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  1. just a qiuck observation. you only get abouy 19.5 gallons of gas from a barrel of oil so you need to divide your result by .46 which brings a saving of abot $850,000,000 which is still not a great return on your money but sizable.
  2. As a general rule people don't hack into ebay accounts as its too easy to get into with your help. If you ever get an email from ebay or paypal never click on the link it asks you to go to. Its called phishing. Go to there web site on your own through your web browser. Basically when you click on the link through your e-mail you give the phisher access to your account and the can than take over your ebay account. Why do i know because after i told my wife never to directly respond out of an e-mail she did and i found out i was selling a quad from new jersey by way of a nigerian in england. didn't take very long to correct but the lady i got hold of was ready to send a $2000 money order to england.
  3. Its sad to hear about the tragic sudden death of someone like fritz. He was the kind of person who spoke his mind and created much talk. Its unfortunate whenever you lose someone like that because there are so many others like my self who won't speak up until so mad that they say something stupid and no one listens. I only knew him through this board and I can only wish his family my deepest condolences and know he will be very missed by many others whom you don't know.
  4. Swap don't know if you drink or not but i hope you do and this is a drunken rant. Don't agree with your opinions alot but differences are what makes the world go around. Hope to see you post soon.
  5. Yea, in reference to Haliburton the job did get done. Food served, supplies transfered, troop infrastructure setup and things built such as schools and power plants. What happens after they are turned over is not haliburton's responsibility. If your trying to make a funny about president Bush and others getting the job done, that was not what i believe was being refered to.
  6. my wife and i just went on our 15 year wedding aniversary. We went on a royal carribean cruise. Couldn't have had a better time. We did not go cheaply but you could make a sport of how cheaply you can go. If you get an inside cabin and don't do all the ship sponsored excursions you can do things pretty cheap. All your food is covered and if you buy a drink package (only covers soft drinks) all your drinks are for covered for the cruise. Do walking tours of the ports you pull into. The shows on the ship are free and there is always something to do. No cooking, cleaning or worries for however long you take the cruise.
  7. Con-lux Or sherwin williams which i believe bought out con-lux. More expensive but no comparison with ease of application or durability
  8. here is a link for another response and his apology http://patriotvoices.blogspot.com/2005/07/...-complaint.html
  9. I retook it also and came out slightly lower at 26. I had a whole page written to slam Fritz but you can't understand a man by a quiz so i deleted it. I've been called a wacky liberal to a wacky conservative. My views vary widely. If you look at certain questions how to you interpret them. the following question could be interpreted many different ways. It can't be just answered yes or no. You need to put conditions on it. SORRY ABOUT THE UNORGANIZED rambling but here goes. 11. In the long run, do you think we can reduce crime more by building more prisons or providing more financial assistance to rebuilding our inner cities? Do i think evil people exist and should be locked up? yes! Are some people although not evil are they unredeemable? Yes! A culture of ignorance lack of family/human values over time is so inset as to make someone unredeemable no matter what caused the ignorance. Can rebuilding cities help? Yes! As long as money is just not thrown at the problem. Give small to large business's huge tax breaks to come to the inner city. Rebuild schools that teach instead of codle the kids. Suspensions-detentions-hell maybe corporal punishment. Don't advance kids until they actually pass.If parents think this is to harsh and if you've been around schools lately god forbid if you tell a child that there bad or not doing well take the child away them. Once jobs are there and people have decent housing put them in jail for destropying property if they are on assisted living. Giving somebody something for nothing and not holding them accountable is lunacy. Give people what the need when down IF they are willing to get up. If you can't make a person feel good about doing a days work for a days pay then there is no hope.
  10. Fritz i think it might mean your a tad more liberal than the others replying.
  11. All the best to you. I also have known several people whom have lived 20 to 30 years with it. My wife's grandfather succumed to alzheimers after 35 years living with prostate cancer. Once again best wishes to you.
  12. I work with Sgt. First Class Benjamin L. Sebban's brother Dave every now and then. One of my co-workers grew up with the family. The relativly small town of south amboy basically shut down for his funeral the other day. here is a article for him. BY WAYNE WOOLLEY Star-Ledger Staff It happens every time a U.S. soldier or Marine dies in Iraq. The bad news immediately spreads across the base like wildfire, and in the troop recreation centers, Internet connections are shut down. Plans are made within hours for a memorial service, but commanders don't want word of the death to reach the soldier's family before military officials can personally deliver the news. That knock on the family door cannot come before 6 a.m. or after 10 p.m. But once it's made, military commanders lift the electronic blockade back in Iraq, and a torrent of e-mails flows from the battlefield to the dead soldier's family in America as they begin planning the funeral. The practice of military commanders sending personal letters to the families of fallen troops dates at least to the Civil War. But in an era when deployed soldiers can maintain MySpace pages, families have immediate access to a digital community of former comrades offering condolences, stories and even glimpses into a loved one's final hours. This is exactly what happened a week ago, after Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Sebban, a senior combat medic in the 82nd Airborne Division who grew up in South Amboy, was killed by an explosion while tending to wounded paratroopers in Iraq. Sebban, 29, died in the early evening of March 17, a Saturday, in Baquba, which is seven hours ahead of New Jersey time. By 6 p.m. here, the phone rang in the casualty assistance office at Fort Monmouth. Three hours later, a chaplain and two officers arrived at Sebban's mother's home in Neshanic Station. Then, almost immediately after the visit, came a tide of personal e-mails, offering condolences and testimonials to Sebban's life. Among the first e-mails was one from Sgt. John Gilbert, a fellow medic. "He risked his life to make sure others were not harmed," Gilbert wrote. "That's the type of person he was." The missives sent from the field to Sebban's family paint a portrait of a young man who could be funny, generous and uncompromising in performing his duties -- all at the same time. The e-mails describe a practical joker who once hid a sausage in the duffel bag of a paratrooper headed home on leave; a confidant who lent $600 to a fellow soldier who really needed it; and someone who was at work saving lives the day he died. The e-mails make very clear that grief over Sebban's death runs as deep in Iraq as in New Jersey. "I have lost one of the greatest people that I have ever known," wrote Staff Sgt. Jessica Kraatz. "I am sure he is up there right now looking down at me and making fun of me for sitting here crying." Besides his mother, Barbara Walsh, a nurse who was working as a missionary in Africa when he was born, Sebban is survived by two younger brothers, Daniel, 28, and David, 27. Both are Army veterans. Daniel Sebban said the family decided to share the e-mails about his brother soon after they began arriving from Iraq and then from other military outposts around the globe. Messages also arrived from sources as varied as the owner of a South Amboy pizza parlor, former classmates of Benjamin Sebban's at a Bible college in New York, and a Navy physician who urged him to consider a career in medicine. "These e-mails say more about who my brother really was than I can," Daniel Sebban said. 'SACRED RELICS' Messages from the combat zone become a central part of the shrine that many families eventually erect in their home, said Joanne Steen, a grief counselor and author who advises the Pentagon on how to help military families cope with loss. "People have a tendency of collecting and saving those things that belong to the deceased; they're sacred relics," said Steen, who lost her husband, a naval aviator, in a training accident. "You can never get enough information about your loved one. Each time they hear a story or get an e-mail, that's another piece of the puzzle they didn't have." On the coffee table in their home in Howell, Joan and Michael J. Curtin still keep a black, three-ring binder stuffed with messages they received from soldiers after their son, Cpl. Michael E. Curtin, was killed during the Iraq invasion four years ago, the first service member from New Jersey to die in the war. "Every time I go through it, it reminds me of how much those guys loved Michael," his father said. Steen, who recently wrote a book, "Military Widow: A Survival Guide," said the act of writing e-mails to the family is cathartic for the troops who lost a buddy. "In doing this, they're confronting for themselves the fact this guy did die," Steen said. "That's one of the reality checks they need to make. You can only compartmentalize for so long." The e-mails written by the men and women who served with Sebban return to many of the same themes: his skills as a medic, his generosity, his sense of humor and his love for the Army. Many also make references to Sebban's deep faith as a Christian. One, from the physician's assistant who served with Sebban on a two-man trauma team that was often first to respond to wounded soldiers, covered nearly all of it. "Ben was one of the best medics I've ever worked with," Maj. Brad Rather began. He added: "... I always knew Ben had my back when we were out on combat missions." Rather wrote about leaving Iraq for a two-week leave and discovering that his sergeant had mailed a $75 gift certificate to his home in North Carolina "so my wife and I could have a romantic dinner" when he arrived. MEDICINE AND MILITARY Barbara Walsh said the e-mails confirmed her belief that her son was "an awesome medic." Messages like the one from Sgt. Rodney Metoyer made that clear: "He was the guy in the group that everyone looked to because we all knew that he had the answers." "From the time he was 12, he knew he wanted to do something with medicine," Walsh said. She remembers her son begging her to let him transfer from a parochial high school to Middlesex County Vocational-Technical High School for a new health technology program. "Please, please sign me up," he told her. She realized he was serious about a career in medicine when he went on a school outing to a rehabilitation hospital and came home talking about helping a man walk with prosthetic legs. "Most teenagers shy away from those kinds of things," she said. Still, there was something pulling her son toward the military. He almost joined the Navy after high school. His mother steered him on another path. "Benjamin, just give God one year of your life," she said. He went to a school in upstate New York that prepares young Christians for missionary life. He liked it enough that he finished a second year, then moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., to finish a degree at a Bible college. He was only there a short time when his brother Daniel visited him. The younger brother had joined the Army and was stationed at Fort Campbell, Ky. The brothers talked about military life and Barbara Walsh soon got a phone call from her oldest son. "Mom, I just met an Army recruiter and they've got one slot open for a medic," Benjamin told her. Barbara Walsh's youngest son, David, soon followed his brothers into the Army. THE PROMOTION Even after his brothers left the Army, Benjamin Sebban stayed in, rising quickly through the enlisted ranks, going on specialized missions, training army medics for the Republic of Georgia, then serving as a Special Forces medic in Africa. Walsh, who as a youth had protested the Vietnam War, never imagined any of her sons would join the military. "They could be pastors, they could be missionaries," she remembered thinking when they were young. But she learned to accept their decision, especially Benjamin's. "For him, the military was just meant to be," she said. Early last Easter morning, Benjamin Sebban called her from Fort Bragg, N.C., and told her that he had volunteered to deploy to Iraq in the fall with a unit that needed a senior medic. "He wanted to go so someone who had children didn't have to," she said. The last time Walsh heard from Sebban, he had good news. He had been promoted from staff sergeant to sergeant first class. That meant he was within two ranks of the highest enlisted position, sergeant major. "He told me before it happened that if he got it, he would make a career of the Army," Walsh said. "Two days later, he was dead." In one of the dozens of e-mails that have come from Iraq, Staff Sgt. Brian Merry wrote that Sebban had talked often about a visit he made to Arlington National Cemetery before shipping out. He had insisted Merry do the same. "Talked me into visiting before I deployed here," Merry wrote. "Told me it made him feel humble to be there and it was just a spiritual place." Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin L. Sebban will be buried at Arlington on Thursday. Meanwhile, the e-mails from Iraq keep coming.
  13. buy a line voltage thermostat with a remote bulb sensor. Drop the sensor into the tank. Run power for a small pump with your hoseing through the side of the refrigarator. Inside the frig put swap over to soft copper tubing rolled into a coil. put that in a bowl of water for good heat transfer. You can use soft poly tubing on the outside. when the tank temp. gets to warm the thermostat will turn on and the pump will start. When the deadband of the thermostat is reached the unit will turn off. The best part is that the tubing and water bowl should not take up much room so you could keep soda or beer in the frig. also a small aquarium pump should draw very little power. the most expensive part likely will be the thermostat depending on how programmable you want to get.
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