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The driverless two-coach unit #110 comes into Bangsar Station, Kuala Lumpur. The Kuala Jana Line runs for 29kms across the city. The return fares are cheap by European standards, less than £1 /$1.50. Carrying thousands of people every day, the already extensive metro system is being expanded to counter KL's horrendous rush-hour traffic chaos. Bus travel is also cheap, clean and efficient. However without many dedicated bus lanes they get caught up in the car traffic and journeys can be very slow. A monorail also runs across the city. However, it is the metro system (and local rail lines) that the government are putting their money into.
The Cosmopolitan™ of Las Vegas TV On The Radio & Arctic Monkeys Concert Ticket Giveaway
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Fontaine Stravinsky,
La fontaine Stravinsky et, au fond, l'église Saint-Merri
La fontaine Stravinsky, ou fontaine des Automates, réalisée en 1983 est l'œuvre conjointe de Jean Tinguely et Niki de Saint Phalle. Elle est créée dans le cadre du pourcentage du budget de la construction du Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou. C'est une commande publique entre la ville de Paris, le ministère de la culture et le Centre Pompidou. L'œuvre est la propriété de la ville de Paris qui se charge de son entretien.
Ce monument évoque l'œuvre musicale du compositeur russe Igor Stravinsky. Compositeur russe du xxe siècle, celui-ci est un symbole de l'éclectisme et de l'internationalisme artistique.
La fontaine Stravinsky est bâtie sur la place Igor-Stravinsky près de l'IRCAM (le centre de recherche en musique contemporaine). Elle est composée de 16 sculptures rendant hommage aux compositions du musicien. Sept sont de Jean Tinguely, six de Niki de Saint Phalle et trois des deux artistes. Les sculptures ont été réalisées en résine ou assemblage d'élément en résine et d'éléments métalliques ou assemblage d'éléments métalliques. C'est une œuvre composite conçue pour un espace public et une œuvre en mouvement. Les sculptures sont toutes mécanisées, noires ou colorées et sont animées par des jets d'eaux.
Une fontaine, en général, est (ou était) un lieu de repos et de rencontre dans la cité. La fontaine Stravinski recrée cela. Les sons que produit la fontaine évoquent la musique. Et l'œuvre de par son emplacement et de par sa nature offre une multiplicité de points de vue. La mobilité des sculptures couplées à la richesse de l'environnement offre au spectateur une œuvre en perpétuelle mouvance et nous interroge sur la pérennité de l'œuvre d'art.
Stravinsky Fountain
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Stravinsky Fountain
ArtistJean Tinguely; Niki de Saint Phalle
Year1983
TypeFiberglass, steel
LocationParis, France
Coordinates: 48.8595°N 2.3515°E
The Stravinsky Fountain (fr: La Fontaine Stravinsky) is a whimsical public fountain ornamented with sixteen works of sculpture, moving and spraying water, representing the works of composer Igor Stravinsky. It was created in 1983 by sculptors Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle, and is located on Place Stravinsky, next to the Centre Pompidou, in Paris.
The Stravinsky Fountain is a shallow basin of 580 square meters located in Place Stravinsky, between the Centre Pompidou and the Church of Saint-Merri. Within the basin are sixteen works of sculpture inspired by Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, and his other major works. The black mechanical pieces of sculpture are by Jean Tinguely, the colored works by Niki de Saint Phalle.
The sculptures in the fountain represent:
L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird)
La Clef de Sol (the musical key of G)
La Spirale (the spiral)
L'Elephant (the elephant)
Le Renard (the fox)
Le Serpent (the serpent)
La Grenouille (the frog)
La Diagonale (the diagonal)
La Mort (death)
La Sirène (the mermaid)
Le Rossignol (the nightingale)
L'Amour (Love)
La Vie (Life)
Le Cœur (the heart)
Le Chapeau de Clown (the clown's hat)
Ragtime (Ragtime)
The basin covers some of the rooms and offices of IRCAM, the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique, an organization devoted to promoting modern music and musicology, connected with the Pompidou Center. The founder of the IRCAM, composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, suggested the work of Stravinsky as a theme for the fountain. Because of the offices and rooms below, the fountain was designed to be as light as possible, with very shallow water, a bottom of stainless steel, and sculptures composed of plastics and other light materials.
The Stravinsky Fountain was part of a larger sculptural program, launched by the City of Paris in 1978, to build seven contemporary fountains with sculpture in different squares of Paris. Besides the Stravinsky Fountain, this project included new fountains at the Hotel de Ville and within the gardens of the Palais Royal. They were to be the first public fountains built in Paris since the fountains of the Palais de Chaillot were built for the Paris Exposition of 1937. It was also parmajor project by the City of Paris to redevelop the area around the old city markets, Les Halles, which had been torn down in 1971, and to re-animate the area with pedestrian streets, squares and works of art.
In October, 1981, the mayor of Paris, Jacques Chirac, announced that a new fountain would be built near the Centre Pompidou, and announced that Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle had been selected to design the fountain. "Such a work must necessarily have modern lines, marrying with those of the Centre Pompidou, Chirac said, and he noted the success of the fountain that Tinguely had recently done in Basel, Switzerland.[2] The City of Paris paid two million French francs for the project, which was matched by two million francs from Jack Lang, the Minister of Culture. The financial agreement agreement was formally signed on December 15, 1982, allowing the project to go ahead. Other contribution came from private sponsors; la société Lyonnaise des eaux (500,000 francs), la fondation Scaler (150 francs) and the Swiss government.[3]
One sensitive artistic issue had to be resolved; the commission had originally been given to Jean Tinguely alone, and therefore the work would have been entirely composed of his black-painted mechanical sculptures. But in May 1982 he asked that brightly colored works by Niki de Saint Phalle (who was also Tinguely's wife) also be included. This caused concerns at the Sous-Direction du Patromoine culturel of the Bureau of Monuments of Paris, which had originally commissioned the sculpture; they feared that the brightly colored works of Niki de Saint Phalle would visually overwhelm the dark works of Tinguely. Officials of the Ministry of Culture and Sous-Direction du Patrimoine persuaded Tinguely to reduce the number of works by Niki de Saint Phalle to four or five, and both the Ministry of Culture and City of Paris agreed that it would be a joint project by Tinguely and Saint Phalle.[4]
A few technical issues also needed to be resolved. Tingueley did not want the water treated, and preferred that moss be allowed to grow. Tinguely also wanted to use very low power electric motors for the fountains, to avoid any danger of electrocuting people wading in the fountains. The sculptures were not attached to the bottom of the basin, but simply placed there.
The finished fountain was dedicated on March 16, 1983, by Mayor Chirac, Minister of Culture Jack Lang, and Madame Pompidou, the widow of President Georges Pompidou. During the ceremony, Mayor Chirac and Culture Minister Lang, who were political enemies, avoided looking or speaking to each other.
Under French law and practice, the French state has the legal obligation to maintain fountains, but artists and their descendants have the moral right to control their work. In 1985, Niki de Saint Phalle asked for modifications to be made to one part of the sculpture, Rossignol, to make it more harmonious with other parts of the work. Five years later, she asked that one sculpture, Sirène, be replaced by another earlier work by her, called Nana, seated in a bathing suit. Because of the cost, the substitution was never made.[5]
Look at the instructions on this sucker! Luckily for me there was an option for English and I promptly got my banknotes.
The ATM also talks to you and thanks you for visiting. It's also got some peeking counter measures such as mirrors, a camera and a selective readable screen.
But when I first saw this ATM I thought it would never work for me (-:
Having a straight keypad is also weird since most keypads are configured in a square matter.
@UXerrors. Technically nothing wrong, but there might be too many instructions!
The National Ignition Facility laser bay transporter, an automated guided vehicle, is used to install canisters containing amplifier slab cassettes, known as line replaceable units, into the main amplifier frame assembly units at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
An automated weather station collects data near the LeConte Glacier, Alaska. Credit: Twila Moon, NSIDC
My makeshift automated panorama rig. Mostly made from spare parts and junk.
[updated 2012.07.24] It seems this made it on hackaday: hackaday.com/2012/07/24/motorized-camera-rig-makes-panora... Greetings! I'll try to get some documentation together and post the code somewhere in the coming weeks.
Movement is handled by two servos at the top, mounted to some scrap wood using screws and wood glue. That mounts to the tripod via a 1/4-20 clawed T-bolt. The camera secures to a set of overpriced plastic servo pan/tilt plates.
The servos are controlled via an Arduino Nano (Atmel AVR 328p) powered by a 9v battery for the microcontroller(μc), and 4xAA batteries for the servos. The clear housing was saved from the trash, and holes for the wires and switch were cut by using a heat gun on an exacto knife. The case secures to the tripod using velcro and elastic. An IR receiver, mounted on top of the case, takes input from a small generic remote control(not pictured).
Several quick programs are accessible with only 2 key presses for the most commonly used angles. Manual angle input and adjustment are also available, as are startup delays and repeating functions. It can also be re-configured in the field, via the remote, and allows the changing of camera specs, such as horizontal and vertical field of view, h/v overlaps, servo speed and end stops. The μc is programed to, on it's own, determine the number of shots, and the best angles to shoot, in order to capture the requested area. There's also some rudimentary duplicate avoidance written in, which skips photographing areas that would significantly overlap with previous photos, such as in the polar regions.
There are plenty of problems with the version as shown. For starters, it doesn't center its rotation around the shutter, which causes parallax errors. The current servos aren't strong enough for anything heavier than a compact point-and-shoot. There's no shutter control yet. A third servo lead is tucked in back, and the code written, but at the moment, it's just synced with the camera's internal 10 second repeat auto timer. The code was quick and sloppy, but it does the job. I should probably clean it up and open source it at some point. So far, though, it has performed far better than I expected. Most issues could be resolved without much work, but at the moment, I'm just going to enjoy using it.
Except for the Marigot Bay panorama and the Marblehead harbor fireworks panorama(which were done by hand) most of the panoramas and stereographic "little planets" in this photostream were taken using this rig with a casio ex-g1 point-and-shoot.
You can check out some of the interactive and immersive 360º images it has produced using the viewer at fieldofview here , or just check out the rest of the photostream here.
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I revisited Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project at Nigg Bay today Sunday 14th October 2018, tracking progress now and updating this file every few months or so .
The largest accropode ever to have been produced by automated factory process has been successfully completed in Aberdeen.
The temporary building, which is 15 metres high and 120 metres long, has been specially constructed to support the £350 million Aberdeen Harbour Expansion Project, which is due for completion in 2020.
The facility is home to a carousel production system, which will be used to manufacture around 9,000 accropodes, that will be used as the outer armour for the north and south breakwaters.
The first 16m3 accropode (pictured) – which was completed this week – is the largest to have been produced by an automated factory process.
Keith Young, Engineering Director, Aberdeen Harbour Board, said: “The new temporary facility uses the latest automated technology to ensure a high quality of construction is maintained through each accropode and that they are produced as efficiently as possible.
“We have taken care to engineer the new South Harbour to the highest standard, designing it to be protected from a 1-in-200-year storm.
“The commencement of production at the new facility represents another significant landmark reached in the expansion. Our principal contractor Dragados, is continuing construction on the north breakwater, with construction of the south breakwater due to start in June, and the accropodes will form a key part of this ongoing work.”
The accropode production follows other significant steps forward at the South Harbour expansion, with dredging activities having resumed with the arrival of the hydraulic backhoe dredger ‘Goliath’ (pictured) – one of the largest backhoe dredgers in the world. The dredging operation will remove 2.2 million cubic metres of sediment to increase the water depth within the bay ahead of the construction of the quays over the next two years, and the subsequent development of world-class deep-water berthage.
In addition, the first caisson – one of the concrete ‘building blocks’ that will be used to start the closed-quay sections of the facility – has been constructed. The caisson, which is 50 metres long, 17 metres wide and 16 metres high, will be floated into position this summer after being transported to Aberdeen from the north of Spain.
1. Follow Secure Coding Practices
These security vulnerabilities target the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of an application, its developers, and its users. They cover such attack vectors as injection attacks, session management and authentication, sensitive data exposure, and security misconfiguration.
2.Manage Your Containers
Containers are commonly trusted to come with security advantages that give them a leg up. Given their self-contained OS environment, they are fragmented by design, thus reducing the risk level to other applications. However, containers still face danger from exploits such as a breakout attack where the isolation is broken. Also, the code being stored within the container may itself be endangered.
3. Make Security to Everyone’s Business
Organizations can no longer run to to pull out cybersecurity to fair the security professionals, and this also registers to web application security. Just as IT security policies and practices should involve a wide cross-section of functions, so web app security should also be integrated into all stages of the development, testing process and operations. This is the idea preposition DevSecOps – an approach that embeds security practices into the merged development and operations processes of DevOps.
4. Automate and Integrate
At any one time, big organisations can have Lot of hundreds of web assets to maintain and multiple latest applications in development. This can mean thousands of vulnerabilities to identify, fix and process. The only way to ensure web application security at that kind of scale is to automate all things that can be automated and integrate security tools straightly into the software development lifecycle.
5. Manage Privileges
Not all in your organisation needs to have access to everything. Application security best practices, as well as information from network security, control access to applications and data to only those who need it.
6. Penetration Testing
While automated tools help you to catch the vast most of security issues before a release, no application security finest practices list would be complete without citing the need for pen testing. Pen testers can comb through your code, prodding and poking your app to find delicate points. Good pen testers know absolutely what a determined hacker will try when smashing into your application.
7. Focus on Key Threats
Though keeping a track of the new types of threats will surely help, it is surely a challenge for you to, exclusively follow up and try to find out solutions to all of them. Hence, it would be a good practice to focus more on the key threats that would demand continuous monitoring. It would also surprise us to hear than more often than not, the problems which we would have already heard about earlier and solved, throw a different type of challenge and could come up again!
8. Formulate a strategy and document your solutions
This is an excessively important practice. It makes complete sense to document your study of either a persisting problem or a new problem and your solution for that. The methods accepted and the troubleshooting process could be very useful at condemn junctures when customer pressures run high.
9. Inspect All Traffic
With the amount of data being sent and received all day, it becomes crucial to try and identify suspicious traffic and block it immediately. This is best done by setting up firewalls and frequently testing the capabilities of those firewalls as well as designing methods to develop their performance. This is an remarkably critical practice which companies must resort to at any cost to save critical data from falling into the hands of hackers.
10. Fix Vulnerabilities, Not Just Bugs
If developers treat vulnerabilities as just another bug to fix, it is likely they will make the same genres of errors in the future. In effect, you will never exhaust of vulnerabilities, because new ones will come out just as speedily as existing ones are fixed. To see progress and build more secure applications, security professionals and developers need to work together to understand vulnerabilities and eliminate their root causes, not merely to fix bugs.
Conclusion
Web Applications are a critical resource and still the most recommended resource for companies to project themselves and their products to the global audience. However at the Same time it is vital that these applications are safes at all times and free from any attempts to get hacked and misapplyed. The above suggestions if practiced can go a long way ensuring just that.
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Heceta Head Light HecetaHeadLightOR.jpg
View of Heceta Head Light showing Heceta Head
Heceta Head Light is located in Oregon
Heceta Head Light
Location Heceta Head, Florence, Oregon
Coordinates 44.13737°N 124.127835°WCoordinates: 44.13737°N 124.127835°W
Year first constructed 1892
Year first lit 1894
Automated 1963
Foundation Natural/emplaced
Construction Brick/stuccoed
Tower shape Conical attached to workroom
Height 56 feet (17 m)
Original lens First order Fresnel lens
Range 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi)
Characteristic
Flash white, 10 seconds
Heceta Head Lighthouse and Keepers Quarters
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city Florence, Oregon
Area 3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Governing body Federal
NRHP Reference # 78002296[1]
Added to NRHP November 28, 1978
Heceta Head Light is a lighthouse located on the Oregon Coast 13 miles (21 km) north of Florence, Oregon, and 13 miles (21 km) south of Yachats, Oregon, United States. It is located at Heceta Head Lighthouse State Scenic Viewpoint (a state park) midway up a 205-foot-tall (62 m) headland. Built in 1894, the 56-foot (17 m)-tall lighthouse shines a beam visible for 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi), making it the strongest light on the Oregon Coast.[2]
The light is maintained by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, while the assistant lighthouse keepers' house, operated as a bed and breakfast, is maintained by the U.S. Forest Service. The lighthouse is 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Sea Lion Caves.
Contents
1 History and construction
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
History and construction
A closeup of the Heceta Head Light tower.
Heceta Head is named after the Spanish explorer Bruno de Heceta, who explored the Pacific Northwest during the late 18th century. Before him, Heceta Head was a spot of frequent fishing and hunting by the Native American tribes that populated the area. Heceta Head is part of the Siuslaw Indians' traditional lands, known in their language as ɫtúwɪs.[3] They hunted sea lions in the area and gathered sea bird eggs from the offshore rocks.[4] It was also the site of a legend - the Animal People built a great stone wall, which is now the cliffs, and tricked the Grizzly Bear brothers to their deaths there.[5][6] In 1888, white settlers moved into the area and claimed 164 acres (66 ha) of the surrounding land. That same year, the U.S. Lighthouse Service approved the building of the lighthouse, and the government bought 19 acres (7.7 ha), out of the 164 acres (66 ha) previously purchased, for the lighthouse structures.[7]
Restoring the lighthouse, February 2012
The Heceta Head Lighthouse closed to the public in August 2011 for restoration and repairs. Under the supervision of OPRD preservation architect Sue Licht, a team of more than 100 subcontractors and craftspeople, the majority of whom were from Oregon, removed cement stucco that had sealed in moisture so that the lighthouse could air out in the damp coastal environment. They also replaced and restored the tower’s historic metalwork and masonry, installed new windows, and repaired the lens rotating mechanism. The interior and exterior of the lighthouse were repainted and the original wood floor of the workroom was uncovered and reconditioned. The lighthouse has been returned as much as possible to the way it would have looked in 1894. It was open again after two years on June 8, 2013, when the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department welcomed a group of nearly 100 supporters to Heceta Head State Scenic Viewpoint to celebrate the reopening.
The lightkeepers' houses, circa 1900. The house on the left was razed in 1940.
Aerial view, 1954
In 1892, a crew of 56 began construction the light. Because of the site's seclusion, building materials were either shipped in if the weather and tide permitted, or brought from Florence by wagon, the latter usually taking four or five hours. Stones were brought from the Clackamas River and bricks came from San Francisco. Completed in August 1893, the entire project cost $80,000[7] and consisted of:
The lighthouse
Houses for the head lightkeeper, the two assistant lightkeepers and their families
A barn
Two kerosene oil storage buildings — if one caught on fire, there was a secondary source
Heceta Head Light and Keepers Quarters was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for its architectural and engineering significance.[8] The site originally included several other buildings—farm buildings and the single-family head lighthouse keeper's house, which was demolished in 1940, and was very similar in size and design to the remaining house. Due to electrification the head lighthouse keeper was no longer needed, and the house was bought for $10 and dismantled for its lumber, which was used to build Alpha Bit bookstore-cafe in Mapleton, which still stands today. The remaining keepers' house was a duplex that housed the first and second assistant lighthouse keepers and their families. After the light was automated in 1963, the last keepers moved away, and the remaining house was leased to Lane Community College in 1970 by the U.S. Forest Service, which had taken over management of the building. The porch of the Queen Anne-style house underwent restoration in 1981.[9] for more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heceta_Head_Light
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iRobotic Tape Library
The Storage Technology Corporation produces some of NSA's recording media storage libraries. This machine is an example of an automated tape cartridge system. It was designed for large, complex, high-performance environments, such as NSA's. It has the capacity for 6,000 tape cartridges each holding 50 gigabytes of data: a total of 300 terabytes. (300 terabytes would fill enough 8.5x11 paper to circle the globe more than 3,000 times!) Using a robotic arm, this StorageTek machine is capable of exchanging 175 cartridges per hour.
Source National Cryptologic Museum
StorageTek was founded in 1969 by four former IBM engineers: Jesse Awieda, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas Kavanagh, Zoltan Herger and has become a major force in data storage management. Storage Technology Corporation, which officially became known as StorageTek in 1983, originally challenged IBM's dominance in tape storage, expanded to compete in the printer business for more than a dozen years, introduced the automated tape library in 1987...
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