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Owain

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  1. Thought you might like this thread on Reddit
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    Horse Ring Tone

    Hi-de-hi style chime bar?
  3. You can probably get a grant for that from somewhere.
  4. Is it possible to switch the fluorescents in banks/sections so there's more choice than all on / all off?
  5. All the more reason to not give them the opportunity to fiddle.
  6. Grid switch electrical faceplates would do, but would be a bit chunky - although Clipsal Australia do some high-density gridswitches with a lot of switches in a small box and Contactum have 8 in a UK double box. If you don't want to make them, plenty of fabricators could https://www.hoyles.com/custom-design
  7. Might have been quicker to "buy" them back, then launch a civil action for the amount.
  8. I think by 2025 BT are hoping to migrate all services to fibre delivery, and VoIP for telephony. There might be some rural places using a wireless local loop substitute, which will bring its own problems. Theatres will usually have a stage comms system as well - is that on battery backup? And in places like London, with widespread power failure, the tube stops and so do the traffic lights. In disaster planning we are now having to consider situations where it may not be possible to evacuate a venue and people may have to stay overnight because they can't get home (staff at least, even if you chuck the punters out)
  9. Band's stolen equipment found in Cash Generator store https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51402225 Bassist Charlie Howarth said: "The majority of the equipment [stolen] was mine. [When Guy called] it was pretty remarkable... Never thought we'd get it back and so quickly... 24 hours [afterwards] is pretty mad." Cash Generator has not yet responded to a request for a comment when approached by the BBC.
  10. If the cable is in contact with a thermally conducting surface isn't the current-carrying capacity higher than if in free air?
  11. Staff around the country are being consigned to poverty as a report from Citizens Advice Scotland revealed that 36,876 Scots are not being paid the legal minimum wage by their employers. Former Edinburgh Fringe worker Shira Kaliski has told how she ended up working for “slave wages” at the world famous festival.The 26-year-old was classed as a “volunteer” while with C Venues, a firm she believes exploited hundreds of people trying to gain experience in the arts. She said: “I and many others were frequently working 10 to 15 hours a day for what must have been not much more than a few pounds an hour at best. We were classed as volunteers but it was clearly a commercial operation. Someone must have been making plenty of money but it certainly wasn’t the workers. “In Edinburgh, pay ranged from about £600 to just over £1000 a month. But in terms of hours worked, it was nowhere near the minimum wage as you were working every waking hour" https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shock-report-reveals-37000-scots-21178420
  12. The local council's induction loops for its confidential interview rooms were all clearly receivable in the shopping centre at the back of the building
  13. For diffuser, fresnel lenses from broken tellies? May also be a source of LED strips
  14. Stab vests, t-shirts, trousers, hats, imitation batons and more were stolen from a prop and set production company in Limerigg near Slamannan and many of the garments are embroidered with ‘Police’. The items “look very realistic”, warned Detective Chief Inspector Colin Campbell of Forth Valley CID, who is appealing for witnesses. Other items taken included police fleeces, handcuffs and PAVA spray containers; tools and vehicle diagnostic equipment were also stolen in the incident. https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/forth_valley/17879922.criminals-impersonate-police-following-theft-props/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-49573508
  15. Especially for overhead runs we discussed using BT style Dropwire here http://www.blue-room.org.uk/index.php?showtopic=54318
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