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Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My leg has been hurting too. For days. Its a new pain to me. Just underneath and below the inside of my knee. Deep knee bending and dehydration are the usual culprits. Dehydration maybe. I spend most of my time outside. And don't feel thirsty very often. It comes on randomly. And lasts for a few. Then goes away. Doesn't hurt now. :) Last Edited by Seer777 on 07/17/2013 08:05 PM Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/17/2013 08:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My leg has been hurting too. For days. Its a new pain to me. Just underneath and below the inside of my knee. base of my back has been aching for days and it made my left leg ache a little when i walk distance cos i am awkward because of my back and it seemed to effect my left leg when i walked no obvious reason for it and i think it may be abating, left leg has become almost unnoticeable, thigh , on left side of left leg |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14874606 United States 07/17/2013 08:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At the equator you are likely really happy that the sun has gone down. But, likely not in temperate zones where the skies are often obscured. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39812740 Caustic channels have been found that were theorized to run the lighting systems of egypt. Ahh the starlight gleaming off the polished white marble. Like a giant planetarium show every night. The gods of the cosmic nile providing the lightshow. Cue the Dj. I was seeing that in the flash of vision I had. The view in my flash was as if from a boat on the water at night. Funny, that's where I was. I mistook it for Tenochitlan in my minds eye. I even have the canali onmy mind. Schiapareli Damn, how can you know so much? Tenochtitlan (Classical Nahuatl: Tenochtitlan [tenotʃˈtitɬan]) was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yes. Good eye Kathryn. ;) Haha. Holding a laptop while standing, proves difficult. I also am often working. Making rings and earrings all week. Then selling on Saturdays. However, I have been riding my bike nearly every day. And I am seeing results. Quite quickly actually. Probably because I don't have a lot of fat. :) Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39812740 United States 07/17/2013 08:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | At the equator you are likely really happy that the sun has gone down. But, likely not in temperate zones where the skies are often obscured. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39812740 Caustic channels have been found that were theorized to run the lighting systems of egypt. Ahh the starlight gleaming off the polished white marble. Like a giant planetarium show every night. The gods of the cosmic nile providing the lightshow. Cue the Dj. I was seeing that in the flash of vision I had. The view in my flash was as if from a boat on the water at night. Funny, that's where I was. I mistook it for Tenochitlan in my minds eye. I even have the canali onmy mind. Schiapareli Damn, how can you know so much? Tenochtitlan (Classical Nahuatl: Tenochtitlan [tenotʃˈtitɬan]) was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Because I know 2 things intimately: Jack and Shit ;) I just remember things. It doesn't mean much until it does. |
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Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am going biking in an hour. I usually walk 4 miles 4 times a week. Quoting: New Heart I wait till dark though because it is so darn hot here. By yourself? Do you have a dog? I meant the walking in the dark for 4 miles. Not the bicycling. College towns are infamous for nighttime attack... Came close a few times myself. Scared the hell out of me. I don't do it anymore. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 39812740 United States 07/17/2013 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am going biking in an hour. I usually walk 4 miles 4 times a week. Quoting: New Heart I wait till dark though because it is so darn hot here. By yourself? Do you have a dog? I meant the walking in the dark for 4 miles. Not the bicycling. College towns are infamous for nighttime attack... Came close a few times myself. Scared the hell out of me. I don't do it anymore. Lol, if you saw me running at night you'd likely freak. My local liquor store lady almost ditched her truck when she said I suddenly popped onto the road. I laughed and yelled Sasquatch! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14874606 United States 07/17/2013 08:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Septenary Spirals I was seeing that in the flash of vision I had. The view in my flash was as if from a boat on the water at night. Funny, that's where I was. I mistook it for Tenochitlan in my minds eye. I even have the canali onmy mind. Schiapareli Damn, how can you know so much? Tenochtitlan (Classical Nahuatl: Tenochtitlan [tenotʃˈtitɬan]) was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Because I know 2 things intimately: Jack and Shit ;) I just remember things. It doesn't mean much until it does. It just fucking blows my mind. You've got to have some type of photographic memory or something. It is amazing to see. |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am going biking in an hour. I usually walk 4 miles 4 times a week. Quoting: New Heart I wait till dark though because it is so darn hot here. By yourself? Do you have a dog? I meant the walking in the dark for 4 miles. Not the bicycling. College towns are infamous for nighttime attack... Came close a few times myself. Scared the hell out of me. I don't do it anymore. Lol, if you saw me running at night you'd likely freak. My local liquor store lady almost ditched her truck when she said I suddenly popped onto the road. I laughed and yelled Sasquatch! My point exactly. Ur big. I'm not. :) Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw this posted earlier. Liking this song right now. [link to www.youtube.com] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 39812740 United States 07/17/2013 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 39812740 Funny, that's where I was. I mistook it for Tenochitlan in my minds eye. I even have the canali onmy mind. Schiapareli Damn, how can you know so much? Tenochtitlan (Classical Nahuatl: Tenochtitlan [tenotʃˈtitɬan]) was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Because I know 2 things intimately: Jack and Shit ;) I just remember things. It doesn't mean much until it does. It just fucking blows my mind. You've got to have some type of photographic memory or something. It is amazing to see. I think I just broke my ability to flush information. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 38848264 United States 07/17/2013 08:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I am going biking in an hour. I usually walk 4 miles 4 times a week. Quoting: New Heart I wait till dark though because it is so darn hot here. By yourself? Do you have a dog? I meant the walking in the dark for 4 miles. Not the bicycling. College towns are infamous for nighttime attack... Came close a few times myself. Scared the hell out of me. I don't do it anymore. I have a dog named Wolf. Siberian Husky. I have to walk him at night because he gets too hot in summer. My neighborhood is a really quiet sidewalked well lit suburban gated community. I never see anyone out at night. I also like it because it is breezy and no cars because everyone is already at home. |
Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 3018467 United States 07/17/2013 08:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I meant the walking in the dark for 4 miles. Quoting: Seer777 Not the bicycling. College towns are infamous for nighttime attack... Came close a few times myself. Scared the hell out of me. I don't do it anymore. I have a dog named Wolf. Siberian Husky. I have to walk him at night because he gets too hot in summer. My neighborhood is a really quiet sidewalked well lit suburban gated community. I never see anyone out at night. I also like it because it is breezy and no cars because everyone is already at home. Siberian Husky was my 'dream dog' for over decade. With blue eyes. :) A 'wolf' came next. Or something similar. Call of the wolf... Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 06:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Phobos Jul 18, 2013 Did meteor bombardment scar Phobos? Quoting: observationPhobos is the largest of the two moons of Mars. Deimos is so small that studying its surface has been problematic for astronomers because it cannot be readily observed from Earth. Only the Viking 2 orbiter, and more recently, the HiRise camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured close up images. Phobos, on the other hand, has been examined by Earth stations and by satellites sent to Mars orbit. In the image above, Stickney crater is visible on the left. Stickney is a ten kilometer-wide excavation that is nearly the size of Phobos itself. In previous Thunderbolts Picture of the Day articles, rocky bodies with craters almost as large as themselves have been discussed. As was pointed out, the “impact” craters should have blasted the objects into fragments, but little sign of the collisions is visible other than the craters. In the case of Phobos, the moon is 28 by 20 kilometers in size, so Stickney crater is nearly half as large as the moon....................... [link to www.thunderbolts.info] |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 08:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Jul 17, '13 ...........Actually, the untouchables are the attested sources of instability and strife. These are the bankers of Islam's extremist views. They propagate and disseminate Salafism and Wahhabism which steer Islam to its most incongruous path with modernity that is science, technology and political and individual rights. Quoting: observationThey profess an Islam in direct conflict with freedom and human dignity. In addition, they propagate hatred and intolerance for other Muslim traditions, as the Shi'ites, the Sufis, and the Ahmadiyya of Pakistan supporting a religiously inspired apartheid. Christians are targeted: Copts, Orthodox, Catholics and other denominations. Most of them are abandoning the war torn areas. This is a total abrogation not of Koranic Verses preaching peace but of the West's professed belief in minority rights. Never before in human history, so few held in captivity so many, with such an obscurant credo and way of life. This unholy alliance of the West and the untouchables is practiced through deception. We deceive ourselves by aligning with the perpetrators of all we consider to be unacceptable: terrorism, bondage, laws of the desert and the tribe, cultural exclusion and intolerance of the other............ [link to www.atimes.com] Last Edited by aether on 07/18/2013 08:16 AM |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wahhabi movement Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative branch of Sunni Islam, (though some people dispute that a Wahhabi is a Sunni). It is a religious movement among fundamentalist Islamic believers, with an aspiration to return to the earliest fundamental Islamic sources of the Quran and Hadith, with inspiration from the teachings of Medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyyah and early jurist Ahmad ibn Hanba............ Quoting: observationAl-Wahhab's teachings have become the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. The movement claims to adhere to the correct understanding of the general Islamic doctrine of Tawhid, on the "uniqueness" and "unity" of God, shared by the majority of Islamic sects, but with an emphasis on advocating following of the Athari school of thought only [link to en.wikipedia.org] Athari Athari (Classical Arabic: or "textualism", is derived from the Arabic word athar, literally meaning "remnant", and also referring to "narrations". Their disciples are called the Atharis. The founding principle is to maintain the theology of the early Muslims known as the Salaf. Their theological viewpoint aspires to assimilate with the beliefs of the early Muslims, being the first three generations otherwise known as the Salaf. Quoting: observation[link to en.wikipedia.org] Salaf The Salaf are the first generation of Muslims, which included Muhammad's companions and followers at the time. Quoting: observation[link to en.wikipedia.org] |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 08:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apart from a small number of urban trading settlements, such as Mecca and Medina, located in the Hejaz in the west of the Arabian Peninsula, most of what was to become Saudi Arabia was populated by nomadic tribal societies in the inhospitable desert. The Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was born in Mecca in about 571. In the early 7th century, Muhammad united the various tribes of the peninsula and created a single Islamic religious polity. Following his death in 632, his followers rapidly expanded the territory under Muslim rule beyond Arabia, conquering huge swathes of territory (from the Iberian Peninsula in west to modern day Pakistan in east) in a matter of decades. In so doing, Arabia soon became a politically peripheral region of the Muslim world as the focus shifted to the more developed conquered lands. From the 10th century to the early 20th century Mecca and Medina were under the control of a local Arab ruler known as the Sharif of Mecca, but at most times the Sharif owed allegiance to the ruler of one of the major Islamic empires based in Baghdad, Cairo or Istanbul. Most of the remainder of what became Saudi Arabia reverted to traditional tribal rule Quoting: observationAt the beginning of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire continued to control or have a suzerainty over most of the peninsula. Subject to this suzerainty, Arabia was ruled by a patchwork of tribal rulers, with the Sharif of Mecca having pre-eminence and ruling the Hejaz. In 1902, Ibn Saud took control of Riyadh in Nejd and brought the Al Saud back to Nejd. Ibn Saud gained the support of the Ikhwan, a tribal army inspired by Wahhabism and led by Sultan ibn Bijad and Faisal Al-Dawish, and which had grown quickly after its foundation in 1912. With the aid of the Ikhwan, Ibn Saud captured Hasa from the Ottomans in 1913. In 1916, with the encouragement and support of Britain (which was fighting the Ottomans in World War I), the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali, led a pan-Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire to create a united Arab state. Although the Arab Revolt of 1916 to 1918 failed in its objective, the Allied victory in World War I resulted in the end of Ottoman suzerainty and control in Arabia. [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] History of the oil industry in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian oil was first discovered in commercial quantities at Dammam well No. 7 in 1923 now modern day Dahahran. Quoting: observationOn January 15, 1902, ‘Abd-al’-Aziz ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman Al Sa’ud took Riyadh from the Rashid tribe. In 1913, his forces captured the province of al-Hasa, from the Ottoman Turks. In 1922 he completed his conquest of the Nejd, and in 1925 he conquered the Hijaz. In 1932, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was proclaimed with ‘Abd-al’-Aziz as king.[1] Without stability in the region, the search for oil would have been difficult, as evidenced by early oil exploration in neighbouring countries such as Yemen and Oman.[2] Prior to 1938, there were three main factors that triggered the search for oil in Arabia: The discovery of oil by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Masjid-i-Sulaiman in the mountains of north-western Persia in 1908; but the consensus of geological opinion at the time was that there was no oil on the Arabian peninsula, although there were rumours of an oil seepage at Qatif on the eastern seaboard of al-Hasa, the eastern province of Arabia. The demand for oil during World War I. Throughout the war, it became obvious that oil was going to be a crucial resource in warfare for the foreseeable future. Examples that proved this were “General Galleini’s commandeering of the Paris taxi fleet to ferry soldiers to the front. This happened when the city seemed about to fall”. In addition to this, Germany’s shortage of oil supplies hindered their ability to produce aircraft, automobiles, and engines. The allies took advantage of this by producing thousands of vehicles to aid their war effort. The onset of the Great Depression. Prior to the depression, a major source of income for the ruler of Hijaz was the taxes paid by pilgrims on their way to the holy cities. After the depression hit, the number of pilgrimages per year fell from 100,000 to below 40,000. This hurt their economy greatly and they needed to find alternate sources of income. This caused King ‘Abd-al’-Aziz to get serious about the search for oil. [link to en.wikipedia.org] Last Edited by aether on 07/18/2013 08:49 AM |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 08:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The origins of Saudi Aramco lie in the oil shortages of World War I and the exclusion of American companies from Mesopotamia by the San Remo Petroleum Agreement of 1920. The US Republican administration had popular support for an ‘Open Door’ policy, which Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, initiated in 1921. Standard Oil of California (SoCal) was among those US companies actively seeking new sources of oil from abroad Quoting: observationOn 31 January 1944, the company name was changed from California-Arabian Standard Oil Company to Arabian American Oil Company (or Aramco). In 1948, Socal and Texaco were joined as investors by Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) which purchased 30% of the company, and Socony Vacuum (later Mobil) which purchased 10% of the company, leaving Socal and Texaco with 30% each. The newcomers were also shareholders in the Iraq Petroleum Company and had to get the restrictions of the Red Line Agreement lifted in order to be free to enter into this arrangement. In 1950, King Abdulaziz threatened to nationalize his country's oil facilities, thus pressuring Aramco to agree to share profits 50/50. A similar process had taken place with American oil companies in Venezuela a few years earlier. The American government granted US Aramco member companies a tax break known as the golden gimmick equivalent to the profits given to King Abdulaziz. In the wake of the new arrangement, the company's headquarters were moved from New York to Dhahran. In 1973, following US support for Israel during the Yom Kippur War, the Saudi Arabian government acquired a 25% stake in Aramco. It increased its shareholding to 60% by 1974, and finally took full control of Aramco by 1980, by acquiring a 100% percent stake in the company. Aramco partners continued to operate and manage Saudi Arabia's oil fields. In November 1988, a royal decree changed its name from Arabian American Oil Company to Saudi Arabian Oil Company (or Saudi Aramco) and took the management and operations control of Saudi Arabia's oil and gas fields from Aramco and its partners. It officially cut all oil supply to Israel the same year by order of the CEO. Following the events that unfolded in 1988, Saudi Aramco became a fully owned, privately held company. Saudi Aramco was the world's largest company with an estimated market value of $781 billion in 2005. Concerns for monopolization of the world's economy have been raised [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] Last Edited by aether on 07/18/2013 08:59 AM |
aether (OP) User ID: 43254359 United Kingdom 07/18/2013 09:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Saudi Aramco's value has been estimated at up to US$10 trillion in the Financial Times, making it the world's most valuable company Quoting: observation[link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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