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Four-Minute Late Phone Call to Bank Could Cost Anita Her Home
Anita Reyes-LeRey's phone call to the Vice President at Woodlands National Bank, was four minutes late, and as a result, the Native American might lose the south Minneapolis home for which she and the Occupy Homes MN movement have fought.
Reyes-LeRey has owned her home for 17 years and has $50,000 in equity. She endured a series of financial and health setbacks when her job hours were cut and vertigo prevented her from making the 100 mile, one-way drive to work, prompting her to fall behind on her mortgage payments. Anita tried to negotiate a new mortgage with Woodlands National Bank in Onamia, Minn., which holds the mortgage, but was unable to do so.
Woodland's National Bank Vice President Cindy Koonce, told Reyes-LeRey that she would do everything she could to help the homeowner. Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson offered to look over Reyes-LeRey's loan documents for the bank. She returned to work and earned more than enough to afford her mortgage. But to Reyes-LeRey's shock, on the end date of her redemption period, Koonce called and told her she needed to leave her home.
With the help of Occupy Homes MN, Reyes-LeRey began building a public pressure campaign, including call-ins and a petition for Woodlands National Bank to renegotiate her mortgage and keep her in her home. The bank tentatively offered to rent her the home and, after two years, prepare a new mortgage so she could buy it back. The deal required an up-front $2,100 payment — an amount that Reyes-LeRey was uncertain she could raise the money but nevertheless did. But her phone call was four minutes after noon, and Koonce told her the deal was off.
A video from Occupy Homes MN shows a bank official confirming the deal was off because Reyes-LeRey called in "after noon."
OccupyHomesMN: The Battle of 4044 Cedar Ave.
By Ginger Jentzen and Ty Moore
"What is unusual, in fact to our experience utterly unprecedented, is the level of aggression and defiance of the law by these activists." – Brad German, spokesperson for Freddie Mac.
The battle over the Cruz family home, nestled in a well-kept working class neighborhood in south Minneapolis, emerged in May and June as the central struggle in the burgeoning nationwide anti-foreclosure movement.
All members of the Cruz family work, and for years they paid their mortgage in full and on time. But when their online payment to PNC failed to go through due to a bank computer error, the bank unapologetically demanded two mortgage payments plus penalties. When they were unable to pay what PNC demanded in time, the house fell into foreclosure, and the mortgage was sold to Freddie Mac.
Sheriffs posted an eviction notice on Alejandra and David Cruz's door in late April, and the Cruzes invited Occupy Homes MN to begin a 24/7 eviction blockade of their home. For a peaceful first month, the Cruz family home served as a community hub, hosting teach-ins, neighborhood barbecues, and Occupy Homes meetings. But the long-awaited battle eventually began.
Wednesday, May 23
Hennepin County sheriffs made their first major eviction attempt. Several occupiers immediately hooked into concrete lock-box barrels to delay the deputies. A text alert went out, and 100 supporters arrived within a short period, blockading busy Cedar Ave during rush hour until the sheriffs retreated.
Friday, May 25
Deputies returned at 4am with a jackhammer and a battering ram. While sheriffs jackhammered through the concrete lock-box barrels to arrest the activists whose limbs were locked inside, the delay allowed 40 people to mobilize in the pre-dawn hour.
For the occupiers, the situation appeared desperate, until someone suggested flanking the sheriffs that were guarding the front of the house. Activists ran through the alley, jumped the back fence, and re-occupied the property. Faced with the audacity of the protesters, and fearing the political consequences of mass arrests, the sheriffs again retreated. Occupiers removed the flimsy plywood from the doors and reclaimed the Cruz home.
75 activists marched into the sheriffs' headquarters, then the mayor's office, presenting them with the Cruzes' front door, mangled by the battering ram. Mayor Rybak pledged police would not take further action until the following Tuesday, and the five arrested in the morning raid were released on minimal bail.
Tuesday, May 29th
Forty police swooped in, surprising activists. They rapidly cleared the home, arresting the one activist who managed to lock down. Dozens of Cruz supporters gathered, repeatedly rushing police lines. But with police securely holding the house, protestors marched down Hiawatha Ave., shutting down the major highway, then moved on to shut down a big intersection by a local police precinct.
Wednesday, May 30th
With only three private security guards protecting the house, Occupy Homes again tested the Mayor's statement that "the City is not in the foreclosure business." Linking arms, over a hundred occupiers linked arms around the Cruz home, ignoring the security guards' objections, and again removed the plywood over the doors.
By nightfall, police again amassed around the house, arresting 14. Confrontations continued into the night, with occupiers linking arms, pushing up against police lines, and sitting down around the paddy-wagon filled with arrestees.
Since that night, the house sits under constant police surveillance. Heavy metal barriers were put over the windows and doors. Protests, prayer vigils, and other actions continued.
Thursday, June 21st
Alejandra and David Cruz led a caravan to Pittsburgh and, alongside supporters there, they marched into PNC headquarters to demand a meeting with the CEO. Their requests for a real negotiation were still rejected.
A national day of solidarity called by Occupy Wall Street drew protests outside PNC bank branches in 19 cities. In Minneapolis, fifteen were arrested – including internationally famed rapper Brother Ali – for crossing police lines at the Cruz home. A national call-in campaign targeting the leaked cell phones of top PNC executives was unleashed, and a change.org petition is nearing 200,000 signatures.
Win or lose, the battle of 4044 Cedar Ave has already emerged as a national model for home defense, and exposed not only the profiteering of the banks but also the role of the sheriffs, police, and city officials as frontline defenders of the 1%.
Marine Veteran Arrested Standing with the Cruz Family
Annetta Carman is a Marine Veteran and member of Socialist Alternative living in Madison Wisconsin. She was among 13 arrested at the Cruz Family Home in Minneapolis during the #J21 Day of Action on PNC Bank. HERE is a video link which shows Carman giving a short speech (at 13:25) before her arrest at the event organized by Occupy Homes MN. Occupy Homes is a coalition of community members, faith groups, neighbors, homeowners, students and organizations standing together to stop foreclosures and evictions. For more information on the Cruz campaign, check out the Occupy Homes MN facebook page here. Socialist Alternative in Minneapolis has been participating in Occupy Homes work since it started last year.
Open Letter from Three Cruz Neighbors
(For more information and updates on the Cruz home and all the exciting work of Occupy Homes MN, check out their facebook page. See also coverage on Huffington Post)
Dear fellow neighbors,
My name is Sasha, and I live on the 4000 block of Cedar Ave, where Occupy Homes MN protesters have been trying to prevent the eviction of the Cruz family from their home. I, like many of you, have concerns about this situation.
Mayor Rybak, the city attorney, and the chief of Minneapolis police have all declared that the city is not in the business of providing free private security for banking institutions. Their actions, however, speak louder than their words: there have been a total of five raids on the Cruz house in the last two weeks. Last Friday, I awoke to the sound of chainsaws and jackhammers as sheriff's deputies hacked away at the concrete barriers that protesters had erected.
This same noisy scene was repeated on Tuesday afternoon. My neighbor was arrested because she walked outside of her house holding an Occupy Homes MN sign. The following evening, the entire block was shut down and there were at least 40 police officers present. One of these officers shoved me and threatened me with arrest for simply watching the goings on from my front yard.
Weeks before these raids occurred, two "occupiers," Dan and Chris, knocked on my door to introduce themselves. They met with me and talked about what to expect at the Cruz house. They invited all of us on the block to their meetings to share our thoughts and voice our concerns. In contrast, the city never asked the neighbors what we wanted, nor did they invite me to offer advice or feedback on events in my neighborhood. Instead, they provided free private security for banking institutions.
As a local resident and not as a member of any group or organization, I am requesting that the city cease providing this type of security. What would happen if they did? The occupiers would be inside, quiet as mice - just like they were for four weeks before the police marched in. Freddie Mac would then have incentive to work with the Cruz family on modifying their loan. The occupiers would call it a day and go to sleep in their own homes. With the Cruz family back home, we'd have our stable community once more.
I urge the city of Minneapolis to serve the interests of its citizens - and not those of giant banking institutions. A first step would be considering the impact of the foreclosure crisis on our communities. This is what the occupiers have done, albeit in a somewhat spectacular fashion. By working with and advocating for homeowners facing foreclosure, they've done more to protect and serve their neighbors than any of our elected officials.
Sasha Lindquist
Andrew Kersten
Mattie Weiss
OccupyHomesMN: 14 Arrested at Cruz Home, Vowing Needless Foreclosure "Stops Here"
By Occupy Homes MN
In the latest incident in an ongoing showdown, officers violently arrested occupiers peacefully defending the Cruz family home from foreclosure Wednesday night. Fourteen were arrested defending 4044 Cedar Avenue Wednesday night, only 24 hours after Mayor Rybak's office, facing mounting public pressure, issued a news release declaring "the City is not in the foreclosure business." In the statement, City Attorney Susan Segal is quoted saying "The City plays a limited role to protect public safety. The property is the responsibility of its owner… In this case, the City has fulfilled its legal obligation to secure the property."
"We hoped Mayor Rybak would stick to his word, but today's police violence shows Rybak and his police protect and serve the banks, not our communities," said Martha Ockenfels-Martinez, an organizer with Occupy Homes MN and representative of the Cruz family. The 14 arrests Wednesday at the Cruz home bring this week's total to 23 during 5 eviction attempts.
At 8:45PM, over 100 people gathered to link arms around the Cruz family home, sitting peaceably singing "We Shall Not Be Moved." By approximately 9:30PM, occupiers had reclaimed the Cruz home.
Around 10:30PM, dozens of police returned in full force, many wielding four-foot batons, and closed off the entire block around Cedar Avenue. Several officers, including Police Chief Tim Dolan, trampled over the eight protesters sitting down and linking arms on the front steps of the home. During this time dozens of protesters gathered in the front and back yard linking arms around the Cruz family home. A police line shoved the protesters linking arms in the front yard down the hill to the sidewalk. The protesters linking arms sang and chanted "It stops here" before the 8 protesters sitting on the front steps of the house were violently arrested. One police officer head-locked Occupy Homes organizer Nick Espinosa, who was sitting on the top of the steps, throwing him down on his back and dragging him inside the front door of the house in the arrest.
Spring Fever Grips Occupy Homes
By Kenny Guenther
The early spring weather has everybody out and about and feeling good, and Occupy Homes activists are no exception. On Saturday March 10th, a team of sixteen gathered at the North Regional Library in Minneapolis and set out to knock on doors and spread the message: we intend to stop big banks and their servants in government from taking our homes and destroying our lives and communities. Bright sun, blue sky, and temperatures near 70 degrees had everyone in high spirits, and canvassers met with much success. Concerned neighbors were eager to talk and pledge their support for Monique White, John Vinge, and the ever-growing number of homeowners who have asked Occupy Homes to help them stand up to the banks. 120 signatures were collected—nearly a quarter of our goal for the month!
With Monique's eviction held up in court and sympathetic politicians flocking to support her, a sense of momentum and possibility has energized the movement, and the weather just keeps getting nicer. On Wednesday afternoon, March 14th, nearly fifty people gathered in Loring Park and prepared to peacefully march on the Kenwood mansion of US Bank CEO Richard Davis. Under the watchful eye of an unusually large number of city and park police officers the march got underway, snaking through the park and across ten lanes of Hennepin Avenue with chants of "Whose homes? Our homes!" and "Hey Richard Davis, what do you say? How many homes did you steal today?" Our voices echoed through the streets of Kenwood, announcing our arrival to the black-suited private security guards and city police officers standing ready to defend Davis' home.
Several people gave moving speeches, amplified by enthusiastic Mic Check, elevating the crowd's excitement until the energy could be felt crackling in the air. Davis was invited to attend an Occupy Homes community meeting to discuss the situation face to face with those who are directly affected by the foreclosure crisis, homeowners and community members. Nick Espinosa offered Davis a choice—"we'll see you on April 7th at noon (at Zion Baptist Church in North Minneapolis), or we'll see you that night, here at your home!" The crowd went wild.
As we prepared to leave, a cry of "Mic check!" sounded from behind, and the protesters turned and responded en masse. Two "Stop Foreclosure" signs were prominently displayed on the stoop of the house across the street. One protester had been speaking with Davis' neighbor and found out that she has a daughter in Atlanta whose home is in foreclosure. "She says all Richard Davis does is brag about how much money he has! Well guess what?"
"What?" roared the crowd.
The crowd jubilantly marched back to the Walker and split up. Some went to the footbridge over Lyndale and the freeway to hang their banner and wave signs, receiving a steady stream of honks, cheers, and thumbs-up. Eventually the marchers dissipated, but the positive energy of the action did not. Occupy Homes is ready for a long, hot summer.
(1933 vs. 2012) MORATORIUM ON FORECLOSURES NOW!
By Nick Shillingford
South Minneapolis Homeowner and member of the Canvassing Sub-Committee of Occupy Homes
The call for an immediate moratorium (government imposed suspension of activity) on all foreclosures is not a new idea. In fact a moratorium was put in place by the Minnesota legislature to halt foreclosure proceedings in 1933 during the Great Depression. In the mid-west this movement was lead by radical farmers in the Farmers Holiday Association. But ultimately a total of 27 states would enact some form of foreclosure moratorium by the middle of 1934 for both urban and rural home owners. (Wheelock 2008)
In 1932 it became clear that "sharply falling incomes made it increasingly difficult for farmers to pay the interest and principal on their outstanding debts, but falling property values made it less likely that farmers could sell their properties for more than the outstanding balance on their mortgages. The result was a sharp increase in farm mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures." (Wheelock 2008)
Similar to the 1930's today many families have seen their incomes shrink while dropping property values have put their homes actual market worth well below what they still owe the banks on their mortgage. Unemployment, wage pressures and market pressures are now squeezing families across the country.
In Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin the Farmers Holiday Association, which was made up of farmer radicals played a leading role in activating the wider community and pressuring the legislature to act. According to a paper by Kim Neilsen presented to the Minnesota Historical society "In the fall of 1933, Konrad K. Solberg, Minnesota's lieutenant governor, told frustrated Douglas County farmers, 'If you haven't got 50 [cents] for the [Farm Holiday] membership, steal one of your mortgaged pigs and sell it!'" (Neilsen 1988) In addition to calling on farmers to join the Farmers Holiday Association he was also telling them to committee an act of non-violent civil disobedience in stealing a mortgaged pig back from the bank.
Years of movement building accompanied by other direct action had been crucial in bringing about the situation in 1933 that ultimately resulted in the passage of the moratorium bill of that year. One popular direct-action technique that was widespread was the penny auction. "The concept was simple. Farm families gathered in large numbers at a foreclosure sale and quietly but confidently informed any prospective buyers that they were not to bid…When items came up on the auction block, only designated bidders were allowed to speak. Cars, tractors, and livestock were purchased for sums ranging from about 10 cents to 50 cents. At the end of the auction, all the goods were returned to the original owner." Just the threat of this tactic in some cases was enough to convince the banks to renegotiate with the farm families before the date of the auction came. (Neilsen 1988)
All the while the Farmers Holiday Association and other farm member organizations were also drafting and publicly speaking about legislation to halt foreclosures all together. It was the pressure on the banks that won gains for individual families but ultimately national public pressure on the politicians that brought about a moratorium in many states. Just days before the Minnesota moratorium was passed in November of 1933 Milo Reno, the original organizer of the Farmers Holiday Association, said "We have been patient and long suffering. We have been made a political football for jingo politicians, who are controlled by the money-lords of Wall Street." (Neilsen 1988)
Once again many Americans are now becoming aware of the stranglehold Wall Street and big banks have on our communities. We must seize this opportunity to call for a moratorium on all foreclosures while also making it difficult, if not impossible, for banks and the police to forcefully take us and our neighbors from our homes.
"Stop Foreclosures! Stop Evictions!" Occupy Homes Is Winning
By Ty Moore, Minneapolis
"We are building a real movement here, a real mass campaign," explained Chris Gray, an activist with Socialist Alternative who coordinates Occupy Homes' canvassing operation in Minneapolis. "If we can mobilize the community to stop Monique's eviction, this thing is gonna really blow up."
At 8:30am on Monday, March 5th, over 100 supporters packed the eviction hearing for Monique White, a single mother from North Minneapolis who has emerged as a national hero for the new "Occupy Homes" movement. After she and 2,000 co-workers lost their jobs due to state budget cuts, she fell behind on her mortgage payments.
In Monique's predominantly African American neighborhood, half the homes have been foreclosed since 2006, the hardest hit zip code in Minnesota.
In November, Monique spoke to Occupy Minneapolis General Assembly, asking for help. Soon after, she publicly pledged to "occupy" her foreclosed home. Another two joined Occupy Homes in December, and by early March, eight had publicly pledged to resist foreclosure and eviction. Dozens more are in discussions with us, and the list is growing faster than our capacity to process them.
When the judge called Monique's name, we rose to our feet together, silent, fists raised high, many clenching roses. Faced with the crowd and legal challenges, the judged decided to delay the hearing!
As the jubilant, multi-racial crowd flowed into the courthouse lobby, Nick Espinosa, a leading Occupy Homes activist whose mother is among those pledged to fight her foreclosure, led us in song:
"We are fighting for our homes, we shall not be moved; fighting for our homes, we shall not be moved. Just like a tree, standing in the water, we shall not be moved."
"We Shall Not Be Moved"
The eviction hearing culminated a week of action, including protests at U.S. Bank, who foreclosed on Monique, and Mayor R.T. Rybak's office, whose police already broke up one Minneapolis home occupation.
Seven of nine city councilors, Congressman Keith Ellison, and a number of other elected officials, have signed a petition against using city police to evict Monique White, and calling on U.S. Bank to renegotiate her mortgage. This community pressure and legal delay tactics have succeeded in putting off her eviction for several weeks, providing much-needed time to step up the pressure.
A coordinated outreach campaign to community groups, churches, and neighbors is being combined with preparations for an escalating campaign of civil disobedience to block the eviction.
After the canvass of Monique's neighborhood on Saturday, March 10th, Chris reported the excellent response over the campaign email list:
"16 people participated today, 8 of whom had never canvassed for OccupyHomes before. We knocked on around 390 doors. About 120 neighbors pledged to support Monique, gave us their contact information, and agreed to put up yard signs. We also met 3 homeowners facing foreclosure, who potentially will take the pledge. Many people knew of us from the news, and canvassers reported that it was an awesome and inspiring experience. We set the target of having 500 neighbors pledge to support Monique by the end of the month."
Our First Victory
As police repression and winter weather broke up the Occupy Minneapolis encampment late last year, many of the most serious activists proposed a focused campaign against foreclosures and evictions, bringing the anti-Wall Street movement into the hardest hit working class communities.
Occupy Homes Minnesota was formed, and began an energetic door-knocking campaign targeting foreclosed homes. Each year since 2006, around 3000 families have been foreclosed in Minneapolis alone.
Early on we met Bobby Hull, a marine veteran who was forced out of work due to medical problems, and who also faced foreclosure by U.S. Bank. Bobby lived in a hard-hit working-class neighborhood in South Minneapolis with traditions of community activism and radical politics.
With Bobby's redemption period ending on February 17th – after which his eviction proceedings would begin – a major two-month campaign was organized. Weekly "Neighborhood Assemblies" of activists and neighbors planned protests and civil disobedience at U.S. Bank. For two solid blocks around Bobby's homes, neighbors agreed to erect bright orange fencing adorned with signs declaring a "Foreclosure Free Zone."
Over 500 neighborhood doors were knocked on to build support. At a nearby public school, where 10% of students are "housing insecure," we organized a community forum that drew 130 people to discuss a mass movement strategy to fight foreclosures.
The campaign culminated with a 300 strong block party on February 17th, featuring performances by Toki Wright, Slug from Atmosphere, Guante, and other local celebrities. A few days later, U.S. Bank sat down with Bobby and negotiated a deal allowing him to stay in his house (U.S. Bank forced Bobby to sign a non-disclosure agreement, but it is widely speculated that his principle was reduced by more than half).
A Strategy to Win
Occupy Homes in Minneapolis has emerged at the forefront of the national anti-foreclosure struggle. Emerging directly from debates within Occupy Minneapolis assemblies, the campaign brought together a dynamic coalition of occupy activists, and several experienced anti-foreclosure organizers, most notably from Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (formerly ACORN). From early on, Socialist Alternative members also played an important role envisioning and building the campaign.
We emphasized the need to politicize the campaign with demands for collective solutions to the housing crisis. Rather than just fighting "one house at a time," which has been the focus of most non-profit led anti-foreclosure work, it was widely agreed to highlight three political demands on Occupy Homes outreach material:
Housing is a Human Right!
There are over 18 million empty homes in the U.S., but just under 4 million homeless people. We demand the banks end this madness by renegotiating mortgages to ensure families can stay in their homes. We need a housing that meets the needs of the 99% rather than maximizing the profits of the 1%.
Stop Foreclosures!
The people's movement forced the Minnesota legislature to pass a "foreclosure moratorium" in 1934, stopping all foreclosures. We have history on our side! We call on Governor Dayton and the legislature to pass a new foreclosure moratorium today.
Stop Evictions!
The police should protect and serve the 99%, not the banks! We will organize our communities to resist evictions. We call on Mayor Rybak to stop using police to evict people from their homes whenever the banks demand it.
In addition, we point out that as long as the housing industry is run on a for-profit basis, no sustainable solution is possible. In leaflets Socialist Alternative has distributed, we argue for "taking the financial institutions into public ownership under democratic community control. All investment decisions would be democratically decided, transparent, and for the public good, with no one profiting. On this basis, quality housing and other basic human needs could be a guaranteed right for all."
Achieving any of these demands will require building a mass movement that is prepared to squarely face off against both political parties. The Democratic Party machine, which runs Minneapolis, is dominated by the big banks and corporations. Occupy Homes, as it grows, will be strongest if it also develops an electoral front, running independent candidates for local and state offices to popularize our demands on the political institutions, and further expose their inaction.
And Occupy Homes Minnesota is set to expand, maybe rapidly. Bobby Hull's victory proved we are serious. Since then a steady stream of homeowners have been contacting us to fight back. The struggle to stop Monique's eviction will be the next test, but its already clear that U.S. Bank and the Mayor will suffer serious political damage if they send in the police, cameras rolling, to drag Monique and her family out of their home.
As we expand to first dozens, then hundreds of occupied homes, the public relations nightmare to banks and politicians alike of using police repression to break-up popular mass resistance to foreclosures would be impossible to sustain. They will be forced to negotiate collective, political solutions to the foreclosure crisis.


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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Not having to layer up or put coats on when we leave the house.
Having daylight until almost 10 PM.
The fireflies in the thousands in our backyard and across the bean field behind our house.
Jogging in the morning when it is fresh and cool and comfortable and the rising sun throws inviting shadows across the trees that fall on my shoulders as I pass beneath.
Not having school.
Going to baseball games.
Wearing shorts.
Watching "Food Network Star".
Sunshine and heat. 'Nuff said.
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- Mayhem And Miracles said...
Hi Sniz - love your list and love that you contacted me! Can't believe I saw it too. I only get on about every 4 or 5 months now. My disorder is a very uncharacteristic presentation of something called PCOS. It's way too complicated to explain here; I suppose I should post about it sometimes, but my life has changed SO MUCH over the past year. It just can't be a priority anymore. Stinks! But it's a season. I sure hope to one day be able to get back in the groove. I miss my blog friends!
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- Sniz said...
Hi Mayhem, I'm so sorry about your condition although I don't really know anything about it. I do know about seasons, though. Our lives are a series of them! I hope you can blog again soon, but I understand that blogging can't always be (nor should it be) a priority. Be well, my friend.
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I love summer too! Hope you are still enjoying yours.
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I am sure everyone have had the "pleasure" of having to maintain configuration files across projects and even solutions, only to copy and paste configuration data between them, to keep them in sync, and have had the same issues that everyone else has had. i.e. Missing variables in one project, missing sections and so forth.
So have I, and in my previous work we used Nant and a custom built script to transform our app.config and web.config into the correct version for the given target we were building.
In a new work we are having the same exact problem, surprise - and instead of "poluting" our code base with nant. (We are running TFS, so nant does not fit well in that) - I decided to build my own MSBuild Task that could do basically the same, i.e. transform a configuration template, exchanging "tokens" or variables with configured elements or values from one or many configuration files.
I have done that now, and you can see it all in its simple splendor at codeplex.
But basically you add a little stuff to the project files of the projects where you want to use the configuration sharing and transformation, and you create your templates for your app.config and web.config and a few files for the variables and the next time you build, you will get a configuration files that matches the Build Target you selected in visual studio - with warnings and errors in the Error List if you have missing configuration variables for a given build target.
The following information is copied from codeplex, where you can see more elaborate examples.
To start using the Smith Build extensions is really easy, simply download the code, build it and copy the Smith.BuildExtensions.dll to a directory of your choosing.
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AssemblyFile="Smith.BuildExtensions.dll" />
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Crosswalk outside of Russian embassy in Sweden gets LGBT pride treatmentStockholm residents decided to protest Russia's crackdown on gay rights with a little rainbow street art.
The amazing success of the 'coming out' strategy.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), once a staunch opponent of gay marriage, says that he now supports same-sex nuptials after his son told him he was gay.
"I'm announcing today a change of heart on an issue that a lot of people feel strongly about that has to do with gay couples' opportunity to marry," Portman said, according to CNN.
Two years ago, his son Will came out to Portman and his wife, Jane, during Will's freshman year at Yale University, which eventually led Portman to support same-sex marriage.
"I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married," Portman wrote Friday in an op-ed in The Columbus Dispatch.
He later wrote: "Two years ago, my son Will, then a college freshman, told my wife, Jane, and me that he is gay. He said he'd known for some time, and that his sexual orientation wasn't something he chose; it was simply a part of who he is. Jane and I were proud of him for his honesty and courage. We were surprised to learn he is gay but knew he was still the same person he'd always been. The only difference was that now we had a more complete picture of the son we love."
My only real comment here is that this is the entire purpose of coming out of the closet. When the LGBT community decided to mainstream themselves, they came up with a strategy that was both brilliant and fraught with tremendous personal risk. It's worked amazingly well over the years, with gays steadily gaining acceptance and homophobes just as steadily losing it.
It's also a strategy that requires a great deal of courage, because these sorts of revelations can also go so very, very wrong. So don't congratulate Rob Portman — you don't congratulate the bully when he stops stealing lunch money. Congratulate Will Portman, who got that bully to stop.
Lawmaker who thinks gays a threat to children crashes boat into children
A homophobic Maryland lawmaker has admitted to being drunk when he accidentally crashed his boat into a boat full of children.
Maryland delegate Don H. Dwyer Jr was drinking with another man on his boat on the Magothy River in Pasadena around 7pm when his boat struck a smaller vessel with five children on board.
Four of the children were injured with one, a five year old girl, taken by helicopter to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Two adults on the boat were unharmed.
Pro-life? Family values? Bullshit on both counts.
The New Civil Rights Movement:
Brittney Leon and Terri-Ann Simonelli, a pregnant same-sex couple, went to a Las Vegas hospital where they were told their legal domestic partnership was invalid, as far as the hospital was concerned. Hours later, after being "emotionally upset" over their treatment, Brittney Leon, the pregnant mother, lost their baby. Nevada has banned same-sex marriage, but a 2009 Nevada law makes domestic partnerships equivalent to marriage, yet Spring Valley Hospital's official policy is that same-sex couples must secure a power of attorney in order to be able to make medical decisions for each other, or even to be notified of the staus of their loved one.
"I am usually a big fighter. But I was so emotionally upset. It was a very bad day for us," Simonelli told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "We went there thinking we had the state's backing, and then we were told we were wrong. It didn't matter that we were registered domestic partners.
"It should matter."
According to the Review-Journal:
A woman who identified herself as public relations representative at Spring Valley Hospital told a Review-Journal reporter in a phone interview that the hospital policy requires gay couples have power of attorney in order to make medical decisions for each other .
When asked if she was aware of Nevada's domestic partnership law, she accused the reporter of bias and hung up the telephone.
That's a conservative all right; facts are "bias." Up is down, left is right, hot is cold — and hate is a "Christian value."
The report goes on to say that Spring Valley is owned by Universal Health Services and that Universal Health is a Rick Santorum-connected nightmare:
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has become a top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in recent weeks by appealing to evangelical voters as a man steeped in family values and his Christian faith. From 2007 to 2011, however, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services Inc., a large hospital chain which racked up dozens of allegations of abuse during that time — including everything from rape to suicide attempts allowed by neglect to murder.
Over the years, states have barred children from attending UHS facilities over safety concerns and the feds have put UHS on their radar. Department of Justice lawyers have filed two lawsuits accusing the chain of fraudulent activities. One lawsuit settled for $27.5 million. Another suit still pending in federal court in Virginia centers on a facility called Keystone Marion Youth Center.
The facility, located in Marion, Va., is a residential treatment center for troubled boys with mental-health issues. The majority of patients come from states' child-welfare and juvenile-justice systems. The center promises stability, schooling, and clinically-approved therapies. It was also approved to accept Medicaid patients.
It did not have approval to perform an "exorcism."
The kids got exorcised anyway, because because this sort of witch doctor crap is what passes for science on the right. If there's any justice in the world, Leon and Simonelli will sue Spring Valley and win a judgement so large that they own it.
Is Family Research Council a hate group? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.
The shooting of a security guard Wednesday at the Family Research Council (FRC) has spurred a torrent of heated accusations from both sides of the gay-rights debate about claims that the conservative organization is a "hate group."
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the nation's leading opponents of same-sex marriage, told The Hill the shooting was a direct result of the Southern Poverty Law Center's decision in 2010 to place the FRC on its list of hate groups for its rhetoric on gays.
Brian Brown, the president of NOM, pointed to a recent blog post by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), one of the largest gay-rights groups in the country. The post, "Paul Ryan Speaking at Hate Group's Annual Conference," called attention to the vice presidential candidate's scheduled appearance at the FRC's national summit next month.
"Today's attack is the clearest sign we've seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as 'hateful' must end," Brown said in a statement issued following the shooting.
"Pro-marriage" may be the worst bullshit term I've seen in a long time. Gay people want to marry, FRC opposes that. That's anti-marriage — or, at least, anti-some-marriages.
But is FRC a hate group? Let's review, shall we? President Bryan Fischer has advocated kidnapping children away from gay parents, compared African-Americans to "drug addicts" on welfare, and argued that gay parents ought to automatically be suspected of child molestation. That's just a sample; I could almost literally do this all day.
But the clincher is the fact that in 2010, Family Research Council lobbied to defend a Ugandan bill that would've applied the death penalty to homosexuals. Seems to me that supporting genocide qualifies you for the label "hate group."
So, was a nut justified in trying to shoot up FRC HQ? No. Are the FRC the victims of a crime? Yes. But their victimhood doesn't let them off the hook or make them respectable. A prick attacked by a criminal is still a prick. So FRC is still a hate group. Anyone who would argue otherwise doesn't know the facts, has real problems understanding the concept of logic, or is a hater themselves, covering up for other haters.
"Our Constitution was designed to respect states…I have long supported the appointment of judges who respect the Constitution and the passage of a federal marriage amendment." - Rick Perry, GOP Presidential nominee
Translation: It's ok for states to make their own decisions, but there should be a federal amendment banning gay marriage in ALL states. Reblog if you see the problem with this logic.
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Okay, give it up to four-time CMA co-hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley for their inspired musical send-up of Hank Williams Jr.'s ill-advised recent anti-Obama comments... and to "Hank Jr." for sneaking up behind them. Good clean fun, y'all! Oh, and Faith Hill's hair? Bigger is always better, baby.
I think Martina McBride should have won. She has such a fabulous voice. I agree, those dresses were just horrible. Carrie Underwood must have spent most of the time changing into dresses. Was it a modeling thing????? Won't watch again. Some of the people that should have won didn't. Does not sound like country anymore. You can't even understand what they are singing.
I like to hear the singer -not the heavy metal guiter. The entire show was NOT country music the way I like it. To bad for me I guess. Taylor's solo was the hi lite. The Perry band is "COUNTRY"
The song done by Sugar Loaf sweetie was absolutely fabuluos & extremly sexsual, but I never understsood or head a word that was sung. Too bad for me, I just like good ol' front porch music
Sorry Iam old, and used to a good sound not a flashing guitar sounding like a jazz violin. I see no reason to watch the CMA Awards again. God Damn I am old
I agree that country music is no longer country but all about who can play their music the loudest. All that glitz is nonsense and who needs dancers that are barely clothed?
My country is nothing like this and I will never watch another music awards show. Bring back the real singers like Dolly, Kenny, Garth, Charlie and on and on.
I have my c.ds of my favorites and will listen to the country classics on the radio, thank you very much.
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I will admit that I much prefer to do things via keystroke rather than mouse whenever possible. The reason is because keystrokes don't change. You don't have to worry about things "going away" or missing from an icon or button you can't find. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 are chock full of keystrokes you can use. No, you won't use all of them (nobody does), but committing a few to memory is good for when you need them.
Zoom in/out/reset
Zoom in: CTRL-Plus key
Zoom out: CTRL-Minus key
Zoom reset to normal: CTRL-0 (zero)
There are times when you will be sitting at your computer for long hours and your eyes start to get a bit blurry. Even if you have a big monitor it's a blessing to have a zoom function.
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Keystroke: F6
You've clicked inside a Google or Yahoo search field and typed in a web address before, right? If you remember F6 then you'll never make that mistake.
Open link in a new tab
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Make use of the tab feature in your browser. This is one of the best usability features ever invented for web browsers; it's far easier to manage tabs than multiple program windows. Use it, love it.
Switch between tabs
Keystroke: CTRL-TAB
Once you've got those tabs open you can switch to them with this keystroke (and back).
Closing a tab
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You'll notice that you'll be using your left hand a lot when doing the tab thing. You'll be CTRL-TAB'ing about and need to close one every so often. Fortunately CTRL-W is just a few keys away from TAB to close tab(s).
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Excellent article. I knew (and used) all of those except F6. Thanks.
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Thank you so much! It is great to know I'm not the only person who prefers keystrokes. When you are a fast typist, keystrokes are always better than stopping to move the mouse. I found this site by searching for "key strokes to switch between tabs." Thanks again.
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Great article. Is there a key stroke for the commands on the right click drop-down menu? For example "save target as" of "save link as"?


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43-year-old Timothy Fred Hurst escaped from the Miller County jail around 2:30 Friday afternoon.
He was jailed on burglary and stalking charges in Quitman County.
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Jason gets PWNED! AGAIN! LMFAO.
When Kristian got to the library during free period the next day, Simone was already there, waiting, not at their usual spot at the computers, but at a table on the other side of the room.
"Hey Kris! Over here! Now!" She called.
Kristian grinned, and made her way over, dropping her bag to the floor. After she did this, she glanced around, then sat in the seat directly across from Simone. She had been avoiding Dana. She'd managed to do it all morning, and hoped her good luck would continue for the rest of the day.
"Kristian Colbert, where in God's name did you disappear to last night? I called, and called you, like a million times! And no, I'm not typing today because I want you to tell me everything! In detail!" Simone said in a harsh whisper. Kristian smiled, and proceeded to explain, in detail, all the events of the previous day, and the night before last. Including Dana and Keith, spending the night with Gerard, waking up to meet his mother, and Frank's twizzler fit. Simone was livid with Dana, but giggled hysterically over Frank and Gerard's little 'battle'.
"I can't believe that whore! I can't believe she did that to you! I really have the overwhelming urge to kick her ass." Kristian laughed.
"Yeah? Well, thanks Sugar Plum."
"Uh-huh. But what exactly happened down in Mrs. Way's basement? C'mon, you can tell me..." Simone wriggled her eyebrows.
"Ugh! Don't do that!" Kris giggled, "And nothing happened. We didn't even kiss. It's like...Everytime we're about to, someone interrupts."
"You have to just...Go fot it Kris. I mean,..."
"Is that what you did with widdle Fwankie?" Kristian teased. Simone blushed. "Gosh! I'm kidding! So, I'm assuming, there's a future for the two of you?"
"God, yes. Frank's amazing."
"Yeah, he is. Amazingly crazy."
"I heard that." The girls giggled.
"No, really, I'm glad. At least one of us gets her wish."
"Don't worry. Things with Gerard will work out fine." Simone nodded reassuringly.
When the bell rang signaling lunch, Simone and Kris packed up their bags to leave.
"I am so ditching the caf today. If I run into Dana, it could get ugly. And I refuse to lose my starting spot on the team all because of her."
"Ok," Simone laughed. "I've gotta meet Frank at my locker."
"Ooh, have fun. And tell the boys I'll be at Gerard's smoking spot ok?" Simone agreed, and sauntered away. Kristian headed in the opposite direction, bookbag and all. She was sure Dana and Rocki would be lingering around her locker, waiting for her. She took every empty hall she could and was overjoyed as she reached the corridor that led into the courtyard came into view.
'Homefree.' She thought, then someone reached out and grabbed her wrist, stopping her.
"Oh, Kristian. Where are you off to?"
She looked back to see Jason, sneering at her, the lights in the hallway illuminating his swollen face. Now if Gerard's face was bruised, Jason's was damn near mangled. His left eye was swollen shut tightly, purple around the lid, the right one had a blue and purple ring around it, and he had a split down the center of his bottom lip. Various lacerations and scratches adorned the rest of his face. He was a spooky sight.
'DAMN.' Kristian tried to hide her smile. Jason saw.
"Oh, you're laughing? You're laughing at what that...that freak, that, degenerate did to me?" Kristian seemed to forget Jason still held her wrist, which he gripped harder as he spoke.
"Ow! Jason! What the fuck?"
"You aren't laughing anymore are you?" Kristian glanced around, for someone, anyone. No one else was near enough to hear her.
"ARE you?" She glared into his eyes..er..eye (LOL).
"No, I'm not laughing Jason, now what do you want from me? And fucking...LET. ME. GO!"
She tried to yank her arm away. Jason laughed, throwing his head back like a madman.
"No way, sweetheart! You can't get away from me that easily! Not this time! You see, M'dear, we're all alone. You and me..." He pressed his body against hers and grinned an insane grin with his battered face. Kristian shuttered. Jason moved in to kiss her, and she was powerless against him. The way his body was on hers, she couldn't even use her strong legs to kick him.
"J-Jason...Jase..." Their lips connected, much to her dismay and she squealed, tried to push him away.
"STOP!" She cried.
The boy's restroom door swung open down the hall from them. Jason tried to kiss her again. The fucker even had the audacity to have his eyes closed, like he was enjoying it!
"Jason! Don't!" He only squeezed her harder in response. Little did he know, she'd already gotten the attention of whomever came from the washroom.
"Hey!" They called, but Jason didn't move. The guy closed in.
"Hey! She said stop asshole!" The boy rounded the corner and swung Jason around to face him. Kristian looked up and into Bob Bryar's piercing, blue eyes.
"Let her go." Bob threatened.
Jason did as he was told.
Kristian rubbed her wrists. "You ok?" Bob asked. She nodded. Bob then turned his attention back to Jason.
"Now get the hell outta here Jase, and don't let me catch you even breathing the same air as her again. Ever. Got that?" Bob poked Jason's chest and the smaller boy nodded feebly under Bob's deathly stare.
"Beat it, before I have to cause even more damage to your ugly...ass....face!" Bob burst into laughter. Jason scrambled down the hall in a hurry (Because BOB don't take any SHIT! ask Ray and Mikey!LOL). Now. You. Are you really ok?" Kristian bit her lip.
"Yeah, it just...happened so fast..." She stopped as Bob took her small hands in his and inspected her wrists.
"Aw, you'll be ok, 'tough guy'." He smiled. She smiled back.
Funny,...Bob Bryar had never looked so good......
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Unrest began as a spontaneous response to and prayer of thanks for David Walker's 1829 Appeal (the full title is quoted in one section of the series), an uncompromising attack on slavery and performance of black "enlightenment." The serial poem's abecedarian form is activated by thinking about what it means to be deeply engaged in writing when writing is forbidden: the subject(s) of the poems contemplate epic alliances for the black who reads and writes (Shakespeare, Henry James, the poet's sister, and, of course, Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan), and enacts, reveling in contemporary displays of opulent black speech, experiences of both joy and sorrow.
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If not in the scarf-skin, where does it "reside"? Do objects have business
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And how to account for the frission between us, which, previously, I could not imagine?
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Simone White was born in 1972 in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1997, she practiced law for seven years. Simone is the author of House Envy of All of the World (Factory School, 2010), the chapbook Dolly (Q Ave Press, curated by Ross Gay, with the paintings of Kim Thomas), and her work also has appeared in The Claudius App, Aufgabe, The Recluse, Callaloo, Ploughshares, Tuesday; An Art Project, the exhibition catalog for the Studio Museum of Harlem's Flow, and Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade. She lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.


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NEW YORK Ferrous scrap export prices on the West Coast have dropped $10 per tonne this week after two bulk cargoes were sold to China on Monday at a discount to the previous weeks range.
A large Chinese consumer confirmed reports by a number of West Coast exporters that two 30,000-tonne cargoes sold at $465 per tonne c.f.r. for shredded steel scrap and $460 per tonne c.f.r. for an 80/20 mix of No. 1 and No. 2 heavy melting scrap. The sale was $10 per tonne lower than last weeks bulk shipment of shredded scrap to Taiwan, which reportedly sold at $475 per tonne (AMM, April 10).
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The sale marks the Chinese consumers first purchase in the U.S. scrap market since February, a source at the company said. That month, the consumer picked up several U.S. cargoes at a high price of $470 per tonne c.f.r. for 80/20 heavy melt.
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Your poem s brilliant:
Ithaca, New York, 1958 –
short pants, long socks, beret,
carrying in his hand
an oversized fishing net.
There is a shallow creek
in front of the photographer
and in it is the reflection
of the old man, slighty
stooped, fragile, yet somehow
menacing, looking almost like
latter-day William S. Burroughs.
But what strikes me most is
the way the net seems too large
for the creek, like whatever
he's fishing for is more likely
to be found further downstream,
away from the camera, where
the waters are deeper,
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posted by foamfish at 8:38 pm (EST) on Aug 6, 2012
Thanks, although seeing them listed did make me think I might appear a bit obsessive.
I just need to find some time now to expore LT and catalogue the rest of my collections. It almost makes me look forward to those long dark winter nights.
Thanks also for the link on Expecting Rain!
posted by johnwesleyharding at 4:09 pm (EST) on May 11, 2011
Thanks Glenn, I have just listed some as I was unpacking a random carton...
I need more shelving...
posted by joh_col at 2:19 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2011
I spotted -- Sideways: Travels With Kafka, Hunter S. and Kerouac by Patrick O'Neil-- in your library, and purchased a copy myself. Now, we have one more book in common.
posted by artbureau at 10:20 am (EST) on Mar 3, 2009
Yea, I saw you have quite a bit of William S. Burroughs. One of my favorites, too.
posted by Proclus at 3:13 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2008
I apologize for the delayed reply, as I rarely check my profile page. Yes, I have the Ruffian book by Lyn Lifshin. Very unique. Thanks for the heads up. Sometimes I forget to add a book and appreciate anything that might trigger the addition of something that has been overlooked.
posted by thoroughbredlibrary at 6:09 pm (EST) on May 20, 2008
Well Glenn, you can't really imagine living in Ethiopia because nothing can prepare you for the experience. Sometimes I feel as if I'm an only slightly detached observer in an absurdist play or story. But if you like Rimbaud, you should most definitely visit Harar, the third-holiest city in the Muslim world, and its famous "Rimbaud House," which was just fully restored a few months ago.
posted by ichliebebueche at 8:27 am (EST) on Apr 10, 2008
Seriously, the next person who asks me for a book by a description of its cover, with no clue what the book's about is going to get a smack.
The poem in the Hemingway was the poem about the Hemingway. About the cat in the rain. It must have been in there for three or four years now.
posted by julienormal at 3:15 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007
Sorry to be so late in replying. Isn't this fun? Now we have ten books in common and when I get through entering my poetry, it should be even more. I am also a poet, and would have liked to work in a bookstore, but worked in a library instead. Send me a poem?
posted by jhhymas at 12:09 am (EST) on Dec 29, 2007
Hey, your bookses turned up! Very excited. They're pretty, I'm looking forward to reading though them some time soon with a scotch and some good records playing.
I was sorting through my bookshelf recently, to make more room, and I found a poem of yours that I'd printed out, tucked in my copy of the old man & the sea.
posted by julienormal at 3:59 am (EST) on Dec 20, 2007
sorry wrong #
posted by cowpunk at 11:26 am (EST) on Dec 19, 2007
Yeah librarything is deluxe. And meeting other readers--esp readers who read the same things as you--can only be good.
posted by coreymesler at 8:36 am (EST) on Dec 15, 2007
and rimbaud too. i love rimbaud. i read a little bit at least once every few days.
posted by michaelstevens at 11:39 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007
you're right Glenn. i remember buying the birthday book! i found it at a ratty little underground bookstore in dallas. i think they're still there. i'd never heard of it. i heard that david ohle wrote a little burroughs thing called MUTATE OR DIE. i need to get it. and, EVERYTHING LOST: the burroughs latin american notebook comes out soon. this month or next if i'm not mistaken. i need to catch up. glad you came around.
posted by michaelstevens at 11:38 pm (EST) on Dec 14, 2007
Hello Glenn & thanks for your comment. Yes,indeed, I did find it a very interesting book. I don't know if you've been to Allen Botkin's website, but it's worth checking out. I got in touch with him through the website to discuss a specific incident, and found him to be both very interesting and interested in what I had to say.
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