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Health Care/ Spring 2017
Red states dodge a Medicaid bullet
Under-the-radar attempt to repeal entitlement unlikely to go away
By Edward M Murphy	Congress, Health Care, MassHealth, Medicaid, National Politics, President Trump, Republicans, Taxes and Budget Issues	0 Comments Apr 10, 2017
REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON couldn't cobble together enough votes in March from their own party to repeal and replace Obamacare. President Trump learned that health care is more complicated than he thought and quickly put the Affordable Care Act in his rearview mirror. House Republicans, who had symbolically voted dozens of times to repeal the ACA, backed away as members confronted the reality that, this time, it could actually happen. The tricky politics of health care became impossible as they tried to balance their cost-cutting goals with Trump's promise of better, cheaper insurance for everyone. The Congressional Budget Office prediction that the GOP alternative to Obamacare would cost 24 million people their health coverage by 2026 was a bullet to the heart of the proposal.
Yet the furor over the potential loss of coverage drowned out an even higher-stakes debate over Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and elderly whose cost is consuming more and more of state and federal budgets. Changing traditional Medicaid was not essential to repealing the Affordable Care Act, but the heated debate provided an irresistible opportunity for Speaker Paul Ryan and other House conservatives to obscure the impact of dramatic cuts in Medicaid funding, which would have affected far more than 24 million people. The debate on Capitol Hill is over for now, but, given the dollars involved, it's likely to return.
Obamacare is a public policy experiment less than seven years old and even its advocates acknowledge that its needs refinement. Medicaid has existed since 1965 and has become a core feature of the social compact in the United States by providing access to health care for poor, disabled, and elderly citizens. While there may be ways to improve and modernize Medicaid, eliminating the entitlement profoundly alters the relationship between our society and its poorer members, between the federal and state governments, and among the various states. Such a change merits a careful reflection, broad debate, and a full grasp of its consequences.
GOP leaders such as Speaker Ryan, Vice President Mike Pence, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney each have a lengthy public record advocating policy changes that would curtail Medicaid, limit federal appropriations, and significantly reduce the number of Americans who have health care under the law. Trump, whose health care policy pronouncements are vague, has nevertheless specifically endorsed and advocated Medicaid retrenchment.
The Medicaid program is enormous, complex, and not well understood by the public. Twenty percent of the people in the United States receive their health benefits through Medicaid. In Massachusetts, where it is called MassHealth, it is even higher, at more than a quarter of the population. That means 1.9 million citizens of the Commonwealth are beneficiaries. Across the country, participation rates range from a low of 10 percent of the population in Wyoming to a high of 29 percent in West Virginia. Total combined Medicaid expenditures in fiscal 2015 were $532 billion, or 17 percent of all US health spending. On average, the cost was 60 percent paid by the federal government and the balance by state governments, which administer the program.
That large portion of Medicaid paid by the federal government is what drives the commitment among Washington Republicans to change the program. As Medicaid has grown over the years, its impact on federal spending has increased significantly. Under the law, which has been in effect for more than a half century, the federal government is obliged to pay a certain percentage of each state's Medicaid expense even though the state has wide discretion in determining the generosity and cost of its program. Thus, much of the federal cost is determined in state capitals rather than in Washington, a source of frustration to Speaker Ryan and others. They argue that uncapped funds flowing from Washington have made states inattentive to costs.
The consensus Republican approach endorsed by Trump is to cap federal Medicaid funding and to limit its growth in the future. This would occur by switching to block grants with a hard limit that would eliminate the current open-ended system. To the extent that states decide to cover more people, expand benefits, or pay higher rates to providers, they would have to absorb the additional cost rather than off-load a significant portion to the federal government.
Converting Medicaid to a block grant is an idea that advocates of smaller government have pushed for a long time. President Reagan made such a proposal in 1981. The Newt Gingrich-led Congress passed a bill, called "Medigrant," in 1995 before it was vetoed by President Clinton. The concept was raised again by President George W. Bush in 2003. Ryan has made the idea a hallmark of his tenure in Congress both in his current role and in his previous job as chair of the House budget committee. Newly appointed HHS Secretary Price, Ryan's successor as budget chair, included the block grant plan in each of the last two budget proposals adopted by the House. Last year's version added a "per capita" option under which states could choose to receive a fixed amount of money per Medicaid enrollee instead of the overall block grant. Under either option, the federal contribution is capped. Had that budget made it to then-President Barack Obama's desk, he would have vetoed it. The difference now is we have a president who made the idea one of the few specifics of his promise to create a great health care system.
The goal of the policy change is to limit federal exposure to Medicaid costs, to reduce the rate at which those costs grow in the years ahead, and to transfer more responsibility to state governments. Proposed legislation that emerged from the House under Ryan and Price over the past several years would have achieved that goal. They followed the same path this year. The Congressional Budget Office reported that, as compared with current law, the proposed American Health Care Act would have reduced Medicaid spending by $880 billion over the next 10 years and result in 14 million fewer enrollees by 2026. This is consistent with Ryan's stated goals to "reduce federal funding over the long term" and achieve "budgetary certainty."
Supporters of capped funding argue that less money will not substantially harm Medicaid recipients because states will have enhanced flexibility to innovate, to bring greater focus to cost control, and to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse. Opponents assert that block grants will shift too much cost to state governments where already constrained budgets cannot absorb the rising health care costs of an aging population. They argue that the new limits will force states to cut services to recipients, especially to elders and disabled people who account for almost half of Medicaid spending even though they only constitute 21 percent of the enrollment. Three out of five nursing home patients are paid for by Medicaid. Most significantly, the current "entitlement" would disappear, replaced by triage decisions made state by state.
The conversion of Medicaid to a capped system would also raise profound questions that go beyond health care policy. The adoption of Medicaid and other Great Society programs in the 1960s was part of the war on poverty that, like other wars, had the effect of concentrating greater control in the federal government. Social, political, and civil rights movements in the US had exposed great disparities in economic opportunity, education, housing, and health. Disadvantaged populations existed across the country but were especially concentrated in large cities, in Appalachia, and in the South. The liberal paradigm that reached its apogee in the wake of Lyndon Johnson's landslide election in 1964 saw it as essential that the federal government assume responsibility for solving the problems of poverty and inequity because the efforts of state governments were not adequate. The product of this movement was not only Medicaid but many other programs based on the assumption that wealthier parts of the country should support the effort to elevate the poorer parts.
The Medicaid financing formula in effect for 50 years captured that principle. While funding is shared between federal and state governments, the proportion of sharing varies from state to state. The federal government pays a larger share of the costs in poorer states and a smaller share in wealthier states. The creators of Medicaid readily accepted the idea that this on-going transfer of money from one place to another was part of the responsibility of our common American citizenship.
Specifically, the formula in the Medicaid law ties the federal portion, called the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, to each state's per capita income as compared to national per capita income. If the citizens of a state have per capita income below the national average, that state's federal assistance is higher than a state where the opposite is true. Depending on the state, the law allows federal assistance to range from a low of 50 percent to a high of 83 percent. For example, relatively prosperous Massachusetts has the lowest permissible federal assistance level of 50 percent, meaning that every state dollar spent on basic Medicaid is matched by one federal dollar. Relatively poor Mississippi, where federal assistance is currently the highest at 74.6 percent, receives $2.94 in federal money for every state dollar spent. If Medicaid financing is capped, it is unclear how the federal government will determine the size of the allocation to each state. The bill drafted by the House leadership this year simply based the new caps on last year's federal spending.
The core question that proponents of capping Medicaid have failed to address is whether the sizing of the new fixed grants should recognize the relative prosperity of states, as Medicaid has traditionally done. Should a state have the level of federal assistance to its Medicaid population penalized because some of its other citizens do well? To ask the question another way: Why should Mississippi receive almost triple the percentage of federal assistance that goes to Massachusetts? The traditional answer to that question arose from the 1960s ethic underlying the Great Society programs. But if the federal government requires states to bear more of the cost of supporting needy citizens, then it is logical for state governments to resist financial concessions made for the benefit of other states. Such concessions impede the ability of even relatively wealthy states to assist their own citizens. This is where the politics get complicated, even among supporters of capping Medicaid.
As is shown in the accompanying chart, many of the states benefiting from higher federal assistance are the same states that elected Trump and other conservative politicians who seek to constrain federal funding for Medicaid and similar programs. If they eventually get their way, the people who represent Mississippi would want the new approach to incorporate their traditional enhanced support. The people who represent Massachusetts would likely argue that the new constrained federal funding means that the Commonwealth cannot accept lesser treatment than other states. It is not possible for Mississippi and Massachusetts both to win this argument. This is a high-stakes fight that will engage every state on one side or the other.
The argument has already begun. Recent headlines focused on legislators in California who, in response to President Trump's threat to cut federal funding, described California as a "donor state" that should consider curtailing financial transfers to Washington. Like California, Massachusetts and most of the other low federal assistance states voted blue.
The debate over how to curb federal Medicaid funding puts progressives and liberals in an agonizing position. They traditionally advocate the use of the federal government as a vehicle to transfer tax proceeds from wealthier states to poorer states to mitigate poverty. That posture will conflict with the best interests of their own blue states if funding ceilings are adopted. If a new system is based on the current level of federal funding for each state, Massachusetts would be unable to sustain its MassHealth program without significant new taxes. A financing program that treats all states equally is better for Massachusetts but will decimate recipients in states such as Mississippi which have relied heavily on their disproportionate federal funding. If something like block grants become reality, the first responsibility of representatives from donor states is to insure that those states are positioned to protect their own less fortunate citizens. Massachusetts progressives will have to choose between helping poor, disabled, and elderly people in Mississippi or those in Massachusetts.
Edward M Murphy
About Edward M Murphy
Edward M. Murphy worked in state government from 1979-1995, serving as the commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, and executive director of the Health and Educational Facilities Authority. He recently retired as CEO and chairman of one of the country's largest providers of services to people with disabilities.
Block grants and the repeal of the Medicaid entitlement signify a departure from Great Society principles and the reduction of federal money for social programs. Less federal funding and fewer entitlements is a policy that Republicans have promoted for decades. While they control Washington, we can expect sustained efforts to achieve those goals. If entitlements are eliminated, some states will work to support their citizens who need help. Others will not, resulting in more disparity across the country. Progressives may deplore that potential reality but it nevertheless requires a different framework within which to design programs to help people in need. That framework is the state. The old concept of "state's rights" takes on new meaning in this context. If we do not share a national commitment to an entitlement like Medicaid, decisions about the existence and design of "welfare state" programs will devolve to each state. "Great Society" programs were premised on the use of the federal government to redistribute wealth and thereby elevate living standards for citizens regardless of where they resided. Under the Ryan/Trump ethos, geography may again become destiny.
Edward M. Murphy worked in state government from 1979-1995, serving as the commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, commissioner of the Department of Mental Health, and executive director of the Health and Education Facilities Authority. He recently retired as CEO and chairman of one of the country's largest providers of services to people with disabilities.
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Flybmi, официально как British Midland Regional Limited, ранее под брендом bmi regional, — бывшая региональная авиакомпания Великобритании со штаб-квартирой в аэропорту Восточный Мидландс, работавшая в сфере регулярных пассажирских перевозок по аэропортам страны и Европы.

Портом приписки перевозчика и его главным транзитным узлом (хабом) являлся аэропорт Восточный Мидландс.

BMI Regional являлась дочерним предприятием ныне упразднённой British Midland International (BMI), 20 апреля компания была выкуплена немецким флагманом Lufthansa у International Airlines Group (IAG) и месяц спустя продана инвестиционной группе «Sector Aviation Holdings». С октября 2012 года работала в качестве независимого от других авиакомпаний перевозчика.

История
Авиакомпания Business Air была основана в 1987 году и начала операционную деятельность в августе того же года. В 1999 году компания была приобретена магистральной British Midland International и сменила официальное название на British Midland Commuter. В 2001 году перевозчик очередной раз изменил название на действующее в современном периоде bmi regional.

Будучи дочерним предприятием, BMI Regional находилась во владении бизнесмена Майкла Бишопа (50 %, авиакомпаний Lufthansa (30 %) и Scandinavian Airlines (20 %). В октябре 2009 года Lufthansa выкупила все доли у остальных владельцев и стала полным собственником BMI Regional. Начавшаяся со следующего месяца реструктуризация деятельности перевозчика привела к увеличению убыточных маршрутов и к несбалансированности маршрутной сети регулярных перевозок в целом. В результате, в первой половине 2010 года компания имела три незадействованных самолёта Embraer и негативную тенденцию в финансовых показателях, вследствие чего управляющая компания начала предупреждать сотрудников о возможном сокращении штата перевозчика. Некоторое время спустя три лайнера были сданы в аренду другим авиакомпаниям.

В 2012 году BMI Regional была приобретена инвестиционной группой «Sector Aviation Holdings», находящейся под управлением бизнесменов Стивена и Питера Бондов (которые в 2010 году продали собственную вертолётную авиакомпанию Bond Aviation Group). В число топ-менеджеров группы так же входили бывшие основатели Business Air Иан Вудли и Грэм Росс. Официально о сделке купли-продажи было объявлено 1 июня 2012 года.

В 2014 году девятый раз подряд BMI Regional была объявлена самой пунктуальной авиакомпанией Великобритании на основе анализа данных, предоставляемых Управлением гражданской авиации страны. Показатель пунктуальности исполнения регулярного расписания в 2013 году превысил 92 %.

Корпоративная деятельность

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С момента своего основания в качестве Business Air авиакомпания использовала операционный центр в аэропорту Абердина. До середины 2012 года компания занимала здание вместе с канадской вертолётной авиакомпанией CHC Helicopter, которое находится на восточной стороне абердинского аэропорта между пожарной станцией и пассажирским терминалом другого вертолётного оператора Bond Offshore Helicopters.

После приобретения bmi regional в мае 2012 года группа «Sector Aviation Holdings» приняла решение о переносе штаб-квартиры авиакомпании из Абердина в аэропорт Восточный Мидландс.

Операционная деятельность

British Midland Regional Limited использовала лицензию эксплуатанта A Управления гражданской авиации Великобритании, дающую право на перевозку грузов, почты и пассажиров на воздушных судах с вместимостью 20 и более пассажирских кресел.

Став независимым перевозчиком, авиакомпания изменила свой позывной с «KITTIWAKE» на «MIDLAND», а 28 октября 2012 года объявила о том, что будет использовать код ИАТА «BM» вместо кода «BD», ранее принадлежащего British Midland International.

23 января 2014 года bmi regional открыла новые регулярные маршруты в Норвегию с её нового дополнительного хаба в Ставангере. Первым регулярным рейсом при этом стал маршрут между аэропортом Харстад/Нарвик и аэропортом Ставангера.

Наряду с главной операционной базой bmi regional использовала ещё несколько собственных центров обслуживания в Великобритании: аэропорт Эдинбург, аэропорт Глазго, Лидс-Брадфорд, аэропорт Манчестера и лондонский аэропорт Хитроу. Вся узловая инфраструктура перешла к авиакомпании от British Midland International, причём Хитроу ранее использовался только для дальнемагистральных направлений. В середине мая 2013 года в качестве одного из дополнительных хабов был объявлен аэропорт Бирмингема, однако уже 28 октября руководство перевозчика заявило о закрытии этого хаба к концу 2013 года.

Используя собственный флот Embraer 145 авиакомпания bmi regional выполняла чартерные перевозки для концерна Airbus между его аэропортами Харден, Филтон и Тулузой.

В начале 2014 года bmi regional заключила контракт с вертолётостроительной корпорацией AgustaWestland на чартерные перевозки между аэропортом Милана и авиабазой Йовил. Ранее этот маршрут обслуживала авиакомпания Eastern Airways на самолётах Embraer 135, новый оператор работает на более вместительных лайнерах Embraer 145.

Маршрутная сеть

В качестве дочернего подразделения магистральной British Midland International авиакомпания обслуживала все её региональные маршруты. После выделения в самостоятельную компанию bmi regional провела в 2012—2013 годах полную реструктуризацию собственной маршрутной сети регулярных перевозок.

В современном периоде маршрутная сеть bmi regional охватывала более 20 аэропортов континентальной Европы, Скандинавию и Великобританию. 30 марта 2014 года авиакомпания запустила регулярный рейс между аэропортами Брюсселя и Бристоля от имени Brussels Airlines. Компания также работала от имени шведского авиаперевозчика Flyglinjen на маршруте между аэропортом Кристианстад и стокгольмским аэропортом Арланда.

bmi regional имела код-шеринговые соглашения с немецкой Lufthansa на маршрутах из Бристоля во Франкфурт и Мюнхен, а также с Brussels Airlines на маршруте между Брюсселем и Ньюкаслом.

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Business Air начинала перевозки в 1987 году со флотом из двух турбовинтовых самолётов Saab 340. При этом, в светлое время суток лайнеры работали на регулярных пассажирских маршрутах, в ночное время — на перевозках грузов и почты.

Спустя короткое время авиакомпания ввела в эксплуатацию ATR 42-300 на маршруте между аэропортами Лидс-Брадфорд и Лондон Сити.

В текущем периоде флот авиакомпании составляла самолёты Embraer ERJ 145, оснащённые двигателями Rolls-Royce AE 3007. Четыре лайнера ERJ-145 авиакомпании не несли её фирменной раскраски, фюзеляжи были окрашены в ровный белый цвет с надписью bmi regional.

В феврале 2014 года воздушный флот авиакомпании bmi regional составляли следующие самолёты:

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These sweet Stuffed Date Footballs are perfect for game day. Sure to please and impress your guests!
It's kick off time! Here to kick off the Super Bowl party are some Stuffed Date Footballs with vegan cream cheese and nuts. These add a perfect addition to the table.
They are a nice sweet treat to balance the spread of rich snack foods. For more ideas for the big day, check out my 15 Vegan Super Bowl Recipes.
These vegan stuffed dates are perfect for a Super Bowl party.
Crush nuts with mortar and pestle or coffee grinder.
Slice each date down one side and stuff with crushed nuts and vegan cream cheese.
With a knife, scoop out a tiny bit of the vegan cream cheese. Working with your fingers, roll it into a little strip. Repeat process making four strips for each date.
To make the strips it is best to have the vegan cream cheese as cold as possible, but don't put in the freezer!
So if you have a lot of stuffed dates to make, I would work quickly or in batches. The more you handle the vegan cream cheese, the softer it gets and is harder to sculpt.


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Asaf Bitton - Dec 31, 2019
The NBA has seen some amazing teams assembled throughout its history. More recently, many franchises have put some very strong rosters together, in an attempt to win a championship. Sometimes these combinations of superstars are able to reach the pinnacle of the game, while other times they simply come up short, despite the immense talent on the team. As we analyzed the greatest dream teams in NBA history, these were the four teams that stood out more than the rest.
1995-1996 Chicago Bulls
The more modern era of dream teams includes a lot of big name superstars that came together to win. But the 1996 Chicago Bulls didn't need to force anything to be the greatest team of all time. It just so happens that their roster includes some all-time greats. Michael Jordan is the most obvious, as he is widely considered the greatest basketball player to ever step on the court. And how could we make a list like this, without having MJ on it?
However, Jordan got a lot of help from his teammates, with Scottie Pippen being the main catalyst aside from Air Jordan. This team also had Dennis Rodman, Robert Parrish, Toni Kukoc, and Steve Kerr. Together, they were able to win an astounding 72 games in the regular season, before cruising to their fourth NBA championship.
2001-2002 Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers have perhaps the most glorified history of any franchise in the NBA. Some of the greatest players of all time made L.A. their home over the decades. But the squad that won the championship in 2002 was as dominant as any that came before them. The combination of Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal was simply too much for anyone to contain. The one-two punch of these elite superstars made Laker basketball must-watch TV. And together, they were able to claim their place at the top of the basketball universe.
2017-2018 Golden State Warriors
Just when people thought it couldn't get any better in the Bay Area, the Golden State Warriors proved them all wrong. For years, the Splash Brothers, which included Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson took the NBA by storm. Their shooting ability was something the NBA had never seen before. They were able to make shots from insane distances on a consistent basis.
When they added Kevin Durant into the mix, there wasn't much their opponents could do to stop them. In the modern NBA, this was as dominant as a dream team could be. Draymond Green was a big contributor in his own right, and the Warriors had four All-Stars on their team that year. Winning an NBA title is no easy feat. But when you combine so many great players on a roster, there really isn't much that can be done to stop them.
Miami Heat's Big Three
When LeBron James announced he was "taking his talents to South Beach," he came off a little arrogant. But the move itself was actually a good decision. After years of stumbling in Cleveland, LeBron realized he needed to make a change. So he decided to join his long-time friend Dwayne Wayne in South Florida, in a quest to win his first championship. But another friend in Chris Bosh decided they all needed to play together, making them a true dream team that other teams would be unable to contain.
The three friends all came into the NBA in the same year, and they each made their marks on the league. They were all top five draft picks in 2003, linking them even closer together as they developed their respective careers. While each led his own team in scoring over the years, they knew that combining their talents and abilities would create a force that other teams wouldn't be able to match. They were able to win two championships together, proving that their decision to play together made them of the greatest dream teams the NBA has ever seen.
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The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote tomorrow (Wednesday, March 6th) on a resolution condemning anti-Semitic comments. The resolution, written by the Democratic House majority, does not even mention Rep. Omar. Despite a previous insincere apology, Rep. Omar has continued to use anti-Semitic language to criticize Israel and its supporters.
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Cambridgeshire Police have released an image of four bronze deer statues that were stolen from a garden in Royston.
The statues [pictured - above right], described as 'life-sized', were taken from the garden of a house in Heydon Road between Sunday 28 October and 3:30pm on Friday 2 November.
PC Robin Walters, who is investigating the theft, said: "This has devastated the owners who have had the statues for more than 10 years.
They are very heavy and it is likely the thieves would have had to use a vehicle, possibly a 4x4 or a van, to carry them away.
I would urge anyone with any information about the thefts to call police."
Anyone with any information is asked to call PC Walters on 101 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.


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Italy through to World Cup final
Australia's conquerors Italy are through to the final of the 2006 World Cup™ final after defeating host nation Germany 2-0 in a gripping semi-final in Dortmund earlier this morning.
Australia-s conquerors Italy are through to the final of the 2006 World Cup™ final after defeating host nation Germany 2-0 in a gripping semi-final in Dortmund earlier this morning.
The match went into extra time after neither side could score in normal time, with Italy, like they did against Australia, leaving it to the dying minutes to seal victory.
Australia-s nemesis Fabio Grosso, who won a controversial last minute penalty that ultimately led to their win over the Socceroos, proved once again to be the man of the moment for Italy. This time though he did the scoring himself with an excellently taken shot that curled beyond German keeper Jens Lehmann and inside the far post.
That was with less than a minute to go on the clock and like they did against Australia, when they scored with the last kick of the game, Alessandro Del Piero capitalising on a quick break and neatly finishing past a badly exposed Lehmann.
They will play the winner of Thursday morning-s (AEST) match between 1998 World Champions France and first time semi-finalists Portugal, next Sunday.
Germany will play the loser of that match in the 3rd/4th place play-off in Stuttgart on Saturday.


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In Giselle, the Wili's glitter and dance with joy over the bodies of their male victims. Valerie's manifesto bristles with anger and a lust for violence from start to finish. There's anger and savagery at work in Scum Ballet too, except it's not red like Valerie's, but more silvery in tone. It's not a thickly coiled serpent; it feels thinner and steadier than this, like the looping sound of a needle digging into the groove at the end of a record. It's still warm, but without the flush. It's a rage that is luminous, almost transparent; there's a lightness to it, which causes it to float, unmoored, and unstuck.
Scum Ballet is made up of a collection of distinctive scenes, each with their own set of actions. Movements are mostly slow – at times, achingly so: heels and toes are purposely placed when walking across the paired-back stage, outstretched arms make their glacial way to positions above the head, there's a lengthy panther-like saunter on all fours. This sense of watchfulness, of marking out territory, is underpinned by gestures of vulnerability and gentleness – early on, a dancer's head is nestled delicately into the crook of another's neck, and later, small blue knives are dragged softly and with tenderness across their exposed skin.
It's an exquisitely creepy collapse between the threat of violence and its opposite, love and care. Is this gang made up of friend or foe? Is the equilibrium that exists between them fragile enough to break?
Throughout the piece there are seamless shifts between the group and the individual, between dissonance and subsequent alignment. This is testament to Angela's strength as a choreographer, but also to the relationship developed between the five dancers. They never once flinch or buckle. An example: Angela walks (slowly, heel then toe) towards the kneeling Ivey and Verity, who are gently sliding a wooden board with a felt underside across the stage. As Angela walks onto the board, Ivey and Verity must account for this new weight pushing against them, they must double their effort and strength, and yet, they continue onward, slowly and delicately, without pause.
In another scene, Verity and Angela circle each other in the centre of the stage, each carrying a wooden plank by their side, its bottom edge sliding against the surface of the floor. They maintain eye contact just as an electronic remix shudders and erupts out of speakers. A disconcerting space opens up between the heavy bass and the inevitable rush of adrenaline that comes with it, and the pulled weapon that never once leaves the ground.
There is one palpable moment of relief from the sustained tension, when the dancers commune together, flinging, smashing and pulsing their bodies in time with the thumping beat. It's a kind of ritualistic frenzy – I imagine this is how the Wili's felt when they got hold of their prey – and the boundaries between pleasure and violence, between freedom and constraint are indistinct. I thought of Lady Macbeth with the blood on her hands; I thought of Bertha in Jane Eyre, hidden in the attic.
It occurs to me that all this both is and isn't for the audience. The energy of this coven, and the productive 'force' of movement that Angela refers to, lies in the incantations and swapping of spirit between the dancing bodies. The audience can only be a sideline witness to this: we are privy to glimpses of their power rather than the full apprehension of it – this remains closed off, open only to those who have entered the ringed circle of the group.
Author's note: all quoted text taken from the artist statement in the Campbelltown Arts Centre printed program, 'Scum Ballet' (2017).


Today we've got a very nice news – 4 of our pictures are among the finalists of the 8th international photo contest "Live nature of Altai". More than 600 works were submitted to the contest and the jury chose 72 to display. The opening of the exhibition of the best pictures was today in Barnaul in the Museum of history, literature, arts and culture.
The contest is dedicated to wild nature of Big Altai, especially to reserved areas and nature parks that a few people are destined to visit. The pictures show landscapes, rare and endangered animals and work of people for preserving nature.
All 4 pictures were made during our trips – 1 by Yevgenia and 3 by Jaap. Yevgenia was very lucky to see a very rare Sailugem bear. Jaap had an opportunity to watch in May fantastically beautiful mating rituals of cranes. Besides, in August he managed to come rather close to mountain sheep where young lambs were grazing with their moms. And the 4th picture is the view to one of our most favourite places in Altai – Bayan-Chagan valley, the territory of Sailugem national park. It is the main image of our site, by the way.
The exhibition will be held till 1st of February. And after that during the year it will become mobile and will travel in cities and villages of Altai. We are happy and proud that we can show all the beauty of Altai and the miracle of observing wild animals in nature to so many people.


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Publications at HLV
Areas of excellence in research and innovation
Third-cycle courses and study programmes
Academy of Health of the Future
Initial and advanced training
Ethics Group
Health and rehabilitation
Smoker - despite the diagnosis of COPD
Cronic Obstuctive Pulmonary Disease COPD affects 50 percent of all smokers. Despite the diagnosis, however, a relatively large proportion of those affected continue to smoke. In a recently published study from Luleå University och Technologi, experience of not being able to quit smoking are examined among persons diagnosed with COPD.
HLV Professor attracts Pia Sundhage to LTU
In Sports Gala on January 14 Pia Sundhage was awarded Year of coach 2012th A week before that, she was awarded the World´s best women soccer coach at FIFA gala in Zurich. Now we can reveal that Pia Sundhage is visiting Luleå University of Technology March 20, at a Public lecture - about just her leadership.
New education raises the quality of healthcare
This fall starts a new master in Nursing at Luleå University of Technology. The program is a response to an increased demand for higher education in the health care profession in the county.
App instead of doctor visits
Apps and other communication may be the solution for the EU countries to cope with the care of a growing number of patients affected by the most common diseases, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. LTU researchers Inger Lindberg and Siv Söderberg involved in the EU:s major flagship research Renewing Health where 8000 patients in nine EU countries participates.
In the media: The University of the top five list
Blog: Visiting Hanoi Medical University
Lecture on heart attacks was a success
The previous lecture researcher Ulrica Strömbäck gave the subject a heart attack, multiple heart attacks was filled to the audience. In late January, it was time for a favorite repis. It is the first time that a public lecture at the university are given an extra time.
Recruitment day attract nurses to specialist training
Throughout the country there is a shortage of specialized nurses, only at the Sunderby hospital, 100 nurses with specialist training to be missing on a five-year period. During the recruitment day LTU and Norrbotten County Council were spreading information on the various specializations.
Stina nailed her thesis
Friday, 22 February nailed Stina Rutberg his dissertation on the topic Physical Therapy.
Lifestyle Improvement with phone and web support
During a year has the Lifestyle project been going on and this week takes the last samples of the participants. The project aims to provide an opportunity to improve their life situation and then evaluate what phone and web support contributed to improving the outcome.
Commissioned education reduces queues for pacemaker surgery
The queues for pacemaker surgery is very long. To solve the problem, Sunderby hospital opens a new operating theater for these operations. In collaboration with the Health Department, LTU, a training launched to educate nurses and radiographers to assist in operations.
The first Nordic Conference in music medicine
Musicians have high standards for motion control and to perform under pressure. Performance is comparable to an elite athlete and then there is also the artistic expression. The groups occupational health is neglected in research and health care. To illustrate the specific needs of musicians is Musicians' Health & Performance 1st Nordic Conference in 2013 arranged by the Department of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology
Record number of applicants for LTU
Deadline for applications to universities has passed and never before have Luleå University Technology had as many first-choice applicants to it's programs. The result shows that a total of 18% more than in 2012, sought to Luleå University of Technology, while the equivalent for the country is 6.5%. LTU's engineering programs have received 24% more first-choice applicants.
HLV;s program takes record in enrollment rates
The first rates has increased on most programs from last year. HLV makes the best admissions digits ever.
- It is incredibly gratifying and we have received more first-choice applicants than before, says recruitment manager Peter Michaelson.
New research on mental health services
When young adults are transferred from Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to the Adult psychiatry it can mean a worsening well-being. The consequence could be that they are not receiving the care offered. A clear plan based on individual needs required for the transfer to be successful. That shows new research at Luleå University of Technology.
In the media: Ulrik talks about musicians conference on the radio
On April 22, was a lecturer Ulrik Röijezon on the Swedish Radio Norrbotten to talk about the conference Musicians Health and Performance 1st Nordic Conference in 2013 and his research in physical therapy.
The students conference in Nursing
Anja Stenman and Julia Engman Fahlén have since January this year been working on their thesis Living with COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The will together with 52 students present their thesis projects under The Nurse Programs conference in Nursing on April 26.
Great interest of our research in pharmacy
For two days, eleven people from AL Mustansiriyah University in Iraq visited Luleå University of Technology. The aim is exploring the possibility of cooperation and agreement between the universities. A great interest was the Health Sciences research in pharmacy.
iPads helps students to better lifestyle
Students can take their iPad or mobile to help feel better in school. Researchers Catrine Kostenius and Krister Hertting, Luleå University of Technology, develops, new ways to improve schoolchildren's health where iPads, mobiles and computers has a central role.
They are doing their work placement on Iceland
in Malin Johansson and Julia Lindgren are the fourth semester of the nursing program and are doing their work placement on Iceland in May.
- It will be exciting and interesting to see how they work, their thinking and perspectives, says Malin Johansson.
During the work placement they the blogs about their experiences.
Occupational Therapy has most applicant in the country
Since the distance education began in 2003, the number of applicants this year is taken all records, both in the number of first-choice applicants and the total number of applicants.
The only Swedish among world-renowned scientists
Siv Söderberg is the only Swedish researchers in nursing who has written a chapter in the new method book Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research. Together with the leading researchers in the world she contributes with a chapter in the book to be used for educational purposes worldwide.
Rolf nominated for Teacher of the Year
The Student Union nominates every year a few teachers. This year was Health Sciences´ teacher Rolf Lantto one of four appointed.
- It feels great, especially since it is the students who nominated me.
Teacher exchange with India
For over four years now we have an ongoing teacher exchange programme between the Physiotherapy Institute of Amity University Uttar Pradesh (AUUP), India, and the Physiotherapy programme at the Department of Health Sciences, LTU. This is now backed by a five-year Memorendum of Understanding, MoU.
In the media: Occupational Therapy program at TV4
On May 16, lifted Tv4 Norrbotten populatiteten at LTU's occupational programs. Distance education has the most applicants in the country.
The first Nordic conference on musicians' health
To illustrate the specific needs of musicians arranged Musicians' Health & Performance 1st Nordic Conference in 2013 by the Department of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology. The news conference has spread to other media and industry publications.
Women with fibromyalgia are still met with distrust
Women with fibromyalgia, FM are met with distrust and lack of understanding from healthcare, at work, and also among friends and family. This is shown in a new doctoral thesis in nursing at Department of Health Science, Luleå University of Technology, LTU.
Health projects in real-life situations
On Programme in Health Guidance has in year two completed the course in Health Promotion projects and entrepreneurship. The projects were carried out in close collaboration with the industry. After the project presentations voted students and teachers for the best health project.
In the media: Women with fibromylgi distrusted
Graduate Päivi Jusso researching the subject Nursing. Recently, she nailed her avnhandling and news that women with fibromyalig still distrusted caught up by the media.
The universitys major investment in the musicians health
In June the first Nordic conference on musicians health held at Luleå University of Technology, was organized. The university has become one of the leading players in Sweden within the area.
Do you have experience of transfer of BUP to adult psychiatry?
We want to study how the transition from child and adolescent mental health services to adult mental health affects young adults and is looking for men and women aged 18-25 years.
Best Poster Award
At the World Congress of Geriatrics and Gerontology in Seoul Sari-Anne Axelsson Wiklund, Lars Nyberg, Annika Naslund and Anita Melander Wikman won the Best Poster Award for their contribution "Ready to adopt-English older persons' perceptions of psychosocial impact of excisting and future mobile health related ICT applications "
Research facilitate the gold medal in the European Championship for womens
Few teams in the world have such a broad and deep knowledge in coaching the team as the Swedish national womens football. Within the team there are three postdoctoral researchers in orthopedics, cardiology and physics, who will lift the team to the European Championships.
Additional funding for the project Health on thin ice
In the pilot Health on thin ice studied how cold, ice and darkness can be used as a resource for good health. Now extend the study to 2014 with the aim to collaborate with researchers and practitioners in Norway and Finland.
Conference: eHälsacentralen - Care Applications for Better Health
On September 4, arranges Norrbotten County Council, together with the Centre for Innovation and eHealth EIC a conference where they will present the potential of eHealth.
Queen Silvia Nursing Award
Are you nursing student and have a good idea? Then apply for Queen Silvia Nursing Award, a scholarship for those who want to be involved and help solve future challenges in health care with special focus on the elderly.
In the media: Renewing Health project
Nordnytt and P4 Norrbotten have interviewed our Assistant Professor Inger Lindberg about the project Renewing Health.
Ambulance raises the quality of education
Students at Luleå University of Technology get their own ambulance (without engine and wheels) to be used in practical exercises.
-This raises the quality of education significantly, says Christer Kågström, lecturer at the division of nursing within the Department of Health Sciences.
Awarded for lifesaving action
Specialist nurse Fredrik Andersson has received an award for "Best lifesaving action" by FLISA, (Association of leaders within the Swedish ambulanceorganisation).
The award was presented on September 11 at this years FLISA-days in Uppsala.
In the media: Milkdebate
Health Promotion Group at Luleå University welcomes thel local politicians decision to tear up the decision to replace the ordinary milk in Luleå schools with low-fat milk.
Students tried to carry a stretcher
How hard is it to carry an ambulance stretcher, how does it feel to dress sterilized for surgery?
The new students at the specialist training in emergency care area was at its first campus week in September and could try a variety of things in a laboratory experiment.
Web support contributed to a healthier lifestyle
Nine out of ten people changed lifestyle to varying degrees after fullfilled participating in a health project with support via phone calls, sms and web.
-They have learned about diet, started exercising and / or learned to deal with stress, says Åsa Engström Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology (LTU).
Options important for visitors from highschoolerskeyrket
What are the options available after graduation was one of the issues that high school students had when they visited the Health Science table with information about the nursing program at C-House atrium during a day at LTU on October 8.
In the media: Set goals if you want a change
What to do if you are unhappy at work?
Set goals for what you want to do instead, says Anna-Karin Lindqvist, teacher and researcher at the Department of Health, in an interview in Norrländska Socialdemokraten.
Anna-Karin Lindqvist is a former elite athletes (swimming) and a physiotherapist. She researches now at Luleå University on children and health and also work with mental exercise and stress management. Previously, she wrote the book A life in balance.
Trained to short quee for inlays of pacemaker
A new operating theater for pacemaker surgeries is to open at Sunderby hospital in Luleå to shorten queuing time for pacemaker inlays.
Ten nurses have now completed a commissioned education, organized by Luleå University of Technology, in order to be able to assist in the operations.
Cooperation with Liberia can provide knowledge of tropical diseases
A better understanding of tropical diseases may be the result of a collaboration initiated between the Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, and medical education in Liberia.
-It´s something that Swedish health care do not have much knowledge about, says Christer Kågström, teacher at the faculty of Health Sciences.
Strong interest in lifestyle projects
The interest from the public was great when the project Lifestyle and lifestyle changes were presented at a public lecture in Kulturens hus i Luleå on October 10.
In the media: Worried about cutbacks
Swedish Association of Occupational Therapists Norrbotten is concerned about cutbacks in local government affecting rehabilitation staff.
-Lifes thas is saved must also be given a chans to be lived, writes Anna Ek Ombudsman Association in an article in Norrbottens-Kuriren.
Physical therapy can help migraine sufferers
Physical therapy may be a treatment option for people suffering from the disease migraine.
-It is probably not so well known, says Stina Rutberg, researcher in physical therapy at Luleå University of Technology.
Sharp increase in applicants for Diagnostic Radiology Nursing
The number of applicants to be radiology nurse at the Luleå University of Technology is increasing rapidly.
-It is an exceptional increase, nearly a doubling, said Peter Michaelsson, head program director of the Department of Health.
Qigong and tai chi for physiotherapystudents
Alternative medicine is now given place in the teaching of physiotherapy program at Luleå University of Technology.
For the first time, students in November will get an overview of qigong and tai chi from a rehabilitation perspective.
Togetherness for meaningfulness
The significance of togetherness in everyday occupations for people to experience meaningfulness and to create change in their life situation is investigated in the first dissertation in occupational therapy at Luleå University of Technology (LTU ) .
In the media: The importance of everydag community
The significance of a living community for people to experience meaningfulness and to create change in their lives is the topic of Anneli Nyman doctorate in occupational therapy.
She was interviewed on the topic in Radio Norrbotten afternoon program Pulse on October 28.
Dopingexpert leaning towards lifetime
The effect of using anabolic steroids may persist for years after the doping ceased, according to research by doping expert Anders Eriksson, Luleå University of Technology, LTU
-More studies are needed, but true my results so it speaks for the suspension for life for athletes who doped themselves, he says.
Snakevenom and smart nanomedicine
Smart drugs, improved drug therapy and patient safety - Sitaram Velaga, professor of pharmacy at Luleå University of Technology, LTU, has high goals for his research.
-I think you have to aim high and think out of the box , he says.
Anders Eriksson is supported by Norwegian Research
LTU-researcher Anders Erikssonss research on residual effects of doping with anabolic steroids are now supported by the Norwegian research trials on mice.
-It´s right in line with the research that I conducted, says Anders Eriksson, the Department of Health.
Tablets and GPS to people with dementia
Connected tablets, gps bracelet and new staff collaborations is tested now in Pajala and Arvidsjaur to facilitate for people with dementia.
It is the result of an EU-funded project that´s been going on the last year.
The project is a collaboration between the Norrbotten County Council, Luleå University of Technology (LTU) and the municipalities concerned.
Awarded for research collaboration with the County Council
Lars Jacobsson, researcher at the Department of Health (LTU) and neuropsychologist in Kalix has been assigned Norrbotten County Council scholarship in memory of Elisabeth Holmgren.
The motivation is that his research is "a clear example of how collaboration between the university and the county council can be beneficial for the patient and the health c
Meaningful activities a right for everyone
Occupational therapy globally must dare to take place in society, says Elizabeth Townsend, world-renowned Canadian professor of occupational therapy and occupational science.
-We must take part in society so we can change it so that people who has been deprived of participation can find a way to be respected and participate, she says in an interview.
Mapping Multi-Disciplinary Research - Workshop in Attractive built environment
About twenty researchers representing different research areas have participated at the second workshop in Attractive built environment on Friday, November 15th. The aim of this workshop was to identify common research issues where different research skills can be combined in future trans-disciplinary research projects.
The story at the heart of her research
Stories about people´s lives and everyday living has always been at the center of Gunilla Isaksson´s research interest.
-It´s important to listen to people´s stories when you go into a rehabilitation program, says the assistant professor of occupational therapy at the Department of Health.
Awarded for research on team work for pain
Catharina Nordin, physiotherapist and researcher has been awarded Norrbotten Academy (NOAK) health science award 2013.
-I was surprised but actually very happy. I am a novice in the academic world, although I am in years, says the 50-year-old winner from Piteå.
Get´s nine million to research for three years
A research group in which Maria Larsson Lund, assistant professor in the Department of Health is included has been awarded a research grant of nine million SEK over three years.
The money will be used for research in the project To live and grow old with cognitive disabilities in the home and the public with it´s landscape of technology.
Health promotion in new book for education of nurses
The importance of human encounters in health care and to more than today focus on such things as pointing in a positive direction is treated in a new textbook for including nursing students. Health Promotion chapter meetings and conversations in primary written by Catrine Kostenius, assistant professor in the Department of Health, LTU.
Budo helps stroke patients
Japanese researchers and practitioners from around the world are turning to Luleå University to learn more about how budo training can be developed to help peoplethat have had stroke.
LTU researchers Annika Näslund and Agneta Larsson, together with colleagues, conducted an acclaimed pilot study in which stroke patients rehabilitated with the help the japaneese martial art.
Distinguished professionals changes name
A venerable profession changes its name - the swedish title "sjukgymnast" becomes physiotherapist.
The parlament is expected on December 16 to decide on the matter and tell when, for example, a degree in "sjukgymnastik" shall begin to be called physiotherapy degree.
-It may be that already for the students who go out at Christmas, says Lars Nyberg, professor of physical therapy at the Department of Health Sciences at Luleå University of Technology, LTU.
Complicated delivery difficult even for Dad
Deliveries that leads to the mother must be nurtured in the intensive care involves both a physical impact but also a great psychological distress, even for the father, according to a research study at Luleå University of Technology, LTU.
Care should consider adopting procedures to help fathers, due to the study.
Living with COPD
Fatigue, health and wellbeing for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Caroline Stridsman, PhD at the university, in her thesis, demonstrates how people with COPD at an early stage are affected by the disease.
In the media: The technology will save health care
New technologies and e-health is becoming increasingly important for health care, assesses Agneta Granström (MP), public health in Norrbotten County Council.
She is Chairman of the Assembly of European Regions Working Group on e-health working to find innovative e-health solutions in healthcare.
In an interview in Norrbottens-Kuriren she and othters talks about the future.
Great interest in new professorship in medical technology
Five people have applied for the newly created position of Professor and Head of Department of Medical Technology in Health Care.
-We are satisfied that the interest is so great, says Niklas Lehto, head of the Department of Health and convener of the university;s recruitment group.
In the media: Fathers suffering from severe postpartum
Even dads suffer psychologically by difficult deliveries, according to research by Inger Lindberg and Åsa Engström at the Department of Health.
In a feature of TV4 News Luleå researchers say that the conversation should be offered to fathers so that they get the opportunity to process their experiences.
Reichstag said yes to the name change
The professional title of physiotherapist replaced with physiotherapist January 1, 2014, pursuant to a decision of Parliament on 17 December.
At the same time renames physiotherapist degree towards physiotherapy degree.
After the death grip, life should be good
Only one of 20 that due to myocardial infarction get cardiac arrest survive.
But those who survived the death grip is not so afraid to re-experience that they are willing to completely change their lifestyle, according to a doctoral thesis at the Department of Health Sciences, Luleå University of Technology, LTU.
LTU cooperates with the industry in Skellefteå
Many small- and medium-sized enterprises have suggestions, ideas and innovations where university resources could contribute to the development of the business. In September 2013, a letter of intent was signed by Johan Sterte, Vice-chancellor at LTU and an industry partnership launched in a number of places in the Northern part of Sweden. The Vice-Chancellor advisor in Skellefteå, Gunnar Landsell, put up the LTU-sign on the Business Development Office in Skellefteå, as a sign of cooperation.


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The Robins School of Business invites you to the second SpringFest!
Join RSB students, faculty and staff as we wrap up the last classes of the 2018-2019 school year. Complimentary food tickets (one for food, one for dessert) will be provided to all RSB faculty, staff and declared majors & minors to use at the following food trucks that will be located on the side of the Business School.
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Monday, April 22, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.


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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul—politics does the same thing for the body. Of course they overlap—this is a very rough description. But the politician is responsible for law, for physical security, and in a world of tumult, of perpetual conflict, he has the alternatives, roughly again, of persuading people or shooting them. In the democracies, we persuade. And this gives great power to the spellbinder, the artist in words, the preacher, the demagogue, whatever you call him. Rousseau, Marx, Tolstoy, these were great spellbinders … Poets have started most of the revolutions, especially nationalist revolutions. On the other hand, life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.
The next morning it was cold in the apartment. She sat on the edge of the bed, wrapped in an old plaid bathrobe and warmed her clothes over the electric heater. He was still asleep. Without his glasses, he seemed accessible, someone who could be talked to with understanding, without self-consciousness: his hair curling up into funny ringlets and the lines of his profile imprinting on the air a certain naive justice. A large suitcase lay open on the floor, overflowing with sweaters and socks. She wondered if anyone wore socks in Israel. Probably not.


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The myth of South African nationality
Zwide Ndwandwe
Growing xenophobic nationalism in South Africa is a danger to African people across the continent.
Photo by Pawel Janiak on Unsplash
Post-apartheid South Africa finds itself at a moment where a worrying number of its citizens currently consider a nativist ideology as one of the determining factors in a party's electability. New political organizations firmly root themselves within a space developed through years of growing national antagonisms towards the African other. These parties include the African Transformation Movement (ATM), that won two seats in parliament from their first contested election, as well as the freshly founded Action SA, the party of former Johannesburg mayor and Democratic Alliance member Herman Mashaba. The ATM is led by Vuyo Zungula and Mzwandile Manyi, the former head of government communications during Jacob Zuma's tenure as South African President. Manyi is now ATM's head of policy. The argument presented by both parties is that South Africa's "porous borders" burdens its people with undocumented immigrants and that the state, led by the ANC, chooses to deny actual citizens their social and economic rights because of this. Then there's the larger #PutSouthAfricansFirst movement, promoted by both the ATM and Action SA.
Though the hashtag itself is recent, #PutSouthAfricansFirst's politics is older, dating back to May 2008, with the first wave of deadly attacks against foreign, especially African, nationals. This became a regular occurrence since, with headline making clashes—as opposed to the daily unmitigated violence that is unreported—taking place again in 2015 and in 2019, resulting in further casualties, but also criticism of South Africa at home and abroad. The violence, while classed as "xenophobia," should rather be understood as Afrophobia, rooted in anti-blackness (as the victims of this kind of violence are never white). It is accompanied by anti-foreigner policies from the ruling party as well as official opposition, prejudiced statements from state officials, and the reoccurring flashpoints of extreme violence in peri-urban communities.
What has become clear is that #PutSouthAfricansFirst is no longer just a digital threat alone. Its fans and supporters have organized offline protests, like those at Nigeria's embassy in South Africa.
One of #PutSouthAfricansFirst's prominent spokespeople on social media is Vusi Thembekwayo, a figure known primarily for his business commentary and motivational speaking, but who now seems to be transitioning into a thought leader for those who happen to be interested in or share his views on what is the supposed "real" issue in this country. Thembekwayo is one of South Africa's most recognized venture capitalists and public speakers, and more recently became a sort of political commentator on his own social media platforms as well as on mainstream news channels.
According to Thembekwayo, and others like him, patriotism has wrongfully been conflated with xenophobia in South Africa: the media and the public are guilty of misjudging the passionate calls to tighten South Africa's borders with more security, to crush undocumented immigration, and prioritize South African workers over foreigners. These positions are not based on bigotry. No, they're grounded on the love for one's country and a desire to see it moving forward. Thembekwayo, Mashaba, Manyi and other likeminded public figures represent a few of the most popular proponents of this nationalist trend.
The platform that arguably has the biggest influence on this movement is the infamous Lerato Pillay Twitter account, which has only being in existence for less than a year, but which is credited for shaping the viral discourse surrounding #PutSouthAfricansFirst.
The anonymous account managed to amass thousands of other social media users who support the vitriol expressed by the account holder and share with the account its impatience with the ruling party's supposed pussyfooting regarding the alleged illegal presence of nationals from other African countries in South Africa. With the origins of #PutSouthAfricansFirst having been linked to @uLerato_Pillay, the real identity of the person behind the account has recently become a subject of inquiry, and some startling revelations have come out from investigations dealing with this matter.
The Black American Marxist theorist, Cedric Robinson, once argued about his own country that "Birth deposes judicial citizenship in the nation-state, but this mythical nationality requires a confirmation bestowed by culture, the culture of the majority or the most powerful ethnic group." Robinson's 1996 essay, "In Search of a Pan African Common Wealth," deals with the need to confront the idea of the nation-state, which he judged as a by-product of European modernity. For Africans on the continent, what Robinson's critique of statehood compels us to do is to question the nature of national identities in Africa—concretized by the groundless argument coming out of the Berlin Conference of 1884 and 1885—and to recognize its role in upholding the colonial project.
The parallels between #PutSouthAfricaFirst and Afrikaner nationalists, who ruled South Africa for much of the 20th century, combing a mix of racism and xenophobia, are eerie. J.B.M. Hertzog, South African Prime Minister from 1924 to 1929, came to power pushing a "South Africans First" policy, by which he meant whites. It is ironic that Black South Africans are promoting a version of the same politics today.
It is even more depressing that the nationalist agenda of #PutSouthAfricansFirst mirrors the xenophobic rhetoric which has driven US President Donald Trump's "America First" campaign. Thembekwayo, Mashaba and others like them have more than once suggested their own admiration for Trump's insouciant approach to immigration in the United States. They excitingly share news of his latest executive orders against immigrants, adding that Trump is an example for dissatisfied South Africans to look at for how to manage unemployment by scapegoating immigrants.
More powerful than #PutSouthAfricaFirst in promoting xenophobic South African nationalism, is the largely unquestioned framework of South African exceptionalism which has somehow managed to co-exist with the overwhelming despondency in the South African polity over the on-going failures of the South African state.
A persistently dominant view since the first democratic election in 1994 has been that South Africa is a leader of the "developing" world generally, and of the African continent especially. This notion arises from specific elements of our history and present, like the much-idolized transition, having a constitution that is one of the most progressive globally, or the supposed European chic of our "world class" cities. These elements helped lay the foundations for the superiority complex vis-à-vis other Africans to the north. It grips the imagination of countless South Africans, many of whom struggle to recognize that this brews an arrogant and ultimately contemptuous attitude towards the African states across our borders.
The commonly shared belief that South Africa has the potential to be one of the greatest countries in the world, a first world country, is expressive of a neoliberal capitalist ambition rather than a vision of a world that no longer dehumanizes the majority of the people who live here. The state-sponsored encouragement to be "proudly South African" has never just been a benign campaign intended to invest a sense of morale within the people of the republic; it was and will always be aimed at establishing nationalism through a lens of exceptionalism. All of this has been to our collective detriment as African people. Africana Studies scholar, Joshua Myers, argues that to function as a liberal democracy under a nation-state plays a part in the collapse we've seen in several African nations, since "the nation-state exists primarily to protect the sanctity of capital" which makes it "fundamentally anti-human." It is inconceivable that any African civilization could thrive fully while working within these rigid conditions.
South Africa is crumbling in every way imaginable, and as a considerable amount of the population became obsessed with the national question, the governing party is more than happy to let these segments sow deeper divisions on the basis of national identity, letting foreigners bear the brunt for the catastrophes of unemployment, crime, and austerity. The economic depression and unresolved hostilities stretching from 2008 are not what has brought us to this current nightmare; this is the direct consequence of the neo-colonial administration's decision to keep the principles of the nation-state in place and unchallenged. When radical calls and outlines are made for newer ways of life outside of the naturalized systems of violence and dominance, such as statehood, they are regularly met with politically unimaginative responses, suggesting that in reality there are no possible alternatives to the oppressive and undemocratic modes of politics which govern our lives. What does a confrontation against the nation state look like?
In one of the strongest examples of a struggle with the ideals of statism, which has lead to a meaningful difference in the material conditions of a dispossessed people, we can look towards the remarkable contemporary revolution in north east Syria, commonly known as Rojava. The region consists of several multicultural communes that operate under a political theory described as democratic confederalism. It is a concept guided by the principles of communalism, as well as several other social ideologies that reject hierarchal leadership and the centralization of power in favor of a more humane and egalitarian society, for every identity that lives in it. Due to the administration's defiant opposition towards the statist logic of diversity and difference, it has been able to find ways to accommodate different ethnic and religious groups in a manner that does not allow it to produce cultural hegemony, which always tends to lead to social inequality. The philosophy, conceptualized by Kurdistan Worker's Party leader Abdullah Öcalan, is modelled after the ideas of social ecologist Murray Bookchin. As an anarchist, Bookchin theorized and established ideological foundations that would go on to help an entire region across the world from him gain liberation from the dehumanizing confines of the nation state as well as the modernities entangled with it, all of which limit the chances of living a self-determined life.
To bring it back home, for those of us who believe in the vision of a unified Africa, it is necessary that we evolve from what Robinson described as a political Pan Africanism, which only works to reinforce the legacy of the nation state while at the same time concealing the "several alternative modalities of Pan-Africanism." A Pan Africanism envisioned by Amilcar Cabral, when he rightfully said the struggle against colonial powers was not solely about gaining a flag and an anthem just for African people to be further imprisoned and subsequently divided by them. It was and is a struggle to "change radically the economical, social and cultural situation of our African people." A Pan Africanism, as Sisonke Msimang once discussed, which encourages us to resist establishing our identity here entirely around the constitutional scrapping of apartheid legislations and the rainbow nation myth. Unless and until we can return to a place where the validity of nationality is openly contested, with the aims of eventually divesting from it entirely, nationalism will exist—covertly and overtly—to deny Africa of a reality where civilizations truly place every single one of us first.
Zwide Ndwandwe is a musician based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Post-apartheid South Africa finds itself at a moment where a worrying number of its citizens currently
A city on a hill
William Shoki
The viral sensation "Jerusalema" and its dance challenge reveals a deeper longing and desire to re-imagine the world.
Herman Mashaba wants you to forget
When considering Herman Mashaba's new political plans, the South African public must reckon with the former mayor of Johannesburg's actual record.
Decolonization's borders
Loren B Landau
Roni Amit
Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see "xenophobia" as legitimate hate.
A meditation on home
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A new memoir by South African-American Stephanie Urdang offers a remarkable and feminist view of love, longing and revolutionary struggle.


Kenric Bennett collected indigenous fodder grasses, plants, etc from the Lachlan River, New South Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Born ca 1840. Died Ivanhoe, near Hay, New South Wales, 30 June 1891. Bush naturalist, with three major interests - birds, on whose habits he wrote a number of articles; native plants, which he collected both for himself and J.H. Maiden (q.v.) and published a number of papers on; and the native weapons, implements and utensils of aborigines.


The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) seeks candidates for the position of Professor/Associate Professor in Chemical Oceanography. The position will be based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway.
The position is intended to further strengthen and extend the cooperation within the Air-Chryosphere-Sea Interaction Observation and Modelling (ACSO) group, and between UNIS and national and international partners. This new scientific position will add the important branch of chemical oceanography to the existing department research by introducing the use of tracers to improve understanding of ocean mixing (isopycnal and diapycnal mixing), ocean circulation and residence time in the ocean (thermohaline circulation), and the sensitivity of the climate system.There is an urgent need to understand the role of oceans in relation tomodulating sources and sinks of anthropogenic CO2, the role ofbiogeochemical processes, and the changes in carbon sources and sinksand their interaction with climactic changes. Hence, boundary layerdynamics and air-ice-sea interaction studies are needed to improve this knowledge.
The successful candidate will conduct research within the scope of theDepartment of Arctic Geophysics at UNIS and is expected to participate in the supervision of Master's and PhD students in cooperation with the other universities. The person will also be responsible for one or two undergraduate or postgraduate courses.
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Mammillaria glochidiata is a species of plant in the family Cactaceae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It was classed as Extinct in the wild but since 2013, it has been classed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List.

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Geneva Motor Show 2019: Porsche launches new front-, rear- and mid-engined models
Bestseller, icon, driving machine – say hello to spring in Porsche style
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 —
Porsche launches three new sports models at the 89th Geneva Motor Show. The highlight is the new 911 Cabriolet(1). "With each new generation of the 911, we face the challenge of enhancing our iconic car carefully and yet consistently to meet the needs of the future," says Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG. Alongside the rear-engined 911 Cabriolet, Porsche also unveils the
718 T, a 300 PS mid-engined driving machine in Boxster(2) and Cayman(2) forms to the audience gathered in Geneva. The Macan S(3), with new V6 turbocharged front engine, completes the debuting trio as a bestseller in the model range.
Four months ago, Porsche launched the new 911 Coupé in Los Angeles, and the eighth generation of this timeless sports car is much more powerful, fast and digital than ever before. Now it's the turn of the Cabriolet, the open-top variant of the 911. The S model features a 331 kW (450 PS) twin-turbo engine that delivers top speeds of over 300 km/h, and acceleration of 0-100 km/h in less than four seconds. Drivers can enjoy the new eight-speed dual-clutch transmission and with the Porsche Wet mode even safer handling on wet roads. With a design that puts a modern twist on classic elements from classic 911 models.
The new 911 Cabriolet is the newest in a long line of open-top Porsche models that includes the company's very first vehicle. This body style first appeared in the 911 family more than 30 years ago, and it continues to symbolise uniquely intense driving experiences to this day. The weight of the soft top has been further optimised, and it now takes only twelve seconds to completely fold it away, thanks to a new hydraulic motor – it closes back up with the same swiftness too, even when travelling at speeds up to 50 km/h. Made predominantly from magnesium, the high-tech structure of the soft top, designed by Porsche, prevents the roof from ballooning even at high speeds.
The new 718 T – concentrated driving dynamics
Porsche launches a second new model at the Geneva Show, the 718 T. The new touring variant of the Boxster and the Cayman combines the 220 kW (300 PS) powerful four-cylinder turbo boxer engine with highly sophisticated dynamic components such as the Sport Chrono package and PASM sports suspension that includes a 20-millimetre-lowered body. The car also comes equipped with PADM adaptive body positioning and Porsche Torque Vectoring with mechanical rear differential lock as standard – features which are being made available with the 2-litre boxer engine for the first time. In combination, they pack the high-performance character of the two-seater sports car into an especially exciting Porsche experience: the 718 T will be most at home on winding country roads, offering the sheer joy of driving as its ultimate goal. Equipped with the essentials, this puristic driving machine is the heir to the 911 T from 1968 and the 911 Carrera Clubsport from 1987.
The new Macan S – more powerful, with a new design and fully networked
The new Macan S also makes its first public appearance in Geneva. Porsche has comprehensively upgraded the Macan in terms of design, comfort, connectivity and driving dynamics. The distinctive Porsche design DNA can be seen in the compact SUV's three-dimensional LED light panel on the rear of the vehicle. LED technology will also be standard for the headlights in future. The most eye-catching new features in the interior are the 10.9-inch touchscreen of the new Porsche Communication Management (PCM), the newly arranged and designed air vents and the optional GT sports steering wheel familiar from the 911. The PCM makes it possible to access new digital functions such as intelligent voice control and standard online navigation. The range of comfort equipment is extended with Traffic Jam Assist, an ioniser to improve the air inside the car, and a heated front windscreen. The Macan S is powered by a new V6 engine with 3-litre displacement and twin-scroll turbocharger in central turbo layout. The engine has a power output of 260 kW (354 PS) and torque of 480 Nm. The seven-speed dual-clutch transmission (PDK) and the Porsche Traction Management (PTM) all-wheel drive are a perfect match for the new engines.
(1)911 Carrera S Cabriolet: Combined fuel consumption: 9.1 l/100 km, CO2 emissions: 208 g/km
911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet: Combined fuel consumption: 9.0 l/100 km, CO2 emissions: 207 g/km
(2)718 Cayman T: Combined fuel consumption: 8.1-7.9 l/100 km; CO2 emissions: 186-180 g/km
718 Boxster T: Combined fuel consumption: 8.2-7.9 l/100 km; CO2 emissions: 187-181 g/km
(3)Macan S: Combined fuel consumption: 8.9 l/100 km, CO2 emissions: 204 g/km
The consumption and CO2 emission values were determined in accordance with the new Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). The NEDC values derived from this should continue to be specified for the time being. These values cannot be compared to the values determined in accordance with the NEDC measuring procedure used up to now.
Further information on the official fuel consumption and official, specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars is available in the "Guidelines on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and power consumption of new passenger cars" [Leitfaden über den Kraftstoffverbrauch, die CO2-Emissionen und den Stromverbrauch neuer Personenkraftwagen], which are available free of charge from all sales outlets and from Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH (DAT).
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