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The NON-COMMversation and Session Topics Announced
The 2022 NON-COMMvention will welcome The New Yorker's Kelefa Sanneh to the NON-COMMversation
Kelefa Sanneh. Photo credit Jason Nocito.
By Paul Marszalek
TheTop22.com
Kelefa Sanneh, author of Major Labels : A History of Popular Music In Seven Genres will be featured in a one-on-one discussion with WXPN's Dan Reed in this year's NON-COMMversation.
Sanneh has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008. Prior, he spent six years as pop-music critic at The New York Times. Sanneh is also a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning.
Major Labels tells stories of the seven genres that defined and dominated popular music.
Of the book, David Letterman said, "Kelefa Sanneh has achieved the impossible. Major Labels somehow manages to unspool everything you need to know about 50 years of music, but more impressively, he makes you care about all of it. Even the stuff you don't care about. It's funny, it's personal and as a piece of writing, the book borders on poetry."
In addition to The NON-COMMversation, other panels are taking shape, including:
* The Five Year Plan – What does the future of Triple A look like? The panel looks into the Triple A crystal ball to examine how changes in media consumption, creation, distribution, revenue/funding models, audience/demographics, and music making will impact the strategic future for the format.
* After Covid: Reviving Music and Artists – The panel will explore lessons learned from the pandemic; how stations are continuing to serve music fans and the musicians.
Additional sessions will focus on building brand communities around artists and stations, inclusiveness in NON-COMM Triple A programming, and a World Cafe taping with GRACE CUNNINGHAM.
The NON-COMMvention registration table opens Tuesday, May 3 at 4 p.m., followed by The Transoceanic Records Opening Night Party from 4-7 p.m.
The event will wind down after the "Free At Noon" performance by Lucius and Joanna Sternberg on Friday, May 6.
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Pamela Crossley is Collis Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and the author of, most recently, The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800.
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing dynasty is one of those historical figures who are renovated from time to time as the moment demands. In the first decade of the 20th century, she was either the vivacious tea hostess who had protected foreigners from Boxer mobs, or the murderous xenophobe who had set the rioters on them in the first place. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was one of a small collection of 'powerful' women newly discovered in Chinese history. And now she appears in the vanguard of stubborn Chinese opposition to foreign arrogance and encroachment. Since Sterling Seagrave's Dragon Lady of 1992, Cixi has been the subject of or a major figure in a dozen books, as well as films and television series. Still, we evidently need more Cixi.
Jung Chang does not merely repeat what are now truisms in the representation of Cixi – that she has been obscured by misogyny and orientalist stereotyping, as well as the anti-Manchu sentiment running through Chinese nationalist narratives – but also claims to have discovered something new. 'Empress Dowager Cixi's legacy was manifold and towering,' she writes. Cixi 'brought medieval China into the modern age'. Under her leadership, we are told, major technologies were introduced, medicine improved, military industrialisation undertaken and a free press encouraged. Cixi also 'championed women's liberation', and did it all 'without … violence and with relatively little upheaval'. If Chang is to be believed, Cixi should be considered a transformative figure in modern Chinese history, perhaps on the level of Mao Zedong, certainly the equal of Sun Yatsen or Chiang Kaishek.
Cixi, the daughter of an unremarkable Manchu official, was chosen for the harem of the Xianfeng emperor of the Qing dynasty in 1852. In 1856 she rose steeply in rank after giving birth to the first (and as it happened only) male heir to the throne. When the emperor died in 1861, Cixi's five-year-old son became the Tongzhi emperor. A regency of six male officials along with the late emperor's highest-ranking widow, Ci'an, and the new imperial mother, Cixi, was empanelled, but within months the officials were removed by imperial princes. Cixi and Ci'an were the only remaining regents and Cixi herself was solely entrusted with the imperial seal that authenticated edicts issued from the court. The dowagers continued to govern, in the words of the official histories, by 'listening from behind the screens' of the throne room. The emperor married when he was 16, and the regency was dissolved.
When the young emperor contracted smallpox in late 1874, Cixi and Ci'an became regents once again. The emperor soon died, leaving no heir, so the two regent dowagers arranged for his cousin, aged three, to become the Guangxu emperor. Cixi adopted the new emperor as the son of the late Xianfeng emperor and herself, precluding the child's mother from gaining control of the regency. Both the young widow of the Tongzhi emperor and the young mother of the Guangxu emperor committed suicide, and in 1881 Ci'an too died, of an unidentified illness, after years of tension with Cixi. Thereafter, according to Chang, Cixi accomplished her remarkable modernisations in industry, education, administration and foreign relations, all the while fending off plots by court and reactionaries, many of whom argued that real power should be in the hands of her adopted son, the emperor. She nonetheless pushed through new programmes in education and social legislation that would have changed China rapidly, had the Qing dynasty itself not been overthrown in a chaotic nationalist revolution in 1911-12.
This is the sort of interpretation that might be produced by someone who had studied the original records of the Qing court but lacked sufficient knowledge of the existing scholarship to be able to decrypt them. After 1850 the Qing imperial government was faced with the challenge of the Taiping rebels, whose blend of Christian, Manichean and Chinese folk influences was the basis for an impassioned movement which threatened to sweep from Guangxi province in the south-west all the way to Beijing. In an attempt to suppress the rebels, the imperial court devolved financial management, military command and certain legal jurisdictions to the provincial level in the most heavily embattled regions. After the war ended in 1864, the pressures of reconstruction and recovery from the bloodiest confrontation of the 19th century, in which the death toll may have been as high as forty million, forced the process of decentralisation to continue. The governors who had been specially empowered by the imperial court to fight the rebels were political ancestors of the infamous 'warlords' of the early 20th century.
The imperial court, or members of the imperial family at least, attempted at various points to regather their prerogatives, notably by monopolising new diplomatic enterprises after 1861 or commanding the naval department in the 1880s. These plans were gradually discredited or the princes who sponsored them died, leaving the provincial governors – Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong most prominent among them – in charge not only of the domestic government but also of Qing foreign policy. The façade of the imperial government continued, but with titles and stipends taken up by the leading governors' affiliates, allies or those whom they tolerated. The most important para-governmental organisation based on the new powers of provincial governors was the Beiyang Intendancy, whose headquarters were in the coastal city of Tianjin, less than a hundred miles from Beijing. From the Taiping War to the 1920s, each Beiyang Intendant in succession was the most powerful man in China. The first, Zeng Guofan, had fought the Taipings to preserve traditional values – above all loyalty to the emperors – and there appears to have been no point at which he considered making his powers de jure as well as de facto. That ethos persisted under Zeng's acolyte Li Hongzhang, but when it gave out under Yuan Shikai in 1912, the empire was over.
The provincial governors and Beiyang Intendants sought imperial endorsement of their policies in education and technology. In the days of the juvenile Tongzhi emperor, that endorsement required the approval of his regent Cixi. To Chang, that means Cixi must have been the originator of the reforms. She persists with the same logic in her account of improvements in industrialisation and transportation in the 1880s and 1890s, and even the political and social reforms of the first decade of the 20th century. Chang presents Cixi as the originator, sometimes the lone originator, of reforms that in fact began in the provinces or in Fuzhou or Tianjin; as she tells the story, the rubber stamp is controlling the hand.
Cixi lived in the isolated hornets' nest of the Forbidden City, in the Imperial City, in Beijing, a place where death was casually meted out to eunuchs, concubines and humble officials, and where power struggles were sometimes resolved by poison. She certainly had many of the qualities that Chang attributes to her: she was literate, which was unusual for women generally but not for women from such privileged Manchu families as hers; she was kind to her court favourites and dogs; she was interested in every sort of newfangled gadget, and sponsored their use as a way of bringing herself attention and prestige. She did not, as Chang seems to believe she did, invent or encourage a popular press, free or otherwise: that was done by coastal entrepreneurs. But she did latch quickly onto the idea of inserting special features about imperial court doings and dicta into the Beijing newspapers; readers dismissed them (as such inserts are dismissed today) as propaganda.
The flamboyant show that Cixi made of trivial and ineffective 'modernisation' was satirised by the Qing scholar and official Jinliang, who described her hugely expensive attempts to string up electric lighting in the Forbidden City as providing barely more illumination than a few kerosene lamps, and mocked the fuss made over the explosion of her motion picture projector in 1904 by comparing it to the explosion the next year of a bomb planted by terrorists at the Beijing railway station. Cixi installed a bit of rail track in Beijing but forbade her carriage to be pulled by a steam engine; eunuchs had to do it instead. Her contemporaries outside the few thousand square yards of the Imperial City did not construe her interest in novelties or her agreement that the imperial seal should adorn policy documents as meaning she was a reformer, let alone a moderniser.
There was, however, one point on which the powerful men leading China in the 1890s were in agreement with Cixi. They all opposed an assumption of personal rule by the young Guangxu emperor. By the time Japan defeated the Qing army and navy in 1895 and compelled the empire to cede huge cash indemnities as well as the island of Taiwan, an increasingly vocal movement of nationalist intellectuals had fixed on the Guangxu emperor as the cynosure of a China revival – an aspiration modelled directly on the role of the young emperor Mutsuhito in Japan's brilliant Meiji Restoration of 1868. The movement advocated 'self-strengthening' in industry and the military, reforms in government expenditure, investment in agriculture and education (for men and women), constitutional monarchy with a representative legislature, and the abolition of footbinding. Chang attributes all these initiatives to Cixi.
The movement's emerging leaders, such as Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei (who was called 'Wild Fox Kang' as a young man because of his philosophical methods, though Chang inexplicably belittles him by giving him this name throughout), were quickly identified by the emperor as the best advisers and high ministers for the government he had hoped for years to create. In 1898 he worked with them and their sympathisers to devise a paper revolution, now called the Hundred Days Reform, which would have made him head of government. As Chang tells it, the reform party got themselves an army by enlisting Yuan Shikai to their cause, then plotted to kill Cixi. But Yuan Shikai told her of the plot and despite her 'affectionate enthusiasm' for the emperor's plans up to that point, Cixi now had no choice but to act forcefully. She attempted to arrest the leaders of the movement. Kang and Liang escaped to Japan (how, we do not know), but six others were caught and beheaded. The emperor was seized, and kept in confinement for the rest of his life.
The way Chang tells this part of the story illustrates the difference between her methods and those of a historian. Many of her sources are indirect, suggestive or just plain unreliable. That the reformers wanted Cixi dead (a common enough solution to power problems in the hornets' nest) is not at all implausible. There is good evidence, which Chang cites, to indicate that the notoriously erratic radical Tan Sitong (later arrested and beheaded) was eager to kill her himself. But the evidence against Kang comes from Yuan Shikai. In a footnote, Chang explains that historians have universally erred in supposing that Yuan exposed the plot to Cixi only after meeting at least three times with the emperor and his reformers. 'This could not have been the case,' she writes. 'Any delay by him, on a matter of life and death for Cixi, would have been interpreted by her as hesitation and a lack of loyalty. He would never have been trusted again. The fact was that from this time General Yuan enjoyed unreserved trust from Cixi and a meteoric rise.' But Yuan had already enjoyed a meteoric rise, owing to his role as Li Hongzhang's Beiyang lieutenant: that is why the emperor and his reformers were eager to gain his support for the coup. Yuan took his time relaying the report to Cixi because he was weighing his options. Once he decided to back Cixi against the emperor, his reasons for telling her that Kang was plotting to kill her were transparent. There is no evidence that Yuan rushed to tell Cixi of the military preparations because of his loyalty to her or fear of her.
The emperor's desire to assume personal rule threatened the Beiyang Intendancy no less than Cixi and her cronies. It was an intolerable prospect that decades of work drawing power away from Beijing and towards Tianjin could be reversed by an emperor who actually wanted to govern. Ronglu, a general usually seen as an ally of Cixi, was a traditional Manchu and held several high titles in the imperial government. But he was also a military moderniser and a colleague of Yuan in the increasingly formal Beiyang organisation. It was he who best embodied the coinciding interests, in this case, of the Beiyang Intendancy and Cixi, and it was he who arrested the reformers and the emperor. Cixi was pleased with the outcome, which does not prove that Ronglu or Yuan were working for her or dependent on her favour. It was she who benefited from the fact that for the rest of her life it would always be a Beiyang desideratum that the emperor not assume rule. Yet as Chang tells it, Cixi raised up and carefully monitored men like Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, deciding on their titles, their assignments and even whether or not to punish them for various infractions.
When ambitious young men of the 1890s such as Sun Yatsen sought opportunities for influence, they did not approach the imperial government. They applied to the Beiyang Intendancy. When foreign powers wanted to engage in diplomacy with the Qing Empire, they did not, after the 1870s, go to the imperial court. They went to Li Hongzhang, although Li usually insisted on a gesture of some kind from the court legitimating his signature. It was Li or his successors who signed protocols, approved loans, initiated educational exchanges and new universities, and contracted for new rail and telegraph lines. Cixi often followed with pale iterations, as when she opened the Imperial University in Beijing in 1898, three years after Li Hongzhang opened Beiyang University in Tianjin. Neither was she an energetic champion of constitutionalism; she did little more than agree, under pressure, to endorse petitions for constitutional development written in the provinces with the guidance of Zhang Zhidong and other reformist governors.
In June 1900, mobs from the countryside in northern China moved towards Beijing, wrecking foreign installations and killing Chinese Christians as they went. At one time Cixi was seen as a bloodthirsty 'she-dragon' shrilly exhorting the Boxers to murder and mayhem, but most modern histories of the Boxer Uprising make little mention of her. Today the origins of the uprising are traced to foreign incursions into China's economy and culture; the specific provocations of the missionary presence and intrusions of foreign railways into Chinese farmland; immiseration in northern China; and popular impatience with the power structures of the Qing Empire.
Cixi's one overt act as head of state was to declare war on a consortium of foreign powers as the Boxer Uprising neared its climax. Chang grants the declaration precisely two sentences. Everyone – the emperor, the princes and any official who was asked his opinion – opposed Cixi's plan to declare war against any nation sending troops into China. Chang depicts all Cixi's opponents as defective in some way: cowardly, corrupt or in actual collusion with one or another of the foreign powers. Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong, along with their associates, are described as being in the employ of Russia and Germany respectively. Two officials who unwisely entered the hornets' nest to advise Cixi against direct confrontation with foreign armies were beheaded before Li or Zhang could intervene; their heads were displayed as emblems of Cixi's privilege. Chang says that both victims were spies, a claim for which there is no convincing evidence; Cixi's stated reasons for executing them were that they were impertinent.
In known history as distinct from Chang's Cixi-centred fancies, Li and Zhang agreed as soon as they received Cixi's declaration of war that it was null and void. Not only was there no war, they told their subordinates, but further communications from Cixi – whom they now saw as dangerously out of touch with reality – should be ignored. The instruction marked the crossing of a psychological threshold for them: it was the end of the Beiyang credo that the authority of the court, however groundless, should be observed. And there was no war. Yet according to Chang, having disposed of the opposition, Cixi was free to prosecute 'her war'. She suggests that an actual war ensued, complete with a general, a front and troops. When the Shanxi governor, Yuxian, executed dozens of British and American missionaries, she writes, Cixi deposed the governor and replaced him with Yuan Shikai; the full array of historical evidence indicates that Ronglu made the decision. Only when Cixi's campaign collapsed under the combined weight of the eight most powerful armies in the world did she capitulate.
By the end of August 1900 the forces of Britain, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United States had occupied Beijing. They squabbled over the territories they would like to appropriate in Manchuria and northern China and drew up various indemnities and policy demands they intended to impose on the Qing government for failing to protect foreign life and property. By then Cixi was out in the provincial capital of Xi'an, two weeks away from Beijing by caravan and well off the map of foreign territorial ambitions. With her were the Guangxu emperor and some of his concubines (back in Beijing, Cixi had ordered one of them to be murdered as there was no seat for her in the conveyance and she was slow to commit suicide).
Once the Boxers had been subdued, the foreign forces compiled a list of high-ranking Boxer supporters they intended to execute or put on trial. Cixi was on it, but only until Zhang Zhidong explained to the occupation authorities that Cixi's role had been of no consequence, that her commands had been ignored, and that her opinions resulted from her general ignorance of the world outside the Forbidden City. The occupiers eventually agreed to allow Cixi and the emperor to return to Beijing, where they were welcomed by a kneeling Zhang Zhidong. Chang sees not the ritual propriety of a man towering over Cixi in power and significance, but a courtier desperate to explain himself and regain some sliver of imperial favour.
Though improbable, Chang's interpretations chime with the current popular depiction of Cixi as a fierce defender of China's sovereignty, fighting off foreign powers while conniving traitors like Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong temporise. If the book is banned in China – as Chang's two other books, Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story have been – it will not be because of theme or content. But readers should be wary of it as history. Chang has made impressive use of the rapidly expanding range of published material from the imperial archives. But understanding these sources requires profound study of the context. Chang provides a long bibliography, including very recent studies in Chinese, but a large number of important works are absent – Joseph Esherick's Origins of the Boxer Uprising and Luke Kwong's Mosaic of the Hundred Days are just two egregious omissions. Her claims regarding Cixi's importance seem to be minted from her own musings, and have little to do with what we know was actually going in China. I am as eager as anyone to see more attention paid to women of historical significance. But rewriting Cixi as Catherine the Great or Margaret Thatcher is a poor bargain: the gain of an illusory icon at the expense of historical sense.


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SATURDAY's GOOD READING AND LISTENING FOR THE WEEKEND
By Ian McAuley | On 30 November 2019
A regular collection of links to writings and broadcasts in other media
ABC's Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue (from 0730 to 0900 or on their website in case you miss it).
What happened at Westpac and could it happen again? Guests Edmund Tadros, Australian Financial Review and Hugh Harley, Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney;
Are we finally entering the year where desalination proves its worth? Guest: John Thwaites;
A Foreign Affair this month looks at Impeachalooza, why there are so many stories leaking from China and the appointment of Ahok to Indonesia's oil and gas giant;
Meredith Lake's multi-award winning book The Bible in Australia: A cultural history reveals the contested role the Bible played in the hands of bashers, immigrants, suffragists, writers, artists and indigenous Australians.
Last Saturday Geraldine interviewed Peter FitzSimons on James Cook. His most recently-published book is James Cook: The story behind the man who mapped the world.
The end of silence – the 2019 Boyer Lectures
On Sunday Rachel Perkins will deliver the third of her three Boyer Lectures, titled The end of silence. They present a frank account of Australia's history – the history of Australians "whose ancestry runs deep into the roots of the country" and of those Australians with more recent roots – including Perkins herself whose ancestry is in both lineages. It's a history that includes the violence of colonisation, and the extraordinary achievements of her father, Charles Perkins. The title "The end of silence" is a reference to the yet-to-be-respected call in the Uluru Statement.
Labor and the economy – Albanese's Speech in Brisbane
Albanese's speech starts on aspiration – "aspiration to lift others as we lift ourselves". Anyone who still believes that the Coalition has a better grasp on the economy than Labor can find the evidence and argument to the contrary clearly laid out in his speech (in a way that Labor didn't make so clear before the election). He clearly dispels any idea that meaningful action on climate change would involve some compromise on economic and employment objectives.
A speech at this stage in the electoral cycle is necessarily more open than one in a campaign, but Albanese makes it clear that Labor's priorities are to restart a long-dormant process of economic reform.
Yet, as opinion polling points out, in spite of overwhelming evidence and expert opinion on the Coalition's economic failures, the public continue to believe in its economic competence. Alan Austin, writing on the Independent Australia site, traces one source of this belief – the ABC. His article Kelly-Frydenberg love-in dupes viewers points out that Fran Kelly, the host of ABC TV's Insiders, refuses to challenge the Coalition on its economic policies.
(Until recently Kelly was the host of Radio National's influential Breakfast program. On that program she handled most issues professionally, but on economic issues she hardly ever challenged Coalition ministers' sophistries and lies. It seems, from Austin's analysis, that the Coalition is still able to exploit her economic weakness.)
"Authoritarianism unchecked can lead to fascism"
That's a quote from Kerry O'Brien's Address to the 2019 Walkley Awards. It's a warning that shouldn't have to be made in a healthy democracy, but not all is healthy in our democracy, where the Morrison Government refuses to heed appeals for protection of basic press freedoms, and where investigative journalism is portrayed as the work of the enemies of the people.
Morrison takes Australia further down the authoritarian path
Writing in Crikey Bernard Keane comments on Morrison's phone call to the NSW Police Commissioner in relation to the Angus Taylor scandal:
Scott Morrison's improper intervention in the NSW Police investigation of the growing Angus Taylor scandal is yet another example of the police state that has been created in this country, by this government.
Crikey is paywalled (well worth dropping your Fin or Australian subscription and taking one for Crikey), but you can listen to Schwartz Media's 7am podcast Defending Angus Taylor, where Paul Bongiorno gives an account of Morrison's defence of Angus Taylor. He finds it extraordinary that Morrison is not bothered about being seen interfering into a police investigation into one of his ministers. He concludes that "Morrison is showing a dangerous hubris – he's right and everybody else is wrong". (14 minutes)
What does GDP have to do with our economic well-being? Not much
Next Wednesday, when the ABS releases the September quarter national accounts, there will be a great deal of squawking about the GDP figures.
Writing in The Guardian – It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters – Joseph Stiglitz warns:
It is clear that something is fundamentally wrong with the way we assess economic performance and social progress. Even worse, our metrics frequently give the misleading impression that there is a trade-off between the two; that, for instance, changes that enhance people's economic security, whether through improved pensions or a better welfare state, come at the expense of national economic performance.
This is not an abstract argument about the meaning of national accounts. Writing in Common Dreams John Queally, drawing on Stiglitz's work, concludes that unless the obsession with GDP comes to an end:
…there will be little chance of adequately fighting back against the triple-threat of climate destruction, the scourge of financial inequality, and the crises of democracy now being felt around the globe.
Queally's piece Everything is not fine promotes Stiglitz's new book, co-authored with Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand, Measuring what counts: the global movement for well-being.
Polls and elections
Newspoll – no significant move in party votes, but we seem to be turning off Morrison
William Bowe's Poll Bludger reports on the latest Newspoll, which shows a 51:49 TPP lead to the Coalition and figures on primary votes that suggest there has been no statistically significant movement from the May election results. It reveals a poor net approval for Morrison: 43 per cent approval, 52 per cent disapproval, while Albanese's ratings are 38 per cent approval, 42 per cent disapproval. (Are Australians starting to see Morrison in a clearer light – someone whose only political aspirations are to hold the top job and to earn the respect of his tribe by keeping Labor out of office?)
The poll suggests that Morrison's lead as preferred PM is narrowing. That may well be so, but unless poll-to-poll swings are very large and sustained over a number of periods they are best ignored. Each poll has a margin of error, and numbers suggesting a difference between successive polls have a vastly amplified margin of error.
Most Coalition voters do not believe "climate change is happening and is caused by human activity"
That's one of the findings of the latest Essential Report, which surveyed people on their beliefs on climate change, policies to address climate change, and whether they believed the recent bushfires are linked to climate change. The partisan differences are stark: 60 per cent of Australians believe we are not doing enough to address climate change, but only 46 per cent of Coalition supporters believe we are not doing enough.
On climate change there are unsurprising age differences. There are also gender differences: women are significantly more likely than men to accept the science of climate change, to believe we are not doing enough to combat it, and to understand the high probability that the bushfires are linked to climate change. The poll also asks if people believe it is appropriate to raise the issue of climate change in the context of the fires: on this question there are very large partisan and gender differences.
The same poll surveys attitudes to "Medevac". That is the legislation, passed in February against the wishes of executive government, allowing medical practitioners to have more say in determining appropriate medical treatment for people in offshore detention. The Dutton-Morrison Government wants to repeal it. Only a small proportion (22 per cent) of those surveyed believes it weakens our borders. Even among Coalition supporters only 29 per cent believe it weakens our borders.
Hong Kong district council elections
These are about more than dates of trash collection and the price of dog licenses. Rather they are a proxy for the contest between the pro-Beijing camp and the democracy movement. According to Holmes Chan, writing in the Hong Kong Free Press, turnout was 72 per cent of eligible voters – "a 25 percentage rise when compared to the previous District Council election four years ago".
Tony Cheung's analysis in the South China Morning Post summarises the results:
Of the 452 seats up for grabs, the pro-democracy camp netted 392 – comprising 347 pan-democrats and 45 independents who are friendly with the camp. The pro-establishment camp had to settle for the remaining 60.
This compares with the same broad group holding just 126 seats in the previous election.
Apart from bland reports of the elections having been held, there does not seem to be a great deal of information in official Chinese media.
The popular reach of Chinese media in Australia
Writing on the ABC website, Wanning Sun, of the University of Technology Sydney, gives an account of Chinese-language (mainly Mandarin) media in Australia. These media include local translations of mainstream English-language media, print and online, and online media from China that many Australians of Chinese origins access. She found that many believed that Chinese Government media is no more or less credible than Australian mainstream media.
Chinese-language media in Australia may neither be merely a blunt tool of the Chinese government and its state media, nor just a ventriloquist for mainstream English-language media. Rather, wedged between an anti-Chinese public rhetoric in Australia and anti-Australian responses in China's state media, this sector seems to exist profitably by actively giving voice to PRC migrants' sense of ambivalence towards both Australia and China.
On ABC Breakfast Max Chalmers interviews Maree Ma, General Manager of the independent Australian Chinese language newspaper Vision Times, and other experts, on the coverage and possible biases in news sources in Chinese. Are Chinese Australians getting the full news?
The political reach of Chinese scholars
"China's universities today are now deeply invested in an interdependent global system of research and educational collaboration. Since the Chinese Communist Party seems intent on instrumentalizing that system to influence global opinion of its governance and ideology, and to police foreign academic opinion it deems inimical to its interests, it was inevitable that foreign scholars would become vulnerable to such policies", writes Shaun O'Dwyer of Kyushu University in The Japan Times, 26 Nov.
The effort by the party-dominated Chinese government to control the narrative on discussions of China by foreign academics is of interest to many countries, including Australia. O'Dwyer discusses an unusual case involving a Japanese scholar detained for two months in China for possessing inappropriate books which he had bought at a bookshop, but released after two months under a combination of good timing and appropriately channelled pressure.
A revolt against the revolts
So far the story of mass discontent has been one of the rise of populists in reaction to the failed promises of neoliberalism – generally a populism of the "right" (Bolsonaro, Erdoğan, Johnson, Morrison, Orbán, Trump), but also of the "left" (Chávez, Maduro). These populists have ridden a wave of discontent, but they have let down those who swept them into power and have engaged in new levels of government corruption. Writing in The New York Times – The revolt against populism – David Brooks looks at the latest rounds of protests. "The overall message is that the flaws of liberal globalization are real, but the populist alternative is not working". He asks "what's next?".
Daphne Halikiopoulou, Associate Professor in comparative politics at the University of Reading, UK, provides a concise summary of the flaws of current populism. Writing in Social Europe – Resisting the seductions of populism – she explains how populism seeks to bypass and undermine democracies' intermediary institutions, designed to preserve the rights and liberties of all citizens when there emerges a supposed political majority based on mass movements:
Societies consist of different social and attitudinal groups, with diverse—often conflicting—preferences. Without institutions which reconcile rather than exacerbate these preferences, democracy stands on precarious ground.
Why private health insurance is in a death spiral: blame private hospitals
Stephen Duckett and Kristina Nemet of The Grattan Institute have published a report Saving private health 1: Reining in hospital costs and specialist bills, essentially recommending that private hospitals learn from and adopt the cost-saving and efficiency-improving methods of public hospitals. As in public hospitals there should be an "efficient price" which bundles all costs – medical practitioners, medications, prostheses, accommodation and so on – presented as a single bill to patients or their insurers. "Private hospitals would have to absorb any excess costs from doctors – or charge patients a declared and upfront fee to cover those costs". They estimate this would save $2 billion a year in private insurance premiums.
(We wish Duckett and Nemet luck, but as pointed out by many contributors to Pearls and Irritations, when hospitals and medical specialists are funded by a number of private insurers, none of which have enough market power to enforce price reductions or efficiencies, premiums will keep rising. Duckett's and Nemet's research strengthens the case for Medicare to be the nation's sole health insurer, funding private and public hospitals on the same basis. John Menadue's latest contribution on the scam of private health insurance is in this week's Pearls and Irritations.)
Pharmacies are in no death spiral
Next year the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement will come into place. This agreement, negotiated in secret between the Commonwealth and the quaintly-named Pharmacy Guild, determines how Australia's 5700 retail pharmacies are paid for dispensing PBS medicines and providing some quasi-medical services. Lesley Russell of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, writes in the Conversation about the way the Pharmacy Guild has managed to wield so much political power that it not only commands high returns for doing what other shopkeepers do, but also secures a number of anti-competitive privileges, such as locational rules that give each pharmacy a neat geographical monopoly and block new entries.
Nor are Australia's banks in a death spiral
There is no shortage of superficial media coverage of Westpac's latest transgressions but not much that goes into systemic issues. Writing on the Independent Australia site Biony Kampmark goes into details of the bank's deliberate rejection of international standards on money transfers, and of successive Coalition governments' permissive attitudes toward the finance sector.
From another perspective Louis de Koker of La Trobe Law School, speaking with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, describes Westpac's inconsistent treatment of people sending funds overseas. Their controls were detrimental to people sending small remittances to their families in developing countries, while they left the door open for those sending money associated with child exploitation. He also makes the point that if, as a result of investigations and charges, Westpac receives a heavy fine (probably more than $700 million based on the Commonwealth Bank precedent) that will be passed through to customers and shareholders (i.e. superannuation funds), while most of the bank's highly-paid executives will bear no significant consequence.
Westpac CEO Brian Hartzer has gone and Chair Lindsay Maxstead is on the way out. As Ben Butler points out in The Guardian, Hartzer's punishment will be to "be paid $2.69 million for doing nothing for the next twelve months". (It's convenient for the Government to see public anger directed at these individuals – no doubt they deserve it. But will they be the sacrificial scapegoats for our collective behaviour in glorifying finance and in allowing the finance sector to have grown into a huge parasitic overhead on our economy?)
Writing in The Guardian, Richard Denniss of The Australia Institute asks us to "imagine if the government were as keen to deregister banks that broke the law as it is to deregister unions". Why not a big stick for Westpac and the banks? They're acting like Marvel villains.
Road user charging: are we game to consider cordon tolls?
The 2010 Henry Review into taxation came out strongly in favour of road user charging. Although road user charging has strong support from economists, and although even automobile associations are open to the idea, every government, federal and state – most recently the Morrison Government – has treated road user charging with the same enthusiasm they may be expected to show to a proposal to apply a special tax on football.
The Grattan Institute's Marion Terrill has come up with a carefully-researched plan for applying peak-time cordon tolls applying to vehicles coming into the CBDs of Sydney and Melbourne: $5 to enter in the morning peak, $5 to leave in the afternoon peak. Her modelling looks at effects on the road system: on most roads traffic would move more freely. She also looks at the equity effects, and reveals that those who drive to the CBD to work are overwhelmingly high-income and tend to live in inner or middle suburbs. Her work reveals significant net benefits from cordon tolls, mainly in saving of travel time, and these estimates are based on conservative assumptions: she does not consider the savings in being able to defer road upgrades.
Japan maintains its lead as a maker of production machinery
Perhaps you wonder what to do with old bank statements, share dividend notifications and other documents you don't want blowing around at a landfill site. Maybe you need a Nakabayashi NSC-7510 Mark III paper shredder, that managed, in just 30 seconds, to shred an 800-page guest list to Shinzo Abe's annual party to observe cherry blossoms. For the salacious details of why the Abe Government is so keen on shredding its guest list you can read The strange tale of Japan's prime minister, official documents and a very large shredder by Simon Denyer and Akiko Kashiwagi in The Washington Post.
Fires in NSW and Queensland
This is a map designed by a PhD student at the University of New England, compiled from data provided by government agencies – Geoscience Australia, NSW Topo Maps, and NSW RFS. (Use a topographic base map to get the best impression of the relationship between landforms and fires.)
Barnaby Joyce manipulates the coal price
Dissatisfied with the miserable world price for thermal coal, which is being pushed down by saboteurs building competing solar and wind plants, Barnaby Joyce been selling coal at a small exclusive auction.
Planning your next trip
If you're concerned about travel security, before you start looking at DFAT specific country briefs, you might care to glance at the Travel Risk Map. Only six countries get an "insignificant" risk rating: they're all in the northern hemisphere and most of them are rather cold.
Saturday's Good Reading and Listening is compiled by Ian McAuley
Watch out tomorrow, Sunday, for Peter Sainsbury's Sunday environment round up.
Ian McAuley
Ian McAuley is a retired lecturer in public finance at the University of Canberra and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development.


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By: veritumsandus 21 Jun 2015 23 Sep 2015
National News, News, Reports
Summer Solstice 2015: A Summer of Renewal & Growth
"For our great State of Sandus — Built by our Humble Hands"
Ave, Sandum Citizens!
Charity Taxes — Continued Participation & Changing Philanthropy:
Over the course of the years since the charity taxes were first established and Solstice & Equinox reports were first published, the nature of Sandum philanthropy has changed. First, rice donations done through the website Freerice.com were considered the main element of Sandum philanthropy. Next, monetary donations — at some times, reaching hundreds of dollars — were the next primary forms of philanthropy done by Sandum citizens. Now, however, the nature of Sandum philanthropy has changed into more pragmatic means.
In the past season, a meager sum no greater than $30 USD was donated to charity by Sandum citizens who are required by law to donate time, skills, or money to charity in exchange for the right to vote. However, other forms of philanthropy grew. Today, Sandum citizens may not be overly generous in their wallets — likely as a result of the aging Sandum population from dependents to increasingly independent young adults — but Sandum citizens are far more active in social roles geared towards philanthropy. Sandum citizens take part in a variety of sociocultural groups and give help in the form of knowledge at seminars, discussion groups, and other forms of philanthropic social interactions.
Today, in Sandus, philanthropy is now understood as a diverse character of human social interaction: one less based on capital and, instead, on social interactions between peoples. Thus, a more sincere philanthropy has taken root in Sandus — and that is something we as citizens ought to celebrate.
Further Joining Together of Socii Civitates:
The state meeting in late May between the Sôgmô and the Kumanoese leader, Hatsu Ryuho, has shown a renewal in the internationalist effort for greater interaction and adhesion amongst the Socii states, the former socilivançae. Talks have been happening over that period about the greater interaction between the three states — Sandus, Kumano, and Überstadt. Plans have been drawn up and discussions are currently taking place between the Sôgmô and Überstadti King Adam I, who likewise serves as the Secretary of the Party in Sandus. Plans involve the greater adhesion of the political, social, and economic organs of all three states to one another.
However, King Adam and the Sôgmô — proponents so far of two different plans — have disagreed about the range of plans. Both have now agreed that any form of future socii association will have to be equal for all members — meaning that Sandus will no longer be the de facto leader of the loose coalition; instead, if the association is to be created then Sandum national interests will be liberated from the overall socius interests, the Sôgmô has said. Developed plans have also disagreed about economic arrangements, where a free-trade zone and greater integration will be established for Sandus and the socii civitates; however, the Sôgmô has argued, should all three parties be bound in one economic zone, that Sandus should leave the Saint Josephsburg Economic Pact — while Adam von Friedeck disagrees. Concerning citizenship, too, the two leaders disagree and have not yet found any compromise: the Sôgmô believes that socius citizenship ought to be universal and automatic, whereas von Friedeck argues for the status quo — where individual citizens must apply for the citizenship status individually.
In the upcoming Summer, the three sociarum civitatum leaders will prepare plans for greater integration of the three states.
The Revolutionary Sociocultural Mission of Sandus:
In all micronations, politics are seen as the highest calling and most important feature of the state, so claims Realism and former Erusian Rennie-Gaffneyism. In the former Erusian ideology, this is known as the "Active Cultural Development Theory," and is affirmed likewise in Sandum Realism as an ideological principle and as a sociopolitical policy in Sandus. While the political entity is the greatest concern for micronationalism, the theory effectively dictates that social and cultural politics are necessary for the survival of the micronation: and this has been the case in Sandus, a state celebrated for its culture, which has upheld this principle.
In recent years and months, however, emphasis has been placed on the economic purpose of Sandus and on political principle, not on political pragmatism. This Summer, the Office of the Sôgmô is hoping to slow down work on many of its economic development initiatives and to change the outlook of Sandum citizens and micronationalists who see economy as the supreme call of a micronation. Instead, the Sôgmô will argue that arts and humanities are the true call of micronations. Through discussions and through official Sandum publications on Veritum Sandus, a renewal of Realist and Philia thought will be established in Sandum politics and in the micronational community.
Though this political action will not renege Sandus's involvement in the economic spheres, such as the 2015 Economic Goal, it will instead view Sandum sociocultural work as the purpose of Sandum existence — and will work to develop that traditional Sandum work along Marxist lines. These changes will mirror the liberation of Sandum national interests for cives citizens considered for the integration of the socii civitates.
Possible Renewal of early Sandum Ribbons & Medals:
In the last days of the Territory of Sandus (St.Charlian Commonwealth) and until the Summer of the first year of the State of Sandus (2011), Sandus had a wide range of various Sandum decorations, ribbons, and medals. However, they were disbanded in order to establish and develop the prestige of the Most Honourable Order of the Throne of Sandus (MHOTS), Sandus's only honourary medal now. Now, several years later, some of these former medals may see a return in the upcoming season.
The former preference of Sandum medals was: Order of the Sovereign Eagle, Order of the Sage, Order of the Gods, Ribbon of Athena, Medal of Partnership, Medal of Remembrance, and the seasonal ribbons of Flora and Pebon.
Now, after some consideration and awaiting a formal motion in the Council by the Sôgmô, the Ribbon of Athena, the Medal of Partnership, the Medal of Remembrance, and former and new seasonal ribbons may be included on the list of Sandum decorations and honours. Unlike the MHOTS, however, no official medal or certificate will be made available for many of these medals and ribbons — except for electronic certificates.
Seasonal ribbons may include the former ribbons of Flora (Spring) and Pebon (Winter), and the new ribbons of Vesta (Summer) and Kchi Awasos (Autumn).
Policy Projection: 17 — 30 June 2015
Sandus, Zealandia publish Posters for LGBTQ+ Pride


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Marine (book)
Hotel (board game)
Hotels (magazine)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology. In scientific contexts, the term almost always refers exclusively to saltwater environments, although in other contexts (e.g., engineering) it may refer to any (usually navigable) body of water.
Marine or marines may also refer to:
Military / seafarers
Marines, an infantry force that specializes in naval campaigns
such as the United States Marine Corps
Merchant marine, or merchant navy, the fleet of merchant vessels registered in a country
A term for a navy, uncommon in English, but common in other languages
Koninklijke Marine Royal Netherlands Navy the navy of the Dutch Armed Forces
German Navy, the navy of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr)
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Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit is a 1996 book written by Tom Clancy about the inner workings of a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Marine: A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit at Google Books
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Marines, also known as a marine corps and naval infantry, are an infantry force that specializes in the support of naval and army operations on land and at sea, as well as the execution of their own operations. In the majority of countries, the marine force is part of the navy, but it can also be under the army like the Troupes de marine (French Marines) and Givati Brigade (Israeli Marines), or form an independent armed service branch like the United States Marine Corps and Royal Marines.
Historically, tasks undertaken by marines have included providing protection from war while at sea, reflecting the pressed nature of the ships' company and the risk of mutiny. Other tasks would include boarding of vessels during combat or capture of prize ships and providing manpower for raiding ashore in support of the naval objectives.
With the industrialization of warfare in the 20th century the scale of landing operations increased; this brought with it an increased likelihood of opposition and a need for co-ordination of various military elements. Marine forces evolved to specialize in the skills and capabilities required for amphibious warfare.
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A hotel is an establishment that provides lodging paid on a short-term basis. Facilities provided may range from a basic bed and storage for clothing, to luxury features like en-suite bathrooms. Larger hotels may provide additional guest facilities such as a swimming pool, business centre, childcare, conference facilities and social function services. Hotel rooms are usually numbered (or named in some smaller hotels and B&Bs) to allow guests to identify their room. Some hotels offer meals as part of a room and board arrangement. In the United Kingdom, a hotel is required by law to serve food and drinks to all guests within certain stated hours. In Japan, capsule hotels provide a minimized amount of room space and shared facilities.
The precursor to the modern hotel was the inn of medieval Europe. For a period of about 200 years from the mid-17th century, coaching inns served as a place for lodging for coach travelers. Inns began to cater for richer clients in the mid-18th century. One of the first hotels in a modern sense was opened in Exeter in 1768. Hotels proliferated throughout Western Europe and North America in the 19th century, and luxury hotels began to spring up in the later part of the century.
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Hotel (known as Hotels in North America) is a dimensional real estate game created by Milton Bradley in 1986. It is similar to Square Mile and Prize Property. In Hotel the players are building resort hotels and attempting to drive their competitors into bankruptcy.
Players take turns moving around the board. Each square on the board is adjacent to one or two hotel properties. Most of the squares are either purchase squares or building squares.
Whenever a player lands on a purchase square which is adjacent to an unowned property they may buy that property by paying the purchase price. Once they own a property they may attempt to build on it whenever they land on a building square. A special dice is rolled to determine if permission to build is granted or denied. If it is denied the player must wait for a later turn.
When permission is granted to build the player may add new buildings or facilities to their property. Each hotel has from one to five buildings and a set of recreational facilities. The main building must be built first, followed by the other buildings then the facilities. The cost of each addition is listed on the deed card for the property.
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HOTELS is a trade publication serving the information needs of the worldwide hospitality industry.
Established in 1966, HOTELS is published monthly. Regular features include design, food & beverage, technology, and a global update section with industry news, executive interviews and marketing stories.
Along with monthly print articles, HOTELS posted new content on its Web site every day. Some of this came in the form of press releases and aggregated industry news, while some was original content such as blog posts or podcasts. Topics included green hotelkeeping, sales and marketing, finance & investment, and coverage of hotel conferences.
As of December 2006, total BPA audited circulation was 62,330 subscribers. The magazine had readers in more than 165 countries around the world.
Former owner Reed Business Information sold off the magazine to its publisher, Dan Hogan, in 2010. Hogan then sold the magazine to Marketing & Technology Group.
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Sorhagenia is een geslacht van vlinders uit de familie prachtmotten (Cosmopterigidae).

Soorten
S. baucidis Hodges, 1969
S. cracens Hodges, 1978
S. daedala Hodges, 1964
S. dahurica Sinev, 1986
S. janiszewskae
Wegedoorntwijgmot Riedl, 1962
S. lophyrella (Douglas, 1846)
S. nimbosus (Braun, 1915)
S. pexa Hodges, 1969
S. reconditella Riedl, 1983
S. rhamniella
Wegedoornknopmot (Zeller, 1839)

Prachtmotten

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Krebs cycle importance
The importance of the Krebs Cycle in the metabolism
The Krebs cycle is the second of three stages of cellular respiration, in which glucose, fatty acids and certain amino acids, the so-called fuel molecules, are oxidized (see Figure). The oxidation of these molecules is primarily used to transform the energy contained in these molecules into ATP. ATP provides for example energy for muscle contractions and can therefore be referred to as "energy currency" of the cells.
Before the fuel molecules can be inserted in the Krebs Cycle, they must first all be converted into acetyl-CoA. Looking at the path of a nutrient, such as glucose, the oxidation of the molecule takes place in the glycolysis. The product of the glycolysis is pyruvate. In a further reaction, which is catalyzed by the enzyme complex pyruvate dehydrogenase, acetyl-CoA is formed out of pyruvate, which can be introduced into the citric acid cycle or Krebs Cycle.
In an eight-step reaction sequence, the acetyl group of acetyl-CoA is oxidised into two molecules of CO2 (see Figure). These reactions are catalysed by eight different enzymes. Instead of producing high amounts of ATP, eight electrons were removed from the acetyl group and transferred to the coenzymes NAD+ and FAD, which are reduced to NADH and FADH2. They are therefore called electron carrier coenzymes and are used to transport electrons from the Krebs cycle to the respiratory chain. Through a series of molecules, the reduced coenzymes NADH and FADH2 are oxidised and the released electrons were used to reduce O2. Finally, the electrons that are released in the Krebs Cycle and the transported to the respiratory chain were used there to produce ATP out of ADP and Pi.
Figure: Overview of the Krebs cycle
In addition to the supply of energy from the fuel molecules, the citric acid cycle has other important functions. Thus, some of the citric acid cycle are intermediates for other important reactions like the biosynthesis of glucose, fatty acids and amino acids.
Due to the many functions of the citric acid cycle is also considered to be the "central hub of metabolism". This is because, as most of the absorbed nutrients, the fuel molecules are oxidized ultimately within the Krebs Cycke and its intermediates are used for various biosynthetic pathways. Figuratively, one can look at the citric acid cycle as a " roundabout" introduce, in which the nutrients (carbohydrates, fatty acids and amino acids) "drive in" and "drive out " again at the different locations for the synthesis of other substances.
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Fisica applicata è un termine generico che indica la parte della fisica che si interessa di particolari utilizzi tecnologici. "Applicata" si distingue da "pura" attraverso una sottile combinazione di fattori quali le motivazioni e le modalità della ricerca e le relazioni tra tecnologia e scienza influenzate dal lavoro.

Descrizione

Solitamente differisce dall'ingegneria in quanto la fisica applicata non può portare direttamente alla progettazione di qualcosa in particolare, ma piuttosto utilizzando la fisica o la ricerca condotta in questo campo può portare allo sviluppo di nuove tecnologie o alla risoluzioni di problemi propri dell'ingegneria. Questo metodo è simile alle applicazioni della matematica applicata.

In altre parole, la fisica applicata si basa sulle verità fondamentali e sui concetti più importanti delle scienze fisiche, ma soprattutto interessata all'applicazione di questi principi scientifici nei sistemi pratici. La fisica applicata presenta campi di ricerca molto ampi; ad esempio, sono molte le persone che lavorano nella ricerca riguardante la fisica degli acceleratori in modo da permettere la costruzione di acceleratori di particelle sempre migliori utili nei campi di ricerca della fisica teorica.

Campi ed aree di ricerca

 Acustica applicata
 Balistica
 Biofisica applicata
 Dinamica dei veicoli
 Elettronica
 Fisica dei beni culturali
 Fisica dei laser
 Fisica dei semiconduttori
 Fisica dei superconduttori
 Fisica dell'acceleratore
 Fisica tecnica
 Fisica delle fibre ottiche
 Fisica medica
 Geofisica applicata
 Nanotecnologia fisica
 Ottica applicata
 Tecnologia nucleare

Altri progetti

Branche della fisica


The more you spend the more you save.
While a Pika card opens up a world of offers, including, at the time of writing, discounts at gas stations, fitness centres, ski passes and white-water rafting on Soča, most will just use it when buying groceries, unlocking certain deals and getting one point for every euro they spend, to be redeemed at a later date. At present 250 points can get you 5 EUR credit, 1,250 points 50 EUR, and 3,500 points 210 EUR, with multiples of these numbers of points also effective (and thus 500 points gets you 10 EUR credit).
A temporary card (začasna kartica) – which is in fact just a number that you get on a piece of paper – can be obtained for free in store and used while waiting for your long-term Pika card to arrive, in either blue or green editions. To get a temporary card you need to complete a form and give it to one of the sales staff, and this also serves as your application for a permanent card.
With a temporary card you, or the clerk, manually enter the number at the checkout, so getting the discounts and collecting points, with the latter transferred to the permeant card when you have it.
The blue card is a smart card, one with all the discounts and point-collecting benefits of the temporary card, plus access to more offers. You can apply online and have it mailed to your home, and it stays valid for six years.
Next is the green card, where things start getting serious. These have all the benefits offered by the two cards above, with the added draw of being able to pay your grocery bill once a month. The cards can be applied for online, and come without membership fees or operating costs, although there are some charges for being sent payment reminders, replacing a lost card and so on (as detailed, in Slovene, here). There's a limit with regard to how much you can put on the card each month, and while this can eventually be negotiated, the initial figure is not stated on the website.
Finally, at the top of the Pika tree we find the coveted gold card. This cannot be directly applied for, and you can try and get one if you've had one of the other cards for at least a year, have spent at least 3,500 EUR in the last completed credit rating period, and have settled your account on a regular basis. Aside from the colour, this card has additional benefits such as free parking, a shopping assistant, discount medical care, and more, with new offers announced in the website and in stores.
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June 2020 Policy Snapshot: Governor DeSantis Moves to Phase 2 of Reopening
7 Jun 2020 6:13 PM | Administrator (Administrator)
On Friday, June 5th, Phase 2 of Governor Ron DeSantis' "Safe. Smart. Step-by-Step. Plan for Florida's Recovery" took effect. The plan encourages Floridians to limit personal interactions outside the home and exercise responsible individual activity, but allows for the conditional reopening of certain businesses and facilities.
Sixty-four of Florida's 67 counties moved to Phase 2, the exceptions being Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, where COVID-19 has been most prevalent.
According to the Florida Department of Health, as of June 7th the state's total confirmed COVID-19 cases was 63,938 and deaths of 2,700 related to the virus. Hospitalizations due to the virus were also reported at 10,942.
What is Phase 2?
For restaurants, bars and pubs, Phase 2 allows 50 percent capacity indoors and full capacity outdoors as long as appropriate social distancing is followed, as well as bar-top seating. Patrons can only receive service if seated. All businesses are encouraged to continue to provide delivery or pickup and to take orders online or by telephone. Nightclubs must remain closed until further notice.
Entertainment businesses, like movie theaters, concert houses, auditoriums, playhouses, bowling alleys and arcades, can operate at 50 percent with appropriate social distancing and sanitization protocols.
Other businesses such as retail stores and gyms can now operate at full capacity with appropriate social distancing and frequent sanitization.
If a business violates the Phase 2 orders, they could be charged with a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
What about unemployment?
While some Floridians are able to go back to work under Phase 2, many continue to struggle financially. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, which handles the state's unemployment system, reports more than 2.3 million Floridians have filed for unemployment and 1,236,485 claims have been paid.
Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), the federal program that provides up to 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to individuals who have exhausted regular unemployment benefits under state or federal law or have no rights to regular unemployment benefits, is now ready to be administered according to the DEO. Floridians who have already exhausted their benefits or have a claim that expired after July 1 will still be able to apply for those benefits. In order to qualify for PEUC, Floridians must complete an application for state Reemployment Assistance benefits, which can be found here.
When will Phase 3 begin?
It is still unclear when Governor DeSantis will move the state to Phase 3.
Click here for a guide to applying for PEUC
Governor DeSantis PowerPoint Presentation on Phase 2
Executive Order on Phase 2
FAQs for Phase 2 — General Questions
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Moratorium Exceptions Update, Jill Slaikeu (Division of Human Providers): Moratorium exceptions proceed to be one of the hottest topics for HCBS suppliers, with questions often arising between suppliers, counties and DHS. Jill Slaikeu returns to the Enterprise & Finance Discussion board to provide the latest updates on process, timing, and what suppliers can anticipate in coming months.
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Havas announced its Q1 2013 financial results. Organic growth decreased by 0.9%. Despite overall stagnation, Havas Latin American business was one of the positive highlights. Latin America had a by 3.8% organic growth rate.
communication all made significant contributions to Group performance."
Consolidated Group revenue for the 1st quarter of 2013 was €386 million compared with €387 million for Q1 2012, a slight decrease of -0.3% on an unadjusted basis.Organic growth in Q1 2013 was -0.9%, set against +3.5% for the same period in 2012.
The euro strengthened against the US dollar and GB pound in Q1 2013 as compared to Q1 2012, leading to a negative impact on revenue of almost €4 million.
Latin America reported good growth thanks to the digital and media businesses, and to strong growth in Mexico. This quarter Havas has won TV Azteca account in Mexico and the digital account of Ale Combustiveis in Brazil. Healthcare communications and advertising also made positive contributions, according to the company.
In North America, following a very strong Q4 2012 (+6.5%), the region posted negative growth (-3.9%) driven by high comparisons and certain one-off account losses from last year including Dell at Arnold, and Sprint and Exxon at Havas Worldwide. "Healthcare communications continued to outperform and deliver strong growth despite significant declines in Pfizer, as did media. We expect the impact of the one-off losses to tail off in Q2 2013", said the company in a statement.


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