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I run our church thermostats, seven of them, from my home. Six of them are Sensi, (an Emerson product), used in all spaces but the main Sanctuary. The Sanctuary thermostat is a Honeywell product that reports energy usage each month. It's interesting, but doesn't have any effect on how I schedule it, since the desired outcome of a thermostat is to make the space comfortable, but not wasteful. I think the wifi ability is extremely important, at least in our application, because we have a number of people who use the facility and "adjust" the thermostat, which I can monitor and overrule. The rest of the data, I'm not interested in. Late edit. By the way, wiring a thermostat is quite easy, if you you know the color codes, but not easy if you don't. I've wired all of our homes and churches'.

Because of his connection to carrier aviation, the Navy is going to do a 21 plane missing man F-18 flyover on the sixth.

The other thread got me thinking. To give has always been more pleasurable than to receive, so what was the best Christmas present you ever gave? For me it is simple. A number of really good French artists spend their winters in St. Maarten, on the French side. Really good talent, and I was going there every week as part of work at the time. I brought down seperate pictures of my three children at about the three year old age, and a really talented guy painted them as one oil. Just an incredible likeness of three of my wife's favorite pictures, sitting next to each other. When she opened the scroll, she just wept. Art is a really cool.

See "Napoleon." He had some good days. I've spent a lot of time there. Sad to see.

Kiko Alonso is an insult to the espionage world. He is the worst "spy" ever.

I guess with your experience of flying a torpedo bomber off of a light aircraft carrier during war, you are able to state that he "never worked a day in his life."

Thank goodness I got a Kubota. It did have a transmission thing that caused it to run over me once, but at least it didn't kill me. Those things have an anger issue that is hardly ever reported.

I'm guessing you mean Colombia. Been there many times, including a wifey vacation. Great place. You'll have no issues.

That was tried before.

Just outside Rileyville, VA. About the 3000' level on a ridge, so full view of the Shenandoah Valley and great view of the river. We do something like this every year. Each kid gets to name their own food assignment, of course I do the turkey, and it works out great. All arrived late Tuesday.

We always get a cabin in the Blue Ridge. My three kids, their spouses and our new granddaughter. Wood fires, hot tub, hiking trails accessible from Skyline Drive. Do it every year.

What exactly does this mean? What is the point, and what was demonstrated in that event that makes the point?

Can we stop this stupid President and military respect nonsense? The way you show respect to the military, or anyone for that matter, is by not putting their lives in jeopardy for silly purposes. Showing up at various events honoring dead is meaningless compared to that. Nobody in the service cares. Asking that military people assigned to the White House to not make eye contact or talk with the president is an indication of how one feels, as is demanding that they not wear uniforms while on duty. So is not allowing the gent carrying the football to be close enough for a response to a nuclear attack. Do your own research. This has all happened.

I knew a lot of people who served with McCain. I served as a pilot in the same community, Pacific Fleet Attack. I have never heard a single one say that he "stayed alive so long because he was giving up intel." He had no intel to give. Just a bunch of nonsense, and the performance of Vietnam POWs was the common denominator of what became Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape training Navy pilots subsequent to that conflict went through, until is was grossly watered down. We have covered this before. McCain was not well liked for a variety of reasons in that community. His performance as a POW was not one of those reasons. That is an internet creation, and based on what he did as a Senator, and in my mind, for good reason.

Nonsense. They may have hated him for other reasons, but he was not disliked because of his actions as a POW.

I think you are amazingly ignorant about this entire subject. The Secret Service does not publicize any decision to wave off a presidential movement based on inability to protect. You clearly have no idea what this involves, politics aside.

You've probably already done so, but if you have time, go just across the street and visit the Library of Congress, and Jefferson's library display there. If you're a Shakespeare fan, the Folger Museum is across the street also and you can go in the reading room and look at almost 500 year old folios. They actually let you touch them. I was there last weekend. I'm always impressed with the many things to see along the Mall.

It wasn't "that." It was just a bit beneath. The part that holds the important parts. Pure black for two weeks. Really weird.

By the way, related. If anyone wants to talk about medical insurance away from work provided or Obamacare, I'd be glad to relate my experience with MediShare.

Actually, once you've broken three, the other 18 didn't matter. I actually hear them crack. I had a good support system, but I couldn't move laterally for about four weeks. Note to the guys, and I apologize to anyone who has any medical background, though I am thankful that my wife was a Navy nurse and thought I was going to die. If you subject your vascular system to extreme pressure, as in getting crushed, you will see results in weird areas, a few days later. My ***** turned black after two days, and it lasted for about a week. Too much information.....I know.....But just a heads up if you intend to over pressurize your vascular system.

No. Short story, but I was doing maintenance on my tractor. Not a small tractor, the rear wheels are about chin level. The valve that controls the hydrostatic transmission went into forward while I was underneath, pinning my shirt and me, and it ran over me. This tractor weighs about 1000 pounds more than a car. Still, after it ran over my chest, I got up, shut the tractor down, went in and sat on the couch. My wife came in and noticed I wasn't quite right...Petechial and other hemorrhages all over my face from blood being forced out. I told her what happened and she insisted we go to the hospital. I insisted that I must shower and change. When I looked at myself after the shower I realized things weren't quite right. Anyway, 21 broken ribs, four that are repaired with titanium.

I have the University of Virginia hospital record for number of broken ribs that someone has survived. I broke 21 of 24. She can make it, but she is beyond any age where she should be serving.

Any others interested in astronomy? Things will get even more interesting when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched, currently scheduled for March, 2021. Parked at the Lagrange 2 point, a million miles from earth, it sill search the IR spectrum instead of the UV and optical spectrum which Hubble does.

There is no doubt in my mind that the existence of WMD in Iraq was a universal, honest opinion of the entire US intel community. A view based on zero humint and defectors. A wrong opinion. A tragic opinion. The efforts of the Fed in 2008 had to do with saving our entire capital structure, without favorites, and brilliantly executed. It could have been way, way worse.