How exactly does one keep their brain and memory strong and healthy?

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padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;"><b>Keeping</b></span></span><b> your brain fit, by a USA Memory Champion</b></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>By Nelson Dellis</b></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="_53039000 storyHighlightsGlobal styles_storyHighlights__1IpdF _2df25e03" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 16px; border-width: 2px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(230, 230, 230) rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 16px;"><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">Avoiding or limiting processed foods, sugars and carbs can aid mental clarity</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Exercise increases the size of the hippocampus, one of the primary brain regions for memory</li></ul></div><div class="styles_EditorialNote__3tLcX _30d700ad cnnds_txt_grey_small _9db439e9 _665f6206 editorsNoteGlobal" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; padding: 16px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: -16px;"><span class="styles_EditorialNoteTitle__2mFZD" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-right: 5px; display: inline-block;">Editor's Note:</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nelson Dellis is author of "<a href="https://www.nelsondellis.com/remember-it" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Remember It!: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget</a>."</span></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">(CNN) — </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; box-sizing: border-box;">How exactly does one keep their brain and memory strong and healthy? This was one of the driving questions I had when I began the question to improve my memory and become a four-time USA Memory Champion.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">I didn't want to end up with Alzheimer's disease when I got older, as my grandmother did, so I wondered, "If I keep my brain healthy and fit, could I prolong its lifespan?"</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">The</span><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;"> answer is yes. Over the years of my memory studies and training, I've come up with four key pillars of brain health that I try to live by on a daily basis, and I've seen firsthand just how much of a difference even a small amount of these changes can make.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Diet: I think, therefore I am ... what I eat</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 16px;">As</span> a rule of thumb, whatever is good for your body is good for your brain. There are, however, a few things to eat that may boost your memory and a few things that may hamper it.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The most convincing evidence is from <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101108151346.htm" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">the Midas Study</a>, in which subjects 55 and older with mild memory complaints were given a daily dose of supplemental docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid that's an important structural component of the brain and is often extracted from fish oil as a nutritional supplement. When taken over six months, DHA was correlated with statistically significant improvements in cognitive function, including memory and learning.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Other studies have shown that berries or other foods that are high in antioxidants (goji berries, blueberries, pecans, artichokes and kidney beans, just to name a few) have strong antioxidant capacities, which can help fight the brain's high susceptibility to oxidative damage.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Although there are some proven mental health benefits to eating certain foods, when all is said and done, eating well and avoiding or limiting the bad stuff (processed foods, sugars, carbs) will do wonders for your mental clarity. There is no denying the benefits of following a healthy diet, such as improvement in focus, heightened mental acuity and, of course, a better memory.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><h3 style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Physical training: No pain, no gain -- to your brain.</h3><p><font color="#262626" face="Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif">Studies on exercise and memory are far more conclusive than those on diet, and at this point, it's practically a fact that exercise benefit </font><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">your brain.</span><br></p><div class="b5d1cb4d _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a aria-disabled="false" aria-label="Related Article: Forgetful? 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It might actually make you smarter, study says" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;" target=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="_2a5c0c94" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 0;"><img alt="" class="a8a853a8" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 50vw, 100vw" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160316172257-memory-blocks-stock-medium-plus-169.jpg" srcset="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160316172257-memory-blocks-stock-medium-plus-169.jpg 307w,//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160316172257-memory-blocks-stock-large-169.jpg 460w" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: 162.281px; border: 0px; width: 288px;"></div></div></a><div class="_49fb7f0e cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); font-size: 14px; margin: 12px 0px 20px; line-height: 20px;"><a aria-disabled="false" aria-label="Related Article: Forgetful? It might actually make you smarter, study says" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2017/06/30/health/poor-memory-smarter-study-partner/index.html" icon="" name="Related Article: Forgetful? It might actually make you smarter, study says" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;" target=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> Forgetful? It might actually make you smarter, study says</a></div></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Aerobic exercise has been shown to<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3017.full%20%20It%20also%20improves%20spatial%20memory%20http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22155655" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank"> increase the size of the hippocampus</a>, one of the primary brain regions for memory and <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=199487" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">cognitive function</a>.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">It's also a given that when you exercise, you generally feel better about yourself. You feel healthy, you look better, blood flow to the brain is improved (since your brain is a highly vascular organ), and your body runs better altogether. You will feel sharper and more on your game just because you were active.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Social interaction: Hanging out with the Joneses</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Social interaction certainly boosts quality of life, and it can boost other things, too. For example, elderly women with larger social networks have been found to be <a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2007.115923" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">less susceptible to dementia</a> than their less-connected peers.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">On a more basic level, socializing involves learning things about different people and retaining that information in order to interact comfortably with them. Whether that means knowing the details of their life stories, their interests or simply how to hold a conversation without angering them, it's a way to broaden your mental frame of reference so you have more associations to help you remember.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Brain training: All aboard the brain train</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The biggest memory booster of all is keeping your brain active or challenging it on a regular basis. It can be as simple as learning a new language, reading something new and difficult, learning a skill, doing puzzles or (my personal favorite, of course) memorizing.</div><div class="_5090cbaa _53039000" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><p class="_95a3e7b8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">B<span style="font-size: 14px;">ut the hardest part about keeping your brain active on a daily basis is staying motivated to do so. We all have the potential to practice something a lot, but what we don't all have is the drive and dedication to necessarily do that practice every day. And that's fine. My point is this: Keep your brain active by doing something you are passionate about enough to do it every day.</span></p></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The great thing about memory is that there are tons of daily use-cases where you can naturally practice without having to set aside time to do it. So make memory your daily brain exercise, or make it something else. It's up to you. Just make sure you challenge your brain in some way every day.</div><p><font color="#262626" face="Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif"><br></font></p><div class="f9756c75" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 320px; padding: 8px 16px; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="_47e8f56c" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: -22;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="dff1128d" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; z-index: -22; left: 0px; top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="_7a9cccd9" sizes="(max-width: 327px) 50vw, 100vw" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180705162617-live-longer-tv-background-large-169.jpg" srcset="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180705162617-live-longer-tv-background-large-169.jpg 460w,//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180705162617-live-longer-tv-background-super-169.jpg 1100w,//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180705162617-live-longer-tv-background-super-169.jpg 1100w" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; border: 0px; width: 100vw;"></div></div></div></div></div>

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color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; font-size: 12px; float: none; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block;" title="Browse Author Articles"><span class="post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 150px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; text-transform: capitalize !important;">By <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">News Agency Of Nigeria</span></span></a> <span class="time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; float: none; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216);"><time class="post-published updated" datetime="2018-09-18T05:04:05+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">Sep 18, 2018</span></time></span></div></div></div><div class="entry-content clearfix single-post-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: inherit; text-transform: initial;"><div id="mvp-content-main" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">The National Union of Nigerian Students, NANS, has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to arrest and prosecute former Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">NANS said EFCC should arrest and prosecute Adeosun over the alleged forgery of her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, exemption certificate. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">In a statement issued yesterday, the President of the body, Salahudeen Lukman also called for the arrest of the Director General, DG, of the NYSC under whom the forged certificate was issued.</p><div class="code-block code-block-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px 0px; clear: both;"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2312201431500125" data-ad-slot="8203245425" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"></ins></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">The statement reads, “It is highly embarrassing that an agency of government as exceptional as NYSC could be so lose, corrupt and uncoordinated to the extent that her certificate could be sold and forged.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">“The Federal Government must as a matter of urgency curb all corrupt practices in the scheme. It is our resolve to pursue this matter to the latter to assist Mr President’s anti-corruption fight aimed at creating sanity in the public service.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px;">“While waiting patiently to see EFCC do its work on this subject matter on or before the next seven working days, the union shall not hesitate to employ other legitimate means under law to ensure the alleged ‘forger’ and her accomplice in NYSC face the wrath of the law. We are all equal before the law. Ignorance is not an excuse in the court of law.”</p></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></main></div>

While waiting patiently to see EFCC do its work on this subject matter on or before the next seven working days, 

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Linda Ikeji: I can’t believe I’m a mum.

<h1 class="single-post-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; font-family: Poppins; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 24px; text-transform: capitalize; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Linda Ikeji Welcomes Son<br></h1><p>Courtesy: Naijaonpoint</p><p><a class="post-author-a post-author-avatar" href="https://naijaonpoint.com/author/emmy/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px; outline-offset: -2px; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 12px; float: none; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; white-space: nowrap; line-height: 26px; display: inline-block;" title="Browse Author Articles"><span class="post-author-name" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 150px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; text-transform: capitalize !important;">By <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; color: rgb(77, 77, 77); margin-left: 2px;">News Agency Of Nigeria</span></span></a><span style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Poppins; font-size: 13.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX821HuNsvn8TyiJIGWcI1GOLkLPQCM_ILiFcKM8mX-Id1dDLLkBb2st3z_KaClC4lEuB_aUGRU0oJGDEJQldK70_P8DA3p37kLqqAldxnHODSlOjroHkGoqnzch45ouvNFQpINvMIGM/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkX821HuNsvn8TyiJIGWcI1GOLkLPQCM_ILiFcKM8mX-Id1dDLLkBb2st3z_KaClC4lEuB_aUGRU0oJGDEJQldK70_P8DA3p37kLqqAldxnHODSlOjroHkGoqnzch45ouvNFQpINvMIGM/" /></a><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Popular blogger and former model, Linda Ikeja, has delivered a baby boy in Atlanta, United States.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She confirmed this on her Instagram page on Monday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ikeji, in a post, expressed her excitement as she revealed that her son was born on September 17 (today)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She wrote, ‘I welcomed my first child, popularly known as baby J today September 17th in a hospital in Atlanta. I can’t believe I’m a mum.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 15px;">”Make I sleep small for now. lol. Thanks guys for the well wishes. Love you guys so much!”</span><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Roboto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p>

Linda Ikeji: I can’t believe I’m a mum.

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Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor.

<div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px;">Dx: Health.</h1><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px;">Four people get cancer from donated organ in 'extraordinary rare' case</h1><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none;"><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">By Nina Avramova, CNN</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span class="timingText" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Updated at</span> 0715 GMT (1515 HKT) September 19, 2018</p></div></h3><h3 class="cnnds_kicker" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625; margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 8px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); font-size: 14px;">The patients developed breast cancer years after their transplants</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; font-size: 14px;">The researchers stressed that this is an "extremely rare" case</li></ul></span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(CNN) — </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor, <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajt.14766" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">a case report</a> explains.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The patients developed breast cancer years after their transplants, with three of them dying of the disease.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Dr. Frederike Bemelman, professor of nephrology at the University of Amsterdam and author of the report, stressed that this is an "extremely rare" case, the first she has encountered in 20 years in the field of transplantation immunology. "There is always a small risk" of something going wrong during a medical procedure, she said. "Even if you undergo a simple gallbladder procedure, you also have a small chance of something happening to you during the procedure."</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs92Pn1XL4I8_Ns-0Jv0IBHX3KJbaap8t82aCmbm8McYjsPA5-6qhDP4_TmKYY_jaY_lCsuJ8JxL9TvK7xK_e_JyUjCuh83kI5-qTG3s3GqzRBkba3HrSNybxNdaDSN_6SaF-g4Q2ROK0/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs92Pn1XL4I8_Ns-0Jv0IBHX3KJbaap8t82aCmbm8McYjsPA5-6qhDP4_TmKYY_jaY_lCsuJ8JxL9TvK7xK_e_JyUjCuh83kI5-qTG3s3GqzRBkba3HrSNybxNdaDSN_6SaF-g4Q2ROK0/" /></a><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a aria-disabled="false" aria-label="Related Article: There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors" class="_0308207a _1e227843 " href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/04/16/health/drug-overdoses-organ-transplants-study/index.html" icon="" name="Related Article: There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; font-size: 14px;" target=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Related Article:</span> There's a 24-fold rise in organ transplants from drug overdose donors</span></a><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The 53-year-old donor had no known medical conditions, and the malignancy was unknown when her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart were harvested.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Three of the organ recipients died after the cancer metastasized, or spread from their place of origin to new areas in the body.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The fourth survived after a series of treatments, including removal of the donated right kidney, stopping of immunosuppression medication -- standard drugs after transplants to avoid a rejection of the new organ -- and chemotherapy.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">In her report, Bemelman stressed that once a donor-derived cancer occurs, it is extremely helpful to remove the donor organ. "This allows the patient to stop taking immunosuppressant drugs, and the immune system can restore itself and fight against the tumor cells," she said.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">However, Graham Lord, professor of medicine and honorary consultant in nephrology at King's College London, said that patients<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>are typically advised on whether to replace the organ, depending on the cancer type and survival rates. Lord was not involved with this case.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">'Undetectable malignancy'</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">The organ donor died in 2007 due to a stroke, after which her lungs, kidneys, heart and liver were made available for donation.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Lord</span> said this was "essentially an undetectable malignancy at the time of donation."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Sixteen months after the transplant, the lung recipient, a 42-year-old woman, was admitted to the hospital with transplant dysfunctions, according to the report. After breast cancer cells were detected in her lymph nodes, a DNA analysis showed that the cancer came from the donor.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The left kidney recipient, a 62-year-old woman, and the 59-year-old woman who received the liver died of the same malignancy in 2013 and 2014, respectively.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; font-size: 22px;">Advantages of donation outweigh risks.</h3></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">The study suggests that the donor had "micro metastases," groups of cancer cells that have spread from their site of origin but were too small to be detected.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><u>Previous<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/bjs.9460" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank"> reports</a></u> have noted that cancer transmission can occur through organ transplantation, but this is believed to be the first case of breast cancer being transferred.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Organ donations are not allowed by anyone with an active malignancy, except most skin carcinomas and some localized tumors. The risk of transmitting tumors is between 0.01% and 0.05% for each organ transplant.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"The advantages of organ transplantation far outweigh these small risks," Bemelman said. "People should not be worried.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Lord explained that this "extraordinary rare occurrence" could potentially be avoided in the future, as there are experimental programs in the works for early cancer diagnosis.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">It is unclear whether a CT scan would have uncovered the donor's malignancy before the transplants, but Bemelman is doubtful. She warns against routine use of CT scans for all donors, as this would increase irrelevant findings and could lead to a decrease in the "very scarce" donor pool.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div>

Four European patients developed breast cancer after receiving organs from the same donor.

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PREPARING EMOTIONALLY FOR YOUR CHILDREN RESUMPTION:

<p><b>DX</b>: <b><u>Education</u></b>.</p><p>HOW TO PREPAR YOUR CHILDREN AHEAD OF SCHOOL RESUMPTION </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">By Austin Eromosele.                                 Courtesy: Family Center</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Children like holidays. They don’t want it to be over; they just want to keep</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">enjoying the fun that comes with it even when it’s glaring to them that it’s already over.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How then can parents better prepare their wards for resumption, how can they better package school to be something worthwhile for their kids including those that are stepping into school corridor for the first time?<span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Beloware the points to consider before resumption.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">PREPARING EMOTIONALLY.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Make the school look interesting:</strong> It’s pertinent to let your child or wards know of the beautiful and interesting things about school. You must have been sounding this into his or her ear in a lovely manner long before school resumes, you might be surprise how hopeful he or she will be about resuming school.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Let them sleep early:</strong> Once you notice that school will soon resume, always make sure your child or ward sleeps early enough; this will prepare him or her to also wake early and prepare for school. This will save you time preparing him for school every morning.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Visit the school together: in order to make to make school very interesting for your child, you should always visit the school with him or her. This will boost his or her confidence and let him or her see learning as fun.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">If possible</strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">meet the teacher</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">together</strong>: don’t always allow your child or wards to meet the school authorities or teachers alone, meet the school authorities together, this is one of the confidence booster.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Go on exciting trip</strong> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">together to buy uniform</strong>: while the school is yet to resume, you can go on an exciting trip together, buy uniform, launch box, bags, socks, books, pencils etc and make it fun.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">PREPARING PRACTICALLY:</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Preparing your children practically involves the things he or she would need in school to make his or her study more efficient. The following and not limited to these are very important: his uniform, socks, books, shoes, launch box, pencils/pen, school bag and other things necessary which would make learning interesting for him.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Avoid junk food which could make him or her sleep in school, nutritionist would tell you the best meal you can give your children before going to school. Foods that can digest easily are always recommended.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">PREPARE THEM PSYCHOLOGICALLY</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ask your child about her feelings — both the excitement and the concerns — about starting school. Let your child know that all kids are nervous about the first day of school.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let your child know what his schedule will be like. Tell him what time school begins and ends each day. Point out the positive aspects of starting school. It will be fun and she can make new friends.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">PREPARING ACADEMICALLY AND WITH LIFE SKILLS:</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">It won’t be enough to do all of the above. Parents must also strive to prepare their wards to read before school resumes. Many teachers employs home tutors, am not here to talk about them. You can also learn to read to them yourself.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Another thing to do is to teach then to recognise their name especially those in their early years.  It’s not just enough to recognise their names but also write them. They must learn the alphabet and the sounds even before school resumes.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Another thing to teach them is the use of toilet, how to take care of yourself in the toilet, hand washing</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">. </strong>How to<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"> talk, communicate with other children and also take all concerns and needs to a grown up.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s also important for parents to visit the school with your child to see his new classroom and meet his new teacher before school officially starts. They can also leave a note in their child’s lunchbox that will remind him or her they are thinking of him or her while he’s at school.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As a parent, you can reassure your child that if any problems arise at school, you will be there to help resolve them. Try to have your child meet a classmate before the first day of school so he or she will already have a friend when school starts.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 26px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Arrange for your child to walk to school or ride together on the bus with another kid in the neighbourhood. Find out about after-school activities that your child can join and be duly informed about them to avoid panicking when your child did not return on time.</p>

PREPARING EMOTIONALLY FOR YOUR CHILDREN RESUMPTION:

DX : Education . HOW TO PREPAR YOUR CHILDREN AHEAD OF SCHOOL RESUMPTION  By Austin Eromosele.                                 Courtesy: Fami...

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After a devastating 48 hours, it's already clear that Donald Trump's will never be the same.

<div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; line-height: 32px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><u>Dx:</u><span style="font-weight: 500;"> politics.</span></h1><p><span style="font-weight: 500;"><br></span></p><h1 class="pg-headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 26px; margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 32px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Trump sees treason from within</h1><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"></cite></p><div class="metadata " style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px; margin: 8px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><div class="metadata__info js-byline-images" data-bundle="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;"><p class="metadata__byline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="metadata__byline__author" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Analysis by <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">Stephen Collinson</a>, CNN</span></p><p class="metadata__show" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"></p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 2em; float: left; line-height: 1;">Updated 0503 GMT (1303 HKT) September 6, 2018</p><p class="update-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em auto 2em; float: left; line-height: 1;"><br></p></div></div><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE3TH1GwMqSQzm6A0yKrqQSHL7z9-wa9NEMgCrhWEtfdaCo5ol656InS4OWsh1I_gWREqDpiirj_2U5S0wfe43ZsydroUJTKNv_sZcRhvmwo2IwwrSKIeF-9AGkVqy1_USSrCu1-fYu8/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRE3TH1GwMqSQzm6A0yKrqQSHL7z9-wa9NEMgCrhWEtfdaCo5ol656InS4OWsh1I_gWREqDpiirj_2U5S0wfe43ZsydroUJTKNv_sZcRhvmwo2IwwrSKIeF-9AGkVqy1_USSrCu1-fYu8/"></a><br></cite></p><p class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667;"><cite class="el-editorial-source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Washington (CNN) </cite>It's impossible to know in the moment when a presidency begins to dissolve. But after a devastating 48 hours, it's already clear that Donald Trump's will never be the same.</p></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Whatever your view of Trump, his behavior and his presidency, Washington is watching the opening act of a stunning attempt to topple the elected leader of the nation.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph speakable" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Damaging twin portraits of the President <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">in a New York Times op-ed</a> and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politics/bob-woodward-book-donald-trump-fear/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">Bob Woodward's new book</a> are using the words of current top officials to fracture the mythology of vanity and bombast, conmanship and intimidation of Trump's personality cult</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">In an attack from an enemy within, top officials who see Trump up close, including one calling the band of renegades the "resistance," are finally daring to say -- albeit under Washington's invisibility cloak of anonymity -- what outside critics have long believed.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">They warn the President of the United States is not only unfit to be the most powerful man in the world, but is a venal mix of ignorance and ego, pettiness, malignancy and recklessness that is putting the republic and the world itself at risk.</div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/nyt-trump-resistance-op-ed/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="Trump slams damning New York Times op-ed as &#39;gutless&#39;" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905160024-trump-file-0905-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/nyt-trump-resistance-op-ed/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Trump slams damning New York Times op-ed as 'gutless'</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__read-all" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">For all his boasts of historic success and self-image as a strongman's strongman, the "adults in the room" want Americans to know: the emperor has no clothes.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"The root of the problem is the President's amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making," the unnamed official wrote in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;" target="_blank">staggering essay published by the Times</a>.</div><div class="teads-inread" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The official even revealed there had even been talk among Cabinet officers about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the President. Washington has seen almost everything under Trump, but a palace coup would be something else.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"There is somebody working for the President of the United States at a very senior level who is trying to destroy him," Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign aide told CNN's Anderson Cooper.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">It's hard to find a parallel in Western political history for a leader to survive such a knifing since the power and fear need to sustain iron rule can slip away especially quickly in a democracy -- as opposed to an autocratic state.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But Trump has long defied predictions of his own demise and survived the kind of blows that would paralyze other presidents. Yet no other commander in chief has faced the staggering personal disavowals and devastating betrayals that he has endured this week.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Like a wounded king's furious wail, Trump tweeted a single word: "TREASON?"</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Woodward was just the start</h3></div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820020542-donald-trump-aug-1-exlarge-16-9.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180820100542-donald-trump-aug-1-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Woodward book prompts West Wing witch hunt, sources say</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The White House was already groggy Wednesday from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">the fearful blow of Woodward's new book peeling open the West Wing</a>, "Fear: Trump in the White House."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The legendary muckraker's deeply reported account exposes profound disdain for the President among senior officials who are said to view him as an "idiot" with a fifth-grade education who the world needs protecting against.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">It turns out Woodward was just the appetizer.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The thunderclap of the Times piece laid bare an administration in disarray, a President dangerously off the rails and a nation adrift without the stable hand of an effective leader.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations," the official wrote.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room ... this isn't the work of the so-called deep state. It's the work of the steady state."</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The effect of the op-ed was to validate many of the claims of a President dangerously out of his depth that were made by Woodward, crushing White House efforts to fight back.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Washington is already getting consumed with speculation about who wrote the op-ed, the city's biggest literary whodunit since the 1996 novel "Primary Colors," loosely based on the Clintons, was revealed as the work of Joe Klein.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Then there is a quickening debate over the decision of the author to stay in the shadows and whether the person should demonstrate their courage of convictions by resigning and revealing their name.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Unimaginable questions</h3></div><div class="el__embedded el__embedded--fullstandardwidth" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><div class="el__storyelement--fullstandardwidth el__article--embed" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: none; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="el__article--teaseimage" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 101, 152); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;"><img alt="John Kerry: &#39;This is a genuine constitutional crisis&#39;" class="media__image media__image--responsive" data-demand-load="loaded" data-eq-pts="mini: 0, xsmall: 221, small: 308, medium: 461, large: 781" data-eq-state="mini xsmall" data-src-full16x9="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-full-169.jpg" data-src-large="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-super-169.jpg" data-src-medium="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-exlarge-169.jpg" data-src-mini="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-small-169.jpg" data-src-mini1x1="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-small-11.jpg" data-src-small="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-large-169.jpg" data-src-xsmall="//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-medium-plus-169.jpg" src="https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180905205516-trump-john-kerry-presidency-off-rails-op-ed-nyt-ac-vpx-00000513-medium-plus-169.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; width: 300px; transform: translateZ(0px); transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out;"><div class="img__preloader" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></a></div><div class="media__caption el__storyelement__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; padding: 14px 10px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); position: relative; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-left-color: rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial;"><span class="el__storyelement__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 1.06667rem; line-height: 1.25; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s; display: block; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">John Kerry: 'This is a genuine constitutional crisis'</a></span></div></div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But Wednesday's staggering events -- extraordinary even by the convention-blasting standards of Trump, pose questions that would once have been unimaginable.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">They include: What will happen if, as it appears, America does not have a stable, functioning President? Will the mutiny among unidentified senior officials build and will they break cover, provoke resignations, or further shred the fabric of the administration?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">If talk of the 25th Amendment is renewed, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/john-kerry-constitutional-crisis-cnntv/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">a true constitutional crisis could be looming</a>.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">There is of course the perennial question of whether cowed Republicans on Capitol Hill will be moved to even discuss the crisis of competence and temperance raging in the White House. Then there is the issue of whether a crisis-addled and demoralized White House will dampen GOP turnout in midterm elections where a defeat could shatter the bond between Trump and his party.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">What must it be like to work in the confines of the West Wing, with a raging President, a cabal of officials working against him and the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2018/09/05/politics/trump-woodward-book-leakers/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(48, 97, 243); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s;">destabilizing spectacle of a witch hunt</a> to find the moles?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Will the President, seeing betrayal at every turn, launch a purge of officials he suspects may not be loyal to his political crusade, further thinning the ranks of a threadbare White House?</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Trump tried to find his way out of his darkest hour to date by trying to wrest control of his own fate.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">He appeared in the East Room of the White House in an extraordinary display of defiance soon after The New York Times op-ed appeared.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">His appearance was almost noble, though also steeped in pathos, as a wounded leader fought against unseen forces bent on his demise even as he tasted the bile of betrayal that may always have been the inevitable result of his erratic rule.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"The failing New York Times has an anonymous editorial -- can you believe it?" Trump told a gathering of sheriffs.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Anonymous -- meaning gutless. A gutless editorial," the President said, in an appearance in which he laid claim to a record of staggering political success, a roaring economy and building military might.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">Later, his mood had darkened and he delivered a truly sinister tweet.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">"Does the so-called 'Senior Administration Official' really exist, or is it just the Failing New York Times with another phony source? If the GUTLESS anonymous person does indeed exist, the Times must, for National Security purposes, turn him/her over to government at once!" Trump wrote.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">The President will step up his counter-attack when he hits the campaign trail in Montana on Thursday night. He is sure of a warm welcome from loyal supporters and the treachery and betrayal of Washington may not resonate so much in Trump country.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">As Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "In my world, where I live in South Carolina, most people are very pleased with what the President is doing," adding that Woodward and The New York Times did not cut much ice among his voters.</div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;">But make no mistake, in Washington at least, Trump is fighting for his presidency, against forces trying to tear it down from within.</div></div><div class="zn-body__paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.2rem; line-height: 1.66667; margin-bottom: 15px;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; margin: 32px 0px -8px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-family: "CNN Condensed", CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 30px; padding: 0px; font-feature-settings: 'kern' 1; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"><br></h3></div></div>

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For almost a decade, South Africa unexpectedly fell into its first recession.

<div class="eyebrow-v2" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.13; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: capitalize;">Courtesy: Bloomberg</div><div class="eyebrow-v2" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.13; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: capitalize;">Economics</div><h1 class="lede-text-v2__hed" style="font-size: 32px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-75Bold-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; letter-spacing: -0.025em;">South Africa’s Economy Slips Into First Recession Since 2009</h1><address class="lede-text-v2__byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 3px; 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font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block;"><a class="author-v2__byline" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APqJVNJsnlk/ana-monteiro" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s ease-out; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ana Monteiro</a></div></address><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.32; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2018-09-04T09:30:19.822Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;">September 4, 2018, 10:30 AM GMT+1</time><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><span class="updated-text" style="margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated on </span><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">September 4, 2018, 2:28 PM GMT+1</time></span></div><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.32; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></time></span></div><div class="lede-text-v2__times" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.32; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="updated-wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;"><time class="article-timestamp" itemprop="dateModified" datetime="2018-09-04T13:28:54.169Z" data-type="updated" data-status="localized" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">South Africa unexpectedly fell into its first recession for almost a decade, exacerbating the rand’s decline amid the recent emerging-market rout and heaping pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="1" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="1" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">Africa’s most-industrialized economy shrank an annualized 0.7 percent in the second quarter, an outcome that was far worse than any forecaster had anticipated. The outcome casts a pall over the country’s new leadership, providing an uncomfortable parallel with the initial phase nine years of Ramaphosa’s predecessor, Jacob Zuma.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="2" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="2" style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">The news underscores the fragility of South Africa’s economy at time when the country has been dragged into the emerging market turmoil of the past month that engulfed Turkey and Argentina. Slack farming output and soft consumer spending were among the weak spots.</p><p style="font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvjaqw3883i1EqpxAlTcLafDhU6DEjvnGGYGuCbdT9a9DIKD5OyhlL3V6ZnovNgvzRLbUutrIdxDy-n8PWgC6u7Xy16FdDS9mLPA_gBGuy4IVNf_UXy7frI4_ffdmZmgPhIqDgfc4vsI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjvjaqw3883i1EqpxAlTcLafDhU6DEjvnGGYGuCbdT9a9DIKD5OyhlL3V6ZnovNgvzRLbUutrIdxDy-n8PWgC6u7Xy16FdDS9mLPA_gBGuy4IVNf_UXy7frI4_ffdmZmgPhIqDgfc4vsI/" /></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;"> </u><span style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;">Cyril </span><font face="PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ramaphosa</font><u style="color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;"> </u></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasText-56Italic, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit;">: </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); font-family: BWHaasText-56Italic, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: inherit;">                 Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg</span></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">Ramaphosa’s rise to power since December initially boosted sentiment and the rand following Zuma’s tenure of almost nine years. That optimism faded as economic reforms weren’t implemented fast enough and global trade wars and turmoil in other emerging markets soured sentiment.</p><div class="hardwall" data-position="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><div class="softwall" data-position="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"></div><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">“It’s showing that this economy remains in the doldrums, that we are in desperate need for policy certainty and structural reform to get us onto a growth path,” Elize Kruger, an economist at Paarl, South Africa-based NKC African Economics, said by phone. “This type of environment is difficult for job creation. We’ll get stuck in our low-growth term if we can’t get out of this.”</p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZk7oX7PmtGFjb1qFUpRxjz9sVGNQCrpa1crm5GX5danyitoM98ufilv7lwW__ZUtV1Dd6C4cOAcl4jdQSw4JJhc_penPZxzVHBG__I36k8uK9dJERCcW73gPRoMjpq7meGehEzOCutgs/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZk7oX7PmtGFjb1qFUpRxjz9sVGNQCrpa1crm5GX5danyitoM98ufilv7lwW__ZUtV1Dd6C4cOAcl4jdQSw4JJhc_penPZxzVHBG__I36k8uK9dJERCcW73gPRoMjpq7meGehEzOCutgs/" /></a></p><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">The rand weakened 2.9 percent to 15.2973 per dollar in Johannesburg. Yields on rand-denominated government bonds due December 2026 rose 21 basis points to 9.22 percent, the highest level since before Ramaphosa became leader of the ruling African National Congress.</p><table style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; display: block; overflow-x: auto; width: 280px; font-style: normal;"><colgroup><col class="news-rsf-table-string"></colgroup><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; min-width: 100%;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(118, 118, 118); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="news-rsf-table-string" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); min-width: 50px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-75Bold-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What Our Economist Says</h3></td></tr><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="news-rsf-table-string" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 12px; line-height: inherit; font-family: BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); min-width: 50px;"><br>“Virtually every component in GDP came in worse than expected, deepening the divergence in improved business sentiment and weakening economic activity. We will reassess our real GDP forecast for 2018, which we have already brought down to 1.2% from 1.5% previously. A reading of 0.5-1.0% now looks more likely.”<br><br>-Mark Bohlund, Bloomberg Economics</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 30px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; font-family: PublicoText-Roman-Web, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: normal;">A contraction for the fourth quarter of 2016 was later revised to show growth, resulting in this being the first recession since the financial crisis of 2009.</p></time></span></div>

For almost a decade, South Africa unexpectedly fell into its first recession.

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