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title: Orozco House Productions Dinner
date: 2016-05-24
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Musings: Political Animals
Light comes late on these cloudy winter mornings, and grudgingly: a few salmon streaks in the east; faint pink tinting on the cumulus towering over the Giant; a pukalani that blazed briefly before being closed off by gray. Through it all was the nearby buzz of crickets, the far-off crowing of roosters and in between, the enchantingly melodic warbling of a hwamei, the first sound that greeted me when Koko and I went walking this morning.
A few odd animal items caught my eye recently, including two emailed by readers. One, with a subject line that read "the karmic wheel," was about the stabbing of a Kauai guy who had previously, and bizarrely, cut off the head of a dead monk seal. The other, which came with the subject line "Darwin Award Contestant/ Cock Fighting Casualty," was about a rooster in California that lethally stabbed a cockfighter with the razor strapped to its leg.
Then there was the disturbing article in today's paper about the poor shark that gave premature birth on the beach at Pono Kai and then died — a victim of "hooking mortality." The piece did a good job of making people aware of the longlining fleet's disgustingly wasteful impact on unwanted bycatch — a topic I wrote about for Honolulu Weekly back in 2009:
[Hawaii-based] longliners have historically hooked two to 10 sharks for every swordfish. At least 60,000 sharks–and more often around 100,000–are caught each year by swordfish crews, who often cut off the fins from live animals and then allow them to slide off the deck and drown.
The Weekly article also delved into the industry's impact on turtles, and I just got word of a settlement in the Earthjustice lawsuit against the very same federal agency charged with protecting endangered marine life that dramatically reduces the number of rare loggerhead turtles that longliners can hook.
Speaking of agencies, the state Office of Environmental Quality Control will be capably led by our own Gary Hooser — great news that a conservative rag I won't name or link greeted with the smearline: "First Morita, now Hooser: Abercrombie appoints another anti-Superferry protester."
We all know Gary and Mina to be so much more than that.
Speaking of Mina, I was amused in reading The Garden Island's coverage of a topic I'd written about a couple of days prior — who will be appointed to fill her 14th House District seat — to see Council Chairman (and House seat hopeful) Jay Furfaro's comments about how if he is picked, the Council would convene to choose a new chair rather than handing it over automatically to Vice Chair JoAnn Yukimura. And Jay said that if he or Councilman Derek Kawakami is chosen, their replacement would not necessarily be KipuKai Kualii, who came in eighth in the last Council race. Like I said, wouldn't it be hilarious if they brought back Kaipo Asing — and then made him chair?
It's Kauai, ya know, so anything is possible.
A quick aside on the Council: I got an email notifying folks that the Council's rules subcommittee is meeting tomorrow morning and urging them to send suggestions on possible revisions to the rules that govern the panel. It read, in part:
Perhaps things were handled differently and in a way you would prefer where you came from…
Oh, yeah. That approach always goes over so well...
Returning to the topic of political appointments, I noticed on today's Council agenda that the mayor has nominated Wayne Katayama, head of Kauai Coffee, a subsidiary of A&B, to serve on the Planning Commission. At least he also reappointed Herman Texeira, one of the few commissioners with the balls to speak up, to a second term.
Not surprisingly, reps from A&B's Kukuiula Development, as well as Grove Farm and other developers, are supporting the county's watered down plan for implementing the charter amendment — passed overwhelmingly by voters — that caps the growth of tourist accommodations.
The county reportedly spent some $60,000 on outside legal fees trying to see if it could legally circumvent the public's will, and when it learned it was written too tight to challenge — unless, perhaps, the legal battle was funded by deep pocket developers — it came up with a draft bill that weakens the overall goal of capping the growth rate at 1.5 percent. It also returns a lot of power to the Planning Commission, which is even less accountable than the Council.
Given the down economy, a mayor heavily backed by the construction industry, and the heavy turnout of developers and their attorneys at the Planning Commission hearing, we can expect another David vs. Goliath fight over this bill.
But sometimes, as the rooster-stabbing incident indicates, the underdogs do prevail.
Posted by Joan Conrow at 7:55 AM
the 'chater amendment' was a haole initiative - by those who don't work here on the island for a living. think about it.
looks like local folks spoke out against it and only those haoles who know better than us spoke for it.
Any locals who disagree are just coconuts anyway. They can't be authentic Hawaiians if they disagree with a 1.5% cap on tourism. Therefore they are brown on the outside, but white on the inside and are to be ridiculed and put back in their place.
the amendment passed by 70%, it was not a haole only supported initiative, it wAS SUPPORTED BY THE OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF VOTERS
The solution is really simple. Trash the charter amendment instead, use today's numbers for the General Plan, update it.
You have to deal with the current reality of population growth and permits issued. Right now, you don't know what that is. The voted on initiative didn't use good numbers - or if they did, did not show their work, how did the responsible government people come up with them, DBEDT, County forecasting, temporal regression, extrapolation cohort component demographic, seriously, what was the method?
Use real numbers, show your work, update the general plan as it should have been and get over it.
People will vote for anything that sound good, that doesn't mean it is sound.
"1.5% cap on tourism" is that what YOU voted for?
Came across an interesting article
about how selling your island may not not be in the best interest of a resident population with limited land. Kinda like right here!
http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2011/February/02-10-02.htm
Accomadations tax for all vacation rentals and timeshares. Keep records to track vacancies. No new tourist accomadations till sustained 95% is acheived. Charge more for high Occupancy seasons.
What will happen when all the land is occupied. Try growing food then.
Try going to the beach when there are only fences and security guards
makai of the coastal roads. We're pretty close to that now.
6:25 AM excellent point and you are correct - except the bill passed does not achieve such high ideals. It only addresses 50% of the growth, because it excludes individual rentals such as the TVR's those are not accounted for in the 'chatter' amendment.
Debate what should have been done all you want, but the amendment passed - with a whopping 70% voter support. Ur wasting energy talking about how wrong you think it is, and your lying if you say locals didn't support it. The island is only about 25% haole.
And, reportedly, because its tied the the general plan, its gonna be an expensive b**ch to litigate and the County has even decided not to challenge it (although they hate it) - and wait for a developer to file suit. But because the amendment will essentially "sunset" when a new general plan with new development numbers is made, challenging the amendment in Court may not be too cost-effective for a developer. The developer has the unpleasant choice of going to court for several years or waiting (and hoping) for a new general plan that loosens things up - which might also take several years. (Hey when is that important ag land study coming anyway - isnt it like 10 years late already?)
Personally, I think the charter amendment provides a great "time out" from development and I commend those who thought it through, made it legal, (left out the TVRs - hotels are worse IMHO) and got it passed. It was a clean, well planned, intelligent and organized effort to get something done without hystrionics, illegal interference with property rights or even arrests.
It was perfectly civilized, and it was fun to watch it unfold on election night as the environmentalists outsmarted and out played the money first crowd at every turn on this one.
"The island is only about 25% haole."
um - no - 2000 census puts white as 76% but your definition and the government's may be different.
Good to know that some people don't do their homework before typing a line of text. Misleading information is why the county is in the situation it is in - glad you are one more part of the problem.
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=n&_lang=en&qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&geo_id=05000US15007
'sounds good doesn't mean its sound' - cute and probably true.
The point is you can limit the development - with the correct information - like a build out analysis, actual number of units, average visitor count, % of unit usage, know the current population. but hey - too late to do the right thing - lets head down the wrong path, again.
Nothing stops development like a recession (depression)?
White persons, 2006 34.5%
Black persons, 2006 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, 2006 0.4%
Asian persons, 2006 33.1%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 2006 9.1%
Persons reporting two or more races, 2006 22.5%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, 2006 9.3%
Mean travel time to work , 21.5 minutes
Median household income, 2007 $54,112
More than 70% of lemmings followed other lemmings and jumped off a cliff...
The cost do this this kind of bill the right way easily $200K+.
That $75K donation could have been better spent.
7:05 Most people agree that most people don't know what they are talking about....however to make a point most people use the faulty logic that most people agree with them.
As local Hawaiian I am perpetually disgusted by the sell-out of our aina for developers who care about about how much profit they can make at the expense of our quality of life. And than you have some locals pushing for every possible development so that they too can get their piece of the pie the likes of A & B.
Selling out is brown and white, not exclusively one over the other. Tourism is a service industry whose wages barely afford a living here and whose industry is unstable...like it is right now with the down economy. Instead of pushing for more tourism development concentrate on filling the many hotel rooms that are sitting vacant in our current inventory INSTEAD of creating new inventory. Hotel workers especially on the east side are suffering with cut hours and loss of medical benefits as a result.
The rape and degradation of Po'ipu and it's numerous ongoing projects benefits a few at the expense of local families in the area who endure impacts on infrastructure and those of us who choose not to frequent the beaches there anymore because of the masses of tourists that over-run the place.
Tired of the same old faces pushing their same old agendas with deep pockets to influence the outcome. Wake up Kaua'i.
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Musings: Food for Thought
Musings: Sound and Fury
Musings: Throw a Bone
Musings: Discouraging - And Not
Musings: All That Glitters
Following Up....
Musings: Of Service
Musings: Hard to Swallow
Musings: Toughen Up
Musings: Beach Fight
Musings: Changing Landscapes
Musings: End of an Era?
Musings: Dark Ages
Musings: Politics and Birds
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Ukrainian oligarch detained at iconic French ski resort
Posted 2022-12-29, Russia Today
Former MP Konstantin Zhevago has been accused of embezzlement and money laundering
French police have detained Ukrainian oligarch Konstantin Zhevago at the lavish Alpine ski resort of Courchevel on Wednesday, at Kiev's request. The businessman and former MP is wanted at home in connection with a major money laundering and embezzlement case.
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), which was the first to announce the arrest, said it had "worked hard" to detain the billionaire, having sought the assistance of some 38 other nations to apprehend Zhevago. The detention eventually came following "several months" of "close interaction" with the French police, gendarmerie and judiciary, it added.
A French court is expected to rule later on Wednesday on whether Zhevago will be placed in custody while Kiev prepares an extradition request, the SBI said.
At home, the businessman is accused of embezzling $113 million from Ukraine's Finance and Credit Bank, thus harming the interests of the state and the bank's clients. He also faces money laundering charges, according to law enforcement.
Read more Ukraine nationalizes company of one-time Zelensky backer
Ukraine had already seized Zhevago's assets, including "shares of his enterprises worth hundreds of millions of hryvnas" and 26 real estate properties. He was also one of the businessmen whose assets were nationalized by Kiev in November.
Zhevago was the main beneficiary of Finance and Credit Bank, one of the largest lenders in Ukraine before 2015, when it had its banking license withdrawn. He is also the founder and majority shareholder of the Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company Ferrexpo, which claims to be "the third largest exporter of iron ore pellets in the world." The company owns iron ore mines in Ukraine.
The billionaire was also a long-time Ukrainian MP. He occupied a seat in the country's Verkhovna Rada for over two decades between 1998 and 2019.
According to Forbes, Zhevago is still the fifth richest person in Ukraine, although his net worth fell from $2.1 billion to $1.4 billion in 2022.
Ukrainian tycoon appears in French court to deny embezzlement
Irish Independent 2023-01-05, 13:52
Ukraine announces arrest of oligarch in upscale French ski resort after accusing him of financial crimes
Business Insider 2022-12-28, 16:05
Ukrainian tycoon arrested in French ski resort in bank probe
Seattle PI 2022-12-28, 14:32
Ukrainian tycoon denies embezzlement in French hearing
Ex-Ukraine lawmaker accused of embezzlement nabbed at French ski resort
French court frees Ukrainian mining boss on $1 million bail
Ukrainian billionaire Zhevago to be released on bail pending French extradition hearing
Ukrainian billionaire Zhevago's French extradition hearing pushed to Jan 19
Ukrainian businessman accused of embezzling $100 million arrested in French Alps resort
Ukrainian billionaire Zhevago's French extradition hearing set for Jan 19
Owner of Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo arrested in France for money laundering and embezzlement


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Roderick Murray
Roderick (1765-1857) was the son of John Murray; it is not clear where the family were living at the time of his birth, but he may have come from Ness.
He married Mary Smith.
In around 1798 Roderick was drinking, in Stornoway, with Donald Murray, who was also from Tolsta, and the pair were tricked into putting their crosses on a sheet of paper on which their name had been written. Only afterwards did the two friends realise that this cross meant they had enlisted into the Seaforth Militia. They quickly headed back to Tolsta and, rather than sleeping in his own house that night, Roderick is said to have taken refuge in a shallow cleft in Ben Garry: which then became known as Sgor Ruairidh. When the officers appeared the following day Roderick gave himself up and was marched out of the village with his friend.
Roderick was in the Seaforth Highlanders for 21 years. He served in the Napoleonic Wars and was overseas for a long period. In his absence his wife, Mary, assumed he was dead and had twins, a boy and a girl, with Alexander Campbell of Tong.
In around 1818 Roderick Murray was discharged, with a pension, and returned to Lewis and to his wife. Having no children of his own, he adopted Mary's twins.
In 1820 he is listed as a sub-tenant in Old South Tolsta Tack.
In 1830, when the township was broken into crofts, he obtained 18 Old South Tolsta.
In the 1851 croft relottings Roderick obtained 19 North Tolsta. He died a few years later.
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Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu lies south of India is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. It was established at Fort St. George in 1640 A.D. The city has a ravishing blend of traditional Tamil Hindu culture and the remarkable British architecture, that can be perceived in the form of old cathedrals, structures constructed in the Indo-Saracenic style. Chennai the fourth largest metropolitan city of India spread over an area of 180 Sq. Kms.
The Fort was Contrived by the British Empire in 1639-1640. It is now used as an official building of the Tamil Nadu government and is known for its architectural splendors, a worth visiting spot.
The temple treasures the ancient scripts dating back to the 13th century AD and is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Marina Beach is considered one of the second longest beaches in the world, extending over a length of 12 km. It is an idle place for all sorts of water activities like diving, swimming, water rafting and yachting.
The Santhome cathedral was constructed by the Portuguese in 14th century AD. It is one of the most significant pilgrimages for the people belonging to the Christian community.
50-kilometer from Chennai is Mahabalipuram, situated on the Bay of Bengal coastline. Famous for 9 temples carved out of the hard rock and 5 temples paved with concrete, known as Pancha Pandava Rathas. Four ratahas are carved out of a single rock depicts some of the unique 8th century Dravidian style archicture.
Also called 'the Golden City of a thousand temples', is 71 km from Chennai. It was the capital of the Pallavas, the Cholas and the Rayas. Pallava regime constructed some of the peerless structures of temples in 6th and 7th centuries. Another attraction of the city is its hand woven silk fabrics, which is famous all over the world.
Chennai is one of the important trade centers of south India. It is famous for its traditional handicrafts, handlooms and silk. Victoria Technical Institute at Mount Road has many retail shops to go for shopping. Srinivasa Silk and B.M. Silks at Mylapore are important silk centers. Gold Ornaments can be best shops at Mount Road.
By Air: All major airlines have direct flight TO Chennai.
By Rail: Chennai is well connected with railways to Bangalore, Cochin, Delhi, Hyderabad, Madurai, Tirupati Trivandrum and Varanasi and also to all ather major cities of India.
By Road: Chennai is connected to important cities by means of road transport. Road-distances from Chennai are Mumbai- 1329 kms, Bangalore 334 kms, Kanyakumari 693 kms, Mahabalipuram 60 kms, . Regular buses available from Chennai to all other major cities in India.


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Q: How can I import raw binary data into an image in Actionscript 2.0/Flash 8? Let me preface this by saying that I am something of an actionscript newbie.
We have a system that allows a user to upload any image, which we store on the server.  Of course, it is simple to load an image (that you know the path to) using loadMovie, but I also want to load certain pieces of meta data about the image that is precalculated and stored on the server; we may one day want to retrieve things completely unrelated to the image as well, so consider the non-image data to be arbitrary.
So, that said, is there a way to simply return the image as a variable (urlencoded and returned in a loadVars request, perhaps) and then load that data into a movie clip?
Bonus Lightning Round Question: Is there a way to check the output of a PHP script which processes uploads when the request is sent via FileReference.upload(url:String)?  Should I load/escape the binary data and then send it using a loadVars() request if I want to see the output?

A: I don't think you need to import the image as 'raw binary data' - you can just store a URL (ie a string) of the path and filename of your image file. Then use the string as an argument to loadMovie (or better still MovieClipLoader.loadClip()) to display the image in your movieClip.
You could call loadVars to get the URL (and your metadata) from a database.

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Cody: Negotiations With CM Punk Never Got Serious, There's Still A Good Relationship There
How close was CM Punk to joining AEW? Well, they sent him a text.
It's no secret that Tony Khan wanted CM Punk as part of AEW from the start, but obviously nothing ever materialized. Konnan recently said on his Keepin' It 100 podcast that Punk asked for "an astronomical amount" of money, which is why the two sides couldn't come to an agreement.
Speaking to Alex McCarthy of talkSPORT, Cody addressed Konnan's claims and revealed just how serious things got between Punk and AEW.
"I like Konnan a lot. He's kind of my AAA buddy. He's a really smart, smart guy. I wish I could spend a little more time with Konnan – I know I'm waxing poetic on Konnan here but I think he's a really great guy. As far as the CM Punk negotiations go, everyone heard the famous 'he got a text from us'. Yeah, of course there were negotiations and he did ask for a great amount of money and Punk is worth a great deal of money. But you also have to – and this isn't speaking to Punk specifically, this is speaking to recruitment and what we've learned in wrestling in general – a lot of people think 'these wrestlers are running this wrestling company'. These wrestlers are doing everything they can to run the creative, the brand and the marketing and things, but there are some very smart and fiscally conservative people who surround us and flank us because this isn't my money. At all."
Cody continued, "I don't want a situation that happened with WCW or Jim Crockett promotions where we think we're flying so high that we can do anything. No – this is a business. And we have to turn a profit. The fact we were able to turn a profit as a company within only two years of being alive, very few other companies within wrestling – it's real limited, you can count on one hand who's been able to do that versus who has bled money – but in that situation the negotiations, I don't think they ever got too serious. Doesn't mean they won't one day, but they never got entirely too serious. I think there is a good relationship there. I think I have a good relationship with Phil, I believe Tony does too and I'm not sure really when it comes to him, it's not so much about the money. It's about are you interested in doing this? Because the price tag becomes a lot more justifiable if you're genuinely interested in what we're doing at the high speed we're doing it. And again, that's not even specific to him, just in general, if the passion is not there, the money is not there."
Punk ended up signing on with FOX and joining WWE Backstage as a special analyst and contributor.
When discussing talent such as FTR, Brian Cage, Shawn Spears, Ricky Starks, Brodie Lee, and others who made their names elsewhere but have since signed with AEW, Cody said, "I think when you look at picking someone up for AEW, you really want to look at what they have left; not what they've done so much, more what they have left in the tank and where the passion level is at. AEW is an artist's space and admittedly, there is some wild west to it. There are some areas where structure is not found, but what's rewarded instead is an artist being an artist."
Cody is set to defend his AEW TNT Title against Sonny Kiss on Wednesday at Fight for the Fallen.
Fightful will have live coverage of Fight for the Fallen beginning at 8 p.m. ET.


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Q: Erro "Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present on the requested resource" Preciso inserir uma API no meu site que traz a previsão do tempo para uma determinada cidade, porém, a requisição ajax sempre retorna o erro no console do navegador. Segue abaixo:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://developers.agenciaideias.com.br/tempo/json/são paulo-SP. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:50745' is therefore not allowed access.

Segue o código da requisição:
$(document).ready(function () {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://developers.agenciaideias.com.br/tempo/json/são paulo-SP',
        type: 'GET',
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(dados) {
             alert("Success");
        },
        error: function() {
             alert('Failed!');
        }
    });
});

A: O erro:

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource

Significa que falta o header Access-Control-Allow-Origin que permite um site de dominio (ou porta) diferente ser acessado por outro(s).

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Se você tem controle sobre os scripts que rodam em developers.agenciaideias.com.br, será necessário adicionar tal header.
Se está usando c#, faça o seguinte:
Response.AppendHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");

Isto irá liberar pra todos domínios. Se quiser liberar para apenas um dominio especifico, supondo que o dominio que está o ajax seja algo como https://exemplo.com (e não seja https):
Response.AppendHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://foo.example");

Outra situação que vale ressaltar é o uso de urls não codificadas, recomendo que faça o seguinte no ajax:
url: 'http://developers.agenciaideias.com.br/tempo/json/' + encodeURIComponent('são paulo-SP'),


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Drozd challenges Wlodarczyk!
Around 15 months ago Poland's Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (49-2-1, 35) traveled to Moscow and over-came the extremely hotly tipped Rakhim Chakhkiev in a multi-knockdown bout to defend his WBC Cruiserweight world title. The bout was great though showed how experience in the pro ranks can be the difference between a win and a loss. For Chakhkiev a lack of experience saw him starting like a rocket and tiring himself out before Wlodarczyk came back to stop him. For the Pole the fight was about remaining calm under the storm, riding it out, and coming back strong.
This week we see Wlodarczyk back in Moscow as he battles against the very experienced Grigory Drozd (38-1, 27), a man who is fighting for the 40th time as a professional but only getting his first shot at a world title, a much over-due shot if you ask us. We know Drozd lost in his most significant bout to date, a TKO at the hands of Firat Arslan, though that fight was almost 8 years ago and the Russian has improved markedly since then whilst Arslan continues to prove that he's a world class Cruiserweight.
Wlodarczyk is a funny fighter in many ways. He's often the "forgotten man" of the Cruiserweight division. He's the only top Cruiserweight not to ply his trade in Russia or Germany and although he has been a 2-time world champion, and a long time belt holder, he still seems to slip off the radar of many fans. We know the Polish fans do enjoy watching "Diablo" and he has built much of his career at home, which possibly why he is so over-looked, though he's also proven his worth on the road with wins in Australia, Russia and the USA.
In terms of Wlodarczyk the fighter he's a lazy fighter and a very slow starter though he combines that with a great engine, heavy hands, solid skills, a real toughness and a great work rate when he finally going. His combination of being tough, calm and heavy handed is really hard to beat and if you try and stop the odds are you're going to tire yourself out trying. The best way to beat him is to box and move, tie up where needed and not get involved in a real fight. We know he has had some gifts but that has generally been down to his laziness as opposed to his skills and when on the road he does seem to find that extra gear when he needs it, in fact all 3 of his wins on the road have been by stoppage.
As for Drozd he is the most over-looked of the Russian Cruiserweights right now. He lacks the destruction of Dmitry Kudryashov, the amateur background of Rakhim Chakhkiev and the brutal wars of Denis Lebedev but he is still genuinely world class and a really talented fighter. Despite being 35 he is riding a great run of results with an outstanding win over Poland's Mateusz Masternak being the best of the bunch.
What we have in Drozd's is a man willing to throw lots of punches, a man with solid and respectable power and although far, far from a concussive puncher he's a fighter will do damage cumulatively over the bout, like Wlodarczyk in some ways. Sadly however he does have that stoppage loss to Arslan hanging over his head and some will question just how tough he really is. We don't doubt he's tough but just how tough?
Sadly for Drozd it's that loss to Arslan that makes us wonder if he can come out the winner here. We're not suggesting Wlodarczyk is the same as Arslan but the similarities don't bode well for Drozd. An on song Wlodarczyk has granite determination and willingness to throw shots, especially when his man is hurt. That is what won Arslan his meeting with Drozd. If Wlodarczyk is on fire we feel he probably stops Drozd. If Wlodarczyk is anything less than 90% of his best however Drozd could score the upset in what could go down as one of the truly exceptional fights of the year. It really does depend on which version of the Pole turns up, the lazy one that struggled with Danny Green or the gritty one that saw off a whirlwind assault from Chakhkiev to dismantle the Russian in the middle rounds.
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In Peru, residents of Cajamarca, Celendín and Bambamarca have been protesting for years against 'Conga', a gold-mining project set up by mining company Yanacocha. This protest continues, with thousands of participants, due to the resoluteness of one family: Acuña – Chaupe. We want to support this family in their years of struggle and resistance.
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EP3101903A1 - Hybrid network system, channel content replay method, and hybrid set top box - Google Patents
Hybrid network system, channel content replay method, and hybrid set top box Download PDF
channel content
Yongjing HUANG
Kun Liu
Jilei Jia
2014-05-27 Priority to CN201410228808.5A priority Critical patent/CN103986945B/en
2014-11-21 Application filed by Huawei Technologies Co Ltd filed Critical Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
2014-11-21 Priority to PCT/CN2014/091842 priority patent/WO2015180429A1/en
H04N21/47—End-user applications
H04N21/482—End-user interface for program selection
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H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
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H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
H04N21/262—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists
H04N21/26283—Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists for associating distribution time parameters to content, e.g. to generate electronic program guide data
H04N21/266—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
H04N21/26616—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel for merging a unicast channel into a multicast channel, e.g. in a VOD application, when a client served by unicast channel catches up a multicast channel to save bandwidth
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H04N21/462—Content or additional data management, e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end, controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
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Embodiments of the present invention disclose a hybrid network system, and provide, based on the hybrid network system, a corresponding channel content playback method, which can avoid idleness of a DVB network. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: accessing, by a hybrid set top box, an EPG system, and acquiring, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content; receiving, based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content through a DVB network channel; acquiring a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user; and acquiring, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a hybrid set top box that can implement the method.
This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201410228808.5 , filed with the Chinese Patent Office on May 27, 2014, and entitled "HYBRID NETWORK SYSTEM, CHANNEL CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD, AND HYBRID SET TOP BOX", which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates to the communications field, and in particular, to a hybrid network system, a channel content playback method, and a hybrid set top box.
A digital video broadcasting (DVB, Digital Video Broadcasting) service has been launched for many years, and related technologies thereof have been quite mature. A principle of the DVB service is: an operator sets up a DVB network, and provides a video live broadcast service for a user through the DVB network, so that the user can watch at home live broadcast television programs around the world conveniently. However, with the development of science and technology and improvement of material living standard of human beings, a user has increasingly diversified requirements for video watching, and live broadcast television programs cannot meet a demand of the user any longer. In recent years, due to popularization of an Internet Protocol (IP, Internet Protocol) network and improvement of network bandwidth, a user can experience rich Internet services, which include a video service such as a web television. In addition, when the user uses an Internet video service, the user can conveniently perform operations on a video, such as pause, rewind, fast forward, and playback, which meets diversified requirements of the user. Therefore, a conventional live broadcast service of a digital television is at a distinct disadvantage under the impact of the Internet.
To improve this situation, operators attempt to introduce some functions of the Internet video service into the digital television. For example, an operator may set up, based on an IP network, a web television platform to introduce a live stream in a DVB network into the IP network by means of headend transcoding, thereby transforming the DVB network into an IP network, and providing a media service for the digital television by using a CDN in the IP network. In this way, the digital television may provide a video service of the IP network for a user, where the video service includes a service such as live broadcast, fast forward, rewind, or playback.
However, at a present stage, operators of conventional broadcast and television deploy a large quantity of DVB networks, and if a DVB network is transformed into an IP network, a large quantity of DVB networks are idle. Consequently, a serious waste of network resources is caused and transformation costs are high, which is hardly affordable for the operators of the conventional broadcast and television.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid network system, and provide, based on the hybrid network system, a corresponding channel content playback method and a corresponding hybrid set top box.
A first aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a hybrid network system, including:
a head end system, configured to acquire channel content from a media source, perform encoding on the channel content, provide live broadcast of the channel content for a terminal through a digital video broadcasting DVB network, and send the channel content to a hybrid video system that is in an Internet Protocol IP network;
the hybrid video system, configured to acquire the channel content from the head end system, perform editing on the channel content, generate a channel list of the channel content, and deliver the channel content to a content delivery network CDN system;
the CDN system, configured to acquire the channel content from the hybrid video system, allocate a URL to the channel content, and report the URL to the hybrid video system, and further configured to provide on-demand broadcast of the channel content for a hybrid set top box according to a request, sent by a user based on the URL, for performing rewinding or fast forwarding on the channel;
an electronic program guide EPG system, configured to acquire the channel list of the channel content and the uniform resource locator URL of the channel content from the hybrid video system, and send the channel list and the URL of the channel content to the hybrid set top box according to a request of the user; and
the hybrid set top box, configured to acquire the channel list from the EPG system, and receive, based on a DVB network channel, the channel content from the head end system through a DVB interface according to channel selection performed by the user based on the channel list, and further configured to acquire the URL of the channel content from the EPG system, and acquire, based on an IP network, the channel content from the CDN through an IP interface according to the rewind or fast forward request, based on the URL, of the user.
A second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a channel content playback method, including:
accessing an EPG system, and acquiring, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content;
receiving, through a DVB network channel and based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content selected by the user;
acquiring a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user, where the first URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
acquiring, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network.
Based on the second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, in a first implementation manner of the second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, the method further includes:
acquiring a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user, where the second URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded; and
acquiring, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
With reference to the first implementation manner of the second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, in a second implementation manner of the second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, the method further includes:
when a moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches a live broadcast moment of the target channel content, receiving the target channel content through the DVB network channel.
A third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention provides a hybrid set top box, including:
an EPG interface, configured to access an EPG system, and acquire, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content;
a DVB interface, configured to receive, through a DVB network channel and based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content selected by the user, where
the EPG interface is further configured to acquire a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user, where the first URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
an IP interface, configured to acquire, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network.
With reference to the third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, in a first implementation manner of the third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, the EPG interface is further configured to acquire a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user, where the second URL is a URL of the corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
the IP interface is further configured to acquire, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
With reference to the first implementation manner of the third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, in a second implementation manner of the third aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, the DVB interface is further configured to:
when a moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches a live broadcast moment of the target channel content, receive the target channel content through the DVB network channel.
It can be seen from the foregoing technical solutions that, according to the embodiments of the present invention, a prior-art method for providing a video live broadcast service through a DVB network is improved, where an IP network is used based on the DVB network. A hybrid set top box (STB, Set Top Box) of a user supports both a DVB network and an IP network. Channel content for live broadcast may be acquired from a head end system through a DVB interface, and the fast forwarded or rewound channel content may also be acquired, based on the IP network, from a content delivery network (CDN, Content Delivery Network) through an IP interface. By using such method, the method provided in the present invention can implement live broadcast of the channel content through the DVB network, and can also implement a rewind operation through the IP network. Because in the embodiments of the present invention, improvement is made based on an existing DVB network, and the DVB network is used to provide a live broadcast service of channel content for a user, idleness of the DVB network is not caused, so that an operator may use the DVB network to provide a live broadcast service for the user, and use an IP network to provide a service based on the IP network for the user. Therefore, network resources are saved, transformation costs are reduced, and requirements of the operator are met.
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FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an embodiment of a hybrid network system in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a channel content playback method in an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of another embodiment of a channel content playback method in an embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of an embodiment of a hybrid set top box in an embodiment of the present invention.
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Embodiments of the present invention provide a hybrid network system, and provide, based on the hybrid network system, a corresponding channel content playback method and a corresponding hybrid set top box, which are respectively described in the following.
For a basic structure of a hybrid network system provided in an embodiment of the present invention, refer to FIG. 1. The hybrid network system mainly includes:
a head end system 101, configured to acquire channel content from a media source, perform encoding on the channel content, provide live broadcast of the channel content for a terminal through a DVB network, and send the channel content to a hybrid video system 102 that is in an IP network;
the hybrid video system 102, configured to acquire the channel content from the head end system 101, perform editing on the channel content, generate a channel list of the channel content, and deliver the channel content to a CDN system 103;
the CDN system 103, configured to acquire the channel content from the hybrid video system 102, allocate a URL to the channel content, and report the URL to the hybrid video system 102, and further configured to provide on-demand broadcast of the channel content for a hybrid set top box 105 according to a request, sent by a user based on the URL, for performing rewinding or fast forwarding on the channel;
an electronic program guide (EPG, Electronic Program Guide) system 104, configured to acquire the channel list of the channel content and the uniform resource locator (URL, Uniform Resource Locator) of the channel content from the hybrid video system 102, and send the channel list and the URL of the channel content to the hybrid set top box105 according to a request of the user; and
the hybrid set top box 105, configured to acquire the channel list from the EPG system 104, and receive, based on a DVB network channel, the channel content from the head end system 101 through a DVB interface according to channel selection performed by the user based on the channel list, and further configured to acquire the URL of the channel content from the EPG system 104, and acquire, based on an IP network, the channel content from the CDN system through an IP interface according to the rewind or fast forward request, based on the URL, of the user.
The hybrid network system provided in this embodiment implements a combination of a DVB network and an IP network. Based on an existing DVB network, the head end system 101 performs encoding on channel content, and sends the encoded channel content to the hybrid video system 102 that is in the IP network. The CDN system 103 in the IP network acquires, from the hybrid video system 102, the encoded channel content, allocates a URL to the encoded channel content, and reports the URL to the hybrid video system 102. The encoded channel content is saved in the CDN system 103 in a form of a content fragment, and the URL is used to locate a location of each content fragment.
When a user watches a live broadcast video, the hybrid set top box 105 acquires, through the DVB network and through the DVB interface, channel content for live broadcast; when the user performs a rewind or fast forward operation, the EPG system 104 acquires, from the hybrid video system 102, a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the channel content has been rewound or fast forwarded; and the hybrid set top box 105 acquires, from the EPG system 104, the URL of the corresponding content fragment to which the channel content has been rewound or fast forwarded, and acquires corresponding channel content from the CDN system 103 according to the acquired URL.
In order that switching can be successfully performed from a DVB network to an IP network, or switching back to a DVB network can be successfully performed from an IP network, a channel list of channel content in the DVB network keeps the same as a channel list of channel content in the IP network.
The DVB network includes a DVB-S network, a DVB-T network, or a DVB-C network, which is not limited in this embodiment. The IP network includes an IP dedicated network or an IP public network, which is not limited in this embodiment.
Specially, an operator may directly deploy an origin server without deploying an entire CDN system 103. The origin server is configured to complete a media distribution capability of the CDN system 103 by means of a caching mechanism of the HTTP protocol.
This embodiment of the present invention provides a hybrid network system, including the head end system 101, the hybrid video system 102, the CDN system 103, the EPG system 104, and the hybrid set top box 105. The head end system 101 performs encoding on channel content provided by a DVB network for live broadcast, and sends encoded channel content to the hybrid video system 102, so that the DVB network is used in combination with an IP network. The hybrid set top box 105 acquires, through a DVB interface, the channel content for live broadcast from the head end system 101, and acquires, based on the IP network, the fast forwarded or rewound channel content from the CDN through an IP interface. By using such method, the method provided in the present invention can implement live broadcast of the channel content through the DVB network, and can also implement a rewind operation through the IP network. Because in this embodiment of the present invention, improvement is made based on an existing DVB network, and the DVB network is used to provide a live broadcast service of channel content for a user, idleness of the DVB network is not caused, so that an operator may use the DVB network to provide a live broadcast service for the user, and use an IP network to provide a service based on the IP network for the user. Therefore, network resources are saved, transformation costs are reduced, and requirements of the operator are met.
Based on the hybrid network system shown in FIG. 1, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a channel content playback method. For a basic process of the method, refer to FIG. 2.
201: Access an EPG system, and acquire, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content.
The EPG system may provide presentation of the channel list. In this embodiment, a hybrid set top box accesses the EPG system after being started, and acquires, from the EPG system, the channel list of the channel content.
202: Receive, based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content through a DVB network channel.
After an EPG system presents the channel list to the user, the user selects, according to the channel list, channel content that the user expects to watch. The hybrid set top box receives, based on the channel selection performed by the user according to the channel list, the target channel content through the DVB network channel, where the target channel content is the channel content selected by the user.
It can be understood that in this step, the target channel content received by the hybrid set top box through a DVB network is live broadcast of the target channel content.
203: Acquire a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user.
The hybrid set top box acquires, through the DVB network channel, channel content for live broadcast, where a current playing time point of the channel content acquired by the hybrid set top box through the DVB network channel is a live broadcast moment. If the user needs to watch channel content that is on the target channel and whose moment is earlier than the live broadcast moment, a rewind operation may be performed. In this case, the target channel content received by the hybrid set top box through the DVB network cannot meet a rewind requirement of the user, so that the hybrid set top box is switched from the DVB network to an IP network to respond to the rewind operation of the user.
To acquire, through the IP network, the rewound target channel content, the hybrid set top box first needs to locate a content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound and that is saved in a CDN. The hybrid set top box acquires, from the EPG system, the first URL, that is, a URL of the corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound.
Specifically, after the user performs the rewind operation, the hybrid set top box sends a rewind request to the EPG system according to a target channel time point to which the user rewinds, and the EPG system determines, according to the target channel time point to which the user needs to rewind, an identifier of a content fragment, which corresponds to the time point, of target channel content, and determines, according to the identifier of the content fragment, a URL of the content fragment.
The EPG system may acquire the first URL from a hybrid video system.
204: Acquire, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network.
After acquiring the first URL, the hybrid set top box may locate the rewound target channel content. The hybrid set top box acquires, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
This embodiment provides, based on the hybrid network system shown in FIG. 1, a channel content playback method, where a hybrid set top box accesses an EPG system, and acquires, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content; receives, based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content through a DVB network channel; acquires a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user; and acquires, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network. By using such method, the hybrid set top box provided in this embodiment of the present invention implements receiving, through the DVB network channel, target channel content for live broadcast, and acquiring the rewound target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network. Because in this embodiment of the present invention, improvement is made based on an existing DVB network, and the DVB network is used to provide a live broadcast service of channel content for a user, idleness of the DVB network is not caused, so that an operator may use the DVB network to provide a live broadcast service for the user, and use an IP network to provide a service based on the IP network for the user. Therefore, network resources are saved, transformation costs are reduced, and requirements of the operator are met.
The embodiment shown in FIG. 2 provides a channel content playback method, so that it is implemented that a hybrid set top box receives, through a DVB network channel, target channel content for live broadcast, and acquires the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network. The following embodiment provides, based on the hybrid network system shown in FIG. 1, another channel content playback method, which can implement acquisition of rewound target channel content, and can also implement acquisition of fast forwarded channel content. Referring to FIG. 3, a basic process of still another embodiment according to the present invention includes:
Step 301 to step 304 are basically the same as step 201 to step 204, and details are not described herein again.
305: Acquire a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user.
If the user performs a fast forward operation after performing the rewind operation, to respond to the fast forward operation of the user, a hybrid set top box first needs to locate a content fragment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded and that is saved in a CDN. The hybrid set top box acquires, from the EPG system, the second URL, that is, a URL of the corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded.
A method and a process for acquiring the second URL are consistent with a method and a process for acquiring the first URL.
The EPG system may acquire the second URL from a hybrid video system.
306: Acquire, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
After acquiring the second URL, the hybrid set top box may locate the fast forwarded target channel content. The hybrid set top box acquires, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
It can be understood that the hybrid set top box cannot be switched, in a case in which live broadcast of the target channel content is performed through the DVB network channel, to the IP network to respond to the fast forward operation of the user, and only when the hybrid set top box has been switched to the IP network and the rewind operation is performed, the hybrid set top box can respond to the fast forward operation of the user.
This embodiment provides, based on the hybrid network system shown in FIG. 1, a channel content playback method, where a hybrid set top box accesses an EPG system, and acquires, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content; receives, based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content through a DVB network channel; acquires a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user; acquires, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network; acquires a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user; and acquires, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network. By using such method, the hybrid set top box provided in this embodiment of the present invention implements receiving, through the DVB network channel, target channel content for live broadcast, and acquiring the rewound or fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network. Because in this embodiment of the present invention, improvement is made based on an existing DVB network, and the DVB network is used to provide a live broadcast service of channel content for a user, idleness of the DVB network is not caused, so that an operator may use the DVB network to provide a live broadcast service for the user, and use an IP network to provide a service based on the IP network for the user. Therefore, network resources are saved, transformation costs are reduced, and requirements of the operator are met.
It can be understood that when the user performs the fast forward operation, a moment of the content fragment that is acquired by the hybrid set top box from the CDN system and to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded is not later than that of a channel live broadcast moment of the target channel content. Specially, when the moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches the live broadcast moment of the target channel content, the hybrid set top box switches from receiving the target channel content through a DVB network channel to receiving the target channel content through an IP network, that is, switches from fast forwarding of the target channel content to live broadcast of the target channel content.
The IP network includes an IP public network or an IP dedicated network. Preferably, if the IP network is an IP public network, when receiving, through the IP public network, the fast forwarded target channel content, the hybrid set top box may acquire an index file of the content fragment corresponding to the target channel content, so that the hybrid set top box can determine whether the moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches the live broadcast moment of the target channel content; and if the IP network is an IP dedicated network, the CDN system determines whether the moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches the live broadcast moment of the target channel content, and notifies the hybrid set top box of a result of the determining.
For better understanding of the foregoing embodiment, the following provides description by using a specific application scenario of the foregoing embodiment as an example.
A user intends to watch a television to watch NBA finals to be live broadcast on CCTV-5 channel, so the user starts a hybrid set top box; and the hybrid set top box accesses an EPG system, acquires, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content, and presents the channel list to the user.
The user selects the CCTV-5 channel according to the channel list, and the hybrid set top box receives, through a DVB network, NBA finals that are being live broadcast on the CCTV-5 channel, and provides the received content for the user.
When advertising time begins after the first two quarters of the game end, the user expects to review previous content of the game, so the user performs a rewind operation, that is, performs rewinding by 60sec.
The hybrid set top box receives the operation that is performed by the user for rewinding by 60sec, acquires, from the EPG system, a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which CCTV-5 channel content has been rewound by 60sec, and acquires, according to the URL and from a CDN system located in an IP network, the CCTV-5 channel content to which rewinding is performed by 60sec, and provides the content for the user.
After the user watches video content that the user expects to review, the user expects to enter live broadcast to wait for the third quarter of the game to start, so the user performs a fast forward operation, that is, performs fast forwarding by 50sec.
The hybrid set top box receives the operation that is performed by the user for fast forwarding by 50sec, acquires, from the EPG system, a URL of a corresponding content fragment obtained when the CCTV-5 channel content has been rewound by 60sec and fast forwarded by 50sec, and acquires, according to the URL, the corresponding CCTV-5 channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network, and provides the content for the user.
The user finds that a moment of watched channel content is still earlier than a live broadcast moment of the channel content, so the user continues to perform a fast forward operation, that is, perform fast forwarding by 20sec.
Because the user performs an operation of rewinding by 60sec and an operation of fast forwarding by 50sec, a moment of the CCTV-5 channel content provided by the hybrid set top box for the user is only 10sec earlier than the live broadcast moment of the channel content. Therefore, when the user performs fast forwarding by 20sec, the hybrid set top box determines that a moment to which the CCTV-5 channel content has been fast forwarded has reached the live broadcast moment of the CCTV-5 channel, so the hybrid set top box acquires the CCTV-5 channel content through the DVB network, and provides live broadcast of the CCTV-5 channel content for the user.
An embodiment of the present invention further provides a hybrid set top box supporting the foregoing hybrid network system and channel content playback method; for a basic structure of the hybrid set top box, refer to FIG. 4. The hybrid set top box mainly includes:
an EPG interface 401, configured to access an EPG system, and acquire, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content;
a DVB interface 402, configured to receive, based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content through a DVB network channel, where the target channel content is channel content selected by the user, where
the EPG interface 401 is further configured to acquire a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user, where the first URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
an IP interface 403, configured to acquire, according to the first URL, the rewound target channel content from a CDN system located in an IP network.
The hybrid set top box provided in this embodiment can implement the channel content playback method provided in the embodiments of the present invention. After being started, the EPG interface 401 of the hybrid set top box accesses the EPG system, and acquires, from the EPG system, the channel list of the channel content; then the hybrid set top box acquires, through the DVB interface 402 and based on the channel selection performed by the user according to the channel list, channel content for live broadcast from a DVB network; and when the user performs a rewind operation, the EPG interface 401 of the hybrid set top box acquires, from the EPG system, the first URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the channel content has been rewound, and the IP interface 403 of the hybrid set top box acquires, according to the acquired first URL, corresponding channel content from the CDN system.
The hybrid set top box provided in this embodiment supports both a DVB network and an IP network. Channel content for live broadcast may be acquired through a DVB interface 402, and the fast forwarded or rewound channel content may also be acquired, based on the IP network, from a CDN through an IP interface 403. Live broadcast of the channel content can be performed through the DVB network, and a rewind operation can also be performed through the IP network. Because the hybrid set top box in this embodiment uses a DVB network to provide a live broadcast service of channel content for a user, idleness of the DVB network is not caused, so that an operator may use the DVB network to provide a live broadcast service for the user, and use an IP network to provide a service based on the IP network for the user. Therefore, network resources are saved, transformation costs are reduced, and requirements of the operator are met.
Preferably, to support a fast forward operation of the user, the EPG interface 401 is further configured to acquire a second URL from the EPG system according to the fast forward operation of the user, where the second URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and the IP interface 403 is further configured to acquire, according to the second URL, the fast forwarded target channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network.
Preferably, the DVB interface 402 is further configured to: when a moment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded reaches a live broadcast moment of the target channel content, receive the target channel content through the DVB network channel.
A user intends to watch a television to watch NBA finals to be live broadcast on CCTV-5, so the user starts a hybrid set top box; and the hybrid set top box accesses an EPG system through the EPG interface 401, acquires, from the EPG system, a channel list of channel content, and presents the channel list to the user.
The user selects a CCTV-5 channel according to the channel list, and the hybrid set top box receives, through the DVB interface 402 and through a DVB network, NBA finals that are being live broadcast on the CCTV-5 channel, and provides the received content for the user.
The hybrid set top box receives the operation that is performed by the user for rewinding by 60sec, acquires, from the EPG system, a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which CCTV-5 channel content has been rewound by 60sec, and acquires, through the IP interface 403 according to the URL and from a CDN system located in an IP network, the CCTV-5 channel content to which rewinding is performed by 60sec, and provides the content for the user.
The hybrid set top box receives the operation that is performed by the user for fast forwarding by 50sec, acquires, from the EPG system, a URL of a corresponding content fragment obtained when the CCTV-5 channel content has been rewound by 60sec and fast forwarded by 50sec, and acquires, through the IP interface 403 according to the URL, the corresponding CCTV-5 channel content from the CDN system located in the IP network, and provides the content for the user.
Because the user performs an operation of rewinding by 60sec and an operation of fast forwarding by 50sec, a moment of the CCTV-5 channel content provided by the hybrid set top box for the user is only 10sec earlier than the live broadcast moment of the channel content. Therefore, when the user performs fast forwarding by 20sec, the hybrid set top box determines that a moment to which the CCTV-5 channel content has been fast forwarded has reached the live broadcast moment of the CCTV-5 channel, so the hybrid set top box acquires the CCTV-5 channel content through the DVB interface 402 and through the DVB network, and provides live broadcast of the CCTV-5 channel content for the user.
It may be clearly understood by persons skilled in the art that, for the purpose of convenient and brief description, for a detailed working process of the foregoing system, apparatus, and unit, reference may be made to a corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiments, and details are not described herein again.
In the several embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed system, apparatus, and method may be implemented in other manners. For example, the described apparatus embodiment is merely exemplary. For example, the unit division is merely logical function division and may be other division in actual implementation. For example, a plurality of units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual couplings or direct couplings or communication connections may be implemented by using some interfaces. The indirect couplings or communication connections between the apparatuses or units may be implemented in electronic, mechanical, or other forms.
The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one position, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.
In addition, functional units in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each of the units may exist alone physically, or two or more units are integrated into one unit. The integrated unit may be implemented in a form of hardware, or may be implemented in a form of a software functional unit.
When the integrated unit is implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the integrated unit may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention essentially, or the part contributing to the prior art, or all or some of the technical solutions may be implemented in the form of a software product. The software product is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, or the like) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present invention. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), a random access memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
The foregoing embodiments are merely intended for describing the technical solutions of the present invention, but not for limiting the present invention. Although the present invention is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, persons of ordinary skill in the art should understand that they may still make modifications to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or make equivalent replacements to some technical features thereof, without departing from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.
A hybrid network system, comprising:
the CDN system, configured to acquire the channel content from the hybrid video system, allocate a URL to the channel content, and report the URL to the hybrid video system, and further configured to provide on-demand broadcast of the channel content for a hybrid set top box according to a request, sent by a user based on the URL, for performing rewinding or fast forwarding on the channel content;
an electronic program guide EPG system, configured to acquire the channel list of the channel content and the URL of the channel content from the hybrid video system, and send the channel list and the URL of the channel content to the hybrid set top box according to a request of the user; and
A channel content playback method, comprising:
acquiring a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user, wherein the first URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
The channel content playback method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:
acquiring a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user, wherein the second URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been fast forwarded; and
A hybrid set top box, comprising:
a DVB interface, configured to receive, through a DVB network channel and based on channel selection performed by a user according to the channel list, target channel content selected by the user, wherein
the EPG interface is further configured to acquire a first URL from the EPG system according to a rewind operation of the user, wherein the first URL is a URL of a corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
The hybrid set top box according to claim 5, wherein:
the EPG interface is further configured to acquire a second URL from the EPG system according to a fast forward operation of the user, wherein the second URL is a URL of the corresponding content fragment to which the target channel content has been rewound; and
The hybrid set top box according to claim 6, wherein the DVB interface is further configured to:
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Killers whose callous disregard has led to the death of their victims will, if convicted, face life in jail under new Palaszczuk Government legislation.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the legislation to be introduced to Parliament this week would expand the definition of murder and provide greater protection for Queenslanders.
"This is about holding killers to account for their actions. It is about ensuring justice is delivered for their victims, and those who are left devastated by their deaths – their families and friends," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"The Criminal Code and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019 is a new weapon in the arsenal of law enforcement.
"Right now, intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm must be proven.
"My Government intends to redefine murder so that murder includes the unlawful killing of another if the death is caused by an act or omission with reckless indifference to human life.
"We want to see stronger sentences imposed when people take the lives of our most vulnerable – children, the elderly and the disabled.
"The Bill is also aimed at capturing those child manslaughter cases at the 'higher end' of culpability, involving violence or significant neglect but where intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm cannot be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Palaszczuk Government decided to expand the definition of murder following the release of the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council's Sentencing for criminal offences arising from the death of a child – Final Report.
Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath asked the independent body, comprised of legal representatives and community advocates with extensive experience in victims of crime, to review sentencing for child homicide.
"QSAC found the system was not working when it came to child manslaughter sentences," she said.
"This Bill will also implement QSAC's recommendation to add an aggravating factor to manslaughter of a child under 12, which will increase the lengths of sentences.
"Because it is difficult to establish intent, even when a vulnerable child or a vulnerable adult suffers a violent death, many killers are convicted of manslaughter, rather than murder.
The Bill also increases the maximum penalty for the offence of failure to supply necessaries from three years imprisonment to seven years.
"Every child has the right to safety and a home free from violence. And every adult needs to remember that being a parent and carer is not a right, it's a responsibility," Mrs D'Ath said.


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Our second release of Shiraz from this special site. Drinks well now and will do so for the next 3-7 years. Try this with roasted rack of lamb.


The Raiders saw enough from two tryout defenders over the weekend to extend offers. Former Tennessee defensive lineman LaTroy Lewis and ex-Wagner College linebacker Najee Harris will sign with the team, Michael Gehlken of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (Twitter links). Both agreed to three-year deals, although they will obviously have uphill battles due to the circumstances of their respective signings. Lewis played both defensive end and tackle with the Volunteers.
The Jets announced that they've signed tryout offensive linemen Benjamin Braden and Chris Bordelon. In order to create roster space, New York has waived offensive lineman Donald Hawkins and long snapper Zach Triner. Braden appeared in 38 games during his career at Michigan, while Bordelon was a 12-game starter for Nicholls State in 2016. Hawkins, meanwhile, played in seven contests for Carolina last season, but finished out the year with Gang Green.
The Ravens have released RB Stephen Houston, per Jeff Zrebiec of the Baltimore Sun (via Twitter).
The Panthers signed their entire draft class several days ago, and now they are working on filling out their 90-man roster. As Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk reports, Carolina has signed LB Kyle Kragen (whose father, Greg Kragen, was a member of the Panthers' 1995 expansion team), LB Alex Bazzie, and DT Gabriel Mass.


One night in bed a wife says to her husband of 50 years, "When we were young you used to hold my hand." Slowly, a little irritated, his hand reaches out... "and when we were young you used to snuggle up against me." A little more slowly his body creaks and turns, nestling against hers. "And when we were young you used to nibble on my ear" Abrubtly the covers are thrown back and he lurches out of bed. "Where are you going?" she asks, a little hurt. "To get my teeth" he grumbles. To nibble on an ear when you're full of romance and bubbling hormones and the room is scented with perfume is one thing; to still be nibbling when the ear holds a hearing device, the room is scented with Bengay, and you have to get your teeth---- that's something else. That's love and loyalty.