ROTTERDAM (ANP) - De tot acht jaar cel veroordeelde Vlaardingse pleegouders Johnny van den B. en Daisy W. hebben hun ouderlijk gezag over hun biologische kind verloren, evenals de voogdij over een ander kind dat bij hen woonde. Dat blijkt uit een pas gepubliceerde uitspraak in een civiele zaak van de rechtbank in Rotterdam waarover het AD berichtte.
Van den B. en W. werden in november veroordeeld voor onder andere het mishandelen van een destijds 10-jarig pleegmeisje, dat ze sloegen en opsloten in een kooi. Ook andere pleegkinderen werden mishandeld. Volgens de rechters waren de twee kinderen getuigen van het geweld tegen hun pleegbroers en -zussen. Ze waren toen zelf 4 tot 6 jaar en 5 tot 8 jaar oud. Volgens de rechtbank kan het getuige zijn van huiselijk geweld zeer ernstige gevolgen hebben voor de ontwikkeling van kinderen. Daarnaast nemen de pleegouders onvoldoende verantwoordelijkheid voor hun handelen.
De twee kinderen verblijven inmiddels al ruim een jaar in een gezinshuis. Van den B. en W. zitten al langere tijd in de gevangenis en kregen maandelijks nog een update over de kinderen met foto's. Zij verzetten zich tevergeefs bij de rechtbank tegen het verzoek van de Raad voor de Kinderbescherming om de voogdij en het gezag te beëindigen.
In de strafzaak tegen Van den B. en W. is het Openbaar Ministerie in beroep gegaan, onder andere omdat de rechtbank geen tbs heeft opgelegd en de verdachten niet heeft veroordeeld voor zware mishandeling.
Nigel Farage’s party plans to deport up to 288,000 people a year on five flights a day and expand stop and search
Reform UK would create an ICE-style agency dedicated to deporting hundreds of thousands of people, as well as terminating the status of those with indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the party will say.
It would also ban the conversion of churches into mosques and fund a radical expansion of stop and search, the party’s new home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, will also say in a speech on Monday. The deradicalisation programme Prevent would also have its mandate redrawn to focus on Islamist extremism.
Continue reading...If you’re hoping for a sensitive depiction of the sad story of Sarah Ferguson’s royal aide who murdered her partner, don’t bother. It’s a gaudy mess, whose version of Ferguson overshadows everything
‘This drama has been inspired by a true story,” announces The Lady, ushering us into the solemnly lit antechamber that is the miniseries’ introductory disclaimer. The italics continue: “Some names have been changed,” they read, “and some characters, events and scenes have been created and merged for dramatic purposes.” Hmm, we think, as a queasily off-balance piano lurches and stumbles in the background. “Created and merged”? This, surely, is the language of a school theatre project, with its glue guns and earnest pretensions, not that of a lavish ITV four-parter that focuses on the very real rise, fall and eventual conviction-for-murder of Jane Andrews, a former M&S employee from Grimsby who served, from 1988 to 1997, as a dresser to Sarah Ferguson, the then-Duchess of York. This does not, surely, bode well.
Still. The Lady is produced by Left Bank Pictures, who also made The Crown. And it’s written by Debbie O’ Malley, who did many wonderful things with Channel 5’s unexpectedly excellent “reboot” of All Creatures Great and Small. So, let’s give it the benefit of the doubt. And we do. Until, that is, 16 minutes into the first episode, when Sarah Ferguson (Natalie “Game of Thrones” Dormer) bursts into Jane Andrews’ (Mia “Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials” McKenna-Bruce) job interview at Buckingham Palace and … Oh. Oh dear. Any hopes that The Lady might offer a serious and sensitive depiction of the complex real-life events that led a mentally unstable young woman to brutally murder her partner instantly wilt. What we get instead is a gaudy mess; a strange and exasperating thing that clomps between aerated royal soap, plodding police procedural, exuberant coming-of-age period piece and hand-wringing domestic drama with the grace of a pantomime horse at a black-tie buffet.
Continue reading...I Swear’s Robert Aramayo had Bafta’s feelgood moment, but the night belonged to Paul Thomas Anderson
Six wins for US director’s ICE-baiting film of American resistance recognised Anderson’s commitment to complex drama, while best actor win for rising British star was thoroughly deserved
This turned out to be a very British night for the Baftas, a smidgen more British than usual in fact. It started out with the Hollywood A-listers in the audience being presented with hilarious British snacks, of whose existence they had no more idea than they had of life forms on the moons of Saturn. Emma Stone got some Hula Hoops, Timothée Chalamet had a bag of Scampi Fries and Leonardo DiCaprio got his laughing gear around a Hobnob flapjack.
The other intensely British thing was the red-carpet appearance of the Prince and Princess of Wales (the former being Bafta’s president); their presence enforced that other terribly British tradition of everyone, as if in a Mike Leigh film, avoiding the subject. Everyone trying not to talk or think about the elephant in the room or the elephant slumped and stricken in the speeding car on the way home from the police station. Well, at least William never liked him.
Continue reading...Theres kind of a previously, but it links to a 404 error for its principal link, and this link's surrounding Giorno Poetry Systems site seems well worth exploring.
And it's not just because bandwidth is expensive, he said at this year's FOSDEM. "The problem is they don't have enough money to spend on the very security features that we all desperately need..."
In a follow-up LinkedIn exchange after this article had posted, Winser estimated it could cost $5 million to $8 million a year to run a major registry the size of Crates.io, which gets about 125 billion downloads a year. And this number wouldn't include any substantial bandwidth and infrastructure donations (Like Fastly's for Crates.io). Adding to that bill is the growing cost of identifying malware, the proliferation of which has been amplified through the use of AI and scripts. These repositories have detected 845,000 malware packages from 2019 to January 2025 (the vast majority of those nasty packages came to npm)...
In some cases benevolent parties can cover [bandwidth] bills: Python's PyPI registry bandwidth needs for shipping copies of its 700,000+ packages (amounting to 747PB annually at a sustained rate of 189 Gbps) are underwritten by Fastly, for instance. Otherwise, the project would have to pony up about $1.8 million a month. Yet the costs Winser was most concerned about are not bandwidth or hosting; they are the security features needed to ensure the integrity of containers and packages. Alpha-Omega underwrites a "distressingly" large amount of security work around registries, he said. It's distressing because if Alpha-Omega itself were to miss a funding round, a lot of registries would be screwed. Alpha-Omega's recipients include the Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, OpenJS Foundation for Node.js and jQuery, and Ruby Central.
Donations and memberships certainly help defray costs. Volunteers do a lot of what otherwise would be very expensive work. And there are grants about...Winser did not offer a solution, though he suggested the key is to convince the corporate bean counters to consider paid registries as "a normal cost of doing business and have it show up in their opex as opposed to their [open source program office] donation budget."
The dilemma was summed up succinctly by the anonymous Slashdot reader who submitted this story.
"Free beer is great. Securing the keg costs money!"
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:
Reiyukai Shakaden Temple
霊友会釈迦殿
Azabudai, Minato City, Tokyo, Japan
A temple in Tokyo that looks like a spaceship from Star Wars!
maps.app.goo.gl/nEDf6NuRd9TaGcsL7