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So, here I am, still sweating after completing my morning's workout; nothing too strenuous, as I am not endeavouring to acquire 6-packs or anything like that. Just endeavouring to give critical organs such as my lungs, heart and brain some challenge, so that they are able to aspire to do their work in keeping me fit and health that much better.  We should know that feeding our bodies is not a matter of giving them nutrients from food and drinks, but also ensuring that they are put under a certain amount of strain, through physical and mental exercises.  The phrase, 'if you do not use it you lose it' - or its efficient and effective usage - comes to mind. In the case of our bodies and cognitive faculties, if we do not use them, they become rusty, malfunction, and leave us becoming ill and unable to function as well as we would have; had we been healthy and fit. How long did I do my workout for? Well, in this case it was for no more that 16 minutes, to be precis

The rebels in Syria have been telling the Syrian Government and their Russian and other allies, for atleast several days now, that they are going to start a campaign to break the siege of eastern Aleppo, and also attack the government forces in western Aleppo, with the intention of defeating them. And low and behold, as the saying goes, the rebels have kept their word and are now on the attack, as they promised. They have done so while the Russian government has apparently stopped its air planes from attacking targets in eastern Aleppo. So, what are we to make of this developing situation? One would have thought that, with the enemy rebels having declared their intention to go on the attack, for the Syrian government and its ally forces, to be 'fore warned' would be to 'be fore armed.'  So, was the Syrian, Russian and allied forces prepared for this unfolding offensive by the rebels, and was the absence of Russian war planes, which would have helped to observe

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All or many things are indeed 'bright and beautiful', but did the lord god really made them all? And what about the things which are not 'bright and beautiful'? So, there I was on this dour but still refreshing Sunday, with the heavens or sky enveloped in grey clouds, as far as the seeing eye could see, as the saying goes, when the BBC's Radio 4 Morning Service came on. As much as I am an evolutionist, I still could not help but being spiritually stirred by the stirring force of the 'religious' song which the congregation - from The Emmanuel Church, in Manchester, United Kingdom - began to sing.  You might imagine, wrongly, that this was a case of god getting through to a non-believer, but that is not really the case. It was really more a matter of a person who had a background of having to go to Church and had been indoctrinated throughout early childhood. A person in whom the 'fear of god and fear of hell' had been instilled during th

Even with the violent outrages and  military victories by Isis and Daesh, in both Syria, Iraq and Europe, the West remain true, or publicly, appears to be remaining true to its original narrative. Ignoring the massively changed geo-political landscape which makes its original narrative and raison detre' for a position which no longer makes any sense, except in a machiavellian context. The objective of the West - namely the British, the French and the Americans - is still to get rid of the Syrian government, at any price, including the death of however many Syrians, innocent or combatants. And, in order to do this, they have gone into overdrive with their propaganda war. They have, it would appear, garnered all the relevant organs of the UN, voluntary organisations, NATO, and the mainstream media, to demonise the Syrian Government and their Russian, Iranian, Lebanese and other allies.  There are times when it is difficult to tell which is real situation and which is a re

Although it can sometimes appear to pedantic, I have found that it is also helpful for the social worker to make time to plan how he/she is going to go about fulfilling each task. By doing so, the worker is provided with the opportunity to become aware of and mentally walk through each stages of the process of completing the task. For example, if the task is to make an home visit, by focusing on why the visit is to be made, the worker should be reminded of the ‘plan’ pertaining to that service-user, the need to have another look at it before making the visit, remind him/herself of what tasks are required of him/her and others, including the service-users’ family, ensure that he/she has the necessary tools and documentation, and so forth. As I have mentioned elsewhere, the engagement of the service user and their family can be vital for the successful outcome of the intervention. Next to successfully engaging with the service-user and/or their family, is the kind

After awhile, we no longer listen to the narrative, as we come to assume that we know it and agree or disagree with it. The narrative should reflect changes in the situation, which validate or invalidate the original narrative. While hundreds of thousands of Syrian's, both innocent ones and combatants, are killed and maimed, and a great deal of the nation's infra-structure is destroyed during the on-going proxy war, the West continue to obscure what is really happening, by its relentless and shameless propaganda war against the Syrian Government and its foreign allies. One of the most recent propaganda missile to be fired has been that fired by the United Nation's Humanitarian Chief, Mr Stephen O'Brien, citing his organisation's failure in stopping the fighting - not in Syria - but Aleppo. In doing so, and criticising the Russians and Syrian government, Mr O'Brian was supported by propa-salvos from the United States UN Ambassador, Ms Power, and her weste

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Good health and fitness of body and mind are states which all reasonable persons are likely to value highly, in our hierarchy of priorities. This is not surprising, as they can determine the quality of life we live and enjoy. If we are healthy and fit, we can be more productive, work more efficiently, probably have a better jobs, and, yes, although it is not the be it and end it all, probably earn more money as well. Unfortunately, however, we are sometimes very lazy or complacent about taking care of our bodies and our health and fitness. Of course, if we only fail to take care of our bodies and our health, sometimes, we might or should be able to turn things around when we regain our senses, as it were. It is when we make not taking care of our bodies and our health a way of life, that we should have serious cause for concern. Taking care of our health requires us to not consume foods and drinks with levels of sugar and salt contents which are harmful or potentially harm