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MYBEAT wrote:
A while back someone had posted a thread that stated Eric
Clapton was spotted DTJC leaving a friends home.

Can anyone verify this rumor ?

Thx

Probably hangin' with John P. Hammond (son of John Hammond, Jr., noted Columbia Records Producer) who lives here. There's a thread on John Hammond, Jr. here too.

His album, Southern Fried('69 Atlantic Label) with Duane Allman remains a fine example of slide/bottleneck guitar work in duet with Allman, around.

Also, Hammond had some interesting connections to other musical icons:
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[...]John Paul Hammond

One of the world?s premier acoustic blues artists, John Hammond is a Grammy winner and seven-time Blues Music Award winning artist who has shared the stage and/or recorded with the greatest legends of the blues, including Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Howlin' Wolf. With over thirty albums to his name, Hammond is revered by musicians of all walks, as exemplified by those who have produced some of his recent albums - Tom Waits, Duke Robillard, Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and G. Love.

In addition, he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, even if it was only for five days in the 1960s when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York. To his regret, they never recorded together. Hammond also deserves some credit for helping boost The Band to wider recognition: he recorded with several of their musicians in 1965, and recommended them to Bob Dylan, with whom they undertook a famed and tumultuous world tour.
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Does Hammond live in HP?

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greenville wrote:
Education starts at home, if your not educated by your parents you'll have trouble trying to learn from a stranger. Too many parents in this city have bad luck, didn't try hard enough to get a good job that would let them have more time, are too stupid, are criminals, or/and have made too many mistakes in their lives including having kids to care about their kids education.

Pretty rough...................but I taught Elementary School Basic Skills Math and Reading, and I have to admit that it's true.

I'll have to add to it and say that to truly value education one must come from a family and community which values education.

LoKo498 wrote:
Theres alot of rappers here in JC, & Ive seen & read about the PIMP on page 1 & have to check out his thread I heard about on here. Right now, The PIMP is still locked up in Hudson County Jail.

designknob wrote:
What an absolute jackass this guy is.

ExUWSguy wrote:
Hi all! I moved to JC Heights (Sherman & Franklin) 4 months ago, and often take the Light Rail, especially since it runs later after the buses from Hoboken or JSQ have stopped running.

Visting a friend the other night, he said there was some gang/drug dealing activity in the vicinity and I should avoid this, although I haven't noticed anything.

Does anyone have any advice/experiences to share? Thanks!

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MYBEAT wrote:
You need to stop subscribing to the chicken little philosophy of "The Sky is Falling" becuase of what the media is feeding you and start living your life!

This is no different than the 70's, the late 80's, etc, etc, the US is going to bankrupt all the other nations inorder to get ourselves back on track as the dominant economy.Think outside the box and not Ala CNN !

Blame the media? Really - that's your argument? Lets review: Last month the economy lost over half a million jobs. That marked the 5th (or more, don't have the numbers in front of me at the moment) month in a row of increasing job losses (more job losses in Nov, than in Oct, more jobs lost in Oct than Sept, and so on...), and the 11th month in a row where the economy lost jobs. Those are simple facts, not media spin. The economy doesn't lose jobs in an expansion. We've lost about 1.9mm jobs since the start of the year.

I don't know about the sky falling... housing prices are falling, the stock market was falling, but if we can get away with printing enough money I guess we can get outta this thing. If we can only get the mortgage rate down to 4.5% then people will want to buy houses again! If we can only destroy the value of the dollar we can export our way out of this thing...

The media has little to do with what is going on. Sure sometimes they get carried away and try to make things entertaining to sell papers or get advertising revenue, but face the facts, if you think the "fundamentals of the economy are strong" or that it's all just media bias, i think you're very misinformed...

I think there are serious issues to deal with in the current situation with few easy fixes. For the media NOT to report that would be irresponsible.

wibbit wrote:
It is bad, look at the numbers released each day. Media just add dramatization to it, but it doesnt change the fundamental.

Stock market is forward looking 2 years, so even when the market finally begin to turn, it doesnt mean the economy is.

The way we are going now with treasury yield at zero, fed fund rate close to zero after today's cut, printing press working nonstop and unemployment at record. We are creating a second bubble, when that bursts as current panic subdues and investors leave treasury safety for better returns in stock market etc, expect major reverse from current deflationary environment to a huge spike in inflation. What a mess we got ourselves into.

Anyway go shop your gadgets and fancy shoes. My christmas shopping list this year consist of: sugar, soy bean, corn, wheat, zinc, copper, aluminum and some oil.

fasteddie wrote:
I keep hearing horror stories from economists, the worst is yet to come. A second and even bigger wave of mortgage defaults is on the way. Every state is in budgetary distress. Banks are not lending to businesses, business are collapsing or laying off workers, workers are afraid to spend money. It's a vicious cycle. And how many more Madhoffs are hiding out there? I'm not much of a worrier but what worries me is that the experts have no idea how to fix it. In the depression of the 1930's, it took WWII to revive the economy. Seems to me that the Federal Gov is in a state of low key panic and totally clueless about a solution. I am throwing this out here because I know that JCList posters have the answers to most of the worlds problems but nobody ever listens. If you post your economic solutions here, the webmaster would feel compelled to print them out and take them down to Washington and put them before some House committee.

"Mr. Chairman, I hold in my hands an economic stimulous plan authored by an esteemed member of the JCList community, a Mr. Fat Ass Bike"

alanwright wrote:
I recently wrote the email below to Barry Lewis to encourage him to do a walking tour of JC.

I accidentally left out Van Vorst Mansion, the Apple Tree House, and St. John's on Summit among many others.

What else am I missing?

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I've seen a number of your programs over the years: Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Newark. Have you considered doing a tour in Jersey City? I know you've done one of Hoboken.

JC does not have the strength and industrial might which Newark once had, but as I'm sure you know, it has a great history:

* The Revlutionary War: The Battle of Paulus Hook and the New Jersey Campaigns;

* sordid politics: from Hague alone we had red-baiting and child labor; ballot-stuffing; influence on Roosevelt and the flow of New Deal money; waves of corruption thereafter; etc.

* notable notables: Frank Sinatra (Hoboken-born, lived in JC and is said to have visited the Loew's Theatre); Frank Vincent (Sopranos, etc); Nathan Lane (The Producers); Richard Kuklinski (mass murderer!); Martha Stewart (born in JC); Bobby Hurley (winningest high school basketball coach in the nation. his protegees are his only rivals).

* longstanding and/or monopolistic businesses: Lorillard Tobaco; American Sugar; Colgate; Standard Oil, I think.

* oddities and incidents: the Black Tom explosion; home to one of the nation's most eclectic, free-form radio station, WFMU; diverse communities including South Asian, Irish, Polish, Phillipino, Italian... and on it goes. Perhaps the 2nd most diverse municipality in the country. Or maybe Hudson County is the 2nd most diverse county.

Of course, some of our architecture is no longer standing, though much of it has been preserved:

* The Loews Jersey - a functioning 1929 movie palace on Journal Square;

* Liberty State Park & Lackawanna Terminal for example; Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the NJ-mainland as the place where immigrant feet first landed;

* The Bergen Arches - old rail lines cut in the days when so many tons of American import/export came through this shabby town;

* The Powerhouse for the Hudson Tubes, renovation status on the way;

* The Art-Deco Jersey City Hospital and Margaret Hague maternity ward - now under renovation as a condo;

* The Jersey City Armory: formerly a home to boxing and an extremely well-known velodrome;

* The beginning of the massive Holland Tunnel construction undertaken here... cutting right through the old gerrymandered neighborhood, The Horseshoe, which was the heart of the old Irish power base;

* Dickinson High School;

* The Embankment through downtown - elevated rail lines; legal status currently under review by District Court of NJ (or DC?) regarding Surface Transportation Board ruling;

* many old Victorians near Lincoln Park and in Greenville. Nearby are some old synagogues. Not far are St. Aloyisius and St. Patrick's Cathedrals;

* Dixon Mills - formerly a graphite factory; now a condo bldg;

* The White Eagle Hall - old Polish Catholic meeting place downtown;

* "Open Shaft" a factory next door to the WEH which was restored as a residence;

* Pohlmann Hall in the Jersey City Heights - http://pohlmannhall.com/history.htm

And a few that are no longer with us:

* Boyle's Thirty Acres (once held the largest ever prize fight: Dempsey-Carpentier);

* Roosevelt Stadium;

* a few old factories which were not converted into condos.

fat-ass-bike wrote:
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MYBEAT wrote:
This dude is an obvious bad apple and has to go.

Lets move on !

I always like to mitigate risk and ask why ?

Was it the right thing to do by the Captain to performance manage the guy at that time of high stress and possibly infront of his peers ?

What stress management (counselling) policies do they have for the dept and what sort of rehab / training did he have for his previous 'pan over the head' incident ?

How often do they have drug tests (steriods etc) for suspected personnel ?

His Union should be behind him, to see who really is at fault for the outburst - Did the guy have a history of bad behavior before ever being approved to be a fireman and what has trigged this steady increase in aggression ?

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mwa7368 wrote:
F*ck the PO-lice! You ever heard of Maximino Cintron? Yeah me neither I just moved to JC from NY in June! But because of the absolute laziness and or disregard for graffiti in the Hamilton Park area, I read that name on the Sixth street embankment and now I know that the police in 1991 shot this innocent man to death. The fact that this defacement still exists and the police do nothing to remove it is a representation of their lack of respect for the neighborhood in general.

Although I didn't know him that well I did play Basketball with Maximo a couple of times in Hamilton Park. I remember when the shooting happened. The cop who shot him was actually transporting a prisoner. Maximo was tinting his car windows under the train trestle and the cop stopped to issue him a summons. It is illegal to do certain types of work on your car on the streets in JC but it was obvious at the time that this cop had a h*rd-on for Maximo. The confrontation escalated and the cop shot him. I am pretty sure that this cop was involved in another questionable shooting a couple years later and eventually kicked off the force.

Edit: Just found these.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage ... 039F935A15753C1A967958260

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage ... 431F935A25756C0A963958260

and finally prison.
http://www.stanglerlaw.com/CM/InTheNews/InTheNews21.asp

Xerxes wrote:
Most audacious in my experience is the VERY good looking French accented guy near Penny's who grabs my hand and starts buffing my nails while feeling my palms for callouses all the while looking soulfully into my eyes from a distance of about 5 inches.
It's happened 3 times and he's hard to tear away from because he keeps an iron grip on your hand! It's positively EROTIC.

Next time he might get kissed!

It's the first time I've seen X-rated sales technique!

plspaco wrote:
He'll lose his job and will face criminal charges if the girlfriend/wife follows through with her complaint... ie domestic violence. JCPD doesn't play with fools who beat or harm their significant others.

Unfortunately, he slipped through the cracks and became a cop. At least no one was hurt and he's in custody.