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Guests: Mike Barnicle, Julia Boorstin, Anne Thompson, Michael Beschloss, Ryan Lizza, Melinda Henneberger, Bill Delahunt, Sen. Chris Dodd
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: We're looking at an aerial shot of the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum out there at Columbia Point. I've been there many times. It's an astounding place to visit if you're at all interested in that period of the 1950s and '60s in American history. It's built right out over the water. It's a beautiful, nautical place for someone like John F. Kennedy to be memorialized, and now tonight it's the place for the repose of the body of Ted Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother. You're looking at the crowd there. The cortege has just arrived.
We're going to be talking to people throughout this hour who were very close to Ted Kennedy, and I couldn't think of anyone closer than the man right now, Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. Thank you, Senator, for joining us tonight. You know Ted Kennedy better than anybody I know, and you've been with him out in the water in tough seas, dangerous weather. What was it like to be Ted Kennedy?
SEN. CHRIS DODD (D), CONNECTICUT (via telephone): Well, Chris, first of all, I appreciate the tremendous effort in wrapping up this guy's life. Awfully difficult to do. And historians will over the next decades, of course, write about him and talk about him, his accomplishments. And to me, he was just a great friend, I mean, a personal friend of over 30 years.
And he was about as loyal a friend as you could ever have. I mean, the stories are legion. Just where you'd least expect it, at the moment you most needed it, that call would arrive, that note, that knock on the door, and he'd be there. And I know that those who've known him over the years, his own constituents in Massachusetts—I can tell you, I don't think my daughter, first born, Grace, was an hour old before the call came from Teddy welcoming Grace into the world.
When my sister died about a month ago, the first call was from Teddy. When I lost the Iowa caucuses, not that anybody ever thought I was going to win it...
DODD: ... the first call I got was from Teddy and Vicki. So just in every critical moment I can think of over the last 30 years, my friend was always, always there. So beyond all the accolades about his legislative prowess and ability, and all those other wonderful qualities—I don't minimize them at all—for the rest of my life, my memories will be about a great pal, a great friend.
MATTHEWS: When you were with him in those quiet moments as social friends and having a good time or not, being sentimental maybe, did you ever get struck by the fact, I'm sitting with the brother of Jack Kennedy, I'm sitting with the brother of Bobby Kennedy, the son of Joe Kennedy? Did that history ever come into your head or into the presence, or was he always just your pal?
DODD: Well, I suppose back maybe when I first met him, a new senator, a congressman in the late '70s, I may have thought about him in those terms, but he would quickly dispel that. Not that he ever made the point that he diminished in any way the accomplishments and contributions of his family, but Teddy had a wonderful ability to make you feel very much at home with him. And it was the great success of him, in many ways. And I don't minimize, obviously, the accomplishments of his two brothers, who I didn't know at all. I met them as a child, in the case of President Kennedy, and as a young teenager in the case of Robert Kennedy 40 years ago.
But Teddy's ability to connect with people was very, very real. And it was whether you—he could meet people that he had never known before, and I'm sure initially, there was some awe that they were in the presence of someone whose family had contributed so much, but he had the incredible ability, literally within minutes almost, of making you feel like you were important. What did you have to say? What was your contribution? What do you think about this?
And he drew people out in wonderful ways. I saw him do it with my children. I just remember seeing maybe about—I guess it may have been about maybe last March, April. I'm walking down, going out with my then just 7-year-old and newly 4-year-old, Christina, and Teddy happened to be coming out with Splash and Sunny, his two dogs. And Teddy made more of my girls because he knows that Grace has severe allergies to dogs and other things. And he said, Let's try out, you know, Sunny and Splash with your daughter.
And my two daughters to this day—I mean, they're—I had to be very careful in talking about what happened to Teddy in the last two days, the last day-and-a-half because of what he meant to two very little children in making them feel very, very important.
And with everybody I ever met around him, you might step back every now and then and realize this guy has seen more history and lived it, and yet that wonderful, remarkable ability—as you remember, Chris. I mean, you've known him a long time...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DODD: ... working with Tip and others—just a great touch. It was not phony, not a phony bone in his body. And it was really, in many ways, the reason why he was successful. I know people are going to talk about his knowledge of the Senate and his ability to know parliamentary procedure. Let me tell you, at the end of the day, you know what it was? People liked him.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DODD: They liked him!
MATTHEWS: Senator, how did he deal with the weight of being a lightning rod for the right, to have all those—not just the black Irish begrudgers out there, but people on the right who didn't have any idea who he was except he was the enemy. How did he deal with that burden?
DODD: Well, I think he found it almost amusing in many ways because it—in fact, his Republican colleagues in many cases would come back and tease about it. I mean, they'd go back home years ago and they'd talk about the evils of Washington and they'd personify it in his name.
And then, of course, they'd tell him what a great guy he was and how much they loved being with him. And by the way, could he help out on their bills? And he had someone that needed a job, and could Teddy—so it was this dichotomy that he found interesting in many ways, that some of the very people who would sort of use him as a caricature for all that they thought was evil within the country politically, they'd turn around, and of course, be almost ashamed and embarrassed they had done so.
So I think he handled it well. He understood that in politics this happens, but he never, I thought—at least, he never showed. He may have and he certainly never indicated to me that it affected him in a way that he felt somehow that he was being abused by the political right, although certainly, he must have felt that from time to time with some of the scurrilous things that were said about him.
MATTHEWS: Yes. You know, Senator, back in the early '70s, when I got back from the Peace Corps, I would go to hearings and watch him preside—he wasn't the presiding chair yet, but he was in the committee behind the desk up there. And I used to watch him watch everybody come in the room, and maybe I was just picking up on something I was imagining, but I always sensed he was aware that he had to look out for his own security.
DODD: Well, probably so. I mean, I—you know, the sense, obviously, Chris, that—you know, it was, you know, what, 1963 with his brother, '68 with his other brother. I mean, that sense of that is certainly, I think—may have been on his mind. But again, on a personal level, having spent, you know, countless hours with him in various places with people, he—I never saw any of that evidenced by any dramatic change in his persona.
I suspect more than anything else, it goes back to what I said a minute ago. This was a guy who genuinely—I mean, you and I know people in politics and you and I wonder why they're in the business at all because they just don't seem to enjoy people.
MATTHEWS: I know. They don't like the life or relish the demands.
DODD: They like the job. They like the title. They maybe like even the legislative work. But they really don't like their constituents that much.
DODD: Teddy thoroughly enjoyed people. And so coming into that room
and probably didn't have any idea you were a former Peace Corps volunteer or whatever else, but I suspect it was nothing more than a human interest of a young guy walking in the room and maybe thinking to himself, I wonder what this guy's got on his mind?
MATTHEWS: Yes, no, I meant in terms of watching strangers, not me, but looking at the crowd out there. I'm always amazed by somebody like him, as big a fellow as he is historically, caring what other people thought about him. He once—this is a small point he said about me. He once said, You know, I don't think he liked me back when he was with Carter, but I think he likes me now.
MATTHEWS: I mean, the fact that he'd even give me two seconds thought is amazing to me!
MATTHEWS: But he's a human being, I guess, and everybody cares what everybody thinks.
DODD: No, absolutely.
MATTHEWS: It must have been such a treat to be his best friend.
DODD: Oh, just great. I can't—the other day, I just—I literally—yesterday morning, I got, obviously, very early the news, as everyone did. And I dropped off my 7-year-old at a day camp here in Connecticut and then took my 4-year-old out to pick raspberries and blueberries. And I decided I wasn't going to let the day become maudlin and I was going do, I think, what he'd appreciate, and that is you live your life.
And he would say so many times to me—and I've had a, you know, rough year, and just went through cancer surgery about two weeks ago, and he—you know, he called me as I was coming out of the recovery room, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Oh!
DODD: I mean, I—I mean, the first call I had, Jackie put the phone up to my ear and he said, Welcome to the club, you know? This is two weeks ago, you know?
MATTHEWS: Oh!
DODD: So just a great friend, and I'm just going to miss him terribly, beyond words.
MATTHEWS: And he was at peace with God, too, right?
DODD: Oh, just the best. He cared about you. I mean, you'll hear more stories in the weeks to come about him, just things, the calls that he made, the times he'd show up. You know, Joe Biden talks about it, when he was going through his physical tragedies, obviously, with his aneurysms, and Teddy just being there.
I remember Frank Church was dying. I don't know how many times Teddy'd show up in that hospital room and just to be there with his family. No one asked, no one called, no press, no one was going to write a story about it, just a human being understanding what a family was going through. And he was as reliable as any human being I've ever known on that level.
MATTHEWS: Yes, he called me on my diabetes, and I had a bunch more serious problem once, and he'd call me and he was great. By the way, my favorite story is one that Joe Biden told months ago, about how when he first got—you know, the tragedy that occurred when he came into office, with his wife being killed, that very Christmas week and the daughter being killed, just a horrendous—and being holed up, up there on the sixth floor of Dirksen, where nobody even knew there were any offices up there. And Teddy came by and took him over to the gym and introduced him to all these old codgers at the gym, like Jack Javits, all those old naked 80-year-old...
MATTHEWS: ... wandering around, smoking cigars. I mean, it's a great
it's a rich—it's a rich world you're in there. Senator Chris Dodd, good luck, sir, with your own health and coming back yourself to being a great senator. And thank you so much for coming on, on this sad night for the country.
DODD: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Chris Dodd of Connecticut.
DODD: Thanks very much.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, sir.
DODD: You bet.
MATTHEWS: NBC's Anne Thompson is at the Kennedy Library in Boston. Anne, thank you. It seems to me that the ritual is following the course a bit behind schedule. Father Monan, the great president of B.C., is up there to preside at this point, right?
ANNE THOMPSON, NBC CORRESPONDENT: He is, and he is joined by Father Donald McMillan, who is the head of campus ministry at Boston College. And both priests have been very close to the Kennedy family through the years. They are at this hour saying a prayer inside the Kennedy Library.
When the senator's body was brought into the library, he went through a column of about 100 current and former staffers, Chris. And you know, in recent days, talking to some of those staffers and people who know the senator, they said if you were on Kennedy's staff, you really never left. It was—these weren't people who just worked for Ted Kennedy, but they loved Ted Kennedy. And they have come here to pay their respects today, and some of them will be sitting vigil.
There's going to be a military guard of four members of the armed services and then four civilians who will stand vigil as the public comes through tonight, and many of those civilians will be former staffers who have come to pay their respects. Joining them, of course, are the many people of Massachusetts who want to say thank you to Senator Kennedy and thank you to his family. And they have lined up here at the JFK Library,, and it really is an astonishing sight.
There are probably within my eyesight 200 people waiting to go in, and then there is a line that goes all the way down the parking lot and then turns, and that's what it was doing an hour ago. And so I haven't been able to go down and check it out since, but these are people who have been standing here for now two hours in a very hot sun.
There are plenty of ambulances here. There are plenty of people with water bottles to make sure everybody stays hydrated as they wait for the library to open. There is going to be viewing until, we believe, 11:00 o'clock tonight, although it's interesting, in the vigil schedule they put out, they listed people who would be there for the vigil from 11:00 to 12:00, so anyone who is in line, they can go through and pay their respects tonight. I don't think they will leave anyone out in the cold.
And they will be greeted, we are told, by members of the Kennedy family inside. And this was something we saw at Eunice Shriver's wake just two weeks ago in Cape Cod. The Shriver children all came and greeted members of the public as they came through and learned why their mother influenced them and was important in their lives. And they felt that really helped them in their mourning, and I think they're hoping that that will do the same for the senator's family.
His son, Patrick, accompanied the body from Cape Cod here, and then his children, Teddy, Jr., and Kara, and then the senator's four grandchildren, along with Victoria, his wife, and his surviving sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, all led the family. You saw Ethel Kennedy holding Joe Kennedy's hand. She led the Robert F. Kennedy contingent of the family in, and then they were followed by Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver.
So it is going to be a long night here. It has already been a long day, but it is something that the people who have stayed here and come here, they feel very committed. It is something they have to do, and that is say thank you to this man who served Massachusetts for almost a half century.
MATTHEWS: OK, Anne Thompson, thank you so much for that report from the Kennedy Library at Columbia Point. I can't think of a more nautical place to honor the former president and to have this moment. You're really out at sea there. I've known the feeling. You really get—especially on gray days out there. Thank you so much.
THOMPSON: It is—you're welcome.
MATTHEWS: Thank you so much, Anne Thompson.
When we return, we're going to have much more on Ted Kennedy and his brothers. Next, presidential historian Michael Beschloss is going to join us. And by the way, at 7:00 o'clock tonight, we've got the big, much talked about documentary on the Kennedy brothers, all of them. You have to watch that tonight at 7:00.
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MATTHEWS: We're back, and we're joined right now by NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who's with us from the Kennedy Library up in Boston. Michael, thank you for joining us from that incredible place up there, out there on Columbia Point. Let's put it in perspective for the younger...
MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, NBC PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: (INAUDIBLE) Chris. I know you spent a lot of time here.
MATTHEWS: Let's stick it—let's go to the younger viewers now that don't know what you and I have been through. Give me a sense—us all a sense, a refresher course, if you will, of the role of the Kennedy family, starting with the old man, Joseph Kennedy, who you wrote about with "Kennedy and Roosevelt," his appeasement policies, his defeatist policies, his policies which were really seen as wrong by most Americans going into the 1940s and looking backward, and the role the Kennedy brothers played in perhaps atoning for that. Well, that would be my premise. Your thoughts.
BESCHLOSS: Yes, I think there's a lot to that. In the late 1930s, Joe Kennedy was Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to London. And he believed that we should stay out of war, even if the cost was that Hitler would take over Europe and maybe even Great Britain. And needless to say, in 1941, most Americans turned wildly against that point of view.
And as a result, the Kennedy brothers—we've talked about this before, you and I—after World War II, on foreign policy, one of the things they had to do to, you know, essentially get credibility in politics was to make it clear that they were internationalists, and they disowned the views of their father.
Domestically, Joe Kennedy was a very big conservative. When John Kennedy came into Congress, as you have written about, Chris, in 1946, he was a pretty conservative Democrat, too. So if you go from John Kennedy to Ted Kennedy, who over the last 47 years has been almost the embodiment of liberalism in America—very big journey.
MATTHEWS: You know, we've been arguing around the staff meeting with the younger producers—and I understand the difference in time dimension. The Catholic thing, if you will, the Irish Catholic thing—that was big when Jack Kennedy went up against Henry Cabot Lodge in '52. It was sort of the new crowd...
BESCHLOSS: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: ... taking over from the old crowd. Is that still part of the hold that the Kennedy family has, or is that out of date in terms of their Massachusetts power?
BESCHLOSS: Well, I think, you know, their Catholicism, you know, they embrace. Their Irish identity, they really embrace. And as you and I have also talked about, that wasn't true with Jack Kennedy. He felt that, to some extent, to make it on the national scene, he should not look like Honey Fitz, his grandfather...
MATTHEWS: Right.
BESCHLOSS: ... who was sort of the image of the turn-of-the-century Irish-American politician. He wasn't very much, you know, out front in terms of his interest in Ireland until that trip he took to Ireland as president in 1963. Look at the difference between that and Ted Kennedy, who would sing "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" in public, and in a way, at the end of his life, almost looked like the image of Honey Fitz.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
What—what is the reason why that the Kennedy family has been able to win every election starting up there in 1946? They haven't lost a Massachusetts election since '46. Explain the hold.
BESCHLOSS: It's their network that they have built assiduously since 1946.
Joe Kennedy, if he were being direct about it, he would have said, in 1946, when Jack got elected, it was largely his money. But, after that, you know, each of these Senators Kennedy here, they have made a huge effort to advance on the national scene, but, at the same time, always kept their connection to Massachusetts.
They didn't want to be one of those politicians like, you know, Bill Fulbright in Arkansas, or Ernest McFarland in Arizona, you know, who was once Democratic leader of the Senate. There are people in Arizona and Arkansas who said, well, we're proud of McFarland and Fulbright, but they have gone Washington. They have gone international. They don't remember us.
Ted Kennedy's office had some of the best casework in the Senate.
MATTHEWS: How do you explain a guy of Teddy's potential, in terms of being able to walk anywhere in the world, dine with royalty, an international celebrity from the time he was in his teens, practically, his ability to keep focus?
I mean, we had Chris Dodd on, his colleague, a few moments ago.
BESCHLOSS: Right.
MATTHEWS: This fellow who just passed away really liked constituent service. He liked it when the mayor called him, Menino, or whatever, and...
BESCHLOSS: He did.
MATTHEWS: ... said, I have got a problem with this bridge. I need some money. I got a problem with my Social Security disability. I want help with the government.
Teddy seemed to like to do those jobs.
BESCHLOSS: He did.
And how different it was from Jack, who would have been bored by it, or Bobby, who...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
BESCHLOSS: .. thought for a time of running for governor of Massachusetts, and said, I don't want to sit in the statehouse deciding on sewer contracts.
He was a regular guy. He was an intro—extrovert. He loved to connect with people. And maybe, Chris, it had to do with the fact that, you know, as a small child, he knew Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. You know, you can't go very far up from there. So, he wasn't really impressed by anyone. And I think, to some extent, you know, he really kept it real.
MATTHEWS: Explain the commitment to health. Now, here is my theory.
I will run it by you.
I think the Kennedy family had seen what was done to the older sister
Rosemary, incredibly, tragically treated by the father, given a lobotomy,
because she was difficult to keep under control, mildly retarded, to use a
term of that era, and, yet, given a harsh, brutal kind of verdict in terms
of the medical treatment she got, his own problem with his back, his
brother's problems with Addison's disease and malaria and everything else,
and the bad back that seemed to be part of the family, Kara's disease with
with cancer, Teddy losing a leg.
Well, maybe that's the answer, his focus on health. What is it? Why it? Why so much?
BESCHLOSS: Yes. Eunice—Eunice had something akin to Addison's disease. His father, Joe, was in a wheelchair, paralyzed for the last eight years of his life.
You know, health was a very big part of their life. But the Kennedys, unlike a lot of rich, entitled people, could make the connection. You know, maybe there's something wrong, if we can afford the best health care in the world and other people can't.
Jack Kennedy gave a speech—I think it was in 1962 -- on health care, in which he said, I was just down in Palm Beach to visit my father. He can pay his bills, but many of us can't.
MATTHEWS: What about atonement? Are you willing to go in that far?
I mean, I think I would like to, after Chappaquiddick and being responsible for the death of that young woman in that car accident, which was his fault, basically—without too much argument about it, it was his fault—and then spending all these years since really committing himself not to being a playboy, but to being this dutiful servant of the little guy and the little person.
I always like to think it had something to do with atonement. Are you willing to render a judgment in that direction?
BESCHLOSS: I—I sure would speculate that.
And one of the things I'm going to be fascinated about is that, when his book comes out in two weeks from now, you know, one of the first things I am going to look for is whether he actually says that himself.
MATTHEWS: You know, Michael, it's great to have you.
Let me ask you about the role of the Kennedys in history.
BESCHLOSS: Same, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Take the long view. Be Robert Caro here, without devoting your entire life to it..
MATTHEWS: ... like Caro did to Johnson.
The Kennedy family, its contribution, your view, bottom line.
BESCHLOSS: Bottom line, contributions gave us a president who did all sorts of things for this country, too much to mention, a senator who ran for president, who would have, had he been elected, and another senator, Ted Kennedy, who served for 47 years, and was more effective than probably any senator certainly in the last century.
But, beyond that, you know, this is probably the dominant American political dynasty in history. And it's one thing that's different from all the other political dynasties, and that is that this all really came from the brain of one man, Joe Kennedy, who set out to create a dynasty. John Adams, for instance, didn't do that.
MATTHEWS: What an irony, that he created a dynasty that ended up being liberal, eh?
BESCHLOSS: Ends up being liberal, but, you know, he said to William O. Douglas, justice of the Supreme Court, you know, you're a huge liberal, and Jack is a lot more liberal than I am, but you two are the two guys I love most in public life, he said, in the 1950s. So, go figure.
MATTHEWS: Michael Beschloss, you're the greatest. Thank you so much for being up there and being with NBC at this important...
BESCHLOSS: Same to you.
MATTHEWS: ... time in our history. It's great to have a great historian aboard.
BESCHLOSS: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Thank you.
Up next: a preview of our documentary "The Kennedy Brothers," which you can watch tonight at 7:00 Eastern. It's an hour. It puts together the three brothers, Robert, and of course Jack before him, and Teddy after him, and the way they worked together, and the way they honored each other, in a way, almost making each other bigger than we—they were separately.
What a story of brotherhood, of sibling possibilities.
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MATTHEWS: Tonight, at 7:00 Eastern, as I said, watch our HARDBALL documentary. It's a big program tonight, one hour, "The Kennedy Brothers," a chronicle of the Kennedy boys, Teddy, Jack, Bobby, and the older brother, Joe Jr., who was killed in World War II.
And it features something you haven't seen elsewhere, President Kennedy in his own words, as he begins to dictate his memoirs just before he died in the presidency.
In this clip, Ted Kennedy eulogizes his brother Bobby at Saint Patrick's Cathedral, just about a block from here right now.
MATTHEWS (voice-over): Present at the hospital, the youngest Kennedy brother, Ted.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I saw him briefly, his face just contorted with grief. I have never seen a man so torn as he was that night, for all kinds of reasons.
SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY (D), MASSACHUSETTS: My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, who saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was that eulogy that turned Bobby Kennedy into the saintly liberal figure that we associate with Bobby Kennedy.
So, all along, it was Ted who was investing the Kennedy name with sort of concrete values, you know, civil rights, anti-war, health care, education. And—and that is a key to their endurance, that people consider the Kennedys to be a fixed brand name.
MATTHEWS: Of the four Kennedy brothers, Ted, the youngest, was the most connected to the others. In 1946, the family gathered in Hyannis Port to celebrate Jack's 29th birthday. When Teddy rose to speak, the 14-year-old raised his glass and said, "I would like to drink a toast to the brother who isn't here." He stunned the room into silence.
ROBERT SHRUM, FORMER ADVISER TO SENATOR TED KENNEDY: I think the three of them were not only a kind of band of brothers all their own in mythology, but in reality.
MATTHEWS: You know, tonight, as you gather around as a family, you might want to gather around and watch this program together. It's a great way to teach your own kids about what they may have missed and what you would like to remember, "The Kennedy Brothers," coming up at 7:00 Eastern.
Coming up now: much more on the life of Senator Ted Kennedy himself and the question of his successor up in Massachusetts. That's up in the air right now. Who will take Teddy's seat in the U.S. Senate? And will Massachusetts Democrats change the law to let the governor name a successor right away? We're going to look into that, because it's coming up in Massachusetts politics right now.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back.
And our great friend Mike Barnicle is now with us right now. He joins us. He's of course an MSNBC contributor. And also a great member of Congress, Bill Delahunt, my friend, is on now. He's at the Kennedy Library itself right now.
You two gentlemen know what you're talking—I want to start with Bill Delahunt, the congressman, if I could.
And you're not a member of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, sir, but what will that assembly so wonderfully, welcome, applauded by Mike Barnicle this morning, I must say, be able to do...
MATTHEWS: ... when the job seems so obvious, fill the seat of Ted Kennedy quickly? Can they do it?
REP. BILL DELAHUNT (D), MASSACHUSETTS: Well, they can do it, Chris.
Will they do it I think is—there's some uncertainty.
Clearly, there's going to be a—a public hearing. I think they will wait to see how the—the public reacts. But the question is, will Massachusetts—will they make a decision to let Massachusetts be represented in the United States Senate for five months, or will that seat just go empty, and have Massachusetts unrepresented...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DELAHUNT: ... for five months in the United States Senate? I think it's that simple.
MATTHEWS: Do they know, in Massachusetts, that they are the mascot of the far right, that there's nothing the right likes more to do than make fun of Massachusetts, the liberal—you and I know how complicated Massachusetts is, in terms of liberal, conservative, and all that.
But do they know that, if they can't do this, no one is going to believe they can fix the American health care system?
DELAHUNT: Well, you know, I—I'm of the opinion—the governor made a statement last night. In my conversations with legislative leaders, I would say, at first, they were very tentative.
But I—I see it going in that direction, where it's—it would simply be unacceptable to have, at this moment in time...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
DELAHUNT: ... the Kennedy seat to go unfilled for five months.
We're—we're going to have an election. That's the law. And whoever takes the—if there is an interim appointment, you know, that individual will be there for five months. That's it. And then whoever prevails in the election will fill the unexpired term of—of the senator.
MATTHEWS: Mike Barnicle, why is it that Massachusetts, which has the most skilled congressional delegation in the country, and has had it for years, not just Tip O'Neill, and Jack Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, but really smart people, like Delahunt, and Barney, and Ed Markey, and the rest of them, really, really good legislators—the Boston-Austin connection ran Congress for years. They knew had to do it, and has had the Great and General Court, that group of people in the Massachusetts legislature.
Why the differential? You are chuckling. You were the toughest you could be on them this morning.
MATTHEWS: Why the differential?
MIKE BARNICLE, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, you know, I think, as time has passed, I think, you know, the media business has changed. I think it's diminished. I think the business of politics certainly has changed. I think it's diminished.
I think what you have now in the Massachusetts legislature is probably not that different from a lot of other state legislatures, in that you have a group of people, perhaps as many as 75 percent of them—not all of them, but 75 percent of them, Chris—they are currently holding the best job they will ever have.
BARNICLE: Bill Delahunt just—Bill Delahunt just told you that they are waiting to hear from the public. That's what they're doing. They're sitting there in those offices...
MATTHEWS: Well, let me tell them—let me yell it—yell it loud and clear. The people want a senator to sit—to fill that seat. I mean, it doesn't take...
BARNICLE: But, Chris...
MATTHEWS: ... you know, dog years to pick that one up.
BARNICLE: Chris, you and I and Bill Delahunt, we're used to having politics participated in by professionals, people who know what the business is all about.
These people, the state reps, are sitting there. They're afraid of the telephone. It might ring.
BARNICLE: It might be a constituent. Don't answer it!
MATTHEWS: Look, it's a terrible day to be laughing. But Mr. Delahunt, Congressman, it seems to me they were playing politics a while back, five years ago. They didn't want Mitt Romney, the Republican, to pick the next senator, because they figured he might, on a million to one chance, pick someone who could win a general election.
By the way, I think that was a ridiculous worry. The state is going to elect Democratic senators. Why don't they just go along and say, OK, we were caught playing politics; now we're going to do it right?
DELAHUNT: You know, I expect that after a public hearing—because I think what they're going to hear is the public saying, listen, we don't want to be naked in the U.S. Senate. We just can't have John Kerry. We need that other vote.
And it's not just about health care, Chris. There are significant issues that will, you know, be decided over the course of the next five months. And, you know, we're competing. And Mike knows that. We're competing with other states in terms of, you know, federal dollars, and it's very real. And I'm optimistic.
MATTHEWS: Mike Barnicle—
DELAHUNT: I don't underestimate.
MATTHEWS: Let's move on. Let's not beat this dog any more than we've been beating it. You've been beating it, Michael. Let's assume they're all a bunch of nincompoops (ph). Fine, I don't do that. I wouldn't want to do that. I want to spend my summers up there. Let me ask you, Michael, this question: looking down the road, is there a likely successor to Ted Kennedy out there in the field?
They say in Massachusetts, as you know and write about it, the shape of the field determines the winner. If you look at the shape of the field now, will the attorney general, Coakley, be the next senator from Massachusetts?
BARNICLE: You know, I think she's the odds on favorite, Chris, because I think—and I don't know what Bill Delahunt thinks, and he knows more about it than I do. But I think you are going to end up with six guys and the winner, Martha Coakley, the woman.
MATTHEWS: And that is the shape of the field determining the winner, right?
BARNICLE: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: What about the theory that if five pro-choice people run and somebody runs who is not pro-choice, would that person be likely to win because of the shape of the field, or would people spot that and stop that?
BARNICLE: No, I don't think so. I think it's going to be very difficult—I think they are all going to be pro-choice. Most of the candidates who are known and have money—it's a short campaign—will be pro-choice. You will have I think probably four members of Congress, maybe three, and Martha Coakley, maybe five men all together, and Martha Coakley.
She's got money. She's got organization. She's the only candidate thus far mentioned who's gone statewide successfully. I would think that she'd be the favorite.
MATTHEWS: Mr. Delahunt, do you want to talk about this or do you want to pass?
DELAHUNT: Yes. No, I don't think the field is going to be that large. I think, in the end, there might be three candidates. And I wouldn't break it out in terms of organization. I think what you're going to—Mike alluded to the fact that the attorney general has raised money. Well, here in Massachusetts, if you have money that you raised for your state office candidacy, you can't use that in a federal contest.
So I think it's still very much in flux. It's all speculation. I think there will be a lot more clarity in about a week.
MATTHEWS: Are you in or out?
DELAHUNT: Oh, I'm out. I have no—I don't want to make a six-year commitment to anything at this point.
MATTHEWS: Well, you're a great Congressman, sir. And it's great to have you on. I wouldn't dare paint you with the brush that was used by Mike Barnicle to describe those unfortunate members of the state legislature, what we call in Massachusetts the great and general court. Sir, you are far beyond that.
DELAHUNT: I will see Barnicle on the Cape and we will have a discussion about the great and general court.
MATTHEWS: I wouldn't want to be him trying to get some help from the legislature on a local matter. Thank you, Mike Barnicle. I'll be watching you and learning from you in the days ahead. Congressman Bill Delahunt, you are my summer Congressman. Thank you, sir, so much for coming on HARDBALL.
By the way, we shouldn't be kidding about politics, and we shouldn't be kidding about a successor. But it is Massachusetts. And Ted Kennedy fully, completely understands.
Up next, what did Ted Kennedy mean to the younger generation of Americans? Let's bring in some young reporters, younger than me at least, which is not young. HARDBALL coming back. We're on the night of Ted Kennedy's—well, he's beginning to lie in state basically up at the Kennedy Library, a beautiful spot. His brother's memorial, the Kennedy Library at Columbia Point. He's there tonight. Tomorrow night, the big wake, with great speeches. And then, of course, the burial at Arlington, where he belongs next to Bobby and Jack.
I love to look up at that Eternal Flame, as I drive by every night, to see them. That's where they belong. This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: We're back right now with the politics fix, with some young folks. Ryan Lizza of the "New Yorker" and Melinda Henneberger of PoliticsDaily.com.
Melinda, you young person, you. I really have been through the
Kennedy period. I grew up with it. You folks didn't. Let me ask you this
I always get in trouble for saying I am inspired by Barack Obama, which I have been in the past, especially during his campaign. What about Ted Kennedy and you, my dear?
MELINDA HENNEBERGER, POLITICSDAILY.COM: Well, something that just—well, Ted Kennedy has been a huge inspiration to me. And just listening to the coverage over the last couple of days, one of the things that struck me the most was listening again to his fabulous 1980 convention speech. And 1980 is the year I graduated from college, so I'm not that young.
And the night of that speech, a bunch of us who had just graduated from Notre Dame, and were all going out to do a year of service work, were meeting in a Holy Cross retreat house in Colorado Springs, before we all went our separate ways to work in inner cities all over the country.
So listening to that speech that night was a hugely important, serious moment I think in all our lives, just thinking about the importance of giving back, of, you know, idealism, of that not being something to be ashamed, but that being our duty as Catholics, frankly. It was a moment that I will never forget and was really moved to see again this week.
MATTHEWS: So for all those whose cares are our concern, that got to you. And what causes were those?
HENNEBERGER: Caring for people who needed our help, thinking about other people, hanging in there when things were rough, not having it depend on whether you lost or won in the short-term.
MATTHEWS: Linda, thank you for that.
HENNEBERGER: Thanks.
MATTHEWS: Ryan, your thoughts about that, the Ted Kennedy speech. I was there at the convention hall in New York. That was one heck of a speech. In fact, we have all been quoting the end, where he says, for me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end, but for all those whose cares are our concern, the work goes on; the cause endures; the hope still lives; and the dream shall never die."
We always recall that part of it. But there were some other wonderful parts. It was very partisan. It was wonderfully funny. He talked about the elephant that tries to do hand stands ends up on its back. I never forget that word picture, as Nixon would call it, a word picture.
You have to chuckle at it because he says, when Republicans try to be tricky, they end up looking stupid. Clever, clever brilliant rhetoric. Your thoughts about Ted Kennedy, what you haven't been able to say in the last several days?
RYAN LIZZA, "THE NEW YORKER": The moment in his life that's been sort of—that I have seen in the last few days that really resonated with me, and I wasn't quite as family with before his death, is after RFK's resignation. You know, he goes into seclusion for several months. A lot of his advisers tell him, maybe you shouldn't return to politics. Maybe you should quit the Senate. Literally, being a Kennedy could be a threat to your life. You know, his three brothers are now dead.
And after several months of just thinking sort of being hidden away and thinking things through, he comes out and gives this speech in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he says, no, I'm not going to listen to those voices that tell me to just go away. I'm going to stick with this profession. I'm going to stick with public service.
It's a sort of an heroic moment in his life. A lot had been handed to him on a silver platter up to that point. But there he is saying, despite the death of now three of my brothers, I'm going to continue on, and I'm going to stick with the family business, even though it literally could be life threatening. And I found that a very poignant speech.
MATTHEWS: Well said. It was life threatening. I was at Holy Cross, now that we're comparing our Catholic upbringing with Notre Dame. I could have gone to Notre Dame. I went to Holy Cross.
Anyway, we'll be right back with Ryan Lizza and Melinda Henneberger. As we go to break, new video out right now, about just an hour ago, as the casket of Senator Kennedy is carried inside—there it is—coming into the presidential library at Columbia Point, where—what a beautiful memorial that is to his older brother, President Kennedy. It's so nautical, so much about the Navy where he served, and overlooks the sea. If you go in there, there's a view of the sea you can't believe, especially on gray days. You feel like you're at sea.
And there's Teddy coming home really to his brother's museum, where he's going to lie in state now. We're going to come right back and talk for just a bit more tonight, as this day continues.
MATTHEWS: We're back with Ryan Lizza and Melinda Henneberger, both experts now on the Kennedys. We have got the Kennedy doc coming up, about the brothers, all of them, those incredible group of men, basically, who made so much history between 1946 and 2009 now.
Melinda, your thoughts, as a young person, about the Kennedy family brand, if you will, what that name Kennedy means to your age regiment, as we would say in anthropology?
HENNEBERGER: Of course it would depend on who you're talking to. I have Republican relatives and the name Kennedy makes their blood boil. And to me that words says social justice work.
And I guess one thing that I'm going to take away from this moment is just getting to see the old lion roar again in some of those old speeches, and really hoping that somebody we may not know about who's in public life right now will sort of pick up that mantle. And we don't think it's probably going to be somebody within the Kennedy family. But there certainly is a lot going on today that requires a passionate response. So I hope we find as a result of this that there's some lion cubs in waiting ready to come out.
The other thing that has struck me over the last couple of days that is not so welcome to see is just the response of the Kennedy haters coming out in a way that you would hope would not have happened at a time like this. In response to a lot of our stories on Politics Daily, I have really been disappointed in the strength of that at a moment like that.
MATTHEWS: Thank you, Melinda. Ryan, will Teddy will on the cover of the "New Yorker" this weekend?
LIZZA: Way above my pay grade. We'll have some good coverage though.
MATTHEWS: A big night tonight. The documentary on the Kennedy brothers at 7:00. In one hour, that documentary. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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Genetic Nature of Anaplastic Breast Cancer
What is the correlation between the type of breast cancer the mother had and the type of cancer the daughter will get? In other words, am I at risk for the same exact type of cancer my mother had?
Jill E. Stopfer, MS Certified Genetic Counselor for the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Risk Evaluation Programs, responds:
To start, there is no known association between anaplastic breast cancer and BRCA or BRCA2 mutations. In general, anaplastic breast cancer is not known to occur more frequently in patients with familial breast cancer than in the general population.
Secondly, just having a mother with breast cancer does not necessarily mean you are at risk for developing an inherited breast cancer. Your personal risk for breast cancer would be affected by your mother's age of diagnosis, as well as family history of other cancers. An individualized risk assessment would shed more light on your personal risk. Also, please speak to your doctor about the appropriate screening guidelines for a person with your profile and family history.
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In 1963, when news broke that country music superstars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, along with Cline's manager Randy Hughes, had died in a tragic plane crash, radio personality Paul Harvey took to the airwaves: "Somebody will write a cow-classic about this night ride to nowhere. Because hill folks are a sentimental lot. But, the highest compliment their eulogies are likely to include is that the somber citizens who converged this day on that ugly scar in the woodland where pieces of four bodies lay, that there are real tears in their whispered words. And, that they refer to each of the suddenly deceased by his or her first name. For none of them ever thought of Randy and the Cowboy, Hawkshaw and Patsy, any other way as homefolks, kinfolks, friends."
Since hearing the news of George Jones' death, I've been reminded of Harvey's consolable words, "Homefolks, kinfolks, friends."
I don't remember anything I got that Christmas in 1995. I'm sure there was a doll and maybe even a teddy bear, but if there was that memory has fallen off the books.
What I do remember was a cassette tape – George Jones' Super Hits – given to my brother by our aunt and uncle.
We spent that Christmas night huddled around a black stereo, almost as if we were waiting for it to produce some sort of magic from its tiny black speakers.
We were just little bright-eyed country kids. We didn't know anything about sorrow, we'd never heard of white lightnin' and we weren't even sure if we'd seen a Corvette in town. But man, there was something about that voice.
"Rewind it! Play that 'Why Baby Why' song one more time!"
Stop, rewind.
Stop, rewind.
Within an hour, we had the words down pat and my brother, five years older than me, was already practicing an imitation.
As my brother and I grew, George started to drag and the tape wore out. A CD player made its way into our home and Super Hits was back – this time on compact disc.
My brother would say, "The Possum, that's what they call him." We didn't know why, but we thought that was a pretty cool nickname.
He went everywhere we went.
In the summertime, my brother would sing his songs on the tobacco setter.
In the wintertime, George would ease our minds from a stereo that hung from a nail in the barn's stripping room.
We felt like we were really ridin' in style in my brother's Chevy S-10. He'd drop me off in the middle school parking lot blaring "The Window Up Above" and I'd beam with pride as he took off for the neighboring high school.
As I began to come of age, George's music stuck with me, like an old pair of shoes his music was familiar and comfortable. Hearing his voice or seeing him on TV would bring back a flood of memories – just like the sight of homefolks, kinfolks, friends always does.
When the news broke that George Jones had died at 81-years-old Friday morning, I texted my brother: "George is gone … George was like family."
But really I gained an entire extended family that Christmas night in 1995.
In that single moment, sitting around that stereo with my big brother, I became a lifelong country music fan.
I have George Jones to thank for it.
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Ole Nilsen Ravna (1841-1906)
Ole Nilsen Ravna was born 31 October 1841 in the mountains by Karasjok in north Norway. He was a reindeer Sámi with the Sámi name Bikkan Ovlla, and he had his own reindeer flock. Nansen wanted to have two Sámi with him on his expedition over Greenland since he reckoned they would be extra well-suited to a long ski trek over snow and ice. When Ravna (with Samuel Balto) arrived in Kristiania (Oslo) after a 12-day journey from the north to meet Nansen for the first time, he described Ravna as being "an old man with long, black hair which hung down to his shoulders. He was very short and looked more like a Lapp than the younger man [Balto]".
Nansen's first impression was disappointment; he wanted a younger, unmarried man. Ravna was 46, married and had five children. This was the first time the two Sámi had travelled south of the Arctic Circle and there was no time to send them back and find replacements, so they were accepted.
Ravna was not particularly fluent in Norwegian, and when he in addition was seasick on the way to Greenland's east coast, the journey was not a good time for him. Nor was the dangerous drift on the ice floes southwards along the coast a happy experience. On the trek across Greenland's ice cap Ravna's Sámi New Testament was a great comfort to him and Balto. In addition to the difficult natural conditions that they were used to, the two Sámi were also faced with the use of snowshoes and sails on the sledges, which they met with deep scepticism. When they at last reached bare land at the western edge of the ice cap Nansen noted that "Also on Ravna's face it was at last possible to discover a happy expression, poor soul, he had many times given up hope of feeling fast ground under his feet again". During the winter 1888-89 in Godthaab Ravna was the only one of the group who did not try to learn how to paddle a kayak. All in all he was sceptical to all the new experiences and he longed to get back to the familiar landscape around Karasjok.
When Nansen's expedition arrived in Kristiania on 30 May 1889 a huge crowd stood waiting to greet them. Dietrichson asked Ravna: "Look, isn't it a great sight with all these people, Ravna?", and he answered: "Yes, nice, very nice, if they had only been reindeer".
However, Ravna's experience from Greenland cannot have been too negative since he applied to Nansen to join the Fram expedition over the Arctic Ocean in 1893. But this time he was politely refused. Ravna received a silver medal from King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway for his participation on the Greenland expedition.
Ravna was not, however, finished with arctic expeditions. In 1905, 65 years old, he went back to Greenland together with Isak Klemmetsen from Karasjok and the famous Danish arctic explorer Knud Rasmussen. The Royal Greenland Trading Company in Copenhagen wanted an analysis of the possibilities for tame reindeer farming in the area around Godthaab. On the way there Ravna and Klemmetsen were able to meet with Fridtjof Nansen in Kristiania.
Ole Ravna died on 11 August 1906 at Spierttanjárga/Sværholthalvøya, a peninsula in north Norway between Porsangerfjorden in the west and Laksefjorden in the east. He was buried in Lakselv churchyard in Porsanger. In 1909 the Norwegian Geographical Society had a memorial stone erected by the grave with the inscription:"Here lies Ravna who followed Nansen over Greenland's ice cap". Karasjok council are working in 2011 to raise a memorial to both Ravna and Balto at a central place in the town.
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Thank goodness, as my intuition matured, I had a life-changing revelation. From conversations with other healers and from working with patients I realized I was experiencing intuitive empathy: the ability to sense what's going on in others both emotionally and physically as if it were happening to me. Amazing at times, but also challenging. Let me explain the dynamics of empathy: the more people per square foot, the more our energy fields intersect--thus the tendency to become overloaded in high-density areas. This aspect of intuition is the most neglected and misunderstood.
I'm not referring to ordinary empathy--for instance, when you sympathize with a friend whose fiancee left her, or share your brother's joy on the birth of his first child. Intuitive empathy goes way beyond. It's the capacity to energetically merge with someone else and, for the moment, see life (positive and negative) through their eyes, sense the world through their feelings. If this describes you, it may be impossible to distinguish these sensations from your own, throwing you off center.
I know. I've been there. That my intuitive empathy has become a gift is mind-blowing--and a tremendous relief. Many of us never get to the good part of empathy because we're not shown how. What ails us even eludes our doctors. We go in for care, but it's like the blind leading the blind. No one know what's going on. Empaths, unintentionally, can make even a good doctor's life hell. They manifest such a barrage of "unexplained" treatment-resistant symptoms, that frustrated physicians write them off as hypochondriacs. Empaths are notoriously misdiagnosed. Patient after patient has come to me labeled "agoraphobic" or with "panic disorder," having received only minor respite from traditional treatments: valium and behavior therapy. Some were nearly house-bound. They'd all say, "I dread being in crowded places where I can't make a quick escape. Forget department stores, busy streets, elevators, tunnels. I avoid them like the plague." Sounded very familiar. So I decided to take a history of how these people processed subtle energy in the world, something all healers must be trained to assess. Voila! I found many were undiagnosed empaths. For me, this changed everything. My job then became teaching my patients to center themselves and deal with the day-to-day nuances of energy more productively.
In my workshops I always inquire, "How many of you have intuitive empathy?" It's astounding. Hands shoot up from at least a quarter of the room. Of those people, nearly everyone concurs, "I had no idea how to describe my feelings, let alone cope with them." Then they'd dangerously conclude, "I thought something was wrong with me for being 'overly sensitive'." I want to dispel such a myth, illustrate how you can positively utilize this form of intuition in daily life. From telephone calls, letters, and feedback I receive during my workshops from New York to Omaha, I've seen how widespread empathy is. How do you know if you have it? What are the signs to look for?
Intuitive Empathy quiz: Ask yourself
Tally your responses. If you've answered "yes" to one or more questions, it's likely you have experienced intuitive empathy. Responding "yes" to every question indicates empathy plays an active role in your life. If you're still unsure, take some time to notice how you relate to people one-to-one or in groups. It may require slowing such interactions down to become more aware of your style of processing energy. When learning to center yourself, this information is essential.
Here's a life-saving "Root Planting Meditation" to get your started grounding your energy. (More techniques to come in the next newsletter.)
Sitting in meditation is a life-line to your center, to the earth. By calming the mind, you can re-align with your essence. Close your eyes. Focus on your breath. Then gently extend your awareness downward to strata, bedrock, minerals, and soil. From the base of your spine begin to feel a continuity with the earth's core. Picture having a long tail that roots in that center. Allow the earth's energy to infuse your body and stabilize you. If you meditate for five minutes or an hour this is sacred time to ground yourself.
Judith Orloff, M.D is author of the new book Positive Energy: Ten Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength and Love (Harmony Books). She is also author of the bestsellers Guide to Intuitive Healing and Second Sight. She is assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and an international workshop leader. For more information visit www.drjudithorloff.com.


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ESO runs a number of attractive programmes for young and senior scientists to support doing astronomical research using ESO facilities. These programmes include studentships, postdoctoral fellowships, as well as programmes for Visitors in Garching and for Visitors in Santiago.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2013
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- Exploring Fundamental Physics with the Cosmic Microwave Background: New Results from the South Pole Telescope
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 4421 Sterling Hall
- Speaker: Bradford Benson, University of Chicago
- Abstract: The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is revolutionizing our understanding of the Universe. The CMB is the most powerful piece of evidence that we live in a geometrically flat Universe, dominated by non-baryonic cold dark matter and dark energy. Even with this basic cosmological model established, there are still many outstanding questions: What is dark energy? What are the neutrino masses? Are there missing standard model particles that we can detect cosmologically? Did Inflation happen, and what physics was responsible for it? The CMB remarkably is imprinted with information regarding each of these questions. In addition, the mm-wave CMB data is opening a new window into the extragalactic sky, simultaneously providing large catalogs of massive galaxy clusters, high-redshift lensed galaxies, and other mm-wave bright sources. I will present recent results from the South Pole Telescope, a 10-meter mm-wavelength telescope which recently completed a survey of 2500 sq. deg. of the sky with unprecedented depth and angular resolution. In particular, I will highlight SPT measurements of the CMB power spectrum, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich galaxy cluster catalog, and the cosmological implications of the SPT data, including its constraints on dark energy, the sum of the neutrino masses, and the number of relativistic particle species.
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Statement by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on President Obama's 2012 Budget
For Immediate Release: Jan. 30, 2014
Planned Parenthood Applauds Obama Administration for Defying Shortsighted Attacks on Family Planning, Moves to Maintain Full Investment in Lifesaving Title X Family Health Program
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
February 15, 2011
"Planned Parenthood applauds President Obama for calling for an increased investment today in an essential women's health care program, the national family planning program, Title X. The president's newly released budget for Fiscal Year 2012 demonstrates that this administration has the foresight to preserve programs that save money and save lives. The White House has taken a strong stand to prevent teen pregnancy through evidence-based approaches, and to sustain the nation's bedrock family planning program, Title X.
"While acknowledging that savings are necessary in the current fiscal climate, President Obama firmly defended the investments in education and family health services as keys to our country's future.
"Unlike the House Republican leadership's Continuing Resolution for the rest of Fiscal Year 2011, which Congress is debating this week, the president's budget proposes a $10 million increase to the Title X program, calling for this critical program to be funded at $327 million.
"Under the guise of deficit reduction, House Republicans are working aggressively to eliminate the Title X program, which has provided lifesaving preventive and primary care for low-income women since President Nixon signed it into law in 1970. Health centers funded through Title X save women's lives by detecting breast and cervical cancer at early stages, by offering testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, screening for high blood pressure, and providing immunizations. These clinics also prevent nearly a million unintended pregnancies every year, thus reducing the need for abortion. And family planning also saves the government money — about $3.74 for every dollar invested.
"While working to cut off funding for the Title X program, Representative Mike Pence, with the full support of Speaker John Boehner, will also offer an amendment to prohibit all Planned Parenthood health centers from receiving any federal funds for any purpose, including providing affordable cancer screenings, birth control, HIV testing, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. The new leaders of the House are pushing these dangerous proposals forward at great risk to women, and they are doing so at their own political peril.
"Some 60 percent of women who receive care in a family planning health center – like those affiliated with Planned Parenthood – say it's their main source of health care. The vast majority live at or below 150 percent of the federal poverty level, and two thirds lack health insurance. Eliminating the Title X program at a time like this would not just be shortsighted. It would be cruel.
"The administration's 2012 budget also sustains the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program at the current level of $110 million. Planned Parenthood applauds the White House for making this a priority.
"While shoring up women's health domestically, President Obama is taking important steps to sustain family planning efforts throughout the developing world. The proposed 2012 budget includes $625.6 million for the International Family Planning and Reproductive Health initiative.
"This is $35.6 million more than the president requested for Fiscal Year 2011. If fully funded, it would bring a much-needed $100.6 million increase over the amount approved for allocation this year. The President's budget includes $47 million for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a slight ($3 million) decrease from last year's request. If adopted, it would reduce actual spending by $8 million from current levels. Planned Parenthood hopes this is a temporary setback. UNFPA is a vital partner in our efforts to improve women's health around the globe."
Planned Parenthood is the nation's leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate. We believe that everyone has the right to choose when or whether to have a child, and that every child should be wanted and loved. Planned Parenthood affiliates operate more than 800 health centers nationwide, providing medical services and sexuality education for millions of women, men, and teenagers each year. We also work with allies worldwide to ensure that all women and men have the right and the means to meet their sexual and reproductive health care needs.
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STANWOOD — State health officials plan to investigate a shooting involving an 86-year-old gunman in an assisted living home in Stanwood on Monday afternoon.
The resident at Josephine Sunset Home is accused of shooting a supervisor at the home.
The victim, 59, was flown by medical helicopter to a Seattle hospital. He was reported in satisfactory condition Monday evening and was receiving treatment in the emergency room.
The shooting occurred after an argument broke out at the center, 9901 272nd Place NW, officials said.
The victim was shot in the stomach about 3 p.m., North County Regional Fire Authority battalion chief Scott Johnston said.
The medical helicopter rushed to Stanwood High School's athletic stadium around 3:25 p.m. and departed about 15 minutes later, carrying the shooting victim to Harborview Medical Center for treatment.
The suspect was taken quickly into police custody. A handgun was recovered, Snohomish County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.
"All other residents of the facility are safe and secure," she said.
The man was arrested Monday night. He was expected to be booked into Snohomish County Jail for investigation of first-degree assault.
The state Department of Social and Health Services was planning this morning to begin examining the circumstances of the shooting. The agency oversees licensing for assisted living centers.
Such centers must balance the rights of individuals with safety concerns, DSHS spokeswoman Kathy Spears said. Most do not allow firearms.
Josephine officials weren't immediately available for comment. It was unclear Monday what the policy is at Josephine, DSHS district administrator Linda Moss said.
"We will be investigating and trying to get answers," Moss said. "We will be looking at all the aspects at Josephine and see what was going on."
Moss said a shooting at an assisted-living home is rare.
Police on Monday wrapped yellow crime-scene tape around the home's front driveway. Police and fire vehicles lined the street as TV news helicopters circled overhead.
Sheriff's Major Crimes detectives were interviewing witnesses and gathering evidence.
About 90 minutes after the shooting, roughly a dozen people had gathered in a parking lot across the street, waiting for updates.
Josh Hartwig, 24, of Camano Island, was picking up his 3-year-old and 20-month-old children from a preschool nearby when he saw all the cop cars, he said.
"We ran in there and got our kids," he said. "Nobody knew (anything). It had just happened."
Josephine is the second largest employer in Stanwood and provides about 300 jobs, according to its web page. It offers many services including childcare and an early learning center, apartments for the elderly, 160 nursing home beds, hospice care and rehabilitation services.
Public safety officials quickly reassured people that no one else was hurt.
"No children were involved with this incident," said Drew Bono of the North County Regional Fire Authority.
Josephine has deep roots in the Stanwood community.
More than a century ago, John Hals built the initial Josephine Old People's Home in the midst of great loss. His young wife, Josephine Hals, died giving birth to their son. The baby died, too. His first wife, Elizabeth, and their two infants had died earlier. Hals was alone.
In his grief, he reached out.
With the fortune he'd amassed running sawmills in the Stanwood area, the Norwegian immigrant decided to build the community's first nursing home. In 1907, he donated $10,000 to the Norwegian Lutheran Church to build a care facility in Stanwood.
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Putting on Great Shows for Almost Two Decades
The old saying about practice makes perfect is a little misleading since you might neverachieve real perfection. It is true, however, that the more you do something, the better you get at it. Whether it's honing a cylinder head, pounding dents out of a fender, or putting on a car show, experience is the key. The more you have of it, the better the finished product will turn out. The MiniMadness crew, headquartered in Brandon, Florida, has gained a lot of experience over the years with the longest running, club-sponsored car and truck show in Florida. Slamfest is now in its 19th year and still drawing crowds to this cool fall get-together. The first week of October means warm weather and sunny days in central Florida. Chamber of commerce temps brought out more than 650 vehicles and a couple of thousand spectators, intent on enjoying the weekend with friends.
The biggest change this year was the new location, now held at the Alachua County Fairgrounds in Gainesville. Easy to get to and well laid out, the Fairgrounds became part of the fun, but it was just the beginning. The crowds enjoyed the cool collection of vehicles, drive-through judging expedited the awards classification, and vendors had loads of stuff for you and your truck. Lots of fun went on in the party-oriented, college town of Gainesville on Saturday night. Sunday morning activities (starting a little late to allow heads to clear) began with the famous Slamfest club games. A tradition at the event, the games are always an hour's worth of wacky fun for spectators and participants. The afternoon Miss Slamfest competition brought out a dozen Florida beauties, intent on entertaining the crowd and looking for their share of the $1,000 prize. Big prize giveaways preceded the awards ceremony where more than 100 winners took home laser-cut, powdercoated steel trophies as mementoes of the event.
Joe Cowert's dazzling 1957 Chevy 3100 captured Best of Show. Stored in a Mississippi barn for 25 years, the truck was given a complete makeover that included 2004 Silverado powertrain, airbag suspension hidden under the linear-actuated bed floor, and dozens of custom touches inside and out. Joe's truck is a former CCT feature truck, (July '09) and gets better every time we see it. If you'd like to enjoy a great collection of cars and trucks assembled in convenient central Florida, put the 2011 Slamfest on your event calendar now. Find out more at www.Minimadness.com CCT


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It's Not About You
After a particularly difficult marriage counseling session early in my first year of ministry, I called a mentor to debrief and decompress. He patiently heard me out and then offered a convicting assessment: "It sounds as if you're more concerned …Read More
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Rev. Eric Landry is founding pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA ) in Murrieta, California, and executive director for White Horse, Inc., the parent company of Modern Reformation magazine and the White Horse Inn radio broadcast.


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Plan for Contingencies
Plant in Sweet Spots
Narrow Spacing to Boost Yields
Search for the Ideal Hybrids
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Protect Your Baby Seedlings
Keep Your Corn Happy
Beat Weeds to the Punch
Defend Against Disease
Eliminate Unwelcomed Surprises
Plant Refuges for Diversification
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Cut Losses with Calcium
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By Rhonda Brooks, Farm Journal Seeds & Production Editor
Six-foot-tall corn with stunted ears was a common sight in Luke Huysman's fields during 2012 due to extreme drought conditions. In the years prior, Huysman saw the same short corn but for a different reason. The contributing problem then was compaction. Plaguing 600 to 700 corn acres, compaction was evident wherever trucks, heavily laden with manure, had traveled over the gently rolling fields.
Today, the problem is basically nonexistent on his Fabius, N.Y., farm, which includes 4,400 acres of corn and alfalfa-grass hay and a 1,400-head dairy cow operation. Huysman owns the farm with two partners.
The solution to Huysman's compaction issues was vertical tillage. The practice involves tillage that's deep enough to break up hardpans and horizontal layers.
"The ground upheaval resets the soil profile," explains Frank Mutz, Empire Tractor territory manager based in Cazenovia, N.Y.
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie adds that vertical tillage done in the fall needs to be followed with a vertical tillage leveling pass the next spring before planting in order for the practice to be effective.
Seeing is believing. To show farmers that compaction is present in their fields, Mutz likes to use a soil probe.
"A lot of farmers are in denial and tell me they don't have compaction. I tell them they're full of crap," Mutz says, with a good-natured chuckle.
The soil probe quickly determines who's right. If a horizontal layer is present, Mutz usually finds it at roughly 8" deep. He often likes to hand off the soil probe to farmers to find and feel the hardpan for themselves.
"Few corn roots are going to penetrate a hardpan," Mutz contends.
Most of his customers agree, once they see compaction for themselves. Some don't, he acknowledges, noting: "There are guys out there who won't believe it exists no matter what."
Those growers lose out on increased yield potential and, ultimately, more money in their pocket. Yield losses due to compaction in tracked areas can range between 10% and 20%, notes Mark Hanna, Iowa State University Extension agricultural engineer.
Knowing that compaction is an issue and then correcting it can boost yields. "I have one farmer who's seen a 14% increase in his corn yields," Mutz reports.
Those kinds of results convinced Mutz to start helping more of his customers implement vertical tillage. In Huysman's case, he began running a Great Plains Turbo-Chisel between 10" and 14" deep in affected fields in the fall to get below the hardpan that was present and shatter it.
"The ground isn't superdry with the manure, but we are able to get the shatter effect because the plow has shanks close together with shark-fin points on them," he explains.
Complete, full-bore shatter between the tillage tool shanks and also between passes is needed to make vertical tillage effective, according to Ferrie. He says farmers might need to make their passes closer together when using vertical tillage, especially in a dry year like this one.
"Stop equipment and dig in the soil between passes from time to time to make sure they aren't creating a ripple effect," Ferrie encourages. "If you typically make equipment passes within 24" of each other, you may need to reduce those passes to within 15" instead," he adds.
Expect to use more fuel when implementing deep tillage because the process creates more pull for the tractor, Huysman cautions.
"It requires 5 gal. more per hour when I'm crossing 12 acres an hour," he reports. The additional costs are more than offset by the yield gain.
When to wait. Ferrie notes that now is a good time for tillage, especially where compaction already exists.
"Dry soils help you get good fracture," he says. "We have some pretty good-sized basketballs out there that need to be sized down so Mother Nature can freeze and thaw them this winter and help us out."
However, Ferrie says, those farmers who have received considerable moisture lately might need to delay deep tillage until their soils dry in order to get the traction they need and the shatter they want.
Tillage in wet soils can quickly create or compound an existing compaction problem, says Randall Reeder, Ohio State University (OSU) Extension agricultural engineer emeritus.
"Compaction in wet soils destroys soil structure," he explains.
Ferrie adds that not everyone is experiencing compaction in their fields this year as a result of the drought. In Illinois, for example, collapsed soil seems to be more of a problem.
"The more clay in the soil texture, the more likely it is to collapse under drought conditions," he explains. "Farmers with sandy to sandy silt loam soils in this area, which may not have collapsed, are in pretty decent shape."
Furthermore, Ferrie says, while vertical tillage is useful to many farmers, not everyone benefits from it.
"We don't need it in a good no-till or strip-till program that has no horizontal layers," Ferrie says.
Sidestep compaction. Conservation tillage practices and traffic management need to be the main strategies to avoid soil compaction. Hanna's advice: Till only to the depth needed to break up compacted layers.
In addition, farmers need to evaluate their field operations that might have caused the compaction and attempt to avoid those practices in the future. Otherwise, soil can be recompacted to the depth of the tillage used.
OSU's Reeder is a proponent of controlled traffic and no-till practices.
"Firm, no-till soil resists compaction," he says, noting that "the first trip across loose soil with a heavy axle load usually contributes roughly 75% of the total compaction."
Regardless of the tillage practices used to eliminate compaction, the first step is to realize and accept a problem exists, says Empire Tractor's Mutz. His advice: "Invest $49 in a soil probe and take care of compaction before you lose your shorts and your yields."
Soil compaction is a problem for corn growers to varying degrees across the country, says Mark Hanna, Iowa State University Extension agricultural engineer. "The problem occurs in fields when soil aggregates and particles are compressed into a smaller volume," he explains. "As soil is compacted, the amount of open pore, or void space, decreases and the density, or weight of the soil per unit volume, increases measurably."
Soil density increases naturally with depth. "Soil below the surface is naturally more dense than the surface layer because it supports the weight of overlying material," he says. "Excessively compacted soil results in prob-lems such as poor root penetration, reduced internal soil drainage, reduced rainfall infiltration and lack of soil aeration from larger macropores." Practical information on how to identify and address compaction issues is in Hanna's recent booklet, Understanding and Managing Soil Compaction.


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The Red Wings represent the city Detroit, Michigan in the NHL and play hockey in the Central Division of the Western Conference. The Red Wings are one of the most popular and successful franchises in NHL history. A member of the "Original Six" the Red Wings have won 11 Stanley Cups in their 87-year history, more than any other team based in the United States. Their dominance hasn't ended either; in the last 28 seasons they made the playoffs 26 times, including the an NHL record 24 in a row. The Red Wings play their home games at Joe Louis Arena, also own as "The Joe" or JLA. One of the the most renowned fan traditions at JLA is the "Legend of the Octopus" and involves throwing dead octopi onto the ice, its 8 legs once symbolizing the number of playoff wins it used to take to win a Stanley Cup (two best-of-seven series). The franchise has also gained a fair share of enemies over the years, most notably with the Chicago Blackhawks and Toronto Maple Leafs. For more information on the Detroit Red Wings, visit their website at: http://redwings.nhl.com/index.html.
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