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  1. I don't know about the business permits, but for the residential ones at least you have to register your full address and a licence plate number so the permit is tied to one vehicle. From what you describe, you just need to go through the process twice, once for each one of your vehicles. You'll then get the two permits that you're wanting.
  2. You'll probably need to register them both seperately i.e two seperate transactions and two seperate forms. Failing that, just phone them about it.
  3. Coffee is very subjective, there's many different tastes and styles of roast that comparison can become quite difficult. A lot also has to do with how well the barista's are trained. Starbucks don't hand-pull their espresso shots as it's all done by button on machine. Costa use a grinder for their standard beans but pods for their decaf, as do Nero. It all depends on what you consider value - cheap, or best quality of taste?
  4. Next door to Meadowhall Retail Park, the massive patch of wasteland that you can see if you get off the tram at Carbrook.
  5. China builds its own Crucible Theatre in bid to host the World Championship - The Telegraph 7 Apr 2014
  6. They signed up to a 10 year deal when they announced the renovations of the Crucible in 2007, indeed this aided their renovation funding and allowed the broadcasters to have input into certain things for cable routings etc. so this is actually old news... Must be a slow news day.
  7. I can't really recommend any CBT providers in Rotherham aside from doing a quick Google that came up with South Yorkshire Motorcycle Training College - http://www.symtc.co.uk/ quite prominently. A friend of mine did his CBT in late 2013 then went on to do his Direct Access - all providers here in Sheffield go up to Rotherham to do the actual full motorcycle tests so you're actually in luck with your location for that. CBTs are taken at your approved training provider's location. A quick word of advice though - your age is a bit of a setback for you in that you're power restricted even after you've passed your full test i.e you'll end up spending more money doing more tests over time to build up your power ratings. The CBT will allow you on the road with L's for up to 2 years, your best bet is to pass your CBT then the full test as soon as you can after that but then skip the A2 when you turn 19 if you can hold out - wait until you're 24 then do Direct Access. Another last point, if you pass your motorcycle test then subsequently pass your Car test, be aware that when you send your driving licence in to DVLA then they may remove your A1 entitlement in issuing your new licence - they've been making mistakes with licence reissues with extra entitlements so you may have hassles getting that sorted out too, you'll need to keep an eye on it and send it straight back with photocopies of your pass certificates to prove your entitlements if this happens.
  8. Of course it's possible to tell how much you don't use, it's simple maths, and with smart metering then they'll be able to tell too. You've still got a meter and your connection to the grid runs both ways, so that on days that you may use more energy than your panels generate then you're pulling from the grid and this needs metering in the classical sense as it's always been. You've also got means of telling how much you've generated and can deduct manually each way as to if you're generating more or less than you're using per billing cycle. If you're generating more than you're using then you should be compensated by the feed in tariff (FIT). If not, you're still paying for the remainder of the supply that you're using, the panels will just be reducing your grid draw and hence your electricity bill generally. You're not "paid for what you generate" as you're using a good chunk of that supply anyway i.e you're not being paid to use energy, you're being paid to generate energy that's fed into the grid that other people then use.
  9. Although to be fair to them, Sheffield's phone numbers all had 2 appended onto the original list when the exchanges went digital and we changed from 0742 to 0114. I thought this was the same sort of thing with Leeds. When we ran out of numbers in the 2 ranges, they started on the 3 numbers i believe initially with things like VoIP numbers, so I guess that this is their way of saying that it affects people both in the 2 and 3 ranges in Sheffield (0114 2xxxxxx and 0114 3xxxxxx) People outside Sheffield seem to automatically append the 2 or 3 on as part of the area code because everyone's landline number here still starts with a 2 or a 3, even though technically it isn't part of the area code but the actual phone number.
  10. Network Rail are currently in the process of centralising all their signalling and network control duties into Regional Operation Centres (ROCs). Their aim in this is to reduce costs and improve efficiency and punctuality. There'll be a lot more automation occuring in signalling going forward. http://railnews.co.uk/news/general/2011/07/21-4000-jobs-to-go-in.html The York ROC's opening was announced back in September, and is the biggest ROC on the national network.
  11. We've been up to near hurricane force gusts so far for Sheffield, and according to the BBC forecast the worst isn't over for tonight. http://www.sheffieldweather.co.uk/meso2/ 71.4mph gust according to that - above 74 is classed as hurricane force. Potential building damage due to high winds may be that a chimney pot gets blown off, or it may bring down any loose slates/roof tiles. Aside from that, windows may smash if they're hit by flying items. Major building damage is rarely seen but not completely unknown e.g a whole roof comes off, but in situations like that then usually the wind has to be hitting the building at a certain angle as well as the force for it to be able to get anywhere near doing that. Only thing you can do is to have a look up at your roof tomorrow to see if anything looks out of the ordinary.
  12. If it's a shared drain then the waterboard are now responsible for it. Call Yorkshire Water, they sorted us out nicely last year. They'll come out and clear it and probably put a camera down to see what the state of the drain is too. They did for us, for free.
  13. I came back home from town on the 88 from the cop shop bus stop, looked across the road and noticed Twist had all of it's signage removed, the vynal signage and the 'pounded' stuff and there was no flag holder or anything. When the bus set off, as it rounded the corner I saw that Fuel was completely berift of signage too, so unless they're renovating the week before Christmas (there was no sign of workmen or any indication that this was happening) then it looks like they've gone. I came on here to see what was happening myself and have just been looking back at the recent speculation, so I figure they're not moving building or anything, and that they have actually shut up shop(?)
  14. The fact that there's currently a little extra track space in that area is actually a benefit to us right now, as it should mean that the Overhead line Electrification of that area may be made a little easier when it comes for the eletrification of the MML.
  15. South Yorkshire Police are advising that she's now been found in Wales: http://www.southyorks.police.uk/news-syp/missing-woman-found-safe-wales
  16. I know Waterstones in Orchard Square had a good selection of Ordinence Survey maps prior to their recent revamp. They'd probably be my first place to check, and following that perhaps WH Smiths.
  17. A Facebook group registered within the last week, for an apparent 'society group' who are suddenly asking for money to support their 'work' and who haven't registered themselves either as a non-profit with the charity commission or as a business at companies house? This is a legal requirement for any group asking for money. I said this the other day when you first posted about this supposed 'group', which at that time had virtually zero web presence, no official website and hadn't even then registered for Facebook. It's all well and good having a group that wants to campaign to reduce or abolish Sheffield parking charges, but the way that this has been put together appears extremely amateurish. They haven't even begun to try and organise support, put on a meeting, try and hold a rally to get word-of-mouth advertisement for their cause, no petitions etc. There's lots of other channels that they could use to try and get what they want but straight away, they're asking for money to mount a legal case which in any event will cost the council money - and lets be clear, this is the Sheffield public's money that will be used for the council to defend themselves in court if the argument is progressed that way!! The group's ethos screams of nimby-ism aswell. The first posting stating "We are trying to stop the Council making money out of our area to spend in other parts of the city" - this doesn't define what area this group is supposed to represent, as there is now a massive PPZ surrounding Sheffield centre, the fact that they're stating 'care of Sharrow community forum' as their contact details yet calling themselves "Sheffielders for Parking Fairness' is at odds and counter intuitive if the group is actually only representing one area. Separately, whilst I agree that the parking permits scheme was pushed through without proper consultation to residents and while it raises far in excess of what it needs to in order to keep the scheme running, the use of 'parking attendants' in the areas served has been somewhat useful in such as a deterrent to crime and vandalism for instance, especially at a time when police numbers have been cut and we're seeing a lot less police patrols of the streets in general. I support the concept of paying a living wage i.e pay above minimum wage, and as such if you decide to reduce the council's current revenue streams for funding the parking schemes then there'll be even more cuts made on top of the £40Million that SCC has to find across the board this year. There'll potentially be a reduction in wardens/patrols. The scheme whilst contentious is now here to stay and we may as well try to see the positives in properly maintaining it if we are indeed forced to have it.
  18. And that's not entirely right either - if your original image is JPEG only, then your camera has already processed the image and compressed it (some compress further than others) If you then use lightroom on the JPEG then yes you are correct in that lightroom just applies filters/layers to the original 'untouched' JPEG - however, when you come to export/save your work, if you export as JPEG then you've again re-compressed the image and have lost yet more information. This also doesn't equate to other issues such as adding multiple filters to an image - the camera will have already processed White Balance, if you then reprocess White Balance again off the JPEG then you're basically applying additional masks to the image which again may lead to further banding and artifacts. You want to aim to get as close to true first time and RAW will help by working on the data without worrying about introducing extra artifacts at post. It's kind of akin to analogue video copies being made, the more generations you go down a route, the more artifacts you'll introduce. You're always best off making copies from a master tape than copies from already copied (in our case compressed) generations. Zoom in on a jpeg and you'll see the 'blocks' appear a lot sooner than if you zoom a RAW as whole clusters of pixels have been mashed together in the jpeg compression process. This is image clarity that you will just never be able to get back. Your problems then also become worse if you want to do image crops, as invariably the portion of an image you zoom in to then exagerates the artifacts that would have been introduced in the original jpeg compression. If you want to retain quality, shoot RAW. You'll keep 12 or 14bit colour depth (billions of colours, rather than millions of colours) this basically equates to truer images. I'm a Canon shooter myself, but this article on Nikonians "How many bits do I need" is a worth while read and a good insight into exactly how much colour information you're going to lose with an 8bit JPEG in comparison to a 12 or 14bit RAW. If you're going to utilise your images for things other than web presentation, shoot RAW and convert to your file format of choice depending upon your needs after. Don't be constrained by JPEG from the get-go.
  19. HS2 to Manchester was planned years ago and was actually originally put down on paper as part of HS1. Did nobody find that Manchester having a Eurostar depot between Manchester Piccadilly and Stockport right on the West Coast mainline at all suspicious? They thought that there'd be more availability of trains, so developed the depot and then realised it would be unfeesable to run to timetable with the trains that were actually available ran on the standard line. No consideration was given to continental loading guage but instead they pushed ahead and did everything that they could to speed up the West Coast mainline at that time, spending £9billion on a route modernisation to try and get tilting trains operating at 140MPH. It was then realised that those speeds couldn't happen because they'd need to install in-cab signalling technology which was expensive and not considered mature enough technology at the time. High Speed rail is high on the adgenda currently as part of an EU review and report undertaken in 2009/2010. If you look at the maps on page 13 you'll see that our current 'main lines' are considered catagory 2 as they operate at upto 125MPH. The UK government sees High Speed rail as a cohesive mechanism for keeping the UK linked. They eventually want to run up to Edinburgh and Glasgow, and there has been speculation of a connection to Ireland via Wales. The tunneling distances involved there means that rail is a preferred choice for under-water tunnel passenger traffic. Arguments about the cost of HS2 tickets is flawed. You can travel to Paris by Eurostar cheaper than you can fly London Heathrow to Paris. Indeed, both of those prices are cheaper than some current regional train fares. As soon as you put more capacity in the network and seats on the current network become available, prices on the current network should drop. The operators are currently using prices to manage certain network capacity issues, especially at peak times. Indeed, once built then HS2 becomes an asset that the government can use to borrow against or lease. Arguments for HS3 work for HS2 route diversionary needs but for standard network traffic it's slightly flawed. People prefer to live near the cities that they primarily work in, so to suggest as part of the report a low percentage of people travelling between the two for commuting isn't a good way to push that project forward.
  20. Yeah, I get that now thanks. I guess my mindset was too ingrained with the Ponds Forge lane swimming key retention method i.e their keys have safety pins!
  21. Okay, that makes a bit more sense now. I don't do speedos as I feel too restricted in them so I do board shorts that have thigh pockets and bungee-straps to attach the keys to. The locker keys that you get at UK pools usually have a safety pin attached to them anyway, so that you can safety-pin them onto your swimming costume.
  22. Something that I've always wondered about these naked swims at the swimming baths, where do you put your locker key now you can't pin it anywhere? Completely legit question here, I ain't messing... ?
  23. Rolodex still exists if you can't afford the time to actually make and build the stuff up - you just need to have some valid data to put on the cards. On a different note, Car Tax disks would probably be an easy talking point to the kids about a paper linked database system going fully digital, and the benefits and drawbacks of each system in practice in the everyday world.
  24. Controversial building demolitions given green light in Sheffield’s cultural quarter -The Star
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