Karen Bloom has always wanted the best things in life. And that includes her children; quite simply, she expects them to be perfect. Her son, Ewan, has been something of a disappointment, and she won't be making the same mistake again with her beloved daughter, Bronte. Bronte's every waking hour will be spent at music lessons and dance classes, doing whatever it takes to excel. But as Karen pushes Bronte to the brink, the rest of the family crumbles.
Natty and Sean Wainwright are happily married. Rock solid in fact. So when Natty's oldest friend, Eve Dalladay, appears - just as their daughter collapses on a school trip in France - Natty has no qualms about leaving Eve with Sean to help out at home.
The Wainwrights, on the surface, are an ideal family. Sean and Natty have been together since they were teenagers and after nearly 20 years have a successful business and two delightful daughters so what could go wrong? The answer is the arrival of Natty's old friend, Eve, I experienced rage on Natty's behalf, anger at her sometime stupid behaviour and disgust at the way that Sean handled the problems. Listening to this book was an emotional roller-coaster, right up to the final twist. Janine Birkett was an ideal narrator.
The portrayal of the 'friend' and how her manipulative nature and past background unfolded.
Yes - if I could have done, I would!
I would recommend it. I like books set in ordinary settings in England. The descriptions of the Lake District were enticing.
Probably the younger daughter who witnessed a horrible scene and saw through her father's new girlfriend.
Have you listened to any of Janine Birkett's other performances? How does this one compare?
No, this was the first. I wasn't keen on the accent but perhaps I have a prejudice against Lake District accents which I didn't know about. However, another Paula Daly book, narrated by a different person did not have the same effect on me. I felt that Janine Birkett's voice and accent sounded like an older person than the main character was meant to be.
Many, this story had me enthralled all the way through.
Another Paula Daly audio book that I would gladly have paid more than one credit to listen to.
As with the previous book, it is well written with a realistic storyline. What also made it an additive listen, is the narration - various characters - including males - were excellently portrayed.
Well done!! I look forward to the next book.
I was surprised how good this was, the story was excellent, and the narrator superb.
bringing the story and characters to life. Well recommended and very enjoyable, and the book will stay with you. I listened over 2 days.
I really did enjoy this listen and finished it in record time! Not the usual gorey thriller I go for and came across it by accident.
The story of one family with some deep secrets- I won't give anything away - well worth a listen!
Great fast paced and gripping story which I really did enjoy. The only anomalie which really was at times a bit annoying was: the narrator who is playing Naty the main character is supposed to be from Cumbria but has a distinct North Eastern accent which is way out of line from Cambrian accent. I found this accentuated North East voice a bit annoying. Also the narrator gives the impression that Natasha is a much older woman that she actually is.
This was a proper thriller, not just a detective story. We are told the story from the perspective of both the victim and the perpetrator, so we are slightly ahead of the victim most of the time, having some idea what may be coming.
The story from the detective's perspective is also given, but much less so.
Information is delivered to us the reader in a measured way all through the book, developments are continuous which maintains our interest.
Excellent narration by Janine Birkett. What a teriffic range of accents, voices and inflections she is able to deliver.
I really enjoyed this book and found it very easy to listen to. The narrator was brilliant and made it all the better.
The thing about this listen is it makes you question your own life, but on the same slightly negative note it also is very stereotypical in its character design.
Anyway would still recommend a listen and I will try further books from this author.


Resumen - Taking the Business Cycles Pulse to Some Latin American Economies: Is there a Rhythmical Beat?
Taking the Business Cycles Pulse to Some Latin American Economies: Is there a Rhythmical Beat?
The paper deals with the macroeconomic behavior of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay for the period 1970-1997. Its aim is twofold. First, to determine whether their economic fluctuations followed a similar pattern according to their duration, intensity and timing. Second, to evaluate the demand and supply disturbances. The arrhythmical beat among these economies in the past reveals that there is little point in trying to align macroeconomic policies, and the absence of an economic argument for a monetary union.


The ultimate aim of spiritual life.
"Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend".
Krishna promises Arjuna that those who worship him with faith will undoubtedly reached Him. Krishna is self sufficient, He can protect and serve Himself yet He choses to be served by His devotees inorder to give them the chance to come back to Him.
The tale of Gajendra Moksha is a well known story told to kids in their early stages in order to instill the faith in them that God always hears you in whatever situation you are. In short, a king was cursed to become an elephant by the great sage Agastya. One day, the elephant was wading in the waters of the Mandara hills. A crocodile caught hold of the giant's leg and dragged it into the water. Due to king's pious karma, he remembered a prayer to the Lord and in its dire situation with utter devotion called out Lord Vishnu's name. Lord Vishnu arrived at the scene and liberated both the crocodile( who was also cursed for his insolant behaviour towards a sage) and the elephant( who attained Saarupya mukti). This story truly tells us the Lord is hearing us and all we need to do is call out to Him sincerely.
In the olden days, sages and kings would perform penance for thousands for years( I am pretty sure that you would have read/heard stories at least). Their penance was not a simple one, it would be a one of utterly back-breaking(Literally). Imagine standing on one toe for 10000000…… years just to please a diety to get a boon.In todays world and current scenario, its obvious that one cannot stand one a toe for thousands of years on a hilltop with nothing but a loin. Let alone one toe, the average lifespan of humans have dropped down to 68 years( male) and 72 years for female. So what is the solution if one can't perform such penances to please the Lord? How are we supposed to attain liberation from this cycle of birth and death?
The Answer is simple: chant His names– be it the Vishnu Sahasranamam, Achyutastakam, Hare Krishna Mantra, Narasimha Kavacham and thousand others. Even visiting temples to pray to the diety is a form of expressing your devotion. Visiting temples with devotion can indeed wash away the sins accumulated over many life times. For example, the tirupati temple, located in Andhra Pradesh, the second richest temple in the world is a must visit! Located on the Tirumala hills also known as Venkatachala hills, the literal translation is Ven meaning sins and kata meaning destroyed. According to scriptures, if one visits these hills with utmost devotion inorder to see the Lord, his/her sins are washed away. Not only tirupati, but any temple visited with sincerity and selflessness i.e., if one goes to a temple with no other intention except to seek the Lord's mercy and his grace one is sure to receive His protection.
So why does Moksha come with a price? And most importantly, what is the price that one must pay inorder to get liberated from this "material world" ?


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Disciples preach 'Testament of Groove'
January 8, 2002 08.01.2002 • 08:00
Eddie Piller, the founder of the respected British record label Acid Jazz, which played an instrumental role in shaping London's tremendously popular acid-jazz scene a decade ago with exciting acts such as the James Taylor Quartet, Corduroy, the Brand New Heavies, and Akimbo on its roster, will be returning to Greece as one of four guest DJs in a Club 22 event that has been dubbed «A New Testament of Groove» in Athens this Thursday night. Piller, who has spun discs here before, at a two-day jazz festival last winter, as well as at the Sola Luna dance festival on the island of Samothrace last summer, will be accompanied in back-to-back playing by Danny de Courtelle, a close associate of Piller's, as well as by two high-profile locals, Blend, aka Giorgos Mandas, and LoFi, aka Lambros Tsamis, all of whom also played at Sola Luna. The DJs, who will be spinning discs together in a back-to-back, four-pronged session, first got together as a quartet at Sola Luna after a technical failure called for a revision of the event's proceedings and put all four on stage at the same time in a well-received solution. Piller will be delving into his collection of acid jazz – the early 1990s British scene which emerged at a time when the dance music scene had begun to flourish in general with house-techno also at the forefront – as part of what should be a diverse yet cohesive four-DJ set with other similar-minded and related styles like soul, funk, and break beats on the agenda. «A New Testament of Groove» is at Club 22 on Thursday, 11.30 p.m. at 22 Vouliagmenis St. Entrance is 15 euros. Ironically, at the time of their early chart success, The Frank and Walters had headlined bills with a couple of relatively unknown bands as support acts. One of them, Suede, attracted quite a following soon afterward, while the other, Radiohead, nowadays ranks as one of the world's biggest-selling rock bands.
Almost famous, always respected, and still persisting
Keep on walking: Artist's adventures on glasses suggest a random precariousness
The characters behind the letters
A director's photographs
Movie pricks the 'Bubble'of life and love
Stories from the voice of Alkistis Protopsalti

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Q: Jquery highlight and show more/less function are not working together I have a problem where when I try to search for a word to give me the highlight effect while I have pressed the show more button it will close the show more and only show the text before you have pressed the button.
How do I make it so that it stays open while i'm searching for a word.
My html code.
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css">

    <input class="text_search" id=x placeholder="text">

            Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

            Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender
            borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

            Show more

            Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

            Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender
            borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

            Show more

            Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

            Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender
            borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

            Show more

My jquery code
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('.Show_more_less').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        $(this).text(function(i, t) {
          return t == 'Show less' ? 'Show more' : 'Show less';
        }).prev('.more-cont').slideToggle()
    });
});

$(function() {

    $(".text_search").each(function() {

        var textModal = $('#text_' + this.id),html = textModal.html();

        $(this).on("keyup", function() {

            var reg = new RegExp($(this).val() || "&fakeEntity;", 'gi');

            textModal.html(html.replace(reg, function(str, index) {

                var t = html.slice(0, index+1),
                    lastLt = t.lastIndexOf("<"),
                    lastGt = t.lastIndexOf(">"),
                    lastAmp = t.lastIndexOf("&"),
                    lastSemi = t.lastIndexOf(";");

                if(lastLt > lastGt) return str;
                if(lastAmp > lastSemi) return str;
                return "" + str + "";
            }));
        });
    });
});

my css code
html, body {
    margin: 0px;
    width: 100vw;
    height: 100%;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    font-family: Helvetica;
    background-color: rgb(241, 238, 238);
}
.Show_more_less{
    cursor: pointer;
}
.highlight {
    background-color: yellow;
    font-weight: bold;
}
.text_search{
    margin-left: 2em;
}

A: Because you're replacing html when searching in you would need to rebind after searching and replacing or highlighting.
try this:
function bindShowMoreLess(){
    $('.Show_more_less').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        $(this).text(function(i, t) {
          return t == 'Show less' ? 'Show more' : 'Show less';
        }).prev('.more-cont').slideToggle()
    });

}

$(document).ready(bindShowMoreLess);

$(function() {

    $(".text_search").each(function() {

        var textModal = $('#text_' + this.id),html = textModal.html();

        $(this).on("keyup", function() {

            var reg = new RegExp($(this).val() || "&fakeEntity;", 'gi');

            textModal.html(html.replace(reg, function(str, index) {

                var t = html.slice(0, index+1),
                    lastLt = t.lastIndexOf("<"),
                    lastGt = t.lastIndexOf(">"),
                    lastAmp = t.lastIndexOf("&"),
                    lastSemi = t.lastIndexOf(";");

                if(lastLt > lastGt) return str;
                if(lastAmp > lastSemi) return str;
                return "" + str + "";
            }));

            bindShowMoreLess();
        });
    });
});

working fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/wvbcxj50/

A: You can save the state of elements and its ID on key-up function like this:
    var more = "";

    $(this).on("keyup", function() {

var state = document.getElementsByClassName("more-cont");
$( state ).each(function( index ) {
if(this.style.display === ""){
    more = more.concat(this.id+",");
  }
});

And revert it back like this:
var res = more.split(",");
      for (var i = 0, len = res.length; i < len; i++) {
        [].forEach.call(res, function(el) {
        if (el !==""){
          document.getElementById(el).style.display = "";
          }
        });

Working solution:

function bindShowMoreLess(){
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('.Show_more_less').click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    $(this).text(function(i, t) {
      return t == 'Show less' ? 'Show more' : 'Show less';
    }).prev('.more-cont').slideToggle()
  });
});
}

$(document).ready(bindShowMoreLess);

$(function() {

  $(".text_search").each(function() {

    var textModal = $('#text_' + this.id),
      html = textModal.html();

    var more = [];

    $(this).on("keyup", function() {

var state = document.getElementsByClassName("more-cont");
$( state ).each(function( index ) {
if(this.style.display === ""){
    more.push(this.id);
    return more;
  }
});

      var reg = new RegExp($(this).val() || "&fakeEntity;", 'gi');

      textModal.html(html.replace(reg, function(str, index) {

        var t = html.slice(0, index + 1),
          lastLt = t.lastIndexOf("<"),
          lastGt = t.lastIndexOf(">"),
          lastAmp = t.lastIndexOf("&"),
          lastSemi = t.lastIndexOf(";");

        if (lastLt > lastGt) return str;
        if (lastAmp > lastSemi) return str;
        return "" + str + "";

      }));

bindShowMoreLess();

      for (var i = 0, len = more.length; i < len; i++) {
        [].forEach.call(more, function(el) {
        if (el !==""){
          document.getElementById(el).style.display = "";
          $("#"+el).next("a").text("Show less");
          }
        });
      };
    });
  });
});
html,
body {
  margin: 0px;
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100%;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  font-family: Helvetica;
  background-color: rgb(241, 238, 238);
}

.Show_more_less {
  cursor: pointer;
}

.highlight {
  background-color: yellow;
  font-weight: bold;
}

.text_search {
  margin-left: 2em;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>

  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

  <link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css">

    <input class="text_search" id="x" placeholder="text">

          Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

          Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

        Show more

          Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

          Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

        Show more

          Several Australian home owners have been utilizing the services of mortgage brokers to fulfill their dreams of owning a house at an affordable rate.

          Whether you are aspiring to buy a new house or considering upgrading your existing home loa

Mortgage broking involves the act of intermediating between the borrower and the lender borrower's behalf. The role of mortgage broker starts right from the time when you plan to

        Show more

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KUZO – Luna | dlnw. | Dance Like Nobody's Watching.
'Luna' is the first from KUZOs EP that we already touched on a few months back. The vocal range and delivery on this one are absolutely amazing, and now that the video is here to match – we cannot get enough of the vibe. We feel like the video is a perfect balance of story-telling, imaginative thought and creative visuals.


In the weeks before departing for a four-month trip to Europe, I tried to wean myself off coffee. I didn't want to be dependent on finding coffee each morning or risk the blazing withdrawal headache. Though I've been to Europe before, I feared the worst: a continent devoid of consistent ways to get my caffeine fix.
The first country on our itinerary was Greece and as it turned out, I had nothing to fear. Over the course of seven days sailing among the Ionian islands west of the mainland, I became a devout crusader in search of only one drink: the freddo espresso.
Giorgos, a skipper on a neighboring boat, explained that Greeks survive each day on a diet of "coffee, cigarettes, coffee, more cigarettes, more coffee, alcohol, and cigarettes." An exaggeration, but not much of one. The freddo espresso is the primary coffee drink I saw consumed, a concoction perfect for summer, for sailing, for curing the raging headache after a 4am beach party for the third night in a row.
A freddo espresso is surprisingly simple: a single or double shot of espresso (depending on the headache) poured over ice and mixed with sugar using a handheld or standing mixer. Blended to create a frothy head, most people drink it straight; I cut mine with milk to ease myself back into coffee.
From the first sip, it was love, and by the third morning, I was the first above deck and wandering each port to find my fix. From the corner bakery in Vathy to the portside cafe of Fiskardo where boats knocked together an arm's length away, every coffee shop makes freddo espresso, and nearly everybody drinks it.
Most importantly, a freddo espresso isn't part of the morning meal: it is the morning meal. Not once did I see someone eating pastries, yogurt, or eggs alongside it, and I never considered committing so grave a mistake myself. When the freddo espresso were finished each day, only then would lunch be a topic of consideration.
Whether in port or anchored in a natural harbor, you could tell who was awake by how many freddo espresso crowded the wooden table in the main cabin of our yacht. From the first rays of blazing sun, the heat made plastic cups of icy freddo espresso sweat. As we sailed, empty freddo espresso cups would catch the wind and fly backwards toward the sea. We all became adept at catching them before they became small buoys in the pristine blue. No doubt the fish would have enjoyed the sugared film dried into each cup at the start of their day, too.


LEWISTON — An Auburn man who fled from police Thursday night onto "jagged rocks" overlooking the Great Falls of Androscoggin River, prompting rescue crews to assist in the search before his arrest, appeared in court Friday on a felony charge.
Warren M. Mongo, 45, of 248 Turner St. was charged with operating after revocation, punishable by up to five years in prison. He also was charged with a string of related misdemeanors, including reckless conduct, driving to endanger, failure to stop for an officer and criminal trespass.
Police wrote in an affidavit that an officer was seeking to serve Mongo with a warrant for unpaid fines Thursday night when he was seen driving his girlfriend's car after leaving his job at Dunkin' Donuts.
Police tried to stop the Toyota Camry with lights and siren, but the driver "disregarded my signals" and continued before running a red light at Hampshire and Union streets. It traveled in the direction of Great Falls Plaza, patrol officer Kenneth G. Jones wrote in a sworn statement.
The car slowed and a man fled from it toward the trails of West Pitch Park that overlook Androscoggin River's Great Falls. The man ignored verbal commands to stop, then "ran down onto the rocks near the river, all of which were marked as a no trespass zone," Jones wrote.
Mongo continued to run on the rocks under the train trestle, then back toward the river, according to the affidavit.
"Due to the nighttime temperatures and the overall severity of the call" Lewiston's police and fire crews responded to the scene to assist, as well as Auburn Rescue.
Mongo "continued to run and hide behind multiple rocks, all while being advised to turn himself in," Jones wrote. Police officers climbed down onto "jagged rocks" near the river to take Mongo into custody, he wrote.
Eighth District Court Judge Rick Lawrence appointed an attorney to represent Mongo and set his bail at $1,000 cash bail or $500 cash with supervised release. If freed from Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn, Mongo is barred from driving a motor vehicle and from having any car keys.
Attorney Ed Rabasco said Mongo has a history of a significant head injury from an assault during a robbery and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.


THEN: We've got slicing and dicing, scream queens and killing machines … and racist ghost trucks. Never forget.
Dean is in his room, living his best surrounded by empties and snacks wrappers sprawled out on his bed eating cold pizza horror movie marathon life. He's been holed up for a week. Cas is busy with Jack. Kaia Ren is in the wind. They have no clue where Michael is, and—not that he's complaining—the house is full of strangers.


I tried using the Wherigo app on the iPhone today for the first time in a while (months), and it couldn't connect to the Groundspeak servers. It kept saying I wasn't putting in the correct credentials for an access token... but I was. Not sure what's going on there.
Soory, but this isn't the correct thread. You should look for the Groundspeak Wherigo player for iOS or, even better, create your own thread.
Yes, I can reproduce that for the iOS app. When I exited the screen after seeing the message you mentioned, I see an alert that asked if I wanted to retry. I tapped "retry". I then saw a page I could allow the app access to my account. I tapped the button and got into this loop. Next, I tapped the settings section. It showed me the settings. I then tapped the search section again. This time, it pulled my account information and displayed my user name. I could then search for cartridges.
So it does work, but it's a little hackey. Try that and see if it works for you.
I was also later able to get it to work... pretty much the same way. At that point I didn't go back to the forums. Thanks for your reply.


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Azure SQL Database Edge: How Microsoft Is Giving Edge Devices a Data Boost
Microsoft introduced a new service into its "intelligent edge" portfolio at the recent Build conference. Here's how Azure SQL Database Edge will fit into the company's broader vision for a more connected world.
By Joey D'Antoni
During his keynote at last week's Microsoft Build conference, CEO Satya Nadella introduced Azure SQL Database Edge, extending Microsoft's capabilities around the "intelligent edge."
The intelligent edge is Nadella's vision of expanding computing in a connected world, where devices have built-in intelligence. This vision has been enabled by the Azure cloud, with solutions like Azure IoT and Event Hubs that support streaming data into Azure from edge devices to allow a variety of data processing to take place.
SQL Database Edge will enable many more scenarios where businesses want to add computing intelligence. It will also reduce the power required for systems like point-of-sale, allowing companies to deploy those systems even further afar in the field. Additionally, with the integration of machine learning services -- whether it's R, Python, Java or the embedded predict functionality -- SQL Server can now become a place to drive machine learning against volumes of data.
Now in private preview, SQL Database Edge is the culmination of a number of technologies that the SQL Server team has been working on for years. I had the opportunity last week to sit down with Microsoft Senior Program Manager Sourabh Agarwal to discuss the new solution.
D'Antoni: This is an interesting new product. What are the types of devices you expect it to run on?
Agarwal: We see three main classes of devices where Azure SQL Database Edge will run. The first is interactive embedded devices -- for example, the point-of-sale systems, smart scanners or handheld devices.
The next category is the edge gateway class of systems. These are systems that act as a funnel for sensor data coming in that typically do little processing. These devices will be predominately ARM devices.
The final class of devices is edge servers. These devices are currently x64 servers, but in three to five years, we see some of these devices moving to ARM processors. These devices tend to do heavier processing on the edge and then move the aggregated data back to a central hub.
What architectural changes did you have to make to SQL Server to be able to have it run on a small ARM device?
The first thing to consider is that this is only running the SQL Server engine. Components like SQL Server Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Integration Services are not included in the install. We have also looked at reducing capacity, which in turn reduces our instantiation at runtime. Since these edge devices are small when compared to larger datacenter servers, we do not see the need for the optimizations which are tailored for high-end, mission-critical systems, so we are trying to eliminate some of those optimizations to reduce the footprint of SQL running on these edge devices.
A couple of other optimizations include removing features like In-Memory OLTP, which would be of limited usefulness on a low-powered device. We also disabled full-text search to reduce the footprint. Also, common language runtime is turned off -- that was a combination of resource consumption and challenges with making it work on ARM processors. If customers need the full processing and performance capabilities of SQL, then our recommendation would be to use the Standard/Enterprise SKUs of SQL Server.
Given the footprint, how much memory is required to run SQL Database Edge?
The current startup and execution footprint requires about 500MB of RAM. So the device itself will require about 1GB of RAM, but we have a north-star goal of reaching a 250-300MB footprint. It's not clear if the market will need that 250MB footprint.
What industries do you see adopting this product?
We see a lot of customers in the public sector, both in the U.S. and internationally. Anywhere Internet of Things [IoT] devices are present -- so, for example, manufacturing or utilities or even smart cities. Some customers are looking to do machine learning at the edge to drive real-time actions and outcomes on the edge. Another customer is doing analysis of data on the edge, and controlling process operations based on the data being generated.
So SQL Machine Learning Services are available?
R and Python support, through external procedure support, are included in the product, just as in SQL Server. Spark and Java support are going to flow in as they are adopted in SQL Server. We also support the predict functionality in SQL Server. This means customers can train complex models in the cloud and deploy them back to their edge to allow better decisions to be made.
How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises?
Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics. This allows for streaming queries, which can connect to Azure Event or IoT Hubs, and in turn connect to a wide variety of data syncs within Azure, whether it be Azure SQL Database or Data Warehouse, Blob Storage or any number of targets. Additionally, we will support offline scenarios, where users can connect to, let's say, a REST API endpoint and have control over their data target in their datacenters or in another public cloud.
Working with Azure will obviously provide customers the advantage of bringing Azure-specific value-add services like auto-backup, query optimization, et cetera, to edge deployments.
Is the implementation model for this using containers or can it be installed directly on the device?
Our preferred model is for the customer to use containers, using persisted storage on the device to maintain data. This just makes for a cleaner process for things like updates. However, depending on the maker, we may support embedded device installs in the future.
I know licensing hasn't been determined, but do you have a rough idea?
The pricing will be aligned with the cost of these edge devices. This won't be priced at the cost of the full-blown SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
Joseph D'Antoni is an Architect and SQL Server MVP with over a decade of experience working in both Fortune 500 and smaller firms. He is currently Principal Consultant for Denny Cherry and Associates Consulting. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from North Carolina State University. Joey is the co-president of the Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group . He is a frequent speaker at PASS Summit, TechEd, Code Camps, and SQLSaturday events.


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Prague, City of a Hundred Spires, a UNESCO monument and one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Get to know it in person.
The Old Town Hall with the famous Prague Astronomical Clock. The winding lanes of the Jewish Quarter, which you know from the novels of Franz Kafka, steeped in the legend of the Golem. Cafes enticing you to come and have a seat, boutiques and sight-seeing cruises on the Vltava. The Gothic Charles Bridge and Church of St. Nicholas in the Lesser Town, the most beautiful Baroque church in Prague. The Palace Gardens set away from the bustle of the city, Petřín with a lookout tower reminiscent of a small Eiffel Tower and Prague Castle … Each of Prague's districts has its own characteristic atmosphere and unique charm. Prague presents itself to you as a changeable city, which likes to alternate styles: it is romantic and successful, ancient and modern, but above all it is a city that is cosmopolitan through and through, and is used to welcoming foreigners. It is time to get acquainted.
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A romantic walk on the Charles Bridge, learning the story of Prague Castle or watching the procession of the Apostles on the Old Town Hall Astronomical Clock. Rare exhibits in dozens of museums and galleries, centuries-old churches and elegant palace gardens. You can do a lot in one day in Prague. But why rush? If you feel that the magic of the Golden City is eluding you and that you are merely checking off individual sights from your list, slow down and soak in the authentic atmosphere of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Follow the scent of freshly brewed coffee to one of Prague's famous cafés, just as Kafka and Einstein once did, and become acquainted with another one of the fascinating faces of the Czech capital.
Best Tourist Attractions
Prague Castle
Lesser Town
Old Town Square
Charles Bridge and bridge towers
Astronomical Clock on the Old Town Square
Dancing House in Prague
National Gallery in Prague
The National Theatre in Prague
Prague Jewish Town
The Prague Zoo
Municipal House in Prague
Austrian Ball in Prague
Czech-Slovak Ball in Prague
Winter Run Prague
Volkswagen Prague Marathon Weekend
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Wine Prague International Fair
May 12 2022 - Jun 3 2022
Prague Spring International Music Festival
Czech Republic Speedway Grand Prix in Prague
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Open gardens weekend
Metronome Festival
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The Summer Festivities of Early Music
Other Places to Visit
Prague Bike Tours
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The Jones family came to our office in a panic. Their dad, Fred, had suddenly had a massive stroke and was in a rehabilitation facility. Ethel had Alzheimer's disease and was not safe to be alone due to hr poor memory and other physical impairments. Their parents had no legal documents and the family was not able to access any of their funds or make medical decisions for either parent. After evaluation we determined that Fred still had the mental capacity to understand legal documents and we drafted a power of attorney and health care proxy. This allowed his son to access Fred's finances and make medical decisions for him. Unfortunately Ethel did not have mental capacity and we had to initiate an emergent guardianship action. This allowed her son to access her bank accounts and we assisted him with locating a nursing home that would meet both parents' medical and financial needs. The couple lived together at the nursing home until Fred's death. Ethel is still at the nursing home and has many friends there now. She has used the couple's assets and we have filed a Medicaid application and are working with the nursing home to ensure that there are no financial issues while we wait for Medicaid to be approved.
Donna lived alone in the large home where she raised her children. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and had become increasingly frail. She had multiple falls, some of them resulting in hospitalizations. Her children felt strongly that Donna should move to a nursing home, but Donna was adamant she would not leave her home. After evaluating her in her home, we worked out a plan to improve her safety. She agreed to wear an emergency response system and hired a home health aide. She also agreed to work with a physical therapist to improve her balance. She hired a contractor we recommended to modify her home to improve the safety. Based on our knowledge of her physical needs and financial status, we recommended a few assisted livings for her to tour, so she could begin to prepare for her eventual move. Donna remained in her home for two years. She had occasional falls but was not seriously injured. During each hospitalization, we were with Donna and her family and assisted them in determining what the next step should be. After a bout of pneumonia and rehabilitation admission, we suggested that this would be the right time to move to assisted living. We did not want Donna to spend all of her funds on home care because her choice of facilities would be limited if she could not afford a substantial period of private pay. We helped her choose a facility that would ensure she could continue there when her funds ran out or her care needs increased. We assisted her with arranging services to pack and get her home ready to be sold. We also attended the initial care meetings to help Donna with the transition. She has adjusted well and has become involved in daily card games.
A Pew Research Center analysis of census data found that in 2016, 20% of the U.S. population was living in multi-generational homes. That's a record number and one that is expected to keep rising. In the article titled "How to Address Multigenerational Estate Planning Issues," Financial Advisor Magazine asks what's behind the numbers?
For some families, it's college students moving back with mom and dad while they pay off student loans or newly married couples living with one set of parents while they save money to purchase a home of their own. New parents are recruiting their own parents to combine households, so child care and a stronger sense of family is created. In other families, elderly parents move into their children's home when they reach a point where they cannot or should not live alone.
In many instances, families add separate living quarters to their existing homes. More and more states and municipalities are addressing zoning laws that prohibited this kind of construction in the past.
Pressures created by rising housing costs, housing shortages and demographics have all contributed to this new trend. How to navigate this kind of family "merger" requires a lot of planning, including estate planning. How will the property pass to the next generation? What about siblings who are not involved in the shared housing space? How should their portion of the inheritance be handled?
There are many ways to navigate the closer relationship with aging parents or childcare needs. Some elect to purchase a nearby condo where parents are living, so at some point the parents can move from their single-family home to an apartment. For others, the parents move to an apartment within the home, so their children and grandchildren can enjoy the larger living space. There can also be a lot of unintended consequences when it comes to long term care and government benefits impacts.
Whichever way your family chooses to live together, take the time to meet with an experienced elder law attorney who can help you work through the best way to set up the arrangement.
Montefiore, a large hospital located in the Bronx, N.Y., is one of many organizations developing informal programs to rehire some retired employees. Administrators noticed that half of its nurses were nearing 50. It didn't have a nursing shortage and wanted to prevent one. It now routinely brings back retired nurses on a freelance basis. It's good for the hospital and the retirees, who can supplement their pensions.
As reported in The New York Times in an article titled "In a Tight Labor Market, Retirees Fill Gaps Their Previous Employers Can't," not every person who retires is ready to do so—and not every employer is ready to let them go. In a tight labor market, firms find recent retirees increasingly attractive.
This has become more common than at any other time since the Great Recession, says Kathleen Christensen, who funds research on aging and the American labor market at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. There's a shortage in many sectors, including construction and transportation, so the attitude toward older workers is changing.
One large northeastern power company is also bringing back retirees, using their years of experience to train younger employees. This company's management deliberately stays in touch with retirees, allowing some to work part time and taking others on, as needed, for short term projects. Since they are brought back on as contractors, not employees, they continue to receive their pensions.
UPS has organized a program to recruit retirees to address the booming need for delivery services spawned by online shopping. Management sought to bring back retired workers and has also tapped the older workers in construction to help with new facilities that are being built.
One thing to keep in mind if your retirement includes going back to work: how will your income impact your Social Security benefits and your overall retirement plan? Sit down with an experienced cpa and elder law attorney to find out how your new life as a freelancer will impact your tax liability, your government benefits and your estate plan.
Can You Save on Taxes in Retirement?
It's frustrating when you've been responsible and saved diligently for your retirement throughout your working career, but the tax bites keep on coming. If you are retired, or near to retirement, you'll want to use tax-efficient ways to withdraw money from your investment accounts. There was a rule of thumb from the financial investment community that said just leave those tax-deferred accounts alone and use the money from your taxable accounts until you reach age 70½. You can then start taking Required Minimum Distributions, or RMDs.
Here's the problem: that equation assumes that your income has decreased in retirement and that simply may not be true.
RMDs are taxed as ordinary income at the time of withdrawal, so they could push you into a higher federal tax bracket than you expected. Let's say a 63-year-old married woman born in 1953 has $1 million in tax deferred accounts. If she had RMDs of nearly $47,000 at the age of 70½, combining it with $47,000 from Social Security and a pension or rental property income, and she would be bumped into a higher rate tax bracket.
Another factor to consider is the reduction of individual income tax rates that went into effect this year, because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which expires in 2025. Those tax cuts may not be extended or may be changed, so future tax rates might go up again in 2026. When that tax cut expires, you'll need to review your tax burden again.
If you are a retiree between 59½ and 70½, you might want to consider a Roth conversion. Proactively convert a portion of your tax-deferred accounts into a Roth IRA on an annual basis. You'll have to pay federal income tax on the amount you convert every year. However, you're taking advantage of lower rates before those provisions mentioned above expire and before the RMDs begin. The goal is to convert just what you need to keep you in your current tax bracket.
Be mindful that you must do this right. Work out the numbers so you don't trigger a higher Medicare premium or the 3.8% Medicare surtax. There are a lot of moving parts, so make sure you talk to your tax advisor.


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PhD Visiting Scientist 2019: Prof. Cecilia Bitz
June 10, 2019 Rebecca FrewLeave a comment
r.frew@pgr.reading.ac.uk
With thanks to all my helpers who enabled the week to go smoothly! Adam Bateson, Sally Woodhouse, Kaja Milczewska and Agnieszka Walenkiewicz
Each year PhD students in the Department of Meteorology invite a distinguished scientist to spend a week with us. This year we invited Prof. Cecilia Bitz, who visited between the 28th-31st May. Cecilia is based at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Cecilia's research interests are the role of sea ice in the climate system, and high latitude climate and climate change. She has also done a lot of work on the predictability of Arctic sea ice, and is involved in the Sea Ice Prediction Network.
The week began with a welcome reception in the coffee area, introducing Cecilia to the department, followed by a seminar by Cecilia on 'Polar Regions as Sentinels of Different Climate Change'. The seminar predominantly focused on Antarctic sea ice, and the possible reasons why Antarctic sea ice behaviour is so different to the Arctic. Whilst Arctic sea ice has steadily declined we have seen Antarctic sea ice expansion over the past four decades, with extreme Antarctic sea ice extent lows since 2016.
Throughout the week Cecilia visited a number of the research groups, including Mesoscale, HHH (dynamics) and Cryosphere, where PhD students from each group presented to her, giving a taste of the range of PhD research within our department.
Cecilia gave a second seminar later in the week in the Climate and Ocean Dynamics (COD) group meeting, this time focusing on the other pole, 'Arctic Amplification: Local Versus Remote Causes and Consequences'. Cecilia discussed her work quantifying the role of feedbacks in Arctic Amplification, how they compare with meridional heat transports, and what influence Arctic warming has on the rest of the globe.
Photo Credit: Cecilia Bitz
On Wednesday afternoon the normal PhD group slot consisted of a career discussion, with Cecilia. Cecilia shared some of her career highlights with us, including extra opportunities she has taken such as doing some fieldwork in Antarctica and working for the charity, Polar Bears International, her insights and advice from her own experiences, as well as about post-doctoral opportunities in the US. A few of my personal take-aways from this session were to try give yourself space to learn one new thing at a time in your career (e.g. teaching, writing proposals, supervising etc). Try to work on a range of problems, and keep your outlook broad and open to new ideas and approaches. Take opportunities when they appear, such as fieldwork or short projects/collaborations.
A small group of PhDs also met with her on the Friday to have an informal discussion about climate policy. In particular about her experiences speaking to the US senate, being a part of the IPCC reports and about the role of scientists in speaking about climate change, and whether we have a responsibility to do so.
Thursday evening the PhDs took Cecilia to Zero Degrees (a very apt choice for a polar researcher!), and enjoyed a lovely evening chatting over pizza and beer.
The week ended with a farewell coffee morning on Friday, where we gave Cecilia some gifts to thank her for giving us her time this week including some tea, chocolates, a climate stripes mug and a framed picture of us…
All the PhDs had a great week. We hope Cecilia enjoyed her visit as much as we did!
PhD students with Cecilia Bitz before the Careers Discussion.
Arctic, Climate Policy, PhD Life, PhD Student Advice, PhD Student Experiences
APPLICATE General Assembly and Early Career Science event
February 22, 2019 Sally WoodhouseLeave a comment
On 28th January to 1st February I attended the APPLICATE (Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with a Changing Arctic climaTE (bold choice)) General Assembly and Early Career Science event at ECMWF in Reading. APPLICATE is one of the EU Horizon 2020 projects with the aim of improving weather and climate prediction in the polar regions. The Arctic is a region of rapid change, with decreases in sea ice extent (Stroeve et al., 2012) and changes to ecosystems (Post et al., 2009). These changes are leading to increased interest in the Arctic for business opportunities such as the opening of shipping routes (Aksenov et al., 2017). There is also a lot of current work being done on the link between changes in the Arctic and mid-latitude weather (Cohen et al., 2014), however there is still much uncertainty. These changes could have large impacts on human life, therefore there needs to be a concerted scientific effort to develop our understanding of Arctic processes and how this links to the mid-latitudes. This is the gap that APPLICATE aims to fill.
The overarching goal of APPLICATE is to develop enhanced predictive capacity for weather and climate in the Arctic and beyond, and to determine the influence of Arctic climate change on Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, for the benefit of policy makers, businesses and society.
APPLICATE Goals & Objectives
Attending the General Assembly was a great opportunity to get an insight into how large scientific projects work. The project is made up of different work packages each with a different focus. Within these work packages there are then a set of specific tasks and deliverables spread out throughout the project. At the GA there were a number of breakout sessions where the progress of the working groups was discussed. It was interesting to see how these discussions worked and how issues, such as the delay in CMIP6 experiments, are handled. The General Assembly also allows the different work packages to communicate with each other to plan ahead, and for results to be shared.
An overview of APPLICATE's management structure take from: https://applicate.eu/about-the-project/project-structure-and-governance
One of the big questions APPLICATE is trying to address is the link between Arctic sea-ice and the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Many of the presentations covered different aspects of this, such as how including Arctic observations in forecasts affects their skill over Eurasia. There were also initial results from some of the Polar Amplification (PA)MIP experiments, a project that APPLICATE has helped coordinate.
Attendees of the Early Career Science event co-organised with APECS
At the end of the week there was the Early Career Science Event which consisted of a number of talks on more soft skills. One of the most interesting activities was based around engaging with stakeholders. To try and understand the different needs of a variety of stakeholders in the Arctic (from local communities to shipping companies) we had to try and lobby for different policies on their behalf. This was also a great chance to meet other early career scientists working in the field and get to know each other a bit more.
What a difference a day makes, heavy snow getting the ECMWF's ducks in the polar spirit.
Email: sally.woodhouse@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Aksenov, Y. et al., 2017. On the future navigability of Arctic sea routes: High-resolution projections of the Arctic Ocean and sea ice. Marine Policy, 75, pp.300–317.
Cohen, J. et al., 2014. Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather. Nature Geoscience, 7(9), pp.627–637.
Post, E. & Others, 24, 2009. Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change. Science, 325(September), pp.1355–1358.
Stroeve, J.C. et al., 2012. Trends in Arctic sea ice extent from CMIP5, CMIP3 and observations. Geophysical Research Letters, 39(16), pp.1–7.
Arctic, Climate, Climate Change, Communication, Conferences, Forecasting, Modelling, Polar, Workshops
Sea ice is complicated, but do sea ice models need to be?
November 3, 2017 Rebecca Frew1 Comment
email: r.frew@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Sea ice is complex…
When sea water freezes it forms sea ice, a composite of ice and brine. Sea ice exhibits varying structural, thermodynamic and mechanical properties across a range of length- and time-scales. It can be subcategorised into numerous different types of sea ice depending on where is grows and how old it is.
Different sea ice growth processes and types 1.
However, climate models do not simulate the evolution of floes (they model floes as cylindrical) or the floe size distribution, which has implications for ice melt rates and exchange of heat with the atmosphere and ocean. Sea ice also hosts algae and small organisms within brine channels in the ice, which can be important for nutrient cycles. This is a developing area of earth system modelling.
Schematic of life within brine channels in sea ice 2.
How much complexity do global climate models need to sufficiently model the interactions of sea ice with the ocean and atmosphere?
The representation of sea ice in global climate models is actually very simple, with minimal sea ice types and thickness categories. The main important feature of sea ice for global climate models is its albedo, which is much greater than that of open water, making it important for the surface energy balance. So, it is important to get the correct area of sea ice. Global climate models need sea ice:
to get the correct heat exchange with the atmosphere and ocean
to get a realistic overturning circulation in the ocean.
because salt release during sea ice growth is important for the ocean salinity structure, and therefore important to get the correct amount of sea in/near deep water formation sites.
sea ice is not important for sea level projections.
So, do the complex features of sea ice matter, or are simple parameterisations sufficient?
Schematic showing some dynamic features of sea ice 3.
Which leads to a lot more questions…
Where does the balance between sufficient complexity and computational cost lie?
Does adding extra model complexity actually make it harder to understand what the model is doing and therefore to interpret the results?
Do climate models need any further improvements to sea ice in order to better simulate global climate? There is still large uncertainty surrounding other climate model components, such as clouds and ocean eddies, which are believed to explain a lot of the discrepancy between models and observations, particularly in the Southern Ocean.
A lot of these questions depend on the scientific question that is being asked. And the question is not necessarily always 'how is global climate going to change in the future'. Sea ice is fascinating because of its complexity, and there are still many interesting questions to investigate, hopefully before it all melts!
Images clockwise from top left: grease ice 4, pancake ice 5, surface melt ponds 6, ice floes 7.
The Future Developments in Climate Sea Ice Modelling Workshop
This blog stems from a one day workshop I attended on 'Future developments in climate sea ice modelling' at the Isaac Newton Centre as part of a four month programme on the 'Mathematics of Sea Ice Phenomena'. The format of the day was that three different strands of sea ice researchers gave 40 min talks giving their strand's point of view of current sea ice developments and what the focus should be for sea ice modelers, each followed by 40 mins of open discussion with the audience.
The three (very good!) talks were:
Dirk Notz: What do climate models need sea ice for? A top-down, system level view of what sea ice models should produce from the perspective of a climate modeller.
Cecilia Bitz: What sea ice physics is missing from models? A bottom-up view of what is missing from current sea ice models from the perspective of a sea ice scientist.
Elizabeth Hunke: What modelling approaches can be used to address the complexity of sea ice and the needs of climate models?
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https://www.travelblog.org/Photos/2101807
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/icebergs-and-ice/sea-ice
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https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-15391768-stock-footage-flying-over-arctic-ice-floes.html
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NERC Course on Polar Fieldwork Skills
September 30, 2016 September 30, 2016 Rebecca FrewLeave a comment
The aims of the NERC funded BAS run course, "A skills framework for delivering safe and effective fieldwork in the polar regions", were to learn how to safely and effectively plan and carry out fieldwork at the poles. And in doing so, to give 16 early career polar scientists across a range of disciplines the opportunity to go to the Arctic and learn practical fieldwork skills that we don't pick up from our day to day office work.
The first part took place at Madingley Hall in Cambridge where we were briefed as an entire cohort on planning, logistics, instrumentation, risk assessment, GPS mapping, health and safety, and were exceedingly well fed as part of the process….
The sunny early morning views that greeted us into Ny Ålesund.
Next we set off to put what we had learnt into practice in Ny Ålesund, on the Island of Spitzbergen (translates as 'pointy mountains') in Svalbard. Ny Ålesund is a small international village predominantly inhabited by scientists, with a peak population in summer of around 150, and a hardy winter population of 35 toughing out the minimal daylight hours and chilling temperatures, which reach minimums of around -20°C! Our journey began with three flights, and a stopover in Longyearbyen, also known as Santa Claus town, although it looks a lot more industrial than the name implies. We then had a 3.30am start which was aided by the 24 hour daylight to get the boat to Ny Ålesund. After 4 hours of queasiness we arrived at the NERC UK Arctic research station in Ny Ålesund.
The group all kitted out in front of the NERC UK Arctic Research Station. Photos courtesy of Simon Morley.
The first task we had to do after arrival was the rifle training course. This felt like a dangerous activity to be doing at 2pm in the afternoon after a 3.30am start. However it is safe to say we were all sufficiently awake after the first gun shot… We never left the NERC Arctic base without a massive rucksack full of layers, food, water, flask etc and most importantly a rifle and flare gun in case of running into a polar bears. As we are essentially trespassing on the bears' territory, it is up to us to avoid disturbing them and to use rifles for self-defence as a last resort.
Terrestrial wildlife around Ny Ålesund. The greatest wildlife threat we faced was the cheeky Arctic fox stealing our sandwiches!
In Ny Ålesund you are very far removed from civilisation, even via digital means as there is no wifi (due to a large experiment detecting quasars) or phone signal. Therefore life in Ny Ålesund feels timeless, as outside events that rampage on social media feel far removed and irrelevant. However signatures of global warming are evident, with the extent of glaciers noticeably retreating each year, and sea ice becoming a rarer and rarer occurrence in the fjord within the living memory of residents of Ny Ålesund.
From left to right: View of Ny Ålesund, the closest we came to a polar bear in the doorway of the mess building, old hut from the mining industry.
The past mining infrastructure is evident everywhere, and classified as 'heritage', meaning that despite thinking of them as eyesores, in the otherwise immaculate views the run down infrastructure is actually protected as part of Ny Ålesund's history. The NERC UK Arctic base was very cosy, we definitely weren't roughing it like all those early polar explorers! The base is run by station manager Nick Cox, who was full of stories about everything and anything. Most evenings ended with everyone staying at the base gathering together for storytime with Nick in the living room of the UK Arctic base. Everyone in Ny Ålesund went to the mess building (best view I've ever had whilst eating breakfast!) in the centre of Ny Ålesund for meals, and on Saturdays everyone makes more of an effort to change out of work clothes and enjoy good food and wine together before heading to the small pub which opens on Saturday nights for people to gather to drink, chatter and dance.
Every time we left the UK station we had to take an enormous rucksack filled with food (packed lunch and lots of snacks, Mars bars disappeared like gold dust), waterproofs, spare layers, emergency blanket, first aid kit, temporary shelters, spare batteries for any equipment needed, flare gun, rifle, bullets, a satellite phone (one between the group), radio (at least one for each separate group). Keeping in contact via radio is very important, even if our group was going to be just 15 mins late we had to radio in and let the people at the station now so they can amend the signing out book. There was also a radio line for all of the stations in Ny Ålesund, so everybody would know if somebody was in trouble or extra help was needed. All the extra layers were essential. In just the five days we were there, we saw sun, rain, snow, sometimes all in one day! Preparing for all eventualities and all of the `what ifs' is essential for polar fieldwork.
We had two main projects that required fieldwork planning and execution. The first was a two day marine biology project (led by Simon Morley from BAS) which was undertaken in two boats followed up by lab work. We took sediment grabs, plankton nets, CTD profiles (measurements of salinity, temperature and density), put down traps overnight. The aim was to investigate the difference between near rivers and near glaciers, and build up a picture of the food web there. Understanding the small marine creatures at the base of the food web and their temperature tolerance has important implications for larger marine and terrestrial creatures higher up the chain.
Left to right, getting our hands dirty sieving the sediment samples on the boat, putting on the immersion suits before getting onto the smaller boat in case of falling in! Photos courtesy of Simon Morley and Ed King.
The second two day task (led by Ed king from BAS) was to investigate the retreat of a glacier about 4-5km from Ny Ålesund called Midtre Lovénbreen. We carried out was to do a ground penetrating radar survey along and across the nearest glacier to Ny Ålesund to measure the ice thickness. Also, we mapped out the snout of the glacier and took photos to compare the glacier to previous years. A 15-20m retreat of the snout of the glacier relative to last year was measured!
Clockwise from left: Setting up the geophysics kit for a transect on the glacier, Midtre Lovénbreen in 1999, Midtre Lovénbreen September 2016. Glacier photos courtesy of Ed King.
The five or so days we had in Ny Ålesund flew by and before we knew it, it was time for us all to take the (very choppy) boat journey back to Longyearbyen before heading back to the UK. I really, really enjoyed the course, and I would highly recommend to any PhDs or Postdocs who study the poles to consider applying for the course in 2017!
Thanks to everyone at BAS involved in organising the course, in particular Alistair Crane, Blair Fyffe, Simon Morley, Ed King, Nick cox, and of course Ali Teague for organising all of the logistics and ensuring we all got there and back as smoothly as possible!
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This blog is written by PhD students from the Department of Meteorology and all views expressed are by the individual authors.
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's photo missing from Queen's Speech table after 'bumpy year' for royals
Thomas Burrows
24 Dec 2019, 7:11
Updated: 24 Dec 2019, 20:36
MEGHAN Markle and Prince Harry's photo is missing from the Queen's Christmas speech table - where she will acknowledge her family's "bumpy" 2019.
As well as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Andrew is also missing from the photos on the Queen's desk in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle.
The Queen will refer to her family's 'bumpy' 2019 and the nation's Brexit divisions in her Christmas Day TV messageCredit: Getty - Pool
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's photo does not appear in this year's Christmas speechCredit: PA:Press Association
Last year she had two photos of the Sussexes - an official wedding portrait of the royal couple and a family picture of them celebrating Charles's 70th birthday.
In the year of Archie's birth, she might have been expected to include one of him with Harry and Meghan.
Dickie Arbiter, the former Buckingham Palace press secretary, said: "Their son Archie was born this year. You would have thought there might be a picture. It is a very clear omission. I am surprised but whether there is a clear message being sent out I don't know."
The rest of the senior royals, including William, Kate and children, are included.
One picture shows the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and side car - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.
There is also a black and white image of the Queen's father King George VI sending a message of hope and reassurance to the British people in wartime 1944.
Other royal commentators believe this year's photos have been chosen to represent the direct line of succession.
Palace sources dismissed speculation the absence of a photograph of Harry and Meghan was a snub.
The full text of the message has not been released and it remains possible that Harry and Meghan may feature.
'BUMPY' 2019
In her Christmas Day TV message the Queen will refer to her family's "bumpy" 2019 and the nation's Brexit divisions.
The year has been labelled her second "annus horribilis" - the Latin phrase she used to describe 1992 after the marriages of three of her children collapsed.
This time, son Prince Andrew, 59, has been mired in the scandal of his friendship with US paedo Jeffrey Epstein and claims that he slept with a teen sex slave.
In the car crash Newsnight interview, Andrew failed to express any sympathy for the victims of Epstein, who was found hanged in jail in August while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.
Following a public backlash, Andrew was sacked by the Queen and stripped of his royal duties and £249,000 sovereign grant.
Husband Prince Philip, who was admitted to hospital last week after the speech was recorded, was involved in a car accident at the start of the year.
The duke faced criticism for taking too long to contact the occupants of the other car and for being seen driving without his seat-belt in the days that followed.
And the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken about their struggles living in the public eye.
Brexit has divided the country and Parliament, leading to huge uncertainty.
But speaking about the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation in tomorrow's broadcast to the nation and the Commonwealth, the Queen will say "how small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding.
"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference."
Her Majesty's comment is thought to be her first public reference to the personal events her family has experienced this year.
The Queen will highlight the 75th anniversary of World War Two's D-Day landings, and how former "sworn enemies" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone in 2019.
Meanwhile, Prince Philip, 98, who has spent four nights in hospital treatment relating to a "pre-existing condition", left at 8.49am today after he was discharged by his doctor.
The Queen is wearing a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, first worn during the 2013 Trooping the Colour ceremony, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.
Harry and Meghan appeared on the Queen's desk when she delivered her message to the nation last yearCredit: Getty - Pool
How the Queen uses Christmas speech to send hidden messages about Royal Family


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If creating comes from memory, as the great creator Akira Kurosawa says, then the past, which is preserved in memory, is the very source of our humanity. Without it, we would be nothing but incomplete, semi-conscious things capable of nothing more than functioning. It is therefore impossible to obliterate the past entirely, despite continuous efforts to do so occurring across the globe and across time, whether this be Mao's Cultural Revolution, the Taliban dynamiting the Bamiyan Buddhas, ISIS blowing up Palmyra, or my maternal great-grandparents smothering their origins as they attempted to assimilate in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century.
As a firm believer in Kurosawa's words, and in a constant attempt to become a better creator myself, I have dedicated much of my time and efforts to studying the past. This has involved accessing both my immediate memory, and that of my parents and grandparents. Although I have managed to easily put together an effective history of my father's side—thanks to him immigrating to the US from Italy in the '70s, when assimilation was not similarly harsh—until recently, I could confirm only very little about my mother's side. All I knew for certain was that my great-grandparents had arrived in New York from the Soviet Union—likely Odessa— identifying as Russian. Beyond this were just a few rumors about them and the family they had left behind: one was that my great-grandmother had been a concubine of the Tsar. Another that we had had an uncle living in Harbin, China, which at the time was at the far reaches of the Soviet Union. These rumors were compelling enough to have me prodding insistently at all of my relatives, especially the oldest living—my grandmother—in an attempt to find some truth in them, and to dissolve some of the mystery surrounding this side of the family. Unfortunately, I was only met with dead ends, my grandmother able to offer little in my search.
If creating comes from memory, as the great creator Akira Kurosawa says, then the past, which is preserved in memory, is the very source of our humanity.
This didn't surprise me. For my great-grandparents, as it was for most immigrants of their generation, the past was a hindrance. It was all about the future. A new life with new appliances and new cars and new names. Nothing old, as the old carried with it the weight of oppressive regimes, poverty, and social immobility. They therefore sought to sever all ties with the Old World, and instead of teaching their native tongue to their children, they spoke to them in accented English, speaking Russian only to one another. Instead of nurturing their children on where they came from, harnessing folktales that had been passed down for generations, they engaged only in the present, embracing even the incorrect spellings and pronunciations of their names, as illustrated below, allowing even the names of some of their siblings and their parents to be forgotten by their children. It was not a question of pride, but one of survival.
This explains why my grandmother hadn't been of much help. Her only regret at 93 years of age is that she didn't ask more questions about where she came from. But she was taught to be American, not Russian, and besides the dishes her parents cooked and the music they occasionally listened to, she had little to feed her curiosity; with the stoicism and determination of the hardiest colonists, her parents had succeeded in creating their new lives without giving their children any reason to look back. But pieces of their past persisted, as they always do, and one day they washed up in the drawer of an old cupboard in the form of three postcards they couldn't bring themselves to destroy. Perhaps they looked longingly at these postcards on rare occasions, and only half-heartedly hid away with the intention that someone would one day find them, as I eventually did. That someone would remember them for who they truly were, and where they came from at a time when it was no longer dangerous to do so; no one wishes to be forgotten, even if we are sometimes forced to forget.
It was not a question of pride, but one of survival.
At first, I couldn't make much sense of the postcards, which all bore handwritten text in Russian and the photographs of a child, two women, and a man whom I didn't recognize, although he bore a stark resemblance to my cousins. I showed them to my grandmother, but she neither recognized the people in the photographs, nor remembered ever seeing the postcards before. So, I asked a Russian family friend take a look. He was unable to translate any of the words, explaining that they were written in an older version of the language only his own grandmother would be familiar with. But a peer of mine, an archaeologist from Moscow, was not similarly thwarted, and granted me the following translations:
Postcard 1: In good memory to Dear Arran [my great-grandfather] and Eugenia [my great-grandmother] from loving mother and sister, 1922
Postcard 2: In long good memory to dear brother Arran from brother Nahum in far-away Manchurian fields. Town Harbin. 8th December, year 1922. N F Shpigluz [note: the spelling and pronunciation of the family name was changed from Shpigluz (shpee-glooz) to Spiegel (spee-gull)]
Postcard 3: Harbin. 3rd May, 1921. In memory to dear mother from loving son Nahum
A few simple lines immediately confirmed that we had had an uncle in modern-day China, even if, unfortunately, nothing was mentioned about the Tsar. At the same time, as I read these words to my grandmother, they acted like a pneumonic device, stirring awake a string of memories that for decades lay dormant and now spilled unstopped from her trembling lips: her father Arran had had two brothers, she suddenly recalled. One, whose name she couldn't remember, had been exiled to Siberia as a dissident and was never heard from again. The other, Nahum, whose name she had just learned, was in Harbin on business—more specifically, in the Fabergé egg business; built by the Tsars, Harbin was a prominent trading post between east and west, and became a haven during the October Revolution of 1917, when many Russians fled there. Then, my grandmother began recalling stories not directly related to the postcards, which began to imbue my ancestors with hints of their true identities complete with fragments of their personalities, their love, their longing, their sadness, their guilt, and their shame—all that they were forced to smother as they began their new lives:
She had had a grandmother named Lisa, who had generously supported the local circus troupe that performed nearby her home. When the troupe moved to a different city, they left behind a scraggly dog named Poodlik in thanks, who she took care of ever since; she had had an aunt named Tanya, who her mother Eugenia had described as "wispy and adorable" until returning to Odessa one day, many years after immigrating to the US, clad in a big, black fur coat within which she had sewn all the gifts she was bringing home. There, she was greeted by a frail old lady she could hardly recognized, the ravages of time nearly bringing her to tears. Still, neither time nor distance could destroy the bond between the two sisters, and a correspondence between them continued long after they parted once again, possibly the only connection to the Old World that my great-grandparents wouldn't sever. Within each letter they pressed a fragrant flower and discussed the wonders of a new life in the New World without mention of its struggles, and eventually, Tanya ventured across the Atlantic as well—she immigrated to Canada shortly after which the last of her letters arrived in New York.
No one wishes to be forgotten, even if we are sometimes forced to forget.
My grandmother always looked forward to receiving Tanya's letters, which her mother read to her as she inhaled the flower it contained and twisted its stem in her fingers. She remembers that last flower clearly—it was a wildflower with specks of yellow and purple and a scent not unlike that of a lilac. Her recollections didn't end there, but lasted for a short while in decreasing detail, newly remembered names and nicknames and anecdotes and jokes and broken narratives from lives she never lived fueling our imaginations. And when she remembered nothing more, she stared at me blankly, as if she had just awoken from hypnosis. A clear sense of relief then rushed through her, revealed in her deep, steady breaths, the weight of her one regret lessening—perhaps she had asked enough questions, and was merely met with silence more often than not. A sense of pride revealed itself in her luminous, warm smile for having retained what little her parents risked telling her—no doubt they had wanted to tell her so much more—and for having honored their memory by doing so; for having contributed as tradition dictates for a grandmother, teaching younger generations in the oldest of ways; and for having filled some of the holes that exist within us all that beg to know where we came from to better understand where we are going.
Without the same disinterest that she had shown when encountering her past prior to the postcards' discovery—which was no doubt the way in which she dealt with her previous inability to remember—my grandmother then listened as I told her about the nature of the writing gracing them. This was proving as fascinating as their content: as my peer had indicated, the one from "mother and sister," whose names remain unknown, uses perfect spelling and grammar and a neat, educated hand. My grandmother believes this is because one of her aunts, possibly Tanya, was studying to become a doctor. The second two, however, both signed by Nahum, are not as tidy and contain misspellings, bad grammar, and bad handwriting. Furthermore, they seem to have been written by two different people, as the mistakes and the handwriting are inconsistent.
A sense of pride revealed itself in her luminous, warm smile… for having filled some of the holes that exist within us all that beg to know where we came from to better understand where we are going.
The errors point not only to the changing nature of the Russian language at the time, but to poor education and possibly even Russian not being the writers' first language. They therefore leave us with plenty more questions: was Nahum illiterate, and dictating his letters to only mildly literate friends? Was his first language not Russian, hinting at a different ethnic heritage? Above all else I am left to wonder what he had said when he last saw his brother: my great-grandfather Arran. Did he know that Arran and his wife Eugenia were going to America? Why didn't he go himself? Perhaps he was already all too familiar with the stresses of living in a land far from home, and wished only to return to his family in Odessa. I also wonder why my great-grandfather clung to these postcards when he was willing to let his brother's name be forgotten. Perhaps it was his last effort to keep his brother's memory alive. Perhaps it was guilt: guilt for this willingness, guilt for having left his brother behind when he boarded an unknown vessel at an unknown port and headed west.
My grandmother was unable to illuminate anything on this matter, but she promised to keep asking questions, even if there is no one left alive who can answer them. And afraid to be plagued by the one regret that still plagues her—albeit now to a lesser extent—I will continue to do the same. I will continue to collect memory as I continue to create, and hope that there is not another futile, senseless attempt to destroy the past. This destruction comes largely in a desperate effort to endure, to eliminate what we believe is threatening to undo us. Yet our ability to endure exists with or without destruction, and all that we topple, all that we break, all that we crush will persist regardless in some shape or form—as love, longing, sadness, guilt, or shame. As memory, which is the seed from which our humanity grows and flourishes.
Christopher Impiglia is a writer and art book editor based in New York. He holds an MFA in Fiction from The New School and an MA in Medieval History and Archaeology from the University of St Andrews. He has previously contributed to Issue 2 of EuropeNow, and his words have otherwise appeared or are forthcoming in Kyoto Journal and Columbia Journal, among others.
Published on October 2, 2017.
Tags: assimilation, heritage, history, immigration, memory, nonfiction, past, russia, russian
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Legacy Internet Resources – Contractual Relationship Changes Between Sponsoring LIR and Legacy Internet Resource Holder
Publication date: 30 Sep 2015
The RIPE NCC provides all RIPE NCC Services with regards to Legacy Internet Resources to Legacy Holders provided they have signed a contract with a sponsoring LIR or with the RIPE NCC.
This document describes the modifications that might be made to a contractual relationship between a sponsoring LIR and Legacy Holder of Legacy Internet Resources as well as the possible consequences of such changes or of failure to communicate these changes to the RIPE NCC. This document does not describe any procedures applicable to contractual relationship changes for Legacy Holders who have a contractual relationship directly with the RIPE NCC.
This document does not describe the procedure to be followed in case of a transfer of Legacy Internet Resources from the RIPE NCC service region to the service region of another RIR and vice versa. This procedure is described in the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Inter-RIR Transfer of Internet Number Resources".
1. Change in Legacy Internet Resource Holder's Business Structure
When the Legacy Holder and the sponsoring LIR initially sign a contract, the sponsoring LIR must submit to the RIPE NCC an extract from the Commercial Trade Register or an equivalent document proving the registration of the Legacy Holder's business with the relevant national authorities (see also the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data").
If the Legacy Holder is a natural person, the sponsoring LIR must submit the identification papers of the Legacy Holder. This can be a passport, driving license or other official document proving the identity of the individual (see also the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Due Diligence for the Quality of the RIPE NCC Registration Data").
If there is any change in the Legacy Holder's business structure after signing the contract with the sponsoring LIR (for example, if the Legacy Holder has merged with another company or has changed name), and, because of this change, the information held by the RIPE NCC on the Legacy Holder is not up-to-date, then the sponsoring LIR is obliged to submit the updated/new registration papers of the Legacy Holder to the RIPE NCC, as well as any documents verifying this change.
The sponsoring LIR must send an email to lir-help _at_ ripe _dot_ net informing the RIPE NCC of the Legacy Holder's business change. This email must include new registration papers from the national authority and the official legal documents supporting this change.
Legacy Holders must update all RIPE Database objects that they maintain themselves that are affected by this change.
If the sponsoring LIR does not submit the aforementioned documents within 10 working days of the RIPE NCC requesting them, the RIPE NCC will send a reminder to the sponsoring LIR's contact email addresses and to the Legacy Holder's contact email addresses as listed in the relevant RIPE Database object, asking the sponsoring LIR to submit the requested documents within 10 working days of the day of the reminder.
If the RIPE NCC has not received the requested documents within 10 working days from the date of the reminder, the RIPE NCC will not be obliged to keep providing the holder with services other than those provided with regards to each Legacy Resource immediately before the signing of the Agreement according to the procedure described in section C.2 of the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Resources".
2. Termination of Contractual Relationship
If the contractual relationship between the Legacy Holder and the sponsoring LIR is terminated for any reason, the RIPE NCC must be notified. The Legacy Holder may at that point enter into a contractual relationship with a different sponsoring LIR or with the RIPE NCC directly.
For registration purposes, the RIPE NCC must be notified before the contractual relationship terminates. It is the responsibility of the sponsoring LIR to submit this notification to the RIPE NCC prior to termination.
If the RIPE NCC has not been notified prior to the termination and the Legacy Holder has already entered into a new contractual relationship with a different sponsoring LIR, this new sponsoring LIR must notify the RIPE NCC and submit the new contract they signed with the Legacy Holder. The RIPE NCC will notify the previous sponsoring LIR of this change. Should the previous sponsoring LIR object to the termination of their contract with the Legacy Holder, the RIPE NCC will only accept the contract of the sponsoring LIR that submits a confirmation signed by the Legacy Holder. This confirmation must clearly state that the Legacy Holder has or has not terminated the contractual agreement with the previous sponsoring LIR.
The Legacy Holder may also enter into a contractual relationship directly with the RIPE NCC. More information is available.
If the RIPE NCC is informed of the termination of the contractual relationship between the sponsoring LIR and the Legacy Holder and, after 10 working days, no new contractual relationship has been established between the Legacy Holder and a different sponsoring LIR or the RIPE NCC, the RIPE NCC will send a notification to the Legacy Holder's contact email addresses, as listed in the relevant RIPE Database object, asking the Legacy Holder to sign a new contractual agreement with another sponsoring LIR within 10 working days of the notification or to sign an agreement directly with the RIPE NCC.
If the RIPE NCC has not received a new contractual agreement 10 working days from the date of the notification, the RIPE NCC will not be obliged to keep providing the holder with services other than those provided with regards to each Legacy Resource immediately before the signing of the Agreement according to the procedure described in section C.2 of the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Resources".
3. Closure of Sponsoring LIR
If the sponsoring LIR has their RIPE NCC Standard Service Agreement terminated, the RIPE NCC will send a notification to the Legacy Holder's contact email addresses, as listed in the relevant RIPE Database object, asking the Legacy Holder to sign a new contractual agreement with another sponsoring LIR or with the RIPE NCC within 10 working days of the notification.
If the Legacy Holder does not submit a new contractual agreement with another sponsoring LIR within 10 working days of the RIPE NCC requesting them, the RIPE NCC will send a reminder to the Legacy Holder's contact email addresses as listed in the relevant RIPE Database object, asking the sponsoring LIR to submit the requested documents within 10 working days of the day of the reminder.
If the RIPE NCC has not received a new contractual agreement within 10 working days from the date of the reminder, the RIPE NCC will not be obliged to keep providing the holder with services other than those provided with regards to each Legacy Resources immediately before the signing of the Agreement according to the procedure described in section C.2 of the RIPE NCC procedural document, "Closure of Members, Deregistration of Internet Resources and Legacy Resources".
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