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THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - MERCEDES-RED BULL BATTLE JOINED BY THE GODS, AS BOTTAS BECAME UNINTENTIONAL DESTROYER!! PART 1

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  If you are a conspiracy theorist, or simply superstitious, you could be forgiven for carelessly allowing yourself to conclude that Team Mercedes and their racers, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, have it in for Team Red Bull and their racers, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. I mean, with Max Verstappen having come of the worst from his brutal encounter with Lewis Hamilton in the first lap of the British Grand Prix.  By what strange and brutal bad luck could he - along with other hapless racers - have had a second and consecutive major mishap in the first lap of the Hungarian Grand Prix, and with Team Mercedes, again, being the architect of it?  Yes, at times like these, emotions are likely to taken control of people's brains and tongues.  As we take, hopefully only temporarily, of our intellect, our normal adherence to logic, especially in the highly technical environment of Formula 1 racing.  Yes, it is at times like these when we are more susceptible to being superstitious,

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE GENERATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM. PART 5.

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  The concept and practice of collective punishment, with the children paying for the 'sins of their father.'  Can  be just as unjust and iniquitous, unfair, as that of the children being heirs to the ill-gotten titles and wealth of their fathers.  Not to mention how ironic it should be, that, the same source, The Bible, used to give legitimacy to the dictum requiring the children  to 'pay for the sins of their fathers.'  Is also one of the main sources which has been used by 'the architects and purveyors' of the racism which is used to legitimises the past enslavement of one race, by the elites of another race.  Just as how racist theorists have 'studied' aspects of the physiology and cultures of some black and native peoples and draw general and extensive conclusions about their intellect and behaviours.  So, should black people avoid doing the same when they place their prisms on white people; as opposed to 'the white man.'   Should they not a

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON THE CASE FOR HAVING CHILDREN! PART 1.

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  Posing the question, as it were, about the 'case for having children', presupposed that there is a choice as to whether humans, as opposed to individuals, have a choice on whether or not to have children.  And broadly speaking, as it were, I am of the opinion that such a choice does not really exist.  Us humans, as opposed to couple A,B or C, do not have  choice about having children.  Having children is something which is written into our DNA.  We, as a species, do not have as say in the process; we are hardwired, pre-programmed to procreate, to have children and keep our species going.  The bodies of both the male and the female of our species have evolved with the complementary chemical and physical chemistry which naturally, instinctively lead us into the kind of interaction, activities that result in sexual intercourse.   Or, probably more basic, mating, and to the woman becoming pregnant and having children.  Indeed, though we might think of a woman becoming pregnant an

THE HUNGARIAN GRAND PRIX - LEWIS AND BOTTAS MADE IT P.1 AND 2, AS MAX CAME IN AT P.3.

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  So, A Very Big Congratulations to Team Mercedes and Hamilton and  Bottas, for achieving P.1 and 2, in Saturday's Qualifying  session of the Formula 1 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, and to Team Red Bull and Max Verstappen, for making it to P.3. It is great to see that Max has not lost any of his racing courage and verve, after his unfortunate but spectacular and premature exit from the last Grand Prix, the British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit.  Indeed, Max's pace during Q.2 recalled his and Team Red Bull's dominance prior and upto his misfortune at Silverstone. With Lewis having achieved his Pole during the first lap of Q.3, it is a further reinforcement of the principle that you should never bank on your last lap during Qualifying being your winning lap.  You just never known what will happen, such as whether the session might have to be prematurely ended due to some mishap. So, the aim should be to make your first or second lap be the best. While Hamilton and Bottas

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 127.

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  So, she is lying on the bed and wants to sit upright on it.  A task which an abled bodied person would perform, by just lifting their head and torso up into a sitting position, while pressing their bum on the bed, as they put their your feet on the floor.  Then place their weight evenly on both feet and lift or propel themselves off the bed.  For my dear mother, the process is more complex, and, whereas the able-bodied person will be carrying out the process automatically without thinking about each of the processes.  She will have to be thinking about each of the individual tasks in the process and coordinate them with the physical actions involved. My dear mother is at risk of falling, due to her over-balancing, misjudging distances, failing to catch an object she intended to hold onto to help with her balancing.  She might knock into things she has not noticed and processed, she might trip on things, or she might move too fast in trying to gain momentum and overdo it.  These thing

AN ENIGMATIC AND POIGNANT JOURNEY AROUND MY AGEING AND EVOLVING MOTHER! PART 126.

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  I am not so sure. There is, I believe, a balance to be achieved, and that the practice of 'taking precautions' by automatically referring or conveying physically vulnerable and elderly people to hospitals.   To have further medical checks, can be overdone and even become abusive and stressful.  We do have concerns when young children fall, but the hospitals would be inundated if every young child were to be automatically taken to A&E departments every time have a fall.  It makes sense to be guided by the expertise of the paramedics, and for their to be a period of monitoring after a fall, to see if any initially hidden harm will become visible.  Unless, of course, there are indications of injury at the time of the initial examination, which requires the person to be taken to the hospital for further examination and/or treatment. The issue of my dear mother having falls, is currently a big one, as she has had others since the one mentioned above.  The challenge is that of

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 86.

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  That was averted when Kazaliwa rang his parents and informed them of the situation.  With them not wanting him to risk or do something that could breech his parole license, they decided to drive to out into the country to find him.  Having agreed that they would rendezvous at a supermarket.  Which they did. In the course of time, this incident would lose some its details for Mfanyazaki.  Although he would vaguely recall meeting his son's then, ex-boss, in the the supermarket's car park.   And having had a brief and amiable conversation with him.  Before Kazaliwa went into the supermarket and either him or his mother, Nzuri, bought him something to eat.  After which the got into the car and endeavoured to find their way home, along an unknown, to them, route. Mfanyazaki would also think he could remember him and his son having some rather fraught conversation on the return journey.  Partly because  he did not agree with Kazaliwa's then, to him, seemingly rash action, and t