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World wide economic crisis... Will speculation end up in the bin ?
Clin d'oeil...
Toulouse, Minimes
I have received my new toy (oups I mean tool), so I went out to take a few 1st shots at dawn...
Garden of Worthies
To Joanna Baillie 1762-1851
Butterfly Butterfly speed through the air, the Ring - Bird follows thee fast and the monkey looks up with a greedy stare, speed on till the peril is past.
Despite numerous copies of "Holy Infants" only one held at Naples was announced to be made by Leonardo after painted anemones and ivys of a very good quality. However, we see the same elements in a background of this painting too. And the painting is ascribed to Marco d'Oggiono. Can we call every copy original just by the plants used in it? :D
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
This is speculation - These triangulation points ( see also www.flickr.com/photos/27392491@N02/6111158309/in/photostr... ) may have been erected to measure movement of the cliffs ?
The simple form of the Aalto-like Ikea Frosta stool with added images of a fictionalized planetary system.
Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/saltlabs
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"One Thousand Speculations," by Michel de Broin, is a giant, 1000-facet mirror ball. It's been erected in David Pecaut Square in Toronto as part of the Luminato festival.
"Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
"Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters in 1784. She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801), Elizabeth (1804-1876), and Susannah (1807-1895). In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson, a barrister of Gray's Inn.
"In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
"Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] reported on rumours that it might be or contain a working time machine, a speculation that has been fuelled by various articles written by the musician Stephen Coates of the band The Real Tuesday Weld."
Source: Wikipedia
More on the story of Hannah Courtoy's mausoleum
Independent article on the time machine theory
"Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and erected in 1839, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.
"Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. There is also a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end, for cremated remains. It is also an urban haven for nature.
"By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge. The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London."
Source: Wikipedia
The speculation on the identity of the third quarterly variant is now over and Dragon Blaster Skeletor is revealed by Matty email (check your spam folder if you don't see it)! It appears that this year has had a unoffcial dragon theme with Draego-Man, Granamyr and now Dragon Blaster Skeletor joining the ranks of Classics!
Dragon Blaster Skeletor sports new armor and most importantly, a removable dragon with a ball-jointed head! He will also come with real metal chains and the vintage style padlock! DB Skeletor will come with the final issue of the Powers of Grayskull mini-comic!
On Sunday I visited the Garden of Cosmic Speculation with friends. This is the personal garden of Charles Jencks, who has designed many structures such as Landform UEDA in front of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. The garden, which is near Dumfries, is only open for one day each year.
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House is open just one day a year. We went along, with what must have been half the county, to have a look
Re-enact your own Escher painting
View from under the Old Railway viaduct which Jencks used after it was removed to make way for the new Rail bridge. He also had a hand in the design of the new bridge.
I actually think this is very cute. I just wonder how this came to be. Did this little guy insist on the purse? Is he aware that most of society regards this as a feminine icon? Or did his parents not know what they were giving him?
Having my own son around this same age, I am inclined to wonder what I would do in a similar situation. Yes, I believe in self-expression, but at what cost? Is my son is old enough to understand such concepts? I would support him if this was his informed decision that I know, but as a parent you also want to protect your child from unecessary pain.
So I've been hearing a lot of rumors about Hollyleaf lately...
That she isn't really dead for one. This one didn't surpise me, every time a character in a book dies the fans will create the most off the wall ways that the character might have survived. It's silly really.
However, there are persistant rumors circulating that not only did Hollyleaf survive the collapsing tunnels, but that she will come back in Omen of the Stars... as an antagonist.
Hollyleaf, or so the fans surmise, will turn evil.
Jennifer Lopez recently canceled her appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," sparking speculation among fans. The singer and actress was scheduled to appear on the show to promote her upcoming projects, but her team cited a "scheduling conflict" as the reason for her cancellation.
The exact reason for the cancellation is unknown, but some have speculated that it may be related to Lopez's recent personal life events. The star recently split from her fiancé, former baseball player Alex Rodriguez, and has been spending time with her ex-husband, Marc Anthony.
Despite the cancellation, Lopez remains busy with her various projects. She is set to star in the upcoming film "Shotgun Wedding" and is also working on new music. Fans can look forward to seeing her in the highly-anticipated "Super Bowl LVI" halftime show next year as well.
While fans may be disappointed about the canceled appearance, Lopez's team has not announced any plans to reschedule at this time.
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In case you're wondering....
This representation of my first upstream crossing is intended to tell a story, not to demonstrate any kind of photographic skill. This photo is pieced together from four photos taken on three different days, and should be seen only as an illustration and learning experiment, not the work of a photographer.
On January 1, 2012, after a fine, large meal which included Julie's contribution of black-eyed peas, my adventurous #3 daughter insisted we take a "hike". It was a good idea, and we all needed the exercise, and only Julie, Greg, and I ventured out for a "hike".
This crossing is not quite ¾ miles from our house, but when we reached it, I told the younger folks, "I have an idea. I think I'll sit on the bench, and see you when you come back by". The bench, having been replaced to its original location twice in previous times, had been moved to "higher ground".
As I sat there, contemplating the scene before me, I thought of the vain works of Man, and the remarkable ability of the earth to overcome these futile attempts at "control".
In the days before the gu'ment usurped our little river and "tamed" it, this was a friendly little place where people from all over the neighborhood would convene on evenings and weekends for swimming, sunning, and simply "hanging out" on a clean, wide beach which would cleanse and renew itself after each flood. The periodic floods that the gu'ment releases in order to "correct" their management errors, while inconvenient to us trail users, are not adequate to replace the cleansing floods once provided by the river. Those wishing to visit or return home to a neighborhood across the river would drive across the beach and across the river bottom, only occasionally getting stuck whenever a flood would make subtle changes to the texture of the bottom.
And NOW, I'm looking at the "lay of the land", and speculating that there will be a time in the future when the minor obstruction provided by the crossing "bridge" will push the river into a new channel, a "path of least resistance". The trail will collapse at a point near where I sat on the bench, and the crews will have to return to make a new bridge over the altered channel, thinking that, "This time, we'll have surely tamed the river!"
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With Iran’s presidential election about six months away, speculation is already growing about who will succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as political head of the Islamic Republic.
Under current Iranian law, Ahmadinejad can’t run for a third term when elections take place on June 14, 2013, but the Iranian leader may be grooming a confidant to succeed him, most likely current chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei. However, Mashaei fell out of favor with Iranian conservatives last year after a power struggle between Ahmadinejad supporters and those close to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Other names mentioned as possible successors include Tehran's mayor, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, and parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani. Jalili is said to be a close ally of Khamenei.
Behind the scenes, election “reforms” working their way through the Iranian parliament may be moves to stack the deck toward a preferred candidate. The bill, which had its first reading in early December, tightens an already strict vetting process for potential presidential candidates, by adding age, experience, and loyalty to the requirements for office seekers. Ironically, Ahmadinejad has criticized the measure as unconstitutional, and some see it as intended to favor Jalili or other candidates close to Khamenei.
Given the election “reforms” moving through the Iranian parliament, is there an early front-runner to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? The answer is clearly no, although some Iran watchers warn against counting out former president Rafsanjani, who was recently alongside Khamenei greeting dignitaries at a global gathering of so-called nonaligned nations in Tehran.
Iran’s president is viewed as the nation’s primary international envoy, but in some aspects the position is more of a figurehead, with critical decisions made by the ruling religious leaders, such as Khamenei.
Isaiah 40:15-17 reminds us that the nations a “like a drop from a bucket” in the eyes of God and it is He that raises up leaders and causes others to fall. Pray for the Iranian elections and that their new leader will be less strident and militant toward the West, particularly Israel.
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The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which has since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has turned into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFOs. It likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that, in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying saucer."[1] A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.[2] In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites,[2] and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that Roswell alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.[3]
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul.[4] The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien bodies were likely a combination of innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s, and hoaxes perpetrated by various witnesses and UFO proponents. The psychological effects of time compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy with the years in question. These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation or simply implausible, though significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that any alien craft was in fact involved