Atsushi wrote:
Thanks for your support on this, people. Obviously, there is a fine line between offensive and not offensive. Everyone has a different definition of that boundry. I don't want to force my definition on anyone nor do I want to offend people unnecessary, but I examined what I had written with my common sense and best judgement. I really don't believe that my comment was offensive.

Again, I really believe that there are people who like to be offended. I feel sorry for people who are overly sensitive. They must be offended from left to right every day! That's no fun. But what can I do? I have really asked if my comment could have been offensive, and for the life of me, I just cannot see how it could have been.

Atsushi
PS. I am indeed Japanese, believe it or not.

heights wrote:
This city is getting $9000 in taxes for this little place. I guess if I count all the windows of these apartment buildings that are condo owned then it's $9000 (or more) for each one. (window) The city (J.C.) coffers are bulging.

murican wrote:
Caribbean Cafe- great Jamaican food

lowkey2 wrote:
Tickets/booting are obviously a good moneymaker for the city.

icechute wrote:
Ordered delivery from them the other night.
Showed up cold and melted.

NEVER AGAIN!!!!!

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HPoptimist wrote:
Which lot will this go up? Are they tearing down Pet Boys?

No this will be built in the doubletree parking lot. Towers will flank the hotel.

shakatah wrote:
I am spending way too much time trying to explain that your basic premise for compairing McNair to a school like Stuyvesant is wrong. .

alb wrote:
- McNair seems to have a LOWER percentage of kids who are "economically disadvantaged" (get free or reduced price school lunches) than Stuyvesant does. (McNair: less than 14%; Stuyvesant: 29%.)

shakatah wrote:
Brewster your post is exactly why the report should NOT be "taken with a grain of salt" because by removing magnet or charter schools with SAT scores that would scew the results Newsweek is attempting to normalize the ranking so that you can compare schools that are more alike than different based on Average SAT scores. i.e. although Mcnair selects its students the pool that it is selecting from is not that spectacular because if it was it would have the same fate as Stuyvesant and therefore would not be on the list.

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brewster wrote:
They're betting their lives that I'm paying attention at that second, not tuning the radio or checking out a nice butt.

It's comforting to know there are people like you driving around our streets. Tuning your radio or checking out someone's butt is not going to be much of an excuse when you hit a child or animal.

justin wrote:
You are absolutely right not to be brash...It's absurd that these drivers continually get away with this. But, every once in a while, they'll hit a kid and finally learn their lesson....too late. Growing up here, I can name countless friends who have been hit...including my sister. My husband, having the same attitude about cars, that they should stop so I will just walk, changed his tune after years and years of me yelling at him after being hit in City...Hit and run...Nice getting call from the NYPD telling you how your husband's in the hospital after a hit-and-run, and "he's pretty bad". "He's the luckiest man on earth to be alive" is what the nurse told me when I arrived. But, you can bet he stopped testing speeding cars

6. Why don't I see famous public high schools like Stuyvesant in New York City or Thomas Jefferson in Fairfax County, Va., on the NEWSWEEK list?

We do not include magnet or charter high schools that draw high concentrations of top students whose average SAT or ACT scores significantly exceed the highest average for any normal enrollment school in the country. This year that meant such schools had to have an average SAT score below 1300 on the reading and math sections, or an average ACT score below 29, to be included on the list.

The schools you name are terrific places with some of the highest average test scores in the country, but it would be deceptive for us to put them on this list. The Challenge Index is designed to honor schools that have done the best job in persuading average students to take college level courses and tests. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students. The idea is to create a list that measures how good schools are in challenging all students, and not just how high their students' test scores are. The high-performing schools we have excluded from the list all have great teachers, but research indicates that high SAT and ACT averages are much more an indication of the affluence of the students' parents.

Using average SAT or ACT scores is a change from the previous system we used, which excluded schools that admitted more than half of their students based on grades and test scores. That system penalized some inner city magnet schools that had high Challenge Index ratings but whose average SAT or ACT scores were below those of many normal enrollment suburban schools, so we switched to a system that we consider more fair and clear.

Willy_Lopez wrote:
Nicole's is seriously amazing. the jerk chicken-rice beans-fried plaintains platter is outrageous. been a while need to make an appearance soon. the homemade pattys make a good snack if your on the run.. 100x better than the fake ones from the delis/chicken spots

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rob3_nj wrote:

Second, we do have a $0.05 deposit in New Jersey. Hence the guys comming around on trash recycling night ripping open the recycling bags to get the cans and bottles to redeem and leaving a mess I have to clean up.

Since when is there a 5-cent deposit in NJ? I have lived in the state 12 years and have never paid it on any of the soda cans I've bought. I know NY has a deposit. When I lived in CT we had to pay a deposit and it is the most asinine thing in the world. There is nothing worse than having to save all your cans, bring them all back to the grocery store, and put them into a machine one by one to get your refund. With a weekly recylcing program there is no reason to impose a deposit.

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We need more of this "closing the disposal loop" legislation. I'd like to see a deposit on chewing gum to pay for the many thousands of man/hrs spend scraping it off sidewalks and from under furniture.

If you can't redeem the money, its not a deposit, but a fee. Charging a built in fee to cover the cost of removing gum will simply incentivize the act of leaving gum on sidewalks and under furniture.

A deposit is not precluded here. You could always return it after the flavor is used up.

http://www.keepwalestidy.org/english/images/chewinggum.pdf

in the UK, with costs of ?100-150m for
cleaning up the residue against the ?322m expenditure
on the product, taxation would need to be in
the order of 31-47% to recoup the known economic
costs of chewing gum litter.

SalOnTheHill wrote:
"They" who? I thought the building no longer had an active congregation.

harborside2 wrote:
Although the church is beautiful, unique, etc. etc., what should be done with it? Just to restore it to it's former glory and use it as some kind of museum is not often feasible. This is often an issue in cities where these beautiful old buildings are common.

It needs a use to fund it's continued existence, or it's just a drain on some ngo's funding. So is it a problem remodeling it into something else? Does it have to be a church - an empty church?

I used to work for a Fortune 500 company and I was included in a group that decided what nonprofit requests got funding. This kind of restoration without reuse means a forever commitment of funding from somebody.

So what could it be used for? And is remodeling into something else so bad?

ansky wrote: Honestly I don't see it as a big deal that these luxury apartments are being listed on Craigslist as opposed to any other site.

hero69 wrote:
I did not say there was anything wrong, I simply asked how many memorials does one need. I think one is sufficient. Otherwise, why not have a 9/11 memorial in every town. And why does it need to be in Liberty State Park? And why does it need to be so obtrusive?