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• Romney announces last-minute rallies in Ohio and Pennsylvania
• Obama: I will be the champion of the middle class
• Democrats mount legal action over Florida early voting
• Obama in Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa before returning to Chicago
• Romney in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and New Hampshire
07.47 We'll close the live blog for November 5 there, but join us for our live election day coverage as America goes to the polls... finally!
06.14 Raf Sanchez files this report on Obama's final rally in Iowa before tomorrow's election.
President Barack Obama made an emotional plea to his supporters not to "give up on change" as he staged his final re-election rally in Iowa, the state that first breathed life into his presidential ambitions.
Speaking 24 hours before he learns whether the American people have granted him a second term in office, a weary-looking Mr Obama acknowledged that there was nothing more he could to do change the course of the election.
05.25 Here is Obama's speech in full.
05.15 Over in Ohio, Mitt Romney is making his closing remarks.
With the right leadership, America is going to come roaring back. The only thing that stands between us and some of the best years that we could ever imagine is lack of leadership and that is why we have elections. Tomorrow is a moment to look into the future and imagine what we can do.
05.08 Obama is "firing up" the crowd in Des Moines, Iowa. "Are you fired up!" he shouts enthusiastically over and over again as he recounts the touching but well-worn story of 60-year-old council woman Edith Childs from Greenwood, South Carolina, who invented the chant.
That shows you what one voice can do. One voice can change a room. And if it can change a room, it can change a city. And if it can change a city, it can change a state. And if it can change a state, it can change a nation. And if it can change a nation, it can change the world.
For those who aren't familiar with the story, here it is:
04.59 Romney is focusing the speech on jobs and the economy, in a direct appeal to America's middle class. He illustrates his point with a story of a 65-year-old welder, laid off after 40 years of service, saying "he doesn't want a government cheque, he wants a job".
The election comes to this, do you want four more years like the last four years? Or do you want real change? Now president Obama promised change but couldn't deliver it. Now I not only promise change but I have a record of achieving.
If you are tired of being tired then i ask you to vote for real change and to make that happen tomorrow.
04.44 After a year-long slog, both candidates are running low on new speech material.
04.32 Over in Manchester, Ohio, Mitt Romney is attacking Obama for "falling short" on his promises.
I would like you to ask them to look beyond the speeches, the attacks and all the ads, and to look to the record. Talk is cheap but a record is real and it is earned with effort.
Change was promised by the president but change is not measured in speeches, it is measured in achievements. Four years ago candidate obama promises to do so very much but has fallen short.
He promised to become a post-partisan president but he became partisan. Blaming attacking and dividing.
04.31 Obama's late arrival on stage has meant a clash with coverage of Mitt Romney's speech in Ohio that started at 11pm ET.
04.21 "You know I tell the truth," Obama continues, reminding the crowds that when he entered office 2008 the country was in the middle of two wars and the economy had just collapsed.
We are less dependent on foreign oil, the war in Iraq has ended, the war in Afghanistan is ending. Osama bin Lden is dead! We've made real progress over the last four years but we're not done yet on this journey.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney greets audience members in Manchester while President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet supporters in Des Moines REUTERS / AP
04.08 Barack Obama finally reaches the stage through dozens of cold but high-spirited fans. He starts by thanking the Iowans with anecdotes of Iowa volunteers being "willing to work for less pay and little sleep" because they believed in the Obama campaign. It is a nice way of appealing to voters on a personal level.
When the walls inside were bare one of you painted a mural to lift everyone's spirits. You picked us up when you needed a lift. Your stories filled me with resolve. You inspired us I want to take this opportunity to all the young people and the not so young people [...] I want to thank you.
We all deserve a shot at our own American dream. When the city said we couldn't, you said 'yes we can'. You said yes we can and we did.
03.59 In Des Moines, Iowa, Michelle Obama has arrived to chants of "We love Michelle" from the crowds. She has praise for Bruce Springsteen, who has been playing at rallies thoughout the campaign, before introducing the president.
This is a pretty emotional time for us because this is the final event of my final campaign. This is the last time that he and I will be on stage at a campaign rally and that is why we wanted to come here to Iowa tonight because truly this is where it all began right here. I have so many fond memories of this state.
I will never forget the kindness and warmth and love that you all showed me and my family and especuially my girls.
03.32 The New York Times's Nate Silver has this update on the polls:
23.50 (18.50) No one has really had a chance to ask Obama what he thought his chances were tomorrow but Biden has been in full-blown tactician mode, describing how sees the campaign heading to victory. He told Obama volunteers a little earlier.
This is no malarkey. We genuinely feel good about the campaign. I've spent an awful lot of time in what they call the firewall – Ohio and Iowa and Wisconsin. We're going to win all three of those states. We're going to win Nevada, New Hampshire, Colorado. We have a chance not just to win but actually to make a real statement about unifying this country
23.45 (18.45) My colleague Jon Swaine reports that some nervous Republicans are already figuring out who to blame and Hurricane Sandy is top of the list.
While Mr Romney made his final push, high-profile Republicans appeared to pre-empt a disappointing result by claiming that last week's storm in the north-east of the country had halted momentum that had been gathering behind Mr Romney since his surprising victory in the first presidential debate.
Karl Rove, the mastermind of George W Bush's election victories, described the devastating weather as "a stutter in the campaign", adding: "If you hadn't had the storm, there would have been more of a chance for the Romney campaign to talk about the deficit, the debt, the economy".
Another senior Republican, Haley Barbour, the Mississippi governor, said Mr Romney's campaign momentum had been "broken" by the storm, adding that a blackout on key election issues was 'good' for Barack Obama.
Closer analyses of polls indicates that the boost from Mr Romney's first debate win had already begun subsiding before the storm struck, after Mr Obama was judged to have bettered him in the following two debates and enjoyed some relatively promising economic news.
23.25 (18.25) Obama and his family will stay at their Chicago home tomorrow night after the results. Presumably they'll return to Washington on Wednesday, whether they've won or lost.
23.15 (18.15) Everybody - candidates, reporters, staff and voters - seems to be losing it in the in final hours of this campaign.
23.05 (18.05) Romney has been pulling big crowds in Virginia today, speaking to a raucous 8,000 supporters earlier on today. That's about half the number Obama managed in Columbus, Ohio but he did have the advantage of two major performers with him. Here's Romney with Ann a little earlier.
22.40 (17.40) Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, has just ordered that people in areas affected by Sandy can cast their ballot at any polling station tomorrow.
22.20 (17.20) Alex Spillius, our diplomatic correspondent, files this snippet from Boston:
I've been speaking to Morris Reid, a former Clinton White House official and leading Washington consultant, who says the Romney expansion into Pennsylvania and elsewhere can be explained in part by the campaigns having more money than they know what to do with.
"He can put up commercials in Pennsylvania, Michigan because they have surplus amounts of cash. The fact is everyone has so much money. The air time in Ohio is completely sold out, you cannot get an ad on TV, so they had to do something with their money.
"Having said that, Romney going to Pittsburgh and Ohio tomorrow is a smart move. Maybe they see something in Pennsylvania and if they are going to win, they need other options apart from Ohio, so it makes sense."
22.10 (17.10)The Washington Post's final tracker poll has put Obama on 50 per cent to Romney's 47, the same score as the final Pew poll that was published yesterday. Gallup's last tracker has Romney on 49 and Obama on 48 - a significant tightening since before Hurricane Sandy, when the President trailed by six points.
The polling firms seem to agree that Obama's position has strengthened since the storm. The question is, will it be enough?
21.55 (16.55) Our own Iain Martin says the election has failed to live up to the times.
The curious thing is that during the last four years American politics has actually been a lively affair brimming with ideas, even if some of them were on occasion loopy. The financial crisis produced two noisy movements at different ends of the spectrum which in their different ways tapped into anger and motivated many millions.
On the liberal Left there was the Occupy movement, whose supporters posed some of the right questions about vested interests even if they too often came up with predictable and wrong-headed answers.
On the Right there was the tumultuous Tea Party, whose advocates were also asking interesting questions, in their case about the size and scope of government. Yet it all fizzled out, leaving us with a rather dull, centrist election campaign between two not very inspiring candidates.
21.45 (16.45) The celebrities have finally yielded the stage to Obama, who's campaigning without a tie. He praises both Jay Z and Springsteen saying:
They tell the story of what our country is but also what it could be and what it should be. That's what we're fighting for.
21.35 (16.35) The Romney campaign is unamused by Jay Z's antics in Ohio. Ted Newton, one of Romney's communications advisers, just said:
A new low for Obama presidency: Jay-Z replacing a misogynistic swear word with the word "Mitt" as he performs at an Obama event.
21.30 (16.30) You can watch Obama's Columbus rally live here
21.25 (16.25) Jay Z is going for it in Ohio now, sanitising the lyrics of his major hit 99 Problems so that the line goes "I got 99 Problems but a Mitt ain't one" instead of the usual profanity. "No colourful language," he laughs.
21.20 (16.20) Romney has just wrapped up his final rally in Virginia and will soon head to Columbus, Ohio, where Obama is due soon. It's his last chance to move the needle in Old Dominion, where polls show the two candidates absolutely neck-and-neck.
If Romney loses Virginia tomorrow it leave a major crack in the foundation he needs to reach 270. The state was once a safe Republican seat but was snatched by Obama in 2008 and the President's campaign are fighting doggedly to hold onto it.
21.12 (16.12) All of Obama's surrogates seem bit demob happy today. Speaking in Philadelphia, Bill Clinton joked that Romney was accusing the President of having secret plans to work with the Chinese and the Italians to scupper the American auto industry. "He's going to go after the Irish next and then I'm toast," he laughs.
He then goes on to say this, which is perhaps a bit rich for a former president who repeatedly misled the country during the Lewinsky scandal.
21.07 (16.07) Onstage in Ohio, Bruce Springsteen just improvised a little ditty about the election.
I'm voting for the guy who got Osama
At this time of day I'm usually in my pyjamas
The first debate really freaked me out
Then Romney got schooled by Obama
Smiling Joe Biden brought the drama
Fox News said he was smoking marijuana
I don't really get it either.
20.55 (15.55) Obama is drawing on every bit of glimmer of celebrity star power he has today and will be joined by Jay Z as well as Bruce Springsteen in Ohio today. Here's the President with the CEO of Hip Hop and his wife, Beyonce, at a fundraiser in New York earlier this year.
20.25 (15.25) CBS's Mark Knoller keeps exacting records of all the President's movements and his calculations show how this election is being fought intensively in only a narrow swathe of the United States.
Most visited state? You guessed it - Ohio with 26 trips.
20.05 (15.05) Romney has announced that he is going to hold campaign events in Ohio and Pennsylvania on election day itself, tearing up the earlier plan to hold his final rally in New Hampshire tonight. Republicans will claim that this is Romney exploiting a new opening in Pennsylvania but Democrats will jeer this is a sign of panic.
19.55 (14.55) One of the reporters travelling with the President just caught up with Bruce Springsteen on the tarmac in Ohio.
Pool was able to interview Springsteen on the tarmac, after he alighted Air Force One, with his wife, Patti, from the rear of the plane. Asked if this was his first trip on Air Force one, he said yes, then started grinning.
"It was pretty cool," he said.
He said he chatted with the president during the fligjt about the effect of Sandy on New Jersey. "I'm feeling pretty hopeful,"about the chances that the Jersey shore will recover.
19.35 (14.35) Joe Biden did a rare interview last night with MSNBC, where he gave a bullish prediction that the President's midwestern "firewall" would still be standing on Wednesday morning. He was a little more downbeat on Virginia and Florida, giving the Democrats a 50-50 chance of victory.
19.16 (14.16) The Huffington Post has a strangely specific analysis of who America's divorced celebrities will be voting for. To be fair, it does rather prove the theory that a marriage gap exists.
18.52 (13.52) It will be interesting to see what happens on social media websites tomorrow and into Wednesday - Twitter in particular. As more and more people take to social media - with events like Superstorm Sandy setting new records on platforms such as Instagram - BuzzFeed wonders if election day will, in fact, break Twitter.
Election Day will not just be an outlier, it will be the outlier, an unprecedented flood inside the site's rigid structure.
18.42 (13.42) Win or lose, today is the last day that Mr Obama will campaign for political office - and, he noted, he was going out in style. During comments thanking Springsteen for appearing at the Wisconsin rally, Mr Obama had this to say (from Agence France-Presse):
He (Springsteen) is an American treasure. And I get to fly around with him on the last day that I will ever campaign. So that's not a bad way to end things.
18.00 (13.00) Meanwhile, here's some footage of The Boss performing at the Obama rally:
17.38 (12.38) Mr Romney's VIrginia rally is not getting off to a great start, according to Agence France-Presse:
17.08 (12.08) The breakout star of the 2008 campaign, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, has (unsurprisingly) endorsed Mr Romney on her Facebook page. Mrs Palin electrified running mate John McCain's White House bid, but four years is a very long time in politics. Slate political reporter Dave Weigel sums up just how much influence she's had on this campaign:
16.45 (11.45) Bruce Springsteen has taken the stage in Wisconsin now. Peter Foster writes:
The Boss is on stage, strumming his six string, harmonica the only other accompaniment."No retreat, baby, no surrender" he rasps. Springsteen had breakfast with Obama at a local diner, we are told, and will be hitching a ride on Air Force One to Ohio later.
16.42 (11.42) CNN are floating the possibility that Sandy could force officials in New York to extend voting for an extra day. As this morning, stories on the election remain prominent on the websites of the New York newspapers - but, from the New York Daily News to the New York Times, they continue to play second fiddle to stories on Sandy.
Meanwhile, Mother Jones has this from a New Jersey voter:
16.13 (11.13) The impact that Superstorm Sandy will have on the ability of many in New York and New Jersey to vote is becoming less clear as time goes on (see 13.24). Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has been asked if he thinks the city will be ready for the election. "I have absolutely no idea," he replied, according to the Associated Press.
The new storm that we mentioned earlier is also likely to affect both voters' ability and desire to get to the polls. From AP:
A new storm was expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region still shivering and cleaning up after last week's Superstorm Sandy, bringing the threat of 55 mph (89 kph) gusts and more beach erosion, flooding and rain by Wednesday.
Temperatures dipped toward freezing early Monday, and tens of thousands of people without power along the ravaged Atlantic coastline faced the growing certainly that they would have to find somewhere else to stay. Especially hard hit were the thousands in public housing, who often have no place to go and barricade themselves in darkened apartments for the 12 hours of night.
15.52 (10.52) The Telegraph's US editor Peter Foster is with Mr Obama this morning. He sends us a picture of his view in chilly Wisconsin:
Spectacular backdrop to Obama's rally in Madison, Wisconsin. Air Force One rolled in from Vegas at 3.08 local last night, so if the president is a little bleary-eyed, that'll be why. U2 is blasting out over the PA but Bruce Springsteen, aka The Boss is the live warm-up act this morning. He'll need to get the crowd moving, if only to avoid frost bite. Perishing cold here.
15.37 (10.37) According to the Associated Press, Mr Romney, who has just left Florida en route to Viriginia, is considering visiting Ohio - where 18 electoral votes are up for grabs - one more time on election day. The Republican's final campaign rally was supposed to be late tonight in New Hampshire, before he was due to head home to Massachusetts in time for election day tomorrow.
AP outlines why he may be making the last-minute change, despite a planned visit to Ohio later today also:
Such a visit would be a last-ditch attempt to win a state that is critical to Romney's presidential hopes. Without it, he would have to win nearly all the other contested states. Polls in Ohio have been stubbornly close, showing Democratic President Barack Obama holding a slight but consistent edge.
In their own story on the rumour, Agence France-Presse notes that Romney aides did not deny a potential election-day dash to Ohio.
15.12 (10.17) The Telegraph's hard work on the US election has not gone unnoticed in America, with none other than the LA Times publishing an entire feature on our team's coverage of the tiny town of Dunkirk, Ohio. According to the newspaper, our readers now know as much about the "cast of characters" in Dunkirk as they do about the cast of Downton Abbey.
The reporters, it seems, were also a hit with the town's population. "It was like Beatlemania," Washington reporter Raf Sanchez - one of our "people with accents" who invaded the town - was quoted as saying after he was asked to autograph a copy of the Telegraph.
The Foreign Desk has a collective "!!!" in response.
15.07 (10.07) As we move into the home stretch of this election, BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski has a tweet to make hearts sink everywhere:
Hopefully the world can unite to keep this headache-inducing news away from little Abigael Evans.
14.36 (09.36) Mr Romney has appeared on stage in Florida this morning, urging a chanting crowd to get out and vote as both candidates agree that this will be a "turnout election" - that is, the candidate who can get the most voters to the polls will win.
"We have one job left," Mr Romney told a crowd outside Orlando. "We need every single vote in Florida... We ask you to stay at it all the way to victory on Tuesday night," he said, to chants of "One more day! One more day!"
The President has also been on Twitter this morning, emphasising the same thing:
14.11 (09.11) Speaking of the role of women in this election (see 12.46), aggregator Matt Drudge raises an interesting point:
As we've noted elsewhere, Hill's husband Bill Clinton has been deployed to head off what the Obama team fears is a late Romney surge in Pennsylvania. Mr Clinton has spent some significant time with Mr Obama on the campaign trail, while Mrs Clinton - who lost the Democratic nomination to Mr Obama in 2008, and who many are still hoping will try again in 2016 - has stayed very much in the background of this campaign. She did not attend the Democratic National Convention and she has not been particularly outspoken in favour of Mr Obama.
Mrs Clinton has been ranked Most Admired Woman every year for the past decade. More importantly, she also consistently scores among the highest approval ratings of the top members of the administration. Were she to join her popular husband at Mr Obama's side, it stands to reason she could rally many to Mr Obama's cause.
Of course, what Drudge fails to note is that Mrs Clinton is America's top diplomat, who has a punishing schedule that means she spends most of her time overseas. With the attack in Benghazi that claimed the life of a US ambassador still fresh in most people's minds, not to mention America's other overseas commitments, the sight of Mrs Clinton spending her time on the campaign trail rather than at work could well have backfired.
As we've also seen elsewhere (12.46), Mr Obama already seems to have the female vote, meaning that Mrs Clinton's ability to draw women voters is somewhat redundant - and the less politics she plays, the more she is admired, both at home and abroad.
At any rate, with Bill to campaign for her - I mean, for Mr Obama - and her popularity growing whether she's in the US or not, it may be wise for Mrs Clinton to stay away.
13.48 (08.48) A new YouGov poll - one of the most extensive ever conducted, using data from 36,000 likely US voters - will not have either candidate sleeping well tonight.
The poll, which included voters in 27 states (including the battleground and largest states) and which was conducted from October 31 until November 3, has Mr Obama winning the election - but by breathtakingly narrow margin of 2%.
Perhaps most alarmingly, YouGov president Peter Kellner himself raises the spectre of the Bush-Gore debacle of 2000 - a legal nightmare that more and more are citing today. Mr Kellner is quoted:
We are predicting that Obama is going to hang on to the presidency, but by a smaller margin than in 2008. It's even possible that Obama will narrowly lose the nationwide popular vote and still win the electoral college. Mitt Romney could win one million more votes than Obama across American and still lose the election... In such a tight race, no doubt the Democrats are not only concerned about losing the White House, but are also worried about the cloud that could hang over Obama's second term if he does not win the popular vote. Whatever happens tomorrow, this will undeniably be an historic election.
13.24 (08.24) As I noted earlier, the New York newspapers have given the continued fall-out from Superstorm Sandy the place of pride on their websites, with the election - though still prominent - in second place. Now it seems the US morning shows - many of which are based in New York - are going one step further, looking ahead to a new storm that is forecast to hit the areas already ravaged earlier in the week:
Officials are already scrambling to make sure that, in the midst of the disaster relief and massive logistical challenge of aiding and rehousing many of Sandy's victims, voters can get to the polls. The threat of a new storm will complicate that already nightmarish-job.
13.09 (08.09) It may not be the support he was hoping for, but according to Agence France-Presse, the majority of France's extreme-right is backing Mr Obama:
Sixty-one percent of voters from the far-right, anti-immigrant National Front party headed by Marine Le Pen said they favoured Obama, while 14 percent backed Romney.
Well, at this stage, support is support...
12.46 (07.46) Much has been made of the women's vote during this election campaign. Rows over abortion and rape played a central role during the debate on social issues, spawning accusations of a Republican "war on women" that was only highlighted by Mr Romney's "binders full of women" debate gaffe.
Meanwhile, polling data shows just how much sway women have, with some numbers from earlier in the campaign suggesting that we could see a historic election in which one of the most disenfranchised groups in history - unmarried women - have a powerful say in the vote to re-elect a black man (who also represents a disenfranchised group) to the most powerful office in the world (an office historically held by white men).
Now the Telegraph blogger Indu Chandrasekhar has broken down exactly why Mr Obama deserves support from half the electorate (and the workforce) - women:
The truth is that women's rights have everything to do with the economy, the middle class and family. A woman's right to choose when she wants to have children has everything to do with what kinds of jobs she chooses, how aggressively she climbs the ladder and how she can provide for her family...
Romney's plan to help women economically extends only as far as giving them flexible work schedules, so they can be home to cook dinner for their families... Mr Obama's record tells a different story...
At stake are your rights to choose when you want to have a family, your ability to advocate for yourself in the workplace and the respect you deserve from politicians who understand that you know what's best for you.
12.30 (07.30) In their latest wrap on the campaign, news agency Reuters have described the race as "essentially deadlocked". The New York Times' influential Five Thirty Eight blog's election tracker now has Mr Obama ahead almost everywhere.
12.20 (07.20) Mr Romney's sons have been talking to ITV News. Matt Romney is quoted as telling the programme that his father has "got so much energy, I would have been dead by this point", while brother Josh adds: "We're seeing more enthusiasm and energy in the Republican Party than we've seen in decades."
11.43 (06.43) Historian Tim Stanley claims in a new Telegraph blog that Mr Romney still has the X Factor. Watching last night's X Factor results show, he explains, he put out a prediction on Twitter: "If Rylan wins, Romney wins", adding: "Blow me if Rylan didn't win!"
Taking a more serious tone, however, he analyses why "you don't have to be partisan, or mad, to acknowledge that there are gaps in the mainstream narrative that says Obama will coast to re-election", only returning to his X Factor analogy at the end of the piece:
Recall that whenever a singer belts out an 80s power ballad in the sing off, everyone at home says, "Aw, he did that well. He deserves to go through." But do they actually get up, go into the kitchen, pick up the phone and pay the enormous charge to vote for him? No – because people lie as readily to their TV sets as they do to pollsters.
11.08 (06.08) Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has written a typically colourful piece informing Mr Romney that while Planet Earth is rooting for Mr Obama, he, Boris, has the key to the election:
Look at the world, rather than Ohio, and there is nothing remotely close about this race... The reasons for this are intuitively obvious. The world as a whole is leery of Republican foreign policy, because it is associated – rightly or wrongly – with a general willingness to bomb Middle Eastern countries... Now, Romney can respond to this in two ways. He can take it as a badge of honour that the world so clearly favours Obama; indeed, he could stress that he will be a president for Americans and not for foreigners. Or else he could say something that shows America is listening... Mitt needs a last-minute symbolic act of American humility and goodwill, and the one I propose is relatively painless.
So what does Boris propose? I won't spoil the end of his piece... but rest assured, it is a very Boris proposition.
10.45 (05.45) A quick scan of the world's media proves that the US election truly is a global event.
10.10 (05.10) Telegraph blogger and investigative journalist Willard Foxton has done an extraordinary and slightly alarming post on how the Obama campaign was able to guess his income from his mobile number:
From nothing more than a phone number, the Obama campaign could divide us up by rank and disposable income, within five hours of getting our data. This is targeted ads at a new level, looking to bring in donations at the amount each of us individually consider pocket change.
While Romney has the Koch brothers and Karl Rove onside, he has nothing approaching this level of digital sophistication.
09.49 (04.49) Agence France-Presse has a round-up of the national polls that proves once again that no one really knows what's going to happen on election night:
The two candidates are effectively tied in national polls of the popular vote but Obama appears to have a stronger claim to the battleground states, and if the polls are accurate, seems to be in position to win re-election.
The latest ABC News/Washington Post survey showed the race tied, with both Obama and Romney receiving 48-percent support among likely voters.
In a new CNN/ORC poll of likely voters, Obama and Romney stood at 49 percent each.
A survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News gave Obama 48 percent support and Romney 47 percent - a statistical dead heat.
And only a Pew poll found that Obama led 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters who already have made up their minds, with four percent saying they remain uncommitted.
09.40 (04.40) Both candidates are due to be racking up the frequent flier miles over the next few hours as they fight to win the hearts and minds of those all important swing states.
Mr Obama begins in Wisconsin, continues to Ohio and then to Iowa, the state where he began his presidential run in 2008, before returning to his home town Chicago.
Mr Romney starts the day in the biggest swing state of all, Florida. He then flies to Virginia and kingmaker Ohio one last time before returning to where his campaign began 18 months ago: New Hampshire.
The Associated Press has broken down why these states in particular are important for the candidates under America's electoral college system, where they need 270 electoral votes to win the White House:
If the election were held now, an Associated Press analysis found that Obama would be all but assured of 249 electoral votes, by carrying 20 states that are solidly Democratic or leaning his way - Iowa, Nevada and Pennsylvania among them - and the District of Columbia. Romney would lay claim to 206, from probable victories in 24 states that are strong Republican turf or tilt toward the Republicans, including North Carolina.
Up for grabs are 83 electoral votes spread across Colorado, Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin. Of those, Republicans and Democrats alike say Obama seems in slightly better shape than Romney in Ohio and Wisconsin, while Romney appears to be performing slightly better than Obama or has pulled even in Florida and Virginia.
In perhaps the most interesting late-campaign development and with Obama sustaining his lead in Ohio, a virtual must-win for Romney, the Republican has opened a surprise, last-minute gambit in next-door Pennsylvania. The state has voted Democratic in the last five presidential elections and has long been counted in the Obama column. Romney made his first visit to the state of the fall campaign on Sunday, taking along running mate Rep. Paul Ryan.
09.02 (04.02) Scientific polling and expert opinion aside, the day has already begun with a bad omen for Mr Obama after an upset in the National Football League.
Under the so-called "Redskins Rule", if National Football League team Washington Redskins win their final home game before a US election, the incumbent - in this case, Mr Obama - will win the poll.
If they lose, the White House will go to the challenger, Agence France-Presse reports:
Last night, the Carolina Panthers overcame a five-game losing streak to defeat the Redskins in an NFL upset. The Panthers may well become Mr Romney's new favourite team.
For those who dismiss the result as mere superstition, the statistics are somewhat eyebrow-raising: in 18 elections starting in 1940, the Redskins' result has accurately predicted which candidate will receive the most overall votes in the subsequent election.
In 17 of 18 US presidential elections, it has predicted the election winner, who is the candidate that collects the most electoral college delegates. At least 270 are needed to win.
The only time the method missed calling the presidency correctly was in 2004 when the Redskins lost 28-14 to Green Bay and Republican incumbent George W. Bush beat Democratic challenger John Kerry.
09.00 BST (04.00 EST) Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of the US election. Believe it or not, there are only hours left before voters go to the polls to decide whether to give Barack Obama another four years, or to make Mitt Romney the most powerful leader in the world. It's a final, frenzied sprint to the finish and, with the race being one of the closest in recent history, no one really knows what is going to happen.


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Senior • 2012
Team captain ... Named second-team All-Ivy ... Rowed for the varsity eight all season ... Helped the varsity eight take the bronze at the IRA National Championships, locking up the Crimson's second straight top-three national finish ... Contributed to the win at the H-Y Regatta completing a perfect dual season for the varsity eight and Harvard's fifth straight sweep of Yale ... Took second at the EARC Sprints, missing out on first by less than a half second to Brown and contributing to the Rowe Cup win ... Helped sweep Northeastern and take the Crimson's 15th consecutive Smith Cup ... Rowed in win over Navy and Penn at the Adams Cup ... Topped Princeton and MIT to take the Compton Cup ... Contributed to wins over Brown for the Stein Cup and Cornell ... Helped capture the Copley Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic.
Junior • 2011
Raced with the varsity eight, contributing to an undefeated dual season and a Sprints championship … Part of the Harvard boat that reached the semifinals of the Ladies' Challenge Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta … Raced to a second-place finish at the IRA National Championships … Contributed to victory over Yale at the 146th Harvard-Yale Regatta … Helped win the Ivy League title, Eastern title and Rowe Cup at the EARC Sprints … Helped defeat Northeastern for the Smith Cup, Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup, Princeton for the Compton Cup, Brown for the Stein Cup and Cornell.
Sophomore • 2010
Rowed in the three seat of the varsity eight all spring, contributing to the Crimson's 7-1 dual record … Helped Harvard capture its seventh Ladies' Challenge Plate at the Royal Henley Regatta … Helped the Crimson win its 26th Eastern title, 26th Ivy League crown and 30th Rowe Cup at the EARC Sprints … Part of fourth-place varsity finish at IRA National Championships … Contributed to a third consecutive win at the 145th Harvard-Yale Regatta … Aided in fourth straight Compton Cup win against Princeton and MIT … Helped the Crimson win the Adams Cup against Navy and Penn for the 11th straight season … Contributed to the Crimson's 13th straight win over Northeastern for the Smith Cup and a dual win against Cornell.
Freshman • 2009
Member of the freshman eight that went undefeated in dual racing (7-0) … Won a silver medal at Sprints and the IRA National Championships.
Before Harvard
Three-time letterwiner in football, wrestling and crew; named team captain for all three ... Was all-league in football and wrestling ... Named team MVP senior year in crew and football ... Member of national championship crew in 2007 ... Won New England Team Championships in wrestling and football as a junior ... Member of three New England Championships in rowing ... Was a peer leader junior and senior year ... Member of Young Neighbors in Action sophomore and junior year.
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Entecavir Intensification for Persistent HBV Viremia in HIV-HBV Infection
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00662545
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 21, 2008
Results First Posted : May 16, 2013
Last Update Posted : May 27, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections Hepatitis B
|Drug: Entecavir with continued standard of care antiretroviral therapy Drug: continued standard of care with tenofovir in addition to emtricitabine or lamivudine
|Phase 4
Design: This is a randomized, controlled pilot study of open-label entecavir for the treatment of persistent HBV viremia in HIV-HBV coinfected individuals who have failed to suppress HBV replication after 48 weeks on tenofovir containing therapy.
Primary Objective: To evaluate the mean log reduction of HBV DNA with entecavir(ETV) intensification in comparison to continued standard therapy with tenofovir and lamivudine/emtricitabine at 24 weeks of therapy
Study Population: HIV-HBV co-infected individuals with detectable HBV DNA after 48 weeks of therapy with tenofovir and lamivudine/emtricitabine whose HIV viremia is well controlled ( < 75 copies at time of enrollment)
Treatment: Subjects will be randomized to continue with standard therapy or to receive intensification with 1 mg daily of open label entecavir for the 24 week duration of the study.
Sample Size: 24 subjects will be enrolled.
Duration 24 weeks of treatment
Primary Endpoint: Mean log10 reduction of HBV DNA at 24 weeks of standard therapy vs. entecavir intensification.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|10 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Entecavir Intensification for Persistent Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Viremia in HIV-HBV Infection
|Study Start Date :
|April 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2010
Experimental: A
Entecavir 1 mg for 24 weeks in addition to continued standard of care antiretroviral therapy containing tenofovir in addition to emtricitabine or lamivudine
Drug: Entecavir with continued standard of care antiretroviral therapy
1 mg by mouth daily
Other Name: Baraclude, Tenofovir, Truvada, Viread, 3TC, FTC, Epivir, Emtriva
Active Comparator: B
continued standard of care antiretroviral therapy which will include tenofovir in addition to emtricitabine or lamivudine
Drug: continued standard of care with tenofovir in addition to emtricitabine or lamivudine
continued standard of care with tenofovir in addition to emtricitabine or lamivudine
Other Name: Tenofovir, Truvada, Viread, 3TC, FTC, Epivir, Emtriva
- Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) DNA [ Time Frame: week 24 ]HBV DNA carries the genetic blueprint of the virus. How many HBV DNA "particles" or "copies" are found in the blood indicates how rapidly the virus is reproducing in the liver.
- Incidence of Permanent Discontinuation Due to Toxicity [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Incidence of New Hepatic Decompensation( Ascites, Variceal Hemorrhage, Encephalopathy) [ Time Frame: every 4 weeks for 24 weeks ]
- Incidence of ALT Flares [ Time Frame: every 4 weeks for 24 weeks ]ALT flare: sudden increase in blood level of alanine transaminase (ALT)
- HIV RNA < 75 Copies/ml [ Time Frame: entry, week 12, and week 24 ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability and willingness to provide written informed consent
- HIV infection, documented in patient medical record. Acceptable forms of documentation include positive HIV antibody or detectable HIV RNA.
- Chronic HBV infection, defined as HBsAg positivity. Both hepatitis B "e" antigen (HBeAg) positive and negative subjects will be eligible.
- Detectable HBV DNA ( > 160 copies/ml) after 48 weeks of therapy with TDF in conjunction with either 3TC or FTC
- Compensated liver disease, defined as a Child-Pugh-Turcot(CPT) Score <7 at the time of enrollment.
Note: If Bilirubin in elevated, direct and indirect bilirubin levels will be evaluated. If only indirect bilirubin elevated, direct bilirubin will be used for CPT score. If BOTH direct and indirect bilirubin are elevated, total bilirubin will be used for the CPT score.
- Stable antiretroviral therapy with no changes in the prior 8 weeks due to antiretroviral failure. HIV therapy modification for reasons other than virologic failure and without change in the tenofovir(TDF), lamivudine(3TC) or emtricitabine(FTC) moiety of the antiretroviral therapy will be permitted. HIV therapy must include TDF in conjunction with 3TC or FTC, and at least one other anti-HIV agent.
- HIV RNA of <75 copies/ml within 8 weeks of study enrollment.
- Estimated creatinine clearance by Cockcroft-Gault of ≥ 50 ml/min
- Serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) of ≤50 ng/ml within 8 weeks of study entry, or if elevated > 50 ng/ml, an imaging study demonstrating no evidence of hepatic tumor within 8 weeks of enrollment.
Female study volunteers must not participate in a conception process (e.g., active attempt to become pregnant). If participating in sexual activity that could lead to pregnancy, the female study volunteer must use the following forms of contraception while receiving study-specific medication(s) and for 30 days after stopping the medication. One of the following methods MUST be used appropriately:
- Condoms1 (male or female) with or without a spermicidal agent
- Diaphragm or cervical cap with spermicide
- intrauterine device(IUD)
Hormonal-based method
- Condoms are recommended because their appropriate use is the only contraception method effective for preventing HIV transmission.
Note: Subjects with concomitant Hepatitis C infection will be permitted to enroll.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Allergy or sensitivity to study drug
- Pregnancy, breastfeeding or unwillingness/inability to adhere to contraceptive methods for the duration of the study
- Prisoners or subjects who are incarcerated.
- Evidence of malignancy that would make the subject, in the opinion of the investigator, unsuitable for the study. This includes any systemic antineoplastic or immunomodulatory treatment or radiation within 24 weeks prior to study entry or the expectation that such treatment will be needed at any time during the study.
- Receipt of systemic corticosteroids within 90 days prior to study entry (as this medication may increase HBV replication).
- Investigational anti-HIV agents will be allowed on a case-by-case basis with the approval of the protocol team.
- Active drug or alcohol use or dependence that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with adherence to study requirements.
- Any active medical, psychiatric or social circumstance that in the opinion of the investigator puts the subject at potential risk from study participation or makes adherence to the study protocol unlikely.
- Receipt of the following drugs with anti-HBV activity within 90 days prior to study entry or anticipated receipt during the course of the study including: adefovir(ADV), telbivudine, alpha interferon, penciclovir (Denavir) (except if given for < 4 weeks), famciclovir (Famvir), diaminopurine dioxolane (DAPD), clevudine (L-FMAU), thymosin alpha 1, ganciclovir (treatment limited to < 7 days is acceptable) (Cytovene), L-deoxythymidine, and L-deoxythymidine compounds and other investigational agents with anti-HBV activity.
- Receipt of nephrotoxic drugs (e.g., aminoglycosides, amphotericin B, vancomycin, cidofovir [Vistide], foscarnet [Foscavir], cisplatin, intravenous pentamidine [Pentam], oral tacrolimus [Prograf], cyclosporine [Sandimmune]) or the competitor of renal excretion, probenecid (Benemid), within 8 weeks prior to study entry or expected use of these agents during the course of the study. (Topical tacrolimus is allowed.)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00662545
|United States, California
|San Francisco General HIV Clinical Trials Group
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|Principal Investigator:
|Anne F Luetkemeyer, MD
|HIV/AIDS Division, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco
|Responsible Party:
|University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00662545 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 21, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|May 16, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|May 27, 2013
|Last Verified:
|May 2013
Hepatitis B
treatment experienced
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Communicable Diseases
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Hepadnaviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors


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Obama's day: Snowfall
David Jackson
It looks like a slow Thursday in snow-covered Washington.
President Obama has no public events on his schedule.
Aides postponed a planned event to unveil "My Brother's Keeper," an initiative designed to help African-American and Hispanic men in poor neighborhoods.
Obama does have the regular national security briefings, and likely other meetings with aides who are able to make it into work.
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Kuomintang (gwō´mĬn´däng´, kwō´mĬntăng´) [Chin.,=national people's party] (KMT), Chinese and Taiwanese political party. Sung Chiao-jen organized the party in 1912, under the nominal leadership of Sun Yat-sen, to succeed the Revolutionary Alliance. The original Kuomintang program called for parliamentary democracy and moderate socialism. In 1913, Yüan Shih-kai, the president of China, suppressed the Kuomintang although it held a majority in the first national assembly. Under Sun Yat-sen, the party established unrecognized revolutionary governments at Guangzhou in 1918 and 1921 and even sent a delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Sun accepted aid from the USSR, and after 1922 many Comintern agents, notably Michael Borodin and V. K. Blücher, helped reorganize the Kuomintang. At the party congress in 1924 at Guangzhou, a coalition including Communists adopted Sun's political theory, which included the Three People's Principles (San Min Chu I), namely, nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Sun, who died in 1925, thought that Chinese national reconstruction must follow a progression of stages: military government, tutelage under the Kuomintang, and popular sovereignty.
In 1926, Kuomintang general Chiang Kai-shek launched the Northern Expedition, advancing north from Guangzhou against the Beijing government. After halting temporarily in 1927, when the Communists were purged and the civil war between the two factions began, Kuomintang forces finally captured Beijing in 1928. The Kuomintang government at Nanjing received diplomatic recognition in 1928 and began the period of tutelage. After several Kuomintang military campaigns, the Communists were forced (1934–35) to withdraw from their bases in S and central China and establish new strongholds in the northwest. The Kuomintang continued to war against the Communists, ignoring the growing Japanese threat until N China was invaded by the Japanese in 1937. Although plagued by bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption, it controlled the Chinese central government until 1947, when it permitted some participation by minor liberal parties. Its control at the provincial and local level, however, was never complete.
Full-scale civil war, further complicated by inflation, characterized the years from 1945 to 1949. The power of the Kuomintang steadily declined, and by the end of 1949 the Communists controlled the mainland. The Kuomintang, forced from the mainland, remained in power in Taiwan, first under Chiang, then under his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui. In 1991, Lee ended emergency rule, which had permitted the domination of Taiwan's national assembly by mainland delegates elected in 1947. During the 1990s the major opposition party gained a number of seats in the assembly; in the 1996 presidential elections, President Lee, who was opposed by the Beijing government, won a landslide victory. In 1999 a split developed in the party when James Soong challenged the official candidate for the 2000 presidency race, Vice President Lien Chan, and was expelled; the opposition candidate, Chen Shui-bian, won the election, and Lien placed third behind Soong. Shortly thereafter Lee Teng-hui resigned as Kuomintang chairman. Lee was expelled from the party the following year when he accused its leaders of selling out Taiwan to Beijing when they pursued a less confrontational relationship with the mainland. Although the factions united to oppose Chen's reelection in 2004, he narrowly defeat Lien Chan. In 2005, Lien visited China, becoming the first KMT leader to meet with a Chinese Communist party leader since World War II. Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou succeeded Lien as party leader in 2005 (except during 2007–9) and was elected president of Taiwan in 2008 and reelected in 2012. Following party losses in local elections in 2014, Ma resigned as party leader. Wu Den-yih, a former Taiwanese vice president, has been party leader since 2017.
See G. T. Yu, Party Politics in Republican China: The Kuomintang, 1912–1924 (1966); Hsieh Jan-chih, ed., The Kuomintang (1970).


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Ergotamines narrow (constrict) blood
vessels in the brain. It is not clear how they work to stop a migraine. These
medicines are available in different forms depending on the drug, including
tablets, nasal spray, suppositories, and injections.
Ergotamines may be used to stop or
treat symptoms of an emerging migraine.
Ergotamines have been used for many
years to treat headache pain and other symptoms associated with migraines. But
these medicines may not be as effective as other migraine medicines, such as
Dihydroergotamine can be
effective in some people who do not get relief from triptans.1
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Check with your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full
list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
Overuse of migraine drugs can cause rebound headaches. Rebound headaches are different from migraine headaches. They are usually triggered after pain medicine has worn off, prompting you to take another dose. Eventually you get a headache whenever you stop taking the drug. Be sure to take your migraine medicine only as prescribed by your doctor.
Ergotamines should not be taken
with triptans (such as Imitrex).
It's a good idea to avoid smoking or tobacco replacement products for several hours after taking these medicines. Smoking or other forms of nicotine can increase the side effects of ergotamines.
Ergotamines may make you more sensitive to cold weather. Dress warmly and if you need to, limit your time in cold weather.
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
CitationsDrugs for migraine (2011). Treatment Guidelines From The Medical Letter, 9(102): 7–12.
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"Red Flags in Relationships" Pt. 3
Today's Red Flags:
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Living courageously means living by faith in God and trusting in His plans and outcomes for our lives. But what does that kind of life look like? In part two of this study, Monica Schmelter looks at how we can trust God in any situation.
For a Christian, what does it mean to live courageously? What is courage, and how do we walk in faith through a world full of fears and dangers? In part one of this study, Monica Schmelter explores the Biblical concept of courageous living.
In a world where there is every reason to "quit" you can learn to Go the "Distance" and be faithful along the journey.
No matter where you are in your life YOU matter to God. Join Monica on this episode of Bridges to hear why The Cross Says You're Worth It.
Have you ever felt like the odds in life were stacked against you? Join Monica today on Bridges, as she shares with us What the Odds Don't Know.
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Since its shellacking in the November 2012 elections, the national Republican Party has been doing a lot of collective soul searching. The Grand Old Party is scrambling to appeal to younger voters, Latinos, blacks, women, city dwellers and other demographic groups that appear firmly in the Democratic camp.
In a latest attempt to gauge members' views, the Republican National Committee has sent out a detailed questionnaire that seeks out information on a range of issues -- including same-sex marriage, abortion and legalization of marijuana.
America Blog, among others, reported that the survey includes a number of peculiar questions and employs language one might not normally associate with the GOP.
The RNC uses the words "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender" -- hardly revolutionary for the rest of us, but an apparent breakthrough for the party that only last August made opposition to marriage equality one of its positions. If the RNC may finally be trying to be more inclusive, the survey's final question has raised more than a few eyebrows on the Internet: In asking members to give their sexual orientation, it offers the following choices: straight, gay, bisexual, not sure, or, "in the closet."
"While on a Democratic survey you might expect a question about sexual orientation, die-hard GOPers like to claim that no one should be asking anyone what his or her sexual orientation is since it's 'just a sex practice,'" John Aravosis writes on America Blog. "But this survey treats it as far more than a sex practice.
"Oh, and Dear RNC," the gay blogger wryly adds, "'in the closet' is not a sexual orientation. Though I guess in Republican circles, maybe it is."
A few other examples suffice to show that the Republican Party, despite whatever cluelessness bloggers may be satirizing, is wavering on a number of issues. Question 15, for example, dares to ask whether members like the Tea Party.
"Ouch. Polling about how well Republicans 'like' the Tea Party?" Aravosis asks. "That means they're worried that people don't like the Tea Party. Interesting that the RNC didn't ask how well people like conservatives, or even liberals, in the party - they only asked about the Tea Party."
The survey asks its members if they think that the "Republican Party discriminates against people" and then proceeds to list African Americans, white people, men, women, Latinos, Asians, environmentalists, and gays and lesbians. As Aravosis points out, because the survey puts gays and lesbians in this question, they are implicitly acknowledging that LGBT Americans are not only an identifiable group but also that our rights are up for grabs.
Finally, the survey asks members if the Republican Party "seems fun" and if the GOP's leaders and politicians are "too old." (No comment necessary.)
In related news, the chairwoman of the Georgia state party, Sue Everhart, showed that the National Committee has its work cut out for it. Everhart told the Marietta (Georgia) Daily Journal that straight people might enter into fraudulent same-sex marriage in order to obtain benefits on Monday.
"You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow," she told the newspaper. "Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you're gay, and y'all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this, it's unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it's all about a free ride."
Everhart does not mention the fraud possible in opposite-sex marriage (maybe she should begin by renting the film "Green Card," based on people marrying so one partner can obtain legal residency in this country).
She also does not understand that heterosexuals often vary how they use their "plumbing," especially since "sodomy" (which includes fellatio and cunnilingus) has been legal in all 50 states for some years. "If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship," Everhart told the newspaper.Jason St. Amand
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Last week, a report in the Chinese state-run People's Daily newspaper alleged that the Afghan Taliban has begun training monkeys in areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border as part of the struggle against occupying NATO forces. According to the story, the monkeys are sometimes offered bananas and peanuts as "a series of rewards and punishments to gradually teach them how to" fire Kalashnikovs, light machine guns and trench mortars. (Taiwan's Apple Daily has come up with a brilliant computerized animation of these recruitment tactics.) The People's Daily article quotes a number of unnamed, supposedly "inside" sources, including a U.S. official, but NATO spokesmen have since dismissed any knowledge of these so-called "monkey terrorists."
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Savage on "Billionaire George Goebbels Soros" : "a money changer in the temple of truth" ; Savage on MoveOn.org: "rat-bastard Communists"
Following progressive financier, philanthropist, and political activist George Soros's June 3 speech at the Campaign for America's Future "Take Back America" conference, radio host Michael Savage dedicated the majority of the June 4 broadcast of his three-hour nationally syndicated radio show, Savage Nation, to blasting Soros.
In addition to labeling Soros "a dangerous crazy man" and a "lousy snake," Savage also compared Soros to "Hitler's media man" -- in reference to Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels -- and repeatedly called Soros "Goebbels" . (Soros is a Hungarian-born Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Communist Budapest.)
In addition, Savage accused Soros of "trying to encourage another terrorist attack [on the United States]" ; he ranted, "[Y]ou [Soros] are a deceitful, backstabbing, unpatriotic traitorous bastard in my opinion"; and he called MoveOn.org (to which Soros has contributed financially) "an organization of rat-bastard Communists."
From the June 4 broadcast of Savage Nation:
SAVAGE: I think he's [Soros] just crazy, I'm telling you the truth, but he's a dangerous crazy man, with all of his money. And everyone, even crazy people are entitled to vote for whom they want in our wonderful democracy. But for him to keep repeating the big lies, over and over again, until they become the truth, and they resound in the audience of Communists there, it's astounding to me that people don't understand what he's saying, and what lies they are. ... The word progressive today is a code word for the new Communist movement.
SAVAGE: We'll let those who wanna take back America, take it back with the retarded speech of Goebbels [Soros]. I couldn't believe what I heard when I turned on C-SPAN today, and heard Billionaire George Goebbels Soros attacking Bush -- now he has the right to attack Bush, don't get me wrong. But to lie like this is something I couldn't understand. Listen for example, to clip 29, "I think that those pictures hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself. Not quite with the same force because the terrorist attack, we were the victims. In the pictures, we were the perpetrators..." Let's stop right there. So this man compares the death of 3,000 Americans to radical Muslim hijackers and murders, to the humiliation of a number of Iraqi prisoners, by a very small number of American troops. This is called the big lie. And if you tell a big lie often enough it will become the truth. That's what Goebbels, Hitler's media man, said, and that's what Soros and the others at this Communist rally yesterday, call Take Back America or doing. It's unbelievable to me. And he keeps doing it, and doing it, and doing it. And this does remind me of a very dangerous time in the past. This man is a clear and present danger to America. He's declared war on America, and I don't know how George Bush doesn't understand how dangerous this man is.
When we come back I wanna talk about George Soros and why he seems to be attacking Bush and America. Could it be that he's bet on the Euro? Does he want the American dollar to collapse? Is he, subtly or not so subtly, trying to encourage another terrorist attack, so that he can make another couple of billion dollars when the U.S. currently collapses against the Euro or some other currency. Is that possible? Is that too far-fetched? Is it uncivil of me to ask those questions of a money trader? [Media Matters for America added the preceding quotation to this item on June 14.]
SAVAGE: And then he comes here and says military power will never bring democracy anywhere in the world? That's insanity. But he gets even worse. I want you to listen to clip 30 right now. Listen to this big lie from George Goebbels Soros. "The fact is, [inaudible] I think that the American public has now seen that they've been mislead, and they've turned against the Bush Administration." You're a moneychanger in the temple of truths. Not only are you a money changer in the temple of truth, but you are a deceitful, backstabbing, unpatriotic traitorous bastard in my opinion. I am so sick of this. Listen to clip 31. "The Iraqi involvement has been an utter disaster for the United States. Even in terms of the American Supremacists, who wanted to demonstrate America's military power..." Shut your mouth! Shut your mouth! Shut your mouth, I can't take it! You lousy snake. You lousy snake. You lousy snake is all I can say.
SAVAGE: Billionaire George Goebbels Soros, if you tell a big lie often enough it will become the truth -- how dare you come to my fair country, and infect it with these foreign, sick ideas George? You're not fooling anybody. You know you're part of a left-wing fringe that will destroy the Democrat party even further than it's been destroyed. Keep on talking George, because it doesn't play outside MoveOn.org, an organization of rat-bastard Communists. How's that George?


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Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy to dissect balance sheets, income, and cash flow statements. This is the first step in getting your feet wet in the investment world.
But it doesn't stop there. If we were to base investing decisions solely on what we read in these statements, that would be akin to picking a significant other based solely on their Facebook profile -- to many, it just doesn't make sense to avoid real-life interaction.
Investigating these "soft" aspects of a company is important for investors. And although we can't capture all of the intangibles of a company in one article, Glassdoor.com -- a website that collects employee sentiment for companies across the world -- recently came out with a list that could help: The Top CEOs of 2013.
Below are the CEOs rated No. 20 through No. 16. Read below and I'll give some more detail, and at the end, offer up a special premium report on one of these five.
No. 20: Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU)
As tax season is winding to a close, millions of Americans are using one of Intuit's key products: TurboTax. It just so happens that Intuit's CEO, Brad Smith, used to head the division that produces TurboTax.
Smith, who has been with the company since 2003, also has experience managing the other side of Intuit's business: From 2006 until he became CEO in 2008, he was a general manager in Intuit's small businesses division, which offers Quicken accounting products to more than 7 million small companies.
Smith believes that Intuit's strategy moving forward will be three-pronged: penetrating deeper into traditional tax and small business markets, focusing on emerging markets, and generating a greater mix of services.
Apparently, Intuit employees tend to agree with this blueprint, as 91% approve of the job he's doing.
No. 19: NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP)
For those who might be unfamiliar with the company, NetApp is a specialist in network storage solutions; in other words, it helps save, store, and maintain complex networks of information online. NetApp's CEO, Tom Georgens, has been with the company since 2007, and has served in the role of CEO since 2009.
Under Georgens tenure, NetApp increased revenue 59% between 2010 and 2012, with net income increasing by 51% over the same time frame. Georgens has stated that these growth rates aren't from focusing on a specific dollar target or worrying about macro issues, but rather by looking to gain "a point, a point-and-a-half a share every year." The plan seems to be working, and Georgens' employees appreciate that, giving him a 91% approval rating.
No. 18: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)
This behemoth micro-chip maker is one of the few in its industry that attempts to keep the whole process of design and fabrication in-house. That's long been the case at Intel, and CEO Paul Otellini has continued the tradition since becoming CEO back in 2005.
Otellini has been with the company since 1974, working his way up through the ranks. Though the company had a fairly dominant position in the PC market, that market has been stagnating, leading many to wonder if Intel was late to the game in mobile computing.
Apparently, employees at the company have faith that Otellini and Intel will find a way to become just as relevant in the mobile market, as 91% currently approve of the job he's doing. Incidentally, the company was ranked the 31st best place to work in America in 2013 by Glassdoor.
It's important to note, however, that Otellini is set to retire in May. His replacement has yet to be announced, and investors need to take that into consideration in weighing the strengths of the company.
No. 17: American Express (NYSE:AXP)
CEO Ken Chenault has been the leader at American Express since 1997, but had worked his way up through the ranks for 16 years prior to earning the designation.
Although both Visa and MasterCard experienced more growth over that period, American Express focuses on a much tighter band of clientele -- although that will soon be changing with its prepaid cards.
Since seeing default rates rise post-recession and its stock take a stumble, American Express was actually the Dow's best-performing stock since 2009, rising over 550%. That's great for investors, but employees appreciate the job Chenault has done, too: He's earned a 92% approval rating.
No. 16: Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX)
Howard Schultz is the founder and CEO of Starbucks -- and I'm personally a big fan. Though he built the company and ran it from the 1980s until 2000, Schultz took an eight-year hiatus from 2000 to 2008 to pursue other interests, like owning the Seattle SuperSonics of the NBA.
There are a number of reasons Schultz's employees may have put him on the list. During the financial crisis, he refused to cave to Wall Street pressure to eliminate generous health insurance plans for baristas; he was able to help refocus the company after it expanded too far while he was gone; the company now focuses on bringing in fair-trade and organic coffee from third-world countries; and he's been outspoken for bashing the way money influences politics -- refusing to support any candidate until the country gets its finances in order.
Overall, 92% of Schultz's employees approve of the job he's doing, and this year, the company was also named one of the top 50 places to work by Glassdoor.


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Get Physical to Solve Picture Puzzles
Staying in good physical shape helps your brain in addition to your body. You can do a ton of mental exercises to raise your skill level, but keeping your body in good working order can also help you solve picture puzzles better:
Eat right. You just can't get around eating right these days. But if you want to maintain or boost your mental performance, eat a balanced diet, be sure to include plenty of antioxidant-rich foods, and stay away from too much sugar.
Get up and get moving. Although a near-daily cardio workout that gets your blood pumping is ideal (think walking or swimming), you can reap many physical rewards by simply moving your body every day — gardening, cleaning, or carting the kids or grandkids around. Avoiding a sedentary lifestyle encourages you to make physical movement a priority in your life, and more movement equals more oxygen to your noggin, which sharpens your brain power.
Don't forget to sleep. Staying up all night doing puzzles isn't a good idea and won't make you a better puzzle-solver. You need plenty of rest to recharge your mental and physical battery every day.


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Ronald Ossory Dunlop
- Art Funded
- 1968
- Dimensions
- 41 x 51 cm
- Bequeathed by
- Thomas Balston through The Art Fund
Mr Thomas Balston bequeathed to the Art Fund a large collection of pictures, drawings, and prints, with the request that his extensive collection of works by, after, and connected with John Martin (on whom he had written a monograph) should be offered to the Victoria and Albert Museum, that the Ashmolean Museum should be allowed to take what it wanted of the rest, and that the residue should, so far as possible, be distributed among other public institutions in Great Britain.
Thomas Balston.
Laing Art Gallery
New Bridge Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 8AG
0191 232 7734
Opening times
Tue – Sat, 10am – 5pm
Sun, 2pm – 5pm
Closed 25 – 28 Dec & 1 Jan


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Time in Australia
Australia uses three main time zones, Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).[1] Time is regulated by the individual state governments,[2] some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones.
Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Dominions adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) use Eastern Standard Time.
Daylight saving time is used in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT. It is not currently used in Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
- History 1
Civil time and legislation 2
- Daylight saving time (DST) 2.1
- Anomalies 2.2
- External territories 2.3
- Special events 2.4
- National times 2.5
- IANA time zone database 3
Debate, trials and referendums 4
- Queensland 4.1
- Western Australia 4.2
- See also 5
- Notes 6
- References 7
- External links 8
The standardization of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six Dominions in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard time.
The Dominions enacted time zone legislation, which took effect in February 1895. The clocks were set ahead of GMT by eight hours in Western Australia; by nine hours in South Australia (and the Northern Territory, which it governed); and by 10 hours in Queensland, New South Wales, the Dominion of Victoria and Tasmania. The three time zones became known as Eastern Standard Time, Central Standard Time, and Western Standard Time. Broken Hill in the far west of New South Wales also adopted Central Standard Time due to it being connected by rail to Adelaide but not Sydney at the time.[3]
In May 1899, South Australia advanced Central Standard Time by thirty minutes, disregarding the common international practice of setting one-hour intervals between adjacent time zones. In doing so, South Australia also adopted a time meridian located outside its boundaries - another departure from international convention.[3] Attempts to correct these oddities in 1986 and 1994 were rejected.
When the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and placed under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, that Territory kept Central Standard Time. Likewise, when the ACT was broken off from New South Wales, it retained Eastern Standard Time.
Since 1899, the only major changes in Australian time zones have been the setting of clocks to one-half hour earlier than Eastern time (GMT plus 10:30) on the territory of Lord Howe Island, and Norfolk Island changing from UTC+11:30 to UTC+11:00 on 4 October 2015.[4]
When abbreviating "Australian Central Time" and "Australian Eastern Time", in domestic contexts the leading "Australian" may be omitted, however the prefix "A" is often used to avoid ambiguity with the time zone abbreviations "CST" and "EST" referring to the Central and Eastern Time Zones in North America.
Civil time and legislation
Though the governments of the states and territories have the power to legislate variations in time, the standard time within each of these is set related to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as determined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and set by section 8AA of the National Measurement Act of 1960 [2] of the Commonwealth.
Australia has kept a version of the UTC atomic time scale since the 1990s, but Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) remained the formal basis for the standard times of all of the states through 2005. In November 2004, the state and territory attorneys-general endorsed a proposal from the Australian National Measurement Institute to adopt UTC as the standard of all Australian standard times, thereby eliminating the effects of slight variations in the rate of rotation of the Earth that are inherent in mean solar time. All states have adopted the UTC standard, starting on 1 September 2005.
In Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania. and the ACT, the starting and ending dates of daylight saving times are officially determined by proclamations, declarations, or regulation made by the State Governor or by the responsible minister. Such instruments may be valid for only the current year, and so this section generally only refers to the legislation. In New South Wales and Western Australia, the starting and ending dates, if any, are to be set by legislation.
Western Standard Time (WST) – UTC+08:00
- Western Australia – Standard Time Act 2005[5]
Central Standard Time (ACST)- UTC+09:30
- South Australia – Standard Time Act 2009[6] and the Daylight Saving Act 1971[7]
- Northern Territory – Standard Time Act 2005[8]
Eastern Standard Time (AEST) – UTC+10:00
- Queensland – Standard Time Act 1894[9]
- New South Wales – Standard Time Act 1987 No 149[10]
- Australian Capital Territory – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972[11]
- Victoria – Summer Time Act 1972[12]
- Tasmania – Standard Time Act 1895[13] and the Daylight Saving Act 2007[14]
Daylight saving time (DST)
The choice of whether to use DST is a matter for the governments of the individual states and territories. However, during World War I and World War II all states and territories used daylight saving time (DST). In 1968 Tasmania became the first state in peacetime to use DST, followed in 1971 by New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not adopt it. Queensland abandoned DST in 1972. Queensland and Western Australia have occasionally used DST during the past 40 years during trial periods.
The main DST zones are the following:
- (Australian) Central Daylight Time (CDT or ACDT) – UTC+10:30, in South Australia
- (Australian) Eastern Daylight Time (EDT or AEDT) – UTC+11, in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, and Tasmania.
During the usual periods of DST, the three standard time zones in Australia become five zones. This includes the areas that do not observe DST: Western Australia (UTC plus 8:00), the Northern Territory (UTC plus 9:30), and Queensland (UTC plus 10:00).
The change to and from DST takes place at 2:00 am local standard time the appropriate Sunday. Until 2008, DST usually began on the last Sunday in October, and ended on the last Sunday in March. However, Tasmania, given its latitude further south, began DST earlier, on the first Sunday in October, and ended it later, on the first Sunday of April.
On 12 April 2007, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the ACT agreed to common beginning and ending dates for DST from 2008. DST in these states and South Australia began on the first Sunday in October and ended on the first Sunday in April. Western Australia was then the only state to use DST from the last Sunday in October to the last Sunday in March, but it abolished DST in 2009.[15]
|Start of DST
|End of DST
|Western Australia
|Northern Territory
|South Australia
|first Sunday in October
|first Sunday in April[16]
|New South Wales
|Australian Capital Territory
The town of Broken Hill (specified as Yancowinna County), is in far western New South Wales. Unlike the rest of New South Wales, Broken Hill (and the surrounding region) observes Australian Central Standard Time (UTC+9:30) a time zone it shares with South Australia and the Northern Territory. As mentioned above, at the time standard time was adopted, Broken Hill was linked to Adelaide by rail, not Sydney.
Lord Howe Island, part of the state of New South Wales but 600 km east of the Australian mainland in the Pacific Ocean, uses UTC+10:30 during the winter months (30 minutes ahead of the eastern states), but advances to UTC+11:00 in summer (the same time as the rest of New South Wales).
A compromise between Western and Central time (UTC+8:45, without DST), unofficially known as Central Western Standard Time, is used in one area in the southeastern corner of Western Australia and one roadhouse in South Australia. Towns east of Caiguna on the Eyre Highway (including Eucla, Madura, Mundrabilla and Border Village, just over the border into South Australia), follow "CWST" instead of Western Australian time. The total population of that area is estimated at 200 people.[17] This area did not change when South Australia introduced DST. During the Western Australian trial of DST from 2006 to 2009, this area also sets its clocks ahead one hour during summer. This time zone is not officially recognized.
The Indian Pacific train has its own time zone – a so-called "train time" when travelling between Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and Port Augusta, South Australia - which was at UTC plus 9:00 hours during November 2005 when DST was observed in the eastern and southern states.
External territories
Australia's external territories follow different time zones.
|Heard and McDonald Islands
|no DST
|Cocos (Keeling) Islands
|no DST
|Christmas Island CXT
|no DST
|Norfolk Island NFT
|no DST
|Australian Antarctic Territory – Mawson
|no DST
|Australian Antarctic Territory – Davis
|no DST
|Australian Antarctic Territory – Casey
|no DST
Special events
In 2000, all of the eastern jurisdictions that normally observe DST — New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT, and Tasmania — began DST early because of the Summer Olympic Games held in Sydney. These jurisdictions moved to DST on 27 August 2000. South Australians did not change their clocks until the usual date, which was 29 October 2000.
In 2006, all of the states that followed DST (the above states and South Australia) delayed their return to Standard Times by one week, because of the Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne. DST ended on 2 April 2006.
National times
There are situations in which a nationwide time is in effect. In the case of business activities, a national time can be used. For example, a prospectus for the issue of stock in a company would usually set the closing time for offers at some location (e.g. Sydney) as the time when offers must be received, regardless of the source of the offer. Similarly, tenders for their sale of stock usually set out the time at a given location by which they must be received to be considered. Another example is the Australian Stock Exchange which operates on Eastern Standard Time.
On the other hand, Federal legislation yields to state-regulated standard times in many diverse situations. For example, it yields in setting the normal working times of Federal employees, the recognition of public holidays, etc. The Federal government also relies on local times for Federal elections, so that the polls in Western Australia close two or three hours after those in the eastern states. Also, documents to be filed in a Federal Court may be filed based on the local time. The effect of this is that if there had been a failure to file a legal document on time in an eastern State, that document can sometimes still be filed (within two hours) in Western Australia.
IANA time zone database
The 13 zones for Australia as given by zone.tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked * are from the zone.tab.
|Standard time
|Summer time
|Lord Howe Island
|UTC+11 (half hour difference only)
|Macquarie Island
|Tasmania - most locations
|Tasmania - King Island
|New South Wales - most locations
|New South Wales - Yancowinna
|Queensland - most locations
|Queensland - Holiday Islands
|South Australia
|Northern Territory
|Western Australia - most locations
|Western Australia - Eucla area
Debate, trials and referendums
Queensland has had a particularly involved debate over daylight saving time, with public opinion geographically divided. A referendum on DST in 1992, following a three-year trial (1989/90 - 1991/92), and was defeated with a 54.5 percent negative vote.[18] The referendum result displayed a distinct trend - that public opinion on DST in Queensland is geographically divided, with the negative vote being strongest in northern and western districts, while the positive vote being strongest in the southeastern region (e.g. in Brisbane).[19]
Since the early 2000s, there have been a number of petitions submitted to Legislative Assembly of Queensland, lobbying for the introduction of daylight saving time or for another referendum to be held. A petition in 2006 was signed by 62,232 people.[20] In response to these petitions, then Queensland Premier Peter Beattie commissioned research to find out if it should be re-introduced into Queensland. Around this time, Premier Peter Beattie predicted that daylight saving in Queensland would increase the rate of skin cancer in the state, an assertion for which there is no evidence, according to the Queensland Cancer Fund.[21]
In October 2007, the government-commissioned research was presented to the new Premier Anna Bligh, who ruled out holding a new referendum, despite the report indicating that 59 percent of the residents of Queensland and 69 percent of those in southeastern Queensland to be in favour of adopting daylight saving.[22]
In December 2008, the Daylight Saving for South East Queensland (DS4SEQ) political Party was officially registered, to advocate for the use of a two-time-zone system for DST in Queensland, with most the State (in land area) using standard time. This party contested the March 2009 Queensland State election with 32 candidates, and it received about one percent of the statewide primary vote.[23]
In early 2010, the DS4SEQ political party approached the independent member, Peter Wellington, to introduce a private member's bill for DST.[24] Since Mr. Wellington agreed with the principles of the DS4SEQ proposal, specifically the dual-time-zone system, he drafted the DST for southeastern Queensland Referendum Bill of 2010 and he submitted this bill to Queensland Parliament on 14 April 2010.[25] Wellington has called for a referendum to be held at the next State election on the introduction of DST into southeastern Queensland under the dual-time-zone system.
In response to this bill, the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, announced a community consultation process, which resulted in over 74,000 respondents participating, 64 percent of whom voted in favour of a trial, and 63 percent of whom were in favour of holding a referendum.[26] The decision announced by the Premier on 7 June 2010 was that her Government would not support the bill because rural Queenslanders were overwhelmingly opposed to DST.[27] The Bill was defeated in Queensland Parliament on 15 June 2011.[28]
Western Australia
Western Australia has also had a particularly involved debate over DST, with the issue being put to a referendum four times: in 1975, 1984, 1992, and 2009. All of these proposals to adopt DST were defeated. Voters registered a negative vote of 54.6 percent in the 2009 referendum, the highest percentage for all four of these referendums. Each referendum followed a trial period during which the state observed DST. The first three followed a one-year trial, while the 2006 Western Australian Daylight Saving Bill (No. 2) 2006 instituted a trial of DST beginning on 3 December 2006, and lasting for three years.[29]
See also
- List of time zones
- Daylight Saving for South East Queensland
- Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Act 2010
- Queensland daylight saving referendum, 1992
- ^ "Official Australian government website". australia.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ Daylight Saving in New South Wales Lawlink NSW. Retrieved 28 January 2012
- ^ a b "THE NEW STANDARD TIME.".
- ^ Hardgrave, Gary (3 September 2015). "Norfolk Island standard time changes 4 October 2015" (Press release).
- ^ "slp.wa.gov" (PDF). Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "South Australian Legislation". Legislation.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "South Australian Legislation". Legislation.sa.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "STANDARD TIME ACT 2005". Notes.nt.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "legislation.qld.gov" (PDF). Retrieved 20 September 2011.
- ^ "Standard Time Act 1987 No 149". Legislation.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ^ "ACT legislation register – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 – main page". Legislation.act.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "SUMMER TIME ACT 1972. Version incorporating amendments as at 31 May 2012". 31 May 2012. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "STANDARD TIME ACT 1895". 23 August 1895. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ^ "Legislation View Page". Thelaw.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "Daylight Saving Time – Implementation". Bom.gov.au. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "Daylight Saving in Victoria (Victoria Online)". Vic.gov.au. 21 September 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "Border sign". Confluence.org. Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- ^ "1992 Queensland Daylight Saving Referendum" (PDF). Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ Queensland Parliamentary Library; Research Brief No 2010/22 - Mary Westcott (July 2010). "1992 Daylight Saving in Queensland" (PDF). pp. 15, 19. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
- ^ "Daylight Saving Petition". Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Daylight saving cancer claim disputed".
- ^ "Queensland Government-commissioned Daylight Saving Research" (PDF). Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Total Candidates Nominated for Election by Party – 2009 State Election". Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). Retrieved 19 June 2010.
- ^ "The Political Mouse that Roared". 16 April 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2010.
- ^ "Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Referendum Bill 2010" (PDF). 14 April 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Queensland Government Daylight Saving for South East Queensland survey". Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Queensland Government Daylight Saving for South East Queensland decision". Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "'"Daylight saving silence 'deafening. 16 June 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
- ^ "Microsoft Word - D01 Daylight Saving Bill _No. 2_ 2006 _175-1B_.doc" (PDF). Retrieved 25 June 2010.
- The Australian National Time System National Standards Commission Leaflet No. 8, January 2003. Linked via Wayback machine
- NSW Legislative Council Hansard, 2 March 2005
- Daylight Saving Petitions
- Daylight Saving Time History of daylight saving time implementation dates at the Bureau of Meteorology website.
External links
- Information on time zones from official Government web site
- Daylight Saving for South East Queensland political party Official DS4SEQ website
- Articles to be merged from August 2012
- All articles to be merged
- Articles needing additional references from August 2012
- All articles needing additional references
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2011
- Use dmy dates from November 2012
- Time in Australia
- Science and technology in Australia
- Australian standards
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