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Jon Stribley, Accenture Digital Video, North America
That's the idea behind Test and Learn. Being open to failing fast, learning from it and moving on, is the key to quickly iterating and measuring the impact you're having on the business. Integrating that mentality into a structured innovation framework is intrinsic to driving change that will bring fresh thinking to your products, services and features.
While many would agree with the concept, far too many companies are struggling to use data-led thinking to drive an iterative methodology across their business units. They've deployed enabling processes like Agile to drive cross-functional thinking.
They use Big Data extensively to capture and report. Successfully tying these two concepts together to become a truly data driven organization across business, operational and product priorities, however, is a bigger stretch. That takes a different way of thinking.
As companies move forward with digital innovation, it's important to banish legacy thinking along with legacy systems. The modern approach: Proactively design hypotheses, then have the data provide a clear answer. Proceed iteratively and let the answers guide direction. Failure is as important in these tests as success, as long as you learn from everything. Companies ahead of this curve are organizing their business units around data, using it appropriately and aren't afraid to fail fast. To do this well, they focus on the concept of Test and Learn.
Test and Learn is a powerful and useful data-driven methodology. Organizations use it to quickly experiment on hypotheses that they prioritize across their whole business, or individual units, quickly measuring and understanding the KPIs around those hypotheses to drive their future decision making.
The experiment-led approach of Test and Learn is a proven one that gets structured data into your organization. It helps determine the factors that drive results, supporting fast, validated progress with innovation.
Test and Learn provides an organizational framework, with supporting processes and instrumentation, to approach innovation as a series of challenges. You frame each challenge as a succession of possible solutions (hypotheses). Link each of these hypotheses to your value tree to ensure you are working on KPIs that matter and addressing the right problems.
You can apply Test and Learn to virtually any aspect of video, advertising and content decisioning, including:
Customer Service: to reduce calls to Service Centers by prioritizing drivers of calls
Product Development: to prioritize feature roadmaps, addressing cost / revenue drivers
Marketing: to generate better campaign returns by selecting which promotional offers trigger the biggest uplift in sales
User Experience: to select which program guide UI design will drive viewer engagement
Know what specific, measurable questions or problems your changes (experiments) are solving,
Recognize whether those are the biggest problems to solve for your business and customers, and
Have confidence in your data to indicate whether your solutions actually worked (versus a control).
Use each innovation hypothesis to direct your efforts to create a targeted experiment. That can then be tested, via a series of real world scenarios, with data from each test being used to drive decisions.
A common pitfall with these types of experiments is a narrow focus on just one element of product or process. For example, developers may be pushing to make their app faster, but performance speeds may have no positive impact on the business' most pressing problems. To truly reflect the business, hypotheses should be developed across cross functional "pods" that focus on specific problems, but have input from different entities spanning the organization.
The real value comes with a team at the intersection of business, product and operations. For a company working on a video product, this means bringing together product management, marketing, customer service and development. When they create a hypothesis, they'll have a holistic view of the problem, avoiding a narrow focus.
You can then make your investments on the back of the findings from your experiments, in accordance with the data they've revealed. This sets your basis for being a data driven organization. You can then repeat the process and improve upon it, continuously, as the organization gets more data. You're creating a feedback loop that continues to build upon itself.
In today's market, with extremely agile disruptors able to pivot on new opportunities or experiences very quickly, traditional operators and broadcasters are going to need to pick up the pace. Shifting to a more data-driven approach, structured with Test and Learn methodologies, will make their current businesses more efficient and help them pivot to new opportunities. While creating this shift in an established organization can be a difficult task, the momentum you can build behind the change will ultimately lead to data-led decision making and the ability to eliminate, or abandon, practices that are not providing an expected return.


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Management Team - Ashok Leyland Corporate
Management Team
Management Team
- Mr. Dheeraj G Hinduja
- Mr. Vipin Sondhi
- Mr. Gopal Mahadevan
- Dr. Seshu Bhagavathula
- Mr. N V Balachandar
- Mr. Anuj Kathuria
- Mr. Nitin Seth
- Dr. N Saravanan
- Mr. Harihar P
- Mr. R Sivanesan
- Mr. Sanjay Saraswat
- Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan
- Mr. Balasubramoniam E
- Dr. Vikram Batra
- Mr. Amandeep Singh
- Mr. T V Venkataraman
- Mr. N Ramanathan
- Mr. Rajesh R
- Mr. Sanjeev Kumar
Mr. Dheeraj G Hinduja
Mr. Dheeraj Gopichand Hinduja holds a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Economics & History from the University College, London, 1993. He has completed his Master's in Business Administration with specialization in Project Management from the Imperial College, London University, 1994.
Dheeraj is a third generation member of the Hinduja Family, which owns and controls the Hinduja Group, with diversified business interests all over the world. Employing over 100,000 people, the Hinduja Group's portfolio includes businesses in Automotive, Energy, Infrastructure, Finance & Banking, IT & ITES, Media, Healthcare etc. Dheeraj has over 20 years of experience at strategic and leadership levels across the spectrum of businesses.
Mr. Vipin Sondhi
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Vipin Sondhi is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ashok Leyland, one of the largest Commercial Vehicles, Trucks and Bus manufacturers in the World. Vipin Sondhi has over three decades of experience in Manufacturing and Engineering based companies such as JCB, Honda, Tata Steel and Tecumseh.
Prior to Ashok Leyland, he was heading JCB lndia, where he spent over 13 years, and was a member of JCB's global executive team. He led the $1.7 billion JCB business, with five manufacturing plants situated in three locations, and established market leadership in the Construction Equipment Industry. JCB's Made-in-India products were also exported to over 100 countries, cumulatively, during his time. Vipin has a strong and proven track record as a leader, and is a passionate hands-on professional.
He is an alumnus of The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, The Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and did his schooling at The Lawrence School, Sanawar. These institutions helped him constantly expand the boundaries in academics, as well as extra-curricular activities that laid the foundation for holistic development.
He was appointed by the Government of India as the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal in December 2015. An elected member of the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) National Council, he has been the Chairman of Excon, South Asia's largest exhibition for Construction Equipment from 2006 to 2019.
He was also conferred with an Honorary Fellowship by the Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM) in December 2017. He has been awarded The CEO of the Year Award at CEO India Awards in 2014; the Udyog Rattan Award by the Institute of Economic Studies in 2011 and the Young Manager's Trophy by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in the year 2000.
Mr. Gopal Mahadevan
Whole-time Director and Chief Financial Officer
Gopal Mahadevan is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary with over 28 years' experience in the Finance function across a spectrum of industries.
Gopal has had extensive experience in manufacturing, internet services, financial services and project companies. During his career, he has also been involved in restructuring and M&A. He has worked with renowned organizations like the Thermax Ltd, Amara Raja Batteries Ltd, Sify, Sanmar Group and TTK Pharma.
Gopal is the President - Finance & CFO of Ashok Leyland since July 2013. He is a member of the board of several companies in the Group and he recently became the Whole-time Director of Ashok Leyland. Gopal also heads the Customer Solutions Business, Information Technology (IT), Legal, Corporate Strategy & Business Analytics.
He has several accolades to his credit including those of the Best CFO (Capital Goods & Engineering Industry) by CNBC TV18 in the year 2012, Best CFO (Capital Goods & Engineering Industry) by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in 2011 and Best CFO by YES Bank Business Today in 2010 for CSR / Green Initiatives.
Dr. Seshu Bhagavathula
Head - New Product Development
Seshu Bhagavathula pursued his Masters in Physics and Electronics at IIT Bombay, India and went on to finish his Ph.D., in High-Frequency Technology for space applications at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
After his Ph.D., he joined the then Daimler-Benz AG in Stuttgart and worked for almost 20 years in various functions. During his long tenure at Daimler AG, he has also been the founding Managing Director of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development Center in Bangalore. Dr. Seshu Bhagavathula joined Ashok Leyland in April 2016 as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Ashok Leyland Group. As the CTO of the group, he guided Ashok Leyland's truck, bus and light commercial vehicle verticals along with other group verticals, sister companies and Joint Ventures. At present, he heads the specialized function of New Product Development.
He has several patents, including three in transportation telematics. He also has about 35 technical publications to his credit. Seshu is a passionate long-distance runner and is keenly interested in anything that is complex!
Mr. N V Balachandar
President-HR, Communication and CSR
Mr. N V Balachandar, is currently President-HR, Communication and CSR at Ashok Leyland, one of India's largest Commercial Vehicle industries. He is a member of the key leadership team providing functional leadership to all manufacturing plants and divisions across all geographies. He is a collaborative HR leader with proven capability in delivering people objectives in line with the business strategy. An HR Professional with versatile experience in the Services / FMCG and the Manufacturing sectors, he has held senior positions in organizations such as Aditya Birla group where he was Chief People officer, India Today, Seagram India and the Taj Group of Hotels.
In addition to the above, he holds various portfolios in different industry bodies-Chairman-Human Capital Group, SIAM (Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers), New Delhi-Elected Member of CII Southern Region, Chennai and Executive Committee member of EFSI (Employers' Federation of Southern India), Chennai.
An alumnus of Loyola college Chennai, he holds an undergraduate degree in Commerce and a Masters degree in Social work.
In his free time, you can find him keenly observing the heritage architecture of ancient temples, tee-ing off at a golf course or immersed in a biography.
Mr. Anuj Kathuria
Chief Operating Officer
Anuj Kathuria is a graduate in engineering from BITS, Sindri and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He also has an advanced management program (AMP) certification from the prestigious, Harvard Business School.
His illustrious career spanning over 28 years, is studded with diverse experience in the automotive industry covering sales & marketing, manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain, mergers & acquisitions and program management. Before joining Ashok Leyland, Anuj worked at Tata Motors, and Tata Daewoo, Korea. During his stint at Tata Motors he was the head of the World Truck factory.
Anuj joined the Ashok Leyland leadership team in the year 2010 as Head of the Strategic Sourcing function, responsible for the entire supply chain activities of the company. Between the year 2013 and 2016, he was the Head of Operations, heading all the manufacturing plants, including project planning. Later, he was responsible for the trucks business and aftermarket (Network and Service). Currently, he is the Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for all Medium & Heavy Commercial Vehicle (MHCV) Business.
Anuj believes to lead by example in every walk of life. He is a sports enthusiast. He has represented his college at cricket, volleyball, basketball and Table Tennis. He also played the Officers league of the Ranji Trophy in the early 90's.
Mr. Nitin Seth
Chief Operating Officer
Nitin Seth completed his Bachelors in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and his Post Graduation in Business Management from University of Mumbai. He is a recipient of Full bright - CII fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg (USA) and has also undergone leadership Training at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Nitin has over 25 years of experience in the automotive industry in the realms of sales and marketing in Domestic and International Markets & Product Development. Prior to joining Ashok Leyland, he was the Head (Sales and Marketing) for Cars (Indica, Indigo & Nano) at Tata Motors and has additionally held various key leadership positions. He was one of the key members in launching the passenger car business at Tata Motors in 1999. Nitin has held several top positions in Ashok Leyland and is now the Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for LCV, Defence, International Operations (IO) & Power Solutions Business (PSB).
Dr. N Saravanan
Chief Technology Officer
Saravanan is a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and he earned his MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Saravanan joined Ashok Leyland in 2005 in the Product Development function, after working for over a decade in the USA at Ford Motor Company and Intel Corporation. He brings with him rich experience in Vehicle Engineering, Verification and Validation. After a 2-year assignment in 2011, as CEO of Nissan Ashok Leyland Technologies Ltd., where he oversaw the development of LCV of the JV, he took over as Head of Engineering at Ashok Leyland in 2013. He later became the Head of Product Development and is currently the Chief Technology Officer and is also responsible for the Electric Vehicles (EV) Business.
He has over 20 publications to his credit and he serves on the board of many industry bodies in the areas of Safety, Regulations and Emissions
Mr. Harihar P
Head - Operations
Harihar is a Mechanical Engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Harihar began his career with Eicher group in 1984 and was with them for nearly two decades before moving to General Electric Company in Bengaluru in 2003. In 2005, he joined Ashok Leyland as Plant Head of the Hosur-II plant. He later grew to manage all the 3 plants in Hosur before moving to lead the Sourcing and Supply Chain function in 2013. Since 2016, Harihar has been leading the Manufacturing and Project Planning function at Ashok Leyland, responsible for all facilities in India and overseas. He has played a key role in the organization's coveted "Deming Prize", world's most admired and recognized quality award, for the plants in Pantnagar and Hosur-II consecutively in 2016 and 2017 thus making Ashok Leyland the only company in the world to have won this award twice. He is currently the Head of Operations for all plants and is responsible for Manufacturing, Sourcing & Supply Chain (SSC) and PP
Harihar brings with him 34 years of in-depth and rich industry knowledge in leading manufacturing, sourcing & supply chain and marketing in automotive and engineering sectors. He was awarded the Best Production Head in 2017 in Commercial Vehicle category by the World Auto Forum.
Harihar is passionate about enhancing the environment and has a dream to create 'factory inside a forest'. The ultra-green environment in all our plants are a testimony to his dedication.
Mr. R Sivanesan
Senior Vice President, Quality, Sourcing and Supply Chain
Sivanesan is B Tech graduate from the Madras Institute of Technology and has been trained in Global Leadership at IIM Lucknow. He has over 32 years of diverse experience in the automotive industry. He is proficient in Japanese TQM concepts and has undergone training at AOTS, Japan under Dr. Kano.
He joined Ashok Leyland in August 2011 and since then has set in place transformational strategies that have brought about significant Quality Improvements across the organization. He received the 'Quality Leadership Award' from the World Quality Congress in 2012. He has served as the National President of National Institution for Quality & Reliability (NIQR) during 2014-16.
It is under his leadership that Ashok Leyland is implementing TQM practices across the organization. Ashok Leyland won the prestigious Deming prize in consecutive years for its Pantnagar (2016) and Hosur II (2017) plants thus becoming the first commercial vehicle manufacturer across the globe to win such an honour.
In April 2016, he took over the additional responsibility of the Sourcing and Supply Chain function. He was awarded the Best Procurement Head in CV category at World Auto Forum 2017. The American Society for Quality (ASQ) which is a Global Leader in Quality Improvement & Standards presented him with the ASQ South Asia Quality Professionals Award in 2017. Besides heading the quality function, he is currently also responsible for Field Service and Parts.
Sivanesan is a proud father with two daughters, Divya and Ramya and is interested in travelling, music and gardening.
Mr. Sanjay Saraswat
Head - MHCV
Sanjay holds a B. Tech degree from IIT Delhi with a specialization in Mechanical Engineering.
Prior to joining Ashok Leyland, he worked with Bajaj Auto Ltd, Pune where he had joined as a Graduate Trainee Engineer in 1988. He has had extensive exposure, significant learning, and leadership experience across functions ranging from Manufacturing to Marketing in Bajaj Auto.
He is highly appreciated for his strong fundamentals and logical, in depth, yet simple work orientation. Also commands a great respect for insightful strategic thinking coupled with strong operations management skills.
He believes in 'profitable growth' and has been able to amply demonstrate this in the Bus Business that he led earlier. Currently, Sanjay heads the MHCV business of Ashok Leyland.
Mr. Venkatesh Natarajan
Chief Digital Officer and Senior Vice President – IT
Venkatesh Natarajan is a Mechanical Engineer and a Post Graduate in Maintenance Engineering. He also holds a Masters degree in Engineering Management and a PG in Computer applications.
Venkatesh Natarajan or 'VN' as he is popularly called within Ashok Leyland and in the Industry, has 33 years of multifaceted experience in the Manufacturing industry and 25 years in the field of Information Technology. He has worked in various capacities in the areas of Plant Maintenance, Production, Sales & Marketing before pursuing a career in Information technology.
VN has been with Ashok Leyland for 18 years and in his capacity as the Chief Digital Officer has been responsible for driving major business transformation in Ashok Leyland leveraging Digital and spearheading the organization's thrust towards deploying Digital for new business models and new revenue streams apart from Digital for Business Optimization. He also heads the Connected Vehicles Program in Ashok Leyland.
He serves on the Board of Companies that includes MNCs both in the capacity of a Director and as Advisor. He is passionate about teaching /sharing his knowledge with the student community and is a visiting faculty in premier business schools.
Mr. Balasubramoniam E
Senior Vice President, Special Projects
Balasubramoniam earned his B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from the IIT Madras.
Bala has been associated for over 25 years with organizations like Maruti Suzuki India, Tata Motors and AL-Nissan LCV JV before joining Ashok Leyland. As veteran in the industry, Bala started leading Special Projects for Ashok Leyland since February 2017.
Dr. Vikram Batra
Head, Corporate Strategy and Planning
Dr. Vikram Batra is the Head of Corporate Strategy and Planning for Ashok Leyland. He joined the company in 2015, after a career spanning 20 years in the area of Corporate Finance, Strategic Planning, Talent Management, and M&A across India and the Middle East.
Prior to joining Ashok Leyland he was part of the business transformation team at Hero MotoCorp Ltd. (previously Hero Honda Ltd) and charted the strategy for the company to become a self-reliant enterprise with a global footprint. He has held leadership roles in finance in multi-national corporations like Procter & Gamble, BAT plc, and Meraas Capital.
He holds a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, where he was the recipient of the Institute certificate of merit. He completed his PGDM from IIM Bangalore, and also received the Dean's academic merit certificate for the PGPX program at IIM Ahmadabad.
He was awarded an Executive Fellowship in Management from IIM Lucknow in 2018, for his thesis in the area of Decision Sciences and Operations Research.
Mr. Amandeep Singh
Head, Defence
Amandeep earned his MBA from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, post his Masters in Operations. As a trained business professional from IIM Ahmedabad and Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, he has won several accolades to his credit.
He commenced his career with Ashok Leyland in 1992 as a management trainee directly from campus. Since then, Amandeep has worked with the company in various capacities across the country and currently heads the Defence business with an overall responsibility of the Company's Defence business in India and globally.
Amandeep is married to Jaspal, a HR professional. They are blessed with two daughters. He loves travelling, outdoor activities and adventure sports.
Mr. T V Venkataraman
Head, Internal Audit and Risk Management
Venkataraman is a Commerce Graduate from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He is an Associate member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, and has certifications from the Institute of Internal Auditors, USA (The IIA) and from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, USA (ISACA).
Venkat, as he is fondly known as, brings with him over 20 years of experience spanning manufacturing and service sectors across diverse geographies, in the domains of Governance, Risk Management and Compliance. Prior to joining Ashok Leyland, he was the Head of Assurance at the Flipkart group. He has also served the Aditya Birla Group, Deloitte and Jindal.
Venkat was the recipient of the Group Chairman's award for functional excellence (year 2011) during his stint with the Aditya Birla Group, post which he attended an Executive education programme on Leadership at Kellogg School of Management, USA. In his role at Ashok Leyland, Venkat heads Internal Audit, Risk Management and Information Security functions.
Besides work, he has interests in teaching, speaking at professional forums, nature photography, Carnatic classical music and reading.
Mr. N Ramanathan
Company Secretary and Compliance Officer
Ramanathan is a Commerce Graduate and a qualified Company Secretary and Compliance Officer.
He has over 23 years of work experience across industries and has played strategic roles in organizations like Sathyam Infoway, EID Parry and Amara Raja Batteries Limited to name a few.
Ramanathan was trained at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore in General Management Leadership (GMLD Programme).
He presently heads the Secretarial and Insurance functions of Ashok Leyland Limited.
Mr. Rajesh R
Head, Power Solutions Business
Rajesh is a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters in Foreign Trade & International Business.
He has over two decades of varied experience in the automotive industry in the realms of sales and marketing. He has played strategic roles and held management positions at Bharat Forge, Amalgamations and TVS group and has worked closely with leading global OEMs on automotive business in his earlier profiles. During his stint at TVS, he has undergone training under Prof. Tsuda San, AOTS–Japan and was a core team member in implementing the TQM & Deming awards.
Rajesh joined Ashok Leyland in 2010 in the Power Solutions Business. Currently, he heads the organization's Power Solutions porfolio for various applications including Power Generation, Industrial & Marine engine business development with global automotive and off-road OEMs.
Mr. Sanjeev Kumar
Head – After Market
Sanjeev is a Physics graduate from the University of Delhi and earned his MBA from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He has completed his management development certification from IIM, Ahmedabad and an advanced management certification from Kellogg School of Management, Chicago.
His experience in the Auto Component and Auto OEM industry spans over 26 years and he has worked extensively across regions in the country handling Trucks, Buses and Aftermarket businesses.
Sanjeev is spearheading the After Market business overseeing both Field Service and Parts.
He is passionate about leading business transformations and enjoys grooming youngsters for middle management roles.
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Board Committee Members
- Audit Committee
- Mr. Sanjay K. Asher (Chairman)
- Mr. Jean Brunol
- Mr. Jose Maria Alapont
- Stakeholders relationship Committee
- Mr. Sanjay K. Asher (Chairman)
- Mr. Dheeraj G. Hinduja
- Ms. Manisha Girotra
- Nomination and Renumeration Committee
- Ms. Manisha Girotra (Chairperson)
- Mr. Dheeraj G. Hinduja
- Mr. Jose Maria Alapont
- Mr. Saugata Gupta
- Corporate Social Responsibility Committee
- Mr. Dheeraj G. Hinduja (Chairman)
- Ms. Manisha Girotra
- Mr. Sanjay K. Asher
- Technology Committee
- Dr. Andrew C Palmer (Chairman)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas H Biagosch
- Mr. Jean Brunol
- Mr. Jose Maria Alapont
- Investment Committee
- Mr. Dheeraj G Hinduja (Chairman)
- Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Biagosch
- Mr. Jean Brunol
- Mr. Jose Maria Alapont
- Risk Management Committee
- Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Biagosch (Chairman)
- Mr. Gopal Mahadevan
- Mr. Sanjay K Asher
- Mr. Saugata Gupta
- Secretary for all the Committees.
- Mr. N Ramanathan

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The thinning of the fall and winter 2011 video game herd claims a victim today, as 2K Games delays Digital Extremes' The Darkness II. Originally on the books for an October release, 2K is now aiming the first-person shooter for February 2012.
2K updated the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game's release date today to February 7 of next year in North America, February 10 internationally.
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Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for x86 routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is uClibc and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.
Why Should I Try It?
We're partial, of course, but here are a few reasons:
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It started out Gentoo-style, but is now self-hosting. The network configuration is similar to Debian. If you've ever used a BusyBox-based system before, it's pretty good. The Alpine developers have contributed a number of enhancements to BusyBox, in an effort to make the system run like any other.
As it is a BusyBox-based system, there are no manpages by default; BusyBox applets do not have all of the features of their real counterparts. So, you will run into situations where things don't run like they do on a "real" Linux system. When you run into those situations, just remember these two things:
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In addition to basic UNIX management, you should know that...
You should also know that we are engineers, not documenters. There's not alot of documentation out there (yet). We are working on it, but could use the help. So in many cases, things are not documented as well as they should be.
How did Alpine Linux Begin?
Alpine Linux began life as a fork of the LEAF Project. The active members of the LEAF Project wanted to continue making a Linux distribution that ran off of a single floppy disk and we think that's great; however, our needs required Squid, DansGuardian, Samba, and a slew of other heavyweight applications. So, we ended up with a set of packages that fit onto a CD-ROM.
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Alpine originally stood for A Linux Powered Integrated Network Engine. The idea was that the distro would be focused on networking, and be a tiny "engine" or framework upon which larger systems could be built. Today, Alpine lives up to that name. The first open source implementation of Cisco's DMVPN, called OpenNHRP, was written for Alpine Linux. Improvements to networking functions in the Linux Kernel have started from patches and the needs of the Alpine Linux team.
In addition to its use as a firewall/router, Alpine Linux is also used in a number of installations as the basis for enterprise servers, running software such as PostgreSQL, Postfix, Asterisk, Kamailio, and being used for iSCSI SANs. It is the little engine that could.
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Custom-molded ear plugs may be just the ticket to save your hearing
I was walking the aisles of the recent Performance Racing Industry trade show when I came across a booth featuring custom-molded ear plugs. I'm not really sure why they caught my eye, because, to be honest, I've never worn ear plugs. In fact, I never even gave hearing protection a second thought. When I race it has always been pull the helmet on and go. Ear plugs? Those were for the NASCAR guys.
However, since Editor Rob Fisher gave me the specific assignment of scouring the PRI show to find a safety item that was unique and one that I, as a driver, had never used before, I was on the lookout for something different. It turned out that earplugs were that something different, at least for me.
As I mentioned, I never gave hearing protection a thought, but I should have and so should you. As racers, we are constantly exposing our ears to very loud and very damaging sound waves. Have you ever talked with any of the older racers around your home track? Have you ever noticed that they often ask you to repeat words or turn their heads so that you can talk into their "good" ears? I know I have, and I bet you have too.
It's important for us to take care of our hearing so that we can not only perform on the track, but live a full life off of it as well. I was about to find out that good hearing protection is quick and easy to get, thanks to the guys at Fit-Ear.
Who They Are
Fit-Ear is a custom ear plug manufacturer that has perfected a technique that allows the company to manufacture ear plugs tailored specifically to your ear in about an hour. Traditionally, Fit-Ear makes ear molds for people at trade shows and events all around the world.
How It Works
I sit down in a chair right in the Fit-Ear booth to begin the mold-making process. The first thing that happens is that Mark Hood of Fit-Ear performs what he calls a pre-inspection of my ear. He uses something called an otoscope or Oto-Light. It's basically a long tube with a light on the end that helps Mark verify that the conditions of the ear are such that an impression can be made.
Mark gives my ear a stamp of approval and the process begins with him placing an Oto-Block into the ear. An Oto-Block is a string with a cork-like plug tied onto one end. This block will prevent the impression material from going too far into the ear canal. It also provides a seal or rather a stopgap for the material to create the end of the finished ear plug.
Once the Oto-Block is in place, Mark had me stick a Bite-Block into my mouth. Aside from the obvious jokes or comments from people who would like to see that Bite-Block permanently attached to my teeth, it actually has a real purpose. This device aligns the jaw and minimizes movement of the jaw while Mark makes the impression of my ear. Move your jaw from side to side and you can actually feel your ear canal move around. If that happens while Mark is making the impression, your custom-made ear plugs won't fit properly and, in turn, won't be as effective. The Bite-Block prevents that movement ensuring that the finished product remains sealed all the way around the ear—even when chewing gum or talking to the crew on the radio.
With the Oto-Block and Bite-Block in place, Mark injects a rubbery impression material into my ear canal and outer ear to make a whole ear impression. Obviously, they take impressions of both ears. Fortunately, these guys are nice enough to keep that impression material at room temperature. I have to say that it was one strange sensation to have that blue goo piped into my ear. It didn't hurt, nor was it uncomfortable, but it was weird. The impression will be used to manufacture the actual ear plugs.
After about two minutes, the material is cured and can be removed from my ear, leaving no residue. At that point I get to chuck the Bite-Block into the trash can and the finishing process can begin.
Mark also manufactures a version of these ear plugs (PN MOS-R1) with a single transducer (mono) electronic packet with 24-inch mono cable. If you want to go for the radio version the only difference in the process is that prior to injecting the impression material into your ear, Mark will place the electronic packet in your ear. He also uses a different kind of material that is compatible with electronics, called Fit-Mold Premium. That material takes five minutes to cure and then it's finished, all in about an hour.
The product design allows under-helmet use for race applications and quite frankly works so well that you can hardly tell you've got them in there with your helmet on. Now the best part—these ear plugs provide noise reduction down to a decibel range of 27-32 dba. Considering that most race cars can produce noise well beyond 95 dba, ear plugs that bring the ambient noise down to the sub-30 dba level are priceless for saving your hearing.
These plugs retail for $185 and come with a 90-day warranty. At that price they're a can't miss addition to your safety equipment for this year's racing season.


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Americas Best Value Inn (formerly Millbrook Motel) is so conveniently located, near so many great attractions, that there is bound to be something available for just about everyone, no matter what your age or interests.
Conveniently located off Route 1, 1.5 miles from Cabelas, Scarborough Downs, 5 miles from Portland Jetport., The Nova Star Ferry Terminal, Portland Stage Company, Higgins Beach, Pine Point Beach, Scarborough Beach State Park, Historic Old Port at Portland Maine. Other Area Attractions includes Scarborough Marsh, Funtown/Splashtown and Aquaboggan Water Park, Cumberland County Civic Center, Merrill Auditorium multipurpose venue, Portland Harbor Museum, USM, Portland Headlights, Old Orchard Beach, Desert of Maine.
Activities like Water rafting, Jet skiing, Parasailing, Kayaking, Private Cruises, Whale watching etc are easily accessible.
If shopping is on your to-do list, the Maine Mall, with over 140 stores, is nearby and we are also conveniently located between the outlet meccas of Freeport, LL Bean to the north and Kittery Outlets to the south.
Americas Best Value Inn offers modern, spacious rooms. Wireless internet access in every room and morning coffee with continental breakfast in office from April to October. We have nicely-landscaped grounds with several Private sitting areas. Most rooms have 2 extra-long double beds but some have a single king-size bed. All have cable TV, Individual controls for the heat and air-conditioning. Nearly every room is non-smoking. Two are handicapped-accessible. We do provide Iron/Iron Board & Hair dryers on request. Come stay at Americas Best Value Inn of Scarborough were "we've got you covered."


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Des Moines may not be the JAZZ "capital of the world", but that hasn't stopped the Greater Des Moines Community Jazz Center (CJC) from recognizing the musical contribuitions of the city's finest and most influential musicians.
Started in 2001, the Des Moines Jazz Hall of Fame was established to hoor those musicians who have been proud to call Des Moines (or Central Iowa) home. Musicians selected for the Des moines Jazz Hall of Fame have not only influenced future generations of musicians, but have provided the city's jazz fans with years of musical adventure and enjoyment.
Beginning in October of 2001, Des Moines' jazz fans have gathered at Adventureland Inn in Altoona (just east of Des Moines) to celebrate the contributions of many talented and dedicated individuals. The event location relocated to Noce in downtown Des Moines in 2017. In addition, the CJC presents Special Recognition awards to musicians, jazz educators, promoters or others that have contributed to the JAZZ tradition in Central Iowa. Another Award known as "The Bobby Dawson Award" is also presented to a student musician involved in CJC jam sessions and activities. For information on upcoming Hall of Fame events, contact CJC Director, Abe Goldstien at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ross Cornelison, bass, was inducted into the Des Moines Community Jazz Center's Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Helen Gale, piano, was inducted into the Des Moines Community Jazz Center's Hall of Fame in 2002.
Rose Marie Webster, piano & vocals, was inducted into the Des Moines Community Jazz Center's Hall of Fame in 2002.


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After dating for two years, R&B diva Janet Jackson (pictured) is finally getting hitched again and this time it's to a man who is loaded. The lucky man is Qatari millionaire Wissam Al Mana (pictured), according to the US Weekly.
Al Mana, 37, gave Jackson a "huge expensive ring" earlier this year according to published reports, but she was terrified of misplacing it so it was kept in a vault.
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The nuptials are expected to take place sometime next spring in Qatar. US Weekly states that the wedding "will cost millions" and that Jackson's friends and family will be flown in "on private jets." An unidentified source also told the magazine that Al Mana, "wants to get a top chef to create a custom menu."
Jackson, who is 46-years-old, has been married twice before: once to singer James DeBarge from 1984 to 1985 and then to dancer/songwriter Réne Elizondo from 1991 to 2000.
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Al Mana, who is worth a reported $200 million, has built his net worth as managing director of Al Mana Retail and is one of the richest investors in the Middle East. He is a shareholder in the Saks Fifth Avenue stores in Dubai, Doha, Bahrain and Kuwait. Al-Mana's company, Al Mana Luxury Company, represents A/X Armani Exchange and other luxury brands.
As far as any children in the couple's future, the source told US Weekly that Jackson definitely wants some of her own.
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Located between Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan, the Toyapakeh reef is a dynamic vibrant bed of brightly colored coral reefs and a huge diversity of marine life. The strong currents make this divespot unsuitable for beginners, but advanced divers will have a whale of a time. The rich marine life counts reef sharks, rays and sunfish and divers will definitely be able to view interesting creatures on any given dive.


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Just in time for the holidays, Google is reminding everyone about its Chromebook project by lowering its price.
Chromebooks are low-cost laptops that use a browser-based operating system.
The reboot has a cleaner login page, new shortcuts to apps and features and a new look for the Chrome Web Store, should users want to acquire apps and extensions.
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And, like Google's blog states, they're "more giftable to loved ones" now. Especially now that the prices have dropped to $299 (from Acer and Samsung).
Chromebooks boot in eight seconds and are designed to be secure, easy to update and easy to use for everyone.
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The frustration that breeds in teams that aren't winning.
For Ole Miss, it's about not winning in the SEC. For Auburn, it's about not winning almost at all.
The Tigers' only victory in a 1-4 start was at home in overtime against Louisiana-Monroe. They've scored just two offensive touchdowns in an 0-3 SEC start, losing close to LSU at home but not so close to Mississippi State on the road and Arkansas at home.
Auburn did trail just 10-7 after three quarters before falling 24-7 to the Razorbacks last Saturday.
During the week redshirt freshman wide receiver Sammie Coates questioned the team's leadership, never a a good sign for unity.
"The older guys don't want it bad enough," said Coates, to Auburn media earlier this week.
Last week it was Ole Miss with an open quarterback competition. This week it was Auburn. It's unclear whether athletic sophomore Kiehl Frazier or junior Clint Moseley, the truer pocket passer, will start.
For the Rebels, Bo Wallace is the starter, but head coach Hugh Freeze has said he won't stay on the field long if makes more decisions like the one on the Rebels' last play last Saturday that resulted in an interception and help assure Texas Aamp&M's dramatic 30-27 comeback win.
It was another case of coming close in an SEC game.
"I love the support, but I'm sick and tired of people telling us, 'You're almost there, you're almost there.' It's kind of starting to make me mad. It's a fine line. Football is about winning and losing, and we lost," Wallace said. "It's time to start winning some games."
A house divided?
People aren't telling the Tigers they're close.
In fact, Coates' comments imply division at a time when unity is a must.
"We have leaders on this team. I have to disagree with Sammie on that," junior linebacker Jake Holland said. "The leadership on this team has been the same since Day 1."
Holland said he's seen no evidence of finger-pointing on the team in spite of those comments.
There's been no evidence of finger-pointing at Ole Miss, either. Most of the Rebels' 16-game losing streak occurred under the previous coaching staff.
Freeze's up-tempo offense and success in non-conference games boosted the players' confidence.
The Rebels moved the ball and scored against Texas, had two long touchdown drives against Alabama and had Texas Aamp&M on the ropes.
"Everyone is sick of losing," safety Cody Prewitt said. "We're doing our part, and it's time for things to start going our way."


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Britney Spears returned to the road Thursday night, kicking off her "Femme Fatale" tour in Sacramento, Calif.
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Boyfriend Jason Trawick was spotted watching the show from the side of the stage.
"Spears performed like a pro throughout the show, hitting all her marks … she seemed at ease," The Sacramento Bee's Carla Meyer wrote. "The sellout crowd — composed mainly of young women who were kids when Spears was a teen star — thrilled from the start to Spears' stellar pop songs."
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The conference is organized by the TU Dortmund University/ Spatial Planning Faculty/ Department of Urban Design and Land-Use Planning in collaboration with the German Jordanian University (GJU)/ School of Architecture and Built Environment, and is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
The Conference forms the culmination of a three-year project by the two universities that explored the role of public space as a catalyst of urban transformation, taking a critical and comparative stance on the conceptualization and the role of public space and public urban nodes in urban integration, giving special focus to contexts of industrial areas, renaturalization of neglected ecological components, and integration of critical social groups such as the Syrian Refugees. Parallel lessons were taken from the Ruhr Region in Germany and from the districts of Marka and Sahab within the geographical expanse of Amman/ Jordan. The Conference will showcase the products of the Project, in form of student work, research projects and knowledge exchange that occurred among the German-Jordanian counterparts; it will showcase the role of major stakeholders envisioning and enabling urban transformation in Jordan; and will act as an international platform to discuss new ideas and create the opportunity to initiate a dialogue with esteemed colleagues and global intellectuals.
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Monday, May 19, 2008
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Flight of Faith
1. After Sherrie and Pierre witness a Shrimpocalyps, they have to face "Four-Eyes", the head prawn with flying surfboards, shrimp forks and lobster hammers. Can they make sushi out of the invaders? Or will Earth sail into galactic domination by crusty demons.
2. During a pre-Armageddon warm-up bout with the demon Azazel above Roswell, the angel Gabriel develops severe acrophobia. Grounded and pretending to be human, he must face his fears and soar back to heaven before the seraphim destroy the Earth searching for him. When he encounters a beautiful UFOlogist he realizes he's going to need more than a wing and a prayer to get back home.
3. A disillusioned young English woman heedlessly roams the lands of Europe and Asia trying to discover the spirituality within herself. But can she escape the arms of Jonathan Miller, who will follow her to the ends of the Earth for her hand in marriage? Does she even want to?
4. When an army of soul-eating demons is unleashed on a gardener, she heads for the hills, not realizing that the forces of primordial evil will find her wherever she goes. Is her faith enough to sustain her in her battle to save civilization from the entity known as . . . the Keeper?
5. Seth always trusted his mischievous brothers: Wibur and Orville. One day they brought Seth to the edge of a cliff and explained, "It's simple physics: You run fast, jump off the cliff, and flap your arms as fast as you can." Seth never achieved flight. In this Alternative History Novel I document the murder trial of Wibur and Orville Wright. Will their act of fratricide alter the course of human history, or will their wiley lawyer prove that Seth "Deserved what he got"?
6. A priest, a rabbi, and a Buddhist monk are the only passengers on a small airplane. When the engine fails, the pilot bails out. There are only 2 parachutes left. Hilarity ensues.
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Dear Evil Editor:
If faith in a higher power gives much of civilization a reason to get out of bed in the morning, then what would happen if someone – or something – could extinguish it?
In FLIGHT OF FAITH, when a local man known for his devout faith denounces the church, Lia Danovin pays him a visit. In return, he tries to hill her. [To hill her? I think you mean to mount her.] And he's not alone. [Every guy in town wants to mount Lia.] After a well-timed letter offers means of escape, Lia is forced to flee her quiet life as a gardener when the Keeper, tired of life in the underworld, unleashes his protégé and an army of soul-eating demons. [Unleashes them on Lia? Unleashing your army of soul-eating demons on Lia the gardener may seem like a good way to build their confidence, but if they succeed, big deal, and if they somehow fail, they'll never live down the humiliation. It's a no-win situation, like the New York Yankees taking on a T-ball team.]
As a fugitive, Lia meets Delina, an eccentric vagabond-warrior, and Tavoris, a demoted soldier, who lead her on a frantic search for guidance. [Hi guys. There's an army of soul-eating demons hot on my trail. Care to join me?] While the earth quakes, cities riot and citizens vanish, Lia must unite with four strangers against the primordial evil that somehow finds her wherever she hides. But even as the ancient powers of the world awaken to guide her, her four allies begin to crumble. [I think I can speak for Lia when I say, As long as you ancient powers of the world are awake, how about instead of offering me guidance you crush the primordial evil that keeps finding me?] Without them, Lia's odds diminish - [Her odds of survival? Or of defeating the primordial evil? Is she trying to defeat the evil or just trying to escape?] and as she begins to question her own long-held faith, she unwittingly threatens the very bonds between civilization and its Maker.
FLIGHT OF FAITH, my first novel, is a completed, 85,000-word fantasy that explores the intricacies of faith, friendship and how the inexorable desire for love can backfire. The manuscript is available for your review upon request. Thank you for your consideration.
What was Lia's purpose in visiting the guy who renounced his faith?
I don't get a good idea of why Lia is so important to the Keeper or what the stakes are.
Does the Keeper play a role after unleashing his minions? He seems to disappear from the query, even though he's the coolest character.
I'd either elaborate on the "well-timed letter" or leave it out.
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- Stacy said...
What does Lia have or do that she deserves the wrath of the Keeper? And what's so boring about life in the Underworld?
I don't think she should be on a search for guidance. Too abstract. You need an amulet or a watch that runs backward or something. And while you're at it, give the Keeper a scar.
- none said...
I don't get how faith is being extinguished.
- Dave Fragments said...
It might help for you to answer some questions:
...how the inexorable desire for love can backfire.
There's a love story here?
What's the difference between the Keeper, the Keeper's Protege, and a army of soul sucking demons?
Unleashes Havoc: Is this like Shakesperean unleshing - "Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial"
Or is it like unleashing the Queer Eye guys on some poor straight slob's pig pen of a house and letting them rummage through his soiled underwear?
Why does Lia care that a local man renounced his faith? Why does she go to see him? Is this like those "I saw Jesus/Mary/God in an oil stain, or burnt toast, or on a tree, or whatever their miraculous revelation happens to be? If she sees a man who renounces faith, her faith is restored? This doesn't seem to be reasonable. If I quit believing in a god, does that god disappear? Neil Gaiman's American Gods deals with that age-old problem - neglected gods.
I thought this was set in my hometown or some tiny suburban US city. But when you say "vagabond warrior" and "demoted soldier" I get the feeling that this is set in a different world. A world without cars and with lots of horses who create huge, stinking dung piles.
"The ancient powers of the world" Cthulhu? Leviathan? Oceanus? Coeus? Hyperion? Gaia? The Worm Ouroboros?
- Anonymous said...
OMG "mount her"!!! I think the neighbours heard me laughing!
- Anonymous said...
A priest, a rabbi, and a Buddhist monk walk into a bar. The bartender goes, "What is this, a joke?"
- Whirlochre said...
The opening line is clear and punchy — the rest, less so.
I get that there's a primordial evil and Lia and her friends are fighting it. But who is the local man? The Keeper?
It sounds like it has some good elements, but it's a bit of a muddle.
Eccentric vagabond-warrior sounds too multi-class D&D for me.
150 - so the Priest replies "No — we want to get fucking bladdered, mate."
- Anonymous said...
Hi all. I'm the author. I just pulled myself up off the floor and am absorbing all of your comments. Even 150's joke. Might add that in my manuscript somewhere, with permission, of course.
Thanks to all of you for your honest feedback and especially your tact. I knew going in that I would need guidance (heh) in understanding what makes a great query letter, but I was still pretty darn nervous.
So...sounds like, among other things, I need to be more specific - as the overview approach leads to leaps of logic (which are all, thankfully, addressed in the book), and I need to NOT be afraid to give away some surprises (right?)
This is really frustrating. Mr./Ms. Wolfe, I will try not to let it get me down, but JEEZ did I miss the mark or what??
I will absolutely rewrite and appreciate everyone's willingness to shred, er, take another look. :) I agree, Kiersten, that this is a great resource.
Thanks again.
- pacatrue said...
Anon Author, I don't think your query was all that hideous. There's really one main problem -- why do we (and the Keeper and everyone else in tehs tory) care about Lia particularly? If you can explain this, then everything else is tweaking.
- Kiersten White said...
Anonymous! It's you! Anyway, nathanbransford.blogspot.com and pubrants.blogspot.com both offer great advice on how to put together a good query. I recommend looking it over if you haven't already. EE is the best resource, but if you come with an already strong query, it's even more helpful.
(I don't want EE to think I'm cheating on him with other blogs...)
- Evil Editor said...
There are other blogs?
- Kiersten White said...
Only mine.
- Dave Fragments said...
We want you to succeed. We want you to write a good query and get published. Never lose sight of that.
PS. And we have a little bit if fun doing it.
- Wonderwood said...
Author, if this is your first try at a query, props to you. You've obviously done some research. With the suggestions here as a guide and a little tweaking you'll have a polished query with just a few more iterations.
I prefer not to think about the queries I wrote for my first novel (which wasn't ready for publication, anyway, but what the hell, we live and learn don't we?), and I hope that if I query any of the same agents, they won't remember my first attempt as the worst query they've ever seen, and so perversely bad that the writer of it could not possibly ever learn to write, and therefore automatically blackball me for life. Tell me they won't remember, EE.
Keep working at it, author, and good luck.
- talpianna said...
Everything is explained, including Lia's decision to visit the man who's lost his faith, by one simple fact:
Lia is a Jehovah's Witness.
- Anonymous said...
New Version:
Dear Evil Editor:
Lia Falwin spent years cultivating a normal life, complete with surrogate family, good friends and a strong faith. She's through battling personal demons and wants nothing more than to remain exactly where she is. When a local man denounces the Maker at temple – her temple – Lia investigates and becomes determined to set him straight. But when she offers him her help, he tries to kill her.
His botched attempt just may have saved her life; as Lia flees, darker and more dangerous forces are closing in - hooded forces with spiked teeth and very bad breath. With the unexpected help of several strangers, Lia discovers her pursuers aren't free agents; they're following orders, and as she begins to comprehend the depth and breadth of their hierarchy, she realizes there is much more at stake than her life.
As Lia and her new friends struggle for more answers, each revelation calls Lia's own faith deeper into question. She knows she'll eventually face the hooded nightmares. She can't run forever; she's beginning to suspect that each step is drawing her nearer to losing her only effective weapon.
FLIGHT OF FAITH, complete at 8,500 words, is my first novel. The manuscript is available for your review upon request. Thank you for your consideration.
- Anonymous said...
I didn't realize what "the Maker" meant until I read the previous version (thought it was some kind of clergy) and I'd like to know what kind of temple she belongs to (Jewish? Mormon? Pagan?), since nothing in the query indicates a setting other than modern-day Earth. I just don't think you're being specific enough. And fix that word count. :)
- Evil Editor said...
Most manuscripts need to be cut, but you've cut this one by over 77,000 words.
If the hooded whatevers have gotten close enough that Lia has smelled their breath, they're doing more than just closing in.
What is at stake besides her life? What is her most effective weapon?
What are they looking for answers to? Why are the dangerous forces after her? It wouldn't take much space to answer a few questions, making it less vague.
- Anonymous said...
Drat. 85,000. On the bad breath, great point. I'll work on answering your questions - I'm s.l.o.w.l.y. starting to get a feel for this. At the rate I'm going I'll have a query ready by 2045. Thanks for your help EE.
- _*rachel*_ said...
How did his trying to kill her save her? What exactly is at stake? Besides her life, that is. Maybe a few more specifics. Oh, and 8,500 words? Surely you mean 85,000 words?
Disclaimer: I'm not sure I'm any good at all at critiquing queries, so be careful.
- Julia Weston said...
150 - thanks. I think I'm worried I'll "give away too much." Clearly not the case.
Rachel - thank you for your comments. Yes, it should be 85,000. And I'm certain you're better at critiquing queries than I am at writing them :)
- Chelsea Pitcher said...
Is this geared toward a specific religious audience? Or is it a more general for-anyone-who's-questioned-their-faith type of thing?
Are we supposed to root for Lia or think she is meddling? The line "set him straight" sounds like you think she is right and he is wrong.
I think you are much closer to the mark with this query, but it still inspires several questions.
In the first paragraph, Lia is done battling demons (which makes me wonder what demons she battled before) but she jumps at the chance to get the local man to battle his. This seems in direct opposition to everything leading up to it.
- batgirl said...
Just a thought - you might want to start the first para with 'Lia Falwin is through with battling her personal demons', because that sets up your MC as someone who has a troubled past and has come to some sort of peace. And that leads to the expectation that her peace will be shattered.
Then add a bit about what she's achieved (maybe one less item than at present) and suggest that it's compassion that makes her visit the denouncing guy, rather than 'setting him straight' which sounds more self-righteous (if she _is_ self-righteous, maybe make it her gratitude to the Maker that motivates her).
Just my thoughts.
- David Eric Tomlinson said...
Lia Falwin spent years cultivating a normal life, complete with surrogate family, good friends and a strong faith. She's through battling personal demons and wants nothing more than to remain exactly where she is. When a local man denounces the Maker at temple – her temple – Lia investigates and becomes determined to set him straight. But when she offers him her help, he tries to kill her.
This sounds good, but the tone is flat. Can you spice it up a bit? The "bad breath" comment below gives me a hint of Lia's personality ... can you bring more of that into P1?
"Lia Falwin is through battling demons (at least the personal ones). She's finally managed to stay in one place long enough to carve out a relatively normal existence: surrogate family, strong faith, good friends. Lia wants things to stay just as they are.
But when she tries to help a confused Temple-goer better understand the mystical ways of the Maker, things start moving, and not in the right direction. With a botched attempt on her life the only thanks she receives for trying to help out, Lia must now ..."
His botched attempt just may have saved her life; as Lia flees, darker and more dangerous forces are closing in - hooded forces with spiked teeth and very bad breath. With the unexpected help of several strangers, Lia discovers her pursuers aren't free agents; they're following orders, and as she begins to comprehend the depth and breadth of their hierarchy, she realizes there is much more at stake than her life.
"... now she's battling more than just demons - she's battling a legion of brainwashed, hooded forces with spiked teeth and a severe case of halitosis. Fortunately she's not alone, a group of strangers ..."
As Lia and her new friends struggle for more answers, each revelation calls Lia's own faith deeper into question. She knows she'll eventually face the hooded nightmares. She can't run forever; she's beginning to suspect that each step is drawing her nearer to losing her only effective weapon.
What's the weapon? This sounds too vague ... give us a taste of her big dilemma.
FLIGHT OF FAITH, complete at 8,500 words, is my first novel. The manuscript is available for your review upon request. Thank you for your consideration.
85,000 words, maybe? Don't tell them that the manuscript is available - they already know it is or you wouldn't be querying. Save this space for more exciting bits about your novel.
Good luck!
- talpianna said...
Just reminding you that in the query, you SHOULD give things away--this is not the place to conceal surprises.


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The Chesterfield Wants to Please Your Tastes
Are you ready to order from an 11-chapter cocktail menu?
Eddie "Lucky" Campbell quit drinking the night before his first bartending shift. He has, essentially, been crowd-sourcing his drinks ever since. To get his drinks right, he says, he doesn't taste them. He asks people how they taste. And then he tinkers till he gets it the way his customers like it.
There is a lot that could be talked about in terms of Campbell and The Chesterfield, his new downtown bar. Campbell came to Dallas to become a real estate agent and landed in restaurant and bar work instead. He's shopping around a reality TV pilot about cocktail making and the struggles to get the bar built. He has studied old cocktails and worked with Michael Martensen, who was once part of the Chesterfield team. The place has an 11-chapter cocktail menu and an "ice program."
But this idea of Campbell not tasting his drinks seems particularly fascinating (and apropos) in this age of social media. Smart businesses—companies on the leading edge—are using digital technologies to learn more precisely what customers want. Which on a lot of levels makes The Chesterfield, a cocktail bar bringing pre-Prohibition drinks back to life, a modern, cutting-edge place.
On a recent Friday night, the crowd was low key (jeans, comfortable, neighborhoody hangout dressed) in the elegant space. The bar is sumptuous, with rich, textured material on the walls, high ceilings, chandeliers that surely would make Edwardian buffs feel at home. I wanted to run my hands across the 100-year-old exposed brick walls, patched with bricks reclaimed from old Chicago warehouses.But what made the bar sing, what made it come alive, was the blues. Mississippi Delta blues, John Lee Hooker blues, low down dirty blues, all playing through the speakers. It was the last thing I expected in a trendy, seasonal, artisanal, mixologist, early-1900s-inspired-cocktail-menu'd downtown bar, and, man, did it change everything. The music made The Chesterfield feel original and slightly rebellious, willing to risk making a statement. It was someone putting together peanut butter and chocolate, stripes and checks, Latin and the vernacular, and I appreciated that point of view. (Different members of the staff offer input into the music, and the music changes throughout the day, but Campbell told me that they all agreed on the blues, that blues felt right.)
My husband disagreed; he thought it was out of place, that The Chesterfield was too elegant and clean to make a home for the blues. And maybe he's right. But whether or not it was the right move, I loved the boldness of it. Our drinks were good, fresh, and well made—the whiskey sour especially so—but without surprise. I like surprise. I like to visit someone else's idea of what makes a whiskey sour or a risotto or a poem good. I may not have been able to drink the habanero whatever I had at Bolsa (I think it was the Passion Whiskey Fizz) because it was too hot for me, but I loved that someone put a habanero in my drink, that someone decided a freaking fireball habanero belonged in my drink in the first place.
Of all the artisanal cocktail places that have opened around town, the one I've enjoyed the most was fleeting, the pop-up Bar 828, on Davis Street. The bar was just plain cool. An artist was painting a mural as we hung out, we struck up conversations with strangers, and the crowd was so utilitarian-sleek that even Steve Jobs would have been pleased. A woman from Whiskey Cake made me something with whiskey because that was all the direction I gave her, and it was spectacular and sharp and unexpected and new. We walked home and on our way got invited into a neighbor's house, though we'd never met him before, and he told us his stories of Jack Ruby and Oswald. I loved listening to him talk. I loved hearing his story, shot through with his bias, his slant, his perspective, and history, even when I disagreed.
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Working in retail does not necessarily mean that every day is the same. If you're looking to add some excitement to your retail career or earn some extra cash with an out-of-the-ordinary job, there are plenty of seasonal opportunities that go beyond ringing cash registers and stocking shelves. While all positions are not the same, consider one of the following cool temporary jobs. You may even decide to make seasonal work your career.
Characters and Entertainers
For years, people have told you that something about you seems familiar. Perhaps it's a twinkle in your eye or a laugh that reminds them of something from their childhood. Maybe it's time to put that special something to use.
Many retail organizations hire seasonal characters to help bolster holiday sales. A good Santa or Easter Bunny can have a significant effect on store sales.
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Secret Agents
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One should simply be respectful to those that work hard to tangible valuable ends.
It is enough to use these people instead of God as an object of appreciative contemplation; when in doubt or distress, just spend a few moments of appreciation on everyone that works like nature works, in the thick of it. It will clarify the mind to the immediate reality.
Communism becomes the prelude to this basic respect.


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..the small lights of homes come on
in that trough.
......Burnish my heart
......with this mark
Furnish my soul with the hope
Far away and by a river
In the darkness of a walnut stand.
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for the SW aficionados...
Animated 'Star Wars' to hit theaters
Lucas' 3-D project going bigscreen before small
By DIANE GARRETT
Another "Star Wars" tale is on its way to the bigscreen, but it won't be distributed by Fox.
Lucasfilm has partnered with Warner Bros. Pictures and Turner Broadcasting on "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a 3-D toon that will bow in theaters this August before moving to the smallscreen in the fall. The Aug. 15 feature will set the stage for the spinoff skein, which will bow on Cartoon Network, followed by airings on TNT. International release dates for the feature and TV series are still being set.
Multiplatform project is an expansion of the earlier "Clone Wars" microseries that aired on Cartoon Network. However, Fox's homevid arm released those episodes on DVD, just as it has distributed every "Star Wars" theatrical release since 1977.
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I'm sufficiently excited. the CLONE WARS 'toons were easily the best part of the prequels. here's hoping the CGI move will be able to carry a more serious note. it ought to be better even if the basic material is as shite as the prequels just cuz animation makes allowances for such leaps in logic. :2cents:


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"Never say never."
Well you never know, or "never say never," like that Bieber kid says (haha). Sweeping a team on the road is always nice, and it's even nicer when you actually pick up a game. I can't believe the Tigers actually lost; they have been playing so well. It looks like we finally caught a break.
The pitching for us has been great. Unfortunately, we ran into a very hot team in Anaheim to start this trip and it left me not feeling like writing any blogs. Thank God it was only a two-game series and we were able to get out of there. I'm hoping this series in Seattle puts us in the right state of mind for the upcoming week. We exploded with some runs yesterday, and it's great to see the guys swinging the bats. I don't think Dayan Viciedo is going to hit a home run every game, but it was nice to see him and Tyler Flowers show some power.
I'm really hoping we can see The Cell packed this week; there is just a little over a month left, and we need all the support we can get. Time to go out there and see what we're made of. … Oh yeah, and never say never (haha).
— Ozzie
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Exciting game yesterday…great weekend…the pitching really cinched it up a knotch and then yesterday's pitching, combined with some great, timely hitting…it could happen!
Go for it Oz!
Sorry about the Anaheim series. It was good to see the turnaround over the weekend. Which series do you think will be the biggest challenge of the ones coming up?


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The Team: $75,736 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
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