Another anti-llectual, liberal, talking head has fallen victim to the blog swarm. It couldn't have happened to a better person.
In some ways, the capitulation of Eason Jordan sets a new high water mark for the blogosphere. On January 27th, Eason Jordan made his outrageous assertions that the U.S. military was deliberately targeting non-combatants in the Iraq war. Although the major media outlets stuck their collective heads in the sand for as long as possible, a blog swarm ensued and Eason was forced to resign just two weeks later.
When blogs called publicly for the release of the tapes, main stream media yawned. Even now, as I write this story, searching for Eason Jordan's name on CNN's website brings up nothing. They still haven't covered the story they tried so hard to ignore.
The real story here is much bigger than Eason Jordan. No one that watches CNN should be surprised that their lieutenant is slandering U.S. troops in Iraq. You couldn't watch CNN and think that a soul in Iraq wants us there or that anything good has come from the overthrow of Sadam Hussein. It's obvious that CNN is, and has been, against the war in Iraq. Against Bush. But, this is intuitively obvious to the casual observer.
The story here isn't that Eason Jordan was caught accusing maliciously slandering the U.S.military and was forced to resign. The real story here is much larger. The real story is the rise of the blogosphere.
What is the blogosphere and what does it do?
A "blog" is an abbreviation for a "web log". Basically, an online journal, somewhat akin to a diary that is open to the public. People use "blogs" for any conceivable purpose, from sharing photographs and family news to sharing stories, news, or linking to interesting web sites. Frequently, others are allowed to post their comments to the web site also.
The resulting medium, is, essentially, a web of integrated documents. Each linked and cross linked to each other, with comments posted, annotated, and updated. Because it is hosted on the internet, it can be updated simultaneously from anywhere in the world, any time, day or night. The "blogosphere" is the sum of all of the blogs on the internet.
At first, the implications of this weren't intuitively obvious. Just like, when everyone started buying personal computers back in the early 1990's, it wasn't obvious that they should all be networked together. The internet didn't really reach critical mass until 1997. Once the internet became commonplace, people started sending emails and creating web pages and "web logs" or "blogs".
Each blog is, for the sake of argument, independently operated. One blog or two or five could disappear, and the blogosphere would remain in tact. The traffic would be routed to other blogs, the same way that the internet routes around hubs that drop out of the network.
Some comments have been made that it isn't always obvious who owns and operates the blogs. My thought is that this is immaterial. The MSM has been feeding us biased, liberal drivel for decades under the false premise of "objectivity", so how could this be any worse? If you don't like the ideas of the blog, you're free to move on to another blog. If you do like it, read it. It really doesn't matter who owns it or operates it. If the facts don't check out, it won't survive.
But, only fairly recently has the nature of the blogs really come to be understood and utilized appropriately. The blogs allow people to share information instaneously across time and space. So, they link and cross link to each other's documents, building a news story in the process, in a "grass roots" manner.
Because the overall picture is shaped by many different authors, each person brings their own expertise to the story. The facts are assimilated into an unassailable rock-solid news story that anyone can follow.
The beauty of the blog is that it is self-correcting. The more people that read it, the stronger it becomes. If anyone one earth sees the story and can refute any one portion of it, they do so. Any person can sit down at a computer, day or night, and click through all of the facts, from personal, eye witness accounts, to photographs, to news stories, etc.They post comments, link to other evidence that contradicts the premise, etc.
Most of these blogs are run by people in their spare time. They don't get paid for what they do. They do it because, like most of us, they're tired of having some talking head reading lies and half-truths from a teleprompter. Collectively, they are destroying the MSM. The reasons for this, once you understand the nature of the blogs, are obvious.
The blogs have an infinite number of resources across the globe working day and night to break a story. To shove the lies back down the throats of the talking heads we all love to hate. There is no possible way that the MSM will ever be able to respond effectively to the blogs. You can't possibly have one reporter, or two, or five, or even a thosand, go out and do a better story on the Eason Jordan story than what the blogs did. The blogs assimilated the information from every person on earth, distributed it across a few thousand websites, that each had thousands of viewers a day.
The Eason Jordan story began with the seed of a single person(Rony Abovitz) posting his eye witness account on a web site, expressing his displeasure with Eason's disparaging comments toward the U.S. military. In the old world order, that would have been the end of it. No news site wanted to touch the story with a 10 foot pole.
But that seed was observed by the blogs, evaluated, and analyzed. The story began to grow as others corroborated his observations. Eventually, the blogs laid out every eye witness account from Davos, every person's response to the eye witness accounts, and called for the release of the tapes, a boycott of CNN, and Eason's resignation.
So, we begin to see the blogs as this network of inter-linked web sites, updated constantly, by an infinite number of resources laboring around the clock, in perpetuity. The blogs have gained the most media attention when they do something spectacular like forcing Dan Rather's resignation. But I think the blogs are more interesting when they're out of the spotlight. When they don't have something juicy to chew on like the Easongate fiasco.
Sharks have to keep swimming or they die. They have to have oxygen flowing through their gills all the time, so they have to swim all of the time. (Some actually sleep in caves with their mouths open to catch an underwater current, but I digress.) Blogs are like sharks. They're predators, and as such, are always on the hunt for a story. They see every single story in the world. Every potential story is kicked back and forth between one or two or three people and, if it is important enough, it gets kicked to more and more sites. Each blog decides, independently, if the story has legs or not. If it's worth covering. If the facts are true. If the topic is newsworthy. So, it isn't that the blogs got lucky and stumbled onto the fact that Dan Rather had rushed forged documents onto the air to try to stop Bush from getting re-elected. It wasn't serendipity that caused the blogs to stumble across the story of CNN's potentate slandering the U.S. troops.
Once a story is elevated, it turns into a frenzy that is difficult to imagine. Each story that rises to the top of the blogosphere draws a level of scrutiny and analysis that the main stream media cannot conceive of. Essentially, every fact is checked by everyone of earth. This is true because, even people that don't read the blogs are deliberately introduced to them. If you see a story on a blog, and know of someone that's an expert on some particular aspect of the story, you run the idea by them. Email them a link, and bring their expertise to bear on the story.
Today, Eason Jordan of CNN was forced to resign. Barely a month ago, CBS fired or asked to resgin Mary Mapes, Betsy West, Josh Howard, Mary Murphy, Mary Mapes, and Dan Rather, after the blogs pointed out that they were using forged documents.
People are tired of being fed liberal inuendo and half-truths by the talking heads under the false guise of objectivity. Main Stream Media, as we know it, is dead. They just don't know it yet.


Original Songs from JW Broadcasting is one of the best provisions for us. The lyrics are really encouraging and faith strengthening for everyone. For the past months here at RMO Video, we aim to provide everyone the music videos and lyrics for all the songs. But sometimes, we want more than lyrics. We want to sing those songs, and we want to do it with only instrumental accompaniment. We are unable to provide that at the moment.
This is a wonderful site! Thank you for taking the time to pull all these spiritual songs together in one place! Especially love the piano music! Wish it were in printable sheet music.


Carol Wright, 73, of Eldon, Missouri passed away Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at her home in Eldon, Missouri. She was born June 14, 1945 in Lewistown, Missouri the daughter of the late Emery Lee and Jennie Dee (Humphrey) Crist. On March 29, 1991 in Eldon, Missouri she was united in marriage to Wally Wright who survives of the home.
Visitation will be Sunday, September 16, 2018 from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Phillips Funeral Home of Eldon, MO. Funeral Service will be Monday, September 17, 2018 at 11:00 AM at the First Baptist Church of Eldon, MO with Rev. David White officiating. Burial will follow at the Eldon City Cemetery.
Memorials in her name are suggested to the First Baptist Church of Eldon, MO.


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television -> True Detective season 2 premiere recap/ review
Director Justin Lin
Producer Nic Pizzolatto
Writers Nic Pizzolatto
Cast Colin Farrell
True Detective season 2 premiere recap/ review
The Western Book of the Dead
June 23, 2015 by Levi DeYounge
All recaps have blatant spoilers as they recapture the plot.
Now that HBO's cornerstone program, "Game of Thrones," has ended for 2015, their next most-popular show, "True Detective," begins its second season a year-and-a-half after debuting in January 2014 to critical and audience acclaim. Viewers immediately connected with the flawed, complex leads and winding plot that danced between past and present. Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey starred as the pensive, brilliant, and ultimately jaded detective who often thought aloud about existential topics as Woody Harrelson offset his co-lead's intensity with a cheating family man digging himself into deeper trouble. Although the payoff concerning the Yellow King didn't equate to the mid-season finale that featured a continuous six-minute closing shot, the overall mystery narrative stuck with viewers as much as the compelling character arcs. Going into its second season, creator/ writer Nic Pizzolatto had a daunting task to match the alluring darkness of the first. Nobody wants a rehash, but viewers always want some air of familiarity. For example, FX uses new, single-season plotlines for their popular show "American Horror Story"—each season is a different story but carries the same amount of grotesque, terrifying shock value.
There are a lot of changes to the framework of "True Detective's" second season. Instead of following the past & present partnership between two flawed detectives and the case they never solved, Pizzolatto presents four main characters thrust together: three vessels of law enforcement (Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch) and a career criminal (Vince Vaughn) making a play to go legitimate. It should be noted, however, that viewers quickly learn of the past association between Farrell's cop and Vaughn's organized criminal. The setting changes from the swampy Louisiana bayou to sunny southern California, but with a seedy, film noir twist. The rhythms stay the same despite the expanded leads and relocation. Although Vaughn plays a career criminal, the three investigators on the newest "True Detective" case carry their guilt around with transparency as if they're more ashamed of their past than the outright mobster. Imagine a deeply psychological Elmore Leonard story and you have the character dynamic—a healthy respect between both sides of the law.
After thematic opening credits reminiscent of last season's titles, director Justin Lin (Fast Five, Fast and Furious 6) opens on a field populated with red ribbons tied around stakes in the ground. Lin then takes us to Farrell's (Total Recall, Minority Report) Ray Velcoro at a school, dropping off his son, Chad, at a junior high school. Chad has a melancholy look on his face, dreading another day of social awkwardness and bullies. Velcoro half-heartedly tries to cheer up his son, but the man looks even more defeated than the boy—as if he doesn't even believe the "encouraging" words coming out of his own mouth. He tells him that the boy's mom and her new partner will pick him up after school. It would appear that Ray really only just had the weekend with Chad before dropping him off for classes. As Chad walks into school, Ray sees his son walk by a few boys who bully him for seemingly no good reason at all. Lin stays with Ray for the next scene when the detective pays his lawyer a visit. The scene begins in media res with Ray answering the lawyer's questions about Chad. It sounds like Chad may have actually been the child resulting from the rape of Ray's now ex-wife. Ray optimistically states that they "think" she may have been pregnant before the attack, but can't definitively say as they never had a paternity test taken as Chad was born nine months following the rape. "They never caught the man who did it, correct?" his lawyer asks. He agrees but asserts that Chad is his son no matter what a blood test reads—he's been around for the boy more than the mother has. Velcoro can't really come up with much more to say, prompting him to fumble through his jacket pocket and produce a wad of cash for the attorney. She then asks if any history on the police force will come back to haunt him in court, "No, I welcome judgment," he says without flinching.
Lin keeps with Ray for a third consecutive scene, this time in a flashback. A younger, clean-cut Ray arrives in a little dive joint wearing his police uniform. He approaches a man (Vaughn—Wedding Crashers, Unfinished Business) sipping coffee out of a mug at the bar. "Deputy Velcoro, right?" the man asks. The man knows something about the recent rape (we're flashing back in time) of Ray's wife and has information regarding the suspect/ perpetrator's whereabouts. This coffee-sipping man understands that sometimes people aren't on the same side for business reasons, but what happened to Ray's wife goes beyond that understanding. The officer approaches the counter to retrieve a photo and address from the mysterious coffee drinker. The man says the suspect is a drug addict—not one of "his" people. The man further states that the suspect bragged about an attack that matched Ray's wife's account of the rape. The fact that this mystery man knows her account upsets Ray, but the man continues, saying, "I wanted to do this. Now it's done—that's it." The cop asks what the man wants in return, but he doesn't want a thing. However, the man also reserves the right to maybe call the cop one day. Vaughn's mysterious character asks if his wife is "doing any better." Ray doesn't respond and keeps walking out of the bar. It looks like Ray found an unlikely criminal ally a long time ago that could come back to bite him in court. Perhaps he won't welcome such a judgment.
The scene closes on the man sipping his coffee, transitioning back to the future where the man sips coffee outdoors before dawn, on the lawn of a sprawling, modern, ranch-style estate. He checks himself in the mirror before dressing—does he notice any age? His robed wife (Kelly Reilly—Sherlock Holmes, Flight)greets him as he affixes his cufflinks. She asks if he slept last night—he didn't. "Big day. All the marbles," he says. She helps him with the cufflinks as he asks a few nervous questions running around his head. "Don't put on airs, you're not like them," she advises. The next shot establishes the water tower for the fictional city of Vinci, California. California residents may recognize the exterior shots as Vernon, California—an industrial city much like the way Vinci is presented. The camera dives inside the Vinci Casino where people gamble and dealers divvy cards and chips. Vaughn's mysterious character runs this casino from an overlooking office. It seems like none of his business partners arrived for their meeting, probably due to an eight-part series (raspberry) about Vinci corruption in the local periodical. While everyone in the room tries to calm him, the casino runner wants Velcoro to handle it. Hmmm...
An aging man sits in the backseat of a car with a stuffed bird as the vehicle takes off across the southern California highway. Lin elects not to follow this up in the next scene, jumping to a house, instead. A couple comes walking out of the bedroom after one of them ruined a sexual experience for the other. They don't get into the details, but only the male participant wants to discuss what just happened whereas the female (McAdams—Wedding Crashers, Midnight in Paris) wants to forget about it and move on without speaking. The guy, Steve, wants to take things forward, but she reiterates that now is not the time for such a conversation. She coldly tells him to gather his things because she has to "get going" to work. Lin then jumps to an orchard with a two-story compound for a residence. McAdams' character is one of several police raiding the compound; her vest reads "SHERIFF" across the back. She asks if one of the men inside is "running hookers," and instead the raid only turns up a bunch of cam girls who all claim—in English—to be US citizens. She interrogates the man some more, but stops when she recognizes one of the girls that the police file out of the house. McAdams begins the conversation in the orchard, confessing that she ran the operation because she heard a rumor. She shames her sister for doing "porn" despite what the sister defines as pornography—saying that cam girls are "performers." They have a fight about what is "healthy" and "right." Her sister claims to be "straight edge" and "clean," prompting the cop to direct her sister back to drugs to get her away from the sex industry. Talk about terrible advice. Another officer approaches McAdams after her sister points out that she's transferring her issues. They got nothing; the suspect in the house even produced a business license.
Lin again shows several quick, wide shots of industry before resting the lens on Ray again. Ray exits his house, which is right beside Vinci City Hall, and notices a ticket on his vehicle as he walks next door to City Hall. A few cops talk to Ray about the newspaper series that had Vaughn's mysterious casino owner upset earlier in the episode. Ray asks about subpoenas, but the other detectives want him to investigate a missing city manager. They assign a partner to Velcoro and send him off for the city manager's office to investigate. After a few coastal shots, we follow a highway patrolman, Woodrugh (Kitsch—John Carter, Savages), who pulls over a pretty, young woman with an ankle bracelet who can't afford another blemish on her record. She then offers "a trade" if he will "escort" her back home without ticketing her. Before we see the rest of this encounter, Lin jumps to Woodrugh's department where he learns that he's going on paid leave "just until I.A. finishes" because the woman he pulled over was an actress. Even though he followed the letter of the law and she ignored it at many avenues, Paul Woodrugh looks to be the fall man in another case of misplaced celebrity privilege. "The highway—it suits me. I'm no good on the sidelines," Tim says to plead a case for himself. When Paul exits, a few officers tease him as he walks by them.
After more aerial shots of California industry, Lin checks in on Vaughn's character. He and his wife rub elbows at a social gathering, they even speak with the mayor, who's not really concerned about what the newspaper says as long as federal funding comes through for whatever project they're there to introduce. Vaughn assures the man that the newspapers have been handled. His wife leads the mayor to some food before he acknowledges a well-dressed stranger at the bar. One of his associates then informs that the city manager, the man set to give the presentation in the next few minutes, has gone missing. A lot of people want this city manager today. Lin jumps back to Velcoro and his assigned partner, Teague (W. Earl Brown—Wild, The Sessions), interviewing the city manager's, Ben Caspere, office assistant. She tells them he was a bachelor that didn't often travel. After requesting a list of his properties, Ray and Teague visit Caspere's residence where they immediately walk into signs of a violent struggle all over the house. They walk around the crime scene covered in erotic art and Ray determines they're on to something. Teague (or Det. Dixon) notices that Caspere's computer is missing as Ray notices a map on the computer desk. Velcoro, as lead investigator, wants to call tech in to swab for prints—anything—however, Dixon thinks they should "let the bosses know first." Velcoro submits they already may before suggesting that it looks like a kidnapping. "We don't belong in this."
The camera returns to Vaughn's presentation. A Russian mobster emerges to embrace the man he calls Francis (Frank) Semyon—Vaughn. They have a history together that Frank would prefer to acknowledge elsewhere. Frank's wife, Jordan, leads the mobster's entourage away and into the party. Lin jumps away quickly to show some aerial shots of California countryside and settles on the car from earlier ferrying the old man and the stuffed bird. The vehicle heads around a bend in the road, causing the man to shift and lay his head on the window—he's been killed since we last checked in with him. Another quick cutaway takes us to McAdams' cop and her partner delivering a bank foreclosure to a residence. The matriarch of the home isn't too pleased, saying the police should spend their resources to find her missing sister. For a foreclosed home of an impoverished family, they aren't doing poorly in the television and video games front. Before cutting to yet more industrial aerial shots, McAdams gets a lead on the missing person from her sister—her last place of work was a religious institution. At the presentation, we join Frank trying his best to fill in for Caspere. Construction is set to begin on a $68 billion dollar project to build a superhighway across California. He adds, "The feds have guaranteed cost overages." This statement sparks a minor stir in the crowd, impressing many potential investors. The constant aerial shots don't create a mood or an atmosphere like what Fukunaga did last year. It just feels like Justin Lin was trying to copy the director's style to keep an overwhelming sense of continuity.
McAdams' and her partner arrive at the religious institution from their lead. Hippies populate the area walking and meditating. She stops at a room to listen to a man (David Morse—The Green Mile, "Treme")presumably teaching some sort of spiritual awareness class. They ask a few maids some questions but it doesn't amount to much. Lin gives us a few quick shots of investigators at Caspere's house before landing on Ray drinking liquor in his vehicle—psyching himself up for the job Frank mentioned earlier. He reads the street but the only real threat of a witness is the crack addict currently partaking just around the dumpster. He witnesses the journalist pull in, dons a ski-mask, and breaks into the man's apartment to complete the task Frank wanted. Lin doesn't capture the violence, but rather lets the exterior camera allude to what's going on inside. After this, we check back in with McAdams walking and talking with the teacher from earlier—he recognizes the missing person but not much beyond that. They pause by a totem pole where he says that his involvement has declined by the year and how he often wonders of her (his daughter, Antigone or Ani). He's more at peace with her sister, Athena's, decision to "perform" online. This is certainly a Greek family as both sisters have Greek names, their surname is Bezzerides, and the compound is called "Panticapaeum" (written in Parthenon font). She then tries to engage him in an argument, but this enlightened hippie is every step ahead before a disagreement can begin. She walks away, instructing him to talk to and help his daughter; however, he says he "just did."
Lin returns to Velcoro, seemingly the main protagonist as far as "The Western Book of the Dead" goes. He hurries to catch up with his son after school to drop off a gift of a sleeping bag for his camping trip. However, Chad's stepfather, Richard, interjects and reminds Ray that the trip was last week and that it didn't turn out so well. Then Ray notices Chad isn't wearing the new shoes he got him which came up in their first scene together. Richard picks up that Ray's been drinking and notices blood on Ray's sleeve as Ray presses his son for answers about the missing shoes. This corrupted officer loves his son (biological or not) and it would seem like every terrible sin he's committed has happened in the name of family. A fine line Walter H. White treaded on "Breaking Bad" before he tipped the scale toward full megalomania at the end. For all of his despicable flaws, Farrell creates a complex, layered cop who is nothing but crooked and compelling. Chad hesitates to speak, prompting Ray to violently grab his shoulder and demand to know what happened. "This isn't good for him!" The stepdad tries to interfere as he notices others noticing the spectacle, but Ray brushes him off to grill Chad. Richard then explains that some boys cut them up to bully the kid. Ray asks for a name from Chad, calls him a despicable name, then threatens to spank him "right in front of the cheerleading squad" if he can't produce a name for his father. "Aspen Conroy!" Chad shouts before his father reaches his three count. Chad runs away and Richard corrects Ray for his hostility before we jump ahead in time to Ray recording an apology for his son into a digital recorder while parked at a cul-de-sac. He also tangents about childhood being "scary" and his childhood dreams of becoming an astronaut, "…but astronauts don't even go to the moon anymore." A call from dispatch comes in and Ray gets the address for "that Conroy place" he presumably asked about during the time jump. More violence ahead in his day?
Lin then checks back with Ani and her driving partner on the road. Roads and transportation play a big part of this second season: Frank's presentation covered a multi-billion dollar presentation regarding highway construction, Woodrugh works as a highway patrolman (however suspended), plus director Lin has experience with the Fast and Furious franchise and adds his knack for cinematic photography inside a vehicle. Didn't we just catch up with Ray inside of his parked vehicle for the second time this episode? Her partner brings up her father to break the silence, but she quickly shuts that down, too. "Don't talk about my family." The director then takes us inside a police locker room where we catch a glimpse of Ani's routine, which includes hiding a combat knife in her combat boots. When she closes a door, another one opens to take the viewer to Woodrugh entering his girlfriend's bedroom. It's been over a week since they saw each other and she's very thrilled to entertain his company. He enters the bathroom to shower and later looks at some ugly shoulder scars in the bathroom mirror, then pops a little, blue pill before checking his watch and sitting on the toilet lid. A time jump takes us thirty minutes ahead in time despite promising her the shower would only take five. He has some erectile dysfunction. She then sexually engages him but the expression on his face remains in a sad, stoic manner. A clean cut takes the camera to Frank and the Russian mobster, Osip. "Caspere's absence don't mean a thing," he assures the mobster. Frank reveals his plan to get the fed money through their holding companies and set up through catalysts. "This goes beyond us—a legitimate legacy," Frank says. The Russian would prefer to speak about it over a meal, which leads Frank to excusing the entire room to have a one-on-one. "I thought we already had an agreement, Osip." The gangster describes an old series of checks and balances on behalf of his organization and will close on the deal when he pleases. "I look forward to meeting Caspere," Osip says as he leaves the room with a grin. Frank isn't as upbeat, to say the least.
Lin then makes good on the Conroy promise from before as Ray knocks on the Conroys' door looking to speak to Aspen. He starts out aggressive when Aspen appears. Aspen's father tries to interject, but Ray has a fistful of brass knuckles for him and closes the front door to make the son watch his father get beaten within an inch of life in retaliation for bullying Chad. Before he departs, Ray threatens the untouched Aspen in a most terrifying, disgusting fashion to prevent future bullying. The camera again checks in with the vehicle ferrying the dead body with the stuffed bird. It's still tooling along the highway deep into the dark night and pulls into an open roadside area. The driver—we only see him or her from the knee-down—drags the corpse from the vehicle as Lin fades back to Woodrugh, who can't sleep. He has to leave to help on a fake case he makes up as an excuse to keep awake and ride. His girlfriend wants him to stay over just one night, but what more can she do? Lin keeps with the insomniac officer as he speeds along the dark highway. 73 mph, 74, 75, and accelerating before transitioning to more aerial industrial shots and settling on the dive bar from Ray's flashback. This isn't a flashback and Ray smokes a cigarette in Frank's company.
A folk singer on the bar stage plays a beautiful, sad, winding tune that plays over the intercut sequences of Woodrugh speeding as Ray and Frank unwind over a drink. The mobster can't wait to become a legitimate businessman as the detective devolves deeper into criminality. I predict Ray will ultimately have to give up any remaining credibility in order to make Frank a clean man and won't be able to stop a damn thing without sacrificing something. The crooked cop turns over the journalist's laptop and paper files, assuring the mobster the journalist won't dig up anymore dirt. "I asked him how long he thought it took Stephen Hawking to type a piece of investigative journalism." They share a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, but Ray refuses to savor it. Swallowing shot after shot to forget about the day. Frank asks about the lawyer he set Ray up with, and the cop isn't too optimistic. Before Semyon departs, he advises Velcoro to find a good woman to curb his "baser instincts." Frank thanks Ray for a good job with "the thing" as Ani Bezzerides gambles and Paul Woodrugh hits speeds over 100 mph on his motorcycling daring to race into the darkness before surrendering and coming to rest at a roadside area where his headlights illuminate the corpse dragged from the car from just a few scenes ago. He investigates the body, finding the wallet and ID conveniently under a hand on the lap. Paul calls 911 as the camera moves over Ray passed out in Semyon's bar and Ani getting booted from the casino and getting a call. A phone call wakes up Ray, who joins Ani and Paul at the crime scene in Ventura to investigate the murder of Ben Caspere. The camera pans over each cop looking at each other before it zooms away to an exterior shot revealing the sun rising over the Pacific on the other side of the mountain roadside area.
Just like last year, Pizzolatto packs so much philosophy and suspense into a slow-burning hour of quality television. The flashbacks only demonstrate the relationship between characters as opposed to being a part of the overall plot like in Fukunaga's first season episodes. A touch more of originality and a few longer, suspenseful shots with a rewarding payoff will send this season into true "True Detective" mode. Despite the expansion in leads, it feels like the dynamic of Rust and Marty has been sacrificed for a culmination of damaged, flawed individuals who have a more of a respective stake in the murder of Ben Caspere than any one of them might expect. Except Frank—he seems to know exactly how screwed he is without the city manager. Oh man, I wish I could binge all eight episodes of this show.
Keywords: true detective, recap, review, HBO, season 2, the western book of the dead, justin lin, colin farrell, vince vaughn, rachel mcadams, taylor kitsch

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I must admit, heading into The Bird and the Blade I had no idea what I was in for. The novel is a retelling of the tale of Prince Khalaf and the Princess of China and also the opera Turandot, neither of which was I familiar with beforehand and a fact I think I'm glad for because I personally like the unknown, especially when there are moments to surprise and shock me in store and that's exactly what I found in this story.
The story follows Jinghua, a slave in the thirteenth-century Mongol Empire and is told in two periods in time. The current time shows a Jinghua scouring the city for Prince Khalaf, trying to stop him from making what very well could be a fatal mistake. Prince Khalaf, as well as his father and what's left of their people, are in trouble so Khalaf is willing to risk it all for a marriage alliance with the heir to the empire. But the Princess Turandokht is incredibly smart and quite devious and with no interest in marrying, she has set a challenge for her pursuers that they must answer 3 riddles in order to win her hand. Fail and you die. But before we can fully grasp the circumstances that brought the characters to this time we have to go back a year and see how the situation for the khan of Kipchak Khanate and his son the prince got so terribly dire, leading them to live on the run. And how Jinghua, a slave, ended up playing such a role in what's to come.
I love how the author set up the back and forth of the storytelling. We get these little snippets of what's currently happening before we jump back in time to tell the bulk of the story and each really grabbed my attention. I needed to know how they got to that point yet I needed to know how it would end. Besides a slight lag in the middle (there's a lot of traveling), I found this easy to read and I don't think I expected that from the blurb. The characters were just so complex and overall amazing. Jinghua isn't your typical fantasy heroine. She's not super badass and strong yet at the same time that's exactly what she becomes. Who I probably loved the best though was Timur, Khalaf's father, which was a huge surprise to me. He's an irritable, grumpy old man and he made me laugh over and over with his antics. I expected the Princess to play a larger role than she did. She was kept at an arm's length so to speak and very mysterious and while I'm okay with that, I also wish we got to know more about her.
Since I was unfamiliar with the inspiration for The Bird and the Blade, I have to say the ending was not something I expected or saw coming and I loved the shock factor and the emotions it brought out of me. This truly is a love story in a way that is very different than my typical reads and that's probably what I loved best about it. Definitely worth checking out!
I reeeeeeally hope you enjoy this one! I'll be on the lookout for your review!
I'm not familiar with either of the stories the retelling is based on, but the story itself sounds wonderful. Jinghua and Timur both sounds like such great characters.
It was all about the characters in this one!
Great review! I was already excited for this book. When the reviews mentioned the inspirations, I started doing research. I'm hoping my heart will be okay. LOL.
LOL I had no idea when I picked it up. I'd probably still have picked it up if I had known more and it really is well done so it's all worth it!


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Q: CSS Issue, not able to center images inside division look for division with id shelf and nested division with class inner_div,now the problem is images inside inner_div are not centered after using css class provided below.
CSS CLASS
.inner_div{
  display:inline_block;
  width:20%;
  float:left;
  font-size:10px;
  text-align: center;
}
.inner_div p{
  text-align:center;
  margin-left:2px;
  margin-right:2px;
  /*font-weight:bold;*/
  padding:2px;
  height:35px;
  border-radius:5px;
  color:rgb(255,255,255);
  background-color:rgb(51,51,51);
 }

Simple structure of my catalog

BOOK TITLE

   //book cover
  </img // available or not

BOOK TITLE

   //book cover
  </img // available or not

BOOK TITLE

   //book cover   // not able to center this two images
  </img // available or not // not able to center this two images

    .......continues till data available in database

A: Try this. You dint specify any css for the images.May be it shud work
.inner_div img {
    display: block;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

A: Try this:
.inner_div img {
    display:block;
    margin:auto;
}

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Der Schild Verlag ist ein deutscher Verlag mit Sitz in Elbingen. Das Verlagsprogramm  hat seine Schwerpunkte in den Bereichen Verschwörungstheorien, Esoterik und Impfkritik.

Gesellschaftsstruktur
Der 2009 gegründete Verlag wird in der Rechtsform einer Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt) & Co. KG betrieben. Kommanditist und Geschäftsführer ist    Günter Saur.

Verlagsprogramm
Neben Mitschnitten von Alpenparlament und Quer-Denken.TV gab es in  Kooperation mit dem Kai Homilius Verlag unter dem Label Compact eine DVD-Reihe mit Dokumentationen. In der Sommerausgabe des Magazins Zuerst! 8/9, 2013, wurde für diese Reihe unter dem Titel Bücher und DVDs von und mit Michael Vogt auf Seite 21 eine Anzeige geschaltet.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
Schild Verlag Unternehmenswebsite

Verlag (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Elbingen
Gegründet 2009
Unternehmen (Westerwaldkreis)

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All hair transplants, regardless of which method of harvesting is performed, FUT, FUE or ARTAS are done to achieve the same results. Fuller hair in the front or crown area of the scalp. It isn't yet possible to grow your own hair back in a petri dish but we can do some gardening. Which is what hair transplantation currently is, taking hair from the back garden (where hair has naturally lower levels of DHT) and transplanting it to the front, less full , garden (the hair at the front is affected by higher levels of DHT that miniaturise the hair and create thinning and balding).
Hair transplantation today is undetectable and completely natural due to the planting of the grafts (the natural groups of hair in a follicle) and is your to enjoy for a lifetime. At the Knudsen Clinic Melbourne we guarantee all our results.
Follicular Unit Transplantation is the most popular method of hair restoration on the market today. The method of FUT is a strip of hair from the back of the scalp is taken and then the hair grafts, in their natural groupings, are then planted into the thinning or balding areas at the front and crown of the scalp.
The results of any method of hair transplant, whether its FUT or FUE weighs heavily on the skill of the surgeon and their team. Careful planting and design of the hairline as well as the angle and direction the hairs are planted create natural looking results that are yours to enjoy for a lifetime.
FUE is another hair transplant option available at the Knudsen Clinic Melbourne. Instead of a strip removal, a small punch is utilised to remove the hair grafts, one by one from the scalp, the implanting of those grafts is performed in the same method as an FUT procedure. FUE is popular with men who wish to keep a very short hair cut.
The myth surrounding FUE is that it is a scar-less surgery and that isn't correct. FUE results in tiny pinch hole scars instead of a fine line scar that comes from FUT, both are concealed with your hair as it grows back. FUE has gained popularity recently but FUT remains the most common treatment used for hair loss and thinning hair.
At the Knudsen Clinic Sydney we have the ARTAS Robotic Hair transplantation device available. The only one of its kind in Australia, the robot performs the extraction instead of using a motorised hand held punch. The surgeon controls the robot to harvest the grafts. The benefits are the precision and speed at which the robot can perform and the elimination of possible hand fatigue.


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    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />
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        An alternative to the other offsetX axis demos - this uses the ymax
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        advantage of being significantly easier (and a smaller amount of
        code) to implement.

    <canvas id="cvs" width="600" height="250">[No canvas support]</canvas>

    This goes in the documents header:

<script src="RGraph.common.core.js"></script>
<script src="RGraph.line.js"></script>

    Put this where you want the chart to show up:

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Turn Those Frosty Mornings Into Balmy Drives
Seasonal Service
It's dark. It's cold. It's early. Steam wafts off your breath as you enter your vehicle.
You turn on the heater, but instead of warm gusts of air, frigid gusts surge from the vents. Time to get your climate control system fixed.
"Everything starts with visual inspection," said Steve Schaeber, Manager of Service Training for the Mobile Air Conditioning Society. "Service techs look for leaks and check the condition of the belts and hoses."
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Like any other vehicle component, a climate control system is subject to wear and tear.
"Belts and hoses are rubber, and over time they crack," said Schaeber.
There's a number of reasons that vents would be blowing cold air even with the thermostat set on high.
Heating and cooling systems routinely feed off one another, so problems with one may affect the other.
Low coolant levels reduce the heater's ability to warm the interior. Leaks in the heater core, hoses, radiator or cooling system will lead to a lack of coolant and create problems in the system.
Schaeer suggested talking to your trusted service advisor for suggested service intervals to care for the heating system's components. He offered the following insights on climate control systems:
Know the warning signs. Discoloration on the passenger side of the dashboard could be the sign of a coolant leak. (Antifreeze runs through the heater core, which usually sits behind or under your dashboard, often on the passenger side.)
Check your cabin air filter. The filter captures hair, dust, and particulates in the air before it reaches your nostrils. Ask your service advisor how often your cabin air filter should be changed.
Hidden problems could be the culprit. A vacuum leak, core failure or stuck thermostat can also cause problems with the heater.
Have a technician check for the condition for the coolant itself. A 50/50 mix of antifreeze and water is ideal.
Climate control systems experience wear and tear. Rubber hoses and components wear out over time and need to be replaced to keep the system operating.
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Fits 1967 to 1981 Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth Torqueflite A727 automatic transmissions. Chrysler torque converters when used with externally balanced engine require a B&M Flexplate.
The Holeshot Converter is a very good choice for the typical street machine that is looking for better launch capability and more strength. With a furnace brazed turbine, New turbine hub and dual pattern drive lugs on some Holeshots.


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Dig Deeper to Find a Better Solution
8 July 2011 by Kevin Meyer
By Kevin Meyer
So what does a typical city do when commuter trains and buses reach capacity? Add more capacity of course – unless you're broke. But perhaps there's a better way if we simply use our own lean tools and ask why two or three or four or five times to get at the real root cause.
Why is capacity max'd out? Because the trains are full. This is the point where some folks will simply invest a couple billion in new trains and tracks and such. Let's go a bit further. Why are the trains full? Because there are too many commuters. Why are there too many commuters? Because for some godforsaken reason they all want to commute at the same time. Why do they all want to commute at the same time? Because they and presumably their employers feel that there's something special about an 8 to 5 work day.
So after digging deeper, instead of spending boatloads of cash on new trains to soon be filled with graffiti, perhaps we should look at modifying the work and hence commute timing. That's what some cities are doing.
You would think anyone who had to suffer this on their daily commute would try avoiding rush hour. But it is a perennial problem of public transport systems that, as they add passengers, travel patterns become more "peaky"—ever more concentrated around morning and evening office hours.
Reducing peak-time congestion would not only save transport costs (smoothed occupancy would mean less half-empty off-peak trains, which cost as much to run as crowded peak ones); it would also save time for transport users, potentially improving productivity at work and economic output.
The government of the city state of Singapore—11m public transport journeys a day, average commute time 35 minutes—is planning to pilot an incentive scheme later this year to do exactly that. Commuters will earn credit for each journey taken (triple credit for off-peak journeys) to earn a chance of cash prizes in weekly lotteries.
Wait cheap fares and such are tried all the time. What's the deal with this lottery thing? Human nature apparently.
The scheme would be the first city-scale application of an idea toyed with in 2008 by Infosys, an Indian software company, to encourage commuters to its main research site in Bangalore to use the company's off-peak buses. That scheme, the work of Stanford academic Balaji Prabhakar, doubled the number of off-peak commuters, significantly reducing congestion on the Infosys peak-time buses.
Mr Prabhakar says his idea, a system of lotteries, relies on the behavioural-economics insight that the average person is risk-seeking when stakes are small.
Offer individuals 20p to leave the house an hour earlier, and most will say no. But a 1-in-50 chance of winning £10 seems more enticing.
Rewards-based schemes are more politically appealing than punitive charges. Several cities have tried to implement congestion charges (fixed fees to drive into crowded areas) but most have failed. Such charges are seen as little more than additional taxes, and if there is only one tariff, they hit the poor the hardest. Rather than fuel resentment, incentive schemes could encourage commuters to change behaviour voluntarily, and even gladly.
Potential savings? Well everything, especially not needing any more capital investment.
The hope is that the project will eventually be self-funding. Infosys managed just that in Bangalore, where the prize pot of 100,000 rupees a week could have been quadrupled before eating up the savings generated from running 8 fewer buses. Singapore has expanded the capacity of its public transport system signifcantly in recent years at great cost, so the potential for savings is huge.
Well, not quite. If they've already expanded the capacity then reducing or leveling out commuters doesn't really change the investment already made.
But digging deeper to understand the true root cause and find a self-funding innovative solution is still better than the typical knee-jerk reaction to throw more money at a problem and hope it goes away. Especially these days.
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Q: Nifi: convert xml: bug with groovy script I need covert xml files in Nifi 1.5. I try execute this script in ExcecuteScript processor:
import groovy.xml.*
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
import org.apache.nifi.processor.io.StreamCallback
import java.io.StringWriter

flowFile = session.get()
if(!flowFile) return
session.write(flowFile,
    {
        inputStream, outputStream ->
            def xml = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, 'UTF-8')
            def reader = new StringReader(xml)
            def doc = DOMBuilder.parse(reader)
            def records = doc.documentElement
            TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(records);
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
            String strString = writer.toString()
            outputStream.write(strString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
    } as StreamCallback
)
session.transfer(flowFile, REL_SUCCESS)

And Output FlowFile is empty.
In local this part working:
def xml = "<xml>...</xml>"
def reader = new StringReader(xml)
def doc = DOMBuilder.parse(reader)
def records = doc.documentElement
TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
Transfor mer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(records);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
String strString = writer.toString()

Why output file is empty?

A: I missed the line transformer.transform(source, result)
full script for Nifi:
import groovy.xml.*
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets
import org.apache.nifi.processor.io.StreamCallback
import java.io.StringWriter

flowFile = session.get()
if(!flowFile) return
session.write(flowFile,
    {
        inputStream, outputStream ->
            def xml = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, 'UTF-8')
            def reader = new StringReader(xml)
            def doc = DOMBuilder.parse(reader)
            def records = doc.documentElement
            TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
            Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
            DOMSource source = new DOMSource(records);
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(writer);
            transformer.transform(source, result)
            String strString = writer.toString()
            outputStream.write(strString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
    } as StreamCallback
)
session.transfer(flowFile, REL_SUCCESS)


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Thanks for the stop by again.
As usual your works are wonderful by a great quality of render a great scene and atmosphere !!!!
I think the priest is in for a shock when he gives her communion. :) Great scene !!
Gorgeous work! POV and lighting are fabulous.
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John Haffenden's Empson talk was quite wonderful, by the way. There were all sorts of good things (Christopher Ricks was good too, on the topic of a manuscript poem Empson's family did not wish to release in the collected poems but that has now appeared in the suitable place in the second volume of the biography--it concerns the Empsons' peculiar menage-a-trois way of life--that link's not to the poem by the way, I do not think it's online, but to a nice essay by Frank Kermode on Haffenden's edition of the poems) but the parts that I found most interesting concerned Empson's habit of misquoting.
Empson likened himself to Hazlitt as a (mis)quoter, and there's a clear sense of him seeing himself in the gentlemanly tradition of eighteenth-century readers rather than primarily the modern tradition of scholarship.
(A great quotation from the letters: "The solemnity of modern scholarship is excessive and hampering"!)
Something like 80% of the 1200 or so quotations in one of the books are misquoted: in a letter to the Italian translator, who was objecting to what he found once he started to look into this business of the quotations (I think the particular reference concerned his compression of a spoof poem written by Coleridge, of which he'd left out a line or more of verse), Empson wrote, "It would be bad taste to do research for one's joke and quote accurately."
A good line of Haffenden's, to describe what happens once Empson goes off on one of these quotations and starts to offer rhapsodic and imaginative musings of his own: Empson writes like a rapturous human being...
Anonymous 11/29/2007 12:32 AM
After the talk tonight I also found myself looking for the poem, and Haffenden's essay seems to be the closest we can get to the text online. Plenty of quotations here, although the execrable website of TLS makes the lineation hard to "unmangle" (an important word when talking about Empson's sex life, it turns out).
The TLS December 01, 2006
Three's company
John Haffenden
William Empson and "The Wife is Praised"
http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25360-2489752,00.html
Not sure if this is subscription only -- if so, I can email / post full text.


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Category: Cormoran Strike
REVIEW: Strike: Lethal White (S4 E4/4)
After holding out hope that this final part of the latest four-part Strike story would provide something approaching a satisfying ending, I was let down horribly. In the end, it came down to… I'm still not entirely sure, such was the furious onslaught of odd twists and turns. There were paintings, there were boys that…
REVIEW Strike: Lethal White (S4 E3/4)
I got really annoyed with myself at the end of this third episode of the fourth Strike story. Regular readers will know that I find Strike only mildly diverting, and the will-they-won't-they relationship between Cormoran and Robin not only hard to swallow but also such a hackneyed, well-worn device. And yet… When the moment finally…
The second instalment of this undemanding adaptation of Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike series continued tonight. After a lukewarm start, we're getting another episode straight off the bat (perhaps because it's a Bank Holiday), and the good news is that the intrigue deepened. As I mentioned in yesterday's review, there's nothing especially wrong with Strike –…
This fourth instalment of Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike series (yes, it's JK Rowling in disguise) is a welcome tonic, not least because we're getting some actual new primetime drama on our main channels once again. And it's also good news because, despite its flaws and cliches, you just can't beat settling down on a Sunday…
Cormoran Strike: BBC One confirms new four-part drama
Robert Galbraith' fourth book in, erm his, Cormoran Strike series is about to hit our screen. Lethal White has been on the BBC's slate for a while now, and we've been waiting quietly and patiently for it be confirmed, but now it is! Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for the four-part mini series. The…
New Cormoran Strike begins filming for 2020 release
There's a new batch of Cormoran Strike episodes on the way. Strike: Lethal White is the fourth instalment in the series based on the Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) novels and will air in 2020. Once again, Lethal White will feature Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger (as Robin Ellacott)and supporting actors include Robert Glenister, while Natasha…
BBC renews Strike for another series
There was much frothing of the mouth when it was announced that the BBC was to adapt Robert 'JK Rowling' Galbraith's best-selling Cormoran Strike novels for TV and through eight episodes and the first three of Rowling's Strike novels, we were introduced to a comfortingly familiar lone detective (played by Tom Burke) and his assistant…
Review: Strike – Career Of Evil (S1 E2/2), Sunday 4th March, BBC One
NB: SPOILERS INSIDE So in the final Strike story – for some time, at least – we saw that Robin had been sent a severed leg in the post. Strike immediately thought of three suspects that could be behind such a personal attack: Noel Brockbank, an ex-major who had been accused of abusing his daughter, Britney,…
Review: Strike – Career Of Evil (S1 E1/2), Sunday 25th February, BBC One
NB: SPOILERS INSIDE The BBC's adaptations of JK Rowling's Robert Galbraith, Cormoran Strike novels have proved a hit with viewers despite some odd scheduling. I honestly thought that these two and three-episode stories would be played out during holiday periods, like ITV's Maigret (or perhaps strung together in one six-episode series), but no… we've had…
BBC One confirms Strike – Career Of Evil transmission date
The BBC's adaptation of Robert 'JK Rowling' Galbraith's Cormoran Strike novels have been a success. Tom Burke has made for a fine Strike, and Holliday Grainger's Robin has been a good counterpoint. It has rated pretty well, too. We know that a third, two-part story has been waiting in the wings, and now we know…
Review: Strike – The Silkworm (S2 E2/2), Sunday 17th September, BBC One
NB: SPOILERS INSIDE Set in the cut-throat world of publishing, one with which writer/exec producer JK Rowling must be familiar, The Silkworm is a murder mystery with a twist – all the suspects are featured in the victim's final novel. But which character represents the killer?
Strike to return in 2018 with Career Of Evil
We'll be bringing you our review of the second part of Strike – The Silkworm in due course, but there's news out of the BBC that Tom Burke will return next year as Strike in Strike – Career of Evil as the war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street….


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  <title>Metal Gear Codec: A simple implementation of the Metal Gear Solid codec, in SVG and JS.</title>

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Raiden: Of course I’m sure. Do you think it’s one of the members of Dead Cell?

Pliskin: How should I know?

Raiden: I don’t want to fight someone like that...

Pliskin: Why not?

Raiden: Because it looked so dumb. Anyone who’s willing to be seen like that must be completely insane. I mean, he’s a psycho; there’s no question about it.

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ETSI Releases White Paper on MEC, Announces MEC Hackathon
Thursday, June 16, 2022 | Comments
The European Telecommunications and Standards Institute (ETSI) Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) group released a new white paper that aims to describe the deployment options related to MEC federation, especially from an architectural point of view.
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With a key focus on ETSI MEC implementations, it also aims to provide an open approach taking into account other standards and technologies, including those from the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) SA Working Group 6 and GSMA Open Platform Group (OPG). For this purpose, the white paper first analyses the recent publications of GSMA OPG and recent updates in ETSI MEC and 3GPP specifications, then introduces the synergized architecture supported by both standards organizations, which indicates the background information for the deployment of MEC federation harmonized standards for edge computing.
The paper also introduces the business cases that enable readers to understand how MEC federation is beneficial for MEC system providers. Based on these cases, corresponding deployment options are introduced. The aim is to help edge stakeholders, and all interested parties in general, to better understand how to choose the appropriate deployment options based on the use cases described in the document.
Additionally, the white paper introduces some key considerations, such as connection between MEC systems, multidomain orchestration and collaboration among operators and with cloud providers and third parties. An understanding of all these aspects will be beneficial for the future deployment of MEC federation and edge capability exposure in these heterogeneous environments.
Thus, this work aims to help infrastructure owners, including operators, service providers and MEC system providers, to evaluate the various options for MEC Federation, to enable global deployments of MEC. At the same time, the success of the edge computing market also depends on the engagement of edge application developers, including customers from vertical market segments. In fact, both categories of stakeholders — infrastructure owners and application developers — are essential for the growth of an edge ecosystem and adoption of MEC technology.
An important initiative to attract software and application development at the edge is the establishment of MEC Hackathons, creating technical challenges to inspire developers in building and designing new applications exploiting MEC infrastructure and envisaging innovative services using the MEC standard.
These MEC Hackathons represent ETSI continuous effort to help developers. The next MEC Hackathon is a fruitful collaboration between ETSI and the Linux Foundation. The 2022 edition of the MEC Hackathon will be jointly organized by ETSI MEC and LF Edge Akraino project and hosted at the Edge Computing World event in Santa Clara, California.
In particular, the MEC Hackathon 2022 will aim to demonstrate an innovative edge application or solution focused on the following application vertical use-cases with supporting ETSI MEC service application programming interfaces (APIs) and LF Edge Akraino Blueprint resources:
• Automotive: Produce a vehicular use case or service to enable intelligent traffic control, driving capabilities and increased safety
• Mixed and augmented reality: Produce an immersive application enabling interactivity of physical systems and human experiences.
• Edge Computing and 5G: Deploy and use 5G and hybrid edge infrastructure to enable federation for distributed edge applications
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Name Ernest Pointer
1898–1900 Berwick Rangers (Worcester)
Place of birth Birmingham, England
Ernest Pointer (1872 – after 1900) was an English professional footballer who made 28 appearances in the Football League playing for Small Heath. He played as a goalkeeper.
Pointer was born in the Sparkbrook district of Birmingham. He began his football career with Redditch Town of the Birmingham & District League before joining Small Heath of the Football League Second Division in 1896. He made his debut on 12 September 1896 in a 4–3 defeat at Newcastle United, and kept his place throughout the 1896–97 season, at the end of which the club finished in fourth position. His erratic goalkeeping meant that was the only season he spent in the league team, and in 1898 he moved back to the Birmingham & District League with Worcester club Berwick Rangers. Returning to Small Heath two years later, he was unable to establish himself in the reserve team, let alone the first team, and soon dropped back to the Birmingham League again, this time with Kidderminster Harriers.
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O Forte Ernesto localizava-se na ilha de Antônio Vaz, para defesa do setor norte de "Maurits Stadt" (a cidade Maurícia), atual bairro de Santo Antônio na cidade do Recife, no litoral do estado de Pernambuco, no Brasil.

História
Fortificação erguida no contexto da segunda das Invasões holandesas do Brasil (1630-1654) sobre o Convento de Santo Antônio (BARRETTO, 1958:145), de franciscanos descalços, que remontava a 1612-1613. Quando da invasão e conquista do Recife (1630), as instalações deste Convento, abandonadas às pressas pelos religiosos, foram utilizadas como quartel pelas tropas neerlandesas. Em torno desse improvisado quartel, foi erguida a fortificação, com o nome de Forte Ernesto, também conhecido pelos locais como Forte de Santo Antônio.

Cópia das "Instruções e especificações segundo as quais deverá ser feito um forte na Ilha de Antônio Vaz, em redor do convento ali existente", datadas de 29 de Abril de 1630, encontram-se no Instituto Arqueológico, Histórico e Geográfico Pernambucano. O "Relatório" de Servácio Carpentier, datado de Junho de 1636, informa que as obras foram contratadas por Jan Comans, sargento da Companhia de Van Els (lado sul); Christoffel Deterson, soldado da Companhia de Waerdenburch (lado oeste); e Hans Willem Louys, alferes da Companhia de Rembach (lado norte). À época não foi erguido o lado leste, voltado para a cidade do Recife, permanecendo fechado pelo muro do convento.

Com o fim da resistência portuguesa em 1635, a ilha de Antônio Vaz tornou-se estratégicamente mais segura para os invasores, e passou a abrigar a nova capital, "Maurits Stadt", a cidade Maurícia. Maurício de Nassau, no seu "Breve Discurso" datado de 14 de Janeiro de 1638, sob o tópico "Fortificações", relata:

"O forte Ernestus está situado em torno do convento [franciscano] de Santo Antônio; seria (se estivesse concluído) um forte quadrangular com quatro baluartes [nos vértices]. No lado do norte, sul e ocidente está acabado; quanto ao lado oriental porém, se acha somente fechado pelo velho muro do convento, o qual ameaça agora desabar. Discutimos se convinha derribar e fechar o forte com uma muralha de terra em forma de tenalha, mas, por causa das despesas foi a obra adiada, porque o forte não está nesta parte sujeito a perigo algum, e porque é muito necessário aprofundar os fossos tanto do grande alojamento [de Antônio Vaz] quanto do forte Ernestus (pois de pouco valem) e com a terra tirada dos fossos construir uma contra-escarpa em volta de ambas estas obras."

O "Relatório sobre o estado das Capitanias conquistadas no Brasil", de autoria de Adriano do Dussen, datado de 4 de Abril de 1640, complementa, atribuindo-lhe o efetivo de duas companhias totalizando 180 homens:

"O forte Ernesto, situado na ilha de Antônio Vaz, a oeste do Recife, e que circunscreve o Convento dos Franciscanos, é um forte quadrangular, do lado do rio tendo dois meio-baluartes e do lado de terra dois baluartes completos. É muito alto e tem um fosso largo. No lado externo será construída uma contra-escarpa ou passagem coberta. Está cercado de uma sólida estacada. Este forte domina o rio e os terrenos baixos circunvizinhos e principalmente o grande alojamento ou vila de Antônio Vaz, inclusive as muralhas e ruas desta. No forte estão 4 peças de bronze, sendo 2 bombardas de 24 libras, 1 de 16 lb e uma peça espanhola de 10 lb."

BARLÉU (1974) transcreve a informação:

"O forte de Ernesto ergue-se na ilha de Antônio Vaz, ao ocidente do Recife. Tem três faces e é munido de um fosso assaz largo, de paliçadas e bastiões. Com quatro bocas de fogo, guarda ele o rio, as planícies da ilha e a vila de antônio Vaz, que aí nasceu." (op. cit., p. 143) Atribui-lhe o mesmo efetivo de 180 homens (op. cit., p. 146). Com relação à estacada, foi esta determinada por Nassau na iminência do ataque de uma frota espanhola ao nordeste holandês (c. 1639): "(...) o mesmo [proteção cingindo-o de estacada] fez com (...) o de Ernesto (...) na Ilha de Antônio Vaz (...)" (op. cit., p. 159).

Figura nos mapas de Frans Post (1612-1680) da Ilha de Antônio Vaz (1637), e de Mauritiopolis (1645. Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, Rio de Janeira), e no mapa "A Cidade Maurícia em 1644", de Cornelis Golijath (in: BARLÉU, Gaspar. História dos feitos recentemente praticados no Brasil. Amsterdã, 1647).

O francês MOREAU (1979), acerca do período entre 1646-1648, relata:

"Um pouco aquém, ao lado e bem junto [de Maurits Stadt], há um outro forte com cinco [?] baluartes chamado o Claustro, porque foi outrora um convento de franciscanos, e ainda um pouco adiante sobre o rio está a bela casa que mandou construir o Conde João Maurício de Nassau, na qual se fez um corpo de guarda para conservá-la e também as passagens, por que ali se podia vir a vau pelo lado e pelo rio salgado, quando a maré está baixa. Este claustro e a casa do Conde Maurício de Nassau estão separadas da Cidade Maurícia por um canal, onde se faz passar este rio salgado pelo porto, sobre o qual há uma ponte levadiça."

Quando da Capitulação de 1654, na "Relação dos Bens Holandeses no Recife" consta que o forte estava artilhado com dezenove peças de ferro e bronze de diversos calibres, bem como um trabuco (morteiro). O antigo convento e sua igreja voltaram às mãos dos franciscanos, que recuperaram suas antigas feições, demolindo o forte e entulhando o fosso.

GARRIDO (1940) refere que no local dessa estrutura, no bairro de Santo Antônio, se erguia o Palácio da Justiça, em frente ao Palácio do Governo, e que, à época, a rua Imperador D. Pedro II e o reentrante, à altura do Hotel Recife, evocavam o traçado de suas muralhas (op. cit., p. 69).

Bibliografia
BARLÉU, Gaspar. História dos feitos recentemente praticados durante oito anos no Brasil. Belo Horizonte: Editora Itatiaia; São Paulo: Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, 1974. 418 p. il.
BARRETO, Aníbal (Cel.). Fortificações no Brasil (Resumo Histórico). Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca do Exército Editora, 1958. 368 p.
GARRIDO, Carlos Miguez. Fortificações do Brasil. Separata do Vol. III dos Subsídios para a História Marítima do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Naval, 1940.
MELLO, José Antônio Gonsalves de (ed.). Fontes para a História do Brasil Holandês (Vol. 1 - A Economia Açucareira). Recife: Parque Histórico Nacional dos Guararapes, 1981. 264p. tabelas.
MOREAU, Pierre; BARO, Roulox. História das últimas lutas no Brasil entre holandeses e portugueses e Relação da viagem ao país dos Tapuias. Belo Horizonte: Ed. Itatiaia; São Paulo: Ed. da Universidade de São Paulo, 1979. 132 p.
SOUSA, Augusto Fausto de. Fortificações no Brazil. RIHGB. Rio de Janeiro: Tomo XLVIII, Parte II, 1885. p. 5-140.

Ver também
Lista de fortificações em Pernambuco

Ligações externas
 Iphan
 Fundação Cultural Exército Brasileiro
 Brasil Arqueológico - Forte Ernesto

Ernesto, Forte
Fundações no Brasil em 1630


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