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by Robert Furlong
Part 29: Taking It All In
It's not every day one gets caught by one's own son being anally pleasured by another man, but that's how Saturday had started out for me.
I'd woken rather later than I usually would, a consequence of a very eventful evening with Bradley which had gone on well into the small hours, and had staggered out of bed to make us both a coffee with the time approaching ten.
Just as when we'd got into bed, it felt odd to be waking up with another man lying next to me in my bed, snoring gently and with his stubble coming in thick. I'd looked at him for a few minutes from my own pillow, serenely asleep and with a half-smile on his lips as though he was still basking in the satisfaction of the twin orgasms he had enjoyed before we'd slept.
I'd spent my first night with another man alongside me, the two of us having used each other quite strenuously for sex before we'd slept. Although it felt strange to be waking up next to a member of my own gender, it also felt surprisingly pleasant; I had to accept that I now shared my bed with men as well as women.
As I got out of the bed and straightened the duvet over Bradley, I noticed underneath it that his large cock was prominently erect. Mine was too: we both were sporting similarly-sized morning stiffies.
It was good to know that, like me, he woke up horny. I hoped that after I'd woken him, we could masturbate together – or perhaps more – and I wouldn't feel guilty asking for morning sex from someone who was so obviously aroused. With the vast majority of women I'd been with, my ex-wife especially, morning sex had always been a matter of strongly expressed inconvenience. If we'd had sex the night before, like I had with Bradley, there was no point even asking. I was the only one of us who ever seemed to wake up feeling randy and usually I was forced to tend to myself in the privacy of the bathroom.
With Bradley – and with most men, I expected – some kind of sexual release in the morning was probably regarded as standard fare. Whether we were just able to manage a hasty tug together or we could run to something more involved, I assumed that with a member of the male sex in my bed, most mornings would start with matching erections which would bring with them opportunities for sex; perhaps even expectations of sex.
I'd pulled on my dressing gown and had made us both coffee. Then I'd brought the mugs back to bed with us
He awoke as I lay back down next to him.
He stretched noisily, his armpits bristling with his thick, coarse hair, and then took a grateful gulp from the mug I'd placed next to him.
"Morning," he grinned, his voice sounding husky.
"Good morning, Bradley," I smiled back.
"How do you feel?" he asked. "Any regrets?"
"None at all. What about you?"
"Of course not," he shrugged. "But, then, I'm used to doing this kind of stuff."
He took another slurp from his drink.
"Is it okay?" I asked him. "I had to guess how you might like it. I thought, with you being a beer drinker, you'd have a sweet tooth and would probably take sugar."
He chuckled. "I've been shagged by Miss Marple."
"Was I right, though?"
He laughed again. "As it happens, yes. Sounds like a lucky stab in the dark to me, though…"
"Well if it was, it wasn't the only one," I chuckled. "Having never shared a bed with a man before, I hadn't realised how much… well… jabbing goes on in the night."
I vaguely remembered, through the veil of my sleep, that Bradley's excitement had been prodding into me several times during the night. At one point, I seemed to remember half waking up with it throbbing against my hip and oozing precum onto me, a sensation which I'd found so pleasant that my own slumbering organ had quickly roused and assumed a similar state.
He grinned at me, taking another drink. "It wasn't all one-sided, mate. You were humping my bum-cheeks at one point."
"I can't believe that," I laughed. But then, vaguely remembering grabbing him to me and sliding myself up and down between his firm, round buttocks, added, "Well, maybe just a bit."
"It made me so horny, I almost asked if you fancied quick one!" he laughed.
I looked over at him, surprised. "Really? Does that happen when you sleep with guys? In the middle of the night, I mean!"
Such things had been practically unknown when I'd spent the night with women. If I'd ever have woken Linda up for a quick one in the night, I'd have found myself unceremoniously castrated.
He chuckled. "When we're both up for it, yeah – of course it does!"
I marvelled at the thought of it, gaping at him in disbelief. Was there no end to the advantages of having a male lover?
He laughed again at my expression of incredulity.
"Only a quick one, mate, like I said. A little wank together… maybe a quick suck of my cock, if you'd be up for it… something for you, but I don't know what since you're not into being sucked –"
"You could finger me while we were wanking off," I cut in.
He smiled. "Yeah… that kind of thing. Just a quick one in the dark to keep us both going 'til the morning. Where's the harm in that?"
I grinned back at him. "Absolutely! I never knew other people woke up in the small hours with thoughts like that. Especially after two orgasms."
He smirked over at me, remembering his impressive double climax. "You're with a bloke, now, Rob. You should remember that whatever goes for you, pretty much goes for me too."
I nodded, pleased to know that sex in the middle of night was deemed acceptable between two males if one happened to wake up horny and found the other in a similar state.
We took a few drinks from our coffee cups and then Bradley raised his side of the duvet and looked at himself under at. Then he looked back at me and said, feigning contrition, "I think – in the absence of any fun during the night – my boys might need a bit more attention now."
I raised my side and did the same. "Hmm… I think mine might too."
"Would you be up for a round two?" he asked.
"Yeah!" I grinned, before reminding him, "Except in your case it would be round three, of course. What sort of thing did you have in mind?"
I rather liked the idea of us kneeling together, chest-to-chest, and masturbating both our cocks together. I'd like to feel our pairs of big, swinging knackers banging together and I'd like to kiss him again, something which I'd found surprisingly arousing the previous evening.
But Bradley had other ideas.
"I was thinking, maybe," he began, "you might like a repeat of what we did last night – when I was in front, taking your cock from behind. Except this time, maybe, we could change places, so you'd be in front."
"Wow, yeah!" I exclaimed, grinning at him. I hadn't thought he would want to anything too strenuous first thing in the morning, but since he did, I was very happy with the prospect of finally getting to feel what it was like to have a man's organ inside me.
He grinned back and the duvet rose up a little as both our cocks started throbbing.
I raised it and sniffed at the warm, moist air underneath it. I'd always enjoyed the strong, sexual scent of my own aroused cock but now that there were two under there, the combined odour from our erections was so much more intense. I inhaled it, savouring the sharp, virile whiff of our exposed swollen cock-heads, both of us slick with our precum, and the thicker, cloying sweat from our hairy scrotums, each of us rising prominently with the twin mounds of our already-replenished balls.
I turned to say to Bradley with a grin, "It smells very sexy."
He took a sniff under the duvet himself and announced, "The manly whiff of a pair of horny, oozing cocks."
"And two pairs of big, sweaty bollocks," I added.
"And a couple of hot, sticky arseholes, ready for some fun," he finished with a laugh.
I chuckled but I wasn't sure I could quite smell those, although I was sure, once we got started, I probably soon would.
As he was expecting to bugger me, I thought it best to go to the toilet as thoroughly as I could before we started while Bradley made us both more coffee. When I got back to my bedroom, he'd returned with two fresh cups and had switched the clock radio to a station which he obviously liked but I didn't know. Some nineties-sounding soft-rock track wailed out sounding tinny and vaguely unpleasant.
"How do you want me?" I tried to ask over the noise.
"Uh?" he grunted, unable to hear me.
I walked over to him and turned the music off.
"I was enjoying that," he complained. "I like music during sex. A nice, smooth ballad with a woman; something with a bit more kick to it when I'm with a guy."
I switched it back on but set it to a lower volume.
"Okay, so how do you want me?" I repeated.
He smiled and turned the volume up a bit louder. It was louder than I liked it, but at least we could hear each other over the top of it.
He gestured towards the bed and said he'd like me to get on all fours. I assumed he was indulging me because I'd told him I like the doggy position. As much as I was attracted to the position, I wanted to try something different.
"Why don't you lie this way," I suggested over the noise of the music, "on your back. Let me do the hard work."
I preferred to stay in control during my first taste at being fucked. I'd read something on the internet about some receiving men acting a
"power bottoms" and I was intrigued by the concept.
He smirked and shifted his position on the bed, lying across it, and gestured for me to squat over his face.
I smiled back at him, liking the idea. This was the position Guy had been when I'd first discovered the unexpected (to say the least) appeal of what lurked in the hairy crevice behind his balls, and it appealed to me that I would finally get to experience what he had that night.
Bradley's cock was largely floppy as I clambered over him and straddled over his face, but as soon as lowered my big, hairy ball-sack down onto his nose and mouth, I was pleased to see it begin to steadily stiffen.
He grinned up at me and then took first one of my swollen testicles into his mouth before moving across to the other. It felt odd to have him licking at my balls and I found my cock wasn't responding the way that Bradley's was. I think somewhere, deep in the back of my subconscious, there was some deeply rooted fear preventing me from being able to fully relax with another man's teeth so close to such a vulnerable area. I'm not saying that I thought he was going to bite me: I just felt inexplicably uncomfortable to have another male – on some primitive level, a potential competitor – slavering away at was, after all, the seat of my own masculinity.
I don't think it helped, either, that the DJ was chatting away on the radio. Music I could tolerate; listening to some guy harp on about last night's 'X Factor' while I was having my balls sucked was just too off-putting.
Thankfully, another track soon started up and, as if on cue, Bradley pushed himself backwards on the bed to nuzzle into the hairiness just behind my balls. Eager to guide him on his way, I eased myself forwards a little, and bent further downwards to open up my cleft. He moaned in his appreciation, and I felt his tongue licking up at the ridge between my balls and my hole.
Now this was starting to work for me!
My cock rapidly began to lengthen and thicken at the feel of his tongue licking teasingly close to my puckered entrance, and I watched it rise steadily upwards from my balls as it developed in size.
Bradley's cock was also growing and moved across his stomach like the second hand of a clock as it stiffened and thickened until the swelling head of it was level with his belly button.
When his tongue had reached the furrowed ring of my anus, he circled it a couple of times and then surprised me by pulling back.
"Cor!" he laughed loudly, over the noise of the music. "You taste as strong as hell!"
"Oh God," I cried out, pulling up from him. I thought I'd been meticulously thorough in my cleanliness after using the toilet. "I'm so sorry, Bradley!"
I'd avoided using soap as I knew he would want to smell me rather than Imperial Leather, but perhaps warm water had not been enough.
But Bradley wasn't disgusted: instead, he grabbed my thighs and pulled me back down onto his face.
"No," he called up to me. "It's not like that! It's just so raunchy… so much more intense than last night… you smell as horny as fuck!"
I smiled, relaxing a little. "Are you sure?"
His tongue reached up and tasted me again. It circled my hole, like a searchlight searching for whatever it could find, and then jabbed more firmly in the middle of my ring. Anticipating what he wanted, I relaxed my anus slightly to allow him to enter. His tongue pushed up inside me, easing warmly into my passage like a plump, round worm.
I gasped with the delight of feeling him inside me, although the concern that he might pull out and start gagging was still forefront in my mind.
I opened my ring a little wider and he pushed in more deeply, licking and tasting my most secretive tunnel. I could feel his breath hot against my hole and his nose inhaling deeply in my hairy crack.
My cock hardened and rose upwards to full size, and I pushed myself more firmly against his face. I didn't want to touch myself and risk ending this exquisite pleasure far too soon.
He grabbed the tops of my thighs with both hands and reached up with his tongue into my rectum, becoming more confident the deeper he got.
Then he pulled out again and for a second I feared my taste really was too strong for him.
"If you're still wondering if I'm sure?" he asked, "take a look at my cock!"
It was rising upwards from his stomach, gently pulsating at full-size in mid-air. Its head was a deep crimson colour and a dribble of ooze gently wept from its slit making a small puddle on his belly.
I relaxed in the knowledge that the taste and smell of my bum were having this effect on it and I smiled at the sight of how aroused he was.
I couldn't get over the fact that men were so expressive during sex. There was no trying to second-guess the effect of each caress and kiss: with a man, his excitement was prominently – and in Bradley's case, very prominently – displayed.
I loved sex like this: it was so open and straightforward.
"You taste amazing," he went on, as the track on the radio ended and another started up. "Your arse is so hot and delicious. I want to rim you as deeply as I can and then I want to fuck you, Rob. I want to fuck you so hard that the two of us will be sweating and squealing like two dirty fucking pigs!"
I smiled, enjoying having him talk to crudely to me.
"Get your tongue stuck back up my hole and eat me out," I replied, keen to continue the theme. The word 'manstink' came back to me from having heard it long before and I was eager to use it. "Feed on my manstink, Bradley! Fucking wallow in it!"
Lowering my arse back down onto his face, I felt his mouth smile against my cheeks as he worked his tongue back into me. I made my hole gape open for him and he plunged himself deep up inside me, revelling in the crudeness of my innards by lapping greedily and sucking strenuously.
I reached down and angled his cock upwards towards me. And then, while he rimmed me so fervently and intimately, I bent down and sucked just as hungrily at his cock-head. It throbbed in my mouth, grateful of my attentions, and fed me with its ooze of nutritive precum which I gulped down appreciatively. I felt like I was a baby taking milk from a bottle, except this was another man's large and bloated cock that I was so ardently suckling at.
I loved being with him like that: me feeding on the gently oozing dribble from his mushroom cock-head; him eating so vigorously at my widely gaping arsehole. It was as if we were nourishing one another: two men taking sustenance from each other's heaving bodies.
Sensing his excitement growing and fearing he might climax early as he had the previous night, I nuzzled down into his sweaty, hairy bollocks, licking and sniffing them and enjoying the knowledge that the seed inside them which was making them swell like over-ripened plums, would soon be squirting upwards inside me.
I couldn't remember ever feeling so aroused and turned-on.
Sex with Bradley was so different from anything I'd ever experienced with a woman; the two things were barely comparable. Our bodies were so surprisingly – and yet so comprehensively – compatible that I couldn't help but wonder why I'd never had the sense to do this before. As men, we were both ravenously hungry for sex and, as men, we were both able and equipped to provide seemingly endless pleasure for each other.
Why had I wasted so many years trying to impress women only to receive mere snippets and scraps of their attention? Why had I stayed with Linda so long, when all she'd given back was the occasional disgruntled morsel of affection?
Sex with another man was sex as it had been meant for me. Why had it taken me so long to discover that?
I pushed deeper between Bradley's legs and sniffed at the opening of his moist, hairy arse crack. His odour was strong and pungent and I felt my cock throb in anticipation. Just sleeping next to me in my bed overnight had enlivened and revitalised his scent back here, and I plunged my face between his cheeks, inhaling as deeply as I could the frank, manly flavour of his amazing backside.
My tongue quickly found his extruding, bulging ring, and I licked at him breathlessly. Like he had with me, I found his taste far stronger and more intense than it had been the previous night. Perhaps it was a morning thing; perhaps male anal glands are more active overnight.
I drove into him again and we rimmed one another together: two men being as intimate together as it's possible to be. As I lapped at his hole and felt him feasting on mine, I doubted if sex could feel any more exciting.
We were two men with our tongues slurping at each other's arses; with our fat, hairy balls throbbing against each other's chins; with our rock hard cocks aching and dribbling against each other's chests: surely this was heaven!
He pulled back from me and I did the same to him, loving the sensation of having the smell of his bum on my nose and mouth.
I really wanted to fuck him again but now it was his turn to be pleasured. This was all about Bradley's cock; Bradley's manhood.
I looked down at the erection that was going to take my anal virginity. It looked big and thick and almost scarily inflamed, but I was ready for it.
I was ready to give myself to him.
Perhaps I would have preferred if this had been Guy beneath me, about to give me my first taste of male penetration.
But no. This was Bradley. This was how it had worked out. There was no point dwelling on regrets.
He struggled out from underneath me and reached across for a condom.
He said, "How do you want to take it, big boy?"
'Big boy'. Guy had called me that.
I covered the memory with a smile. "I want to sit on your cock, Bradley."
He smiled over at me. "I thought you'd want it doggy style."
"Maybe next time," I suggested. "But this time I want you to see my cock when you fuck me. I want you to see how excited I get."
He grinned more broadly. "If you're sure you'll enjoy it. I don't want to be staring at your cock growing soft. Kind of puts a guy off, you know?"
I smiled back. "I don't think there's much fear of that."
He surprised me by leaning forwards to kiss me. After a brief but quite intimate kiss, he said, "In that case, I'd love to. You have an incredible, beautiful cock, Rob, and it'll really turn me on to look at it while I'm fucking you."
He unrolled one of his condoms down the thickened shaft of his cock. A new song started up on the radio. I recognised it from having heard Jake playing it in his room.
"In any case," he went on. "This way, I get you kiss you while we fuck. There's nothing like kissing a guy while you're ploughing his arse."
"I'd like that," I agreed. "I'd like that a lot."
I was surprised at how much I felt the truth of that statement.
After I'd lubed myself up, he lay down in the middle of the bed and directed his cock upwards with his right hand.
I squatted over him, smiling down at him, and then clumsily positioned my anus over his cock-head which felt improbably huge and swollen as it pushed between my cheeks.
"I don't know if it's going to fit," I warned him.
"It will," he said. "Just pretend like you're taking a dump."
"Ooh, you're so romantic," I joked and he grinned up at me.
I relaxed my arsehole as much as I could and pushed myself down onto his upright cock. The head of it slid into me with a satisfying squelch and I exhaled loudly and involuntarily.
Bradley looked up at me, concerned. "Do you want me to stop?"
"No!" I called out, "Christ, no!"
I let his cock slide further into me, easing up into my innards much further than my finger had ever been able to reach.
"It feels incredible!" I gasped down at him. "Absolutely amazing!"
He smiled at me. "It's about halfway in. Are you sure you're happy for it to go further?"
I pushed down to take another couple of inches of him. "Fuck yeah!" I cried out. "I want all of it! I want all of you inside me!"
My hole was being stretched open to a circumference it had never experienced and the sensation of having to dilate so wide to take another man's organ into me was sending shivers up my spine and making my heart race.
Bradley chuckled, enjoying my surprise at how much pleasure he was giving me. "Turns out you're a bit of a bum boy, Rob!"
I grinned back down at him, panting for breath. "I think we both… could have guessed that!"
'Bum boy'. If only I had discovered this when I'd been a boy. The number of lads in my year-group whom I could have had fun with!
My cock strained upwards, its head fattened so hard it was sore, with precum trickling downwards from the slit. The veins were writhing prominently along the thickened shaft, making bulging knots which pulsed as they pumped my organ up to its massively overfilled, throbbingly painful size.
Bradley reached up, wanting to fondle my towering erection, but I pushed his hand away. "Not yet," I told him, still gasping for air. "Not until… you're right inside me."
I was feeling so excited by having a man's cock bore upwards inside me that I was concerned if he were to touch my own I might climax across his chest and face. Indeed, I was so aroused I could imagine me having such a powerful orgasm that my semen would shoot right over him and hit the opposite wall.
I squatted further down onto him and he bucked his hips up to ease himself completely up into my bowels. The music on the radio seemed to grow louder; perhaps my senses were being distorted by the pleasure I was feeling.
"Jesus Christ!" I called out in a voice which was probably too loud. "How fucking amazing is this?!"
Bradley chuckled. "You're going to get a taste for this, aren't you?"
I smiled back down at him, feeling his cock throbbing and filling me up as if in time with the rhythm of the track on the radio. "Too fucking right! Jesus, mate… why didn't I try this years ago?"
"You're doing it now, Rob" he said. "That's the main thing."
I was still irritated at myself for all the lost opportunities – the wasted years – but I tried to put the squandered past out of my mind for now and focus on the oh-so-wonderful present, while allowing myself to look forwards to what might lie in the future.
I had Troy fixed up for a date quite soon; and Duncan the car repair guy might call in one afternoon. And then there was Guy pencilled in for a football match in the New Year. I wanted all three of them to do this to me. I wanted to feel the different sensations that their diversely shaped cocks would make inside me; I wanted to know how dissimilar their variously sized balls would feel against my buttocks
And I wanted to meet more men – lots more men – who would enjoy doing this with me.
Christ, I wanted every male I met who was capable of getting a hard-on to be joined with me like this!
I just loved this sensation of having a man so physically connected to me, as deeply and intimately as he could be inside me. And I loved that we were together like this not as lovers, but just as two male friends. When he left, I could have another guy around to enjoy sex with him and there'd be no guilt, no recriminations, no aftermath at all. If I told Bradley what I'd done, next time we met, he'd no doubt enjoy hearing all about it and would tell me about other encounters he'd had since we'd been together.
I straightened my knees slightly to raise myself up from him, enjoying the sensation of his thick shaft sliding along my rectum. Then I lowered myself back down to him and let out a gasping involuntary sigh.
"Aaah! Jesus, that feels good!"
I did again a couple of times, panting with delight at how amazing it felt to be pumping his cock with the muscles of my arse. I looked down at him, grinning and gaping at him, and he beamed up at me as he enjoyed seeing how excited I was to have him inside me.
"All these years, Rob," he chuckled, "you've wanted to be some guy's bum chum and you didn't even know it!"
I laughed back at him, still gasping at the waves of pleasure I was experiencing.
Some guy's bum chum? More like some Guy's bum chum. Yes, I'd be well up for being that!
I worked myself up and down his shaft with a steadily developing rhythm, trying to match myself to the music from the radio. Then he held my thighs and told me he would take over. "Now you're loosened up, let me do the hard work, mate."
I squatted over him, a good six inches or so above the base of his cock. My balls hung down, feeling fat and heavy in my stretched scrotum, and were being tickled by his pubic bush.
He grabbed onto my hips to hold me steady and then started slowly fucking me by thrusting his hips upwards.
"How does that feel?" he asked.
"Fantastic!" I gasped.
It was indeed intensely exciting to feel him sliding right up into me, filling me up with his long, thick shaft. I loved the sensation of his throbbing cock-head, burrowing back and forth so deeply inside me, and the feel of his balls slapping against my arse cheeks as he pushed himself as far into me as he could go.
"Are you ready for me to go faster?" he asked.
"Go for it!" I commanded.
"Right," he grinned. "I am so desperate for a fuck, mate! I am so ready to fucking bang your arse!"
"Well, go ahead and fuck me! Fuck me as fast and as hard as you can!"
Now that was something I never thought I'd hear myself say.
He grinned at me more broadly and grabbed my hips more firmly. Then he started pounding in and out of me, bucking his hips upwards to make slapping noises against my buttocks. The odour of his exertions began to fill the air: the smell from his cock as it pumped up and down; still subtle, but undeniably anal in its pungence.
He was doubling the rhythm of the music: each beat of the song was matched with two thrusts of Bradley's long cock.
I yelped with delight and worked myself against him, wondering why it had never occurred to me how empty my arse had been all my life without another man's cock buried inside it. It felt so full and so right to have Bradley organ inside me. I felt, if it makes sense, sexually complete.
I laughed down at him, "Come on, man! You're holding back on me! Give it all to me!"
He laughed back up. "You want it full-on! Okay! You fucking got it!"
His rhythm intensified so that he was hammering in and out of me like a piece of machinery. Now he was pumping three times faster than the music; four times, even. The smell from my arse was growing stronger and more obvious: cloyingly musky with a crude, raunchy bite to it.
"Oh God!" I cried out. "Jesus Christ that feels so good!"
He laughed again and I saw him sniffing at the air.
"Can you smell that?" I asked, as the carnal odour of my rectum washed over us in waves. "How fucking hot is it?"
He laughed a third time. "It's the smell of mansex, Rob! It's the best fucking part of it! It's as hot as fuck!"
He continued pounding my arse and his face became more serious. Sweat was pouring from his forehead and he was panting like a dog.
"I'm getting close mate," he gasped. "I'm gonna cum any second!"
I grinned down at him, relishing the thought of feeling him climaxing inside me. I wanted his thick, manly spunk to overflow from the condom and splash up, hot and wet, onto my buttocks as he hammered himself back and forth.
"Go for it!" I urged him. "I'm close myself."
Which was bizarre considering I hadn't so much as touched myself.
He surprised me by craning his neck forwards and reaching his mouth upwards to my cock, taking the top few inches into him. In spite of my reservations about having my organ sucked, I let it slide in and out of him as I worked my arse in time with his frantic, pummelling shaft.
His mouth was well-practised and he knew exactly what to do to pleasure another man. He held his lips wide open and used the tip of his tongue to tease the sensitive lobes underneath my cock-head. The unpleasant sensation I'd expected – of having my cock enveloped by a warm slimy mouth – was replaced by something entirely different. I found it surprisingly enjoyable to rub the swollen head of my cock against the soft ridges along the roof of his mouth and to have his tongue gently tease me as I thrust back and forth.
As I watched my shaft sliding in and out of his mouth, pushing deeper with every stroke, I realised I was finally enjoying a blowjob! I was finally enjoying having my cock sucked!
After all these years, all it had taken was for another man to do to me what he obviously enjoyed having done to himself. Bradley understood my cock completely and knew exactly what to do to arouse it: even, as it turned out, better than I did myself.
I started thrusting in and out of his mouth, his tongue teasing my cock-head as my organ swelled back to full size and recovered from my initial misgivings about being sucked.
I laughed down at him, amazed at what we were doing.
"Suck me off! Go on, mate! Eat my cock!"
Something else I never thought I'd ever hear myself say.
He sides of his lips formed a smile with the thickened shaft of my organ slurping in and out between them.
I couldn't believe how good it felt to be riding his relentlessly thrusting cock, slamming my arse against it so much faster than the rhythm of the music, while my own was sweeping in and out of his mouth.
The stink from my bum was now crude and intense: harsh and powerful in both our nostrils; amplified by our heat and out sweat. I was desperately aroused by it, my heart pounding in my chest even quicker than Bradley's cock was pounding at my arse.
It was the smell I'd been seeking for so long: the smell of my arse being roughly buggered by a cock as big as my own; the smell of male-to-male sex at its most passionate and intense; the smell of men being joined together as intimately as is possible – one man's big, thick cock being consumed over and over by another's hot, raunchy arse.
Suddenly I felt my balls starting to tingle and gestured urgently that I was within sight of my climax. I was giving him the opportunity to pull away if he wanted to, but he stayed put and, if anything, licked at me more furiously.
My balls started spasming as they pumped my seed upwards and he drank the heavy flow of it as it surged from my slit. My orgasm was, as always, extravagantly plentiful and he struggled to gulp fast enough to keep up with the surging gushes. Some – though not much – spilled down his chin and onto his chest, but most of it managed to slide down his throat.
I felt for my poor sperms again, excitedly thrashing around as they were propelled towards his stomach, oblivious to the acidic end that awaited them.
Once my climax had subsided and still thrusting his cock in and out of my bowels, he reached up and kissed me so I could taste my own semen, salty and bitter, in his mouth. Our tongues wrestled together as I eagerly licked my juice from his and we looked into each other's eyes, revelling in the sexual abandon we were experiencing together.
When he pulled back from me, we grinned at each other. He stopped bucking his hips and pointed at my backside, impaled on his thick shaft as it reached upwards. He licked his lips and I knew what he meant.
I pulled off him and he peeled off the condom, tossing it onto the floor. He started masturbating quickly as I squatted over him, letting him eat from the swollen, gaping hole he'd just fucked so vigorously.
When I felt his tongue pushing into my rectum through my sore and sensitive ring, an unexpected second wave of excitement hit me and, much to my surprise, my cock started spewing again. My second climax was more measured and far less copious than my first, but I looked down at myself, marvelling at my body doing something it had never done before and fascinated by the second gushing of white liquid which was slowly belching from my cock-head.
I reached between my legs, grabbed the back of Bradley's head and ground my arse down onto his eager face. I wanted him to tongue me as deeply as he could; to reach up into my bowels and taste me at my strongest.
He was eager to comply, lapping at my hole and feeding on my rectum, as he wanked himself as quickly and roughly as he could. Within seconds his orgasm was splashing against my back and I looked over towards the mirror so I could see him erupt.
Straight into the eyes of Jake who was staring at us from the bedroom door, his eyes wide and his mouth open.
"Jesus Christ," I called out over the noise of the music, and tried to pull myself away from Bradley. Not understanding, he grabbed my thigh, determined to savour having his mouth on my behind while he was climaxing, but I yanked away from him more roughly.
Jake backed off, his face stunned, and turned to head downstairs.
I got off the bed and switched off the radio. I heard a car setting off down the street; probably my ex-wife after dropping Jake off.
Jake was downstairs clanking bottles and pouring himself a drink from the fridge.
"My son," I said to Bradley, my voice raspy. "He's come back from staying with his mum and was in the doorway."
Bradley looked horrified and sat up on the bed. His semen was still tirckling from his cock, blissfully undeterred by this unexpected turn of events.
"How long was he standing there?" he asked. Like I would be able to give him an exact duration.
"I dunno," I replied. "I just saw him when you started cumming."
"Maybe he didn't see very much," he suggested, hopefully.
"Whatever he did see was far too much," I countered.
I pulled on my dressing gown and left Bradley clearing up. I went downstairs and found Jake in the kitchen, drinking a coke.
"Christ, Jake," I said. "You could have knocked!"
"I did!" he snapped. "And called up several times. The radio was on loud… I thought you must just be lying in bed reading the paper or something."
"You knew I had a guy staying over with me."
"Well, there was only your car on the drive, so I figured it mustn't have worked out or he'd gone. It wasn't like I deliberately came upstairs to catch you out."
What he said sounded plausible and I felt my anger abate. It wasn't, after all, as if he would ever intrude intentionally on something so personal.
"In that case, Jake, I'm sorry I didn't hear you and that you saw what we were doing."
"Don't be," he shrugged, taking another drink from his glass. "I'm not a little kid."
"How long were you standing there?" I asked.
"When I first opened the door you were on top of him… sort of getting it both ways… I dunno what you'd actually call it. I should have backed away but… well…"
He seemed to want me to finish his sentence off for him or at least suggest where he might be going with it, but I held back, shrugging to show I had no idea what his "well…" might presage.
Seeing that I was going to offer no help, he went on, "I mean, it wasn't something I would have wanted to see, but once I actually saw the two of you together… I suppose I began to understand why you're into to this stuff."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm just saying that… you know… I might not want to try it for myself… well, not anytime soon… but just that I can see the appeal."
"You found what we were doing attractive?" I asked, incredulous.
"Not the fact it was you, of course," he said. "But what you were doing… I mean, the way he was up your butt and you were in his mouth…yeah… it looked pretty intense. Pretty amazing, actually. That's why I kind of stuck around longer than I should have."
I just stared at him, unsure of what to say.
He laughed. "Come on, dad, I'm not saying I don't like girls – but then, neither are you – I'm just saying… you know… having seen the two of you together that I understand how a guy can enjoy being… well… erotic with another guy."
"But you saw those lads at scout camp," I reminded him, "and the stuff I was looking at on the internet. You didn't find that erotic, did you?"
"No," he admitted. "But it was seeing you guys together… kissing and being so… well… intimate, I suppose. And the smell of you both… yeah, that was it… the sweaty, sexy smell…"
"I think it was a bit more than sweat, Jake," I added dourly.
"I realise that," he said. "Like I said, I'm not a little kid. But the smell was kind of hot too. At first, when I saw what you were doing, I was like, 'Whoa! Get me out of here!' But then, there was that smell and all the spunk… and, well, the way you were together… it had an effect on me… you know…"
He'd been aroused when he was watching us. My own son had grown a stiffie at the smell of our sex: by the strong, masturbatory odour of two men's cocks; the heavy stink of sweat from our big, hairy balls; the acrid whiff of our erupting semen; and – most potently – the crude, pungent bite of my arse thickly smeared down the length of Bradley's large cock.
When I'd seen him there in the doorway, I'd fixated on his dumbstruck face: perhaps, if I'd looked a bit lower, I'd have seen how much his jeans were bulging outwards in their own, unanticipated, response to the male version of sex we were performing for him.
I heard Bradley upstairs, walking across the landing and closing the bathroom door.
"So who is he?" Jake asked with an expectant smirk.
"Just a guy from work. He works in IT."
"And is he gay?"
"No," I replied. "It doesn't really work like that. I don't want to get into something serious with another bloke, so I found someone similar to me: straight but with an eye for… er… wider opportunities."
Jake chuckled at my turn of phrase. "It doesn't get much wider than the opportunity you were giving him."
I allowed myself a smile.
"But aren't most guys like that?" Jake asked. "Isn't that how male sexuality is supposed to work?"
"How do you mean?"
"Well, men are supposed to be on the look-out for any opportunities that might come their way, and a lot of guys aren't too fussy about the form it takes. We did about it in biology class: something about the male wanting to spread his genes."
"Maybe that would explain it. I don't really know, Jake."
I heard the shower click on upstairs as Bradley figured out how it worked.
"Can I meet him?" Jake asked.
"I guess he'll be coming down for some breakfast soon, so feel free to say 'Hi'."
Jake grinned.
"Why is that so amusing?" I asked.
"It's not amusing," he smiled. "It's just… well… kind of cool, I guess. Meeting my dad's male lover. The three of us hanging out together."
I smiled back. "He'll be having a slice of toast, Jake. Maybe a glass of orange juice. That hardly constitutes 'hanging out together'."
He shrugged. "Maybe in time… you know… the three of us…"
I suddenly wondered how far Jake's thoughts had strayed when he'd been watching Bradley and me on the bed. Had he been imagining himself in my place? Imagining himself on the bed with us both?
I took the kettle over to the sink to refill it.
Of course he hadn't been – what was I thinking? He was just intrigued that I was now bringing men home to stay over; wondering how it would work with the three of us around each other in the house. That's what he was thinking of. It was just his innocent curiosity.
Of course it was.
When Bradley did eventually come down, he was eager to get going and didn't want to eat. He seemed quite anxious that Jake had seen the two of us having sex and made it clear that he wanted to be gone.
Jake poked his head out of the living room door and offered the "Hi" that I'd suggested, but Bradley just grunted distractedly back while he was pulling on his coat.
I felt sorry for him: he was clearly totally freaked out by having my son as an unwanted witness to what he was doing behind his girlfriend's back.
In the car on the way to reunite Bradley with his bike, I told him that Jake was trustworthy and about him saying it was "kind of cool" to have a dad who brought other men home with him. I left out what Jake had said about finding the sight, or rather the smell, of us attractive and about his rather odd admission that he'd like the three of us to "hang out together".
But Bradley didn't seem impressed. "I've never had anyone's kid walk in on us before."
"Jake's hardly a kid," I said. "He'll be going to university next year."
"Even so," he replied, unconvinced. "Lads his age have big mouths. And other lads his age know how to exploit guys who have secrets."
I could see where he was coming from – and it was a very prudent concern to have – but I was sure that Jake would keep what he'd seen to himself, especially if I reaffirmed with him the importance of such discretion to both me and Bradley.
After we'd driven a good half mile in silence, I told Bradley I'd like to meet him again, if he still wanted to, and hinted that a joint venture between the pair of us and his brother would be very welcome.
He shook his head. "I dunno, Rob. I'm still really wound up about what just happened. I can't believe your son would just walk into your bedroom like that."
I didn't like the suggestion that I was too lenient with Jake and decided that, since he wanted to play the blame game, I would pitch the ball firmly back towards his side of the court.
"He said he called out and knocked but we didn't hear him. As I remember it, it was you who turned the radio up pretty loud."
Bradley muttered that I should have made him turn it off if I'd had such a problem with it, and then sat and stewed, staring out of the passenger window.
As I dropped him off, I tried again to reassure him. "I'll have a talk with Jake," I said. "Spell out to him how important it is that he keeps quiet about what he saw. It's not like he knows you… there's not that much he could tell anyone about you."
Bradley nodded. "It's just the shock of it, Rob. Give me a bit of time… I'll snap out of it."
He made an effort to smile at me and I smiled encouragingly back.
He got out of the car and leaned in. "We'll do it again… yeah… of course we will. I'm just freaked out. It'll pass."
I wasn't sure whether it was normal practice to kiss a male lover goodbye but, before I embarrassed myself by clumsily lunging at him, he seemed to read my thoughts.
"No kissing in public, mate," he said quietly. "We don't want to be seen being naughty twice in one day!"
"Okay," I smiled. "Well, at least you know the sentiment is there. Until next time, Bradley."
He nodded. "Yeah… see you soon, mate."
He walked over to his bike and threw me a wave as I pulled off.
I liked the fact he'd said he'd see me "soon" and hoped he didn't mean at work. I hoped also that, for him, "soon" meant days rather than weeks.
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From: Rick Desjarlais
Securities and Exchange Commission
Dear Securities and Exchange Commission,
My name is Rick Desjarlais and I agree with the nice letter below. Corperations and the greed of CEO's all need to be curtailed. Did we not learn from Enron, Global Crossing, MCI, and the list goes on and on. SEC you are the ones that can draw the line in the sand. The American people will not tolerate much more. American workers build this great country and the greedy CEOs have no loyalty and will bring these United States to her knees and not show a bit remorse. CEO lie, cheat,and rob from every American. They are the true terrorist on American soil. Be aware this nicely written letter below is the tip of the American anger, please heed this nice letter. I fear Corperate America and the big CEO's time may be limited. If 300 million people push back in the market place there will be hell to pay.
The newly proposed rules will make this crucial information more accessible to shareholders and the public. The new requirements to disclose total compensation figures, pensions and detailed compensation breakdowns will make it clear exactly how much top executives are earning and why.
I believe that CEO pay should be set by independent directors.
I also urge the SEC to require that companies disclose pay-for-performance data. In order for investors to understand how pay and performance match up, companies need to explain more clearly what level of performance is necessary for a particular level of pay. I urge the SEC to require companies to disclose both the performance criteria and the performance targets they use when setting executive pay.
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Depositions are an important part of any case. Make sure to use this time wisely to frame your strategy for litigation and elicit the most informative testimony you can during the discovery period.
1) Do your research.
This may sound simple, but it is true. A review of not only the facts of the case, but also the person you are deposing, will be of endless use to you. If you have an idea of the deponent's background before you begin, you can create a strategy that will get you the best response. For example, your demeanor, body language, and word choice should be different when you are deposing a financially well-off, 80-year-old homeowner versus a 20-year-old college student who still lives at home.
2) Remember to ask the obvious questions.
We all know that you need to lay a foundation for everything you do during trial. This is also important during a deposition. Also, the foundational testimony you establish during a deposition may come in handy during motion practice, as well as during cross-examination.
3) Create an outline, but don't stick to a script.
Unless you have a photographic memory – a la Dr. Sheldon Cooper or the late Dr. Lexie Grey – you will be well-served by writing out your most significant questions ahead of time. But it is imperative that you also listen to your deponent's testimony and, as with any line of questioning, that you follow the deponent's lead.
We've been told for years to never ask a question we don't know the answer to. In depositions, there will be times the deponent responds differently than expected. If you are completely focused on the paper in front of you, you will read the transcript later and realize there was an informational gold mine you failed to extract.
4) Take a deep breath.
This is not speed dating. You likely scheduled several hours for this deposition, even if you anticipated it would be completed in less time. There is no reason to rush to the finish line. After it appears that the deponent is done answering your questions, pause for a second or two to collect your thoughts and give yourself time to realize any potential follow-up questions. Not to mention, filling space with silence is a lot better than filling it with "um" every other line in your transcript.
5) Use objections wisely.
Though objections in depositions serve an important purpose, it is likely that the testimony elicited will still be admitted at trial. The form of your objection is important here. A review of Washington's Civil Rule 30 gives insight into the conduct of attorneys during depositions:
All objections made at the time of the examination to the qualifications of the officer taking the deposition, or to the manner of taking it, or to the evidence presented, or to the conduct of any party, and any other objection to the proceedings, shall be noted by the officer upon the deposition. Evidence objected to shall be taken subject to the objections. A judge of the superior court, or a special master if one is appointed pursuant to rule 53.3, may make telephone rulings on objections made during depositions. (Emphasis added, CR 30(c).)
Only objections which are not reserved for time of trial by these rules or which are based on privileges or raised to questions seeking information beyond the scope of discovery may be made during the course of the deposition. All objections shall be concise and must not suggest or coach answers from the deponent. Argumentative interruptions by counsel shall not be permitted. (Emphasis added, CR 30(h)(2).)
As with anything you do in life, depositions will become easier and more intuitive with time. You will come into a system that works best for you.


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Amos advises companies of all sizes, from small start-ups to venture-backed growth stage companies, to public companies in the Fortune 500.
His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, and other strategic exit opportunities. He also assists clients with venture capital financing and strategic growth, as well as corporate structure and governance. Clients look to Amos to provide level-headed, business-oriented advice, from a lawyer who enjoys what he does every day.
Mergers and Acquisitions: Amos provides insight, structural advice, and negotiation strategies to businesses seeking to undergo major transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, asset purchases and dispositions, and joint ventures.
Venture Financing and Emerging Growth Counsel: Amos assists companies with seed and early stage capital raising, and also serves as primary outside counsel to growing startups and venture-backed companies.
Tender Offers: Amos counsels strategic purchasers in connection with tender offers for securities, including non-traded REIT securities.
Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Amos was a corporate attorney at an international law firm in New York City.
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text: Package: general Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system, causes serious data loss I file this against general, because I have no idea which package is to blame (kernel-image,glibc,util-linux?), so feel free to reassign this according to your expertise. On one of my Debian boxes, the system clock goes chaoticly. Logging in locally, the system clock goes too fast, by up to 150 sec in an hour. After a while it stops or it goes around on a loop of 3-4 secs. This causes, e.g., X to freeze. Then sometimes I can switch to VT and kill services and processes. Sometimes after a while the VT access also freezes and the system breaks down (though sometimes I could still login through ssh). There are strange (and disturbing) symptoms of this clock behavour, assumeable because many things need the clock, e.g. shutdown, sleep, etc. does not work, and pc beeper beeps continuously. All these start happening only when I am logged in locally (I think). Can the reason be some hardware problem ? But the same PC did not show problems earlier under Red Hat or Windows XP. I have never seen similar thing on other Debian boxes I use. I know that reproducing this bug can be difficult. I can give more information like log files, dmesg, hardware, etc., if one tells me which are relevant. Some information: $ uname -a Linux ibm19 2.4.26-1-686 #3 Sun Apr 18 21:17:21 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux ii kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 2.4.26-1 Linux kernel image for version 2.4.26 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV. ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data ii ntpdate 4.2.0a-8 The ntpdate client for setting system time from NTP servers ii base-config 2.20 Debian base system configurator ii util-linux 2.12-3 Miscellaneous system utilities ii coreutils 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities ii modutils 2.4.26-1 Linux module utilities ii debianutils 2.8.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t Andras Antos -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C


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Best weight lifting and gym apps for iPhone: Fitocracy, Strong, GymBook, and more!
Are you looking for the best iPhone apps to help you track weights and monitor your activity at the gym? Whether you're training for a specific activity, trying to drop weight, or just tone up, there are lots of gym apps that can help you track your progress and add some variety to your workouts. No matter what your goals are, the App Store has something for everyone, and we think these are the very best:
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Fitocracy turns tracking your workouts into a competition with others. You can track things either as you do them at the gym or once you're done. Along with adding exercises you already know, Fitocracy is a great way to learn new ones. There are lots of premade workouts as well that can add a lot of variety into your workout. You can also build and save your own.
If you need some motivation to give your workout your all and need some help mixing it up, Fitocracy is a great choice.
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Strong is a workout tracking app that lets you quickly and easily enter information about your workout. Like Fitocracy, you'll unlock and collect achievements when you reach certain fitness milestones. Add routines and then easily add them to new workouts whenever you need to. One of my favorite features of Strong is the warmup calculator that helps you pick what weights you should use to get warmed up before each workout.
If you want a simple way to track your workouts and watch your progress, give Strong a try.
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30 Day Fitness Challenges lets you choose a fitness challenge to commit to. You can then set up reminders and perform it and track your progress each day. When you start a challenge, 30 Day Fitness Challenge walks you through each part of the workout and doesn't move on until you've said you are done. Currently you can choose challenges that work arms, core, legs, and overall general strength.
If you want to mix up your gym workouts and need something new, get 30 Day Fitness Challenges.
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GymBook is another workout tracker but focuses more on strength training than anything else. You can easily create new routines and workouts, browse and see beautifully animated GIFs of each type of exercise, and more. If you're using weight resistance on any exercise, simply enter the amount in pounds or kilos and the amount of reps. One of my favorite features of GymBook is that you can see data next to a specific exercise containing the last few times you performed it and how many reps and for how long. This keeps you aware of your progress in just a single glance.
If strength training is your main goal and you want a flexible and powerful way to track things, you want GymBook.
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JEFIT Pro
JEFIT Pro may not have as nice of a design as some of the other apps in this list but it more than makes up for it with its huge catalog of exercises. JEFIT Pro is crammed with lots of useful stats and information from 1RM and total volume charts to cardio tracking. JEFIT Pro gives you a great overall picture of the state of your body and what you should be focusing on to improve it.
For the largest database of exercises and the best overall picture of your body, give JEFIT Pro a try.
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Renee Nolte-Hodnett is the Art Curator for Michael Hodnett Art Gallery. She loves art, and to travel to art museums and galleries across North America and will bring amazing art and services and ideas to this wonderful new gallery and the art community.
She is Michael Hodnett's biggest art fan and has been the catalyst for awakening his first love, art, to this new journey they two get to experience together. They have traveled specifically to choice destinations so Michael could create beautiful masterpieces for his collection.
Renee is excited to share her love of art and support her husband in their new wonderful Art Gallery.
Renee has been a business woman for over 20 years. She is also an author and owns Renee Nolte World Publishing, has 3 published children's books, Great Purple Grapes, Baseball Dream and Super Love. She writes and shares wonderful stories that are entertaining, enjoyable, educational, full of passion for love of children, nature's beauty and enthusiastically and naturally creates her work.
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Eligible residents who currently receive curbside County trash AND recycling collection services will receive a composting starter kit with a 2-gallon kitchen pail, an exterior 32-gallon wheeled green cart, and educational materials.
Acceptable items include:
Unacceptable items include:
For a complete list of acceptable and unacceptable materials, visit mypgc.us/compost.
Collect food scraps in the pail; empty the kitchen pail into the green cart for collection by 6 a.m. on Monday.
Do NOT place your pail at the curb. For detailed instructions, see the How to Compost Guide at mypgc.us/compost.
All materials are transported to the Prince George's County Organics Composting Facility for processing. Materials are placed in a bunker composting system where they decompose and are transformed into a nutrient-rich soil amendment marketed and sold in bulk as Leafgro GOLD®.
The County's program accepts additional types of food waste unsuitable for backyard composting. However, residents who currently compost at home are encouraged to continue.
To report a missed Prince George's County-provided compost collection, contact PGC311 (out of County: 301-883-4748). If your collection is completed by a municipality or directly between you and a hauling company, or arranged by your homeowners' association or municipality, contact them directly.


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There are many small company loan sources than in the past, many many thanks in large component towards the online.
Historically, banks have now been reluctant in order to make loans to smaller businesses, especially to upstarts.
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They are mortgages utilized to shop for estate that is real business operations.
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If your company is maybe perhaps not well-established, rather than specially big, the financial institution will often need some sort of personal guarantee away from you.
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On the web loan providers
Additionally there are web-based sources that concentrate on small company financing, especially term loans, credit lines, equipment funding, and vendor payday loans.
Internet business loan marketplaces
You'll be able to try to find funding via a business loan marketplace that is online.
They are sites where you could apply with a few or lots of loan providers by finishing an application that is single.
Any loan providers thinking about your credit profile or company kind will make loan offers then. It's a way that is good go shopping also to have the lenders come your way.
Types of internet business loan marketplaces consist of:
With both online lenders and online small company loan marketplaces, you'll need to look closely in the charges and interest levels charged.
They can be high for brand new organizations, and candidates with dismal credit. Prices over 100% aren't uncommon.
Exactly what are SBA Loans?
SBA loans, or small company management loans, are loans fully guaranteed by the small company management, that is a company associated with the US government.
The loans are formulated by private loan providers, like banks, but assured by the SBA.
That makes loan providers more prepared to make loans to businesses that are small.
Eligible organizations and purposes
SBA loans are usually readily available for company startups, and that can offer funding for current companies, including capital that is working purchase of stock, gear purchase, or leasehold improvements.
Interest levels
In case your company qualifies, SBA loans carry a number of the interest rates that are lowest available on business loans. Rates of interest depend on the rate that is prime plus a margin.
The margin is 2.75% with loan terms greater than seven years. On short-term loans, it is 2.25%.
Invest the a loan that is five-year as well as the prime price has reached 5.50%, your rate of interest should be 7.75%.
The program procedure for SBA loan is lengthy and fairly complicated. Nonetheless it could be the best option if you're trying to get the lowest price loan, or any sort of financing after all.


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JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli military said it uncovered a new tunnel Thursday stretching from southern Gaza Strip into Israel and built by Palestinian militants seeking to stage attacks in Israel, a discovery that comes amid an escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers.
#Hamas attack tunnel discovered in #Israel. Palestinians building their no-future. https://t.co/eUzDjECOBT pic.twitter.com/ghoc51Uabr— Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) May 5, 2016
Israel reveals new Hamas tunnel & arrest of Gazan tunnel-builder. Explains Hamas' fire & fiery talk in recent days. pic.twitter.com/E0c7bZrb0o— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) May 5, 2016
#Breaking Cross border terror tunnel from #Gaza to Israel tunnel discovered by #IDF this morning. pic.twitter.com/nVjgl2ITeK— Peter Lerner (@LTCPeterLerner) May 5, 2016
Gaza's health ministry reported a woman was killed in Israeli shelling that came in response to mortar fire by militants on Israel Thursday night. The fighting in recent days has been among some of the most serious violence between Gaza and Israel since a 50-day summer war in 2014.
Earlier, the military announced that a joint operation last month with the Shin Bet security service led to the arrest of a "Hamas terror operative involved in the terror organizations tunnel network."
It said the man was nabbed after crossing the border to carry out an attack and later provided detailed information about the elaborate Hamas tunnel network, the military said.
Gaza militants fired several volleys of mortars at Israel on several occasions Thursday, prompting Israeli retaliatory fire and airstrikes on militant targets repeatedly used by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups.
Mousa Abu Marzouk, an official with the Islamic militant Hamas group that rules Gaza, said Egypt and Qatar have intervened to try to restore calm.
Last month, Israel discovered and destroyed another tunnel dug from Gaza into Israel. The two tunnels are the first to be found since the 2014 Gaza war, sparking concerns in Israel that Hamas is rebuilding its underground tunnel network in preparation for another conflagration. Toward the end of the 2014 war, Israel destroyed more than 30 tunnels that Hamas had dug under the border. Hamas militants had used the tunnels to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks.
Raw Footage: IDF uncovers #Hamas #tunnel 90+ ft. underground. We will continue to defend Israel above & below ground pic.twitter.com/xChuUuP4jF— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) May 5, 2016
The tunnel found Thursday is about 29 meters (95 feet) underground, the army said, and it was not immediately clear whether it is a newly dug tunnel or an older tunnel Israel had hit and which had been repaired. It was discovered by soldiers on the Gaza side of the border fence in a 100-meter zone that Israeli forces still operate in and patrol.
Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an army spokesman, said Hamas militants may have fired toward soldiers because they realized Israel was closing in on its tunnel.
"Hamas is continuing to try to carry out and build this infrastructure into Israel and it's something we are not prepared to tolerate," Lerner said.
After Israel announced the discovery of the tunnel, more mortar rounds were fired at Israeli troops along the Gaza border fence, the military said.
Israel's military responded with tank fire. About an hour later, Gaza militants fired several more mortars at the area and Israeli tanks again retaliated, the military said. Shortly afterward, Gaza residents reported Israeli jets hit open areas and observation posts used by Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants.
The Hamas operative captured in April after crossing into Israel was identified as Mahmoud Atuna, 29. The military said he detailed "Hamas' construction methods, and how Hamas utilized private homes and public institutions to hide the tunnels."
The military also said he "pin-pointed several digging locations as well as tunnel shafts" for future attacks and disclosed details of the Hamas network within the Gaza Strip for the transportation of terror operatives and weaponry. The network, according to the information the captured operative provided, "includes resting areas, showers, and dining areas for the benefit of the operatives underground," it said.
Atuna also disclosed names and of other militants and information on weapons stored in Gaza homes, the military said.
Earlier in the day, the military said it had hit "terrorist infrastructure sites" belonging to Hamas. The Gaza Health Ministry said three children and a 65-year-old Palestinian suffered light-to-moderate injuries in an airstrike that hit a metal workshop in Gaza City.
The workshop's owner, Hassan Hassanin, said his well-digging truck - which he described as the only one in Gaza that can reach a depth of 37 meters (121 feet) - was hit.
"Why was it bombed," he asked. "I don't pose any threat to Israel's security. Israel itself knows this machine, what it does and what its capabilities are. It doesn't pose any danger to security."
Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since the Islamic militant group seized power in Gaza in 2007. In the 2014 summer war, more than 2,200 Palestinians, about two-thirds of them civilians, were killed. On the Israeli side, 66 soldiers and seven civilians were killed.
Israel and Hamas have largely observed a cease-fire since that war, but other militant groups also operate in Gaza. Israel says it holds Hamas responsible for any attacks out of the territory.
The latest escalation comes amid a months-long wave of violence that has seen near-daily attacks by Palestinians, mostly stabbings, which have killed 28 Israelis and two Americans. Some 193 Palestinians have been killed, most said by Israel to have been attackers and the rest killed in clashes with Israeli forces.


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One of the most beautiful getaways is the Caribbean, tourists have chose these beautiful islands for centuries as a place to get away and forget life for a few weeks. Each of the islands are lined with beautiful beaches and clear blue waters. The only difficult choice on your vacation will be how long you want to stay at the beach, and whether or not you prefer jet skiing over snorkeling. The Caribbean offers 2000 miles worth of land to explore, numerous resorts to vacation at, and a million possibilities for a memorable get away.
Located near the Golf of Mexico travel to the Caribbean is not that far. You can sear multiple places online to find cheap travel to any of the many resorts or cruises available in the Caribbean. Rich with beautiful nature, traditional culture, vibrant people, and wonderful cuisine, there is an adventure for all those who visit these beautiful islands. The multiple reefs and cays are some of the most intricate and sought after in the world. Each island in the Caribbean has its own personality, and travelers can choose accordingly for the kind of experience they'd like to have. You can vacation once, twice, even three times, and have a completely new adventure each time.
All of the activities available in the Caribbean range from quiet sightseeing in Nevis island, to partying nightlife in St. Lucia and Jamaica. Whether you're a laid back sun seeker or an adrenaline junkie chasing wave seeker, Aruba's beaches are perfect for you. Not only will you get away from daily life in these wonderful islands, but you can also enjoy relaxing spa treatments at the Turks and Caicos. Which can be enjoyed inside the signature spa's or directly on the white sandy shores of your favorite beach. For the adventures and risk takers there are so many options available. From gambling your luck in Puerto Rico, golfing in Barbados, sailing in British Virgin islands, or treating your taste buds to exquisite food in St. Martin. The Caribbean guarantees an get away that will not only be unforgettable but make you come back for more.


text: Bitcoin Tom Lee Trim down His Target of $25000 to $15000 By AtoZcrypto Posted on November 17, 2018 3 min read 0 2 1,129 A prominent crypto analyst who once targeted Bitcoin to reach $25000 by end 2018 is lowering his prediction to $15000. Bitcoin's latest bearish run has led investors to see the worse sentiment of the crypto market. Bitcoin To Reach $15000, Lee However, Tom Lee, a co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors is betting on a recovery. When he studied the depth of the market for the period 2013 and 2015, he claimed that the "it never sustained a move below breakdown". He states that; "While bitcoin broke below that psychologically important $6,000, this has lead to a renewed wave of pessimism," said Lee, J. P. Morgan's former chief equity strategist. "But we believe the negative swing in sentiment is much worse than the fundamental implications." As we see the media bulletins often affects the market moves – when headlines point positive flow of the market, the price of crypto appreciates and the negative bulletins certainly depreciate its total volume. Consequently, Lee notes that the "contentious argument over bitcoin cash" has led the price of market diminishes eventually. Notably, "Crytpo-specific event like the hard fork of bitcoin cash where virtual currency would split into "Bitcoin ABC or Core Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV or Satoshi's Vision". However, one must think that Bitcoin Cash itself is a fork of Bitcoin, forked on August 01, 12017. Lee estimates; Fair value for Bitcoin would be roughly 2.2 times the new $7,000 breakeven price." At press time, Bitcoin is valued $5,540.97 with market cap of $96,303,375,926. Moreover, for the first time ever, Ethereum is down than XRP and whereas the market cap of Ripple surges beyond Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. Stellar glued on fifth position by crossing EOS with market cap $4,626,642,570 and $4,123,959,893 respectively. To point, Bitcoin is still on the top position which is certainly the most pulling point people kept trading and investment with. Source: https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/5269/tom-lee-trim-down-his-target-of-25000-to-15000.html


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WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y., April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Associated Aircraft Group (AAG®), the East Coast's largest and most experienced executive Sikorsky S-76® helicopter services provider, announced today a limited time special charter pricing program for companies' Flight Departments and business aircraft owners wishing to use outlying airports to avoid the Metro New York region during the current delays induced by staffing shortages.
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"With the recent extensive delays that aircraft operators are facing in the New York region, we wanted to provide a solution for our clients," said AAG President Scott Ashton. "By utilizing a helicopter, AAG clients can easily fly into airports that are less affected by these delays, and passengers can be quickly transported into Manhattan on one of our Sikorsky S76® Executive Helicopters."
Eligible airports for the discounted program include Waterbury Oxford, Dutchess County, and Stewart airports.
Associated Aircraft Group is a subsidiary of Sikorsky Aircraft and has more than 20 years of experience providing helicopter charter flights, fractional ownership programs, helicopter management, and helicopter maintenance services from its Teterboro, New York, Providence, and Philadelphia locations. With the Northeast's largest fleet of S-76C™ aircraft, AAG is the only exclusive VIP helicopter company to own and operate its own FAA Part 145 maintenance facility and is a Sikorsky Certified Repair Center. The company's principal flight operations and repair services are housed in two hangars at the Dutchess County Airport, a short flight from its Manhattan heliports.
AAG is well recognized for its long history of owning and operating S-76C helicopters in the Northeast. AAG is "Platinum" rated by ARG/US International, is Wyvern Recommended and IS-BAO Stage I certified. It is approved to conduct operations to Reagan National (DCA) under the DASSP, and has recently achieved 40,000 safe flying hours in the S-76C helicopter. AAG provides VIP helicopter transportation in the Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Hartford, and Boston markets.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., is a world leader in helicopter design, manufacture, and service. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), which is based in Hartford, Conn., and provides a broad range of high technology products and support services to the aerospace and building systems industries.
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(ChemotherapyAdvisor) – Lower-income patients of any age are less likely to participate in clinical trials, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology published online January 7, 2013.
"Heightened awareness of socioeconomic (SES) disparities in access to medical, economic, or other resources is an important and current public policy issue and provided the motivation to investigate potential SES barriers to clinical trial participation," noted Joseph M. Unger, MS, PhC, of the SWOG Statistical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, and colleagues.
From 2007 to 2011, the investigators surveyed 5,499 patients who had made a treatment decision in the prior 3 months using an Internet-based treatment decision tool designed to assess clinical trial participation patterns according to important SES (income, education) and demographic factors. "Attitudes toward clinical trials were assessed using prespecified items about treatment, treatment tolerability, convenience, and cost," they noted.
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The survey cohort comprised 2,894 breast (53%), 1,546 prostate (28%), 651 lung (12%), and 408 colorectal cancers (7%); 22% were 65 years of age or older, 2.5% were African American, and 62% were women. Income was reported by 83% of patients and 32% made more than $50,000 annually. Education level was obtained for all patients, of whom 34% reported obtaining at least a 2-year college degree.
Among these patients, "40% discussed clinical trials with their physician, 45% of discussions led to physician offers of clinical trial participation, and 51% of offers led to clinical trial participation. The overall clinical trial participation rate was 9%," Unger stated.
Using univariate models, those less likely to participate in clinical trials were patients who were older (P=0.002) and with lower income (P=0.001) and lower education (P=0.02).
In a multivariable model, income remained a statistically significant predictor of clinical trial participation (odds ratio, 0.73; P=0.01), with lower income predicting lower trial participation, even in those 65 years of age or older who have universal access to Medicare. "Cost concerns were much more evident among lower-income patients (P<0.001)," they found.
"Improving participation of lower-income patients in clinical trials is important from multiple perspectives," the authors wrote. "Because clinical trials offer the newest cancer treatments, equal access to this important resource for patients of all income groups is essential. Also, improved lower income participation would allow clinical trials to be conducted more quickly and would better ensure the applicability of trial results to all income levels (ie, generalizability). Understanding that income is related to clinical trial participation could help guide policy decisions aimed at increasing access for lower-income patients."


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Thursday, January 29, 2015
ODOT Features Garver in How-To Training Video
In putting together an in-house training video to illustrate good presentation practices, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation featured footage of Garver employees presenting at a public meeting in Mulhall, Oklahoma.
Garver's Transportation Design Team in Tulsa has become a go-to consultant for ODOT because of their collaborative services in preliminary engineering, environmental studies, and public involvement, in addition to traditional design services.
"ODOT has historically provided the bulk of behind-the-scenes tasks when it comes to public involvement services, but they're starting to rely on Garver to supplement them in these tasks," said Garver Project Manager Jenny Sallee, who was featured in the training video.
Public and stakeholder meetings are an integral part of the National Environmental Policy Act process required for federal funding. Garver has conducted meetings for ODOT on eight projects and is already contracted for eight additional projects through 2016.
Posted by Guy Choate at 11:05 AM
Labels: Transportation
Monday, January 26, 2015
HSV Reopens East Runway
Crews recently completed a nine-month, $16.5 million Garver-designed improvement project at Huntsville International Airport. The improvements allow FAA Group VI aircraft to utilize the airport's east runway, a necessity for the airport given that it handles so much cargo traffic. The FAA's Group VI covers large-bodied aircraft, including the Boeing 747-8F, which has a maximum take-off weight of 987,000 pounds. The airport is 14th among U.S. international air cargo airports.
"Huntsville serves a very important role in air cargo," said Garver Project Manager Ryan Reed. "The airport stages weekly international non-stop flights to Europe, Mexico, Hong Kong and San Paulo, Brazil. This upgrade allows Huntsville International to fulfill their mission to its fullest extent."
In July 2013, the airport reopened its west runway after a year-long, $30 million construction project. Now, both the east and west runways can handle Group VI aircraft.
For more information about Garver's recent work, see the article in IQ by clicking here.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Garver Publishes IQ Volume 6 Issue 4
The newest issue of Garver's IQ should be in subscribers' mailboxes soon. In the meantime, you can begin reading our online edition now. This edition features:
Director's Insight
Garver Has Crafted Generation of Transportation Planning and Design
"Transportation planning and design is a craft that has been passed along through the generations of Garver engineers from Neal Garver to Sanford Wilbourn to Bill Driggers to Ted Hannah to our current Transportation Team leaders." — Director of Transportation Jerry Holder
5th Street Improvements
Frisco, Texas
City Builds Complete Street
"We're connecting an historic downtown with a modern part of town, and we're doing it in a way that gives this neighborhood a safe place to drive, walk, and bike," — Senior Project Manager Quinn Spann
Dennis F. Cantrell Field
Conway, Arkansas
City Get Safer Airport
"The first time I flew in here, I saw what every pilot and passenger who comes through will see—Conway has a world-class airport." — Project Manager Blake Roberson
Helena WWTP
Helena, Alabama
Nutrient Challange
"We worked with plant staff and city leaders to help convey what it takes to meet both the current and future permit limits, why it's important to treat for those permit requirements, and why plant improvements are necessary." — Project Manager Wes Cardwell
Fairfax Bridge
Kansas City, Missouri
Design-Build Project
"This is our first chance to work for MoDOT on a major project, and we have two offices in this area because we want to build more than a bridge—we want to build a relationship." — Senior Project Manager Blake Blakemore
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Employees Pass Professional Exams
Garver congratulates six employees who have recently passed their professional exams.
Garrison Smith, PE, is a civil engineer on Garver's Transportation Team. He serves in our Tulsa, Oklahoma office.
Also, Blake Staton recently earned his MLSE designation, which you can read about in a previous blog post here.
Garrison Smith, PE, is a civil engineer on Garver's Transportation Team. He serves in our Tulsa, Oklahoma office.
Also, Blake Staton recently earned his MLSE designation, which you can read about in a previous blog post here.
Posted by Guy Choate at 7:42 AM
Labels: Employee recognition, Transportation, Water
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Staton Earns MLSE Designation
Garver congratulates Project Manager Blake Staton, who serves on Garver's Bridge Team in the Huntsville, Alabama office, for earning the NCEES Model Law designation of Structural Engineer (MLSE). This designation indicates that Blake meets NCEES's Model Law requirements in education, experience, and examination in the field of structural engineering. Obtaining this designation requires a structurally focused graduate education, broad structural engineering work history, and a rigorous 16 hours of NCEES structural examination.
"While the SE designation is not required to practice structural engineering in many states, it does distinguish Garver in the bridge design field," Bridge Team Leader John Ruddell said. "Garver has an accomplished history of complex bridge design expertise, and people like Blake are continuing this proud tradition."
"Obtaining SE licensure has been a goal of mine since I started my engineering career," Blake said. "It serves as another reassurance to our clients that Garver has the qualifications and capabilities to tackle their most complex projects."
To find out more about Garver's bridge design services, contact Blake at firstname.lastname@example.com, or Bridge Team Leader John Ruddell at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Posted by Guy Choate at 10:05 AM
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