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What steps should the U.S. take to protect and strengthen IP rights domestically and overseas?
Contributors Respond
Mark Elliot
We all know that intellectual property (IP) rights are important. Patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets provide the backbone for innovative industries to engage in oftentimes resource-intensive research and development, which in turn spawns great technological innovations and medical breakthroughs. These very same industries also employ 40 million Americans with well-paying jobs and propel 60% of U.S. exports and $5 trillion in gross domestic products.
However, IP rights are rendered virtually useless unless they are properly protected and enforced. The United States has many opportunities to bolster IP rights, particularly in the enforcement sphere. This includes enhancing penalties for criminal counterfeiters who frequently peddle dangerous fakes, like bogus medications or mimicked fire extinguishers.
We also need to make sure that enforcement bodies, like U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the National IPR Coordination Center, Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (just to name a few), have dedicated resources to tackle the growing epidemic of counterfeiting and piracy. With the increased sophistication of these illicit entrepreneurs and the mushrooming of online sales of fake goods, agencies are challenged in time and money to go after these bad actors and protect American business, public health and safety.
Public-private partnerships and dedicated enforcement are essential to developing practical solutions to tackle the profitable, burgeoning, and downright harmful business of online counterfeiting and piracy. The United States can also work on streamlining information-sharing between rights holders and enforcement agencies at the border as well as increase public awareness of the consequences of IP theft.
Though intellectual property is indicative of the U.S. economy, the benefits of IP know no borders. Both developed and developing nations have a strong interest in protecting IP and fostering innovative economies; and the United States must continue to lead by example. This means advocating for high-standard, meaningful, and enforceable IP chapters in trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Particularly, the TPP Agreement must secure commercially meaningful opportunities for all biotech and pharmaceutical companies to enter the TPP markets, as well as provides 12 years of regulatory data protection for biologic products that is already provided under U.S. law.
The United States should also initiate greater bilateral engagement with key, notorious markets overseas. American businesses cannot ignore emerging juggernauts like China and India, but face incredible challenges within the countries, whether it's China's rampant piracy and counterfeiting economy or India's industrial policies, including patent revocations and compulsory licenses. The U.S. government must bilaterally apply pressure to ensure American IP and the resulting jobs and innovations relying on it aren't undercut by lackluster foreign economic and enforcement practices.
It's clear that the success of our innovation-dependent economy needs a lot more than just the expropriation of IP rights. Equal parts enforcement and protection that address emerging threats domestically and abroad are utterly necessary to maintain and further the integrity of IP rights system. The tremendous opportunities the United States can take to protect IP rights breeds tremendous opportunities for the innovations and jobs for the future.
Steven P. Caltrider
VP, Deputy General Patent Counsel, Eli Lilly
Clearly patents play an important role in developing more effective treatments and even cures for the more than 133 million Americans living with one or more chronic conditions.
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't critically evaluate the effectiveness of patents in driving innovative new therapies for unmet medical needs. The patient community, working under the umbrella of the National Health Council, has identified two significant challenges that must be addressed.
First, and contrary to general knowledge, social utility is not a factor in securing a patent. You could develop a cure for a deadly disease like cancer or ALS but that doesn't mean you would be awarded a patent. By some estimates, 80-90% of the most promising treatments don't qualify for a strong patent and consequently are never developed or commercialized. From a patient perspective, this makes no sense.
Second, a 20-year patent now runs concurrently with the clinical development of the medicine, not after the point of approval. The underlying assumption was that a burning platform – the looming end of patent protection – would make a pharmaceutical company innovate faster. This might work well in conditions that progress quickly, but most diseases progress over years and even decades. To show that a medicine alters the progression of a disease, you must study it over a long period of time, investing billions of dollars, yet ending up with little or no time to market the medicine without generic competition. Even our best scientists can't engineer around that. From a patient perspective, this makes no sense.
The patient advocacy community believes our country must take steps now to modernize our drug and diagnostics evaluation and regulatory network. We need to create a patent substitute for products with high social value that don't meet the technical requirements for a patent or require a long research period to address a slowly progressing disease like Alzheimer's.
It's time to begin a national discussion about how we promote the development of high-value products that will help people live longer and better lives.
Jay Taylor
Vice President, International Affairs
The US should take a strategic approach which considers both administrative pressure and enforcement measures to address instances of outlying IP policies which harm innovation and particularly innovative pharmaceutical companies. For example, the IP policies of India and Canada share the common problems of discrimination against biopharmaceutical patents and erosion of patent protections.
Both India and Canada are placing increased, unjustified burdens on U.S. biopharmaceutical innovators in a manner that unfairly prevents patent protection entitled to under international rules established under the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. In both India and Canada, they are moving the goal posts on core patentability requirements, and the result is that innovative pharmaceuticals are discriminated against vis-à-vis other inventions. Neither country should get a free pass. Our industry is concerned about India and Canada because without U.S. engagement other countries could look to these countries as models to erode their own patent protections accordingly. In this way, concern for India and Canada go hand in hand and both must be addressed. Canada, for example, routinely strikes down patents on pharmaceuticals that clearly meet the requirements for IP protection under TRIPS, and if we do not address Canada, contagion can occur -- countries will just look to the Canadian model rather than the India model. Contagion risk calls for raising both countries as problems and calling for a robust U.S. Government enforcement response in both cases.
Canada shows that unfortunately erosion of IP is not just a problem for developing countries. By focusing its enforcement priorities on countries with outlying IP policies like Canada, the U.S. government can send a strong and consistent message to developed and developing countries alike.
Karen Kerrigan
President and CEO, SBE Council
The United States' approach to intellectual property (IP) will have a significant impact both in terms of our ability to compete economically with other nations and the biopharmaceutical sector's capacity to continue developing new lifesaving medicines for the world's patients. Strong IP protection has received overwhelming bipartisan support in our Congress here at home and has catalyzed the development of numerous new treatments, permitting patients to lead longer, happier lives. More than 5,000 medicines are now in the pipeline. To foster this ecosystem, the United States must strengthen global IP norms by seeking high standards of protection, that reflect U.S. law, in our trade agreements and fully-enforce existing obligations.
Innovative biopharmaceutical companies rely heavily on IP rights to protect the major investments in time and capital required to shepherd a new medicine from discovery through development and FDA approval. It is a cornerstone of our industry, helping to pave the way for medical breakthroughs of the past and future, and protection of IP must be paramount if we are to find success in developing new treatments for the world's most pressing health needs.
Some nations have become increasingly aggressive in denying basic IP rights to foreign competitors, going against internationally recognized norms (India and Canada are two examples of such behavior). Fortunately, two pending international trade agreements provide the United States an opportunity to significantly shape a path forward for other nations. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would establish formal trade ties between the United States and two vital economic regions – Asia/Pacific and the European Union.
Aside from the economic benefits that will be derived from these agreements, the IP provisions they contain will likely serve as a starting point for future trade agreements with other regions or individual countries. As the largest economy in the world, the United States comes to the bargaining table with immense clout. The U.S. government needs to use that influence to ensure the IP rights of innovators – both home and abroad – are adequately protected in a way that allows for and encourages future discovery of life-saving medicines.


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OAKLAND -- It's absolutely correct to say that the A's lost Monday's series opener with the Rangers 4-3 because two former A's, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Donnie Murphy, delivered key hits late in the game.
It's just as true, however, to say that the A's lost this one because Oakland didn't deliver key hits early in the game. The A's scored three times in the first four innings to take a 3-1 lead. But they left seven men on base during that stretch, and it proved to be pivotal when Darvish and the Rangers' bullpen stiffened up later in the night.
"We had our chances,'' third baseman Josh Donaldson said.
Manager Bob Melvin said the A's had Darvish "on the ropes'' but had to conclude that Darvish got key outs when he had to do so.
The A's left Coco Crisp on third base in the first inning, put the first two batters of the third on without scoring, then loaded the bases with two out in the fourth, again coming away empty. Melvin pointed to Darvish rushing a fastball by Alberto Callaspo with one out and men on second and third in the third and pinch-hitter Yoenis Cespedes hitting a fly ball to the wall in left-center with a man on in the seventh as plays that could have gone the other way.
"We had men on second and third and he blows a fastball by Callaspo there,'' Melvin said. "Then Cespedes hits one. I thought it was out when he hit it."
It wasn't, and the A's didn't have another rally in them.
Reliever Sean Doolittle wasn't in the slightest concerned about the fact that the A's stranded 11 and were 1 for 10 with men in scoring position. He was instead furious with himself for letting a game get away after starter Dan Straily "battled his butt off to keep us in the game.''
Kouzmanoff, who played with Oakland in 2010-11 doubled to open the eighth of a 3-all game, then took third on a bunt before Murphy, who played for the A's in 2007-08, delivered a single that brought home the game's final run through the middle of a drawn-in infield.
"I've got to be better than that,'' Doolittle said. "The thing is, we were tied and we as a bullpen expect to hold on, knowing the hitters will give us the run to win it. I didn't do my job.''
The A's have a long history of success against Darvish. He's lost 18 big league games in three years, and the A's have one third of those wins in a six-game winning streak. After Brandon Moss homered in the third and Coco Crisp drove in two runs with a single, it seemed like more of the same was on tap. It wasn't.
And Straily was far from at his best. He'd given up a leadoff homer in the first to Shin-Soo Choo, then after taking a 3-1 lead, gave up single runs in the fourth on an RBI single by American League Player of the Week Kouzmanoff, then surrendered the tying run on three consecutive two-out singles in the fifth.
"Tonight I battled myself,'' Straily said. "My first-pitch command was just terrible. I just can't have that.''
Melvin said the play came at a time in the game when he would have challenged it anyway, but the A's felt Choo was out, and the replay confirmed that and overturned the original call.
First he had to take three weeks off with no exercise, and he's at the end of the second week of doing strengthening exercises. ``I don't have a set schedule for when I'll start throwing,'' Griffin said. ``We don't want to rush it.''

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By Wade Bourne
For some waterfowl hunters, it's a point of pride to get the birds so close they can almost feel the wind off their wings. Forget the treetop and edge-of-range shots. These hunters want ducks and geese backpedaling in their faces.
"I take great pleasure in not shooting birds until they're fully committed and hanging over the decoys," says Gary Goodpaster of Collierville, Tennessee. A former regional director for Ducks Unlimited, Goodpaster has pursued ducks for more than 45 years. He now hunts mostly in Arkansas on permanent moist-soil areas. "I rarely shoot at ducks that haven't decoyed within 25 yards."
"Getting ducks and geese in close is what this sport is all about," echoes Bobby Swineford, who has hunted waterfowl for 56 years and currently manages waterfowl hunting at Blandfield Plantation on Virginia's Rappahannock River. "For me, the ultimate moment is when birds come in and stick their landing gear down right in front of the blind. That's the premier moment in this sport. I've won. I've fooled them, and the shooting is anticlimactic."
Getting ducks and geese in close over the decoys may be more challenging on some days than others, but both of these waterfowlers committed years ago to strive toward that goal on every hunt. They have refined their skills and developed the patience to succeed. By following their advice, other hunters will improve their success while also increasing their enjoyment of waterfowling.
Goodpaster says the first step in getting ducks in close is setting up exactly where they want to be. "I'm not talking about 50 yards away," he emphasizes. "I mean right on the X whenever possible. I spend a lot of time scouting to find this sweet spot. I prefer to scout during the same time I plan to hunt the next day, either morning or afternoon."
If he can't determine the X from long distance, Goodpaster will walk in carefully with binoculars to find the exact location of the birds. "Even if I get a little too close and move them off their spot, they'll usually come right back in," he says. "Meanwhile, I'll get a firsthand look and also a chance to figure out how to set up for the next day's hunt.
"The only time I don't try to hunt right on the X is when a very large number of birds are concentrated in one area because of ideal habitat conditions," Goodpaster continues. "I'll then try to avoid disturbing the main concentration of birds with gunfire by hunting the 'edge' several hundred yards downwind. This provides great shooting for singles, pairs, and small flocks."
"I spend a lot of time watching birds," Swineford says. "I want to know where they're working, and I also want to hunt where I'll have the wind at my back. If possible, I want ducks or geese coming straight upwind to land. This provides the best shots for my clients, and it helps us bag our birds quickly and get out of the marsh, which minimizes disturbance for the remaining birds.
"Three elements are required for holding waterfowl on a property: water, food, and rest," Swineford adds. "We have the water and food, so our main challenge is managing disturbance. The less we disturb the birds, the more they will stick around. Taking low percentage, long-range passing shots generally increases disturbance because we have to fire more shells to get a limit of birds. So by getting our ducks and geese in close and taking only high-percentage shots, we reduce the disturbance factor. It's truly a management tool."
Goodpaster hunts mostly from layout boats and small natural-cover brush blinds, while Swineford guides from pits and three-man A-frame blinds situated throughout the Blandfield property. Despite the differences in how they hunt, they share the same convictions about the need to disappear totally from the view of circling birds.
"I go to great lengths to hide my layout boats and myself," Goodpaster says. "Some hunters believe that using layout boats is a guarantee of success, but it's not. You still have to blend them into the natural cover. Then, once you are lying inside the boat, you have to be patient and remain totally motionless when ducks are circling overhead."
Goodpaster positions his layout boats where natural cover will help conceal them. "I like to set up in good cover such as marsh grass, smartweed, cattails, or a stand of willows," he says. "I especially like some natural high cover around my boat, because this will help shield movement when I come up to shoot."
Goodpaster covers his boat with an old piece of canvas, then army surplus camo netting, and finally natural vegetation on top. "It's just a fact: ducks are going to see you if you don't cover up well," he explains. "This is especially true on cloudy days. I spend at least 30 minutes before each hunt trying to get everything just right."
When hunting, Goodpaster wears a facemask and sometimes holds a handful of natural cover in front of his face when ducks are working. "And I stay absolutely still," he emphasizes. "I don't try to watch ducks when they're circling behind me. What really matters is that I can see them well when they come back around over the decoys. I rarely hunt with more than one other hunter, and I hunt by myself a lot because the more hunters you have to hide, the harder it is to keep everybody completely hidden and still.
"I also think many hunters focus too much on being ready at shooting time, and they ignore the need to cover up well," Goodpaster continues. "If I think I need to, I'll take the extra time to get everything just right, even if it means missing that first opportunity of the morning. This is a good investment for a quality shoot, especially with late-season birds."
Swineford's prefabricated three-man marsh blinds measure four by eight feet on the floor, and the front and back panels slope inward to a 33-inch-wide shooting hole at the top. The sides measure 40 inches tall. "We cover our blinds with natural cordgrass," he says. "We stand the grass up six feet across the back and ends of the blind and five feet across the front, so the grass is pretty tight around the shooting hole. When our hunters are sitting on the bench, they are always hidden in the shadows. Also, the blinds rest right on the mud, and their profile blends right in with the natural vegetation.
"Our guides paint their faces so they can watch the ducks work and know when to call," he continues. "We let our clients watch the birds work, too. That's just part of the fun of the hunt. But we encourage them to keep their movements to a minimum and to stay down under the cover. If ducks see any movement in the blind, they're gone."
Swineford also uses field pits for hunting ducks and Canada geese. "We bundle cordgrass together and lay the bundles over the shooting holes," he explains. "We'll totally cover the shooting hole from one end of the pit to the other. When birds are in range, hunters push the bundles aside and come up to shoot."
When hunting ducks, both Goodpaster and Swineford depend on a small number of realistic decoys set to encourage ducks to land directly in front of them. Goodpaster never uses more than three dozen decoys, and sometimes he uses only a half-dozen in a smaller hole. "I like to be upwind of my spread, and I'll set my decoys so I have a landing hole no farther than 25 yards from my hide," he says. "Sometimes, though, I'll hunt crosswind from my decoys. Whether upwind or crosswind, the location of the best cover and the prevailing light conditions dictate where and how I'll set up.
"I believe motion is beneficial, but I don't use spinning-wing decoys and am usually too close to my decoys to risk the movement from pulling a jerk string," Goodpaster says. "But I do try to place my decoys where the wind can move them."
In the duck marsh, Swineford typically uses as few as six decoys in smaller holes and as many as 24 in larger holes. He sets them in natural patterns and quickly makes an adjustment if ducks aren't decoying in front of the blind. "I'll shift my rig to the left or right if the wind changes slightly and the ducks start hitting off to the side instead of the middle of the landing hole," he explains.
In the fields, Swineford puts out 120 Canada goose silhouette decoys. Because these decoys are one-dimensional, he sets them facing at different angles into the wind, which helps create the illusion of movement to circling geese. "I set goose decoys in family groups of eight and leave small openings between the groups," he explains. "If the wind is at my back, I'll set equal numbers of decoys to the left and right with a 10-yard-wide landing pocket in front of the pit. In a crosswind, I'll set most of my decoys upwind in a tight group, leave a 15-yard pocket in front of the pit, and then put about a dozen decoys downwind. With either set, no decoys are more than 35 yards from the pit. If geese start hitting the corners of the rig, I'll quickly make an adjustment. As with the ducks, I want the geese to decoy directly in front of the pit."
"I don't use calls a lot," Goodpaster says. "For me, calling is a backup as opposed to a primary tool. It's just something to provide a little extra enticement when I think the birds need it."
When ducks are coming toward his decoys, Goodpaster remains silent, and as long as they're circling, he lays off the call. But if they start losing interest, he will blow a plaintive comeback call, usually four to five notes, to hook the birds back toward the decoys. "I believe the greatest conservation tool ever invented is the duck call, at least in my hands," he says. "If you're in the right spot and hidden well, the ducks will come on their own."
Swineford is a more proactive caller, but he still doesn't overdo it. "Some days ducks want more calling; other days they want less," he says. "You have to watch how they respond to what you're blowing and make adjustments. On calm, warm days, which are the worst for calling, I'll use a softer call and maybe just blow basic quacks and little feed calls. If ducks are coming, I let them come on. I don't want to blow them out."
Swineford says his most effective call is a "little scolding call" that he uses when ducks are reluctant to work the decoys. "It's one long pleading note followed by several rapid follow-up notes," he explains. "Sometimes this pulls them in when nothing else will.
"One reason a lot of people take long shots is because they haven't learned to call properly," he says. "If you're saying the right things, you can lead birds right to the call."
If you have done everything else right, shots will be close, straight on, and easy. "I typically don't shoot until ducks are fully committed and as close as I think they're going to get," says Goodpaster, who shoots 12-gauge 3-inch Winchester Supreme steel 2s. "Then I rise up and take the time to smoothly make the shot. I think a lot of hunters panic at 'show time.' Many hunters would shoot better if they didn't rush their shots."
Swineford, who advises his hunters to focus on an incoming bird's head instead of its body, shoots 12 gauge 2 3/4 inch Hevi-Shot 5s on both ducks and geese. "This combination is very effective if you're shooting the head and neck area of either bird at 25 yards," he says.
Swineford believes another benefit of getting birds in close before shooting is a reduction in crippling losses. "This is a good conservation tool," he says. "Plus, you don't lose a lot of hunting time chasing cripples. This allows you to move out of the hunting area sooner, which cuts down on the disturbance factor."
"It's a lot easier to be a good shotgunner on birds at 25 yards than at 50 yards," Goodpaster agrees. "So, if you find where the birds want to be, hide well, put out a realistic spread, don't move, and shoot straight, you'll get your share of birds. And by waiting for close shots, you'll have more fun and satisfaction in the process."


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Plane crashes on NC/SC border; minor injuries reported
Published: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 9:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at 9:15 p.m.
A plane crashed in the woods along the Henderson County/Greenville County, S.C. line at about 6 p.m. Tuesday, and minor injuries were reported.
Emergency and rescue crews responded to a 911 call just after 6 p.m. about a plane that had crashed in a wooded area near Corbin Mountain Road and Mountain Summit Road, Major Frank Stout with the Henderson County Sheriff's Office told WSPA News Channel 7.
The unidentified pilot told authorities that he managed to get out of the RANS S-6S fixed-wing single-engine plane and went to search for a house or road, WSPA reported. No one else was in the plane at the time of the crash.
The pilot was taken by EMS to a local hospital just after 9 p.m. His condition was not immediately known.
"He was very fortunate," Stout told 7 On Your Side's Drew Smith. "This is a very steep area with rocks, and the weather is not good."
A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration told WSPA the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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New York Extends On-Site Wind Turbine Incentive Program
May 4, 2011
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has expanded the funding availability supporting its wind incentive program for another six months and added another $1.4 million in incentive dollars, the agency announced on May 3. The program, aimed at homeowners, farmers, businesses, and municipalities, has gone through several variations since 2008. The goal is to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuels.
Already, the current version of the initiative is on track to be the most popular ever with 33 applications since the program was announced in October. The program helps qualified property owners install wind turbines to generate electricity, providing funding to support approximately 30% of the purchase and installation costs. NYSERDA has provided $3.6 million in incentives so far, leveraging an additional $5.2 million in private investment in residential-based wind power. The projects so far have made it possible for 43 residences, 40 farms, three schools, four businesses, two not-for-profits, and a town to create clean energy. The systems installed so far are expected to generate more than 1.7 megawatt-hours annually, enough electricity to power 260 single-family homes for a year. See the NYSERDA press release.


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SAN JOSE -- The NHL canceled its November schedule Friday, a strong signal to locked-out players as to how far apart the sides are at the bargaining table.
Previous cancellations had taken smaller bites out of the 82-game regular season. This one eliminated an entire month, giving owners a better chance to fill empty arenas with other events and applying pressure to players who see paychecks disappearing.
The announcement means 12 more Sharks games -- seven at home -- have been wiped off the slate. That hit particularly hard among downtown businesses and restaurants, especially those close to HP Pavilion.
"I just came from the farmer's market in San Pedro Square, and today's news was on a lot of people's minds," said Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association. "There were heavy sighs."
Knies said he was holding out hope that unlike 2004-05, when an entire NHL season was lost, this time hockey would follow the NBA's lead. The NBA ended its lockout a year ago with an abbreviated schedule that began at Christmas.
For Sharks season-ticket holders, Friday's announcement means more of them will begin receiving refunds.
Fans who paid in full should have been getting them month-by-month. But most of the season-ticket base takes advantage of a multipayment system, and once a lockout seemed imminent, the Sharks froze the amount collected at 70 percent of the overall bill.
Because of that, the team was not offering refunds until the NHL canceled 30 percent of its games. Friday's announcement means 14 of the 44 games purchased -- including three exhibitions -- are off the schedule. That's 31.8 percent.
Director of ticket sales John Castro said Friday that refunds will be processed but not distributed until the end of November. That allows more flexibility, he said, if games are restored to the schedule before Nov. 30.
That would seem to indicate that while the games have been cleaned off the existing schedule, a new one could still be in place that begins before Dec. 1.
Whatever the league was trying to accomplish with Friday's announcement, Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle said he was "very disappointed with all the tactics."
"We're not that far off," he said. "I believe you have to give to get, and we have come down on dollars, players rights and terms to deal. This should be a two-way street."
The league locked out players Sept. 15. There was a flicker of hope last week when the NHL said its latest proposal would create a 50-50 revenue split and "make whole" existing contracts for players. But the union said the proposal took future money away from players to honor existing contracts, then offered three alternatives of its own that were immediately rejected.
"The NHL deeply regrets having to take this action," deputy commissioner Bill Daly said of the November cancellations in a statement, adding that the league was "profoundly disappointed" in the lack of a new agreement.
Don Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players Association, said in a statement that news of the cancellations was not a surprise.
"The message from the owners seems to be: If you don't give us exactly what we want, there is no point in talking," Fehr said. "They have shown they are very good at delivering deadlines and demands, but we need a willing partner to negotiate."


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Former Celtics guard Eddie House has reached an agreement to join the revamped Heat lineup, House's agent Mark Bartelstein told Yahoo! Sports. House was traded from the C's to the Knicks for Nate Robinson last season. Bartelstein said this week that he had talked to the Celtics about the possibility of the 10-year veteran returning to Boston, but the sharpshooter will take his talents to Miami instead, agreeing to a two-year deal worth a reported $2.8 million.
For more Celtics news, check out the WEEI.com Celtics team page.
We discuss the QB situation, Bill's longevity in the league, the players who lead, the 4th pre-season game and much more on this Patriots Monday-Wednesday.
Christian and Chris talk about overrated Pats players this season and in the past and then get into the QB issue on the team. They talk about all three guys, what they bring to the table and if they can keep their head above water without the best QB in the league for 4 weeks. Then...Karlos Williams was released by the Bills - should the Pats consider adding the overweight second year running back? Christian also brings up Dante Scarnecchia and gets Price's opinion on if this one man can truly improve a shaky offensive line.
Christian Arcand is in for Tanguay for NFL Sunday with Chris Price. The guys talk about the victory over the Bears, Jimmy G's progress and their expectations for the Pats defense this season. Arcand thinks that there are more holes on the D than some fans realize.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
Isaiah Thomas talks to Glenn and Lou about why he loves Boston, the NBA Money Bump, oh, and some Durant guy
Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Joe and Tim are joined by US Olympic Medalist and captain of the US Women's Gymnastics team Aly Raisman, as she was at Fenway to throw out the first pitch before the game.
Joe and Tim talk with Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts after the Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1
David Price pitched a gem and Andrew Benintendi makes one of the top highlight catches of the year as the Sox take the first game of four against the Rays, 6-2. Christian Arcand recaps the game and takes all of your Sox calls.
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Kirk and Callahan start the 9am discussing the soon-to-come Tom Brady four game suspension and what will happen during that stretch for TB12 and the Pats. The guys then dig back into the Kaepernick discussion in this 9am hour podcast.
Kirk Minihane reads the Wednesday news & gossip headlines, much to the chagrin of the auditioning Gary Tanguay who had prepared to take the lead.
Kirk, Gerry and Gary Tanguay welcome Pats QB Jimmy G to the program, and then discuss the Pats' QB situation in this upload of the entire 8am hour of Wednesday's show.
Dave Dombrowski said the Red Sox weren't going to rush out to sign Tebow after his baseball workout yesterday. Lou and Christian talk about how obviously bad Tebow would be in the MLB and why this is just a stunt.
Dont'a Hightower calls in to talk to Lou and Christian about stepping up in the Patriots locker room, how his new locker means he's following the footsteps of some big names, and how the Patriots defense is shaping up heading into the season.
LaGarrette Blount calls in to talk to Lou and Christian about the end of the preseason, what the locker room is like during these cut-periods, and the overall feel of the Patriots offense heading into the season.
We discuss the QB situation, Bill's longevity in the league, the players who lead, the 4th pre-season game and much more on this Patriots Monday-Wednesday.
We discuss what worked and what didn't work for the Sox as they blew the lead, but then came back to win an afternoon game at Fenway.
We discuss the role Mingo will play for the Patriots defense.
Kirk Minihane is joined by his long time nemesis Bart Hubbuch. Kirk and Bart discuss the incident between the two that led to Kirk being let go from Comcast and the long standing issue of deflategate. Bart annoyingly wouldn't get of his speaker phone. This is an explosive interview between two guys who admittedly dislike each other.
Kirk Minihane sits down with former producer Chris Curtis? Or is it current producer Chris Curtis? Either way, Kirk and Chris talk about what happened in their previous tenure together, where it went wrong, and why Curtis is now back with the show.
Kirk Minihane and Gary Tanguay sit down together on Enough About Me for the first time. These two divisive figures talk about Gary's career and his late evolution into a controversial broadcaster. Nobody is spared from Kirk and Gary's wrath on this episode and it will surely make some people at the two sports radio stations very uncomfortable.
College football is back, so Anthony and Austin talk about what they're looking forward to as the season starts up. Also, they ask a very, very important question -- is the Alabama dynasty finally dead?
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BERKELEY — The Cal women's basketball team survived a major scare against Oregon State on Sunday to keep its chances for a Pac-12 regular season championship alive.
Layshia Clarendon scored 26 points to help the Bears dig themselves out of a 17-point hole and post a 58-56 victory over one of the conference's least successful teams.
What looked like a mismatch on paper instead turned into a thriller for a Senior Day crowd of 3,475 at Haas Pavilion.
No. 6 ranked Cal (25-2, 15-1 Pac-12) couldn't celebrate a program-best 13th consecutive victory until Sha Edwards-Teasley's baseline jumper with seven seconds left rattled out, and Cal's Eliza Pierre secured the rebound.
"I told them team I'm as proud of this win as any of them because I think it tested who we are," said Cal coach Lindsay Gottlieb. "I think it was more (Oregon State) being good than us being not ready... We had shots rim out, they had everything go in."
The Beavers (9-19, 3-13 Pac-12), who have now lost 10 straight, made five consecutive 3-pointers in the first half and led 30-18 at the break.
But as they have so many times this season, the Bears didn't fold.
Point guard Brittany Boyd energized the crowd with back-to-back steals that the Bears turned into transition buckets, then Clarendon took over with her mid-range jump shot. The senior guard scored eight straight Cal points during one stretch of the second-half comeback.
"She's such a talented scorer," said Oregon State coach Scott Rueck. "I don't think anyone in the conference releases the ball at a higher point than she does. She's so hard to guard."
A Clarendon bucket with 5:46 left gave Cal the lead for good, and the Bears held off the Beavers in the tense closing minutes.
Gennifer Brandon finished with 16 points and 11 rebounds for her 14th double-double of the season.
Before the game, Cal honored its four seniors — Clarendon, Pierre, Talia Caldwell and Tierra Rogers. The group won the WNIT as freshmen, now are leading one of the best teams in Cal history.
"They are remarkable kids off the court and have defined what this program is going to be about going forward," Gottlieb said.
The win keeps Cal tied with Stanford atop the Pac-12 standings with one weekend of play remaining. It also guarantees a top two seed at the upcoming conference tournament. Stanford owns the tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed in the Pac-12 tournament in the case the two squads finish with identical conference records.


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Long-awaited Tool For Making Chips Not Close, IBM Says
There's been a persistent question at semiconductor press conferences for some time now, focusing on when a much-discussed technology for defining circuitry on chips may be ready IBM gave a pretty downbeat update this week.
Industry watchers keep raising this point because the lithography approaches used for decades are running out of gas as chip makers try to further shrink transistors and other features on chips, the race that keeps making gadgets better and cheaper. Companies have used a series of steps to extend the life of what is essentially a photographic process, which can already draw lines of circuitry much smaller than the wavelength of light.
But the next set of such tricks may sharply boost the cost of making chips. So companies have invested for many years in an alternative called EUV, for extreme ultraviolet, whose development is being spearheaded by the Dutch lithography specialist ASML.
Despite years of work–followed up recently with financial support for ASML by chip giants Intel, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing–EUV is still far from ready for high-volume manufacturing. And exactly how and when the remaining technical obstacles will be overcome is not clear.
"We are talking about real physics challenges, not hard engineering work," said Gary Patton, an IBM vice president for semiconductor research and development, during a press conference at an industry event in Silicon Valley Tuesday. "I don't know when we're going to have it."
Michael Cadigan, the general manager in charge of IBM's microelectronics systems and technology group, said it had until recently been assuming EUV would be ready when companies begin making chips with circuit dimensions rated at 10 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. That's roughly three generations of manufacturing processes from the current state of the art; each generation tends to come two to three years after the last.
But IBM has adjusted its thinking, Cadigan said, based on the difficulties ASLM is facing. The computer maker now assumes EUV won't be an option until a still-later generation of production technology, slated to produce seven-nanometer circuitry.
The delays, Cadigan said, caused him to lose "quite a bit of money" on a bet with the state of New York, which helped construct a building in Albany, N.Y. that will house ASML's next test EUV machine. He had told state officials the building needed to be ready by the end of 2012; the building is indeed ready, but the tool now may not arrive until April, Cadigan said.
Among the challenges, Patton said, is boosting the power of the laser light source at the heart of an EUV system. The target is 250 watts, he said, and "right now we are sitting at 30 watts," or roughly one tenth of what is needed to be cost effective.
The remarks were among those made at a gathering in Santa Clara, Calif., of the Common Platform alliance, a group designed to jointly develop chip-production technology that includes IBM, Samsung and Globalfoundries. But neither its members, nor competing chip makers, are betting entirely on EUV to allow them to keep improving future chips.
A more conventional technique to define features at ever-tinier resolutions is to keep making additional snapshots with conventional lithography equipment, a technique known as double-patterning (or, potentially, triple or quadruple-patterning). That gets very expensive, Patton noted.
But researchers at IBM's Almaden research center have been working on a chemical process involving what are called block copolymers, which can be manipulated to help "self-assemble" circuit patterns. Through that approach, dimensions that would require three or four passes with a lithography system can be reduced to two, a big potential cost savings, Patton said.
Common Platform members, and others in the industry, always try to have at least one Plan B in case Plan A does not work out. "We always try to back up with an alternative," Cadigan said.


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Tallahassee, Florida- August 8, 2012
A choir from Cuba, pioneers of Irish music and American jazz masters are just a sample of what's in store for audiences at this year's Seven Days of Opening Nights festival, which boasts an extraordinary — and eclectic — roster of artists as well as a wealth of educational opportunities for schoolchildren and university students.
Tallahassee, Florida- August 8, 2012
Florida State University has announced its 15th annual lineup for the dazzling festival of the arts, which is traditionally held each year in February. This year, there are several performances held outside the month, with the first one kicking off the season in September. Seven Days will once again spotlight Florida State's contribution to the arts with a variety of performances that reflect the university's commitment to excellence in everything from music to literature to dance.
Festival highlights include performances by such acclaimed artists as violinist Hilary Hahn, Bernadette Peters, the Chieftains, the Marcus Roberts Octet, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Creole Choir of Cuba and the Second City Touring Company, as well as an encore performance by the acclaimed string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who drew crowds and rave reviews at last year's festival.
Seven Days also will feature an appearance by Cheryl Strayed, the best-selling author of three books, including the acclaimed "Wild," which was the first book selected in Oprah's Book Club 2.0. In addition, the new Seven Days season pays homage to the visual arts with three exhibits at Florida State's Museum of Fine Arts, including a show of the paintings of Flemish baroque master Peter Paul Rubens, on loan from Sarasota's Ringling Museum of Art.
This year's festival lineup will be overseen by a new director, Christopher J. Heacox, who has served since 2009 as executive director of the 120-year-old Friday Musicale festival in Jacksonville, Fla. Heacox, who assumed the position Aug. 1, said he was honored to oversee this year's lineup.
"Seven Days of Opening Nights has always offered a rich tapestry of the arts, and this year the festival is hosting an especially exciting and diverse group of artists," he said. "I am also very passionate about our efforts to expand the educational outreach for both schoolchildren and university students this year."
Tickets sales for Seven Days members begin on Sept. 4, depending on membership level, and continue through Oct. 1. Tickets for the general public go on sale Oct. 2. For additional ticket information, visit www.sevendaysfestival.org.
Tallahassee, Florida- August 8, 2012
Entertainment lovers, get ready! The famed Seven Days of Opening Nights is set to kick off another season.
The multi-faceted arts festival has been going on since 1999. The big headline this year is Bernadette Peters. The season officially begins September 21 with dancer Emily Johnson. Her performances will be followed by Anthony Zerbe, Richard Thompson and Hilary Hahn in January and February.
Says Christopher Heacox with 7 Days: "We encompass all of the performing arts. I think that's another reason why it's so successful. We're not just doing music, we are doing theater, dance, film and creative writing as well. "
Tickets for Johnson's performance go on sale next week. Tickets for the other performances go on sale October 2 for the general public.
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New Rule of Stocks: Get Used to Grind
The stock market is acting like a tease.
It rises to a record, or near one, and then falls back. Just as investors start to fear a big decline, stocks recover. They get back near a record and, whoops, they fall again, and the yo-yo action resumes.
This marks a big change from last year, when the main indexes rose 25% to 30%, their best in more than a decade. This year, the S&P 500 is up 1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 1%.
Money managers and analysts have several explanations centering on the scale of previous gains, the scope of central-bank support for markets and the outlook for corporate profits. Meanwhile, they are beginning to caution clients: This choppy market is more normal than the buoyant one we have seen since 2009, and the erratic action could become more common now.
"It is a slow, grinding process. It is going to take some getting-used-to," said Mark Freeman, chief investment officer at Westwood Holdings Group, which oversees $19 billion in Dallas. It is possible that "this is what we will be doing over the next several quarters," he added.
Why has this happened? Several reasons: After doubling or tripling since 2009, stocks aren't cheap any more. Companies, meanwhile, are finding it harder to keep raising earnings in a period of soft economic growth. This makes investors more cautious. But because speculative excess still hasn't reached the extremes of past bubbles, and because the Federal Reserve is determined to sustain the recovery, there is less fear of a big decline.
One thing behind the changed market, Mr. Freeman said, is that the Fed has started slowly rolling back its exceptional support. It is gradually ending the unprecedented bond-buying program that dumped more than $1 trillion into financial markets. Some time next year, economists expect it to start raising its target rate for overnight lending, its main means of tightening monetary policy.
"We view this as a transition period" away from a market fueled by easy money and toward one driven by traditional forces such as economic growth and company profits, Mr. Freeman said.
"In periods of transition you get what we are seeing now. You see a modest uptick in volatility and there is a lack of direction," he said.
Investors are trying to figure out how well corporate earnings will grow with less Fed aid. Analysts project just 3.3% first-quarter earnings gains for companies in the S&P 500, the smallest since mid-2012, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Analysts are hoping for better later this year, but no one knows.
A big complication is that many companies are reaching the limit of their ability to boost profits by cutting costs, said Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds, which oversees $237 billion in New York. More companies now need to focus on building revenues, which means higher costs for investment, hiring and wages.
"More paychecks and fatter paychecks will dampen earnings in the short run but improve spending and help in the longer run," Mr. Webman said. "As there is more hiring and investing, we probably see more rapid growth in the second half of the year."
Analysts project that the S&P 500 companies' revenues rose just 2.7% in the first quarter, according to Thomson Reuters, even less than their expected earnings rise.
The days are ending when Wall Street will reward companies for holding down wages and doing little investing, Mr. Webman said.
"There is going to be a need for companies to figure out how they can sustain earnings, having squeezed pretty much what they can squeeze from the existing labor force," Mr. Webman said. "The rest of the year will be better than the first quarter but there will be a greater dispersion of winners and losers."
Given all the uncertainty, why haven't stocks fallen harder?
One reason is that investors still haven't hit the extremes of irrational exuberance they reached before previous bear markets, said Phil Roth, a director of the Market Technicians Association, a professional association for technical analysts.
For years, he said, the market has been driven by hedge funds and other short-term traders, and by corporate stock buybacks. Individuals, pension funds, money managers and financial institutions have been bit players, he said, based on mutual-fund data and the Fed's investment tracking.
"The hedge funds have been trading with one another and that is all that is going on. Some of them have backed off and that gives you this mixed picture," Mr. Roth said. "For every guy who says it is going down 10% there is another guy who says, 'I am going to buy it on that dip because I don't think it is going down that much.' "
The result is a choppy, up-and-down market.
Mr. Roth, who saw the trouble coming in 2007, doesn't see the same frothier market today.
Margin debt, a measure of the use of borrowed money to invest, is at a record high in dollar terms. But as a percentage of market value, it is 2.6%, still between the 2008 low of 2.3% and the 2007 high of 2.8%, Mr. Roth calculates.
Trading volume on the Nasdaq stock market, with its many young, hot companies, can be another indicator of excess. When speculative fever is high Nasdaq volume can equal that of the New York Stock Exchange. Last week it was 68%, Mr. Roth said.
Initial public offerings of stock, which often explode at market highs, also aren't at past extremes.
So speculation is up, stocks are pricey and markets started looking frothy last year, but "the market hasn't shown enough excess to warrant a big correction," Mr. Roth said.
A serious economic reversal could change that and push stocks down, but there aren't any signs of that yet, he added. Instead, "people have been selling at the top and buying when stocks are down," which, he said, is fairly standard market behavior.


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Interestingly enough after days of trying to figure this one out i got the xbox to play back a 1080 MKV without lag,
so i figured id share it with the community.
After noticing that even on HQ settings my buffer was not emptying out and my network was no where near maxed.
I figured it must be some limitation of the 360 tried tweaking the 360 config, no dice.
So i set PMS to scale video to 1280x720 and volia it works with no stuttering .
To be fair this isn't really a fix since its no longer 1080p but if your like me you just want to watch some mkv's with embedded subs from the comfort of your couch instead of a desk.


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Federer a Grand Slam Champion Again at Wimbledon (ABC News)
Up in the players' box on Centre Court, Roger Federer's twin daughters squirmed, yawned, made funny faces and then applauded the new Wimbledon champion. The girls turn 3 this month. They were 6 months old the last time Federer won a Grand Slam title. "The victory today is a dream come true for me and my family, you know, seeing them there," he said. "It's big." At 30, Federer showed the kids what he can do, and strengthened his contention he's far from finished. Federer ended a Grand Slam drought and equaled a Wimbledon record by winning the tournament for the seventh time Sunday, beating Andy Murray of Britain, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4.
Federer will be back for more (ESPN)
The 30-year-old Federer finally equaled Pete Sampras' record at the All England Club, and won his 17th Grand Slam title overall, by beating Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday. "I'm happy that closing the roof maybe helped me today because I wasn't sure if that was going to help me or not," said Federer, who took advantage of the windless court and won 65 of the 117 points played indoors. Once Murray's forehand landed wide on match point, Federer collapsed to the grass with tears welling in his eyes. He got up quickly and shook hands with Murray at the net.
Federer Defies 'Old Age' Becoming No. 1 Again (Businessweek)
Roger Federer's self belief didn't waver, even when the titles started to go to younger players. The record men's Grand Slam champion yesterday overcame local favorite Andy Murray 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to win his seventh Wimbledon title and regain the top ranking in tennis one month shy of his 31st birthday. It was Federer's 17th major championship, and the first since his victory at the 2010 Australian Open reduced Murray, 25, to tears. "I knew how close I was for the last few years, and some people didn't quite see that, maybe out of different reasons," Federer said after joining Pete Sampras and William Renshaw with a record seven titles at the All England Club in London.
Roger Federer wins seventh Wimbledon title, and a nation weeps (Los Angeles Times)
Roger Federer sweetly made delicate volleys drop as if it were no trouble at all. He ferociously aimed his one-handed backhand deep into the corners of Centre Court, making the ball land on lines and kick up chalk. He relentlessly kept attacking with his forehand, taking it crosscourt and up the lines.
Evergreen Roger Federer silences doubters once and for all with victory over Andy Murray (The Independent)
When Roger Federer went out of the French Open to Novak Djokovic in May, he faced some disconcerting debate about his future. Finished as a tennis force? The notion will seem laughable today when he is not only officially confirmed as the leading performer in his chosen occupation anywhere in the world but knows that within seven days he will have held that accolade for longer than anyone since records were first kept. As of this morning he has equalled Pete Sampras's record as No 1 men's player for a total of 285 weeks, which equates to more than five years, and there can be an end to the questions of whether he will be able to add any more, or continue to live with the younger generation.
That match was every bit as wonderful as those of 2002-2010, and precious beyond description. I want to own that on tape.
Congratulations, Roger, and forgive us for wanting more, more, more!
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ALAMEDA -- On a quiet Sunday evening, several diners enjoy a Thai meal at House Royale Cuisine. Walk into the adjoining room, and the scene changes. The business name, too. And at the back of the Homeroom Racing Café, three young men -- Nate Crane and his friends, brothers Jan and Aran Kaspar -- are having a blast.
Considered by some a relic the past, slot car racing has enjoyed a popular resurgence in recent times, as these three attest while plying their passion to the fullest.
"It's fun," Crane said.
"It's got finesse, it's got technique. It brings you back to your childhood," Jan Kaspar added.
On the track in front of them, three cars go buzzing along, slowing some around curves and accelerating down long straightaways. Typical to the pastime, the cars often come flying out of their grooves, many times crashing into the cars next to them. And each time this happens, the player springs from his controls, runs over to put his car back on the track, then races back to the controls to catch his car up with those of the others.
Or at least until the next wreck happens. In the 15 minutes allotted them to play, Crane and the Kaspars get a decent amount of physical activity fetching wayward cars. Unlike video games, slot car racing isn't exactly a passive pastime. And it generates plenty of excitement among its enthusiasts.
Crane added a special twist by bringing his own car, a replica 1988 Porsche 911 Turbo.
"It's a model car with a brass chassis," he said. "There's a sub-genre of slot car racers who make their own cars. It was popular among people in the '60s to build their own cars."
A majority of the Homeroom Racing Café's clientele are old enough to have enjoyed slot car racing's heyday that decade. Crane, at 32, and Jan and Aran Kaspar, 27 and 21, respectively, are younger than most enthusiasts. Still, they have much in common with their slot car-racing elders.
Though located on Park Street, what the Homeroom Racing Café offers isn't only an Alameda endeavor. Crane and the Kaspars came from their Oakland homes to enjoy their pastime. Others come from even longer distances.
"People will actually travel here to eat," said Harry Velez, owner of House Royale Cuisine and Homeroom Racing Café. "We have people coming from San Jose, San Mateo and other places. It's a day trip for them. There are other Thai restaurants, but we have our niche that likes it the way it is."
Slot car racing, much like the Formula One and European road racing it's patterned after, traditionally has been a male-oriented pursuit. But times have changed, especially for young folks just getting introduced to the sport. "On weekends, at minimum, it's the same (number of boys and girls playing)," Velez said. "The mother or dad is bringing in the girls as much as the boys."
And as newcomers find out -- and veterans attest -- it takes some skill to keep a car running smoothly on the track.
"It's got a lot more technique than meets the eye," Aran Kaspar said.
Most of us never will get anywhere close to an actual race car. In that sense, slot car racing might be the ultimate fantasy sport.
"If you have a passion for motorsports, it's a way to be involved without spending a lot of money ... the cars, fuel, insurance," Crane said. "And it's less (physically) risky. Instead of spending millions, you spend maybe $30 (for a car)."
The trio's 15 minutes are up, and Jan Kaspar cannot contain his excitement.
"That seven-second lap, I was stoked about," he said. "That's my fastest yet."
Slot car racing. Safe. Fun. A pastime that goes back decades for some, and an endeavor brand new to others. And they can all enjoy it together at the Homeroom Racing Café on Park Street.


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This question is specific to OSX. I am currently running 10.8 and I'm on 1.81 on PMS. I have successfully set up a 5 layer frankenapp that allows me to be able to stream any audio playing on my Mac to any browser, iTunes streaming, etc. Here are the facts:
I am running everything through Icecast so from any device in my network I can navigate to 192.168.1.114:8000/spin and hear what is playing live on my Mac.
I have completed this same setup on my PC running Windows 7 using equivalent applications (but is not running concurrently).
I have updated the WEB.conf file and placed it in my ~/Library folder for PMS so I am able to see the Web folder from my PS3 while connected to PMS on my Mac.
Every item in the Web folder on my PS3 shows "Unsupported Data"
**Only when trying to stream from my Mac.**
When I use this exact same WEB.conf file, with the same streaming settings on my PC, my PS3 picks up the items in my web folder just fine, and can stream (in this case, Spotify) flawlessly.
I can't even begin to understand the difference, and why my Mac never plays nice. I think that given the detail above, you can glean the details you need for an educated understanding. Again, keep in mind that this works PERFECTLY from my PC, but with the identical settings on my Mac, I'm having no luck.
PS. I'm certain that this has no bearing on the results of my issue, but for the sake of it, I'll mention that my "PC" is actually a virtual WIN7 machine running on my Mac.


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The reworked Plus 8 sports car will feature wheels borrowed from the Series IV Aero 8 along with air conditioning as standard equipment. Those who love their retro-styling but don't like manual transmissions will now be offered an automatic transmission. Otherwise, the vehicle remains fairly close to what we've come to expect from the iconic 8. The new model will be offered in a total of eight colors along with various wood finishes on the interior.
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Music publishing firm founded by Etienne Girod that operated in Paris from 1855 until around 1919 (possibly being acquired by Alphonse Leduc). On a ca.1857 score is noted that E. Girod is "Successeur de Launer, Boulevart Montmartre, 14." Launer (and eventually Mme. Veuve Launer) had been in operation in Paris since 1828 having acquired the business of Raphael Carli et Cie. An edition with the plate number 4660 (cf. Wieniawski's Légende) bears the stamp : Vve (= Veuve) E. Girod, éditeur, 16, Boul. Montmartre, Paris.
Imprints, Addresses, Agencies
- E. Girod (1855–1863?)
- E. et A. Girod (1864–ca.1881)
- Vve E. Girod or Veuve Girod or Veuve E. Girod (1882-ca.1907). Apparently, the firm was being operated by E. Girod's widow during this period.
- P. Girod (ca.1908–1919)
- Paris, 16 Boulevard Montmartre (1855–1919)
Plate Numbers
Girod's plate numbers appear to have been issued in a fairly regular chronological fashion. Dates in italics are estimated. The format for the firm's plate numbers followed the changes in company name.
- E.G. #### (ca.1855–ca.1863)
- E. et A.G. #### (ca.1864–ca.1881)
- Vve E.G. #### or E.G. #### (ca.1882–ca.1907 or later)
- unknown at this time if P. Girod used a plate number different from E.G.
Notes: Plate 3433bis is an E. et A. Girod printing that would appear to be from no earlier than the mid-1870s.
Sources Consulted
- Cecil Hopkinson, A Dictionary of Parisian Music Publishers, 1700-1950 (London, 1954). Reprinted (New York: Da Capo Press, 1979).
Authority control
- VIAF (Girod Editeur de musique)


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Have you ever tried to figure out how to make Squid authenticate users according to your own exotic rules? Users are in a DB? Are you using an ActiveDirectory? Users/passwords are authenticated by a java class? Everything is possible. Here I intend to explain how to make your own custom authentication helpers so you can develop your own routines for your own requirements.
This article has downloads!
Squid is such a wonderful HTTP cache server. It's stable, fast, highly customizable, and you barely notice it when it's working (oh and did I say it's free as in freedom?).
It comes with a number of authentication helpers, but there are times when these helpers are not enough. Sometimes you have authentication requirements exotic enough that make those default helpers useless.
The need
Suppose you have to do a little checking: you have users/passwords in a MySQL DB table. To make it a little more exotic, passwords are not directly stored, but MD5s instead. Suppose that you also want the allowed users to be listed in a text file in your file system and, finally, make an LDAP request to see if there's an item in the directory that matches usernames by the field named "thisCrazyField". If all that fails, the user/password can be the pair "foo/bar" (a backdoor... just in case you want to see some things that are better left anonymous in the Squid logs!). I am sure no default helper will be able to pull it off.
Before you waste more brainpower trying to figure out when your boss is going to fire you because you couldn't find a way to make this authentication scheme work with Squid (or any other HTTP cache solution for that matter), you should know that you can make a stand-alone program that can tell if a user is permitted to go through or not. Easy!
Authentication helpers
What a helper does (even a default one) is very simple: it reads username/password pairs from Standard Input one pair at a time in a single line of text, and writes a single line of text to Standard Output that either says "OK" (for a user that can go through) or "ERR" (in case of problems)—that's it. The helper has to repeat this action in an endless cycle. Username and passwords are encoded using the character encoding described in RFC 1738 (section 2.2) and are separated by a white space.
What a helper does (even default ones) is very simple
Say I want to make a helper in PHP that will check if the user/password is one of the following pairs:
- hello/world
- foo/bar
Here's the PHP code:
<? if (! defined(STDIN)) { define("STDIN", fopen("php://stdin", "r")); } while (!feof(STDIN)) { $line = trim(fgets(STDIN)); $fields = explode(' ', $line); $username = rawurldecode($fields[0]); //1738 $password = rawurldecode($fields[1]); //1738 if ($username == 'hello' and $password == 'world') { fwrite(STDOUT, "OK\n"); } else if ($username == 'fo' and $password == 'bar') { fwrite(STDOUT, "OK\n"); } else { // failed miserably fwrite(STDOUT, "ERR\n"); } } ?>
That's it! I've just created a PHP-based Squid helper. Feel free to use any tool you want, be it bash, python, Perl or any other language you like. The only requirement is that the language is able to read from the standard input and write to the standard output (if you want to use bash, be careful to avoid making passwords visible with a
ps ax).
Testing your masterpiece
Now comes the testing part. You have to act the same way Squid would have to: start the script and interact with it passing username/password pairs. If it outputs "OK" or "ERR" as wanted, then your helper is done. Here's a demonstration of the helper I just made:
$ php squid_helper.php hello world OK foo bar ERR
Oops! "foo/bar" is not okay. Go to the source code of the helper. See what's going on? I wrote
== '**fo**' instead of
== '**foo**'. Correct it in the source code and try all over again:
$ php squid_helper.php hello world OK fo bar ERR foo bar OK other things ERR cool! ERR
Great job! Now we know that the script really authenticates the way we want to. Our helper is ready to be used together with Squid.
Configuring Squid
You have to edit
/etc/squid/squid.conf and add these lines, in the
"OPTIONS FOR EXTERNAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS" section:
auth_param basic program /bin/php your_script_location auth_param basic children 20 auth_param basic realm Username and password auth_param basic credentialsttl 5 hours
What these lines tell Squid is:
program: how to run your helper? If it's an executable in itself, just call it; if it needs another interpreter, then provide all the things to make it run. In my case, I need the PHP interpreter (unless I make the script executable and provide the interpreter with a shebang line).
children: this is the number of processes that Squid will have to do concurrent authentications for all the clients. If you set too low a number and authentications are coming in too quickly, Squid will have to wait for a helper to finish an authentication cycle before trying with the next key pair. In my case, I'm creating 20 helpers.
realm: this is the text that will be shown to the user in the authentication window.
credentialsttl: this tells Squid how long an already authenticated user/password pair will be valid without needing to ask a helper to re-authenticate (remember the children option? Keep this in mind). In environments that change passwords too often, don't set this parameter too high.
After that, you have to use one access rule to be able to tell authenticated users from "plain" users.
acl AuthenticatedUsers proxy_auth REQUIRED
And, finally, add a rule to permit these users to go through in the
"ACCESS CONTROLS" section:
http_access allow AuthenticatedUsers
Restart Squid or ask it to reload the new configuration.
Once the new configuration is working, you should be able to see as many children processes of your authentication helper as you told Squid to use (even if no client is using Squid right now) by typing
ps ax.
In an organization where I previously worked, I created a PHP script that authenticates users against an ActiveDirectory by following this "recipe":
If the user doesn't provide the "realm", the script adds it (so users can write
REALM\username or plain username).
One LDAP connection is created using the provided user/password to "bind".
If the connection is established (which means the user does exist in the directory and the password is correct), then the script checks if the user is a member of one group created in the directory named (strangely enough)
Internet. For that, it makes a query like this (making sure the
$username has been stripped of the
REALM\ part before the query, because it's not a part of the
sAMAccountName field):
(&(sAMAccountName=$username) (memberOf=CN=Internet,DC=OURDOMAIN,DC=ORG))
If the query result is empty, unfortunately the user has been rejected (because he/she doesn't belong into the Internet group).
That's it.
Any resource you want to use is okay
Any resource you want to use is okay as long as the language you use to make the helper supports it. Just remember that all Squid will provide you with is the username and the password.
This article rocks and will allow me to have one less things to integrate. Thank you soo much.
-k reconfigure issue / question
First, Great article, helped me a lot. Thanks.
When using 'squid -k reconfigure' seems like my auth program (written in C++) is duplicating it self, i,e: If i have 32 children - i get 64, 96 etc...
What am i missing. I need '-k reconfigure' to always keep 32 (in my case) children.
Thanks in advance, Amit
I forgot to mention...
...that in the downloads of the article is a helper to authenticate against ActiveDirectory as a real example.
And thanks for that comment!
Glad to be helpful (even more if there are some ISA servers to be replaced as a side effect of the article :-D).
This is alternative to NoCat, I suppose
Excellent article. My company is working on providing Internet pre-paid system to miners who are in the middle of nowhere. The only backhaul we have is Satellite, so we have to treasure our bandwidth. We are tinkling with NoCat at the moment. This article opens up a new possibility of a whole new system all together. Of course, we have to think of how to block all traffics that squid cannot proxy, or else there will be holes in this system (`iptables' to the rescue!). Also, how to tunnel other traffics via HTTP.
Problem with your Script
first thank you for your nice article . I have a problem with the script
when i want to run it ( /bin/php /etc/squid/script.php)
it says :
Constant STDIN already defined in /etc/squid/script.php on line 3
please help me.
best regards
That's a PHP problem
I thought the if (! defined()) would avoid that (at least, it does avoid that problem over here).
Make sure you included the "!" in the conditional on line 2. If you did, that'd be weird... but anyway it seems that your "PHP machine" already has STDIN defined, so you can comment line 3, where it's "redefined"... or remove that whole checking section altogether (the conditional and definition of STDIN).
Hope that works.
i have problem when using this document. this is the error :
The basicauthenticator helpers are crashing too rapidly, need help!
sounds like...
sounds like your program is crashing right after squid starts it (or them, if you have many children). Did you test it as a standalone console application before using it with squid to see that it receives the username/password pair and replies with OK/ERR in an infinite cycle?
Undefined Offset
first tanx for your answer ; I have delete that line and now my script( ofcourse yours ) is like this
while (!feof(STDIN)) {
$line = trim(fgets(STDIN));
$fields = explode(' ', $line);
$username = rawurldecode($fields[0]); //1738
$password = rawurldecode($fields[1]); //1738
if ($username == 'hello'
and $password == 'world') {
fwrite(STDOUT, "OK\n");
} else if ($username == 'fo'
and $password == 'bar') {
fwrite(STDOUT, "OK\n");
} else {
// failed miserably
fwrite(STDOUT, "ERR\n");
and now result of excuting /bin/php script.php is :(of course when i enter a string)
PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /omid/omid.php on line 10
any suggestion ?
email me
Why don't you email me? I just copied (verbatim) your script and tried it over here and it worked:
$ php prueba.php
hello world
foo bar
fo bar
it's ok
Maybe the problem is here:
$ php -version
PHP 5.2.3-1ubuntu2 (cli) (built: Jul 4 2007 16:13:07)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
Anyway, email me so we can take a closer look at what's going on. eantoranz at google's public mail service, you know, right? :-D
Solved Omid's problem
The problem is the define call. I have the fopen() right in the define, and it fails that way. If you do the fopen and save the result in a temporary variable, it works.
Try with this:
if (! defined(STDIN)) {
$temp = fopen("php://stdin", "r");
define("STDIN", $temp);
It worked with version 5.1.2 that way.
It worked with 5.2.3 the original way... I guess it's a bug in 5.1.2
Problem with script on Windows 2003 AD
Thanks for your wonderful article. I am having problems with your script. I believe it is due to the fact that my windows 2003 AD requires authentication to do any LDAP binds. I have another php LDAP application that connects to my AD successfully as it has a variable to configure a user account to connect to the AD with.
Can you please tell me how I can edit your script to bind to ldap using a username and password?
Did you see the attachments?
Ahmed, in the article's attachments, there's a PHP script that authenticates against AD through LDAP, and it binds to AD using the username/password provided by squid. Are you having problems with that script? Email me if you have any problems: eantoranz at gmail dot com.
Transmitting username and password as cleartext?
Thanks a lot for your nice article and for writing for the freesoftwaremagazine.
In many environments the transmission of usernames and passwords as cleartext is not acceptable.
Do you haven an idea of how to solve this problem an transmit the authorization data between client and proxy encrypted?
There are some other methods
If you check my example (and the attached script), I always used the "basic" method. However, there are some other methods: digest, ntlm, negociate, so don't stick with basic if you want to do it some other way.
As I'm reading squid.conf's details of each method, helpers will interact with squid in different ways, so take a close look at that.
A comment received by email...
Contacted Mr. Carmona today concerning the PHP script that authenticates against AD through LDAP. It no longer appears to be in the downloadable section of this article. I made mention of this in my email and requested help if he could provide.
I barely got the email sent before he responded. Not only did he respond he sent me the code after a very short time. Plus he said if I needed more help just email him.
Very impressed.
Tis my opinion the world needs more like him. Thanks for sharing this and thanks for all the help
Authentication Helpers
Hi everyone,
I am a web designer and I have limited linux knowledge but I have set up two linux boxes.
One that runs a Voip system and another running Squid.
I have managed to get NCSA authentication working on the Squid proxy server but what bothers me is, that, the NCSA authentication method allows the same username and password to make simulataneous multiple logins which I don't want.
I need to write an authentication helper to restrict logins to one machine per session. Can anyone help me with this?
Kind Regards and Seasons Greetings!
Squid on Windows 2003
If you install Squid on Windows Server (2000/2003) and your requirement is simple, it is easier to use mswin_auth.exe provided in libexec.
Then you can login to Squid using your windows login id and password.
Check out mswin_auth.exe in libexec folder.
Thanks for the article. For
Thanks for the article. For a squid rookie like me the perfect entry point. As I intend to use squid mainly for elaborate authentication and logging purposes could you (or someone) tell me
-if there's a way to define a chain of authentication helpers and
-if there's a way to define a logging helper?
thanks a lot jens
Multiple authentication helpers?
First of all thanks for your article. For me as a rookie it was a good entry point.
As i want to use squid mainly for authentication and logging there are two questions left: Is there a way to define a chain of authentication helpers? Can i define a logging helper in the same way as a authentication helper? Thanks for any clue,


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Jesus Frank wrote: "Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in a way that kept them locked up"
Not being very up on american presidents I would just like an explanation of this. Anyone?
thought pauper wrote:
The topic being discussed here is if and how Lincoln's Emancipation kept the slaves in bondage until the passing of the 13th Amendment.
prolifik wrote:
Apparently pauper didn't know that the Emancipation Proclamation was given 2 years before the Civil War ended. What it all comes down to is this: The Emancipation Proclamation made it the main goal of the Civil War to free the slaves, instead of simply reuniting the Union, and it guaranteed an end to slavery from then on. Thruoughout the war, and once it was over, the Union had made sure that the Emancipation Proclamation was implemented, and then Congress made it formal with the 13th Amendment, which was only drafted because Lincoln had made the Emancipation Proclamation. When the war ended, the slaves were already free thanks to Lincoln's proclamation, so the 13th Amendment had zero effect except to make sure that slavery would never again be permitted in the US in the future.
djdee2005 wrote: Haha, jesus, you've got all the dead slaves angry at him now? That's a rough cross to bear, man.


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Top Moment #8: Men's Tennis Wins Tight Match Over Cowboys in HEB Tournament
Since 1966, Corpus Christi has always been home to the HEB Tournament of Champions. This year, the Islanders men's tennis program finished 3rd in the tournament after a hard-earned victory over Oklahoma State.
The match started a bit shaky as Oklahoma State took the doubles point defeating the number two doubles 9-7, and the number one spot 8-5.
Alex Pavlov defeated Cowboy Adolfo Aires by default at No. 6 singles, putting one point on the board for the Islanders.
Peter Nagy was defeated in close sets of 6-4, 6-3 at number one singles. Nathan Robinson was defeated also in close sets of 6-3, 7-5.
The Islanders were down 3-1 and the win at the number four spot pushed it to a 3-2 match.
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It came down to Aurelien Tave and Chris Haworth at the number two spot. Tave took the first set in tiebreak, 7-6, to earn a 1-0 lead. But in the second set, Haworth bounced back to take a 3-1 lead heading to his serve. Tave earned a crucial break to trim it to 3-2, then pushed it to 3-3 with a win at his serve. Haworth got a game on serve to make it 4-3, then Tave took the next two games to go to the serve up 5-4. The senior then finished off Haworth with an ace to give the Islanders the victory.
"The courage and guts Aurelien showed were unbelievable. He rose up so big when we needed him," Moore said. "But to be honest, he has always done that. A pure fighter with the biggest heart ever – that's Aurelien."
This win marks the third time that the Islanders have beaten a Big 12 team over the last four years (Nebraska, Texas Tech, OSU).
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