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Social Media Terms from A to Z
A: Aggregate – Aggregating content is the act of gathering information from across the web and making it available in one place. Example:
B: Blogoshere – Where all the blogs live on the Internet and where all the conversation happening around them.
BizBuzz – Syracuse Social Network. Social media network's twitter hash tag ( # ). Type #bizbuzz on Twitter to see the results
C: Crowdsourcing – Pulling together the expertise and enthusiasm of those outside your organization who can voluntarily contribute content, create products, and solve problems for you.
C: Captcha – an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Captcha's are often used to help separate humans from spam robots when leaving comments on a blog.
D: del.icio.us & Digg – Popular social bookmarking sites that enable users to store, share, and organize their favorite web sites and web pages.
E: Engagement – be an active participant online. Engage with blogs by leaving comments, share information with friends on social sites like Facebook, and tweet and retweet your followers on Twitter.
F: Facebook – a popular social networking site where users can create profiles, add friends, share photos and communicate with a select group of people. Users can become "fans" of organizations, people, and other entities. Users can also join groups and enter networks organized by schools, workplaces, or location.
G: Groundswell – a fast and spontaneous social trend that gathers force and influences public opinion.
H: Hyper-local – news coverage on a smaller, local, community level than is usually provided by regional news outlets. Also known as "narrow-interest" news.
H: Hashtag – Hashtags can be used to organize conversations around a particular event or a popular topic of conversation on Twitter. By organizing tweets around a hashtag, users following and participating in a conversation can find all Tweets about that subject. Ex. #socialmediaa-z
I: Influencer – a person that is recognized in the online community as someone who affects others' thoughts and opinions. An Influencer is generally sought out for his/her expertise and knowledge in a specific subject area.
J: Join – join conversations and discussions online. Share information and be an active participant in social media sites.
K: Keep it simple – 'nuff said.
L: LinkedIn – is a social and business networking site used primarily by professionals for organizing and connecting with business contacts.
M: Micro Blogging – a form of blogging that consists of extremely brief updates such as text messages, Tweets, photos, or audio or video clips.
N: Network – a set of connections or a group of people that a user sets up consisting of other people with similar interests.
O: Online Community – a group of individuals who share common interests and use the internet to communicate, network, and share information with each other.
P: Participate – To make the most of social media, you need to participate. Share your ideas and connect with people by participating in conversations online.
Q: Quick – Social media is quick and agile. It doesn't take a lot of time to get involved.
R: Retweet – rebroadcasting or resending a twitter message that someone else sent.
S: Share – share links, feeds, videos etc… by posting them to your Facebook, Twitter, blog, or other social media site.
T: Twitter – Twitter is a free social media site that gives users a way to engage in "micro-blogging," with a large online community in short, 140-character-or-less, messages.
U: UGC – User-generated content (UGC) refers to various kinds of media content that is produced by the audience or user and shared publicly. An example of UGC are videos posted to YouTube.
V: Viral Marketing – Viral marketing is when an idea or concept is spread by word-of-mouth instead of traditional paid advertising or marketing avenues. When something goes viral in social media, it is shared repeatedly and spread around by users taking on a life of it's own.
W: Widgets – portable web code that can be posted, shared, and installed on any HTML-based web site by anyone without requiring any additional sets of programs.
X: XML – is an acronym for "Extensible Markup Language". XML is a popular set of rules used to electronically code documents so that they can be used for RSS feeds.
Y: YouTube – YouTube is a popular online video community that allows users to easily upload and share videos.
Z: Zip – $0, nada, zero, nil. The monetary cost of using most social media tools. Especially if they come from PBS!


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The CData ODBC Driver for MFExpense is easy to set up and use with self-service analytics solutions like Power BI: Microsoft Excel provides built-in support for the ODBC standard. This article shows how to load the current Money Forward Expense data into Excel and start generating location-based insights on Money Forward Expense data in Power Map.
To connect to Money Forward Expense data, your application will use connection properties defined in the data source name (DSN).
Below is a typical connection string:
You can configure the DSN in the built-in Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator. This is the last step of the driver installation. See the "Getting Started" chapter in the help documentation for a guide to use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure a DSN for Money Forward Expense data.
You can import data into Power Map either from an Excel spreadsheet or from Power Pivot. For a step-by-step guide to use either method to import Money Forward Expense data, see the "Using the ODBC Driver" section in the help documentation.
After importing the Money Forward Expense data into an Excel spreadsheet or into PowerPivot, you can drag and drop Money Forward Expense entities in Power Map. To open Power Map, click any cell in the spreadsheet and click Insert -> Map.
In the Choose Geography menu, Power Map detects the columns that have geographic information. In the Geography and Map Level menu in the Layer Pane, you can select the columns you want to work with. Power Map then plots the data. A dot represents a record that has this value. When you have selected the geographic columns you want, click Next.
You can then simply select columns: Measures and categories are automatically detected. The available chart types are Stacked Column, Clustered Column, Bubble, Heat Map, and Region.

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Tomorrow, London's Union Chapel begins a celebration of a number of things (its performance acoustic, its appeal to a diverse body of musicians and audiences, its innovative cultural spirit, and not least its grand 1877 pipe organ) via the 'Organ Reframed' mini-festival. A three-day four-concert occasion, it "release(s the organ) from its traditional roots with a varied programme of film, intimate solo sets, ensemble improvisations and large scale commissions. This festival of experimental music will challenge perceptions and show this extraordinary instrument in a new light."
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Organ Reframed: James McVinnie/Irene Buckley/Robert Ames/Laura Moody perform new live score for 'Nosferatu'
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, England
Friday 7th October 2016, 7.00pm – information
Known for multiple theatre, dance and film projects – as well as for orchestral works such as 'Stórr') and her live work in the electronic/improv fields via Crevice (with Elaine Howley and Roslyn Steer) and Wry Myrhh (with Ellen King) – composer Irene Buckley has written a number of live film rescorings. These have included one for Carl Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and one for Jean Epstein's 'The Fall of the House of Usher'.
Her latest such commission is for 'Organ Reframed' – a new score for F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu (A Symphony of Horror)' – "an iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies (which) continues to haunt — and, indeed, terrify — modern audiences with the unshakable power of its images. By teasing a host of occult atmospherics out of dilapidated set-pieces and innocuous real-world locations alike, Murnau captured on celluloid the deeply-rooted elements of a waking nightmare, and launched the signature 'Murnau-style' that would change cinema history forever."
The film will be screened with a live performance of the score carried out by a quartet ensemble: leading New Music pipe organist James McVinnie, viola player Robert Ames (co-artistic director and conductor of the LCO), polystylistic cellist Laura Moody (see multiple past 'Misfit City' posts for more on her), and Irene herself contributing live electronics. To give you a hint of what it might be like, here's an excerpt from Irene's '…Joan Of Arc' score, back in 2012:
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Daylight Music 235: Organ Reframed – Lætitia Sadier + Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch + Kieran Brunt + Angèle David-Guillou + Adrian Crowley + Gill Sandell + Ed Dowie + William D. Drake
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, England
Saturday 8th October 2016, 12.00pm free event (suggested donation: £5.00) – information
The second concert in the series is a free (or donation-based) lunchtime show run in conjunction with Union Chapel regulars Daylight Music, offering "a stripped-down approach… eight sets of artists and accompanists across different genres and styles. These musicians, singers and composers — who are at various stages of their careers — will explore the very physical relationship between voice and pipes: in many cases, for the first time."
Performers will include three Franco-London women who specialise in avant-pop/dream-pop/classical crossovers of one kind or another – Stereolab/Monade's Lætitia Sadier (who, four days earlier, will have been part of Miles Cooper Seaton's 'Transient Music' ensemble at Café Oto), Angèle David-Guillou (of Klima and Piano Magic), and electro-acoustic film soundtracker Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch. Also involved is frequent Daylight guester Ed Dowie (usually a purveyor of genteel avant-parlour-pop, having passed through Brothers in Sound, Redarthur and The Paper Cinema).
The Daylighters specialise in late and interstitial additions to already interesting bills. This concert is no exception, with a bumper set of extra guests signing up and recently being unveiled. Joining in alongside the people I've already mentioned are Irish singer-songwriter Adrian Crowley (who specializes in what might be described as a baroque-minimal pop style), singer Kieran Brunt (who divides time between classical choral and solo projects and his pop band Strange Boy), multi-instrumental folk singer Gill Sandell (previously of Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo) and singer-songwriter/general keyboard magician William D. Drake (once a Cardiac, now a baroque-pop solo artist with his own cross-era style – as with Laura Moody, see plenty of previous posts…).
Given the varied pop, folk, rock and classical stylings involved (and some of the signature tones of the musicians involved) it's not clear whether there are going to be specific collaborations or mashups involved, or whether everyone's playing solo/bringing their own backup. It's also unclear as to whether the pop culture/pop music side of things will be honoured by Farfisa, Hammond or even Lowrey organs onstage to share musical space with the grand pipe organ; although given the emphasis on "the very physical relationship between voice and pipes", I'm guessing perhaps not. (NOTE – since I posted that, I've found out that Angèle David-Guillou will be playing a new organ-and-voiceloops composition called 'Too Much Violence'; that there will be at least one duet from Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch and Kieran Brunt; that Ed Dowie has a couple of covers and one new piece; and that the Daylighters are scouring the Twittersphere looking for a last-minute pump organist. Knowing them, they'll find one…)
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Organ Reframed: 'Spire' featuring Charles Matthews + Fennesz + Philip Jeck + Simon Scott + Claire M. Singer + John Beaumont + The Eternal Chord
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, England
Saturday 8th October 2016, 6.00pm – information
Spire is an ongoing concert series for organ and electronics, curated by Mike Harding (creative producer of the Touch organisation (which covers musician promotions, licensing, mentoring and everything but the business of being a record company association) and by dedicated organist and keyboardist Charles Matthews (one of those exemplary musicians whose work spans everything from church services and teaching to a globetrotting concert schedule and advanced curatorship). Now into its twelfth year, and with sixteen concerts plus four CD recordings behind it, Spire returns to Union Chapel to link up with 'Organ Reframed'.
Music played at previous Spire events has included the ancient, salvaged fourteenth-century organ manuscript The Robertsbridge Codex (the oldest surving keyboard score in the world) and twentieth-century pieces such as 'In Nomine Lucis' (by the pioneering and mystic single-pitch/multiple-approach composer Giacinto Scelsi), Henryk Gorécki's 'Kantata', Liana Alexandra's 'Consonances III' and André Jolivet's 'Hymne à l'Universe'. The series has also premiered new works by resident Spire composer Marcus Davidson (such as 'Opposites Attract' and 'Standing Wave'), as well as improvisations and collaborations by its associated musicians.
Spire also takes into account the architectural qualities of the church organ: how our perception and experience of it is coloured by its monolithic size, volume and presence compared to other instruments. As Mike and Charles put it, "the organ has the greatest frequency range of any acoustic instrument, but this is rarely exploited; the unique sound of the mechanical organ has often been limited and controlled and Spire aims to liberate it from its history without denying that history… combining organ works ancient and modern (while) other performers use the organ and organ works as a basis for their own compositions, using piano, voice, record players, samplers and other electronic devices."
Past Spire performers have included laptop-and-guitar noisescaper Fennesz and turntablist/electronicist Philip Jeck, both of whom are joining Charles Matthews for performances this time round. Also joining in are newer Spire associates – Simon Scott (Slowdive drummer, multi-instrumentalist, sound ecologist and deep listener) and John Beaumont (whose life within Anglican church and choral music has seen him rise from treble chorister at Wakefield to tenor songman at York Minster and continuing work in London's great cathedrals and abbeys, alongside his current work as a "story tenor" mingling classical repertoire with a bardic sensibility). Also joining in is Union Chapel's organ director and artistic director of 'Organ Reframed', Claire M. Singer – a musician, composer and cross-media artist whose work extends from composition to installation via live performance, mostly based around organ, cello and electronics.
Among other pieces, the programme will feature a performance of Spire mainstay 'The Eternal Chord', a Mike Harding-originated conceptual and improvised organ piece which "can take anything from eight minutes to eternity" and which is open to any number of players from a duo upwards. There have been eleven iterations of the piece so far, of which two can be heard below, including one from last year at the Union Chapel.
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Organ Reframed: Five new commissions for James McVinnie & the London Contemporary Orchestra
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, Islington, London, N1 2UN, England
Sunday 9th October 2016, 6.30pm – information
Having already helped to open the festival (via their contribution to the 'Nosferatu' live score), James McVinnie and Robert Ames return for the final concert in which James joins forces with the London Contemporary Orchestra (conducted/facilitated by Robert) to premiere five new contemporary classical or classical fusion works.
There's not much information on the new piece by Mark Fell although it's likely that it'll be droning, mathematical and algorithmic (in keeping with his existing work, which is infused with electronica and club music ideas and further informed by his extension into the worlds of moving image, dance, text and son-et-lumiere). Similarly, all I can tell you about acoustic/electronic/theatrical composer Alex Groves' piece is that it's called 'On Colour' and is six minutes long. Some pointers towards what to expect might come from Alex's previous piece 'Patience' (for viola da gamba and organ), premièred as part of the Daylight Music series at the Union Chapel back in December 2014. (There's some footage of that show below. I'm hoping that it's Alex's piece…)
There's no doubt that one composer who'll have no problems filling the Chapel with grand sound is Craig Armstrong, whose music has been well known to a popular audience since the 1990s thanks to his use of luscious, near-decadent massed strings and club beats (as well as his work on hefty-selling records by Massive Attack. Madonna and U2 plus film soundtracks including 'Far From The Madding Crowd', 'Plunkett & Macleane' and Baz Luhrman's 'Romeo + Juliet').
Almost at the other end of the spectrum is collagist-composer, cultural commentator and musical wit Caroline Haines, who records (as Chaines) for the small Berlin arts label Slip Imprint and has put out a series of restless, splice-styled, information-packed music packages in which everything from sound sources to manufacturing materials has an integral significance. When she chooses to be, Catherine is also a spirited piss-taker, using her existing methods of collagery and radio broadcast (up to and including the comedy sketch show). For evidence, see 'WUB', her quick and merciless takedown of pretentious, dishonest conservatoire slummers who parasitize other more media-friendly musical forms without comprehension, respect or indeed much genuine interest.
Dropped hints suggests that Caroline will be performing alongside the orchestra herself: other hints suggest that her contribution is a version of 'OST' (last years' hallucinogenic audio portrait of the north-east English industrial imprint). I'm guessing that for her second large-scale premiere with LCO (following August's Curtain Call concert) her restless mind will have come up with something else.
American-born/Berlin-based composer and violist Catherine Lamb has a taste for adding liminal electronics and an interest in "exploring the interaction of elemental tonal material and the variations in presence between shades and beings in a room." Her approach is inspired by Hindustani classical music and the just intonation system (with added influences from her studies with James Tenney and Michael Pisaro). Catherine's 'Organ Reframed' piece is 'Cumulus Totalitas' – possibly a sister piece to 'Curvo Totalis', her "meditation on sound" premiered last month in New York by percussion-and-piano quartet Yarn/Wire.
Although the evening's billed as five pieces, it seems that there'll be a bonus from the LCO's recent repertoire in the shape of the thirteen-minute string orchestra piece 'Between Rain'. Composed by Edmund Finnis (whose work flows from the luminously minimal to frenetically eerie orchestral jousts) this will be being performed for the first time since the LCO premiered it at Imogen Heap's 2014 Reverb festival at the Roundhouse, although it's not clear whether Edmund's tweaked it since then to include an organ part.
Event co-sponsors 'Drowned In Sound' have an interview with Robert Ames expounding on this part of the project.
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At each event, you'll also be able to hear sound artist Bill Thompson's installation 'A Knowing Space', which "explores the idea of resonance using durations and timings derived from prime numbers as well as the pitches of organ pipes. The installation is played through seven organ pipes, using transducers that vibrate and fill the space." Here's an early taste:
You can also catch ongoing discussion about the whole 'Organ Reframed' event at the Facebook page…


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Laws, Regulations and Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2023
Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law
Revenue and Taxation Code
Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 26. Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law
Chapter 4. Collection of Fee
Article 4. Seizure and Sale
Section 50129
50129. Notice of sale. Notice of the sale and the time and place thereof, shall be given to the delinquent fee payer and to all persons who have an interest of record in the property at least 20 days before the date set for the sale in the following manner: The notice shall be personally served or enclosed in an envelope addressed to the fee payer or other person at his or her last known residence or place of business in this state as it appears upon the records of the board, if any, and depositing it in the United States registered mail, postage prepaid. The notice shall be published pursuant to Section 6063 of the Government Code in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city in which the property or a part thereof is located if any part thereof is situated in a city or if not, in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the property or a part thereof is located. Notice shall also be posted in both of the following manners:
(a) One public place in the city in which the interest in property is to be sold if it is to be sold in a city or, if not to be sold in a city, one public place in the county in which the interest to the property is to be sold.
(b) One conspicuous place on the property.
The notice shall contain a description of the property to be sold, a statement of the amount of the fees, penalties, and costs, the name of the fee payer, and the further statement that unless the fees, penalties, and costs are paid on or before the time fixed in the notice of the sale, the property, or so much of the property as may be necessary, will be sold in accordance with law and the notice.
History—Stats. 1990, Ch. 1366, in effect September 27, 1990, created subdivision "a" substituted "Notice of the sale" for "The board shall give written notice of an intended sale pursuant to this article," "20" for "10", "The notice shall be personally served or enclosed" for "by enclosing the notice", "or other person at his or her" for "at the fee payer's", "6063" for "6062", added "in a newspaper of general circulation published" after "Code", substituted "or a part thereof is located. Notice shall also be posted in both of the following manners:" for "seized is to be sold.", substituted paragraphs (1) and (2) for "If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the county, the notice shall be posted in three public places in the county for the 10 day period.", created subdivision (b), added "interest" after "fees" in the new subdivision (b). Stats. 1990, Ch. 1528, in effect January 1, 1991, substituted the first paragraph for subdivision (a), "thereof" for "of the sale", added "in the following manner:" in the first sentence; added "city in which … or if not," after "published in the" in the third sentence; created subdivisions (a) and (b) from paragraphs (1) and (2); created second paragraph from former subdivision (b); deleted "interest" after "fees" in the second paragraph.


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Canada has extended its ban on foreign nationals travelling to Canada until July 31, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed Tuesday (June 30).
In an email to Black Press Media, spokesperson Rebecca Purdy said that "all travel of an optional or discretionary nature, including tourism and recreation, is covered by these measures." The order applies to land, sea, air and rail travel. A list of those exempt from the ban can be found here: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/corporate/mandate/about-agency/acts-regulations/list-acts-regulations.html#exempted.
This ban is separate from the one restricting non-essential U.S. travel, which expires on July 21.
The foreign nationals ban was extended through an Order in Council, which requires cabinet, but not parliamentary, approval. The initial ban was brought in on March 16, as Canada – and the world – was grappling with a surge in cases in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It's unclear how the European Union, which announced this week that Canada was on a list of 14 countries green-lit for travel, will react to the news. The EU's travel announcement would allow Canadians entry into the EU's 27 members and four other nations in Europe's visa-free Schengen travel zone. However, countries on the list – which does not include the U.S. – are expected to lift their restrictions for travel as well. The EU's list is scheduled to be updated every 14 days, based on COVID-19 conditions in various nations.
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Today I'm going to share with you one of the real horny experience of my life. Before that, let me tell you about myself. I'm a 23-year-old guy 6 ft tall, fair in colour with muscular body. I stay in Mumbai with my father. My father normally goes on bussiness tours, and whenever he is in Mumbai, he comes home late at night after doing his business work. In short, I stay alone enjoying the freedom.
This incident took place few months back. My dad was out of station as usual. One day, dad called me and said that Sanjay will be coming to Mumbai with his wife Haasini for few days. He told me to pick them from the airport the next day. He said he will be back within 2 days. Till that time, you take good care of them. Sanjay lives in Jalandhar with his wife Haasini. Sanjay's father is a very good friend of my dad. Sanjay was just like a big brother for me. We had very good family relations with them. Sanjay was coming to Mumbai for some official work as well as Mumbai darshan.
As they are elder than me, I used to call them bhaiya & bhabhi. Sanjay bhaiya is 30 yrs old while Haasini bhabhi was 28. Let me tell u abt Haasini bhabhi. She is 5 ft 7 inches tall. She looks very much similar to film actress Preity Zinta. But her figure was much better than Preity Zinta. She had a nice voluptuous busty figure. Her fig was 38 30 36. Looking at my bhabhi's body, you can make out that she is really hungry for sex & wants more & more. Deep down inside, I wanted to fuck her like an animal.
Next day, I went to the airport in evening to pick Sanjay bhaiya & Haasini bhabhi. I picked them up from the airport. Haasini bhabhi was really looking sexy wearing saari & with her low-neck sleeveless blouse. As my car was in servicing centre for some problem, we came home by taxi. While coming home, we chatted for a while like normal stuffs when people meet after long time. We reached home. At night, we had dinner, chatted, & watched TV together. I arranged their sleeping in guest room, and I switched on the AC in that room. Then, we all went to sleep at 10 p.m. It was around midnight I was sleeping in my room and I woke up as I was feeling thirsty. I went to the kitchen to get water. As I passed through guest room, I heard some shouting. The door of the room was closed as the AC was on. I went near the room. I heard Haasini bhabhi shouting & saying, you are good for nothing, you cant hold your erection for at least 30 seconds also. Bhaiya said honey I'm tired today and tomorrow I have to wake up early in the morning. Bhabhi said, it happens every night, you satisfy urself without taking care of me. Their quarrel subsided after few minutes, and after that, I went to my room to sleep.
Next day in the morning, Sanjay bhaiya told me to take bhabhi to her friend's place as he has to go out for official work, so he couldn't accompany her. As my dad told me to take good care of them, I couldn't say no to them. Actually the friend was bhabhi's school friend who got married to a man in Mumbai & she was meeting her after long time. Bhabhi didn't know much abt Mumbai that is why she wanted me to go with her, so bhaiya went out for his official work and was supposed to come back at around 5 in the evening. After bhaiya went out, me and bhabhi got dressed up & went to bus stop to board a BEST bus. Actually bhabhi's friend lives in Mulund, which was at least 2 hours from my place with normal traffic. There were very limited bus, which use to go to that place from my place. As my car was down, there was no choice but to travel in bus for such a long distance. We boarded the bus. In the bus, we were sitting together. We chatted a lot in 2 hours' journey. After that, we reached her friend's place. Bhabhi met her childhood friend. We were there for few hours.
Lets cut the story short & get to the main part. It was 7 p.m. in the evening when we came out of her friend's place. Me & bhabhi was walking to the bus stop to get the bus. Haasini bhabhi was looking really sexy. She was wearing a tight salwar suit in which all her curves were visible. Her boobs were so big that I felt like squeezing them hard. We reached the bus stop. We were waiting in a line to board the bus and the bus came after 20 mins. We boarded the bus. As it was peak hours, there were no seats available in the bus, so we were both standing together.
The bus started moving. After each & every stop the rush in the bus started increasing more & more. Bhabhi was standing in front of me. Within few minutes the rush was so much that my front body was touching the back side of my bhabhi. My crotch was touching my bhabhi's ass. I felt little bit uncomfortable as it was not intentional. I was trying to control myself. Bhabhi turned her face backwards towards me. She gave me a naughty look & then started looking in front. Within few seconds my 8 inch dick got really hard & the bulge in my pant was pressing her soft ass cheeks (bumps or buttocks).
She turned her face backward again & gave me a naughty smile. I understood that she was enjoying it. She was now intentionally pressing & rubbing her ass on the bulge in my pant. I was getting horny. I was becoming bold now. I place my hand on her ass & started feeling her soft ass cheeks (bums). Current was flowing through by body. I grabbed ass cheeks & squeezed them tightly. She made a sound ouchhhhh. Then, I started moving my hand in front. It was a crowded bus, so nobody cared to notice what was going on.
She was hanging her purse on the right shoulder. I moved my hand to the right side around her waist, and my hand was hiding between her purse & waist. I pulled her body towards me, and I was pressing my dick deep into her ass crack giving jerks. She was enjoying every moment of it, and her eyes were closed. I was talking in ears. I asked her how r u feeling bhabhi? Do u like it? She said, yaa rocky I love it, lagta hain aaj tum meri gaand phaad doge. I was really shocked to hear those dirty words from her. I moved my hand inside her suit & started feeling her soft stomach.
Slowly, I started moving my hand up inside her suit & pressed her big boobs over her bra. Alternatively, I was pressing my dick on her ass crack as if I m fucking her ass. I whispered in her ears, bhabhi! you r so sexy, I love ur body ur boobs & ur ass. She replied, wht abt me? Don't u love me? I said, I love u bhabhi, jee karta hain yahin aapke kapde phaadkar chodna chaloo karoon. She said, thoda sabar kar lo, ghar aane ke baad jee bhar ke chod lena. Every dirty word from her mouth was making me more mad.
Now, I moved my hand down & slowly moved it inside her salwar & felt her panty. It was really wet. Then, I moved my hand inside her panty & started feeling her pussy. Her pussy was clean shaved. Meanwhile, I was still pressing my dick on her ass crack from behind. Within few seconds, I inserted my middle finger inside her pussy & started fingering her rigorously. Her eyes was closed, and now, she was moaning in pleasure. She was saying ahhhhhhhhhhh, Rocky pls be gentleeee. But I was fingering her vigourously & pressing my dick from behind. She was moaning slowly.
As it was a crowded bus, there was lot of noise, so nobody cared what was going on. Everyone was frustated because of rush & heat. But we were enjoying every moment of our bus journey while standing in the bus. While giving jerks from behind after few seconds, I cummed in my pant & my underwear became wet, but I was still fingering her pussy. I could feel her clit was swollen. I now inserted my other finger too giving her pleasure with 2 fingers.
After a while her body started shivering & she held my right hand tightly with which I was fingering her. Her juice was flowing out from her wet pussy. She reached orgasm while standing in the bus. I moved my hand out of her salwar & started licking my fingers. After licking my finger, I whispered in her ear, Bhabhi you taste really good. After some time, we got a place to sit. While sitting together, we were looking at each other with lust in our eyes.
After some time, our stop came, and we got down from the bus. We walked towards our house within 2 mins. I was waiting to reach home & pounce on my sexy bhabhi. But when we reached home, we saw Sanjay bhaiya was already back from work, and I was cursing my luck. At night me, bhaiya & bhabhi had dinner together. We were acting normal in front of bhaiya. We were looking at each other with lust, but we couldn't do anything in front of bhaiya. We had to wait for the next day till bhaiya goes to work. At around 11 p.m., we all went to sleep in our respective rooms.
I was not able to sleep. I was still thinking abt the incident that happened in the bus. I was really getting horny. I went to bathroom & masturbated 3 times thinking abt my bhabhi. I was really feeling horny thinking abt next morning how I will fuck bhabhi after bhaiya goes to work. I was feeling restless thinking abt bhabhi. It was around 2 a.m. at night I went to kitchen to drink water. When I reached kitchen I saw bhabhi was standing in the kitchen & drinking water. It was quite dark in the kitchen. She was wearing saree. She didn't see me entering the kitchen because she was facing the other side. I slowly went close to her & grabbed her from behind. She got scared & was about to shout. But I placed my hand on her mouth & said, don't shout bhabhi it's me rocky.
She turned around & gave me a suprise look & said, Rocky! what r u doing here? I said "bhabhi I can't stop thinking about u, and I want to fuck u right now." After saying that, I pounced on her body & grabbed her tightly. I moved my hand on her shoulder and made her saree pallu fall from her shoulder. I started kissing her neck. She tried to stop me. She said, what r u doing rocky? Are you out of your mind? I said, what happened don't u like it? She replied, kuch to sharam karo, your bhaiya is sleeping in the next room, he might wake up.
I said I don't care. I pressed her body against the wall. Her soft body was crushed between my muscular body and the wall. I started squeezing her boobs over her blouse. She tried to stop me. She moved my hand from her boobs. I got angry & pressed her with both hands on the wall. Then, I moved my face near her face & tried to kiss her, but she moved her face sideways. I kissed her cheeks & licked her cheeks like a horny animal. Then, I slowly started moving down licking her soft neck. She was pleading, ohhhhhh Rockyyy pls stop, atleast wait for tommorow till ur bhiaya goes to work. If ur bhaiya wakes up, he will kill me. She was willing to give her sexy body the next day, but I couldn't wait till tomorrow because I was really horny. Her pleading was falling on deaf ears. I was just like a hungry tiger pounding on prey. I started madly licking her neck slowly moving down. She was wearing her low-neck blouse. I licked her navel wildly & tried to remove the hook of her blouse. She resisted a little with her hands. I said, hey bitch I'm not gong to stop. I removed the hooks of her blouse forcibly one by one.
After removing the hook, I could see her big boobs trying to come out of the bra. I took her milky white boobs out of the bra and started sucking her boobs madly. I was squeezing her boobs mercilessly, and I was biting her nipples. I didn't care to take her to bed. I was just molesting her body in standing position in our kitchen. She was moaning in pleasure saying ohhhhh plsssssssss Rockyyyyyyyy stop it. Thoda pyar se dabao, I'm ur bhabhi, but her moan was making me mad, and I was becoming more rough and wild. After sucking her boobs madly, I knelt down and I started licking her soft stomach. I even started biting her stomach. Her eyes were closed. Then, I slowly touched her feet and started moving her petticoat & saree up. She said, what r u doing? plss stop it, not now.
I said, bhabhi I m just taking blessing from u by touching ur feet. I started moving her saree & petticoat up & started licking her soft legs. I slowly started moving her sarree & petticoat up above her knees. I started licking her soft warm thighs madly. She was moaning in pleasure saying aahhhhhhhh Rocky u r very naughtyyyy. I was licking and biting her thighs madly moving more close to her panty. Her resistance was completely over, and she was enjoying every moment of it. We almost forgot that bhaiya was sleeping in the next room.
I came near her panty & saw her panty was already wet. I kissed her pussy over her panty wildly. She moaned wildly saying ufffffffffffffff. I moved her saari & petticoat almost above her waist. I removed her panty slowly. I first kissed her pussy. Then, I rolled my tongue inside her pussy & started licking her pussy like a mad dog. My tongue rolled deep in her pussy. She was getting more & more excited. She started saying ohhhhhhhhhhh Rockyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I love uuuuuu. She was standing on her feet caressing my hair while I was on my knees licking her pussy madly.
I said, bhabhi u taste really greatttttttttt. After some time, she held my hair tightly & pressed it more against her pussy. Suddenly juices started flowing from her pussy, and she reached orgasm. All her juices came to my mouth. I could see her juices flowing from her milky white thighs. I licked every drop of it. Then, I stood up and removed my pant immediately. After reaching orgasm, she was about to sit on the floor, but I held her tightly. I moved her petticoat and saree up above her waist. I stretched her legs & I tried to push my 8-inch hard dick in her pussy in standing position. She was really tight after being married for 1 year. I pushed my dick hard, and after some time, it went fully in. She moaned, ouccchhhh! u have dick of an elephant.
After inserting my dick, I lifted her soft bulky body with my hard muscular body, so her feet were not on the floor. Her legs were wrapped around my waist while her hands were wrapped around my neck. I was also holding her tightly. In that position, I pressed her body on the wall and her back was supported by the wall, so I started fucking her half naked body in standing position. I started moving my dick in & out. I increased the speed. She was now screaming in pleasure aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh phaddd de apni bhabhi ki chut koooooooo.
I said, Bhabhi pls be quiet, you will wake bhaiya up. She said, I don't care, your bhaiya doesn't know how to handle a woman in heat. She was screaming in pleasure without any worries. While moving my dick in & out, I also started smooching her lips madly. I rolled my tongue in her mouth & started exploring her mouth. After some time, I started sucking her tongue. I didn't want her to shout, so I lip locked her mouth. It was taking long time for me to cum again. I already cummed thrice that night thinking about her. I was at top speed fucking her pussy in standing position. She was biting my lips in pleasure.
After some time, her body became real stiff & her nails pricked my back making a mark. She reached orgasm again, but I was still fucking her pussy madly without stopping. After a long time, I cummed inside her pussy & I left her. She stood on her feet now. She was not able to stand. She just lied on the floor half naked. She was breathing heavily. Her hair was a mess. The hook of her blouse was open & her boobs were out of bra. Her saree & petticoat were way above her knees without panty. She was looking really hot lying on the floor half naked.
Looking at her condition, anyone can make out that she was raped mercilessly by me. I was just staring at her hungrily. After some time, she gained consciousness. She moved her boobs back in her bra. She hooked her blouse & made her saree & petticoat proper. Then she stood up, took her panty which was lying on the floor, & started walking towards her room without saying a word. I was staring at her backside while she walked towards her room. She was not able to walk properly. After she entered her room, I put my pants on & went back to my room, lied on my bed immediately. I was tired. I fell on the bed & went to sleep immediately.
Next day in the morning, I woke up late. Bhaiya already went out to work. I was in a hurry because I was supposed to meet my girlfriend today. Without wasting time, I went to bath immediately. After taking bath, I wrapped a towel around my waist & came out of the bathroom. When I came out of bathroom, I saw bhabhi standing in front of me. She was without saree only wearing blouse & petticoat. She came near me, and she started moving her soft hand on my hard chest. Then, she started kissing & licking my chest. She was licking my chest slowly moving down.
Now, she was licking my abbs. Then, she moved her hand & tried to remove my towel. I stopped her and said bhabhi I can't do this right now. I need to meet my GF today, otherwise she is going to kill me. Bhabhi said, I don't care. You r the one who gave me multiple orgasm, and I want u to satisfy me right now. After saying that she forcibly pulled my towel & removed it. I was now fully naked in front of her. She started staring at my naked body with lust. I held her hair tightly & pressed her front body on the wall. Her backside was facing me. I hold her hair very tight & started kissing her neck from behind.
I was licking & biting her neck from behind. She moaned, ouchhhhhhh! u r too rough Rockyyy. I tore her blouse from behind & threw it away. Then, I opened the hook of her bra from behind & it fell down. I started moving my hand over her backside. I was madly licking her backside slowly moving down. I knelt down & started licking her lower back. She was standing on her feet facing the wall & enjoying my licking. Her eyes were closed, and she was moaning madly. I moved my hand in front & undid the strings of her petticoat, and it fell down. Her ass was now in front of my face. She was now just in panty. I started licking her ass cheeks. I was biting her ass cheeks madly making my teeth mark. She was moaning ouchhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhh, pls dont do tht, pls dont make bite marks on my body, wht will I say to my husband if he sees those mark. I was just licking her back of thighs & biting it madly.
Then, I stood up. I hold her hair tightly & pushed her in the bed. She lied on the bed just in panty while I was naked standing beside the bed. I went to the kitchen & bought a bottle of honey with me. Then, I climbed over her body with the honey bottle. I was over her while she was under my naked body. I poured some honey on her cheeks & lip. Then, I started licking the honey from her cheeks & lips wildly. I took some honey on my tongue & rolled my tongue deep inside her mouth & started smooching her. After kissing her wildly, I poured some honey on her boobs & her stomach. I was madly sucking her boobs. I was mercilessly squeezing her boobs. I was biting her nipples.
She was moaning loudly, and there were echoes of her moan all over the room. After that, I started licking her stomach and biting it. I was molesting her whole body like a wild animal. I was literally licking her whole body. Then, I moved down and started licking her toes. I was slowly moving up licking her legs. She folded her legs. I poured some honey on her thighs, and started licking her thighs madly. While licking her legs, I was slowly reaching her pussy. I quickly removed her panty & buried my face between her legs. I was licking her pussy madly. Her hips were moving up with pleasure. She was holding my hair very tightly & pulling my head more towards her pussy. She just wrapped her legs around my neck. l licked her pussy till her full satisfaction. I had no choice of moving my head because it was stuck between her legs.
After some time, she said it's time for u to fuck me hard. I just moved my head from her pussy. I stretched her legs and inserted my dick deep inside her pussy. I started moving my dick in and out. I was fucking her at top speed. I was on top of her, and she was under me. We were holding each other very tightly. I was squeezing her delicate soft body with my hard muscular body. While fucking her pussy, I was kissing her lips madly. She wrapped her legs around my waist. After some time, her body became stiff, and she gave a loud sound, and she reached orgasm. I also cummed in her pussy at the same time. We both were breathing heavily. I was lying on her naked body. I moved away from her body & lied beside her.
After sometime, she came over my body. She said its my time to return u favour. I was under her now. She started licking my chest & slowly moving down licking my abbs. Then, she held my dick in her hand. My dick was really shrink. She started stroking my dick. She moved the foreskin of my penis down and started sucking the head of my penis. Her sucking was so good that within few seconds, I regained erection again. She stretched her legs & sat on my dick. She started riding my dick while I was under her. She started moving up & down. Her big boobs were bouncing. She was looking very hot from down.
After a long time, I cummed and I was giving jerk, but she was still riding my dick. Within few seconds, she also reached orgasm and fell on my body. We took rest for few minutes lying in each other's arms & kissing each other madly. Then again, she lied on the bed with her backside facing the ceiling. I kept a pillow under her lower stomach & her ass moved up. Then, I inserted my dick from behind inside her pussy. I started fucking her pussy from behind doggy style. I was holding her hair tightly while I was fucking her pussy from behind. It looked like I was riding a horse. I cummed inside her pussy again & lied on the backside of her body. We were in that position for sometime.
I again got horny, and I started spanking or slapping her ass cheeks. She was shouting ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I was biting & licking her ass cheeks. I inserted my finger & slowly started fingering her ass hole. She was moaning in pleasure. After fingering her asshole for a while, I tried to insert my dick in her ass hole. Her ass hole was really small. She said plsssssss not with ur dick, ur dick is very thick, I will die if u fuck my asshole. She tried to move her body, but I forcibly pressed her body on the bed. I forcibly pushed my dick in her asshole. She shouted ouiiiiiiiiii maaaaaaaaaa marr gayiii, pls ruk jaaoo.
Her screams was making me more wild. After a real hard push, I inserted my dick fully in her ass hole. Without any mercy, I was fucking her asshole. She was crying pls stop, I will die. Tears came from her eyes. I don't know but her pleading and crying was making me more horny. I was fucking her asshole holding her hair tightly from behind. After some time, her crying turned into soft moans. It felt like she was enjoying it. I cummed in her asshole & fell on her body. I was lying on her backside of body. We both were really tired, and we both went to sleep for almost 1 hour in that same position. She woke up after 1 hour & woke me up too.
When I woke up, I was still horny. I told her to suck my dick. I stood up on the bed while she was sitting on the bed. She held my dick & started sucking the tip of my dick. My dick became hard. I removed her hand from my dick & told her not to touch it. Then I hold her hair tightly with my both hands. I inserted my whole dick in her small mouth & started fucking her mouth. I was moving my dick in & out holding her hair tightly. She was really choked while I was fucking her mouth. I was about to cum, and I cummed on her face. I rubbed tip of my dick on her face and her lips. Her cute face was looking real sexy with my white sperms. Then, she stood up from the bed and walked towards the bathroom to clean herself. She was not able to walk properly.
We continued our fucking for almost 2 weeks till she was in Mumbai. I fucked her in every corner of my house. When bhaiya was in deep sleep at night, she used to come to my room. After our fucking session, she used to go back to her room in early morning. When me & bhaiya used to watch cricket match together on TV, she used to work in kitchen. I used to go to kitchen in the name of drinking water & use to squeeze my bhabhi's boobs & ass wildy & even used to kiss her. She used to get scared and say, ur bhaiya is in the next room, behave urself, but I never stopped doing it. She always used to say that she liked the way I used to molest her delicate body & roughly handle her body.


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Boston 76-51 .598 --For the Yankees to win the East, with 35 games remaining:
New York 71-56 .559 5
If Boston goes 18-17, New York must go 24-11 (.686, roughly the same pace they have played since the ASG: 28-13, .683).
If Boston goes 19-16, New York must go 25-10 (.714, a better pace than their historic 1998 season: 114-48, .704).
If Boston goes 21-14 -- its 2007 winning percentage to date -- New York must go 27-8 (.771, the equivalent of a 125-37 season, something no team has ever done).
Turn it around:
If New York plays at its current season percentage of .559, they will go 20-15 (actually, 19.6 wins). Boston would have to go 14-21 to lose the East.
A New York comeback is not impossible -- the six games remaining against the Yankees make it more probable than if we were through with them for the year.
If the Red Sox somehow get swept next week, the media will go insane -- but, with Boston playing 19 of their 35 games against the Devil Rays, Orioles and Blue Jays, I don't see any reason for serious concern.


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A Failed Celebr-Ambassador Returns to Washington
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Welcome to another installment of No Obama Bundler Left Behind. This chapter stars an elite Hollywood fundraiser who scored a plum diplomatic appointment, slacked off on the job and left her public office in disgrace, and then rebounded from failure as a new Obamacare promoter. Nice crony "work" if you can get it.
This failed celebr-ambassador is Nicole Avant. Her father, Clarence Avant, is a prominent Democratic activist and music executive. Her husband, Ted Sarandos, is the chief content officer at Netflix. Her godfather is music legend Quincy Jones. On Monday, Avant turned up at an Obama administration confab with pop stars (Jennifer Hudson, Jason Derulo), comedy stars (Amy Poehler, Kal Penn, Aisha Tyler) and other assorted Beautiful People (public relations teams for Oprah Winfrey and Alicia Keys). The liberal glam squad members all have agreed to spread Obamacare propaganda to the masses.
Avant, billed as an "Obama administration veteran" by The Hollywood Reporter, represented "industry" at the Ministry of Health Care Misinformation meeting this week. The Wrap, another Hollywood gossip outlet, describes Avant as having been "tasked with helping boost Obama's relationship with Hollywood."
But what exactly has this "veteran" accomplished? What are her qualifications? How has she used taxpayer dollars, and what exactly is her "industry"?
By all appearances, the industry of Nicole Avant is Nicole Avant. The Beverly Hills socialite and "power player" has appeared in highbrow magazines like "Uptown" with glossy photo spreads of her 1-percenter mansion — designed, we must all be made aware, by Max Azria. Avant's personal website describes her as a "businesswoman," but her biography mentions no actual business. Instead, Avant exults from a privileged 90210 childhood attending "elite soirees, charitable events and political fundraisers."
Avant's official biography includes the following anecdote: "One time, when I was in grade school, I told my teacher that Gov. Jerry Brown of California had been over. She responded in disbelief, asking, 'What was the governor doing at your house?' Avant replied, 'Just talking with my dad.'"
And that brings us to Avant's "qualifications." As a member of Obama's 2008 Los Angeles fundraising team, Avant used her family connections to help drum up some $21 million in campaign cash. She and her husband drummed up at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign during the last election cycle. First lady Michelle Obama recently gushed that Avant was a "dear friend" and "pretty phenomenal woman."
Money can: buy love. And ambassadorships. In the fall of 2009, Avant was appointed ambassador to the Bahamas. The State Department inspector general, alas, didn't have the same warm, tingly feelings for Avant that the Obamas do. The IG's scathing report blasted her jet-setting tenure, which the watchdog described as "an extended period of dysfunctional leadership and mismanagement." Avant, true to the Obama way, blamed problems "inherited" from the previous administration.
But Avant, and Avant alone, was responsible for her chronic absenteeism. She was gone from the office 276 days between September 2009 and November 2011. The IG concluded bluntly: "Her extensive travel out of country and preference to work from the ambassador's residence for a significant portion of the workday contributed to a perception of indifference. … The frequent absences of the ambassador contributed to poor mission management."
And it was Avant's neglect of basic office maintenance and core mission work, not George W. Bush's, that led the IG to conclude that the post had produced "little political reporting or analysis on international crime, drug smuggling and illegal migration or on prevention of terrorism" under her reign. Avant chose instead to tout her "success" in hosting former basketball star and fellow Obama booster Magic Johnson on the islands to promote "business development."
It's more political patronage as usual in the era of Hope and Change. Remember when Obama the candidate once inveighed: "We need a president who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies." Or when he pontificated: "It is no coincidence that the best bundlers are often granted the greatest access, and access is power in Washington." As I've chronicled throughout Obama's tenure in my columns and in "Culture of Corruption," Avant is the rule, not the exception among his class of incompetent, feather-lining bundler appointees.
No doubt the complainer in chief will dismiss any criticism of his celebr-ambassadorships-for-sale embarrassments as more "phony scandals." But the phoniest phony of them all doth protest too much.
Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is: [email protected].
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Last evening, I attend an event called Social Media for Social Good hosted by the Philadelphia chapter of the Social Media Club. I had learned of this event through a Facebook posting of one of its members. This event highlighted how social media tools were being used to promote charities in the areas; specifically, Blame Drew's Cancer, Philadelphia Twestival, and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. I am curious to see how other types of groups and individuals approach the tools and technology.
In turn, each speaker got up and gave a brief overview of what they are using to get the word out on their cause. Overall, there was a lot of talk of Twitter, of organization websites, and a smattering of Facebook groups. In a way, I was disappointed; I had hoped that there would be some sort of gem of a website or tool that I had not heard of but would really rock my world. But, in listening to the other people at the event speak, it also gave me a good barometer of the things people were using, how they were using it, and to what success. While I had not discovered something new and radical, it was a nice reassurance that all of my promotional efforts are hitting the same places that some of the professional consultants are using.
My biggest takeaway from the event was from the group itself; here is a room full of people looking to use social media and web tools to assist those in need. Could this sort of enterprise be duplicated in the library community? My instincts tell me that it could; the example I would look to is the Save Ohio Libraries phenomena. With a Facebook group, Twitter hashtag, Flickr account, and intuitive website with their compelling story, they mustered thousands of people to rally for their cause. I can't help but believe that it had an impact on the budget process, even if the cuts passed were still devastating.
But in looking at other budget fights that are being broadcast on Twitter and Facebook, they don't seem to have the same "oompf" to it. Pennsylvania has the second best response to news that I've seen, but there wasn't much in the way of tweets or retweets beyond the initial story. Searches of Facebook groups for states in the news with library cuts reveals a smattering with small numbers. When I go to the corresponding state's library association website, there is a simple notice and a plea for action.
In taking a step back and looking at the different events, I'm not sure why one is succeeding like crazy and the others are limping along. Perhaps Ohio had the biggest "sticker shock" of the state budgets; you really can't beat having someone slash a budget in half to induce outrage and the desire to take action. Maybe Ohio had a much more hardcore series of library professionals on Twitter who were diligent about tweeting and retweeting budget information, calls for actions, and rally recaps all under the same hashtag. A group with a vested interest in the results who could tell the story of the Ohio budget battle. Likewise for the joining and sharing of the Facebook group which grew to over 50,000 people over a period of two weeks. There was a focused purpose to the whole endeavor: getting people involved with a definitive goal in mind.
In looking at the other library based causes, my inclination is to say that they suffer from a lack of visibility and organization at the grassroots level. There is a vast difference between asking someone to write to their representative versus asking someone to write to their representative, sign up an online petition, join this Facebook group, check out a website, and be sure to follow the news on Twitter. (To a degree, this has been a topic of conversation in one of my NJLA groups.) It has to be more than a plea for help; it has to draw people in, get them involved, and to move together as one.
But getting back to the group that filled that Temple University classroom and the question asked a few paragraphs back, what would it take to create a similar group of library advocates? I have a few thoughts but I want to map them out over the next couple of days. I think the time for networks that are broader than state lines is coming; I see it as inevitable as our connections between libraries grow greater.


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Dunn 3-run homer hands Lester first loses of year
Adam Dunn hit a three-run homer in the first inning, and the Chicago White Sox handed Jon Lester his first loss of the season with a 6-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.
Alejandro De Aza and Alexei Ramirez added consecutive RBI doubles in the second as Chicago took advantage of an ineffective Lester (6-1) to earn its fifth win in seven games in the opener of an eight-game homestand. The White Sox scored each of their runs with two outs.
Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a two-run homer for the Red Sox, who had won five in a row. Saltalamacchia made a bid for a second two-run shot, but Dayan Viciedo brought in his drive on the warning track in left-center with the White Sox clinging to a 6-4 lead in the seventh.
Boston right fielder Shane Victorino went 1 for 3 before he left in the bottom of the sixth with left hamstring tightness. He also missed games on Friday and Saturday with a back injury.
Lester was trying to become the first left-handed starter to win his first seven decisions for Boston since Roger Moret in 1973. But he was shaky in the first couple of innings while falling to 4-5 in 10 career games against the White Sox to go along with a 5.43 ERA, his highest against any AL team.
Lester retired his first two batters before running into trouble. Alex Rios singled to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, and Paul Konerko walked before Dunn drove a 2-0 pitch to right for his fifth homer in seven games and No. 11 on the year.
Chicago added two more in the second, and Viciedo singled home Ramirez to make it 6-2 in the fifth.
Lester retired the side in order in the sixth, and that was it for him. He allowed five earned runs and seven hits, walked three and struck out two.
While Lester struggled, Dylan Axelrod (2-3) pitched six effective innings to win his second straight start. The right-hander, who could lose his spot in the rotation when John Danks comes off the disabled list, gave up two runs and four hits.
Matt Thornton yielded Will Middlebrooks' two-run double in the seventh, and Jesse Crain extended his scoreless streak to 17 innings before Addison Reed finished for his 15th save in 16 chances.
With one out and a runner on first in the ninth, Middlebrooks hit a drive that De Aza caught at the wall in center field. Konerko then made a diving stop on Stephen Drew's grounder and flipped the ball to Reed covering first to end the game.
The White Sox improved to 9-9 at home on the first night of a stretch of 17 of 23 games in Chicago that includes two against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. If the White Sox (20-23) can turn around their sluggish play at U.S. Cellular Field, it could be a chance to make up some ground in the bunched AL Central.
The Red Sox activated closer Andrew Bailey from the 15-day disabled list. He had been out since April 29 with right biceps inflammation. ... Drew returned to the lineup after missing two games with a sore back. ... Chicago second baseman Gordon Beckham, placed on the disabled list April 12 with a broken bone in his left wrist, played shortstop in a rehab game with Triple-A Charlotte on Monday night. White Sox manager Robin Ventura said Beckham could return to the team by the end of the week. ... Red Sox manager John Farrell said catcher David Ross (concussion) threw and rode a bike for 30 minutes. He will try to increase the intensity of his work today. "He's moving in the right direction," Farrell said. ... Ventura said there will be a meeting with Danks in the next couple of days. Danks is recovering from shoulder surgery last August. ... Left-handers Felix Doubront (3-1, 6.03 ERA) of the Red Sox and Jose Quintana (2-1, 3.97) of the White Sox are slated to pitch tonight.


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"Home is where the heart is." ~ JOSEPH C. NEAL
I'm going home today – home to my own little farm. After too much time in the big city, with bags barely unpacked from my Thailand adventure, I am finally going home.
Somehow, when I wasn't paying attention, Summer arrived. Somehow Christmas snuck up. I've been in a daze. I feel like I've been suspended in time. Too much time sandwiched between mint green walls giving one more vial of blood, or in air-conditioned rooms with views over streets and carparks.
I could feel my creativity, my connection, my inspiration shrinking until I worried I might lose my way back to them. But it's okay now. I'm almost home.
Today I'll get grass between my toes. Tonight I'll have the soft sands of Byron's beaches underfoot. Or it will storm and I shall be ankle deep in a fast-flowing creek.
I don't care. I'm going home.
I'm so sorry my blogging has been haphazard these past few weeks. Life has been unexpectedly chaotic, and I've been unaccountably exhausted.
But soon I will be home, with my Muse whispering sweet somethings in my ear. Did you know that this day, a year ago, I created my wordpress account. And tomorrow shall be the One Year Anniversary of Cauldrons and Cupcakes. I might have to throw a party. Yes, that sounds like a plan. A party with good snacks. Of course you're all invited! Much love to you, Nicole ♥ xx


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Here are my posts from June 2 and 3 last year. It was the day Maltese Falcon stooped across the bay with all sail set, sending the orange boat in the foreground to flee in panic, as if prey.
Crew on the barge pushed by the McAllister tug to the left clock it at nearly 20 knots before
she douses her sails, at the push of a button and cruises past a Blue Marlin in Day 12 of a prolonger loading.
It took ten more days to have the load secure for departure. A day-by-day report of that loading process is in the "Tale of Two Marlins" link to the left. Since that trip last June, two more Dockwise vessels have taken US equipment over to West Africa. Today, Blue Marlin is anchored off Malta, Maltese Falcon at the dock in Genoa, the former Reinauer tugs work off Nigeria. So far I've gotten no response to requests for fotos from Nigeria.


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Global spread of democracy stalled
Putin and Chávez are using oil money to create other models, while others just step back.
| Washington
The spread of democracy has been one of the defining geopolitical trends of the last 25 years. In 1975, 30 nations of the world had popularly elected governments. By 2005 that number had rocketed to 119.
But in recent years the growth of democracy and political freedom has slowed. In a number of countries – such as Venezuela and some of the former Soviet states – it's even begun to slip backward.
And for the first time since the heyday of communism, democracy may be facing competition from an ideology that styles itself as an alternative. Enriched by oil money, autocrats such as Vladimir Putin of Russia and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez are challenging the importance of checks on executive power, the rule of law, and unfettered media.
"They are trying to redefine democracy and dumb it down," says Thomas Melia, deputy executive director of Freedom House, a think tank that promotes democracy and rates the performance of governments around the world.
First, the good news. The days when the United States and the Soviet Union seemed locked in a great wrestling match over the ideological fate of the world are long gone. After the collapse of Soviet-style communism as a competitive alternative to representational government, popular votes became the norm in much of the globe.
Historians of the future may judge this to be the era of democracy's triumph.
"In the last quarter of the twentieth century this form of government enjoyed a remarkable rise. Once confined to a handful of wealthy countries, it became, in a short period of time, the most popular political system in the world," writes Michael Mandelbaum, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, in the current issue of the journal Foreign Affairs.
What we know as democracy today is really the fusion of two things, notes Mandelbaum: popular sovereignty, or voting; and individual liberty or freedom. It's easy to hold a national referendum, but establishing liberty is much more difficult, as it requires laws, police, legislatures, and other institutional trappings of freedom.
In its most recent annual survey, Freedom House rates 90 countries in the world as fully free, meaning they are democracies with established liberties. Fifty-eight are partly free, and 45 are not free, according to Freedom House.
The percentage of nations rated free has not gone up for a decade. And in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the territory of the former Soviet Union, once-promising democratic transitions have turned out to be shallowly rooted.
"There has been a fairly long-term process of stagnation in democracy ... and now we're seeing individual bits of bad news," says Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies, international politics, and governance, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In Pakistan, President Pervez Musharra has begun freeing thousands of opponents from jails across the country, but his declaration of emergency rule has enraged opposition lawyers and set the country's political cauldron on full boil.
In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, elected to a six-year term with 60 percent of the vote in 2000, is pushing forward with a constitutional referendum that, among other things, would allow him unlimited reelections.
In Georgia, President Mikhail Saakshvili has come under strong Western criticism for imposing a state of emergency on Nov. 7 after police violently broke up a large protest gathering. The protests were sparked by opposition allegations of corruption and the possible involvement of Saakshvili's government in a murder plot.
Behind the bad news, say experts, are a number of factors. One is that the wave of democracy unleashed following the fall of the Berlin Wall has run its natural course. Those nations ripe for political change have experienced it and now are trying to consolidate their gains.
Another problem is that in some countries citizens are confronting what they feel are democracy's weaknesses. They have gained a vote, but remain dissatisfied with their lot.
"It's tough sledding for democracy right now," said Vin Weber, chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, at a Sept. 12 Carnegie seminar.
The high price of oil is not helping. Non-democratic but petroleum-rich states such as Venezuela, Kazakhstan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Angola can use their flush coffers to placate their citizens, and help their neighbors.
"It gives them ready money to go out and promote their style of politics," says Mr. Carothers of Carnegie.
In addition, revelations about warrantless wiretapping, waterboarding, and other controversies related to Iraq and the war on terror have not helped the US image abroad. That gives antidemocrats ammunition to try and discredit the US style of government.
Then there are the examples of Russia and China. Both are doing well economically, though for different reasons. Both present themselves to the rest of the world as alternatives to what they charge is Western chaos.
"The narrative that Putin is using to explain his actions to his people is that he has brought order to Russia after the chaos that the US foisted on them after the collapse of the Soviet Union," says Thomas Melia of Freedom House.
Putin, as well as Chavez of Venezuela, and Hamas officials in the Palestinian Authority, deliver services to the lowest sectors of society in a manner that democracy did not seem able to do, according to US experts.
And while there may not yet be an Axis of Autocracy, Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, and others press what they consider their advantages in as many international organizations and forums as they can.
"In the last year and a half, what you've seen is more effective coordination of autocracies, while democrats dither," says Mr. Melia.
Europe and the free nations of Latin and Central America need to understand there is a real problem, and join with the US to counter this propaganda, says Melia.
"There's another cold war underway," he says. "It's not East vs. West, but democracy versus nondemocracy."


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Code Syntax Style: Modifiers
C# modifiers of types and type members can be written in any order. However, arranging them in a similar way throughout your code is a good practice, which improves code readability. Besides, you may prefer using or not using
private and
internal modifiers explicitly.
ReSharper helps you arrange modifiers in the existing code and takes your preferences into account when it produces new code with code completion and code generation features, applies code templates and performs refactorings.
In this topic:
Arranging modifiers in existing code
By default, ReSharper suggests you to use
private and
internal modifiers explicitly, and to arrange modifiers in a specific order. If necessary, you can flexibly configure these preferences.
If your code does not comply with these preferences, ReSharper highlights such declarations and suggests the corresponding quick-fix or fix in scope for the order of modifiers:
... for the
private modifier:
... and for the
internal modifier:
Another option to enforce all your preferences for modifiers in a bulk mode is code cleanup. You can either run code cleanup with the default profile Default: Full Cleanup or run the cleanup with a custom profile solely targeted at your specific task as described below.
To apply preferences for modifiers with code cleanup
- Open the Code Cleanup options: .
- Create a new profile as described in the Code Cleanup section. In the Selected profile settings section for the new profile tick the Use explicit/implicit modifier for types, Use explicit/implicit modifier for type members, and Sort modifiers check boxes.
- Click Save to apply the modifications and let ReSharper choose where to save them, or save the modifications to a specific settings layer using the Save To drop-down list. For more information, see Managing and Sharing ReSharper Settings.
- Select the scope where you want to enforce your preferences:
- Do one of the following:
- In the Code Cleanup dialog that opens, select the newly created profile.
- Click Run. ReSharper will enforce your preferences in the selected scope.
If you want to arrange modifiers without opening the Code Cleanup dialog, you can bind the created profile to the silent cleanup and run it simply by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F. You can also create a custom cleanup profile that would combine applying attributes style with other code style tasks.
Configuring preferences for modifiers
Your modifiers-related preferences are saved using the mechanism of shared settings. Among other things, this mechanism allows you to maintain different preferences for different solutions as well as to keep these preferences under a VCS and automatically share them with your team members.
To configure preferences for modifiers
- Go to the page of ReSharper options.
- In the Modifiers category, specify the desired order of modifiers and set the preferences for explicit using of
- The Notify with selectors in the right column allow you to set severity levels of code inspections detecting code that differs from your preferences.
- Click Save to apply the modifications and let ReSharper choose where to save them, or save the modifications to a specific settings layer using the Save To drop-down list. For more information, see Managing and Sharing ReSharper Settings.
You can also change your preferences for explicit/implicit use of
private and
internal modifiers right in the editor, where corresponding issues are highlighted:
To change preference for modifiers in the editor
- Set the caret to a code issue highlighted by a ReSharper's inspection.
- Press Alt+Enter or click on the action indicator to the left of the caret to open the action list.
- In the action list, choose Inspection "Use explicit or implicit modifier definition for types" | Prefer implicit 'internal' modifier :
- Your change will be saved using the smart save logic.
- If you need to save the modified style preference in a shared settings layer, click on the Configure code style menu item or press Enter when it is selected. ReSharper will open the page of ReSharper options where you can modify your preference as needed, click Save To and then choose the desired settings layer.
- In a similar way, you can change the preference for explicit/implicit
This feature is supported in the following languages/technologies:
See Also
- Naming Style
- Managing and Applying Code Formatting Rules
- File and Type Layout
- File Header Style
- Code Syntax Style: Namespace Imports
- Code Syntax Style: Implicit/Explicit Typing
- Using Auto-Properties
- Making Fields Readonly
- Code Syntax Style: Multiple Attributes
- Code Syntax Style: Modifiers
- Code Syntax Style: Optional Member Qualifiers
- Reformatting XML Doc Comments
- Removing Code Redundancies


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Gas plants scandal: B.C.'s Christy Clark asked to free up party director Laura Miller to testify in Ontario
Laura Miller's testimony sought on matter of destruction of documents about two cancelled gas plants
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark is being asked to give her party's executive director some time off so she can testify about her involvement in the cancelled gas plants scandal in Ontario.
A legislative committee is seeking answers from Laura Miller about police allegations concerning the destruction of documents about two unpopular gas plants the Ontario Liberals cancelled at a cost of up to $1.1 billion.
Ontario New Democrat Peter Tabuns, who penned the letter to Clark, said he wants to make sure that there's no obstacle preventing Miller — who Tabuns told reporters was a "person of interest" to police — from returning to testify again before the committee.
"I would expect that the premier of B.C. respects rule of law and wants to see it respected by her staff and her colleagues," Tabuns said Friday.
Earlier this week, Clark said Miller "needs to make her own decisions" about whether to co-operate with the Ontario Provincial Police.
"She is a person of absolutely sterling character and she works incredibly hard for our party and for our province," Clark said. "She's a person of the utmost integrity and we're really, really lucky to have her in B.C."
Sharon White, president of the B.C. Liberal Party, echoed Clark's sentiments about Miller in a statement emailed on Friday.
"From here, it looks like they are gearing up for an election. I'm not going to comment on their politicking. I will say that if Laura decides to attend committee in another province, it will be her own decision," White said.
The controversy that's engulfed the Ontario Liberals for years — even hastening the departure of former premier Dalton McGuinty — appears to be spreading to the other end of the country.
Several senior aides who worked for McGuinty joined the B.C. Liberals after he stepped down in early 2013, including Miller, one of his deputy chiefs of staff.
She served on the B.C. Liberals' campaign team last year, along with McGuinty's former top strategist Don Guy. Miller and Guy have testified before the committee probing the gas plants scandal.
A question of deleted files
Ontario Provincial Police allege that Miller's boyfriend, Peter Faist, had access to computers in the premier's office and possibly deleted files just before McGuinty relinquished power.
They say computer experts cannot determine when 20 of 24 hard drives were accessed with a special password, which was valid for weeks after current Premier Kathleen Wynne was sworn in.
At the time, Faist was under contract to provide IT services for the government caucus and the Ontario Liberal Party. Both contracts have ended. David Livingston, McGuinty's former chief of staff, is alleged to have obtained the all-access password to the computers for Faist.
None of the allegations have been tested in court and Livingston's lawyer has said his client has broken no laws. Wynne insists none of the players had access to her office after she was sworn in on Feb. 11 last year.
One of the investigators, OPP Det. Const. Andre Duval, also told the committee on Thursday that Miller, Faist, Livingston — a man currently under investigation for breach of trust — and his aide Wendy Wai have declined to speak to police.
Miller's lawyer Brian Shiller said she didn't speak with the OPP because police couldn't assure her that her comments wouldn't be used against her in any proceeding.
"Laura was given verbal assurances that her constitutional rights would be protected but the investigator then refused to provide that assurance in writing and changed its position," Shiller said in a letter to the committee.
Miller is willing to assist the committee "in an atmosphere that respects" her constitutional rights, he said.
Tabuns said he expects Miller had "long discussions" with Faist and should be able to provide details about what happened in the premier's office.
"I think what we need to hear from Laura Miller is what she did, why she did it, when things took place and what her role was," he said.
"When we know that, we can comment further on exactly these virtues that (Clark) has alluded to."
Both Miller and Guy testified at committee last year about the events surrounding the Ontario Liberals' decision to cancel the two unpopular plants, one in the dying days of the 2011 election campaign that reduced them to a minority government.
They were questioned about emails that appeared to show an attempt to convince Speaker Dave Levac to change his preliminary finding of contempt against the government.
Miller told the committee that she and other unelected Liberals in McGuinty's office didn't try to pressure the Speaker to change his ruling against then-energy minister Chris Bentley, which stemmed from the government's initial refusal to release all documents concerning the gas plants.
She testified the Liberals simply wanted the Speaker to know that they felt the Progressive Conservatives were unfairly targeting Bentley.
Levac did not deny the Liberals had attempted to persuade him to change his ruling, but said he never felt undue pressure when meeting with officials from any party.
After he refused to change his mind, McGuinty prorogued the legislature in the fall of 2012 and announced he would resign as premier, pre-empting the public hearings into the gas plants scandal.
The opposition parties say the Liberals scrapped the Mississauga and Oakville plants to try to save seats in the election and taxpayers are now paying the price.


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In the wake of a recent major patent ruling from the Supreme Court, the top patent court has been ordered to reconsider one of the more controversial patents that's been fought over in the past few years.
US patent 7,346,545 is owned by a company called Ultramercial, which sued Hulu, YouTube, and a gaming company called WildTangent back in 2011. It describes a "method and system for payment of intellectual property royalties by interposed sponsor on behalf of consumer over a telecommunications network." In plain English, it describes a system in which viewers watch an advertisement as a "payment," and then get to watch a piece of online content.
The district court judge threw out the patent, finding that it was an unpatentable abstract idea. But the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hears all patent appeals, saw it differently. It said the patent at least passed the "abstract" test of Section 101 of the patent laws.
WildTangent, the only one of the three defendants remaining in the case, kept fighting. It petitioned the Supreme Court, which had broadened Section 101 in recent rulings. The high court didn't take the case, but ordered the Federal Circuit to reconsider its allowance of the Ultramercial patent. A Federal Circuit panel led by now-retired Chief Judge Randall Rader again allowed the patent in June of 2013. Activist groups working to change patent laws, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said the high court should intervene once more, and WildTangent filed another petition.
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted WildTangent's second petition, in a short "summary disposition," and ordered the case to be sent to the Federal Circuit for the third time. The Federal Circuit must reconsider the patent in light of the recent ruling in Alice v. CLS Bank, a 9-0 decision in which the Supreme Court ruled that adding computer language to patents on basic ideas isn't enough to stop them from getting tossed out under Section 101.
Ad-supported content is a very old idea. It's more common than ever in the Internet age, with Google and all manner of media companies running ads together with free content. But the idea is much older than that. In the US, the idea of using ads to keep content cheap goes back to the penny press of the mid-1800s; in the video space, it's as old as broadcast TV.
Even though Section 101 uses the language of "abstract" ideas, the Supreme Court's view is that that should apply to things that are very old, as well. Alice's patent was on using an intermediary in finance, and the Bilski patent was on a method of financial hedging; both were thrown out under Section 101. Recently, FindTheBest fought off a patent troll wielding a patent on "matchmaking," when the judge overseeing the case pointed out that matchmaking had been going on "for millennia."


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EDMONTON — Eleven college students, aged 18 to 24, are taking the pro-life message to the highways and byways of Canada.
Embarking on a cross-country walk for life, eight Canadians and three Americans started their journey May 23 in Vancouver.
They said prayers, dipped their feet in the Pacific Ocean, and started walking. Their arduous trek will take them as far east as Montreal and Quebec City, before they backtrack into Ontario, ending their walk Aug. 13 in Ottawa with a rally on Parliament Hill.
Crossroads is a pro-life organization that sponsors walks across North America. It was founded in 1995 by Steve Sanborn, a student at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, as a response to the pope's call to establish a culture of life.
This is its third year in Canada and the number of walkers who have given up their summer for the project is up to 11 from six last year. College students and seminarians, they give prayerful and peaceful witness, and at times do sidewalk counselling.
The young pilgrims walk five days of the week, 24 hours a day. With a day and night team, the group covers about 100 km a day.
"We pray five rosaries every day, attend daily Mass, have morning and evening prayer," said Michael Hayden.
Surprisingly, nearly everyone makes it through the summer wearing the same pair of sneakers.
The walkers don T-shirts with the words "Pro-Life" in large letters across the front. Every day, passersby ask what they are doing and why they are wearing those shirts. It enables them to tell people about their mission to spread the Gospel of life.
Just as a religious habit signifies a commitment to Christ, the walkers realized that wearing pro-life shirts brings with it a responsibility to live according to the message that they are spreading.
Walking Monday to Friday, they stop in towns and cities on the weekends to speak in parishes, pray outside abortion clinics, have spiritual conversations and witness in any way they can. They carry a book filled with thousands of prayer requests from people they have met along the way in churches and on roadsides.
They raise money for their walk, but any extra donations go to pro-life causes and pregnancy outreach centres.
Last year's contingent got little response in Quebec, as few people there know about the pro-life movement. Mainstream newspapers tend to ignore them too.
This year has been a mix of positive and negative responses. Sometimes people buy them meals at restaurants. Others are curious to hear their message, while a few holler at them.
"The majority of reactions we get are positive," said Hayden. "People stop and talk to us as we walk along the side of the highways. We hear stories of pain and suffering, healing and hope."
Hayden says they saved the lives of at least two babies last year, and that makes the walk worthwhile.
"We're all Catholic students, so we believe in the dignity and sanctity of life," he said.
The Edmonton Archdiocese has been supportive of their cause. They prayed for two hours at the local abortuary, Women's Health Options, and also visited the Back Porch, an 11th hour ministry to women and men reconsidering their decision to have an abortion.
"But I consider the majority of Canadians pro-life, whether they say so politically or not."
Most of the walkers sleep between two and six hours per day. After their June 11-13 Edmonton stop, they headed towards Kindersley, Sask. The rest of the week was to be spent walking to Saskatoon, then on to Regina and Winnipeg.
Next year they hope to extend the walk into the Maritimes.