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The book is an autobiography where Braithwaite(the author) tells us about his journey as a 'black man' in a hypocritical English society in which racial discrimination and prejudice against black people is deep rooted . He begins the book by narrating how he struggles to find a job in spite of being extremely well qualified and having a wealth of work experience. After repeated failed attempts, he realizes that the real reason behind the refusals is his skin color. The callous attitude of the white people comes as a huge shock to him after his much respected stint in the army and the author has very poignantly captured how he feels at this juncture - the actual state of affairs in society dawning upon him, his future suddenly becoming bleak and the sheer unfairness of racial discrimination.To me, this was the most defining moment in the book.
Now coming to the main plot of the story. Braithwaite then manages to get a position as a teacher in a school which has children from a very poor background and unpolished society. The book thereafter talks about his very eventful journey in breaking the ice with the extremely ill bred children, winning their respect and how he succeeds in making gentlemen and ladies out of that seemingly hopeless lot. He also talks about the challenges he and the white woman he loves face in the hands of society that completely disapproves of the relationship.
Throughout the book, the genuineness with which he talks about the ups and downs in his journey is the main winning factor. It completely draws the reader into the author's life and all that it conveys.Every milestone that he achieves in his professional and personal life is heart rending to read and you can feel the triumph of his successes at each juncture. I would attribute this majorly to the strength of the author's feelings apart from his mastery over the English language. This might not have been possible if it was just a piece of fiction. The fact that the story is the author's personal journey adds authenticity to the emotions expressed in the book and it touches the reader too.
'To Sir, With Love' is not just another story. It makes the reader think a lot while reading and thereafter too. This is the kind of book that broadens your vision, puts things in perspective and improves your mind. I would say it is a must read for all those who love good literature.
The book would still be worth reading Uma! Do try it out.
ah this makes me want to read it. Great review.
Thanks! Hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.
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What is a PhD in Sport? The degree can potentially cover many different areas. Possible research themes include ethnographic studies, economics, and sociology. Studies could cover a number of different topics, such as how different cultures react to sports, the impact that large sporting events like the Olympics have on the cities that host them or the relationship between sports and poverty. Prospective students should research universities to see what might be included in their program.
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Most likely, if you’re involved in higher education, you get a lot of email. During the week, I get between 50 and 100 emails a day, which seems like a lot, but I recently read that some people receive (and deal with) over 1000 a day!
My goal has always been to try to “zero” my inbox frequently, but lately I have not been so successful – lots of reading material comes in, and between newsletters in my inbox and my Google Reader, I’m buried in information.
I just came across this Google Tech Talk, called “Inbox Zero” (by Merlin Mann) that I thought was a very appropriate thing to share with my readers – especially since almost everyone is either done, or almost done, with the semester. The Google Talks run 60 minutes, but you can get by watching the first 30 minutes of this one – and in the end, watching this video will save you well over 30 minutes of time, so I would consider it good value for your attention & time budget.
One of the most valuable ideas that Mann discusses is the idea of an “email DMZ folder” (I think this came in the Q&A period after the talk). If you’ve been letting your email inbox build up forever, create a folder (or label) called DMZ. Take everything currently in your inbox (and I do mean EVERYTHING) and move it to the DMZ. There. Now you have zero messages in your inbox and can begin to use a sane system for processing your email.
Respond (Starred): these are emails that I need to respond to, and I need to do it relatively quickly. I removed the stars from all my emails this morning, and then only applied them to the truly high-priority items.
1) Junk? Or you don’t it after reading it? Delete it.
2) If it’s simple to do respond to (and requires a response), deal with it.
3) Otherwise, archive it (to the appropriate folder or with the appropriate label).
I’ve been good about these first two, but not the third. So, now that I’m back at zero … I’m going to try to be better about maintaining my Zero Inbox.
P.S. Stay tuned for our updates from the first (annual?) MCC Math & Technology Workshop, happening on the Muskegon Community College campus from Monday-Friday next week.
I will be inviting participation from the Internet audience on Wednesday afternoon for our session on Synchronous Online Communication, so if you can’t come, but want to join in the technology fun, watch for a link to participate in that.


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The girls in So You Think You Can’t Dance, Nobles’ intro to dance class, performed their dance routine in assembly this morning wearing holiday themed sweaters.
Here’s a throwback to 1999 when Dispatch played a rock concert in assembly near the height of their rise to independent music fame.
Jackie Zhang ’23 played Chopin’s technically demanding Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22 this morning and the assembly crowd went wild when she played the final chord.
Class II students Harrison Cohen-Harding, Liam Smith, Joe Harrington, Henry Dolgoff and Owen Asnis dressed up like Buddy Holly to perform the eponymous Weezer song in assembly this morning.
Brothers Henry Patterson ’21 and Jamie Patterson ’18 treat the assembly audience to the first musical performance of the year.
Dr. Cathy Hall welcomed students into assembly this morning for the first time as the seventh head of school.


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This new artist talk titled “Prisms, Trunks, and Branches,” took place on the campus of the University of Chicago on November 4, 2017. In it, Beck weighs the processes of looking, reading, and note-taking to “exhibit” how things come about in his work through a form of drifting.
This presentation was commissioned by the Renaissance Society to coincide with the Chicago Architecture Biennial and stems from Beck’s investigations in Chicago.


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Two rowers who became the first British women to win an Olympic title were awarded MBEs today as their coach praised their achievements.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning made history when they triumphed in the coxless pairs, winning Team GB’s first gold medal of London 2012.
They were recognised by the Queen at a Windsor Castle investiture ceremony, as was their trainer, Robin Williams, who also received an MBE.
Sir David Tanner, British Rowing’s performance director, who introduced the talent-spotting Start programme which picked out Glover, was knighted for his efforts in guiding his sport to nine medals at London 2012, four of them gold.
The sportswomen dominated their race at Eton Dorney from start to finish and came home metres ahead of rivals Australia and New Zealand.
It was the start of Team GB’s medal rush and by the end of the Games the nation topped the rowing medals table.
Stanning, who is a serving Army captain in the Royal Artillery, said the military was now her focus but she wanted to compete in 2016 at the Rio Games in Brazil.
She said: 'I went back to work and had to decide what was my focus, so this year I'm focusing on this career - if I want to keep this career.
Speaking about his gold-winning rowers, Williams added: 'Obviously as their coach I know the scale of their achievement, I think it just capped off what's been a brilliant three or four years for them.
Rowing performance boss Sir David Tanner helped Britain win three rowing medals at the 2000 Games in Sydney, four at Athens 2004, and at Beijing 2008 his team topped the rowing medal table with six medals. At home for London 2012 Britain increased this tally to nine medals.
He said: 'As performance director London 2012 was my fourth Games, that's how long we've been planning to produce these kind of results - this is the legacy after Sir Steve Redgrave.
Show-jumper Peter Charles, who won Olympic gold in the team showjumping event with colleagues Ben Maher, Scott Brash and Nick Skelton, also received an MBE, as did cyclist Danielle King, who won team pursuit gold at London 2012 with Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell.
King, who earlier this year helped retain her team pursuit title at the World Championships, said after the ceremony: 'This has been absolutely amazing for me, it's all happened so quickly.
'British cycling has got such a great set-up and some fantastic staff, we train really hard and have got the best people supporting us.
'My family have been a major part of that as well, they've supported me through my whole career - I haven't been easy to live with.
Charles sold his gold medal-winning horse, Murka's Vindicat W, to rock star Bruce Springsteen for his daughter, Jessica, who competes in showjumping for the US.
The sportsman, who jumped a clear round to ensure Britain won gold at London 2012, said: 'We hadn't won a gold medal in 60 years and it came down to what I was going to do then in that moment - it's what you live for as an athlete.
Speaking about the American singer who bought his horse, he said: 'Not long after I sold my mount to Bruce Springsteen. He's a nice guy and his daughter's going ever so well on it.

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Goldie Hawn, 47, takes an outdoor meeting with writer Valerie Curtain, at far left, and Anthea Sylbert, producer and partner in the Hawn.Sylbert Motion Picture Company.
The day’s discussion concerned an untitled comedy about a modern family, written by Curtain, which Hawn and Sylbert are considering for production.
Alex Winter, of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" fame, goes to work on location in Malibu. Each morning, Winter spends three to four hours getting into his make-up for his starring role in "Hideous Mutant Freekz, the movie he also co-wrote and is co-directing. He says his makeup, (designed By Bill Corso of X Effects) is so comfortable that he can sleep in it-and once did, during a marathon three day period when he was too busy to get out of costume.
Steve Neale, 29, rehearses for a knee-up body burn in "Warlock II, was on fire for forty seconds before being extinguished by his crew. Neale practices with different fuels to make sure the flames show up on camera. His clothing is treated, and his body is covered with a protective gel. A stunt man for eight years, Neale has never been hurt. "If you're a professional, you don't feel the heat," he claims.
"Untitled" was made by having a 40" x 60" photograph taken of the original painting, and then painting on top of that new surface. The big difference besides size, is that on the larger painting, a number of photographic moments are left at the conclusion of the painting. Color also shifts, given that it is manipulated to a relational, but different state. This process is being applied to all of the paintings following this first one.
What the well-dressed space explorer was wearing in 1960: a suit of rubber and aluminized nylon, topped by a fiberglass helmet with an acrylic visor. The spacesuits were tested during training in conditions that ranged from weightlessness to underwater submersion.
The initial Mercury flights took off in the early 1960s, though some of those astronauts were active in later flights. Alan Shepard was the first man to fly in space. John Glenn, one of the most famous of the original spacemen, became a United States senator from Ohio. He was the first American to orbit the earth. Of the original seven, only John Glenn and Scott Carpenter survive today.
Three generations of a family having dinner during the 1980’s is merged with scapes of an empty room and endless windows looking out into a void.


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 Noah - Meaning of Noah, What does Noah mean?
[ 2 syll. noa(h), no-ah ] The baby boy name Noah is also used as a girl name, but it is much more common for boys. It is pronounced in English as NOW-ah †. Noah is an English, German, Hebrew, and Slavic name of Hebrew origin. The name is of the meaning rest, comfort, long-lived. Noach (Hebrew) is an original form of Noah. The name is of uncertain origin; it could be of the element 'noach' or 'nacham'. It was borne in the Bible by the builder of the Ark during the great Flood sent by God to destroy humankind for their wicked ways; the biblical meaning is 'rest' or 'comfort'. The name was first adopted by English Puritans in the 17th century. See Noah for more information.
Noa (English), Noach (Dutch), Noak (Scandinavian), Noel (Spanish), Noé (English and French), Noë (French), and Noi (Russian and Slavic) are variants of Noah.
Noe (Czech, English, and French pet form) and Norrie (English pet form) are other variants of Noah.
See also the related categories, slavic, god, puritans, element, biblical, comfort, hebrew, and german.
Noah is very popular as a baby name for boys, and it is also considered trendy. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1960s. Its usage peaked recently in 2015 with 0.963% of baby boys being given the name Noah. Its ranking then was #1. In 2017, its usage was 0.933% and its ranking #2, and it was the most popular among all boy names in its group. In 2017, Noah was more frequently used than the next most popular name, Noel, by 22 times. Noah has in the past century been predominantly given to baby boys.
Baby names that sound like Noah include Naaji, Nacek, Nacho, Nacio, Nagi, Najae, Najee, Najeh, Najei, Najey, Naji, Najie, Najih, Najja, Najy, Nakai, Nakas, Nakee, Naki, and Nakis.
† Pronunciation for Noah: N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; OW as in "oak (OW.K)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)"
A famous person named Noah is Noah Wyle, Actor, born 4 June 1971, Hollywood, California.


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Do these look like cornucopias to you? They do to me.
I started my fall cornucopia vignette with an old Coke crate. I put a layer of books on the bottom to raise up the contents, and then added a layer of Dollar Tree raffia.
I placed the funnels in the center of the crate with flexible ends hanging over the edge of the crate.
The rest was easy, just filling in the funnels and the crate with pinecones, faux berries, faux leaves, and real mini pumpkins and gourds.
This funnel still had it's original sticker. It's a J Mark Model 21 funnel.
Here is my re-purposed funnel cornucopias on my coffee table.
So now can you imagine funnels as cornucopias?
Oh I really like what you did here!!!I'm going to borrow this one--my funnel is waiting.
I like the funnel idea.
The funnels make perfect sense as cornucopias. Vickie is right - someone needs you to do store displays!
Well I'm in Halloween mode, so those funnel tails look like something creepy to me, but they still make darn cute cornucopias.
Oh yeah! Darling! Are the ends flexible enough to wind into a "curlycue"? That would further the cornucopia look. I love how it all came together. I need to go look in my garage as I think I might have one of those type of funnels myself! LOL! Great job! You are SO creative!
Well of course I can...now that you show me the way!
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This is epic: President Donald J. Trump vs. the powers running the world.
I’m searching for words to describe what an unusual moment this is. We plebs are not supposed to see what we are seeing, nor hear what we are hearing; it will only cause us to become disenchanted with the empire and the imperial elite.
Yet here it is, Trump against “the Deep State.” That term refers to the powerful people in the federal bureaucracy (especially the military and the security agencies), in Congress, big oil, Wall Street, the defense industry, the media and establishment think-tanks who make sure the world proceeds in the general direction established by most US presidents since World War 2.
It’s a huge undertaking, managing the world and keeping it headed in the “right” direction. Unexpected events occur constantly and some nations simply won’t play ball (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia and Iran come to mind).
What’s more, mavericks such as President Trump mess things up. He refuses to take counsel, is contemptuous of any plan but his most recent brainstorm, and doesn’t respect public servants, Congress, bankers or the media. So it’s game on! Events unfolding in our presence will be spoken of for generations!
Before we declare a favorite in this battle of the gods, we’d better check our sources. From whom are we getting our information?
Of course, there is the mainstream media, so determined to see Trump bloodied, discredited and kicked to the curb that they regularly and illegally publish classified information. They are part of the Deep State, so what we hear from them will support the Deep State’s agenda.
Trump has his media supporters too; Fox News is an example, Breitbart News another. I am not acquainted with Trump-supporting sites, so cannot comment.
-- Robert Parry’s ConsortiumNews.com, established in 1995 as the first investigative news magazine on the Internet. Parry is a veteran journalist with excellent credentials; he was one of the reporters who broke the Iran-Contra scandal for The Associated Press in the mid-‘80s. He often writes himself, but also publishes commentary from others. Content includes both domestic and international issues.
-- Ray McGovern’s website at RayMcgovern.com. McGovern was a career analyst at the CIA until he retired 25 years ago. In retirement, he leads the “Speaking Truth to Power” section of Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His website includes occasional essays as well as highly informative TV and radio interviews. No decipherable political affiliation. His May 17 op-ed about Trump is published by the Baltimore Sun (see here).
-- Justin Raimondo’s Antiwar.com. Raimondo is a libertarian who focuses on foreign policy and opposes both of the major war parties (Republican and Democrat). His mission is to build a left-right anti-war coalition, united in its opposition to militarism and empire. Raimondo’s site publishes brief news reports as well as anti-imperial commentary from a wide variety of authors.
-- Paul Jay’s The Real News Network. It leans left politically, but does not hesitate to criticize Democrats. Of the four sites noted here, it covers the broadest range of issues, both via direct reporting and commentary. In addition, the site often includes interesting interviews.
So where does all of this come from? According to McGovern and Parry, from a combined effort to delegitimize Trump’s presidency led by former CIA Director John O. Brennan, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and former FBI Director James Comey. You can read Philip Giraldi's summary of McGovern’s and Parry’s perspective here.
In a May 19 essay published by ConsortiumNews, Giraldi says he has been persuaded "there is indeed a group at the top of the US national security system that wants to . . . . convince the nation that the President and his team colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 election in his favor."
Brennan and Clapper have been replaced by Trump appointees. Comey continued on until Trump fired him on May 9 for his refusal to bring the 8-month FBI investigation to a conclusion. The firing can be understood as an obstruction of justice; it also can be understood as the removal of a disloyal and even treasonous team member. Similarly, Trump’s “I hope you can let this go” comment to Comey can be understood as in two different ways--as obstruction or as continuing support for a close associate (Michael Flynn) whose career has been destroyed by politics.
Comey is a member of the imperial elite; he’s touched nearly all the bases. After a couple of years as Deputy Attorney General in the Bush Administration where he attempted to legalize torture, Comey left government and become general counsel and senior vice-president for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the world and recipient in 2015 of $36 billion in Pentagon funds. Next he worked as general counsel for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund, before becoming a senior research scholar on national security at Columbia Law School. From 2005-2013, Comey also served as a director for HSBC Holdings, a British bank. During his tenure on the board, HSBC engaged in extensive money laundering for drug cartels and conspired with other banks to commit financial fraud by manipulating the LIBOR rate, an index for setting interests rates worldwide.
Obviously, the stakes in this confrontation are high. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer summed it up nicely on national TV when he expressed puzzlement that Trump seemed ready to tangle with the CIA. Said Schumer: "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."
Furthermore, because of his own mistakes and weaknesses, Trump’s credibility declines day by day.
Yet his Administration holds the information, expertise and legal authority to expose the misdeeds of Brennan, Clapper and Comey and perhaps bring criminal indictments against them. And as Parry notes, it holds the keys to many locked Washington closets where skeletons abound.
Whether Trump has the executive ability to marshal his Administration’s assets is uncertain. Whether he has the time to do so is in the hands of Trump’s Republican colleagues in Congress. Notwithstanding all the bluster, I do not expect them to destroy the Republican Party in order to get rid of Trump.
Which means the battle of the titans will continue for the foreseeable future. Don't forget: for anti-imperialists like us, this tedious drama is a wonderful opportunity. We may feel like we're in the wilderness, but that's the very place where disenchantment with the empire is most likely to occur. And it's the perfect time to invite your friends and neighbors to recognize what wretchedly dystopian politics being an empire has given us.
* Though the FBI investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election has been going on since late July, 2016, no evidence of collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign has been produced. This was confirmed recently by Senator Diane Feinstein, by former National Intelligence Director James Clapper and by other leading public officials.
Much has been made of the December/January conclusion of US intelligence agencies that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) computers.
Inexplicably, the FBI never examined the DNC computers. Thus, the only evidence produced by these agencies to date was provided by a private contractor working for the DNC: CrowdStrike, a company linked to an anti-Russia think tank. It found evidence of hacking by someone who used Russian references in the coding of the hack.
The probative value of that finding was greatly diminished March 31 when WikiLeaks published its “Vault 7” cache of documents, including the CIA’s $17 billion “Marble Framework tool.” Its 700 million lines of code enable it to hide the true source of CIA malware and make it appear that a hack originated from a country other than the US, such as Russia, North Korea or Iran.
Then there is the allegation that the Russians turned over stolen DNC files to WikiLeaks. If such a transfer occurred via Internet transmission, the NSA would have detailed proof. Yet the NSA has produced no evidence of this, nor of any other kind of transmission.
So what has been going on? The breach of the DNC computers—the one that provided proof that the DNC cheated Bernie Sanders out of the Democratic nomination—likely was carried out by one or more upset employee who then relayed the stolen files to WikiLeaks, probably via a thumb-drive. The CIA conducted the hacking of the DNC computers, using its Marble Framework tool that deceptively pointed to the Russians in order to create a diversion and further poison US-Russia relations.
Had Clinton won the election, none of this would have received much attention. But with Trump’s shocking victory, the emergency plan to shackle Trump and the already established plan to freeze hostile US-Russia relations merged into a single campaign.
Thus, the Clinton campaign blamed Russia’s Putin for her defeat. Top Obama Administration officials added fuel to the fire by briefing the President on the so-called “dirty dossier” on Trump, thereby ensuring its scandalous references to Russian prostitutes would be leaked to the media. Further, the Obama Administration unmasked the names of Trump associates surveilled by NSA’s ubiquitous data collection and expanded the network of government functionaries who had access to the unmasked surveillance. As expected, frequent leaks of classified information to the media promptly began, even before the new administration was in place; Trump’s fired National Security Director, Michael Flynn, was discredited by those leaks.


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Michael and Yvonne were waiting for us at the bar. Greg joined us there, too. It was officially a crawl!
Hey, on a totally unrelated note, I couldn't help but notice that our BC Hydro smart meter was installed while we have been away living in Edinburgh. And guess what else I couldn't help but notice...? Nothing horrible happened!

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text: Kent has the largest growing elderly population in the country. With this in mind, Kent County Council have announced that telehealth is a top priority for the region to provide digital health solutions. Kent has the benefit of a cluster of technology start-ups in the region. These are being actively supported with business loans. The focus of these new digital companies include providing secure solutions for sharing patient data with practitioners. If they succeed as hoped, they could be creating a new wave of innovative, preventative solutions, which could avoid an over reliance on residential care homes and use of geriatric wards in future. It would also save the Council purse and NHS serious money in the long run if they get the combination right.

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A more comprehensive set of data revealed that Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) economy ended 2017 on a weaker note than previously expected. Regional GDP increased 2.7% year-on-year in the final quarter of last year, below last month’s preliminary estimate of a 3.0% expansion. In addition, the region’s third-quarter performance was revised down from the 3.0% increase estimated last month to a more subdued 2.4% expansion. The large downward revisions were mainly due to the inclusion of new quarterly national accounts data for Angola, which released quarterly figures for the first time in May.
Along with the new quarterly figures, Angola’s Statistical Institute also made large downward revisions to GDP data for the past two years. While previous figures stated that the economy grew modestly in 2016–2017, new data exposed a long and unexpected recession, suggesting that economic conditions have been more challenging than previously thought. The strong downward revision to the earlier figures was chiefly due to changes in results for manufacturing output and public spending.
Elsewhere in the region, the growth story remains unchanged, and regional activity picked up modestly overall in the fourth quarter of 2017 thanks to higher commodity prices, solid global growth and sound harvests. Available data for the start of 2018 suggests that growth continued to improve. The Consensus Forecast is for GDP to expand 3.4% annually in the first half of the year. Higher oil prices and improved FX allocation should support growth in Nigeria, while Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency has helped revive confidence in South Africa. Growth is also projected to have picked up in Kenya thanks to a calmer political scene and improved conditions in the agricultural sector. Meanwhile, incoming data suggests that Ghana’s economy is still growing at a marked pace, albeit down from last year’s multi-year high.
The recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy is expected to gain steam this year, thanks to stronger growth in major players Nigeria and South Africa. Firmer commodity prices and healthy foreign demand will support regional growth, although several challenges to the outlook exist, including high debt, large imbalances and vulnerability to fluctuations in the global financial market. FocusEconomics panelists see regional GDP expanding 3.5% in 2018, unchanged from last month’s forecast. In 2019, growth is seen accelerating to 3.7%.
This month’s stable outlook for the region was driven by unchanged projections for 9 of the SSA region’s 13 economies, including Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. Three economies saw their forecasts lifted, including South Africa, while Mozambique was the only economy to have its forecast downgraded.
Ethiopia’s economy is expected to be the best performer in SSA this year, with 8.1% growth, followed by Ghana (7.3%) and Côte d’Ivoire (7.1%). On the other hand, the region’s major players are expected to be the slowest growing economies. Angola’s economy is seen growing 1.9%, South Africa’s economy is seen expanding 2.0% and Nigeria’s GDP is projected to increase 2.6%.
Incoming data points to a firming recovery in the first half of 2018, after growth hit a two-year high in the fourth quarter of last year. The PMI came in at one of the highest levels on record in April, and preliminary data from OPEC revealed that oil production rose in the same month. Although activity is gaining steam, the recovery is moderate overall. Crude oil output is below the government’s budget assumption, weighed down by poor infrastructure and maintenance work, and the state oil company Nigerian National Petroleum Corp is beset by mismanagement and financial woes. On a brighter note, authorities finally passed the delayed 2018 budget on 16 May, which should lead to a pick-up in public spending. In addition, at the end of April, Nigeria and China agreed to a three-year currency swap worth NGN 720 billion. The agreement should help boost liquidity and encourage trade between the two countries; China is one of Nigeria’s largest trading partners.
Higher oil prices and improved foreign exchange rate liquidity should drive a pick-up in growth this year. However, political uncertainty ahead of February’s elections, a lack of diversification away from the oil sector and a poor business environment remain key concerns. FocusEconomics panelists expect GDP to increase 2.6% in 2018, which is unchanged from last year’s projection. Next year, growth is seen rising moderately to 3.0%.
Amid the recovery in economic sentiment on the heels of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ascension to the country’s top post in February, weak performances in the mining and manufacturing sectors in March have upset expectations of strong growth in the first quarter. That said, full-year prospects still appear relatively bright as other sectors of the economy have shown nascent signs of an upturn since Ramaphosa took office, on the hopes of new business-friendly policies and a crackdown on corruption. Although a sharp depreciation of the rand against the dollar in May is likely to weigh on household spending in Q2, consumer confidence and retail sales both shot up through March just as inflation hit a nearly seven-year low. Moreover, upbeat PMI readings through April suggest that the private sector continued posting gains and hiring workers despite a VAT hike and ongoing labor strikes.
Full-year economic prospects are not expected to take a hit from the recent sluggishness of industrial output. Moreover, greater political stability and Moody’s decision to maintain an investment-grade credit rating bode well for the economy. Low inflation and higher real wages should support stronger household spending, while the government’s new push to attract investment should help bolster capital outlays. Nevertheless, fiscal slippage and a slow reform agenda will constrain growth over the medium term. FocusEconomics analysts expect growth of 2.0% in 2018, up 0.1 percentage points from last month’s estimate, and 2.0% again in 2019.
Recently revised data from the Statistical Institute (INE) showed an unexpected and prolonged recession over the past two years, contrasting previously announced figures of a moderate recovery in GDP growth last year. According to the new figures, the economy shrank 2.5% in 2017, held back by subdued domestic demand. Public spending on defense and social security fell by double digits last year, while very high inflation throughout last year likely weighed on household consumption and investment growth. Meanwhile, prior to the recent data revisions, Moody's downgraded Angola's credit rating from “B2” to “B3” with a stable outlook on 27 April. Fitch Ratings, however, affirmed the country’s “B” rating and revised it from “Negative” to “Stable” amid the government's new economic reform agenda and changes in the foreign exchange regime management. Both moves came ahead of the INE’s most recent data release.
The economy is expected to emerge from recession this year, led by rising prices for Angola’s top export commodities. Moreover, a rebound in investment activity is expected; President Joao Lourenco has shown a willingness to address macroeconomic imbalances through exchange rate adjustments and fiscal consolidation. Nevertheless, caution over the short-term outlook should be maintained; most FocusEconomics panelists have not yet taken the latest GDP revisions into account. They see GDP expanding 1.9% in 2018 and 2.2% in 2019.
Kenya’s economic recovery continued to gain momentum at the outset of the second quarter against the backdrop of a stable political scene, as President Uhuru Kenyatta patched up a longstanding fall-out with Raila Odinga, the primary opposition leader. The PMI in April shot up to the highest mark since January 2016, signaling that business conditions in the private sector brightened for the third consecutive month. Exports picked up at the start of the year, growing at a double-digit pace in January and February, while imports slowed significantly, narrowing the trade deficit. Meanwhile, improved weather conditions are helping to buoy agricultural output. While the economy is showing signs of an upturn, the country’s financial stability remains fragile as the debt burden continues to mount.
Economic growth is expected to accelerate this year thanks to easing monetary conditions, higher investment and a continued rise in agricultural output. Completion of phase one of the standard gauge railway between Mombasa and Nairobi should help curb import demand and narrow Kenya’s current account deficit. Moreover, the government has pledged that it will “eliminate or significantly modify” an interest rate cap on commercial bank lending rates that has stymied private sector credit growth, although the timing of its removal is still unclear. While reduced political tensions will continue to lift confidence, a tighter fiscal policy will restrain the stride at which the economy will grow. FocusEconomics analysts project GDP expanding 5.5% in 2018, which is unchanged from last month’s forecast, and 5.8% in 2019.
Preliminary data revealed that inflation continued to fall in April, reaching the lowest level in over two years. Regional inflation came in at 8.6%, down from March’s 8.8% reading. Lower price pressures were observed in the bulk of the economies, including Kenya and Nigeria. Healthier harvests and the fading impact of past droughts have helped calm regional inflation.
The Consensus Forecast for regional inflation in 2018 was unchanged this month after two consecutive cuts, and inflation is seen averaging 10.3% this year. In 2019, our panel expects regional inflation to recede and average 9.2%.


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Lenin returns to Russia from his exile in Switzerland, April 1917. His intense study of dialectics whilst there was a vital component of his own theoretical and political development and directly prepared the revolutionary message of the April Theses.
Such must also be the method of exposition (i.e., study) of dialectics in general (for with Marx the dialectics of bourgeois society is only a particular case of dialectics). To begin with what is the simplest, most ordinary, common, etc., with any proposition: the leaves of a tree are green; John is a man: Fido is a dog, etc. Here already we have dialectics (as Hegel’s genius recognised): the individual is the universal. (cf. Aristoteles, Metaphisik, translation by Schegler, Bd. II, S. 40, 3. Buch, 4. Kapitel, 8-9: “denn natürlich kann man nicht der Meinung sin, daß es ein Haus (a house in general) gebe außer den sichtbaren Häusern,” “ού γρ άν ΰείημεν είναί τινα οίχίαν παρα τχς τινάς οίχίας”).
Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes). Rectilinearity and one-sidedness, woodenness and petrification, subjectivism and subjective blindness—voilà the epistemological roots of idealism. And clerical obscrutantism (= philosophical idealism), of course, has epistemological roots, it is not groundless; it is a sterile flowerundoubtedly, but a sterile flower that grows on the living tree of living, fertile, genuine, powerful, omnipotent, objective, absolute human knowledge.
“The Hegelian method, on the other hand, was in its existing form quite inapplicable. It was essentially idealist and the main point in this case was the elaboration of a world outlook that was more materialist than any previous one. Hegel’s method took as its point of departure pure thought, whereas here the starting point was to be inexorable facts.A method which, according to its own admission, “came from nothing, through nothing, to nothing” [Hegel, Science of Logic, Part I, Section 2] was by no means appropriate here in this form. Nevertheless, of all the available logical material, it was the only piece which could be used, at least, as a starting-point. It had not been criticised, nor overcome; not one of the opponents of the great dialectician had been able to make a breach in its proud structure; it fell into oblivion, because the Hegelian school had not the slightest notion what to do with it. It was, therefore, above all necessary to subject the Hegelian method to through-going criticism.
“What distinguished Hegel’s mode of thought from that of all other philosophers was the tremendous sense of the historical upon which it was based. Abstract and idealist though it was in form, yet the development of his thoughts always proceeded parallel with the development of world history and the latter is really meant to be only the test of the former. If, thereby, the real relation was inverted and stood on its head, nevertheless, the real content entered everywhere into the philosophy; all the more so since Hegel- in contrast to his disciples- did not parade ignorance, but was one of the finest intellects of all time. He was the first who attempted to show a development, an inner coherence, in history; and while today much in his philosophy of history may seem peculiar to us, yet the grandeur of his fundamental outlook is admirable even today, whether one makes comparison with his predecessors or, to be sure, with anyone who, since his time, has indulged n general reflections concerning history. Everywhere, in his Phenomenlogy, Esthetics, History of Philosophy, this magnificent conception of history prevails, and everywhere the material is treated historically, in a definite, even if abstractly distorted, interconnection with history.
“This epoch-making conception of history was the direct theoretical premise for the new materialist outlook, and this alone provide a connecting point for the logical method, too. Since this forgotten dialectics had lead to such results even from the standpoint of “pure thinking”, and had, in addition, so easily settled accounts with all preceding logic and metaphysics, there must at any rate have been more to it than sophistry and hair-splitting. But the criticism of this method, which all official philosophy had fought shy of an still does, was no trifle.
“My dialectic method is not only different from the Hegelian, but is its direct opposite. To Hegel, the life-process of the human brain, i.e., the process of thinking, which, under the name of “the Idea,” he even transforms into an independent subject, is the demiurgos of the real world, and the real world is only the external, phenomenal form of “the Idea.” With me, on the contrary, the ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.
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As I think I recall, when Lenin was studying dialectics in Switzerland, he believed that revolution wasn’t on the horizon, February taking him by surprise. I think he was preparing the ground work for a book on dialectics – since there didn’t seem to be much going on politically at the time.
If the April theses had anything special to do with dialectics, why were the polemics of the time never (to my recollection) grounded in dialectics (as wereTrotsky’s polemics against the petty-bourgeoi opposition on the Russian question)?
Did Lenin ever quite grasp the undialectical character of the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry? That is, essentially, not just in the special conditions after February?
It is true Lenin thought his generation would never live to see the revolution but the study of the dialectic surely prepared him to assess the contradictions correctly, the mass of the party membership and middle layers accepted his April Theses, the majority of the leadership rejected them at the beginning. The consciousness of the masses was now revolutionary, transmitted via its first layer of vanguard, the party local leaders, into the party itself. He understood better now how to hold fast the opposites whilst he mobilised the base against the leadership.
I should understand this phrase, “hold fast the opposites,” (I think the language is Tim Wohlforth’s, but I might be wrong). But I don’t really. What were the opposites that Lenin “held fast”? Mostly, I just don’t understand the verb.
I have to think it helped, but how are you so certain? Did Lenin ever indicate how? (As Trotsky did explain how dialectical materialism helped him understand Stalinism.) If it was important, why didn’t the Third International’s parties (and the Fourth’s, before Healy) conduct classes on Hegel? If it was important, why don’t we yet have the book Lenin intended to write?
Healy, I think, picked up on this “dialectics as an exercise in mental flexibility.” I’ve never understood this – although rab on apst is a longstanding advocate. I think of “dialectics” as short for dialectical materialism, and I try to discuss it as a philosophical doctrine. I wonder if Tim Wohlforth’s study of American pragmatism is around, which contains I think one of the better expositions of dialectics as opposed to other philosophies.


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The profound, underlying truth of the Scriptures which identify the “bride” is that we are not only invited to Jesus’ wedding, but we are in fact His bride – the one to whom He, our Bridegroom, shall be wed.
Whether you are a man or a woman, you have been created to be the bride of Christ, because there is no distinction of gender in the eyes of our Creator. God is making ready a bride for His eternal intimacy. Is your heart longing to be His bride? Have you made yourself ready?
When Jesus comes for His bride will He rejoice to see you prepared as a wise virgin?
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Klari uses the tools and techniques of science in her creative process, constantly experimenting with new ways to apply materials and methods. She is driven by curiosity and her desire to explore and document the natural and unnatural with a sense of wonder and joy.
The artist currently works in San Francisco, close to one of the largest concentrations of life science companies in the world. Klari takes advantage of this proximity to collaborate with local biomedical companies and thus receive inspiration from the cutting edge of biological techniques and discoveries; this context grounds her artwork and lets her authoritatively explore the increasingly fuzzy line between the technological and the natural.
The unifying theme of Klari’s art is her mastery of a new media plastic, epoxy polymer, and the fine control she brings to its reactions with a constantly-expanding variety of dyes and pigments. The UV-resistant plastic, similar to resin, supplies a common framework for the methods and language that she uses to explore and express interactions of material and color on a microscopic level. Compositions display brightly colored smears, bumps, stains and blobs atop aluminum and wood panels. She pigments the plastic with powders, oils, acrylics and industrial dyes, built up through many layers of the ultra-glossy plastic. The shapes and colors bleed, blur, shift, and spread becoming remarkable through their eccentric detail. A skilled technician with a studio for a laboratory, Klari has turned these processes of her own invention into science in the service of her art.
Klari continues to develop her process and explore her unique synthesis of biology and creativity via her installation works, Hypochondria. The projects consist of hand painted petri dishes mounted on the wall at varying distances in groupings of 150, 60, or 30 pieces.
Klari’s work has been exhibited worldwide. Her work features in many public collections including Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK; Next World Capital’s offices in San Francisco, Paris, and Brussels; the MEG Centre in Oxford, UK; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; The Peninsula Shanghai Hotel; Theo Randall restaurant in London’s Intercontinental Hotel; Standard Life Investments in Bristol and London; Great Ormond St. Hospital, Morley Fund Management, The Pullman Group, and T. Rowe Price in London; 200 Brannan St. and 255 California St. in San Francisco; Morgan Stanley in New York City; the Stanford University Medical Center Hoover Pavilion on the Stanford campus; and Elan Pharmaceuticals, Genentech, Acetelion, and Cytokinetics in South San Francisco.
Her work has been featured in international publications such as The New York Times, GQ, Wired Magazine, Nature Chemical Biology, Elle Magazine, Time Out London, Artweek San Francisco, Art in America, Art Ltd. Magazine, Giornale Del Medico, Science Magazine, The Times, The New York Post, The Independent, Evening Standard Magazine, Frieze Magazine, The Financial Times, San Francisco Business Times, BBC1, CNN Business Report and CBS News Market Watch.

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Pushing The Right Buttons: Brrrrr, it's a bit cold!
For those who joined me on Wednesday you will have seen some of the elements of this card on my workdesk. Although I knew the colours in this beautiful Japanese Gardens image from Nicecrane Designs matched perfectly with the last of my 'Tammy Tutterow' backgrounds the tricky bit was working out how to combine them. And so I dug deep into my memory banks and hit upon using a swivelling panel.
Using Walnut Stain Distress Embossing Powder on the corners and along the edges of the image I layered it with co-ordinating cardstock befofre mounting it on the central panel.
I used Tim Holtz' shattered stains technique on the grungeboard letters with DS Tarnished Brass.
The butterfly was stamped onto antique gold card and white vellum using Coffee Archival Ink and some of the edges were painted with DI Victorian Velvet/Pumice Stone to match the background.
Those warm tones are such a tonic when there is snow outside.
Gloriously elegant but with a hint of the rustic to it I say this is a stunning creation.
Oh Jenny how I can relate as I've had "brain-freeze" (I'm happy enough to go with that term!) for weeks now with no sign of it abating!
Wishes and enjoy your restful afternoon.
A very beautiful piece of art, Jenny.
Oooh this is lovely - I like the colours - have just sent you an email asking about the weather there! I am cold here too.... maybe thats why I can get my mojo to make an appearance??
The swivelling panel format is perfect for the Japanese theme, Jenny. Beautiful!
It's a great card - love the red and gold colour scheme which fits the Japanese theme perfectly. Good idea to stay in, keep warm and craft!
This is beautiful and a clever style with the swivel. Love the Japanese image. Stay safe and warm.
Love this card Jenny and the central image is perfect for the stunning background. The letters personalise this treasured piece.
Sorry to hear you have so much snow. Just for a change we don't have any....but it's certainly cold enough so that might change.
Keep warm and enjoy that hot chocolate mmmmm!!
This card is absolutely beautiful.I love the colours.
Love the architectural structure provided by the swivel - the resulting panels are so Oriental in style... Fabulous use of the stencil, and I love the golden touches!
A wonderful card in great warm colors. Perfect during these icy days.
What a beauty! The colors are mouth watering and the background just delicious. The image is breathtaking and I love the letters you used. Such a lovely piece of work!
Love the mix of lettering and your gorgeous swivel/swing... so clever! Hope you're dealing with all the snow. Hugs from NY.
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WILLIAMS AND SMALLWOODS OF STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND.
FANNY WILLIAMS born 20th. June 1860.
Birth registered at Shifnal in the county of Staffordshire.
Blymhill is just north of Shifnal and it must have been to this area that Henry Rose arrived from Ramsey very probably looking for work.
A check of the 1881 census for Staffordshire shows that there were hundreds of Williams living in Staffordshire in that year, just two years after Henry and Fanny married at Chadsmor.
HENRY ROSE born 3rd. March 1850.
District of Huntingdon, sub district of Ramsey.
Born in Ramsey, county of Huntingsdonshire.
Father JOHN ROSE - LABOURER.
Unfortunately, because Fannys father was deceased at the time of their marriage it is very difficult to try and pinpoint if there was any of Fannys family still there. A number of English gazetteers show that the town of Cannock was on the edge of a major coalfield and it is likely that Welsh miners came up from Wales to work in the developing coal mines hence the widespread name of Williams. However, the Birth certificate of Fanny showed that her father's occupation was shown as Farm Labourer.
All that we know about Fanny's mother was that she was named Anne Smallwood.
SHIFNAL The registry district where Fanny Williams birth was registered in 1840.
BLYMHILL	The village where Fanny Williams was born..
CANNOCK	The nearest large town to Blymhill.
Fanny ROSE (WILLIAMS) died on 9th. December 1902 aged 42 years in Spaxton Somersetshire.
Shortly after their marriage in 1879 Henry and Fanny must have moved down to Spaxton which is just a small village with a few houses not far from the small town of Cannington and the larger town of Bridgewater in Somersetshire. Apparently Henry obtained a job at the newly built Ashford waterworks at Spaxton as an engine driver and he was to live in Spaxton until he died in 1925 aged 73 or 75. Henry and Fanny Rose had nine children before Fanny died in 1902.
It seems very likely, from reading the history of the Ashford Waterworks, that Henry must have been one of the very first workers to start work at the Ashford Waterworks. The town of Bridgewater was first supplied with water in 1694 from a mill stream at Durleigh belonging to Richard Lowbridge.
As the population of the town grew over the years the need to provide a clean and plentiful supply of water became more urgent. In 1879, the year of Henry's marriage, the first water treatment works was built at Ashford (Spaxton). Water from local streams were treated and pumped into Bridgewater.
These waterworks have been expanded a number of times - as late as 1990 -with the result that the original pumping station, where Henry worked, is now an Education centre giving local schools and community groups an opportunity to learn about water, the environment and conservation.
I was able to visit Somerset in 1995 and it proved to be a trip of great interest and satisfaction when I finally made it to the birthplace of my mother in September .
My mothers maiden name was Elsie Maude ROSE and she was born in one of the cottages which were part of the Ashford Waterworks complex. My mother had two brothers and five sisters and only Lily and May dying in Somerset. The rest moved away to other parts of England and America. (Their eldest daughter Ada Helena was born at Cannington in 1880).
I have been able to trace my grandfather's roots back to Ramsey in Huntingdonshire where the Rose family were farmers and gardeners from way back. I guess the history of fen drainage and water control and pumping which was required in that area provided my grandfather with some experience which was of value to him in his position at the Ashford waterworks.
My grandfather was described as an engine driver at the waterworks and would have been one of the very first to have worked there following its opening in 1879.
One of the first highlights was a visit to the Ashford waterworks itself and to see the major extensions made during the last few years. It was most gratifying to view the original pumping station, so well designed and epitomizes the grand and solid type of structure built during the Victorian era, It does make one wonder whether the new structure which has been built since will survive just as well for another 100 years.
What made our visit to the Waterworks so interesting was the personal information and guidance given by a long standing employee Mr. Norman Lewis of the Wessex Water utility. He is to be congratulated by his attempt to so successfully preserve some of the past as well as providing facilities for the future and by having such dedicated and interesting people working there.
A pub lunch in the only remaining pub in Spaxton passed an enjoyable hour and we then set off to try and find Mr. Harris whom I had made contact with before I left Australia. Through the good offices of a letter to the Bridgewater Mercury Newspaper which I had written in 1994 in an endeavour to obtain any information about my mothers family.
In addition to Mr.Harris who provided me with much information about Spaxton and confirmed some family details we were also able to meet up with Marcia Roman and her brother John who still live behind the Cottage Inn on Wembdon Hill. The kindness shown to us was much appreciated and it was good to hear the memories which both Marcia and John could tell me about my step grandmother and Aunt May when they were both young children living next door to the the Rose ladies. They did recall how sad it must have been for them when they had to move into Bridgewater when the old Cottage Inn and their cottage was demolished. The copy of a painting of the old Cottage Inn is a gift from Miss Roman I will always cherish.
Bridgewater is an important Market town and Trade centre about 32 miles south of Bristol. It lies on the River Parrett, which runs into the Bristol Channel. The bay is called Bridgewater Bay although Bridgewater itself lies some miles inland from the Bristol Channel. Bridgewater was mentioned in the Doomsday Book as an agricultural community called Brugie. In centuries past the town of Bridgewater was an important port particularly as a centre for the cloth trade and by the 15th century was trading regularly with Ireland and Europe although this no longer applies. During the civil war the town centre was destroyed by siege and bombardment by the parliamentary forces in 1645.The town has many fine buldings built since then due to the prosperity following the development of Bridgewaters industries such as bricks, tiles and Bath bricks. Modern Bridgewater is a bustling market town with a population of 35,000 and is the commercial ,industrial and administrave centre of the Sedgemore area. Towards the central built up area, in a street called West Street, he second Mrs. Florrie Rose and May Rose lived after the original Cottage Inn was demolished. They both lived there until Mrs Rose died in 1945 and May died in 1949.
Cannington is a smaller town or village three miles north west of Brisgewater with origins which can be traced back to the Iron Age with a fort and cemetery to the north west of the present village.
Wembdon is a suburb on the western outskirts of Bridgewater on the road to Cannington. Wembdon Road climbs significantly, and towards the top of the rise is situated the Cottage Inn built in the 1930's. Prior to being rebuilt there was an older thatched Inn which had an attached dwelling in which he second Mrs. Florrie Rose and May Rose lived after Henry died in 1925.
Spaxton is a spread out village three miles west of Bridgewater and is strongly rural in character. About one mile to the north of the village centre is the Ashford reservoir and waterworks, which was first founded in 1880 and where Henry Rose started work shortly after it was opened. It has been extended and modernised during the mid 1990's. The local Church of England is St. Margaret's and there is a local village school founded in 1890 and is probably where the Rose children would have attended.


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