Happening when there wouldn't really be time for it. The bombs are falling, the cougar is about to pounce, we're running from an enemy, etc. Who has time to think about anything beyond keeping oneself safe?
Going on so long I forget where we were. Wait? What was happening? Oh, yeah, the main character was just about to do something. Transitions can help fix this problem.
When it replaces interaction. Characters should do more than think, they should also act. And specifically act with other people. K.M. Weiland has a great example of introspection replacing interaction here. https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/common-writing-mistakes-36/ A good question to ask is, would this be better shown with conversation or action than thoughts?
Check that your main character's introspection serves a purpose. Does your character change because of his thoughts? Does she realize something new? Is a new action realized due to the internal monologue? "Introspection is one of the key elements of growing up and moving forward," Kelly Rogers says. That works for our characters too.
What are your thoughts on introspection?
I haven't posted recently as we took a much needed vacation. We had a great relaxing time. Though we may have eaten too much good food. And despite liberal use of sunscreen, we are peeling now! But waves, sun, sand made it all worth it. Plus, we learned some things. One was that white sand is not hot!
Since we came home, both my husband and I have been playing catch up. Sometimes not so successfully. But we are getting back into the routine of normal life. Our pets have forgiven us for being gone, too.
I'll have a new writing post up in a day or two.
Why Did J.L. Salter Decide to Write?
It's more a matter of writing decided to embrace me, I think. As far back as upper elementary school, I was composing little ditties and couplets. By junior high school, I was writing multi-stanza poems and short-short stories. By about 10th grade, I was fully on fire with poetry and stories, had a couple of things published at the school, and even attempted (but never completed) a novel. By my senior year, I'd won some cash prizes in a regional writers conference and had a first place winning poem published on the front page of my hometown newspaper. So, I guess you can say, I've "always" been a writer.
My dad was a writer. He wrote novels and plays (never published or produced), along with short stories and poetry. Some of his stories and poems were published and/or placed in contests. He and my mom were always very supportive of my creative writing. My older brother was also a big writer, having completed a novel while he was still in high school. He's gone on to publish numerous non-fiction books and several novels, along with hundreds of articles in professional journals.
Also, a friend of my parents – the famous novelist Walker Percy – lived nearby and he was (for a while) a member of the local writers' group that my dad was involved with.
What genre(s) do you write and what made you choose it (them)?
Another tough question, because I think of my fiction work as being mostly "hybrid." After I retired from my full-time library job, I shifted from non-fiction books, poetry, reviews, and articles… and felt led to try my hand at long fiction. I made a conscious decision to write fiction for the broader market that includes what people consider "romance" — though there are so many sub-genres and hybrid-genres within "romance" that it's less of a category than a phenomenon. All that said, my fiction has romantic elements, along with humor, and usually an action sequence. Some titles have been suspense and some have been what people call "contemporary." I have at least one ghost story and two of my novels have elements of science fiction. Several have been under the broader tag of humor — some of which are straight-out "screwball" comedy, while others are not quite that far out.
I've never taken a writing class, other than the English courses in high school and college… in which there were always compositions and research papers to complete.
I've been a member of Romance Writers of America since 2007, I think. In 2010 I joined the Chick Lit Writers of the World Chapter… which later was re-named Contemporary Romance Writers.
No. In the instances – earlier in my writing career – in which I shared poetry with other poets, I found that I put a lot more into my feedback about their poetry than they ever did about mine. [To put it one way, I was giving a dollar's worth of effort and receiving back only a dime's worth.] And, too often, I found some of their comments to be way less than helpful — at times even dismissive.
I mentioned, above, the poem on the front page of the local paper. Prior to that I guess my first time "in print" was during 10th grade when the faculty sponsor of the creative writing anthology selected my short-short story to run in that year's issue. I was ecstatic, of course.
After high school, I was on the staff of a college newspaper and saw my byline a lot. Later I was a full-time photo-journalist for a small-town daily and got many more bylines for articles and photos. After that, I moved to a small-town weekly where there many more bylines. In the military, I worked on three different base newspapers. As a librarian, my articles and reviews appeared in professional publications.
My first real BOOK was a non-fiction work co-authored with my brother in 1988. It was released by one of the top three publishers of resources for libraries and librarians (at that time). We co-authored another book with them in 1991.
My first novel – The Overnighter's Secrets – was released in May 2012 by Astraea Press (since re-named Clean Reads).
Since I found this trait in my own early writing years, I assume it's pretty common: the tendency to think of one's first drafts as "ready" (and perhaps even "perfect" — ha). I feel confident in saying a first draft is almost never ready to go anywhere. Be willing to revise, re-draft, and re-think scenes. If something's not working in your story, be willing to cut it — maybe it will find a home later, in another work. Always proofread… then proofread again. Try to find an insightful, honest beta reader whose own writing is of high quality and whose feedback you trust. LISTEN to what she/he says about your work. That doesn't mean you have to adopt every single suggestion they make, but if they tell you Chapter Three bogs down horribly and loses the interest of the reader… they're probably on to something. Re-do Chapter Three.
My most recent is Not Easy Being Android, released by TouchPoint Romance on Feb. 16, 2018 This is a good example of the hybrid genres I discussed above. It's got romantic elements, along with a bit of a detective plot, some "sci-fi," and an action scene.
If the caller had not quickly mentioned my former faculty advisor, I would've hung up because I rarely converse with people from numbers I don't recognize.
Besides 15 fiction titles, Salter has published non-fiction monographs, articles, reviews, and 120 poems... and has won 40 writing awards. As a newspaper photo-journalist, he published some 250 bylined articles or photos.
Before working 30 years in librarianship, he was a decorated USAF veteran. Salter is the married father of two and grandfather of six.


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Hi, I'm Jessica. This blog is my space to do what I love: WRITE! I'm a Professional Social Worker who is passionate about social change, communal learning, and healthy living. Blogging allows us to share the unique but common experience of living life, I hope you'll enjoy reading and I hope you'll share and comment.
"Now what jessica?" is a question I found myself asking as I took chances and made changes in my personal life. When things get tough you have to get creative so I started a blog to talk about the wacky things I was experiencing. After losing over 75lbs I found myself changing and seeing life in a new light, people started writing me for advice about healthy living and eating and I decided blogging about my experience in losing weight was also a good idea. You'll find a little bit of everything on my blog and I hope you'll enjoy reading and laughing with me!


The art of the singer-songwriter persists against all odds. Seemingly impervious to changing trends and the implosion of the music business, the troubadour trudges forward. In fact, this is a particularly good time for the breed, especially for those listeners who are still interested in the somewhat endangered format of the full-length album. An exceptional batch of them has popped up on our radar. They come from well-weathered veterans and comparatively fresh-faced auteurs, from living legends and artists still making a name, but one thing each of these albums has in common is a commitment to top-tier songcraft.
This is John Hiatt's 22nd album, depending on how you count them, and the master craftsman has gone through a lot of phases over the course of his career. According to him, he feels that The Eclipse Sessions is of a piece with his LPs Crossing Muddy Waters and Bring the Family, two records that are all about capturing the spirit of the moment. And there's an undeniably organic, spontaneous feel to these tunes that serves the songs perfectly, with uncluttered arrangements framing an artfully assembled batch of roots-rocking tunes. And just in case you were curious, the title refers to the fact that a number of these tracks were cut during a solar eclipse.
Ward White is the singer-songwriter equivalent of the cool, quirky kid who used to sit behind you in high school and crack you up with ultra-droll observations about everything within his purview. Give that kid a couple of decades to learn about life the hard way, send him to music school for a few years, and bless him with a golden set of pipes, and he might make a record like Diminish, full of arch narratives, coal-black humor, richly detailed lyrical imagery, and a masterful post-Brian Wilson gift for melodic movement.
The last great peak of Richard Thompson's long career (there have been a number of them) came when Mitchell Froom was producing him for Capitol Records. That period ended in 1996, but Thompson's latest album turns out to be the best the 69-year-old guitar artist has turned out since then. Thompson has alluded to enduring some trying times recently, and at the risk of promoting the hoary old "art is pain" trope, maybe it motivated him to dig deeper than he had in some time. The power of the songs is met by a visceral, organic production, and of course, Thompson remains the greatest living guitar stylist, so that doesn't hurt either.
Over time, Sarah Borges and her band have alternated between alt-country, roots rock, folk-rock, and straight-up garage-band rock 'n' roll, but on her latest album, she leans definitively toward the latter. The lion's share of tunes on Love's Middle Name run on raw, ripping guitar riffs and a hard-charging rhythm section, with Borges' tough, soulful voice and raw-nerve songwriting leading the parade. The occasional, effective breather is taken for an acoustic ballad here, and a soul-inflected tune there, but in the main, this is a rock 'n' roll record by somebody who understands both rock's redemptive power and its visceral bliss.
What would happen if James McMurtry, Lou Reed, and novelist Larry Brown were involved in a three-car pile-up on a dirt road outside of San Antonio? Burning Daylight is our best guess sonically. DeCicca previously fronted The Black Swans, but now he's three albums into a solo career, and while his last couple of outings bore a quieter, more reflective feel, this is his most rocking record so far. DeCicca's deep, deadpan delivery eases his sharply observed lyrics across with minimum fuss and maximum impact, as he alternates between the political and the personal with equal finesse.
Before you even start to focus on Paul Sachs' songs, his voice communicates an entire world of complex emotional experience. Even if you didn't understand a word of English it would immediately become clear that you were listening to a man who's been around the block and earned a lot of hard-won wisdom. But once you do begin to hone in on Sachs' writing, additional vistas are revealed, from the push-and-pull between tribulation and transcendence that backdrops "The Good Bad Luck Brings" to the wry humor of the satirically misanthropic "People Are a Lot of Work." Sachs is a man with no shortage of stories to tell on Full Detroit and they're all worth hearing.
NYC-based Americana troubadour Emily Duff whipped up an immensely satisfying country-soul amalgam on her 2017 album Maybe in the Morning was cut at legendary R&B hub FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Her follow-up, cut in the same storied spot, is around the corner and belongs on your lookout list. But first, here comes a single recorded in her hometown that leans more heavily toward the soul side than anything she's released before, proving that when you're talking about a real-deal talent like Duff, soul comes from the inside.


A journey is a process consisting of three stages- leaving the point of origin, proceeding to a place of choice and, reaching the destination. It is a progressive process. Without leaving, there is no going; and without going, there is no reaching!
Two heavily intoxicated men went down to their boat at night, to reach their home on the other side of the lake. They rowed hard for hours and wondered why it took so long to reach, normally just 10 minutes away. When the sun was up and both of them were sober, they discovered that their mooring line had never been loosened.
It was not Abraham who began the "clan journey" to Canaan- It was his father Terah! "Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan." Gen 11:31 NIV.
Terah left Ur, his hometown not because 'God' asked him to leave. He had had no encounter with God. He simply left Ur and led his clan to Canaan expecting a haven for his cattle. As shepherds (Gen. 46:34), they had no problem journeying to a land where they could find better pastures for their cattle! What happened?
"But when they came to Haran, they settled there." Gen 11:31 NIV.
Today, many are seeking only "good pastures." When prosperity preachers offer it in church, they rush to the church.
Those looking for prosperity are not serious about their destination, though. If a heathen religion or an Eastern human god offers better prosperity, they go after it. (May be that is why prosperity preachers compete to offer the "best" of the world to those who follow them).
Some say it was easy for Abraham to leave Haran since God showed him Canaan, a land that flows with milk and honey and, promised to give it to him as an inheritance. Is that true? Not at all! First of all, God didn't show Abraham any land. He just asked him to "go to the land I will show you." (v.1) Secondly, Abraham didn't know he was going to Canaan.
"By faith Abraham… went, even though he did not know where he was going." (Heb 11:8 NIV) Thirdly, God did not promise him the land when he was called… He said, "Go to the land I will show you." It's upon reaching Canaan that God appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." (v.7) Finally, when Abraham reached Canaan, it was not the "golden days" of the land… What he saw was a great famine (v.10).
Abraham left Haran not because he saw a "better land," but because he saw God! Only God was before him, not any land! Faith is seeing God and Him alone. Faith is holding the hands of God and jumping in to uncertainty. Without faith, you cannot please God! Faith is not even holding on to the promises of God, but holding on to God himself! Do not look even to the "promised land," look to Jesus alone!
When you have had a personal encounter with God, you forget your old passions… concerns and anxieties! "When one becomes a disciple, Jesus stands between him and his normal life," says Dietrich Bonheoffer. He becomes your immediate reality, and hinders you from touching the world… You have only one option- leave the world!
God asked Abraham to leave three things- his country, his relatives and his father's house. Why? In his country, he is a familiar figure, not a stranger. Among his people (clan), he is comfortable. Father's household means inheritance and that gave him a sense of security. On the other hand, in another country, he is a nobody, isolated. Away from his clan, he is lonely. Without his inheritance, he is helpless. God wanted Abraham to find a new identity in Him, by disassociating with his familiar, comfortable and secure situations. God wanted him to become an alien (stranger) and totally destitute, so that he would place his trust in God, completely!
Abraham was a man of faith. He left everything, despite seeing no bright future. His friends would have ridiculed him for his "blind faith!" But remember, faith is always blind or else, it is not faith. Sight and faith are not siblings. Where sight retreats, faith steps in!
However, real faith is an outcome of an encounter with God! Without seeing God, you cannot have faith and without faith you cannot obey. Above all, without obedience, you cannot follow!
Prayer: Lord, help me to walk not with sight but with faith. I know, following you is plunging into uncertainty; However, I know it is not insecurity! Holding your hands, I am happy to walk in to the unseen… Amen!
A Strange thing in your Fiery Test!


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Play an active running game that is fun, educational, and very unfair. Players will learn that invasive species play by a different set of rules than the natives. This activity would work well at a summer camp or as part of an after-school program. It could be something that youth leaders bring back to share with their younger 4-H Club members. Involving youth leaders in co-teaching this would be a plus! An invasive species is one that puts an ecosystem out of balance because it has a competitive advantage (usually a lack of natural enemies) in its new location. The addition of an invasive species to an ecosystem results in a decrease in biodiversity, not an increase.
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A Gulf Full Of Oil Can't Beat A Tank Full Of Gas
By Brian Mann
Published June 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM EDT
A lot of BP's oil eventually winds up in the gas tanks of American cars, so you'd think the current crisis on the Gulf Coast might make people think twice at the pump. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio sets out to talk to customers at a gas station and find out what they think about the spill, and the decisions they make as consumers.
It's mid-morning, and I'm out driving in my truck. On the radio, of course, it's 24/7 about the Gulf oil spill. Everybody's talking about it, and everybody's saying there are no easy answers.
So the question I wanted to ask people at gas stations here in upstate New York was, "Do you feel any connection or responsibility as you gas up your car for this horrible thing that you're watching on the news?"
I stop at a convenience store in Saranac Lake, N.Y., and the first thing I find is that people are following this disaster really closely.
"It's [a] pretty awful thing that's going on," says customer Kayla Martin. "Pollution, animals in the water getting harmed."
People are also really, really angry. Dwayne Carpenter, a guy with a yellow biker beard and tattoos, grumbles as he fills up his truck.
"I don't see anything happening fast enough," he says. "We've seen too much kill the wildlife, and I want my kids to grow up and have the same things I had."
Some people are also just sick of the whole mess. Ed Scharmer is gassing up his truck and filling a jerry jug. He kind of shrugs and admits he's starting to tune the spill out.
"It's to the point where I don't want to watch it anymore," he says. "It's discouraging. I don't feel that there's anything that I can do about it."
But BP wasn't just tinkering around out there in the Gulf. The company was trying to create a product that we all buy every day.
Gas is something we all want -- and want cheap. Most of the people I talked to were driving what you'd have to call gas-guzzlers, so I asked whether they feel any personal culpability.
"Uh, no," Carpenter says. When I ask the question, he looks sort of angry.
"You know, we have to survive up here," he says. "The truck is my livelihood. Without it, I wouldn't have my business. So if those gas prices go up, we have to pay it."
I hear this a lot. People are disgusted by the oil spill, but what really has them worried is the idea that gas prices will spike.
Martin says driving a lot is unavoidable, especially in this rural area. "It's an everyday thing that you need in life," she says. "We need gas, so it kind of puts us in a situation."
The people I talked to get the fact that more of our oil is coming from riskier places -- from countries that are politically unstable, and from parts of the world that are environmentally sensitive.
A Quinnipiac poll released on June 1 found that public support for offshore drilling has dipped. But Scharmer says most people just don't see many options.
"We're using too much fuel. But we still use it, the way our life is," he says. I ask if he thinks this is the kind of thing that will make him cut back a little, and he says no.
"I don't think this will. If we haven't moved already on thoughts along those lines, then this is not going to move us."
I should say that while I was at the convenience store, I filled up my gas tank, too.
What I heard there was that people are angry, but they also don't see a real connection between the spill in the Gulf and the decisions they're making about the cars and trucks they drive, and the number of times they fill up the tank in the week.
Brian Mann

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Gregory Schroer is a professional horticulturist residing in the greater Kansas City area, gardening zone 6. Upon graduating from the University of Missouri with a degree in Horticulture/Landscape Design he completed an internship at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Greg has over 23 years of work experience in the retail horticulture industry focusing on greenhouse plant care, design, water gardening and customer service.
The Green Thumb Almanac was born out of his desire to share his years of gardening experience with others. Along with gardening, Greg has traveled extensively in Asia and includes his love of other cultures in his list of interests.


Hygiene is a basic need, for catering companies it is even an obligation. You want things to be done properly and without hassle. Cleaning is our profession, that's why we understand that it is more than a just a daily chore. We have already shown what we are able to do within multiple industry sectors. And to be honest, you could call us aficionados.
Before we start, we make clear agreements and we put it in writing. The agreements are the basis for the logbook in which our employees record the tasks performed. This way, for both you and ourselves, things will be clear!
We have an enthusiastic team of cleaning employees. Our different teams consist of employees who we have trained ourselves. We and they are only satisfied if the work is done really well and to your liking.
Our quality controller inspects the work on a weekly basis. In addition, once a month we randomly we carry out an inspection through the QMS (Quality Management System) developed by the VSR (Association Cleaning Research). The logbook is a handy tool for checking the progress and the maintenance of communication.


Hello everyone! It's Lindsay here with you today, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog and YouTube Channel and I am super excited to share a fun and easy technique with you, Marker Stamping! I LOVE using this technique with solid stamps like the Two Cats in a Tree stamp that I used today and with the help of my mini MISTI, it's super easy to do. Be sure to watch the video tutorial down below for all the details on how I put this card together!
As I said above this technique is super simple, especially with the help of a stamp positioner, but it can be done with just an acrylic block as well. Just be sure you use a water based marker for the coloring so it can reactivated with a little spritz of water.
I also went ahead and decorated the inside of the card, too! I LOVE to bring a little bit of the outside of the card to the inside and dress it up.
All of the stamps I used on my card today are ON SALE right now!!! Be sure to pick up any that catch your eye in the Valentine's Day section of the shop before the end of the month!!
I've listed and linked all the Crackerbox & Suzy Stamps supplies that I used below for your convenience! Happy Crafting Everyone!!


715 Canadians were on the rosters of schools playing college ball south of the border at the NCAA, NAIA, junior college and community college levels.
Note: During the 2006-2007 season, 529 college hockey players were Canadian, according to the NCAA.
INF Jon Saporsantos, Simcoe, Ont., Ohio Valley University (OH)!
OF Brian Simone, Windsor, Ont., University of West Alabama (AL)!
47 Canadians coached at colleges at NCAA level Divisions I, II, III, NAIA, junior colleges and community colleges.


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HomeSingle ReviewsSingle Review: Dustin Lynch, "She Cranks My Tractor"
Single Review: Dustin Lynch, "She Cranks My Tractor"
November 13, 2012 Ben Foster Single Reviews 8
Well… it has words that rhyme.
There's certainly nothing wrong with a good sexy country song, as such have a storied history in the genre. But there is something to be said for subtlety. The best attempts are often lightly clever, emotionally raw, or perhaps delivered with the tongue planted firmly in the cheek.
Everything about "She Cranks My Tractor" practically beats the listener over the head, from the pounding bass to the T.M.I. lyrics. It's like three minutes of Lynch bellowing "Yee haw! Farm sex!!!" The titular metaphor feels corny and tacky (Can you imagine playing this in front of your non-country-fan peers?), and the lyrics lay on the details so thick as to make the listener feel voyeuristic. It's
all audacity, with little genuine creativity.
On the positive side: It has fiddle and banjo. I like fiddle and banjo.
Dustin Lynch has a great voice, and has earned a coveted spot on country radio playlists. No need to waste it on this.
Written by Dustin Lynch, Brett Beavers, and Tim Nichols
Grade: D
Listen: She Cranks My Tractor
Sammi Smith
Single Review: Hayden Panetierre, "Telescope"
Retro Single Review: Alan Jackson, "I'll Try"
Jonathan Pappalardo
Couldn't. Agree. More.
The video is even worse. It's basically three minutes of soft core porn with little cuts to Dustin Lynch and his band. Just awful.
Erik North
This does what I thought was impossible–it makes "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" sound like a Beatles-caliber song…and I never thought I'd ever say that!
…in case the village people ever need a new cowboy.
–I think that songs like this are the reason why he 'earned' that coveted spot on country radio.
…can't get over thinkin' what cowboy-picture "trailer" would add farcing that one above of dustin the angel.
Country music has scraped through the bottom of the barrel, dug 20 feet under the barrel and accidentally broke through to an underground sewage pipe. This song was found at the bottom of that sewage pipe.
A "D" grade is extremely generous.
I completely agree. With both your review and Mike's comment; soft core porn indeed. It's all way too much for me.


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It's fitting that after a year of significant liquor law announcements, reforms, and court cases coming from across the country, the Ontario Court of Appeal would release a liquor law decision just before the start of the New Year. While the result was unfortunate for the Toronto Distillery Company, and affirms a common practice used by liquor control boards to extract tax revenue from small producers, it does provide food for thought for liquor lawyers from coast-to-coast.
In January of this year the Toronto Distillery Company (the "Distillery") brought an application in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for a declaration that the levy imposed by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (the "LCBO") on the sale of its products at its on-site retail store is unconstitutional. The Distillery's position is that the "levy" the LCBO charges on all of its products is in substance a "tax" and only the Parliament of Canada or the Legislature of Ontario has the authority to impose taxes.
A beverage with alcohol by volume greater than 1.1% is considered an alcoholic beverage under the Food and Drug Regulations. The Regulations describe alcoholic beverages by their "common name" – which is another way of saying the category of liquor the beverage falls into (e.g. beer, wine, whisky).


The Submariner is one of Rolex's most iconic models. Still in production today, it has gone through multiple incarnations throughout its 65 years history. While early generation examples notably had either a "small" or "big" crown, Rolex gradually introduced crown guards in the mid-1960s to make the model more robust and durable.
Reference 5508 was manufactured between 1958 and 1962. This Submariner model, nicknamed "small crown" is the last one to carry a 100m depth rating and no crown guards. The present example is presented in an impressively preserved condition. It seems that the watch has spent its life securely stored away from the ocean and worn less than occasionally. The case is as crisp as it was when it left the factory and the fragile bevels that run along the lugs are crisp and sharp. Fitted with a black glossy dial with gilt printings, the watch also displays a perfectly preserved bezel with red triangle and original pearl. It further impresses with a wonderfully firm and tight expandable riveted Oyster bracelet stamped 1.58.
Directly coming from the family of the original owner, this 60 year plus Submariner is a preserved gem that could possibly be ready for some action.


The Planet Fashion TV Art Is Fashion party is one of the best events during the Art Basel Week in Miami. Apart of Red Dot Fair in prestigious Mana Wynwood filled with international fine art, outstanding live musical performances, food, and fashion of course! It's a fashionable mix of art, buyers, VIP and influencers inside.


The Senate's legislation is the result of 100 hours of meetings, 10 hearings and three markups, which has produced 50 different bipartisan legislative proposals. These proposals are intended to move safe and effective drugs, treatments and devices more rapidly, and at lower cost, through the investment and regulatory process and into the doctor's office and the medicine cabinets for the benefit of patients.
This will help the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) attract and retain the talent they need to handle all the exciting developments headed their way for research and review—a top priority for the heads of both agencies.
Imagine you've survived cancer or combat only to find out you're infected with a superbug that resists treatment by standard antibiotics. This bill will shorten the development of new treatments to help those infected with these life-threatening superbugs.
This will support the president's Precision Medicine Initiative to map 1 million genomes and make the information available to researchers who in turn will be required to share their research – all to help find treatments for diseases sooner.
This bill requires NIH to come up with a strategic plan every 6 years, and also helps ensure that scientists are including women and minorities in their research and reporting on the differences they find.
Researchers with NIH grants today spend 42 percent of their time filling out paperwork. This bill allows researchers at the NIH to spend more time finding life-saving treatments and cures and less time on paperwork.
On Feb. 9, the Senate health committee began its bipartisan process to get safe and effective treatments and cures to American patients more quickly, passing seven bipartisan bills, which included about 15 bipartisan proposals. At the committee's second meeting on March 9, it passed another seven bipartisan bills, containing about 15 more bipartisan proposals. Following today's successful conclusion to its Innovation agenda, the committee has now passed 19 bipartisan bills, containing about 50 bipartisan proposals and representing contributions from 16 Republican and Democratic members of the committee.


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Earle Grey Award
The Earle Grey Award is the lifetime achievement award for television acting of the Canadian Screen Awards, and its predecessor the Gemini Awards. The award is named for the first president of ACTRA's Toronto branch. It can be presented to an individual or collaborative team (such as SCTV or Royal Canadian Air Farce).
Nominations for the award are presented by professionals within the Canadian television community and the decision of who will win the award is made by a special committee.
RecipientsEdit
1986 - Ed McNamara
1987 - Lorne Greene
1988 - Kate Reid
1989 - Sean McCann
1990 - Jan Rubeš
1992 - Colleen Dewhurst (posthumous award)
1993 - Barbara Hamilton
1994 - Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dressup)
1995 - Cast of SCTV: Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, John Candy (posthumous), Harold Ramis, Dave Thomas.
1996 - Bruno Gerussi (posthumous)
1997 - Gordon Pinsent
1998 - Kenneth Welsh and Al Waxman
1999 - Jayne Eastwood
2000 - Cast and writers of Royal Canadian Air Farce: Ron Mann, Roger Abbott, Luba Goy, Don Ferguson, John Morgan.
2001 - Jackie Burroughs
2002 - Members of CODCO: Tommy Sexton (posthumous), Andy Jones, Greg Malone
2003 - Jennifer Dale
2004 - Graham Greene
2005 - Steve Smith
2006 - Donnelly Rhodes
2007 - Don Harron
2008 - David Gardner
2009 - Eric Peterson
2010 - Not awarded
2011 - Cedric Smith
2014 - Colm Feore
2015 - Paul Gross
2016 - Wendy Crewson
2017 - Tantoo Cardinal[1]
2018 - Clark Johnson[2]
^ "Tantoo Cardinal among those getting special Canadian Screen Awards". The Guardian, January 12, 2016.
^ "Canadian Screen Awards: Peter Mansbridge, Karyn Pugliese, Margaret Atwood to be honoured". CBC News, October 30, 2017.
Academy database
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[Translate to English:] (Alpbach/APA, 24-08-2018) "Precision medicine – medicine's answer to diversity?" – that was the topic of a high-level panel debate held on 23 August as part of the Alpbach Technology Symposium. Chaired by Patrice Milos, CEO of Medley Genomics, Providence, USA, MedUni Vienna Vice Rector Michaela Fritz debated with experts about diversity as the foundation of precision medicine being a revolutionary development that will permanently change medicine to incorporate personalised methods of treatment. Among the questions that were addressed were the advantages that precision medicine offers to individual patients and also the impact it has upon future technologies.
Matching diagnostics and treatment as much as possible to particular patient groups or even individual patients is one of the main visions for the future of medicine. However, the experts agreed that there are still many small steps to go before we reach a form "precision medicine" that is sufficiently precise.
For some time now, the search for optimal medical approach to individual diseases and their often numerous subgroups and the search for answers to the question of how differently these manifest in the body of a particular patient, has been captivating hosts of scientists throughout the world. This fact alone and the rapid developments that have been made in diagnostic imaging, in analysis of the genome and the building blocks of the cells, proteins, gives grounds for hope of progress, says Giulio Superti-Furga, Head of the Research Centre for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna and Professor of Medical System Biology at MedUni Vienna.
She explained that, thanks to new approaches to data analysis in medicine, we can expect to have much more detailed insights into many diseases in approximately ten years. However, just how difficult it will be to draw more or less definitive conclusions from all of this information becomes clear when we remember that each gene plays a different note, as Superti-Furga put it. However, these do not produce the same sound in every person. And there are some people who are genetically predisposed to a disease but also have a genetic mutation that balances out this error. Says Superti-Furga: "It is amazingly complicated."
She explained that currently clues are constantly popping up to point us towards indicators for diseases or genetic signatures that predict whether or not a treatment will be successful in particular people. However, they are difficult to interpret, as protein specialist Peter Nilsson from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm explains. The problem is that there are great overlaps in the manifestations of various diseases and, at the same time, great similarities between patient groups. However, by taking "many small steps", we might soon have relatively simple blood tests to reliably indicate which specialists should look at a patient.
In the view of the Head of the Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy at the Medical University of Vienna, Christian Herold, the area of oncology is currently the most advanced in terms of precision medicine. However, the question of who can benefit from such highly specific treatment depends to a large extent upon the healthcare system in which one finds oneself. However, the question of access to specialised institutions is perhaps even more crucial and there is a surprising discrepancy in this, even in highly developed countries, stressed Herold.
Apart from access to and, above all, financing of precision medicine approaches, Michaela Fritz, Vice Rector of MedUni Vienna believes there is also the question of trust. Universities and research institutions need to collect increasing amounts of data and, consequently, it is important that patients continue to trust that their data will be used for good and responsible research, said Fritz. CEO of the US company Medley Genomics, Patrice Milos, believes that Europe is in a good position on this issue, because of its stable healthcare systems, which are characterised by a broad base of public confidence.


– in the House of Lords at 11:37 am on 15th March 2018.
My Lords, the Official Opposition have concerns about the level and quality of scrutiny of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill. It cannot help scrutiny to have late-night finishes such as 2.37 am on Monday and 11.33 pm last night. There are practical alternatives involving nights when the House is clearly going to finish early, as has already been suggested. Could the Government Chief Whip agree to meet the usual channels to discuss these practical alternatives? Does Brexit always have to mean breakfast?
My Lords, I am grateful for the opportunity to thank the House and the usual channels for their co-operation in trying to get this legislation through the House. I am of course very happy to meet the usual channels in general, including the noble Lord and the Convenor of the Cross Benches. We have regular meetings where we try to agree on a deadline that we are going to meet, but unfortunately sometimes we do not quite get there. We did not get there last night but we all agreed to a revised deadline that suited everyone.
We agreed that we would get to discuss Amendment 208 last night, which we satisfactorily achieved. On the question of individual days, obviously I am quite prepared to talk to noble Lords about how we deal with the situation, but we are a self-governing House and we have no guillotine or selection of amendments, so if we take a long time to discuss matters then I regret that we have to sit until we have done the business.


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Glittering opening to Asian Games
Chinese prime minister declares the games open after a spectacular opening ceremony in Guangzhou.
Fri Nov 12 2010 22:03:04 GMT+0000
The Asian Games officially opened with a glitzy ceremony featuring more than 6,000 performers [AFP]
China promised another spectacular opening event and delivered it to mark the start of the Asian Games.
Two years after the Beijing Olympics in the Chinese capital, the southern city of Guangzhou - which for a long time served as China's window to the world - opened the world's second-biggest multi-sports event on Friday, with an aqua-themed ceremony.
Athletes were ferried on 45 boats to an island venue shaped like the bow of a ship for an extravaganza of light, water and flames.
More than 10,000 athletes from 45 countries or territories are competing in 42 sports starting on Saturday and finishing on November 27.
Brightly illuminated in bulbs of different colours, the boats were decorated with Asian landmarks - including Japan's Mount Fuji, Cambodia's Angkor Wat, Jordan's Petra and India's Taj Mahal. China was represented by the Temple of Heaven, the Bird's Nest and the country's pavilion from the recently concluded Shanghai World Expo.
Logistical issues
The massive scale of the opening ceremony posed logistical issues for the Chinese organizers.
Except for members of the public who won a lottery for tickets to the show, most residents in the city of 10 million had little choice but to watch on TV.
The downtown area was locked down near the stadium and residents within a one-kilometer radius were ordered to leave their homes for the night - apparently to eliminate the threat of sniper fire.
Many downtown subway stations were closed Friday for security sweeps and streets in the vicinity of the opening ceremony were unusually quiet for a bustling city of more than 10 million.
Wen Jiaobao, the Chinese Premier, attended, and was joined by Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's president; Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Thai Prime Minister; and other dignitaries from the region.
There will be 28 gold medals awarded on Saturday, the first day of full competition, with finals in shooting, swimming, triathlon, judo, weightlifting, gymnastics and in dance sports, which is making its debut at the Asian Games.
India has a good chance in the shooting, with Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang in action.
Japan has the leading contenders in the women's triathlon and judo, but China is again expected to lead the way from the start in the overall medal count.


My news-watching habits have changed a lot during this election cycle. I've dropped my NY Times subscription, and I've stopped paying much attention to evening news, Meet the Press, Face the Nation or This Week. I've been watching Democracy Now! for almost fifteen years, but now DN and The Young Turks have become my primary sources, along with progressive sites like Truthdig, Common Dreams and Counterpunch.
I've been criticizing Clinton and the mainstream press so much that a lot of my Facebook friends probably think I'm pulling for Trump. Actually I'm appalled that the establishment media is so openly in the bag for the establishment candidate. It was fairly clear that most of the media, including so-called new media, sandbagged Bernie Sanders, declaring the race over long before it was over; now, there is no doubt that they are doing their best to torpedo Donald Trump. He certainly deserves scrutiny, but all pretense of objectivity has vanished and the election coverage has become strictly a matter of competing identity politics.
To observe the rather pompous way that certain newspapers and magazines have broken with their traditional "neutrality" by endorsing Clinton or disendorsing Trump is to see this ideology in action. The implication is that a careful poise of detached objectivity has been momentarily abandoned in order to meet a political crisis the like of which the US has never seen. But there is a difference between "objectivity" and merely acting as the referee between two kinds of conservatism: the Democratic kind and the Republican kind.
King pokes fun at media "self-aggrandizement" but skips over the point that establishment media is going to bat for the establishment candidate. And like the mainstream media, King dismisses Trump's politics as, "protectionist, parochial, paranoid." Yes, many of his supporters are protectionist, and yes, they are parochial, but as the joke goes, they aren't paranoid if someone really is out to get them. America's hinterland economies have been sold out by the oligarchy in a way that the coastal and urban elites have (so far) avoided. Whether you like them or not, America's white middle class electorate is actually staring into deep decline, and no longer expect any help from establishment government.
You don't have to be a Trump supporter to wonder who will get sold out next.
History shows that the support base for right-wing extremist movements tends to be primarily the petty bourgeoisie—small businesspeople, professionals at the lower levels—but populism never gets far without the support of large numbers of the permanently unemployed. The official economic statistics would have us believe—and Trump vigorously contests this—that we are at or near full employment. In fact, this is a gross deception, because there are tens of millions of Americans who have given up looking for employment, who for various reasons are not employable in any meaningful sense of the word. Trump claims it is 30 percent of the population, but whatever number it really is, experience shows that it is pervasive, outside a few humming urban centers that give the illusion of high employment. As a matter of policy, the U.S. has not been committed to full employment since the 1970s, as part of the anti-inflationary monetary policy inaugurated by Paul Volcker and carried on by other committed neoliberals.
It is interesting to read bemused articles by correspondents at elite magazines like the Atlantic and the New Yorker, wondering who the Trump supporters really are (as they do after every populist upsurge), acting as though they were writing about aliens from another planet (which they are in a sense, since the elite commentators cannot understand why the Trumpists take such a dire view of the economy, since everything, from their point of view, seems pretty decent, with a 5% unemployment rate, the stock market doing well, and the evidence of their own booming urban areas).
In their conversation, [Thomas] Frank tells [Robert] Scheer how the [Democratic] party has become class-based, now representing primarily the "professional" or upper socioeconomic class. Frank also talks about the Clintons' role in this shift and why he believes people who might have earlier voted for Democrats are now flocking to Donald Trump.
Scan the headlines and you'll find that everyone's talking about how the white trash have made their presence felt. The white trash support Trump; the white trash are losing ground; the white trash should be honored by the government for their hard work and sacrifices; the white trash are continuing to redirect their aggression at other racial minorities instead of the robber barons who exploit them.
Thanks to a spate of newly released books on the topic, we readers can begin fumbling towards some preliminary answers. For those interested in a first-person account of white-trash living, there's J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, a spare and poignant look at impoverished rural Ohio and Kentucky. Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America offers a concise and highly readable overview of the subject beginning with colonization and concluding with the Clintons. Carol Anderson's White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide examines a series of events, ranging from Reconstruction to the election of Barack Obama, after which seeming gains for African Americans were quickly met by massive resistance from whites.
I'm sure there are trashy white folk out there, but I know a lot of people voting for Trump – all my siblings in fact, and quite a few of my extended in-laws. My father was a successful marketing man, and my family was well-to-do middle class. My in-laws vary from railroad shop workers to lawyers and physicians, and none of them are poor white trash, though some of the millennials are having a tough go.
And there's the crux. Millennials, and their parents, look around and they don't see the jobs any more. That is why a lot of them went for Sanders, and that is why a lot of others are responding to Trump. I think the lack of prosperity is the fundamental reason for the anti-establishment movement.
I couldn't sleep this morning, so I opened the debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence on Democracy Now!, who let Green candidate Ajamu Baraka answer the same questions. What I saw were two corporate shills, arguing over which social value bones the government is going to throw to the middle class as they pretend to do something about our economic problems. Then I dozed off.
[Kaine and Pence] agreed that Russia is evil and terrifying and must be aggressively countered. They agreed that the U.S. should militarily intervene in Syria. They agreed that the national debt is frightening. They agreed that community policing, a euphemism for doing nothing, is going to make everything better again. And they agreed to talk over the female moderator, Elaine Quijano.
Their running mates are both on the record opposing the hugely controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, but as the [US Chamber of Commerce] notes so happily, Kaine and Pence both have a long history of siding with big business. Both have praised the TPP and backed similar deals in the past.
Manfredo Tafuri was an art historian, his densely-packed articles often featured in Oppositions, the glossy red architectural journal that seemed to magically appear in the hands of all the cool kids at CMU around my second or third year. Architecture professor Ed Levin had his students reading Tafuri's book, Architecture and Utopia, and invited him in for a general lecture and a followup session with a theory class. Later, our own architectural history professor Howard Saalman warned us that Tafuri was a Marxist – in case we couldn't figure that out from Tafuri's opening line above, or from his predictions of apocalyptic capitalism.
There is another aspect of this year's media environment, and it would be wrong not to speak it. It is that the mainstream media appear to have decided Donald Trump is so uniquely a threat to democracy, so appalling as a political figure, such a break with wholesome political tradition, that they are justified in showing, day by day, not only opposition but utter antagonism toward him.
I wonder if the media realize a) how tangential they have already become, and b) that no one will ever take them seriously again.
1. The use of media by politicians to create an alternative reality.
2. Elevating terrorism above other crimes, to the status of existential threat.
5. The replacement of television journalism with infotainment.
… coalitions that believe the moral consensus is cracking, that see their values under attack, and fear their own eclipse may turn away from candidates whose own lives exemplify a moral vision that the broader society no longer endorses. Instead, they seek out figures who seem strong enough, tough enough, ruthless enough to roll back social change, or at least to hold it at bay. They look for a champion.
Appelbaum, however, mostly attributes white support of Trump to anxiety over shifting demographics and loss of supremacy. But is that enough? Could there be rational reasons to look for a champion, even a deeply flawed one?
Though they deride his values, left-leaning observers like Michael Moore and Cenk Uygur admit that Trump is on message insofar as he echoes Bernie Sanders' criticisms of money in politics and the oligarchy. Cole, Appelbaum, and indeed most journalists are loath to mention the establishment corporate and governmental policies that have savaged the working class. To find that message one has to turn to media outsiders like wealthy Nick Hanauer seeing pitchforks, archdruid John Michael Greer discussing the wage class vs salary class, various pundits comparing Trump to the Brexit vote, or oddly enough, conservative Peggy Noonan citing the "unprotected" classes.
Trump is almost certainly the wrong champion, but that doesn't mean we don't need one.


CHRIS CASSELLS Chris Cassells is very pleased to announce the safe arrival of another Grandson. FRANKLIN MARK CASSELLS was born on 12th February to very happy parents Neil & Becky Cassells of Stretford. He is a very welcome little brother for Grace & Alex.