ST_OCTOBER_18

CASE STUDY:
BUSINESS TRAVEL
30 Just How Bad Is Business
Travel For Your Health?
Andrew Rundle gives us a comprehensive data
on health and travel for work drawn from his own
experiences
FEATURES &
STORIES
40 Here’s what Cocaine does
to the Structure of Your Brain
26 BenTaub Just on How the hard Bad facts Is Business of cocaine Travel abuse
For Your Health?
Andrew Rundle gives us a comprehensive data
on 44 health NASA and travel Prepares for work drawn Girl from for his own
experiences
a Visit to Mars
Andrew Rundle gives us a comprehensive data
on health and travel for work drawn from his own
experiences
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QUOTE
“ONCE YOU START IGNORING YOUR
ENEMIES THEY WILL BE DISAPPOINTED
BECAUSE THEY WILL NO LONGER HAVE THE
POWER TO MAKE YOU ANGRY OR
MISERABLE.” EMANUEL VELLA, EX-SNR.
INSPECTOR POLICE CORPS, MALTA
FROM THE EDITOR
I want to touch upon sensitive matters regarding family bonds and life in
Malta. Lately, permissive-ness, living beyond one’s means and anything
goes attitude has eroded the fundamental values of what once was a
closely-knit Maltese family society. To add to this, foreign influences,
diminishing of our culture and loss of identity has also compounded on
the way Maltese have changed their lifestyle and upbringing.
A family should not be divided, but the other way round. With heavy
hearts and frayed nerves, but also with the knowledge that nothing —
no thing — Is as important to US and all the rest as maintaining good
relationships, our present regime and rather selfish approach, will never
allow us to deal with some of the most emotionally charged things,
and it will never give us a future reunion to look forward to… once a
family and its values are broken, what remains cannot never be called
a family or society. When we take on our parents, friends, family, and
people we love to right that instinctive wrong, we risk shattering our
home core. When we stop communicating with people we love, our
relationships decay. The smallest slight can fire up our emotions. And
this is prevalent and also a result of our wearing down and dereliction of
moral and religious principles.
We should all be afraid of becoming hateful. There is always a moment
where we face the option of breaking all the rules. Where we know that
no matter how bad things are now, we can always make them worse
with one choice. First Lady Michelle Obama said during campaigning,
“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their
level. No, our motto is: when they go low, we go high.” Michelle
Obama touched a chord with her words. Faced with the proposition of
becoming full of hate, she is urging us to decide to ‘go high.’
We should all reach out and tell each other that we care about everyone,
about us and our environment. Nothing outside of us is more important
than our relationship, even as a cohesive society, when considering our
small size. There was no way we could have reach the middle ground
with ourselves, when we are trying to make each other understand,
instead of understanding one another.
I beg to differ. Let’s go with our gut instincts and follow our heart.
Whatever our future holds, or hardships we are facing, we will never
succeed without the love of family and friends, and society at large.
We should never cross the boundaries to the point of no return… and
let the division, the hate, the lies, the shame to rest on the shoulders of
those who think negative and act that way.
Recently, a close mate of mine shared a few mantras- he lives by four
important ones:
· No use stressing about things you cannot alter
· What doesn’t kill you often makes you stronger
· What goes round, comes around
· Avoid head-butts, especially those who cause them
Blame is for God alone to apportion. And don’t even hold grudges,
it just makes you bitter and angry. Just enjoy your life without those
who do not want you included. As for the pigs who rule this world, we
have an exclusive interview with Roger Waters, Pink Floyd legend, who
rigs the bell to remind us “All animals are equal, but some animals are
more equal than others.” The sentence is comment on the hypocrisy
of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizensbut
give power and privileges to a small elite. Waters mastery on music is
also eloquent in his grasp to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose
into one whole, and, similar to George Orwell’s epilogue in Animal
Farm, leaves us with the animals outside gaze at the scene and look
from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, they
can no longer distinguish between the two.
Enjoy the read.
Martin Vella
Editor-in-Chief