Click the link, look at the photos. Audible did an incredible job. This is far cooler than anything anyone is doing in SF and the Valley.
From the Star Ledger:
Audible just opened an office inside an old N.J. church, complete with organ pipes and stained glass
An old Newark church has come back to life — and with a new purpose.
Audible on Friday officially opened its new 80,000 square foot office space, dubbed “Innovation Cathedral,” inside the renovated Second Presbyterian Church on James Street.
Twenty-five years after the church shut down and its congregation dissolved, the once-abandoned building now dazzles with stunning stained glass windows — all expertly restored.
There’s a four-lane bowling alley (AudiBowl), conference rooms named after famous Newarkers like Sarah Vaughan and Lilly Martin Spencer, and the old choir loft repurposed as an open work space.
“It was a dead building for 25 years,” Audible’s founder and CEO Don Katz said. In many ways, he said, the historic church is symbolic of the “deprivation and decline in Newark” and its recent resurgence.
Audible is one of the city’s anchor institutions and relocated its headquarters to Newark in 2007. Since then, the digital audiobook seller has grown from 100 employees to more than 1,500.
“The Innovation Cathedral, its history and future as a house filled with meaningful work at the cutting edge of technology and culture is, for me, a metaphor for the way we at Audible have worked really hard to define a core element of our strategic purpose, as a company around the comeback of this great American city,” Katz said.
Make Jersey Great again!
Step One – you decamp to some remote region elsewhere
9:02 like 20 miles above Malibu. Check.
https://youtu.be/Kt6-FYjVZnE
11 minutes in ….
Two years ago – YES
used the system we were chatting about the other day Grim.
Essex,
Saw 4 different versions of Yes. lol. Favorite was Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Squire and White. I just recently discovered Spock’s Beard. Have you ever listened to them?
Grim,
Check out this church repurposing. Founders are artists and well respected design firm. They left the pipe organ in tact. Way cooler to renovate than demolish and rebuild.
http://ferchillgroup.com/office/nottingham-spirk-innovation-center/#jp-carousel-473
My daughter’s in-laws live in a church.
https://www.dwell.com/article/at-home-in-a-modern-church-1678c773
2:32 definitely check them out….kind of takes the cake for shitty band names tho…
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Nailing long term calls on a regular basis. Not bad for a Polska with no college education, right expat?
If you didn’t see Yes in the round, you didn’t see Yes.
Essex,
Saw 4 different versions of Yes. lol. Favorite was Anderson, Howe, Wakeman, Squire and White. I just recently discovered Spock’s Beard. Have you ever listened to them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=vQWKztfjJyk
“long term calls” is what you named her?
https://www.amazon.com/Sexflesh-Miko-Blow-Realistic-Hands/dp/B00NQ9Q3NA
Nailing long term calls on a regular basis. Not bad for a Polska with no college education, right expat?
I saw Yes in the round. :)
Disheartening, to say the least, 2 part article in NYT detailing the NYC taxi industry. Bottom line, bankers, politicians get rich, regulators are ignored or do nothing, regular people screwed. I guess zero down loans for $800,000 medallions to people making $50,000 a year causes an issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/taxi-medallions.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Condo,
Stories like that are why the death penalty should be used for white collar crime.
Interesting.
“MYTH #1: New Jersey’s public educators receive free health benefits!
FACT: New Jersey’s public educators pay for their health benefits. Educators’ health benefit contributions range from 15% of the total premium cost for a first year teacher to 35% of the total premium cost for veteran teachers and administrators. In 2018, the median salary for teachers in New Jersey was $67,812 and median teacher paid $7,220 for family coverage. Veteran teachers and administrators paid $13,300 in 2018 for family coverage based on the provisions of Chapter 78.
MYTH #2: New Jersey’s public educators’ pensions are too generous!
FACT: Keystone Research Center ranked New Jersey’s public educators’ pensions the 61st most generous of the top 69 pension plans for state workers and educators in the nation behind states like Arkansas and Mississippi. This is the case for several reasons. First, New Jersey’s public educators pay more into the pension system than most other systems. New Jersey’s public educators pay 7.5% of salary into the system while New York pays just 4.5% and Connecticut pays just 3.5%. Second, New Jersey’s retirees do not receive cost of living adjustments. Third, New Jersey’s multiplier that is used to calculate pension amounts is lower than 46 other plans in the US.
MYTH #3: New Jersey’s public educators don’t pay for their pensions!
FACT: New Jersey’s public educators pay more into the pension system than most other systems. New Jersey’s public educators pay 7.5% of salary into the system while New York pays just 4.5% and Connecticut pays just 3.5%.
DID YOU KNOW: The majority of New Jersey’s public educators have seen their take home pay decline since 2011 as a result of increased contributions to the pension system and for their health benefits!
MYTH #4: New Jersey’s public educators retire with massive pensions!
FACT: Out of the eight high cost of living states that are comparable to New Jersey, the average annual pension for New Jersey educators is the 4th lowest at $40,000 per year.
MYTH #5: The pension system is so underfunded because New Jersey’s public educators have pensions that are too lavish!
FACT: Beginning in 1994 under Governor Whitman, the state of New Jersey stopped making its annual required contribution to the pension fund. From 2003-2012, New Jersey ranked last in the nation for the share of required pension contributions that were made. Throughout the entire period, New Jersey’s public educators continued to make contributions. In New York state, where the state has
always made its contributions & educators contribute less than NJ, the pension system’s liabilities are funded at over 95% compared to 59.3% for New Jersey’s public educators.”
Same here. I arrived at college knowing nothing about “FM” music as I had no older siblings, influences, until then, but then it changed quickly. I could have been Nimfy if it were not for higher education.
I saw Yes in the round. :)
Full disclosure: My Nana bought me a Lionel train set I would have never owned at that age without her generosity, so I got a leg up on wealth from my grandmother too.
I’m not one to look behind I know that times must change
But over there in Barrytown they do things very strange
And though you’re not my enemy
I like things like they used to be
And though you’d like some company
I’m standing by myself
Go play with someone else
I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
Don’t believe I’m taken in by stories I have heard
I just read the Daily News and swear by every word
And don’t think that I’m out of line
For speaking out for what is mine
I’d like to see you do just fine
But look at what you wear
And the way you cut your hair
I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown
In the beginning we recall that the word was hurled
Barrytown people got to be from another world
Leave…
https://youtu.be/ogsRqO5L2hU
For fans of prog rocking talent, I suggest going to one of this year’s upcoming King Crimson concerts. I’d take that over whatever is now called “Yes”. Still high level performers, not just nostalgia.
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Thanks for the nice list of absolutely necessary reforms pension reforms. Before chapter 78, it was one of the most lavish pensions in the nation. And everyone who retired before Christie took the first step in making it whole still receives all of those lavish benefits that make it impossible for the teachers today to ever get a fair shake. If you’d like to see the old benefit plan, just look at the police and firefighter package that still exists today, quite frankly, because there are a lot less cops and firefighters than there are teachers.
I drove by the salt sheds in Hackensack today. There are two identical salt sheds in the same lot. One has a sign on the top which reads Bergen County. The other one has a sign on the top which reads Hackensack DPW. I saw it as a perfect example of how incredibly stupid this state is.
Check out that tier 1.
https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/forms/sc0853-pers-tpaf-tier-chart.pdf
Police and Fire
https://www.state.nj.us/treasury/pensions/documents/forms/sc0864-pfrs-tier-chart.pdf
NJCoast, very cool…I have long looked at barns, would love to convert one, one of these days…I have a friend who is doing one in PA right now. Really like these alternative living spaces, recall seeing an article on converted firehouses years back.
Re: taxi driver article NYT….
Read that yesterday over lunch. Typical NYT political hit piece.
At what point does one become responsible for one’s own bad decisions?
At what point is it recognized that the entire industry and its issues is a direct result of the government meddling in the market and creating an unnatural monopoly?
There was an informative chart in the article….for at least a decade prior to 2005 a medallion cost $200k. It costs $200k now. Between 2005 and 2015 prices round tripped, peaking around $1.3m in 2014.
Let’s think about this rationally….you are an immigrant in a new country (US). The language is foreign. The legal system is foreign. The business you want to enter is highly government regulated. You don’t have adequate savings to purchase the business. A cursory knowledge of the business in which you are already employed indicates a massive price bubble.
WTF are you thinking buying into that business?
At what point do your own bad decisions belong to you?
I’m very busy running my own life, trying to make good decisions for me and my family, and rectifying those decisions that I made that didn’t work out well.
How is your bad decision – sorry outright stupidity and ignorance – my problem? I’m busy dealing with my own sh1t. Under what ideology am I responsible for yours?
Bottom line, the two most responsible parties for this mess escape blame altogether in this BS NYT piece….the government that created this monopoly and resultant bubble, and the individual that bought into it.
Anyone have experience with underground pipe leak outside the house? Gotta dig up front lawn to replace it. First guy quoted me at $6k. Another said $4k.
Yes, my sewer line broke about ten years ago.
That’s not a bad quote. If they have to break the street, it can run a lot higher than that.
I had the plumber use one of those sewer pipe cameras to locate the exact spot of the break, then we dug down in that spot. Put in a piece of PVC in the broken spot in between the cast iron. Cost me less than $2k. Plumber had a bunch of laborers did the hole by hand.
My neighbor also had his supply line break…he was removing a bush in the front yard and the roots must have been wrapped around the copper supply lines. He called the water company and had them shut off his supply. Then he installed a replacement piece of copper and a few of those shark bite solder-less connectors from home depot himself.
Essex/Bystander/Expat and whoever else gets off… lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrsLveZmLSE
9:02 oh fuuuuuuck yeah.
Yeah. The LEO pensions are pretty spectacular. We have an extended family member who went out on medical in his mid-late forties. The illness was legit and he got a full pension. he’ll draw 3-4 mil plus medical if he reaches life expectancy. Picked up a school guard job on top of that.
The last few patrolmen hires in our town have bachelors and come with a lot of qualifications. Not a surprise.
Thanks for the info.
I do not believe that police pay into Social Security in NJ, so the pension covers that.
Teachers and others get pension plus SS.
Seems to be a new trend now with college grads going into civil service jobs. A few have told me when asked they want the pension medical benefits. And the security.
Nice Ed. Possible I was at that one. That was when band had a rift with Beacon and they did not playes at United. Nice venue but a haul.
In English, played at United, I meant.
leftwing – “At what point does one become responsible for one’s own bad decisions?”
I worked with a crazy Russian for a short while, he had a NY Taxi medallion, boy was he sweating and nervous when it came to monthy payment day. Whomever he borrowed the money from (◣_◢) was going to make him personally responsible that is for sure.
Blue digging up the front lawn and replacing the entire sewer pipe to the street or just digging a small section and patching?
Cast iron costs several times as much as PVC. CIPP (Cured-in-place-pipe) lining (I have seen it on this old house), might be a cheaper option, not much digging required. They blow a new liner with epoxy thru the line only one small hole is needed.
Good luck $$$$ if they have to dig in the street.
So had a guy quote me, 2k to fix it at the location or 3800 for the entire line. I’m inclined to go $2k and then just pick up the $5 a month insurance from the water company.
So water line broke? That is 4 ft down. Not impossible to dig out yourself. I trenched out about 3.5 ft down in my yard in a about two hours with pick axe and shovel, a nice sized fox hole to repair a drain. Is your water line meter near the street? That is where the shut off is.
An article in the WSJ this morning stating that millenials are in the worst financial shape of any generation. Just saying.
3b,
That’s akin to saying millenials have the most facial hair of any generation.
I wouldn’t ever attempt to do it by myself. I draw the line at the faucet or hose faucet.
El hooligan del Liverpool que avergonzo Barcelona la vuelve a liar con un ‘Steward‘
El mismo personaje que se dedico a empujar gente a la fuente de Barcelona la ha vuelto a liar esta vez bajandole los pantalones a un steward.
El hooligan del Liverpool que avergonzo Barcelona la vuelve a liar con un ‘Steward‘
El mismo personaje que se dedico a empujar gente a la fuente de Barcelona la ha vuelto a liar esta vez bajandole los pantalones a un steward.
Lib it’s an interesting article and has some detailed information. Also talks about how the older millenials are approaching middle age!!
For those who like old structures renovated like barns, etc. Check these guys out. Pretty cool stuff.
https://www.hearnehardwoods.com
Nice…
Here’s one….very cheap.
Problem is middle of nowhere, no real land, and as was customary in the 1800s the place sits right on the road.
Still like it.
http://www.waterfallforsale.com/millinterior.htm
Yeah!!
Fast Eddie says:
May 20, 2019 at 9:02 am
Essex/Bystander/Expat and whoever else gets off… lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrsLveZmLSE
When my FIL was alive we used to fantasize about ideal living conditions. We agreed on this:
Big house up front for our wives, children, and whoever else. Two carriage houses out back, opposite corners of the property. One for him, one for me.
NJCoast, very cool…I have long looked at barns, would love to convert one, one of these days…I have a friend who is doing one in PA right now. Really like these alternative living spaces, recall seeing an article on converted firehouses years back.
Lest we forget:
https://youtu.be/tHcgmiQwEts