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In 2 Samuel 13:1-22, Amnon rapes his half sister Tamar. Nothing happens to him.
Men have been in the business of deciding when it is okay and when it is not okay to rape women for thousands of years. If Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's claim that women's bodies magically fend off rapist sperm or the GOP's meditation on what's really rape sound medieval to you, that's because they are. Check out our timeline of the male notions and common-law statutes that have defined rape over time, and see for yourself which eras the GOP's views on rape line up with:
Property theft: The Code of Hammurabi, one of the first sets of written laws, which dates to about 1780 BC (and contains the old "eye for an eye"), defines rape of a virgin as property damage against her father. If you were married, sorry lady: You were an adulteress. Punishment? You get thrown in the river.
Translation: Girl, you're screwed. Batigolix/FotopediaGod is a dude: Deuteronomy 22:28-29 says if you rape a virgin, you have to give her dad 50 shekels and take her to the altar.
Et tu, Roma? The Latin root raptus referred to the abduction of a woman against the will of whatever male controlled her life. What the abductor did with her was secondary.
Rape of the Sabine Women, by Giuseppe Cesari. Dirk Huijssoon/FotopediaTodd Akin, 1.0: As the Guardian recently pointed out, one of the earliest British legal texts, Fleta, which was written around 1290, laid the foundation for Akin's notion that if you get preggers, you weren't raped: "Without a woman's consent she could not conceive."
(Mississippi and) The Middle Ages: During the 13th century, the severity of punishment under Saxon law varied according to the type of woman raped—whether she was a virgin, a wife, a widow, a nun, or a whore. That's appropriately medieval. But in the United States, well into the '90s (yes, the nineteen-nineties) some states still had laws that held statutory rape wasn't rape if the woman was "impure". Mississippi was the last state to ditch such a law—in 1998. King Edward I and his wife Eleanor. From an early 14th century manuscript/Wikipedia
Pre-wave feminism: King Edward I of England was a forward-thinking chap. He enacted the landmark Statutes of Westminster at the end of the 13th century. They redefined rape as a public wrong, not just a private property battle. The legislation also cut out the virgin distinction and made consent irrelevant for girls under 12, laying the basis for the modern principle of statutory rape.
"The wife hath given up herself": In a treatise on capital crime and punishment from around 1670, English judge and lawyer Sir Matthew Hale wrote this little gem: "[T]he husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband, which she cannot retract." The law had quite a bit of traction. A man could legally rape his wife in North Carolina until 1993.
If you were brown: It didn't count, whether you were a slave or a "savage." And after abolition, the white legal establishment pretty much ignored rape against black women.
Rape to prove rape: Men in common law courts in the 18th and 19th centuries had a bit of trouble agreeing on how much proof a woman had to give to show she wasn't lying. Some said the hymen had to be broken. Some said she had to provide evidence of semen. Virginity test, anyone?
Egyptian women protest the ruling military council's "virginity tests" in December 2011. Ayman Mose/ZUMA Press"Absolute rape," kind of like "legitimate rape": English physician Samuel Farr was pretty certain women couldn't get pregnant without an orgasm. The Guardian quotes the mansplanation from his 1814 Elements of Medical Jurisprudence: "For without an excitation of lust, or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place. So that if an absolute rape were to be perpetrated, it is not likely she would become pregnant."
You can't thread a moving needle: Or: If you don't squirm a lot, it's not rape. Dr. Lawson Tait, an eminent 19th century gynecologist and medical officer who helped police with criminal investigations, was "perfectly satisfied that no man can effect a felonious purpose on a woman in possession of her sense without her consent." Said he: "You cannot thread a moving needle."
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The FBI calls rape by its name: As the Post's Gerhart explains, the federal government used the "rather prim euphemism, 'indecent assault,' a phrase that seems as linguistically tortured as 'legitimate rape,' from the 17th century until 1929, when the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program renamed it like this: "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will." That definition was still totally 17th century, btw.
Lady rules: Feminists had been fighting to raise the statutory rape age in states since the 1890s (in response, some legislators proposed raising the age of consent to 81). Nonwhite feminists had been fighting for equal treatment under the law. Second wavers gave the movement another push, demanding a range of other expansions to make the definition of rape gender neutral, include date rape, and scrap medieval marital exceptions and virginity requirements.
Sue Lyon in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 Lolita. Zellaby/Fotopedia83 years later: January of 2012: that's when the FBI decided to update its definition of forcible rape. As Kate Sheppard pointed out last year, the year 1929 "was quite a while ago—before the Great Depression, before Mickey Mouse, and before the Empire State Building, to name a few. It was also before roofies had been invented and before date or partner rape were even concepts." The new, expanded definition includes other forms of sexual assault, other genders, and instances where the "victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity, including due to the influence of drugs or alcohol or because of age."
Backward, ho!: Last year, House Republicans pushed to limit taxpayer funding of abortions by excluding non-"forcible" rapes from federal abortion funding. Their plan failed. But the Republican war on women was just starting to heat up.
Johnny Andrews/ZUMA Press"Legitimate rape": "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." Or, as Urban Dictionary puts it: "Rape between one man and one woman who are not married or even acquainted; the only rape sanctioned by the Republican Party."
Mark FollmanAug. 24, 2012 6:17 PM
Update, December 16, 2012: In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, a story from the Associated Press suggested that mass shootings have not increased in the United States in recent years. But the AP cited research that uses broader criteria than the criteria we used for our investigation, which found an increase. Here is our approach, explained:
What is a mass shooting?
Broadly speaking, the term refers to an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence. But there is no official set of criteria or definition for a mass shooting, according to criminology experts and FBI officials who have spoken with Mother Jones.
Tragedy in Newtown
See our full special report on gun laws and the rise of mass shootings in America.
Generally, there are three terms you'll see to describe a perpetrator of this type of gun violence: mass murderer, spree killer, or serial killer. An FBI crime classification report from 2005 identifies an individual as a mass murderer if he kills four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), typically in a single location. (The baseline of four fatalities is key—more on that just below.)
The primary distinction between a mass murderer and a spree killer, according to the FBI, is that the latter strikes in multiple locations, though still in a relatively short time frame. The third type, a serial killer, is distinguished by striking over a longer time frame, in multiple locations, with opportunity for what the FBI report refers to as "cooling-off periods" in between attacks.
How often do mass shootings occur?
Beginning in July, after the movie theater slaughter in Aurora, Colorado, we documented and analyzed 62 mass shootings from the last 30 years. As we delved into the research, we realized that robust data on this subject was hard to come by, in part due to the lack of clear criteria. We were focused on the question of how many times Aurora-like events had actually happened. We honed our criteria accordingly:
The traumatic events included in our guide to mass shootings are the kind that tend to grab national attention—school and workplace shootings, attacks in shopping malls or government buildings—but they represent only a sliver of America's gun violence, which results in approximately 30,000 deaths annually.
Interactive guide: 30 Years of Mass Shootings in America.
Since the 1980s, the baseline of four fatalities has generally been used for studying mass murder, according to Professor James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, who has written multiple books on the subject. But as Fox agreed when we spoke, while that number may seem to make some sense intuitively, there is nonetheless something coldly arbitrary about it. Was it not a "mass shooting" in 2008, for example, when a man walked into a church in Tennessee and opened fire with a shotgun, killing two and injuring seven? Dropping the number of fatalities by just one, or including motives of armed robbery, gang violence, or domestic violence, would add many, many more cases to the list.
According to a recent report in Time magazine (available only to subscribers, and whose criteria is unclear), there've been "nearly 20 mass shootings" every year on average during the last three and a half decades.
Why didn't you include the infamous DC Beltway sniper attacks on your mass shootings map?
We've been asked this question numerous times. The man who killed 10 and wounded 3 others a decade ago (along with a young accomplice) was a serial killer: He committed multiple attacks over several weeks, in different locations. It was a particularly tense time for people living in the DC metro area—the shooter "terrorized our neighborhood," as one person wrote to me in an email—but the case did not fit the criteria described above.
Is Mother Jones focusing on this stuff as part of a conspiracy to take away Americans' gun rights?
No. One of our lead reporters on this beat, Adam Weinstein, who covered the Trayvon Martin killing and investigated how the National Rifle Association helped spread "Stand Your Ground" laws nationwide, is a Navy veteran and third-generation gun owner. We're happy for him to hang onto his guns. Multiple other Mother Jones staffers are experienced with guns.
The debate over guns in the United States is extremely contentious and polarizing, and we think that the more reporting and clear data there is available about guns, the better. That mass shootings keep happening is an undeniable fact. Why they do, and how to stop them, is a matter for further investigation.
Update, January 8, 2013: Where can I learn more about MoJo's investigation?
See our recently published America Under the Gun: a Special Report on gun laws and the rise of mass shootings, which contains interactive maps, charts, and dozens of stories from over the last year.
Nick BaumannAug. 24, 2012 5:05 PM
The Weekly Standard's John McCormack says the New York Times is being unfair to Paul Ryan—and he says it's all my fault.
What McCormack is objecting to is a line in a recent Times article noting that Ryan had co-sponsored a bill that tried to "restrict the definition of rape." He says this phrase is imprecise and gives readers the wrong impression of what Ryan and the House GOP were actually trying to do. The bill in question, H.R. 3, the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," passed the House in May 2011 and was supported by Ryan and most House Republicans. It was a grab-bag of abortion foes' favorite proposals. The most controversial measure would have limited the types of rapes that would be eligible for federal abortion funding, changing the guideline from "rape" to "forcible rape." The bill would have also eliminated federal abortion funding for victims of incest who were over 18. Both changes were removed from the bill after a national outcry.
McCormack blames me for giving the Times—and other oulets—a false impression of what the "forcible rape" language would do. In January 2011, I broke the news about the forcible rape language and reported, based on interviews with experts (including a former federal prosecutor), that many kinds of rapes—including drug- and alcohol-aided rapes—could be excluded from the "forcible rape" definition. McCormack says that's "blatantly untrue." He says the "forcible rape" language in H.R. 3 would merely have excluded funding for abortions in cases of statutory rape—which, he goes on to claim, is probably what existing law says anyway. As evidence, he notes that the 2004 edition of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook requires that attempts to use date-rape drugs to rape someone be classified as forcible rape attempts. He says this makes it clear that drug- and alcohol-aided rapes (in which the victim is incapable of consenting) would still have been eligible for abortion funding if H.R. 3 became law.
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Adam WeinsteinAug. 24, 2012 4:18 PM
When Mitt Romney had his birther moment this morning, some defenders tried an age-old tactic to shift attention off the candidate's remarks: react to the reaction to the remarks. In this case, the conservatives in question worked at Michelle Malkin's website, the Twitchy, and their outrage was directed at a hashtag meme that had taken off on Twitter:
When you've been dealt a bad hand, you can still play the race card. At least that's the strategy liberals subscribe to. After Mitt Romney cracked a birth certificate joke earlier today, the Left experienced nothing short of a major meltdown. Bereft of any rational thought, they decided to birth a ludicrous hashtag game, #FutureMittJokes.
When you've been dealt a bad hand, you can still play the race card. At least that's the strategy liberals subscribe to. After Mitt Romney cracked a birth certificate joke earlier today, the Left experienced nothing short of a major meltdown. Bereft of any rational thought, they decided to birth a ludicrous hashtag game, #FutureMittJokes.
Actually, Twitchers, there's no need to blame liberals for spotlighting the presidential candidate's racial blindspot with some pointed tweets: You can just blame us. #FutureMittJokes was the brainchild of MoJo's Adam Serwer, who spontaneously tweeted:
Maybe Mitt could weave some more jokes about being a white dude who doesn't face racist assumptions into his stump speech.
— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) August 24, 2012
Maybe Mitt could weave some more jokes about being a white dude who doesn't face racist assumptions into his stump speech.
He got it warmed up with:
"I never get stopped and frisked in New York City either." #futuremittjokes
— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) August 24, 2012
"I never get stopped and frisked in New York City either." #futuremittjokes
From there, it just sort of took off. With writers from:
The American Prospect:
"No one has ever left a noose on my door!" #futuremittjokes
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 24, 2012
"No one has ever left a noose on my door!" #futuremittjokes
Everyone assumes I earned my college diploma. #futuremittjokes
— attackerman (@attackerman) August 24, 2012
Everyone assumes I earned my college diploma. #futuremittjokes
im white im white im white im white hahahaha *points at skin* the other guy is black #futuremittjokes
— max read (@max_read) August 24, 2012
im white im white im white im white hahahaha *points at skin* the other guy is black #futuremittjokes
Here's my personal favorite, because it sounds like the kind of joke I could really hear Romney saying:
#futuremittjokes Birther? I don't even know her!
— Katie Halper (@kthalps) August 24, 2012
#futuremittjokes Birther? I don't even know her!
So, yeah, we built that. (We can take no credit, however, for American Bridge, a liberal-connected super PAC, taking the ball and sticking one of their campaign plugs on the hashtag's search page as a "sponsored tweet." Way to piggyback on a good thing, dudes.)
Apparently, this is all outrageous! and shocking! to conservatives—who, as quick as they were to condemn Rep. Todd Akin's luddite notions of female assault and reproduction earlier this week, quietly dismissed Romney's birther shoutout as a cute, banal, not-at-all-racially-coded joke. Apparently the only thing that's more offensive than racial pandering is being accused of racial pandering. "Those are fighting tweets, sir!"
But, whoops, a couple folks didn't get the memo and tried to highjack the hashtag and use it to dump some anti-Obama barbs:
@justplainbill#FutureMittJokes I hear now that Obama's out of office he's going to be on a sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers".
— Mike Barr (@maxnrgmike) August 24, 2012
@justplainbill#FutureMittJokes I hear now that Obama's out of office he's going to be on a sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers".
I like dogs, but I don't think I could eat a whole one. #futuremittjokes #obamajokes
— Corr Comm (@corrcomm) August 24, 2012
I like dogs, but I don't think I could eat a whole one. #futuremittjokes #obamajokes
@aggedor_hobbit #FutureMittJokes Guy came up to me & said he hadn't had a bite in 3 days, so I got him a dog costume and Obama bit him.
— JLThorpe (@JLThorpe) August 24, 2012
@aggedor_hobbit #FutureMittJokes Guy came up to me & said he hadn't had a bite in 3 days, so I got him a dog costume and Obama bit him.
"Pretty sure that's a win, right there," the Twitchy's anonymous blogger wrote of the attempted highjacking. Hmm... Depends on what your definition of "win" is.
Asawin SuebsaengAug. 24, 2012 4:11 PM
UPDATE (Friday August 24, 5:33 p.m. EDT): Rep. Todd Akin took five press questions. Nothing has changed, he is still in the race, and his family is still running his Senate campaign. That was fun, guys. Happy Friday.
On Friday afternoon, embattled Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) announced that he is holding a press conference at 5:15 p.m. EDT.
After stepping into some mess with his strange account of female reproduction, Akin missed the first deadline earlier this week to drop out of his Missouri Senate race against Democrat Claire McCaskill, and vowed to fight on—even after the GOP money machine choked off financial support to his campaign. At the moment, it appears as though this presser is designed to remind reporters of the candidate's audacity:
BREAKING: Akin will be reiterating he's STAYING IN the race at the presser, per source close to congressman.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 24, 2012
BREAKING: Akin will be reiterating he's STAYING IN the race at the presser, per source close to congressman.
In other news:
Akin has been under fire from scores of liberals and conservatives after he posited last weekend that female victims of "legitimate rape" are unlikely to become pregnant.
On Friday afternoon, shortly before his planned press conference, his campaign changed his Facebook banner to: "WE PROVED THE PARTY BOSSES WRONG":
We will update this post after his planned statements, and as new information flows in.
Adam SerwerAug. 24, 2012 3:46 PM
Mitt Romney made a birther joke.
"Now I love being home, in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born," Romney told a campaign rally in Michigan. "Ann was born at Henry Ford Hospital I was born at Harper Hospital. No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate they know that this is the place we were born and raised." The crowd at first laughed, then cheered. Here's the video:
Romney is not himself a birther. He was engaging in ironic post-birtherism—showing solidarity with birthers by making a humorous remark that can be plausibly denied as a joke later. This is a necessary device for a Republican politician who wants to rile up the base without seeming like a lunatic, because the belief that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States is still held by nearly half of self-identified Republicans even after the very public release of the president's birth certificate. Birtherism remains the most frank and widespread evidence of racial animus among some of the president's critics. As Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in The Atlantic this month, the birthers, strapped in their waxen wings, aim for nothing less than the sun: "If Obama is not truly American, then America has still never had a black president."
The Romney campaign, for its part, has denied that their candidate intentionally offered a nod to birtherism. Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden told Buzzfeed that Romney "was only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised." So in case the audience didn't understand that Romney was born in Michigan when he said he was born there and named the hospital he was born in, Romney just thought he'd tell them that no one's asked to see his birth certificate.
Romney's claim about never having been asked for his birth certificate is almost certainly false. Romney holds a US passport, and for a first time applicant naming the hospital where you were born will not suffice. It's far-fetched to imagine Romney did not intend to reference birtherism, especially given his embrace of political allies (such as Donald Trump) who have expressed sympathy for it.
I suspect many Republicans who continue to subscribe to the birther lunacy do so because it bothers liberals and because it's an act of symbolic defiance of a president they dislike. The problem with birtherism, however, is that the underlying assumptions driving it have always been broader than the president. Birtherism is more than just a conspiracy theory about the president's birth. Its underlying principle is a rejection of American racial pluralism. The refusal to believe—in the face of all evidence to the contrary—that Obama is an American reads to many as saying black people don't really count as American unless they talk like Herman Cain or Allen West.
That's the problem with Romney's "joke," too. It falls into a long list of remarks that suggest an emotional myopia based on an extremely sheltered life experience. It comes across as gloating about the fact that, as a rich white man born into a wealthy and powerful family, Romney has rarely been subject to the kind of racist or sexist assumptions that clog the daily lives of millions of Americans. Romney might as well joke that he's never been mistaken for a waiter in a restaurant or a clerk in a retail store, or that he's never been selected for extra screening at an airport or randomly told to empty his pockets by the NYPD. The reason Romney doesn't have to show the country his papers isn't because everyone knows he was born in Michigan. It's because whiteness remains unquestionably "American" for some people in a way blackness does not. That should not be a point of pride for Romney; it should be a matter of anger and disappointment.
Dana LiebelsonAug. 24, 2012 2:31 PM
Critics are jumping all over Mitt Romney's Michigan stump-speech birther "joke" as if it's the first unguided missile that ever left the Republican presidential candidate's mouth. But Romney has a long history of campaign-trail remarks that have left listeners wondering if he's from another planet. Here are five of dumbest:
He said what? "I love being home, in this place where Ann and I were raised. Where both of us were born...No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know this is the place where we were born and raised."
Why was it dumb? Nothing will make campaign journalists drool all over their keyboards in excitement like a joke referencing the birther movement.
He said what? "I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall, handsome, great big guy...I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport. His business is caring for seniors."
Why was it dumb? Besides the fact that this story is one phrase ("and then I found $10") away from something your senile great aunt might say, Romney's anachronistic use of "sport" makes little sense. In American English, "sports" replaced the use of "sport" in the mid-20th century. Is this something Romney picked up from the French?
He said what? Asked if he followed NASCAR racing, he replied: "Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners."
Why was it dumb? The reporter gave Romney an easy opportunity to relate to sports fans. But Romney inadvertently took the chance to remind his constituents that they are not like him. As The Nation's Ari Melber tweeted in parody: "Do I like movies? Well I have some friends that own movie companies..."
He said what? "Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually."
Why was it dumb? Romney was trying to show Detroit that his connections to Michigan run deep, and he drives American cars. Instead, Romney told a city that has faced decades of hard times that he and his wife, Ann, roll in luxury—two deep.
He said what? "It seems right here, the trees are the right height...I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. There's something very special here."
Why was it dumb? Romney is doing his darndest to show enthusiasm for his native Michigan, but something about the phrasing seems a bit off. Maybe it's the fact that he sounds like he could be a character in the movie Anchorman ("Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it?") Or maybe it's because Romney has actually used this lame speech multiple times on the trail.
Aug. 24, 2012 11:41 AM
U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), replace their targets after conducting a multiple target, live-fire range on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7, at an undisclosed location, Aug. 19, 2012.) DoD photo by Gunnery Sgt. Chad R. Kiehl, U.S. Marine Corps.
Gavin AronsenAug. 24, 2012 6:01 AM
A quick look at the week that was in the world of political dark money...
"He's not going to get grassroots support from individuals; I don't think he'll get organized support by the party or 501(c)(4)s and I don't know how you survive without that kind of support."
—Republican operative Bradley Blakeman, expressing skepticism about Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) chances at unseating Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill after his comment that victims of "legitimate rape" aren't likely to become pregnant. Groups including Karl Rove's dark-money Crossroads GPS have pulled their ads from the race (for now).
The liberal nonprofit Patriot Majority USA dropped $500,000 on an ad campaign targeting Charles and David Koch for attempting to "buy this year's elections and advance their agenda." But two can play the dark-money game: The web of groups collectively referred to as Patriot Majority has disclosed its mostly union and Democratic bigwig donors since 2006, but Patriot Majority USA doesn't plan to.
7 percent: The amount of television stations' revenues that may come from political ads, thanks to super-PACs and nonprofit groups, according to Moody's. TV stations are required to give discounted rates to campaigns, but those rules don't apply for outside spending groups. "It's like Christmas in September for broadcasters. And October," David Keating, head of the pro-Citizens United group Center for Competitive Politics, told Politico.
Between 2011 and this July, conservative super-PACs have spent $137.1 million, four times the $33.1 million spent by their liberal counterparts. The Center for Responsive Politics charted this year's numbers:
• Super-PAC Cash Still Favors GOP: Conservative super-PACs continue to dominate their liberal rivals in the latest round of fundraising.
• GOP Money Machine Choking Off Support For Rep. Todd Akin: Both Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS and the GOP's main Senate committee are ending ad support for Akin.
• Lefty Dark-Money Group Drops $500K Attacking The Koch Brothers: Patriot Majority, a liberal nonprofit group, says its new ads are the opening shots of a sustained anti-Koch campaign.
• An exhaustive account of how nonprofits claiming to be social welfare groups are pouring millions of dollars into the 2012 election. ProPublica
• No one seems to be taking the rule banning campaigns from coordinating with outside spending groups too seriously. Politico
• While his brothers were off playing the dark-money game, Bill Koch built himself a private Old West town. Denver Post
Asawin SuebsaengAug. 24, 2012 6:00 AM
Summer is on its way out. The class of 2016 is shipping out, all the good summer movies seem a distant memory, and the NFL is only in preseason. At this point, you might even be gearing up to live-tweet and intensely hate-watch media coverage of the 2012 Republican and Democratic national conventions.
While you're waiting, here's a rundown of some numbers to know for the nominating conventions in Tampa and Charlotte:
50,000: The number of people (media, delegates, attendees, merchants, etc.) expected to take part in the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, between August 27 and 30. (Around thirty-two percent of attendees will be journalists; 4.6 percent will be actual delegates.)
35,000: The number of people expected to take part in the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, between September 4 and 6. (Forty-three percent journalists, 16 percent delegates.)
670,000: The number of square feet that make up the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the convention site where Mitt Romney will be delivering his acceptance speech.
The Tampa Bay Times Forum Christopher Hollis/Wdwic Pictures/Wikimedia Commons1,600,000: The number of square feet that make up Bank of America Stadium (a.k.a., "Panthers Stadium," on the night the president is speaking), where Barack Obama will be delivering his acceptance speech.
Bank of America Stadium UCinternational/Wikimedia Commons
346,037: The population of Tampa.
751,087: The population of Charlotte.
$2,000,000: The amount spent by the Tampa Police Department on 60 new surveillance cameras, all of which are installed downtown.
$765,795: The amount spent by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department on security software and a "command center upgrade."
15,000: The number of protesters expected to show up at the Tampa convention site.
10,000: The number of protesters expected to show up at the Charlotte convention site.
$136,000,000: The total amount of cash the two parties have received in public funding for convention security and other expenses.
$175,000,000: Amount of money projected to flow into the local Tampa economy as a result of the four-day-long Republican convention.
$150,000,000: Amount of money projected flow into the local Charlotte economy as a result of the three-day-long Democratic convention.
$55,000,000: The fundraising dollars the Republican host committee expects to haul in during the four days in Tampa.
$36,600,000: The fundraising dollars the Democratic host committee hopes to achieve in the three days in Charlotte. (They likely won't.)
$0: The convention funds Democrats have raised from corporate donors. (This isn't a #fail, per se; it's intentional.)
33: The percentage of registered voters who identify as Republicans in Hillsborough County, where the city of Tampa is located.
45.2: The percentage of registered voters who identify as Democrats in Mecklenburg County, where the city of Charlotte is located.
Via Ruth's List Florida
49: The age of the Republican keynote speaker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, at the time of the 2012 convention.
David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons37: The age of the Democratic keynote speaker, San Antonio mayor Julián Castro, at the time of the 2012 convention.
Jamesgatz/Wikimedia Commons20: The number of strip clubs in Tampa.
12: The number of strip clubs in Charlotte.
A CAGILLION BAGILLION: The estimated number of highly predictable stories published by various news outlets over the past three months on what the Republican and Democratic national conventions mean for their respective host town's stripper revenue.
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It's the unremarkable things that often make a live concert legendary, writes Patrick Donovan.
Standing stage-side as wild man Iggy Pop brought in the new year of 1998 at the Falls Festival in the hills at the back of Lorne was the best show I have experienced.
Part of that thrill came from having co-managed the tour for Iggy, his family and band for the preceding week, and seeing him transform from mellow elder statesman of rock, thrilled at discovering old-timers rolling their arms under on the lawn-bowls green adjacent to his hotel room, to primal party animal inviting dozens of rabid fans to invade his stage.
But I would be prepared to instantly age another 20 years and forgo my Australian citizenship to have been in the audience at the Cincinnati Pop Festival in 1970, when the young and buffed Iggy stepped off the stage and rode across the assembled throng on to a sea of hands, having first covered himself in peanut butter, while his band the Stooges cranked out a gnarly metallic rhythm reminiscent of cars being eaten by a Detroit car-processing plant.
What factors go into making a legendary gig? In Iggy's case, it was power, danger spontaneity, and a sense of occasion. Other factors include the venue, the quality of the sound mix, your expectations plus those of the mates you're with, your (and the band's) state of sobriety (or otherwise), and retrospective feelings of nostalgia.
For some, nothing beats securing good seats with an uninhibited view of the stage. But often the most memorable gigs are not seen, but experienced, flailing about or grooving along with loved ones or strangers. The best sets I saw the Stones and Bob Dylan play were at the Rod Laver Arena with a great view of the performance, but they didn't make my top 10 gigs.
The Stones at the Enmore Theatre (10 rows from the front, on the dance floor, when AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young joined them on stage for a blues jam), and Dylan at the Mercury Lounge, were crowded and uncomfortable and most people queued for hours to get in, but they were once-in-a-lifetime experiences. It's certainly sexier dancing to the Stones' R&B romp Midnight Rambler in a mosh pit, but they'll throw you out for doing that at the Rod Laver Arena.
Even better still, I imagine, would have been to see the Stones in their prime with an awesome support: at Royal Albert Hall with the Beatles in 1964; the Rock 'n' Roll Circus extravaganza; when they supported Little Richard in 1963, or perhaps the ultimate - when Stevie Wonder supported the Stones on their Exile on Main Street tour.
But there's no doubt some gigs look better on paper than in reality.
The Bob Marley and the Wailers/Sly and the Family Stone US tour sounds like a groover's dream, but reports suggest there was tension in the air as coked-up funk fans heckled the Jamaicans to speed up the tempo.
On paper, the recent Nick Cave/Cat Power tour looked like it might make my Top 10 gig list, but the venues weren't quite right, Cave's gospel singers didn't sound as good live as they did on the album, and Cat Power, who has an aversion to crowds and lights, was not the right choice for support.
I still rate the Seeds show at the Collingwood Town Hall, around Henry's Dream time, as their best gig that I have seen.
Australian rock traditionally lends itself to wild, dangerous, passionate performances - often in a crowded, sweaty pub with the possibility that deranged singers could throw themselves at you at any moment.
Midnight Oil, the Beasts of Bourbon, Cold Chisel, the Powdermonkeys, the Eastern Dark, and X have all played such shows, while the Drones and the Darling Downs are two bands on the circuit that provide regular, thrilling moments of transcendence.
Some of the best shows are enhanced by the relaxed vibe of a festival. The cumulative effect of catching Soundgarden, the Ramones, Bjork, Smashing Pumpkins, Teenage Fanclub and the Breeders at the 1994 Big Day Out; or James Brown, Dr John, Steve Earle, Solomon Burke, Pharoah Sanders, the Black Keys, Toots and the Maytals and Burning Spear at last year's Bluesfest, is almost overwhelming.
But nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. It's easy to assume that gen Xers and Ys have missed the boat. But were the 1960s and '70s really that good? Or are they just recalled through smudged, rose-coloured glasses?
Our generation certainly adds to the mystique as we pass on stories we have heard about AC/DC playing at your uncle's Glen Waverley school dance, Led Zeppelin at Kooyong or crazed shows by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band and Frank Zappa and the Mothers.
There are few contemporary acts in my wish list, but it's because most of them have toured Australia recently.
And there have been a handful of gigs in the past few years - Nick Cave, Gillian Welch, Neil Young, George Clinton - that people swear changed their lives.
Of the current crop, Outkast would have been a mind-blowing experience, and the longer Lucinda Williams puts off touring Australia again, and the more I listen to her wild live album recorded at San Francisco's Fillmore Theatre, the more I long to see her perform.
It would have been thrilling to see train-wreck acts such as New Order when they were young and reckless, but reports suggest they are playing the best gigs of their lives into their 40s and 50s, now they are sober, can remember their songs and can stand up for more than 45 minutes at a time.
Considering the tyranny of distance, it's amazing that Australia can attract so many big names on tour. But sometimes Australia's geographical isolation can have a negative impact on a show.
At 2003's bluesfest, Buddy Guy refused to play his recent songs, assuming that a blues-ignorant Australian crowd would prefer hearing his impressions of Hendrix and B.B. King. (But blues fans still talk about Guy's show at Richmond's Old Greek Theatre in 1987, when his scintillating, other-worldly guitar playing sounded like what you imagine Jimi Hendrix would have sounded like were he alive today.)
We will never have the chance to see the types of shows that happen when musicians come together in musical hubs such as London or New York.
Several weeks ago I was in London when Patti Smith curated the Meltdown Festival, which culminated in a re-creation of her classic album Horses with the Velvet Underground's John Cale, plus a tribute to Jimi Hendrix and William Blake with Jeff Beck, Flea and Joanna Newsom.
I also saw Television, who have never played in Australia. But watch out for expectations - my fear before the gig was of having to ask for my money back if they didn't play their 10-minute epic Marquee Moon.
Sticky's top 10 gigs:
1. Iggy Pop at the Falls Festival, 1998
2. The Rolling Stones at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney, 2003
3. Bob Dylan at the Mercury Lounge, 1998
4. Gillian Welch and David Rawlins at the Forum, 2004
5. Neil Young at Myer Music Bowl, 2003
6. Funkadelic at the Metro, 2002
7. Beastie Boys and Helmet at Festival Hall, 1994
8. Ministry at Big Day Out, 1995
9. Dirty Three at Meredith Music Festival, 2004.
10. Dead Moon and the Powdermonkeys at the Corner, 2003
Sticky's gig wish list:
· Iggy and the Stooges at the Cincinnati Pop Festival,
· Rock'n'Roll Circus, 1968
· The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, 1964
· James Brown at the Apollo Theatre, 1962
· Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, 1968
· Elvis comeback tour, 1968
· Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, 1969
· Nina Simone at Freddie Jett's Pied Piper club, 1969
· Houndog Taylor at Florence's Lounge, Chicago, 1970
· John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Austin, Texas, 1972
· Led Zeppelin at Kooyong, 1972
· Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour, 1973
· The Clash supporting the Sex Pistols, 1976
· Bob Marley and the Wailers and Sly and the Family Stone US tour, 1975
· Sex Pistols last show, Winterland, 1978
· The Clash's first US show, Berkeley Community Theatre, 1979, with Bo Diddley opening
· Black Flag at Mabuhay Gardens, 1980
· AC/DC, Myer Music Bowl, 1981
· Cold Chisel at Mawson, near Swansea.
· Toots and the Maytals with the Ramones, plus Michael Winslow from Police Academy as MC, doing Led Zep and reggae impressions in New York, circa 1980
· Nirvana supporting Sonic Youth in 1991
· Outkast, Atlanta, 2004
· Lucinda Williams at the Fillmore, 2004.
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The Red Sox will close out their three-game series in Minnesota on Thursday afternoon with Clay Buchholz taking the mound against Phil Hughes.
Buchholz (2-3, 6.44 ERA) appeared as if he was finally returning to form this season after consecutive wins, including a one-run effort against Oakland on May 2 in which he allowed three hits and three walks with five strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings of work, but he followed it up with a clunker in Texas last Friday. Buchholz allowed six runs on 10 hits and a pair of walks to go with three strikeouts in an 8-0 Red Sox loss that was dominated by Rangers starter Yu Darvish's near-perfect game.
"There were pitches up in the strike zone that they did a good job of staying through the middle of the field," Red Sox manager John Farrell said of Buchholz after the game. "A number of base hits up the middle, they were able to bunch them, and then in the five-run fifth things got away from us."
Buchholz will look for another bounceback effort against a Twins team he hasn't lost to since 2008 — his first full season in the majors. The right-hander is 3-1 with a 4.22 ERA lifetime against the Twins, and took a no-decision in both starts against the Twins last season, both of which came in Red Sox wins. His most recent outing in Minnesota came on May 17, 2013, when he gave up two runs on four hits and three walks, while striking out nine batters.
Buchholz could be in for trouble against Twins sluggers Joe Mauer and Kurt Suzuki. Mauer is batting .385 in 15 career plate appearances against Buchholz, while Suzuki's six hits and two RBIs has him at .500 lifetime against the righty in 12 plate appearances.
Hughes has had plenty of experience pitching against the Red Sox after seven seasons with the Yankees, but Thursday will mark his first appearance against the Sox as a member of the Twins.
Hughes's time with the Yankees wasn't always memorable, as the righty finished his stint in the Bronx with a 56-50 record and a 4.53 ERA, diminished by a 4-14 mark in 2013 in 145 2/3 innings pitched.
However, a change of scenery has appeared to inject new life into the 27-year-old's career. Hughes has won his last four starts to improve his record to 4-1 with a 3.92 ERA and a WHIP of 1.28, going at least six innings in those outings. In his most recent start on May 9, Hughes tossed an eight-hit, no-walk shutout in seven innings of work to go with three strikeouts in a 2-1 Twins victory over Justin Verlander and the Tigers.
"They weren't all strikes in the zone. They were hacking," Hughes said after the game. "When you're around the plate and pop a fastball up every now and then, they're going to be aggressive and swinging at it. That's kind of what I am. Sometimes it hurts me a little bit if I'm around the plate too much, but when I have good stuff, it's usually all right."
Hughes would like to turn around his career numbers against the Red Sox now that he has a different uniform. He's 5-7 with a 5.70 ERA in 22 appearances against the Sox, and has had particular troubles against David Ortiz. Ortiz has a .409 batting average in 27 plate appearances against Hughes, with nine hits, two home runs, three doubles, seven RBIs and four walks. But Ortiz also has struck out five times against Hughes. Mike Napoli (.556) and Mike Carp (.500) also have had success against Hughes in nine and 13 plate appearances, respectively.
Red Sox vs. Hughes (RHP)
Dustin Pedroia (30 plate appearances): 286 AVG/.333 OBP/.643 SLG, 3 HR, 1 double, 9 RBIs, 2 walks, 4 strikeouts
David Ortiz (27): .409/.481/.818, 2 HR, 3 doubles, 7 RBIs, 4 walks, 5 strikeouts
A.J. Pierzynski (18): .167/.167/.167, 2 strikeouts
Mike Carp (13): .500/.615/.900, 1 HR, 1 double, 2 RBIs, 3 walks, 2 strikeouts
Mike Napoli (9): .556/.556/1.222, 2 HR, 6 RBIs, 3 strikeouts
Grady Sizemore (6): .000/.000/.000
Will Middlebrooks (4): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout
Jonny Gomes (3): .000/.000/.000, 3 strikeouts
David Ross (3): .667/.667/1.667, 1 HR, 1 RBI
Jackie Bradley has a double in two at-bats.
Shane Victorino has a hit in his only at-bat.
Twins vs. Buchholz (RHP)
Joe Mauer (15): .385/.467/.615, 3 doubles, 1 RBI, 2 walks
Kurt Suzuki (12): .500/.500/.583, 1 double, 2 RBIs
Trevor Plouffe (11): .100/.182/.200, 1 double, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
Brian Dozier (10): .111/.200/.111, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts
Chris Parmelee (9): .286/.444/.286, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts
Aaron Hicks (6): .333/.333/.500, 1 double, 1 RBI, 1 strikeout
Jason Kubel (5): .000/.000/.000, 3 strikeouts
Eduardo Escobar (3): .000/.000/.000, 1 strikeout
Eduardo Nunez (3): .500/.667/.500, 1 walk
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Although science and religion still haven't reached a conclusion, Washington recently decided to pronounce a fetus a person -- specifically to have the courts treat it as a murder victim if it is destroyed in the commission of a federal crime. Will this make it more likely illegal by the time today's newborns reach childbearing age?
Pro-life and pro-choice advocates have both made recent advances in the fight over abortion, but pro-lifers seem to be ascendant right now. Many Americans are so tired of the three-decade long debate that they might fail to notice that the Bush administration and the Republican congress are stealthily -- and steadily -- chipping away at Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that gave abortion constitutional protection.
George W. Bush last week signed into law the opportunistically-named "Laci Peterson" act. The law, named after a pregnant California woman murdered along with her unborn son, can result in double murder charges for a criminal attack on a pregnant woman that results in terminating the pregnancy. It defines a developing fetus or embryo as "a member of the species Homo sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb."
This kind of wording is the worst nightmare of reproductive rights advocates; they have long dreaded that a recognition of "fetal rights" would be the first step to undermining a woman's right to choose, unraveling the federally-guaranteed legality of abortion.
Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, maintained in Roll Call (subscription) that:
Opponents of this legislation will argue that this bill is just an attempt to undermine Roe v. Wade. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act specifically does not permit prosecution in cases of abortion, medical treatments of the mother or child, or the actions of a woman with respect to her own unborn child.
As William Saletan argues in Slate, the act specifically excludes abortion from its broad sweep:
But the exemption is plainly illogical. Imagine a federal ban on gay marriage that stipulated, Nothing in this section shall apply to a daughter of the Vice President of the United States. A gay marriage is a gay marriage. A child is a child. Once the embryo is defined as a child, and killing it is defined as killing a child, abortion at any stage of pregnancy becomes murder "immediately in theory, and eventually in law.
Linda Feldmann of the Christian Science Monitor argues that the act, which passed three times in the House in six years before finding Senate approval, was part of a GOP campaign ploy:
As a matter of law, the UVVA is not likely to have wide-reaching impact, because it applies only when a fetus is harmed during a violent federal crime against the mother, such as an attack on federal land or a terrorist strike. The harming of a fetus during a crime has long been recognized in state law as a punishable offense; 29 states have laws protecting fetal rights, though not all cover the entire pregnancy.
Politically, the bill served the purpose of putting the Democrats' presumptive nominee, Sen. John Kerry, on record with his vote against the act. Mr. Kerry supported an amendment to the bill that would have imposed the same penalties as the bill that passed, but would not have recognized the fetus as a person and separate victim.
An alternative to the sweeping law was proposed by Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein, whose amendment used the vague term "pregnancy" instead of the more specific "fetus." Despite the intention to create a more narrowly-interpreted law, her choice of language was a mistake. Just as abortion foes play on emotions by calling pea-sized embryos "babies," those in the NARAL camp downplay the potential humanity of a pregnancy to emphasize the woman's plight and to promote family planning to bring children into the world with good intentions rather than by accident.
Cathy Young of the Boston Globe explains:
In other words, the semantics matter. Today, the bill's prolife supporters may assert that it will not affect abortion rights; in the future, they may well use its logic to advocate a ban on abortion, arguing that it's absurd to make the personhood of the fetus contingent on whether the woman wants to go through with the pregnancy.
A Newsweek poll from last June found 84 percent of respondents favoring criminal charges with additional penalties for causing a woman to miscarry during an assault. And Feinstein's backers surely would agree with the repugnance of destroying a pregnancy once the fetus is viable outside the womb, which happened when Tracy Marciniak's husband savagely beat her, causing a ninth month miscarriage. People like Marciniak deserve justice not only for their own physical wounds, but for losing the chance to become a mother.
Yet the new law makes no distinction between a pregnancy that is near its delivery date and one that is less than one millimeter in size and has no chance of growing on its own with current technology. After all, some half of pregnancies results in miscarriage before the second trimester, and eight percent end by the twentieth week.
A Chicago Tribune reader and father Jim McNelis writes, half-jokingly, to that paper:
Could a death certificate be issued before the birth certificate? Should we apply for a new Social Security card once my wife is pregnant? Can I take a tax exemption for each fetus? Will my insurance company offer life insurance for the fetus? Shall the fetus be counted on the federal census?
My wife and I have endured multiple miscarriages, so God has taught us not to count our eggs before they hatch, so to speak. But we apparently have a lot to learn from the feds.
Meanwhile, the fuzzy distinction about when to humanize a fetus is being played out in three U.S. District courts, which are deciding the viability of a federal ban on so-called "partial-birth" abortions, on hold since the law was signed last year by Bush, to the chagrin of feminists finding ominous symbolism in the all-white, all-male members of Congress present at the ceremony. Reproductive rights advocates are more likely to make advances for their cause in the Nebraska, California and New York courts challenging the Partial-Birth Abortion Act.
To determine whether women's lives really are at stake when the controversial procedures are performed, the Justice Department tried to force hospitals to release the identities and details of women whose abortions fell under the partial-birth category. Federal judges in Chicago and San Francisco have blocked hospital abortion records from being released to the courts, but the University of Michigan must hand over its files, with patients' identities blacked out, to a New York district court. If the feds weren't valuing abortion patients' privacy, did they at least have their well-being in mind?
A San Jose Mercury News editorial doubted such, and hoped that the courts would consider the law's "fatal flaw" of not examining its impact on women's health, adding, "politicians are inserting themselves into what should be a private decision made by a woman in consultation with her doctor."
Done up to 5,000 times a year, the dilation and extraction procedure is rare, reserved for medical emergencies such as pregnancy-induced diabetes, that could threaten a woman's life. Yet the vaguely written law against it could wind up outlawing 140,000 abortions performed at earlier stages by other methods.
A Nebraska U.S. District judge questioned whether lawmakers really had the health of women in mind when they approved the ban on late-term abortions, which are carried out by pulling a fetus by its feet from the uterus and puncturing its skull. "I have to tell you that I don't see that Congress spent nearly as much time as you in honestly trying to give me a fair picture of the medical situation," said Judge Richard Kopf, who repealed the partial-birth abortion ban in Nebraska seven years ago.
A New York doctor quoted in the Monterey County Herald said he had ''fears of being prosecuted and having to face imprisonment" for a law so poorly written that even some miscarriages might violate it.
Left out of the debate are those women who, if the ban holds, will be forced to carry a fetus that lacks a brain or heartbeat to full term. Carrying such non-viable fetal materal in utero for nine months inflicts undeserved psychological, physical and economic burdens for which a woman could seek no relief.
Pro-life activists charge that overzealous abortionists are eager to pluck the fruit from a womb at any stage for financial gain. Many of the more than 1 million American women who have abortions each year might scoff at this myth, remembering the race to make a decision about potential motherhood in the few weeks between a positive result on a drugstore test kit and week nine of a pregnancy.
Will such choices, made legally, become a thing of the past in the United States? Ominous editorials in the New York Times are warning that the pro-life victory enacted last week doesn't bode well for reproductive choice.
Tom Teepen of the Cox News Service predicts, "With courts tilted the way President Bush's judicial nominees lean, that could lead to some forms of birth control and to some current medical research -- stem cell, for instance -- being declared murder."
In the Connecticut Law Tribune, attorney Sarah Weddington, who won Roe v. Wade 31 years ago, notes that the balance of the Supreme Court balance will affect the result:
if president George W. Bush is re-elected and replaces either [Justices] O'Connor or Stevens with an anti-choice candidate, the stage would be set for a reversal of Roe...
The vulnerability of the Roe v. Wade decision has recently been underscored by revelations in the memoirs of Justice Harry Blackmun, which say that the court was prepared to reverse Roe in Casey v. Reproductive Health Services. Justice Anthony Kennedy changed his view, and Casey was drafted to weaken but not reverse the effect of Roe.
Rep. Denise Majette, a Georgia Democrat, wrote in Roll Call (subscription):
Each woman with an unplanned or problem pregnancy must face the issue anew. Terminating a pregnancy has never been an easy decision to make. However, it must remain enshrined as a fundamental right. Today, a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy is fragile - and reproductive rights, since becoming an essential part of the vocabulary of the freedoms we in this country enjoy, have never been compromised to such a great extent.


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I want to mount the navi where the purple arrow is pointing on a hinge, so that it can swivel down for use and swivel up to hide. I'm trying to make this look clean.
Here are my current Ideas.. after ripping apart my dash, it looks like there may be enough room to buy another piece (red arrow) and cut out the stuff I don't need. Then I can mount the navi on the inside of the little "pop up" hinge pice and insert the whole unit upside down in that area. I looked and from what I can see there may or may not be enough room.
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|To practise the past simple tense and develop fluency.
|Students ask and answer questions using the past simple in order to move along the board and reach the end.
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|Make a copy of the board game for each group of three or four students.
Each player needs a counter and each group needs a dice.
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|1. Divide students into groups of 3 or 4.
2. Give each player a counter and each group a dice.
3. Students place their counters on START and throw the dice to decide who starts.
4. Student A throws the dice and moves forward that number of squares.
5. Student B asks Student A the question on that square. If Student A answers with the correct form, and the rest of the group agree that the answer is correct, Student A's counter remains where it is. If the answer is incorrect, the counter returns to its original square.
To develop fluency, encourage the group to develop a short conversation after each answer with follow up questions.
6. Students take it in turns, repeating step 5 and moving around the board until one student reaches FINISH. This student is the winner.


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Labour claims a recording exists of Prime Minister John Key referring to Kim Dotcom during a visit to the Government Communications Security Bureau in February.
Labour Leader David Shearer said Mr Key addressed staff at the bureau during a visit on February 29th following a briefing about the GCSB's surveillance of the Megaupload millionaire.
Mr Key has already had to concede he was briefed on GCSB's involvement in the Dotcom case - a shift from his earlier claim he first learned of the links on September 17.
Mr Shearer called on Mr Key and the GCSB to confirm whether a recording of Mr Key's comments to staff in February existed and to have any unclassified material from the visit released to "clear this up".
Mr Key told TV3 he had no memory about whether he mentioned Dotcom when speaking to GCSB staff.
"I don't recall it, no. Who knows, but I don't recall it," he said.
Mr Key said there was no written record of the conversation with staff, but notes prepared by the person who gave the briefing had a statement mentioning a short reference to Dotcom.
"I can only assume he made that reference in the meeting. If he did, I have no recollection of that," Mr Key said on Campbell Live.
Mr Shearer said several sources staff videoed Mr Key's address to GCSB staff in which he mentioned Dotcom.
He said he didn't know if the video still existed.
"It's time for the full facts to be put on the table. This goes to the heart of John Key's credibility and whether he's telling the truth to New Zealanders," said Mr Shearer.
Mr Shearer today made a request to the GCSB under the Official Information Act for any audio-visual material relating to the visit.
If it was unclassified information it should be publicly released, he said. He also repeated a call for an independent inquiry.


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National leader Don Brash has repeated his party's intention to speed up the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process and end it.
National would strip references to the treaty from legislation but also "look at" a shake up of the five Maori Government agencies.
Speaking in Whangarei this afternoon Dr Brash continued to push his one-law-for-all policy.
"No other group within our population is so governed and regulated as Maori. There are no less than five government agencies specifically set up to deal exclusively with Maori or with Maori issues," Dr Brash said in speech notes.
The agencies were Te Puni Kokiri (Maori affairs), Te Mangai Paho (Maori broadcasting), the Maori Land Court, the Waitangi Tribunal, and the Office of Treaty Settlements.
"In our first term of government, we will be looking very closely at each of these agencies."
National would look at what the agencies did and what changes were needed to ensure Treaty grievances were ended.
The party has pledged to resolve all historical treaty claims which must be lodged by the end of next year and settled by 2010. It meant both the Waitangi Tribunal and Office of Treaty Settlements could be wound up then.
Dr Brash said there was duplication in some areas between NZ on Air and Te Mangai Paho.
There was duplication of a "large number of functions" by TPK and other agencies.
"Our goal in the medium term has to be to provide all services to New Zealanders through agencies that are not ethnically based," Dr Brash said.
"We will not be rushing that process but we will be moving down that path."
Dr Brash said he stood by his Orewa speech last year.
"We are one country with many peoples, not two peoples living in some sort of partnership," he said.
"We have put up for far too long with a treaty process that is undermining the essential notion in our democratic society of one rule for all in a single nation state."
Dr Brash said treaty principles in legislation were a source of divisiveness and had to go.
"National will remove them from legislation, Labour will leave them there to fester."
He said consulting with Maori was costly, slowed down projects and was not representative as many Maori lived in urban areas and had little tribal link.
Dr Brash said letting the treaty settlement process drag on was poisoning the relationship between Maori and other New Zealanders with the former group being dependant and the latter feeling they were missing out.
National would make part-time Waitangi Tribunal positions full-time and increase the capacity of the Office of Treaty Settlements to get the work done faster.
"Suitable people" would be appointed direct negotiators with claimant groups.


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Easy Vegan Chilled Asparagus Soup {Recipe}
This perfect addition to your springtime brunch menu uses only five ingredients.
Peak asparagus season is upon us, which means it's time to pick up a fresh bunch at your local farmers' market. We're loving this Chilled Asparagus Soup because it showcases the vibrant color and unique flavor of the vegetable in a fun and refreshing way. Even better? Nothing goes to waste here, as we're using the entire asparagus from end to tip.
Serves 4
What You Need:
2 cups water
1 pound fresh asparagus
4 cups vegan chicken broth
2 cups coconut milk
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon salt
What You Do:
1. In a medium pot, bring water to a boil. Add asparagus, cover, and cook for 3 minutes, until bright green and tender. Remove from heat and do not drain.
2. Into a food processor, pour asparagus and water. Add vegan chicken broth, coconut milk, lemon juice, and salt. Purée until mixture reaches a smooth consistency.
3. Refrigerate for 2 hours and serve chilled.
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Ferocious Finn scored a profit of half a million dollars on the virtual high stakes tables last week.
Finnish ace Patrik Antonius has been keeping a low profile for much of this year, but he returned with a vengeance to the high stakes virtual tables at Full Tilt Poker last week, crushing most of the opposition over 2,500 hands to end the week with a profit of $517,845, well ahead of his nearest rival, Gus Hansen, who turned things around to emerge as the next biggest winner on $319,999.
The High Stakes Data Base reports that Hansen will have been relieved to end the week in the black ink after his seriously long cooler that has seen him amass $19 million in losses. His end-of-the-week profit was mainly founded on one great 2-7 Triple Draw session towards the end of the week, when he won $750,000.
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Knesset members won't attend a women's empowerment conference in Washington, DC, in protest of the United States's refusal to grant a visa to a right-wing MK, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin announced on Monday.
MKs Zehava Gal-On, Tzipi Hotovely, and Einat Wilf were scheduled to participate in a panel of American and Israeli female legislators at the conference in late March. According to Rivlin, they will not be attending because of the State Department's refusal to grant MK Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union party a US visa.
"The US's argument that a member of Knesset is a terrorist is unacceptable and insults the honor of the entire Knesset," Rivlin said.
Ben-Ari, a former Kach party member, was told his visa request was rejected because the US State Department prohibits "the entrance of people who were involved in terror activities or were members of a terror organization in a foreign country."
The Kach party is an outlawed terrorist organization in Israel, the US, Canada, and the EU.
Rivlin asked US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to assist in the matter, telling him that Ben-Ari is a serving member of parliament and the US has no cause to consider him a threat.


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Nominations will soon open for the 2013 Dairy Woman of the Year award which includes the chance to attend the year-long Women in Leadership course run by Global Women.
The scholarship, worth $25,000, is part of the award sponsored by Fonterra.
This year's nominations open on November 1, 2012 and close on December 16, 2012.
The winner will be announced in March 2013.
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Best way to haggle the lowest price @ new car dealer?
Best way to haggle the lowest price @ new car dealer on a car that you want to order....thoughts?
C'mon man, you can go lower a bit. I can only afford it if it were XX,XXX. (make up a lower price, not more than 20%) Then i'll get it. KNow your market, know what you can get it for.
Haggler Level 1
Just call and say "blah blah dealership offered me $750 over invoice. If you can do $500 over I'll bring my business to you guys instead".
Edit: that only works for new - and also typically near the end of the month is better. Salesmen will take mini's easier if it'll bump their numbers up or put them in a new pay tier.
ask jonjon
Haggle? people still haggle? Find the tissue for the car (everywhere online) and then tell them how much over invoice your going to pay them. They will probably say no at first, and then call you the next day saying come down and get the car.
What my dad does and it always works is say your buying a car that day no questions asked wether its from their dealer or somewhere else(they'll know your serious and will lose out on a sale if they don't work with you) then tell them you were given a better deal somewhere else. Lastly don't be excited to receive the car until AFTER you get the keys. This shows you like the car but your not going to compromise the amount you wanted to pay.
That is the technique my father uses all the time works with new and used. He just bought a new 2012 ford 250 Laramie with all options for 52k out the door. Sticker price was 59k
And I got my used 09 corvette this way for 27k original asking price was 36k.
Hope this helps :thumbsup:
that you want to special order? Good luck, but you're kind of behind the 8 ball in that case.
Ridinbimmerz or whatever his name is can answer better than most. It all depends on the dealership though.
We're a slow Nissan dealership with 7 others within 35 miles of us - so it doesn't take much to get us to bend over backwards.
I did the email thing when special ordering our new 2013 X3. I got it for $400 below invoice. It was $2650 below invoice if you count the rebates.
They all want you to come in, discuss on the phone etc. Say no and insist on getting a price via email. Then take that email and get counter offers from other dealers. I had 3 dealers underbidding each other towards the end. It works better if you have many dealerships around you.
if they arent bending, walk out.
most of the time they'll call u and beg for your business. from there, you're in the driver's seat (pun intended)
A. The invoice you negotiate above is a fake invoice. So don't walk out like you beat the system.
B. This is the best way to negotiate, though. Dealers won't go under their "fake" invoice, it's their limit that most don't know about anyways.
C. Cash is irrelevant these days.
D. Show no emotion, don't express a dire need for the car.
E. Research before you walk in.
F. Have other options from other dealers.
Check edmunds.com to see about any rebates that aren't published to the public. Factory to dealer, etc. That can easily get you under invoice. Edmunds also has good pricing threads for the vehicle you're looking at. Great to help you figure out what the market price is for your area.
It may or may not be worth haggling over the holdback since it is there for a legit reason.
After that, e-mail/internet. Bought my last two cars via e-mail/internet. Easy as pie. E-mailed or contacted via their website every dealer I was willing to go to. I only responded to those offering quotes. I ignored all those asking me to come in with no quote. I also ignored those whose quote was way too high. After a few hours, it was clear there were about 3 dealers worth negotiating with. Just e-mailed back and forth a little. Eventually, it came down to one because he would negotiate accessories I wanted as well. He ended up negotiating with himself.
All in all, it took roughly 24 hours to get to the final dealer. That was with both cars. For this last one, I spent a few more days cuz I kept wanting more accessories and would negotiate with him on those. If I knew exactly what I wanted, like on my first car, the process was done within 24 hours.
I definitely agree with what codex is saying. Once you know what car you want, you are good to go. I recently bought a new car for my wife and did pretty much all the negotiations via email. Dealers that wouldn't budge got disregarded. Edmunds is a good resource for true market value and incentives.
In terms of cash being irrelevant, I got $3k off the negotiated price as a cash incentive so that may be applicable. They were offering that or 0% (for 3k more on the principle plus tax on that 3k).
OK, so who do I write to if I am going to use the internet approach? The internet sales guy? I am currently emailing a guy at one dealership because I met him when I did a test drive. FYI, I'm looking into ordering a GTI or MINI Clubman S.
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2006 Dance Magazine Awards
Tue Nov 14 2006
The 2006 Dance Magazine Awards were held at Florence Gould Hall on Monday, and despite the rainy, blustery night, many in the crowd insisted on wearing strappy sandals, which leads me to...ick. Why don't women realize that it's just more elegant to dress for the weather? But perhaps the point to be made is that the ceremony was an occasion.
Preannounced winners included Eiko and Koma, who performed an excerpt of 2004's Duet (the charming Japanese couple was introduced by Charles Reinhart), and Joan Myers Brown, the director of Philadanco. For the occasion, her Philadelphia-based repertory company performed Ronald K. Brown's moving For Mother. Carmen de Lavallade, who remains the best-looking woman on earth, introduced Brown. Suki Schorer read text by Jacques d'Amboise in honor of the late Todd Bolender, whose award was accepted by William Whitener, the artistic director of Kansas City Ballet; and Natalia Makarova, presenting an award to ballet teacher David Howard, nearly stole the show with her Russian charm.
Still, the star of the show was Gelsey Kirkland, greeted by cheers and introduced by Kevin McKenzie, American Ballet Theatre's artistic director who described her as a "legend hard-earned." A glorious dancer perhaps best remembered for her battles with drugs and anorexia as well as her juicy autobiography, Dancing on My Grave, Kirkland thanked the teachers and friends who stood by her when she was "less than the most desirable act in town." This spring, Kirkland will assist McKenzie on ABT's production of Sleeping Beauty; during the ceremony she frequently broke down in tears, but ended her poignant speech on a optimistic note: "I hope to help with the future harvest." She was referring to dancers, of course, and with that, the prodigal daughter has returned to her ABT home.


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Environment People Features
Moshpits do the talking at Deccan Rock
City metal heads became a part of history as they witnessed India's first ever international metal festival on climate change, by default.
Past Saturday, December 5th saw a bunch of metal heads from the garden city of Bengaluru become a part of history by default. History because they witnessed India's first ever international metal festival for climate change; default for the simple reason that there was absolutely no talk about climate change on stage.
However, NGO heavyweights like Green Peace, Indian Youth Climate Network and Life did their bit by setting up stalls and signing petitions about climate change. These petitions will eventually be sent to a United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2010. At last count, a total of fifteen hundred petitions were signed and for those who attended this showcase of bands for climate change - it was a great example of the large scale work done by Indians to save a planet gasping for breath.
Deccan Rock, India's premier metal festival on climate change saw six bands come together from all over the nation to support two mastodons of European metal Textures (Netherlands) and Amon Amarth (Sweden). So in this sort of setup when you know that all hell is about to break loose, the least you can do is grab a mic and say a few words about saving trees, excessive emission of carbon and all that jazz, or channel a "Keep our planet green" diatribe via the front man of one of the headliners. Having NGO stalls is one thing and letting the lead singer of a power metal band convey a message or two is another.
So after all the hullabaloo, the concert started one and half hours late. It was scheduled to start at 2.30 PM. Starting off the proceedings, the responsibility of lighting the lamp fell on the shoulders of Bangalore based technical metal outfit Eccentric Pendulum. Just kidding there was an expo of authentic goods going on next door. Eccentric Pendulum's quick set of four songs warmed up the crowd because by the end of it one could hear a small crowd of three hundred odd chanting for Bangalore favorites Inner Sanctum to take the stage.
Winners of I-Rock XXIV, an independent nationwide competition, the quintet belted out their popular numbers in quick succession with lead singer Gaurav Basu probably doing the most eventful thing of Deccan Rock by standing on the barricade that separated the crowd and the stage to growl his way through a song. Blood boiling that was!
So you have two bands down and still no talk about saving the planet. Next up was the very best of Delhi metal - Undying Inc. They came, they saw, they conquered and thank god by the end of it everybody in the audience remained undead. Sound levels reached a new high as lead singer Shashank aided by the corrosive riffs of his band members screamed out every song in their short-lived set. But by the time Undying Inc left the stage one thing was absolutely evident. Indian Rock is really standing in the cusp of something revolutionary.
Almost an hour into Deccan Rock and there wasn't a single shout for a cover or an instance of a band getting booed of stage. As far as climate change is concerned, well that rested in peace.
Undying Inc was followed by the pioneers of metal core in India, the Mumbai based Bhayanak Maut. Back to back to renditions of their tracks Ungentle, Violate and the immensely popular Blasted Beyond Belief resulted in two giant moshpits in the two sections of the audience. Dislocated shoulders, falling down and getting run over all the characteristics that can be attributed to a Bhayanak Maut moshpit. Bhayanak Maut proved that adding extra vocals and tight song writing can contribute towards the resurgence of a band.


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Outdoor Gear, Patents, and Outdoor Trips by Bob Shaver, Patent Attorney
snowscew propulsion predates WWII by 20 years. Consider Armstead snow-motor company.
Hello James Kahn,
Yes, I'm surprised to see that a Mr. Burch came up with this idea in the 20's, filed a patent and actually built a working example.
This is a good example of men solving problems by intuition. I enjoyed looking at the film showing the obvious advantages and some of the handling problems. These match up to what my dad told me about his vehicle.
My father was intuitive, solving many everyday problems by relying on his (extensive)experience.
Well, another thought comes up as to why the
Lend Lease Act preparing (enabling) Stalin for WWII did not include such a machine ( or other more suitable gear ) to operate in the known devastating winter conditions of Siberia.
What was supplied were very conventional tanks. Very many of them. Just a side thought!
Siegfried Raedel
son of Johannes Raedel
Wow! This technology can definitely be expanded upon today. Would love to take a ride in that thing…


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Jessica Biel's John
It's not what you think. Jessica Biel auctioned off a date with her as part of a fundraiser for Molly Bloom, an 18-year-old woman who lost a leg in a May 13 accident.
The man, identified only as John, was dressed in a white suit with a blue shirt and striped tie when he had lunch with the actress at Denver's Palm restaurant, said Jeanne Lee, a Denver-based publicist.
Though wishing to remain anonymous, "John" told reporters earlier he's a Senior Vice President for an oil and gas company in Denver.
The charity event, "Mollypalooza," raised $44,000 to help cover Bloom's medical expenses. Well done Jessica!
More photos from Jessica Biel's photo shoot by James Dimmock are after the jump.
Man Who Bid $30,000 Dines With Jessica Biel [FOX News]
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