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Hey,

I just signed the petition "Mayor Lenny Curry: Citizens Against the RNC in Jacksonville" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 500 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

http://chng.it/THMXs2BSZ2

Thanks!
Robert

Debbie at Dentist

Debbie and I are at Hope Dental Clinic getting her root extracted I hope.  Infection seems to be better:  Thank you, Father!

Nana's Red Velvet Cake

1 1/2 cups vegetable oil (Nana recommends Wesson)
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp vanilla (not artificial)
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour (Nana only uses White Lily)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tbsp cocoa
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vinegar
1 5/8oz red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease and flour 4 9" round cake pans.

Cream oil, eggs and sugar together very well.
Combine buttermilk and vanilla.
Combine flour, cocoa, salt and soda together.
Alternately add dry ingredients with buttermilk mixture to oil/egg/sugar mixture.
Once all are combined, quickly stir in food coloring and vinegar.
Divide evenly in cake pans and bake for 20 minutes.
Watch closely  during last few minutes of cooking.  Cake will pull away from sides of pan when done.  Do not over bake.
Cool layers before icing.

Icing

1 box confectioners sugar
1 stick margarine (do not substitute butter)
1 8oz pkg cream cheese
1 c chopped nuts

Combine all ingredients and mix well.  

Note...If you want a more chocolatey cake, replace 1/2 cup of flour with 1/2 cup of cocoa.  This is the Robert variation.

The Journey to a Fully Cloud-Based Infrastructure Part 1

The Problem:
High Alert, LLC is a new startup consulting firm.  Bringing togther the talents of 5 highly motivated skilled and knowledgeable team-members, it is poised for great success in our chosen specialty of disaster and crisis management.  However, we face some great hurdles in maximizing productivity due to our geographic disparateness....from the Deep South to the Pacific Northwest to Canada and parts beyond...coordination of communication and effective sharing of resources is imperative to avoid needless duplication of efforts.  With a management structure based on the Incident Command System, two virtual staff meetings are held each week to provide an overview of ongoing efforts on each project and establish new priorities and directions as needed.   Group sessions are facilitated using Web-Ex.  The Web-Ex product is also used for sales presentations and customer support sessions.  Remote desktop support is accomplished via Microsoft Mesh technology.  This allows two users to interactively work on one computer and also provides a structure for the sharing of files between machines. 

Needs:  a system for project management that provides for individual task tickets.  These tickets can then be checked out..worked on and returned to the central repository along with associated files/information/status updates.