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Year of Residency Completion: 2016
Year of Fellowship Completion: 2018
Facility/School: University of Vermont, Larner College of Medicine
Position: Assistant Professor
Years of Experience in Critical Care: 2
Areas of Interest: Ventilator Management, Procedural Training, Transport of the Critically Ill, Medical Education, Critical Care in Emergency Medicine, Non-invasive ventilation
Skyler Lentz, MD, FAAEM is a board-certified emergency and critical care physician. He regular speaks locally, regionally and nationally on mechanical ventilation and other critical care topics. He is invited every year to speak at regional conferences and other residency programs. He led a small group clinic at the AAEM 2019 SA and was invited back to speak in 2020, before the pandemic. He recently lectured at the June 2020 national ACEP virtual grand rounds.
- Lentz S (June 2020) Mechanical Ventilation for the Emergency Physician. American College of Emergency Medicine June Virtual Grand Rounds.
- Lentz S A Non-Invasive Approach to Respiratory Failure. Remote Live Lecture. Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Didactics. Invited Lecture.
- Lentz S (2020) Everything you need to know about mechanical ventilation. University of Vermont EM Update, Annual Regional Conference.
- Lentz S (2020) ED Management of the Critically Ill Patient with Liver Disease. University of Vermont Division of Emergency Medicine.
- Lentz S (2019) Controversies in Septic Shock Emergency Medicine. University of Vermont Division of Emergency Medicine.
- Lentz S (March 2019) Hands-on ED Ventilator Management. 25th Annual Academy of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly, Small Group Leader.
- Lentz S (2019) An Approach to Shock. University of Vermont Division of Emergency Medicine.
- Lentz S (2017) Short of Breath: Reach for High-Flow Nasal Cannula. The New Speakers Forum of the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly.
- Lentz S (2020) Managing the Sick Covid-19 Patients: The Pathway to Critical Care. Emergency Care Society of Uganda. Expert Panel Discussant. International Virtual Lecture.


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Procter & Gamble Co. (NYS:PG) said late Thursday that Chief Operating Officer Jon R. Moeller will succeed David Taylor as the consumer-products giant's chief executive officer, effective Nov. 1. At that date, Taylor will become Procter & Gamble's executive chairman, tasked with leading the board and "provide advice and counsel to the CEO and P&G leadership on company decisions," Procter & Gamble said. Moeller joined the company in 1988 and served as chief financial officer as well. The company said that Shailesh Jejurikar will take the post of chief operating officer on Oct. 1, reporting to Moeller. Jejurikar is the CEO of the company's fabric & home care unit, Procter & Gamble's largest. Shares of Procter & Gamble were flat in the extended session Thursday after ending the regular trading day up 0.5%.
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The Ultimate Homemade Burger Experience
-1 lb. ground beef
-1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
-1/2 teaspoon onion powder
-1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
-1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
-1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
-1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
-1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
-1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
-1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
-1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
-2 tablespoons olive oil
-4 hamburger buns
-4 slices of cheese (optional)
-Lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup, and mustard (optional)
1. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, black pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, oregano, thyme, cumin, coriander, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. Mix together until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
2. Divide the mixture into four equal parts and form into patties.
3. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
4. Place the patties in the skillet and cook for 4-5 minutes per side, or until the patties are cooked through.
5. Place the patties on the hamburger buns and top with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup, and mustard (optional).
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You got a craving, we have a solution: Try a Bread Pizza
Craving an extra delicious Italian pizza at the moment but worried about the long tiring pizza recipe? Searching for an alternative to satisfy your taste buds? The restrictions because of the ongoing global pandemic forcing you to take a step back before ordering something? So, here we are with a mouth-watering savory solution to all these bemusing questions. It is a BREAD PIZZA that can surpass even the traditional pizza by its aroma and flavors. The best part is you do not need a pizza base or micro-oven here. It is easy to make and heavenly to taste.
6 slices of bread (white or brown as you like.)
Tomato ketchup- 4-5 tablespoons
Oil- 3 tablespoons
Onion- 2 medium(cut into small cubes)
Capsicum- 1 (cut into small cubes)
Tomato- 1 (cut into small cubes)
Cheese-1 cube (grated)
Oregano seasoning- 1 teaspoon
Chilli flakes- 1 teaspoon
Chat masala- 1/2 teaspoon
Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a frying pan or tawa on a low flame. Take 2 slices of bread and place them on the hot surface of the pan.
Toast the slices until the bottom of the bread turns golden brown in color but make sure you don't burn them turning the slices into dark brown or black. Flip them evenly and turn off the flame.
Place the slices on a plate and now it's time to add veggies and flavors to make the base appetizing. Spread a half tablespoon of tomato ketchup evenly on each slice with the help of a spoon.
Place the small cubes of onion, capsicum, and tomato on the slices. Take the grated cheese and gently spread it over the veggies.
Sprinkle oregano seasoning as you like and chili flakes over the slices according to your desired taste.
Also, sprinkle a pinch of chat masala on each bread slice.
Transfer the slices to a frying pan or tawa and heat on a low flame for the cheese to melt on the veggies. Cover with a lid and toast for 2-4 minutes so that it becomes crispy.
Transfer the slices to a serving plate. Repeat the above process with the remaining bread slices.
Cheesy Bread pizza is ready to be served hot to tickle your taste buds. Try it with some tomato ketchup or a yummy and icy fruit shake as you desire.


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By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi–Traditionally, women play the role of caregivers in India when it comes to families and their health. More often than not, this means that they prioritise the health of their loved ones over their own. When it comes to diabetes in women, a new study shows higher incidence of diabetes in women – as compared to men.
A study by BeatO, a digital health platform for diabetes management, indicates that women tend to have higher blood sugar levels or poorer control than men, by almost eight percent. As per the platform, this can be attributed to gender roles in a household, inequitable access to resources and even lack of time to cater to their wellbeing.
While Type 2 diabetes is more frequently diagnosed at a younger age and lower body mass index in men; the most prominent risk factor is obesity, which is more common in women. BeatO’s study shows that women (especially above 40 years of age) on their platform tend to have higher BMI, with average BMI for women being 27.5, versus that of men being 26.
The study also indicates that for women above the age of 40 years, almost 67 per cent of the population is obese and overweight, whereas, for men, this number is 59 per cent. Healthcare experts suggest that reduced physical activity and obesity fasten the onset of diabetes in genetically predisposed people.
It is also interesting to note that while there is awareness amongst women about diabetes and the impact of nutrition and lifestyle on their health, there is a minimalistic effort into the management of the condition.
The current study states that women tend to ignore regular monitoring and self-management, (they monitor approximately 25 per cent lesser than men). It is also noticed that participation of women on health platforms like BeatO, which enable self-management of the condition – is only 26 per cent compared to men (74 per cent).
Uncontrolled diabetes also poses risks for other complications including cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and neuropathy. Although both genders are at-risk for heart disease, it has a greater impact on women’s heart health than men.
Dr Minal Mohit Vohra, Consultant Endocrinologist on the platform, shared: “While the occurrence of diabetes in both men and women do not have any clear disparities, factors such as obesity, lifestyle, high blood pressure and even hormonal changes contribute to the onset of diabetes. Women are more susceptible to complications arising from uncontrolled blood-sugar levels, especially when it comes to cardiac health. Further, women are also more prone to unique complications of uncontrolled sugar levels, such as vaginal and oral yeast infections along with the increased risk of urinary tract infection. Women in menopause also face high blood sugar and weight given, due to changes in hormones.”
Studies also show that more than half of women with PCOS develop Type 2 diabetes by the age of 40. This is because PCOS may cause insulin resistance that results in elevated blood sugar levels and increases the risk of developing diabetes.
This brings forth the burgeoning need for women to earnestly manage their health regularly, especially when evidence suggests that that lifestyle conditions affect women more strongly than men. A conscientious decision by them to better manage their lifestyle with balanced food and exercise can be key to controlling diabetes.(IANS)


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An exclusive London Design Festival panel discussion, brought to you by No.3 Gin Meet three distinct creatives working across different disciplines to create bright, beautifully crafted and visually intricate work. Hear more about their practice and how they magnify the beauty in the unseen or unexpected.
Speakers: - Sebastian Cox: Award-winning fine furniture designer to discuss how he crafts for a better future in a zero-waste, carbon-counting environment. - Bethan Laura Wood: Multi-disciplined artist and designer to offer an insight into her work re-contextualising elements from everyday objects, focusing on pattern and colouration. - Justin Zoll: The New York based photographer specialising in microscopy to explore his partnership with No.3 Gin and reveal how he used science to turn the award-winning liquid itself into a visual masterpiece.

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More than 1,000 cyclists lay sprawled across a Southwark road this evening in a protest against dangerous traffic conditions. Dubbed a "die-in", protesters blocked roads outside the Transport for London headquarters as part of a vigil for six cyclists killed in the capital this month.
The demonstration saw riders spread across Blackfriars Road with their bikes strewn around them, while others held candles in tribute to the latest spate of casualties.
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Thousands of people turned out in Trafalgar Square for a free screening of Oscar nominated film The Salesman
A baby dolphin has been spotted swimming in the Thames near Embankment pier.
The Olympic champion released a statement after a newspaper alleged his American coach may have broken anti-doping rules.


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From the acclaimed designer who abandoned an international engineering career to pursue his creative passion comes yet another exquisite collection for Zenith: Lois. We talk to Keith Melbourne about revisiting early work to create something new – and the contemporary appeal of understated luxury.
Louis Poulsen celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original Panthella with the release of a new medium-sized table lamp and a unique metallic finish. Celebrating the design’s imaginative inception, both Panthella Table 320 and the warm gloss of the brass pay homage to Verner Panton’s daring and playful yet functional legacy.
As we’re hopefully nearing the end of what might have been the most sedentary period of life for some, one thing has become abundantly clear to many. A comfortable, high-quality chair is a crucial part of any work set-up, whether in an office environment or a home setting.
The ultimate premise of design is to create better environments, utilities and tools that help people thrive – whoever they are and wherever they live, work and play. The ingrained diversity of humankind means that to design for a varied, global audience successfully, inclusivity, diversity, and equality have to drive not only the design process, but also manufacturing practices, operational procedures, and leadership style of any design brand aspiring to build a better experience for all.
Milliken-Ontera has been bringing a uniquely customisable brand of creativity to Australian and New Zealand flooring design for over three decades. Having always designed and supplied from their manufacturing facility in Sydney, it has also been renowned for its impressive speed to market. This year, however, the brand boosts its already advanced personalisation capabilities by introducing a mass customisation concept that makes it even easier to create distinct flooring solutions in just three weeks.
The onset of the pandemic redefined the role of the office space and accelerated the dynamic transformation Australian workplaces had been going through. We sit down with Kirsten Brown, National Insights Manager for Australia and New Zealand at Herman Miller, to talk about why the office of tomorrow will have to work harder to prove effective and why designing a space with fundamental human needs in mind is the best way to future-proof it.
As a brand using design and innovation to shape how people experience water for over half a century, it is only fitting that sustainability is at the heart of VOLA’s ethos. With their philosophy anchored in longevity, careful management of resources and mindful operations, the original modern tap designer is protecting the planet for future generations – one timeless product at a time.
Sustainability is paramount in modern design. In fact, one could argue that if a design isn’t sustainable, it isn’t truly modern. With a clear understanding of the negative implications of climate change and access to sustainable resources, selecting sustainable materials isn’t a choice anymore. It’s an urgent obligation – and a long-term commitment.
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Monday's headlines: teenagers drink and drive with little regard for the law or safety; Dunedin City Council debt now $600 million; northern residents of Hamilton outraged by helicopters at 4am.
The New Zealand Herald reports Finance Minister Bill English will on Monday unveil the Government's response to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into home affordability. It says the Government will work with councils to open more land for redevelopment as it seeks to rein in New Zealand's high house prices.
A New Zealand boy, aged five, has been shot dead while fighting over a gun with his cousin in Samoa. Media there reported the cousin, aged eight, has been in police custody since the incident.
The Waikato Times leads with the headline: 'Country rage for city folk'.
Complaints last week from north Rototuna and Gordonton residents when green tea exporter Zealong called in helicopters at 4am to combat frost, have again highlighted the march of Hamilton's subdivision development north into productive farmland.
The Dominion Post reports Government has been warned not to ''take its foot off the pedal'' as new statistics reveal that thousands of teenagers drink and drive with little regard for the law or safety.
Figures show that more than one Wellington teenager per day was convicted of drink-driving during the past two years, while throughout the country, 15 teens have been convicted at least six times in that period.
And Wainuiomata residents are being praised for their community spirit after joining a search on Saturday night for autistic boy who got lost in nearby bush.
Ryan Peel, aged five, was found cold but safe almost five hours after he went missing.
The Press reports the release of confidential documents has for the first time shed light on reasons behind the Government's reluctance to restore full democracy to Canterbury regional politics.
A report says the Government feared the economic boom promised by Canterbury irrigation could be in jeopardy unless Environment Canterbury was "stable, effective and efficient".
The Otago Daily Times says Dunedin City Council and its companies are about to reach the top of a $600 million debt mountain and start down the other side.
However, it is likely to be years before there is room on the council's books for any major new projects, potentially leaving the council exposed if "something untoward came along" according to Mayor Dave Cull. And a recent spike in synthetic cannabis use has prompted a toxicologist to warn of a range of dangerous side effects associated with the product, including vomiting, psychosis, seizures and tremors.


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Need a quick and simple Christmas gift? How about an adorable stenciled gift bag? With Silhouette’s Stencil Material, creating a clean and crisp design is so simple. These adorable mint bags are so fast and easy to make that my 6 year old was able to whip out 20 (yes, twenty) in an hour.
- burlap bag (mine measured 4×6″) I found them here. You can even make one yourself if your ambitious enough.
- acrylic paint
- sponge brush
- disposable plate
- scrap paper
- Silhouette cutting machine
- Silhouette Stencil Material
- Stars cut file by Silhouette
- Printable Tags (there are several choices towards the end of the post)
*I’m including a free gift tag printable. You will also need a hole punch and scissors if you don’t have a cutting machine.
Open the stars file in your Silhouette program. Right click and from the menu, select “Ungroup”. This will allow you to delete the stars you don’t want to use. Once you click ungroup, click anywhere on the page besides the image of the stars. Now you can click on each star individually and either move it or delete it. Delete all of the stars except the one you want to use. I used the star on the far right. This particular star was a perfect choice for making a stencil because there was already a border around it.
Next you need to re-size your star. Choose the “select tool” (the arrow at the top left of the Silhouette screen) and grab one of the corners of the box surrounding the star. Then drag it to be the size you need (remember, you’re going for the star size, not the circle). I knew my star couldn’t be too large or the design wouldn’t show up when the bag was filled with candy. As you can see from the arrows, the overall size of my stencil was 2.866″x 2.866″. That was perfect for my little bags. You may need to play around with sizing before you find one that works for your bag. Remember, you can always cut sample stencils out on plain paper before you cut into your Stencil Material, it will save you money and ensure you get the right size stencil.
*Also, you need to keep in mind that when you stencil a small design onto a rough texture such as burlap, you need to use an open design without too many small lines or too much detail. Otherwise, the design gets lost in the texture of the material and it’s difficult to tell what the design is. We found this out the hard way, haha!
Follow the instructions on the tube of Stencil Material to cut out your star. I found that increasing the blade to a 4, Thickness to 31, and changing the setting to a double cut worked perfect for me. Stencil Material is thicker than vinyl and is sticky on the back, so it will stick to your project while you stencil. When you’re finished stenciling one item, you just pull the stencil off. We re-used our stencils about 30 times or so on burlap, and that’s saying a lot. If you have ever seen how much burlap sheds, you can understand it would just stick to the stencil like crazy!
Cut the stencil from the rest of the stencil material. Then, weed the stencil.
Place scrap paper on the inside of the burlap bag to catch any paint bleed-through you may have. Place your stencil on your bag.
Now the fun part! Stencil away. Use a dabbing motion, up and down.
Remove the stencil and allow the paint to dry.
When the paint has dried, remove your scratch paper from the inside of the bag and replace it with candy. Tie a bow on the bag with a cute little gift tag, and voila!
I’ve made a few different versions of the gift tags. To get the FREE PRINTABLE and FREE SILHOUETTE CUT files, just click on the link under each picture.
These free gift tags would be perfect for: Teacher’s gifts, co-workers, church friends you visit with, good friends you’d love to do a little something for, your children’s friends, grandparents/parents/siblings and so many more!
I hope you enjoy this tutorial and free printables. If you end up using any of these files, I’d sure appreciate a comment or two letting me know how you used them.
*Thank you to Silhouette America for supplying me with the Stencil Material. I enjoyed working with and learning more about this product. All opinions and reviews of the product are my honest opinions.


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A lot or a little?
The parents' guide to what's in this book.
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that Love & Gelato is a combination romance and coming-of-age novel set in and around Florence, Italy. Though the book's a light, fun read, it deals with a teen, Lina, who has lost her mother to cancer and is trying to figure out who her real father is. When she moves to Italy from Seattle, Lina doesn't even know the man she's sent to live with. Within a few weeks, she has made friends, had romantic ups and downs, and has read her mom's most intimate secrets from her time in Florence. The story is fast-paced and deals in a bit of wish fulfillment (characters live in Tuscan villas, throw big parties, and so on). There's no swearing and very little smoking, drinking, and violence in the book. Characters kiss but only a few times, and it isn't sexually charged. Most of the characters are good, supportive people.
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What's the story?
When 17-year-old Lina loses her mom to cancer, she honors her mom's dying wish that she spend a summer, and maybe longer, in Tuscany. Lina travels halfway around the world to meet and stay with her mother's friend, Howard, who is the caretaker of an American WWII cemetery just outside Florence. The catch? Howard may or may not be her father. As LOVE & GELATO unfolds, Lina reads a journal her mother kept during her time Florence. She sees her mother in a new light, reading about her excitement over studying in Italy, making new friends, falling in love, enduring heartbreak, and making life-changing decisions. As Lina gets to know her mom better, she must deal with the grief welling up inside her. Lina's own romantic life and choices are central to the story, as her mom's journal serves as motherly advice and a cautionary tale.
Is it any good?
This light, fun, fast-paced romance is a charmer. While still processing her grief over her mother's death, Lina Emerson is sent to Italy to live with an old friend of her mother's for the summer. In her first few weeks in Tuscany, she learns a lot about herself, her mother, and love. Author Jenna Evans Welch has a good ear for teen dialogue, and it's easy to fall into Lina's relationships and feelings. When Lina is handed her mother's journal from her time as a student in Florence, the story picks up. The reader gets to know Lina's mom's backstory as Lina herself is learning it. It tugs at the heart watching her slowly feel the depth of her sadness over her mom's death.
The mystery over who Lina's real father is is well written and adds a suspenseful element to the book. Lina's romantic struggles are cute and not too intense or heavy. In fact, the characters and romantic relationships could have had more depth and explanation. It's hard to believe that so much can happen to a person in a couple of weeks, but sometimes it's fun to suspend disbelief and go with it. Love & Gelato is a good choice for teens who like escapist romance but not the super-sexual stuff. Tuscany, and Florence in particular, provide a beautiful landscape for the action.
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Do you think going back and forth in time -- a frequently used plot device in modern novels -- adds tension or interest to the story? Does it play on how well you think you know characters when they're revealed in bits and pieces?
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Famous Investors warn of the “Biggest Crash in History”
Two prominent investors are independently sounding the alarm: Jeremy Grantham and Michael Burry believe the financial markets are on the verge of the biggest crash in history. Especially in meme stocks and cryptocurrencies, both fear catastrophic losses.
Michael Burry had already warned on June 16 of the “biggest speculative bubble ever in all things”
The following day, Burry followed up. In a tweet that has since been deleted, Burry wrote:
Michael Burry became famous primarily for his successful bets on the collapse of the U.S. real estate market in connection with the 2008 financial crisis. In the movie “The Big Short,” the somewhat cranky portfolio manager was played by Christian Bale. Burry sees himself as a classic value investor and has long considered valuations in the financial markets to be completely exaggerated.
Value investor Jeremy Grantham, who warned in January of a crash of a similar magnitude to that of 1929 or 2000, is taking a similar line to Burry.
In a longer interview with Bloomberg, Grantham now said that the past 12 months would represent the “classic finale of an 11-year bull market.” Measured by the price-to-sales ratio, the overvaluation is even greater now than it was at the peak of the Internet bubble during the turn of the millennium, Grantham said.
High trading volumes in call options and penny stocks are also typical signs of a bubble, he said, as are debt and margin loans at record levels.
“Having checked all the necessary boxes of a speculative peak, the U.S. market has historically been entitled to collapse since January,” Grantham said.
What’s particularly dangerous about the current bubble, he said, is that with the stock, bond and real estate markets all overvalued at the same time and now commodity prices surging as well. There has never been anything like this before, Grantham said. The most similar, he said, was the speculative bubble in Japan in 1989. To date, neither land prices nor stock prices in Japan have recovered to 1989 levels, Grantham said.
Grantham was particularly pessimistic about cryptocurrencies and meme stocks. Gambling with meme stocks “just because it’s funny” has become “commonplace,” Grantham said. “It’s a completely nihilistic parody of actual investing. This is it, guys, the greatest U.S. fantasy trip of all time.”
It remains to be seen whether Burry’s and Grantham’s warnings may come to pass, or whether both will simply join the long line of crash prophets who have been expecting a crash for many years in view of fundamentally high valuations, but whose forecasts to date have had nothing whatsoever to do with reality. In any case, in view of low and negative interest rates, the markets do not seem to have any problem with what at first sight appear to be high valuations.

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Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, including a Non- Governmental Organization, Odyssey Education Foundation,OEF, have urged the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to prioritize digital literacy and entrepreneurship for the girl child, as part of efforts geared towards reducing the high unemployment rate in Nigeria.
Speaking at a pitch event on technology and entrepreneurship for schools, Tuesday, Tallen, while reiterating the importance of digital technology in the era of globalization, bemoaned the low rate of participation of Nigerian women in tech related areas.
For instance, she said that in cloud computing only 12 per cent of professionals are women, and in engineering, only 26 per cent as captured by Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2020.
Tallen, who was represented by the Chief welfare officer, Ministry of Women of Affairs, Iweanya Priscilla, stressed that encouraging the girl child to engage in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), would make the country a major attraction to the world.
She said: “Studies have shown that there is a gender gap in STEM both in Nigeria and globally. Encouraging girls to pursue STEM education and careers can make them become role models for future generations and break stereotypes and barriers .
“Federal Ministry of Women affairs in an effort to improve on the information in the place of girls and women occupy in Science and Technology has embark on awareness creation campaign to promote Girl – Child education especially in STEM.
“Nigeria must prepare her girls to tap into ICT opportunities by allowing them to learn component of ICT development and Computer Science for a successful career in the ICT sector and advanced digital skills.”
On her part, the Founder of Odyssey Educational Foundation and Chapter Ambassador of Technovation Girls, in Abuja, Stella Uzochukwu-Denis, said the Foundation has put in efforts to promote technovation among girl child by organizing pitch event in technology and entrepreneurship for schools.
She disclosed that the foundation was created to increase the number of females studying and applying for STEM jobs among young people in Nigeria, adding that it is aimed at accelerating the technological and industrialization of low and middle income African nations, as well as to close the gender gap.
“We’re here today to honor the bright young girls who created mobile apps to address some of the most pressing problems in our society, like encouraging girl child education, offering mentorship, putting an end to human trafficking, ending early marriages, and providing basic necessities to the underprivileged in Abuja, Nigeria.
“The Technovation challenge is an excellent initiative that encourages young women to use technology to make the world a better place. Over the years, girls have created smartphone apps to address a range of societal challenges, such as educational gaps, hunger and poverty, gender inequality, corruption, environmental disasters, and more”, she said.
Speaking to our correspondent, one of the participants, Olorunfemi Faith, said that the program has informed her about technology and innovation.
“I joined the program, I became more informed about technology and about innovation gave me the ability to identify problems that actually rampages I never actually goes on check revisions, it is the best means to bridge the gap which is mostly dominated by men, making them to demean the efforts and the capabilities of women. As a woman and as a tech entrepreneur. I would advise that you join Technovation.
It will give you more enterprising skills and eviction skills and teach you how to be a problem solver in future and presently,” she stressed.


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the height 1,729.72842773435 miles
How far is Sacramento, the city that is the capital of the U. S. State of California, and the county seat of Sacramento County from Illinois, the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation measured in A mile, the unit of length, most commonly 5280 feets (1760 yards, or about 1609.3 metres)?
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Sorry I have been fairly silent recently. This is basically my final semester of college courses, since next semester I will be student teaching, which is basically the same thing as being a full-time teacher in terms of hours, just without pay. I'm getting ready for all of that, and I'm also finishing my Senior English classes, which are pretty stressful. Graduate school applications are also pretty intense right now, so in general I'm finding it pretty difficult to blog.
With all of these things happening at once, I sometimes forget just how important these last few months are. Everything seems to be coming together at once, not only academically, but also socially. Over the past four years, I have met hundreds of people, both in-person and online. Some are Christians, many are not. Many of the online folks are gay, gay but celibate, ex-gay, post-gay, or some weird combination of all of the above.
I have grown a lot over the past four years. I have had so many great conversations with folks, both in-person and online. The conversations have been about God, faith, sexuality, and life in general. I have made a ton of friends on all sides of the controversial issues, and hopefully I have helped them grow and learn in the same way they have helped me grow and learn. Certainly, there have been some pretty intense talks and conversations, and quite a few debates with harsh words.
But I hope, and I have quite a bit of confidence about this, that despite the harsh words and the arguments about such controversial topics, strong friendships have been maintained and built. I'm in the unique position of being a conservative Evangelical Christian and a gay guy. I believe in God but I also have pretty hands-off beliefs about government, unlike many conservative Christians. I am not going to meet a single friend who I agree with 100 percent.
When talking to a traditional Exodus guy, we can experience a lot of connection when it comes to talking about battling temptation or fitting into Evangelical culture as men who struggle with same-sex attraction. We argue, often, when it comes to things like politics, or labels, or expectations of orientation change, or the theories of psychological development of homosexuality. It has been hard, I suppose, for a Side B guy like me to get along with both gays and ex-gays.
The experience, though, has been a needed one. If you don't get out there and meet people who are different from you, you aren't ever challenged. It would be easy to assume that all Evangelicals are bigots and all Exodus guys are delusional or anti-intellectual. Getting to know them, however, has shown a lot of diversity among them, almost as much as there is in the gay community. There is also a lot more open-mindedness, realism, and genuine academic curiosity than one would originally assume.
Now, the only hope would be that those on the conservative side of the spectrum would take a chance to get to know those on more liberal sides more often, and really get to know them without any prejudice or preconceived notions. As I move forward out of college, and start to build new relationships in graduate school and whatever community I eventually move to, I hope to keep living out this principle of getting to know people from all walks of life.

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|Publication number||US7752240 B2|
|Application number||US 12/246,260|
|Publication date||Jul 6, 2010|
|Filing date||Oct 6, 2008|
|Priority date||Oct 2, 2003|
|Also published as||US7401105, US8060485, US20050097114, US20080235669, US20090043784|
|Publication number||12246260, 246260, US 7752240 B2, US 7752240B2, US-B2-7752240, US7752240 B2, US7752240B2|
|Inventors||Fernando Incertis Carro|
|Original Assignee||International Business Machines Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (14), Non-Patent Citations (12), Referenced by (4), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates generally to network computing and to software accessed on demand in computer networks, and more specifically to a method and system for locating and accessing the software to process a file.
The use of global distribution systems such as the Internet for distribution of digital assets like electronic documents, music, film, pictures, games and other content continues to grow. Digital assets are commonly distributed or accessed through networks as computer files.
When such files are accessed or retrieved through a network on a client computer, the client may utilize or process the file with the appropriate software. The types of files are generally recognizable with the extensions at the end of the filenames. This information is used by the operating system to launch the right program when the user clicks on or selects the filename. For example, file.txt represents a text file that can be opened with a text editor program. If a HyperText Markup Language (hereinafter referred to as “HTML”) document is accessed, a client's web browser may parse the HTML document so as to display the document. Likewise, if a word processing document is accessed, the client may activate a word processor program to open the document. Alternatively, if an image file is retrieved, an image viewer or an image editor may be activated to process and display the image.
Based on the type of information or resource that is being accessed, a client may need additional functionality. For example, a video and sound clip file may require the capability to view the video and sound clip in a certain format. The added capabilities needed to process accessed files have to be installed on the client computer. Usually, the added capabilities that are installed onto the client computer are referred to as “plug-ins” or helper programs. Thus, when additional capabilities are needed, a plug-in or a helper program is downloaded (i.e. retrieved) and installed on or added to the client computer.
Various data files are typically classified into specific data file types. Upon receiving or accessing a file, the client will typically examine the file extension characterizing the file type, to determine how to process the file, e.g. launch an adapted application program to process the file. As described hereinabove, the file processing may consist of launching an application that has been installed as a plug-in for a browser.
When files are sent as attachments of e-mails through networks, these files must be encoded for transmission. The standard Internet protocol for sending attachments is based upon an encoding scheme called Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (hereinafter referred to as “MIME”), designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. MIME is a specification for formatting non-ASCII messages so that these messages may be sent over networks such as the Internet. MIME enables many browsers to display and output files that are not in an HTML format. In a similar manner, e-mail applications supporting MIME can send and receive files (e.g. image, audio, and video files) via the Internet mail system. MIME types typically identify a content type and allow a browser or server to select the correct type of viewer for a file. There are many predefined MIME types, such as GIF graphics files and PostScript files.
One feature of MIME is that a sending e-mail program inserts a field in outgoing messages identifying what type of files are contained within the encoded attachment. By looking at the information in the MIME header inserted by the sending program, a program which receives the attachments can handle these attachments adequately. For example, if the MIME header identifies an attachment as a spreadsheet (e.g. MIME type=application/ms-excel), then the receiving e-mail program can launch the appropriate spreadsheet program to open the attached file.
Two things need to be done to make sending and receiving MIME attachments work smoothly. First, all users must agree on a common set of names for different attachment types. For example, all e-mail programs should identify Excel (Excel is a Trademark of Microsoft Corp.) spreadsheet attachments with the MIME type of “application/ms-excel”, or “text/html” for an attached HTML web page. Secondly, users must initialize their e-mail programs by associating programs with types of attachments. For instance, when using Internet Explorer (Internet Explorer is a Trademark of Microsoft Corp.) as a web browser, the e-mail program must be informed of using Internet Explorer when receiving and processing an attachment of type “text/html”.
When a user receives a file through a network and selects the file for processing (e.g. by clicking on the icon of a file attached to a received e-mail), the user needs the corresponding software. As the number of different possible types of digital assets grows, the number of different possible types of files and the corresponding resources that are required for processing these assets also grows. Further, each different type of file may require a different application, helper or plug-in program to access, process, or display each individual file type. Since the resources needed for processing all possible types of files cannot be stored in advance on a client computer, there is a need in the art for a user to be able to obtain access to specific resources from a network (e.g. from the Internet network) for processing specific types of files.
Adobe Acrobat Reader software (Acrobat is a Trademark of Adobe Corp.) or other software products able to process PDF files must be installed on a user's computer system (also referred to hereinbelow as “user's device”) for processing the attached file. When the user tries one of the options “View . . . ” or “Launch . . . ”, the user's device attempts to locate the software adapted to process MIME file type “PDF”. If no such software is found, the user receives error message 130, for example, “Sorry, an application to open this document cannot be found” as illustrated.
Therefore, when the software required for processing a file is not installed on the user's device, the user faces several problems that are not trivial for most people (e.g. those who are not expert in information technology and computing systems), as follows:
Therefore, there is a need in the art for a system and a method for providing easily, on-demand, and transparently, the required software to process an accessed or received file.
Thus, it is an object of the present invention to remedy the shortcomings of the prior art as described hereinabove.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a system and method for delivering software required to process files over a communications network.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a system and method for automatically locating the repository of a software or plug-in required to process a file.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a system and method to automatically install or update the software or plug-in required to process a file.
In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for encoding in a filename of a file, an address from which software required to process the file can be accessed, the method comprising encoding the address from which the software required to process the file can be accessed, merging a primary filename of the file and the encoded address in a new filename, wherein the primary filename and the encoded address are separated by at least one control character, and renaming the file with the new filename.
In accordance with another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a method for processing a file having a filename in which an address is encoded for software required to process the file, the method comprising extracting the encoded address, decoding the encoded address, accessing the software required to process the file using the decoded address, and processing the file using the accessed software.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a system for encoding in a filename of a file, an address from which software required to process the file can be accessed, the system comprising means for encoding the address from which the software required to process the file can be accessed, means for merging a primary filename of the file and the encoded address in a new filename, wherein the primary filename and the encoded address are separated by at least one control character, and means for renaming the file with the new filename.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a system for processing a file having a filename in which an address is encoded for software required to process the file, the system comprising means for extracting the encoded address, means for decoding the encoded address, means for accessing the software required to process the file using the decoded address, and means for processing the file using the accessed software.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a program product stored on a recordable medium for encoding in a filename of a file, an address from which software required to process the file can be accessed, which when executed, comprises program code for encoding the address from which the software required to process the file can be accessed, program code for merging a primary filename of the file and the encoded address in a new filename, wherein the primary filename and the encoded address are separated by at least one control character, and program code for renaming the file with the new filename.
In accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention, there is provided a program product stored on a recordable medium for processing a file having a filename in which an address is encoded for software required to process the file, which when executed, comprises, program code for extracting the encoded address, program code for decoding the encoded address, program code for accessing the software required to process the file using the decoded address, and program code for processing the file using the accessed software.
Further advantages of the present invention will become apparent to ones skilled in the art upon examination of the attached drawings and detailed description. It is intended that any additional advantages be incorporated herein.
According to the present invention, the filename of a file that is accessed locally or through a computer network is used to encode the address, or URL, of an application, or plug-in, that is adapted to process this file, using a particular lexicography. The lexicography that is used is determined so as to avoid particular characters that may be forbidden by a given file system, e.g. “\” with Microsoft Windows operating system (Windows is a Trademark of Microsoft Corp.), and/or to encode the addresses so as to reduce address sizes. Addresses to be encoded may be of any forms (e.g. local addresses, addresses in private networks, or Internet addresses), however, for sake of illustration, the examples given in the following description are based on URL type of addresses. The address of the required software or plug-in may be encoded either when the file is transmitted from a server to a user system, or when the file is locally saved or transmitted to another system.
As an illustration of the algorithm described hereinabove, consider the case of a file based on Adobe PDF named “authentication.pdf”, that a user would like to send to someone else as an e-mail attachment using a lexicography table having predetermined characters and associated characters, to encode the software address string into the filename, wherein:
character “:” is associated to “. .”
character “/” is associated to “(”
To view this document file, an application named Adobe Acrobat Reader must be used. If this application is not installed, it could be freely downloaded from the following URL:
When the originator of the Adobe PDF document “authentication.pdf” attaches the document to an e-mail, an option such as “Embedding software ADDR . . . ” may be selected to encode the URL of the software repository, wherein the software required to process the PDF document can be accessed at:
It should be noted that, for sake of illustration, this encoding algorithm is purposely very simple. A preferred algorithm would comprise replacing a sequence of forbidden characters by single characters (e.g. replacing “//:” by “(”). In a similar manner, some sets of characters may be replaced by more compact codes (e.g. replacing “http://” by “H!”). Using such compression as described hereinabove serves to optimize encoding, and reduce the size of an encoded software address.
When the attachment of the above mentioned e-mail is selected to be processed, a test is performed to determine whether or not the software application, or plug-in, required to process this file is locally installed. To process (e.g. read) this file 110′, Adobe Acrobat Reader software must be installed on the user's device. If the software is not currently installed, the software would need to be downloaded from a server (i.e. a software repository on the Internet).
Using the same table of lexicographic transformations that has been used by the sender of the file, the software address or URL is extracted and decoded from the filename. To that end, certain symbols or groups of symbols of the “encoded URL” are replaced by symbols or characters that are compatible with URL conventions on the Internet, as mentioned hereinabove, to get the decoded and valid URL, as follows:
As depicted in
The requested download utility software is received and displayed on the user's device. In one example, download utility software asks the user to specify a set of parameters or options, such as language, platform or operating system, and connection speed. Those selections are used to determine which version of the software needs to be downloaded.
Using the parameters specified by the user with the download utility software, the requested software is then downloaded from software application repository 340-2 to the user's device 300 where the software is installed (once decompressed, if required) and launched to process the attached or accessed file. When the file has been processed, the downloaded software may be deleted or stored, depending upon operating system parameters or user needs.
While the present invention allows for encoding of the address of the software required to process a file, additional information relative to the software may also be encoded, such as the particular version of software needed for processing the file.
When the software address and the options are available, the system accesses the referenced download utility software in step 440. The user may be asked to select other options or enter some parameters in steps 445 and 450, such as language, as mentioned hereinabove. The required software is then downloaded in step 455, installed in step 460, and the file is processed in step 465. The process performed on the file varies according to the type of file and the software access conditions (for example, the connection speed, the kind of software license, and the like). Such a process may comprise, for example, displaying or editing the content of the file.
When the file is closed, depending upon operating system parameters or user needs, as mentioned hereinabove, the software that has been installed can be removed automatically or upon user's request in steps 470 and 475, or can even be permanently stored on local disk if free distribution of the installed software is permitted.
If the required software is already installed on the client's device, a test is done in step 480 to determine whether or not options are encoded within the filename. If options are encoded within the filename, the options are extracted and decoded in steps 430 and 435 as mentioned hereinabove, and a new test is performed to check if, for example, there are options about the minimum version number required for processing the received file. If this is the case, the indicated minimum required version number is compared with the version number of the already installed software in step 485. If, as a result of this test, a new version must be installed, the required software is accessed and installed in the manner described in steps 415 to 465 hereinabove. In such a case, the requested software is preferably stored on permanent storage on the user's device, not being removed once the attached, accessed, or received file has been processed, as suggested with dotted lines. Naturally, depending upon operating system parameters or user needs, the old version of the software may be removed.
In cases where a software address is not embedded within the filename in step 405, or when the required software is already installed on the user's device in step 410, or there are not options encoded as parameters within the filename in step 480, the received file would be immediately processed using already installed software in step 465.
In the illustrative example described hereinabove, the software required to process the attached, accessed, or received file is downloaded before being installed on the user's device with the aim of processing the file. However, it must be understood that the software could be partially executed from a remote server, without being locally installed on the user's device. This may be the case with a transcoding application (e.g. when the format of a received document file must be converted to a format compatible with the user's device) so as to enable the user to view the received document in the small display of a handheld computing device. In this case, the file to be processed (e.g. transcoded) may be parsed or adapted on the server wherein the software is located, and locally displayed on the user's device with a standard file viewer.
Therefore, using the present invention, the user automatically downloads the software package needed for processing an attached, accessed, or received file, which presents several advantages, to wit:
Naturally, in order to satisfy local and specific requirements, a person skilled in the art may apply to the solution described hereinabove, modifications and alterations all of which, however, are included within the scope of protection of the invention as defined by the following claims.
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So thanks to Jack Abramoff, both parties are getting into the whole "let's reform Washington" spirit. It'll last about another week.
Both proposals are predictable - limit lobbyist access to congresspeople, make campaign contributions more transparent, yadda yadda yadda. None of this will do anything, though. The problems are a lot deeper than Congresspeople want to admit.
Let's take the reform of so-called "earmarks" that has become a flashpoint for the debate over congressional ethics. I'm wary of removing earmarks, for one reason: the money will still go to the administration. It will just go as a block grant to a certain department, which can then do with it as it sees fit. This opens the door for all kinds of political abuses. Do you think this administration would hesitate to funnel the appropriated money towards "red states" and battleground states at the expense of Democratic-leaning areas? Do you think a Democratic administration would hesitate to turn the tables? Earmarks give Congress control over what happens to the money it appropriates, and ensure that districts represented by the minority party don't get left behind. Besides, some earmarks are honestly necessary. (Incidentally, pork accounts for a measley 1% of our total budget.)
There is a lot of earmark abuse, however. Ted Stevens' "bridge to nowhere" is a perfect example. But it continues because people like earmarks. People may talk about how government is wasting their money with pork-barrel projects and earmarked spending, but when the chips are down, people like having their neighborhood parking lot paved with federal money. That's why the incumbent will always beat out the anti-pork reformer: the incumbent can point to an appropriations bill and say, "Look what I've brought you." The subtext being: you wouldn't have projects like this anymore if you got rid of me. The result is a bunch of horse-trading; I'll vote for your bridge if you vote for my seaport. Don't oppose my bridge or your highway gets it.
The point is that abuse of Congressional appropriations power will continue as long as people continue to expect the federal government to fund local projects. People reward their representatives for getting funding for their local highway more than they would a pork-slasher who would use the savings to cut taxes or improve social services. Congresspeople aren't addicted to pork - voters are.
Lobbying reform won't make any changes either. Congress will continue to grant legislative favors to the people bankrolling their campaigns. You need money to win an election, after all. And that's the big structural problem. There's a phrase to describe a congressperson who refuses to go to bat for his campaign contributors: out of a job. Again, the problem here is the voters. We are too easily influenced by the advertisements and the PR campaigns that money can by. Not enough people take the amount of time necessary to actually learn about the candidates and make an informed decision. This doesn't make a difference when the advertising campaigns wash each other out, as in a presidential race or a competitive senatorial race. However, when there's a distinct funding gap, it gives the better-funded candidate the opportunity to distort the identity of his/her opponent and makes the votes of the well-informed almost unimportant.
Government could try to solve the second problem by funding all candidates equally and forbidding them from using outside money. As McCain-Feingold found out, though, this gets into free-speech issues, and there's always the dilemma about what to do with third-party/independent candidates. In all honesty, the solution lies with every voter. First, reward your congressperson for concentrating on national priorities and not giving in to the temptation to get federal money for your driveway. Second, ignore campaign ads and take the time to make an informed decision about every election. If every person makes those two reforms, it will solve a lot more problems than Congress could ever hope to solve.


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Though this first chapter has been available at the end of Inertia for some time, I just realized I had never posted it here. I will do so now. Also, be sure to check out the other bonus excerpt from Acceleration over at Brandon Shire’s blog!
Stay tuned at the end of October for a third excerpt coming to Top2Bottom reviews, along with the cover reveal for Acceleration!
Impulse, Book Two
by Amelia C. Gormley
Gavin Hayes is everything Derrick could ask for in a lover. Gorgeous. Passionate. Great in bed. Derrick finds it very easy to just let himself go, to let Gavin guide him and teach him all the things he missed during a decade of celibacy. In the course of a single weekend, Derrick’s routine is transformed, his mornings and evenings filled with sex. Sweet, seductive, wild, or raunchy, Gavin offers Derrick all the pleasure he’s denied himself for so long.
But learning how to be a lover in bed is one thing. Learning to be one out of bed is another. For Derrick, being alone has become habit. Sharing his confidences doesn’t come nearly as readily as sharing his bed. After so many losses, the last thing Derrick wants is to become dependent upon another person who might not always be there.
And Gavin always being there is far from certain. With an ex-lover lurking in the background, and the question of Gavin’s future health still outstanding, neither Gavin nor Derrick feel capable of asking for anything more than right now. But Gavin won’t be kept on the fringes of Derrick’s life. Can Derrick let someone in before the opportunity passes him by?
It was nothing more than a simple peck of greeting. It had been easy. Effortless. Natural. Seating himself at the table, Derrick could still feel Gavin’s kiss on his lips.
He wasn’t sure what to make of it. On only their third night together, he and Gavin were already developing the sort of comfortable and casual intimacies that came with relationships deeper than this undefined whatever it was.
Friday night had been an impulse. Filled with wild need, Derrick had just shown up on Gavin’s doorstep. Planning to stay over at Gavin’s on Sunday had been more deliberate.
Now it was Monday.
Maybe we should make a habit of this, Derrick had suggested that morning, before they’d each left for work. Gavin had taken him up on the offer.
Habit. Habit was a good word for it.
Could three nights be deemed a habit?
Gavin sniffed as he sat across from Derrick. “Ah, smells like Friday.”
Derrick gave him a quizzical look.
“Shabbat. The Sabbath. My mother always used to make roast beef for dinner before we went to services.”
Derrick laughed softly. “Oh, right. Sorry. You’d think I’d have put that together given the number of times my friends have had me over to dinner on a Friday before Devon and I go to play pool while his wife goes to service.”
Gavin shrugged, taking a sip of his beer. “I was a little vague.”
“I’ll keep that in mind for Fridays from here on out, though.” Derrick bit his tongue when he realized what he’d said.
Habit. Right. Like an addiction.
Derrick lowered his head and cut his roast, keeping his hands busy and his face from giving away his embarrassment. Luckily, Gavin let the remark slide.
“I hope so. Did you know it’s a good deed, practically a commandment, to have sex on Shabbat?”
Or maybe not.
Derrick felt his face flush. “Does that, um…apply to gay guys too?”
“It should.” He gave Derrick a smug smile, which made him fumble his knife. Gavin tilted his head, regarding Derrick with a slight wrinkle between his brows. “Are you nervous about something?”
Derrick frowned, puzzled at the extent of his raw-edged nerves. He’d been feeling short of breath and antsy even before Gavin arrived, and he couldn’t explain it any more than he could explain why the kiss hello had shaken him.
“Yeah, I guess I am,” he admitted.
“I have no idea.” He glanced across the table at Gavin. “I’ve been looking forward to this all day.”
Gavin smiled. “Good. So have I.”
“I—I mean, I guess it’s different, somehow. Here. In this house.”
“Oh? How so?” The wrinkle of concern turned to one of flat-out confusion.
Derrick shook his head, shrugging helplessly. “I’m not sure. Maybe because I’ve never done it before?” Well, that was a double entendre waiting to happen. He scrambled to clarify. “Had anyone over here, I mean. Well, I’ve had company, of course — people have come to visit. Guests. Friends. That sort of thing.” He’d begun babbling, which was a minor miracle in itself, but he didn’t seem to be capable of shutting up and dear God, why couldn’t he shut up? “But not like this.”
“You mean you’ve never slept with someone here.”
And now Derrick was blushing again. Great. Just great.
Gavin grinned, clearly delighted by the blush. He actually seemed to think it was cute.
“Yeah. Exactly.” He and LeeAnn had made out up in his room all the time in high school, naturally, but by the time they’d begun having sex during her vacations from college, he’d been too immersed in taking care of his grandparents to consider ever having her over to the house for any length of time. Sex had been something they’d managed in the short, hurried interludes when Miss Ingrid had shooed him out the door and taken over looking after his grandparents for a couple of hours here and there.
“Why does it feel different than at my place?”
“I don’t know.” Derrick shook his head again. He suspected he did know, but it wasn’t something he could say. Having Gavin stay overnight, in his home, made everything all the more real. This thing with Gavin wasn’t something that just happened elsewhere, outside of his normal existence. He wasn’t just bringing Gavin into his bed. He was bringing Gavin into his life.
That was a far more terrifying prospect.
His life worked for him, or at least it used to. It might not be thrilling. It might not make his heart race and his breath come short with wild excitement and anticipation. It might not make his body flushed and feverish, hard and tight. It might not send pulses of electric awareness zinging through him, heightening his senses, tingling in his extremities. But it was comfortable. Stable. Safe.
What he felt when he was with Gavin was anything but.
Gavin cleared his throat quietly. “Are you still okay with this?”
Derrick nodded, meeting Gavin’s gaze as he reached for his beer. “Yeah, I am. It’s just all very new. But I meant what I said: I’ve looked forward to this all day. Just…now I feel like I can’t catch my breath. All I can think about is last night and this morning.”
“In a good way?” Gavin asked. Caution still edged his tone as he tipped back his own beer.
Derrick nodded, his blush renewing as he cut his food nervously again. “It was incredible.”
“Which part?” Gavin shot an assessing look across the table. He ate calmly, as though whatever had such a profound effect on Derrick barely registered with him.
“I don’t know. The way you…the way you talked to me, for one.”
Gavin, kneeling over him on the kitchen floor. Gavin’s hand jerking him off. Gavin’s cock rocking against the cleft of his ass.
Gavin’s voice, commanding him.
Look at me! No. Don’t hide your face. Let me hear that voice of yours. You sound so sexy when you beg.
“You liked that?” A small smile crept to Gavin’s lips.
Derrick nodded, trying to eat slowly, to downplay just how hot the memory made him.
“Good,” Gavin said, satisfied. He leaned back in his chair once he finished interrogating Derrick. “I won’t lie — I do enjoy doing that.”
Enjoy doing what, exactly? Derrick wondered. What had Gavin done to make the last twenty-four hours so amazing that Derrick craved a repeat? He hadn’t said much, or even talked all that dirty. But what he had said, those simple commands, had ignited a fire within Derrick he wasn’t sure would be easily doused.
“I don’t think I’ll have a problem with that.” He wasn’t sure exactly what he’d agreed to, but whatever it was, he wanted more of it.
“I’ll keep that in mind.” They fell silent as they continued eating. When Chelsea finished her own food, she padded toward the archway from the kitchen to the dining room. The overhead light shone on her bristly, fawn-sable coat. Gavin shook his head with an amused smile.
“I can’t get over it. She has enough loose skin to make another dog.”
“She’s a shar pei. Comes with the breed.” Derrick chuckled, glad for a distraction from the pounding of his blood in his ears and the tightness of his jeans. He gave Chelsea a look as she stepped over the line where the linoleum met the carpet.
“Uh-uh,” he said firmly, pointing to the kitchen floor. “You know better.”
Chelsea hung her wrinkled head and lay down on her belly with a forlorn sigh, her paws just touching the threshold.
Gavin glanced over at her and smiled. “You’ve got her well-trained.”
Derrick quirked up one corner of his mouth in a half-smile and murmured, “Keep an eye on her, but don’t make it obvious you’re watching. She likes to test me.”
They continued eating in silence. After a moment, Chelsea inched forward, creeping on her belly, just over the line. She did it again when no one reprimanded her. Soon her paws had crossed the threshold up to the joints, while her muzzle still rested on them, trying to appear as inoffensive as when she’d been laying where she was supposed to be.
Derrick snapped his fingers and her head came up with a start. “Back to your spot.”
She slid back, looking both guilty and woebegone. Gavin chuckled. “She does this every time?”
Derrick shrugged with an affectionate smile. “Not all the time, but once in a while. Especially when I cook something that smells good to her. Or when I’m distracted by company. She likes to test who’s top dog, see if she can get away with giving herself a promotion in the pack.”
Gavin grinned and dropped his voice to a lower register. “So, you like being top dog?”
Derrick’s mouth went dry and he took a long pull from his beer. Damn. He’d walked right into that one.
“Do you?” It wasn’t an answer, but it was better than How the hell am I supposed to know?
Gavin’s grin spread, became a bit predatory. “I would’ve thought it was obvious. Though I can be versatile.”
Derrick cleared his throat, pushing aside his empty plate. “Good to know.”
Gavin’s grin persisted, his gaze keen. Did he mean to make Derrick squirm? Because it was working.
As he wrapped up the leftovers and washed the dishes, Derrick wondered how long it would take before he stopped reacting that way. When would every moment he spent in Gavin’s company stop being filled with unnerving expectation, every action just passing time until the next touch? When would every word no longer be an opportunity for verbal foreplay?
It felt good. Fun. Wild. Delirious. But scary and out of control, too. He no longer felt like the ground was stable beneath his feet, and he couldn’t decide if he wanted that security back, or if he preferred the heady sensation of being in free-fall.
Gavin brought in the last of the dishes from the table, bowls with spongecake crumbs and remnants of blueberry juice and whipped cream clinging to the sides.
“And what did you plan for us to do after dinner?” he asked with a smile.
Derrick swallowed. Was he the only one who had expected they’d go straight to bed? Had Gavin planned to be entertained? Would he seem demanding — or worse, pathetic — to want to get right to it?
“I hadn’t thought that far ahead. I got to dessert, then my brain just sort of shut down.” It was about as close as he could come to admitting the only thing he could think of was sex.
Gavin chuckled. “Well, what do you usually do in the evenings?”
“Nothing very exciting, I promise,” Derrick murmured. “Hang out with Chelsea. Watch some TV. Play a game, if I’m not working on building something for a client.”
“Well, we could start there,” Gavin suggested. “I don’t do much different in the evenings myself.”
Derrick stacked the last of the dishes on the drying rack and drained the sink, wiping it down. Then, with his head bowed, he closed his eyes and clenched his jaw. He gripped the edge of the counter, his knuckles whitening, the insatiable need growing.
How could he possibly be the only one feeling it?
“I don’t wanna watch TV with you, Gav.” He opted for honesty, his voice low as he laid his desire bare.
Gavin stepped close, the fabric of his dress shirt and suit pants brushing against Derrick’s simple t-shirt and jeans. Slowly, Derrick turned to face him.
“I don’t want to watch TV with you, either.”
Gavin thrust his hands roughly into Derrick’s hair and kissed him, hard.
Yes. Derrick groaned, all the eager expectation that had been mounting inside him since they’d parted that morning finally breaking into action. His arms slid around Gavin’s chest, caressing the fine fabric of his shirt. His body relaxed against Gavin’s with a grateful moan.
Each detail became its own knee-weakening point of focus. Gavin’s tongue in his mouth. Gavin’s hands clenching in his hair, then moving down to grip his shirt. Derrick’s fingers dug into Gavin’s back as Gavin reached his waist and tugged his shirt up out of his jeans. Then those long, lean fingers were on Derrick’s skin, stroking across his stomach.
“God, your hands…” Derrick whispered between kisses.
He let his head fall back, offering Gavin more liberty to move down to his throat, nipping and sucking. Gavin’s teeth closed gently over the junction of his shoulder and neck, gradually increasing the pressure. Derrick sagged against the counter as Gavin rubbed circles around his nipples with his capable thumbs.
He panted as the bite on his neck edged closer to pain, drooping with relief and disappointment when Gavin eased off.
“We really…ought to get…to the bedroom,” he gasped as Gavin dragged his tongue along the impressions left by his teeth. “Before I can’t walk.”
Gavin laughed softly and stepped back, looking satisfied with himself. “Go, then. I’ll be right behind you.”
Derrick nodded once, a brief, jerky movement, before bending to unlace his work boots and kick them off. He jerked his shirt over his head as he went, trying to walk at a normal pace down the hall. He wanted to give himself time, to draw back from the frenetic need welling up inside him, pushing him toward desperation.
Without warning, Gavin’s hands closed over Derrick’s upper arms. He propelled Derrick chest-first against the wall, pressing his own body along Derrick’s back. His voice rasped behind Derrick’s ear, “I’ve wanted to do this all day.”
A nudge of his hips against Derrick’s ass clarified just what he meant.
“God, yes,” Derrick gasped, his eyes closing as he rested his hot cheek against the cool wall.
Gavin ground against him harder. “Have you been thinking about it, too?” he murmured. “Thinking about what I did this morning when I came all over your back? Were you distracted while you were working?”
Hard. Everything was hard, physically and mentally. He was caught between the wall and the pressure of Gavin’s erection. His own dick, trapped inside his jeans, found nothing yielding to ease the ache.
His thoughts came only with monumental effort. His pride resisted giving Gavin the admission he sought, struggling to retain some dignity.
His need to control this headlong plummet into…whatever this was…rallied one last desperate defense that his hormones quickly defeated.
Truth and need won over reserve. He pushed his ass back against Gavin, seeking more.
“Yes. God. All damn day. Couldn’t stop thinking about you.”
Gavin’s fingers slid down Derrick’s ribs, ghosting along the sensitive line of skin above the waistband of his jeans. “Tell me — what did you think about? Did you imagine more? When you got home after your morning job, did you jerk off to fantasies of us?” Gavin’s voice dropped lower, barely a whisper as his lips brushed the shell of Derrick’s ear. Strands of Derrick’s hair wafted across his cheek, carried on Gavin’s hot breath. “Did you call out my name when you came?”
The sound Derrick made was humiliatingly close to a whimper as he shifted, urgent need driving him to seek more contact.
“I did.” The confession came in a thoughtless torrent, spilling from his mouth without any deliberation. “All day. You were all I could see. I couldn’t wait to get home.”
Gavin rocked against Derrick’s ass again. His nimble fingers unbuckled Derrick’s belt and slipped into the snug gap between his jeans and his waist.
“What else did you think about?” he asked, nipping at Derrick’s earlobe. He drew one hand out of Derrick’s waistband to cup the bulge under his fly; the other slid up to pinch his nipple. “Tell me. I want to know just what dirty fantasies you spin up in that gorgeous head of yours.”
“Oh, God, please,” Derrick moaned, feeling mindless, delirious with wanting.
Derrick’s throat locked around the words he wanted to say. He fought the verbal paralysis and tried to find a way to admit that he’d stopped by the adult bookstore today, the one where he usually bought his porn, to make a different sort of purchase. Not just condoms, but a better brand of lube than the stuff he grabbed at the pharmacy for masturbating. He’d done it knowing this moment, this decision, might come. Possibly tonight.
Trapped between Gavin and the wall, his clothes hanging half-off and Gavin grinding against his ass, he wondered why the mere prospect of words made him feel so exposed and vulnerable.
What if the pantomimes of fucking they’d done were as far as Gavin was willing — or comfortable enough — to go? He didn’t think Gavin would reject him, not after the way he’d rimmed Derrick to within an inch of his sanity the other morning. But was it even a good idea? Was it too soon, too big a risk?
How could he be willing to trust Gavin with the act, without being willing to trust Gavin with the admission that he wanted it in the first place?
“I…oh, God….” Gavin’s hands tightened, both on Derrick’s nipple and around the ridge of his cock beneath his fly. The words, when Derrick forced them from his reluctant throat, came out much coyer than he would have liked. “I wondered what it’d be like…if you’d…gone further….”
“Further? I’m afraid you’ll have to clarify.” Gavin’s voice was smooth, steady, controlled. And yet it seemed to growl, low and taunting. “If you can’t be specific, I can’t give you want you want.”
“I—” Derrick rested his forehead against the wall, his heart thundering nervously in his chest as his voice locked up again.
“Talk to me, Derrick,” Gavin demanded, less teasing now and more earnest. “This won’t work if you don’t talk to me. You need to tell me what you want.”
Derrick pushed the words out in a breathless rush. “I wondered what it’d be like if you fucked me.”
The rushing roar of his pulse in his ears went silent, his heart skipping a beat, his breath bated.
“I admit, I’ve thought about it,” Gavin said after an eternity. “Imagined the noises you’d make. How you’d move.”
Derrick moaned as Gavin’s hand slid up and down his bulge with deliberate intent. He opened Derrick’s fly with an abrupt tug, pushing his jeans down his hips before pressing him back against the cool wall. The pressure of Gavin’s erection against his ass was even hotter without the extra layer of denim between them.
“Is this what you want?” Gavin murmured in the same insistent tone. “You want me to fuck you until you can’t see straight?”
Derrick swallowed hard, nodding, trying to pull himself together enough to make it clear he wasn’t just carried away.
“Yeah,” he said soberly. “Yeah, I want it.”
“You have what we need?” Gavin’s voice took on a serious note as well. “I won’t do it, otherwise.”
Derrick blinked at the question, surprised for a moment that Gavin wouldn’t have brought his own supply of condoms and lube, just in case. Or maybe Gavin was testing him, seeing if this was something Derrick had truly thought through. Especially with the question of Gavin’s HIV status outstanding.
As if Derrick could forget.
“Yeah. There’s a bag in the bedside table.” He glanced over his shoulder, seeking both to reassure Gavin and his own reassurance.
Gavin smiled, kissing Derrick. He started at Derrick’s mouth, gently, and moved down his neck, nibbling. His fingers brushed teasingly over the length of Derrick’s cock, which strained against the navy cotton of his briefs.
“Out of the pants,” Gavin murmured. His tone was soft, but it wasn’t a request. “Into the bedroom. Now.”
3 responses to “First Chapter: Acceleration, Impulse Book Two”
I loved this chapter. I’d read it before. This is where I thought Gavin may be gettin a little rough too soon. But alas, Derrick isn’t protesting!
LOL no, Derrick is FAR from protesting!
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