The best bakery in Brighton is actually in Patcham, which used to be a little village some way out of Brighton but has now been subsumed into the larger town city. Everything is baked on the premises, which have virtually nothing in common with a modern shop. The first thing you notice on entering is the size. It is very small. There is barely enough room for three people to queue, including the person being served at the counter. There’s wooden shelves for the bread. Scones, donuts and tarts sit by a shelf before the front window. They also sell pasties, sausage rolls and the like.
Patcham Village Bakery
Although a key part of Patcham life, this is the sort of business which wouldn’t fit into the high streets so many of us are familiar with. They don’t open at all on Mondays. I’m told they open at 8:30am the rest of the week but their opening hours are something of a mystery. Certainly, they don’t advertise them. Perhaps they just close each day when they have sold out. I’ve frequently gone there in the late morning to find everything sold. This morning I managed to get there at 9:30am; they had two loaves left! A fellow came in asking for a pasty. On being told that they had none left, he sagged. The lady behind the counter asked him if he wanted a Patcham Pasty, and said she would go and find out how long the next batch would be, if he was happy to wait. The man cheered up considerably. I got the impression that he would have waited all day, if necessary. Possibly, all week. When I said I was moving to Patcham a friend of mine told me that if he is within half a mile of the neighbourhood, he will drive to the Village Bakery to get one of their pasties. Unfortunately, being a vegetarian I cannot enjoy this popular delicacy but, perhaps hypocritically I can promote the place that sells them.
I wanted to photograph inside the bakery but felt somehow that I’d be committing some kind of dreadful faux pas just to ask. There’s little inside the bakery to remind you of the 21st century or even much of the 20th. Pulling out a smartphone and mentioning a blog just seemed a bit too much.
They told me that they would do bulk orders but only by advance arrangement. Telephone number 01273552927. Their prices are low too – this morning I bought two large white loaves of bread, three scones with generous measures of jam and cream and three donuts (these were definitely 10/10 donuts) and this cost be under £8.
Here’s the problem. Our neighbourhood has cats, which roam freely as cats are want to do. In some ways they are quite helpful. They catch the mice which would otherwise feed on our crops. In one important way though, they are a real pain. They love to sit or walk on roofing felt. Their claws puncture it. Then the rain gets in. I’ve just built a woodshed and am just about to cover its roof with felt, to keep the rain out. How do I prevent cats from walking on it?
I’m stumped. I’ve thought of covering the roof with rose stems and hawthorn branches to discourage them from going there. I’m sure they dislike being pricked as much as the next soft skinned animal. This method has the advantage that I have some of it lying around but the disadvantage that I don’t know how to successfully fix it to the roof. I’ve thought about accepting that the cats will walk on it and giving them a raised platform to do their walking on, preventing their claws from getting to the felt. The obvious answer here is to screw pallets to the top of the roof. The problem here is that screwing anything through roofing felt is likely to cause it to leak. Also, the original idea was to keep the roof uncomplicated and not liable to lift off in high winds. Then I thought about attaching anti-bird spikes, like this:
These relatively inobtrusive devices are what keeps some public buildings remarkably clean. They do cost quite a bit though and my shed roof is about 10 feet by 4 feet, so I’d need quite a few. They get glued on so there’d be no attendant penetration issues. Whilst looking at these, I discovered you can also buy cat deterrent spikes to:
Apparently cats don’t like to walk on these. I can see why. However, these are also designed for the tops of fences etc. In my last home, my wife bought one of those ultrasonic anti-cat devices. It didn’t bother them at all but it drove me potty, despite adult humans not supposed to be able to hear it.
Another solution is described by its manufacturer as “effective and amusing“: a motion sensitive water spray. Cats dislike getting wet so I bet it works but I don’t want my wood getting wet either. That’s why I built a woodshed for it. Don’t think I’ll be paying £66.50 for this approach.
There’s the various aromatic approaches – citronella and whatever that other plant they dislike is – but I’ve no idea how to attach them to my shed roof. Also, I’ve personal experience of these solutions not working. Cats learn to overcome their disgust if they have a desire to travel that way. Help!
I’m certainly going to have RCD protection when I rewire my own home. No compromise. Still a bit worn out today after frying my head with electrical knowledge this week. Better than frying someone or something with electricity though.
This blog is one year old today. One year and a day but anyway, today’s lazy post will be something of an indulgent review and a general encouragement. I’m going to put my feet up and watch Star Wars Uncut – The Director’s Cut, a 400+ clips crowdsourced home movie mashup and I think you should do so to. It is brilliant. Here it is.
If you can turn yourself away from the eclectic wonders of the web or just want idly read something while you’re eating your breakfast, erm lunch dinner, then here’s what yours’ truly served up over the last year. A hardened blogger would have his post set neatly divided out topics, each naturally connected to the others. With me, you got an impossibly wide range of life, tech, politics, cooking, cycling, chess and the lame ‘random’ scattered across 736 Categories in 637 Posts containing 423,153 Words. Sadly there are also 1,159 comments mainly from barrel scraping calibre commentators. The real tragedy is that almost half of all those comments have been replies from me; clearly I’ve been sucked into futile debates which are never read. Let’s face it, who reads the comments?! No more comment replies from me. Talk to yourselves.
Luckily the statistics are automatically generated, using a computer. Here’s my top seven posts of the last year.
Being only a pretend geek is still popular with other pretend geeks. By the way of traffic counted in to my tech posts, there must be plenty of them. Certainly I wrote How to install Blender 2.5 (2.57b) on Ubuntu 11.04 – the Natty Narwhal as much for my own benefit as anyone else’s (I thought I might have to do it again, for some reason) but it is called up in bucket loads every day. Other big draws w posts on androidphoneflashing, which is a polite word for hacking but not in the celebrity spy sense but otherwise it was just stuff which tickled me blog ears at the time.
Then came the OccupyLSX judgment. I wound up the year by publishing the plans for Thatcher’s funeral lest anyone had been confused to the constant references to the thieving Tory bastards. I accept the complaints.
COOKING
Cooking in the Cave documented my attempt to live the good life. From earth to kitchen to plate. Firm favourites are those recipe attempts you wouldn’t follow.I probably learnt more about taking videos than cooking. Pasta Bake is my most embarassing effort and Red Dragon Pie my best, although my first attempt to make hummus wasn’t bad at all. Hell I did learn to cook!
CYCLING
Basic reportage only on this front and not real topic tie ups. Efforts to produce cycling footage were hampered by technology to begin with but I did put together a nice film and some other thoughts on the topic. I couldn’t resist the obvious nod to the master, Jerome K Jerome. I’ve still got big expectations for this topic.
The UK prime minister doesn’t like human rights. He has said so many times. He concentrates his attack on the backlog of cases at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). That is a funding issue. He criticises the ECHR for concentrating on ‘small’ issues, without citing where he would draw the line. He has long argued that the ECHR imposes laws on the UK which the latter could well do without and amounts to an extra layer of law already embedded in the UK law. He plays a dangerous game in Europe. One of his first actions was to pull his party out of the political bloc in the European Parliament normally populated by right of centre parties like his and join one dominated by the far right. He has banged the anti-European drum so hard and so often that he is simply not listened to anymore on the continent.
Human Rights law has been a crowning achievement of the post war European project. It has created a set of values which Europeans hold in common. It defines what it is to be European. Countries which don’t subscribe to these rights are not allowed to join the European Union. Fundamentally, David Cameron’s party of thieving Tory bastards do not like the European Union because they do not like working with international partners.
Earlier this month it became clear that the UK coalition government intended to frustrate a proper enquiry into the facts surrounding the UK’s involvement in the controversial detainee rendition program led by the US. This program involved prisoners being removed from jurisdictions where their human rights were protected by law to those where they were not. Much information has come to light about the rendition program because populations in the countries to which some of these prisoners were rendered have overthrown the military dictators which formerly ruled them. These dictators often had US and UK support. On 6th January 2012, 17 Human Rights experts sent an open letter to David Cameron pointing out the deficiencies in the Detainees Inquiry. The group of experts – which includes UN mandate-holders, two former UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture, leading academics in international law and directors of human rights organisations – has urged the government to remedy key shortcomings in the way the Inquiry will operate to ensure an effective and transparent process in which victims can meaningfully participate.
This letter coincided with an announcement that Abdul Hakim Belhadj, Head of the Tripoli Military Council, was not willing to give evidence to the Inquiry about the UK’s alleged involvement in his rendition to Libya where he faced years of torture in detention. When Mr Belhadj announced last month that he was taking legal action, the UK government responded by stating that the Inquiry would “consider allegations of UK involvement in rendition to Libya as part of its work”. Mr Belhadj is the latest in a long list of survivors to refuse to participate in the Inquiry – striking a further blow to its credibility.
The group of human rights experts argued that fixing serious problems with the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference and Protocol is essential “if the government is to demonstrate it is serious in what it says about restoring moral leadership and preventing the reoccurrence of abuses that continue to stain Britain’s reputation.” These flaws include the government reserving for itself the final say on what material is published, rather than an independent mechanism.
In its current form, the Inquiry will allow no opportunity for survivors or their representatives to cross examine or otherwise test evidence from members of the UK security services, almost all of which will be given secretly. The group of human rights experts said: “Those who were subject to torture, rendition or illegal detention and the groups who documented these abuses should surely have the opportunity to challenge the official version of events and those responsible for policy and its implementation.”
The established news media laps up the press releases from the thieving Tory bastards about David Cameron’s glib criticisms of the ECHR but the real story is elsewhere. They want to steal away our human rights. That might not seem too important to much of middle England but it is of desperate importance still in much of Europe and the countries around the southern belly of Europe. Like all other leaders in democratic countries, David Cameron knows that his term of office is short lived. He’s determined to undermine Human Rights law as far as possible during his time in the top job because he sticks up for his friends in the arms trade. Immediately after the Egyptian uprising, he was on the plane to Cairo to sell arms to the Egyptian Army!
Ask yourself this: who do you trust to safeguard the rights of the world’s poor? David Cameron or Human Rights campaigners? Human Rights Watch is an exemplary example of the latter.
“It is with great regret that we receive these allegations from Human Rights Watch especially without given us the opportunity to respond before the publication. We refute these allegations and the government is willing to meet with Human Rights Watch officials to discuss their concerns.
-Abdirahman Omar Osman, the Somali government spokesman, August 16, 2011(In response to the report, “You Don’t Know Who To Blame”: War Crimes in Somalia)
“AMBASSADOR RICE: From what we can tell–and, as you know, the journalists are banned and…
MR. GREGORY: Right.
AMBASSADOR RICE: …and we are relying on reports from Human Rights Watch and other observers–there has been less violence, very little so far in Tripoli, although that may be changing. In Benghazi, in, in the coastal areas, we’re very concerned about reports of security forces firing on peaceful protesters.”
-Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Meet the Press, February 20, 2011(commenting on the situation in Libya at the start of its ongoing revolution)
“La organización no gubernamental Human Rights Watch (HRW) se ha convertido en el vocero internacional de la contrarrevolución venezolana y en un arma ideológica del imperio norteamericano.”
-Jesús Faría, diputado a la Asamblea Nacional (AN) por el Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), Globovision.
Translation: ” The Non-Governmental Organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has become the international spokesperson of the Venezuelan counter-revolution and an ideological weapon of the north American empire.”
“This is a report by some highly frustrated and self-appointed kingmaker institution in the U.S. Just because what they dreamt of in Ethiopia didn’t take place, they are doing whatever they can to tarnish the image of the country.”
- Government Communications Minister Bereket Simon, Voice of America, October 21, 2010.
(In response to the report, Development without Freedom: How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia)
Video Response: Ethiopian Government Attacks Human Rights Report on Election 2010
- Communication Affairs Office, YouTube, May 25, 2010.
(Commenting on the news release, Ethiopia: Government Repression Undermines Poll)
“It is a politicised report lacking objectivity and impartiality”.
-The Hamas information ministry, Aljazeera.net, August 13, 2009.
(In response to the report, Rockets from Gaza)
“haven’t spent a lot of time on human rights watch website, but i plan to start. they’re covering really important issues. http://www.hrw.org/ @hrw”.
- Twitter Follower www.twitter.com/ktdilley, August 12, 2010.
“Human Rights Watch is to be commended. It does not have one standard for Israel and another for Hamas, Hezbollah or the other despotic regimes of the Arab world.”
- Richard Cohen, Op-Ed columnist, The Washington Post, July 9, 2009.
(Commenting on the report, Under Cover of War: Hamas Political Violence in Gaza)
“Human Rights Watch (HRW) is at our throat again. This time, the New York-based group has moved on from bashing Dubai, which it did for the past three years, to Abu Dhabi, accusing the emirate’s leading tourism developer of ‘exploiting’ workers who are involved in the building of the Saadiyat Island’s cultural projects.”
- Gulf News Editorial, gulfnews.com, May 19, 2009.
(In response to the report, “The Island of Happiness”:Exploitation of Migrant Workers on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi)
“In its persistent desire to attack Sri Lanka to achieve the goals that the LTTE and its foreign supporters failed through the use of arms… HRW and similar groups do not bother to do any homework to know the facts of the situation in the IDP relief villages in Vavuniya. It is a Goebbelsian approach to anti-Sri Lanka propaganda. Repeat lies about the country, its Government and its people as often and as long as possible to make the world believe it is the truth.”
- Lucien Rajakarunanayake, Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence website, August 24, 2009.
(In response to the news release, Sri Lanka: Floods Threaten Camp Detainees)
“The government of Guinea refuses to bow to the blackmail of NGOs that are trying to establish contacts with the government to set up hidden contracts to try to clean up their image, as is the case with the famous Human Rights Watch, whose agents have spent years pulling from their sleeves information that lacks all transparency and objectivity. So some agents of this organization have spent years trying to get the government of Guinea to buy its services in exchange for ending this disinformation campaign. The government of Guinea is not for sale. Human Ritch Wath [sic] start cleaning your house because of the financial setbacks of the global crisis provoked by your financial and business institutions.”
- Miguel Oyono, head of the information office at the presidential office, The New York Times, July 9, 2009.
(In response to the report, Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea)
“American organizations, including HRW, have no credibility. Let them go check the violations undertaken by the previous administration from Guantanamo to the flying prisons to the violations of human rights in Gaza before they talk about other countries.”
- Syrian cabinet minister, The Washington Post, February 25, 2009.
(The Post reporter noted: “Human Rights Watch has issued numerous reports, statements and letters on those subjects.”)
More than 100 Experts question Human Rights Watch’s Venezuela report, A Decade Under Chavez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela,” saying it “does not meet even the most minimal standards of scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility.”
- Various authors, North American Congress on Latin America, December 17, 2008.
Human Rights Watch wrote in response: After a careful review, we have found that the allegations in your letter do not stand up to scrutiny. The issues covered in our report have been thoroughly researched and the substantive findings are based on a wide range of diverse and credible sources. In seeking to prove otherwise, you have misrepresented both the substance and the source material of the report. You have criticized us for making arguments that we have not made. You have taken our words out of context (including the quotation you attribute to Mr. Vivanco) and distorted their meanings in order to make your points. Read the complete response.
Asked by the Associated Press whether Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch would be allowed to enter Zimbabwe, he said: “Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Let them keep out.”
- Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, The Independent, September 26, 2008
Following the expulsion of two Human Rights Watch staff from Venezuela:
“El Gobierno ha hecho lo que tenía que hacer, informar a estas personas que han violado gravemente la constitucionalidad del país que no vamos a soportar, ni vamos a tolerar que venga ningún extranjero a tratar de mancillar la dignidad de nuestra República, la dignidad de nuestro pueblo y de nuestras instituciones”
- Nicolás Maduro, September 19, 2008
Translation: “The Government [of Venezuela] has done what it had to do, informed these people that they gravely violated the constitutionality of the country, which we’re not going to put up with, nor will we tolerate if any foreigner comes to try and sully the dignity of our Republic, the dignity of our people and our institutions.”
Ingushetia’s government-appointed human rights ombudsman called the work of Human Rights Watch and other rights groups “fascist,” adding that the Human Rights Watch report was “meant to destabilize the situation.” The report documents human rights abuses committed by law enforcement and security forces in Ingushetia.
-Kerim-Sultan A. Kokurkhaev, The New York Times, June 26, 2008
“Human Rights Watch regularly produces fabricated information that fails to reflect the real situation in Vietnam. We totally reject the wrongful remarks by Human Rights Watch in its press release on March 9, 2007.”
-Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung, Nhan Dan, May 27, 2008.
Human Rights Watch urged Malaysia to eradicate bias from the electoral process. Malaysian Law Minister denied the allegations, accusing Human Rights Watch of trying to discredit the elections because “they know the National Front will win.”
-Malaysian Law Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz, The Boston Globe, March 5, 2008
“constructive and non-confrontational but doesn’t compromise on principles.”
-Brian Whitaker, The Guardian, January 14, 2008
“There’s more hard-hitting journalism going on in its offices than in most of the bigger newsrooms in this country.”
-Ward Harkavy, The Village Voice, October 18, 2006
A government spokesperson from Burma denied the report at a press conference yesterday, calling it “baseless information and exaggerated lies.”
-Information Deputy Director Ye Htut,AHN Media Corporation October 31, 2007
“First of all, anyone that is arguing that somehow, a very independent organization like Human Rights Watch is somehow doing the United States’ bidding need look no further than most of the reactions we’ve had to some of their other comments. They are an independent organization, they set their own agenda, and they operate on their own. ”
- Tom Casey, Deputy Spokesman, State Department Press Briefing, repsonding to a question about the report, “Civilians under Assault: Hezbollah’s Rocket Attacks on Israel in the 2006 War“. August 29, 2007.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it found the latest report by Human Rights Watch on Somalia factually and morally unacceptable. The statement by the Ministry of Information said Human Rights Watch was preparing as part of a campaign to victimizing Ethiopia with one sided and falsified information.”
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia as published in The Ethiopian News Agency. August 14, 2007.
” The report of the Human Rights Watch entitled “Return to War – Human Rights under Siege” is largely tendentious, and is replete with generalizations. It refers to issues that have been largely resolved. These largely unconfirmed and unsubstantiated allegations and outdated information do not justify the demand for a special UN Observer Mission on Human Rights in Sri Lanka.”
- the Presidential Secretariat. August 7, 2007.
“Human Rights Watch regularly produces fabricated information that fails to reflect the real situation in Vietnam. We totally reject the wrongful remarks by Human Rights Watch in its press release on March 9, 2007,” said .
-Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Dung, Nhan Dan . March 23, 2007.
“The [Sri Lankan] government has repeatedly denied having any part in the Karuna group’s activities. It reiterated its position Tuesday, calling the Human Rights Watch report ‘baseless and very vile.’”
- Sri Lankan government spokesperson, International Herald Tribune. January 24, 2007.
“‘Regretfully, in spite of their observations, their eyesight has always had problems,’ a ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said. ‘Maybe they are wearing tinted glasses, or only squinting.’”
- Liu Jianchao, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, responding to the World Report 2007, International Herald Tribune. January 12, 2007.
“Now for the top story tonight, reaction from Human Rights Watch. With us now, Kenneth Roth, the executive director of that group and a stand up guy–who always comes in to debate the issues.”
-Bill O’Reilly, of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the FOX News Channel, interviewing Kenneth Roth (read transcript). November 17, 2004.
“The accusation by Human Rights Watch is a fabrication and is somewhat akin to a fish completely out of water.”
-Nguyen Dinh Thiet, director of the Children’s Department of the National Committee for Population, Family and Children, responding to a Human Rights Watch report that street children in Hanoi are arbitrarily rounded up and sent to abusive detention centers. Cited in VietNamNet Bridge, November 16, 2006.
“I have to admit being a bit confused when I was told about the presentation of the new ‘Human Rights Swatch’. I thought people were talking about that admirable NGO we all know — and which played a significant part in the effort to bring about the creation of the Human Rights Council. I’m obviously referring to Human Rights Watch.”
- Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, speaking in Geneva Switzerland June 19, 2006 HRW reports on the Human Rights Council
“In Latin America today, Human Rights Watch is in many circumstances more powerful than the Pentagon, though the Pentagon has regained some relevance in recent times. These are the facts of life, although rarely stated this way.”
- Abraham F. Lowenthal, Professor of International Relations, USC, and President Emeritus, Pacific Council on International Policy, speaking at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Santiago, Chile, May 23, 2006 HRW reports on the Americas
Normally you would get 2 hours to answer 60 questions. Therefore, you should set yourself 1 hour and 20 minutes to answer these 40 questions. I decided not to include an automatic timer because if you can’t work how to time yourself when doing a mock exam, you’re hardly going to be a competent electrician are you?
This exam doesn’t include any questions with diagrams or electrical symbols in them. Sorry about that. The actual City & Guilds 2382-12 is an open book exam. You’ll need a copy of the Requirements for Electrical Installations: BS 7671:2008 Incorporating Amendment No 1: 2011: IET Wiring Regulations to take in with you. It’s a riveting read, honest. It’s even got a dog in it. A nice big friendly mongrel. If you don’t like spoilers quit reading and get on with the mock exam. Okay, here goes – the dog dies a ghastly death because its owner didn’t familiarise himself with the wiring regulations and left some exposed conductors lying around.
Although I’ve made much effort to ensure the answers are correct, please do not rely on these answers as a guide to electrical work! There’s no substitute for being properly qualified! Only competent people should undertake electrical installations…
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Question 1
To which one of the following electrical installations does BS 7671 apply?
A
Installations at mines and quarries.
B
Low voltage generating sets.
C
Public transmission systems.
D
Off-shore installations.
Question 2
Which one of the following is listed under exclusions from the scope of BS 7671?
A
External lighting and similar systems.
B
Photovoltaic systems.
C
Highway equipment and street furniture.
D
Electrical equipment of machines covered by BSEN 60204
Question 3
The IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2008) are:
A
non-statutory but may be used in a court of law in evidence to claim compliance with a statutory requirement.
B
non-statutory and may not be used in a court of law in evidence to claim compliance with a statutory requirement.
C
statutory and may be used in a court of law to supplement the Electricity at Work Regulations.
D
statutory and may be used in place of the Electricity at Work regulations.
Question 4
No additions or alterations should be made to an existing installation unless:
A
a completion and inspection certificate can be produced for the existing installation.
B
the work is undertaken by a registered contractor.
C
the rating and condition of the existing installation is adequate.
D
a request in writing has been made by the person requesting the work.
Question 5
Which of the following would not be listed as a live part?
A
Neutral conductor.
B
Line conductor.
C
Neutral bar.
D
PEN conductor.
Question 6
A protective conductor connecting the main earthing terminal of an installation to an earth electrode or to other means of earthing is called:
A
a main protective bonding conductor.
B
an earth continuity conductor.
C
a circuit protective conductor.
D
an earthing conductor.
Question 7
Where a wiring system is installed in a building whose structure has an external influence category CA2, the wiring system shall be:
A
rigid.
B
Non combustible.
C
screened.
D
PVC.
Question 8
Which one of the following is not an essential requirement when considering the frequency of maintaining installed electrical equipment during the life of an installation?
A
Any periodic inspection and testing may be readily and safely carried out.
B
Any protective measures for safety remain effective.
C
The reliability of equipment is sustained.
D
The name and address of the contractor is permanently displayed adjacent to the equipment.
Question 9
An assessment must be made of the harmful effects upon other electrical services when installing:
A
equipment resulting in harmonic currents.
B
automatic fire alarm circuits.
C
emergency lighting circuits.
D
SELV supplies.
Question 10
In order to comply with BS7671, the disconnection time for a distribution circuit on a TT system protected by a 32 A BS 88-2 fuse is:
A
0.2s.
B
0.4s.
C
1s.
D
5s.
Question 11
Installations should be arranged so as to avoid danger in the event of a fault, and to facilitate safe operation, inspection, testing and maintenance. One method of complying with this is to:
A
connect all circuits on the radial principle.
B
connect all circuits on the ring principle.
C
divide the installation into separate circuits.
D
divide the installation into bands of circuits.
Question 12
Which of the following Characteristics need not be ascertained for the continuity of supply to a life support system?
A
Location of an emergency telephone number.
B
Number of circuits.
C
Multiple power sources.
D
Use of monitoring devices.
Question 13
Prior to the construction of a new electrical installation, the information to be given to the Local Electricity Supplier in order to establish the type and rating of supply is the:
A
nature of current and frequency.
B
nominal voltage.
C
maximum demand.
D
external impedance.
Question 14
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the supply?
A
Nominal voltage.
B
Frequency.
C
Earth loop impedance.
D
Emergency switching.
Question 15
With regard to electric shock, an electric fire having an element exposed to touch would not provide:
A
fault protection.
B
earthing contact protection.
C
live contact protection.
D
basic protection.
Question 16
Which one of the following is not a means of basic protection against electric shock?
A
Electrical separation.
B
Insulation.
C
Obstacles.
D
Barriers/enclosures.
Question 17
Which one of the following is not a means of fault protection against electric shock?
A
Placing out of reach.
B
Protective equipotential bonding.
C
Automatic disconnection.
D
Protective earthing.
Question 18
On a TT installation, where circuits are protected by residual current devices, the product of the earth fault loop impedance (Zs) and the rated residual operating current of the device must not exceed:
A
20V.
B
50V.
C
55V.
D
110V.
Question 19
Measured values of Ze and Zs for a radial final circuit are 0.3 Ohms and 0.5 Ohms respectively. The resistance of the line and circuit protective conductors (R1 + R2) is:
A
0.2 Ohms.
B
0.3 Ohms.
C
0.5 Ohms.
D
0.8 Ohms.
Question 20
The maximum surface temperature for an item of non-metallic equipment, intended to be touched, is:
A
55°C.
B
65°C.
C
70°C.
D
80°C.
Question 21
A short-circuit current is defined as:
A
an overcurrent occurring in an electrically sound circuit.
B
a current exceeding the current-carrying capacity of the conductors.
C
the current occurring due to a fault of negligible impedance between live conductors.
D
the current which causes protective overcurrent devices to operate successfully.
Question 22
The effective operating current (I2) of an overcurrent device must not be greater than 1.45 times the:
A
design current.
B
current-carrying capacity of the conductors.
C
nominal setting of the overcurrent device.
D
short-circuit current.
Question 23
A device intended, for reasons of safety, to cut off all or part of an installation from every source of electrical energy provides:
A
functional switching.
B
isolation.
C
switching off for mechanical maintenance.
D
emergency switching.
Question 24
Which one of the following shall not be used as an isolator?
A
Circuit breakers.
B
Plug and socket outlets.
C
Semiconductor devices.
D
Fuselinks.
Question 25
When considering overvoltage protection, direct lightning strikes on the low voltage lines of the supply network are:
A
not taken into account.
B
directed to earth.
C
taken into account.
D
directed through a discharge device.
Question 26
In locations where a risk of fire exists due to the nature of processed or stored materials circuits not protected by a suitably rated RCD shall be wired in:
A
70°C thermoplastic cable.
B
90°C thermoplastic cable.
C
mineral insulated cable.
D
multicore SWA cable.
Question 27
Equipment to be installed must be capable of being subjected to jets of water and withstand a temperature range of -60°C to +5°C. The respective categories of classification of external influences for this equipment are:
A
AA2 and AD5.
B
AA4 and AF3.
C
AK2 and AD7.
D
AD5 and AA1.
Question 28
To ensure a 0.4 disconnection time on a TN system, with a nominal voltage of 230V which is protected by a 100mA RCD to BSEN 61008-1 on a circuit not exceeding 32A, the maximum earth fault loop must not exceed:
A
1667 Ohms.
B
460 Ohms.
C
500 Ohms.
D
100 Ohms.
Question 29
The maximum conductor operating temperature for insulated general purpose thermoplastic (p.v.c.) cable is:
A
30°C.
B
60°C.
C
70°C.
D
85°C.
Question 30
For flexible cables of flexible cords on single-phase circuits, the preferred identification colours of phase, neutral and protective conductors respectively is:
A
red, black, green-and-yellow.
B
red, blue, green.
C
brown, blue, green-and-yellow.
D
brown, black, green.
Question 31
At which one of the following terminations would a warning notice not needed to be attached?
A
Earth electrode.
B
Copper water pipe.
C
Gas service metal pipe.
D
Earthing terminal within a consumer unit.
Question 32
On an AC circuit a socket outlet rated at 20A must:
A
be protected by an RCD rated at 15 mA.
B
be protected by an RCD rated at 30 mA unless it is installed in metal conduit.
C
be under the control of an ordinary person so as to avoid the use of an 30 mA RCD.
D
be protected by an RCD rated at 30 mA unless it is labelled to match a specific piece of equipment.
Question 33
The purpose of an equipotential bonding is to:
A
ensure that leakage current is minimised.
B
ensure that the maximum fault current will flow to earth.
C
to maintain various exposed conductive parts and extraneous conductive parts at the same potential.
D
reduce the possibility of electrolytic corrosion.
Question 34
Which one of the following is excluded as a protective earth electrode?
A
Underground structural metalwork embedded in foundations.
B
Welded metal reinforcement of concrete embedded in the earth.
C
Earth plates.
D
Metalwork of a water utility supply.
Question 35
The disconnection time for a 30A distribution circuit connected to a TT supply is:
A
0.2 s.
B
0.4 s.
C
1 s.
D
5 s.
Question 36
Socket outlets, with a rated current not exceeding 20 A, need not be protected by a 30 mA RCD if they are:
A
run in the form of a ring.
B
run in the form of a radial.
C
under the supervision of a skilled person.
D
protected by a 20 A type C circuit-breaker.
Question 37
Ceiling roses are only allowed where the circuit voltage does not exceed:
A
110V.
B
250V.
C
415V.
D
11kV.
Question 38
An automatic supply is classified as follows:
A
No break: an automatic supply available within 0.15 s.
B
A very short break: an automatic supply available within 0.15 s.
C
A very short break: an automatic supply available between 0.5 and 5 s.
D
A very short break: an automatic supply available within 15 s.
Question 39
An automatic source of supply is classified as short break if the maximum changeover time is:
A
less than 0.15 s.
B
between 0.15 s and 0.5 s.
C
between 0.5 s and 5 s.
D
between 5 s and 15 s
Question 40
In a location containing a shower without a basin, Zone 1 is limited by the finished floor level and the horizontal plane corresponding to the highest fixed shower head which corresponds to:
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0.62m above finished floor level.
B
1.28m above finished floor level.
C
2.25m above finished floor level.
D
2.45m above finished floor level.
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I’ve updated my comments policy again. Sadly there are too many antisocial types who post really long-winded comments, which all too frequently dilutes the main purpose of each post with off topic points. On the whole, I prefer not to edit people’s comments. I had already imposed a maximum word length and this seemed to work. Certainly it gave certain commentators a discipline which they otherwise seemed to lack – they got their points across far more succintly. However, 500 words was far too generous. The reason for further limiting it is that my experience has been that serious commentators can manage to limit their comments to fewer words and only the ramblers use more. Therefore, this morning I’ve installed an automatic comment character limiter. This restricts the commentator to 1,700 characters, which is enough for approximately 250 words, according to the legendary in its own copy writing lunch hour lorem ipsum generator. That ought to be long enough to make a point without beginning to dominate the discussion.
Normally you would get 2 hours to answer 60 questions. Therefore, you should set yourself 1 hour and 20 minutes to answer these 40 questions. I decided not to include an automatic timer because if you can’t work how to time yourself when doing a mock exam, you’re hardly going to be a competent electrician are you?
This exam doesn’t include any questions with diagrams or electrical symbols in them. Sorry about that. The actual City & Guilds 2382-12 is an open book exam. You’ll need a copy of the Requirements for Electrical Installations: BS 7671:2008 Incorporating Amendment No 1: 2011: IET Wiring Regulations to take in with you. It’s a riveting read, honest. It’s even got a dog in it. If you don’t like spoilers quit reading and get on with the mock exam. Okay, here goes – the dog dies a horrible death because its owner didn’t familiarise himself with the wiring regulations.
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Question 1
A permanent label with the words ‘Safety Electrical Connection – Do Not Remove’ shall be permanently fixed:
A
At the point of connection between the earthing conductor to an earth electrode
B
At the point of connection between the earthing and PEN conductor of a TN-C-S system
C
At the point of connection of to an exposed-conductive-part
D
At the main earthing terminal which is incorporated within the main switchgear
Question 2
Once complete a Periodic Inspection Report should be given to:
A
The occupier of the property
B
The originator of the request
C
The contractor
D
The supply distributor
Question 3
Protective device discrimination must be considered with regard to:
A
Continuity of service
B
External influences
C
Compatibility
D
Maintainability
Question 4
An overload current could arise:
A
During a short-circuit fault
B
During an earth fault
C
When a motor becomes jammed
D
When a shower is switched on
Question 5
A copper earthing conductor not mechanically protected and not protected against corrosion is buried in soil. The minimum size of earthing conductor is:
A
4 mm squared
B
16 mm squared
C
50 mm squared
D
25 mm squared
Question 6
An RCD that is installed for protection against the risk of fire must be:
A
Integral to and socket-outlet
B
Rated at 500mA
C
Installed at the origin of the circuit:
D
Arranged to switch line conductors only
Question 7
The top of an enclosure should have a minimum degree of protection of:
A
IP1X
B
IPXXB or IP2X
C
IPXXD or IP4X
D
IP3X
Question 8
Which of the following will provide overload protection?
A
Disconnector
B
Residual current device
C
Circuit breaker
D
Linked switch
Question 9
Fault protection may be provided by:
A
Insulation of live parts
B
Placing out of reach
C
Barriers and enclosures to IPXXB or IP2X
D
Protective earthing and protective equipotential bonding
Question 10
Where practical, the main protective equipotential bonding to the gas service in a building should be made within:
A
600mm of the meter on the consumer side
B
600mm of the meter on the supply side
C
3m of the meter on the supply side
D
3m of the meter on the consumer side
Question 11
In the event of failure of the provision for basic protection, additional protection may be provided by:
A
Supplementary bonding
B
Electrical separation
C
Use of a RCD not exceeding a rated operating current of 30mA
D
The use of a time delayed 100mA RCD
Question 12
A conduit or cable trunking system classified as non-flame propagating need not be internally sealed providing its maximum cross-sectional area does not exceed:
A
2500mm square
B
625mm squared
C
710mm squared
D
1250mm squared
Question 13
The scope of BS7671 does not apply to:
A
Fixed offshore installations
B
Residential premises
C
Photovoltaic systems
D
Commercial premises
Question 14
A ceiling heating system should incorporate means of limiting the temperature to:
A
70 degrees centigrade
B
80 degrees centigrade
C
50 degrees centigrade
D
60 degrees centigrade
Question 15
For installations in places of public entertainment and on caravan parks, special requirements should be ascertained from the:
A
Local licensing authority
B
Department for trade and Industry
C
Energy Institute
D
Health and safety Executive
Question 16
BS7671 applies to:
A
Equipment on board ships
B
Railway traction equipment
C
Construction sites
D
Systems for distribution of electricity to the public
Question 17
Every fire-fighter switch should be:
A
Coloured red with the off position at the bottom
B
Coloured red with the off position at the top
C
Installed in the high-voltage circuit
D
Mounted at a minimum height of 3m
Question 18
A nominal voltage of 120V AC would be categorised as:
A
Extra-low voltage
B
Low voltage
C
Band I
D
High voltage
Question 19
For reason of external influences, any outdoor lighting installation must have a degree of protection of at least:
A
IP33
B
IP22
C
IP44
D
IP24
Question 20
A single-phase circuit using 2.5mm squared single-core pvc cables in conduit supplies a design current of 20A. If the cables are 15m long and have a rated voltage drop of 18mV/A/m, the actual voltage drop will be:
A
2.5V
B
16.6V
C
5.4V
D
6V
Question 21
Which one of the following would be used to determine the size of an overcurrent device?
A
Cable size
B
Overload current
C
Design current
D
Grouping factor
Question 22
Which of the following methods should be adopted where fixed equipment having a high surface temperature is likely to have an adverse effect on adjacent materials?
A
Mounting so as to allow safe dissapation of heat
B
The provision of suitable fire extinguishers
C
Erection of warning notices advising high temperatures
D
The use of non-combustible wiring materials
Question 23
An extraneous-conductive-part may be defined as:
A
Conductive part liable to introduce a potential and not forming part of the electrical installation
B
Equipment designed to be fastened to a support or otherwise secured in a specific location
C
A room or location in which air is heated, in service, to
high temperatures
D
Conductive part of equipment which may be touched and which is not normally live, but which can become live when basic insulation fails
Question 24
Socket-outlets with a rated current not exceeding 20A and intended to be used by ordinary persons should be:
A
Protected by an RCD with an operating current not exceeding 500mA
B
Protected by an RCD with an operating current not exceeding 30mA
C
Protected by an operating current 100mA RCD with an not exceeding
D
Protected by an RCD with an operating current not exceeding 300mA
Question 25
A suitable supply for safety services is a:
A
Standard mains supply
B
Primary cell or cells
C
Mains operated generator
D
Non earthed transformer
Question 26
Protection against electric shock under single fault conditions is:
A
Basic protection
B
Fault protection
C
Supplementary protection
D
Additional protection
Question 27
One item that should be included on charts and diagrams made available to the person carrying out the inspection and test is:
A
The location details of portable equipment
B
The total number of outlets in the installation
C
All isolation and switching arrangements
D
The details of the original contract arrangements
Question 28
The maximum permitted value of earth electrode and earthing conductor (RA) for a circuit protected by a 300mA RCD and forming part of a 230V ac TT system is:
A
167 Ohms
B
1667 Ohms
C
100 Ohms
D
500 Ohms
Question 29
The minimum insulation resistance value for a 400V circuit is:
A
0.25 Mega Ohm
B
1 Kilo Ohm
C
0.5 Mega Ohm
D
1 Mega Ohm
Question 30
Where there is a danger of fire due to the nature of the stored material, a 100W spotlight shall be installed at a minimum distance from combustible materials of:
A
0.5m
B
0.8m
C
1m
D
2m
Question 31
It should be verified that any addition to an existing installation has:
A
Not impaired the safety of the existing installation
B
A similar wiring system to that used in the existing installation
C
Been treated as being entirely separate from the existing installation
D
A supply separate from that of the existing installation
Question 32
Which of the following items must be included for checking during the initial verification of an installation?
A
Site works orders and alterations
B
Minutes of all site meetings
C
All variations of contract
D
Presence of diagrams and instructions
Question 33
A 6A BSEN60898 circuit breaker is used to protect a circuit with a maximum earth fault loop impedance of 3.83 Ohms would be type:
A
A
B
D
C
B
D
C
Question 34
Which of the following is not allowed for use as a circuit protective conductor?
A
Lead sheath of cable
B
Galvanised metallic conduit
C
Metallic flexible conduit
D
Steel wire armouring of cable
Question 35
Before issuing an Electrical Installation Certificate for a new installation, a recommendation must be made with regard to the inspection and test period. This recommendation is made by the person responsible for:
A
The construction and erection of the installation
B
Providing the supply on behalf of the Electricity Supplier
C
The design of the electrical installation
D
Carrying out the initial inspection and testing
Question 36
Where an RCD is used in an installation, the product of the rated residual operating current and the earth fault loop impedance in a TT installation should not be greater than:
A
40V
B
10V
C
2V
D
50V
Question 37
Suitable precautions should be taken where either a reduction in voltage or a loss and subsequent restoration of voltage:
A
Will not cause danger
B
Could cause danger
C
Occurs infrequently
D
Is a routine event
Question 38
To provide protection against electric shock, the protective measure of double reinforced insulation relies on basic insulation and:
A
Connection of exposed metalwork to the protective conductor
B
Bonding
C
Earthing in the fixed wiring of the installation
D
Supplementary insulation
Question 39
Non-sheathed cables for fixed wiring installations should be:
A
Thermoplastic
B
Enclosed in conduit or trunking
C
A minimum of 4mm squared cross-sectional area
D
Thermosetting
Question 40
When selecting a cable for a single circuit installation, rating factors are to be used and applied to the:
A
Design current of the circuit
B
Rated current of the protective device
C
Current-carrying capacity of the cable
D
Total current taken by the installation
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These are wise words but if you’re short of money or lack the power to change your life then they are harder to find meaning in. If the product of your labours is stolen by someone else, you’re going to resent it. The capitalist exploits the worker for profit and so it is natural for workers to combine in trades unions to fight that power. The political power of trades unions is now severely restricted in the UK because the labour movement has lost its balls. We now live in consumer culture. Combinations of consumers often appear to have some power to change politics but this can only affect one particular market at a time and doesn’t impact the public sector. Time and again we are thrown against the mercy of incompetent politicians who have never done any real work in their lives. There is a real crisis of political debate in the UK: there is no meaningful debate at all. Only the Green Party proffers a meaningful alternative to the managerial arguments of the other parties. With only one MP and only one council in its grasp, the Green Party desperately needs more disenfranchised activists to join it. They are in the best position to promote alternate visions for society but sadly the people they would seek to represent are too busy downloading music and films and joining in with futile political gesturing, such as Occupy.
The biggest international political debate right now is piracy. Piracy is said to theft. This isn’t quite true because stolen goods are removed from their owners, whereas pirated music or films are just copied. Whether artists lose money as a result of piracy is unclear; various studies give various results. Many artists at the start of their careers are happy for people to distribute their work without permission. This seems to be more true for musicians than it is for film makers but even the latter are more keen for the recognition than the money. The campaign against piracy is not led by established artists either, who mostly make enough money, but by those who own the work involved. Time for song.
The fellow who wrote and composed this song is now dead. I’m the same age as he was when he died. I’m not sure who owns his work. A note on YouTube suggested that a Creative Commons licence is in place. Certainly some companies use algorithms to search YouTube for soundtracks they own. A few years ago a friend of mine made a video about a holiday in Norfolk. It was an amusing skit on Apocalypse Now and used bits of the film’s soundtrack. I uploaded the film to YouTube. Sony contacted me to point out that I didn’t have permission to upload the soundtrack but that I could leave it be until such time as they claimed otherwise. In many countries you are allowed to copy and redistribute reasonable portions of somebody else’s work without breaching copyright, for example for educational reasons.
The fact is that most of the arguments raised against piracy are promoted by those who own the work, not those who create it. The owners of films are mostly the studios whose investment created the film. The owners of music are mostly the record labels. These organisations claim that pirating the products they own harms their industry but whether there is actually any evidence which supports that claim is another matter altogether. Plenty of people download films but would prefer to go to the cinema more often, if they could afford it. Most people prefer to go shopping and buy music than to just obtain it illegally. They download music because they cannot afford to buy it. As soon as Apple’s Itunes store made downloading music affordable, it took off. The legislation being promoted in the US – SOPA and PIPA – by the industrial behemoths of the creative industries takes hold of this problem and strangles those without power. If that legislation is passed it will be abused by those with plenty wealth and power already to crush those without any. That’s you, me and plenty of new businesses. Litigation is used as a commercial weapon by giant corporations to crush competitors. Very often the likely outcome of the legal struggle is irrelevant because their opponents cannot afford to do battle with them at all. Whatever the solution to the perceived problem, the legislation now being debated is going to harm the creative industries rather than help them. Time for another song.
Gangstarr is also dead. In fact, he was the same person as Guru. He makes a neat point about the adverse effects of socially disruptive behaviour and a plea to his apparent fans to stop engaging in it. The giant corporations which would control the creative industries claim that the new found ability to copy and freely redistribute their titles is another kind of social chaos. It isn’t anything of the sort. Copyright laws exist to lock down creative talents. Their primary purpose is to protect profit margins and nothing else. Historically, music has always flourished and taken exciting new directions when it copyright laws have been weak or big business hasn’t been in charge of it. Essentially, the debate is being framed by a camouflaged argument. Time for a final song.
Europe has its own version of SOPA and PIPA. Unfortunately, it goes much much further. It is called ACTA. The campaign against it is just getting started. For many years netizens have been preparing for this moment. The internet and its amazing capabilities is regarded as belonging to the people who built it, rather than those who own the cables and servers which constitute it. Certainly without our creative juices, very little of what we now regard as standard technological fare would have got off the ground. Last week, the first early salvoes in the war for internet freedom and were fired. The US government took down an obvious target, MegaUploads. The hactivists predictably responded by temporarily removing hundreds of websites belonging to those promoting the new legislation and various government agencies. For the first time, they properly enlisted mass support. Instead of relying on their secretive software systems, they persuaded hundreds of thousands of regular internet users to assist with the largest scale distributed denial of service attacks ever. Other actions included the mass blackout of much the most useful part of the web on 18th January 2011.
Whatever the legal outcome of the political battle now being fought out, it is clear that the warring factions are prepared to fight on for many years to come. The stakes will become increasingly serious for all concerned. The powers that be should be aware that this struggle cannot be completed without serious consequences. Without a political class able or willing to fight the population’s corner for it, popular heroes will emerge. Many people will aspire to be one of these heroes or to play a similar role. The giant corporations which want to control all forms of creative expression and, if ACTA is anything to go by, prevent cheap medicines from reaching the world’s poor have failed to learn a basic lesson of human history: you cannot kill an idea. Once the concept of copying has been established, it cannot be got rid of.
The time has come for the debate to become more sophisticated. Instead of it being painted as a rather tedious black and white picture, politicians need to start showing their own creative juices still flow. There are always more than two solutions to any problem. Clearly there can be a problem with people or companies being unable to protect their work but there is also a problem with companies protecting their profit margins and intellectual property portfolios no matter what the cost to the rest of us. Instead of having either no law or a ridiculously stringent law, a durable solution could be found in a more flexible approach. That was the intention behind the current American law, allowing for copying reasonable portions. That approach may have become archaic in the digital world. Whatever is agreed, needs to be agreed internationally. Otherwise the richest countries will oppress the talents of the people living elsewhere. Civil litigation will replace more traditionally aggressive approaches to international politicking. The idea that the rich countries of the world can put trade delegates into private meetings and invent secret deals which exclude most of the people they affect is deeply offensive and anti-democratic. All African nations must be included in all future copyright treaties. The west has many blessings already – it doesn’t need more and it certainly doesn’t need more than the developing world. What is music to the ears of a rich western pharmaceutical executive is too often the death rattle for children half a world away.
Brighton & Hove City Council is controlled by the Green Party. This new administration has broken with political tradition in a number of ways. Notably, it has kept its promise to create a permanent site for Travellers even though this policy attracted a well organised and high profile campaign against it by the local Conservatives. The policy was carried through with a thorough public consultation. Consultation has been the hallmark of the Green administration. A week ago, the administration announced its response to the biggest consultation the City had ever undertaken, which was on the budget.
For the first time the city council produced a two year budget which also included carbon budgets and the most extensive equality impact assessments yet. Through social media, an online budget simulator, public meetings, a webcast chat, letters, petitions and media debate the Greens have extensively engaged with residents on the budget. The budget simulator is well worth checking out. It really brings home the issues involved in setting council budgets.
Brighton & Hove has the highest per capita rate of digital and creative industries in the country. The council leader, Bill Randall, recently attended a meeting of the Local Government All Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons this week, and met Jeremy Hunt MP to lobby him to include the City in the government’s ultra-fast broadband funding competition. Unfortunately, the government has excluded the City from the project.
One of Brighton & Hove’s biggest problems is the sheer number of cars in the City. Many people who live locally do not trouble themselves with car ownership. Many of the people coming into work in the City drive in and then get annoyed when they can’t find anywhere to park! Preston Park has been turning into an unofficial car park for these people. Presently, there are no parking restrictions on any of the park’s internal roads. 2,000 people signed a petition calling for action to clampdown on parking in the popular park and free up space for park users. Consultation was carried out with park users, sports groups, local residents and others last year. Today the City’s Transport and Sustainability Cabinet Member Meeting will consider a report which proposes limiting parking in the park to two areas, known as The Gallop and The Ride. Parking on all other internal roads and all along the London Road side of the park will be stopped under the plans. Charges will be introduced to cover the cost of the scheme.
