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Tethys Bioscience and Lose it! Announce a Strategic Partnership to Support Diabetes Prevention
Jul 02, 2012, 09:00 ET
EMERYVILLE, Calif. and BOSTON, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tethys Bioscience, developers of the PreDx® Diabetes Risk Score (DRS) blood test that predicts the 5-year probability of progression to type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes, and Lose It!, the consumer weight-loss program, are combining their technologies to improve weight loss and diabetes prevention. The terms of partnership call for the PreDx DRS to be incorporated into the Lose it! weight loss program. This agreement follows the completion of a 3-month assessment conducted in primary care practices, which showed that the combined use of their two technologies extended the average "days of engagement" with the Lose It! program by over 10%, and was associated with significant weight-loss.
"We know from diabetes prevention studies that healthy eating and physical activity can lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. A challenge has been motivating patients to make and then continue these lifestyle changes," said Juan P. Frias, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Tethys Bioscience. "The impact we observed when our technologies were combined confirms our belief that an informed patient - one who is aware of the likelihood that they may progress to type 2 diabetes - may be more motivated to adhere to a weight-loss program."
Charles Teague, Co-founder and CEO of Lose It!, concurs. "To our knowledge, this is the first time a novel prognostic test has been paired with a leading consumer weight-loss program to evaluate the power of the combined technologies. Our partnership with Tethys reinforces the link for the user between their risk for disease and action they can take to lower that risk, which may lead to better long-term results. It also enhances our ability to connect with people who are in greatest need of the service we offer – an easily accessed, user-friendly program combined with technology that will help them lose weight and lower their risk for developing type 2 diabetes."
About the Tethys/Lose It! 3-Month Program
Tethys and Lose It! conducted a 3-month program in three primary care practices to evaluate whether an individual's knowledge of their likelihood of progression to type 2 diabetes, as measured by the PreDx DRS, would increase his or her use of the Lose It! application. The number of days that participants used the application ("days of engagement"), the percent of participants that used Lose It! for greater than 2 weeks, and self-reported weight loss were assessed.
Eighty-nine patients (54 men; 35 women) ranging from 20 to 70 years of age participated in the program between November 2011 and January 2012. All were provided with their PreDx DRS results by their physician before starting the Lose it! program, with the majority (75%) electing to use the Lose It! smart-phone application.
Results showed that the average "days of engagement" for participants was 10% longer than that of the typical Lose It! consumer.
The 27 participants with greater than 2 week's engagement averaged 51 years of age and 53 "days of engagement." Their mean PreDx DRS was 4.9 out of 10 ("moderate risk") – with 12 (44%) at low risk, 7 (26%) at moderate risk, and 8 (30%) at high-risk. Their average starting body weight was 221 pounds and their initial BMI was 35 (Note: 90% of the participants had a BMI >30, defining them as obese). At the conclusion of the 3-month program, they had lost approximately 10 pounds (4.5% of their body weight). In one very successful case, a 60-year old participant with 113 "days of engagement" lost 15 pounds (7.5% of his body weight) and his DRS was reduced from 9.7 ("high risk") to 5.7 ("moderate risk").
About the PreDx® DRS
PreDx® DRS is a fasting blood test that combines the results of seven predictive biomarkers, plus age and gender, into a numerical score that predicts the 5-year likelihood of progression to type 2 diabetes among adults with prediabetes, a condition that places them at increased likelihood of progression to the disease. Validated by the Tethys Clinical Laboratory (TCL) in a number of large populations, the PreDx DRS has been shown to be highly accurate in predicting likelihood of progression to diabetes, as well as a reliable method for monitoring the impact of lifestyle interventions on a patient's likelihood of progression to diabetes. The PreDx DRS is intended to be used in conjunction with other clinical information to aid healthcare providers in determining optimal prevention strategies to delay or prevent the onset of diabetes.
The PreDx DRS is currently performed exclusively by the CLIA‐certified Tethys Clinical Laboratory located in Emeryville, CA.
About Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 95% of diabetes cases, is a preventable chronic disease that afflicts 26 million American adults, and threatens an additional 81 million diagnosed with prediabetes, a condition that increases risk of developing the disease. Caused by defects in multiple biological pathways, type 2 diabetes is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels that result from the body's inability to properly utilize insulin, or to produce sufficient quantities of the hormone.
A chronic and debilitating disease, type 2 diabetes is associated with significant microvascular (e.g., eye, kidney, and nerve) and macrovascular (e.g., cardiovascular) complications, as well as an increased vulnerability for depression, Alzheimer's disease, a number of cancers and premature death.
About Lose It!
Lose It! is a consumer weight-loss program that uses proven principles of weight loss (tracking and peer support) along with technology to help people manage their weight and improve their health. Originally created for the iPhone in 2008 (and downloaded by more than 10 million people), Lose It! is now available across many mobile and Wi-Fi devices, and at Loseit.com. Consumers have lost tens of millions of pounds on the Lose It! weight loss program. For more information please visit www.Loseit.com.
About Tethys Bioscience, Inc.
Tethys Bioscience is a cardiometabolic diagnostics company that creates and commercializes biomarker‐based blood tests that predict likelihood of progression to chronic disease and enable targeted intervention to forestall the onset of chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes. Tethys initiated sales of its first product – the PreDx® DRS – in 2009, and has processed 85,000 to date. Additional products are in development to determine likelihood of first‐time heart attack, osteoporotic fracture and other cardiometabolic diseases. For more information about Tethys and PreDx DRS, please visit www.tethysbio.com.
CONTACT: Caitlyn Waller Krebs
Tethys Bioscience, Inc.
SOURCE Tethys Bioscience, Inc.


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chipv wrote:Brutal Assassin wrote:Just something of note - With Archers/Catapults only being able to assault like tiles, I ended up stuck in a scenario where I had around 30 troops which were stranded with no way of winning. All I could do was attack around the map in a circle. Being an honorable player, I opted to not suicide on someone, but really that is the only option I have that would impact the game. Otherwise I'm just stuck making men waiting for someone to kill me since there is no way to expand outward.
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This is part of the strategy of the map. Obviously avoid getting into this scenario whilst trying to get your opponent into it for example.
Just making sure it was intentional. Accidentally reinforced an archer unit without realizing that it was a loop and essentially stranded my entire army -_-

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"OPEN AIR" Philadelphia
Michelle Alton 10/9/2012 9:34:21 AMI shot this hand-held with my Canon 24-70mm lens (the original, not the most recent incarnation) which has no image stabilization.
Terry T. Ruvalcaba 10/9/2012 12:14:35 PMnice capture, love the blue lights! #10362304
Robert R. Goodman 10/9/2012 12:47:18 PMHi Michelle,Beautiful cityscape my friend.Excellent low light capture.Amazing what is art now,always changing!!!! #10362341
Monnie Ryan 10/9/2012 1:32:02 PMWhat a fantastic concept! Not sure I'm totally fine with using a cell phone app while driving, but I've gotta love technology! Absolutely gorgeous capture! #10362373
Mike Clime 10/9/2012 1:33:46 PMBeautiful night shot and love all of the lights! #10362378
Jack Gaskin 10/9/2012 1:35:41 PMCOOL Makes me think of WWII night air raid Pics
Jack #10362383
Stan Kwasniowski 10/9/2012 1:56:56 PMJMichelle, wonderful #10362420
Claudia Kuhn 10/9/2012 3:21:29 PMWow, what a cool thing! I bet you'll be there on several nights to get some more interesting pics #10362506
John Connolly 10/9/2012 4:10:31 PMYou have a flair for nightshots Michelle! This is a superb hand held capture, I hope you took some more images! #10362549
Patrick Rouzes 10/9/2012 4:31:27 PMThe tones, lighting, detail, clarity & mood are exceptional, Michelle! Incredible job!
Terry Cervi 10/9/2012 5:27:15 PMFantastic work, Michelle! #10362630
Cindy Bendush 10/9/2012 8:12:26 PMVery cool Michelle! Fabulous capture! #10362812
Ann Coates 10/9/2012 8:49:23 PMWhat a stunning image Michelle and what a quirky idea this is. Sounds like something that would work in our battered city at the moment. We did have the lights of hope but I think its time to move on and think more positively and this would certainly be a cool idea, although to be honest we don't have too many tall buildings left. #10362829
Paul E. Earl 10/10/2012 2:35:42 AMThis looks fabulous Michelle! Wonderful capture. #10363016
Connie J. Bagot 10/10/2012 5:02:46 AMLovely image---love those lights and the story behind them! #10363271
Joyce S. Court 10/10/2012 5:04:18 AMWhat an unusual concept. Creative minds abound.
Nancy L. Green 10/10/2012 9:00:20 AMSPECTACULAR capture Michelle, gotta LOVE today's technology!!! <>< #10363546
Emile Abbott 10/10/2012 12:07:26 PMAmazing capture Michelle. #10363873
Nancy Marie Ricketts 10/10/2012 5:06:38 PMBeautiful capture and interesting story, Michelle! #10364363
Brett Dolsen 10/11/2012 3:31:34 AMSpectacular scene and story Michelle! #10364827
Val Feldman 10/11/2012 4:47:23 PMExcellent commentary, as always and kudos for the spectacular handheld capture without IS. ...you are one adventurous and spunky lady! I've never heard of this technology before (Austin needs this!) -very cool - but can't help but wonder what a laugh like Fran Dresher's would do to the light beams...Incredibly-Steady-Hands-Michelle, indeed! #10365882
Gina M. Savage 10/12/2012 8:13:25 PMWow! This is so impressive and stunning, Michelle! A favorite for me. #10367247
Julianne Bradford 10/14/2012 6:09:56 PMVery neat Michelle!! #10369430
Jill Odice 10/16/2012 11:08:13 AMYou must have very steady hands Michelle! This is so crisp and sharp! Bravo :-)Beautiful night time shooting! #10372089
Rona L. Schwarz 10/17/2012 9:21:58 PMTerrific night capture, Michelle! Very crisp, clean and detailed. And what an amazing story to go with it! #10374338
From now (it began in September) until October 14, 2012, internationally acclaimed new media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmers public art project Open Air will illuminate the Benjamin Franklin Parkway with enormous three-dimensional light formations in the night sky.
Every night from 8-11 p.m., participants can use their voices to activate 24 robotic searchlights placed along a half-mile section of the Parkway, all via a custom iPhone app developed for Open Air.
The app analyzes the users voices for frequency, intonation and volume, and then converts them into unique searchlight formations in the sky.
The lights react, both in brightness and position, creating a canopy of light over the city.
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I've just read something pretty disappointing on the Portsmouth News website. Apparently thieves have stolen plaques from a memorial in Kingston Cemetery, remembering victims of the Blitz in Portsmouth.
The memorial is granite, and around 1.5 metres high, with four plaques listing over 120 names, including many whose bodies could not be identified. The inscription reads:
What really makes me sad about this is that either the thieves managed to prize the metal from the memorial in broad daylight (you can drive around the cemetery, so perhaps they took a van right up to it), or they did it at night when the Cemetery is closed. It is locked at dusk, because I have almost been locked in before (my Grandad was once years ago). I doubt very much whether people who are willing to go to those lengths will be too bothered about defacing a war memorial, sadly. Many of my family were in Portsmouth during the blitz, they could very easily have been killed and their names ended up on these plaques. A memorial is the same as a grave, and to steal a memorial is like grave-robbing.
It's by no means the first time that metal has been robbed from a war memorial – perhaps the most high profile case is that of the Naval Memorial in Portsmouth, where one large bronze plaque was taken from the memorial on Plymouth Hoe. We are told that the price of scap metal is at an all-time high at the moment, and certainly there have been a lot of thefts of lead from School, museum and church roofs in the last couple of years. And then theres the theft of copper railway signal cabling.
One has to look at scrap metal dealers in this kind of situation. Someone, somewhere, will be no doubt receiving some big lumps of metal that are quite obviously from a war memorial. If scrap metal dealers had more scruples about what they accepted from dodgy characters out the back of vans, then people wouldn't bother going out and nicking it in the first place. For me, it is time legislation got tough with the scrap metal industry.


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Adele's one of the luckiest people in the world
Her success is literally down to the Semisonic singer writing a good song for her to sing
i didn't know that
what song is that? isn't that the case with just loads of people though
Someone Like You
``"We didn't try to make it open-ended so it could apply to 'anybody.' We tried to make it as personal as possible. She may not have had a melodic hook or a specific lyrical idea, but she always knew what she wanted to say. She definitely had a master plan."``
music's dead
- thedamnedear, Antelope, and elspud this'd this
- Matt_was_taken this'd this
- Royter-Hatfood this'd this
Robyn has a creative team
she doesn't write all of her own stuff. She sings with a backing track an all.
- navajo, badmanreturns, twentynine, AfraidOfOwls, and DJRoomba this'd this
he must be fucking rich...
his list of writing credits is staggering, he pretty much is R&B.
He also gives no fucks enough to turn up to the grammys like this:
This is why I can't really understand why people go so wild over Rihanna and Beyonce, tbh
Could be anyone singing those songs, they just got lucky.
If The-Dream did those singles and those videos he'd prob be some kind of Psy-esq Gangnam Style phenomenon thrughout the world.
very true
just made me lol thinking about it.
- andyvine this'd this
Well I'm obviously being a bit facetious
I just think it's insane the way that people go totally batshit crazy over Beyonce - what is it they find so special about her? I mean, look how many people it took to write this mess of a song:
I don't mind Beyonce's music, but I can see the logic behind the praise someone like Lady Gaga gets a lot more, despite not enjoying her music *at all*.
what she does with the songs
'cause of her voice, style and so on. Different people would perform them differently and they'd probably be worse songs for it. That's part of what being a 'popstar' is about.
have you never wondered how a track would sound with a different rapper over the same beat?
same thing really.
Well no because they wouldn't have had the actual song written for them
There's a difference between having a song produced for you and one written for you (Beyonce's seem to be both).
but beyonce's voice is horrible
she's gorgeous though and i like her attitude but her music suuuuuucks
it's called charisma
lady gaga is a tryhard
also probably best not to say bad things about countdown if you want to be taken seriously
*look how many people it took to write this mess of a song*
That's nothing. It took eleven people to write this one! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Just_Wanna_Love_U_%28Give_It_2_Me%29
It's called sampling, you buffoon.
As far as I can work out Countdown samples one song
Other than that it just sounds like 4 different songs stuck together.
Wasn't Rolling in the Deep already a massive hit anyway?
so "Her success is literally down to the Semisonic singer writing a good song for her to sing" actually means "her success after her already pretty massive success is literally down to..."
Which is still wrong.
As far as I can see he co-wrote it.
She's probably just a lot more talented than you'd like to admit.
``She may not have had a melodic hook or a specific lyrical idea, but she always knew what she wanted to say.``Royter-Hatfood this'd this
And yet she's monstrously successful.
So I say again, she's probably just a lot more talented than you'd like to admit.
Regarding that song: it's not particularly great. Rolling in the Deep is far better. Her fame on the back of that song was about her performance of it at The Brits or wherever. So it's very much about her making it the event it was.andyvine this'd this
yes, that's how pop works.
ta-ta now.
at least I don't do things like this, mate
that's literally the bizarrest, creepiest thing i've ever seen on here that wasn't posted by daddyorchips.
the fact that you even found that thread ffs...
She's marketed as a songwriter but it's bollocks
It's annoyingMarwoodW this'd this
Nah she's incredibly talented and richly deserves her success.
Stop being a flange.Anthonyc this'd this
Preston from THE ORDINARY BOYZ
writes songs for Oli Murs
Without making any judgement on her talent whatsoever,
I'm pretty sure she has worked very hard and continues to work very hard to make the most of every opportunity that has been presented to her.
Having good fortune is one thing. Being prepared to take advantage of it when it arrives is another thing entirely._TheBeautifulOnes_, watsona7, chris-budget, JaguarPirate, thedamnedear, and Lo-Pan this'd this
plus she's funny in interviews on the telly
i want to go drinking with her
- badmanreturns this'd this
Almost might be worth mentioning that being 'a Labour girl through and through'
means you should probably stop publicly complaining about paying tax on your massive income.emmettcruddas this'd this
i'll do my best.
- politelydeclined this'd this
Person A says she's lucky.
Person B says no, she's talented.
That makes sense.
- badmanreturns and _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
There's a Didier Drogba compilation on YouTube set to Someone Like You.
It broke me. Adele can stay.
Well yeah.
The odds of being such a gifted singer are small.
The odds of being such a gifted singer who gets noticed by labels and people powerful enough to give her a chance to work at huge success are smaller.
The odds of being such a gifted singer who gets noticed by labels and people powerful enough to give her a chance to work at huge success and of that work paying off to such a massive degree are smaller still.
It's daft to accuse her of being lucky pejoratively. It's probably even weirder to leap to her defence on that level.
you forgot the odds of the existence of a life sustaining planet x the odds of human evolution
we're all pretty unfathomably lucky reallyDanielKelly this'd this
Speak for yourself, mate.
I worked really fucking hard at existing and evolving.
I'm not sure the odds are small about being a gifted singer.
I'm not sure she is a gifted singer. Her talent is one of performance.
Look almost EVERYONE can sing. Almost EVERYONE can play guitar like a guitar god. Most people don't put the hours in, that's all.
I don't think charisma is really something you learn but maybe I'm wrong on that score, but it's pretty much the only thing you can class as a talent. For most people talent is their way of not feeling guilty about wasting their lives watching TV/on the internet/etc. when they could have spent that time learning stuff. (10,000 hours and all that.)
Obviously all of use who have time to spout bullshit on this message board are lucky in the same way Adele is lucky. As in, we weren't born in some third world warzone where we had to fight just to keep alive and everything here would seem like trivial nonsense.
(Come at me, etc.)
well this thread broke
just like adele's heart in the hit single 'someone like you'
Any excuse to post the best Oscars photo
Has she lost weight?
Her hair has got bigger so I guess proportionally...
looks buff though
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It's time to post my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE NPR story ever. I post this EVERYWHERE since I first heard the story on Planet Money:
Okay, that's a seriously disturbing read.ThisTemporaryLife this'd this
It just seems weird that vocal coach / producer is there to tell her how to sing the song so exactly? I guess the wording isn't so clear but it sounds like she doesn't even get to try sing it the way she wants, but it's entirely directed.
And also just the sheer money involved. I'd always thought a lot of the songs were commissioned based on songwriters sending stuff in, I suppose more like people writing stories to send into magazines. The amount everyone has to spend on something that feels like it really shouldn't be that hard.
Doesn't seem that weird to me.
This is what producers do - try it like this, try it like that etc.
I'm maybe putting more on it than is said, but it seems written from one of those "pwoper moosic for pwoper bands" angles.
I don't remember if they cover it in the article itself
But in the episode related to it, they point out one very interesting thing: how many people think of "Man Down" when they think of Rihanna? Not very many, because - at least stateside - that song was a flop. All of that money, all of that manpower, all that hard work... for a hill of beans.
That's the gamble, and the amount of hard cash involved is a little disheartening. There's nothing technically wrong with it; I consider myself to be a lover of pop music, and as such, I understand that pop music is just made a different way. It just feels a bit... homogenized?
They make the point it flopped
then say the other singles made back the money.
In a 2012 music roundup podcast by the NYTimes they were saying how apparently Kendrick Lamar's album sold as much as Rihanna's but obviously cost a fraction of the outlay and how that might be scaring the labels.
I wonder if they are re-assessing this sort of expenditure.
Wouldn't it be lovely if the success story that comes out of Good Kid, m.A.A.d. city is that it made executives realize that the money they throw at pop music isn't worth it sometimes, and maybe they should start trying to hone the talents of the artist, rather than have them be little more than a marionette made flesh?
But it's only homogenised if all the writers, producers etc are coming up with the same stuff
Bringing a bunch of people to the table can have the opposite effect – everyone pulls in different influences and ideas.
Perhaps that wasn't the word I wanted
What I meant to say, it takes the music and hollows it out. It makes it feel overly processed in the worst ways.
One can only hope that having all of those different minds in the same room would broaden the horizons of the music. Even if the song they analyzed for the story turned out like crap.
Well I read around a bit more and that looks to be the album where she has fewest/zero writing credits on so I presume the others could have been done differently.
It wouldn't seem so weird if that was her first album, but it's her fourth. She was already popular, wasn't she? I just don't really get the point of spending so much to control such a degree to a singer's performance. By that time in her career I'd have thought she'd already know how to approach a song.
I don't know about "pwoper moosic for pwoper bands" hyperbole, though. It's not like there's only ridiculously processed highly controlled music and four lads in matching clothes banging stuff out in a studio.
Dunno, I can't comment much more as, Umbrella aside, I've never heard anything by Rihanna that I found remotely appealing, unlike, say, Adele or Beyoncé. I'm sure it's the same process for everyone but it just seems like it can't be squeezing out $15,000 of extra profit per song to have that person telling her exactly how to sing it like a director at a musical. I'm probably being naive though.
I don't know how common it is
But the fact that they use the term "songwriting camps" seems incredibly deliberate, meaning that it's a regular occurrence.
I'm sure it is.
I imagine they do the same for big label acts in all kinds of genres out there. I thought Xenomania was essentially the same sort of thing but was a company in its own rights.
I don't find the idea too surprising, although the costs and scale does seem quite nuts. But by the time you're through with the article you just feel like you've just seen Michael Bay make a film adaptation of your favourite book.
That thought is terrifying.
House Of Leaves does not need anything blowing up.
But seriously -
I definitely understand what you mean. It feels kinda dirty.
not 100% that this is the usual routine
ie hiring 'teams' to go to a camp, i think, though i could be wrong, that it's more common for a producer to write a song and then sell it to a label, or in some cases a specific producer will just have a personal relationship with the pop star and they'll go to the label with it together.
my guess would be that it's cheaper to hire groups of people like this who will get paid once and not again, whereas if you get the-dream to write your song you'll probably have to give him a cut of the profits. but doing it that way is like security in case the album turns out to be incredibly lucrative for the label, with the offset being the dip in quality.
I'd like to bring this thread to a close
Thanks for participating
And I opened it up again
Soz and all that.
But doesn't mean that she didn't come up with both eventually
She may have not walked into the studio with either a hook or a specific idea, but that's not to say the other guy came up with both either. Could be a co-write, collaborative song, as the credit suggests.
It's not particularly unique in "serious" music either. Bat For Lashes co-wrote Laura in pretty much similar circumstances. You can also be sure that a fair amount of producers have similar uncredited roles - Chris Thomas was interviewed in something or other recently and his apparent input into some pretty classic albums seem to consist of similar methods, i.e. a band can walk into a studio with an ok song or a crumb of an idea and are pushed and cajoled into writing a better one.TheoGB this'd this
Semisonic?! Bloody hell, never thought we'd hear them discussed in the public domain again
I liked them, weirdly.
All About Chemistry is like a great 80s pop record that's too naff to constantly admit to liking, but it has a certain something in a Hall and Oates kind of way.
Not really interested in the songwriting debate and so on
but her voice goes right through me. I don't like it.
But then I don't really like any overblown female vocalists. I don't think I do anyway.badmanreturns this'd this
what about shirley bassey?
surely no one doesn't like shirley.
she complains about paying tax
she can seriously fucking cunt offshinymcshine this'd this
I just think she (or whoever writes the songs) are good at thinking of hook-y phrases that sound cool and meaningful
While meaning precisely fuck all
Chasing Pavements
Rolling In The Deep
Set Fire To The Rain
It's just like my life!badmanreturns and theShipment this'd this
who cares?
sick of her ass
I think we're all missing the most important point
which is that the really high bit in the chorus is likes nails down a fucking blackboard


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Man shot to death in Henry County; cousin charged with murder
Man shot to death in Henry County; cousin charged with murder
HENRY COUNTY, Va. —
A man was charged with murder after his cousin was found shot to death early Friday morning.
Thomas Dwayne Turner, 36, of Bassett, faces a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of Sonny James Turner, 44, of Martinsville.
Sonny Turner was found shot around 2:25 a.m. at 180 Blackwell Road in Bassett. Sonny was shot during an argument that escalated into a physical confrontation, Henry County deputies said.
Thomas Turner also was charged with use of a firearm in commission of a felony. He is being held without bond in the Henry County Jail.
Anyone with information that can help with the investigation is asked to call the Henry County Sheriff's Office at (276) 638-8751 or Crimestoppers at 63-CRIME (632-7463).


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' \ j r 1 e simpsox j i i . februan 1 1879 & i five years old.had r , ' â– us of worms 1 tried calomel v<n i oth er worm medicines but fail j ' '" expel any sceinj mr bain's\j \ ' i ii«1 a vial of your avorm^9 j '■• ' p . ( i tlu first dose brought forty i f '* " r - ~. and the second dose so manyjr | \ wei co ild not count them j 6s h adams q j proug^ht to life hon burgess 8 gaither writes the statesville landmark as follows there was a young man residing in wake comity by the name of fitz gerald receiving information thai his mother was lying at the p lint of death and wished to speak with him he made immediate haste his horse became exhausted when he arrived at the catawbe river he applied for a fresh horse by contract to return it in a special time he obt lined one and left his own until his return he found his mother still alive and con verged with her she - ton died an 1 was buried and he remembering his i ppointed time to rel irn to his horse being behind time fonnd a state war rant against him for horse-st saling was arrpsted committed to jail in statesville was proscuted with all hai rel malice and vengeance convicted by the law and executed by hanging and pronounced dead l friends ob tained his body from the gibbit carried it a shorl distance from statesville to water applied the proper remedies restored the body to life and returned i to tennessi e he i here married and raised an interesting family highly intelligent wealthy honest and re spectable i his storj doe not h ive the right ring about it there was no theft in the case and it will take a good deal to convince the writer that an redell jury could have been induced to con vict a man under the circumstances 1 rue it occurred some years since but iredell has had sensible men within her borders for a long time there must have been more in the circumstances than appears above but the point is th c iming to life which is a remark able instance itotes prom elackmer postoffice editors ll'atchm tn the season in our section lia.s been changeable the corn crops where cultivated bids fair to be good the sudden change has caused cotton to shed some in some places the ground is getting too hard to plow the people of our section expect to seed a large acreage this fall the clover crops being excellent will yield more in value per acre than wheat k h convll & co have been hulling for some time and have more than a month's work to do yet the peach apple and grape crop have been i'he people of steele township have been working pretty ex tensively in the creeks clearing away rubbi.sh from the auks sawing out rafts logs and everything that is calculated to obstruct the current preparation i being made t straighten the channals of the affluents where needed sonic of good people got sick about the creek law and refused to work until they saw a lawyer some of whom i think inns have sucked a spider and g<it sicker while others saw and were healed health in our locality is good steele for liie watchman a mysterious case founded on fact and all by lovo we p.iini liim as 1 child i w hen he should should sit a gi:m ton his clouds th â– great disturbing spirit of the world a bell sounded and the jury issued prom the chamber where they had held their deliberations and proceeded with solemn tread to the court-house ai their entrance a thrill of expectation ran through the anxious throng await ing the ver lict the foreman approached and ad dressed the judge bv my honor and my conscience before god and men t he jury is 1 is lean edonard i : hampvalliers guil tv of the wilful murder of jeanne madeleine de baspre his lawful wife "} es l>v t he majority is jean bldoiiard haiupvalliers guil ty of the \\ ilful murder of franc lise lucie ean!auie ':" yes by the majorit ." the procureur general arose i demand the application of article 302 of the penal code the president of the as>;/es having consulted by a glance his two colleag ues said the court upon due deliberation condemns lean kdonard champvalliers tn sutt'er the pain oi death in expiation of his crimes and turning towards the prisoner pale as death and sup ported bv two gendarmes he added you have throe days in which to ap peal from the sentence which ha been passed upon yon champvalliers was a:i intimate friend of mine e y m ] been schoolmates the same college had witnessed our early escapades the same faculty had conferred upon us the coveted parch ment which iii solemn ponderous latin proclaimed our astonishing scholastic abilities to a nonchalant world afterwards he had become a banker in order to succeed his father who hud long looked forward with yearning to retirement from active life while i in obedience to pronoun ced bohemian penchants had conse crated my youth to visiting the princi pal countries of europe in spite of the distance and difference of taste which separated us we still preserved our early intimacy and each week re ciprocally addressed e a zh other a veri table budget of our impressions it was by means of the i'o.-t that 1 was apprised of his marriage with mdlle de baspre a charming girl he wrote with only one t'aulr tii.it of being too beautiful too beautiful i made answer have a c ire hah he re plied she hasjusi made her debut from a c invent where she hsis ever beeu noted as an angel of frankness and virtue and it shall be my life's joy to jealous ly guard the treasure which has been confided to my keeping i shall be aided i;i this delicous task by her cous in lucie who is i little older than madeleine and who feels for her an almost motherly tenderness however let my wife beware of attempting to class me iii one of those categories which the seigneur de bourdeilles enu merates so complacently in hu dis cours sur les dames ghilantes for ht r !. : r u ill b the forfi if for her luck of loyalty or loss of honor w hen two months afterwards i saw champvalliers my first question well are you happyin your do tnestic life why certainly very happy not a cloud upon the azure of your felicity not one 1 assure vmi i do not know why but it seemed to nu that he hesitated a little in affirm ing thus positively the pleutitude of hi blissful tranquility however his wife to whom he presented me appear ed charming in every respect as he had stated in his letters neither shun ning nor courting society and concen trating all her affection upon her husband and cousin lucie who lived with 1 hem entirely reassured as to the peace and happiness of the little household i took my leave of champvalliers and resumed my wanderings over the con tinent judge then of my grief and conster nation when in the depths of russian forests i read the following extract in an old french paper another myivtkrous drama thursday morning the whole quar ter of st 1 , was thrown into intense excitement by three revolver shots fired in rapid succession * * * the passer-by among whose number was a commissaire of police rushed into the house of m champvalliers whence the reports appeared to pro c 1 a ghastly spectacle met their horrified g pale with wild eves and bristling hairs stood the master of the house in the act of presenting to his breast the muzzle of the still smoking we ipon wii h which he had just slain his two victims at his feet writhed in the last spasms of agony i two women one the wife of m "< lmrap alliers the other one of her relations the murderer permitted himself to be arrested without any the public are lost in conjectures as to the motives which could have impelled to the cominis rfioi of such a revolting crime one u of our wealthiest bankers who has hitherto commanded the esteem of all two weeks later i was admitted by special permission to his cell the interview as may easily be imagined was harrowing yon were mad were you not not in the least and it it were to be done again i would do it and perceiving that i was stupefied at this reply he said that surprises van but recall to your mind the words of the letter in winch i announced to you my marriage let my wife beware she proved unfaithful then yes and no i)o not now seek to fathom this matter you will know all later the jury may do with me as they set fit am done with life and shall not seek to clear myself lie kept his word the day on which champvalliers sailed for new caledonia his sentence having been commuted to banishment with hard labor for life i received by post a volume of braritome as 1 w.is mechanically turning it over-in my hands ignorant as to who could i have sent me the book it opened of its > own account at a dogeared leaf thanks to the italics the printer had employed - one sentence immediately caught my eye and i read the following verse of mania which it is unnecessary to translate hie ubi vir non est ut sit adulte rium — m â– w - ■— a remarkable rascal one of the convicts a work on the murphy division of the western x c l k has a history that beats any thing to be found in a dime novel nearly forty years ago this convict was the most elegant gentleman in western north carolina he belonged to a good farnilv and was well educated and re fined one day he suddenly left his neighborhood and went to raleigh there lie read law under lion james m mevhead was admitted to the bar and soon gave promise of distinguish ing himself in ins profession he mar ried a young lady of considerable for tune but it was soon discovered that he had another wife at h.s old home he was convicted of bigamy and sent to the penitentiary where he served out hi term the war coming on he enter 1 . the confederate army and fought with desperation and valor af ter the war he went north and in the character ofa p rsecuted southern union man swindled general grant horace greely henry ward beecher and other prominent repulicaus out of 820,000 he returned south and said the northern people had persecuted him and • drh â– :; him from place to place because he had served in the confederate army this excited the sympathy of gen toombs alexander h stephens and others they gave liberally to the poor fellow the other day a newspaper correspondent had this phenomenal swindler pointed out to him he saw a broken down old man of sixty five working with a gang of convicts he i is serving a fifteen years term for forg ! ery and will doubtless wear stripes until he dies such is the bare outlines of a life-history abundant material for a sensational romance — atlanta con&titu ! tiii/i the new sugar saci harine the newly discovered coal tar product bills fair to work a com plete revolution in the sugar and syrup j industry iu germany where the new sugar is already being produced on quite a large scale it is being largely used by bakers and confectioners and by the manufacturers of beet-sugar anil glucose these latter sugars although claimed to be superior in digestibility and healthfulness to cane sugar are inferior to it in sweetness and the ad dition of a trifling fraction of saccha raine makes them equal to the finest cane sugar in the market saccharine is perhaps the most remarkable of all the marvelous products of the coal-tar industry it is so sweet that a teas poonful converts a barrel of water into syrup a small wafer of it converts the bitterest quinine solution or sourest acid drink into a regular molasses it will therefore be invaluable in disguis ing and rendering palatable all the bit ter and sour tastes in medicine without changing the character or action of the drugs saccharine does not decay mould or ferment neither is it attacked by bacteria it is said to have no in jurious effect upon the human system what effect has been noticed seems to be beneficial rather than otherwise this immunity from decay will render it of great utility in preserving delicate fruits and vegetables for family use it is not claimed that the new substance will entirely replace sugar but for flav oring purposes it is thought that it will in the future the new sugar will be used by druggists physicians bakers confectioners preserve and pickle mak ers liquor distillers wine makers and dealers in bottlers supplies the dis coverer of saccharine is dr coustan tine fahlberg a german-american i ir is not yet manufactured in this country but doubtless branch works j will be started here in a short time j at present it sells at from k to 12 j a pound but it is expected that consid erable reduction in price will be made within a year bangor me i ml jour i ml a ■«»■g the pay of writers s s meclure the man who runs the syndicate which furnishes short stories for the papers says that he gets an immense amount of trash.ofcour.se and an average of one hundred and fifty stories a week out of this num ber he finds it difficult to select as many as lie needs that are suitable for his purpose the trouble being that writers either make their manuscript too long or do not hit a popular idea he pays prices all the way from 25 to 0o a story according to its merits the aver age price being about 50 mr mc clure says that the author who receives the largest compensation is w 1 howells who will not write except upon special contract and fixes his own figures according to the length of time spent upon his contribution mark twain will not write at all for any body lie is so rich that he does not have to and he is careful of his reputa tion that he will not run the risk of damaging it once in a while he sits down and writes something when he happens to be in the mood and then can command any price he wants with these exceptions the authors receiving the highest prices are frank k stockton mr burnett bret harte j t trowbridge g w cable who usually get s5u for every thousand word edward everett hale eliza beth stuart phelps joel chandler har ris and some others get£30a thousand words while boyeson c piirsonsloth rop a-d julian hawthorne stand in th â– next grade and get from si 5 to 20 per thousand words the other day mr meclure paid sidney luska a new author who has recently developed 8200 for a short story and has also paid other unknown writers a similar amount but when a new candidate for literary honors comes in the price usually offered for the first contribu tion is not over 23 sunflowers are used in wyoming territory for fuel the stalks when ; dry are as hard as maple wood and : make a hot lire and the seed head i with the seed in are said to burn ( better than the best hard coal an acre of sunflowers will furnish fuel for ' one stove a year — scientific american â– i j an arkansas farmer writes that last ] year when coons made havoc in his ' cornfield he went to the drug store to i buy strychnine with which to kill them i by mistake the druggist gave him ( morphine and the next morning he found his field full of sleeping coons he advises the use of morphine instead of strychnine fire yesterday afternoon a little before five o'clock an alarm of tire was given and everybody deserted his business to find that p l leonard's large stable was all ill flames ami before many could reach the scene of the fire the stable was burned to the ground it is thought that the fire was started by one of the sheriff's little boys who w;ls play ing in the stable just before the fire was discovered jerry a horse well known in all the country as a valuable animal was chained in his stall and could not be rescued a number of wagons buggies harness etc were in the barn and almost nothing was saved a building about twenty or thirty feet from the stable caught fire and nearly the whole roof was in fiaines but through the effort of mr jno d grimes and others it was saved the the total loas is at least two thousand dollars and may exceed that amount by afew hundreds z)«i7(/soh dispatch a good snake story comes from emuions township we are told that one day last week a rattlesnake entered the dwelling house of a citizen of that part of the county and seeing a fat cat within reach of his snakeship pro ceeded to eat her up much to the terror of a small boy who saw the perform ance and fled to the field to give an alarm the snake very obligingly stayed in the house until some one came in and killed him — jb ■■■♦ m » — â– property seized in war thk articles captured by thk union army to be returned a washington telegram says some time ago acting secretary of state fairchild instructed mr writes chief of the division of abandoned property to carry into effect the provisions of the act of congress authorizing the secretaryof the treasury to deliver to the owners certain articles of jewelry etc captured by the united states army during the civil war and deposited in the treasury department mr krites has accordingly prepared rules and regulations which will govern the res toration of all such articles and has just concluded an examination of the articles on deposit they are contain ed iu two boxes and consist of silver ware jewelry portraits watches etc one of the boxes contained nearly live hundred watches gold silver and brass and a number of jack-knives pocket-books letters etc these were mainly taken from prisioners of war who died in hospitals around washing ton point lookout and elmira and were deposited in the treasury by jen ketcham some of them how ever belonged to union soldiers who died during the war near the places designated the other box contained a lot of articles captured by gen sher man's troops in camden s c in the early part of 1805 they consist of family plate jewelry etc which had been deposited in a bank at camden by mr mcrea and other wealthy resi dents of that section when the un ion army approached the town an effort was made to transfer the articles to a place of safety but the troops came upon the scene while the transfer was being made many of the principal articles belong ing to mr mcrea were restored to him by special act of congress in 1ss2 an inventory has been made and it is thought the articles can easily be iden tified by their owners they will be restored upon application accompanied by satisfactory evidence of ownership the two boxes referred to contain all the property of the character described now in the united states treasury,ex cept possibly the presentation-swords belonging to general twings and cap tured by general butler in new or leans it is an unsettled question as yri whether these swords can be res stored under the provisions of the act referred to all the other articles men tioned which have not been restored by april next will be advertised and such as shall still remain in the treasury for one year from that time will be sold at public auction poisoned by the ailantus the ailantus or tree of heaven is a very poisonous one but we were not aware how far it was capable of trans mitting its deadly effect a mr c l'urtis a retired sea-captain has called the attention of the new york board of health to this matter he has been in poor health lately and lie lays it to poisoning by ailantns trees that abound in his neighborhood captain curtis believes the trees are injurious enough to warrant the health officers in inaug uratin a regular campaign against them few people know said the captain how poisonous is the pollen that falls from the tree in july and august it is the cause of n<i oiul of sii-knoss in the city every summer any dumber of cixses of alleged malaria are simply eases of ailantus poisoning invalids are principally affected by the nearness of these tress < laptain ( nrtis is a friend of ex-presi dent arthur and when he read in the papers how after beneficial trips in the park he always had relapses after re turning home he went to his house to see if there was an ailantus handy there was on the avenue in front of his home there were rows of them and three of them in the back yard the c iptain diagnosed the ease at once and [ told gen arthur that he vkas breath ing poison he quote lota of cases of . that kind until the > x-president was at last impressed and promised to o away he went to new london and began to mend at once capt curtis said that he knew of lots of cases in i this city in brooklyn the health authorities have made war upon them lon a<ri dr edson of new york is convin ced that there was much truth in what the captain said and promised to see what could be done in the premises journalistic training editor charles a dana of the new york sun himself a profound scholar does not believe in a collegiate educa tion as a training for newspaper men this is the opinion of nine out of ten of the practical journalists mr dana says that a graduate fresh from college is pretty sur to be one of the most awkward recruits who can be brought into a newspaper office in the lirst place he is very immature then not one graduate in a hundred has an english education which can be called at all thorough until in is trained anew not one in a hundred is capable of doing good literary service iii a single department ii 1 has also lived so far apart from the world and its affair that he knows next to nothing aboui what is going on among men and what interests and moves them 1 the great trouble with college men who get into journalism is strange as it \ may seem that they do not know how to write good english besides they know no more of the live events of the time than if they had been living in greenland not as much indeed as many an office boy printers circu lar ' a mother's deed new york august 30 margaret meagher a widow over 40 years old was arrested at 413 west 71st street this morning crazy drunk and on the verge of delirium tremens she had bought a grocery store at that place a few days ago and sines then had been on a continuous carouse in one of the rooms in the rear of the store the officers found the remains of her daughter eilen eighteen months old who had recently die.l from neglect she was very emaciated and it ir thought that starvation may have had something to do with the death the woman had money in bank even after buying the grocery two years ago her husband who was employed on tin uiulston river railroad hanged him self because of the life she led him and her two older children were takeu from her the woman herself ini3 beeu in the work-hou-e twice since her husband's death just when the child died is not known but it is thought the drunken mother carried it around for some time after its death what we read leaves its imprint upon our minds and therefore much care shonld be exercised in the selec tion of reading matter t ritchie glass plates have been substitute for copper ones in sheathing of an italian ship the advantage claimed being an exemption from oxidation and incrusta tion the glass was cut into plate to ht the hull " horace why don't you sit down ? you've b^eu standing there forover an hour cawn't sit down pweddie going to the reception you know •■well what of that ? it's early yet 1 " just had my trowser scweased fwed die do you think i've got s-s-s-ofton of the bwain ? 1 i jiff to all who are suffering from hie errors ami indiscretions of youth nervous wenk , ness early ileeay loss of manhood see i : ill send a recipe hint will cure you fuvy k cuakgk this great remedy was dis covered liy i missionary in south america send a self ad dressed envelope t the re joseph t inmax stution 1 kew y,.rk \ cit y 4:1 j j established 1812 / â– rfiifft § • rit ill " â– â– â– j s - * r a £) * wound on white spo.ds | a full lineof thisceli brated thkk v j will if fast black ml ol ors for sale at wholesale and retail by meroney & bros salisbury n c 44;3m blood and money 1 he blood of man lias much to do in shaping his action during liis pilm-in t in on li this troublesome world regardless of the aniout of present or expectant money i:i pocket or stored away in bank it i a coiic ilc'l fact that we ap ear as our blood makes us and the purer the blood the happier healthier prettier mid vvi > r we are hence the oft repeated intern tory u ho\v is your blood with piiru u reams of life iving lluiil coursing thr«)ugh our vein b un ling through our hearts and ploughing tlinni<;li our physical fiame our morals become better our constitution stronger our intellectual i'm ul ties more acute and jininder and men women and eliildnn ha pier healthier and more lovely the nnprccedinntial demand the un paralelled curate powers and the unmis takable proff from those ol unimpeachable character and integrity point with an unerrii y finger to i 1 ,. l ii botanie hlood ijalm - as far the best the cheapest the quickest and the grandest and most powerful blood remedy ever before known to mortal man in the relief aud positive cure of scrofula rheumatism skin dis - eases nil taints of blood poison kidney complaints old ulcers and sores cancels catarrh etc m 11 h is only about three years old - a baby in age a iant in power hnt no reined in america can make or ever ins made such a wonderful showing in it magical powers in curing and entirely eradicating the above complaints and i .: mi t i sales in the lace ol in nzied oppo iition and would-lxi moneyed monopo lists letters from all points where introduced ire pouring in upon us speak in it its loudest praise some ray they receive more benefit from one bottle of b b m than they hive from twenty thirty and fifty and ev.m i ne hundred bottles of i boasted decoction of insert and non med inal root and branched of common forest trees we hoid the pr of in black and white and we also hold the fort s b o i'ivv isici 2s 3 lv wh mrs m m prince laving at sh west fair st atlanta (« i lias bei n ti oublerl for ieveral months with un uu'iv form of atarrh attended with copious aud offen sive discharge from b it h iiost rils her s stem became so affi etcd and educed thai she w as contined to bed at w hojtse for some time and received tin it tent ion of three physicians and used ft luzen bottles of an extensively advertised blood i medy all withoul th li nsl benefit she finally i inienceil the n i of b.b.it with a decided improvement at once and when ten bottles had been used she was entirely cured of ill symptoms catarrh it gave hei un appetite and in : rased her trength rapidly and i wiecr fully rrc dtumend it as a ijuii k and i heap blood purifier .!. w i i it atlanl jan â– â– . 1 80 policeman a 13 ) a <>:â– ' w nt (-. free ah vrlio dpstre full information aljoiit tiip rause ri'l l-ni - - - rulous 1 it irrh •■!••.•■ii -â– in > â– inull rr i copyofour32 pnjre illustrated honk or wonders illled w itli tlic in -' tari ii r proof ever before i now :. i !:•■■-, bloodbai.m co all ifil.i ijx j - - . eczema eradicated oentlcmon it is inn ynn to bhv th.it i i'-'r.u t an cntiri ly w '.! [ ? eczema i ' taken swiffet'i ■■•!!■•. i lavs lieen irou ed with ii â– at the heejiii ._• f cold weather . i-t t : inudc a slight appearance but went awrav ai:j i a never wtum :. s s.s nod abt hrok it p ill least it put my eymeni r.i ,â– â– -•■'. t-«i nitii n and i got well it also benefited my wife greatly '.,.-'-. uleuiieriect cun nfa breaking ont oamy little tluve year old c.u._-:/>r last - v,v.k:r-vi:;l gx feb 13 18s6 " ijev j.wi .. st si0isi3 t.-taliic ou liioju and skin di£tai-e nii d free tus wiyr pk'-iri qi , prufi r ",. a 'â– :::: â– â– ' 'â–
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|Carolina Watchman
|The Carolina Watchman
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|[J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner]
|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|The September 9, 1886 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
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|The Carolina Watchman
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|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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The Pratt Community College men's basketball team advanced to the finals of the Region VI tournament in Wichita by downing Coffeyville 66-61 and Seward County 71-68 on a buzzer-beater.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Many of us don't consciously invest time in thinking about what makes for good fictional sex, unless we're writers. Yet we all know it when we read it.
And we sure know what turns us off.
When I started writing Suspicious Circumstances I had a "no sex" rule.
Because I'm a prude. But we all know that. Even if I am still thinking about some loose ends from Friday's post on oral sex.
Okay, we all probably know I've gotten over the "no sex" rule.
Seriously, though? For some reason, you can write the most horrific murders and people say you're a bit fixated on certain criminals like Picton or Bundy. You can write a male character (or female) and people tell you you really understand the gender and that the character reads real. Or doesn't, as the case may be.
But you write sex and it's, "So that's what you're into."
For me, it goes beyond that. It's also about the fact that I really don't like reading sex scenes.
Maybe in romance and erotica it has a really important role in the story. Okay, in romance and erotica sex almost certainly is crucial. But I don't read those kind of books.
But in the mystery genre, I don't find sex to be nearly as critical. And often, the sex is like the choice between having salad or fries with that. It's just the side dish – not what you came in for.
Now, I've borrowed some examples from PJ Parrish's blog archives from November 17, 2005. The post was about bad sex.
My post is about the rules for writing good sex.
1. Have good sex.
Okay, okay, we writers put ourselves into all sorts of positions in our fiction – doing things we'd never do, like raping or maiming or murdering someone. But for the love of good sex people, if you feel the need to sneak a peek in your character's bedroom, this is something to research first. Because I highly doubt even the most vivid imagination isn't going to compensate for experience here.
2. Lose the imagery.
(Quoted from PJ's post)
"The wind thrust between her legs, its icy blast displaced by solid warmth as he covered her like a dog. The thing inside her jerked and threshed, a rising salmon, plunging home to spawn. "Yes!" she shouted, relishing the scarlet pain in her knees as he kept grinding them against the barnacled surface of the groyne."
From Dreams, Demons and Desires by Wendy Perriam (Peter Owen)
There is absolutely nothing about the thought of having sex with a salmon that I find even remotely appealing. Fish are slimy and scaly and stinky. This is why I never dated reptiles.
3. Think for a second. 99% of the time, do you really want to make someone laugh during sex?
"His hand reached through the armhole of her halter-neck top and pulled it to one side to expose her breast. She let out an involuntary gasp as his tongue flicked the aroused nipple and his left hand caressed the other through the flimsy material. The double breast stroke had always been a winner for Jo..."
From Fourplay by Jane Moore (Orion)
I mean, come on. The double breast stroke? I'm groaning, and don't mistake that for pleasurable moans.
4. Lose the technical terms.
From yet another source of enlightenment I've found for you all.
"First, the male mounts from the rear for sexual intercourse. He approaches from the rear, places his weight on her back, and engages. The technical term for this is lordosis.
The position of her limbs makes it possible for her to support his weight during intercourse without a lot of effort. Her limbs don't impede intercourse…
The effort she must expend in intercourse is also reduced (remember how important her effort is biologically). She need only stand still and let him do the work."
So, any of you guys hot and bothered? Personally, that read a little stale to me. I mean, it isn't like assembling a stereo, people! (And if you check out the link, you'll know I've misled you slightly.)
5. Have a point.
Look, pure and simple, it depends what kind of writer you are, but for the books I like to read, the sex – like anything else – should mean something. I don't like gratuitous violence just for the sake of some blood. I don't like finding out the life history of someone if it isn't relevant to the plot or the series – I can handle info introduced that will be more relevant in a future book, but not just stuff that has no bearing on anything.
Same with sex. You shouldn't just put it in to put it in. In writing or otherwise. You have to do something with it. You don't just stick it in and say, "There it is! Tada!"
Getting slightly back to the purpose, though, often the sex is an interruption. The one good example I always turn to in a mystery where the sex actually mattered to the story is Knots and Crosses. One specific position generates a memory that connects to the case. So it was both tasteful, and essential to the unfolding of the plot.
6. Touch your reader.
The reason why some people, IMHO, write bad sex is that they focus on the wrong things. It might also explain why some people have bad sex for all I know.
Sex is about more than the act. It's about the emotions.
The reason those excerpts (and all the other ones PJ Parrish posted) make me groan, gag or laugh, is because they objectify sex. Nobody wants to say, "He thrust his penis in…" So it's now a salmon plunging or some shit like that.
They've evaded the technical approach by using imagery, and it just doesn't work. Not for me anyway. Horsefucking might be popular on some other blogs but that's not really how I want to think about any moment of intimacy I have or will ever experience.
I mean, isn't that why people think there's something slightly perverted about dildos and vibrators? Because on some level, the majority of us know that good sex is about more than the mechanics of the act, but also about how you feel, about having meaning?
And the idea that someone wants to be intimate with you? I read those "bad sex" excerpts on PJ's blog and didn't want to have sex with anyone. Not the characters (not that I ever think about having sex with a fictional character, but I have seen that as the topic of a forum discussion) and certainly not the writers. Not even the editors or publishers. What the hell were they on, anyway?
When two characters finally get together I'm not inclined to think, "He's finally getting some." I'm more inclined to think, "Aw, geesh, it's about time they were happy."
Call me a sentimental schmuck. And may all the men step up now and tell me that I'm being a complete woman for saying so and no guy thinks that when they read, or otherwise.
But this is just my opinion on it. And if you've got some other suggestions or disagree, I'd love to hear about it.
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Way down in the out ports of Newfoundland, Murph's old lady had been pregnant for some time and now the time had come. He brought her to the doctor and the doctor began to deliver the baby.
She had a little boy, and the doctor looked over at Murphy and said, "Hey, Murph! You just had you a son! Ain't dat grand!!"
Murph got excited by this, but just then the doctor spoke up and said, "Hold on! We ain't finished yet!"
The doctor then delivered a little girl. He said, "Hey, Murph! You got you a daughter!!!! She a pretty lil ting, too...."
Murph got kind of puzzled by this and then the doctor said, "Hold on, we still ain't got done yet!"
The doctor then delivered another boy and said, "Murph, you just had yourself another boy!"
Murph said to the doctor, "Doc, what caused all of dem babies?" The doctor said, "You never know Murph, it was probably something that happened during conception." Murph said, "Ah yeah, during conception"
When Murph and his wife went home with their three children, he sat down with his wife and said, "Mama, you remember dat night that we ran out of Vaseline and we had to use dat dere 3-in-1 Oil."
She said, "Yeah, I remember dat night."
Murph said, "I'll tell you, bye, it's a fookin' good ting we didn't use dat WD-40!!"
Should I carry on with Tuesday Tips and talk about something writing related? Maybe if people have topics or questions, they can email me so I know what would be helpful. Otherwise, it's whatever I'm thinking about that you get stuck with.
But then, that's no different from any other day, is it?
28 comments:
- Boy Kim said...
You're a sentimental schmuck.
- 8:33 a.m.
- James Goodman said...
For me, it depends on the book I'm reading. If, as you mentioned, the sex serves a purpose then I pay attention to the details, if it's gratuitous (and I'm not reading erotica or a romance), chances are by the second or third time the go to the well, I scan through when the panting starts.
- 8:34 a.m.
- James Goodman said...
Oh, and what Kim said...
- 8:35 a.m.
- Bernita said...
"You just don't stick it in and say, "There it is! Tada!"
You intended that didn't you?
Bad sex writing is like bad sex?
- 9:33 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
So we have a man who doesn't like it overdone either!
Now, Kim and James, I'm a sentimental schmuck? So what you're saying is all you think is, "Wahoo, he's getting some?"
Bernita, whatever do you mean? I'm sure I don't understand. I intended what?
- 10:08 a.m.
- Otis said...
Personally, I love a gratuitous salmon. And don't spare the butter.
- 10:17 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Oh, there's a whole new sex topic! Bedroom foods.
So, butter? Never really thought of that one...
- 10:25 a.m.
- JamesO said...
You're always guaranteed a good laugh over at Sandra's place. Great joke, even if it is a bit cruel on Newfoundland - where else can you spend a night in Dildo, after all?
As for sex in writing, I agree that in most books (erotica excepted, where it's kind of a given) it's largely unnecessary. That's not to say your characters can't be getting it away all over the place, but as in a lot of the art of writing, less is more. You rarely need to describe the act, just find an interesting way of saying that it has occurred (or is about to occur.)
I don't want to sound too prurient, but it should be possible to create a sexually charged atmosphere in a scene you're writing (to emphasise a growing chemistry between two characters, for instance) without resorting to a technical manual.
On the other hand, we go to great lengths to choreograph fight scenes, or lovingly describe eviscerated corpses and the way the light glints on blood and gristle, so why do we get so het up about detailed carnality?
As for salmon - best cold smoked over oak, served with a little ground black pepper and olive oil (lemon is optional - depends how good the salmon is). A good dram of single malt on the side. Heaven.
And no thrusting required.
- 10:37 a.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Not saying or thinking anything.
Just doing as I was told.
Which, as you know, is how I like it.
- 10:37 a.m.
- JamesO said...
Never seen Last Tango in Paris then?
- 10:38 a.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Good Boy Kim, good boy. Nice to see Trace let you out of the corner.
James, I haven't seen LTIP.
And one thing in mysteries is that a fight scene might actually matter - the how of someone being killed or assaulted might make the different in the physical results that caused death, so it might be necessary to determine who is guilty.
The funniest thing to me, in my reading, was last summer reading A Good Day To Die. I don't read romance or erotica, don't watch anything remotely close...
I'd forgotten some men make the first move with a hand on the knee. How sad is that?
"Where else can you spend a night in Dildo?"
I DO NOT need to type what I'm thinking, do I? But then, if I don't say it, surely BK will...
My new mantra is SEX: No fish required.
- 10:45 a.m.
- Boy Kim said...
I've walked around all afternoon with a hand on my knee... and still no offers.
You're right. That's sad.
- 11:07 a.m.
- E. Ann Bardawill said...
Sex with a gratuitous salmon?
That's just twisted, even if you live in BC.
- 11:11 a.m.
- Trace said...
Aaaaw man! You read my entire book which has like 5 graphic sex scenes in it! I feel like I forced you to watch when you didn't want to!
- 12:30 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Trace, the statement that I don't really like reading sex scenes is a generalization.
I usually don't. But occasionally they're both educational and generate some ideas.
- 12:32 p.m.
- Trace said...
Aiyght. But you can skip them in the future if'n ya wanna :) Cuz I'll be sending you the second Leah book at some point for your insight.
- 12:45 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Which is when I'll be saying, "Dear God Trace! Take a cold shower!"
- 12:47 p.m.
- Trace said...
- 1:05 p.m.
- M. G. Tarquini said...
I write great sex scenes. Be nice if somebody other than the Bunions got to read them someday.
- 1:13 p.m.
- Erik Ivan James said...
This is a good post Samdra. It stands straight in the hole.:)
- 1:50 p.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Damn, even for a sub, 7000 hits is a lot to take.
- 2:02 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Share them with your husband, Mindy!
Erik, stands? Is that all?
Boy Kim, people think I got tattoos. I keep telling them it's just from the beatings.
- 2:07 p.m.
- M. G. Tarquini said...
He already reads them.
- 2:27 p.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Weird, cos I tell my workmates that I get my bruises cos I'm clumsy and keep bumping into things.
- 4:31 p.m.
- Daniel Hatadi said...
Totally in agreement with you on the side-dish metaphor. I prefer a damn good main meal, without mixing too many different flavours.
- 8:33 p.m.
- Sandra Ruttan said...
Thanks Daniel. I'm more of a meat and potatoes person myself.
And Boy Kim, the hand on the knee? You really are sad. I'm snickering but restraining myself from typing what I really want to say...
- 8:45 p.m.
- Bonnie Calhoun said...
Oh....LOL...I'm still stuck on the WD40!!!! ROFLOL
- 12:20 a.m.
- Boy Kim said...
Snickering's good. But don't restrain. Say it.
- 2:08 a.m.