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The scope of discovery protocols on network domains of devices and services is extended. A search message or an announcement message on a multicast channel in one domain gets encapsulated into a unicast message that is sent to a second domain. The multicast message is extracted from the unicast message in the second domain and is input to the second domain's multicast channel.
1. A method of bridging a plurality of multicast domains, the method comprising:
enabling to transfer a multicast message, originating in a specific one of the domains, as a unicast message to at least another one of the domains;
enabling to regenerate the multicast message from the unicast message in the other domain.
2. The method of
3. The method of claim, wherein the multicast message comprises an announcement message for announcing presence of a device or service.
4. The method of
5. The method of
6. The method of
7. A unicast message on a data network, a multicast message being encapsulated in the unicast message.
8. A component for use with a multicast domain, the component being operative to encapsulate a multicast message, received from a multicast channel in the multicast domain, in a unicast message.
9. A component for use with a multicast domain, the component being operative to extract a multicast message from a unicast message for forwarding the multicast message to a multicast channel of the multicast domain.
[0001] The invention relates to aspects and use of discovery procedures on a multi-domain network.
[0002] Home network architectures such as HAVi, UPnP, Jini and VESA typically contain a device discovery protocol. This protocol is used to implement plug-and-play behavior, i.e., when a device is plugged into the network (or�in the wireless case�comes within range) it is automatically discovered by all interested parties, and can be used immediately. IP-based home networks such as UPnP and Jini build their discovery protocol on top of IP multicasting. In this case, a standard IP address and port are standardized as the multicast channel. Devices that join the network and want to announce themselves to the rest of the network send certain announcement messages to this channel. Devices that want to discover new devices simply listen to this channel.
[0003] Automatic discovery of devices is particularly important for wireless devices such as PDAs or mobile phones that enter or leave the (home) network, together with the person carrying them. However, automatic discovery is also relevant to non-mobile devices. These devices may be turned on or off by users at will, and in that sense enter or leave the network. Another reason why automatic discovery is important is the volatile nature of IP addresses. Typically, IP address allocation schemes such as DHCP assign IP addresses to devices on a temporary basis. In other words, a device discovered yesterday at IP address �A� might have IP address �B� tomorrow. The discovery protocol offers a mechanism for this device to announce itself at this new address, thereby ensuring that all interested clients become aware of this new address. Even if the device has not left or entered the home network from a user point of view, it has from a network point of view. Hence, discovery is not just a one-time-only activity performed when a device is brought home from a store and placed into a home network. Rather, it is a setup process that needs to be performed every time a user or application wants to use and control certain types of devices.
[0004] Discovery based on IP multicasting gives rise to some problems. For example, IP multicasting is not generally supported throughout the whole Internet. Many IP routers and firewalls/gateways simply block all multicast traffic. As another problematic aspect, IP multicasting does not scale. A multicast message needs to have a Time-To-Live (TTL) field specifying the scope of the multicast message. The TTL field specifies the number of routers that this packet may traverse, and is needed to avoid flooding the whole Internet with these messages. The IP multicast routing protocol uses the TTL field of IP datagrams to decide how �far� from a sending host a given multicast packet should be forwarded. The default TTL for multicast datagrams is unity, which results in multicast packets going only to other hosts on the local network. It is generally impossible to know the number of routers in a path between two devices. Hence is it generally unknown to predict a sensible TTL value, and there is no guarantee in advance that a multicast message will reach all relevant destinations.
[0005] The inventor has realized that a TTL value can be used to specify clusters of devices that can discover each other. An aspect of this invention relates, among other things, to a mechanism to connect multiple ones of such clusters via �tunneling� of these multicast messages inside point-to-point (or unicast) messages exchanged between Extended Discovery Servers. The result is that devices and applications in separate clusters, residing at locations remote from each other and connected through these servers, can now discover and control each other.
[0006] An aspect of the invention therefore relates to a method of bridging a plurality of multicast domains. A multicast message, originating in a specific one of the domains, is enabled to be transferred as a unicast message to at least another one of the domains. Then, the multicast message is enabled to be re-generated from the unicast message in the other domain.
[0007] Another aspect of the invention relates to hardware or a software component for use on a first multicast domain, e.g., a first part of a home network. The component is operative to encapsulate a multicast message in a unicast message for being sent to a second multicast domain, e.g., a second part of the home network.
[0008] The invention allows to extend the scope of discovery protocols via multicast tunneling and reference translation: a search message or an announcement message on a multicast channel in one domain gets encapsulated into a unicast message that is sent to a second domain. The multicast message is extracted from the unicast message in the second domain and is input to the second domain's multicast channel.
[0009] The invention is explained below in further detail, by way of example, and with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:
[0010]FIGS. 1 and 2 are event diagrams illustrating searching and announcement events in a multicast domain;
[0011]FIGS. 3 and 4 are event diagrams illustrating the tunneling of a multicast messages between two multicast domains;
[0012]FIGS. 5 and 6 are event diagrams illustrating the tunneling between multicast domains with a UPnP configuration.
[0013] Throughout the figures, same reference numerals indicate similar or corresponding components or features.
[0014]FIGS. 1 and 2 are event diagrams illustrating searching and announcing events in a single multicast domain. A typical discovery protocol involves devices (or software applications) that assume one of two possible roles: on the one hand a controlled device or server; and on the other hand a controller device or client application. A discovery protocol implements active searching by controller devices for controlled devices (of a particular type).
[0015] In FIG. 1, a controller device 102 sends a search message 104 to a multicast channel 106. Controlled devices 108, 110 and 112 listen to multicast channel 106. Relevant ones of controlled devices 108-112 send unicast responses 114 and 116 to device 102, the sender of search message 104.
[0016] In FIG. 2, controlled devices 108 and 208 send announcement messages 202 and 204 to multicast channel 106 to announce their presence, e.g., periodically or upon a certain event such as �power-on� or �coming within range� as for device 208. Controlled device 110 sends announcement messages 206, to multicast channel 106 to announce its imminent disappearance (e.g., in case of a power shutdown).
[0017] Search responses 114 and 116 and presence announcements 202,204 contain respective references to the respective discovered devices. A reference comprises, e.g., an IP address or a URL. Subsequent interaction with the discovered device is based on this reference.
[0018] This invention introduces a software component referred to herein as an �Extended Discovery Server� (EDS) that can be added to a (home) network in order to enable the devices on this network to discover (or be discovered) and be used by remote devices. The EDS needs to be connected, through the Internet or another Wide Area Network (WAN), to one or more remote EDSs. It needs to know global references to these EDSs, such as static global IP addresses or registered Internet domain names. The operation of an EDS is described below for two scenarios: a controller device searches for remote devices to interact with, and a controlled device announces its presence or imminent disappearance to remote controller devices.
[0019]FIG. 3 illustrates a scenario with events in a domain 302 and a domain 304, e.g., Home1 and Home2, respectively. Domain 302 has an EDS 306 and domain 304 has an EDS 308. EDSs 306 and 308 enable to share their networks, i.e., domains 302 and 304, with one another. EDSs 306 and 308 both listen to messages on multicast channels 310 and 312. In the example shown, a search message 314 is detected by EDS 306 in domain 302. EDS 306 encapsulates multicast message 314 together with a reference to the multicast sender, here a device 316, in a new unicast message 318. In case original multicast sender 316 in domain 302 was using a local reference, that reference is translated via, for example, NAT, and replaced by an equivalent global reference. EDS 306 then sends encapsulated multicast message 318 as unicast message via WAN 326 to one or more other EDSs that it wants to share devices with. In this example, the relevant other EDS is EDS 308. When EDS 308 receives message 318 from EDS 306, the former extracts the encapsulated search message 314 and the global reference of original multicast sender 316. EDS 308 then sends extracted search message 320 to a multicast channel 312 in domain 304. Thus, original multicast message 314 is regenerated in a different multicast domain as if it has tunneled from domain 302 via WAN 326 into domain 304. Since EDS 308 is the sender of regenerated multicast message 320, it will receive the response, if any, to this search message. Each response received from devices in domain 304, e.g., devices 322 and 324, will be forwarded to sender 316 of the original search in domain 302. In case the responses contain local references, those references are translated via, for example, NAT, and replaced by equivalent global references. Now that controller device 316 in domain 302 has discovered controlled device 322 in domain 304 that it searched for, it can use the references received to interact with devices 322 and 324. The actual mechanism to implement this is independent of this invention. Usually, these mechanisms are based on unicast, such as HTTP.
[0020]FIG. 4 illustrates a scenario with events in domains 302 and 304, wherein a device 402 announces its presence. EDSs 306 and 308 listen to messages on the standardized multicast channels 310 and 312, respectively. Whenever an announcement message 404 is detected by an EDS, in this scenario by EDS 308 in domain 304, the relevant EDS encapsulates the entire multicast message 404. In case announcement 404 contains a local reference, e.g., to its sender device 406, that reference is translated via, for example, NAT and replaced by an equivalent global reference. EDS 308 then sends the encapsulated multicast message 408 as unicast message via WAN 326 to one or more other EDSs, in this scenario, EDS 306. When EDS 306 receives unicast message 408 from EDS 308, the former extracts encapsulated announcement message 404 from message 408. EDS 306 then sends the extracted announcement message 412 to multicast channel 310 in domain 302. Thus, original multicast message 404 is regenerated in a different multicast domain as if it had tunneled from domain 304 via WAN 326 to domain 302. Now that announcement 404 has been regenerated in domain 302 as message 412, controller devices in domain 302 are aware of new device 406 in domain 304 and can interact with device 404 through the reference contained in announcement message 412. The actual mechanism to do this is independent of this invention. Usually, these mechanisms are based on unicast, such as HTTP.
[0021] The invention allows entities that can be discovered within a single domain, e.g., a home network or another restricted area, to be discovered by remote applications, in a controlled way. The entities can be devices such as those based on UPnP, services, individual pieces of audio/video (AV) content information, or even persons associated with a personal device such as a PDA or mobile phone. The reach of the extended discovery protocol is determined by the set of EDSs that know each other's network address.
[0022] For example, a group of three friends might decide to share their home network by establishing a relation between their EDSs. Another example is a mobile professional that establishes a relation between his EDS at home and his EDS at work or vacation location. The actual mechanism to establish these relation is independent of the object of this invention.
[0023] After discovery a remote entity through the EDS mechanism, the entity may be used/controlled. For example: a security camera in a home may be inspected from a work or vacation location; a song or video stored in a friends home may be downloaded or streamed to your own home; a VCR in a home may be programmed from a remote location; a device may be turned off from a remote location, to save energy, for example one's home network can be monitored remotely, for example, to detect intrusions/abnormalities such as devices disappearing without authorization or applications searching for devices at odd times of the day.
[0024] An EDS may implement a filtering mechanism, to allow remote access only to certain devices in the home, or only at certain times of the day, or only to certain �trusted� remote EDSs. This filtering can also be personalized per user.
[0025]FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate the above in some more detail for multicast domains with UPnP configurations. The UPnP standard defines a discovery protocol referred to as Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP). It is used to discover either UPnP devices or UPnP services. In UPnP terminology, a service is a functional component that is part of a UPnP device. SSDP uses a standard multicast channel, 126.96.36.199:1900, and a TTL of 4. SSDP defines the following messages:
[0026] NOTIFY (ssdp:alive): periodically sent by a controlled device to the multicast channel to announce its presence. Contains a URL reference to the devices' description document.
[0027] NOTIFY (ssdp:byebye): sent by a controlled device to the multicast channel to announce its imminent disappearance.
[0028] M-SEARCH (<search-target>): sent by a controller device to the multicast channel to search for specific device types, service types, device instances or all devices. Controlled devices that match the <search target> need to respond to the sender of the search with a message containing a URL reference to the device's description document.
[0029] After a controller device has used SSDP to discover a device that it is interested in, it has the URL to the device's document. It can subsequently fetch this document and parse it to find references to the services (=functional components) that the device contains. It can then use those references to actually interact with this device. The references are in the form of URLs, and interaction is based on using the HTTP protocol (via a POST message) between controller device and controlled device.
[0030] In some homes, the URL references that a device uses to announce itself are based on a so-called �local� IP address, meaning that the address is not globally unique, and the URL reference is not usable on the global Internet. In such a home, at least one device�e.g., the Internet Gateway�has a global IP address. This Internet Gateway typically implements NAT (Network Address Translation) or NAPT (Network Address Port Translation), which is a mechanism to map a local IP address plus port to a global IP address plus port. The EDS can use this mechanism to replace local addresses by a global address for all SSDP messages that leave the home to travel the Internet and arrive at a remote home. Specifically, this concerns the following messages:
[0031] NOTIFY (ssdp:alive) of a local device;
[0032] response to a remote M-SEARCH (<search-target>) message;
[0033] In this embodiment, the unicast message used to tunnel is an HTTP POST mechanism. The HTTP body contains the complete SSDP message (the SSDP header+body) plus, in case of an SSDP search, the IP address and port of the sender. This latter information is encoded as an HTTP header called �ORGINAL-MCAST-SENDER�. The EDSs in this embodiment know each other, in the form of a URL reference.
[0034] More specifically, a tunneled search message looks like this:
[0035] POST <path of URL of EDS> HTTP/1.1
[0038] MAN: �ssdp:discover�
[0039] MX: <seconds to delay response>
[0040] ST: <search target>
[0041] ORGINAL-MCAST-SENDER: <global IP address and port of the multicast sender>
[0042] A tunneled announcement of presence message looks like this:
[0043] POST <path of URL reference of remote EDS> HTTP/1.1
[0046] CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=<seconds until advertisement expires>
[0047] LOCATION: <global URL reference to the device>
[0048] NT: <search target>
[0049] NTS: �ssdp:alive�
[0050] SERVER: <OS/version> UPnP/1.0 <product/version>
[0051] USN: <advertisement UUID>
[0052] A tunneled announcement of imminent disappearance message may look like:
[0053] POST <path of URL of EDS>HTTP/1.1
[0056] NT: <search target>
[0057] NT: �ssdp:byebye�
[0058] USN: <advertisement UUID>
[0059] The HTTP POST response to this would be a standard ok response, in all cases:
[0061] Parts of the above messages that are enclosed in brackets (�<� and �>�) are not to be taken literally, but are to be interpreted as defined in the UPnP SSDP specification.
[0062]FIGS. 5 and 6 are event diagrams showing the scenarios for search tunneling corresponding to FIG. 3, and for announcement tunneling corresponding to FIG. 4. The events have been rephrased in terms specific to this UPnP/SSDP/HTTP embodiment.
[0063] Incorporated herein by reference are the following patent documents:
[0064] U.S. Ser. No. 09/635,548 (attorney docket US 000107) filed Aug. 10, 2000 for Eugene Shteyn and Paul Rankin for MOBILE MICRO PORTAL. This document relates to covering a geographic region has a network of beacons. Each beacon transmits a short-range facilitation signal for receipt on a user's mobile communication device. The facilitation signal initiates associating the facilitation signal with a service and conditionally alerts the user to the service via the device dependent on a user profile. The user-profile and the association between facilitation signal and service are user-programmable.
[0065] U.S. Ser. No. 09/844,570 (attorney docket US 018052) filed Apr. 26, 2001 for Eugene Shteyn for DISTRIBUTED STORAGE ON A P2P NETWORK ARCHITECTURE. This document relates to an electronic content delivery system that uses a network of end-user devices around a hub. Each end-user device has storage capability. Content is stored in a distributed fashion on the network of these end-user devices for being made available to individual ones of these devices in a P2P fashion so as to cut download time and reduce transmission errors.
[0066] U.S. Ser. No. 09/616,632 (attorney docket US 000184) filed Jul. 26, 2000 for Jean Moonen et al., for SERVER-BASED MULTI-STANDARD HOME NETWORK BRIDGING. This document relates to a bridge in a network that couples first and second clusters of devices. The clusters have different software architectures. The bridge is connected to a server on the Internet. This server offers a lookup service for some set of standards, and allows a bridge to locate and download the appropriate translation modules for allowing a device in the first cluster to interact with the second cluster.
[0067] U.S. Ser. No. 09/340,272 (attorney docket PHA 23,634) filed Jun. 25, 1999 for Eugene Shteyn for BRIDGING MULTIPLE HOME NETWORK SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES. This document relates to integrating networks of different software architectures with each other. References to software representations of devices and services on a first one of the networks are automatically created. The references are semantically sufficient to enable automatic creation of at least partly functionally equivalent software representations for a second one of the networks so as to make the devices and services of the first network accessible from the second network.
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No Man's Land
Samet's memoir has a bone to pick with American society and the Army itself—both, she believes, failed her former West Point cadets, soldiers who never returned.
February 19, 2015Andrew J. BacevichPolitics5 comments
Will We Torture Again?
Can we now say with confidence that our government will not use torture again? In light of reaction to the Senate Intelligence Committee's report, I fear we can't.
December 11, 2014E. J. Dionne Jr.Politics9 comments
Back to Iraq?
The current situation in Iraq may pull the United States back into that country, and thus threatens to undermine Obama's efforts to reorient American foreign policy.
June 24, 2014The EditorsPolitics3 comments
Dick Cheney's Chutzpah
Cheney's Obama polemic would be outrageous even if our former vice president's record on Iraq was one of absolute clairvoyance. But he was wrong in almost every way.
June 18, 2014E. J. Dionne Jr.Politics5 comments
The Duplicity of the Ideologues
Robert Kagan endeavors to beguile while constructing a version of "truth" that ignores inconvenient facts. There's a name for this technique: It's called propaganda.
June 4, 2014Andrew J. BacevichPolitics18 comments
Defensive Secretary
Gates saw himself as a manager working to get things done. But managerial skills used in the service of getting the wrong things done is of little help to anybody.
May 14, 2014Alan WolfePolitics, Film & Arts7 comments
Self Help
A fear that the United States not only has decisively lost its power in the region, but is also responsible for why everything seems to be going wrong.
January 15, 2014William PfaffPolitics0 comments
American Innocence
'The Irony of American History' shines a klieg light on the so-called war on terror and the current debate over the operations of our "national security state."
A Language of Solidarity
Robert N. Bellah, who died in July, was a contributor to Commonweal for more than twenty years. Here are excerpts from some of his articles.
August 7, 2013The EditorsPolitics, Religion0 comments
The False God of 'Narrative'
"What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?" Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist...
May 16, 2013E. J. Dionne Jr.Politics8 comments
Obama Needs to Hope Again
If a president finds himself in the role of a political scientist, he has a problem -- even when his political science lesson is 100 percent accurate. When...
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~ Posted by Robert Butler, November 7th 2014
I've heard the climate scientist Chris Rapley speak many times. Seven years ago I interviewed him for this magazine (when he told me Sherlock Holmes would have quickly grasped the evidence) and, since then, I've heard him at conferences, in lecture halls, on panels and at dinners. Last night he appeared on the Royal Court stage, delivering a 75-minute monologue entitled "2071"—the year his eldest grandchild will be the same age, 67, as he is now. Here was a Rapley I'd never seen.
A professor of climate science at UCL, the former head of the British Antarctic Survey and the former director of London's Science Museum, the Rapley I know is a busy, bustling figure, who appears at the lectern with smiling flourishes and an air of importance, and then turns frequently from the laptop on the lectern to the large screen behind as he works his way through a PowerPoint presentation. On the way in last night, I'd readied myself for the graphs where lines run along the bottom axis for most of the page and then suddenly shoot up at an exponential rate at the right-hand edge; maps of the world where the parts getting hotter now appear in lurid red and orange; and those pairs of black-and-white photos of the Antarctic which show how much ice there was only a few years ago and how much less there is now.read more »
~ Posted by Charlie McCann, November 6th 2014
When the Australian composer and producer Ben Frost released his fifth album, "A U R O R A", earlier this year the reviews were rapturous. Rolling Stone called it "unrelentingly menacing", Drowned in Sound said it was a piece of "aural suffocation" (in a good way), and both picked it as "Best Album of the Year So Far". Frost, though, is more low-key. His albums, he has said, are "over-glorified business cards"—adverts which get him well-paid commissions (he has written music for ballet, opera and film) and bring audiences to his live shows. He has been touring "A U R O R A" since April, and is playing six nights in Britain next week. It's only live that you hear the album's terrifying architecture. Listening to it on headphones is like reading a book about brutalism: it doesn't do justice to its scale and weight.read more »
~ Posted by Isabel Lloyd, November 6th 2014
Two musicals currently playing in the West End both finish with an unspeaking female character alone on the stage, standing for something important. One is the middle-aged black woman who hovers mutely on the fringes of much of the action in "The Scottsboro Boys", a witness to the decades-long persecution of nine black teenagers in Alabama. At the end, in a moment of gut-punching power, we see her refuse to give up her seat to a man on a bus and the civil rights movement find its touchpaper. The other is a young white cleaner in a headscarf and pinny, who quietly pours tea and helps with scene changes during "Made in Dagenham", a brash, upbeat new musical about the 1968 Ford machinists' strike that opened at the Adelphi last night (above). Her sign-off is a solo, rather self-consciously silly dance, celebrating—well, what exactly?read more »
~ Posted by Hazel Sheffield, November 5th 2014
It's a good week for Bob Dylan completists. On Tuesday, volume 11 of the bootleg series was released, comprising a six-disc collection of the so-called "Basement Tapes", recorded during Dylan's 1967 sessions with The Band in upstate New York. This Friday, a hardback collection called "The Lyrics" is published. For the princely sum of £125, collectors can get hold of one of only 3,000 copies of this 6kg, gold-embossed treasure, which has been compiled by Sir Christopher Ricks, a former professor of poetry at Oxford whose 2003 book "Dylan's Visions of Sin" examined the lyrics with the same critical eye he's applied to Keats and T.S. Eliot. The publishers, Simon & Schuster, were not sending out review copies, so I had to go and visit the book at their office. One of the publishers told me they thought the 500 copies that will make it across the Atlantic to Britain might be gone on presales alone.read more »
~ Posted by Simon Willis, November 3rd 2014
Dean Belcher's photo essay for our November/December issue captures a special relationship—the one people have with their first record. His subjects range from a 13-year-old girl who got a record player for her birthday and dashed out to buy Pulp's "Different Class" on vinyl, to a 95-year-old retired dressmaker clutching a Vera Lynn 78 bought for a sixpence when she was courting with her husband. In this behind-the-scenes video from the photo shoot, Belcher talks about finding his participants, being nosey, and the influence music has had on him.read more »
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~ Posted by Tom Shone, October 27th 2014
Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" can only really be approached by a series of paradoxes similar to those chalked up on a blackboard near its start. Just as the theory of relativity dictates that space and time are functions of one another, so the film welds commercial blockbuster and auteurist cinema into a single, stunning ribbon of celluloid—movie as Möbius strip—with obvious debts to both Spielberg and Tarkovsky. It's both the most boffinish of Nolan's films and the most boldly open-hearted, a hymn to human connection that mows you down, turns you inside out and deposits you on the pavement afterwards, blinking. And yet if someone were to ask you what it was about you would probably mumble something about black holes, or wormholes, and the like. The film is its own astrophysical anomaly. There have to be 99m alternative universes in which "Interstellar" is a bad movie and another couple of hundred in which it is a terrible one. And yet, Nolan has finagled his way to the single universe in which it is a good, and maybe even great one.read more »
~ Posted by George Pendle, October 27th 2014
Discovering a new exhibition of platinum photographs tucked away in the sprawling National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is akin to discovering tiny deposits of the precious metal itself in the alluvial sands of some jungle river—it's small but valuable.
"A Subtle Beauty" consists of barely two dozen portrait, landscape and architectural photographs from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. What unites them is their printing technique. Platinum prints, or platinotypes, were created by using photographic paper with very fine platinum crystals embedded in the uppermost fibres. This was in contrast to the more popular albumen or gelatin prints of the time, in which silver salts were suspended in an emulsion that was then coated onto the paper. A technicality, you may well think, but the platinum process not only gave photographs a luminosity and a wide tonal scale that other methods couldn't match (as well as a slight three-dimensional appearance), but it was also responsible for establishing photography as a fine art.read more »
~ Posted by Jasper Rees, October 24th, 2014
Actors adore playing a powerful real-life villain. It's where all the fun is. More than 20 actresses have played Margaret Thatcher, and Michael Sheen got such a buzz from playing Tony Blair that he did it three times. But there's one role of this type for which no bargepole seems quite long enough. The name Rupert Murdoch is sending shivers down actors' spines.read more »
~ Posted by Lucy Farmer, October 24th 2014
At Frieze art fair last week, I spent an afternoon browsing the galleries and snapping photos of artworks on my iPhone. I didn't think twice about it, and nobody stopped me. Some of the photos I shared on social media, some I showed to friends, and I'll keep them all for reference. But this prompts a few questions: in our digital age, who has ownership of art? Is it OK to share images of art, or is this an act of piracy against which artists should be protected, as musicians and film-makers are? And how can you police it anyway?
This was the sticky subject of a Frieze-week debate hosted by Sculpture in the City, an organisation that brightens up London's corporate Square Mile with works of contemporary art. On the panel were a sculptor, a museum director, an arts journalist, an expert in art law and the head of an artists' copyright society. I was anticipating "artistic differences".read more »


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The look of the covers is not good. I purchase the Aztec pattern and there are lines in the pattern on the covers. These lines do not match on any of the jions and this makes the seat cover look more like a patch work quilt than the look I was looking for. Also one of the buckels on the straps under the seat was put on the wrong way up. I had to twist the strap to make it grip.
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Product: Aztec
Date: 2014-09-06
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The fit is great although the lines from seat to seat do not line up. I hope these last longer.


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Tune into "Paula's Picks" the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 8 pm!
Please see the "Picklist" for the artists and songs played tonight. Below is more information about the independent artists played.
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HOUR ONE: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (self, 2005)
Talking Heads – Slippery People (live) – Stop Making Sense Original Soundtrack (Sire, 1984) March Fourth Marching Band – Powerhouse (Raymond Scott) – Rise Up (self, 2009) Soul Coughing – Bus To Beelzebub – Ruby Vroom (Slash, 1994) They Might Be Giants – She's An Angel – They Might Be Giants (Bar None, 1986)
Tonight's episode of "Paula's Picks" will feature a segment of "U Picks!"
That's right, Paula the Small is letting the audience pick "the songs that make the whole world sing"!
Listeners e-mailed and commented on the songs they wanted to hear tonight and those selections will air for one night only!
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The playlist is a compilation of musical genres and eras. The common theme is music. Listen up & enjoy!
Tonight's show was full of thought-provoking words and music! I hope you enjoyed the journey!
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New GoPro Mount!
It's been a while since I've updated this, but I've switched over to a new GoPro mount.
You can pick these up at Unanistan.com
After extensive use with the last mount I found it much too fragile and brittle. I probably replaced it about 4 times since I've had it. This new one, designed and manufacturer by Unanistan has a much more rigid design. All mask mounts are now being printed at ultra high def - 0.1mm layer height (100 microns) making it incredibly strong.
On top of that, it also comes with the screws you need to attach it to you Dye i4 and is only priced at $15.95! What a deal! I used this mount at my latest game in PRZ and it was fantastic, much more stable than the last platform.
There are models for the following masks:
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Fantastic Paintball Music Video
Looking forward to the song hitting iTunes.
Check out the creator's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/prisoncitypunishers
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Goodbye Chloe
I never liked little dogs, but you changed all that. You were quiet, you were stupid but sweet and you never showed aggression towards anything. I'd never known I could love a tiny animal the way I loved you - my companion for nine years who loved me as unconditionally as I loved you. I feel comfort knowing that you wanted for nothing - you were loved by everyone and cared for like a princess, because you were. You were my cuddly little princess. And one time you caught a squirrel. What else could a dog ask for?
Goodbye Chloe. You'll always have a place in my heart and I'll always love you. Rest in peace little girl.
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New Site Design
Barely changed anything at all, but I got rid of most of the graphics so it looks more modern and cleaner. More little edits to follow.
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Argyll from Insurgency sent me the newest trailer for the game yesterday, and it really made me want to jump back into the game - so I did.
Wow, these guys are really working hard on this game. Every week or two when I jump into the game there are all these major changes. The official maps continue to undergo incredible revisions and visual improvements (Source Engine doesn't get it's dues enough).
What I found really fascinating last night was the class system that was in place. You have to pick a role, but you're not completely stuck doing just one thing. If there is only a sniper slot left you can still switch out to a rifle and change all of your attachments and armour - it's ingenious.
My favourite part though has to be asymmetry that's in place. The insurgents get 7.62 caliber weapons which pack quite a larger punch. But I think the security forces have better body armour. In any case, security forces can buy upgrades for their weapons and body armour for less supply points than the insurgents can, however it doesn't feel unbalanced since the insurgent guns tend to have more "oomph".
If you still haven't checked out this game you can pick it up in Steam Early Access (although there are many fully released games that aren't as stable as this *cough* Battlefield 4 *cough*) and check out their website too.
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Fifty Thousand Viewers!
This is a pretty big milestone for me. When I was first heading into 2013 I had about 1600 subscribers. At the rate my channel was growing at the time I was looking to have about 3000 or 4000 subscribers by the end of the year. My goal was to reach 5000 by year end. I would do my best to release quality content, and I'd release a video every single week. To have reached 50,000 before year end is phenomenal, I never imagined I'd see this kind of growth with my videos and I'm thrilled that people enjoy them as much as they do.
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in New GoPro Mount! on 2015-03-13
The JT series (Proflex and Spectra) are compatible
with the i4 mount. Also, here's Renegade Airboys
review that shows how to
assemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8oFz7MSR4M
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Do you have to use that case with the silver things
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gopro work
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Can i use this mount on my JT mask.
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This is kinda a retorical question but does it work
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Associated Press | March 30, 2015 9:56 amA record number of students have applied to Washington's six public universities this year.
State House panel considers change in teacher evaluations
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 9:01 amLawmakers in the Democrat-controlled House Education Committee will hear testimony Monday on whether the state should require school districts to consider student test scores as a factor in teacher evaluations.
Police: Man shot by Federal Way officer didn't drop knife
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 8:37 amFederal Way police say one of its officers shot a man who refused orders to drop a knife.
Knife-wielding man shot by Federal Way police
Kipp Robertson | March 30, 2015 8:30 amFederal Way police officers shot a man wielding a knife Monday morning while responding to an assault.
Bertha's 2,000-ton front end is almost ready to be lifted
Kipp Robertson | March 30, 2015 8:06 amSeattle Tunnel Partners is nearly ready to lift the SR 99 tunnel boring machine's front end to the surface.
Bills would toughen rules for oil transportation
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 7:42 amTwo competing bills that toughen rules for oil transportation face key votes this week, as state lawmakers try to reconcile differences.
After deadlock, jurors to resume in teen killing case
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 7:16 amAn Everett jury is to resume deliberating Monday after it deadlocked on a single count in the trial of a man accused of killing a 15-year-old Seattle girl in a drive-by shooting in 2013.
Gunman wanted in East Bremerton shooting that left 2 dead
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 6:36 amKitsap County Sheriff's deputies are still searching for a gunman following a weekend shooting at a mobile home park that left a woman and a toddler dead.
Convicted man in Carnation killings will testify at trial's penalty phase
March 30, 2015 6:16 amA trial begins Tuesday to determine whether a man convicted of killing six members of Carnation, Washington, family should be sentenced to death or life in prison.
City did not immediately ask Tunnel Partners for assistance with Hwy 99 gridlock
March 30, 2015 6:15 amCrews working nearby would have used equipment to help clear the March 24 crash earlier in the day.
Senate to consider bill raising Washington's minimum wage
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 5:00 amA bill to raise Washington's highest-in-the-nation state minimum wage to $12-an-hour with a series of annual 50-cent increases is set to get a hearing in the state Senate.
Trial over, judge to rule on competency case this week
Associated Press | March 30, 2015 4:08 amA federal judge says she'll decide by the end of the week whether to force the Washington to end its practice of holding mentally ill people in jail for weeks or months while they wait for competency evaluations and treatment.
'Sometimes there's just nothing you can do to avoid it'
Kipp Robertson | March 29, 2015 11:22 pmPeople walking and biking represent 3 percent of collisions in Seattle and 50 percent of fatalities, according to the director of Seattle's Department of Transportation.
Cardboard cutouts are golden memories for Ackley Boys
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Biogen shortens name, raises hopes
Biogen Idec, which was heralded last week for results of an Alzheimer's drug trial, has shortened its name and chosen a new logo. It will now be known as Biogen (Nasdag: BIIB).
Honeywell releases patient monitoring device
Honeywell Life Care Solutions has released a new version of its Genesis Touch wireless remote patient monitoring device.
Avancen introduces medication on demand device
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Byelection call forces changes to displays: Organizers
Typically a prime event for the provincial government to make new agricultural announcements or for ministers to make speeches, this year's Manitoba Ag Days will be devoid of any such politicking as a result of byelection rules.
In the past, various government organizations make up about 12 booths during the three-day event considered to be the biggest indoor agricultural expo in North America.
But at least two have pulled out of the upcoming 37th annual event all together — including Manitoba Conservation and Water Stewardship — while others have had to make significant tweaks to adhere to the rules.
While the Arthur-Virden constituency remains in a byelection to replace the seat made vacant by Brandon-Souris MP-elect Larry Maguire, the government is barred from advertising according to Manitoba's Election Financing Act.
The byelection will be held on Jan. 28 and during this time "a government department or Crown agency must not advertise or publish any information about its programs or activities."
However, the speaker lineup remains the same, including a speech from Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn and government speakers representing Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development but last-minute changes had to be made, such as getting rid of all government logos from slide presentations.
Ag Days general manager Christine Roskos said organizers were left scrambling to fill the vacant booths, which was finalized months before show doors open, but were able to pull from a 70-exhibitor waiting list.
"It came at us no more than two weeks ago, so it's a bit of a crunch," she said.
"Obviously we need to adjust as well, but it's unfortunate the byelection couldn't have been called and been over and done with by the time Ag Days rolled around."
According to Roskos, the farm safety display — a large village filled with safety-related booths which includes leading participation from Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba Labour and Immigration — also had to go through significant changes.
In an emailed statement, a government spokesperson confirmed provincial representatives will be at the event attendees will still be able to garner information from government officials.
"Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development will continue to have a presence at Ag Days this year, with adjustments to ensure compliance with the Election Financing Act," the email read. "Producers and others who may have questions about programs and services will still be able to meet with MAFRD staff at the event."
Elections Manitoba spokesperson Alison Mitchell said the act's provision makes sure the government doesn't have an unfair advantage during election time.
Mitchell pointed to exceptions to the advertising rules including those relating to matters of public health or safety, among several others.
However, it's not up to Elections Manitoba to determine if any rules are breached.
"It's not our role to determine whether something falls within those exceptions," she said. "If there is a complaint that (a) provision has been violated, then a complaint could be made to the commissioner of elections and then he would investigate."
As of late, the governing NDP has come under fire from the Progressive Conservative Opposition for potentially breaking these rules, including a recent accusation that an election-day event to highlight the accomplishments of Nellie McClung, who helped win the right to vote for Manitoba women, "could" be a breach, according to a PC party press release.
So the PC caucus will be listening closely to the minister's speech this week.
Close to 500 exhibitors will set up shop at Manitoba Ag Days, which gets underway on Tuesday at the Keystone Centre. The event, which wraps up on Thursday, runs daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Included in the speaker lineup is Prairie storm chaser Greg Johnson — for the three days of the show in the two seminar theatres.
Presentation topics will range from grain market outlooks, farm safety and stress and food safety to livestock management, land economics, farm finances and farm strategies.
Ag Days is a non-profit organization that survives solely on the revenues from exhibitor fees and sponsorship. Organizers have never charged an admission fee and will continue this tradition into the future.
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Although Spacebook is a form of social media, it was designed as an internal system for the benefit of the organization, and that priority has continued to be foremost, Antunes said. That makes it different from Facebook and other social media services that are designed primarily for individual benefit.
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Thanks for the article! A clarification - while Spacebook doesn't use the term "friends," it does indeed have connections. On internet sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, only friends can see your profile. In Enterprise 2.0 apps such as Spacebook, everyone can see your profile. Everyone is entitled to see everyone else's profile, because this is an open, transparent work environment. Everyone has access to the agency phonebook, right? A connection acts like an address book, making it easier to keep up with what colleagues are doing and lets you share content with them.
The reason behind not having "friends" at work is that you can't imply a special relationship - it's important that there be an even playing field where everyone has an equal chance to participate. What if the boss friended some people and not others, or decides later he's no longer your friend? That's where the "adverse personnel action" concern comes from.
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