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Journal/Ray Lightner
402nd Maintenance Group commander Col. Robert Hopkins, center, holds the 2006
Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research. Pictured from the left
are Sridharan Chandrasekaran from Realization technologies Dr. Mandayam Srinivasan
from University of Tennessee, Leigh Thompson of the 559th Air Maintenance Squadron,
Hopkins, Mark Doherty, executive director of INFORMS and WRALC commander Major
Gen. Tom Owen.
AWARD
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He credited “the team mem
bers, the men and women
on the floor,” of the 402nd
Maintenance Group and
the 559th Air Maintenance
Squadron for their efforts,
which “approved the lean
process, produced a big sav
ings for our customer and
returned the planes to the
warfighters.”
Owen said “Air Mobility
Command is very pleased,
they asked me ‘can you
bring more work to Warner
Robins?’ We’ll certainly do
what we can.”
The award, he said, “it’s
a challenge to us to continue
DOBSON
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rejected by the one you love.
But by courage and determi
nation, you will survive the
crisis that has beset your
home.
With that, let me say that
the compulsion that is driv
ing you to plead for Joe’s
attention and love is sys
tematically destroying your
last glimmer of hope for
reconciliation. By groveling
before him, you are strip
ping yourself of all dignity
and respect. Those two atti
tudes are critical ingredients
in any stable and fulfilling
relationship.
This is the message you
POWELL
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Eventually the long arm of
the law will reach out and
cut short the rule of dic
tators. Such was the case
of Panamanian strong
man Manuel Noriega, who
flaunted his international
drug trafficking, racketeer
ing, and money-laundering
for many years. Noriega
was captured by U. S. troops
in 1989, tried for his crimes,
and is currently serving a
40-year prison term. One
dictator was guilty of can
nibalism-he ate those who
dared oppose or criticize him.
He was Jean-Bedel Bokassa,
one of Africa’s most ruthless
dictators. Bokassa massa
cred 100 school children who
complained about school
uniforms they were required
to buy from his factory. He
was convicted of murder and
sentenced to death.
One of the most ruthless
tyrants in Biblical literature
was King Nebuchadnezzar.
The Lord severely punished
Nebuchadnezzar. His was
COLE
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reminisced. My eyes are a
bit misty now as I share the
experience. What an impact
that a little tap on the shoul
der and two softly spoken
words made. What an impact
that chance meeting instilled
in my aging years.
“How we thank You Lord!
Your mighty miracles give
proof that You care.” -
Psalms 75:1, Living Bible.
down the path of improv
ing.”
Owen also credited part
nership with the improve
ments. “Taking diverse
strengths and bringing;
them together is my man
goal here at Warner Robins.
Partnering with the commu
nity, local education and the
defense industry.”
Working with Realization
Technologies and facul
ty from the University of
Tennessee, WRALC used
a technique called critical
chain project management
to reduce the number of
C-5 aircraft being repaired
and overhauled from 13 to
seven in just eight months.
The time required to repair
are inadvertently convey
ing: “Oh, Joe, I need you so
badly. I can’t make it with
out you. I spend my days
waiting for you to call and
I’m crushed when the phone
doesn’t ring. Won’t you
please, please let me talk to
you occasionally? I’ll take
you any way I can have you
- even if you want to walk
all over me. I am desperate
here without you.”
This is a classic panic reac
tion, and it is leading you
to appease your husband.
Appeasement is virtually
never successful in human
relationships. In fact, it
often leads directly to war,
whether between husbands
and wives or between antag
onistic nations. Attempts by
stripped of royal power and
driven from society where he
lived like a wild animal, eat
ing grass like an ox for seven
years. Belshazzar, the King of
Babylon, was killed the same
night a human hand myste
riously began writing on the
palace wall during a state
banquet. The hand proph
esied that Balshazzar’s days
were numbered and that his
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and overhaul the C-5 was
reduced by 33 percent.
Doherty said the C-5 team
efforts produced a savings of
SSO million per year, and the
technique has been extended
to the C-17 and C-130 teams.
The additional workload the
WRALC is accommodating
in the dock spaces freed up
will bring in additional reve
nue of sll9 million through
2008, with this number pro
jected to increase to $248
million by 2009. .
INFORMS is an interna
tional scientific society with
10,000 members, including
Nobel Prize laureates, dedi
cated to applying scientific
methods to help improve
decision-making, manage-
one side to “buy off” an
aggressor or offender may
seem like proposals of peace,
but in most cases they mere
ly precipitate further insult
and conflict.
Nothing destroys a roman
tic relationship more quickly
than for a person to throw
himself or herself, weeping
and clinging, on the back of
the cool partner to beg for
mercy.
That makes the wayward
spouse even more eager to
escape from the leech that
threatens to suck his life’s
blood. He may pity the
wounded partner and wish
that things were different,
but he can rarely bring him
self to love again under those
circumstances.
kingdom would be given to
the Medes and Persians.
In Joshua 10, five Amorite
kings escaped from a battle
with the Israelite army and
fled for refuge in a cave at
Makkedah (Canaanite city).
Joshua learned of their hid
ing place and had big stones
rolled against the cave’s
entrance and guards placed
there until the battle was
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Mark Doherty, executive director of INFORMS talks about the efforts of the C-5 team as
Bill Best, Sridharan Chandrasekaran from Realization Technologies, Leigh Thompson
of the 559th Air Maintenance Squadron, 402nd Maintenance Group commander Col.
Robert Hopkins and WRALC commander Maj. Gen. Tom Owen look on.
ment, and operations. The
award is named after Franz
Edelman, a refugee from
Nazi Germany who worked
at RCA and established the
operations research group
there.
The award is referred
to as the “Super Bowl of
Operations Research” and
brings together the best
examples of innovation
from large and small, for
profit and nonprofit, cor
porate and governmental
organizations around the
world. Past winners include:
General Motors, Motorola,
the Israeli Air Force,
Continental Airlines and the
City of San Francisco Police
Department.
You need to understand
that Joe’s withdrawal from
the relationship is directly
linked to his quest for free
dom.
He is feeling suffocated
and wants to escape from
the marriage. By humiliat
ing yourself and clinging to
his ankles each time you
meet, you increase his desire
to get away.
The more he struggles to
gain his freedom, the more
he feels your clutches tight
en around him. It becomes a
vicious cycle.
Question: Are all forms
of child abuse illegal?
Dobson: Not in any prac
tical sense. Within certain
limits it is not illegal to
ignore a child or raise him
concluded. Then Joshua
removed the kings from
the cave and hanged them
on five trees. At sundown
Joshua ordered their bodies
thrown back into the cave
and its entrance permanent
ly sealed with large stones.
Proverbs 28:3 states: “A
ruler who oppresses the poor
is like a driving rain that
leaves no crops.”
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The other 2006 nomi
nees were Animal Health
Institute and Cox Associates,
the US Commercial
Aviation Partnership, Omya
Hustadmarmor and More
Research/Molde University
College and Travelocity &
Sabre Holdings. Doherty
also announced the 2007
Franz Edelman award final
ists. They include:
• Coca-Cola, for a proj
ect entitled “Optimizing
Distribution at Coca-Cola
Enterprises;”
• The U.S. Coast Guard,
for “Maximizing Aircraft
Availability by Managing
Aircraft Maintenance
Throughput at the U.S.
Coast Guard Aircraft Repair
or her without love. Nor is
it against the law to ridi
cule and humiliate a boy or
girl. Those forms of rejection
may be more harmful even
than some forms of physical
abuse, but they are tougher
to prove and are usually not
prosecutable.
Dr. Dobson is founder and
chairman of the board of
Superior
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• Hewlett-Packard,
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• Daimler Chrysler and
J.D. Power and Associates
for “PIN Incentive Planning
System: A Decision Support
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