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Where J-town?
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Hi, new to the dollop, big fan so far although I am not an English speaker native(I mean, I don’t get all of the references sometimes). The big question, which is the episode where they talk about J-town?
Top Comment: J town is all around us, although usually he’s near a board of some sorts. Whether that be long, surf, or snow. The kids love it. He originated in the PG&E episodes
Jtown Pizza Closing :(
Main Post: Jtown Pizza Closing :(
Top Comment: Enjoyed the pizza but the price was what stopped us from being regulars. Will be missed tho
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Tell me about J town
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I'm moving to Louisville next month and am not too familiar with this area, specifically around hurstborne. One of my friends already lives here and I'm taking over his old roommate's room. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!
Top Comment: In the suburban wasteland that is the East End, there sits a land - a land unknown to many natives who otherwise travel all the hills and dales of this ville of Louis. Yes, down the interstate and across the expressway, you will find, tucked behind the strip malls and shopping centers, a land of . . . ehhhhh you know what it's too early for me to try to be clever. J-Town is suburban sprawl out in the East End. It's not great, but not horrible. Some parts off Taylorsville Road and further south down Hurstbourne are actually kind of pretty.
Japan Town? J/K Town? Korea Town?
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Hi there, I will be visiting Toronto again in the next month for a kpop concert. I went back in August and had a wonderful time visiting China Town on Spadina Ave, as well as Korea town near Bloor Street Area. However I have not been able to find any sorts of Little Tokyo or area for Japan. I was wondering if its just less known or where is the best spot for Japanese Food and Trinkets of sorts.
If you know of any other better versions of the China and Korea towns that I mentioned, Please help!
Thank you :)
Top Comment: one of my japanese friend told me "japan town" is just a building full of japanese shops. heres the address :3160 Steeles Avenue East Toronto Ontario. ive never been there myself though
Markham’s J-Town: The GTA’s Japanese food destination [Toronto Star]
Main Post: Markham’s J-Town: The GTA’s Japanese food destination [Toronto Star]
Top Comment: Not just for food, J-town has Japanese manga, books, hair products, pottery and kitchenwares, a great butcher shop and fish monger, a really good bakery, and a few really nice cafes and restaurants. It's a great complex!
Is J-town in Seattle dagerous?
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Update: Sorry all, I meant Japantown in International District, right at around the corner of Yesler and 5th ave. I don’t know why I kept saying it J-town since I moved here. but yeah, it’s about Japantown, around Fire Station 10.
Hi there, we’ve moved to Seattle since September last year and are relocating to an apartment in Japan town since we work in Pioneer. It’s on 5th ave and near the Fire station. I feel like the area is not bad. I am more concerned about the area toward International District and Pioneer Square. Is it safe to walk along the 5th ave to Denny Triangle? I want to get some locals’ opinions about this area. Much appreciated! - sorry for my typo on the title. I can’t find a way to change it.
Top Comment: Is j-town near uptown?
Exhibit at J Town Living?
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Hello all, I am considered moving into Exhibit at J Town but would love to know a few things from current renters:
- How's the train and airplane noise?
- What do your average utility bills look like per month?
- How responsive is management about maintenance requests?
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Yo dawg I heard you like trains so we built your house right next to a train track
Seriously though I have a friend who lives on 3rd street like half a block from the tracks and he was hating life back before they implemented the quiet hours. I imagine it's better now but that close you're still gonna get the vibrations even if they don't toot the horn as much
Recently moved to a small Japanese town for work. Lots of people ask me what living here is like. I tell them to play P4.
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It's crazy how accurate P4 was about the Japanese countryside. The peeling paint. The boarded up buildings. One or two minor points of interest that the town seems to hang a lot of hope on.
Important point: I've only been living here for three months. Not a wealth of experience, to be sure. That said, my first impression of this place was, "Holy shit, Persona 4 was on-point."
The town I'm living in has a devastated downtown shopping area, devastated for three reasons: still hasn't recovered from the 90s bubble bursting, a giant highway is being built over the town, diverting tourist and trucking traffic away from what shops, convenience stores, and restaurants we do have left, and, check it, there is a giant supermarket (with a food court) in the center of town (MARKEdS) that dominates the local economy.
The first week I was here, I heard bilingual friends who live here say lines that sounded like they could have come from the script. "Ever since the supermarket came, downtown died even more." There's a combination of acceptance and excitement over the store, but also dread. With the highway, there's only dread.
This one's a bit of a stretch, but it's more about the feeling I get from my neighbors. We grow black beans here that are, apparently, sold elsewhere throughout Japan. It isn't exactly the prestigious Amagi Inn, but, seriously, everyone here freaks out about the beans. They talk about it like it's going to turn the tide for this place, when it seems pretty doubtful. Almost all the younger people move away to Osaka or Kyoto. The only people moving here are the occasional migrant farm hands and public school teachers.
Also, there's a tiny shrine here in the middle of downtown and a somewhat larger one at the base of a mountain a few blocks away that has a "branch office" for Fushimi Inari, the fox shrine.
One of the reasons P4 got this down so well is probably because this is happening in a lot of towns exactly like mine, so where I am isn't all that unique. Inaba is probably a cut and paste of the most common issues in rural Japan. BUT, if there's interest, since tomorrow is Sunday, I'll take pictures of some parts of town that remind me most of Inaba and edit them into this post. If you are interested, please comment and say so.
EDIT: As a tide over, here's two YouTube videos someone made driving through my neck of Japan. At the end of the first video, you can see the shopping center I mentioned earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfr6u1GpVUA ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ephzBrKXJ1g
EDIT 2: http://imgur.com/a/wiKU0
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So OP did you try the midnight channel yet
The J-Town Press: Arrested right after filing Internal Affairs complaint - Kenner, LA
Main Post: The J-Town Press: Arrested right after filing Internal Affairs complaint - Kenner, LA
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Without digging through lots of case law, it seems highly doubtful the cammer was trespassing. (See LA Rev Stat § 14:63.)
You do NOT have to have broken a law before police can legally detain you. To legally detain someone, police need only reasonable, articulable suspicion that the subject might have been involved in criminal activity. If the elevator normally requires a special access card to open and operate it, then these officers very likely had grounds to legally detain the subject, even if it turned out the subject was able to freely use the elevator without a card.
At 22:57, officer: "Do you have identification on you?" Cammer: "I do have identification." Officer: "Okay, can I have your identification?" Cammer: "If you can identify a law that I broke, then I'll be happy to give it to you." Officer: "You're being detained, okay, because you went into the building." Cammer: "Okay, so now I'm detained." Officer: "Yeah, you're detained. You're legally detained." Cammer: "So, what crime did I commit?" Officer: "What state are you from, because evidentially you don't understand Louisiana law. You've been legally detained because you were inside our building. So, we have a right to access you, access your information and get your information from you. Okay?" Cammer: "No, that's, that's wrong." Officer: "That is true." Cammer: "I have, I have to commit a crime." Officer: "You do not have to commit a crime. That would be susp, suspicion that you were inside a building with controlled access." Cammer: "Is suspicion a misdemeanour or a felony?" Officer: "Ma'am, there's no such thing, okay. Give me your identification, please."
In all likelihood, the cammer was wrong, and the officer was right. The detention very likely was legal, and Louisiana is a stop-and-identify state. Louisiana CCRP Art. 215.1.A.:
A law enforcement officer may stop a person in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense and may demand of him his name, address, and an explanation of his actions.
And Louisiana RS 14:108, subsections A. and B.(1)(c):
Resisting an officer is the intentional interference with, opposition or resistance to, or obstruction of an individual acting in his official capacity and authorized by law to make a lawful arrest, lawful detention, or seizure of property or to serve any lawful process or court order when the offender knows or has reason to know that the person arresting, detaining, seizing property, or serving process is acting in his official capacity.
The phrase "obstruction of" as used herein shall, in addition to its common meaning, signification, and connotation mean the following:... Refusal by the arrested or detained party to give his name and make his identity known to the arresting or detaining officer or providing false information regarding the identity of such party to the officer.
By refusing to identify, the subject exposed herself to a possible $500 fine and six month imprisonment. (See this post for more details about stop-and-identify laws.)
Certain auditors publish dangerously bad misinformation about suspicion being invalid because it's neither a misdemeanour nor a felony. Gullible viewers (including fellow auditors) could believe it, stand up for their "rights," get arrested, get convicted, pay a hefty fine, spend time in jail, and live with the burden of a criminal conviction for the rest of their lives.
The J-Town Press: LEAVE or be ARRESTED - in Clay County - Lieutenant doesn't know LAW | 1st Amendment Audit
Main Post: The J-Town Press: LEAVE or be ARRESTED - in Clay County - Lieutenant doesn't know LAW | 1st Amendment Audit
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Feelings Police