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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35295567381021198602014-10-02T05:45:12.992+01:00THIS IS FUCKING POETRY FOR THE WORLDAnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-24704809351956782132010-03-08T00:55:00.000+00:002010-03-08T00:56:10.897+00:00Faz-me o favor... - CesarinyFaz-me o favor...

Faz-me o favor de não dizer absolutamente nada!
Supor o que dirá
Tua boca velada
É ouvir-te já.

É ouvir-te melhor
Do que o dirias.
O que és nao vem à flor
Das caras e dos dias.

Tu és melhor -- muito melhor!
Do que tu. Não digas nada. Sê
Alma do corpo nu
Que do espelho se vê.AnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-85473909768586291802009-10-03T21:54:00.000+01:002009-10-03T21:58:55.914+01:00To a stranger - Walt WhitmanPassing stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,)
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,
You grew up with me, were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only,
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard, breast, hands, in return,
I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone,
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again,
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.AnCaLaGoNhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-7257214788161104782009-09-08T14:38:00.004+01:002009-09-08T14:41:32.953+01:00Abattoir Blues - Nick Cave<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bVjXAGXlqnA&hl=pt-br&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bVjXAGXlqnA&hl=pt-br&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

The sun is high up in the sky and I'm in my car
Drifting down into the abattoir
Do you see what I see, dear?

The air grows heavy. I listen to your breath
Entwined together in this culture of death
Do you see what I see, dear?

Slide on over here, let me give you a squeeze
To avert this unholy evolutionary trajectory
Can you hear what I hear, babe?
Does it make you feel afraid?

Everything's dissolving, babe, according to plan
The sky is on fire, the dead are heaped across the land
I went to bed last night and my
moral code got jammed
I woke up this morning with a Frappucino in my hand

I kissed you once. I kissed you again
My heart it tumbled like the stock exchange
Do you feel what I feel, dear?

Mass extinction, darling, hypocrisy
These things are not good for me
Do you see what I see, dear?

The line the God throws down to you and me
Makes a pleasing geometry
Shall we leave this place now, dear?
Is there someway out of here?

I wake with the sparrows and I hurry off to work
The need for validation, babe, gone completely
berserk
I wanted to be your Superman but I turned out such a
jerk
I got the abattoir blues
I got the abattoir blues
I got the abattoir blues
Right down to my shoesKarma Beavishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-75552503362007269862009-09-07T14:08:00.003+01:002009-09-07T14:15:19.864+01:00Voz Numa Pedra - Mário CesarinyNão adoro o passado
não sou três vezes mestre
não combinei nada com as furnas
não é para isso que eu cá ando
decerto vi Osíris porém chamava-se ele nessa altura Luiz
decerto fui com Isis mas disse-lhe eu que me chamava João
nenhuma nenhuma palavra está completa
nem mesmo em alemão que as tem tão grandes
assim também eu nunca te direi o que sei
a não ser pelo arco em flecha negro e azul do vento

Não digo como o outro: sei que não sei nada
sei muito bem que soube sempre umas coisas
que isso pesa
que lanço os turbilhões e vejo o arco íris
acreditando ser ele o agente supremo
do coração do mundo
vaso de liberdade expurgada do menstruo
rosa viva diante dos nossos olhos
Ainda longe longe essa cidade futura
onde «a poesia não mais ritmará a acção
porque caminhará adiante dela»
Os pregadores de morte vão acabar?
Os segadores do amor vão acabar?
A tortura dos olhos vai acabar?
Passa-me então aquele canivete
porque há imenso que começar a podar
passa não me olhas como se olha um bruxo
detentor do milagre da verdade
a machadada e o propósito de não sacrificar-se não construirão ao sol coisa nenhuma
nada está escrito afinalKarma Beavishttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-74072075204733661222009-09-04T01:03:00.001+01:002009-09-04T01:05:24.569+01:00Bowery Blues - Jack KerouacBowery Blues

The story of man
Makes me sick
Inside, outside,
I don't know why
Something so conditional
And all talk
Should hurt me so.

 am hurt
I am scared
I want to live
I want to die
I don't know
Where to turn
In the Void
And when
To cut
Out

For no Church told me
No Guru holds me
No advice
Just stone
Of New York
And on the cafeteria
We hear
The saxophone
O dead Ruby
Died of Shot
In Thirty Two,
Sounding like old times
And de bombed
Empty decapitated
Murder by the clock.

And I see Shadows
Dancing into Doom
In love, holding
TIght the lovely asses
Of the little girls
In love with sex
Showing themselves
In white undergarments
At elevated windows
Hoping for the Worst.

I can't take it
Anymore
If I can't hold
My little behind
To me in my room

Then it's goodbye
Sangsara
For me
Besides
Girls aren't as good
As they look
And Samadhi
Is better
Than you think
When it starts in
Hitting your head
In with Buzz
Of glittergold
Heaven's Angels
Wailing

Saying

We've been waiting for you
Since Morning, Jack
Why were you so long
Dallying in the sooty room?
This transcendental Brilliance
Is the better part
(of Nothingness
I sing)

Okay.
Quit.
Mad.
Stop.

Kerouac, JackAnCaLaGoNhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-38478915221790284512009-08-22T12:05:00.000+01:002009-08-22T12:07:50.032+01:00Rhapsody on a windy night - T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."

The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.

Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.

Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.

The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars."

The lamp said,
"Four o'clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."

The last twist of the knife.AnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-79931632849537543912009-07-05T01:54:00.001+01:002009-07-05T01:56:14.264+01:00Sem título...Sem título - Luísa Osório

Visitam-me nos meandros da insone tortura
A Morte e Tentação, que me arrancam do leito,
Sufoca-me a Tentação, debruçada sobre o peito
Segreda-me, alicia com macabra ternura:

« Resistir, para a Honra, é sim um grande feito...
E esse mal de espírito, até quando dura?
Vem comigo...aos prazeres! E esconjura
Os ingénuos demónios desse jejum estreito.»

Atrevimento celeste...deliro em suores
Sorrio à Loucura, enquanto as Memórias afago
Diz-me a Morte, por entre meus tremores:

« Conheces, o sombrio descanso que te trago?»
« Embala-me em ti, Morte, sofro de amores...
Não sucumbo à Tentação, mas não vivo sem _AnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-43007290614263734642009-06-19T01:22:00.001+01:002009-06-19T01:24:08.580+01:00Não é bem um poema... mas sinto-o como se fosse...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9aRKZFR5imM&hl=pt-br&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9aRKZFR5imM&hl=pt-br&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat

Its four in the morning, the end of december
Im writing you now just to see if youre better
New york is cold, but I like where Im living
Theres music on clinton street all through the evening.

I hear that youre building your little house deep in the desert
Youre living for nothing now, I hope youre keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
Youd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without lili marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobodys wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see janes awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
Im glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

AnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-75032586461304159432009-06-03T11:32:00.001+01:002009-06-03T11:32:38.712+01:00Ballad for Gloom - Ezra Pound
For God, our God is a gallant foe
That playeth behind the veil.

I have loved my God as a child at heart
That seeketh deep bosoms for rest,
I have loved my God as a maid to man—
But lo, this thing is best:

To love your God as a gallant foe that plays behind the veil;
To meet your God as the night winds meet beyond Arcturus' pale.

I have played with God for a woman,
I have staked with my God for truth,
I have lost to my God as a man, clear-eyed—
His dice be not of ruth.

For I am made as a naked blade,
But hear ye this thing in sooth:

Who loseth to God as man to man
Shall win at the turn of the game.
I have drawn my blade where the lightnings meet
But the ending is the same:
Who loseth to God as the sword blades lose
Shall win at the end of the game.

For God, our God is a gallant foe that playeth behind the veil.
Whom God deigns not to overthrow hath need of triple mail.

AnCaLaGoNhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-6446793386768312542009-05-29T20:44:00.000+01:002009-05-29T20:48:25.250+01:00O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! - Walt WhitmanO Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up -- for you the flag is flung -- for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths -- for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.AnCaLaGoNhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-6736403398101314272009-05-17T01:55:00.000+01:002009-05-17T01:56:02.405+01:00Lawrence Ferlinghetti - I Am WaitingI am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep through the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped' onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for my number to be called
and I am waiting
for the Salvation Army to take over
and I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim the earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
without killing anybody
and I am waiting
for linnets and planets to fall like rain
and I am waiting for lovers and weepers
to lie down together again
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Great Divide to 'be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the day
that maketh all things clear
and I am awaiting retribution
for what America did
to Tom Sawyer
and I am waiting
for the American Boy
to take off Beauty's clothes
and get on top of her
and I am waiting
for Alice in Wonderland
to retransmit to me
her total dream of innocence
and I am waiting
for Childe Roland to come
to the final darkest tower
and I am waiting
for Aphrodite
to grow live arms
at a final disarmament conference
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth's dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am waiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonderAnCaLaGoNhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529556738102119860.post-36397600737715241842009-05-15T23:44:00.001+01:002009-05-16T00:06:34.973+01:00Allen Ginsberg - America
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956.
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb
I don't feel good don't bother me.
I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind.
America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?
When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites?
America why are your libraries full of tears?
America when will you send your eggs to India?
I'm sick of your insane demands.
When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?
America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world.
Your machinery is too much for me.
You made me want to be a saint.
There must be some other way to settle this argument.
Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister.
Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
I'm trying to come to the point.
I refuse to give up my obsession.
America stop pushing I know what I'm doing.
America the plum blossoms are falling.
I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for
murder.
America I feel sentimental about the Wooblies.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet.
When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid.
My mind is made up there's going to be trouble.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right.
I won't say the Lord's Prayer.
I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.
America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over
from Russia.

I'm addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?
I'm obsessed by Time Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library.
It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie
producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.

Asia is rising against me.
I haven't got a chinaman's chance.
I'd better consider my national resources.
My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals
an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and
twentyfivethousand mental institutions.
I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in
my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns.
I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go.
My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic.

America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his
automobiles more so they're all different sexes
America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe
America free Tom Mooney
America save the Spanish Loyalists
America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die
America I am the Scottsboro boys.
America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they
sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the
speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the
workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party
was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother
Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have
been a spy.
America you don're really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
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Paging in ASP.NET Core MVC and EntityFramework Core
Paging, sorting and filtering are common features in websites. Microsoft has written a tutorial how to implement these features in ASP.NET Core MVC with Entity Framework Core. The described solution works but I found it a bit too primitive. It triggered me to create a more powerful solution. Before you can start using my solution you should first read this tutorial, it explains how you can add Entity Framework Core to an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
Project Setup
My WebApplication is an ASP.NET Core Web Application (version 1.1) which uses EntityFramework Core 1.1. I use a commonly used Northwind SQL Server sample database which I created using the following tutorial. I have scaffold the Northwind database and created the controllers for the Suppliers and Products. Read this tutorial to learn how. I have added some extra navigation hyperlinks in the _Layout.cshtml file for the SuppliersController and ProductsController (Action Index).
The Index.cshtml file from the Views/Suppliers folder looks like this. I made some small adjustments like changing the h2 to an h1 and renaming the text 'Index' to 'Suppliers'. The most obvious change is that I removed some of the columns from the table to make it less wide.
@model IEnumerable<WebApplication8.Models.Database.Suppliers> @{ ViewData["Title"] = "Suppliers"; }
Suppliers

 Create New

  @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.CompanyName) 	  @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.ContactName) 	  @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.Address) 	  @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.City)

 @foreach (var item in Model) {
  @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.CompanyName) 	  @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.ContactName) 	  @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Address) 	  @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.City) 	  Edit | Details | Delete
 }

When you browse for the Suppliers Index page (http://localhost:2309/Suppliers) you get the following output. It shows you all suppliers and that list can be very long. Let's add Paging so we can limit the number of suppliers in the list.
Adding Paging
In the earlier mentioned tutorial a PaginatedList<T> class was used. My solution uses a similar approach but I named it PagingList<T>. This class and some other helper classes are packed in a NuGet package named ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging. You can install the package using the NuGet browser in Visual Studio or by running the 'Install-Package ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging' command from the Package Manager Console.
After installation you can add the paging services in the ConfigureServices() method of the Startup class. Add the services.AddPaging() call as shown below. This call will register an EmbeddedFileProvider which is used for rendering the View for the Pager ViewComponent. The View will be loaded from the ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging assembly if it can not be found in your WebApplication.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddEntityFramework() .AddEntityFrameworkSqlServer() .AddDbContext<Models.Database.NorthwindContext>(options => options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["Data:Northwind:ConnectionString"])); // Add framework services. services.AddMvc(); services.AddPaging(); }
Next I modified the Index() method from the SuppliersController class. I added an optional 'page' parameter with the default value 1. I defined a query in which I retrieve the Suppliers from the context (NorthwindContext) with the AsNoTracking() method and an OrderBy(). The AsNoTracking() turns off change tracking which improves the performance. The OrderBy() is required to support Paging (Skip() & Take()) in EF. This query is used to create the PagingList. The page size is set to 10. This is the model which is passed to the View. The PagingList will fetch the data from the database asynchronously.
// GET: Suppliers //public async Task<IActionResult> Index() { // return View(await _context.Suppliers.ToListAsync()); //} public async Task<IActionResult> Index(int page = 1) { var qry = _context.Suppliers.AsNoTracking().OrderBy(p => p.CompanyName); var model = await PagingList<Suppliers>.CreateAsync(qry, 10, page); return View(model); }
The Index.cshtml view must also be modified. I changed the model type (line 1), added a using (line 2) and an addTagHelper (line 3). Lines 2 and 3 could also be moved to the _ViewImports.cshtml file which would add these lines to every view. I also added a Pager above the table. This is done by invoking the Pager View Component and passing the Model as the pagingList. It is placed inside a  element with an aria-label which is used by screen readers. I have done the same below the
 but there I used a new feature of ASP.NET Core 1.1. The View Component is invoked as a Tag Helper. It uses the <vc /> element and the class and parameters are translated to lower kebab case. For more info read this article.
@model ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging.PagingList<WebApplication8.Models.Database.Suppliers> @using ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging @addTagHelper *, ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging @{ ViewData["Title"] = "Suppliers"; }
Suppliers
  @await this.Component.InvokeAsync("Pager", new { pagingList = this.Model })
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  <vc:pager paging-list="@Model" />
This results in the following view in which you see two pagers which use bootstrap markup.
Adding Sorting
For sorting I added an extra sortExpression parameter to the Index() method of the SuppliersController class. The parameter is optional and uses the CompanyName as the default sort expression in case none is supplied. The OrderBy() method is removed from the query because the PagingList will take care of the ordering. The sortExpression and the default sort expression are now required to create the PageList model.
public async Task<IActionResult> Index(int page = 1, string sortExpression = "CompanyName") { var qry = _context.Suppliers.AsNoTracking(); var model = await PagingList<Suppliers>.CreateAsync( qry, 10, page, sortExpression, "CompanyName"); return View(model); }
In the View I modified the header of the table. I replaced the DisplayNameFor() calls by SortableHeaderFor() calls. I pass the Model as an extra parameter. This is not required but if you do you will get nice Up and Down indicators (glyphs) in the headers when you sort ascending or descending. You can also specify the SortColumn if you want a different one as the model property. In this example I used this for the City column. There I added the CompanyName as a second column to sort on.

  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.CompanyName, this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.ContactName, this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.Address, this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.City, "City, CompanyName", this.Model)

This results in the following view in which you can sort the table by clicking the headers of the columns. An up or down indicator shows you weather you are sorting ascending or descending.
Adding Filtering
To show filtering I will switch to the Products table, it has more records. The Index() method of the ProductsController has a filter parameter (besides page and sortExpression). The query is defined with an extra AsQueryable() method call. This method returns the the type IQueryable<Products>. This allowed me to append an extra Where "clause" to it when the filter is not empty. In this example I used a Contains() which translates to a like '%...%' condition.
You have to set the RouteValue property of the model with all conditions used in the filter. This is used to build the correct URL in the pager and table headers.
public async Task<IActionResult> Index(string filter, int page = 1, string sortExpression = "ProductName") { var qry = _context.Products.AsNoTracking() .Include(p => p.Category) .Include(p => p.Supplier) .AsQueryable(); if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(filter)) { qry = qry.Where(p => p.ProductName.Contains(filter)); } var model = await PagingList<Products>.CreateAsync( qry, 10, page, sortExpression, "ProductName"); model.RouteValue = new RouteValueDictionary { { "filter", filter} }; return View(model); }
I added a form in the Index.cshtml with an input named filter and a submit button which has the method set to GET. This will execute the Index action of the controller.
@model ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging.PagingList<WebApplication8.Models.Database.Products> @using ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging @addTagHelper *, ReflectionIT.Mvc.Paging @{ ViewData["Title"] = "Products"; }
Products

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 <form method="get" class="form-inline"> <input name="filter" class="form-control" placeholder="filter" value="@Model.RouteValue["Filter"]" /> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-info">  Search </button> </form>  <vc:pager paging-list="@Model" />

  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.ProductName, this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.Supplier.CompanyName, "Supplier.CompanyName, ProductName", this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.Category.CategoryName, "Category.CategoryName, ProductName", this.Model) 	  @Html.SortableHeaderFor(model => model.UnitPrice, this.Model)

This results in the following view in which you can filter on ProductName and you have paging and sorting.
You can customize this solutions in a few ways. You can for instance call the AddPaging method which you can use to set the PagingOptions. This allows you to specify which View is used for the Pager ViewComponent. By default a pager based on Bootstrap3 is used. But there is also already a Bootstrap4 view available. Bootstrap4 doesn't support glyphs any more so if you switch to it you also have to specify alternatives for the Up/Down indicators used in the sortable headers of the table.
services.AddPaging(options => { options.ViewName = "Bootstrap4"; options.HtmlIndicatorDown = " ↓"; options.HtmlIndicatorUp = " ↑"; });
You can also create your own Pager view if you want to. You store it in the folder Views\Shared\Components\Pager. The easiest way to create a custom view is by coping the default Bootstrap3.cshtml from Github. You can remove the Bootstrap classes and add your own or you can generate your own html buttons.
You can also render the Pager using the Html.Partial() Html Helper instead of using the Pager ViewComponent. The following snippet shows the 'SmallPager.cshtml' which I stored in the Views/Shared folder. When you store it in this folder you can access it from all views.
 @Html.Partial("SmallPager", this.Model)
You can download my sample app using the Download button below. I have published the code of the Pager on GitHub. It also contains a sample webapp which uses Bootstrap4. It's open source. So if you create a better pager please do a pull-request.
Windows 8 Javascript Tips - TypeScript support
Microsoft announced TypeScript last week. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that combines type checking and static analysis, explicit interfaces, and best practices into a single language and compiler. It is an open source programming language developed by Microsoft. If you haven't investigated yet make sure you do. The related links below might help you.
What Microsoft didn't do (yet) is add TypeScript support to JavaScript Windows Store apps. In this blog I will explain how to add this support to Visual Studio so you can use TypeScript in all your Windows 8 apps.
Step 1 - Install TypeScript
You can install TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 using an MSI setup which you can download here. Make sure you first close all Visual Studio instances to avoid installation problems.
Step 2 - Install Web Essentials 2012
The latest version of Web Essentials 2012 extension adds support for TypeScript preview and compilation. When you save a TypeScript (.ts) file it will be compiled into a JavaScript (.js) file. So make sure you install it using the Visual Studio menu Tools, Extensions and Updates. If you already installed it make sure you update it to the latest version.
Step 3 - Add TypeScript ItemTemplate
If you try to add a TypeScript item to the 'js' folder you will see that there is no TypeScript template available. The setup from Microsoft did not (yet) add this template to Visual Studio. My solution for this problem was quite easy. I copied the following file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\msfz1qy5.oca\~IC\IT\CSharp\1033\f.zip' to my '\My Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ItemTemplates\JavaScript' folder. I also renamed the file to TypeScript.zip. Next I opened the zip file and edited the 'f.vstemplate' file. In the file I changed the ProjectType element from CSharp to JavaScript.
To make life easy you can download my TypeScript.zip file so you don't have to repeat my steps. Make sure you place it in the right ItemTemplate folder.
Step 4 - Create a JavaScript Project
This step is really easy. Just create a Project in Visual studio using one of the JavaScript Windows Store templates.
Step 5 - Add TypeScript item
When you add a new Item to the 'js' folder you can now select the TypeScript template.
The preview feature of Web Essentials 2012 shows you how your TypeScript file is compiled into JavaScript.
You should also change the Package Action of the Demo.ts file to 'None'. Otherwise the file will also be included in the APPX file which will make it larger. Only the Demo.js file is required.
TypeScript options
Web Essentials 2012 also supports some options which you might want to change. I only want to compile my TypeScripts on Build and not on every Save. You can also turn preview off but that didn't work on my computer. I hope they will fix it.
Now it is up to you to write your own TypeScript files. I love the ability to write clean OO code using: classes, interfaces, modules (namespaces), type annotations, compile time type checking and arrow functions (similar to Lambda Expression in C#). I hope this blog will help you write great Windows Store apps.
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Fix the ASP.NET Themes with IE8's X-UA-Compatible header problem
If you've got a page that doesn't render correctly in IE8's new standards mode, you can add a meta tag to the page which requests that IE8 render it in IE7 mode. IE8 only recognizes the X-UA-Compatible header if it's the first META tag, appearing immediately after thetag.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> <title>Test</title>  [...]
The Problem
The ASP.NET Theme system writes out the theme CSS reference immediately after the  tag. This makes it impossible to set the X-UA-Compatible header or to use Stylesheets in your theme folder.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <link href="App_Themes/Default/Stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> <title>Test</title>  [...]
The Solution
To fix this problem I have added an implementation for the Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute event in the Global.asax. This method will sort the controls inside the header. It places the X-UA-Compatible metatag on top. I use an anonymous method which is subscribed to the PreRenderComplete event of page. This method uses LINQ to find the metatag. Then removes it from the header and add it again on top.
void Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute(object src, EventArgs e) { Page p = this.Context.Handler as Page; if (p != null) { p.PreRenderComplete += (sender, ee) => { // I can't use p, it has no Header set (strange), use sender instead Page page = sender as Page; if (page.Header != null) { // Find the Compatible Meta tag var ctrl = page.Header.Controls.Cast<Control>().FirstOrDefault( c => c is HtmlMeta && ((HtmlMeta)c).HttpEquiv == "X-UA-Compatible"); // If found remove it and add it on top if (ctrl != null) { page.Header.Controls.Remove(ctrl); page.Header.Controls.AddAt(0, ctrl); } } }; } }
This results in the correct HTML.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">   <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" /> <link href="App_Themes/Default/Stylesheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> <title>Test</title>  [...]
ASP.NET ViewStateParameter
I like the ASP.NET 2.0 DataSource controls. They are very flexible and easy to use. It has some great parameters like SessionParameter and ControlParameter. It doesn't have a ViewStateParameter. I have written it myself to fill this gap.
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
namespace ClassLibrary1 {
 public class ViewStateParameter : Parameter {
   private String _key;
   public String Key {
     get {
       return _key;
     set {
       _key = value;
   protected override object Evaluate(HttpContext context, Control control) {
     Type t = control.Page.GetType();
     System.Reflection.PropertyInfo pi = t.GetProperty("ViewState", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
     StateBag pageViewState = pi.GetValue(control.Page, null) as StateBag;
     return pageViewState[Key];
My solution uses Reflection to retrieve the ViewState out of the Page. You will need FullTrust to use the code, bummer.Download the source + sample website here.
Today we have published a new website called Objectmap. It is for now in Dutch only. It uses Google Maps to display objects on a map. Registered users can add the objects to the system. A script is generated for each object which can be used to display the map. When you copy&paste this script into your own webpage you can display the map in a pop-up window or IFrame.
Click here for a pop-up window demo.
A complete explanation how to add objects and how to make them visible on your own site can be found here. The website is still in BETA. You can send a mail to email@example.com to request a beta account.
Playing with Google Maps
I have developed a small website which uses Google Maps to prepare myself for a new project. Have a look here.
I have used GoogleMaps.Subgurim.NET to simplify things. This is an ASP.NET control which encapsulates the Google Maps API. Their site is in Spanish but with Babel Fish you can translate it to English.
The full C# source of the website can be downloaded from here.
Playing with Ajax (Atlas)
I have finally found some time to play with Ajax. I have built some simple Grid/Detail pages which are place inside an UpdatePanel. This server centric model is really easy and powerful. I have never really liked the user experience of web applications. Atlas will changes this and will make the WEB even more popular.
Have a look at the result demo site. I use the ObjectDataSource to bind to Buffy.NET BusinessObjects. It's so easy.
Move to ASP.NET 2.0
I have finally rewritten this website to ASP.NET 2.0. It was really a good learning experience. You only learn it by doing it. I have tried to use the new features like:
- MasterPages
- Themes & Skins
- Menu Controls
- SiteMap with roles and the SiteMapPath control
- Profiles
- Caching
- UrlMapping
- Expressions
- GridView Control
- MultiView Control
- Login Control
- DataBinding AccessDataSource and XmlDataSource
- TableAdapters
- Sample Access Providers Starter Kit
- Role base authorization
- Web Deployment Projects
- MS Build with a AfterMerge target to deploy the website to web host
- Google Sitemaps
- CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters (Menu)
- UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite
It wasn't really difficult to do. Microsoft really kept their promise that 70% of the code could disappear. ASP.NET 2.0 rocks. I'm planning to add some extra features soon, like: WebParts, Health Monitoring, other new controls, comments on blog posts, a new stylesheet and a new logo.
Update 2006-sept-25: Added Google Sitemaps, Control Adapters and UrlRewritingNet.
Websites using my CMS are online
I have written a small content management system using ASP.NET. Sjef de Corte has implemented 3 websites with it. Well done Sjef!
InitialFocus on a ASP.NET WebForm
Download InitialFocusDemo.zip
The PageUtil class has a static method SetInitialFocus(control) which can be used to generate a JavaScript for an ASP.NET page (WebForm), which sets the focus on a (given) control.
private voidPage_Load(objectsender, System.EventArgs e)
// Set the InitialFocus on TextBox1
PageUtil Class
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
namespace ReflectionIT.Web {
///
/// Utility class for a ASP.NET page
/// Be sure to notice that this code is provided as a technology sample,
/// 'as is' and no warranties are made by the author.
/// For questions and comments: firstname.lastname@example.com
///
public class PageUtil {
///
/// Set the InitialFocus to the given control. Only works when JavaScript is supported.
///
/// <param name="control">Control to set the InitialFocus on.</param>
publicstaticvoid SetInitialFocus(Control control){
// Postpone setting the InitialFocus to the PreRender event of the control.
// The control might not yet have a Page property, in PreRender it always has!
control.PreRender += new EventHandler(InitialFocusControl_PreRender);
///
/// Set the InitialFocus to the control that notified this EventHandler (sender)
///
/// <param name="sender">The source of the event. </param>
/// <param name="e">An EventArgs that contains the event data. </param>
privatestaticvoid InitialFocusControl_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e){
Control control=senderas Control;
if(control.Page == null){
thrownew ArgumentException(
"The Control must be added to a Page before you can set the IntialFocus to it.");
// Create JavaScript
StringBuilder s =new StringBuilder();
s.Append("\n

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Moral courage essay
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term ethics. Feb 19, 2004 · Moral relativism is an important topic in metaethics. It is also widely discussed outside philosophy (for example, by political and religious leaders), and. Moral definition, of, relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical: moral attitudes.
WRITING ASSIGNMENTS. 1. Pick any of the discussion questions, above, and write an essay on it. 2. Describe a situation in which you showed moral courage. Wilde died in 1900, in a run-down Paris hotel, at the age of forty-six. Almost overnight, a legend was born: Wilde the homosexual martyr, Wilde the moral rebel.
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By moral values, we mean those values principles and beliefs on which a person's personal and social development depends. These are the rules by which we make. Metaphor, Morality, and Politics, Or, Why Conservatives Have Left Liberals In the Dust Jan 06, 2012 · But anyone who cares to read Smith's Wealth of Nations for themselves will find an economics discussed and justified in explicitly moral terms, in which. A Socratic perspective on the relationship between ignorance and evil.
Includes Political Discourses (1752), "My Own Life," by David Hume, and a letter by Adam Smith. Apr 27, 2013 · WE find it easier, in these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage — the courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures. Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections, with Illustrations on the Moral Sense [1742]
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Latin America & the Caribbean
After the recent events affecting the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) and the rights of internet users in Brazil, we express solidarity with the Brazilian people in general and in particular with our friends and colleagues, including APC organisational member Nupef, the CGI.br, and the many Brazilian civil society organisations we work with. Today we want to share this statement on the attacks of the Temer government against the Internet Steering Committee in Bra...
Established, autonomous ISPs have put together a fundraising event because they want to see their colleagues from a feminist ISP in the global South ferment and cultivate social justice. If you can't make it, you can still join our online campaign.
Getting all of our members together is a celebration of the work we have done and the work still ahead. After our last members meeting in Barcelona, Spain, in 2014, the APC network is meeting again from 18 to 20 August in Ithala, South Africa.
Kéfir is a libre/free tech feminist coooperatives for activists, human right defenders, journalists, civil society organizations, collectives, artists that aims to build safe and free (as in freedom) spaces in internet.
A group of people belonging to different social movements, aimed at collaborating in developing and socialising communications, cultura and free technologies in Latin America. They believe in a new knowledge production model and a new way of building culture, which is why they politically and ethically stand against privatisation of life, knowledge, communication and culture.
Autonomous infrastructure addresses many levels: resilience, shifting this framework of understanding security and protection towards caring communities but really, at the end of the day, we easily fall into the dynamics of people expecting things from others perceived as experts
"Intervozes fights for democracy and freedom, so that everyone from all religions, races and backgrounds can be respected, seen and heard. Enough of invisibility. Join the fight for the right to communicate!" With this statement of principles, Brazilian NGO Intervozes welcomes visitors to its work, which focuses on raising awareness among the Brazilian public of the freedom of expression as...
Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social is a Brazilian organisation that works for safeguarding freedom of expression and human rights in all forms of communication. For Intervozes, freedom of expression is inseparable from the full exercise of citizenship and democracy: a society can only be called democratic when the different voices, opinions, cultures and races that comprise ...
On May 16, 2017, the Venezuelan government issued Executive Order 2489, which extends the "state of emergency" in Venezuela that has been in place since May 2016. This new extension authorizes internet policing and content filtering. This measure deepens the existing restrictions to the free flow of information.
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BioPoint > Poultry > C Power
C Power is a combination of high content of vitamin C enhanced with electrolytes, particulary useful during heat stress. Vitamin C facilitates adaptation of animals to high temperatures, which helps to maintain production results at a high level. Additionally vitamin C is beneficial to the general condition of animals by supporting natural immunity. Electrolytes complement mineral deficiences resulting from heatstress, thereby supporting animal productivity.
Download product sheet in pdf format:
C Power
vitamin C, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, anti-caking agent
C Power is intended for each production type or group of poultry in case of:
- Poor general condition resulting from thermal or enviromental stress,
- In case of loss of condition,
- Impeded growth resulting from thermal or enviromental stress,
- Necessity for support during the period of thermal or enviromental stress.
100-200g / 1000 L of drinking water, 12h a day for 3-5 days
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Former Thompson Academy Administrator Was Arrested for DUI
Three years ago, signs of trouble began to emerge at the privately run Thompson Academy juvenile detention center in Pembroke Pines.
Gordon Weekes, head of the juvenile division at the Broward Public Defender's Office, wrote a letter complaining that his clients there were showing up with "chipped teeth, deep cuts, and other injuries from fighting," the Sun-Sentinel reported at the time.
Four boys had escaped and been returned to the lockup by March 2008, and the state Department of Children and Families received 23 complaints to its child abuse hotline from the facility that year.
In February 2008, Thompson's top administrator, Duane Evans, was arrested and charged
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"He's done an excellent job for us," Jesse Williams, senior vice president of Youth Services International, the company that runs the lockup, told the Sun-Sentinel.
By the following June, Evans had pleaded no contest to a reduced, misdemeanor charge of DUI. He was sentenced to a year of probation, and Youth Services eventually replaced him with a new administrator, Rodney Pegram. By January 2010, Thompson had hired yet another administrator, Craig Ferguson.
But the allegations of violence at the facility continued. Last year, 13 reports of abuse were called into the state hotline from Thompson. Law enforcement officials investigated but confirmed only one incident where abuse occurred -- a 14-year-old boy whose arm was broken while he was restrained by guards.
This fall, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit alleging that teenaged boys at the lockup are being physically and sexually abused. Youth Services has argued in court documents that the plaintiffs have provided no evidence of "actual injury." The case is scheduled for trial in June.
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My Sunday afternoon picnic today is a simple one. Not every picnic needs to be elaborate and involve a lot of food. This one would be considered a light refreshment type picnic, not a "full meal deal".
Really, all that is needed for this picnic is a good quality baguette, some cold cuts, tasty cheese of your favorite variety, grapes, and a good wine. I also brought along some fresh peaches because they are so vine-fresh and tasty this time of the year.
You don't even need a table for this kind of picnic. Here, an old rustic wooden bench serves the purpose. Of course, a couple of cloth placemats and napkins will always dress up any table….even if it is just an old wooden bench!
I chose a black current wine produced by Happy Knight Wines in Hatfield Pt., New Brunswick. I discovered this fine wine at PEI's New Festival of Wines this past spring. We have a growing number of small wineries that are producing some mighty fine quality wines in the Maritime provinces.
I love the configuration of this large picnic basket. In the center are three slots which easily hold the bread, the bottle of wine, rolled placemats and napkins, and a posy of wild flowers. There are two covered side holders for the food, dishes, cutlery, and glasses.
The manufacturers of this basket knew what they were doing when they designed it!
Find a nice quiet, relaxing spot on a warm summer late afternoon for the picnic.
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Thanks everyone, I hope some of you may have had it tonight. Once again I was unable to get out tonight. Oh, well, 2 years and waiting.
Great call oh438, Mitch
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This elven woman's allure is obfuscated by her ragged insectile wings and long, clawlike nails.
AC 18, touch 14, flat-footed 14 (+3 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural)
Speed 30 ft., fly 50ft. (average)
3/day—charm person (DC 13), darkness, locate creature
Str 13, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 14
Ability Drain (Su)
A vendenopterix drains energy from a mortal she lures into an act of passion, such as a kiss. An unwilling victim must be grappled before the vendenopterix can use this ability. The vendenopterix's kiss inflicts 1 point of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma drain (her choice). The kiss also has the effect of a suggestion spell, asking the victim to accept another act of passion from the vendenopterix. The target must succeed at a DC 15 Will save to negate the suggestion. The save DC is Charisma based.
Poison (Ex)
Claw-injury; save Fort DC 16; frequency 1/round for 6 rounds; effect 1d2 Dex; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Constitution-based, and includes a +2 racial bonus.
Swift Tracker (Ex)
A vendenopterix can move at her normal speed while using survival to follow tracks without taking the normal -5 penalty. She takes only a -10 penalty (instead of the normal -20 penalty) when moving up to twice her speed while tracking.
Environment any (Elysium)
Organization solitary or pair
Treasure standard
Beautiful, seductive, and ruthless, vendenopterixes are servitors of the Goddess of lust, revenge and trickery, tasked with hunting down and punishing enemies of the faith. Though they typically take female form, vendenopterixes are comfortable taking the shape of any gendered humanoid (including polygendered creatures) but avoid genderless shapes. A vendenopterix's purpose is to punish, but not necessarily to kill. She may be tasked with exposing a creature's secrets or convincing a creature to do so itself in an embarrassing way, and she is just as likely to drain her victim's mental facilities until it acts like a buffoon or clod as she is to poison her target so it appears to be aff licted with (or even dying from) a venereal pox.
Vendenopterixes stand about 6 feet tall and range in weight from a slender 140 pounds to a curvaceous 240.
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Biting Off More Than I Can Chew
No, I am not referring to that last post. I stand by it. If we are going to behave like savages, we might as well get used to being called savages, because that is what we, as a nation, have become. Instead of getting angry at me about it, why don't you go do something to restore our national honor? I would suggest calling for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as a good starting place.
I was referring to my post for today. It is a deep and philosophically complex topic and will take a while to develop. On a more positive note, it does involve naked chicks.
I got word about what they could recover from my hard drive: everything. $1,200 sounds like a lot, but when you consider just the iPhoto library, that is about $1.00 per picture, and that ignores the iTunes library, the programs, my college writings, and more. It was worth it.
Oh, I am adding Haloscan comments but the system is still in the works. Feel free to use the old way or the new way, whichever you like.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
The New Avenger
Poorly Directed Action
Generic Bad Guys
Underdeveloped Characters
Mark Ruffaloe
Although I enjoyed this more than its predecessor, I still found the action largely tedious and bland.
My main problem with this film is the action sequences should be the strong suit, but instead are the weakest parts of the entire film. They are quick edited, shaky and confusing. Its certainly better than the previous installment but its still a bloat of film with so much going on it doesn't do any one thing very well.
The character interaction only got interesting when it started to break down near the end, hinting at the "Civil War" story arc. Oddly I found the newest Avenger the most interesting and the poor guy hardly got any screen time.


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Cascadia Composers: Northwest Resonance
This concert features RE:Percussion Duo, consisting of Andrew Angell and David Solomon, who began playing together in graduate school at the University of Washington. The duo strives to combine acoustic percussion instruments with electronic effects and processing. This event features works by Troy Ramos, Charlie Copland and Jay Derderian, offering the premieres of three new percussion duets.
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Software is a liability, not an asset. Software development is an endless search of minimum amount of code required to deliver maximum value
Majority of development costs do not come from time needed to write code. They come from time needed to learn what's the right code to write
The hardest thing to explain in software development is not that we can't deliver everything you want. It's that we don't need to.
Software Design is an art of interacting with other human beings through code, while still making sense for machine.


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Hover the image on computers. Click the image on mobile devices.
Click the image again (not on the text).
When clicking on the displayed text, a new window will open with a search for the latin name on DuckDuckGo.
The web sites I use most are:
- Flora Helvetica: available in DE/FR/IT.
- Tele Botanica: available in FR/EN.
When I'm walking around the mountains, I'm taken macros of nearly every flower I can see. Back at home, I find out what it is and publish it to the web.
Latin, French, German and Italian. For the English names, please refer to the Wiki pages that are linked to the pictures.
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How the US players have fared at Wimbledon 2017- View: 1746 by Federico Coppini
In every sporting event, US players strive to leave an impression with no exception at the Wimbledon 2017 Tournament. The 2017 Wimbledon Tournament will go down as one of the most epic tournaments as long-standing records have been broken (Britain's 40 year wait for a woman semi-finalist).
The excitement has also been added by some American players who continue to defy the odds and achieve the impossible. Venus Williams, at 37, is still going strong vying for her sixth title. Other notable American representatives who have impressed, include Steve Johnson, Sam Querrey, and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
These American players are set to walk away with their share of the prize money as some of the heroics in this year's tournament. When the news that hot favourite Serena Williams was not going to participate in this year's tournament, mixed reactions emerged with many non-Americans seeing it as an opportunity for their home players to capitalise and emerge as winners.
Americans, on the other hand, saw it as a lost opportunity. However, irrespective of country, another William's sister has taken up the mantle and is trying to fill in the void left by her sister. Against all odds (age-wise mostly), Venus shows us that age is nothing but a number.
In her previous matches leading up to the semifinal, Venus' opponents were all aged 19, 19 and 20 respectively. She, however, showed them that experience counts and is only two matches away from winning her 6th Grand Slam.
Another woman who raised the United States' flag high at this year's Wimbledon Tournament is Bethanie Mattek-Sand. Though her foray into the singles' women category was cut short by an acute knee injury in her first match at the Tournament, she has already proved her worth.
A doubles specialist who won three Grand Slams in the US Open, French Open and Australian Open, Bethanie Mattek-Sands was already in a strong position to win her first singles match when tragedy struck. However, her presence managed to dilute the Williams dominated American women's team and more is definitely coming from Bethanie's way once she makes full recovery.
American tennis has recently been dominated by women at the Wimbledon Tournament, but this does not seem to be the case in 2017. Sam Querrey has fought his way into the Quarterfinal and his opponent, Andy Murray, seems to be the bookies' favourite.
No matter the result of the highly anticipated match, Sam has achieved what many others have failed and for that, we have to salute him. Higher praises will surely come if he can manage to upset the odds and advance to the quarterfinals, a feat which is not impossible for those who have followed his steady progress over the years.
Another American who managed to raise the US flag high at the Wimbledon Tournament is Steve Johnson. Though he fell at the first hurdle to seventh seed Marin Cilic, Johnson managed to put in a strong performance. Also considering the fact that this was his first Grand Slam appearance since the sudden and untimely death of his father, it tells that this would be a huge task for him to progress to the later stages of the Tournament.
The 2017 edition of the Wimbledon Tournament saw the mixture of two talents. On one side there is the established talent with all the experience, and on the other the emerging talents full of optimism and exuberance. No matter which stage these talents reached or will reach, they surely have left a huge impression.


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Key's quip
So, presuming reports are accurate, Prime Minister John Key voices a view that England footballer David Beckham - "nice guy" that he is - somewhat lacks in the intelligence department.
Out of consideration for Mr Beckham, I cite milder language to that favoured by Mr Key. ["John Key's Beckham quip scorned", Stuff, November 4].
Personally, I have to wonder at Mr Key's brainpower for repeating what amounts to foolish, slanderous comment within public hearing and earshot of the media for no valid reason whatsoever other than to crave a "folksy" rapport with his particular audience.
No doubt David Beckham is a forgiving man. Nevertheless, in my book, he would be within his rights to propose John Key's loose tongue jibe is a classic case of "who's kidding who?" or "the pot calling the kettle black", particularly considering a prime minister renowned for careless pronunciation of the English language. Witness Mr Key's utterance of "New Zilund" for New Zealand.
Hardly the adept international ambassador, John Key would do well to understand that ability and intelligence is correctly to be measured in many ways and on many levels.
Meantime, with ample justification, the world laughs at New Zealand's expense.
Fish farming
Congratulations to Primary Industries Minister David Carter for acknowledging that the future of aquaculture lies in land-based, closed-circuit fish farms [Speech to Aquaculture Association, November 1].
Operations of this kind are environmentally friendly, almost entirely truly sustainable, will employ graduates in engineering and science, and will return added value not only to the principal product, but also subsidiary products such as filter feeding organisms and algae.
Besides, New Zealand could become a world leader in this field, inventing new technologies and generating intellectual property. The ability to have total control over all parameters enables optimal growth rates, maximal survival, and overcomes all objections to inshore-based fish farming, including physical and visual pollution and risks of disease.
It is to be hoped that Mr Carter and Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson are able to agree on ways to expand the development of land-based fin-fish farming, as part of the initiative to expand the value of aquaculture exports.
Crash landing
Your report "Crash report finds alerts were ignored" [Express November 2] says the "Transport Accident Investigation Commission yesterday released its findings on the crash of a Dash 8 at Blenheim Airport in September 2010 and found that pilots flying the aircraft with a faulty nose wheel, and a full set of warning lights indicating the same, should have abandoned their landing attempt".
The alternative?
Yeah . . . right.
Ferry routes
Surely the answer nationally and for Picton and Nelson is for large freight ferries to go direct to Christchurch and smaller tourist-freight ferries to go Picton-Nelson-Wellington.
Prepare for peak oil and climate change, please.
The Marlborough Express


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I just came back from my coal supplier and he could only give me a ton of pea coal (Blachshak) . Said they should of got couple more loads but things are froze up at the breaker .
Anyone else run into this?
Rob R. wrote:Cold weather always makes things tough in the breakers...which is why they really urge people to buy their coal in the summer.
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My first graduate class is officially over! My final paper was due today at noon, so I spent all day yesterday working on it. I am not a procrastinator, but I very uncharacteristically left this paper until the last minute, which caused an actual panic attack around 9 am yesterday morning. I'm not sure if you've ever had a real panic attack, but they are awful.
So what do we do when we can't breathe and feel like the walls are caving in? Call our moms! And after that? Go for a run!
It was a beautiful day, and I immediately felt better just breathing in fresh air…
I ran the fastest I've ran in a long time. I guess I have the stress to thank for that. But I think Barre3 played a pivotal part as well. Strong hips/legs = fast running. My hips and IT band felt a-okay the entire time. I am so close to seeing that sub-9 minute mile pace again. 4 miles - average pace 9:09.
Avg Pace
A while back, I mentioned that I registered for the Cap City Half Marathon on May 3rd. Well, in shocking to no one news, there's no way I'm running 13.1 miles this weekend. I was able to downgrade my entry to the quarter race, which is about 6.55 miles. I'm not even sure if that will happen, but I'm determined to have fun - maybe run 4-5 good miles and stroll the last mile to the margaritas I plan on having afterwards? We shall see, but I definitely won't be pushing myself to where I need to take lots of time to recover. No racing this weekend; just running.
After my run, I continued my awful new habit of iced coffee after a workout. I say it's awful not because black coffee is bad for you - on the contrary, black coffee is basically a superfood - but because I don't need to be spending $2.50 everyday on coffee…
And then I had enough energy to write out my paper. I should have just had Stella write it for me. She seemed really interested...
I would have normally skipped family day to finish my paper, but it was my brother's last Sunday dinner with us for 2 months! I mentioned he's leaving us for the land down under until July. It recently hit me that I won't see his face for a while, and I am really sad about it. Thrilled for him; sad for me…
He requested as a last meal homemade paninis. My aunt has her own panini maker (of course she does - Martha Stewart has nothing on Maria!), so we had a field day. Grilled chicken, pepper jack cheese, homemade pesto, sun dried tomatoes, banana peppers and tahini sauce from dinner the night before. Oh and my cousin made mac n cheese, cause why not...
I did miss out on Game of Thrones togetherness, so I watched it at home…while writing that paper. But everything is now submitted, so it's time for a nap…
When was the last time you were really stressed out?
Did you run this weekend? How far?
Have you ever had a panini? Love em or leave em?