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• CCI Enhances Sectorisation with 4x4 MIMO Support for 6-Sector Sites – greater than the sum of its parts

  21-09-2020 14:30
  
  September 2020 Global solutions provider Communication Components Inc. (CCI) brings 4x4 MIMO capability to its patented Bi-Sector Array™ Antennas to create a step change in capacity and speeds for mobile networks, through Higher Order Sectorisation (HOS) with 4x4 MIMO. CCI Bi-Sector Antennas allow operators to reduce antenna count and replace existing 65° networks, while increasing cell site capacity and LTE data throughput by minimizing overlap between CCI’s patented asymmet
  
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• Tickets Alert: Architecture tours of Heals department store

  02-05-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Tottenham Court Road’s Heal’s department store is notable for the early 20th-century building it occupies, for being London’s oldest furniture retailer, and for its impressive architecture.
  (c) Heal’s
  As part of the London Festival of Architecture, tours will be offered of the building, once home to their furniture workshops and mattress factory. The site has evolved and been reimagined over time and has many stories to tell. On the tour,, you will experience and better u
  
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• From Tudor Trumpets to Modern Beats: A journey through Black British music history

  02-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Libraries are places of quiet, reflective study, but not the British Library at the moment, which thumps to the sound of music in an exhibition that spans 500 years of black music in the UK.It starts back in Tudor times, but in fact, most of the exhibition is modern, covering the past century or so, as that’s where the main story lies.
  Back to the olden times, and the earliest record of a musician of African descent in Britain is John Blanke, a trumpeter in King Henry VII and VIII’s
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Talbot Square, W2

  02-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a long narrow pocket park next to Paddington Station that may tend to dampness, as it was built on top of an old water reservoir.Long before Paddington Station arrived and this was still on the edges of London, the Grand Junction Canal opened a canal into the area in 1801 to bring goods into the city with a large basin nearby for cargo wharfs. In 1811, the Grand Junction Waterworks Company was created to exploit a clause in the 1798 Act that allowed canals to be built and used as a suppl
  
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• William Morris Gallery to open late every Thursday this summer

  01-05-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Good news if you’ve never been to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, as it’s extending its opening hours.
  (c) William Morris Gallery
  Housed in the Grade II* listed building that was once Morris’s family home, the museum is the only public gallery devoted to the designer, craftsman and radical socialist William Morris.
  The Gallery is free to visit and usually open Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 5pm.
  However, from this week onwards until September, the museum’s ope
  
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• Tate Modern’s Blue Rider exhibition chronicles the pioneers of the avant-garde

  01-05-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Just before the advent of WWI, a group of artists came together in Germany to break almost every rule that existed about art — and became the Expressionists. Now, their works are on display at Tate Modern in a collective for the first time in sixty years.
  There have been previous shows, one in 1938 of these new artists in direct response to the German government’s rejection of such decadent and un-German art, and later in 1960, but nothing on this scale since.Known as The Blue Rider,
  
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• London exhibitions to visit in May 2024

  01-05-2024 11:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Here is a selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in a month that has two bank holidays to spend in the museums.Set to Stun: Designing & Filming Sci-Fi in West London
  Gunnersbury Park Museum, Ealing
  Free
  From laser beams to paranoid androids, exploring faraway planets to alien invasions – visitors will get to enjoy an engaging and interactive showcase of the sets, costumes, prosthetics, props, and artistic visualisations that went into British Sci-Fi classics, including Doctor
  
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• Church court rejects homophobia-based objections to Oscar Wilde sculpture

  01-05-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A sculpture of Oscar Wilde could be installed in Chelsea after the Church of England’s Consistory Court rejected objections about Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality.
  The sculpture, by Sir Edward Paolozzi, will be of Oscar Wilde’s head with an inscription relating to Wilde on the reverse, and the plan is to display it in Dovehouse Green on the King’s Road in Chelsea to mark the centenary of the sculptor’s birth.
  The location was chosen as Paolozzi lived on Dovehouse Street
  
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• Take a journey into the brain at this King’s Cross exhibition

  30-04-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The complexities of the brain are being explored through the medium of knitting in a new exhibition at the Francis Crick Institute in King’s Cross.
  The exhibition looks at how the brain works, or at least what little we know about it, and how scientists, many working in the same building as the exhibition, are trying to uncover its mysteries.
  One mystery is who thought of asking people to recreate the tiny neurons in the brain as large pink fleshy knitted ganglia. However, it is an idea th
  
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• Stripy arty tower appears in Hyde Park

  30-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A tall stripy tower has appeared in Hyde Park that is undeniably tall and stripy and arty.It’s a work of art by the German artist Gerhard Richter, first exhibited last year and will now spend the summer in London.
  As far as I can understand, the concept for the art was created in 2010 as an abstract painting. The artist then photographed the source artwork and, using digital processing, mirrored and sliced the photo into thin strips.
  Those thin strips now make up large panels of coloured s
  
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• Satellite group SES to acquire Intelsat in $3.1bn deal

  30-04-2024 14:03 via ft.com
  Merger marks last major consolidation in industry as operators look to compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink
  
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• How to get tickets for the Last Night of the Proms 2024

  30-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Prom season is starting again, and it’s time to enter the ballot to get tickets for the Last Night of the Proms. Due to the intense popularity of the evening, there’s a process to apply for tickets:
  (c) BBC
  The season ticket holder
  If you buy a whole season ticket, which gets you entry into almost all of the shows, then that also guarantees entry to the Last Night of the Proms.
  Unsurprisingly, it’s not the cheapest option for just the Last Night, but it’s very good value
  
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• New development planned next to the disused York Road tube station

  30-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A plot of land next to the disused York Road tube station that’s been undeveloped for 30 years could soon be the site of a large medical research lab now that engineers have solved the problem of how to build on a site that sits above five railway tunnels.
  New development next to refurbished York Road station (c) KPF/Planning documents
  The plot of land is just north of King’s Cross, and the station’s three large national rail tunnels run right underneath it. It’s also rig
  
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• Ericsson chief says overregulation ‘driving Europe to irrelevance’

  30-04-2024 06:00 via ft.com
  Continent ‘at risk of falling behind’ on digital infrastructure, undermining its competitiveness
  
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• The Petrie Museum will close for the summer

  29-04-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in central London has announced that it will be closed for most of this summer while essential building works are carried out.
  The Petrie is one of London’s best hidden, yet perfectly sized museums, and as you might have surmised from the name, is home to a large collection of Egyptian artifacts.The displays have a somewhat old-world charm. They do not concede to modern fashions and consist of long, ever-so-long rows of shelves filled with marvello
  
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• From timeless to trendy: Exploring 80 brand histories at the Museum of Brands

  29-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Museum of Brands has dusted off an exhibition that hasn’t been seen for nearly a decade — showing the changing face of the many company logos we think we’re familiar with.
  Some brands seem to change logos as frequently as the British weather while others seem eternal — and with the recent shock at Golden Syrup dropping its eternal logo on some of its products, this is a good time to see how other companies have changed over the years.The 80 Brand Histories exhibition
  
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• London’s Alleys: Jockey’s Fields, WC1

  29-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This equestrian-named passage near Holborn isn’t named after jockeys, as we think of them today, riding horses in races, but it is related to horses as a mode of transport.The passage runs alongside the wall surrounding the Grays Inn legal enclave, which was still largely fields until the 18th century when the Bedford Charity started developing the area.
  William Morgan’s map 1682
  A quirk of the history is that what is today Jockey’s Fields was originally called Bedford Mews, an
  
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• London Zoo asks public to contribute to its 200th anniversary

  29-04-2024 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Ahead of its 200th anniversary, London Zoo is asking people who might have old objects from the zoo to contribute to a new exhibition it is planning.
  Archival image of London Zoo keeper Wally Styles beside a Bactrian camel; London Zoo, 1929 (c) Bond / ZSL.
  The Zoological Society, the organisation behind what was to become London Zoo, was founded in April 1826 and was able to buy a small triangle of land just inside Regents Park. Just two years later, in April 1828, they opened the world’s
  
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• Two died after UK shift from analogue to digital phone lines

  26-04-2024 18:19 via ft.com
  Government says it met Virgin O2 chief executive and Ofcom after incidents last year
  
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• Wooden kaleidoscopes filling the Guildhall Art Gallery

  26-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Guildhall Art Gallery’s temporary exhibition space is currently filled with kaleidoscope-inspired art, which is a bit marmite — you’ll either love it or be indifferent to it.It’s quite an interesting collection, but I was left feeling a bit unaffected – it’s all nice, and interesting and very technically appealing, but somehow that is all I felt.
  It’s a nice exhibition.
  The exhibition sees the artist, Anne Desmet RA, slicing into prints focused on Lo
  
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• See a partially restored Spitfire plane on Saville Row

  26-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A partially restored Spitfire plane will be displayed in central London next month as part of a two-day display of sports vehicles on Savile Row.
  The only known photograph of Spitfire PR.IV AA810 taken as it taxies in at RAF Wick on the 29th January 1942 with Robert Tomlinson at the controls – source: Concours on Savile Row
  The street, more famous for tailors than planes, will be taken over by the Concours on Savile Row, an event that will feature a variety of historic and interesting vehi
  
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• How TfL’s simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales

  25-04-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
  The change took place last September during a routine fares update to the ticket machines, and the sales of paper tickets dropped overnight by around a third compared to how many were being sold before.
  However, that was entirely intentional.The change was deliberate, intended to reduce the sale of paper tickets by encouraging people to use c
  
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• Pioneering female painter’s portraits return to their Pall Mall birthplace

  25-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When a gallery decided to put on an exhibition about one of Britain’s earliest female portrait painters, they had no idea that their galley sits on the same spot where many of the portraits were originally painted.The painter is Mary Beale, born in a Suffolk village in 1633 to parents who had an interest in art, which they clearly passed onto their daughter, who was later to forge a career as a full-time portrait painter at a time when a woman painter was almost unheard of.
  The father prob
  
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• Last few weeks to visit – Science Museum to close its domestic appliance gallery

  25-04-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A large nostalgia filled space in the Science Museum will be closing soon, giving you just a few weeks to sigh with oh so many wistful memories
  The gallery, in the museum’s basement, is all about household appliances — and it’s marvellous.Who would have thought that toasters, irons, kettles, televisions and washing machines could be so fascinating to look at? Yet, these domestic appliances are at once familiar — for a radio is, after all, a radio, and a washing machine ha
  
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• UCL museums receive £2.4m funding boost

  25-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Research England has awarded the cluster of museums based at University College London (UCL) a five-year £2.4 million grant to support their work. The four museums are the Grant Museum, the Petrie Museum, the UCL Art Museum and UCL’s Pathology Museum.The UCL museums and collections comprise over 200,000 objects, which are both used for academic study and also as part of the free museums for the public to visit.
  The Grant and Petrie museums are open Tuesday through Saturday in the aft
  
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• Inside the Royal Parks nursery: From organic innovations to scented surprises

  25-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you wander around the centre of Hyde Park you might occasionally catch a whiff of chips and the ocean as if you’re visiting the seaside — an unexpected side effect of an organic nursery in the centre of the park.This is the huge Royal Parks plant nursery, where over a quarter of a million plants are grown every year. The nursery has also seen a lot of changes in recent years, including bringing the staffing in-house, moving to organic horticulture, and opening the nursery to appre
  
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• Royal School of Needlework launches an online archive of embroidery history

  24-04-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Royal School of Needlework, founded in 1872, has started putting some of its archives online, with an initial launch of the first 100 items to start the collection.
  Cushion Cover made late 19th century; Men’s embroidered waistcoat fronts c:1740s; Embroidered
  mirror frame from late 19th century – early 20th century
  The first hundred pieces offer an initial glimpse of the breadth and depth of the RSN’s treasure trove, which amounts to some 10,000 objects. These include textil
  
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• Tube station managers to strike on Friday and Saturday

  24-04-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  There may be intemittent and short notice tube station closures on Friday and Saturday, as station managers who are members of the TSSA union walk out in a dispute over working conditions.Station managers who would book for a shift on Friday 26th April will not work, and that will lead to occasional station closures on Friday, and also on Saturday if station managers were due to start work late on Friday evening.
  That could affect Night Tube services on Friday night.
  TSSA Customer Service Manage
  
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• How to get the new King Charles III banknotes

  24-04-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The new King Charles III banknotes will start appearing in shops and banks from early June onwards, but if you want to guarantee getting your hands on the first banknotes as soon as they are released, you can.
  There are two ways of getting your hand on the first of the new banknotes.
  King Charles III banknotes (c) Bank of England
  The Postal Option
  You can send some banknotes to the Bank of England using their postal replacement banknote service, and they will ensure that your replacements will h
  
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• The City of London’s Moorfields Highwalk has reopened

  24-04-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Another section of the City of London’s elevated walkways — the pedways — has come back into use after being rebuilt for a new office building.
  The pedway used to link the Barbican estate with Moorgate tube station but closed when the tube station entrance was rebuilt for the Elizabeth line and remained closed while an over-site office block was built on top.
  Recently, the replacement pedway has opened, with a new set of escalators up to the elevated walkway sitting next to Moo
  
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