Does Your Doctor Think You're Crazy?
(I tried posting this once before but don't think it worked; my apology if this is a double post).
I'm wondering if others have had their doctor treat you like you're nuts when you tell them about your diet and, if so, what you've done about it.
I like my doctor; I've seen him for nearly 20 years, and he's Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. He's saved my rear more than once, and I think he's a very good doctor in many ways.
I recently had some blood work that needed improving, including high blood glucose, so I went Paleo, lost 25 lbs. since December 1, and have cut my BG meds in half. I've gained so much energy that I work out every morning, sleep like a baby, and am almost never hungry. My blood work has started improving already.
When I saw my doctor recently he congratulated me heartily on making such progress - until I told him about my diet. He, predictably, told me I needed to be on an American Diabetes Association or American Heart Association Diet, and that I was profoundly hurting my health by eating this way. I told him I think the ADA and the AHA are killing people, which of course sparked intense push-back.
Jimmy Moore has started a list of low-carb-diet friendly doctors, but I'm remiss to make a switch based only on my disagreement over diet. How common is this experience? And how have others handled it?
No, can't afford them and they don't fit me well anyway - but I DID go back to his PA recently barefoot! AND told her how much my knees have improved since going 90% barefoot.
adding paleo to a medical and a dental and choro degree is powerful...........you can change populations. That is what I do.
You and your doctor have been lied to for your whole lives. You have taken the Red Pill -- get a new doctor. See you on the other side.
How does he argue with the results? Following the ADA or AHA diet is the problem, not the solution. My doc hasn't said too much, but he was happy I told him before I got my labs so that he would know why they would be/were different.
I've gone off my blood pressure meds after going Paleo and my doctor doesn't believe that's why. Crazy, since I lost so much weight and it didn't go down, they've never been able to figure out why I had high blood pressure. This one change is finally the difference and she still tells me she thinks I need "whole grains".
Wewtness! :D Doesn't it feel great when the right words are there at the right time? I'm glad you were able to put your orthopedic specialist in his place!
I'm sorry that happened to you, and although I won't go into why, I'm feeling totally vindicated right now. Thanks for sharing your story! I hope that he doesn't start trying to bully you into going off paleo, but if he does, don't hesitate to change doctors.
My primary doc thinks my whole diet thing is pretty strange, but he says as long as I continue to have the numbers I do, HE'S not going to tell me to change anything.
But, my orthopedic specialist made a kind of snarky comment recently and - for once in my life - I had a good comeback right then instead of an hour later (like usual). We were talking about "healthy whole grains" and I told him I didn't believe they were necessary for good health. He asked me where I got that idea and I said something about having done a LOT of reading and research over the last year or so. He said, "Yeah, well maybe you should publish some of your research." To which I immediately replied, "I don't have to - it's all out there on PubMed for anyone to read it that wants to."
I've never had a doctor who has asked me about my diet and when I've brought it up, they've pretended to not hear me. I use doctors solely for ordering labs, and then I interpret them myself.
If you can, try seeing a variety of MDs and ask questions until you're satisfied. There's nothing worse than having a doc who fights you all the way due to their SAD bias.
I've been avoiding docs since going Paleo. However, I recently felt the need to see an internal medicine MD to diagnose a nasty flu-like incident (I wanted to rule out strep throat). She was very thoughtful and skilled, knew of the Paleo/Primal lifestyle, yet didn't judge, scorn nor ridicule. From that initial meeting, I've decided to see her again and have her track my bloodwork.
My doctor let me go off blood pressure and diabetes meds with his blessing after seeing the results I got from Paleo. He doesn't think I'm nuts; he wants to have me bronzed.
I've got a friend who's 28, diabetic and refuses to listen to anything I say about -possibly- cutting down her carbohydrates. She's got the "If you eat a banana, just eat some peanut butter with it!" mentality about how to balance her diet.
She's making some progress with what she's doing, but I want to just shake her sometimes and tell her it could be so much easier!
But her doctor supports her 100%, and I just read things on the internet...what do I know?
I think having a doctor that you trust is so important. So if you trust your doctor with everything else, I would maybe just not talk to him regarding you diet. Or just mention how much your lifestyle has improved while on the diet and leave it at that - any doc worth their salt will get behind your lifestyle choices as long as they are positive.
I've briefly discussed paleo with my doc. He thought it was intereting and worth a look - he said he was going to research it and maybe next time I see him we'll talk about it. BUT - my doc does think that crossfit is dangerous, and really does not approve - strange how doctors really get all riled up over some things. We don't talk about fitness at all and I am satisfied with that.
I've been seeing my doctor for 7 years and everytime I tell him something is wrong, he'll tell me, "you're just a worrisome person."
This past year, I've been in and out of the E.R. with Chest pains, dizziness, electric shocks going up and down my arm. Now the shocks have proceeded in the back of my head, through ym ear to my neck and its causing deafness. I'll get my hearing back over a hours time, but obviously this isn't in my head...it's true pain!!
I looked online because I'm too scared to see anyone anymore and read about Multipule Scleroisis. EVERYTHING in the symptom checker is what I've been having over a few years, but it's getting worse. I don't even know where to start (doctor wise) because I feel like I need to start over with a new one.


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13 Stats That Explain What Life Would Be Like For Canadians If They Lived In The United States
Yeah, Canada's looking pretty good about now.
Fellow Canadians: have you ever wondered what life would be like if you lived in the United States instead of Canada? Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is the culture shock you'd experience from the differences in social traditions (and, you know, because of Trump and stuff).
But it would go much deeper than that. According to IfItWereMyHome.com, Canadians would have a lot more to lose if they moved to the United States. The website is a tool that allows users to compare two countries based on social, economic and political factors. It uses statistics from relevant studies to make general comparisons of both countries. Between Canada and the US, the website shows that Canada clearly offers the better life.
If the United States were your home instead of Canada, you would...
Be 5.9 times more likely to be in prison.
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698 in every 100,000 people are currently imprisoned in The United States compared to 118 in Canada.
Source: International Centre for Prison Studies
Be 2.7 times more likely to be murdered.
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3.80 in every 100,000 people are murdered annually in The United States compared to 1.40 in Canada.
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Make 22.51% more money.
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The GDP per capita in The United States is $52,800 while in Canada it is $43,100.
Source: CIA World Factbook
Spend 54.95% more money on health care.
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Thank you Tommy Douglas. Per capita public and private health expenditures combined in The United States are $8,895.10 USD while Canada spends $5,740.70 USD.
Source: World Health Organization
Experience 40.19% more of a class divide.
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The GINI index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income. In The United States, it is 45.00 while in Canada it is 32.10.
Have 4.59% less free time.
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Employed persons in The United States work an average of 1788 hours each year while persons in Canada work an average of 1706 hours
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Be 2.82% more likely to be unemployed.
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The United States has an unemployment rate of 7.30% while Canada has 7.10%
Die 2.11 years sooner.
The life expectancy at birth in The United States is 79.56 while in Canada it is 81.67.
Be 31% more likely to die in infancy.
The number of deaths of infants under one-year-old in a given year per 1,000 live births in The United States is 6.17 while in Canada it is 4.71.
Use 15.09% less electricity.
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The per capita consumption of electricity in Canada is 14,350kWh while in The United States it is 12,185kWh.
Be two times more likely to have HIV/AIDS.
The percentage of adults living with HIV/AIDS in The United States is 0.60% while in Canada it is 0.30%. 17,000 people in The United States and 1,000 people in Canada die from AIDS each year.
Consume 8.8% less oil.
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Canada consumes 2.7216 gallons of oil per day per capita while The United States consumes 2.4822.
Have 30.42% more babies.
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The annual number of births per 1,000 people in The United States is 13.42 while in Canada it is 10.29.
These facts aren't necessarily the most all-encompassing representations, but collectively, they do provide a decent overview of how life would be like in each country. With that said, the aforementioned statistics should make Canadians even more proud to live in Canada!

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That play-acting is good for children cannot be denied. It gives them self-confidence and a knowledge of how to move and speak correctly. It also trains their memories, and, in cases where the play is historical, as so many children's plays are, it teaches a lesson, that most children find intolerably dull, in a very delightful and efficacious manner.
Many people, however, who would like to get up a play; for their children to act, abandon the idea on account of difficulties which seem insurmountable. It is in order to show how many of these difficulties may be overcome that the following article has been written.
First of all, "the play's the thing!" Given a really suitable play, many of the other difficulties vanish. In families where girls predominate, and in girls' schools, a costume play should be chosen, so that long hair is a help rather than a hindrance to girls taking men's parts. Most girls look well with their hair powdered and tied back with a broad ribbon, and the long brocaded coat and waistcoat that accompany this style of hairdressing are more suitable for girls than modern men's dress. The play should also be chosen with regard to the size of the stage. An overcrowded stage is most difficult to act upon.
The scenery required should be taken into consideration too. A play that would necessitate several elaborate changes of scenery would be most unsuitable for home acting. A suitable children's play should contain some parts for quite little people. Many children of seven or eight make very good actors indeed, and some bigger boys and girls are capable of playing quite difficult parts; indeed, dramatic talent will show itself at fourteen and fifteen - or never.
Tragedies and plays containing much love-making should be avoided for children. Such plays as "Cinderella" and "Beauty and the Beast" are suitable for small children, but they are very commonplace, and most boys and girls are capable of something better. Comedies, with dresses and dances, or into which dances and songs can be introduced, are the best.
The stage itself is an important consideration. It should be as large as possible and should have at least two exits. If there is only one available, another can be arranged, not by screening off a portion of the stage opposite the exit, but by putting screens across the back of the stage and round to the side, so that the actors can walk out through the passage thus formed to the real exit, and not have to endure being cramped in a corner on the other side of the stage until the end of the scene.
Most home acting is done in double drawing-rooms; indeed, without this useful room people usually reject the idea of acting in their houses as being quite impossible. But a very good stage, and, in some respects, even a better one, can be made of a big, wide landing, especially if several doors open on to it and there is, as so often happens, another landing opposite to it a few stairs higher.
The audience can sit on the upper landing and the stairs. Of course, the seats at the back row should be raised higher than those in front. Chests of drawers, with a stool near at hand to form a step, make very good back seats, and they are often the most popular. An iron rod, cut to any length desired, and having a hole drilled at each end, can be got from an ironmonger's for the curtain. This rod should be fixed up by means of iron hooks driven into the wall.
The curtain, which should be all in one piece, so as to avoid a gap in the middle, should be pulled by means of strong blind-cord. It is safer to have two people to draw it, one on each side, but it can be managed by one person. The curtain often refuses to "draw" properly in home acting, but if the following method is adopted it will be found to answer very well. Let us imagine that the curtain, hanging from the rod by means of rings, is drawn right across the stage. Two lengths of cord, two yards longer than the width of the stage, are both tied to the same ring at one end of the curtain. One of these lengths should be threaded back through the rings to the opposite side of the stage, where the two extra yards will dangle down ready to pull. The end should have something conspicuous tied on to it, so that it can be found easily. This cord is to be pulled to open the curtain. If two people are to operate, the other cord should be threaded through a small pulley fixed on the wall close to the end of the curtain-rod, and provided with a weight to prevent it hanging in a loop in front of the stage when the curtain is opened. This cord is to be pulled to close it. If one person is to operate, the second cord, after being put through a pulley, should be threaded back through rings like the first cord. In this case care should be taken that the two ends do not get entangled.
Nightlights, placed in a row at intervals of four inches, make very good footlights. They should have a board fixed up behind them, so as to conceal them from the audience and throw the light on the actors.
Another difficulty to be overcome is the proper distribution of parts. This is so often the back of the stage and round to the side. A row of nightlights serves as footlights badly clone. For instance, a thin-voiced, small-featured girl is given the part of the "villain," and a very faint-hearted, weak-kneed, unconvincing villain she makes, whereas she might have shone as a Lydia Languish. As a rule, it is a mistake to introduce any grown-up people into the caste of a children's play. It spoils the effect, and should not be done unless there is some small part for which no child is available. Even then the " grown-up " should be quite a short person, so as to avoid dwarfing the rest of the company. A very nervous child should not have the opening speech of the play. He or she may get through the rehearsals all right, but at the performance itself may have an attack of stage-fright, with dire results. Very often a girl may be a bad actress but a very good dancer. A dance may easily be introduced for her.


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Louis York showed up and show out in another live performance from Nashville.
Dressed in flashy vintage gear, the dynamic duo breathes life into "Things I Should've Said" off their 2015 release, Masterpiece Theater — Act 1. You can bet your bottom dollar that this live version sounds even better than the studio version.
So far, Louis York have delivered two memorable performances ("Slow Motion (Reimagined)" and "No Regrets" featuring The Shindellas) from their Weirdo Workshop concert series.
Earlier this month, The Shindellas performed their Motown-styled song "Reconsider" in Nashville.
Watch both satisfying performances below.


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How to ensure the safety of children on social media
Children's behavior on the Internet is essential for their safety and protection. In this video, Isabel Plaza, an expert in Children's Use of New Technologies of the Alia2 Foundation, explains to readers of Guiainfantil.com, what are the fundamental tips that children should follow on social networks.
What can parents do to promote and ensure that children surf the Internet safely? Teach your children to stay away from the risks and dangers of the Internet with these simple and clear tips.
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ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani-American entrepreneur and investor, associated with hospitality/food industry in Pakistan, has termed existing tax system of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) as a big challenge for existing and new businesses, suggesting taxpayers need to be honoured/recognized for improving revenue collection of the FBR.
In an exclusive chat with Business Recorder Chaudhry Toquir Ahmed, chief executive officer (CEO) of Des Pardes Saidpur Village, Islamabad, he emphasized that a slight recognition of taxpayers by FBR instead of harassing them will not only attract fresh investment, but also help in improving the tax compliance of the existing taxpayers.
He was of the view that FBR must cautiously exercise enforcement powers against the taxpayers, who are regularly contributing revenue to the national kitty. FBR's field formations should avoid exercising powers to issue notices, sealing of business premises and attachment of bank accounts on groundless basis and tax demands worked out without considering the factual businesses volumes, profits and earnings of any business.
If enforcement powers are exercised without fulfilment of legal formalities, it would send a negative message to the existing investors as well as discourage the new businesses in all over the country.
He highly appreciated the role of the office of the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) in providing genuine relief to the taxpayers against the maladministration of the tax department.
When asked about his role as withholding tax to collect 17 percent sales tax from costumers and deposit the same in FBR account, he stated that the FBR should give some service charges to the withholding agents for collecting taxes on behalf of the government.
Toquir, also got an MBA degree from Kansas State University, besides masters certification in hospitality management from Cornell University in US, is optimistic about the future of food and restaurant business in Pakistan if investor's friendly business environment is provided.
He decided to invest all his savings in Pakistan with the hope to get a positive response but according to him, the government departments dealing with the business are yet to go a along way in facilitating foreign inventors.
Talking about the challenges faced by entrepreneurs in Pakistan especially those expatriates, keen to make investment in the country, he said should be facilitated by FBR, Capital Development Authority (CDA) and law enforcement agencies.
"What an investor needs is secure environment to achieve his goal and be able contribute to the economy of the country, which could only be possible if the concerned departments extend their support and cooperation," he maintained.
However, despite all the obstacles, his contribution of setting up an excellent food outlet – Des Pardes – which provides best services to its customers – both national and foreigners – were not acknowledged by the concerned departments, making tall claims of facilitating the investors.
He maintained that he had preferred to work in Pakistan instead of US and brought small foreign investment in Pakistan at a time when it needed it the most.
However, he regretted that the government failed to address the problems faced by foreign investors by not implementing the standard operating procedures (SOPs), formulated for providing a friendly business atmosphere to the investors.
Toquir said that he not only designed the kitchens of Pearl Continental Hotels – a chain five star hotels in Pakistan – but also led the chef teams there for many years.
He also trained various youngsters as chef and helped them in getting jobs in hospitality management sector.
He said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan visits his restaurant once in a week which reflects the quality of food of his team is providing to people.
"Not only Imran Khan, other top government officials, film actors and people belonging to different walks of life are his clients," he added.
Toquir said that he conceived the name of the food outlet from visiting student of National College of Art (NCA). The restaurant is not only providing quality traditional food to parliamentarians, diplomats and other high officials but also providing employments to a number of locals.
He said that the outlet was offered to him on a 33-year lease some 13 years back by the then chairman CDA Kamran Lashari and he built infrastructure of Des Pardes and Saidpur village – a small locality comprising some 21,000 populace from various ethnic groups.


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PRESS RELEASE 13 September 2016
AK Jensen Group strengthens Board of Directors with legal financial services veteran Tom Mackay
AK Jensen Group Limited (AKJ), the independent brokerage serving the institutional and hedge fund industries, is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Mackay to the Group Board of AKJ.
Mackay joins the AKJ Board, having acted as the lead lawyer to the firm for many years. Tom is a seasoned corporate/commercial solicitor with considerable international and financial services experience, predominantly as a partner in international law firms in the City of London. His experience includes being Head of Legal Department at the London Stock Exchange at a time when it carried out much of the regulatory function which is now administered by the FCA. Prior to that he was Head of Legal at 3i plc which, during his tenure, grew to serve about 80% of the UK VC/PE business in its targeted market across its 28 area offices.
Commenting on the appointment, AKJ's Chief Executive Officer, Anders Kvamme Jensen said: "Tom is the perfect addition to the board of AKJ. He brings the foremost expertise in the legal management of hedge funds to the AKJ board, and we are thrilled to have him joining as we continue to grow, innovate and develop AKJ Accelerator, our hedge fund platform. This appointment underpins the Company's ongoing commitment to promoting the highest professional standards in everything we do including regulatory compliance and corporate governance".
Tom Mackay added: "I am pleased to be joining the Group board of AKJ which recently won a prestigious award for having the best hedge fund platform in Europe. The business plan is to continue to increase our assets under management and my focus will be on assisting the CEO in ensuring we have robust systems in place to manage AKJ's significant expansion. Also as we drive forward we need to consider whether we expand beyond our current EEA boundaries. AKJ have an excellent well motivated staff and I look forward to working with them even more closely."
For further information, contact Hannah Gilmore at Living Group.
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About AKJ
AKJ Accelerator is a leading turnkey, tier-one hedge fund platform. Launched in 2012, it manages all
mandatory components involved with the set up and day-to-day operation of a fund. A cost
effective solution, the AKJ Accelerator is designed to ensure that the fund manager operates within a
global legal and regulatory framework and ensures trading costs don't limit performance. AKJ
Accelerator is owned by AK Jensen Group Limited and its subsidiaries, an independent brokerage
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Born Free: Monterey Aquarium Releases Great White Shark After 55 Days; Shark 'Navigating' Changes Cited
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The Monterey Bay Aquarium released its great white shark today.
MONTEREY, California -- The sixth great white shark ever exhibited at the Monterey Bay Aquarium has been released back into the Pacific Ocean.
The young male shark brought to Monterey on August 31 is being transported to ocean waters south of Point Conception today (October 25) by the aquarium's animal care staff. He was moved out of the million-gallon Open Sea exhibit this morning.
The shark was returned to the ocean shortly after 1 p.m., approximately 2 miles offshore of Goleta, near Santa Barbara. According to Manny Ezcurra, associate curator of elasmobranchs for Monterey Bay Aquarium, "The transport went very well. The shark swam off looking well and strong, and very relaxed as he swam. He circled the boat a couple of times and then we lost sight of him."
The shark is carrying two electronic tags: a tracking tag that will documents his movements in the wild for the next 180 days, then pop free and deliver the data via satellite to researchers at the aquarium; and an acoustic tag with a five-year battery life that will report every time the shark swims past any of several monitoring buoys along the coasts of southern California and Baja California. Researchers hope to learn what changes – if any – occur in the shark's movements as it matures. This is a critical piece of information that can help manage and protect young great white sharks in the waters where they spend their early years. Counting the two tags on the shark released today, the aquarium and its research partners have placed 46 tracking tags and eight acoustic tags on young great whites. The tag is scheduled to pop free in late April and transmit those data via satellite.
The aquarium will update its Facebook page; its Twitter account, twitter.com/#!MontereyAq, and its Sea Notes blog, montereybayaquarium.typepad.com/sea_notes/, with more details on the shark as they become available.
The decision to release the shark after 55 days on exhibit was based on recent changes in how the shark was navigating in the exhibit, said Jon Hoech, director of husbandry for the aquarium.
This is not the first time a great white shark on exhibit at the aquarium has experienced "navigation" problems. Back in February 2005, the aquarium released its great white shortly after UnderwaterTimes.com and the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation published exclusive pictures showing the shark with a severely abraded nose. Again in January 2007, the aquarium had to release its captive great white shark citing "snout abrasions" and "logistical challenges" in keeping the wild animal.
"These decisions are always governed by our concern for the health and well-being of these animals under our care," Hoech said. "It became clear that it was time to release him."
The Monterey Bay Aquarium remains the only aquarium in the world ever to exhibit one of the ocean's top predators for more than 16 days.
The young shark, a four-foot, eight-inch male weighing 43.2 pounds, was collected outside Marina del Rey on August 18 by aquarium staff. He was quickly transferred to a 4-million-gallon ocean holding pen off Malibu, where he remained for almost two weeks. Aquarium staff observed him swimming comfortably and documented several feedings in the pen before the shark was brought to Monterey.
The shark gained nearly nine pounds and grew two inches during his 55-day stay on exhibit.
Exhibit of young great white sharks is one part of the aquarium's Project White Shark, an effort by the aquarium and its research colleagues to learn more about white sharks in the wild as well as to bring white sharks to Monterey for exhibit. Since 2002, the aquarium and its partners have tagged and tracked 45 juvenile great white sharks off southern California.
The aquarium has allocated nearly $2 million toward its studies of adult and juvenile great white sharks in the wild – research aimed at better understanding and protecting white shark populations. Details about the research program are available at www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/whiteshark.aspx.


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On mesoscale modelling of dsDNA molecules in fluid flow
M. Benke, E. Shapiro, D. Drikakis
The paper presents a new mesoscale modelling approach to investigation of dsDNA molecules motion in fluid flow. The proposed method includes the effects of inertia and is capable of capturing accurately dsDNA relaxation and stretching phenomena. The accuracy of the proposed method is explored through comparisons with published experimental data. For the simulation of disengaged dsDNA molecules, a novel correction to the elastic force formulation is suggested. The proposed adjustment offers a significant improvement in the prediction of dsDNA length for both relaxation in resting buffer and extension using hydrodynamic focusing. Analysis of the individual contributions to the force acting on the dsDNA molecules demonstrates that the dynamics of dsDNA extension observed experimentally is dominated by the hydrodynamic drag force.
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
https://doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2013.2757
DNA mechanics
dynamic behavior of DNA
mesoscale modeling of DNA
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It's that time of the year. Everyone has been hoarding their vacation days or paid time off just to take days off during the busiest time of the year for some eCommerce clients. Chances are that you'll either be the person on the side of this that is taking some of your hoarded time to hit the road or the person left with all the work from the person hitting the road.
This situation has the potential to turn into a huge disaster. What if the client loses it that the substitute account manager (sub) isn't as knowledgeable about their account as the regular account manager? What if the sub doesn't catch a huge problem in the account and the agency is fired? What if a question or problem comes up in the account that the sub wasn't provided the information for? All of these things could happen! It's up to you to prevent them with planning and foresight with the items outlined below. This will ensure things go smoothly on either side of the vacation dilemma!
Ask for volunteers if coverage isn't mandated by management.
Make sure the planned vacation is brought up to the client.
Forward the contact information of the sub to the client.
Action items should be assigned to the sub for the entire length of the vacation.
Any back logs of useful information on the account that may not be accessible to the sub should be forwarded.
The sub should review the account and all back logs of relevant data.
The key for the weeks leading up to the vacation is to ensure the client and the sub are 100% comfortable with the transition and that the person heading out has taken the time to think through everything that will need done on the account while they're away.
Asking for volunteers is a nice way to let co-workers self-regulate account coverages. Hopefully people who have recently went on vacation will volunteer to pass the good fortune along by watching someone's account. A willing sub is always nicer than a mandated one.
The client wants to feel like their account is in total control at all times. If all of a sudden they're told their account manager is leaving and this person they may have never spoken with is their main point of contact for a bit, it could leave them feeling like things are running a bit haywire. It's important to mention at the very least on the call before the last call before vacation that their account coverage will be changing for a bit. Don't tell them too early, or they'll just forget!
It's a really easy mistake to make to think either "Oh, I'll be checking in on things while I'm out" or "This account doesn't need a lot of maintenance while I'm out, I don't want to burden my co-worker", and then proceed to not assign very many tasks to the person watching the account. This will lead to the client thinking their account isn't being properly managed if they receive updates on action items, the sub will make it less of a priority if they get the feeling they don't need to do much, and most importantly–the account manager will feel super stressed out when they get back with the backlog of stuff that needs to be done. So, don't do this! Take the time to think of every single little thing that needs done in the account. Providing this list weeks in advance will give the sub time to ask questions and plan their time accordingly to get things accomplished on time.
Talking to the client about the vacation, having the account manager sit down and make a really thorough to-do list, and both parties reviewing all of the relevant data for the account weeks ahead of the vacation will leave all parties feeling prepared and stress free!
The sub should be at least be on the last regular client right before vacation time.
Action items and account information should be reviewed right before vacation time starts.
Emergency phone numbers including cell phone and any relevant hotel phone lines should be given to the person covering.
All account goals are discussed. I suggest printing something out to hang on the cubical wall.
The level of account oversight is discussed.
Preferably in the week right before vacation, there will be one last call with the client, so the sub can be introduced. This person will already have reviewed the to-do list for the vacation time period as well as have reviewed all the back log of information available on the client. We use Basecamp at Hanapin, but even a folder on a server somewhere with relevant reports, important emails, and important strategy notes will do. So, on the call, the sub should be able to really take value from the conversation. They can even ask any questions they have at this point, and the account manager is there as a buffer to ensure everything goes smoothly on this first call where the client is interacting with their sub for the first time.
Even though the to-do list was already given, right before leaving, it should be gone over one last time to make sure everything is crystal clear. I think it's a good idea for the account manager to print the goals for the account off on a neat little piece of paper and tack it on the sub's cubicle wall, t00.
One key thing that I feel is often over-looked is discussing the level of account oversight that's needed. Does the sub have full reign to make decisions in the account? Should they just stick to your to-do list? Do they need approval from the client before changing certain items? Is the account manager comfortable with the sub pausing keywords on certain conditions? This needs to be discussed thoroughly, as it could make all the difference in how the account is changed and therefore performs during the vacation. If the account is super stable, it may be best to ask the sub not to stray from the list. But, if the account is new or unstable, it may be best for them to have more control in order to best put out any fires that come up while the account manager is gone.
On that note, don't forget emergency contact information! I know, I know: no one wants to be called while they're maxing and relaxing and told that their account is in the toilet and their client is in danger of firing them. But, it's important to make sure there's a fail safe in case this DOES happen. The sub should just be made super aware that it's for serious emergencies only. Not even texting!
The person covering should leave as detailed of notes as possible about every little thing for the vacationer.
To-do lists should be completed on time.
If strategy oversight was granted, the account should be checked as often and the sub's own accounts.
If the account manager can find the time, especially if it's a new/rocky client, a check-in call wouldn't be a bad idea.
Again, we use Basecamp here at Hanapin, which makes it really easy to leave notes on to-do items and upload messages with data attached to them. But if this isn't available, a daily running log in Word should be kept for the account manager on vacation. This will allow them to backtrack any items, which is especially important in case some optimizations fail.
It's easy for the sub to think this to-do list isn't as important as their own clients'. But, we should all remember that we all go on vacation. We all will, at some point, need someone to watch our accounts for us. Golden rule time! Don't do unto account managers as ye wouldn't have done unto ye accounts. Something like that. Checking the account daily or more frequently if strategy or additional oversight from just the to-do list was granted is super important. Especially if the account is new or unstable!
Now, this part may be debated, but I think if the account manager has 10 minutes to spare, it might be a good idea to call the sub and check-in. It'll let them ask any questions they've been dying to ask, but where respectful enough not to use the emergency line. It'll also let the sub know that the account is important, and the account manger should also express gratitude on the call, letting them feel appreciated for all their hard work.
Bring a souvenir for the sub if the vacation was somewhere out of town.
Schedule a time right after the vacation to have a casual chat about the account and how things went.
Have both the account manager and the sub on the first client call after the vacation.
The account manager should review notes from the sub and ask any questions right away.
As soon as possible after getting back, all the notes from the sub should be reviewed. That way any questions can be gone over, and the sub can get back to their normal work load as soon as possible.
I also think it'd be nice, especially in the case of new/unstable/longer vacation periods if both the account manager and the sub were on the first call after the vacation. That way any gaps in account coverage would be covered, and the client would feel like the transition between account coverage was totally seamless.
Hopefully following all of these items will leave you, your co-workers, and your clients feeling stress free during this crazy holiday vacation time. You all deserve a vacation, so make sure it doesn't end up causing more stress than it's supposed to relieve!


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Q: Saving multiple fields of a model instance using a for loop - Django I'm having a problem when trying to save data into an SQLite database from a Django View. Generally speaking, my approach is the following and it is intending to populate the instance inside a loop and finally save it.
1) Getting data (dict)
2) Instantiating the model
Loop - In
3) Loop over the dict to get the key, values pairs and saving them into the instance
Loop - Out
4) Saving the instance
The problem is that I'm getting an empty instance after the for loop instead of a populated one.
Now the code
models.py
class OptionsHomePage(models.Model):
    option_a = models.IntegerField(choices=MINUTES_OPTIONS)
    option_b = models.IntegerField(choices=HOURS_OPTIONS)

    start_time_am_minutes = models.IntegerField(choices=MINUTES_OPTIONS, default=0)
    start_time_am_hours = models.IntegerField(choices=HOURS_OPTIONS, default=0)
    end_time_am_minutes = models.IntegerField(choices=MINUTES_OPTIONS, default=0)
    end_time_am_hours = models.IntegerField(choices=HOURS_OPTIONS, default= 0)

Views Note: synonyms is a dictionary where I'm mapping the data that comes from the front to their respective values in the model
...
        options = OptionsHomePage()
        data_to_fill = request.GET.get('data_to_fill')
        data_to_fill = json.loads(data_to_fill)
        for k, v in synonyms.items():
                try:
                    # print(data_to_fill[k])
                    data_name = synonyms[k]
                    value = data_to_fill[k]
                    options.data_name = value
                    print('{} - {} '.format(data_name,data_to_fill[k]))
                except Exception as e:
                    print(e)
        print(options)
        options.save()
...

The print statements there, just for seeing what's happening there gives me the following:
end_time_pm_minutes - 10
delay_seconds - 11
screen_of_option - off
------------------------------
OptionsHomePage object (None)
------------------------------

Well... thanks in advance! If something is not well explained or shown just tell me and I can elaborate more!

A: It'll work:

instance = ModelInstance()
allowed_fields = ['name', 'username' .... etc ]
for field, value in data_to_fill.items():
   if field in allowed_fields:
      setattr(instance, field, value)

instance.save()

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ECtHR - R.U. v. Greece, Application No. 2237/08
Country of Applicant:
Date of Decision:
Application No. 2237/08
Court Name:
First Section; European Court of Human Rights
Effective remedy (right to)
Medical Reports/Medico-legal Reports
Non-refoulement
Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
Reception conditions
Vulnerable person
Relevant Legislative Provisions:
International Law > 1951 Refugee Convention > Art 31
Council of Europe Instruments > EN - Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms > Article 3
Council of Europe Instruments > EN - Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms > Article 13
Headnote:
The case concerned detention and detention conditions in Greece for a Turkish asylum seeker of Kurdish origin, who had been tortured in Turkey, and the conduct of the asylum procedure.
The Applicant, R.U., was born in 1969 and lives in Athens. He is of Kurdish origin and was arrested by the Turkish authorities several times between 1985 and 1992 on account of his political activities. He alleged that he had been sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment and tortured while in prison. After going on hunger strike in detention, he started suffering from Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. He finished serving his sentence in 2007. After being released, and fearing a further arrest, he decided to leave Turkey and seek asylum in Greece.
On 12 May 2007, R.U. entered Greece and was arrested by the Greek authorities for illegal entry into Greece and possession of forged travel documents. He stated that he filed an asylum request as soon as he was arrested but that it had not been registered. On the same day the public prosecutor at the Criminal Court set the case down for hearing on 17 May 2007 and released the Applicant pending the hearing. However, R.U. was arrested again that day. On 13 May 2007 the head of the Alexandroupolis police headquarters, fearing that the Applicant would flee, ordered to place him in detention pending his deportation three days later.
R.U. alleged that he had made further applications for asylum on 13 and 15 May 2007 but that neither had been examined.
On 17 May 2007 R.U. was acquitted by the Alexandroupolis Criminal Court of the charges of illegally entering Greece and using forged travel documents. The court accepted that R.U. was a Turkish citizen, a member of an illegal left-wing political party, that he had been convicted and imprisoned in Turkey as a political detainee and that he had been forced to flee Turkey urgently because his life was endangered.
On the same day the head of the Alexandroupolis police headquarters ordered R.U. to be deported for illegal entry into Greece and possession of forged administrative documents. His detention was extended on grounds of a risk that he would abscond. On 22 May 2007 R.U. appealed against the deportation order to the regional director of the police. His appeal was dismissed on 24 May 2007 by a decision served on him in Greek, which he could not challenge because he lacked sufficient funds.
On 24 May 2007 R.U. complained against his detention before the President of the Alexandroupolis Administrative Court, who dismissed his complaint that day, considering that having regard in particular to his illegal entry into Greece and his asylum application, he did not appear to have the intention of leaving Greece if released.
On 6 June 2007 his asylum application was rejected by the Ministry of Public Order. On 12 June 2007 R.U. appealed against that decision. On 12 July 2007 the Advisory Committee on Asylum of the Ministry of Public Order adjourned the examination of the asylum application to an unspecified date so that R.U. could submit evidence in support of his asylum application and undergo an examination by the Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, a non-governmental organisation. The procedure in respect of the asylum application is pending.
In July 2007, R.U. repeated his objections to his detention, relying on the indefinite adjournment of the examination of his asylum application. On 16 July 2007 the President of the Alexandroupolis Administrative Court ordered his release.
R.U. was detained mainly (12 May 2007 - 10 July 2007) in the Soufli border police station. He claimed that he had been held in a dirty room with 50 other detainees, with one shower and a room used for the toilets. He added that he had never been able to have a shower or do any physical exercise, and that he had had no contact with the outside world because there had been no telephone booth. He alleged, lastly, that he had received no appropriate treatment for his medical condition. Between 10 and 16 July 2007 he had been held in the Attica Foreign Citizens' Directorate (Petrou Ralli).
After his release, he was examined by the President of the Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims. According to a medical report issued by the centre on 19 September 2007, R.U. had been systematically beaten and his left foot had been seriously injured. Gangrene had set in, so he had had to undergo surgery and have two toes on his left foot amputated. The report also documented acts of torture: contact with a red hot cable on his little finger, "Palestinian" hanging, twisting of the testicles and blows to the neck which had caused migraines and spasms. Neurological and orthopaedic examinations subsequently performed on the Applicant in State hospitals confirmed that part of his left foot had been amputated and that he was probably suffering from Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and a discal hernia. The deportation order against R.U. has not been executed.
Decision & Reasoning:
Conditions of detention in Soufli and Petrou Ralli (Articles 3 and 13)
The Court first examined whether there had been remedies available to R.U. in Greece which he should have used in order to complain about his conditions of detention before lodging this complaint with the Court (Article 35, conditions of admissibility). It observed that this was not the case. The only remedy available to the Applicant was to apply to the hierarchical superior of the police, whose impartiality and objectivity in the matter were open to doubt. R.U.'s complaint about his conditions of detention was the same and concerned the same period as the one examined by the Court in another case, in which the Court had held that there had been a violation of Article 3 on account of the general conditions of detention prevailing in the Soufli and Petrou Ralli detention centres. It came to the same conclusion in the case of R.U.: there had been a violation of Article 3.
As there were no remedies in Greece enabling him to complain about his conditions of detention, there had also been a violation of Article 13.
Risk of deportation to Turkey as a result of deficiencies in the asylum procedure (Articles 3 and 13)
The Court observed that a remedy had to provide a careful scrutiny by a national authority, an independent and rigorous examination of any complaint that there were reasons to believe that treatment contrary to Article 3 had been inflicted, and the complaint had to be examined with particular speed. The remedy also had to be of automatic suspensive effect. The Court pointed out that it had found before that Greece's asylum legislation was not being applied in practice and that the asylum procedure was marked by such major structural deficiencies that asylum seekers had very little chance of having their applications and their complaints under the Convention seriously examined by the Greek authorities. Some of those deficiencies were apparent, moreover, in the case of R.U., whose asylum application had been dismissed at first instance by a decision drafted in stereotypical terms, his appeal against which was still pending today, three years and over seven months later. The Court pointed out that neither an application for a stay of execution nor a request for an interim order were of automatic suspensive effect. R.U. had not therefore had an effective remedy, either in the deportation or the asylum proceedings, by which to complain of his deportation to Turkey.
The Court attached importance to the fact that the country to which R.U. was to be deported – Turkey – was a State Party to the Convention that had accordingly undertaken to respect the right to life and the prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment. The Court could not, however, base its assessment on that fact alone. It had to take account of the concrete information in the file. It noted that in its report of 19 September 2007 the Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims had confirmed that R.U. had been tortured while serving his prison sentence in Turkey. The Court considered that R.U. had thus submitted probative evidence in support of his asylum application in Greece, based on the fact that, in the past, he had been subjected to acts that could be characterised as contrary to Article 3 of the Convention. As his asylum application was still pending, and given the situation of asylum seekers in Greece, R.U. had then been, and was still now, at risk of being sent back to Turkey without having the opportunity of his asylum application being properly examined, despite there being substantial grounds for believing that he would be subjected to treatment contrary to Article 3 of the Convention if sent back there. The Court concluded that there had been a violation of Article 13 taken in conjunction with Article 3.
Article 5 § 1 (f)
The Court reiterated that the conditions for deprivation of liberty must be clearly defined under domestic law and that the law itself must be foreseeable in its application. Furthermore, in order not to be arbitrary, the detention of a person "to prevent his effecting an unauthorised entry into the country or against whom action is being taken with a view to deportation or extradition" must be done in good faith.
R.U.'s deprivation of liberty was based on Law no. 3386/2005 and was intended to guarantee the possibility of deporting him. The Court pointed out in that connection that Greek law only permitted detention with a view to deportation where that deportation could be executed. It also observed that, both under Greek law and international law, an asylum seeker could not be deported until his or her application had been definitively dealt with. That had been the situation of R.U. (asylum application pending) and when the President of the Alexandroupolis Administrative Court had decided on 15 May 2007 to keep him in detention, he had been aware of the position because he had expressly referred to the asylum application. Accordingly, there had been a violation of Article 5 § 1 (f) from 15 May 2007.
Possibility of obtaining a decision from a Greek court on the lawfulness of the detention (Article 5 § 4)
The Court noted the inadequacies of Greek law regarding the effectiveness of judicial review of detention with a view to expulsion and had concluded that they did not meet the requirements of Article 5 § 44.
Neither section 76 of Law no. 3386/2005, nor an application to the Minister of Public Order for judicial review of a deportation order, nor indeed an interim order deferring enforcement of the removal measure gave the court power to examine the lawfulness and appropriateness of a decision to maintain a person in detention with a view to his or her expulsion. In any event, the judges who had dealt with R .U.'s case had not examined the question. There had been a violation of Article 5 § 4.
Violations of Article 3, 5, 13
15,000 euros (EUR) in respect of non-pecuniary damage
Case Law Cited:
ECtHR - Mahdid and Haddar v. Austria, Application No. 74762/01
ECtHR - Baranowski v Poland, Application No. 28358/95
ECtHR - MSS v Belgium and Greece (Application no. 30696/09) - resource
ECtHR - Salah Sheekh v The Netherlands (Application no. 1948/04) - resource
ECtHR - Z v United Kingdom (Application no. 29392/95)
ECtHR - S.D. v Greece (Application no. 53541/07)
ECtHR - Müslim v Turkey (Application no. 53566/99)
ECtHR - Jabari v Turkey, 11 July 2000, (Application no. 40035/98)
ECtHR - Shamayev v Georgia (April 2005) (Application no. 36378/02)
ECtHR - Cruz Varas & Others v Sweden (Application no. 15576/89)
ECtHR - Conka v Belgium (Application no. 51564/99)
ECtHR - Case of Saadi v United Kingdom (Application no.13229/03) - (UP)
ECtHR - Amuur v. France, Application No. 19776/92
ECtHR - Kudla v Poland [GC], Application No. 30210/96
ECtHR - A v United Kingdom, Application No. 25599/94
ECtHR - Jeltsujeva v. Netherlands, Application No. 39858/04
ECtHR - Dougoz v. Greece, Application No. 40907/98
ECtHR - Riad and Idiab v. Belgium, Application Nos. 29787/03 and 29810/03
ECtHR - Gasayev v. Spain, Application No. 48514/06
ECtHR - Labita v. Italy [GC], Application No. 26772/95
ECtHR - A.A. v. Greece, Application No. 12186/08
ECtHR - Cardot v. France, Application No. 11069/84
ECtHR - Sisojeva and Others v. Latvia [GC], Application No. 60654/00
ECtHR - Van der Ven v. the Netherlands, Application No. 50901/99
ECtHR - Ramirez Sanchez v. France [GC], Application No. 59450/00
ECtHR - Fressoz Roire v. France [GC], Application No. 29183/95
ECtHR - Beyeler v. Italy [GC], Application No. 33202/96
ECtHR - Castells v. Spain, Application No. 11798/85
ECtHR - Dalia v. France, Application No. 26102/95
ECtHR - Chahal v the United Kingdom (Application no. 22414/93)
AFFAIRE R.U. c. GRECE.pdf
Other sources cited:
Report published in April 2008 by the Athens Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe following his visit to Greece from 8 to 10 December 2008;
CPT report published June 30, 2009 following the visit to Greece from 23 to 29 September 2008;
Report "Left to survive. Systematic failure to protect unaccompanied migrant children in Greece " published in 2008 by Human Rights Watch.
Authentic Language:
State Party:
National / Other Legislative Provisions:
Greece - Constitution - Art. 5
Greece - Constitution - Art. 21
Greece - Law No. 3386/2005 - Article 2
Greece - Law No. 3386/2005 - Article 76
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The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.
Characteristics: 151 p. :,ill. ;,20 cm.
I read alot of royal diaries books,just don't get why those princesses would love someone so easily.And usually they don't have a very good life together.
"A truly caring person, [Elizabeth] developed a sincere concern for the poor and mentally ill. She became a symbol of hope to thousands of her subjects. But it was Elizabeth's extraordinary beauty that was her most noteworthy characteristic."
I really didn't find this a healthy message to tack on to the end of a book for young girls.
I returned this with all other books.
Elisabeth, Empress, Consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898 — Juvenile Fiction.


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You are here: Home / Celebrities / Susan Boyle Make Over – Yay or Nay?
So our Susan Boyle has had a make over. They grey frizz has gone, and those brows, those glorious brows. I hope it was a make over of her own free will and not enforced by the Britain's Got Talent Lot.
Before she was like my dinner lady, the one who would sneak in extra custard.
After she looks like….well, the mother in law.
Either way, she's still way hotter than that irritating bey-atch Amanda Holden.


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This may lead to action to set up services outside the system, or to develop forms of organisation which are based round aspects of people's lives with which mainstream mental health services may have little concern. Throughout this book we will consider practical examples of action based in notions of both reactive and proactive empowerment. There are three further issues which we will be exploring during the course of this book to which we also need to make reference in this introductory analysis of the notion of empowerment.
22 Taking Over the Asylum Empowerment, then, is not restricted to the achievement of the 'power over' form of power, but can also involve the development of power to, with and from within. These kinds of power are not finite; indeed, one might argue that the more they are exercised the more power can grow. (Rowlands, 1998: 15) Anderson, J. (1996) takes a similar position and also identifies the way in which those who have been marginalised or oppressed can exercise power through resistance: As Janeway points out, even the weak are not without power: they have the power to disbelieve; the power to come together as a group to act towards common goals; and they have the power to organise for action.


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1. Create secret  for your S3 ACCESS_KEY_ID and SECRET_ACCESS_KEY (admin123):
```
ACCESS_KEY_ID=admin123
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=admin123
kubectl create ns logging
kubectl -n logging create secret generic logging-s3 --from-literal "accesskey=$ACCESS_KEY_ID" --from-literal "secretkey=$SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"
```

2. Create minio_standalon.yaml file with below content

```
kubectl -n logging apply -f - <<"EOF"
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: minio-deployment
  namespace: logging
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: minio
  strategy:
    type: Recreate
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: minio
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: minio
        image: minio/minio
        args:
        - server
        - /storage
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /minio/health/ready
            port: 9000
          initialDelaySeconds: 10
          periodSeconds: 5
        env:
        - name: MINIO_REGION
          value: 'test_region'
        - name: MINIO_ACCESS_KEY
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: logging-s3
              key: accesskey
        - name: MINIO_SECRET_KEY
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: logging-s3
              key: secretkey
        ports:
        - containerPort: 9000
      volumes:
        - name: logging-s3
          secret:
            secretName: logging-s3
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: minio-service
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
    - port: 9000
      targetPort: 9000
      protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: minio

EOF
```

3. Access minio service:
```
 kc get svc -n logging
NAME            TYPE       CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
minio-service   NodePort   10.108.182.51   <none>        9000:31440/TCP   52m
```
Access minio GUI via: `http://<public_ip>:31440`

## Deploy banzaicloud logging operator

Deploy the logging operator by running the following commands:
```
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/docs/deploy/manifests/rbac.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/config/crd/bases/logging.banzaicloud.io_clusterflows.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/config/crd/bases/logging.banzaicloud.io_clusteroutputs.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/config/crd/bases/logging.banzaicloud.io_flows.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/config/crd/bases/logging.banzaicloud.io_loggings.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/config/crd/bases/logging.banzaicloud.io_outputs.yaml
kubectl -n logging create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/banzaicloud/logging-operator/master/docs/deploy/manifests/deployment.yaml

```

## Collect the pipeline logs to S3

- Logging will deploy the necessary fluentd/fluentbit workloads:
```
cat <<EOF | kubectl -n logging apply -f -
apiVersion: logging.banzaicloud.io/v1beta1
kind: Logging
metadata:
  name: logging
spec:
  fluentd:
    logLevel: debug
  fluentbit: {}
  controlNamespace: logging
EOF
```

- ClusterOutput defines the output of the logs pipeline. In our case AWS S3 (through minio):

```
cat <<EOF | kubectl -n logging apply -f -
apiVersion: logging.banzaicloud.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterOutput
metadata:
  name: s3
spec:
  s3:
    aws_key_id:
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          key: accesskey
          name: logging-s3
    aws_sec_key:
      valueFrom:
        secretKeyRef:
          key: secretkey
          name: logging-s3
    s3_endpoint: http://<your_public_ip>:31440
    s3_bucket: tekton-pipline-logs
    s3_region: test_region
    force_path_style: 'true'
    store_as: text
    path: \${\$.kubernetes.namespace_name}/\${\$.kubernetes.pod_name}/\${\$.kubernetes.container_name}/
    s3_object_key_format: '%{path}%{time_slice}_%{index}.log'
    buffer:
      tags: time,\$.kubernetes.namespace_name,\$.kubernetes.pod_name,\$.kubernetes.container_name
      timekey: 1m
      timekey_wait: 1m
      timekey_use_utc: true
    format:
      type: single_value
      message_key: message
EOF
```

The `ClusterOutput` above will stream logs to our minio storage in a tekton-logs bucket. It will buffer logs and will store one file per minute in the <namespace_name>/<pod_name>/<container_name>/ path. All metadata will be ommited and only the log message will be stored, it will be the raw pod logs.

- ClusterFlow defines how the collected logs are dispatched to the outputs:

```
cat <<EOF | kubectl -n logging apply -f -
apiVersion: logging.banzaicloud.io/v1beta1
kind: ClusterFlow
metadata:
  name: flow
spec:
  outputRefs:
    - s3
  selectors:
    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: tekton-pipelines
EOF
```

The ClusterFlow above takes all logs from pods that have the app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: tekton-pipelines label (those are the pods baking TaskRuns) and dispatches them to the ClusterOutput created in the previous step.

## Submit a tekton pipelinerun for testing

Running the PipelineRun should produce logs and you should see corresponding objects being added in minio as far as logs get collected and stored by the logs pipeline.
e.g. [parallel_join.yaml](/sdk/python/tests/compiler/testdata/parallel_join.yaml)

```
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/kfp-tekton/master/sdk/python/tests/compiler/testdata/parallel_join.yaml
```

## Access to S3 Web
You can get the logs from S3 web now, via `http://<public_ip>:31440`
![minio_s3](minio_s3.png)

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Home Local, State and Nat'l News Fremont Street Experience Counts Down to 2009 With TributePalooza
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Fremont Street Experience Counts Down to 2009 With TributePalooza
Las Vegas' famed Fremont Street Experience is ready for a smash New Year's Eve celebration with TributePalooza and the world premiere of its newest Viva Vision extravaganza, "KISS Rocks Vegas." Tickets are free to locals with valid Nevada ID (21 and over). For those traveling from out of town, tickets can be purchased for $20 by calling 877-834-2748.
Revelers are invited to celebrate the final hours of 2008 in true Las Vegas fashion at the city's one-stop outdoor entertainment venue. The night will be filled with music as eight live tribute bands rock the crowd. The street will be packed with action while the Riders of the Thunderdome thrill with their Globe of Death motorcycle show and the giant Viva Vision screen dazzles with a light and sound extravaganza 90 feet above the street. The five blocks of the fabulous Fremont Street Experience, home to 10 legendary casinos, will be transformed into the biggest private party in Las Vegas.
TributePalooza features eight top tribute bands, performing classic favorites for all ages from Aerosmith, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Eagles, KISS, Queen, the Rolling Stones and U2.
6 pm – 7:15 pm
The Long Run (Eagles) 1st Street Stage
Michael John (Billy Joel) 3rd Street Stage
Riders of the Thunderdome Main Street
Space Oddity (David Bowie) 1st Street Stage
Original KISS Army (KISS) 3rd Street Stage
2U (U2) 1st Street Stage
Satisfaction (Rolling Stones) 3rd Street Stage
11 pm – 1 am
Aeromyth (Aerosmith) 1st Street Stage
Queen Nation (Queen) 3rd Street Stage
Aeromyth, the ultimate tribute to Aerosmith (www.aerosmithtribute.com), not only has amazing Steven Tyler and Joe Perry look alikes, but all band members look and sound like the band members they portray. The Long Run (www.thelongrun.net) is regarded as the finest tribute to the Eagles, consistently delivering faithful recreations of the lush harmonies and rich instrumental arrangements that make the Eagles an unforgettable part of rock history.
Local Las Vegan Michael John's seamless imitation of Billy Joel (www.billyjoeltributeshow.com) entertains crowds with the same intensity and passion as the Piano Man himself. Space Oddity, David Brighton's Tribute to David Bowie (www.davidbowietribute.com) pays tribute to rock's most electrifying superstar, complete with costume changes and an extensive set list.
The Original Kiss Army (www.thekissarmytribute.com) fully re-creates vintage KISS in all its glory. The band members prowl the stage and stalk the audience, generating unrivaled excitement with unbridled energy and classic stage raps. 2U (www.notu2.com) faithfully imitates U2's top hits through the decades. Satisfaction (www.rollingstoneshow.com) is internationally acclaimed as the most authentic cast and production show paying tribute to the Rolling Stones. Lastly, Queen Nation (www.queennation.com) rounds out the TributePalooza line-up with their amazing renditions of Queen's explosive hits.
In conjunction with America's Party, Fremont Street Experience presents the world premier of "KISS Rocks Vegas" Viva Vision show at 9 p.m. The show features three of the band's worldwide hits, "Lick It Up," "Shout It Out Loud" and the rock anthem "Rock 'n' Roll All Night," stylistically showcasing the band's rich history, iconic make-up and costumes surrounded in a cacophony of fire and pyrotechnic graphics.
"As part of America's Party, Fremont Street Experience's New Year's Eve celebration is the party of the year. Nothing can compare to standing beneath 12.5 million lights counting down the last seconds of the year with the classic Las Vegas neon flashing, nonstop entertainment and everyone having the time of their lives," said Jeff Victor, president of the Fremont Street Experience. "This year, the party is even bigger and better with fireworks under the canopy, a Fremont Street Experience first."
America's Party is the official moniker coined by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and Las Vegas Events to signify the annual citywide celebration on December 31. This year's festivities include a themed fireworks extravaganza on the Las Vegas Strip, as well as the TributePalooza live concerts at the Fremont Street Experience. This New Year's Eve also marks a first for Fremont Street Experience with a special fireworks display under the canopy.
Guinness World Record Holders Bela Tabak's Riders of the Thunderdome perform in the Globe of Death, which is fashioned from four tons of steel. The motorcycle daredevil team features four riders who attain speeds in excess of 40 mph while racing inside the 14-foot, 3-inch globe simultaneously.
Viva Vision, the LED display canopy rising 90 feet in height and stretching 1,500 feet along the Fremont Street Experience promenade from Main Street to Fourth Street, forms a spectacular foyer for the existing resorts. Stretching the length of five football fields, Viva Vision serves as the showcase for the world's largest graphic display system. Within the canopy itself are 208 speakers capable of producing 550,000 watts of concert-quality sound.
America's Party and TributePalooza Live in Concert at the Fremont Street Experience opens at 6:00 p.m. Guests can access the venue at any of the gates located at Fremont and Casino Center, Fremont and 4th and Fremont and Main. All attendees must be at least 21 years of age. Parking is available at the Fremont Street Experience parking garage on the corner of 4th and Carson and at all Fremont Street hotel-casinos.
The New Year's Eve celebration at the Fremont Street Experience brings crowds of partygoers to Downtown Las Vegas every year and has become a tradition for visitors and locals alike.
The Fremont Street Experience can be found online at www.vegasexperience.com.
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I was sitting in an hotel a while ago, witnessing a life-or -death struggle that was taking place just a few feet away from me.
A fly was inside the hotel, and it really, really wanted to get outside. He probably figured it was going to be be easy because, well, he could see his goal. Right there. On the other side of the window, was his objective.
He tried. Boy did he try. He kept backing off and flying head first into the glass. Occasionally he would stop and walk over the glass, inspecting it, then he would start his mad assault again. He tried and failed countless times, and each time he failed he tried harder and harder, not realising that each failed attempt, each extra surge of energy was, in fact, having the exact opposite result to his aim. Instead of reaching his goal, he was becoming weaker and weaker.
He was confused. If he could think, he was probably wondering where it all went wrong. I mean, he had a goal. He was absolutely focussed on achieving that goal. He was committed and working harder and harder, not realising that he, and his dreams, were going to die right there on that window sill.
He didn't know, of course, what glass was. He thought that because he could see his goal and knew where it was, and that he wanted to reach it, that working harder and harder would get him there. That invisible wall was his undoing. He would never make it.
Had he had enough foresight to stand back and take a look at his dream from a new perspective, he might have realised that not far away was another set of windows, one of which was open. His dream, his goal, was just a few wing-beats away.
I see many, many speakers and read a lot of books, and I've lost count of the times that I have seen that kind of stuff all over the place.
It's fine as far as it goes, but it neglects one fundamental problem that 98% of the population face. The glass window. Or, in our case, our limiting beliefs.
Limiting beliefs are formed in our subconscious at any time in our life, but mostly in our formative years, and they result from things our parents, teachers and siblings say and do. A typical example is a wealth limiting belief.
If you had people saying to you, as you were growing up, things like "Money can't buy happiness", "Money is the root of all evil", "The filthy rich" and so on, you are almost certain to have a wealth limiting belief. You go through your life, and your subconscious mind, without you having a clue what is going on, is constantly choosing between money and happiness, and you almost always choose happiness, not realising that you can have both: that money can, indeed, buy happiness. Not just for you and your family, but for other people too.
Your beliefs – both limiting and affirming, determine your life course. Your programme. Your direction through life. Any deviation from that course (such as winning money, losing a few kilos of weight) is only a temporary deviation from your life's course, and your subconscious mind will work to establish the status quo: you will lose the money, put the weight back on etc.
For a change to be permanent, you need to change the programme first, and that means recognising, identifying and eliminating your limiting beliefs!


The Olympics are full of surprises, and while no one can ever be certain just who will take home the gold in each event, one thing is clear: Blood, sweat, tears, and an incomprehensible amount of practice and dedication are what propel the world's top competitors to the podium. And while not every athlete can get a gold medal, there are still two other hugely meaningful awards handed out. But honestly, how much is a bronze Olympic medal worth? Even if it's not the emotional value of winning gold, is it maybe worth as much money?
This can be a pretty complicated question, mainly because there can be multiple interpretations of the term "worth." One interpretation is how much medals are worth once they are melted down and sold. Obviously, this varies greatly depending on which type of medal you're melting. And spoiler alert: Gold medals actually aren't made entirely of gold. They are actually made up of — get ready for the bombshell — only about 1 percent actual gold. The other 92 percent of gold medals is silver, with an added sprinkle of approximately 6 percent copper. So when you melt all of those together and sell them for material costs, the total value comes out to about $644.
By contrast, bronze medals are 97 percent copper — that's where they get their shiny bronze color from — as well as 2.5 percent zinc and 0.5 percent tin. So how much do these raw materials cost? Well, get ready for this even bigger bombshell: the total cost of a melted down Olympic bronze medal comes out to less than $5.
Of course, Olympic medals are more than just chunks of raw materials. They are symbols of national pride and unity, the result of endless hours of hard work and sacrifice. That being said, a more common way of assessing the worth of medals is by estimating how much they might sell for at auction, though the value of each medal is dependent on a variety of factors.
For example, national icons who have shattered records and become national celebrities — like swimming legend Michael Phelps, who has won a total of 28 Olympic medals —sell for quite a pretty penny. For example, a medal won by Jesse Owens, the descendant of African American slaves who out-ran German athletes in front of Hitler in 1936, was purchased for $1.47 million in 2013. Medals that are not tied to a popular figure or momentous story sell for much less. Typically, a common bronze medal can bring in between $5,000 to $6,000. According to some auctioneers, that's much less than many athletes often expect.
"They are totally disappointed," Ingrid O'Neil, who has been auctioning Olympic memorabilia for 25 years, told USA Today. "They can't believe it. They think, 'OK, Jesse Owens' medal went for $1.4 million, mine should be worth at least $200,000 or $300,000.'"
While all Olympic medals are unique in their own right, this year's set have a special touch. They were created by designer Lee Suk-woo to resemble the texture of tress trunks as a reminder of the "work that has gone into developing Korean culture and the games themselves." According to the official Olympic website, the Korean alphabet was also integrated into the design.
[The Korean alphabet consonants] stretch across the face of the medals to the edge, where they come together to spell "Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018." As a result, they create dynamic diagonal lines that reflect both the history of the Olympic Games and the determination of the competitors vying for a place on the podium.
Each Olympic medal tells a very unique story, and monetary value aside, the experience of making it to the world's stage to represent your country — regardless of whether or not you make the podium — is definitely worth more than any medal ever could be.