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On Wednesday, September 18th, Cecily Joseph, Senior Director of Corporate Responsibility, and Debra McLaughlin, Stakeholder Engagement Program Manager, hosted a call for internal and external stakeholders to discuss highlights from Symantec's FY13 Corporate Responsibility Report. They covered our high-level corporate responsibility (CR) priorities, the progress we've made, and areas where we need to improve in order for us to reach our CR goals. The call was moderated by Wendell Davis, social media manager at Symantec.
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I'm excited to share that our Corporate Responsibility Report for fiscal year 2013 has been published. This annual report provides an opportunity to review our goals from the previous year, acknowledge successes, and reflect on how we can continue to refine our corporate responsibility strategy. We hope that you will take a look and let us know what you think (in exchange for your opinions, we're giving you a chance to vote on how we should direct a $50,000 USD grant - so be sure to visit our stakholder feedback survey!)
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We're very excited to be hosting - for the first time - a live stakeholders' call detailing the highlights from our 2013 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report is being released on Thursday, September 12, and details our progress against our corporate responsibility goals in the following areas:
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could you make a tutorial?? i love this and batman!!(: #63278
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the whole thing is peyote stiches guyss. the belt is pretty obvious how to make lol. and the buckle is just like making a small peyote squaree on the sides taper in a little. I'm thinking about making a tutorial on how to make the buckle. #33762
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hey can u tell me how to make the buckle not the belt just buckle. #33328
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How did you make that D:. Like what kind of stitch did you use? #32562
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im going to make this cuz my boyfriend loves bat man #32312
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Quick Question...what string did u use...stretchy or fish line....but in my case if i used fish line the whole thing would go POP! so i was wondering if i should just use hemp string or stretch string #29530
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"kandifanatic666": what stich did you use? i used a peyote #28048
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@Jesse i used fishing line. andddddd bending? belts are supposed to bend since waists are round #25518
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@ruby91 i used a wall hook #25516
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how do you make sure the logo isn't all loosy-goosy?!? i made it but it is bending too much!!! help! #25400
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At a recent party to promote the Casio G-shock watch, a little publicized band called 'Quan' took the stage. The initial thing that struck the audience was the presence of a female drummer with long blonde hair. Then, eyes roved over to the foreground and a magnetic Eurasian man sporting black retro glasses, a glove with a skeleton pattern and skinny jeans stood in front of the mike. The music that came forth was unlike any that Hong Kong had ever heard live before. It was a mixture of spoken word, rap, RnB, '80's and indie rock. Though the music was unfamiliar, the heavy beats and the aggro guitar struck a chord in the hearts of the listeners. The energy of the performance was so contagious, that the typically non-responsive Hong Kong audience was moved to dancing, cheering and hooting.
The mesmerizing frontman of Quan is Quan Yeomans. Born in Brisbane to an Australian father and a Vietnamese mother (she moved to Australia before the war for librarian studies), Quan made it big with his breakout band Regurgitator- an angular pop band which played discordant '80s revival music in the '90s. They considered their genre of music in the 'No Wave' category. The original musical movement called 'No Wave' occurred in the mid '70s as a reaction to the popular New Wave form which is actually what is commonly known as Punk Rock.
Though thoroughly humble and keeping a low profile in Hong Kong, Quan's star presence is immediately apparent. Regurgitator won several Aria awards (the Aussie version of the Grammys) and had platinum record sales in Australia. In Oz, where Regurgitator has a huge following, fans would hound them to the point that had a safety code word for a special type of drunk groupie that would continually bombard and harangue them with slurred compliments. They were called "punishers". Punishers were usually removed by a designated person using some kind secret of hand signal. Though he jokes about this, he admits he's never had a really bad groupie story because his band discourages fan behavior by keeping it down to earth. Even when he dated Janet English from Spiderbait, another popular Aussie Band, the celebrity couple chose not to let the media into their private lives. "We stayed home and watched the ARIA awards on TV- even though we were winning." He says.
It's obvious that Quan is a man whose true mission in life is purely to create and to not profit from egoic displays of rock stardom. Hence, when Regurgitator signed on with Warner Brothers, a commercial record label, they were apprehensive because they were adamant about not selling out their creative vision. Their records 'Tu-Plang" and "Unit", which include cheeky songs such as "I Sucked a lot of Cock to Get Where I Am", launched the band to fame. Eventually they created a reality show called 'Band in a Bubble' for Channel V. It was supposed to be an installation art performance whereby they had 3 weeks to record their album Mish Mash live whilst being filmed in glass bubble. Despite the media circus and publicity paradigm, they managed to remain true to their imaginative and irreverent style.
Quan originally came to Hong Kong in 2005 to play in the 'Rock It' live music festival. He fell for a girl and decided to come back here. Though ultimately it didn't work out with her, his love affair with Hong Kong continued and he decided to make Hong Kong his base. Quan says Hong Kong was 'instantly addictive'. He was entranced by its weird wonderland feel and felt an affinity to all the transient people floating in and out of town. "Some people don't like the feeling of not having roots, but I'm really comfortable with it. Hong Kong is easy, anonymous and people here are just less aggressive."
When I ask him about the music scene here and what he thinks about Hong Kong audiences he replies, "Understandably a lot of HK people won't have the most sophisticated interest in Western indie music because they're just exposed to different things- like canto-pop as an example. Hong Kong people are still discovering new styles. When a Hong Kong audience doesn't respond, most of the time they are standing there assessing whether they like it or not because they've never been exposed to it. I'm happy to be able to introduce something new to Hong Kong audiences."
Quan also believes that the lack of proper live music venues that fit 600-1000 people discourages more interesting bands from playing here. In fact, his solo band, featuring drummer and keyboardist Catarina Behr, who is an architect by day, has only ever played 6 gigs here. Twice they played at the Fringe, once with Ratatat at Grappa's cellar, and once at a random place called Sammy's Kitchen. Quan says his favorite gigs in Hong Kong were the ones where his friends attended. When asked about one of his recent gigs at Cliq for Casio G-shock, true to his underground vibe, Quan replied, "It was very corporate. Unfortunately, there's not enough music and art in Hong Kong. It's financial city and it's all about money. People like to be entertained but there just never seemed to be a need for subculture here. "
Quan wrote, produced and recorded everything on his solo album "The Amateur" here in Hong Kong. Unfortunately it's only available on the Australia version of ITunes. In his solo album, he experiments with lyrical verse over heavy beats. One of his songs is a 5 minute Shakespearean tragedy about an MC who falls in love with his microphone. He also makes a foray into R and B. "I like R and B but I don't like the content. It's always about the same things. "
Quan says that he has to get into the zone when he creates music. Sometimes it starts with a beat that he hums into his phone or it will start with a line, a title or a theme. Sometimes he admits he sits down with a thesaurus to pump out his nouveau beat poems.
All of Quan's musical influences are obscure. He loves the Mint Chicks- an experimental band that sings songs like 'Crazy, Yes, Dumb, No'. There's also Buck 65, a Canadian hip-hop artist, MC and turntablist signed with Anti-Con, an underground hip-hop label. He also thinks the album YoYoYoYoYo by Spank Rock is brilliant. Then he clues me in on a type of music from Australia which is popular with surfers called 'Skip Hop'. A popular band from that music genre is The Hilltop Hoods out of Adelaide who sing about eating 'chika rolls' with their strong Aussie accents.
In his personal life, Quan admits he's calm and easy-going. He doesn't drink nor go out much. "Drinking doesn't enhance my life," he says. He's also become a vegetarian after happening upon a Buddhist book he found in his mother's house called "Being Peace" by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was all marked with highlighter pen. He devoured the book thinking to himself "Oh my God this is exactly my life philosophy." When he found out the book belonged to his dad, who passed away 10 years ago, he felt that his ancestors had bestowed this way of thinking onto him. "I never feel like I'm depriving myself of anything because I don't drink or eat meat. It's a choice I made- so I don't feel constrained. It's about being more mindful and aware."
Quan also talks a lot about love. How he met his first love through fan mail, how he loves to write love letters. He talks about some of his exes, how they were creative and how he moved geographically a few times for love. "It's easy for me to move around because my job is flexible." He laughs. When I asked an Australian friend if he knew Regurgitator he said, "Oh Yeah that guy Quan- the ladies love him." Unfortunately, ladies, Quan is taken.
So what's next for the humble creative genius- world domination? NOT. Actually Quan has no upcoming shows in Hong Kong partially because he claims he's terrible at marketing himself. "Ambition is a strange word. It's never seemed appropriate for someone like me. I would love to play everywhere and anywhere I can of course but my priorities are not so honed. I suck at PR and I'm a bit of a social retard. I haven't booked any more shows because I haven't been asked by anyone but I have plenty to keep me busy in the meantime. My next gig in is Japan with my other band." Though he was being vague and non-self promoting, Regurgitator is playing Sept. 18 in Japan. I asked him if he was really expensive and he says, "I'm actually quite cheap. You could probably get me to play for a couple pounds of high quality dark chocolate."
Quan isn't retired from performing live shows but he is branching out into new creative medias. His latest project is a video, which he's producing for the Local band DP. DP stands for Dave and Paul and the music is heavy metal rock that is a bit Black Sabbath-influenced. Quan is using Premiere on his MAC to edit and produce the video and he's spending hours on Maya, a 3D animation program that enables him to sculpt 3D animated monsters with pixels. Who needs to go out when you can spend hours in front of your computer sculpting animated monsters?
Though Quan is far from being a typical person, at the end of the day, he's the perfect example of a Hong Kong denizen. His blood is a mixture of East-meets-West. He loves to travel, is comfortable with being transient and he incorporates Eastern philosophies into his daily life. Personally, we're happy he's here for the sole reason that he's subtly influencing Hong Kong culture with his unique music, creative sensibilities, his big heart, humility and understanding of subculture in this somewhat culturally lacking city. Thanks Quan for enlightening us while keeping it real!


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They've been run over , submerged in water , subjected to extreme temperatures and even built to withstand nuclear explosions . For some reason, people insist on treating USB flash drives like contestants on Fear Factor. And yet, more often than not, they seem to survive with flying colors.
The "Corsair Flash Survivor" is the latest to enter this Thunderdome culture, an aluminum encased device with a black O-ring to prevent water seepage that comes in 4GB and 8GB storage sizes, according to Everything USB. What we can't figure out, however, is why it looks like a flashlight.


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Kurt Richarz joined Seagate in May 2006, when Seagate acquired Maxtor Corporation. He has served as Executive Vice President Worldwide Sales and Sales Operations since March 2011. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President, Sales from May 2008 through March 2011; Executive Vice President, Sales and Customer Service Operations from May 2006 to May 2008; Senior Vice President of Global OEM Sales from 2007 to 2008, and Vice President of Global OEM Sales from 2006 to 2007. At Maxtor Corporation, from 2002 to 2006, he served as Vice President, Global OEM Account Sales and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. From 1990 to 2001, he served in various sales positions at Quantum Corporation.


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Natural, old-fashioned grow-how nutrition recipes for growing amazing plants in your organic garden are especially valuable nowadays. For your money, you can't beat this stick-to-your-roots kind of plant food.
Eggshells! Crushed egg shells add valuable nutrients to soil. Calcium is essential for cell growth in all plants. Calcium is special for fast growing plants because they quickly deplete the surrounding soil of calcium.
You can use crushed egg shells in your compost file(make sure they are washed). Or, use them along with coffee grounds (high source of Nitrogen).
Crush them, soak them in water for 24 hours, then use the water for your plants. All that calcium is especially good for peppers and tomatoes.
Or, place egg shells in a circle on top of the ground around tender plant stems such as peppers, tomatoes, broccoli, cabbage. Why? To deter slugs and cutworms.
Hair! Yes, use hair too. Whether it comes from a human or any other kind of animal, hair is full of iron, manganese, and sulfur. Work it into the soil or toss it onto the compost pile and watch your plants eat it up.
My mother would cut our hair when we were growing up and swore that it was always good for the roses. Rather than discarding this clump of waste, she would dress her rose bushes in it as though it had some magical properties.
As a rose grower, she was sought after for advice – which was the opposite of her hairdressing skills – so I wasn't about to argue with her.
I have also discovered, that if I brush my dogs outside and toss the hair under shrubs or near trees, the birds go for it to use it for nesting material.
Seaweed. This is still a valuable fertilizer. Seaweed is a rich source of potassium — up to 12% and trace elements. Before you dig seaweed into the soil, rinse it in fresh water and dry it out to get rid of most of the salt.
Fish! Fish parts will make your plants take off like a buffalo stampede. Just make sure you bury the stuff deep in the garden.
You can also toss them onto the compost pile. It will create quite an odor and attract unwanted wildlife besides. Bury it deep.
Sawdust, too! Mix it into the compost pile. It's a great source of carbon that all plants need. But don't use sawdust from pressure-treated lumber. It contains toxic chemicals that you don't want.
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Research Interests: My interests center on the intersection of astrophysical fluid dynamics, stellar evolution and supercomputer simulations. Hypersonic outflows occur in a variety of stellar environments producing some of the most beautiful structures seen in the night sky.
Since the governing equations of hydrodynamics are highly nonlinear, the best way to investigate these flows is through the use of computer simulations. Follow this link to tour a slide set used in a recent lecture on our group's research activities here at the University of Rochester.
Much of my work to date has focused on the origin and evolution of these outflows. Currently my group is working to understand the formation of "bipolar" (double lobed) outflows at the extremes of stellar evolution. During the process of star formation jets and bipolar outflows are created. We are currently studying these flows using our pure gas dynamical and Magnetogasdynamical models.
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Examples of PNeOur research work also dovetails into outreach and education efforts. Currently we are constructing a simulations tool for classroom and planetaria use.
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It's interesting that what it's planning.
Gold camouflaged! nice shot
Great photograph of Royal Bengal Tiger in wild(well camouflaged).
wow keren!!!
Nature's loveliness captured elegantly & boldly! Wow!
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nice pic ..
Beautiful, tiger and photo!
gr8 pose made by tiger
I think the reason tigers look directly at the camera is that they are sizing up what's behind it. :)
it is really an excellent photo..
This is a great photo - Majestic Beauty
Amazing shot..
Catmouflage! Awesome picture!
wow....Great image
Both today's photo and yesterday's, the Lion of Serengeti, show how wonderfully these animals blend in to their surroundings. Amazing camouflage.
Fantastic foto. Thanks for sharing
This picture kind of made me dizzy when I first looked at it. Very cool.
What is it with tigers looking directly at the camera? Other big cats look in the general direction when they hear a camera, or ignore it altogether. Tigers, however, look right at the camera as if they're evaluating the f-stop, shutter speed, film choice, and other technical aspects.
beautiful. simply...beautiful.
Beautiful! I suggest to put all detalis about the Picture.
Simply gorgeous !!!
Amazing shot. graceful creature of the God.
Absolutely stunning. I'm so happy to see the last 2 photos of the day come from the big cat department. He looks like he's about to vanish into the landscape. Great timing.
awesome and quite natural!
Very beautiful...
wow great spot
stunning,, yeah much in the areas rampant poaching is commonly practiced but also the latest census reveal small but pretty impressive increment in their no. around 300 from the last 3 years. so, its good to see the tiger legacy moving forward ..
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Amazing ! Long may he live...
Awesome click !!! What a vision !!!
Looking anger like my gf !!!!!
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Xiao L., Liu P., Sobue T., Lichtler A., Coffin J.D., and Hurley M.M. (2003). Effect of overexpressing fibroblast growth factor 2 protein isoforms in osteoblastic ROS 17/2.8 cells. J Cell Biochem 89:1291-1301.
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Sahni M., Raz R., Coffin J.D., Levy D., and Basilico C. (2001). STAT1 mediates the increased apoptosis and reduced chondrocyte proliferation in mice overexpressing FGF2. Development 128:2119-2129.
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The whole world is terrified.
The whole world is terrified. We are all scared and nervous. We do not know what to do. Please arrest the culprits of the heinous acts
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Corbett is 100 times better
Corbett is 100 times better than alex jones once again
Very well done.
His analysis is intelligent and detailed. It focuses on facts, not emotion. He also isn't making any wild speculation about the players in these events. +1
I'll have to check out some of his other stuff.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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On side note
That dude has some serious vision problems in his right eye. That lens is like the Hubble telescope.
Thanks for the post,
For Freedom!
The World is my country, all mankind is my brethren, to do good is my religion.
Good observation I love it
Good observation I love it when people notice small details. I myself want to be a private detective some day so attention to detail is important. thumbs up buddy.
Corbett needs to speed up the
Corbett needs to speed up the pace of the edit, do more voice over / unders. He provides a valuable service, but it just plain will not get past the <50k views he has unless he gets faster and smarter with delivery.
Pretty much all the libertarian base is reached already. The problem is now expanding that message to the rest of the 99% of America.
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Here is the other Corbett you wanted. He can do both.
I listen to it sped-up
There are podcast apps for smartphones that let you play back the audio faster. I listen at like 1 1/2x speed.
If Corbett does what you recommend, he'll be called Alex Jones.
With all of the anti-Alex Jones threads lately, why would Corbett want to aspire to be another Alex Jones? Corbett has a very deliberate, slow paced style. Since this is Corbett's own website, he has the time without the need for radio required breaks.
This unique quality is what makes Corbett great, IMO.
I agree. There's an old-fashioned quality to his style of
presentation that is very thorough, humble, respectful of his listeners, and not frantic. I feel calm and informed when I listen to him and really enjoy it.
He has mad info skills
but his presentation isn't quite you-tube viral, I suppose. ;)
Most of his stuff is podcasts, so visuals aren't that important.
This one is his best work, IMO.
I think he should do one like that for the general state of things.
Just open the box and see
The old Hebraic word for adversary is satan.
Deciept is one way to be adversarial.
Force is another way.
Decrepit is more easily hidden.
Free includes debt-free!
What they both miss.
What they both miss is that the Average American does not live near a fertilizer plant and does not live in Iraq but after seeing the carnage at the Boston Marathon, realize that they too are vulnerable to such attacks while even attending a Little League game or rock concert. What most Americans miss it the statistically small odds of a terrorist attack harming them directly. It is like the irrationality of people who refuse to fly because they have seen the results of plane crashes and instead choose to drive to their destination. These folks fail to realize that air travel is statistically safer than car travel but most Americans have irrational minds. Need additional proof? Just look at who they have elected as POTUS over the past few decades.
It is about irrational fear as much as anything and the media and government LOVE to play on people's fears through crap like the 1968 Gun Control Act, The Patriot Act, NDAA etc. It is all irrational BS designed to control the simpletons of society.
Remember that half the people in the USA have below average IQs and average is not too good to start with.
Does it again.
Hey Steve, ya ever listen to Jack Blood (www.deadlinelive.com)?
Because: Some animals are more equal than other animals. -Animal Farm-
What the? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MTIwY3_-ks
No, I don't know this website.
I'll check it out. Thanks for the link. It looks interesting.
The guy really is one of the best, if not the best in real talk radio. He would be in the top ten in the country if we had real radio with a real rating system. I've repeatedly asked DPers to get more so on board with radio and help promo our top shows. Here's a link to his most current show. Thanks for the listen.
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Because: Some animals are more equal than other animals. -Animal Farm-
What the? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MTIwY3_-ks
Corbett makes some very good points. So does Kokesh.
Good video.
The media chooses what to focus public attention on and the event is given non-stop coverage. It is a psyop to promote fear and form public opinion and get the public to go along with the political agenda.
In this case the Boston bombing event will promote the all out police state with more gun control, with drone surveillance, more being patted down by guards everywhere, and more acceptance of the global "wars on terror" which the tax payers are paying for.
They are not about to let this crisis go to waste.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
August Secret Agent Contest #39
GENRE: Young Adult Urban Fantasy
There are some people you know you ought not make angry because it isn't right, like your mum--if she's the nice sort.
There are other people you know you ought not make angry because they have the authority to punish you. Police officers, politicians, insane asylum wardens, your mum--if she's the bad sort.
But there are some people you ought not make angry that you don't know about, because no one ever survived to warn you.
I'm the third kind.
I eat souls. The packaging can be tricky, but fortunately I am blessed with special skills to pry my meals from their pesky shells. My teeth rip skin, my jaws snap bones. I am fast, lightning-fast, snuff--oh-was-that-your-life?--fast. I try to stick to bad souls, in the memory of my own mom (the nice sort). There were other reasons, reasons I used to understand, but they are reasons for a good person. I am not that.
That might be why I feel so at home here.
Small rooms, thick walls. Hushed whispers and ear-grating wails. A symphony of misery set to the beat of beatings. An insane asylum, prison of the cracked and grey.
Cracked windows, cracked walls, cracked minds. Don't make them angry or there will be cracked skulls!
Grey stone walls, grey stone floors. Once-white nightgowns now grey. The skin of the inmates. Grey. The metal-framed bed. The bedding. Grey, grey, grey. The bars on the window... Black. Imagery ruined. Correction--Prison of the cracked, grey and black.
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- Lanette said...
I'm hooked! Where's the rest? This is a dark story that breaks all the rules -- in a good way. The character is evil and knows he's evil. You have fragments and repititive words, but all of the broken rules make your story reach out and grab the reader. I'm looking forward to seeing it published some day.
- August 17, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Jessica May Lin said...
WOW, this is awesome! The first 4 paragraphs really drew me in. Can't find any complains here. I would totally read on.
- August 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Landra said...
I like this opening. Good visuals, and just enough info to keep me wanting more. A little teaser taste to wet the appetite.
But the last two paragraphs about the cracked and grey did start to lose me again. I get the message, but you may not need so much to make the point. IMO
- August 17, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Danielle La Paglia said...
This didn't work for me. I love stories from the bad guy's POV, but the opening read like the narrator was going to be the victim then I had to flip the switch. Also, the repetiion was too much for me. A little goes a long way and can be very effective, but that last paragraph was hard to get through.
- August 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Writer Tessa said...
Great voice! Loved the description and your word choice is spot on.
I actually liked the repetition :)
- August 17, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- Shilpa said...
Loved it. It is definitely dark and the chosen POV is right on. Usually it is the victim's POV which I guess is common now. I am already anticipating what might happen later. And the last two paragraphs actually gave a good visual. Works for me.
- August 17, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- Tori Schindler said...
The wording 'ought not make angry' lost me at the beginning. It felt awkward. The fragmented, sentences were fine but did get a little too repetitive toward the end. Otherwise I like stories from the antagonist's POV so that appealed to me and I liked the way you started by categorizing the types of people not to make angry.
- August 18, 2011 at 12:03 AM
- Ann Bedichek Braden said...
I loved this!
In particular, I loved the fact that the reader is thinking about things from the victim's pov and then it's turned on it's head. Awesome.
I would cut: "I eat souls." There's something funny about the cadence of it that doesn't work there, in my opinion. I think it would be stronger to start right in with the sentence after that and work the detail of the soul eating into that one.
And I really liked the repetition - it had such a lyrical quality about it. However, I personally was pulled out of the story by the bit about the black bars. I'm picturing it with bars even without you telling me they're there. I'd just leave the black bars off.
I'm really hoping that I can find the next few pages on WriteOnCon. I'd love to see where you go with this!
- August 18, 2011 at 1:03 AM
Hi everyone, Thank you so much for your feeback, I appreciate the tips!
Ann--I did post on WriteOnCon if you would like to read (http://writeoncon.com/forum/showthread.php?7065-YA-Urban-Fantasy-CRACKED) The query's there too if you want to know what on earth is going on :).
Tori--I changed the "ought not" in my WriteonCon version, so hopefully it's better. Thanks!
Lanette--The main character is actually a girl, I didn't get to that part in my 250 word submission :).
Again, thank you all so much for commenting!
- August 18, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Sarah Pearson said...
I liked this. It's different. I think the repetition worked well.
- August 18, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Debra Anastasia said...
I think you know your character very well and it shows. Very, very nice.
- August 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Mary said...
You have me hooked - I love creep stories. My only beef is in the first few lines. You used ~ ought not ~ twice and each time it jarred me and I had to reread. I think this can flow better.
There are some people you know you ought not make angry because it isn't right, like your mum--if she's the nice sort.
Perhaps try - There are some people you should never make angry...
- August 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM
The voice is great!
- August 18, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Barbara said...
I thought this was great and I liked the 'ought not.' I thought it gave it some distinctiveness, I did get a sense that the MC was male, and the last parg did start to get repetitive, but I liked it enough to copy down the url of writeoncon so I can read more.
Best of luck with it!
- August 18, 2011 at 10:43 PM
- T.D. McFrost said...
You have a lovely lyrical style--it's almost poetic in a (wait for it...) "cracked" sort of way. ^_^
Well done!
- August 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Tricia said...
The first 2 paras had me hooked. Since you mentioned "mum, the nice sort" in para 1 then "mum, the bad sort" in para 2, I had a different story in mind than what followed.
The whole "mum" twice with the "bad sort" mentioned last was creepy, in a good way.
Then the story changed into something else, unexpected, and not in a good way. (only because I was prepped for the one and not the other. The other is a hook in its own right.)
I would delete the 2nd mum mention, or make it clear why "mum" (especially the bad sort) is mentioned right off.
- August 20, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Hey, I hear my original comments on this were lost to the ether. Troubling! Who to blame? Google. But we have so many reasons to like Google... Anyway... I can't remember my exact original phrasing, but I believe it went something like this: Creepy! And with just one word, "mum," you've signaled class, region, stance of narrator, moral leaning of narrator (though, he may end up more complicated than first reference indicates...which isn't a bad thing...) -- and oh how I love the economy of that. Some might trip over the syntax of your first sentences, but in this case, tripping is the goal and introduces a dialect, a way of speaking, so we (should) forgive it and be intrigued by it. I am. I'm also intrigued by the locale of this story -- an asylum, and the mix of pain and pleasure (and pleasure derived from pain) in these lines. Also, great use of the short paragraph for exclamatory purposes (without stooping to the exclamation point...oh, except for that one). This could all tip into purple prose in the pages to come, but the author seems to be holding that potential thunderstorm in check, and I'd very much like to see what happens here...
- August 22, 2011 at 2:29 PM


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If there is one easy way to think about why we do the daylight saving ritual every year, it's that the move saves energy. Just look at how the California Energy Commission explains daylight saving time: "One of the biggest reasons we change our clocks to Daylight Saving Time (DST) is that it saves energy. Energy use and the demand for electricity for lighting our homes is directly connected to when we go to bed and when we get up. Bedtime for most of us is late evening through the year. When we go to bed, we turn off the lights and TV."
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"I'm certainly not a fan of the idea that it save energy," he said. "It turns out that every time Congress has studied it, it's been told that we haven't saved anything. In fact, the best study we have is from the Nixon era when he went on a desperate attempt of year-round daylight saving as a result of the OPEC oil embargo and he came up with nothing by way of saving except the potential again. Here's the problem with daylight saving as an energy saver: we tend to want our computers and our televisions and our radios when we want them. More important, daylight saving really pushed Americans out of the house at the end of the day. And when Americans go out of the house, they may go to the ballpark, they may go to the mall, but they don't walk there. They get into their cars. Daylight saving increased gasoline consumption, something the petroleum industry has known since 1930. ... This has been [a] tremendously effective spending policy. Retail stores love daylight saving. Because when we have an hour of sunlight after work, Americans tend to go shopping. The first and most persistent lobby for daylight saving in this country was the Chamber of Commerce, because they understood that if their department stores were lit up, people would be tempted by them. In 1986, Congress gave us an extra month of daylight saving time. That's when we went from six to seven months, which is the period we've been living with recently. In that Congressional hearing, [the] golf industry alone, these are industry estimates, told Congress one additional month of daylight saving was worth 200 million dollars in sales of golf clubs and greens fees. The BBQ industry said it was worth 100 million dollars in additional sales of grills and charcoal briquettes. ... For 25 years, the candy industry has wanted to get Halloween covered by daylight saving, figuring that if children have an extra hour of daylight, they'll collect more candy. In fact, they went so far during the 1985 hearings on daylight saving as to put candy pumpkins on the seat of every Senator hoping to get a little favor. They didn't get it then, but they got it this time." (Note this is my own transcription, not NPR's. I think I got everything right, but, you know...)
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The California Energy Commission does say that "studies done in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Transportation show that we trim the entire country's electricity usage by about one percent EACH DAY with Daylight Saving Time," but that doesn't take total energy use (including transportation fuel) into account. Another study quoted on the page does: "Based on consumption figures for 1974 and 1975, The Department of Transportation says observing Daylight Saving Time in March and April saved the equivalent in energy of 10,000 barrels of oil each day." But, as National Geographic reported in 2005 when the current extension of daylight saving time was being debated in Congress, in 2001, then-acting deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy Linda Lawson said these old studies might not be all that applicable in the new century.
"I want to note that these studies are over 25 years old and were limited in scope," she said. "Congress captured many of the benefits identified in our studies in the legislative changes to daylight saving time enacted in 1986. There have been dramatic changes in lifestyle and commerce since we completed our studies that raise serious questions about extrapolating conclusions from our studies into today's world."
David Prerau authored some of those old studies and recently wrote a pro-daylight saving time book, "Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time." He stands by the claim of a one percent energy reduction when daylight saving time is in effect. Downing says that has never been established, and the idea that America will save 100,000 barrels-of-oil a day with more waking daylight is "impossible, not just implausible."
So, where are we at now? There are now eight months of daylight saving time and only four or "standard" time a year. According to Downing, Congress has set aside $150 million to study the issue. This is not the end of the discussion, that's for sure.
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Admission: Free
POSTPONED: Can't Stop the Music: The Amazing Journey of Musicians with Disabilities with Berklee faculty Peggy Codding
Wednesday / October 22, 2014 / 6:00 p.m.Berklee Media Lab
POSTPONED: This event has been postponed. This site will be updated as additional information becomes available. Join us for an inspiring introduction to known and unknown musicians who were able to succeed despite, and in some cases because of, their disabilities.
Admission: Free and unticketed
Evening With Entrepreneurs
Wednesday / October 22, 2014 / 7:00 p.m.David Friend Recital Hall
Berklee's Music Business/Management Department and BerkleeICE present the annual Evening with Entrepreneurs panel, this year featuring Philip Cohen (AudioCommon, Beehive Corporation); Paul Henry Smith (Sonation, Smith Renaud): Parviz Parvizi (Clammr); and Kathleen Stetson (Trill).
Admission: Free
Call Me Doxy at 1Q
Wednesday / October 22, 2014 / 7:00 p.m.Oliver Colvin Recital Hall
Call Me Doxy is a baroque rock band based in Boston. This five-piece band strives to bring impressionist classical themes into a rock 'n' roll context.
Admission: Free
Rodner Padilla Clinic
Wednesday / October 22, 2014 / 7:00 p.m.Berk Recital Hall
Venezuelan bassist, composer, arranger, and music producer Rodner Padilla presents a clinic on electric bass concepts in Venezuelan folk music.
Admission: Free


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