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This story is based on a big inside joke between me, antiaol and hunterhunting, inspired by a mixed CD made by windycitywonder and a trip we took to a drag show. If drag shows and/or gender-bending weirdness squick you out, you may want to stop here.
Also, you can read this one-shot without listening to "Fucking Boyfriend" by The Bird and the Bee. But I really haven't the faintest idea why you would deny yourself. Go. Listen. Revel.
Thanks to bmango and yogagal for prereading / beta-ing.
And while Stephanie Meyer would probably be horrified by this, she still (sadly) owns it.
The club was all flashing lights and vibrations by the time Bella arrived, deep thrums of bass moving through her legs with every step. She was wearing heels tonight – the sort she very rarely dared to try. With steps that were less steady than she liked, Bella made her way through the gathering crowd, fussing with the ruffles on her dress in distraction, her eyes searching.
Finally, a hand rose up over the sea of heads and Bella smiled, relieved, as she made her way over toward the bar.
"I'm so glad you're here!" Bella's best friend, Alice, greeted her smoothly, hopping down off a bar stool and wrapping her in her arms.
"Wouldn't miss it," Bella said wryly.
Alice looked around Bella, a disappointed expression on her face. "Did Edward not come with you?"
"No," she replied. Try as she might, she was unable to suppress her slight grimace, her hands fidgeting as she explained her boyfriend's absence. "He came straight from work. We'll, um, see him later."
Would they ever.
Ignoring her friend's knowing snicker, Bella stepped around Alice and motioned for the bartender to order a Malibu and pineapple. A double.
She was sure that she would need it.
When she turned back to her friends, Alice was speaking animatedly and trying to catch her eye. "I mean seriously, I can't believe we're finally going to get to see him – "
Bella held her hand up to interrupt, downing half her drink as she did. "Nope, Alice. Not talking about it right now. Just enjoying a nice night out with friends."
Alice's boyfriend Jasper snorted. "And tall, ugly women." Jasper winced when Alice slapped his arm. "What? Can you deny it?"
For the first time, Bella really allowed herself to look around the club, and she cringed. Jasper wasn't lying. There were a lot of tall, ugly women here.
All over again, Bella began to let her nerves get the best of her, pulling at non-existent threads at the hem of her dress and running her finger over the edge of her glass. Sucking the cherry from the drink into her mouth, she focused on that sweetness and not on the taste of anxiety and bile.
Letting the conversation around her fade into the background, Bella's eyes unconsciously drifted toward a particularly tall, ugly woman to her side, darting up to make sure it wasn't anyone she knew before inspecting her more carefully.
She knew all the signs that a person was supposed to look for. This particular woman seemed more demure than most, and Bella found herself squinting at the woman's crotch, imagining in spite of all her misgivings what it would really look like to see 'the tuck.' To touch it. To tape it herself.
The sound of a throat clearing distracted her, just at the woman she was looking at folded two large hands over her lap and crossed her legs. Her voice, when she spoke, was admittedly deep, but not ridiculous.
"My eyes are up here, sweetie."
Bella blushed a deep, hot shade of red and turned away quickly, only to find Alice holding her midsection, she was laughing so hard.
"Oh, Bella," she croaked between deep snorts. With an appraising eye, Bella noticed how Alice was leaning against Jasper, deciding quickly that her friend was already drunk.
And that it would probably behoove her to catch up.
Bella drained her cocktail and set it down before catching the bartender with a motion toward the empty glass. When its replacement arrived, Bella began sipping at it immediately, closing her eyes and sucking gently at the straw.
But behind her eyes, all she could see was skin.
Edward's skin. The sinuous body she loved to touch and suck and fuck.
Edward's skin and lace.
Bella's eyes flew open with a croaking gasp, and it was all she could do not to choke. Nobody around her noticed her distress, though. As if synchronized to her own erratic breath, the house lights chose just that moment to dim, the music growing louder, and Bella felt as if the floor was falling out from under her.
Alice's hand squeezed her shoulder briefly, and then everyone was turning toward the runway that had been erected in the center of the room. Or more specifically, to the very tall, very made-up woman sashaying down it.
In a pink sequined dress and heels.
Everything around Bella dissolved into applause and music, a thundering bass pounding out a pop song she'd heard before, but never like this.
Mind you, Bella wasn't completely new to the world of drag shows. Back in college, she had attended one for a girlfriend's birthday, and she distinctly remembered having had a wonderful time. She'd danced and sung along and ogled the scantily clad gay boys making out in the corners of the bar.
In general, Bella liked to think of herself as an open-minded person, willing to accept all sorts of kinks and proclivities.
Only she wasn't feeling very open-minded tonight. Instead, she was feeling sullen and resentful and mortified. With a sigh, she sucked down a little more of her drink and watched the woman on stage as she danced and sang and flirted, taking dollar bills from the people crowding around the lip of the runway. Like she had the last time, Bella tried to shake off her reservations and just have fun. But she couldn't.
Because Bella had never been personally invested in a drag show before.
As the number came to a close, Bella allowed her eyes to wander again, and for a second she thought she caught a glimpse of something green flashing behind the edge of the curtain. She sat up a bit straighter, peering through the dim, but by that time, whatever she had thought she'd seen had already disappeared. Resolving to pay slightly more attention to what was going on around her – and to stop getting lost in her own nervous moodiness – Bella focused on the woman in pink, who was currently introducing herself in a rough, breathy falsetto.
"Welcome, welcome! You are too kind," the woman gushed, gesturing dramatically toward the audience. Instinctively, Bella's eyes swept over the lines of her costume, and especially over the lines that weren't visible, even though the dress was clingy in all sorts of potentially problematic places. Frowning, Bella squinted and looked harder. But still. Nothing.
"As many of you know, my name is Amanda – Amanda Playwith – and this is Ladies' Night here at Le Faux. I'll be your Mistress of Ceremonies, and let me tell you, we have got some beautiful, talented girls here to entertain you tonight, so without further ado … "
Bella's attention began to wander again as the next performer was introduced, rolling her eyes slightly at the cackle of laughter she heard erupting from Jasper at the double entendre of the name. She watched on in detached skepticism as an odd, extravagantly dressed woman took the stage, all garish colors and overdone make-up and sparkly hair.
After her, there was another. And then another. And then another.
Another long sweep of shiny fabric. Another set of breasts that didn't quite sit right. Another pair of too-glossy lips.
And in all of them, Bella found that she was looking for something. Some tiny piece of the man she loved and whom she desperately hoped she would still love when this was all over.
Only part of her just didn't know how.
As the performers and pineapple cocktails began to run together, Bella lost the will to keep her memory from darting back to unhappy places. To the day when she had discovered him.
When everything had threatened to completely fall apart.
It had been a perfectly normal day, really. For reasons she couldn't even remember, Bella had gotten out of work early, and she had been excited about the prospect of getting home before Edward did for once. The two of them had only been living together for a few weeks, and the entire way home, her head had been dancing with vague notions of waiting for him, spread out on their bed, clad only in a new set of lingerie she'd picked out especially for him.
Only she hadn't beaten him home.
And she hadn't been the only one thinking about lovely, lacy things.
She'd only caught the tiniest of glimpses of him, really. Of his long, lean body and the thin wisps of hair she loved to run her hands through as they trailed down toward his cock.
His satin and lace-covered cock.
To her credit, Bella hadn't run out of the apartment screaming when she'd seen the purple satin panties her lover had been wearing. Nor the matching bra.
It was less to her credit, she knew, that she had slammed their bedroom door shut before retreating to the kitchen to fix herself a pineapple and Malibu. A double.
She'd needed it.
Sucking on the liquor-coated ice cubes rattling around at the bottom of her glass, Bella could still remember the terrified, embarrassed look Edward had worn when he'd finally emerged from their bedroom – dressed in men's clothing, thank goodness. She could remember his relief, too, at finding her still there.
As a blush bloomed across her own face, she could feel his shame and the terrible guilt she had felt for judging him. She hadn't been able to help it though. Edward had always been such a man. He loved football and math and tits. Her tits especially.
Or maybe he had just liked her bra.
Bella crushed the ice cube between her teeth in agitation as she let her mind slip back to that afternoon again. Once she'd more or less overcome her shock, they'd spent the entire evening – and most of the next few evenings, as well – talking. She'd learned about the enthusiasm Edward had always had for women's lingerie. For the way it felt on his skin. For the way he looked in it.
For the how it felt to have so many eyes on him, staring at him as he took to the stage while wearing it.
She had also learned – and he had been very clear on this point – that while he was, admittedly, a cross-dresser, he was also still a heterosexual man. A very virile heterosexual man. Who still wanted to have sex with her. A lot.
They hadn't, though. In the three weeks since she'd discovered his most carefully guarded secret, Bella had only been intimate with him once, and it had been awkward at best. In spite of her best efforts, mental images of her strong, masculine lover dressed in lace and feathers and sparkly things had distracted her so completely that eventually she had had to apologize and get dressed. With tears in her eyes, she had promised him that she still loved him and still wanted him.
But that she just hadn't known how to reconcile that desire with what she now knew of him.
To be honest, she still didn't know how to put the two images of her lover together in her mind.
Not without laughing. Or crying.
A warm hand on her shoulder brought Bella back to the spectacle going on around her, and she smiled gratefully when she realized it was Alice, lending silent and much-needed support. As she looked over at her friend, Bella happened to catch a glimpse of a clock hanging on the wall behind the bar. She checked her own watch immediately after, confirming that there could only be a few more numbers left before the end of the show. Inwardly, something gave out as she began to wonder if something had happened. If perhaps Edward has changed his mind. And she couldn't quite decide if the idea of Edward chickening out made her feel relieved or disappointed.
She didn't have long to ponder the question, in the end. Around the edges of the stage, another flash of something green caught her eye, and Bella leaned forward expectantly as Amanda Playwith took the microphone, practically sashaying her way back down the runway. Around her, the spotlights shifted, growing softer in intensity and cooler in color.
And Bella knew what would happen next.
"And now, ladies and gentleladies, do I have a treat for you! Back by popular demand, returning to the stage after more than a year away from us, I present to you the very beautiful, very talented … Miss Emerald!"
Alice was tapping Bella's shoulder excitedly and Jasper was clearing his throat, but Bella couldn't have noticed for all the world. After spending the whole evening in her own head, she was now singularly focused on the stage before her. As she watched, the curtains parted, revealing a woman's profile in silhouette, all curves and poise and the high, sharply defined features she knew better than any others in the world.
A low electronic tone filled the air and the lights shifted, spots filling in and revealing a long, shimmering but understated dress in a host of undulating shades of green and veridian. Pale skin. And a long fall of soft red hair.
The figure on the stage turned, finally stepping fully into the light and allowing Bella to really appreciate the way a bit of dramatic make-up complimented a clear complexion. How a swipe of glossy rose lent a feminine beauty to lips she knew best when they were pulled into a smirk, but which were still soft and full in a sultry pout. The way a piercing green gaze had been transformed into smoldering bedroom eyes. And the way a rough, manly jaw had been softened when set against long, coppery curls.
And then the woman started to sing.
Well there's something wrong
And there's something right
When you can take me by the hands
And I will close my eyes
Drawing in a deep breath, Bella found herself just as captivated by that voice as she had been the first time she'd heard it. When her lover had used it to sing her a song he'd written himself, stilling his strong hands over the keys of his piano only to lean forward. To kiss her deeply.
And to tell her that he loved her.
Lights around her flashed, and on stage, hips undulated; a figure in green danced, seducing a crowd with the same charm he had always used.
And with his beauty.
He was still so damn beautiful.
Are you working up to something?
But you give me almost nothing.
Keep me hopeless
Up to something
On my knees
Bella scarcely knew what she was doing as she pushed herself away from the bar, fumbling in her purse. She ignored Alice and Jasper and their questioning stares as she found what she had been looking for, scrawling a quick message in purple ink, and then setting out on tipsy feet toward the front of the room.
The green eyes set in that perfectly made-up face on the stage were clearly searching the room. As Bella moved, she thought she saw those eyes settle on a spot just behind her. And she was sure she saw them cloud with disappointment before strong shoulders shifted back in a gesture of defiance.
Long hands moved toward the clambering arms, accepting bills and touching skin, as soft, red lips pursed to blow kisses to admirers. So many admirers.
And all Bella could think was that this man – woman – person was hers.
I would be so winning
So absolutely winning
Bella watched those eyes scan the crowd one last time as she jockeyed for position, and then she was right there at the lip of the stage, her hand extended, a hundred dollar bill clasped between her fingers.
And there, across the face of it, were written just four purple words
Be my fucking boyfriend?
Emerald eyes connected with her brown ones, pouting lips jerking up into a picture of stunned if hopeful surprise, a high tenor voice slipping for just one instant.
Bella's heart bloomed as Edward took the bill. As her Edward read the message. And smiled.
And then an entire room full of people watched as the infamous Miss Emerald got down on her knees at the edge of the stage and kissed a small, brown-haired woman passionately on the mouth.
Bella was sitting at the bar with Alice and Jasper, still trying to dab off the smudges of lipstick around her mouth left over from her boyfriend's kiss when Edward found her. The show had just ended and he was still in full costume.
And he was beautiful.
Deciding she was two drinks past caring about the lipstick stains, Bella stood to greet him, her eyes lighting up and her hands moving automatically to the soft coppery curls of the wig to pull Edward's mouth toward her own. She kissed him with abandon, moving her lips and tongue against his more freely that she had in three long weeks, and as he responded, pulling her firmly against his chest, she felt her own body's desires rise and spark. Even the feeling of breasts against her own didn't dissuade her, and if anything, the lack of a hard erection pressing into her hip only served to intrigue her.
With the sort of confidence that can only come with profound tipsiness, Bella drew her hand down Edward's smooth-shaven jaw and neck, humming slightly against his mouth as she touched the place where his chest hair usually started. When she grazed his breast through the soft fabric of the dress, she couldn't help but giggle slightly. She wanted to be embarrassed about her reaction, but Edward was laughing, too, drawing her into his arms.
His breath was warm against her ear, his voice exactly the one that always turned her insides to cinders as he rasped, "Does this mean you're OK with the cross-dressing after all?"
Her hand continued its downward path, over his side and then to his hip, her gasping breaths her only reply. Bella was only just self-possessed enough to dart her eyes around the room before she dared to let her fingers drift between their bodies, brushing the mysterious smoothness of his crotch. His hand closed around hers just as she began to probe more wantonly, his face pulling back slightly so he could stare directly into her eyes.
She thought he was going to remove her hand completely, but instead he simply pushed it further down, his legs parting so that he could trace their intertwined fingers down the inside of his thigh.
And it was still there, beneath the fabric of the dress. Of course it was. All thick and hard and wanting.
Always wanting.
Bella was wanting, too.
"Does it hurt?" she murmured, her lips brushing his as she traced a finger up and down the length of him.
"A little," he replied, his voice husky as he returned his hand to her hip. "But kind of in a good way."
"I'd hate to hurt you." She was being coy, teasing, as she drifted her hand back up his leg to his hip. He wouldn't have any of that, though. Not after three weeks without her touch on his body. Not with the way that, beneath the tape, he was aching.
Bella's breath hitched as Edward pulled her more tightly against him, pushing her back against the bar.
"There's only one way you can hurt me, love," he whispered.
Bella shook her head, moving to press her palm to his heart. "I won't."
"Thank God." With that, they were done talking, kissing each other roughly against the bar, her hands trying to find the edges of his wig so she could run her fingers through his hair. His real hair.
"Um, guys?" Jasper's voice finally interrupted them.
Bella pulled herself away from Edward's mouth with reluctance, gripping his neck and ass to keep him close as she turned her neck. She glared at Jasper, but the look on his face was so uncomfortable, his laughter so barely restrained that she couldn't be angry. Jasper gestured around the bar to show precisely how much attention Bella and Edward's demonstration of affection had garnered. Smirking, he suggested, "Maybe you guys should, um, go help 'Miss Emerald' get changed?"
Edward pushed away from Bella but took her hand, and she was amused to see that he was blushing an even deeper crimson than the rouge that covered his cheeks. With a shy little half wave that was completely at odds with the confidence he had displayed on stage, Edward acknowledged their friends. "Um, hi Jasper. Alice."
Alice looked right past his embarrassment and stepped right up to him, wrapping him in a hug and pushing up onto tiptoes to kiss his cheek. "You were fabulous up there. Completely tasteful."
Even Jasper managed to extend his arm, ignoring the red polish on Edward's nails as they shook hands the same way they would have on any ordinary day.
Only it wasn't an ordinary day. Not at all.
Releasing the handshake and putting his arm around Bella's waist, Edward motioned back toward the stage. "Well then, I guess we're going to go, um … "
"Yeah," Jasper responded, tipping his beer at them and winking.
Tucked up against his side, Bella let Edward guide her toward the door that led toward the dressing rooms. The hot flash of desire that had nearly claimed her as she had begun to explore Edward body against the bar was still there, even if it had been subdued by the intrusion of her friends. She wanted nothing more than to go find out for herself exactly what was under that dress, but this evening was Edward's, and she didn't want to cut it short.
She tugged on his arm lightly. "You're sure you don't want to … mingle?" Most of the other performers were wandering through the room in all their glittery glory, nursing cocktails and speaking animatedly.
Edward bent down to speak roughly in her ear, his hand possessive at her side. "There is only one thing I want to do right now."
Normally, such a bald-faced implication that he wanted to fuck her would have made her equal parts annoyed and aroused, but at the moment, her emotions were entirely clear.
She knew what she wanted to do, too.
It was hard to tell who was leading who as they pushed through the exit and down the darkened corridor. The moment the dressing room door was closed and locked behind them, Edward's lips were attached to her neck, the rough tug of his teeth against her skin reigniting her body as she melted against the wall, her hands tearing at the wig. He grunted loudly and bit down slightly harder on her skin, his hands coming up to join hers in pulling clips and pins from his hair, until with a jerk he managed to remove the wig and the cap he'd been wearing underneath it.
His hair was damp and soft between her fingers as she scratched at his scalp, his mouth and hands urgent on her skin once more. Bella could feel Edward's touch everywhere, smooth fingertips dragging themselves along the outside of her thighs as he pushed up the hem of her dress, his mouth working its way down toward her breast.
"You feel so good, Bella," he murmured gruffly. Her shuddering breath was her only reply, but behind her she began fumbling, fanning her hands along the wall, searching for the light.
"Wait a minute," she gasped.
Her thumb finally connected with a switch. Flooding the room with light, she found herself staring into smoky green eyes, lined in emerald and kohl. "So I can see you."
Bella could just barely make out the flash of crimson polish as Edward ghosted a finger down her face and neck, over her dress and between her breasts. Had she not known him so well, she might not have been able to detect the hint of insecurity laced with the lust in his voice. "And do you like what you see?"
She shook her head and watched his eyes and mouth fall, but she refused to let him pull away. Holding his face in her hands, she shifted his gaze upward, still shaking her head slightly as she murmured, "I love it. And you."
A small smile cracked open on his face. "I love you, too."
The ensuing kiss was softer than the previous ones, but it was no less intense. Pausing for breath, Edward murmured, "Thank you. For coming. For not running out on me."
Bella took his lip slightly between her teeth as she grinned. "Of course not."
Edward groaned as he pulled his lip back, pushing forward with an aggressive kiss, his tongue warm and wanting as it swept through the inside of her mouth. His hands moved roughly over her skin again, and Bella gave herself over to it.
Her two images of her lover were one.
Because both of them were of the same beautiful man.
"Come here," she breathed between kisses, her hands no longer tentative as they traced along his body. She palmed his ass and pulled him in against her, growling slightly as she ground herself against his leg. His needy sigh echoed through her ears as he began to hitch up his own skirt, digging under it and cursing softly against her mouth.
Without completely knowing what she was doing, she placed her hand around his wrist, stopping him. "No," she whispered. "I want to see."
His look was doubtful at best, but after swallowing thickly, he nodded. Even though he was clearly nervous, Edward let Bella drop to her knees, gathering up glittering green fabric as her palms traced smooth but muscular legs.
"You shaved," she murmured as she placed a soft kiss to a scar just below his knee. He nodded breathlessly, watching in rapt attention as she continued to slide her lips farther and farther up the warm expanse of skin, until finally she met the inside of his upper thigh, breathing hot over needy, swollen flesh.
And surgical tape.
She stared it for a long moment, her hand rising to trace the line of his cock where it was throbbing and taped against his thigh. The moment she touched the hot length of him, Edward's whole body twitched, his dick leaking slightly, and it had been so fucking long.
Bella took no mercy on his agitated state. Ignoring the way he gritted his teeth and rested his hand on the back of her hair, she merely kissed the head and then shifted, her hands tracing farther up his legs until they met with soft black lace. Part of her wanted to take the time to appreciate the contrast of the intricate material against the masculine lines of his hips, but she decided there would be time for that later. Slowly, she began to pull the panties down his hips, letting them fall around his ankles before moving to inspect the place where the skin of his balls had also been taped, everything tucked up and away. Grazing the smooth, hairless skin with just her fingertips, she craned her neck up to look him in the face, only to find his eyes glazed, his smudged, red lip now held tightly between his teeth.
"Can I?"
"Please," he grunted.
With a wicked smile, Bella used the very edges of her fingernails to begin to peel back the tape that held his erection against his thigh. "Fast or slow?"
Edward winced. "Fast."
"Always," Bella agreed with a smirk and a wink, finally taking the peeled-back edge of the tape between her teeth. And then, as gently and quickly as she could, she tore it away.
Edward's howl was muffled immediately with the insertion of his hand into his mouth, but Bella could still hear it. Working fast, she pulled the other two strips of tape away before he could recover.
The grunt of pain still issuing forth from Edward's mouth quickly morphed into a long, hard groan as Bella finally showed some compassion, taking each descending ball into her mouth in turn, exploring the smooth shape of them with her tongue. When she plunged her mouth down over his cock, surrounding the head in wet heat and breath, he nearly lost his mind, the hand at the back of her hair grasping more firmly, his hips jerking forward.
She took him in deeply, sucking and twisting, one hand holding and sliding over the parts of him that her lips could not reach, while the other held the hem of his dress. As his moans began to grow louder and less restrained, his cock gliding smoothly through the tight circle of her lips, he shuddered, then pulled her up by her hair, slamming her back up against the wall. Pressing his mouth to hers in a series of deep, needy kisses, he kicked off his heels and pulled the dress up and over his head, flinging it into a corner to stand there before her, his erection long and thick and leaning toward her.
But Bella still couldn't help but giggle at him, standing there naked except for a black lace bra.
Her laughter cut off when she felt him, hot and hard against her hip, his mouth urgent on hers as he pulled her dress up, breaking the kiss only for long enough to slide it over her head. "Something funny?" he rasped, slipping a finger beneath the edge of her underwear to tease at wet flesh.
"No," she managed, her eyes rolling back when he found her clit. "Nothing at all." His touch withdrew as he pulled down her panties, leaving them in equal states of undress. "Only," she said, pulling the straps of the bra down his shoulders and beginning to fumble with the clasp, "do you mind if I take this off?"
He smirked against her lips and palmed her breast. "Only if I can take this off."
They wrestled with clasps and straps for a moment, and Bella was amused to find out that it was, in fact, more challenging to remove a bra when it was being worn by someone else.
Finally, they were both naked, and as Bella stared up into his face, she was surprised to find that the makeup wasn't a turn-off. If anything, it just softened and accentuated the features she had always found so striking; smudged as it all was, it also lent a freshly fucked look to his face.
A look she very much wanted to accentuate.
As if he could read her mind, Edward captured her mouth and her body in the same self-assured motion, lifting her until she could wrap her legs around his waist, the underside of his cock pressing just so against the wet heat between her thighs.
"You want me?" he asked one last time. And even though he was sliding his firm flesh against her, she knew that he was talking about more than just sex.
"More than ever," she whispered truthfully, her fingers soft on his cheek as her arm wrapped around his neck. With a gasp, she felt him tighten his grasp on her ass and pull his hips back, their eyes connecting, and then firmly, confidently, he lined himself up and pushed inside.
"Holy fuck." Edward's eyes snapped closed, his forehead hitting the wall beside her head as their hips met, his cock buried. "Never make me wait that long again to be inside you."
"Never," she agreed, panting and so full. "Never again."
With one more long groan, Edward pulled his hips back and began a hard, steady rhythm, filling and stretching her, and Bella cursed, gripping hard at his back and neck as she gave herself over to the pleasure she'd be craving. Shifting her hips in time with his thrusts, she worked a hand down toward her clit as the other one twisted roughly in his hair.
And any doubts she could have had about the nature of the person sliding thickly between her legs evaporated as her body moved quickly toward its peak.
Because there was nothing to doubt.
Only a man could fuck her like this.
Her man.
"God, Edward." Her head fell back against the wall, her mouth parted and her breathing heavy. "Please."
"Please what?" he whispered. "Keep fucking you? Touch you? Make you come?"
"Yes. All of it. Yes."
His pace and intensity doubled as he pounded up and into her, her hips pinned to the wall now by his hot hands. Something inside her gave with his renewed efforts, and her pleasure barreled forward, unstoppable and unchecked. She only had time to grab his neck, pulling his mouth to hers before she was falling over, her body clenching, uncensored words sliding past her lips – words like 'more' and 'yes' and 'please.'
And his name. Over and over and over, she screamed his name.
"I fucking love it when you come," he groaned. "I can feel it." And he could. All along the length of him, sliding wet and hot and flexing muscles moving over him. Pushing him.
"Fuck," he sputtered, and then he was coming, too, his cock pulsing, throbbing, releasing deeply into her.
With the last unsteady jerking of his hips, Edward's knees gave out on him, and together, the two of them slid down the wall until they were a tumbled heap on the floor, his body still inside hers and her legs thrown roughly over his hips. He rested his forehead against her neck, staring down at her breasts and at the place where their bodies met, peeling her back from the wall to wrap his arms around her waist.
Bella was the first to break the stunned silence. "Wow."
He chuckled and pursed his lips against her skin, raising his head to look her in the eyes. "Yeah. Wow, indeed." Her internal muscles flexed, as if in emphasis of the point, and a shudder ran through Edward's body, making his whole face twitch. Sighing, he pulled back slightly and urged her up, allowing himself to slip from inside her before setting her back down on his lap and kissing her mouth.
Bella's eyes scanned his face, thinking to herself just how much more freshly fucked it looked now that he had, in fact, been freshly fucked. Running a fingertip across the smudged line of lipstick to the side of his lip, she giggled. "You've got a little, er, something …"
Edward was so happy to have her in his arms, so relieved that the sexual tension between them had finally broken, that he couldn't be bothered to take the bait. Instead, he let his face erupt into a placated, post-coital smile and pulled her finger to his lips, kissing it softly before touching her own make-up stained face.
"You do, too."
"Wonder how that happened."
He had already taken her bottom lip between his own before he responded, murmuring happily, "It is quite the mystery."
By the time their kisses slowed, a more serious mood was descending around them, and Bella soon found herself with her head between her lover's hands, looking into smudged, tired, but still hopeful eyes. It was only then, staring at him like that, that she realized just how devoid of hope those eyes had been these past few weeks. How heavy and weighed down Edward's shoulders had really been.
"Hey," she said quietly, touching his cheek. "You OK?"
He nodded roughly, swallowing. "I am. Now. I think. Are you … you're really alright with all of this?" He gestured vaguely at the pile of his shoes and at the green dress. And then at himself. "With me?"
Bella's heart hurt for him as she let herself really see just how worried and insecure he had been. "Yeah. Yeah, I am."
Their lips brushed again for just a moment before her breath wavered. "I mean … you don't want to be 'Emerald' every day, do you?"
"No," he laughed. "Way too much work. Not to mention, my balls are going to itch for a week."
She smiled and agreed and touched the smooth skin of his chest. "And I like you with hair. Here."
"I know." He hesitated. "That's not a deal breaker is it?"
"No. Definitely not. Just so long as it's not all the time. I fell in love with a man." She could see the quick flash of pain in his eyes at her choice of words. "And I'm still in love with a man." Placing her hand along his jaw, she emphasized, "This man."
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Edward was beaming now. "Can I keep the hundred bucks?"
She slapped him playfully. "No fucking way."
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At the sight of him holding his own bra, Bella found herself laughing once more, a sudden bolt of inspiration striking her.
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Its principal objectives have always been the same – to keep our clients informed of important developments in the gold market, condense the available gold-based news and opinion into a brief, readable digest, and, most importantly, to counter the traditional anti-gold bias in the mainstream media. That formula has won it a loyal five-figure subscription base.
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The interest rate trap
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"Interest rates on Treasury securities, which have been exceptionally low since the recession are projected to increase in the next few years as the economy strengthens and to end up at levels that are close to their historical averages (adjusted for inflation)." Budget Outlook for 2014, Congressional Budget Office
Had the Congressional Budget Office done the math, as outlined in the table above, it might not have appeared so nonchalant about the prospect of Treasury paying the historical average interest rate on the massive federal debt.
The historical average interest rate paid by the Treasury Department from 1990 - 2013 calculates to 5% and to 7% from 1971 to 2013. The current average interest rate paid by Treasury across the range of maturities is 2.4%. At 5% Treasury would more than double its interest payments from $416 billion annually to $867 billion. At 7%, Treasury interest rate payments would balloon to $1.2 trillion nearly triple the current interest payment annually.
Tax revenues amount to $2.8 trillion. As a result interest would take up 31% of revenues at the 5% average rate, and 43% at the 7% average rate. In short, the federal government might be seen by the rating services in either instance as ultra-high risk, or possibly even technically bankrupt. As it stands the St. Louis Fed puts the sovereign debt to GDP ratio for the United States at 103.3%. Anything over a 100% ratio is considered over-indebted.
Keep in mind that the federal government will have added nearly $1 trillion (or more) to the national debt when fiscal year 2014 comes to a close end of September, and no one sincerely believes that the borrowing is going to come to a standstill, or even that it is going to be cut significantly.
The federal government in short is ensnared in a debt and interest rate trap of its own making from which it will be difficult to extricate itself. Pundits and market analysts alike might believe that the Fed is going to raise interest rates at some point in the future, but the reality of higher interest rates might bring far worse consequences than can be achieved by simply staying the course. Some small, even token, rate hike is tolerable, but a return to historical norms could reap consequences in the general economy far beyond the direct effect on the federal government's fiscal status.
It is a matter of convenience, perhaps even good politics, to be discreet about the relationship between the Treasury's debt, its associated interest rate burden and the Fed's ability to raise rates. Sooner or later, though, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department will be faced with the hidden and unavoidable consequences of raising interest rates to the historical norms, and the interest rate trap will become apparent to the financial markets, including gold. The Federal Reserve is already reacting to the problem by deliberately keeping interest rates down. Blaming that policy on the employment problem, though, might someday soon become a slight of hand played to an increasingly skeptical audience.
The implications for gold
The Everyman edition of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire comprises some six volumes and nearly 4000 pages. Rome was not built in a day and, as Gibbon's work reveals, it was not lost in a day. What we are challenged to recognize with respect to U.S. monetary policy today is not an event, but a process. The decline of the dollar since the United States went off the gold standard in 1971 has not come in a handful of sudden, cataclysmic events like formal devaluations, but gradually and consistently, over a period of four decades. That process is likely to continue.
Gold has had long periods where it gained in value during those four decades, periods when it lost value, and periods when the price was stagnant. The over-riding trend, though, has been to the upside. In fact the long-term linkage between the rising U.S. national debt and a rising gold price is one of the most enduring features of the contemporary fiat money economy president Richard Nixon launched in 1971. (See chart)
Since the early 2000s, when gold's most recent bull market began, periods of stagnation like the one we are in now have reaped the highest rewards for the patient buyer. The lesson here is one as old as the gold market itself: The time to buy is when the market is quiet. As an old friend and client used to say (he recently passed away) when the market was stuck in the $300 range: It is not a question of if but when. He lived to see his prediction come true and his estate reaped a small fortune from his gold coin holdings.
The continuing inability of the U.S. federal government to come to grips with its fiscal problems largely explains the enduring, some would say stubborn, presence of gold coins and bullion in millions of investment portfolios around the world - including those of central banks, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds. Until such time as fiscal rectitude takes hold in the halls of Congress - an unlikely proposition any time soon - current gold owners are likely to hold tight and new gold owners are likely to continue joining their ranks. In the end, contemporary gold owners by and large do not own gold to become wealthy, but to protect the wealth they already have.
"There's a growing gap between what central banks are telling us about inflation versus what people are really experiencing in day-to-day life. There are a lot of reasons for this but I think it's important to understand that [nation] states are broke, and therefore they are looking at ways to default on their own citizens. And inflation is one of those mechanisms. So it's not surprising they don't tell you that's what they are doing."
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"There's a growing gap between what central banks are telling us about inflation versus what people are really experiencing in day-to-day life. There are a lot of reasons for this but I think it's important to understand that [nation] states are broke, and therefore they are looking at ways to default on their own citizens. And inflation is one of those mechanisms. So it's not surprising they don't tell you that's what they are doing."
- Philippa Malmgren, former White House official, White House liaison to the Federal Reserve and member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets (Plunge Protection Team) in a King World News interview
September Gold Notes
Stocks are up about 2% year to date and gold is up about 8%. So after all is said and done – after all the saucy anti-gold and pro-stocks rhetoric is filtered through the various media – the inarguable reality is that gold has been a better performer than stocks thus far this year. . . .and by a significant margin.
There is much talk about gold demand being down in China thus far this year, but that development needs to be put into context. Physical metal, not paper trading, dominates the China gold market. Simply put, today there is not as much physical metal available for China's import as there was in 2013 when the London-Zurich-Shanghai pipeline was operating at full tilt. Most of that gold was sourced from ETFs and those funds are now once again net buyers of the metal. With ETF metal now off the table, of course China's imports are down. Gold market pundits, both friend and foe, should stop fretting about short-term Chinese demand and focus on the fact that whenever large quantities of the physical are made available the Chinese are all too willing to take it up. Put enough physical metal on the market and you will see China's imports rise.
Gold stocks are said to lead the physical metal particularly when a major turnaround is in the offing. Gold stocks this year, using the XAU Index as an indicator, are up 25%. This bodes well for the metal itself going into the annual kick off to the Fall investment season in September. As noted earlier, gold metal is up 8% thus far this year – so there is a considerable gap between these two components of the gold market.
"No wonder there is no joy in the land, even if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is bouncing in and out of record highs. The Obama presidency is nearing the final turn. Savers have been devastated. The market isn't what it seems. No one wants to lend and no one wants to borrow. Unemployment is still above where it was when Congress gave the Fed a mandate to bring it down. A new Fed chairman has made jobs her signature. But will anyone at Jackson Hole ask whether it is the fiat nature of our money that got us into this hole in the first place?" - A recent New York Sun editorial
Fiat money is probably here to stay, but its presence is easily addressed in the private investment portfolio through the simple expedient of gold ownership. Recall gold's price history since fiat money was first introduced in 1971. Then recall its history since 2008 — and the dawn of the crisis which Jackson Holers still find themselves addressing six years later. As the Sun's editor so incisively states in the same editorial quoted above: "We celebrate, say, the sages of Berkshire Hathaway. Yet the value of a share of Berkshire has plunged to something like 159 ounces of gold from the 269 ounces of gold a share was at, say, the day that George W. Bush acceded to the White House." (Perhaps that nettlesome fact of economic life is what drives the Sage's antipathy to yellow metal.) Put yourself above the jury-rigged economics — Jackson Hole or otherwise. Save in gold.
Richard Russell remains one of my favorite analysts simply because he is about as down-to-earth as they come. In a recent interview at KWN, he warns of a stock market crash saying that "trees don't grow to the sky." He advises: "Stay with silver and gold and pray for the good of the nation. I must say that I'm fascinated to see how the US will deal with its surging and compounding debts. What worries me is the continuousness of those two eternals — Inflation and War." Some more hard won wisdom from a money master: "I have picked silver and gold as my form of capital preservation. Both are trading solidly in fixed ranges, which is fine with me. If the stock market drops 25% and a money manager is down 23%, he considers it a good performance. That's not the way I see it. If the stock market is down 25%, and gold remains in its trading range, I consider that an excellent outcome."
Ernest Hemingway: "The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
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- raul said...
Love this set. Especially the image of the girl touching the ceiling.
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- Timothy said...
All are amazing.
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Thanks Raul and Timothy (how's Boonville going - thanks for the card!). What is it you see in or like about them and what does the series as whole do for you - anything fit or not fit?
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I'm working on reevaluating aspects of myself to grow as a human being. People who have been on the site for a while and who have seen me around could probably answer this. Do I seem like someone who is too reserved to the point of being distant or neglectful or do I seem like someone who would be more attentive? This could be in the realm of friendship or relationships.
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When I first joined GAG which was two years ago you were certainly more active than you are now.
I wouldn't say that you're neglectful though you aren't on here as frequent as you once were. I would just say that you have a life outside of GAG and in the real world and that there's more important things that have to come first. Either that or you're starting to become bored with the site like many others that have either left or aren't on as much.
But besides that whenever you are on you still contribute to the site, give great advice, and not afraid to let others know where you stand. You may not be on GAG as much as you once were but I certainly wouldn't say that you're neglectful.21|10|0
Thank you for the assessment :)
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Youve been with this site for a long time and I've always thought you gave really nice advice. You seem to be caring. Although you offer great advice and are indeed attentive, I still think you come off a little detached and defensive. Not in a harmful way, but I just don't think you trust people. So... there's my 2 cent. For whatever that's worth lol.21|10|0
Yeah I've been accused of being detached in the past. Trusting doesn't come easily to me. Wow I'm impressed that you've been able to discern that about me. Thank you very much. Seriously.
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Wow....I'm the first comment!!! How'd that happen! Anyway, I love all your tips on indoor plantings. I remember terrariums from years ago (like 30+)ReplyDelete
and also succulents that my mom cherished in our yard growing up! There is nothing nicer that some live greenery in your home but some can be tricky to keep alive. My big successes have been with orchids and on a few occasions have even gotten them to re-bloom! I'm envious of your fiddle leaf fig, it's doing so well....but living at the beach gives all plants that little edge that makes them thrive! And then there's Rogers Gardens.....a paradise of loveliness! Beautiful tribute to Boston....my heart goes out to them too.
Rogers Garden! Say no more....ReplyDelete
I like the orchids in the terrariums...! Love anything from Rogers tooReplyDelete
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these are all so beautiful. I hesitate writing this, my fiddle leaf is doing really well too! Since November! but I have never fertilized it. What should I use?? I don't water it very often, maybe every 10 days. I guess I may need to do it more in summer. Love all your ideas! I have never been to Roger's Garden but it must be amazing!ReplyDeleteReplies
I just added the single serve fertilizer that I put in the watering can to the post...thanks for asking.Delete
I don't normally read the other comments until after I post mine, however I just read Gail's lovely comment and all I want to say is ditto or what she said!ReplyDelete
So jealous of how well your fiddle leaf fig is doing. I might be over watering mine. The nursery guy said water it once a month. That doesn't seem like enough. I don't know. Anyone??
Nice tribute to Boston Mary Ann...it's just so sad and makes me so angry.Replies
Karen...you should put it in the reservoir pot that I mention with a link above. Then, it comes with a dipper stick that tells you when it needs water...sometimes it's every 10 days or two weeks.Delete
Karen, I think I lost mine from under watering and because it was SO root bound in the pot when I bought it. I should have had the nursery repot, but I didn't realize it until it was too late. I definitely try your method Mary Ann.Delete
I am going to make a terrarium or two. I love them. I also have a fiddle leaf fig and can't wait till it gets taller. It has put out a lot of new growth in the past week.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tribute to Boston, Mary Ann. It's been a horrible week, but we're a great city filled with strong people. Your kind words are appreciated.ReplyDelete
Great ideas Mary Ann. Plants add so much life to our homes. I like the boxwood idea for rooms that are don't have the right light conditions for live plants.ReplyDelete
Really cool post! Love all the plants! What do you use to polish the leaves on your fiddle leaf?
Thanks Fran...I added what I use on the leaves in the post above.Delete
Hi Mary Ann,ReplyDelete
My son likes to design these terrariums .. and he adds poison arrow dart frogs! UGH! There are so many ways of doing this.. love all the suggestions. You just can't beat Miracle Gro. They have one that's specifically for orchid that I use all the time. I still have a hard time getting them to re-bloom. I've heard orchids need consistent temperature variation of about 10 degrees. 75 degrees during the day and 65 at night. I haven't tried it yet:)
Mary Ann,ReplyDelete
Great ideas. I love the topiaries, what a great idea to use them for the dining room table when entertaining.
I also like your fiddle leaf fig. I remember when those were popular years ago, I'm happy to see they're back.
I adore the old fountain container and just the other day I saw a chipped fountain on clearance but passed on it and to think I could have done this.ReplyDelete
I love greenery in a room...it adds a feeling that someone lives there! Just like books! I never trust someone who has NO greenery and NO books! LOLReplyDelete
love this post, Mary Ann! You certainly have a green thumb, especially with your fiddle leaf fig!ReplyDelete
Easy is definitely the name of the game for me Mary Ann! And these are wonderful options! :-)ReplyDelete
Mary Ann,ReplyDelete
Great examples here! I've see all the 'makings' at West Elm. I have had difficulty wrapping my head around the succulents as growing up in SoCA and having 'ice-plant' all over the yard. Hearty yes, but not very pretty. I do love your pix of the succulents in the bird bath!
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Interesting products you use on your fiddle leaf tree (and which it clearly seems to like). I have never heard of leaf shine or a reservoir system. Great ideas to simplify caring for house plants.ReplyDelete
Mary Ann,ReplyDelete
Thank you for including my terrariums in your post! I am still in search of a fiddle leaf fig tree. I completely forgot about your watering system. Such a great idea!
I have one like the one on your mantle and it really doesn't take much care! I hardly ever water it....There is nothing better than some greenery in a home.....I agree.ReplyDelete
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St Kilda expect star Carlton midfielder Chris Judd will play in the Wellington AFL Anzac Day match.
But just the rumour of Judd's withdrawal from the game was enough to make Saints coach Alan Richardson smile.
The Carlton star is said to be in doubt for Saturday's match against St Kilda because of a back problem.
"I heard something on the radio on the way here and put a little bit of a smile on my face," Richardson said in Melbourne on Thursday morning before the flight to Wellington.
"That would be a good outcome … he's been in pretty good nick.
"They've been great around stoppages and he's been part of the reason.
"We'd take that if that was happening."
Carlton were flying to Wellington later on Thursday.
St Kilda confirmed they will still be without captain Nick Riewoldt and midfielder Leigh Montagna this weekend as the veteran pair recover from injury.
Riewoldt was a late withdrawal from last Friday night's loss to Collingwood with a calf muscle injury.
Richardson said it is unclear when Riewoldt would return.
"We certainly won't take any risk – we want to make sure he's really strong for us for as much of the season as (he) can," the coach said.
Last year's No.1 draft pick Paddy McCartin was a last-minute addition to the team for the Collingwood game when Riewoldt pulled out.
"There's no doubt we struggled in terms of connecting the back to the front half on the weekend without 'Rooy'," Richardson said.
"For so long, the backs have come out and he's been the man who's presented.
"The numbers against us in terms of entries reflected that.
"We'll mix things up a little bit and Paddy will play again – he'll be better for the run."
While McCartin had minimal impact in his AFL debut, Richardson is confident the young key forward will improve.
"I was reported as saying in an ideal world, he wasn't quite ready and that's still the case," he said.
"But the reality is, we need him and we think he's the next best of our key forwards.
"We think he did some pretty good stuff late in the game – we hope he builds on the way he finished off."
After an upset win over Gold Coast, St Kilda had a bad loss to Collingwood and Richardson said his team's work at the stoppages had let them down.
"Whether it was the boys were a little bit tired, whether it was when the rain set in, the bigger bodies and the experience of Swan and Pendlebury, we got smashed in the middle," Richardson said.
"That presents an enormous challenge – Carlton have been really positive with stoppages, I think they were plus-23 against the Bombers.
"We just have to make sure we're much stronger in there.
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Recommended CitationO'Sullivan, Sandy, Interview: Sandy O'Sullivan, Journal of Global Indigeneity, 1(1), 2015.
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Professional Healthcare Representative, Vaccines - Innovative Health - Youngstown, OH
Youngstown , Ohio
November 22, 2016
About the company
A career at the company offers opportunity, ownership and impact.
All over the world, the company colleagues work together to positively impact health for everyone, everywhere. Our colleagues have the opportunity to grow and develop a career that offers both individual and company success; be part of an ownership culture that values diversity and where all colleagues are energized and engaged; and the ability to impact the health and lives of millions of people. the company, a global leader in the biopharmaceutical industry, is continuously seeking top talent who are inspired by our purpose to innovate to bring therapies to patients that significantly improve their lives.
Role Description
The key focus of the Professional Healthcare Representative (PHR) is to increase the level of the company Vaccines product sales within assigned portfolio and geography. This is accomplished through regular on-going contact with providers and by building solid working relationships with providers that ensure continuing access that enables the use of effective direct selling techniques. The PHR is responsible for selling vaccines product directly to providers in addition to promotional activity.
The following represents key responsibilities to achieve this objective:
• Accountable to meet or exceed product sales objectives for assigned portfolio of products.
• Responsible for providing healthcare providers with all relevant information that promotes quality healthcare decisions.
• Maintains an in-depth and sophisticated knowledge of specific healthcare issues, products and disease states that enables the PHR to engage in meaningful dialogue, build credibility and add value when calling on providers.
• Overcomes access challenges caused by the volume of competing pharmaceutical representatives
• Maintains an expert product knowledge base including patient education, consumer education, and factors influencing the market environment. Understands and uses approved promotional materials to support marketing message.
• Responsible for understanding the managed care market dynamics and medical coverage or formulary status of each promoted product and for communicating this information to physicians and staff.
• Establishes and maintains objectives for geography in consultation with district management to assure proper portfolio balance and planned actions.
• Creates effective call plans that include who to contact, how frequently to contact them, and what products to focus on for each call.
• Utilizes appropriate message segmentation for each healthcare provider, including decisions about which product(s) to discuss, frequency of calls, and which approved materials to use during the call. Prepares in advance of the call for a focused interaction with the provider using approved sales aids and samples.
• Employs effective selling techniques, including pre-call planning, effective opening, presentation focus and productive questions, issue identification and effective close.
• Successfully implements the call plan and resource strategies as developed with district management to meet or exceed goals.
• Seeks out and utilizes customer and market data, and as necessary, adjusts sales strategies based on that data to maximize sales results; monitors progress and adjusts efforts and activities to exceed goals.
• Analyzes sales trends, competition, and provider habits to maximize effectiveness of each call, and based on that information, tailors a unique sales approach for each call with the goal of becoming the best representative servicing that office.
• Evaluates sales potential and access to existing customers for the purpose of adjusting, as necessary:
a. Call plan at determined time intervals
b. Resource offerings to existing customers
• Decides what types of interactions or educational opportunities will maximize the use and prescribing of the company products. Effectively executes product tactics to support marketing strategy which includes making judgments about how and when to use samples in a productive manner and the type and extent of home office support to offer to providers, such as marketing and education.
• Continuously prospects for appropriate new customers; communicates opportunities, competitive activity, and business events to the District Business Manager and Regional Business Director or Sales/Marketing management as appropriate.
• Continuously develops and maintains productive business relationships with customers in order to increase access and sales results.
• Determines best access methods using whole office call approach.
• Efficiently uses time with providers in order to present the most impactful product messages.
• Customizes the delivery of product messages (e.g., anatomy, physiology, disease state, and treatment options) to align with customer needs and highlights only those features and benefits that are relevant to the customer and consistent with the Package Insert and Good Promotional Practice.
• Completes all assignments from District Business Manager and Headquarters Sales Management in a timely and efficient manner (including the maintenance of accurate records on all accounts and activities within the territory).
• Completes all call reporting and inventory recording responsibilities in accordance with current procedures and policies.
• Distributes samples, if available, to only licensed practitioners, and follows all Good Promotional Practices procedures and policies.
• Sets aside needed study and certification time, during off-territory hours, required to learn medical, product and policy information, as well as to maintain company supplies, equipment, and records.
• Prepares for, attends, and actively participates in all required sales conferences and training classes at local and/or remote locations.
• Undertakes a program of performance and career development, whether through the company or own initiative, and continually strives to improve knowledge, skills and capabilities.
• Collaborates with Vaccines Account Managers to implement plan for the assigned geographic business and/or managed care business.
• Supports these plans with appropriate literature, samples, and special programs , consistent with Company policies and procedures.
• Bachelor's degree required
• Must live within territory and/or 50 miles from Headquarter City
• 1-2 years selling experience required.
• Prior pharmaceuticals, healthcare, education, insurance and/or outside business-to-business selling experience preferred.
• Ability to work independently and manage time effectively without close supervision required.
• Working knowledge of sales operations including: data/reports, call planning, and sales tactics preferred.
• Proficient with the use of Excel in analyzing and interpreting sales data.
• Creativity to accomplish sales goals is required.
• Understanding of market strategy, tactical mix, and financial management desirable.
• Effective interpersonal, organizational, communication skills and the ability to advance and influence the acceptance of ideas required.
• Prior vaccines sales experience in the pediatric and or adult market is a plus
• Prior or current experience working with the company tools and or systems (i.e iCUE) is preferred
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Colleagues who are issued an Incident Final Warning (IFW) on or after January 1, 2016, are not eligible to post and compete for a position for a period of 12-months from the date an IFW is issued.
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GINI DP 45: The Power of Networks. Individual and Contextual Determinants of Mobilising Social Networks for Help
In this paper we treat social networks as a resource of individuals, that is used in conjunction with other types of capital, and similarly to other types of capital, its use is context-specific. We propose a conditional mechanism for how context determines networks use: not only does context affect network mobilisation, but that it affects behaviour of different groups differently. We test this proposition on the example of social and economic polarisation influencing probability of turning to networks for help by different income groups. Our findings show that although the poor have the greatest need to turn to networks to compensate for the shortage of other forms of capital, when context becomes adverse, in comparison with other groups they are always disadvantaged in terms of networks mobilisation.
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Winners of the first ever M S Oberoi Gold Awards, instituted by the NGO Transparency International India, have been announced. Transparency International India, which is committed to combating corruption with support from the Oberoi Group, has instituted these awards to reward journalists for outstanding stories exposing corruption in India.
The Gold Award winners were Varghese K George of the Indian Express and Rohit Khanna of CNN-IBN (Special Investigation Team). The Silver Awards were shared by M L Narsimha Reddy of the Telugu daily Eenadu and Samudra Gupta Kashyap of the Indian Express in the Print category, and Saurabh Shukla of Aaj Tak and Sidhartha Gautam of CNN-IBN in the Electronic category.
The Gold award carries a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh, a medallion and citation, while the Silver Award carries a cash prize of Rs 50,000, a medallion and citation.
The jury comprised personalities from the fields of journalism, law and industry, which included B G Verghese, Columnist and Author, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative; social worker and writer, Harsh Mander; Justice Leila Seth; marketer Vinod K Bakshi; and Arun Duggal, Vice Chairman, Transparency International India.
P R S Oberoi, Chairman, The Oberoi Group, said, "Journalists, who often at substantial personal risk, investigate and expose corrupt practices, deserve applause, recognition and encouragement. The Rai Bahadur M S Oberoi Media Awards are an effort to demonstrate our admiration for these compelling tales of courage, character and integrity. I would like to congratulate the winners for their exemplary zeal, which if relentlessly pursued by all of us, has the potential of making India a better place to live in and do business with."
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