May 1st at 1pm (EST) – There will be a public call for action that will spread over 3 days. We're starting with a visual social media campaign using the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks. [People are already using it, so join us!] We want people to use Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, blogs, and post anywhere they can to help make the hashtag go viral.
You can also support #WeNeedDiverseBooks by taking a photo holding a sign that says:
"We need diverse books because ___________________________." Fill in the blank with an important, poignant, funny, and/or personal reason why this campaign is important to you.
The photo can be of you or a friend or anyone who wants to support diversity in kids' lit. It can be a photo of the sign without you if you would prefer not to be in a picture. Be as creative as you want! Pose the sign with your favorite stuffed animal or at your favorite library. Get a bunch of friends to hold a bunch of signs. However you want to do it, we want to share it! We will host all the photos at WeNeedDiverseBooks.Tumblr, so please submit your photos by May 1st to firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line "photo" or submit it right on our Tumblr page here and it will be posted throughout the first day.
At 1:00PM EST the Tumblr will start posting and it will be your job to reblog, tweet, Facebook, or share wherever you think will help get the word out.
The intent is that from 1pm EST to 3pm EST, there will be a non-stop hashtag party to spread the word. We hope that we'll get enough people to participate to make the hashtag trend and grab the notice of more media outlets.
The Tumblr will continue to be active throughout the length of the campaign, and for however long we need to keep this discussion going, so we welcome everyone to keep emailing or sending in submissions even after May 1st.
• May 2nd – The second part of our campaign will roll out with a Twitter chat scheduled for 2pm EST using the same hashtag. Please use #WeNeedDiverseBooks at 2pm on May 2nd and share your thoughts on the issues with diversity in literature and why diversity matters to you.
• May 3rd – At 2pm EST, the third portion of our campaign will begin. There will be a Diversify Your Shelves initiative to encourage people to put their money where their mouth is and buy diverse books and take photos of them. Diversify Your Shelves is all about actively seeking out diverse literature in bookstores and libraries, and there will be some fantastic giveaways for people who participate in the campaign! (More details and giveaway entry HERE!)
We hope that you will take part in this in any way you can. We need to spread the word far and wide so that it will trend on Twitter. So that media outlets will pick it up as a news item. So that the organizers of BEA and every big conference and festival out there gets the message that diversity is important to everyone. We hope you will help us by being a part of this movement.


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In addition to the usual lower-division offerings of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, I've recently added an Environmental Economics class to the mix. I've developed an outcomes-based Microeconomics class, where students must demonstrate mastery of 8 key skills in order to complete the class. At the state level, I chair a committee of faculty from across New Mexico that reviews Social & Behavioral Science courses for inclusion into the New Mexico Common Core.


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Blue Laws are nothing new in Kentucky. Even in the 1830s merchants banded together to keep stores and shops closed on the Sabbath. The following Article of Agreement among merchants, mechanicks, grocery and tavern keepers was found among loose county clerk's papers in Livingston County.
"We the undersigned traders & Merchants of the town of Salem, Ky. for the purpose of correcting some degree the pernicious practice of Opening Shops, Stores, &c on Sunday, do obligate ourselves to close & keep closed our doors on the Sabath, & in all cases refuse to trade with any who may come to town on said day to loiter & drink. And do further agree unanimously to present any Grocery, Store or Shop that persists in so unholy & unlawful practice in Salem. June 7, 1836. The above obligation is not to prevent the furnishing of medicin Shrouds &c Sent for by the sick or required for the Dead. [signed] Greer & William, [?] Johnson, G. Robertson, [?] Richardson & Greer, Jos. Watts, Bayliss & McCrosky, Joseph Watts & Co., H.M. Woods, Given Williams & Given, R. & W.U. Hodge, Bass & Williams."
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Australian Open prize money reaches record high
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Open organizers have increased prize money to a record $31.1 million for 2013 in response to player concerns about compensation at Grand Slam tournaments, making it the richest in tennis history.
Tournament director Craig Tiley said the $4.15 million increase announced Tuesday was the largest from one year to the next for the tournament and should attract the strongest available players.
Tiley also said he'd been in contact with Rafael Nadal, who indicated he was still targeting the Australian Open for his return to Grand Slam tennis from a left knee injury that has sidelined him since Wimbledon.
"Expect Rafa to be one of many great stories in January, including a formidable title defense from our brilliant reigning men's champion, Novak Djokovic, and some major challenges from the great Roger Federer, U.S. Open 2012 champion Andy Murray ..." Tiley said in a statement.
Nadal, an 11-time Grand Slam winner, partially tore the patella tendon in his left knee and hasn't played since losing in the second round of Wimbledon in June. Last week, Nadal said there was no timetable for his return, but that he was hopeful of playing in Australia.
Before returning to competitive tennis in Australia, Nadal plans to play in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi in late December, according to a statement released by organizers of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship. The tournament from Dec. 27-29 has a field that includes Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and David Ferrer.
Tennis Australia chief executive Steve Wood said the prize money boost would make the Australian Open in January the richest in tennis history.
"We have led the world in prize money for these incredible athletes," Wood said, "and we want to ensure that the Australian Open continues to make a major contribution to the financial well-being of professional tennis players."
The move to increase prize money for the first tennis major of the year followed reports that some players were considering bypassing the tournament if the purse was not increased, particularly for losers in the early rounds.
"We're proud of the fact we've gone to record prize money," Tiley said. "We are supporting the lower-ranked players in their quest for compensation."
Tiley said players were pleasantly surprised by the increase.
"They were appreciative that the Australian Open has again stepped up, given them the number and gone significantly higher than probably they were expecting," he said.
ATP Players Council, involving leading players including Roger Federer, raised concerns about funding levels and threatened action if those concerns weren't addressed.
The Players Council later played down a reported threat to boycott of the 2012 Australian Open. But the prize money announcement Tuesday was seen as pivotal in addressing player discontent.
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text: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 WebMD Description of Physical Therapy Updated for Accuracy If you visit WebMD's page describing physical therapy, thank some of your member colleagues who over the last month notified APTA that the content describing the role of the physical therapist included inaccuracies and omissions. APTA contacted WebMD requesting they revise their content, and staff provided them with suggested revisions. The page now provides a more accurate description of physical therapists. Comments Only thing I wished would have been included was that we treat vestibular disorders. I feel this is a population that is under treated Posted by Dawn on 9/13/2013 9:06 PM


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Drunk on Sushi
A food review? Not quite. I'm not one for food reviews only because I have an exceptionally limited palate. (When I was little, French fries were my favorite food. No joke.) But, this entry of my weekly foray into the underbelly of Albuquerque is a celebratory one. Because I've found it, people. A little nest of heaven sidled near a car dealership on San Mateo. Yes, I'm sure you've heard of it. Sushi Gen.
A friend of mine went to this place and urged me to try it. Her exact words, "Unlimited specialty rolls for $20, and they're actually delicious. You can't beat that." She was absolutely right, but I have to warn you about one thing. Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT order more than you can consume. For every piece of sushi you don't eat, you have to pay for the entire roll. In other words, if your consumption proves too taxing to even think of downing that last piece of California roll idly sitting on your plate, then you have to pay for an entire California roll. It could be a bummer, but if you're like me, that's a challenge to bring your A-game.
As I said last week, I'm incredibly competitive, so when that plate hit the table with 7+ rolls to split between two people, I cracked my fingers, stretched my neck and back and got to work. About halfway through the meal, I needed a breather. My dining buddy wasn't as keen on marathon eating as I was, so she had to take several moments to recuperate, drinking Diet Coke and talking to distract herself from how full she was. Like a little league coach, I mentored her, saying, "Just keep breathing, keep imagining the finish line. There will not be a piece of sushi left on this plate, you understand?" She nodded her head in agreement.
Toward the final round of sushi madness, there were only three pieces left. One piece of the crunch roll (which has eel, avocado, cream cheese and more) and two pieces of the rainbow roll (which has I-don't-remember). Looking as if she was going to faint, my friend looks at me and says, "I'll make a deal with you." She takes a moment to sip her refilled Diet Coke. "If you eat those rainbow roll pieces, I'll eat that last crunch roll." So, basically, she was giving me a two-for-one special. It was pay for two rolls, or down two pieces for the win.
Needless to say, I ate the sushi, went home, fell on my couch and didn't move for about 12 hours. If you mathematically document the amount of sushi it takes to place one in a post-meal coma, you probably wouldn't have a formula to match the amount of expanding rice that was laying siege in my stomach. It was downright gluttony, but if given the choice, I'd do it all over again, and oops, I kind of did. I went back this past Wednesday with three people instead of one, and let's just say it was a nice lunch, and no one needed a gurney.
Until next week … Oh, and feel free to send me more suggestions of things to try, places to go, or trouble to get into. I'm game if you are.


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This may be the most complicated, expensive, and awesomest way to make a video clip of a racing game. Ever. To promote Forza 5, Microsoft decided to forego those fancy "com-PU-tors" and instead made a video by taking pictures of still frames. Like a flipbook. Only on a racetrack. In a McLaren.
Yes, those kooks bolted a big fancy camera rig to the engine block of a McLaren 12C (I guess because the engine mounts provide good vibration dampening?), and had Tanner Foust tear ass past 680 giant screenshots printed on aluminum panels at 120 MPH. The camera recorded the images of the panels as they whizzed past, and the result is a clip of footage from the game. A video clip made the best, loudest way possible.
I can't wait to start filming all my Vines this way. But out of the window of my slow Beetle, trying to shoot b&w printouts stapled to phone poles with my iPhone. It'll be great.


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20th Session
Territorial Development Policy Committee (TDPC)
3-4 December 2008
Mark Drabenstott
Chairman of the TDPC
Director, RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness
University of Missouri, United States
We meet at an extraordinary time. This year's collapse of financial markets around the world has pushed the global economy to the brink of the abyss. For the first time in my lifetime, people are tempted to use the "D word" in a contemporary way and not just in the historical. The downdraft created by the financial crisis has spawned massive efforts by governments and central banks to stop the downward spiral. The Federal Reserve is now in markets for commercial paper, insurance, student loans, credit cards, not to mention its usual and customary focus on preventing disorderly bank failures. Citigroup, one of the world's largest banks, is the most recent target of large Fed action.
I grew up on a farm, with parents and grandparents who had vivid memories of the Great Depression. My father would tell me about attending farm foreclosure auctions as a teenager in the 1930s, when all the neighbors would show up with pitch forks and discourage anyone from bidding save the farmer going broke. My grandfather remembered long lines snaking around the corner as people tried to get their money out of banks. With that memory etched in his memory, his whole life he kept a few spare 20 dollar bills under the canned peaches in the cellar.
Yes, the times are different today, but there are disturbing echoes of the one my Grandfather knew. Confidence is in short supply. A decade of economic euphoria and wealth creation has given way to gloom and evaporating net worth. The numbers on the amount of wealth lost are staggering. Since the start of this year, more than $21 trillion in wealth has disappeared on global stock exchanges, nearly $6 trillion in the US alone. That drop is matched by another $6 trillion loss of real estate wealth in the US, with even more around the globe.
Governments are pulling out all the stops—and some they did not even know existed—in a frantic bid to prevent the global economy from sliding deeper into recession and/or deflation. Huge stimulus packages are taking wing in our respective capitals. In the United States, this package corresponds, of course, with the arrival of our new president. No one knows the full extent of the stimulus package, but some current estimates top $600 billion. If such projections hold true, the size of this package could eclipse what the US spent on WWII, even in inflation-adjusted terms.
As an economist, I can only describe this current policy era as Lord Maynard Keynes risen from the dead. I spent many hours in graduate school studying his famous text, The General Theory. Though his work fell out of favor for a time, the world will now be conducting far more fiscal policy experiments and far bigger ones than he could ever have imagined.
The financial crisis shines a powerful light on the work of this committee, and comes at an especially propitious time in our life. For many years now, we have worked hard to show that central governments can spark stronger economic growth with fewer public dollars, euros, or yen if they invest in helping every region of their nation seize its unique economic potential. We have worked equally hard to help policymakers understand that this focus will not come easy, requiring as it does to relinquish a long legacy of single-minded emphasis on sectors and subsidies. While this policy battle is still quite young, we have made surprising strides, with a rich panoply of regional policy experiments to point to around the world. Even more encouraging, emerging economies like China are eager to learn more about this fresh approach to economic progress, a point underscored yesterday in a fascinating review of China's rural policy.
Today's financial crisis is an awful time for our friends, our families, and our neighbors the world over. But it also represents a golden moment for this committee to seize. We are headed into one of the biggest periods of fiscal stimulus any of us will ever see. The dollars, the euros, the yen, the yuan, the pesos—they will all be spent, quickly and massively. The question before is not how much will be spent, not when it will be spent, but how it will be spent. We have an incredible opportunity to inform the answer to this critical question.
Last week, president-elect Obama held news conferences three straight days announcing his new economic team. I believe he chose a superb team, including a public servant that I hold in the highest esteem from my career at the Federal Reserve—Paul Volcker. During one of those news events, Mr. Obama was asked what his priorities will be in the new fiscal stimulus package. His answer was so prescient that I wrote it down: We will have a new way of doing business. We will invest in projects that have the biggest bang for the buck in the American economy.
His words define the incredible opportunity now facing the TDPC. We have an opportunity to help identify which public investments will best power our national economies. This is an opportunity we must not let pass.
Which public investments will have the biggest bang? This question brings new focus to preparations for the March Ministerial meeting we will discuss today. It also challenges us with new urgency to bring forward fresh advice on the overriding economic question of our day, drawing on our rich reservoir of prior achievement and augmenting it where necessary.
In my opinion, there are four critical issues on which we must marshal our best policy advice in weeks and months to come:
At the regional level, there are at least three things we could bring to the looming regulatory discussion. First, regions need a mix of financial institutions, but at least some need to be owned within the region to encourage both risk-taking and local wealth creation. Second, in all regions, there will need to be good channels to bigger capital flows from financial markets. And third, in a more innovative, entrepreneurial economy, equity capital takes on much greater importance. This is a big challenge since regulatory and development policy have given preference to banks and other debt financing institutions for more than a century. These financial topics are not part of our current or prior work. We must think seriously about how to remedy this.
In closing, the financial crisis has taken the wind out of many sails. But let it not be so for the TDPC. In an ironic way, the financial turmoil provides the perfect opportunity for us to tell the compelling story of regional policy and the dividends it pays to national economic growth and prosperity. We have done amazing work over the past nine years. The newfound interest in Keynesian stimulus shines a new light on the story we have to tell. The fact that our Ministerial meeting was already planned is surely serendipity. But our quest is about more than just serendipity. The Romans had the best phrase to describe where we find ourselves today. And recalling our very successful discussion begun in Rome 18 months ago on public investment priorities, I offer it to you in closing: Carpe Diem!
Opening remarks - Mark Drabenstott, Chair, Territorial Development Policy Committee -20th Session
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moby replied to moby's topic in Ford Focus ClubCheers artscot79 for that piece of information.! I found an ex-Ford mechanic who immediately said the problem will be with the "pop out" security panel and the contacts would be the cause and just need cleaning as the panel does not come out very often and the contacts would be making a poor connection, and guess what.? he was right.! so it looks like I saved myself the price of a new radio.
moby posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubI have a 2003 focus which stands for a few days sometimes before it gets used. It had been standing for 4 days ok when a neighbour who parks his car next to mine came over one evening to tell me the car radio was on, although it was not on when he went out on that morning, it had run the battery down enough to prevent starting so I charged it up again and the radio worked fine, switching on and off ok, later that day I was told the radio was on again and this time I caught it before the battery was drained but the radio would not switch off ! it would not respond to the controls at all so I had to remove the fuse to save draining down again. Any ideas at all,? and how do the power saving relays work.?
moby posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubI have a 2003 Focus which has now developed a radio problem and as I don't have the manuals am at a loss to know what to do. If I turn on the radio the display shows "phone" and will not change, Sometimes it will show "1 hour" in the display, then again it may come on as normal with all stations available. What needs to be reset please.?
Haven't checked the relays yet, only fuses, will do that next. thanks.
Just to be on safe side I fitted a brand new fully charged battery, no difference.!!
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moby posted a topic in General Ford Related DiscussionsI have a spare fiesta which has been trouble free for years, moved it about 100 yards and parked up for around 2 months now it won't start, not just not start, nothing happens when I turn the key, no sound at all, no dash lights, nothing, Battery is good, lights all fine, doors lock/un-lock, but it seems like no power is getting to the controls as the instrument panel does not light up at all,Is there a relay or fuse covering this,? I have checked all the fuses and they are ok, The keys are without "blipper" having just a blue chip in the handle. I took out the instrument panel and checked the connections and all seems ok. Please Help, Someone.!!! :wacko:
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moby posted a topic in General Ford Related DiscussionsI have a 2004 fiesta 1.3 with manual gearbox. About 4 months ago it was started and moved about 1/4 mile then parked up with no problems, During the 4 months the battery drained down to about 7 volts so a new battery was fitted but it wouldn't start, in fact when the key was turned all the dash lights came up but nothing else, not a squeak from the starter motor. no power to the solenoid but there was 12v power leaving the ignition switch. By turning on the ignition and running a live lead to the solenoid terminal the engine would spin over but not so much as a cough from it.! There is not a remote blipper with this car, only standard keys. I have tried to reset the fuel cut-off switch but it was OK. It is as though there is an immobiliser somewhere but it doesn't show on the wiring diagrams. Does anyone have any ideas about this please. ???
OK, Well after a trip to my friendly Ford dealership they found a copy of the drivers handbook for that year and confirmed it is a warning light for the traction control / electronic stability system. The fault is that when you turn on the ignition this does not light up, if you are lucky it will flicker on/off randomly or not, depends how it feels.! It may come on intermittently while driving but never stays on, it's almost like a loose wire swinging about, have found a few multi plugs under bonnet and cleaned contacts with switch cleaner, made no difference, cleaned up some rusty earth connections, still no goodWant to clean up plugs on abs pump wiring but can't find abs pump.! also I can't find the low pressure filler point on the air-con, Auto-data shows it by the condenser on the drivers side but it ain't there,! I'm not having a lot of luck at the moment, can any-one help please.??.
I thought the traction control warning was a wheel with TC in the middle.? anyway this light comes on when the car is stationary as well as moving slowly on tarmac so no wheel could be spinning.! I have asked ex-ford mechanics and they have not seen this before.
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moby posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi all, Have just bought a 2003 focus, (my first) it all seems ok but if you stare at the instrument panel lights there is a light which does not come on when you turn on the ignition but every now and again one of the lights gives a very quick flash, not long enough to see properly but it looks like a wheel with a spray of stones flying up to the right, this light is on the right just above the fuel gauge and is the second one down in a row of 5 lights. Should I be worried and what is it for.?? any ideas please. I have tried looking on the web but it is not shown on any site I have seen.
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How do you actually wire up this motor to make it run.? there are only 4 terminals to play with, two power terminals and two other very small ones which can't carry much power or else they would burn out.
Climate Control Blower Motor.
moby posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubCan ANYONE tell me how to check a heater blower motor on a Focus with climate control.. I have the motor out and looking at the connector socket there are 4 connector pins, 2 large, one of these is live and the other large is earth, there are also 2 small pin contacts which don't appear to do anything. If I connect live lead to the positive terminal and earth to the other large terminal, nothing.! If I link the two small ones together, nothing. If I connect power to either of the small pins (through a fuse ) nothing. I cannot get the mot or to run on the bench under any circumstance. I have tried a replacement motor (used) and the results are the same. HELP please.