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The Canal In Seasonal Transition In August 2018

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This is a short video of the Canal and its eco-system, at a given time in the Summer of 2018. Please take a look and see what you find that might add to your day's or night's contemplation.

BELGIAN GRAND PRIX - CARNAGE ON THE CIRCUIT, BUT VETTEL AND FERRARI WOULD NOT BE DENIED! THE END...

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In commenting that Vettel, effectively blasted passed him, Lewis Hamilton has succinctly summed up the competition between Ferrari and Mercedes.  The latter, in this race, was no more than a 'pedestrian', and was incapable of doing anything legal and professional to respond to the power and pace of Ferrai.  It would not have mattered if Vettel had not overtaken Hamilton and Mercedes within the first scores of metres of the cars rocketing off the starting Grid.  He would have been able to overtake the Mercs at anytime. And, even if Hamilton had overtaken Seb later, he would not have been able to keep ahead of the blistering pace of the Ferrari.  And, so it was that, even with Mercedes having secured Pole position during Q3, they had, for all intents and purposes, lost the Belgian Grand Prix even before it started.  It was already fated to be so, which was why there really was no competition between Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull.  Had not Kimi havi

BELGIAN GRAND PRIX - CARNAGE ON THE CIRCUIT, BUT VETTEL AND FERRARI WOULD NOT BE DENIED! PART 1.

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And, so it seems with the passage of a person's fate that, be it for good or ill, once it has selected its victim or beneficiary, intentionally or otherwise, it will surely never been denied until it is fulfilled. Thus it was with Sebastian Vettel, The Intrepid, and Team Ferrari, The Persistent, that.  With the almost certainly that winning the Belgian Grand Prix had been fated to them, did display the sheer pace, skills and professionalism which had made P.1 theirs for the taking.  You might say it was all written in the Stars that Vettel and Team Ferrari would have taken the Checkered Flag, come whatever may.  And come it did, as the race exploded in a mighty crash within the first scores of metres of the cars rocketing off the Grid.  With the errant Hulkenberg approaching the back of the unknowing and hapless Fernando Alonso's car. at uncontrollable speed, and lifting it into the air and causing it to fall on the circuit broken and in many pieces

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS - AN ACCOUNT OF LIVES IMPACTED BY 'EVERYDAY ADVERSITIES.' PART 21.

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'Like death and bereavement, at times when we are experiencing what seems like 'our worse nightmares.'  We tend not to be aware of the fact that, 'our worse nightmares' are in fact no more than everyday adversities which many other people are having to contend with.' Mfanyazaki also remembered how he recoiled on his son and held him responsible for bring the shame on the family by his behaviour. Mfanyazaki would also remembered the night when their son, Kazaliwa, came home late one night, without his glasses.  Upon making enquiries of him, Kazaliwa told his parents that he had been attacked and beaten up by several men.  Who had repeated kicked him while he was on the gound, and had broken his glasses.  Kazaliwa informed his parents that he did not want to report it to the police, and that he would deal with it himself. At the time, Kazaliwa’s parents really had not idea what he meant by sayinng ‘he would deal with it.’  But they did

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON WHETHER HUMANS CAN AND SHOULD COMMUNICATE MORE WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT. PART 2.

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'Modern people', of course, want to move away from the ancient rituals and ceremonies of the ancestors, as much as they/we can.  We want to move away from the 'natural' or 'traditional' worlds.  The worlds of the gods, and to have more immediate gratification of our daily needs and wants. And as conveniently as we can.  We want to spend as little time as we necessary, on addressing the routine tasks which we much carry out, each and probably every day.  We want to 'save time', even if sometimes we might not need to or simply 'waste what time we save', or spend it on questionable activities. 'Modern people', as far as the creation of prosperity is concerned, is moulded in  the spirit of exploitation.  The psychology of 'modern people' is based on the principle of 'the exploitation' of all that surrounds us, both ourselves and our ecological environment.  And, for this purpose, the societies of 'modern

JUST A THOUGHT - ON THE APPARENTLY IRRESISTIBLE BUT FATAL RATIONALE OF BRITAIN BREXITING, REGARDLESS OF THE COST. THE END...

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No, that does not make any sense at all, especially as you never know what is around the corner.  Not when you never know if you will have the material to rebuild, after you have destroyed what you now have.  That is not prudence. It cannot be the case that the United Kingdom and her people were meant to give up so much, to gain so little; can it? So, why, despite all this uncertainty about what good will come of the United Kingdom Brexiting.  As opposed to the known certainty about the many disadvantages which it will suffer, even before its full separation.  Do the British people and their government continue to be so resigned to their most likely unfavourable fate?  Why is it that both the government and the arch-Brexiteers continue to give the commant - 'Full speed ahead, me matey'?  Why do they continue to take the approach of equivocally using the 'right of the 52 per centers - a percentage which has probably been reduced since - to legitimis

JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON MATTERS OF THE GODS AND HUMANS: HOW ACCOUNTABLE SHOULD RELIGIONS AND GODS BE MADE FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANS? PART3.

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Which of these seemingly contradictory actions of the Christian God, are humans to believe?  Were we really made free to think in the manner we desire to, or has God withdrawn that right of humans to think for ourselves?  More likely, it is the religionists, and not their gods, who want to deny 'the inalienable right of us humans to have the freedom of being able to exercise 'free will.'  Just as how it is humans, and not god or the gods, who have forced, coerced and socialised us into the different political systems which enable or/or circumvent,  the exercising of our 'free will.'  The 'glory might be to god', especially seeing that, according to the believers, he can do no harm - the unbelievers migh say, no good, either.   But compulsion to observe the respective religions, is solely the remit of religious believers. And so it seems to me, that, of all powers, both mortal and divine, with purported and/or actual do