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Q: Understanding express and how to use it Many times I have created apps with express where I just spin up a server at a port and then on the client side do all the stuff. whether that be fetching with fetch/axios, rendering data, and even changing routes (react-router). I have never hugely explored node or the server part, until now....hopefully.
I get what it's doing partially. in terms of
app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello World!'))
this just sends the response to the browser window. and I have even managed to do this:
app.listen(port, () => {
    console.log("Listening");

    fetch(url, {

    }).then((res => res.json()))
    .then((json => console.log('json')))
    .catch(() => {
        console.log("bbb");
    });
});

and this logs all the data into the sever window. however, I have a couple of questions
should I be doing this in the server or the client? whats the advantage?
secondly, once I have this data, how can I send it to the client? i.e. a react component
also, I cant seem to copy this code and get it work inside app.get()? am I doing it wrong? maybe I have misunderstood there
I understood more than questions, an answer to all would be great but I would just like to have some more knowledge on what goes inside express and the server

A:
should I be doing this in the server or the client? whats the advantage?

You have to consider the followig things when requesting another server:
Serverside:

*

*you can share the data to multiple clients

*you can keep algorithms / secrets private

*you probably have a better bandwith than your clients, so you can load big chunks of data and then only send the neccessary data to the client

Client:

*

*Does not consume your servers ressources

secondly, once I have this data, how can I send it to the client? i.e. a react component

You can use AJAX, websockets (http://socket.io) or you have to use redirects.

also, I cant seem to copy this code and get it work inside app.get()?

If you expected to see the data at the client, you have to res.json(json).

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Thesis directed by Olivier LABUSSIERE, Alain NADAÏ and Olivier SOUBEYRAN.
This research focuses on the construction of renewable energy resources as well as the construction of energy transition sustainability in the wake of the new geography of resources (Bridge, Castree). This research argues that an energy resource emerges from a set of relations woven between an energy source and a value perspective progressively associated to it. Thus, resource qualities are not given by the physical characteristics of the energy source (e.g. the diffuse and abundant solar radiation) but by the relations (material, social, spatial) woven around this source to associate it to several materialities (e.g. the electric grid, the roofs, the landscape) in order to construct its value. Within this framework, the energy resources sustainability is presented as a relational quality that emerges while the "associated milieu" (Simondon) of photovoltaic projects is being developed.
The thesis is organized around an inquiry about the emergence of photovoltaic cooperative projects (i.e. the "centrales villageoises") in the Rhône-Alpes region, which try to construct the solar energy resource in a collective and multidimensional manner (e.g. landscape, value redistribution) in the context of the early 2010s. The inquiry underlines that these projects rely on several heritages (e.g. networks of actors, skills and political visions) from a series of pioneering energy projects developed in Rhône-Alpes between the 1970s and the 1990s. Through these, the groupings of actors develop an ability to navigate in a national photovoltaic policy which does not seem facilitate their growth. Their contribution to the construction of sustainable energy resources rests on the ability of these collectives to constantly adapt themselves to overcome the many trials they face.
Cooperation, Governance and Territory: Levers to the Energy Transition?


Jeff Yastine is a man who has covered a lot of things in his life. He began by going to the University of Florida, where he majored in telecommunications. He soon entered the television news reporting industry. Jeff Yastine was stationed in the Raleigh-Durham market in North Carolina. In 1993, he moved up to become an anchor for the Nightly Business Report in Miami. He went on to became a Emmy-nominated reporter in 2007 for reporting on America's failing infrastructure. Jeff Yastine moved to Banyan Hill Publishing in 2015 as an editorial director, where he still works to this day. The years of experience that he has accumulated gives him unique insights on the financial situations and markets around the world. Visit Kennedy Accounts to know more.
The website News Version recently published an article regarding cybersecurity with input from Jeff Yastine. Cybersecurity is becoming a bigger commodity for a company day after day. Russian hackers and others with ill intentions are constantly trying to hack into businesses all over the world. Jeff Yastine believes its essential that the government increases spending on cybersecurity. As a direct result, companies who create the software are going to see stock prices increases. That is where technological trends are heading.
One of the major reasons why cybersecurity is on the minds of many people right now is because of the recent string of Russian hacking incidents. In response, congress introduced the Secure Elections Act. They wanted $386 million towards building up security infrastructure across the country. Some democrats even asked for as much $1 billion. Jeff Yastine believes this bill has little chance of actually passing. The cost of security is just going to keep going up.
Founded in 1938 by Ruth and Jack Erickson IC Systems has been in the accounts receivable business for the past 80 years and has continued to impress. Out of their headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota, it's clear that the core values of this company have not changed much since there founding in 1938. IC Systems makes it a priority to deliver the best service to its clients and consumers while remaining as ethical and honest as can be. The main focus is and has always been to deliver the best service possible while remaining the most trusted provider in their field. Following these values has resulted in IC Systems being nominated as a finalist several years in a row for the BBB Torch Award for Ethics.
One of the more impressive features IC Systems can provide is the fact they are nationally licensed. Being nationally licensed gives them the ability to collect debt in all 50 states, Guam, and Puerto Rico. The reason this is so important is that approximately 15% of all debt is owed by consumers who are located in different areas from where the debt was originally taken on. Sometimes up to several hundred miles away and even in different states. Agencies that are not nationally licensed may not be able to operate and collect in a state that is outside their area of operation. Sometimes even worse than this a company might still attempt to collect on a debt owed by a consumer in an area they are not licensed to operate in. Attempting to do this will immediately put your company at risk as the law holds the original client responsible for any actions taken by any outsourcing partner.
IC Systems wants you to trust in their abilities along with feeling good about using them. Every action this company takes always has their sustainability in mind. Remaining mindful of their carbon footprint has led them to focus on renewable resources along with the conservation of energy. IC Systems also encourages its staff to give these values back to the community with activities such as teaching and discussions.
Brian Torchin is an east coast entrepreneur who has made a career out of helping others pursue their careers. However, Brian's business isn't just any staffing agency. It has a special focus on helping those within the healthcare industry find rewarding jobs. Health Care Recruitment Counselors, LLC started out in Pennsylvania, expanding to Delaware and Florida. Today, there are also offices in Europe and Asia.
In addition to his administrative tasks, Brian also maintains a blog on his company's website. He often writes about the best tips for hiring a chiropractor and what to look for in hiring support staff, as well as other topics intended to help offices with their hiring choices. Torchin likes to keep the blog focused on how his clients can provide a better experience to their own clients through better office management.
One particular article focused on offices that weren't patient friendly. In it, he writes that every staff member should treat every patient with the respect they deserve. He suggests training staff members to interact as though their jobs depend on each patient's satisfaction, because it does. Unhappy patients will look for another chiropractor, sooner or later.
A prominent investment advisor, Igor Cornelsen, was born in Curitiba, Brazil on October 4, 1947. He studied engineering at Parana's Federal University. During his time, the said school was the solitary institution for students who want to take up engineering in the Santa Catarina and Parana States, thus, entry admissions for the aforementioned school was tough and quite challenging. After taking up engineering for two years, Igor Cornelsen decided to transfer to another department and took up Economics, which he finished in the same educational facility in 1970.
Due to his hard work and perseverance, Igor Cornelsen was able to show off his aptitude in the tasks assigned to him that qualified him to be positioned in Rio de Janeiro and be an investment banker. Besting the rest of his peers, he was advanced to Multibanco's board of directors in 1974, and was appointed as the bank's Chief Operating Officer in 1976.
When Multibanco was purchased by the Bank of America in the year 1978, Igor went off to seek greener pastures. This time he found one in Unibanco, which was one of the best investment banks in the country of Brazil. He served with Unibanco till 1985, when the economy's inflation rate was at its peak. Then he got the opportunity to be employed with a London Merchant bank called Libra Bank PLC.
The move to Libra Bank had its perks because he was paid in dollars (US), which afforded him the chance to make some investments. After his time with Libra Bank, he went off to Standard Chartered Merchant Bank where he was the representative for Brazil and one of its board of directors.
According to those in the known at the Democratic PAC End Citizens United the Big Money 20 are the people in Congress who benefit the most from the controversial Supreme Court decision known as Citizen United. This list shows those current incumbent in their office and whom are up for re-election in 2018.
This is an important time for End Citizens United, which has made an ambitious goal of raising $35 million in 2018 to help with election campaigns coming up this fall. This is an increase of $10 million more than the $25 million spent in 2016.
The mission of End Citizens United, located in Washington, D.C., is to get Democrats into office and to take out Republicans who have put money and special interests ahead of their constituents. That list of GOP candidates is known as the Big Money 20 and includes big names such as Ted Cruz and Dean Heller. End Citizens United is dedicated to eliminating big money and special interests in American politics.
End Citizens United is working hard to get the word out about the Big Money 20, but also looking for candidates they can endorse in local elections and help support through polling and other endeavors. For example, the organization recently out in the Nevada state senate race by conducting polls to help Democratic candidate Cortez Masto. The results showed that messaging about campaign finance reform greatly helped the cause of Masto, while more standard Democratic Party messaging did not.
Their website shows a number of local candidates that the PAC is supporting and who have shown their are champions of campaign finance reform. Candidates such as Elaine Luria in Virginia or Mallory Hagan in Alabama or Ben McAdams in Utah.
End Citizens United has been dedicated to campaign finance reforms for years. The President and Executive Director is Tiffany Muller and has helped raise money from average citizens and using grassroots methods. During the 2016, the PAC raised more than $25 million to help efforts in this cause.
The Academy of Art University, created by artists for artists provides an excellent opportunity for students. The university which is housed in San Francisco, California offers a wide array of academic options including undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificates, and pre-college programs in the creative arts field. A few of the scholarly choices are Animation and Visual Effects, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures and Television, Music Production, and Sound Design for Visual Media.
Not only does the Academy of Art University in San Francisco offer academic growth, it also provides ample student life opportunities. These opportunities include events such as open houses and art exhibits. Students certainly benefit from living on campus and being in the center of the lively projects taking place on campus.
The admission requirements for the Academy of Art University are: a high school diploma or GED and completion of the Department of Education Approved Ability to Benefit test, or the completion of at least six college credits. Individuals interested can find more information about the application process online at the Academy of Art University website.
The Academy of Art University even provides an online option. Online class options provide more flexibility for students allowing them to set their own schedule. Distance degrees provide students the opportunity to take 15 module classes while living a full life outside of the campus environment. This provides working professionals a chance to delve deeper into a field of interest while working. Additionally, the university provides a pre-college online program that helps prepare high school students for college. The online pre-college program gives the opportunity for high school students to grow artistically and become more aware of career roles in the creative arts. High school students can take 2 online classes during the Fall/Spring semesters and 3 classes during the Summer. The Academy of Art University provides an additional incentive for high school students. For every PASS grade for online classes a high school student receives $1,000 towards an undergraduate degree at the Academy of Art University.
Financial aid is available. Students interested in receiving financial aid must first file a FAFSA.


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Merkel, German well-wishers fete Britain's queen 25 июня 2015, 12:39
Chancellor Angela Merkel joined Berliners in rolling out the red carpet for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, with the monarch warning against a "division in Europe".
Merkel, German well-wishers fete Britain's queen
Chancellor Angela Merkel joined Berliners in rolling out the red carpet for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday, with the monarch warning against a "division in Europe" as Britain debates its EU future, AFP reports.
Dyed-in-the-wool fans and tourists braved leaden skies to line the banks of the Spree River where the 89-year-old queen and her husband, Prince Philip, 94, kicked off a state visit with a brief boat trip though the capital's political district.
As the open-air boat "Ajax" came into view with its German flag fluttering in the wind, cheers rippled through the crowd patiently waiting for a glimpse of the royal couple, who waved back.
"Your majesty", shouted one hopeful onlooker; another played Britain's National Anthem on a mobile phone. Cellphone cameras held high tried to capture a fleeting moment of the queen's fifth state visit to Germany.
Some waved British flags; others talked about the queen's attire -- an elegant white dress coat with a brimmed hat and gloves. But the much discussed colour palette of her wardrobe was not the only quality admired.
"Her charisma, her discipline and the lovely clothes!" enthused Berlin resident Roswitha Meiritz, 76, who said she had a fascination with the queen and had also gone to see her on her first state visit in 1965.
The queen went on to meet Merkel at the chancellor's ultra-modern offices. Merkel also held talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron in Berlin as he seeks support from the eurozone's top economy for his EU reform wish list.
At a state banquet later, the monarch warned against complacency in Europe.
"In our lives, we have seen the worst but also the best of our continent," she said, according to the British media.
"We know that division in Europe is dangerous and that we must guard against it in the west, as well as in the east, of our continent."
Britain's 'secret weapon'
Newspapers have played up the timing of the state visit, the queen's fifth to Germany in 50 years, as Cameron heads towards an in-out referendum on Britain's EU membership.
While stressing the queen's role is not a political one, German commentators have homed in on the political symbolism of the visit.
"Every gesture, every word of the queen in the coming days has meaning, for Germany, Britain, Europe," Handelsblatt business daily said Tuesday. "It is the politics of the apolitical."
The Bild mass daily described her as "the secret weapon of British diplomacy" on a visit to "remind everyone of how poor Europe would be without the UK".
German well-wishers said they did not believe the excitement around the visit would sway Merkel or influence the debate on Europe.
Sophia Manske, who teaches English and watched the queen's boat trip with her baby daughter, said she did not see the visit changing "anything for England politically", but said the queen was a "good representative".
Pensioner Norman Metzler agreed.
"I think it's rather unpolitical," he said. "It won't have an influence. It's a symbolic thing."
Merkel's spokesman later released a short video showing her welcoming the queen and pointing out where the Berlin Wall ran through the formerly divided city until its fall in 1989.
"Where the train goes there, there was the Wall," Merkel tells the queen, pointing into the distance, adding: "And I lived in East Germany, just 200 metres behind this... train railway."
The royal couple's packed agenda also includes a visit to the former Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp Friday where teen Jewish diarist Anne Frank died shortly before it was freed by British troops in April 1945.
On Thursday they head to Germany's financial capital, Frankfurt.

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A new look at how chemicals on Jupiter's moon Europa may be reacting together could provide new insight to how chemical reactions could be occurring in the moon's icy crust, despite frigid temperatures. Researchers have found that water and sulfur dioxide react together very quickly, even at temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing. Because the reaction occurs without the aid of radiation, it could take place throughout Europa's thick coating of ice. If this is occurring, it would revamp current thinking about the chemistry and geology of this moon and perhaps others.
Europa has temperatures around 86 to 130 Kelvin (minus 300 to minus 225 degrees Fahrenheit), and in those extremely cold conditions, most chemical reactions require an infusion of energy from radiation or light. On Europa, the energy comes from particles from Jupiter's radiation belts. Because most of those particles penetrate just fractions of an inch into the surface, models of Europa's chemistry typically stop there.
"When people talk about chemistry on Europa, they typically talk about reactions that are driven by radiation," says Goddard scientist Reggie Hudson. "Once you get below Europa's surface, it's cold and solid, and you normally don't expect things to happen very fast under those conditions," said Reggie Hudson, from NASA Goddard's Astrochemistry Laboratory.
Spectroscopy shows there is sulfur in Europa's ice, and astronomers believe it originates from the volcanoes of Jupiter's moon Io, then becomes ionized and is transported to Europa, where it gets embedded in the ice. But originally, astronomers thought not much of a reaction could occur between water ice and the sulfur.
Loeffler and Hudson sprayed water vapor and sulfur dioxide gas onto quarter-sized mirrors in a high-vacuum chamber. Because the mirrors were kept at about 50 to 100 Kelvin (about minus 370 to minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit), the gases immediately condensed as ice. As the reaction proceeded, the researchers used infrared spectroscopy to watch the decrease in concentrations of water and sulfur dioxide and the increase in concentrations of positive and negative ions generated.
To test the reaction, the researchers added frozen carbon dioxide, also known as dry ice, which is commonly found on icy bodies, including Europa. "If frozen carbon dioxide had blocked the reaction, we wouldn't be nearly as interested," said Hudson, "because then the reaction probably wouldn't be relevant to Europa's chemistry. It would be a laboratory curiosity." But the reaction continued, which means it could be significant on Europa as well as Ganymede and Callisto, two more of Jupiter's moons, and other places where both water and sulfur dioxide are present.
What's more, the positive and negative ions produced will react with other molecules. This could lead to some intriguing chemistry, especially because bisulfite, a type of sulfur ion, and some other products of this reaction are refractory-stable enough to last for quite some time.
This new finding will certainly prompt new remote observations of Europa to see whether evidence of any reaction-based products can be found.


Fresh air, wildlife spotting, walking trails, lakes, playgrounds, sandy plains and forest for as far as the eye can see. Discover the woodlands of Holland and Belgium and decide where to begin your magical journey!
The South, mainly French speaking part of Belgium is a world away from the beaches and cities of the north but only a couple of hours away by car. With unspoilt beauty, pretty little villages and town, castles, caves and steeped in history it combines adventure, education and fairytales against a backdrop of magical woodland and dramatic scenery.
The Ardennes, Belgium's National Park: Hoge Kempen and Belgium's Bluebell Forest are all magical places to visit with babies and toddlers.
Read our Woodland in Belgium blog article.
The skies are blue, you're feeling energetic and you want to get your family out and about and get some fresh air. Then put on some comfy shoes, pack a drink and go and explore some of the Magical Woodlands that Holland has to offer. Each woodland area is beautiful in its own right and all are lovingly looked after. The Dutch have even created special wildlife crossings called 'ecoducts' to allow wildlife to safely cross over motorways and railways. You can be sure to find plenty to keep your whole family entertained.
Here are our top 5 tips for finding the Magical Woodland that suits you….


Viking Extrusions specialise in the production of bespoke and complex silicone rubber profiles and extrusions, and can meet the requirements of most customers, industries, and applications. This is where our business started years ago and it remains the cornerstone of the company.
We already have over 7000 existing tools, and may well be able to produce your requirements without the production of a new tool. To view our more commonly used profiles, select a category and search by size. You can also view a large selection of our existing in our catalogue available here.
Silicone rubber profiles and extrusions offers a number of advantages compared to other materials, boasting great thermal stability, water and flame resistance, tight sealing capabilities and low chemical reactivity. There are various compounds available with different characteristics, allowing you to find a material that's an exact match for your application. All these features make silicone incredible versatile for a variety of industries and purposes.
If tooling is required, you will be impressed by our costings and timescales. We can create custom extrusion dies, profiles and moulds that are carefully manufactured to your exact requirements.
Extrusion tooling is rarely more than £75 and it is our aim to provide you with final samples within 14 working days of order placement. Our quality systems and company ethos will ensure that not only are your expectations met, they are exceeded with our high precision solutions.
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Australians can now report fake ads they see on Facebook after scammers used unauthorised images of celebrities like Nicole Kidman and Karl Stefanovic. The fake Australian celebrity endorsements were used to promote free product trials that were nearly impossible to cancel, or investment schemes. "We continue to train our team to better recognise these ads, but feedback from people is critical," Facebook's Director of Product Management Rob Leathern told AAP on Thursday. "When users report an ad, that helps us improve our automated detection of some of their changing tactics." Mr Leathern said Facebook was trying to use facial recognition technology to help detect public figures in fake ads, but that presents challenges. He said the company had removed more than 2.2 billion fake accounts worldwide between January and March this year. It continues to build protection tools to prevent disruptions to their users. The reporting tool lands in Australia after being tested in the UK, where TV presenter Martin Lewis dropped a lawsuit against Facebook after reaching an agreement that it take action on fake ads. It comes as Sandra Bullock and Ellen DeGeneres reportedly launch legal action against online sellers that the US celebrities claim used fake comments attributed to them to promote products. A West Australian woman lost almost $700,000 earlier in 2019 to an investment scheme promoted on social media using the image of mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, it was revealed in September. Facebook partnered with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for an education campaign as part of Scam Awareness Week in August, and is looking to extend the reporting tool to more countries soon. "We want to raise awareness and have people's feedback on any ad that might have escaped our reinforced automated tools to prevent this," Mr Leathern said. "Scams are an ever complicated issue and we're trying to do everything possible to combat it". Australians have lost more than $100 million on different types of scams in 2019, according to ACCC's Scamwatch data. More than $18 million came from scams originating on social networks, with more than 6000 reports registered. Australian Associated Press
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Facebook reveals celeb scam report tool
Ulises Izquierdo
Australian Facebook users can now report ads falsely using celebrities to promote dodgy products.
Australians can now report fake ads they see on Facebook after scammers used unauthorised images of celebrities like Nicole Kidman and Karl Stefanovic.
The fake Australian celebrity endorsements were used to promote free product trials that were nearly impossible to cancel, or investment schemes.
"We continue to train our team to better recognise these ads, but feedback from people is critical," Facebook's Director of Product Management Rob Leathern told AAP on Thursday.
"When users report an ad, that helps us improve our automated detection of some of their changing tactics."
Mr Leathern said Facebook was trying to use facial recognition technology to help detect public figures in fake ads, but that presents challenges.
He said the company had removed more than 2.2 billion fake accounts worldwide between January and March this year.
It continues to build protection tools to prevent disruptions to their users.
The reporting tool lands in Australia after being tested in the UK, where TV presenter Martin Lewis dropped a lawsuit against Facebook after reaching an agreement that it take action on fake ads.
It comes as Sandra Bullock and Ellen DeGeneres reportedly launch legal action against online sellers that the US celebrities claim used fake comments attributed to them to promote products.
A West Australian woman lost almost $700,000 earlier in 2019 to an investment scheme promoted on social media using the image of mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, it was revealed in September.
Facebook partnered with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for an education campaign as part of Scam Awareness Week in August, and is looking to extend the reporting tool to more countries soon.
"We want to raise awareness and have people's feedback on any ad that might have escaped our reinforced automated tools to prevent this," Mr Leathern said.
"Scams are an ever complicated issue and we're trying to do everything possible to combat it".
Australians have lost more than $100 million on different types of scams in 2019, according to ACCC's Scamwatch data.
More than $18 million came from scams originating on social networks, with more than 6000 reports registered.


Beam Wallet wants to change the way we pay and erode the privileges of monopolies.
We already teamed up with Beam Wallet at their beginning when they wanted to describe their app to customers of several countries, now we have been called again to announce their ICO to the world.
Blockchain based businesses and ICOs are at their peak in terms of hype and buzz and sometimes it is difficult to distinguish a robust new business idea from lures. We needed to show not only the opportunity of an ICO, but the stability and the high profile of the company at a time.
We combined high end motion graphic with traditional animation with the explicit goal to create a look and feel that would differentiate itself from the crowded market of the blockchain world.
The glorious high five scene!


Keep the litter pan in a bathroom, secluded area, or in the basement. Begin by placing the kitten in the litter after meals, after playtime, long naps, first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Be consistent in taking the kitten to the litter pan during the training period.
If you can catch the kitten making a mistake, firmly, but gently, place the kitten in the litter pan. Kittens do not respond well to the punishment. Do not scold the kitten after the mistake has been made. The kitten will not associate the scolding with the act. Wash and deodorize the soiled area so the kitten will not return to it. Do not allow the kitten freedom of the house until you are certain he is using his litter pan regularly.
Make certain you keep the litter pan clean as most cats will not use soiled litter. A sieve or a scoop designed for cleaning litter pans should be used to remove droppings from the pan at least once each day depending upon the number of cats and the type of diet fed, you can usually use the litter for about one week before changing it. When you change the litter, wash the pan with soap and hot water. Do not use strong disinfectants or agents which are not specifically designed for use around cats. For sanitary purposes, wash your hands thoroughly after cleaning the litter pan.


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Approx. length from top center front to hem: 60".
Fully lined, with padded cups and boning in bodice.
**Does not come with the crystal belt.** You can add any beautiful sash you choose!


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London Bridge stabbing a terrorist attack, suspect shot dead at scene – counter-terror chief
Forensics officers at the site of the terrorist attack on London Bridge on November 29, 2019. © Reuters / Peter Nicholls
The man shot by police on London Bridge has died at the scene, Britain's top counter-terrorism officer told reporters. The suspect was strapped with a fake bomb and the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
Police shot the suspect dead, after he stabbed multiple people near London Bridge on Friday, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told reporters that afternoon. The man died at the scene.
"This is a terrorist incident," Basu told reporters, adding that investigators believe the man was wearing a hoax explosive vest.
READ MORE: 2 victims dead in London Bridge stabbing – report
In response, Basu said that the Metropolitan Police would be stepping up patrols in London, and that the area will remain cordoned off for some time, to ensure "no further danger to the public."
After speaking to reporters, Basu traveled to Downing Street to brief Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the situation. Johnson condemned the attack as an "appalling incident."
It is still unclear how many people were stabbed before police ended the attacker's rampage. News reports suggest that at least five people were injured. The attack brought chaos to the busy central London thoroughfare, with police rushing to the bridge and ordering the public to remain indoors.
Also on rt.com WATCH: People flee in panic amid London Bridge terrorist attack
A group of bystanders managed to tackle and disarm the suspect, and video footage shared on social media showed officers breaking up the scuffle before shooting the man at close range with a submachine gun.
Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has previously been criticized for the terror attacks that have taken place in London under his watch, commended the "breathtaking heroism" of the bystanders who intervened.
Video courtesy Twitter / @HLOBlog
London Bridge was also the scene of a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack in June 2017, which left 11 people dead.
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I really want to visit the Sephora store, but I am not seeing myself going to Delhi any soon. So, I asked my friend who keeps on travelling, to get me these stuffs :) It a really tiny haul but I am in love with this stuffs already.
Sephora Weekend Kit. Worth the money and really useful.
Soap & Glory The Scrub Of Your Life ~ This smells really awesome. I think I want a perfume that smells exactly.


Giardiasis is an infectious diarrhoeal disease caused by a protozoan parasite, Giardia lamblia. The parasite lives in the digestive tract of people and animals and is spread through faecal matter. The parasite is able to survive outside the body by forming a cyst which protects it from the environment. Giardia affects three times more children than adults, possibly because many individuals seem to have a lasting immunity after infection, and also because children do not have well developed personal hygiene.
The symptoms usually last 7-10 days but approximately 50% of infected people have very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all.
The parasite is transmitted from person to person through contact with infected faeces, either directly (such as between children) or indirectly via contaminated food, water and inanimate objects.
Contact with infected people, including children and babies.
Rest and extra fluid are recommended. Your doctor can prescribe a treatment for giardia.
Without treatment individuals with weakened immune systems may have the illness for months, or even years, causing recurrent mild or moderate symptoms such as impaired digestion, lactose intolerance, intermittent diarrhoea, tiredness, weakness, and significant weight loss.
Make sure your house is connected to a Council water supply of good quality. If this is not possible use a treatment system that is rated to protect against Giardia.
If you have had Giardia you must stay out of swimming pools and spa pools until you have been free from all symptoms for two weeks.
Use sodium hypochlorite (chlorine bleach) to clean your toilet and bathroom fixtures. Remember that the Giardia cysts are resistant to most cleaning products.
For a printable version of this Giardia information, click here.


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Excluding Anti-Gay Speaker From Open-to-the-Public Pride Festival Violated First Amendment
First Amendment principles that offensive speech is protected "are by no means new. Yet they are strangely absent from the papers submitted by [City of Syracuse defendants] in defense of their actions toward plaintiff James Deferio, a Christian evangelical who regularly proselytizes at the Central New York Pride Parade and Festival ...."
Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 2.5.2018 7:48 AM
Private organizations often get a permit to put on events on public streets or in a public park, and open the event to the public generally. When that happens, courts generally don't let the police eject people who go to the event to express their own political views, even when the views criticize the organization or its patrons, and even if the organization wants the speakers ejected. The police can enforce content-neutral speech restrictions, such as limits on sound amplification. And if a group gets a permit to have a closed event, which only ticketholders can attend (especially common for events in government-run convention centers, but in principle possible even in parks or on sidewalks), the organization can select who gets the tickets. But if the event is generally open to all comers, people who come to speak can't be ejected.
Deferio v. City of Syracuse (N.D.N.Y. Jan. 31, 2018), offers the most recent example; here's the court's introduction:
"The First Amendment reflects 'a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.'" "The First Amendment offers sweeping protection that allows all manner of speech to enter the marketplace of ideas. This protection applies to loathsome and unpopular speech with the same force as it does to speech that is celebrated and widely accepted." "First Amendment jurisprudence is clear that the way to oppose offensive speech is by more speech, not censorship, enforced silence or eviction from legitimately occupied public space."
These principles are by no means new. E.g., Whitney v. California (1927) (Brandeis, J., concurring). Yet they are strangely absent from the papers submitted by Defendants in defense of their actions toward plaintiff James Deferio, a Christian evangelical who regularly proselytizes at the Central New York Pride Parade and Festival ….
While the dispute in this case may seem parochial—defendants Sergeant Jamey Locastro and Captain Joseph Sweeny forced Plaintiff to move approximately forty feet from the north to the south side of West Kirkpatrick Street—the issues presented here affect the heart of the First Amendment's purpose. As the Supreme Court recently stated, "Even today, [public streets and sidewalks] remain one of the few places where a speaker can be confident that he is not simply preaching to the choir. With respect to other means of communication, an individual confronted with an uncomfortable message can always turn the page, change the channel, or leave the Web site. Not so on public streets and sidewalks. There, a listener often encounters speech he might otherwise tune out."
This [decision] affirms the importance of public sidewalks in the development of the marketplace of ideas and reminds state actors of the requirements they must meet in order to place restrictions on individuals' right to speak from traditional public fora….
And here are the facts, and the court's analysis of the defendants' argument that plaintiff's speech was constitutionally unprotected "fighting words":
Plaintiff is a Christian evangelical who attends public events in Syracuse and elsewhere in order to spread his religious beliefs. At the 2014 Pride Event, Plaintiff held a large sign that displayed a verse from the Bible regarding "the unrighteous." [The full text, which the court noted elsewhere in the opinion, was, "WARNING: Do you not know that the unrighteous shall inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10." -EV] At the 2015 Pride Event, he held a different large sign that stated, "Thousands of Ex-Homosexuals Have Experienced the Life-Changing Love of Jesus Christ," which also provided links to relevant websites. He also used a sound amplification device to propagate messages regarding sin, judgment, and redemption….
Attendees at both festivals were unsurprisingly offended by Plaintiff's religious beliefs, which advocate for "homosexuals" in particular "to repent." But "offense" is not the standard by which First Amendment protections end. In fact, "if it is the speaker's opinion that gives offense, that consequence is a reason for according it constitutional protection." "After all, much political and religious speech might be perceived as offensive to some." …
Defendants … [argue] that Plaintiff's speech at the 2015 Pride Event constituted "fighting words" and is therefore not protected by the First Amendment…. The "fighting words" exception to the Free Speech Clause is narrow and consists of a "small class" of expressive conduct. Fighting words "instantly 'inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.'" "Offensive statements made generally to a crowd are not excluded from First Amendment protection; the insult or offense must be directed specifically at an individual." To determine whether such words are "inherently likely to provoke violent reaction," the Court must use an "objective standard"—whether "it is 'likely to provoke the average person to retaliation.'"
First, the Court must note that Defendants spend the majority of its Statement of Material Facts and almost all of their deposition of Plaintiff cataloging Plaintiff's controversial comments regarding religion, politics, and homosexuality over the course of many years. See SMF ¶¶ 10–59. Defendants use these facts to gesture at the disturbing argument that all of Plaintiff's proselytizing, potentially forevermore, constitutes "fighting words." After citing to comments that Plaintiff published on Facebook, Defendants state, "While it is undisputed that religious expression is protected, Plaintiff's speech constitutes 'fighting words,' which by their utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." Defendants make no effort to distinguish between Plaintiff's speech on Facebook, at the relevant Pride Events, or at other events that Defendants catalogued. The Court hopes that this sentence was merely sloppy writing, though Defendants' focus on Plaintiff's speech outside of the events at issue in this lawsuit is worrisome.
Turning to the 2015 Pride Event, about which Defendants argue with more specificity, the video evidence and Captain Sweeny's deposition do not indicate that Plaintiff used fighting words. Plaintiff attended the 2015 Pride Event with a large sign that stated, "Thousands of Ex-Homosexuals Have Experienced the Life-Changing Love of Jesus Christ," and provided links to relevant websites. In the limited time that he spoke from the intersection of West Kirkpatrick Street and the driveway into Inner Harbor Park, he made generally applicable statements regarding sin and religion. See, e.g., Dkt. No. 109 ("Time to repent people. You are not guaranteed tomorrow. No one is. Where's your love for God?"). Such generally applicable statements cannot constitute fighting words.
Plaintiff did direct at least one insult at an individual: He called a woman a "homofascist," after she said, "Nobody talk to him. Do not feed the monkey." Given the context of their conversation, the Court must view this comment "as unpleasant but petty, and not sufficiently provocative to constitute fighting words." The term "homofascist" is frequently used to accuse individuals of trying to silence those who do not support the LGBT community. By combining "homosexuality" and "fascist," the user of "homofascist" invokes the "exceedingly common—arguably hackneyed—rhetorical device" of "comparing a disliked authority figured to a fascist leader." Williams, 535 F.3d at 77 (holding that, "as matter of law," "comparing the manager of a recreational center to a fascist dictator … does not rise to the level of 'so-called fighting words'"). While there is no indication that the woman who received Plaintiff's insult was a traditional "authority figure," such as the deputy commissioner at issue in Williams, Plaintiff's comment had the same meaning in the situation he faced, since multiple people were asserting the authority allegedly provided by the City to move Plaintiff across the street.
The video evidence also indicates that the vast majority of the hundreds of attendees near Plaintiff ignored him. While a handful of attendees verbally accosted Plaintiff, and one attendee physically assaulted Plaintiff, the question is whether "the average individual" would be incited to violence by Plaintiff's words. Here, it is clear that the average individual was not incited to violence by Plaintiff's words.
The Court notes that Captain Sweeny—the commanding police officer at the Pride Event—never once indicated that Defendants' words were likely to elicit a violent response. When asked by Plaintiff's lawyer, "Was there anything about [Plaintiff's] conduct that concerned you?", Captain Sweeny said, "His conduct, no." Captain Sweeny's Affidavit even takes pride in the fact that "Plaintiff was neither arrested nor charged with a crime, and, in fact, upon information and belief, [the Syracuse Police Department] pursued charges against [Plaintiff's] assailant." Defendants do not grapple with or even acknowledge these facts in their papers, which directly contradict their argument that Plaintiff's speech constituted fighting words.
In sum, Plaintiff's speech at the 2015 Pride Event did not constitute fighting words, and therefore was entitled to First Amendment protection. As noted above, Defendants have not seriously argued that Plaintiff's speech at the 2014 Pride Event did not merit First Amendment protection….
And here is the court's analysis of the defendants' argument that moving Plaintiff was justified because of the Pride Event's permit:
In his deposition, Locastro presented two reasons for demanding that Plaintiff move to the south side of West Kirkpatrick Street: First, because Plaintiff was in violation of CNY Pride's permit, and second, because Locastro was concerned for Plaintiff's safety. Neither of these justifications—as portrayed in the deposition and video evidence—was content-neutral.
With regard to the permit, Sergeant Locastro interpreted the permit as providing CNY Pride with the right to "close the sidewalk to anyone they view as a protester. So someone similar to [Plaintiff]." When asked what was the distinction between Plaintiff and the many other people near him, Locastro said, "Nobody else was holding a large anti-gay sign, standing in the middle of the sidewalk, upsetting people." Finally, in response to Plaintiff's question as to whether CNY Pride "could keep anybody they want to off of that sidewalk," Locastro said, "They could, yes."
These facts are similar to those analyzed by the Sixth Circuit in Parks v. City of Columbus (6th Cir. 2005). There, Douglas R. Parks attended the 2002 Arts Festival in Columbus, Ohio, wearing a sign bearing a religious message. The event was free and open to the public, yet the police forced Parks to move outside the area reserved for the festival because "the event sponsor did not want him there." The Sixth Circuit held that "under these circumstances we find it difficult to conceive that Parks's removal was based on something other than the content of his speech." Cf. McMahon v. City of Panama City Beach (N.D. Fla. 2016) ("The City's stated policy of unquestioning deference to the whims of the permit holder … at a free and open-to-the-public event is, to put it gently, troubling.").
Locastro's second justification—Plaintiff's safety—was also content-based. It is a fundamental principle of First Amendment jurisprudence that "[l]isteners' reaction to speech is not a content-neutral basis for regulation." Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement, 505 U.S. 123, 134 (1992). Speakers of protected speech—even speech that is offensive to many listeners—may not be punished because their critics "might react with disorder or violence." …
Defendants do not argue, as many jurisdictions in similar situations have, that Locastro's enforcement of the permit was necessary to protect CNY Pride's own message…. [The court cites here a case that rejected such an argument, on the grounds that "[t]here is a distinction between participating in an event and being present at the same location. Merely being present at a public event does not make one part of the organizer's message for First Amendment purposes." -EV]
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Martinned
February.5.2018 at 9:05 am
Just wondering, would it count as a content-neutral policy for the police to eject someone on disturbance of the peace grounds? Obviously that would presuppose an actual disturbance of the peace occurring – i.e. more than simply someone speaking – but it might end up looking suspiciously like a heckler's veto.
I would think that if, in a situation as described here, some sort of kerfuffle ensues – some mild fighting, for example – the police would be entitled to resolve the situation by ejecting the anti-gay protesters without engaging in any detailed analysis of who is to blame.
Jerry B.
February.5.2018 at 10:09 am
If some 'mild' fighting ensued, I would hope that the police would remove, and charge, whoever the aggressor was.
When the police arrive somewhere, I'd think they'd first separate the arguing parties and then try to figure out who, if anyone should be charged. AFAIK, they'd take an approach of "restoring the peace first, finding the culprit second".
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You must work for the LAPD.
He's retired from the LAPD
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He's retired from the LAPD *and* working for the LAPD.
It's my general understanding that as long as the "victim" is conscious enough to make an informed choice, it's up to them whether or not to press charges. Sure, prosecutors and police sometimes override the "victim's" choice and go for it anyway, but I think that's the exception, not the rule.
FlameCCT
That's been tried and rejected in Dearbornistan, MI.
Eusocialite
Forgive my non-lawyer ignorance, but it seems that this case conflicts with the Trump campaign case in which (I believe) it was determined that because political campaign events are "private", it was legal for anti-Trump demonstrators to be ejected from a campaign event. These two cases appear to address similar issues. Again, please school me, Professor Volokh, in my innocent ignorance.
Eugene Volokh
I touch on that at the start: "If a group gets a permit to have a closed event, which only ticketholders can attend (especially common for events in government-run convention centers, but in principle possible even in parks or on sidewalks), the organization can select who gets the tickets." Put on an event in a private building, and you can exclude people. Put on an event in a city-owned building rented for the evening, and you can exclude people. Put on an event in a city-owned park that you've rented, and that you open up only to ticketholders, and you're likely to be able to exclude people, too.
But if you put on an event in a park or on sidewalks that remain generally open to the public — because you want to welcome the general public — and you can't then say, "I don't like this person's speech, so the police need to eject them."
That's also what the court is getting at with:
The event was free and open to the public, yet the police forced Parks to move outside the area reserved for the festival because "the event sponsor did not want him there." The Sixth Circuit held that "under these circumstances we find it difficult to conceive that Parks's removal was based on something other than the content of his speech." Cf. McMahon v. City of Panama City Beach (N.D. Fla. 2016) ("The City's stated policy of unquestioning deference to the whims of the permit holder … at a free and open-to-the-public event is, to put it gently, troubling.").
Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland
If a sponsor could offer (and require) tickets distributed at the event, then revoke a ticket for disfavored conduct, the ticket issue seems relatively easy to address. Tickets for many events are offered without charge. The sponsor could simply print a batch of tickets, distribute them whenever and however desired, and reclaim a ticket from anyone it proposed to exclude from the event.
And the problem with that is… what? The First Amendment states that "government shall make no law", not "government shall ensure anybody and everybody can speak wherever they want to".
I perceive no problem, other than perhaps a few event sponsors being unaware of the precise hoops that must be navigated to avoid helplessness with respect to boors.
The "problem" is that our legal system shouldn't have "magic words" that make impermissible things permissible.
Either it's okay for folks to exclude specific members of the public from otherwise-public events based on their disruptive conduct, or it's not. But making it "okay" if you pass out no-charge "tickets" ahead of time, but "not okay" if you don't know about that specific loophole? That weakens the system as a whole.
Josh R
How does Hurley fit in? Is the plaintiff speaking at this event analogous to marching in the parade or analogous to protesting from the sidewalk?
Dilan Esper
Protesting.
I would assume if the factual scenario was a Pride parade, and this guy wanted to march in it and hold up his homophobic signage, he could be properly excluded under Hurley.
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I was in Jerusalem last summer and have a few things to say about this. Israel is a police state. However it is not to protect us against Muslims but against our fellow Jews. I was talking to haredi in Mea Shearim and the police came in and knocked me down and dragged me away. They then said, "We can't protect you from them." So I responded, "They're children!" (I guess they justified this on the basis that the children would attack me.) Also they always keep the sides separated. This is so they can stand between us with machine guns and if violence breaks out your guess is as good as mine which side they will shoot on. At the gay pride parade, the entire route was lined with soldiers, and the parade participants fawned over them the whole way. "Thanks for protecting us!" (A few years ago an ultra-religious settler stabbed a girl.) At the parade, you could hear the protesters screaming angrily through megaphones but couldn't see them. Separation causes radicalization and the ADL wants to import Israel police tactics here.
Also, Jesus was gay! There was a small group that went around the old city with a megaphone preaching the gospel and disparaging gays. So I walked up to them and said, "Jesus was gay, you idiot!" They literally just packed it in and left.
gormadoc
I don't think anyone expected him to say that.
Yeah, I've never been, but from everything I've ever read Israel is about the most fascist country in the world. Of course they're also completely immune from being criticized, because antisemitism!
They do have reasons to be hardcore about some stuff given the reality of where they are, but they take it farther than needed from what I know.
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Q: Hiding environment from closure I was watching this video Object-Oriented Programming is Bad. The subject is not really related to the question I'll ask, but the video leads to it. Precisely, at 41:10, he speaks about a feature that doesn't seem to exist in python, he talks about the ability to have nested functions/blocks that are not aware of the complete local context but instead, are aware of some variables selected by hand. Basically, he asks for the ability to remove/partially hide environment from a closure.
Here is what the desired feature might look like in python (using a use decorator for example):
def foo():
  x, y, z = 1, 2, 3

  def baz():
    print(x, y)  # prints "1 2"

  @use(y)
  def bar():
    print(y)  # Should print "2"
    z = 4     # Should create a local variable named `z`
    print(x)  # Should raise a NameError (`x` not defined)

  bar(), baz())

foo()

I've tried to implement that decorator but without success, so I tried with a simpler objective that is not to partially hide the environment but hiding it completely. Here is a solution I found:
import ctypes

def foo():
  x, z = 1

  def baz():
    print(x)  # prints 1

  @hide_environment
  def bar(y):
    print(y)  # prints 2
    z = 3
    print(z)  # prints 3
    print(x)  # NameError is raised

  baz(), bar(2)

def hide_environment(f):
  def environment_agnostic_f(*args, **kwargs):
    remove_environment(f)
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  return environment_agnostic_f

def remove_environment(f):
  if f.__closure__ is None:
    return
  for v in f.__closure__:
    py_obj = ctypes.py_object(v)
    ctypes.pythonapi.PyCell_Set(py_obj, None)  # that look like it could go wrong

foo()

I have four questions:

*

*Does it already exist in python?

*Is it possible to implement the use mechanism described in the video (within python)?

*Is my implementation of hide_environment correct?

I don't see how 2. is possible as I have no idea if it is possible to intercept/or find the cell address at which y's value has been placed. I'm not certain to understand how this is handled, but from what I understand, when foo is read, the "compiler" (not sure if one should really call it that way) puts all the locals from foo in __closure__ objects that will later be referenced by bar and baz. This lead to my last question:

*Is there anywhere in the documentation where the way closure are handled is described?

A: This doesn't come with Python, but the easiest way to implement it would be to just check what the function uses and throw an exception if it uses too much:
def allow_closure_vars(*okay_names):
    def checker(f):
        used_names = set(f.__code__.co_freevars)
        bad_names = used_names - set(okay_names)
        if bad_names:
            raise ValueError(f"Function uses the following variables it shouldn't: {bad_names}")
        return f
    return checker

def f():
    x, y = 1, 2
    @allow_closure_vars('x')
    def g():
        print(y)
    g()

f()

The attempt to define g will raise a ValueError.
Your implementation doesn't actually prohibit closure variable access. It just unassigns the variables, much like a del statement would. The function still has access to the variables, but they've been unassigned. This is likely to screw with the outer function, which probably wasn't expecting those variables to be unassigned, and it doesn't stop any code from assigning new values to the variables.


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Serifos Guide
The Greek island of Serifos is located in the Cyclades group of islands and lies in the Aegean Sea to the south of Kythnos and to the north west of Sifnos. It is also around 170 km from the port of Piraeus. Greek mythology has it that the island is where Danae and her infant son, Perseus, were washed ashore after her father Acrisius set them adrift at sea in a wooden chest. When Perseus returned to the island with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, he turned Polydektes, the King of Serifos, into stone as punishment for the King's attempt to marry his mother by force.
Home to the island's port is the town of Livadi and is the main centre of tourism on the island. There are many restaurants, cafes bars and clubs in the town and is where most hotels are located. The town's beach is long and sandy and has crystal clear water. During the summer, many of sailing boats and yachts can be found anchored in the calm waters of this naturally protected bay.
The island is accessed by conventional and high speed ferries. During the summer months, there are ferries that connect Serifos with other nearby islands, such as Sifnos, Naxos, Paros, Santorini and Kythnos.
Paros Guide
The Greek island of Paros is one of the Cyclades group of islands and lies in the Aegean Sea close to the island of Naxos which is about one hour away by ferry. It is a popular holiday destination and has a reputation for being a friendly island and very welcoming to its visitors. It is the second largest of the Cyclades and has many things to see and do including taking part in the many different water sports that are on offer. There is also the Church of Panagia Ekatantapiliani which dates back to 326 AD and is also popular with tourists. For a relaxing way to spend your time on the island there are some lovely tavernas that line the Parikia seafront and also some lovely beaches that include Agia Irini, Farangas, Kato and Logaras.
The island's port is in Parikia and hosts both conventional ferries and high speed ferries. Ferries generally depart to Piraeus and to the other islands of the Cyclades.
Location: Paros, Serifos to Paros Ferry


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Cosmic Drift Within Certain Parameters
Shouting Into The Void
Gundam Wing – The Final Review
The wise man knows his memory cannot be trusted. Every now and again you reflect upon a loving toy, game, place, or experience that had a profound impact on you, especially when you were young. Unto yourself your mind bequeaths glorious images that entice you into revisiting that memory, and like that ridiculous Telepathic Pitcher Plant (TM) from that one Star Trek: Voyager episode, you heed the luring call of your nostalgia until that moment of unadulterated revelation when the walls of the trap snap shut and you flail in vain as you drown slowly in the horror of your own summoning.
My friends: Gundam Wing is that pitcher plant–and that Voyager episode.
This resembles nothing.
As many my age can recall, Gundam Wing is a beloved show of one's childhood: the first solid incarnation of the Gundam anime franchise that American children and teenagers were exposed to. It somehow combined deep philosophical musing with the allure of implausible, anthropomorphic machines of war blowing lots of stuff up. To an adolescent mind, this was amazing, as most other cartoons never discussed the notions of war and peace at large along with the philosophies surrounding human conflict. Many viewers my age were intrigued and captivated by this new approach to looking at the world, and so were pulled into the medium of anime itself. This being the seed of much of my mental development, rewatching this could only be a pleasant experience.
Or so my memories told me. In reality, Gundam Wing is an emotional, logical, and moral trainwreck that somehow ascends into the High Heavens of Inanity unto a far loftier circle than even the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, no doubt swelling the slumbering corpse of Cthulhu with matchless pride. If you thought it was bullshit that Padme died for Literally No Reason (TM), your mind is about to cry rivers of blood, because everything in Gundam Wing happens for Literally No Reason (TM), and to such an extent you would think George Lucas would have sued Sunrise's ass off by now for copyright infringement.
Gundam Wing takes place in its own uniquely baffling timeline in which humanity, still chafing from the wedgie it received after being shoved between a global mandate for absurd Victorian fashion and the mind-blowing computer technology of the 80s, reckons the years after the establishment of the first space colony, implying this was as significant an event in history as the birth of Jesus Christ. In case you did not know just how few Japanese are Christians, now you do. That's how they keep getting away with that shit in Evangelion, yet even The End of Evangelion makes twenty-three times as much sense as the first episode of this series. This does not improve as time progresses.
Those are now the only words in your vocabulary.
The Year: After Colony 195. In one of the most ill-conceived terrorist operations since time began, the beleaguered and oppressed Colonies, unable to communicate with each other, independently craft the most advanced fighting machines ever seen by human eyes and decide to put them in the hands of the most deranged teenagers they could find. The first of these is the unforgettable Heero Yuy: History's Most Virgin Psychopath. One has to wonder where this monster came from. In the first minute of his screen-time he coldly executes the first of Gundam Wing's Legion of Unnamed Victims and laughs maniacally for about seven seconds before proceeding to the next one. This is the most relatable show of emotion he ever makes throughout the series, all forty-nine episodes of it. Then he proceeds to abandon his weapon of war in the ocean and crash on the shore where the Second Virgin Psychopath, "Relena Peacecraft," happens upon him and seems not to care a wit as he commits brazen acts of terrorism before her eyes, including attempting to murder her. Translation: she's in love with him.
Apparently the brilliant minds behind this operation thought the solution to their plight would be to hand the keys to a nigh-invincible superweapon to the Japanese child of Charles Manson and send him to Earth to do…something. It is never clear what exactly Heero Yuy was instructed to do or what the Colonies were attempting to accomplish except mass terror and undirected mayhem. Nor are the other Gundam pilots any better except the American one, Duo Maxwell, who actually wonders on screen what the hell is going on from time to time. Duo is also the only character in this series who has undoubtedly had sex. Beyond that, we have three other psychiatric wonder children: Quatre, Trowa, and Wufei, completing a grand circle of clinical insanity and pernicious racism. It's clear the director was going for the diversity achievement here, but failed miserably, as every single character is inexplicably white or Asian. No one with skin darker than whole milk ever appears. No, not even in the background. Somehow the Nazis won in this universe. It would explain a lot, like why these people are not confined to a mental institution in very thick straitjackets, although not their clothing, as the Nazis knew how to dress at least.
The show introduces our "favorite" Gundam pilots by squeezing the plot through a sieve, giving us ample time to reflect on all their shortcomings as human beings. Quatre Raberba Winner–yes, that's his name–is the white, blond, adolescent leader of a random group of white Arabs headed by some comical incarnation of Wolverine. For the next forty-odd episodes or so, Quatre can't make up his mind on whether he wants to be a pacifist, a murderer, or just batshit insane. It's also clear he's gay, as shown by his awkward, series-spanning mancrush on Trowa Barton, the Mad Clown Gundam Pilot, who has locks that defy the laws of physics and singlehandedly fund the AXE brand of hair products. He's randomly suicidal, as the series goes out of its way to demonstrate to everyone's annoyance. Apart from this pair of Necronomicon readers is Wufei Chang, winner of the most insultingly generic Chinese name since the first Grand China King Yellow Buffet opened its doors in America, who seems convinced his Gundam–that giant machine of war meant to kill people–carries with it the spirit of his dead, fourteen-year-old wife. End Paragraph.
As any reasonable soul would have expected, this pentagon of horror manages to achieve exactly nothing except the wanton death of thousands of people and the complete geopolitical destabilization and upheaval of the entire planet several times over. Naturally, there are perfectly reasonable people on the other side trying to make sure things retain some modicum of order or something like that. Oh. Wait. No. The first character of the United Earth Sphere Alliance–because Third Reich or British Empire is too passe by this point–is "Lieutenant" Zechs Marquis. Don't worry, his rank fluctuates appropriately in every episode, so it's just safe to assume he's in charge of everyone around him. The quality of dialogue (and sheer Japanese-to-English translation) in this show can be described by his approximate fifth line:
"So that's their little battle seed all ready to sprout into new battles."
Like Heero, Zechs manages to get all that annoying near-coherence out at the beginning just so we can be entranced by another twenty-four-and-a-half hours of whispers of the Old Ones from his lips. Zechs wears a mask and long, flowing blond hair down to his ankles. If you know anything about any military in the world, you immediately see a problem. Too bad. Gundam Wing doesn't care. The "military" in this universe laughs at your notions of discipline, respect, regulations, intelligence, tactics, morality, or regard for human life. It is staffed by awkwardly-voiced morons who can't make up their minds about who they are, yet insist on throwing out every last bizarre philosophical observation on the situation they can conjure. These people happily believe threatening to kill everyone in space is a viable defensive tactic for winning a minor land skirmish, and they're right, because unlike you, you sad, small-minded offspring of an Earth inhabited by sane human beings, they know just how stupid the rest of their species truly is.
These people serve in a "military."
Straddling Zech's completely unused penis is "Lieutenant" Lucrezia Noin, another vaguely German personality and flight instructor who tries to seduce Zechs out-of-uniform on an open comms channel in her first five minutes on screen, then downgrades her game to tapping her dress sword against Zech's in the lamest disco bar since disco died. After recovering from the hangover she doesn't have, Noin bitchslaps a newly graduating pilot who speaks at the position of attention for some reason and berates him for not being able to take care of his machine. Meanwhile, in China, Wufei teleports over to Noin's base, blows up the entire student barracks in the middle of the night, then survives an encounter with "Lieutenant" Noin because she is a retard who lets him get back to his Gundam and kick her ass. Wufei berates Noin for her existence as a woman and explains his victory in the most misogynistic manner possible. Noin is then not court-martialed for her utter incompetence by Zechs.
"It must get better," you say to yourself. No, it doesn't. Nothing in the series makes any more sense than this. The plot progresses through sheer inertia, leaving the viewer constantly baffled as to why. Every second line is an incoherent fragment of philosophical rambling that is beyond the capability of the human nervous system to process. To make matters crazier, the motivations of every character change faster than the weather for less scrutable reasons. Zechs alone shifts from villain to ally to villain to ally to madman, each time donning a new absurd personality to justify it. Which begs the question: is Gundam Wing, in fact, a groundbreaking series that attempted to explore mental health through the medium of highly marketable toys? We wonder, we wonders.
Pacifism will save us! Now blow shit up!
Once the aneurysm-inducing introductory episodes are out of the way, we get treated to our next gift of torture from Sauron the Great: the endless waltz of madness between the two obvious couples in this series. The first and aforementioned marriage of weird lies between Heero and Relena, two teenagers "in love" who never show it in any discernible way. Apart from the simple fact that these two spend about ten minutes in the same scene over the course of forty-nine episodes, Heero tries to kill Relena several times without showing a hint of remorse, while Relena reciprocates by standing on the shore and shouting "Heero, I'm waiting right here, so come kill me!" over and over again. The only person watching this ridiculous drama unfold is Relena's stoned-ass butler, who, when he's not aimlessly shuttling Relena about in her hot-pink Limousine of Despair, spouts exposition that he has no earthly right to know. The old dotard must be too senile and/or high to question why his young charge keeps harassing the Atlantic Ocean for not murdering her hard enough. Maybe he turned to drugs to dull the pain; maybe I should follow his wise example.
Pictured: a theoretical human being.
The second match made in Dis is between Lady Une and Treize Khushrenada, two of the most incompatible personalities on God's Green Earth. Lady Une is a sociopathic schizophrenic and "Colonel" in the Earth Sphere Alliance that, based on some pretty obvious subtext, just seems to want Treize to bone her hard. You would think this would be straightforward, but Treize has to spend far too much time tending his sinisterly forked eyebrows to pleasure women. Lady Une, in response, tries to kill every living thing in sight. By that, I mean the Gundam Pilots. For a while there I thought she was (in delectable irony) the only person who grasped just how dangerous these teenagers are, but alas, she turns out to be just as sexually repressed and incompetent as the next demon-child of the Axis Powers that rule this world. So much in this series would be solved if people just got laid. So much. Oh, Freud, why did you have to die so soon? You missed a grand opportunity. Fate is truly cruel.
You will notice I am avoiding discussing the greater plot, if you can call it that, as digesting it will involve alcohol and meth in the obscene quantities that these characters seem to ingest. Here is a blessedly brief argument of Gundam Wing. Take a deep hit first.
The United Earth Sphere Alliance is headed by pacifists who are violently oppressing everything in heaven and earth because shut up. In response, the Colonies forge the Gundams and send them and their thoroughly insane pilots to Earth to "retaliate," meaning kill lots of innocent soldiers and blow shit up at regular intervals. Treize wiggles his forked eyebrows and dupes his wise, virgin adversaries into assassinating the inexplicably pacifist leadership of the military that rules the world (read that again), leaving Treize, a lowly "Colonel," in charge of everything. His new organization, "Oz"–whatever the hell that stands for–seems completely indistinguishable from its predecessor until more inebriated old men with unbelievable power show up from somewhere and start making AIs capable of fighting without pilots, thus eliminating the need to execute a few hundred nameless soldiers and civilians every episode. Unable to stand for this, Treize throws the calmest shitstorm of philosophical babbling ever recorded and splits Oz into two under the apparent premise that humans dying in battle is preferable to humans not dying in battle. So logic vomits out this surreal standoff where the enemies are the people who want to save human lives. Treize's eyebrows did it.
Thou villain with thine benevolent wishes!
It was at this point that the quivering, haltering plot fell apart even before my twelve-year-old mind when it first beheld this. It sounded vaguely eloquent back then, but Lady Une's rant about how soldiers dying in battle is a good thing smacked of utter bullshit. Turns out it was utter bullshit. I get a gold star. In order to keep stomaching this epic space drama at the mountains of madness, I just ignored this point and skipped to the next scene that involved senseless killing…five seconds later. Oh good, I thought! It's over! I was betrayed. Having written itself into a corner by introducing the invincible "Mobile Dolls," the plot compensates for this by conjuring more Giant Machines of Death, but this time their use drives their pilots balls-to-the-wall-I-hate-bodonkadonks-mad–even more than they already were! What?! you gasp, baffled. Oh yes, it's true. The solution to beating the Mobile Dolls is a Hitler Machine! If you think about it, though, this actually follows the whole logic of the series to the letter, in that there is none and you should look out the window and pray that the Rapture is happening.
Thanks to the benevolent influence of one of these new Crazy-Gundams, Quatre goes on a merciless (as opposed to his previous merciful) killing spree after his dad objects to the democratic process on his colony, which votes Oz in fair and square. To prevent this dastardly spark of tyranny from spreading any further, Quatre's Dad, the whitest Arab known to man, attempts to rob his former subjects' of their entire livelihood, which they end up killing him for. Quatre blames the colonists for doing the completely reasonable thing and declares that that the colonies have lost their minds and all need to die. Wow. Well, I guess crazy people think normal people are crazy, so that…makes sense? God hasn't answered me in a very long time. The last I heard from Him was a cackling this place needs more death. Uh oh. After Heero and Trowa kick Quatre's retarded ass, the pilots all end up on the moon, where the writers gang-rape biology, allowing several of the pilots to survive complete oxygen deprivation for over twenty minutes. Given how brain-damaged these young-ins are already, I guess that's a fair leap. Sort of. Anyway, Oz splits into two and starts a world war over AI, a war the proponents of Japanese Luddhism lose. Derp.
This Semitic man makes good decisions.
Meanwhile, on the abused, battered shores of the Atlantic, Relena Peacecraft has at last annoyed the sea into giving her her own kingdom, a twisted plot of land populated by her Psychotic Fan Club and other nameless, repressed high-school students. With options now at her disposal, Relena spends her spare time yelling at the forest outside her window instead. Her Sanc Kingdom espouses complete and total pacifism while being guarded by Giant Machines of Death as tall as skyscrapers. History proceeds to laugh its ass off and sends, like, ten other countries to go knock that shit down, because seriously, it's dumb. Relena's demented experiment into brainwashing a generation is crushed under heel in about two minutes, a conclusion no resident of the After Colony timeline could have foreseen. Everyone is sad and cries and whines and boo hoo hoo. Not for long, though, as Relena is then crowned Queen of the World. End Paragraph.
That went rather well, actually.
Space decides that it has had enough of this nonsense, and Oz is ripped apart from within a third time by a new faction of mass murderers called White Fang, led by another German named Kanz. I think my theory about the Nazis was right. It explains everything, but I digress. White Fang kicks Oz out of space. Zechs, addled by the use of his own Crazy-Gundam (side effects may include breathtaking lunacy and halitosis) and distraught by the completely predictable demolition of Relena's tiny sanctum of hypocrisy, decides to command this new faction and blames Earth for everything that has gone wrong in history ever. Now we end up with a villain who is ninety-nine percent right about things somehow. He just wants to plunge the planet he was born on into a perpetual nuclear winter. His plan goes like this:
Lose your mind.
Build a space replica of all the Egyptian pyramids and smash them together.
Give your new spaceship a huge-ass beam cannon.
Crash it into Central Asia.
Pop the champagne: you've killed ten billion people.
Well, yes. Ignoring that minor detail of how everyone wouldn't die right away and they'd all scramble into space to escape death by freezing, thus taxing the Colonies' already limited resources into oblivion and spawning a new series of desperate wars for food and material and thus failing in every way imaginable, his plan is perfect. Needless to say, this scheme is so jaw-droppingly bonkers that even the Gundam Pilots band together to put a stop to it. They do so in the most drawn-out and incompetent manner possible, of course, so the jaded, senseless viewer, who has now forgiven George Lucas for all his sins so mild, is forced to sit through another fifteen or so episodes as he watches Treize die because he randomly decides to lead from the front, Duo kick some ass, Quatre have a random fencing match in zero gravity with one of Relena's failed bitch-candidates for brainwashing (which he still somehow loses), Wufei keep shouting at his Gundam-Wife because they never boinked or something, Trowa's hair interfere with Higgs-Boson particles, and Heero and Zechs have a lame duel in which they both throw philosophy books at each other with their lazer swords. Finally Heero bothers to shoot down the last fragment of Zech's Egyptian Theme Park Ride and saves the Earth. Quatre objects to them even celebrating this moment with alcohol. Holy shit, kid, let loose and make out with Trowa for Pete's sake.
Are you still there? That was the plot, more or less. I left some greasy turds from Shub-Niggurath's latrine left for you to find if you ever watch this series for yourself, but really, the single best thing about Gundam Wing is its ripe hypocrisy about its whole nature. The series prattles on time and time again about how fighting solves nothing and Pacifism Is the Answer against a simultaneous backdrop of Gundams killing everyone and exploding everything visible. Heero alone commits so many crimes against humanity it's hilarious. Trowa tries to off himself about every third episode while shooting countless bullets into the faces of countless innocents. Quatre decapitates multiple soldiers with his scythes of death, then weeps. You should have surrendered, he laments. You shouldn't have beheaded them, you asshole. Maybe that would have worked. Wufei spends a whole third of the series in China yelling at his Gundam-Wife, then pops in at the most random and convenient moments to save the day–or not. It's about a 1-3 record for him. Duo just stays away from all these lunatics until Zechs concocts his Operation Pyramid, shacking up in the meantime with a hot German chick he swiped from Oz. No, they don't have sex on screen, but they do have sex. That's pretty much a given, as Duo even tries out one of the Crazy-Gundams and concludes that using it is a bad idea. Coitus solves everything and Americans are better than you. We must teach this lesson to the Japanese. Again.
Anyway, when all is said and done, one realizes that Gundam Wing was written by an inebriated replication of the Septuagint authors, i.e., a bunch of undersexed, neo-Nazi fogies locked up on an island somewhere dreaming up a scenario that reflects what they thought young whippersnappers of the modern world do in their spare time: man weapons of mass destruction while angsting over their not-boyfriends. Beyond that, I believe I have found a thing in the universe that exists without a cause and persists without evidence of it. The whole Standard Theory of Physics is just plain wrong, readers. The powers that be lie to us. We must rise up, don our epaulets, fork our eyebrows, castrate our young men, and chant for pacifism and peace to all mankind as we break the necks of our rulers with our bare hands and laugh beside Mephistopheles. Therein lies the salvation we all search for, in a world devoid of all common sense and any desire to solve our problems save through genocide! Glory to all the Colonies!
Or we could, like, not do that. Like we're doing now. You're all right, humanity. You're all right.
Before you ask: no, Heero and Relena never ever ever got back together. The Atlantic swallowed her whole. Because she asked for it.
Posted on May 4, 2018 by Matt in Anime, Classics, Reviews	0
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Feast your eyes on Nicolas Cage as Dracula in 'Renfield' trailer
January 5, 2023 January 5, 2023 Belen Edwards
In early 2022, the internet devoured photos from the set of Renfield showing Nicolas Cage decked out in a red velvet suit, ready to play Dracula. Now, with the release of the first Renfield trailer, we get to see Cage in all his vampiric glory. And it does not disappoint.
To be clear, Renfield isn't the story of Dracula. Instead, it's the story of his servant Renfield (Nicholas Hoult). Renfield, tired of bowing to Dracula's every whim for centuries, wants out of their relationship. But has he grown too dependent on his shadowy master?
Based on the trailer alone, it looks like we're in for a wild ride, with shoot-outs, mystical powers, and a group therapy session gone terribly wrong. But the highlight (no surprise) is Cage hovering in the air in an all-black ensemble, declaring, "I am Dracula." Hell yeah you are!
Renfield hits theaters Apr. 14.
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