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Growing up in a full house (five in my family, plus two grandparents and some pets), we never really had the luxury of a "guest room". But there comes a time when teenagers leave the nest and you're left with an extra room, usually painted in some overpowering tone.
Finally, you're free to create a guest suite. You know, a calm, tranquil space for you to offer your guests — or maybe a retreat if your partner starts snoring! Either way, take advantage of this opportunity. Don't let the room become a dumping ground once your teen has flown the coop. I suggest taking a look around your house to see what you can repurpose in a guest room. That way it can be a fun little decorating project, rather than a huge expense. Recently, I revamped just such a room.
Dark blue walls, celestial wallpaper border, BUNK BED! Perfect for a tween or teen — not so perfect for a soothing adult nap.
Now, do you remember that spool-style headboard I scored on Craigslist a while back? Well, it made its way to this budget makeover and set the tone for a relaxed, rustic retreat. I left the wood raw, with the patina intact, and built the room from there.
I attached the headboard to the wall itself with screws and anchors and layered the bed with an inexpensive white quilt from HomeSense and sham covers that were on sale at Pottery Barn. The shams added a necessary hit of pattern and soft colour and gave the room a vintage, cottage-y feel. I also pulled the yellow out of the shams and used HomeSense creamy yellow sheeting. For the walls, I used Farrow & Ball's Pale Powder — a splurge, but well worth it for the truly rich and sophisticated colour.
Beside the bed are a couple of fun projects. First the side table was a little dark walnut-stained piece in the homeowner's basement (FREE!). I used some leftover paint to paint it white and then a little sample pot of Farrow & Ball's Arsenic to hand-paint little contrasting details. I think it looks sweet! Sort of like something they would do in a farmhouse a hundred years ago. Then, I found this great mint-green trellis in their garage and hung it on the wall with some finishing nails. It's the perfect spot to tuck a few photos or postcards. Plus, it adds visual weight beside the bed, given the way it's layered in behind the small side table.
The lamp was a $6 junk-shop score (love the mix of greens in this room), and the shade is new from Ikea. Thank you, Ikea, for finally making regular lamps and shades!!!! Oh, and this classic beauty is only $10! A $16 lamp? You can't beat that! Well, maybe the vintage silhouettes, hand-painted and complete with old tape marks and artist's signature can. They were only $5 each at a local vintage shop. And the flowers were from the garden so they cost nothing. So many deals!
Love that chippy old texture of this painted trellis!
If you want to create a similar look in your space, here are some items to get you started:
If you can't find a real vintage bed, try this vintage-inspired number from Ikea. It costs $190. Throw on a quilt and you've got instant farmhouse style.
For a new version of my silhouette art, try these Thomas Paul melamine plates.
And you can create your own trellis detail with this new one from Home Depot. It costs $27. For paint, I highly recommend Farrow & Ball's Arsenic again — it's such a great colour! Just paint it, tack it to the wall, and tuck in your photos. Presto!
If you enjoyed this post, see another great transformation of mine, Design On A Dime. Plus, be sure to check out our cheap-and-chic DIY headboard ideas, also perfect for a guest room, by Antonio Bellusci and accessories designer and stylist, Sabrina Linn.
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6. Ikea Lillesand Bed Frame
7-8. Thomas Paul Melamine Gothic Plates
9. Home Depot Orosz Trellis
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Wednesday, a friend told me his Wii was bricked because of something stupid his little sister has done. He softmodded his Wii like one year ago, and has never had any troubles. His little sister read on the internet that a patched version of IOS70 would allow here to run Virtual Console games from the SD Card Channel. She tried this out without any permission from my friend, but it didn't work (or so she told). She decided to delete IOS70 and the System Menu to start all over again. Something unexpected happened: the Wii didn't boot...
So, I told my friend that day that I can fix this issue, because I knew he has BootMii/Boot2 installed as he bought his Wii in 2007. Yesterday, I went to his place, and ran Multi-Mod-Manager via Boot2. It booted properly as expected. I selected IOS249 to be sure I was using a working IOS and installed IOS60, followed by System Menu 4.1. I restarted the Wii, but for some strange reason the Wii still didn't boot. I ran Multi-Mod-Manager again, but installed IOS70 and System Menu 4.2 this time. I restarted the Wii, but still no luck.
After trying to install a System Menu with Dop-Mii, WAD Manager and AnyRegion Changer 4.1 (which all failed), I tried to boot a game in Configurable USB Loaderr. The Wii froze after selecting Super Mario Galaxy. I then tried to install a WAD of IOS248[57] via Multi-Mod-Manager, in the hope to get a game running, but the WAD simply didn't install. To be sure it was not a cIOS issue, I considered installing IOS58 (he didn't have it yet), but that also failed. Things really started to weird me out from here.
I opened up SaveGame Manager GX, back-upped all his savegames and Mii Characters and placed them on the computer. Luckily, he had a NAND back-up which was able to save him. After restoring, I installed the missing (c)IOSes, restored his savegames and installed the rest of the applications you would install when softmodding. We have tested some games about 1 hour long, and it seems to work again.
I seriously do not understand what I have done wrong. I am clueless. All his (c)IOSes were still installed, but I couldn't install a thing, boot a game or run the System Menu. This clearly shows that a NAND back-up has to be made, no matter if you have BootMii/IOS or BootMii/Boot2 installed: you don't know it what sort of way it may be of help in the future.


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DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We caught this nearly 28-inch redfish near Compuerta Pass on Baffin Bay's north side.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES This mature brown pelican seized the opportunity of an open bait well at Billing's Marina. It was a brief visit.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Young and old brown pelicans battle over a morsel at the Billing's fish cleaning station.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES These well fed brown pelicans are waiting for discards at the cleaning station.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES The afternoon crowd at Billing's was shoulder to shoulder at the cleaning table.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES If you're fishing with shrimp near Baffin Bay you can count on catching black drum, which are willing and plentiful.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We caught more trout than anything else, but only a fraction of them were keepers like this one.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Randy Barrera fights a keeper black drum near Baffin Bay on a recent unusually calm day.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES This redfish seemed out of place near Compuerta Pass. It was the only one we caught.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We caught five species that day, trout, redfish, drum, sand trout and this lone sheepshead.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Noe Garza has been catching several upper-class trout during recent outings. Our biggest measured about 21 inches, caught by Steve Leal.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES White pelicans migrated to the Coastal Bend a little early this year. And as always some of them hang out at cleaning tables during part of their stay.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES White pelicans are considerably larger than our brown pelicans. And I'm told there is a native flock of whites living year round in the Laguna Madre.
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GOOSE CREEK Goose Creek principal Jimmy Huskey went down swinging, still believing the student at the center of the football teams week-long battle with the High School League was 100 percent eligible.
But on Tuesday, Huskey admitted the school has exhausted all avenues of appeals and there was no other recourse for the states top-ranked football team.
And with that, the Gators season was over.
Goose Creek lost two appeals before the High School Leagues executive committee in five days, and Huskey said another challenge in court would not be fruitful. It was time to move forward and begin the healing process.
Well come back as a bigger and better Gator nation, Huskey said Tuesday at a news conference held at the school.
Goose Creeks football season appeared to be over last week when the executive committee upheld league commissioner Jerome Singletons ruling that the Gators had used an ineligible player in 10 games this season, including a first-round playoff win against Conway on Nov. 9.
The Gators took their case to court on Friday, and Circuit Judge Roger Young granted a temporary restraining order that allowed the school to play in Friday nights game against Bluffton, a 35-25 Gators victory. Young also ruled the executive committee had to convene in open session to reconsider the eligibility requirements based on its rules.
On Monday, Goose Creek pleaded its case again before the committee, which ruled against the Gators for the second time.
Coach Chuck Reedy called his tenure at Goose Creek the most rewarding 11 years of his professional career, but said he will be re-evaluating his future as a coach after dealing with the executive committee.
I will have a difficult time being associated with a group of people like that, he said, referring to the members as puppets.
This has to do with a group of people who disregard the sense of fair play, he said. I begged them fine me, suspend me, or fire me.
Reedy said he was upset that most of the seniors on the team will never play football again.
Thats the part that bothers me, he said.
The school had to pay $3,300 in fines and the final cost of Goose Creeks fight could cost about $10,000. Huskey said the school will have to pay for court costs and for the travel expenses of the executive committee members. The money will come from the football teams profits and not from taxpayers. The attorneys representing Goose Creek Ken Harrell and Chris McCool waived their fees.
Goose Creek, the defending state champion in Division II-AAAA, was 13-0 and riding a 26-game winning streak. Bluffton, the team Goose Creek beat last week, advances and will play at Northwestern in a state semifinal on Friday.
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The only rule there should be is a weight limit and a engine size limit.
then, you should be free to do what every it takes to win.
This is the pinicle of motorcycle racing , and the factories and teams should be allowed to do what ever they can do to win.
It even gives the little teams a chance. Look at the Britton bike. Developed by 1 man and unbeatable. Shame the man passed on, other wise he would be here in Moto gp too!
Dorna is ruining this sport.
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Bio: While being raised by his Spaniard mother, William "Jr" Schott inherits a failing toy factory from his late estranged father. Being a tinker himself, this is "Un Sueno echo Realidad"(dream come true) he makes a new revolutionary line of toys and attempts to sell them in the Americas(at least that's what I think they are called in the Gaslight universe). Alexander Luthor takes an interest in the "Turn-Key" line and buys the rights to the line from Schott. With the money gained from the deal, Schott is able to relocate the factory in Metropolis, hoping to use the popularity of the toys(he helped create) to sell his other lines. He finds that Turn-Key toys are not being sold anywhere, instead being used for more "Practical purposes, rather than entertaining children" as Luthor explains, and suggests he stay and invent for him after stating "Running a business in Metropolis is difficult if you don't know the right people." He refuses, and vows his factory will succeed without the help of the "right people." His factory fails soon after, as industrial accidents(rumored to be caused by Luthor), Toy store boycotts(also Luthor), and public humiliation (from Luthor via newspaper). Enraged, he vows vengeance for the man who destroyed his Sueno(dream)...(where is the n with that little ~sign on top when u need it?, ehh latinos?)
Basic Attk: Melee/ Turn-Key-Steel Paddle Balls
Role: Assassin
Alignment: Villain
Universe of Origin: GasLight
Char. Power: Gaslight Toyman's Trap- Gain extra Attack Speed against trapped enemy.
Passive-Turn-Key-Technology- For every basic attack, gain a stack of "Torque" that passively increases attack speed and increases time limit of Q and E, as well as, increases radius distance for W and R. Stacks are consumed based off of time or distance used. Max of 2/3/4/5 stacks per level
Q- Top-Spin-Swing- TM Spins in place while his Paddle Balls(funny right?)swing with him, hitting any enemies that get close to him. At any time you can reactivate skill to do a swing that will deal extra damage and push the enemy in the direction of the swing. His Main Damage Dealer w/ possiblity for escape
W-Poison-Tipped Jacks- TM shoots a ball from his backpack that releases 3 Jacks at target location when it hits the ground, when an enemy touches a jack they are afflicted with a slowing poison and the jack is consumed. (Number of jacks increase with level). His CC
E- Loco-Motive- While under the effects of spell, TM's movement spd and attk spd is increase. If he activates his Q, he is able to move while spinning, but it's range is smaller. If Poison Jacks spell is used he will leave a trail of jacks behind him, one at a time. Q and W cannot be active at the same time). His Escape or Burst initiator
R- Turn-Key-Pogo- After channeling for a set amount of time, you can pick a point on the map, anywhere within a large radius on the map that can normally be reached, and jump there on your pogo stick. When you land, all champs caught in the circle are stunned, and the closests ones to you receive damage as well. Channeling time increases the further the jump, a large circle marker will appear where you will land for both you and your enemies. (Think Pantheon from LoL)
Questions, comments, and constructive feedback always appreciated.
Also, I'm curious, What Gas "Lit" champ. would you like to see? (Or really anything other than prime)


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On social movements: Expect greater success for activists, but how much?
I am astonished by how many progressive Canadians and Americans I meet who have fallen in love with Barack Obama and believe he is going to make massive changes to the U.S. government. Falling in love often leads to disillusionment, especially in politics. If you have no illusions, you can't be disillusioned. What has been characterized as Obama's slide to the right that has so infuriated many of his supporters didn't surprise me. The importance of Obama's campaign is not that he is a left-winger; John Edwards is much further left. It is not that he has progressive policies, because his policies are no better—and even a little worse on some questions—than Hillary Clinton's. And it is not only because he has an excellent chance of becoming the fi rst African-American president of the United States, which in and of itself would be a good enough reason to support him. It is because his campaign has widened the democratic space in the U.S. by a country mile or maybe more.
Barack Obama is a new breed of politician, one who learned from the experience of American social movements over the last decade. Under the radar of the mainstream media, a huge network of grassroots organizations has emerged at a local and regional level, organizing workers and poor people using techniques they call base-building. People are organized around a plethora of issues from defending the rights of groups under attack, such as immigrants, gays, women and workers, to developing visions for the future, such as the campaign to reclaim cities from upscale renewal, and to end the war in Iraq.
Much of the leadership of these new movements is women and people of colour. Obama worked with just such organizations in Chicago at the beginning of his career and his rhetoric reflects their sensibilities. Unlike almost every other politician, Obama never says, "Vote for me and I will do this or that." Instead he talks about what we can do together. This is the language of a movement leader.
In the U.S. there is a complex relationship between grassroots and mainstream politics. Unlike in Canada, American social-movement groups make no pretense of non-partisanship. While they might be critical of the Democrats, all but the most radical mobilize for them during an election. But what is most important about Obama is that he has reached well beyond these organized forces into a whole layer of youth who have been completely alienated from the electoral process. His honesty, his charisma, his ability to speak genuinely from the heart have cracked the cynicism of millions of Americans, and, as Leonard Cohen would say, it is through the cracks that the light comes in. What is most important about Barack Obama is that he has inspired millions of Americans to believe that democratic change is possible. He has given people hope to replace their despair.
As a result, the pool in which social movements can swim has just gone from the backyard to Olympic size. One example already is the response to the Green for All campaign being organized by a coalition of African-American community organizers and student environmental activists with the goal of creating 5 million green jobs. The focus is to raise billions for projects ranging from the greening of the south Bronx to developing alternative sustainable energy such as wind power and providing jobs to the marginalized and unemployed. Obama adopted the demand and Green for All has already succeeded in getting the fi rst step in legislation. The most savvy American activists I know understand the complicated dance required by Obama's campaign: support him critically and use the campaign to put forward the issues and struggles that are most important to poor and working-class Americans. It is not only that they can more easily get Obama's ear, but, more importantly, as the dominant classes move slightly left, the space for progressive ideas widens considerably in the mainstream.
Whether or not he is as open as he looks is not the issue. Nothing has ever changed in my lifetime without the pressure of social movements. As much as political parties want us to believe they were responsible for advances like medicare and women's rights, each of these ideas was put forward fi rst by social organizations. Only the social movements fi ghting against war and for equality, justice and sustainability will change anything in the United States. With Barack Obama in the White House, their struggles will have much more space to be effective.
For Canadian activists it means a lot. The stronger and more visible U.S. social movements are, the better the climate in Canada for change, too. Cross-border collaborations are increasing by the day. For example, three cross-border groups— Rainforest Action Network, ForestEthics and the Indigenous Environmental Network—were important players in the support for Bob Lovelace and the KI 6, a victorious battle this past spring to free Aboriginal leaders jailed for protecting their land against development. Partly because of their marginalization from power, American social groups have been much more successful at organizing at a grassroots level with poor and working people than we have north of the border. Just maybe we can learn some things from them.
On election campaigns: Expect Jack Layton to friend you on Facebook, and other surprises
While Barack Obama's campaign is redrawing the electoral playbook, Canadian political strategists are paying close attention to the Xs and Os. Both the New Democratic and the Liberal parties had members working as volunteers on Obama's primary campaign this spring.
Some of those volunteers will report back to their parties with ideas gleaned from Obama's staff, and political strategists will add them to the list of notes they've been taking while the Obama campaign has gathered steam.
Canadian and American politics may be different—our parties can't spend an unlimited amount of money, we prefer leadership conventions to extended primary campaigns when choosing candidates and we aren't recovering from a terrorist attack and waging a war in Iraq— but the fundamentals don't change.
Those fundamentals boil down to two things: money and volunteers. Obama has secured both in almost unprecedented numbers, and Canadian politicians of all stripes can point to similar challenges they face that the Obama campaign has found ways to surmount. The Conservative Party is keeping its eye on Obama's bid for the White House, though the party's director of communication, Ryan Sparrow, says the Conservatives are waiting to see the results of the November election before rushing to adopt any of its strategies.
The Liberal party, which has traditionally relied on now-forbidden corporate donations, is eyeing Obama's grassroots fundraising success more greedily than its competitors, who have depended more on individual fundraising among party members.
But Obama's fundraising during the primary season would turn the heads of any party strategists. Campaign contributions had netted him more than $330 million as of July 1. In June alone, Obama took in $52 million. The average donation was just $68. Almost all of that came via the internet.
"[He's] the new paradigm when it comes to raising money in Canadian politics: getting small amounts from a large number of people," says recently elected Liberal Party president Doug Ferguson. "It's fascinating how he's used the internet."
The presumptive Democratic nominee's web savvy has fi lled more than his campaign coffers. It has also provided him with something equally valuable in a hard-fought race: a network of hundreds of thousands of ready volunteers.
Nammi Poorooshasb, assistant director of communications for the NDP, got a firsthand look at this in late June, when the NDP sent him to New York City for the Personal Democracy Forum, which featured a sit-down discussion with the directors of e-campaigns from most of the presidential candidates.
Poorooshasb was hoping to pick up a few pointers for his party. He returned to Ottawa realizing that simply having a website that reaches out to voters who choose to visit isn't enough. You have to put yourself and your party's message in the places they visit. Voters didn't have to find Obama online. He found them.
Whether it's an email from a friend, a group somebody joined on Facebook, one of hundreds of YouTube clips of Obama speaking or an ad purchased by the campaign on CNN.com, the online presence of the Obama campaign has been inescapable.
"One of the things we've defi nitely learned, and we're working to adapt to our own work, is the philosophy that it's important to occupy as much space as possible online," says Poorooshasb.
Obama urged his supporters (via an online video, of course) to "use this website as a tool to organize your friends, your neighbours and your networks … take campaign fundraising into your own hands."
"It's a very smart, very intelligent way to use the internet for organizing," says Ian Capstick, press secretary for the federal NDP. "It's Campaign Web 2.0 instead of 1.0."
Win or lose, Obama's forever changed the way the game is played.
On the oil sands: Expect a slight decrease in U.S. demand
In a June 24, 2008, speech, Barack Obama posed an important question, and one with signifi cant implications for Canada's tar sands: "Each and every year, we become more, not less, addicted to oil—a 19th century fossil fuel that is dirty, dwindling and dangerously expensive. Why?"
Obama didn't answer his rhetorical question, but his comments caused a stir among Canadian tar-sands advocates, who worried that a change in U.S. policy might hurt what has so far been a bonanza of constant expansion. Obama's top energy advisor, Jason Grumet, stoked these concerns by suggesting that worries about climate change may trump use of fuels derived from emissions-intensive sources like the tar sands, which may not "play a growing role in the long-term future."
Rival candidate John McCain, like Obama, supports California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's low-carbon fuel standard, which the right-wing Washington Times notes would "force U.S. refi ners to buy less American and Canadian oil—which come increasingly from dirty sources like shale and tar sands."
If a consensus is emerging around curbing carbon emissions and environmental destruction, then opposing extraction from Alberta's tar sands is the equivalent of campaigning on puppies and sunshine.
Extracting the available oil from Alberta's tar sands will despoil an area the size of Florida, destroy entire rivers, cause an increase in carbon emissions that will likely make it impossible to meet Kyoto targets and contribute to ecological devastation clear to the Arctic Ocean. Already, cancer rates have mushroomed in indigenous communities downstream from the tar sands, and vast areas have been stripped of all surface life. Toxic lakes many kilometres in diameter and vast deserts of toxic waste sand have replaced pristine boreal forest.
Under the Bush administration, the tar sands have been increasingly treated as a backup plan for energy security as plans in the Middle East have gone awry. Whether tar sands take a diminishing role or not depends on what replaces Canada's "dirty oil."
For Obama, the long-term answer is a cap on carbon emissions and increased use of domestically produced biofuel. For McCain, it is a cap on carbon emissions and a stronger military presence in the Middle East, where extraction of oil is not as energy intensive.
Obama's ethanol-friendly energy policies may not be implemented, even if he is elected. Despite claiming to not take money from oil companies (which are not allowed to donate to candidates), Obama has so far accepted $346,150 in donations from oil industry figures, while McCain has accepted $971,418, according to the organization Oil Change International. That money represents favours that can be called in once one of the candidates enters the White House.
In terms of stopping the damaging effects of tar-sands extraction, a best-case Obama-is-elected scenario might result in a slight lessening of U.S. pressure to extract oil from the tar sands at a breakneck pace. However, with potential tarsands customers like China being held at bay by tight U.S.-Canada ties, but ready to step in if the U.S. were to back away, the only force truly able to prevent the damage is pressure from affected communities, social movements and the general public. Or a collapse of the global demand for oil.
On Afghanistan: Expect pressure for an increase in Canadian troops
I'm relieved at the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency.
The neoconservatives will lose their grip on power. To some significant degree, the needless destruction, the horrors of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the disdainful, deceitful approach to diplomacy, will end.
There is no doubt that Obama will be a better president than George W. Bush. His racially mixed background and years spent living abroad have created a capacity for empathy that is almost unique in American political history. This man sees the citizens of other countries as human beings, not pawns on a geopolitical chessboard.
People elsewhere see Obama differently, too. The election of a man of colour whose middle name is Hussein will cause millions, especially in the Muslim world, to reassess their assumptions about the United States.
But let's not get too excited. Many people, including many progressive Americans, will disagree strongly with at least some of Obama's actions on the world stage.
He will inherit a country that spends more on its military than all other countries combined. The military-industrial complex will do its best to influence the new president and, to some degree, it will succeed. New weapons systems will be built, foreign bases maintained, and military aid will remain a central feature of American diplomacy.
It's sometimes said that to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Being given control over a massive military inevitably causes a rethink of foreign policy options, even if cooler heads prevail.
Some of Obama's foreign-policy advisers will actively encourage militaristic thinking. Susan Rice, a former adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, shares her mentor's view of the United States as the "indispensable power," a position earned through the acquisition of overwhelming military might.
With John McCain playing up his military experience, Obama has responded by threatening Iran and promising to move more troops to Afghanistan.
The focus on Afghanistan is seen as a necessary alternative to Iraq. Obama is committed to a withdrawal from Iraq because it's the right policy, and because it gives him a key point of distinction from McCain. But he will not risk being seen as giving up the post-9/11 fight.
Fortunately for Canadians, Jean Chrétien's decision to keep us out of Iraq saves us from this dilemma, enabling principled politicians like Jack Layton to insist that our troops be brought home.
Obama might in fact share this view, even if he feels unable to express it. The problem, however, is that even electorally motivated policies can acquire a momentum that outlives the campaign.
This is especially the case with a first-term president who will, as soon as the election is over, begin thinking about November 2012. Wary of being accused of a flip-flop, Obama will shift direction on Afghanistan only cautiously.
During a foreign policy speech in July, Obama said, "It's time to strengthen NATO by asking more of our allies, while always approaching them with the respect owed a partner." He didn't specifically mention Canada, but a request from this country to do more in Afghanistan is to be expected.
It's the perfect time for Canada to weigh in, but not in favour of more militarism. Our soldiers have carried the heaviest burden, suffering the highest casualty rate of any county. It is unfair to expect more of them. It's time to give the Canadian Forces a break, and focus on diplomacy and development instead.
Politicians and pundits will fume that Canada is abandoning its NATO allies at the very moment a U.S.-led "surge" is about to begin. That position ignores the hard lessons of close to 100 lost Canadian lives. The war in Afghanistan has become just as futile and foolish as the war in Iraq. The faster Americans realize this, the better for everyone concerned.
On NAFTA: Expect further waffling, wiggling and wallowing
As Canadians know, Barack Obama's position on free trade is a slippery one.
In a rare role reversal, Canada made headlines in the United States back in February following the release of a memo suggesting that Obama's campaign-trail NAFTA-bashing was little more than political posturing for the sake of the protectionist states in the Midwest that are watching their manufacturing industries collapse.
In a debate the week prior, Obama had threatened to pull out of NAFTA if Canada and Mexico were not willing to renegotiate the deal with improved labour and environmental standards. This left NAFTA naysayers giddy with hope that an Obama presidency would also mean a meaningful rewrite to the deal, which has delivered job losses and weaker environmental protections and undermined democracy by giving corporations legal authority, rather than providing the prosperity promised when it was signed 15 years ago.
That hope was short-lived, however, as news emerged that Obama's chief economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, had allegedly told the Canadian consulate in Chicago that the comments were merely campaign protectionist rhetoric. Dubbed NAFTAgate by the mainstream media, the incident dulled any hope of fundamental change to trade on this continent and may have cost Obama a victory in the Ohio primary.
As it is for the NDP in Canada, NAFTA is seen as a vote getter for certain democratic demographics south of the border. Bill Clinton campaigned on revising the agreement, negotiated under George W. Bush, but passed it unamended soon after settling into the White House.
Obama too has hyped the anti-NAFTA rhetoric on the campaign trail. In 2007, he said that if elected he would immediately call the leaders of Mexico and Canada to reopen NAFTA because the deal "should reflect the basic principle that our trade agreements should not just be good for Wall Street, it should also be good for Main Street."
But it seems unlikely Obama would do anything too radical with NAFTA. "I am a pro-growth, free-market guy," he told CNBC shortly after his coronation as presumptive Democratic candidate in April. "I love the market."
For Obama, the market is simply out of balance. His remedy to right the scales is improved trade agreements, a position he says is reflected in his past voting record.
The Illinois senator supported a deal between the U.S. and Peru in 2005, but has opposed agreements he says contain insufficient labour and environmental protections, such as a deal with Colombia, arguably the worst humanrights violator in the hemisphere.
While many Canadians would like to see NAFTA repealed, the best that can be realistically hoped for is that Obama will make good on his promise to open the deal and renegotiate. After the results of 15 years of NAFTA, many critics on this side of the border would settle for basic, yet fundamental improvements.
On race: Expect Canadian politics to stay (mostly) white
Let me begin with a confession: The phenomenon that is Barack Obama so fascinated me that I was left in the throes of a rather buoyant addiction to the U.S. Democratic primaries. CNN reports radiated from my television 24 hours a day. I compulsively perused half a dozen newspapers and twice as many websites to keep myself up-to-date on the Obama-Clinton race. Never had I conceived of a time when a black man might clinch a nomination of a major American political primary, but now that Obama is the presumptive nominee, and the election has shifted in the way of uninspiring drivel and a choice between lesser evils, my CNN days are in drastic decline. If I were able to vote in the U.S. election, I would have no candidate to vote for.
It's clear now that Obama's emergence comes more from what he represents than the politics he has articulated. As pundit after pundit has pointed out, there is little difference between the positions and policies of Obama and his former, more conservative rival, Hillary Clinton, especially regarding the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the war in Afghanistan. Obama and Republican nominee John McCain are shockingly similar in their market policies as well. Both of them, with minor differences, believe in a free market that regulates itself. Don't expect any fundamental political change come January 2009.
Barack Obama is not the liberal, inspirational, policy saviour that the U.S. and the world needs, and once observers here accept this fact, they can proceed to think carefully about what his emergence means for black Canadians and the Canadian political system.
The truth is that Obama buttresses the myth that those who work hard enough can achieve what they want, which continues to hold sway over what is possible for those outside America's mythical origins. In many ways, the realities of multiculturalism just do not measure up, especially in the Canadian political system.
The parliamentary closed-shop of Canadian party politics makes it especially difficult to be an insurgent candidate, and the fabricated story of Obama as an outsider breaking into U.S. politics is not about to make itself present in Canadian politics.
Whenever attitudes toward black people in the U.S. shift and change, Canada follows suit and mirrors its lead on race relations. The history of civil rights in the U.S. and its forced inclusion of African Americans warranted similar changes in Canada as well. In Canada we follow the U.S. on these questions in a manner that suggests questions of race and racism are not a fundamental aspect of Canadian nation-building, and thus not a priority for our own national consciousness. At least in the U.S. it is impossible to pretend that race, racism and thus race relations are not central to its national formation and its contemporary conversations.
Obama's meteoric rise was planned, crafted and strategically executed by him and his Chicago political backers and has no Canadian counterpart. In a political context, Canada is a scene devoid of black Canadians in the upper echelons who could be rolled out in the same fashion as Obama. In the Canadian party system, sponsorship still operates in a fairly narrow realm of WASP family dynasties. Additionally, the demographics both in terms of population numbers and geographic concentration of black Canadians means that they do not exercise votingbloc practices in federal, provincial and municipal elections, which means they are not specifically courted. Insurgent black candidates who could use party connections to emerge as representative figures are non-existent in our system because of this.
More profoundly, black Canadians only tangentially identify as a national group, preferring instead to be Nigerian or Barbadian or Somali. In this multicultural, multiracial nation of ours, politics is still a white game. Politicians continually trumpet our demographics while keeping almost every level of government essentially white. If Obama's Democratic nomination means anything for black Canadians, it is a rebuke of our multicultural reality, which is fraught with a quite serious lie: being black still signals to many that you might not be Canadian and therefore do not legitimately belong, despite our touted multicultural citizenry.
Contemporary Canada likes to recognize itself as a nation of immigrants but when it comes to articulating the future vision of nation, province and city, the founding fathers return with a vengeance to tell us black Canadians just where our place is: following their vision, not adding to it or directing what it should be. Obama's symbolism should remind us of this failure in a country that requires more and more immigrants to secure its continued economic health and wealth.
In the realm of politics, who are the black Canadians? If Obama's symbolism is to mean anything, it might produce more Carol-Anne Wrights and Rosemary Browns (remember them?). For that to happen, though, the closed-shop party system needs to have its doors smashed wide open.
What Obama means to Canadian cartoonists
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On anti-Americanism: Expect less, but what will replace George W. to unify the left?
For 50 years, the compass of Canadian politics has been broken. In other countries, there is left and there is right, progressive and conservative, social justice and inherited privilege, equality and inequality. In Canada, those axes have too often been pulled out of line, distorted into a simple geometry defi ned by the United States: pro or anti.
Are we brave enough to imagine a Canadian left without anti-Americanism? Can we envision a Canada in which our politics are defi ned by our attitudes toward important public issues and not by our attitudes toward the United States?
A Barack Obama presidency offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to remove this lodestone from our political compass. Eight years of George W. Bush have made it almost impossible to imagine a Canada in which the left-toright spectrum isn't simply a measure of attitudes toward the States. Or, even better, a Canada in which progressives take the lead in opening borders and building continent-wide communities.
It doesn't matter whether Obama proves to be liberal or social democratic or dully centrist, exciting or fumbling or disappointing, or whether he wants to broaden NAFTA or shut it down. The larger opportunity for the Canadian left—by which I mean both the NDP and the socialdemocratic branches of the Liberal Party—is one of mindset and perspective: With a United States we can admire and consider a partner, voters and party members can be inspired by something other than resistance and rejection.
It will be a jarring change. Without the distorting factor of anti-Americanism, do we even know what progressive values are? Look at one important recent example: In other countries, parties on the left are opposed to governments taking money from working citizens and handing it to wealthy corporations—such acts are called "regressive."
In Canada, the Liberals and NDP spent a decade and a half fi ghting to give billions in government money and cutprice public land to wealthy softwoodlumber companies in order to give them an unfair trade advantage.
Why did a massive transfer of wealth from working people to corporations become a major cause for the left? For only one reason: the United States opposed it.
It did not have to be this way. Nationalism is supposed to be a hallmark of the right. But something changed exactly 50 years ago.
"There is a definite feel of nationalism in Canada—anti-Americanism if you will," a wealthy Ontario businessman wrote to the Liberal opposition leader, Lester B. Pearson, in 1958, "and the Tories capitalized on this." Indeed, for most of Canada's history, isolationism had been the purview of Tories.
That wealthy businessman, Walter Gordon, helped engineer a reversal of political roles that did two generations of damage: He convinced Pearson that what Canada needed was not to build a strong domestic economy and knowledge base, but rather to resist U.S. investment and build a coddled, closed Canadian economy that helped big companies like his family's Clarkson Gordon, and badly hurt investment-seeking entrepreneurs (also making possible such hidden abuses as Conrad Black's fraudulent empire).
Because of the unpopularity of the Vietnam War, such ideas got far more of an audience than they deserved, and the left became preoccupied with the nonexistent "Americanization of Canada" at precisely the moment when Canada actually had the best chance to assert its economy and culture on the world. And at a moment when the U.S. had the most progressive government in its history, under Lyndon B. Johnson, Canada's Liberals missed an opportunity to begin building something like the modern European Union. Instead, we turned inward.
There were heroic efforts to resist the anti-American impulse. Pearson kept Gordon's worst ideas from becoming policy. And, when the NDP began to be infected by those ideas, leader David Lewis purged the Waffl e faction, a nationalist and economically authoritarian movement opposed to any U.S. engagement—a move that allowed the NDP to rise to its apex of popularity.
But that all collapsed in 1988, when the NAFTA debate crippled the Canadian left. By identifying itself as an anti- American party (even though many of its leaders and members held far more complex and interesting views on the deal), the NDP won seats in that election, but spent most of the next two decades—the most successful two decades in Canadian economic history—sidelined by voters as a single-issue party.
The Liberals were poisoned, too: The decade-long feud between their left and centre prevented the Clinton years from becoming the moment of continental harmony they could have been. And because of lingering anti- Americanism on their party's left, they rejected the exciting leadership of Michael Ignatieff on jingoistic grounds, a decision that is costing them dearly at the moment.
And, worst of all, the job of building bridges to the U.S. was surrendered to the right. So instead of a pact that could have included free cross-border mobility, common citizenship and shared public services and standards, we have a limited trade and investment pact that forces Canada into long-term resource deals it might not want.
Imagine how different it could have been. Look at what Europe's parties managed to accomplish in the same period. After fi ve decades of missed opportunities, we may soon get a chance to straighten out our heads.


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London Film Locations Walk
Clive really entertained us with lots of interesting and fascinating stories for over 2 hours.
Lisa Stanley
This 2 hour guided walking tour is action packed with Blockbuster film locations. You will follow onscreen heroes such as James Bond, Jason Bourne, Johnny English and Jack Bauer as they fight to protect London and defeat the bad guys.
Some of the film locations included have been used in films such as Skyfall, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Sweeney, The Da Vinci Code, V for Vendetta, Kick Ass, Johnny English Reborn and the latest series of 24.
The tour is also a great way to see some of London's famous landmarks including Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament, the London Eye and much more.
As you go on this cinematic journey through the heart of the capital you will see stills taken from the films mentioned as you stop at the actual locations and hear fascinating behind the scenes information.
The tour will include plenty of opportunities to take photos as well as seeing the locations up close. As with all our walking tours we limit the size of the group to 25 people to ensure you have a positive experience and can easily see your guide.
The walk will finish near at Waterloo station. Customer Reviews.
- Visit filming locations depicting iconic scenes from more than 20 films
- Visit film locations featured in Bourne Ultimatum, Edge of Tomorrow, Mission Impossible 5, Johnny English, Fantastic Four amongst many others
- Get insight into the making of films with behind the scenes facts and trivia
- See and learn about London's major landmarks
Saturday at 10am (Apr – Oct 2015)
Wednesday at 10am (Jun – Sep 2015)
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How Long?
2 hours
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Adult (16 years+): £12 Child (Under 16) / Senior / Student: £10
Meet where?
Outside Charing Cross railway station in front of Boots next to the Charing Cross Hotel How to get there or See map
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Waterloo Station
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- Introduction
- Music
- Dance
- Theatre
- Motion Pictures
Classical Music.
A tidal wave of anniversary observances characterized classical music in 2000. The centennials of the births of composers Aaron Copland and Kurt Weill were celebrated with festivals, and the anniversaries of the deaths of two giants were commemorated: composer Johann Sebastian Bach's 250th anniversary and conductor Leonard Bernstein's 10th. The 50th observation of the birth of another composer, Gioacchino Rossini, born on Feb. 29, 1792, was made during the leap year. Though the centennial of the death of Giuseppe Verdi was not until 2001, many opera companies designed their 2000–01 season as a Verdi year.
Two of the world's leading orchestras, the Vienna Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra, celebrated their centennials at home and on tour. Boston's Symphony Hall marked its 100th anniversary with a festival. In Vermont the Marlboro Music Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary, and Sony Classical records issued a set of two compact discs (CDs) of archival recordings featuring pianist and festival founder Rudolf Serkin.
Two of the most important events in the history of Western music were recognized with anniversaries—the 300th anniversary of the invention of the piano and the 400th anniversary of the invention of opera. Though both of these were developed over a period of years, the year 2000 was chosen to mark these milestones.
The most spectacular CD celebration of the piano anniversary was the 200-disc collection Great Pianists of the 20th Century. A particularly notable festival was held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with an exhibit titled "Piano 300: Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos." Highlighting the festivities were classical and jazz performances by recent winners of top piano competitions in the U.S., including Christopher Basso, winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs; Ning An, triumphant in both the Sixth American National Chopin Piano Competition and the 1999 Queen Elizabeth Music Competition; and Eric Lewis, winner of the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. In addition, a daylong piano film seminar featured films and discussions on Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, Serkin, and Arthur Rubinstein.
Two notable productions were staged of Aida, the grandest of Verdi's grand operas. In Detroit, as a prelude to a yearlong Verdi festival, the Michigan Opera Theatre offered a minimalist production that omitted the usual expensive pageantry, including scenery and costumes. Aida in Concert starred Luciano Pavarotti in the leading role of Radames. In Shanghai, however, Aida received what was described as the most extravagant production ever given to it or any other opera. A cast of 2,116 in the triumphal scene featured not only 1,650 Egyptian legionnaires portrayed by People's Liberation Army soldiers but also elephants, camels, lions, tigers, a panther, and a boa constrictor. The famous Grand March was repeated three times to accompany the long marching line, and the libretto was modified to give the opera a happy ending. Large video screens were provided for the audience of some 50,000 in a sports stadium, and the performance was produced for television.
In the summer of 2000, an opera staged essentially for TV reached American screens. La Traviata from Paris was filmed in such locations as the Hotel Boisgelin, the Petit-Palais, and Le Hameau de la Reine, a rustic retreat at Versailles, France, once used by Marie-Antoinette.
Opera entered its fifth century with remarkable vigour. At least 27 world premieres were scheduled for the 2000–01 season. In Finland 16 new operas by Finnish composers had premieres in 2000. Premieres by American companies included Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, performed by the San Francisco Opera; Diedre Murray's Fangs and Randy Weiner's Swimming with Watermelons, both played by New York's Music-Theatre Group; and Minoru Miki's The Tale of Genji, performed by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Mo.). Elsewhere, the most unusual debut was that of The Age of Dreams, a trilogy produced by Finland's Savonlinna Opera Festival. The three librettos, "Now and Forever," "Maria's Love," and "The Book of Secrets," were all written by Paavo Rintala, but the music was provided by three different composers—Herman Rechberger, Olli Kortekangas, and Kalevi Aho.
Other notable new operas included José Luis Turina's Don Quijote in Barcelona at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, and Aulis Sallinen's King Lear at the Finnish National Opera. Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin, based on Émile Zola's novel of the same title, was scheduled for production in the 2001–02 season. Muhammad Ali—based on the life of the former world heavyweight boxing champion—was completed by John Duffy with a libretto by sportswriter Robert Lipsyte, but it was still awaiting a production company. Il Giocatore, composed by Joyce Whitelaw with a libretto by Eddie Orton, premiered in Berkeley, Calif., and featured an Italian golfer playing in Scotland; the action was a metaphor for the relationship of the British Isles to Europe's "new economy."
Probably the year's most unusual operatic subject was that of Parthenogenesis—a 40-minute music-theatre piece based on a persistent but presumably mythic bit of urban folklore—about a young woman who asexually gives birth to a daughter in Germany during World War II. Rowan Williams, the Anglican archbishop of Wales, collaborated with composer James MacMillan and poet-librettist Michael Symmons Roberts on this opera.
The Glyndebourne Touring Opera company, based in the U.K., enraged some of its older patrons and intrigued some of its younger ones with a modernized production of Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème; principal male characters Marcello and Rodolfo were shown using cocaine.
The English National Opera implemented a new cost-cutting idea—use of the same basic set for all 10 of its Italian opera productions in the 2000–01 season—operas as varied as Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Verdi's Nabucco, Claudio Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, and Gioacchino Rossini's The Turk in Italy.
The Houston (Texas) Grand Opera embarked on a program to produce digital audio and video recordings of new operas it had premiered. Houston had commissioned more new works than any other major American company and had been discouraged by the fact that record labels showed little interest in the material. After paying production costs, the company would offer the finished products to recording companies and possibly distribute them via the Internet.
Though opera was dubbed the "hottest ticket" in an otherwise diminishing classical-music market, one perennial opera-related attraction seemed to be waning. The "Three Tenors" extravaganzas starring José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti began to run into buyer resistance after having played to enormous audiences in arenas and football stadiums for a decade and having charged up to $600 for a ticket. One concert was canceled owing to insufficient ticket sales, and the future of such concerts seemed uncertain.
For Domingo, however, the future looked bright. He became the first male opera singer to receive the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement since its inception 23 years earlier. Six women singers had received the award: Marian Anderson, Marilyn Horne, Jessye Norman, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, and Risë Stevens. Domingo took on new administrative responsibilities as the artistic director of the Los Angeles Opera—a position that he already had and continued to hold at the Washington (D.C.) Opera. His conducting career also continued, notably with Il trovatore in Washington, and he sang critically acclaimed performances in some demanding Wagnerian roles—Parsifal in Washington and Siegmund in Bayreuth, Ger. In addition, he made his American debut as a song recitalist in Chicago, with Daniel Barenboim as his pianist.
Gramophone Award winners included Antonio Pappanos, music director designate of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; sopranos Barbara Bonney and Angela Gheorghiu; tenor Carlo Bergonzi; composer Elliott Carter; and conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Rattle was honoured three times; his recording of Karol Szymanowski's King Roger took the Opera award, and his recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10 won both the orchestral award and the Record of the Year citation.
The persona of Leonard Bernstein seemed vigorously present, despite his demise a decade earlier. More than 50 Internet pages were devoted to him, including an official page, www.leonardbernstein.com, with links to many other pages, notably <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html>, the Library of Congress page. The Sony record label released The Bernstein Century, a massive reissue of his records; Deutsche Grammophon reissued recordings of his freelance conducting performances, most notably his extraordinary work with the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as its most recent memorial production— Lenny: The Legend Lives On,a wide-ranging and low-priced six-CD collection; and the New York Philharmonic issued Bernstein Live!, a limited-edition set of 10 CDs that contained the first commercial release of 33 performances taped between 1956 and 1981.
Bach's work had a similar vitality. Several record companies issued complete or near-complete recordings of his surviving works, and an Internet site, the Bach Digital Project, was set up to provide a database with his manuscripts and other documents in a format easily accessible worldwide: <www.bachdigital.org>.
Michael Kaiser, who had successfully brought the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, through a series of financial and artistic crises, accepted the presidency of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Kent Nagano, a native of California who had been working largely in Europe, was appointed principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Opera, beginning in July 2001. Nagano, former artistic director of the Opéra National de Lyon, would remain the music director of the Deutsche Symphonie in Berlin. In other notable appointments, Vladimir Jurowski was chosen to succeed Andrew Davis as music director of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex, Eng. After the post of royal harpist to the prince of Wales had gone unfilled for more than a century, Great Britain's Prince Charles appointed Catrin Finch, a 20-year-old native of Wales. Grant Llewellyn, another native of Wales, was appointed artistic director of the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston and was to begin July 1, 2001. He would succeed Christopher Hogwood, who had led the organization for 15 years and would continue his association as conductor laureate. Kurt Masur, music director of the New York Philharmonic since 1991, was to succeed Charles Dutoit as music director of the Orchestre National de France in the 2001–02 season. Masur had also served as the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2000–01 season. Itzhak Perlman was appointed principal guest conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for three seasons. He would conduct (and occasionally play violin solos) in Detroit for three weeks each season. Yury Temirkanov began his tenure as music director of the Baltimore (Md.) Symphony Orchestra. Zarin Mehta, brother of conductor Zubin Mehta, was appointed executive director of the New York Philharmonic, which was finding it difficult to fill Masur's vacated post of music director. Riccardo Muti considered an offer but declined. The shortage of suitable candidates was exacerbated by the fact that both the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra were also looking for new music directors. In addition, all three orchestras traditionally seemed to rule out women applicants or those native to the U.S.
Among the most prominent deaths were those of French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal; American composer Alan Hovhaness; Canadian composers Violet Archer, Jean Papineau-Couture, and Barbara Pentland; Austrian bass-baritone Walter Berry; Canadian baritone Louis Quilico; Austrian pianist and composer Friedrich Gulda; American musicologist and educator William Stein Newman; and American violinist Oscar Shumsky. Other notable losses included American critic and musicologist Henry Pleasants, American recorder virtuoso Bernard Krainis, Belgian soprano Suzanne Danco, Scottish composer Iain Hamilton, American conductor Richard Dufallo, Irish tenor Frank Patterson, Boston radio station WGBH-FM host and producer Robert J. Lurtsema, Italian tenor Cesare Valletti, Finnish bass-baritone Kim Borg, British baritone Roy Henderson, British trumpeter Philip Jones, and American conductor Margaret Harris, who had been the first black woman to conduct the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles, among other cities.


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I don't normally keep people so up to date, but the HeatMiser WiFi thermostat that I reviewed for RegHardware seems to have attracted quite a few questions.
Today they've put them on their website for pre-order, and there are three versions. The PRS-TS version that I reviewed has the combined timer and thermostat. There's also a thermostat only model, the DT-TS, if you have a timeswitch already, and the PRTHW-TS, which is the same as the one I reviewed, but with the addition of another output to control a hot water cylinder.
All are available either on their own for £154.99, or with the RF receiver for £199. And there's good news for Android users too – there should be an app available on the 16th.
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The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return. Sadhu Sundar Singh
Poor souls are apt to think that all those whom they read or hear of to be gone to heaven, went there because they were so good and holy...Yet not one of them, not any one that is now in heaven (Jesus Christ alone excepted), did ever come there any other way but by forgiveness of sins. John Owen
Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness. Joyce Meyer
None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate. Lewis B. Smedes
It takes a lot of emotional and psychological energy to keep a wound open, to keep a grudge alive. The longer I allow a wound to fester, the more bitterness, anger and self-pity poison my blood and eat at my heart. Albert Haase
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive--and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus--and here is the awful cost of such freedom--a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.' But my uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self centred human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender. Gordon Dalbey
If slighted, slight the slight, and love the slighter. Anonymous
He that carries bitterness to bed with him will find the devil creeping between the sheets. William Secher
The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others. Warren W. Wiersbe
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. Anonymous
What if thou hadst committed the sins of a thousand? What if thou hadst committed the sins of a million worlds? Christ's righteousness will cover, Christ's blood will cleanse thee from the guilt of all. Sermons of George Whitefield
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting...Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice. Lewis B. Smedes
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour. Roy Lessin
The Christian communities in which we live play a vital role in the business of forgiveness. No matter what the Bible says, and no matter what the bishop pronounces, it is the community that forgives the sinner and receives him or her back into fellowship or 'retains the sin' and closes the door on the sinner. The gospel story of the raising of Lazarus has some application here (John 11:1-44). Jesus brought Lazarus back to life, but it was the community that was given the job of unbinding him. You may want to reflect on the life of the community in which you live. Is it a forgiving, reconciling community which will receive back the individual who has missed the mark? How could your community be more forgiving? More loving? More an instrument of reconciliation? Bob Libby
I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before. Heather Mercer - Christian Aid Worker who was imprisoned in Afghanistan, 2001.
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel Johnson
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. David McArthur
Unforgiveness is like a scratch on an old record. The song never goes on to the end, it keeps the beautiful music yet to be released unheard and all that resounds are the same old three or four chords again and again and again. Katherine Walden
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them. John Calvin
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This week people around the world will celebrate Christmas. Regardless of one's religious beliefs, there's no denying Christmas is the world's preeminent holiday.
It's ideals of peace, love and joy are transcendent. And who doesn't enjoy giving and receiving gifts? The look on a child's face on Christmas morning makes the allure of Christmas easy to understand.
Mankind has done its best to diminish Christmas over the centuries. War, hatred, prejudice, commercialism and a slew of other problems have taken a toll on us. Last week 20 elementary school children in Connecticut were murdered. That incomprehensible tragedy has no doubt cast a long shadow on this season's holiday, but nothing has kept Christmas from streamrolling through time. We anticipate Christmas each year just as our parents, grandparents and thousands of other ancestors did.
Christmas has certainly changed. While the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus remains the central aspect of the holiday, there's no denying it has become much more secular, much more commercial. But through all the changes, Christmas remains the most important day on the calendar.
This week families all over the world will gather to share the Christmas holiday. Dinners, gifts, stories from Christmas past will be part of the celebrations.
These are particularly good days for most children. As Christmas nears their excitement builds. Just one more holiday television special and they may explode in a fit of spontaneous human enthusiasm.
Christmas is all good for children. They're not stressed about holiday shopping, not worried about getting the house ready for company.
It should be just as good for adults. While it's bound to be a few hectic days leading up to Christmas, take a few moments here and there to relax and enjoy the holiday spirit all around us. No amount of stress will keep Christmas from coming.
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I was looking for a "cheap" dbl pedal, and had messed around with a 5K and a 9K (9K is ridiculously smooth.....way too much cake though) at GC, and thought that the 3K would at least be similar.....I also picked up the 3K Brand New in box for a good price.
I immediately felt the Camco pedal was lighter and faster, and that hasn't changed much....
I also didn't play a lot with my heel down at GC....I would have noticed how horrendous that cheese grater is if I had.
Still trying to make it work, all different spring angles/tensions, etc.....I have to try and change out the beater, that in itself may make the difference I am looking for.
Jeez! When GAS becomes a problem... oO Crazy to buy something that isn't as good as your current pedal, you should have picked up another Camco!
You probably didn't spend enough time or do enough research to catch that heel-plate issue, have heard a few other people complain about it.
Can't blame you though, I hate trying out stuff at stores, I always feel a bit guilty. Still, I think that helps me use stuff in a way that ensures it doesn't lose any of its value due to poor or abusive usage. Really feel awful to see gear in stores that's been so poorly treated it can't be sold, since most people want shine more than substance these days.
Back on topic: you should keep wrestling with the pedal for a bit before taking a decision to pawn it off. Sometimes stuff grows on you. Maybe the bristley heel plate is a message that you need to play heel up! ;)
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