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Hotel Casa Alpina - Rossland, Castlegar
1199 Hwy 3B - Castlegar1-877-662-6988
Searching for convenient motel rates in Rossland? Take a look at Casa Alpina!
This Rossland motel offers ski storage and laundry facilities. Make the most of your trip, whether for business or pleasure, by taking some time to relax as you will find a spa tub on offer.
You will find the reception open during limited hours only. Free Wi-Fi is available. The motel has a meeting room available for hire.
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Breakfast at Hotel Casa Alpina
A free continental breakfast is served each morning.
Hotel Facilities at Casa Alpina
- Dogs allowed
- Laundry room
- Pets accepted
- Meeting Room
- Internet/Email services
- Hydromassage Jacuzzi
- Ski room
- Free parking
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- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
- The property allows pets in specific rooms only and has other pet restrictions (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
Check-in: between 2 PM and 10 PM.
Check-out: before 11 AM.
Please contact the property ahead of time if you are planning to arrive after 10 PM.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pet fee: CAD 10.00 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: CAD 5.00 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Book your pet-friendly accommodation at Casa Alpina, offering 40 guest rooms with free local calls. Cable TV channels offer entertainment at the end of a busy day. Business travelers visiting the Rossland area will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access.
Refrigerators and coffee/tea makers are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Additional comforts include air conditioning.
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- Air conditioning
- Mini fridge
- Coffee and tea maker
- Cable TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Hotel Casa AlpinaRossland Museum - 0.2 km / 0.1 mi
Red Mountain Resort - 3.1 km / 2 mi
Trail Memorial Centre - 7.9 km / 4.9 mi
Gyro Park - 8.3 km / 5.2 mi
Trail-Rossland Country Club - 11.3 km / 7.1 mi
Champion Lakes Provincial Park - 19 km / 11.8 mi
Kootenay Gallery - 27.3 km / 17 mi
Doukhobor Discovery Centre - 27.5 km / 17.1 mi
Selkirk College - 28.5 km / 17.7 mi
Alberni Pacific Railway - 29.6 km / 18.4 mi
Syringa Creek Provincial Park - 29.8 km / 18.5 mi
Whitewater Ski Resort - 63.3 km / 39.3 mi
The closest major airports to Casa Alpina are:
Trail, BC (YZZ-Trail Regional) - 15.3 km / 9.5 mi
Spokane, WA (GEG-Spokane Intl.) - 162.8 km / 101.2 mi
The preferred airport for Casa Alpina is Spokane, WA (GEG-Spokane Intl.).
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 mile and kilometer.
Transportation services Hotel Casa Alpina
- Free parking
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If you have not tried richmond canal cruise just give it a try seeing the canal and downtown Richmond on the canal is the best way to explore Richmond. It's a unique experience to see a side of Richmond that you can only see it by boat.
Learned a lot about the city of Richmond. Would recommend it a nice trip to find out about the city the past & present.
Cheap way ($6) to spend some time. Lots of interesting information about the canals and Richmond history but you can pretty much walk the short length of the canal tour on your own.
Views are nothing special. Quite skippable. Oh, there is no bathroom at the docksite.
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I took my parents on this ride when they visited. It was interesting. You don't go very far and it is not that much of a scenic view. Just fair warning not what I was expecting from the name. That being said, for the price it is still good. You do hear a about the the history down there which...
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We stumbled on this quite by accident. We had wanted to take the trolley tour, which was full for the day. We also had an excellent tour guide! Pretty interesting,we enjoyed the cruise.
40 minutes seating in a small slow boat maybe suffering from heat . Not too much to say about the history of the Canal so the guide had to talk about Richmond and the civil war. Lovely but I wasn't there because of that.My opinion not too much interesting and you don't muove out to the James.I'd not suggest to...
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July 10, 2014
NEW DELHI: Price of branded or premium petrol was today cut by over Rs 5 per litre after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley slashed excise duty on the fuel. Central Excise duty on Branded Petrol was cut from Rs 7.50 per litre to Rs 2.35 per litre. Branded petrol, which contains special performance enhancing additives, attracted higher duties than normal petrol. The differential excise duty led to huge difference in price of normal and branded fuel, resulting in sales of the premium version dropping to almost nil. The removal of excise duty would bring the two fuel at par. BPCL's premium branded petrol - Speed - costs Rs 83.03 in Delhi while normal petrol is priced at Rs 73.55 a litre.
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New pool finish is awful! Need professional advice
Our pool contractor hired a subcontractor to plaster our new pool. The finish is Premix Marbeltite color : Sapphire ( marquis series) from a local distributor.
It looks and feel terrible! Big blue and white streaks and splotches, bumps, uneven texture, so rough our kids feet and toes got several abrasions, some white spots looks like chips , and some plaster entirely missing around cap tiles in areas. Around the steps and swimout its all bumpy and chunky in areas. After one month of complaints emailing, calling, sending photos , my contractor admitted it was not satisfactory ( curious why WE had to tell him that ) and he'd have the subcontractor redo it. We also called the MARBELITITE Rep. To come and see it , and said there was nothing wrong with the product, it just looks like they did a " rush job" he also told us that when they RESURFACE they must use the brand MARBELITITE binding agent in order for us to have warranty coverage.
So the sub con. Shows up, chips 2-3 inches of plaster off under the border tiles and uses this SGM bond Kote ( not Marbeltite) product and applies it and also applies it right over our cap tiles and ,oasis without chipping them out first. They left all the thick uneven areas around the steps and sun shelf and they are just going to plaster over all this??
My husband told the crew he bought a new pool , nor a resurfaced one and he wants them to chop off the entire first layer and start from scratch and apply it properly using the manufacturers products.
Anyone know if this is a reasonable request on our part ? Is it possible to chip it all out entirely down to the gunite?
Also, we are very concerned that this crew are certainly not experienced , for if they were it wouldn't look so bad the first time. Can we demand contractor use someone else ?
Should we use a different product?
Anyone have experience w/ pool surface techniques wh can give us suggestions?
Replastering with a bond coat will fail in about 5-10% of the time it is used. Failure may occur 5 years down the road.
It is perfectly fine to ask for a chip out of the bad plaster.
It sounds like the contractor has little experience with the product you chose. You might want to look at some of his work with a similar product as yours.
Also, find out from the manufacturer about special instructions for starting the pool up after plaster. With color specific pools there are methods that are different from white plaster pools. Good luck.
Thank you golfgeek. Our contractor doesn't want to hire another subcontractor because he paid them , so he wants them to fix it.
The problem is , we don't think these guys are experienced, but we can't force our contractor to hire someone else.
The representative from MARBELITITE said he would gladly show up to supervise / advise on the day they resurface. Would it be a fair compromise on our part to insist they chip ALL The existing plaster out since there are so many rough, thick and bumpy areas? We are not professionals , but it seems common sense that they will attain a better and lasting result if they start on the original gunite. Is that an accurate assumption on our part?
It would be terrible if they replastered over this and botched it up again
Take the manufacturer up on their offer. If it is as bad as you describe it, then I think they should chip the old out. Replaster can be thinner(not by design) than the original plaster.
Everyone errors once in a while, but I think you should push for a chip out unless they give you a lenghthly labor guaranty should it fail in 5-10 years. Original plaster should be good for a minimum of 15 years and as much as 25 years.
Golfgeek, Thank you so much for your advice. Yes, it really is a terrible finish. Living in Florida, I've been in countless pools and I've never seen anything like it. It's a shame! But based on the info. We've collected , including yours, we are insisting that the contractor chip it out in its entirety and apply from scratch. So far, he doesn't want to oblige and he's only wanting to replaster w/ minimal chip out. We're not excepting this as its not our fault it wasn't done right to begin with.
Sadly, this can go on for weeks , months... It's apparent we chose the wrong pool contractor : (
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This seems to bode well for Paul and Victoria's plan, since the patriarch's aggressive hostility is the perfect excuse for him to run off. But Paul finds himself drawn into the favor of Victoria's grandfather (Quinn in a beaming, rascally performance), a soulful old wino who has learned that the essence of tradition lies not in Giannini's inflexible ideas of family responsibility, but in the softer, subtler strands that connect people to each other, their past, and their future.
The real miracle of A Walk in the Clouds is the confidence with which Arau unites his characters, their human dilemmas, and the spine-tingling visual motifs--moon, mists, flames, foliage--that surround them. He has created a swoony fairy-tale world that supports this ship of fools like gently cresting waves yet never feels slick or self-conscious. (Aficionados of Arau can shudder imagining what would've resulted if co-producer Jerry Zucker, guilty of the aforementioned Ghost and First Knight, had directed.)
The sweet pleasures that reside in this movie suggest Alfonso Arau is a master of human nature as well as cinematic imagery. Not only do his actors settle into their roles like they've been granted whole new lives, but the American commercial forces who financed it never once intrude with a tacky, pandering ploy for audience involvement. A Walk in the Clouds is a success on many levels, but perhaps its greatest victory is the triumph of Arau's benevolent will over Hollywood's commercial impulses.
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Ten Step By Step Wall Stenciling Tips (You Can Do It!)
Dude, stencils are no joke. But I did it! I bit the bullet and ordered the stencil that John and I have been pining after for the past month (mentioned here a few weeks back). We loved the idea of adding some subtle tone on tone detailing above the chair rail in our office (we didn't want anything with too much contrast since it'll compete with the dark teal built-ins and the fun curtains in the nearby dining room). So we settled on a softer gray tone with a tiny pop of color (leftover grellow paint from the adjoining kitchen). At 54 honking dollars it was hardly a drop in the bucket, but let me tell you, this stencil is hardcore. First of all, it's made of super durable plastic, so I don't have to worry that it will rip or crease while I'm taping it, untaping it, and
bending it manhandling it to get into the corner crevices (I'm pretty sure I would have trashed a thinner stencil after one wall, just because it's kind of a more rigorous application process than I expected). And let's just talk about how big it is. It's over two feet tall and almost two feet wide, so it helps to make things go faster since you don't have to reposition it every three seconds like you would with something smaller.
And yes, this is quite an evil face I'm making. No idea why. I remember saying something like "make sure I don't look naked" when John snapped this, but had no idea I was giving off such an I'm-the-female-Hannibal-Lecter vibe.
Another way that I'm rationalizing my purchase is that we only spent $6.30 on cabinets for the built-ins and $27 to build a 13 foot counter, so maybe it's time we splurged in the office. Haha. I also figure any type of wallpaper (even the cheap stuff at Lowe's and Home Depot) would be way more than $54 for the entire room above the chair rail, so there ya go.
I've actually never done a giant repeating stencil like this on a wall (we did stencil the floor of our first house's sunroom) so here's where I'll get to the keeping it real part: stenciling is haaard. I'm not gonna lie, my arms were cramping after about an hour and it took four and a half solid hours (from 8pm to twelve thirty in the morning) just to almost finish one wall (out of the four that I want to do). But in the spirit of sharing things real-time as we go, I couldn't wait to share the in-progress madness. Here's a close up:
And here's one side of the wall that I almost completed (I still have to do those last 6″ above the chair rail). Oh but ignore the weird dark and light vertical shadows on the wall (couldn't wait for the lighting to be better – too impatient and excited to share, haha).
As for my method, here's a little breakdown of what seemed to work for me:
1. I prepped the room by clearing it and tossing a drop cloth over the desk so we wouldn't get paint splatters on it.
2. I used Martha Stewart Craft Stencil Adhesive Spray from Michael's (purchased with a 40% coupon of course) to spray the back of the stencil before taping it up on the wall with painters tape. This helped the middle parts of the stencil stay close to the wall and not bend out for a nice crisp line. I probably repositioned the stencil two or three times before re-spraying it (when I noticed it holding less firmly to the wall I just took it down and sprayed it and taped it back up for the next application). Oh and you'll want to use a large piece of cardboard or drop cloth to spray the back of your stencil so you don't get stick stuff all over the floor).
3. As for where to start, John held the stencil up in the top middle of the wall so we could center the pattern and work out from there in all directions.
4. I also used delicate surface frog tape for holding the stencil up at the top, bottom, and sides (we already had it on hand and I didn't want to tear off fresh paint as I moved it around the room so it seemed to do the trick).
5. I used small foam craft brushes (also from Michael's). They were basically dowels with flat foam tips.
6. As for how I loaded my little foam brushes, I just dipped them in the paint (more details on the paint colors later) and dabbed the brush around the lip of the plate to remove excess before tapping it against the wall to apply the stencil.
7. I always tapped the wall at a right angle with a not-to-gloppy foam brush for a nice clean edge (so the paint wouldn't slip or drip behind the stencil and smear around).
8. If I feared that a little bit of paint somehow got behind the stencil, before repositioning it on the wall for the next application I would lay it on my drop cloth on the floor (face down) and wipe the back with a dry folded paper towel to remove the excess paint. Then I would respray my stencil adhesive and stick it back on the wall for the next application.
9. The way that the stencil is applied means that there are repeats. So you position it right over the last 3″ that you previously stenciled and work your way across the wall that way. I didn't wait for the paint to dry before moving the stencil (that would have probably taken five million hours), so I just took my time applying the paint so nothing got behind the stencil and then matched up the stencil carefully for the repeat and continued on. Since there was no wet paint on the back of the stencil, it was fine to be pressed against the 3″ of wall that was already done, and it didn't look any different than the non-overlapped part. I wonder if the application of paint was so thin that it was drying really quickly so it didn't make a difference…
10. The corners were the hardest part. To get the stencil to lay flat against the wall in the corner so you can cram your brush into the small little stencil openings was sort of impossible to get perfect. But I did learn that this stencil is extreeeeemely forgiving (probably because it's a more organic pattern than a regularly spaced geometric one, which would probably make any inconsistencies a lot more obvious). So when I didn't quite get deep into all the corners, once it dried it was somehow not obvious at all (a stenciling miracle?). Of course I'm not exactly a corner expert because I've only attempted one of them, so as I go around the rest of the room maybe I'll have more tips.
After about three hours I was here on the first wall:
And after 4.5 hours I had one wall almost all done (sorry for the terrible picture, I was sort of losing it at this point).
So although I wasn't completely done with that wall, I decided that 12:31 am meant it was time to put the foam brush down and throw in the towel for the night. And do some finger stretching (I seriously had cramped up hand-claws).
Oh and as for the colors, here you go:
- Walls: Moonshine by Benjamin Moore (color matched to Olympic No-VOC paint in a satin finish)
- Main stencil color: I just asked the paint guys to give me a half-tint of the wall color (also color matched to Olympic no-VOC paint in a satin finish). This means they just add half as much tint to the white base as the original formula calls for, so you end up with a half-as-intense tone-on-tone effect.
- Grellow stencil flower accent color: Leftover wall paint from the kitchen, which is Sesame by Benjamin Moore (color matched to Olympic no-VOC paint in semi-gloss). You actually can't tell the difference in finish unless the light hits it just right from the side and the grellow sort of looks iridescent, which is actually awesome. Yay for happy accidents.
I also made a video to hopefully help demonstrate the foam brush prepping and actual stenciling part of the process (including a quick demo on corner stenciling):
So that's where I am with the stencil. One wall-above-the-chair-rail almost done, three more to go. I'm planning to tackle another 4+ hours tonight and hopefully can fit in one more session this week (my goal is to be done by Thursday or Friday, soreness permitting). It's definitely one of those projects that you just need to force yourself to complete as fast as possible – because as soon as you start all you want is to get to the point where you can let out a huge sigh and say "so glad that's over!"
But so far I have to admit that it's totally worth the trouble. We're loving the effect (it's sort of like subtle modern wallpaper, not too in your face but not too tame and unnoticeable either). It's sort of the perfect amount of "ooh, look at that" without being too competey and chaotic with the adjoined dining room. And John and I both have said the following sentence about ten times so far: "the pop of color totally makes the entire thing." So might I recommend a splash of grellow (or any color you love actually) to take something that's gray on gray to the next (still-kinda-subtle) level?
Ok, now I have to hear from you guys. Have you ever stenciled something, be it an accent wall, piece of furniture, or entire room? Do you have any secrets you'd like to share? How long did it take? Is four and a half hours for the top half of one 13 foot wall (with a big ol' window in the middle) about right? I might just be moving at a turtle-like pace. Haha. Just too nervous about getting paint all down the back of my stencil if I go any faster. Anyway, hopefully I'll be back with finished pictures (and maybe a bulging right bicept from dabbing away) by Thursday or Friday. Until then, picture me standing on a chair at 11pm wearing my inside out painting clothes and listening to shows on Hulu (I tried radio, but somehow hearing Community and Parks & Rec play in the background kept my spirits up a little more).
Psst- I'm over on BabyCenter chatting about my favorite kids clothing store and how I save money when it comes to shopping for Clara's clothes & shoes. Did I mention that I snagged 47 cent shoes on my latest mission? Excited doesn't even begin to describe it. Check it out here.
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Looks amazing, Sherry! And like a crazy amount of work. Good for you! I've never stencilled… it kind of scares me. But after seeing this I'm tempted.
That looks awesome! I can't wait to see the entire room!
it looks AMAAAAAZINGGGGGG! i love the pop of grellow! :)
Alight, my turn for a dream confession. But it is totally appropriate for this post. I was in your house, in the hallway and you were making a skylight for the office (cuz you'll eventually loose the car port window, of course) and I spied the stencil! Although it was Clara's closet color and the stencil from there.
Looks great!
YAY! I'm so glad y'all used RDS! Melanie is just the sweetest. I haven't had one person not absolutely LOVE the stencil we used in our guest room.
Looks great y'all : )
and PS: 4.5 hours doesn't seem bad at all. Stencils are hard work! I just did a portion of a wall it it felt like it took me foe-eh-ver.
@Liz – that is absolutely stunningly gorgeous. I love damask prints and have been thinking about doing it behind our wood stove. Since we're ripping all the walls down eventually anyway it might be a fun idea to try it now. Thanks for posting just a gorgeous inspiration!
Oh my gosh, this is gorgeous too! Now you have me wondering where I can add a stencil in my house!
That is amazing! I would definitely consider doing that in our bedroom, it looks gorgeous!
Insane!! This is so beautiful you have made me think of stenciling my 10 foot tall light grey hallway. I am five foot tall and posess NO LADDER. Well done!
That looks fabulous. I love the punch of grellow!
I love it, that stencil is so sweet and cheery without being too attention grabbing. Kind of like that person who's always there with a friendly smile just when you need it. I should be going to sleep now (or, you know, 20 minutes ago…) but this was too cute, so I had to comment. Darn 6am alarm!
Oh, and my arms ae aching for you! I don't think I'd have the patience or perseverance to do a whole room of stencilling. Good luck with the rest! I'm going to bed now, I promise.
Stenciled once and it does take forever. I can totally relate to the claw hands that come with the task. I would love to do it again as an accent wall in our guest bedroom. We'll see! I like that you used regular paint which I think I will try next time. I used actual craft stencil paint and it was really firm (almost clay like) so "inking up" was a difficult process too. Looks great, thanks again for the inspiration!!
hot dang (keeping it family friendly) sherry!!! that looks so so so so so good! i know it must be a ridiculous amount of work, but it looks so fabulous! totally worth it! and think of all the calories you are burning. i'm totally in love with those walls! i now cannot wait to see it all finished. this might just be my favorite room in your house!
OMG!! Sherry, I painted 4 curtain panels a few weeks ago and my hand literally ached for about a week and a half afterwards (as well as my legs from standing over the curtains stenciling)!! But, like you said it was SO worth it in the end with the finished product. And I also justified my purchase of the expensive stencil by looking at the savings–I used 2 packs of Vivian curtains (cheap!) and the paint was from Michaels (cheap!) so it all worked out. Take a look!!
It'll be a while before I stencil again, but it really is worth it and I learned some ways to make it go much faster. My first panel took FOREVR but by the last panel I had it done in about 50 minutes!
holy black swan face!!
Yours is my very very favorite blog of all, but I don't usually comment because there are always lots of other people commenting about the same thing I would (mostly Awesome!) but I couldn't resist today. That stenciling is so so so wonderful! It's like all the things that are great about wall paper and none of the horrible things. I love the colors (hooray for the grellow) and the organic nature of the stencil and wow, just all of it. The scale is great and I think you guys picked a great room for it! Hooray!
I LOVE that stencil! It looks amazing so far! You guys have me pining for some yellow + gray in my house now. The husband is not liking it! haha
That looks fantastic. Seriously good job Sherry. Tasteful, understated, modern, well-executed, I can't say enough good about it.
Looks absolutely incredible. I wish I had the vision you do. I look at stencils and can't quite envision anything as amazing as what you end up with!
Love it! The color definitely makes it.
Wow, love the effect! I may consider doing this in one of our rooms as we decorate. I love the yellow and white with the gray-so gorgeous!
Thanks a lot, now I REALLY want to get a stencil! Looks so great!!!!
There are plenty of times when I visit the blog and I'm all optimistic like, "I could totally do this" but then I see a post like this and there is no way. This is the type of project that would make me insane. Love it! :)
It looks fabulous!!! I'm so inspired.
It looks AMAZING!! Your super hard work definitely paid off!
Love the stencil effect!
What I've found is a terrific brush are triangle makeup sponges. They are easy to grasp, apply just the right amount of paint and cover more area than the real brushes. You can also find these at the $1 store, which makes it a cheap hack, too!
My head is still stuck in thinking that wallpaper and stencils are old-fashioned but obviously I need to get caught up because I've seen so many great stencils and wallpaper that are super modern. This looks fantastic.
I kinda love that you're not super smiley in the pic. We don't all smile all the time so it's nice to mix it up every once in awhile.
Wowzers! That is one good looking wall. Can't wait to see the finished project. :)
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Using Cradle 5.5 and NodeJS 0.4.8, I can't seem to get a connection to work. I've successfully used RESTLER, but I can't seem to configure cradle. I'd like to take advantage of the caching aspects of Cradle.
I've tried both my Cloudant Account and a normal, admin party CouchDB database, both with the same results.
Admin Party Database:
var conn1 = new (cradle.Connection)("XX.XX.XXX.XXX", 5984);
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username: "user",
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var conn = new (cradle.Connection)("user.cloudant.com", 443, {
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Any ideas on what might be causing this? I am starting to think it might be the versions of Cradle/NodeJS, but I can't seem to find a reference to them to not working together anywhere.
UPDATE: Still having issues, but I changed the code a bit to see if I could pinpoint the problem.
cradle.setup({host:'username.cloudant.com', port: 443,
auth: { username: 'username', password: 'password'},
options: {secure: true, cache: true, raw: false}
c = new(cradle.Connection)().config();
My output is the following:
{ extend: [Function],
Response: [Function: Response],
Cache: [Function],
host: 'username.cloudant.com',
port: 443,
auth: { username: 'username', password: 'password' },
{ cache: true,
raw: false,
timeout: 0,
secure: false,
headers: {},
host: 'username.cloudant.com',
port: 443,
auth: { username: 'username', password: 'password' },
options: { secure: true, cache: true, raw: false } },
setup: [Function],
Connection: [Function: Connection],
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I bought 2 faucets from efaucets before I looked up their reputation. They are horrible. Pages of complaints. I am sick that those reviews did not shut the, down.
I bought a fairly expensive Newport polished solid brass bathroom faucet. It is uncoated as i found the N at the end of the number means natural. Everytime I wash my hands, my faucet set leaves spots and the enclosed literature sez it will turn dark and verdigris. Asked plumber if there was any thing i could spray or wax on it-and knew nothing. Sending it back is not a good option even though the stopper was bent.
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I returned the other efaucet and followed the directions perfectly and purchased a $5 new box with a removable sticky label and a receipt of delivery. If you do not have removeable sticky label they dont have to accept it. I got a receipt from the post office. There is also a 15%'restocking fee. It arrived in their warehouse January 7. I waited a week and called customer service and they said I should call back February 21st. it took them 6 weeks to deliver my polished because " they were making it for me now." They took the money out day of order over the phone. . Now they have had my returned faucet for 2
Months and they argue that the paperwork still has not gotten to the credit dept. They have had $ 1,000 for 21/2 months just as every fricken review has said. Customer service has no mercy. They said that is our policy. Yes, I am stuck but I have warned you. Is this America?
My question is also can I preserve this faucet in any way. . I Used Brasso on it after I wash my hands What a bad company can for for my morale and savings. Spread the word about the company. I should have used local shops.


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Day of Judgement and Ten Other Stories
Reviewed by
Jeannine Chartier Hanscom
Arthur Edgar E. Smith compiles folktale adaptations and original writing in Day of Judgement and Ten Other Stories.
Comprised of twelve individual stories, the collection primarily features the folktales Smith has translated from the original Krio language that is native to Sierra Leone. Subject matter varies from cautionary tales to more casual stories, and most follow themes of perseverance or of facing consequences for one's actions. Smith has also included one story, "Richard Lured into Widely Reading and a Literary World," that is based on part of American writer Richard Wright's autobiography, and which effectively demonstrates the reality of discrimination in the 1950s, as well as the importance of determination.
The Richard Wright story is among the most engaging, but one of the more successfully rendered is "The Day of Judgment Has Arrived," in which greedy, selfish brothers are inspired to change their ways after eavesdropping on a conversation and misconstruing the subject matter. The consequences of selfishness are also explored effectively in "Equiano and His Captain Dream of Suddenly Becoming Rich," in which insincere overtures of friendship are rewarded accordingly.
In much the same tradition as Uncle Remus's tales of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox, the author has included stories with morals or other significance attached, such as "Bra Kakroch (Cockroach) and Bra Fohl (Fowl)." In this tale, readers are shown a fantasy theory of how insects became the prey of birds.
Day of Judgement and Ten Other Stories regrettably suffers from a multitude of editing and proofreading errors. There are formatting issues with incorrect spacing and missing punctuation, occasional misspelled words, and several instances of inconsistent tense. Sporadic confusion in narrative voice is also a problem in many of the stories.
Most problematic in the collection is a tendency to skip definitive conclusions. It is likely that most of the stories originated with the intention of imparting a moral or a lesson through the telling or writing, and this is conveyed effectively through a few of the tales, such as the previously mentioned "Bra Kakroch (Cockroach) and Bra Fohl (Fowl)," and "Bra Spider's Enjoyment of Bra Rabbit's Flight of Success." However, a good number of the stories end abruptly, resulting in unstructured tales that lack cohesion and will likely leave readers scratching their heads as to the intended meaning.
Smith's goal of sharing these folktales with a wider audience is a commendable one, and there is much of interest in the collection. In addition to more careful proofreading, a meticulous attention to formatting and story structure is needed to bring Day of Judgement to a level of wide appeal.