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Gurpreet Singh: Jaspal Atwal episode reveals why Canadian political establishment should look hard at itself
The controversy stirred by the presence in the legislature of Jaspal Atwal—convicted in the attempted murder of a visiting foreign dignitary—during the budget speech is not shocking. It's part of the continued appeasement of extremist groups within the Sikh community by the Canadian politicians.
Atwal is a former activist of the now-banned terrorist group, the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF). The organization is believed to be in an armed struggle for the establishment of a separate Sikh homeland.
Atwal was convicted for the attempted murder of Malkiat Singh Sidhu in 1986. Sidhu, a moderate Sikh politician belonging to the Akali Dal, a mainstream political party in Punjab, was visiting B.C. when he was shot.
Though he survived the attack, Sidhu was later murdered in India. Ironically, Atwal, who has already served time for the crime, is now a supporter of the Akali Dal.
His presence in the legislature as a guest invitee caused embarrassment to the B.C. Liberal government and a complaint was made to the speaker. As a result Tariq Ghuman, a Liberal official, resigned, taking moral responsibility for the goof-up.
Finding her government under attack for the mistake, Premier Christy Clark claimed that she did not know Atwal's background. It is a separate matter that Atwal backed her leadership race and was among prominent Indo-Canadian supporters who accorded her a welcome in Surrey in 2011.
The reaction of Clark is similar to that of Canada's ruling Conservative party after its candidate in Vancouver South, Wai Young, reportedly received help in the last federal election from Ripudaman Singh Malik, who was acquitted in the Air India bombing.
The party claimed that Young was not aware of Malik's background, even though he had been charged in connection with a plane bomb that killed all 329 people aboard in 1985.
Both the Liberals and the Conservatives have tried to distance themselves from these two men despite the fact that one has already served his time and the other one was acquitted. So does that mean that these parties still treat them as criminals? If the answer is yes, then why were these men roped in for support in the first place?
The parties' explanation that they were not aware of their backgrounds is ridiculous as both men were associated with high-profile cases and their names and pictures had appeared in the press a number of times.
Besides, the two parties also have supporters among moderate Sikhs, who have issues with these controversial individuals. It is reasonable to believe that they might have raised red flags, but these parties may not have bothered paying attention. The political leadership should either be honest about accepting help from these men or should strictly keep people with suspicious pasts away.
Instead two-faced parties have tried to put the entire blame on these individuals or found scapegoats like Ghumman as a part of a damage-control exercise.
Atwal or Malik have every right to move around in the society—Atwal has served his sentence and Malik was acquitted. It is for the political parties to decide if they want to maintain a distance from those formerly or currently associated with controversial groups.
Past experiences show that most political parties in Canada have relied on separatist groups for support, especially in ridings with large Sikh populations. Even a vocal critic of extremism, former Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh, once tried to help Atwal in getting visa for India, even though Atwal was acquitted in the notorious Dosanjh beating case in the mid-1980s. Dosanjh was physically assaulted at the time for his moderate views.
Dosanjh's former party, the NDP, which is now in opposition in B.C., has not shown much excitement about cornering Clark over Atwal's visit to the legislature. It is not surprising that the NDP did not raise a question in the house, given the association of some of its MLAs with fundamentalist groups over the years.
Political parties can get away with this by saying that they cannot annoy a particular segment of the voting public. Meanwhile, police and the Canadian Armed Forces have also sent conflicting signals at different times by participating in a Sikh parade in Surrey, where pictures of the separatist militants are displayed.
The Canadian armed forces officials attended Remembrance Day prayers at the Dashmesh Darbar Gurdwara in Surrey, whose management openly support separate Sikh state and glorifies militants who died during the armed conflict in Punjab.
Political parties should know that these groups and the individuals associated with them do not represent the entire Sikh community. By rubbing shoulders with such elements, politicians are actually taking the support of the moderate Sikhs for granted and making them weaker.
The Atwal episode is just a small incident and another reminder of the political opportunism that contributed to the growth of Sikh fundamentalism in Canada.
Gurpreet Singh is Georgia Straight contributor, and the host of a program on Radio India. He's working on a book tentatively titled Canada's 9/11: Lessons from the Air India Bombings.
Sikhism is a religion, not an ethnic identity. People in Northern India are the descendents of many immigrants and invaders: Bactrians, Scythians, Huns, Mongolians, Persians, Turks, Afghanis, Ethiopian slaves, and of course, indigenous foremothers carried off as war prizes, etc.
The Indian elite who claim to be the "pure" descendents of mythological Aryan tribes—and sneer down at those of us with "mongrel" blood—are really annoying and scary, but Punjabi mouth-breathers who pose for pictures with Stephen Harper should read up on their Tacitus and Machiavelli.
To live in Canada is to adapt to a Canadian way of life. This is not to mean people should forget their religion, language, customs, etc. but to continue to fight a battle which is the business of another country, not on. Like get over it. You live in Canada. As to Canadian politicians who continue to cater to extremists, get over it, develop some "balls" and do what is right.
As for Arshy Mann's comment, all I have to say is, most people who attend the parades have not read a single page of Guru Granth Sahib Ji as well. Should we get Guru sahib out of the parade too? I bet most Punjabis would not agree with many parts of gurbani too. Like the pointless rituals they do like wearing taveets and sacred threads. We all know that most Punjabis do not even do vichaar on gurbaani and just do matha tek and perform blind rituals.
The event is just a gathering spot for many. Just because most Punjabis are ignorant of their history doesn't make the martyrs irrelevant.
How many Punjabis know about the Punjabi suba movement? I have many relatives that live in Punjab that are clueless about basic facts about Punjab. So please, if there are only a handful of people who are aware of their history and current situation, don't mock them. People who are aware are always in a minority.
God Bless.
For example, when Wai Young allegedly went to Khalsa school and Malik was there, there was a huge uproar. Maybe it's because she's a Conservative and we know how much the media loathes them. Hmm... but let's see. Gregor Robertson and a bunch of local politicians also went to that school with Malik present -- and not a squeak from the media!
Now that both provincial and federal Liberals allegedly have "ties" to Atwal, the news has barely been trickling in on this issue. Another sad double standard. That's why no one can take the media seriously anymore.
Bottom line is even the ultra right, ultra white Conservatives pander to the Punjabi community in Canada because like it or not we have votes.
That being said when 10,000 are more people are murdered in a genocide in Dehli and elsewhere, the guilty need to go to court.
People dont forget things like this. As for you are now in Canada true, follow the rules, the Sikh community does.
The Sikh community has served in the RCMP, countless Canadian wars, some stupid others not.
Dont trying tell Indo Canadians are not Canadian because we don't worship Jesus, or eat potatoes.
This community has done as much as any for Canada and the lost British empire.
I really don't like this writer but he has the right to his beliefs. One could argue he is pandering to white people.
That being said Punjabis in Canada continue to demonstrate hard work and incentive.
Silly is a religion that continues to abuse little boys on a massive scale. Silly is any religion that states people are not equal. Silly is hating people because of colour or race.
Code language for you are brown you are not Canadian.
Hmm born in Canada, have a Canadian passport, pay Canadian taxes, been to Canadian schools, respect Canadian law. I guess Indo Canadians are not Canadian because of what? Too much facial hair, too many samose, like hockey in Canada in Punjabi.
Hmm so the definition of Canadian lose your culture?
..."That being said when 10,000 are more people are murdered in a genocide in Dehli and elsewhere, the guilty need to go to court. People dont forget things like this. As for you are now in Canada true, follow the rules, the Sikh community does."...
What we 'don't forget' in Canada is the Air India bombing, and the fact that that horrific, mindless and pointless mass murder of innocents was almost certainly planned and executed by 'Canadian' Sikhs. But I do agree: the guilty need to go to court. I encourage the Sikh community to help get them there.
Finally, if you want to criticize what I write, then address what I write, not what you imagine you read, or what your own biases would like to attribute to me. Better yet, read what I write first before you just start shooting from the lip because you assume I'm a 'usual white guy'. I don't give a damn what colour people are, but I DO give a damn if they use religion as an excuse for committing evil, especially committing evil against other Canadians, regardless of where they came from originally. And to get back to Gurpreet's article, I agree with him: I wish our politicians would start to give a damn, too.
Newsflash! Just like you claim that nobody back in PUnjab even supports these things..well guess what..barely anyone supports your Punjabi Communist buddies either!
2012 Punjab polling results courtesy of Hindustan Times:
"...the Left parties - CPI and CPI (M) - have got the worst hitting as the vote share of both the parties fell drastically this time.
While CPI's vote share fell from 3.31% to 0.82%, the CPI (M) dropped from 2.25% in 2007 to 0.16% in 2012 polls.
The vote percentage of CPI and CPI (M) fell by 2.49 and 2.09% respectively."
Message to all readers, know the facts.
God Bless.
anyways bottom line
-dont forget that we arent completey canadian because theirs no such thing.
-no such thing as moderate/fundmentls. in sikhism
-the actions of one person dont reflect the entire population
-most sikhs want justice for things that happened almost 30 years ago and havent been dealt with fairly, so theyre coming to a responsible goverrnment because they cant get anything done in indias system
if u want to complain the only thing u can complain about is the terrorists, indias government and ur own ignorance to canadas cultural/ethnic makeup. this is directed towards everyone, not just these so called 'white' people.


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I have a piece I want to grout RED. Not the brick red but the lipstick or true red. Has anyone ever used this color? If so is it a true red after drying? If anyone has I would love to see a picture. I have one piece (trivet) done now and ready to grout and another piece (blacksplash for kitchen) that I have about ready in my head to start. Please let me know...Thanks, Cathy |
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Nicethyme--beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing...I too have used the brick red but have a test trivet, (hopefully pic will attach) and am wondering about the lipstick red grout. I lightly coated the trivet with red paint so I could see how it would look. And I really like it red..but was just wondering if the red grout is a real true red? Maybe someone has used it. Thanks much, Cathy |
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yeah that would be interesting in red or even a harvest gold. If I remember right someone here found a good fushia grout at a thrift - maybe it was Jane - she's away right now though. color wash is watering down some acrylic paint and painting it on after grouting - it soaks into the grout and wipes off the tess. the amount of paint to water determines how much coloring you get. I usually test it on my left over grout to see how much paint I want. it definately improves your options |
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I had a very nice red grout that I used on a duck I mosaiced with chinese plates(Called him:Peking Duck)lol! The grout for that was sanless grout YUK!!! but sure looked good! Unfortunatly, I don't have a pic, and the duck didn't last outdoors(He was papermache) and sealing the grout with grout sealer doesn't work to keep papermache pcs from going soggy...ewwww. I have also painted grout to colors that just cannot be found in grout colors.... |
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i dug up some gingers and heliconias for the move. when i got them down south to the new house i planted them right away. i notice all the foliage is withering and yellowing?? i dug them up and put them in water until i can find out what to do ?? is it best to pot them up for now?? if so, what soil mix do i use?? on some of the gingers i had to cut part of the stalk off to transport them. should i just left them like they until new growth appears?? i also thought best to pot them up as well for now?? thanks....cliff |
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Pupils went on a school trip to Parma to a Parmesan cheese factory. They had a very interesting experience.
They took pictures and shared them with our project partners.
On April 19 we have organized a school event. All the etwinning pupils working on food projects (Classes 2A, 2B, 3B) have taken part.
Pupils only ate fruit during the school break and they enjoyed it.
Italian pupils have collected some family recipes and shared them in the TwinSpace. We have also sent these recipes to SlowFood Ireland and they replied to us and appreciated our work. They told us they will upload them in their website, in the Grandmother's day section.
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At the risk of raising ire from fans and lovers of Hostess snacks, I have to confess: I have never been a fan of Twinkies, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, Zingers or Suzie Q's. And I would say, outside of eating a package of powdered-sugar doughnuts on rare occasion, I haven't touched a Twinkie or Hostess cake in more than 30 years. They were just too sweet for me, and I never liked the taste of them.
But, when I was a kid, I bought them. Well, my mom and dad bought boxes of them for me because I wanted them to cut the baseball cards from the bottom of the box that the iconic company printed in the late 1970s. In essence, I was forced to eat them (the snacks, not the cards) simply because my parents told me they weren't going to buy me anymore until I ate what we had.
However, I will admit when I arrived at the Hostess Bakery Outlet at 816 E. University Drive in Mesa on Tuesday intending to interview customers caught in the Hostess buying craze, I was sad to see that not only were the store's cupboards bare — but the store closed its doors last Monday.
It's one of many Hostess stores nationwide closing their doors as it appears the company may go out of business, end the production of its iconic snacks that have been a staple of Americana and store shelves since the 1930s — and eliminate 18,500 jobs with it,
The thought of Hostess going out of business after company officials and its workers could not settle a union contract that included cutting wages for its longtime and dedicated workers for the company to survive, evokes both a sense of loss of an edible and nostalgic piece from our lives and the unsettling loss of American jobs. Hostess officials and its union returned to the negotiating table this week in hopes of reaching an agreement, but no progress has been made.
The thought of having to go without a Twinkie or Hostess treat has caused a range of mixed emotions.
"It sucks," said Luis Esparza, 30, of Tempe as he was walking out of a Fry's grocery store on Southern Avenue in Tempe on Tuesday. "It makes me want them more now."
Until recently, Martinez said he bought about two 20-pack boxes of Twinkies a month for $2.50 from Target where he works, thanks to his 10-percent employee discount.
Now, Esparza fears he might turn into an angry Tallahassee, the character played by actor Woody Harrelson in the 2009 comedy movie, "Zombieland," who wanted his Twinkie, but got angrier and angrier as he went from store to store not finding it.
"Sometimes, you just want a Twinkie," Esparza said. "They're easy to eat, and me and my roommate could grab one and eat them on the run. If they stop making them, it would suck."
"I used to eat them as a kid, but not anymore," said Sadie Davis, 28, of Tempe who now is a vegan and was getting ready to shop at Sprout's in Tempe. "My mom still eats them, though. It's definitely a piece of nostalgia. I still like seeing them on the shelves. It would be weird not to."
Greg, an older man who was walking out of Sprout's with his daughter, said of Twinkies, "They were never good for you. I ate them as a kid, but I never fed them to my kids. The thought of Hostess Twinkies being gone? It's a sign of the times."
Dave Martinez, 32, of Tempe, who received a measure of fame when he and his Boston terrier, Dexter, appeared on the Fox Network's Gordon Ramsey show, "Master Chef" last summer (Martinez finished sixth), was a little more philosophical about Hostess possibly going out of business. He said his education policy and evaluation class discussed the Hostess situation on Monday and felt sympathy for both American workers losing their jobs and part of American pop culture ending.
Martinez said he used to eat Twinkies as a kid and loved Zingers — "I used to attack those (expletive) things; they were the best." Martinez said he and his friends once got up from eating dinner about four years ago to go to a nearby convenience store to buy some Hostess products for his wife to try for the first time.
"It's a staple of Americana," Martinez said of Hostess. "I think it's sad because something like that could be gone because of the price of someone's economic worth. If 18,500 people lose their jobs, there's nowhere for those people to go as meager as those jobs are. Times are tough."
If Hostess officials and workers cannot reach an agreement, sweet-snack lovers just may have to turn to other brands baking similar treats, such as Little Debbie snacks.
Some people also scoffed at the unlikelihood of such a big business going out of business after receiving tons of free publicity across the nation as Twinkies reportedly pull in $2 billion a year, according to national media reports.
As Bob Williams of Mesa checked out at the University Farmer's Market in Mesa next to the recently-closed Hostess Bakery Outlet, the retired heavy equipment operator from long-closed Marathon Steel in Tempe, said he has always eaten Twinkies and specifically, loved it when Hostess used to fill Twinkies with banana cream back in the day.
"This was a ploy by the company to get the workers to lower its wages," Williams, 72, believes. "Look at all the publicity the company got out of this. I can live without them, but at my age, I can live without anything. I don't think Twinkies are going away. We'll all be eating them in a couple of weeks."
And I hope for all the Twinkies and Hostess sweet-snack lovers, that's true.
But in the meantime, I think I'll sit down and eat a Little Debbie creme-filled oatmeal cookie.
After all, Little Debbies are cheaper and taste better.
At least I think so.
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Let's see. The South Tower was 1,362 feet tall and weighed five hundred thousand tons. It was hit by a Boeing 767 jet traveling at 590 miles per hour and filled with sixty-five people and ninety-one hundred gallons of fuel. The building burned uncontrollably at up to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit for sixty-two minutes. Then, all 110 floors--which were filled with 25,000 personal computers, 104 passenger elevators, 21,800 windows, 6,000 miles of electrical cables, 100 miles of heating ducts, who knows how many Bic pens and jokey coffee mugs, and the bodies of more than 600 people--fell a quarter mile straight down at 120 miles an hour, instantly aerating everything.
Finally, Cahill turns to me and says, "Ready to see what's inside your bag?"
Oh, my God, they're falling!"
Whoever yelled this, I didn't believe it. Then I turned around and saw that the gash carved into the South Tower wasn't belching fire anymore. It wasn't belching anything. It simply wasn't. I had left my office nearby when I heard what had happened and was standing one block away, next to the giant red Noguchi cube in front of the HSBC building. From there I watched the World Trade Center peel like an enormous steel banana.
Right after that, I decided to run for my life.
The low, groaning death rumble of the falling tower jolted through my body as if I were a human subwoofer. I sprinted east, toward the safety of the river, the street an asphalt fun-house mirror beneath my feet. A block into my escape, I made the same decision that got Lot's wife into trouble: I looked back. A twenty-story debris cloud loomed behind me like something Godzilla would fight, and before I could blink or close my gaping mouth, the cloud hit me like a swarm of gravel bees. I was in it and it was in me.
In a few seconds, the sky soured from a pristine blue to yellow to brown to a profound black. Day turned to night. The sky vanished. I stood there in the darkness, my eyes on fire as grit and sand worked its way under my eyelids and into my nostrils, where I got my first whiff of September 11--eau de construction site, with hints of sweet burning plastic and notes of Jiffy Lube. I was being buried alive, right there in the middle of Liberty Street. For five minutes, I gasped for air, but my lungs would not fully inflate, because this was not air. I would've had better luck taking a handful of dirt and inhaling that.
I fought off the adrenaline surge of panic as I tried--instinctively, I suppose--to find clean air to breathe. The wave of debris was passing, and the sky was brightening to a smoky tan fog. Finally I felt my way up the steps of the Chase Manhattan Bank building plaza, and the front door swung open. I promptly vomited concrete dust on the clean lobby floor. Somebody must have showed me how to get to the basement, where a hundred or so of the bank's employees were huddled, unscathed. A middle-aged woman offered me a Valium. Another held up some Xanax. An hour later, after the North Tower fell, a voice on the loudspeaker calmly instructed us to evacuate. So I walked home.
As soon as Cahill's scalpel breaches the plastic womb encasing my messenger bag, the unmistakable smell brings back all sorts of memories I'd rather forget. Bodies cartwheeling to earth from impossible heights. The strange laugh I let out when I found myself irritated, even during the apocalypse, by those fucking car alarms as they echoed down the empty canyons of lower Manhattan. My trembling hands smearing antibiotic ointment on my scrapes. The ladies in the bank building with their pill bottles.
In the years after, I thought about the bag every couple months--usually when I'd read another headline about those people getting sick from ground zero. And then I'd quietly realize that maybe I was one of those people, too, and at that point I would push the bag from my mind. I had moved on. Whatever happened to me happened to me, and I wasn't all that interested in hearing any more bad news.
But the headlines kept coming. Victims were filing more lawsuits. Politicians pushed for medical coverage for first responders and people who worked on the pile. Every day, it seemed, there was another reminder that whatever happened to me also happened to them.
"Hey! I think this is drywall!" Cahill yelps. "And this is probably concrete!"
I look down. For the first time since around noon on September 11, 2001, I see my old Manhattan Portage bag. A cluster of small buttons from punk bands like Operation Ivy and the Dead Kennedys--my youthful attempt to project an anticapitalist stance while covering capitalism for a financial-news Web site--adorns a corner. The bag is smaller than I remember and still slate gray from the dust. But there's not much debris falling off it.
"I hope there's enough here," Cahill mutters, smushing his thick glasses back up into his furrowed brow.
Over the next fifteen minutes, banal artifacts from an ordinary Tuesday morning emerge: an unread copy of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes, two pieces of junk mail, a Duracell battery to a digital camera I don't remember owning, a New Jersey Transit schedule and a receipt for a round-trip to Morris Plains, and a scrap of paper with a name and e-mail address on it. (It later turns out to be the address of a London woman who doesn't have a clue who I am and has to be convinced I'm not running a scam. I don't know who she is, either.) There is also a tube of antibiotic ointment covered with my own dried blood, a jokey laminated card granting me lifetime membership to Fight Club (like the movie), and a fifty-dollar check from a college pal I never got the chance to deposit.
I had been secretly hoping, although I had no logical reason to, that the bag would contain some old pictures of my mom, who had died nine months before September 11. Or maybe something that could provide some deep insight about who I used to be, before my lost year, before the nightmares started, and before I went on Paxil and Klonopin to make them go away and get on with my life. The bag contained nothing like this, of course.
But there is one more item inside: a wrinkle-free pinpoint-oxford button-down-collar dress shirt that is positively covered with debris. It is, of course, the shirt I was wearing on September 11.
"Oooh, we have plenty to work with now!" Cahill says, adding, non sequitur, "Did you know there's lots of lead in electrical cords? The Chinese use it to make the cords more flexible."
No, I didn't know that.
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Readability stinks. One area where web-based software can have advantages over NNTP is completely overlooked in this software
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Because quoted content is not visually distinct, and cannot be collapsed and expanded (with a per-user setting to show quoted content expanded or collapsed by default). Even free web-based discussion software is better than this crap.
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I haven't found a message I couldn't read yet. So really I was just wondering what you find difficult about it. So the only point was to convey your view of poor readability which you see no point in answering.
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I haven't found a message I couldn't read yet.
Let me say first I may have worded my post poorly. When you said readability to me that means general page layout and navigation thru topics, pages, etc... and yes easily distinguished quoted sections as well. In respect to quoted sections that was what I was specifically refering to when I said " I haven't found one I couldn't read yet." I would agree they could be highlighted a little better etc.. so I may have been a little hasty there.
True I have not designed human interfaces for 10 years or even for one day. However I have used a great many for well longer than 10 yrs and no one knows what I like better than me as is with every individual.
Humans are different and the best human interfaces are flexible to accomodate multiple user preferences. I may like reading quoted posts in bold letters with quotation marks around them while someone else may like seeing them in colored backgrounds for example. The truly best interface accomodates them both and to date I have never seen that one.
sssteve72 wrote:The truly best interface accomodates them both and to date I have never seen that one.
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
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I have a 8 year old Craftsman Lawn Tractor 21HP, 48". Model: 917.273280
It has been running fine. Several weeks ago when I tried to start it 1st time after winter, it cranked a little bit but eventually started. It happened same last week. But today when I tried that again, it just cranks, engine will not start. The "freewheel" does not run. I tried to use my car to jump start it, same result. I just replaced battery last year. I tried with new spark plugs and no luck there. Any suggestions? Thanks.
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"But today when I tried that again, it just cranks, engine will not start. The "freewheel" does not run." Don't know what you are saying. What is "freewheel"? Do you mean flywheel? That doesn't make any sense because you say "it just cranks"? Walt Conner |
Walt, Thanks for the reply. I mean "flywheel". Nothing runs, just hear the crank noise. Today I changed spark plug, I also changed solenoid, but no luck. Thanks. |
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By: Bob Selby, Kappy's, PMC Rider Published:
The Pan-Mass Challenge raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through an annual bike-a-thon that crosses the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Cyclists, who raise money to participate, ride a variety of long distances rides each year, with this year's race taking place August 2-3. We have been a proud supporter of the PMC since 1998 and are excited to once again partner with Kappy's to help raise funds this year - $1.00 of every Harpoon or UFO 12-pack sold at select Kappy's in July with go to the PMC! Bob Selby of Kappy's and a good friend of Harpoon, has a long history with the PMC. Here's his story:
How long have you been part of the PMC?
My first PMC was 1985 making this year my 30th year of participation. Larry Burak, our accountant, will be riding his 24th PMC.
Why do you ride?
I ride the PMC because it's a great cause, a lot of fun, and the riding and training is really good for you.
What are you looking forward to most this year?
I am most looking forward to connecting with friends I have made over the years. The best memories of the past PMC's I've been a part of is the huge feeling of camaraderie; 5000 plus riders and about 5000 volunteers all coming together for the same cause and to reach the same goal. It's great to be a part of something so important!
Any plans for post-ride libations?
Of course! I will have several Harpoons after the ride each day, and I usually drink a UFO Hefeweizen or UFO White – both refreshing after a long ride!
Stocking up for the big 4th of July weekend ahead? Consider stopping by one of Kappy's Massachusetts's locations to help support the PMC!
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By: Liz Melby, Director of Communications Published:
Since 1998, we have been pouring pints of Harpoon to thirsty Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) cyclists before the start of the ride in Sturbridge, at the end of Day 1 in Bourne, and finally at the finish line in P-Town. The PMC is one of our favorite events of the year for many reasons, not the least of which being that it's incredibly rewarding to see the look on the cyclists faces when we hand them their first frosty IPA after a long (reeeeally long) day or two in the saddle. Each year, more than 5,000 cyclists participate in the trek across the state of Massachusetts to raise money for the Jimmy Fund, raising tens of millions of dollars for cancer research. It's a wonderful group of riders, volunteers, and organizers who we've come to know over the years, and it is for a cause that is very important to us here at Harpoon.The 2014 ride takes place August 2nd and 3rd.
This year, the cyclists who arrive in Bourne will have a special treat waiting for them. On July 7th, Billy Starr, the Executive Director of the PMC, will be joining Harpooners and longtime PMC cyclists Jaime Schier and Jamie Rudavsky here on our pilot system to brew a special beer: the Harpoon PMC. The beer, which will be a light, summery ale with tropical fruit notes, will be on tap for riders in Bourne. And from July 21st to August 1st we will have it on tap in our Boston Beer Hall for all to enjoy. For every pint sold, Harpoon will make a $1 donation to the PMC.
If you can't make it to the Beer Hall but you'd still like to support the PMC, we are working with our friends at Kappy's to raise more funds. For every 12-pack of Harpoon or UFO sold at Kappy's this July, a $1 donation will be made to the PMC.
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Black Forest Ham & Vermont Cheddar 8
Mushroom, Sundried Tomato & Goat Cheese
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Fries, cheddar cheese curds, brown gravy & over easy eggs 10
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2 Eggs Any Way
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Sticky Bun Pancakes
Brown sugar cinnamon swirl, cream cheese drizzle & cinnamon sugar 10
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Peanut butter, banana, Nutella & fruit 10
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Black bean, corn, pico de gallo, applewood smoked bacon, cheddar scrambled eggs & homefries 9
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Vidalia & bacon jam, aged VT cheddar, garlic aioli,
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Applewood smoked bacon, heirloom tomatoes, romaine,
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Warm Radicchio
Manchego cheese, baby arugula, candied pecans, roasted acorn squash & honey maple drizzle 12
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Roasted mushrooms wrapped in phyllo, goat cheese cream, Mache, toasted almonds, and pickled shallots 13
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marinated greek olives, baba ghanoush,
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We are having our shower re-tiled. What is the proper procedure for tiling inside corners? Do you wrap the tile or mirror the tile on the walls that meet? My husband thinks the tiles should be mirrored on each adjoining wall, but our contractor insists that wrapping it, the way they've done, it is correct. |
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You do whatever looks best to you (the paying customer). If it's subway, usually the best look is wrapped. |
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I agree. Either one is fine, and in fact, I've done both at different corners of the same job because of how they looked at those corners. As hemera said-- whatever works for you. |
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I've a bunch of tulip bulblets (not flowering size) from around 3cm to 8cm or so (about 6.5 oz for 30 bulbs or so).
Assorted Emperors, Negrita, Apeldoorn's Elite, and a couple of Apricot Beauty. These are left over from forcing last year, and harvested over the summer. Stored at proper temps for fall planting. I don't expect much in exchange for these, as they're not going to bloom this year, but if someone wants to experiment with growing tulips from bulblets to blooming size, this is a good way to do it. Some of the bulbs are big enough that they should bloom next year (well, to be accurate, these bulbs won't, but their primary daughterbulbs at the end of this growing season should). Pat |
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Photos: Broncos' five best -- and five worst -- draft picks of all-time
Third Worst Pick of All-Time: Maurice Clarett
Maurice Clarett. |
Third Best Pick of All-Time: Shannon Sharpe
Sharpe was a seventh-round pick in 1990 -- a no-expectations slot that he exploded in short order. He was instrumental in revolutionizing the tight end position, becoming one of John Elway's favorite targets and securing his enshrinement in the NFL Hall of Fame. And like Jackson, his media presence helps keeps the spotlight on Denver throughout the NFL.Shannon Sharpe.
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Feb 24, 2013 8:00 PM by Lindsay MacLeod, KSBY News
A DUI Checkpoint was held in Santa Maria Saturday night.
The checkpoint was in the 1600 block of North Broadway Street from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Police say three drivers were evaluated for DUI, but no arrests were made.
Two drivers were cited for driving with a suspended license, and 12 drivers were cited for driving without a license.
1,061 cars passed through the checkpoint.
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01/31/2015 LATEST KISS MAGAZINE COVER: HEAVY ROCK Here's Paul Stanley on the cover of the latest issue of the Spanish magazine, 'Heavy Rock'. Thanks to Fernando Martinez for sharing the photo with us! Read More
01/30/2015 LATEST KISS MAGAZINE COVER: BURRN! Here's Paul Stanley on the cover of the latest issue of the Japanese magazine, 'BURRN!.' Read More
01/30/2015 THIS DAY IN KISSTORY 1973 Here's a video clip of KISS performing at the Conventry later in 1973. On this day in KISStory - January 30, 1973, KISS performed their very first concert at Popcorn (The Coventry) in Queens, NY. The band performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people. Gene recalls how that show came about: 1973 was the beginning. Wicked Lester had just finished its album for EPIC RECORDS. There were five members in the band, including Paul and myself. Though we had a real recording contract with a major label, and though we had finished an entire album, we were depressed. It just wasn't what we had envisioned. So, we started again. We tried firing the other three guys in Wicked Lester, but some wouldn't leave. So, we quit. Read More
01/29/2015 FIRST-EVER UNMASKED ELECTRIC SAIL AWAY SHOW ON KISS KRUISE V! You wanted it? YOU GOT IT! The KISS Kruise V sail away show will be UNMASKED AND ELECTRIC!!!!! Will you be joining us this Halloween? With only 75 cabins left, it's now or never! www.TheKISSKruise.com Read More
01/29/2015 ROCK & BREWS WINS COVETED SPOT AT TERMINAL 1 AT LAX Crews Partners With Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons To Open Second Airport Location of Rock-Inspired Restaurant Today, Crews, a premier retailer and food and beverage operator at top airports, announced plans to open a second Rock & Brews at LAX. The rock-inspired restaurant founded by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of KISS will open to travelers in the fourth quarter of this year as part of the $508 million overhaul of Terminal 1 that is being spearheaded by Southwest Airlines in partnership with Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and Westfield. The first Rock & Brews at LAX opened in Terminal 5 in October 2013, and in 2014 generated record sales. "We are thrilled to add a little rock style excitement to the travel experience of Southwest Airlines guests in Terminal 1," said Stanley and Simmons in a joint statement. "It is an honor to partner with Crews, Southwest Airlines, Westfield and Los Angeles World Airports to make this happen." Rock & Brews is a family-friendly restaurant and entertainment concept that offers quality American comfort food and a full bar with a broad selection of craft beers in an engaging environment that celebrates classic rock and roll and encourages a multigenerational sense of community. Read More
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01/28/2015 VIDEO: "SAMURAI SON" OFF SHOT TRAILER/KISS vs MOMOIRO CLOVER Z Here's a behind the scenes look at the collaboration between KISS and Momoiro Clover Z. The KISS vs. Momoiro Clover Z single is available in two versions now -"Momoclo Edition" and "KISS Edition" - via iTunes in 120 countries. Read More
01/28/2015 VIDEO MESSAGE FOR KISS ARMY JAPAN KISS will return to Japan with five concerts in February / March 2015! KISS Japan Tour Dates: Feb 23 - Nippon Gaishi Hall - Nagoya Feb 25 - Osaka Castle Hall - Osaka Feb 26 - Hiroshima Sun Plaza - Hiroshima Feb 28 - Sekisui Heim Super Arena - Sendai Mar 3 - Tokyo Dome - Tokyo Momoiro Clover Z will be special guests at the Tokyo Dome show only. An online ticket pre-order will begin Tuesday, November 18th on e+. Visit http://udo.jp for full details. Read More


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9575 El Camino Real Atascadero, CA 93422
"A Full Service Veterinary Hospital Serving the Pets, People, and Veterinarians of the Central Coast."
Stella Stella is a very affectionate three year old Pitbull. While volunteering at a local shelter her owner's decided it was time adopt a new canine family member. After seeing the high percentage of pitbulls that were given up on, The Ranson family chose to adopt Stella. At ten months old, just out of the shelter, Stella was a hand full. Her owners enrolled her in dog training classes where she quickly went from worst in the class to star student. Earning her place at home and in her family's heart, Stella spends her days hiking with dad, greeting visitors and being a great protector. After several days of coughing with an occasional hacking Stella visited Atascadero Pet Hospital & Emergency Center for the first time. She greeted the staff with her tail wagging and wet kisses. Stella appeared to be a happy well cared for pet with no prior illnesses. While in the exam room she coughed several times. Symptoms like these are common on the Central Coast of California during summer months. When fields of grasses dry out, the foxtails drop from the stems and can enter the eyes, ears, nasal passages, mouth or potentially penetrate into the skin and other areas. Having a foxtail lodged in the tonsils, esophagus, trachea/larynx or lungs may induce coughing or hacking. If foxtails are not removed they can migrate and create an abscess after a period of time.
After Stella was examined, I explained the two common causes of acute onset coughing during this time of year are foxtails or kennel cough. Stella owners decided to proceed with an evaluation of the oral cavity and larynx under anesthesia. Since I had a planned procedure using our bronchoscope for another patient, I took the opportunity to use it on Stella and give the staff a view of normal canine lungs. A bronchoscope is a narrow endoscope that is used to evaluate the inner lungs. It is inserted through the mouth, down trachea and from there we can follow the labyrinth of branching airways to evaluate most of the bronchi.
To our surprise, once I placed the endoscope in the lungs of Stella and followed the tortuous path down to the caudal right lobe I was facing a large amount of plant material lodged in one of the minor right bronchi. We introduced forceps through the instrument port of the endoscope and started playing a retrieval game with the plant material. It lasted 45 minutes and resulted in pulling 4 large foxtails.
Stella recovered from anesthesia as expected. We sent her home with a course of antibiotics for three weeks and she never looked back......until she returned for her recheck with a foxtail in her left nasal passage. It was pulled with no complications.
Stella is lucky that we ended up finding the foxtails and removing them when we did. If foreign plant material (foxtails) sits in the lungs it will create a pocket of infection in the lungs and can cause severe illness to pets. When the pocket ruptures it compromises the life of the patient and requires expensive and complicated thoracic surgery.
We've learned from Stella's case that we should be evaluating more patients that present with the same symptoms as her with the bronchoscope to check for foxtails in the lungs. Today Stella is a happy and healthy dog who is back to hiking, greeting visitors and protecting her home. She is a source of comfort and joy to her owners and has undoubtedly taught us a lesson on foxtails.
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The entrance to Philadelphia's Magic Gardens: not exactly subtle. |
Visiting Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is not unlike stepping through the proverbial looking glass: it's a whole different world on the other side. Dan and I visited this folk art paradise on a cloudy day in Philly, which was perfect because we had this little wonderland completely to ourselves.
Chairs for sitting and nooks for exploring. |
The Magic Garden is an outdoor mosaicked sculpture garden that takes up half a block of South Street in Philadelphia's Headhouse neighborhood. It's the work of artist Isaiah Zagar who, with the help of his wife Julia, transformed what was once an empty lot into an extraordinary labyrinth of "statues, bicycle wheels, colorful glass bottles, hand-made tiles, and thousands of glittering mirrors."
Cozy chairs and interesting little nooks really invite viewers to interact with the space, which is perfect for people like me who like to touch everything. (IS IT SOFT? IS IT PRETTY? DOES IT SPARKLE? LET ME TOUCH IT! Honestly, I cannot tell you how many times I was scolded as a child for touching things at museums, or reaching out to stroke the noses of Disney's Animatronic creatures. Hundreds, maybe thousands.)
One of the many paths leading through the Magic Gardens. |
Although there are a lot of references to Mexican and Aztec art (Day of the Dead skeletons are a frequent motif, especially in the indoor gallery), entering the Magic Gardens feels a lot like sneaking into a mermaid's grotto while she's off sunning herself on a rock somewhere - there are lots of cool blues and greens, with soft pink and peach tones throughout. The black line figures are loose, watery shapes, sort of like my own after the giant Philly cheesesteak I inhaled in approximately 0.3 seconds.
I'm pretty sure that I have that exact same Walt Disney World plate |
It took Zagar fourteen years to complete the garden, which is not surprising considering the number of intricate details that make up the space - literally every corner is covered, even up to the third floor which, unfortunately, is not accessible to visitors, though it's totally worth craning your neck to catch a glimpse of all the curious little objects he used to create the space.
Me: "Let's sit on this toad stool and take a picture!" Dan: "You know it's not actually a toad stool right?" Me: "Don't kill my dreams." |
When we first came upon it, my immediate reaction was This is going to be just like Metelkova. I was expecting part artsy, part hippie, part commune - but where Metelkova was (and is) a group of people who (successfully) fought to turn a former military barracks into a cultural center, the Magic Gardens are the work of one man who almost singlehandedly revitalized an entire neighborhood. Zagar's mosaics are plastered on walls all over Headhouse, lending a significantly bright and gentle touch to an area that might otherwise be overwhelmed by sex shops, cheesy boutiques, and a fairly gigantic Whole Foods grocery store.
Nothing says "I can get out of this chair with ease" like a double-chinned scowl. |
Altogether, the Magic Gardens are well worth the $5 entrance fee, especially when you can truly make your visit last for hours: if I had known food and drinks were allowed within the garden, I definitely would have packed a little picnic to enjoy in one of the many secret alcoves. I mean, that would just take the cake as the perfect playground for children and childlike adults such as myself adults alike: sweet treats inside an artist's imagination? Yes, please!
The Magic Gardens are located at 1020 South Street, Philadelphia. Our visit was made possible by Visit Philly, Philadelphia's official site for visitors and tourism information.