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Industries Environmental Documents
DEIS on Cameron LNG, LLCs and Cameron Interstate Pipeline, LLCs Liquefaction Project
(Docket Nos. CP13-25-000 and CP13-27-000)
Issued January 10, 2014
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Cameron Liquefaction Project (Project), proposed by Cameron LNG, LLC and Cameron Interstate Pipeline, LLC (collectively Cameron).
The Project is proposed in Cameron, Calcasieu, and Beauregard Parishes, Louisiana, and would provide Cameron the capability to export about 12 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year. Cameron would construct three separate systems that liquefy natural gas; one 160,000-cubic-meter, full-containment LNG storage tank; refrigerant make-up and condensate product storage; a truck loading/unloading area; one marine work dock; minor modifications to existing terminal facilities; 21 miles of 42-inch-diameter pipeline; one 56,820-horsepower compressor station; and ancillary facilities.
The EIS was prepared in compliance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing NEPA (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] 1500–1508), and FERC regulations implementing NEPA (18 CFR 380). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Transportation cooperated in the preparation of the draft EIS.
FERCs environmental staff concludes that construction and operation of the Project would result in some adverse environmental impacts. However, these impacts would be reduced to less-than-significant levels with the implementation of Camerons proposed minimization and mitigation measures and the additional measures recommended by the FERC staff in the draft EIS. Although many factors were considered in this determination, the principal reasons are:
- Cameron Interstate would collocate 100 percent of the pipeline with existing rights-of-way.
- The Project would be consistent with or in conformance with federal authorizations, including coastal zone, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.
- Cameron would implement resource- or activity-specific plans, procedures, and agreements to protect natural resources, avoid or limit environmental impacts, and promote restoration of all disturbed areas during construction and operation of the Project.
- The use of the HDD method would avoid disturbances to a number of wetlands and major waterbodies along the route.
- The appropriate consultations with the FWS, COE, SHPOs, and any appropriate compliance actions resulting from these consultations, would be completed before Cameron would begin construction in any given area.
- An environmental inspection program would be implemented to ensure compliance with all mitigation measures, Certificate conditions, and other stipulations included in permits from other authorizing federal, state, and local agencies.
Comments on the draft EIS must be received in Washington, DC on or before March 3, 2014. Once the final EIS is issued, the FERC Commissioners will take into consideration staffs recommendations when they make a decision on the Project.
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Alfred Mayo can now settle in for the work of firefighting
Alfred Mayo, the first black firefighter hired in New London in more than 30 years, won't need to wait to run into a burning building to prove himself.
And yet I have little doubt he will turn in a thoroughly professional performance on the city's firefighting force, ready for anything he's asked to do.
Indeed, Mayo already has a proven propensity for heroism, having been through trial by fire of New London politics and dysfunctional government.
Mayor Finizio finally did the right thing last week, rehiring Mayo after abruptly and unjustly firing him back in December, days before the recruit was scheduled to graduate from the state firefighting academy, having successfully completed all the necessary training and course work.
The mayor, in firing Mayo, went along with the recommendation of Fire Chief Ronald Samul, probably the single person most responsible for the embarrassing makeup of the city's nearly all-white fire department.
Samul has been chief since 1985. His tenure goes back to the era when the federal government ordered an integration of the department, an order the city and Samul ignored.
When I first asked Finizio in January about Mayo's firing, he acknowledged that it was indeed an important decision because the city hasn't hired a black firefighter in so long.
But then the mayor gave only lame excuses for the firing, emphasizing what he said were Mayo's poor grades.
It turned out Mayo's grades were fine, as good or even better than those of the white recruits.
And so began the second phase of injustice with regard to Mayo, as the mayor, in the weeks and months that followed, continued to malign his character and qualifications, giving new and increasingly inappropriate reasons for the firing, even as the state NAACP, state Rep. Ernest Hewett and finally the Connecticut commissioner of emergency services, in charge of the firefighting academy, all got on board to support Mayo's rehiring.
It should have been obvious at the outset of all this that Mayo was railroaded, to use Hewett's word, at the firefighting academy, where he was the only black recruit in his class.
However thin the complaints against Mayo by academy officials may be have been - an unproven allegation of writing in wet cement or a charge that he made a joking obscene gesture for a picture taken by another recruit before class - they were all swallowed whole in New London, where no one seemed to want to disturb the tradition of hiring only white firefighters.
It was especially troubling that, through it all, the mayor never asked to meet with Mayo and ask him directly about the preposterous allegations coming from the academy.
Not only did the mayor fire Mayo and then malign him, but he eventually offered to hire him back and then rescinded the offer, essentially firing him a second time.
Finizio said after that offer was withdrawn that he had gotten legal advice that the photo taken by a classmate of Mayo making an obscene gesture was grounds for the city to defend itself against a discrimination lawsuit.
So much for the city's legal advice.
The report from the commissioner on Mayo's experience at the academy dismissed the gesture as routine school horseplay. When Hewett held a press conference on the report he held up picture of white recruits making similar gestures, some of them during class and in uniform. It also turned out that a white recruit who cheated on an exam was allowed to graduate.
It took the mayor far too long to come to the right decision in this case. Everyone in New London should hope there was a learning curve for him in it.
The NAACP, in a press conference Thursday celebrating Mayo's rehiring, suggested that the healing should begin.
That's an honorable spirit.
I have little doubt that Mayo, who took all the insults in stride, will settle comfortably into the responsibilities of his new job, which is what he has said all along is all he ever wanted.
I have one final suggestion.
Jane Glover, a former black mayor of the city and now Mayor Finizio's chief administrative officer, and black City Councilor Wade Hyslop should both attend Mayo's graduation from the firefighting academy later this month, which is being especially arranged by the emergency services commissioner.
It would make up for some of the shame Hyslop and Glover should feel for supporting the mayor's firing of Mayo and their refusal to discuss the issue in public.
Maybe even more than Chief Samul, they should be embarrassed, as longtime black leaders in the city, for the lack of minority firefighters in New London, a sad, 30-year tradition that unfolded on their watch.
This is the opinion of David Collins
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Honda Accord vs. Toyota Camry vs. Volkswagen Passat
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I plan to buy a mid size car by the end of Aug'99
in NJ(near Jersey City). Information that can help
me in zeroeing down on the make and model of one of
these cars to buy and the dealer I should opt for
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in NJ(near Jersey City). Information that can help
me in zeroeing down on the make and model of one of
these cars to buy and the dealer I should opt for
will be highly appreciated.
Get the Accord. It's as simple as that.
It's the cheapest, and comes fully loaded with everything you need. It's refined, reliable and has a great resale value. It performs like an entry level luxury car, and has been named one of Car and Driver's "Ten Best Cars" list for couple of years. You can't go wrong with the Accord.0
Edmund's Townhall is abound with stories about Accord's transmission problem. Can somebody give their suggestions on that(based on your first hand experience only).0
BTW I'm interested only in Automatic transmission.0
All the cars you've listed are somewhat expensive.0
mine2 Posts: 1I recently purchased a '99 Passat 6 cyl and I couldn't be more pleased. Solid, exceptionally well built and very fun to drive. I test drove the 4 cyl. It performs well with a manual trans. but a little sluggish with an automatic. I traded in a 91' Honda which had to have the automatic transmission rebuilt at 80,000 miles ($1500!). The Passat (4 or 6 cyl) comes with a 10 year, 100,000 mile powertrain warranty.0
The Passat is the way to go. You'll never look back. Suggest checking out the Passat 5 topic for more info. and the reaction of many happy Passat owners.0
wdang Posts: 1Read this first if you're thinking about buying a new '99 Accord. All these years I've heard about how good the Hondas are, it's all hype. After reading Edmunds' no-flaw review of this year Honda Accord, I went out and bought a 4-cyl. '99 Accord EX. It was a mistake. I wish Edmunds had revealed to us the Accord's transmission problem. The problem I have is when I'm slowing down for a turn, at or near the end of the turn, when I step on the acceleration to pick up speed, the car would hesitate like it's going to stall for a brief second before it resumes the normal speed. The same thing happens when I'm in a slow moving traffic. When I come to a full stop i.e., a red light or stop sign, then I don't experience the above problem. Another problem is when I stop the car, put it in park then turn the ignition key off, the car slightly lurches forward before it stops. The service manager at the dealership thinks that maybe I have a problem with the way Honda build their cars, according to him, all Hondas drive like that. Baloney. My colleague's cousins have two '99 Accords EX V6, they have the exact problems that I described above. It's time for the Honda diehards to come out and admit that the Honda is just a car that has its share of problems like other cars. In case you want to know where I had bought my Accord from, it's Marty Sussman Honda in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
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cadillac1 Posts: 51By a passat for a few reasons. Even though Japanese cars are more reliable volkswagon has great warranties so if something by chance did go wrong you'd be covered. The Japanese warranties are just not that good. Also its the best looking vehicle plus there not a million of them on the road so when you drive by, people may actually notice your car.0
VW has the WORST bumper to bumper warranty in the world: 2 years!!!!!! As many have pointed out, VW's main problems are electrical (not covered by the 10 year powertrain warranty). If VW was so confident about its cars, they would offer a 10 year bumper to bumper warranty.
As for Accord's transmission.... I have experienced a similar "problem" with the hesitation. It only happened when I floored the car from a stoplight. It felt like the transmission slipped into Neutral for a sec. I had to lift my foot off the accelerator for a sec and then it was fine. I was hesitant to try jack rabbit starts again, because it reminded me that Accords are NOT a sports car and must be handled gently. On the other hand, my Lexus GS was built for the very thing Accord wasn't.0
The transmission in my former '94 Integra shook the entire car when shifted into reverse. It was all right once underway, but still didn't shift as well as I liked on a number of occasions. The dealer passed it off as being typical. Probably the worst thing about that car.0
I just test drove the 4 cylinder Galant. I think you should to. 4 years/0% financing means you'll save a couple thousand of the bat compared to the Camry or Accord. And, believe it or not, you'll swear you're driving a 6.
The brakes are horrible, though. Otherwise, great car. Very quiet, very smooth. Great engine/transmission. Plenty of power. (Talking about the 4.) Definetely worth checking out.
I was offered about $17.4K with the 0% financing. So, to give you an idea, the Galant ES will cost you about $17.5K.
There's a $1250 rebate, but then no financing. If you choose to take the rebate in lieu of the financing, cost goes down to $16,250. Pretty good value.
Plus, you're buying Japanese, just incase you have problems with American cars. (I don't. I just bought one today.)0
I should say, "to give you an idea, the Galant should cost you about $17.5K max." Unless it was sitting on the lot for long.0
Why buy an inferior [non-permissible content removed] car like the Galant for $17,500, when you can buy the best mid-size [non-permissible content removed] car like the Accord LX automatic for $15,900?0
I had a '95 Integra and NEVER had the problem you described. The only transmission problem I could notice was during acceleration: when I lift my foot off gas then depress it again, there would be a huge hesitation. But that seem typical as other owners have said the same thing.0
Well just accept the fact that it ALWAYS did in my case (re: post #10). That year the Civics were recalled for transmission problems. I suspected the same problem with my Integra, but Acura refused to acknowledge such a thing.0
passat13 Posts: 1I drove an 88' legend I had a problem with the transmission jerking everytime it would shift gears(auto). Then I bought a 93' Legend and it had the same problem. I spoke to the dealer and he told me that all Hondas and Acuras have that problem after they reach a certain mileage. I would definitely go with the VW. That's what I will be purchasing in about 1 week.0
claudial Posts: 1OK, I read enough about the Honda's transmission problems and the Passat's electrical problems to convince me to go with the Camry. Two questions:
1. I'm getting an automatic. I test drove the 4 cyl and it felt fine. Am I missing something and would I regret not getting the 6 cyl?
2. What is traction control and do I want it?
rph74 Posts: 14I just bought a 99 Accord EX 4 door with 5- SPEED last December. I highly recommend the 5- Speed for its smoothness and quick acceleration, although I'm dissapointed that the gas mileage is roughly the same as automatic (according to EPA figures). I also looked at Jetta and Passat, but I am wary of their reliability record. Why else would they have a 10 year warranty, unless their past products have been unreliable? Chances are, transmission and engine problems are the last things you will have to worry about, take it from me, a guy who has owned his share of used cars with high mileage! Little things like, A/C, accessories(ie fuel and water pump), and electrical problems are what will get you. Hyundai also just came out with a 10 year powertrain warranty, and they have a really bad reputation for reliability. Anyway, I really love my Honda, it feels really solid, and is very comfortable. For less than 20,000 (if you negotiate well) you get power sunroof, power windows and locks, alloy wheels, cd player, just about all the toys one needs!!!! It's easier to deal with an Accord simply because Honda's do not have options!! You either get Ex, Lx or DX, that's it. The other cars can get a little more confusing! I have never heard of this auto. transmission problem before I read this message board, but it sounds like something to check out. If it looked a little better, I would recommend the Toyota Camry. If you want to buy a Camry, look for one that was built in Japan. Seems as though half the ones I've seen are built in Kentucky. It's just my opinion, but Japanese cars were better when they were built in Japan, I think they have workers with a harder work ethic, and more attention to detail than we Americans. In conclusion, Camry is better if you want a quiet ride, Passat is better for sportiness, and the more enthusiastic driver (who doesn't mind spending extra on repairs!) and the Honda is somewhere in the middle, and a little easier to find one with the options that you need!!!0
valenbrown Posts: 1Hello everyone. I just test drove the Honda Accord EX-V6 Coupe and I was really impressed. Especially when the dealer suggested that I floor the vehicle when the light turned green. It took off with no hesitation and it was a smooth ride. When I test drove the Camry a half hour later I was also quite please until I stepped on the excelerator when the loght turned and the wheels were sinning in place. The ground was not even wet. The dealer indicated that thsi car did notg have traction control but for an extra $250.00 I could add that on to the car. I thought to myself that such an important function should be standard on a vehicle. I told him of my Honda experience and the fact that I floored the car and it took off smoothly without spinning tires and honda certainly did not have to sell me additional safety measures that should already be on a car. All he could do was shrug his shoulders. The Toyota is approx. $978.00 more than the accord and that's without the traction control. Needless to say, I will probably buy the Honda.0
hound97 Posts: 22I have driven many four door sedans over the past few months. I drove the Olds Intrigue and found it very boring. The new 3.5 liter engine was unimpressive. My girlfriend has a Camry LE. It is a four cylinder automatic and I really enjoy driving it, but I also find it rather uninspiring in terms of styling and drive feel. Also, I can't go out and buy the same car my girlfriend has. The 2000 Maxima I drove was a blast. Acceleration was amazing. Everything about that car was great from the drivers seat, but rather cheap everywhere else (namely cupholders and other interior plastics. I drove the Buick Regal GS figuring with 240 hp it would blow the Maxima away. All I can say is I don't think it will. It was as lame as the Intrigue and way over priced. $28K+. This brings me to the Passat. I loved driving this car. I don't no if it was the blue mood lights or the Tiptronic tranny, but I had fun on this test drive. My problem is price. No one seems to want to budge on these things and you can't find the color you want anywhere. I've heard horror stories of people waiting months for their car to arrive from Germany. I can't see dropping $24K for a car I can't even get in the color I want when other cars are thousands less and have a better reputation than Volkswagen. Will the 2yr/24k mile warranty present a problem if I keep this car long term? Is this thing worth the extra dough? Should I buy an Accord? (I haven't driven one yet)0
Great suggestion, but when he's talking about 4 cylinder sedans, the Max is really in a different class.
With that said, Nissan makes some of the best values around. There's a $1,500 rebate and $500 dealer incentives on the Altima, meaning that's $2,000 less you'll pay for the Altima than a competing Accord model. Plus, Nissan has as good a rep for reliability as anyone else.
Harry, I'd recommend reading up on how to get a good deal on new cars (you can read up at the new car section of this site), and then get the Nissan. It's not quite up there with the cars you mentioned, but it's real close, and the comparable Nissan, after the rebates and incentives, costs a whopping $2,100 less than the comparable Accord LX. It's just too good an offer to pass up.0
friday1 Posts: 2I wanted to share my experience for those of you shopping for a new car. I'm searching these sites myself to replace my 97 4 cyclinder Accord (1 1/2 years old). It has failed to turn over in my garage on 3 occasions... and since I'm over 18,000 my state's lemon laws won't help me. They claim this fuel injected car is flooding itself and have replaced its corroded sprak plugs each time (these should last at least 30,000 I think and I've been through 3 sets)!
If you look at an Accord ask to see the part in the manual about the "cold start procedure" which they keep telling me I don't follow (and it's August and this just happened again) (but maybe they've fixed the newer cars). I've been told things like "you'll just need to expect this every 6 months", "It's because the car sat and you did not hold the gas pedal to the floor when you started it (aka cold start)", "You did not wait for all the lights to go off before starting it", and "You took too short of a trip so the gas fumes did not burn off and it flooded". Ykes - when I paid all that money I thought I could just turn the key and go!
I know lemons happen and I got one - the kick is that American Honda was not responsive when I involved them. Just beware and if you know of anyone with trouble like this or have heard of what causes self-flooding cars (and if this could have some truth to it) please share! Thanks!0
Go test drive the '99 Accord EX V6. It comes fully loaded with leather, sunroof, ABS, CD-player, power seat, garage door remote, steering wheel radio controls, 200hp VTEC engine, etc.... all for only $21,900 (in Los Angeles).
Honda makes lemons too, but they're far and few in between. Remember, for every one dissatisfied owner, there's probably millions of satisfied owners who don't have access to the Internet.
I owned the newly redesigned and re-engineered '98 Accord and it was a blast to drive. Its fit and finish was excellent, even better than my Lexus, which has some rattles. Accord had ZERO rattles and required ZERO warranty repairs during the 20K miles I owned it. I strongly recommend it.
I do like the new Maxima's engine though.... but haven't seen the interior or driven it, so I could't recommend it. I drove the '98 Maxima and I definately couldn't recommend it. I hope Nissan improved the seats and the radio reception.0
The suggestion about the EX 6 would be great, but again, it's out of his pricerange.
About that 1 to a million ratio, I think you're exaggerating. The Accord has a 90% satisfaction rate. That means 1/10 people are not happy with the car. The Taurus has an 80% satisfaction rate. That means 1/5 people aren't happy with the car. While the Honda's satisfaction rate is significantly better than the Taurus', it's still nowhere near 1/100 or anything like that. In short, there are still A LOT of buyers not fully satisfied with their purchase. And that can be said about ANY car. Still, 90% is up there...
Oh, and if you were wondering, by comparison, the Nissan Altima's satisfaction rate is 85%. That's pretty good, but some domestics can match it. I don't think any are in the 90% rate though. Maybe specialty vehicles, like a Corvette or something, but not bread and butter midsized sedans.0
sensible Posts: 4The Accord EX V6 cannot be had with a manual.
Anybody knows if the shifter will be available for 2000?0
How is the Accord EX V6 out of his price range, when he is considering the new Maxima w/ a higher MSRP? Since Maxima is being powered by a new 222hp V6, it'll be a looooooong time before rebates start popping up. If it's a success, then forget about discounts. So, right now, Accord is the best bargain out there.
Honda has sold millions of Accords (400K+ yearly) for almost two decades. I doubt that think they all post here. I've only seen a small percentage of dissatisfied owners (or those claiming to be) on this board. So like I said, FOR EVERY DISSATISFIED OWNER WHO POSTS HERE, there's millions of owners who are happy with their cars.0
bpincus Posts: 1I have just driven the Passat, the Accord and the Camry ...all v6's. I find their seats an abomination but the smooth ride is delightful as against my current v4 camry. I just don't know what to do. I don't want to spend more than 19k and would like to get side air bags. Probably not going to be possible. anyone know a discount dealer in Maine for Passats and Camrys? My current camry is just 7 years old...anyone know the going rate for a camry in excellent condition? I do have 123,000 miles on it and have done all the maintenance and upkeep.0
First of all, hondabro, someone else brought up the Maxima, not him. Second, I gave that someone the same response I gave you--it's out of his pricerange.
And your claims are somewhat eschewed. For every person that complains about their Honda, there are 9 satisfied owners. For everyone that complains about their Taurus, there are 4 satisfied owners. For every unsatisfied Altima owner, there are 6.7 owners who are satisfied. The Camry--a car he's considering--has a 95% satisfaction rate, so for every unsatisfied owner at this board, there are 19 satisified owners.0
taurus2 Posts: 63I'd go with the Camry XLE because it's like the Lexus ES3000


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Craig Sexton is preparing for the toughest weekend of his life. It will be his first Father's Day in 27 years without his youngest daughter, Melodie Fay. "Until we get past Father's Day, this three-month stretch right here – next to the holidays – is the toughest time," said Sexton.
The three-month stretch included celebrating Melodie's son Jack's fourth birthday. Melodie would've turned 27 in May. And Father's Day marks one year that's passed since Melodie was found dead, drowned in Lake Ivanhoe, a lake house community 10 minutes south of Woodville in Tyler County.
"Every day is day-to-day," said Sexton.
What appears isn't happening on any day is the investigation into Melodie's death, which was ruled a homicide by the Tyler County justice of the peace. The investigation is being handled by the Tyler County Sheriff's Office with the assistance of the vaunted Texas Rangers, the investigative arm of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Long-time cop Bud Sturrock is the lead investigator for the Tyler County Sheriff's Office and told The Examiner on Tuesday that the investigation is "active," but it's "kind of a cold case at this time.
"We've just been waiting for something to develop, something to show up. Someone to, you know, contact the news media or sheriff's office or whatever to report something they may or may not know," said Sturrock, who's adamant the case has gone as far as it can to this point.
"It's gone cold as far as leads and stuff, is what the point is; that's where we're at on it — we're just waiting on something to break like we have to do on some of our cases," added Sturrock. "If there's anything else to develop on it, but I'm certain that there is."
The Sexton family is adamant there is more to develop and are exasperated and disheartened by what they feel has been a "bungled" investigation from the start by Sturrock and a lack of interest from the Rangers.
"I get the feeling he knows what he's doing," said Natalie Gassen, Melodie's older sister, of Ron Duff, the Texas Ranger assigned to the investigation. "But he seems apathetic about it."
False start
Initial reports following Melodie's death on June 19, 2011, indicated the then 26-year-old died due to an "accidental drowning," which was not what the family suspected at all after Melodie's brother-in-law, Dennis Gassen, a Pearland cop, pulled her body from the lake.
"We knew right away this wasn't an accident," said Sexton.
Melodie was with David Spradley, her boyfriend and Jack's father, at the Spradley family's lake houses in the Lake Ivanhoe community. There was a family gathering at the houses that weekend. According to Sturrock, late Saturday night, Spradley drove Melodie and Jack to the lake house they were staying at. What happened after Melodie was dropped off is where stories begin to differ, according to Spradley and his friend at the time, Dustin Storey. Identified as the only two persons of interest by Sturrock, they were the last two to see Melodie alive.
Storey told The Examiner last August he rode back with Spradley and Sexton to the lake house. Spradley denies Storey rode in the car with them and alleges Storey got a ride from someone else. Storey – who admits to drinking that night – said that while he was drinking, he wanted to swim. He said he never saw Melodie get in the lake that night.
Spradley returned to the lake about an hour or so after dropping Melodie and their son off and said that he first checked on Jack and then went outside to look for Melodie. He didn't see her but saw Storey in the water with his back to the house. Spradley maintains he yelled "five or six" times to get Storey's attention before he finally responded. Spradley said he asked Storey if he knew where Melodie was, to which Storey allegedly responded that he didn't.
Storey said he was in the water, and Spradley did yell at him, but also said it was normal for Spradley to "be bossy, especially when he's been drinking."
Both men vehemently deny having anything to do with Melodie's death. Both have taken lie-detector tests, and Sturrock verified that Spradley had passed his but said Storey failed part of his test. After initially agreeing to take a second test last December, Storey instead hired a lawyer and has not taken another test. Sturrock said Spradley and Storey have cooperated with the investigation, yet neither has done enough to be "cleared" as a person of interest.


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I love her! I love her 60s vibe and how her music all has this hopelessly melancholy I-don't-care-I-love-him soulful feeling. Which fits her voice so well, I could always imagine her singing "Blue Velvet" and I flipped out when I found out she covered it for the H&M advert. Sounds so perfect.
I've known of her for ages but I never took any time to listen to her, and now that I have today for the first time I realize what I hear EVERY time I am in Forever 21.
Not a bash though I have become a big fan in one day. Summertime Sadness is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard in a while. I adore her singing style because I love when women sing in deep voices. Not that she's exclusively deep voiced, it's just a plus.
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I can't believe I haven't posted in this thread before now!
If I'm not mistaken (I say this because of my awful memory sometimes) DH had a signature with this graphic of Lana Del Rey and lyrics to Gods & Monsters. The picture and the words both kept catching my attention every time I was on VP and saw DH posting so I finally looked into it and listened to that song
It's funny looking back now, I did like that song quite a bit but remembered thinking to myself that she'll never be one of my favorites but that was not true...she's now possibly my favorite artist. Ever!!
After Gods & Monsters, I listened to Born To Die, I think it was. And fell in love with that, from there I went on to listen to more and more of her songs. Over time I realized I was falling in love with her music because, like TBM, it speaks to my heart and soul. I realized there was something very special about her music, not just her voice or the lyrics but also with her.
I could go on and on about how amazing I think she is but looking over all of the comments in this thread, I think everyone said some really nice things about her and also the reasonings as to why she's loved. I will say I really love how old fashioned her music sounds and how deep her voice is as well as the things she sings about (in particular love )
Lana Del Rey will always be a favorite to me, dear to my heart, just like TBM ♡
I first heard this while they were promoting Maleficent. I loved it. Hell, even Angelina Jolie pushed for Lana to sing this song specifically. I just fell in love with this song and her voice. The second song I heard was (and saw the music video of Lana and another woman-I know that Lana is into older men) was "Summertime Sadness". And the third song that finally sealed the deal was "Diet Mountain Dew".
"Never was there ever a girl so pretty" ❤
Gawd, don't even get me started on the song "Honeymoon". Sexy chills~!!!!!!
Not too long ago I discovered "I Can Fly" and "Big Eyes" from Tim Burton's Big Eyes movie, thanks to Songpop :D
Those songs are really amazing and made me realize how the more music of hers I discover, the more I fall in love with her music even still.
I definitely have to mention how happy I am that Tim Burton likes her and her voice too and picked her to write and perform both songs
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The competition level gets tougher by the day, as not only is the commitment program full in each division, heavy hitters not in the program are set to go as well.
Drivers come from all different backgrounds to race at The Steel Palace. Many are Oswego residents that have had a life-long love affair with Oswego Speedway. Others have a fascination with the supermodifieds, while still other teams are coming to see what asphalt has to offer after years on the dirt side of things.
One of the drivers looking for "Rookie of the Year" honors at Oswego Speedway is a new face to Oswego, but a familiar one to Central New York dirt race fans.
"The Hitman," Tony Steiner got a taste of Oswego Speedway last year in the Sportsman race Classic Weekend.
He liked the thought of running Oswego Speedway weekly, liked the thought of running one night a week instead of the three or four nights a week on dirt, and enjoys the idea of racing an hour from home on a regular basis. So, Tony tossed his hat in the ring of weekly competition in the supermodified class at Oswego Speedway.
"Last year I ran the Dirt-Asphalt series, and had pretty good success in it, winning four of eight races," Tony reflected. "I've been racing the Dirt-Asphalt car a couple, and before that running dirt three, or more nights a week. I thought about it a lot, and wanted to spend more time with my family. My daughter is on a traveling softball team, and I want to watch her play, and be around, not out racing so much."
"Oswego is an hour door to door, from my home in Lafayette," he continued. "I have a little bit of asphalt experience, with last year's races, and running the car at Plattsburgh, Airborne, Devils Bowl, and Lancaster too. I still have my Dirt-Asphalt car and can run those races if I chose too, but am waiting to see their schedule when it comes out."
Tony compared the competition levels at Oswego and the CNY dirt series as well.
"Both Oswego and dirt are tough. They have national touring series top competition each night. The level of racing in both series is excellent. You have to be at the top of your game to run with these guys weekly," he said.
Thanks to a long-time friendship with an Oswego Speedway Hall of Famer, Tony comes into competition this year with his guns locked and loaded.
"I've known Mike Muldoon a long time," Tony said of one of his aces in the hole. "I bought a Bicknell frame from him years back, and we became friends. It was a no-brainer. He knows these cars so well, and is going to be a huge help. Part of the deal was that Mike is going to help me, teach me, and be there along the way."
Muldoon's record at Oswego Speedway cannot be disputed, with 21 feature wins, three track championships, a classic win and winner of The Rookie of the Year (1983), six-time Crew of the Year, and Car Owner of the Year (1995).
Tony has one of the more colorful nicknames in local racing, as he was tabbed as "The Hitman."
"I picked that up in my sportsman days," Tony laughed. "It came from a couple of places. One, I have a gun business, AKS Firearms. Second, one night I was running sportsman, I was running well and going to the front, and someone dumped me. So the next week, totally as a joke, I put a hit list on my trailer. Everyone got a laugh out of it, thus the nickname."
Looking back at his Oswego Sportsman race last year, Tony has good memories of his run.
"We had a good run going," he remembered. "It was an older car, and we were running well. We started 10th, and were up to second in about eight laps. I was moving up in the outside of the fourth turn, and I guess someone didn't expect me to be driving around on the outside of them in four. We ended up in trouble. It was really fun racing at Oswego, and I'm looking forward to this year. I really want to come back."
"This year should be fun," Tony said looking forward to 2013.
Tony has one of the Muldoon cars from last year under him, and has one of the most knowledgeable supermodified minds in his corner with Muldoon.
"We'll be at the open practices, some of the Fast Friday's and we have a private practice scheduled too. I don't think we'll strap a wing on it for the ISMA race on the 4th, we want to take it one step at a time," he said.
The old white Muldoon car will have a whole new look.
"We build our own bodies, and we'll have a black car numbered 07. Is there any significance to having the #07? I am a James Bond fan, and would have liked to run 007, but you can't run three numbers, so we went with 07," he explained.
Tony is 47 years old, and is married to Stephanie. His daughter Kaylee is 15 years old. Tony owns AKS Firearms, as well as NY-Tec Supply in Lafayette. Ny-Tec sells auto service supply and equipment. As well as Ny-Tec, Tech Tire repairs (Johnstown, Ohio), Haylor-Freyer & Coon Insurance, Magnum Balancing, and Plumbco Wheel Weights sponsor the new supermodified venture.
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Notice: The Infrastructure team is currently NOT accepting new projects for the CMS system. When/if we change this policy, we will announce it on the infrastructure mailing list.
The Apache Content Management System (CMS) is used by many Apache projects
and this top level
apache.org website to edit and deploy website changes. Read on for
basic usage of CMS or see the detailed Apache CMS Reference Manual.
The CMS handles the entire workflow of editing to deployment. Committers can checkin and deploy changes to their project website; non-committers can make edits and use an automatic Mail Patch feature to send to the project's dev@ list.
First, check if your project website uses the CMS; some projects use alternate tools (Maven, Forrest, etc.). If it does use the CMS, a simple way to update any specific page is below.
Submit to save your edit to your workarea on the server.
Commit to save the updated file to SVN and trigger a staged test build of the project site.
(If you check on "Quick Commit" beforehand, the Submit and Commit will happen together, saving a step).
Publish Site to deploy to that project's production website.
For a specific example, read about Updating the Infrastructure team web site on apache.org.
A video tutorial for using the CMS, including by anonymous/non-committers is available at http://s.apache.org/cms-tutorial. Detailed instructions are in the Apache CMS Reference Manual.
This section describes the previous ASF website (2010 era) publishing system and its deficiencies. It also discusses options the Infrastructure Team considered in addressing these problems with an eye towards our future needs - eventually leading to building this ASF CMS System, now used by many different Apache projects.
The existing publishing system at Apache has evolved from the case where the organization's hardware consisted of a single machine. Websites have always been limited to using a combination of static content and cgi scripts in order to not overtax a machine simultaneously responsible for delivering (circa 2000-2003) over 1M hits and serving committers as our CVS master host.
The organization has since grown to encompass about three full cabinets worth of hardware and a pair of machines dedicated to serving mainly www.apache.org and project websites. The machines, eos and aurora, are some of our most expensive equipment and are located in two different datacenters to provide redundancy and failover capabilities. The current traffic load is roughly 20M hits a day for those machines.
However the publishing system involves running hourly
find jobs on
people.apache.org and pushing that content out to eos and aurora with
rsync. With roughly 300GB worth of content to scan it is no longer
possible to do this with a single
find job, so we now run them in
parallel: one find job per website. This puts an incredible load on
people.apache.org's ZFS array as there are roughly 100 sites to scan.
As good as ZFS is, the filesystem will not be able to keep up with this
load as the organization continues to promote new top-level projects.
Several years ago during the wiki craze at Apache, the Infrastructure Team was tasked with setting up a Confluence installation for our projects to use. Apache member Pier Fumigalli developed and offered the autoexport plugin as a way to provide Confluence-backed project websites, which was quickly adopted by several projects. The process involves rsyncing the autoexported pages from the machine hosting Confluence over to people.apache.org, where the standard publication system described above would push those pages out to eos and aurora to be served live.
Over time we began to experience chronic problems with this particular setup. First off, different projects often wanted to use different and occasionally conflicting plugins for their sites. Secondly, plugins would often break during Confluence upgrades. The biggest offender was in fact the autoexport plugin and its reliance on Confluence internals. Virtually every upgrade was guaranteed to break it, and after a while Pier and other java developers at Apache lost interest in supporting it. We tried around for people to support it, and were even willing to compensate folks for their time, but there were no takers. Confluence backed websites were fully dependent on the autoexport plugin to have any chance of working, and the organization was caught between a rock and a hard place in deciding when it was possible to upgrade Confluence.
The other main problem with this configuration is that it makes url deletions a nightmare. The autoexport plugin doesn't support url deletions, and that is carried through to the live sites via rsync.
Currently Apache's Confluence installation is hosted on thor, which is a Sun T5220 Sparc. It's by far our beefiest machine with 8 cores and 8 threads per core, and yet our Confluence service is dog slow. Our installation is simply out-scaling the software, and to keep it performing acceptably will require even more significant equipment investments going forward.
Anakia was a great tool 10 years ago. It is a competing technology to XSLT for dealing with raw XML content. Many projects still rely on anakia to generate their webpages but most of the web has moved on. It's time the ASF caught up with the times.
While Apache is still primarily a place for software developers to collaborate, some of the people who provide support for our press and legal efforts need to be able to contribute to www.apache.org. Expecting them to deal with tools like Anakia to roll their own builds of XML-based content is a non-starter.
Obviously with hourly crons pushing content out to our webservers there
will be delays as long as 2 hours between the time someone commits a change
and logs onto people.apache.org to
svn up the website, and the time it
actually gets synced to the live site. That has been the status quo at
Apache for several years and it simply isn't good enough any longer.
While there is a zoo of available Open Source CMS's to choose from, only a handful of them actually support exports of static content. Even fewer of them offer support for staging. Apache's project websites aren't like Twitter, they don't have rapidly changing content that needs to be updated and delivered in real-time. The sites are meant to provide stable resources for the public to gain necessary information about the software we develop.
While not an open source offering, Roy T. Fielding pursued a CQ5 installation for the organization's use. Roy demoed the featureset at ApacheCon US 2009 and the members of the Infrastructure Team who saw it were thoroughly impressed. It seemingly met all of our core requirements.
However conditions changed in 2010 for Roy, and he simply lost any free time he could have put to this effort. We had to eliminate this as an option going forward, but thank Roy and Day for their time and consideration.
Lenya had most of the features we were looking for, but ultimately was rejected as being insufficiently flexible for use as a foundation-wide CMS. Allowing projects the flexibility of deploying per-project site build technologies which were only limited by the software installation on the build host was the Infrastructure Team's preferred strategy.
In September 2010 Philip Gollucci, VP Infrastructure, gave the green light to a custom-built CMS for the ASF, to be developed primarily by one of the contracted System Administrators. After collecting feedback on the goals and requirements of several interested parties, the development work was undertaken with a goal of completing the work in 60 days or less- just in time for ApacheCon 2010 NA. Fortunately the goals were kept simple enough that the actual development time only spanned about 30 days.
The software follows the Unix development mantra of separate executables for independent activities. The key separation was to ensure content presentation was kept independent from content editing, using the addressability of the web to sew things together. The main advantage of this approach is that it imposes relatively few constraints on the content generation software- different projects may adopt different tools to build their websites, without any of the conflicts inherent in single-process plugin architectures like Confluence.
Dotiac::DTL, a perl port of django's templating library, was chosen
for use with www.apache.org, it is not a requirement that projects adopt
it. Any templating system that runs on FreeBSD may be used, provided
the necessary (perl) glue code is written that makes the system compatible
with the CMS's build system.
The CMS relies on buildbot to provide automated builds and checkins of a project's staging site. Such builds are triggered instantly on commits to the project's site source material and are an essential component of the system.
The build system executes builds in parallel, so it is quite fast, even for a full site build.
Markdown was chosen as the format for the www.apache.org source content. Editing the source in the CMS's webgui relies on the wmd-editor to provide a WYSIWYM look and feel to the CMS.
Although it is strongly recommended that projects migrating to the CMS adopt markdown, it is not a hard requirement. In fact the codemirror is also provided as an option for those who prefer to store their source content in raw html.
The CMS's overall design was influenced heavily by django's architecture. From the build system to the preferred template system to the webgui, the influences are clear and obvious to anyone familiar with django.
Instead of developing versioning support and a notification scheme into a database driven CMS, Apache's subversion infrastructure was chosen as the central data store for everything. The fact that the web interface to the CMS interacts with the subversion repository in a LAN environment, combined with the lightning-fast SSDs that serve as l2arc cache for the underlying FreeBSD ZFS filesystem, eliminates virtually all subversion network/disk latency. Subversion continues to scale past 1M commits to deliver high performance to Apache developers, as well as to our internal programs that rely on it.
The mod_perl based webgui is under 3500 LOC and takes full advantage of the httpd module API. Being an in-process application it is respectably fast and will scale well even on the limited hardware (a FreeBSD jail) that it runs on.
The application embraces the REST architectural style while making appropriate use of cookies solely to enhance the user experience. It is also LDAP enabled, not another auth silo to deal with, so your svn committer credentials will instantly grant access to the site.
It was also designed for humans already familiar with the featureset
of the svn command-line tool, taking cues from the Emacs
svn.el module.
However it is accessible even to those without any familiarity with
svn- a simple javascript
bookmarklet allows users to go
from a live webpage to a WYSIWYM editor session in 2 clicks. Submitting,
committing, and publishing those changes is just as simple and
straightforward. You may access the CMS anonymously
if you are not currently an Apache committer.
Because the webgui revolves around providing users with a temporary server-side working copy, the urls it generates are not meant to be bookmarked, and are forbidden from being shared with others. The fulcrum for sharing changes is the staging site, and the "commits are easy and cheap" concept is built into the webgui.
However the url for publishing a website may be considered appropriate
for writing a basic web service client app. Since the site is based in
subversion developers may check-out the site and commit directly from
their workstations instead of through the webgui, so it may be convenient
for project members to have a simple site publication script. This choice
is entirely up to each project, and a reference implementation is available
at http://s.apache.org/cms-cli. Virtually every resource on the site may
be directed to be served as
application/json simply by adding
to the query string, or by setting
application/json as being preferable to
text/html in the "Accept" request header.
In order to scale effectively to handling multi-gigabyte size websites, the
webgui relies on zfs clones to create per-user working copies. The alternative
algorithm would be to physically copy (with say
rsync or
cp -R) working copy
trees, but such algorithms are O(N) whereas a zfs clone (essentially a copy-on-write
version of the original) is O(1).
was developed by Paul Querna to provide an infrastructure for
distributing change notifications to our frontline webservers (eos and
aurora). This system is used by the CMS to convert site publication
requests into live publications, and will someday eventually supplant
the existing
find + rsync architecture for site publication. It
is a key component of Apache's infrastructure and will continue to be
promoted going forward, even for those projects who elect not to use
the CMS.
Despite the above remarks, there is still room for supporting the generation of "dynamic" content, in the same fashion that Planet Apache works. Namely buildbot may be setup to run periodic builds of select urls that have dynamic content, and to subsequently publish the results of those builds. While it is possible to run these jobs more frequently than once an hour, it is not recommended due to the ensuing email notification traffic generated thereby.
Since the CMS relies on separate sections of svn for original content and staging versus publication, it is possible to configure more relaxed ACLs for content authors versus those capable of publication. The Infrastructure Team recommends that the content on www.apache.org be editable by the full committership, while publication remains restricted to members, committers with apsite karma, and members of the Infrastructure Team.
This section lists the requirements for projects electing to adopt the CMS.
The original source tree MUST have the following layout:
trunk/ content/ (location of actual site content) lib/ (only required for projects using the standard perl build system) path.pm (the analog of django's url.py) view.pm (the corresponding views) cgi-bin/ (optional cgi directory) templates/ (location of site-wide templates) branches/ (optional branches, currently unused)
The source content MUST have a unique file extension for each
generated file. I.e. you cannot generate
foo.pdf and
foo.html from
the same source file living in the same directory. You must disambiguate
the paths to these resources using copies or svn externals (symlinks are
not supported, sorry).
There is a further restriction in that the webgui and build system treat
foo.page/ directories as attachment directories. This convention
prevents any files contained therein to be built, but may be treated as
content components (eg html snippets and images) for an individual webpage.
Moreover the source files MUST be utf8- no exceptions.
Content source files with
.mdtext or
.md extensions are typically expected to
contain optional RFC-compliant (mail or http) headers at the top of the file, or YAML
headers as is customary in comparable, modern static site generation tools.
The build system is under 2000 LOC and relies on
lib/path.pm to provide a specially formatted
@patterns array to give the build system hints on which view to run for
a given source file. The patterns are checked in order, and if none of
the patterns match, the source file will simply be copied over to the build
tree. Each element of the
@patterns array is an arrayref which consists of
3 items: the pattern to test, the name of the view function to call, and a
hashref of named parameters to pass (by value) to the view function. The
patterns are tested against files based on their location rooted within the
content/ subdirectory.
lib/path.pm may also provide a hash
%dependencies mapping paths to array
refs. The keys lists names of files which will also be rebuilt whenever a
file matching a value has changed.
(This is typically used for sitemaps.)
The filenames in the values and also
listed in the keys are rooted in the
content/ subdirectory. The
dependency calculation is transitive.
The build system also requires the view functions in
lib/view.pm to
return 2 values, the first being the generated content, and the second
being the new file extension.
The build system will always take the local path to
trunk/ as
the current working directory for the build (branches are currently
Changes to either the
templates/ or
lib/ subdirs will trigger a full site
A detailed walkthrough is available for folks working on site design.
Note that the typical ASF::View
based views now support template preprocessing of source content by passing a
preprocess => 1
argument to the configured view in
With the introduction of
svn 1.7+ working copies, it becomes possible to plug in
a wide variety of functionally similar build systems to the standard perl system
described above- think
forrest, etc. If this interests you please
discuss the matter further on the
users@infra mailing list. It is not unfair
to describe this CMS as simply a CI tool with a basic web browser interface.
While many Apache projects - and the top-level
apache.org website -
use the CMS, it is not a requirement. Apache projects choose their own editing
and deployment tools, as long as they fit within our overall Infrastructure
capacity. Contact the Infra team for more details on the future of
website editing at Apache.
Below this point is historical information, and may not represent the current strategy.
After going live with www.apache.org, the next project we would like to tackle is the incubator website. It too is based on anakia, but thanks to Sam Ruby there is an xslt file available to help automate the conversion from xdoc to markdown sources. We would like to complete this migration by March 1, 2011.
After migrating the incubator site we will branch out to approach any Apache project still using anakia to convert to the CMS. This will of course be a project decision, but we hope the advantages of migration will be clear and well appreciated by pmc members. We hope to complete this process during the summer of 2011. Update: see ant adoption for new options for projects still stuck on Anakia.
The next long-term project to tackle is the eventual phaseout of Confluence backed websites. This will be an extensive project which will require development of content conversion tools, but the clock is ticking on how long we can continue to run Confluence without any support for the autoexport plugin. Update: see confluence adoption for new options for projects still stuck on Confluence.
The final long-term objective is to completely eliminate people.apache.org as the publication hub for Apache websites. Security considerations alone make this a worthwhile goal, and to make this happen we would like to mandate the adoption of at least svnpubsub for all projects by the end of 2012.
As of 1 Nov 2010, this ASF CMS system is now running the main www.apache.org site.
The code for the CMS itself is being developed by the Infrastructure Team, and you can follow its Subversion repository.


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Hi !
I designed new PCB : OPL2LPT , or nickname 'ADLIPT 1' :
A compact 'adlib' on parallel port, 3.5mm line out connector.
OPL2LPT now available at https://www.serdashop.com/OPL2LPT
OPL3LPT now available at https://www.serdashop.com/OPL3LPT
PCB's and components ordered for the first few prototypes,
these should be ready around 2nd week of august.
This time I took care to make it 'all through hole', so it can be a solder kit.
This was inspired by this project : http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/adlib/adlib_en.php
I used the same parallel port pinout mapping, so his adplug modification should work.
Any other software that could work ?
For DOS machines, the ultimate would be a small DOS TSR that captures 0x388 and 0x389 writes and outputs on the parallel port instead.


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Do cupcakes go to heaven after they're eaten? Are they up somewhere, hanging out on cotton candy clouds, looking down at us?
Melissa Cohen: About two years ago, I found myself in panic mode. I was utterly lost and working in Corporate America, feeling somewhat hopeless about the future and what I wanted to do with my life. I felt like I should KNOW where I was going and what I was doing, but I didn't. I have always thought of myself as a creative person, but I didn't necessarily have an artistic talent, and I really wanted one. I thought about taking some art classes for years and never did, but once I was in freak out mode, it was time to get creative. So, I signed myself up for a jewelry course in the summer of '06, hoping that this would get me in the right direction. I was determined to change the course of my life and discover something I could be passionate about. Shortly after the class started, I made my very first ring (the Puff-Puff). I fell in love with metalsmithing right then and there! I became obsessed and finally got to feel what it was like to be totally passionate about something. I found what I was good at and what could hopefully end up being my full-time hobby/career. Two years later, I'm still obsessed, still passionate about making jewelry, and even more excited about [the] future!
MC: Ever since I was little, my mom and I would bake cupcakes in a variety of colors and flavors, topped with delicious cream cheese icing and plenty of rainbow sprinkles. Nothing was better than a warm cupcake out of the oven! As I grew older, this love just got stronger and I found myself making cupcakes anytime I entertained guests. As an homage to my favorite dessert, I decided to make the Cupcake Signet Ring (pictured top). After that, Cuppington was born.
CS: Can you tell us a bit more about the Cuppington pendant? We know there's got to be a story behind that smiling little face (left).
MC: I never quite broke out of that phase of loving Japanese toys and candies from childhood; "Kawaii", as they say. I love anthropomorphic things - inanimate objects with happy faces. I don't know what it is, but I just can't handle it! Cuppington was made after I got a tattoo of a smiling cupcake with my best friends. I knew then that he needed to be part of my jewelry collection.
CS: What are some of your most popular designs?
MC: The Cupcake Signet Ring, Cuppington, the Amoeba-ish Necklace, my Serious Business Ties, and my Bar rings - those are hot right now. I just started making tiny tiny duckie jewelry, too.
CS: You currently live in Brooklyn but hail from Georgia. What baked goods or desserts do you miss from the South?
MC: Being a southern gal, I grew up eating pralines: a Savannah specialty made from brown sugar, cream, and pecans.
CS: What have been some of your favorite NYC baked good / dessert finds?
MC: I was on the cupcake hunt for almost a year, trying every cupcake in every bakery around NYC. Surprisingly, I never found one that was better than my ole Betty Crocker cake mix with sprinkles. That is, until I met the ladies of Lux Sugar! This wonderful group of bakers make the yummiest, moistest cakes and cupcakes you'll find! Once I had their strawberry cupcake, the hunt was over! Check them out, seriously! Other than that, the Crème Brûlée' at Dumont in Williamsburg is amazing!
CS: What type of sweets hold a special place in your heart?
MC: Cupcakes are definitely my favorite, but a close second is my Mom's Chocolate Delight! (Recipe below).
CS: If interested, how and where can people buy your work?
MC: You can find me on metalsugar.com or on Etsy, as well as various other sites. Because I do custom pieces, I love being contacted through my site. I also LOVE having people check out my jewelry in person, so I try to sell at craft fairs or flea markets in the area often. I'm working on getting into blogging about my work, but I'm not quite there yet-stay tuned!
CS: Any advice for budding jewelry designers or small business owners? Things you wish you knew when you were just starting out?
MC: I'm still fairly new at all of this, but my advice is to take classes. Try something you've been curious about. Explore something new! It changed my life in every possible way. I went from worrying about what I was going to do with my life to being excited about where my creativity could take me. I wish I had known that I had talent sooner, but it's never too late!
CS: What's next for Metal Sugar?
MC: To be honest, I don't really know...You never know with Metal Sugar! One day it's a poop ring and the next it's a classic design that your mother would wear :-) Keep checking my site for the many surprises to come!
Melissa's Mom's Chocolate Delight
- 1 C all purpose flour
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 3/4 C chopped pecans
Mix together, pat into 13x9x2 glass pan; Bake at 300* -30 min; let cool.
Middle Layer:
- 1 C Cool whip
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 C conf. sugar(powdered sugar)
Mix together, pour over crust.
- 1 small inst. van. pudding
- 1 small inst. choc. pudding
- 3c. milk
Pour over cream cheese mixture.
Top with cool whip.
- Good idea to purchase the 12 oz size cool whip (Any brand)
- I prefer the choc fudge flavor pudding and any strength milk will work, from whole milk to 1%. I haven't used skim, but it probably will work, just use a little less.


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Adoption battle over twins | News
ROSWELL, Ga. -- Playing in her tiny plastic kitchen area, Jada is very much in charge. "I cook," the 3 year old announces.
Meanwhile, her twin brother Julian is outside, driving his electric car around their Roswell driveway, a confidant toddler behind the wheel.
This duo is unaware of the battle over who will raise them, and their adoptive parents hope to protect them from that battle as long as possible.
"We just decided maybe this was the time to do it," Lisa Williams said of the decision she and her husband Ted made to become foster parents more than three years ago.
Their own three children were almost grown, and they said they wanted to give back.
Ted talks about the day the twins came to them. "Imagine at noon having a very normal day, and by 6 p.m., you have three children living in your house."
Jada and Julian were five weeks old when they came to the Williams family. Their older brother Jayden was 16 months old. Lisa and Ted said three children was too much, so after a month, Jaydan was moved and they had just the twins.
At the time, Jada was recovering from a head injury. A medical report from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta says Jada fell off her mother's lap at three weeks old. She was also diagnosed with failure to thrive and was underweight. DFACS removed all three children from their birth mother's care.
"At three months, we thought we're done, the family's going to come take these kids; and it just never happened," Ted said. "So I think at one year, I said 'We need to do something for these children.'"
The Williams family had fallen in love.
"They are special kids," Lisa said. "They've been through so much, they've conquered so much."
The children's birth mother, 22-year-old Tina Wilson, was living in a shelter when she had the twins.
Lisa and Ted said she visited the twins during their first year but did not attempt to get them back.
11Alive News reached Wilson by phone, but she would not speak to us. Wilson has had several run ins with the criminal justice system.
She was charged with family battery in 2010 and Clayton County authorities tell us Wilson currently has an outstanding warrant for her arrest on violation of probation, related to traffic charges.
When Jada and Julian were 15 months old, Tina Wilson's adoptive brother and his wife, Jeffery and Elissa Wilson, came forward and said they wanted to raise them.
Ted and Lisa wanted to raise them too.
11Alive went to the Wilsons' McDonough home and called them. They wouldn't go on camera, but by phone, Elissa Wilson told 11Alive the reason they didn't come forward for 15 months was because they didn't know the twins were in foster care.
However, in court documents obtained by 11Alive, Jeffery Wilson testified in juvenile court he knew what was going on with his sister Tina, "But I'm not going to really go around trying to play hero to her family unless she asked me to." The twins older half brother Jayden now lives with Jeffery and Elisa.
"I've never seen a case with this many twists and turns honestly," said attorney Diana Rugh Johnson. Rugh Johnson is a child welfare law specialist. She has represented parents who've lost their children to DFACS. But in this case, she is representing Ted and Lisa Williams.
RELATED | Statement on behalf of the Williams family
Here is an example of the twists and turns. On February 28, 2011, Fulton County juvenile court awarded custody of Jada and Julian to Elissa and Jeffery Wilson and the twins were taken from the Williams' Roswell home and were sent to the Wilsons' McDonough home. But that only lasted nine days. That's when the Williams family successfully adopted the twins in Fulton Superior Court. They went and picked the twins up that day.
Fulton County Child Advocate attorney Brian Condon, who represented twins Jada and Julian, appealed the decision to give custody to the Wilsons, saying "It would be detrimental to the children's wellbeing for them to be removed permanently from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Williams." He also said "The mother (Tina Wilson) and her family have failed to demonstrate the commitment to the children that they need and deserve." Both sides are awaiting a ruling from the court of appeals.
"My biggest fear is that they'll take them away from me," Lisa Williams said. "They're my kids. We love them. We all love them. And we worry for them. All the reports say it would be permanently devastating for them to lose the only parents they've ever known."
RELATED | Statement from Fulton County Public Defender
Tina Wilson's attorneys at The Fulton County Public Defender's Office would not talk to us on camera, but in a statement say Jeffery and Elissa Wilson are upstanding citizens who want to raise their niece and nephew and reunite them with their older half brother Jayden.
Tina Wilson gave birth to another set of twins a year ago. Right now, she is raising them.
"So this idea that you're going to have all of the biological mother's children raised together under one roof is an impossible dream, and it's a dream for which Jada and Julian should not be sacrificed," Rugh Johnson said.
Jada and Julian are three and a half years old.
"They're happy," Lisa said. "They're adventurous. They're so smart, and they're so accomplished already."
They know only one mother and father.
"Imagine as a parent, waking up every day not knowing if you're still going to have your children when you go to bed that night," Ted Williams said.
The decision of who will ultimately raise them could come any day.


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Dubai Film Festival unveils lineup
Article Date: December 2, 2009 | Publication: Variety | Author: ALI JAAFAR
Source: Variety
'Nine' is curtain-raiser; 'Avatar' to close event
LONDON -- Dubai fest organizers aren't letting the financial crisis in the once booming emirate get in the way of announcing their lineup.
Opening night pic will be Rob Marshall's musical "Nine," starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz and Nicole Kidman. It is still unclear if any of the film talent, which also includes Sophie Loren and Marion Cotillard, will be attending the gala screening.
Other galas include animated pic "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," while fest will close with a bang with the regional preem of James Cameron's "Avatar."
Fest's Muhr prize for Arab cinema -- originally launched in 2006 with the ambition to become the premier showcase in the world for Arab filmmakers -- has managed to bring together a stellar lineup.
Among the competish contenders are Egyptian helmer Kamla Zekry's "One-Zero," Arab-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis' "Amreeka" and French-Arab director Nassim Amaouche's "Adieu Gary."
Palestinian helmer Michel Khleifi's "Zindeeq" receives its world preem at the fest as does Emirati filmmaker Ali Mostafa's "City of Life."
Organizers are rolling out the red carpet for Mostafa, who has previously won the Emirati Filmmaker prize at the fest and has long been seen as the Emirati helmer most likely to break out internationally. Mostafa's film, which finished principal photography in mid-March, takes its name from the English translation of Dubai's oldest nickname. The multi-lingual, multi-stranded character-driven drama follows the intersecting lives of a privileged young Emirati, an Indian taxi driver and Romanian flight attendant all living in the bustling emirate.
Elsewhere, Indian acting icon Amitabh Bachchan will receive a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to cinema as part of the fest's honoree program. Previous recipients have included Morgan Freeman, Egyptian superstar Adel Imam as well as Indian uber-producer Yash Chopra.
Fest is also hosting a sidebar of French pics in its In Focus section. Among the pics selected are helmer Laurent Vinas-Raymond's "I Forgot to Tell You," starring Omar Sharif, and Francois Ozon's "Le Refuge"
Gerard Butler will fly in to Dubai to receive Variety's International Star of the Year award.
Fest runs from Dec. 9-16.
Kamla Abu Zekry, "One-Zero"
Cherien Dabis, "Amreeka"
Shawkat Amin Korki, "Kick Off"
Oday Rasheed, "Qarantina"
Dima el-Horr, "Every Day Is a Holiday"
Fatma-Zohra Zamoum, "Unlucky"
Merzak Allouache, "Harragas"
Michael Khleifi, "Zindeeq"
Magdy Ahmed Aly, "Nile Birds"
Nassim Amaouche, "Farewell Gary"
Swel Noury and Imad Noury, "The Man Who Sold the World"
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The class runs from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Hill County Electric Co-op office, 2121 U.S. Highway 2 West. The class size is limited, and participants must pre-register online. One must be 11 years old or older to participate. Registration can be completed by going to the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks' website at http://fwp.mt.gov and following the links in the "Education" section.
The site also includes opportunities to register for wolf trapping certification classes elsewhere in the state. Earlier this year Montana became the second of the Lower 48 states to schedule a wolf trapping season.
Idaho was the first in 2011. The FWP Commission agreed to require that all wolf trappers complete a class taught by FWP staff and experienced trappers. In addition to specifics on equipment and techniques, participants will learn about the history of Montana wolf management, trapping ethics, current regulations and other topics.
Wolf trappers must hold a Montana trapping license and complete the class before heading to the field. Licenses are currently on sale. Montana trapping licenses cost $20 for residents and $250 for nonresidents. Wolf hunting licenses cost $19 for residents and $350 for nonresidents.
Montana's wolf trapping season runs from Dec. 15 to Feb. 28, 2013. In addition, Montana has a wolf hunting season that started Sept. 1 for archers in some backcountry districts. A general wolf season will open later.


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TI-RTOS Workshop Series
This workshop will support the following products - Tiva-C series, MSP430, C6000 and C28x. If you are an AM335x (ARM Cortex A8) user, almost 100% of what is covered in the workshop applies to this target as well with the exception of interrupts and timers. TI-RTOS is mostly target agnostic, so ANY user of ANY TI platform that supports TI-RTOS will learn a ton about the kernel (SYS/BIOS). Also, any Keystone (C66x) users will be able to learn SYS/BIOS in this workshop using the C6748 LCDK platform.
The McASP Primer Training Series
This training series focuses on hardware design for the Multi-channel Audio Serial Port (McASP). Before an engineer gets around to writing software for McASP, it has to be wired up properly. That is the focus of this McASP primer.
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TI provides key runtime software components and documentation to further ease development. TI's online training provides an introduction to the Processor SDK and how to use this software to start building applications on TI embedded processors.
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This training series provides an in-depth look at KeyStone multicore SoC devices.
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This training series provides an introduction to voice recognition and some of the basic concepts of audio systems that use voice as a user interface. It provides a guide to required components and how they match to embedded processors and other devices available from Texas Instruments. And it takes a look at the software, tools, designs, and demonstrations available from TI for building your own voice recognition and processing application.
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Linux is well-adopted within embedded systems. But debugging Linux system issues can be overwhelming. This training series teaches the techniques of debugging kernel issues that may be encountered in embedded Linux systems. This training series explains the Linux kernel logging system and logging API, illustrates how to locate a particular device driver, and demonstrates how to read kernel oops logs.
C55x Digital Signal Processors Training Series
TI's TMS320C55x Fixed-Point Digital Signal Processors (DSP) enable high performance and low power through increased parallelism and total focus on power savings. Industry-leading active power enables computationally-intensive applications, such as voice triggering and encoding, to run on battery for extended period of time. Development tools include the award-winning eXpressDSP, Code Composer Studio (CCS), Integrated Development Environment (IDE), DSP/BIOS, optimized DSP and math libraries, and the industry's largest third-party network.
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Similar to existing KeyStone-based SoC devices, the 66AK2Gx enables both the DSP and ARM cores to master all memory and peripherals in the system. This architecture facilitates maximum software flexibility where either DSP- or ARM-centric system designs can be achieved.
This curriculum provides an in-depth look at the K2G Processors, Processor SDK-Linux and TI-RTOS, and the Programmable Realtime Unit (PRU).