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E. L. Bradford pushes his cotton with fertilizer and water, would rather have it maturing a little early than a little late and is convinced that an in-furrow insecticide and rotation will put more pounds in the picker.

Bradford, who has raised cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley for going on 50 years added acreage in the Brazos Valley about six years ago. He says the dependability of moisture near the Brazos allows him to push the crop a bit.

“I row water everything with poly pipe,” he said. ‘I prefer to begin irrigation a little early rather than risk being too late. I started around June 2. Even though we had a little rain I kept watering through July.”

By late August he had watered his Brazos Valley crop three times and anticipated one more application before the crop was made. “Some fields needed only one application,” he said. “It's heavier land and holds water better.

“I push cotton from the start with plenty of water and fertilizer,” Bradford says.

He applies up to 159 units of nitrogen on irrigated cotton. He likes Stoneville 4892BR cotton and says it seems to respond a little better to fertilization.

“I usually plant 17 pounds to 18 pounds of seed per acre.”

He says applying fertilizer early also helps get the cotton off to a good start. “I may lose some with an early application but it helps early growth.”

He's also convinced that cotton behind corn will need less irrigation and make more lint most years. “I had one 200-acre field of cotton following corn,” he says. “I'm convinced that field will out produce others with similar soils.”

He uses 6.5 pounds of Temik under the cotton. “I believe in it and am certain it helps yields,” he says. He doesn't allow early-season insects to damage young cotton.

“I start early on flea hoppers and keep at it,” he says.

Bradford also uses as little tillage as possible. “We had a rainy winter in 2003,” he says, “and didn't get to work the land as much as I like. But I use only Roundup Ready cotton so reduced tillage helps out. I never cultivated and didn't need any hoe hands.

“I just chopped the bed, fertilized and planted. When I got the cotton up, I applied nitrogen and with a little rain it was ready to go.”

Bradford says he doesn't like for cotton to get too big and uses Pix to manage vegetation. “I start out with a four-ounce application,” he says and will use 32 ounces or less.”

He says a growth regulator is crucial on pastureland converted to cotton.

Bradford says even with 50 years of cotton production behind him, he's still learning.

“I have to get better at watering the crop,” he says. “I have adequate water here, so I just need to learn how to use it better.”

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I do NOT like this game.

I gave it a shot after hearing about it from a friend and checking out some gameplay on Youtube. Little did I know what a waste of time it would turn out to be.

I'll break it down into pros and cons with cons first, because they're always more interesting.

--This game was obviously coded by a bunch of fat, sexist, acne-ridden, mountain dew addicted males that never get laid. The female characters have a choice between a handful of slutty outfits to wear to start. And HEELS. Because, you know, you want to look your best when the country has gone to shit and you're fighting to survive in the hellhole to end all hellholes. And they offer no sneakers for women, ever, from what I've seen in the shop.
--The character customization is a total joke. For a game with graphics this shiny, surely they can have better options than ganguro makeup or '20s pinup model. Sliders are your friend, dammit. I would've liked playing a female that WASN'T taller than all the boys. But maybe that was only because I was stuck wearing Stilettos.
--Have I mentioned the pink bikinis the women are wearing under their whoregarb? Yep. They're there.
--The menus don't match the game. I have to point this out because it drove me crazy. The game's graphics are pretty nice. Not totally up to date, but certainly not last-decade. The menus all look like the pixelated shit we saw back in the days of Diablo II.
--TYPOS. "Defence," for one. My brain twitches at the thought of the rest.
--Unbalanced NPC AI. You've got enemies who aren't all that bad at ducking for cover and sniping you from a distance, but god-forbid an NPC ally gets over their Stormtrooper syndrome and shoots in the RIGHT DIRECTION. Yes, Leeloo, I'm looking at you.
--The hitboxes are all sorts of wrong. I'm not bad at shooters. Not at all. So I KNOW when I'm shooting the kneecaps off an enemy at point-blank range. This game managed to forget some body parts or something, because those shots would yield absolutely no damage. With a SHOTGUN.
--The enemies respawn in the most annoying way in that they just appear, even if you're right on top of their spawn point. Couldn't they have them coming out of a back room or something, not just suddenly standing in the middle of a room? Maybe take player proximity into account?

--It's free. If you don't mind the EXP and mission rewards sucking.
--The combat system isn't that bad. The lack of jumping messed with my head a little, but the rolling dodge, the toggling crouch, and the balanced weapons made combat pretty enjoyable.

I'm uninstalling and wishing I could have those hours of my life back.

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Seated Twist with Medicine Ball

Starting Position Sit on the floor with feet firmly planted, knees bent, back straight, and hands gripping a medicine ball or dumbbell (not pictured). Extend your arms in front of you, keeping them in line with the shoulders. Keeping your back straight, lean back (hinging from the hips) until you feel your abs engage.

Action EXHALE: Keeping a perfectly straight back with your abs pulled in tight, rotate your torso to the right as far as you can while maintaining good form (back straight, feet on floor).

INHALE. Return to the center (start position).

Repeat on the opposite side to complete one rep.

Special Instructions Do not round or arch your back. Try to keep your feet planted. Focus on the movement coming from the waist, allowing your upper body and arms to follow.

Make it harder: Use a heavier weight or lean back farther.

Make it easier: Instead of extending your arms in front of you, keep the elbows bent with the medicine ball or weight hugged in close to your torso, and/or don't lean back as far.

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Nearly two-thirds of respondents to an online Special Events poll say that lousy economic news is cutting into their corporate holiday party business. More than half--56 percent--say their corporate holiday party business will be off by more than 10 percent this year compared with 2007.

The event team at San Francisco-based venue Mezzanine has seen a sharp drop in business. "In the last three weeks we have had three large corporate holiday events that were in contract with deposits down for events in December cancel their events and walk away due to economic strain and upper management freezing expenditures for the remainder of ’08," says Megan Upjohn, corporate and private events director. "We have heard that many companies are doing much less elaborate, potluck-style holiday gatherings at their offices to cut expenses and to also appear to shareholders and employees as if they are being fiscally responsible." To shore up business, Mezzanine management is "scrambling" to develop and market smaller, "fragmented" event packages for holiday gatherings, "hitting the lunch angle and the reception angle hard as cost are lower and more feasible for clients that are tightening purse strings," Upjohn notes.

New Orleans-based Carolyn Arthurs, head of All About Events, has seen such a falloff in business that she has begun managing entertainment and offering interior design services to stay afloat. "The only market that is still thriving is television," she notes.

An event pro in the Southeast, who prefers to remain anonymous, says that while some corporations must scale back due to economic travails, many are simply "weary" of worrying what the future holds. Other companies, the pro says, tie their events to trade shows and conferences, and these companies fear that attendance could be halved in 2009.

Similar to the fall-off in event business in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks, some companies are scaling back holiday events to avoid appearing extravagant in sober times. "We have a client who is scaling back on their function and tying it into more of a 'year-end' function as opposed to a holiday party," notes Greg Jenkins, partner in Long Beach, Calif.-based Bravo Events. "In addition to cutting costs, the phrase 'holiday party' connotes 'lavish spending,' and the client is cautious not to give that impression." Jenkins says the notion of encouraging clients to postpone the holiday party till next year is a "lost cause, with many clients taking a wait-and-see approach." "While it's hard to make up for lost revenue, we continue to review ways to cut our own revenue and overhead expenses," he says. "That's one way of addressing the current economic and financial crisis."

Client budget cuts can come with an ironic edge. Even though some clients have cut their holiday party budgets in half, "They still want the party with 100 percent of the budget," says Randy Fuhrman, head of Los Angeles-based Randy Fuhrman Events.

While he has seen several fundraisers pushed from October and November till next year, Erick Weiss, head of Los Angeles-based Honeysweet Productions, says, "Holiday parties need to happen on the holidays." Even so, companies are cutting back on planners, extensive catering, games and rides, and big entertainment, he notes.

In the face of bad news, the Special Events survey shows that 11 percent of respondents say their corporate holiday business is holding steady compared with last year, while 21 percent see a boost in holiday business this year over 2007.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based MVKA Productions sees "more interest" in corporate holiday events this year than last, according to director of sales and marketing Michael Nathanson, which he credits in part to the company's recent marketing campaign. He also points to MVKA's strong local presence. "Our local supplier networks provide great value" to clients, he says, a vital factor when clients are scrutinizing costs with "the finest of combs." Besides offering an appropriate sense of comfort for holiday events, sourcing locally also gives an environmental edge, a nice selling point in today's eco-conscious environment. "The wisest thing people can do in this situation is focus locally," he notes.

Management at Wilmington, Del.-based Planning Factory International has seen no cutback in client holiday spending. "I think that clients are trying to hold steady over this financial crisis," says CEO Cher Przelomski, CSEP, "understanding that even with the many unknowns right now, there is also opportunity." Besides the financial turmoil, the contentious U.S. presidential campaign is further fueling the climate of uncertainty, she notes. "The looming election contributes to the overall anxiety as well--but a type of uncertainty happens every four years, and every four years we have similar trepidations."

Indeed, several event pros note that, along with a sense that the financial turmoil is calming, the best thing that can happen for the event industry is for the Nov. 4 U.S. presidential election to pass.

To adapt to the shifting market, Przelomski recommends "targeted marketing to those businesses that will be doing well--health care and financial services, believe it or not. Corporations who have let a lot of people go will need someone to fill the gap for meeting and event planning eventually. And social--there will always be social, especially high-end."

Her business is holding steady, says Joann Roth-Oseary, head of Tarzana, Calif.-based caterer Someone's in the Kitchen, largely due to her hardworking sales team. "We are being very proactive and aggressive in reaching out to old and new clients on a daily basis, and all sales staff are accountable for handing in results-oriented reports weekly," she says. "The team effort is driving the machine."

With the tidal wave of layoffs hitting Wall Street, New York-based DMC Empire Force Events is in the eye of the economic storm. Perhaps as a result, "We see that our vendors are hungry," notes president/partner Jaclyn Bernstein. She notes that for a January incentive event she is working on, one hotel offered her a complimentary first-night reception to win the room nights, flexibility she praises. To make 2009 a better year, "We as producers need our vendors to help us out," Bernstein says. "We don't want to beat up our vendors, but hope they will reach out to us and be proactive to get the business."

Steve Kemble, principal of Dallas-based Steve Kemble Event Design, recommends that event pros work as expert consultants to aid clients in making effective event expenditures. "I feel strongly it is our job as event professionals to educate our clients on ways they could possibly reduce their holiday event budget," he says. "Whether the economy is affecting your clients' business or not, you can be assured they would appreciate professional counsel at this time." Among his recommendations: Helping clients consider how long their events should run and whether guest lists can be trimmed. He adds, "It is better to offer solutions now than to have the whole party cancel a month out."

Syd Sexton, head of Denver-based Syd Sexton Event Production, urges event pros to keep the quality of their product high. "This is not the time for mediocrity," she says. Her clients have "slightly" tighter budgets for their holiday parties this year but are still hosting the events, she says. She stresses the need to evolve and adapt. "At the time of 9/11, my company catered to a small niche offering exclusive high-end events. Since then we have grown our company to take care of most every style from barbecues to galas and everything in-between," she notes. "We have learned how to satisfy the customer on a limited budget with a great product. I believe that this is what it will take to survive and succeed in the upcoming year."

While adapting to economic upheaval is good, losing your identity is not, says David Merrell, head of Los Angeles-based AOO Events. "I really don’t think it’s possible to reinvent oneself in this short period of time," he says. "It’s important to hunker down, market extra diligently, and wait until the first of the year when the new administration starts to rebuild confidence." He adds, "It’s a scary time for everyone, but I think it’s important to remember that everything is cyclical, and if you can make it through this cycle, you will be in great shape once business starts to loosen up again."

Several event pros echo Great Depression-era president Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famed maxim that the greatest enemy is fear itself. "Hang in there, and let your motivation to secure work be the fact that you will be able to hire others and spread your good fortune around," says Cheryl Cecchetto, head of Los Angeles-based Sequoia Productions. "Stay tough, stay strong, fight the good fight. Keep your heart open. Keep the 'celebrations of life' alive."Ronnie Davis, head of Ronnie Davis Productions, the special event division of New York-based Great Performances, takes the long view. "This is the fourth time we've been through this in the last 18 years," he says. "People still need to eat, companies still need to keep up morale. We have to sell smarter and be more creative."

Indeed, many event pros note the need to be creative in the middle of crisis. "I believe always in the middle of the chaos lies every opportunity," Przelomski says. "It's up to us to be creative enough to find it."

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Hot Wheels® Edition Camaro

The Hot Wheels®  Edition Camaro debuted at the 2012 SEMA Show in Las Vegas today.  Chevrolet says production will be limited a special production run  in early 2013 and that will be all.  The Hot Wheels® Camaro will be available as a coupe or convertible and will be available in 2 LT and 2 SS trims that borrow from the ZL1.

Exterior highlights include:

  • Hot Wheels® grille and decklid logos
  • ZL1 rear spoiler (coupe)
  • 21-inch Hot Wheels® styled red outline rims
  • ZL1 front upper grille
  • Ground effects package, including front splitter and rocker treatment
  • Two-tone matte hood graphic and rear taillight panel “blackout” graphic
  • Fender “flame” graphics

On the inside there’s more Hot Wheels® graphics.  The black leather-trimmed interior is accented with red and black seat stitching with the Hot Wheels® logo embroidered on the front seats. The instrument panel and door inserts are black, with the Hot Wheels-style flame decal on each door.  The Hot Wheels® Edition sill plates and Camaro-logo premium floor mats with red edging round out the special Hot Wheels® interior accents.

That’s all fine and dandy, but what’s under the hood?  SS models feature a 6.2L V-8, which comes in two flavors: the “L99” on automatic-equipped vehicles and the “LS3” on manual-equipped models. Horsepower for the L99 is 400 (298 kW) and torque is 410 lb.-ft. (556 Nm) – and it features fuel-saving Active Fuel Management. The LS3 develops 426 horsepower (318 kW) and 420 lb.-ft. (569 Nm) of torque.

LT-based models feature the “LFX” 3.6L V-6 engine, with dual-overhead camshafts, variable valve timing and direct injection. It’s rated at 323 horsepower at 6,800 rpm.  Not too shabby for a V-6.

Chevy is also offering a dual-mode exhaust system on SS models with the six-speed manual transmission, as well as LT models with either the manual or automatic transmission. Similar to the systems found on the Camaro ZL1, the vacuum-actuated system provides a quieter driving experience at low engine speeds and growl during hard acceleration.

Chevrolet says the Hot Wheels® Camaro will only be available in Kinetic Blue with black accents (pictured), although I think red, gold and purple color options would be appropriate for a Hot Wheels theme.  None the less, the car looks bad ass and has the right stuff to back up all of those Hot Wheels® graphics, both as a V-6 and a V-8.

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I recently attended RubyConf 2012 in Denver, CO. I had a great time, and I learned a lot. While getting a clearer picture of the Ruby development community was interesting — particularly the tension among MRI, JRuby, Rubinius, etc. — the talks I keep thinking about were essentially language-independent.

The Insufficiency of Good Design

Sarah Mei of Pivotal Labs gave the morning address on the last day of the conference, a talk entitled “The Insufficiency of Good Design.” Her speech was all about how communication impacts code. The central premise was that the structure of code reflects the (largely invisible) communication dynamics of the team — or teams — working on a piece of software. To give an example, if you assign three teams to work on a piece of software, you will get a program with three subsystems. If you had assigned it to five teams, there would be five subsystems. And wouldn’t you know it, the areas of your code with smells will be right where those subsystems interact. I know I’ve seen this first hand. I once worked on an enterprise software product, and in many ways each sub-product was silo’ed during development, which let to a lot of redundant code and configuration options — not to mention inconsistent interfaces.

Sarah also mentioned how the same problem exists on the micro level of individuals on a team, especially if the environment does not encourage frequent, informal communication. In particular, she talked about how while having your own office is nice in some regards, it can be all too easy to disappear for days, assuming email correspondence with coworkers is sufficient, but then wind up with everyone building pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that simply don’t fit together.

I think her most insightful advice was that, when you find these smells in the code, don’t just fix them — use them to identify problems in the communication patterns on your team. She cited one example where her advice of “skinny controllers, fat models” was taken to the extreme, and after seeing some of the programmers on her team put too much logic in a model, she realized that her team was now ready for a more nuanced version of the maxim. I was really impressed by the way she treated bad code as a symptom rather than the problem in and of itself.

The other RubyConf session I keep coming back to in my mind was Gary Bernhardt‘s talk, called “Boundaries.” Rather than a discussion of how teams communicate with each other, his talk was a discussion of how different segments of the code communicate with each other, specifically with the interplay between “pristine” business logic algorithms and the difficulty of integrating that logic with the complexities of external libraries, I/O, database access, and the like. He prescribed a methodology he called “Imperative Shell, Functional Core.” His talk refined and crystalized some ideas that have been floating around in my head for a while.

He began by describing the debate in the programming world over the pros and cons of using mocks. In short, while mocks allow for isolated, fast tests and for top-down TDD, they obfuscate the boundaries between different parts of the program, and allow for programmers to trick themselves into thinking the code is working, only to have it fail in practice. For many programmers, the danger of using mocks outweighs the good.

Gary advocated putting your business logic into functional units (or functional-style code, if you are using an OO language like Ruby), and then interfacing between those units with an imperative shell. He sagely pointed out that the vast majority of interesting conditions occur in business logic, and that when done right your business logic should have very few dependencies on the outside world. Code with many conditions (i.e., many test cases) and few dependencies is ideal for unit / isolated tests. Meanwhile, the imperative shell, with its many dependencies and few conditionals, is ideal for integrated tests, where you want to make sure everything “fits” together, but where running many tests takes a prohibitively long time. I am very curious to try out this method on a future project.

That said, I can already think of several challenges to overcome. Object Relational Models (ORMs), in particular, practically beg you to use them directly for imperative purposes at any point in the code. For example, if you have an ActiveRecord model for user information, and you want to change the user’s email, generally you don’t want to create a new ActiveRecord object. But in a functional paradigm, you really should create a new user with the changed information. For me, this is yet another argument for not using your ORM directly in your business logic, but instead using an abstraction layer built on top of it.

Another potential issue is that while the functional core is intended to prevent you from having to use mocks at all, you will inevitably want to pass down a function (or an object instance of a single-responsibility class) — we are trying to write functional style code, after all. You would still have to mock in that case. You could, in theory, pass Proc’s along everywhere you need a function, and create a Proc in your test cases which returns a simple value, but that is essentially a mock. That said, not having a mock library included in your project would keep you free from the temptation to do things like

which I think both mock fans and mock haters will agree is a pretty smelly thing to do.

I look forward to putting ideas from both of those talks into practice in the months ahead. What new ideas have you encountered recently that changed the way you go about your work?


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Kent St. 31, Army 17

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Dri Archer is versatile. Rusher, receiver, kick returner -- he compiles all-purpose yards all over the field.

But passer?

Go ahead and add that to the list.

Archer rushed for 222 yards -- including an explosive 87-yard touchdown late -- and completed a trick 24-yard touchdown pass as Kent State got off to its best start in four decades with a 31-17 win over Army on Saturday.

Spencer Keith threw for 60 yards and a touchdown and caught Archer's halfback option throw to give Kent State an early lead it never relinquished.

"That was a play we put in this week. We knew it was going to work," Archer said. "I was telling Coach (Darrell Hazell) about it since the beginning of the season. I always wanted to throw a touchdown pass."

Trayion Durham added 65 rushing yards and a score for the Golden Flashes (5-1), who won their first nonconference road game in five years and spoiled Army's homecoming.

Under Hazell, a former Army assistant, Kent State beat Army for the first time in three meetings to cement its best start since 1973. The Golden Flashes are 5-1 for only the third time since 1940.

"We came up with some big plays that we needed to have," Hazell said. "That was a good win for us. Big win. Huge. Number five."

Trent Steelman rushed for 66 yards and passed for another 66 to lead the Black Knights (1-5), who lost to a Mid-American Conference opponent for the sixth straight time. Malcolm Brown rushed for 92 yards, including a 2-yard touchdown run that briefly brought Army within two touchdowns in the fourth.

Army, which stunned Boston College a week ago, hasn't won back-to-back games since 2010, a streak of nine losses following a victory.

The Black Knights, whose 397 rushing yards per game was leading the nation, had 325 against the Golden Flashes, but converted only 5 of 17 third downs.

Luke Batton led Kent State with 16 tackles.

The Golden Flashes, who haven't let an opponent score in the first quarter this year, kept that streak alive on Army's second series, when Daniel Grochowski missed badly on a 47-yard field goal attempt.

A week after converting three fourth-down tries, Kent State kept that streak going as well early in the second when Durham rushed for 5 yards on fourth-and-2.

That was nothing compared to what came next.

On first down from the Army 24, Hazell, perhaps taking some inspiration from the West Coast offense, called for a halfback option, and Archer's arm was up to the task.

He took a pitch right from Keith, then stopped on a dime and lobbed the ball downfield, connecting with Keith -- taking everyone by surprise as he raced down the left sideline -- for the 24-yard touchdown strike.

"The first time we crossed the 30-yard line, that was going to be one of our calls," Hazell said. "Bill Walsh was always one of those guys that thought if you're going to try trick plays, try them early enough so that if it doesn't work, you can recover."

It was a bad omen for Army, which is 3-14 under Rich Ellerson when an opponent scores first.

The Golden Flashes scored through the air again with 6:44 left in the half when Keith, now back under center, connected with a diving Eric Adeyemi in the right side of the end zone for a 30-yard touchdown.

"A lot of times, we just didn't make the play," said Army linebacker Geoffery Bacon, who had 14 tackles.

Army faced a crucial fourth-and-inches in the third quarter, when Steelman fell forward on a keeper but was stopped by Roosevelt Nix. The turnover on downs put Kent State on the Army 38.

Archer scurried for 20 yards on second down, and the Golden Flashes soon went up 17-0 on Freddy Cortez's 28-yard field goal from the right hash.

Army didn't score until Grochowski's 37-yard field goal cut it to 17-3 with 3:12 left in the third.

"My hat is off to them," Steelman said. "We didn't find a way to break through in either half."

Kent State answered right back when Archer slipped through the line, broke two tackles and got loose in the open field for a 48-yard rush, setting up first-and-goal.

Then, the Golden Flashes converted their only third-down play in nine tries on the day -- this one worth six points as Durham pushed through three tacklers and fell across the goal line for a touchdown. The initial call was upheld by replay, and Kent State was up 24-3 in the last minute of the third.

"Our guys have done an unbelievable job of coming to work every day and being mature about it," Hazell said. "There's no question that they expect to win."

Army scored its first touchdown on Brown's 5-yard rush with 12:02 left in the game, capping an 81-yard drive.

Down 24-10 after the extra point, Army had one last chance on fourth-and-2 from the Kent State 11, but Raymond Maples fumbled short of the marker.

The game was already effectively over when the versatile Archer, who leads the nation in all-purpose yards per game, showed his considerable speed on an 87-yard touchdown run with 6:22 left to make it 31-10.

Army got a 6-yard touchdown pass from A.J. Schurr to Patrick Laird in the final minutes to make it 31-17.


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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- A year ago, Bills quarterback J.P. Losman was at a loss.

He was competing against Kelly Holcomb for the starting job and there were no guarantees. The Bills were coming off a 6-10 season, and the fan base wasn't totally in his corner. Worse, his teammates weren't sure about his presence and leadership ability, particularly after he completed only 49 percent of his passes in 2005.

What a difference a year makes. Bills minicamp opened Monday and Losman looked like a winner. His passes looked crisp and accurate. Receivers ran sharp routes and Losman hit them just as they separated from defenders. On Monday, he was particularly sharp in blitz drills. The ball rarely hit the ground. Receivers caught almost everything.

"When you have one year under your belt, coming into your second year, you become more comfortable with the calls, where you need to go, what you need to do," Bills wide receiver Lee Evans said. "He has become a lot more relaxed and a lot more poised in situations in games. He has just become a lot more relaxed."

The biggest reason for the comfort zone is continuity. This is only the second time in eight years the Bills' offense returned the same starting quarterback (Losman) and offensive coordinator (Steve Fairchild). Continuous change on offense is one of the reasons the Bills have been out of the playoffs seven consecutive years, tying the franchise's longest streak. Bills fans used to the K-Gun offense under Jim Kelly have seen mostly misfires since his retirement.

But it looks like that is changing. Losman had a breakthrough season in 2006. He completed 62.5 percent of his passes for a team that finished at 7-9. At minicamp, you can see momentum building on offense. The tempo was good. The chemistry was exceptional.

"It's great having a year in the offense with the same coach, the same schemes and the same receivers," Losman said. "I am really confident in our guys. Josh Reed had a really big day today. Lee Evans did well. Our chemistry was good. Now, we are going to try to put together something special."

For those trying to visualize the Bills' offense, you need to look to St. Louis. Fairchild brings the offense Mike Martz made famous with the Rams to Buffalo. Tempo and quickness are the keys to that system. Losman looked terrific Monday as he hit receivers in stride. That wasn't the case a year ago.

Losman needed a lot of work on his fundamentals in 2006. Coaches broke down his steps dropping back from center. Throwing the ball has always been easy for him. Losman has a rocket for an arm. But footwork has always been more of an issue.

"He has kind of settled down and compacted his drop," Fairchild said. "Consequently, he is getting it out with more rhythm and more timing. And he is a lot more accurate."

Those who were regulars at Rams practices in the early 2000s counted the number of practice incompletions in days, not numbers. Kurt Warner wouldn't miss and receivers caught everything. The extra year together has wide receivers Evans, Peerless Price, Reed and Roscoe Parrish zipping into their routes and coming out with the ball. From the look of things, Evans is on the verge of a monster year and should emerge as one of the top AFC receivers.

"I want fans to say that we are exciting to watch," Losman said. "There are an exciting group of guys. They have put the time and effort to get the timing down. We're exciting. We work hard. There is an all-out effort on everything when we go out there."

It's great having a year in the offense with the same coach, the same schemes and the same receivers. I am really confident in our guys. Josh Reed had a really big day today. Lee Evans did well. Our chemistry was good. Now, we are going to try to put together something special.

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The interesting change is at running back. The Bills thought they had become too plodding in the backfield with Willis McGahee. The franchise was switching from the Steelers-influenced offensive style of Mike Mularkey to the Fairchild system, which is an up-tempo offense with more finesse. McGahee caught only 18 passes last year, and even though he's a 1,200-yard rusher, the Bills ranked 27th in the league running the ball. Enter first-round pick Marshawn Lynch, who brings more of a Marshall Faulk style to the Bills' backfield.

Lynch looked good catching the ball from the backfield. Though he doesn't have McGahee's power, Lynch can break a quick run up the middle when needed. He'll help with the passing offense first and settle into his running duties with a little more experience. Anthony Thomas may be on the field on early downs, but it's pretty clear Lynch will grow into being the main back. On Monday, though, he was in awe of his new teammates.

"Sometimes I catch myself in a daze watching them," Lynch said. "It's like, 'Man, that's Peerless Price right there. That's Lee Evans.' You can see some great things from this offense."

And the Bills will need to see great things because the defense will have problems. The defense was respectable last season, finishing 18th overall in total defense (329.6 yards per game) and 10th in scoring defense (19.4 points per game). But the defense took some hard hits this offseason. Gone are linebackers Takeo Spikes and London Fletcher and cornerback Nate Clements. That's too much talent to lose not to take a hit on the field. The Bills, who scored just 18.8 points per game last season, might have to score 23 points a game this season just to get back to the seven-win mark.

But so far, that isn't unreasonable. The Bills' offense looks like a winner based on early observations.

John Clayton is a senior writer for ESPN.com.


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PHILADELPHIA -- Jaromir Jagr had a message to Pittsburgh Penguins fans disappointed he spurned his former club in his return to the NHL: No hard feelings.

The 1999 league MVP just felt more at ease after listening to a pitch to join the Philadelphia Flyers.

Jagr said on Saturday he rejected more lucrative offers to make his NHL comeback and decided to play on the other end of Pennsylvania because he liked what the Flyers are "trying to do" to win a Stanley Cup.

Jagr's acquisition is a big part of the Flyers' offseason overhaul that has seen them jettison key cogs Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, Ville Leino and Brian Boucher, among others.

The 39-year-old Jagr spent the past three seasons playing in Russia. This week he mulled a one-year offer to rejoin the Penguins, his original team, before deciding to play for the Flyers.

The Flyers deal is worth $3.3 million. Jagr didn't name the teams he said offered more money.

Jagr was a Pittsburgh draft pick in 1990 and helped lead the Penguins to two Stanley Cup championships.

He won those titles alongside Mario Lemieux, now the Penguins' owner. Pittsburgh hoped he would accept the offer, play at least one season and then retire with the Penguins.

Jagr said he had only one brief conversation with Lemieux and never led the Penguins to believe he'd return.

"The Penguins seem like I did something wrong or something bad, and I don't think I did something bad," Jagr said. "If they feel like that, I cannot change their minds. I was a free agent, and I had my chance to pick wherever I think is best for me."

That pick came Friday when he chose the Flyers. Jagr said he had an opportunity to play more with the Flyers and likes the bold moves general manager Paul Holmgren made the last 10 days. Jagr says the addition of goalie Ilya Bryzgalov was a reason for his signing. The Flyers also acquiesced with his wish for a one-year deal.

"I think it's better for the team, because you don't know how things are going to go," he said. "You might think it's going to be good, you might hope it's going to be good, but there's no guarantees. And if something goes wrong, why have two years?"

Jagr will be looked upon to provide some of that scoring punch. He has 646 NHL goals, and when he slips on that orange-and-black uniform for the first time, he will be the league's active scoring leader with 1,599 points.

A Czech native, Jagr won an Olympic gold medal in 1998 and a bronze in 2006. He also won hockey world championships in 2005 and 2010.

The Flyers hope Jagr hasn't lost it and can still hold up to the grueling 82-game schedule, plus the postseason. Jagr said he was in no position to judge if he's lost a step on his skates.

"You'd have to ask somebody else who saw me years ago and then saw me last month. I don't know," he said. "We'll have to wait and see."

The Flyers, who lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2010 Stanley Cup finals in six games, finished with 106 points last season and won the Atlantic Division title on a tiebreaker ahead of the Penguins. Philadelphia outlasted the Buffalo Sabres in seven games in the first round but was swept out of the postseason in the Eastern Conference semifinals by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins.

Jagr talked to members of the coaching staff and defenseman Chris Pronger before making his decision.

Jagr is not worried about the expectations that will be lumped on him. He could have eased into the lineup had the Flyers held on to Richards and Carter. But if they were here, Jagr might be in Pittsburgh or Detroit.

"I know it's going to be tough for the fans because the GM traded two very good players, and it's not easy for the fans to see it, but I think it would be a lot easier for me to come in if the team stayed the way it was before," he said. "But you never know."

The Flyers can't wait to find out.


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Kubiak: Domanick Davis Not Being Cut

Domanick Davis is not about to be released, at least according to his head coach.

Moving to debunk reports that tailback Domanick Davis could be released because of lingering knee problems that have kept him off the field for virtually all of training camp, Houston Texans first-year coach Gary Kubiak said there has been no discussion of cutting the leading rusher in franchise history, and said that the worst-case scenario was a season spent on the injured reserve list.

“The idea of cutting Domanick Davis has not even played a factor,” said Kubiak, who is clearly frustrated by Davis’ continuing absence, but not yet ready to give up on the three-year veteran. “I don’t know where that came from. The decision is strictly [whether] his knee is going to be healthy enough to play. If his knee is not healthy enough to play, if that is the decision that’s made about him, then he’s looking at [an injured reserve] season … The other choice has never been a factor.”

Now, granted, Kubiak would be obligated to say this, anyway, if the Texans were hoping to arrange a trade. But, given how unbelievably stupid cutting a star running back would be–especially after having just passed up Reggie Bush–I believe him.

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  • ToddA ToddA Mar 20, 2008 12:09 PM Flag

    Another opinion - Start blastin'

    I will address 2 of your points.

    First number 3, night races. I do love night races. This year I will be going to my first night race at Chicago. But there is an issue with the number of night races, and that is the night they are run. Saturday night. What happens on Saturday nights? Every local short track in the country is running. I used to race at our local NASCAR short track, Rockford Speedway in Rockford IL. When there are Saturday night Cup races the attendance is down. You want to preserve NASCAR as do I. But you have to remember not to hurt local Saturday night local short track racing. That's where everyone starts out.

    Point 5. Amen!!! I love the opening prayer, Star Spangled Banner and the flyovers. Especially the flyovers at Michigan.

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    • The night races would not need to occur on Saturdays. How about 6 or 7 pm start time on Sundays. We can all still make it to work the next day, take the day off, call in sick, call in hungover, or simply call in ugly.

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      • Take a deep breath, MoToR. Your passion for the sport is wonderful and alot of you have some serious points. I don't want to rain on your parade. Please listen, you don't have to agree. In the days when it was cool to do do your own thing and find that edge to beat the other guy, I couldn't agee more that it was better racing, more exciting and the drivers and teams were not bogged down with all these bulls--t rules it has come to. But what brought it to this ?? MONEY and the lack of MONEY. In an effort with NASCAR trying to level the playing field, it all went wrong, and they been chasing their ass ever since, in YET another effort to rectify some bad decisions.What's the definitive answer ?? Well, every one of us has a possible solution. Still, what's the answer?? It (aint) Road America. And NASCAR has already been to Japan & Mexico. Are they going to row,row,row the boat to Europe?? And after that, some of you guessed already, NASCAR'S 1to1 scale SLOT CAR RACING !!!!

    • What kind of car did you race? late model, open wheel modifieds, hobbystock ect...for one brief season, I raced in a division called Enduro Series at Raceway Park, Shakopee, Mn. What a blast ! Take a rear wheel drive full size (factory stock) passenger car, and you could be a race car driver.Of course the car had to have slight modifications for safety reasons, but not much. Enter 120 cars on a paved 1/4 mi. track. Now go racing for, (depending on the event), 150 - 200 laps. 1996 was a race season of fun. Alot of Monte Carlo bodies were destroyed by the dozens for a number of seasons as were the tried and true Chev. Impalas. Just like the '55 -'57 chev. of the 60's -70's race car choice. Chevrolet rules !!! But us Chev-lovers already (knew) that.

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VCU survived and advanced in its inaugural Atlantic 10 tournament game, but it was some red-hot shooting - more than its trademark defense - that keyed the victory.

Now the 25th-ranked Rams look to punch a ticket to their first A-10 title game in Brooklyn on Saturday when they take on sixth-seeded Massachusetts in the semifinals.

Treveon Graham helped the Rams get to the semifinals with 17 points and 3-of-5 shooting from 3-point range in an 82-79 quarterfinal victory over Saint Joseph’s on Friday. The Rams led 58-43 midway through the second half before surviving a furious late rally by the Hawks.

“It’s a hard fought game,” VCU coach Shaka Smart said. “St.Joe’s, give them lot of credit. They really battled in the second half. They came at us, shot the ball extremely well, made 3s.”

Troy Daniels contributed 14 points - missing 9 of 13 from beyond the arc - as VCU (25-7) shot 50.0 percent overall and connected on 11 for 28 from long range.

“We shot 50 percent, but we did miss a lot of easy shots, open looks,” Smart said. “We’ll make those as we go. It’s good to survive and advance.”

The Rams have hit 35.5 percent from long distance on the season, but are heating up from 3-point range lately. They’ve made 34 of 77 (44.2 percent) over their last four games.

VCU outscored Massachusetts by 23 in the second half en route to an 86-68 home victory on Feb. 14.

The Minutemen (21-10), however, are feeling good heading into this meeting after snapping third-seeded Temple’s seven-game winning streak with a 79-74 upset win in the quarters on Friday.

Chaz Williams was superb playing in his hometown, scoring 28 points on 8 for 13 from the field and 10 of 10 from the free-throw line. Terrell Vinson added 15 points, including a 3-pointer in the final minute with the shot clock winding down and UMass clinging to a two-point lead.

The 5-foot-9 Williams, the team’s leading scorer at 15.4 per game, finished with a season low-tying six points on 1-of-7 shooting in the February loss to the Rams. However, he’s averaging 21.3 points over his last three contests.

“Chaz Williams is one of the best players in the conference,” Temple star Khalif Wyatt said. “He’s relentless. He definitely leads this group. He was real tough down the stretch.”

If they’re to knock off the Rams, the Minutemen will have to do a better job taking care of the basketball. Massachusetts committed a season-high 24 turnovers in the first meeting against a VCU defense that forces a nation-best 19.8 per game.

The Rams turned 17 turnovers into 25 points on Friday, but they allowed Saint Joseph’s to shoot 51.1 percent from the floor and 9 for 17 from beyond the arc. They’ve also given up 74.0 points on 50.5 percent shooting in their last six games.

VCU will have to tighten things up against UMass, which has averaged 77.4 points over the last 11 games.

Graham led the Rams with 19 points on 6-of-11 shooting, while Melvin Johnson added 18 off the bench in the first meeting.

Graham, averaging a team-high 15.7 points, has scored 18.3 per game while shooting 50.0 percent from the field in his last three.

Massachusetts has dropped eight of nine against ranked opponents by an average of 13.0 points dating back to the 2008-09 season.

The winner will move on to face either top-seeded Saint Louis or fifth-seeded Butler in Sunday’s championship game.

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Heat vs Spurs: Week 19's prediction for the NBA Finals

The season is nearing an end, but there’s still plenty of movement afoot. The teams are just about set (though there is still some room to make it into the brackets in the West), though many teams are within a win or two (or as many losses) from changing multiple seeds at once. A pair of active, double-digit win streaks is only adding to the intrigue of the season. With all the intrigue in the NBA right now, let’s look at what would happen if the playoffs started as of Wednesday, March 20, before the day’s games:

#1 San Antonio Spurs vs #8 Los Angeles Lakers

The Lakers are hanging around at #8, but San Antonio is keeping pace and then some, and they have only four home losses all year. The Lakers will pick off a game or two, but the veteran Spurs should be able to stay one step ahead of them.

#2 Oklahoma City Thunder vs #7 Houston Rockets

Houston is doing its best to keep up and avoid dropping a seed. Meanwhile, the Thunder have won eight of ten and show no signs of slowing down. The Thunder have a large stockpile of energetic talent, and they’ll use all of it.

#3 Memphis Grizzlies vs #6 Golden State Warriors

Memphis may not be winning at Miami’s pace, but they’re doing a respectable job. Golden State is doing alright, but they’re still 7.5 games behind Memphis, and are 17-20 away from home. The Warriors should make things quite interesting, but Memphis should be able to pull out a gritty victory in the end.

#5 Denver Nuggets vs #4 Los Angeles Clippers

13 straight wins have the Nuggets on the rise, to say the least. Los Angeles is a good team, but they’ve lost home-court to Denver by half a game. With the roll Denver is on, it’ll take a supreme effort to stop them, something more than the Clippers can muster.

#1 Miami Heat vs #8 Milwaukee Bucks

Miami has now won 23 games in a row. What does Milwaukee expect to happen?

#2 Indiana Pacers vs #7 Boston Celtics

Boston put up a very good performance against Miami, but they still have health issues. Thankfully for Boston, Kevin Garnett is about to return, and they are 2-0 against Indiana so far this season. If everything’s cooking on all cylinders for Boston, Indiana could be in for an upset.

#3 New York Knicks vs #6 Chicago Bulls

Neither side is doing very well right now. The Knicks have health issues to work through, and it’s obvious Chicago has been knocked down a notch without Derrick Rose. With proper rest, though, New York should be healthy, or at least healthy enough, for the first round.

#4 Brooklyn Nets vs #5 Atlanta Hawks

Despite being back at #5, Atlanta still has a ways to go in order to make some noise in the postseason. Brooklyn has two games on Atlanta, giving them home-court advantage, which works very well for a team when both a pretty close like these two are. Without some last minute improvement, Atlanta will keep things close, but still be at a disadvantage.

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  • Look for Denver to continue their winning ways and jump up a couple of spots.

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  1. Things have changed a bit in the standings, and it’s now looking like the Nuggets would play the Golden State Warriors first round, but with how tight the race has become, who knows what’s going to happen? I can see each team in the western playoffs being capable of beating ANY other team, so there’s not much need for speculation, lol. I like to keep tabs on the rest of the west, when I’m not watching a Nuggets game, and with my new app I can turn the games on live, on my iPad, as soon as my shift at DISH ends. I like watching the games on the bus ride home, and DISH Anywhere lets me take all my live TV and DVR with me on-the-go. It’s like watching the game from my couch at home, except for all the rabid OKC fans on the bus next to me!

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MOSCOW, June 10 (RIA Novosti) - A senior Chinese official said cooperation with Russia stood high on his country's priority list.

Zeng Peiyan, the deputy chairman of China's State Council, met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov in Moscow on Friday.

Peiyan said they viewed the visit to Russia by State Council Chairman Hu Jintao, due in late June, as an extremely important event.

Peiyan said China planned to increase its share in bilateral commodity turnover to $12 billion by 2020, and it could achieve the target even earlier.

Peiyan said his further talks with Zhukov and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov would focus on issues of cooperation in trade, energy, investment, and major joint projects in other spheres.

Peiyan recalled the two countries had reached agreement on seven projects worth $1,700,000,000 overall at last year's bilateral forum in St. Petersburg.

According to the data prepared for the meeting, Russian-Chinese commodity turnover went up by $7.84 billion in the period from January to April 2005. In 2004, mutual trade was $21.3 billion, which was by 34.7% up compared to 2003.

Russian exports grew 24.7% over that period, reaching $12.13 billion. China increased exports to Russia by 50.9%, to $9.1 billion.

Russia's positive balance in bilateral trade continues to decline. Last year, it shrank by 18%.

The share of raw materials and primary treatment products continued growing in Russia's exports to China last year. For example, petroleum and oil products account for 34.5% of all Russian exports, which is a 21.5% increase, while crude exports more than doubled reaching 10.78 million metric tons worth $2,936,000,000.

China stepped up equipment and machinery supplies to Russia. The export of these items grew by 47.5% and reached $1,560,000,000. China generally supplies household appliances, electrical and communications equipment, and furs. In 2004, Russia bought furs from China totaling $1,190,000,000.

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An update on using Rosetta Stone: Studio now isn't very useful and is not great value as an add-on option

I had a surprisingly large number of responses from my previous posting about learning Chinese. An update for those considering Rosetta Stone ( for Chinese, Spanish or any other language that they offer:

I had to renew my "Studio" subscription today and it's now a much worse deal than it was.

It's now $75 for 6 months for Studio sessions.

  • Online classes used to be 45 mins. Recently they reduced them to 20 mins. Given how often people have connection issues, etc. that 20 mins can disappear very quickly.
  • They've also reduced the number you can attend. You used to be able to have 2 scheduled at any point in time. Now they limit you to 2 "group sessions" per month during the period. (You can pay for additional private sessions).

The combination of these two changes now makes it much less useful. Two x 20 min sessions per month is an almost meaningless amount of practice.

They also now automatically change you to auto-renew when you subscribe. They tell you where to remove this auto-renewal but the first 4 or 5 times that I went into that screen, no such option appeared. Later, an option did appear and I used it.

Overall, things just aren't what they used to be at Rosetta Stone. It's now pretty hard to recommend the Studio option where it was a no-brainer before.

Even after I renewed, I could not even connect to their "new" service. Although the system processed the renewal, it still tells me it's expired. My online chat person "Siva S" tells me that the problem is that I've purchased all 5 levels of the program. I can't wait till they explain to me how making an extra purchase from them stops me from logging on. Siva told me that they had "renewed" the program. I'd have to speak to Customer Care; they aren't available and then disconnected himself. Impressive (not).

Their website is now full of issues too. It insists that my billing address is in the USA, even though it pretends to accept changes to it.

Overall, it's gone from something that could be recommended (with some limitations) to now being an app to avoid. That's a pity as I liked much of it before.

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Don M said:

I, too, am very unhappy about the changes of Rosetta Studio. I just had to renew my subscription today, unaware of the change in the amount of times you can do a group session, and I have to say that I would NOT have renewed had I known of the changes...

The change from 50 minute to 25 minute sessions was bittersweet, but this new change from unlimited sessions to just TWO PER MONTH is downright ridiculous! After my current cycle is done, I will no longer be a customer of Rosetta Stone unless they change back to the previous format.

And the auto-renew thing is so incredibly sneaky... What's worse is that even if you sign up for 6-months for $75.00, when that cycle ends, it won't renew at the rate of $12.5/month, but it will go to $25/month!!! Soooo sneaky this Rosetta Stone...

Incredibly unhappy. If anybody is reading this now and considering of Rosetta Stone, my verdict for you is NOT RECOMMENDABLE! Stay away!

December 12, 2012 2:33 PM

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I got up at 5am today to attend their "chat" session where they wanted feedback about the Studio changes.

That was a complete waste of time. It was a session that just pushed the line that said the changes were to make it quicker for you to get access to the group sessions and to let you have two instead of one. But they are now much slower and you previously could have unlimited sessions, but could only prebook two.

In the "chat" session, they just avoided all the hard questions.

What's worse, is that they pretended to care. With any of the obvious things that could go wrong with this, they just said "just call us and we'll make it right". However, they don't publish a phone number. I've been to the support "chat" page. They could not answer the questions, said they'd escalated it and that someone would contact me within 24 to 48 hours, but of course no-one ever did do so.

I can only imagine that they've had some sort of change in the company and they've suddenly got very greedy. That's ok for those signing up now but for everyone that was signed up before and understood how it worked, the changes are quite appalling.

While I'd have recommended them in the past (with reservations), there's no way I could recommend their current program or the way that they do business now.

December 13, 2012 5:07 PM

Mike said:

I too got scammed.  Really, two 25 minute sessions a month for $25 with 3 other people, technical problems and static!  However, I complained and got a refund.  There is no way I'll ever buy Rosetta Stone again.  It's a massive waste of money.  Other programs can teach you just as much or more in less time, for less money and are more entertaining.  The only reason I had Rosetta Stone was for the studio sessions.

December 31, 2012 9:34 AM

Paul said:

I dumped the program too.  Too bad.  I really enjoyed learning Spanish with them.  I will miss it.

February 6, 2013 11:38 AM

Dave said:

I just finished all three levels of Korean that they offer.  I am also disappointed with the studio session changes however, with my three months of free online access, I appear to be limited to four 25 minute sessions per month, not two as other commenters have said.  Did RS change their policy?

I don't know.  More helpful than the Studio Sessions, I spend most of my online time with their Picari game playing solo which is their flashcard game; I find the game a great review tool and a great way to determine which words I've already forgotten.  I still like RS and would buy it again.  But I never enjoyed the studio sessions as much as others did.

March 18, 2013 10:17 PM

Ginny said:

I just finished my first Studio Session and I HATED it! The teacher (native Spanish speaking) seemed haughty and impatient, even to the point of embarrassing me in front of the other two students. I do enjoy the lessons but I'm never going to do the Studio Session thing again...just too much stress. Instead, I'll go to a nice authentic Mexican restaurant and chat it up with the waiters. Will probably learn more that way, anyway.  :)

January 30, 2014 4:43 PM

Greg Low said:

Yep, I decided to stop using Studio. It was no longer a good product.

In terms of the teachers though, I'd suggest trying again. With the Chinese ones, one or two were excellent, a few were ok, and some were not good. I recall the worst one looked like she really couldn't bother being there and was bored out of her brain. She was lounging all over the desk and her water bottle and basically just got the students to talk to each other only. I've seen that a few times.

But the worst part of the short sessions is there are frequent audio / video problems and too much of the 20 mins can just disappear.

And yes, Dave, after lots of complaints they changed to four per month but I also found it was very difficult to schedule them. I then tried purchasing a block of ten private ones but that was even harder to schedule. For example, no individual time slots were ever within the next two weeks, only group times.

January 30, 2014 5:44 PM

Diana Prihoda said:

I decided not to renew Studio for many of the reasons expressed by others.  When it came time for my live sessions I could only listen in and not access to join in.  I complained and they said it was my headset, they did not offer to send a new headset even though it was the one that came with the program.  I even had my Aunt who speaks Polish try the program and it would not recognize her speech. I had to purchase another headsedge on my own.  It still did not let me join in on the audio sessions for the instructor.  Also had trouble with the day to day lessons as the program would not recognize my voice.  I became very frustrated and just received a renewal notice which I am not going to do.  The cost is becoming prohibited for the results not be what was projected.

I am trying to learn Polish to communicate with an uncle in Poland.  I now think the best thing for me is to make a visit to Poland and learn first hand.  Oh, how I regret not learning the language when my mother was alive.  She was fluent in writing and speaking the language.  And now it has become my greatest struggle.

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You're asking the user to log in, so it sounds like you already have a unique login ID for each user, and your underlying concern is to prevent a malicious user from subverting your system into locking out a different valid user while still stopping them from password cracking. Is that correct?

You cannot with absolute certainty prevent a malicious user from using your intrusion protection scheme to interfere with other users. If you see what appears to be someone attempting to brute-force another user's password, then you can lock out that IP address for some duration... or possibly just that IP address for that account... but you run the risk of a malicious user behind a shared IP of a NAT gateway causing all other users behind that same gateway to be locked out. Any information sent to your server can be spoofed, so it's a bit of a balancing act. A combination of user ID and IP address wouln't be infallable in terms of representing a unique individual, but it would be enough to prevent most common abuses.

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Considering the username in the site to be unique, you could use the combination of username and session to block the particular user. If the user uses the same username from different machines 10 times , it can be blocked.

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yes but if user be a bad man and he/she try usernames that don't exist what can I do? –  Kerezo Apr 11 '12 at 5:59
every other malicious attack cannot be determined beforehand , just the most probable must be handled. –  Ram Apr 12 '12 at 9:22

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Using Wordpress, I need to generate an array of tags(terms) from posts in a particular category.

For instance, if I have two categories, "apple" and "orange", I want an array of terms that are only used in posts in the apple category -- not in the orange category. (though, if a term is used in both, that should be included)

I've tried using a handful of wordpress functions, but none return what I want (including tag_cloud function). My guess is I'm left with a Query call ... but so far all my queries aren't giving me the list I want.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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I'm not sure you can accomplish what you want using the functions WordPress provides. Here's an SQL query that seems to do what you want:

SELECT tag_terms.name, COUNT(wp_posts.ID) FROM wp_posts

INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS cat_term_relationships ON wp_posts.ID= cat_term_relationships.object_ID
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS cat_term_taxonomy ON cat_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id= cat_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id
INNER JOIN wp_terms AS cat_terms ON cat_term_taxonomy.term_id= cat_terms.term_id

INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships AS tag_term_relationships ON wp_posts.ID= tag_term_relationships.object_ID
INNER JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS tag_term_taxonomy ON tag_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id= tag_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id
INNER JOIN wp_terms AS tag_terms ON tag_term_taxonomy.term_id= tag_terms.term_id

WHERE cat_term_taxonomy.taxonomy='category' AND cat_terms.name='apple' AND tag_term_taxonomy.taxonomy='post_tag'
GROUP BY tag_terms.name

The gist of it is that you join the wp_posts table with the taxonomy tables a couple times to get the post IDs in your desired category and then join those IDs with the taxonomy tables a couple more times to get the related tags.

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Here is how you can accomplish this using WordPress functions

$tags = array();

$posts = get_posts('category_name=new-cat&numberposts=-1'); //get all posts in category

foreach ($posts as $post){
    $posttags = get_the_tags($post->ID); //check for tags
    if ($posttags){
    	foreach ($posttags as $posttag){
    		$tags[$posttag->term_id] = $posttag->name; // add to array of tag ids => names

This may be preferable to a raw sql query since those will often break when WordPress updates their database schema.

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