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THE CENTRAL BANK has secured planning permission for a new ‘monumental’ €300,000 outdoor sculpture for a public space outside his €140m Dublin HQ.
Last year, Dublin-born acclaimed artist, Eva Rothschild secured a commission for her Double Rainbow piece outside the Central Bank campus on Dublin’s North Wall Quay.
Architects of the Central Bank, Henry J Lyons told Dublin City Council that the Rothschild work is the “creation of an outdoor sculpture on a truly monumental scale, in a permanent location where a really strong and lasting engagement with the public is possible”.
The sculpture takes the form of a multi-directional arch rising to 10.5 metres and swooping over the centre of the plaza, spanning a distance of 14 metres before touching down lightly on the ground at eight different points.
Ms Rothschild’s work has already featured at TATE Britain, the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis and Central Park, New York City.
Henry J Lyons stated that the plaza space to the north of the Central Bank building “is a threshold location with people constantly passing through”.
The proposed site for the sculpture is located on the east west pedestrian route between New Wapping Street and Castleforbes Road to the north-east of the Central Bank Building.
The Council granted planning permission after its own public art officer, Ruairí O Cuiv said he believed that “the sculpture will greatly enhance the public realm in the area”.
The Council planner in the case found that the siting of the sculpture “will provide a focal point and add to the visual attractiveness at the location”.
The Central Bark has published a note that it has awarded a €300,000 contract to Ms Rothschild’s London based Peacegarden Ltd. for the sculpture.
A spokesman for the Central Bank said that the €300,000 figure published is an estimated cost as there will be Sterling and Euro elements and that the actual cost is not definite.
He said that the project is still at design stage and no construction work has yet commenced but it is expected that the sculpture will be in situ in 2020.
He said that in line with planning requirements for the Central Bank building, the Central Bank of Ireland agreed with Dublin City Council to commission an artwork for the public space directly outside the campus on North Wall Quay.
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Any ransomware I’ve ever seen if it corrupts your files they are gone for good pay or not
It doesn’t corrupt files. It encrypts them. There have been cases where people/companies do pay the ransom and do get their files unencrypted. However it’s a big risk as there is no guarantee and it just encourages these people to keep doing what they are doing
Yes, but easily defeated by taking regular backups. You may loose some data but the majority will be safe and it’s something people should be doing anyway.
Yep that is the best defense.
Backups are only useful if they are made to something that is NOT connected at the time of encryption … otherwise your backup gets encrypted too! :(
Back up your most important data externally.
It is the safest way and the least troublesome way.
Stick with using a good cloud service which gives centralised file distrbution as well as backup.
Dropbox for example will not synchronise with an encrypted file due to lack of rights.
Also, all files can be returned to a previous version if the worst were to happen.
That’s not true David. Once your local hard drive is encrypted, which includes your dropbox files, they wull be uploaded to dropbox.
You will then need to download them all from dropbox or any file sync service from a backup.
Reuben, Try it. Encrypt a file inside a DB folder and watch the process be refused access. It is a constant problem for me when users place encrypted files they have received from external sources into server based DB folders. The DB process will not upload them because of no rights. We then can never get the status ‘Up to Date’.
Poor Mac users – first they’re douchebags, and now this!?
No harm to you Alex, but I hope you update your anti-virus software more often that your insults. Douchebag is so last year.
However, if you are still in your pre-pubescent years and spend your days watching iCarly, then all is forgiven.
Forgot to mention, sent from my iPhone, so I guess I’m a douchebag, which is sooooo Rad!
Bit sad seeing grown adults doing the “My gang is better than your gang” stance over a computer.
VHS will beat Betamax!!
Wtf is iCarly
An iPhone is not a Mac, John. You’re confused.
FRB, no fooling you, eh? I thought the hatred was for anything Apple, not just Macs….only Windows-based stuff is “proper” computery kit.
Way to spot a joke, guys.
I wonder if you can restore your computer to an earlier time or if you’re prevented from doing that as well. I doubt you’d be able to do it the regular way, but booting from a recovery disk you might be able to. I better start backing up my files more often either way
Create a single backup and then do incremental backups when you make changes that you want to keep (or schedule em)
Google Apple Machine – it’s on every Mac for a good few years now. If your disc dies or gets encrypted by malware, you can restore everything.
Which operating system are you looking to recover…??
@Fake Avast: Time Machine works locally, to a USB disc on your LAN, or connected directly to your Mac, so no internet need for daily backups. Restoring the whole system involves downloading the system again from Apple, so you would need good internet for a few hours – if the worst happened, you could bring your Mac and backup disc to a mate’s house to reload…
As long as you’re regularly running time machine backups, then if the worst happens you can boot and restore from a time machine backup. By default though this shouldn’t affect many Mac users as the “security & privacy” settings in “system preferences” are set to allow only apps from the “Mac AppStore” and not “anywhere”. So unless you’ve changed this setting you should be ok. If you have, then ebb on the side of caution and common sense when being prompted to download software from an untrustworthy source.
So in short as long as I don’t install pirate software on my MAC I’m still OK!
I think it’s all starting to go pear shaped for Apple. A brutal start to the new year.
Yes Eugene, one of the most profitable companies in the world is going to go pear shaped because of what exactly? I don’t think so.
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