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maybe you guys can help me figure this out
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this will need to be put in legalese
Also, any opinion given here , is just that , an honest opinion, nothing more, Take what you like , and leave the rest.
Nemo
If a came over there is it possible to actually go fishing?
And catch something bigger that 4 or 5 lbs?
fwiw
Just to let you know I eats fish every single day.
actually I forgot so instead of not posting I just put a link up - thank for bringing that to my attention and everyone elses
revised link - that freebie site ran out of bandwidth - my will not - LOL
http://www.myspokane.info/tree/
on the homeowners - they tried to cancel me in January for a claim with broken water pipes - can you believe I've been paying to that company for 18 years and for a $400 check they cancel me - I had to work like a dickens to prove I was insurable - most bs I've seen in a long time
I'm in the basement family room - and the son starts screaming and hollering dial 911....
I say: what?
"Dad - a tree just crushed the Crown Vic and blocked the street."
It was raining pretty good and the wind wa gusty.
The Mrs called the road department and they happened to be out in 45 minutes and they would cut it up and haul off in the next couple days, whatever didn't disappear for firewood.
The car was not insured since it was our last resort car and we'd been planning on selling it in the next month or so - LOL not now. I'll try and part out the motor and leather seats those things were in great shape.
I would say I ran out of luck this just happened at my house in the past 2 hours
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I would say I ran out of luck this just happened at my house since my last post
http://k.domaindlx.com/husker/tree
when you don't have to worry about interfacing with your camera to pc ............... that's freedom
this might work nice for a fuel\gas article :)
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Capt.
you might not like this solution but drive on down to FredMeyer and buy yourself a cardreader (sd) for about $12.00
and just your SDmemory from the camera into the reader and then into your USB port (just an idea).
my message on a legal disclaimer?
I'm wondering about a legal notice disclaimer ??
are you using ie ? I know there is a little jaza script in there
you have the Elton John look going for you
here's some more pictures you can look at
http://www.myspokane.info/album/
here's some more pictures you can look at
http://www.myspokane.info/album/
track this down at link it??
Published on 12 Apr 2005 by Aljazeera. Archived on 13 Apr 2005.
Bank says Saudi's top field in decline
by Adam Porter for Aljazeera
Speculation over the actual size of Saudi Arabia's oil reserves is reaching fever pitch as a major bank says the kingdom's - and the world's - biggest field, Gharwar, is in irreversible decline.
The Bank of Montreal's analyst Don Coxe, working from their Chicago office, is the first mainstream number-cruncher to say that Gharwar's days are fated.
Coxe uses the phrase 'Hubbert's Peak' to describe the situation. This refers to the seminal geologist M King Hubbert, who predicted the unavoidable decline of oilfields back in the 1950s.
Gharwar's decline may spook markets and force prices up
"The combination of the news that there's no new Saudi Light coming on stream for the next seven years plus the 27% projected decline from existing fields means Hubbert's Peak has arrived in Saudi Arabia," says Coxe, referring to data compiled by the International Energy Association's (IEA) August 2004 monthly report.
Problematic effects
The Canadian bank is the latest in a line of oil opinion-makers to speak out about.
Others, notably banker Matt Simmons and the head of the Association for the study of Peak Oil (Aspo), Colin Campbell, have called into question the validity of its stated reserves, supposedly 258 billion barrels.
Some say Gharwar may have been
damaged by poor management
If Gharwar, the world's biggest field, is seen to be "in decline", as Coxe says, the effects could be problematic. Markets could panic, forcing prices up, creating shortages and profoundly affecting the world economy.
"The kingdom's decline rate will be among the world's fastest as this decade wanes," predicts Coxe. "Most importantly, Hubbert's Peak must have arrived for Gharwar, the world's biggest oilfield."
Coxe dismisses Saudi claims that the country can produce extra capacity to satisfy surging demand. He notes that Saudi promises to increase production last year failed to materialise. Aramco had pledged an extra 500,000 barrels of oil immediately and an extra 5 million bpd by 2012.
He says the markets had "assumed this first flow would be a half million barrels daily of the benchmark Saudi Light, the high-end product that any oil refinery can process. Instead ... the new oil was heavy, sulphurous oil that only a few refineries had the spare capacity to use".
Continuing, he asks: "What about those 5mbpd of new production by 2012? It turned out that only 2.5 million barrels would be net additions to Saudi output: Declines from existing fields will slash production by 2.5 million bpd."
Saudi response
Saudi Aramco's chief executive officer Abd Allah Jumaa denies anything of the sort is happening.
"We have ambitious expansion plans to boost our capacity ... [and] raise our production capacity to 15 million barrels a day... We are confident that we can maintain these production rates for about half a century"
Saudi Aramco's chief executive officer Abd Allah Jumaa
"We have ambitious expansion plans to boost our capacity to 12 million bpd and also have a long-term crude development scenario that would raise our production capacity to 15 million barrels a day. We are confident that we can maintain these production rates for about half a century," he says.
However, Campbell noted that in 1990 Saudi Arabia, along with other Opec producing countries, notably Kuwait, revised their reserve estimates overnight.
This was in order to pump more oil as part of Opec's quota arrangement. The more reserves you claimed to have, the more money you made.
Same reserves
Saudi Arabia announced "a massive increase from 170 to 258gb in 1990. It had evidently decided to follow Kuwait's practice of reporting original, not remaining reserves," Campbell says.
Since that time, despite pumping around 9mbpd, Saudi Aramco says the size of its reserves have not only remained the same but increased slightly from 258gb to 259gb thanks to better extraction techniques.
However, Simmons believes Gharwar, responsible for around 5mbpd of Saudi output, may have been damaged by poor management.
Pumping large amounts of oil at the maximum rate can damage the geological structure of the field, usually referred to as "rate sensitivity". Basically the hole falls in on itself, making large amounts of oil within it un-extractable.
Lack of transparency
The rising speculation among analysts may ultimately be the fault of the Saudis. The lack of outside independent scrutiny has created space for sceptics like Coxe to question their facts and figures.
Ali al-Nuaimi's Saudi oil ministry is
accused of not being transparent
In 2005 alone, the OECD, the G7, the IEA and the IMF have all openly called for increased transparency over oil reserve calculations, mainly from Middle Eastern states.
The market cannot hope to understand its current position without knowing how much oil lies in reserve. This is at the heart of much of the current oil market's problems.
But Coxe's figures may even be on the sympathetic side. According to Saudi Aramco's own statistics, existing Saudi fields deplete by 600,000 to 800,000bpd each year. If such levels are maintained until 2012, Saudi depletion will have reached a minimum of 4.2mbpd.
Water injection
In other words - by their own admission - Saudi Arabia will have added only 800,000bpd of supply in the next seven years. That is the best case scenario.
To put these rates into context, the IEA predicts a year-on-year rise of 1.6mbpd by the fourth quarter of 2005.
One factor contributing to the scrutiny the Gharwar field faces is the huge amount of water injection used. Water is pumped into an ageing oilfield in order to maintain high pressure inside.
This allows the oil to be pumped out at the original constant rate. Eventually, however, the water reaches the well-head, and the field effectively dies.
Coxe goes on to ask why new Saudi fields, not just ageing ones, are also water injected.
"As if that weren't bad enough news, the Saudis claim they need at least $32 a barrel to justify new production, because ... new production ... requires water flooding. Water flooding on newborn Saudi wells? Isn't water flooding [the] Viagra of ageing wells?"
Don Coxe,
Bank of Montreal analyst
"As if that weren't bad enough news, the Saudis claim they need at least $32 a barrel to justify new production, because ... new production ... requires water flooding. Water flooding on newborn Saudi wells? Isn't water flooding [the] Viagra of ageing wells?"
Abd Allah on the other hand states that it is modern techniques, not water injection, that will let Aramco meet any future demand.
"We are confident that we can extend [our] success well into the future given continued advances in exploration and production technologies and the fact that vast relatively unexplored areas exist in the kingdom with potential hydrocarbons to be discovered."
Canada oil link
While the Bank of Montreal weighing in on the prospects of Gharwar depletion is noteworthy, it should be pointed out that the bank is financially involved with the Albertan oil sand deposits.
The Albertan "sands" are deposits of sticky oil and sand, traditionally too costly to extract, which are now receiving great attention as conventional oil prices rise.
Coxe is extremely bullish on prospects of companies working in Alberta.
"The Alberta oil sands companies aren't like other oil companies," he says.
These companies are, of course, potential alternatives to Saudi oil. But Coxe ends up painting a bleak picture.
"With Opec's excess capacity ... tapped out, oil consumers have lost their security blanket against petro-chills. Free markets ... can be messy and unpredictable, little people can get hurt."
As debate over Gharwar intensifies, pressure on Saudi Arabia to independently reveal its actual size will come from many sources.
Now, for the first time, a major bank has joined that chorus. The arguments over the world's biggest oilfield are set to stay.
Aljazeera
By Adam Porter in Perpignan, France
You can find this article at:
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/08B97BCF-7BE6-4F1D-A846-7ACB9B0F8894.htm
I think everyone should post how long they've been a member
hey happy birthday baby!!!!
and I've only been here since: 3/6/2001
for me also - slow
Where do we get our misconceptions about heaven?
Satan labors to give people an inaccurate view of heaven. Jesus said
of the devil, "When he lies he speaks his native language, for he is a
liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44). Some of Satan's favorite
lies are about heaven. Revelation 13:6 tells us the satanic beast
"opened his mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his
dwelling place and those who live in heaven." Our enemy slanders three
things: God's person, God's people, and God's place—heaven. Satan
accomplishes his purposes not only by attacking God and us, but by
attacking our view of heaven. The forces of darkness have vested
interests in conveying false and unbiblical concepts of what heaven
is.
After being forcibly evicted from heaven (Isaiah 14:12-14), the devil
is bitter not only toward God, but toward us and the place that's no
longer his. (It must be maddening for him to realize we're now
entitled to the home he was kicked out of.) What better way for demons
to attack than to whisper lies about the very place God tells us to
set our hearts and minds on (Colossians 3:1-2)?
Paul warned us to be aware of the devil's schemes (2 Corinthians 2:11)
and put on God's armor to stand against them (Ephesians 6:11). One of
Satan's favorite tactics is feeding us a distorted view of heaven. He
knows this will rob us of joy in anticipating being with our
bridegroom. It will make us fall in love with this world, as if it
were our home—while Scripture commands us not to love the world and
what's in it (1 John 2:15-17). A distorted view of heaven will take
away our motivation to tell others about Jesus. (Why tell someone a
message about how to go to heaven when you think it's going to be a
dull and tedious place to be?)
For this reason it's good to pray for God to enlighten our minds and
break through the devil's lies as we look at what his Word says about
heaven.
What will our relationship with God be like in Heaven?
Ancient theologians spoke of the "Beatific Vision," which meant "a
happy-making sight." The sight they spoke of was God Himself.
Revelation 22:4 says of God's servants in the new heavens and new
earth, "they shall see his face." This would be a shocking statement
to anyone who understood the Old Testament emphasis on the
transcendence and inapproachability of God. When he asked to see God's
glory, God said to Moses, "no one may see me and live." The most God
could do was to show Moses his "back," because "my face must not be
seen" (Exodus 33:18-23).
The God who lives in unapproachable light became approachable in the
person of Jesus (John 1:14). The God who is transcendent became
immanent. People could look at Jesus and see God. But Revelation 22:4
appears to speak of actually seeing the face of God the Father.
To see God's face, we must be fully righteous in Christ, untainted by
sin, in the glory of our resurrected beings. "Blessed are the pure in
heart for they will see God" (Matthew 5:8).
David said, "One thing I have asked from the Lord, that will I seek
after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my
life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple"
(Psalm 27:4). The new heavens and earth will provide the eternal
answer to David's prayer. There will be no temple there, because we
will always have direct access to God.
The barriers between man and God will be gone forever. To look into
God's eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see...the person
we were made for. And we will see him in the place we were made for.
Seeing Him will be seeing everything else for the first time. And we
will discover that to see God will be our greatest joy, and life
itself. Every other joy of heaven will be a derivative joy, flowing
from our central relationship with God.
To see God will be to know him, and then to see ourselves, and all
other people and events, through God's eyes. We will spend eternity
worshipping, exploring and serving our great God, seeing his
breathtaking beauty in everything and everyone around us.
Augustine said in The City of God, "It may very well be, and it is
thoroughly credible, that we shall in the future world see the
material forms of the new heavens and the new earth in such a way that
we shall most distinctly recognize God everywhere present and
governing all things, material as well as spiritual."
Will we ever tire of praising God? Augustine said, "We shall not be
wearied by the praise of God, nor by his love. If your love should
fall, so would your praise; but if love will be everlasting, because
the beauty of God will be unclying, inexhaustible, fear not that you
will lack power ever to praise him, whom you will have power ever to
love."
What will we do in heaven?
Rest from our labors on earth (Rev. 14:13). We will experience
relaxation and leisure, freedom from the frustrations of tedious and
burdensome labor.
Eat and drink and celebrate at the table with Christ and the redeemed
saints from earth, communicating and fellowshipping and storytelling
and rejoicing with them (Matt. 8:11; Luke 22:29, 30; Rev. 19:9).
Communication, dialogue, corporate worship, and other
relationship-building interactions all take place in heaven (Rev.
1-22). Saints and angels and God himself will interact together,
building and deepening their relationships. "On this mountain the LORD
Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet
of aged wine—the best of meats and the finest of wines" (Isaiah 25:6).
How good will that meal be?
Worship God (Rev. 5:13-14; 7:9-12). Multitudes of God's people, of
every nation, tribe, people, and language, will gather to sing praise
to God for his greatness, wisdom, power, grace, and mighty work of
redemption.
Will heaven be an eternal naptime or vacation? Or will we have
activities and responsibilities?
The idea of endlessly floating on clouds doing nothing but strumming a
harp is nowhere in Scripture.
In heaven we will serve God (Rev. 7:15). Service is not passive, but
active. It involves fulfilling responsibilities, carrying out duties,
expending effort, and having energy and creativity to do work well.
(This will be work with lasting accomplishment, unhindered by decay
and fatigue, and enhanced by unlimited resources.) Heaven's labor will
be refreshing, productive and unthwarted, without futility and
frustration. It will be like the work Adam and Eve did in the Garden
of Eden (Gen. 2:15), before sin brought the curse on the ground, with
its thorns (Gen. 3:17-19). Our work will be more purposeful in light
of Christ's redemptive work and the glory it will have brought.
In heaven we will exercise leadership and authority, making important
decisions. We will reign with Christ in heaven (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev.
3:21; 22:5). This implies specific delegated responsibilities for
those under our leadership (Luke 19:17-19). We judge or rule over the
world and we judge and rule over angels (1 Cor. 6:2-3).
Do we go to heaven (or hell) immediately or do we sleep until the resurrection?
At death, the human spirit leaves the body (Ec. 12:7) and goes either
to heaven or hell (Luke 16:22ff). As demonstrated by the rich man and
Lazarus (Luke 16:22ff.)—and affirmed by Christ when he tells the thief
he will be with him in paradise "today" (Luke 23:43)—there is
immediate conscious existence after death, both in heaven and hell (2
Cor. 5:8; Rev. 6:9-11; Phil. 1:23).
There is no "soul sleep" or period of unawareness preceding heaven.
Some Old Testament passages do not reflect the fullness of New
Testament revelation concerning immediate consciousness upon death.
"Fallen asleep" in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 and similar passages is a
euphemism for death, describing the outward appearance as seen from
this side, not the other. The spirit's departure from the body ends
our existence on earth. This "sleep" refers to the outward inanimate
appearance of the body that is buried in the earth. The physical part
of us "sleeps" until the resurrection, while the spiritual part of us
relocates to a conscious existence in heaven (Dan. 12:2-3; 2 Cor. 5:8;
Rev. 6:9-11). Every reference in Revelation to human beings talking
and worshipping in heaven prior to the resurrection (Rev. 20) refutes
the notion of soul sleep.
Will we (or loved ones) become angels when we go to heaven?
No. Angels and human beings are entirely different creatures (Heb.
2:14). Jesus said after our resurrections we will be like angels in
that we will not be married (Matt. 22:30). But this was a specific
limited comparison. It wasn't an indication we'll become angels, or a
statement that we will in general be angel-like. Angels will always be
angels and people will always be people. Humans are eternally human.
Death involves relocation to a different place and transformation into
better humans (Rom. 8:23), not into nonhumans.
After death but prior to the resurrection, what will we be like?
Between our entrance to heaven and our resurrection, we may have
temporary pre-resurrection bodies. This is strongly suggested by the
account of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19ff.), as well as
passages showing pre-resurrected people doing physical things, such as
wearing robes (Rev. 6:11). Unlike God and the angels, who are in
essence spirits though capable of inhabiting bodies (John 4:24; Heb.
1:14), man is by nature both spiritual and physical (Gen. 2:7). Hence,
between our earthly life and our resurrection, a temporary body would
allow us to remain fully human while awaiting the resurrection. (If
true, this in no way minimizes the ultimate necessity or critical
importance of the resurrection stressed in 1 Corinthians 15.)
What will our arrival in heaven be like?
At their deaths, believers may be carried by angels to heaven, as
Lazarus was (Luke 16:22). These angels could include one or more who
have served and protected us while we were on earth (Heb. 1:14). Some
angels are specifically assigned to children and likely accompany them
to heaven (Matt. 18:10).
We will meet our Lord face to face (Ps. 17:15; 1 John 3:2; Rev. 22:4).
Those who have served him faithfully will hear him say, "Well done"
(Mt. 25:21; Luke 19:17). Eventually he will wipe away the tears from
all of our eyes (Rev. 21:4).
Some believers will receive a "rich welcome" when they enter heaven (2
Pet. 1:11). It seems likely those who on earth have impacted or been
impacted by the arriving believer (perhaps including family members),
and who have gone to heaven before him, may participate in the
welcoming celebration.
In what sense will believers be judged in heaven?
All believers will be judged in heaven. All righteous acts—many of
which will have been disregarded and some punished on earth—will be
finally rewarded. All believers will stand before the "Bema seat," the
judgment seat of Christ. The result of this judgment will be the gain
or loss of eternal rewards (1 Cor. 3:12-15; 2 Cor. 5:9,10; Rom.
14:10-12). These are sometimes depicted as crowns (James 1:12; Rev.
2:10; 1 Cor. 9:24-25; 1 Pet. 5:1-4; 2 Tim. 4:6-8; 1 Thess. 2:19).
These represent positions of leadership and service for Christ in his
kingdom (Matthew 25:21; Luke 19:17; Rev. 20:6).
The Bible treats this judgment of believers with great sobriety. It's
not a meaningless formality, but a monumental event in which things of
eternal consequence are instituted. It has a profoundly positive
aspect of reward for earthly service, as well as the sobering aspect
of loss of reward for unfaithful service. Jesus says to Christians, "I
am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you
according to your deeds" (Rev. 2:23). He said, "I tell you the truth,
anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to
Christ will certainly not lose his reward" (Mark 9:41).
There's a "proper time" for the harvest, a time that normally follows
our life on earth—"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the
proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up" (Galatians
6:9). The Christian's works done for God's glory will have eternal
significance—of those who die in Christ, God says "their deeds will
follow them" (Rev. 14:13). Our rewards in heaven will link us
eternally to our service for Christ on earth. There is a change in
location, but a continuity between our lives here and there.
Heaven marks the beginning of eternal adventure, but the end of
earth's window of opportunity. One moment after we die, we will know
exactly how we should have lived. But there will be no more second
chances. As there will be no opportunity for the unbeliever to go back
to earth and live his life again and this time to put faith in Christ,
so there will be no opportunity for the believer to go back and relive
his life, this time for Christ. "Only one life Ôtwill soon be past;
only what's done for Christ will last."
Is heaven really worth getting excited about?
In The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis paints a beautiful picture of
heaven in the final book, The Last Battle. The book begins with a near
collision of a railroad train, where the children are thrust into
Narnia. But when their adventure is over, the children are afraid they
will be sent back to earth again.
Having experienced the joys and wonders of Narnia, and the presence of
Aslan—the Lion who is in fact Christ—the thought of returning to earth
was unbearable. Then, in the final section, called "Farewell to the
Shadow Lands," Aslan, the great Lion, gives the children some
wonderful news:
"There was a real railway accident," said Aslan softly. "Your father
and mother and all of you are, as you used to call it in the
Shadowlands, dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The
dream is ended: this is the morning."
And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the
things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful
that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the
stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever
after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All
their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia have only
been the cover and the title page. Now at last they were beginning
Chapter One of the great Story which no one on earth has read; which
goes on for ever; in which every chapter is better than the one
before.
C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle (New York: Macmillan, 1956), 183-184
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You think people were honest? I cannot remember last time I was asked, well I might have forgotten and has my financial picture changed or has others changed when they last submitted that data??
90% of visitors are male
82% are between 30 and 60 years of age
58% have a graduate or post-graduate degree
$125,000 per year average household income
$235,000 average portfolio value (not including real estate or collectibles)
$460,000 average net worth
70% are at management occupational levels or self-employed
88% own one or more homes
Put simply, we attract the most desirable demographic on the Internet.
What do you guys thinks about blogs? and or blogs for the number of guys that could be getting information to contribute to the OCS Business Briefing?
(notice I plugged a name) lol
Matt you think you could get me the site demographics?
If our marketing PointOfView is GENX and younger clients it's ok - otherwise nope
OCS Business Briefing
OCS Stock Briefing
OCS Market Briefs
local chinese resturant
I like links that open a new window so that you do not loose the site you came from.
this is in Lazardo Cardenas Baja Mexico on the bay looking across to the volcano
office parking lot on a windy day
cool
a gray day in Spokane when I took this
I'll go look it was not there when I did look
I've been invited to submit pictures to folks that do cd's of stock photo's but we never agreed on the financials and I also didn't want to do the photoshop stuff on the pictures before submitting. (they want 100's of pictures)
I think this is one of my best ever fireworks with a 1.2 megapixel camera at disneyland
a couple years back in LasVegas
here's the great wall of china - my camera but not me - go figure - lol
This is a local park in Spokane