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Fort Huachuca, AZ. - The Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, locally managed exchange email accounts will be migrated to a centrally managed Department of Defense Enterprise Email, or DEE, on Thursday. This is an effort to move DoD assets to "the cloud" to consolidate resources and reduce costs, according to Ken Forner, chief, Server Management Branch, Fort Huachuca Network Enterprise System.
So instead of each installation, such as Fort Huachuca, maintaining local exchange servers, classified email services will be managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, for the entire DoD.
DISA is a combat support agency which provides, operates, and assures command-and-control, information-sharing capabilities, and a globally accessible enterprise information infrastructure in direct support to joint warfighters, national level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of operations.
Forner described the upcoming mail migration.
"This is actually the same process that happened back in 2011 on the NIPRNET [unclassified email system], only it is now focusing on the classified email systems," Forner explained.
"The SIPRNet is a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. DoD and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information, including information classified as 'Secret.'" It also provides services such as Web access and electronic mail."
As such, SIPRNet is the DoD's classified version of the civilian Internet.
Network Enterprise Technology Command headquarters was migrated as a test in December 2012, and the remaining Fort Huachuca users will start migrations on [Thursday]." Forner stated, adding that the U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence will be migrated in March.
"This will affect all SIPR email users. Initially, it will affect all users with locally hosted exchange accounts that have a working SIPR token. Just as with the NIPR email, a DoD-issued smartcard token is mandatory for access to the SIPR DEE system," Forner added.
The Thursday migration date is for Fort Huachuca users who: meet the migration criteria; have a working SIPRNet smartcard; have a SIPR email account hosted by the Network Enterprise Center; and have a provisioned email account at DEE or DISA. Users who do not meet the migration criteria will be migrated at a later date.
"We will be performing migrations every Thursday until all Fort Huachuca users are migrated," Forner said.
The remainder of the Army will be scheduled after Fort Huachuca, but will be migrated by the Brigade Migration Command Centers. These migrations will not affect users on Fort Huachuca.
Issues with email will now require interaction and or cooperation with DISA to be resolved. The local NEC will troubleshoot the issue to verify; if it is not a local client or communication problem, then the NEC will forward the incident to DISA to address the actual email issue.
For more information about the migration, call 533.8416.


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A post-election rant… 7 May, 2015Posted by Jeremy Rowe in Politics.
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The polls have finally closed and no one's propaganda can make the blindest bit of difference now. The national campaign seems to have been painfully long and negative, without shedding too much light on the issues that will make the most difference to people's lives. I'm glad it's over.
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4. Please don't just accept the 'austerity' agenda without question. Much harm has been done in the name of deficit reduction and the suffering has mainly fallen on the poor and vulnerable rather than the super-rich speculators who caused the crash in the first place.
5. Please stop playing politics with Scotland and 'The Union'. I don't see any reason to be scared of Nicola Sturgeon, and the constant assault of the right wing press will only increase divisions and make a permanent split inevitable.
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Steve Knightley wins Wadebridge East 6 September, 2013Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News.
Tags: Conservatives, Cornwall Council, Independents, Labour, Lib Dems, North Cornwall, UKIP, Wadebridge
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Steve Knightley has won the Wadebridge East by-election for the Liberal Democrats. The vote was triggered by the resignation of the Independent Collin Brewer. In the end, the result was close:
Steve Knightley (Lib Dem) 408
Independent 399
Conservative 217
Labour 58
It was a particularly disappointing night for UKIP, who slipped back from their result in May, and the Tories, who would have hoped to have made more of an impact given this was on their PPC's doorstep.
It was a great result for Dan Rogerson MP and the North Cornwall Lib Dems and I am sure Steve will make a great Councillor for Wadebridge and Cornwall as a whole. I'm looking forward to working with him.
Elections 4 May, 2013Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News, Politics.
Tags: Conservatives, Cornwall Council, Egloshayle, Green, Independents, Labour, Lib Dems, Mebyon Kernow, St Breock, St Ervan, St Eval, St Issey, St Mabyn, St Tudy, UKIP
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The dust is starting to settle on a dramatic set of elections to Cornwall Council. The authority has lost some good people from all political groups and gained some interesting new faces in their place. The electorate have given those of us who remain a good deal to think about.
In terms of my own division I am truly grateful to the people in the seven rural parishes I represent for returning me as Councillor. It is one of the great cliches of elections, but it is genuinely a humbling experience being elected to represent your area.
As far as the raw numbers are concerned there are clearly interesting days ahead: Lib Dems 36 seats, Independents 35, Tories 31, Labour 8, UKIP 6, MK 4, 'Unspecified' 2 and 1 Green Councillor. If there's any message at all in the midst of that it is that we will all have to do a lot more listening this time around.
The days after… 18 October, 2012Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News, Politics.
Tags: Conservatives, Cornwall Council, Independents, Labour, Lib Dems, Local Services, Mebyon Kernow, Privatisation
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It's been a busy couple of days…
Much has already been written about Tuesday's dramatic events at Cornwall Council (you can read the perspectives of Alex Folkes, Jude Robinson and Andrew Wallis and there is more from 'thisiscornwall' here). From my perspective it was the most extraordinary day I have seen in local government. Not only did we see a Leader removed by Full Council, there was also the sight of open divisions within the administration parties (Tory & Independent), two competing candidates from the 'coalition', security guards stationed behind the Cabinet and four spectacular resignations to round the day off.
What emerged was a 'new' administration headed by the former Deputy Leader of the Council, Jim Currie. This in itself was an extraordinary selection, as he was elected Leader by a narrow margin with the support of Lib Dems, Mebyon Kernow, some Indies and some Tories, while the bulk of his own Conservative Group support his Indie challenger, Neil Burden. Interesting times indeed…
Jim has already made clear that he will only be a caretaker until next year's elections – he will not be standing again. He has also promised a reawakening of democracy at County Hall and a good, hard stare at the previous administration's privatisation plans. We hope he stands by these promises and, rest assured, we will be holding him to account throughout his time in office.
The new Leader also faces a number of challenges over the coming months, not least the annual Budget. We will listen to what he has to say – we will support him when we think he is doing the right thing and we will oppose when we think he is wrong but, as an opposition group, we will make sure we question all the way. I hope we can help him succeed, as the interests of Cornwall must be paramount.
I have great personal sympathy for Alec Robertson – Tuesday must have been an incredibly difficult day for him, and I and most others would have preferred not to have had to put him through that. But Tuesday has given Cornwall Council a chance to start rebuilding bridges – let's hope the new administration has learned the lessons of the old one.
David Parsons wins Bude North and Stratton for Lib Dems 27 October, 2011Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News, Politics.
Tags: Conservatives, Cornwall Council, Independents, Labour, Lib Dems, North Cornwall
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Huge congratulations to David Parsons, who has scored a resounding victory in the hotly contested Bude North & Stratton by-election. The Result was: David Parsons (LD) 958 (61.17%), Con 395 (25.22%), Lab 120 (7.66%), Ind 93 (5.94%).
David is a talented campaigner who will be an excellent representative for an area which seems to have been forgotten by Tory-led Cornwall Council. I'm very much looking forward to working with him.
Murdoch: time to break the habit 6 July, 2011Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News, Politics.
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Labour and the Tories have been vying for the affections of Rupert Murdoch for far too long now (the Lib Dems have never really had a look in but I doubt we'd have been any purer given the opportunity). News International have perpetuated the myth of their importance to the political discourse ever since the 1992 Election and the infamous "It's The Sun Wot Won It" front page and prospective Prime Ministers have played along as they've sought the blessing of the world's most powerful media baron.
Tony Blair flew around the world to perform in the Murdoch Empire's living room back in the mid-nineties and David Cameron – horseriding partner of the increasingly toxic Rebekah Brooks – installed the big man's favourite, and former News Of The World editor, Andy Coulson to the heart of the Tory operation.
Now, with the shocking revelations of the phone hacking of Milly Dowler, the families of the Soham girls, the victims of the 7/7 bombings and the grieving relatives of Britain's war dead, News International is finally starting to be recognised for the malign influence on our lives that it really is.
Yet the chances are that the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will still unquestioningly grant his approval to Murdoch's proposed takeover of BSkyB. I desperately hope I'm mistaken. Now is the opportunity for our leaders at Westminster – of all political parties – to finally end their dependence on News International's consent to govern. The national print media cannot win the ongoing battle with the internet and the influence of Sun editorials will only diminish from here. Hunt – under persuasion from the heart of government – should call Murdoch's bluff and refuse to allow the swallowing-up of Sky by an organisation which has shown such disregard for the integrity of its profession, not to mention the effect of its actions on innocent, grieving families.
He has the power but I doubt he has the courage.
Maybe it's idealistic to think that an organisation of the size and influence of News International can be stripped of its belief that it has the right to choose our government, but I'm pretty sure there will never be a better opportunity to try.
An afternoon with the CUC Journos 3 March, 2011Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News.
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A little over a year ago I was invited to attend the CUC campus at Tremough for a question and answer session with the Multimedia Broadcast Journalism MA students (I blogged about it here). At the time I was impressed by the standard of questioning and the professional approach of our interrogators and reflected that the future was in good shape.
This afternoon, along with my Labour Cornwall Council colleague Jude Robinson, I went back for a second sitting with this year's intake. Once again the questions were probing, occasionally blunt and always challenging as we covered a range of topics from Supporting People through to the AV referendum via potholes and (inevitably) student tuition fees. I'm happy to note that, under the excellent leadership of CUC's Charlotte Barry, the high standard is being maintained and there is another generation of bright journalists being nurtured at Cornwall's own centre of excellence.
We had hoped to be joined by our Independent colleague Andrew Wallis but unfortunately he was tied up at County Hall with the Environment & Economy Committee's call-in of the Council Cabinet's parking charge hike. If I'm lucky enough to be invited again next year I hope he'll be able to join us.
Cornwall Council, Supporting People and another budget 15 February, 2011Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News.
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I've long been an evangelist for webcasting meetings, but sometimes I look at proceedings in the Cornwall Council Chamber and wonder if it would be better if the outside world never had to look in on the unedifying spectacle of a budget meeting. Today was one of those occasions.
Local authorities up and down the country set their Council Tax rates at February meetings and Cornwall is no exception, although in many respects this was an exceptional meeting. Firstly, the major part of the budget had already been passed by the Tory-led administration at the long 'emergency' meeting back in December and secondly, the question of setting a Council Tax figure had been rendered academic by central government's indication that any rise would result in a corresponding cut to the amount given to councils in grants.
The only question therefore is how councils manage the cuts they have no choice in making. Back in December we put forward four fully-costed amendments to the administration's 'emergency budget', all of which were defeated. Today we concentrated on the proposed cuts to the Supporting People budget, with an appeal to independent-minded Councillors to vote the measures down and force the Cabinet to rethink and come back with alternative proposals. We made clear that money from the Council's £127m reserves could be used to protect these valuable preventative services which would save greater costs further down the line. Indeed, Eric Pickles (no friend of local government) has gone on the record to make clear that local authorities save £5-6 in other costs for every £1 spent on Supporting People services.
Such logic was lost on the administration, and at one point one of their Councillors resorted to some unpleasant insinuations about the motives of some of those who work hard to provide these vital services for the authority. Regrettably a number of the Tory Members seemed to derive some perverse enjoyment from this, and the cuts in general, grinning throughout this deeply unedifying spectacle.
In the end the administration's weight of numbers was enough to see this short-sighted budget through with just one Tory and one Independent joining the Lib Dem, Labour and Mebyon Kernow Members who voted against.
None of us are in any doubt that times are hard for public finances – regardless of whether you blame the banks, the Coalition, the last Labour government or all three – but there is no need to make things harder by the myopic vandalism of important, cost-saving services. This was not a day for Cornwall Council to feel proud of itself, but I fear it will be some time yet before the administration start to realise the cost of what they have done.
Tories drop another 'safe' Cornwall Council seat 14 January, 2011Posted by Jeremy Rowe in News.
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Congratulations to Jude Robinson, who becomes Labour's first Cornwall Councillor after winning the previously safe Tory seat of Camborne North. The result of yesterday's poll was:
Mebyon Kernow 32
Liberal Party 61
Green Party 31
Lib Dems 152
Conservatives 203
Labour 230
This was the second by-election held since the formation of Cornwall Council and the second time the Conservatives have lost a so-called safe seat (last time it was St Austell Bay, won by Lib Dem John Oxenham). Most Tories who were willing to give an opinion at last Tuesday's Full Council day seemed to feel the result was in the bag, but let's hope they will soon start to realise that if they do threaten services in Cornwall with their needlessly harsh cuts agenda then there will be more days like this in store for them.
Naturally I had hoped that our candidate, Anna Pascoe, might have won as she would make an excellent Cornwall Councillor. Nevertheless she increased the Lib Dem share of the vote from 2009 and I'm sure she will come back even stronger another day.
In the meantime I wish Jude all the very best in her new role and I look forward to working with her (and no doubt crossing swords from time to time) over the coming months.


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An early look at Resorts World Sentosa
I ride my Dahon folding bicycle across the new causeway linking the mainland to Sentosa island, for a preview of the hotels at Resorts World Sentosa before the resort opens to the public on January 20 (check out the gallery of first-look photos above).
Most Singaporeans call it the Sentosa Casino but, as we are constantly reminded by the Singapore Government, we should call it the Integrated Resort. After all, the casino is just one part of the IR, along with a mix of hotels and a theme park.
"$2 please," says the gentleman at the admission booth.
Yes, I need to pay $2 to ride my bicycle into Sentosa. It may well be just a visitor charge, and not a fee for my vehicle. At least I am not in a car or cab, who have had their surcharges and entrance fees increased in conjunction with the opening of the IR. To encourage carpooling, we are told.
Such a strange way to encourage people to come to your troublesome-to-get-to island though. But Resorts World Sentosa is, to their credit, absorbing the admission fees for visitors to the resort's hotels and restaurants.
(Almost all) the Hotels
As I reach the Hard Rock Hotel, security is directing traffic and for a brief moment, I spot a confused look on their faces as they decide where to direct the only cyclist there.
"I am here for the media preview, Hard Rock Hotel," I say.
"No problem," the security officer helpfully says, "You go this way."
Then he puts a friendly hand on my shoulder and whispers, "Before you go in, sir, you may want to zip up."
I look down and realize I had been riding on the island a little too free and easy. Top marks to the security staff for their alertness and discretion.
Zipping firmly up, I proceed to visit the edgy looking Hard Rock Hotel, the family friendly Festive Hotel, the arty Hotel Michael and sneak a glimpse at the entrance to the Crockfords Tower.
Equarius Hotel and the Spa Villas were not open yet.
I like the Hard Rock Hotel for its fake beach pool, complete with sandy dunes. A perfect place to hang out if you are not a real beach kind of person. You know, the kind who freaks out when your feet touches some unknown squishy stuff on the real ocean floor.
Hotel Michael is named after Michael Graves, the famous architect who designed much of the IR. If you like his art, I suppose it would be cool to stay here. The woody look of the rooms did not quite work for me.
Crockfords Tower is an exclusive invite-only hotel for the IR's high rollers. Which meant I was not invited because that's not the way I roll. We did see the swanky exterior though. I am told it is named after a famous private gaming club in England, the world's oldest. Taxi drivers are going to need some intense training to get its name right, I think. It would be too easy to say something, er, non-exclusive.
Then again, patrons of the Crockfords are unlikely to be taking cabs there.
I really like Festive Hotel. Perhaps because I have three kids. The Deluxe Family King room I went to could fit a family of two adults and two to three kids. The highlight being a loft bed for the kids to fight over. A big family usually has to book a suite or two adjoining rooms to fit the lot in. This works so much better.
I am not too fond of the name though. Was "Festive" the best they could do? A little vague and non-commital, don't you think?
The Universal Studios theme park is not open yet but I will file a report once I get to check it out. I did get to see a little glimpse of the yet-to-open Casino though.
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To get to the Casino, I have to take an escalator down, pass through a long hall I call "The Hall of Justice", and just when you think you've reached the place, you still have to clear "casino customs."
At the entrance to the Casino are separate entry points for Foreign Visitors and Citizens/PRs. There are machines that looked like MRT turnstiles except without the bits that block you. It looks like you have to tap some kind of access card to go in. Then I remembered, locals need to pay S$100 per day to get in (or S$2,000 a year). I suppose that was what the machines were for.
Just for fun, I try my ez-link transit card on the turnstiles. The machine ignores me.
I have been to many casinos in other countries (purely for research, I assure you). Almost all of them are designed to ensure you come in and gamble right away. Slot machines are up front and the entrances with their blinky lights are designed to suck you in immediately.
Not this Singapore one. It was almost as if the Casino was a thing to be ashamed of, and had to be built away from casual passers-by. Shy and tucked away below ground, through a long hall, and then the 'Customs Point,' this Casino was a place you had to consciously go to.
F&B and the Mother of All Ballrooms
I also have the chance to look at their convention ballroom, a huge column-free hall that could be divided into nine smaller ones. It is the largest column-free ballroom in Asia. You could have a really huge wedding in this ballroom. Or a Go-kart event, though that might mess up the carpet. This is clearly designed for some serious, hardcore meetings, conventions or exhibitions, or MICE events. I certainly felt like a mouse standing in the ballroom.
I have a buffet lunch at the Hard Rock Hotel's Starz Restaurant. Wagyu beef burgers! Crayfish! Ice cream! Yum. I am told there is oyster on some days too. The wagyu beef burgers were a little dry though. And the dishes needed to be labeled more clearly. I found myself asking what this was and what that was.
Perhaps the staff manning the buffet line could speak in English a little more too. My Mandarin is serviceable but polite as the staff were, a non-Chinese-speaking overseas visitor might have problems asking about the food at the buffet.
I quite enjoyed my little visit to Sentosa Resorts World. There is enough going on here to make the trip worthwhile. And it will probably help make Sentosa a more attractive destination, instead of what my friend calls "Singapore's last resort island."


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I also bought regular blue cheese dressing. I am not a big sauce fan, same goes for dressing so I think I will use a minimal amount. I like my food more, well I guess some would say dry. My thought was if I have a salad that has virtually no fat, a little fatty dressing would be okay.
There is an super yummy chicken salad that I love at one restaurant that has sliced avocados on it. I find the avocados almost replace the dressing as I put even less on when those are on the salad so maybe I will try those in place of dressing in the near future.
I bought so many veggies I now don't know where I am going to fit in the fruit; I also bought apples, oranges and bananas. I told my Husband that I couldn't believe all the healthy stuff we had on the cart. He thinks my body is going to go into shock!
I told him my plan to try and fill up on fruits and veggies during the day to get my recommended daily amounts and hopefully not have a lot of room left for the not so healthy stuff. He agreed that it sounded logical. We will see how it goes starting tomorrow.
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I never liked many veggies at all. But after a few months i love every vegetable out there it seems. The more you start eating them, the more you body will crave them. Try a chinese style stir fry without meat for a veggie dish i have every night. Or i cut them up and get them moist with water and then sprinkle seasoning on them and then put on a baking sheet in the oven for 20 minutes.
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I hate to say it, but green bean casserole is basically heart attack in a baking dish. Seriously read the labels on the soup and onions if you don't believe me. Green beans are pretty yummy raw. I make dip out of Greek yogurt and light ranch salad dressing that knocks them out of the park. They are also good stir fried, with just a tiny bit of cooking spray, splash of soy sauce and a small handful of slivered almonds, which we call "green bean almondine".
Snow peas are good raw as well, but you have to buy the fresh ones to enjoy them that way. If you buy the frozen ones I would recommend stir frying them with a small amount of cooking spray. I toss them into all kinds of dishes, anything even remotely oriental and any recipe that calls for peas is a good place for snow peas. They actually taste much like peas, but are bigger and usually a bit sweeter. I grow them in my garden and the kids walk along and eat them off the vines, that's how good they are fresh. And it's not just my weird kids that eat them, all kids seem to. We even had trouble last year with the dog eating them right out of the garden.
Lizzycritter did a really good job explaining kohlrabi. It grows really fast, so why it's not a grocery veggie is anybody's guess, Farmer's markets usually carry it. It's somewhere between a turnip and cauliflower in flavor. It can also be eaten raw, we usually slice them into rounds and put dip or cottage cheese on them like crackers. You can also saute it in a bit of oil or butter, or marinate it with Italian dressing and grill it.
Pumpkin is a veggie, and it's also very good for you. It actually helped the Pilgrims survive the second winter and many winters after that, and it also kept their cows alive. In this modern world we really don't eat pumpkin except for pumpkin pie at holidays, but we should. We probably don't eat it anymore because our ancestors ate it at nearly every sitting and called it "New England Constitution". It's counted as an "orange" veggie (you're supposed to get 3 servings of orange veggies weekly - minimum), it has tons of vitamin A and fiber? It's also low cal, about 80 calories/cup, low fat and versatile. It makes great soup, it's good baked and mashed with a little salt and low fat sour cream. Or you can make it sweet with a bit of honey and spice it up like pumpkin pie and enjoy it hot or cold for dessert. You can also use it in quick bread recipes and cookies.
Oh and I'm going to second that "canned veggie" business. Canned veggies are disgusting. I'll bet if you tried homemade soup with carrots in it, you would love them. Okay maybe love is a bit much, but I'll bet you could eat it just fine and even enjoy the experience.
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My faves in the frozen veggie aisle are:
- Asparagus
- Edamame
- Sugar Snap Peas
- Brussels Sprouts
- Any of Green Giant's new "Health Blends" (They're so easy and yummy for a quick lunch, but maybe a tad high in sodium)
My faves from the fresh produce aisle:
- Sweet Potatoes
- Avocado
- Baby Spinach-based salad (with other awesome greens)
- Grape Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Beets (I keep forgetting to buy them, but they're on the list too )
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I am eating my lunch now. I made a salad. I guess it's a salad because it has lettuce but it's like no salad I ever made (more veggies than ever before).
2 C romane lettuce
1/4 C red bell pepper
1/4 C yellow bell pepper
4 grape tomatoes
1/2 C brocolli
2T blue cheese dressing - regular
So, you know I can't say I have ever had raw brocolli. Always seen it on the veggie trays at parties but went for chips and dip instead. You know, I really like it! Add that to next week's shopping list!
I also found that the juiciness and flavor of all the veggies really made it to where I could eat it all with only 1 T of dressing. Since I use the regular kind, that's certainly a bonus.
Looking at what is considered a serving size of veggies - I have 5 just in that salad!
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I have recently read a lot about kale and that it may be one of the healthiest foods on the planet. I found a great website that expains the nutrional benefits of kale (and other leafy greens). It also has recipe ideas of how to use it... they even suggest putting it in fruit smoothies! Whole Food Mommies - Nutrition, Whole Food Plant Based Diet Blog and Recipes
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I love kale! I tend to add spinach to almost every soup I make for the added nutrients, but kale adds a little extra something if you use that instead. I bought a calorie counter cookbook recently and they have a recipie for 'kale chips'. You basically make a little seasoned oil mixture, toss the kale leaves in it, and bake them off. You can sub these for chips or pita wedges with dips for added nutrition, plus you get to control the amount of oil used, unlike when buying chips.
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Good advice to try as may vegetables as you can, prepared all different ways:
My favorites:
Spinach (raw or cooked with rice and fennel and onions)
Mixed Salad Greens (raw)
Escarole (boiled or saut�ed with oil and garlic)
Broccoli Rabe (broiled and seasoned with lemon and oil)
Broccoli (steamed)
Dandelion Greens (boiled and seasoned with lemon and oil)
Artichokes (fresh (warning! - a lot of work) and stewed with peas, onion and fennel)
String Beans (fresh steamed)
Green beans; flat (stewed with carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, parsley etc.)
Carrots (raw, boiled or cooked in soups, stews, etc.)
Kale (braised in the oven)
Swiss Chard (braised in the oven)
Peppers; sweet (raw or roasted)
Peppers; hot (roasted or added to dished)
Okra (roasted with hot peppers, onions and tomato)
Avocado (guacamole or sliced in a sandwich)
Cucumber (raw with sea salt)
Tomato (not technically a vegetable)(raw, great in soups, stews and roasted)
Asparagus (roasted or steamed)
Sweet potatoes
White potatoes
Corn; fresh; in-season (not technically a vegetable)(boiled and salted; baked)
Beets, bulbs and greens (boiled and seasoned with vinegar)
Mushrooms (not really a vegetable)(saut�ed, roasted, grilled)
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INTRODUCTION I. CONFRONTATION CLAUSE DOCTRINE BEFORE AND AFTER CRAWFORD A. The Sixth Amendment Right of Confrontation Before Crawford B. Crawford's Reformulation of Confrontation Clause Doctrine C. Davis's Refinement of Crawford D. Further Refinements: Melendez-Diaz, Bryant, and Williams II. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE A. The Data Set B. Descriptive Statistics C. Stepwise Logistic Regression Analysis D. Limitations of the Data III. ANALYSIS A. The Confrontation Clause, Consistently B. Lower-Court Decisions and the Meaning of Confrontation CONCLUSION APPENDIX A: CODING APPENDIX B: INTERCODER RELIABILITY
The Supreme Court's decisions in Crawford v. Washington (1) and its progeny reshaped Confrontation Clause doctrine. (2) Repudiating the Court's earlier focus on the reliability of out-of-court hearsay, Crawford held that the Confrontation Clause (3) provides defendants with a right to cross-examine only those declarants who made "testimonial" out-of-court statements. (4) The Court did not, however, comprehensively define testimonial statements in either Crawford or any of its subsequent Confrontation Clause opinions. (5) Most academics and lower courts consider Crawford's reformulation of Confrontation Clause doctrine to be a radical one. (6) A minority argues that Crawford did not depart quite so substantially from the pre-Crawford doctrine. (7) The descriptive debate about the consequences of Crawford is supplemented by a lively debate about the normative desirability and legal reasoning of the decision. (8) Despite those disagreements, scholars generally agree that Crawford's stated doctrine is vague and that lower courts have struggled to apply it.
In this Note, I focus on that final problem: the ambiguity of Crawford-line decisions. Crawford announced a new rule for evaluating Confrontation Clause challenges, but it offered three different tests for applying the rule. (9) Subsequent decisions added a fourth test but failed to eliminate any of the original ambiguity. (10) Not surprisingly, scholarly "[c]riticism of Crawford's ambiguity abounds." (11) The Crawford line has been described as "vague[]," (12) "uncertain," (13) "unpredictable," (14) a "mess," (15) "almost arbitrary," (16) "incoherent," (17) and "an exercise in fiction." (18) These descriptions appear reasonable. To apply Crawford, lower courts must decide whether a statement is testimonial. Yet the Court has repeatedly refused to define testimonial statements, and has instead gestured towards certain "clues" that might indicate whether a statement is testimonial. (19) Lower-court splits lend credence to these critiques. In the immediate wake of Crawford, states and circuits split on how to apply Crawford in common circumstances: 911 phone calls, (20) statements by children, (21) and forensic analyses. (22) This criticism only intensified in the wake of Michigan v. Bryant (23) and Williams v. Illinois, (24) two of the Court's most recent Confrontation Clause cases.
This Note challenges the conventional wisdom about Crawford's vagueness through a rare large-scale empirical analysis of post-Crawford decisions. (25) Although the Supreme Court's doctrine is quite muddled, (26) this Note presents empirical evidence that lower courts have reached predictable and consistent results in Confrontation Clause cases. (27) This evidence shows that lower courts effectively employ a two-step process. (28) First, lower courts almost never apply the Confrontation Clause to statements not made to a state actor, finding that such statements are nontestimonial under Crawford. Second, lower courts are much less likely to find even statements to state actors to be testimonial when those statements are made in the context of a medical emergency.
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Federal IT managers are moving into the heavy-lifting phase of buying and supporting cloud computing, where they will confront an often-confusing array of challenges in matching agency needs to the technology's capabilities.
"It's the end of the hype cycle for cloud services," said Mark Day, deputy assistant commissioner, integrated technology services at the General Service Administration's Federal Acquisition Service. "The real work is ahead" in establishing tried-and-true acquisition strategies for federal agencies looking to get cloud capabilities, he said.
Programs such as FedRAMP, aimed at providing uniform security capabilities for cloud services and providers, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology's efforts to provide underlying cloud standards have proven effective, Day said. But there is still a considerable amount of practical acquisition experience to be gained.
In March 26 remarks at an FCW-sponsored panel on buying into the cloud, Day said some federal CIOs still confuse managed services with cloud services. Managed services, he said, provide services for enterprise operations on a more-or-less fixed scale, while cloud services depend on a huge user base to support service prices. "Cloud shares risk across many customers. It's a matter of scale," Day said. "Shared services carve up the scale, shrinking savings and scalability."
"With managed services, the buyer pays for the cost of capacity not used," he said. With true cloud services, he explained, a user may use only 50 percent of what they expected, but the costs are absorbed by the vast user base of the provider.
Frank McNally, a former federal contracting officer who is now content developer for ASI Government's virtual acquisition office, likened cloud services to a utility company, with many users drawing from a large source, paying only for the amount they actually use.
A sometimes-hazy understanding of the cloud business case is not the only challenge, Day said. Established federal contracting vehicles can also be tricky to apply to cloud capabilities, which often cross traditional contracting lines.
"There are proponents for IDIQ [indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity] and fixed-price contracting for cloud services, said Michael McFarland, director of the office of acquisitions at GSA FAS. "A requirements contract could fit" if strong service-level agreements and performance metrics are included. "GWACs [government-wide acquisition contracts] have been used too."
The intricacies of contracting and the fluidity of vendor terminology, they said, also complicate McNally's utility analogy. "[Cloud] is like a utility model," said McFarland, "but we see cloud providers all have different models" with different pricing.
Cloud brokers -- third-party entities that act as intermediaries between cloud providers and buyers -- present an even more complicated acquisition proposition.
Ultimately, Day and McFarland said, federal contracting officials are still working on how to handle cloud acquisition.
To come to a more practical acquisition strategy, they said, federal IT managers must more effectively communicate cloud's business model and what it can accomplish. At the same time, federal contracting officials should more clearly communicate their complicated work to IT. Defining what cloud services are and what is expected from them will also help.
McNally offered some practical advice, using commercial business cloud services as a guide. He said contracting officers shouldn't prescribe details like the number of servers and their configuration, site inspections and audit requirements.
"Stay within commercially acceptable lanes. Lengthy service level agreements can also hamper some of the cost efficiencies for cloud services," said McNally. "Focus on outcomes. Stay out of the weeds."
Despite the complicated environment cloud services inhabit, Day expressed confidence that federal contractors and IT managers will get the hang of it. "We will figure out the answers and this will take off," he said.
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Mr. McNally is not saying anything new. Contract Management Magazine published an article "Utilitization of Cloud" 2 years ago. The problem with the analogy is looking at it as a utility for the purposes of understanding cloud, and treating it as a utility for contractual purposes, are two completely different things. Does it matter who provides your kilowatts to your home? No. A kilowatt is a kilowatt. Does it matter who provides your water to your home? No. A gallon is a gallon. Company aside the end product is no different. The same cannot be said of cloud. Differences in the pricing, structure, delivery, and terms exist. A CO needs to be more aware of this, and analogies can over simplify and confuse.
Agreed, cloud should no longer be a mystery and nor should the already available (and proven) acquisition strategies to make it happen. Ordering Agencies should simply state their objectives or identify specific SOW tasks, issue the requirement on GSA Schedule 70, and allow any of the hundreds of primes to compete for the business that have Cloud Service Provider (e.g. AWS, Microsoft, Terremark, etc.) SKUs on their contracts already or form CTAs with Schedule 70 primes who do. End the hype, the unecessary "specialty BPAs" and tax dollar wasting limited competition GWACs and Agency IDIQs and let's get to work.
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