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|Written by Rich Miller
|Sunday, 27 May 2012 10:21
As state legislative support for a cigarette-tax hike grew in late May, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist and other conservatives stepped into the Illinois fray.
A top House Republican said more than a week ago that the roll call in favor of a dollar-a-pack cigarette-tax hike was in the double digits within his caucus. The tax would raise $700 million, including the federal match, to help close the Medicaid program's gaping $2.7-billion budget hole.
In return, Republicans won concessions from the Democrats, particularly when it came to sparing doctors from Governor Pat Quinn's proposed Medicaid-provider rate cuts.
For the past several decades, the House Republicans' most reliable campaign supporter has been the Illinois State Medical Society. The House GOP always sticks with the docs, no matter what. The Medical Society was against last year's workers' compensation reform agreement that the Senate Republicans, including former gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady, supported. The House Republicans sided with the doctors and took a hard line against it. The decision not to cut physicians' Medicaid payment rates was a huge win for the House Republicans, so they agreed to put votes on the cigarette tax.
Norquist is probably best known for his anti-tax pledge that most Republican members of Congress have signed, and that he aggressively holds them to whenever they start thinking about revenue enhancements. Norquist first allied himself with tobacco companies in the 1990s as part of the national Republican effort to defeat President Bill Clinton's health-care proposal, which was funded in part by a cigarette tax hike. He has since fought against cigarette-tax hikes in numerous states.
Cigarette-tax hikes are by far the most popular tax increases with the public. A poll of southern Illinois voters taken by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute last year found that 60 percent of them backed a dollar-a-pack tax hike. A statewide poll taken in 2010 found that 74 percent of Illinoisans – including 71 percent of Republicans – supported a dollar-per-pack tax increase.
But Joshua Culling, the state-affairs manager for Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, wrote that the caucus of House GOP Leader Tom Cross could "ruin the GOP brand in the state for a generation" if it backed the cigarette-tax increase: "Tom Cross seems content to cut a deal that will further imperil Illinois's economic outlook while simultaneously eroding the national party's messaging on the toxicity of Obamacare."
Since April, Cross has done several public events outside Springfield and Chicago to urge that President Barack Obama's health-care-reform bill be repealed. He said he was adamantly opposed to any moves in Illinois to implement the federal law. That refusal led directly to the death of a bipartisan effort by Democratic state Representative Frank Mautino to set up a health-insurance exchange in Illinois.
But Cross' attempts at appeasing his party's right wing apparently didn't go far enough. In a letter sent to supporters, the Illinois Policy Institute's director singled out Cross for criticism, saying the Medicaid proposal "destroys the credibility of leaders who talk about economic freedom only to vote in favor of more heavy-handed government."
And the United Republican Fund, one of the oldest and most conservative GOP organizations in the state, also sent out a press release about the Medicaid compromise and the cigarette-tax hike. "The time has come for legislators to stop being the unwitting (or intentional) co-conspirators in the slow demise of our great state. The time has come for leadership and courage. For statesmen instead of politicians. For competence instead of compromise."
The Republican Party's more pragmatic, governing wing has been in full retreat for the past few years as national politics have invaded state government as part of the GOP's messaging against the president from Illinois. That aggressive national push has resulted in far more Illinois Statehouse partisanship, so legislators who supported cigarette-tax increases in the past, such as Senate Republican Leader Chris Radogno, are now vocally against any tax hike of any sort. Her caucus is even against a proposal to close a loophole that allows commercial roll-your-own-cigarette operations to avoid most state sales taxes.
But, in Illinois, some things still trump national party interests. The Medical Society is one of those things. Sorry, Grover: You may have all the Washington, DC, Republicans scared out of their wits, but things are a little different here.
Rich Miller also publishes Capitol Fax (a daily political newsletter) and CapitolFax.com.
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With Performance Schema improvements in MySQL 5.6 I think we're in the good shape with insight on what is causing performance bottlenecks as well as where CPU resources are spent. (Performance Schema does not accounts CPU usage directly but it is something which can be relatively easily derived from wait and stage information). Where we're still walking blind with MySQL is resource usage – specifically Memory Usage.
I can't count how many time I had to scratch my head with system configured to consume only few GBs in global buffers growing to consume much more for some unknown needs leaving me puzzled whenever it is user variables, complex stored procedures temporary tables or something else. Not only such connection related allocations are invisible but many global allocations are poorly visible too. Sure, we know how much memory was allocated for Innodb Buffer Pool or Query Cache but amount of memory used for example for Table Cache can be only guessed.
Not only lack of proper memory accounting is operational problem, it is problem for QA too as it makes it very hard to ensure the memory consumption by various database operations is reasonable. For example if some INFORMATION_SCHEMA query were to take couple of GB of memory we might not find it reasonable yet it is not a "memory leak" as it is freed after operation is completed.
What I would like to see is similar to Performance Schema "wait names" we could get something similar in terms of memory allocation target, which could be something like "Prepared Statement Cache", "Table Cache" etc. For global pools we need just global accounting, for connection basics accounting should be done per connection but aggregated globally. This way it would be possible to see for example which connection is using most memory. We could also aggregate per purpose to understand what memory is currently used for.
One thing to note with memory allocation is it is rather volatile – a lot of memory might be allocated for very short period of time and hence not very well visible. To assist catching these situations it is good idea to track not only current amount allocated but also maximum, which can be reset as needed.
If such functionality is implemented not only it can help DBA to configure memory allocation a lot more successful but I also believe similar to Performance Schema helping to find many performance bottleneck such profiling will help to find a lot of wasteful memory allocation and help to get MySQL on the memory diet. It would be easy to extend QA suite to check for peak memory usage after each test and hence find memory usage regression – when new code unexpectedly requires a lot more memory than previous variant.
If memory accounting is implemented it can be used to help restricting memory usage in addition to monitoring it which I'm sure hosting providers, MySQL as a Service vendors will especially appreciate as currently they are on complete mercy of their users not being able to limit memory usage by individual MySQL users or even track how much these users are using.
Now as MySQL 5.6 is getting close to be done I imagine the planning and feature design is long started for MySQL 5.7 (or whatever next release is going to be called) and I really hope something along those lines will be picked up for inclusion. If not perhaps this is opportunity for MariaDB to pave the road ? Whatever way I'm sure MySQL community will appreciate it.
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Thanks. This looks like a great start covering a lot of what I'm looking for. I would note though design mentions MEMORY_POOL is "usually NULL" even though this is one of the most important pieces. Though I understand the challenge of going over the code and changing malloc/free calls to track the purpose for which memory allocation happens. This is the reason we did not tackle it in Percona Server as amount of changes to do it well would be way too large.
Also accounting by Thread might not work very well considering you might have multiple connections sharing the same thread, though at the same time there are different system threads which also good to be tracked yet they do not have connection.
Finally I guess INT in those specs is going to be BIGINT as INT is way to small for many allocation types
Yea it could potentially turn in to a large patch (many of the P_S instrumentation patches turn out like that).. Not having a connection doesn't matter for P_S either, since all background threads are instrumented as well.
As Marc notes at the start of the worklog, this still needs further clean up of the spec, and we have to be careful of overhead concerns tracking every little malloc that could happen etc too.
It's certainly something we've talked over though, as the spec shows. Can't guarantee exactly when it may get done, however.
And yea, it would be a BIGINT, as with all other columns in P_S like this now.
Yes I understand about background threads. What I mean is when multiple connection share the same thread because of pooling mode it is the most interesting to see information per connection not per thread.
The overhead is always the challenge in instrumentation. I think you have achieved great results with Performance Schema – frankly I was expecting more overhead. For some small allocations MySQL allocates data on stack which might not need to be instrumented and even for standard heap allocations timing might not be very important which is the more expensive part I assume.
I understand you can't guaranty when it is going to be done but it is great to hear planning work is going on.
When it comes to MySQL and memory usage, I'd like to see totally different approach to tuning the memory usage. There are dozens of knobs to configure the amount of memory for each particular need, but what I'd really want is to be able to say to MySQL: "Here's 10GB of memory for you, use it as you see fit". I don't really want to specify that 8GB should be used for the innodb_buffer_pool_size, some memory for the sort and read buffers, some memory for the query cache, some memory for the temp tables etc etc. MySQL SHOULD know better where it needs the memory the most. If it doesn't, it's a bug which needs to be fixed. The memory allocation could also be dynamic, e.g. if there's some operation which requires more memory, it could borrow that memory from, say, the buffer pool, and then reallocate the memory again when the memory-consuming operation is finished. I have learned the proper amounts of memory that should allocated to each particular functionality over the years, but I feel it has been a somewhat pointless excercise. I would much rather let MySQL figure out how it should use the resources allocated to it.
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Why the United States Can't Win a Cyberwar
And our political leaders need to understand this—fast.
Sen. John McCain rarely ceases to boggle the mind. He did it again today, highlighting a provision that he inserted in the defense authorization bill requiring U.S. Cyber Command "to provide a strategy for the development and deployment of offensive cyber capabilities."
"I am very concerned," he stated, "that our strategy is too reliant on defensive measures in cyber space, and believe we need to develop the capability to go on the offense as well … I believe that cyber warfare will be the key battlefield of the 21st century, and I am concerned about our ability to fight and win in this new domain."
Two strange things stick out in this statement—which, by the way, was not an off-the-cuff remark but a formal appendage to a report on the defense authorization bill by the Senate Armed Services Committee, where McCain is the top-ranking Republican.
First, where has McCain been for the last week or so? Newspapers and cable shows have been screaming with reports of President Obama's cyber campaign to wreak havoc on Iran's nuclear program. A new book, Confront and Conceal, by New York Times reporter David Sanger, reveals that the campaign is code-named "Olympic Games" and that it's been going on for quite a while. That is to say, we have "offensive cybercapabilities" in spades. Since the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command, in 2009, the generals in charge have sought offensive capabilities explicitly.
Second, what does McCain mean by "our ability to fight and win in this new domain" of cyberwarfare? Does he have any idea what he's talking about? Here, McCain is not alone in his vagueness; this is something that very few higher-ups seem as yet to have grasped.
McCain may be overstating matters in calling cyberspace "the key battlefield of the 21st century," but it's no exaggeration to view Obama's cyber campaign against Iran—which has aimed to disrupt the country's uranium-enrichment program through logic bombs, viruses, and other manipulations of its computer networks—as crossing a new threshold in modern warfare.
According to Sanger's account, Obama was well aware he was treading new ground when he made his first breach, obtaining assurances from his commanders that the cyberassault on the centrifuges would have no effect on nearby hospitals or other civilian enterprises. This is good to know. It's reminiscent of nuclear war games in the late 1950s and early '60s, when the players tried to limit the attacks and retaliations so that the bombs and warheads landed only on military targets, not on population centers.
There are differences, of course. For one, nukes would have killed millions of people, no matter how "limited" the attack, whereas logic bombs at worst destroy enterprises (which, depending on the enterprise, can indirectly kill lots of people, but still, there's a big difference). For another (and this is an astonishing thing), for the first decade of the nuclear age, the people in charge—from the White House to the Pentagon to the Strategic Air Command on down—had no interest in limiting the damage. As late as 1960, this was the official U.S. war plan: If the Soviets launched an attack on Western Europe or some other part of the Free World, even if they did so only with conventional armies, even if they didn't fire a single atomic weapon, the United States was to unleash its entire arsenal of nuclear weapons against every target—civilian and military—in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China. This amounted to 3,423 nuclear bombs and warheads, totaling 7,847 megatons (or 7.8 billion tons) of explosive power, against 654 targets (a mix of military bases and urban-industrial factories), killing an estimated 285 million people and injuring 40 million more in the Soviet Union alone. (These numbers come from official documents that I got declassified while researching my 1983 book, The Wizards of Armageddon.)
This was the deadly math of what President Dwight Eisenhower called "massive retaliation." In the late '50s, a group of defense analysts, many of them at the RAND Corp., thought about ways to reduce the likelihood of nuclear war—specifically, to make a nuclear attack less tempting for the enemy to contemplate—and to limit the damage of such a war if it erupted anyway. When President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, filled key positions with some of these RAND analysts—the "whiz kids," as they came to be called—and translated their ideas into policy.
Some results: burying ICBMs in underground, blast-resistant silos, to make them less vulnerable to attack (thus making a nuclear first-strike less tempting in the minds of enemies); changing the war plan, to give the president a variety of options (for instance, enabling him to hit only the other side's missiles and airbases, while avoiding its cities); and, later on in the decade, creating U.S.-Soviet forums where "confidence-building measures" and "rules-of-the-road" could be discussed (thus relaxing a broad spectrum of suspicions).
Cyberwar is very different from nuclear war: less destructive but also less tangible. Yet they're similar in one important way: It is illusory to talk about "winning" either.
And this is where McCain's vague talk of fighting and winning in the cyber domain gets a bit loopy. It's not unlike the talk, common among Air Force generals in the 1950s and '60s (and a few hyperactive civilian defense intellectuals in the Reagan era of the '80s), of fighting and winning a nuclear war. (Think Gen. Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove: "I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed, but 10 to 20 million [dead] tops!")


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Firefighters, neighbors and animal- control officers came to the rescue of a pregnant cow named Lucky after she tumbled 8 feet to the bottom of a well in Boulder County.
Lucky was in a field near a livestock pen not far from 119th Street and Jay Road in Boulder County, west of Erie, when she sauntered onto a wooden platform above a well Friday afternoon.
Her 1,200- to 1,500-pound girth proved too much for the structure, which shattered, said Laura McConnell, spokeswoman for Mountain View Fire Rescue.
Firefighters, Boulder County animal- control officers and neighbors rushed to the scene of the bovine emergency about 3:30 p.m.
A neighbor climbed into the well to calm the shaky animal, who was on her knees, Mountain View Lt. Tim Losh said. The neighbor also called someone who owned a crane, Losh said.
"This old girl stole the hearts of our crew," McConnell said of the cow she described as buckskin brown with big brown eyes.
Firefighters attached a fire hose to the crane and looped the 2 1/2-inch hose just behind Lucky's front legs and in front of her back legs.
Lucky was stoic as she was hoisted into the air and brought back down to the ground, Losh said.
"It was a pretty docile cow. Basically she let us do what we wanted to do," he said. "I didn't notice any injuries."
After she was rescued, Lucky rested on the ground with her legs curled underneath her.
"You just wanted to grab her by the fuzzy ears and kiss her nose," McConnell said.
Besides being somewhat amused by the unusual emergency call, Losh said firefighters weren't tempted to kiss Lucky's nose.
"It was just a cow," he said.
The fire department has come to the rescue of horses and cows mired in deep mud and even pulled a sheep out of a well before, Losh said.
A veterinarian checked out the cow afterward — pregnant cows that undergo trauma often abort their calves, McConnell said. But this cow was Lucky.
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I love Power Girl's face!
you know what I would love that as a poster
Wow...! The middle case... Epic!!!! Go for it, little men!
How cute!!~ They think they're MEN!! *smirk*
Does Wonderwoman have a crush on Batman in this comic?
i think she has a crush on superman?
" We're Men! (Manly Men!) We're Men in Tights! (Tight Tights!)
Sorry, couldn't resist!...
Sorry, couldn't resist!...
*breaks into song* NOW THAT WE'RE MEN...
Is so curious that for someone that hates so much Bruce, Diana is too much pendant about every "stupid thing that comes out from his mouth".
I suffer more less the same problem with the girls in my life ¬_¬U and believe me, is not funny.
I suffer more less the same problem with the girls in my life ¬_¬U and believe me, is not funny.
OH my gosh. I love this.
NO. WE ARE MEN. xD
Awesome work! I am reading like- all of these! (:
NO. WE ARE MEN. xD
Awesome work! I am reading like- all of these! (:
Hmmmmm would it be out of the question to request a wallpaper style of the third panel......because that is incredible lol excellent work as always
Power girl's face needs a sound effect. Like a ding or a squeak.
super man is so freaking ADORABLE squeeee
XD PeeGee is SOOOOOOO ADORABLE i just want to give her massive hugs and cookies
"oh,HERE we go again"
"NO WE ARE MEN"!! LOLOL and the poses.... i'm done for... this is by far my fav!
Oh god, Powergirl's faace x'D Absolutely adorkable.
So funny!
Kara, Kara no! Don't make me take out the squirt gun again!
That middle panel is soooo cute
Great concept. I get a Calvin & Hobbes vibe when I read your comic strips.
LOL. Can't wait to see what happens next!!!
LOL! Clark better watch out. Powergirl may maul him if she ever gets a chance to sit with him. I can agree with Diana. I'd be rolling my eyes, too.
Totally awesome! I cracked on the third panel, that's just hilarious I really can see this happening!
Oh my gooooooosh Little League is UNBEARABLY adorable and hilarious at the same time! The concept and execution are both amazing. You've earned yourself a watch.
I'm gonna go laugh, and hope Bruce doesn't try to kill me. I'd probably start cuddling him.
*falls over laughing...* I can just see this! And Diana being Amazon, this reaction is so totally in the "we don't need men" camp (which is odd, given how she has shown liking for various males instead of going the Bana Faction way...)...
Powergirl can dig it.
I am loving this! You do such a great job with each character's personality! I especially love the interaction between Superman and Batman ~ they are so BFFs!
LOVE IT!!!! And Power Girl's expression is too funny LOL!
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Using the two days of studio time they were awarded from their EMP Sound Off! victory, local jazz and hip-hop fusion eight-piece Dyno Jamz recently dropped their debut record, a stellar 11-track effort available on their Band Camp page. Reverb sat down with the group's frontman Zac Millan, aka MC Turtle Toes, and drummer Saba Samakar over big bowls of ph? to talk about managing Sound Off! momentum, rockism in hip-hop and how fans pestering the band for mp3s sparked (and saved) their debut record's creation.
I think it was tough after doing a year of shows after Sound Off! and seeing our buzz start to die because we didn't have anything tangible to give people. The EP we put out right after Sound Off!--I never really liked it. I think we rushed in to that, and it probably would've been a better idea just to keep our nose to the grindstone. Sound Off! forced us to become a band, and once it went away we were like, "Oh shit, what do we do now? Might as well make an album."Samakar on how the fans kept them making music:
If it weren't for all the fans looking for mp3s of our music, we probably wouldn't have made an album. When I say there was hype around us, it was really just hype because we won Sound Off!--but there were fans that really liked the songs, and more than anything else that's what made us make this album. We honestly made it for the fans.Turtle Toes on finding a direction for the group:
People in this group have such different ideas and such different lives, and the whole record was a challenge--not in terms of personality, but logistically. I like the traditional produced sound of hip-hop, but at the same time you can't match the energy of a live band with a beat. So in that way I like recording with produced hip-hop, but I like performing all live. This album was a learning process, and now I see a focus on where we want to move.Samakar on how playing hip-hop with a full band isn't rockist:
We have the cut "Lunar Ops" which is all produced--the drums aren't even my drums. But when we play it live, I'm going to play it exactly how it is on record. If you can play hip-hop live and not turn it into rock 'n' roll, which is really challenging, I think that's way tight. If you're playing hip-hop live and you've got crazy distortion and crashing cymbals the whole time, you're just rapping over a rock song. But if you can channel the elements of soul and funk and R&B, that's just fun.


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EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMRS), a leading renewable chemicals and fuels company, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.
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I am 6 weeks PP and I am still not making enough milk stop supplementing or start freezing and I was wondering if anyone has info on the medicaiton you can take to help support lactation. Any info would help. Also, which doctor would I go to for a perscription?
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Alright, some of you probably think this is a bit ridiculous to ask, but I am very organized and I like to plan everything.
In what order did the events of your baby's birthday party go, or will go? Our party is from 3-6pm.
For example: food, cake, presents or cake, presents, food?
I know I should just go with the flow, but we are having 50 people and I want to be on top of the important events such as cake and presents, and not get too wrapped up in talking to people.
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ICK!!!! Snow coming Friday night!
Just thought I'd share... they're predicting our first good snowfall of the year for Friday night! I hate this kind of weather!!
Time to find the shovel.
even though i dont get snow here i much prefer winter to summer. in winter when your cold you can put on more clothes and get warmer, in summer you can only go so far to cool down and without aircon its crap
In summer, when its that warm, we go swimming. I prefer that to being snowed in.
The way that title says, I thought it was an "ich".:roll: :bluelaugh:
I don't know what to say about winter but if we have the first winter here, then I'll be glad to enjoy making snowman.:mrgreen:
Summer is good and bad to me. It is good since I don't have to deal with muddy roads.:mrgreen: Bad since too much heat makes me sweat a lot and I hate it.:redmad:
Re: ICK!!!! Snow coming Friday night!
yea, i'm with lauri...i want snow so bad...but we NEVER get it in east Nc
I love playing in snow, but imagine having to stand up at the corner at 6:00 AM waiting for the school bus in freezing weather! Yucky, yucky. I'm glad it rarely snows here and that I'm homeschooled so that we don't have to catch the bus.
when i lived in maine, i used to have to WALK to school (yes, uphill) in several feet of snow...but i never had to do it barefoot...so i guess thats a plus =)
Geez Blue, dont you mean making a snowman? or making snowmen?
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Posted 25 Jul 2015cfoley : I tried to make a JFrame, instantiate and make it visible in test, but unfortunately it did behave differently from usually I see. The frame only showed up a while and the test finish, not even waiting any input from user.
Sure things! actually there many more events (eat, eat own body, crash to stone or wall, enter tunnel). Actually, It is a replica of HungrySnake mini game. (Just in oversimplified UI) LOL. But for now I want to test the ability to move and to be directed.
CasiOo: I do consider your suggestion 'favor composition over inheritance', and I do think that composition might give better structure (because from the beginning, SnakeHead and Moveable did not hold 'is a' relationship). But If I do use composition, I cannot figure out how to make Moveable behavior like a plugin. I mean, I want whatever class (whether it is Snake, Dragon, or any reptile) as long as it is have Moveable class (whether it is by extending or composing), then those class will able to move itself periodically.
But unfortunately, Until I make this reply, I have not figured the way to use composition (and of course I will keep searching). Anyway, I do appreciate your warning 'To not use Thread.sleep in test', that's new to me.
If your are kind, give me more hint! Thanks.
In Topic: Domain Model and Entity Framework
Posted 27 Jun 2015RudiVisser : On my way testing further before arrive at 3 layer separation. I encounter a problem, I create a UI project. My Ui project only contain text filed to show StandardID and StandardName and a Button to Load the field.
I connect UI project and my model base on Service Reference. So inside project that contain my Student class and Standard class I add web service (asmx) file. Inside the web service file I just add get method like below
[WebMethod] public Standard GetStandardByID(int id) { SchoolContext scontext = new SchoolContext(); Standard std = scontext.Standards.Where(stan => stan.StandardId == id)/*.Select(t => new { StandardId = t.StandardId, StandardName = t.StandardName })*/.SingleOrDefault(); return std; }
But In my Standard class, the properties of Students return ICollection<>, instead concrete object List<>
public ICollection<Student> Students { get; set; } //I use this instead of following line //public List<Student> Students { get; set; }
And I get error when add the service reference to UI project.
the error is ::
QuoteRequest format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in '/_vti_bin/ListData.svc/$metadata'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: Request format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in '/_vti_bin/ListData.svc/$metadata'.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[InvalidOperationException: Request format is unrecognized for URL unexpectedly ending in '/_vti_bin/ListData.svc/$metadata'.]
System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebServiceHandlerFactory.CoreGetHandler(Type type, HttpContext context, HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response) +489329
System.Web.Services.Protocols.WebServiceHandlerFactory.GetHandler(HttpContext context, String verb, String url, String filePath) +212
System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory.GetHandler(HttpContext context, String requestType, String url, String pathTranslated) +47
System.Web.MaterializeHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +346
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +155
When I changed back to use List<> then all was fine my UI able to show standardID and standardName.
In Topic: Domain Model and Entity Framework
Posted 26 Jun 2015Ah.. as RudiVisser suggested, I run debug and i found that Standard property in my result is null. then I try to change the query for result become
Student result = (from stud in context.Students join stan in context.Standards on stud.StandardKey equals stan.StandardId where stud.StudentID == 90002 select stud).SingleOrDefault();
and the result still null, How to select Student with Standard included in?
for the relationship on modelBuilder, I follow this tutorial EF Tutorial. I think their code is not wrong.
Am I miss something?
Updated :
I try to change the result into this :
Student result = context.Students.Include(s => s.Standard).Where(s => s.StudentID == 90002).SingleOrDefault();
And the result is success. the ToString() method is invoked. Now it is clear that POCO in Code-First approach can be used can have behavior and use for other things.
Now still on similar problem. Above test is conducted on same project.
I want to try to follow best practice of 3 layer structure. But for now let's discuss 2 layers which are BusinessLayer and DataAccessLayer. Each those layer will be one project, so total 3 project for 3 layer. As per theory, upper layer may depend on lower layer but not vice versa (or circular dependency occur).
I plan to divide My Domain Object and the EF. Domain Object on BusinessLayer and EF(DbContext-derived class and all mapping syntax) stay on DataAccessLayer. Problem is now EF cannot recognize any of my DomainObject (my POCO). How should I done this? I tried partial class, but it was failed. DataAccessLayer cannot recognize any class from BusinessLayer. How should I do the mapping?
In Topic: Combine same functionality services into one
Posted 16 Jun 2015Skydiver: Well, it is not I married to Entity Framework. I would love to switch if there are better alternative at hand. And as for now, Entity Framework looks like (maybe) easier to put my hand on rather than ADO.NET, (at least) until before I post this question.
QuoteOnce I had a working API, I came to the conclusion that EF was getting in the way
I do not understand in what way EF getting in the way. Did you mean the EF getting in the way same as in my case?
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After I looking around for some time, looks like there are no way to put some abstraction layer over every each entities generated from my database model. Did you agree on this? And also, database and my code inevitably will have high coupling.
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What a surprise!! *note sarcasm*
I started drinking "enough" water and now i'm up a couple pounds - who would've thought?
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How are things?
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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OK this is about 1 week late, but wow! Moving across country can do that to you! All 5 of us (cat included) have been so stressed out and we're now ready to RELAX!
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Thursday, March 04, 2010
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I have been barely scratching the surface at SP lately which is completely my own doing - I have been anxious, unsettled, sidetracked, for quite some time, and it all started with a simple phone call.
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
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I finally (after talking about it for over 5 months) went to the Y and got a family membership! It's about 3 miles away, so I also did my first bike of the year, over to the Y, signed up, and got in the pool.
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We got Biggest Loser for the Wii a few weeks ago, and my 4-yo has played with it but I hadn't had a chance to check it out.
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OK - so far this year I've planned:
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Not sure how to articulate this really - when I was losing weight, my goal weight was 125. I have been maintaining for over a year now, and in my head, I've wanted to stay below 125 so I feel like I have a buffer (for parties, laziness, etc).
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After the war Killens returned to his job with the Labor Board, but became increasingly cynical about the possibility of harmony between white and black workers. Around 1950 he formed an informal writing group (later to become the Harlem Writers Guild) where he read portions of his first novel, Youngblood ( 1954), dealing with the coming of age of Robby Youngblood in a Southern black family. It was generally well received, as was his second novel, And Then We Heard the Thunder ( 1962), about the treatment of black soldiers in the military. Killens drew upon his own experiences in the army for many of the details and incidents of this work, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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John Roberts' critics say he went "wobbly" on health care. Good for him.
We tend to assume that every time a public official changes his mind, it's because he never really believed his original talking points. Either that or his earlier views hold firm, but he has opted to play-act for political advantage. (Romney has criticized Roberts' decision. One would think that, if anyone had sympathy for a public official who changed his mind, it would be the erstwhile architect of Massachusetts' health care mandate.) Take the reaction to President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage. Many pundits found it almost impossible to imagine that POTUS' stance had truly, organically evolved over the years—even if those years were notable for bringing homosexuality more into the mainstream.
This distrust of ideological adaptiveness wasn't always the norm. In fact, a healthy appreciation for mental flexibility dates back to the fifth century B.C., when the historian Thucydides, setting down a funeral oration by Athenian statesman Pericles, wrote that the city-state profited from its citizens' ability to adjust their ideas to the times. "I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace," Thucydides reports that Pericles claimed. Rather than iron-clad convictions, Athenians cultivated open minds.
And successful politicians have often switched paths mid-career. The young Ronald Reagan identified as a liberal Democrat, not to mention a Hollywood heartthrob. Tony Blair went through a Tory phase before landing solidly in the Labour camp. Sens. Arlen Specter and Joe Lieberman strayed from the Republican and Democratic parties, respectively, to pursue more individualized platforms.
Meanwhile, in 2012, "wobbly" is the new meme that's emerged to indict Roberts for thinking one thing and then, a little later and upon more reflection, thinking another. The chief justice has wandered into the territory of the American political bogeyman—that spineless (often effete or out-of-touch) flibbertigibbet who doesn't stand for anything. (It's no coincidence that, faced with the prospect of flip-flopper Kerry in 2004, the country re-elected a man known for "staying the course.")
One problem is that wobbly, which suggests "small uncontrollable bodily movements," banishes the possibility that changing one's mind can be moral, tactical—even noble. It implies some sort of built-in deficiency that prevents one from standing up straight. But I prefer to think of the wobbling of a compass needle just before it locks into the right position. It would be a shame if the flip-flopping bugbear loomed so large over American politics that our public officials didn't feel safe revising their old opinions into even better ones.
Because, if Roberts did change his mind, so what? Why shouldn't he be open to persuasion? Why shouldn't a Supreme Court justice consider an issue from all 360 degrees, confident in his life tenure and his unaccountability to the world outside the courtroom? As foolish as it is to encourage judges to hide from potentially convincing arguments in the papers, on the news, in the mouths of friends or foes, it's even more insulting to imply that they can't withstand the gales of public opinion. "Give [Roberts] some credit for knowing his own mind," chided McGough in May. And, as may be the case, for changing it.


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Executives with D-Wave – a Canadian company that says its groundbreaking, controversial computer is 100,000 times faster than today's devices – are meeting behind closed doors in and around the nation's capital.
"Quantum computers are a completely new kind of computer that uses quantum mechanics," says Vern Brownell, CEO of D-Wave, based in British Columbia, which has built what it calls the first commercial quantum computer.
"Quantum mechanics are what physicists believe explains the universe at its most detailed level, but it uses quantum mechanics opposed to classical mechanics," says Brownell.
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Brownell and his team are visiting Washington for three days of meetings with government agencies that D-Wave isn't disclosing, explaining the power of the device and ways it might be used.
"A real type of application would be searching through genomic data, matching different types of drugs and seeing what their effects are for cancer treatment," says Brownell.
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Brownell says his company has built between 10 and 12 quantum computers.
Lockheed Martin was the company's first customer, housing the D-Wave One at the University of Southern California.
"We have another at NASA-Ames, that was installed as a collaboration between Google and NASA," says Brownell.
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Inside the box is exotic refrigeration machinery to bring the temperature down near what scientists refer to as absolute zero – the lowest possible temperature, which is approximately minus 469 degrees Fahrenheit.
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D-Wave has developed a 512-qubit computer chip.
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In quantum computing, a quantum bit, or qubit, can be 1, 0, or both at the same time.
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Monday, March 26, 2012.
The current Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings per share (
) is a meager 2 cents, representing an annualized loss of 92.61%.
With respect to earnings surprises over the trailing four
quarters, GOL outperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate in one and
underperformed in the rest of the quarters. Average earnings
surprise was a negative 198.32%, implying that the company
underperformed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by the same magnitude
over the last four quarters.
Third-Quarter 2011 Highlights
On November 10, 2011, GOL Linhas A reported financial results
for the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Net loss in the quarter was
R$516.5 million (US$316.9 million) compared with a net income of
R$110.0 million (US$63.2million) in the year-ago quarter.
The loss was primarily attributable to the depreciation of the
Brazilian currency against the US dollar, which generated a huge
net expense from the foreign exchange variation as most of the
company's financial liabilities are represented in dollars.
During the third quarter, net revenue was R$1,843.7 million
(US$1,131.1 million), up 3.1% year over year and 17.7%
sequentially. The year-over-year increase reflected a rise of 10.4%
in demand on the company's route network, leading to a growth in
load factor. In addition, ancillary revenues increased by 12.5% and
accounted for approximately 11.5% of total net revenue.
The load factor on GOL's route network reached 71.5% in 3Q11, up
from 68.4% reported in 3Q10. GOL's domestic demand increased 13.5%,
mainly due to the fare discounts, whereas international route
network fell by 16.1% over the prior-year quarter. Supply on GOL's
total route network increased by 5.7% due to a rise in fleet
productivity, occupancy rate and higher number of destinations.
Agreement of Estimate Revisions
In the last 30 days, no analyst increased or decreased the
company's earnings per share (
) estimates for the fourth quarter of 2011. Moreover, for both
fiscal 2011 and 2012, none of the analysts increased or decreased
their estimate as there was no catalyst for such change.
Magnitude of Estimate Revisions
Estimates over the last 30 days remained static at 2 cents per
share for the fourth quarter of 2011. The estimate represents a
year-over-year decline of 92.61%.
Estimate for fiscal 2011 also remained stationery at a negative
$1.21 over the last 30 days while that for fiscal 2012, showed a
similar trend remaining unchanged at a positive 39 cents. These
estimates represented a year-over-year decline of 352.08% for 2011
while a growth of 132.60% for 2012.
Our Take
We are concerned regarding the upcoming results as the company
continues to reel under high operational costs. Costs pertaining to
the competitive aviation market, airport infrastructural crisis as
well as those incurred on salaries, wages and benefits add to the
woe. Besides, the risk of overt dependence on a few big suppliers
and governmental intervention may exert further pressure on the
GOL Linhas is the first Brazilian low-fare airline connecting
the cities of Brazil as well as those in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile,
Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. It competes directly with its peers,
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