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Re: The 'Polar Vortex' Is Coming Back. Again...

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MDM wrote:
Weatherbell is reporting a possible storm dropping a foot on Monday as well.

Wow. People are going to be freaking out.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 23:29

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Re: The 'Polar Vortex' Is Coming Back. Again...

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Friday sounds MISERABLE.

More Snow Wednesday, Thursday and Again on the Weekend

Snow and brutal winds are blasting the region Wednesday, and are expected to return Thursday before another punch on the weekend.

A dusting to 1 inch is likely for most of the area Wednesday.

Forecasters say Wednesday's high temperatures won't break the freezing mark, and wind chills in the 10s and 20s will make it feel even colder.

Temperatures plunge into the upper teens in the city and single digits in the suburbs overnight, and strong winds are forecast for Thursday ahead of a powerful arctic cold front that may bring more snow showers.

Friday is expected to be the coldest day of the week as temperatures struggle to reach the mid 20s. Forecasters say wind gusts could reach up to 40 mph, and tri-state residents should brace for wind chills in the single digits and teens all day long.

After a dry Saturday, precipitation is expected to return Sunday with a mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain and plain rain developing across the area. Snow and sleet are likely to linger in the city and points north and west, while the system is expected to transition to plain rain along the coast.?

The storm system sticks around through the beginning of the work week, with wintry mixes possible both Monday and Tuesday, forecasters say. Temperatures are expected to rebound above freezing -- barely.

Blame the polar vortex for the below-average cold. The polar vortex is a system that usually stays near the North Pole and Canada, but is pushing south this week.

More: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ ... eather-NYC-247050821.html

Posted on: 2014/2/26 23:28

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Re: The 'Polar Vortex' Is Coming Back. Again...

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rycor wrote:
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Br6dR wrote:
AccuWeather predicts 24 inches of snow on Monday. (And their estimates have been low so far.) It will probably be another 4+ inches day.

I can't find these details, mind sharing?

I meant to type 2.4 inches.

That's what my AccuWeather app says.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 22:59

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Br6dR

Re: The 'Polar Vortex' Is Coming Back. Again...

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AccuWeather predicts 2.4 inches of snow on Monday. (And their estimates have been low so far.) It will probably be another 4+ inches day.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 22:34

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Re: Fulop: Jersey City 'flourishing' like never before

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CdeCoincy wrote:
How we doing at school? Kids mastering basic skills, staying in High School, continuing on to University? Feel safe on the street, buses, light rail? Having the tallest buildings and the biggest population, BFD.

Instead of being larger than Newark, I'd like to be as good as Summit, Maplewood, Monclair, fill in your favorite beau quartier.

You expect Fulop to have an impact on children's test scores after a few months in office?

Posted on: 2014/2/26 22:23

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Re: N.J. has neo-Nazi problem

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user1111 wrote:
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Br6dR wrote:
This is why I wouldn't live in Southern New Jersey.

Did you check out the map? There is a group in Bayonne... not too far from home.

I wouldn't live in Bayonne either.

What map?

Posted on: 2014/2/26 22:16

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Re: N.J. has neo-Nazi problem

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This is why I wouldn't live in Southern New Jersey.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 21:46

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Re: Fatal hit-and-run at Duncan & Routes 1&9

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No one on JC List knows whether she was walking or riding her bike or where exactly she was hit.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 19:33

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Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam

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Poll: 41 Percent Of Republicans Don?t Want Christie To Run In 2016

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) ? Forty-one percent of Republicans say they would not like to see Gov. Chris Christie run for president in 2016, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.

The poll asked the public whether they would like to see some prospective contenders as well as other party leaders run for president in 2016.

From a list of five high-profile Republicans, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul topped the list with 41 percent of Republicans saying they would like to see Bush run and 39 percent saying yes to a Paul candidacy.

Thirty-two percent said they would like to see Sen. Marco Rubio run in 2016.

Christie came in fourth with 31 percent saying the would like to see him run followed by Sen. Ted Cruz at 24 percent.

More: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/02/2 ... -christie-to-run-in-2016/

Posted on: 2014/2/26 16:13

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Re: JC business accepting bitcoin

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papadage wrote:
Bitcoin is about as relevant as Pokemon cards, tulip bulbs and Beanie Babies.

An unregulated speculative playing field that only has the notoriety it has because some techies have strange libertarian streaks and read Ayn Rand and masturbate to the blather.

"There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid?s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs."

Posted on: 2014/2/26 15:15

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Re: Domino's

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Wishful_Thinking:
A "Little Caesars" just opened on Central Avenue, here in the Heights. No-one is running around in sack-cloth, shouting 'The End Is Nigh' as far as I can tell...

Of course, this being the Heights, we apparently don't rate gentrification. Unless, Little Caesars doesn't count?

For the Heights, Little Caesars IS gentrification.

Posted on: 2014/2/26 12:27

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Re: JC business accepting bitcoin

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Posted on: 2014/2/25 17:05

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Re: Ladies, Please Don't Put Your Purse in the Grocery Cart

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My girlfriend had her purse stolen in the JC ShopRite doing that.

Posted on: 2014/2/24 22:45

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Re: Fatal hit-and-run at Duncan & Routes 1&9

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Ayako Okabe, of Japan, who had spent the past year in Jersey City working for an international shipping company, was riding her bicycle on Routes 1&9 just north of Duncan Avenue at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 when she was struck and killed.

I thought she was walking it in the crosswalk.

Posted on: 2014/2/24 22:41

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Re: HUGE GAS PIPELINE COMING - through Jersey City

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Letter: Tell state Sen. Jeff Van Drew that you don't want Pinelands gas pipeline

Editor:

It?s really sad when public officials like state Sen. Jeff Van Drew, elected to make important public decisions, choose to remain ignorant of the damage to the ecosystem from the ?fracking? process to obtain natural gas.

Van Drew, D-1st Dist., says he wants to do everything he can to overturn the Pinelands Commission?s decision to uphold its mandate to ?preserve and protect? the area by rejecting construction of a South Jersey Gas Co. pipeline for the B.L. England electricity plant south of Atlantic City.

?Make no mistake about it, we need to build this pipeline and I?m going to give it my level best to make it happen. I am asking the governor and Senate president to help in this process,? Van Drew?s statement in the Feb. 17 Cape May County Herald indicated.

Yes, of all people let?s ?ask the governor.? I think Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey?s paragon of honor and integrity, has worked to push this pipeline through for the same reason Van Drew wants it ? for the special interests, over the overwhelming objections of the public.

More: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... nelands_gas_pipeline.html

Posted on: 2014/2/24 15:21

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Re: Are we doing too much or not enough about this?

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Tiny Houses for the Homeless: An Affordable Solution Catches On?

A growing number of towns and cities have found a practical solution to homelessness through the construction of tiny-house villages?and housing officials are taking notice.?

By Erika Lundahl
Yes Magazine
Feb 20, 2014

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On a Saturday in September, more than 125 volunteers showed up with tools in hand and built six new 16-by-20-foot houses for a group of formerly homeless men. It was the beginning of Second Wind Cottages, a tiny-house village for the chronically homeless in the town of Newfield, N.Y., outside of Ithaca.

On January 29, the village officially opened, and its first residents settled in. Each house had cost about $10,000 to build, a fraction of what it would have cost to house the men in a new apartment building.

The project is part of a national movement of tiny-house villages, an alternative approach to housing the homeless that's beginning to catch the interest of national advocates and government housing officials alike.

"It's certainly something that we would encourage other communities to take a look at," says Lee Jones at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

For many years, it has been tough to find a way to house the homeless. More than 3.5 million people experience homelessness in the United States each year, according to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Shortages of low-income housing continue to be a major challenge. For every 100 households of renters in the United States that earn "extremely low income" (30 percent of the median or less), there are only 30 affordable apartments available, according to a 2013 report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

More: http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-econom ... dable-solution-catches-on

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Posted on: 2014/2/24 13:31

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Re: Jersey City burglar roughed up by victim...

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vindication15 wrote:
The boys parents should be prosecuted for child abuse if the boy is underage

Beause their kid stole a candy bar?

Posted on: 2014/2/24 12:26

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Re: Jersey City burglar roughed up by victim...

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caj11 wrote:
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Remember Bernie Goetz? He got mugged once for $5, then 12 years later, one of the same muggers robbed him again for $42 million in civil court. .

If I remember correctly, the one in the wheelchair was the only one in the group not later arrested for engaging in serious crimes.

That's because he was in a wheelchair and wasn't capable of committing any serious crimes.

Well then he wasn't trying hard enough.

http://www.google.com/search?site=&so ... hp..1.17.9099.xWi1W3CGX2U

Posted on: 2014/2/23 23:02

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Re: Fatal hit-and-run at Duncan & Routes 1&9

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score09 wrote:
She worked on Duncan, west of 1&9, way over by the Hudson County Prosecutor's office. She was on her way home, to Magnolia Ave., after work.

That's why.

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Br6dR wrote:
Why not use West Side Avenue? 1&9 is always dangerous for bikes and pedestrians. People haul ass.

There are a lot of ways to get to Magnolia Ave. from Duncan Ave. without riding on 1&9.

Posted on: 2014/2/23 21:48

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Re: Fatal hit-and-run at Duncan & Routes 1&9

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Why not use West Side Avenue? 1&9 is always dangerous for bikes and pedestrians. People haul ass.

Posted on: 2014/2/23 20:14

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Re: Domino's

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JadedJC wrote:

I haven't ordered from Domino's since college. I don't like their pizza, but so what? Plenty of people seem to, and they're obviously meeting some sort of need in the market or they wouldn't be opening a downtown location. I saw Domino's making multiple runs to my building on Super Bowl Sunday. I'm sure they were hustling orders out the door, which I doubt any of those artisanal pizza places could do as quickly or efficiently. If you're looking to order a half dozen pizzas to soak up the beer at a Super Bowl party or to serve to a bunch of six-year olds at a birthday party, ordering from Domino's makes sense. Not every meal you eat - nor every restaurant that opens downtown - needs to be an epicurean delight. Sometimes people, even the gentrifiers, need something cheap, fast and filling.

Who are these artisans you speak of?

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I'm living in Jersey for Christ sakes. When I order pizza I want the owner to be Italian and any women who work there to be loud and good hearted. (If you don't get on their bad side.)

Posted on: 2014/2/23 18:52

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Re: Domino's

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WhoElseCouldIBe wrote:
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jmiz wrote:
I love watching the gentrification of this message board. When I first started lurking here many years ago -- before registering -- people were so excited to see a clean well-established business take 1.) an empty storefront. Then, it was about replacing 2.) the dollar store / discount stores on Newark. Now it 3.) MUST BE ARTISAN PIZZA OR WE REVOLT.

Don't be fooled by what you read this is still a dollar store crowd.

::raises hand::

There are still some of us who grew up here or around here, who don't want it to lose its diversity and character. I am all for certain kinds of change (safer streets, more interesting places to eat) but not others (rents so high only one demographic can afford to live here, Portlandia-type stuff like a juice bar on every corner).

how is Domino's preserving character?

Those folks in Michigan have character. They're known for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino%27s_Pizza

Posted on: 2014/2/23 18:21

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Re: Domino's

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07310 wrote:
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jmiz wrote:
I love watching the gentrification of this message board. When I first started lurking here many years ago -- before registering -- people were so excited to see a clean well-established business take 1.) an empty storefront. Then, it was about replacing 2.) the dollar store / discount stores on Newark. Now it 3.) MUST BE ARTISAN PIZZA OR WE REVOLT.

Don't be fooled by what you read this is still a dollar store crowd.

A sophisticated dollar store crowd, bub.

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Posted on: 2014/2/23 14:33

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Re: Police dashcam clears Bloomfield man of charges; Officers now indicted

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TheBigGuy wrote:
Just amazing how incredibly stupid and devious those cops were... can you imagine sitting in the front seat of a car, hands up and a cop yelling why are you going for my gun... they were setting him up to be killed. They need to be taken off the streets and jailed... and I am sure this was not the first time the did this.

Their favorite trick is to yell "stop resisting" while they beat the living shit out of you. They were yelling that when they beat that schizophrenic, homeless man to death:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177908/ ... chizophrenic-homeless-man

Posted on: 2014/2/23 12:19

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Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam

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In his latest townhall, Chris Christie tried to resort to his old style of working the room. This time his ability to charm, deflect, intimidate and obfuscate didn't have that same old Christie magic. Here's why: people are no longer afraid and they are pissed.

For Christie, Awkward Return to a Setting He Once Ruled

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By?Michael Barbaro
The New York Times
February 20, 2014

PORT MONMOUTH, N.J. ? When Chris Christie started to talk over a complaining questioner, a signature tactic of the bellicose, pre-scandal governor, the audience here briefly turned on him.

?Answer the question,? some shouted.

When he took a microphone from a long-winded speaker, the man startled Mr. Christie by snatching it right back.

And when he singled out a young woman as his inspiration for repairing the Hurricane Sandy-battered coastline, he failed to grasp that the girl?s mother ? sitting just a few feet from Mr. Christie ? was angry with him for not doing enough.

?He?s full of it,? she said.

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It worked ? at least for a while. Christie entered his 110th town-hall-style event in Port Monmouth, a blue-collar Shore town battered by the storm, without his self-promotional video. The Springsteen soundtrack was dialed down. So was the Christie swagger and sarcasm.?

But then Tom Largey, a Sea Bright resident whose home was badly damaged by the storm and who is living with relatives, confronted Christie.

Why was so much money, Largey asked, being spent on private contractors to handle the storm recovery, particularly Hammerman & Gainer, the Louisiana-based company that was quietly let go by the administration in December? After all, New York did just fine without hiring outsiders.?

The crowd lustily applauded Largey, not Christie. The calm empathizer was now seething, defensive.?

"What's your suggestion on how I should have done it?" Christie shot back. "Should I have hired thousands of new government employees to be able to administer these programs?"?

"Answer the question!" barked one woman. Heads turned in irritation. Two men loudly cleared their throats.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/nyr ... hristie-meets-voters.html

Posted on: 2014/2/23 11:44

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Re: Police dashcam clears Bloomfield man of charges; Officers now indicted

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Criminals with badges.

Posted on: 2014/2/23 2:02

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Re: Domino's

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Isn't it sacrilegious to order a Domino's Pizza in New Jersey?

Posted on: 2014/2/22 17:31

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Re: Are we doing too much or not enough about this?

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Wishful_Thinking wrote:
The impact of uneducated people with no impulse control on society

He may be well educated. He may have had a good job, a wife and kids and well adjusted friends. Mental illness and substance abuse don't play favorites.

Posted on: 2014/2/21 20:40

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Re: Are we doing too much or not enough about this?

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Garden wrote:
Seriously - you can't even tell who it is. If you're so concerned about him (family) go help him......

If that is his family and not someone being silly (my guess), they most likely can't help him because he's probaby mentally ill and self medicating. What to do about that? I don't know. The Republicans have cut off the funding and the ACLU has made it impossible to get a mentally ill person care unless they damn near kill someone.

Posted on: 2014/2/21 11:35

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Re: Chris Christie 'Suspiciously Connected' To Revenge Traffic Jam

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Port Authority chairman David Samson should resign: Editorial

By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
February 20, 2014

Wednesday?s apology by Port Authority Chairman David Samson, for the agency?s role in the George Washington Bridge entry lane closures, rings hollow. He hit bottom when he called the weeklong traffic bomb his co-workers dropped on Fort Lee last September an ?inconvenience.? Mea culpa came five months too late.

Worse still, Samson?s half-hearted attempt at remorse ignored his own failures as head of this hopelessly broken agency ? a list of ethical lapses, broken promises and business-as-usual, with new examples breaking by the day.

Samson must step down. His resignation would mark a strong first step in an overdue overhaul of the entire Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Heading the Port Authority isn?t Samson?s only job. He?s also a partner in the powerful Wolff & Samson law firm that has moved heavily into the government lobbying business since Samson?s pal, Chris Christie, was elected governor. It was Christie who appointed Samson, a former state attorney general, to the Port Authority?s top job.

More: http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2 ... uld_resign_editorial.html

Posted on: 2014/2/21 1:50

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