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The whole story behind Snapchat must have reminded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of Instagram. Facebook bought the rapidly growing photo-sharing social networking site last year, for $1 billion in stock. By the time the deal closed, Facebook's shares had declined enough to make the deal worth about $750 million. A report in Friday's Wall Street Journal says that Zuckerberg was trying to get in touch with Snapchat to discuss a $1 billion plus acquisition of Snapchat, but the messaging company's co-founder Evan Spiegel turned him down according to those in the know.
While Zuckerberg can point with pride to the continued growth of Instagram after the acquisition as a reason for Snapchat to give in to a Facebook purchase, apparently the powers that be at Snapchat believe the company is worth more. And who is to say that rebuffing Zukerberg isn't the right move. After all, the company has tripled it's valuation since June and Snapchat could end up being worth much more than what a Facebook acquisition could bring.
The problem with an acquisition of Snapchat would be figuring out how to monetize the company. It took a long time for Facebook to figure out how it might make money on its Instagram purchase. The latter has announced that it will be running ads on the site and the other day, it showed its members what ads will look like on Instagram. Even with the new ads, there is still no guarantee that Facebook will ever turn a profit on Instagram. Considering this, perhaps Snapchat's Spiegel did Facebook a solid by turning down Zuckerberg.
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3) I haven't seen my fur-sister Trix for over 6 months. When the hoomans say her name i whine and run to the window. I heard that next year, if trhe typist goes on holiday, mum will be taking me to Trixies house to look after us both there!
4) I was terrified of a little yorkshire terrier that lived on my street. When we got near her house i would RUN as fast as i could to get past it!
5) Keri, who is Trixies mum and the typist here on Dogster, doesn't actually see me that often, but im one of her favourite dawgs!!
6) I have a bedroom all for myself! (Its a room with a spare bed in, and a broken computer. My dog bed is in there because i like to go in there.)
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It's not a conventional, earthy-birthy UC story, so if you're looking for super positive, affirming birth stories, maybe you should skip mine.
I apparently have really rough births. My first baby was posterior, 21 hours of labor and I was stuck in transition for five hours. Nothing helped take the edge off at all. I found my power during that birth, but it wasn't the beautiful births you hear about from almost every other UCer and home-birther. My power came from anger and defiance at those who doubted my ability to handle pain. I wanted to get an epidural, but my fury at those who would say "I told you so" after telling me I couldn't do it, gave me the superwoman strength I needed to push through to the end.
Needless to say, I came to my second UC with a different mindset. I didn't do preparation for pain relief. I didn't visualize an easy birth. I didn't meditate or do kegels or shop around for birth pools. My mindset was "birth freakin' HURTS, but that's OKAY." I embraced the idea of pain. I wasn't an earthy mama about to blissfully birth her baby gently into the world. I was coming at this birth as a warrior and I was going to do battle and birth was going to kick my butt, but I knew I would come out on the other side. I was ready to fight.
It was a good thing, too.
I knew that this baby was going to come early. I don't know how I knew, but I did for the entire second half of my pregnancy. Almost three weeks before my due date was a full moon and I was miserable and ready to not be pregnant anymore and noticed that my mucous plug was coming out. I wistfully wondered if I would go into labor if I had sex, so I cajoled DH into trying "just for fun." A few hours later at 2 am, I woke with a funny "slimy" feeling just seconds before my water exploded out of me like a burst water balloon. Thankfully, I had put towels down on the bed just in case.
Contractions started coming 5 minutes apart, but they weren't painful at all, just close together. At 4am, I called my friend to come over and watch my 4yo daughter in case DH had to transfer me in an emergency. Labor slowed down to contractions every ten minutes, then every twenty and then it just petered out to nothing. My friend stayed until late afternoon and then went home to rest. I tried everything to get my labor going again, but nothing worked. I decided to just take a nap so I would be rested up.
I woke up at around 4 pm when the first contraction hit. It was HUGE and it slammed me hard. Each one after that came faster and they were incredibly painful, but still on the edge of bearable. I called another friend to come watch my daughter. The intensity quickly became unbearable and I didn't know what to do. The pain was as bad as my last birth and I had only had contractions for around an hour. I tried a hot shower on my back, but that only worked for about five contractions. I had to get out.
The pain ramped up until I was going insane from it. I began screaming. I wanted to go to the hospital. I wanted an epidural. I'm pretty sure I screamed these things along with tons of obscenities. I crawled frantically around on the floor like an animal. I shook my head hard from side to side. Lots more screaming and begging for it to stop. I wanted to die. I felt hot and ripped off my dress trying to escape my body. I literally had rivers of sweat running down me. I could feel droplets running off the end of my nose and belly. I soaked the edge of the bed where I leaned on hands-and-knees, tearing at the fitted sheet.
Two hours after the contractions started, the fetal ejection reflex kicked in and my body began violently heaving the baby out. This happened with my first baby as well. Contraction on top of contraction were steamrolling that baby out of me. Like my daughter before, I couldn't hold it back. It was incredible. UNlike my daughter before, the pushing HURT. The pushing felt good with my first birth. No pain once pushing started and it was very pleasurable. With this birth, I felt the way other women say they feel - like I was going to rip in half. I screamed the whole time. I sat on a hot water bottle DH brought me, but the seal busted and it went all over the floor, so I lost my heat. I was pooping everywhere which was absolutely mortifying because it smelled awful. Sometimes there is just no dignity in childbirth.
As the baby was crowning, I tried to distract myself from the ring of fire by reaching down to feel the head. I felt something huge and soft hanging out of me. I thought "that can't possibly be a HEAD! Oh, God, the baby turned breech while I was napping and he's coming out bottom first and he has HUGE testicles!" (I actually laughed at this part later.) I braced myself to push out a frank breech. I tried so hard to support my perineum and prevent another tear (first baby caused a 2nd degree) and even tried to hold baby in with my hands, but it was impossible.
Then I felt a pop. It WAS a head. I felt around the face and tried to figure out what was up, but had only two or three seconds before my body heaved again and the rest of the baby slipped out. It was so fast that I didn't have time to catch him. He fell two or three inches onto a folded towel under me.
I scooped my baby up into my arms, SO HAPPY to finally have him out of me and that was the first thing I said. My 4yo, who had watched along with my friend and DH yelled excitedly that it was a boy. I was elated. So happy! I didn't have to have another contraction!
I looked at my son's head, wondering what I had felt earlier that made me think he was breech. He had an enormous caput the size of a small hen's egg on the back left side of his head with a 4cm white ring around it. THAT'S why my labor wouldn't start. He had been malpositioned and the side of his head had sat on my 4cm dilated cervix for the last 14 hours. Laying down for my nap must have eased the pressure enough for him to get into a better position. The caput went away after about five minutes, along with the white ring. I had gone from 4 cm to 10 in just 2 hours, the reason for my ride through hell. He latched on just fine right away and began nursing like a pro.
Then I got up and everyone saw the blood. There were about three cups under me, all over the floor and everyone sounded worried. I felt fine, so I sat on another towel to see how fast it was really coming out. The flow was light, but steady, so I asked for some shepherd's purse under the tongue which slowed but didn't seem to stop it. I bled a lot more. My friend kept asking me questions, panicked, and I assured her that I really did feel fine. I felt great. I had lost a lot of blood with my first baby as well.
The placenta wouldn't come, so after an hour and a half, I took some angelica under the tongue and moved to the toilet to try there. I cut the limp, white cord and ate a piece and nothing happened. Blowing into a closed fist worked and a big contraction pushed the placenta painfully out into my hand. I washed it in the shower and checked it and it looked fantastic - so healthy and all membranes were intact. I sat back on the toilet and ate several bites, hoping to stop the blood flow. It did slow down to just drips, but they were steady drips. I checked and saw that I had a 2nd degree tear. I figured that was where the blood was coming from - I had torn a vein in half. Since I felt fantastic, I decided to just watch it and call an ambulance if I felt at all lightheaded or unwell. I never did. I lost about 5 cups of blood total and then another two cups or so by the next day with heavy lochia. I still felt really strong and great, so didn't transfer, though I saw myself in the mirror the next day and it was HORRIBLE. I had dark gray-green circles around my eyes and mouth and looked like a skeleton. Two big meals and a rest and I looked like my normal self again. No weakness. I didn't even feel exhausted.
I decided to let the tear heal naturally on its own, but two days later that idea turned to reality when I had to face the fact that I now had two children to care for as well as myself and my husband had to go back to work. I went to the ER to get stitched so I would be able to move around some, but they told me it looked fantastic and that it didn't need suturing and I should just keep doing what I'm doing, so it's back to resting for me!
While I would definitely describe the labor itself as traumatic, I'm super happy with this birth and my choice to UC again. Sure, it was awful, but my experience would have been way worse in a hospital. I never would have been able to see how strong I really am. I was begging for an epidural. This birth was, in its own way, fantastic and has made me so much stronger than I was before.
Still, DH and I both agree - no more children! I am never doing a precipitous labor again!
Little Shade was 6 lbs 11 oz and 19 inches long, almost a full pound lighter than my daughter had been and he is a complete dream. I'm head-over-heels in love with this little boy!
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a beautiful, primal story!!! congratulations, mama!
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amazing! i love it. birth isn't always easy (at least for some of us!)
grateful mama to DD1, born before the robins came, 2010. excited to welcome a little man into the world in early February 2012!
I'm due anytime with first and was not afraid to read your story. We need all possible things that could happen to understand what is OK and what isn't so we will know if we are that 1.5% that needs the H for a csect. Thanks for your story. Enjoy that little one. I can't wait for mine to come so I can tell you all my story.
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OH honey your son is GORGEOUS. What a beautiful baby!
I love this birth story so much. It takes courage to get through a birth like that...and then even more courage to have the guts to embrace it and tell everyone how it really happened. <3<3<3<3 I don't want to read rosy birth stories all the time...I want to read some real shit and THAT, my lady, was REAL!
Congratulation, Lioness Mama....you rocked it!! I'm so happy for you. You have totally made me feel excited for my birth coming up.
(and I've had two labors where I went from 1cm to baby in hands in 90 minutes....my mother had four like that...and for both of us we had that same INSANE "cannonball" ejection! Fast birth is INTEEENNNSEEE.)
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Fantastic story. I love your attitude that labour hurts but that's okay
Well done!
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Hahaha! I know what going from 4-10 cm in 1 hour feels like! It's intense!!
Anyway love the birth story, I'm surprised I didn't comment on this before. :)
Awesome birth story! Thanks for keepin it REAL! Love the rawness
And congrats and big welcomes to Shade! What a cutie!!
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Thanks for sharing your story. Birth sure isn't always pretty but its always awesome! Big big congratulations and welcome to the world baby Shade!
Beautiful! Thank you for this story. It made me smile constantly. My last birth was an attempted UC, and after being stuck in that primal, screaming transition for 16 hours, I got scared and went to the hospital. I'm 33 weeks now with my third. I can relate to not researching pain management techniques... I still read all the birth stories, but with full knowledge that mine probably won't be nice like that, and it probably won't be short, and it's probably going to kick my ass. Just like you said, I'm trying to go into this with the warrior attitude, not the earthy, happy-birth-giving attitude. I'd love to have a birth like that... but it probably won't happen.
You're a warrior, mama, and you've given me more hope and strength. Thank you.
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I giggled uncontrollably at parts. Thank you so so so much for sharing this. I truly imagine this is what my UC will be like.
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Marco Werman: I'm Marco Werman and this is The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI, and WGBH-Boston. Today on the program we are shining a spotlight on what was missing from last night's presidential debate on foreign policy. And one of the most glaring omissions from the final Obama-Romney debate was any mention of climate change. As our environment editor Peter Thompson reminded us earlier, climate change is creating a raft of potentially destabilizing problems around the world, from millions of climate refugees, to disruptions of global food and water supplies. Yet there's been barely a peep about it in this year's campaign from either the candidates or the media. Journalist Mark Hertsgaard covers climate change and the global environment for The Nation and Vanity Fair, among others, and is the author of the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He joins us now from San Francisco, and Mark, what do you think is going on here? Why this loud silence on climate in last night's debate, and really the whole campaign?
Mark Hertsgaard: Yeah, you're certainly putting your finger on it, Marco, and I think it's important for people to realize how unusual this is. This is the first time since 1984, almost thirty years ago, that climate change has not been mentioned in any of the presidential and vice-presidential debates. All these other years it was recognized as a major issue. Back in 1988, and there was no hemming and hawing from the journalists, some scientists say it's true, some don't. It was look, here's this problem, what are you guys going to do about it? And this year nothing, despite the fact that there have been calls both within the press and by people in the public and activists saying look, Governor Romney, President Obama, you need to face up to this. I'm reminded of a quote from the British magazine The Economist, which wrote last year that 100 years from now, looking back, the only important question about our historical moment will be, quote, whether or not we did anything to arrest climate change, unquote.
Werman: And it's really hard to imagine the two candidates aren't making the connections themselves, so you remind us, what are the major threats that climate change poses to US and global security?
Hertsgaard: The United States is an agricultural superpower. We heard a lot last night about its military superpower and its economic importance. We are also an agricultural superpower and we just came through the worst drought in 50 years, the hottest summer ever in the corn belt, in the farm belt. Our corn and soybean yields way, way down. We are already seeing prices rise around the world and what that's going to mean is if you are a child and poor in Africa or Asia, a much greater chance of hunger, and food riots. That's the direct security connection. The last time that food prices were this high, in 2007-2008, we had anywhere from 20 to 30 countries that had street riots because people cannot get enough to eat. And that is why, for example, the Pentagon, under the administration of George W. Bush, about eight years ago, said that climate change was a major national security issue because by the year 2020, when we've got these kinds of droughts and floods and so forth, we could even see countries like Pakistan and India and China going to war, the Pentagon said, going to war to secure river valleys and arable land. SO that's the major concern here, that climate change and the kind of severe weather that we've seen just in recent months in the United States and around the world, that that can lead to the kinds of destabilizing street riots that we saw, for example, in the Arab spring. That was a lot kicked off by food price rises.
Werman: So Mark, what is the one question you would have asked the two candidates last night if you'd been with them on the stage in Florida?
Hertsgaard: I would have said, Governor Romney and President Obama, you are both parents. Your children are growing up in this superheated world. What are you going to do to protect our kids from climate change? It's a pretty simple question. I was amazed and disappointed that neither of them took many opportunities to raise it. For example, when Bob Schieffer asked, what is the major threat to peace and security to the United States in the years ahead, certainly global warming would have to be up there in the top two or three. Of course terrorism, of course nuclear weapons. But climate change is something that the military calls a threat multiplier. It's the kind of thing that can make all of those problems worse, because if you've got food riots, if you've got people who can't feed themselves, they are going to be crossing over borders, they're going to be migrating to places that do have food, and that means we're going to have huge numbers of climate change refugees in the future, and the United States is going to have to deal with that. And luckily some of our military and security officers already are thinking about this, but it's very disappointing to see that the two guys who want to be commander-in-chief don't recognize that this is a major, major issue for the United States.
Werman: Right, now take political rhetoric out of the candidates' responses, imagine for us what kind of answer you would have heard, or wanted to hear.
Hertsgaard: Well, we know what we would have heard from Governor Romney. He would have said that we don't know if climate change is really happening, the scientists aren't clear about it. He has backtracked on that from the position he held as the governor of Massachusetts. As Obama said last night, his positions now are all over the map, so his latest position is that climate change isn't real, in keeping with the new Republican doctrine. As far as Mr. Obama, I think he probably would have said we are dealing with it, this is why we have to invest in clean energy. But, you know, that's good as far as it goes, but it is so lacking in the commensurate scale to the degree of the problem. There was just a report that came out last week, there are 1,000 children a day around the world dying from climate change, essentially from, especially from, the hunger-related aspects of it. That's 400,000 people a year dying from climate change and that number is going to go up, so I would like to hear President Obama talk about not just how we are going to reduce emissions and bring down the temperatures, but how are we going to deal with the fact that we're going to have large sections of the planet burning up, in effect. They talked a lot about Pakistan. Two years in Pakistan, there was a climate change disaster, terrible monsoon rains and resulting floods that put 14 million Pakistanis out of their homes, made them homeless. If you want to know why there's that kind of unrest in Pakistan, and unhappiness, these kinds of natural disasters are a perfect breeding ground for terrorists. Or Mali, the African nation of Mali was mentioned by Governor Romney. I reported from Mali for The World, and in the north of Mali, why is it that there's this resurgence of terrorists and radicalism. It's partly because nobody there can farm any more because the climate has become too inhospitable. And more and more of the planet is threatening to come under those conditions unless we really get serious about reducing not just the emissions but putting in place real adaptation programs to build the resilience in those places. And I didn't hear any of that from either of the candidates.
Werman: Mark, let's step back just a little bit here. I'm wondering if you see a larger void here, in terms of the kind of issues the candidates and the media have focused on. I mean, we've touched on three that seemed to be missing from last night today on our program, European economy, Mexico and the drug war there, and now climate change. When it comes to looking at our relationship with the rest of the world, what does this mean?
Hertsgaard: So much of what you saw last night on the debate was simply a reflection of the very narrow-minded, inside-the-beltway Washington consensus shared by both of the parties and, I'm sorry to say, by our colleagues in the media. There were times I thought that the only topic they were going to discuss was Israel, and that's because that's a big issue in Washington. You would have never thought, to listen to last night, that Israel isn't 100 percent in the right all the time. Well, that looks very bizarre to the rest of the world which feels like the Palestinian point of view also needs a hearing. You scarcely heard the words George W. Bush, and yet so much of our foreign policy is still in response to the Bush presidency. That would seem strange to the rest of the world. And finally, climate change. The rest of the world has seen this as a reality for years, nobody questions the science any more. They are frantic to get a solution to this. They know that the real obstacle is in Washington. And yet you look and see, as I say, we have not got any kind of a consensus inside of Washington that this subject even matters, much less that it must be taken care of. So if you want to know the single reason why we didn't hear any questions about climate change last night, I think it has to do with that very narrow minded Washington consensus shared by the press that climate change is just not a top-tier issue. And you heard this, by the way also, in the second presidential debate with Candy Crowley of CNN, who I thought did an excellent job of moderating, but later on when she was asked, why didn't you have a question about climate change, she said, oh yeah, I got that question from you climate people. You climate people, I thought that was a very revealing phrase, because in that view climate change is this kind of special, boutique-y kind of interest. It's like this special concern that is not really as important as Israel or Syria or Iran. And that just completely misses the point of everything that has happened, not just in climate science but out in the real world this year, as I say, during the worst drought and some of the hottest temperatures that North America has ever experienced, that the press and that the politicians can continue to be blind to climate change is, I think, a disgrace.
Werman: Journalist Mark Hertsgaard, the author of the book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He's also one of the organizers of Climate Parents, a campaign to enlist parents in the effort to move the political debate on climate change. Mark, thanks for speaking with us.
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1. Re: Content DB attributesfrank.closheim Jun 28, 2010 7:50 AM (in response to user8726358)Hi,
sure there is. Custom attributes can be stored with a document as so called "categories". The CDB Developer Kit has examples how to create new categories on the fly and associated them with documents in CDB. You can then immediately search by this attributes for your documents.
The CDB Dev Kit is available here: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/contentdb/index.html and contains the API, Javadoc and examples.
It is also possible to create new categories via the standard WebUI. See here http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32119_01/doc/contentdb.1012/b31265/site.htm#CBAGHFCI for more details.
Hope that helps.
2. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 Jul 14, 2010 10:42 AM (in response to user8726358)Thank you frank. It is just what I was looking for.
3. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 Apr 5, 2011 10:09 AM (in response to user8726358)Storing attributes in category works fine but I have a problem when I have to store multiple attributes with the same attribute name but different values. Is there a way to save document with category that have for example two atrributes Test = "first value of test" and Test = "second value of test" ?
4. Re: Content DB attributesfrank.closheim Apr 6, 2011 9:55 AM (in response to user8726358)You can store multiple values for one attribute if you specify the attribute as an array. In your case it would be an ATTRIBUTE_TYPE of ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY.
Hope that helps,
5. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 Apr 6, 2011 12:40 PM (in response to frank.closheim)Thank You Frank I believe it could be helpfull. Is there any chance that You have example how to store and update such attributes array for document ?
6. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 Apr 7, 2011 10:33 AM (in response to user8726358)When I add document with table of strings added to value property of some attribute and when I go to GUI console and check the category attributes I see that value of attribute is something like : [Ljava.lang.String;@5d8d512a. I believe I should see values like "Test 1" and "test 2' separeted somehow ?
7. Re: Content DB attributesfrank.closheim Apr 7, 2011 10:41 AM (in response to user8726358)Are you trying to specify a list of possible values for one attribute a user can select from (LOV), or do you want the end users be able to give multiple (free choice) values for one attribute?
Can you describe the use case behind this requirement for better understanding?
8. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 Apr 7, 2011 12:21 PM (in response to frank.closheim)Frank,
I will try to explain the situation. When user adds document in our application and documents meets some criteria (For example one of it's attributes it is attribute "Test") then our application adds such document to Content DB with category attributes. When user updates any attriubutes in our application for document send to Content DB we have to update category attributes in Content DB for that document as well.
The problem is that in our application documents can have several attributes with te same name but different values. It is not a predefined list of values. User can set attribute value to any value. For example attribute Test can have values 1 or 11 or 123 or 001 ... ad so on. We can not predict what the value will be and how many attributes with the same name document will have. One document can can have attributes Test ="FirstValue" and Test ="SecondValue" other documents can have even more attributes with the same name but different value.
When I add attribute for category in GUI I see that there are only two choices "string" or "enumerated string". In enumerated string I have to define values (it is impossible in my case) and when using type of string I can store only one value for an attribute :(
Please help.
Edited by: user8726358 on 2011-04-07 05:21
9. Re: Content DB attributesfrank.closheim Apr 7, 2011 8:03 PM (in response to user8726358)This feature is not exposed in the WebUI. The WebUI does not expose the full power and flexibility of CDB.
Here is a simple example of how to create such a Category and how to create a doc with an attribute of type String[]:
// Category creation
NamedValue strArrayAttr = newNamedValue(Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_DETAIL,
newNamedValueArray( new Object[][]
{Attributes.DISPLAY_NAME, "String Array Attr"},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_TYPE, new Integer(FdkConstants.ATTRIBUTE_TYPE_STRING_ARRAY)},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_REQUIRED, Boolean.FALSE},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_SETTABLE, Boolean.TRUE},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_UPDATEABLE, Boolean.TRUE},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN, Boolean.FALSE},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_PROMPTED, Boolean.TRUE},
{Attributes.ATTRIBUTE_OVERRIDEABLE, Boolean.TRUE}
NamedValue[] catdef = newNamedValueArray( new Object[][]
{Attributes.DISPLAY_NAME, "TestCategory"},
{Attributes.DESCRIPTION, "This is a test category"},
{Attributes.SUPERCLASS, null},
{Attributes.CLASS_ABSTRACT, Boolean.FALSE},
{Attributes.CLASS_FINAL, Boolean.FALSE},
{Attributes.CLASS_HIDDEN, Boolean.FALSE},
{Attributes.CLASS_COPIED, Boolean.TRUE},
new NamedValue[] { strArrayAttr } }
AttributeRequest[] catreq = newAttributeRequestArray( new Object[]
newAttributeRequestArray( new Object[]
{ Attributes.DISPLAY_NAME
} )
sessManager.setSessionMode(FdkConstants.SESSION_MODE_DOMAIN_ADMINISTRATION, null);
Item categoryClass = catManager.createCategorySubClass(catdef, catreq);
// Document creation and category assignment
attrsdef = newNamedValueArray( new Object[][]
{"String Array Attr", new String[] {"redish-brown","green"} }
catdef = newNamedValueArray( new Object[][]
{Options.CATEGORY_CLASS_ID, new Long(categoryClass.getId())},
{Options.CATEGORY_DEFINITION_ATTRIBUTES, attrsdef}
docdef = newNamedValueArray( new Object[][]
{Attributes.NAME, "test4"},
{Options.DESTFOLDER, new Long(folder.getId())},
{Options.CATEGORY_DEFINITION, catdef}
doc = fm.createDocument(docdef, null, null);
The WebUI will not show this attribute I guess.
Hope that helps.
10. Re: Content DB attributesuser8726358 May 24, 2011 11:19 AM (in response to user8726358)Thank You for help our client has changed requirements and such functionality is not needed anymore.


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The reason I say it's weird is because I'm normally the competitor. I'm watching guys I usually compete against and trying to analyze their actions. One of the strangest parts about it is asking them for information about their patterns and strategy.
That's something I would never do as a competitor. I find it really strange to be doing that. It offers a very different perspective on the tournament and almost makes me feel uncomfortable even though what I'm doing is perfectly appropriate.
Usually I'm worrying about my own pattern and whether or not my fish will hold up. I don't pay much attention to what the other guys are doing. Here things are different. I get a chance to watch them fish not only against themselves but in relation to each other. It's an interesting lesson on how our individual pieces make up the whole.
Of course, I have lots of experience with the media. I'm familiar with their questions and know how to answer them honestly without giving away the kitchen sink. But, it's different when you're the media. My perspective is different this week.
The Top 10 teams or so are fishing three different parts of the lake and are on three different patterns. It'll be interesting to see which ones hold up and which ones don't. I have my thoughts and opinion about it. By Saturday afternoon we'll know if I'm right or not.
I want to be careful what I say now and not go into too much detail. I don't want to do or say anything that affects the results of the event. I wouldn't appreciate it if confidential information about what I was doing was released during an event. I'm not going to treat them any different than I would want to be treated if the tables were turned.
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Brandon University Bobcats men's volleyball head coach Grant Wilson knew it would be tough to replace middle Dan Boutwell, who exhausted his CIS eligibility last season, but he thinks his first recruit of the off-season might go a long way in easing that concern.
James Weir, a 6-foot-7 middle who trained at the Australian Institute of Sport Development in Canberra for the last few years, has committed to the Bobcats next season, and Wilson believes he may be one of the rare athletes who can make an immediate impact in university right after graduating high school.
"In all honesty, we couldn't have found a much better situation," Wilson said. "Losing Dan is a huge loss for us, but to be able to find someone who's that big, strong and athletic and has the experience that he has at his age is a perfect fit. We think he's going to be able to come in and challenge for minutes on the court right away, and he's got lots of promise."
What makes the signing even better is that Weir, who helped the Canberra Heat win a silver medal in the Australian Volleyball League men's championship, is not an import. The CIS capped the number of import players in volleyball at two and Brandon isn't allowed to recruit any more international players until it has an opening on its roster. The Bobcats will be grandfathered into the rule for the next couple years as they had five on last year's roster.
Despite spending the last few years in Australia, Weir is a Canadian. He was born in Saskatoon before his family moved to Australia.
He decided to come home and, despite being recruited by the University of Regina Cougars, contacted Wilson. Weir, however, opted to come to Brandon due to its recent success, which includes the Canada West conference title and a national bronze medal in the 2012-13 season.
"I decided on Brandon because of the success that they've had as a volleyball program in recent years," Weir said in a press release. "From what I've heard there is a great team culture within the Bobcats and I am really thrilled to be heading over there in September."
Weir's addition gives the Bobcats four middles for next season with starter Frank Jones returning along with rookies Ty Moorman and Daven Pascal. Moorman played in seven matches last season and started in five when Jones was out with a broken pinkie. Pascal, a Brandonite, redshirted last season.
Wilson is impressed with how well Weir moves on the floor, reads plays and closes blocks and thinks he'll compete with those three for playing time. He also knows depth is a huge factor in being successful in the Canada West and is happy to have four middles on the roster.
"Adding James gives us a fourth middle and we like to train with four middles and it gives us that depth and a good mix of youth and experience in terms of who we have," Wilson said. "We like where we're sitting with at middle this season."
Weir is the first player to join Brandon's men's volleyball team in what is expected to be a small recruiting class. The Bobcats' main concern was at middle and Wilson feels Weir solidifies that.
The class will be smaller because Brandon had a large roster with 17 players on it last season. The team also lost Brandonite Conan Mickey, who transfered to the Guelph Gryphons because of its academic programs, and may lose Scott Vercaigne for the same reasons and will have three fifth-year players next season, but Wilson isn't in a huge rush to find replacements.
"At this point in time the focus was to bring somebody in the middle and if we're fortunate enough to find somebody we feel can contribute on the outside, we would look to add them potentially too," he said.
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Smith delivered, taking a direct handoff and rushing around the right edge for a 52-yard touchdown in the first quarter – his second score of the season – helping Georgia to a dominant 38-0 win over Tennessee Tech.
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• And today Theresa May had her day at the Leveson inquiry. She said a lot, but was any of it worth listening to? Scepticism about the extent to which her word can be relied on extends to the top of the judiciary. On Monday, pronouncing on the infamous Abu Qatada at the special immigration appeals commission, Mr Justice Mitting was confronted with the fact that when he revoked the radical cleric's bail in April, he partly relied on a statement by the home secretary. She said Qatada's deportation was imminent, only to clarify a few days later that in truth, it would take "many months". Mitting said he had been searching for a "neutral" term to describe his reliance on the home secretary's assurance on that occasion. After much thought, and much soul searching, he settled on "naive".
• Meanwhile, the word is out: watch your back, Philip Hammond! Admirers of Dr Liam Fox – our late and unlamented defence secretary, who bequeathed Britain two aircraft carriers but no aircraft – are on the prowl. Whitehall watchers report that forces sympathetic to the man who left office amid revelations of his strange alliance with friend and aide Adam Werritty are bending the ears of passing MPs and defence officials to explain why his successor could be improved on. It is true Chilly Philly is not a defence buff, but he is an accountant, and therefore just the man to get defence spending under control. In any case, it's not Phil's present job that's really the issue, but the one the bookies say Fox could end up with. On those turbulent days, and there have been many recently, some still imagine him as the post-Cameron leader of his party, a real Tory. As for Werritty, might he re-emerge as a real Tory's best mate?
• For battle-scarred Tories never die; they scarcely fade away. Look to Hampshire, where Tories are competing for the right to represent the party as one of the new breed of elected police commissioner. And who do we find on the shortlist? None other than Michael Mates, the former Northern Ireland minister, best known in many quarters for his past generosity towards the Turkish trading magnate Asil Nadir. Nadir is on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of stealing £150m from his companies – charges he denies. Both men older: Mates is 77. Both seeking the judgment of the people.
• A Diary date now. All roads lead to the LSE. The event? "'My Britain's Fuck All': zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship." Can Wednesday's talk possibly be as good as the title?
• Finally, we sought help in rebranding the Diary. In marketing terms, we are told, it makes no sense continuing to call the Diary "Diary". Writer Gordon Thurburn endorses Sladder, which means gossip in Norwegian. "In Cumbrian dialect, where many Norse words survive, Sladder is gossip," he says. "But more particularly it is that sort of backchat and mickey-taking nonsense you get in pubs. Sounds ideal for you." Ouch! Peter Jones of Oldham suggests Pottle, which is an old-tyme unit for measuring liquids. "It is full of intrigue, makes you wonder, makes you want to know more and find out the secrets." The problem is the upper case P. These days, everything is lower case. We need that fresh start. Perhaps a hyphen.
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• To the many generous and creative people who gave hours of time baking and donating baked items.
• To all who purchased and enjoyed the marvelous bakery.
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Texas Instruments Earnings, Revenue Beat, Lowers Guidance, Shares Fall
Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) reported fourth quarter earnings Tuesday. The company beat analyst expectations on both the top and bottom lines.
However, lower guidance sent shares slightly lower after-hours, with shares falling after popping on the initial earnings beat.
For the fourth quarter of 2012, Texas Instruments reported adjusted EPS of $0.08, beating analyst estimates of $0.07 per share. On a GAAP basis, EPS came in at $0.23 per share, 52 percent lower than the same period last year. The company also reported revenue that beat expectations, with sales totaling $2.98 billion in the first quarter, beating analyst expectations of sales of $2.95 billion.
Shares fell after-hours despite the stronger than expected earnings following the company's first quarter guidance report. Texas Instruments guided first quarter EPS between $0.24 and $0.32, well below the estimate of $0.34 per share. Also, the company expects revenue to be between $2.69 and $2.91 billion in the quarter, whereas analysts had been looking for $2.89 billion in sales.
"We continue to operate in a weak demand environment," said Rich Templeton, Texas Instrument's Chairman, President, and CEO. "Our visibility into future demand remains limited as our lead times are short and our customers are reluctant to commit to extended backlog. On the positive side, we believe customers and distributors are operating with lean inventory. Our own operations are disciplined and performing well, with gross margin up despite increased underutilization costs, and with operating expenses down from a year ago."
Templeton also hinted that continued share buybacks and dividend increases could come in the future.
"For the full year, free cash flow of almost $3 billion grew 20 percent and was 23 percent of our revenue. We returned 90 percent of this free cash flow to our shareholders through our continued share repurchases and higher dividend payments. Our strong free cash flow is the result of more of our revenue coming from Analog and Embedded Processing, which offer solid growth and high margins and have low capital needs. Our free cash flow will also benefit from our strategic purchases of manufacturing capacity during the past few years."
Texas Instrument's shares fell 1.02 percent after-hours following the lower guidance for the first quarter. Notably, the company recorded an $88 million expense in the fourth quarter resulting from the amortization of intangible assets following its acquisition of National Semiconductor in 2011.
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I think those of us who are of Nanyang Chinese origin as well those who went as far as the Caribbean and South America are proud of our roots. Hard work, a desire to improve our lot and that of our families had driven our forefathers and now us to continue along these lines. Its in our DNA and we are proud of it.
The conduct of the Chinese Communist Party and the culture they created has nothing to do with Chinese roots or its history. Its a blot on an ancient culture and heritage. Claiming to be communists yet corrupt to the hilt, milking their own people, seizing the lands of peasants with little or no compensation to build malls and condominiums are few of their well known traits.
They make claims that they are fighting the imperial western dogs while these very same hypocrites send their kids to the Ivy League, shop in London and Manhattan, acquire properties across the Western World and struts the street in Gucci belts.
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The Penns Manor Area High School Musical Club will present "Little Women, The Broadway Musical" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the high school auditorium.
The musical tells the story of Jo March and her sisters in Civil War America.
Appearing in the show, from left, are Brad Remaley as Laurie, Abby Weaver as Jo, Alexa Sichko as Marmee, Erika Allison as Meg, Nikki Decker as Amy, Courtney Kuzemchak as Beth and Claire Kirsch as Aunt March.
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Where did you begin 2012?
Pretty sure I was on the couch at home with the Lady. If I remember correctly, I was watching a movie and she was sleeping.
What was your status by Valentines Day?
Luckiest man in the world. <-- same as last year.
Were you in school anytime this year?
Yes. Still. Slowly but surely working towards being done. Took a semester off for the wedding/honeymoon, though.
Did you have to go to the hospital?
Yes, but only for the birth of my nephew and to visit my sister afterward.
Did you have any encounters with the police?
Got a speeding ticket.
Where did you go on vacation?
Spent my honeymoon in Maui, which was awesome.
What did you purchase that was over $100?
Bought the Lady a new phone for X-Mas that she got a month early that cost me a good deal more than $100. Also, my credit card bill after Maui was fairly large.
Did you know anybody who got married?
Other than myself? Yes.
Did you know anybody who passed away?
Did you move anywhere?
I officially moved into the house with the Lady.
What sporting events did you attend?
Kings games.
What concerts/shows did you go to?
Uhh... man, I always have trouble remembering these. I know I saw Russian Circles play with Chelsea Wolfe (which was AWESOME)...
Describe your birthday:
It's probably best if I just say that the Lady made sure it was a very good day and leave it at that.
Any new additions to your family?
Yep. In addition to all the family I gained via marriage, my sister had a baby boy, Trent, who is cute as hell.
What was your best month?
October. For sure.
Who has been your best drinking buddy?
Probably Drew, as I don't drink very often but will have an occasional beer or two before Kings games, and usually with Drew. Plus, he went to my bachelor party and we drank a lot then.
Made new friends?
Favorite Night out?
Every night in Maui, pretty much.
Other than home, where did you spend most of your time?
At work and inside my vehicle.
Have you lost any friends this year?
I don't think so.
Change your hairstyle?
Nope. Every time I get it cut, by the same lady who has been cutting it for the past 8 years or so, I tell her to do it the same way unless she thinks it would look better different. I leave it entirely up to her, for the most part.
Have any car accidents?
Yep. Got mildly rear-ended once and did the same to someone else, both at the exact same place on the exact same offramp. It's a dangerous offramp.
How old did you turn this year?
Do you have a New Years resolution?
Not really, though I do plan to go back to the gym once everyone else who isn't keeping their resolutions stop going. Thinking February might be a good time.
Do anything embarrassing?
Buy anything new from eBay?
Oh yes. More than I should have, I'm sure.
Get married or divorced?
Been snowboarding?
Never, and I'm ok with that.
Did you get sick this year?
Yeah, but nothing serious.
Are you happy to see 2012 go?
Not really.
Been naughty or nice?
Both, in equal measure.
What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?
Get married. Go to Hawaii. Watch the Kings win the Stanley Cup. Held my nephew.
What would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?
I don't feel like I have anything to complain about with regards to 2012, but if I could magically find myself with some more free time and more space for all my crap, that would be a-ok.
What date from 2012 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
October 13th. The day I got married.
What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Keeping the Lady convinced that marrying me was a good idea.
What was your biggest failure?
Hmmm. Stopped going to the gym and picked up some bad eating habits again. Working on that now, though.
What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The wedding. The honeymoon. Movies. Comics. Books. Music.
What song will always remind you of 2012?
"La Vie En Rose" by Louis Armstrong will remind me of my wedding. Does that count? Actually, a bunch of songs will do that now.
Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. Happier or sadder?
ii. Thinner or fatter?
I think I'm about the same, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I was a little fatter.
iii. richer or poorer?
A little poorer, but not by much.
What do you wish you'd done more of?
Seen friends and spent time with them. I never do that enough.
What do you wish you'd done less of?
Waste time. I feel like I should stop playing games on my phone and use that time to consume more books or movies instead.
Did you fall in love in 2012?
Hmmm. Usually, there's a "celebrity" or two that I answer this question with, but I can't really think of anyone new right now.
How many one-night stands?
What was your favourite TV program?
Justified. Holy shit, I love that show.
Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Yep. Tim Cohen, I'm looking at you.
What was the best book you read?
House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I read that book in October and I STILL think about it regularly.
What was your greatest musical discovery?
I'm not really sure. I didn't get to listen to a whole hell of a lot of new music this year, sadly.
What was your favorite film of this year?
I'd still like to do a Top 10 list for the year, but just in case I don't have time: The Dark Knight Rises.
What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
It was pretty goddamn satisfying as it was.
How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012?
What kept you sane?
Romney losing the election.
Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Well, PJ Harvey is still #1 for me, but thanks to my Tumblr, I'd say Meiko Kaji got the most attention from me.
What political issue stirred you the most?
The election.
Who did you miss?
Every single person I consider a friend.
Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2012:
I need to take more time to think about what's worth the time.
Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
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Hrithik opts to wear hats in "Kites"
Nation's heartthrob Hrithik Roshan who will soon be turning an International star too, speaks with Lipika Varma and reveals the fashion quotient of his upcoming film and highlights his character. How he is all set to turn rich. So is it …rags to riches kind of a story? Hear what Hrithik has to say.
A sensational dancer, exuberant performer with a killers look… It won't be too much if we say Hrithik is the perfect package carved with an awesome intelligence, and what not! The almighty God did all this in his spare time. Hrithik's personality defines fashion from whatever it carries each day. Last four movies- all hits- the handsome hunk seems to be on a roll and wishes to make it five in a row with Kites – a feat that only Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna can boast of (yeah, not even lover boy SRK).
Hrithik walked in, in a pair of basic blue denims with a worn out look, crisp white shirt with collars well done and top two buttons open to reveal that plunging male cleavage. Ordering a coffee for himself, he got straight to business, talking at length about his look in Kites- "There are two looks, a leaner, cleaner street casual look and then there is a grim one with earthy and sober shades- well complemented by a stubble." The stubble look is because there is time lapse in the movie, which means the movie will run in flash back and flash forward, interspersed with the current day. Don't think hard, instead "watch it, you'll know", as Hrithik urges.
Ask him to talk about the kind of clothes that he is wearing and he tries hard before brusquely stating, "Isn't it obvious from the rushes and the trailers and from what you all have seen on the internet?" Correcting his tone, he quickly remarked modestly- "I am not a very fashion conscious person (yet, unconsciously, he inspires it!) Hence, I wouldn't know the technical jargons…but I'll tell you one thing that others won't know just yet, I Love to wear Hats in the movie!"
Did Hrithik try to design his own dresses?"Actually I would draw sketches and give it to Suneet. I am not a fashion freak but whatever I would gather with my wits I used to discuss it with Suneet through sketches.
Praising designer Suneet Verma Hrithik adds," He has designed the costumes for the movie. "He is an honest man, ours is an honest film; it made a perfect combo. In fact, Suzzanne and I have liked his clothes so much that we keep wearing them even off screen."
Hrithik very simply says," Me and papa-Rakesh Roshan have no ego hassels at all. Any differences with director Anuraag Basu, we may have had differences which were creative indeed ."
Highlighting the story he quips ,".Story-wise, Kites is a tale of love, betrayal and wants. Narrates Hrithik, "They call me 'J'. He is a guy brought up in (Las) Vegas, is a loner, a street punk, has got the gift of the gab, a smooth talker and has his way with things. But he is also poor and thinks that earning money is the solution to all his woes. He meets the love of his life and together they embark upon a journey those jet-sets them on a thrilling experience."
Twisted han? We have the inside report. Natasha (Mori) plays the mistress of a Mafia don and finds true love in 'J' Hrithik. The two sprint away after allegedly robbing the Vegas Casino of a hefty 2 million USD…they also attempt a bank robbery and find themselves on the wrong side of the law, needless to say that the mafia was already thirsty for their blood. They are left to die in the Mexican desert and the climax, reportedly, sees the two commit suicide by jumping off the cliff. In the middle of all this, where and how does Kangana fit in, we don't know, but a tip off suggests that she brings in a weak love triangle in the movie (yes or no?). Time will tell. You guys need to wait and watch.
Last but not the least will Hrithik not romance the bollywood Divas? As he seems to be getting International offers? Nothing has yet been finalized officially. I go by the script. If I get scripts worthwhile in Bollywood or Hollywood I am open to them. In short it is not a conscious effort that I wanna turn to English films and English actors. All depends on me liking the scripts." He confesses honestly.
-Lipika Varma
Check out the stills of Hrithik, Barbara Mori and Kangana from the movie Kites.


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Research led by the University of Bonn Virologists reveals transmission rate of the MERS virus
The MERS coronavirus has caused disease outbreaks across the Arabian Peninsula and spread to Europe several times. The severe pneumonia virus has claimed the lives of several hundred people since its discovery in 2012. For a long time, scientists have been puzzled over how easily the pathogen spreads from human to human. An international team of researchers led by virologists from the University of Bonn have now come to the conclusion, through direct observation, that the rate of human transmission is low. Still, a third of infected persons with symptoms die. The results are now being presented in the renowned New England Journal of Medicine.
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Re: Fourier Transforms
On Mar 1, 2006, at 4:11 AM, Ben C wrote:
> I'm having some real trouble trying to coax mathematica to do a couple
> of Fourier transforms. Does anyone know if there's some sort of
> list of
> transforms mathematica can and can't do, or any tactics for helping
> mathematica to perform transforms would be much appreciated.
Your message is a little too general to determine your problem.
Mathematica does Fourier transforms, both discrete and symbolic.
Discrete transforms are done with the function Fourier, symbolic with
FourierTransform, the inverses are InverseFourier and
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Sunday August 22, 2010
10:11 pm
8 pounds 9 ounces
happy, happy, happy!
*Updated 8/18- Okay, I woke up to this litttle ticker telling me 1 more day...
Apparently after you hit zero they start adding days?
OR maybe this thing is trying to tell me I have one more overdue day left?
Either way... stiiiil pregnant.
This is the Bumbleride Flite, which I'll be reviewing soon on Mama Manifesto! So excited to use it!
I also had a few random projects. I wanted organic bassinet sheets, but didn't want to pay a ridiculous amount, so I made my own at $8 a yard.
Also, I inherited a really cool old vanity from my grandma, that will double as a changing table for a while. Since it's an odd size, I had to make the changing pad from scratch. I used 2" foam (bought at 50% off), covered it in PVC-free waterproof fabric, then made an organic french terry slipcover. Super cheap, easy, and the exact size I wanted!
I am 38 weeks. According to that little widget in my sidebar, I have 12 days to go.
As of today, I'm dilated 3 centimeters, 50% effaced, and he's at a -2 station.
I had my membranes stripped this morning (fun), and I'm in pretty severe discomfort right now.
So 12 days may not be so accurate...
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How Low Can You Go
Having only been a Sabres fan for a few years, I have to say last nights result has me at my lowest ebb as a fan. How does this compare for the rest of you in terms of how low you have felt following the Sabres, and what was your lowest moment following the team?
I'm only 19, but I've been a die hard since around 1998-1999.
2002-2003 was really bad, last season for the most part was upsetting, and two lockouts does not help.
Losing to the Dallas Stars in the Cup finals in 99'
Lowest I've ever felt as a Sabres fan :cry:
This season is just a hiccup or speed bump compared to that ... For me
Gonna have to find a western conference team to cheer for...
Kind of wish we locked out the entire season.
My earliest Sabres memories were formed in the late '70s.
This is as bad a team as I remember, though there have been others than give this one a run for its money unfortunately.
How low can it go? We've lost 4 in a row and are currently playing like perhaps the worst team in the NHL.
I suppose if this losing streak keeps up, and this style of play, it will get lower.
If life has taught me one thing, it's that things can always get worse. Always.
That said, 2013 is the bottom for this franchise. Mark it down and remember where you heard it from first. ;)
02-03, going to games with 10k people in the building, was hands down the worst.
We can only go up next season.
Look where Montreal is in the standings with some changes after missing the playoffs last year.
Well I think one of the reasons I am so low about it is because I cant see things improving at the moment. Last night was a shambles. The fans deserve more.
As Long as we get a top 2 pick Ill be happy. Mackinnon or Jones please.Barkov would be a good consolation prize.
Getting knocked out of the playoffs is crushing
Let's go all the way low baby all the way
Worst moment? Brett Hull. Knowing you suck is so much easier than believing with every inch of your body only to be robbed.
And I grew up listening to the radio broadcasts and imagining Don Edwards flopping around the crease when Bert wasn't skating end to end.
Starting to question the wisdom of a mid-season sacking, although I feel Ruff time to go, was that the right time to do it, was it a case of giving Rolston a chance? It just seems such a long way back from here. We are probably the worst team in the NHL at the moment....I didnt sign up for this!!!!
If anyone would have asked at the start of the year if I thought this discussion would be happening in February I would have thought they were nuts. I really thought the Sabres were contenders to go fairly deep into playoffs this year. Can not believe I was that wrong.
Yeah, No goal could be the ultimate low in my lifetime... Briere and Drury leaving within an hour of each other on July 1st also sucked major balls as well. Times are tough right now but with it being a short season after the lockout it just doesn't seem as bad to me. Plus I really am hoping for one of the 3 franchise guys in the draft this year, one can pray for it at least!
I don't know if this is my lowest as a Sabre fan, but if Ruff comes in here with his new team, which includes a couple of our players he traded for, whoops our butts, and gets cheers for it, THAT would have to be almost everyone's all time low.
For the last few seasons I tell myself, "Hey, They're young wait for next season!". Then the next season comes and its just as bad as the previous.
As a longtime fan I feel that since we lost Briere and Drury things have just gone downhill.
All that being said last nights game was terrible, and embarrassing to watch. I felt like I was watching slow motion hockey.
As someone who lived through it as a fan, this season feels exactly how the '86 - '87 season did. That season saw Scotty Bowman get fired as coach/GM two months into the season with Gerry Meehan promoted and Ted Sator hired; meanwhile, lots of patchwork acquisitions on the roster floundered. For those of us that were fans at the time, the lack of direction and hope for the future on the path to a last place overall finish then isn't far off from how this season is going IMO.
At least when the last in-season firing happened (Muckler taking over for Dudley in 1991 after a miserable start), the team showed a real shift of identity to a different style of team that was more offensively interesting and nastier to play. It helped that LaFontaine, Hawerchuk and Mogilny were on the roster.
When Pegula took over the team, the whole "Hockey Heaven" and Cup talk was about establishing an identity - but two years later, the franchise is more faceless and without an identity than it has been for 20 years. I truly hope there's a "coming-to-Jesus" point in the coming months that Pegula and Black have about assessing honestly what state their team is really in. As many have noted, "it's a mess".
As bad as 1999 was, I felt the quick elimination to Montreal in 1993, Mogilny being carried away on a stretcher was pretty soul crushing.
The all time worst for me was the 2007 playoff loss to Ottawa because I absolutely hate Ottawa. We had such a dynamic team that year, but the boys never seemed able to regain the energy they had in 2005-2006 despite winning the Presidents Throphy. Those two games in Ottawa, even though we won game 4, were very humbling...they skated us out of the rink.
1999 was bad, but Buffalo was David to Dallas' Goliath.
2006-2007 were bad as well. I thought those Buffalo teams had captured magic in a bottle.
For apathy, the Rigas saga, was far worse than this.
As painful as the "no goal" Finals were with Dallas, I think 2006 was a greater disappointment. I never felt like we were going to beat Dallas in the Finals, whereas in 2006 it felt for a while like we had a genuine chance to win the Cup.
We were winning, and doing it in style and with confidence.
I'll never forget after that year RJ mentioning that he went into the Sabres' locker room and personally thanked every Sabre for giving him the most exciting year of broadcasting in his career, and he indicated that the team was the best Sabres squad he had ever seen. Which includes the French Connection Finals team of course....which I have no real memory of.
We were great in 2006 but then all D-men got hurt. The really sickening part is that we still almost got past Carolina, and I firmly believe we would have easily beaten Edmonton in the Finals, as Carolina did.
That was our year to win the Cup...and it just didn't work out that way.
UGGHH! Bringing back some tough memories.
If I have learned anything from the Canucks loss to Boston in 2011 it is to never assume your team is going to win a 7 game series. Vancouver looked stacked compared to Boston...most predicted the Canucks in 6 games, but Boston's physical style wore Vancouver down.
If Buffalo plays Edmonton in 2006 who knows what happens...I don't think the Sabres played a team like that in the first three rounds.
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I concur with just about every review of this unit . . . it is a great amp and, at its low price, a phenomenal deal. This amp had a full-mod Curcio board when I got it. While I never was happy with the Curcio board--and rarely used the amp--it now has relegated my modified MK-IV's to driving the woofers.
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MRI notebooks?
I was wondering if there were any notebooks out there that were related
to MRI imaging physics, something similar to the signal processing
notebooks at mathsource, for example. I haven't been able to find
anything like that around.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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Read, read, read, and read some more here. If you're a previous shooter, take some time to ease back in. Remember the fundamentals and take your time.It has been over ten years since I've really been around any type of handgun and I'm very uninformed about them in general.
I like the feel of them both and have done a bunch of online research. the points i like about the s&w are the looks and the fact that i can get a thumb safety which seems to make the wife more comfortable and maybe me too.
A good selling point, opinions on the thumb safety vary, I could take it or leave it. If it makes it go easier with the wife, it might be worth it. But if you get the model with the thumb safety, you've go to practice, practice, practice on swiping that thumb safety off while drawing the gun.Again, opinions vary but if I had to have either a thumb safety or a grip safety, I'd go with the grip safety, it gets deactivated just by grabbing the gun.For the xdm i like the looks and feel also and the match grade barrel (more accurate the better right?) but I'm not sure on how helpful or harmful the grip safety would prove to be.
Get the 9mm, from what I hear arthritis rarely gets "better" but often get worse. I find the XDM to be a soft shooter, but the M&P isn't bad either.I guess another concern i had was recoil i know in my heart i want a 40.cal but i have extremely arthritic wrists (wow am i really whining in a gun forum?) and the less they are bent around and banged on the better. i put 5 rounds through a 40 cal compact of some kind and was fine with it but if i wanna practice a lot i think 9mm would be better. I have heard the xdm is one of the softest shooting 40s so i am hoping that transfers down to the 9mm as well.I carry the XDM around just fine, it's all about the holster, belt, and mode of dress.I think i am leaning towards the xdm, thoughts anyone, thanks for reading and sorry its so long a post just excited about getting my new toy.
Also is it reasonably possible to conceal a gun of that size, I'm taking the required safety class for concealed carry permit next month mostly to take any problems out of transporting it around, doubt i will carry it on my person a lot,but, maybe sometimes
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He's done such a killer job as a mentor on "American Idol" that folks are starting to speculate that Harry Connick Jr. could be next in line at the judges' table.
However, the "I Just Whispered Your Name" crooner told Ellen DeGeneres that he hasn't received any offers up to this point.
It's been a crazy season of "American Idol," especially given all the drama between newbie judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey.
And now it seems the "Always Be My Baby" songstress is considering walking away from her post before the season finale.
Since the start of the start of "American Idol's" current season Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey butted heads, and it appears the two are far from a permanent reconciliation.
Just hours after Wednesday's (May 1) heated argument with the "Hero" songstress, Miss Minaj took the Twitterverse this morning (May 2) and tweeted about Mariah's insults.
Though she is no longer on the show as a judge, Jennifer Lopez may be returning to perform during the show's two night finale.
According to a report by E! on Tuesday (April 30), the "On the Floor" songstress will belt out one of her hit tunes during one of the final shows, which are slated for May 15 and 16.
She's one of the hottest performing artists in the world, and Carrie Underwood made a return to her roots last night (April 4) on "American Idol."
The "Blown Away" country songstress looked drop-dead gorgeous as she took the stage to perform her brand new hit single "See You Again."
The show must go on, even when one of its stars is late, as Nicki Minaj was on Wednesday night's (March 13) "Amercian Idol."
Ready to start the live top ten competition, host Ryan Seacrest told the crowd the "Pound the Alarm" songstress was stuck in traffic.
The competition is getting more and more fierce with each week that passes, and last night (March 7) "American Idol" feted their Season 12 Top 10 contestants at The Grove.
Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, and Randy Jackson all showed up at the West Hollywood shindig and posed for fans and press before heading inside.
They had to send five female contestants packing on "American Idol" this week, and Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj had a difficult time saying goodbye.
The "Always Be My Baby" songstress told press, "I hated it. Everybody was talented and different. There were some special people we had to get rid of."