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Oct 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm #1280661
Rafi HarzahavMember
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We'd like to do another 2-3 day trip in the Sierra-possibly back to Emigrant Wilderness, but prefer to avoid fresh snow fall. Does anyone know whether there has been recent snow fall in the area? In general, is there a website which details this kind of information? Thanks.
rhzOct 15, 2011 at 10:11 pm #1791078
David LutzMember
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I checked the Dodge Ridge Ski Area web cam this evening and there was no snow on the ground.
Dodge Ridge is adjacent to the Emigrant and the web cam is at 8,200'.
Check it out for yourself, though…..Oct 18, 2011 at 9:49 am #1791993
Bill LawBPL Member
@williamlawLocale: SF Bay Area
I went over Sonora pass last weekend. Patchy snow on north-facing slopes above 9k. Easily bypassed up to 12k+ on Dunderberg Pk. any remaining snow was slowly melting by midday.
I vaguely recall some gates were closed to FS roads off 108. Maybe to Eagle Meadow TH? You might want to call and check on that sort of thing.
BillOct 18, 2011 at 12:35 pm #1792071
Rick DreherBPL Member
@halfturboLocale: Northernish California
Was northwest of Tahoe last weekend and patches of new snow were present on north-facing slopes and some shady wooded areas. A scant few inches, nothing to be concerned about.
RickOct 18, 2011 at 1:17 pm #1792091
Dave TMember
Was up in Tahoe weekend before last, and all the fairly significant snow that fell just before that weekend was pretty beat down by some warmer rain that followed and sunshine after that.Oct 18, 2011 at 1:33 pm #1792097
Bob GrossMember
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Has anybody been south of Mammoth lately, like within the last few days?
I'm interested in the current trail conditions around Rock Creek.
All the ranger station could say was about Bishop Pass. They said 6-8 inches of old snow on the ground and still melting. However, it is all freezing at night.
–B.G.–Oct 31, 2011 at 10:55 am #1797066
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Hey Bob,
I just did a quick 2-night shuttle from Red's Meadow to Iva Bell Hot Springs to Lost Keys Lake to Purple Lake and out to Coldwater Camp at Lake Mary(10/28-10/30). Above about 9,000', we encountered small patches of snow in the shady spots on the north-facing slopes. Above 10,000', there was a little more, but again, just limited to the shadiest of spots. We only had to hike on (old, frozen) snow descending Duck Pass down towards Barney Lake.
The area got a little dusting of snow around Tuesday or Wednesday of last week but not really enough to stick. I think most of the snow was lingering from the storm from a couple of weeks ago that dumped about 2' around Mammoth.
Daytime highs over the weekend were in the low to mid-60s. Night time lows got down to around the mid-20s.
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Masters of Flip comes on on Thursday night. I really like this couple.
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What began as two separate musical careers has become a lifelong partnership for Kortney and Dave Wilson. After a solid run as a country music duo, the Canadian-born Nashville couple traded in their microphones for tool belts and began flipping houses while raising their children.
In 2009, CMT Canada debuted a reality show called "Meet the Wilsons". For two seasons, cameras followed the couple and their family on their house-flipping adventures. Soon after, Kortney and Dave began interacting with their fans as hosts of their own daytime talk show on CMT's, "Kortney & Dave: By Request". Since that time, Kortney, an award-winning realtor and visionary, and Dave, a tireless flipper with a nose for profit, continued to build their real estate business through flips, buy and hold properties and vacation rentals.
Great photos at that site
April 29 at 14:14 EST .
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Agreed. One of the best flip shows. They aren't silly.
Others in no particular order:
Flip or Flop
Good Bones...hate the Mother's laugh
Vintage Flip 6/2/16
Move in Ready May?
Flipping Boston
Salvage Dawgs...love those two men! and the rest of the cast
My First Home
Nashville Flipped
Houdini & Doyle murder mystery
Fraiser reruns
Rizzoli and Isles
Ellen's Furniture contest
Print off a 'list' of episodes and mark them off after viewing.
I'm currently in the final throws of POI. Last three episode in June. This is killing me....not rilly.
You must, must, must watch 'Lie To Me'. I watched it free live streaming one episode a day until I have viewed all ep in order. The key is to print an episode 'list'. You do not want episode descriptions such as those at IMDb.
Elementary is my favorite show on TV.
Will watch Bull coming on CBS this Fall starring Michael Weatherly who left NCIS. Based on Dr. Phil's (meh ) early career as a jury reader???? The trailer is very good.
All HH and HHI and HHRenovations.
TBBT, orig. NCIS and Myst. of Laura ..more if I think of any.
Oh and Project Runway. All stars if I'm truly desperate. lol...
June 1 at 12:46 EST .
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Clarification/fyi. You only need lists for shows with multiple seasons. CSI has 15 seasons. I've seen all but 3 shows of that and finished CSI Miami and CSI NY. With a list you place a dot if it's set to record, a small right slash(half a check mark ) when it records and complete the check (from the hash mark ) when viewed. That truly helps as the re-runs are all over the place.
And Houdini and Doyle is the famous escape artist played by Michael Weston who played Oscar Rankin? in Elementary. Doyle is Sir Arthur Conan and they are friends in the period piece who solve crimes. It may be a one season show.
Procedural dramas need no list, just record series and watch in order.
June 1 at 13:36 EST .
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Flipping the South starts 6/2 or 3
Listed Sisters, better than Prop. Bros.
Stay away from vulgar, foul mouthed, filthy homes in Flipping Vegas. Disgusting show.
I am always searching for light entertainment with the rare well done drama when offered.
June 1 at 14:22 EST .
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I agree 100% about the Mother's laugh. It's like fingernails on a blackboard. I thought it was kind of charming at first. Great that anyone is that happy and thrilled with life. But it's gotten old, like she cackles just to cackle and it's not even a laugh any longer. Like Chip Gaines's antics have gotten old. Beyond old.
June 10 at 15:00 EST .
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I'm not sure this is the correct Wall for the link, but I was hesitant to add to the things on the Lobby. L-Dotter KenM sent it to me. It's a 17 year old high schooler's history project. Our history in 2 minutes. Don't blink. It moves fast.
April 13 at 10:47 EST .
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FTA: When Mark Bowe was working as a coal miner to put himself through college, he never dreamed he would one day restore structures built by the pioneers. One chance weekend he was asked to help with a demolition, and the rest, as they say, is history. For 16 years, Mark has made a name for himself and his crew as restoration specialists. They've traveled the country finding antique structures, tearing them down, and bringing them back to Greenbrier County to restore. His business is constantly evolving, and Mark is taking Antique Cabins and Barns to the next stage—handling everything from restoration and repurposing to designing and building to energy efficiency and estate planning.
His show is on Great American Country occasionally: music videos by day, diy shows by night. You can find the schedule on GAC website. It's also where I found the old RV restoration program.
April 10 at 13:33 EST .
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Highway Thru Hell
This is one riveting television program. It's set in Hope, British Columbia and Lac la Biche, Alberta [the oil fields]. Hope, BC is the start of the Coquihalla Highway, an engineering marvel according to National Geographic; it winds through some of the most rugged areas of the Canadian Rockies, and in winter it is a nightmare. You can not believe all of the different ways that drivers of the big rigs find to twist metal into unrecognizable shapes and spread cargo across six lanes of highway.
And you can't believe what it takes to retrieve the tractors and trailers when they've gone over a 300 foot drop off to a raging river below. But they have to be recovered.
And it's always in a blizzard.
The show is a National Geographic production, but I get the show on the Weather Channel on Wednesday night and Sunday night.
If you ever wondered how those big rigs are recovered after a major crash, ride along with Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue and his drivers, in some of the largest heavy wreckers known to man [60 tons], and you'll learn all about it.
This particular piece of equipment was built in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Viewers got to go with Jamie when he flew out of Canada to Chattanooga to pick it up and drive it back to Hope. There is a length limit for vehicles entering Canada from the US; there was a mix up at the factory, and this Rotator was within an inch of not getting into Canada.
January 29 at 15:28 EST .
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Since I've stopped watching current events television [FOX], I have discovered some great television.
Great American Country {GAC]. I don't watch it during the day when all they have are music videos --I don't care a thing about today's "country" --it ain't country; but --after 5:00pm [Texas time], a lot of good stuff comes on, and my favorite is new show called Flipping RV's. It a young couple in Bend, Oregon who find old RV --30's and 40's mostly and refurbish them, bring them back to life. Apparently that's a big deal, based on how many rallies are held around the nation featuring vintage travel trailers. Some of the work they do is just amazing.
Yesterday on GAC [Saturday] was "Barn" day; a man who reconstructs barns into homes, high-end homes; and another man who buys old barns, tears them down for the wood, or to reconstruct houses with the wood. Both of those shows were just excellent.
I love Food Network --Kid's Baking Championship competition has started. I like the cake decorating competitions; new Cake Wars starts Monday night.
Hallmark now has two channels, one of which reruns Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis Murder, Hart to Hart, Columbo, and lots of great original mysteries. I swear, some of that stuff is like an old friend you rediscover after a years-long separation. Given what's going on in the world today, I need old friends.
Another show that is Appointment Television for me is Highway Thru Hell --wrecker/heavy rescue on treacherous Canadian highways in really bad weather. Does anyone watch that? I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to try to pull a semi tractor and fully loaded trailer up an icy mountainside in -20 degree weather. I watch it on the Weather Channel, but it's also on National Geographic, I think. It comes on on Sunday and Wednesday nights here. It's always a nail-biter. It makes you wonder why, when those truckers know the dangers, they don't just slow it down, but they don't. If you like that kind of thing, it can't be beat. Those heavy rescue workers are nothing short of miracle workers. One thing I like about it is that even though the show is about a bunch of rough-neck men doing rough-neck men's work, not every other word has to be bleeped out. I used to like Ax Men on A&E, but I quit it. It got to where you couldn't follow the dialog for the bleeps so I just turned it off one night and never went back.
Anyway, I discovered there is life after FOX.
January 10 at 20:10 EST .
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Flyte Camp is the Website for the Flipping RV show is you want to look at the work they do on vintage travel trailers.
January 10 at 20:12 EST .
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Final season for Downton starts tomorrow ...
January 2 at 19:03 EST .
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Maybe I was too tired to appreciate it, but I was a bit disappointed in the season opener - anyone else?
January 4 at 22:30 EST .
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I'm not a movie goer. I refuse to support Hollywood any more than I have to. I don't even watch many movies when they come on television, but this weekend I saw one that really grabbed me, and I don't even know the name of it. Blindsided, or The Blind Side, or something like that. Stars Sandra Bullock. And it's a true story about a very wealthy white family who took in a black ghetto kid. I don't know who the boy was who played the ghetto kid, but he was wonderful, and I don't know anything about Sandra Bullock's politics --she may be the biggest Liberal in Hollywood, but she doesn't advertise it. I've always liked her, but I've only ever seen a couple of movies that she's been in. The little boy who played the youngest son in the family was a real cutie.
I really liked that movie. It was funny and serious at the same time, and a tear jerker, sort of. I didn't know Hollywood was turning out anything like that. No nudity. No foul language. No blood and guts in the streets. No drunks. No druggies. No car chases. Just a nice movie about a kid who was saved from the streets and I suppose, went on to make something of himself. It ended when he was picked by the Ravens.
Good movie.
December 6 at 23:34 EST .
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Can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie. Never get tired of it.
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On a roof slope of 12/12, and with 2x10 pine rafters 24 feet long, and on 16" oc can shorter boards say (a 16' and a 12' be spliced to get the 24 foot long rafter?
Do you know of a section of the code or building practice book that addresses this question and offers guidence?
Hi JamesE117
Don't know code allows but I know it can and has been done. I have a couple rafters in one of my outbuildings that has been spliced that way for length. What they did was nail the two together (bottom angled nailed) and sistered the joint with 3 feet of same size lumber on BOTH sides so one and a half feet of the sisters was on either side of the splice joint like a bandaid. That was done quite awhile ago and it seems to have worked as its still standing. If I was to do that now though I'd use some Simpson metal ties to lock them together and then sister. I don't know the number but they are flat pieces of metal with teeth on them used for mending ... and then I would still sister. Those metal mending plates DO come in different sizes depending on the size wood you are adjoining and you would need one of the Longer ones to mend a 2X10. Your hardware store would know what size for the need. I think the way the code reads is that joints (splices) like that SHOULD be supported by wall or over a beam. Code likes the splices well supported.
To modify and work on rafters does require a permit though.
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Splicing or sistering another alongside is a common method.
Another way that allows for the use of lighter rafters, or just simply if the lengths are greater than the available timber is to use under-purlins.
Whichever way you go, collar ties could also stiffen up the area of the joints.
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Chief minister Harish Rawat held 12 jan sabhas in Haridwar on Sunday, at the end of which hundreds of members from small political outfits joined the Congress and pledged their support to his wife and Congress' Haridwar candidate Renuka Rawat.
Certain leaders from the BJP are also expected to join Congress later.
The prominent among those who joined Congress on Sunday is the Peace Party chief Haji Ahmed Ansari. He joined the party along with hundreds of supporters.
Meanwhile, Rawat had also managed to pacify Ambrish Kumar from Uttarakhand Kranti Morcha and former MLA of Ikbalpur, Roorkee, and reportedly convinced them to join the Congress. Nagar Palika chairman Rishikesh Deep Sharma had also joined Congress last Wednesday.
During the Jan Sabha, Rawat said the faith and affection which he had received from the "down-to-earth persons" belonging to smaller sections of the society is a testimony to the public desire for a Congress leadership at the national level.
"Our vishwakarma brothers, masons, barbers, carpenters and craftsmen want Congress to win. Congress has always taken special care of the small communities and minorities," Rawat said.
Speaking to Hindustan Times about the prospects of the party in comparison to BJP, Harish Rawat said, "There is no comparison. Modi ko samajh jana chahiye ki dilli abhi dur hai. (Modi must learn that Delhi is still far from his reach)."
"BJP baura gayi hai, Kisan and naujwan hamare sath hai isliye hamein pura vishwas hai ki uttarakhnad ki janta hamein phir avasar degi. (BJP is baffled, since youths and farmers are with us, people would always give us a chance to come again)." he added.


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Closely related key
In music, a closely related key is one sharing many common tones with an original key, as opposed to a distantly related key (or "close key" and "distant key"). In music harmony, such a key shares all, or all except one, pitches with a key with which it is being compared, and is adjacent to it on the circle of fifths and its relative majors or minors.
Such keys are the most commonly used destinations or transpositions in a modulation,[1] because of their strong structural links with the home key. Distant keys may be reached sequentially through closely related keys by chain modulation, for example C to G to D or C to C minor to E♭ major.[2] For example, "One principle that every composer of Haydn's day [Classical music era] kept in mind was over-all unity of tonality. No piece dared wander too far from its tonic key, and no piece in a four-movement form dared to present a tonality not closely related to the key of the whole series."[3] For example, the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 7 (Mozart), K. 309, modulates only to closely related keys (the dominant, supertonic, and submediant).[4]
Given a major key tonic (I), the related keys are:
- vi (submediant or relative minor[1][5][6]): same key signature
- IV (subdominant[1][5][7][6]): one fewer sharp (or one more flat) around circle of fifths
- V (dominant[1][7][6]): one more sharp (or one fewer flat) around circle of fifths
- i (parallel minor[1][6]): same tonic, different key signature
- ii (supertonic[6] the relative minor of the subdominant)
|Relative Minor
|Subdominant, Dominant,
and their Relatives
|Parallel Minor
|F, G, Dm, Em
|C, D, Am, Bm
|G, A, Em, F♯m
|D, E, Bm, C♯m
|A, B, F♯m, G♯m
|E, F♯, C♯m, Dm
|C♭, D♭, A♭m, B♭m
|G♭, A♭, E♭m, Fm
|D♭, E♭, B♭m, Cm
|A♭, B♭, Fm, Gm
|E♭, F, Cm, Dm
|B♭, C, Gm, Am
Another view of closely related is that there are six closely related keys, based on the tonic and the remaining triads of the diatonic scale, excluding the dissonant leading-tone diminished triad.[7] Four of which differ by one accidental, one with the same key signature, and the parallel modal form. In the key of C major these would be: D minor, E minor, F major, G major, A minor, and C minor.
In modern music, the closeness of a relation between any two keys or sets of pitches may be determined by the number of tones they share in common, which allows one to consider modulations not occurring in standard major-minor tonality. For example, in music based on the pentatonic scale containing pitches C, D, E, G, and A, modulating a fifth higher gives the collection of pitches G, A, B, D, and E, having four of five tones in common. However, modulating up a tritone would produce F♯, G♯, A♯, C♯, D♯, which shares no common tones with the original scale. Thus the scale a fifth higher is very closely related, while the scale a tritone higher is not. Other modulations may be placed in order from closest to most distant depending upon the number of common tones.
Another view in modern music, notably in Bartók, a common tonic produces closely related keys, the other scales being the six other modes. This usage can be found in several of the Mikrokosmos piano pieces.
When modulation causes the new key to traverse the bottom of the circle of fifths this may give rise to a theoretical key, containing eight (or more) sharps or flats in its notated key signature; in such a case, notational conventions require re-casting the new section to its enharmonically equivalent key.
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Schonbrun, Marc (2006). The Everything Music Theory Book, p.76. ISBN 1-59337-652-9.
- ^ George T. Jones (1994). HarperCollins College Outline Music Theory, p.217. ISBN 0-06-467168-2.
- ^ Ulrich, Homer (1966). Chamber Music, p.175. ISBN 978-0-231-08617-2.
- ^ Benward & Saker (2009). Music in Theory and Practice: Volume II, p.155. Eighth Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-310188-0.
- ^ a b Barry, Barbara R. (2000). The Philosopher's Stone: Essays in the Transformation of Musical Structure, p.19. ISBN 1-57647-010-5.
- ^ a b c d e Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I, p.243. 7th edition. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0. "Most modulations occur between closely related keys, which are those keys that differ by no more than one accidental in the key signature."
- ^ a b c Jones (1994), p.35-36.
Further reading[edit]
- Howard Hanson, Harmonic Materials of Modern Music. Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1960.


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I would like to know the estimated price for a mommy makeover in the Atlanta or New Orleans and surrounding areas. Trying to have procedure done ASAP but don't know of any doctors.
How Much for a Mommy Makeover Including Breast Enlargment, Tummy Tuck, & Lipo Transfer to Butt? and Without the Breast Enlarged?
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Price for Tummy tuck, augmentation and Brazillian butt lift
The price for any plastic surgery procedure can vary on the surgeon and geographical location. In Florida, our summer special for tummy tuck and silicone breast augmentation is $9500.00 Typically a brazillian butt lift costs $6500.00. I do not do the BBL with the tummy tuck at the same time because when doing a BBL you cannot sit for 10 days post-operative and need to sleep on your stomach for a month. When having a tummy tuck you need to sleep on your back with a incline for several weeks following the procedure to keep tension off the suture line in the lower abdomen. Note, don't just shop for price because all surgeons are not created equal and if you need to have something fixed after a bad surgery, it will cost you more in the end. Also, the procedures are best performed by board certified plastic surgeons and that can be check at the american board of plastic surgery website.
Mommy Make over
Choosing the right surgeon is more important than the price. Correcting bad results will cost more than the original surgery
How Much for a Mommy Makeover Including Breast Enlargment, Tummy Tuck, & Lipo Transfer to Butt? and Without the Breast Enlarged?
The Brazilian buttlift and tummy tuck with saline breast augmentation would probably be somewhere around $15000 to $20000, and the BBL and tummy tuck would be somewhere around $12000 to $15000. Find a plastic surgeon with ELITE credentials who performs hundreds of Brazilian buttlifts and mommy makeovers each year. Then look at the plastic surgeon's website before and after photo galleries to get a sense of who can deliver the results. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
Web reference: http://www.hughesplasticsurgery.com/brazilian-buttlift-photo-galleries.php
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It will be up to you to do your due diligence in the process of plastic surgeon selection. I would suggest starting with the American Society of Plastic Surgery and/or the Aesthetic Society of Plastic Surgery to obtain a list of well experienced board-certified plastic surgeons.
Then, I would suggest you visit a few surgeons whose practices concentrate on aesthetic surgery. Ask to see lots of examples of their work and preferably speak/see patients who have had similar procedures done.
You will find, while doing your due diligence, that there are many different "specialties" who will offer their services to you; again, I strongly recommend you concentrate on surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
I would also suggest that you do not base your selection of plastic surgeon primarily on costs of surgery; keep in mind that revisionary surgery may be more costly in many ways.
I hope this helps.
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Mommy makeover
Your choice of surgeon is far more important on price. For pricing, please look up the regional numbers on realself.com.
Mommy makeover costs
Call around to some local plastic surgeons to get a cost estimate. You might get a discount for paying in cash as well.
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Mommy make over and Buttocks augmentation by fat transfer
As you have heard from others, cost should not be the overridding factor when making a decision about a major plastic surgical undertaking. An abdominoplasty has the most substantial recovery time and risks. In order to give you anything close to an accurate estimate on costs you will need an examination.
Mommy Makeover
Finding the right surgeon is more important than the price of the procedures. Consult with a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon to determine your needs and expectations.
Prices will vary. I would plan on spending close to 20k
Thank you for the question. Prices for the procedures you have listed will vary from plastic surgeon to plastic surgeon and from one region of the country to another. I would definitely plan on spending around 20k. My recommendation is to seek several consultations with board certified plastic surgeons that can show you good before and after photos. You may also want to list for yourself from most to least important the procedures that you have listed.
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Jet notes: Mark Sanchez visits shore
Sanchez visits shore
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez was part of a helicopter flyover Tuesday that assessed the damage of superstorm Sandy on the Jersey Shore. He said Wednesday that he came away from the experience with a different perspective after flying over places such as Seaside Heights and Lavallette.
"My life is [the Jets being] 3-5 and trying to fight through it and win games for the New York Jets," he said, "but there's also so much more. … I just did my best to take it all in to give myself some perspective on life."
He said he accompanied some first responders who had lost their homes because of the storm, yet they were the ones assessing the damage.
"Some of those guys are almost in tears," Sanchez said, "like, man, this is our life and we can't go back to that for another eight months,' but they're going to get up the next morning and keep trying to fix it. … It was inspiring."
Update on ex-Jet
Seventh-year running back Leon Washington will play against the Jets for the first time since they traded him to Seattle in the spring of 2009 for a fifth-round draft pick. That pick was used on fullback John Conner, who was released with an injury settlement last month.
Washington was coming off a compound leg fracture when he was dealt. He is second in the NFC in kickoff returns, averaging 29.1 yards.
His attitude at the time he was traded, he said Wednesday, was "Wow, can I ever get back to being Leon? Can I get back to returning kicks and making plays?"
He added, "That part of it was the only hesitation that I had."
Washington, who had a brief holdout in 2008, also said coach Rex Ryan told him at that time the Jets couldn't re-sign him because they eventually needed to do new deals with players such as cornerback Darrelle Revis, linebacker David Harris and center Nick Mangold.
"It's a business, so I understand it," Washington said. "I was thankful that I had the opportunity [with the Jets] in the first place."
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New PS3 Needs Slimmer, Lighter Price Tag Too
Posted on Wednesday, September 19 @ 14:08:31 PST by Anthony Severino
Last night, during Sony's Tokyo Game Show press conference, the console manufacturer announced a new, slimmer, and lighter PlayStation 3 console with larger HDD options. That's great and all, but two things really struck me as strange, one of which I would consider downright confusing.
The most apparent thing missing from this announcement was an accompanying price cut. PlayStation 3 hardware started out notoriously expensive, but has reached a reasonable price for the value. However, this far along in the console cycle, Sony—being in last place in total consoles sold and with the Wii U on the horizon—needs to do something to increase the value of the PlayStation 3 even more in order to get it into the hands of more consumers. And that's by reducing the price so its value is higher. Not making this new hardware cheaper at retail, despite packing in more value with a larger HDD, is a huge mistake.
Reducing Cost for Both Sony and the Consumer
The point in releasing this new hardware revision is most likely to reduce the cost of the PlayStation 3 manufacturing process. That was the reason for the first hardware revision, for the slimmer, lighter PS3, which coincided with a price drop.
While I can't claim to know all of the technical details and costs associated with PS3 components, I surmise that not having a slot-loading disc drive would reduce costs. I'm sure there are also other components within the new PS3 model that are designed to cut costs. But Sony is keeping the difference in their pockets, padding their profit margings, instead of passing the savings onto the consumer.
Profit is the entire reason why Sony or any corporation is in business. They're not in this to lose money. I get that. But increasing the install base and loyalty among consumers is more important than the measly pocket change they're saving per console sold. Again, with me not knowing all of the costs or technical details, it's hard to say that without any doubt, but Sony was originally willing to take several hundred dollars in loss when they first started selling the PS3, and this late in the lifecycle, it's more important than ever to squeeze out as many consoles sold as possible out of a market that's quickly losing ground to mobile, Facebook, and other emerging platforms.
Competition and Competitive Pricing
The Xbox 360 has been dominating the PS3 in North America for the past year and longer. With the Wii out of the way and completely fizzled, it hasn't exactly given the PS3 time to spread its wings. And now with the Wii U less than two months away, priced only $50 more than the PS3 for unexplored, possibly greener pastures, the PS3 has even more competition.
Now would be the time to undercut both the 360 and the Wii U significantly in order to push the PS3 as the best value on the market, and with a lower price, it would be a statement difficult to refute. They are offering a value-priced hardware bundle that packs in a game and more, but most consumers would rather get the hardware itself for cheaper.
Which leads me to the confusing part. The new PS3 model offers a 12GB version at a low cost... but only in Europe. Granted, Europeans have been grossly overpaying for the PS3 all along, and they do indeed deserve a price break, but why not anywhere else?
Especially if Sony already has the 12GB model in production to begin with, I cannot fathom why they wouldn't try and bring it to North America (or even Japan, for that matter), and sell it at a mass market price for consumers who are skeptical to invest in the PS3. This would allow the PS3 to get into the homes of more consumers, plus drive sales of separate HDD add-ons, which they're selling to give consumers who buy this 12GB version and eventually want more space, the ability to upgrade.
PS2 History Not Repeating with PS3
The days of the PS3 and Xbox 360 generation are numbered. The Wii U, while not as big of a leap as we're used to per video game generation, is still something fresh and it's only months away. Sony needs to act now, by bringing the PS3 to mass market pricing and getting the console in the hands of the rest of the consumers who are holding out for better prices, and they need to do it before it's too late.
Granted, the PS3 is already 50% less in price than when it first launched, but the PS2, by comparison, reached the mass market pricing of $199 just two years into its lifecyce, and reached $129 by the time the PS2 was the same age as the PS3 is now. The economic landscape is very different, and I understand that a company in financial turmoil like Sony must tighten their belts, but so must consumers. And in the end, getting your console into homes is what it is all about.
It's make it or break it time for the PS3, and all that's missing is a better price.
Tell GR: Do you agree? For those of you without a PS3, would a cheaper price get you to bite the bullet and buy one? Or is it already too late and the pricing doesn't matter. Let us know in the comments below.
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- 1960 –Fidel Castro announces Cuba's support for the U.S.S.R.
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January 22, 2013
MOTOism: Ultimate Luxury @ 35,000 feet
Oops, I did it again. Some of you may remember my report from last year on my first class flight on American Airlines, and the experience was surely memorable and comfortable. First class has bigger and longer seat, and you can stretch out like you are in your own bed. Food was somewhat ok, but never great. Until now.
I was very fortunate and instead of taking AA's usual NRT–> ORD–> LGA route back to New York, I somehow got a first class seat on Japan Airlines's NRT–> JFK non-stop flight. There are people with unbelievable amount of miles who can score sweet deals like this. Don't judge me here. I am writing this in order for the masses to understand the reality/luxury of first class, and how the JAL experience was above and beyond my expectations.
To give you some idea, below is a table setting for AA first class (I took AA from JFK–>HND on my way to Japan. Tough life)!
Mind you, they are far better compared to last year. Silverware is longer and look at the funky water glass!
Frank Gehry-like design and fun!
Until this point, I thought the AA first class steak was pretty decent.
JAL, and I am sure many Middle Eastern and Asian airlines treat their first class passengers like gods — they treated me with the most respect and attention that I've never received elsewhere.
First of all, there are two entrances to the aircraft, and one is ONLY for first class passengers. I am talking about an entrance for eight people vs. more than 200 people. Totally unnecessary, but already feeling like I am worth more than I really am.
Upon entry, three cabin attendants greet me with the most sincere welcoming smile (I say sincere, but I am sure they can smile like robots no matter what they may be thinking inside). The attendants kept making serious eye contacts which made me very uncomfortable (like 5 seconds eye contact). According to my friend who is a flight attendant for JAL, they are required to take a week long training in order to be assigned to first class.
Seats are like pods, totally private from other passengers. Three attendants are x there solely to tend to eight passengers, and the rest of the 200+ people were handled by about 10 attendants. That's twenty per attendant vs 1.5 per person. No wonder it's around $20,000 for round trip.
From the upright position, I can barely reach the other side. TV is 23 inches. Brown slippers are totally lush.
Then all three cabin attendants come to each passenger's seat and personally welcomed me and said, "Please let us know whenever you need anything, Mr. Yamamoto." Ahh, this must be how CEOs and other mega-wealthy people are treated every minute of their lives. I am a bit jealous. I can get used to being Mr. Yamamoto rather than Mr. Whatever Passenger.
While we wait for take off, I am given the menu. Absolutely unnecessarily thick and luxurious, but lovely. Mind you, there's no stains from previous passengers. It looked brand new.
I am totally digging the F. This might be the most luxurious font to represent F = The First Class.
Every time I take Japanese airlines, either JAL or ANA, the captain always announces exactly what time the plane will hit the turbulence in the beginning, and again, about 10 minutes before they turn the seatbelt sign on. "Ladies and gentlemen, we will experience some turbulence in 10 minutes, so I will turn the seatbelt sign on in about 6 minutes". This gives passengers enough time to prepare, and I wish every captain would announce it.
While the aircraft is ascending to cruising altitude, I looked over the menu. It contained A LOT.
Champagne selections are either Salon or Dom. Wowza.
Dom was 2003 by the way. Those who are not familiar with champagne, Salon 1999 is about $280 a bottle at liquor shop, while Dom is only $120. We are always fascinated by Dom's fame, but Salon is far better among champagne connoisseurs, apparently.
Western food menu. Since I had enough Japanese food in Japan, I didn't even bother to look at the Japanese menu.
A la carte menu was so extensive, and I could apparently order anything, at anytime.
And this might be the most I've ever read about coffee.
Finally we hit 35,000 feet cruising altitude and meal time promptly started. I debated if I should get champs, but decided to stick with my usual vodka on the rocks.
Glass was Japan size, tiny. It was literally about 4 sips.
Below is AA vodka — sounds oxymoronic, but I mean American Airlines, not Alcoholics Anonymous.
About twice as big as the JAL glass.
What I find annoying about Japan are the glass sizes. They are always so small.
The great thing was, my cabin attendant (yes I am calling her mine for the next 11 hours) sensed me well enough, that every time the glass came close to empty, she brought me another. I like that.
This is a "snack" for the drink.
Warm nuts was the extent of luxurious snack I knew and these babies were cute and tasty.
Unnecessarily cute ribbons to tie the napkin. Very Japanese.
Utensils were ergonomic.
Let's start the dinner.
Amuse bouche.
Fresh uni on top of burdock flan. Then the attendant poured kabu consomme over it, like a high end restaurant.
I didn't think I would ever consume fresh uni at 35,000 feet. So sweet, with hints of yuzu in the consomme.
Again, I never thought to show uni porn at 35,000 feet.
After eating uni, I had to choose caviar for appetizer to go with the "luxurious food above the clouds" theme.
I am not talking about a spoonful of caviar, but an entire container of it.
Left was cauliflower flan, which wasn't that good.
I was looking for potato or something to top the caviar, but my attendant didn't bring any. Right before I was going to call her, I reread the menu, and realized the thing on the right was a tart to top caviar with. All the caviar condiments in a tart form (potato, sour cream, chives) with crystal chips on top. Another WOWZA. Don't miss the spoon for caviar — of course it's made out of ivory (or something similar).
Again, I never thought I would have caviar at 35,000 feet above ground. And this was some of the tastiest caviar with condiments. Everything was right. My further research on this caviar found these are farmed in France, and a container of it is about 8,000 yen (about $90) retail. Jesus.
Fresh baked bread. Since there were four different kinds of bread, I got all of them.
Right was ginger, which was a bit pungent.
Squid ink bread was very flavorful.
After having uni and caviar, what else do I choose for entree to stay consistent with the theme? Of course steak with foie gras.
Holy shit! The foie is almost as big as the steak!! Perfectly seared and plated like any respectable restaurant. No smudge on the side of the plate, and the chives were placed perfectly.
Can you see this? The foie is bigger than the steak in this bite. In the middle is a perfectly cooked apple.
Oh, I didn't take a pic, but I had Salon with my entree. It was very smooth and nice. If I knew champagne (or the price tag), I would have had 2 bottles so that I can say "I had $560 worth of booze"…
Before dessert, a cute box of macarons were passed.
Jean Paul Hevin collaboration with JAL. Japanese love this kind of exclusivity. You can taste this macaron ONLY on JAL first class seats. How luxurious!
I've tasted a lot of macarons and like to think my own rank pretty high on the level of perfection, but this was better than mine.
I went to sleep after these macarons, and watching Taken 2 and some other shows. By the way, I cried my EYES out watching the last two episodes of Kita no Kunikara. If you know this show, you know what I am talking about. It's the most tearjerker show in the history of Japan. I told the attendant, "I will be crying my eyes out, so please ignore me," before the show started, and soon enough, she came to my seat with a bunch of tissue.
Ok, back to the sleep. Tempurpedic made special mattress for JAL's first class — more exclusivity. Of course, my attendant made my bed, topped with a comfortable down comforter, so comfortable I slept for six hours like a baby.
I might have drooled while dreaming about what I had just eaten. Uni, caviar and foie gras in one meal? Even high-end restaurant wouldn't give you that much luxury (or so much cholesterol).
When you fly, you are either starving, or feel like force-fed chickens. Not in first class. There's no set second meal. As you saw in the a la carte menu, you can choose anything at any time. I was debating if I should try ramen or omu-rice (fried ketchup rice topped with fried egg omelette) and asked my attendance which she recommends. She said "I like the omu-rice better, but if you wish, I can bring both for you". It was tempting, but I wasn't that hungry, so I went with the omu-rice.
Now remember, this is inside of an airplane, where there's no heat source other than microwave, yet this is what I get.
Perfectly cooked egg omelett on top of ketchup rice, with demi glase sauce on side. It's hard to see the perfection of the egg, but it's barely solid, yet solid enough to hold the shape on top of the rice.
I can't quite understand how this is possible. Or, shall I rephrase, I can't quite understand why other airlines don't have the same capability. It's the same microwave that Boeing 777 is equipped with, yet one airline can pull off luxurious meal like this, but others serve utterly inedible food. Why? Why?????
Before landing, I had that Blue Mountain coffee in this mug, specially designed for us eight first class passengers. The handle was super comfortable. Coffee was good, but not mind-blowing great. My attendant gave a coffee pot with a minuteglass so that I know when coffee is brewed perfectly.
It was a superb experience, definitely the best airplane experience in my whole life. Probably the last as well.
Don't just think I am a spoiled asshole. This is very much a journalistic report of how first class passengers are treated. Your curiosity of, "I wonder what it's like…" ("…to be treated like god in the first class cabin"), has been answered.
If any other airline representatives are reading this post 9 (especially Emirates, Ethihad, Qatar, ANA, Cathay, Singapore, and Lufthansa), I am happy to fly your first class cabins for no fee and report on your superb amenities.


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A more humanised version of Amy (well, humanised in the way that I didn't make a prosthetic face and huge mascot head for her)! Dress is made from lovely red cotton worn with an underskirt to give it the correct volume, gloves are white suede-feeling fabric with yellow crushed velvet cuffs. The ears and tail are made from furry fabric. A brighter, smoother fleece would have been more accurate but this was supposed to be a take on a 'more natural' looking Amy Rose than a mascot suit. The big hammer is the best thing!
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Topless Vietnamese woman falls to her death
Early Friday (17 March 2006) at about 1.30 a.m., a young Vietnamese woman fell to her death from the 10th floor of a block of flats in Toa Payoh. She was barefoot and topless, but had a blue skirt on.
Pham Thi Truc Linh worked at a nightclub called Jazzy 51 in Joo Chiat, according to the Straits Times, 18 March 2006.
The New Paper tracked down a friend of the deceased for their Sunday story. The friend, Gao An [1], told the newspaper that,
It didn't take long for the police to trace the owner of the flat and arrest him at his brother's place to which he had fled. The Sunday Times reported that he has since been placed under arrest for "wrongful confinement".
The Sunday Times revealed that the man had thrown the items down the rubbish chute in a fit of anger to prevent her from leaving. Neighbours had also heard raised voices, loud banging, then a piercing scream followed by a sickening thud.
Soon after discovering the body, the police found her lacy brassiere, boots and a black blouse in a rubbish bin. Her handbag, containing her passport, was found in the 10th floor flat. That's how they identified her. She was 24 years old.
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It doesn't take a genius to figure out that she was on a 2-week tourist visa to Singapore, and that she had agreed to provide sexual services for payment.
While prostitution itself is not illegal, a lot of activity surrounding it is. Section 140 (1) of the Women's Charter says that anyone who "lets for hire" any woman or girl "with intent that she shall be employed or used for the purpose of prostitution" may be jailed up to 5 years.
Likewise, anyone who "procures any woman or girl .... for the purpose of prostitution" is guilty of a similar offence. This, like the above, seems to be aimed at the madam, but conceivably, a prosecutor can use it against the client too.
Section 146 (1) also makes it an offence for anyone who "knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitution of another person". Here again, he may be imprisoned for up to 5 years. While this is clearly meant to apply to pimps, what if a bar always welcomes freelancers, but on condition that customers wishing to chat them up have to buy drinks for the girls as well? Is the business not indirectly dependent on the trade?
The Joo Chiat area is well known for bars with Vietnamese girls in attendance. It is naive to think that the bar owners didn't know what was going on even if they did not have a hand in arranging the business.
Brothel operators are in violation of Sections 147 and 148 of the Women's Charter for keeping and managing a brothel or "place of assignation".
The Hotel Act requires all hotels to be licenced, and as I understand it, one of the licence conditions is that rooms cannot be let out for less than 1 night. So hotels that have short-time rooms are risking their licences doing so.
The Vietnamese and foreign girls themselves are violating the law, not for prostitution, but for working while on tourist visas.
When everybody is operating in the shadows, then the one who least fears the police has the upper hand. Very often, it is the john, for while we see reports regularly in the newspapers of authorities rounding up foreign girls on suspicion of prostitution, and also of the police prosecuting bar-owners for various "immoral" activities, no one can remember johns being prosecuted.
The result is behaviour like this, as recounted by another Vietnamese girl who called herself Mary:
As you can see, the girls have no realistic recourse when they're cheated and physically assaulted.
We need to own up to the fact that our misguided laws create the conditions for such abuses to happen. Our priorities are all wrong when we focus on so-called morality rather than safety.
We need to recognise that paid sex is never going to go away, and given our relatively low level of domestic unemployment, the suppliers will to a large extent be foreign girls (and boys).
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What is the safest way to organise the
This is not rocket science. As in any other business that has to match buyers and sellers who do not know how much to trust each other, there are two simple rules
Applying the above rules, it means that the sex workers should be working out of bars, brothels ("places of assignation" in our legalese) or escort agencies, not freelancing. That way, there should at least be mamasans or papasans looking out for them.
The john should be required to make a deposit or advance partial payment before taking the girl out, with the understanding that an additional tip would be forthcoming depending on "service quality". The advance payment is really crucial because it strengthens the negotiating position of the sex worker. Better yet if it is deposited with the mamasan, so that the john cannot seize it back from the girl later. If the girl finds herself in a risky position, she must feel she can walk out of the situation without too severe a financial loss.
The contract should be that the sex takes place either at the brothel, massage parlour or at a short-time hotel. This is to ensure that help is near at hand if necessary. The story above shows how dangerous it can be for a girl to be taken to a home in some part of Singapore she's not familiar with. The reverse is also true. Recently a client was robbed and murdered in Pattaya by 2 male sex workers he had hired off the streets and brought back to his home.
A hotel is much safer, especially if all parties have to register their names at the front desk. There is traceability.
If the john, after leaving the bar with the girl, insists on taking her back to his home, she should have the right to walk away from him, and he should forfeit his advance payment.
Yet all of the above requires a major
overhaul of our laws. To begin with, we have to stop seeing sex as sin,
and see abuse by one person of another as the primary evil. Secondly, we
have to stop seeing the supervisory structure (the pimp and the madam) as
necessarily exploitative. Instead, they can be turned to advantage, as
middlemen and guarantors of a fair deal for both sides
Granted, pimps and madams can sometimes be worse than the johns in the way they treat their girls. To combat this, we have to create mechanisms for the girls to report such abuses and to leave their charge whenever they want.
Clearly, what is required is for every aspect of the business to be legal. The tourist should not fear being caught for prostituting - perhaps a special sex worker permit can be issued. The bars, brothel owners and supervisors and short-time hotels should not be operating in fear of the law either.
Instead there should be a new-found respect for fair-trading and fair employment, and every party should have equal and easy access to the law and police for assistance. The last thing we need is to push already marginalised people into helplessness, while we remain smug in our bourgeois morality.
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