So I absolutely love false lashes, and I love seeing super dramatic lashes on social media. Lashes can make very dramatic eye makeup look so much more wearable and there's something just so pretty about long eyelashes.
But in my experience, I don't really have a lot of room between my eyes and eyebrows for dramatic lashes. A lot of higher end lashes touch my eyebrows and look absolutely ridiculous. So I usually stick to "natural" lashes from drugstore brands.
House of Lashes recently released a mini collection of their most popular lashes. It is a 4-pack of Lashes with mini sizes of their Iconic, Boudoir, Siren, and Wispy lash designs. These minis have shorter bands and shorter lash hairs than the traditional designs. This is great for those with hooded, small, or monolid eyes.
So here are the four different mini lashes on my eyes! For reference I roughly measured my eyes and they are about 1 1/4″ wide, 1/2″ tall, and I have about 1/2″ of space between my eyes and eyebrows when I'm looking straight ahead. (Please excuse my eyebrows in these photos, I popped these on over my 12 hour old makeup.) In the photos I am looking straight forward without lifting my eyebrow and then looking down so you can see the full design and curvature of the lashes.
The boudoir mini design is a rounded shape with extra volume in the middle. This would look pretty with a halo eye look or any time you want your eyes to look more round and open. This lash is made with human hair and has a thick band which is a little hard to work with.
The iconic mini design is a fanned out crisis cross design. This would look good with winged liner or any time you want your eyes to look more elongated or almond shaped. This also is a human hair lash with a thick band that was a little hard to work with.
The wispy minis have a very curly, long, wispy design that adds a lot of length but not much volume. TheY would be good for a detailed eyeshadow look that you want to make sure is seen through your lashes. These are made with synthetic hair and have a clear flexible band that is easy to work with.
The siren Mini design has clusters of lashes to create a natural full look. This would look good on a more natural eye look. This is probably the most natural design in the collection and the only one that I could potentially pass off as my real eyelashes. (not that I care, I always admit when I'm wearing false lashes!) These also have the synthetic hairs and thin, clear, flexible band hat is easy to use.
So that is the entire collection on my eyes. I hope this was helpful to those of you who find most Lashes to be way too long or dramatic on your eyes!
I do like that House of Lashes doesn't use mink hair and that they are reasonably priced. This mini collection is $35 and the website claims they can be worn eight times. So between the four pairs, that comes out to be about $1 per use which is a great value for such pretty lash designs. Also they offer free US shipping for orders over $25 which is pretty amazing.
That's all my thoughts for now!
Oooh, I like Siren – the little bunches of lashes look a bit 60s!
Yeah it's a cute design!
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What Does it Feel Like to Own a Superyacht?
Finance, Travel
Have you ever wondered what it's like to own a superyacht? If you've ever attended a yacht party, you have a general idea of what it's like to enjoy a yacht. However, owning a yacht is much different than enjoying the atmosphere as a guest and going home at the end of the day. While yachts can make you feel amazing, they are also a huge responsibility.
Owning a superyacht can make you feel like a celebrity
Many of the world's celebrities sail around the world on million-and-billion-dollar superyachts for fun. Celebrities with money to burn tend to charter, buy, and sell yachts frequently. For instance, in 2016, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling purchased the Vajoliroja (formerly owned by Johnny Depp) for £22 million.
Like most celebrity yachts, The Vajoliroja is luxurious from top-to-bottom with five cabins for guests, five cabins for the crew, Bohemian-style saloons, several entertainment areas, and plenty of toys.
Recently, this 156-foot yacht was renamed Arriva and is up for sale once again.
Another extravagant celebrity-owned vessel is Regina d'Italia – a 51-meter custom-built Italian luxury yacht owned by fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana. Their yacht has four guest cabins named after exotic animals, a bathroom with gold fixtures studded with sapphires and rubies, gold-plated doorknobs shaped like outstretched hands, and gold veined marble floors.
Some celebrities charter their yachts when they're not in use. Other celebrities charter the same yachts available to anyone for charter.
If you want to charter your yacht while not in use, you could generate somewhere between $75-$100,000 per day.
Owning a superyacht makes life feel luxurious
Being a guest on a yacht can make you feel important and luxurious for a few hours, but owning a superyacht can make you feel like you're living a life of luxury 24/7.
Rather than simply being a guest on a yacht, owning one means you get to set sail any time you wish. You also get to be the one hosting luxurious parties and events. That puts you in a position of creating a luxurious experience for everyone else. That's a great feeling.
As long as you love to entertain, organize, and take care of guests, you'll enjoy hosting luxury events on your yacht.
Owning a superyacht can make you feel abundant
Owning a yacht will make you feel materially abundant, especially when your interior is designed to look like a luxurious home. Many superyachts have interior designs that look identical to what you'd expect to find in a million-dollar mansion. Nothing says abundance more than luxury decor and furnishings.
Owning a superyacht also feels like a big responsibility
In addition to the feeling of luxury, owning a superyacht is also a big responsibility. Yacht owners don't usually get to spend as much time enjoying their boat as their guests. When you're not hosting an event or taking a vacation, you've got a lot of responsibilities to handle.
For instance, you have to maintain the boat's safety and cleanliness. This requires staying on top of insurance payments, necessary repairs, and having a crew available to keep the decks clean. You'll also need to hire scuba divers to scrape barnacles off and another crew to empty the sewage. Owning a yacht requires regular maintenance and inspections that can't be skipped.
Owning a superyacht can feel like a drain on your finances
The upside of feeling luxurious is the ability to spend money. The downside of spending money is that money has to leave your bank account.
Even when you only sail a few times per year, owning a yacht creates year-round expenses. When your superyacht isn't in use, you'll need to pay docking fees and you'll still need to pay your crew a yearly salary. Your crew will be needed even when you're not sailing. You won't need your captain when you're not sailing, but they'll still require an annual salary to be available whenever they're needed.
If you've got the money, a luxury yacht is worth the expense
When you have millions to burn, paying year-round fees for the privilege of owning a luxury yacht is no big deal. In fact, being able to pay those fees might be an inconvenience, but the ability to afford those year-round fees means you're living a life of luxury.

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An explosion set off on Wednesday by a suicide bomber injured at least five police officers in the capital of Chechnya, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported from the scene.
The blast occurred when the 22-year-old terrorist approached a police vehicle parked near a concert hall in downtown Grozny. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov was reportedly in the building at the time of the explosion.
The site of the blast is currently cordoned off by police. An investigation is underway.
Sporadic terrorist attacks and militant clashes are common in Russia's southern mainly Muslim republics in the North Caucasus, especially Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
Russia has been fighting militants in the North Caucasus for over a decade, including two separatist wars in Chechnya.


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by Peter Hammond
Looking at postcards of Chiswick High Road dating from around 1900 it is obvious that the High Road has not changed all that much in the last 100 years or so – that is many of the buildings can either still be seen or can be discerned under recent changes. The structure of the High Road is still basically the same. However if we go back further the few pictures and maps that exist show that the whole road has changed quite out of recognition.
The earliest known photograph of Chiswick High Road, taken in 1863. LB Hounslow Local Studies, Chiswick Library.
As part of a study of the Turnham Green area (ie, the northern part of what we now call Chiswick) it was decided to look at the High Road 150 years ago, in 1851, and see how it compared with the one we see now. This date was chosen because it was the year of a Census of which the Library has a copy, and we are also lucky that the Tithe Map of this area dates from 1847, thus giving us a map to go with the Census. Tithes were a property tax payable to the church. The map was drawn up in accordance with the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836.
The first thing that becomes obvious when looking at the map is that in the middle of the last century Tumham Green was still a village. It was separated by fields and market gardens from Hammersmith at one end and from Brentford at the other and indeed from Chiswick itself on the south. Travelling along the High Road must have been rather like going through one of those extended villages one still finds nowadays, with the road lined mainly with houses separated by occasional shops. Indeed Turnham Green consisted mainly of the High Road, since development both north and south was still minimal.
In the Census the High Road is not in fact called this, with the exception of four unnumbered houses just to the west of Bond Street. Parts of the road were called Brentford Road, as the whole road is named on old maps. The rest of the road consisted of cottages, such as Woodbine Cottage, of groups of cottages, or terraces, many named after the developer or owner of each group, Moon's Place and Ball's Row for example, or Devonshire Place after a prominent local landowner. One such group which still exists is Williams Terrace, built a few years before the Census at the Hammersmith end of the High Road. There was no consecutive house numbering until much later.
Some of the single houses were very large, mansions in fact, built here partly because for many years Turnham Green had a reputation as a healthy place to live and wealthy men wanted houses in this green and pleasant area. It was also conveniently situated at a reasonable travelling distance from London for a country residence and this position made it also a good place to change and water horses. This gave rise to the development of many public houses to serve the needs of travellers.
Both travellers and residents needed staff and supplies, so shops and smaller houses grew to supply this need. Many of the public houses are still with us, the Roebuck, (now the Rat and Parrot), the Pack Horse and Talbot, the George IV, the Windmill, (now Jack Stamp's Beer House), the Crown and Anchor and the Old Packhorse, although most of them have been rebuilt or refronted since then. As may be seen from the illustration above the Crown and Anchor (perhaps alone) has not changed a great deal.
Between the Hammersmith border and the approaches to Kew Bridge there were then no less than 14 large houses along the main road, with others such as Chestnuts and Arlington House around Turnham Green. Only one of these great houses is still there, Falkland House, now known as Afton House, in Bourne Place, but then fronting onto the High Road. The position of others such as Annandale House and Linden House can be seen from roads named after them. Some of these houses, particularly the smaller ones, were still in private occupation in 1851, with a family plus anything up to half a dozen live-in servants; cook, housemaids, nurse and so on. Other large houses had been turned into schools, some quite small, the numbers of pupils resident in the others ranged from 11 to 31, (they may have had day pupils of course who were not there when the census was taken, nominally at midnight). The ages usually ranged quite widely, from 6 to 13 years for example, which must have made teaching quite difficult. Most were boys' schools but there were three for girls.
Turnham Green Residents
What of the people who lived in the houses, what sort of people were they, where did they come from and what did they do? It appears from the Census that most houses were occupied by private individuals and were not, as now, mostly shops. Assuming that if the occupation of the head of the household is given as grocer, greengrocer, butcher and so on, then that place is a shop, there were less than 50 shops in the road out of just over 300 households. Two were actually listed as 'China Shop' and 'Grocer's Shop'.
For food supplies, between the Hammersmith border and the Old Pack Horse, there were five grocers, two greengrocers, three butchers, three bakers and two fishmongers – there was no shortage of choice. There were also shops for less essential needs, two jewellers, two hairdressers, a draper (later Rankins) and a florist for example. For those who know the High Road now it may be noted that there were no restaurants, apart from the pubs, and no estate agents. Near the Roebuck was Turnham Green's own Cigar Divan for tobacco and smoking accessories.
Most of the shops were on the north side of the High Road with a group between the Windmill pub and Fishers Lane, although others were scattered along the entire length of the road. The social mix of the inhabitants was very wide and they were not rigidly segregated into areas. For example on the north side of the High Road, about opposite the Barley Mow, was a washerwoman and her daughter, a dressmaker, next to them was a practising surgeon, and next to him a retired ironmonger. There were also areas where the houses were (apparently) very crowded and lived in by labourers and servants, for example the very short Bond Street, leading from the High Road had 18 houses lived in by 99 people.
In other areas the inhabitants were all reasonably well off with resident servants. Their occupations were very varied, as would be expected, with one or two in such up and coming jobs as 'omnibus conductor' or railway worker. Many of the inhabitants of the High Road, as well as Turnham Green generally, had not been born in the area – the mid 19th century was generally a time of increasing mobility – but the majority of residents came from elsewhere in Middlesex or from very nearby. It also appears that many of the better-off people in particular had moved from more built up parts of London into the 'country'. Most of the children however had been born in Turnham Green wherever their parents had come from.
Turnham Green was thus a thriving village in the middle of the last century and probably a very pleasant place to live, surrounded by fields as it still was. However the future had already arrived in 1849 in the shape of the London and South Western Railway's line with stations at Chiswick and Kew Bridge and the Census reveals a very large number of children under 14. Turnham Green had a growing population and was well on its way to becoming the crowded suburb of London it is today.
Peter Hammond is the editor of The Complete Peerage and co-author of Chiswick and Brentford in the Old Photographs Series published by Chalford Press in 1994 and 1996 respectively.


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Things that Matter: The epic story of Barbados and the Carolinas
Sir Henry Fraser
What's the connection between the Barbados Telephone Company, Upton in St. Michael, Stede Bonnet – the Gentleman Pirate of Barbados, Henry Fraser and North and South Carolina in the USA? You will know by the end of this column!
In 1986 the Barbados Board of Tourism, then chaired by Sir Jack Dear with Mrs. Pat Nehaul as Director and Mrs. Margaret Hope, Public Relations Manager, invited my historian friend Warren Alleyne and me to make a visit to Charleston, led by Markley Wilson, manager of the Board in New York, and Cheryl Carter, Public Relations Officer. The mission, conceptualised by Markley Wilson, was to explore the close connections between Barbados and the Carolinas, which had somehow been forgotten over the years. Warren was chosen for his passionate interest in our early history and his popular writings, including his book Caribbean Pirates, featuring Stede Bonnet of Barbados. I was chosen for my work in architectural history and the traditionally held links between Barbadian and Charlestonian architecture.
The ten exciting days of discovery in Charleston and the surrounding countryside were a revelation to us all, and resulted in the popular book The Barbados-Carolina Connection, by Warren Alleyne and Henry Fraser, published by Macmillan in 1988, which went through three reprints, but has been out of print for more than a decade. So I can now announce, for the many people asking for it, that a splendid new, Second Edition is now in print, and available in ALL leading Barbadian bookstores and in Charleston.
The pride of a midwife or an obstetrician in the successful delivery of a bonnie, healthy new-born baby is second only to that of the mother. In spite of the dozens of books I've written or edited and the hundreds of papers, articles and columns, there's still little that beats the pure pleasure of holding in your hands at last a beautiful new born book that you've laboured mightily over, conceived, researched, written and re-written, proof read and edited, photographed for and debated over, in the role of both parent and obstetrician!
This was the case when Keith Miller of Miller Publishing handed me the first copy of the splendid new edition of The Barbados Carolina Connection. A big part of the thrill was the fact that I had bought a new camera on my last, seventh trip to speak in Charleston, to make sure I had a wide range of quality photos for the new book. And our brilliant graphic artist, Neil Barnard, approved the quality of the photos – what a relief!
The fascination of the Barbados-Carolina epic starts from the very concept – a Barbadian immigrant Sir John Colleton, conceiving the plan in 1663 of settling that huge chunk of the North American continent then known as Carolina (unexplored by Europeans) from little Barbados; an early example of Barbados "punching above its weight"! The Odyssey of the ships, hurricanes and shipwrecks involved in the settlement of 1670 is like an ancient Greek legend. The story of the ruthless, aggressive, probable murderer, womanising, power hungry Sir John Yeamans of St. Nicholas Abbey is worthy of a modern day soap opera or political drama.
The dramatic story of the Gentleman Pirate of Barbados, who scuppered more than 20 ships, was briefly a partner of Blackbeard, and was hung in Charleston, was first chronicled for us by Warren Alleyne in Pirates of the Caribbean; it's a mysterious and "romantic" saga, still little known, and surprisingly not exploited by either our novelists or our Tourism specialists. It astonished me when I discovered that my home, Upton House, was once Bonnet's. where Stede Bonnet was born. The name Bonnet's was changed to Upton by one George Upton later in the 18th century. And it astonished me even more when I discovered that the telephone number I was given by the Barbados Telephone Company on moving into Upton – 1670 – was the date of the Bajan settlement of Charleston, where I've now been for research and lecturing some seven times! Life is full of remarkable coincidences, or as the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges said, it's all connected circles!
The famous single house of Charleston, which originated in Barbados, is another interesting story, while the similarities of their Gullah dialect and our Bajan dialect are astonishing. We transported the sugar culture, sugar and slave economy to the Carolinas, the people (including early governors), the house styles and the dialect our early Bajan emigrants spoke; it survives in the Gullah dialect of coastal Charleston and the islands off the coast. And the close relationships of their first hundred years are worth remembering – when we each sent the other financial aid in times of disastrous fires.
All of this and more is detailed in the new edition of the book, with some fabulous photos supplied by the famous Drayton Hall and Middleton Place in Charleston. These splendid examples of gardens and classical architecture are part of the famous beauty, romance and attraction of Charleston, while Magnolia Gardens, another property of Draytons from Barbados, has been a top tier tourist attraction for more than a hundred years. And Magnolia's attractions include a well preserved and well interpreted collection of slave dwellings, which comprise one of the highlights of a tour that attracts more than 700 000 visitors every year – more than all of our own land based visitors! What a lot we can learn from Charleston, and benefit from the partnership.
One of the goals of this new edition is to share with both Bajans and Carolinians the rich and important historical and on-going connections between the Carolinas and Barbados. Speightstown has been twinned with Charleston, because "The Odyssey" departed from Speightstown, led by Sir John Yeamans of Nicholas, while Wilmington In North Carolina is the sister city of Bridgetown. The Barbados and the Carolinas Legacy Foundation, led by our energetic Honorary Consul in Charleston – Rhoda Green – has been established to nurtures these ties that bind, with exchange visits and other partnerships.
So Warren Alleyne and I are hugely grateful, not only to the team at Miller Publishing and Neil Barnard, but to our Honorary Consul in Charleston – Rhoda Green, to Robert Green, to Professor of Anthropology John Rashford, to Ian Sanchez, and all of our other Charleston friends, at Middleton Place, Drayton Hall, Magnolia Gardens and the historic city of Charleston itself.
Postscript: The month of December is the manifestation of crazy driving. For your / our safety from the road hogs and mad drivers, let us all drive defensively and hope not to be victims or to be forced into accidents by the crazy, inconsiderate, reckless, selfish and dangerous driving and motor cycle riding that is becoming the norm, but seems to be worse at this time of the year. Where is GIS and where are the traffic cops of the past?
(Professor Fraser is Past Dean of Medical Sciences, UWI and Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology. Website: profhenryfraser.com)


Happy New Year. Silo Nine is now available through Amazon and Smashwords for only 99c. I don't know how long I'll keep it at that. I'm writing the next book in the series now.
I have been contracted to write a screenplay - a rewrite of STONE, from the 1970s. It was an Ozploitation movie about bikers; one of Tarantino's faves. I've been tasked with re-imagining it for the 21st century. I'm loving it. Should be finished early 2013.
My original screenplay 1000 is now in the hands of film producer James Vernon and he's shopping it around LA.
James has produced a raft of features through his film financing company Media Funds Management. The screenplay is garnering considerable positive feedback. 1000 is a Sci-fi disaster thriller set in a towering skyscraper. That's all I'm at liberty to divulge at this time.
Silo Nine gets its first review - and it was Five stars - from thriller writer S.L. Pierce. High praise indeed.


Tell a story with your table!
One of the best ways to make a guest feel welcome at a party is to set a thoughtful table. Fancy or casual, considering a few details can take your event from basic to wow!
You don't have to get fancy or spend money…you don't even need a floral centerpiece! It's not about the money, but the creativity and care. Thoughtful is more important that perfect. Your guests will feel your intentions, and that will enrich their experience. Just consider these ideas when you set your table.
Think of your overall table – both place settings as well as centerpiece – as the story of the event ahead. This can pertain to the theme of the meal – Mexican, Moroccan, etc; or to the setting or feeling – beach, garden, romantic. Include elements that speak to the feeling or colors of your theme and let the table introduce, reinforce or tell the tale. Below, the settings are themed Garden, Beach, Asian Fusion, and Southwest. None of these are fancy or complex or expensive to create. They all are created from elements most people would have easy access to. But all of them convey the theme, and would put the guests in mind of an "elevated" environment.
Include at least three layers, and the table/tablecloth doesn't count! This creates depth and adds interest. Just like a great outfit needs more than pants and a blouse, a nice tablescape benefits from not just a tablecloth and a plate, but accessories like a nice napkin, a placecard or menu, a personal centerpiece, or little touches like an herbal sprig, a blossom, a personal tabasco sauce, etc.
Note 3 layers in the picture above: rattan charger, napkin, and a groovy menu (and placecard) by Grey & Cake.
Floral design by Tobey Nelson Events; event design by Taylor'd Events for Within Sodo wedding show. Image by Laura Marchbanks.
Cross the knife and fork on top of the plate. Fold the napkin into an interesting shape, or place it at an angle. Put all the silverware above the plate. I doubt Emily Post is invited, so throw conventions to the side and do something different. Different equals memorable!
Play! Try out a twist: cross the silverware! Put the napkin at an angle! Put all the silverware above the plate!
Bring something of yourself to the table. If you are known for a certain style, color, or collectible – include it! If you collect glass floats, include some of them in the center of the table. If your favorite color is blue and you always wear it, get blue paper and a metallic marker and draw up some name cards or menus. If the party is for your husband's birthday, and he builds model cars, why not include car parts or the finished vehicles as part of the table settings? Never miss a chance to make a personal connection during an event; it will lend such a "real" feeling that your guests will truly appreciate.
I love color & collages. To add a personal, arsty touch to a whimsical event, I created placemats and placecards. This is a no-expense, unique touch that makes the event unique.
Candles are held in place by marbles I have collected over my years of gardening. Every marble in those jars was dug from a project – none were purchased!
Use your creativity to bring a unique signature to your event!
Use components from the meal as the centerpiece. Display colorful spices, beautiful veggies or fruit instead of flowers. Or preset part of the meal on your table as a decorative element. A beautifully laid platter of crudité, fruits, or even a plate of crackers with an opened bottle of wine – all those things have their own beauty, and can signal "welcome" to your guests, and be a little bit of foreplay for the event ahead.
Take your dining out of the dining room - move the table into the living room and dine in front of the fireplace, or out in the orchard.
Be playful with your placecards. Use old greeting cards, or playing cards, or labels from food cans, seed packets.
Consider using a rental dishes for a crowd, or for a new style. Rent a different set of flatware, or some chargers, or a fancy tablecloth.
Places like thrift stores, Target, Pier 1 and World Markets can also be fun to pick up a set of salad plates, or fresh napkins, or even a fun drinking glass. That can lend a fun, fresh twist for a small amount of money.
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Today I put out 12 items for Foods 2 students to identify as accept or reject in the flow of food. Since I had some expired items and not so pretty produce, it was easy to pull out some items in the pantry and fridge.
I had a column for them to list the items and I had a column to accept or reject and a column for students to briefly explain why.
Here's some appetizing carrots in my refrigerator. So scary, Mrs. Brown.
It worked out well since I had several items for them to look at. I even had a bag of frozen peppers and onions that had been re-frozen. Yes, really.
I played this youtube prior to the gallery walk.


This map shows Men life expectancy at birth by United Kingdom Local authority, 2007-2009.
This map shows Men change in life expectancy at birth by United Kingdom Local authority, 2000-02 to 2007-09.
This map shows Women life expectancy at birth by United Kingdom Local authority, 2007-2009.
This map shows Women change in life expectancy at birth by United Kingdom Local authority, 2000-02 to 2007-09.
These page shows Men/Women life expectancy at birth and change in life expectancy at birth by United Kingdom Local authority for 2007-2009.
Men 2007-09 Life Expectancy at Birth, ChartsBin.com, <http://chartsbin.com/view/1636>.
Men Change 2000-02 to 2007-09, ChartsBin.com, <http://chartsbin.com/view/1638>.
Women 2007-09 Life Expectancy at Birth, ChartsBin.com, <http://chartsbin.com/view/1637>.
Women Change 2000-02 to 2007-09, ChartsBin.com, <http://chartsbin.com/view/1639>.


You mentioned that your role is focused on humanising the web experience. Can you explain what that means for BskyB?
My original mission was to really bring the digital channels, of which the web is the biggest, but also interactive TV, to bring those digital channels to the party at Sky so that customers could self-service more and phone us less, because traditionally phone was really almost the ubiquitous form of customer contact. So, we have a million phone calls a week, and the brief was please can we get self-service to be great so that more and more people do that. So, that's where we started, but what we've been finding, as we've been playing in that game is that customers now are adopting and using the connected world on the website, not because it allows them to self-serve but because it allows them to connect more to human beings, so not to replace human beings but in fact to be the hub of your, sort of, social network. So, humanising the web experience is more the mission that we're on now, and we think if we can humanise that experience and bring Sky and our customers to each other and to us, actually we can build more relationships and have a deeper conversation with customers, not simply stop you phoning, go away and do it yourself to some extent. So, it's about humanising that experience and really making the most of it. And by the way when we do that I suspect lots more people will self-serve as well, but they'll also connect to us, connect to our offerings and our brand, hopefully, in a different way than they've been able to in the past.
What has been the biggest challenge that you've faced on your journey with this, and how have you overcome it?
I think trying something new is always a bit frightening for some people, so Sky has all the success that it enjoys because it is very driven and very clear about what it does. So everybody knows without any shadow of a doubt what their objectives are and what their key performance indicators are, and everyone is very focused on delivering those. So, when we're trying to do something new, trying to put something different to customers, there is a fear in the organisation about what that's going to do; is it going to work, or is it actually going to risk or jeopardise the success that had been known so far? So, I'd say our biggest challenge is really just bringing all of those internal stakeholders from all around the company to the party and persuading and engaging and working with those guys to say, actually, look there's a bigger prize, why don't we stand it on its feet.
Conversely, what's been your biggest success and what do you attribute this to?
I think our biggest success has been really playing with these new communication channels, so live chat, or web chat some people call it, we've grown our offering fromã?¦ we had about 90 people doing sales for quite some time, but we're now going to have nearly 500 people engaged with service conversations during web chat, and we have found that that is not only at least an equally efficient channel of doing it on the phone, but our customers systematically rate it higher. They rate higher in MPS terms hugely, self-service on its own, often a negative MPS score, web chat often plus 50, it's double what it might be on the telephone, way better than self-service on its own, and better first contact resolution. So web chat has been an amazing new channel for us, and our other little victory that we've been quite quiet about is starting to really work in the social media space. We now have thousands of interactions with people on Twitter and on Facebook every week, as well as having one of our most healthy and fastest growing customer forums on our own site. We're starting to quietly win awards for actually engaging with customers and being where they are and talking to them, and that's been quite scary. We've started really small, so as not to scare everyone in PR and all of that, but we're gradually, actually really starting to work out the value that that can add for customers and for us too.
How do you feel solution providers in this pace can help drive the market forward? In other words, where are the gaps?
Really simple, by getting together. So, if I look at my solution array I've got a solution provider for me live chat; I've got a different one for my forum capability and my social media listening; I've got a different one for my email handling; I've got yet another one for my content management system and then another one for knowledge management. And I have contracts and agreements for all of those people who are very good at the pieces that they do, starting to knit over into each other's zones, so partly maybe the answer is I get a fewer number of providers covering a greater number of functions, but actually I might want to say, I'd like best in breed of that and that and that, but I need you to work together. And I need those solution providers to be prepared to be technically able to work together. A great example of that is live person having a module to connect into Lithium's forum so I can practically chat to someone who posts a private thing on the forum, so that's great. So, they can technically connect but I also need them to get behind our objectives for our customers and think about their commercial models, not on their own, because I'm not interested in driving more chat, or driving more email, or driving more virtual assistant, I'm interested in answering more questions better for the customer using whichever of those things works for them at the time. So commercially, how do we work together, technically, how do we get interoperable?


Dutch carrier KPN has entered into an agreement to sell its Belgian B2B and carrier business to local rival Mobistar for €65m.
The deal covers KPN's Belgian fixed line assets, including its fibre network and signal the Dutch firm's cessation of investment in the Belgian B2B market due to intense competition.
As a result of the transaction, KPN will be able to focus more on the sale of fixed and mobile services to consumers via its wholesale VoIP and broadband partnership with Mobistar and its subsidiary mobile operation, Base.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Can't Guarantee Trump Hasn't Had Verbal Relations With The N-Word
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Donald Trump insists that the reports of his using a certain racial epithet (you know, the one in most Quentin Tarantino films) are greatly exaggerated. Trump recently tweeted that the word isn't even in his already limited "vocabulary" (maybe that's why he didn't appreciate Django Unchained) and that "The Apprentice" producer Mark Burnett called him to say there are absolutely no tapes of Trump saying that "terrible and disgusting word" he doesn't know. It's a weird denial -- sort of like if your spouse asked if you'd cheated on them with their cousin and your response was, "Do they regularly delete their texts? If so, then no, no, I have not."
Trump's official White House liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders choked when her arch enemies in the press asked her Tuesday if she could just, you know, "guarantee" that there were no tapes of Trump saying the "n-word." Simple enough, right? She doesn't have to go on record as saying that Trump's never used the word, just that he's not been recorded doing so Apparently even that is a stretch for a woman who probably fantasizes about forcing April Ryan and Jim Acosta to declare that she's holding up five fingers instead of four.
Sanders is better than this, and by better, I mean not as fecklessly evil. [CITATION NEEDED. - Ed.] She could've said, "The president has dabbled in acting. There could be tapes of him rehearsing a monologue from August Wilson's Fences, and if you don't think he could be a convincing Troy, then you're the real racist."
So, the tapes probably exist. Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, who is apparently a bionic woman containing multiple recording devices, taped a meeting where she and other embarrassments to their people discuss how to "spin" such a possibility. This took place before Trump was elected and managed to single-handedly "solve a problem like black people," which was what Sanders wanted to remind all us ungrateful colored folk.
"This president, since he took office, in the year and a half that he's been here, has created 700,000 new jobs for African-Americans. That's 700,000 African-Americans that are working now that weren't working when this president took place. When President Obama left after eight years in office — eight years in office — he had only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans. President Trump, in his first year and a half, has already tripled what President Obama did in eight years."
The New York Times refuted the lie-laced lemonade Sanders was trying to serve, not that this was ever a relevant response to the question, "Is the President racist?" Sanders was clearly directing her made-up figures at the white people who want to think black folks were just smoking cigarettes and watching "Captain Kangaroo" on our Obamaphones before Trump put us back to work.
I think it's less a matter of if the "n-word" tape exists but when it'll drop like a new Wu-Tang track. "Shame on a Trump" will rock the charts, but will it really rock his presidency? Perfectly reasonable people who aren't black think so.
Hennessey conceded that her prediction is "naive" and likely "wrong," which is something, but I don't think black people will "gleefully" delight in seeing her proven wrong. It's frankly just depressing as a black American to live in a world where our allies are so far removed from our lived experience.
I was either called a nigger or heard the word causally spoken fairly often growing up in South Carolina. I remember this kid Dusty in seventh grade explaining that he didn't consider me a "nigger." That was for guys like "Tyrone" or "Malcolm." Dusty is in his mid-40s now. He probably has kids. Will he want to tell his children that Trump is no longer president because he said a word that he himself used (uses?) frequently?
In high school, I recall some white girls in free period complaining about "niggers" looking at them the wrong way and flirting with them. They are going to demand Trump resign because he used the same word? It's safe to presume that my classmates' parents, uncles, aunts also used the word. They would all be Trump's age or even younger. That's a lot of voters who've indulged in Trump's possible racial indiscretions.
My generation after all came of age during the Tarantino-led "nigger is just a word" movement. I knew lots of hip white liberals who unashamedly recited the "dead nigger storage" scene from memory.
Watching this now, there is the obvious power play of a white guy shouting the word at capital "B" black man Samuel L Jackson. Don't try this at home, dudes.
Chris Rock has since regretted his "Black People vs. Niggers" routine, which many self-declared non-racist whites invoked when defending describing "those" black people that way. I bet Colin Kaepernick has been called a nigger in many Trump-voting homes. This is the likely defense of Trump if a tape emerges: he's not calling all black people "nigger," which is racist, just a specific black person, which is basically slurring someone based on the "content of one's character." Even Martin Luther King Jr. would approve!
Remember that Trumpism is rooted in cultural resentment, and white people greatly resent the fact that black people can freely use a term that they can't. Remember the furor when Obama dared utter the word? This manifests often as concern trolling. Take this tweet from Breitbart host Joel B. Pollak (no, really, please get it away from me).
Hennessey's prediction imagines a world where the only white person who regularly says "nigger" is David Duke after two rounds of drinks. No "good" white people ever do and are frankly appalled at the idea anyone would. This reminds me of a classic moment from a Barbara Walters interview with Richard Pryor.
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We're probably going to end up having Pollak's oh-so-earnestly desired discussion about "the word and its public use," because as I said, the tape is probably a matter of "when" and not "if."
Like most things that involve Donald Trump, that conversation will inevitably diminish us all.
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NAACP Memphis reflected on its past year in online fundraiser. Next, it wants members to vote
To make Memphis more inclusive, speakers at the NAACP Memphis Freedom Fund encouraged making plans to vote, casting a vote and calling for changes to public policy.
"It is our role (as the NAACP) to make what others claim to be impossible, possible," said Derrick Johnson, national NAACP president and chief executive. Johnson was the keynote speaker for the annual Freedom Fund fundraiser, which was broadcast over Zoom Saturday rather than held in-person.
Recent presidential hopeful Julián Castro also spoke at the two-hour virtual event, emceed by WREG anchor Stephanie Scurlock. The fundraiser's theme was "Say Less, Do More, Vote!" Tickets cost $130 each, or $1,300 for a "table" of 10.
In calling for memberships, donations and volunteers, Memphis Branch President Van Turner reviewed some the chapter's accomplishments over the last year. Some of those, like the chapter's call to end the state's Nathan Bedford Forrest Day, have seen long-awaited recent forward progress. Gov. Bill Lee did not proclaim the holiday this year and, after years of demands from activists across the state, recently called for the bust of the Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader to be removed from the capitol and placed in a museum.
Other actions have been in response to inequities laid bare by COVID-19 and further highlighted by weekslong protests inspired by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. The Memphis Branch campaigned for election reform by way of absentee ballots due to the circumstances of the pandemic, Turner said, and began the George Floyd Legal Defense Fund to assist in bailing activists out of jail.
"Racism and discrimination is still alive and well in our communities," Tuner said. "We've been working for you and we continue to need your support as we fight for justice and equality for all."
In conversation with Tami Sawyer, Shelby County Commissioner and co-chair of the Memphis NAACP's education committee, Castro discussed what Black and brown voters should consider before going to the polls this November.
Most importantly, he said, is to make a plan to vote.
"And I say have a plan because across this country...you have people that are trying to suppress the vote, especially of African American voters in a time when...that vote is going to be so crucial to the outcome of this election," Castro said.
Beyond that, he challenged Black and brown voters to consider whether their lives have been "made better" over the last three years and to vote accordingly.
In addressing potential voter apathy among minority communities, Castro also encouraged leadership to take note and change.
"When you're in that office, if their lives don't change, then they (voters) are going to say, 'Oh, it's all the same. It doesn't matter whether I vote for this person or I don't vote at all,'" Castro said. "So when you're in office, you need to make a difference."
Castro, Sawyer noted, has long spoken out against police brutality. He called the issue an "inveterate" and "timeless" one because of how many people it impacts.
"I think it's important to address social justice issues, because until we achieve justice for everybody in this country," Castro said, "we can't achieve the kind of country that we ought to be and the kind of country that was promised in many ways."
Turner presented him with a "game changer" award "for outstanding and dedicated leadership to the betterment of life for all children, especially those of color."
Freedom Fund co-chairs, Shelby County Assessor Melvin Burgess II, Latino Memphis Executive Director Mauricio Calvo and Regional One Health Chief Administrative Officer Tish Towns were also recognized at the event.
Former Memphis Branch President Diedre Malone received the organization's "most prestigious" President's Award.
Johnson, the national president, encouraged the chapter to let the pursuit of making 'the impossible possible' guide it forward.
"It is the guiding principle that we all should go by because no one within our community or outside of our community should define what's possible for us," he said, "when the work we're doing is to create equity and access and inclusion for those who have been maligned, disregarded and cast away."


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The Latest Strategy Against Election Misinformation That Goes Viral: The Courtroom
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A "stop the steal" sign seen at the U.S. Capitol in Washington after news that President-elect Joe Biden had defeated the incumbent in the race for the White House, in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020.
Voting technology companies, like Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, are using billion-dollar defamation lawsuits to try to repair damage to their brands and bottom lines from conspiracy theories that alleged they were involved in stealing the 2020 election for President Joe Biden.
Some see these legal fights as another way to take on viral misinformation, one that's already starting to show some results.
"This goes beyond hoping to stop the disinformation," said attorney Steve Skarnulis. "The goal that we have is to hold people accountable."
Skarnulis represents Dominion employee Eric Coomer, who remains in hiding after being threatened and falsely accused of manipulating election results. Coomer filed the first defamation lawsuit related to the 2020 election. Skarnulis hopes that in addition to helping Coomer clear his name and return to a normal life, the suits will also serve as a warning.
"I hope that it will shock media and other personalities who have the platforms they do, enough that they will be much more cautious about spreading disinformation."
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The list of people and organizations being sued for defamation based on their false election claims reads like a who's who of former President Donald Trump's supporters. They include former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, attorney Sidney Powell, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and pro-Trump media outlets from Newsmax to OAN.
In addition to Dominion, a second election company, Smartmatic, has also filed a defamation suit against Trump's attorneys and conservative media outlets, with more likely to come.
"I think this is a completely new way of tackling misinformation," said journalism and public policy professor Bill Adair, head of the journalism program at Duke University.
'We need to incentivize truth and we need to de-incentivize lying'
Fact-checking website Politifact, which presents research and analysis to misinformation being spread by public officials or circulating on social media, was founded by Adair. The next iteration of that effort is an experimental technology that is still being tested that would automatically offer fact checks in videos when a politician speaks.
"My hope is that over time we can begin to show people what's true, and what's not, using different methods, using different kinds of ways of displaying the content," Adair said.
He does worry that using defamation suits to combat untruths spread by media outlets could become a weapon against journalists just doing their jobs.
"As a journalist, I'm a little bit nervous. The idea of using defamation lawsuits makes us a little bit concerned."
But even with that discomfort, Adair has come to believe defamation lawsuits do have a role to play.
"The basic concept that I'm coming to embrace is that we need to incentivize truth and we need to de-incentivize lying," he said. "Money is what matters to a media company, and so a defamation lawsuit is a big way to do that. And so it's going to get their attention."
Lawmakers want media literacy to be part of the solution
Colorado legislators are also growing increasingly concerned about the problem of misinformation. There are bills moving through the state legislature that attempt to equip students for the information free-for-all they're inheriting. The policies would increase media literacy training and strengthen civics education in schools.
"It's not a partisan issue; there are bad actors on all sides of the fence," said Democratic state Rep. Lisa Cutter of Jefferson County, the main sponsor of the media literacy proposal. "You can't legislate that adults take media literacy. Kids are so adaptable and this is a new frontier for us. They're walking around with pocket computers and accessing information all day long."
Cutter said the goal of her bill is to teach students the difference between fact and opinion, and how to determine what's credible.
Republican state Sen. Don Coram of Montrose is another sponsor of HB21-1103 as well as the civics instruction bill. He said he gets frequent reminders of the need for more education on the fundamentals of how the government works.
"I get so many emails, so many phone calls. They have no idea what a state senator does," Coram said. "They have no idea the difference between federal and state, and frankly, they don't know the difference between local and state. We have an electorate that gets all their information on social media and it's not always correct. So let's maybe let the children teach the parents."
Defamation lawsuits seem to have an impact, but they're not a one-size-fits-all strategy
An anchor for Newsmax walked out on a live interview with My Pillow CEO Lindell when he started making unsubstantiated claims about Dominion voting machines. Fox News, the Fox Business Network and Newsmax also aired segments that contradicted the disinformation their own hosts had amplified.
But defamation lawsuits do have downsides, including that they're difficult to win. Plaintiffs need to show the person they're suing knew a statement was false when they made it, or had serious doubts about its truthfulness.
As the former in-house counsel for the New York Times, George Freeman spent three decades defending people against defamation lawsuits. He now heads the Media Law Resource Center. He said media organizations have a First Amendment right to report the news, and that includes repeating what important people say, even if those statements are false.
Pro-Trump outlets are likely to claim that constitutional protection for their defense, but Freeman believes they may have crossed a legal line in their presentation of election fraud claims and in some instances applauding obvious falsehoods.
"It's been depressing to me because I've kind of campaigned for that privilege (by news organizations) to be accepted," Freeman said. "And now … they're trying to use it, but in a case where the speakers are irresponsible and the networks are not reporting them neutrally, but they're endorsing them."
Still Freeman said he thinks the strongest defamation cases aren't against the media companies, but against one of the people they gave a lot of airtime to, Rudy Giuliani.
"He made certain accusations on TV and in interviews, but then he didn't make those in court because I think he knew he would be subject to discipline and perjury. So that would seem to be pretty good evidence that he knew they were false," Freeman said.
In a January call announcing the lawsuit against Giuliani, Dominion attorney Tom Clare said that the court can consider circumstantial evidence too. The complaint includes a detailed timeline that shows Giuliani continued to make his claims in the face of public assurances from election security experts, hand recounts and numerous court rulings rejecting fraud cases.
"As Mr. Giuliani was warned repeatedly, and as other people backed away from making these statements, the evidence at some point becomes overwhelming that this was not a good faith mistake," Clare said.
While the current lawsuits could have an impact in this instance, experts on misinformation say there are several reasons why defamation cases aren't a main tool in the fight against falsehoods.
Many conspiracy theories don't target a specific person or company, so there's no one to launch a lawsuit. And when a victim does sue, a case can take years.
The parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting have filed multiple defamation lawsuits against Alex Jones of InfoWars. But after numerous challenges and delays, the cases are all still in the pre-trial phase. With Dominion and Smartmatic vowing not to settle before they get their day in court, this approach to fighting election misinformation may still be grinding forward even as the country enters the next presidential election.
But for Adair and others, any effort to discourage future misinformation campaigns is worth pursuing.
"These lies brought our democracy to a breaking point. It's really scary what happened. So we need to think about what we can do to fix this broken system."
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time and as evening grew closer, they flew toward each other quickly until they vanished.
A witness to the event remarked: "Three unidentified flying vehicles remained static most of the afternoon until dusk, then flew quickly toward each other until they vanished," according to Lucas Martinez.
UFO sightings over Colombia are on the rise with many more cases reporting everything from small lights to possible structured craft flying over towns, municipalities and even some of the nation's cities.
Photos show white objects, clearly distant from the witnesses. A drawing depicts the manner in which the craft were described by witnesses.


Hand milgrained 14K rose gold solitaire set diamond engagement ring featuring a natural oval brilliant cut peach pink sapphire measuring 8.94 x 5.23 mm and weighing 1.32 cts.
Center stone is flanked and surrounded by 3 row pave' set round brilliant cut diamonds weighing a total carat weight of 0.40 cts. (G,VS2/SI1).
Prong, basket and band detailing all done by hand to add a vintage effect to the ring.


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A consumer's guide to cannabis basics
Your long weekends, dinner parties, poker nights and book-club meetings are about to get a whole lot more interesting, according to Matt Ryan.
As the vice-president of marketing for National Access Cannabis, a company that provides cannabis education and services, Ryan says he believes the legalization of cannabis, expected on Oct. 17, will change the dynamics of Canadians' social gatherings.
For the uninitiated, however, the ins and outs of how to purchase and use marijuana can be daunting. Here, we provide a consumer's guide to the basics.
THE ABCS OF CBD AND THC
While there's an entire alphabet soup of compounds, known as cannabinoids, in cannabis, THC and CBD are the two key ones and are currently the most well-understood, Larsen says.
THC is the compound responsible for the "high," or euphoric sensation, associated with cannabis. CBD does not produce this effect, but is believed to have anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea and other therapeutic properties.
Typically, the more THC a plant has, the less CBD it has, and vice versa, Larsen says.
Traditionally, cannabis has been categorized into three basic plant types or "strains": indica, sativa and hybrid. Indica plants are generally short and squat and produce bigger, denser buds, Larsen says. Sativa plants tend to be taller and their buds appear more wispy. Hybrid plants are crossbreeds of sativa and indica.
Indica is typically associated with producing a relaxing effect, while sativa is thought to be energizing, so some cannabis users smoke sativa during the day and indica at night, Larsen says. But, he says, these purported effects fall more under the realm of folk knowledge rather than science.
Moreover, many people are now moving away from talking about sativa, indica and hybrid strains, as this method of categorization is rather simplistic, adds Abi Sampson, interim executive director of the cannabis-advocacy group NORML Canada. There is instead a greater focus on the different compounds in a given product, including THC and CBD, and the terpene profile.
Terpenes are the aromatic oils that give cannabis its distinctive scent and flavour, McCorrister explains. And each terpene is also believed to be associated with certain effects.
The terpene limonene, for example, can also be found in grapefruit, lemon and other citrus fruits, and it's believed to have an uplifting or mood-enhancing effect, McCorrister says. Myrcene, which has a musky, earthy and citrus-y scent, is also found in mangoes, thyme, lemon grass and hops, and it's thought to have a sedative effect. Meanwhile, alpha and beta pinene, which are also found in pine and herbs such as dill and parsley, are thought to produce alertness, she says.
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NO FINGERPRINTS or DNA belonging to Mark Duggan were found on the gun he was alleged to have been holding when police shot him dead, an inquest jury has heard.
The claim was made by Metropolitan Police fingerprints expert Jacqueline Landais, who gave evidence yesterday (November 13) at the Inquest into Duggan's death.
Duggan, 29, was travelling in a taxi in August 2011 when he was intercepted by police in Ferry Lane, Tottenham, as part of an intelligence-led operation.
The officer who shot Duggan claim he fired in self-defence after the Tottenham resident pointed a gun at him.
A firearm was later found wrapped in a sock between 10 to 20 feet away from where he was killed.
Landais told jurors that there were no finger prints or DNA "attributable to Mark Duggan" on the gun or the sock.
She added that because guns are made up of smaller parts it could be difficult to recover usable finger prints.
The expert also told the inquest that Duggan's fingerprints were on the outside of the box, which police claim he used to carry the gun, but not on the inside.


This year we decided to try something new for homeschooling. We were led to Classical Conversations, and after much prayer, we decided to enroll the girls. One of the things I love the most is that the girls learn the entire Timeline of World History. It is one of their favorite things about CC.
We are currently about to make the big age transition from BC to AD. As the girls began learning this stretch of the timeline for the week, the timeline date ends with John the Baptist. The Timeline song, a catchy beat which helps the kids learn the history, contains a big crescendo at the most pivotal point of history: the coming of Jesus the Messiah.
But we aren't quite there yet, so Zion's tutor, who is amazing, had the students whisper John the Baptist in anticipation of the great climax of Jesus the Messiah.
All of history rests on His coming. This God-man stepping foot on earthly soil, touching blind eyes with his own human hands, bleeding drops of blood, crimson with love.
The One Who came not to make sick people better but to make dead people alive.
His blood took away every sin. Every lie. Every fear. Every burden. Every single sin.
Behold Him today in your kitchen. Behold Him today in your car. Behold Him today in your bedroom. Behold Him today in your heart.
We were dead. Now we are alive. We were slaves. Now we are free. We are forgiven of the debt that was around our necks.
The Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world takes the things we have done and turns them into victory.
Behold Him for He is coming soon. In the blink of an eye, every eye will see Him. Every tongue will confess the Lamb of God indeed washes away every stain of sin.


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G.N.R./ L.N.E.R./ B.R. 521/536 (L.N.E.R. J6)
The first 15 of the 521 series were built at the end of Ivatt's days with GNR . Later, 95 of the 536 series being produced in a modified form by Gresley between late 1912 and 1922. The last two locomotives were withdrawn in June 1962. The Gresley series of locomotives had the boiler set further back in the frames with a shorter cab. The initial batch had sandboxes between the frames feeding the driving wheels but on the 536 series a sandbox was added to the leading splasher feeding the leading coupled wheels. The 521's had a plain chimney and the 536's a built up pattern 7/8 in. shorter. By grouping the chimneys were all of the later type.There are a large number of alternatives in this kit such as two sets of main frames, cab options, smoke box choices, GNR or LNER chimneys, and a choice of Stirling, Ivatt horseshoe, or Ivatt self-trimming tender. The fittings are almost all lost wax cast brass.
One of our tenders is featured on the front cover of Guy Williams' book "More 4mm Engines", attached to a GNR Atlantic. That locomotive, which was otherwise scratchbuilt for one of the chapters of this Wild Swan publication, also uses LRM cast hornblocks. £123.00
G.N.R. H3/ L.N.E.R. / B.R. K2/2
Built between 1913 and 1921, the sixty five locomotives of the G.N.R. H3 class were reclassified as K2/2's by the LNER. They were nicknamed 'Ragtimers' due to their reputation for rough riding. Despite this they were a succesful locomotive design and lasted variously until 1955 to 1962. The artwork for the K2/2, the second London Road Models kit of a G.N.R. prototype, was drawn up to his usual high standard by Malcolm Crawley, Chairman of the G.N.R. Society.
Most of the many variants of the K2/2 class are covered by the kit, with three alternative cabs and various detail parts and boiler fittings and an Ivatt self-trimming tender. A number of fold-up jig assembly components are included, to simplify the assembly process of this fairly complicated engine. Many of the detail component are lost wax brass castings, while the piston crossheads and the cylinder covers/slidebars nickel silver, cast in from masters produced by John Hayes, to provide a realistic representation of the original steel components. Due to the complexity of the valve gear and the detail incorporated, this is not a kit for the beginner, but is more suited to the more experienced modeller. £160.00
What became the LNER J3 class was first introduced by Nigel Gresley in 1912, when he re-built No. 1163 of the 343 class of GNR locos, with a bigger 4ft 8in boiler. Between 1912 and 1929, a total of 153 locos were rebuilt, mainly Ivatt, although 27 of the Stirling type were also rebuilt from what became the LNER J4 class. The main difference from locos as built apart from the boiler was the lifting of the cab roof by 6 inches, although often the specific cab design was not changed. Thus, some Stirling cabs were perpetuated, as original.The kit is etched from brass, and with nickel silver for the chassis. A Stirling tender is included as standard. £123.00
GNR J5/ L.N.E.R./B.R. J4
The LNER J4 preceded the J3, the most readily apparent difference being the smaller boiler diameter, on the J4. However, as for the J3, the variations were numerous. The GNR class J5, which in the main later became the LNER J4, was the development of the standard Stirling 0-6-0 goods tender loco with 5ft 2in driving wheels. The original engines of this type began to appear in 1871. In common with the K2/2, these two kits were researched and designed by Malcolm Crawley, Chairman of the G.N.R. Society. They are supplied with all the main components for the body and tender etched in brass. The loco and tender chassis are in nickel-silver and both can be fitted with compensation or springing. The fittings are almost all lost wax cast brass. A few fittings, such as tender axleguards/spring assemblies are in high quality whitemetal. Sprung turned buffers are included. £123.00
GNR/L.N.E.R./B.R. N1 0-6-2T
Ivatt introduced his N1 0-6-2T design for hauling suburban London trains in 1907. By 1912 a total of 51 N1s were operating in the London area. A total of 56 N1s were built in six batches. All were fitted with condensing gear, except for four which were intended for use in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Although superseded by Gresley's N2 locomotives with their superheating and piston valves, the first N1 withdrawal did not occur until 1947, with 55 engines entering British Railways ownership. Withdrawals commenced in earnest in 1951. The last N1 was withdrawn in April 1959.The kit is etched in .010″ nickel silver, using overlays to provide scale detail where required. £123.00
LOCO87 GNR D1/LNER D2 4-4-0
Designed by Ivatt and introduced in 1898, 65 locomotives of the GNR D1 were built with the footplate raised over the coupling rods, allowing for better access to the oiling points. They were usually known as the "1321" class. The smokebox of the original version's saturated boiler was extended to improve steaming and the earlier cabs were later modified. Withdrawals started in September 1936, thirty-one entered British Railways ownership, and the last D2 was withdrawn in June 1951.The kit is supplied with the Ivatt self-trimming tender, although the Stirling tender can be supplied as an option. The two cab variations are included with the kit, to allow either early or late versions to be constructed. During Ivatt's reign, a number of the locomotives were modified, but these modifications are not included £132.00
GNR D1/LNER D2 4-4-0 superheated boiler.
H. N. Gresley superheated 25 of the D1 class. The first rebuild was undertaken in 1914, the others following after the grouping. Initially the locomotives carried Ramsbottom Safety valves, whilst their handrails were cut back from going round the front of the boiler starting in 1911. The smokebox of the original version's saturated boiler was extended to improve steaming and the earlier cabs were later modified. Withdrawals started in September 1936, thirty-one entered British Railways ownership, and the last D2 was withdrawn in June 1951.The kit is supplied with the Ivatt self-trimming tender, although the Stirling tender can be supplied as an option. The two cab variations are included with the kit, to allow either early or late versions to be constructed. During Ivatts reign, a number of the locomotives were modified, but these modifications are not included £132.00
LNER C12 (GNR C2) 4-4-2T Square tank version
Introduced between 1898 and 1907 the C12s were initially used for Yorkshire's West Riding and London suburban services. The tank and bunker corners were originally squared off but the later versions had rounded tank corners and flared bunkers. The kit is entirely etched in nickel silver, the boiler is pre-rolled, fittings are mainly cast brass, sprung buffers, etc. 00, EM and P4 frame and bogie spacers are included. £118.00
LNER D4 (GNR D2)
First introduced by the GNR in 1896 the D2 class were also known as the "400" class after the prototype, and were reclassified as D4 by the LNER. No. 400 was followed by fifty more D2s in five batches over the next three years. The first forty were built with straight running plates and splashers over the coupling rods, while the last batch of ten had raised running plates over the coupling rods to match the GNR C2 Atlantics. The kit produces the straight running plate version.
They were rebuilt with higher pitched larger diameter boilers, 4′ 8″ instead of 4′ 5″, between 1912 and 1928 and reclassified as the D3 class.The new kit is in etched brass for the superstructure with nickel silver for the chassis components, brass and whitemetal castings, etc. Available from December 2011 the D2/D4 is supplied the Ivatt Horseshoe tender as standard, although the other GNR tenders can be substituted, if required. £132.00
29 GNR D2 class with a flat footplate were rebuilt to GNR D3/LNER D3 4-4-0s as depicted by this new kit. 19 lasted into BR days, the last being scrapped in 1951. Four different cabs were fitted over their working lives, early or late Ivatt, Stainmore side window (3 locos) and finally that fitted to number 2000 (later 62000), a Directors loco. The kit provides all these cab options plus the parts to provide the other minor variations they carried.
The kit is etched in brass, with a nickel silver chassis. The chassis can be built to OO, EM or P4 gauge and has standard 6mm horn block half etched cut outs for those wishing to fit compensation or springing. Lost wax brass casting, spring buffers, etc. are included but motor wheels and gears are required to complete the model.
Either of the two existing Ivatt tenders from the LRM range are supplied with the kit, the Horseshoe or Self Trimming types. £132.00
LOCO92 LNER J5 (GNR J22)
Ivatt built these twenty medium-powered goods locomotives in 1909-10, to meet the increasing goods and coal traffic being experienced by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) at that time. They had the same dimensions as the existing mixed traffic GNR Class J21 (LNER J1) locomotives, except they had smaller 5ft 2in coupled wheels. Two batches of ten J5s were built at Doncaster in 1909 and 1910.The body is etched in brass with a nickle silver chassis and mostly brass fittings. It includes a jig to help with the accurate forming of the one piece cab side/roof. £132.00
LOCO93 LNER Q2 0-8-0 (GNR K1)
The kit was developed by Frank Davies for the Shipley MRS "Clayton" project. Beautifully designed, it is etched in brass and nickel silver with optional parts to build inside valve gear, which can be made to work if required. Castings are mainly in brass. £155.00
Another excellent kit designed by Frank Davies for the Shipley MRS "Clayton" project. Etched in brass and nickel silver with optional parts to build inside valve gear, which can be made to work if required. Castings are mainly in brass £155.00
GNRC1 GNR/LNER/BR J4 Conversion Kit to 1031, 1081 and 1091 series £16.00
TEND81 Stirling – Class D six wheel tender £49.50
TEND82 Ivatt – "Horseshoe" six wheel tender £49.50
TEND83 Ivatt – "Self trimming" six wheel tender £49.50
TEND84
GNR/LNER six wheel tender to Doncaster diagram R13.
This "sandwich framed" tender with inside springs was originally used with passenger locos but as they became superseded by later Stirling and Ivatttender designs they were often demoted to use with goods locos. The R13 tender can, for example, be used with the LRM GNRC1 conversion etch for the J4 0-6-0 kit to create the 1031, 1081 and 1091class versions. The accompanying photo shows the R13 tender assembled from the test etches.The kit includes the cast water filler dome, handrail knobs, etc. £44.00
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from chinput import HandleCh
from proc import Proc
from monitor import Monitor
import sys
import files
import types
import os
import time

def setup(musicpath, commandpath):
    global track_idx, proc
    track_idx = 0
    listmusic(musicpath)
    proc = Proc()
    global global_monitor
    global_monitor = Monitor(commandpath)

def listmusic(musicpath):
    global musicfiles, rfid_idxfilename_map
    files_list = files.list(musicpath)
    rfidfiles = filter(lambda f: f.endswith("rfid"), files_list)

    tmp_rfid_filename_map = {}
    for rfidfile in rfidfiles:
        with open(rfidfile) as f:
            for l in f:
                s = l.strip().split(" ", 1)
                if len(s) != 2:
                    # print "invalid rfid line: %s" % l.strip()
                    continue
                tmp_rfid_filename_map[s[0]] = s[1]

    rfid_idxfilename_map = {}
    musicfiles = filter(lambda f: f.endswith(".mp3"), files_list)
    print "num tracks: %d (%s)" % (len(musicfiles), musicpath)
    for idx, fname in enumerate(musicfiles):
        rfid_list = []
        for rfid, rfid_filename in tmp_rfid_filename_map.items():
            if os.path.basename(fname) == rfid_filename:
                rfid_idxfilename_map[rfid] = (idx, fname)
                rfid_list.append(rfid)
        rfid_list_str = " (RFID:%s)" % (",".join(rfid_list)) if rfid_list else ""
        print "%3d: %s%s" % (idx, os.path.basename(fname), rfid_list_str)
    print "rfid_idxfilename_map:"
    for rfid, (idx, fn) in rfid_idxfilename_map.items():
        print "  %s %d %s" % (rfid, idx, os.path.basename(fn))

def playtrack(fname):
    rc = proc.check()
    proc.run(["mpg321", fname])

def handler_per_loop():
    updated_files = global_monitor.update()
    if updated_files:
        print time.ctime(time.time()), "files updated", updated_files

    contents_l = []
    for filename in updated_files:
        with open(filename) as f:
            contents = f.read().strip()
            print "filename: %s. contents: %s" % (filename, contents)
            contents_l.append(contents)

    if not contents_l:
        return

    for c in contents_l:
        if c in rfid_idxfilename_map:
            idx, filename = rfid_idxfilename_map[c]
            global track_idx
            track_idx = idx
            space()
            return
    print "cannot find matching event for", contents_l

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) > 2:
        musicpath = sys.argv[1]
        commandpath = sys.argv[2]
    else:
        musicpath = "/home/pi/mp3/150 Fun Songs For Kids"
        commandpath = "/home/pi/mp3/monitor"

    setup(musicpath, commandpath)

    def p():
        global track_idx
        track_idx -= 1
        space()
    def n():
        global track_idx
        track_idx += 1
        space()
    def s():
        print "stop"
        proc.stop()
    def l():
        listmusic(musicpath)
        print "list", musicfiles
    def v():
        print "verify proc status"
        proc.check()
    def q():
        print "quit"
        sys.exit(0)
    def space():
        global track_idx
        if len(musicfiles) == 0:
            print "no music files"
            return
        track_idx %= len(musicfiles)
        trackname = musicfiles[track_idx]
        print "play", trackname
        playtrack(trackname)
    def h():
        print "handlers"
        print "\n".join(map(str, handlers.items()))

    handlers = {ord(" "): space}
    for char, fn in locals().items():
        if len(char) == 1 and isinstance(fn, types.FunctionType):
            handlers[ord(char)] = fn
    handlech = HandleCh(handlers, handler_per_loop=handler_per_loop)
    handlech.run()

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