Coming soon: The Candy Shoppe
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8/15/2008 Update:
Construction is moving along slowly but surely.
Hope they can open before Halloween!
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5/14/2008:
The Candy Shoppe
A Hoboken411 reader spotted this new business coming to town on 4th Street (between Hudson and Washington), and provides us with today’s “Literary Quote.”
“I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners’ shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruitdrops — red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.”
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French Existentialist, writer
81. Katie_Scarlett | May 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Thanks 8thStGuy.
To continue … How about this one: Some government schools are changing grading scales so the lowest grade a student could receive would be a 50, instead of a zero. Government schools are doing this to try and encourage failing students because, “It’s a mathematical dilemma: that the students have a six times greater chance of getting an F.”
Methinks if you study your chances at getting an F decrease greatly compared to not studying. Furthermore, the rocket scientist who came up with this: “Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from 60 to 100, but there is a 59-point spread between D and F, a gap that can often make it mathematically impossible for some failing students to ever catch up,” needs to be tarred and feathered. It’s a 69 point spread if you count D&F (69 and below), or a 59 point spread in the F category alone. And while I cry for the student who earned a zero on their test and cannot catch up, I feel that his/her classmates who studied and earned higher marks deserve the designation associated with such marks.
But really, these delicate flowers deserve to be taught that just for signing their name they get 50% of the examination correct. Wait, this sounds eerily familiar - like some sort of standardized test used to enter college- if only I could put my finger on it.
82. Katie_Scarlett | May 20th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
oops, here’s the link to that article: usatoday.com/news/education/2008-05-18-zeroes-main_N.htm?csp=34