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Q: IEnumerable error in Simple Membership in ASP.NET MVC 5 I use Simple Membership in ASP.NET MVC 5 to use my existing SQL Server. In Register page I use dropdownbox to polpulate the user roles. In my Account controller I use [HttpGet] and [HttpPost] for Register Action. When I run my web app and goto Register page I can see my DropDownBox poplulated with data from my SqlServer.
But when I try to create new user and select a role I get error as;
"There is no ViewData item of type 'IEnumerable' that has the key 'roleName'"
Here is my Account Controller code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using SimpleMemberShip.Models;
using WebMatrix.WebData;
using System.Web.Security;

namespace SimpleMemberShip.Controllers
{
    public class AccountController : Controller
    {
        // ****** REGISTER PAGE ACTION ******
        [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult Register()
        {
            //Roles for DropDown Box
            IEnumerable<SelectListItem> RolesList = new System.Web.Mvc.SelectList(System.Web.Security.Roles.GetAllRoles(), "roleName");
            ViewData["roleName"] = RolesList;
            return View();
        }

        // ****** REGISTER PAGE ACTION with PARAMETERS ******
        [HttpPost]
        [ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
        public ActionResult Register(Register registerdata, string RoleName)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                try
                {
                    WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount(registerdata.Username, registerdata.Password);
                    System.Web.Security.Roles.AddUserToRole(registerdata.Username, RoleName);
                    return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
                }
                catch (MembershipCreateUserException exception)
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("", "Warning: Username exist...");
                    return View(registerdata);
                }
            }
            ModelState.AddModelError("", "Warning: Username exist....");
            return View(registerdata);
        }
    }
}

And here is the my Register.cshtml code look like:
@using SimpleMemberShip.Models
@model Register

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Register";
}

New User Registration

    @using (Html.BeginForm())
    {
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        @Html.ValidationSummary()
        User Name:
        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.Username, new { @class = "form-control" })

        User Password:
        @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.Password, new { @class = "form-control" })

        Roles
        @Html.DropDownList("roleName", (System.Web.Mvc.SelectList)ViewBag.roleName, "Select a Role")

        <button class="btn btn-primary">Register</button>
    }

Does anyone know where I am making mistakes?
Kind Regards,

A: In your HttpPost action, If some error happens, or if your model validation fails, you are returning the same model to the same view. So you need to reload the ViewData["roleName"] with the Role list collection again as your view is trying to read from it to load the dropdown.
Remember, HTTP is stateless. ASP.NET MVC does not work like web forms where it stores the form data in view state across multiple http requests(form posts)
My recommendation is to not use dynamic stuff like ViewBag and ViewData. You should be using a strongly typed viewmodel to transfer data from your action methopd to your views.
so create a view model like
public class CreateUser
{
  public string UserName {set;get;}
  public string Password{set;get;}
  public List<SelectListItem> RolesList {set;get;}
  public int SelectedRoleId {set;get;}
}

And in your GET action method, You get all the roles ( Which could be a collection of Role class or some custom class), convert that to a collection of SelectListItem and assign that to the RolesList property of the CreateUser object
public ActionResult Register()
{
  var vm=new CreateUser();
  vm.RolesList =GetRoles();

  return View(vm);
}
private List<SelectListItem> GetRoles()
{
   var allRoles = System.Web.Security.Roles.GetAllRoles();
   return allRoles.Select(s => new SelectListItem
        {
            Value = s.roleId.ToString(),
            Text = s.roleName
        });
}

and in your razor view which is bound to CreateUser class.
@using YourNamespace.CreateUser
@using(Html.Beginform())
{
   @Html.TextBoxFor(s=>s.UserName)
   @Html.TextBoxFor(s=>s.Password)
   @Html.DropDownListFor(x=> x.SelectedRoleId, Model.RolesList,"Select")
   <input type="submit" />
}

And now in your Http post action method, Make sure you reload the RolesList collection before you return the posted model back to the same view (If Mode Validation fails or an Exception occurs)
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult Register(CreateUser model)
{
   if (ModelState.IsValid)
   {
      try
      {
       // to do : Save something
      // read model.UserName & model.SelectedRoleId etc.
        return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
      }
      catch (MembershipCreateUserException exception)
      {
          ModelState.AddModelError("", "Warning: Username exist...");
          //Reload the data now
          model.RolesList =GetRoles();
          return View(model);
      }
   }
   ModelState.AddModelError("", "Warning: Username exist....");
  //Reload the data now
   model.RolesList =GetRoles();
   return View(model);
}

A: What most likely happens in that you have some kind of error in the way you register a user, and the validation fails. In that case you are returning the same view, which is fine:
return View(registerdata);

However you are not repopulating the ViewData["roleName"] element which the view depends on. Since ASP.NET MVC does not maintain any kind of state, this element needs to be repopulated on each request. So consider doing that, exactly the same way you were doing it before in the GET action, and the error should go away.
As a side note, you are mixing two ways of passing data from controller into view, model and ViewData. This is not very maintainable and obvious, so I suggest you stick to model approach only. Which should not be very hard - add a list of role names as a property of the model, and make sure to initialize it on every request.


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import com.android.volley.AuthFailureError;
import com.android.volley.Response;
import com.android.volley.VolleyError;
import com.android.volley.toolbox.StringRequest;

import java.util.Map;

import cn.rlstech.callnumber.R;
import cn.rlstech.callnumber.application.GlobalApp;
import cn.rlstech.callnumber.utils.LogUtil;

/**
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 * Author: GaoYang
 */
public class NormalRequest extends StringRequest {
    private static final String TAG = NormalRequest.class.getSimpleName();
    private RequestInfo mRequest;

    public NormalRequest(final RequestInfo request, final RequestManager.RequestListener listener) {

        super(request.getMethod(), request.getUrl(), new Response.Listener<String>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(String o) {
                LogUtil.i(TAG, "request:" + request.getUrl());
                LogUtil.d(TAG, "response:" + o);
                if (listener != null) {
                    listener.onResponse(o, null);
                }
            }
        }, new Response.ErrorListener() {

            @Override
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                error.printStackTrace();
                if (listener != null) {
                    if (error instanceof com.android.volley.TimeoutError) {
                        listener.onResponse(null, new RequestError(RequestError.TIME_OUT, getString(R.string.net_time_out)));
                    } else if (error instanceof com.android.volley.NoConnectionError) {
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                    } else if (error instanceof com.android.volley.ServerError) {
                        listener.onResponse(null, new RequestError(RequestError.SERVER_ERROR, getString(R.string.net_server_error)));
                    } else {
                        listener.onResponse(null, new RequestError(RequestError.UNKNOWN, getString(R.string.unknow_error)));
                    }
                }
            }
        });
        this.mRequest = request;
    }

    private static String getString(int resId) {
        return GlobalApp.getContext().getString(resId);
    }

    /**
     * 不要用
     *
     * @param request       RequestInfo
     * @param listener      Response.Listener
     * @param errorListener Response.ErrorListener
     */
    public NormalRequest(RequestInfo request, Response.Listener listener, Response.ErrorListener errorListener) {
        super(request.getMethod(), request.getUrl(), listener, errorListener);
        this.mRequest = request;
    }

    @Override
    protected Map<String, String> getParams() throws AuthFailureError {
        return mRequest.getParams();
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    @Override
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Portal for complaints on objectionable web content also launched
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India has launched its first national online registry for sexual offenders in a bid to check crimes against women and children.
A separate portal, which will allow anonymous complaints on objectionable online content related to child pornography, sexual abuse of children, sexually explicit materials such as rape and gang rape videos, etc. was also launched.
India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh yesterday launched The National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO), a central database of "sexual offenders" in the country which will be maintained for regular monitoring and tracking by the police in different stats.
The NDSO is accessible only to law enforcement agencies and will assist in effectively tracking and investigating cases of sexual offences.
The database will include information on offenders who were convicted on charges of rape, gang rape, sexual offence against children and eve-teasing.
At present, the database contains 4.4 lakh entries and the state police have been requested to regularly update the database from 2005 onwards. The database includes name, address, photograph and fingerprint details for each entry. However, the database will not compromise any individual's privacy.
India became the ninth country to have such a national database on sexual offenders.
The second portal launched is Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC), which will enable complainants in reporting cases without disclosing their identity.
This will not only aid the victims/complainants but also help civil society organisations and responsible citizens to anonymously report complaints pertaining to child pornography, materials on sexual abuse of children, or sexually explicit materials such as rape and gang rape videos.
Complainants can also upload the objectionable content and URL to assist in the investigation by the police.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will proactively identify such objectionable content and take up with intermediaries for its removal. The complaints registered through CCPWC will be handled by police authorities of respective states.
The portal also has a "report and track" option for the victim or complainant to track his or her report by using his/her mobile number.
Speaking after launching the CCPWC and NDSO, Rajnath Singh said the government has taken several measures to check crimes against women and children, including provision of stringent punishment and creation of modern forensics facilities to improve investigation, creation of the Women's Safety Division in the Home Ministry and launching of Safe City projects for women's safety.
The two portals are part of efforts in the direction of strengthening security of women and children, the minister said.
However, he said police have to overcome the challenge at the ground level to ensure speedy justice to the victims.
Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Sanjay Gandhi urged the law enforcement agencies to pay special attention to the safety of children at shelter homes after a number of such homes recently came under the scanner for sexual abuse of children.
She also underlined the need for provision of forensic kits at police stations for quick investigation of sexual crimes.
Indian Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba highlighted the need for time-bound completion of investigation in sexual crimes to instill deterrence among potential offenders.
He said the two portals will be extremely helpful to the law enforcement agencies, especially during investigation in which the offenders migrate to other states after committing the crime.
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Q: Not able to play the playlist in MediaPlayer continously in JavaFX private void initPlayer() throws MalformedURLException{

    File dir =  new File("../Railway PRS/Videos");
    if (!dir.exists() && dir.isDirectory()){
        //System.out.println("Cannot find audio source directory: " + dir);
        Alert alert = new Alert(AlertType.ERROR);
        alert.setTitle("File Not Found");
        alert.setHeaderText("Video File Not Found: ");
        alert.setContentText("Place the video folder onto the following location: ../Railway/Videos/File.mp4");
        alert.showAndWait();
    }

    final List<MediaPlayer> players = new ArrayList<>();
    File folder = new File("../Railway UTS/Videos");
    File[] listofFiles = folder.listFiles();
    File file;// = null;
    for (i = 0; i < listofFiles.length; i++){
        file = new File(listofFiles[i].getName());
        //Media media = new Media(file.toURI().toURL().toString());
        players.add(new MediaPlayer(new Media(file.toURI().toURL().toString())));
    }
    if (players.isEmpty()) {
        //System.out.println("No audio found in " + dir);
        Alert alert = new Alert(AlertType.ERROR);
        alert.setTitle("Audio File Not Found");
        alert.setHeaderText("Audio File?");
        alert.setContentText("Place the videos onto the following location: ../Railway/Videos/File.mp4");
        alert.showAndWait();
    }

    mediaview = new MediaView(players.get(0));
    //mediaview1 = new MediaView(players.get(0));
    for ( j = 0; j < players.size(); j++){
        final MediaPlayer player = players.get(j);
        final MediaPlayer nextPlayer = players.get((j + 1) % players.size());
        player.setOnEndOfMedia(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                mediaview.setMediaPlayer(nextPlayer);
                nextPlayer.play();
                //nextPlayer.setCycleCount(nextPlayer.INDEFINITE);
                //player.setCycleCount(MediaPlayer.INDEFINITE);
            }
        });
    }
    mediaview.setMediaPlayer(players.get(0));
    mediaview.getMediaPlayer().play();
    basepane.getChildren().addAll(mediaview);

}

The above code plays the video(playlist) only once. I want it to play the video(playlist) continously. If I set the cyclecount to Indefinite it repeats the first video while playing the second video means we can hear the sound of first video. I want the playlist to play continuously non-stop unless the application is exited.

A:
Just put the following line in the for loop and it will work.It will play the video/videos in cycle.

nameofmediaplayer.seek(DURATION.ZERO);

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package org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.interactions;

import org.apache.isis.applib.Identifier;
import org.apache.isis.applib.annotation.Where;
import org.apache.isis.applib.events.PropertyUsabilityEvent;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.adapter.ObjectAdapter;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.consent.InteractionContextType;
import org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.consent.InteractionInitiatedBy;

import static org.apache.isis.core.metamodel.adapter.ObjectAdapter.Util.unwrap;

/**
 * See {@link InteractionContext} for overview; analogous to
 * {@link PropertyUsabilityEvent}.
 */
public class PropertyUsabilityContext extends UsabilityContext<PropertyUsabilityEvent> {

    public PropertyUsabilityContext(
            final ObjectAdapter targetAdapter,
            final Identifier identifier,
            final InteractionInitiatedBy interactionInitiatedBy,
            final Where where) {
        super(InteractionContextType.PROPERTY_USABLE, targetAdapter, identifier, interactionInitiatedBy, where);
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A Leap in the Dark (, and also known as Leap Into the Void) is a 1980 Italian film written and directed by Marco Bellocchio. It stars Michel Piccoli and Anouk Aimée, who won the Best Actor and Best Actress prizes respectively at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. The film also won the David di Donatello for Best Director and was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot
Judge Mauro Ponticelli has been raised by his older sister Marta. However, Marta has been having mental problems and fantasizing about committing suicide, which concerns him greatly. Mauro himself is very busy with his job and is in turn complexed by his life to the limits of hermitism.

Marta seems to recover when Mauro introduces her to Giovanni Sciabola, a young brilliant actor with a criminal record: the two turn friends and Giovanni takes Marta out with him very often. Mauro then finds himself becoming jealous of their relationship and, feeling even betrayed, dreams of being able to kill her by pushing her from the window of their home. Fearing that being close to Giovanni Marta might squander large sums of money, Mauro signs an arrest warrant against the young man, who, after vandalizing Mauro's office, runs away.

The friendship with Giovanni restored Marta's security, and she decides to leave her brother's house. Realizing that Marta has gained an autonomy that he had never hoped she could obtain, Mauro completely loses his lucidity and commits suicide by throwing himself through the window of his house, in the way he had imagined to get rid of his sister.

Cast
Michel Piccoli - Mauro Ponticelli
Anouk Aimée - Marta Ponticelli
Michele Placido - Giovanni Sciabola
Gisella Burinato - Anna
Antonio Piovanelli - Quasimodo
Anna Orso - Marilena
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio - Giorgio

Criticism
The film was favourably reviewed by the eminent critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker : " The protagonist of Leap - a judge, Mauro Ponticelli, played by the usually suave French actor Michel Piccoli - is mean in perverse, Bunuelian ways...Mauro has always been protected and cared for by his older sister, Marta..He has no intention of growing up...[her] unusual behaviour has actually been a sign  that she is rebelling - that she's struggling to free herself from her deathly bondage to him... The  movie is about family entanglements and the functions of madness...Mauro is a craven fraud...Mauro the judge is a worm : a spoiled worm wriggling in its comfortable nest...Piccoli is able to give this mesmerizing performance despite the fact that he and Anouk Aimée are dubbed into Italian...Anouk Aimée is usually strikingly beautiful and a little blank -  not quite in contact;.. But she's a magnificent camera subject, and her remoteness fits the situation here..Leap Into the Void is a film about people who are out of control made by a director who's in as close to total control as a moviemaker is ever likely to be..there's greatness in it."

Awards
David di Donatello Awards
1980: David di Donatello for Best Director to Marco Bellocchio
Cannes Film Festival
1980: Best Actress Award to Anouk Aimée
1980: Best Actor Award to Michel Piccoli

See also
 List of submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Italian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

1980 films
1980 drama films
Italian drama films
1980s Italian-language films
Films directed by Marco Bellocchio
Films with screenplays by Vincenzo Cerami
Films scored by Nicola Piovani
1980s Italian films

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The thought of being president frightens me. I do not think I want the job.
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
I think the best possible social program is a job.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free.
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
The greatness of our country has been based on our thinking that everyone has a right even to be wrong.
The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
People don't start wars, governments do.
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
Don't be afraid to see what you see.
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. The people of this country are ready to move again.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
No arsenal ... is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
76 quotes by Ronald Reagan.


Union Terrace third-grader Shirley Nimley placed her hand in pink paint, and then pressed her palm against a mural on her school's exterior, leaving an indelible mark for future generations to see.
Shirley, 8, was one of a number of Union Terrace students who left their hand prints on a newly unveiled mural on the outside of the Allentown elementary school. Painted by local artist Pedro LeDee, the mural, called "Draw Your Own Path," depicted both males and females of different races in various careers, such as an astronaut and a doctor.
Students helped LeDee, 25, out a ceremony Wednesday by putting the finishing touches on the mural with their hand prints. For Shirley, her favorite part was seeing a doctor because that's what she wants to be when she grows up.
The 9-by-18-foot mural, taking up most of an outside wall on the school's front entrance, took LeDee about two months to complete. He hoped by looking at it each morning on their way into school, that students would take pride in their community, he said.
The city itself was his inspiration, LeDee said.
"I came up with the concept to incorporate the diverse culture of Allentown," he said.
LeDee is the 2018 Allentown Arts Commission Artist-in-Residence Emerging Artist Grant Recipient. The Allentown Arts Commission awarded $45,000 in grants to five recipients of the 2018 Artist-in-Residence Program, with the goal to artistically engage the community and create a bridge between the neighborhoods by celebrating diversity.
The program was established this year using funds from the City of Allentown's Arts-based Economic Development budget.
LeDee has painted other murals locally, including one near Ninth and Tilghman streets in Allentown.
It was important to LeDee to paint his mural at Union Terrace, where he attended elementary school. LeDee, a resident of Allentown, graduated from Allen High School in 2011 and said he wanted to do something for children.
"The children are our future, and I'd like to send a message to them," he said.
LeDee made sure he worked on his mural during school hours so the students could see him.
"I tried to make sure I was here as much as possible so the kids could get a sense of hard work," he said.
At the ceremony Wednesday afternoon, local dignitaries also spoke. Mayor Ray O'Connell told the children that one day as adults, they'd drive by their old elementary school and see the mural still going strong.
"This is something you'll remember forever," O'Connell told students.


How did you first start your yoga journey?
I proceeded to take a two day certification through a fitness organization. I began teaching yoga, literally following notes. Although I did not know much, the benefits of connecting to my breath and practicing the poses were inevitable! I saw the change that occurred in people from when they came into class, and when they walked out. I felt the change in myself after each class as well. After realizing the benefits that yoga truly had on my clients and myself, I proceeded to study and received my 300 hour yoga certification and became registered with the Yoga Alliance.
What's really profound is that over time, yoga truly changed me from the inside out. Through practicing yoga, I more clearly heard God's voice in my heart, and gained the confidence to express my truth! The benefits to my mind helped me to release stress and negative thoughts that held me back. My body feels better and is more limber than ever before. My soul glows! Yoga is the real deal… the full mind-body-spirit experience that will change one's life from the inside out! I am blessed to have the opportunity of sharing this gift, inspiring others and empowering them to lead a life they love!
You're a mentor to many of your clients, who has been the biggest mentor in your life?
Hands down… Anthony Robbins! I have been so blessed to have been able to study under this man who has unequivocally changed my life and the lives of thousands! When I first heard him speak, everything he said resonated with me, and he validated so much that I knew in my heart to be true.
So many people will tell you that "thinking positive" and "being happy" is trivial. Tony teaches so much about life, success and love. He often speaks in questions, and one question that drives me is this "What if your greatest achievement in life was to be happy?" Think about that! If we are happy, we live a life that is full. We give, we share and we love more truthfully. The people we love are the first to be affected by the emotional state we live in, and our families are healthier because of it. We radiate joy and attract beautiful people into our lives and our businesses. We leave a legacy that impacts our world, and this is profound.
I often infuse what I have received from these teachings into my yoga, my speaking, my writing and my teaching. Being happy is a choice, and it takes work to protect our happiness. I am passionate about inspiring people to be truly happy and through my work, empowering them to do so!
What is something you learned about yourself at your very first job?
My very first job was when I was 15. I worked at the Englishtown Auction for a woman who sold socks. She worked hard. Every weekend she would pack her van each each day and stock the store with every type of sock you could imagine. To this day, although admittedly, I do not remember her name, I remember the integrity she had and the work ethic she displayed.
What I learned from this woman has stayed with me and became a a driving factor behind all that I do to this day, which is this… "No matter what you do in life, be passionate about what you do; work hard, be honest and do it with love!" Whether I learned this about myself back then, or if I learned it and it became a part of me, I am not sure. It's like which came first, the chicken or the egg. Either way, I'm so glad to have been impacted by this experience so early in my life!
If someone wrote a memoir about your life, what should the title be?
Nothing fulfills me more than knowing that through my work, I am impacting people's lives in such a way that transforms their experience to a whole new level. We all are beautiful souls, created by God, and have a purpose to fulfill. Often we are held back by pain, fear and negative thoughts or stories like "we are not enough," or "we are unworthy," etc. My mission is to guide all people, including myself, to overcome these obstacles, to release all that holds us back, so we can be more, have more, give more, receive more and love more! The world is waiting for each of us to come ALIVE and share our unique gifts. Ultimately, as we each are liberated, the world becomes a much better place! Helping one person to shine bright illuminates the people they touch, and so on… that is how we light up the world!
Something unique about your business is that you have an online library of yoga and meditation videos, what made you decide to take your business to an online platform?
I've been teaching classes for just about 20 years now and many of my students over the years have asked me to create videos so they can take me home with them, or on vacation, or to wherever they go. This has planted the seed in my mind. Travel is another huge passion of mine and I love teaching in exotic destinations. Not everyone has the opportunity to go to these places, or even to a local class. Many people don't have the time or the resources. I created Alive With Melissa Online to be the platform where I can bring the much needed me-time, a practice to nurture one's mind, body and soul, to all people everywhere.
When you aren't working, what do you like to do with your free time?
I love the outdoors and I love to travel! Being out in nature always soothes my soul and makes me feel more connected to Spirit. Traveling to exotic places, experiencing new cultures and connecting with beautiful souls around the world fills my heart!
Your career has allowed you to do a great deal of traveling – if you could teach a class anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
I truly don't think I could pick just one. Teaching in Bali, Indonesia was my big dream and I did that. It was everything I dreamed it would be, and more! I have many other places on my list for future luxury retreat destinations like Italy, Greece, Spain, New Zealand, Bora Bora, Australia, Hawaii and more! My goal is to bring my clients, either in person or virtually, to experience the beautiful destinations from all around the world!
How has family life influenced your career?
My career began when my children were babies. I honestly began teaching fitness simply to earn free membership to a gym where I could go and bring my children to the nursery while I was working. Over the years, what began as a part time position in a place where I could bring my babies with me while I taught classes, turned into my life's passion and ultimately, my full time career. Teaching, inspiring and empowering people to live a life filled with vibrant health, abundant love and radiant joy is my mission. Being an example and role model for my children, even now as they are grown, remains always a driving force in my life!
Do you have any client success stories you can share?
I have so many beautiful testimonials from my clients on my website! I have people who have thanked me for helping them through the darkest times in their lives, people who thanked me for helping them to believe in themselves, to accept and to love themselves just as they are, and to follow their dreams, people who have thanked me for creating a safe place and holding that space for them where they can practice yoga and fitness on their own level and at their own pace, people who have thanked me for inspiring them to live life to the fullest and to choose happiness! Hearing these testimonies makes all that I do worth while and fills my heart with so much joy!
What advice would you give to someone apprehensive about trying yoga for the first time?
It's most important to listen to your body and to find a place where you are comfortable practicing. There are many different types of yoga and even more different styles as taught by a myriad of instructors. There are instructors who teach a very meditative style, and others who teach more powerful moves with difficult poses. Some teachers use eastern philosophy and some don't. Some chant while others don't. It's hard to form an opinion on yoga based on limited experience. I personally like to teach to all levels of fitness, while infusing meditation, prayer and positive thinking for self development, and connection to one's inner peace, power and love.
So often people see pictures of yogis doing beautiful poses that can be intimidating to the average person. Yoga is truly not about the pose. It's about what the pose can do for you! It's important to know that yoga is truly based on breathing, focusing inward, and honoring your body and your true self, just as you are, in any given moment. Find a place where you are comfortable. Seek a teacher who inspires you, who resonates with your soul, and honors your physical practice, meeting you right where you are. Yoga heals on so many levels; mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually… so listen to your body, enjoy your breath, enjoy each pose, and let the magic happen!
I'm presently planning my next retreat in Hawaii. I'm speaking and offering different workshops and programs to inspire all to vibrate at their highest possible level and to live their most amazing life filled with vibrant health, abundant love and radiant joy! My website membership program at AliveWithMelissa.com was created as a platform to make yoga and meditation practices from beautiful destinations around the world, set to different themes such as releasing fear, letting go, setting your intentions for your day, self love and so much more, accessible for anyone to do anytime anywhere! Everyone deserves to feel good and I can help them accomplish this. Promoting health and happiness for all is on the top of my list!
To learn more about Melissa Jill and Alive With Melissa, please visit AliveWithMelissa.com.


You are cache crazy. I really ought get onto that one day. Maybe there is a cache club in Canberra where I now live… me and Tomi never see each other often enough to get involved in caching together. They are beautiful photos and it looks like a wonderful time to spend a day.
Haha, yes, when we go on our little mini vacations with my brother we are cache crazy. Although this year was crazier than ever! 😀 I'm sure there are geocaching people everywhere. Maybe on Meetup? I should probably check if one exists here in Stockholm.
Maybe there is a meetup here for caches! I didn't notice one, but maybe there is.


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HomeComputeKeeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
Keeping OpenStack On The Edge, Bleeding And Otherwise
November 8, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan Compute, Control, Enterprise 0
Nobody likes to talk about the scope and scale of platforms more than we do at The Next Platform. Almost all of the interesting frameworks for various kinds of distributed computing are open source projects, but the lack of fit and finish is a common complaint across open source software projects.
As Mark Collier, chief operating officer at the OpenStack Foundation, puts it succinctly: "Open source doesn't have an innovation problem. It has an integration problem."
Collier's chief concern, as well as that of his compatriot, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation and a former Racker – meaning former employee of cloud provider Rackspace Hosting – like Collier, is to make the OpenStack cloud controller that they helped created along with executives at NASA an enterprise-friendly platform. One that normal software engineers, not the platoons of PhDs that the hyperscalers and cloud builders employ, can deploy and use.
It is a tall order, and in many ways it is a much tougher job than the impressive scale goals that Rackspace Hosting and NASA both set when they merged their separate compute and storage cloud efforts back in July 2010. Back then, with clouds growing at an explosive exponential pace, it was not a surprise that the two organizations wanted to create a cloud controller that could span 1 million servers and 60 million virtual machines. While OpenStack has certainly proven that it can scale, for most enterprise customers a private cloud with a few thousand nodes is sufficient, and it is more important that a cloud do a lot of things, such as integrating with Docker containers and Kubernetes container orchestration, or support the latest TensorFlow or Caffe2 machine learning frameworks as transparently as they support the Xen or KVM or ESXi server virtualization hypervisors. In a sense, clouds are scaling up with ever more complex workloads rather than scaling out across more and more nodes, and this has as much to do with how many cores and how much main memory can be crammed into a node these days as anything else.
The focus on testing and integration that Collier and Bryce are talking about this week at the OpenStack Summit in Sydney, Australia, is not as exciting as the early days of the cloud controller; but all good and used open source software eventually matures and becomes boring – just about when something new comes along and either replaces it or evolves it. To its credit, OpenStack is still evolving, absorbing new technologies such as bare metal provisioning and layering on containers, just to name two. And making this hodge podge of open source projects into a platform – something the commercial Linux distributors labored heavily on for a decade until they mastered the task – is now the number one job of all OpenStackers.
"I think that the core services of compute, storage, and networking in OpenStack are very polished at this point," Collier tells The Next Platform. "People have been running them at scale, but it is not always as massive as we think. I heard that China UnionPay was supporting 500 million users with over 150 applications on OpenStack, running over 50 million transactions per day – that's over 3,000 transactions per second – that handled a total of 100 billion renminbi (about $15 billion) a day. I thought to myself, this OpenStack cloud must have over 1 million cores to do that, but it consists of two clusters with a total of 1,200 servers with around 10,000 cores. Because of OpenStack's maturity and widespread adoption, now is the right time for our community to focus on the integration work. And as a foundation, we are trying to evolve to better support them."
To better support OpenStack distributors as well as cloud builders and enterprises that work from the raw code and roll their own, the foundation is setting up what it is calling OpenLab, which as the name suggests is an effort by key players to improve the user experience and performance of software development kits, various frameworks, and multi-cloud management tools that run atop OpenStack. Huawei Technologies, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, and Vexxhost are ponying up the iron to do the testing of upstream projects with OpenStack, starting with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Gophercloud and expanding out from there.
Another subtle change in the OpenStack community is that the releases of the software, which have been on an October-April cadence for the past eight years with the software for each release coming out just before each OpenStack Summit is now being released a few months before the big shindigs. This, says Collier, allows the software engineers working on OpenStack to get a better sense of where the code is at before they attend the events where the changes and additions to the next release are discussed at each summit.
Yet another change being implemented in the OpenStack development effort, as steered by the foundation, is a shift from delineation by projects to centered on specific use cases where different parts of the stack come into play. This "integration effort" has four core infrastructure uses cases now – datacenter cloud, container, edge, and continuous integration/continuous delivery application development – and will be adding other variants like machine learning and AI, financial services, or augmented reality and virtual reality in the future.
"In a few years, I think that edge computing, in terms of total infrastructure use, will be larger than the core datacenter that companies like Amazon Web Services deploy," says Collier. "You have the same need to manage all of this data, but you can do it more efficiently, faster, and with lower latency on site than back at a consolidated datacenter. This is the interesting emerging model."
It is reasonable, then, to ask at this point just how close to done OpenStack is, so we did that. "A lot of the core OpenStack services are mostly done for the present date use cases," explains Bryce. "I think what is interesting to see is how much infrastructure is diversifying. Infrastructure just used to mean a bunch of servers in a datacenter. What we see now is this spreading out for edge applications, but also for retailers like Wal-Mart and Target, who are thinking about what the next generation of their in-store infrastructure is going to look like and what role OpenStack plays in that. AT&T has rolled out more than a hundred datacenters running OpenStack and that is handling different production services, including phone calls and a variety of network functions, but now they are looking at the next wave out. When you have a hundred regional offices, these fan out to thousands of branch locations as well as the cell towers and the half racks of gear sitting up on a telephone pole. They want the same level of automation for the infrastructure out there that they have in the datacenters."
There are always new corner cases where new things need to be added to OpenStack, and in some cases interestingly enough, customers are only deploying OpenStack to manage bare metal provisioning using Ironic, others use a mix of Ironic and Keystone identity management – there is no server virtualization or containerization at all.
While OpenStack is complex – meaning it can do many different things and will be asked to do more – that is the easy part for software engineers, who are always eager to hack some code to solve a problem. The hard part has always been, and will always be, making that hack look like it had always been part of the plan from the beginning.
To do this and to bolster the efforts to document this stack of code and how it works together, the OpenStack Foundation is investing $20 million a year. It is not clear how much all of the "free" time that the tens of thousands of software engineers who work on OpenStack is worth, but it is surely at least an order of magnitude or two larger if you sat down and added up all of the hours and allocated pay. That is an interesting bit of accounting we would love to see for all the big open source projects, come to think of it . . . .
Ma Bell, Not Google, Creates The Real Open Source Borg
October 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan Control 0
True to its name, Google's famous Borg cluster controller has absorbed a lot of different ideas about how to manage server clusters and the applications […]
OpenStack Follows The Datacenter Out To The Edge
April 18, 2019 Jeffrey Burt Control, Edge 2
It is difficult not to be impressed with the rapid adoption of OpenStack since the open source cloud infrastructure software platform was first released almost […]
How OpenStack Lassoes Yahoo's 4 Million Server Cores
September 26, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Control, Hyperscale 0
As one of the first hyperscalers in the world, Yahoo, part of the Oath conglomerate that also includes AOL and that is owned by telecom […]


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The technologies, tests and operation of a variety of clinical laboratory testing systems (biochemistry, haematology, immunology, histology) and how they apply to a particular organ or system. The students will also be exposed to the underlying principles involved in the measurement of certain physiological parameters and how they have been engineered into diangostic equipment.
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Sitecore Processing Engine is a new ASP.Net Core based job of xConnect that works as a Windows service (or Azure Job). In order to run our custom code inside processing engine we need to make quite a number of configuration changes, register our custom types, inject our services, figure out how to access to xdb, etc. In this post we will review the basics of coding for Sitecore host applications (it applies to all xConnect jobs: processing engine, automation engine and indexing worker).
For our demo scenario we create custom MLNetService that will be a layer between Processing engine and Machine Learning engine.
So how do we register custom service is Sitecore processing engine?
To register our service we need to add the following xml config to "xconnect_instance\App_Data\jobs\continuous\ProcessingEngine\App_Data\Config\" folder.
How can we debug our code?
Because of processing engine works as a Windows service we need to attach to Sitecore.ProcessingEngine service. To do this, we need to configure debugging in Visual Studio: open menu bar, choose Tools > Options. In the Options dialog box, choose Debugging > Symbols, select the Microsoft Symbol Servers check box.
Then on the menu bar select Attach to Process from the Debug or Tools menu, in Processes dialog box select the "Show processes from all users" checkbox and find Sitecore.ProcessingEngine service.
In response, you will see the ID of your task and you can check it in ProcessingEngineTasks database.
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17 Apr 2017 | International News : Japan
It has been over a decade since the Mitsubishi Evo and the Subaru Impreza went head-to-head on the World Rally stage, but the two of them did battle once again thanks to the organisers of Europe's biggest Japanese Car Show. But this time it wasn't gravel, mud or tarmac on which the iconic pair had a duel, nor, indeed, was it on the Playstation. Instead, it was an online vote to determine which one came out on top, and it was one of their closest battles ever.
The Mitsubishi Evo had 49.05 percent of the total votes
The people behind Japfest ran a social media poll to determine which was considered the ultimate Japanese rally hero, and the voting concluded with the Impreza pipping the Evo to the post with 50.95 percent of the total votes cast, compared to the Evo's 49.05 percent.
The poll was created to raise awareness of a special Evo v Impreza stand-off at the Japfest event, which will celebrate the old school rivalry between Subaru and Mitsubishi that can trace its roots back to the halcyon days of Group A rallying in the mid-1990s.
Japfest will be putting the iconic rivals to the test, inviting clubs to nominate five cars each to take part. They will be given a slot to set the fastest time on the Silverstone Handling Course, with the fastest combined score winning for their club and their model.
Japfest is returning to Silverstone - the iconic home of British Motorsport - in 2017, after drawing a record crowd to the new venue when it moved there last year. Almost 20,000 people turned up, an increase of 20 percent over the previous record achieved in 2015, and this year's event looks set to be even more exciting, with a host of new features alongside some of the more traditional attractions.
Visitors will also be given the chance to win a Honda S2000. The S2000 was produced between 1999 and 2009 and was renowned for its high-revving VTEC engine and traditional rear-drive handling.
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Market Commentary - January 2022
U.S. Markets Hammered in January
In contrast to last month, U.S. equity markets were hammered for the month of January, reversing last month's overwhelmingly positive performance.
But it wasn't just U.S. equity markets that performed poorly this month – developed markets outside the U.S. turned in awful performance too – as all 36 developed markets tracked by MSCI declined and most of them dropped more than 5%.
For the month of January:
The DJIA was down 3.3%;
The S&P 500 was down 5.3%;
NASDAQ was down 9.0%; and
The Russell 2000 was down 10.7%.
The themes that helped drive market performance were similar to the ones that helped drive performance the prior month (and most of last year). But in January these themes seemed to take a back seat to one theme that dominated – the Federal Reserve. Yes, it's still true that inflation and supply chain issues contributed to the negative vibe, but worries that the Fed would be less accommodative and unwind its balance sheet faster than expected and hike rates faster and more often in 2022, were the biggest driver. By a lot.
Interestingly, stocks jumped on the final day of January, with the S&P 500 leaping 1.9% and NASDAQ soaring 3.4%, but it was not enough to keep the markets from recording their worst monthly performance since March 2020.
Volatility, as measured by the VIX, trended up significantly during the month, starting December in the mid-teens and then doubling to almost 32, before declining to about 24 on the last few trading days of the month.
West Texas Intermediate crude also trended up significantly in January, beginning the month around $75/barrel and ending the month around $88/barrel. For perspective, at this time last year, the price of a barrel was about $55.
Market Performance Around the World
Investors looking outside the U.S. saw overwhelmingly awful performance, as all 36 developed markets tracked by MSCI were down in January, with 20 of the 36 declining more than 5%.
But performance for emerging markets was mixed, as 14 of the 40 developing markets were positive in January, with 7 jumping more than 5%, including the MSCI Andean index leaping an astonishing 11.8%.
Sector Performance Was Awful
For the month of January, sector performance among the 11 S&P 500 sectors was terrible, as 10 of the 11 were negative, with the Energy sector being the lone hold-out. This is in stark contrast to the final month of 2021, when 10 of the 11 were positive.
In addition, the range in sector-returns was massive, with the Energy sector leaping over 17% and the Consumer Discretionary sector losing over 13%.
And unpacking the various sector returns further, as seemed to be the case most of last year, we can sense another mini-sector rotation in our midst, as the leading sector this month (Energy) was towards the back of the pack last month and the more defensive names (Utilities and Consumer Staples) outperformed the more growth-oriented sectors (Information Technology and Consumer Discretionary).
Here are the sector returns for the month of January December (two very short time-periods):
The Fed Turns Hawkish
The dominant theme for the month revolved around whether the Fed might need to raise short-term interest rates more quickly and more often, eating into future profits, especially within the high-flying tech names. The Fed's monetary policy committee did meet during the final week of January and left rates unchanged, as was expected, but Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted at a possibility of there being more than 3 rate increases this year. And immediately the fed funds futures market started predicting that there would be 5 rate hikes (that's 1.25%).
The question that all of Wall Street is wrestling with is whether the Fed will raise rates in slower 25-basis- point increments or in faster 50- or even 75-basis-point slugs. As you can see from the chart below, most are expecting a 25-basis-point increase at the Fed's March meeting.
Volatility Spikes in January
Volatility as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index reached its highest level since the beginning of the pandemic. And January saw a significant increase in volatility, especially toward the end of the month.
January 24th Summed Up the Volatility Well
For the entire month of January, the stock market could be described as "tumultuous." The S&P 500 Index, the DJIA, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 were all off from their recent highs – with NASDAQ entering correction territory and the S&P 500 dipping there too, albeit briefly.
But the market movements on January 24th really summed up the volatility that equity investors experienced well:
Prior to the opening bell on January 24th, market futures pointed to a slight gain for the day;
At the low point of the day, the DJIA was on track for its worst day since March 2020 as it shed over 1,000 points;
NASDAQ had dropped almost 5% by noon;
The S&P 500 had dropped almost 4% by noon; and
Within minutes of the closing bell, markets reversed course and ended the day almost exactly where they started the day.
That's volatility.
GDP for Q42021 and 2021 Looks Great
On the last Thursday of the month, the Commerce Department announced that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 6.9% in the fourth quarter of 2021, following an increase of 2.3% in the third quarter. Unless something drastically changes (this is just the first estimate of GDP), then last year our economy grew by 5.7%, the fastest pace in almost 40 years.
"The acceleration in the fourth quarter was led by an upturn in exports as well as accelerations in inventory investment and consumer spending. In the fourth quarter, COVID-19 cases resulted in continued restrictions and disruptions in the operations of establishments in some parts of the country.
Government assistance payments in the form of forgivable loans to businesses, grants to state and local governments, and social benefits to households all decreased as provisions of several federal programs expired or tapered off."
But Consumer Confidence Drops
On January 25th, the Conference Board announced that its Consumer Confidence Index declined in January, after an increase in December.
The Index now stands at 113.8 (1985=100), down from 115.2 in December.
The Present Situation Index – based on consumers' assessment of current business and labor market conditions – improved to 148.2 from 144.8 last month.
The Expectations Index – based on consumers' short-term outlook for income, business, and labor market conditions – declined to 90.8 from 95.4.
"Consumer confidence moderated in January, following gains in the final three months of 2021. The Present Situation Index improved, suggesting the economy entered the new year on solid footing. However, expectations about short-term growth prospects weakened, pointing to a likely moderation in growth during the first quarter of 2022. Nevertheless, the proportion of consumers planning to purchase homes, automobiles, and major appliances over the next six months all increased. Meanwhile, concerns about inflation declined for the second straight month, but remain elevated after hitting a 13-year high in November 2021. Concerns about the pandemic increased slightly, amid the ongoing Omicron surge. Looking ahead, both confidence and consumer spending may continue to be challenged by rising prices and the ongoing pandemic."
There are a Few Silver Linings
Consumers' appraisal of current business conditions was more favorable in January.
21.1% of consumers said business conditions were "good," up from 19.4%.
25.6% of consumers said business conditions were "bad," down from 27.1%.
Consumers' assessment of the labor market was mixed.
55.1% of consumers said jobs were "plentiful," down from 55.9%; still a historically strong reading.
11.3% of consumers said jobs are "hard to get," down from 11.7%.
But consumers were slightly less positive about their short-term financial prospects.
16.7% of consumers expect their incomes to increase
12.4% expect their incomes will decrease
But Confidence from Home Builders Drops
According to the latest from the National Association of Home Builders: "Growing inflation concerns and ongoing supply chain disruptions snapped a four- month rise in home builder sentiment even as consumer demand remains robust."
In addition, builder confidence in the market for newly built single-family homes moved one point lower to 83 in January as the HMI has hovered at the 83 or 84 level, the same rate as the spring of 2021, for the past three months.
"Higher material costs and lack of availability are adding weeks to typical single-family construction times. NAHB analysis indicates the aggregate cost of residential construction materials has increased almost 19% since December 2021. Policymakers need to take action to fix supply chains. Obtaining a new softwood lumber agreement with Canada and reducing tariffs is an excellent place to start."
"The HMI data was collected during the first two weeks of January and do not fully reflect the recent jump in mortgage interest rates. While lean existing home inventory and solid buyer demand are supporting the need for new construction, the combination of ongoing increases for building materials, worsening skilled labor shortages and higher mortgage rates point to declines for housing affordability in 2022."
Consumer Price Index Rises Again
Towards the end of the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5% in December after rising 0.8% in November and increasing 7.0% on the year.
Increases in the indexes for shelter and for used cars and trucks were the largest contributors to the seasonally adjusted all items increase.
The food index also contributed, although it increased less than in recent months, rising 0.5% in December.
The energy index declined in December, ending a long series of increases; it fell 0.4% as the indexes for gasoline and natural gas both decreased.
Further: "the index for all items less food and energy rose 0.6% in December following a 0.5% increase in November. This was the sixth time in the last 9 months it has increased at least 0.5%. Along with the indexes for shelter and for used cars and trucks, the indexes for household furnishings and operations, apparel, new vehicles, and medical care all increased in December. As in November, the indexes for motor vehicle insurance and recreation were among the few to decline over the month.
The all items index rose 7.0% for the 12 months ending December, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending June 1982. The all items less food and energy index rose 5.5%, the largest 12-month change since the period ending Feb. 1991. The energy index rose 29.3% over the last year, and the food index increased 6.3%."
And the Producer Price Index Jumped Too
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported that the Producer Price Index for final demand increased 0.2% in December, following advances of 1.0% in November and 0.6% in October.
Final demand prices moved up 9.7% in 2021, the largest calendar-year increase since data were first calculated in 2010.
Further: "in December, the advance in the final demand index can be traced to a 0.5% increase in prices for final demand services. Conversely, the index for final demand goods decreased 0.4%.
Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services rose 0.4% in December following a 0.8% increase in November. In 2021, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services moved up 6.9%, following a 1.3% advance in 2020."
Small Businesses Struggling
The National Federation of Independent Business released the following on January 11th:
"The NFIB Small Business Optimism increased slightly in December to 98.9, up 0.5 points from November.
Twenty-two percent of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem encountered in operating their business. Price raising activities have reached levels not seen since the early 1980s when prices were rising at double-digit rates.
Key findings include:
Twenty-two percent report inflation as the single most important problem operating their business, a 20-point increase from the beginning of 2021 and the highest level since Q4 1981.
Owners expecting better business conditions over the next six months increased three points to a net negative 35%. Owners remain pessimistic about future economic conditions as this indicator has declined 23 points over the past six months.
Forty-nine percent of owners reported job openings that could not be filled, an increase of one point from November.
To underscore the struggles facing small business owners, according to NFIB's monthly jobs report, 48% of owners reported raising compensation, up four points from November and a 48-year record high reading.
32% plan to raise compensation in the next three months;
25% said that labor quality was their top business problem; and
13% cited labor costs as their top business problem, up three points and a 48-year record high reading.
Sources: conference-board.org; bea.gov; bls.gov; msci.com; fidelity.com; nasdaq.com; wsj.com; bls.gov; morningstar.com
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Two houses caught fire while cars were damaged extensively after a pair of thugs carried out an arson attack in Chapelizod early this morning.
A video obtained by Dubln Live shows a car completely swallowed by flames - with several explosions being heard as the blaze spread to two houses and cars beside it.
The clip shows brave fire fighters trying to contain the raging inferno as nearby homes appear to be gutted by the flames.
At one point, a series of violent explosions erupt in a shocking scene that could have come straight from a war movie.
In another video, men are seen scrambling over to try and save a van before the flames get to it.
Two men were seen running from the scene on the main street where hours earlier locals were out enjoying a festival which went off "without a hint of trouble".
Members of the community are now waking up in anger as the pair put a sour tone on what was otherwise a great day.
They wrote: "A sad ending to the Opening Day for Chapelizod Community Festival.
"Some individuals intentionally set cars on fire around 1.30am this morning.
"The fire broke out and unfortunately none of the locals witnessing had any fire extinguishers to contain the fire.
"By the time Gardai and Dublin Fire Brigade arrived the fire was out of control and there was extensive damage to cars and to surrounding houses. Thankfully no reports of any injuries so far."
One local resident commenting under the video vented her disgust after it ruined what was "such a lovely day".
She wrote: "So proud of the village and all the kids and families had a lovely day, this is just sheer vandalism, putting the peoples lives at risk in the houses as well."
Another wrote: "What a shame that something like that has to happen. Some people just have to try to wreck everything"
There are no reports of any injuries while Gardai say they are looking for any information on the men.
They said: "Gardaí are investigating an incident on Main Street Chaplozod at 1.45am on 2nd July.
"A car was set on fire and completely burned out.
"Two other nearby cars were also damaged and well as the front of two housed.
"Two men were seen running from the scene. Anyone with information is asked to contact Ballyfermot Garda Station."
The festival activities are set to continue for the rest of the week as locals insist they will not let the actions of two thugs dampen Chapelizod's thriving communtity spirit.


I love this book. I'm so sorry I waited so long to start the series.
Shortest blurb ever: Claire Randall is a field nurse in WWII. She's flung back in time to 18th century Scotland, ends up marrying the super-AWESOME Jamie Fraser for her safety, and all hell breaks loose. And there is a VERY BAD ENGLISHMAN afoot. See above: hell breaks loose.
There are some books that are a pure experience. One of the reasons I completely ignored Outlander before now is because 1) it's huge 2) I thought the time travel would be cheesy.
Nothing could be further from the truth. First off, I am supremely glad that Gabaldon set the beginning of this book in the 1940s. If it'd been the 1990s (when the book was published), it would've aged the book much more. Historical-on-historical was much more effective.
She did a darn fine job of painting a historical portrait. I cleave to books that can pick me up out of my everyday life and set me down in another time and place. Some of my all-time fave historical novels (Pope Joan, The Red Tent) are memorable and worthy of gushing over because they immerse. I love knowing what the characters eat, how they dress, what the setting and weather are like, how badly they stink from lack of indoor plumbing (ahem!). Anyway, yes, details are important to me -- especially when they add to the magic of a story and don't bog it down.
The characters here are so great. While I had a problem with Matthew and Diana for their mutual co-dependence in my previous read, A Discovery of Witches, I felt quite wonderfully the opposite about Claire and Jamie. These two are spitfires! Jamie is a rough and tumble Highlander, quick with a blade, potential bull in a China closet. BUT, he's also quite soft-hearted, well-mannered, and educated. It was so much fun getting to know him.
Likewise, I loved Claire, the female protagonist in the story. She's a heck of a character-- able in her healing, quick-witted, and sharp-tongued. She and Jamie go toe to toe on several occasions and I loved the hard-headed, passionate dynamic between these two.
I've said in previous posts here that I rarely jump into a second book by an author. Not the case with Outlander. It was one of those books that so thoroughly compelled me that I wanted to either turn back to the beginning and re-read it right away or jump into the second book. I decided to jump into the second, and I hope to polish off Dragonfly in Amber this week.
Y'all also know I'm somewhat terrified of the commitment that comes along with reading chunky books. Not this one. So so so so so good.
All-time favorites list good. Take that!
So glad you loved it! I first read Outlander (first, because I read it many times after) in 1992 so I feel like I own the characters. It makes me so happy to see someone else discover it!
Chris, you lucky duck! I am envious that you jumped on the Outlander series so close to publication. On the other hand, I don't think I could stand having to wait for the next book to come out!!!
Well! All-time favorites list is good enough for me, that's for sure.
I had a friend at work who absolutely loved this series, and she sung its praises to me all the time. When she unexpectedly died a few years back, I promised myself I would start the series in her honor... but I've been completely negligent. Thanks for the push in the rear to get started again!
YAY! This is one of my favorite series, but be careful, because they are addictive! So, so glad that you loved this one. Much strangeness is afoot in the coming books, but it's great if you just go with it. Going to be smiling all day now that I've read this review!
Heather, NO KIDDING!!! I'm completely obsessed with the series now. I said I was going to take a break after DRAGONFLY IN AMBER but everyone tells me the cliffhanger will compel me to jump right into VOYAGER. Somehow, I think that might be true!
I so so so want to read this series BUT it IS a huge time commitment. I've thought about just listening to them but you can't cuddle with an audiobook. ;) How many are there all together? And is there a definite ending? (looking at you Ms. Evanovich...).
Trish, there are 8 books total of the OUTLANDER series. There are also some books Gabaldon labels the LORD JOHN GREY novels, though as I understand some people take these to be a spinoff (and Gabaldon says they're a part of the series).
The 8th book in the OUTLANDER series is scheduled to publish in 2013.
I heard so much about the swoon-worthy Jamie that I checked this out from the library a few months ago. I only made it about 50 pages before giving up. Maybe I should have stuck with it a little longer.
I have also avoided this series for the same two reasons. I even own this one on my Kindle. I will definitely be trying to make time for this one!
Carrie, it's great for when you want to have a good ole-fashioned romp with a book. It reminds me a bit of when I was a kid and would spend hours on my grandparents' couch not seeing a bit of the day pass by because my nose was so thoroughly buried in the book. It is totally immersive and consumable.
Thanks, Sam! As I was telling Carrie above, it's just a great adventure!!! Fun fun fun. With sexytimes included (if that bothers you, beware!).
I read the first two books -and a bit of the third- years ago and quite liked them, but not nearly as much as you do. Strangely enough I lost interest and never finished no. 3. Don't they say that the series is sort of deteriorating and Jamie becomes quite an unlikable character? Not sure why, but all that stopped me from continuing. I'll be looking forward to reading what you will say about the next books.
Rikki, I'll be super pissed if Jamie becomes an unlikable character. If I find that that's happening too much for my taste I will go into readerly denial, toss the rest of the books, and simply re-read #1 for the rest of my life.
We will see. Waiting for your reviews, :)!
Oh my gosh, I never thought about reading this before but you have convinced me - I am actually excited about it! And I read your previous post and for what it is worth Evangeline hasn't had an ear infection since getting tubes. She was only 11 months old when she got them but they literally transformed her - I am so thankful for them!!
Yea yea yea!!! So glad you liked this one.
My bff turned me onto them, and like you, I absolutely could not stop reading them. The dynamic between C&J is so different from D&M. Matthew still wants control over Diana, whereas Jamie quickly realizes that's not completely possible with Clare.
SOOOO very different in their dynamic. And you're spot on about Jamie. He's no dolt!
I grabbed this book at a book exchange a couple of years ago because I'd heard such good things about it. I really should just get around to reading it despite its length.
Anna, I wish I hadn't waited so long to read it. I hope you have good luck with it when you take the plunge. It's really a very quick read.
I have read all of them, and I have them from Audible, for dentist visits, spring cleaning and long road trips. I used then when I was in grad school as motivation to finish big projects. Sara Donati's series lacks the passion, but is a good follow-up for the inevitable withdrawal you will suffer with the end of the final book. Happy reading!
Ev, it's good to meet someone with a passion for OUTLANDER! Would you say that you liked the series as a whole or did it "jump the shark" at some point??
Will check out Donati's series, for sure.
Every few months I read another review praising this series. I picked up a copy of Outlander at least a decade ago (that sounds so long) at a library sale and the poor thing is still sitting on my shelf. This is exactly the kind of book I would love. I should stop thinking about the 900 page length and just dive in.
Leslie, I hope you get around to it soon! If you love it, we can gush together. lol Don't worry about the 900 pages -- it absolutely FLIES by!
Why haven't I read this series yet? I am a time travel nut. I think the length frightens me. But I will read this book this year, I swear it.
I read the first one a few years ago and really enjoyed it, but never went on in the series. My mother got me reading it, she read most of the series and loved it. I just picked it up recently to reread it and see if I still enjoy it as much. I enjoyed your review of it, Andi! It's always wonderful when a chunkster is good enough to love, isn't it?
The second book is going well. A very different tone overall, but things are starting to pick up and I'm looking forward to seeing how this one pans out.
I think I've already told you I loved Outlander but hated the ending and never continued. I did try, after a few years, but Dragonfly in Amber didn't grab me. I'm so stunned you haven't read this series sooner, especially given the fact that Heather is such a big influence on your reading life. Now you can talk Jamie till the cows come home. Fun!
What did you hate about the ending, Nancyroo? Was it the cliffhangerness (not really a cliffhanger, but obviously teasing into the second book)?
The second book starts quite slow and I'm on pg 350 and it's still a little slow but starting to gain a lot of scary momentum. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here.
It was the cruelty of the bad guy. It was just a bit too much for me. You wouldn't think it would be enough to keep me from reading on, since the rest of the book was such an incredible experience, but it just did me in. I had nightmares for days.
I am still tempted to give Dragonfly in Amber another go, though. Outlander was such a rare treat. I'm not a chunkster reader, ya know, but I read 100 pages one day, about 200 the next and then locked myself into the bedroom to finish. If anyone knocked on the door, I don't recall. I was BURIED in that book. "Immersive" indeed.
You are chipping away at my resistance! It's really that engrossing. Good to know.
700 pages? Oh, geez, I didn't realize it was THAT long! I'm going to trust you, Andi. If it's really as good as you say, I'll just ignore the length and dive in!
I'm always happy whenever this series finds a new fan!
This series has been on my list for several years now. I even have the first in the series on my shelves, just waiting and waiting to be read. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much and look forward to reading it myself.
I just finished this last night. I now am talking in a Scottish accent and calling my little dog a 'wee bonny lassie'. Sheesh.


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