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Stagecraft Digest, Issue #861

 1. Re: In the News
    by Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
 2. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "RD" <doomster [at] worldnet.att.net>
 3. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "Jon Ares" <jonares [at] hevanet.com>
 4. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
 5. Re: British Newspapers from 1935
    by "kosteral [at] juno.com" <kosteral [at] juno.com>
 6. Re: Boy Dies After Disney Roller Coaster Ride
    by "Occy Occy" <oneoccy [at] hotmail.com>
 7. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>
 8. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>
 9. Re: GFCI outlets
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>
10. Re: ETC Express tutorial
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>
11. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>
12. Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
    by "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:12:14 -0700
From: Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
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On Jun 29, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Jon Ares wrote:

> I hear there's a warrant out for RS-232 and Ethernet, too.

And RS-485 goes both ways with multiple partners!




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Subject: RE: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:02:14 -0600
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Are you talking about my kilt? doom

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On Jun 29, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Jon Ares wrote:

> Yeah, but his plaid skirt is longer than yours.  (Or is it shorter,  
> Clive?) :)

Both, I don't have a plaid skirt, but know guys who probably do.  :)


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Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:15:37 -0700

>> Yeah, but his plaid skirt is longer than yours.  (Or is it shorter,
>> Clive?) :)
>
> Both, I don't have a plaid skirt, but know guys who probably do.  :)>

> Are you talking about my kilt? doom
>


<dialect>
Ach lad... you know what they say - it's not the length of year kilt that 
matters, it's the size of year sporran!!
</dialect>

     - Jon Ares
www.hevanet.com/acreative 


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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:23:44 -0700
From: Jerry Durand <jdurand [at] interstellar.com>
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
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On Jun 29, 2006, at 11:02 PM, RD wrote:

> Are you talking about my kilt? doom

No, some guys I know in San Francisco (my wife directed and I tech'ed  
one of the TGSF yearly events).

Also, an un-official family member who's a former BBC announcer from  
Scotland (now working in the movie business in Marin County) has a kilt.

:)


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From: "kosteral [at] juno.com" <kosteral [at] juno.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: British Newspapers from 1935
Message-Id: <20060630.000327.14831.250678 [at] webmail38.nyc.untd.com>

Sam--
   If you have access to a large plotter (such as would be used to plot
CAD drawings), I have had really good luck using that to print my own
newspapers.
   First, you need a decent digital image of your newspaper page (can
be a digital photo, a scanned image, or even a scanned photocopy <fine
print will likely not be readable, but the headlines will be fine>).   =

   Then get some large sheets of newsprint, such as from those drawing
tablets. Carefully, with removable Scotch tape, tape the leading edge
of the newsprint to the roll of plotter paper in the appropriate
position (center or left justified--do a test print on the plotter
paper if possible).  Cross your fingers and plot/print.
   Whenever possible, I just print the front page and carefully tape it
to a pre-existing back page (if a semi-contemporary newspaper). =

Otherwise, print a separate back page and seam the two together with
Scotch tape.
   Once you're set up, print enough pages so you can have a "new"
newspaper every night (plus a couple extra for dress rehearsals). Then
the paper will look new and crisp each night.
   The initial messing around can be a pain, but I have had really good
luck printing newspapers this way with very few messed-up prints.  Of
course this was all necessitated by working at small educational or
community theatres.  If you're operating on more than a shoestring
budget, by all means contact your local newspaper and see if they can
do a small run for you, or contact one of the places already mentioned
that prints "theatrical" newspapers.
   Any way around it, please don't buy some vintage yellowed newspaper
and put it on stage as the hot-off-the-press newspaper---that is a HUGE
pet peeve of mine!  Newspapers aren't yellow when they're new....unless
it is an intentional design decision befitting the overall concept.
   =

Best of luck to you.  Ephemera can be fun to create *if* there is
sufficient time to muck around with it.  If you are up to your eyeballs
in other alligators,piddling with paper props can really suck.

Allison Koster
Northfield, MN


>Subject: British Newspapers from 1935
>
>Hi......New to the list.......Doing a production that requires quite a
>few =

>Daily Newspapers from Britain circa 1935.  Any and all suggestions are =
=

>welcome...
>
>Many Thanks in Advance....
>
>Sam at the Actors Theatre Playhouse, Brattleboro, Vermont


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From: "Occy Occy" <oneoccy [at] hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Boy Dies After Disney Roller Coaster Ride
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:38:21 -0700

Funny I know of at 3 that come to mind that died on Disney property, 1. a 
tech (IA member too), 2. Columbia incendent, 3. Big Thunder Mountain 
incendent. All dead on site, 2 were caused by lack of proper training, 1 
caused by machnical failure which ended up being in many way lack of traning 
too.


ot immediately known, Sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said. >>
>
>  not to make light of a serious situation, , but no one ever actually 
>"dies" on 'disney property'
>
>  I haven't been on that ride, but other than the initial acceleration I 
>understand it's not a particularly high g force experience.
>
>very best,
>
>Keith Arsenault
>International Arts & Entertainment Group
>
>Tampa, Florida
>USA
>
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:57:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

> I am not in as bad of shape as you as I have the cloth and plastic
> (rubber) insulated romex wiring. No knob and tube to have to worry about.

Interesting. Some insurance companies allow knob and tube - which is
perfectly safe if in good condition. At least, they did about a decade
ago. Does the NEC still allow it for existing circuits?

> I think the fusebox was upgraded to a breaker box in the 80's before I
> bought the house.

That is their greatest concern. Too many people have inserted various
slugs/coins into the fuse sockets instead of fixing the overload problem.
I even saw one house where someone had replaced the main cartridge fuses
with copper tubing.

Bill


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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:02:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

>> Hmmph. I wish my insurance company would have allowed that. They
>> required me to completely rewire my house. Plenty of holes in my lath
>> and plaster, and there are still one or two ceiling fixtures I'm trying
>> to figure out how to do without ripping down the whole ceiling.

Did you do some remodeling? If so, the local electrical inspector may also
have required upgrading all the electrical service.

It would be very hard to do in my house. ALL wiring runs in external walls
and the attic, except for the hall outlet. Wires cannot be fished up/down
because all the spaces between the studs contain fire stops.

Bill


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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:12:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

>  The AFCI (Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter) breaker, will shut off a circuit
> in a fraction of a second if arcing develops. The current inside of an arc
> is not always high enough to trip a regular breaker. You must have noticed
> a cut or worn piece of a cord or a loose connection in a junction box or
> receptacle arcing and burnt without tripping the regular breaker. As you
> can guess this is a major cause of fires in a dwelling.

We get arcs sometimes in theatre lights, especially if they are not
maintained. They can occur anywhere there is poor electrical contact -
such as in the lamp sockets of our instruments. I have also seen Bates
plugs where the arcing was so bad that the male and female plugs were
welded together.

The reason that the circuit breaker is not tripped is that there is no
excess current flow in such situations.

Bill


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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: ETC Express tutorial
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

> I was trying to think of a macro we could design to automatically
> assign the cue to the ab button regardless of which go was pressed.  It
> can get pretty complicated.

Hm. That is one advantage of the Bijou. Unless a cue is loaded into the
A/B faders, it is disabled - as there is no cue to run. Neither the cross
faders or go button have any effect on the show.

At least, that is the case when running in one-scene mode. I never use two
scene since I need more than 48 channels on the 48/96 board.

Bill


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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

> In message <list-31626116 [at] prxy.net>, Bill Nelson <billn [at] peak.org> writes
>>What baseboard?
>
> Skirting board?  At least it was just a ground wire behind the board.

Sorry, my comment was ambiguous. My house does not have baseboards. Nor
would they be easy to attach to lathe and plaster.

Bill


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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:30:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: GFCI outlets - You're right, I'm wrong.
From: "Bill Nelson" <billn [at] peak.org>

> My main concern is that the plaster is rather old. I've found that when
> I open a small hole in a wall, the hole very quickly enlarges to several
> feet across. If I have to do anything that will compromise the integrity
> of the ceiling, I would rather pull down the whole ceiling and replace
> it with drywall, than risk having it collapse unexpectedly.

If the plaster is that old and crumbly, I wouldn't want it overhead. It
would be replaced on a simple safety basis. Lots of money, but probably
less than a hospital bill from being buried under a collaped ceiling.

Bill


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