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HALLELUYAH!!!!!! "Let the children of Israel shout a big amen!!!! Pastor kunle screamed. ''Omo this pastor is powerful ohhh, see as my body dey move shuke shuke, choi!! Bye bye to barreness iyooo, a member of the congregation chanted, eyes closed hands frolicking in the air, but could only hear her own chants, as the cacophony in the church could bring down the heavens. People praying in hope rather than faith, people looking lost and helpless, the church in that single seamless moment looked like everything that is wrong with the world, confusion, despair, pain. Pastor Kunle prayed with one eye open while signaling the ushers "brethren please let us a moment to or rather take a break from the holy spirit "for this important spiritual offering, brethren bring your envelopes, your 1000 naira notes and pray, shout!! Scream, kick, this year will be your year of breakthrough!! On the count of three please let us have make this offering baskets overflow like the river of wealth will overflow your bank! Brethren pray!!! At the same time Kunle looked around to make sure the ushers where in the positions they dicussed during workers meeting. Kunle always told the ushers to adapt the 4-4-2 formation during offering collection, two in the front row, four in the middle of the church and four at the back row, then the hustle started, people who had not even eaten for days will hustle a thousand naira to come to church and throw their faith in ''God the money doubler'', Kunle had them eating off the palm of his hand. "Emi ke!! Kunle omo oro, mo sure ju!'' As he often boasted to his league of 'sure' pastors, Jerry a 'sure' pastor and friend laughed saying "Kunle wetin sure for your body? How much you dey make every Sunday? Money wey I go use buy one Hennessey? Abeg sit down dia! Kunle was amazed with Glee, his face lightened up as he burst into uncontrollable laughter "werey! ni e bobo yi how much does your wretched parish make? Those your unsexy ushers, no one would want to give them money sef, choir sef sound like bull frogs in the creek! The rest of the crew burst into laughter, alcohol in the system made the laughter go on for minutes
Kunle has always been a people's man and a ''bad guy''. Stereotyped ladies man and one hell of a flirt, he used his gifts of manipulation and charm to the fullest, he was so good at his craft that he lost his virginity to his mother's boss "Mama kunle your son is so cute, if he was 5years older, I would steal him from you'' the horny old woman whispered as she usually shoved mama kunle, she hated the way her boss shoved with her shoulder after muttering her horny jokes, she quickly pointed saying ''Mrs. Edwin my son is only 16 oh! And not ready for a heavy madam like you, maybe in ten years sha'' with that uninterested look on her face she laughed ''hahahaha! ok I will allow him grow small, the older wine gets the finer it becomes. Mama Kunle a struggling single mum, who lost her husband during a peace keeping mission in Liberia, worked her head off to provide for kunle who happened to be the only child, which was the only reason she didn't use her husband's gun to book a one way ticket to paradise. She considered hell to be much better than earth, as hell was earth to her.
Kunle a school boy in SS2 at the time often blushed and acted like a good boy around his mum anytime her boss uttered such statements to him, but he had his own intentions, puberty had hit, crack in his voice, and a lean he saw in the hip-hop videos, gave kunle a swagger any woman will fall for. As a struggling kid, kunle knew he had to do what he had to do to, seeing his mum suffering everyday took its toll on kunle's feelings and emotions, it fuelled a negative fire in him to make it at any cost, anything to make her smile and be proud of him, he often woke up at night and rested on the wall the room, cracked and looking thirsty for paint, Kunle looked up the ceiling and roof because he could see the two at the same time, he shook his head and made up his mind that "Omo! This cannot continue men, why person go dey suffer like this? Gats to comot this house build my own men" his mum mumbled from her sleep ''kunle sharrap and sleep jor, u have school oh, if u don't wake up ehn, egba ni mo ma fi ji e'' kunle with a big sigh went back to sleep. The plan was simple, use what you have to get what you want; his peers didn't help either, "kunle! U wey be fine boy like this, you dey dull yourself, boys wey no reesh you sef don dey drive car, u dey here d…..
Peter interrupted ''ace sharrap! How many people wey you sabi wey dey drive car, Paulo u too dey lie! Kai! All the boys hailed in unison ''Paulo baba!!! No1 be like you, baba ni yen'' kunle added ''your suppose be Elias, cos you dey lie ehn!'' Hands on head! , hands on bellies, people rolling on the floor as they all burst into laughter! Paulo with a tired look on his face, had bitten his nails to his skin because anytime he got called out by kunle, thats all he could do, deep down he adored and hated kunle for being so perfect, like this guy is tall, fine, funny, ladies loved him, guys wanted to be like him, Paulo couldn't take it anymore, he suddenly grew tired of being the joke all the fucking time, then he let it drop, the forbidden fruit fell from the tree and Paulo took a greedy bite out of it, ' At least I don't share a bed with my mum'' suddenly the laughter, the look on the faces of the others was like a strange wind came and blew the joy away from their hearts leaving only sorrow and shock, kunle looked at Paulo with the look of a lion that had locked-on his prey and asked in proper English and soft voice of a professional assassin ''Paulo, what did you just say? Paulo suddenly felt recognized like that moment the devil's advocate won the case, he rose from the bench where he sat and repeated it, picking his words like a retarded three year old child ''AT LEAST I DON'T SHARE A BED WITH MY BROKE MUM", That moment, fist clenched, kunle felt pain, anger and sadness all at the same time, we wondered what he had done, why Paulo brought up an issue so sensitive it could start world wars, he wished Paulo could just die and burn, at the same time he felt sorry for him, he thought about all these things looking straight at Paulo in the face, even air couldn't dare pass the little distance they had in front of them, the place was quiet as a catholic church during prayers, the air was tense, the crowd of students waiting for Kunle to a make a move, it was an arena kunle and Paulo were the gladiators, within the twinkle of an eye, kunle landed Paulo a punch powered by supernatural strength, a punch Samson himself would have been proud of, out rightly knocking Paulo to the ground, into a state of temporary comatose, the crowd gasped and within a heartbeat, kunle entered wrestling folklore as they hailed him like a king coming back from a victorious war.
Walking home briskly, it was 12noon in the afternoon, the sun at its peak, Kunle kicked stones as he walked slowly to his house, ''what are you doing home so early?'' he looked down and waved the white sheet at his mum, her heart raced as she snapped at the letter like an angry snake, as she saw the topic which read ''LETTER OF EXPULSION" she looked at Kunle, who was sitting in the corner of the room waiting for the worst to come, tears cascading down her face, the one thing she depended on was Kunle's education, as she often had dreams of him becoming someone relevant in life, so she would come out of the hardship and finally live a normal life. She suddenly felt an overwhelming weakness all over her and she sat on the chair and looked at the ceiling in hopelessness and despair, the thoughts of using that gun crossing her mind, Kunle feeling remorse and terrible, stood up like a fallen warrior and walked towards his mum '' I will make it mum, don't worry yourself everything will be alright'' with his hands tightened around her waist, her mind suddenly flashed back to her late husband and how he held her, she could use any kind of comforting now, even from the source of her sorrows.
VROOM, VROOM! Kunle speed off into the night, feeling light headed and overwhelmed with glee, alcohol in the system, blasting music like a high school kid and sang along loudly without a worry in the world. As he drove, the sound of bitumen caressing his tyres never sounded so good, the smooth drive on the highway, the headlamps of the car moved forward and guided him like a forerunner, he had not felt this good in a longtime, he felt marooned, a beautiful isolation, not caring about anything but himself, the alcoholic loft and the hands on his steering wheel and what he had to do to get behind the best luxury sin can buy, he flashed back to when he got kicked out of school, the menial jobs, the sales of bread and ice water, watching his school mates look at him like they never knew him, generally watching life pass him by. He muttered to himself "this night is about memories", he took a sharp U-turn and headed back into the city, drove pass all the places he had walked hopelessly and hustled for water and bread. He saw the very first corner where he got tested… 'heee! Fine boi, cun hia!.' kunle dressed in rags moved slowly towards the monstrosity of a man calling him, he walked slowly towards him like a snail heading towards slaughter, fully aware that it is going to die 'you no suppose dey school? Wettin young boy like you dey find at this time' kunle looking down, with his folded arms at his back said in the most girly voice ever 'my mama no get money for school fees' KPAAAA!! A slap hit Kunle across the face in a flash 'which kain mumu school fees? U tink I no no say na free education dey this country?? Kunle obviously feeling stupid sat on the floor, lost and dazed 'look up!' he screamed 'why uno dey school, before you chop any round of groundnut' kunle stammered "eh-eh ehn they purshu me comot school, sar" a smirk immediately appeared on the face of this huge man then he asked 'wettin you do? Bad boy.' kunle looked up and noticed the smile on his face 'I beat person till he faint' with a look of excitement and pinch of pride, the man laughed out loud saying "ehen! Fine boy like you sabi fight??? Na your kind boys I dey like jare, Oya stand up, wettin be your name?'' dusting off his shorts "KUNLE SAR!" ''kunle kunle, fine boy with action! Hope say the boy they ok sha, shey he no die? Kunle smiled and talked like a blushing school girl "hin eye jus swell sha, I never see am since that time sha'' with his boyish laugh and the protective hold of a father kunle felt a strange attachment to this man "see ehn, as from today na me be your guy, anybody wey wan try you for this area don die, u don chop? Kunle face glistened as quick and sharp "NO!" came out of his mouth.
Bosco became a father, friend, protector and mentor to Kunle, we can safely say he made kunle the seasoned criminal he turned out to be. Bosco, taught kunle everything he knew, but kunle was always one step ahead, he was street smart, always about the money not the drugs or the cheap high, the marijuana boom at that time was a credit to kunle's money making adventure, he stashed up the weed and sold to students at his old school, he became a vault at the age of 18, Bosco especially was proud of Kunle, he had an immutable knack for money, it turned him on almost sexually like an addict he would work day and night selling to make that ''paper'', Soon enough he changed the orientation of Bosco himself to start dealing in the sale of marijuana, Bosco used his brawn and kunle used his brains, other members of the gang served as supporting casts members in the plot, as the plot thickened so did the accounts and wealth of Bosco and Kunle, they were on top of the world, selling and making tax free money. Kunle had suddenly gotten his groove back, living life like a king, all the friends that walked passed him like he was plagued suddenly came back like a boomerang, he became a lady magnet, coupled with good looks, ladies much older wanted him, he was Hollywood, almost like a shark in a pond, he couldn't walk on the street anymore, people come around him like the pope, some begging, some ladies offering their bodies desperately, the feeling was overwhelming, so he often stayed indoors admiring the empire he built single mindedly not single handedly.
After sunlight comes the darkness, after summer comes winter, after the wet season of plenty comes the dry season of famine and struggle. It always creeps in, not hitting us by surprise, only the wise anticipate but the foolish live on and do the same things over and over, sometimes being wise is not enough, when fate tells us our time is up it is truly up no matter how far we run, where we hide, as long as oxygen is the basis of our existence, fate's very persistence, woos our destiny to yielding to whatever it has to say, Kunle ran and ran from his very creation, his empire was under fire, being the wise fellow that he is, he tried his best to avoid the inevitable, but it was inevitable, his empire was a means to an end, his end was near, he felt it, so he went down fighting. That day, he was in some hotel in the eastern part of Nigeria, where the palm wine was orgasmic and women fair as snow, he was tired of running, a new lead was onto him, he sat by the pool watching the ladies swim, teenagers urinating in pool, husbands checking out the younger woman, it was a beautiful day 'Perfect day to get bursted' he soliloquized, in a few minutes the hotel was surrounded, frenzy and pandemonium everywhere, kunle relaxed, as calm as always still laid on the beach chair waiting. 'You are under arrest Mr. kunle, please kindly get up and follow or we will be forced to take other forceful measures' the sun blocked out the face of the police officer as kunle took of his shades and rose like a gentleman, shackles on his wrists, kunle felt free in his incarceration, the very irony, he was tired of running, a sudden inner peace he felt as he said to himself 'Prison can't be that bad' with his signature smirk, he walked gallantly like a trained horse of the royal family into the "Black Maria" it was a dark and lonely place, familiar thing for him, he had always felt alone, ever since he started stacking up that paper, his mother vowed never to spend a penny of his "dirty money", she refused everything he had given to her, One day she burnt the bundle of minty fresh notes he offered to his face. She always told him that one day her real son will return as a graduate and take her out of her poverty, this broke his heart like a careless house help broke a ceramic plate, and the very reason why he made the money had rejected him, one of the reasons why he stopped running. Bosco on the other hand got 'bursted' after kunle had advised that everyone should leave town 'ME! Leave this town??? Lailai! If police wan catch me make dem come! I go shoot shoot their entire mama'. he reportedly died in a shootout involving the police. The Black Maria was in many ways a haven for him, a place of retrospect and regret, 'oya come down' the light hit his eyes as the police ordered him down and ushered him into the station.
He got a fair deal, give up all your money and get five years in jail, money was nothing so he gave it all up in a heartbeat. He was there at the city that birthed him, at the very corner where he met Bosco, he stood statuesque and stared for minutes, memories flooding back like a sea storm, tears rolled down his face, the good the bad and the ugly, a rush of diluted adrenaline, the same way he felt when he got into prison, he became eye candy for the fellow prisoners, he was amazed at the way men stared at him, the same way women stared at him, this was a new experience to him, he was lost, confused and scared, he walked with great trepidation and every step into the yard felt like he was in the mouth of the whale that swallowed Jonah 'Oga! Waka fast! Person go turn ur fullstop to letter O, no dey do like mumu for kirikiri better wakeup! Or u go be person wife for hia oh' Eureka! He had heard of them before, the stories of prisons were true, homosexuality, men having anal sex, the very thought disgusted him, he imagined himself being someone's bitch 'not me men! Gast to find my way out of this wahala oh' he thought to himself. Lunch time, kunle was seated on his own, a cross dressed man walked up to his table, kunle was irritated by his very presence, he did a good job hiding it 'Presido dey call u fine boy'. 'fo fo fo wat na?' kunle stuttered 'he wan tell you samtin, maybe he need new fine bitsh like you, hahahaha' kunle filled with the anger and disgust of three hundred men, vowed at that moment that he will rather die than be ass fucked 'WHAT!! I am no one's bitcch in this fucking prison, I will rather die!' his eyes red, his body fuming, fist clenched like he was ready to take on the whole prison, it felt like time stood still for a moment as he was the martyr that had the balls to oppose the Dictator's will. The presido sitting in the far corner got up and shouted 'And die you shall!' all of a sudden everyone's attention shifted to the presido 'na so this wan go die sha, fine boy like this eeeyah' as kunle looked closely at the presido, he recognized a large black frame of a man, that once loved and cherished him, the presido smiled as he walked closer to kunle 'BOSCO!!!!' he screamed with the exictement of a little boy hugging his father coming back from work Kunle hugged bosco with so much love that other prisoners looked in amazement, they had never seen the presido smile or laugh at anyone, they wondered who kunle was to him. The cross dresser especially felt threatened and dumped, someone had replaced him as the head bitch; 'baby! Who be this guy to you, u have never hugged me that way.' 'Come on sharrap dia! Before I slap you, this is my brother, MY BLOOD! The person who gave me life, he open my eyes to see that the world was ours for the taking' kunle spoke with his mouth ajar like a broken door ' thought you were dead bosco! That's what I heard on the street, wettin happen guy?' Bosco in his thick thunderous laugh, that of the god of thunder, Sango 'Men! I no die ooo, na small remain wey them for kill me, dey shoot me five times, but iyam! bosco cant die from common bullet I'm a god!!' 'PRESIDO!!!!!' the prisoners hailed as they paid homage to their autonomous dictator. Kunle looked at Bosco like he saw a ghost, elated like a teenager boy who kissed the girl of his dreams, his heart beating like the drums of war "You know you can't call me Bosco around here, I be Presido, Babaginda power no reesh hia oh" kunle laughed hard 'hahahahahaha, sorry oh! presido, no vex your Excellency' he suddenly remembered what laughter felt like, it was too long ago.
'Prison is no place for you kunle, you have to get out of here' kunle laughed" Bosco! Sorry Presido, this wan wey u don dey speak English?? Which wanz nah?' Bosco looked at kunle with the seriousness of a father 'seriously guy you need to leave before it fucks you up' kunle sighed " how do u want to do that ehn, bosco, I have five years in this place, before you know it am out" bosco hit kunle on the arm 'yeee! Why nah?!!' Bosco stood up and pointed towards the prison chapel "that is your way out of here brrother" kunle looked at bosco with awe "ehnnn! Bosco! You wan make I turn born again?? Will that reduce my sentence or what' Bosco laughed and whispered into kunle's ear 'listen fool! If u join the church, and excel in the preacher's exam you will be released on good behavior, you know say you sabi talk well well,u go pass am die!' kunle turned and looked at the church, then he got up and for some reason started laughing and shaking his head, then suddenly he heard a loud Whack on his head 'wont you say thank you?' in pains and joy 'thank you sar! You're the best! With a proud look of a father, Bosco nodded 'but why you no do am' kunle asked, 'shuu! With my face like dis make I dey preesh? Who go believe me? Me wey don turn gay!' they both laughed into the night and walked to their cells.
As expected he excelled in this field as he was good speaker and delivered the gospel of Jesus Christ with much eloquence and swagger, the intention was to use the gospel as a get out of jail free card, which worked out just as planned. He didn't only get his sentence cut off by 4 years but was 'called' by a headquarters to become a provisional pastor, he was given a house, car and his own parish, which he ran like a business, he was racking in offerings, tithes like hay in a barn, he was on top of his game.
'Mother will proud of me finally' he thought.
When he left the corner, he drove straight to the cemetery, where his mother laid to rest, for several minutes he stared at her tombstone from a distance like a naughty boy that did something bad, he felt a degree of shame, incompleteness, waste, the one person he made money for never actually wanted the money, she refused and rebuked him severally, he summoned up courage and walked up to her, just like when he first came out of prison, he was so delighted to go home and reveal to her that he had been saved and she could be proud of him, he was everything she wanted him to become, he walked briskly down of the street where he grew up, he noticed the sad and pitiful way people looked at him, he thought it was just a sign of jealousy as usual, when he finally got to his house, It looked like no one had lived there in years, he was lost ,dumbfounded, wondering where his mother had gone, then he asked the neighbor 'Please Excuse me, where is the woman that lives here? Do you know her whereabouts? Washing her clothes and answering reluctantly 'she died 6 months ago, they buried at the village cemetery' Kunle was…
As sad as the first day he heard the news, his usual feelings of loneliness crept back in, he wept on the tombstone of his mum, wailing and wallowing in his own self pity 'mama! forgive me, this is the only life I know, the life I have chosen, without darkness there is no light, I am that darkness, but am still your son, love me this way.' he picked himself up wiped his tears and walked back to his car, he felt a certain peace inside, a feeling of acceptance, he finally accepted who he was, he was the bad guy, he created the balance in the society, he knew his place, started his car, with one last look and one gulp of rum, he sped off into the night, fully aware of himself and ready for the consequences of being Kunle Ajao.
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The longer a president is out of office, the more people forgive and forget.
Up until now, the only possible exception to that rule was Richard Nixon, whom Americans still associate with the Watergate scandal. Nixon, however, did get high marks for foreign policy during his post-presidential years.
Now, it appears George W. Bush may be in the same situation.
A CNN/ORC poll released Thursday says Bush's current favorable rating is 43%, and his unfavorable rating is at 54%, more than three years after he left office. That's up from his 2009 favorable rating. But by comparison, the same poll says two-thirds of those polled have a favorable view of Bill Clinton, who preceeded Bush.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars, both popular when they started, but which became increasingly unpopular as the years went on, are one reason for Bush's continued unpopularity. But the other is the economy, which fell into recession in his last year in office.
President Obama, who graciously hosted the Bushes last week for the unveiling of George W.'s presidential portrait, will probably try to use this to his advantage in his re-election campaign. But Obama's critics will probably respond by stating that while, statistically, the recession ended three years ago, the economy hasn't improved a lot.
One statistic being quoted...and not conservatively, either...is the May employment numbers which state the economy hardly added any jobs and that the unemployment rate increased.
Interestingly, another thing Obama's critics cite is gas prices, which range from $3.50-$4 a gallon. But, at least in the Mid-Ohio Valley, they're actually a bit lower than they were four years ago, when Bush was still in the White House.
Those numbers, admittedly, dropped dramatically by election day, when the nation realized it was in a recession. As some Republican candidates noted earlier this year, gas was $1.60-$1.70 a gallon when Obama took office in January, 2009.
Perhaps someday, George W. Bush will be looked upon more favorably for his eight years in office: a period when he had to confront several issues, the biggest of which were the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
But, as seems to be the case with a full economic recovery, that day seems a long way off.

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Outrage as no men shortlisted for the final of The Great British Bake Off
The BBC has been inundated with complaints today after the popular baking contest announced an all-female shortlist for its series finale.
'I think this decision really highlights the gender inequalities that still exist in the baking community,' said 31-year-old hopeful Darren, five-time winner of the Stourbridge fete cake competition.
His views have been echoed by male celebrity chefs. 'We can't blame the judges,' said Ainsley Harriott. 'We must look deeper at media coverage and stereotypes.'
'The problem lies in role models,' added Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. 'When I first started cooking there were no men on TV making cupcakes. We have to change perceptions that baking is just for women.'
The final of the BBC show will now be contested by three women who have recently given up their day jobs to seek recognition in the world of baking, swimmers Rebecca Adlington and Keri-Anne Payne, and triathlete Chrissie Wellington.
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A unique collection featuring political cartoons went on display at Mystetsky Arsenal's Small Gallery on Sept. 25.
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A unique collection featuring political cartoons by David Horsey, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, and twin exhibit of historical and contemporary U.S. political cartoons entitled "Join, or Die" and "We, the People" went on display at Mystetsky Arsenal's Small Gallery on Sept. 25.
The main aim of the exhibition is to show the American tradition of using humor to judge political and social processes.
In the 19th century, political cartoons flourished and American cartoonists created images, such as Uncle Sam symbolizing the U.S., which quickly gained popularity and are easily recognized by almost everyone today. The exhibition runs through Oct. 7 in Arsenal and then will move to Vernadskiy Library which will host it until Oct.20.
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In late January, Public Policy Polling released a poll of North Carolina voters saying 63 percent believed doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana to patients to alleviate pain or other conditions.
Nationally, an increasing number of white and black evangelicals approve of medical marijuana legalization.
Now, 20 states have legalized marijuana either for medical, recreational or both uses. North Carolina now has groups such as the North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network and NC NORMLworking toward changing the law. And a year ago, N.C. Rep. Kelly Alexander, D-Mecklenburg, filed a bill to legalize medical marijuana in the state but the bill stalled in committee.
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Prior to this position, Williamson supervised the telethon program for the University of Iowa Foundation. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa and had extensive experience with telethons during her undergraduate years. She was singled out as the most successful telemarketer in the history of the Iowa Foundation for her success raising record amounts of funds in one year.


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"How is he gonna top this?"
This was what I wondered as Paul McCartney ended his concert at the TUC on Saturday night. He and his band had just finished a breathtaking run of songs that, appropriately, drove the crowd nuts: "Band on the Run," "Back in the USSR," "Let It Be," "Live and Let Die," and "Hey Jude." "Live and Let Die" featured lasers, smoke, fireworks and exploding gas jets you could feel the heat from in the 12th row. "Hey Jude" prompted as loud and fervent an audience sing-along as I've ever heard. He'd stone-cold killed it; would he just drop the mic and not come back? That's a thing now.
Nope. McCartney is old school. After the requisite interlude of audience screaming, he returned and they cranked out "Day Tripper." Of course he could "top that," he's Paul McCartney. That first encore ended with "Get Back," for Chrissakes. The second encore was the real mind-blower, though. It started with "Yesterday." Then, McCartney let some 64-year-old dooder from Rochester sing a verse of "When I'm Sixty-Four" and propose to his fiancée, which almost everyone found charming. Then he blew the roof of the sucker with "Helter Skelter," and ended the extravaganza with the final suite of songs from side two—yeah, I'm old, too—of Abbey Road.
Good lord, I'm getting emotional just typing this.
So, as you've heard by now, it was quite a show. The 72-year-old former Beatle showed no signs of strain from the viral infection that had knocked him out for a couple of months. He never left the stage for a drum solo; he was a powerhouse.
Forget the legendarily desultory Beatles concerts you've heard about. McCartney came of age as a solo artist—with his band, Wings—at the exact moment arena rock blossomed, and he was an immediate success at it. He took to touring in a way his Beatle bandmates Lennon and Harrison never did; he even opened his 1975 album Venus and Mars with an ode to arena rock ("Rock Show") that name-checked Jimmy Page. He likes this kind of thing. He's at home up there.
Saturday night was a kind of culmination of this. McCartney and his band held nothing back in a three-hour show that left the audience exhausted, too. If you're wondering what the breakdown was between Beatle and solo songs, it was seven new songs, seven Wings/"classic" solo songs—and 26 Beatle faves. At one point, McCartney joked about how the audience put down their phones during the new songs: "I know what you're doing."
He sure did. That's why the set list was composed as if the intervening decades never happened. (Unless I blinked and missed him, the chronological streaming photo montage that filled the edges of the giant LED screen before the show excluded Michael Jackson.) He opened with "Eight Days a Week," and never strayed far from the songs, Beatle and solo, that made him an icon.
This was a good and proper thing.
Too much certainty usually makes a critic obnoxious and (inevitably) wrong, but I will never see an arena show as good as the one McCartney put on Saturday night. The entire genre is in its twilight, and will barely survive the baby boomers who made it boom. (Maybe they can turn the TUC into a Costco in 15 or 20 years.) Even if it were to somehow limp along, however, nothing will ever top this.


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Wonderful, exotic fruits mingled with cucumber gives this fragrance a unique perfect for summer outings smell, and really lasts all day. Excellent value. Many many compliments.
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My morning has begun with a right laugh (see details) have you had those moments when you cant stop laughing?
Ive just visited my local 24hr garage, (it was 4.30am) and a chap there had just bought a bag of discounted food items. He was clearly a bit wacky but thats par for the course here. While i was being served he came back and said he spent £2.66 and was given £2.14 in change from £5 note (he still had the change in his hand and showed me). Clearly he was short 20p, but for whatever reason afflicts his calculative abilities he couldnt grasp it was only 20p. To me and my Indian friend serving him he insisted it was a variety of values. He said im short 40p, then to Raz he said thats 50p short mate, then back to me saying, thats 50p innit mate? In less than 2 minutes he calculated he had been short changed 30p, 44p 50p and 34p. I had to walk away, i couldnt stop laughing. even 50 yards down the road i could still hear him, in the dead silence of a cold November morning, reciting a series of inaccurate values at poor old Raz.
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You described it so well I can imagine it quite clearly and am chuckling with you. Have a great day! :)
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Physik Instrumente offers low-cost fast piezo focusing devices suitable for use in 3D imaging
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Physik Instrumente (PI) has introduced a low-cost series of fast piezo focusing devices designed to improve results in fast focusing and lens positioning as well as in deconvolution/3D imaging.
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Charter schools are public schools, but differ from traditional public schools in that they are independent and are operated by educators, parents, community leaders, educational entrepreneurs, or others. Funding for charter schools is based on designated local or state educational organizations. Those organizations are responsible for monitoring and assessing the quality and effectiveness of education, but permit the schools to operate outside of the traditional public school education system. See Princeton House Charter School's test results to learn more about school performance.
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It is the best school for autistics children, staff is very caring, teachers are committed with high level of education. The government should give way more funds for a school like this I do a lot of sacrifice for my child be able to attend that school but it is million dollar worth it!.
Princeton has a great pre-school program. The teachers truly care for the children and their families.
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Princeton House Charter school is one of the best schools in Orlando. I put my child in this school and never regretted it. He gets only what his needs are and this has helped him tremendously. I also like the people there and they make me feel comfortable when I'm there I thank god for this school. Thank you Princeton for just being there for five months I see a big difference in my son. my parents see such a difference in him. I could go on and on .


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Will the Rapture occur on September 17, 2012?
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CANTON -- They were on their way to school, when a house started to burn, so two Canton teens took action and helped get a couple to safety.
Tonight we see why many are calling the two "heroes."
When you're 13, seeing your name in the paper is pretty cool. David Beckley Jr. and Tyler Creswell earned it.
They were waiting for their school bus at 16th and Clarendon in Canton with Tyler's sister. That's when she said "Tyler look! There's a fire!"
David called 911 both boys ran around the back of the house.
The front porch was burning and a neighbor, Raymond Stewart, jumped into action.
Stewart went up on the front porch, with half of it on fire, and went through the front door.
The boys started kicking in the back door. It gave way and the couple in the house got out the back door and the boys took them around to the front of the house.
The woman tried to run back into the house for her wallet, but Tyler stopped her.
"I didn't want her to die. She can get more money but you only have one life,," Tyler said.
Two lives were saved by two fast-thinking boys and an alert neighbor.
Their humility speaks volumes.
"I might be considered a small hero...it's not like we actually went in, carried them over our shoulders and brought em out," David said.
Tyler added, "I would rather not have all the attention, but if that's what my Mom makes me do, then, I have to do it."
The boys will be honored at an upcoming Board of Education meeting June 11.
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10 Best iPhone Apps for Toddlers and Kids
Back in the day, parents handed fussy toddlers their keys, a teething toy or maybe a rattle. Now, we hand over the iPhone. The most common question asked by parents who look for travel advice isn't about what highway to travel or even about kid-friendly luggage. It's about iPhone apps. So, we decided to do some research and let our fingers do the downloading as we tried out some of the top contenders and a few more obscure apps. Here are our recommendations for the apps worth downloading. Let the happy road trips begin!
Disney's Fairies Fly
Gets high marks from parents for being easy enough for younger kids but interesting enough for parents. The $4.99 price tag says Disney, but apparently Pixie Hollow is worth the hefty price tag. The graphics are worthy of the Disney name, where the goal is to learn to fly like a fairy and then soar thru various obstacles. Like all memory-intensive apps, some users report problems with crashing.
This app is free because it's ad sponsored, so user beware. But, if you need a quick distraction and don't want to make an investment, this might be worth it. It's beyond simple, you press a key and move thru the alphabet. Toddlers will find it fun to push the button and see what happens, older kids might be interested in reciting the alphabet.
Virtual Zippo Lighter
Whether you're secretly reliving your Bon Jovi concert days or just keeping your kids occupied in the car, the app is very cool. It's been downloaded over 3 million times, and averages about 100,00 downloads per week. Doesn't that make you feel popular? The app is eearily accurate, with a flame that always points up and very realistic clicking noises.
Wheels on the Bus
Imagine an interactive book for toddlers, using the iPhone as the medium. Five languages are included and you can record your own voice and learn about musical instruments while keeping a toddler entertained easily. Parents give the app high marks and this is consistently one of the top downloaded apps in iTunes. Your child can even create a duet with one of the narrators. There are quite a few options for customizing the flow of the app, so kids don't tire of it after just a few minutes.
Teach Me: Kindergarten
Teaches sight words, addition, subtraction and spelling to Kindergarten-aged children. Parents select the subjects, difficulty levels or even choose specific questions then review performance to track how your child is learning. Kids earn coins for every three correct answers which can then be used to buy stickers to place in fun sticker scenes that can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends.
Inflate the balloon by blowing into the microphone (iPod Touch users can touch the screen), then give the phone a shake to construct an animal. Each shake gives your animal a bit more detail. When your animal is fully formed, he's ready to play (you tap the screen to get him to do various tricks). The animals cycle randomly and when you're done playing you can blow the animal up until it pops, and create another.
Bugdom 2
You're Skip, tracking down the Bully Bee that stole his backpack. Expect action adventure of the preschool variety. The premise is familiar: you want to keep from being exterminated, squashed, or canned while making friends and beating the bad guys. Very few controls make this easy to learn — you tilt the phone to move and a harder tilt makes Skip move faster. The graphics are awesome but Skip can be hard to control. For a long road trip this would be a great buy.
Toddler Teasers
A series of about a dozen simple themes, all focused on teaching colors, letters, animals or something similar to toddlers. You can purchase a topic individually or buy a bundle of several together. Virtual stickers act as rewards. Spoken words ask the child to pick out the correct shape or letter and then give positive reinforcement for the correct answer. An incorrect answer causes that option to disappear from the screen. All in all, it's so simple that you might not be tempted, but for the two year-old set, it's pure gold.
Peekaboo Barn
Inside the barn, play peekaboo by tapping on the doors, guess who the animal is by the sound they make and get excited by who pops out. Animal names in both English and Spanish. Another simple is better concept, start with English (or Spanish) and then advance to the other language once you have mastered whatever is primarly spoken at home. Fantastic for younger kids, the app is simple to use and doesn't require supervision — perfect for the back seat.
See a real world photograph of an object and then drag letter tiles to properly spell the name of the object. You can't spell a word wrong, and for a more advance form of play, choose to hide any number of letters. The app is available in about 10 languages, so it's perfect for the family that travels. There's no score, so kids can play cooperatively in the back seat. Three and four letter words are available, so children as young as three or four can probaby enjoy the app easily.
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Great list of iPhone recommends for kids. We've also come across some good apps the kids enjoy. The apps are WordGirl, Be Big (Clifford), Let's Color, Hangman, and Addition Coach.
Have you checked out Monkey Preschool Lunchbox? I'm the developer of the app, and it's actually one of the most popular games for preschoolers (2 to 5ish). It's a collection of 6 minigames that cover colors, counting, matching, differences, puzzles, etc. Always love to hear what people think.
Sheri: Sure, be glad to talk about the differences.
There are a couple similar minigames (the colors and letters), but Monkey Preschool Lunchbox offers more games overall as well as a puzzle game, a matching game, a spot the difference game, and a counting game which are unlike teasers. Lunchbox is also cheaper.
I don't want to put down Teasers, as it's a fine app, but Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is a much more animated game. Our stickers are animated, our interface is animated, and most appealing to kids our game features an animated monkey character who responds to the game as it is played.
I think the animation is really the big reason our app is more popular with parents than Teasers.
A very nice list; we have quite a few of them and Disney Fairies is a favorite. Going to look into WordGirl as my girls love that, and Monkey Preschool Lunchbox. I wonder if WordWorld has an app?
I would add our app, Weetwoo! which has thousands of safe, parent screened YouTube videos, filtered by age for kids 3+. It's super simple to use for young kids to use.
Also of possible interest to your readers : I wrote a 'top tips to make iPhone better for traveling with kids'
thanks again for your great post!
Oooo, definitely check out Tales2Go!
I'm Tracey, Chief Mom at Tales2Go. Tales2Go is like Pandora for great kids "books on tape" . . . stories stream to your iPhone/iTouch — unlimited and on-demand.
Now you can travel with a audio story library of 1,000+ in your back pocket. No more schlepping CDs or downloading/syncing prep.
Perfect for kids ages 3 up to pre-teen, Tales2Go has something for everyone: best sellers, kids' favorite characters, mysteries, history, folktales, classics, and so much more!
Don't take it from me . . . CNET's Rick Broida called Tales2Go his single favorite app of 2010 (so far) (February '10) http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10449961-1.html
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Thanks for your great list!
Check out Once Upon An App's newest app . . . just in time for Easter!
That is a great list. Balloon Animals is a family favourite – kids and adults xx
Great list! I would like to add a handy app my husband created for me – it is a random seat assigner for the car called iCall Shotgun. http://mysite.verizon.net/reswygo5/icallshotgun/index.htm is where you can check out more details or find it in the iTunes app store.
It has definitely helped stop fighting over who is sitting where in the car both on road trips and trips around town.
I love Juicebox Software! They have GREAT kid-friendly apps that I can put on my iPhone and use to entertain my toddler for hours. These apps are great quality and designed very well. They just launched the Animal Coloring Book app for Android mobile devices, which my daughter is obsessed with. This simple, digital coloring book offers an array of themed pages to color. You can choose Farm, Jungle, Marine or Insect themed pages, and color and save to the Gallery for printing or fine-tuning at a later time. It's so great! Animal Coloring Book entertains children with its simplicity and endless possibilities of creations. Definitely check it out! http://www.juiceboxsoftware.com Company email for questions and comment: firstname.lastname@example.com
Also try Baa Baa Black Sheep (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/baa-baa-black-sheep-by-duck/id377665229?mt=8) by Duck Duck Moose it is by the same makers that did Wheels on the Bus. Very cute!
Baby Animal World it's a great game for kids.
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Try this new game: Snail Alphabet.It is an educational and engaging app for kids, which helps them to learn while they play! Not just one game, but four in one. A lot of games, so your child wont get bored.
-Alphabet recognition
-Visual and auditory memory skils
-Color identification
-Sound recorded audio for each letter of the alphabet and word
Tried most of the games out there. My 2 yr old boy enjoyed some more then others. Here are his favorites
-Kids Song Machine (a song is played while a vehicle moves on the screen. You can tap stuff to make something happen)
-tozzle (a puzzle game, each piece makes a sound)
-monkey preschool lunchbox (it has the usual games but there is a monkey on the side doing commentary)
-monkey preschool when I grow up (dress up a monkey)
-Preschool music (4 different games with singing birds, fish and sheep)
-preschool arcade (pinball and some other stuff)
Another app that is simple and helps kids with monster fears, or likes to play and catch monsters, is Go Away Monster 3000. Designed by kids between 4 and 8. Parents control when a monster can be found, this app becomes part of your bed time routine and your kids can make a room monster free. During the day, your kids will run around looking for monster in places you never knew they existed.
Website http://www.goawaymonster.com
or on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-away-monster-3000/id381349793?mt=8
My daughter loves the Disney's Fairies Fly you listed. She also likes to color Fairies like
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Ditching Instagram? Check out photo filter options
There's a reason that Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion. If someone dangles that much money in front of you for your popular piece of software, what are you going to do, say no?
But some avid users of the 18-month-old Instagram are in fact worried and upset that last week's sale of their beloved app for iPhones and Android-based phones could signal when the service "jumps the shark" and becomes irreparably changed by Facebook.
"Wow! I might not use Instagram anymore!" wrote one disgruntled user on the Macrumors.com forums shortly after Facebook announced the acquisition. "The only reason I used Instagram was to get away from the madness of Facebook!"
And perhaps the concerns are legitimate. Will Facebook's questionable privacy policies be transferred to Instagram? What will Facebook do with any new personal information it acquires from buying Instagram's user database? And what will Facebook do, if anything, to Instagram's user interface?
Don't worry, says Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"We believe these are different experiences that complement each other," he wrote in a Facebook posting announcing the acquisition. "That's why we're committed to building and growing Instagram independently. Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people."
Despite that, some of Instagram's 30 million users have declared they'll drop their accounts and move on. If you're one of them, where can you go next? There are other mobile apps and services that replicate Instagram's photo-sharing features, from altering their look with filters to sharing them with friends on social networking services.
If you're looking for an Instagram alternative, here are some popular choices.
Pixlr-o-matic (iPhone, Android, free) • This photo app, like Instagram, allows you to apply different filters to your snapshots to give them a hip or retro look. The developers claim you can make as many as 2 million different finishes for your photos.
Hipstamatic (iPhone, $1.99) • A popular app among photo buffs, this camera app gives you the control and feel of analog cameras. It lets you change the look by virtually swapping lenses, flashes and types of film. For an extra cost, you can buy and download add-ons that simulate the look of certain cameras and lenses.
picplz (iPhone, Android, free) • The different photo effects are more limited with this app, including such effects described as only "Russian toy camera" or "Little Plastic Lens." But it does have a photo-sharing service where you can upload your finished pictures.
Hipster (iPhone, Android, free) • Like Instagram, you can alter photos with a variety of effects and tag friends in the photos. But you also can create virtual postcards from the photos and add your own text before uploading them to a variety of social networks.
ShakeItPhoto (iPhone, $1.99) • Perhaps more novelty than actually useful, this app takes retro photography to new heights. ShakeItPhoto re-creates the Polaroid experience. The picture appears on your phone like a Polaroid photo, and you can even shake your device to make the image appear faster (not that shaking the real Polaroid picture ever developed it faster). Its sharing function is more limited, only letting you email the picture or post it on Facebook directly.
PicYou (iPhone, free) • The makers of this app claim it has been downloaded more than 500,000 times in three months. The free version comes with a number of photo effects that you can apply after the picture's taken as well as different frames. Those photos can then be saved in a cloud-based service provided by PicYou as well as sent to Twitter or Facebook.
Lightbox Photos (Android, free) • It has all the requisite photo effects, but Lightbox's emphasis is in its social networking. This app allows you to post your photos to their site, where you can create your own photo blog. You also can interact with your friends and others in the Lightbox community by seeing streams of their photos.
Streamzoo (iPhone, Android, free) • This photo app includes 14 filters to change the look of your pictures, but what sets it apart from the rest is it then turns the sharing of your photos into a kind of game. Once you upload your photo to Streamzoo's service, you can then earn badges and points the more your photos gets likes on the site.
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Industry Briefs
Colonial Carton Company has changed its name. As of January, the company is now known as 3C Packaging. The name change comes as part of a core marketing shift. The new name, the company says, will take it from a folding carton company to a packaging solutions company. Along with the name change comes a new logo.
The Pharma Packaging and Labeling USA Conference has announced a sponsorship. Catalent Pharma Solutions will be the lead sponsor for the event on February 18-19 in Philadelphia. Catalent will also hold a workshop on the day following the event at its Moorestown, NJ, facility.
Totani pouchmaker
Ampac Flexibles (Cincinnati) has installed a new Totani pouching machine in its Elk Grove Village, IL, facility. The Totani model BH-80HVLLLS-M will expand the company's output of flexible pouches such as standard three-side seal, stand-up, and retort. Ampac added the machine as a response to market demand. The machine's features provide high-quality sealing, a stable cooling mechanism, and automatic adjustment functions that clearly and precisely form pouches at high speeds.
Dymax has acquired dispensing equipment designer and manufacturer Tridak Division of Indicon, which will now be known as Tridak LLC. The company will continue to create standard and custom equipment for dispensing and filling materials.
Folding carton and paperboard producer Colbert Packaging Corp. (Lake Forest, IL) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. In 1959 Charles "Bud" Colbert purchased rigid setup box company Kroeck Paperbox Co., founded in 1892, and named it Colbert. He began business by broadening the company's offerings and creating folded cartons. Colbert Packaging has continually expanded its portfolio. Its most recent venture has been with its new patient compliance products ComplyPack and AlertPack.
Packaging design, manufacturing, and integration company ESS Technologies (Blacksburg, VA) recently expanded its agreement with FANUC Robotics. ESS Technologies will broaden the region where it serves as a strategic partner for assembly, packaging, and palletizing of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and diagnostics products to most of the United States and Canada. ESS is FANUC's only North American strategic partner for assembling, packaging, and palletizing pharmaceuticals and medical devices.


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Friday, January 27, 2012
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Singer-songwriter Greg Tamblyn knows funny.
The Missouri native, who will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3 at Unity of Rockdale in Olde Town Conyers, has enjoyed a 20-plus-year career entertaining people with his humorous tunes, but there's generally a message to go along with the mirth.
When asked what east metro residents can expect when he makes his Rockdale County debut, the singer and guitarist said, "They'll laugh a lot and have a lot of fun. If I'm known for anything, it would be humor. I have a lot of funny songs that I humbly think are intelligently written. They're about life and about how sometimes we make life harder than it is.
"We can laugh at ourselves that way. The catchphrase I like to use is 'We'll celebrate the best of ourselves and laugh at the rest of ourselves.' So we'll laugh and have a lot of fun, but there will be some pretty songs, too.
"Some songs are true stories, some are about amazing things that happen to amazing people. I get inspired that way. There will be some stuff that will open the heart as well, hopefully that will make everybody feel good."
The year is off to a roaring start for Tamblyn. He recently appeared at the seventh annual emPower Posi Music Awards ceremony in Orlando, Fla., where he received the Personal Transformation Award for his song "Love Will Come Around." It's the second consecutive year Tamblyn has been recognized by the organization.
Unfortunately, Tamblyn's visit to the Sunshine State also involved car trouble, but he's able to take the bad with the good.
"The year is off to a great start in so many ways, but now I'm having major car trouble," he said. "But as a friend of mine told me, 'It's car trouble, not cancer.' So I think I can deal with it."
Tamblyn also plans to record some new songs this year that will make up his seventh album release. The humorist, who has been referred to as "a contemporary Mark Twain" said he's equally enthused about live performance and studio work.
"If it's a funny song with a good audience, the energy is fantastic," he said. "But if it's a pretty, heartfelt song, it's a magical thing to go into the studio and have fabulous musicians play on your song and coming up with ideas you probably wouldn't have thought of and feeling the whole band come together is a real high, too. So I guess the short answer is it depends on the song."
Before creating his own niche as a performer, Tamblyn spent time in Nashville in the mid-1980s, working as a songwriter.
"I got a great education and I made a lot of progress," said Tamblyn, whose Music City-penned song "It's Another Joyful Elvis Presley Christmas" was named "Christmas Song of the Year" by the influential Cashbox Magazine.
"But as fun as it was to write songs, you really have no control of your work. Writers are at the bottom of the food chain in Nashville. And I also liked the idea of performing myself. I like the idea of having music with a helpful message without beating people over the head with it."
Many of Tamblyn's performances take place in churches like Unity of Rockdale, but he also plays plenty of corporate dates and professional conferences.
"I probably do churches as much as anything else," he said. "Churches may be my primary venue. The Unity Churches and Centers for Spiritual Living provide, positive, non-judgmental spirituality and that's a good fit for what I try to communicate."
And it's not likely Tamblyn will ever return to the bar and nightclub circuit.
"When I was in Nashville, I played bars and clubs and it was fabulous training," he said. "I didn't do it for too long because you quickly realize that while it's not a dead end, it does have a low ceiling. I find I prefer to play for people who are sober and are in a concert situation with no distractions."
Tamblyn shared a story that illustrates his determination to stay out of the bars.
"About 10 years ago, there was a Democratic Party rally in my town and one of my neighbors is friends with Stephen Stills, and he convinced Stills to come to this rally," he said.
"So there were all these candidates speaking and they got Stills to come onstage and perform. So we're in this bar and my seat is about 10 feet away from Stephen Stills, the great rock star and writer.
"He comes out with his guitar and starts playing all his big songs and I am really enjoying it. And then I look around, see that there are about 200 people in this bar, and maybe 30 of them are listening. For Stephen Stills! So I look at it this way -- put people in a bar and they'll behave like they're in a bar. It was a good lesson."
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You're slipping, Tool, you didn't say "Liberal Judge give green light to protest ride".
Originally Posted by scarry
LOL!! Sorry I forgot.
So, Tool, what do you think about this ruling?
The constitution guarantees freedom of assembly and due process.
Cutting locked bikes and confiscating them without notice would seem to violate due process.
Requiring a permit to ride in the streets (an activity which is legal) when other bikes happen to be using the road would seem to violate freedom of assembly. Cars drive together every day. Saying that if some riders break the law (by blowing lights) gives the police the power to arrest any cyclist in the vicinity even if they are not breaking the law would violate due process. Cars break traffic laws all the time, but the police only ticket, not arrest drivers, and not other cars driving nearby.
How would you differentiat Critical Mass riders from someone just riding home from work at the same time?
Do you have an opinion of your own? Let's hear it.
I believe that the judge's ruling... "The court decision gives the bike riders who participate in Critical Mass the right to ride on the streets of New York without a permit," is appropriate. I also believe that the city's response... "If bicyclists break the law, they will be subject to arrest and seizure of their bikes. If they adhere to the law there will be no reason to fear either." is also appropriate.Originally Posted by scarry
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Originally Posted by toolbox63
Cool, Man.
Actually, the court did not rule that CM riders have the right to ride CM without a permit. The judge denied the city's request for an emergency injunction against riding CM without a permit because the city did not file the request in a timely manner and because they could not show that 'irrepairable harm' will befall them if the riders do not get a permit.
The main issue before the court actually was not whether or not CM needs a permit. The issue is whether the city can sieze bikes from individuals who are not going to be charged with a violation of the law. In that regard, the court did grant a temporary injunction preventing the city from siezing bikes of riders who are not violating any laws.
The court did express an opinion that CM probably should be required to get a permit, but they declined to address that question since it was a Federal court and the issue had not yet been litigated in state court. I believe they felt that this was a state and/or city issue at this time.
The injunction against the city apparently hinged on last months action by the city to sieze the plaintiffs bikes without giving them a Notice of Violation for improperly locking them to city property (parking meters, street signs, ligt poles). The city had apparenlty intended to hand out notices when the bikes were reclaimed, but had decided not to so as not to appear to be retaliating against CM riders. Had the city given out Notices of Violation, the plaintiffs would probably not gotten the injunction since the city would have been within their rights to sieze bikes from those being accused of violations.
The bottom line appears to be that so long as you are not being accused of violatiing any laws and do not park your bike illegally, the city cannot, at this time, take your bike at a CM ride. Before locking up your bike at CM, be sure you understand exactly what is legal and not legal bike parking!
Originally Posted by toolbox63
If motorists would get dragged out of their cars and arrested for running red lights and blocking traffic, things might change for the better. If cops are gonna do that to bicyclists, they need to start hauling everyone else in for the same "crime", including pedestrians for jay walking. Hell, if you spit in the wrong direction, you should go to jail. (seems like thing are turning that way.)
Running a red light gets you a traffic ticket, not a night in jail, folks.
Oh, also, cops are flat out stealing bikes. There's no other way to put it. Class action suit against the NYPD for theft.
I'm glad the judge decided the way he did. One for our side, but the NYPD must stop harassing bikers. Those of you who've not been arrested for simply riding your bike have no idea how ridiculous the whole thing is.
so, did anyone gain or lose anything by this? i don't have time to do a comparison before\after the ruling...but it sounds like nothing has changed, right?
RIGHT! Selectively enforcing the law is WRONG @ any level. The non-cyclists don't seem to care, becasue it's not being done to them ........................ yet. To them I say, "give it time, just give it time".Originally Posted by coney
they are just tryin to bluff the cyclest into thinking they got a break
so the city and ploice dont get their pants sued off
that judge knows exactly whats at stake and hes tryin to cool matters down in hopes that everyone will let it slide
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I think they should be allowed to go through with the ride as long as they stay within the law, such that they're not running red lights & stop signs.. locking up their bikes illegaly, etc.
Originally Posted by coney
Those cops need to be taught a lesson.