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I ride a lot and have several friends in town who do as well. An advocacy group is sorely needed, I agree. I would like to help, and can spread the word about any meetings that might be held on this.

I think it would be great if Easy Riders and our great new bike shops could hand out small laminated cards with the NJ code regarding rules for riding. It would really be a great way to start educating people about safe biking. This way they'd know that its against the law to riding on the sidewalk, ride against the flow of traffic. People should know that the law give cyclists all the rights and responsibilities of a driver of a motor vehicle.

39:4-14.1 Rights and Duties of Persons on Bicycles.
Every person riding a bicycle on a roadway is granted all the rights and subject to all of the duties of the motor vehicle driver.

39:4-14.2, 39:4-10.11 Operating Regulations.
Every person riding a bicycle on a roadway shall ride as near to the right roadside as practicable exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction. ... Every person riding a bicycle shall ride in the same direction as vehicular traffic.

Who/what is the source for the expected August opening? Anyone know what is holding things up? Thanks!

Went last night with my boy. Couldn\'t have been happier unwinding with some great beer and soaking in the setting sun, while he piled rocks at my feet (thanks to the douche bag smokers who already have ditched their butts on the ground for him to play with -- classy) . The staff was super friendly. One of them said he was \"bored\" and brought my son a complimentary cranberry juice.

Folks may want to know that there is ample bike (as in bicycle) parking on the racks on the west side of the establishment (decent sight-lines to the racks from the garden and inside are a bonus, too). Thanks for thinking of the cyclists!

If the owners are reading this...I totally agree with the many comments above that keeping this place chill will assure that a wide swath of folks keep coming out. By foregoing music, the owners don\'t risk alienating any of potential customers. Any music you pick to play will likely be enjoyed by some but probably not by the majority of your potential customers. With the ample space and lack of piped in music, the garden is a blank canvas -- it\'s a welcoming atmosphere and your customers can make what they want out of it, whether a post-work chill sesh; busina ss meeting; a first date; or a dinner with the family. You guys seem to be nailing it, so don\'t screw this up. Keep it simple, and focus on quality beer, food, and service and you\'ll make a mint.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. The beer was terrific.

(Regarding the comments about the light rail blowing its horn, I wasn\'t there Saturday to hear the dynamic between the crowd and horn but on Monday night the LR drivers consistently blew it...I think it has nothing to do with \"saying hi\" to the crowd, it\'s a safety warning (I think) because there\'s a blind corner at the west side of the building.)

Cheers!

This is looking pretty close to being done. Anybody know the particulars of when it'll open?

But where will my cricket-playing dog crap?

Agreed...strong hours...and open both weekend days, too. That's plus. It's about time we got an LBS.

I feel awful for the attacked jogger. I hope she recovers and that owner of the dogs is caught and prosecuted.

Reading this thread I was reminded of a good article from couple years ago about pits their bad reputation. Even after reading it, I'm still a bit more apprehensive when I see pits than other dogs, to be perfectly honest.

Here's the first couple paragraphs:

One afternoon last February, Guy Clairoux picked up his two-and-a half-year-old son, Jayden, from day care and walked him back to their house in the west end of Ottawa, Ontario. They were almost home. Jayden was straggling behind, and, as his father?s back was turned, a pit bull jumped over a back-yard fence and lunged at Jayden. ?The dog had his head in its mouth and started to do this shake,? Clairoux?s wife, JoAnn Hartley, said later. As she watched in horror, two more pit bulls jumped over the fence, joining in the assault. She and Clairoux came running, and he punched the first of the dogs in the head, until it dropped Jayden, and then he threw the boy toward his mother. Hartley fell on her son, protecting him with her body. ?JoAnn!? Clairoux cried out, as all three dogs descended on his wife. ?Cover your neck, cover your neck.? A neighbor, sitting by her window, screamed for help. Her partner and a friend, Mario Gauthier, ran outside. A neighborhood boy grabbed his hockey stick and threw it to Gauthier. He began hitting one of the dogs over the head, until the stick broke. ?They wouldn?t stop,? Gauthier said. ?As soon as you?d stop, they?d attack again. I?ve never seen a dog go so crazy. They were like Tasmanian devils.? The police came. The dogs were pulled away, and the Clairouxes and one of the rescuers were taken to the hospital. Five days later, the Ontario legislature banned the ownership of pit bulls. ?Just as we wouldn?t let a great white shark in a swimming pool,? the province?s attorney general, Michael Bryant, had said, ?maybe we shouldn?t have these animals on the civilized streets.?

Pit bulls, descendants of the bulldogs used in the nineteenth century for bull baiting and dogfighting, have been bred for ?gameness,? and thus a lowered inhibition to aggression. Most dogs fight as a last resort, when staring and growling fail. A pit bull is willing to fight with little or no provocation. Pit bulls seem to have a high tolerance for pain, making it possible for them to fight to the point of exhaustion. Whereas guard dogs like German shepherds usually attempt to restrain those they perceive to be threats by biting and holding, pit bulls try to inflict the maximum amount of damage on an opponent. They bite, hold, shake, and tear. They don?t growl or assume an aggressive facial expression as warning. They just attack. ?They are often insensitive to behaviors that usually stop aggression,? one scientific review of the breed states. ?For example, dogs not bred for fighting usually display defeat in combat by rolling over and exposing a light underside. On several occasions, pit bulls have been reported to disembowel dogs offering this signal of submission.? In epidemiological studies of dog bites, the pit bull is overrepresented among dogs known to have seriously injured or killed human beings, and, as a result, pit bulls have been banned or restricted in several Western European countries, China, and numerous cities and municipalities across North America. Pit bulls are dangerous.

Of course, not all pit bulls are dangerous. Most don?t bite anyone. Meanwhile, Dobermans and Great Danes and German shepherds and Rottweilers are frequent biters as well, and the dog that recently mauled a Frenchwoman so badly that she was given the world?s first face transplant was, of all things, a Labrador retriever. When we say that pit bulls are dangerous, we are making a generalization, just as insurance companies use generalizations when they charge young men more for car insurance than the rest of us (even though many young men are perfectly good drivers), and doctors use generalizations when they tell overweight middle-aged men to get their cholesterol checked (even though many overweight middle-aged men won?t experience heart trouble). Because we don?t know which dog will bite someone or who will have a heart attack or which drivers will get in an accident, we can make predictions only by generalizing. As the legal scholar Frederick Schauer has observed, ?painting with a broad brush? is ?an often inevitable and frequently desirable dimension of our decision-making lives.?

Another word for generalization, though, is ?stereotype,? and stereotypes are usually not considered desirable dimensions of our decision-making lives. The process of moving from the specific to the general is both necessary and perilous. A doctor could, with some statistical support, generalize about men of a certain age and weight. But what if generalizing from other traits?such as high blood pressure, family history, and smoking?saved more lives? Behind each generalization is a choice of what factors to leave in and what factors to leave out, and those choices can prove surprisingly complicated. After the attack on Jayden Clairoux, the Ontario government chose to make a generalization about pit bulls. But it could also have chosen to generalize about powerful dogs, or about the kinds of people who own powerful dogs, or about small children, or about back-yard fences?or, indeed, about any number of other things to do with dogs and people and places. How do we know when we?ve made the right generalization?

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Who extracts the DNA from the offending sample? Talk about your bad part-time jobs.

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Actually...the guy in the picture needs to have a sack with a dollar sign on it. : )

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I was describing burglary in terms of the most common situation, not attempting to provide the legal definition for it. But since we're nitpicking:

"Actually", your stated definition is more narrow than the legal definition of "Burglary" under the New Jersey Criminal Law as I read it:

(1) There need not be "breaking" under NJSA 2C:18-2(a) as you say;
(2) It need not be a "dwelling" as you say, rather a "structure" suffices among other things stated in NJSA 2C:18-2(a);
(3) The intent required is not to commit a "felony" (that is, a violation for which the authorized maximum term of imprisonment exceeds one year) per se, it is with the intent to commit an "offense." (NJSA 2C:18-2(a)) "Offenses" are defined under NJSA 2C:1-4 to include more than just felonies.

...not that anybody on this board is overly concerned with these nuances.

Stay safe everybody!



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Actually, a burglary is the breaking and entering of a dwelling with the intent to commit a felony. [quote]

For clarity's sake, pls keep in mind that a "robbery" involves taking property from a person or in the person's immediate presence by use of force or threat of force. It requires a personal encounter and using/threatening physical force against the victim. More scary.

"Burglary" is what you call somebody entering a dwelling and taking stuff unbeknownst to the occupants. No personal encounter needed. Less scary.

Obviously, one could be "robbed" in their home, but I'm guessing you mean a burglary.

FWIW: I've been the victim of a burglary while living here, but never a robbery. /

Thanks for all your feedback. All joking aside, I will be very selective about when and where I ride with the grom. LSP for sure.

While we're talking bike safety, I couldn't recommend this light more...it will blind you silly if you look right into it and it flashes like strobe. Planet bike superflash.

I'm wrestling with whether attaching my son to a bike for riding in JC is a good idea or not. While I'm routinely in contention for a Darwin Award while riding my bike alone, I've got this nagging feeling that putting him on the bike with me is only tempting fate/courting disaster even more than I usually do.

That said, I'll probably do it anyway notwithstanding the above because it looks like way too much fun (for both of us).

So I'm interested in hearing from anybody who's had experience with this child carrier or similar ones. Thanks.