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Re: Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies - Jersey City woman grows lots of crops
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I've been growing stuff on my sundeck for years and the squirrels have made me give up on tomatoes. They infuriatingly nibble on them (and then leave them, mostly uneaten, on the ground) just as they are about to become ripe. Instead of maintaining an armed vigil, I've taken to growing herbs and flowers. Basil is very easy to grow in pots and can be saved and frozen as pesto (I leave the cheese out and add it when ready to unfreeze/eat it). Chives may be the most unkillable herbs as they are perennial and impervious to neglect. Fresh herbs are expensive so it's a good investment with a small space to grow them as well as enjoying the convenience of having them fresh for cooking. Jalapenos also do very well in pots and the squirrels leave them alone. They can also be chopped up, dehydrated in the freezer, and used later.

If one is determined to grow tomatoes one could fence the area in on all sides. It doesn't seem worth it to me but I feel for those with "squirrel rage" and recommend this for those willing to eat them: http://www.gamowhisper.com/ As much as I don't like squirrels and love shooting; it would take a lot of squirrel eating to pay back the $300 investment but money isn't everything...

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Nana wrote:
I grow herbs and tomatoes. Unfortunately, my little fuzzy neighbors, the squirrels have eaten all the tomatoes. Anyone have a recommendation for keeping the squirrels away?

Posted on: 2008/9/26 4:41
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Re: Help Liberty Humane Win a Make Over!
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Wow! LHS is in 3rd place!! I've also asked a bunch of people to join!


Love that Simpson's cat lady avatar!

Number 3! Unbelievable

Posted on: 2008/9/26 4:36
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Re: Help Liberty Humane Win a Make Over!
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Wow! LHS is in 3rd place!!

I've also asked a bunch of people to join!

Posted on: 2008/9/26 4:34
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Re: No more passageway? Developer's protest may alter Newark Ave. redevelopment
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TO anyone who reads this thing that can pass along ideas to "those in charge":

Here's a way to at least partially extend the plan past Jersey for a little bit: make sure that the building Fields is putting up on the south side of Newark just west of Jersey has a sidewalk, lights, etc, that are the same as what's going in from Grove to Jersey. Coax Fields to do the work in front of the bank building on the corner and you extend the plan almost another block, albeit on the south side only.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 4:08
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Re: Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies - Jersey City woman grows lots of crops
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jcamica wrote:
I am a novice gardener and have been continually amazed at what I have managed to grow in my jc container boxes.
My organic garden includes three types of heirloom tomatoes, herbs, leeks and tiny strawberries. I even had a tiny pumpkin which I accidentally picked before its time and there was a watermelon vine which my husband acidentally mowed down. I can't wait to plan next year's garden.

http://www.izzyeats.com/2008/07/how-d ... grow-backyard-update.html


You're on the way! I can suggest you try ordering some Ozark Beauty strawberry plants, I thought my troubles with strawberries was me, but these are amazing day neutrals that bear all summer, they're still flowering!

Discover trellises. All you need to do is get some 8' 1x2 pressure treated battens at Lowe's for $1.30 each and screw verticals to your boxes and then at least 2 horizontals, and string wire or cord vertically. The you're set for beans, cukes or climbing zukes. I built a trellised 20" square box of 2x10's for my mom and planted 25 bean vines in it for Mothers Day, they've been eating beans all summer.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:52
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Re: Help Liberty Humane Win a Make Over!
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Alright, I'm not even a pet owner, but I joined. Good luck, LHS!

And I agree, you should create a Facebook page to generate more points. Let me know if you need help.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:39
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Re: Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies - Jersey City woman grows lots of crops
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I am a novice gardener and have been continually amazed at what I have managed to grow in my jc container boxes.
My organic garden includes three types of heirloom tomatoes, herbs, leeks and tiny strawberries. I even had a tiny pumpkin which I accidentally picked before its time and there was a watermelon vine which my husband acidentally mowed down. I can't wait to plan next year's garden.

http://www.izzyeats.com/2008/07/how-d ... grow-backyard-update.html

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:13
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Re: Pipe under city's street, but repair bill is all owners
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shadrack wrote:
This happened to me a few years ago.

The city fixed the street and did some sewer maintenance. The plumber said that during the paving, my sewer line was damaged.

After the runaround for 2 months, I paid 7000 dollars to rip up a newly paved street to repair my sewer line.


Well this sounds like a more unfair situation than the Jersey Journal story. If the city actually caused the damage when it did the paving, shouldn't they have to fix the pipe? If I cause damage to someone's property (unintentionally or intentionally), I would be sued and would likely have to pay damages. Seems pretty unfair that you have to bear all the costs of damages that the city caused.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:12
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Re: Where's the fire?
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Driver crashes and Jersey City gas station, two cars burn
by Ron Zeitlinger The Jersey Journal
Thursday September 25, 2008, 6:26 PM

A Jersey City gas station went up in flames last night when a driver lost control of her car and smashed into one of the station's pumps, fire officials said last night. The driver suffered minor injuries from the 6:45 p.m. crash at the Gulf station at the corner of 12th and Erie streets, just a few hundred yards from the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, city Fire Director Armando Roman said. Roman said a limousine driver at a nearby pump narrowly escaped the flames, but his vehicle caught fire and was destroyed. Jersey City firefighters extinguished the fire by 7:05 last night, Roman said, but the heavy smoke caused extensive traffic delays.

Here's an image taken of the incredible aftermath of the fire ignited last night when a car struck a gas pump at the Lukoil gas station on 12th and Erie streets near the Holland Tunnel.
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Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:03
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Re: Pipe under city's street, but repair bill is all owners
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heights wrote:
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Lafayette wrote:
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Thank the insurance companies for the over stated liability that arises every time someone says boo.


Since you did mention insurance, is it possible to insure oneself against something like this?

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:02
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Re: An Open Letter to You, My PATH Nemesis
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Wow... that's just ... wow. Your momma should be so damn proud of you.

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RacerX wrote:
QUOTE: "I'm annoyed by men who don't think it's necessary to give up their seat for a pregnant woman, especially when one is standing right in front of them. It's so incredibly rude."

If I didn't knock her up, I'm not giving up my seat.

There are too many people in this world.

If there were less, there would be more seats available.

All the prego is doing is contributing to the problem be producing more humans that we don't need.

Before my lynching starts...

I do, however, give up my seat for old & handicapped people. Being old or handicapped isn't someones choice. Getting pregnant is.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 3:00
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Re: Living in Hamilton Park
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The Mall isn't open 24/7...dunno where you get that. Coming back from the city to Hamilton park very late (>12am) aint the best of things about this neighbourhood. I actually have started going to WTC and walking from grove rather than the (very overcrowded) train from 33rd st.
The maill is closed after 11 most nights, so you have to walk around.
That said, there's not been too many creeps around and even if the streets look bleak going around the mall, they are pretty safe

Posted on: 2008/9/26 2:56
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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Mathias wrote:
Someone else mentioned it on here. These Private Equity Funds and SWF are sitting on billions of capital and they need to step up to the plate. They stand to gain the most if the "bailout" goes through so they are on the sidelines right now.

I would disagree with you here. Sovereign Wealth Funds have poured money into our economy & the Chinese and others have been stockpiling US debt for quite some time - i.e. funding the US government's spending binge over the last several years. So i'm not sure how you figure they need to "step up" and solve OUR problem. That's simply nonsense. And if you want a glimpse of how their investments in this country have panned out so far this year, take a look: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/21/business/21sovfactbox.php

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In fact Buffet only put 5 billion into Goldman based on the assumption the bailout would go through. It wasn't a sign of confidence in the fundamentals of the financial system it was a bet that the bailout would pass.

Guess even the oracle could be wrong this time.


Hmm, well, he bought a $5bn preferred stock deal and got fantastic terms on it: 10% interest rate per year and deal is callable at a 15% premium over what he paid for it at any time. He ALSO got warrants to buy another $5bn of common stock at $115/share (stock was trading at $125ish at the time). That's a sweetheart deal but has very little to do with the bailout. The Oracle will do just fine on this one... Don't you worry about that!

The fact remains, you had nothing to say about the merits of the deal, the fact that these bonds are backed by loans and if borrowers default on them you own their house, that many of the loans will pay off and/or continue paying over time. The fact that at 50c on the dollar (or lower) very few of them have to pay off for the government to get most of their money back.

I give up.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 1:41
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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Mathias wrote:
These Private Equity Funds and SWF are sitting on billions of capital and they need to step up to the plate.

SWF? Single white females? Sitting on billions? Step up to MY plate baby! If you got the money honey, I got the time.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 1:23
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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Neo-Liberalism is a fairly known term.

Most conservatives are liberals in the economic sense...well at least they were a week ago.

Very few people are calling on the government to do "nothing" but I highly doubt you will see anything close to a sensible resolution to this crisis in such a short time frame..much less on JC List.

A large part of the problem is the lack of trust most Americans have in those running our government and economy (as well as the institutions).

Someone else mentioned it on here. These Private Equity Funds and SWF are sitting on billions of capital and they need to step up to the plate. They stand to gain the most if the "bailout" goes through so they are on the sidelines right now. In fact Buffet only put 5 billion into Goldman based on the assumption the bailout would go through. It wasn't a sign of confidence in the fundamentals of the financial system it was a bet that the bailout would pass.

Guess even the oracle could be wrong this time.

Posted on: 2008/9/26 0:50
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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Mathias wrote:
The average person has no grasp on the details of any of this , just a healthy and proper skepticism. In fact almost every expert (admittedly) does not fully understand this extremely complex and complicated debacle the neo-liberals have gotten us into.


I agree, skepticism is called for. But skepticism without any sort of intellectual curiousity is what bothers me about this debate. People say "that won't work, that's a stupid idea" but have no idea why they believe that, or the reasons why they believe that are based upon incorrect assumptions about the problem.

And what is a "neo-liberal"? Is that a liberal who watches "The Matrix" on a regular basis? Newsflash my friend, most of the people on wall street who packaged & bought subprime and Alt-A mortgages are conservative republicans... Most of the Bankers you guys claim will benefit from the bail out are right-leaning individuals...

My point was arguments for or against something should be based on FACTS and or reasoned opinions - like the article i posted. While i disagree with the writers conclusions, i respect the fact that he put forward a reason to be against this bail out, which i have yet to hear from anyone here.

Doing nothing - is that a plan? What was that lyric from Rush: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"

Posted on: 2008/9/26 0:36
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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"Here's my issue with you guys, if you want to make arguments against the bailout do it in a reasonable/analytical way. So far what i've seen is people arguing against something they don't fully understand..."

The average person has no grasp on the details of any of this , just a healthy and proper skepticism. In fact almost every expert (admittedly) does not fully understand this extremely complex and complicated debacle the neo-liberals have gotten us into.

How can you blame the average American for being Skeptical of the bailout when they have been told time and again by Bush, Bernanke and Paulson that the fundamentals of the economy and financial system are sound. Then a few weeks later ask for a trillion dollar check with no conditions and new sweeping powers for the Treasury Secretary?

Hank Paulson Quotes from today's WSJ

February 27th 2008

"I don't think...the American taxpayer needs to be stepping in with more taxpayer dollars..we are so far away from seeing something that would have me calling for a bailout that I don't see it"

July 20 2008

"It's a safe banking system. A sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation"

Sept 18th 2008

"If the (700 billion) bail out doesn't pass then heaven help us"

Posted on: 2008/9/26 0:16
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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Here's my issue with you guys, if you want to make arguments against the bailout do it in a reasonable/analytical way. So far what i've seen is people arguing against something they don't fully understand... While I might disagree with what I'm about to post, at least the guy MAKES SENSE... Enjoy:


Why Mark-to-Paulson Accounting Won't Save Banks: Jonathan Weil

Commentary by Jonathan Weil

Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- There's one glaring weakness in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan to save the U.S. financial system: We know what the plan is. Any other problems with it are mere details.

Much like the credo of Brad Pitt's character in the 1999 movie ``Fight Club,'' the first rule of market manipulation is you don't talk about market manipulation.

Give Paulson a $700 billion check without asking any questions, and the former Goldman Sachs boss might have a shot at kick-starting the credit markets using some mysterious, black- box, trading sorcery. Because the money isn't his, though, he has to give us at least a vague outline of what he's up to. Now, even if Congress approves some form of his proposal, it's far less likely to work because we're all in on the deal.

The plan goes like this: Treasury will pay financial institutions above-market prices for garbage assets nobody else wants. Then, through the magic of mark-to-Paulson accounting, everybody else that owns similar stuff will use those same prices, or marks, to value the trash on their own balance sheets.

Shazam! Banks and insurance companies write up the asset values on their books. They post big profits. Their capital goes up. Everyone gets fooled. And nobody knows the difference.

Except, we do. And that's why the plan probably won't work.

Still, give Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke credit for ingenuity. At the same time banks are begging regulators to suspend mark-to-market accounting rules so they can avoid disclosing more losses, Paulson and Bernanke instead devise a way to abuse the same rules for the same banks' benefit.

Put It in Reverse

Under Paulson's plan, Treasury would hold so-called reverse auctions for financial institutions' troubled assets. Whoever submits the lowest bid gets to sell its junky assets to Treasury for cash.

While that might look like a competitive, free-market mechanism, it's not. Once the first bid in the first auction is submitted, it may not go much lower, and it probably will be much higher than the true market value.

That's because the real incentive for the banks isn't to sell their rubbish to Treasury and get cash. It's to watch the Treasury pay grossly inflated prices to others. That way, they can use those transactions for accounting purposes to mark their books to the Treasury's farcical market prices.

This presents another problem. The transaction prices coming out of these auctions may not meet the accepted definition of fair value. Under the Financial Accounting Standards Board's definition, fair value is the price ``in an orderly transaction between market participants.''

Stretched Rules

A know-nothing buyer that sets up a rigged market to overpay for dreck wouldn't seem to count as a ``market participant,'' under the FASB's definition of the term. To qualify, a buyer must be ``knowledgeable, having a reasonable understanding about the asset or liability and the transaction based on all available information.''

It would be a stretch to say the Treasury knows or understands anything about the swill it would be buying. Even if regulators waived the accounting rules to permit this, investors would see it as government-sponsored fraud and lose any confidence they still had about banks' balance sheets.

So, the main hope for Paulson's plan is that Treasury makes enough outrageously expensive purchases to spur real market participants to start buying the toxic waste from each other again, even if only in hopes of flipping it for more money to the spendthrift Treasury.

Pain Avoidance

In that case, the prices paid outside the auction process probably would qualify as ``fair value.'' Then, over time, maybe the prices in Treasury's auctions would come down as competition increased.

If the prices drop too much, though, banks will wind up taking huge losses and failing anyway, which is what Paulson and Bernanke are supposedly trying to avoid. All the while, the Treasury would be spending as much as $700 billion getting us right back where we started. And a lot of Wall Street charlatans who should lose their shirts would expand their fortunes, which is politically and morally untenable.

Whatever the government proposes probably won't work as intended. It also could make things worse. This seems to have dawned on a lot of people in Congress this week while they watched Bernanke and Paulson testify. Even if Congress fails to act, that wouldn't mean Paulson's plan was a disaster. In one respect, the details of his plan don't matter.

By making it known on the afternoon of Sept. 18 that he had a bailout proposal, at precisely the moment when the financial system seemed to be tipping over the edge, Paulson bought the markets the most valuable commodity of all -- time.

Years from now, when we look back on the past week's events, we may conclude this was his real goal all along.

(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Jonathan Weil in New York at jweil6@bloomberg.net

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:57
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Re: Urban Farming Isn't Just for Foodies - Jersey City woman grows lots of crops
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fasteddie wrote:
This is not about growing anything but I wanna make pickles. How do I do that? I like Batemte half sour pickles, I would like to make those. The ingredients on the jar don't list the spices. I see these little Kirby cucumbers in the Korean veggie place for cheap. So what do I throw in there to turn them into pickles? Do they have to soak for a long time? Is it a pain in the ass? Should I just keep buying the Batemte from ShopRite? I suppose I could Google this but that's a lot of work.


Yeah, I did the googling when we were swimming in kirbies from the cuke barrel in August. There's no single recipe, mostly salt, garlic spices, but variations abound. Real sours have no vinegar. I never did it though, my wife and son can easily eat a cuke a day each!

I buy the Ba-Tampte half sours too, and let them sit on the counter a day or 2 to get a little riper, but still crispy. I hate dills. Just the other day I noticed BJ's has half sours, I may give them a try, but I can be particular about my pickles, sometimes the villains try and slip some dill into the sour recipe.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:50
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Re: Where's the fire?
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I watched it from the roof of my building. It was a fire at the Lukoil gas station at intersection of the street that heads into the Holland Tunnel and Erie Street. It looked like two cars were burned up as well as one of the gas pumps. It was raging at one point but once the fire trucks came they were able to put it out pretty quickly.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:16
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Re: Where's the fire?
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Looked like it was over by the tunnel from the way the smoke was going- Streets were smoky past McNair. Anyone actually see it?


GWB

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:09
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Re: Where's the fire?
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In my pants baby. Uh huh uh!

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:05
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Re: State killings at 5-year low but urban figures up a bit
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"State killings"? It sounds kind of Orwellian or Stalinesque. Couldn't they have used "murder rate"?

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:04
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Re: Jersey City Landlords must pay to kill bedbugs -- Ordinance sponsored by Fulop passes last night
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i know of several cases when a bedbug infested tenant moves out and the new tenant becomes infested. Perhaps rent control laws should be changed but that has nothing to do w/ bedbugs

Posted on: 2008/9/25 23:01
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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wibbit wrote:
why do you people keep insisting the govt is giving money to the rich with this bailout when it's explained to you over and over to be not the case. I have this image of a brat kid holding his ears and just screaming "free money to the evil bankers".

If you goto best buy and pay $50 for a $200 air conditioner because it's winter and noone wants it. ARE YOU GIVING FREE MONEY TO BEST BUY?!

the mind boggles...


Because it's toxic, and I don't believe the value will go back up after the bubble has burst.

If it's really worth something, why aren't Sovereign Wealth Funds and private capital rushing to buy ths "good" stuff?

Experts say it's a crisis of confidence - that says it all.

I guess time is the final arbiter, so we shall see.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:55
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Where's the fire?
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Lots of sirens and smoke in HP, anyone know where the fire is?

Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:55
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State killings at 5-year low but urban figures up a bit
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State killings at 5-year low but urban figures up a bit
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
By RICK HEPP
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE

The number of murders in New Jersey fell to 381 last year, the lowest statewide total in five years, even as slayings continued to mount in the state's cities.

The so-called "Urban Fifteen" cities catalogued 264 murders - up from 255 the previous year - even though they have less than a quarter of the state's population, according to the annual Uniform Crime Report issued by the State Police yesterday. Essex County recorded the most homicides with 148.

The decrease in the statewide murder total from 427 to 381 came as New Jersey's overall crime rate continued to fall to historically low levels, the report said. There was also a 7 percent drop in the total number of violent crimes, including decreases in reported rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults with a firearm.

"It seems to be that virtually all categories of reported crime have experienced a decrease, and that has to be taken as an encouraging sign," said Wayne Fisher, director of the Police Institute at Rutgers-Newark.

"It's very difficult to point to one thing, if not impossible, and say this is what did it. But we may be seeing the beginning of a return on the measures police departments are taking around the state."

In particular, Fisher pointed to the increased use of visible police patrols in high-crime areas, the greater responsibility and accountability given to officers on the streets, and the push to arrest fugitives as the most likely strategies implemented over the last several years that have had the largest effect.

Those strategies may be on the chopping block in many departments, however, following President Bush's decision this year to reduce by $350 million nationwide the funding for certain federal anti-crime grants. Known as the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, the money pays for local and state drug, gang and fugitive task forces as well as gang prevention efforts, drug courts and prisoner re-entry programs.

Unveiled last year, it seeks to change how police go after gang members, prevent children from falling into the gang life in the first place and help convicts adjust after they leave prison to make sure they don't return to their old routines. It was initiated to address a rise in murders as well as an increase in shootings.

While the number of murders statewide decreased last year, the Uniform Crime Report shows there is still a need to address urban violence. The number of murders in East Orange, Elizabeth, Irvington, Jersey City, Newark and Paterson remained constant, while Camden and Trenton both saw increases in slayings.

The Uniform Crime Report, which compiles statistics from 552 law enforcement agencies, focuses on seven categories of crime: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft.

Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:54
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Re: Help Liberty Humane Win a Make Over!
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i am an employee there, we need all of your help!

Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:44
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Re: What does everyone think of the Bailout?
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why do you people keep insisting the govt is giving money to the rich with this bailout when it's explained to you over and over to be not the case. I have this image of a brat kid holding his ears and just screaming "free money to the evil bankers".

If you goto best buy and pay $50 for a $200 air conditioner because it's winter and noone wants it. ARE YOU GIVING FREE MONEY TO BEST BUY?!

the mind boggles...

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Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:42
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Re: Living in Hamilton Park
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Quite a regular


a simple suggstion....if one is coming home late at night,had a couple of drinks or isn't comfortable..take the path to grove and grab a cab

Posted on: 2008/9/25 22:41
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