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Chihuahua Claims Guinness World Record as Oldest Living Dog: Meet TobyKeith!
Donny Meacham Published: April 21, 2022
Guinness World Records via Instagram
TobyKeith has claimed the crown as the oldest living dog.
According to Guinness World Records, the Chihuahua from Florida is the oldest dog alive at 21 years old.
TobyKeith claimed the title on March 16, when he turned 21 years and 66 days old.
The adorable pup's owner, Gisela Shore, adopted the little guy when he was just a few months old from an animal rescue.
"I was a volunteer at Peggy Adams Animal Rescue and one of the employees told me about an elderly couple trying to surrender a puppy because they could not take care of him any longer," Shore told Guinness World Records in a video shared to their Instagram account.
"I met with the elderly couple and I was introduced to a tiny tan Chihuahua. They had named him Peanut Butter. I later changed his name to TobyKeith," Shore continued. "He's been with me since he was a puppy. He is in pretty good health considering his age, and he does a lot of sleeping, but other than that, he's doing great."
The video shows TobyKeith cuddling up to Shore and taking a nap. Watch below:
The Chihuahua also has a heart condition, but Shore noted it doesn't "give him much trouble."
Shore told Guinness World Records TobyKeith's diet of "vegetables, rice and chicken and no sugary treats," in addition to his daily walks, have kept him living past the average Chihuahua's life expectancy, which is 14 to 16 years, according to the American Kennel Club.
The proud owner pampered TobyKeith to celebrate the record. "It definitely brought a big smile on my face!" Shore shared of the achievement.
While TobyKeith is the oldest living dog, the Guinness World Record for the oldest dog ever belongs to an Australian cattle dog.
Bluey was born in 1910 and worked among farm animals for nearly two decades before being put to sleep on Nov. 14, 1939 at the age of 29 years and five months, according to Guinness World Records.
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Micro CPH is a 2-day single track conference taking place in Copenhagen on May 14-15. Join us for inspiring talks about microservices, distributed and event-driven architecture, and get insights into the operational side of developing, running, deploying and testing microservices.
Susanne Kaiser
Independent Tech Consultant
Indu Alagarsamy
Nick Tune
Sneha Inguva
Nic Jackson
Michael Geers
micro-frontends.org
Jessica Tai
Aviva Solutions
Mikkel Mørk Hegnhøj
Thomas Bøgh Fangel
Lunar Way
Emil Krog Ingerslev
Chris Richardson
microservices.io
Jeppe Cramon
Cloud Create
SusanneKaiser
As the CTO at Just Software, Susanne is responsible for the software development of JUST SOCIAL - providing apps for collaboration and communication in organizations. She has a background in computer sciences and experience in software development for more than 15 years.
Lightning talk: Preparing For a Future Microservices Journey
Video - Slides
In the light of rapidly changing market requirements organizations must accelerate to excel in the market. A 4-years research (by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim) has revealed that software delivery performance has a strong impact on profitability, productivity and market share of technology organizations. Loosely coupled architecture, such as promoted by microservices, and empowered teams are some of the capabilities to improve software delivery performance. After having already introduced microservices in a startup context I would like to share some thoughts what to do differently when introducing microservices next time in the future.
JamesLewis
James has been working at ThoughtWorks for nearly a decade. He joined back in 2005 as a developer. He had about 8 years experience prior to that point but still remembers feeling like an imposter for the entire first year. Since then, he has learnt more than he ever thought possible about how to build software from some of the most genuine, enthusiastic people he has met.
These days James is primarily interested in building distributed systems using web technologies. He has been a keen observer (and participant) in the resurgence of interest in SOA and can often be found being a loud mouth at conferences, usually on some aspect of building microservices. He has also been known to give his opinions on lean software engineering, domain driven design, organisational design and innovation.
Oh, and Welsh rugby.
Keynote: Flow, Microservices and scale
Recent research summarised in the book Accelerate points to a set of practices that lead to high software development organisation performance. Simultaneously, research from the Santa Fe institute on Complex Adaptive Systems over the last 20 years seems to point to a grand unified theory of organisational design. So have we cracked it? Do we now have the answer to the question: how do we create and scale high performing software and organisations? In his keynote, James explores this research and takes a look at the surprising links between microservices, elephants, Copenhagen and companies.
InduAlagarsamy
Programmer...Single mom...Passionate about life, distributed computing, SOA, messaging and rock climbing! Currently dev at @particularsw
Indu Alagarsamy has been programming for over 15 years. She is currently part of the development team at Particular Software, the makers of NServiceBus, practicing her passion. Indu is also passionate about diversity and inclusiveness in the tech industry. When not programming, she is either rock climbing in sunny Southern California or spending time with her kids and her ginormous chill dog!
Autonomy & Asynchrony: The key to designing reliable systems
Autonomy and Asynchrony are two of the most important concepts for building reliable software systems. The real world operates on events but when we write software, we tend to use a call stack style of Command and Control. Understanding asynchrony can help you spot things like temporal coupling and other road blocks that prevent you from being autonomous.
In this session, see how event-driven architecture can power your systems and help you think about autonomy from the get go. Understand the gotchas of what's involved when you delve into the land of messaging and events. Build your services as small units that can scale, be autonomous and give you reliability, all the hallmarks of a good microservice.
NickTune
Nick is a strategic technical leader at Navico. He has a passion for delighting users, creating business impacts, crafting quality software, and building world-class engineering teams. He is the co-author of two books: Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Wrox) and Designing Autonomous Teams and Services (O'Reilly), and frequently blogs about technical leadership at ntcoding.co.uk.
Strategic Microservice Patterns
Everybody knows there are hundreds of technical patterns you can apply to microservices. Yet nobody knows about the hundreds of domain patterns you can apply to microservices. By aligning your microservices with your business domain, you create a software system which is easier to comprehend, easier to evolve, and easier to develop at speed because it reflects the business. Understanding domain patterns helps you align your microservices and your business domain.
Learn why it's important not to confuse The Entity Lifecycle Pipeline and The Proposal Pipeline. Learn how to manage complexity, and politics, when your domain contains an Octopus Context. And learn about many other domain patterns including The Dogfood Context, The Engagement Context, and The Brain Context.
To create the best architecture you also need to understand the business model. By viewing your microservices as business capabilities aligned to domain patterns, you will be able to design the best architecture for your business and for the teams building your microservices.
SnehaInguva
Sneha Inguva is a software engineer on the networking team at DigitalOcean. She has previously worked on the internal tooling team, inspiring passion to investigate observability primitives for new products. In her spare time, she frequents international cat cafes and medium to tall-sized mountains.
Observability and Product Release: Building, Testing, and Shipping Networking Features at DigitalOcean
Monoliths to microservices, containerization, blackbox to whitebox monitoring. DigitalOcean has experienced a shift in how services are built and deployed in the last few years, and along with that has come an even more important need to leverage the pillars of observability. Though the focus is often on services already in production, within this talk, I will focus on nascent services. Namely, how can we leverage metrics, tracing, and logging to test, improve, and deploy new microservices?
Listeners will hear about specific cases of networking services rigorously tested and tuned via learnings from observability primitives. We will showcase instrumentation, key visualizations, and takeaways from our testing. Listeners will be able to hear about areas for improvement and find out how to use these learnings for their own releases.
NicJackson
Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp and the author of "Building Microservices in Go" a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go programming language. Additionally, Nic is writing "Vault in Action" with his co-author Anubhav Mishra, a book which discusses operational and application security using the popular open source HashiCorp Vault, due to be published summer 2019
Has the service mesh killed the fat network client?
Microservice design is deliberately loosely coupled and decentralized, while you gain the benefit of high availability. One problem is that we need to implement particular network reliability patterns like Load Balancing, Circuit Breaking, Retries, and Timeouts, often as a "fat" network client in each service.
In this talk, we will take a look in depth at these network reliability patterns and the benefits they give our systems. We will also see how we can leverage the power of the service mesh with Envoy and Consul Connect to implement them without the need for shared libraries and code changes.
MichaelGeers
Michael Geers is a developer and builds e-commerce systems at neuland Büro für Informatik in Germany. He thinks of himself as a full stack developer, but the largest part of his work is centered around frontend development and architecture for building and maintaining solid user interfaces. Over the last years he worked on several vertically sliced development projects. At micro-frontends.org he shares his experiences on integrating UIs, built by different teams, in the browser.
He likes template languages, building design systems and optimizing web performance. In his free time he create small hardware projects with his kids. On Twitter you can find him as @naltatis.
Micro Frontends - The Nitty Gritty Details or Frontend, Backend,  Happyend
The term Micro Frontends describes the idea of splitting your application into vertical slices, which are developed by autonomous cross functional teams. So beside caring about database and business logic, each team also develops their own part of the user interface. This talk will describe different strategies to integrate these user interfaces in the browser without locking them into a single shared frontend framework like React, Angular or Vue.js. When doing this, you also need to keep an eye on web performance and you should have a plan on how to ensure that the customer gets a consistent look and feel.
Furthermore there are a lot of benefits to a cross functional team compared to separate dedicated frontend and backend teams. It removes friction, enables you to iterate more quickly, reduces the need for formal documentation and helps you find better technical solutions.
Understand the ideas behind micro frontends and the benefits and drawbacks of this approach
Pick an appropriate frontend integration strategy
Learn what web components are and how they can help in providing an neutral interface
Identify topics where it is important to decide between team autonomy and uniformity
Have a broad overview of related topics like performance monitoring and design systems that need to be addressed
Understand the organizational benefits and challenges that come with this model
JessicaTai
Jessica has worked at Airbnb for 5 years, starting as a full-stack engineer for the guest and host products and is now an infrastructure engineer on the Core Services team. She leads the user service, which integrates with all business verticals as one of Airbnb's highest trafficked services. In addition to driving best practices for service development, she focuses on Leadership & Development as the Vice President of the Airbnb women in tech community. Prior to Airbnb, Jessica received her Masters of Computer Science at Stanford and her Bachelors degree from UCLA.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicamtai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicatai/
Airbnb's Great Migration: Building Services at Scale
So you've decided to migrate from monolith to microservices, what next? Such a redesign to service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a long, arduous journey that benefits from an incremental, iterative approach. Yet, such a migration often must be done while still shipping new features, accelerating developer velocity, and growing the team in addition to ensuring there are no performance regressions.
This talk will focus on how Airbnb is building, operating, and scaling its expanding network of services. Though our re-architecture to SOA is still ongoing, we are already seeing various benefits including improved performance, developer productivity, build and deploy times, and site reliability.
Understand design principles for building scalable, performant services
Plan for dependencies: how to sequence decomposition into services and an API gateway
Learn best practices for standardization, reliability, and performance when migrating architecture
Identify ways to shift product culture to empower migration work
Recognize tradeoffs with operating microservices
DennisDoomen
Dennis is an agile .NET architect with a broad interest in modern software development, Domain Driven Design, CQRS, Event Sourcing and everything agile. He specializes in designing enterprise solutions based on the .NET technologies as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building and maintaining enterprise systems. He is the author of www.fluentassertions.com, an assertion framework for fluently asserting the outcome of unit tests and he has been publishing coding guidelines for C# 3.0, C# 4.0 and C# 5.0 on www.csharpcodingguidelines.com since 2001. He also maintains a blog on his everlasting quest for better solutions at www.continuousimprover.com. You can reach him on Twitter through @ddoomen.
An Event Sourcing Retrospective - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
In 2009, I first learned about Event Sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) at a training Greg Young gave in Utrecht, The Netherlands. I remembered to be awed by the scalability and architectural simplicity those styles provided. However, I also remembered the technical complexity that comes with it. In 2012, I was in charge of transitioning a CQRS-based system to Event Sourcing. I knew it would be non-trivial, but boy was I in for a surprise.
So over the last four years I've experienced first-hand how a large group of developers had to deal with the transition. It's a brilliant solution for high-performance or complex business systems, but you need to be aware that this also introduces challenges most people don't tell you about. In this talk, I'd like to share you some of the most powerful benefits of ES, but also show you the flipside of the coin and cover some of the smaller and bigger challenges you'll run into it. Again, I love it and would apply it again without any doubt, but I really want you to understand the trade-offs before you jump on the Event Sourcing train.
MikkelMørk Hegnhøj
Mikkel works as a Program Manager within Azure Compute at Microsoft
Has spent his entire professional career working with Microsoft technologies. Has for the last three years been part of different product teams inside Microsoft, focusing on Azure.
Working in the Azure Service Fabric team, providing Service Fabric and Azure Service Fabric Mesh. Main areas of responsibilities are .NET, developer experiences and Windows containers.
This is how Microsoft runs Microservices that powers Microsoft's cloud Azure
Microsoft runs one of the World larges public clouds. Come listen to an in-depth talk about how Microsoft is building the cloud and the services it offers on top of open source software.
We will discuss the design principles and capabilities needed to build planet scale systems, and how distributed systems design can benefit systems with less scaling requirements - and when they are not a good fit.
You will also be able to see demos of the technologies we use.
Architect and Backend Engineer at Lunar Way
Thomas is a backend architect and developer at Lunar Way - one of the new players in the nordic banking sector. His time is equally divided between thinking about how to improve and design the Lunar Way banking backend of the future and actually implementing it. Currently, most of this implementation is done in Go, but before joining Lunar Way Thomas has implemented complex distributed systems using FP in Scala and the Akka actor framework.
In his free time he spends some of his time trying to teach kids to code.
The Lunar Way Journey from events to event sourcing
Lunar Way is an app providing banking services and finance management to personal users and small enterprises. Built on top of an existing bank and various integration partners Lunar Way strives to provide its users with a best-in-class service combining traditional banking with the innovation of a fintech startup.
Lunar Way's initial backend was a monolith, but back in 2017 we began building a microservice architecture with asynchronous message passing as the primary communication pattern. Currently, we run 60+ microservices deployed in a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. On the business side, the company is currently going through a development which in the future will demand a lot more from the backend platform.
Hence, we're in the process of improving the backend architecture to support the growing demands of the Lunar Way of the future. This includes strengthening the guarantees of the platform in relation to message delivery and consistency.
In this talk Emil and Thomas will share this experience - outlining the challenges encountered in the original event-driven platform and the solutions introduced to solve these challenges.
Understand the challenges posed by an event driven micro service architecture
Identify the defining characteristics of a microservice architecture that lets you sleep well at night
Understand why Event Sourcing is a good service design pattern to provide the basis of these characteristics
Get an idea of pitfalls and possible implementations when introducing Event Sourcing into a microservice architecture
Learn how to introduce Event Sourced parts into an existing microservice architecture without big bang migrations
EmilKrog Ingerslev
Architect and Site Reliability Engineer at Lunar Way
Emil is an architect and site reliability engineer at Lunar Way. His focus is on iterating and improving the daily work of developers to make it more efficient and fun. He works with automating stuff like improving CI/CD, setting up kubernetes operators, investigating and improving the platform with e.g. tracing, better protocols, event sourcing patterns, and more.
Prior to Lunar Way, Emil has worked with a wide range of technologies like React web apps, event sourced backends in Elixir, brown field .NET applications, built systems with PowerShell and TeamCity and much more.
In his free time he enjoys automating everything in his home.
ChrisRichardson
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.
Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2. Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for Microservice, and is writing the book Microservice Patterns, which is available as a Manning MEAP. He provides Microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the Microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing Transactional Microservices.
Managing data consistency in a microservice architecture using Sagas
The services in a microservice architecture must be loosely coupled and so cannot share database tables. What's more, two-phase commit (aka a distributed transaction) is not a viable option for modern applications. Consequently, a microservices application must use the Saga pattern, which maintains data consistency using a series of local transactions.
In this presentation, you will learn how sagas work and how they differ from traditional transactions. We describe how to use sagas to develop business logic in a microservices application. You will learn effective techniques for orchestrating sagas and how to use messaging for reliability. We will describe the design of a saga framework for Java and show a sample application.
JeppeCramon
Jeppe Cramon is the founder of Cloud Create where he helps customers build scalable cloud solutions.
What 5 years of implementing microservices has taught me
It's been 5 years since Martin Fowler and James Lewis wrote their article on Microservices and 4 years since Sam Newman released his book on Microserivces. But what have we learned since then?
I've collected the experience and learnings from four different products/projects based on an event centric architecture. What did we learn? In this session we'll get into what worked and what didn't work for these projects.
What parts worked so well that they survived and were brought forward to the next project and improved?
ShahidIqbal
Shahid is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP based in the UK and operating across the globe.
With over a decade of experience in .NET he works with companies to help migrate their existing applications and processes to the Cloud.
He is a passionate proponent of Cloud Native approaches and employing technologies such as Azure and Kubernetes to solve modern development problems.
Shahid is also frequent speaker at both international conferences and local meetups and is co-organizer of a .NET meetup in the UK.
Solving microservices challenges using Kubernetes
Developing microservices based applications is a hot trend in our industry. Sometimes this decision is based not on trying solving the specific problems that microservices solve but unfortunately a desire to use the latest techniques or, even worse, a desire to adopt trendy new platforms such as Kubernetes and service meshes. In essence the cart is placed before and horse and application architecture is dictated by platform decisions.
However, let's assume that our audience on the other hand have clearly identified how microservices will benefit them. This talk introduces a "journey" to microservices and highlights some new problems that are created by adopting such an architecture.
We then step through how we can leverage cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes and the even trendier topic of service meshes such as Istio to try and address some of these new problems.
This talk along with demos will cover many topics in an area which is rapidly evolving however we'll try and focus on the fundamental problems, and demonstrate tools that can help make the experience better or simply easier to manage. Topics covered include: Containers Container orchestration - Kubernetes Azure Dev Spaces Service Meshes - Istio
ChristianMikkelsen
Opportunities multiply as they are seized and context is king, so I strive to adapt to that every changing world and apply myself to the best of my knowledge.
Result: a serious amount of debates, discussions, implementations, failures and successes at a daily basis.
As a developer, devops engineer and architect I would be nothing if it was not for those daily challenges of the mind, provided by my esteemed mentors and colleagues.
With a background in embedded software, my heart lies the in automation of everything that makes the everyday life of my colleagues hard or trivial and in the everlasting pursuit of the perfect automated infrastructure, pipeline and architecture.
Currently my name is spelled K-U-B-E-R-N-E-T-E-S.
Lightning talk: How a small team survived on microservices
This lightning talk is a story about how a development team at Telenor in Denmark went through the process of breaking down a monolith into microservices through specification by example. Both as an effort to make it easier to understand and grasp what various parts of the system was doing and documenting it at the same time. This was done by a relatively small team who also had to accommodate the challenges that arise when having a microservice based architecture.
Microservice architecture essentials
May 13 09:00 - 17:00
Enable the rapid, frequent and safe delivery of software through functional decomposition
Enterprises need to deliver better software faster. It's no longer sufficient to release quarterly or even monthly. Instead, organizations must use methods, such as DevOps, to frequently deploy changes into production, perhaps as often as multiple times per day. One obstacle, however, to DevOps-style development is that organizations are often mired in monolithic hell. Key business applications are large, complex, unwieldy monoliths, and so it's impossible to rapidly and safely deploy changes.
The solution is to adopt the microservice architecture, which is an architectural style that has the testability and deployability necessary for DevOps. In this 1 day workshop, you will learn about the the microservice architecture, its benefits and drawbacks and how to get started.
Unique opportunity to learn from Chris Richardson in Copenhagen at a very affordable price with a Workshop + Conference combo ticket.
The workshop takes place at Symbion on Fruebjergvej 3, 2100 København Ø
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Audience: senior developers, architects and technology leaders
The topics covered include:
The essential characteristics of the microservice architecture, its benefits and drawbacks and when to use it
Decomposition strategies
Distributed data management patterns
Effective microservice testing strategies
Strategies for refactoring a monolithic application to a microservice architecture
The workshop will take place at Symbion on Fruebjergvej 3, 2100 København Ø - The reception can guide you in the right direction of the workshop room, which will also have "Microservice architecture essentials workshop with Chris Richardson" on a sign outside the room.
You can use the Symbion parking lot free of charge, you just need to register your car with the reception upon arrival.
If you are taking the bus then lines 150s (on Lyngbyvej) and 42 (on Lersø Parkalle) both stop close by. The closest train station is Rypark or Emdrup station, which is a 6-7 minute walk from the workshop venue.
The workshop starts at 9:00 and we will be there from 8:30 to register all attendees. You don't need to print your ticket - just show us the email with your registration once you've found the workshop room.
Lunch will take place in the Canteen at Symbion at 12:00 and there will be breaks during the day for refulling on coffee/energy.
The style of the workshop is more lecture style then hands-on, so if you want to bring your laptop to take notes that is perfectly fine, but a laptop is not required to follow along.
eventuate.io
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect. He is a Java Champion, a JavaOne rock star and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris was also the founder of the original CloudFoundry.com, an early Java PaaS for Amazon EC2.
Today, he is a recognized thought leader in microservices and speaks regularly at international conferences. Chris is the creator of Microservices.io, a pattern language for microservices, and author of Microservice Patterns. He provides microservices consulting and training to organizations that are adopting the microservice architecture and is working on his third startup Eventuate, an application platform for developing transactional microservices.
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Primarily Gaza with minimal operational presence in the West Bank and Israel.
The group's most prominent leader was Dr. Fathi Shqaqi. He was assassinated in 1995.
The founders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shaqaqi and Abd al-Aziz Awda, were students in Egypt and members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood until the late 1970s. The two believed the Muslim Brotherhood was becoming too moderate and insufficiently committed to the Palestinian cause, and decided to leave in pursuit of this cause.
The group's senior leadership resides in Syria, while some other leadership elements reside in Lebanon, and official representatives are scattered throughout the Middle East. In 2009 much of the group's leadership was arrested or killed, however, the group remains active.
PIJ was estimated in 2013 to have fewer than 1,000 members.
Received financial assistance from Iran and limited logistic assistance from Syria. The Government of Iran has used Bank Saderat to channel funds to the Palestine Islamic Jihad.
Founded in the late 1970s, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is one of the most violent Palestinian terrorist groups. The PIJ originated among militant Palestinians in the Gaza Strip region. The group believes that armed struggle in coordination with active support from the Arab and Muslim worlds is the only viable way to achieve the destruction of Israel and liberation of Palestine.
The group originated in Egypt, until 1987 when the group was exiled to Lebanon following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. It was in Lebanon the group began to receive training and resources from Hizballah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
Currently the group is a very small, highly secretive organization that operates primarily underground due to a loss of popular support.
Over the course of the past decade, most PIJ attacks have taken the form of suicide bombings or rocket firings into Israel.
August 1987: A shooting killed the commander of the Israeli military police in the Gaza Strip.
December 1993: A shooting killed Israeli reservist David Mashrati aboard a bus.
The PIJ has allegedly been inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran and this has been the basis for its actions to promote radical fundamentalist Sunni Muslim ideology in the Gaza Strip.
The PIJ seeks the immediate "liberation" of Palestine and the destruction of the Israeli state. They refuse any arrangement or agreement as well as participation in the political process.
The PIJ was among the first to use suicide bomb attacks against Israel. Rocket attacks, suicide bombings and small arms attacks make up the majority of their activities.


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About a year ago "Bobby", a true skeptic, ordered the EFT Course. We had some phone discussions beforehand and he said he would "try it out" on some undisclosed emotional issues of his. A year went by and he finally called me two nights ago announcing that he had "tried it" and things only got worse. Of course I would have preferred it if he had said that (1) his business had tripled, (2) his relationships were ecstatic, (3) he no longer needed his Viagra and (4) he was going to send me a new Ferrari as a thank you. But this was not to be.
Once in awhile people say that EFT makes them "worse." While that is their perception, it's not what I hear. Instead, my experience tells me that "getting worse" really means that a surface issue has been handled thereby paving the way for a more intense issue to show up. The client, not being aware of this, thinks the tapping made him worse.
Upon discussion, I learned that Bobby had been through many years of therapy for a variety of issues, including agoraphobia (apparently resolved). He had a fairly long list of existing issues which he was currently "working on" and among them was a freeway driving phobia and an escalator phobia. I suspicioned, of course, that in the process of using EFT on these phobias he was actually giving relief to some surface items which then cleared the way for him to "tune in" to more substantial issues. His way of describing getting "worse" was to say that he had increasing anxiety (a rather global term, at least to me).
"I'm not sure if this is right. At this stage we have more questions than answers."
"Your increased anxiety could be due to many things. In my experience, though,....."
"We have our theories, of course, but the bottom line is--does it work?"
These statements are both true AND appropriate for a skeptic. They have a way of complying with the skeptics beliefs while paving the way for some openness. Anyway, they held his interest and allowed me to poke around a bit into some specifics behind these phobias. In the conversation, Bobby mentioned he had an "eye problem" associated with the phobias. It was as though his eyes became tired or fatigued when looking down an escalator or down the freeway. In both cases, the movement of people or cars passing him seemed to aggravate the problem.
It usually helps to delve into details when an issue doesn't seem to move normally. In this case, I immediately saw a parallel between Bobby's phobia and a discovery by Dr. Roger Callahan that height phobias are often NOT a reaction to heights. Instead, they are a response to the "converging lines" one sees while looking off of a high building or over a cliff. These converging lines can generate a sense of being "pulled" in the direction of the lines, thereby creating a response which the client labels as fear. This, in my opinion, is a genius insight which, if you think about it, is also common sense. Why, for example, does someone with a "height phobia" have no problem looking out of an airplane window (several miles high) but has a great problem looking over a 4 story balcony. This suggests it is not a height phobia after all. Rather, it is a converging line phobia.
Bobby picked up on this instantly. It made great sense to him. Both escalators and freeways had converging lines and he felt that his "eye fatigue" was due to his inability to look at them. So we did several rounds of EFT for looking down escalators and for looking down freeways. I had him imagine both instances and he got a "pressure in the head" of a 6 or 7. We tapped a few rounds until the pressure dropped to between zero and 0.5. We included people and cars whizzing by him as some of the aspects.
When we were done, of course, we had no way of knowing if we were successful in reducing or eliminating the phobic response. Only the real world circumstance can tell us that. Some practitioners muscle test at this point to see if they are done. This can be a worthwhile clue, of course. But, to me, the bottom line is what happens in the real world situation. Since we were on the telephone in our respective living rooms, there were no escalators or freeways to allow us to test our result. Maybe there was more to do, maybe not.
I don't know if I will hear from Bobby again. He is going out of the country soon and may or may not let me know about the long term results. However, I just received this encouraging email from him (notice the skepticism about the "taps").
Thanks for yesterday. Redefining the problem as "converging lines" -- a visual, rather than a phobic problem -- has made a huge difference in my head. And it makes so much sense when I look at how it's developed and how I have compensated. How much is the taps, I can't tell you, but I know the concept helped a LOT. I drove the freeway a LITTLE today. Two times, with a lunch break between. First time I was nervous with a little head pressure -- a 4 maybe. Second time I actually relaxed a bit after I got on the freeway, maybe a 2. I believe in baby steps so I stopped there, even though I wanted to do more. I'm also a firm believer in quitting while you look forward to more. So I'm eagerly looking forward to my next chance.
I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, thank you. I'm more hopeful than in 2 years!
RESPONSE #1: Thank you for the post on converging lines. I suddenly realized why a highway phobic (who had a trauma on a five lane highway) was making slow progress. She actually speaks about not being able to look to her left because she will see the lanes.
I called her after I read the post and it made a great deal of sense to her.
RESPONSE #2: This passage is of great help to me. I was at your Oakland workshop not too long ago, where I was part of a demonstration of tapping on phobias. My issue was riding in a car, and especially on bridges. This converging lines info is something I am going to tap about. It's definitely key to the problem. On bridges, even more so in tunnels, I feel as if the walls are going to come smashing into the car I'm riding in. I can also see now that part of the problem for me of riding in traffic with several lanes of cars is that the lines converge ahead of me, so it seems that the cars on each side are going to come crashing into me, like there isn't enough space for my car. This is already triggering other aspects for me. Thank you so much for sharing this info.


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Triphala ist eine Kräutermischung in der ayurvedischen Medizin.

Eigenschaften
Triphala ist ein gängiges ayurvedisches Nahrungsergänzungsmittel. Es enthält die drei Myrobalane-Früchte Haritaki (Terminalia chebula), Amalaki (Amla) und Bibhitaki (Terminalia belerica).

In der ayurvedischen Lehre wird Triphala als Rasayana (Kräftigungs- und Verjüngungsmittel) eingesetzt. In Indien wird Triphala seit Jahrhunderten in der Traditionellen Indischen Medizin als Darmreinigungsmittel, verdauungsförderndes Mittel, Diuretikum und Abführmittel verwendet. Aufgrund der antimutagenen Eigenschaften wird eine Verwendung bei Krebs untersucht.

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Ayurveda
Nahrungsergänzungsmittel

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An unredacted version of Mt. Gox's "crisis strategy draft" shows the Bitcoin exchange was projected to be financially healthy and profitable before it was robbed of $300 million.
Through March of this year it was supposed to book more than $10 million in net sales, and show $3 million in operating profit. After taxes, it was projected to show a $2 million profit on the bottom line.
By 2016, Mt. Gox was projected to be booking $72 million in revenues and earning $39 million in net income. Bitcoin exchanges get their revenues from service charges and through trading their own Bitcoin accounts. Mt. Gox's financials are separate from the deposits held in user accounts, which were the targets of the theft.
We saw this first on Techcrunch, which obtained an unredacted copy of the numbers from Twitter user Blake Commagere.


Home» Bottle Talk » Tippecanoe and E.G. Booz Too!
In his fourth updated edition of his book on cabin bottles, Thomas Haunton has stepped it up a notch and presented some of the most amazing cabin bottles on the planet today. New pictures and descriptions of highly desirable and rare examples of some new cabins both very old and the Clevenger reproductions surely make for a most interesting and very concise book this time around.
At 132 pages and color on almost every page including, as he points out, more than 200 color photos, this updated version of cabin bottles gives us a closer look at what has been up to now largely unavailable or new to many collectors of antique bottles. To begin with those that are aware of Thomas Haunton know he specializes in Clevenger Brother bottles, his personal collection being one of the most extensive known. His effort in classifying and making the world more aware of the work these three brothers did together is second to none. In this fourth edition Haunton has included fresh vibrant photographs of the GVII-1 and 2, otherwise known as the Tippecanoe cabin bottles. Fans of old bottles and especially cabin shaped examples will surely delight in the presentation of these treasures along with pictures of a new discovery in a flint glass excavation of the North Bend version and other rarely seen pictures of cabin bottles seen together for the first time in print.
Hardly new to writing books, Haunton's Last Links to the Past 20th Century South Jersey Glass Volume 1 Clevenger Brothers is a must have for collectors of all types of bottles. Last Links was written after the first two versions of his fascination with Tippecanoe and E.G. Booz Too! In addition to his books on bottles, as a consummate musician on the French horn, Haunton had interestingly enough published a book entitled, Horn Passages from the Symphonies of Franz Joseph Haydn back in 1980. Last Links to the Past 20th Century South Jersey Glass Volume 1 was his third glass book. (2011) Haunton's upcoming Stories of South Jersey Glass will include glass artisans such as Emil Larson, August Hofbauer, Ralph Barber, John Rhulander, Michael Kane, Ted Ramp, as well as companies such as Dell, Beacon Glass, Marks Glass, Downer Glass, and others. All told, about thirty companies.
Haunton has also written numerous articles on Clevenger glass through the years and is generally considered the authority on the subject. While Clevenger bottles were blown from 1930 on, it's important for collectors to know what the reproduction is and isn't to avoid buying the wrong bottle. His presentation of Clevenger records and the many, many pictures give the reader a keen insight into the real and not so real while still presenting the very special work of the Clevenger Bros. In addition, Haunton also shows other companies' repros to provide a full account of bottles to both collect and be aware of. While Clevenger bottles are decades newer than the age of the original bottles they are reproducing, they still enjoy a collectible base on their own. While far from being the rarities of the 1860's, the reproductions come in a myriad of colors and can be a lot of fun collecting on a more limited budget. We keep copies of a number of Clevenger bottles at American Bottle Auctions just to be able to show and compare to people who are bringing in their own examples. With reproduction examples on hand and often an original to match it is important for us to be able to compare the age and differences in the glass to customers visiting our offices.
While the cabin section in American Bottles and Flasks and their Ancestry by McKearin and Wilson have a fairly slim list of examples known, really only six different bottles, Haunton has managed a well thought out book that will leave you feeling pretty good about what is out there for the collector today. American Bottles and Flasks only deals with originals although they do have a chapter on 20th Century Figured Bottles and Flasks and also they include a chapter entitled Commercial Reproductions of Chartered Flasks and Bottles.
It's important to also know that when we talk about cabin shaped bottles, the list of six in the McKearin book is only the tip of the iceberg. Although Haunton deals within that cabin category only along with their reproductions, any bitters collector will quickly brief you on the amazing number of cabin shaped bottles for that category alone. When you add in the various cabin shaped whiskey bottles a collector has his choice of, collectors of just cabin bottles surely have their hands full. For the older six cabin figurals which include the two Tippecanoe examples, the Jacob's Tonic Bitters and the different variants of the E.G. Booz bottle, Haunton has done an exemplary job showing all of those and including pictures of virtually every other cabin shaped bottle in the Booz type shape known to man. It might be pointed out that these mere six bottles are known to collectors today as virtual works of art more at home in a museum and some with six figure prices if they were ever to come up for sale. Haunton delivers in a big way by opening his new book educating the reader about the original cabins and then moves onto the more often seen reproductions. His cover photo is an instant classic with six cabins most extremely rare and all very beautiful.
Tippecanoe and E.G. Booz Too! is $60 plus $3 shipping and available on Ebay or straight from the author. You can send a check to Thomas C. Haunton at 47 High Street, Wilmington, MA 01887 or email him at tchaunton@comcast.net.
GVII-3 E.G. Booz's Cabin Whiskey with square corners. 1859-60′s.
GVII-8A. E.G. Booz's Cabin Whiskey. Clevenger Brothers 1934-39.
Allie Clevenger (left) and Al Schneeman with Clevenger reproductions. 1949. Photo by William Augustine.


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Q: How to obtain $\frac{\partial C}{\partial \sigma}$ from Black-Scholes PDE? The famous Black-Scholes PDE is:
$ \frac{\partial C}{\partial t} + rS\frac{\partial C}{\partial S} + \frac{1}{2}\sigma^2S^2\frac{\partial^2 C}{\partial S^2}=rC$
Then, how should I find another PDE for $\frac{\partial C}{\partial \sigma}$ from this PDE ? I tried chain rule, but it seems it didn't work straightly.
Thanks for helping me out!

A: I don't think you need the chain rule, because changes in $\sigma$ affect $C$ directly, not indirectly through other variables like $S$.
You can differentiate both sides with respect to $\sigma$:
$$
C_{t\sigma} + rS C_{S\sigma} + \sigma S^2 C_S + \frac{1}{2}\sigma^2 S^2 C_{SS\sigma} = rC_\sigma
$$
where the subscripts denote partial derivatives (for example, $C_{t\sigma} = \frac{\partial^2 C}{\partial t \partial \sigma}$).
You can verify the formula above by plugging the Black-Scholes solution for $C$ into it.
If you're just trying to calculate $C_\sigma$, an easier way would probably be to derive the Black-Scholes solution for $C$ (by guess and check) and then simply differentiate it with respect to $\sigma$.

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Romania's (RO) and Bulgaria's (BG) accession to the European Union (EU) at January 1st, 2007, represents the moment when borders between countries have been eliminated, and the EU Internal Market have become an immediate reality for local business communities. Economic integration of cross-border regions proved to be, at EU level, one of the positive effects of common market.
This integration, as specific studies shows, requires on short term a faster adaptation to market condition, compared with other regions, facing a higher competition challenge during the first phase. These facts leads to the conclusion that promotional actions, support and development of cross border cooperation between private and public sectors and between individuals must continue.
Constanta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Shipping and Agriculture, in partnership with Dobrich Chamber of Commerce and Industry, intends to help tourism entrepreneurs interested in cross border (CBC) business, to take advantage of this situation as fast as possible, by stimulation of contacts between companies from seaside regions of Constanta and Dobrich.
The project Tourism 365 days per year, has as general objective the contribution to promotion of sustainable economic development of the border region Romania - Bulgaria by re-launcing the tourism at the seaside and extension of active tourism season. This local economic development will reduce, in time, and correlated with other projects in social and environment areas, the disparities between border regions and more developed central regions in both countries.
For this purpose, a clear evaluation of the interest to participate to project's activities will be carried in both target regions, by identification of companies from tourism sector interested to develop cross border relations, as well as identification of available tourism products and services on border areas. The result of this evaluation will be a database with 160 of RO and BG companies, which will be used for all project's activities.
Information, training and awareness-raising activities (a conference and two round tables) will focus on concepts, solutions, experience and European good practices regarding the extension of summer season on seaside areas, with the clear target to identify feasible alternative solutions for the increase of active period for tourism in both countries. Nevertheless a result of the conference and round tables must be the strengthening of the specific skills of the participants, to be further used in tourism activities.
The experience exchange and know-how transfer will cover the practical aspects. With the scope to increase mutual trust in tourism markets in Romania and Bulgaria and to stimulate the cooperation relations between companies from both countries, the information and training activities will be followed by organized visits to success companies in regions Constanta and Dobrich.
Activities for stimulation and support of the extension of the tourism season, enabling the sustainability of the project, have as result the creation of specific tools to contribute to the economic development of border regions and extension of seaside summer season. Two information points will be created in Constanta and Dobrich, a guide Tourism 365 days per year will be produced, as well as an on-line database with cultural, sport, folkloric events, promoting local tourism offers on and extra season in Romania and Bulgaria.
The project includes promotional activities, in local media or partners publications, as well as dedicated web-page. In the end, both project and results will be widely promoted on Romanian and Bulgarian borders.
Total budget of the project is 53.580 euro, of which Phare contribution 48.200 euro (88,6%). Project's duration is 12 months (August 2008 – July 2009).


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Co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company; director, adapter, educator, and expert on classic theater -- via .the Royal Shakespeare Company. A magnificeent mind for theater. He worked with Peter Hall for decades, making great theater. His monumental achievements involve Shakespeare. He crafted first The Hollow Crown in 1961 and the Wars of the Roses in 1963, stitching together Shakespeare's historical plays to create a great, Brechtian, 11-hour saga. He later adapted the primary Greek tragedies into a colossal 10-play series, The Greeks. These sweeping, innovative reinvigorations of the classics was a hallmark of the RSC. His nine-part "Playing Shakespeare" is a master class on how to do exactly that.
He knew all of the Bard practically by heart, and coupled this encyclopedic knowledge with a deep and deeply felt understanding of the works, of acting, of staging. Consult any of his works -- you will get something from them.


Chloe's second article is about England's bubbles! Brilliant!
On a recent visit back to the homeland I was pleasantly surprised to see the sheer amount of English Sparkling Wine available at shops and supermarkets. I've only been living outside of the UK for a year and a half, but in this short timeframe a wonderful thing has happened, my boozy countrymen have cottoned on to the fact that not only does Brit sparkling wine exist, it's also good! Just five years ago, it would have been unheard of to see half a dozen Brit fizz brands competing with the likes of Champagne, Prosecco and Cava for shelf space, but now it's looking quite commonplace. British sparklers are winning awards and accolades up the wazoo and parts of England, such as Sussex and Kent, are even being coined as the "new Epernay." There's no doubt about it, Britain is having a wine renaissance and bubbly is its beating heart. Christopher Merret would have been delighted! If you don't know who Christopher Merret is click here.
I think it's safe to say that Brits have always had a love of bubbly. It's the grey Isle's token bevy of choice with 120 million bottles consumed each year, ranging from Champagne and Prosecco, to Cava, Cremant and beyond. Brits can't get enough of the stuff, but until very recently, the last thing on any Briton's mind would have been drinking a local sparkler. And who could blame them! If you look at Britain's winemaking track record you'd be met with some dire examples of bland, lackluster swill bred from obscure, unpronounceable German varietals and unfortunate hybrids. Couple that with the fact that up until recent years the climate was too cold and the winemaking practices far too primitive to produce anything of a quaffable nature. The late, great Peter Ustinov summed it up best: "I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German Humor and English Wine." Although I am far from an expert on Italian timekeeping and German wit, I can confidently say that Ustinov's negative feelings towards English wine were quite understandable…up until now that is.
The British wine industry has seen a lot of changes over the past few decades. As Britain's climate gradually began to warm (eh hem…climate change!) quality grape growing became possible and the potential for producing premium sparkling wine was realized. Vignerons swapped their dodgy vines for traditional Champagne varietals (Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier) and winemakers tightened up their methodology. Fast forward a few decades and the industry is flourishing. Two thirds of Britain's wine industry is now focused on sparkling wine production. Although good examples of sparkling wine can be found throughout England and Wales, the South East of England has become the hot spot for top quality "champagne-like" fizz. Just like its famous neighbor (Champagne is only 90 miles away), the South East benefits from chalky soil and a cool climate – 2 key ingredients needed for a vineyard destined to make high quality sparkling wine. I've been fortunate enough to try a number of bottles from the likes of Ridgeview Estate, Digby, Gusbourne and Nyetimber and they are all incredibly impressive. Quite like Champagne, the best examples offer elegance and complexity, depth, concentration, refreshingly high acidity and creamy bubbles.
Today, over 5 million bottles of British Sparkling Wine are being produced annually. Now don't get me wrong, that's only a drop in the ocean compared to the likes of France, Italy and Spain, but production and domestic consumption are at an all-time high and international distribution is already starting to take place. All of this gets me very, very excited! It's about time the world had another "British Invasion," so move over Moet and budge up Bollinger, there's a new bubbly on the block and it's charming palates left, right and skeptic!


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Q: Selectbox: Using html elements in options values Please see the picture

The Andrede option have red * , that is indicating mandatory field.
I've tried Andrede* as option value , but its not working its showing the full html tags

A: Option elements can contain only text.
If you want to include markup, then you need to replace the entire select element with a JavaScript widget.
I recommend changing the design so that you have a real  instead of using a placeholder or default value (both of which come with serious implications for accessibility). It is a webpage, so scrollbars are available. There is no need to have a cramped design.

A: If you are talking the given picture then they have their own select box which is build of elements other than option element


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City of Lubbock Confirms New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases, Additional Death
The City of Lubbock has confirmed 11 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19), and one additional death as of 4:00 p.m. on April 23, 2020. The total number of cases in Lubbock County is 481: 292 active, 149 listed as recovered and 40 deaths. All this information can be found on a comprehensive dashboard at www.mylubbock.us/COVID19
Through its investigations into the positive COVID-19 cases, the Health Department has identified Food King, at 5725 19th Street, as a possible community exposure site.
The possible exposure time was Tuesday, April 14, from 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The store is cooperating with the City of Lubbock. City Environmental Inspectors have been on site to verify that a Level 3 cleaning was performed. The Health Department says the possible community exposure risk at this location is low.
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Can Europe Escape Gazprom's Energy Stranglehold?
No Secure Supply without Russia
Such interpretation can be found rather easily in official Russian media. State news agency Novosti offered the following explanation for the strategy and tactics of the state-owned Russian gas corporation: "During the assessment of any move by the corporation on the European market one should always bear in mind one crucial fact: Gazprom must finish construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline."
The Novosti article straightforwardly recognizes that "Russia withholds its supplies" and not just with the aim of replenishing both corporation and public coffers. "The second — and no less important — aim is to accustom our Western partners to the obvious idea: guaranteeing their own security of supply is only possible in close partnership with Russia."
It appears, at the moment, that Europe will, via Ukraine, only receive as much gas as stipulated in the Russian-Ukrainian five-year transit contract concluded at the end of 2019. For Gazprom, it makes no sense to provide less as the booked quantity must be paid completely either way. The corporation, however, also doesn't want to book additional capacities at a much higher charge.
Political Pressure from Moscow in Favor of Nord Stream 2?
The contract, however, stipulates that during the first year, 2020, transit quantities should amount to 65 billion cubic meters, but that they are reduced thereafter, in 2021 to 2024, to 40 billion cubic meters annually, since Gazprom assumed at the time of signing that construction of Nord Stream 2 would be completed — which was thwarted by US sanctions.
This is what brings about the current situation: Europe receives, via Ukraine, significantly less gas than it likely will need. At the same time, Gazprom fulfills its contractual obligations by letting its European reservoirs run dry, and the corporation can afford itself extended maintenance service to both its pipelines into the EU.
Ultimately, all this could lead to a situation in which, at some point in autumn perhaps, Russia's state-owned corporation tells the Europeans to choose between two alternatives: Either grant an operating license for Nord Stream 2 — construction of which will probably have been completed by then — with its capacity of 55 billion cubic meters very quickly, or face major gas supply problems during the winter as reservoirs are still half empty, and the Russian energy giant can choose not to increase gas deliveries through Ukraine.
Also at Stake: The Role of Natural Gas in Decarbonization
This scenario is supported by the fact that, during an auction on July 5, Gazprom did not want to book additional transit capacities in either Ukraine or Poland for one year in advance, arguing that this could still be done on a monthly or quarterly basis. This seems to be another clear signal that, from autumn 2021, the Russian state-owned corporation plans to service increased gas demand in Europe exclusively through its own new pipeline in the Baltic Sea.
For the time being, Heiko Lohmann, who has said, "It would be much more comfortable for Europe to have this pipeline," does not believe that such an obvious attempt at blackmailing Europe is possible.
"Thus far, Gazprom has never really exerted pressure on its Western European buyer countries — at least, it has never become known," he said. "If a precedent happened now, for the first time, this would have devastating consequences for Gazprom in the political debate."
For if Gazprom actually began "to exert overt pressure" in autumn, this would enormously fuel an already heated debate in Europe about the short-, medium- and long-term role of gas within the framework of decarbonization and strengthen the position of all those who champion a much quicker withdrawal from using natural gas, Lohmann told DW.
Initially, though, Europe would have a serious supply problem.
Andrey Gurkov is Deutsche Welle's economic analyst.This article is published courtesy of Deutsche Welle (DW).


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Q: Bash finding when specific condition is true using sed with different delimiter Similar to what Bash replace string where specific condition is true asked I want to replace part of a line based on a prior condition but my delimiter must be different because part of what I am replacing includes /. The condition is also not in the first column but instead the second.
For example my data includes:
Location Ref Alt GT1 GT2
1_100004338 T C 0/0 0/0
1_100004339 C T 0/0 0/1
1_100004343 A G 1/1 0/0

If I want to base it on if I have a C in Ref (column 2) and replace all occurrences of 0/0 with 2:
Location Ref Alt GT1 GT2
1_100004338 T C 0/0 0/0
1_100004339 C T 2 0/1
1_100004343 A G 1/1 0/0

I have tried the following input
sed "+^"C"+s+"0/0"+"2"+g" file

and get the error
sed: -e expression #1, char 2: unknown command: `^'

I am not sure if it would have even gave me what I wanted if it worked though as C is in the second column and not the beginning of the line. I have tried using other ways like awk BEGIN which is way to slow for how big my file is.
Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance.

A: This might work for you (GNU sed ):
sed '/^\S\+ C /s#0/0#2#g' file

If the second column is C replace all occurrences of 0/0 with 2.

or if you prefer:
sed -E '/^\S+\s+C\s+/s#0/0#2#g' file

A: awk would be more suitable for this.
$ awk '$2=="C" {$4=2}1' input_file
Location Ref Alt GT1 GT2
1_100004338 T C 0/0 0/0
1_100004339 C T 2 0/1
1_100004343 A G 1/1 0/0

If $2 column 2 string is C, then $4 column 4 equals 2.
If sed is a must, you can try this.
$ sed '/[^ ]* C [A-Z]/ {s|0/0|2|}' input_file
Location Ref Alt GT1 GT2
1_100004338 T C 0/0 0/0
1_100004339 C T 2 0/1
1_100004343 A G 1/1 0/0


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Loss Sándor (Kállósemjén, 1961. szeptember 22. – 2004. október 14.) magyar jogszociológus, publicista.

Pedagógus szülők gyermekeként született a Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megyei Kállósemjénben. Középiskolai tanulmányait a Korányi Frigyes Gimnáziumban végezte.

Egyetemi tanulmányai
Az érettségi vizsgák letétele után a Miskolci Egyetem Állam- és Jogtudományi Karán folytatta tanulmányait, ahol 1986-ban állam- és jogtudományi doktori diplomát szerzett. Három évvel később 1989-ben az ELTE Bölcsészettudományi Karán szociológusi diplomát szerzett. Hallgatóként aktív tagja volt a miskolci egyetem jogi karán működő jogelméleti tudományos diákkörnek, illetve "Teaház" néven a '80-as évek első felében a korabeli rendszer tolerancia-határait gyakran átlépő társadalompolitikai klubot vezetett. 1985 és 1986 között egyetemistaként Vonzáskör címmel néhány lapszámot megérő művészeti-kritikai folyóiratot szerkesztett.

Kezdeti évei
1987 és 1990 között a Miskolci Egyetem Gazdaságtudományi Kar Politikaelméleti és Szociológiai Tanszékén, majd 1990-től az Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar Jogelméleti és Jogszociológiai Tanszékén dolgozott. 1989 és 1994 között oktatóként vezette a jogi karon szerveződött Bibó István Olvasókört, mely a jóval ismertebb budapesti szakkollégiumok példáját követve a tehetséges és érdeklődő hallgatók intenzív társadalomtudományi képzését szervezte, illetve lehetőséget biztosított publikálási lehetőségre.

Egyetemi tanárként és oktatóként
1992-től egészen haláláig meghívott oktatója volt a szegedi József Attila Tudományegyetem (jelenleg: Szegedi Tudományegyetem) Állam- és Jogtudományi Kara Jogbölcseleti és Jogszociológiai Tanszékének. Itt jogbölcseletet és jogszociológiát tanított, és az előbbi tárgyból szemináriumokat is vezetett. Szegeden mind kollégái, mind volt hallgatói a mai napig a tanszék egyik meghatározó egyéniségeként tartják számon. A debreceni jogászképzésben 1999-től vett részt az akkori Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem Jog- és Államtudományi Intézetének Jogtörténeti és Jogbölcseleti Tanszékének részfoglalkozású oktatójaként. 2001-től a karrá válást követően az egyetem Jogbölcseleti és Jogszociológiai Tanszék főállású vezetőjeként dolgozott docensi minőségben. Mindemellett sok éven át, egészen haláláig, tanított a Miskolci Egyetem Bölcsészettudományi Karának szociológiai tanszékén, sőt egy ideig annak megbízott vezetője is volt. Oktatott jogszociológiát, jogi antropológiát, politikai szociológiát, általános szociológiát, jogelméletet, államelméletet, összehasonlító jogot. Speciális kollégiumokat általában az éppen aktuális kutatási témáiból hirdetett meg, melyek hallgatói körökben mindig nagy népszerűségnek örvendtek.

Jogszociológus és jogvédőként
Tudományos (PhD) fokozatot 1999-ben szerzett A cigány közösségi jog című disszertációjának megvédésével. 2001-től a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíját nyerte el. Számos külföldi egyetemen megfordult (Freiburg, Frankfurt, Regensburg, Trier, London stb.) és folytatott kutatásokat. Kutatási területe a jogszociológia, jogi antropológia, jogelmélet és a kisebbségi (roma) jogok területére összpontosult. Számos hazai kutatásban vett részt irányítóként és közreműködőként egyaránt. Tudományos publikációinak száma megközelíti az ötvenet. Loss Sándor nem csupán tanított, kutatott és publikált, hanem a széles értelemben vett szakmai közéletben is − főképpen mint jogvédő − szerepet vállalt. 1995-től a budapesti Nemzeti és Etnikai Kisebbségi Jogvédő Iroda (NEKI) külső munkatársaként diszkriminációs ügyekben civil szervezeteknek nyújtott segítséget, illetve részt vett a Magyar Helsinki Bizottság fogdamegfigyelési programjában. Szakértőként (ötletadóként) közreműködött Bódis Kriszta Amari Kris (Romani Krisz) című díjnyertes dokumentum filmjének elkészítésében.

Díjak
 Pro Urbe Miskolc kitüntető cím (2005, posztumusz)

Jegyzetek

Források
Beszélő
EPA

1961-ben született személyek
2004-ben elhunyt személyek
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
Balesetben elhunyt személyek


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JV to commercialize nuclear fuel that will boost energy from existing reactors by 10-40% starting 2021
Lightbridge is developing nuclear fuel with more surface area which can enable existing nuclear reactors to generate 10-40% more energy by changing the shape of the fuel. Enfission, is a new joint venture with Framatome to develop, license and sell nuclear fuel assemblies based on the Lightbridge-designed technology.
Lightbridge's technology aims to make existing and new nuclear power plants significantly more economical and safer, Grae said. Its deployment could add "meaningful amounts" of clean power without having to build new reactors. This, he said, would help to justify the economic case for existing plants to continue in operation, and to extend their operating licenses, but help to justify the economic case for building new units.
Framatome was formed from the spin-off of Areva Group's nuclear reactor operations and is owned by is owned by the EDF Group (75.5%), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (19.5%) and Assystem (5%).
Reston, Virginia-based Lightbridge and Framatome – then Areva – in September 2017 signed a binding agreement to set up a joint venture to develop, manufacture and commercialize Lightbridge's advanced metallic fuel technology. The fuel is made from a zirconium-uranium alloy and uses a unique composition and fuel rod geometry, which the company says offers improvements to the economics, efficiency and safety of existing and new nuclear power plants.
Irradiation testing of metallic fuel samples under commercial reactor operating conditions is to be carried out at Norway's Halden research reactor, operated by the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE). In November 2016 Lightbridge also announced the signature of a letter of intent with an unnamed US nuclear utility for a lead test assembly demonstration in a commercial US nuclear power plant.
Speaking on Fox Business' Varney & Co yesterday, Grae said he expected the first use of the fuel in a US reactor would take place around 2021. Exelon, Duke, Dominion and Southern Company – which together own and operate more than half the country's nuclear reactors – are advising Lightbridge and have already notified the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to prepare to license the fuel for use, he said.
Lightbridge Corporation has received final regulatory approval for irradiation testing of its metallic fuel at Norway's Halden research reactor. The company has also entered an agreement with US fabricator BWXT Nuclear Energy to evaluate the possible fabrication of fuel samples at BWXT's US facilities.
Reston, Virginia-based Lightbridge announced on 12 January that the operator of the Halden reactor, the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), had received approval from the Norwegian Nuclear Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) for all planned irradiation of Lightbridge fuel, which is expected to begin in 2017.
Lightbridge's all metal fuel (AMF) assembly is comprised entirely of metallic fuel rods and is capable of providing up to 17% increase in power output in existing PWRs and up to a 30% power uprate in new build PWRs operating on 18-month fuel cycles. Due to certain constraints associated with the size of equipment that can fit in the containment structures of existing PWRs, there are limits as to the maximum power uprate level existing PWRs can accommodate without changing their existing containment structure. However, a new build unit can be constructed with a larger containment to allow for higher capacity equipment with relatively small capital cost increase.
Lightbridge is developing three primary nuclear fuel product offerings for power uprates and longer fuel cycles:
LTB17-1024™ all-metal fuel for up to 10% power uprates and 24-month operating cycles in existing PWRs;
LTB17-1718 1718™ all-metal fuel for up to 17% power uprates and 1818-month operating cycles in existing PWRs; and
LTB17-3018™ all-metal fuel for up to 30% power uprates and 18-month operating cycles in new-build PWRs.
In addition, Lightbridge is developing LTB17-Th18™, our™ thorium-based seed and blanket fuel, which offers significant back-end advantages and enhanced proliferation resistance of used fuel.
Presently, the size of Lightbridge's initial target market worldwide is approximately 127 GWe. Our target market is projected to grow to 261 GWe by 2030. The following chart shows a breakdown of Lightbridge's estimated target market by market segment.
SOURCES- World Nuclear News, Lightbridge
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The Trashing of the Ocean
Posted By Amanda Sandos On March 12, 2009 @ 9:45 pm In Green2gether, Pollution & Waste, Recycling & Reuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, USA, Virginia, Water | 14 Comments
Eye Test Chart: Color Blindness by Pam Longobardi
What do the North Pacific subtropical gyre, a floating trash vortex larger than the continental United States, and the Maier Museum of Art in Virginia have in common? The current artwork on display through August 8th as part of the 98th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art entitled "Evolutionary Drift: Works by Sue Johnson and Pam Longobardi." This exhibition includes numerous works that force us to consider the health of our environment. Longobardi's Eye Test Chart: Color Blindness, pictured above, makes a stunning visual statement out of the trash caught by the rocky shores of Hawaii on its way to the North Pacific gyre, a giant oceanic swirl of plastic debris.
Longobardi and Johnson, both internationally recognized artists, will be on hand at the Maier Museum of Art, Saturday March 21st at 3 pm to discuss their artwork as it pertains to environmental issues and conservation Joining them for the discussion panel of The 18th Annual Helen Clark Berlind Symposium will also be marine biologist Wayne Sentman, of the Oceanic Society, and artist, art critic and published author Suzi Gablik. They will be discussing the role of art and the artist in culture, particularly as it pertains to the environmental issues of extinction, mutation, and evolution.
Longobardi says her concern for the environment is not a recent development. Upon finding a diary written when she was twelve, the three things she was most thankful for were nature, animals, and her home. Later in life, she took up surfing and scuba diving, saying both "put [her] into one of the most intimate relationships with the ocean." She adds, "We all started off there. It is the source of life on this planet." Our oceans and environmental issues have always inspired her artwork, but it took a fateful hike to a beach on the Big Island of Hawaii for her to find one of "the right vehicles" to express her concerns.
During a residency, she was "drawn like a magnate down to South Point," the southern most tip of the Big Island, and consequently of the United States. The shores of jagged lava rock give way to stretches of beach that can only be reached after a long four-wheel drive followed by a long hike. Looking forward to seeing the famous colored sand beaches created by volcanic sulphur, Longobardi was stunned by the mountains of junk she found instead.
At first, she just took pictures of the colorful piles of nets and plastics littering the beach. Tons of trash is hauled away from several locations around the island each year, but more continues to float ashore. The debris is caught by the rocky protrusions of Hawaii's coast, snatched from currents which carry it towards the North Pacific gyre, half-way between San Francisco and Hawaii.
The debris comes from cities and towns around the world. According to "Altered Oceans," a multi-media series for the LA Times by Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling, the majority of the debris comes from land and is swept out to sea by winds and waterways. It floats across the globe and ends up littering beaches or circling the slow currents of the North Pacific for decades.
While sifting through the trash on the big island, Longobardi says, "I have found items with text written in every language in this one place in Hawaii: Russian, French, Polish, Italian, all the Asian languages, you name it. This is what we're leaving behind, these artifacts of culture that have drifted from all over the planet to land where they do not belong." Longobardi takes the artifacts off the beaches, her personal clean-up job, and finds ways to pull them back into the culture to be examined.
She creates astonishing visual images that comment on what we're doing to the earth. She says, "Every single action has a consequence. We cannot go on unaware of that anymore." In fact, these consequences are being felt around the globe. Jeremy B.C. Jackson, marine ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography says that over fishing from the oceans and dumping waste back into them is changing their very chemistry and composition.
As a result, coral reefs are dying around the globe and other once-thriving underwater habitats are becoming baron wastelands of seaweed and bacteria. The consequences of pollution are felt right here in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay where once large populations of mussels, oysters, and crabs have vanished and large areas of the bay have become dead zones, areas where oxygen in the water is too low to support life.
In addition, wildlife biologist John Klavitter says two in every five Albatross chicks born each year die of starvation and dehydration. In a research study to find the cause, they retrieved lighters, light bulbs, toothbrushes, all kinds of plastics that were filling the stomachs of the dead birds. Our waste is affecting wildlife around the world, animals above and below the surface of the ocean. Longobardi's Eye Test Chart includes a half shark-bitten detergent bottle, the missing half most likely permanently lodged in some shark's digestive tract.
Longobardi says the trashing of the oceans "is a global problem that ties together everything: existence, convenience, economy, our health." She says, "We need our smartest people putting their minds together to help change our attitudes." Her artwork consistently looks at what she calls "the digestible way we view the world," hoping to inspire others towards finding new and better ways of caring for the environment.
Join Longobardi and the other panelists at the Berlind Symposium on Saturday, March 21st at 3 pm to view this amazing exhibition on Evolutionary Drift and participate in discussions on art and our environment. The Maier Museum is located at One Quinlan Street in Lynchburg, Virginia on the Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman's College) campus. Museum hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 1-4 pm. For more information go here [1] or call 434-947-8136.
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