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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
SpinTunes 1: Round 4 Songs
The deadline for the judges to get their reviews done is August 15th, at 11:59PM EST. The reviews & results will be posted on the 16th. The popular vote will stay open until the judges deadline.
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The judges do NOT get to pick the winner of this final round. Everyone who originally signed up for this contest, who ALSO submitted at least 1 song (shadows included) will get to vote on who wins. Some people entered as teams or bands (Godz Poodlz for example), and those bands will only get 1 vote...not 1 vote for each member. If bandmates disagree on who they should vote for, how they decide to cast that 1 vote is up to them. If it's just 2 people, their votes would cancel out anyways.
So again...you have to be one of the 31 original people who signed up if you want to vote, and you need to have submitted at least 1 song to the contest. Shadows count, but if you haven't turned one in by now...you will not be voting. The voting will be done via e-mail, and you have until the judges deadline (August 15th, at 11:59PM EST) to get those votes in my inbox.
When you e-mail me your vote, title the e-mail "(Your Name) - Round 4 Vote". The only thing I want in the body of the e-mail is the name of whoever you are voting for. I don't want any justifications or added commentary...just a name. (Kevin or Ross)
I counted 23 people who are allowed to vote (correct me if I'm wrong), but if someone doesn't cast a vote by the deadline, they just don't get a vote. I'll try to remember to send e-mail reminders out since some of those people have been eliminated for awhile now. If there is a tie, the popular vote is the first deciding factor, and then the judges are the last deciding factor.
Good luck guys,
Reviews & Links Of Interest For This Round:
- Mark wrote a song bio for his round 4 shadow. LINKAGE
- Paul Peterson submitted a shadow for round 1 called "Hero". LINKAGE
- Paul Peterson also submitted a shadow for round 3 called "Expectations". LINKAGE
- Denise Hudson submitted a shadow for round 3 called "Mercy Killing". LINKAGE
- The Boffo Yux Dudes now have a video for their round 1 song "The Ballad Of Henry Pym ". LINKAGE
- Russ Rogers, of Godz Poodlz, went on YouTube to perform the song he was working on for round 3 called "Always Be My Girl". LINKAGE
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My placing third in Round 3 puts me in an odd position to bring these things up, but I think others will see that it's worth talking about. To downplay any bias I may seem to have because of my Round 3 ranking, I'll let slip that, given the choice between Kevin and Ross in Round 4, I actually already voted last night for Ross (no offense Kevin, I really dig you as a songwriter!). So all other things being equal, I'd have no interest in trying to disqualify the song that I myself voted for out of the two.ReplyDelete
So far in this contest, entries have only been disqualified from contention on the basis of deadlines. All else has been left up to judges as they see fit, subjectively assessing how well a challenge has been met as well as whatever other factors they felt like considering about each song. Subjectivity in many aspects of judgment is, of course, a given. But it's another thing when a submission objectively fails to meet criteria. And Ross' song is less than three minutes long, and by my reckoning, there are not a minimum of 30 seconds for each of at least three different ethnic styles.
If only deadlines can disqualify, then this means that, in any round, including the final one, anyone still in contention could have, one minute after a challenge was revealed, recorded a one-second-long song consisting only of an "Ah" being sung a capella on a single note, turned it in, and expected the submission to be considered a valid entry for contention in the given round. Because it made the deadline. And because it's being left to the judges to worry about everything else.
Now, none of us is likely to ever do that in a contest like this. But there's a pretty important question here. Would such an entry be allowed into a round as valid, or would it be disqualified up front?
Based on how things have worked so far, with only deadlines being grounds for disqualification, then the answer has to be that this song would be allowed in. How does everyone feel about that?
If that song wouldn't be allowed in, though, then there's another important question, which is where the line is, on one side of which an entry is deemed disqualified up front, and on the other side of which the entry is allowed go into contention against others. Without an answer for this, without knowing where that line is, it's problematic to say that a one-second "Ah" song should not be passed on -- and equally problematic to say that any other song should be put up for voting even though it failed to meet some really clear criteria just as objectively as if a deadline had not been met.
Depending on how these questions are answered, the results of past rounds might have ended up very differently. Related issues are being discussed and may have an impact on future contests. But here we all are having to judge and cast a vote for a round that's still undecided, so I think it's worth at least asking the question: is it a given that the entries from Kevin and Ross are the two entries we should all be weighing as we choose who to vote for in Round 4?
Listen, I'll be fine if things go on as they're going. I just felt these things were worth discussing, in general but also while there is still the opportunity for them to make a difference in some way other than hindsight. And I'd have felt the same even if I'd placed very differently in Round 3.
Mark a.k.a. OHB
"If only deadlines can disqualify, then this means that, in any round, including the final one, anyone still in contention could have, one minute after a challenge was revealed, recorded a one-second-long song consisting only of an "Ah" being sung a capella on a single note, turned it in, and expected the submission to be considered a valid entry for contention in the given round." - MarkReplyDelete
A song not having lyrics is another way to disqualify yourself...it's in the rules. However let's say someone just threw something together that was 10 seconds long & had 1 line of lyrics. Well that would probably end up being a judgement call on my part or the judges. If it was the final round & this happened I would be inclined to use an alternate. In the case of the song Ross submitted that is clearly not the case. Effort, skill & time went into his submission & it's up to his peers to decide how much (if any) to penalize him for being a few seconds short. The judges had to do the same thing in the first 3 rounds, and now it's everyone else's turn to deal with that issue.
You do point out some flaws with the current system though, and hopefully they'll be fixed for the next edition. Good thing judging guidelines & a new final round format are all up for possible change.
"is it a given that the entries from Kevin and Ross are the two entries we should all be weighing as we choose who to vote for in Round 4?" - Mark
Yep. Stays as is. Both people put a lot of effort into the final round, and turned in solid tunes.
Thanks for the response. I certainly see that keeping things as is can make sense if for no other reason than that it keeps Round 4 consistent with everything that came before.ReplyDelete
Maybe I exaggerated too much to make the point. Sure, 10 seconds with one line of lyrics. Even two minutes with plenty of lyrics, but with no attempt to qualitatively meet the stated challenge. And I know full well that this isn't the case for either current Round 4 finalist, both of which absolutely do show, as you say, effort, skill and time put in.
The point is the basis on which you and the judges might decide to make that judgment call. If an objective deadline is not a question, it seems tremendously odd to me that other purely objective requirements are questionable (and therefore not requirements at all) and could lead you and the judges to let a song through, while other subjective things could actually lead you and the judges to make the call to pull a song rather than just let judges develop their subjective opinions about it.
In the end, and I hope it's okay I'm making the comment here rather than on the general contest planning post, I think there's an appropriate role breakdown to make. Contest runners should qualify entries on the basis of unambiguous objective criteria -- requirements. The entries that make it past that should then be passed onto judges who would judge subjectively based on all other criteria, which by definition wouldn't be requirements.
And incidentally, that's exactly why I can stand by my own vote for Ross' song even though I also can believe that his song shouldn't have been eligible for Round 4 voting in the first place. My role in Round 4 is judge, not contest runner. If the contest runners are passing songs by Kevin and Ross on for contention, I believe that my job as a judge is *not* to deal with objective criteria but only with subjective ones.
Thanks for the discussion.
Mark a.k.a. OHB
Well, I make no secret that my vote cast in the popular voting was for Kevin. I blog about it here:ReplyDelete
The sum of my reasoning is that it is pointless to express ANY requirement for length if it is simply going to be ignored. Not wanting this to be a pointless contest, I'm taking the astonishing (and apparently unprecedented) position that a "requirement" is a REQUIREMENT, as in, "it is required, not optional."
As I've said before, "crashing and burning in style is STILL crashing and burning." Ross crashed and burned in style by not meeting a REQUIREMENT. It doesn't matter one bit how hard he worked on it, and it doesn't matter how much I enjoy it; he didn't deliver the goods. It's a really great song that objectively fails to meet this challenge.
Neither am I going to rationalize that because there are judges who apparently don't care that there are requirements, It's cool for me to ignore them, too. It's NOT cool. It's like showing up to a sporting event with insufficient players to field a team, and claiming that you shouldn't forfeit because you failed to follow the rules. Or awarding Tommy the widely-missed goal, because -- gosh darn it -- he tried so HARD. I submit with all seriousness that there is no sensible argument you can make to allow it. By this I unapologetically mean that none of the arguments regarding allowing Ross' entry make any logical sense whatsoever.
If you don't want the time to be a requirement, fine... DON'T PUT IT IN THE CHALLENGE at all. Don't use the word "minimum". But it's THERE. Live with it. Don't change the rules after the fact.
There are multiple requirements each round, and it was left up to the judges to decide how harshly to rank each person if they did not meet those requirements. This round it's the peers who are the judges...it's not changing the rules to give them the same option.ReplyDelete
- Steve DurandAugust 13, 2010 at 12:54 AM
In your post you don't specifically say where to send the e-mail. I assume it is the same e-mail address to which we sent our songs during the competition. Is that correct?
*facepalm* Thanks for mentioning that Steve. Yes it's the same e-mail you've used to submit songs in the past. I'll repost it up above in just a minute.ReplyDelete
It's not quite true that things were left up to the judges. At minimum, the deadline wasn't. No judge is free to vote for someone who submits after the deadline. Maybe there are a couple of other things like that, too. Which is why I believe the fundamental issue underneath this whole discussion is separating clear objective criteria to be handled before entries are put up for judging from all remaining criteria that would be subjective and therefore worthwhile to leave up to judges.ReplyDelete
I agree that the requirements are clear and objectively demand that Ross be disqualified. And I *don't* think it's cool to ignore requirements. But there are no voting guidelines in place to demand that all judges vote against Ross on that basis. But if there *were* voting guidelines in place to demand that all judges vote against Ross on that basis, then it wouldn't really be left up to the judges at all. The vote would be a foregone conclusion and therefore meaningless. There would be a winner by default, which is exactly what SpinTunes wanted to avoid. The decision would be out of the judges' hands.
Which is where I believe it should be. Out of the judges hands. Made before the judges have an opportunity to judge anything. But that's not how this works right now.
In the end, I not only understand but completely *respect* any judge's decision to vote for Kevin purely because of these criteria issues. At the same time, if the decision isn't going to be made for us judges, then I want a vote in which votes have meaning. And in this pretty odd situation, the only way for our votes to have meaning is to *not* reject out of hand the possibility of voting for Ross. Once Kevin and Ross are put on the field before us, the rules of *this* contest communicate to us that all the criteria are to be looked at as *not* requirements but things to be weighed, and each judge is bound to have different opinions about what is most important. And I don't think that's a good thing at *all* -- it makes for very messy results, and I've got a lot more to say about this, which I'll be posting soon. But it is what it is for now.
Now, I didn't vote for Ross because I thought it was the only way to give my vote meaning. But just as surely, the moment that any one conclusion is forced upon all judges is the moment that all our votes lose all meaning.
We could continue to argue this, but this is one of those things where the structure of the situation creates and preserves inherent conflict. Only a change of structure can resolve it, and that's obviously not going to happen within SpinTunes 1. Here's looking to SpinTunes 2 and some rule changes that address some of these concerns.
Mark a.k.a. OHB
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2010 at 8:49 AM
I'll weigh in with a cop out. I judged the songs before realizing the issues, and thought Kevin's was the better of the two.ReplyDelete
Now I'm caught up in the minutiae of 'is it valid, etc.' Should this win by default...
It comes down to: Which song did you feel meets the challenge, and which, in your opinion, was 'better'.
Both were strong entries. It's in the hands of those voted off the island.
I'd leave it to those voting to decide how close is close enough to meeting the challenge. My cop out was I didn't have to use it as a factor in my decision.
To complicate the issue further, I haven't voted yet, because of the 1 vote per group rule. Al hasn't gotten back to me with his pick yet. So we could possibly be canceling each other out. Who said a simple vote couldn't be complicated?
Hey guys - a couple thoughts here - Mark, these are mainly directed toward the issues you raised in your comments above.ReplyDelete
The way I read the rules and guidelines coming into round 4 was that alternates were encouraged to write shadows in case one of us did not submit a song, either from giving up or for missing a deadline. Just as in all previous rounds, if someone doesn't get a song submitted, or doesn't get it submitted in time, he or she isn't in the running.
But nobody anywhere ever was told they wouldn't be allowed forward if they didn't submit a *good enough* song. That's judging before the song gets to be judged. I think you're giving equal weight to deadlines and challenge criteria when you shouldn't.
Ross and I both got songs in on time. So before anyone got to listen to either one of them, Ross and I secured our places in the final challenge.
Since both songs got in, alternates weren't needed. Even if Ross and I both turned in our weakest songs to date, while everyone who shadowed turned in songs that were clearly superior to ours... unfortunate as it would be, we're the ones who earned the right to have our songs duke it out.
It's in the duking out that the challenge requirements come into play. Every person with a vote is going to have to decide what's more important: (1) how good the song is, and (2) how well it met the challenge. These are not binary choices. Both are on a sliding scale. And one song meeting the requirements doesn't force the judges hands any more than one song being much better written forces their hands.
Ross' song is prettier than mine. It's more cohesive and it keeps its momentum through the transitions while mine does not. His is the better song to listen to.
Mine meets the challenges better than his does.
Nobody with a vote is having their hand forced. It's up to them to decide whether my meeting of the challenge criteria is enough to earn the vote over a better sounding song. It's up to them to decide whether the quality of his writing and performance is enough to overcome the fact that he didn't nail the req's.
You voted according to these considerations, as did I, and as I trust all the other voters will. And I do not think that the outcome is a given... not at all.
But I'm sure the system didn't fail this round. The next SpinTunes, however, will have a different system that I think will eliminate a lot of the potential concerns that have been raised so far. We're all in this to improve. That goes for the contestants and the contest itself. I think we're all well on our way :)
"I think you're giving equal weight to deadlines and challenge criteria when you shouldn't." -- KevinReplyDelete
Yes and no. If you look closely at just how yes and just how no -- and especially in light of your own comment at Dr. Lindyke's blog -- I think you'll see that you and I actually agree straight down the line.
The current system has some traits some of us don't like. One of those for me is that it doesn't give equal weight to all the criteria that sound as if they are objective, e.g., deadlines and some (and only some) challenge criteria. If some challenge criteria are going to be phrased in a way that makes them seem objective and clear cut -- binary, as you say -- then yes, in a future system, I'd like to see that given equal weight with other objective criteria like deadlines, as part of a qualification process before entries are put into contention for judging. That's the yes.
But I'm also clear that that's not how the current system is designed. From what Spin says and from how the contest has run so far, it's pretty clear that the intention is that judges weigh all challenge criteria -- no matter how much some of them may *sound* like objective and clear cut requirements -- as if all are guidelines only and none of them requirements. I accept that current system as it is, not weighing any challenge criteria as equal to deadlines. I could have voted for you and still have that be true, but I couldn't have voted for Ross as I did *unless* it were true. That's the no.
On its own terms, the current system has not failed -- except to the extent that it fails to make truly clear, in challenge criteria and other judging instructions, the fact that judges are expected to treat challenge criteria as guidelines rather than requirements.
What you said over at Dr. Lindyke's about phrasing requirement-sounding criteria instead as "targets" seems dead on to me. I think you're right that that alone would have made the whole situation non-controversial -- and it would have addressed the lack of clarity I just mentioned. In the future, I'd love to see objective/binary language (whether contest-geneal and/or challenge-specific) used only for *requirements* in qualifying entries for contention in the first place, and "target" and other non-binary language used for all other criteria that judges are intended to weigh for those qualified entries.
Mark a.k.a. OHB
Just a quicky....ReplyDelete
Remember this challenge in particular was two fold.
There was the topical challenge
and there was ALSO the technical side.
The *style must be 30 secs min and song 3 mins minimum*.
The question here is, if a song does not meet the irrefutably MEASURABLE part of the challenge, i.e. timing, should it be accepted or disqualified.
The topical challenge, as has been seen to GREAT debate, can be construed and misconstrued in a great many ways, but those things CAN be hard to quantify.
TIME however is immutable.
It either IS 3 mins long, or it isn't.
If it isn't, the question then simply becomes, does that disqualify it?
Because if it DOESN'T... the stipulation for a minimum time is pointless.
Well, i'm embarrassed and bummed to have goofed on this thing. My brother can tell you that is not like me. The last couple of weeks both my time and my living situation have been very unaccommodating to having a focus on this. I ended up finishing in a rush, and I made some mistakes. Even so, whatever my peer judges decide, I am proud of the song, know that I had no intention of disrespecting the requirements, happy to have made it this far, and had a lot of fun in this competition.ReplyDelete
I didn't feel disrespected, but I felt bad for you when I learned of the technical short comings. I knew it would cost you votes. Didn't know how many, but I knew it would hurt your chances.ReplyDelete
Overall I felt as I did when you signed up, I was thrilled to have you on board. Now that it's over, I'm thrilled to have gotten 4 new Ross Durand songs to enjoy along with 50+ songs from other people.


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A variety of special events will happen throughout the run of Christmas at the Falls adding further excitement and treats for visitors.
We hope you'll come join us in celebrating the holiday season and spend an evening at Christmas at the Falls. With more light features, updated displays, a packed calendar and overflowing holiday cheer, we know that you'll enjoy your visit to Noccalula Falls for "Christmas at the Falls."
Adults - $6.00
Senior Adults / Military - $ 4.00
Children (ages 4-12) - $4.00
Children 3 and under - Free


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Jazz Decades
Louis with Duke of Dixieland Benny Meroff with Bix & Wild Bill Earl Hines' Big Band "Piano Man" Ruby Braff & Roy Eldridge
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Ray Smith's weekly traditional/historical jazz program appeals to the devotee as well as the neophyte. The hour features traditional jazz, Big Band and swing from the entire 20th century and before, including recordings from as early as 1890. Series release date: 1972
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- Chicago: "Jazz Decades," 02/16/1984, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed May 25, 2019, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_7EDD1D0106FA41A0B8B9CDE570621776.
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Staff at Dogs Trust Ballymena are hoping they'll find forever families for seven gorgeous crossbreed puppies.
Their film star good looks prompted the staff to name them after characters from Disney's 'Frozen Fever' ahead of its release in cinemas this month.
Anna, Elsa, Sven, Olaf, Kristoff, Hans and Marshmallow are 12 weeks old and need all their basic puppy training. They will also need someone who is around the majority of the time whilst they settle in to new homes.
Dogs Trust Ballymena's Julie Tweed said: "These gorgeous pups arrived at the centre looking a little forlorn, each with an itchy skin condition. After a few baths their skin has healed and they look like new dogs! They are all very playful, sweet-natured and affectionate. With Frozen Fever due out in cinemas soon we couldn't think of more perfect names for the litter.
"Anna and Elsa really are the best of friends and Olaf is such a character. Hans is already a little leader and sweet Marshmallow is definitely the big sister," said Julie.
If you think you can offer a home to one of these gorgeous puppies please give the rehoming centre a call on 0300 303 0292. Dogs Trust Ballymena is open 12-4pm Saturday – Thursday. Closed on Friday.


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Events for November 30, 2018
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10:00 am
Association House Resume Workshop & Job Club
We will review hot job leads as well as provide assistance with resumes and online applications. Walk-ins welcome, free to attend. Click here to download the flyer.Find out more »
Association House Adult Education & Career Center Orientation
Career Center orientations occur each Friday. Please arrive at 9:45 AM to sign in and orientation begins at 10:00 AM sharp. Learn about our current computer, career, and adult education classes. Placement tests can also be taken after presentation. To enroll in our computer courses, or for Open Lab times, call 773-276-0084.Find out more »
Yoga for Kids
Learn breathing exercises, yoga poses, and relaxation techniques through stories, songs, and games. Ages 2-6.Find out more »


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Blome Uhren is a leading single line watch store for luxury watches in Germany. You are at any time invited to acquire best brands of luxury watches by personal purchase at our store on the Königsallee in Düsseldorf. Located in between flagship stores of Dior, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany's, Bulgari, Gucci to only name a few we find ourselves at the very core of Düsseldorf's high society suppliers.
By now led by the third generation Blome Uhren offers worldwide well-established watch brands such as Rolex, Patek Philippe, IWC Schaffhausen, Omega, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, Ulysse Nardin. For almost all brands, as among others Rolex, Patek Philippe, IWC, Panerai and Cartier, Blome Uhren can certainly claim connotations of pioneer retailing in Germany. Our 19 employees, which include 7 watch maker masters and one watch maker are proudly primarily specializing in precious timepieces. Our manufacture-workshop is nationally considered one of the largest of its kind held by a single concessionaire.
Since 2014 Blome Uhren has officially opened an online-store. You are now free to opt for a fast, safe and reliable as well as comfortable way to purchase luxury watches online. For most brands Blome Uhren counts as the first specialty retailer who is officially entitled to sell products in its regular as well as the online store.
We consciously ship all watches with best care and attention as well as best service. Special watches worth €10.000 and more deserve special delivery: therefore we provide Concierge Service on demand. This includes individual fitting by one of our watch making masters according to your personal wearing preferences and an explanation of your watch as well as its interior movement. The choice is yours:
Option 1:Handing out of your watch in our manufacturing departments
We would warmly welcome you to Duesseldorf and invite you to a shopping weekend including an over-night stay in an exclusive suite of the 5 star Intercontinental Hotel located at the Koenigsallee. On a Saturday afternoon a watch making master will be glad to explain your watch to you in our manufacturing departments in the Koe-Center.
Option 2: Our Concierge personally hands out your watch to you
No matter where in Germany you are, we will make the arrangement to send over one of our watch making masters to deliver your watch in person.
Contrary to concessionaires which are official retailers of related brands, common online providers rather rank among the so called grey-market providers. These do not directly obtain products from manufacturers but rely on other sources and acquire products from abroad. Although this is not illegal, manufacturers clearly resist the practice.
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The Gang
The Book
Children's Book
National Trust
Ferguson's Gang
Ferguson's Gang
to the
a picture
The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters
Ferguson's Gang
Their story is told in:
The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters
and now a children's picture book:
Ferguson's Gang to the Rescue
Ferguson's Gang were a diverse band of women. Their mastermind was Peggy Gladstone, a brilliant scholar and the great great niece of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Peggy left Newnham College, Cambridge, with a double first in Oriental Languages, the first woman to do so.
Inspired by the National Trust's successful campaign to save Stonehenge, she and five friends vowed to do their bit to conserve Britian's disappearing heritage.
To add excitement to the project, Peggy formed a Ferguson's Gang, a secret society who swore allegiance to each other. They adopted pseudonyms and vowed to remain anonymous for the rest of their lives. Peggy became Bill Stickers, after the instruction, 'Bill stickers will be prosecuted', found on the walls of buildings.
They carefully recorded their exploits and rituals, as well as their elaborate picnics, but took their real names to the grave.
Polly Bagnall
Sally Beck
reveal the identities of these unlikely national heroines and tell the stories of their fascinating and often unconventional lives.
Sally Beck author
Sally Beck is a national newspaper and magazine journalist who specialises in biographical stories. She met Polly Bagnall through a mutual friend and wrote about an exhibition of Gang memorabilia curated by her. The minute she heard about these eccentric and dynamic women, Sally knew their stories should be written and preserved. This is Sally's sixth book.
Polly Bagnall
Granddaughter of
The Artichoke
Polly Bagnall is the granddaughter of the Gang's architect,
John E M Macgregor OBE.
An artist, therapist and now author, Polly grew up in Shalford Mill the first property saved by Ferguson's Gang. Her grandfather repaired the old watermill which was the first of three projects he worked on with the Gang.
Ferguson's Gang
Sally Beck and Polly Bagnall are available to present fully illustrated talks about the Gang
with an extensive collection of exclusive archival photographs.
Talks are usually 45 minutes with additional time for questions and book signings.
Ottershaw Nightowls WI - June 4th 2019
Collumpton, National Trust South West January 2019
Another successful series of talks this year including:
Eastbury Manor House Centenary, Barking
Bath Museums, No1 Royal Crescent, Bath
Stonehenge Site,
ENGAGEMENTS 2016 and 2017
Richmond Literary Festival, Hampton Library 2016
Oxford Literary Festival 2016
Shalford Mill Book signings and tours
Ightham Mote, Sevenoaks
The Guildhall, Winchester SO23 9BE
Local History Groups in Surrey and Kent
If you are interested in commissioning a talk in your area do get in touch
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Music, art and theatre inspired by Ferguson's Gang
A round up from 2018
'The People vs The Octopus'
'Women & Power' Cornwall
This summer Ferguson's Gang inspired an interractive art event in Swindon:
satirical games, installations and interruptions provoked debate about the housing sector. The project was inspired by Ferguson's Gang, who used play, imagination and theatricality to fight for conservation of heritage and countryside. The People vs the Octopus, took over high streets with hilarious, absurd and thought provoking interventions that playfully spread like tentacles through a given site. By Mufti Games.
A new art installation to celebrate the legacy that Ferguson's Gang left to the people of Cornwall, Tentacles can be discovered at places that were endowed to the National Trust by the Gang. The interventions have been created by designer Katie Cadwallader in partnership with Kestle Barton: Rural Centre for Contemporary Arts; the National Trust; and artist collective Fourthland, to highlight the enduring relevance of Ferguson's Gang in Cornwall.
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"Ferguson's Gang" the Musical
Extraordinary Women & Art
A brand new musical based on the story of Ferguson's Gang.
Set in the era of the Great Gatsby when Stonehenge was under threat, the musical follows the Gang members'
personal battles as well as their successes to impede the tentacles of creeping urban development.
Presented by Echo-Time with AshGate Productions
Book, Music and Lyrics by Martin Coslett, Thomas Forbes Briscombe. Directed by Andrew Miller. Musical Direction by Nick Barstow
With support from the National Trust
As part of the National Trust Heritage weekend women artists were celebrated at Shalford Mill, the first property Ferguson's Gang donated to the Trust. Fabulous tapestries made by Peggy Pollard leader of the Gang were on display alongside work by female relatives of John Macgregor (the Gang's architect): These included sculpture by Joanna Bagnall, Kirstie Clark and Anna Pohorely; paintings by Polly and Caroline Bagnall; Ceramics by Sally Lewis and Ali Tomlin; prints by Miriam (Tootie) Macgregor and patchwork quilts by Sarah and Sally Lewis amongst others.
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Period Living Feature
November 2017
Philanthropy before Facebook
Jane Merrick
The Independent
Saturday 5 December
Facebook brings out boasting in all of us, particularly those with children. I am guilty of posting messages of pride about my daughter. But Mark Zuckerberg surpassed us all when he revealed on his own page that he was giving £30bn to a new charitable foundation (but which can still make a profit) in honour of his newborn daughter.
While this astonishing amount of money will hopefully make a difference, something makes me a bit queasy about such ostentatious philanthropy. It is a far cry from the antics of a group of well-heeled British women in the 1930s who went undercover to save the National Trust from rack and ruin. Wearing masks and with pseudonyms like Red Biddy and Bill Stickers, Ferguson's Gang raised money to save the trust's buildings and gardens, delivering it undercover – £500 was stuffed into a bottle of sloe gin, while a £100 note was stuffed into a cigar. They never revealed their names, but a new book, Ferguson's Gang, by Sally Beck and Polly Bagnall, uncovers these shy philanthropists.
Ferguson's Gang
The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters
on Lovereading.co.uk and National Trust Books
Bargain Hunt- click here
Polly Bagnall on Radio 4 'Midweek'
November 2015
Polly Bagnall (far left) talks to Libby Purves on Radio 4's 'Midweek', setting the record straight about the early days of the National Trust and why an assorted band of charismatic women became their most benevolent fund-raisers.
Ferguson's Gang Book Launch
November 2015
Small and bustling, Village Books in Dulwich Village was transformed as friends, relatives and curious guests celebrated the arrival of 'Ferguson's Gang, the Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters'.
BBC 'Bargain Hunt'
Spring 2014
Polly Bagnall meets with Tim Wonnacot from BBC TV's 'Bargain Hunt' at Shalford Mill, where Ferguson's Gang had their secret headquarters.
BBC 4 'Heritage, the Battle for Britain's Past'
Autumn 2012
Filmed at the opening of 'Taming the Tentacles' exhibition on the Gang curated by Polly Bagnall in 2012 at National Trust property, Shalford Mill. Daughters of The Artichoke, Joanna Bagnall and Penelope Adamson, talk about the role Ferguson's Gang played in rural conservation.
Ferguson's Gang raised money to save quirky, but beautiful English buildings and priceless stretches of the Cornish coastline.
Their fascinating story is remarkable and compelling.
In collaboration with friends and relatives of the of Ferguson's Gang and with the support of the National Trust, a detailed history of the Gang is made available for the first time.
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So about 6 years ago, we let this wonderful cat into our lives. He was the neighborhood street cat and we started feeding him. He came over everyday to eat some good dry food, but he never wanted to stay inside. We were about to move and didn't want to leave him behind so we took him and made him a domestic cat against his will, but he loved it! He ate 3 times a day, had a fight here and there with out other cats, but we thought it was normal since he was always outside.
He loved talking to get us to pet him. Said hi when we came through the door and loved to do the nasty on top of my legs when I let him on the bed. He wanted to do it yesterday afternoon, but I didn't let him and took him outside to the living room to lay back down on his couch. I feel bad now that I didn't let him do it.
I haven't been feeling well with a head cold, so I went to sleep early. Next thing I know I hear my husband yell out to me and knock on the door that Papa is lying on the floor not moving. I went outside and my daughter with me. He was just lying there barely breathing. I didn't know what to do. We held him until he left us.
As I am writing this, I am still feeling his loss. It is raining and he is buried in our back yard. He was such a lovable kitty. I am thinking he was a good 13 yrs old since he was old already when we took him in. I have never cried so much for a pet. I've had 3 previous pets die and none like this cat. I don't know if it's because he meowed to me the most, but not hearing his meows is going to be shocking in the morning when I go give the others their breakfast.
I can't sleep and writing this is helping a little, but still have tears running down my face. I don't know what to do! Thank you for all the messages in advance and I am hoping that this post will help me calm down a little.
I will miss you big Papa!


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Every now and then my mind wanders and my bank account shivers with fear, because it knows that there are things floating round in my brain that I want to buy.
One way of quenching this odd materialistic thirst in the blogging world is to create a wishlist! 🙂
It makes you realise how much you would be spending if you did buy those things, it helps you do that thing where you think 'do I actually need this' but also it is there in case you want to buy something from it later and you can't remember what it was called :').
So, for the month of June here are the things in my wishlist!
These drops look great, they are available in a light and dark shade so if I was to buy one I'd go for the darker one. You can use these to help change the shade of your foundation, but the most intriguing way I would want to try this is to use it to contour. I've seen it being used and it's quite a thin consistency so it would blend really well.
2. Huda Beauty Lashes in the style 'Samantha', $20 or around £13 –
These lashes have been on my radar for a long time, but they are so damn expensive. So many people I follow on Instagram use these and they look insane when on, also they are meant to be reusable over and over again!
In typically seductive fashion, NARS have nailed a 'shade for all' peachy shimmery blush called 'Orgasm'. This is one of those cult shades that looks amazing in the pan and you just know it will be perfect for all skin tones!
4. Certifeye Eye Glitter, Any, £5 for a mini bottle!
Again, this item crept it's way onto my wishlist via Instagram and these little bottles of cosmetic glitter are literally the best things I've ever seen. You would need an adhesive with these rather than just using a setting spray or something, but they look so good! I didn't realise you could get mini bottles, I bet that's all you'd really need!
Also, these guys do faux mink lashes too!
5. Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer, £17.50 –
I almost bought this concealer a few months ago after I bought my Estée Lauder Doublewear foundation, but then I changed my mind! This concealer is meant to be so creamy, medium coverage with a handy doe foot applicator so all in all it seems to be a pretty good bet concealer wise. I'd love to know if it's worth the price, you can get so many good budget concealers nowadays, like the Collection Lasting Perfection one but I'm still curious about the UD one!
So in total this wishlist with only 5 items this time totals…
Thanks for reading people!


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Riding on Snow? Sand? All About Fatbikes
Photo: Carlo Pedersoli CC
note: RevoLights' current line doesn't work with fatbikes, we just think they're rad :-)
A fatbike is a bicycle with oversized balloon tires designed to "float" over loose surfaces like sand, snow, and ice. Bicycling itself goes all the way back to the early 19th century, but it took until 2005 for a bike manufacturer to make an off-the-shelf solution available to cyclists who wanted to ride on loose surfaces.
The early days
Enthusiasts, tour operators, and people who live off the grid in harsh environments have been cobbling together fat bikes out of off-the-shelf components since the late 80s. In the early days, enthusiasts welded rims together and cut out the center section to make large enough wheels for their homemade fatbikes. They cut and stitched off-the-shelf tires together to create suitable tires.
They used modified mountain bike frames to carry their custom-fabricated wheels and tires. Although the first fatbikes appeared in 1987, it would be close to 20 years before a manufacturer made these specialized components available to the broader cycling community.
The Surly Pugsley
Minnesota bicycle design company Surly was the first to make fatbike components available to the public. Their Large Marge rims, Endomorph tires, and Pugsley frame made it possible to own a fatbike without knowing anything about welding aluminum and stitching rubber together.
Many of the first fatbikes were single-speed for simplicity's sake. The Pugsley made it possible to bolt a traditional mountain bike groupset to a fatbike. Enthusiasts have ridden the Pugsley across continents, on sandy beaches and dunes, frozen lakes, muddy riverbanks, and snowmobile trails in the dead of winter. It's possible to traverse all types of solid and semi-solid terrain on a fatbike by dropping the tire pressure down to the single digits.
Commercial applications
Where many tour operators needed Jeeps and other heavy 4x4s to give tours over some of the most beautiful terrain on the planet, fatbikes made it possible for them to give tours to enthusiastic cyclists.
The environmental advantages are obvious. Jeeps run on gas, but bicycles run on apples and bananas. Fatbikes have a greatly reduced contact patch compared to Jeeps, too, reducing the amount of sediment displaced when touring.
Choosing a fatbike
Surly still makes the Pugsley, but a variety of manufacturers have capitalized on Surly's initial success. Now everyone from Carver to Trek makes a fatbike frame or complete bicycle. Prices range from $1599 for the Charge Cooker Maxi, made of steel, to the $5499 carbon-framed Salsa Beargrease.
The entry level bikes at lower price points have all of the terrain-conquering characteristics of the more expensive models, so it's not necessary to spend big bucks to get the fatbike experience.
Be advised: as soon as you own one you may not be able to stop riding it or fantasizing about taking a cycling trip through Antarctica.
To check out more unique designs on innovative bikes, check out our blog post on the Oregon Manifest Bike Design Project.


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Smash repairer improves productivity and quality with the Kempact RA welder.
Barbaneras Prestige Smash Repairs is a medium-sized repairer of smashed luxury vehicles.
Located in St. Peters, NSW, the busy operation repairs between 25-35 cars per week. Staff found themselves undertaking various tasks from minor welding touch-ups through to major panel work.
According to owner, Peter Barbaneras, the business prides itself on its expertise, efficiency and in providing excellent welding repairs on automobiles.
"We are a very efficient and effective operation but we are constantly looking at ways of improving our workflow and the quality of our work," Barbaneras said, "so we are always interested in new equipment and new ideas and how these can help us deliver a first class result."
"Also, welding car panels is a very fiddly and complicated process. Even with years of experience welding is a difficult job so we are always keen to assess any equipment that can help us to simplify and improve the welding we do."
With this in mind Barbaneras was scanning a trade publication when he came across the Kemppi ad on the Kempact RA series.
The Kempact RA family is a range of purposely-designed welding machines for mechanics and body shop repairers. The compact MIG/MAG welders combine a robust, portable and easy-to-use design with quality, functional features that make welding hassle-free, quick and high quality.
The Kempact RA range uses Kemppi's latest power source platform. It ensures optimal welding performance and exceptional power cost efficiency. They are available with 180, 250 and 320 ampere power sources, and users can choose from seven models and from either a Regular (R) or Adaptive (A) control panel interface.
New technology features include reduced energy costs of more than 10% when compared to conventional step controlled power sources, Brights cabinet lighting for easy wire loading in low light conditions, a WireLine service alert function that signals routine wire-path maintenance needs, plus the integrated GasMate chassis design, which makes gas cylinder loading and machine movement easy and safe.
"When I saw the Kempact RA ad what caught my eye was the upright position of the machine," Barbaneras said.
"This was something quite different. I rang Kemppi and asked for more information. They not only sent me the information, they also sent out a rep to demonstrate the machine."
After examining the new Kempact RA Mig model, Barbaneras was impressed.
"This is the first Mig welder that I am aware of that exists in an upright vertical position," he said.
For the user this is ideal because it means you can easily read the monitor and it's more comfortable to use. Plus, the vertical position lets us save on space.
"The machine welds different alloys including aluminum, mild steel and stainless steel. When the rep demonstrated the Kempact RA the weld seemed to happen quickly and easily so I wanted to trial the machine."
Barbaneras was keen to test the Kempact RA Mig model to ensure it could really deliver efficiency benefits to his business and Kemppi readily agreed.
"We worked the machine on a number of jobs and we found that the inverted spot welder takes all the guesswork out of the job. It helps you control the weld so that you can weld correctly.
"And because you're welding correctly the first time there is little need for rework, so each welding job can be done quickly and to standard first time round.
"You're also spending less on materials such as welding wire because there's less need for rework."
Since purchasing the Kempact RA Mig model Barbaneras has not looked back.
"It has helped us streamline our welding process even further, making us more productive while improving our welding quality," he said.
"We no longer waste valuable time and money reworking welds. For us, the Kempact RA Mig machine has been invaluable."
For more information on our range of Kempact RA Welders please click here


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Fruits FTNF
Evonik has extensive experience with the extraction of liquid fruit distillates, e.g., Apple, Banana, Black Currant, Peach, Strawberry, etc. Although the Fruit CO2 FTNFs (from the named fruit) are no longer featured as a standard product within our portfolio, they are available on a contracted tolling basis (i.e., customer supplies the raw material and pays for the extraction service only).
For information regarding Evonik's tolling services, refer to "Tolling Services" within this site's FAQ section and/or kindly contact your local sales representative for further assistance.


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my 18th floor view.
i'll post photos of the city at night soon, but it's beautiful.
it's a step up from last year's 10th floor view of a brick wall.
now i can people-watch with a birds eye view 😉
all i need are posters and cute stuff to hang up on the bare white dorm room walls.


text: There's still time to enter to win a papier mache mask from Decopatch with plenty of time to decorate it for Halloween or Day of the Dead. Two decoupage papers are included, but the possibilities are endless. Paint it, tangle it, decoupage it — I did all three! To enter and/or read my review and see the three ways I decorated my mask, head to my blog post here.


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This was a good Saturday. Kelly, Mark (Kelly's Husband), Clara and Katy (Clara's Mom) all met up at the Town Market Square for an 8.5 mile run/walk. Since my training schedule said I should have been doing 3/2 intervals instead of the 1/1 or 2/1's I was doing, I decided to following the training guide! I was last, which I wasn't very happy with. When I started, my shins (right where the ankle meets up with the top of your foot) started hurting. It hurt all the way until mile 4. After that, it felt ok. Don't know if it took that long for it to warm up or if my endorphins were finally kicking in. I wasn't going to argue! My last couple of miles were better than my first few for that reason. I was thrilled with the fact that I was able to keep up with the 3/2 intervals for the entire workout. I only skipped 1 run interval to try to let my shins recover a bit. On the way back, I saw a dragon boat race going on. Too bad I wasn't able to see the outcome!
Next week is the running clinic at CrossFit Point Break. Clara and I are partnering up, so I'm looking forward to being a better runner. Maybe I can finally increase my speed!
I spent the rest of today working on my quilt blocks with my Aunt Linda. What a great day!


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Series: Psy-Changeling, #13
Published by Berkley Hardcover on June 3rd 2014
Pages: 431
Buy on Amazon
Assassin. Soldier. Arrow. That is who Vasic is, who he will always be. His soul drenched in blood, his conscience heavy with the weight of all he's done, he exists in the shadows, far from the hope his people can almost touch—if only they do not first drown in the murderous insanity of a lethal contagion. To stop the wave of death, Vasic must complete the simplest and most difficult mission of his life.
For if the Psy race is to survive, the empaths must wake…
Having rebuilt her life after medical "treatment" that violated her mind and sought to stifle her abilities, Ivy should have run from the black-clad Arrow with eyes of winter frost. But Ivy Jane has never done what she should. Now, she'll fight for her people, and for this Arrow who stands as her living shield, yet believes he is beyond redemption. But as the world turns to screaming crimson, even Ivy's fierce will may not be enough to save Vasic from the cold darkness…
Post-Silence, the Arrows need to find their own feet amidst shifting alliances and betrayals. Vasic's story comes in the dawn of this new age, and perhaps rightfully so, for a man who has been waiting to die for a long time. It's a relief to see that he finally finds something more in Ivy Jane, one of the many empaths in Psy-Net whose designation has been ignored and scrubbed out when the empaths are tasked to restore order in a rotten Net collapsing under the heavy weight of mental infection.
(What I really, really liked was the sex-talk between Judd and Vasic, done with such military precision and planning that made me laugh throughout. *I heart Judd for sharing his research file*)
By that same token, I'm starting to think of Lucas as a personality-less panther whose claws come out each time someone comes near his mate and child – understandable but a tiring rhetoric from a panther who introduced us to this wonderful world in Slave to Sensation and can do so much more than be the overly protective entity hovering over his family. Any wonder why Hawke – and how beautifully he handles his responsibilities as alpha – had me sunk in Kiss of Snow?
Apart from that, 'Shield of Winter' is so much more than a simple story about 2 people fumbling their way through intimacy – which it undoubtedly is, in a raw, beautifully awkward way that can only happen when neither party has the experience for it. It is also one that chronicles one of the most honest relationships – sans mind games and manipulating – that I've had the privilege of reading.
Nalini Singh's world-building is rock solid at this point and the book reads like a penultimate swan song to the next one where I'm guessing things will finally settle into a denouement that will allow subsequent books in this universe to shift away from the Psy-changelings who have been the focus for the past 14 or so novels.


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Two middle-aged men go aimlessly and childishly through their lives. Burn Huff (Will Ferrell) still lives with his mother Nancy and Dale Doback with his father Robert (Richard Jenkins).
The two losers are now, against their will, forced to get along, as their parents almost spontaneously marry for a congress. At the beginning, the two hate each other, but increasingly find common ground that is childish in nature. In this comedy you see Ferrell and Reilly as two men who never grew up, but still have only mischief in their heads.
Since both were involved in the script, one can already imagine that they have written beautifully the characters on the body.


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Macallan: A Speyside, Highland Single Malt Scotch
By Matt Goldstein
When the Whiskey Goldmine releases our Top 10 Single Malt Scotch list in the next few weeks, the Macallan Cask Strength is destined for the top 5. This single malt is a flat out masterpiece. The Macallan Cask Strength is aged for a minimum of 10 years in Spanish Oak casks, handcrafted and seasoned by Sherry in Jerez. The Macallan cask strength is bottled straight from the barrel without chill filtration or adding any water, as opposed to what is normally done in almost all scotches, not to mention all whiskeys. The genius of this whisky is just that, it's just the single malt Scotch whisky in its natural state making the statement in your glass. One could search their entire lives looking for a 10 years aged single malt with this much complexity and undoubtedly come up short.
The color is a deep red, almost a mahogany. The flavor and mouth feel are a complex and sweet syrup, with beautiful notes of wood. With hints of vanilla, fruits, spices and oak, the flavor, mouth feel, and finish is just on another level than other premium single malts. Almost like a pancake meeting maple syrup for the first time, no other premium single malt is this rich and complex.
Perhaps the craziest attribute of the Macallan Cask Strength is just that, its strength. There is no water added and the whisky is bottled straight from the barrel, 58.5% ABV, 117 proof. Yet, with the strong character of the cask strength is still an exceptionally smooth and beautiful whisky. Compared to other premium single malts, the Balvenie 15 year Single Barrel is 47,8%, the Talisker 10 year is 45.8%, Highland Park 12 year is 43%, and the Oban 14 year is 43%. That would mean that the Macallan Cask Strength has almost a 35% higher ABV than Highland Park and Oban.
This Macallan Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch comes with our highest recommendation. This is perhaps the most exception single malt we've ever tasted and in its price range and maturation, one will find it extremely difficult to match.


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Other Members
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Me, I've always been more casual. Jeans were my uniform. My senior year of college, I never wore matching socks (mainly because it really bothered one of my friends and that humored me). When grunge came into fashion, I finally felt like my style became main stream.
Of course, as a lawyer, in this conservative firm, I wear suits on weekdays. I am the professional. But for nine years, I've harbored this huge fear that I would be discovered. Somebody from the firm would learn that not only are my political opinions liberal, but I do not fit in a world where people weekend at country clubs and wear cardigans instead of sweatshirts outside of the office.
But my biggest fear was that someone would discover I am a tattooed freaky person.
|You can catch a glimpse of the tattoo in this photo.
Seven or so years ago, one person in the firm saw my tattoo and the reaction was crazy. It was as if she had learned I was formerly a mountain goat. And she was not a person I was concerned about seeing the tattoo. And once the shock wore off, she didn't really care one way or the other, but it was completely the opposite of what she expected. That is not consistent with the firm image.
Needless to say, that encounter has stuck with me and made me even more afraid of letting people "know".
At least until tonight.
Tonight, we had a happy hour after work for all of the attorneys. This is not something we do frequently--hardly ever in fact. It was nice. I really enjoyed it. I work with a lot of really great people. And talking to them outside of the office has made me realize that all of us have a little tattooed freaky person in us somewhere, even conservative, straight-laced attorneys.
I'm still not going to let the tattoos show, but I now know that it wouldn't matter if people I work with every day learn I wear jeans on the weekend. We all have our roles to play at the office. But that is not who we are all of the time. It is nice to realize that I am more like the rest of them than I thought.


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Bob Chiarelli zapped for calling energy sector too complex for Bonnie Lysyk
Premier Kathleen Wynne ignored the opposition's calls to fire Chiarelli over critical report
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is ignoring opposition calls to fire her energy minister over a critical report on the government's smart meter program and patronizing comments he made about the auditor general.
After Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk's annual report was critical of the province's Smart Meter program, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli dismissed her by suggesting she did not understand the hydro system. "The electricity system is very complex, it's very difficult to understand," Chiarelli said in his explanation of how Lysyk got it wrong.
Wynne said it was nothing more than a difference of opinion.
"It is not unprecedented for there to be some narrow area of disagreement in terms of the report of the auditor general," said Wynne.
She and Chiarelli say they disagree with the auditor general's conclusions that the $2-billion smart meter program has so far spent double its projected cost, has passed on extra costs to ratepayers and has not led to the government's electricity conservation goals being met.
The electricity system is very complex, it's very difficult to understand.- Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli on Bonnie Lysyk's report.
Both the Progressive Conservatives and the New Democrats repeatedly called for Chiarelli's head in a raucous question period the day after Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk's annual report.
Chiarelli said in the legislature that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath has voted against Liberal provisions that would lower people's electricity bills, which he called shameful.
Horwath, in return, called Chiarelli's comments "disgusting, shameful, ignorant" and called him an "ignorant man" — comments she later withdrew.
Before becoming Ontario's auditor Lysyk worked for 10 years at Manitoba Hydro.
Smart Meter analysis was flawed: AG
The auditor revealed it cost $1.9 billion to install Smart Meters across the province, in the report tabled on Tuesday. The government originally told the public the cost would be closer to $1 billion.
The auditor found the Energy Ministry did not do a cost-benefit analysis before cabinet approved the Smart Meter program. A business case was done after the roll-out began, but Lysyk says the analysis was flawed.
"Its projected net benefit of $600 million was overstated by at least $512 million," said Lysyk. "The Ministry has neither updated the projected costs and benefits nor tracked the actual costs to determine the actual net benefits."
Lysyk says Smart Meters are not reducing demand for electricity at peak times, although that was the key reason for launching the program.
With files from CBC's Mike Crawley and the Canadian Press
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The five Elements, Gross and Subtle
A devotee who is anxious to know the divine principle and merge with it should have an understanding of these three universes. The first of these, the gross physical universe, is made up of the five great elements, that is, ether, air, fire, water and earth. Ether, which is also called space, is the first of the five elements it is all-pervasive and very subtle. It does not have any specific attributes except sound. After that comes air. Air can be felt but it cannot be seen. It has only two attributes, sound and touch. Next is fire. Fire can be seen. It is denser than air. It has three attributes, namely, sound, touch and form. Following fire there is water. Water is still more dense, and like fire it can be seen by the naked eye. It can also be tasted. Water has 4 attributes, namely, sound, touch, form and taste. Earth, the last and densest of all the elements, has five attributes, namely, sound, touch, form, taste and smell. You can see that the last three elements, fire, water and earth, have form. The first two, ether and air have other qualities but no form.
All things found in the physical world, are impermanent and subject to continuous change. In time, all objects undergo complete modification from one name and form to another, and then to still another, and so on. In the physical universe, everything is in constant motion. Let us inquire deeper into the nature of physical objects made up of these five elements. Consider the various atoms which exist in a given place and a given time. They will comprise the various objects which appear there at that moment. As the atoms move and change their position, the forms they make up also change. The atoms in all the objects undergo such rapid change in position, that it is hard to say when a particular change has taken place in an object. There is an ongoing process of change. All the objects made up of these changing atoms will be changing their forms continuously with time.
The atoms which make up the human body, like the atoms in any other form, change every moment, causing the body to undergo modification. All these different changes are very much like waves, such as the waves you find in the ocean. For the waves in the ocean there is no beginning or end. The drops of water in one wave get merged into the next wave. The waves in which those drops have been merged again get merged into other waves, and so on. This process of forms changing and merging goes on continuously. This is the very nature of the physical universe.


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The Bachelor host Chris Harrison has said he is "disappointed" that Sean Lowe has joined the cast of Dancing with the Stars.
Lowe was announced as a last-minute addition to Dancing with the Stars today (March 12), mere hours after his proposal to Catherine Giudici was shown on The Bachelor season finale.
Speaking to TV Guide, Harrison admitted that he was hoping Lowe would now retreat from the spotlight to spend time with Giudici.
"I understand it from Sean's perspective, but I got to be honest, I'm slightly disappointed," Harrison complained.
The Bachelor presenter continued: "People are going to automatically think, 'You are now a reality star and you are a fame whore', which is sad because that's not him.
"I wish him well and I think he'll win the thing, I just wish he had shown the world that he did The Bachelor for all the right reasons and he's ready to go back to his life with Catherine. If something possibly goes wrong with Catherine, people will think that's the reason. It opens himself up to stuff he didn't need right now. But, again, I get it."
Lowe will be paired this season with professional Peta Murgatroyd, who previously won Dancing with the Stars with Donald Driver.
The new season of Dancing with the Stars premieres on March 18 on ABC.
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Maybe this could help someone :-) Thanks to the long discussion about this subject, I now have everything working with a bdb database, was previously gdbm. Not to say that I like it yet, but I'm getting used to everything, little by little. Configure options for Berkeley BDB and Openldap are listed below. My OS is RedHat 7.2 with many mods. File system is efs2. Apparently it doesn't like the standard Berkeley "large files". I wouldn't know how large large files are, but by disabling them, I can run everything. It took a lot of puzzeling and trying different things, plus much time. Because after compiling opeldap, we always run 'make test', don't we? How you all helped me, was: 1: by pointing out that /usr/include/db.h (for me a symlink /usr/include/db3/db.h) was the wrong one. By putting that symlink to /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/include/db.h, (obviously after installing Sleebycat v4) a number of problems were solved: i.e. "incompatible Berkeley version". 2: by stressing that it is preferable to use BDB to gdbm, because of database corruption and "holes". That made me want to keep on trying, instead of being content with "it works, so why change it?" O,k, 1: Berkeley config: in build_unix: ../dist/configure --disable-largefile 2: Openldap config: CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include/sasl -I/usr/include/gdbm \ -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/include" \ LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.0/lib -L/usr/local/lib/sasl2" \ ./configure \ --enable-bdb=yes \ --enable-ldbm=yes \ --enable-crypt=yes \ --enable-dnssrv=yes \ --enable-rlookups=yes \ --enable-ipv6=no \ --enable-local=yes \ --enable-referrals=yes \ --with-tls \ --enable-dynamic=yes Why all the shit with the latter? Why not just './configure'? Mainly because I want to lnow exactly what I'm doing. I'd like to say what a great list this is. Best and thanks to you all. The next step is tls and pam_ldap + nss_ldap. Tony The worst is yet to come -- Tony Earnshaw e-post: firstname.lastname@example.com www: http://www.billy.demon.nl gpg public key: http://www.billy.demon.nl/tonni.armor Telefoon: (+31) (0)172 530428 Mobiel: (+31) (0)6 51153356 GPG Fingerprint = 3924 6BF8 A755 DE1A 4AD6 FA2B F7D7 6051 3BE7 B981 3BE7B981
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Appetizers & Salads
(7) 9.00 | (14) 17.00 | (25) 29.00Oven Roasted Wings
Seasoned and served with side of Frank's Hot Sauce and your choice of blue cheese or ranch dressing.
4.00Fresh Artisan Bread
Our own freshly baked bread in wood-fired oven and served warm with a side of extra virgin olive oil.
Spanish artichokes mixed with olive trio, glazed with our fresh garlic sauce and served with freshly baked artisan bread.
7.00Luigi's Caprese
Freshly made mozzarella and sliced tomato, then drizzled with our family's Pesto sauce.
7.00Italian Nachos
Freshly baked nachos topped with jalapeño melted cheese.
5.00 | with cheese 7.00Garlic Crostini
Freshly baked flat bread with garlic, oregano, romano, parmigiano, sea salt, and olive oil. Served with marinara.
7.00Caparese Classico
Sliced tomato layered on The Dons' fresh mozz, topped with fresh basil, olive oil, and sea salt.
Diced roma tomato with The Dons' fresh mozz. piled on our own freshly wood-fired baked bread. Drizzled with Dons' dressing, fresh basil and sea salt.
solo 7.25 | famiglia 20.00Antipasto
Romaine lettuce, roasted red peppers, roma tomatoes, kalamata olives, onions, mozzarella, ham, genoa salami, olive oil and red wine vinegar. Served with an Italian breadstick.
solo 7.25 | famiglia 20.00The Caparese
Romaine lettuce, roma tomatoes, The Dons' fresh mozz, fresh basil, red onions, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Served with an Italian breadstick.
solo 5.50 | famiglia 16.00The Italian
Mixed leaf lettuce, roma tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, cucumbers, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Served with an Italian breadstick.
solo 7.25 | famiglia 20.00The Greek Escape
Romaine lettuce, red onions, feta, kalamata olives, pepperoncini, roasted red peppers, olive oil and red wine vinegar. Served with an Italian breadstick.
solo 5.25 | famiglia 16.00The Caesar
Romaine lettuce tossed with crushed Italian breadsticks, parmesan cheese and The Dons' caesar dressing. Anchovies on request.


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The New Zeland Herald, 6 Oct 2014
Sentencing for a Singapore Airlines pilot who ran a stop sign during a Lord of the Rings road-trip and caused a car crash that seriously injured colleagues has been delayed while one of his workmates undergoes further medical procedures.
Benjamin Yonghao Wu, 32, has admitted two charges of reckless driving causing injury after a crash with a 4WD towing a horse float at the intersection of Weedons Ross Rd and Maddisons Rd, near Rolleston, south of Christchurch last Wednesday about 10.40am.
Singapore Airlines chief steward Chew Weng Wai was a backseat passenger and not wearing a seatbelt when Wu failed to notice a stop sign.
Wu managed to slow down to about 40-50km/h.
But he later told police he didn't want to make an abrupt stop, because it would've been "uncomfortable" for his passengers. Full story