60 MINUTES tonight

SUNDAY 6TH OF JANUARY.....60 MINUTES  program.

The first segment took us back to New Orleans...... oh yes the usual hipe ....  a city of song and music, as if it is on every street corner ....  just  dancing  and  singing  and  jazz playing,  a  fun  city,  the  "good"  city.

The news segment was on the city daily paper going to publishing only 3 times a week, the dying daily news paper world is hitting New Orleans.

Well I was there in the fall of 1994.

I viewed the city, did not particularly find anything outstanding per se, well not until sunset that is. There were a few jazz bands here and there. The down town was not outstanding per se, until sunset that is.
I found it just a so and so city, not unusual or different or outstanding, nothing to turn my head twice at, so to speak, until sunset.

Just by accident I siad to my wife at the time, "Well better get back to the car and out of here. Let's take this street back to the car."

Weeelllllll....... that's when I discovered the thing that REALLY HIT ME BETWEEN THE EYES!!

It was indeed one of New Orleans main and popular after sunset streets....... for the first time in my life, according to what I read on the posters outside MANY places along this street, was SEX entertainment, of the .... well anything .... live sex on stage. I really could not believe what I was reading. I did not know anything like that existed anywhere in North America. 

SO  IN  MY  MIND  EVER  SINCE  1984  NEW  ORLEANS  HAS  BEEN  TO  ME  JUST  ONE  PERVERTED  CITY,  IT  DOES  NOT  RING  ANY  SWEET  BELLS  IN  MY  MIND.
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NOW SOMETHING MUCH BETTER ON 60 MINUTES:

The second segment was on this fellow called DAVID KELLY.  The same time frame as Steve Jobbs.

In fact they became very close friends over 30 years. Both got cancer at the same time - Steve died from it, David is still alive.

The life of David has been, like his friend Steve, quite REMARKABLE!  He founded this type of company that INNOVATES anything...... singing, art, machanics, computers, various sciences.....well you name it and his work and company bring people of all skills and loves, together to kind of piggy-back from each other. You have an idea or need, someone else with the skill or vision, moves with it and makes it, invents it, gets the solution, builds upon what you want or need, then someone else builds on that, and so it goes, never ending.

Many of the things we have and use today from the kitchen to the school, to the computer, to, well whatever.... comes from the people David Kelly brings together, to piggy-back from each other.

Very interesting indeed, and what an idea, what an invention, to bring many people from many skills and interests together, to build upon each other, to make and invent, what we would like and would need in our world today, from the small to the big, from the USA to Africa, to the North Pole, to Australia, to India, to wherever and whatever.

Well all I can say is good on you David Kelly.
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