This is the latest unit to be developed by Canterbury as a direct result of shooters/club managers' requests. Canterbury has spent nearly 2.5 years in development to get this unit to perform to the same level as the wired system. It now works perfectly and in some respects it 'out performs' the wired unit.
The trap house has a 'base station' transceiver which is powered from the standard Canterbury relay unit (as used in the wired system) and this links it to the trap machine. Depending on the material used in the trap house, this transceiver may be located either inside or outside the house. A polycarbonate cover is provided to afix and protect this unit.
The referee/scorer also has a wireless transceiver which operates in the same manner as the old wired trigger. This allows the trap house transceiver to be switched on or off - so disabling the microphones - a target can be manually released and it has a visible light that blinks off when the trap is activated.
Batteries are AA (4) in each of the microphone and ref's units and it is anticipated that a club should get around 200 hours use out of one set of batteries. The trap unit is powered by 12v from the relay box connected to a 230v/110v outlet.
"Damn son, where'd you find this?" That mixtape drop is about as close to a meme as you can find in dance music. Popularized by its use in the late 2000s on Gucci Mane and OJ da Juiceman's Trap-a-holics mixtapes, trap music producers incorporated the sample from the jump as a hat-tip to the EDM genre's hip-hop forebears. Shadoe Haze, a 42-year-old voice-over artist, is the man behind the voice.
Obviously we had to know more about the man behind the "drop heard 'round the world," so we gave Shadoe a call to find out what kind of drops he's been sending to Justin Timberlake, and where I could find a good rave in Monroe, Louisiana. And yes, he knows what trap music is.
THUMP: I'm gonna read you a question that I found on Yahoo Answers when I googled "Monroe Louisiana rave" and you can answer it. It sounds like it was written by a narc:
"Where can I find an underground rave near me? Or just a rave in general? I realize that I really want to go ravin'! I want to see a bunch of people at an all-night party with strobe lights and rave sticks and intense music, and have FUN! I live in West Monroe, LA. So if anyone knows where I can find one, that'd be great help. Also, I'd like to be able to find one anywhere I go! Also, where can I get decent rave clothes (and some ski goggles)?"
Shadoe Gaze: That's fantastic [laughs]. If I had to guess I'd say it would probably be underground somewhere. Old school guys like me, we used to go to all-night parties. That's just what people did back then. I go play a show, I try to be nice because I'm headlining and stay through the other guys' shows and encourage them but it's at a point where I can't stay past 3AM anymore.
So where are you playing these days?
I have a mobile DJ service. People are like, "Man, with all the stuff you've got going on why are you still doing that?" And it's because I can't tell you how many times I've played a song on a dance floor and someone cried or laughed or smiled and said it was the best time they've had their entire life or whatever. Back in the day, when I wanted to cut out and relax and spin what I enjoyed, it was the break beats and the drum and bass. There you were like an artist. You can paint whatever kind of picture because no one tells you what to play in your set. When I do private parties it's a lot different.
Do people in Monroe have any idea that you're kind of a cult celebrity for your voice-over work in this particular kind of dance music called trap, or in the Trap-a-holics Mixtapes? Do they have any idea what that is?
There's a little bitty town on the other side of West Monroe called Ruston. I have a guy that's a close friend of mine that lives there. He produces dubstep and now he's doing trap. He lives in that little bitty podunk town. That dude called me one day. I had no idea that ["damn son, where'd you find this"] drop had been out.
The drops you gave us had adlibs for DJ Ayres' Rub radio show like, "Time for a big old giant nutsack! Rub one out with Rub Radio!" And I was wondering what kind of nutsack drops you're giving Timberlake.
[Laughs] I've got some clients like DJ Rectangle. I don't know if you know him.
Not really. I know just about enough about trap that I could get by playing a few cuts. If it came on I'd bob my head to it. But if I had to go build a set, I couldn't. People have been requesting me to play drum and bass and breaks, so that's where I spend a majority of my free time, of which there is very little.
I'm a single dad raising a five-year-old daughter and I also own a Taekwondo school. My free time is very little. But with trap, I just don't have time. There are a lot of people who are awesome that I just haven't gotten a chance to hear yet.
This morning I received a phone call from Joe Devinny, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Southern California. I quoted Devinny as an expert source in my story on sewer gases at a downtown condominium complex.
While a p-trap and a flapper valve have the same purpose, they operate on different principles. A p-trap is just a low spot in the line, which remains filled with water, preventing the flow of gases back up the pipe (there is one under your kitchen sink). A flapper valve is a hinged plate that is pushed open when water is passing, and which is closed by gravity or a spring when water is not passing.
In a large residential development, there may be flow in the drain much of the time. This could hold the flapper valve open for a significant amount of time, allowing gases to pass back up the pipe (which is not full of water). A p-trap would not have this problem, as it blocks gases from passing at all times. Now that the flapper valve has been installed, we will soon learn whether it is effective.
The Trap Door is a British animated television series, originally shown in the United Kingdom in 1986.[1][2] The plot revolves around the daily lives and the misadventures of a group of monsters living in a castle. These include a blue creature called Berk, a spider-like creature called Drutt and Boni who was a skull of unknown origin.[3] Although the emphasis was on humour and the show was marketed as a children's programme, it drew much from horror and dark fantasy.
The show was created by British animators Terry Brain and Charlie Mills. It was produced through their own companies, CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions Ltd. Brain and Mills were also responsible for another animated show, Stoppit and Tidyup, a few years later in the late 1980s, and Bump the Elephant in the 1990s. There was a stop motion movie that was in the works that was never made called The Pudding.[5]
Together they were referred to as "Brainbox Mills".[6] Later, Terry Brain went on to be an animator with Aardman Animations and worked on the six Wallace and Gromit films, as well as Chicken Run and animated television shows, Gogs and Creature Comforts.
A total of 25 episodes of The Trap Door were made in 1986, with each episode running for around four minutes. A second series followed later with a further 15 episodes of similar running time, making a total of 40 episodes.
Berk, Boni and most character voices were provided by Willie Rushton, an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye. Nick Shipley provided the voice of Drutt and other characters.
The recognisable theme song of the show was written by Scottish songwriter Bob Heatlie, who also wrote the Shakin' Stevens hit Merry Christmas Everyone, and also one of the popular hits of the 1980s, Japanese Boy, sung by Aneka. The vocals were performed by Zygott. A 7" record of the extended theme song (as heard in the episode "Don't Open That Trap Door") was released, with a B-side featuring an instrumental song called "Ghost Chase", performed by The Ghost Chasers.
Somewhere in the dark and nasty regions, where nobody goes, stands an ancient castle. Deep within this dank and uninviting place, lives Berk ("Allo!"), overworked servant of "the thing upstairs" ("Berk! Feed me!") But that's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the trap door, for there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out....
Creepy, crawly, slimy things, that stick onto your skin... Horrid things with tentacles, that want to pull you in... Squirmy worms, slugs and snails, that lie there in a goo... They'll wait down there forever, 'till they get their hands on you... Stay away from that trapdoor, 'Cause there's something down there...
The world of The Trap Door is solely inhabited by monsters, and almost all action takes place in the monsters' castle, especially the pantry or cellar where Berk, the central character, lives. Beneath the castle are a series of dark and mysterious caverns inhabited by all manner of "horrible things", accessible by the eponymous trap door.
The master of the castle, "The Thing Upstairs", resides in the attic of the castle and remains an unseen character throughout the entire show, shouting orders to Berk when hungry or annoyed. Berk has two companions, Boni and Drutt. In most episodes, Berk accidentally leaves the trap door open, admitting a more troublesome monster than himself; but some monsters open it from below. Though mostly hostile or mischievous, the monsters emergent from the trap door include the amiable and periodic Rogg, and occasionally others as harmless as he.
Berk (voiced by Willie Rushton) is an oviform blue creature who speaks with a West Country accent. He is the protagonist of the show, and steward or caretaker of the monster's castle. As such, Berk often goes about his duties with simple-minded glee, and enjoys cooking with ingredients such as mud, eyeballs, snakes, and worms. Berk is often warned not to open the trap door by his friends, or forbidden by his master, but often does so nonetheless. His usual exclamations include "Oh, Globbits!" and "Sniff that!"
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