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SYCAMORE – The owner of a Cortland used-car dealership was charged with seven counts of identity theft Wednesday for allegedly using his customers' information to take out phony car loans.
Terry Morrow Jr., owner of Silver Star Motors in Cortland, is being investigated for 25 cases of identity theft, seven of which involved DeKalb County residents, DeKalb County court records show. The Missouri Attorney General's Office is investigating 18 cases linked to Morrow in Missouri.
Morrow, 25, of the 1200 block of Christopher Court in Elgin, faces seven Class 2 felony charges, all punishable by up to seven years in prison. He is being held at DeKalb County Jail on $750,000 bond.
No identity theft victim lost money, but each lending company Morrow used in his alleged scheme was defrauded of between $3,000 and $7,000, police said.
DeKalb County Sheriff Roger Scott said police made an arrest just in time, as Morrow was about to close shop and leave Cortland. At about 10 p.m. Tuesday, police were informed a U-Haul was at the dealership being loaded with office supplies and all the cars that were for sale were gone.
Morrow opened his Cortland business in April after moving from Missouri.
Once in custody, Morrow explained to police how he carried out the identity thefts, Scott said.
Scott said Morrow would find a vehicle for sale online and use that information, along with customer information he obtained through his dealership, to take out a loan from a finance company. Morrow told police he would give the finance companies a bogus address for the borrower.
Morrow would never actually buy the vehicles, but pocketed the loan proceeds.
Once he received the loan, he would make initial payments but then stop, Scott said. Because he provided incorrect addresses to the loan companies, those institutions would have a difficult time tracking down the customers who had the loans in their names, Scott said.
According to court documents, police were tipped off when a customer of the dealership reported receiving a payment book for a loan for a 2003 Mercury Mountaineer, even though he had purchased a 2001 Ford Windstar from the dealership in October.
Finance company representatives told police they had all of the customer's information, including a photograph copy of his driver's license. When police contacted Morrow about the situation, Morrow told them his website had been hacked and he too was a victim of identity theft because of the hacking, court records show.
But police discovered two other DeKalb County residents with similar problems at the dealership and later learned the Missouri Attorney General's Office was investigating Morrow over similar complaints from residents.
Scott said he expects the Missouri Attorney General's Office to file charges and will inform them of the arrest.

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Joined: 21 Feb 2006
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Location: UT
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:34 pm
Post subject: Shovelgloving for women
Hi, I just found this site and love the concept of "useful movement".
The "country/cowboy strong" postings reminded me of my childhood. My brothers always had that chiseled upperbody and slim waist physique that comes from working on a ranch. They looked great. Unfortunately, I always thought my upper body strength was unfeminine.
Are there any women who have been shovelgloving long enough to notice the effects on a female body? I would love to hear your opinions.
Maybe sticking with a lighter sledgehammer is the answer. When we loaded and stacked hay (incidently Reinhardt, we call it "bucking bales" out west) we were lifting very heavy bales.
One more thing....I know I just found you all, but as a newbie, I like the concept of the chiseled masculine body holding a shovelglove in some way for the t shirt idea. The idea with the separate arms holding the shovelglove in a wheel would probably look cool, but seems exclusionary to anyone who isn't in it.
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Location: The Village
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:42 pm
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I'm middle-aged Mom, 5'1", very petite...and I do Shovelglove sometimes, in addition to other exercises.
My sledgehammer is 4 pounds (6 pounds total, with the handle), and it has a short (almost 14 inches) handle, much shorter than what the others here are using, I think.
I like to look like a lady, not like a man, but Shovelgloving hasn't hurt me any. It provides a good range of motion with a weighted object. I have an easier time carrying groceries in from the car, or lifting heavy cases of food at the grocery store where I work.
As with any form of weightlifting, a man's physique comes from his supply of male hormones, not just from his exercise program. A woman has to spend a LOT more time with very heavy weights to achieve the masculine "muscled" look. If you spend the typical 14 minutes with a lite or medium weight sledgehammer, you will be strong and defined, but still every inch a woman.
Hope this helps.
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Location: NY
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:37 pm
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The idea with the separate arms holding the shovelglove in a wheel would probably look cool, but seems exclusionary to anyone who isn't in it.
So true!
I agree Junie, I realized that after I wrote that idea! LOL..
Welcome to the group...
I don't feel I look anything but feminine.. (And that includes when I am tossing guys over my shoulders and kicking ass in arm wrestling!!!
) But really, you would have to be really pumping iron and drinking creatine shakes to end up looking like a WWF contestant.. LOL..
I have lost over two inches of fat from a combination this year of SG and yoga.... Mainly SG has just helped with being strong, not bulky... I'm losing inches not gaining... It's not irreversible, so why not just see how you evolve as you go along and decide if you like your results..
You don't have to do it if end up feeling you are unhappy with what you see... It's a real fun workout so, I say, just give it a try!
Peace and Love,
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Location: Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:26 am
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I like it that my arms look better defined and less 'flabby'. I'm losing my 'chicken fillet wings' too.
How can it be unfeminine to have strong and healthy muscles? They're not bulky or bulgy at all, but the shape is definately good. My husband has also not complained at my new 'sculpted' arm and shoulder muscles either - on the contrary in fact!
Try it out for a few weeks and see what you think. I PROMISE it won't make you look like popeye
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Posts: 38
Location: UT
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 2:37 pm
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Thank you all for replying to my post.
I like the term sculpted. I also like the idea of using a sledgehammer with a shorter handel, then as you progress, you could use a longer handel instead of a heavier sledgehammer (if they make them).
The whole idea is just to ammusingly irresistable. I have to try it. I'm going sledgehammer shopping today.
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Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:29 pm
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Welcome, Juniebumble.
Besides our fabulous native talent, "Mistress Krista" over at stumptuous.com has a couple of pages in which she describes how she incorporates shovelglove into her routine.
There were a couple other bulletin board discussions about this a while ago here that you may also want to have a look at:
Don't worry about bulking up into she-hulk over night. It's really, really hard to do this, even for testosterone laden men. It's not something that's going to happen all of a sudden, by accident.
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Location: Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:35 pm
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Hi Lou,
you don't actually need a sledge with a shorter handle - just hold the handle closer to the head of the hammer. That way, you can use more or less leverage, depending on how hard you want it to be.
Have fun!
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Posts: 38
Location: UT
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:43 pm
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Thanks again everyone for responding to my question.
In hindsight, if I would have really thought about my question, 14 minutes a day of these types of movements aren't going to turn anyone into a she hulk (love it). I must have had a knee jerk reaction to the term coutry strong.
Let's face it, as I sit here in my 30+ year old, post maternity and post breast feeding body, what I wouldn't give to be fit and strong like I was as a teenager......biceps and all.
I found myself a six pound sledgehammer and didn't have a choice on the handle length so I am doing as CaroJo suggested. I don't know how effective my first try was, because it was hard to take myself seriously. But I am going to keep at it because so far the No S diet rules have been so easy.
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Location: NY
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:48 pm
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Hi Junie,
Also, keep in mind that I think David the aforementioned "country strong" man amongst us (I think?) uses a 16 lb sledge (I think!?)
David? I forget???
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Posts: 582
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:58 pm
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Yeah, I brought up the "country strong" idea a while back. To clarify, I meant increased strength and capacity for work in "real world" arenas vs. being able to lift a bunch in the weight room. I didn't mean to imply anything at all about bulk.
Also, for the record, I just recently upgraded to a 12-lb. sledge. I feel no need to move up to 16 pounds anytime soon.
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On November 2 2011 Rockstar Games released the first official trailer for Grand Theft Auto V. The song used in the trailer is Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake by Samll Faces.
Trailer Analysis
|A Beach, possibly Santa Maria Beach with a lifeguard shack and a couple and a dog are present. The trio are walking along.
|Two male joggers running down a jetty. 2 females look back at the pair.
|A view of Los Santos. The screen reads "Rockstar Games Presents".
|A golf player on a golf course with a Caddy present.
|A man on a Speedophile 2000 Jetski
|Three hikers with a view of the surrounding countryside.
|A red convertible waits for woman crossing the street. There is an eCola ad behind the car, the same parody of Coca-Cola seen in GTA IV. The man driving the car makes other appearances in the trailer. The convertible is in the process of putting down its roof.
|Several Wind Power generators.
|A male and a female preforming aerobics on the balcony of a luxury home, possibly a parody of Malibu.
|Several cars driving along the Los Puerta Freeway. The other signs read "Downtown" and "Little Seoul" (Seoul is the capital of South Korea, and the name is likely a play on the real-life Koreatown neighborhood in Los Angeles).
|A sunset view of a Gym by a beach, resembling the real-life "Muscle Beach" on Venice Beach. Two signs read "Pump Buddy" and "Muscle Sands".
|A view of a street.
|Possibly the top of a construction site, with a sign reading "The Mile High Club". It is adjacent to the skyscraper resembling the US Bank Tower. A red Crane is visible.
|A man overlooking the city. He appears elsewhere in the trailer, in different clothes.
|A Cropduster spraying a field.
|Three men dressed as exterminators and wielding silenced AK47s storming a building. The man that knocks on the van was the man from the balcony, and one of the exterminators hopping out of the back was the man with the red convertible. Their robbery target looks like the shopping plaza on Rodeo Drive and Wilshire Boulevard in real life.
|A blue convertible driving fast down a street. The driver was the man on the balcony.
|Various street scenes in the city.
|A man hammering a "For Sale" sign in front of a house.
|Possible hookers talking to someone in a car. The car resembles an early 80s Camaro or Trans-Am.
|Another scene with a fast moving black convertible. It resembles an Audi R8.
|A Tramp holding up a cardboard sign ("Need Money for Beer, Pot and Hookers. (At least I'm not bullshitting U)" and an alley filled with more tramps and tents.
|A Jet flying between the city's buildings.
|A bouncer throwing someone out of a club. The awning reads "Tequi-La-La".
|A Brute oil rig.
|A Police Car chasing a red convertible. It's the same car with the same driver from the 0:23-0:27 scene.
|The red convertible driver, on foot, running away from three police officers and a Police Maverick.
|A burning police car with an Ambulance visible.
|The Vinewood sign with a Lear jet (possibly a Shamal) flying over it.
|The Lear jet flies towards the city with a Blimp visible in the background. The skyline includes the Mile High Club under construction, next to the US Bank Tower parody. The GTA V logo appears.
The transcript of the trailer goes from 0:02-0:45.
Why did I move here? I guess it was the weather.
Or the... Ah I don't know, that thing. That magic.
You see it in the movies.
I wanted to retire. From what I was doing, you know?
From that, that... line of work. Be a good guy for once, a family man.
So, I bought a big house. Came here, put my feet up, and thought I be a dad like all the other dads.
My kids, would be like the kids on TV.
We could play ball and sit in the sun.
But well, you know how it is.
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A beach with a dog
- GTAV-JetSki.jpg
A Jet Ski, marked Speedophile 2000
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Hikers at the base of a mountain near Los Santos
- GTAV-Convertible.jpg
A convertible car retracting its roof
- GTAV-wind power generators.jpg
Several wind power generators near Los Santos.
- GTAV-Suit.jpg
A man in a suit overlooking the city. Some fans have claimed this may be an older Tommy Vercetti, but his voice actor did not return for GTA V[1]
- GTAV-CropDuster.jpg
A crop dusting plane over a vineyard
- GTAV-Robbing.jpg
Four men attempt to rob a store dressed as exterminators, notice the accessories on the rifle and the driver
- GTAV-Oil.jpg
A pumpjack on an oil well
- GTAV-LSPD.jpg
An LSPD Police Cruiser with the words "Obey & Survive" written on the passenger door
- GTAV-Chopper.jpg
A police helicopter chasing a man
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The Vinewood sign
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A Learjet-based plane (similar to a Shamal) flying over the city


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What do you mean by the Geo? I'm loving all these mysterious responses.So Canadians don't have ANYTHING to do with FAFSA?Do Canadians have any chance of need based financial assistance from U.S school?Without either of these forms of financials aid what are our options in terms of loans? Are private bank loans such as RBC, etc. the only way to go?Thanks again
Unless you're eligible for FAFSA, I dont think you can get any federal (US) aid. Schools seeminly have limited aid for international students. Private loans seem almost like the only way to go. Doesn't necessarily mean that private bank is the only way to go, but yes you are going to have to borrow from somewhere outside the school.


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Davy Jones' death was a crushing blow to thousands of famous people across the Internet -- including Al Roker ... who spoke for millions when he tweeted, "A little bit of my youth just died."
Elijah Wood, Boy George, and Rosie O'Donnell also weighed in online ... check out some of the Twibutes.
R.I.P Davy Jones!— boygeorge (@BoyGeorge) February 29, 2012
davey jones .....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qtW1jAwZgUsad- bobby sherman - david cassidy - my tiger beat pin up boys— Rosie O'Donnell (@Rosie) February 29, 2012
Listen to "She" and "Daydream Believer", Davy Jones has passed. Very sad news.— Elijah Wood (@woodelijah) February 29, 2012
Davy Jones of the Monkees is dead. He was 66 years old. A little bit of my youth just died— Al Roker (@alroker) February 29, 2012
He was the original celebrity high school prom-crasher. Love you Davy RT @questlove damn. Davy Jones is gone. I loved the #Monkees— Seth Green (@SethGreen) February 29, 2012
Davy Jones and The Monkeees were such an important part of my childhood...I'm speechless...— Melissa Gilbert (@MelissaEGilbert) February 29, 2012
RIP Davy Jones. Marcia had good taste.— Andy Cohen (@BravoAndy) February 29, 2012
So sad-I was just at an event w/him. RT @HarveyLevinTMZ: Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at 66 #rip #davyjones #monkees tmz.com/2012/02/29/dav…— Shannon Elizabeth (@ShannonElizab) February 29, 2012
damn. Davy Jones is gone. i loved the Monkees— Questo of The Roots (@questlove) February 29, 2012
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Yep. That's right. So y'all come sit. But we'll be done at Noon. K?
Details are in the links section to your left.
Yep. That's right. So y'all come sit. But we'll be done at Noon. K?
Details are in the links section to your left.
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lies continued
questions ignored
belief is a powerful thing.. I believe you are deluded.
You know, mr/ms WTC, 9/11 person
This is not the first, nor will it be the last multi-leveled subterfuge.
These things occur on much smaller scales everyday.
It is good to be aware of them
It is good to not believe what you are told, but to believe what is reality itself.
There is no need to convince anyone else.
With all the untruthfulness around, just be truthful,
When people say things about you, just let them say them it is not possible to dissuade someone from loyalties to their own delusions.
I for one, don't think that you are deluded, but at the same time it is possible to be not-deluded in a deluded way, in a deluded direction, down a deluded path.
I am not trying to dissuade you from your loyalty to the pursuit of truth, I just think the pursuit of reality
is the path without delusions.
Thank you.
...yes...right on.....
Don't listen to 'em! Buddha worked for the CIA; he was in under deep cover posing as a guru while directing the training of Tibetan independence fighters in the Himalayan foothills.
No, seriously, good 'reality' post, Anon... (CIA?)
"And It shall end at Noon, for that is a time convenient and round, most blessed for Lunch, so sayeth the Brad the Warner."
> There is no need to convince anyone else.
Then how is it that democracy proceeds,
if not by nonviolent persuasion
based on honest inquiry?
After sitting quietly for a while,
one must eventually
get up and wash the dishes.
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You have to say something."
-- Dainin Katagiri
"My definition of a free society is a society
where it is safe to be unpopular."
-- Adlai Stevenson
At a certain point, silence is complicity.
The banality of evil is just going along
with the crowd.
> it is not possible to dissuade someone from
> loyalties to their own delusions.
Not so. I was persuaded to abandon my false views
when kind individuals pointed out for consideration
evidence that had been censored.
> but at the same time it is possible to be
> not-deluded in a deluded way,
> in a deluded direction, down a deluded path.
Hmm, interesting...
Can you be a little more concrete?
Specifically how can one proceed
in a non-deluded fashion?
Thanks in advance.
Conservation of Energy
If an object moves with free-fall acceleration,
then ALL its gravitational potential energy
is being converted to kinetic energy.
Ask yourself: where is the extra energy coming
from to defeat the inertial resistance of
massive amounts of structural steel and concrete?
(God, I wish Richard Feynman were still alive :(
Harry said...
"No, seriously, good 'reality' post, Anon... (CIA?)"
Yep, CIA.
( all the way ;)
K pasa with these comments?
Hey Anon, or is it anon? I sympathise with with your distrust of the "received reality", but Popular Mechanics ran a story back in '05 that pretty much de-bunked all the so-called evidence you talk about.
But hey, who am I to say anything. I've never even been to NYC.
Thanks PhilBob, but...
Popular Mechanics -- 8/15/06
(with a foreword written by John McCain)
has been thoroughly critiqued
by David Ray Griffin in
Debunking 9/11 Debunking -- 3/30/07.
If you can spare the time,
bring yourself up to speed
9/11 Mysteries
9/11: Blueprint for Truth
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
BTW, Happy JFK Day!
(and yeah, you're right, "people suck" ;)
anon, there is a small whiff of paranoia in your posts. do you post anon because you are worried that the men in black might come looking for you, or are you just shy?
but wait! i'm 'anon'!
no, I'M 'ANON'!
oh shit! I'm 'anon'....
whats all that got to do with RIGHT NOW?
That was the right now views of many which became the right now views of you when you were reading this crap.
Right now is just for entertainment, why don't you do something helpful, right now!
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SOMERSWORTH — A Somersworth man has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a minor and helped another man do the same thing.
Prosecutors allege that 20-year-old Steven Yerakes, of Winter Street in Somersworth, engaged in a pattern of sexual abuse against a child, beginning when the child was 11 and continuing when the child was 12.
The abuse allegedly took place on or between May 12, 2009 and Sept. 5, 2010, according to the indictments returned by a Strafford County grand jury earlier this month.
During that same time period, Yerakes also allegedly brought the child to another man named Mark Rousselle on multiple occasions to help Rousselle sexually abuse the child.
Rousselle was arrested in October 2010. The 45-year-old Somersworth resident was sentenced in July to serve two consecutive terms of 8 to 30 years in prison for alcohol-facilitated sexual assault, according to The New Hampshire Union Leader. He also received another term that was suspended.
Yerakes has been charged with one count of aggravated sexual assault and one count of being an accomplice to the same crime. Both are felonies, and carry maximum sentences of between 10 and 20 years in prison and $4,000 fines.
Yerakes was indicted Nov. 15. An indictment is not an indication of guilt. Rather, it signifies that a grand jury found sufficient evidence to warrant a trial.
SOMERSWORTH — A Somersworth man has been indicted on charges he sexually assaulted a minor and helped another man do the same thing.


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Yahoo Releases Anti-Spam Technique For Upcoming Standards Battle
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One thing that you can guarantee in the technology world is that there will never be a shortage of standards battles. While AOL is supporting Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as their way of authenticating email senders, Microsoft is pushing their "caller ID" method of combating spoofed spam and Yahoo has been pushing ahead with their own DomainKeys proposal. Today, Yahoo is making some news by announcing that they're releasing the technology as a standard. A standard for whom? So far, it seems like it's just Yahoo. Are we going to reach a point where our mail servers are going to need to separately check DomainKeys, SPF, email Caller ID, some giant useless "do not spam" database, and twenty other anti-spam systems before they'll be able to forward mail? Is it really a "standard" if everyone has their own?


text: Latest News CONFIRMED: St. Petersburg suicide bomber positively identified The suicide bomber has been named. Published 2 years ago on April 4, 2017 By Adam 1,252 Views Share Tweet The Russian Investigative Committee the identity of the suicide bomber responsible for yesterday's terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg Metro. 22 year old Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, blew him self up killing 14 and wounding 47 in the attack using a bomb filled with shrapnel. St. Petersburg suicide bomber Akbarzhon Dzhalilov In addition to blowing himself up on a train near Sennaya Ploshchad station, the Russian authorities have further confirmed that Dzhalilov also planted a device later defused by police at the Ploschad Vosstaniya Metro station. According to a statement from The Russian Investigative Committee, "The conclusion of DNA testing and CCTV footage suggest that it was the same individual who carried out the explosion and had left a bag with an explosive device on the Ploschad Vosstaniya station". FURTHER DETAILS AS THEY EMERGE Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! 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Published 12 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Alex Christoforou According to Zerohedge, in an almost unprecedented event – having rarely commented on stories related to the special counsel's investigation – Robert S. Mueller III's office put out a statement firmly disputing the reporting of the news site BuzzFeed reported that the president instructed his personal attorney to lie to Congress about his push for a Moscow real estate project "BuzzFeed's description of specific statements to the Special Counsel's Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen's Congressional testimony are not accurate," the special counsel's office said. As The Hill reports, BuzzFeed had released a statement earlier Friday defending the reporters behind the story and saying that it "stands by this story 100%," and for his part, Cohen adviser Lanny Davis refused to confirm or deny the report during an interview with MSNBC on Friday afternoon. President Trump retweeted a few social media reactions… I told you all that the BuzzFeed story was nonsense. pic.twitter.com/gbTXPjpVtk — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 19, 2019 We called it. FAKE NEWS! "More Buzzfeed B.S." https://t.co/aOIPJJu0vH — Dan Bongino (@dbongino) January 19, 2019 And then made his own views clear: Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited "Dossier," paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based! A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2019 Fake News is truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2019 Meanwhile the real election collusion bombshell had nothing to do with Russia, Moscow hotels, or Michael Cohen, and everything to do with bullet proof evidence that DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, warned all the higher-ups at the FBI and DOJ (Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe, etc…) that the Steele dossier was connected to Hillary Clinton, and was extremely biased against Donald Trump. The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss how BuzzFeed pushed out a clear, fake propaganda story on Trump, Cohen, and more stupidity about Moscow hotel deals, as real reporter, John Solomon broke a massive story, with solid evidence and facts, that show the FBI and DOJ knew that the Steele dossier was a complete work of fiction, and knowingly hide that fact from FISA courts. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. Authored by John Solomon, via The Hill… When the annals of mistakes and abuses in the FBI's Russia investigation are finally written, Bruce Ohr almost certainly will be the No. 1 witness, according to my sources. The then-senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official briefed both senior FBI and DOJ officials in summer 2016 about Christopher Steele's Russia dossier, explicitly cautioning that the British intelligence operative's work was opposition research connected to Hillary Clinton's campaign and might be biased. Ohr's briefings, in July and August 2016, included the deputy director of the FBI, a top lawyer for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and a Justice official who later would become the top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller. At the time, Ohr was the associate deputy attorney general. Yet his warnings about political bias were pointedly omitted weeks later from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that the FBI obtainedfrom a federal court, granting it permission to spy on whether the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia to hijack the 2016 presidential election. Ohr's activities, chronicled in handwritten notes and congressional testimony I gleaned from sources, provide the most damning evidence to date that FBI and DOJ officials may have misled federal judges in October 2016 in their zeal to obtain the warrant targeting Trump adviser Carter Page just weeks before Election Day. They also contradict a key argument that House Democrats have made in their formal intelligence conclusions about the Russia case. Since it was disclosed last year that Steele's dossier formed a central piece of evidence supporting the FISA warrant, Justice and FBI officials have been vague about exactly when they learned that Steele's work was paid for by the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A redacted version of the FISA application released last year shows the FBI did not mention any connection to the DNC or Clinton. Rather, it referred to Steele as a reliable source in past criminal investigations who was hired by a person working for a U.S. law firm to conduct research on Trump and Russia. The FBI claimed it was "unaware of any derogatory information" about Steele, that Steele was "never advised … as to the motivation behind the research" but that the FBI "speculates" that those who hired Steele were "likely looking for information to discredit" Trump's campaign. Yet, in testimony last summer to congressional investigators, Ohr revealed the FBI and Justice lawyers had no need to speculate: He explicitly warned them in a series of contacts, beginning July 31, 2016, that Steele expressed biased against Trump and was working on a project connected to the Clinton campaign. Ohr had firsthand knowledge about the motive and the client: He had just met with Steele on July 30, 2016, and Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the same firm employing Steele. "I certainly told the FBI that Fusion GPS was working with, doing opposition research on Donald Trump," Ohr told congressional investigators, adding that he warned the FBI that Steele expressed bias during their conversations. "I provided information to the FBI when I thought Christopher Steele was, as I said, desperate that Trump not be elected," he added. "So, yes, of course I provided that to the FBI." When pressed why he would offer that information to the FBI, Ohr answered: "In case there might be any kind of bias or anything like that." He added later, "So when I provided it to the FBI, I tried to be clear that this is source information, I don't know how reliable it is. You're going to have to check it out and be aware." Ohr went further, saying he disclosed to FBI agents that his wife and Steele were working for the same firm and that it was conducting the Trump-Russia research project at the behest of Trump's Democratic rival, the Clinton campaign. "These guys were hired by somebody relating to, who's related to the Clinton campaign and be aware," Ohr told Congress, explaining what he warned the bureau. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented both the DNC and the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election, belatedly admitted it paid Fusion GPS for Steele's work on behalf of the candidate and party and disguised the payments as legal bills when, in fact, it was opposition research. When asked if he knew of any connection between the Steele dossier and the DNC, Ohr responded that he believed the project was really connected to the Clinton campaign. "I didn't know they were employed by the DNC but I certainly said yes that they were working for, you know, they were somehow working, associated with the Clinton campaign," he answered. "I also told the FBI that my wife worked for Fusion GPS or was a contractor for GPS, Fusion GPS." Ohr divulged his first contact with the FBI was on July 31, 2016, when he reached out to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI attorney Lisa Page. He then was referred to the agents working Russia counterintelligence, including Peter Strzok, the now-fired agent who played a central role in starting the Trump collusion probe. But Ohr's contacts about the Steele dossier weren't limited to the FBI. He said in August 2016 — nearly two months before the FISA warrant was issued — that he was asked to conduct a briefing for senior Justice officials. Those he briefed included Andrew Weissmann, then the head of DOJ's fraud section; Bruce Swartz, longtime head of DOJ's international operations, and Zainab Ahmad, an accomplished terrorism prosecutor who, at the time, was assigned to work with Lynch as a senior counselor. Ahmad and Weissmann would go on to work for Mueller, the special prosecutor overseeing the Russia probe. Ohr's extensive testimony also undercuts one argument that House Democrats sought to make last year. When Republicans, in early 2018, first questioned Ohr's connections to Steele, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee sought to minimize the connection, insisting he only worked as an informer for the FBI after Steele was fired by the FBI in November 2016. The memo from Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) team claimed that Ohr's contacts with the FBI only began "weeks after the election and more than a month after the Court approved the initial FISA application." But Ohr's testimony now debunks that claim, making clear he started talking to FBI and DOJ officials well before the FISA warrant or election had occurred. And his detailed answers provide a damning rebuttal to the FBI's portrayal of the Steele material. In fact, the FBI did have derogatory information on Steele: Ohr explicitly told the FBI that Steele was desperate to defeat the man he was investigating and was biased. And the FBI knew the motive of the client and did not have to speculate: Ohr told agents the Democratic nominee's campaign was connected to the research designed to harm Trump's election chances. Such omissions are, by definition, an abuse of the FISA system. Don't take my word for it. Fired FBI Director James Comey acknowledged it himself when he testified last month that the FISA court relies on an honor system, in which the FBI is expected to divulge exculpatory evidence to the judges. "We certainly consider it our obligation, because of our trust relationship with federal judges, to present evidence that would paint a materially different picture of what we're presenting," Comey testified on Dec. 7, 2018. "You want to present to the judge reviewing your application a complete picture of the evidence, both its flaws and its strengths." Comey claims he didn't know about Ohr's contacts with Steele, even though his top deputy, McCabe, got the first contact. But none of that absolves his FBI, or the DOJ for that matter, from failing to divulge essential and exculpatory information from Ohr to the FISA court. John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists' misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He is The Hill's executive vice president for video. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest At Age 70, Time To Rethink NATO The architect of Cold War containment, Dr. George Kennan, warned that moving NATO into Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics would prove a "fateful error." Published 16 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Patrick J. Buchanan Authored by Patrick Buchanan via The Unz Review: "Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last." So said President Charles De Gaulle, who in 1966 ordered NATO to vacate its Paris headquarters and get out of France. NATO this year celebrates a major birthday. The young girl of 1966 is no longer young. The alliance is 70 years old. And under this aging NATO today, the U.S. is committed to treat an attack on any one of 28 nations from Estonia to Montenegro to Romania to Albania as an attack on the United States. The time is ripe for a strategic review of these war guarantees to fight a nuclear-armed Russia in defense of countries across the length of Europe that few could find on a map. Apparently, President Donald Trump, on trips to Europe, raised questions as to whether these war guarantees comport with vital U.S. interests and whether they could pass a rigorous cost-benefit analysis. The shock of our establishment that Trump even raised this issue in front of Europeans suggests that the establishment, frozen in the realities of yesterday, ought to be made to justify these sweeping war guarantees. Celebrated as "the most successful alliance in history," NATO has had two histories. Some of us can yet recall its beginnings. In 1948, Soviet troops, occupying eastern Germany all the way to the Elbe and surrounding Berlin, imposed a blockade on the city. The regime in Prague was overthrown in a Communist coup. Foreign minister Jan Masaryk fell, or was thrown, from a third-story window to his death. In 1949, Stalin exploded an atomic bomb. As the U.S. Army had gone home after V-E Day, the U.S. formed a new alliance to protect the crucial European powers — West Germany, France, Britain, Italy. Twelve nations agreed that an attack on one would be treated as an attack on them all. Cross the Elbe and you are at war with us, including the U.S. with its nuclear arsenal, Stalin was, in effect, told. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops returned to Europe to send the message that America was serious. Crucial to the alliance was the Yalta line dividing Europe agreed to by Stalin, FDR and Churchill at the 1945 Crimean summit on the Black Sea. U.S. presidents, even when monstrous outrages were committed in Soviet-occupied Europe, did not cross this line into the Soviet sphere. Truman did not send armored units up the highway to Berlin. He launched an airlift to break the Berlin blockade. Ike did not intervene to save the Hungarian rebels in 1956. JFK confined his rage at the building of the Berlin Wall to the rhetorical: "Ich bin ein Berliner." LBJ did nothing to help the Czechs when, before the Democratic convention in 1968, Leonid Brezhnev sent Warsaw Pact tank armies to crush the Prague Spring. When the Solidarity movement of Lech Walesa was crushed in Gdansk, Reagan sent copy and printing machines. At the Berlin Wall in 1988, he called on Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Reagan never threatened to tear it down himself. But beginning in 1989, the Wall was torn down, Germany was united, the Red Army went home, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the USSR broke apart into 15 nations, and Leninism expired in its birthplace. As the threat that had led to NATO disappeared, many argued that the alliance created to deal with that threat should be allowed to fade away, and a free and prosperous Europe should now provide for its own defense. It was not to be. The architect of Cold War containment, Dr. George Kennan, warned that moving NATO into Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics would prove a "fateful error." This, said Kennan, would "inflame the nationalistic and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion" and "restore the atmosphere of the cold war in East-West relations." Kennan was proven right. America is now burdened with the duty to defend Europe from the Atlantic to the Baltic, even as we face a far greater threat in China, with an economy and population 10 times that of Russia. And we must do this with a defense budget that is not half the share of the federal budget or the GDP that Eisenhower and Kennedy had. Trump is president today because the American people concluded that our foreign policy elite, with their endless interventions where no vital U.S. interest was imperiled, had bled and virtually bankrupted us, while kicking away all of the fruits of our Cold War victory. Halfway into Trump's term, the question is whether he is going to just talk about halting Cold War II with Russia, about demanding that Europe pay for its own defense, and about bringing the troops home — or whether he is going to act upon his convictions. Our foreign policy establishment is determined to prevent Trump from carrying out his mandate. And if he means to carry out his agenda, he had best get on with it. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The ISIS attack in Syria appears to have failed in its real mission ISIS probably tried to get Mr. Trump to keep troops in Syria, but in reality this attack shows no compelling reason to remain there. Published 23 hours ago on January 19, 2019 By Seraphim Hanisch ISIS is one of the bloodiest, most brutal organizations to ever exist in modern history. During its meteoric rise, the "Caliphate" struck with death and fear across the deserts of Iraq and the wastes of Syria, seducing a seemingly increasing number of recruits from the West, developing its own currency and financing abilities, all the while remaining a death cult, in the conviction that their eventual destruction would trigger a far greater Islamic uprising. But something changed for them starting in about 2013. While ISIS got quietly aided and abetted by President Obama's (perhaps not unwitting) support through neglect and then even quieter collaboration (Obama thought ISIS could be "managed" in the effort to oust Bashar Al-Assad from Syria), its power and reach extended through much of Syria. But then came Russia. Russia didn't think ISIS should be managed. Russia determined that ISIS should be destroyed. And in 2015, invited by Syria, the Russians came and went to work. They did most of the heavy lifting in terms of driving ISIS back, while (inconveniently for the US and West) also carefully taking back Syrian territory from antigovernment groups that were supported by the US and its coalition of forces operating in the country, including Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, and all the names it took on afterwards. This was quietly carried out because the Americans also had face to save, owing to Obama's clumsy decision to send American forces into the country, which gradually grew and metastasized into a significantly sized fighting force. With an extremely complicated group of alliances and enemies, the American forces were forced to quietly abandon their mission of removing Bashar al-Assad from power and to pivot to actually destroying ISIS. President Trump does deserve some credit for his part in helping this to happen. He also deserves a lot of credit for his recent decision to pull American troops out of Syria. This move was severely condemned by the US hawks, resulting in the resignation / firing / retirement of former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and, in an amusing show of hypocrisy, the pundits from the Anti-Trump crowd at CNN and other news outlets characterized this decision as the US President proving once and for all that he is a Putin operative, a real-life Manchurian President. ISIS evidently wanted the US not to leave either, so it conducted an attack on Wednesday, January 16th, tragically killing 19 people, with four Americans among the dead. The New York Times was lightning-fast to jump into the fray to carry out what was probably ISIS' real mission with this attack: to sow seeds of doubt among the US authorities, and to keep American forces in the region (emphasis added). Four Americans were among 19 people killed in Syria on Wednesday in a suicide bombing that was claimed by the Islamic State, just weeks after President Trump ordered the withdrawal of United States forces and declared that the extremist group had been defeated. The attack targeted an American military convoy in the northern city of Manbij while troops were inside the Palace of the Princes, a restaurant where they often stopped to eat during patrols, residents said. While the Americans were inside, a nearby suicide attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up. The bombing raised new questions about Mr. Trump's surprise decision last month to end the American ground war in Syria. Critics of the president's plans, including members of his own party, said Mr. Trump's claim of victory over the Islamic State may have emboldened its fighters and encouraged Wednesday's strike… Mr. Trump's withdrawal announcement, made over the objections of his top national security officials, "set in motion enthusiasm by the enemy we're fighting," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and a prominent Trump ally who has nonetheless criticized the military drawdown. "I saw this in Iraq. And I'm now seeing it in Syria," Mr. Graham said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. The rest of the article, of course, had the Trump Administration defending itself, with Vice President Mike Pence as the spokesman of that defense. However, already only two days later, the noise about this seems to have faded. There is no ongoing media fury about the President's decision to remove troops. In fact, aside from the ongoing investigation to confirm that ISIS indeed did carry out this attack, there is no indication of a change in the troop withdrawal process. If this situation remains as it is, it is a very good sign for these reasons: President Trump is showing his resolve and confidence in a decision he knows to be right (to withdraw) and not to accede to the War Party wishes. ISIS is losing its reputation as a significant fighting force as far as the US population is concerned, as it probably should. With the US gone, Russia can prosecute this war full force without risk of creating more serious incidents with the Americans. The possibility exists that this attack, already heinous in what we know, could have been a false flag, designed specifically to provoke the US troop withdrawal to stop and be reversed. This last scenario has oddly not been visibly mentioned, but it should be, because it probably happened in April 2018 and earlier. The Duran covered this quite extensively, and while the "official" (Western) investigation has come up curiously silent on the alleged chemical weapons attack last April in Ghouta, the overwhelming body of reports from the region suggested that the "gas" attack was nothing at all but drama to keep the US ensnared in the region. Remember, President Trump at that time also expressed the intention of withdrawing US troops from the area, and this event caused a reversal for a time. ISIS tried to become a nation. It operates on terror and theater, but it considers itself free to kill people along the way as it creates its pageantry. For the souls of all those innocent people who perished in this attack, we must pray and not forget. But ISIS is substantially done, and what is left will be dealt with by Russian and Syrian forces. For once, the definition of "American courage" might be not to fight. 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So, if you've seen the Scrapbook Update Black Friday Scrapbook Sales page, you know that there are an awful lot of scrappy sales happening this holiday weekend. But how do you know which ones on that massive list are any good? Let's break them down by category a bit.
In the area of specific products, let's take a look first at the mandatory Cricut Wars sales (perhaps the most confusing of all the deals, since there are so many sales on these items), and find the best deals by model:
Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter: Jo-Ann Stores, $59.99 Friday & Saturday (unadvertised doorbuster, available online)
Cricut Create: $149 at both Walmart and Amazon. (I give the advantage to Amazon on this one since having the UPS man bring it to your house with free shipping is less stress-inducing than fighting the Black Friday crowds at Walmart, or having to drive to the store to pick it up later from the site-to-store free shipping.)
Cricut Expression: $148 at Menard's on a Black Friday early bird special; if you don't have Menard's near you, the next best deal is Walmart at $185 for the machines that come in four decorator colors.
Cricut Cake: $199 at AC Moore (Friday 5am-Noon doorbuster) or Joann.com (Sunday, online only)
Cricut Imagine: $449 at Jo-Ann Stores and Joann.com (available now)
Cricut Gypsy: $99 at Michael's (no coupons)
Cricut Cartridges: Prices are fairly competitive (within a couple dollars) everywhere. Best destination depends mostly on what cartridges you want (since availability varies) and what other items you want to purchase as well.
There are some great deals to be had on other die cutting equipment besides Cricut, however. Most of the deals are on manual equipment, with one exception: Jo-Ann Stores is running a doorbuster on Saturday on the Slice machine for $49.99. That is an insane deal on a machine that has an MSRP of $149.99.
If you want a Sizzix machine or want to buy more dies for your existing one, several stores are competing heavily this weekend to get you to visit them.
Sizzix Holiday Themed Dies: 75% off at Jo-Ann Stores (Friday-Sunday)
Sizzix Machines & Accessories: 50% off at Joann.com (Thursday only), or 40% off at AC Moore (Friday & Saturday, while supplies last)
Sizzix Vagabond Machine: $199.99 at AC Moore (Friday & Saturday, while supplies last) or $199.92 on Scrapbook.com (Thursday only, assuming it is not excluded from the Sizzix sale that day).
If you are looking to get organized, another item that can be large-ticket for scrapbookers, there are some really great deals to be had this weekend. Sales on organizing items are really widespread, but here are a few of the best bargains:
Iris 12×12 Scrapbook Case 3pk: $5.79 at Michaels. (while supplies last, no coupons)
Cropper Hopper 10 Drawer Scrapbook Cart: $34.99 at Jo-Ann Stores (Friday doorbuster, while supplies last, reg. $89.99)
Scrapbook Storage, Entire Stock: 55% off at Michaels (Thursday only)
JetMax Modular Storage Units: 60% off at AC Moore (Friday & Saturday, while supplies last)
If you want to score deals on products that aren't technically on sale, or increase your savings on sale items, your best bet is AC Moore and Michaels. They are both running coupons on Friday that are good until noon for an extra 30% off sale and regular priced items. (Doorbusters are excluded and the usual coupon exclusions also apply.)
For brand loyal fanatics, you may want to check out the sales at Scrapbook.com and Addictedtoscrapbooking.com – they are offering slates of "brand wide" sales. Scrapbook.com is offering a single brand per day for six days, while Addicted is offering tiered sales on a large range of brands.
And perhaps the hottest deal of all is actually a clearance sale…if you are a Project Life by Becky Higgins fan and have been delaying buying the kit (or want a 2nd one), Friday is the day to do it. The Project Life kit will be on clearance at Amazon.com, where Becky sells it:
Project Life by Becky Higgins kit: $29.99 at Amazon.com (clearance, starts Friday)
So, that's the best of the sales…happy (and safe) shopping everyone!
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Johnny Knoxville's Bad Grandpa character has been a popular addition to the Jackass franchise films over the years, but it was still a bit of a surprise to hear the character would be getting his own movie. Despite the quick turnaround between the film's announcement and its theatrical release, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa ended up premiering to swell numbers and reviews when it hit theaters, and if you are a fan of the prankster character you can catch the flick when Paramount Home Media Distribution brings it onto Blu-ray, DVD and VOD on January 28.
The box art calls the flick "the funniest movie of the year," although I'd rank it somewhere between We're The Millers and This is the End in terms of amusement. The more important factor to note is that Johnny Knoxville's Bad Grandpa character can capably carry a movie, a fact I was skeptical about before the film hit theaters. Jumping from five minute-long sketches to a 91 minute-long film is a huge stretch, but Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine pull it off, thanks to creating a road trip plot to keep the hijinks interesting.
I'm not saying that Bad Grandpa is one of the most creative films of 2013. The plot revolves around 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Knoxville), a man who takes custody of an 8-year-old boy named Billy (Jackson Nicoll) soon after his wife dies. He eventually decides to go on a road trip to bury his wife down south and to hand Billy off to his actual father. This allows grandpa and grandson to traverse across the country and get into various comical situations and shenanigans. It's a serviceable plot with plenty of funny moments and hidden camera reactions from bystanders.
If you do opt to purchase Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa on Blu-ray, you'll get a little more than the theatrical release. While DVD copies come with no extras and just the theatrical release, Blu-ray copies will come with the theatrical edition but also an unrated edition that promises plenty of extra footage. Additionally, Blu-ray copies will come with all of the bonus features, which include behind the scenes footage from scenes like "Wedding Crashers" and "Beauty Pageant." Since the movie was a hidden camera affair and many people involved with the film had no idea they were going to be a part of the flick, some of the extras will be alternate reactions to onscreen antics that did not make the final cut of the film. Plenty of deleted scenes will also round out the bonus features. You can check out the full list of bonus features, below, or pre-order Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa over at Amazon.
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Hi All,
I need to deliver source code to client and my boss need to remove all the comments and #region sections from the whole web site source code.
So is there any functionality available in visual studio 2010 or may be in an other 3rd party tool available to do so, which can remove all the #region from all over the source code ?
Otherwise my developers has to do donkey work.... :(( and I don't wish it.
Any help or tips/tricks would be appreciated.
I have a web application that is actually installed as a component of a third party site. In some configurations, I need to remove certain connection strings and re-add them. I'm replacing this web.config section with a xml file that includes the following:
<connectionStrings> <remove name="MyOverridenConnection"/> <add connectionString="Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=MyDb;Data Source=MyServer" name="MyOverridenConnection" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings>
For some reason the remove tag is left out during the substitution and I end up with the following in the installed config:
<connectionStrings> <add connectionString="Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=MyDb;Data Source=MyServer" name="MyOverridenConnection" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings>
Is there any way to issue removes in replaced sec
i have a string like this sravani/, asdfff/, lsdsf/i want to remove last character '/' in the above string...which function can i use?pls help me....
for a string such as this:
how would I remove the parameter id 12?
Anyone know how to remove html-formatted-string to plain text programatically?
I want to get the same result as if i ctrl+a in a browser's page and then ctrl+v in a notepad.
I was googled how to strip html string, but didn't find the good result.
Removing tag using regex: "<(.|\n)*?>" causes some problems:
* The html-table is not nicely converted to tabbed plain text. It produces *crazy* table in plain text.
* the html-alternate-image lost
* the list ( <ul> & <ol> ) is not conveted well. No numbering or bullets in plain text
I am running the report from SSRS report server in the view i am finding that the window title is Report Viewer - Windows Internet Explorer.
How to remove this name and get the name of the report over there.
I am using java at the back end to call the repot through url.
Please help me .
Thanks ,
Hi Guys,
I have this issue i have been looking at for a while and cant seem to figure it out. I have two ddl's on my page and a InsertCommand from sqldatasource. My InsertCommand is actually updating the foreign key of the two ddl's in another table. When i click on my button it shows two numbers instead of one.
The challenging thing now is that i have
after the insert so it would not duplicate what i am updating. If i take this statement out of my code. it updates well as in showing the one record that was updated. if i put it back in there it shows two records where updated. I tested my sql statement and its working fine meaning it shows only one record is updating. Could you possibly know whats wrong.
Thanks in Advance
This seems like a straightforward request, but I can't find out how to do this. I need to remove a custom web part that is showing up in the Add Web Part dialog box when I go to add a web part to a SharePoint 2007 page. However, I do
not want to uninstall this web part at this time. How can I prevent it from showing up as an installable web part?
I'm using an autocomplete contol of ajax toolkit. Yesterday a user found that it had stopped working (it wasn't generating the list as you type letters in the textbox). After hours of troubleshooting, I found that in web.config <httpHandlers>, this line -- <remove verb="*" path="*.asmx" /> was placed after the <add> line like this:
<httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="*.asmx" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=18.104.22.168, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> <add verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" validate="false" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=220.127.116.11, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/> <add verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" validate="false"/> <remove verb="*" path="*.asmx"/> </httpHandlers>
I fixed the problem by removing the <remove> line, but it seems I can also fix the problem by placing the <remove> line b
I have many controls on my form, but in particular, I have 2 dropdownlists. 1 dropdown list has 2 values, and each value controls what the second dropdownlist displays. This is an edititemtemplate and both dropdowns have the selecteditem set via '<%# Bind("fieldname") #>' on page load.
THe problem is, if I change the value of the first dropdown, it errors out because the second dropdwon has a bound value that is no longer acceptable.
Can I cancel the bind of the second control, if the the first one is changed? I would like to cancel the bind, and update the values by using a different datasource depending on the value of the first dropdown or hardcode the new values.
If Dropdown1 has a value of "A" for example Dropdown 2 Shows Values "1", "2", "3"
If Dropdown 1 has a value of "B" , Dropdown2 Shows Values "4", "5", "6".
It binds fine initially, but if I change Dropdown1 from A to B, I want Dropdown2 to show the new values, maybe with a default of "Select an Item" and not error out b/c it's attempts to bind a value of 1, 2, or 3.
Hope this makes sence, b/c I'm
Hi, I have an asp.net website that requires users to login using their Active Directory credentials. All users of the website have AD accounts. Some of the users are at remote locations and share a common computer login (I know this is not recommended but it is what it is, I have no say in that). Every so often a user will log into my website and click the Remember Passwod box which causes the next person that comes along to not be prompted to log in. All users are on IE 7. I have tried having them go into tools and deleting the cookies, saved passwords, etc but when they go to my website they are still not being prompted to log in. I have recently migrated to IIS 7 and I understand there is a way to have the user enter the site through a custom form but I have not gotten that far yet. How can I make sure the users password is removed from IE? Thanks for any help.
I have some basic code to fill items in an ArrayList as follows:
Dim intSteps As ArrayList = New ArrayList()
Select Case Session("type")
Case 1
Case 2
Case Else
End Select
Dim j As Integer
For j = 0 To intSteps.Count - 1
Response.Write(intSteps.IndexOf(j) & " : " & intSteps.Item(j) & "<br />")
The issue is that for Case 1 the output is:
0 : 01 : 12 : 2-1 : 6-1 : 11-1 : 12
For Case 2, it's:
0 : 01 : 12 : 2-1 : 5-1 : 63 : 114 : 12
And for Else, it's:
0 : 01 : 12 : 23 : 34 : 45 : 56 : 67 : 78 : 89 : 910 : 1011 : 1112 : 12
Why is the index being set as -1 for a few items?
How can we detect that there's a TAB in the beginning of the line and then remove it?
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Dear PTA:
First and foremost, I'd like to thank you for all that you do for my son's elementary school. The fund raising, the teacher gifts, the special events - the school wouldn't be the same without you. In fact, your strength and success are among the reasons we chose this fantastic school for our boy when we moved to Chicago last year. When I sat there in San Francisco, trying desperately to imagine my new life here, you were part of the picture. That is, I just knew that I would be among you on a regular basis, devoting some time each week to the betterment of my child's school.
What's that? You don't recognize my name? No, I know, I shouldn't be surprised. One of your members introduced herself to me for the third time recently at the Book Fair, and I was too embarrassed to tell her that I knew exactly who she was because we've talked a handful of times before. Instead I allowed myself to be an invisible mom, one she'd never met. It was close enough to the truth.
I am not a guilt-ridden mother. I have devoted vast amounts of time, energy, and love to this first-grader of mine, and I don't fear that I should have given him more. I love my career as a pediatric therapist and find the work enormously satisfying. I do not regret working part-time. I believe that the idea of the "perfect" mother is crap and am generally content to be the "good enough" mother. So why is it that I feel such guilt about my lack of involvement at school?
I don't fear that I am letting my son down, not at all. I know that the school can function without me. Perhaps it's the comment of the PTA member at one of the rare events I attended in the winter, a fund-raiser kick-off at Cody's bar, that reverberates in my brain so often. I was being introduced all around as new to the school and one mom flippantly said, "Well, now you've met all the parents who do anything at school!" and even if she didn't know it, I knew that I wasn't among them. I was an impostor at that gathering.
I think it has more to do with the fact that I believe in public education, and I know that in order for it to succeed we need as much parent involvement and support as possible. I mean, really! I'm all about kids and learning, it's what I do all day, whether I'm at home or at work. I feel that I have a responsibility to be there, participating.


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The first-line diabetes drug metformin may have a role in ovarian cancer treatment, researchers found.
In a retrospective, case-control study, women who'd been taking metformin during their ovarian cancer treatment -- primarily for type 2 diabetes -- had significantly better survival than cancer patients not on the drug (73% versus 44%, P=0.0002), reported Viji Shridhar, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues online in Cancer.
"Although causation could not be assessed [in a case-control study], we observed that receipt of metformin was associated with significantly better survival in ovarian cancer," they wrote. "Metformin is worthy of clinical trials in ovarian cancer."
Most of the currently available therapies in up-front and recurrent ovarian cancer have limited efficacy, the researchers said, yet it's prohibitively expensive to discover and develop new drugs.
Instead, some researchers are turning to drug repositioning, in which existing drugs are used to treat new diseases.
Metformin, a first-line agent in type 2 diabetes, has previously shown anti-cancer effects in ovarian cancer, both in vitro and in vivo, and similar observations have been made for neoplasms in the prostate, colon, pancreas, and brain.
There is also a multi-center, phase III, randomized trial testing metformin in breast cancer, the researchers said.
Because only small studies have looked at outcomes for ovarian cancer patients treated with metformin, Shridhar's group conducted a retrospective case-control study of ovarian cancer patients who were treated at the Mayo Clinic between 1995 and 2010.
A total of 72 of these women had been taking metformin for type 2 diabetes during their ovarian cancer treatment, and they were matched with 143 controls who didn't have diabetes and weren't taking metformin.
They also assessed a subset of 61 women who'd had epithelial ovarian cancer, and compared them with 178 nondiabetic controls with the same disease.
The researchers also included a diabetic control group of 103 patients who had both diabetes and epithelial ovarian cancer and were taking insulin or other diabetes drugs instead of metformin.
Overall, the mean duration of metformin intake was 2.3 years, given at doses ranging from 500 mg twice a day to 1 gram twice a day.
In the analysis of 72 cases and 143 controls, Shridhar and colleagues found that cancer cases taking metformin had significantly better 5-year disease-specific survival than controls (73% versus 44%, P=0.0002).
After adjusting for age, year of diagnosis, body mass index (BMI), disease stage, histology, and chemotherapy, only tumor grade (hazard ratio 8.6, 95% CI 1.2 to 6.3, P=0.03) and taking metformin (HR 2.7, 95% CI 1.4 to 5.4, P=0.004) remained independent predictors of survival in this group, they reported.
In the analysis of cases and controls with epithelial ovarian cancer, those taking metformin also had significantly better 5-year survival (67% versus 47%, P=0.006).
And when comparing the epithelial cohort taking metformin to diabetic controls with epithelial disease, the researchers again found significantly better survival for those on metformin (67% versus 40%, P=0.003).
The study was limited by its retrospective nature, its small sample size, and a lack of information on patient intake of metformin before their cancer diagnosis.
Still, the authors concluded that metformin appears to be associated with better survival in ovarian cancer patients, and that the drug should be evaluated in prospective trials for treating this disease.
The study was supported by grants from the Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation and NIH.
The researchers reported no conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner


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Reviewed by Evan D. (age 8), Samantha B. (age 7) and Marley S. (age 8)
If you like dinorsaurs and dogs you will think it is hillarious. If you want to find out the end of this book, you can zip to your local library and check out this book. You will think this book is so so fantastic and an incredible book.
We like this book because it makes laughter in your heart. If you like big pets you will love this book. The illustrations make you feel magical. Some pages make you get tears in your eyes because some pages are so beautiful and make you have happy tears. When we read this book we felt like our pets are humongous and we are small and the pets are big.
We recommend this book to all people because it is wonderful, fantastic and lovable. If you like it we would be very happy.


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Way back in February of 2011 I wanted to participate in a Family History Writing Challenge. Unfortunately, life got in the way of that but now in October of 2011 I am starting my Certification Process. I sent my Preliminary Application in the first part of September 2011. I have had a month to think about which of my research projects I want to use in my portfolio, which document I will be using for the transcription portion and I have contacted an individual to be my client guinea pig. On a pro bono basis I will undertake a research project for her with a specific goal and time limit. This will be on a subject I have done no previous research on. I am really looking forward to that challenge.
A special maillist is set up for those of us embarking on this journey, to ask questions and provide whatever support may be needed. Additionally, a six month plan is provided with a suggested timeline. Even though candidates are given a full year to complete the process, many seem to have much of the work done before the preliminary application is tendered. This is true in my case. I have been researching for over thirty years and have been thinking about Certification for three years or more. So here I go....and I want to chronicle my journey and share my thoughts, insights, crisis and setbacks for myself and maybe for others thinking about taking this huge step.
Now in the first actual active month of this process, Month One, I will reread the first two chapters of Evidence Explained, review Requirement 1 of the BCG Application which includes the Genealogist's Code and what is suggested for my resume. I have already taken the "Are You Ready?" test from the BCG website and passed with flying colors. There are additional articles available in the BCG Skillbuilding area which I will also read. The last task for this month will be to write the resume and add it as the first piece of my portfolio.
I am happy to be back to my blog; excited to be actually STARTING the certification process and curious to see where I will be in eight months.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Month One of My Certification Track
Posted by Jo at 10:45 PM
Labels: Certification
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My name is Ron Setzer and I am the editor of Root Cellar Preserves publication. We talked at the Jamboree. I would very much like to use your posting of October 3 for our Follow Friday feature on our blog. I believe that the subject would interest many of our members. Thank you in advance. Please email me at email@example.com.
- Michelle Goodrum said...
I'll be interested in how the process goes for you. Good luck!
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Marta Herman
Born: October 23, 1925
Abaujszanto, Hungary
The younger of two daughters, Marta was raised by Hungarian-speaking Jewish parents in Kosice, a city in Slovakia. Marta attended a Jewish elementary school. Her father ran a small grocery store.
1933-39: After I finished elementary school, I began secondary school. The language of instruction was Slovak and Jews faced no discrimination until November 1938 when Hungarian troops marched into southern Slovakia. With Germany's blessing, Kosice became part of Hungary and was renamed Kassa. Our new Hungarian rulers introduced anti-Jewish laws, and as a result my father was forced to give up his store.
1940-44: Our family had a difficult time making ends meet. To support us, my father kept his grocery business going in violation of Hungarian law. At the beginning of 1944 he was finally caught and arrested. A month after the Germans occupied Hungary, my mother and I were forced to assemble in a nearby brick factory; we were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944 along with most of the Jews of Kosice. When we arrived in Auschwitz, my mother was sent to the gas chambers and I was selected for slave labor.
After her transfer to the Muehldorf subcamp of Dachau, Marta was freed in Tutzing by U.S. troops on May 1, 1945, and quickly returned home. She immigrated to the United States in 1968.


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Tapped needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 91 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Our documentary on the bottled water industry is debuting at film festivals this summer. We need to develop posters to plaster the respective towns with as well as a full page advertisement to run in newspapers. The poster and the advert should be similar graphically except that the adverts tend to have critics quotes, etc.
Check out our trailer for
1. A movie poster advertising the film, it should have an area where we can switch out the dates and times for various festivals.
2. A full page advertisement with show times for the film
3 You can use this showtime for the spec: Long Island Film Expo July 18th at 2pm
Here's 2 reviews of the film you can incorporate:
WE NEED MORE MUST-SEE FILMS LIKE TAPPED, IN ORDER TO INSPIRE THE CHANGE AND SOLUTIONS THAT OUR PLANET SO DESPERATELY CRAVES. - David de Rothschild
"Eye-opening, informative and incredibly important for you to see...Tapped is another example of realizing film's potential to inspire. This is a passionate documentary, well-executed from engaging and intelligent voices who will inform and entertain you with their movie. See it!"
-Ben Lyons, E! Entertainment & At the Movies
content to include:
1. From the Producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A
2. You can grab the Tapped logo off the Tapped website (but it shouldnt stay blue on your poster)
3. for the credits of who made he film at the bottom of the poster you can temp in the names and info we'll give the correct info to the winner
Nothing blue - our back plate for graphics is a pale orangey-gold


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AlexandreBorges wrote:Such a marketing department...mike holmes wrote:It does take some work to submit an entry but if you need or want the board then IMHO it is well worth it.
Another plus i can see is that the numbers of entries will be small so the chances to win are better.
Sorry but it is stupid to ask somebody to participate of something where you will need to own a product to participate. I'd focus on new clients, but I'm an engineer and know nothing.
So I guess the marketing dept. was smart after all. This way people who don't own a Xenon look fto ride oneuncle sammy wrote:Nice giveaway.
The only thing is that now kiters with no Xenon are asking to have a go on my board


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High stakes testing is a broken system. It is an industry, not an education. It's a sorting mechanism, not a driver of equity. It discourages differentiation. It discourages student and teacher discretion in learning. It perpetuates low-level learning with crude pass/fail punishment and reward systems. It's inauthentic. We didn't start with a blank slate, design the best educational system we could, and then adopt high stakes testing as a best-practice in alignment with our best thinking. We got scared, dropped high stakes testing into our schools, and then re-designed our schools according to the needs of the tests, their vendors, and our politicians.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) forced us to have difficult conversations about the Achievement Gap. High-stakes testing cut those conversations short at the political and budgetary levels. Rather than look at the how and why of schooling, we decided just to measure how broken public education is in pursuit of perfecting an increasingly myopic and irrelevant system. We are left with inadequate tautologies that do nothing to prepare our students for their lives outside school. Schools that take extra time to make sure that all students can pass high stakes test do better on high stakes tests. Schools resourced to make sure that all students can pass high stakes tests do better on high stakes tests. Schools without the necessary resources to make sure all students pass high stakes tests do not do better on high stakes tests.
We knew this before NCLB, but NCLB gave us an unprecedented opportunity to quantify school performance and profit fiscally and politically from them. Naturally, we went for it. Politicians and lobbyists gifted with the problem-solving skills being driven out of American classrooms saw an opportunity and took it, believing that high stakes testing would help children. Consequently, our public schools are now structured according to opportunists' blueprints. We can easily understand why parents fight for school choice; they want to send their children to schools that will help them pass high stakes tests and have access to careers and colleges. However, we could be offering so much more in school choice. We could be offering such a rich variety of educational options to our children that joy in learning and America's place as a world leader would be assured because of the innovative disposition of its schools and citizenry.
But here we are awaiting the reauthorization of NCLB – waiting to label and punish more people, while we reward fewer under the auspices of the Race to the Top initiative.
What should we do?
We should take back assessment for a start. For so long as high stakes assessment exists as law, we should
- Eliminate grades. They hurt kids. They are subjective. They can be weighted. They often conflate and confuse academic and non-academic student and teacher performances and biases. They are not reliable predictors of high-stakes test performance. Ask teachers to use time spent grading on giving feedback instead; also consider paying teachers for the extra time they'll spend on the much more difficult, much more accurate, and much more constructive work of giving feedback on learning instead of opinions on percentages.
- Eliminate arbitrary caps on who tests when. Let kids test up and test out of as many requirements as possible throughout the school year so schools can give them time to pursue their passions in learning and to reinforce strengths that can help address their weaknesses.
- Allow students and parents to opt out of high stakes testing and standards-based portfolios. Don't force students and parents to accept curricula or pacing they don't want or with which they don't agree. Don't count students who opt-out for or against schools.
- Allow schools and districts to opt-out of high-stakes testing with documented student, parent, and teacher support, and to replace high-stakes testing with scaled-up portfolio assessments modeled after those like the Virginia Grade Level Alternative (VGLA) assessment.
- Allow work done outside of school to be brought in, critiqued, revised, and assessed against standards for inclusion in portfolios. Allow student-products and supervisors' workplace evaluations to stand as authentic evidence of students' mastery of state standards.
- Allow student work done outside school to replace work assigned at school if it meets the same standards.
- Ask students who opt or test out of high-stakes testing and standards-based portfolios to present publicly their learning via projects and individual portfolios 2-4 times yearly to a jury of division and building-level administrators, teachers, parents, and peers.
- To accompany these assessment policies, eliminate traditional tracks and replace them with testing, portfolio, and opted/tested-out tracks. Then assign teachers to tracks that take advantage of their strengths. Or diversify schools and transportation to match families with the schools they believe best serve the needs of their children.
Regardless of the legal status of high-stakes testing, we should practice moral assessment. Assessment should serve students and their learning instead of adults and their notions of control. We should
- Eliminate grades and traditional tests in our classrooms. Test-taking strategies are not problem-solving or learning strategies. Problem-solving strategies and learning strategies can prepare students for all sorts of tests; test-taking strategies can't prepare students to problem-solve or learn.
- Backwards design authentic assessments to goals and standards that we, in consultation with and observation of our students, consider essential to their learning.
- Foster and share students' joy in learning.
- Share our expectations and standards up front with students as part of that process.
- Provide choice in assessment.
- Provide opportunities for student design of assignment, including the alignment of assessments with agreed upon standards.
- Help students connect with authentic audiences for their assessment.
- Teach students goal-setting strategies, formative self-assessment strategies, and debriefing strategies for improving processes between assessments.
- Coach students to react to feedback. Help them feel like part of a conversation about their learning.
- Coach students on how to access and use information according to their needs and strengths.
- Coach students to pursue learning that makes them joyful.
- Coach students to learn independently, from peers, from teachers, from experts, and from experience.
- Coach students to transfer learning across circumstances.
- Coach students from small projects to large.
- Stop everything when it feels like school as usual, find out why, and help students' re-engage with their learning.
- To help implement these strategies for assessment reform, we should look at staffing and scheduling to provide teachers with more time to assess student work and deliver meaningful feedback. We should invest in smaller class sizes and further recruit and professionalize TAs as learning coaches.
If we don't prove to parents and politicians that these strategies work for their children and their children's learning, authentic assessment will never be scaled-up to the point where it can compete with test scores for media attention. This is hard work. It's difficult to accomplish under the best of circumstances in public education. Nevertheless, choice and authenticity in assessment serve students and are morally right in a way that high stakes testing is not, and offering them is much closer to what we've been called to do than teaching to the test is. If we have to compromise, let's not shut-up or concede.