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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
If I've already announced this here, I apologize for the repost. I'm just so excited I can't remember where all I've shared the news already.I am beyond thrilled today to announce the culmination of two years worth of brainstorming and work has finally come to fruition. I have teamed up with several authors to create a brand new world, and a brand new Young Adult fantasy series we call Latchkeys.
The first story in the Latchkeys series is "Unlatched" by Steve Saville and will be out in both Kindle and Nook forms this coming Sunday. More information can be found at the Crazy 8 Press website here: The origins of Latchkeys[/url] and The official announcement with a free excerpt[/url]. Feel free to open the sample available and see what you think.
Founding members of the Latchkeys world are: Steven Savile, Lorraine Anderson, Don Bassingthwaite, Matt Forbeck, Robert Greenberger, Kris Katzen, Jane Killick, Paul Kupperberg, James Reasoner, Ben Rome, Aaron Rosenberg, Brandie Tarvin, Deborah Viguié. You may recognize some of these names.
And if that isn't enough to wet your appetite, how about this:
There are places that exist beneath, behind and between the world we live in.
There are people who slip between the cracks.
And there are those who stand guard, ensuring that nothing worse slips through. From either direction.
Attached is a cover image of Unlatched. My story is due out September 2012. I look forward to seeing you all on the other side of the door. Enjoy the excerpt!
Wow! You're amazing. Well done and congratulations!
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L' Eomot Inversé (1/18/2012)
Jack Corbett (1/18/2012)
I assume I'm not the only one who sees no content (well really only the word "content") in the body of today's featured article Stairway to Server-side Tracing - Level 7: How to Automate SQL Traces using SQL Jobs and SSIS[/url].Actually there appear to be two words: "Con" and "tent". :hehe:
That Libyan guy? He's gone.
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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
If I've already announced this here, I apologize for the repost. I'm just so excited I can't remember where all I've shared the news already.I am beyond thrilled today to announce the culmination of two years worth of brainstorming and work has finally come to fruition. I have teamed up with several authors to create a brand new world, and a brand new Young Adult fantasy series we call Latchkeys.
The first story in the Latchkeys series is "Unlatched" by Steve Saville and will be out in both Kindle and Nook forms this coming Sunday. More information can be found at the Crazy 8 Press website here: The origins of Latchkeys[/url] and The official announcement with a free excerpt[/url]. Feel free to open the sample available and see what you think.
Founding members of the Latchkeys world are: Steven Savile, Lorraine Anderson, Don Bassingthwaite, Matt Forbeck, Robert Greenberger, Kris Katzen, Jane Killick, Paul Kupperberg, James Reasoner, Ben Rome, Aaron Rosenberg, Brandie Tarvin, Deborah Viguié. You may recognize some of these names.
And if that isn't enough to wet your appetite, how about this:
There are places that exist beneath, behind and between the world we live in.
There are people who slip between the cracks.
And there are those who stand guard, ensuring that nothing worse slips through. From either direction.
Attached is a cover image of Unlatched. My story is due out September 2012. I look forward to seeing you all on the other side of the door. Enjoy the excerpt!
My fiance is a YA librarian, I'll forward these links to her!
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L' Eomot Inversé (1/18/2012)
SQLRNNR (1/18/2012)
anybody know a good resource for exporting into sqlplan format the xml from sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) for a smallish subset of ~100 plans?I have been able to copy the xml and get decent results in SQLSentry that way but want to export in one foul swoop.
What would be foul about it? :w00t: Getting them all exported at once would be rather nice, not at all foul!
More seriously, is it really "foul" in USA instead of "fell" in Britain?
"Fell" is correct, even in American English. "Foul swoop" is sometimes used as a malapropism for purposes of humor. Can also be "fowl swoop" or "swell foop", for the same type of humor. None of those three are "correct", but were originally for malapropistic humor.
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SQL Kiwi (1/19/2012)
GSquared (1/19/2012)
"fowl swoop"That one might be closer to fowl fell.
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Is that a chicken hawk?
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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
Is that a chicken hawk?It's the result of a Google Images search for 'flying chicken'. Beyond that, no clue 🙂
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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
Is that a chicken hawk?Only if you delete the word "hawk".
It's a baby chicken.
They don't fly on their own. Catapults can do amazing things with them, though. (For that matter, adult chickens don't fly very well either. One of the reasons they've been farmed/domesticated for about 10,000 years is that they have trouble escaping from a farmer with a hatchet and an appetite.)
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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
Is that a chicken hawk?Are you worried because you are a chicken?:-P
"I say, I say boy" - Foghorn Leghorn
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Jack Corbett (1/19/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
Is that a chicken hawk?Are you worried because you are a chicken?:-P
"I say, I say boy" - Foghorn Leghorn
<snerk>. I was going to post my question as "I say, I say, is that a chicken hawk?" and then thought better of it. Seems like someone was reading my mind. @=)
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Ran into the most assinine piece of spelling naziism today.
Some propsals for spelling reforms for French were formulated back in 1990. They were approved by l’Académie française quite quickly, but the Academy mainains that, for this set of changes, both the new spellings and the traditional spellings are acceptable (les anciennes graphies demeurent admises et l’on ne peut pas pénaliser les nouvelles graphies). There's nothing silly there, of course.
But there was an odd-looking omission in their list of which "h"s should be admiissable: although "Maghrébin" (meaning an inhabitant of NW Africa) has a new spelling "Magrébin" the region itself is "le Maghreb", the alternative "le Magreb" was not included in the recommendations. That may have been carelessness, or there may have been a good reason for it. Anyway, there's still no overprescriptivism there and nothing really silly.
But here, just a short (45 miles) sea trip from the Magreb (which creates plenty illegal immigrant problems), on an island where we write "el Magreb" (because Spanish spelling has very clear and simple rules) or "al-Maghrib" (because that's the usual transliteration of the Arabic), there are people that insist that the spelling "Maghrébin" is always wrong, even if it occurs in a phrase like "les habitants du Maghreb, que l'on appelle les Maghrébins" . Selling naziism or what (particularly in the light of the Academy's declaration about the validity of this spelling)?
Tom
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Jack Corbett (1/19/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
Is that a chicken hawk?Are you worried because you are a chicken?:-P
"I say, I say boy" - Foghorn Leghorn
ChickenHawk: *sigh* WHAM!WHAM!WHAM!WHAM!WHAM!
I always loved when his nephew visited. Super-sonic paper airplanes... :w00t:
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L' Eomot Inversé (1/19/2012)
Ran into the most assinine piece of spelling naziism today. . . .Bien dit, M Brassens !
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Brandie Tarvin (1/19/2012)
If I've already announced this here, I apologize for the repost. I'm just so excited I can't remember where all I've shared the news already.I am beyond thrilled today to announce the culmination of two years worth of brainstorming and work has finally come to fruition. I have teamed up with several authors to create a brand new world, and a brand new Young Adult fantasy series we call Latchkeys.
The first story in the Latchkeys series is "Unlatched" by Steve Saville and will be out in both Kindle and Nook forms this coming Sunday. More information can be found at the Crazy 8 Press website here: The origins of Latchkeys[/url] and The official announcement with a free excerpt[/url]. Feel free to open the sample available and see what you think.
Founding members of the Latchkeys world are: Steven Savile, Lorraine Anderson, Don Bassingthwaite, Matt Forbeck, Robert Greenberger, Kris Katzen, Jane Killick, Paul Kupperberg, James Reasoner, Ben Rome, Aaron Rosenberg, Brandie Tarvin, Deborah Viguié. You may recognize some of these names.
And if that isn't enough to wet your appetite, how about this:
There are places that exist beneath, behind and between the world we live in.
There are people who slip between the cracks.
And there are those who stand guard, ensuring that nothing worse slips through. From either direction.
Attached is a cover image of Unlatched. My story is due out September 2012. I look forward to seeing you all on the other side of the door. Enjoy the excerpt!
Absolutely awesome, Brandie! Congratulations!
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