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240 more days to go
I don't think I could ever explain what it's like to be an army wife. No matter how many examples or stories I tell you'd never understand unless you were one. You won't understand what it's like to wake up alone everyday only to make yourself believe that he's only at work on the other side of post and he'll be back home later. Then dinner time arrives and you have to face the cold reality that he's not coming home tonight. So then you pretend he's only out in the "field" down range and he'll be back in two weeks or so. Two weeks later, nope, not here yet. All the while it's hard to forget where he's at since your two and a half year old yells "Dabby in Iraq" on an hourly basis. It's only been three days since you talked with him last on yahoo messenger, (compared to the last deployment when you went one month at a time from hearing from him) but the last time you talked with him, he got so mad at you and signed off. Now you hope it's not the last time you'll get to talk to
him cause you couldn't live the rest of you're life knowing that the last time you got to speak to your love you got in a fight and he left angry. Another wive told me that they only give casuality notifications between 0600 and 1200, that I'm not sure of but between those times every single day I hide in my house praying the doorbell or the phone won't ring. What would I do if it did? I've made my decision that I couldn't go on. Last time I got the phone call around 1030 on a Saturday morning that he was hurt, so now every day around 1030 I get so nervous that I want to throw up. I'm all alone here with three kids that I have to hide from every time I cry. The youngest one had his first birthday and is walking and his daddy is missing out. The oldest will have his kindergarten graduation and daddy will miss out. I will finally graduate from college and my love will miss out. Living on an army post doesn't help either. Every where you go, commissary, px, shoppette, there
are women walking hand in hand with their soldier that just got back. Makes me envious and angry but yet sad and heart broken. Next time you get to hug, kiss or just be in the same room as your husband, boyfriend, or whatever, be greatful that someone else is out there fighting for themso that they don't have to leave you. (Ugh...which reminds me that they should soooo start up the draft) But it's okay, only 5 more months to go, but no, stupid government and their deployment extensions now there's 8 more months to go. Three extra months of missing out on family memories, 90 more days of missions, shootings, bombings, attacks on the camp, 2160 extra hours of pacing the floor and wishing on stars that today will be the day he calls or gets online, but praying that today is NOT the day that there will be a knock on the door. I don't want anymore "thanks for your husband's service" (by the way, what about MY service too?!), I don't want anymore tax free combat pay, I don't want
anymore 10% off military discounts, I don't want anymore FRG meetings, I don't want anymore Presidential vetos or political games, I just want my husband home. But again, I pick myself up and finish my day to go to bed alone with my thoughts scrambling, because tomorrows another day and there's 240 more days to go.


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The future of Europe in space - have your say
The European Commission has, together with the European Space Agency generated a Green paper on the "European Space Policy" (COM 2003 17/final).
The "Green paper" exercise is intended to launch a consultation process about the future of Europe in space by raising a number of key questions closely linked to ESA`s future. The "Green Paper" looks into Europe's assets and future needs in the space sector. Its purpose is to launch in-depth debate in Europe involving all parties - national and international organisations, the space industry and users, the scientific community and citizens. Its objective is to increase general awareness of the strategic importance of space for Europe, to define areas of consensus and to find concrete answers to questions concerning independent access to space, scientific excellence in this field, the industrial and technological base, relevant markets, human resources, the legal and institutional framework, international co-operation and environmental and security aspects.
As part of this debate the European Space Agency invites you to voice your opinion via an online web forum.
The consultation process will run from 22 January to 30 May 2003. It will be managed by the Commission/ESA Joint Task Force on space, which will organise a series of conferences and workshops to foster the debate.
The consultation will help shape a European response to competitiveness and security challenges related to space, to be detailed in a forthcoming White Paper. ESA Director General, Antonio Rodotà, and Commissioner Philippe Busquin made a formal press presentation of the Green Paper on Monday 27 January in Brussels.
For more information see ESA Press Release no. 06-2003, and the EU dedicated website "Towards a European Space Policy".


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Most states are wrestling with how to restrict the nascent domestic drone industry. North Dakota is embracing it.
North Dakota police don't need a warrant to use drones — in fact, the state does not have any drone laws at all. North Dakota lobbied to be a drone test site for the federal government, and was one of six sites chosen in December by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to research how to integrate them into the national airspace. (The others are in Alaska, Nevada, New York, Texas and Virginia.)
But North Dakota is the exception. So far this year, 35 states have considered bills and resolutions regarding unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones. Most of them are privacy protection measures that would restrict the use of drones and set limits on the collection and storage of data.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would have regulated drone use by government and law enforcement. He said the legislation didn't go far enough to protect privacy rights, although it had been endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union and law enforcement agencies.
"I'm very concerned about the effect of this new technology on our citizens' right to privacy," Inslee said. "People have a desire not to see drones parked outside their kitchen window by any public agency."
In Utah, Republican Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill that sets limits on law enforcement use of drone technology. The law requires law officers to obtain a search warrant before using a drone in most situations. It would also regulate what kinds of data can be collected and how long it can be stored, and it requires the data to be made public after an investigation is over.
In Wisconsin, the legislature passed a bill that requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant before using drones except in emergency situations, and outlaws drone surveillance of people who have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed the bill Tuesday.
One sponsor said the bill struck a balance between privacy rights and public safety. "It is important that our laws advance as technology progresses. Even inexpensive drone technology is capable of capturing high-resolution pictures of people's homes and areas we consider most private and worthy of protection," Republican Sen. Jerry Petrowski said.
He said the legislation was written so it does not cut off commercial development related to drones.
North Dakota is well-positioned to move quickly into the industry because of its long-standing aerospace school at the University of North Dakota. The university's traditional focus on training airline pilots has expanded to training students to operate drones. It was the first university to offer a degree in this field; 50 students have graduated and another 100 are enrolled in the program.
In a partnership with the university, the Grand Forks sheriff and police departments are already using drones in the northeastern quarter of the state.
Instead of the legal limits many other states have, drone flights in North Dakota are overseen by Alan Frazier, a UND associate professor in charge of the Law Enforcement Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research Project. Frazier, who is also a Grand Forks deputy sheriff, was a police officer for 28 years in Glendale, Calif., where he was in charge of a police air support unit. As a pilot, he has more than 6,000 hours of flying time.
Frazier reports to a university compliance panel that specified five situations in which drones may be used: to search for lost people; perform post-disaster assessments; photograph crime and accident scenes; search for crime suspects who pose a risk to public safety; and assist with traffic control at major events.
When a request comes in, Frazier gets FAA authorization for the flight. Then Frazier or another trained operator launches one of four small drones built by manufacturers AeroVironment and Draganfly Innovations Inc., to aid law enforcement. Frazier trains the pilots, tests the drones during actual incidents and later assesses the effectiveness for the FAA and the two manufacturers. The information will help guide the FAA and the manufacturers as they make decisions about domestic drones, as well as lend a hand to local law enforcement officers in developing rules to govern drone use.
The drones are leased to law enforcement for $1 a year; Grand Forks County Sheriff Bob Rost said the services are essentially free. The $11,000 project is funded by grants and donations so there is no cost to the university.
The Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade group for the drone industry, says the cost of a small UAV is less than $50,000, or about the price of a patrol car. It estimates operating costs at $25 to $75 an hour, compared to $200 to $400 per hour for a police helicopter.
Since May 2013, nine missions have been flown in northeastern North Dakota. Examples range from the mundane to the dramatic: Drones helped search a flooded river for drowning victims, photographed a train collision, photographed river bank erosion and damage to historic buildings, helped search for two suspects accused of auto theft and child molestation and took photos of an outdoor murder scene.
Last month, FAA gave the partnership the first-in-the-nation authorization to use drones at night. "A lot of significant crime activity occurs at night," Frazier said. "Now this allows us to respond to incidents, whether it be a search or disaster assessment or a crime scene at night."
Frazier doesn't see a need for warrants to fly drones. "Drones don't do anything that aircraft can't already do. It's not a drone concern – it's an information technology concern. The real concern is what's happening with that data," he said. Two key issues are how long the data is retained and who has access to it. (UND does not retain drone images; the law agencies retain essential images as evidence)
The ACLU shares that concern. The organization supports the warrant requirements that are being put into place in some states, including Utah, Indiana and Wisconsin this year, but it is also focusing on what happens to the data collected.
"The trick is, we need a system of rules to ensure we can enjoy the benefits of drone technology without becoming a surveillance society," said Allie Bohm, advocacy and policy strategist for the ACLU. "We want to prohibit drones for massive surveillance and still allow law enforcement to use them in cases of wrongdoing."
Bohm said state economic development agencies don't want privacy protections because they fear it will hold back the drone industry and cost jobs. "Putting a system of rules into place is really important and ultimately will benefit the industry" because abuses and public outcry will be avoided.
"Putting privacy protections in place assuages a lot of public concern and creates space for the industry to go forward … Most of the bills we are supporting are not going to inhibit the drone industry," she said.
The unmanned vehicles association estimates more than 100,000 drone-related jobs will be created by 2025 in the United States with an economic impact of $82 billion.
North Dakota is just a small piece of that. The organization estimates the state's economic impact will be $83 million, with 105 jobs created by 2025. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will visit Grand Forks on April 21 to review the state's growing drone industry.


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The Next Wave of This Crisis
After all is said and done, this crisis had its genesis in US and European countries living beyond their means. This was reflected in large current account deficit which was financed by emerging economies of China, Russia, Brazil, Korea and others. This was in contrast to economic theory which tells us that advanced economies are supposed to generate savings and hence have current account surpluses while developing countries should be borrowing to finance their deficits (as they need foreign capital to finance their infrastructure and other needs).
The world is in the midst of extreme political risk – defined as not only wars and coups but governments rushing in with quantitative easing, banking bailouts, and large fiscal stimulus packages, embarking on industrial policies, and trying to re-regulate without fully understanding the unintended consequences of their actions. These expansive domestic policies have increased sovereign debt risk and raised stock prices in a large number of countries. Governments are trying to find domestic solutions to global problems of market volatility – volatility as reflected in descent of euro vis-à-vis the dollar, large movements in stock market indices, and swings in commodity prices. Markets in turn are looking at how governments are coping with big problems, such as the sovereign debt problems in Greece, Spain and other European countries. California could default on its debt obligations – what then for the global economy?
Easy policies are already showing up in a jump in inflation in India, China and other countries. How will US, UK, Japan and other vulnerable countries manage the inflationary expectations and rising deficits and debts. Markets are watching and the recent crisis has shown that there is no such thing as "too big to fail" economy and that both advanced and developing countries are prone to crisis. McDonald's has better credit rating than the US government at this time of history.
Politicians remain oblivious and ignorant or at best obfuscate the problems. Yet in EU, US and Basel (uncoordinated) new rules and regulations are being proposed. Yet not one can say what this will entail in terms of taxes on banks and people, capital that need to be raised to deal with the reserve requirements, and how derivatives and hedge funds will be handled. Bailouts have only provided more incentives for the financial sector to misbehave once again knowing fully well that Governments and politicians will once again come to their rescue. In fact, post-crisis, there are fewer banks and financial institutions, more concentration and less transparency and unprecedented profits in 2009.
Another thing that could go wrong is the carry trade – where it is easy to borrow at near zero interest rates in US dollars and invest (recklessly) in high-yielding instruments and in both advanced and emerging countries. With US dollar depreciating this means that the interest rate is negative and all the more tempting to borrow and take exorbitant risks. What if the US dollar depreciates further? What if the Asian and Middle East surplus countries do not want to buy US dollars anymore?
Globalization if not well managed can be very disruptive. For example, India, China and other emerging markets have a population of over 4.5 billion people. This means that they have low-wage rates, and jobs will continue to move from advanced countries towards the labor-surplus countries in the form of outsourcing. More people are also on the move across countries. Many things can go awfully wrong.
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I wanted to write a small script to load a webpage and do some analysis. Ordinarily I would fire up perl and use LWP with quick and dirty regexes but this is a good opportunity to use one of the interesting languages.
Now, I haven't learnt a new language properly for around 10 years although I have spent a little of the intervening time looking at scheme textbooks! I installed chicken scheme and quack.el to support editing with emacs. After a quick look at the chicken website I decided I needed the http and htmlprag eggs (chicken libraries). Installing them using chicken-setup was very easy although I discovered it required a C compiler when I tried it on a number of different boxes
Well, first things first. For some webpages need you to represent yourself as a bonafide browser or else you get a "403 forbidden" message (The way you do this using perl LWP is something like $browser->agent('Mozilla/5.0')). I couldn't see an easy way to do this in the chicken http library. Fortunately it is easy enough to modify the .scm.
http:send-request is the function I want to modify. It begins like this:
(define (http:send-request req . more) (let-optionals more ([in #f] [out #f] ) (let* ([req (if (string? req) (http:make-request 'GET req '(("Connection" . "close"))) req) ] ...))))
The (req . more) construction isn't too complicated. It corresponds more or less to this perl:
my ($req, @more) = @_;
However, I wasn't at all familiar with (let-optionals …). Fortunately, the chicken scheme documentation is excellent and it looks like it maps to the following pseudo-perl.
my $in = shift @more || #f; my $out = shift @more || #f;
i.e. local parameters are created and assigned to the values of more in turn or have a default value if there are not sufficient values in the @more array. Hmmm… I think that description is much less clear than the one in the chicken documentation.
The next bit makes a http request 'object', passing in a list of dotted pairs to use as attributes. As we never override the default values for in and out, we can use 'more' to pass in our own attributes. The modified send-request therefore becomes:
(define (http:my-send-request req . more) (let* ((in #f) (out #f) [req (if (string? req) (http:make-request 'GET req (cons '("Connection" . "close") more)) req)] ...)))
We need to add the new function name to the export list so it is available outside the library:
(declare (fixnum) (export http:send-request http:my-send-request ;; <-- Here http:GET http:POST ...))
Then we add a wrapper for my-send-request in the client code to pass in the attributes we want:
(define (send-request-wrapper url) (http:my-send-request url '("User-Agent" . "Mozilla/5.0") '("Content-Type" . "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")))
and finally a wrapper to open a url, return the data as a list of lines and close the ports when we have finished with them:
(define (load-url url) (define-values (h a i o) (send-request-wrapper url)) (let ((data (read-lines i))) (close-input-port i) (close-output-port o) data))
Whew! That seemed like a fair amount of effort, at least in comparison to Perl/LWP. Hopefully it will get easier as I become more familiar with chicken.
Originally posted: Wednesday, July 05, 2006


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Cheat Sheet
Crowdsourcing For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Crowdsourcing is an innovative way of organising jobs and workers. The collaborative brainstorming enables hundreds or even thousands of people to contribute their thoughts and energies to a single task and can support complicated jobs that conventional means could never manage. Crowdsourcing uses an Internet task market, usually called a crowdsourcing platform, to connect workers to jobs. It enables those workers to take the kinds of jobs that they like and to complete those jobs when and where they want. Employers can find the kinds of workers they need, with the specific skills for their jobs, and pay for only the amount of work they need.
Understanding the Five Types of Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing has five major forms. Each form involves a crowdsourcer or manager, a crowdmarket and a crowd of people. By choosing the right form of crowdsourcing, you can manage large jobs with thousands of workers or do small jobs that require just a single person. You can create jobs that you carefully monitor and control, or you can let the crowd organise itself and decide how it should do the work.
|*Enable you to identify the best worker for you job
*A single job description that asks for one item
*Many people proposing or creating item
*Only pay one person
|*Graphic design
*Answering questions
*Testing software
*Creating films
*Other creative projects
|*Enable you to get a specific skill for a job or project
*Hire worker from crowd for single task
*Communicate over the Internet
*Worker paid by task
|*General business work
*Web design and other forms of design
*Assistance with writing and editing
*Application development
|*Enable you to use human intelligence on large, complicated
*Divide big jobs into small units
*Put units on the Internet
*Let members of crowd do tasks
*All workers get paid
|*Transcribe business cards, medical records and other
*Tag photos and handle non-textual data
*Find business information
|*Engage social networks to raise money
*Put a request for funds on an Internet platform
*Create messages and videos to promote request
*Recruit crowd to donate money
*Offer crowd gift or benefit
|*Support non-profit organisations
*Raise funds for artistic endeavours
*Get cash for companies by offering goods or services
*Raise equity for company (under the right circumstances)
|Self-organised crowds
|*Post a challenge on the Internet
*Recruit crowd to work on challenge
*Crowd organises itself into a team
*Teams compete to provide best answer for challenge
*Winning team compensated
*Team decides how to divide compensation
|*Innovation – creating new products or services
*Finding and collecting information
*Processing information and offering judgement
*Solving challenges
Matching Up Tasks with Crowdsourcing
You can use the various forms of crowdsourcing in many different ways. If you try hard enough, you can do almost any job with any form. However, each form of crowdsourcing handles some jobs better than others. Here's a list to give you a flavour of the kinds of tasks suited to the different forms of crowdsourcing:
App development: Macrotasking
Copywriting: Macrotasking
Editing: Macrotasking
Encyclopaedia creation: Microtasking and self-organised crowd
Graphic design: Crowdcontest or macrotasking
Innovation: Self-organised crowd or crowdcontest
Lead generation: Microtasking
New product creation: Crowdcontest or self-organised crowd
Photographic tagging: Microtasking or macrotasking
Photography: Crowdcontest, microtasking or macrotasking
Search engine optimisation: Microtasking
Secret shopping/price info: Microtasking or crowdcontest
Transcription: Microtasking or macrotasking
Translation: Macrotasking or microtasking
Writing: Macrotasking
Taking the Six Steps to Successful Crowdsourcing
When you crowdsource, you go through a series of six steps that prepare the job, get the job to the crowd and collect the final work product. Many of these steps are supported by crowdsourcing platforms – web services that guide you through these steps. Most of these platforms give you an easy connection to crowds and handle all the details of compensating the crowd.
Here are the six steps to successful crowdsourcing:
Design the job and divide the labour.
Write clear instructions.
Choose a web platform to serve as your crowdmarket.
Release the job and recruit the crowd.
Listen to the crowd and manage the job.
Assemble the work of the crowd and create the final product.
Crowdsourcing Advantages: Five Things Crowds Do Well
Crowds bring the power of collected human intelligence to various forms of work, which is the beauty of crowdsourcing, or collaborative brainstorming. Crowds can do a good job of bringing a specific skill to a job at just the moment when that skill is needed. They are also very good at coordinating a lot of different skills on large and complicated jobs such as:
Making judgements
Reading handwriting
Interpreting images
Finding information
Crowdsourcing Disadvantages: Identifying Six Things Crowds Do Badly
Crowds are at their best when they take the information you give them, combine it with their own experience and present you with their judgements – all good things in a collaborative environment. However, crowds do have trouble understanding the context of jobs. They can rarely see the forces that are shaping the job. With that in mind, here are six examples of things that crowds do badly:
Guess what you're thinking.
Remember the history of your project.
Remember your goals.
Check their work.
Distinguish rumours from truth.
Make strategic decisions.
Keeping Up to Date with Crowdsourcing
The crowdsourcing world is changing rapidly. Each month brings new companies, new ideas for products and services, and new applications for crowdsourcing. To obtain the most current information, check one of these general information sites:
General information: Crowdsourcing.org, Daily Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing Gazette UK, CrowdsourcingBlog.de (Germany)
Crowdcontest sites: 99 Designs
General macrotasking: oDesk, Elance, TaskRabbit
General microtasking: Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Tagasauris
Crowdfunding sites: Kickstarter, When You Wish, Indiegogo
Self-organised crowd sites for innovation: Chaordix, InnoCentive


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It is a myth that many women swear is true, and that most men have never heard of: Women who live together tend to have synchronized menstrual periods. The phenomenon was first presented to the scientific community more than 30 years ago, and has since remained a matter of much debate. There is controversy over whether or not synchronous menstruation is in fact true, and if it is, what is the cause.
Evidence for the Health Claim
Various studies have been conducted to examine menstrual cycle patterns of roommates, close friends, coworkers, and family members. The first scientific observation was carried out by Martha McClintock in 1971, who interviewed 137 members of her all-women's dorm at Wellesley College several times over the course of a school year to obtain onset dates for each woman's period. After comparing data for roommates, close friends who spent a lot of time together, and living groups, McClintock found that the difference between onset dates decreased over the course of the year for the women who spent the most time together. Subsequent studies have produced similar results.
There is limited research on what may cause menstrual synchrony, but the most common hypothesis has to do with pheromones–airborne, odorless, chemical signals produced by the skin, which animals use to share information about sex and reproduction.
Recent human studies involved placing cotton pads under the arms of women who were in the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle (the first two weeks before ovulation occurs), to collect their sweat and pheromones. The cotton pads were then wiped on the upper lips (below the nose) of another group of women, who thought they were controls in the experiment, three times a week for at least five months. By the end of the study most of the "recipients" were menstruating at the same time as their "donors," possibly because of a change in the release of a hormone from the pituitary gland that triggers ovulation.
A follow-up study conducted by McClintock over 25 years after her initial research found that when women were exposed to sweat obtained from other women in the follicular phase, the recipients' cycles became shorter. When they were exposed to compounds from the ovulatory (middle) phase, the recipients' cycles became longer.
Not all women are affected by one another's menstrual cycles. Some pheromone researchers have found that women vary in their sensitivity to certain chemicals. Furthermore, the specific compounds that may affect menstrual synchrony have not yet been identified.
There is much speculation over possible biological advantages of women menstruating together. Some researchers hypothesize that in a tribal environment, people had to cooperate to survive, and synchronized menstrual cycles may have provided some survival advantage among a community of women.
Others suggest that women give off a pheromonic signal during the part of the menstrual cycle when they are most fertile, which indicates to men that it is a good time to have sex. In prehistoric times, men took multiple wives, and if the wives were on different cycles a man may pick up a pheromonic signal from one woman but choose the wrong one to have sex with, thus decreasing the likelihood of reproducing. If all of the women were fertile at the same time, he could not go wrong!
Evidence Against the Health Claim
Critics of menstrual synchrony raise a variety of research deficiencies in studies supporting the theory: flawed statistical methods, small sample sizes, sampling biases and uncontrolled confounding factors.
They also point out that since the length of the menstrual cycle varies from woman to woman, two women with cycles of different lengths will not ever actually synchronize. In one study analyzing the length of the menstrual cycle, researchers argue that if two women have 28–day cycles, the maximum amount of time that they both cannot be having their periods is 14 days. If this is true, on average, the onset of these two women's periods will be seven days apart, and half the time they should be closer. Because women normally have their period for about five days, an overlap is likely. So statistically , overlapping menstrual cycles can occur, regardless of whether or not women actually have an effect on one another's periods.
It is interesting to note that many of the arguments against menstrual synchrony come from men, while research supporting the phenomenon is often conducted by women. There is evidence from both human and animal studies supporting the health claim. However, there are also a number of fair criticisms of this research. So no one can claim to have the last word on this one! Period.


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Log Home & Log Cabin Directory is the #1 online resource!
Find log home & log cabin info. & resources!
Using the map above, choose your state and find the log home companies that can help you design, mnaufacture and build your dream home. Most log home manufacturers can ship a home package (i.e. log home kit) almost anywhere in the world to be erected onsite. When considering such a purchase, many of us prefer to visit model homes to touch, smell and feel – and ask questions. To make it easier to locate those model homes and companies, we have organized our listings by State (and Canadian Provinces) or subject matter.
Why Log & Timber Frame?
Logs and heavy timbers used in home construction create an ambiance unlike any other building styles. The best way I know how to introduce one to the splendor of logs is to point you to an article I wrote about this very subject entitled, "The Norman Rockwell Effect".
Logs for home construction can be round, D-shaped or squared. They may be machined to interlock with each other, stacked one atop of the other and cut (coped, or Swedish cope) to fit its corresponding mate, or they can be irregular and "chinked" for a snug and weather tight fit. Log siding is also a popular way of making a stick-built house look like a real log cabin. Another facet of log-style construction is a very old practice called timber framing…
Timber Framing
Timber frame (or timberframe) is one of the oldest traditions of constructing wooden structures. Just like fine furniture uses dovetails, mortise and tenons and old-world joinery, timber framing is a sophisticated method of "post and beam" joinery that uses wooden pegs in place of steel hardware as fasteners. This art form dates back to early Grecian times and remained the principal method of building construction until the advent of "stick framing" in the mid-eighteenth century.
Modern craftsman carry on this unique timber frame construction creating homes, barns, shops, hotels and churches. Timber framing has experienced a revival in today's home building as people rediscover this beautiful and functional method of construction. Read more…
Do you have a plan?
Building a log home can be a fun and rewarding experience, but as with any big project, the better your plan – the less likely you will be to make mistakes. The big picture requires that you choose a manufacturer, obtain your land, find a qualified builder and select the ideal floor plan that suits your needs.
To help you narrow your focus, browse our exclusive "Log Home Floor Plan Showcase" where you can view 10 of the most popular floor plans from many leading manufacturers. See over 100+ floor plans!
As these are the most popular floor plans you will can see what's hot and which features appeal to most people. In other words, let others do the searching, and you pick the best of the best.
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Nigeria's state governors vowed on Thursday to go to court to stop the government putting oil revenues into a sovereign wealth fund.
Africa's top crude producer has been moving closer to joining its OPEC partners in creating a sovereign wealth fund for long-term investment of its oil cash.
The governors, who enjoy luxurious lifestyles and wield huge patronage, had been opposed to the fund because they feared it would reduce their share of the oil money.
The country pumps more than two million barrels of oil a day but economists say revenue over the decades has been wasted on bloated government wages, a vast patronage network that gets costlier closer to election time, or plain embezzlement.
The sovereign wealth fund aims to tie up a portion of the oil cash in a government-run investment portfolio, buying anything from mainstream assets such as stocks and bonds to direct foreign investment. Nigeria is one of only three OPEC members that does not have such a fund.
Nigeria's oil earnings over a benchmark price are currently paid into the Excess Crude Account (ECA), which is meant to be for the benefit of future generations or cushion against oil price shocks.
But there is little oversight and it is often raided even when oil prices are high. It now contains around $8-billion and is distributed between the three tiers of government, including the 36 states.
Last year, the governors went to court to try to block the fund's creation, arguing it was unconstitutional for the federal government to control all excess oil funds, instead of distributing them. The 36 governors have said they do not trust central authorities to manage the fund.
Nigeria's finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala seemed to have talked them around in June, and they agreed to it.
As a compromise the sovereign wealth fund is supposed to start with just $1-billion. But Ms. Okonjo-Iweala made it clear last month she wants it to replace the ECA.
"On the Excess Crude Account, the forum unanimously decided to head back to court to enforce the federal government's adherence to the constitution," a joint statement by the governors said.


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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A judge has ruled that opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska can proceed with their legal challenge to a state law that paved the way for a new project route.
Lancaster County District Court Judge Stephanie Stacy on Tuesday rejected a motion by Nebraska state officials to dismiss the lawsuit.
The lawsuit filed by three Nebraska landowners asserts that Gov. Dave Heineman's decision to approve a new pipeline route was rooted in an unconstitutional state law. The law was passed during a special legislative session in 2011 as a way to reroute the pipeline away from Nebraska's environmentally sensitive Sandhills.
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UW-Oshkosh scored five touchdowns in nine minutes during its 56-31 triumph over UW-Stevens Point on Saturday (Nov. 3) at J.J. Keller Field at Titan Stadium.
The Titans (9-0/6-0 WIAC), ranked sixth in the NCAA Division III, have a nine-win season for the first time in the program's 118 years. UW-Oshkosh ran its winning streak to 11 games while clinching the WIAC title outright.
The UW-Oshkosh offense tallied 42 points in the second period and 486 yards during the first half. In just two quarters of play, Nate Wara compiled 279 yards and three touchdowns on 11-of-14 passing. Cole Myhra totaled 141 rushing yards on 13 carries and 77 yards on three catches. One of the Titans' quick strikes was a 94-yard touchdown reception by Zach Kasuboski.
The Pointers (2-7/1-5 WIAC) forced a punt on the game's opening possession and then drove for a field goal to go ahead, 3-0. UW-Oshkosh responded with a 45-yard run by Myhra, who shook a tackler in the backfield before cutting across the field to the left sideline. Four plays later, Myhra leapt into the end zone from eight yards to take a 7-3 lead.
The Titans scored touchdowns on eight straight possessions to close the first half. Myhra took consecutive carries for 11 and 10 yards to spark the second scoring drive. On third down, Wara ran a quarterback draw nine yards across the goal line to make it 14-3 at the end of the first quarter.
During the second period, UW-Oshkosh had five touchdown drives that lasted less than one minute. Those series covered 98, 80, 74, 52 and 39 yards. Taking a snap at his own six-yard line, Wara launched a rainbow to Kasuboski near midfield. Kasuboski double-clutched the ball and ran away from two defenders for the longest pass play in school history.
Myhra ran up the middle for a four-yard touchdown that gave the Titans a 28-3 cushion. Wara then connected with Caleb Voss on a flea-flicker for a 35-yard touchdown minutes later.
After an interception from Frank Martin, UW-Oshkosh put together a three-play, 74-yard drive. Myhra started things with a 40-yard grab and a 13-yard run. On first down, Wara scrambled left and floated a 21-yard pass to Mitch Hintz, who barely stayed inbounds for the touchdown.
The Pointers found pay dirt with a 75-yard march before intermission. Adam Vesterfelt did most of the damage, rushing for 31 yards. He marked an 11-yard score that cut the deficit to 42-10.
Myhra booked catches for 19 and 18 yards when UW-Oshkosh got the ball back. His career-best third touchdown came from three yards with 1:03 on the clock.
Mitch Beau was intercepted by Martin on his next pass. Martin picked it off in the middle of the field, cut to the left and followed his teammates 28 yards for the touchdown return.
Including last year's school-record 684 yards at Stevens Point, the Titans racked up 1,170 yards against the Pointers in six quarters. Today, UW-Oshkosh averaged 13.5 yards per play during the opening half.
UW-Stevens Point drove to the Titan 26-yard line before getting stuffed on 4th-and-1 early in the third quarter. On the next play, UW-Oshkosh had a high shotgun snap recovered by the Pointers. It was the first turnover by the Titans in 512 offensive plays. Vesterfelt took advantage with a three-yard touchdown run to make it 56-17.
Beau completed a 17-yard pass to Ethan Lockhart in the end zone and Vesterfelt added a three-yard touchdown run during the fourth quarter to complete the scoring.
Both teams finished with 21 first downs, but UW-Oshkosh outgained the Pointers, 507-442. UW-Stevens Point threw for 295 yards, while the Titans totaled 294 through the air.
Hintz topped the UW-Oshkosh receivers with four grabs for 44 yards. Voss contributed 56 yards on three catches and Kasuboski 105 yards on two. Tim Filter cradled another interception for the Titan defense, which was led by Andrew Thompson's six tackles.
Beau hit on 24-of-41 passes for 295 yards, one touchdown and three picks. Theo Maglio recorded eight catches for 127 yards, as Vesterfelt totaled 109 yards on 21 rushing attempts. UW-Stevens Point was led by seven tackles apiece from Jake Luedtke and Jimmy Sladek (one fumble recovery).
The Titans go for an undefeated regular season against UW-Stout on Saturday (Nov. 10) in Menomonie.
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Do I need to go into full-time ministry to live a truly Christian life? Am I really a Christian if I'm not out preaching the gospel in dangerous places where people have never heard of Christ? Can secular work benefit the kingdom of God? All Christians struggle to discern God's call on their life, but God does call all to live a Christ-centered life.
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, Edward Bounds states: "The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer." As a chaplain in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, Bounds initiated weekly prayer sessions to strengthen the spiritual state of his local area.
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Bebe Rebozo came in and out of the Nixon White House as he pleased, without being logged in by the Secret Service. At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he had his own private office with a telephone and a designated bedroom always at his disposal. He was both Nixon's best friend and his bag man to the Mafia and Howard Hughes.
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When Richard Nixon was president, a disreputable character named Charles Gregory "Bebe" Rebozo (a.k.a. Charles Gregory) all but lived in the White House. Not known beyond the executive mansion at that time—or to most people even now—Rebozo had working and sleeping quarters there. And he was plugged into the White House switchboard, which knew how to reach him anywhere at any time.
Rebozo was not a high-ranking government employee who deserved or required such free space or services. In fact, the only government entity that knew much about Bebe was the FBI, which said he was cozy with Mafia biggies—especially Tampa Godfather Santos Trafficante and Alfred ("Big Al") Polizzi of Cleveland. Big Al was a drug trafficker associated with the Syndicate's financial genius, Meyer Lansky. In 1964, the Bureau of Narcotics branded Polizzi "one of the most influential members of the underworld in the United States."
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Bebe purchased land in Florida with a reputed front man for Lansky, Robert Fincher.Telephone records, according to the Spartacus Education web site, show Fincher was in regular contact with Trafficante and New Orleans Godfather Carlos Marcello.
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·A former FBI agent who specialized in organized crime in the Miami area, Charles Stanley, identified Rebozo as a "non-member associate of organized crime figures." This designation applied to individuals determined to have significant, witting association with "made members" of La Cosa Nostra.
·Vincent ("Jimmy Blue Eyes") Alo—a close cohort of Meyer Lansky—told Summers in 1997: "Everyone knew Rebozo would take a hot stove…He was the one who picked up the money for Nixon."
Indeed, Rebozo was Nixon's No. 1 bagman for payoffs from not only the Mafia—but from mobbed-up loopy billionaire Howard Hughes, a longtime "Daddy Warbucks" to Nixon. Rebozo came under investigation during Watergate for accepting a $100,000 bribe from Hughes for Nixon.
That bribe—delivered in two installments—was turned over to the President's best buddy under the most secure of circumstances—behind the walls of the Secret Service-guarded Florida and California White Houses. The Watergate Special Prosecution Force went out of business before completing its Rebozo probe.
Bebe Rebozo was profoundly more important to the President than one of Nixon's ex-aides recently professed, "He was just the guy who mixed the martinis."
The real Bebe, an American-born Cuban land speculator and banker, was not only Nixon's chief ambassador to the Mafia and Hughes. He'd also been a principal secret Mob/CIA go-between in assassination plots hatched by Vice President Richard Nixon against Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He was a big deal in the Cuban exile community in Miami.
Bebe did business in Florida with at least two of the Watergate burglars, Bernard Barker and Eugenio Martinez. And Rebozo arranged for Nixon's chief spy and Watergate supervisor E. Howard Hunt to investigate Hoke Maroon, a former partner of Rebozo, who had inside information on Nixon's early business investments in Cuba. Maroon also claimed Nixon was once the part owner of Rebozo's Coral Gables Motel.
High school grad Rebozo's first big job was as a steward with Pan-American Airways. He served patrons on flying boats that shuttled between Miami, the Caribbean and Panama.
Later he owned a gas station; got into re-treading old tires for a time; and then purchased a coin laundry—from which he allegedly ran a numbers racket. Eventually Bebe opened a bank near his home on upscale Key Biscayne, a small island just South of Miami.
Richard Nixon led 1964 dedication ceremonies for the bank and held Savings Account No. 1. The bank reputedly laundered Mob money—mostly the "skim" from gambling casinos in the Bahamas. Vincent Teresa, a high-ranking Mafioso, admitted using Rebozo's bank to launder stolen money.
After three very brief marriages (twice to the same woman), Rebozo became active in Miami's homosexual community. Small, dark, handsome and unctuous, he is said to have had a longtime affair with an airline steward. He often threw male-only barbecues at his Key Biscayne home.
Newsday investigative reporter Robert Greene has said, "My own particular thought was that (Rebozo) was one of those guys who has an extremely low sex drive. He had a tendency to keep the company of whiskey-drinking, fishing, rather masculine-type men, with the exception of Nixon. Nixon studied the part, but he really wasn't."
Bobby Baker—a top aide to Senator Lyndon Johnson—said Nixon and Rebozo were "close like lovers." Rebozo friend Jake Jernigan is quoted as saying that Bebe "loved Nixon more than he loved anybody. He worshipped Nixon. Nixon was his God … his Little Jesus."
Nixon and Rebozo first met, by one credible account, in Florida in 1947. Richard Danner—a Miamian with very close ties to Rebozo and Mafia boss Santos Trafficante—made the introductions.
Nixon was also a good friend of Danner, an ex-FBI agent who had fallen under Mob control. In 1952, Nixon and Danner secretly visited Havana and gambled at a Syndicate-run casino. Danner later credited Nixon for using his clout with the Mafia to ultimately land him a cushy job at a Las Vegas casino. During Nixon's presidency, Danner was the payoff man for bribes from Hughes to Nixon, through Rebozo.
Rebozo and Congressman Nixon didn't hit it off immediately when they met in Florida, but as Rebozo friend Sen. George Smathers put it: 'I don't want to say that Bebe's level of liking Nixon increased as Nixon's (political) position increased, but it had a lot to do with it."
Within months of their first Florida cruise aboard Bebe's $18,000 houseboat, the Cocolobo, the two men became almost inseparable. And quite playful, especially when loaded. One White House aide recalls seeing the two grown men playing a child's game called "King of the Pool" at Key Biscayne. "It was late at night," according to Watergate authority J. Anthony Lukas. "The two men had been drinking. Nixon mounted a rubber raft in the pool while Rebozo tried to turn it over. Then, laughing and shouting, they'd change places and Nixon tried to upset Rebozo."
Rebozo lent moral as well as financial support to his idol through Nixon's many political highs and lows.
He was there in Key Biscayne in 1952 when Nixon celebrated his election to the vice presidency; Rebozo was in Los Angeles in 1960 when Nixon learned that Senator John Kennedy had edged him out for the presidency; he comforted Nixon after his crushing 1962 loss to incumbent Edmund "Pat" Brown for California governor; and Rebozo and Nixon drank and sunbathed together in Key Biscayne after Nixon narrowly defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 presidential election.
During Nixon's White House years, rough estimates show Rebozo was at Nixon's side one out of every 10 days. The president made 50 trips to Key Biscayne—most of them without family members—to be with Bebe.
Known as "Uncle Bebe" to Nixon's two children, Trisha and Julie, Rebozo frequently bought the girls—and Nixon's wife Pat—expensive gifts. "Beeb" as Nixon referred to Rebozo (who always called Nixon "Mr. President") purchased a $100,000 house in the suburbs for Julie after she married David Eisenhower. Rebozo paid for bowling alleys to be put in the White House and Camp David.
In pre-presidential times on Key Biscayne, Nixon and Rebozo were always given their special spot at their favorite restaurant, the Jamaica Inn. They were seated at a cosy, dark out-of-the way booth near a waterfall. A martini or two usually preceded chopped steaks, medium rare. Bebe always picked up the tab and left a big tip. After all, the fancy eatery with the British décor was owned by their old friend Donald Berg—who gave Nixon a cut-rate deal on the land for his Key Biscayne vacation home as a favor for posing for a promotional picture with Berg in 1967.
Like Rebozo, Berg had been indicted in stolen stock deals but never prosecuted. The Secret Service eventually asked the President to find a more suitable restaurant after uncovering Berg's ties to the Mafia. But, for some reason, the President's protectors issued no similar warning about socializing with Rebozo.
Bebe Rebozo came in and out of the White House as he pleased, without being logged in by the Secret Service. Though, as noted, he had no official government position, Rebozo had his own private office with a telephone and a designated bedroom always at his disposal at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
In Florida, his home was right next door to Nixon's. It was equipped with free worldwide telephone service through the White House Office of Communications. The same was true at Rebozo's private villa on the grounds of the San Clemente White House.
Behind the scenes, Rebozo was "deeply involved" with expensive government-funded remodeling plans at both of the President's vacation homes, according to White House aide John Ehrlichman in Witness to Power:
He flew to Los Angeles for meetings with the General Services Administration official in charge of the (San Clemente) project. Over the months, he so successfully co-opted the GSA project manager, that the GSA began carrying out Rebozo's instructions without question. If there was undue government expenditure, at either the San Clemente or the Key Biscayne house, Mr. Rebozo should be given full credit for his persuasive involvement.
Bebe was secretly put in charge of a reconstruction project at the presidential retreat at Camp David, where he also had his own cabin. He purchased most of the President's suits and sports clothes, and even picked the movies Nixon would watch.
Bebe was frequently sneaked in and out of Nixon's suite when the President was travelling abroad. On one such occasion, Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser Henry Kissinger cursed a blue streak and nearly threw a fit. Rebozo's presence was always a major distraction to the foreign policy issues Kissinger hoped to discuss with the President.
Kissinger was sometimes the target of late night drunken crank phone calls from the President offering Bebe's foreign policy suggestions. In one of these calls, Nixon warned Kissinger that if he didn't take Bebe's advice, "It'll be your ass, Henry."
Kissinger got particularly perturbed when Rebozo flew on Air Force One, which was frequently. On such flights, Bebe—one of the most privileged gangsters in the land—like Kissinger, donned a blue Navy flight jacket bearing the Presidential Seal with his name stitched onto it. And Bebe was far more likely to be granted an airborne audience with the President than Henry.
Nixon biographer Fawn Brodie has observed that, "Nixon seems to have been willing to risk the kind of gossip that frequently accompanies close friendship with a perennial bachelor, this despite his known public aversion to homosexuals, and his acute sensitivity to the damage that the label of homosexual on a friend could bring to a public man."
Brodie points out that after President Johnson's right-hand man Walter Jenkins was arrested while administering sexual favors to a retired sailor in a staked-out YMCA restroom in Washington, Nixon publicly pounced on the scandal—saying that Jenkins "was ill. But people with this kind of illness cannot be in places of high trust."
In another comment on the Jenkins scandal, Nixon said: "A cloud hangs over the White House this morning because of Lyndon Johnson and his selection of men." In Nixonland, Rick Perlstein observed the construction of that particular Nixon statement suggested Johnson "might as well have been right there in that men's room with Jenkins."
The 37th president's intimate relationship with a mobster like Rebozo raises serious questions about just how deeply the country's biggest and most profitable illegal business—the blood-soaked Mob—had gotten its sinister hooks into Nixon.
In the 1960s, crooked gambling operations alone brought in an estimated $50 billion a year. There were many additional billions the Mafia made through prostitution, narcotics trafficking, extortion, labor racketeering and political corruption. As Attorney General Robert Kennedy liked to say, "The racketeer is at his most dangerous not with a machine gun in his hands but with public officials in his pocket."
In April 1969, Nixon put out a printed message describing the Mafia's influence as "more secure than ever before" and warning that it "had deeply penetrated broad segments of American life." Nixon stated, "The organized criminal relies on physical terror and psychological intimidation, on economic retaliation, on political bribery, on citizen indifference and governmental acquiescence. He corrupts our governing institutions and subverts our democratic processes."
Unfortunately, that printed presidential condemnation of the Mafia was a one-time call to arms by President Nixon. It was a leftover boilerplate pronouncement from the Johnson administration. Nixon never again issued a report on the dangers of the Mob. And in July 1970, he actually ordered that the government halt using the words "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" because they were demeaning to Italian-Americans.
Al Haig was a close match for Richard Nixon in deviousness. In an apparent effort to assemble his own anti-Nixon file, Nixon's final White House chief of staff ordered an old military buddy to conduct a super-secret probe of the President's darkest, most secretive side. Most specifically, Haig wanted to know whether Nixon's spies and bagmen Jack Caufield and Tony Ulasewicz had traveled to the Far East and brought back huge stacks of cash to Nixon.
Second, Haig wanted to know if the President was beholden to organized crime. Haig's secret sleuth on the Army's Criminal Investigations Command, Russell Bintliff, reported back that Caufield and Ulasewicz "probably had gone to Vietnam, and I considered there were strong indications of a history of Nixon connections with money from organized crime."
This bizarre and overlooked tale of the President's top aide mounting a secret criminal investigation against his boss didn't surface until 1976, when it was disclosed by Jerry O'Leary, a Washington Star reporter with tight ties to U.S. intelligence. Bintliff also disclosed that, in the early 1960's that PepsiCo (Nixon's legal client at the time) had set up a bottling plant in Laos that did not make Pepsi, but rather converted opium into heroin. Could the first president to declare a war on drugs have been secretly profiting from the drug-of-choice among many of America's troops in Vietnam?
And just what role did Nixon's constant companion and chief link to the Syndicate, Bebe Rebozo, play in the President's "history of connections with money from organized crime?" From all the circumstantial evidence, a major one it seems.
The ever-faithful Bebe was at Nixon's bedside when the former president died in 1994. When Rebozo died in 1998, he left $19 million to the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif.


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