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In my last post, Atheists/Rationalists: Don't Too Readily Dismiss the Believer, I made the point that religion gives the believer at least one life tool that's universally valued and necessarily unavailable to the atheist/rationalist.
But (life being what it is), there's another side to ye old Religion vs. Atheism coin.
Atheists have championed what we Christians too easily surrender: the sacredness of thought that's uncompromisingly rational and unapologetically independent. Too often we believers commit the sin of intellectual indolence. The Bible is difficult to decipher---so we accept as (so to speak) gospel whatever our pastor tells us it says. A logically unassailable theology is difficult to reason through---so we substitute the clamorous fervor of emotion for the quiet discipline of studied comprehension. Understanding the evolution of our theology takes dedicated time and effort---so we rapturously focus on the future we can't study rather than study the history we might.
Bringing to bear upon his speculation the full host of his powers, the rationalist is galvanized by his experiencing of a truth that Christians are long overdue embracing as divine: The moment you think you know everything, you know nothing.
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Helium Lives Longer?
I stumble onto the bus, and let myself drop into a seat near the back, adjusting the flask of Bacardi in my pocket. I look around, trying to settle the shifting of my vision. Some middle-eastern looking young man on my left, probably in his 20s, stares at the snow falling outside the vehicle. On my right, a younger Asian kid, probably fresh out of high school, taps away at a new-looking smartphone in his hands. He catches my gaze, gives me a brief smile from behind his horn-rimmed glasses, and returns his attention to his phone.
An older Asian man gets on the bus just as the doors close, and makes his way to the back. The bus begins to move, and I steady myself by holding onto the seat. A surgical mask, or something of the sort, covers the man's face. Why did he have it? The air quality here isn't bad at all. In fact, it's great! There really wasn't a need for anybody to wear that kind of thing. I lean over to the kid on my right, and try to say something along the lines of 'Does he think that will make him live longer?', but it comes out as
"Helium live longer?"
He looked at me, slipping his phone into one of the pockets of his pea coat.
"Helium lives longer?"
"Um… I'm not really sure what it is you're trying to say", he says.
I damn my lack of control, and I try again, re-stating the question another way.
"Do you really think the air quality is that bad?" I ask, nodding my chin towards the older man.
He looks quickly, and turns back to me.
"No, I think the air here is fine, the guy probably just doesn't want to get sick, or doesn't want to get other people sick. I doubt it's because the of the air quality."
Maybe this guy has never taken a real breath before. Is he even breathing now? I can't tell under all the layers he's wearing. Maybe I'll enlighten him to what real breathing is. It makes me astoundingly happy.
"When you breathe, is it your own breath? Does the air belong to you?"
He looks confused.
"Well, yes, I guess I breathe."
"Yeah, but, does the breath belong to you?"
"I don't really think the breath belongs to me… After all, it's just air."
He's not understanding. I can tell. He's never been in a cabin in the middle of a cold winter night, stepped out, and taken a breath that truly belonged to him. He's never had the opportunity to. I laugh loudly, feeling bad for his lack of opportunity.
"If you want air that belongs to you, go to B.C."
"Ah, I've never been. You think the air there is nice?"
"Yeah, it's really nice…"
But B.C. comes with its own problems – notably, bears. I should probably warn him.
"But you know, bears go up and attack people sometimes! I'm about 230 pounds. How much do you think you weigh?"
"Probably somewhere in the region of 130."
230. 130. That's… 360 together. That seems like it might be close enough to the size of a bear.
"Okay, so think me – 230, and you – 130, into a bear, standing right in front of you. What do you even do? How do you get him to not eat you? Do you ever think about situations like this? You really should."
"To be honest, I'm more of a city guy myself. Even thinking about that situation now seems kind of silly, especially because bears are omnivores. I'm sure they'd be more interested in fish or berries instead."
I laugh long and hard. This guy doesn't know a thing about bears! It's a good thing I'm telling him now.
"You think a bear is going to want to eat some BERRIES when he's got MEAT in front of him!?"
He doesn't say anything for a little bit, and just looks at me quizzically. His hair seems rather well-kept, and reminds me of the young Hong Kong culture.
"You a Hong Kong kid?"
His eyes widen slightly with surprise.
"I'm surprised you can tell. Sometimes I can't even tell the difference between people from Hong Kong and mainlanders."
I try to ask him the difference between the two, but it just ends up being a slur of unintelligible words.
"I mean, you can tell some people are from Hong Kong because of the way they speak English. Not that they really have Chinese accents, but more along the lines of how they were taught English when they were kids – it has different intonation from both American English and British English. Kind of like a little mix between the two."
Hong Kong people learned British English? I never knew that.
"So can you tell the difference between them and royalty? Like the way kings speak and stuff?"
"What? I'm not really sure what you mean."
I'm not sure how else to phrase the question. Where am I right now? How far am I from Blackthorn?
"Where are we right now? Where are you getting off?"
"We're at Yonge and Steeles right now. I'm getting off somewhere around Sixteenth."
"Yonge and Steeles… Okay. I'm getting off at Blackthorn, it's past Highway 7 but before Sixteenth. Looks like we're going the same way. This IS the 91 bus, right?"
"Yeah, this is the 91."
Better call my wife, then. I pull out my shitty Public Mobile Nokia and dial her number. Tell her where I am and that I'm on my way. Hang up, and shove it back into my sweater pocket.
"So what are you studying?"
"I'm in computer engineering."
"So where's that gonna take you?"
"Probably an office job somewhere. Writing software."
Ha! This kid! I laugh again. Is that all he thinks there is to life? When is he going to have time to actually enjoy himself?
"You think that's going to be FULFILLING?" I ask, eyes wide, smile plastered on my face.
"Well, a job's a job. It's not necessarily about whether I actually enjoy it or not, but if I can make the money to do what I want that makes me happy, I think that's fulfilling."
"My vocation " - I emphasize the word because I despise it – "is health and safety, for construction. Thankfully, I haven't seen someone injured in about five years."
"Oh, I'd say that's pretty good, then."
"Yeah, it is…"
The last accident I saw was a pretty bad one. Some stupid kid was wearing gloves while operating a lathe. One of the simplest rules out there. Glove got caught in the machine. Ripped his entire arm off.
"I've got a son – I'll probably teach him everything I know about safety. How to take care of himself."
"How old is he?"
"Just turning two, actually. I could teach him everything in the world about it. I could even teach everyone here about it. But I don't have to."
Maybe this was too dark of a subject. Maybe I should change it.
"Here, here", I say.
I pull out my TTC day pass from my pocket.
"How good do you think your reflexes are?"
"Pretty bad, actually."
We laugh.
"Put your fingers like this –"
I put my thumb and index finger a centimetre apart, as if I'm going to pinch something. This was a trick a buddy showed me some time ago. The kid follows suit, and I put the pass right above his pinch-ready fingers.
"I'm gonna let this drop. Try to catch it. I'll give you three tries."
"Three tries? Do I win anything if I can get it?"
I laugh. Even if there was a prize he wouldn't get it. My friend had said it was something air pressure or other. I don't really get it myself. All I know is that I was never able to catch it, either. We proceed to the trial three times. He doesn't get it any of the times.
"So do you know what you can't catch it?"
"As I said, probably because I've got bad reflexes."
"No, but do you know it's a FACT you can't catch it?"
"I'm not entirely sure what you mean."
Wait, where am I right now? How long have I been on this bus for? Did I miss my stop? I look around, trying to get a glimpse of the surroundings.
"Where are we right now?"
"Steeles and Bayview. We're turning onto Bayview now."
"Still the 91 bus, right?"
"Yeah, it's the 91."
I fish out my shitty Nokia again and phone the wife. Ask her if she can put the baby to bed herself. She says she can manage. I tell her I'm getting close, and I'll be there soon. The kid seems the same size as I was when I was 13 or 14. I could probably throw him around like my dad threw me around. I lean in a little close.
"Hey, you know, I could throw you at that guy over there" – gesture toward the middle-eastern man – "and he could probably fight you off."
Something flashes across the kid's face, but I can't tell exactly what.
"Yeah, he probably could. I don't really know why that would happen."
"Well, I'm sure if you thought hard enough, you'd figure out SOME reason why it might."
"Well, I think if you thought hard enough about anything you could come up with any reason for it. You could probably put a guy in a room with a picture of Dick Cheney eating a sandwich and at the end of the day he'd tell you all the intricacies of the picture."
I think I might be scaring him a bit. I laugh.
"Don't worry, I won't."
How old is he? Seems a bit mature for how he looks.
"How old is your heart?"
"What do you mean? Does the heart have a different age than the rest of the body?"
"How old is your heart? Like, 25…?"
He looks at me quizzically.
"I guess if you mean the same age as the rest of my body, it'd be 18."
"So do you know a lot of other people who have hearts the same age?"
"Well, yeah, I guess I do know a lot of people my age."
I laugh. That was a dumb question.
"Of course you know people your age!"
My vision begins to darken at the side, but I take a deep breath, one that truly belongs to me, and things fade back into focus.
"You ever black out? Like someone choked you, or you fell down, or someone gave you the Vulcan shoulder pinch?"
"I can't say I remember anything like that happening."
"You know you probably could choke out anyone here on this bus?"
Same look from before passes quickly over his face. Still can't really tell what it is.
"Well, yeah, I guess that's possible, but I don't really know why that would be necessary"
"Yeah, but you could."
"Yeah, I guess I could."
"So do you ever feel that you can't control that ability? That you could go and choke out someone at any time?"
"If I can't control myself now I don't see why I would be able to at any other point in time."
This kid's a riot! I laugh so hard it feels I'm going to get cramps.
"Did you… Did you just say that if you can't control yourself now, you won't be able to later? Don't you think you should try to control yourself!?"
"Oh, no, I said I COULD control myself now. I just don't see what circumstance would change so I wouldn't be able to control myself later."
"Ahh, okay."
That made much more sense.
"So, what do you know?" I ask.
"It depends, I guess. What subject are you asking about?"
"Why aren't you driving?"
He sits still for a bit, and thinks.
"Well, there's a few reasons. First, I'm scared I might hit someone. Second, because I've actually have to be awake to drive."
"Yeah, that's one! You gotta be AWAKE AND ALERT to drive."
I laugh, churning the rum in my stomach.
"Also, owning a car costs money. Gas costs money. Maintenance costs money. I just don't have the money for all those expenses right now."
The guy was right. Had to sell my car because of those reasons, too.
"Yeah… I know exactly what you're saying. Exactly what you're saying. Hey, can you put me down?"
"What? Put you down?"
"Yeah, put me down."
"As in kill you right now? Like putting down a dog?"
I laugh. This guy was full of surprises.
"No! Like press here" – I point to a vein in my neck – "until I pass out."
"Oh. Well, you said it yourself, I'm sure it would be possible for me to do that."
Possible, yeah. You don't have to be a strong guy to choke someone out or to make them pass out. I was starting to sober up, so I pull the flask out of my pocket, and take a big swig. The rum burns my throat as it goes down. I shove the flask into my pants, and let out a sigh.
"I've got what they call an 'alcohol dependency'."
"Ah. That's rather unfortunate."
"Yeah, I need it to even function."
"So how did that come about?"
I remember losing my first job. Having rum as my meals for three days in a row.
"Maybe when you're older… You'll brush shoulders with it."
It's a problem. I know it. But I've got other things to worry about right now. Like my wife. Like my son. I can take care of this later. But maybe I can steer this kid away from it.
"When did you get your biggest paycheck?"
"Probably a few weeks ago, why?"
"How much was it – 1000 dollars?"
"Probably somewhere in the region of 1400."
"Here, here, cross your legs like I am right now."
Maybe if he was sitting like I was he could better understand my message.
"Say it happily – I made 1400 dollars!"
"I made 1400 dollars!" he echoes.
I smile. He looks happy.
"You know, I'm probably gonna get off this bus without even knowing your first initial. What's your first initial?"
"It's E."
My stop was coming up, and I quickly gathered my things.
"What's your first name?"
"It's Eliot."
"Do you have a cigarette?"
"No, I don't smoke, sorry."
Bum a cigarette off the middle-eastern man on my left. It's my stop now, and I run to the door of the bus. But I still want to know something.
He says something but I can't quite hear it.
The bus driver yells at me to get off.
I step off the bus. The name of an author. Already, the wind starts to bite at my exposed fingers. I dig around my pockets for my gloves, but half of the pair is missing. I guess I left one behind.
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so I bought a new 1T hard drive. a seagate barracuda sata. I followed the disc wizard instructions to clone my hard drive but after I chose the disc to clone etc and it restarted the computer now I just have a blank black screen with a flashing cursor. and it doesn't seem to be doing anything. (let it sit for more than 10 min. and the hdd light never flashes or anything.) and now my old drive will not boot.
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Were both hard drives installed inside the computer? The Acronis that Disk wizzard uses will clone pretty well. I have used it several times without issue. It should not have affected your old hard drive. Which hard drive is set to boot first in your bios? When it said to reboot did you reboot into the new hard drive or the old one. As I recall, the actulal clone process occurs during startup. Use the 1 time boot menu and boot into your new hard drive. See if that helps.
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well it never cloned because it was indeed trying to load the new drive first. I was too impatient to check it and I installed windows anyway. lol
my old drive is fine.
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Hope you have it the way you want it. Glad you figured it out. Disk Wizzard usually does a good job at cloning but can take a few minutes depending on the size of the clone. Glad you have things worked out.
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Ankle Injury..maybe calf, help?
So doing front squats today, ended up dropping one and in pure stupidity (because I was at a no-dropping weights gym), I tried dropping it slowly.
In the process, I heard a "pop" and have found that any internal rotation of my knee causes pain on the side, lower part of my ankle/calf.
There is no swelling, and pain is only bad at certain angles - I can squat just below parallel with no pain, but being in the jerk position hurts like a mother (my injured ankle is on the foot that goes back on the jerk)
I am just wondering if anyone knows why, if I sprained it, there would be no swelling, or if it is more likely I tore a muscle.
Hmm right there is no inflammation, and discomfort is only bad at certain perspectives. I can go just below similar with no discomfort, but being in the snazzy jerk place affects on health like a mom......
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Since the deadly terror attacks of 1993 at the CIA and the World Trade Center, there have been a series of terror attacks attempted inside the United States by radical Islamists.
On September 11, 2001 our nation suffered the worst terror attacks ever carried out within the borders of our country.
Every one of these attacks had something in common: The perpetrators were all aliens who had managed to gain entry into the United States and managed to hide in plain sight, or in the jargon of the 9/11 Commission, they embedded themselves in our country as they went about their deadly preparations.
Our borders and our immigration laws are our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists who seek to attack America and Americans. Yet this essential fact is blithely ignored by the president, members of his administration, members of Congress who seek to implement a variant of "comprehensive immigration reform" and local and state politicians who proudly proclaim that they have created "sanctuaries" for aliens who have run our borders or violated the terms of their admission into the United States and have violated those critical immigration laws.
On Friday, September 19th, I was a guest on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV hosted by former Congressional Representative JD Hayworth. NewsMax posted a video of my segment with a synopsis of our discussion. The title of this article was: "Michael Cutler: Sanctuary Cities Are Safe Havens for Terrorists."
The starting point for my interview was an important news report that contained a video clip of an interview that Rep. Jason Chaffetz participated in with Fox News' Megyn Kelly. The title of the report was: "BREAKING: Four Terrorists Captured on US Border on September 10 – Day Before 9-11."
The video clip of the Chaffetz interview on Kelly's program also contained a brief video of an exchange between Congressman Chaffetz and Jeh Johnson, the Secretary of Homeland Security at a hearing conducted earlier that day. The exchange was infuriating. At first Johnson stated that he was not aware of terrorists running our borders. Rep. Chaffetz then confronted Secretary Johnson, saying that there was information that four terrorists had been apprehended attempting to run our borders at two locations along the U.S./Mexican border. Johnson became extremely uncomfortable and started rubbing his face and all but twitching in his seat. He then claimed that he had heard about it but that they were trying to confirm the information. Next Chaffetz asked Johnson about what level of "operational control" DHS has over the U.S./Mexican border. Johnson said he did not know, whereupon Chaffetz stated that he had information that at present there is 6% operation control.
Secretary Johnson simply stared blankly at Representative Chaffetz.
If DHS has just 6% of "operational control" then we must presume that conversely we have a 94% free-for-all along that critical border. Indeed, the fact that our nation is currently suffering from a flood of heroin that is so severe that police departments around the United States are issuing the antidote to heroin overdoses to their officers and other first responders, would certainly coincide with such a lack of border security. This is why I have come to refer to the DHS as the Department of Homeland Surrender.
During my discussion with JD on his program, I also referenced an exchange between Congressman Lou Barletta and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson about whether or not criminals who are known to be criminals in the United States would come forward to participate in an amnesty program. Johnson conceded that they would not. This was covered in a Breitbart News report that was published on September 17, 2014: "DHS Chief Concedes Background Checks for Amnesty Would Not Catch Criminals"
During my interview with JD on his program I also raised the issue of "sanctuary cities" and the impact such policies have on national security. I referenced the fact that New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio had decided, with utter impunity, to provide illegal aliens with identity documents that, as an added "bonus," would enable illegal aliens to whom those cards are issued to gain entrance into museums and other cultural landmarks in New York City.
While some news programs debated this outrageous program, the focus, for the most part, was the economic cost of providing illegal aliens with the municipal IDs that can be used as a free pass to so many major attractions that would cost thousands of dollars per alien. No one mentioned the cost to national security and public safety under de Blasio's ill-conceived program by providing illegal aliens with identity documents that could easily enable criminals and terrorists to acquire official identity documents in false names. This violates the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and also violates the REAL ID Act that was enacted as a result of the 9/11 Commission report.
The article that chronicled my interview on NewsMax-TV included this excerpt:
"When we hear sanctuary city, we should think about the word haven, as when the president the night before the 13th anniversary of 9/11 said, 'we need to deprive the terrorists' safe haven,'" Cutler explained.
"Sanctuary cities is doing precisely that — providing safe haven, right here in cities across the United States, aided and abetted by this administration that refuses to enforce the laws, and has provided hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens with identity documents," he said.
"What could possibly go wrong?" Cutler asked.
What, indeed, could possibly go wrong?
On September 17, 2014, Homeland Security News Wire published a report with the title: "NYC mayor de Blasio facing criticism for curbing counterterrorism programs."
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Michael Cutler is a retired Senior Special Agent of the former INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) whose career spanned some 30 years. He served as an Immigration Inspector, Immigration Adjudications Officer and spent 26 years as an agent who rotated through all of the squads within the Investigations Branch. For half of his career he was assigned to the Drug Task Force. He has testified before well over a dozen congressional hearings, provided testimony to the 9/11 Commission as well as state legislative hearings around the United States and at trials where immigration is at issue. He hosts his radio show, "The Michael Cutler Hour," on Friday evenings on BlogTalk Radio. His personal website is http://michaelcutler.net/.


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My daughter joined Lupin Hills for 1st grade... new town, new school, and we weren't sure what to expect. Wow we were so surprised by the warm, generous welcome we received by the principal, teacher.I am impressed beyond belief at the Public System Las Virgenes has to offer! Lupin Hill is a Role Model for any school to follow!
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A few years ago, once I'd decided to move to Washington, DC, I spent weeks combing Craigslist for an affordable apartment. Like most recent graduates moving across the country, my budget was tight. Even worse, I had to move into a new apartment without even touring it first, with only one touristy DC trip under my belt. So that's the story of how I ended up living in Petworth for a year. It was the perfect storm of desperation and naiveté. The story of how I left is much shorter & can be summed up in 1 word: mugging. But that's another blog post!
Most DC residents are not even familiar with the neighborhood, located north of Columbia Heights on Georgia Avenue, which makes it a hidden little neighborhood. But in the years since I've first moved to the city, the neighborhood has seen a growth in hip little neighborhood shops, restaurants, and bars. I predict that in 3-5 years, Petworth will be the next 14th Street or Columbia Heights. Would I move back to Petworth tomorrow? No. Would I go back for drinks & dinner, then blog about it? Read on.
To surprise Sam for date night, I planned an drinks and dinner in Petworth, thanks to Open Table. Since Petworth has grown in the last years, I relied on the site's recommendations for a trendy spot for pre dinner drinks and discovered Chez Billy.From the exposed brick to the giant chandeliers and taxidermy on the walls, the place oozed French hipster bar. Sam loved the extensive beer list and I enjoyed a Fitzy Fizz cocktail.
After dinner, we had reservations at Domku, a Scandinavian restaurant located just a few blocks away from Chez Billy. My apartment was just blocks away when I lived in Petworth. Domku was one of the first restaurants we visited after I moved the city, so it holds a warm place in my heart. It was sweet to sit at Domku years later and reminisce.
As a Swede myself, I love the menu at Domku. We went a little overboard and enjoyed fried pickled herring, roasted tomatoes with feta, beef stroganoff, swedish meatballs, and brussel sprouts. We were stuffed. Domku is a small hidden gem of a restaurant with delicious food and beautiful decor.
And because no trip to Petworth is complete without a trip to my old apartment, we finished off the night with a quick drive by. Date night reminded me that Petworth isn't the only thing that's changed for the better.


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The past few days have been filled with anxiety. I believe it started over feeling rejected. Shitty emotion. Being single was fun for a while but now I'm not sure. People play so many games and seem to be losing interest once things go on to a certain point. The point changes, but they're all short in time. Fickle. Without warning and without an explanation, I'm here by myself to create the reason why. It becomes an obsession of wondering what the hell is wrong with you. Which is stupid. And I know it is.
But now these thoughts are seeping into my dreams. The past two nights have been miserable; and it's not like anyone gives a shit about that. I wouldn't either but ugh. Waking up and continuing the day with a weight on my chest.


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Im trying to ghost school laptops and whenever I have more than one in a multisession it runs around 300-400mb/min.
I've tryed Yukon drivers, PXE drivers, Universal Driver package 2 and they all work well when ghosting a single machine.
Now its running at about 20mb/min. We've used ghost before and it worked a treat. We could clone 42 machines at 200+mb/min.
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Addressing the Issue of Poverty
Intrinsic's mission is to empower people to rise above poverty. But what does that exactly mean?
Poverty is a complex issue that's often caused by a variety of factors and doesn't have simple, single solution. At a very basic level, we see poverty as a lack of resources and opportunity to adequately meet the basic necessities of life – food, water, shelter, education, & safety. So we're starting with the most basic element o providing for needs: a job.
A job provides the income to meet basic life necessities. A job instills dignity within a person through enabling them to work, provide, save, and give. A job inspires hope that the future can change for the better, and creates the motivation to work towards that future. So when you buy a product, you do so much more than provide a job. You initiate the transformation of a life.
Building on the Strength of Community
We noticed that in many places, small artisan groups already existed. These are individuals that have developed a craft and come together to sell those as a group. Though small and informal, they already possess the qualities of what is essentially a small business – a leader, workers, relationships, and a product. So rather than hiring individuals to design products for us, we've decided to build on the strengths of these groups and work with them directly.
Sharpening Existing Skills
The artisans we work with are very creative and talented. They sew, stitch and weave to design products they sell to their communities. Rather than teaching them other trades, we maximize the ones they already have and challenge the limits of their skills and creativity to produce the unique handmade products that we have.
Strengthening Local Markets
All products are handmade from local materials. From threads to cloths, from measuring tape to sewing machines – all materials and tools are purchased from shops within the artisan group's local neighborhood. So your purchase not only benefits the artisan group, but all the small businesses in their village that are involved in creating your product.
Economic Development Through Sustainable Business
We believe that business is the best model for creating sustainable growth in a community. So we don't treat our artisan groups as recipients of aid, but rather as business partners. This model gives them the dignity of maintaining their autonomy as their own small business group, while giving them the opportunity of selling their products to an international market.
Partnering with Local Nonprofits
There are tons of nonprofits that are doing amazing things around the world. They are working hard and transforming lives and communities. As they provide critical resources for their communities, the need arises to also provide a sustainable form of income for the people they work with. Intrinsic is proud to partner with these organization to bring you stylish products that provide for these communities. Check out some of the nonprofits we work with:
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Exporting The Razor WebGrid To PDF Using iTextSharp
First, you need to get hold of the iTextSharp library. You can do this within WebMatrix via the built-in Nuget feature. Click the Nuget button on the main menu and type "iTextSharp" into the searhc box. There are a couple of versions of iTextSharp available - the most recent one is version 5, which is released under the GNU Affero General Public Licence. This is not as permissive as the licence (LGPL/MPL) under which the previous version was released. Not only that, but the differences in functionality between 4 and 5 are so small that I chose to use version 4.1.6, which is also the one I based my popular series of iTextSharp articles on.
Once you have decided which version you want to use, click the Install button and agree to the licence condiitons. The dll file will be installed in your bin folder.
Now you need a grid:
@{ Page.Title = "Export To PDF"; var db = Database.Open("Northwind"); var query = "SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, ContactName, Address, City, Country, Phone FROM Customers"; var data = db.Query(query); var grid = new WebGrid(data, ajaxUpdateContainerId: "grid"); }
Export to PDF

 @grid.GetHtml( tableStyle : "table", alternatingRowStyle : "alternate", headerStyle : "header", columns: grid.Columns( grid.Column("CustomerID", "ID"), grid.Column("CompanyName", "Company Name"), grid.Column("ContactName", "Contact Name"), grid.Column("Address"), grid.Column("City"), grid.Column("Country"), grid.Column("Phone") ) )

When the user clicks on the image, it should result in the data being downloaded as a PDF file. At the moment, it is just an image and it appears below the grid. Here's a little bit of jQuery to move the image to the footer area of the grid and to change the cursor when the user hovers over it:

The jQuery code also adds a handler to the click event of the image. It creates an iframe which it then adds to the body element, and then it makes the display property equal 'none' using the jQuery hide command. The src for the iframe is a file called GeneratePdf.cshtml, which is responsible for creating the PDF file. The hidden iframe technique is a clean way to manage downloads via AJAX without leaving the current page. Adding an iframe dynamically like this effectively "sucks" the HTTP response from the src URL through to the current page.
Here's the code for GeneratePdf.cshtml:
@using iTextSharp.text; @using iTextSharp.text.pdf; @{ Layout = null; Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=report.pdf"); Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"; var db = Database.Open("Northwind"); var sql = "SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, ContactName, Address, City, Country, Phone FROM Customers"; var data = db.Query(sql); var columns = data.First().Columns; var doc = new Document(); PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, Response.OutputStream); doc.SetPageSize(PageSize.A4.Rotate()); var arial = FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", 8, Color.BLACK); var arialBold = FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", 10, Font.BOLD, Color.BLACK); doc.Open(); var table = new PdfPTable(columns.Count) { TotalWidth = 700f, LockedWidth = true }; foreach(var column in columns){ table.AddCell(new Phrase(column, arialBold)); } foreach(var row in data){ foreach(var column in columns){ table.AddCell(new Phrase(row[column] != null ? row[column].ToString() : string.Empty, arial)); } } doc.Add(table); doc.Close(); }
As with any file that is intended to deliver a non-html response, the Layout is set to null to prevent stray HTML being included in the output. The Content-Disposition value is set to attachment, and the Content-type is set to application/octet-stream. This combination results in the browser offering a choice to the user - save or open, rather than attempting to display the response. The same query is executed against the database and the column names are extracted from the first record in the query result. Then a PDF file is created, and the PdfWrite.GetInstance method is used to ensure that the resulting document is written to the Response. The document is rotated to Landscape, and a couple of fonts are created for styling - one 8pt Arial black, and the other is 10pt and bold. A table is created and the column names are added using the bold font, followed by the data.
This article shows how easy it is to use the Database helper to generate data to be displayed in a report, and how to use iTextSharp to generate the PDF file. If you want to know more about using iTextSharp, you can read these articles.
The source code for the sample site that accompanies this article is available as a GitHub repo.
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Friday, December 21, 2012 10:17 AM from bob
A good report should have:
- page numbers
- header and footer
- header row (1st row) of the table should be repeated on all of the produced pages.
Friday, December 21, 2012 10:29 AM from Mike
Yep - you can do all that using iTextSharp. I might even show how to do that in a separate article some time....
Monday, January 14, 2013 11:29 AM from Mridul Raj
Hi mike,
Is there a way to add tool tip text to the textbox in a pdf file created using itextsharp?
Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:54 AM from Mike
I don't know.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:07 AM from Massimo
Hi, Thank You for your articles.
I got an error for:
var columns = data.First().Columns;
Monday, February 11, 2013 11:47 AM from prins patrick
Great tutorial! Helped me a lot! Thanks!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:27 AM from satinder singht
Hi mike,
Nice article,
Am also waiting for Header/Footer separate article....
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 2:09 PM from Satyabrata Mohapatra
As always,extremely helpful.Used this technique successfully for an web application,in which around 80,000 students downloaded their admit card in PDF for a Joint Entrance Examination.
It is a habit now, for me to visit your website regularly with a cup of coffee every morning.
Thanks a lot sir.
Friday, May 17, 2013 2:02 PM from Sithelo
Great tutorial. I was wondering how I can use a value from my query say CompanyName and add it to a cell something like AddCell(new Phrase(data.CompanyName, arial). How do you insert your query value in cell when the query result is a single record?
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