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Charlotte, NC, USA
4450 Fortune Avenue NW
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Administration fee covers equipment and supplies.
PreGel understands one of the biggest challenges in the industry: how to efficiently create a large quantity of desserts without sacrificing quality. This class teaches the preparation of delicious finished verrines (upscale desserts in a cup) and other pastries in just minutes, leaving you plenty of time for customization and decoration.
In this class, attendees will learn the basic fundamentals of simple-to-prepare pastry products along with concept and recipe development. This class is a great starting point for meeting your current baking and pastry needs. Attendees will learn how to create instant desserts such as Tiramisù, Crème Caramel, Pannacotta, and Crème Brulée using PreGel's 5-Star Chef Pastry Select™ Pronto line of Instant Dessert Bases and more. Learn how to use our gluten-free products to meet the dietary needs of customers with gluten allergies. Utilize a variety of our gluten-free dessert ingredient solutions to produce an alluring range of desserts including eclairs, cakes, cupcakes, muffins, and macarons, along with a variety of fillings. Those in attendance will also learn how to garnish these finished pieces for added display and presentation value.
Length of Class: 3 days
Class Cost: $130 per person
Day 1 Schedule
- Introduction (9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.)
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- Fundamentals of pastry
- How to develop a specific product offering for your customers
- PreGel America's pastry product offerings
- Break (10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.)
- Hands-on Production (10:40 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
- Lunch (12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.)
- Hands-on Production (1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
- Clean-up and Review (3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.)
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- Review of Previous Day (9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.)
- Hands-on Production (9:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.)
- Tenerissimo® Demonstration (11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
- Lunch (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
- Hands-on Production (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
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- Review of Previous Day (9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.)
- Hands-on Production (9:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
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- Hands-on Production, Decoration of Desserts (1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
- Clean-up and Review (3:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.)
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That was the statement made by the Ontario Divisional Court in a recent decision dismissing an application for judicial review of actions take (or not taken) by the Ontario Power Authority and the Ontario Minister of Energy in connection with green energy Feed-in-Tariff projects. A long list of project proponents (118 in total) sought declarations from the Court that the OPA and the Minister "acted unreasonably in failing to process applications in accordance with" the OPA's own rules and that the Minister's new "Directions" in the FIT program are "unfair, discriminatory and ultra vires the enabling legislation". The Applicants also sought an order requiring the OPA to process their existing FIT applications in accordance with the previous FIT Program Rules.
The complaint was that changes made to the FIT Program Rules were unfair to those project proponents who had already applied under the old rules - the new rules would apply to all outstanding project applications that had not already reached a certain point in the review/approval process. Included with the new rules were lower prices to be paid for the electricity generated by FIT projects.
The Divisional Court found that the standard of review of the Minister's decision (in making and applying the new FIT rules) was reasonableness; the Court had to give considerable deference to the decision of the Minister. In the end, the Court did not agree with the Applicants that the decisions in question were unreasonable. In response to the argument made about legitimate expectations, the Court said:
Turning then to the ground of legitimate expectations, it is perhaps useful to begin with a definition of what the principle of legitimate expectations involves. The principle was set out in Canada (Attorney General) v. Mavi, 2011 SCC 30 (CanLII), [2011] 2 S.C.R. 504 where Binnie J. said, at para. 68:
Where a government official makes representations within the scope of his or her authority to an individual about an administrative process that the government will follow, and the representations said to give rise to the legitimate expectations are clear, unambiguous and unqualified, the government may be held to its word, provided the representations are procedural in nature and do not conflict with the decision maker's statutory duty.Once again, I find little to which the applicants can point that would constitute a representation that is "clear, unambiguous and unqualified". The statements to which the applicants do refer that were made by Ministers Smitherman and Duguid do not, on their face, amount to representations that are unambiguous and unqualified. They are also not directed specifically to the applicants. Rather, they were statements of general application. In addition, the statements were clearly made in relation to the FIT Program itself and have to be read with, and understood in the context of, the detailed requirements and conditions of that program to which I have made reference above. Read in context, the applicants could not reasonably assert a legitimate expectation based on these statements that the criteria for the FIT Program or the process under it would not change.
The Court also disagreed with the Applicants that they had gained any vested rights through their involvement in the FIT program application process. Likewise, the Court found that there was nothing to prevent the new FIT rules from having retroactive effect. It was in the course of communicating this conclusion that the Court made its comment about changing the rules of the game mid-course. As with tax laws, "no one has a vested right to continuance of the law as it stood in the past". When planning one's affairs based on the current state of legis
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When firefighters arrived, they found flames on the first floor and a man walking on the roof. He jumped down to escape the heat, Brady said, and was taken into custody. They did not identify the man.
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The House of Commons was told today that money "extracted from unhappy victims–the six million who died, murdered and brutally tortured–is being utilized by Nazis all over the world in order to carry out fresh anti-Semitic activities."
Sir Barnett Janner, Labor M. P. and Anglo-Jewish leader, in an impassioned demand for British action to ratify the United Nations Convention on Genocide, told the Government that this action was necessary to check the activities of Nazis and neo-Nazis today.
"Do you realize that time is extremely important in this matter?" he asked, addressing the Government benches. "Twelve years have passed since the convention was accepted and, so far as we are concerned, we have made no move at all. Will you not do something about it?"
Minister of State J. B. Godber replied that the Government was not yet ready to announce its position on the Genocide Convention and remarked that he did not think adherence to the convention would alter the situation Sir Barnett had described to the House. The latter said he would seek a debate on the subject.


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You have asked for information about the obligations of a
theater or lecture hall under the Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. 12101-12213.
Title III of the ADA applies to all
"places of public accommodation," including a "motion
picture house, theater, concert hall, stadium, or other
place of exhibition or entertainment." 28 C.F.R. 36.104. In
addition to the duty to remove structural barriers to
communication pursuant to 28 C.F.R. Section 36.304, places
of public accommodation are required to provide "effective
communication" to persons with disabilities:
(c) Effective communication.
A public accommodation shall furnish appropriate
auxiliary aids and services where necessary to ensure
effective communication with individuals with
28 C.F.R. 36.303. Places of public
accommodation must provide assistive listening systems,
interpreters and other auxiliary aids unless it would
constitute an "undue burden" or "fundamental alteration" of
their services. 28 C.F.R. Section 36.303(a).
Auxiliary aids and services
are defined to include:
Qualified interpreters, notetakers,
computer-aided transcription services, written materials,
assistive listening devices, assistive listening systems,
telephones compatible with hearing aids, closed caption
decoders, open and closed captioning, telecommunications
devices for deaf persons (TDD's) videotext displays, or
other effective methods of making aurally delivered
materials available to individuals with hearing
Qualified interpreters, notetakers,
computer-aided transcription services, written materials,
assistive listening devices, assistive listening systems,
telephones compatible with hearing aids, closed caption
decoders, open and closed captioning, telecommunications
devices for deaf persons (TDD's) videotext displays, or
other effective methods of making aurally delivered
materials available to individuals with hearing
28. C.F.R. 36.303(b)(1).
The appropriate auxiliary aid or
service will vary, depending on the context and the need of
the individual with disabilities. It would not be unusual to
find that a theater or other place of public accommodation
must provide several different types of auxiliary services.
For example, a qualified interpreter might be needed to
provide access for deaf individuals, while an assistive
listening system (such as a loop or FM transmitter or other
device) might also be needed to give effective access to the
amplification system for a hearing aid user who does not use
sign language. The auxiliary aid requirement is flexible,
and the place of public accommodation can choose among
various alternatives as long as the result is effective
communication for the hearing impaired customer. The U.S.
Department of Justice strongly encourages consultation with
persons of disabilities, to ascertain the services that will
meet their needs. 56 Fed. Reg. 35566 (July 26,
The regulation expressly defines a
"qualified interpreter" as follows:
'Qualified interpreter' means
an interpreter who is able to interpret effectively,
accurately and impartially both receptively and
expressively, using any necessary specialized
28 C.F.R. 36.104. The definition
recognizes that the skill level needed for certain types of
communication may be higher than for other types of
communication. An interpreter who can provide "effective"
and "accurate" interpretation in a one-on-one conversation
may not be qualified to provide the highly skilled
interpreting needed for a theater production or other stage
Please note that the regulation
expressly prohibits charging an additional fee or
"surcharge" for the provision of an interpreter or any
auxiliary aid or service.
A public accommodation may
not impose a surcharge on a particular individual with a
disability or any group of individuals with disabilities
to cover the costs of measures, such as the provision of
auxiliary aids, barrier removal . . . and reasonable
modifications . . . that are required to provide that
individual or group with the nondiscriminatory treatment
required by the Act or this part.
28 C.F.R. 36.301(c). However,
"reasonable, completely refundable" deposits are permissible
for the loan of assistive listening equipment. 56 Fed. Reg.
35564 (July 26, 1991).
Guidance about the scope of the
requirement to provide assistive listening systems is
available from the ADA guidelines for new construction. When
a theater is newly constructed or added on to or renovated,
it must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Architectural Guidelines (ADAAG), which are published as
Appendix B to the Justice Department regulation for Title
III. Existing facilities must also remove architectural
barriers, if doing so would be readily
Assembly areas with fixed seating
where audible communications are integral to the use of the
space must have a permanently installed assistive listening
system if they accommodate at least 50 persons, or if they
have audio amplification systems. ADAAG 4.1.3(19)(b). The
regulation states:
The minimum number of
receivers to be provided shall be equal to 4 percent of
the total number of seats, but in no case less than
A listening system serving individual
fixed seats must be located within a 50 foot (15 m) viewing
distance of the stage or playing area and shall have a
complete view of the stage.
There are several types of listening
systems that may be appropriate. ADAAG A4.33.7 provides a
table and some guidance in summarizing the three principal
systems: induction loop transmitter; FM transmitter;
infrared transmitted. I have enclosed some additional
information about the different types of systems that may be
helpful. Please contact us if you need more specific
information about types and placement of assistive listening
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Fergie is as known for her fit physique as for her chart-topping songs and quirky sense of style. So with bikini season upon us, we had to ask the singer how she stays so fit — and we picked our favorite pics of the star getting physical. Check out Fergie's routine in our special photo gallery here, and to read more on Fergie's style in Off the Rack, click here.


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- The efficacy and safety of sibutramine for weight loss: a systematic reviewDavid E Arterburn
Department of Veterans Affairs, Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
Arch Intern Med 164:994-1003. 2004..We conducted a systematic review to assess the efficacy and safety of sibutramine hydrochloride for weight loss...
- The coming epidemic of obesity in elderly AmericansDavid E Arterburn
Section of Outcomes Research, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnatti, Cincinnatti, OH 45267, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1907-12. 2004..To estimate the prevalence of obesity in elderly Americans in 2010 and to discuss the health and economic implications of these estimates...
- Association of body weight with condition-specific quality of life in male veteransDavid E Arterburn
Health Services Research and Development, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, USA
Am J Med 117:738-46. 2004....
- Impact of morbid obesity on medical expenditures in adultsD E Arterburn
Health Services Research and Development, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:334-9. 2005....
- BMI trajectories among the severely obese: results from an electronic medical record populationEdwin S Wong
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:2107-12. 2012..Our results also suggest that once the 35 BMI threshold is reached, individuals will continue to remain severely obese, especially at younger ages...
- Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgical procedures for the treatment of severe obesityBruce C M Wang
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific Ave, H375Q, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
Eur J Health Econ 15:253-63. 2014..One-third of Americans are obese and an increasing number opt for bariatric surgery. This study estimates the cost-effectiveness of common bariatric surgical procedures from a healthcare system perspective...
- Decision modeling to estimate the impact of gastric bypass surgery on life expectancy for the treatment of morbid obesityDaniel P Schauer
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45267 0535, USA
Arch Surg 145:57-62. 2010..To create a decision analytic model to estimate the balance between treatment risks and benefits for patients with morbid obesity...
- Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomialsEdwin S Wong
Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 11:175. 2011..This approach was then compared against other commonly used regression models...
- Impact of bariatric surgery on life expectancy in severely obese patients with diabetes: a decision analysisDaniel P Schauer
Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Clinical Effectiveness, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Group Health Center for Health Studies, Seattle, WA Department of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern, School of Medicine, Dallas, TX Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA Health Partners Institute for Education and Research, Minneapolis, MN Division of General Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Ann Surg 261:914-9. 2015..To create a decision analytic model to estimate the balance between treatment risks and benefits for severely obese patients with diabetes...
- A multisite study of long-term remission and relapse of type 2 diabetes mellitus following gastric bypassDavid E Arterburn
Group Health Research Institute, 1730 Minor Ave, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Obes Surg 23:93-102. 2013..The goal of this study was to examine the long-term rates and clinical predictors of diabetes remission and relapse among patients undergoing gastric bypass...
- Body mass index measurement and obesity prevalence in ten U.S. health plansDavid E Arterburn
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington 98101, USA
Clin Med Res 8:126-30. 2010..S. health plans to annually report the frequency of BMI and BMI percentile measurement among all adults and children who had at least one outpatient visit during the past two years...
- Child obesity associated with social disadvantage of children's neighborhoodsH Mollie Greves Grow
University of Washington and Seattle Children s Research Institute, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
Soc Sci Med 71:584-91. 2010..S. urban county. These results contribute new information on relationships between broader social and economic context and child obesity risk using robust spatial analyses...
- Health-care expenditures of overweight and obese males and females in the medical expenditures panel survey by age cohortJanice F Bell
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 19:228-32. 2011..Expenditures associated with obesity exceed those associated with overweight. Further research is required to elucidate factors underlying the differences by sex...
- Improvements in glycemic control after gastric bypass occur despite persistent adipose tissue inflammationMario Kratz
Division of Public Health Sciences, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center FHCRC, Seattle, Washington, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 24:1438-45. 2016..Therefore, whether RYGB reduces adipose tissue inflammation compared with equivalent weight loss from an intensive lifestyle intervention was investigated...
- Association between bariatric surgery and long-term survivalDavid E Arterburn
Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington2Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
JAMA 313:62-70. 2015..Accumulating evidence suggests that bariatric surgery improves survival among patients with severe obesity, but research among veterans has shown no evidence of benefit...


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I realized after the Grand Final that I never posted a followup on who won! For those of you outside of Australia - the West Coast Eagles won by a point. Thats the smallest margin in something like 110 years of the game I believe.
Yes Sydney continued their usual behaviour - Barry Hall and others were being picked up for it though which was good. It was a game full of dodgy umpiring calls on both sides and a last half fade out (through injuries I think) by West Coast but they held on to win after establishing a large first half margin of around 20 points (cant remember properly now). Sydney pulled their game together and closed the gap but couldnt seem to get in front.
Around my suburb there was cheering and shouting and people playing football on the streets. There were people with banners waving at all the cars driving by.
Perth is celebrating!


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The recent front-page article called Fracking Part 2 appears to be somewhat disjointed as it wanders all over the place. The statement that drilling leaks methane up through earth and creeks is unproven. Methane is often found in creeks due to natural decomposition of organics (i.e. swamp gas). Any private water well that is completed in a coal bed or passes through a coal seam during drilling will produce some methane, as is common around the Red Lodge area.
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"Larry Rosenman" <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes: > The other issue is borked installs where the server and libpq disagree. > What I'm looking for > is to expose what libpq has for it's default as well as what the server is > using. There is currently > no way to determine what libpq has for it's default. What happened in the > irc case was a partial re-install > with non-matching server and libpq. [ shrug... ] So? There isn't going to be any way that random-app-using-libpq is going to have a way to tell the user what the underlying copy of libpq is using for this default --- adding a call for that will be nothing more nor less than a waste of code space. You'd be best off running strings(1) over the libpq.so file when the question comes up. regards, tom lane
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Why can you check plot and not check save in ADEXL? Shouldn't it be automatically saved when you plot? If this is the case, the save checkbox should be automatically checked and/or disabled. Or have I misunderstood the meaning of plot vs save?
If the output is an expression, then the expression results do not need saving - they are computed from other saved signals. So the only choice is whether something is plotted or not.
If the output is a signal, then it can be saved (by the simulator) but not plotted - for example, you might want to plot it later, or use the value in an expression - which you then want to plot.
Put another way, the save checkbox controls whether the simulator saves that thing or not, and the simulator is not saving expressions, only signals.
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If it's an expression, the reason for being able to plot but not save is as I said in the beginning - there's nothing to be saved because the expression is handled by the ADE XL post-processing and saving it is meaningless.
If it's a signal, you could plot it without saving if save all is enabled and covers the signal that you were going to plot (but you'd still have the choice of saving or not - but it may make no difference because it may have saved the signal anyway).


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All early election talk has assumed a newly elected Coalition would face a hostile Senate. But what if current opinion polls are correct and the Labor government will suffer a landslide defeat at the next election? Is there a possibility of the Coalition winning effective control of the Senate through a normal half-Senate election?
In short, it is a chance, but the odds on it happening are long.
In recent posts I've explained why the next election will either be an early election for the House and four Territory Senators, or the parliament will go full term to the second half of 2013 and the next election will be a normal House and half-Senate election. (See this post)
I've also explained why the chances of a double dissolution in the current term are close to zero. (See this post)
If the current government and parliamentary term last until 2013, there is the chance of a double dissolution in 2015, though a change of government following an early House election could produce an earlier double dissolution. I ran through possible future double dissolution timings in this post.
Another possibility is a change of government following an early House election, something that could require a separate half-Senate election in late 2013 or early 2014. As with the possibility of a double dissolution in a future parliament, an early House election would see the Coalition have to spend a considerable period of time in government before it could do anything about changing the composition of the Senate.
To simplify the discussion, let me assume that Labor lasts through to the end of the current parliament in the second half of 2013. This would make the next election a normal House and half the Senate election. How well would the Coalition have to do to gain effective control of the Senate?
The current State Senators elected in 2007 will retain their places until 30 June 2014. Assuming a normal election, those Senators will face election between August and October 2013, taking their seats on 1 July 2014.
The table below sets out the party composition of the current Senate. The first line shows the Senators elected in 2010 and remaining in office until 2017, barring a double dissolution. The second line shows the four Territory Senators whose positions are tied to the terms of the House of Representatives and take their seats at once after an election.
The rest of the table shows the composition of the Senators facing election in 2013 by state, and is the starting point for any discussion of Coalition's prospects in the next Senate.
|Continuing Senators (elected 2010)
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|Retiring Senators (elected 2007)
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|Western Australia
|South Australia
The key points to highlight concerning the post-2014 Senate are -
- The Coalition currently hold 34 seats and there are two cross-bench Senators.
- The Coalition would need 39 votes out of 76 to pass any legislation.
- In government the Coalition would need 38 votes to prevent the opposition acting to help set up hostile Senate Committees.
- If the Coalition fell short of these numbers in the post-2014 Senate and if we assume the Greens or Labor won't help the Coalition numbers, then the critical votes would come from Victorian DLP Senator Madigan, South Australian Independent Senator Nick Xenophon assuming he is re-elected in 2013, and any other minor party or Independent Senators elected in 2013.
The most important point to make about the balance of power in the next Senate is that it has nothing to do with the balance of vote and distribution of seats between Labor and the Greens. It all depends how well the Coalition does, and whether it can translate loss of Labor support into extra votes and seats for the Coalition, though there is also the possibility that extra Coalition support could see Coalition preferences help minor parties other than the Greens win seats.
To gain control of the Senate, in order of likelihood the Coalition would need to -
- Retain the three of six seats it holds in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. This ensures the Coalition still has a base 34 seats.
- Win a third seat in Tasmania, where the Liberal Party only won two seats in both 2007 and 2010. This takes the Coalition to 35 seats.
- Win a third seat in South Australia, where the Liberal Party won only two seats in 2007. This takes the Coalition to 36 seats.
- Win a fourth seat in Western Australia, taking the Coalition to 37 seats and needing only two more votes to pass legislation.
- Win a fourth seat seat in Queensland, taking the Coalition to 38 seats and needing only the vote of Senator Madigan to pass legislation.
- Win a fourth seat in one of the other states to take the Coalition to 39 seats and a majority in its own right.
Since 1990 half-Senate elections have been for six Senators from each state. Prior to 1990, an odd number of Senators was normally elected from each state, making it possible for a party to win a majority of seats in each state, three of the five vacancies for most of the elections from 1949-83. By electing an even number of Senators, it is nearly impossible for one party to win more than three of the six vacancies in each state, making it harder for any party to obtain a majority in the Senate.
A quota for election is composed of both primary or '1' votes for a party, and preferences of elected and excluded candidates. The Senate voting system works as follows -
- The quota for election is a nudge over one-seventh of the vote, but only six members are elected. At the end of the count there is always a slice of the vote under a seventh of the total vote that remains with candidates who miss out on election.
- 14.3% of the vote is needed to elect one Senator. In 2010 the Greens achieved a quota on first preferences in Victoria and Tasmania, but polled more than 10% in the other four states and needed preferences to reach a quota. In all mainland states the Greens polled a higher vote in the Senate than the House.
- 28.6% is needed to elect a second Senator. Labor polled better than this in its two worst states in 2010, Queensland where it polled 29.4% and Western Australia 29.7%. Labor would need to poll substantially worse than this to miss out on a second seat in any state, but would be assisted in a race with the Greens for a seat by most other parties giving preferences to Labor ahead of the Greens.
- 42.9% is needed to elect a third Senator. The Liberal party polled 43.0% in Western Australia in 2010, the only state where the party didn't need preferences to elect a third Senator. Under the Senate's voting system, a single party cannot possibly win a fourth seat unless they poll more than 42.9% of the first preference vote to first reach three quotas.
- A party needs 57.1% of the vote to fill a fourth quota, but probably needs to start with around 50% of the first preference votes to stand a chance.
- It can be assumed Labor and the Greens will do a tight Senate preference swap at the next election, as to do otherwise would help the Coalition gain control of the Senate. If Labor plus the Greens have a combined 42.9% of the first preference vote in a state, it would be impossible for the Coalition to elect a fourth Senator.
There have been eight elections since six-member Senate elections were first held in 1990. This represents 48 six-Senator contests, and only once has either side of politics won four seats in their own right. That was the Coalition in Queensland in 2004 when the Nationals' Barnaby Joyce was elected along with three Liberal Senators.
However, that victory was achieved with separate Liberal and National tickets. Together the parties only polled 44.9% or 3.14 quotas, but the Liberals had 2.68 quotas and the Nationals 0.46. Separate tickets meant both the Liberals and Nationals had a continuing candidates in the count, and the vagaries of the electoral system resulted in both being elected. The 2004 Coalition result could not have occurred from a joint Coalition ticket.
The table below breaks down all state Senate races since 1990 into the party composition of the result. The best results for the Coalition are at the top of the table, mixed results in the middle of the table, and best Labor results at the bottom.
|Senators elected (Occurrences)
|4 Coalition, 2 Labor (1)
|3 Coalition, 1 Democrat, 2 Labor (16)
|3 Coalition, 1 Green, 2 Labor (13)
|3 Coalition, 1 Family First, 2 Labor (1)
|3 Coalition, 3 Labor (8)
|2 Coalition, 1 DLP, 1 Green, 2 Labor (1)
|2 Coalition, 1 One nation, 1 Democrat, 2 Labor (1)
|2 Coalition, 1 Xenophon, 1 Green, 2 Labor (1)
|2 Coalition, 1 Harradine, 3 Labor (2)
|2 Coalition, 1 Democrat, 3 Labor (2)
|2 Coalition, 1 Green, 3 Labor (2)
The Coalition have won four seats once, split the seats three-three with Labor on eight occasions, and in 30 instances won three seats to two for Labor with the sixth seat going to a minor party.
In contrast there are only six occasions when Labor won three seats to two for the Coalition, and four of those occurred in Tasmania. There were three other cases where both major parties won two seats and minor parties won two seats.
To assess the Coalition's chances of gaining Senate seats, let me look at the prospects state by state in descending order of likelihood.
The island state has been Labor's best and the Liberal Party's worst state for the last decade. It is also a state where the Greens now easily fill a quota in their own right. Tasmania was the only state where the Liberal Party put Labor ahead of the Greens on its Senate preference ticket in 2010, partly to make sure the Greens didn't elect two Senators.
Despite the Tasmanian Liberal party having its worst result in history at the 2010 election, there is a high probability of the Party gaining a third Senate seat in 2013. State politics will play a part in this. The current Labor government should have been defeated in 2010, but has staggered on in government through a coalition agreement with the Greens. Current state polls have the Liberal Party easily over 50% of the vote, and while the party may not poll so well at a Senate election, it would easily gain a third seat, taking the Coalition to 35 seats.
South Australia
The Liberal Party dominated federal results in South Australia from the collapse of the State Bank in the early 1990s through till the 2004 election. After the Rann government's landslide re-election in 2006, Labor swept the 2007 Federal election, but the decision of popular Legislative Councillor Nick Xenophon to contest the Senate in 2007 made a mess of traditional voting patterns. Xenophon took a seat from the Liberals, while Labor's loss of vote to Xenophon translated into victory for the Greens' Hanson-Young.
In 2010 the Greens came close to a quota in their own right, while preferences from Family First elected the third Liberal candidate ahead of Labor. In 2013 you would expect the Liberal Party will either reach the third quota itself or again reach it via Family First preferences. Xenophon's presence on the ballot paper in 2013 would make life harder for the Greens to fill a quota in their own right and be left battling for the final seat with the second Labor candidate. Preference decisions by other parties would be critical to which of Labor or the Greens win the final seat.
The most recent state breakdown of Newspoll (April-June 2011) had the Coalition polling 42% in the House, enough to win three seats, but in 2010 the Coalition vote was 3% lower in the Senate compared to the House. With Xenophon contesting in 2013, it is likely this gap would be even larger.
Winning a third seat in Tasmania and South Australia would get the Coalition to 36 seats, but still three votes short of being able to pass legislation ion its own right.
Western Australia
At every election since 1990 the Liberal Party has won three seats to Labor's two, the final seat going to the Democrats or Greens. At six of those eight elections the Liberal Party polled more than 42.9% of the vote, the level required to elect three Senators and have votes left over in the race for a fourth seat. The best Liberal Senate vote was 49.3% in 2004.
The chances of the "Coalition" winning a fourth seat in WA are helped by the lack of a joint Senate ticket. As we know from the victory of the WA Nationals' Tony Crook in O'Connor at the 2010 election, the WA Nationals are not part of the "Coalition", hence my use of quotes.
However, the existence of a Liberal surplus beyond three quotas and the presence of a separate National ticket raises the prospects of the Nationals grabbing a fourth seat for the non-Labor side of politics. Support for Labor plus the Greens would have to fall below 42.9% of the vote to make this possible, but if any state is likely to elect four non-Labor Senators, Western Australia is the place.
The most recent state breakdown of Newspoll (April-June 2011) had the Coalition polling 49% in WA, but in 2010 the Coalition vote was 4% lower in the Senate compared to the House.
Winning a fourth seat in Western Asutralia would bring the Coalition to 37 Senators, needing just two more votes to pass legislation.
As outlined earlier, the election of four Coalition Senators in 2004 was a quirk created by there being separate Liberal and National tickets. With a new merged entity in the Liberal National Party, the Coalition would have to poll much much better in 2013 than in 2004 to have another chance of winning four seats.
The Coalition tickets polled 50.4% in 1996, the sort of level of voter support the Coalition would need to win a fourth seat in Queensland. The emergence in recent years of many minor parties of the right has not helped the Coalition in the Queensland Senate, cutting the Coalition's first preference vote. In 2010 the Coalition's vote was 6% lower in the Senate compared to the House.
The most recent state breakdown of Newspoll (April-June 2011) had the Coalition polling 48% in the House, but the Coalition would need to do better to have a chance of winning a fourth seat.
By 2013 the LNP should be in state power in Queensland, meaning the anti-state Labor mood that the Coalition rode in 2010 may have subsided. It would take an enormous victory for the Coalition to win four seats in Queensland, but such a victory would deliver a 38th seat to the Coalition, giving a Coalition government the chance to pass legislation with support from the DLP.
A Fourth Seat in Other States
In short, unlikely. By late 2013 NSW and Victoria will have had state Coalition governments for more than two years, and the combined vote for Labor and the Greens will probably not be weak enough to give the Coalition a chance of a fourth seat.
One outside chance for the Coalition is to deliver a seat to a helpful minor party, as with the election of Family First's Steve Fielding in 2004. However, Fielding's victory required Labor to direct preferences to him ahead of the Greens. With the chance that a split in preferences could deliver the Coalition a Senate majority, it seems extremely unlikely that Labor and the Greens would dare put another party between them on preference tickets.
ACT - the Wild Card
At every election since 1975 the two ACT Senate seats have split one Labor one Liberal, and the two Northern Territory seats one Labor one Country Liberal. It is most likely the same outcome will be produced by the next Senate election.
However, at some ACT Senate elections the Liberal vote has only just reached the 33.3% quota for election. If there was a dive in Liberal support, perhaps caused by public servants concerned at proposed job cuts, then there is an outside chance of the Greens or Labor grabbing the second seat from the Liberals on preferences. It is an unlikely result, but the more it looks like the Coalition could obtain a Senate majority, the greater will be the attention on the ACT's Senate race.
In Summary
One of the reasons Tony Abbott is not Prime Minister today is that while he did well in New South Wales and Queensland in 2010, the Coalition polled dreadfully in Victoria and Tasmania. The results were just as bad in both states in the Senate, the loss of a Victorian seat to the DLP and winning only two seats in both states being why it is almost impossible for the Coalition gain control of the Senate after the 2013 election.
In theory you can construct a scenario where the Coalition can reach the point where support from the DLP's Senator Madigan allows the passage of legislation. But it requires the Coalition winning third seats in South Australia and Tasmania and a fourth seat in Queensland and Western Australia, a result that would be one of the greatest landslides in Australian political history.
John Howard achieved a majority after the 2004 election thanks to big wins at successive elections in 2001 and 2004.
For the Coalition led by Tony Abbott, their result in 2010 wasn't enough to put them in government, and it also looks likely to leave them short of Senate control after the 2013 election.


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"March 14: I am in a pleasant room ashore, in the English hotel, looking out across a glorious expanse of water, glittering in the warm sun. A long iron pier reaches out into the bay; it is too big really to be called a harbor, and on the pier glides a shining, silent little English locomotive, pushing out cars of wheat, hides or wool. The Sarmiento is loading; I leave her and her cockroaches gladly for dry land again. It is truly a dry land. The desert reaches from here to the Andes; one sees only shrubs, fine, yellow grass in bunches and desert weeds. Some of these desert shrubs are so pretty that people allow them to remain in their dooryards. From here runs a railway to the valley of the Chubut River, perhaps 30 miles, and on the Chubut is a colony of Welsh people who havé been here for many years. Think of it, a short rail-way ride, then a neat Welsh village, embowered in trees and flowers, a beautiful green valley with sweet-smelling alfalfa meadows and orchards hanging full of yellow and red apples. I am impatient to get over, but the train does not run today. We can know when they mean to run the train, because they will run up a flag on a mast by the tiny station. I am now in the latitude of Buffalo, N. Y. It seems good to get in familiar latitudes again.
"In a tiny fruit shop I found splendid grapes from Chubut; they are like those of California big, black, meaty grapes. Flies ! More flies ! How homelike it all is. I do not recall seeing a fly in the South. The town waterworks is a curious contrivance. Men take barrels and run rods through their heads to form an axle, then attach shafts and with ponies roll the barrels through the streets. The source of supply is a well and windmill, a good North American Aermotor mill, in the suburbs. Here Dr. Richlet met his señora and his little boy. The señora is a strikingly handsome woman. Together we walked in the evening on the beach which was strewn with pretty shells. I learned that I could understand the señora's Spanish very much better than I could the doctor's. It is a proverb very trite and true that if you would learn a language a woman must teach it to you, but he would he a daring man who would presume to learn much of it from the señora of a South American. How-ever, the doctor has been very kind. He knows the habits of the English-speaking people, and how we are proud of our. wives and glad to exhibit them to our friends, and to have them appreciated. It is not so in South America, where one may know a man for years without meeting or hearing of his wife.
"I was especially interested in the lad. He is five years of age, sturdy, quick as lightning, impulsive, daring and intelligent. It is a great race. Give it proper education and training. Perhaps where we excel is in self-control, which is a thing not much taught in South America. The lad and I played with the waves, running down behind them and fleeing in front of them. They were gentle waves to-day. It is wonderful how one grows to need the companionship of children when one is long deprived of them. It has been a happy afternoon with the modest, demure yet responsive señora and her husband and their gay, laughing child.
"My letters have not come; no mail has reached here for two weeks, so I have hopes. The consul telegraphs me, 'Cinco cartes mas por correo boy,' which is easily translated to mean that he has sent me five more letters today. Good! I will read them in my imagination for a few days and then in reality.
"March 15: Today I visited the estancia of the Port Madryn Argentine Co., Ltd., of which H. C. H. James is manager. It is situated along the rail-way leading out from Madryn. There are here twenty-six leagues (162,500 acres) of land which Mr. James believes will carry nicely 35,000 sheep, or about one sheep to 41/2 acres. He has now on the land 22,000 sheep. They are of mixed Romney and Merino blood. He is using grade Rambouillet rams. The sheep shore 51/2 pounds of wool per head at the last shearing, but it was of only about ten months' growth, or 121,000 pounds. The wool is unsold in Antwerp. In general the wools of this part of Chubut are of second quality only, and are sandy and dirty. Fifteen men are employed on the estancia, receiving $60 per month in Argentine money. Some of the men are employed in butchering sheep for the market. The enterprise here described is interesting; it is an effort to establish a model sheep run on this type of desert range. It is a new venture.
"The rainfall on the coast of Chubut is about 6½ inches. The range is covered with small brush resembling what one sees in Texas and Arizona. There is not much grass, but some of the useful alfiliaria, which we have in California. The sheep eat a good deal of brush. I saw a flock of wethers which to my surprise were quite fat. One was killled to show me the inside fat which was considerable, though less than one would see in a wether from a good range in North America. There is no canning factory or freezing plant north of San Julian. There is evidently room for a canning factory here. It is interesting to know that fencing and stocking are going on quite rapidly and that much wool is destined subsequently to originate here. The land seems hardly worth the price, $4,400 in gold for 6,250 acres, yet Mr. James thinks a league will support here more than 1,000 sheep. Scab is prevalent, and there are few dipping plants. Water must all be pumped from deep wells by American windmills, costing about $1,250 each (gold) for mill and well."
It was truly an interesting ride out to Mr. James' headquarters, through desert scrub and brush that reminded one of southern Texas, only the brush is seldom more than shoulder high. His house was hidden down between the sand dunes, for there he has some shelter from the winds and gets good, fresh water in wells sunk in the sand. He has irrigation from his well and so has a few flowers and a tiny tree. All this is primitive and poor, but interesting because in the desert.
Mr. James is a type of the alert, efficient Englishman. He has been in South America for many years. He rides well and in snowy white riding breeches is a contrast with an Arizona ranch fore-man. Of course his house was cozy inside. Trust an English colonial woman for that, and his telephone and office seemed to link one to the world, although the telephone goes mainly to his shepherds' huts. I was astonished to see how fat his sheep were, subsisting chiefly on bush. This is the land of underground fence posts. One gives an order causally, thus : "Juan, take the shovel and axe and go out and dig up some posts; we must repair the fence in the north pasture," and Juan unsmilingly goes and unearths them. The "post is a big root or underground stem, and its top a mere willowy shrub. The desert is alive with small creatures that closely resemble guinea pigs; they are small rodents called the "tuco-tuco." They are tame and gentle; children play with them as they do with guinea pigs. There are yet many ostriches; they are wild and difficult to shoot, as are the guanacos, which get more wary year by year, but men must kill them, as they are worthless and not only consume feed but break fences.
At the hotel there were some interesting young men who were fencing up land that they had bought in the interior. They are putting down windmills and getting ready for sheep. It was good to see efficient American windmills from Chicago, merrily whirling in the wind and raising water from the depths of the sands. Madryn will no doubt some day be quite an important city, as it has a vast harbor, and is the only entry port for a region as large as Wyoming. It must first get a supply of water. This can easily be pumped from the Rio Chubut. In place of the tin huts of Madryn, why may we not expect to see a few sky-scrapers some day? Denver has them; so has Cheyenne. At any rate, the country is potentially capable of them.
There is in Chubut a North American whom I would like to meeta Mr. Crocker, who is easily king among men in Patagonia. He is a freighter and brings down wool from the Andes. Ordinarily, South American boyeros or freighters are a disreputable lot, and their animals are on the verge of starvation; their men are undisciplined. Our countryman, who I think is a Texan, comes down to the port with forty wagons laden with wool, all of them big Studebaker wagons, and each wagon in good repair and drawn by eight fine, well-fed, strong mules. When he comes in it is as when a well disciplined army comesall orderly and business-like. His men are proud to work for him. I hear many tales of this man, and regret that he was 350 miles inland when I was in his country.
"March 15: Trelew is the principal town of Chubut. I have had a ride on a South American railway train, my first experience. It was a mixed trainreally a freight train to which was attached one passenger car about as large as a small street car, with seats along the side, as in some of our street ears, and English windows that lower in pockets and lift with straps. The doctor, his señora, two men and myself made up the passenger list. The tiny locomotive drew us slowly across the forty miles of desert. How hot and dusty it was. All the way it was a true desert, with stunted, scattered brush and thin grass beneath and between, in a few places seeming almost to cover the ground. But there is no describing a desert.
"Occasionally we passed a good American wind-mill, a galvanized iron tank and a tin shepherd's hut, and here and there we saw sheep grazing. They were mainly of Rambouillet-Merino type, with some admixture of Romney or Lincoln blood. There is not a house for railway laborers on the forty miles probably because there was no water for men, and the railway company has not yet put down wells. We saw a few ostriches, which were not much frightened by our train, yet they ran through the brush. After three hours of this journeying, which, by the way, was all of it through the estancia managed by Mr. James, we came out on the edge of a low plateau; a valley lay below us and also, to my joy, lines of stately green poplars, the smooth velvety greenness of alfalfa meadows, the yellow of ripe wheat and the valley of Chubut. It reminded me of the valleys of Utah.