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QueryDice Hijack #4: Women's Fiction
The QueryDice has been HIJACKED by avid reader, Scribble Orca! The following is a query critique performed by a reader of SlushPileTales. Comments, suggestions and discussion are welcome and we hope you join in. The Hijacker can only offer one opinion. The author of the query and I would love to hear yours. After all comments are in, I will re-post the Dice with my own thoughts in purple. To apply to be a Hijacker, please contact me using the contact tab above. Scribble, take it away! (Scribble's comments in green.)
Dear Ms. Ruth, Excellent – addressing the agent!
When Emily Matthews returns to the small Oklahoma town she ran away from as a teenager, she's the last person in her family to arrive.
This sentence works because we know 1) our MC's name; 2) setting = a small Oklahoma town (although I would add in the name of the town before "..a small.." to be specific); I don't mind the omission of the name of the town. This is a matter of personal taste, really. 3) Emily is no longer a teenager (so this is not YA) and she was a runaway; and These are extremely important things to know, so I also give the author kudos on that first sentence. 4) she's still a black sheep because she's the last person to arrive. I'm not so sure Emily's lateness necessarily means that she is a black sheep. It could mean other things as well. This is why it is important to be clear in your query letter; don't leave too much up to interpretation. Even though this sentence is unclear, it is obvious that the effect is intentional and like Scribble, I think the sentence works. What's missing in this sentence is "…at her estranged grandmother's deathbed." I would suggest scrapping all of the next sentence except for that piece of information. I'll respectfully disagree with Scribble, here. I like the mysterious leaving-out of important details here because I can tell it is intentional. There is a big difference between an author lazily or ineptly leaving information out and an author skillfully knowing when to leave things unsaid…for now.
I'm also being nit-picky here: I prefer "…from which she ran away as…" rather than "…ran away from as..". If you had written "She ran away from the town as…" that would be fine. However, I don't think this would mean the agent would decline to read further, if you chose not to insert "from which". Like Scribble, I have trouble with dangling prepositions. It grates on me. I actually winced. That being said, this particular mistake has been made so often that it has become familiar to most people. I don't think the error is so glaring that I would stop reading. I'd keep going.
As a first sentence goes, I think it is terrific. I'm really keen to keep reading. Agreed.
Everyone else is already there holding vigil around her estranged grandmother's deathbed. Call her old fashioned, but she thinks you should wait for the person to die before you hold the viewing.
Here is where I stumble, because I don't think 'holding vigil' equals 'a viewing (of a casket)', or being 'old-fashioned'. In fact, most families gather around the death bed of an aged relative who is dying. What is it you want me to know here? That Emily is, despite her history, conventional? Has morals? We know that she's willing to put her own feelings aside because she has come to see her 'estranged' grandmother in a place that's obviously uncomfortable for her – "the town from which she ran away". What else do you want to add to this picture of Emily that contrasts her with her family and specifically, her grandmother?
I also had trouble understanding what it was you were trying to tell us with this sentence. A query letter should be restricted to only the barest bones of information, and since this one detail doesn't seem to be central to the plot, I wonder why a a whopping two whole sentences have been wasted on it. Above, I liked the mystery of the first sentence, but even so, I'd rather you simply (as Scribble suggested) add "at her grandmother's deathbed." However, I'd leave out the word "estranged" because it implies that the grandmother has been alienated, which is not the case. Emily is the one who is estranged from the family, not her grandmother whose whole family has gathered around her.
After a suspicious fire destroys her car, she reluctantly accepts help from Miller, the boyfriend she left behind when she ran.
I would avoid 'suspicious' fire, because the fire isn't suspicious – the circumstances are. So I suggest being direct here without saying arson – "After a deliberately-lit fire destroys her car…" or "After her car is deliberately destroyed by fire…." depending on your preference for passive or active voice. That was a great catch, Scribble, but your fix then sets us up to ask more questions. Author, can you find a way to tell us concisely that a fire destroyed Emily's car and she thinks this was foul play? The next part of the sentence is fine, however the last part is using up your hectic agent's limited attention on redundant words. You've told us Emily ran away, so that means she left everyone behind. What would you like to tell us here? That she and Miller were still girlfriend and boyfriend when Emily left? Perhaps you could reword the sentence as "…she reluctantly accepts help from Miller, the boyfriend she deserted when she left." If I'm wrong about thefeeling you want to evoke in your reader here, you can use a different verb. Bear in mind that the choice of verb has to go some way to explaining why Emily is reluctant to accept help from Miller. I agree with Scribble about the redundancy, but I acknowledge how difficult it is not to be here. How about this fix: "…destroys her car, she accepts help from her old high-school sweetheart, Miller, even though she feels [describe her feelings in line with her personality–this is a great way to build character in the query] about accepting help from some one she deserted so long ago."
It doesn't take long for old feelings to reignite. But then she discovers evidence that her grandmother has spent the last seventeen years lying to Miller to manipulate him into covering up one of the family's darkest secrets
Your first sentence in this paragraph brings me to a halt – I'm guessing the feelings are on Emily's side – but also Miller's? You also start the next sentence with "But…". That means that what follows 'but' will contrast with the first sentence. It doesn't – your second sentence goes into information-dump territory and tells me nothing about the romance between Emily and Miller.
I disagree with Scribble, here. I assumed the feelings were mutual, and I thought the sentences separated by the word "but" did in fact contrast: Emily is beginning a new romance with Miller, but something complicates that.
It also hints at a link between Miller and Emily's grandmother but doesn't give me any background to this and I'm asking 'But why would Emily's grandmother have the opportunity to be lying to Miller – how have they been connected in Emily's absence?' Agreed. This is a big problem. Because it is unexplained, and even seems a little unlikely, I have no choice but to think it's not well-developed in your manuscript. Also, "evidence" and "cover up" might give your query an unwanted police-procedural feel. I don't mind that so much. I could take it or leave it. My rewrite suggestion would be:
"But as Emily's feelings for Miller re-ignite, she discovers that her grandmother has used her [something about grandma's relationship or position with Miller – so we know how she has the chance to manipulate him] to manipulate Miller into concealing one of the family's darkest secrets." Great suggestion.
The key pieces of information for me are that Emily's old feelings are aroused, after seventeen years. So Emily is in her early to mid thirties and must be single – otherwise she wouldn't have old feelings for Miller to arouse. I assumed she was single as well. If she is, it is fine for the author not to have mentioned her status, but if she is NOT single, that's huge and we need to know how that complicates things. Miller has been manipulated by Emily's grandmother to hide a dark family secret – so now I want to know what it is. But that isn't what I find out in the next sentence.
Emily realizes that when she left, he became easy prey to her horrible family.
What does Emily realise that has made Miller fall easy prey to her family – and what has her family done that is horrible? My best re-write suggestion here is: "Since Emily left, Miller has succumbed to the influence of Emily's family." And if you look at my re-write, it's rather poor, because it's still not telling us new, important information – because we already know that Miller is under the influence of Emily's family since he's also hiding their secret. Do you see why this sentence doesn't work as it is? I think it's interesting that he became easy prey to her horrible family, but this comes out of left field and we wonder why and how and is that why she left, and my brain is so busy asking questions that it's not paying attention anymore.
The guilt she feels is enough to make her want to run again. But she can't. Someone has gone to great lengths to make sure she stays in town.
Why does Emily feel guilty – because she left Miller, because Miller has been duped? And why does she only feel guilty now and not before she came back? She feels guilty for something, so she wants to run away, despite her feelings for Miller being re-aroused. I'm wondering the same things. Sadly, it isn't Emily's depth of feeling that prevents her running away, it's because someone has done something to make her stay in town. Yikes. I'd missed that, but now that Scribble brings it up, how are we supposed to like Emily and sympathize with her character if she's such a coward that she would desert Miller a second time? What is the something and is it valid to stop her from leaving – how can it provide more reason than her feelings for Miller? As a teenager running away is fine, but she's in her thirties [exactly] – how deep are these feelings now if it's something else that's keeping her in town?
Emily has a choice to make: Tell Miller the truth about her grandmother, which would expose the family secret she ran away from years ago, or let him go on believing that he's based his entire life upon a bad promise from a good liar.
Based on the preceding information, I don't see that Emily has a choice to make. She feels guilty, wants to leave town, someone else is forcing her to stay, and not her feelings for Miller. So why expose a family secret (and we don't know how terrible it is)? I'm confused by the next sentence as well. Emily wants to stop Miller believing his life is based on a bad promise – does this mean Miller already knows the promise is bad and that Emily's grandmother is a good liar – so when Emily tells Miller about the family secret Miller will stop believing his life is based on a bad promise? Or do you mean that Emily is considering letting Miller know that he's based his life on a promise which is a lie and he doesn't yet know the promise is a lie? Do you see why it's not clear for me, your *ahem* agent? I agree with Scribble. I'm thinking, "Okay, so expose a secret that her family has kept (so what? She doesn't even talk to them and she deserted them) or hurt Miller who's been nothing but helpful. That seems like a no-brainer. But there are too many questions to ask here, so I'm having trouble really getting a handle on what happens in the book.
That being said, I have an inkling that there is a great story here and the query just didn't do its job.
[redacted], a work of women's fiction, is complete at 97,000 words. I have a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas, and I'm a member of RWA and its North Texas branch.
Thank you for your time,
I was absolutely certain I'd request my first Dice…but I'm not sure whether this is actually meant to be a romance (unless women's fiction means romance) or something else [it's definitely women's fiction, which differs from romance mostly in its focus on a larger issue than just a romantic relationship between two people], and I'm not sure what the real conflict is [me neither]. The hints aren't enough to make me say "yes, I'd like to know more." If those missing gaps in the story were instead filled in and the query was stronger, and if I were an agent who knew the market for your kind of women's fiction very well, then I could imagine requesting at least a partial to look at your writing style. But at the moment, there's a sneaking suspicion that the choice of words you've used in your query might reflect an imprecision in your manuscript, and I really don't know enough about your story to be hooked.
What does everyone else think?
Thank you for having me as your QueryDice Hijacker and I'm looking forward to Lauren's, the querier's and everyone else's comments.
Good luck! 🙂
Scribble Orca is based in Singapore and loves to read, discuss books and anything book related, and write.
She has lived and worked on every continent in the world, with the exception of the polar caps, doing everything from washing cars to advising government ministers, helping refugees to fleeing from pirates, interviewing terrorists to almost dying from malaria. In her own words: I fixate a lot, procrastinate some, and I lucked out in the patience stakes.
QueryDice Hijack #3: Middle-grade
The QueryDice has been HIJACKED by soon-to-be published author, Sage Blackwood! The following is a query critique performed by a reader of SlushPileTales. Comments, suggestions and discussion are welcome and we hope you join in. The Hijacker can only offer one opinion. The author of the query and I would love to hear yours. After all comments are in, I will re-post the Dice with my own thoughts in purple. To apply to be a Hijacker, please contact me using the contact tab above. Sage, take it away! (Sage's comments in green.)
Dear Ms. Ruth,
The last person Ricky Wilson expected to meet in the boys' bathroom at Bramlet Junior High was Dolly, the ghost of an eighteenth century British noblewoman. I wouldn't start with a logline. Loglines knock the story out of order and can be confusing. Instead, start around here:
I respectfully disagree with Sage. I like the line above. It drew me in. I was intrigued by the ghost of a girl in the boys' bathroom of a junior high school. There's something kind of wacky about it and I definitely wanted to keep reading.
But ever since waking from a bone-chilling nightmare about an ax-wielding logger, Ricky's life has been full of unexpected (and mostly unwanted) surprises. <–This sentence feels like it runs off course a bit. I would like to see a connector just before the sentence. Something like, "But Ricky isn't that surprised. His life has been full of unexpected (and mostly unwanted) surprises…like waking up from a bone-chilling nightmare about an ax-wielding logger." Of course then you'd need to modify the following sentence a bit.
One such surprise is the ghostly occupant of the family's newly purchased vacation house, a spirit called Red, who is the very logger from Ricky's dream! Bound to the house, but determined to wreak vengeance, Red conjures up a second ghost to haunt Ricky wherever he goes, the beautiful and unpredictable Dolly. This is a good set-up. I'm hooked; sounds like an interesting story. I agree. I'm interested.
As Ricky struggles to navigate the rough seas of junior high and home life, Red threatens to capsize him. Can you be more specific? Yup. My thought exactly. What struggles? Struggles happen to be the heart of middle-grade, and if they're not bad enough (like poor Harry Potter and the powers he has but doesn't understand amidst his little identity crisis) the story won't work the way you want it to. And how and why would Red threaten to capsize him? Instead, Dolly leads Ricky on an unforgettable journey that will bring him a new understanding of friendship and family, and reveal some astonishing truths about himself. Again, be more specific. What's the journey? What challenge does Ricky face and how does he rise to the occasion? We expect the character will grow in some way, but it's generally a better idea to focus on character and plot rather than on themes or morals. Remember, your main job here is to make the query-reader eager to read the story. I'll agree and somewhat disagree. I think themes and morals are way, way, way more important in middle-grade than they are in some other genres or age-groups. So I do want to know exactly what themes or morals are discussed, but I agree with Sage when she calls for specificity. We need to know the conflict too. What does Ricky want, what's in his way, how does he overcome it and why does he need help from Dolly. This conflict should have larger consequences for the world around him and more personal consequences for Ricky.
[redacted] the first of a three book, middle grade series. In today's middle grade market, you're best off calling it a stand-alone with series potential. Sage is right. Unless you have all three books finished and polished to your satisfaction (and be honest with yourself) then "stand-alone with series potential" is not only best for you, but let's face it…it's accurate. Unlike the pure fantasy and alternate reality books flooding today's Middle Grade and YA markets, (Oops—that sounds negative. I'm sure you don't mean it that way, but it's not really necessary that you compare your book to those already on the market, anyway) (Again, I agree with Sage. It is highly likely that you'll be querying the agents who have sold some of the books you're talking about, which means they'll have an emotional attachment to them…making yourself out to be "above" that will not work in your favor) the main character in this series is grounded in the real world, facing the same problems as many readers. The appearance of a ghost and the plausibility of reincarnation challenge him, (I thought you said he was grounded in the real world, facing the same problems as readers. I wouldn't imagine readers grapple with ghost appearances and the plausibility of reincarnation, as a rule. You've probably juxtaposed these things against real-world problems, but the placement of these sentences puts them in conflict.) as well as the reader, to question the boundaries of what is possible. I'd leave this out. You don't need to tell us what the book will do for the reader. We assume reading in general does this for children. Great point, Sage! Each book of the series will introduce a new ghost as well as reveal clues about Red's past and how Ricky is linked to him. The ghosts are based on actual reported sightings which are discussed in an Afterword. That's an interesting idea. Yeah, that is interesting…and fun.
Growing up in California, I would rouse my younger sister out of bed to conduct midnight seances. Having never successfully summoned an actual spirit, the ghosts in my stories are based solely on the reports of others and my own invention. After graduating college, I moved to Seattle, Washington to design and test airplanes for the Boeing Company. While living in the Northwest, I learned to bungee jump and play the marimba. I left Boeing to pursue the arts of child raising and writing. I've had articles published in local newspapers and school newsletters and am a member of SCBWI Western Washington. [redacted] is my first novel. I'd generally omit a bio unless a specific agent's submission guidelines ask for one. Or unless you've got paid publishing credits you want to mention, eg previously published books. It's also not necessary to say this is your first novel. Since that won't help, leave it out. Would you care to know about the childhood of someone you don't know, and who happens to be just one person in a long line of other people you have to read that day? Nope. And neither do agents. They want to know about your book, and about your professional credits. That's all. And I too would have left out the mention that it is a first novel. Sometimes I think authors put that in as a pride-mention, but it has the potential to work against you. Leave it out, since it is unnecessary.
The completed manuscript of [redacted] is available upon request. Give a word-count here, rounded to the nearest thousand. Say something like "[Redacted] is complete at 45,000 words." Agreed.
Thank you for your consideration! That's good; thanking people is always good.
Author, it sounds like you've got an interesting story here, but we're not hearing enough about it. Your query runs 380 words, which is about 100 words long. On the revision, take out the bio and any reference to what you hope the book will do for the reader. In my experience, some parents like useful lessons in children's books. But editors, agents, writers, booksellers, and the kids themselves do not.
So just emphasize the story. Tell us more about the challenges Ricky faces—be specific—and how he overcomes them through his own resourcefulness. I'm not sure you should spend time talking about future books. At this point you really want to interest the agent in just this one book. "Stand alone with series potential" –and leave it at that—is the current parlance. Best-case scenario is when the agent or editor says "Have you got more?"
Hope this helps you with revising your query. Good luck!
Sage Blackwood's middle-grade fantasy JINX, the first of a trilogy, is forthcoming from HarperCollins in January 2013.
Find Sage Blackwood on GoodReads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13643494-jinx
Thanks, Sage!
QueryDice Hijack #2: YA, Adult or Crossover?
The QueryDice has been HIJACKED! The following is a query critique performed by a reader of SlushPileTales. Comments, suggestions and discussion are welcome and we hope you join in. The Hijacker can only offer one opinion. The author of the query and I would love to hear yours. After all comments are in, I will post my own thoughts in the comments section. To apply to be a Hijacker, please contact me using the contact tab above. Shelver, take it away! (Shelver's comments in green.)
Dear Ms. Ruth,
[redacted] is a 95,000-word horror novel about a girl haunted by premonitory visions, and a decades-old curse she uncovers. Okay, one sentence in and you already have me wrinkling my nose. Don't tell me what a story is about. Show me. (I checked the rest of your query. You don't show me.) I would suggest cutting the entire bit from "about a girl…" onward and moving the rest of the sentence to the end of the query. All of that is business and belongs with the rest of the business (bio, etc.). You only get one first impression, so don't waste it.
Dawn McKenzie moves to rural Ohio to start a new life, but the death of a visiting couple has put the entire town on edge. I fail to see how these two parts connect. There are other ways to mention (if necessary) that Dawn is new to town, and there are certainly smoother ways to bring in the deaths. Langston, the town's aging sheriff, believes they were victims of a werewolf attack.What? Someone dies (you don't even say they were murdered or mauled – you say they died) and the sheriff thinks "By Jove, it must be a mythical creature!"? Now he must walk a line: on one side is the town he swore to protect; on the other is a dark path of murder and conspiracy. Hold up. Who's the protagonist, Dawn or the sheriff? This query is your protagonist's chance to shine. Don't give up the spotlight. Also "walking a line" usually implies balancing between two choices. Unless Langston is being pulled to commit murder, he's not walking any line. Across town, Dawn's visions of a dead friend–someone she calls The Boy in Black–beckon her to uncover a truth she would rather not know: that the werewolf may be real, and one of her new friends may be more than what she seems.
I feel like there are so many gaps in the paragraph above, which makes me worry about your world-building. Why would anyone bother to suspect werewolves? Are Dawn's visions of a dead friend new? If he's a friend, why does she call him by a title rather than his actual name? I think calling him "The Boy in Black" is supposed to add a spooky feel to the tale, but it doesn't make any sense. I know you may not feel like you have enough room in a query, but you should be able to clearly and succinctly let the agent get a feel for your story and the world that it inhabits. He or she certainly shouldn't spend most of the time feeling confused.
More than anything, I'm not sure why I should care about Dawn or her story. Two people died, but there's no mention of any further danger. There may or may not be one werewolf somewhere in the world. Also, Dawn has a friend who may be "more than what she seems," which could mean she's secretly a world-renowned tap dancer. How does any of this affect Dawn? What makes any of this her problem? And once it's her problem to handle, why should I as a reader care?
The novel is aimed at adults and young adults. Wait, so would this be shelved in with adult fiction or YA lit? Crossover appeal happens, but you as the author need to write with the primary audience in mind.with an eye for small-town drama, women's issues and horror that gets under your skin.I've seen none of this in your query. If you have to resort to telling me these elements are in your story rather than being able to show me, there's a problem. The protagonist in [redacted] is a young girl starting college in a small town. Being a college freshman likely makes her too old for most YA lit publishers, but describing her as a "young girl" will hardly recommend her to adult readers. Either way, this sentence is unnecessary, but I added the critique to give you something to think about for your story.
The jump into adulthood can be frightening, and I want this novel to be a companion to that while still holding the attention of older readers. Another sentence that makes my nose wrinkle. In addition to repeating sentiments regarding your proposed dual audience, you're also perilously close to outright calling this novel New Adult, which makes it a very tough sell.
I have written two novels and over thirty published stories, one of which appeared in the horror anthology What Fears Become (italicize the title) alongside author Ramsey Campbell. Good information to know. Very nice. I have a B.A. in Cinema and Cultural Studies, a division of Comparative Literature. I would leave the college major part of the bio out. (Feel free to correct me in the comments, guys.) I would love to send the completed manuscript upon request. Of course you would. Anyone would. Don't waste time on the obvious.
Thank you for your time[,] and I look forward to your reply. Classy touch.
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QueryDice #42
The following is a query critique. Comments, suggestions and discussion are welcome and we hope you join in. I can only offer one opinion. The author of the query and I would love to hear yours.
There is no greeting in this query. This won't get you an immediate rejection, but agents would rather you address them personally, otherwise, they'll feel like you've just dropped something in their lap and walked away.
It's the question that women in every century, in every part of the world have asked.
It's the question that I asked myself four years ago, before a frantic trip to Rite-Aid during my senior year of college.
Am I pregnant?
The above is a great way to turn the oft-scorned hypothetical or rhetorical question into a definitive statement. This author could have written, "What would you do if you found out you were pregnant when you were in college?" That question, even if it is a compelling one, would have had me rolling my eyes. Who cares? Tell me about your book instead of asking me useless questions. Great job, there.
For me, and the one-million college-aged women in the U.S. who face unplanned pregnancy, two tiny blue lines announced one life lost, one life just beginning.
I'm not sure how I feel about the word "lost" in the above sentence. Remember that anyone reading your query brings his or her own baggage to it, and that baggage is going to color it. I happen to be a mother, and I happen to have found out I was pregnant as a very young wife on my college campus, and I happen to have thought my life was totally done-for. I cried all the way home on the A-train, like one of New York's numerous psychos. There is a Duane Reade I cannot pass without thinking of that page of my life. Turns out, being a mom is not the death sentence I thought it was, but something entirely different and awesome. So the words "one life lost" are offensive to me. I suspect that what you meant to get across is that college girls who find out they're pregnant invariably feel like they're losing their life. But don't leave the impact of your words up to the reader's ability (or lack thereof) to infer and be reasonable.
Struggling with the difficult emotions, stigmas, and decisions surrounding an unplanned pregnancy, I searched for an inspirational and practical book directed towards women like me, but found nothing. Non-fiction books in the market focused on older mothers as well as teenage mothers, with a noticeable absence on the college-aged mother.
After I successfully navigated college as a pregnant student, found the resources and help I needed, and joyfully (albeit painfully) delivered my daughter sans-epidural one week after graduation, [redacted] was born. [redacted] is the non-fiction book I sought while pregnant; A slightly irreverent, hopeful and humorous, yet realistic and down-to-earth account of my story and the stories of other women, in dealing with pregnancy, classes and a newborn, telling the parents, and defying societal stereotypes.
I would rather know, right off the bat, about your book, rather than about your personal story. Very often, authors use a query letter to tell the reader how they came to write the book, but this information is not very important. What is important, is the book's ability to sell. An agent is thinking, who would buy this? Is there a place for this on bookstore shelves? Use the words you have to tell us what the book offers to college-age moms and to the scared crying-on-the-A-train girl. The following sentence is the tip of the iceberg I want to see.
College-aged mothers are not "Teen Mom" material, nor are they ready for the soccer-mom and mini-van crowd; [redacted] reaches this new generation of mothers under the veil of what they really are–smart, successful, and driven individuals searching for a way to be accepted as mothers.
As the former College Outreach Program Coordinator for the pro-woman organization Feminists for Life, I have helped hundreds of student activists bring pregnant and parenting resources to their campuses. Continuing now as a professional speaker for Feminists for Life, I deliver lectures and workshops on Capitol Hill and across the country. My work with Feminists for Life has been featured in national publications, such as The Boston Pilot, and on Catholic TV.
Currently, I work as a labor and delivery nurse, continuing a passion for caring and advocating for women and their children. Now married and the mother of two daughters, I am pursuing a life-long dream of writing, with work published on Yahoo Shine, Babble, Scrubs, and in online health publications
The last two paragraphs, while they can be boiled down a bit, are great and they are the most important part of your query. When I was an agent–and I know I wasn't alone–I would read the bio paragraph of a nonfiction query before reading the synopsis portion. Why? Because if the author has no platform or means by which to market herself and her book, there's no point reading further.
[redacted] is the first book of its kind to reach out specifically to the one-million college-aged woman who have unplanned pregnancies each year in the United States. This is a book that will change the face of young motherhood.
A completed book proposal is available at your request. I look forward to hearing from you and I thank you for your time.
Warmest regards, <–There's something really nice and comforting about this send-off.
This query needs some work, but as an agent, I probably would have wanted to see a proposal. My last suggestion has more to do with your book than your query: expand this to reach the largest possible audience while still focusing on the niche audience you've already targeted. Publishers (and agents) will want to know how to get the highest sales numbers for your book and that means they will wonder how many people are going to buy this…how many college-age moms are really out there? I advise against using the word "college" anywhere near the title, and overusing it in your query, proposal and manuscript. Make this a guide for women between the ages of 18 and, let's say, 25. Then, in your query, tell us about what you're offering to those women. Insight? Comfort? Know-how? Do you touch on money? Social services programs for young moms? What will it be like to juggle motherhood, maybe school, a job, dating if that's the case, the naked ring-finger but big belly embarrassment? Lastly, you have not given us a word-count.
Good luck. I would have liked (and bought) a book like this back when I was the girl on the A-train.


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Photographs from our rehearsals for our production of The Young Person's Guide to The Lindisfarne Gospels. Click on an image to enlarge.Read More
Month: August 2013
Thank you to Hadrian Trust
We would like to give a heartfelt thanks to the Hadrian Trust who have provided Enter CIC with some funding towards tutor costs for our next performance at Durham Cathedral. Our young people regularly work with industry professionals and perform with stars of TV and stage so this type of funding is essential to assist with the aspirational opportunities our young people receive. With the funding we will be able to provide valuable extra rehearsal time for our young people in the lead up to 'The Young Person's Guide to…Read More
Students Visit Cathedral
On Tuesday 27th August 2013 Enter CIC students visited Durham Cathedral in preparation for our upcoming production of 'The Young Person's Guide to The Lindisfarne Gospels' in September. The purpose of the visit was to show the young people where they would be performing and help them understand the large scale of this performance. As the young people entered the Cathedral they were amazed by the size of this historic venue and couldn't wait to look around. For some of our young people this was the first time they had…Read More
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New Centre Windows
We recently received some funding from Lafarge Tarmac and Derbyshire Environmental Trust to have the windows in the Enter Centre replaced. We are delighted to announce that work has now been completed and the windows look fantastic. The work was essential to ensure that the building was fully weather proof. This fantastic building can now be used for many more years to come and we are delighted that we could maintain the original look of this historic venue. We would like to thank Lafarge Tarmac and Derbyshire Environmental Trust for…Read More
Music Taster Sessions
On Monday 5thAugust, 2013 Enter CIC provided free music taster workshops at our venue on St Cuthbert's Terrace Ferryhill. These taster sessions were designed for anyone who wanted to learn some of the theory and practical skills involved with Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Ukulele and Music Theory. Take a look at the gallery below for photographs from the day.Read More


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The historical baggage has a greater burden in North Asia than in the Himalayas and if the Chinese, Korean and Japanese can plan a regional security framework (here), then it's possible such a framework could be established elsewhere.
China is becoming a great power and like all other great powers--even those under a different political system--it's power is subject to abuse. However, long term and complicated regional issues require a grand vision from all sides to push policy above politics. Cheap opportunistic pandering to bolster relations with one's constituency produces no long term impact and is not productive to the ultimate goal. Of course, the Chinese government's passive-aggressive overreaction to such pandering doesn't help either.
While the "new aerial war games" may not improve regional security issues, it could be better than attending some contentious meeting.
India-China aerial war games in 2012: IAF chief
2010-02-22 17:50:00
In yet another sign of the growing India-China military ties, the air forces of the two countries will stage their first joint war game in 2012, the Indian Air Force (IAF) chief said Monday.
'The planning has commenced. We are expecting political approval soon. In all probability, the exercise will be conducted in 2012,' Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Naik told reporters here.
With this, all three wings of the armed forces would have engaged in joint exercises with their Chinese counterparts.
The Indian and Chinese navies had initiated the process in November 2003, holding their first joint exercise off Shanghai. Subsequently, two ships of the Indian Navy made port calls at Qingdao and participated in a joint exercise with the Chinese navy in 2007.
The first bilateral army exercise between the two countries was organised in Kunming China late in 2007. The next joint army exercise was held in India in December 2008. The next round of these will be held in either country in 2011.
The year 2008 also saw high level visits of armed forces officials and defence ministry officials.
In January, Defence Secretary Padeep Kumar had led a 10-member delegation of senior armed forces officers and defence ministry officials to China. He had met, among others, Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Liang Guanglie. The delegation also visited an armoured division of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Academy of Military Science.
'The two sides have identified a number of areas in which further action will be taken for military cooperation. For 2010, both sides have discussed high-level delegation visits, exchanges between military training institutes and reciprocal exchanges for various courses, including language courses,' a defence ministry official said after Kumar's return.
India and China had fought a bitter border war in 1962 and their relations remained frosty till the mid-1980s, when Rajiv Gandhi, who was then the prime minister, made a path-breaking visit to Beijing.
Since then, there has been a steady warming of ties with exchanges in the political, economic and cultural fields. The two countries have also named special representatives to work out a roadmap for resolving their border row.


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First Offshore Court To Adopt JIN Guidelines
The Chief Justice today issued the following statement about the adoption by Bermuda's Commercial Court, which is believed to be the first offshore Court to formally adopt the Judicial Insolvency Network Guidelines.
The statement said, "The Chief Justice today issued the following statement about the adoption by Bermuda's Commercial Court on March 9, 2017 of a new Practice Direction, 'Guidelines on Communication and Cooperation between Courts in Cross-Border Insolvency Cases'.
"Trading companies of all descriptions often face cash-flow problems and are unable to pay their debts as they fall due. In such cases, 'restructuring proceedings' are often commenced to reorganize the companies' debts so that they can continue to operate in a more profitable way rather than going out of business altogether.
"Most international business is carried out by companies forming part of a larger group whose corporate members are incorporated in and/or doing business in different parts of the world. When a group of companies are restructuring their affairs through court proceedings in different countries, it is important for a successful outcome for the various proceedings to be carefully coordinated.
"The Practice Direction gives effect, with minor modifications, to the Singapore-founded Judicial Insolvency Network ["JIN"] Guidelines. The JIN Guidelines are designed to increase the effectiveness of insolvent restructuring proceedings involving one or more companies where related proceedings are simultaneously taking place in multiple courts.
"The JIN Guidelines were adopted in Singapore in September 2016 and JIN members include, in addition to Singapore and Bermuda, judges from Australia, BVI, Canada, Cayman, England & Wales, Hong Kong SAR and the United States.
"Bermuda's Commercial Court is believed to be the first offshore Court to formally adopt the JIN Guidelines.
"There are currently more Bermuda-incorporated companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange than any other single foreign domicile."
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Returning to Drake and Justin in my WIP Encounters: Magic Lessons. You may recall that Justin has feelings for Drake who pushed him away in the past. Now, Drake is all about making it up to Justin.
Drake's expert eye determined that Justin's cock measured more than his own. It might not be as thick, but it was definitely longer. His ass cheeks clenched as he wondered how it would feel to have Justin fuck him. He'd had fingers and dildos in his ass, but only once had he been fucked. Weylyn had been an excellent instructor in anal sex, but his cock didn't match Justin's in length or girth. The thought of Justin's monster dick in his ass made Drake shake with lust.
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HOOT Teacher Directory
In our efforts to introduce people to Decorative Painting we are providing a list of our members who teach decorative painting. If you are interested in taking classes from any of our teachers, please e-mail the person and use "Learn To Paint" as the subject. This way the teacher will know that you saw their name on our website Teacher Directory.


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Because I had my camera whilst out and about.
Larger versions are here.
Because I had my camera whilst out and about.
Larger versions are here.
Someone appears to have just read the chapter in the "How to take Great Photos" book called "Motion Blur". These are very well done. I assume you were in the car?
Those are awesome. I followed your link to the others. I'd love to use some for wallpaper.
What kind of camera do you use? I have a Nikon D40.
Ooh . . . pwetty!
Oh, pretty. I like middle one best, though the sunset is nice as well.
Hmm, I assumed you were jogging . . .
I especially love the last one. I may pilfer it for my weekly desktop photo.
no cows.
You certainly live in a place with gorgeous sky… people don't look up enough.
wauww.. perfect photos…
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Last week, I came across this quote from Sister Joan Chittister: "Not only does what our churches, mosques, synagogues, and faith communities teach and do about women become the morality of the land — what they do not say or do on behalf of women condones what becomes the immorality of the land." Is this not true? I've met more kindhearted pastors who don't have much to say about women at all (other than we support 'em) than I have the fork-tongued, slandering kind. Sin is an easy silence.
This month, I was joined by contributor Robyn Henderson-Espinoza in a teleconference with the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ritual, and Ethics. You can find a link to the recording and notes from it by clicking here. Robyn talked about being a Queer Baptist seminarian who tattooed her body with memories of faith and doubt. I shared how my sense of identity as a Christian without children has grown stronger as I've been able to say to others with increasing grace, "I am not the woman you had in mind." Sometimes I have to say this to myself, too.
In just a few days (Wed, Feb 5, 1-2pm ET), there will be another teleconference with four more contributors talking about women's ordination to the priesthood, the temptation of adultery, worldwide reproductive health, and the belief that broken bodies are Spirit-filled bodies. Sign up for the teleconference by clicking here.
Consider it a matter of health to register, your extra dose of Vitamin-W for our bone-drying deficiencies in women's voices.


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I had heard that Chris Kaman wasn't too happy with Bill Simmons. So, while checking that out, I noticed a follower had sent him his 4th grade yearbook photo from 1992. Turtle neck and a deep-V sweater? Jackpot. Imagine that 4th grade outfit on the Clipper Kaman of a few years back. 'Twould be a glorious sight.
In other news, here's the Kaman to Bill Simmons tweet.
When I grow up, I want to be famous enough to have pro athletes call me a douche.


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While industry leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, called for new rules surrounding data protection, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear two cases involving warrantless searches by law enforcement of suspects' cellphones. And, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced settlements with 12 companies over false claims of alignment with Safe Harbor rules. In this Privacy Tracker roundup, learn about these as well as bills being considered by U.S. state legislatures, how Obama's NSA plans may affect EU law and more.
Judge: Plaintiffs Sufficiently Allege Legal Duty in Sony Case
While U.S. District Judge Anthony Battaglia shot down parts of the class-action suit against Sony over its 2011 hacking incident, he did allow certain claims through, including one related to Sony's legal duty to provide reasonable security, reports databreaches.net. Battaglia wrote that "because plaintiffs allege that they provided their personal information to Sony as part of a commercial transaction, and that Sony failed to employ reasonable security measures to protect their personal information, including the utilization of industry-standard encryption, the court finds plaintiffs have sufficiently alleged a legal duty and a corresponding breach."
Sens. Introduce Anti-Fraud Legislation
Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) have reintroduced legislation that would require certain entities to "better safeguard sensitive information, investigate security breaches, and notify consumers when there is a substantial risk of identity theft or account fraud," now called the Data Security Act of 2014, Government Security News reports. The requirements would supersede current state breach laws and apply to "businesses that take credit or debit card information; data brokers that compile private information, and government agencies holding nonpublic personal information."
NJ Governor "Pocket Vetoes" Drone Privacy Bill
Among the 44 bills Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) allowed to expire was a drone privacy bill that would've required police to get a warrant before using drones for surveillance, reports Philly.com. The bill passed the New Jersey Assembly with a vote of 74-1.
Wisconsin Assembly Passes Social Media Bill; Senate Passes Mental Health Bill
Senate Bill 223, making it illegal for employers, universities and landlords to require social media login information from workers, students, tenants or applicants, has passed the Wisconsin Assembly, reports WEAU. If the bill passes into law, violators could see fines of up to $1,000. One employment law expert says that if misconduct on social media is suspected, employers can ask for access to the site but not for login credentials. The bill now heads to the Senate for approval.
The Wisconsin Senate, meanwhile, has passed the Mental Health Care Coordination Bill, updating Wisconsin law to be more consistent with HIPAA, reports the National Law Review. Currently, state law requires a level of confidentiality for behavioral health treatment beyond that required in HIPAA. The current requirements have been criticized for hampering appropriate treatment by restricting the sharing of patient data with other treatment providers.
How Obama's NSA Plans May Affect EU Law
President Barack Obama's plans for surveillance reform, as revealed in his speech last week, "have had a lukewarm reception by European politicians," writes Field Fisher Waterhouse Partner Eduardo Ustaran, CIPP/E. "Such reforms are a work in progress that will extend over months and years, but Obama's stance is bound to have a very direct effect on existing and forthcoming EU data protection requirements," he adds. In this installment of Privacy Perspectives, Ustaran lays out his predictions "about the practical impact of the proposed plans in Europe."
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At World Economic Forum, Industry Leaders Call for New Privacy Rules
In a blog post, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith has called for "an international legal framework—an international convention—to create surveillance and data access rules across borders" and has said the current legal structures are out-of-date, prompting "some governments, as we've learned over the past year … to take unilateral actions outside the system," CNET News reports. Smith is expected to take part in a World Economic Forum (WEF) panel discussion about the public perceptions of surveillance, data security and privacy in light of the NSA disclosures. BT Group Chief Executive Gavin Patterson, also speaking at the WEF, said customers cannot be guaranteed 100-percent privacy online and called for updates to "murky" data collection laws, The Guardian reports. Meanwhile, DW reports on Human Rights Watch's call this week for "a clear regulatory framework to keep intelligence services in check."
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FTC Settles Safe Harbor Charges Against 12 Companies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled with 12 U.S. companies over charges the companies falsely claimed they were abiding by Safe Harbor rules. The companies involved spanned various industries, including mobile apps, DNA testing and professional sports. The complaints filed by the FTC state the companies allowed their EU-U.S. Safe Harbor certifications to lapse, despite claims in their privacy policies or Safe Harbor certification marks indicating otherwise. Three of the companies were also charged with falsely claiming to abide by the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor framework. The settlements, which follow criticism from the European Commission that the Safe Harbor framework has not been effectively enforced, are now open for public comment. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said Safe Harbor enforcement is a priority and the cases "send a signal to companies" that they can't falsely claim certification. In a blog post on the FTC's site, Lesley Fair, senior attorney with the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, says this is fair warning that, "If you feature the Safe Harbor mark on your site or refer to your participation, remember that you must 're-up' every year."
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SCOTUS To Hear Cellphone Privacy Cases
Politico reports that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases involving warrantless searches by law enforcement of suspects' cellphones. The two cases—Wurie v. U.S. and Riley v. California—were granted cert by the court last Friday. In Riley, police searched a suspect's text messages, photos and videos, finding evidence of gang-related activity and images implicating him in a separate crime. In Wurie, law enforcement went through the call logs of the suspect. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Hanni Fakhoury said, "These cases give the court the chance to determine to what extent the Fourth Amendment applies to newer technologies and whether the breadth and scope of information stored on a smartphone matters under the Constitution. We think it does and hope the Court agrees with us." Editor's Note: Privacy Perspectives recently opined on an Associated Press report on the wariness expressed by Supreme Court justices about ruling on technology-related cases.
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Is a Constitutional Amendment the Answer to Restricting Data Collection?
Last Sunday, privacy scholar and National Constitution Center President and Chief Executive Jeffrey Rosen opined that a constitutional amendment may be needed to "prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures of our persons and electronic effects, whether by the government or by private corporations like Google and AT&T." But Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, disagrees. In this Privacy Perspectives post, Thierer explains why there "are several problems with Rosen's proposal—legal, economic and practical" and writes "that better alternatives exist to deal with the privacy concerns he identifies."
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Making a Privacy Law for the 21st Century
With the EU's proposed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) hanging in the balance, some think it a good time to go back to the drawing board. "Better, I think, to start again and design a good law than to adopt legislation for the sake of it—no matter how ill-suited it is to modern-day data processing standards," writes Field Fisher Waterhouse Partner Phil Lee, CIPM, CIPP/E. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Lee reflects on what a "21st-century data protection law ought to achieve, keeping in mind the ultimate aims of protecting citizens' rights, promoting technological innovation and fostering economic growth."
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Regulation Won't Be Adopted Before May Elections
With several member states aiming to water it down, the revised data protection law will not be adopted before European Parliament elections in May, EUObserver reports. On Wednesday, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding and the lead negotiators on the package agreed to set the deadline for before the end of the year. German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht said the timetable established seeks a mandate for negotiations in June, adding, "If it will be possible to stick to this timetable, this would be good news and important." The member states aiming to soften the regulation—UK, Denmark, Hungary and Slovenia—would prefer to see it turned into a directive instead.
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Reding Calls for Billion-Dollar Fines
European Commission Vice President Viviane Reding is calling for larger fines against companies that breach the EU's privacy laws, BBC News reports. Reding "dismissed recent fines for Google as 'pocket money' and said the firm would have had to pay $1 billion under her plans for privacy failings," the report states, noting she believes increased punishments are needed to encourage firms to take personal data use more seriously. Out-Law.com, meanwhile, reports the EU's Court of Justice "is set to rule in a case involving Google and the judgment could offer some clarity about which local data protection rules will apply to multinational Internet service providers that process personal data abroad but have a business presence in a local jurisdiction."
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Australian Breach of Privacy Case Dismissed
A police officer's privacy complaint against the Queensland Police Service (QPS) has been dismissed, Brisbane Times reports. The officer "launched legal action against the Queensland Police Service claiming his privacy had been breached when details of a raid on his home appeared in the media," the report states. The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal dismissed the complaint after finding the officer "had not substantiated his claims against the QPS," the report states.
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Data Privacy Complaints at Record High in Hong Kong
South China Morning Post reports complaints and enquiries to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) peaked in 2013, "driven partly by new restrictions on companies' use of their customers' personal data for direct marketing." The PCPD reported Thursday that more than 75 percent of the "complaints targeted private organisations, while more than half of the enquiries asked about the marketing restrictions," the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said on Thursday. The number of complaints received in 2013 was up 48 percent over 2012, the report states. (Editor's Note: The IAPP Asia Privacy Forum comes to Hong Kong on 31 March.)
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Steve Will Discusses IBM i Strategy
We recently hosted a day of strategy discussions for IT executives at Seiden Group's CIO Summit in Dallas. Special guest Steve Will, Chief Architect of IBM i, joined the group to share his direction for the platform.
Steve began by addressing IBM i's place in IBM's list of priorities—how actively is IBM i being supported and improved? Can CIOs who commit to IBM i as their strategic platform count on IBM to continue enhancing and supporting it?
Two major trends make Steve bullish on the future of IBM i.
Ten years ago, many of the Chief Architect's conversations involved companies who were considering moving away from the system. His conversations have changed dramatically. Today, Steve reports, many executives are far more visionary about the platform, seeking to leverage the assets that they have in a better way. The tide of attrition has turned.
Furthermore, IBM's own internal metrics show that, in the last 3 years, the IBM i/Power business has remained constant in a shrinking market. As the cloud model takes over the thoughts of many executives, the IBM i offers a strong value proposition to cloud providers, and that helps ensure the financial viability of the platform.
In short, Steve assured us that IBM recognizes the business value of IBM i and is committed to investing in it.
Steve outlined his roadmap to address the three biggest concerns for IBM i users.
Concern #1: New Talent on IBM i
Steve's team is working to attract younger developers to the IBM i platform. IBM created the Fresh Faces program (which includes Seiden Group's Stephanie Rabbani) as one way to show that IBM i is loved by developers of every generation.
At this point, 20–40 US-based colleges teach RPG. Their graduates get snapped up by employers quickly. Because our platform needs more new professionals than the educational system can train, Steve's team has crafted a realistic strategy that meets the next generation where they are.
1. Support technology familiar to younger developers
Rather than insist that the world train all students in IBM i technology, Steve finds it more practical to equip IBM i with the technologies that younger developers already know. For developers comfortable with Linux, today's IBM i could feel quite familiar, as favorite tools became available here.
This strategy began 7-8 years ago and is bearing fruit with accelerating open source infrastructure and tools in the PASE environment. Besides open-source languages, we now have package managers; the Bash shell; Git; and a rapidly increasing portfolio of other open-source tools.
Developers of the new generation expect—and often have a passion for—a collaborative work environment. They favor tools that support collaboration, such as version control (Git) and messaging/file sharing (Slack).
2. Make your RPG environment more familiar to younger developers
Steve encourages IT executives to invest in transforming older code to newer variants and techniques that younger developers can easily understand, such as Free Form RPG and modular coding. IBM i's rich partner ecosystem offers tools to make RPG code more modern and accessible to new developers.
It's equally important to use modern IDEs, such as RDi, to give new developers coming out of school a familiar and productive development environment.
Concern #2: Anywhere at Any Time
Today's IT users have the expectation that their applications and data will be available to them from any place, at any time.
The IBM i team and the ISV community have made major strides to enable "Anywhere at Any time." Customers who still see IBM i as a back-office platform will be surprised to learn how much has changed when they take a fresh look at the platform's "Anywhere" capabilities.
On the "Any time" side of things, Steve discussed how "available" high availability really can be.
Those of us not versed in the latest storage and system administration techniques were surprised to hear of some IBM i capabilities. Steve informed us, for example, that planned downtime for system backups can be reduced to mere seconds through the use of PowerHA and FlashCopy technology. Unplanned downtime can be short and become even shorter with ongoing R&D by IBM.
Concern #3: How Does the User Base Learn What's New?
Steve challenged us to watch our social media.
IBM is using targeted web-based communication channels to understand customer interests and deliver relevant information via ads and social media. Start by following these twitter accounts:
- Steve Will: @Steve_Will_IBMi
- Scott Forstie: @Forstie_IBMi (SQL and DB2 for i)
- Jesse Gorzinski: @IBMJesseG (open source)
Other Resources for IBM i Direction
- DB2 for i with Mike Cain
Insight and perspectives on data management using IBM i
- i Can with Dawn May
Technical Tips for i
- iTalk with Tuohy
Podcast interviews with people doing interesting things with IBM i development
- IBM Systems Magazine
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IBM i's 30th Anniversary Celebration
Starting April 2, 2018, IBM began celebrating IBM i's 30th Anniversary with user stories and more.
Truth be told, we got a head start on the celebrations with the world debut of The RPG Five at the RPG & DB2 Summit in March. Steve Will, Ted Holt, and Seiden Group's Alan, Stephanie Rabbani, and Jorge Diaz performed to a standing ovation. Check out the video!
Next CIO Summit
Our next CIO Summit will take place October 1-2, 2018, in Chicago. Seating is limited. If you are a CIO or IT Director who is responsible for application development, let us know if you would like to receive an invitation when registration opens.


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Parent & Student Resources
Bell Schedule & Day 1/Day 2 Calendar 2019-20
Moody Summer Reading - IB 6th - IB 7th - IB 8th - Summer Reading 6-8
School Supply Lists - 6th grade - 7th grade - 8th grade
Student Drop Off and Pick Up Map/Directions
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About Moody Middle School:
The building that is now George H. Moody Middle School was initially opened in 1951 as Hermitage High School, and Mr. George H. Moody was appointed its first principal. He served in this capacity until 1956, when he received a series of administrative appointments culminating in him becoming the Superintendent of Henrico County Public Schools. Following the opening of the new Hermitage High School on Hungary Springs Road in 1972, the building on Woodman Road became known as Hermitage Middle School. On November 5, 1978, Hermitage Middle School was renamed to honor George H. Moody, and he remained active in the life of the school during his retirement. George H. Moody Middle School is located in the Brookland District of Henrico County.
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Sega have announced that they have shipped a total of 390,000 copies of Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f (PSV) and Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F (PS3) combined in Japan.
The next game starring Miku and co. from Sega is Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2, slated for release on the Nintendo 3DS this Fall. Meanwhile, Sega are investigating the possibility of releasing Project Diva F (PS3) in Western markets.
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Growing up, I attended the traditional worship service at First United Methodist Church Richardson. After college, I was fortunate enough to travel to South Africa on a mission trip with the church in 2014. While there, I met my now husband who was youth pastor and leader of the contemporary worship service at the partner church. I knew we'd need to find a community in which to call our own when he moved to Dallas. I wanted to find a place where we would both be comfortable being ourselves...Read More


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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Elias Lindholm
As a general rule, I am not the sort of Canes fan who likes to dwell on choices made by past members of the Hurricanes front office or coaching staff, other than to reflect on them as learning opportunities for the future. But occasionally an instance comes along where I am unable to shake the dissatisfaction. Until recently, the 2013 NHL Draft had been one of those instances.
In a draft stacked with talent at forward, and having narrowly missed out on a higher pick in a lockout-shortened season, the Canes took Elias Lindholm over Sean Monahan with the fifth overall pick.
Let's take a cursory look at how that's panned out.
If I were a particularly salty individual, I would tell you that one of these players centers Johnny Gaudreau on a team that is currently in the playoffs. The other, though he was drafted as a center, plays right wing with Jordan Staal and Victor Rask and is boarding a plane to Sweden for the summer as we speak. Luckily, I am not going to tell you that. Mostly because "it's been four years, Meg. Get over it."
I'm over it.
Let me tell you all my feelings about the 2013 draft class: a blog by crazy hockey lady Meg.
— Meg Palmer (@loveandhydrogen) December 20, 2016
OK, maybe not. Even in the early parts of this season, I was not quiet about my dissatisfaction with the performance of a fifth overall pick who seemed to possess potential for serious creativity and offensive firepower but could never muster the consistency. I mean, look at this marvelous goal. And this lovely assist in a sequence from last season.
One of the greatest concerns fans had about Lindholm was that he wasn't strong enough on the puck to clear the net-front traffic and create the space he needed to make those stellar plays. Combine that with his habit of over-passing and his tendency to disappear for huge stretches of time, and it made for some disappointing results in previous seasons.
Despite the reports that came out in the offseason of 2016 of Lindholm's increased workout regimen, it looked like we were in for much of the same this year, especially while Coach Peters was testing him out at center. The first half of the '16-'17 season saw him go 0-4-4 until November 20th. This provoked conversations involving a word that often comes up when you don't see a fifth overall NHL pick put a puck in a net for 16 games. In fact, in the 30 games Lindholm played between October and January, he scored four goals and nine assists, which averages out to a pace of 35 points over an 82-game season. Had he maintained that pace, it would have been his lowest production since his rookie year.
But in late December, when Lindholm was sidelined with a concussion, the lack of his presence was substantial. And after he returned, the breakout began. In the 42 games he played (primarily back at right wing) between January and April, Lindholm scored seven goals and 25 assists, with most of the latter being primary assists. That averages out to a pace of 62 points for an 82-game season.
Elias Lindholm is 11-32-43 this season.
I did not expect this in any universe. pic.twitter.com/zNmNZAjwdM
— Meg Palmer (@loveandhydrogen) March 29, 2017
Oh, and he also had a 10 game point streak — the longest of his career.
Unfortunately, players don't get to modify sample sizes in order to boost their stats. But even with the slow start, Lindholm hit a career high in points and assists.
He ended '16-'17 as one of only seven Canes players to have 40 or more points, and he joins Victor Rask and Jordan Staal with a respectable 45 points on the season. What I find most interesting is the drastic improvement in plus minus between this season and last. As a statistic, plus minus might not move the needle for you, but it's hard to downplay going from a -23 to a -2 in the course of a year.
And to top it off, he's playing for Team Sweden in the 2017 IIHF World Championships.
"I feel shame," I say as I scroll through old tweets lamenting the 2013 draft. pic.twitter.com/SAK2Nf1pND
— Meg Palmer (@loveandhydrogen) April 8, 2017
He has room for improvement in the goal-scoring department, but it's time to stop comparing Lindholm to his draft peers and start appreciating him for the assist machine he can be. He's a 22-year-old forward who can, with consistent strength training and consistent line placement, continue to trend in the right direction. Barring anything catastrophic, he has a long future ahead of him in the NHL, and I look forward to seeing him in the sightless eye for many years to come.
All I ask is that you please not hide any more of this scoring prowess from us, Lindy.


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For my Christmas this year, I am lucky enough to have my grand kids here with me. As I look at them, I wonder just what our legacy is actually going to be. What have we left them or maybe a better question, what have we done to them?
My forefathers fought for and built the greatest country this world has ever known, one that opened her arms to all and embraced them with the promise of equal rights and freedom. Yes, we had some bad bumps on the way, but slowly and surely we built upon the foundations left to us from those wonderful folks who fought a Revolution and a Civil War. There were mistakes and there were triumphs. One wondrous thing came out of it. The United States of America!
However, one must be circumspect and take a look at us now. So many people in this nation now stand with their hands out, unwilling to help themselves. They only concern themselves with their own selfishness. Even as we try to right the wrongs of the past, the racist leaders out there prefer to preach hate and entitlement instead of "strive for perfection', a right that is granted to all.
We have the powerful pitting the rich against the poor. They penalize achievement. They take away incentive. And they have the utter gall to tell a family that government are the only ones that have the right to one's life earnings once they die, family be damned! Funny, I don't remember anything in the constitution saying government has the right to my family's trust. Yet people like Barney Frank says it belongs the government.
We have a Mainstream Media that is nothing more than a propaganda arm for this government. Lies galore as this one:
Republicans block youth immigration bill
"Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young illegal immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the military"
Anyone with one ounce of brains knows that the Democrats had unstoppable majorities in both houses, yet the media reports that the opposition blocked this and other so called worthy bills when in fact as in this instance, the President's own party had defections and they in fact stopped this bad bill. Yet, the media prefers to tell the big lie. Yes Virginia, we are teaching our children to lie. The President does it, our elected officials do it and the media follows suit. In turn, our educators teach the same lies and parents are vilified (Michelle Obama statement: We can't leave it to the parents"). When does it stop?
The list is too long to go on and I'm sure you get my drift. The lies keep coming and our future generations will suffer. As if that isn't bad enough, we have the fact that this country is now following the socialist model that this treasonous President and Congress have chosen for it. The debt owed by our children and grandchildren is staggering! The income redistribution espoused by this President and his Marxist cronies is not only destroying our country as we know it, it is taking away any hope for our children's and grand children's future.
I for one do not want my children to live under the Marxist dictatorship that is headed our way. I do not say this lightly! History is supposed to teach us yet this country led by this Socialist president and congress is in the process of yanking our children's future out from under them. Our education system is in shambles as is evidenced by a study that came out just the other day that 23% or something like that (forgot the exact figure, but it was high) of people enlisting in the armed services cannot pass the simple basic knowledge testing! This is what we've done for our children. Basically we have a government that wants the people to be nothing more than servile.
Our children do not deserve this! For the first time in my life, I do not see us being able to leave our children a better country! I look at my grandchildren and wonder. What could I have done better? What can we as a people do to save our country for our children? This might be the most important question of them all. Our children are indeed our future. If we choose to keep going down the path we are now pursuing, I fear their future will be one of Marxist enslavement. I fear for our children as we all should! We need to take our country back now, for their sake if not for ours.
The Week In Radical Leftism, 6/5/2020
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My whole life I was nothing. I wasn't the 'it' girl in school. At home I was called the 'white rat', the changeling. At church I was the one who always seemed guilty of something. People never liked me. I'm the loner, in Afrikaans 'die vark in die verhaal'.
My whole life I've tried to please people, but I was never good enough. I saved and carried people through the worst parts of their lives. I'm the ear that listens and the mouth that NEVER shares pain and secrets.
Well, I've found someone who accepted me, who love me without strings attached.
I long for the day that I can meet Him in person.
God is my refuge, my Saviour. My life belongs to Him alone. To Him I'm good enough.


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Larissa Rodriguez of Eden Prairie learned how to swim less than two years ago. At age 40, she figured it was about time.
With drownings in Minnesota at a 10-year high, Rodriguez is speaking out about what keeps adults from learning how to swim, even those who make sure their children get lessons.
"Everybody talks about the stats for kids, but nobody talks about the fact that the majority of adults in this country don't know how" to swim, she said.
Statistics show that majority of non-swimmers ranging from a little more than 50 percent to 60 percent. In Olympic years, enrollment of children in swimming classes often ticks up by as much as 10 percent, but there's no noticeable rise among adults.
A year ago this month, Rodriguez launched swimmunity.com, a website intended to offer support, encouragement and resources to other adults who are considering taking the plunge for the first time. It has drawn swimmer wannabes from across the country, and she hopes that spreading the word will attract more.
Rodriguez was inspired to launch the site after reading a news story that almost ended in tragedy. Muhammad Javed was fishing with his children off a dock on Fish Lake in Eagan, near their home, when his 2-year-old son jumped in the water after a turtle. He jumped in after the child, only to struggle and sink, getting caught in weeds. A passerby who could swim was able to pull both of them out of the water.
Just a few days after recovering from his ordeal, Javed enrolled in swim classes at the YMCA. He stopped after a few lessons because he got busy at work, but he plans to become as proficient as his kids.
"Even my 2 1/2-year-old daughter can take off her floating device and swim," he said.
Javed's near-disaster stuck with Rodriguez.
"People are told to make sure their kids can swim, but no one tells them they should, too," she said. "As a parent, you are your child's lifeguard. You are responsible for their safety in the water."
Rodriguez grew up in Richfield, with parents and a brother, none of whom knew how to swim.
"If your parents can't swim, you only have a 13 percent chance of learning yourself," she said.
When she was 7, she took a few lessons, "but for whatever reason I didn't like it and begged my parents if I could quit," she said. "I got it in my mind that I would never learn, and spent my life sitting out of water activities. I never sought out vacations where there would be water, and didn't go to pools or just sat by them."
Then, a couple of years ago, she decided to reward herself for completing a master's degree with a trip to Bora Bora.
"I thought, if I can get an MBA, I can learn to swim," she said. Despite that determination, she found after enrolling at Foss Swim School that she really had to push herself.
Jon Foss, leader of the 20-year-old school, said that only a tiny percentage of students are adults. Most bring a lot more baggage to the pool than children.
"A lot of adults have an almost paralyzing fear of water and can't pinpoint why," he said. "Others have specific fears, like not being able to see to the bottom of a lake, or thinking they'll die if they just put their face in the water. But most have had a bad experience, like going underwater and being unable to breathe. The old philosophy of throwing kids in the lake with a floatie on and making them swim back was pretty common around here."
Rodriguez credits a great instructor with finding the right balance of coaxing her outside of her comfort zone and being supportive with helping her ultimately overcome those hurdles. She now swims about four days a week, usually in a pool at Lifetime Fitness.
Most of Rodriguez's fellow adult students in her beginners' class ended up quitting before the class was over, she said. For some people, shame is a factor -- it's especially hard to admit you don't know how to swim when you live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes -- but the actual physical effort required often comes as a surprise.
"A lot of people get thrown by how hard it feels," she said. "If you've spent your whole life avoiding water, you have to first master how to breathe and build up your endurance. The resistance of water is 10 times that of air, so the first time you swim a pool length makes even people who are fit feel like they're going to have a heart attack. You have to recondition your body."
Putting her MBA to good use, Rodriguez is advising swim schools on how to expand their most neglected market -- grown-ups. One thing she wishes adult-swimming teachers would do is schedule adult lessons when no children's classes are also going on.
"The last thing you want is a bunch of kids asking what you're doing there," she said. "The swim schools need to segment their markets, and create an experience tailored to adults."
She also doesn't believe the assumption that all adults who don't swim are afraid of the water. Some simply haven't thought about it.
Another frustration: no common definition of minimum proficiency.
"Some say if you can swim a continuous 300 yards, you're OK, but I see adults all the time who can barely make it from one side of the pool to the other,'' she said.
The most important message she'd like to get out there is that "so many people think they're the only one who doesn't know how. You're not, and it's never too late."
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Intapp hires AprilSix Proof to promote AI platform for professional services industry
by Andrew Newton
Intapp has hired technology and science specialists AprilSix Proof to lead its influencer communications and PR work in the UK.
The company, headquartered in Silicon Valley, allows professional services firms to leverage the disruptive power of data, AI and intelligence automation to enhance new business wins, operate efficiently, manage risk, and drive client success. Founded in 2000, Intapp now serves 96 of the Global 100 Law Firms and five of the top eight Global Accounting Firms.
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Edge-Packing by Isomorphic Subgraphs
1991) Edge-Packing by Isomorphic Subgraphs. Technical Report TR-91-03, Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. (
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Maximum G Edge-Packing (EPackG) is the problem of finding the maximum number of edge-disjoint isomorphic copies of a fixed guest graph G in a host graph H. This paper investigates the computational complexity of edge-packing for planar guests and planar hosts. Edge-packing is solvable in linear time when G is a 2-path and H is arbitrary, or when H is outerplanar and G is either a 3-cycle or a k-star. Edge-packing is solvable in polynomial time when both G and H are trees. Edge-packing is NP-complete when H is planar and G is either a cycle or a tree with ≥3 edges. The approximability of EPackG is considered. A strategy for developing polynomial-time approximation algorithms for planar hosts is exemplified by a linear-time approximation algorithm for EPack k-star that finds an edge-packing of size at least one-half optimal. Finally, EPackG is shown not to be in the complexity class Max SNP, though it is Max SNP-hard for G a k-star, ≥3.
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