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I recently needed to export a GridView in ASP.NET with a VB.NET codebehind and was coming up very short on answers, I found a few solutions in c# but for some reason they just didn’t want to work when I translated it to VB.NET. When I finally did I found that the export came out very wrong because all my template fields which contained controls were images! I finally pieced together a solution from various sources.

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YouTube – How to lose friends and alienate countries.

I can’t put it any better than redditor, gcranston, puts it:

See, this is why Fox News can’t get a broadcast license in Canada.

I might also mention

1. War of 1812: Lit the White House on fire; American’s commemorate this in their National Anthem
2. Vimy Ridge: First time Canadian Troops under Canadian command; advanced so fast troops were ordered to halt because supplies couldn’t keep up. When asked how we took the untakeable position [so] quickly, Canadians respond with “No one told us it was impossible to do”
3. Passchedaele: Canadian troops inspire the original use of the term “Storm Troopers”
4. Dieppe: Canadian troops undertake practice invasion of the coast of France. Terrible loss of Canadian life. Lessons learned directly led to the successes at Normandy.
5. D-Day: Despite lessons learned from Dieppe, no beach head other than Juno – the Canadian Beach – was successful. American pilots actually bombed Canadian troops stating “no way are they that far inland; we’re still stuck on the beaches!”

I’d go on but I’m just too furious with this lack of respect for my country. I will only say that Canada is in Afghanistan cleaning up America’s mess, operating in the most dangerous part of the entire country. Maybe the reason Fox can’t remember Canadians are in Afghanistan is that THEY WERE DOING SO BADLY THERE THEY HAD TO START ANOTHER WAR WITH IRAQ TO DRAW PEOPLE’S ATTENTION AWAY?!?

Fox News, I say to you with with deep sincerity: Go Fuck Yourself.

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It was so apparent during the controversy surrounding Harper’s economic debacle a few months ago that the general population has no idea how our government operates so this may educate a few of my fellow citizens.

YouTube – RMR: Canada explained.

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A couple days after posting the previous artcile about the veteren that overcame his disabilities I have disabled myself, I wouldn’t call it irony, but it’s definitely eeriey. About 3 weeks ago three of my friends and I signed up at a gym, to get fit and make sure we didn’t get lazy throughout winter. It was a great setup, about 4 days a week, we would all go to the gym, pair off and do some weight training. Ajay and I worked through the main muscle groups throughout the week, while Devin and Dale did mostly cardio and circuit training. Then after 45 min to and hour we would go play squash, this gym had courts in the facility, for about another hour or so. It was a great balance, building muscle, burning calories and tonnes of fun. Then on thursday in the midst of an intense tie breaking game between Ajay and I tradegy struck. I was up by one point like 6-5 or something like that, squash goes to 11 and you need to win by 2 points. I planted my right foot, wound up a big back hand return and crushed it, while my arm was following through, I looked back to spot where the ball was going to see Ajay’s return and I lost balance. As I’m falling to the ground, I hear and feel this sickening crunch and the most intense pain I’ve ever felt in my life. I knew right away I had broken my leg, even though I never had a broken bone before there was no mistaking that feeling. The following is a transcribe of what happened:

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