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Q: Is there a phrase for people who love getting physically tired? Is there a phrase for people who love getting physically tired?
I tried to search it on the web but couldn't find a proper term for this particular personality type.

A: in a way "workaholic" might be an accurate term.
Maybe you could give a little more information?
Do you mean the effort which get's the people tired, or just the feeling of being exhausted, which they like?

A: In the same vein as adrenaline junkie we have fitness junkie or exercise junkie. Neither appears to be in male dictionaries but fitness junkie at least has been used for years including in newspapers. The exercise- variant seems a better fit in your case though.
Is worth noting that junkie as [with modifier] A person with a compulsive habit or obsessive dependency on something. (Oxford) is established.

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Toucane has arrived at Skoobs Theatre of Books, in Monte Casino, Johannesburg. Just ask Deborah Du Plooy, or at the payment counter and they will point the way, so if you are looking for a Children's Colouring Book plus a whole lot more check it out. There is also a rap for the kids to learn and how to make your own rubbish/trash bin, which can be made at home or as a competition at school.
So, Parents, Teachers get down to Skoobs and watch out because the second Toucane book – Toucane is Different – is hard on its heels and will be available as soon as the print has dried.
It is always lovely to get feedback from parents who buys your books for their kids, after all the age group I write for can't exactly do it for themselves.
So I was delighted to receive this picture of two youngsters colouring in their Toucane and the Rubbish Rangers books. Hope they enjoy listening to mum reading it to them at bedtime.
Toucane and the Rubbish Rangers – see how you too can become a SUPERHERO.
My holiday produced Toucane the Toucan and main character for my next children's series. I had had a lot of people asking me to write Polly stories for their younger kids, but, well, Polly is Polly and she likes the 8-12-year-olds so she introduced me to a friend Toucane.
Toucane loves planet earth and subtly deals with many issues e.g. racism and litter to date in his books. He raps and occasionally dances too.
As with all my books, I have a hand puppet to accompany them so the birds and their stories come alive for children when I visit them in schools. Though between you and me, I'm seriously starting to worry about multiple personalities, as they take over from the minute we enter a schools and there are a lot of them now – 6 to be precise ha, ha, ha.
So, watch out for the Toucane Series, out soon 4-8 year-olds.


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from coremltools.converters.mil.mil import Operation, types
from coremltools.converters.mil.mil.input_type import (DefaultInputs,
                                                       InputSpec,
                                                       TensorInputType)
from coremltools.converters.mil.mil.ops.defs._op_reqs import register_op

@register_op
class gru(Operation):
    r"""
    Gated recurrent unit (GRU).

    .. math::
       r_t = \rm{recurrent\_activation}(W_{ir} x_t + b_{ir} + W_{hr} h_{t-1} + b_{hr})

    .. math::
       z_t = \rm{recurrent\_activation}(W_{iz} x_t + b_{iz} + W_{hz} h_(t−1) + b_{hz})

    .. math::
       o_t = activation(W_{io} x_t + b_{io} + r_t * W_{ho} h_(t−1) + b_{ho})

    .. math::
       h_t = (1 − z_t) * o_t + z_t * h_{(t−1)}

    Where:

    * ``W_{ir}``, ``W_{io}``, and ``W_{iz}`` state input-hidden weight for reset, output
      and update gate, respectively.
    * ``W_{h[r|o|z]}`` are recurrent weights on hidden state to reset, output, update gate.
    * ``h_t``  is the hidden state at time ``t``.
    * ``x_t`` is the input at time ``t``.
    * ``h_(t-1)`` is the hidden state of the layer at time ``t-1`` or the initial
      hidden state at time ``0``.
    * ``r_t``, ``o_t``, and ``z_t`` are the reset, new, and update gates, respectively.
    * ``*`` is elementwise product.

    Parameters
    ----------
    x: <s, b, I, T> (Required)
        * ``s`` is the sequence length, ``b`` is the batch size, and ``I`` is the
          input dimension.

    initial_h: <b, H, T> (Required)
        * ``H`` denotes hidden size.

    weight_ih: const<3*H, I, T> (Required) - Weight matrix
        * ``weigh_ih = [W_{ir} | W_{io} | W_{iz}]`` where ``[a|b]`` denotes column
          concatenation and ``[a, b]`` denotes row concatenation. ``W_{ir}``,
          ``W_{io}``, and ``W_{iz}`` have shape ``(H, I)``.
        * This is used when direction="forward" or "reverse".

    weight_hh: const<3*H, H, T> (Required) - Weight matrix
        * ``weight_hh =  [W_{hr} | W_{ho} | W_{hz}]``: ``W_{hr}``, ``W_{ho}``, and
          ``W_{hz}`` have shape ``(H, H)``.
        * This is used when direction="forward" or "reverse".

    bias: const<3*H, T> (Optional) [Default all 0s]
        * ``bias[0]`` are input-hidden and hidden-hidden bias.
        * ``3*H`` are biases for ``[b_{ir} | b_{io} | b_{hz}]``.
        * This is used when direction="forward" or "reverse".

    direction: const<str> (Optional) [Default=forward]
        * Either ``forward`` or ``reverse``.

    output_sequence: const<bool> (Optional) [Default=False]
        * Outputs every step if ``True``.

    recurrent_activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=sigmoid]
        * Activation applied on update and reset gate.

    activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=tanh]
        * Activation applied on output gate.

    Returns
    -------
    <s, b, H, T> or <1, b, H, T>
        * If ``output_sequence == True`` (hidden states from every step):
          ``<s, b, H, T>``.
        * Else ``<1, b, H, T>`` (hidden states of the final step).
    <b, H, T>
        * Hidden states of the final step.

    Attributes
    ----------
    T: fp32
    """

    input_spec = InputSpec(
        x=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        initial_h=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        weight_ih=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),
        weight_hh=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),
        bias=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),
        direction=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        output_sequence=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.bool),
        recurrent_activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str)
    )

    type_domains = {
        "T": (types.fp32,),
    }

    def default_inputs(self):
        return DefaultInputs(
            bias=None,
            direction="forward",
            output_sequence=False,
            recurrent_activation="sigmoid",
            activation="tanh",
        )

    def type_inference(self):
        if self.x.rank != 3:
            raise ValueError(
                "Invalid input shape. Expecting Rank 3 input, got {}".format(
                    len(self.x.rank)
                )
            )

        sequence_length, batch_size, input_size = self.x.shape

        if self.weight_ih.rank != 2:
            raise ValueError(
                "Invalid weight shape. Expecting Rank 2 input, got {}".format(
                    len(self.weight_ih.rank)
                )
            )
        if self.weight_hh.rank != 2:
            raise ValueError(
                "Invalid weight shape. Expecting Rank 2 input, got {}".format(
                    len(self.weight_hh.rank)
                )
            )

        hidden_dim, hidden_size = self.weight_hh.shape

        direction = self.direction.val
        valid_directions = {"forward", "reverse"}
        if direction not in valid_directions:
            raise ValueError(
                "Direction {} not supported. Supported directions: {}".format(
                    direction, valid_directions
                )
            )

        dim_factor = 3
        if hidden_size != (hidden_dim // dim_factor):
            raise ValueError(
                "Incorrect weight matrix: hidden dim size mismatch. \
                Provided weight_ih {}, weight_hh {}. Expecting <b, 3*H>".format(
                    self.weight_ih.shape, self.weight_hh.shape
                )
            )

        out_seq_len = sequence_length if self.output_sequence.val else 1
        output_shape = [out_seq_len, batch_size, hidden_size]
        output_h_shape = [batch_size, hidden_size]
        return (
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_shape)),
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_h_shape)),
        )

@register_op
class lstm(Operation):
    r"""
    Single long short-term memory (LSTM) sequence.

    .. math::
       i_t = \rm{recurrent\_activation}(W_{ii} x_t + B_{ii} + W_{hi} h_(t-1) + B_{hi})

    .. math::
       f_t = \rm{recurrent\_activation}(W_{if} x_t + B_{if} + W_{hf} h_(t-1) + B_{hf})

    .. math::
       z_t = cell_activation(W_{iz} x_t + B_{iz} + W_{hz} h_(t-1) + B_{hz})

    .. math::
       o_t = \rm{recurrent\_activation}(W_{io} x_t + B_{io} + W_{ho} h_(t-1) + B_{ho})

    .. math::
       c_t = f_t * c_(t-1) + i_t * z_t

    .. math::
       h_t = o_t * activation(c_t)

    Where:

    * ``i_t``, ``f_t``, ``o_t``, and ``z_t`` are input, forget, output, and cell gates,
      respectively, at time ``t``.
    * ``c_t`` is cell state at time ``t``.
    * ``h_t``  is the hidden state at time ``t``.
    * ``W_{ii}``, ``W_{if}``, ``W_{io}``, and ``W_{iz}`` are input weights for input,
      forget, output and cell gate, respectively.
    * ``W_{hi}``, ``W_{hf}``, ``W_{ho}``, and ``W_{hz}`` are recurrent weights for input,
      forget, output and cell gate, respectively.

    Parameters
    ----------
    x: <s, b, I, T> (Required)
        * ``s`` is the sequence length, ``b`` is the batch size, and ``I`` is the
          input dimension.

    initial_h: <b, DIRECTION*H, T> (Required)
        * Initial hidden state. ``DIRECTION = 1`` for uni-directional, ``2`` for
          bi-directional LSTM.
        * ``H`` denotes hidden size.
        * ``[b, :H]`` and ``[b, H:]`` represents forward and reverse direction
          values, respectively.

    initial_c: <b, DIRECTION*H, T> (Required)
        * Initial cell state.
        * Format is same as ``initial_h``.

    weight_ih: const<4*H, I, T> (Required)
        * Input-hidden weight matrix
        * Weight tensor should be in order of
          ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate, cell_gate]``.
        * If direction=="bidirectional", this is applied in forward direction.
        * If direction=="forward" or "backward" these weights are used.

    weight_hh: const<4*H, H, T> (Required)
        * Hidden-hidden weight matrix.
        * Weight tensor should be in order of
          ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate, cell_gate]``.
        * If direction=="bidirectional", this is applied in forward direction.
        * If direction=="forward" or "backward" these weights are used.

    bias: const<4*H, T> (Optional) [Default all 0s]
        * bias = input-hidden bias + hidden-hidden bias
        * If direction=="bidirectional", this is applied in forward direction.
        * If direction=="forward" or "backward" this bias are used.

    peephole: const<3*H, T> (Optional, default to 0)
        * Weight tensor for peephole.
        * Order is ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate]``.
        * Shape of each peephole vector is ``(H,)`` (``H`` is hidden size).
        * If direction=="bidirectional", this is applied in forward direction.
        * If direction=="forward" or "backward" these weights are used.

    weight_ih_back: const<4*H, I, T> (Optional) -
        * Input-hidden weight matrix for backward direction for `bidirectinal LSTM`.
        * Weight tensor should be in order of
          ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate, cell_gate]``.
        * Must be provided for `bidirectional LSTM`.
        * This is only used when `direction` is "bidirectional".
        * For direction="reverse" use `weight_ih` instead.

    weight_hh_back: const<4*H, H, T> (Optional) - Hidden-hidden weight matrix
        * Hidden-hidden weight matrix for backward direction for `bidirectinal LSTM`.
        * Weight tensor should be in order of
          ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate, cell_gate]``.
        * Must be provided for `bidirectional LSTM`.
        * This is only used when `direction` is "bidirectional".
        * For direction="reverse" use `weight_hh` instead.

    bias_back: const<4*H, T> (Optional) [Default all 0s]
        * bias = input-hidden bias + hidden-hidden bias.
        * Bias of backward direction for `bidirectional lstm`
        * This is only used when `direction` is "bidirectional".
        * For direction="reverse" use `bias` instead.

    peephole_back: const<3*H, T> (Optional, default to 0)
        * Weight tensor for peephole in backward direction for `bidirectional LSTM`.
        * Order is ``[input_gate, forget_gate, output_gate]``.
        * Shape of each peephole vector is ``(H,)`` (``H`` is hidden size).
        * Peephole of backward direction for `bidirectional lstm`
        * Bias of backward direction for `bidirectional lstm`
        * This is only used when `direction` is "bidirectional".
        * For direction="reverse" use `peephole` instead.

    direction: const<str> (Optional) [Default=forward]
        * One of the following: ``forward``, ``reverse``, or ``bidirectional``.
        * Must match ``DIRECTIONAL`` in initial states and weight parameters.

    output_sequence: const<bool> (Optional) [Default=False]
        * Outputs every step if ``True``.

    recurrent_activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=sigmoid]
        * Activation applied on input, forget, and output gates.

    cell_activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=tang]
        * Activation applied on cell gate.

    activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=tanh]
        * Activation applied on output gate.

    clip: const<T> (optional) [Default=None]
        * Cell gate is clipped to ``[-clip, +clip]``.

    Returns
    -------
    <s, b, DIRECTION*H, T> or <1, b, DIRECTION*H, T>
        * If ``output_sequence == True`` (hidden states from every step):
          ``<s, b, DIRECTION*H, T>``.
        * Else ``<1, b, DIRECTION*H, T>`` (hidden states of the final step).
    <b, DIRECTION*H, T>
        * Hidden states of the final step.
    <b, DIRECTION*H, T>
        * Memory state of the final step.

    Attributes
    ----------
    T: fp32
    """

    input_spec = InputSpec(
        x=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        initial_h=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        initial_c=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        weight_ih=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout,
        weight_hh=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout
        bias=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout
        peephole=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifo layout
        weight_ih_back=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout,
        weight_hh_back=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout
        bias_back=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifoz layout
        peephole_back=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),  # ifo layout
        direction=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        output_sequence=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.bool),
        recurrent_activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        cell_activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        clip=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),
    )

    type_domains = {
        "T": (types.fp32,),
    }

    def default_inputs(self):
        return DefaultInputs(
            bias=None,
            direction="forward",
            output_sequence=False,
            recurrent_activation="sigmoid",
            cell_activation="tanh",
            activation="tanh",
            peephole=None,
            clip=None)

    def type_inference(self):
        if self.x.rank != 3:
            raise ValueError(
                "Invalid input shape. Expecting Rank 3 input, got {}".format(
                    len(self.x.rank)
                )
            )
        sequence_length, batch_size, input_size = self.x.shape

        def weight_shape_check(wt_ih, wt_hh):
            if wt_ih.rank != 2 or wt_hh.rank != 2:
                raise ValueError(
                    "Expecting Rank 2 input, got weight_ih rank: {}, weight_hh rank: {}".format(
                        wt_ih.rank, wt_hh.rank
                    )
                )

            hidden_size = wt_hh.shape[1]
            if wt_hh.shape[0] // hidden_size != 4 or wt_ih.shape[0] // hidden_size != 4:
                raise ValueError(
                    "Incorrect weight matrix: hidden dim size mismatch. \
                                Provided weight_ih {}, weight_hh {}. Expecting <4*H, H>".format(
                        wt_ih.shape, wt_hh.shape
                    )
                )

        direction = self.direction.val
        valid_directions = {"forward", "reverse", "bidirectional"}
        if direction not in valid_directions:
            raise ValueError(
                "Direction {} not supported. Supported directions: {}".format(
                    direction, valid_directions
                )
            )

        weight_shape_check(self.weight_ih, self.weight_hh)
        if direction == "bidirectional":
            weight_shape_check(self.weight_ih_back, self.weight_hh_back)

        hidden_dim, hidden_size = self.weight_hh.shape

        dim_factor = 8 if direction == "bidirectional" else 4
        out_seq_len = sequence_length if self.output_sequence.val else 1
        num_directions = dim_factor // 4
        output_shape = [out_seq_len, batch_size, num_directions * hidden_size]
        output_h_shape = [batch_size, num_directions * hidden_size]
        output_c_shape = [batch_size, num_directions * hidden_size]
        return (
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_shape)),
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_h_shape)),
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_c_shape)),
        )

@register_op
class rnn(Operation):
    """
    Recurrent neural network (RNN).

    .. math::
       h_t = activation(W_{ih} x_t + b_{ih} + W_{hh} h_(t−1) + b_{hh})

    Where:

    * ``W_{ih}`` is input weight.
    * ``W_{hh}`` is hidden/recurrent weight.
    * ``h_t``  is the hidden state at time ``t``.
    * ``x_t`` is the input at time ``t``.
    * ``h_(t-1)`` is the hidden state of the layer at time ``t-1`` or the initial
      hidden state at time ``0``.

    Parameters
    ----------
    x: <s, b, I, T> (Required)
        * ``s`` is the sequence length, ``b`` is the batch size, and ``I`` is the
          input dimension.

    initial_h: <b, H, T> (Required)
        * ``H`` denotes hidden size.

    weight_ih: const<H, I, T> (Required) - Input-hidden weight matrix

    weight_hh: const<H, H, T> (Required) - Hidden-hidden weight matrix

    bias: const<H, T> (Optional) [Default all 0s]
        * bias for input-hidden and hidden-hidden

    direction: const<str> (Optional) [Default=forward]
        * Either ``forward`` or ``reverse``.

    output_sequence: const<bool> (Optional) [Default=False]
        * Outputs every step if ``True``.

    activation: const<str> (Optional) [Default=tanh]
        * Supported activation functions: ``relu``, ``tanh``, ``sigmoid``,
          ``sigmoid_hard``, ``scaled_tanh``, and ``linear``.

    Returns
    -------
    <s, b, H, T> or <1, b, H, T>
        * If ``output_sequence == True`` (hidden states from every step):
          ``<s, b, H, T>``.
        * Else ``<1, b, H, T>`` (hidden states of the final step).
    <b, H, T>
        * Hidden states of the final step.

    Attributes
    ----------
    T: fp32
    """

    input_spec = InputSpec(
        x=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        initial_h=TensorInputType(type_domain="T"),
        weight_ih=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),
        weight_hh=TensorInputType(const=True, type_domain="T"),
        bias=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain="T"),
        direction=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
        output_sequence=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.bool),
        activation=TensorInputType(const=True, optional=True, type_domain=types.str),
    )

    type_domains = {
        "T": (types.fp32,),
    }

    def default_inputs(self):
        return DefaultInputs(
            bias=None,
            direction="forward",
            output_sequence=False,
            activation="tanh")

    def type_inference(self):
        if self.x.rank != 3:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Invalid input shape. Expecting Rank 3 input, got {len(self.x.rank)}"
            )

        sequence_length, batch_size, input_size = self.x.shape

        if self.weight_ih.rank != 2 or self.weight_hh.rank != 2:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Invalid weight shape. Expecting Rank 2 input, got weight_ih "
                f"{self.weight_ih.rank}, weight_hh {self.weight_hh.rank}"
            )

        hidden_size, _ = self.weight_ih.shape

        direction = self.direction.val
        valid_directions = {"forward", "reverse"}
        if direction not in valid_directions:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Direction {direction} not supported. Supported directions: {valid_directions}"
            )

        out_seq_len = sequence_length if self.output_sequence.val else 1
        output_shape = [out_seq_len, batch_size, hidden_size]
        output_h_shape = [batch_size, hidden_size]
        return (
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_shape)),
            types.tensor(self.x.dtype, tuple(output_h_shape)),
        )

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Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is not opposed to or in conflict with culture. Human biology is inherently social and has no pure or natural "origin" outside of culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is "incomplete" and thus subject to the endless rewriting and social inscription that constitute all sign systems.
Examining the theories of Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, etc. on the subject of the body, Elizabeth Grosz concludes that the body they theorize is male. These thinkers are not providing an account of "human" corporeality but of male corporeality. Grosz then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women—menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause. Her examination of female experience lays the groundwork for developing theories of sexed corporeality rather than merely rectifying flawed models of male theorists.
ELIZABETH GROSZ is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Critical and Cultural Studies, Monash University. She is the author of Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists and Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction.


We stepped one foot at a time into the harnesses and pulled the bulky belts high around our waists. The tall men buckled us in, pulling straps tight, double-checking that the fit was snug. Everyone was handed a helmet and a pair of suede gloves, worn from use by many hands pressing down on wire cables. Because the electricity was out, we couldn't watch the introductory video. Instead a guide, who spoke English fluently but with a dark velvet accent, did his best to show and tell us what would happen.
We piled into a safari truck, wearing all our gear, helmets already a necessary protection from knocking our heads against the roof during the bumpy ride that took us to from the lodge to the drop-off point. A 15-minute hike brought us out to a cliff overlooking the ravine. We climbed on to the first wooden platform, where the ropes connected to our harnesses were clipped to the guide wire at our feet.
Never at any moment was anyone not fastened on to something, either to a line on the ground, attached to the rocks by giant pins, or, in the moment we'd come to experience, on to the long wire that stretched over the open gorge. A large pulley unit was the primary device, that's how you rolled along the cable to the platform at the other side of the ravine. But there were always two other clips in place, for security. We'd been told this was one of the safest places for Canopy Touring, and that seemed to be the case.
All you had to do was step off the edge of the platform and gravity would take over. A flight through the air, only the sound of the mechanism driving along the wire and the water cascading over the rocks below. Fifteen seconds of flying freedom.
Our friends had been to Swaziland before; it's an easy weekend trip from where they live in Maputo. Things change almost immediately after crossing the border from Mozambique. The hills and mountains rise around you, and the land shifts from dusty brown to a palette of greens. A house just outside of Mbabane, the capital, was offered to us from a friend of a friend, one with many bedrooms that easily accommodated our two families of four. We did a big shop on the way there, the kind when you buy way too much food that you never eat because you end up going to restaurants for more meals than you expected. We spent the week taking hikes, visiting various tourist attractions, like a revived glass factory or an eccentric candle-making workshop, and then, of course: zip-lining at the Malolotja Nature Reserve.
Our friends' kids had already tried zip-lining, and loved it, so we knew the activity was child-friendly. But our girls have a different appetite for adventure, and it's not as vigorous as ours. A little cajoling is almost always required. I knew for this to work it had to be well positioned to garner their enthusiasm.
It was Short-pants I was most worried about. She is thin and spindle-like, slightly uncoordinated. She's aware of her lesser athleticism and though we work hard to keep her moving and confident, it's her nature to avoid physical activity. I fully expected her to resist, until I thought of her role as Grandpa Joe in last year's school play, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. After drinking the fizzy lifting drink Grandpa Joe sings a duet with Charlie called, "I'm Flying." This was my entry point. We talked about how zip-lining might be a bit like that scene in the story, when they're flying through the air. She said she was game. I couldn't tell if she was truly interested in this adventure, or if she was just humoring me. Or maybe she was afraid of disappointing me. I worry about that, sometimes.
That morning, as we donned sunscreen and sneakers, it was Buddy-roo, though she'd been instantly enthusiastic about the idea when it was first proposed, who came to me with her head bowed.
"I don't want to go." She can make her voice so little and glum when she wants to.
"It's natural to feel nervous before you do something new," I told her, "I bet you're going to love it." I was wondering, myself, if I was going to love it.
"You just worry about yourself," I told her, though I wondered, myself, about the very same thing.
There were eleven zip-lines zig-zagging along and across the ravine, eleven chances to sail through the air. This meant it wasn't a one-time shot. Once you started, you were committed. There was no way to turn back.
While Buddy-roo masked her fears by whining about her sister, Short-pants stoically adjusted her harness and her helmet, listened attentively to the guide as he reminded us of where to place our hands – and where not to put them – while gliding along the cable. We'd all gotten a lot quieter as we approached the first wire. I looked over at Short-pants and she bared her braces in a broad smile. If she was feeling frightened, she wasn't letting on.
De-facto went first and I followed; we both had cameras and were charged with capturing images of the kids and cheering them in as they came across the ravine after us. Our friends stayed to the rear, ready to coach the youngest members of our squad as each one took their turn. The first zip-lines were shorter and the drop below them not too steep – like having two starter flights to get used to the feeling and to figure out how to use your glove, with its leather palm, to slow down at the end for a good landing.
It wasn't hard to get a feel for how to speed and slow yourself along the cable. The guide at the receiving end was there to catch you if you barreled in too fast, or to coax you if you'd slowed too soon to make it all the way to the platform. He unfastened and quickly re-fastened my ropes to the ground cable and I quickly turned to snap shots of each child, as they came into view, one at a time. Short-pants, long and lanky even with her knees bent, glided and landed effortlessly on the platform. She raised her arms in a jubilant victory pose. Buddy-roo sped in a few minutes later, smaller and more compact, but fast and confident and just as exhilarated by the ride.
As we followed the rest of the course, the cables got longer, stretching over the wider, steeper parts of the gorge. The hurdle of how-to-do-it had been cleared, and both girls were beaming. Much like our family hike last summer, the self-esteem of both daughters expanded, visibly, after two hours and eleven rides dangling from a cable strung out over a deep ravine. I'll never know if they really wanted to try zip-lining, or if they were just afraid not to. But I'm reminded of how important it is to encourage our children to try to do new things they might not (at first) believe they can do. How else will they find out?


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It's Official: Durham Is Investigating The Clinton Campaign
It's Official: Durham Is Investigating The Clinton Campaign
Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary,
The latest filings by Special Counsel John Durham reveal that lawyers for the Hillary Clinton Campaign now represent Christopher Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko. Let's walk through the significance of this fact.
Igor Danchenko, the primary subsource of Christopher Steele, was arrested on November 3, 2021 for giving multiple false statements to federal officials during his 2017 interviews with the FBI. These included lies about Danchenko's sources, his travels to Russia, and his falsified contacts with Sergei Millian. We laid out Danchenko's indictment here.
Notably, Special Counsel John Durham alleges that one of Danchenko's real "sources" was Charles Dolan, Jr. (perhaps first identified by Aaron Mate), who served in various leadership positions to elect Bill Clinton in the 1992 and 1996 campaigns and was an advisor to Hillary Clinton in her 2016 campaign for president.
The Involvement of the Hillary Clinton Campaign
We know that the Hillary Clinton Campaign paid for the Steele dossiers and the work by Fusion GPS. This was arranged through their attorneys (and the DNC attorneys) at Perkins Coie – notably Mark Elias and Michael Sussmann. Elias left the firm this summer. Sussmann was indicted in September 2021 by Special Counsel Durham for giving false statements relating to the Alfa Bank/Trump hoax.
It is highly likely that the Clinton Campaign was receiving updates on the Fusion GPS/Christopher Steele work once they were hired by Perkins Coie in the spring of 2016. After all, this is work the client – the Clinton Campaign – paid for. (This is consistent with the Clinton Campaign – notably Jake Sullivan – receiving backchannel updates on the Alfa Bank hoax.)
If the Clinton Campaign was being informed of the work by Fusion GPS, what of the likelihood that the Clinton Campaign was informing the work of Fusion GPS? After all, it was Clintons' idea to link Trump and Russia in the first place. And associates of the Clinton Campaign (Sidney Blumenthal) were working to corroborate parts of the dossier.
With that in mind, I leave you this bit of information provided by the New York Times in September (emphasis added) suggesting the complicity of the Clinton Campaign:
Some of the questions that Mr. Durham's team has been asking in recent months — including of witnesses it subpoenaed before a grand jury, according to people familiar with some of the sessions — suggest he has been pursuing a theory that the Clinton campaign used Perkins Coie to submit dubious information to the F.B.I. about Russia and Mr. Trump in an effort to gin up investigative activity to hurt his 2016 campaign.
The Latest Developments
With that background in mind, let's review what's going on in Danchenko's criminal case. He was originally represented by Chris Schafbuch and Mark Schamel. On December 6, 20231, Stuart Sears appeared on behalf of Danchenko. Schafbuch and Schamel dropped out of the case.
According to Durham's latest filing, Stuart Sears is a partner at the law firm Schertler Onorato Mead & Sears. Notably, the firm is currently representing the 2016 "Hillary for America" presidential campaign (the "Clinton Campaign"), as well as multiple former employees of that campaign, in matters before the Special Counsel."
Did you catch that? I'll emphasize:
The Hillary Clinton Campaign and its employees are subject to "matters before the Special Counsel."
Durham notices the potential conflict of interest, informing the court that Danchenko's trial might raise the following issues:
the Clinton Campaign's knowledge or lack of knowledge concerning the veracity of information in the Fusion GPS reports sourced by Danchenko,
the Clinton Campaign's awareness or lack of awareness of Dancehnko's collection methods and sub-sources,
meetings or communications between and among the Clinton Campaign, Fusion GPS, and/or Steele regarding or involving Danchenko
Danchenko knowledge or lack of knowledge regarding the Clinton Campaign's role in and activities surrounding the Fusion GPS reports, and
the extent to which the Clinton Campaign and/or its representatives directed, solicited, or controlled Danchenko's activities.
Durham even raises the potential that members of the Clinton Campaign may be called to testify at Danchenko's trial.
To this observer, it seems like the Clinton Campaign's involvement in the dossier was deeper than anyone knows.
Mon, 12/20/2021 – 16:20
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Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi seems to be taking his promises of a broad coalition surprisingly seriously with his nominees for defense and interior ministers, and fueling growing anger among the entrenched power base.
Abadi nominated Jaber Jaberi, a Sunni Arab, as his defense minister. Jaberi is considered a moderate, but including a Sunni in such a high-profile position would greatly improve the chances of courting Sunni tribes to back military operations against ISIS.
The move wasn't met well among the Shi'ite leadership of parliament and quickly shot down. with Shi'ite militias claiming credit for blocking the appointment. Interior ministry nominee Riad al-Ghareeb didn't do much better, even though he is a member of the ruling State of Law coalition.
Ghareeb was quickly spurned by the Badr Brigade, a powerful faction within State of Law, which insists that the Iraqi Interior Ministry must always be under their control.
No alternative candidates have yet been proposed, though in both cases it seems like alternatives are likely to be equally controversial. Even if Abadi tries to backtrack and go with Maliki-era insiders, they're going to face internal faction fights as the various blocs are all seeking to secure powerful positions for themselves.


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CivilWarGovernors.org
A KHS Web Site
Who are the Governors?
Who Does This help?
Educators and Students
Scholars and Researchers
Documentary Editors and Digital Humanists
CWGK Social Media
2017 Civil War Governors of Kentucky Symposium
The Caroline Chronicles
"Where I Now Stand"
CWG-K's "Best of" – 2015 Edition
Posted on December 30, 2015 by Matthew C. Hulbert
2015 was an eventful year for the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition. Numerous fellows utilized the power of the ever-growing database (you can apply to be one here), we are steadily approaching the launch of an Early Access edition of 10,000 documents and transcriptions and a Beta prototype. Governor's Day — an interactive open house introducing the project to other departments at the Kentucky Historical Society — was a major success.
To recap the year, we've organized a series of "Best of" lists that chronicle everything from our individual takes on the most powerful people of Civil War Kentucky to the most memorable deaths to time travel (more on this anon). We hope you'll enjoy reading these lists these as much as we enjoyed creating them.
POWER RANKINGS: Based on their own criteria, each member of the CWG-K editorial staff was asked to rank a "Power 5" group of figures found in the database.
George W. Johnston – Powerful Judge of the Louisville City Court, a Louisville/Jefferson County pardon application was never complete and rarely received a positive reply without his signature.
John B. Huston – Besides competing for the worst handwriting award for Civil War Kentucky—stiff competition from James F. Robinson and James Guthrie—Huston was a power broker, attorney and state legislator from central Kentucky, whose endorsement of a pardon application carried a lot of weight with multiple Kentucky governors.
John B. Temple – Attorney, banker, and president of the Kentucky Military Board—Temple exerted a lot of power in all Kentucky military matters. He and the Military Board of Kentucky were de facto Commander-in-chief of Kentucky, slowly whittling away Beriah Magoffin's military authority with the aid of the Kentucky General Assembly.
George W. Norton – President of the Southern Bank of Kentucky, he was a Magoffin ally, made sizable loans the Commonwealth of Kentucky to support Magoffin in his efforts to purchase arms early in the war. Other banks made similar investments, yet Norton appeared to have the ear of the governor.
C. D. Pennebaker – Lawyer, politician, Colonel of the 27th Kentucky Infantry, and Kentucky Military Agent in Washington, DC. He served in the legislature, commanded troops in battle, and served in a civilian military post for Kentucky in DC. In addition to this he wrote the more thorough letters and reports. Kudos Mr. Pennebaker!
W. T. Samuels – Not unlike Matt Damon's character in The Good Shepherd, Samuels had the dirt on everyone following his stint as state auditory. Given his knowledge of everyone's finances and his legal prowess, he was a potential kingmaker in the Blue Grass. (In other words, there's a reason he's one of the few through-and-through Unionists to remain powerful in state government post-1865.)
D. W. Lindsay – He commanded a crew of paid guerrilla hunters under the heading of "secret police"; these men, like Edwin "Bad Ed' Terrell, were paid to track down and kill Kentucky's most notorious bushwhackers.
Stephen Burbridge – Though he technically fell under the authority of Thomas Bramlette in Kentucky, Burbridge more or less did as he pleased, which included deeming other powerful Union officers (like Gen. John B. Huston) disloyal and having them arrested on behalf of President Lincoln.
Thomas Bramlette – As governor he oversaw nearly all of the state's wartime activities—and was still expected to keep civil government afloat.
E. H. Taylor, Sr. – Taylor was a member of the influential Military Board (which oversaw military purchases for the state) at the same time he helped run one of the state's major money-lenders. If you needed a loan—and Kentucky always needed a loan—this was the man to see.
Thomas Bramlette – He takes first place by virtue of holding the highest office for the longest amount of time, evidenced by almost 3,000 documents.
John W. Finnell – As Adjutant General, principal military advisor to Gov. Bramlette while a war was raging, he was in a very influential role.
Samuel Suddarth – Serving as Quarter Master General, Suddarth was tasked with keeping the troops supplied by managing the ordering & distributing of supplies essential to the war effort.
James F. Robinson – Though he served as Governor for a short time, he was part of a compromise wherein the Confederate-leaning Magoffin agreed to step down and let Robinson, a moderate, take over. Interestingly, since he never resigned his Senate seat, he technically filled both rolls simultaneously.
James Garrard – He served as State Treasurer throughout the war, and as Mayer Amschel Rothschild allegedly said, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."
James F. Robinson – Don't let his one-year term as Governor fool you, Robinson played state politics as adeptly as Frank Underwood could have done. While we can't know if he pushed anyone in front of a train, Robinson adeptly turned down the senate speakership before having a cabal of Lexington friends arrange Magoffin's resignation and his convoluted ascension to the Executive Mansion. As George Washington showed, the best way to accrue power is to look like you don't want it. More astonishingly, Robinson refused to vacate his senate seat, leaving him free to return to harassing the Lincoln administration via the Committee on Federal Relations after Bramlette took office.
Hamilton Pope – Louisville politics ran through Hamilton Pope. An old-Whig and former Know-Nothing, Pope was undoubtedly part of the closed-door decision that cut Louisville German and Irish immigrants out of independent regiments and elevated his brother, Curran Pope, to a Colonelcy. In addition to being an invaluable petition signature for anyone hoping for a pardon out of the Jefferson Circuit Court, Pope also runs point on using city government and the police department to enforce (increasingly irrelevant) fugitive slave laws.
Rufus K. Williams – A fiercely Unionist circuit judge from the overwhelmingly Confederate Jackson Purchase, Williams raised a military unit and used his recruits to broker a deal for himself. When the time came to muster his troops into federal service, Williams traded a permanent military commission for a seat on the Kentucky Court of Appeals (the forerunner of the state supreme court) vacated by rebel sympathizer Alvin Duvall—ditching a hostile local electorate for a secure post backed by the statewide Unionist majority.
Madison C. Johnson – His brother, rebel governor George W. Johnson, gets all the headlines in the family, but Madison Johnson controlled most of the available credit in the Bluegrass via the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Johnson arranged hundreds of thousands of dollars in military loans to the Commonwealth in 1861-62—and was never hesitant to hold up the next installment to ease along a friend's military commission. His loans to the state, backed by eventual federal repayment, helped his bank weather the collapse of many borrowers' fortunes after slavery ended in 1865.
Sherley & Woolfolk – This Louisville corporate duo of Zachariah M. Sherley and Richard H. Woolfolk often appear together in documents. Their firm ran a number of steamboats along the Ohio River and operated an outfitting business that sold supplies to others. Consequently, whether the state needed to move a battalion from Maysville to Paducah or buy a few barrels of ships biscuit to feed a hungry regiment, Sherley & Woolfolk were ready and willing to profit. That they signed insider political petitions under their corporate name shows an awareness of the importance of their business to the management of the war and, perhaps, some intuition for hammering home a branding message.
MOST MEMORABLE NAMES: Our editors have compiled a list of the most memorable names encountered in the CWG-K database in 2015.
Greenberry Tingle
Swift Raper
Wam Timbar (involved in a hatchet-throwing case, if you can believe it)
Green Forrest
August Worms
MOST MEMORABLE DEMISE: If you've followed the CWG-K blog over the past few months, it's readily apparent that the database has no paucity of unusual and/or gruesome deaths. Each editor has selected the most memorable demise.
Jane Doe Murder Victim – In October 1865, evidence was presented concerning the corpse of a woman, approximately twenty-five years old, found on the outskirts of Louisville. The following is a description of her condition: "Her wounds are as follows a cut over each Eye one on forehand Forehead one just in front of Right Ear. Several Bruises on inside of right thigh and a wound which looked as though the flesh was twisted out her intestines was puled from her body through the Fundament Showing an act of the moste Diabolical rufianian the intestines cut or pulled loose from her body. Her cloths were all torn off of her not a Partickel remaining on her except one garter. Her right arm had been amputated just below the shoulder. the Evidences was plain of a sever strugle with some one from all I can learn I think a Negro did it."
Ewing Litterell – An uninvited Litterell drunkenly barged into the home of James Savage, proclaimed himself "a stud horse" and boasted that he'd had sexual relations with all of the women in the house (and that he would do it again whenever he pleased). Savage let a full load of buckshot — which he fired into Litterell's chest — serve as a "no you won't."
Philip Medard – In January 1864, Philip Medard of Jefferson County died of cold and starvation after his son, Jacob Medard, "did confine & Starve his said father in an out house & kitchen & did starve and freeze him the said Philip by refusing to provide meat & food & clothing for him, & by thus exposing him to the weather." There are definitely more violent deaths in the CWG-K database, but to date, only one happened in the out house.
Colonel Francis M. Alexander – In what seems to have been an un-diagnosed case of post-traumatic stress disorder, Alexander drew a pistol on and killed a good friend without any motive or memory of the incident. His pardon petition is a moving account of a man coming to grips with his actions and his state of mind. "The exciting circumstances of the rebellion and its fearful consequences…which in rapid and mournful succession swept over his native, and beloved State, have Come upon his anxious and troubled mind with such force, that many events have transpired in his history during the last four years of his country's trial, which appear to him almost as a dream."
MOST OUTRAGEOUS PARDON: A major component of the CWG-K archive is requests for executive clemency. Each member of the editorial staff was tasked with identifying the most memorable pardon of 2015.
Otha Reynolds – In May 1862, Peter Gastell jumped bail and caused his bondholder, Reynolds, to forfeit $1000 to the court. That is, until Reynolds petitioned Governor Thomas Bramlette for clemency. Bramlette gave no legal justification for issuing Reynolds a remission, but said this: "Being in a merciful mood Ordered that this forfeiture except costs & fees be remitted."
Michael Foley – An Irish rail worker and former Union vet, Foley believed that Merritt and Vardiman Dicken were pro-Confederate guerrillas on the run. In reality, the Dicken brothers were themselves fleeing from an attack by pro-Confederate bushwhackers. Foley attempted to detain the brothers and killed Merritt in the process. Governor Thomas E. Bramlette granted Foley a full pardon on the logic that it was better to accidentally kill men who might not have been guerrillas than to let any potential guerrillas escape unharmed.
Garrett Whitson – Supporters of Garrett Whitson successfully requested his pardon for murdering violent melon thief, John Spikard. In the petition, they do not claim his innocence, but rather report that Whitson was convicted on the flimsy evidence of two notorious prostitutes, relatives of the deceased. That, combined with his ill health and large family, was enough to procure his release.
Lawrence County Lynch Mob – In KYR-0001-004-3193, the members of a lynch mob on the Kentucky-West Virginia border preemptively write to Governor Bramlette late in 1865 after they have caught and summarily executed members of a pro-Confederate guerrilla band which had murdered many men in their community. "In getting Rid of them People Did not think that the act was unlawful & might get those Engaged in it in Trouble They only felt that Each man woman and child in our Valley was safer than before."
TIME TRAVEL MEETING: Finally, we've asked each editor to select one character from the CWG-K archive that they would most like to spend an hour with when the Flux Capacitor becomes a reality.
Richard Hawes – Mostly to ask, where were you? What did you do for three years after you were installed as Provisional Governor of Kentucky?
Joseph Swigert – In a word: bourbon. The Swigert family owned the Leestown Distillery (which would later become E. H. Taylor's O. F. C. Plant, then the George T. Stagg Distillery, and today Buffalo Trace).
Sarah Bingham – It's safe to say that upon moving to Grant County in 1866, Ms. Bingham did not receive a warm welcome from the neighbors. The women of the area "were of the opinion that the morals of the neighborhood would not be improved by having in their midst a common prostitute." When her cabin burned down, nine local men indicted for arson. The petitioners claim these men were honorable, respectable citizens who would never commit such a common crime and accuse Sarah Bingham of burning her own house down with the intent to disgrace these men. Their petition was refused by Bramlette, who, like myself, must have realized there was more to this story.
Benjamin F. Buckner – Because I feel like I've already spent so much time with him.
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We're all on the lookout for bathroom decorating ideas. From small bathrooms to large ones, from family bathrooms to en suite, there are more varieties and options than any other room in the house.
Unless we're very fortunate and building our own house, we have little or no control over the size of out bathrooms.
So here are some suggested plans for your bathroom decorating ideas. There are some computer generated views so you can see how the floor plans might translate into real life if you were to stand in the bathrooms and look around.
Most of us at some stage in our lives have to deal with small areas which have to contain all the essential items for a bathroom. Or large ones where we are spoilt for choice.
One of the best ways to make sure everything works together is to draw a floor plan.
You can then make sure there's enough space for all the different items such as a bath, shower, vanity unit, etc, and also room for people!
Here's a few plans for bathrooms, and we've also generated 3D views from the plans. This helps to see how it will look in real life, although with obvious limitations.
Some of us can't live without our baths, no matter how small the room. This is a plan of a bathroom just 4'6" by 8'6". Using a floor plan shows we can just get all the necessary items in. It's a bit of a squeeze, but managable.
There are other options we could use. A shower unit wouldn't take up as much room as the bath, and would make more space available to move around. Or have a corner bath with an integral shower. Constructing a floor plan allows you to explore all these options.
The 3D view gives an idea of how it could look - the red dot is the viewpoint.
If on the other hand you prefer a shower and a generous amount of space, then this shower room will do nicely. There's plenty of room to move around, and while the length of the room is only 6 inches longer than the previous example, the extra 3 feet on the width gives a much more spacious room.
The extra size of this room means you have much more scope for your design. It would easily take a bath with a shower screen. Or an extra wide 'walk in' shower, and move the other items around.
Larger bathrooms give you much more scope for your bathroom decorating ideas. You'll often have a number of choices of where to place your bath or shower, and you can start to make the bathroom a bit more interesting. There may be room for pictures, plants and one or two chairs.
This example shows how you can use these items in your bathroom, plus rugs on the floor to provide both color interest and comfort. Low wall sections are used to divide spaces.
A large bathroom gives you the opportunity to make it not just a functional room, but more a decorated part of your home.
Are you tired of standard tiled walls and bland looks?
If you want a change from the normal sanitary ware for washbasins and other essentials, why not install some furniture?
Having furniture with work surfaces as illustrated here is a very practical way of arranging your bathroom. The wood is a nice change from more utility solutions, and gives your bathroom a less clinical appearance.
If you use this online resource you'll be able to explore your bathroom decorating ideas and room layouts in a similar way as the examples you can see on this page.
If your bathroom is big enough, why not set aside one area with a dressing table?
We automatically think of the bedroom as the logical place for this. But if your bathroom has more room and the space is available, why not use it?
By having a comfortable chair and placing a suitable rug on the floor, you'll have an ideal dressing table area. It also make your bathroom less 'utility' and gives it a more 'home decor' look.
Here's another of the bathroom decorating ideas for using furniture.
It works particularly well with older furniture, and with a little imagination you can use all sorts of items.
With a marble top, washbasin and faucets (taps) installed, you have a very practical and attractive piece of furniture with matching mirror.
Having separate units such as this works best in a bathroom with enough space, so the furniture is free to stand with room around it.


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Home» News » Aurora » Aurora Scheduling Software Enables On-Time Aircraft Deliveries
Aurora Scheduling Software Enables On-Time Aircraft Deliveries
Building next-generation aircraft may be a daunting task logistically, but using new software developed with Missile Defense Agency (MDA) funding could save manufacturers time, cost, and labor, ensuring quicker deliveries around the world.
Stottler Henke Associates of San Mateo, CA originally developed its Aurora™ scheduling technology for NASA to use in managing the timing of International Space Station construction. After serving NASA, Stottler Henke upgraded Aurora's capabilities with new algorithms developed for missile defense engagement planning.
The enhancements were funded through an MDA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract in 2006, and a Phase II contract in 2008. The company was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract from the Boeing Company following the release of a benchmark study Boeing conducted. The study concluded that Aurora was more efficient in managing resources than the system used by Boeing for almost two decades. Stottler Henke's technology is now the primary scheduling tool for production of Boeing 787 aircraft.
Stottler Henke's challenge was to improve the manufacturing efficiencies of Boeing's 787 project by optimizing aircraft assembly schedules through the use of software designed for better resource management — from equipment to personnel. The problem could be tackled only after fully realizing the scope of Boeing's operation.
In operational tests, Aurora reduced the amount of time needed on Boeing 787 construction projects through a more efficient use of resources by 10 percent to 30 percent over other commercial schedulers.
Initially, the central problem Boeing faced was a lack of space due to a large number of workers manning stations around the center part of a fuselage where the wings were being mounted, while fewer workers were busy elsewhere on the aircraft. So Boeing first asked Stottler Henke to program Aurora for optimal assignment of workers during production of a generic 787. The programming took into account that only a limited number of people could work in a given area to ensure safety and to ensure that tasks would be performed properly. Once Stottler Henke had completed the programming for a generic 787, Boeing created additional configurations to meet the specifications of purchasing airlines. Such airline- specific scheduling continues today at Boeing, aided by the efficiencies of Aurora software.
Design of the Aurora software is based on the premise that order is the key to success. A company like Boeing might be working on several large projects in its assembly plant, but corporate executives are well aware that each large project requires completion of many small tasks, in a certain order, and within prescribed time limits. Most advanced scheduling systems competing with Aurora can crunch such data without much of a problem. But none of them uses intelligent breakdowns of data, including variables that can change the entire picture of how time and labor need to be distributed.
Aurora offers companies more than just a simple schedule for best managing a project's tasks. Using corporate data that is input into Aurora, the software can analyze the full potential of the workforce based on skills, work shifts, staffing requirements for certain tasks, actual working space where a task is being conducted, and perhaps most importantly, keeping the workflow in sync with schedule completion requirements. A company can also use the program to interchange variables such as the ordering of projects or staffing requirements on certain tasks to develop a production schedule that best suits specific corporate interests.
Where it Stands
Stottler Henke continues to look beyond the Boeing contract, seeking to have Aurora in many aerospace manufacturing and repair centers across the country. The company most recently contracted to provide scheduling services for a division of Acument Aerospace Technologies, which makes aircraft fasteners and bolts for many manufacturers, including Boeing.
Outside of the company's aerospace contracts and success, the company would entertain partnerships with companies that desire high-quality scheduling models as part of their software systems.
For more information on Stottler Henke's Aurora system, visit http://info.hotims.com/22928-517. (Source: Joe Singleton/NTTC; MDA TechUpdate, Missile Defense Agency, National Technology Transfer Center Washington Operations)
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Q: com.sun.xml.internal.ws.developer.JAXWSProperties not found at compile We used the class JAXWSProperties from the com.sun.* package in the code in order to set timeout properties like this:
import com.sun.xml.internal.ws.developer.JAXWSProperties;
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Map<String, Object> ctxt = ((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext();
ctxt.put(JAXWSProperties.CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 10000);

It compiles fine in the local Eclipse, but not on a continuous integration system (both using JDK 1.6). From researching this problem, I learned that the com.sun.* package should be avoided.
So my questions are:

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*What causes the failed import at compile time?

*What should be used instead of JAXWSProperties?

A: I've just had pretty much the same problem while converting one of our projects to run under Maven.
The solution I found, isn't really an ideal solution, in fact it's more of a "cludge" than a "fix," although it does run through the compiler OK. Like you I did a bit of research on this issue, and found a comment from Sun saying that these packages are hidden from the compiler, but are available to the JVM.
So, the solution I found was to simply find the string to which the constant was pointing, and use that locally.
In your case it would be:
final static String CONNECT_TIMEOUT = "com.sun.xml.internal.ws.connect.timeout";
....
Map<String, Object> ctxt = ((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext();
ctxt.put(CONNECT_TIMEOUT, 10000);

As I mentioned, this isn't ideal, and can not be guaranteed to work in future compiler releases, so use with care.


The private sector wants to know what has become of government's plan to divest some of its "strategic assets".
Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry Senior Vice President Tracey Shuffler said this was something corporate Barbados hoped for, but did not hear in this week's Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals. She was reacting to the presentation by Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Chris Sinckler.
Shuffler said some private sector agencies, including the Chamber, wanted the possibility of public/private sector partnerships where non strategic assets could be sold to national interests or sold to the highest bidder.
"That is something that we heard very little about… The question is: What is going to be the criteria to measure it? How do we decide what is a strategic asset to what is not? But at least let us open that discourse," she stated.
Another omission she identified from the Budget was a well enunciated plan to improve productivity and service levels in Barbados.
"The question is how do we really take that forward? How do we make it evident that we are not only looking at those but tracing and measuring them to ensure that we get to a level of international competitiveness to bring Barbados into the future?" she asked.


The work included manufacturing and installing a ducktail, tank top repairs and changes to some of the tanks' functionality, propeller repair and polishing, and blasting and painting of the underwater hull.
One of the key considerations for the vessel's owners, according to Seaspan, was ensuring the chosen shipyard had an excellent reputation and understood the care and consideration needed to work on this luxury expedition ship.
Silver Explorer arrived for the docking in mid-September and the work was completed Oct. 11—on time and on budget, according to Seaspan. The ship was back in the ocean the same day.
The company worked with local suppliers and other partners selected by Silversea to oversee the refit. Some 125 contractors were involved.
'Exciting projects like this enable Seaspan to create and sustain highly skilled, middle-class jobs here in our community of North Vancouver,' said Paul Hebson, VP and general manager of Vancouver Drydock.
Through the two yards, Seaspan employs approximately 2,000 workers dedicated to vessel construction, repair and conversion of varying size and complexity.
Silver Explorer was Silversea's first expedition ship in 2008, when it was introduced as Prince Albert II. It is scheduled to operate the company's first Northeast Passage voyage in August 2019.


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Demons of War (Polish: Demony wojny według Goi) is a 1998 Polish war film by Władysław Pasikowski set during the Bosnian War.

Plot
After the Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina is occupied by the NATO-led (IFOR) Implementation Force. In February 1996, a unit of Polish IFOR troops from the 6th Airborne Brigade detains and releases three foreign mercenaries in Srebrenica, before they can be executed by a Bosnian mob. The Polish unit is led by Major Edward "Edek" Keller (Bogusław Linda).  Soon later, Keller is under investigation for insubordination and for clashes with the Bosnian militia and foreign mercenaries. The investigation is led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki (Olaf Lubaszenko) and Major Czesław Kusz (Tadeusz Huk), who will replace Keller as the commanding officer of the battalion on 1 March. The investigation comes at a sensitive time for Polish forces, as the Polish government tries to become a member of NATO. Keller maintains command of the unit, until his commission ends.

Upon Czacki and Kusz's arrival, the unit receives a distress call from a downed Norwegian helicopter. Keller assembles his unit for a search and rescue mission to the downed chopper. However, his mission is rejected by the IFOR command. Despite the order, Keller ignores it and goes on with the mission. After locating the helicopter, members of the crew are found dead.  Keller and the unit goes after the militia that killed the helicopter crew. The unit manages to locate a group of twenty Bosnian militia fighters, that are led by Skija (Slobodan Custic), a foreign mercenary. The militia is also holding two captives, a young French female journalist named Nicol (Aleksandra Niespielak) and a male Bosnian press representative named Dano Ivanov (Denis Delić). Keller, himself, manages to stealthily kill one of the militiamen and rescue the captives. The unit then heads for a helicopter extraction, while the militia discovers that someone killed one of their fighters.  Skija sends his men to hunt them down and locate an important missing videotape, that was held by Ivanov.

During extraction, the unit's helicopter is shot down before landing. Immediately, the unit is ambushed by the militia and several troops are wounded. The unit manages to eliminate some of the fighters and break out.  After the engagement, some of the Polish soldiers argue with Keller that they are just a peacekeeping force and wish not to fight. However, Keller manages to keep them in line. The unit continues on foot and then establishes camp at a farm. There, Keller and the unit discover that Ivanov was in possession of videotape that the militia is trying to acquire. According to Nicol, the tape shows a mass execution of a Bosnian village ordered by the Bosnian Prime Minister. The next morning, Ivanov kills one of Keller's soldiers and escapes the camp. As the unit heads for their base, they are ambushed yet again by the militia and Keller is forced to give up the important videotape. Keller and his unit are spared by the militia, and then go after Skija and the militia, who are trying to burn down the Gypsy village where Keller and his unit had established camp earlier.  Keller and his unit attack the militia at the village. Keller eventually confronts Skija and it is revealed that Ivanov promised to bribe one of Keller's officers for the videotape. Keller then kills Skija after being saved by Kusz. After arriving at the base, the cost and pain of warfare takes a toll on the unit.  It is also revealed that the unit retrieved the videotape, and Ivanov was actually in possession of a Polish pornography tape.  Keller is then relieved of his command, and Kusz takes control of the Polish battalion.  Before heading back to Poland, Keller gives the tape to the French journalist Nicol. The film closes with Keller sitting on the plane with several coffins of dead soldiers from his unit.

Awards
Wanda Zeman: Polish Film Awards (nominee) - best editing (1999)
Paweł Edelman: Polish Film Awards (nominee) – best cinematography (1999)
Marcin Pospieszalski: Polish Film Awards (nominee) – best score (1999)

External links

1998 films
Polish war drama films
1990s Polish-language films
Bosnian War films
Films directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Yugoslav Wars in fiction
1990s war drama films
1998 drama films

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For in situ hybridization localization of mRNAs for BDNF, NT3, trkB and trkC, the tissue was sequentially rinsed in 0.1 M glycine in phosphate buffer, 0.1 M phosphate buffer, 0.25% acetic anhydride in 0.1 M triethanolamine, (pH 8.0 for 15 min at room temperature), and 2X saline sodium citrate buffer (SSC; 1X SSC = 150 mM NaCl, 15 mM sodium citrate; pH 7.0). Afterwards, the tissue was dehydrated through increasing concentrations of ethanol, defatted in chloroform, and rehydrated. Hybridization solution (10% dextran sulfate, 50% formamide, 35X Dendhardt's solution, 0.15 mg/ml yeast tRNA, 0.30 mg/ml salmon sperm DNA, 40 mM dithiothreitol, and 1 million cpm radiolabeled cRNA transcript/100 ml) was applied to each slide (250 ml). Slides were coverslipped and incubated at 60�C for 17 to 19 h. Following the incubation, the slides were rinsed in 4X saline sodium citrate buffer containing 0.16 g sodium thiosulfate/100 ml at 60�C for 60 min. Tissue was then treated with ribonuclease A (12 kunitz units/ml in 0.1 M Tris, 0.5 M NaCl, 0.01 M EDTA, pH 8.0) at 45�C for 45 min. The sections were rinsed in decreasing concentrations of saline sodium citrate buffer containing sodium thiosulfate for 17 to 20 h, rinsed in 0.05 M phosphate buffer and dried. Slides were exposed to Amersham bmax-Hyperfilm for 3 to 5 d, then dipped in Kodak NTB2 nuclear track emulsion (1:1 dilution with water) and exposed for 3 to 9 w. The emulsion was developed using Kodak D19 developer. Sections were stained with cresyl violet or neutral red, and coverslipped with Permount. Tissue sections were examined for localization of BDNF, NT3, trkB, and trkC mRNAs using dark field microscopy.
Tissue sections were rinsed in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, then pre-incubated in 2% bovine serum albumen and 0.25% Triton X-100 for 1 h. Sections were washed in phosphate buffer and incubated in chicken antibody to NT3 (Promega; 22 mg/ml; 19 h at 4�C) or in rabbit antibody to trkB (Transduction Labs; 1:100; 19 h at 4�C). Tissue was then rinsed in phosphate buffer and incubated in biotinylated anti-chicken immunoglobulin G (1:200) for 2 h at room temperature. After rinsing in phosphate buffer, tissue was incubated in horseradish peroxidase avidin-biotin complex (Vector Laboratories, Burlingame, CA) for 90 min at room temperature. Sections were rinsed in phosphate buffer, then reacted with diaminobenzidine (0.1 mg/ml) in phosphate buffer containing 0.03% hydrogen peroxide and 0.06% nickel chloride for 10 to 20 min, and rinsed. Sections were mounted onto gelatin-coated slides, and air-dried. Tissue was dehydrated through alcohols, cleared in Americlear, and coverslipped with Permount.
Tissue sections were examined for immunoreactivity using light field microscopy.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the distribution of BDNF, NT3, trkB, and trkC cRNA hybridization in sagittal sections through the embryonic rat head. In the dark field photomicrographs, autoradiographic silver grains, which indicate labeling, appear white.
As seen in Figures 2B and 2C, low levels of BDNF mRNA were expressed in the developing rat olfactory system. Hybridization of BDNF cRNA occurred in the olfactory epithelium at embryonic day 14 (Figure 2B). At this age, high levels of labeling were seen in the heart and the choroid plexus. By embryonic day 20, BDNF mRNA was detected in the tongue, in the facial mesoderm, and in the mesoderm underlying the olfactory epithelium. Very little labeling was seen in the olfactory epithelium at this age (Figure 2C). Hybridization was not seen in the olfactory bulb at any age examined.


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