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"Captains Drive Inn" Sunday 20th January 2019
- Assemble in the Club House 11.30 a.m.
- "Captains Drive In" 12 noon
- 3 Ball Better Ball (Shot Gun Start 12.30 p.m.) 9 Hole Stable-ford Competition.
- The in-coming Captains, Tom Molumby & Karen Odlum with Presidents Bosco When & Teresa Bradshaw and Officers of the Club look forward to meeting you and wish everyone an enjoyable year of Golf in 2019.
Mixed Match Play Winners 2018
Liam Ryan and Elizabeth Meagher.
Presented by Blathnaid Bergin, Lady Captain Andrea Rogers and Captain Noel Burke.
Runners Up of the Mixed Match Play 2018
Liam Dunne and Elaine Mahony (Absent). Presented by Blathnaid Bergin and Captain Noel Burke.
Monster Christmas Hamper Draw
Takes place on Wednesday 19th December 2018 after the A.G.M. Please remember to submit draw cards this week.
The A.G.M of Abbeyleix Golf Club will be held on the Club House on Wednesday 19th December 2018 @ 7.30 pm. Motions for A.G.M and nominations for Council, (Proposed and Seconded) to be lodged with Secretary 5 days in advance of meeting. Nominations /Motions Slips on Notice Board. Place Nomination / Motion Slips in brown envelope provided and place in green fees box.
Golfer of the Year Peter Dunne 2018
Christmas Charity Flower Demonstration 2018
There will be a Christmas Charity Flower Demonstration in the Club House by Lawlor's Florists on Wednesday 5th December 2018 at 8.00 p.m. Admission €10 Special Door Prize and a compliment glass of wine.
Singles Match Play 2018
Donal O'Callaghan accepting the Singles Match Play Stone Arch Trophy 2018 from Captain Noel Burke on behalf of his son Oisín O'Callaghan. This is the second time Oisín has won this Trophy. He won it in 2014.
Oisín OCallaghan Singles Match Play Winner 2018 and 2014 with Fr Seán Conlon
Runner Up Singles Match Play 2018
Joe Anderson with captain Noel Burke
Captains Celebration Night 2018
Saturday 1st December 2018 at 9.00 p.m. in the club house Music, Dance and Food. A special night of thanks to all supporters of the club in 2018 Admission Free.
Men's Fourball Match play Winners 2018
Cyril Bacon and Tom Reilly with Captain Noel Burke
Mass for Deceased Members Relatives and Friends of Abbeyleix Golf Club
Friday 16th November at 8.00 p.m. in the Club House. All Welcome.
Runners Up Men's Fourball Match Play 2018
Mark and Jim Ring with Captain Noel Burke
Shaw's Open Singles Final
Bank Holiday Monday 29th October. Block Draw Please get your name down on the time sheet.
15 Hole Turkey Competition
Friday 26th to Sunday 28th October
Fundraising Classic Friday 7th to 9th September 2018
Thank you to everyone our Sponsors, Members, Visitors and Friends who helped make our fundraising weekend a tremendous success. Over €8,500 was raised for the club
Celebrating St Patrick's Day 2018
Social Night "Guests; Local Comhaltas Group, with local artists. Great night assured. Friday 16th March 2018 at 9.00 p.m. All are welcome Tickets available. Admission €5. Lots of Craic and Rúille Búille. Please support.
25 Card Drive
Abbeyleix Golf Club Saturday 27th January 8.45pm start. Admission €10. Supper Included.
"Captains Drive In" Sunday 14th January 2018.
- Assemble in the Club House 11.30 a.m. Presidents Address (Mr Tom Carroll)
- "Captains Drive In" 12 noon
- 3 Ball Better Ball (Shot Gun Start 12.30 p.m.) 9 Hole Stable-ford Competition. Pick your own Team. Time Sheet available.
- Music from 3.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m. Pat Costello no cover charge, finger food, dancing etc.
The in-coming Captains, Presidents and Club Officers look forward to meeting you and wish everyone an enjoyable year of Golf in 2018.
The A.G.M of Abbeyleix Golf Club will be held on the Club House on Friday 12th January 2018 @ 8.00 pm. Motions for A.G.M and nominations for Council, (Proposed and Seconded) to be lodged with Secretary 5 days in advance of meeting. Nominations /Motions Slips on Notice Board. Place Nomination / Motion Slips in brown envelope provided and place in green fees box.
Victorious "Left Handed" Golfers 2017. Captained by Aidan Dunphy. Receives the Trophy from PJ Peacock (Sponsor) of the "19th Hole"
Abbeyleix Golf Club Launch Souvenir Historical Calendar (December 2017)
History was made in Abbeyleix Golf Club recently with the launch of a souvenir calendar of the club.
This is no ordinary calendar but a comprehensive history from its beginning in 1895, making Abbeyleix one of the oldest established clubs in the country.
The exact location of the original course is not clear with local legend putting the first course at "The Island" between Ballyroan and Abbeyleix. It moved first to Ballymullen and then to Heywood in 1921. On the 11th. May 1927, the club moved to its present location in Rathmoyle when Mr Robert Wilde of Rathmoyle House offered the front lawn of his house as a course.
Every facet of golf club life has been highlighted in this publication, from the great victories in inter-club competitions, record scores on the course and the many social activities in the clubhouse. The introduction of celebrity golf classics helped to raise necessary finance and while the celebs enjoyed playing during the day, the song and laughter lasted long into the night.
In more recent times, members showed their prowess on the dance floor as well with a very enjoyable strictly come dancing. The club has always been very conscious of its place in the community and many different organisations have participated in fundraising efforts on the course, the local sporting groups, charitable organisations , and youth groups have always been an integral part of the fabric of the club.
Based on an idea of vice-captain Noel Burke, the project got full support from everyone in the club. A sub-committee was formed and the final product is a testament to their tremendous work. Packed with history, anecdotes and a tremendous amount of photographs, old and new, this is a calendar that will become a coffee table reference for many friends of Abbeyleix in years to come.
The 2017 captains Aidan Dunphy and Bernie Carroll launched the calendar in front of a packed audience of many past and present members in the clubhouse for the launch. The captain Aidan acknowledged the attendance of Viscount De Vesci, who had recently been awarded honorary life membership of the club.
The calendars are for sale at €10 per copy and €20 for the laminated version.
Contact Doris 0879291873. Copies may also be viewed in the local library and post office.
Up Coming Events
Left Hand Players V Right Hand Players on Friday 29th December 2017 at 11.00am . See the notice board in the club house for more details. This Years Captains Aidan Dunphy (L.H.P) and Noel Burk (R.H.P).
Last Years Winners (R.H.P) Captained by Donal O'Callaghan (Trophy Kindly Sponsored by P.J Peacock "The 19th Hole"


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HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam won a silver at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships being held in Thailand.
On Tuesday, Ly Quang Vinh came second in the men's 50kg category, lifting a total of 202kg, 11kg less than winner Zheng Liangrun from China.
Kim Yong Gun from North Korea came third, lifting 194kg.
In total, there are six athletes from Viet Nam. Among them, Nguyen Tran Tuan Anh is expected to win a medal in the men's 56kg class.
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Okay, deep breaths! I think I am ready to talk a little bit about what has been going on in my life lately. As I have vaguely mentioned in past posts, this has been a rough time for me. I had to take a step back from blogging because I have always tried to be very honest during the last 5 years since I started Run Inspired. I didn't know how to write about my life, my family, and my running without writing about what was going on. It was honestly hard to write my training recaps and about the marathon, and Kyler's monthly updates, because everything was being affected by something I didn't feel ready to talk about yet.
It has been a very difficult start to the new year. A couple weeks into 2016, things started to change in my household. My running got put WAY on the back burner, as seen in my training updates. I started really struggling to get my work done at school and within my coaching business. Certain people became absent from my pictures and my posts on social media. The reason for all of this was that my marriage suddenly fell apart. Kevin and I are now separated and he no longer lives with us. It all happened very quickly and left me feeling extremely broken. I don't want to go into the details of what happened, but it has been devastating and heartbreaking on multiple levels.
I have a lot of extremely raw emotions that come and go as I work through this grieving process. It has been a roller coaster that goes up and down, between sadness, disappointment, anger, hope, hopelessness, exhaustion… and so on. Then in the middle of all of this I had to go run a marathon, and it was one of the most defining moments of my life. It was so much more to me than just a race. It was a chance for me to show my strength, independence and resilience. To show that I can do hard things, and that good things do come to those who work hard, stay positive, and don't give up. It helped give me some of the strength and clarity that I needed to move forward.
Making the choice to continue to love, trust, and respect others when they have not given that to me in return has been the hardest thing I have ever had to do. But at the end of the day, I know that I need to do that for myself and more importantly my boys, to show them what it means to take the high road and to have good character. "Forgiveness doesn't excuse the behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart." I refuse to let the actions of others destroy my heart.
The dust is starting to settle a bit, and I'm now trying to adjust to my new "normal." My family and friends have been EVERYTHING to me during this time. I am seriously blown away by the support and love we have received. Luckily, Kevin has always been a good father and that has not changed. He is still very much around and a part of their lives, and I am thankful for that. I never expected this for our family and for our boys and while it breaks my heart, I'm glad that we can at least try to co-parent together for them.
Now that spring has begun and the world is coming to life again, I feel like I am starting to as well. Things at home are still very hard as I learn how to navigate as a single parent, but I'm taking it day by day. In "real life" I've been slowly telling people what is going on, usually in person, because it's a lot to explain and the questions that I'm asked about it all are emotionally exhausting. I plan to spend the next year of separation before we are able to file for divorce focusing on myself, but most importantly my sweet boys.
I don't know what the future holds for me, but I do plan to continue blogging about it. This space has been an amazing journal of the last 5 years of my life and I'm so thankful that I have it all documented. While I may not have as much time as I did before, it's important to me to keep blogging about this journey. It will be interesting to see where I am a year from now and where life takes me. I'm ready for the next chapter.


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QMA news
Overdiagnosis: a threat to the survival of our health care system
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Opinion letter
Dr. Hugo Viens, president of the Québec Medical Association (QMA)
All physicians overdiagnose or overtreat. From 15% to 18% of our prescriptions or treatments have minimal value, are not necessary or may even be detrimental to the health of our patients. I do it, my colleagues do it and patients request it.
In surgery, during our training we are taught that everything that comes out of the human body during a procedure must be sent for a pathological analysis. Nowadays, we should instead be explaining that it is not necessary for a pathologist to prepare a report concluding that the pieces of bone removed during knee replacement surgery had arthrosis. We already know that, the arthrosis is why we were replacing the patient's knee in the first place…
The science has shown that it is unnecessary, but we continue to do it in our hospitals. In fact, I have already had to appear before management to explain my refusal to send bone fragments to the lab after joint replacement surgeries!
Medicine has evolved
With the advances in technology and research, we know that routine exams and treatments done in some areas are unnecessary! As part of the Choosing Wisely Canada campaign, the Canadian associations of specialists have suggested more than 250 procedures that do not make any improvement to health and can sometimes even harm a patient. And the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has recently shown that up to 30% of patients targeted by eight recommendations from this campaign underwent procedures that were potentially unnecessary.
Since the QMA started the movement in 2013, this topic has been garnering increasing interest among physicians in Québec. In addition, more and more of them are acquiring the means to tackle unnecessary care and tests. But it is also up to you, the patients, to do your part.
We are all in this together
If you are over a certain age, you have probably already had a routine blood test, or maybe you see your physician once a year for an annual check-up. If you are a female under 21 or over 70, a routine PAP test may have been recommended. If your shoulder hurts, you may have asked your physician to prescribe an x-ray, or an MRI for your back pain. If you are a young parent, you may have requested antibiotics for your child the last time he or she had an ear infection or sore throat without complications.
All these treatments and tests are no longer recommended. And when we are prescribing them, we cannot see the patients who really need them. Wherever there is overdiagnosis, there is also undertreatment because the exams are no longer available for those who really need them. If we all tackle this issue, not only can we improve the access to care in Québec, we can also ensure the future of our public system. Overdiagnosis incurs costs and is a threat to universal health care.
From August 17 to 19, 2017, specialists from around the world will be meeting in Québec City at the 5th international Preventing Overdiagnosis conference that the QMA is hosting to talk about the actions they are taking at home to reduce unnecessary care and tests. For your part, you can also engage in the discussion with your physician to find out what is really necessary for your health.
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Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom brings viewers entrancing stories of some of the most exotic and beautiful creatures on our planet every Sunday at 7 PM e/p.
In Tigerhounds, which kicks off season seven of this legendary series, increasingly rare Bengal tigers have developed a taste for humans — and villagers are fighting back. In a last-ditch effort to drive these rogue cats back into the wild, scientists have assembled some unlikely candidates: street dogs. With the help of an expert dog trainer, scientists hope to transform these lowly mutts into local heroes. Will the tigerhounds save the lives of both humans and tigers, or will this unconventional approach prove you can't teach old dogs new tricks?
In Crocodile Blues, a renowned herpetologist struggles to save the world's oldest crocodilian — the gharial — from an unknown threat. Can Romulus Whitaker solve the mystery before it decimates this endagered species? Red-Faced Uakari Monkey spotlights a very peculiar primate. These tiny acrobats with the shocking red faces have been nearly impossible to study... until now. And on Wild Dog Island, six orphaned dogs receive a second chance, but will these former captives have what it takes to become masters of a land governed by survival of the fittest?
Throughout the season's 6 premiere episodes, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom continues to transport audiences to the far corners of the world, using the latest technology to explore wild animals in their natural habitats. From hot African savannas to the rain forests of South America, viewers experience uncharted territory and the unpredictability of the animal kingdom — all while staying true to the tradition of this legendary series.


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It looks like Donald Glover will be engaging in some extracurricular work outside of Greendale Community College. The Community star, who plays former high school quarterback-turned-air conditioning repair annex recruit Troy Barnes, is developing a new show for NBC with 30 Rock co-executive producer Matt Hubbard.The new sitcom is being developed as a starring vehicle for Glover. NBC is said to be committed to the project, and is close to sealing a deal for a put pilot (with a large penalty fee if it doesn't move forward) for the show, which would be loosely based on Glover's life.
But have no fear, fans of "Troy and Abed in the Morning": Glover is still committed to a fourth season of Community, and any new project would be considered "in second position." That's good enough news to break out the "no-no juice."
Glover worked as a writer on 30 Rock along with Hubbard before moving in front of the camera. Besides Community, the star headlined the Comedy Central stand-up special Donald Glover: Weirdo and was also a writer and cast member on the indie movie Mystery Team. Additionally, the actor has cultivated a hip-hop career with his alter ego Childish Gambino.
NBC has also been high on Hubbard, who won the Emmy Award in 2009 for outstanding comedy writing (for 30 Rock) and was nominated again in 2010 and 2011. His credits also include Ed.
Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan are also executive producers on the Glover comedy project. Universal Television is the studio behind the project. The show is seen as a big get for NBC, particularly given Hubbard's and Glover's pedigree.
Community returns to NBC on Friday, October 19, at 8:30/7:30c; while the final season of 30 Rockkicks off on Thursday, October 4, at 8/7c.


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Sorry for the lack of posts recently life has been very busy and I have been very useless at documenting it! But we do have lots of excitement coming up as we'll be blogging our interrailing trip around Europe - yay! More on that in a bit but firstly a couple of weeks ago now I had a LOVELY relaxing holiday in Portugal and so I thought I would do a little post about it. This is actually the second time I've been to Portugal... and not only to Portugal but to the same resort, same hotel and with the same people. One evening we were reminiscing over all the fun we had had the last time we went, wind forward five minutes we'd been on Expedia, found a great deal and booked it. RISKY MOVE. There is always the worry when you've been somewhere before that it won't live up to your expectations/ memories but thankfully this was not at all the case with Albufeira. I actually can't recommend the place enough so here's a post on all the great things that we did this time and what the area has to offer. Read more...
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Doritos are one of America's most beloved crunch snacks. The crispy tortilla chips coated in a tasty variety of powdered flavors are the perfect side for a burger, delightful for dipping, great for nachos, and they even make the perfect taco shell. They come in a variety of colors, and sometimes are even used to make a "bouquet"! Their popularity and variety makes it hard to believe where they started back in the mid 1960's.
Doritos, a Spanish word meaning little golden things, were not the inventors of tortilla chips, they were simply the first company to sell them in mass to the entire US. Their exact origin isn't exactly certain. One rumor says that a restaurant at Disneyland, Casa de Fritos, which was owned by Frito-Lay at the time, fried up their left over tortillas instead of discarding them and guests loved them. No one is really certain if this is true or not, not even Frito-Lay. There is nothing in their archives to back up the tale, so it is hard to say where the idea really came from.
Frito-Lay, the manufacturer of Doritos, began commercially selling these chips in 1964, where they were only available as plain tortilla chips were described as crispy thin wedges of toasted tortillas with a nice buttery and salty flavor. Basically, they were your average tortilla chip.
The chips gained a big following in Southern California and by 1966 they were sold across the nation. It wasn't until 1967 that the executives at Frito-Lay decided to change things up a bit and add a new flavor, taco. They simply sprinkled taco seasoning on the chips and sent them to the market. The most popular flavor, Nacho Cheese, wasn't available until 1972. In 1994 Cooler Ranch Doritos were introduced, now known only as Cool Ranch. In 1999 the company launched Smokey Red BBQ in via a Super Bowl commercial starring Ali Landry. In 2001 Zesty Sour Cream & Cheddar hit store shelve. White Nacho Cheese was introduced in 2004. All Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos made their official debut in 2010, and Rainbow Doritos were sold only for a limited period of time in 2015. A very thorough history of this popular snack can be found here.


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For a show teeming with bloodshed, from beheadings and severed limbs and castration to the death of children and unceremonious killing of royalty, there sure is a lot of love to go around in 'Game of Thrones.'
Love – and what one will do for it – was at the heart, so to speak, of the much-anticipated return of HBO's wildly captivating fantasy drama. It has been as enjoyable to see characters reach their destination as it has been watching their journey – and it's a lot of journey, which means at some times it is the slow-boring of hard boards, with shock and intrigue happening without warning.
In the meantime, there is love, and all the problems and frustrations that come with it.
And its love that makes us feels sympathetic for those who were once the most detestable villains. While continuing to evolve emotionally, Jaime Lannister returns to the screen physically transformed. That is to say, look what a new hair, shower, and shave can do for a man!
Cleaned up, and given a fake hand (so as not to scare people, perhaps), Jaime returns to a very different world, one that the viewer has seen slowly change, but one that the Kingslayer is forced to radically accept.
He has so far, albeit with much reluctance. It's strange to feel more than a bit of sorrow for the man who, when we first met him, knocked young Bran Stark out of a window in an attempt to kill him all so he could continue on a love affair with the queen. Now, after a harrowing journey, he looks to rekindle a love that he thought was pure and true, only to be rebuffed. Alas, he is "too late."
To see him and Brienne reunited in apparent safety and peace, after taking turns saving each other's lives, is one of those rare, warming moments in a show riddled with corruption, betrayal, and heartache. What's more, even there are certainly those out there still wary of Jaime, you can't help but take his side when he meets with King Joffrey, witnessing firsthand the petulant immaturity and cockiness of a boy who really, you can't wait to see get his. Anyone who throws shades at Joffrey is a winner.
Love spreads: Jon Snow is alive (for now) and mostly well, returning to inform of the wildlings doings while being questioned. He even admits to "laying next to one," which for Jon is an adorable, admirable clandestine confession of love – she's no secret!
Meanwhile Ygritte is back with Tormund, and when she speculates that Jon may be alive, Tormund tells her (and us if we hadn't already figured), that if she wanted Jon dead from the pierce of her arrows, he would be dead. It's sure to get awkward the next time they meet.
Speaking of which, back at King's Landing, the continuing bizarre love triangle that tests Tyrion, Shae, and Sansa Stark may very well be the most tragic of all of them -- and Sansa wants no part of any of it. Tyrion's quixotic nature, being secretly in love with a whore while publicly married to a teenager he wants to help but is forced to impregnate -- all of which is compounded by the fact that his family has slaughtered hers – is probably most tortuous of all (which reminds me, we didn't check in on Theon this episode).
There is also something stirring out on the battlefield, as Daario (a bearded, and yes, better Michiel Huisman, taking over acting duties from Ed Skrein) and Grey Worm may or may not have feelings for their beautiful leader. They were both vying to ride next to Daenerys, and when she threatened them, they both adhered instantly lest they lose her presence.
Jaime and Cersei, Jon and Ygritte, Tyrion and Shae all have a lot of issues to work out and overcome; even Daenerys had to recoil and regroup when one of her offspring snapped at her (though that's more troubling when your child is a vicious, fire-breathing behemoth).
While you may think dragons will grow up to be scary and dangerous, look out for Arya, who has not a shy, remorseful bone in her body; and why should she? Capping off a satisfying journey into Season 4, one that introduced us to Prince Oberyn Martell and lots of past hostility and backstory, we return to Arya and the Hound (which could and should be its own half-hour comedy spin-off), and realize the meaning of the episode's title, "Two Swords."
It's not that Ned Stark's blade was forged into two weapons – one given to lefty Jaime; it's that Arya is reunited with Needle in a spectacularly bloody finish that certainly gave pause. Sure, Arya probably should have acted sooner when Hound took on the bar – maybe she was thinking of what witty line to declare before exacting vengeance – but when she did, it was mesmerizing.
So 'Games of Thrones' is at last back, offering up another gorgeous, well-crafted, and overall satisfying premiere. We checked in on just about everyone (no Bran and others, and only a mention of Stannis), and each story is progressing with characters that are continuing to change. The war is certainly not over, as some declare, and in the final moment of the premiere, we have our action. That's all you really need. Well, and love.
I agree with most of the review, except about the new actor playing Daario being an improvement. He is actually a step in the wrong direction. The Daario of the books is a colorful, swashbuckling, incorrigible mercenary - think Cpt Jack Sparrow/Omar Sharif combo with died punk rock hair and a dash of James Bond thrown in for good measure. The dull, pasty-faced mannequin they hired to act the part is... well, dull and pasty-faced. The old guy definitely wasn't going to win any acting awards, but at lest he had *some* charisma.
For my money,not the best ever episode but still a good solid start that set up the rest of the season nicely i cant quite put my hand on why i felt it was a little "flat" (i cant think of a better word) other than when its on fire,its as good as anything on TV,so given that a slightly slower episode is going to stick out.
I'd go as far as to say though when the Hound and Arya came along it fairly crackled,they make a great double act,so a lot to look forward too this season and i've no doubt it wont disappiont either.


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Ater Fort is situated around 30 Kms from the town of Bhind in Madhya Pradesh.
Built by the Bhadoria Chief, Badan Singh Judeo in A.D. 1644 and was completed by Mahsingh in 1668. Like most of the major forts in India, this one too has four entrances in each direction and fortified at seventeen places from a defensive stand point of view.
Along the northern banks of the Chambal River this would have stood as a testimony to the Bhadoria rule and in its heydays the craftsmanship on the palace and fort definitely spell bounding.
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Today Cisco is introducing new Pervasive Conferencing capabilities that further simplify and enable video collaboration for everyone. It's about increase in scale throughout your organization along with greater efficiencies and affordability. Consider doubling the number of endpoints while keeping costs at a few dollars per user per month.
Enhancements across our collaboration portfolio make it easy to migrate, upgrade or implement a new deployment, and give you flexibility to customize solutions for what your business specifically needs. Let me share a few announcement highlights:
- Deployment options: We've made it easier for you to choose your deployment. Virtualized, on-premise, or cloud, you can use the platform that works best with your infrastructure strategy.
- Broader reach: Extend high-quality multiparty video and web conferencing meetings to more endpoint types with our expanded support of high-definition mobile devices.
- New opportunity for mid market customers: Start with an affordable, video collaboration entry package that can scale as your organization grows. Make it work for your business with different options around pricing and software only upgrades.
- For Cisco Cloud Collaboration partners: New Video as a Service capabilities include simpler management through new organization-wide subscription plans.
It's the best of all worlds—we're bringing together proven, widely-deployed unified communications, video and web conferencing solutions to enable a unified user experience from any location, on any device, and on any platform. You have complete and intelligent collaboration from the network to the endpoint.
I invite you to watch the video below in which my colleague Jacob Nordan, Senior Director of Product Management of Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure, discusses the new Pervasive Conferencing announcements in more detail at Infocomm 2013. As always, I welcome your feedback and look forward to us staying engaged.


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We are extremely lucky to have such a great group of bloggers. As I looked back on several of the blog posts from 2012, I found that not only are they great at writing but they are also great at photography. I wanted to share some of my favorite Hendricks County photos that they have taken in the past year. I hope you enjoy.....I know I did.[gallery columns="3" ids="7102,7645,6916,6918,8217,8152,8105,7770,7545,7544,7146,7103,6875,6863,6660,6612,6486,6485,6487,6404,6403,6405,6407,6402,6289,6268,6240,6250,6239,6238,6064,6067,5940,5894,5790,5710,5663,5661,5676,5624,5592,5525,5486,5430,5323,5081,5082,5061,4993,4994,4992,4875,4812,4811,4786,4657,4673,3572,4991,3398,2816"]
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UPDATE: [Graduate] 2009 Columbia University Graduate Conference: "Circulation: Networks, Knowledge and the Literary"
The French Graduate Student Association of Columbia is pleased to announce
its 18th annual conference,
"Circulationâ€: Networks, Knowledge and the Literary
In his article "Pouls†for Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopedia, Ménuret
de Chambaud propagated circulation as the sine qua non of health. Part of a
project largely defined by its attempt to create a large system of
knowledge and to be propagated to as many as possible, this article,
pivotal in the debate between Cartesians and Mechanists, can in this sense
be said to act as a part mirroring the whole, and exemplifies the
polyvalent utility of the concept of circulation for the literary scholar.
Blood circulation, the creation and role of knowledge networks in the
dissemination of ideas, and the interaction between the eastern and western
worlds are but a few examples of the ramifications of this concept. The
way in which literary texts affect or ought to affect individuals'
relations to one another, be distributed among those individuals, and whom
they ought to reach has fueled rivalries, inflamed tirades and informed
national policy. From before the Aeneid's celebration of Roman nobility and
valor to Malraux's Ministry of Culture and beyond, how a literary creation
should circulate has been the business of writers and readers. This year's
FGSA conference hopes to explore how this business has affected and
continues to affect French or Francophone texts and their study.
Equally important (and contentious) have been authors' own attitudes
towards the dissemination of their work, and those works' representation of
the circulation of ideas. Some texts are intended to behave as viruses on
their audience, circulating throughout the system until passed on to the
next host, as Sade's unique blend of the erotic and the politically
subversive, while some others seem more predisposed to sustain themselves
within the cerebral frames of a few lecteurs avertis, exemplified by
Mallarmé's notorious impenetrability. What parameters drive a writer to
seek or shun notoriety and what does the result entail for a text's posterity?
Finally, and from the reader's perspective, how well a text circulates and
its relation to other texts has also been a central literary concern. A
major pillar of literary history (and analysis) has for some time been the
understanding of a text's contexts and references. Also, how far a text has
traveled and how much it has been commented has often determined its
success or infamy, at least in part. Throughout history theologians have
been equally prompt to tout their scriptures' ubiquity or esoteric status
as proof of their faiths; likewise, success or failure in globalized
markets plays an ambivalent but significant role in current readers'
evaluation of a text's integrity or desirability.
We invite graduate students from all disciplines to help us extract some of
the more notable ways in which circulation has placed its stamp upon French
literature. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, submitted electronically
to fgsaconf_at_columbia.edu , with name, email and institutional affiliation,
in French or English and dealing with this topic and within any period of
French and Francophone literary history will be considered until January 9,
2009. Any and all approaches and perspectives, including from other fields
in the humanities, are acceptable, and encouraged.
The conference will take place Friday, March 6 2009.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
Global Exchange:
• Medical/scientific debates, knowledge networks
• Literature and sociology of immigration, travel, and tourism
• Proselytizing, religious tracts
• Spies and espionage
• Public debates/ coffeehouse culture
• Finance: markets, globalization, capital, numismatics
Textual circulation:
• Epistolarity: novels, authors' and family correspondence
• Journalism: articles, editorials, letters to the public
• Paleography, cryptography, hermeneutics and heraldry
• Translation and orality
• "Disposable†literature: penny novels, sensationalism
Circulation, mutation and recycling
• Co-opting of religion and religious imagery
• Adaptations: cinematographic, theatrical, cultural, translatio
• Rediscovery of the Ancients in the Renaissance
• Intertextuality
• Rumors and gossip
Inhibiting circulation:
• The urban landscape in literature: traffic, banlieue, ghettoization,
• Diaspora literature
• Gifts, manners and etiquette
• Center and periphery, Orientalism
• Royal and elite networks: académies, lycées, musées and salons
• Secret societies, black markets, and banned books
• Circulation of bodies : epidemiology, sexuality
• Heresies and the apocryphal
• Intellectual property rights
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Thanks to...
Fr. Alex Cymerman of Mater Dolorosa and Rev. Roland Galipeau of Holy Cross for their willingness to allow a mysterious ethnographing stranger into their parishes, and for all of the informative chats and interviews.
Jeff Chirgwin, musician and insurance agent extrordinaire
Bob Ezold, Barbara Bernard, Barbara Gagnon, Charlotte Martin, Barbara Renkiewicz and Stephen Tracy, for their time and thoughts and willingness to be filmed.
Walter Gonet, who filmed (among many other things) Fr. Alex's homily that appears in the film
Roger Blackmer, who volunteered as a third cameraman at the "We Are All One in Christ Jesus" event
Helen Domorat, for the delicious kielbasa sandwiches
Leo & Mickey Morawski, pretty fantastic people all around
Jeff & Carol Boucher, who run the weekly Bingo game in the Parish Center
And my uncle, Mark Dupont, through whom the idea for this project was born, and who was an invaluable source of both information and late-night sustenance.
My best wishes to both parishes as the linking process continues.


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7229 slow to show folder contents with avi files
Strange problem here, first time I have observed this in any Windows 7 build: when I click on a folder with movies in it, it takes about 1+ seconds to show the contents.
Anyone else experienced this same problem with build 7229? Not something I experienced with previous builds...
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Windows 7 (x64)
Strange problem here, first time I have observed this in any Windows 7 build: when I click on a folder with movies in it, it takes about 1+ seconds to show the contents.
Anyone else experienced this same problem with build 7229? Not something I experienced with previous builds...
I get a similar thing But not on my main C:\ only on my other 3 500gb drives sometimes the response time is slow, But thats normal (I Think) as for the main C:\ everything is pretty much instant but I'm only judging this as I haven't really put anything in them besides a couple of Tv shows and a bit of music so far.
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This is going to be affected by the codecs you're using - or not using. Avoid, at all costs, anything called a 'codec pack'. For x64 users, there's a xVid x64 binary that works wonders. Or, you can use the decoder from DivX.com
Obviously, rendering times will be dependent on your drive(s), CPU and the overall efficiency of your system.
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It's not normal, at least not for me as I had instantaneous response on 7139, 7100 and all previous builds before these. There is some bug, at least for me, that is causing this very bad lag; which I believe is due to the windows search.
Luckily I have build 7100 installed on a different drive, so I will check that one to rule out this being related to anything else that has happened subsequently. Will report back soon...
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Well if you just installed the OS, then your indexer and superfetch have to do the work they did on the other systems. Just give it a day to index your computer, even though I hate system restore, search, and indexer.
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A team from Fujitsu Air Conditioning is raising money for three charities by cycling from London to Cambridge.
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Another (concluding?) installment in Steele's 'Arkwright' series, which, like his 'Coyote' series, has left me unmoved.
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Allen M. Steele. The Long Wait. (Asimovs January 2015)
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Another installment in Steele's stories about the Arkwright Foundation, set up by some of the founding fathers of SF, which is reaching for the stars.
Allen M. Steele. The Prodigal Son. (Asimovs October/November 2014)
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A follow-up a couple of generations on, to Steele's The Legion of Tomorrow a few issues back, which didn't really grab me.
Allen M. Steele. The Legion of Tomorrow. (Asimovs July 2014)
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A lengthy look at the very early days of SF fandom,
Allen M. Steele. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. (Twelve Tomorrows)
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Allen M. Steele. Alive and Well, A Long Way from Anywhere. (Asimovs July 2012)
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Allen M. Steele. The Observation Post. (Asimovs, September 2011).
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Analog. November 2010.
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VALLADOLID, Spain — The Macías Picavea primary school hardly looks like the seat of revolution. But this unassuming brick building in a sleepy industrial town has become a battleground in an intensifying war between church and state in Spain.
In an unprecedented decision here, a judge ruled in November that the public school must remove the crucifixes from classroom walls, saying they violated the "nonconfessional" nature of the Spanish state.
Although the Roman Catholic Church was not named in the suit, it criticized the ruling as an "unjust" attack on a historical and cultural symbol — and a sign of the Spanish state's increasingly militant secularism.
If the judge's ruling was the latest blow to the Catholic Church's once mighty grip on Spain, the church's response showed Spain to be a crucible for the future of church-state relations in Europe.
For Pope Benedict XVI, who has staked his three-year-old papacy on keeping Europe Catholic, Spain, with its 90 percent Catholic population and rich history, represents a last hope in an increasingly irreligious continent.Continue reading the main story
That hope is quickly dimming. Since 2004, the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has legalized gay marriage and fast-track divorce, and it is seeking to loosen laws on abortion and euthanasia.
But in response, the church and religious Catholics have been pushing back, seeking a greater voice in public life. The result is that the church is in a full-throated war with the government.
As such, Spain represents not only the Catholic Church's past in Europe, but perhaps also its future: an increasingly secular country with a muscular Catholic opposition, or what Benedict has called a "creative minority," smaller in number but more ardent in faith.
At stake is the vision of the country: Will Spain join the rest of secular Europe or stand as a final Catholic foothold?
"I'd say that certainly there's a worry; it would be naïve to deny it," the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said of Spain. "It's a critical point in the church's confrontation against secularization in Europe and in the Western world."
For the Feast of the Holy Family, an estimated 158,000 people on Dec. 28 attended a Mass and rally in Madrid "in favor of the family."
The march appeared to be more low-key than past events. Before the 2007 elections, the church got into hot water when some of its rallies were seen as endorsing Mr. Zapatero's right-wing opposition.
Today, the Spanish prelates are trying hard to be "for the family" rather than against the government, but it is a delicate balance.
If the church becomes too hostile to the government, it could compromise the logistics and public financing required for Madrid to host the Vatican's biennial World Youth Day in 2011, a choice of venue that underscores the church's focus on Spain.
In a recent interview in Madrid, the secretary general of the Spanish Bishops Conference, Msgr. Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, said it was important for the church "to use all the means at its disposal to promote and defend its fundamental rights."
He called the 2005 law legalizing gay marriage and adoption "very strange and very irrational and very unjust."
The implications are broader, since Spain, with its 42 million Catholics, remains a touchstone for Latin America. South America alone has 324 million Catholics, the world's largest concentration.
The church is also concerned that Spain could set a precedent for European Union legislation. The Vatican last week said it would reassess its relationship with Italian law, so as to avoid adhering to Italian and European Union social polices that it opposed.
The church also fills a vacuum in the Spanish right. The center-right Popular Party is weak and has never been particularly engaged in religious issues.
Today, one of Mr. Zapatero's strongest and most persuasive right-wing opponents is a Rush Limbaugh figure: Federico Jimenez Losantos, a former Communist turned right-winger and a professed nonbeliever who hosts a morning radio show on La Cope, the country's second most popular radio station — which happens to be owned by the Spanish Bishops Conference.
With his harsh criticism of Mr. Zapatero's policies, Mr. Losantos is inevitably seen as fanning the flames of church-state tensions.
Mr. Losantos acknowledged that his show "creates problems" between the bishops and the government. "But at the same time, a lot of regular people say, 'Good thing there's the Cope; at least someone is in the opposition.' "
History looms large. During the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, left-wing Republican forces killed many clerics. But during Franco's four-decade dictatorship, Catholicism was the official state religion.
Until after Franco's death in 1975, women could not open bank accounts without their fathers or husbands co-signing. Today, they hold many of the highest political offices in the country.
"Spain changed very, very quickly," said José María Contreras Mazarío, the director of religious affairs at the Justice Ministry. Today, he said, "Spain isn't Catholic theoretically, culturally or politically."
In an increasingly multicultural society, he said, the government wants to revise its definition of religious liberty so all religions are effectively equal.
Indeed, many see the church as a reactionary force trying to hold the country back.
"The army evolved after Franco," said Carlos Parrado, the president of the Association of Secular Schools, which filed the lawsuit asking that the crosses be removed from the Valladolid school. "The church never evolved in this way."
In many ways, Spain represents "a profound paradox," said George Weigel, a Vatican expert and biographer of Pope John Paul II. "On the one hand, the ancient altar-and-throne alliance in Spain ill prepared the church to withstand the hurricanes of modernity, so when the winds hit after the death of Franco, just about everything collapsed."
"On the other hand," he said, "it's striking that many of the new and vital renewal movements and new Catholic communities emerged out of Spain."
Opus Dei, founded in Spain in 1928, has 30,000 members in Spain. More than 70 percent of Spaniards baptize their children, even if far less than 30 percent of the public regularly attends Mass. In spite of its social policies, the Spanish government continues to direct significant state financing toward Catholic schools and hospitals.
Some say the intense debate benefits both sides: the church can raise its voice, and the government can change the subject from the economic crisis.
It remains to be seen how the debates will play out. Media reports said fast-track divorce had not taken off, but not because of church pressure. Times are tough, and divorce is expensive.
An article on Tuesday about tensions between the secular government in Spain and the Roman Catholic Church, which regards Spain's 90 percent Catholic population as an important base in its effort to promote Catholicism in Europe and beyond, misstated the number of Catholics in South America. It is 324 million, not 324,000.


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The other night I was streaming an episode of the show American Odyssey when an intimate scene between two characters struck me in such a lovely way. For those of you who don't know the show, it has a "network television series" feel to it and the main plot centers around a female soldier in the middle east who's presumed dead but continues to survive. She discovered some secrets about the U.S. government over in the middle east and various U.S. officials want her dead. There are a lot of different characters in the movie who are directly involved with her and indirectly related to her situation back in the States. Several journalists in the U.S. are working to investigate her situation and story. One of the journalists becomes friendly with a woman and this leads to a romantic moment between the two of them. When they become intimate for the first time, she starts to move very fast and peel off her clothes. He stops her for a second and says, "Stay with me." It was this moment that really spoke to me, but not because it was something new.
As a psychotherapist, a Buddhist and just another human being, I pay attention to my experiences throughout the day and naturally look for reminders of what's truly important. One of the most important things, so I've found, is that staying with each other, when we're with each other, truly adds a great deal of meaning to our lives. So often we're caught in the trap of our own mind and by the habitual storylines that it gives us. We learn and are told how to "act" in certain situations and when a similar moment arises, the script in our mind starts to run. What's sad about us becoming the script is that we are, indeed, faking our presence in the moment and totally out of touch with how we can connect with the other person. We're not really connected with what's going on in the moment because our mind is making so many assumptions about what's happening, what things mean, who the person is in front of us, and all of this ruins the rawness and freshness of the moment. This happens in any and all of our interactions throughout the day, not just in intimate situations. The meat of life, the juicy parts that are so meaningful to us, can only be savored when we truly stay with each other. To do this, we need to have the courage to be vulnerable, open, raw, and true in how we are as things happen. Of course, this is easier said than done for a lot of people.
So many of us don't know what these words truly mean and how it feels to embody them. I'm not here to tell you the "5 Steps to Perfect Vulnerability" because part of life is to figure this out as we venture into the world. Yet, I would like to say that in my near 30 years of studying our human psychology and relationships, staying with each other and truly being with each other is vital to our individual and collective contentment, health and happiness. Sure, people come and go so they may not stay, but we should try to stay with each other when we're with each other. Nearly all of us fantasize about this and deeply desire this type of connection. However, many of us often get in the way of making it happen. So many of our relationships and friendships start with this desire for deeper connection, but then they fade away as the scripts, insecurities and habits kick in. I hope, for all of you, that you can come to understand and experience what it's like to stay with you, to stay with me, and to stay with all of us whenever we're together. If you already know, very intimately, what I'm talking about then please continue to inspire others through genuine connections. As always and with an honest and open heart, I wish each of you well.


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FILTER, festivals and food trucks! Oh my! What does every half-employed, LA-based hipster love? Vivacious tunes with a side of PBR and grilled cheese, of course! Luckily, FILTER Magazine has decided to appeal to the music masses and offer up a multi-day street festival composed of radical bands from all over the world, and delectable food trucks from all over the city. Seriously, what's better than that? The answer is: nothing. We're lucky enough to live in Sunshine Central with an over-abundance of creative minds all looking to let loose and get their dance on. So let's prove to our parents that our college degrees were worth it, and take advantage of this. Don't make me tell you twice.
October 7th through 10th FILTER magazine is taking over the streets of Echo Park and Downtown to give us musical, as well as edible, deliciousness. From Klaxons to Sea Wolf, and Casiokids to Caribou, they've got a United Nations of enticing beats to appeal to your own individual tastes. Wristbands for all four days are a mere $20 – that's $5 per day, or to put it in hipster terms, is the near-equivalent to one PBR on tap during Cha Cha Lounge's happy hour. For more information go to culturecollide.com, or better yet, take my word for it and get your ticket directly from ticketweb.com. It'll be the best (and least expensive) decision you made since… well, let's face it, you guys probably make bad decisions all the time. Buy your ticket, and then proceed to make your bad decisions at the festival in typical LA-fashion, you'll be happy you did.
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External consultant: somebody who is employed externally to the client (either by a consulting firm or some other agency) whose expertise is offered on a temporary basis, generally for a charge. The other firms in the Large Four divested their consulting solutions pretty much a decade ago, soon after the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and other U.S. reforms, but are now catching up and beginning to stake a claim in the greater-margin management consulting business. Like most other skilled solutions, consulting is very opaque compared with manufacturing-based companies.
And the marketing intelligence corporation Motista employs predictive models and software to deliver insights into customer emotion and motivation at a compact fraction of the value of a best consulting firm. In Might 2013 we held a roundtable at HBS on the disruption of the professional solutions to encourage greater dialogue and debate on this subject. As access to expertise is democratized, opacity fades and customers no longer have to spend the costs of huge consulting firms. In industries where opacity is high, we've observed, new competitors ordinarily enter the industry by emulating incumbents' business models rather than disrupting them.
Although these upstarts are as however nowhere near the size and influence of significant-name consultancies like McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the incumbents are showing vulnerability. These firms assemble leaner project teams of freelance consultants (mainly midlevel and senior alumni of top rated consultancies) for clients at a tiny fraction of the price of standard competitors.
In our investigation and teaching at Harvard Business School, we emphasize the significance of searching at the globe through the lens of theory—that is, of understanding the forces that bring about change and the circumstances in which these forces are operative: what causes what to come about, when and why. They are typically hired to bring price and high-quality benefits to corporations by working creatively with law firms.
Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. By adding increasingly granular data, such as leverage and profits per companion, the Am Law rankings shone a light on the previously secretive operations of white-shoe firms. Frequently these jobs ought to be repeated on a regular basis to be helpful, and quite a few of them deal with massive quantities of data.
M&A activity, as hard as that may well be, will increase as some firms make a decision that they never have the resources or stamina to make necessary changes, and other individuals realize the need to obtain fill-in capability. Early indicators of this pattern in the consulting market involve increasingly sophisticated competitors with nontraditional business models that are gaining acceptance.


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'We need to address the cheating and the problems farther than that': Candid Air Force top boss speaks out over nuclear missile test scandal
- Nine Air Force officers were fired in March following a widespread exam cheating scandal
- Col. Robert Stanley was found directly responsible for the 100 soldiers implicated and resigned
- Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has been praised for how she openly discussed the problems in the ranks
When Deborah Lee James became top boss of the Air Force seven months ago she had no inkling a nuclear crisis was brewing.
But once it erupted in the form of exam-cheating by dozens of missile launch officers, she quickly announced conclusions that no Air Force leader before her had dared state publicly.
The nuclear missile corps' problems run deep, she said, morale is 'spotty' and forceful fixes are needed.
James reached those conclusions in January after a short visit to the three Air Force bases that operate intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs.
Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James speaks to the Associated Press during an interview at the Pentagon on July 11
She met not only with commanders but with the rank-and-file, including enlisted airmen who keep the missiles running properly and junior officers trained to launch them.
'I walked away believing there was something systemic, cultural if you will, that went beyond cheating and (that's) why I felt like we needed to not just address cheating — yes, we have to fix that — but we need to go farther than that,' she said in an Associated Press interview in her Pentagon office overlooking the Potomac River.
To her it seemed natural to acknowledge this publicly, although others in the Air Force had chosen not to.
'I hope and believe I am a straight talker,' she said.
'I think it's better to just say it. Don't mince words. And so I thought it was important to just stand up publicly and say what seemed to be obvious to me.'
Her candor and crisis management have won praise from Republicans and Democrats alike.
'She has forged relationships with troops and listened to their inputs,' said Rep. Howard 'Buck' McKeon, the California Republican who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
'She has identified shortfalls in ICBM leadership and made corrections. That is a sharp difference from the way Air Force leadership has handled these issues in the past.'
James, 55, is only the second woman to serve as Air Force secretary, the service's top civilian official.
She took office in December 2013 following months of Associated Press reports documenting problems inside the nuclear missile corps, starting with the sidelining in April 2013 of 19 launch officers at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota for what commanders called attitude and performance flaws.
It was an unprecedented action and coincided with the AP's publication of an internal email from an officer at Minot complaining of 'rot' inside the ICBM force.
Deborah Lee Jameshas been praised for the way she handled the Air Force exam scandal
Senior Air Force officers at the time generally dismissed the reports, saying any problems were localized and limited.
'I don't particularly agree that we have any compelling problems' in the ICBM force, Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, the top nuclear weapons staff officer at Air Force headquarters, said in June 2013.
'The morale of our crews out there — I've been out there — is exceedingly, exceedingly, good.'
James took a look for herself in January 2014 and saw something different, worse than she had imagined.
She traveled to each of the three ICBM bases after disclosing at a Pentagon news conference that 34 launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana had been implicated in a cheating scandal and a small number of those were also suspects in an illegal drug use investigation. (The number implicated in the cheating later rose to nearly 100.)
Before James hit the road she quickly gathered enough information about the dimensions of the cheating to satisfy herself that it did not amount to 'a major problem that could be of catastrophic consequences'.
'But still, why did this happen and what is going on?' she asked herself.
What she found was a set of interconnected problems that went deeper than the cheating.
She spotted morale issues, with airmen asking, in essence, why is it that the Air Force claims the nuclear mission is its No. 1 priority and yet missile facilities are in poor shape and spare parts are in short supply?
'Some of the things I saw had been of a longstanding nature,' she said.
'So why had these things not gotten fixed before? It's a good question, and I can't really answer that.'
James, a native of Rumson, New Jersey, never served in the military but spent a decade — from 1983 to 1993 — as a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee, which has oversight responsibility for the Defense Department. From 2002-13 she was a senior executive at Science Applications International Corp. in McLean, Virginia.
John Hamre, who was on the professional staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee while she was a counterpart on the House side, said he was not surprised that she quickly sized up the nuclear problem and attacked it head on.
'She is wise enough to know that you cannot fudge your way through a political problem if you don't solve it. It keeps coming back. The way she handled the ICBM problem was typical Debbie James,' said Hamre, who also worked closely with James from 1993-97 when he was the Pentagon's budget chief and she was assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs.
Hamre, who later was deputy defense secretary, is now president and chief executive officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
James said she was surprised by the ICBM crisis, but not unprepared.
'Life comes at you fast and furious sometimes,' she said with a grin.
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