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Wackmobiles and Spurious Brainchildren: Cattain's Log; Supplementary
Cattain's Log; Supplementary
` Wow! I've been saving this gem since August 19!
` This is Cattain Niyu of the ZarrShip Enter Foraprize. If anyone gets this message, they will know that this is a grim day for Lieutenant Myeer and myself. Since we first crashed on this bizarre alien world, we have been becoming more and more certain that we shall never return to our home planet.
` On a side note, I feel more and more each day somehow responsible for the Lieutenant's strong nip habit and allowing her to pilot the shuttlecraft, so it's becoming easier for me to be forgiving.
` We have finally salvaged our survival manual, So, You've Crashed on a Bizarre Alien Planet?, though Myeer reports that she cannot find anything of use.
` I also think it's about time I mentioned that I've long suspected we really aren't alone in this place, that we are being watched by beings unseen. But I can only keep my eyes peeled for so long.
` Myeer promised me that she would keep watch for me at the base of my lookout if I dozed off.
` I took her up on that deal.
` I must admit; surviving on an alien planet saps one's energy more than slammon farming.
` Though I know we are being watched ourselves, I cannot seem to find just what or where the watchers are. Every once in a while, though, I find some sign of civilization. For example, not far from where our shuttle crashed is what appears to be a tapestry with some bizarre symbol embroidered on it.
` I cannot make out what the symbol is, however as I've commented to Myeer, climbing on the object it hangs on seems to be a good way to get high without being seen.
` Myeer thought that was the best joke on this new planet.
` I rephrased that; the tapestry is the perfect way to scale a wall under cover - except for when the tapestry shifts out from over me. In any case, I found that the top of the object makes a good watchtower - so I named it the Watchtower.
` From that vantage point, I discovered a new species we now call 'jribbles'. The one I spotted scuttling behind an oblivious Myeer was an easy target and I alerted her to its presence.
` Soon, we chased it over to our shuttlecraft and cornered it.
` It was no problem to snuff the life from this alien, and as I was about to open it up, I discovered another jribble, so I killed that one, too. I should mention just how easy it was to crush them to death - they didn't even have limbs or teeth to defend themselves with!
` While Myeer was eating the other one, I gave myself a congratulatory scratch on the back.
` As I ate the jribble savagely, I thought to myself; 'that's what we are! We are savages in a new land!'
` I even washed my hands in an uncivilized fashion.
` After we were done devouring the marshmallow-flavored aliens, we stowed our utility collars in the crashed shuttle and found a safe niche in which we are currently lodging in.
` Update: Our situation has now took a strange turn of events. After our nap I found that the light had an eerie, unnatural incandescent quality to it. Sensing that the watchers were now closer, I climbed the Watchtower. I saw nothing, though a strange feeling of playfulness had taken over me for no apparent reason.
` I began chasing my tail and almost fell from the top!
` What strange and malicious magic has possessed me on this planet, I cannot say, but I seem to be progressively affected by Motion Blur Sickness. What is it caused by, I can't tell, and even from the ground Myeer was affected so badly that she exploded into her most violent frenzy of Motion Blur Sickness to date.
` I think she had been trying to tear apart some kind of odd plant and lick her own chest at the same time. She has been simultaneously playing and grooming a lot lately, and frankly, it scares me.
` The ante only upped from there: To my pale-nosed terror, a horrible, greasy pink and brown head appeared below me, looking up with frightening white eyes.
` The face belonged to an enormous, ugly, foul-smelling alien giant, which plucked me from my perch and felled the Watchtower with one stroke. To my great surprise, the alien gingerly set me down upon the ground once more, unscathed.
` "Myeer!" I cried, looking around frantically for the Lieutenant. "Where are you?"
` I heard her answer that she'd found a pillow.
` To my horror, I saw Myeer resting on another alien giant - this one bigger, uglier, pastier and more stinking than the first! The giant itself was lying on the felled Watchtower, which I found was itself was cushion-like as I cautiously crept closer.
` After realizing that the pink giant was unmoving and sluggish, even as I approached its potentially sensitive areas, I decided that it was more a couch than a threat.
` Soon, the other giant joined us and in an instant, the sky was dark. That was when we made our break and tore up and down the landscape, evading further capture. But they gave it up soon and fell asleep for the night.
` The next day broke gradually. The giants stirred and righted the Watchtower, as if nothing had disturbed it. The larger giant left altogether while the other lingered, I sensed, watching us from some distance.
` No longer fearing for my life, I climbed back up to the erected Watchtower and found myself chasing my tail once more.
` Myeer tried to join in my high-altitude romping, but ultimately discovered that she's not much of a climber.
` Nevertheless, she did seem to be possessed by the same urge as I was, so she began chasing her tail on the ground. This came to an abrupt end, however, when she stopped and began swatting behind a nearby rock. Then, a surprised expression took over her face and she began cursing.
` "What's wrong?" I asked.
` "It went behind this rock!" she cried.
` "Your tail is where you left it, Lieutenant!" I reminded her. "It's quite safe!"
` She turned around and to her amazement found that it was. "I thought it had gotten away for good!" she said.
` Maybe it was the newfound playfulness in me, but this remark of utter stupidity made me laugh for once.
` For the first time after the crash, my spirit had truly been lifted. All morning, in fact.
` After all, we survived the night on the alien planet. How many more can we live through? This is Cattain Niyu, signing out.
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Those are some of the best and cutest kitten photos I’ve seen. And the story you used to weave them together is quite inventive. Thanks for the entertainment on this solitary Saturday morning.
Awww, what an absolutely exciting adventure. I love the cute expressions & the watchtower LOL!
Also, the Giants are cute & their description Yucky cute! :D
i love it- i love it- i love it!
they're too precious for words and i love how you tell their story!
08 September, 2007 10:31
Hi S E E ... Oh how I love the alien adventures. Please tell them to be gentle when they finally do take over.
Put a good word in for Morgetron, Hubbetron, and the O-Matics, will yah?
08 September, 2007 10:57
` Actually, Morgetron, I hate to break it to ya but I think they've already taken over.
` As Nick already knows.
` Glad I can be of some amusement - that's what I like to do!
` I have another one in the works already, so hopefully that'll be up soon.
08 September, 2007 13:17
Sorry, I can't think of anything witty to say. Kitties do that to me.
` That's okay. Me too.
08 September, 2007 19:52
Kittens are my friends.
Word Verifications are NOT my friends.
The sky was dark, eh? Sizzle!
09 September, 2007 21:14
` I'm sorry, Dave, but while you are my friend, spam is not, and I keep getting it occasionally even with the word verification.
` Pffft, Joey, you try having fun in bed with a girl with tiny aliens racing across you!
` It's not like we have walls or doors in our apartment - except for the bathroom, which is five feet from our bed and suffering from leaks, which the kittens tell us about very loudly when we shut them in.
10 September, 2007 09:34
Well perhaps I should save this comment for a few weeks as well ;-)
Cats racing across you when you're trying to... you guys really oughtta dry up the bathroom and put a kitty playland in there or something!
Cute-tastic, S E E Quine! I like the way the story's going, though it's not as good as the first one. I think that's because there's not as much action or detail.
Constructive criticism from your personal critic, Galtron.
10 September, 2007 15:35
` Gareth, Galtron... you make me feel so special!
12 September, 2007 00:53
Darling lil' catties.
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Today we’re celebrating Amy Vastine’s release of Catch a Fallen Star, the second book in her Grace Note Records series. So, Amy, where did you get the idea for this novel?
I love music and was trying to think of a way to tie in the world of music in a new way. I came up with having a series that centered on a record company. Boone came to me when I was writing the first book. The company needed a troubled, aging star, who could cause the hero in that book a little bit of trouble. I knew I would then have to give Boone a chance to redeem himself and Catch a Fallen Star was born. In looking at the cover, if you could add a caption or captions, what would they say?
“Not too late for sorry.” Boone comes to Helping Hooves horse farm to write his new album and try to get his life together. He’s estranged from his daughter and, thanks to Ruby and her daughter Violet, he ends up writing her a song called “Too Late for Sorry”. I imagine that’s the song he’s working on when I look at this picture. What is your favorite scene?
Easy! Boone has always been Tim McGraw and Ruby is Amy Adams. What do you plan to work on next?
I have a couple things in the works. One thing I can’t talk about yet and the other is Sawyer’s story. If you’ve read the first two books in the series, you know Sawyer and are hopefully rooting for him to get his happily ever after. That's all for me - wishing everyone a very happy new year! Let's hope 2017 brings us lots more Heartwarming stories to love!
Lee: Merry Christmas, everyone! We had a different kind of Christmas at my house this year, but I’m happy to say it’s been a truly lovely holiday. So, what’s changed this year? I became a grandma! In the past, my son and his wife would divide their time between his family and hers, but babies do change things up! I didn’t want them to stress about having to do two family Christmases in two days, so this year we have postponed our big family celebration until New Years. That said, I still prepared a Christmas Eve supper (Mexican-themed this year!), a Christmas Day brunch of BLATs (bacon/lettuce/avocado/tomato sandwiches), and a Christmas dinner of roast chicken with stuffing and all the trimmings.
Janice: Merry Christmas to all! I had a great holiday too, Lee, in spite of having to juggle preparations and revisions for my Heartwarming novel out in 2017. Somehow I managed, though at a cost of a few restless nights! Our Christmas traditions changed slightly this year too, though not—and I say this, green with envy—due to the arrival of grandchildren. We have two adult daughters, one of whom has a ‘significant other’ (can someone please come up with a better euphemism!) and this year they spent Christmas morning with his family, but came to us for dinner. Although I missed having her around—she’s a huge help in the kitchen!—and pretended to cry when I handed over her childhood Christmas stockings, I thought it very mature and considerate of the pair to ‘share’ Christmas festivities.
Lee: Congratulations on your 2017 Heartwarming release, Janice! My next Heartwarming—His Best Friend’s Wife—will be available on January 3. Next week! More about that later.
Next, I do some goal setting by jotting down the major things I hope to accomplish in the new year and then mapping out a quarterly plan. Another personal tradition is to organize and declutter my home office, which actually started yesterday. What can I say? It’s a big job! I’m excited that we’ll both have a book out in 2017. Do you have a title yet, Janice? And can you share a little teaser about this story?
Janice: Lee, as someone who likes to organize, I’m definitely a novice next to you! But I did get a start on putting away Christmas gifts on Boxing Day. My husband and I are not fans of New Year’s Eve and will likely get some good take-out, enjoy some Champagne and get caught up on our latest Netflix obsession. The entertaining will be on-going after New Year’s, but only with family and close friends. Besides, I cleaned our house really well before Christmas so…. I’m excited about my first Heartwarming (and my 12th Harlequin romance) but the release date is September, which seems almost out of sight at the moment. The working title is A Man, a Boy and a Dog which came to me in an act of desperate non-creativity. The man, an army captain seriously injured in an explosion in Afghanistan but inadvertently saved by a stray dog he had befriended. The dog is transported to the States thanks to the efforts of the captain’s squad and with the help of the heroine, a photo-journalist on assignment. Circumstances interrupt the handover of dog to captain and the heroine must return to her family’s farm with the dog. The boy is the heroine’s young nephew, who has refused to speak to any adult since the sudden deaths of his parents. The hero arrives to claim his dog and the rest is….well…romance plus the healing powers of love.
Lee: Janice, I can’t wait to read this book! I'm currently working on the third book in this series, as well as a proposal for a new series. Your comment about your title made me laugh out loud. I’m the worst at coming up with titles. That said, my next book is being released with my original working title. His Best Friend's Wife is the second book in The Finnegan Sisters trilogy.
Has she really changed? Former beauty queen Isabel Baxter returns to her hometown, scarred after a near-fatal accident. But in high school, she was the fantasy of every teenage boy in Haggerston, Montana, including James Hunter. Even though James was too far below her social circle to be noticed…
Now her father's attorney, James isn't ready to forgive Isabel for the part she played in
his own family tragedy. Yet she seems eager to make amends and prove herself capable of being more than a pretty face. Has the girl he once worshipped—his boss's daughter—grown into a woman James can respect…and maybe love?
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My tree is a ragamuffin of ornaments made by the many elementary students I taught and the ornaments grandpa gives me every year. Truly, I need two trees! Not. Merry Christmas. Hope the season touches our heart.
Our "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree. Happy Holidays, Janice Carter
Here is an amusing photograph of my cat Bert halfway up and lounging in our tree. Bert appreciates the joy and wonder of the season, and I hope everyone else has a joyful and wondrous Christmas!
Happy Holidays and New Year from Karen, Zoey and Rudolph- we're sure everyone's made Santa Paw's "Nice List" <3
This not my big tree but I love it too. I've had it for years. Every Christmas it sits in my bedroom, and we leave these lights on all night to really feel and enjoy the spirit of this blessed season. The little nutcracker is a bonus. Merry Christmas to all and a happy, healthy New Year!
there's something "Heartwarming" about a kitchen tree. Merry Christmas! Liz Flaherty
Merry Christmas to all of our readers and friends. Hope you have the happiest of holidays.Patricia Forsythe
Happy holidays to our fabulous readers! Thank you for making 2016 another heartwarming year. xoxo, Amy Vastine
As children the Christmas holiday is a most exciting time.
I grew up loving everything from going out to cut a tree, bringing it home to
decorate, buying and making gifts, hiding and wrapping them. All that was
followed by the arrival of Santa, sometimes during the night, sometimes not
until morning. And Christmas Day we feasted on ham or turkey and side dishes
Fast forward to me as an adult. When my kids were small and
growing up, of course I carried on traditions that came from both my family and
my husband’s family. Many years we traveled in snow and ice to celebrate with
grandparents and great-grandparents. For me the joy was still there.
Little by little over the past three or four years I’ve
felt that excitement, anticipation and joy slipping away. And this year is a
real bah humbug year.
Ads start and stores began to decorate for Christmas along
with Halloween and Thanksgiving. Didn’t those three fun events used to be
separate, but fun in different ways?
My kids grew up, moved away and married. Unlike when we
traveled to grandma and grandpa’s homes, my offspring and their spouses who
worked in retail, can never get away to travel. So it was always up to us to do
the traveling. Sometimes on airplanes grounded by weather in unexpected places.
Maybe that was catalyst for the bloom of Christmas to begin fading a bit. Now I
really balk at holiday travel.
It’s also more difficult because my grandchildren are grown
and in college or off working, too. Figuring out what to buy, wrap and ship to
various addresses has become a challenge. And you have to ship early or risk weather
delaying shipments. Oh, but hoping everyone will like what I bought, and
trusting clothing items will fit gets more difficult as they lose or gain
weight. And even me finding time to get the shopping done in a year when even
the postal service is advising earlier dates for shipments if they are to
guarantee delivery by the once-exciting holiday.
This year I bought Christmas cards in July. I began
addressing them right before Halloween. (Really?) (Yes, really.) Then I found
out I hadn’t bought enough cards so I was off to find more when stores had
gifts out, but no cards. Even as I write this blog post I wonder if I’ll have time
to decorate. And will I have time to finish shopping, wrapping and mailing
gifts? Because other things have come up. I stupidly or carelessly backed into
a sign while taking my sister to an eye appointment. When does the company want
to repair my vehicle---at a time I should be Christmas shopping. Then my
sister’s eye appointment looks as if it will result in her needing eye surgery.
I’m the designated driver, and the person needed to care for her during
recovery. The surgery is scheduled a couple of days before I should be sending
off those presents.
Oh, and I always fix our Christmas dinner, but suddenly my
oven has stopped coming up to the temperature it should be. And one other
thing, for over a week I haven’t been able to get email. Cox tells me there’s
an outage someplace and they’re “trying” to find it. I can send, but not
receive and that seems like something a good tech should be able to figure out
why and why not. I’m really not someone who usually whines about small things
like this when there’s so much real misery in the world. But… Is the panic I feel in place of what once was great joy a
symptom of aging or a sign that times are changing? Or just a sign I’m having
one bah humbug year?
I’d love to hear how you all keep the magic in Christmas,
because I want to believe again. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to one and
all. Truly!
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Back in 2007, I got to visit the
island of Guam. At the time, the purpose
of my trip was not a happy one, it was for my day job and there was work to be
done. Even the workaholic in me couldn’t resist the charm of the island
and the amazing people I met. The trip there touched my soul and the characters
of Anna and Nico took seed. Finally, ten years later their story is real.
Mending the Doctor’s Heart is a
story that will rip your heart out then put it back together. It’s the story of
a mother who has lost her child, a wife who has lost the ability to love, and a
husband who has lost everything. Set against the backdrop of Guam, my hope for
this story is not just to entertain, but to share a piece of the wonderful
Hafa Adai (sounds like Half a day) is
the Aloha or Hello in Chamorro. People will greet you with Hafa Adai and when they ask how you are, they expect to hear the
real answer and make time to listen.
So most people know
that Guam is a U.S. Territory in the Pacific and many of you learned about it
in the context of World War II history. But there is so much more to Guam.
First, I didn’t appreciate where it was exactly until I learned that it would
take me twenty hours to fly there from Washington DC. It’s a dot in the middle
of the Pacific ocean, across the date line; 6,000 miles from California and
4,000 miles from Hawaii. It’s closer to Japan than to the United States. Okay so it’s an isolated island.
What does that really mean? Not only is it far away from any mainland
resources, it’s prone to all sorts of natural disasters. When I visited with the emergency medical
services program on Guam, they showed me this picture of a typical storm they
get and contrasted it with a picture of Hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans.
When I asked folks what they did when
such storms overwhelmed local resources and they looked at me like I was crazy.
“We handle it,” they said matter of factly. “There is no one coming to save us,
we are here by ourselves, whatever happens, we deal with it. We have to.” Yes I
did feel very small in that moment. And while I certainly saw the spirit and
pride of the Chamorro people on Guam, not everything can be taken care of
locally. Medical care on the island is limited. There is one hospital with
limited specialty care. Most people go to the Philippines, or if they can
afford it, to Hawaii to get care. While
I was there, I passed several roadside stands with people collecting money. The
locals explained these were families fund-raising to scrounge up the money to
get off the island to get medical care.
It’s not an easy place to live, but
if you’re from there, it’s home. It’s a place where people take care of each
other. Where work life balance is not
a thing because family comes first,
and everyone respects that. It’s where heritage and culture matter; and the
entire village will raise a child. It’s a place of beauty, inside and out. Okay now that I’m tearing up, I’ll
leave you with the back cover of the book. It’s the third book I’ve written for
Harlequin Heartwarming and I know I’m not supposed to have a favorite book but…ahem…
I can not end this post without leaving you an image of
Nico, a proud Chamorro man, for whom family is everything. So when he must
chose between his wife and the rest of his family on Guam, what will he do? Thank you for letting me share Guam
with you. Don't forget to check out the other amazing January titles by by Tara Taylor Quinn, Lee McKenzie, and Patricia Johns
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the years, the Christmas tree has been our family’s most enduring tradition. I
can’t recall a single time we’ve bought one already cut. In the first few years
of our marriage, my husband and I would pay a small fee to cut a tree from one
of the National Forests along Colorado’s Front Range. We lived in a
hundred-year-old cottage in Fort Collins near the CSU campus; its 10-foot
ceilings lured us to cut a tree to match its dimension. The challenge was
getting a tree that large home from the mountains strapped to a VW Beetle.
Because of the car’s egg-like shape, keeping the tree on top proved impossible;
first it slipped backwards to drag behind and then forward to obscure the
windshield. We finally compromised by mounting it upright on the rear bumper and
drove home at 15 mph, accompanied by cheers and jeers of the motorists who had
to pass us.
moving to New Hampshire, we’ve cut trees in shirtsleeve weather and leaning
against arctic winds so strong we could scarcely stand upright; sometimes my husband
has needed to scoop out a trough in the snow to reach the tree trunk with his
saw. The transport problem has been solved by my succession of Ford trucks
although there have been years when we’ve slithered down icy mountain roads
leaving a wake of graceful S-curves as pick-ups tend to do. For
the last fifteen years, we’ve driven far north to a Christmas tree farm north
of Franconia Notch, stopping first for lunch at the Littleton Diner which
serves the best clam chowder in the state. Then on to Mountain Star Christmas
Tree Farm to cut our tree, followed by a stop at the Brick Store in Bath, NH,
which claims to be the oldest continuously operated general store in the US.
The covered bridge close by is still in operation although snow is no longer
shoveled inside to accommodate sleigh runners.
run now – time to put up the tree.
by Liz Flaherty I love Christmas. It is my favorite holiday for reasons both spiritual and because it is a cherished memory bank of my life. Actually, I love the whole time from Thanksgiving through Christmas. However,
that five-or-six week period goes by in the blink of a geriatric eye, so I like
to plan ahead. What
· Buy wrapping paper, labels, bows,
Christmas cards, seasonal paper products, Christmas fabric, and 22 pounds of
candy at after-Christmas sales for something like 90% off. · Start Christmas shopping immediately
following 4th of July fireworks. · Begin sewing Christmas gifts. Make out
schedule for the holidays since I am on deadline. Write from 6:00 AM till noon,
sew from 4:00 PM till 6:00 PM. Use other waking hours productively.
· Buy baking necessities in September so
that I will have plenty of time to make cookies. Remember parchment paper.
· Early in November. Finish Christmas
shopping to avoid Black Friday. Buy turkey and other Thanksgiving needs.
· Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. Go
to store to buy a turkey bag because even in the best-laid plans, I forget something.
Red and green M & Ms are on display. Buy some.
· Each day until Christmas, do things like
wrap gifts or complete a handmade gift.
· By the Sunday night after Thanksgiving,
have the tree and all decorations up, half the gifts wrapped, a few batches of
cookies in the freezer.
· Enjoy the holidays! God bless us, every
candy at after-Christmas sales for something like 90% off. Eat the candy. Lose
· When my sister-in-law calls in August
and asks if I have my Christmas shopping done, I call her names, hang up, and
eat the M & Ms I’ve been stockpiling to make Christmas cookies.
· Buy more M & Ms. · Lose them.
· Decide I will sew aprons for everyone
for Christmas. Lay the fabric out neatly on the cutting table. It will remain
there until dust gathers on it and I forget what I was going to do with it.
· First baking day in October. Buy more M
& Ms. Replace the parchment paper I’ve lost.
· Find the parchment paper from last year
and the year before. Put it somewhere that I will remember.
· Thanksgiving Thursday, the day the
holiday season begins for me. Remember the meaning of a full heart because all
our kids and grands are wherever we’ve chosen to gather. I am never a
perfectionist, but this day is truly perfect. It goes by in minutes.
· Black Friday. Go shopping because it’s
so much fun. Buy things no one needs but are on sale. Go home smelling like
every single tester in Bath and Body Works. Show my husband the purse he just
bought me for Christmas.
· Saturday after Thanksgiving. Husband
can’t help get tree and decorations out of the attic because of rotator cuff
surgery—what an excuse!—so I do the sensible thing and buy a new tree. And some
ornaments. Put tree up and discover flocked trees shed white stuff
indiscriminately. Run vacuum. Run it again. Husband keeps sling on for no
better reason than they told him to. Run the vacuum again.
· All of December. Try to catch up with
· December 24. Finish Christmas shopping.
Say “Where did the time go?” 37 times. Search frantically for the cellophane
tape I know I bought. Use Band-aids to secure packages.

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Here below is our old ‘about page’, you may want to read it to get some impressions of who we are. At the moment we are in the midst of a very exciting period in our family life. In August we will emigrate, from the Netherlands to Spain! Up to February this year this was a bilingual blog, but after since I have written the posts in English. Well, enjoy reading and lots of love!!! 🙂
And if you wonder why there are some full English posts in-between, this is the reason why. 🙂
The English posts are listed here below (for the time being I’m still organizing the blog with probably an extra tab for the full English posts):
– 20140428 Why we give our daughter second-hand stuff.
– 20140515 Tips for parents who think their toddler might need to wear glasses.
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having been written in order to complete the account of the life and discourses of
Jesus, as delivered by Matthew, Mark, and Luke ; and thus, the positive
Paul in his epistles, afford an ample moral demonstration that the book of Acts
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Memoirs. Nor is it a much lower degree of confidence which we may justly feel in
perusing the Gospels of Mark and Luke, since it was from apostles and eye-
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It is expected all loans will be allocated by December with the repayment term being by March 31, 2020.
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal to continue the MPLAD Scheme beyond the 12th Plan period (2012-17) up to March 31, 2020.
15 (ANI): The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of National Ayush Mission (NAM) from April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2020 with an outlay of Rs.
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The Department for Transport has previously said the timetable for the works had an expected start date for the A19 Norton to Wynyard improvements was "late road period 1" - late in the period April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2020.
Al-Mahdi mentioned in this regard the media support for development, by March 31, 2018, Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Islamic Center, by March 31, 2020, and Kuwait Center for Publications, Unique Manuscripts, by December 1, 2020.
Kuwait development projects (2017-2018) at KD 4.7 billion -- official
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The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Accredits Three Capella University Counseling Programs Through March 31, 2020

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tsql - CASE statement to switch WHERE conditions - Stack Overflow
I would love to have a t-sql statement like the following...
WHERE CASE @flag
WHEN 1 THEN col1 = @value
ELSE col2 = @different_value
The point being I want to put a flag in my function to use different where clauses in the same query. I just can't get it to work. Is this possible?
tsql case where-clause share|improve this question asked Jul 15 '10 at 14:50
Where (@flag = 1 and col1 = @value) or (@flag != 1 and col2 = @different_value).
Excellent. First pass, looks like it works. I'll continue testing, but I think this is a go. Simple too. Thanks!
there is no chance of index usage with this, unless you include OPTION(RECOMPILE) and are running on a certain release of SQL Server 2008, see this, from the links in my answer A Tale of Service Packs and Cumulative Updates. This link explains how the newest releases of 2008 can recompile the query taking into consideration the run-time value of local variables. when that is done things like (@flag = 1 and col1 = @value) can be optimized out of the query if @flag isn't 1 and if it is 1, then optimized to be just col1 = @value
I'm running SQL Server 2005, so I guess it won't optimize yet.
With mySQL your statement should work, because mySQL supports binary expressions.
So you have to try this
THEN case when col1 = @value then 1 else 0 end
ELSE case when col2 = @different_value then 1 else 0 end
That isn't pretty good readable. Please be aware of performance issues, because the optimizer may struggle here.
optimizer may struggle here. getting it to work and getting it to work fast (using an index) are usually quite different.
this will produce the best execution plan:
WHERE col2 = @different_value
However, if you have to have a single query, this is your best bet at using an index
WHERE @flag=1
AND col1 = @value
WHERE @flag!=1
AND col2 = @different_value
share|improve this answer edited Jul 15 '10 at 15:04
I agree. I will put these in the "must read" stack. Thanks for the reply.
It does "have" to be one query, since I'm using it as a function that that receives the @flag parameter. I'll test the union instead of the OR in the where clause as well. It's a relatively small query, so I don't know that it'll make a huge difference, but it's good to know for potential future issues with different datasets. Thanks for all the help!
Perhaps this could be of interest
You could also use boolean logic:
SELECT blah FROM myTable WHERE (@i IS NULL OR AnotherCondition)
How about simply;
(@flag = 1 AND col1 = @value)
(@flag = 2 AND col2 = @different_value)
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Accounting – DID YOU KNOW?
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Date: May 24, 2012Author: imabookkeeper 1 Comment	Asset equals Liability plus Owner’s Equity, that’s the core of accounting;
Credit to the left, debit to the right, that’s all what you’ll need in balancing;
C.P.A., that’s what you’ll attain after studying.
Over the course of four years battling grueling nights and lots of crying
Under a college with exaggerated pressure of passing,
No exam is easy hence, leave you trying.
Time comes the board exam will leave you celebrating
Indeed my beloved classmates were the first in congratulating.
“No one’s left behind”, that’s our block’s saying,
Gone that saying I was left behind alright, a path in law is what I’ll be doing.
~I wrote this poem thinking how many months already passed since the day I passed the dreaded licensure exam. I took a very long vacation about six months believing that once I enter law school it will be very difficult for me to find time for myself and for my family. I really want to become a lawyer, that’s a fact, but everytime I remember how my classmates are already earning big bucks, it pains me. Any way I already decided to become a full time student again and eventually a successful lawyer, so just wish me luck.
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