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To Buy or not to Buy? Perceptions of Bottled Drinking Water in Australia and New Zealand
Angela T. Ragusa, Andrea Crampton
In the midst of popular and scientific debates about its desirability, safety and environmental sustainability, bottled water is forecast to become the most consumed packaged beverage globally (Feliciano 2014) and fastest growth sector in Australia (Johnson 2007). Manufacturers attribute increasing sales to convenience and health benefits rather than intensive advertising/marketing campaigns. Our sociological investigation of drinking water perceptions generally, and bottled water specifically, using data from 192 face-to-face interviews with Australians and New Zealanders, revealed 77 % thought about the quality of their drinking water; 64 % noted specific adverse issues, and 82 % reported concerns with their tap water. However, although 64 % drink bottled water, just 28 % believe it is better than tap water and 63 % consider it a waste of money. Only 21 % drink it for 'convenience' and consumption patterns vary significantly by gender, with men and younger generations purchasing the most bottled water. Qualitative analysis refutes stereotypes associating bottled water with a status symbol or lifestyle choice; participants largely mistrust water companies; just 13 % describe bottled water as a 'trusted' product, even when consumed for its taste or convenience, and 13 % label it a 'bad' plastic product detrimental to the environment or public health, thus lending support for institutional and policy trends banning bottled water.
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Ragusa, A. T., & Crampton, A. (2016). To Buy or not to Buy? Perceptions of Bottled Drinking Water in Australia and New Zealand. Human Ecology, 44(5), 565-576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-016-9845-6
Ragusa, Angela T. ; Crampton, Andrea. / To Buy or not to Buy? Perceptions of Bottled Drinking Water in Australia and New Zealand. In: Human Ecology. 2016 ; Vol. 44, No. 5. pp. 565-576.
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Search Engine Land » Google » Google: SEO » What to evaluate ahead of Google's Page Experience update
What to evaluate ahead of Google's Page Experience update
The content you're competing against, the AMP option, your organization's resources and business requirements are all part of the decision.
George Nguyen on November 18, 2020 at 2:03 pm
Google unveiled the Page Experience update in May, coupling that announcement with a new set of metrics called Core Web Vitals and laying out its plan to remove the AMP restriction on its Top Stories carousel. Last week, the company revealed that the page experience signals in ranking will go live in May 2021.
With roughly six months remaining before the impact manifests in the search results, marketers may think that there's plenty of time to prepare in the new year. However, there are many considerations to evaluate and conversations to have with stakeholders before the work can even begin. Here's what you need to start thinking about now so that your site is prepared when the update rolls out.
The page experience update's impact on and off the search results page
In the search results. "It's not going to be a major change, but you shouldn't ignore it either," said Pedro Dias, head of SEO at British publisher Reach PLC and former search quality analyst at Google. Many of the page experience criteria, such as mobile-friendliness, HTTPS, the presence of intrusive interstitials, page speed and browsing safety are already Google search ranking factors, meaning that sites should already be optimizing with those aspects in mind.
If you're not familiar with the Core Web Vitals, the performance metrics –Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) First Input Delay (FID) and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) — that Google is incorporating as ranking signals in the Page Experience update, see our Guide to Core Web Vitals for SEOs and Developers.
"Cumulative Layout Shift, First Input Delay, and load performance are important to your site and to your user," said Matt Dorville, SEO manager at BuzzFeed, "but they don't replace core priorities like the user's search intent and the quality of the content." This sentiment was also shared by Dias, who said, "Google likely will never sacrifice quality and relevancy over other technical aspects."
This concern was addressed in Google's initial page experience announcement in May, and Rudy Galfi, a product manager for the company, confirmed to Search Engine Land that great content can still rank highly in Google search, even with a poor page experience.
However, as quality content has become more ubiquitous, a technical advantage may be a deciding factor in the rankings with this update.
In the day-to-day for SEOs. In addition to its potential impact on the search results, the page experience update may also affect the way SEOs approach optimization by providing them with a set of quantitative metrics to strive for.
"When it comes to improving page experience, SEO's have stumbled their way through interpreting Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines while never really understanding their prominence in ranking," said Kim Dewe, head of SEO at UK-based agency Blue Array.
The page experience update may also speak to the evolving nature of SEO as a profession. "It does continue the trend that SEOs are going to have to get more technical (if they aren't already) to be able to talk to engineers as they troubleshoot solutions relating to speed, JavaScript rendering and ways to prioritize what Google is asking for in relation to other priorities that the business has," Dorville said.
Why you need to start planning and evaluating the tradeoffs now
While the update is still half a year away from launching and may take a while to roll out fully, that time cannot be taken for granted. "All these improvements are cumulative, and many take time to deploy and get processed by Google," Dias said, "It's something where you want to be as prepared as possible — much like the Google mobile-first index change, I wouldn't recommend leaving the Core Web Vitals for the last minute."
Some of the factors included in the page experience update, such as page speed, are already core tenets of SEO, and should always be part of the conversation. "Site latency is something that can (and should) be discussed at any time in a site/page's life cycle (earlier in the architecting process is best though!)," Alexis Sanders, SEO director at Merkle, told Search Engine Land, noting, "The challenging part with page speed is that everything requires trade-offs."
"Google's requirements can't be considered as gospel as publishers will have to weigh other business responsibilities as well," Dorville said. "For example, setting dimensions on ads will help your cumulative layout shift metric but many companies refuse to change this because of the need for ad dollars and, because of this, no change will be made. That's something that SEOs will either have to live with or make an argument to offset the revenue that is gained from the ads," he said.
Assessing the AMP alternative
Google has told us that the majority of AMP pages perform very well in terms of page experience metrics. "Any sites that are currently using AMP may have a leg up, since they've already considered latency in their experience," Sanders said, caveating, "I don't think AMP will be mutually exclusive with successful ranking."
Since it's possible to achieve, or exceed, AMP-level page experience metrics, publishers that have well-equipped technology divisions may opt to forego or abandon the framework. "Instead of maintaining what is essentially two sites [the original non-AMP version and the AMP version], one of which may get less money in ads, they'll focus on coupling Google's requirements for page experience with UX metrics, which they should already have on the site to measure retention and loyalty," Dorville predicted.
When the page experience update goes live, Google will also open up the Top Stories carousel to non-AMP pages. This may further incentivize publishers to invest in improving their page experience metrics so that they can be more competitive in the search results, increase their odds of landing content in the Top Stories carousel and deliver a more positive experience to their visitors while potentially bringing in more ad revenue.
"Page experience and Core Web Vitals are meant to exist as a parallel alternative to AMP, and not act as a replacement," said Dias, offering his perspective on the options publishers have at their disposal, "If you have all the resources and want to try to make your site faster and leaner than you'd achieve with AMP, now you have been given the opportunity. Otherwise, if you can't afford taking this challenge, AMP will likely still be your fallback."
Get ready for visual indicators
Google also plans to launch a visual indicator to distinguish search results that have met all of the page experience criteria. The company says it plans to test the page experience indicator soon, and if it is successful, it will also launch in May 2021. Google has a history of using visual indicators, such as the AMP icon, slow and mobile-friendly labels, in the search results.
The prominence of the indicator, which Google has not yet revealed, will be a factor in their decision making, said Sanders, Dorville and Dias. "However, any visual changes to the SERP present potential for shifts in CTR," Sanders noted.
"If Google makes [the indicator] substantially different, where one of them is more appealing than the other, you might have another reason to push towards the option that becomes more desirable," said Dias, adding, "If a label is displayed, and it's a positive reinforcement, users will likely start paying attention to these labels."
Since it is in Google's best interests to deliver search results that match users' expectations, regardless of whether those results meet all their page experience criteria, Dewe expects that the indicator will not have a considerable impact for users. "Visual indicators for a subset of ranking factors shouldn't be required to decipher whether a webpage is worth clicking on or not," she said.
Should this affect your roadmap for 2021? It depends…
The amount of work to bring your page experience up to par will depend on the amount of investment that has already been poured into it. Larger publishers may currently be utilizing AMP to deliver their content or they may have the resources to make regular updates to their user experience. Smaller publishers may have to be more deliberate and plan ahead.
"Honestly, it depends on the impact of the change in terms of ranking and traffic," said Dorville, adding that, while BuzzFeed isn't looking at Google's specific metrics, it does focus on similar metrics for its users. "We're looking at measuring this, watching our competitors and quantifying the impact of it when it comes out, but we don't plan on making any significant change to the site or to the backlog until this comes out," he said.
"Despite Google stating that they 'will provide at least six months notice' before the update is rolled out, I don't think it's ever too early to start preparing," Dewe said, adding that page experience metrics have been integrated into her agency's ongoing client auditing process. Dias also says has also been steering his clients in this direction long before the update was announced.
"If you're competing in a vertical where most players already have great content but the [user] experience is not that great, improving experience might give you an edge," Dias said, "Just don't expect [to see] great improvements just by hitting all the Core Web Vitals with poor content."
George Nguyen
George Nguyen is an editor for Search Engine Land, covering organic search, podcasting and e-commerce. His background is in journalism and content marketing. Prior to entering the industry, he worked as a radio personality, writer, podcast host and public school teacher.


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Burton Agnes Hall festival is all jazzed up
Pat McCarthy Quartet with Shannon Reilly
The Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, has announced that more artists have been added to their line-up.
These include some of Yorkshire's finest musicians who perform as New York Brass Band, the incredibly talented Pat McCarthy Quartet featuring Shannon Reilly, festival favourites the Alligators, the fresh and exciting Jamie Brownfield Quartet.
They will join headliners already announced: internationally renowned vocalist Claire Martin with legendary saxophonist and singer Ray Gelato, along with Northern Ireland's multi-award winning Kaz Hawkins.
With Thom Whitworth on trumpet and guitar, Warren Jolly on bass and Shannon Reilly singing, the Pat McCarthy Quartet presents a warm and melodic repertoire of standards and original songs in a modern vein.
These talented and engaging musicians perform the very best of jazz and swing, from 1930s classics to the new generation of modern jazz hits.
Pat has played with Jamie Cullum, Snake Davis, George Melly and Dennis Rollins amongst others; Shannon is a vocalist of exceptional quality whose spellbinding performances have captivated audiences.
In constant demand as a session player, Warren has played with some of the best known names in jazz and pop and toured with Blur, Simon Webb and the Drifters. Creative and fluent on two very different instruments: the trumpet and guitar,
Thom has won various accolades and is a rising star on the jazz club and festival circuit.
Seamlessly interwoven with effortless musicianship and a few anecdotes, this is a perfect way to relax and enjoy an evening of the sweetest sounds.
Hailing from the ancient streets of York, New York Brass Band are North Yorkshire's only contemporary New Orleans inspired brass band and have played all over the UK and Europe since 2011.
A powerful team of some of Yorkshire's finest musicians, NYBB forms an arsenal of percussion, sax, trumpets, trombones and sousaphone with a varied repertoire of styles from jazz to pop, reggae to funk and New Orleans to ska.
This is a band that blurs the line between band and audience by inviting the crowd to become part of the show and ending the performance in the audience.
The festival runs from June 30 to July 2.
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Here's how much Trump's four-month spectacle impeachment is costing taxpayers
Here's how much Trump's four-month spectacle impeachment is costing taxpayers
February 1, 2020 | Frieda Powers | Print Article
Democrats may be lamenting the way the impeachment of President Donald Trump has turned out, but Americans should be the ones who are crying foul after the four-month spectacle.
The partisan attempt by Democrats to remove the president from office, an effort essentially begun as soon as he was sworn in three years ago, has culminated in what is all but a failed impeachment process set to end next week with an expected acquittal. And it was all orchestrated on the taxpayer's dime.
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The Heritage Foundation estimated in December that the cost for the impeachment inquiry and the charges brought against the president on December 18 of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress cost Americans $3.06 million, Fox Business reported.
This price tag included the hourly fees paid to the six attorneys who appeared during impeachment hearings as well as the salaries of 106 congressional staffers. These members of the House Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Oversight and Reform Committee spent from Sept. 24 to Dec. 13 focused on the impeachment.
This whole impeachment sham has been a taxpayer-funded campaign stunt for the Democrats.
They took Americans' hard-earned dollars and funneled them into years worth of baseless investigations meant to discredit and disparage the President.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) January 26, 2020
While it is an eyebrow-raising figure, and does not include the cost of the trial held in the Senate, it is significantly lower than the price of the impeachment investigation and trial of former President Bill Clinton which cost taxpayers $80 million in 1994, according to CNN.
A legal fund set up by Clinton never covered the millions racked up by his impeachment by the time he left office. In contrast, the cost for at least two of the president's private attorneys will be paid for by the Republican National Committee.
The RNC is expected to pay Trump's lead lawyer, Jay Sekulow, and attorney Jane Raskin through to the end of the trial this month and has already reportedly covered $225,000 for services through November.
According to Fox Business:
Because Trump is on trial as a result of his holding office, he's allowed to use his campaign or party coffers to pay his bills. His legal team also includes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz (who has said he won't accept payment for his work), former independent counsel Ken Starr, who led the Clinton investigation; and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The success of fundraising by the RNC and Trump's campaign committees last year left $194.8 million in the bank after bringing in a combined total of combined $463.6 million, according to Fox Business.
Donors "are tuning out the Democrats' politically motivated impeachment charade and turning out for the president and his record of results," RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel told Fox News.
The final Senate vote of 51-49 on Friday shot down a weeks-long Democratic effort to hear witnesses and set the stage for a final vote to acquit the president next week.
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Oak Ridge volleyball manager Jessica Taylor has overcome cancer and has started her freshman year of high school as an important member of the Lady War Eagles family.
OAK RIDGE NORTH — Jessica Taylor describes her role as a manager for the Oak Ridge volleyball team as "a dream come true." She developed a passion for the sport at a young age, and being part of the Lady War Eagles program has been an ambition of hers since she started playing in fifth grade.
She loves sitting on the bench with the players, traveling with them for road matches and interacting with them on a daily basis. She truly is a member of the team, and that means the world to her.
There was a time, however, when volleyball had to be put on the back burner. Six months after Taylor started playing with a local club team, she began to have frequent shin pains. One day she would be just fine, and then later in the week, she would be in so much agony that she could not bare to practice.
But it wasn't just her imagination.
It's not unusual for a 10-year-old girl to experience some growing pains. The original thought was that Taylor was experiencing shin splints. That was until the symptoms began to indicate a more serious issue. The pain eventually got so bad that she could not walk at all, and her legs swelled up twice in size. That triggered a visit to the pediatrician.
Taylor and her parents received instructions to visit Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, where she could be further evaluated. The diagnosis was that she was suffering from a bone infection, and surgery was performed.
Two months following the operation, Taylor and her family took a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Three days into the vacation, she began to experience excruciating pain again, but she was ultimately able to manage her condition with the soothing waters of the hot tub at the hotel where they were staying.
One week after returning home, Taylor was set for her first day of sixth grade when the pain resurfaced once more. Instead of going to school, she was headed back to see the doctor. That visit led to another surgery, and further tests of the tissue inside her leg revealed Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that most often infiltrates the long bones in the pelvis, legs or arms.
"It's like an out-of-body experience when you hear that someone close to you — especially your child — has a cancer diagnosis," said Chris Taylor, Jessica's father. "So you want more information, but having more information doesn't necessarily change all the things you have to start doing and how things are going to change and evolve for you.
As the parents of a childhood cancer patient, Chris and his wife, Kelley Taylor, were tasked with making difficult decisions. They also had to be strong for their daughter and reassure her, despite not always knowing what the outcome would be.
Taylor went through chemotherapy for a year at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, receiving 32 rounds of the treatment as part of a clinical trial, compared the normal 24 most people would have.
During one extended hospital stay, Taylor and a friend who was battling ovarian cancer decided to leave positive notes on the doors of each patient in the chemotherapy unit. It was just one testament to the kind of attitude she carried with her throughout the treatments and that she still carries with her to this day.
Once all of her levels were good and she made the departure from chemotherapy, Taylor went through a procedure called rotationplasty, a common occurrence among patients dealing with bone cancer.
"It's where they take your knee and part of your tibia and thigh area off — they have to do all kinds of measurements and stuff — and they turn it around backwards and they reattach it," explained Taylor, who was officially cleared of cancer in mid-September of 2016. "So basically all they're cutting is muscle and bone and none of your nerves, so it's a lot better for you.
Two years after her remission, Taylor is still cancer free and is enjoying life as a normal teenage girl. She still has ambitions of playing volleyball competitively in some capacity, but she also has other goals that she wants to achieve.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and Taylor is attempting to organize some kind of show of school support for an issue that is very near to her heart. During her journey to recovery and beyond, she has lost several friends to cancer, including a 13-year-old boy named Damon Billeck, who died on April 3 of this year from Osteosarcoma, another rare form of bone cancer.


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Gabi Viteri, Cilka Sadar and Rana Okada putting down some sweet moves at Northstar. These girls can seriously snowboard!


With rising populations in the pet communities, it is nearly impossible that these animals will all have good homes. When a pet becomes lost, or homeless and abandoned, animal shelters and animal sanctuaries both look to different ways of solving this issue.
Animal shelters are facilities that take in stray pets. Their goal in doing this is to keep pets off the street. Homeless pets are looked at as a public health concern. For this reason, an animal shelter will take in these pets and attempt to find them a good home. Animals that are taken in will be given a temperament test to determine which ones would be good for adoption. The ones who are deemed not good candidates for adoptions are put to sleep. The ones who are deemed good for adoption will attempt to find a new home. They are given a certain amount of time to find a new home. Once this time limit is exceeded, the animal will be put to sleep. With rising numbers of animals in need of homes, and shelter populations continuously rising, some of these animals will only be given mere days to find a new home.
Animal sanctuaries are similar to an animal shelter in the sense that they will take these stray animals off of the street. However, an animal sanctuary will not attempt to find these pets new homes. Adoptions do still occur; they are just not the primary goal. Instead, they will be taken to a facility to be cared for and protected while living out their lives in full, until dying of natural causes. Animal sanctuaries are non-profit organizations that put the lives and well being of these animal inhabitants above all else. With the animals well being and lives being the primary concern, animal sanctuaries hope to raise awareness to the general public and change the way people treat these animals.
Many people debate about whether an animal shelter is humane. Animal sanctuaries provide an alternative to this unrelenting issue. Animal populations are rising for whatever causes, many will find themselves without good home. The major difference is the regard to which these animals are treated. Shelters will find homes for those whom they can, but to do so they also have to make room for new additions. Animal sanctuaries will simply give all these animals the life and care that they are entitled to.


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I love to read Rabbi Daniel Lapin's book Thou Shalt Prosper because I love his take on the Judeo Christian worldview and its alignment with Biblical economic principles. Here he talks about Service Master Corporation (pg.81).
"ServiceMaster Corporation in Illinois was founded by an evangelical Baptist, Marion E. Wade, in 1947. Its primary mission was always "to honor God in all we do." Wade asserted that running a profitable business was not inconsistent with serving the Lord. He spelled out his notion of using the Bible as a guide to business in a book that for decades was given to every new manager. Yet in spite of and many would say because of its linking of God and profits, ServiceMaster quickly grew into a $6 billion Fortune 500 company that did well by doing good on everything from Merry Maids house cleaning to Terminix pest control and TruGreen lawn care. Early in 2000, ServiceMaster opened its web site on which customers could select, purchase, and schedule any of ServiceMaster's services directly.
"During 2001, ServiceMaster brought in its first chief executive officer (CEO) from outside the evangelical fold. Nonetheless, new CEO Jonathan Ward was rightfully reluctant to modify the corporate culture that had worked so well for so long in this service-oriented company with its fleet of 23,000 vehicles. For instance, he retained the custom of calling corporate meetings to order by quoting from the biblical book of Isaiah. That may seem irrelevant to modern business, but this company schedules thousands of visits to customers' homes. If ever a company needed to radiate a message of true commitment to service, this is that company. Even the company's motto is "We Serve"; and this, coupled with its unabashed embrace of Christianity with its own tradition of service, has certainly played a role in its success. ServiceMaster's very name proclaims its eagerness to serve.
Rabbi Lapin says it all. When we help to serve and lift others, then we ourselves are lifted…and the economic side of that is OK and Biblical as well. Governments would like to think they create jobs, but tell that to the over 23,000 employees of Service Master who are experiencing prosperity and raising their standards of living. As Steve Forbes is fond of quoting from Proverbs 4:7, "With all thy getting, get understanding".


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Q: Change class for date in datepicker directive that is always visible I am new to angularJs and jQuery and have this problem I am trying to solve. I created a datepicker directive that is always visible. I have a list of changing dates, that I want to use to update the class of dates in my calendar - different color. Whenever my list changes update the corresponding dates. I assume beforeShowDay is only ran once. How can I update my calendar that is always open?
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Frode Rasmussen Kirkebjerg  (født 10. maj 1888 i Malt, død 12. januar 1975 i Ordrup) var en dansk kaptajn og rytter i Feltartilleriet, som deltog i military ved OL 1912 i Stockholm med hesten Dippe-Libbe og med Meteor i 1924 i Paris.

Kirkebjerg gennemførte udholdenhedsprøven ved OL 1912, men stillede ikke op i springningen. Han vandt en olympisk sølvmedalje i under OL 1924 i Paris.

Han var medlem af bestyrelsen for Dansk Ride Forbund 1921-40 og Danmarks Olympiske Komité 1922-36.

Militær karriere

Efter sin studentereksamen fra Herlufsholm i 1906 fik Kirkebjerg en militær karriere. Han blev udnævnt til premierløjtnant 1909, var på Rideskolen 1911-13, fortsatte på Officerskolen  1918-20, hvor han blev udnævnt til kaptajn. Herefter fortsatte han sin uddannelse i det franske feltartilleri 1921-22. I 1932 blev han udnævnt til oberstløjtnant og chef for 9. artilleriafdeling i Aarhus, i 1940 for 6. artilleriafdeling, indtil sin pension i 1948.

I 1940 blev Kirkebjerg udnævnt til landssekretær i Dansk Luftværnsforening og fortsatte over Civilforsvars-Forbundet (1949) frem til 1956.

Hæder
  Sankt Olavs Orden, Ridder af 1. klasse
  Rigsluftværnets Fortjensttegn i Guld
  Civilforsvarets-Forbundets Hæderstegn
 Svenska Ridsportens Centralforbunds udmærkelsesplakette (1928)
 Danmarks Idrætsforbunds ærestegn (1935)
 Dansk Ride Forbunds hæderstegn (1958)

Familie
Faderen var sløjdskoleforstander Jørgen R Kirkebjerg (død 1929), moderen Karoline (f. Klock, død 1949). Han blev gift første gang den 18. februar 1920 med Eleanor Bruun (datter af grosserer Lars Emil Bruun). Ægteskabet blev opløst i 1926. Andet ægteskab var med Else de Linde den 26. marts 1929. Dette ægteskab blev opløst i 1959.

Frode Kirkebjerg er far til Lars Kirkebjerg, som deltog i military ved OL 1956 i Stockholm, og var her fanebærer.

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50 Shades Darker Chapter 16 recap, or "A Treatise on Spreader Bars and Human Anatomy, with a Focus on Physics"
Stuff has happened. Smart Pop Books featured a quote from my essay, "Every Breath You Take," from 50 Writers on 50 Shades of Grey on their tumblr this weekend, so you can check that out here. Also, I did an interview with a local newspaper, and it's available on MLive.com. You should check that out, too, because someone left a comment on it and immediately took it to politics. I was super impressed at how quickly they were able to link 50 Shades to a government takeover conspiracy.
Onto the recap.
When we last left Ana, she had just been cornered in the office kitchen by Snidely Whiplash's cousin, Riff Raff:
"You've arrived on a rather special night. It's one of the master's affairs…"
In case you're just joining us, I'm talking about Ana's boss, who suddenly has turned into the rapey bad guy from Ever After.
Fear chokes me. What is this? What does he want? From somewhere deep inside and despite my dry mouth, I find the resolve and courage to squeeze out some words, my self-defense class "Keep them talking" mantra circling my brain like an ethereal sentinel.
"Jack, now might not be a good time for this. Your cab is due in ten minutes, and I need to give you all your documents." My voice quiet but hoarse, betraying me.
I keep getting hung up on that description of her voice. When you're hoarse, isn't it normal to be quiet?
He smiles, and it's a despotic fuck-you smile that finally touches his eyes. They glint in the harsh fluorescent glow of the strip light above us in the drab windowless room. He takes a step toward me, glaring, his eyes never leaving mine. His pupils are dilating as I watch – the black eclipsing the blue. Oh no. My fear escalates.
Is this like when Bilbo the Ripper didn't want to give up the One Ring in that Johnny Depp movie?
Or whatever was happening here. I saw rare pot roast, got hungry, and left.
Jack the Raper tells Ana that he had to fight to get her the job, and Ana suggests that they schedule a meeting with HR. Jack tells her that when he hired her, he thought she'd be a hard worker, but the real thing he's concerned about is all this "boyfriend" nonsense.
"I decided to check through your e-mail account to see if I could find any clues. And you know what I found, Ana? What was out of place? The only personal e-mails in your account were to your hotshot boyfriend." He pauses, assessing my reaction. "And I got to thinking… where are the emails from him? There are none. Nada. Nothing. So what's going on, Ana? How come his e-mails to you aren't on our system? Are you some company spy, planted in here by Grey's organization? Is that what this is?"
So, what's going on? Ana got effed in the A, is what's going on. Christian only deleted his emails from the server. He left all of Ana's on there. Except… that doesn't make any sense. Wait a minute… Ana was emailing stuff about whips and chains to his email account, and he spazzed out about it. So, why didn't he have those emails deleted? And why hang Ana out to dry like this? Oh, riiiiiight, because he's a selfish a-hole, and he didn't want Ana to have the job in the first place. Leaving her emails on the server gives her employer a reason to fire her that would have nothing to do with him, directly.
Some subliminal pheromone that Jack is exuding has me on high alert.
Aren't all pheromones subliminal? I can't recall a single time in my life that I've thought, "My, what a nice smelling pheremone." Also, you're not on high alert because of a pheromone, you're on high alert because your boss has you cornered in an empty office and he's acting like he's going to rape you.
Jack tells Ana that he knows Chedward fucked up the New York trip.
Jack continues, enjoying my discomfort. "And he thinks I'd make a pass at you?" He smirks and his eyes heat. "Well, I want you to think about something while I'm in New York. I gave you this job, and I expect you to show me some gratitude. In fact, I'm entitled to it. I had to fight to get you. Elizabeth wanted someone better qualified, but I – I saw something in you. So, we need to work out a deal. A deal where you keep my happy. D'you understand what I'm saying, Ana?"
"Look at it as refining your job description if you like. And if you keep me happy, I won't dig any further into how your boyfriend is pulling strings, milking his contacts, or cashing in some favor from one of his Ivy League frat-boy sycophants."
How quickly he goes from being disgusted by the thought of making a pass at her to implicating that she needs to give him a handy at lunch time.
My mouth drops open. He's blackmailing me. For sex! And what can I say? News of Christian's takeover is embargoed for another three weeks. I can barely believe this. Sex – with me!
Gosh! Willikers! Someone wants to have sex with me? Golly. I'm sorry, I can't help but hear Kristen Wiig's impression of Liza Minnelli as I read that line, and it's coming off more as, "Aw, shucks, who'd want to have sex with lil' ole me," than, "Oh my god, I'm being blackmailed." And it is hilarious.
Jack moves closer until he's standing right in front of me, staring down into my eyes. His cloying sweet cologne invades my nostrils – it's nauseating – and if I'm not mistaken, the bitter stench of alcohol is on his breath. Fuck, he's been drinking… when?
If I worked with you, I'd be drinking constantly. But you would know the "bitter stench of alcohol" pretty well, wouldn't you, Ana?
"You're such a tight-assed, cock-blocking, prick tease, you know, Ana," he whispers through clenched teeth.
How did she cock-block you? Does Jack not know what cock-blocking is? It's stopping someone else from getting laid. If anyone is cock-blocking Jack right now, it's Christian.
What? Prick tease… me?
What me, prick tease?
Ana reminds us once again that Ray taught her to fight, so she's good with self-defense, in case we missed it the other ninety times she's brought it up in this book:
Ray will be proud. Ray taught me what to do. Ray knows his self-defense. If Jack touches me – if he even breathes too close to me – I will take him down. My breath is shallow. I must not faint, I must not faint.
So, you know. Brave, strong, desperately trying not to faint, etc.
Jack starts talking about how turned on Ana probably is, and how she really wants him and he can tell, and he calls her a prick tease again, and a bitch, so Ana grabs his pinkie and bends it back, and then she knees him in the jimmies. They are rustled, both metaphorically and physically.
"Don't you ever touch me again," I snarl at him. "Your itinerary and the brochures are packaged on my desk. I am going home now. Have a nice trip. And in the future, get your own damn coffee."
Just a PSA here, if someone is trying to rape you, and you get away, don't try to get the last word in. Run, okay?
I run full tilt to my desk, grab my jacket and my purse, and dash to Reception, ignoring the moans and curses emanating from the bastard still prostrate on the kitchen floor. I burst out of the building and stop for a minute as the cool air hits my face. I take a deep breath and compose myself. But I haven't eaten all day, and as the very unwelcome surge of adrenaline recedes, my legs give out beneath me and I sink to the ground.
Heads up, we're going to hear Chedward bitch at Ana for not eating, I can feel it in my bones. And of course, it's very important to remind the reader that Ana hasn't eaten, for what does her name truly stand for? And didn't Mia just get off the phone with her at the end of the last chapter?
Christian and Taylor jump out of the car and rush to her side:
Christian sinks to his knees at my side, and on some unconscious level, all I can think is: He's here. My love is here.
You can't think unconsciously. At least, not in words like that.
"Ana, Ana! What's wrong?" He scoops me into his lap, running his hands up and down my arms, checking for any signs of injury. Grabbing my head between his hands, he stares with wide, terrified, gray eyes into mine. I sag against him, suddenly overwhelmed with relief and fatigue. Oh, Christian's arms. There is no place I'd rather be.
Keep in mind that this passionate Pieta is taking place on the goddamned sidewalk at like, 6:30 pm on a business day. There are probably annoyed commuters walking around them, rolling their eyes, wondering if there's a movie being filmed and if so, where are the cameras?
Ana just says Jack's name and Taylor is off like a shot, like a real man defending his woman from harm. He knows she can handle herself, most of the time, but he can also tell when she needs backup, and now is that time. He'll go inside and give Jack what for, then he'll take me home for chinese takeout and a M*A*S*H marathon, because he loves that show, unlike my husband. And then he'll give me what for, in the sex way of using that phrase, which means pounding.
Wait, I'm doing a recap. Sorry, my mind wandered.
Christian is, of course, enraged, and demands to know:
"Did he touch you?"
Not, "Did he hurt you?" or "Did he scare you?" or even, "Did he yell at you?" Christian is only concerned with whether or not someone else has played with his toy. Laying hands on her is unacceptable, because Ana is Chedward's property.
Ana tells Christian that Jack did touch her (he put a finger on her breastbone or something), and then this happens:
Christian's muscles bunch and tense as rage sweeps through him, and he stands up swiftly, powerfully – rock steady – with me in his arms. He's furious. No!
Okay, first of all, drink. Second of all, why "No!"? "Hey, boyfriend, someone tried to rape me." "That makes me angry!" "No!" Is she trying to protect Christian from his own emotions or something?
Christian wants to go in and help Taylor deal with Jack:
"Don't go in. Don't, Christian." Suddenly my fear is back, fear of what Christian will do to Jack.
What do you think Christian is going to do to Jack that Taylor isn't capable of doing on his own? Is Christian going to throw money at the guy? Sexily spank him? I know that Mia claims Christian was a "brawler" in school, but we're talking about grown ass men here. Taylor has it on lockdown, trust me.
Christian tries everything to get Ana in the car. He swears at her, he orders her around, and all the while they're listening to this shouting going on inside the building. Isn't there like, a lobby and a reception area and then Ana's office is upstairs or something? How chintzy are the building materials in the Pacific Northwest, that they can hear all this going down while they're out on the street during rush hour?
Ana tells Christian that Jack has her emails. It doesn't go over well:
"Christian, he has my e-mails."
"My emails to you. He wanted to know where your e-mails to me were. He was trying to blackmail me."
Christian's look is murderous.
Oh, shit.
"Fuck!" he splutters and narrows his eyes at me. He punches a number into his BlackBerry.
Oh no. I'm in trouble. Who is he calling?
"Barney. Grey. I need you to access the SIP main server and wipe all Anastasia Steele's e-mails to me. Then access the personal data files of Jack Hyde and check they aren't stored there. If they are, wipe them… Yes, all of them. Now. Let me know when it's done."
Oh, so that's what his job is.
Hey, asshole, here's a thought… you could have done that when you had him wipe all of your emails from the SIP server. In fact, you could have had only Ana's emails wiped from the server and this would have gone much better, especially since she was the one sending messages about BDSM smexytimes. I'm still boggling over why he had just his messages removed from the server. I mean, wouldn't the text of the messages she was replying to be attached to the messages she sent? None of this makes sense.
Christian calls Roach and tells him to fire Jack immediately. Like, Christian wants his desk cleaned out this very second. So, is Roach supposed to have HR come in and do the paperwork on that right now? Because everyone in the office had gone home. Little details like realism don't matter to Christian Grey, though, because he will liquidate SIP first thing in the morning if he doesn't get his way. Except, how is that going to work? There's an embargo on news of the SIP sale. Who is he going to sell the bits of the company to, if he can't even tell people he owns it yet?
"Please don't be mad at me." I blink up at him.
"I am so mad at you right now," he snarls and once more sweeps his hand through his hair. "Get in the car."
"Christian, please – "
"Get in the fucking car, Anastasia, or so help me I'll put you in there myself," he threatens, his eyes blazing with fury.
Why is he so mad at her? For having a job? For being assaulted? Both? That actually seems more likely, that's he's angry at her for having a job and for being assaulted. How dare she want independence from him! How very dare she allow another man to attack her! The whore.
Oh, shit. "Don't do anything stupid, please," I beg.
"STUPID!" he explodes. "I told you to use your fucking BlackBerry. Don't talk to me about stupid. Get in the motherfucking car, Anastasia – NOW!" he snarls, and a frisson of fear runs through me. This is Very Angry Christian. I've not seen him this mad before. He's barely holding on to his self-control.
This is the kind of man you want, ladies. The man who will gladly respond to your work emails and cheerfully have any evidence of doing so wiped from your company's servers, but leave yours behind to get you possibly fired. The man who will blame you for all of that, as well, and who will snarl at you when he doesn't get his way. Isn't barely-leashed anger sexy when it's headed directly at you? I'm so tired of the romance novel hero whose strength and anger frighten the heroine, but never actually poses a danger to her, only to people who would hurt her. No, I want a hero who is moments away from snapping and punching the heroine's lights out. No Ne-yo for me, talking about how I got my own and my independence makes me sexy. I want Chris Brown, beating my head in for looking at his phone. That's real romance.
After an entire page of arguing, Ana finally gets in the car, and Christian goes into the building. Then Jack comes out with his desk all boxed up, because that is realistic. Even though he tried to, you know, rape and blackmail her, no police are called. No one even gives her the option. She should just sit in the car and think about what she's done to invite this kind of male attention, because it's clearly all her fault.
Christian and Taylor come back to the car, and Christian takes a speakerphone call from Barney, who says he found stuff on Jack's computer he needs to tell Christian about. Christian tells Barney they'll talk about it later.
Barney hangs up. He sounds so much younger than I expected. What else is on Jack's computer?
Kiddie porn, probably, in order to ram home his evil. See, it's not enough that he's a slimeball, he needs to be the ultimate in evil so that Christian is extra, super right about not trusting him. That will teach Ana (and the readers) not to question men, for they clearly know better, and we women can never possibly judge a person's character correctly or stand up for ourselves.
Ana asks Christian if he's talking to her, and he says no:
Oh, there we go… how childish. I wrap my arms around myself and stare unseeing out the window. Perhaps I should just ask him to drop me off at my apartment; then he can "not talk" to me from the safety of Escala and save us both the inevitable quarrel.
That's never going to happen. As far as Christian is concerned, he wants you to live with him, so you do. You're never going to spend another night in that apartment.
For the men who are reading this recap, let me pause here and say that if your girlfriend or wife or friend or coworker is ever attacked, this is not how you handle it. I'm sure you knew that already, but I would feel remiss not stating it. If this exact scenario happened, this is how you handle it:
Dial 911.
See if the victim needs immediate first aid.
Do not confront the attacker, because you're not going to be any help to the victim if you're shot or stabbed or punched out.
Wait with the victim until the police arrive.
They get to Escala and go into the lobby:
"Christian, why are you so mad at me?" I whisper as we wait.
"You know why," he mutters as we step into the elevator, and he punches in the code to his floor. "God, if something had happened to you, he'd be dead by now." Christian's tone chills me to the bone.
So, here he is, telling Ana that he's mad because if she had been hurt, he would have been powerless to keep from murdering someone? That sounds like it resides in the neighborhood of "You make me hit you."
"As it is, I'm going to ruin his career so he can't take advantage of young women anymore, miserable excuse for a man that he is." He shakes his head. "Jesus, Ana!" He grabs me suddenly, imprisoning me in the corner of the elevator.
Like looking in a mirror, huh, Christian? Maybe people who live in glass penthouse apartments and who also take advantage of young women shouldn't throw stones? And you know what would really ensure that he couldn't do this to any more women? If you had CALLED THE POLICE. Or even bothered to tell Roach why you wanted the guy fired. No one but you, Ana, and Jack know that he's an attempted rapist. You're not protecting anyone, you're just stupid and ineffectual as always, but go ahead and congratulate yourself because clearly you're Superman.
Because they're in the elevator, it's time for sexy passionate times. They make out, and it's possessive and breathless and desperation and other words that have been overused during kissing scenes.
He straightens, releasing me as the elevator comes to a stop. "He said you kicked him in the balls." Christian's tone is lighter with a trace of admiration, and I think I'm forgiven.
Awfully nice of him to forgive you for being assaulted. That's mighty big of him.
Ana makes a comment about Ray being ex-Army, because we may have forgotten it by now. Since that's the only characterization Ray is given in this book, I guess it's important to really hammer it home. Christian goes to call Barney back, and Mrs. Jones gets Ana some wine, while Ana thinks it would be nice to have a boring day now and then. Which is the exact opposite of how I feel about the situation, because I find most of Ana's life unbearably boring. Must be it's different when you're just reading about it.
What if I'd never met Christian? I'd be holed up in my apartment, talking it through with Ethan, completely freaked by my encounter with Jack, knowing I would have to face the sleazeball again on Friday. As it is, there's every chance I'll never set eyes on him again. But who will I work for now? I frown. I hadn't though of that. Shit, do I even have a job?
Not if Christian has anything to say about it, you probably don't. And I hate to point this out, gentle readers, but if Ana had never met Christian, she would probably be on a plane to New York right now. There would have been no incriminating emails to get Jack all riled up at her, so she would be flying to New York with Jack the Raper, who would likely be taking a more subtle approach to seduction. The only real difference would be that instead of Christian pressuring her for sex that she doesn't want to have (see last chapter), it would be Jack doing it.
Christian comes out to join her and Mrs. Jones, and Ana asks if she still has a job at SIP:
He cocks his head to the side. "Do you still want one?"
"Then you still have one."
Simple. See? He is master of my universe.
I know I've said it before, but I love it when they reference the title of the fanfic the book used to be in the actual text, while utterly denying that it was fanfic in the first place. Oh, ethics. You were just bunging up the entire publishing industry, anyway.
Mrs. Jones makes them dinner and leaves them alone, and Ana thinks this is the perfect time to bring up Jose. By the way, I've received all your suggestions for how to get the accent mark over his name. Some of them won't work at all, because I'm on a Mac. Others work perfectly for Mac, EXCEPT when you're using blogger's interface. And the rest of them take way too much damn time, and these recaps are already taking between six and eight hours of work, so copy/pasting every time I need to use Jose's name just is not going to happen. But I appreciate all the help, and I now know how to make literally any accent mark in written language because you guys are on top of shit like whoa.
Anyways, Ana tells Christian that Jose wants to come and drop off the pictures:
"A personal delivery. How accommodating of him," Christian mutters.
You're the one who bought the pictures, asshole.
"He wants to go out. For a drink. With me."
"And Kate and Elliot should be back," I add quietly.
Christian puts his fork down, frowning at me.
"What exactly are you asking?"
I bristle. "I'm not asking anything. I'm informing you of my plans for Friday. Look, I want to see Jose, and he wants to stay over. Either he stays here or he can stay at my place, but if he does, I should be there, too."
Christian's eyes widen. He looks dumbfounded.
"He made a pass at you."
Yes, I suppose he did. But that was before you owned her. Seriously, am I the only one seeing red, then blacking out for a moment and waking up with blood on my hands while reading this chapter? I really need to know, before the police get here.
"Ethan's there. He can keep him company."
"He wants to see me, not Ethan."
Christian scowls at me.
"He's just a friend." My voice is emphatic.
"I don't like it."
So what? Jeez, he's irritating sometimes. I take a deep breath. "He's my friend, Christian. I haven't seen him since his show. And that was too brief. I know you don't have any friends, apart from that god-awful woman, but I don't moan about you seeing her," I snap.
YES! CONSTANTLY YOU DO THIS!
What book is Ana reading, where she doesn't complain about Christian's relationship with Mrs. Robinson? And really, there's no comparison. Ana is asking to maintain a friendship with a guy who, yes, got handsy with her. There's no way around that. But he got handsy with a single woman, not with Christian Grey's girlfriend. He's given Ana plenty of space, she's forgiven him, and nothing like that has happened again. He's not trying to interfere in the relationship at all, unlike Mrs. Robinson, who is not only an ex, but a child rapist who is actively trying to weasel her way into some sick, three-way emotional clusterfuck with both Christian and Ana.
Christian asks Ana why she's never mentioned that she doesn't like him buddying around with his rapist and newsflash, Chedward, she's made it pretty damn clear that she doesn't like the woman. Still, he wants to know why Ana didn't ask him, explicitly, to stop being friends with Elena:
"Because it's not my place to say. You think she's your only friend." I shrug in exasperation. He really doesn't get it. How did this turn into a conversation about her?
Because you brought her up, genius. But Christian decides that he's okay with Ana spending time with Jose, provided that he stays over at Escala. Probably with Taylor's hand on his throat the whole time, but really, I wouldn't mind Taylor choking me a little bit.
Any similarity to any blogging author alive or dead is purely coincidental.
Christian has some work to do, so Ana loads the dishwasher (because she wants to get poor Mrs. Jones fired, I guess) and then, as an afterthought to everything else that has happened, Christian finally asks Ana if she's okay:
"After what happened with that fucker? After what happened yesterday?" he adds, his voice quiet and earnest.
Oh, see, I thought he was worried about her after the attempted rape, he's really just making sure she's still buying his "catatonic sub/fake nightmare" bullshit routine. That's charming.
While Christian is working, Ana gets bored. Probably because she's living there, but she has none of her own stuff there, so she's feeling like a guest in a very sterile B&B. She wanders around the apartment a little:
I wonder idly where Christian will hang Jose's pictures of me. I'd rather he didn't. I am not keen on looking at myself.
Bull fucking shit you aren't. The entire series began with you gazing at yourself in a mirror. Every time you're near a mirror, you check yourself out and tell us about it, even when you ran to the bathroom crying in the last chapter. Own your vanity, Ana. Everyone else does.
Ana finds the playroom unlocked, so she goes inside:
I flick the switch and the light under the cornice light up with a soft glow. It's as I remember it. A womblike room.
It's been a long time since I've been in a womb, but I do have one, and I'm reasonably certain there are not canes and floggers in there.
Ana starts going through the stuff in the playroom and thinking boring thoughts about it, and feeling like she's trespassing, etc. when Christian chances upon her:
Oh shit. Is he mad? I flush. "Er… I was bored and curious," I mutter, embarrassed to be found out. He said he'd be two hours.
Yeah, but you know how time moves in this series, Ana. Two hours could be two minutes or two days, depending on what the author needs.
Slowly he enters the room and closes the door quietly behind him, his eyes liquid gray fire. Oh my. He leans casually over the chest of drawers, but I think his stance is deceptive. My inner goddess doesn't know whether it's fight-or-flight time.
So, here we have Ana being ACTIVELY AFRAID OF THE MAN WHO SUPPOSEDLY LOVES HER. Stick that in your head hole for a second, reader. Why is she afraid of him? Because she doesn't know how he's going to react, and he has a volatile temper, as we've already witnessed in this chapter. More importantly, she doesn't know if he's going to do something to her that she doesn't want him to, like, you know, beat on her with a belt. And she's afraid of this because she knows she has no control. If she felt like she were an equal partner to Christian Grey, she wouldn't fear him, would she?
Christian tells Ana that he was trying to decide what to do with all the stuff in the playroom. As in, he's thinking of getting rid of it all. She's just worried that he's mad at her for being in there.
"Why would I be mad?"
"I feel like I'm trespassing… and you're always mad at me." My voice is quiet, though I'm relieved. Christian's brow creases once more.
"Yes, you're trespassing, but I'm not mad. I hope that one day you'll live with me here, and all this" – he gestures vaguely around the room with one hand – "will be yours, too."
What? The curtains?
I love how he's all, "I want you to marry me," but going into an unlocked room in his house is trespassing. Who the fuck does he think he is? Blue Beard?
Ana thinks:
My playroom…? I gape at him – that's a lot to take in.
Which is hilarious, because then she opens up a drawer and finds:
"What's this?" I hope up the silver bullet thing.
"Always hungry for information, Miss Steele. That's a butt plug," he says gently.
"Bought for you."
What? "For me?"
And they say romance is dead. Turns out, Christian buys shiny new steel butt plugs and other ass toys for each sub, which really does appeal to the OCD germophobe in me. Ana picks up some anal beads:
I examine them with fascinated horror. All of these, inside me… there!
If she's going to start referring to her asshole and her vagina with the same vague terminology, this series is either going to get a lot better, or a lot worse, because I am going to be powerfully confused.
They go through the drawers in the Red Room of Pain, looking at nipple and genital clamps, a Wartenberg wheel, ball gags, clothespins, etc. When discussing the ball gag, Christian says:
"It's about control, Anastasia. How helpless would you be if you were tied up and couldn't speak? How trusting would you have to be, knowing I had that much power over you? That I had to read your body and your reaction, rather than hear your words? It makes you more dependent, puts me in ultimate control."
You run a multi-billion dollar empire. You have honest to god servants living in your home. You can track people down with a phone call, buy companies, probably literally move mountains. Why do you need to control the physical body of a woman whose every action you already manipulate and dictate?
Answer: because you are a creepy asshole.
Ana points out that he does have power over her. Not to, you know, stand up to him, but to reassure him that he has all the power he needs.
"Do I? You make me feel… helpless."
"No!" Oh, Fifty…
Oh please. Drink 'em if you've got 'em, but seriously? There is so much wrong here. Because he can't utterly control every single facet of Ana's life, down to her physical responses during sex, he feels helpless? And although Ana often describes herself as being helpless to him and seems to view the idea of that helplessness as generally positive, the idea of him being helpless elicits a reaction of strong denial? Does anyone else see how fucked up this is?!
They start to get kissy, and then Christian says:
"Ana, you were nearly attacked today." His voice is soft but wary.
"So?" I ask, enjoying the feel of his hand at my back and his proximity. He pulls his head back and scowls down at me.
"What do you mean, 'so?'" he rebukes.
Yeah, Ana! You're not being a victim in exactly the way he wants you to! You have a responsibility, as the victim of sexual assault, to behave exactly as other people say you should! I mean, not really, of course, but in the context of this book, with women as they are viewed in the reality of this narrative, that's how it is. And you know, yesterday, when she was attacked by a gun-wielding intruder and it was all your fault? You forced her to fuck you, even though she didn't want to. Thanks for being considerate now.
It was at this time that I tried to rip the book in half, gentle readers. I must compliment Vintage press for their surprisingly sturdy and well-constructed trade-sized paperbacks. I'm certain I would have accomplished the feat had I been holding a Kindle.
Oh, also:
I gaze up into his lovely, grumpy face, and I'm dazzled.
Dazzle!
They decide they're going to bone, but not in the Red Room, because alcoholism:
"I'm like a recovering alcoholic, okay? That's the only comparison I can draw. The compulsion has gone, but I don't want to put temptation in my way. I don't want to hurt you."
He's recovering from the disease that is BDSM, but to conquer it for once and for all, he needs to change his people, places and things. This is in no way insulting to the millions of normal people who enjoy BDSM and who don't see it as an evil to overcome or a symptom of a mental illness.
He looks so remorseful, and in that moment, a sharp nagging pain lances through me. What have I done to this man? Have I improved his life? He was happy before he met me, wasn't he?
I think "happy before [s/he] met me" is an apt description of pretty much everyone Ana could possibly meet. I also think that "sharp nagging pain" is an apt description of what happened to my right eye when I read that line and realized that I'm reading a book about a woman who spends her every waking moment in a constant state of mental anguish caused by her emotional torture specialist boyfriend while simultaneously worrying if she's good enough for him.
Christian and Ana take a spreader bar back to his bedroom and start getting sexy with the how-the-fuck-did-a-copy-editor-miss-this?! word rep:
He gazes down at me, watching my every move, eyes so dark and filled with carnal bliss. Oh my. I sheath my teeth and suck harder. He closes his eyes and surrenders to this blissful carnal pleasure.
Copy editor should be fired. No. No, that's not fair. The author should be fired. From a cannon. Into the mouth of a crater-dwelling moon beast adrift in space.
Ana sucks Christian off and swallows, and then he immediately kisses her and tells her he can taste himself on her, and then Ana tells him he tastes "mighty fine," because it's so adorable and cute and ironic when she says things to him that he usually says to her. This is such a masterfully written work, let me tell you.
He cuffs her ankles and adjusts the spreader bar so that her legs are three feet apart. Then he breaks her fucking spine:
Reaching down he grasps the bar and twists it so I flip onto my front. It takes me by surprise.
No shit, really? Because it would shock the hell out of me if someone possibly sprained and/or fractured my ankles, knees, hips, and/or back. Think about this one, reader. If someone grabbed you by the legs and tried to flip you over, would the top half of your body move? If you weren't ready to be flipped over? Would your upper body remain rigid, like you were one, unbendable piece of cardboard? Or, I don't know, would being flipped over via spreader bar when you weren't expecting it kind of hurt? I guess I'll have to leave that question at the feet of the BDSM master, Ms. E.L. James.
He unexpectedly flips her again, and then he goes down on her, then he cuffs her wrists to the spreader bar and talks about how he wants to fuck her ass, but not right now (or ever in the entire series) because she's not ready. Then, because the refractory period does not exist in this book, he fucks her and they both come at the same time.
After he uncuffs her from the spreader bar, he says:
"I could watch you sleep forever, Ana," he murmurs and he kisses my forehead.
Sleep forever? So he's finally going to get around to murdering her, then?
The last paragraph of the chapter is:
"I need you," he whispers, but his voice is a distant, ethereal part of my dreams. He needs me… needs me… and as I finally slip into the darkness, my last thoughts are of a small boy with gray eyes and dirty, messy, copper-colored hair smiling shyly at me.
Is there anything that hair can't do?
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I love the Monty python reference. That's exactly what I was thinking while reading this chapter.
I love the way you assume this book had a copy editor. It didn't. Aside from name changes it is the fanfic word for word.
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50 Shades Darker Chapter 16 recap, or "A Treatise on Spreader Bars and Human Anatomy, with a Focus on Physics" | Sweaters For Days
The-Great-Dragon
So I once read this fanfic (it was amazing) about a guy who got kidnapped, and his kidnapper would harm anyone who the victim tried to get help from, in order to teach the lesson that it was futile to evade the kidnapper and that people would only get hurt. Not only that, but the kidnapper did it in such a way that he made the victim FEEL RESPONSIBLE for the harm done to the other person (if only the victim had listened to the kidnapper, he could have prevented this harm from happening. The victim should have known better and behaved accordingly.)
I always end up thinking of that story because Christian does the same thing A LOT with Ana. He makes Ana feel responsible for the abuse she experiences but also for the harm Christian does unto others, which only magnifies the emotional fallout and guilt-complex he's cultivating in Ana. He does that so obviously here, telling her that if she'd behaved better and listened, he wouldn't have had to harm Jack at all, and that she'd been risking Jack's life with her stupidity (because had Jack done anything more to Ana, Christian would have HAD to kill him, and that would totally be Ana's fault, because Christian told her to quit her job.)
I don't know if I'm just reiterating what's already been said, but this has always bugged me. Christian's abuse is so disturbing and toxic.
I know I'm insanely late to the game… by over a year, but I'm just now reading these and I just need to point out the idiocy of Jack basically saying 'Let me rape you and I won't look into how your ultra powerful boyfriend is managing to pull strings at the company I am employed by'. Is he not hearing himself?! 'Your boyfriend clearly has some connections and power in this company and probably subsequently my job, and I'm going to investigate that further unless you comply with sexual assault and don't tell him.'
Can't imagine how that blew up in his face. Jesus, these characters are morons.
Right! I'm so mad that you're spying for the man who will be my boss. So if you let me fuck you, I won't…fire you? Like, what's his leverage.
Just seems like another way to show that every man but Christian is a creepy user, though he's the worst of all.
Yeah, this chapter makes no sense. (I mean, none of the book makes sense, but especially this chapter.)
Jack knows that Ana's boyfriend is a billionaire. In other words, she doesn't actually NEED a job. Therefore, she can't be blackmailed into fucking him to keep her job. She's not going to be homeless if she gets fired.
And like you said, HER BOYFRIEND IS A BILLIONAIRE. That means Ana has the resources to sue Jack and win. She can afford the Johnnie Cochran of work harassment/rape prosecution.
RavenBlackburn
I am getting the feeling that the copy editor of this book and Ana are the same person. After all, their working attitude is pretty much the same.
I have no idea how you managed to get through all of these books. I'm following along via your posts, and even through that limited view of the text, I'm practically seeing red each chapter.
How did this series happen? Why?
I'm slightly tempted to read the books myself now, but I'm worried that the amount of alcohol I would need to deal with the awful writing might be fatal.
I'm right with you, there…
"Copy editor should be fired. No. No, that's not fair. The author should be fired. From a cannon. Into the mouth of a crater-dwelling moon beast adrift in space." – I would have to add to that: "wearing a butt plug. No, wearing a STEEL butt plug".
Honestly, I'm absolutely gobsmacked that shit like this was ever published.
I just want to know what tooth sheathes look like.
Wait… did she give him a beejob with a retainer in??
I'm just wondering if EL James has ever actually given a blowjob. Because blowjobs aren't about "sucking as hard as you possibly can," but that's what she describes Ana doing every time. That would just be painful and unpleasant.
I mean, okay, I can accept flipping someone over by the legs if their legs are together. Because that's gonna give you time to figure out what is happening and roll your upper body, or even if not, your body is made to twist that way and the leverage will pull your torso along and flip you comfortably before it breaks you.
But think of the spokes on a wheel, and how the outside is moving faster than the center. He put Ana's legs on the outside of a wheel, then spun it. Yikes. I absolutely can see that move breaking her legs, knees, hips, or back.
Adeline Raina
Monty Python ref: those were my thoughts too! 😀
Taylor is a sexy bad ass. Such a crush on Taylor right now.
Still so pissed off about Christian beating women because he actually wants to beat his mom. Every time a new BDSM toy is mentioned in this, I'm thinking "he wanted that so he could use it to hurt a woman for reminding him of his mom".
Such a catch ladies! Get squirming in those panties!
I'm into Taylor, too. Someone needs to write a fanfic about Taylor. He has that enigmatic, protective, bad-ass thing going on that reminds me of Tom Hardy's character in Lawless. Except without the cute, cuddly cardies and the illegal moonshine.
I'm playing really old catch up. First off. Thank you! Thank you! for reading through these books and doing the recaps. I really appreciate it.
" "I could watch you sleep forever, Ana," he murmurs and he kisses my forehead.
For some reason while reading through your recaps, I keep thinking of how Faulkner's story, A Rose for Emily, ended.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/wf_rose.html
I have a black sense of humor….piggybacking off of your comment, that would actually solve Christian's issues of 1) Christian never wanting Ana to leave him and 2)Letting him watch her sleep forever. 😉
"I am so mad at you right now," he snarls…
~ Fuck you, dude. Say it with me, everyone: Fuuuuuuck. Yooouuuuu. Nothing, I repeat, NOTHING gives you the right to be mad at your girlfriend. Yes, it WAS very foolish of her to keep emailing you after you warned her of the dangers multiple times, but guess who kept emailing her back at the same address? YOU, dude. And it's YOUR fault that her emails were discovered when anyone with a brain stem would have made sure to wipe HER emails from the server along with yours. DUUUHHHHH!!! And fuck you for increasing the stress of a person immediately after a terrifying ordeal. She just barely escapes one man's wrath, only to be needlessly hit with yours. And fuck you further for blaming the victim.
Oh yeah, and fuck you too, E.L. Fudge (because James is a respectable name and I will NOT allow you to sully it further) for writing this incredibly fucktarded dialogue. Seriously, just imagine how this would go down as a movie scene, or worse, in real life. I mean who the fuck talks like this? "Please don't be mad at me"/"I am so mad at you." It's laughable. Literally laughable. Like it was written for a comedy scene. NOBODY converses like this and means it. I'm actually more pissed off at you for this incredibly fucktarded dialogue than Chedward's completely unwarranted anger.
Honestly, who the hell talks like this in real life?
Ana: "It's a big place you've got here."
Asshole: "Big?"
Ana: "Big."
Asshole: "It's a moot point anyway."
Ana: "Moot?"
Asshole: "Moot."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBODY TALKS LIKE THISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I realize belatedly that I used the phrase "incredibly fucktarded dialogue" twice. I am well aware, and ashamed, of the irony. >_<
I know I've said it before, but I love it when they reference the title of the fanfic the book used to be in the actual text…
~ Every time you say it, I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Honestly, I can't. Sometimes you just say you love it when a book's title is referenced IN the book, and you don't mention fanfiction or previous titles at all. This makes me think you really do love it, but I just have a nagging feeling that you're being sarcastic, at least about the fanfic titles. Please clarify.
BTW if you are being sarcastic, that's fine that you don't like meta titles, but it's kind of hurtful when you put it that way, because it implies that book titles within books is stupid, and therefore people who DO like the references are stupid. And I do happen to like it when a book's title comes up in the book itself, and I mean it. No sarcasm whatsoever.
Own your own likes and dislikes. Someone else not liking something you like does not mean they're automatically insulting you.
Up yours.
Wow, charming, Yvonne. Loy is 100% correct. Jenny wasn't insulting anyone by just having an opinion.
Lol you are getting offended by someone else's dislike. You do realize that even if Jenny doesn't like it, she doesn't speak for everyone?
Up yours, too.
Thank you, Ashley, for having common sense and speaking up for me.
…so copy/pasting every time I need to use Jose's name just is not going to happen.
~ *sigh* Really? It's THAT time-consuming to just right-click and select Paste? It literally takes ONE second. Know what else takes one second? Typing Jose's name out. If you copy/paste, you've already got his name, complete with accent mark, saved, so all you have to do is right-click and select Paste. It is just as fast as typing his name out. Faster, even. It's like snapping your fingers and making the name magically appear. It's EASIER than typing the name. Have you even tried it? What other option in the universe could possibly faster or more convenient?
Given that these were written several years ago, I'm not sure what you're expecting to happen from the nagging.
It's never too late to learn something new, and for all we know, she never did figure out how to auto-insert the accent mark.
Nyeh
Yvonne wasn't nagging. She wa trying to help. Don't be a bitch.
You clearly aren't familiar with Yvonne's comments. Everything is offensive and hurtful to her.
Awfully nitpicky, Yvonne…just saying.
Oh, and Jen ISN'T being nitpicky? There is literally no possible way to make the accent mark issue any simpler, and yet she refuses to even try my suggestion? Please explain to me how I'M being nitpicky but she isn't, because I truly, honestly do not understand your reasoning for this accusation.
Also, your accusation is rather hurtful when all I was trying to do is help, and in return I got no thanks whatsoever, an extremely poor excuse to not even try my suggestion, and then an insult from a third party. How would that make you feel if you just wanted to help someone?
Yah, fuck you Ren. Yvonne has very good point. Jerk.
Ah, makes sense now. Hey Yvonne, nice alt account.
Aloysius Snuffleupagus
"Jack, now might not be a good time for this. Your cab is due in ten minutes…"
I didn't get this. Did she want him to make an appointment for the rape-y-ness?
I'm having a real problem with Christian buying SIP in the space of a couple of weeks. The company I worked at until recently was sold last year, and it took MONTHS of discussions and contracts before the sale went through. Then it took MORE MONTHS to get the payment settled and the ownership turned over. All in keeping with the other nonsensical, unbelievable details of this book. So basically, what is EL James NOT ignorant of?
Ana Namuss
I get the feeling we are twins separated at birth. And if you ever write that Taylor fanfic (maybe with some real sexy spanking?), know that I am going to be there throwing money at it like Mr. Creepy Dick Dazzler himself (a.k.a. Chedward).
Sorry to comment again on such an old post but, why the fuck are the emails a thing?!
Jack was set up since he walked on to be a sleazeball. His last name is freaking Hyde! He's been overly friendly with Ana since day one, and at this point he was both drinking on the job and thought she owed him her own job. The emails could have been completely omitted and it still would have worked.
And fuck Christian up the ass sideways with Lucille for being more worried about that damned embargo than the fact that Ana was nearly raped by her boss. 'Cause that's what this sounds like to me. Not worry that Jack was trying to blackmail Ana into sex, but that Jack had possible evidence of Christian buying the company.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh. Lucille doesn't deserve that.
Not defending Christian at all, this is more about the author, but I think she was trying to say that only Ana's emails showed up because she didn't use her BlackBerry, but Christian did. They wiped all of Ana's emails last time but not the recent ones. Though I don't know how that would work exactly since it's the same work email. I find that this is laziness on EL James part. She should have included that in the story in that case, even if it doesn't make sense. They should have been texting anyway, and only on their breaks but then we wouldn't have had this plot.
Ana is very thin. It would be easy to flip her over using the spreader bar without hurting her.


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Q: Energy stored in a polarized, uncharged conductor's electric field distribution I am trying to solve the following problem:

A charge $Q$ is brought in from infinity to the neighbourhood of an isolated
  uncharged conductor. The fields due to the induced charge distribution on the
  conductor do an amount of work $W$ on $Q$ as it is brought in. We now "freeze" the
  surface charge in place on the conductor and remove $Q$ back to infinity. How much
  energy is stored in the remaining electric field distribution?

My reasoning so far is that when the charge $Q$ is moved from infinity near the conductor, it's going to polarize the conductor. Specifically, I know that for a grounded conductor I can place an image charge inside the conductor to represent the induced charge, and then I can remove the ground, and place an excess charge on the surface of the conductor until I zero out the total charge to recreate the uncharged conductor as in the problem statement. Using that logic, it seems like I should be able to calculate the dipole moment between the image charge and the charge that is then uniformly distributed over the surface of the conductor to make the total charge zero, using the equation:
$\vec{p} = \iiint \vec{r} \rho(\vec{r})dV.$
It seems though that I am making this more complicated than it should be, because I am running into some issues with calculating $\vec{p}$; also it seems like there should be no polarization field inside of the conductor since the electric field inside of the conductor is $\vec{0}$... Can someone offer insight as to how to more intuitively calculate how much energy will be stored in the field?
My gut feeling is that I should be trying to approximate the electric field outside of the conductor as a dipole, and then integrate using
$U = \frac{\epsilon_0}{2}\iiint_{all\,space} E^2 dV$
But again, I'm not sure if this is the correct approach, and it seems like I'm really over complicating things.
Thanks.

A: Notice that $W > 0$ since the displacement of $Q$ has the same direction with electric field, which is attractive.
The energy of the conductor and $Q$ is $-W$ because we need to do mechanical work of $-W$, which would be stored in the system,  to overcome the attractive force between the conductor and $Q$.
If we denote the field at charge $Q$ as $\phi_{0}$, then we have
\begin{align}
    U = -W = \frac{1}{2}\int \rho \phi dV = \frac{1}{2}(q_{\text{ind}}\phi_{\text{cond}} + Q\phi_{0}) = \frac{1}{2}Q\phi_{0}
\end{align}
since conductor is equipotential and sum of induced charge vanishes.
After removing charge $Q$ while fixing induced charges, the potential of conductor is no longer constant but
\begin{align}
    \phi(\vec{r}) = \phi_{\text{cond}} - \frac{Q}{|\vec{r} - \vec{a}|}
\end{align}
where $\vec{a}$ is the initial location of charge $Q$.
The energy of this distribution can be obtained as
\begin{align}
    U = \frac{1}{2}\int \rho \phi dV = \frac{1}{2} \int \sigma \left(\phi_{\text{cond}} - \frac{Q}{|\vec{r} - \vec{a}|}\right) dA
\end{align}
Notice that the first term vanishes since $\phi_{\text{cond}}q_{\text{ind}} = 0$ and the second term is $Q$ times potential of induced charge at $\vec{a}$, or
\begin{align}
    U = -\frac{1}{2}Q\phi_{0} = W
\end{align}
Therefore, the energy stored in the remaining distribution is $W$.


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Canadian Speech Analyzing Technology Useful For Detecting Alzheimer's
By Katherine O'Brien
The team at WinterLight Labs
Although a cure for dementia is many years away, exciting Canadian research has the potential to transform dementia care. YouAreUNLTD caught up with WinterLight Labs president Frank Rudzicz and CEO Liam Kaufman to talk about their groundbreaking tablet-based speech analyzer, which can detect Alzheimer's disease in its early stages. The technology works by extracting variables from recorded speech snippets and analyzing linguistic clues, such as tone or rate of speech.
Where is your automatic speech-based assessment tool being used?
FR: We've set up pilot projects at four senior living communities that use the tool to monitor the progress of dementia in residents and, in some cases, to provide objective evidence that they need more care. We've also struck up partnerships with three pharmaceutical companies that use it for research and development.
How did you identify the need for the speech analyzer?
LK: We did lots of research and spoke to physicians and pharmaceutical companies about what could be done to benefit an aging population. One in 10 Canadians is at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease after age 65, so, given demographic trends, dementia is going to be a huge, huge issue. I think it's more of an issue now than 20 years ago, and I think it will be even more of an issue 20 years from now.
How will your assessment tool make a difference in people's lives?
LK: On the simplest level, our assessments are less anxiety-provoking for patients than traditional pencil-and-paper memory tests – in fact, some people really enjoy doing them. More importantly, our speech analyzers are much quicker than current tests, which will free up doctors to better assess patients. Our speech analyzer could play a critical role in the diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer's disease. Catching the disease early is crucial. It means people will have time to make changes to their lifestyle, like eating better or taking up more exercise, which might slow progression. Finally, we hope our partnerships with pharmaceutical companies will lead to the development of new Alzheimer's therapies.
FR: We've had to pivot several times to get our business model, especially in the early days. On an ongoing basis, we must be meticulous in our protocols to make sure our data covers co-occurring conditions. For example, we need our algorithms to work with people who have different accents or who are different ages.
LK: We also need to be sure that the diagnostic process eliminates other causes of cognitive impairment, such as depression, which overlaps with dementia.
How do you envision the technology evolving?
FR: The technology might evolve into something more passive – a tool that collects information as patients are going about their day, like some projects that track breathing patterns of patients with COPD. Since we deal with language and meaning, we must be careful that patients' privacy is maintained.
LK: Or, to probe eye movement for clues to dementia – the more modalities you measure, the better you can capture someone's cognitive state. As well, we hope our technology can be used to detect a range of cognitive conditions and central nervous system disorders.
In the long term, we might be able to use our technology to predict pre-dementia. We've actually tracked televised interviews of Gene Wilder and Ronald Reagan, looking for signs of Alzheimer's disease before they were diagnosed. But we need much more data before we can make any claims, and, right now, this project is on the back burner.
What are WinterLight's goals?
FR: Our short-term goal is to expand our network of partners and to further validate our technology under a variety of use cases. Although our speech analyzer is currently being used by our partners for research, ultimately, we'd like to roll out the analyzer to doctors' offices and hospitals. We also fully expect the analyzer to be used in retirement homes and long-term care facilities.
How has the speech analyzer been received by the medical community?
LK: We are taking something that doctors already do and making it more objective and reliable. I think they are excited about that, but cautious. Doctors typically want to see three, four, or even five studies. So, we need to publish more.
The start-up incorporated in September 2015 and the following year won AGE-WELL's Technology to Support People with Dementia pitch competition. As well, the aging and technology network provided WinterLight with funding that helped them get off the ground. In 2017, WinterLight finalized $1.5 million in seed funding and joined Revera's Innovators in Aging program.
For further reading on Alzheimer's and how technology can help, click here.
Originally published in Issue 01 of YouAreUNLTD Magazine.
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Katherine O'Brien is a freelance content writer and editor from Toronto who specializes in seniors' health, senior care and aging. Using her own caregiving experience as a starting point, Katherine aims to educate and inform older adults and their families about ways to make the aging process as smooth and enjoyable as possible. She's covered a wide range of topics including dementia, seniors' nutrition, advance care planning and emotional wellness.


In 2013, the cash-flow-to-sales ratio of the Austrian manufacturing sector reached an estimated 9.0 percent, a value significantly below the long-run average of 9.6 percent. The persistently muted performance of the manufacturing sector has affected the cash-flow-to-sales ratio, which declined substantially in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The sector's real value added growth amounted to a mere 1.2 percent in 2012 and 2013. According to the estimates of a dynamic panel-econometric model at industry level, the cash-flow-to-sales ratio in manufacturing declined slightly against 2012 (2012: 9.2 percent).
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