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Adjaye and Arad's 'eleventh-hour' holocaust memorial redesign fails to silence critics
1 May, 2019 By Ella Jessel
NEW: Adjaye and Arad submit amendments to the original design (April 2019)
ORIGINAL: 2018 designs for the new Holocaust Memorial in Westminster by Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad and Gustafson Porter + Bowman
Source:Hayes Davidson
Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects have revealed images of the redesigned Holocaust Memorial – but the scaled-down proposals have not placated the project's critics
The architects went back to the drawing board on the £100 million government-backed project following criticism from heritage groups and local residents over its impact on Victoria Tower Gardens.
The design team has now submitted amendments to Westminster Council, a rethink that retains the memorial's 23 bronze fins but completely reimagines the entrance pavilion.
View from Millbank in original planning application (slide right) and revised (slide left)
However, the scheme's many critics remain unconvinced. Heritage watchdog Historic England said while the pavilion was a 'better design' it 'did not fundamentally change the scale of the memorial' nor its impact on the site. The Royal Parks said its main concerns had also not been addressed (see bottom).
The redesign sees the original boxy entrance pavilion replaced with a 'lighter, more transparent' structure. In a design statement lodged with planners, the architects describe it as a 'more congenial building' comprised of a series of 'spaced stone columns'.
Changes also include a 213m² reduction in the size of the underground learning centre's basement footprint and 'simpler and more intuitive' layout for the memorial courtyard garden.
In addition, the mezzanine level has been extended by 213m², a move leading to the repositioning of the feature staircase and a skylight.
Reacting to the new proposals, a spokesperson for Historic England said: 'Introducing a series of large structures to the Grade II-registered park would fundamentally change its character.
'The proposals would also have a detrimental impact on the significance of the Grade II*-listed Buxton Memorial by encroaching on its setting and diminishing its prominence.'
The 'chaotic, piecemeal and expensive' redesign has only made things worse
Barbara Weiss, an architect and member of the Save Victoria Tower Gardens campaign group, said the 'chaotic, piecemeal and expensive' redesign had only made things worse.
She added: 'The eleventh-hour changes underline how the whole project has been beset by confused architectural thinking. That is displayed in the folly of deep tree root investigations being carried out only now – after this scheme has been resubmitted.'
The project's backer, the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, has so far not commented publicly on the redesign.
However in a planning statement sent to Westminster Council, the applicant defends the project's design against criticism that the memorial fins, the courtyard and the pavilion 'lack a relationship to each other'.
It wrote: 'The competition-winning design was selected primarily on the merit that all elements were seamlessly woven, both physically and conceptually, into each other and the wider context of Victoria Tower Gardens.'
It adds: 'We therefore contend that the proposed design concept is exceptionally well-considered'.
In addition to high-profile objections from the UK branch of Icomos (the International Council on Monuments and Sites) and The Royal Parks, the scheme has also received many letters of support.
A letter signed by 174 MPs and peers has backed the memorial, included Kindertransport refugee and Labour peer Alf Dubs and Luciana Berger, the Jewish MP for Liverpool Wavertree.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has also thrown his weight behind the proposals, saying he was 'deeply concerned' at the prospect that it could be rejected.
UK Holocaust memorial charities the Holocaust Educational Trust and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust have also backed the project, while a letter of support has been sent by rabbis of nine Westminster synagogues.
The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation has been approached for comment.
Comment from The Royal Parks
We fully support the principle of building a new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, and agree with the rationale for doing so. However, as the charity managing Victoria Tower Gardens, our role is to ensure that the intrinsic qualities of this green space are protected for the benefit of all our visitors and, having studied the planning application in detail, we feel strongly that this is not the right location for it.
It is not clear the revised designs will significantly reduce the impact on this much-loved space
From the evidence available it is not clear that the revised designs will significantly reduce the impact that the proposed structure will have on this much-loved public amenity space, in an area of central London with few public parks, which is significant.
Around 1.5m visitors a year currently use Victoria Tower Gardens as a place for relaxation and recreation. We believe that the scale of the proposed building, and the congestion that the anticipated additional 1m visitors will bring in its first year of operation will dramatically change the park's relaxed atmosphere and ambience. It could also permanently damage the major trees that border the park and negatively impact the biodiversity of the space. We estimate that up to 15 per cent of the park's open space could be lost for ever.
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Paul Finch1 May, 2019 8:30 am
It is not a happy situation when a serious cultural and symbolic building starts being redesigned as though it were a speculative office proposal, being changed in response to comments from organisations with different perspectives. Either the original design was of an integrity that deserved complete support or it wasn't. The fact that the designers are prepared to compromise is not encouraging. Why can't we accept that, in retrospect, this was not the best choice of site? Having done so, pick a new one and ask the designers to do exactly what they feel is right and give them 100 per cent backing. The project is far more important than the location.
Susan James1 May, 2019 8:44 am
They can redesign all they like. The building is in the wrong place and I think the architects should be saying this not pressing ahead with alternatives designs.
Marcus Taylor1 May, 2019 9:05 am
What are architects and artists for?
The controversy over David Adjaye and Ron Arad's winning holocaust memorial proposal exposes a huge flaw in the procurement process that could have been avoided had the jury had more light in the design and art spectrum of experience. All entrants (me being one of them in the team with Rachel Whiteread and Caruso St John) submitted proposals in good faith specific to the site offered and attempted to address the legitimate concern of dominating a small park in central London. Art cannot be designed by committee. Chose a new site and rerun the competition.
John Edward Meagher1 May, 2019 10:07 am
However admirable the design or redesign may be, it's simply the wrong location , the proposal is simply out of scale with such a delightful small park , " we need nature , it does not need us "
John Edward Meagher , deBM .
MacKenzie Architects1 May, 2019 10:11 am
I suspect that this is the future for all such public-domain commissions, public, charitable and private. The great and good decide something should be built, prepare a lazy brief for probably the wrong site; don't check out key stakeholders, desert the winning design, and then vacate the debating area to the doubters and self-important.
It might be a good idea to reduce a tonne of funding to a lot of Quangos, so they stick to their fundamental terms of reference.
Peter Bibby1 May, 2019 10:35 am
I see a children's play sculpture, like the one in front of the National Theatre. Is that sensitive as a Holocaust memorial?
Peter Bibby
ArchEps1 May, 2019 12:14 pm
No matter how many redesigns are made, the basic problem has not been addressed - the message clearly has not been received or is being deliberately ignored: why is a valuable public open space of limited size being allowed to be seized for development? A holocaust memorial is certainly a worthy cause, but the location is entirely wrong.
Ian Goulty1 May, 2019 1:42 pm
A Hundred Million Pounds?
£100,000,000?
Am I reading that right?
Robert Wakeham1 May, 2019 6:15 pm
Come on, Mr Goulty - that's not much more than twice the sum blown by our politicians, on our behalf, on the priceless garden bridge project, not that far away from the Victoria Tower Gardens.
Peanuts to the 'great and the good', especially when it's not their money at stake, just their intended glory.
Dan Usiskin1 May, 2019 6:46 pm
The proposed Holocaust Memorial outside the Houses of Parliament continues in the great tradition that the representation of this catastrophe is best achieved through designs that use the media of architecture and sculpture to express its full horror. (I should make it clear that the subject here is that of Memorials rather than Museums)
I believe that this approach never achieves its aim, and never comes anywhere near making the observer fully confront the unique aspect of the Holocaust, which was the systematic, fully planned and state-run murder of six million people, achieved by the use of industrial methods.
If you google Images of Holocaust Memorials you will find a mix of failed attempts to embody, abstract, dramatise or symbolise the sheer scale of the horror. On display are mainly self-consciously arty monuments that offer mixed messages (tragedy being redeemed by contrition; representations of religious iconography and of victims or those who survived). The results are always kitch, and the memorials are commonly misused as settings for holiday snaps, selfies and so on, or as unofficial playgrounds
I have always felt that the Holocaust defeats attempts at creative interventions in any media. The plain facts, the history (in documentaries and memoirs for example) are always more powerful than any kind of fiction.
On a Holocaust Memorial Day a number of years ago, when I was a member of a creative writing group, our moderator set us the task of writing a Holocaust poem, for the following session. I felt uncomfortable approaching the subject, so instead of a poem I made a graphic representation of 60,000 dots on an A3 sheet - that's a Premier League Football Stadium crowd, for comparison. Then I made another sheet showing one hundred rectangles each representing a figure of 60,000. What this does is to show the staggering enormity of the Holocaust, which is otherwise virtually impossible to imagine.
One way of making a Memorial worthy of this task would have a display of six million short grey pegs (for instance) on a black floor, set out randomly but with space around each. The enclosure would be a rectangular black box hall, severe and minimal, and free of architectural manipulations of form, space light, materials or other devices, there would be no attempt to beautify or dramatise the display. Circulation would be round the periphery of the installation. The temperature inside the hall would be perceptibly colder than outside.
I have made these suggestions because I feel that the whole set up for the project is misconceived, and will result in a 'Holocaust Experience' which ticks all the right boxes at the expense of confronting the essential monstrous truth: under the Final Solution policy the Nazis murdered six million men, women and children.
David Adjaye is an original, courageous architect whose work is always challenging and controversial. This time, however, in attempting to follow a bad brief, he has produced two proposals that lack any kind of conviction or integration.
Start agin - new brief,new site.
Start again - new brief,new site.
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A variety of shops line historic Jiefang Road in Yunfu, Guangdong province. One which especially caught my eye sells meat.
It was specifically the selection of meat available listed on its signs that I found notable. I have seen all of these types of meat sold and on restaurant menus in China before, but seeing them all together listed so prominently isn't a daily event for me.
The first meat listed is identified with the Chinese character 羊 (yáng), which can refer to sheep or goats (and some other animals as well). Given how I have found the term used in many parts of Guangdong province, including in Jieyang, I presume it refers to goat.
Donkey meat is next, which I saw on the menu at a restaurant in Huizhou — another city in Guangdong province.
Then comes rabbit meat, which I most strongly associate with Zigong in Sichuan province since it is especially popular there. A couple of relevant dishes I had in Zigong appear in a post where I offer spicy evidence that family-sized portions of rice are quite common in parts of China.
Next up is dog meat. I have seen this for sale in many regions. A post including photos of seven restaurants in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang province, that feature dog meat comes to mind.
The last item listed, cat meat, is the one I come across the least in China. I don't have any relevant posts about it. I have photos of various sightings though — potential material for a future post.
While it significantly differs from what is available at typical grocery stores, I wouldn't consider this selection of meats especially exotic for Guangdong. In terms of what I have personally come across, the winner for that is probably a live animal market I visited a number of times in Shaoguan — more material for a future post. The bamboo rats did not look happy.


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Mayadin District () is a district (mantiqah) administratively belonging to Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. At the 2004 official census, the district had a population of 247,171. Its administrative centre is the city of Mayadin.

Subdistricts
The district of Mayadin is divided into three subdistricts or Nāḥiyas (population according to 2004 official census):

 Mayadin Subdistrict (ناحية الميادين): population 86,091.
 Diban Subdistrict (ناحية ذيبان): population 65,079.
 Al-Asharah Subdistrict (ناحية عشارة): population 96,001.

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Districts of Deir ez-Zor Governorate

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I would like to say that I am great about staying in touch with people, but it would be a lie. I try. I was looking for ways that I might be able to make this easier on myself and I came across the Verizon Messages app for my phone, tablet and even computer. I decided to try it out and I have been happy with all of the features. Not only does it make it easier for me to stay in touch by letting me send and receive text messages, but I can also do so much more. Some of the features I love most are Calling from your tablet, scheduled messages (no more missed birthdays or special events), video trimming, photo editor and Glympse™. These are just a few of the things you can utilize with Verizon Messages so why not give it a try? You can download the app from the Apple Store or the Google Play store, depending on your device.
Because the Verizon Messages app is compatible on your Smartphone, iOS device, tablet and desktop you can seamlessly send and receive messages, keeping track of them as you move from device to device. I love this because I can keep up with conversations while I am working on my computer, but if I have to go somewhere, all of my messages are on my phone so I don't miss anything. It is also nice during pro sports games because I can send pictures, videos and even voice messages to my friends and family razzing them about the game. It's just like we are all sitting here together. It is no surprise that the Verizon Messages application is rated #1 by sports fans during pro games (Source).
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Last updated 8:43 PM, Tuesday June 25 2019 GMT+1
First-time buyers in the UK can now borrow up to half-a-million quid with no deposit, as long as they're fortunate enough to have a family member (or very generous pal) who can offer a bit (OK, a lot) of help.
Barclays Family Springboard allows new homeowners to take out a mortgage of up to £500,000, without a deposit, if a family member or friend stumps up 10 percent of the property's price from their savings.
The savings are then locked away in a fixed-term savings account for five years as security, while the buyer pays off the mortgage.
First-time buyers can get a foot on the property ladder with a deposit. Credit: PA
The mortgage lets buyers borrow from between £5,000 and £500,000, with a fixed rate of 2.95 percent.
Although it's called the Family Springboard - it doesn't need to be family member who helps out. If you have a very generous friend then that's fine, too - and if you do have a very generous friend, send them in my direction, please.
The deals were first introduced six years ago, but the bank has since changed its deals so that first-time buyers can borrow more, up to £500,000, over a longer period of time, up to 35 years.
To take advantage of the deal, the family member (or friend) who is willing to help out needs to set up a Helpful Start savings account with Barclays after the bank has made an offer for a mortgage.
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After the five-year fixed-term period, they will be given back the 10 percent they handed over, plus interest - so it's not a bad deal for them, either.
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Hannah Bernard, head of Barclays Mortgages, told Mortgage Finance Gazette: "Since the launch of our Family Springboard Mortgage in 2013, we've been leading the way in offering more people the opportunity to step onto the property ladder earlier than they might have been able to previously.
"Barclays own research has shown that many first-time buyers view the money for a deposit as a 'gift' that doesn't need to be paid back, therefore placing a significant levy on the 'Bank of Mum and Dad'.
"The Family Springboard mortgage has been specifically designed to remove the financial burden from parents and to ensure they receive their deposit with interest at the end of the five-year fixed-rate period."
Other banks, including Lloyds, offer similar deals for first-time buyers.
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Although you might think this is not the most authentic chicken tetrazzini recipe but let that not put you off. Try it once, you may even like it better. I feel it works very well for my taste. It is not too bland and has those extra subtle flavors from some ingredients.
If at any point you feel that the sauce is more thick than it should be, please add a little cold milk to reach the desired consistency.
Melt about 2 tbsp of butter and saute the chopped onions and sliced mushrooms, until soft. Keep aside.
Cut 2 skinless chicken breasts into 1 inch cubes. Heat just a tablespoon of oil in the frying pan and add the chopped garlic. Saute for 30 seconds and add the chicken breasts. Saute on high till cooked through. Keep aside.
Make the sauce. This is somewhat like bechamel sauce but not quite the same.
Melt 5-6 tbsp of butter in a saucepan and add the flour. Cook on a low flame, stirring continuously for a minute. Switch off the flame. Now slowly add the single cream and keep stirring till smoothly blended. Add the chicken stock and mix again with a balloon whisk. Put back on the stove and simmer till the sauce thickens (don't forget to keep stirring). It should become like a pouring custard consistency. In case it doesn't, please sprinkle some more flour and thicken it.
Remove from the stove and add the yogurt and whisk. Add salt and pepper to taste. A few dashes of hot tabasco and all the olives. Mix and sneak a taste. The salt should be a little more on higher side as there is no salt in the chicken. Finally add the cooked chicken, mushrooms and bell pepper. Adjust the salt or pepper at this stage.
Cook and strain the noodles.
Take a greased baking dish. 9" x 13" glass dish is best. Preheat the oven to 160°C. Spread the noodles in the dish and sort of pour the sauce on top. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake for 40-45 minutes.
Serve hot and enjoy the delicious chicken tetrazzini recipe.


Siargao is known for its surfing and island hopping destinations, but few have heard, much more set foot, in del Carmen. Unbeknownst to many, it has many treasures: mangrove forests, the undeveloped Sugba Lagoon and hidden beaches.
If I should describe the islands in del Carmen in one word, it would be "still." During our tour, we saw no other tourists or travelers, and there was a quiet ambience permeating the area. It was deliciously peaceful, a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Once we landed in Siargao, we initially stayed in one of our hosts' house (Manang Conching's, who is a relative of fellow volunteer Kuya Danny) 5 minutes from the airport. From there, we went to a nearby bridge and rode a large passenger boat to Barangay Caob.
The ride took 2 hours, but we barely felt it because of the serene passage through a thick mangrove forest. The mangrove forest in del Carmen is a protected block and spans a total of 4200 hectares. The forest was so vast, I wondered how the boatmen manage to navigate their way to their respective destinations.
We stayed at a resort in Isla Verde, which was our home for two days. It stands in a small island, peaceful and quiet. During low tide, you can wade across the water to get to nearby islands. During high tide, the water consumes most of the land area.
From the resort, we explored del Carmen for 2 days.
We dropped our backpacks in the resort and island hopped to Hidden Lagoon in Caob. There was very little said of this lagoon, and I think it might be the same Sugba Lagoon I'd read online after our trip. Our boat motored around the verdant islands but did not dock since there was no suitable patch of land in sight.
Edit (2017): We've confirmed that this place is indeed Sugba Lagoon. Our boatmen then didn't have a name for it when we asked. Development started in 2016, and it is now more open to tourists. Read about our visit back in this lagoon in Siargao.
The green islands were reminiscent of Palawan, without the limestone rock formations.
The water was so clear it was actually a shame none of us took a dip.
We went next to Kawhagan Island, which is an isolated strip of land in the middle of the sea. It faces another island, though we were told the latter is occupied. Kawhagan has a small beach constantly met with strong waves coming from the open sea. It is surrounded by coconut trees, and there we found an an empty hut holding a supply of firewood.
My companions were saying it was a perfect honeymoon spot.
We went back and ended the day in Isla Verde Resort. Isla Verde Resort isn't fancy, but it seems to be the only accommodation in the area. Aside from the houses, there's an open cottage outside where our group would stay.
During sunset, Hali and I watched the sea rise, covering what little land was left of the Isla Verde resort. It seemed like if it raised a little more, we'd actually be walking across water. It was peaceful, the clouds catching the glorious sun rays.
Del Carmen is one of the most peaceful places I'd been to.
We both sat in the open cottage, drinking hot chocolate from styrofoam cups. Later that night, most of our group slept on the two houses provided for us, while Hali and I spread a sleeping bag over the floor of an open cottage. The stars were big and bright, as they usually are on provinces. I counted three falling stars before falling asleep; there may have been a meteor shower that night.
Do I sound romantic? It was romantic.
On our second day in del Carmen, Siargao, we stopped by Midway Island. Midway Island is visible from Isla Verde. It seemed like an abandoned resort; there was a walkway and houses and a functional restroom outside with running water. We weren't able to ask what happened to the facility.
To swim, we had to jump from the wooden walkway or climb down stairs directly to the water.
As with the other islands we visited, Midway Island also has clear water.
I feel deeply blessed that we were able to explore the islands in del Carmen, Siargao. This isn't a popular tourist spot (yet), though I've read about selected tours covering this area. Most of these islands has a serene and untouched ambiance.
It's challenging to explore given a tight schedule, since boats can only be used during high tide.
What do you think about these islands?
You can hire boat with driver from the tourism center in Del Carmen.
Hey, thanks for the correction. 🙂 Hope we can visit there when it opens.
Hi! How did you get to these other parts of Del Carmen. I've only been to Sugba Lagoon vis tour packages from General Luna. I want to visit these other beaches in Del Carmen too but couldn't find enough info how to get there. Hope you could help. Thanks!
Hi Anj. We talked to a local who agreed to tour us in his boat. 🙂 I don't have his contact number though, but you can always ask around.
That mangrove forest shot looks really awesome. The feels of that shot brought me to Anaconda movie setting. I was just waiting for the big snake to jump in on your next photos. But seriously, Del Carmen looks like a fun getaway spot for people who loves to have a quiet beach vacation.
Siargao's hidden lagoon sure looks stunning. I would love to travel here just to relax and admire natures beauty. what i love about this place is that it is still not yet overcrowded. Kudos for capturing the wonderful experience travelling to this place. I would probably visit this pristine place by next year.
There's so much to explore in the Philippines and Siargao is another perfect example of hidden gems. Hopefully, islands such as these continue to be in tact and untouched from commercialism.
OMG!!! I have been forcing my husband to visit Siargo. Too bad, he got sick but I am still going to let him read your blog.
I saw this too at KMJS 🙂 Siargao sure has a lot to offer. I hope the tourism department will be able to promote more of the island.
Was planing to go here when I was in Butuan. Locals there are telling us that Siargao is beautiful and indeed based on your pictures the place is majestic. And thank you for sharing this because all along I thought that surfing is what I can just do in Siargao.
When I think of Siargao, I always associate it with surfing. There's a lot more to discover about it. Thanks for writing this article and sharing your experiences. I would like to visit it one of these days. And by the sound of it, it's still affordable travel because it's not yet overcrowded.
Siargao actually has beaches, caves and falls for non-surfers to explore. 🙂 We haven't got the time to do island hopping but from the photos online it's a must-do experience.


Please join us for this discussion! To obtain a copy of the book, simply stop by the rectory, or ask any of our staff members after Mass. We will conclude our discussion of Chapter 1, and move on to Chapter 2 at this meeting. Below is a summary of our last session.
On Tuesday, October 9th, the leadership body of our parish met to discuss the book Divine Renovation. The entire group read the introduction to the boom, and had a lively discussion about the content. Below is a list of the discussion questions and the responses that were given.
In your parish, who feels "outside the walls" or excluded from parish life? What groups may feel the church does not love and embrace them?
It was observed that some of the groups that may typically have been left out, e.g, LGBT were not mentioned-implying that our Parish may be more inclusive.
Do people who are currently involved sometimes unintentionally exclude newcomers? How might this happen?
This question generated the most discussion-not necessarily all on topic.
*There was discussion that this outreach sometimes worked best through a personal invitation-the invitation could be extended by anyone. There was agreement that is didn't or shouldn't always be dependent on the Parish Priest to engage people, but that it could come from others on Parish Staff, a lay leader of an activity or even a peer.
*One person mentioned how she had been approached by someone about participating in Eucharistic Ministry. They wanted to know how to get involved. She had to refer them.
*Another mentioned that when she greeted those around her at the beginning of Mass, she always told people her name. The group noted that many times people just nod their head as an acknowledgment making this type of conversation hard.
*Sometimes people felt stymied, because they weren't sure if they should or how they should help.
All of us should try providing our name when we greet people.
When we attend Parish events, actively recruit those who are alone to come join us.
How do you respond to the command to "make disciples" How can we bring adults into the learning, growing, and disciple making ministry of the church?
We only briefly discussed making disciples-but we think it related to the content above about DejaVu.
Felt that a key to making disciples was to support faith related educational activities (like this) to help us continue to learn, grow in faith and more fully engage in Church.
There was of course much lively debate and discussion beyond the points listed above.


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In Sanity says they plays what they call Extreme Melodic Metal. With their current album Welcome To The Show available in stores since the end of last year, German melodic death metallers In Sanity have published a lyric video for the track Blood And Clay, featuring none other than Sami Yli-Sirniö, Kreator's guitarist, as special guest musician. The track Blood And Clay featuring Sami Yli-Sirniö
What started in 2011 and has been lived in madness for years is …? Yes – today is more insane than ever: New Wave Of German Melodic Death Metal. At In Sanity reason and madness are not just close to each other, but in one line. What once started with two-part guitars, coated with steel and perfected with the first two albums in hairdressing songwriting, will now reach a new level in 2019. The live show has always been a visual and auditory pleasure, but they still manage to put it on again.
With a new album and a completely new show in an extraordinary style, they herald a new era. Led by their Mr. Director they will take the audience by storm. May the gears spin inexorably! Get into the variety of melodies and be part of the journey. The madness gets its own symphony, its own face. The new world order of extremely melodic euphony and hellish nightmares in a perfect quantum leap. They set standards and are not to be put off on the melodic death metal path of the old school in a modern guise.
Is it future or past? Rather, it's the pressure of a steam engine that overwhelms you when the show starts. Let them into your halls! Because they were, are and will always be In Sanity. Always expect a unique, insane live show in the style of Extreme Melodic Metal. With this in mind: let the games begin! Welcome to the show!
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John Kim was born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. His early years in grade school were spent focusing on extra-curricular athletics including basketball, tennis and Australian rules football. It was not until High School that John became interested in the arts.
At age 15, he attended a free performing class at a local acting studio upon the urging of a close friend. He later was spotted by an agent who works with extras and was soon in local TV shows. His first audition and big break was for the Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg war miniseries The Pacific. It tells the incredible story of US Marines during the Pacific War and the struggles and obstacles they faced. Kim landed the role of a young Japanese soldier.
Soon after completing The Pacific, John was signed by a larger talent agency. Within a week of signing, Kim booked the role of Dale McGregor on Australia's longest-running TV series Neighbors. Kim continued to play the character for two years while still in high school.
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Home Researches Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Niño cycles
Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Niño cycles
The middens are ancient dumping sites that typically contain a mix of mollusk shells, fish and bird bones, ceramics, cloth, charcoal, maize and other plants. Credit: M. Carré / Univ. of Montpellier
The planet's largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Niño Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was widely thought to have been weaker in ancient times because of a different configuration of the Earth's orbit. But scientists analyzing 25-foot piles of ancient shells have found that the El Niños 10,000 years ago were as strong and frequent as the ones we experience today.
The results, from the University of Washington and University of Montpellier, question how well computer models can reproduce historical El Niño cycles, or predict how they could change under future climates. The paper is now online and will appear in an upcoming issue of Science.
"We thought we understood what influences the El Niño mode of climate variation, and we've been able to show that we actually don't understand it very well," said Julian Sachs, a UW professor of oceanography.
The ancient shellfish feasts also upend a widely held interpretation of past climate.
"Our data contradicts the hypothesis that El Niño activity was very reduced 10,000 years ago, and then slowly increased since then," said first author Matthieu Carré, who did the research as a UW postdoctoral researcher and now holds a faculty position at the University of Montpellier in France.
In 2007, while at the UW-based Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Carré accompanied archaeologists to seven sites in coastal Peru. Together they sampled 25-foot-tall piles of shells from Mesodesma donacium clams eaten and then discarded over centuries into piles that archaeologists call middens.
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While in graduate school, Carré had developed a technique to analyze shell layers to get ocean temperatures, using carbon dating of charcoal from fires to get the year, and the ratio of oxygen isotopes in the growth layers to get the water temperatures as the shell was forming.
The shells provide 1- to 3-year-long records of monthly temperature of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Peru. Combining layers of shells from each site gives water temperatures for intervals spanning 100 to 1,000 years during the past 10,000 years.
The new record shows that 10,000 years ago the El Niño cycles were strong, contradicting the current leading interpretations. Roughly 7,000 years ago the shells show a shift to the central Pacific of the most severe El Niño impacts, followed by a lull in the strength and occurrence of El Niño from about 6,000 to 4,000 years ago.
One possible explanation for the surprising finding of a strong El Niño 10,000 years ago was that some other factor was compensating for the dampening effect expected from cyclical changes in Earth's orbit around the sun during that period.
"The best candidate is the polar ice sheet, which was melting very fast in this period and may have increased El Niño activity by changing ocean currents," Carré said.
Around 6,000 years ago most of the ice age floes would have finished melting, so the effect of Earth's orbital geometry might have taken over then to cause the period of weak El Niños.
In previous studies, warm-water shells and evidence of flooding in Andean lakes had been interpreted as signs of a much weaker El Niño around 10,000 years ago.
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The new data is more reliable, Carré said, for three reasons: the Peruvian coast is strongly affected by El Niño; the shells record ocean temperature, which is the most important parameter for the El Niño cycles; and the ability to record seasonal changes, the timescale at which El Niño can be observed.
"Climate models and a variety of datasets had concluded that El Niños were essentially nonexistent, did not occur, before 6,000 to 8,000 years ago," Sachs said. "Our results very clearly show that this is not the case, and suggest that current understanding of the El Niño system is incomplete."
The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the French National Research Agency.
Other co-authors are Sara Purca at the Marine Institute of Peru; Andrew Schauer, a UW research scientist in Earth and space sciences; Pascale Braconnot at France's Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory; Rommel Angeles Falcón at Peru's Minister of Culture; and Michèle Julien and Danièle Lavallée at France's René Ginouvès Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Sweden's food safety watchdog said on Tuesday it had found "extremely high" levels of arsenic in a Chinese herbal remedy, posing a "very serious health hazard." The news was reported globally by AFP.
The toxic substance was found in a product called Niu-Huang Chieh-tu-pien, which is claimed by online vendors of traditional Chinese medicine to cure numerous conditions, including toothache, skin infections, anorexia and fever in infants.
The product is also sold under the Indian names Divya Kaishore Guggul and Chandraprabha Vati.
"The recommended dose provides a daily amount of inorganic arsenic which in a worst case scenario equals half a lethal dose," said Leif Busk, a toxicologist at the National Food Agency. Read original text in Swedish here.
"Consequently, anyone who eats it can be very seriously affected. It's frightening to think there are companies selling these very hazardous preparations."
The product was discovered and removed from shelves in Stockholm this summer, but could still be on sale in other Swedish cities. It can also be bought on the Internet.
Local authorities in Stockholm have issued a warning to other European countries through an EU alert system, according to the agency.
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Zircon is an important jewelry stone, but is not well-known by the general public. In fact many people who are aware of zircon confuse it with the diamond simulant cubic zironia. The two materials are, of course, completely different. Cubic zirconia is a lab-created material while zircon is a natural mineral with a very different chemical composition.
Zircon belongs to the large group of minerals known as neosilicates that contain both silicon and oxygen in their composition. The group includes the various garnet varieties, peridot, topaz, andalusite, kyanite, tanzanite, the various types of beryl, tourmaline and quartz. Zircon is zirconium silicate, and is the main source of the element zirconium, a lustrous white-gray metal resembling titanium.
Zircon is important in the gemstone world because of its very high refractive index (1.810 to 2.024), which is somewhat close to that of diamond (2.417 to 2.419). Zircon combines exceptional brilliance with impressive dispersion (also called 'fire'); the tendency to split white light into the spectral colors. Indeed, in the days before diamond simulants like cubic zironia and moissanite, inexpensive white zircon was popular as a substitute for diamond and was often sold under the misleading name "Matura Diamond".
Zircon occurs in a range of interesting colors, of which white is probably the least important. The most popular color of zircon in today's market is a light electric blue with pleochroism making it appear greenish in one direction. This blue zircon is produced by heat treatment. Only some zircon has the appropriate physical structure to cause it to turn blue when heated. This is why most blue zircon comes from Cambodia or Burma.
Some colors of natural zircon are not treated in any way. They include rare rose and rose-orange zircon from Tanzania and orange and orange-brown zircon from Cambodia. Green zircon is very rare; this unusual color is caused by minute radioactive elements of uranium and thorium. Yellow or gold zircon is usually heat-treated to improve the color, though untreated specimens can sometimes be found.
Although reasonably hard, (rating 6.5 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale), zircon is somewhat brittle and therefore sensitive to knocks and pressure. Zircon has the tendency to wear along facet edges. Its use in rings should therefore be limited to protective settings or occasional-wear jewelry.
Zircon can be found in a number of locations in Asia, especially Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. African sources are becoming more important, since zircon has been discovered in Tanzania, Madagascar, Mozambique and Nigeria.


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Q: Regular expression for checking the range of numeric values I want to have a range between 0 to 65536 , what would be the regular expression for that?

A: Don't use a regular expression.
if(i >= 0 && i <= 65536)

A: A regular expression really isn't well suited to this sort of validation. Gareth's answer provides a much more sensible solution.
If, for some reason, you absolutely have to use a regex then it will probably look something like this:
^(?:[0-5]?[0-9]{1,4}|6[0-4][0-9]{3}|65[0-4][0-9]{2}|655[0-2][0-9]|6553[0-6])$

A: See also this question, which asks pretty much the same thing, and got pretty much the same answer. (ie don't use regex for this!)

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Making the numbers work for a residential energy storage system
Solar-plus-storage on residential rooftops pencils out in only a handful of markets. Here's how the numbers work.
April 6, 2021 John Fitzgerald Weaver
Image: NREL/Dennis Schroeder
Let's be blunt: In most states, adding batteries to a residential solar system will significantly slow down the payback period.
According to five-year-old Census data, around 18.3% of homes claim to have home generators. Those generators require maintenance and fuel, and they only pay off if you are served by a rural power grid or live in a disaster-prone area.
That must mean there is more value in residential battery backup systems than a simple return on investment calculation can show. And, after recent grid events in Texas and California, the value of a battery backup is impossible to ignore.
Michelle Davis from WoodMac Renewables & Power said that 7% of residential solar capacity was paired with storage in 2020. She said that growth rate is on track to more than double in 2021, to 16%.
Anecdotal evidence in "hot markets" suggests this value could be closer to 60% if batteries were available. Hawaii practically requires energy storage, because residents there may not export excess solar power to the grid.
Most residential solar+energy storage is not financially viable for two main reasons.
The growing installation base of residential batteries comports with prior surveys suggesting that nearly 75% of consumers interested in solar also have a strong interest in energy storage.
Viable?
However, most residential solar+energy storage is not financially viable for two main reasons.
First, most solar installations occur in states where net metering is allowed. And since net metering enters a credit for excess daytime generation to a homeowner's electricity account, there really isn't a financial motivation to install batteries and store that electricity.
Second, there really isn't any other path for a single home's energy storage to make money. For instance, it was only two years ago that Sunrun won the rights for 5,000 residential solar+storage systems to participate in the New England ISO wholesale marketplace. Thus, for most people in most states, energy storage is an emotional purchase, based on a consumer's confidence (or lack thereof) in their power grid's resilience.
In key markets – without a doubt – energy storage is worth some money.
For example, in Massachusetts, two programs support residential energy storage economics. The first is the SMART program. We've covered how solar is paid handsomely in the Bay State; this same program also pays homeowners to couple batteries with solar.
The above image is from the state's Energy Storage Calculator. Roughly, this depicts the outcome of an equation that calculates your energy storage incentive. The underlying data are in the table below.
The equation is based on the ratio of energy storage system size to solar system size. The state first looks at the ratio of your system's solar panels to its battery inverter sizing, and then looks at the number of hours that the battery can output energy at that rate.
For example, a standard Tesla Powerwall that is 5 kW/13.5 kWh when installed with a 10 kWdc solar system would add around 3.8¢/kWh to the standard incentive price. This number is rough as there are other equipment nuances, but close enough. So, if a 10 kWdc residential solar system generates 12,000 kWh in a year, the customer stands to earn an additional $456/year.
But, when we consider the install price of roughly $12,500 for most Tesla Powerwall systems and subtract the 30% tax credit, that leaves a 19+ year payback. This does not "pencil."
The second Massachusetts program is known as Connected Solutions. Here, solar homeowners are paid to allow the utility to use their battery to manage power grid peak demand moments. Vermont's Green Mountain Power first figured this out, and they have saved state electricity payers millions of dollars over the years, all while offering home resilience.
The program offers homeowners a potential return of $1,375 per year. Combine that with the above SMART incentive cash and the payback period is shortened to 4.7 years. Now we're cooking with electricity!
A desert ripe for growth
Beyond the SMART program, the markets where batteries make financial sense become scarce quickly.
As mentioned, Hawaii's rate structure – no net metering and no export of electricity to the power grid – forces energy storage onto homeowners. Coupled with a high price of electricity, residential storage makes sense there.
California's SGIP energy storage incentive program strongly supported residential energy storage, at least for a while. However, because of heightened concerns over wildfires, it is in extremely high demand and quickly running out of cash. Shifting residential solar installations into a "time of use model" marginally helps the financials, but not enough.
Enter Sunnova's SunSafe offering and various other residential solar lease companies. While this author prefers a home energy generation ownership society, it's hard to argue with Sunnova's approach: No money down (typically), 25 years of operations and maintenance, and low interest rates.
Let's be blunt one more time: For Texans who were without heat and power during the multi-day mid-February blackout that killed 200 people, our financial viability calculations for energy storage go straight into the trash.
John Fitzgerald Weaver is a solar power professional, known digitally as the 'Commercial Solar Guy.' His company has a construction license in Massachusetts, and directly manages projects in MA & RI. He may be reached at commercialsolarguy@gmail.com.
John Fitzgerald Weaver
John Fitzgerald Weaver is the 'Commercial Solar Guy'. My small, but growing, company is a general contractor, solar developer seeking land leases, and offers consulting services.
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Edward Dijeau says:
If you have a lot of power failures that last longer than 4 hours, a "Power Wall" or battery system can be worth it to keep your refrigerator or freezer cold enough for the food to not spoil. Your system needs to work without the utility, have an approved transfer switch to disconnect your off grid back up from the meter and have it's own pure sine wave inverter built in. If you do not have power failures a lot, then the batteries could be used to power you through the "Time of Day" higher electricity prices between 4:00PM and 9:00PM or charge your electric car or truck during peak prices hours instead of buying utility power. If your utility gives you "dollar" credits for generating power during peak periods then you could also gain more by putting the extra battery power on the grid during peak hours, but, many utilities, like PG&E in California, have limited the maximum peak generation, during peak hours, from battery systems, to 100 Kilo Watt Hours per month. Everything above that, they get to keep without compensation to the homeowner.
I have a hard time believing that 18% of homes in the U.S. have a generator. I don't know anybody that owns one – including my cousin who has a ranch in Texas. I would think it is closer to 1.8% and even then it is probably high. I would believe that 18% of homeowners don't know what a generator is, though.
John Fitzgerald Weaver says:
Hey John, being from South Florida, I bet 50% of the nice homes have generators installed. We get whacked by hurricanes often enough, and lose power long enough, that it is worth it. In the summer of 2005, living in West Boca Raton, I got hit by three hurricanes – including one that knocked out power for multiple weeks.
Gary E Hiland says:
John, great roundup of current residential storage economics. Btw, great to see you back.
Thank you Gary, you just made my morning 🙂
Gerald Dycus says:
Tesla numbers/kwh are far higher than 3.8cents/kwh.
At $7k it'll need to store at $.10/kwh added to charging costs so power from a Powerwall is more like $.20/kwh costs.
So it won't make money unless saving power costs over that let's say $.30/kwh it'll need to store 70k kwh to pay for itself.
On all these depend where you live, YMMV.
The solution to bridge until lithium prices come down to earth is a golf cart lead 48vdc nominal 8kwh pack for $800.
I hope to sell solar with storage, DC generator this summer at less than most charge with just grid tie/kwh.
Bart craver says:
If your power is out for 2 to 3 days in a winter event and you think that the 13.6 KWh of the Tesla Powerwall will make anything more than a dent in your discomfort, then your last name must be Musk. Residential battery backup is only for the smallest of contingencies or for where energy costs are above 40 cents per KWh at times and you can justify load shifting to avoid the higher cost energy periods.
Green Ridge Solar says:
Thankfully, the economics of batteries and solar are in our favor. As technology and market forces bring down the prices of batteries and solar panels, we will see a greater and stronger adoption of solar+storage.


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The political economy of zombies — the airship
Eucatastrophe is really a neologism cooked up through the language scholar and fantasy novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. By affixing the Greek prefix εὖ, meaning "good," to catastrophe, he created the term to mean "the sudden happy submit a tale which pierces you having a pleasure which brings tears (that we contended it's the greatest purpose of fairy-tales to create)." Tolkien thought that "the Resurrection was the finest 'eucatastrophe' possible within the finest Fairy Story."
I am certain that Tolkien will not have loved the thought of while using Reign of Terror to illustrate the eucatastrophic (partially while he appears an excessive amount of a Brit and Anglican to possess place the French Revolution plus the Resurrection), but revolution was the initial factor I figured of whenever a friend described the word in my experience lately. After studying Max Brooks' World War Z novel, I can not see zombies as not revolution – or, to make use of Tolkien's word, a eucatastrophe: an abrupt turn from a really plausible disaster.
Brooks's novel ends using the world in shambles. The catastrophe has transpired over us, and survivors are starting to rebuild. The whales have left, the oil fields of Saudi Arabia happen to be destroyed, numerous nuclear exchanges occured, and Lhasa is easily the most populous city on the planet. Through the book, Brooks seems to deliver the type of reversals of fortune we cherish within our catastrophes. A minimum of a part of Brooks's project is really a global Saturnalia: A thinly disguised Josh Bolton continues to be reduced to shoveling shit included in an attempt to build up an experimental biofuel, Cuba is just about the world's economic powerhouse, the U.S. government bodies have abandoned neoliberalism and also have came back towards the tools from the New Deal.
In zombies, Brooks could imagine something similar to Paul Krugman's wished for alien invasion, but on a better scale and effect: a danger large enough to trump religious variations, racism as well as our current economic ideological fundamentalism. Brooks plausibly imagines the zombies as something the whole modern world – each and every man, lady and child in the world – includes a shared experience with.
The sci-fi author William Gibson famously noted that, "The long run has already been here – it is simply not distributed." In WWZ, Brooks has imagined the next that's finally, at lengthy last, distributed. "Anywhere all over the world, anybody you speak with, all people have a effective shared experience," Brooks has certainly one of his figures explain. "Although the facts will vary, the tales are pretty very similar."
I must think that neoiberalism will not finish inside a catastrophic collapse and global dieback. Let me think that utopia may come about by way of peaceful protest or enlightened deliberation by democratically elected physiques. In my opinion Kim Stanley Robinson is appropriate, that "utopia went from as being a somewhat minor literary problem to some necessary survival strategy." However I think the selection Robinson gives, of "utopia or catastrophe" is really a false one. We're beyond the time when utopians can be put off by the catastrophic. Catastrophe may be the trench beyond which utopia lays.
After I visited Zuccotti Park, I saw many people like myself. I'm not an anarchist, an innovative or perhaps a lot of an anti-capitalist, but I'm a lot such as the Medieval peasant who "might have burst however for his hope within the Demon." That could be why a lot of us go from staying away from zombie movies to becoming passive consumers and to the condition I'm in now, refer to it as "anti-anti-zombie." I suppose, much like me, this anti-anti-zombie audiences remained cold by Kaira Pitt's World War Z because they are not searching for any messianic figure in order to save the machine from catastrophe, however that rather, they'd wished to determine the lay from the find the far side from the good catastrophe.
Zombies began their existence within the Hollywood from the 1930s and '40s as simplistic stand-ins for racist xenophobia. Publish-millennial zombies happen to be hot-rodded by Danny Boyle and converted into a subversive type of utopia. That harsh utopianism was globalized by Max Brooks, and today Kaira Pitt and the partners will work to convert it into a global franchise. But when zombies will be to stay relevant, it'll depend around the shambling monsters' capability to stay subversive – and real subversive shocks and terror aren't dystopian. They're utopian.
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