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Health Care Changes: A New Tool for Small Business Owners
by Karen Mills, Former SBA Administrator
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Affordable health care is a top concern for America's 28 million small businesses. During my travels, I've had a number of small business owners across the country tell me that the moment they really felt their business was a success was the day they were able to offer health insurance to their employees. But we know that many small business owners may still be wondering when that day will be and what the Affordable Care Act can do to help.
Depending on the size of your business, different provisions of the Affordable Care Act may apply. This is why it's so important that small business owners know the facts about the law and use them to make any business decisions.
Today, we're excited to announce a new, streamlined health care tool for businesses --housed at Business.USA.gov -- to help you find out exactly what you and your employees need to know about the Affordable Care Act. Business.USA.gov leverages the resources of our partners across the federal government to ensure that business owners get comprehensive information and easy-to-use tools related to range of topics, including health care.
In a few quick steps, the streamlined tool can help you understand what you need to know about new insurance options and other health care changes as well as find health care-related resources that are relevant to your business.
The tool uses various prompts including your business's location, size, and whether you currently offer insurance to connect you with the resources you need from Small Business Administration (SBA), the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Treasury and our other federal partners. For example, if you're a small business owner in Oregon with 35 full-time employees who already offers insurance and wants to continue the coverage you currently use, the health care tool can use this information to connect you with the best resources and information available to help inform your plans.
The SBA has also joined forces with our partners at Small Business Majority to offer a weekly webinar series designed to educate small business owners across the country about what the Affordable Care Act means for them. We'll be offering these webinars, which are free and open to all small business owners, every Thursday until October when the Marketplaces open for enrollment, so click hereto sign up today.
The Affordable Care Act allows small employers to offer health coverage in a way that makes sense for their business and works for their bottom line. Now, more than ever, SBA is committed to leveraging our resources and federal partnerships to ensure that small business owners have the facts and resources you need to understand the law.
About the Author
Karen Gordon Mills is the Former Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA helps both Main Street and high-growth small businesses get access to capital, counseling, federal contracts, disaster assistance and more.
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It was a rally to save Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, with mayoral candidates Bill de Blasio, John Liu and Anthony Weiner joining health care workers in protesting the hospital's closure.
Then, after presenting 7,000 signatures outside the SUNY Chancellor's office and getting little response, the group refused orders to disperse.
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"We're going to lose Long Island College in a matter of weeks if we don't act now. We're going to lose Interfaith Hospital," de Blasio said. "We have to stop hospital closures in this city."
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We find out how the city is coping following Friday night's fatal helicopter crash, we hear what independence might mean for the Scots and we visit some of the country's major tourist attractions...
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Mooney has teamed up with the Sunday World (www.sundayworld.com) to give one very special couple a second honeymoon! We looked for Ireland's favourite couple - and that couple could win a dream trip to San Francisco, worth a whopping €10,000!!!
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On Monday, December 16th, Mooney Tunes 9 will take place at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin!
The ninth concert in our hugely popular series of Mooney Tunes will be a variety Christmas concert with various singers and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Listeners requests will be read out and their songs will be played. There will be love songs, songs you will sing along to, beautiful classical music and lots of Christmassy tunes to get you in the festive mood a week before Christmas!
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First thing Auburn could do for itself would be to get a NEW AD !!!!
There should be no crying in the land of popped bubbles today. No whining should emanate from Dixie. The NCAA's selection committee made its choices yesterday and 11 of the SEC's 14 teams simply didn't deserve to go dancing this year.
Alabama ended its season at 20-12 with an RPI of 60 and a strength of schedule of 76 (non-conference of 84). Worse, the Tide was 0-6 against RPI top 50 teams and had three losses outside the top 100… plus another outside the top 200. If Anthony Grant's team wanted in, it needed more than a win over Tennessee in Nashville (as we told you on Friday). UA needed to take down Florida but it didn't/couldn't.
Kentucky had a slightly better record at 21-11, but it's RPI was 57. It's strength of schedule was 70. It's non-conference SOS was 73. While the Cats did manage three top 50 RPI wins, they also suffered three sub-100 losses. But the real undoing of John Calipari's fourth squad was the season-ending knee injury to Nerlens Noel back on February 12th. Needing to prove that they could thrive without their big man, UK instead went 4-4 down the stretch. That includes three losses in the Wildcats' last four games, all to teams with RPI of 95 or worse.
Tennessee had a bubble-worthy resume, but there should be no complaining from the Volunteer State. Good enough for the conversation? Yes. Definitely better than some other teams who landed at-large bids? Hardly. UT's strength of schedule was 58 and its RPI 59. It's non-conference SOS was a solid 47. Tennessee was 3-5 against top 50 RPI foes. All pretty good. But the Vols had a pair of sub-100 losses. Those twin losses to Georgia (RPI 140) and an annual SEC Tournament flop — this time against Alabama — sealed the Vols' fate. UT surely had its chances. Even going back to November the Vols went three-of-11 from the foul line against Georgetown in a 37-36 loss. Hit two more free throws and beat the Hoyas (RPI 11 and a #2 seed in the tourney) and the Vols might have made the field. In the end, UT left too much fruit hanging on the tree.
As for Arkansas and LSU not making the NIT field, well, that's just further proof that the NIT has improved since the NCAA has taken it over. Still a bracket for also-rans, the NIT is now forced to take those teams who won their conference's regular season title only to be upset in their conference tourney. That's a good thing for the little guy. It's a bad thing for all the middle-of-the-road, big conference teams that used to fill the field.
The Razorbacks won one game – one — outside their home state this year and that victory came at Auburn (RPI 252). The Hogs were 3-6 against top 50 RPI foes and had a whopping four losses outside the top 100. There should be no whining in the Natural State.
LSU lost three of its last five games with its two wins coming over Texas A&M (RPI 101) and Georgia (RPI 140). The Tigers were a measly 1-6 against RPI top 50 teams and had two losses outside the RPI top 200.
The Southeastern Conference was supposed to be improved on the hardwood this year. It was not. Missouri earned a tourney bid, but they were hardly the top 10 team they were expected by many to be. They couldn't close out games away from home. At all.
Ole Miss put together its best season ever with 26 wins and an SEC Tournament championship (to finally get people off Andy Kennedy's back). But the Rebels' schedule was so weak (120) and its non-conference SOS so bad (280), that UM might not have made the field had it not cut down the nets in Nashville. (And, no, we don't buy what the selection committee sells post-bracket-reveal each season because their logic changes from season to season.)
The Southeastern Conference was littered with disappointments this season: Kentucky wasn't a top five team even before Noel's injury. Tennessee was hurt by the loss of Jeronne Maymon for the season. Arkansas was talking NCAA tourney before the season. So was Alabama. Auburn was far worse than expected. Mississippi State was abysmal, though Rick Ray had to deal with injuries, suspensions, and a roster thinner than a dime. South Carolina was as awful as predicted. Georgia was down, then up for a bit, then back down. Texas A&M started hot only to fall apart. Vanderbilt got better as the year went on but there was really nowhere to go but up after the Commodores' horrible start.
Think of it another way — What coaches deserve a slap on the back for the work they did this year? Kennedy in Oxford. Billy Donovan at Florida. Johnny Jones at LSU.
Did anyone else live up to or exceed expectations?
No. So there should be no weeping over burst bubbles in SEC territory today. The league got what it deserved — three bids to the Big Dance. No more.


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Colorado Mountain College Conference on Sustainability 2014
This is a CMC internal conference for Sustainability faculty, staff, students and community partners.
The speaker will be Dr. Stephen Mulkey who assumed the post of president at Unity College in Unity, ME, on 1 July 2011. Prior to his appointment to Unity, Dr. Mulkey served as director of the program in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho from 2008 through spring 2011. As director, he led an initiative obtaining National Science Foundation funding for the creation of a new Professional Science Master's degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, which included degree tracks in Sustainability Science and Climate Change. With major funding from NASA, he directed a statewide project focused on climate change education. View Dr. Mulkey speaking at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit.
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Instagram, Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr-there are so many platforms for photography, this course helps you maximize your reach in search rankings and social media using tags and even hashtags. Students must bring their own devices. Laptops required; tablets not recommended; smartphones (in addition to laptops) are recommended but not required.
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by Marian Sawer, Kathy MacDermott and Norm Kelly
'Everybody to count for one and nobody for more than one.' – Jeremy Bentham
The principle of political equality has always been central to democracy and to the way democracy was understood by the democratic reformers of mid-19th Century Australia. The Australasian colonies were regarded as being in the vanguard of democratic innovation and at the end of the 19th Century such innovations became part of the federal compact. The new Constitution expressly precluded plural voting (provisions for property owners to have extra votes), and the Senate was to be directly elected on a popular franchise, unlike any other upper house of the time.1 There were to be no privileges based on property, and in the words of the first commentator on the Australian Constitution, University of Melbourne Dean of Law Harrison Moore: 'The predominant feature of the Australian Constitution is the prevalence of the democratic principle, in its most modern guise'. He believed that this underlying principle meant that rights were protected not through a Bill of Rights, but through ensuring as far as possible that individuals had an equal share in political power.2
During the 20th Century, progress in this area continued. For example, property qualifications for State upper houses were finally abolished. Later, the malapportionment which made the votes of rural property holders worth more than the votes of urban residents was gradually removed, except for in the Western Australian Legislative Council. However, the last quarter of the 20th Century saw the influence of property again assume a major role in electoral politics. The dependence of political parties on corporate donations has served to undermine fair electoral competition and hence the principle of political equality.
Australia started introducing public funding for political parties in the 1980s in order to reduce dependence on corporate money and to ensure parties had the means to communicate with the electorate. As in other countries, the amount of public funding was tied to the level of public support for the party, measured by the number of votes gained above a certain threshold, with all votes being of equal value. However, Australian governments "forgot" to tie receipt of public funding to abstention from private donations. Unlike public funding, corporate donations were not tied to a fairness formula, so that parties received very different levels of funding per vote. For example, at the 2001 federal election the amount of private money received by political parties with parliamentary representation varied between $29 and $6 per vote, while public money was set at a standard $1.80 per vote.3
Instead of becoming less dependent on private money, the major parties became ever more dependent on it, especially with the escalating costs of television campaigning. At the same time, the remaining statutory caps on campaign expenditure were removed, except for the Tasmanian Legislative Council, giving an advantage to those with the wealthiest friends and backers. The degree of fairness that public funding was intended to introduce into democratic elections had been swiftly undone.
|What's wrong with corporate donations?
Corporate donations (including union donations) are incompatible with the principle of political equality, quite apart from their association with corruption.
Political finance reform in international perspective
Australia is not the only democracy confronting the dilemmas posed by the role of money in electoral politics. The combination of the escalating cost of campaigns, shrinking party membership and deepening public mistrust about politicians and money contributes to loss of confidence in democratic institutions. The 2007 Australian Election Study showed that 69 per cent of voters believe that big businesses – the kind of organisations which make the most substantial donations to political parties – have too much power.
|Two effects of the arms race in campaign expenditure
But while other democracies, including Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom (UK) have taken serious steps in recent years to tighten up their political finance regulation,4 Australian governments have been slow to grasp the nettle. Indeed, under the Howard Government things went backwards at the federal level, with the weakening of disclosure requirements, raising the threshold for disclosure to $10,000 (or $90,000 if a donor gives to the State, Territory and Federal divisions of a party). The Rudd Government twice brought forward Bills to bring the disclosure threshold back down to $1,000, but they were defeated in the Senate.
There are remarkably few restrictions in Australia on the size or source of donations to political parties. Australia even allows donations by foreign interests or those with an interest in government contracts or planning decisions. One exception, arising from continuing and well-publicised scandals, is the legislation passed in New South Wales in December 2009 prohibiting donations from property developers.5 While the singling out of one class of donations is understandable, it is unlikely to be effective in the long term in allaying integrity concerns or achieving a level playing field.
|Australia's laissez-faire attitude to money politics
By contrast, in Canada both Liberal and Conservative governments have taken major steps to remove the influence of corporate money from the electoral process and to ensure a level playing field in elections. Instead of campaigns being mainly funded by large corporations, they are now predominantly funded (at a lower level) out of the public purse.
|Canadian model of political finance regulation
But what of the so-called hydraulic nature of political finance – the idea that if money can't go directly to political parties it will flow through other channels, such as third parties? In Canada, third parties have to register with Elections Canada once they have spent more than $500 on election advertising. They then have to disclose their expenditure and donors and comply with an upper limit on third party expenditure ($150,000).
The Canadian model of political finance regulation, in the fully-developed form shown above, has been in place for the last three general elections. It requires close oversight by a highly-respected and independent electoral management body (Elections Canada) and provides a useful model for Australia to build on.
In Australia, it is sometimes suggested that political finance reform would be constitutionally impossible. The argument is based on Australia's short-lived (1991–92) ban on paid political advertising in the electronic media, which was found by the High Court to infringe the implied Constitutional right of political communication. Similarly in Canada, Constitutional challenges were made on the grounds that restrictions on third-party advertising infringed the freedom of expression guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, the most recent restrictions (rather than bans) have survived such a challenge, with the Supreme Court finding in 2004 that the restrictions were reasonable in the interests of electoral fairness.6 It concluded that the restrictions were necessary to provide a level playing field for political discourse. The restriction of some voices was necessary so that others might be heard.
|Freedom of speech does not mean allowing some voices to drown out others
This should also be the argument put forward in Australia. There should be limits on the size of political donations and on campaign expenditure, whether by parties or third parties. Through ensuring that these limits are reasonable and appropriate to achieving electoral fairness, they should not fall foul of the "implied right of political communication" identified by the High Court in the 1992 Australian Capital Television Case.7 Such reasonable restrictions already exist in Australian electoral law, including the three-day blackout of electronic political advertising in the final few days of a campaign.8
The only real restriction on political donations in Australia has been the requirement for disclosure. However, the usefulness of disclosure has been significantly reduced by its lack of timeliness. For example, it took 16 months after the 2004 federal election before voters found out that Lord Ashcroft, a foreign citizen (of Belize and the UK) had given $1 million to the Liberal Party before the 2004 election. If he had given this amount to the British Conservative Party during an election campaign it would have been disclosed within a week.9
Some steps have been taken in Australia to improve timeliness. For example, New South Wales and Queensland now require disclosure every six months.10 However in the era of electronic transfers, there is no reason why donations should not be reported to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) at the same time as they are transferred to the bank, and then published on the AEC website.
|Challenge #1: Cleaning up political finance
Government advertising
One way in which political parties supplement the donations received from private sources is by using government resources for party purposes. Clearly this is most open to incumbent governments, and the most flagrant example is the use of government advertising for political rather than public benefit. Expenditure on government advertising reached a peak in the later years of the Howard Government when the federal government became Australia's biggest advertiser, ahead of corporations such as McDonalds or Coca-Cola.11
Then Labor leader Kevin Rudd declared the misuse of government advertising to be a "cancer on democracy" and the 2007 Labor Platform made a number of important commitments to remove this "cancer".
|2007 Promises
Labor will not support the use of government advertising for political purposes. Labor will introduce legislation to ensure:
(ALP National Platform 2007, s. 54)
In 2008 the Rudd Government fulfilled its promise to put in place guidelines to ensure taxpayer-funded advertisements were not used by the Federal Government for party political purposes. The guidelines set out procedures for ensuring that advertising campaigns of a certain value complied with five principles – relating to when campaigns could be conducted, how campaign materials should be presented and the legal and procurement responsibilities to be considered. In 2010, those guidelines were amended following a review conducted by former senior public servant Dr Allan Hawke. The main issue arising from the amendments is whether the revised guidelines will make it easier for the government to spend taxpayers' money on campaigns that serve its political interests rather than the public interest.
|2010 Information and Advertising Campaign Principles (Key Headings)
Principle 1: Campaigns should be relevant to government responsibilities.
Principle 2: Campaign materials should be presented in an objective, fair and accessible manner and be designed to meet the objectives of the campaign.
Principle 3: Campaign materials should be objective and not directed at promoting party political interests.
Principle 4: Campaigns should be justified and undertaken in an efficient, effective and relevant manner.
Principle 5: Campaigns must comply with legal requirements and procurement policies and procedures.
The 2008 Guidelines were not legislated (indeed, the commitment to legislation was dropped from the ALP's 2009 National Platform) and were not always clear with respect to some procedural matters. But they did have a practical impact. For example, expenditure on public advertising fell. Transcripts of government advertisements can now be found on agency websites, as can certification from both the Auditor-General and agency chief executives that campaign material complies with the guidelines and is not party political in content. The factual content of campaign advertisements has arguably increased, although there is little evidence that the "good news" overtones are being muted.
It is important to understand what has been achieved through the Government's 2008 Guidelines in order to understand the extent to which this achievement has been put at risk by the 2010 revisions.12 The revised approach incorporates two key changes: the transfer of the responsibility for reviewing proposed campaigns from the Auditor-General to a new Independent Communications Committee appointed by government and composed of eminent former public servants, and the widening of the scope for exemption from the Guidelines.
The transfer of the responsibility for reviewing proposed campaigns from the Auditor-General to a new Independent Communications Committee has occurred because of concerns that the Auditor-General was taking, 'an overly risk-averse, conservative approach to Government communications activities'.13 The Guidelines require the Auditor-General to pronounce on the compliance of a campaign with the Guidelines before that campaign is undertaken, while the ongoing functions of the Auditor's Office entail undertaking performance audits of the same campaign after it has been completed. As the ACT Auditor-General noted when asked her views on the same model: 'That created a risk for us, because later on, if we come back and do a performance audit and find a number of government advertisements are totally a waste of money because they did not achieve the intended outcome to change people's behaviour or to inform people, it looks as if we are in conflict with ourselves because we approved them in the first place'.14 The possibility of such a perceived conflict, it has been argued, would tend to make the Auditor-General's decisions unnecessarily conservative. Hence the expectation that the transfer of the review function to an Independent Committee is likely to result in a more relaxed application of the Guidelines.
Moreover, the scope for excluding particular advertising campaigns from compliance with the Guidelines has been widened. Under the old 2008 Guidelines, the Cabinet Secretary could exempt an advertising campaign from compliance on the basis of a national emergency, extreme urgency or other extraordinary reason. In the revised Guidelines "extraordinary" has been revised to "compelling" on the ground that this revision provides more flexibility. There is clearly a question as to whether such additional flexibility is desirable or necessary.
These are the changes that have been criticised as watering down the implementation of the government's 2007 election commitment and widening the scope for political interference in government advertising campaigns. Such concerns have been exacerbated as the government moved quickly to give itself an exemption from its own Guidelines in order to fast-track a defensive campaign on its proposed mining tax.15 That campaign was withdrawn following a deal with the mining industry, which ceased its own campaign at virtually the same time. It is to be hoped this exemption did not represent the first of a series that will progressively undermine Labor's 2007 election commitment to clean up government advertising.
Until they become law, the Guidelines will remain vulnerable to reinterpretation or revision. In the Australian Capital Territory the Liberal Opposition, with support from the Greens, has passed legislation to regulate government advertising. The Government Agencies (Campaign Advertising) Act16 was passed in December 2009 and came into force July 1st 2010. Among other things, the Act requires campaigns costing over $40,000 to go to an independent Campaign Advertising Reviewer for a compliance review. The appointment of the Reviewer must be supported by at least two thirds of the members of the Legislative Assembly. Ministers may exempt urgent matters from the Act, but the exemption will be disallowable by the Assembly.
The incoming federal government should follow the example of the Australian Capital Territory and legislate to ensure government advertising is not used for party purposes. Any exemption from the procedures and principles applying under the legislation because of a national emergency, extreme urgency or other compelling reason should not exempt the campaign from the application of Principle 3 (Campaign materials should be objective and not directed at promoting party political interests). Where an information or advertising campaign has been exempted from the usual compliance oversight, agency chief executives should be required to certify that the campaign is nevertheless compliant with Principle 3.
The legislation should, at minimum, incorporate a requirement to report annually on the value of each campaign as defined in the 2010 Guidelines.
|Challenge #2: Cleaning up government advertising
The electoral roll
While getting private money out of electoral politics and preventing the misuse of public money is part of the recipe for restoring the principle of political equality, another equally important ingredient is ensuring that eligible citizens are able to participate.
Although enrolment is compulsory for eligible Australians, the Australian National Audit Office estimates that 1.1 to 1.4 million otherwise eligible voters are missing from the electoral roll.17 This is because they have never enrolled, or because they have moved location and have not enrolled at their new address. Apart from the portion of the population who will intentionally avoid being enrolled, there are two significant reasons for this high level of non-enrolment: complicated procedures to enrol, and a lack of sufficient time to enrol after an election is called.
|While the AEC is mandated to remove from the roll those who are not eligible… automatic deletion is not mirrored by automatic enrolment. Put bluntly, "the AEC is getting much better at taking people off the roll, but not at putting them on".
Brent, Costar and Kelly, Democratic Audit of Australia submission.18
In 2006 the Howard Government introduced more stringent "proof of identity" requirements for people wishing to enrol or to change their enrolment. The new ID rules make it more difficult for the AEC to enrol people, even when the Commission is aware of an enrolled person's new address. Under current Commonwealth rules, the AEC can send an enrolment form to a person's new address, but the person has to fill out, sign and return the form to the AEC before becoming enrolled. Often a voter will see that the AEC has their new address, and assume that they are enrolled. In addition, the 2006 changes shortened the opportunity to enrol once an election was called – previously seven days – to the day election writs are issued. Federal elections are not held on a fixed date (as occurs in some States, including New South Wales and Victoria), so this leaves potential voters little time to enrol or update their enrolment.
Best practice in modern international electoral administration provides for "smart" enrolment, also known as "direct" or "automatic" enrolment. Under an automatic enrolment regime, a commission initiates or updates a person's enrolment when it is notified by government agencies that a person has reached enrolment age or has changed address. The person is then informed that they are enrolled and asked whether they have any objections. This shift of emphasis is important, as it requires the person to take action to un-enrol, rather than to enrol. Automatic enrolments address, in particular, the relatively low enrolment of young people who tend to be highly mobile and either drop off the roll, or never get on it. Other demographic groups, such as transient workers and renters, also benefit. In these days of electronic rolls, automatic enrolment also largely removes any need to "close" the rolls before an election. There is no reason why new enrolments and enrolment updates cannot continue up to election day, as occurs in countries including Canada and New Zealand.
The debate about when rolls should close is "like arguing over Beta and VHS when the answer is DVD".
- Peter Brent19
Of course, best practice in achieving a more comprehensive roll can also have partisan affects. Young and itinerant people are considered less likely to vote for conservative parties and more likely to vote for Labor or the Greens. However, the democratic principles of fairness and inclusiveness should override any partisan considerations. While the Coalition may argue that citizens have a duty to comply with the current registration requirements, there is an onus on government to facilitate ease of access to participation, especially under a compulsory enrolment and voting regime.
|On the question of reforms to ensure a more comprehensive electoral roll, the argument should not be about assumed partisan advantage. All eligible voters should be on the roll. The onus should be on government to facilitate this.
In 2009, the New South Wales Labor Government passed legislation for automatic enrolment, and is set to implement it ahead of the March 2011 State election. In order to avoid confusion, New South Wales is waiting until after the Federal election to implement the new arrangements. In June 2010, the Victorian Labor Government introduced legislation into Parliament for automatic enrolment. With a general election due to be held in Victoria on November 27th 2010, it is unclear whether the Brumby Government will seek to pass the legislation prior to then. As the States and Territories operate "joint-roll" arrangements with the AEC, there is huge potential for confusion if voters become automatically enrolled at the State level, but remain unenrolled for Federal elections. The different systems will create confusion for voters unless the Commonwealth also adopts automatic enrolment. Given that the two largest States (which contain 58 per cent of all Australian voters) are moving to modern enrolment systems, it is imperative that the Commonwealth and other States and Territories also adopt a process that is seamless for voters.
Since coming to power in 2007, the Labor Government has introduced legislation to reform the current enrolment requirements. The proposed changes include restoring the seven-day enrolment period after an election is called, removing some of the ID requirements introduced by the Howard Government, and to allow voters to update their enrolment electronically (as you would, for instance, for your bank accounts). Previous reform attempts have been stymied by the Senate, so it may not be until the new Senators take their seats from July 2011 that the current Bills can be passed. Under the agreements between the newly-elected Gillard Government and the Greens and Independents a national inquiry into broader electoral reform will also report by October 1st 2011, enabling further legislation in 2012.
|Challenge #3: Simplifying electoral enrolment
It is time for reforms that place political equality ahead of perceived partisan interests. Political equality and democratic integrity cannot be taken for granted. These values require sound legislation and strong oversight bodies that remove temptation from the government of the day. We have attempted to show the urgent need for this in the areas of political finance, government advertising and electoral enrolment.
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- Upper houses were generally appointed or elected on special property franchises. In the United States, the Senate was indirectly elected until 1911. ↩
- Harrison Moore, W. (1902) The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. London: John Murray, pp. 327; 329. It should be noted that the Constitution did not guarantee all individuals equality of voting power, because of the over-representation of the small States in the federal parliament, and because of possible disqualification on grounds of race or sex (although the latter was addressed in the 1902 Franchise Act). ↩
- Young, S. and J.C. Tham (2006) Political finance in Australia: A skewed and secret system, Democratic Audit of Australia, Report No. 7, p. 33. Available online: http://www.democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/20061121_youngthamfin.pdf ↩
- For a survey of political finance regulation in 111 countries see Austin, R. and M. Tjernström (2003) Funding of Political Parties and Election Campaigns, Stockholm: International IDEA, 2003, pp. 181–223. ↩
- Election Funding and Disclosures Amendment (Property Developers Prohibition) Act 2009 (NSW). Note also the Electoral Act 2002 (Victoria) which prohibits holders of gambling or casino licences from making donations of over $50,000 to each party. ↩
- Harper v. Canada (Attorney General) (2004) 1 S.C.R. 827, 2004 SCC 33. Available online: http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2004/2004scc33/2004scc33.html ↩
- See Tham, J.C. (2010) Towards a More Democratic Political Funding Regime in NSW: A Report Prepared for the NSW Electoral Commission, pp. 91–109. Available online: http://www.apo.org.au/node/20644 ↩
- Schedule 2, Broadcasting Services Act 1992. ↩
- Moreover, the UK does not allow foreign donations. ↩
- Before 2008 disclosure was only required every four years in NSW, after elections, so complaints were made that it was difficult to find receipts after all that time! ↩
- Young, S. and J.C. Tham, Political finance in Australia: A skewed and secret system, op.cit., p. 65. Available online: http://www.democraticaudit.anu.edu.au/papers/focussed_audits/20061121_youngthamfin.pdf ↩
- Department of Finance and Deregulation (2010) Guidelines on Information and Advertising Campaigns by Australian Government Departments and Agencies. Available online: http://www.finance.gov.au/advertising/index.html ↩
- Hawke, A. (2010) Independent Review of Government Advertising Arrangements (Hawke Report), p. 15. Available online: http://finance.gov.au/advertising/independent-review-government-advertising.html ↩
- Select Committee on Campaign Advertising, Inquiry into the Government Agencies (Campaign Advertising) Bill 2008, August 2008, p. 16 http://www.parliament.act.gov.au/downloads/reports/SCCA%20Report%20%20final%2024%20Aug%202009%20.pdf ↩
- Senate Hansard 15 June 2010, p. 23 Available online: http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/dailys/ds150610.pdf ↩
- See http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2009-55/default.asp ↩
- Australian National Audit Office (2010) The Australian Electoral Commission's Preparation for and Conduct of the 2007 Federal General Election Report 28/10, Commonwealth of Australia Canberra, pp 15 – 23. ↩
- Brent, P, B. Costar and N. Kelly (2008). Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters: Inquiry into the Conduct of the 2007 Federal Election, Democratic Audit of Australia, p. 2. http://wopared.parl.net/house/committee/em/elect07/subs/sub045.pdf ↩
- Brent, P. (2009) 'Sprucing Up the Horse and Buggy', Inside Story, http://inside.org.au/sprucing-up-the-horse-and-buggy/ ↩


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Fritz Lang and Bertolt Brecht collaborated on this tense WWII thriller based on the real-life assassination of SS number-two man and "Butcher of Prague" Reinhard Heydrich.
Dorothy Dandridge became the first African American to ever be nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her blazingly hot performance in Otto Preminger's electrifying widescreen musical.
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Robert Mitchum stars as a man haunted (and hunted) by the demons of his past in this noir-ish, Freudian western by the great Raoul Walsh.
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The most famous debut in film history and long regarded as the greatest film ever made, Orson Welles' legendary chronicle of the rise and fall of a Hearst-like newspaper magnate retains its power to enthrall, confound and overwhelm.
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Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren star in Alfred Hitchcock's twisted tale of sexual pathology and compulsive crime.
What is the greatest film ever made? If you're not already tired of pondering the recent Sight & Sound Top Ten poll — in which Hitchcock's fetishistic Vertigo finally displaced Welles' once invincible Citizen Kane to ascend to that hallowed status — take note that, following last season's presentation of The Searchers, this edition of Hollywood Classics completes our survey of the Hollywood titles in the new S&S rankings: Citizen Kane and Sunrise return to the Cinematheque screen, along with special 70mm presentations of both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Vertigo. And since many critics preferred Marnie to Madeleine as their tormented Hitchcock blonde, we also bring her strange and inexhaustible tale back for consideration.
Looking beyond the canon, the great Raoul Walsh receives a three-film mini-retrospective with a new restoration of the ur-swashbuckler The Thief of Bagdad, the totally delightful pre-Code Wild Girl (recently preserved by New York's Museum of Modern Art), and an archival restoration of the ever-intense Pursued, a noir western that looks forward to the Freudian fifties and pairs up nicely with Robert Siodmak's The Spiral Staircase, another mid-forties psychological thriller involving childhood trauma. The vintage chills of Frankensteinand Dracula, in new DCPs made to mark the centenary of the Universal studio, prove the ultimate in poetic horror, and the rest is spectacle: Otto Preminger's incendiary widescreen musical Carmen Jones and a new digital restoration of D. W. Griffith's epic Intolerance, one of the most influential films in the history of cinema.
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4/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Beerthday weekend? Faggetaboutit, opening this 2008 bomber now.
Poured from the bottle to the snifter, rigerously, making way for a sud driven dense tan head. Tan? Yep tan. Lookin good sexy, you come here often?
Nope, Its my first time.
Smelling all fine with extra perfume, trying to seduce me with all that caramel brown sugar, and round boiuncin hops.
Dark brown non transparent personality.
Do you smoke? Nope, its just my chared toffee burnt sugar residue.
Do you drink?
Yep, and I'm smooth as silk with just a little prickle of carb.
What do you taste like?
Oh you are a naughty boy...
Well I'm all burnt sugars, toasted malt and I finish real bitter with pine, gotta talk nice to me cause I finish real dry.
I bring that heat too, but not over the top, just enough so you know I'm there, but mostly hidden under my blouse.
I like what I'm getting, sip after sip.
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On first pour, it glows with a rich, reddish amber colour, and a lacy white head top. I sniffed this beer like some people sniff flowers (I unfortunately am allergic to pollen). I took in a lot of deep malty scents, and hops, and...that's about it. But not in a bad way, this brew smelled righteous, knowing ahead of time that something big was going to happen. It's like a referee calling a penalty shot in overtime, going in for the big sip was the shot, and the overall taste determined whether or not the deke attempt worked.
Taking the first sip, I expected a train wreck of malty hops. However, I was greeted by a strong, pleasant malty tone, followed by a nice transition into an intense malty flavour, and a crisp, clean after taste. I was so impressed by the after taste, the clean-ish feeling that I got, that it made me want more. This is finally a brew over 10% that will leave you wanting more! Imagine Datsyuk with a highlight reel goal on a breakaway...naturally you'd want more (so long as he's not scoring on your team).
The first, middle, and end tastes are phenomenal. There are no complaints, as everything flows together, while still leaving a memorable taste that would definitely make me want to order this again. If you (or your friends) are new to barleywines, this is a definite first step into the world of 10%+ beers.
The Green Flash Brewing Co. BarleyWine gets a phenomenal penalty-shot-goal-in-overtime 9.5 / 10
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Green Flash Barley Wine Style Ale – 10.2% ABV – 2012 Vintage, consumed March 28, 2013
A: pours a deep and clear ruby red with three fingers of cream coloured froth and big globs of lacing on the tulip glass. Several bubbles in the body. Fantastic look.
S: red grapefruit, caramel-drizzled dates, pine resin, grassy and herbaceous hops, burnt sugar, toasty malt, navel orange, toffee, faint melon, and ethanol. Absolutely gargantuan nose.
T: rich caramel, toffee, and date-like sweetness, mango, toasty-roasted malts, alcohol, pungently citric and lingering resinous hop bitterness, some warmth going down. Tasty overall, but the flavour doesn't quite live up to the aroma.
M: thick, silky-smooth, and full-bodied, bordering on syrupy, massive tongue-scraping bitterness lingers on the palate with some alcoholic burn in the throat (though not harsh).
O: an excellent, hop-forward U.S. barley wine; one of the better examples that I've tried.
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First off, let me just say this: not only is this not a barleywine, I'm not even sure I'd go so far as to call it "barleywine-style," whatever that may be. Any "-style" usually raises red flags for me, whether it is for a beer or "beef-style stock" or whatever. That said, I'm glad it didn't, because this is a solid beer. But it isn't a barleywine. If you are a barleywine fan, as I am, and are expecting one, you may be disappointed.
So before tasting this, pretend instead that you're about to taste a malty IPA... because that's what this is. Except of course there's nothing pale about it, owing to the strong malt character.
Anyway, the basic rundown... it poured a medium caramel, almost a deep amber color. Left a decent head which subsided fairly quickly to leave persistent lacing. Hops are the most apparent scent, and similarly are the strongest component in this beer's flavor, although the malt is a close second. There is enough malt to make this beer a little sticky, though it is surprisingly not at all viscous... at least not for a barleywine. As with the flavor, and especially the scent, this beer's viscosity (and overall texture) more closely resembles that of an IPA than a barleywine.
If I were to rate this beer as a barleywine it would get a very low mark, and that shouldn't happen because this is a very good beer. So I will rate it simply as a beer, regardless of label or sub-label.
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Here is the 2nd way showing the switch for the fan being powered from the LINE side of the GFI.
Have a roof covering my patio and now want to install a couple receptacles, a switch and a ceiling fan on the framing members under the roof. Power from the panel will go first into a GFI outlet. Then I want to add another outlet that will be powered from the LOAD side of the GFI. I am a little confused on how to take power to the switch.
In the diagrams below is one way more preferred over the other as far as the load side of the GFI giving power to the other receptacle and switch(1) or should the power for the switch be grabbed with the line side of the GFI(2)?
All wires will be run in PVC conduit underground and along wood framing of support for roof.
Here is the 2nd way showing the switch for the fan being powered from the LINE side of the GFI.
The fan should be high enough that it would not need to be on the GFCI, so either wiring diagram will work. I, personally, do not like to see stationary motors wired through a GFCI because of false tripping, so I would use the second one.
Licensed residential and commercial plumber
In (2) you're pulling the neutral from the LOAD side of the GFCI, and the feed from the LINE side, the GFCI will see that as an imbalance as whats going out on the LOAD black(feed) does not equal the LOAD white(neutral) coming back, causing the GFCI to trip.
Correct. I hadn't noticed that he was not connecting the fan's neutral to the line side of the GFCI along with the hot wire, but that is still the option I would use, once that was done.
Licensed residential and commercial plumber
One more quick question. I know I will need a "wet" location rated fan but what time of box will I need to support this from being that we will use PVC conduit?
quote; I know I will need a "wet" location rated fan Why? do you plan on hosing down your ceiling or is the roof leaking? IT has been months since Cave Creek even had "wet" anything. You either install a conventional box, securely anchored to the joists then connect the conduit to it, or you use a "fan support box" and do the same thing.
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quote; The underside of the porch roof will be, at LEAST, a damp location, Almost impossible in Arizona, but common in Michigan. When my home was built, they used the same fans on the porch as they did in the family room.
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Out of curiosity, assuming you have a decent roof, why would the underside be considered a wet or damp area? Fog? There should be no leaks in a decent roof, otherwise, the entire house would be considered a damp area!
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The National Electrical Code specifically states that "roofed open porches" are to be classified as Damp Locations. In my part of the world, that
classification is more than justified, but I suppose not so much in drier areas.
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Location, Damp. Locations protected from weather and not subject to saturation with water or other liquids but
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ANy thoughts on if this arrangement would function or would it cause the GFI to trip? The duplex, which is shown at ceiling level, will have both halves switch controlled.
Since nothing is connected to the load in your diagram, the GFCI is out of the picture, so no, it should not trip. Only when you have something on the load side (or if it has receptacles in it rather than a GFI CB) is the GFCI going to trip on a fault.
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jamboy wrote:Flumpy wrote:To be honest he's not worth it at all.
The Olympic stadium would easily sell out both days with no Usain on the bill. That's not to say it isn't great he's there but he's really not necessary in to make the event a success.
Bolt is worth every penny. He is the greatest track and field athlete of all time(GOAT) and has transformed the sport tremendously.
I agree....
I've registered for tickets for this event, and I will be very happy if Bolt appears on both days. Of course, it remains to be seen if I actually get tickets for this DL meet.
Last year it was easy - go online, call a telephone operator, buy tickets for fairly cheap prices, tickets sent in post...but there was no Bolt then.
Now, I have to register for tickets, no guarantee of getting them, likely to be more expensive than last year's DL meet...but if Bolt is there, I will consider it money well-spent!


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Exodus holds the 10 commandments. Specifically, we see:
Exodus 20:13 (KJV)
Thou shalt not kill.
Since the Ten Commandments say "thou shalt not kill" why do Christians fight in a war?
Exodus holds the 10 commandments. Specifically, we see:
Since the Ten Commandments say "thou shalt not kill" why do Christians fight in a war?
This misinterpretation is due to a language shift since the days of King James, when that version of the Ten Commandments was set forth. The term "kill" back then meant what "murder" means today, and I think that everyone would agree that that's a good thing to prohibit in strong, absolute terms.
If you look through the King James Version of the Bible, you don't see the word "kill" used very often, and when it's used it invariably refers to murder. For a non-murderous cause of death, the word is "slay". This is what soldiers do to each other, and if I recall correctly it's also what the priests did to the sacrificial animals.
I was just studying this. If you read more about this very topic you'll find that God is talking about shedding innocent blood.
Have a look at what God did here:
Judges 3:1-2 (New International Version)
God literally preserved wicked nations around Israel just to teach the Israelite's how to fight. Have a look at this other command straight from Jesus.
Luke 22:36 (New International Version)
Jesus is telling us to carry a sword with us when we go out to preach his word. God is not a pushover. God is a man's man that is very capable of sending you into battle, so that you may bring Him glory.
When you hear preachers saying that soldiers need to repent, well, that preacher needs to read his Bible and come to terms with the fact that God is the General of His people.
There are two ways to approach that commandment. Either it is absolute or it is relative: it can either refer to all of human life, or some subset of human life. Clearly it cannot be the former as the Torah also allows for the death penalty (before anyone tries to argue, "but Christ says..." or "but the woman caught in adultery..." I will counter that the original question is in reference to the 10 Commandments and their context must be the first place we look for the intended meaning). Therefore it must be some sub-set of humans who should not be killed. We also know (similarly from the Torah) that there were circumstances where war was acceptable, so the original, intended meaning of the commandment cannot be said to include war.
Based off of the penal laws of the Old Testament, it actually becomes fairly clear that "kill" here, for a private citizen, must mean wrathfully and willfully (Exo. 21:14) or through negligence (c.f. Exo. 21:28). However, if the person is caught in the commission of a crime, that "killing" is licit (Exo. 22:1). As far as a society is concerned, however, it is clear that both the death penalty and war are not only permitted, but at times even encouraged.
Now, to bring this forward to Christianity. While we cannot deny the admonitions to "turn the other cheek", "he who is without sin", and "he who lives by the sword", it should be noted that there is nothing which actually condemns the legitimate defense of one's household and property. If anything, Christ's use of a whip to injure (what else would the whip do?) the money-lenders in the temple should be seen as an expression that sometimes violence is not only justified, but necessary (Christ always did the best thing, overturning the tables and making a whip, therefore, must have been the best thing).
The breadth of Jesus' message is that if we found ourselves in any position that we thought killing would be OK - The correct response would be to actually love that person instead.
** We are to Kill the spirit of evil in that person with love. **
(Don't forget, evil spirits are transferable and contagious.)
This doesn't mean that if they will continue to be a danger to others that they can't be locked up but to kill is the enemy winning.
To love is God winning.
-John 10:10
Matthew 10:28 (NET)
The life of the human body is irrelevant to the eternal life of the spirit.
The other answers here are earthly perspectives.
Which would you rather be - enter the next world from natural causes a few years after killing your enemy or enter the next world killed by your enemy but without murder on your hands ??
Jesus died for His enemies. We are suppose to be little Christs.
Luke 9:55: http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/luke-9-55.html
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Sorry but this commandment means exactly what it says.
God and Jesus are telling us not to take life in any context or situation.
God is all powerful and perfect - if he want's someone gone He can do it himself, He can wipe out an entire continent or the world with a flood if needed. I don't think I need a reference for that one.
With that said, why would we think we need to kill any one in any context, innocent, non-innocent, enemy, friend, slay in war, etc.
That would be taking the matter into our own hands and not trusting God.
God can change a killing situation in a second:
God is also trying to protect us from being killed:
The commandment is also reiterated from Jesus' mouth. Matthew 19: 16-18
He says:
Notice that there are no unless, or if this, or that...etc.
The Old Testament commands to fight wicked nations, but that does not apply in the New Testament. Jesus specifically tells us at the Sermon on the mound we should not stand up for ourselves and that we should pray for such people. When Jesus returns He will then take care of the wicked or will call us to help Him.
Doesn't leave much room for killing. Some say it is Jesus using a hyperbole but if He was he would have said so.
As followers in Christ, we do not belong to any country, we belong to our Lord. We are told to obey them but not if it contradicts the word of God.
So being a Christian and in the Military IN A POSITION OF KILLING is not really a Christian concept. There are may Christians who during WWII refused to carry a weapon and were pushed into medical care and other service positions.
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