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Humans have a 100% mortality rate, yet less than 30% of us make any end-of-life plans. To get adults to discuss and plan for their eventual demise, the inaugural Before I Die ABQ Festival is putting the "fun" in funeral planning October 20 to 25, 2017.
Before I Die ABQ offers multiple upbeat activities for people to openly think about, talk about and do something about our mortality. A wide range of free and low-cost events will be held at numerous locations around Albuquerque, New Mexico. These outside-the-box activities include:
- "Prelude to Eternity" dinner party in the Pavilion at Sunset Memorial Park;
- A panel of local funeral directors on "What You Need to Know Before You Go";
- Death Cafe discussions at city senior centers around town;
- Yoga class "From Child Pose to Corpse Pose: Life, Death, Yoga and Spirituality";
- A tour of historic Fairview cemetery (established 1881);
- "Answering Your Burning Questions About Cremation" information session;
- Panel discussions on "Making Plans to Live Well Until We Die" on medical care and end-of-life issues;
- "Jewish Burial Equals Green Burial" at the Jewish Community Center;
- The Guild Cinema double feature of classic films about life and death, Harold and Maude and The Seventh Seal;
- "Earth, Air, Fire & Water: A Celebration of Cremation and Art" with local artists selling their works in ceramics, paper and other media;
- The Albucreepy Ghost Tour of Downtown Albuquerque landmark buildings;
- A tour of the casket building workshop of Fathers Building Futures.
- "Mindfulness, Mortality and Self-Care," a meditation session with world-renowned teacher Ralph Steele.
Registration for these and other events is now open at www.BeforeIDieABQ.com.
"By providing space and opportunities to openly discuss end-of-life issues, we can improve the percentage of those who plan ahead and take actions to address our mortality," said festival coordinator Gail Rubin, CT, a pioneering death educator, award-winning author and TED speaker. "Right now, more than 70% of our loved ones will scramble to pull together information and make expensive decisions under duress of grief, and it doesn't have to be that way."
Rubin spoke about the Before I Die ABQ Festival in this Pecha Kucha 20×20 talk:
Before I Die festivals are part of a growing social movement to foster reflection about how we as individuals and as a society manage death and dying. Before I Die festivals have drawn thousands to events in Cardiff, Wales (UK), Indianapolis, IN and Louisville, KY. This will be the first such festival west of the Mississippi.
The Before I Die ABQ Festival is being held in partnership with the nonprofit organizations Albuquerque Oasis, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of New Mexico, the Jewish Federation of New Mexico, Fathers Building Futures, Central New Mexico Community College, and the YMCA of Central New Mexico.
Sponsors include:
- French Funerals & Cremations, Albuquerque's largest and oldest family-owned funeral service company;
- The Neptune Society, America's most trusted cremation service;
- Lasting Legacy, Inc., providing Estate and Trust services to New Mexico families;
- Express Legal Solutions, LLC, documents you need at a price you can afford;
- Retirement Extender®, a team of specialists making the most of your finances;
- Morris Hall, PLLC, a premier estate planning law firm;
- My Final Checklist, a master file for personal information; and
- Zia Trust, Inc., serving clients in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and 38 other states.
Event coordinator Gail Rubin is an informed advocate for planning ahead and the author of three books on end-of-life issues. Her books include A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die and KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die. Download free planning forms and checklists from www.AGoodGoodbye.com.
Part of the proceeds from Before I Die ABQ will be donated to charitable partner Albuquerque Oasis. Oasis is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that promotes successful aging through lifelong learning, healthy living, and social engagement.
Find more information and register for events online at http://BeforeIDieABQ.com


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Milieu teaching was developed by a number of researchers, including Hart and Rogers-Warren, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Lucky Star (1929) Film Review
Lucky Star
Reviewed by: Adam Micklethwaite
Long thought to be one of the many lost films of the silent era, a print of the silent version (as opposed to the part-talking version, which remains lost) of Lucky Star was fortunately rediscovered in 1990, among the archives of the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. A real find this one, showcasing Borzage's talent for evocative fairytale adaptation with a story which is part Cinderella, part Beauty And The Beast, and even a tiny, teensy bit Angela Carter in the dénouement, which highlights the transformational power of love.
Based on Tristam Tupper's novel Three Episodes In the Life Of Timothy Osbourne, Lucky Star tells the fairytale story of warm-hearted electrical repairman Tim Osbourne (Charles Farrell) and farm-girl-cum-petty-thief Mary Tucker (Janet Gaynor). We begin with a sequence in which Mary sparks a fight between Tim and his philandering, selfish boss Martin Wrenn (Guinn Williams) by claiming that Wrenn hasn't paid her for the milk which she has just given the workers. When Tim discovers her lie, he puts her over his knee and gives her "a good lickin". An unlikely starting point for a romance, perhaps, but a start nonetheless.
The film begins at the moment of the United States' entry into the First World War and, immediately following this sequence, Tim and Wrenn are conscripted and sent to France. Mary, clearly influenced by her earlier encounter with Tim, begins to send him letters to the front, but, as so often in Borzage's work, war is the catalyst for disaster. Whilst delivering supplies to the front, Tim suffers serious injury and returns home paralysed. Unable to walk, Tim finds a new lease of life by repairing other broken things around the home and revelling in the company of Mary, albeit with the knowledge that his injury is a huge obstacle any relationship between them.
The third pairing of Farrell and Gaynor, after the triumphs of 7th Heaven and Street Angel, and the formula for a Borzage-Gaynor-Farrell film was well-established by this point. Lucky Star doesn't deviate too far from the path of these earlier films, following the pattern of an unlikely, fairytale romance blossoming between a man and woman who initially seem antipathetic towards one another, only for this initial spark to be severely tested by dramatic circumstances beyond the protagonists' control.
What makes this particular romance so touching is the undeniable chemistry between Farrell and Gaynor and the excellent performances of the two leads, especially in the scenes which mark the growth of their affection towards one another. Tim gives Mary the nickname Baa-Baa, because of her slightly dishevelled appearance and lack of personal hygiene. Determined to prove that beneath this ugly duckling there is a beautiful swan, Tim helps Mary to achieve self-awareness and self-confidence. The scene in which he uses eggs to wash her is both funny and touching, as it reminds us of not only of the transformational process of their love, but also of the distance between them, in both age and circumstance.
Like all good fairytales our story needs a villain, and in this case he comes in the shape of the aforementioned Mr Wrenn, the type of thoroughly unpleasant character who gives men everywhere a bad name: handing out promises of marriage as though he's giving out parking tickets, skiving away from his duty in the war (and thereby endangering others), and becoming a rival for Mary's affections, by wheedling his way into the good graces of her mother (almost a wicked-stepmother type), who believes that herself and children have been dealt a raw deal in life and mistakenly sees Wrenn as some kind of salvation. Cue a tense finale, as Mary is torn between the demands her mother and her own heart, with time running out and circumstances conspiring against the path of true love…
Don't expect anything too experimental or groundbreaking from Lucky Star, but if you're looking for a good old-fashioned, sentimental romance with plenty of delicate touches, the odd directorial flourish and excellent lead performances, then this will be right up your street.Reviewed on: 08 Jan 2010


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Politicians call for protection of vital adoption support
The launch of a new All-Party Parliamentary Group
Politicians call for protection of vital adoption support
A cross-party group of MPs and Peers, launched this week, will push for change to ensure adoptive children and families receive the support they need. The new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Adoption and Permanence will be chaired by Rachael Maskell MP.
Approximately three-quarters of adopted children are removed from their birth parents because of abuse and neglect. As a result of their early experiences, they are much more likely than their peers to struggle with education, relationships and employment.
Ms Maskell said: "This new APPG is a very important opportunity to advocate for some of the most vulnerable children in society and I am delighted to be leading it. Adopted children have had a very tough start in life and they deserve the attention of policy makers to ensure they are able to build a better future."
As Chair of the APPG Ms Maskell went on to say "I want to ensure that families receive the very support they need pre and post adoption, and will ensure that the APPG brings a laser focus to the challenges facing parents and children. Government has a crucial role in adopting global best practice and resourcing essential services to build strong, loving and resilient families, and the APPG on Adoption and Permanence will provide an important vehicle to take the voice of adopters, kinship carers and young people into Government".
The APPG has determined a number of priorities for the group's initial activities, one of which is the future of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) – a central government fund which helps adoptive families to access therapy. Although the fund recently received an £12m boost, the government is currently only committed to it until March 2020. Research from 2017 revealed that a quarter of adoptive parents believe support funded by the ASF prevented their placement from breaking down and their children returning to care.
Charities Adoption UK and Home for Good will provide the secretariat support for the group, and are well-placed to engage adoptive families directly in the work of the APPG.
Adoption UK's chief executive, Dr Sue Armstrong Brown said: "This APPG is sorely needed to serve our society's most vulnerable children, ensuring their experiences inform political debate and policy development. Adoption is a long rehabilitation from trauma, lasting throughout childhood and beyond. We need a system which recognises this and delivers help for families whenever and for as long as they need it."
Home for Good chief executive, Phil Green added: "Adopted children and their families deserve our very best. Home for Good is delighted to be supporting this APPG because we recognise that if we have grand ambitions for the lives of children, we need to have grand ambitions for services that exist to serve them."
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So it was Thanksgiving this past week. We didn't "do" Thanksgiving- even with a small turkey my husband and I would have had enough leftovers for a month. We went grocery shopping instead, which was awesome! The store was pretty empty and there were no lines. For once. So I'm thankful for that. 😀
Apparently in America, there exists a thing called Black Friday. Black Friday is the same as Boxing Day is in Canada, everyone has sales and there are riots and injuries and pepper spraying… Oh, and good deals. Can't forget about the good deals. I didn't leave my house yesterday. Well, I did the once, to check the mail. I had a pretty awesome mail day yesterday! I got some prints from Jewel Renee and they are AWESOME! She sells penguins and baby seals and baby manatees and they are the cutest things on the face of the planet. And she's a total sweetheart.
And then USPS had to crap all over my day. Again. Ah, my ongoing struggle with USPS. They've lost a second package of mine and they left some candles I ordered sitting in the sun. I know the rest of the country has been struggling with the weather, but not here. We hit 80 degrees for the first half of the week and now my candles are a little squishy. On the plus side, now I smell yummy whenever I handle them! 😀
I've been busy a lot. And I'm making something I've never made before, fingerless gloves! I'm following some patterns from Ravelry.com, and I'll post the results once I finish them. When I first learned how to crochet, I went through a pretty big baby-clothes-making kick, so I did a lot of different stitches and shaping for flat things. I haven't done anything like that really in a long time, but it seems to be just like riding a bicycle. Plus the yarn I'm using is pretty (and soft)!
Which brings us to the sale portion of the entry! For Small Business Saturday (apparently it's a thing) through Cyber Monday (also a thing) I'll be having my minis at buy 1 get 1 half off. Or more, depending on the minis selected. And if you're interested in a mini you don't see, send me a message and I'll be all, "Yeah, I can TOTALLY do that!" And what's even better, this is good with any of my existing coupon codes!


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BRISBANE – a massive thank you for the most epic gig last night …. definitely the hottest i've ever been on stage haha !!! I'm still on a massive high from it all …. i couldn't believe how much energy you all had for a sunday night in 93% humidity …. i couldn't have asked for anything more . you are all legends and i'll remember last night for a long time to come . thank you xxxxxx
i haven't been to CAIRNS for ages and i'm so looking forward to playing tomorrow night 🙂
see you cats there xxx
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We have always had some difficulties to believe the prophecies of Nostradamus. The reason is of course that most the events already have happened before the prophecies was officially given to the public.
From: http://www.nostradamusonline.com/?gclid=CNHL4IuyyowCFRcGEgodcDR2aQ
If you prefer the German version:
"In May 2005, members of the Italian National Library in Rome made an amazing discovery. Buried in their archives was an unknown manuscript written by the famed prophet Michel de Nostradame, or Nostradamus (1503-1566). This manuscript was handed down to his son and later donated to Pope Urban VIII. It did not surface again until now, almost four hundred years later.
Using cutting-edge data mining techniques, Dr. Rathford sifted this complex word puzzle searching for significant patterns and relationships. Almost immediately, he came up with the predictive model known as The Nostradamus Code
When the prophecies-within-prophecies are deciphered, the hidden timeline of World War III is revealed. A sample of the new predictions include:
A conflict between the US and Iran
The next major terrorist attack on the US
Osama Bin Laden
The nuclear destruction of Rome"
To get more facts you have to read the files here: http://danmark.wordpress.com/tag/english-oder-deutsches-version/


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Whitewater Rafting
Spring 2012
Photoshop Elements
|One of my favorite courses in college was my Illustration class. I had transferred into the class late, so missed the details of the first assignment, instead getting the general idea from classmates. It was a mock ad image for a whiterwater rafting company, and this is what I came up with. It went over very well, and is a piece I still love!


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5 Tips To Maintain A Blog Consistently WITHOUT Losing Motivation
Maybe you have a blog, but you didn't have the motivation to post last week.
Or maybe you started a blog a while back, but haven't posted in months.
The big question is, why? Why haven't you posted consistently?
I see many bloggers—especially beginners—who don't post consistently. They wanted to post every single week, and they were doing great for the first few weeks. But then, they simply stopped.
1. Set Aside Time for Blogging ONLYI know. We're all busy. Finding time for something else seems impossible.
But if you're going to be a serious writer, you need to make writing and blogging a priority in your life. (Not the biggest priority, of course, because there are definitely other important things in life besides writing.)
(If you don't want to be a serious writer, that's just fine! Writing as a hobby is fun too! But if you want to be a serious and successful writer, you need to prioritize it.)
So here's my advice to you: Make time for blogging only. Set aside a certain amount of time each week devoted to only blogging. Make a schedule. No Netflix, no YouTube (unless you're listening to music while writing), and no distractions. Stay diligent! You can do it!
Besides creating a schedule, you can also batch create content.
2. Batch Create ContentIf you've been following my blog for at least a few weeks, you probably have noticed an email from me in your inbox every Friday.
That's because I push myself to blog every single week. I've disciplined myself because blogging consistently is important to me. I've created the habit of posting every Friday.
But I have school and volleyball and other activities. How do I keep up?
Here's my "secret": I don't write my blog posts on Fridays and then publish them right after writing. (That would be so stressful!)
Instead, I batch create content.
What does this mean? Batch creating content is when I sit down to blog at some point every week (if I'm able to) and write several blog posts at once. (For example, I began to write this post in mid-September, but it's just now getting published a month later.)
When batch creating content, I love to write 2+ drafts of blog posts in one sitting. These posts are rough drafts, and the headers are not properly formatted. That's okay, I'll get to that eventually.
Later, I will go back through the posts and edit them a little more, format everything correctly, then eventually schedule and publish them for you all to read.
In the next section, I'm going to take you through my process of writing my blog posts and getting them ready for publication.
3. Take It One Step at a Time (My Blogging Process)Here's the general process I like to take when creating content for my blog.
- Come up with an idea. Obviously, you have to have an idea for the post. I need the ideas for my posts to be helpful to my readers (you all!), and I need to be able to know enough about the topic to be able to write about it.
- Outline your posts. I don't do this all the time, but when I do, my outline is super basic—usually just the points/subheadings I want to make, with a few notes. This definitely helps me stay on track when writing the post.
- Write the rough draft. Yes, like everything else I write, I have a rough draft first.
- Wait a few days, and then edit. Depending on what I need to work on, I'll usually write one to several blog post drafts in one sitting. Then the next day, or later that week, I'll come back and edit.
- Decide on a blog post and make the graphics. Figuring out your final blog title is obviously super important before making your graphics. I primarily use Canva and Unsplash for creating graphics.
- Run the post through Grammarly. Grammarly is a FREE website that is helpful in finding spelling and grammatical errors that you might have missed. (There is also a paid plan that will catch more errors, but I find the free plan helpful right now.)
- Publish the post when ready. This is the step you all see: the published post, which you get in your inbox!
So that's my process for creating one blog post! It seems like a lot, but it really isn't. If you take it one step at a time, it's definitely doable. (And it's fun!)
Hopefully this gives you all an idea on how to batch create your own blog posts! Feel free to follow the process I outlined for you!
4. Write a Blog SeriesSomething that might be helpful for you is to create a blog series. I did this recently with my "Discussing 'Bad Writing Advice'" series. I decided to set apart the whole month of September and use the four Fridays in that month to create four blog posts in the series.
If you're having a hard time finding enough ideas for posts, find a topic and make a series. (Be sure that you write posts you think your readers will want to read!)
5. Read Other Blogs and Get IdeasMy final tip for you is this: Read other blogs. If you write on a writing blog, like mine, then follow those blogs. If you write a Christian living blog, follow those blogs. And so on.
This way, you can get ideas for your blog posts, style, and design and watch how those authors are succeeding in blogging.
Of course, don't plagiarize! Imitate; don't copy. And remember that the types of posts you write will depend on what audience your blog is for.
So there you go! Five tips for maintaining a blog consistently WITHOUT losing motivation.
Please remember that it does take discipline to publish a blog post every week. It's not always easy, but I've been posting every week for a year and a half. I can't stop now because it's a habit. You can make it a habit too by disciplining yourself to post consistently, whether or not that's once a week.
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Which of these tips was your favorite? Which one are you going to put into practice THIS WEEK?


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"If you can't measure it, you can't improve it". And so, since the release of ElectricFlow 5.2, we have supported health monitoring of the ElectricFlow server(s) using statsd and data visualization tools, such as Grafana. In this article, I will walk you through the steps to set up statsd and Grafana using containers.
The Tools:
Before we explore how to take advantage of the health monitoring feature, let's have a look at the tools we integrate with:
statsd and Graphite
statds was created by Etsy, based on some earlier work at Flickr. It is a very simple (a few hundred lines of code) NodeJS daemon that listens on a UDP port, extracts metric data from the messages and flushes them from time to time to Graphite. UDP is beneficial because it's fast and won't error out if nobody listens. After all, you don't want to slow down your application in order to measure it.
Graphite is both a numeric time-series data storage and a graphical frontend rendering of this data. It includes 3 components:
- Carbon: a daemon (based on Twisted) that listens for time-series data, in our case coming from statsd
- Whisper: a simple database to store these metrics
- Graphite webapp: Django-based frontend to display on-demand charts.
Graphite allows you to create new metrics on demand, by simply sending new data – so there is no need to ask IT to modify the configuration to incorporate new metrics.
To help with the setup of those two applications, I've created a Vagrant environment that you can check out here.
Grafana is a rich graphical frontend that allows you to display data from multiple sources like Graphite, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and more.
I'm not sure why but I've never been a big fan of Graphite, maybe I was not familiar enough with it to feel comfortable. A few months back, a customer showed me what they had accomplished with Grafana, and I thought it looks very good. Before we added statsd and REST API support, customers had to use our command line tool, ectool, to extract data for reporting. Now, with the new releases of ElectricFlow, I wanted to see if I could integrate ElectricFlow 6.0, statsd and Grafana to reduce the load on the server and the Database.
This time I decided to go the Docker route. I know, I'm adding yet another technology, but as Docker and Containers move to the mainstream, I figured it was time for me to get on the bandwagon. With a little bit of research I came across this Docker container and decided to test it out.
If you want to run Docker on Mac OS X or Windows you will have to install Virtualbox first, as Docker uses Linux-specific kernel features. The installation will create a small Linux VM to serve as the host for your containers. If you run Linux you do not need to do that, as it will use your host to run the container directly.
After installing VirtunalBox, I started the container with
docker run -d -p 80:80 -p81:81 -p 8125:8125/udp -p 8126:8126 --name grafana kamon/grafana_graphite
By default, Linux VM (on mac and Windows) is associated to IP 192.168.99.100. If you run on Linux, use your host name or IP address. As it was my only container, those ports were available; you may need to redirect them. Check the Docker documentation for details.
How to integrate ElectricFlow 6.0, statsd and Grafana:
1ElectricFlow Setup
Modify your <DATA_DIR>conf/wrapper.conf with the following information:
# These are for enabling Commander to send data to a statsd server.
# Only the hostname is required, the other options are included to show
# the default values.
|The name or IP of your statsd server. In our case, this is the IP of the VM hosting the containers.
|The statsd UDP port that will receive the data. You may need to use the port on your Docker machine that you forward to 8125 in the statsd container.The nice thing about UDP is that if nobody listens you won't get any error so you can turn it on even before your stats server is ready.
|Used to prefix all you data in statsd so it is easier to locate if your statsd server is getting data from multiple services.
|In case you're running in a cluster, this parameter is useful to separate your data by server in your cluster. It's also useful if you want to monitor your DEV and PROD ElectricFlow servers separately.
In order for any modification in this file to take effect, you need to restart your ElectricFlow server daemon.
2Grafana Configuration
I then pointed my web browser to the IP of my Docker virtual machine (http://192.168.99.100), and logged in to Grafana (admin/admin) and added my data source (be sure to keep the proxy setting)
I created a new dashboard and a new license graph with 2 metrics.
One of the nice things with Grafana is that the system auto-discovers the different data points available, so you don't have to remember all of them. However, a data point must have been generated before you see it automatically.
In the picture above, you'll notice the reference to "flow" that reflects the setting in the wrapper.conf as well as ec601, which is my ElectricFlow server name.
The only issue I've found with this Docker container is that Graphite fills the disk very quickly, so you may want to update the retention policy or get a bigger external storage.
3Monitoring of Your ElectricFlow Server
Now we have all the pieces in place to monitor our server, here are a few recommendations on what to monitor. This is not an exhaustive list, but some key metrics to keep in mind, and data that we also monitor internally.
Note: In the path below, "flow" is the prefix and ec601 is the name of the server.
- stats.gauges.flow.ec601.memory.G1_Old_Gen.usage.committed
This is an obvious one to ensure your server does not run out of memory.
- stats.gauges.flow.ec601.cpu.user
To monitor you have enough CPU power available to process all the requests.
- stats.gauges.flow.ec601.jobs.runnableSteps
Indicates the number of steps that could be run during the last step scheduler invocation.
- stats.gauges.flow.ec601.api.active
Gives you an idea of the general activity on your server.
Licenses and Users
- summarize(stats.counters.flow.ec601.login.count, '10m', 'sum', false)
Aggregate the number of users for a 10 minutes period.
- stats.gauges.flow.ec601.licenses.hosts
Checks the number of host licenses you are using. You can also query for managed hosts or steps or applications. I also recommend adding some thresholds to make it clear when you've reached your limit.
- stats.counters.flow.ec601.login.count ; stats.counters.flow.ec601.logouts.count ; diffSeries(#A,#B)
This is to make sure your scripts don't pile up sessions. This one is trickier to do in Grafana as you need to define each query, then hide the queries (by clicking on the eye icon), and then creating a third query that diff the #A and #B series:
- stats.timers.flow.ec601.timers.Tx.commit.mean
The mean transaction commit time. You're looking for a smooth chart on this one.
This is what my final dashboard looks like:
As you can see my server is pretty tame :)
Feel free to share your beautiful dashboard, and any additional metrics you monitor, and why.
Happy monitoring!
Now that you have a statsd server running with a graphing frontend, why not take advantage of it to send some run-time data?
For example, let's imagine you have a testing procedure that runs a bunch of tests and you collect 2 job properties "nbTests" and "nbErrors". You can simply send those 2 data points to statsd with the following code:
# send Number of run tests
echo 'flow.ec601.Testing.nbTests:$[/myJob/nbTests]|c' |
nc -w 1 -u statsd 8125
# send Number of failed tests
echo 'flow.ec601.Testing.nbErrors:$[/myJob/nbErrors]|c' |
nc -w 1 -u statsd 8125
As you can see, I used the same "domain" for the server stats (but you don't have to).
Note the -u and -w 1 for UDP to be sure a bad connection does not hang your process.
The result is something like:
Additional Resources
Here are some additional resources you may find useful:
- GitHub Repository for statsd
- Etsy blog post about statsd
- Graphite documentation
- Understanding statsD and Graphite by Päl-Kristian Hamre
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- The Access Control List (ACL) War - January 3, 2017
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Achy backs, necks, and heads often drive ailing adults to the chiropractor, but according to Dr. Pam Stucky-LaGuardia, spinal adjustment should be a family affair. In fact, her family has used chiropractic care as their first line of defense against illness and ailment since the 1930s, when her grandfather took Dr. Pam's young aunt Gyla, who suffered from chronic ear infections, to get adjusted. From the first treatment, her infections were eased, potentially saving her from hearing loss.
This inspired all four of Gyla's brothers, including Dr. Pam's father, Dr. Joe Stucky, to pursue careers in chiropractic care. He opened Stucky Chiropractic in 1959. Dr. Pam is the 11th chiropractor in the family, and her daughter and son-in-law are numbers 19 and 20.
Dr. Pam has been working at the clinic for 40 years, having started in childhood cleaning the offices. Eventually, she joined the practice as a provider along with her husband, caring for many of the patients her father treated before his retirement.
"When you've been taking care of people for so long, they become friends,
and family. And I'm all about family."-Dr. Pam Stucky-laguardia Stucky Chiropractic
"I love people," Dr. Pam said. "I love being able to be part of their health journey, and many times when you've been taking care of people for so long they become friends, and family. And I'm all about family."
Children might not come in with the same complaints of aches and pains as grown-ups, but they have as much, if not more, to gain from chiropractic care, Dr. Pam said. She even provides adjustments for newborn infants on their way home, ensuring their nervous system isn't inhibited and setting them up for success.
"As the tree grows, so do the branches," she said.
In her experience, releasing the nervous system through chiropractic adjustment allows the immune system to fight off ear infections and other forms of discomfort that encourage temper-tantrums in youngsters. It helps repair malalignment caused by the many falls of learning to walk, ease the stress of carrying overloaded backpacks or sitting in hard, uncomfortable desks at school, and release tension from the hormonal challenges of adolescence.
When combined with a healthy diet, exercise, and nutrition, chiropractic adjustments help people of all ages lead healthy lives, Dr. Pam said.
Stucky Chiropractic offers a number of services, including massage therapy, decompression therapy, weight-loss programs, low-level laser therapy, and more. They are also preparing to launch a nutrition program to promote holistic wellness. For more information, visit www.stuckychiropractic.com.


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The scam, with the subject 'Your Online Banking is Restricted', and purporting to be from the 'Commonwealth Bank Online Department' insists that as a security provision the Bank requires the user's email address as a submission via an included link.
With over two million online Netbank customers, the Bank is urging those that have responded to any unsolicited phishing scam to call the bank on 13 2221 immediately.
"The Commonwealth Bank does not send emails requesting you to confirm, update or disclose your confidential banking information."
"Should you receive an email you believe to be a hoax, please send a sample to the bank by emailing: firstname.lastname@example.com," according to the advisory.
Furthermore, if the link within the email has been opened conduct a security scan of the infected computer to check for computer viruses, Trojans and spyware, said Commonwealth Bank.
In future, if a suspected phishing scam is detected it should be deleted immediately from both the inbox and deleted items folder, warned Commonwealth Bank.
Recently, similar hoaxes dated 17 December 2007 and 7 January were also detected.
Commonwealth Bank is yet to respond to calls for further comment.
Commonwealth Bank phishing scam alert
By Negar Salek on Feb 7, 2008 1:03PM
A warning to Commonwealth Bank customers posted this week on the bank's website is urging online customers to be aware of a savvy phishing scam requesting personal details.
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Located in shenzhen, Shen Zhen Fortune Trade Firm is next to one of the world's fastest-growing area-HK. We have stable purchase channels that can provide over 5,000 kinds of industrial and consumer products.We are dedicated to providing you with the suitable and highest quality to price ratio products.
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Wednesday morning saw the culmination of this year's Fountains Abbey Challenge for third form students.Having been given a brief by Emma Manners, Education and Access Officer from Fountains Abbey, and having visited the World Heritage site to plan where they might hold an event, students have been working in small groups during PSCHEe and IT lessons to research plan a new visitor activity.
The marketing brief given was to create a visitor event aimed at one of three types of visitor, to work out the budget for your event and decide if the event will be paid for or free and to prepare publicity materials including leaflets, 'What's On' entries and posters.A marketing pitch had also to be prepared so that the shortlisted groups could present their ideas to Emma at the end of the morning.
A vital part of the task was to bear in mind the mission statement of the National Trust charity, which is to "protect and preserve special spaces and places for ever, for everyone" whilst also preserving the 'spirit of place' of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal - two very different types of beauty that have delighted generations of visitors.Each place is extraordinary but they are very different spaces with their own particular atmospheres: one simple, pure and honest; the other elegant, playful and surprising.This proved to be one of the hardest parts of the brief, with many clever and creative ideas being unsuitable in tone.
Third form students had a morning off timetable to complete their pitches, working in the gym and IT rooms to bring all their planning together.After a tense countdown to the deadline, Emma and Mr Walker judged all the entries posted on the walls.
There were some fabulous ideas, from cheese rolling to a re-enactment of the destruction of the abbey, but a shortlist of five groups were chosen to then give a spoken pitch about their activity, explaining what it entailed, why they had chosen it and how the budget was worked out.The presentations were equally as impressive and Emma and Mr Walker found it difficult to decide on the winners.
Finally decisions were made and the winning activity was announced.First place went to the team who planned a story-themed walk around Fountains Abbey, with separate ideas for a summer and a winter version.
The event had been meticulously planned and budgeted for and was a perfect 'fit' for this special venue.Here are some words from Emma:
"The National Trust at Fountains Abbey has been thrilled with the quality of work produced by the Year 9 students at Ripon GS for their Event Planning Project. The students were tasked to plan, advertise and budget for an imagined event to be held on the Fountains Abbey estate. The students came up with a wide range of ideas, including star gazing, open air theatre, medieval markets and Georgian concerts. The best ideas were those which had really thought about the audience here at Fountains Abbey, and about the unique spirit of this special place. The overall winner was a group which came up with a story telling event for families which was a perfect fit with our event programming. The group had planned their event carefully and presented it professionally – they may well see their idea being put into practice in the next year!"
Well done to all the third form students for their hard work and creativity.


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In one of his videos Tim emphasized seeing the "strike" in the triplets.
That goes way beond the triplets into most other complex patterns in
the music. I'm learning to see the "Strikes" in other complex patterns of this music.
Ex: Cotton Pod Walkaround looks baffling until you look at the book while listening to the CD
and identifying the strikes within the complex music
This is probably well known to most everyone here but it is very new and helpful to me.
This book is a great help
Ron H.
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Thanks Ron. Please, keep alive the topic of Strikes within the music either in a forum, in a pm to me. This is an area of learning the banjo I feel especially passionate about. It have seen this thread from Briggs to Converse 1886, and it is so strongly taught by FBC in his Analytical Method. If there was one cosmic "aha" in my learning the Minstrel banjo...that was it. If I finger banjo songs, or figure them out, I look for the Strike possibilities. With few exceptions, there are there.
will do. and yes I shared your AH Ha moment
its like a little light came on this morning
Ron nothing quite a a ha moment,, my problem is,,, it usually takes repeats of the moment for it to really sink in ;) glad your feeling it,, fun aint it!
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XRBASE is the VR/AR network of content creators. Her Amsterdam hub is located in the Marineterrein, the old marine base, in Amsterdam.
Together with 3D artists from XRBASE members, we created an AR Tour app for iOS and Android. Users can scan 6 different markers in the Marineterrein campus and experience 3D art works from different artists.
The app was launch during the Uitmarkt, one of the biggest cultural events in Amsterdam. During the Uitmarkt weekend there were more than 1000 impressions for both platforms.
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No, really! Keep calm and carry on is our best advice to you. You might feel a bit unsure and a little bit nervous about the future but there's plans in place to support you through the closure of 3aaa.
If you work for a small company your employer will be working with the ESFA, (who are the part of the government that look after Apprenticeships) to find you a new provider to take over your training. This means you might have a new assessor and different course material, but you'll pick up where you left off on the same qualification.
If you work for a larger company that use the Apprenticeship Levy, your colleagues in charge of this will be looking for a new training provider. The new provider must be approved by the ESFA, this is good for you as an Apprentice as it means you will achieve the same qualification with a training provider that has been scored on their ability to provide your training.
In the meantime, if you have any questions you can get in touch with the ESFA directly: firstname.lastname@example.com


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|Ahti Oksanen scored his first
goal as a Terrier last night.
(Photo by Matt Dresens)
UND almost went up 1-0 midway through the first when Corban Knight tossed a back-hander off the post, cleanly beating Sean Maguire. The whole play was nicely set up by Andrew MacWilliam.
BU opened the scoring with little over three minutes to play in a dominant first period. Matt Nieto found Matt Grzeclyk at the point. Grzeclyk fired a low shot that Clark Saunders kicked out right on to the tape of Danny O'Regan. O'Regan was staring at a soccer net and did not miss. It was his third goal in as many games.
North Dakota struck back less than two minutes into the second. Mark MaxMilan's centering pass from the far circle found Connor Gaarder's left left skate as he was being heavily defended by Garrett Noonan. The puck, not with a kicking motion, deflected off of Gaarder's skate, over the shoulder of Maguire and into the back of the net.
Gaarder was not done in the second, as he ripped home his second of the game at the 7:08 marker. He caught a long stretch pass from Nick Caggiula at the BU blue line. From there, he blew by the BU defenseman and let go a low slap shot, about a foot off the ice that beat Maguire to the far side. All in all, just a poor goal to give up if you are the Terriers.
With little over half the period to go, Andrew MacWilliam was kicked out of the game for a cheap shot hit on Ahti Oksanen. Oksanen was cutting across the ice after the whistle blew and MacWilliam popped him in the head. Oksanen got his revenge, as he scored his first collegiate goal with a blast from the point the 12:12 of the second. It would be the only goal and really the only good chance BU had to score on the five minute power play.
Gaarder capped his hat trick with a five on three goal, less than five minutes into the third. Rocco Grimaldi swooped in behind the net and made a heads up centering pass to Gaarder who was camped out down low on the post. Gaarder shoveled it home, regaining the Sioux lead.
Grimaldi sealed the deal in the closing seconds with an empty net goal.
North Dakota badly out played BU in the third period. In addition to NoDak hitting two posts, both teams had a disputed goal. Neither counted. ND's was in the second stanza and that would have up them up 3-1. BU's came with about five minutes left in the game that would have tied the game at 3. UND definitely had a case for their's. The puck was clearly loose, but the whistle did blow.
---> Tonight will be a bloodbath, as it was pretty clear that these two teams don't really like each other.
---> Matt O'Connor will get the start in the BU net tonight.


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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) has gotten support to go on the offensive from a key Senate ally after former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) announced his exploratory committee to run for her seat in New Hampshire.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who defeated Brown when he ran for re-election in 2012, sent out a very direct fundraising email Friday shortly after Brown officially announced the formation of his Senate exploratory committee.
"It just happened: A few minutes ago, Scott Brown officially announced that he's forming an exploratory committee to run against my friend Jeanne Shaheen for the Senate in New Hampshire," Warren warned in the email on Friday. She went on to say that in 2012 her campaign ran on fighting "Wall Street's favorite" lawmakers.
"We had that fight, and we won. Now we need to win again," Warren said.
Similarly, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), whose Off the Sidelines PAC supports Democratic women candidates, wrote in another fundraising email that Brown's candidacy sets up "the most expensive race in the country and the one that could decide the control of the Senate."
"Brown will be the best-funded candidate in New Hampshire history and his entrance into the race means the special interest floodgates will get thrown open. Karl Rove's Super PAC, American Crossroads, is launching a $600,000 attack ad buy against Jeanne on Tuesday, bringing the total attacks to almost $1.5 million – and Brown hasn't even been in the race for 24 hours," Gillibrand wrote on Friday.
EMILY's List sent out a similarly worded email.
"EMILY's List has taken Scott Brown on before, and we know how to beat him. Our members chipped in an amazing $1.2 million to help Elizabeth Warren fight back against Scott Brown's vicious attacks in 2012," Emily's LIST President Stephanie Schriock wrote in an email to supporters for her group. "Now Senator Jeanne Shaheen needs that same incredible grassroots support — right from the very beginning — if we're going to stop him again."
In another email, EMILY's List's Marcy Stetch argued that "it's clear that not a thing has changed about his extreme, anti-woman agenda."
The quick mobilization could spell trouble for Brown or at least show where Democrats hope to curb a key constituency early on. Among the spate of polls showing Shaheen with some kind of lead over Brown, a new American Research Group poll released Monday found the incumbent Democratic senator leading Brown 55 percent to 28 percent among women voters while Brown leads Shaheen 49 percent to 44 percent among male voters. The poll over all found Shaheen leading Brown 50 percent to 38 percent (some other polling has shown a tighter race).
"Shaheen has a lot of strengths with Independent voters, particularly women, who tend to be Independent in the state and we have about 46 percent of the electorate as Independents in the state," Dartmouth College political science professor Linda Fowler told TPM. "They've tended to be Republican leaners and there may be some sense that women Independents will like Scott Brown's bare chest at the Polar Bear swim that happened last month. Frankly I find that insulting but that may be part of the calculation."
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Chitipa, Kasama Community Technical College, an innovative college constructed along the gorgeous plateaus of Mafinga Hills in Chitipa, is ready for commissioning.
A visit by Malawi News Agency to the site over the weekend organized by officials from Technical, Entrepreneurial and Vocational Education Training Authority (TEVETA), indicated that works at the site are completed.
President Arthur Peter Mutharika is expected to officially open the college which was constructed by students at the institution with cement blocks.
Principal for the college, William Simbeye, said the opening ceremony for the institution will go alongside a graduation ceremony for students who underwent different trades since 2016.
Simbeye said 158 students who were studying plumbing, bricklaying, electric installation and electronics and carpentry are expected to graduate this year.
"Currently, the college is offering eight trades where we provide the on-job training for students who were taken from the community around the institution as well as other formal learners.
"Amongst them, especially those who were studying trades like bricklaying, carpentry and joinery and plumbing are the ones who have constructed the college through attachments," said Simbeye.
Kasama was constructed with financial support from the World Bank, through TEVETA.
In his remarks, site agent at the institution, Macfarlene Mlenga, said the college was constructed using soil stabilized blocks in order to avoid destroying environment.
Government is constructing community technical colleges across the country with an aim to provide opportunity to the youth to acquire technical skills for self-employment.
Source: MANA Online


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Stocking Fillers Under £15 | A Christmas Gift Guide
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She must be mad is so so so good!ReplyDelete
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I need to read it! xNDelete
loved this post! stocking fillers are a great way for someone to feel like they got a lot of gifts without you having to spend a lot! so i love picking them up last minute to throw them into the gift xxReplyDelete
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Thank you! So true! I love receiving little gifts xNDelete
It's amazing what you can pick up for under £15! I love stationary and paperchase products are my favourite. I will be heading down to Body shop for some stocking fillers, what a bargain! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I'm off to Body Shop tomorrow to pick up some festive goodies! xNDelete
Love this post! Some great ideas for stocking fillers. There's a great selection here. Paperchase is great for presents, also hand creams can be great gifts.ReplyDelete
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Thank you! I have always loved Paperchase! xNDelete
Those are some really great ideas! The Body Shop also has really cheap bath bombs and their candy cane products smell so nice!ReplyDelete
I haven't tried their bath bombs yet! I'm going to pop in there tomorrow! xNDelete
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I am going to start reading it in the new year! Thank you for your comment! xNDelete
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Thank you, Hannah! I love the coconut scent, so nice! xNDelete
I always go crazy with the stocking fillers, because they're so small I get carried away and end up with about 10 or something. I need some Fat Face socks in my life xReplyDelete
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Right?! Can never have too many pairs! xNDelete
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It has an area of 86 km² and an elevation of 364 m. It is made mostly of granite and has little water. There are approximately 6200 inhabitants (2002). The largest town is Mykonos, also known as Hora, on the west coast.
In Greek mythology Mykonos was the location of the battle between Zeus and the Gigantes and the island was named in honor of Apollo's grandson Mykons. During these ancient times, Mykonos, due to its proximity to the then highly populated island of Delos (situated about 2km away), became very important as a supply island and possibly as a getaway location for Delian citizens.
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The tiny island in the Pacific has been ruled by Chile since 1888 but Annette Rapu Zamora hopes a seat in parliament will be a step towards revising the relationshipRead story »
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On the battlements of Fort Zeelandia, overlooking a vast murky stretch of the Suriname River, the tour guide stops in front of a wall riddled with bullet holes.Read story »
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Ist DM Neonatology course to start at GMCH, Aurangabad, gets MCI nod
Aurangabad: The Medical Council of India (MCI) has approved the first super specialty course for Neonatology at the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH)in the state. This first sanction by the national regulator makes the hospital the Ist ever state-run college with a super-specialty doctorate of medicine (DM) course in neonatology.
On Tuesday, the GMCH Dean, Kanan Yelikar, confirmed the MCI to have approved one seat for the course.
Elaborating on the process of applying for the course, Head, Department, Neonatology, LS Deshmukh, said, GMCH had applied for the course in July 2017.This was followed by the state government and the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) giving their consents for the super-specialty course after on-ground an inspections.
Their approval was followed by a lot of documentation. "The MCI conducted one inspection each in 2017 and 2018 at the hospital to check the availability of faculty, medical facilities and ICU equipment needed for the course after which it gave the approval," Deshmukh told TOI. With a letter of permission(LoP) expected from the central government, the course will commence from August 2018.
"This super-specialty course is available at some of the privately-run medical colleges, but it is for the first time that a government medical college in the state will run the course," Deshmukh revealed to TOI.
Giving details about the course, Deshmukh said that healthcare of infants less than a month old will be studied in great detail under the course. "At our neonatology intensive care unit (NICU), we work with premature babies, difficulties in delivery, birth defects and the care required for children for the first 30 days. Paediatrics broadly deals with children," he elaborated.
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text: Poverty is spreading and becoming more concentrated The share of the region's population living at 185% of poverty or below—$44,093 for a family of four in 2013—jumped from 15.8% in 2000 to 22.7% in 2009-2013. The number of residents in this economic strata living in the region's suburban and rural areas now exceeds the number living in the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul combined. A Council analysis of U.S. Census data also shows that even as poverty is spreading, it is becoming increasingly concentrated – meaning the share of residents in poverty within census tracts increased. Areas of concentrated poverty, as defined by the Council, are census tracts where 40% or more of the residents live with incomes below 185% of the federal poverty threshold. Between 2000 and 2009-2013, the number of ACPs across the region nearly doubled, going from 61 to 112 census tracts. In addition, people of color are more likely to live in these areas than are white residents. More poor people living in the Twin Cities suburbs. According to a recent Brookings Institution study, the Twin Cities region's trends on poverty mirror national trends. The rapid suburbanization of poverty has several causes, including more rapid suburban growth and national economic changes that have left many longtime suburban households in worse financial shape. Read more about the Brookings Institution study. Posted In: Communities, Planning


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Deal With IT's Secretary Victoria Nicholls writes a regular column in the East Kent Mercury
We were all delighted to hear that the bees had won in the fight against the use of neonicotinoid chemicals on crops. Unfortunately, experts have found that just banning these chemicals for a two year trial throughout the European Union does not go far enough. A study in Holland has shown that the chemical imidacloprid which is used throughout the world not only to treat crops but to combat fleas and other pests in cattle, dogs and cats, is ending up in the water in ditches to such an extent that it could be used as an effective pesticide in itself. The result of this study is the call for imidacloprid to be banned worldwide as it is far too dangerous to dragonflies, mayflies, midges, snails and other water living species to carry on its use.
This new research has shown that there are 70% fewer invertebrate species found in water polluted with this chemical than clean water and far fewer individuals of each species. The knock-on effect of this is, of course, that swallows and other birds that rely on flying insects for food, will find it harder to survive. We have already destroyed the habitats of many of our native birds with the over-use of pesticides on our fields and now we find a tangible threat to one of our most loved spring visitors.
There are many things that we do when we grow food to feed an increasing world population and more and more we discover the detrimental effect of lots of them.
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