The new Wawa store opens in Kearny, NJ since last WEEK!!!

Hello there my blogger world readers & you know that on Thursday night me my mother & my brother we went to the new "Wawa" store in Kearny, NJ. I mean it was so fresh & so clean! They've their grand opening & this week you can get a free coffee for any size. Until Sun you can a coffee for just $1! I mean I just love this hot spot better than Dunkin Donuts (but I still go there every now & then) but you know how that goes... Anyway lol back to "Wawa" I just read this article about it on NJ.com & I also read it the last week's newspaper about the grand opening. Why you go here & take a look:

Wawa opens store in Kearny -- company's first in Hudson County

By Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey JournalThe Jersey Journal
on January 11, 2013 at 3:12 PM, updated January 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM

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Enlarge Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey JournalFrom left: Assemblywoman Angelica Jiminez, Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos, Wally the Goose, and Kearny Town Council members Albino Cardoso, Susan McCurrie and Carol Jean Doyle. Photo by Anthony J. Machcinski/The Jersey Journal. Wawa holds sneak preview on jan. 10, 2013 gallery (9 photos)

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A Jersey Shore staple with hundreds of locations in Centeral and South Jersey opened its doors this morning for the first time in Hudson County.
Wawa, a convenience store chain that started in Folsom, Pa., outside Philadelphia in 1964, celebrated the opening of its northern-most store, on Harrison Avenue in Kearny, near the entrance to the New Jersey Turnpike.
"We are thrilled to spread our wings into northern New Jersey and to celebrate this exciting occasion with honored friends and guests," said Wawa Vice President of Store Operations Sal Mattera.
The Kearny location's opening is the first Wawa location in North Jersey since a store opened in Parsippany in Dec. 2010.
Wawa's opened its new store in grand fashion. Singers and dancers from the West Hudson Arts & Theater Company entertained a small crowd of town officials while Kearny's police and firefighters battled it out in a hoagie building competition.
Wawa officials held a sneak preview with local officials yesterday in anticipation of the store's grand opening this morning. During the preview, Wawa Director of Store Operations Jim Shortall announced community partnerships with three local groups.
The groups, West Hudson Arts & Theater Company (W.H.A.T.), Literacy Volunteers of West Hudson, and Community FoodBank of NJ, are part of Wawa's community outreach.
"(Being a part of the community) is a privilege we take very seriously," Mattera said yesterday. "We look forward to becoming active members of the community."

Enlarge Lauren Casselberry/The Jersey JournalThe Kearny Fire Department makes as many hoagies as they can in three minutes during a battle against the Kearny Police Department during the grand opening of Wawa on Harrison Avenue in Kearny on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. Lauren Casselberry/The Jersey JournalGrand Opening of Wawa in Kearny, Jan. 11, 2013 gallery (19 photos)

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The donations come as a help for W.H.A.T., which is halfway through its second season revitalizing an old, West Hudson tradition.
"With Wawa as a supporter, we are more confident that we can revive our theater tradition," said W.H.A.T. co-founder Gerry Ficeto. "This will ensure that W.H.A.T. continues to be a vibrant part of the community."
For Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos, Wawa's opening is the continuation of a revitalization plan in the Harrison Avenue area.
"When I first became mayor in 2000, this was an empty site with a lot of potential," Santos said of the lot, which also contains a WalMart. "We have been able to transform this area into a vibrant area. It shows how can utilize some of these unused industrial sites."
Third Ward Councilwoman Carol Jean Doyle added, "This is a plus. So many commute in this area and this is a great spot for them to come to."
While Wawa is scarcely found in North Jersey with only a few stores, the chain hopes to continue to expand throughout the region in the coming years.

Source: http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/01/wawa_to_open_first_north_jerse.html

So you see I may wanna stop buy & get a coffee or something like that but you know it's better than 7-Eleven or Quick Check? lol that's my optional. What's your optional on these Wawa stores/gas stations in your area? Plz leave a comment below to find out.

Subway costumers break out and Complain

Well hello my fellow blogger world readers I haven't did a blogger post in a while so in the meantime, while I was listening to the Am news station in the car yesterday. I heard that this UK man post a Subway $5 footlong sub on the company's Facebook page measuring for a $5 to a 12 inch. And it had other costumers complaing as well. But I didn't see the diffreance it's my favorite hotspot or 'else'?

Subway customers break out rulers and complain

The company's foot-long sandwiches are coming up short, and diners are posting the photographic evidence online.

By Jason Notte 22 hours ago

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Subway took an inch, but photo evidence of its deceptively small sandwiches stretches for miles.


Because "$5 less-than-a-foot-long" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as Subway's catchy limited-time offering, the company is doing some damage control after an Australian man put a tape measure to a 12-inch sandwich that was about an inch too small. He posted the photo on the Subway Facebook page, got more than 100,000 likes, then watched as the photo was promptly removed.


By the time Subway scrubbed the undersized sandwich off its page, the New York Post had already done some investigating. The newspaper found that four out of seven Subway footlongs fell below the 12-inch threshold.


Subway's detractors have since lit up its Facebook page with criticism, including one of its 19.8 million "friends" who recommended that the $5 footlong's price be reduced to $4.58 for 11-inch models. On Twitter, meanwhile, repeated images of people's sandwiches and tape measures have become a meme bordering on pop art.


A spokesman for Milford, Conn., Subway told The Associated Press that the length of chain's sandwiches can vary when its bread, which is baked at each Subway location, is made without following the chain's guidelines. What they didn't say is just how widely those lengths can vary, which is exactly what the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures and Phoenix's KNXV-TV determined in 2007 when they measured 3-foot subs and found them as much as four inches short. The boxes meant to store those “3-foot” subs, meanwhile, measured less than 2 feet and 11 inches.


Does Subway's shortfall matter? Of course it does. Read the comments field beneath any story related to a restaurant chain and its pricing. Restaurant chains, especially those of the fast-food variety, exist largely based on their value. When consumers feel a chain isn't offering enough quality or quantity for the price paid, they're not afraid to let companies know it.


When Applebee's and Chili's offer 2-for-$20 meal deals while Olive Garden put its dishes out there at two for $25, Olive Garden parent company Darden (DRI +0.18%) took heat and lost sales. When McDonald's (MCD +0.38%) shifted away from its Dollar Menu to focus on higher-priced Angus burgers and other premium offerings, U.S. customers hit it with its first sales loss in nearly a decade back in October.


"People look for the gap between what companies say and what they give, and when they find the gap -- be it a mile or an inch -- they can now raise a flag and say, 'Hey look at this,' I caught you," Allen Adamson, managing director of branding firm Landor Associates in New York, told the AP.


Subway's sandwiches came up an inch short on Tuesday, but the chain may have put a few miles between itself and the value-driven post-recession public's trust. If it doesn't react correctly, even Manhattan real estate won't cost the chain that much per inch.

Source: http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=86b6472a-d31b-4f46-ada4-f84f78a0129a

Some Subway ‘Footlong’ subs don't measure up

• By KAYLEE OSOWSKI and NATALIE O’NEILL
• Last Updated: 10:41 AM, January 17, 2013
• Posted: 1:07 AM, January 17, 2013

They deserve a knuckle sandwich.
Stingy Subway sandwich honchos are shorting customers by serving 11-inch “Footlong” subs, hungry New Yorkers say.
The Post discovered that the city’s lunchtime crowds are getting short-changed after a muckraking Australian revealed the company’s famous “Five-dollar Footlongs” were smaller than advertised.
Four out of seven Footlongs — purchased at Subway locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens — measured only 11 or 11.5 inches, according to the test.
And that’s not the only corner Subway is cutting — the shops have sliced their cold-cut sizes by 25 percent in the past few months, a Manhattan franchise owner told The Post.

NY Post: Brian Zak

INCH PINCH: This Subway Footlong is a mere 11 inches.

“The distributor has increased the food cost on the individual owners by 4 to 5 percent every year and provided the owners with less food,” the owner explained.
Smaller heroes and less meat have fired up loyal regulars — who now have a different kind of beef.
“They’re cheating us!” said 32-year-old Juan Rivera, who runs a hardware shop in Brooklyn Heights.
He eats Subway every other day with his father — but now he feels betrayed.
“That’s foul and misleading. They state it’s a foot long, so it should be a foot long!”
His regular Subway shop in Brooklyn Heights — on Montague and Henry streets — sold The Post a $6.75 “Italian BMT” that measured only 11 inches.
And those extra few bites can really add up.
If you buy a $7 “footlong” every other day for a year, an axed extra inch adds up to a loss of roughly $100.
Others at the Brooklyn Heights outpost were more concerned with waistlines than bottom lines.
“It’s probably good that it’s not a whole foot long — I don’t think anybody needs a full foot-long sandwich,” sniffed Margaret Zakhary, 30.
A meatball sub and an “oven-roasted” chicken sub from two shops on the Lower East Side measured in at 11.5 inches. So did a “Cold Cut Combo” from Long Island City.
The lunch drama came after Australian Matt Corby posted a photo of a turkey sub next to measuring tape on the company’s Facebook Page on Tuesday.
Corby’s photo — showing the sandwich at 11 inches — went viral, garnering more than 118,000 “likes” in just 24 hours.
Some defended the “shrinkage,” saying toasted subs come out shorter — but The Post’s analysis didn’t bear that out.
Subway Spokesman Les Winogad said the photo “doesn’t meet our standards.”
“We always strive for our customers to have the most positive experience possible,” he added.

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/this_hero_is_coming_up_short_RzxQNoGFTSdY0AeooGxBiP

So you see my blogger world readers is inpossablie to have a $5 footlong sub that you can mesure to a 12 inch sub? If you do then make a complanit in comments below ok? thats all I can say. 

Rebbie Jackson's Husband Nathaniel Brown passed away! :'(

Hello my blogger world peeps & I hope you're enjoy to your start of your week so far but anyway here so sad "BREAKING NEWS" to tell you you know that Rebbie Jackson's husband Nathaniel Brown has passed away on Sunday Jan 6th :'( yeah I didn't know that he had cancer? Until someone just posted on Facebook group about the jackson news.

Rebbie Jackson’s Husband Dies

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According to reports, Rebbie Jackson-Brown, the sister of Michael Jackson, is mourning the loss of her husband Nathaniel Brown who passed away on Sunday, January 6.
The childhood sweethearts wed in 1968, they have three children together, daughters Stacee Brown, 40, Yashi Brown, 35, and their son Austin Brown, 27.
Jackson reportedly died after a long battle with Cancer.
Austin Brown used twitter to express his gratitude of the outpouring support his family has received, writing:
“Thank you all for the amazing love you have been giving me and my family.”
He also posted this photo and message in honor of his late father:

Mrs. Jackson- Brown has not officially commented on her husband’s death.

Soruce: http://blackamericaweb.com/87724/rebbie-jacksons-husband-dies/comment-page-1/#comment-24882

So plz leave your comments & some condolences about Rebbie Jackson's husband.

Cissy Houston is going to be on Oprah's Next Chapter during an interview!

Well it's been one year ago since we lost of the female singer icon Mrs. Whitney Houston. I remember when she died on Feb 11th & it was Saturday at that time me and my mother was on our way to the supermarket when we first heard the "Breaking News"! But now since that, you know times have change... now Cissy Houston is going to sit down with Oprah Winfrey for the Next Chapter on the OWN Network coming up really soon!

Oprah to Interview Cissy Houston One Year After Whitney's Death

By Nicole Marie Melton

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Photo Credit: Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images

On the anniversary of Whitney Houston's sudden death, Oprah Winfrey will sit down with the singer's mom, Cissy Houston, for a special episode of Oprah's Next Chapter.
This interview will be the second time Winfrey has landed an exclusvie chat with the Houston family. Last year, just weeks after Whitney's death, Winfrey was the first to speak with Bobbi Kristina and Pat and Gary Houston in an interview that gained record-breaking viewers for OWN.
Cissy Houston won't be the only must-see guest on OWN this year. Alicia Keys, Berry Gordy and Diahann Carroll will share their stories on a new season of Oprah's Master Class, while new episodes of Oprah: Where Are They Now? will focus on Apprentice alum Omarosa and rapper Bow Wow.
Two new original series will also debut on the network. Comedienne Kym Whitley will star in the docu-series Raising Whitley. Additionally, Tyler Perry will present his first scripted series, a drama, The Haves and the Have Nots, and a half-hour comedy, Love Thy Neighbor.

Soruce: http://www.essence.com/2013/01/06/oprah-interview-cissy-houston-one-year-after-whitneys-death/

So I don't really know about this I don't have no a cable but I might just going to see some of the clips on Youtube for often as I like.

First start of to 2013, Sandy Hook Kids Return to School

Hello my blogger world peeps & welcome to the new year of 2013!!! I hope y'all have a great 2013 a year of ahead of you. Now let's get back to work just as yesterday the kids form Sandy Hook Elementary School have just came back to school yesterday morning to start what they've left off the kids where so happy. To see their smiling faces and also their teachers and their staff as well. At first for them it's going to be hard for them to cope on what happen last month on December 14th. But it's going to take some of the progress.

Sandy Hook kids return to school for first time since shootings

AFP: Timothy A. Clary. Sandy Hook: Students leave on a school bus in Newtown, Conn. IMAGE

23 hr ago By MSN News with wire reports

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The new school is equipped with a security system, and police officers will patrol the grounds.

MONROE, Conn. — For her son's first day of school since last month's massacre at his Sandy Hook Elementary, Sarah Caron tried to make Thursday as normal as possible. She made his favorite pancakes, and she walked the second-grader to the top of the driveway for the school bus.
But it was harder than usual to say goodbye.
"I hugged him a lot longer than normal, until he said, 'Mommy, please,'" she said. "And then he got on the bus, and he was OK."
Her 7-year-old son, William, was among more than 400 students who escaped a gunman's rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook on Dec. 14. The returning students settled in at their old, familiar desks but in a different school in a different town.
Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a mass shooting in her Arizona district two years ago, has "planned but not confirmed" a visit to Newtown on Friday, Steven Jensen, spokesman for Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, said in an email. She may visit with families of the shooting victims, Jensen said, and she may attend a private event at a local home. Giffords, who was shot in the head, has become a symbol for proponents of stricter gun control in the national debate about the right to bear arms, which has grown louder since the Dec. 14 attack in Newtown.
On Thursday, returning students, teachers and administrators were met by a large police presence outside their new school in the neighboring town of Monroe, where a middle school that had been shuttered for nearly two years was overhauled and renamed after their old school. Several officers guarded the entrance and checked IDs of parents dropping off children.
Monroe police Lt. Keith White said attendance was very good and the children were getting back to "business as usual."
"A lot of them were happy to see their friends they hadn't seen in a while," he said.
William's classroom had been across the hall from a first-grade room where children and teacher Victoria Soto died, and he had been nervous about going back to school, Caron said. But an open house Wednesday at the school eased some of his fears.
"They didn't talk about what happened at all," she said. "They went in, met up with their teachers, had a little circle time and it was just about trying to get them back into school."
Most of the students arrived at the new school in Monroe by bus, something school officials had suggested to help them get back into a familiar routine.
Nick Phelps, who lives a few blocks from the original Sandy Hook school, said his first-grader and third-grader are excited about the new school because it means a longer bus ride to Monroe, which is about 7 miles away.
He was there when the bus brought them home Thursday afternoon.
"I was never so excited to see my children and, certainly, to see my children get off the bus. There was a shared joy," he said.
About 80 parents attended an assembly Thursday with school and police officials, who fielded questions about security and activities planned for their children. White said security will remain at a high level for now and will be re-evaluated each week.
The gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed his mother inside their Newtown home before driving to the school. He shot his way into the building and carried out the massacre before committing suicide as police arrived.
On Thursday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced the creation of an advisory commission that will review and recommend changes to state laws and policies on gun control, school safety measures and mental health services in the wake of the Sandy Hook rampage.
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Teams of workers, many of them volunteers, prepared the new school and even raised bathroom floors so the smaller elementary school students can reach the toilets. The students' backpacks and other belongings that were left behind after the shooting were taken to the new school to make them feel at home.
Students found the same chairs and desks, when possible. Their classroom walls were painted the same colors and hung with the same pictures. Other details, such as the location of bookshelves and cubby holes, were replicated as much as possible.
Newtown school Superintendent Janet Robinson said the school has been transformed into a "cheerful" place for the students. She said mental health counselors continue to be available for anyone who needs them.
Caron, 32, said her son knows what happened and has undergone counseling. She said her 5-year-old daughter, Paige, attends afternoon kindergarten at the school and has been dealing with nightmares about "snakes and bears and coyotes."
"She wasn't at school that day but was with me when we went to look for William at the firehouse," Caron said. "Unfortunately, she heard more about it than I wish she did."
Intellectually, Caron said, she knows her children will be very safe at their new school.
"But, emotionally," she said. "It's very hard to turn off the little 'What if?' that kind of hangs on and says, 'Well, you know what, December 14th started out as a normal day, too."

Soruce: http://news.msn.com/us/sandy-hook-kids-return-to-school-for-first-time-since-shootings?ocid=ansnews11

So it's going to take a progress like I said before, I mean some of the kids might have nightmares about it. For me I'm just going to keep my things going & try to think postive as it hangs on. Plz leave some encouging comments about the Sandy Hook kids as they head on with thier normal lives in thier new near Newtown, CT.