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After months of feverish speculation regarding the potential for a game-changing political marriage between Bola Tinubu’s ascendant Action Congress of Nigeria and Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change, Mr. Buhari, the ascetic retired general and former head of state, has surprised many by settling for the activist clergyman Tunde Bakare.
News stories the day after the US presidential election are replete with speculation of what will happen in the Middle East, and with Israel in particular, now that Barak Obama has been re-elected.
The overwhelming topics of conversation regarding Israel have returned to the questions of 1) what Obama will do about the Iranian nuclear threat and, 2) what will Obama do about bringing a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights.
Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister and current “permanent representative” of the Quartet, spoke at length this morning about the potential for Obama’s refocusing on a peace plan for Israel. Blair said yesterday morning that “I think President Obama’s re-election gives us the chance to go back into it with a renewed sense of momentum.”
The sticky point here is that the members of the Quartet believe that, “It is very fashionable at the moment to say the two-state solution is not going to work. Just examine the alternative for a moment. What does a one-state solution mean? It means you institutionalize conflict right at the heart of whatever that state might look like.”
Even more telling was his statement that, “I don't think there has been any change in President Obama's view, which is that it is in the strategic interest of the United States and the world that a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue is found.”
Do not misunderstand. We are not predicting the end of the world. But we are saying that Barak Obama's re-election re-opens the political push toward drafting – and even imposing – a treaty between Israel and all of the Arab states and Islamic entities that is considered in the best interest of the world - a two-state solution with Jerusalem divided among them. That solution is not acceptable to Jehovah God, but then, which politicians are asking Him?
Never before in the history of the world has the stage been so perfectly set for this person and this treaty. Interestingly, the world considers that situations as they currently are demand a peace treaty. But if there were to be a conflict with Iran, nuclear or otherwise, there is no telling what could happen. Many Bible scholars believe that Ezekiel 38 foretells a World War III that could come out of the entire Middle East mess. If that were to happen, there would be an even greater need for a peace treaty.
We are not making predictions. We are pointing out the signs. If we can discern that a red sky at night is a sailor’s delight and a red sky in the morning is a sailor’s warning, we ought also be able to read the signs of the times, and you should understand that a treaty creating two nations precedes great tribulations. Study God’s Word. Trust God and pray. And when you pray, pray for the peace of Jerusalem – God’s way. (Psalm 122:6)
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While global food prices are rising, pushing the world's poorest people into hunger, bankers are betting on food prices and once again look set to push them even higher.
We're campaigning hard for new laws to regulate food speculation - and the next few weeks will be crucial.
Euro MPs and finance ministers are both about to decide their position on the new rules. The UK government, represented by Chancellor George Osborne, is opposed to strong rules to tackle food speculation.
So we are going to present him with a photo petition to show him just how many people are concerned about the issue.
The original plans for Rosslyn have never been found or recorded, so it is open to speculation whether or not the chapel was intended to be built in its current layout. Its architecture is considered to be among the finest in Scotland.
Construction of the chapel began on 20 September 1456, although it has often been recorded as 1446. The confusion over the building date comes from the chapel's receiving its founding charter to build a collegiate chapel in 1446 from Rome. Sinclair did not start to build the chapel until he had built houses for his craftsmen.
Although the original building was to be cruciform, it was never completed. Only the choir was constructed, with the retro-chapel, otherwise called the Lady chapel, built on the much earlier crypt (Lower Chapel) believed to form part of an earlier castle. The foundations of the unbuilt nave and transepts stretching to a distance of 90 feet were recorded in the 19th century. The decorative carving was executed over a forty-year period. After the founder's death, construction of the planned nave and transepts was abandoned - either from lack of funds, lack of interest or a change in liturgical fashion.
The Lower Chapel (also known as the crypt or sacristy) should not be confused with the burial vaults that lie underneath Rosslyn Chapel.
The chapel stands on fourteen pillars, which form an arcade of twelve pointed arches on three sides of the nave. At the east end, a fourteenth pillar between the penultimate pair form a three-pillared division between the nave and the Lady chapel. The three pillars at the east end of the chapel are named, from north to south: the Master Pillar, the Journeyman Pillar and, most famously, the Apprentice Pillar. These names for the pillars date from the late Georgian period — prior to this period they were called the Earl's Pillar, the Shekinah and the Prince's Pillar.
This was probably the 50th shot because she did not want to sit still with the camera next to her. I did a depth of field while almost filling the frame. The subject is close up and detailed. No editing was done to this one.
There's been some speculation that grey-hair's goggles contained mini screens with live video feeds from the elephant's eyes. The little girl had an equivalent controller with goggles and another radio-control. No idea who the guy with the earphones is, or whether those have live audio feeds from the elephant's massive flappers, but I suspect not.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
Ruston Hornsby D2957 shunter with some interesting colours and patterns on the glass. Does it go anymore I wonder?
'UFO over airport causes speculations'.
Seems they still don't know what it was. The 'UFO' didn't appear on the radars - but was well-visible. Probably made of plastic? Or they test a 'radar-invisble' helicopter? No idea. But if you like unusual things to happen - come to Bremen! It's a nice city anyway. ;)
3D printed plastic and electronic components
Moreshin Allahyari
This sculpture is part of 'Material Speculation: ISIS', a project by Morehshin Allahyari to recreate destroyed artefacts from Mosul Museum. Embedded inside is a flash drive and memory card containing images, videos and documents relating to the original object. Sealing this archive within the replica she creates an alternative way of preserving heritage. Allahyari shares data online, inviting engagement with both the history and future of lost artefacts.
[Imperial War Museum]
From What Remains (July 2019 to January 2020) part of the Culture Under Attack season
Destroying cultural heritage often strikes at the heart of our communities. What Remains highlights historic and contemporary moments where places, art and artefacts have been attacked by those who wish to exploit or even erase whole civilizations from history. Spanning 100 years, discover stories such as Hitler’s Baedeker Raids in 1942, where German bombers targeted historic towns and cities noted in travel guides of Britain, and the Taliban destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001.
[Imperial War Museum]
Taken in Imperial War Museum
The physical nature of lunar rays has historically been a subject of speculation. Early hypotheses suggested that they were deposits of salt from evaporated water. Later they were thought to be deposits of volcanic ash or streaks of dust. After the impact origin of craters became accepted, Eugene Shoemaker suggested during the 1960s that the rays were the result of fragmented ejecta material.
Recent studies suggest that the relative brightness of a lunar ray system is not always a reliable indicator of the age of a ray system. Instead the albedo also depends on the portion of iron oxide (FeO). Low portions of FeO result in brighter materials, so such a ray system can retain its lighter appearance for longer periods. Thus the material composition needs to be factored into the albedo analysis to determine age.
Among the lunar craters on the near side with pronounced ray systems are Aristarchus, Copernicus, Kepler, Proclus, Dionysius, Censorinus, Glushko, and Tycho. Similar ray systems also occur on the far side of the Moon, such as the rays radiating from the craters Giordano Bruno, Necho, Ohm, Jackson, King, and the small but prominent Pierazzo.
North Ray and South Ray craters, each with a clear ray system, were observed from the ground by the astronauts of Apollo 16 in 1972. WIKIPEDIA
Speculation about the future of Hornsea Mere was clarified this week with suggestions that the public were no longer able to use facilities firmly squashed
Hornsea Gazette - 12th July 2012
Speculation surrounds the fate of the famous Honest Ed's sign, now that the store and adjacent "Mirvish Village" have been sold to Westbank for redevelopment.
Following international banking over speculation Irish & worldwide property values collapse.
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Charcoal, Metallic paint, Spray Paint, Gloss house paint, Glitter powders & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:148cm by W:228cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks,Glitter & Gloss paint used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!
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?
A new rule to be proposed by Commodity Futures Trading Commission Commissioner Bart Chilton would harden regulation of the paper trading aspect of the commodity market. The agency's effort to address excessive speculation reignites due to the nearing retirement of its chief economist Jeffrey Harris, who opposed reform in this area.
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www.heatingoil.com/blog/cftc-commissioner-chilton-promise...
(image: businessweek.com)
Following international banking over speculation Irish & worldwide property values collapse.
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Charcoal, Metallic paint, Spray Paint, Gloss house paint, Glitter powders & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:148cm by W:228cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks,Glitter & Gloss paint used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!