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March Point. Padilla Bay/Fidalgo Bay. "The Washington population of the Black Oystercatcher is estimated to be roughly 400 birds. This number is probably not significantly different from the historical population, as these birds require fairly specialized habitat, which is not evenly distributed. Oystercatchers are highly vulnerable to human disturbance, oil spills, and pollution of the intertidal zone. Numbers of Black Oystercatchers on the outer coast may be higher than in the past, in part due to decreased human disturbance resulting from lighthouse automation. Numbers in inland areas, however, have declined in response to increased human activity. The Northern Pacific Coast Regional Shorebird Management Plan has identified the Black Oystercatcher as a regional species of high concern."
"The Black Oystercatcher is restricted in its range, never straying far from shores, in particular favoring rocky shorelines. It has been suggested that this bird is seen mostly on coastal stretches which have some quieter embayments, such as jetty protected areas. It forages in the intertidal zone, feeding on marine invertebrates, particularly molluscs such as mussels, limpets and chitons. It will also take crabs, isopods and barnacles. It hunts through the intertidal area, searching for food visually, often so close to the water's edge it has to fly up to avoid crashing surf. It uses its strong bill to dislodge food and pry shells open."
I went to Paris to stay with my friend, Aurelia. To coincide with my trip, i was to take photos of the not so obvious Paris for a magazine based in Norwich called Partywolf. There will be more photos to come and an article to write up as well.
This was shot at Le Louvre.
Young hearts don't always beat to standard verse & chorus.
We'll deviate from your script & fake our own deaths tonight.
We've plotted our escape, using these instruments & a corrupt language.
With voices stronger than those projected.
The stage is set, but the set's a fake.
We refuse to memorise the soundtrack to your racket and i will not choreograph the next distraction.
Interruption is music to our ears.
Everything written down is an act.
Ampere
This over 100-year-old model was made in France, Nancy, after 1919. Size 29.5 x 40.7cm² (11.6 x 16.0 in²). For the assembly, a second template was printed mirrored for the back.
Instead of automatic urinal flushing, it would be easy to install a camera on the side and take photos of the flushers.
Les Musiciens, vintage paper automation
Always looking for old templates for paper automata. I found this template on “Flickr”, posted by “patricia m”. I tried to build this model true to the original. Original from 1888, size: 49cm x 38,5cm. (19.3 in x 15.2 in) Printed on 4x A4 (equivalent to A2 format). The finished model has a size of about 21 x 23 cm (8,3 in x 9,0 in) . Unfortunately in the original only the trumpet is operated by a crank drive.
In order to allow a movement, also of the two other figures (violinist and 2nd trumpeter), I provided the axles with rope discs and connected them with rubber band.
I was invited to spend two days at Europe’s most comprehensive IoT Event. This leading forum focused on case studies that show today’s Industry and Enterprises leveraging IoT technologies to transform their business through creating value and efficiencies.
The Internet of things (stylised Internet of Things or IoT) is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data.
"Things," in the IoT sense, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters,[16] automobiles with built-in sensors, DNA analysis devices for environmental/food/pathogen monitoring or field operation devices that assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.[18] Legal scholars suggest to look at "Things" as an "inextricable mixture of hardware, software, data and service". These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices. Current market examples include home automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air purifiers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for remote monitoring.
A screenshot from Automation of camper vans (RVs if you're from the States) I made using a mod body. I don't know what the two black lines are; they were flickering on the screen so I waited until they went away before taking the screenshot, but they mysteriously reappeared on the end result.
In BeamNG they had their steering inverted.
Be sure to check out the Fabulous Video by Nicole at Dynamic Video Creations. Here's the link to enjoy the story and to see all the automation; www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ivQ4ZpMFA
It's actually just a Mac Mini. But I bought a new Canon M6 and thought I'd try it out to see if it's any good. :)
How things really work in a modern chemistry lab
Project 365
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2013/02/19
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Home Automation touch panel for in home use of music control, lighting control, blind control and much more.
Vintage Paper automation. „Le Menuisier“ (The Carpenter )
This over 100-year-old model was made in France, Nancy, after 1919 - 1925. Size 29.5cm x 40.5cm (11.6 x 16.0 in²). Air drive. For the assembly, a second template was printed mirrored for the back.
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My mum's remarkably-compact Balda Jubilette folding 35mm camera, obtained in Berlin in September 1945 (she was navy translator at the Potsdam Conference) with its f/2.9 Schneider-Kreuznach lens (to which she added a GE light meter in New York in 1948). It still works, took thousands of her photos between 1945 and the mid 1980s when she discovered the appeal of greater automation) and it is still intact in its original leather case. Click on Balda tag for a tiny sample of her photos taken with it in Britain the USA over the years.
Overlooking the lighthouse of La Corbiere, in the southwest corner of Jersey, the Germans in 1943 built an observation bunker called "Marine Peilstand und Meßstellung 2".
This bunker was intended to have been part of a network comprising a total of nine such bunkers, placed around the entire island to observe hostile ships. Using observations from just two of these bunkers, direction and range could be accurately and quickly calculated and this information passed to the various gun batteries on the island.
However, out of the nine planned bunkers, only MP1, MP2 and MP3 were built.
The bunker was almost 18 metres high and had walls 2 metres thick. Observation and targeting took place on five floors through the openings in the front of the bunker.
The bunker was painted with camouflage, so that it looked like one of the characteristic round granite towers, for which Jersey is well known.
In 1976, the bunker was used for coastal surveillance and a glass observation room was built on the top. In 2004, the surveillance function was moved and in 2007 the bunker was converted to a holiday apartment with three-storey bedrooms, kitchen and living room at the top.
It is now possible to rent the bunker through Jersey Heritage.
Petit Port
The small bay of Petit Port is the last landing bay on the west coast and the rocky shoreline around Petit Port and Le Grouet were popular for vraicing - Le Grouet actually means ‘dirty water’ and took its name because the tidal flow meant debris was washed up here. Access to the beach was by slipways or cart tracks cut through the rocks. The old slipway by the stream was blocked and dismantled around 1871-72 when the head of the bay was stabilised by the building of a seawall, and a new curved slipway was constructed on the north side of the bay.
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Another new slipway was built further around the coast at Le Grouet in 1873. This one was built to an L-shape around the rocky outcrop known as La Tête du Grouet, and probably overlaid an old cart track as it was referred to as La Charrière de la Corbière, the cart-track, rather than the more usual word for a slip, montée. Both slipways have their granite setts laid at an angle to allow ease of access for the horse-drawn vraicing carts.
Although Petit Port does not feature in the 1872 Fisheries Survey, this was possibly because of the building work being carried out there, because the high ground to the south of the bay was known as La Lande des Congres, where the catch was dried. Small boats were certainly using Petit Port during the Great War, because in April 1916 three fishermen from there drowned.
The place name Corbière [1] came from the Old French meaning the place of the ravens, crows or cormorants. It first appeared in the Assize Roll of 1309 when a tub was recorded washed ashore here.
Shipwrecks
1862 Guide to the Channel Islands: "The dreaded Corbiere, the extreme southern limit of the Bay of St Ouen’s. No wonder this terrible group of rocks should be dreaded by the mariner, storm caught perhaps as he may be within sight of home and rest."
The stories of shipwrecks around Corbière, especially in the days of sail, have gripped the imagination. According to the historian George Balleine, a Spanish ship carrying a cargo of wine was wrecked here in 1414. On 25 November 1495 five Spanish ships were supposedly lured on to the rocks here by wreckers. In his 1847 guidebook, the Rev Edouard Durell wrote:
"Steamers now approach it much nearer than any sailing vessel would have formerly ventured to do ...’
However, shipmasters still managed to get their calculations wrong and hit the rocks. The most recent being the St Malo, which struck La Frouquie – ‘the forked rock’ – on Easter Monday 1995. The captain had taken his vessel through the calmer waters of the Jailer’s Passage to give his passengers a good view. Over 300 passengers and crew had to abandon ship, 53 of whom were injured.
Lighthouse
From the late 1850s onwards a number of petitions were presented to the Admiralty, the Crown and the States advocating the building of a lighthouse at Corbière. Eventually the scheme got the go-ahead and a design by Sir John Coode was selected. The world’s first concrete lighthouse was completed in November 1873 and in use from April 1874.
It was the natural grandeur of the rocks at Corbière that draw the visitor to this south west corner of the island. The early guidebook authors went on at length about Nature’s majesty, the projection of the rocks and the power of the sea. Numerous painters have captured the view – in 1846 Queen Victoria had the Royal Yacht, the Victoria and Albert, stopped so that Prince Albert could sketch the scene. Over the years Corbière has become one of the most photographed and painted parts of the island.
The lighthouse simply added a touch of romance to the view. The four keepers, who lived in the nearby cottages, kept watch until 1976 when the light was automated. As well as maintaining the light and fog signal, they passed details of approaching ships to Fort Regent Signal Station and St Helier Harbour Office.
In the 1890s a camera obscura was built at the top of the roadway from Le Grouet. It looked out over the lighthouse and was used by the tourists who flocked to this south western corner of the island in their thousands. During the 1870 season excursion cars visited La Moye, the Granite Quarries and Corbière rocks on Fridays. The cost, including a guide, was 2s (10p). In August 1884 the railway was extended from St Aubin to La Moye, and a number of tearooms and hotels began to spring up on the headland. The Bivouac Tearoom, with its thatched roof, the Chalet Hotel and the Seagrove Hotel, famed for its Tartan Bar, are now gone but the Corbière Pavilion (now the Phare) and Highlands Hotel still remain.
Railway
In 1897 the railway line was extended from La Moye to Corbière and a new station was built in the grounds of the Pavilion Hotel. By 1920 the 45-minute trip from St Helier cost 2s (10p) in 2nd class, or 2s 6d (12½p) in 1st - the price of travel had changed little over 50 years.
The area around Corbière is certainly the place for unusual wildlife to pop up. In 1960 a long-finned pilot whale was washed ashore at Le Grouet, causing quite a stir as well as a nuisance when the carcass began to rot. This was not the first unusual member of the animal kingdom to make its appearance in these parts, for in October 1929 a few of the mainland papers carried a story of Frank and Percy Pinel’s small boat being attacked off Corbière by a 4½ metre long shark, while they were hauling their lobster pots.
Seven years earlier, in August 1922, a number of English newspapers, including the Sunday Post and the Sunderland Daily Echo, carried the story of how another fishing boat had been attacked in the same area by a giant octopus. Seemingly one giant tentacle wrapped itself around the mast and attempted to capsize the boat, while another grabbed the leg of a man named as Frank Duhamel and tried to haul him overboard. The crew only saved themselves by slashing at the tentacles with their knives and beating them with the oars.
In November 1927 the Western Daily Mail reported that a penguin had been captured while sitting on a rock near the headland.
Beyond the causeway, to the south, is La Baie à Sablons or Hospital Bay. This is where the paddle steamer Express grounded on 20 September 1859. Of the 110 passengers and crew, only two failed to get ashore safely. The following day thousands of onlookers came to watch as three racehorses were taken from the stranded vessel. Among the onlookers was the celebrated local artist Philip Ouless, who recorded the scene for posterity.
During the Occupation this area was known as Strongpoint Corbiere. There are a variety of fortifications all over the headland – a 105mm casemate overlooks Le Grouet, machine gun positions lie hidden in the rocks and various bunkers are connected by underground passages. These are admirably maintained and opened to the public by the Channel Islands Occupation Society.
The German Observation Tower (MP 2) overlooking Corbière, now one of the Jersey Heritage self-catering holiday lets, housed naval direction finding and signalling equipment. Built on the site of a militia lookout position, when it was finished the concrete was painted to resemble the granite of the Conway Towers. After the Liberation the tower remained unused until 1976 when, following the automation of the lighthouse, it became home to ‘Jersey Radio’, the Coast Radio Station which, until it moved to St Helier in 2004, monitored the radio traffic of all shipping passing though the entrance to the English Channel, hence its more commonly used name - the ‘Radio Tower’.
No period in the Channel Islands' history has had more written about it than the German Occupation of the islands from 1940 to 1945, during World War Two. This section attempts to bring together all the important elements in this, one of the darkest periods in Jersey's history, from the period before the Germans invaded, when many thousands of islanders were evacuated, to the Liberation and the joyous celebrations of freedom. Read our article summarising the Occupation period and then turn to the individual articles listed below, which provide comprehensive detail of every aspect of the five years that German troops occupied the island.
Please note that the swastika icon is used throughout this section, not in any attempt to glorify the actions of the Germans during their occupation of Jersey, but as the recognised symbol of their repressive regime.
We should also make clear that we refer throughout this section to the German Occupation, not the Nazi Occupation, as some people now prefer to call it. It has never been known as such in Jersey, by islanders who lived through it, from the day the German military arrived to take over the island. And it is still known as the German Occupation by islanders to day. The reason put forward by those who prefer the use of Nazi to describe those Germans who fought in the Second World War, is that the war was started by a National Socialist Government and that not all Germans were Nazis. On the contrary, all those troops and bureaucrats who occupied and administered the island were Germans, and by no means all were party members. The argument that they did not all want to be where they were is, we believe, irrelevant, because whether supporters of the cause or conscripts following orders, they were first and foremost Germans. And the man who was in charge for most of the Occupation, Graf von Schmettow, made it very clear in post-war interviews that he was not a party member and did not consider himself to be a Nazi
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Automatyzacja – znaczne ograniczenie lub zastąpienie (proces zastępowania) ludzkiej pracy fizycznej i umysłowej przez pracę maszyn działających na zasadzie samoregulacji i wykonujących określone czynności bez udziału człowieka (czyli samoczynnych). Również zastosowanie maszyn do pracy niemożliwej do wykonania w inny sposób. Automatyzacja jest kolejnym etapem po mechanizacji, gdzie bezpośrednia praca człowieka jest niezbędna przy wytworzeniu produktu finalnego.
Automatyzacja jest coraz szerzej stosowana w środowisku usługowym.
Etymologia terminu automatyzacja
Automatyzacja to polski odpowiednik angielskiego terminu automation. Słowo automation zostało po raz pierwszy użyte przez Dela Hardera w firmie Ford by opisać pewien rodzaj samoczynnej, masowej produkcji jaką tam prowadzono. Słowo było używane wewnątrz firmy w latach 40. i 50. XX wieku. W roku 1952 John Diebold, specjalista od technologii informatycznych napisał książkę zatytułowaną Automation. Publikacja ta była owocem jego prac na Harvard Business School a termin używany był w kontekście nie tylko maszyn produkcyjnych, ale i środków przetwarzania informacji (mimo że w tym czasie przemysł komputerowy był jeszcze w powijakach). Stąd tytułowe słowo automation przyjęło się wówczas w powszechnym użyciu.
W języku polskim automatyzacja bywa mylona z automatyką (ang. automatic control) – dyscypliną, która zajmuje się sterowaniem (w praktyce jest ono realizowane bez udziału lub z ograniczonym udziałem człowieka co rzeczywiście przyczynia się do automatyzacji procesów).