text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Train to Busan, Ferry to Japan. Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Train to Busan, Ferry to Japan. Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Play_DohJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Online Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject: Train to Busan, Ferry to Japan. Has anyone got some information about this, ie price, times and purchase of a ticket (do you need to book?) Also where does the train leave from In Seoul? Thanks Changed thread title. Thanks for the laugh. - CM Back to top ZyzyferJoined: 29 Jan 2003Location: who, what, where, when, why, how? Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2003 5:58 pm Post subject: http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=753&highlight=fukuoka+beetle Look at that URL, and there is some information about the Beetle Fairy. And the train from Seoul to Busan will be between 25,000 and 35,000 won.Last edited by Zyzyfer on Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:45 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top thinkerJoined: 10 Feb 2003 Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:46 pm Post subject: the train leaves from Seoul Station 133 on the blue line, you need to book ahead for the train on the weekend it's always sold out, resvervation is YE-YAK, and you probaly want the MU-GUNG-HWA-GO, it's 5.5hrs, and costs 21,500 (with membership?)weekdays and 22,500 or so weekends. (the fastest [SAE-MA-UL-HO] is about 10,000 more but only an hour faster, don't know if it's more comfortable though) here is their website: http://www.korail.go.kr/eng/html/sche/sche_01.html Kangsan travel has a ferry(jet foil) deal 180,000 for return trip plus a one night hotel stay: http://kangsantravel.com/kobee.htm exchange your won to yen before you go! i've read that many times~ Back to top mack the knifeJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: standing right behind you... Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject: been there, done that, t-shirt eeso... went to shimonosekki, and when you get back to korea and tell all the kids where you went, they will bust out laughing (and adults will blush) because shimonosekki sounds quite similar to something rather naughty... cost was around 60,000 one way...(you can pay more for your own cabin, but it ain't worth it)...we slept on the floor in a huge communal room...it was a fun time...met lots of cute girls and played poker with some college kids...the food sucked...sleeping was a bitch 'cause of the pitch and roll of the ship...go to your local doctor and get a prescription for xanax before leaving...that'll knock you out...takes 12 hours since you have to wait for the tides to change once you arrive off the coast of japan...shimonosekki is a small, unassuming little slice of japanica which will hold your interest for the short time you will be there...there's a neat department store near the docks where you can check out the latest high-tech toys and the latest and tiniest miniskirts... best things about japan (vs. korea)...good beer (lots of selection...and cheap) and their porn actually shows what all porn was intended to show (wow!)...stock up at the local "7-11", which is also near the docks...don't worry about bringing it back into korea...i was drunk going through both japanese and korean customs and had a beer in each hand...the guards found me much more amusing than the 100 or so kids that piled through before and after me... Back to top The Great Wall of WhinerJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Middle Land Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject: ferry The ferry ride was fun. I speak a bit of Japanese as well as a bit of Korean. And I was up all night drinking with a Japanese guy and a Korean guy who both knew VERY little English, so I was Mr. Translator between the two. Quite interesting... Back to top paulcJoined: 07 Mar 2003Location: NOT Korea anymore.... yippee! Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 11:37 am Post subject: mack the knife wrote: been there, done that, t-shirt eeso... best things about japan (vs. korea)...good beer (lots of selection...and cheap) and their porn actually shows what all porn was intended to show (wow!)...stock up at the local "7-11", which is also near the docks...don't worry about bringing it back into korea... just wanted to clarify - are you referring to bringing back beer or porn??? Back to top mack the knifeJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: standing right behind you... 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text: Pubdate: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 Source: Chicago Tribune (IL) Copyright: 2013 Chicago Tribune Company Contact: http://drugsense.org/url/IuiAC7IZ Website: http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82 Author: Christy Gutowski FAMILIES FIGHT 'EPIDEMIC NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT' After the Bears squeaked by the Pittsburgh Steelers on a Sunday night four years ago, Donna Roberts texted her youngest child, Billy, to see if he'd caught the game. He didn't respond, and then his friend called. Billy was at his home, and he wasn't breathing. John Roberts, a retired Chicago police officer, scrambled to his car and was within minutes of reaching his son when a paramedic came on the line: "Sir, you've lost him." William Michael Roberts died Sept. 20,2009, of a heroin overdose. Soon after he said goodbye, Roberts began a crusade aimed at the drug that claimed his 19-year-old son's life. The Homer Glen man partnered with another local father, Brian Kirk, who suffered a similar loss five months earlier. The dads formed the Heroin Epidemic Relief Organization, or HERO, a charity whose goals include raising awareness and providing support for addicts and families. "I call it the epidemic no one is talking about," Roberts said. "People think 'not my kid,' and so did we, but this drug is so seductive, so addictive. It just swallows you up. It's in all our communities. If we do nothing, we have yet to see how bad it can hit us." The Chicago suburbs are witnessing a growing toll of heroin fatalities. Authorities in DuPage and Will counties, in particular, reported record numbers last year. With nearly three months left in the year, DuPage, with 41 deaths, is close to surpassing last year's total of 43. The victims cross all social lines and include teens who experts say tried heroin for the first time after abusing prescription painkillers. Heroin is cheaper, easier to get, and now can be smoked and snorted as well as injected. During 33 years as a Chicago police officer and homicide detective, Roberts was well aware of the drug's allure. But he long believed law enforcement's traditional lock-them-up approach was the way to win the war on drugs. Billy, he said, taught him otherwise. Roberts, 61, now sees addiction as a disease, not a crime. He embraces efforts to cut off the demand through increased public education, access to treatment and alternative sentencing options for users - not dealers. Roberts, who was named Cook County Forest Preserve District police chief in March, compares the impact of heroin on a family to a speeding bullet. "It destroys everything in its path." 'Death rattle' John and Donna Roberts raised two girls and two boys in a bungalow. The kids attended a nearby Catholic school in the city's Beverly neighborhood. Their last child, Billy, was a "surprise," his mother said. He was a budding entrepreneur who in sixth grade started Billy's Lawn Care, complete with promotional fliers. Billy invested profits to buy his own equipment. As captain of his eighth-grade soccer team, he was called "The Wall" by teammates. His trophies filled the bedroom he shared with his older brother. The summer before Billy's freshman year in high school, Roberts, who had recently retired as a Chicago police captain, moved his family into a bigger home in Will County. Each child had a bedroom and enjoyed a sprawling yard with a pool and view of a farm and pumpkin patch. The parents now wonder whether their move to the suburbs during Billy's formative years contributed to his drug use. Their son, they said, was more of a leader than a follower, but he also was a daredevil who easily grew anxious and lost interest in things when he didn't immediately excel. Once a popular athlete, Billy was now in the much larger Lockport Township High School District 205 and in search of new friends. At some point, he began experimenting with drugs. The couple said they figured he was just trying to find a place to fit in and, perhaps, encountered some bad influences at school or through his part-time job, exposing him to marijuana and cocaine. At 17, he admitted using cocaine when his parents confronted him. Billy spent 44 days in a residential treatment program, and for a while, his parents believed the worst was behind them. He held down a job and continued with the home schooling they set up after treatment. Soon, though, one of his sisters said she heard a weird snoring sound coming from her brother's room. Roberts calls it heroin's "death rattle." They gave Billy CPR until paramedics arrived. "All the way to the hospital we were praying," Roberts said. "When we got there, I dropped to my knees begging the Lord, 'Please, spare Billy.' " Their prayers were answered. That day. Losing him When Billy was back home, the couple said, they sat at their kitchen table for hours trying to come up with a plan. They began calling the phone numbers listed on a hospital handout of treatment providers. Some no longer existed. Others were closed for the weekend. "We were scared out of our wits," said Donna Roberts, 54. "We just thought, 'How do we save our son?' " Said her husband: "With all I knew as a police officer, and all we knew as parents, we still were so utterly lost on how to help him." Donna Roberts said she asked Billy what it would take for him to stay clean. He suggested they move. The couple put their house up for sale days later. When it didn't sell right away, Roberts moved into his mother's South Side house with Billy to get him out of what the father considered a bad environment. One month later, Billy was back in the hospital after another overdose. As soon as he was released, Roberts put him in a car and drove straight to his sister's Lake Geneva home. They didn't even stop for a change of clothes. For the next six weeks, he and Billy lived there together. The father and son returned home with hope, but by now both understood heroin's addictive power and that relapse is often the norm. The parents helped their son get a job at a hotel and moved him into an apartment with one of his sisters, who tried to keep an eye on him. But it wasn't long before he was slipping again. So the parents brought him back home. Roberts said he stayed up most nights to check on Billy and analyze his cellphone for call patterns and contacts. The parents kept prescription drugs in a locked safe. There were written contracts, written confessionals, addiction counseling, heart-to-heart talks, nightly prayers and long hours spent in front of the computer or on the phone researching treatment programs and how to pay for them. Donna Roberts said she asked her son to explain what goes through his mind when he uses heroin. "He would say, 'I'm not thinking anything. I'm just doing what my brain tells me it needs.' " "We kept seeing signs he was getting through it," Donna Roberts said. "We never lost hope. He was such a good, strong kid." The couple eventually came to the hardest decision a parent has to make. Fearing they were enabling him, they told him to get into treatment again or move out. They hoped the ultimatum would work. That weekend, Billy went back to the South Side neighborhood where he grew up to see his old friends. He said he wanted to think about his next move. Roberts said he and his wife thought he'd be safe. They knew their son's friends to be drug-free. Then their phone rang. A friend told them Billy stayed behind when the others went to a Sox game. They found him unconscious on a basement couch. With his wife next to him, Roberts got there as fast as he could. "He looked just like he was sleeping wrapped in his favorite blanket," Donna Roberts said. "I remember saying, ' OK, Billy, just open your eyes now. Just open your eyes.' " HERO is born The couple had their son's body cremated. His ashes were scattered in Lake Michigan off Diversey Harbor in Lincoln Park - where the family often fished and swam. One of the signatures in the guest book from Billy's wake caught Donna Roberts' attention. The entry read, "Matthew Kirk's father." Five months earlier, on April 3, 2009, Brian Kirk found his 18-year-old son in a fetal position in their Homer Glen home. Kirk, 58, said Matthew died of a heroin overdose weeks before his high school graduation. "I helped put my son in the body bag," said Kirk, an assistant chief engineer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kirk said he didn't know of Billy Roberts until after the teen's death when he learned Billy and Matthew had been friends. Kirk felt compelled to attend Billy's memorial service. When Donna Roberts saw his guest book entry, she remembered her son telling her about Matthew's death and called Kirk so they could meet and talk. Sharing information, they tallied up how many local kids were in treatment or had died of a heroin overdose. "A few weeks later, I called John and said, ' We need to do something,' " Kirk said. HERO was born. The group's efforts include speaking at schools and community events and providing free counseling and grief support. Roberts also lobbied for a "good Samaritan" law that grants immunity from prosecution to those who call 911 for an overdose victim if the amount of drug is under a certain amount. Roberts said he has learned that parents alone can't save their children. An addict, he said, needs a daily support system of expert and family resources. Roberts encourages others not to let the stigma associated with addiction stop them from reaching out for help wherever they can find it. While her husband finds solace and strength in his activism, Donna Roberts said she struggles to cope. At times, she finds it overwhelming. She fainted at HERO's first event, and her husband jumped down from the stage to help her. She said she dreams of having just one more moment with Billy. Her message for others fighting a similar battle: Never give up. "Just because our story didn't have a happy ending doesn't mean yours won't," she said. "As long as they are alive, there's still hope." - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom


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Kim's Kitchen in Springdale closes after 15 years
Customers looking for one last breakfast at Kim's Kitchen on Wednesday were disappointed: there would be no more of the deli and luncheonette's famous pancakes.
Kim's Kitchen closed its doors at the beginning of the year, with one last farewell party held a few weeks ago to finish out the restaurant's 15-year run in Stamford. Started in 1998 at a space on Myrtle Avenue, Kim's moved to the Springdale Shopping Center on Hope Street in 2004, after the original location was knocked down.
Kim Santagata (formerly known to her customers as Kim Stuart), who ran the deli almost single-handedly for a decade and half, plans to retire. After years of living in Stamford, she and her husband will hit the road.
"We're going to travel around, find a new place to rest, and that's it, we're done," Santagata said.
There are countless stories that Santagata has collected over the years. Alan Fraser, Santagata's first and last customer, helped her put out a small fire in her restaurant the night before it first opened, and received free breakfast the next morning. Another customer, a boy who first visited the Hope Street location as a toddler, has since grown up into a 12-year-old, who emailed Santagata with his own memories when he heard the restaurant was closing. Two years ago, Santaga even held her wedding inside the store, decking out the interior for her reception.
"There are so many people who are like family to me," Santagata said. "I'll miss the kids."
Running Kim's Kitchen, Santagata's day started at 4:30 a.m. and ended around 2 p.m., except for the restaurant's regular "Thursday night dinners." The homemade soups, baked chicken and home fries that Santagata dished out over the years were just some of customers' favorites, she said. Santagata also owned a second business next door, a wash and fold service called Kim's Klothesline, which has also shuttered.
"It was very good, she's a very nice person to deal with," Lenny Gambino, one of three former Kim's Kitchen customers who hovered outside the closed restaurant on Wednesday. "We're going to miss her."
Those looking for lunch won't have to find a new location: the vacant space will soon be filled by another deli. Antonio Gencarelli, a Springdale resident who owns delis in Riverside, Ridgefield and New Canaan, will be the new tenant, said Richard Freedman, president of Garden Homes Management, the firm that owns the Springdale Shopping Center.
Even before Santagata moved in, the space was occupied by a deli or luncheonette for decades.
"It's sad; she ran a nice place," Freedman said. "It's hard to run a restaurant, especially by yourself. I'm always very impressed by my tenants who run restaurant businesses."
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- by Imran Khan
This is a different sort of article, unlike any other written on The Futurist. It is no coincidence that this article is written on 1/1/2011, exactly 365 days after The Misandry Bubble was posted on 1/1/2010. While this website normally discusses and predicts the future, in this instance, I would like to enlist people to help alter the trajectory of one aspect of the future. A year ago, I did say that I would not become an activist of any sort, but what I have seen over the last year makes me unable to let such lopsided and egregious injustice go unchallenged.
We have completed the first year of the decade of The Misandry Bubble, and I remain as convinced as ever that The Misandry Bubble will correct by 2020 no matter what due to the Four Horsemen of Male Emancipation. However, there is much to lose if the correction is turbulent, rather than orderly. Millions of innocent men and women can be saved from wrenching misfortune if we act now to fight the culture of misandry that is cancerously pervading the entire Western world.
So why is so much injustice met with so little opposition? It is a combination of i) a lack of awareness about the complexity of various laws and the perverse incentives they create, ii) an overwhelming cultural bias to crush any questioning of the increasingly tyrannical bent of 'feminism', iii) insufficient time or resources at the disposal of the very small anti-misandry community, iv) a shortage of any prior experience in political activism, and v) simply not knowing where or how to begin. There thus exists a need for a simple, low risk solution that enables this small civilian force to wage asymmetrical warfare against misandry within the above constraints.
It takes an extreme amount of research to learn that, for example, the Federal Government, under 'feminist' pressure, pays grants to police departments in proportion to the number of men jailed under VAWA legislation, leading to an incentive for police to expand the defintion of 'domestic violence' to absurd extremes. Or that 'feminists' lobbied to steer money away from disabled veterans towards able-bodied women. But before one can digest such intracacies, we must take a step back, and contemplate what it might take to get more men reading, discussing, and eventually opposing such convoluted mechanisms for tyranny.
At the moment, the only notable anti-misandry activity underway is the production of blog articles. Many great articles have been written, and there are a number of subjects that I myself would not have known about without the Internet authorship of anti-misandrists. However, this is only a small fraction of the total blogosphere, which is itself frequented by only a small fraction of the adult population. My five years of running this blog, and commenting on others, leads me to estimate that in the US, the number of people who are active denizens of the blogosphere (as defined by visiting multiple blogs per day, every day) is no greater than 50,000. Blogs with very high traffic are still sparsely viewed relative to television programs that may receive millions of viewers. For this reason, while the creation of new anti-misandry web content is essential, the trajectory of that tactic has already reached a saturation point.
So let us take a top-down approach. Men over the age of 18 fall in three broad groups in their capacity to grasp the concept of misandry :
C) Drones : Men who just do what they believe everyone else does. They don't think very far beyond their own social group, and cannot comprehend complex concepts that span a variety of subjects. They don't go out of their way to live by a code of needy chivalry, either.
B) White Knights/Pedestalizers/Girlie-Men : These 'men' are a very major force propagating misandry on both sides of the mainstream political spectrum. As detailed in The Misandry Bubble, they have a misguided belief that appeasing women is the way to succeed with women, despite the overwhelming evidence that contradicts this, and the vast amount of Internet material that describes why the act of appeasing women makes a man repulsive to women. As more men are awaking to the excesses of 'feminism', these pedestalizers are doubling down in their support of female supremacism and male disenfranchisement.
A) Men Who Could Grasp the Concepts, if Introduced to Them : Virtually all men who currently have a deep understanding of the various topics discussed in anti-misandry blogs started out by observing anecdotes in real life that seemed askew, did some web searching, and discovered the ocean of content leading to a multi-month digestion process. After a vast amount of reading, they became aware of all sorts of subjects that took a 17,000-word article just to summarize.
Our target audience is Group A. While we do not know exactly what percentage of men fall into each category, it is safe to assume that Group A amounts to tens of millions of men in the Anglosphere countries. We only need to get a small fraction of them to become aware of the sinister agenda of VAWA, the Bradley Amendment, the drugging of little boys in schools, etc. to generate real momentum against misandry. These are also the men who are the most capable of recognizing that beyond men, average women are being greatly damaged by the modern incarnation of 'feminism'.
Piercing the Matrix
The Location : Male restrooms in public buildings have urinals. When a man is using a urinal, he has no choice but to see the blank wall that is directly in front of his face above the urinal at eye-level. Every man taller than 5'2", whether young or old, rich or poor, is a captive audience for that brief passage of time. A urinal in a crowded location might be used hundreds of times in a single day. Yet, to this day, I have almost never seen this valuable advertising space used.
The Seeds of Thought : A lot of men from Group A above have either experienced in their own lives, or observed in the lives of other men, situations that seem inexplicably unfair to good men. They somehow sense that something is fundamentally wrong, but they never had anyone tie together these separate anecdotes to put the broader picture of societal misandry into focus. This process can, and often does, happen quickly if such a man is shown the right reading material, and is placed into a setting where he can ask plenty of questions to others who became aware before him.
If a man sees a flyer that provokes a jolting thought where he leasts expects it, he will remember it for a long time to come. Those of us who have studied and practiced Neuro-Linguisting Programming (NLP) will recognize this as a very strong anchor, and thus ensure that he will remember the seed planted in his mind in many future instances of standing in front of a urinal. The periodic recollection will be unshakeable, due to such a strong anchor being planted. Whenever he hears of yet another such situation again, he will think back to the thought evoked by the flyer he saw on that day.
Moving on to the optimal content of each flyer, it should ideally ask a question that sounds mainstream and hard to condemn, yet be sufficiently strong as to cause the aforementioned jolt. It should also have a simple URL directed the reader to further information, or a couple of words that can be Googled. For example, a flyer could ask "Why do 4 times more commit suicide than women?", followed by "Visit www.the-spearhead.com to learn why". Or maybe "Why are little boys being drugged in schools? Visit www.the-spearhead.com". Or perhaps something like "Are you tired of being called a 'misogynist' for no reason? If so, Google "The Misandry Bubble"".
I recommend websites that have a professional appearance and clean format, and are written in language that can pass the PG-13 test. The reason for this is that we want to draw in Group A men in gradual increments, without anything that will trigger a revulsion reflex. For this reason, some of the websites most suitable for this type of flyer are :
- Dalrock (dalrock.wordpress.com) : Dalrock is the only blog deeply exposing how much misandry has pervaded US Christianity, the Republican Party, and 'Conservatives' who miss no chance to grovel to 'feminists'.
- Wedded Abyss (weddedabyss.wordpress.com) : This single-page website is simple and lucid, but discusses the horrors of Marriage 2.0 laws in a gender-agnostic way. If you know any young man considering marriage, you have a moral duty to direct them to this 10-minute read.
- Approach Anxiety (www.approachanxiety.com) : If you believe, as I do, that ethical practice of seduction arts ('Game') are beneficial to both men and (attractive) women, then this website is a good one to drive visibility towards. Websites like Citizen Renegade, while invaluable, should not be the very first website a newcomer sees. That material is best reserved for a bit further in the learning (and un-learning) process, after contextual preparation.
- Lastly, if you found The Misandry Bubble to be a useful read, note that I did structure it to act as a gateway to the subject for a reader with no prior exposure. I would be honored if you felt inclined to select that article for any of your flyers.
There are many other good websites as well, of course, and you can choose whichever you think has the most useful content. If you wish to pay homage to any of the long-time authors of Men's Rights, or the luminaries of Game, this is a great channel through which to do so. Just err on the side of those websites that maintain a professional appearance and PG-13 language, in order to keep the tent big. If the URL is straightforward, include the URL itself in the flyer. If the URL is longer, instruct the reader to Google the title (e.g. 'For more, Google "The Misandry Bubble" or "Wedded Abyss"). Here is a powerpoint file with a few examples of simple flyers. You can make your flyers colored and more graphically impressive as well.
The Viral Campaign : We don't want to post these flyers in low-traffic locations, but rather where the most men will see them, and specifically where the men who stand to lose the most from misandry are likely to be present. Therefore, the locations of maximum impact are :
i) Convention Centers and Hotels : A major conference might have tens of thousands of attendees, and these are often professional men working extremely hard to support their families, yet who know of men just like them who have been mysteriously driven into poverty, imprisonment, or suicide. Since the modern state depends heavily on the productivity of these career men, who are a very small percentage of the population, they should have a chance to learn about why so many men just like them, who appeared to do everything right, find themselves ruined and criminalized for seemingly mysterious reasons. Go to the website of the biggest convention center in your city, and make a note of which dates that center hosts a major conference likely to be full of male attendees.
ii) Medical, Business, and Graduate Engineering Schools : These locations are filled with men in their mid-late 20s, who are both contemplating marriage and about to embark on lucrative careers. They have much to gain from learning about the differences between Marriage 1.0 and Marriage 2.0, the importance of pre-nuptial agreements, etc. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
iii) Military Locations : Any place full of either current military personnel or older veterans is highly appropriate, as these men are often prime targets of predatory campaigns that legislative misandry enables. The US Government claims to care about reducing the suicide rate of active duty military personnel, but stops short of taking corrective action when reducing the suicide rate would involve a confrontation with 'feminism'. It is our duty to intervene on behalf of our fine soldiers, and inform them of what sequence of events takes place that enables the foulest of parasites to prey on them.
iv) Mosques and Islamic Centers : Muslims in the West do have the right to be informed about laws that they might not be aware of, and plan their lives accordingly. After that, let the chips fall where they may.
Other locations (like sports stadiums) can also be useful. The main objective is to get as many men as possible anchored to the thought of societal misandry at future visits to a urinal, and to get them to visit a website and perhaps step through the gateway into the substantial education he may choose to undertake. Just make sure that you are not violating any laws against flyer-posting in restrooms (as ludicrous as such a law would be).
Now, this being 2011, not only do we benefit from the existence of the Internet, but from the existence of a mobile Internet. This website has written about the explosion of mobile Internet connectivity since 2006, and we now live in an age where people have Internet access in their pockets. The advantage here is that he does not have to wait until he goes home to check the URL, but could do so on his iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, etc. right after he leaves the restroom while the thought is fresh. If a flyer that provokes his thoughts about divorce, drugging of boys, or male suicide is sufficiently relevant to past events he has seen or experienced, he might very well go to the website he saw. If he likes the content, he might even send the URL to his friends via Twitter or Facebook. We are thus using elements that are both high-tech and low-tech in nature, to maximum effect.
Let's give this campaign a name. I will call it 'URLs @ Urinals', for that is exactly what it is. That tagline has a symmetric flow, and is easy to remember. It also sounds a little annoying, and that is exactly what we want. If you find the slogan 'URLs @ Urinals' to be both accurate and annoying, imagine how irritated the misandrists will become.
Actually, as of 1/1/2011, we have not even begun to annoy them yet.
1000 Man-Hours to Restore Civil Rights : In 2010, this website received over 250,000 visits averaging about 3 minutes each, most of which were for The Misandry Bubble. That is 750,000 minutes, or 12,500 hours, that went into reading just this modest website. For just a fraction of that time, we can initiate a sequence of events that eventually curbs one of the great evils of this age.
All I request is for people reading this to each spend a couple of hours preparing and posting the flyers of their choice, at strategically valuable locations such as those described above. Time spent should include only the preparation of flyers, and actual taping of them over selected urinals, but not the transit time of going to the target location. This means that an hour of effort would translate into 10 to 60 restrooms being hit. But again, these must be well-visited restrooms.
If everyone reading this article can collectively muster up just 1000 hours of volunteer activism, as measured above.....
We can get the urinals of 10,000 to 60,000 high-traffic men's rooms flyered.
Which could make over 1 million men see the flyers.
Which could plant a seed in the minds of hundreds of thousands of them.
Which could lead to tens of thousands of them reading the websites introduced in the flyers.
Which could result in several thousand more men becoming fully educated about the various dimensions of misandry that are silently enslaving them.
Several thousand new men would be a major expansion from the few hundred that exist today. From these new men will arise new ideas, new activism, and shifts in the cultural flow of society. There will be more challenges to unspoken misandric assumptions, and more pressure to question 'feminist' falsehoods.
The Tea Party went from zero to a dominant political force in under two years. I see anti-misandry as the next stage of the Tea Party's goal of small government, as there can be no reduction in government spending without a direct confrontation of 'feminism'. This also means that anti-misandry can spread as fast as the Tea Party did, and possibly shield the Tea Party from Republican feminists seeking to co-opt it. 1000 Man-Hours to start an avalanche. On this day, 1/1/2011, go and take action.
The Reaction from Misandrists : The reaction that 'URLs @ Urinals' will provoke is alone worth the effort, if their belligerence upon my use of the term 'fatocalypse' in The Misandry Bubble is any indication. Already in a stupor of castrative bloodlust, 'feminists' will be tipped into hysteria by the thought of more men being sent information from outside the plantation. Their reactions will span the whole range of derangement, from demands for taxpayer-funded armed guards to apprehend flyer posters, to feminists barging into men's rooms to inspect for evidence of 'misogyny', to calls for outright bans on urinals themselves as 'male supremacist' appliances, to increasingly bold statements regarding the need to reduce the male population to a fraction of what it currently is (yes, they actually do say this). The good news is that by baiting them, their reactions will do a fair amount of our work for us, and other men in Group A will see this and begin to recoil in revulsion.
Pedestalizers will see these flyers, and tear them down. But that action is futile as due to the viral nature of 'URLs @ Urinals' they have no idea where or when the next flyers will be posted. They will, as mentioned before, double down on their repellent pedestalization of women. But they can only double down so many times, and this will accelerate the process of them cracking under the burdens of their ignorance. If you would like to see the costs of misandry accumulate onto the pedestalizers/girlie-men who sustain it, put in a few hours into 'URLs @ Urinals'. Assume that each hour you spend posting a compelling flyer in the right place is collectively costing pedestalizers money.
Remember that all we are doing is asking men to go to certain websites, some of which have female authors. After that, any opinions these men form, or decisions they make, are their choice, and I would not have it any other way. For those who oppose 'URLs @ Urinals' as 'misogynist', know that they are actually opposed to men knowing what divorce and child custody laws are, what sorts of mechanisms can land them in prison without due process that they think they are protected by, and that little boys are being drugged in schools in order to make them less masculine. What type of creatures would oppose the act of individuals informing themselves about the laws they live under? Keep that in mind as you set out to post flyers.
The Ripple Effects : I do not in any way claim that 1000 hours of 'URLs @ Urinals' will by itself topple the massive legislative-industrial complex of misandry. I do, however, think that 1000 hours of this can expand the number of men who are both well-informed about misandry and seriously troubled by it, by two orders of magnitude more than what it is now. If, by the end of 2011, the number of men who are have awareness is a hundred times higher, then from that platform, many new leaders and ideas will emerge.
Always remember the following characteristics of revolutions :
- Information wants to be free, and technological progress makes it more and more free
- The regime that is dependent on restricting access to information always loses to the movement that strengthens with greater information flow.
- The side that has not innovated any new weapons or tactics in a long time, will lose.
It appears that all of those points are in favor of justice and freedom, and are working against misandry. There has been no ideology in the West in the modern era that has been more dependent on keeping people uninformed about the laws they live under.
About myself, my career exists in the medium between Silicon Valley and High Finance. I have participated in the creation of disruptive technologies and asymmetrically competitive business models, and longtime readers know about my track record of predictions. I have an eye for how to do a lot with a little, and I believe this tactic will change society quickly. Never aim low.
Who Should Participate in 'URLs @ Urinals'?
Anyone who has read The Misandry Bubble, and is keen on engineering an orderly unwinding of it, rather that the default outcome of a turbulent, seismic unwinding.
Anyone who dislikes how 'feminism' harms women. It is impossible to oppress one gender without also damaging the other, and 'feminism' has created a legion of unmarried, childless, impoverished older women who were sold outright falsehoods.
- Anyone who recognizes that the US economy will not become robust again until a reduction in misandry, as explained in the 'Economic Thesis' portion of The Misandry Bubble.
- Anyone who opposes the expanding size of government. I repeat again that government spending will not reduce until small government advocates figure out that there is no way around a direct and fierce confrontation with 'feminism'.
- Anyone who believes that the US Constitution has valuable protections in it. Nowhere else is the Constitution more bypassed and ignored than in the misandric shadow state. Why is there a second legal system that operates outside the Constitution?
- Anyone who still wants Western civilization to be vibrant and powerful. If you are concerned about India and China catching up, at the very forefront of your concerns should be the fact that in India and China, almost all children grow up with both biological parents living in the same home, while in the US, more than half of the children born today will not. The rise and fall of civilizations often does come down to very basic elements.
- Anyone who would enjoy toppling a regime heavily dependent on concealing and restricting information.
In closing, let me add that this is also a test of the anti-misandry-sphere. Hundreds of men comment on blogs about the evils of misandry, but point out (correctly) that they don't know where to begin, and that their numbers and resources are too few, and that they have to remain anonymous. 'URLs @ Urinals' greatly reduces those disadvantages, and is fully decentralized. 1000 hours is very little, and if this nascent community cannot muster even this minimal amount of effort, then, well, the right to complain would become much lower. Debate this strategy, critique it, scoff at it, yes. But do that after have put in an hour or two of your own. If there is to eventually be a real movement against misandry, mobilizing 1000 hours of activism is a minimal prerequisite.
Rise to action, men, and make it happen. Get out and start posting flyers (such as these).
Do it now!!
Note on Comments : The usual pre-emption applies : misandrists have no debate tactics other than to call their opponents 'misogynists' and 'losers'. See The Misandry Bubble for a deconstruction of the inherent projection behind those slurs, particularly since misandry is far more common than misogyny. I continue to be amused by how many 'feminists' are unable to spell the most important word in their vocabulary.


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Motorola's much-anticipated Xoom tablet, which is expected to launch this week, will be among the first devices to ship with Android 3.0, codenamed Honeycomb. Motorola has recently confirmed that the Xoom will not ship with Adobe's Flash browser plug-in—the company says that support for Flash will be available through a software update at some point in the spring.
Adobe has responded by clarifying the status of Flash Player 10.2, the version of Flash that will be compatible with upcoming Android tablets. Adobe aims to have Flash 10.2 ready "within a few weeks" after Android 3.0 devices begin to reach consumers, at which point it will be available for over-the-air installation on Android 3.0 tablets.
"Adobe will offer Flash Player 10.2 preinstalled on some tablets and as an OTA download on others within a few weeks of Android 3 (Honeycomb) devices becoming available, the first of which is expected to be the Motorola Xoom," wrote Adobe's Matt Rozen. "We are excited about the progress we've made optimizing Flash for tablets, alongside partners including Motorola, and expect our momentum to continue."
The implication is that Xoom purchasers won't get Flash right out of the box, but probably won't have to wait long to get the feature. Given that the Xoom starts shipping this week, Adobe's timeline of "a few weeks" could mean that Flash will become available for the Xoom as early as the end of March.
Adobe first brought the full version of the Flash player to the Android platform last year with the release of Flash 10.1 for Android 2.2. Our tests on the Nexus One demonstrated the viability of Flash on handheld devices, challenging Apple's rejection of the plug-in on its own iOS platform. Native support for Flash could potentially be a competitive advantage for Android-based tablets that hope to compete with Apple's iPad.
Adobe says that over 50 different tablet models from various vendors will ship with Flash in 2011. The company predicts that over 132 million devices will have the Flash player installed by the end of 2011.


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I would love to have a Windows 3.11 setup on a real PC, problem is I don't have anything older than a Pentium 1 laptop. I'm told Windows 3.11 isn't ideal for Pentium and newer. Maybe Pentium would be ok anyway? Perhaps I could do a dual-boot with Windows 95 on such a machine? Or that weird "install Win3.11 in MS-DOS 7 and run from Win95" approach.
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|"Harry, your eyesight really is awful."
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Cottismore Croyne, O.M. (unknown class), was a wizard who was appointed Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards sometime after Pierre Bonaccord. This was likely the reason he was awarded an Order of Merlin.
Cottismore Croyne had a portrait of himself hung at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry by the time Albus Dumbledore, Supreme Mungwump himself in the 1990s, was Headmaster of the school. The portrait depicted him in one of the hallways in the Middle Courtyard, which suggests that he may have visited Hogwarts Castle once.
Behind the scenes
- This portrait was made specifically for the Harry Potter films, and was modelled after David Heyman, producer of all eight films.[2]
- This portrait was based on a portrait of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, by Daniel Mytens the Elder (c. 1590-1647).
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Appears in portrait(s))
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
- The Making of Harry Potter (Appears in portrait(s))
Notes and references
- ↑ J. K. Rowling stated at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 August 2014 (source) that all portraits at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are of deceased individuals.
- ↑ The Making of Harry Potter photo on Flickr


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Culture in Zurich – Museums, Music, Plays & More
Zurich is rich in cultural highlights. It is one of the leading art trading cities in the world with more than 50 museums and over 100 galleries. The Opera House, Tonhalle Orchestra (concert hall orchestra) as well as the Schauspielhaus Zurich (municipal theater) provide culture of the highest standards.


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Blues' Elliott blanks Predators 1-0
Brian Elliott made 15 saves and Alex Steen scored to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 1-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.
The Blues extended their winning streak to a season-long five games. The fading Predators have dropped four straight and seven of their last eight.
Elliott was relatively untested en route to his second consecutive shutout. He made four saves in the first, six in the second and five in the third. Elliott has 20 career shutouts.
St. Louis strengthened its chances of making the playoffs in the West, while Nashville fell deeper into last place in the Central Division.
After a scoreless first period, Steen got the game's first goal at 16:37 of the second. Carrying the puck along the boards on the left side, Steen pulled up at the top of the left circle and fired a slap shot that beat goaltender Pekka Rinne between the pads.
Steen snapped a six-game goalless stretch.
The Predators are accustomed to scoreless opening periods this season, and Tuesday was the 13th time they have gone into the first intermission with the score 0-0.
Rinne made 25 saves in the loss.
For the second time in as many games, a Predators forward made his NHL debut as Daniel Bong played after being recalled from Milwaukee of the AHL earlier in the day. Nashville has had a rash of injuries among its forward corps, causing Austin Watson to be recalled for Sunday's game in Detroit.
NOTES: Nashville's lowest shot total was 13 in a Jan. 24 loss to the Blues . Rinne has started 25 consecutive games for the Predators ... St. Louis went unpenalized in the game. The Blues have not allowed a power-play goal against in the last seven games . Elliott has won four consecutive starts.


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What better way to transport yourself back to the time of arcade dominance than an actual time machine? Simon Jansen obviously has too much time on his hands, being the man behind the ASCII recreation of the original Star Wars film, and now we know where he's been getting all of that time. Not only did he build his own version of Doctor Who's Tardis, he stuffed it with a folding MAME cabinet so he could play games from the past! Jansen has painstakingly documented the entire process, including a picture of his lizard, which I am positive was integral to the project. If I lived in a bizarro world where I didn't need to work and sleep in order to survive, I would have two of these.
Building a MAME console inside a TARDIS [ASCIIMATION via Wired Gadgets]


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It's Car-Free Week in Massachusetts, and if you haven't gone a day without using a car yet, you still have until Sunday, World Car-Free Day, to "Pick a day and commute another way."
It's Car-Free Week in Massachusetts, and if you haven't gone a day without using a car yet, you still have until Sunday, World Car-Free Day, to "Pick a day and commute another way."
The "Pick a day" theme has been promoted by the state Department of Transportation on social media and electronic bulletin boards on major highways as an opportunity to "mode shift," according to a news release.
"Car-Free Week encourages people to bike, walk or take the bus to work or to the store, leading many to discover that doing so is more enjoyable, beneficial and practical than they might think," said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard Sullivan, in the release.
While news of the weeklong promotion of "green commuting" options may be one of the state's best-kept secrets, according to Central Massachusetts transit and bike advocates who hadn't heard of it, people are gradually taking to heart the message that ditching the car can save money, improve health and be better for the environment.
Jude Fernando, an associate professor in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University, said going car-free, or at least using cars minimally, is feasible here. But it requires rethinking values and relationships to each other, the automobile and the environment.
Mr. Fernando, a native of Sri Lanka who has lived in the United States for 22 years, said, "I don't have a car. I don't drive. I've never had a driver's license."
Yet he has traveled the entire continental United States, except for Kansas and Missouri, going by Amtrak and Greyhound and Peter Pan buses.
Mr. Fernando said his wife needs a car for her work, but he walks to the university and bikes or takes the bus around town on errands.
He said a few things have to happen to adopt car-free living:
First, communities have to restructure where they build or locate housing and workplaces so people can access public transportation or bike or walk to work.
Second, he said, there has to be a change in lifestyle and attitude.
"People think having a car gives you freedom, which I don't think is true at all," Mr. Fernando said. He pointed to the cost and hassle of maintaining a car, paying for gas and insurance, getting stuck in traffic or coming in to work in a bad mood because you couldn't find a parking space.
"I have a different idea of freedom," he said. "Some people buy a fancy car thinking it's good for leisure, but then they have to work more to pay for it."
And, he said, people have to be willing to take some risks to use public transportation, surrounded by strangers.
Bruce Tretter, a Westboro cooking blogger, education consultant and advocate, was seen riding his bike around town so often, even in winter and years ago with young sons in a child seat, that he was asked to join the Westboro Bike and Pedestrian Ad Hoc Committee.
"It's both philosophy and it's also pragmatic," Mr. Tretter said about his mission to bike more and drive less. "The first reason is health: Health is cumulative. What we eat and how we live makes a huge difference."
Mr. Tretter said he bikes frequently to the grocery store. "It takes about as much time, but I get to exercise too," he said.
Members of the Bike and Pedestrian Committee hope to spread that attitude to more Westboro residents by raising awareness, improving bicycle and pedestrian access and safety in town and building new trails and commuter routes.
The committee has worked to improve crosswalk signs and install reflectors to make crosswalks more visible to cars. With the Department of Public Works, it is aligning storm-drain grates so the grooves are perpendicular to the curb, reducing the risk of catching a thin bicycle tire.
The committee is also drafting a map of safe bike routes so people can get around without biking through high-traffic areas, a concern common to many suburban towns.
And with regional planning agencies it is developing the Boston-Worcester Airline Trail, focusing on 5.5 miles in Westboro. The goal is to connect Framingham to Worcester.
"Fear is the biggest problem to address. To take that leap from fear and making it safer is going to take a lot of effort," Mr. Tretter said. "Part of the way of alleviating fear is providing resources like the safe bike route. That's going to be the hardest thing, adjusting attitudes and behavior. If that can be effective, that will make cycling and using other-than-car transportation more realistic."
Some people, like Webster resident Matthew J. Dupuis Sr., turned to bike and bus commuting — which has become much easier since the Worcester Regional Transit Authority added bike racks to many buses — because they didn't have a car.
Mr. Dupuis straddled his bike as he waited on the platform at the WRTA's Foster Street hub earlier this week to catch the bus back to Webster.
A self-described "jack of all trades," Mr. Dupuis has commuted to Worcester over the past three months for occasional work, doctors' appointments and to visit.
"I'm glad they have bike racks on the bus," he said. "The downside is you can only put two on at a time. I've seen bus drivers have to refuse someone because they didn't have room."
He said there were upsides to bike-and-bus commuting: "It gets me around and I don't waste money on gas. Bottles of water are a lot cheaper."
WRTA Administrator Stephen O'Neil said in an email, "The WRTA has been doing a lot regarding public transportation and getting folks out of their cars and onto the buses."
In addition to putting bike racks on most buses, he said, the WRTA has adopted new technologies to make riding more efficient and user-friendly, including an updated website with bus tracking and schedule information; quick-response codes, to scan with a smartphone, at bus stops; and next-bus arrival information at the new multimodal Foster Street hub.
Amtrak passenger and commuter rail, Greyhound and Peter Pan buses and taxis are also available through the hub, which is next to Union Station.
The WRTA has extended service to midnight so people working the 3-11 p.m. shift can get safely home. It is working with outlying towns, including Paxton, Westboro, Grafton and Northbridge, to start or expand service.
In Westboro, WRTA representatives, the MBTA and town officials are working with large employers to develop a commuter shuttle from the MBTA commuter rail station to office parks on Route 9.
Town Planner James E. Robbins said one shuttle will run from the train station in the morning and three will run to the train in the afternoon, based on commuter rail schedules.
Mr. Robbins said the fleet would include two 24-seat shuttle buses.
"There was great response from employers to use the shuttle," he said. "Based on the initial interest, we'll fill the shuttles."
During the day, the shuttles will serve a fixed route through the center of Westboro, Mr. Robbins said.
It's still too soon to commute by bike from Worcester to Providence, but Megan T. DiPrete, community planner for the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, said progress is underway toward that ultimate goal.
Besides the Blackstone River Bikeway's already completed 2.5-mile bike path segment between Millbury and Worcester Crossing, Ms. DiPrete said that work is underway on a 3.7-mile segment in Blackstone, Millville and Uxbridge. More than 10 miles are complete in Rhode Island.
A roughly one-mile "cycle track," separated from the main roadway, is being designed and should be built next year between Worcester's Crompton Park and Union Station, she said.
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Snapshots from Portugal: White Port and Tonic
The Douro river flows from North-Central Spain into Northern Portugal and has its outlet in the city of Porto. On the Portuguese side the river flows through the Douro Valley, which has a 2000 year history cultivating wine grapes, olives, and almonds. This is the heart of port country.
When you think of port, you may first think of the rich red fortified wine, often served after a meal. But White Port, made from white grapes, is relatively cheap and often used in punch bowls and predinner cocktails. During a recent visit to Lisbon I had the pleasure of being introduced to a fantastic sun-downer that my generous host called P&T (Port and Tonic), based of course on the more famous G&T (Gin & Tonic).
A highball glass with ice cubes is filled with one part White Port and two parts tonic water. Throw in some lemon wedges (freshly harvested from the garden, of course) and enjoy. This is a most refreshing cocktail—a little bitter and a little sweet—perfect for pairing with the local sheep's milk cheese, Azeitao. Due to the low alcohol content, you can easily indulge in a few refills and still be ready for dinner.
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Azucar Cuban Cuisine, New Jersey
Spend enough time around cigars and cigarmakers and you are likely to try Cuban food. Try Cuban food and you're likely to fall in love. It's rich, homey and immensely satisfying cuisine that fills the belly and enlivens the soul.
Azucar, located in the Newport section of Jersey City, New Jersey, offers lovers of fine Cuban food a comfortable, spacious restaurant serving ample portions of flavorful Cuban treats: fried yucca, ham croquettes, tostones, maduros and a Cuban sandwich good enough to shut up a celebrity chef from the Food Network.
And you can smoke.
Yes, Azucar is that oh-so-rare oasis within a short ride from midtown Manhattan where you can actually smoke inside, in this case in a spacious, dark and well-appointed indoor smoking lounge with a full bar. Need you know more?
Before you think Jersey City requires a passport to find, realize that the PATH train (essentially a subway) can whisk you from 33rd or 23rd Streets all the way to Jersey City in about 15 minutes. Azucar is a pitching wedge from the PATH entrance. You can even use your MetroCard.
Chef Nick Vazquez knows how rare it is to be able to allow smoking indoors. "There's only about four of us in the state where you can smoke in a restaurant, and we're one of them," he says. "After you have a nice dinner, a nice Cognac, you go upstairs, have a nice cigar and relax. An upscale Cuban restaurant without cigars is like a mojito without rum."
Born in Cuba, Vazquez came to the United States in 1962. "I've been cooking since I came to this country." His parents worked-he had to cook for himself, learning from his mother. "She said to me, if you learn to cook, you'll never go hungry."
To fully appreciate Azucar, start with the Tipicos Antojos Cubanos Para Dos, a triple tier selection of appetizers meant for two. (It can easily serve three.) It comes with various tastes. Croquetas de jamon, porky, salty rolls filled with rice and ham before being fried; some chorizo sausage; fried yucca; beefy empenadas. If you're there during lunchtime, the Cuban sandwich is a must-as good as something you would fine in Little Havana. Vazquez combines marinated pork, Virginia ham, Swiss cheese and pickles in buttered Cuban bread, which is pressed nearly flat and cut at a sharp angle.
Vazquez was ambushed by Chef Bobby Flay for the Food Network show "Throwdown." He was being followed by a TV crew on the presumption they were taping a show on him, then one day Flay showed up with an army of sous chefs and challenged him at his native sandwich. Vazquez won.
The Cubano is only served for lunch, but there's much more on the menu than just a Cuban sandwich. And then there's the cigar space. On a pleasant day you can puff outside in the smoking patio (there's also a no-smoking outdoor section) but the indoors cigar lounge draws quite the crowd. It seats about thirty, and has a look of a man's room, something you might find in the basement of a very well heeled cigar aficionado.
"I built this room first, before I built downstairs," he says. He has a cabinet humidor with a few mixed brands, La Gloria Cubana, Casa Magna Oscuro, Arturo Fuentes, Fonsecas, La Auroras and others. The room is decorated with Cuban license plates, cigar labels, even a signed poster of Cigar Aficionado with El Duque on the cover.
"I want to give you not just food, I want to give you the whole experience," says Vazquez with a smile. "Ninety miles away, but oh so close."
Azucar Cuban Cuisine and Cigars
495 Washington Boulevard
Jersey City, New Jersey
Hours of Operation
Tuesday through Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Friday: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Saturday: 3:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Sunday: 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
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