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BRITAIN'S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AND AUNT SAL'S FALL! PART 2

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Upon finding her on the floor next to her bed, his immediate thoughts would have been, oh no, not again. Not another fall.  As he wondered whether she might be seriously hurt this time, whereas she was not on the last occasion. What should he do, he contemplated.  First things first, as he asked Aunt Sal what had happened, and whether she had hurt herself.  A quick visual overview of Aunt Sal did not find any evidence of cuts or bruises, but she did complained of a sore head.  As he lifted her up and helped her to sit on her bed. As he sought an explanation from Aunt Sal as to how she came to have fallen.  It soon became clear that she had simply made an adjustment to something on her dressing table, and had turned around to sit on her bed, and that during the process of doing so, she she got her slippered foot caught under her bedside rug and fell.  As she fell sideways, she appeared to have banged her head on the drawer handles of her bedside chest of drawers.

The Clogged And Stressed Section Of The Canal!

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This stretch of the canal is certainly not a pretty sight, and yet, given time, providing it is not overwhelmed with the abuse it is being subjected to, it will recover. Do take a look at this video and ponder the complexities and mysteries of floral life!

BRITAIN'S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AND AUNT SAL'S FALL! PART 1.

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Probably one of the biggest and most dangerous hazard of becoming a senior citizen and/or senior citizen plus.  is the frequency with which a man or woman can find themselves being pulled down  horizontally by gravity.  It is as if the earth, the gods, are saying to you, it is time, or nearly time for you to come and mingle with us. Returning to the dust and carbon from whence you evolve, And so it is that, a man or woman who happens to be in their senior years, but still in good health and have their mobility, can be laid low from having a stumble in the most innocuous of circumstances.  A feeling of giddiness, a miss judgement of the true depth of the stairs, a momentary lapse of concentration or coordination of ones thoughts and actions.   Is all that it takes for a man or woman to find themselves flat on their backsides, or their faces, and ending up in hospital.  Only to be diagnosed with a broken collar bone, hip, ankle, wrist, or, even worse, haemorrhaging

JUST A THOUGHT - SYRIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE END GAME OF THIS STAGE OF THE STRUGGLE? PART 3.

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Well, we do not know what exactly happened in Khan Sheikhum. But what we do know, is that governments and their covert forces are quite capable of making something look like what it is not.  We have the most spectacular example of this from the Americans.  In how they have justified the invasion which has set the Middle East on fire.  A fire which is still burning, on the pretext of claiming that the now murdered Saddam Hussein of Iraq, had weapons of mass destruction.  When it was found that he did not have such weapons, the Americans then resorted to arguing that, well, he might not have been guilty of that, but he was guilty of using chemical munitions to kill hundreds of Kurds.  This is called, I supposed, evidential flexibility and elasticity.  And so, we need to be wary of the Americans and the United Nations citing 'evidence of Syrians killed by the Syrian government forces.' However ' credible ' it might at times  appear  to be. The only thing

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE INEFFICIENCY OF HUMAN SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT! PART 1.

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'So, consider this, if you will. You go to a baseball or football match, and you are asked to make your way out onto the play field and strip. To take all of your clothing off.  How would you feel? With the increasing movement of people from one diverse country and culture to another, this is the reality which confronts many migrants.  They are required to make cultural and identity changes, not in the centuries which it took many European countries to make, but to do so in a matter of decades, of one or two life-time.'  With the host society also having to make adjustment and readjustment changes, if the new reality is to become stabilised and secure Although all societies are composed of humans, who, despite our at times, differential physical attributes, are quintessentially the same.  Our societies do not develop along the same lines or at the same rate.  This raises questions about how much success can be had in applying the same standards and princ

JUST A THOUGHT - SYRIA: THE BEGINNING OF THE END GAME OF THIS STAGE OF THE STRUGGLE? PART 2.

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The Americans, Europeans, at least, some of them, such as Macron, and the Israeli government, wants a weak and ineffectual Syrian state.  For the same reason why they want a weak Iranian State. They have resolved that there should be only two kind of Arab and Iranian states in the Middle East region.  That they should either be friendly and non-oppositional towards Israel, of that they should be so weak and ineffectual as pose no actual threat or very negligible potential threat to Israel. The wars which are being fought in the Middle East, in Iraq, in Syria, in Libya - North Africa - ans in Yemen.  Are not wars about the liberty, the equality and the pursuit of happiness of all of these people.  They are all about geopolitical interests of the 'outside players', albeit, to different degrees.  Yes, it would be fair to say that it is not that some or, even all of the 'outside players' do not care about the suffering of the people who are doing the s

MEXICAN GRAND PRIX/2017 FORMULA 1 DWC - VERSTAPPEN AND HAMILTON ON TOP ! THE END!

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Why, we asked ourselves, is Valtteri Bottas not catching Verstappen, and is instead falling back relentlessly.  So that, by the end of the race, he was probably nearer to his team mate that to the leader of the race?  Not surprisingly, many of us, probably including yourself, Lewis, did contemplate the improbably; that you might not finish the Mexican Grand Prix! It is therefore not surprising that many of the fans, the watching spectators, might felt that they/we have been robbed of the sense of elation.   Which we would certainly have felt, which you would have felt, Lewis, had you won the 2017 Drivers' Championship from the Podium, instead of from the unfamilarily of P.9. With you placing yourself at P.9 having become such a major achievement, in a phenomenon race, it was not to be. However, as Nikki Lauder and Toto Wolff have observed, winning the Driver's World Championship is still winning it, from which ever position.  An observation which cannot