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Key Biscayne ist eine Gemeinde im Miami-Dade County im US-Bundesstaat Florida. Das U.S. Census Bureau hat bei der Volkszählung 2020 eine Einwohnerzahl von 14.809 ermittelt.

Geographie
Die Gemeinde liegt auf der gleichnamigen Insel Key Biscayne, die durch die Florida State Road 913 mit dem Festland verbunden ist. Das Festland liegt 10 km, die bereits zu Miami gehörende Insel Virginia Key 5 km von der Gemeinde entfernt. Der Ort wird im Norden vom Crandon Park, im Süden vom Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, im Westen von der Biscayne Bay und im Osten vom Atlantischen Ozean begrenzt.

Geschichte
→ Siehe auch: Geschichte der Insel Key Biscayne

Die Gemeinde Key Biscayne wurde 1991 gegründet.

Demographische Daten
Laut der Volkszählung 2010 verteilten sich die damaligen 12.344 Einwohner auf 7072 Haushalte. Die Bevölkerungsdichte lag bei 3740,6 Einw./km². 96,2 % der Bevölkerung bezeichneten sich als Weiße, 0,4 % als Afroamerikaner, 0,1 % als Indianer und 1,1 % als Asian Americans. 1,0 % gaben die Angehörigkeit zu einer anderen Ethnie und 1,2 % zu mehreren Ethnien an. 61,6 % der Bevölkerung bestand aus Hispanics oder Latinos.

Im Jahr 2010 lebten in 38,5 % aller Haushalte Kinder unter 18 Jahren sowie 33,0 % aller Haushalte Personen mit mindestens 65 Jahren. 71,7 % der Haushalte waren Familienhaushalte (bestehend aus verheirateten Paaren mit oder ohne Nachkommen bzw. einem Elternteil mit Nachkomme). Die durchschnittliche Größe eines Haushalts lag bei 2,62 Personen und die durchschnittliche Familiengröße bei 3,13 Personen.

29,7 % der Bevölkerung waren jünger als 20 Jahre, 17,0 % waren 20 bis 39 Jahre alt, 30,2 % waren 40 bis 59 Jahre alt und 23,0 % waren mindestens 60 Jahre alt. Das mittlere Alter betrug 42 Jahre. 46,4 % der Bevölkerung waren männlich und 53,6 % weiblich.

Das durchschnittliche Jahreseinkommen lag bei 114.250 $, dabei lebten 5,8 % der Bevölkerung unter der Armutsgrenze.

Im Jahr 2000 war Englisch die Muttersprache von 30,83 % der Bevölkerung, spanisch sprachen 59,73 % und 9,44 % hatten eine andere Muttersprache.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
Das Cape Florida Lighthouse und das Fowey Rocks Light sind im National Register of Historic Places gelistet.

Im Tennis Center at Crandon Park fand von 1987 bis 2018 das Miami Masters statt.

Kriminalität
Die Kriminalitätsrate lag im Jahr 2010 mit 91 Punkten (US-Durchschnitt: 266 Punkte) im niedrigen Bereich. Es gab zwei Körperverletzungen, acht Einbrüche, 170 Diebstähle und 13 Autodiebstähle.

Weblinks

 Website der Gemeinde (engl.)

Einzelnachweise


With all 10 loads of our hire equipment safely returned to our Nottingham depot we can now proudly look back on a job well done at the WEG.
Woodhouse began planning for the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Caen, Normandy, back in January 2013.
In October 2013 we successfully tendered for the temporary stabling facilities at the main venue, Stade D'Ornano in central Caen. Timescales leading up to the event were tight, even though the event itself has been in the planning for over 4 years, as the D'Ornano stabling venue was only released to the organisers for the Test Event in June.
Indeed the Test Event was a valuable opportunity to plan the site logistics, the entry and exit routes, the veterinary arrival inspections and, most importantly to Woodhouse, to mark out and begin the erection of the first 200 Greenwich Barn Stables in very close proximity to ensure we could add on the remaining 130 come August in time for the main event. Gladly the Test Event was completed successfully and largely in the blaze of sunshine (and we all know that the weather in Western France is fickle and akin to our own South coast summers!).
August quickly rolled round and the Woodhouse teams arrived once more to complete erecting the Greenwich Barn Stables, shower units, arrival inspection stables, isolation stables, the doping stables and the vetting stables – all in all some 385 units. From this D'Ornano stabling metropolis the Woodhouse Temporary Stables served the 3 Olympic disciplines of Dressage, Eventing and Showjumping providing them with 3x4m hard-wall stables separated by a wide 4m aisle and optional anti-weave or full grills as well as optional stallion boards to prevent horse to neighbouring horse contact.
For many of the competitors, grooms and horses this was a return to the same barn stabling facilities they had christened at the London 2012 Olympics in Greenwich Park London. Once again the barn stable format proved its worth in both hot and wet weather where the benefits of the dry, enclosed, well ventilated and naturally lit stables welcomed and relaxed the horses after their long journeys. Equally their grooms settled into their work protected from the vagaries of the elements and confident that their precious horses were stabled in the safest temporary stables available. Indeed many stories were swapped by grooms, riders and support teams with stable neighbours from nations who don't often get to cross paths other than at the 4 yearly WEG's.
Practically speaking the biosecurity of the barn stables was achieved by washing all the sections with Virkon ahead of shipping to France and all the veterinary, doping and isolation stables were newly manufactured to ensure their cleanliness. In all these stables, Woodhouse used hard-wall partitions. We prefer hard-wall partitions as they ensure that the structure does not move under the force of the horse and they are easier to keep sanitised. For our hard-wall partitions we use double walled hdme recycled plastic panels which do not shard on kick-out impact nor can the kick-out to one side of the partition affect the horse in the neighbouring stable.
Given the high value, both monetary and in companionship, of each and every horse stabled at D'Ornano, Woodhouse ensured they had the best and safest temporary stabling facilities available in Europe today. After 10 days of competition and with over 1000 horses passing through our barn stable doors the equine managers Karsten and Charles reported to us that they had an incident free event. They told us and our onsite support teams that this was due to the well designed, high quality manufacture and thoughtful installation and the in event support by the Woodhouse team and that they hoped to be able to work with us again at the next major event they officiated at.


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François Asselineau, the founder of the Republican Popular Union, UPR on March 25, 2007, the fiftieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome signature held a political rally for his candidature for President of France on March 25, 2017 in Paris, France. Over 6,500 people attended. François Asselineau is promoting Frexit – France's exit from the European Union. He is the only presidential candidate promoting Frexit. Assilineau is making waves with his ideas for France.
Although Assilineau has been speaking in cities throughout France it was just shortly after this rally that the mainstream press first bothered to have him as a guest on TV. Before this rally, interviewers worked hard to belittle him as a small unimportant candidate, cut him off and try to ridicule his stance against Europe in favor of sovereign democracy. Up until this close before the elections they ignored his existence and the facts of his growing popular platform . As result there are still many less plugged in voters who have never even heard his name.
François Asselineau was born on September 14, 1957 in Paris, France. He is now Tax Inspector-General and the president of th UPR. In 1993.he served as Advisor on International Affairs in the Cabinet of Gérard Longuet, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade in the Balladur Government . He was elected as Counseiller (Advisor) in Paris in 2001 in the 19th district of Paris with the political party Rassemblement pour la France ( RPF).
Since the founding of the UPR François Asselineau has given many lectures in France and other countries. Between March, 2007 and March, 2016 he gave about 400 conferences.
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At the press conference he told us that the French people no longer have a democracy because France is losing its sovereignty by being subject to rules and regulations by organizations. This is why he wants Frexit – the exit from the European Union. The UPR wants France to leave in accordance with Art 50 of the EU Treaty. This would also allow France to leave the Euro as the official currency. François Assilineau told us that this would be part of giving the government of France back to the French people. It can take up to 2 years as the other European partners have to work out the divorce.
The UPR also wants to withdraw from NATO as another way to give France back its independence. Currently France is subject to NATO and could risk the possibility of being dragged into a large scale international conflict if there are problems with other members.
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François Asselineau was questioned about the large debt France has. He wants to return the sovereign rights of the State and local authorities funding to the Bank of France.
Another goal is to prohibit privatisation and if necessary re-nationalize the main public services such as EDF for electricity, GDF for gas, the post office TF1 first TV channel, TDF television company, water and motorway networks;
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The party whose motto is " People's Union to Reestablish Democracy" and whose logo is the olive branch symbol of peace, longevity and prosperity is the most dynamic party in France. When we saw the large number of attendees at the gathering we asked the security guard how these people knew about Assilineau who is not well known. He told us that is is from the social media like Facebook and Twitter. There were 53,075 followers on UPR Facebook as of May 25, 2016. According to the site Alexa Rating which looks at the traffic of millions of website the UPR website www.upr.fr is the most visited French political website.
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The reason these seemingly counter-intuitive findings come up is to do with how we asked people the questions. When we asked people about their holiday preferences we allowed them to select multiple activities, multiple destinations, multiple accommodation types, and multiple times of year to travel. For example, they could have said for a short break without children they're interested in: skiing, cycle trails, and beaches and they're interested in going to Central Otago, Rotorua, the Coromandel, and Queenstown. We didn't ask them to associate the activities they're interested in with particular regions because we didn't want to limit people to what they already know about a region. Instead, this approach allows operators and the regions to identify new opportunities in their regions.
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REVIEW: 'Joker' brilliantly anticipates its own misinterpretation
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Review of: Joker
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Last modified:October 3, 2019
'Joker' is not a rewriting of the comic book movie genre. It is not a social movement. But it is definitely a film worth talking about. How you choose to interpret what it says is up to you.
(Image: Warner Bros. Pictures)
The character of the Joker has always served as a Rorschach (no DC comics pun intended) test of the audience. Even the character's background over the years has been given so many reinterpretations and ambiguities that his origins is more of a pick-your-own history than a steady descent into sociopathy. While this could be a function of 60 years' worth of writers mucking up his story, as has happened with every long-running comic book character, a pick-and-choose background perfectly suits a figure whose entire modus operandi is chaos and confusion. The same has been the case with each of the Joker's various live action screen incarnations: Cesar Romero's campy clown of the painted-over mustache, Jack Nicholson's 1980's flash and excess, Heath Ledger's Iraq War-era agent of chaos, and Jared Leto's all style no substance pancake-faced juggalo. Each served as a commentary on what contemporary society valued and feared. This tradition of Joker as a canvas onto which the audience may paint its own picture is on full display in Todd Phillip's Joker, complete with muddled commentary delivered by an unreliable narrator.
It should be stated here that I personally have never been a big fan of the Joker—recognizing that he is one of fiction's greatest villains if only because he's a compelling antagonist for his heroic antithesis—much less an expert. Honestly, I think the character is a bit overused and, since we're being open here, overrated. This fact matters little, however, as Joaquin Phoenix's Joker has near nothing to do with the mythos of the Joker other than iconography and interacting with Gotham City and one of its most prominent residents. Even if the filmmakers used elements of The Killing Joke, removing all traces of Batman from Joker would only result in changing a few names.
Joaquin Phoenix doesn't steal the show, he is the show. (Image: Warner Bros. Pictures)
Instead, Phillip's interpretation owes a much, much greater debt to someone to whom a lot of 21st Century cinema owes a debt: Martin Scorsese. It's no secret that Phillips made Joker in the 1970's style of the auteur (who was an early producer on the DC film) but Joker so closely emulates both Taxi Driver and King of Comedy that anyone familiar with those two pictures will see every story beat and development an hour ahead of time. Joker is less an homage to 70's Scorsese than a joint remake dressed in DC cosplay. This lack of originality is perhaps the greatest knock on Joker, erasing the tense, volatile atmosphere the film works so hard to achieve. It's hard not to imagine that Joker would have been better in a world where Taxi Driver and King of Comedy didn't exist, and yet without those two films Joker itself would not exist.
Similarly it's hard not to notice that star Joaquin Phoenix himself hasn't been playing some variation of Arthur Fleck—a man on the edge of both society and sanity—for the last decade. In the case of Phoenix, this repetition feels less like dulling a blade with overuse than sharpening it, with his performance in Joker showing how keen his portrayal of this type of character has become. It's easy to see parallels between this character and the one played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (which remains my personal favorite version if only because he's actually The Joker), but Phoenix definitely makes this character his own, all but vanishing into the part even beyond his near emaciation. Opening with a sad look into Fleck's life, with his signature laugh morphing into a horrific affliction, Phoenix makes us feel for this downtrodden man. Then, very swiftly, he turns what had been heartbreaking entirely disturbing, to the point where his laugh is less an uncontrollable outburst than an expression of Fleck's true intentions, and giving his every gesture the potential of violence. This is a deeply disturbed human being, and knowing why or how he has become this way doesn't make him any less of a threat to his fellows.
And here's where Joker most closely resembles its comic book namesake: different people will have different interpretations of Joker.
That alley looks familiar from another movie. (Image: Warner Bros. Pictures)
Much has already been written about possible acts of real world violence inspired by Joker and sadly, there will no doubt be some people, perhaps far more than anyone can imagine, who will watch Joker and see themselves in Arthur Fleck, much as they did in V for Vendetta's titular V and Fight Club's Tyler Durden. Yet as with those characters, most people who believe they most identify with Phoenix's Joker will be missing the point. Like the Joker himself the film uses confusion and chaos to disguise its true intent. If there must be a political message found in Phillip's interpretation it isn't that the aggrieved white men of America need to rise up against the women who won't sleep with them or the minorities who have hurt them by existing (as I'm sure some will believe it to be), nor that the 99% should hunt down the 1%, nor that nothing matters! Burn it all!, it's that we as a society need to do more about mental health issues rather than dismiss, diminish, or, worse yet, laugh at them. If anything, Joker argues that society needs to care about its lowest members.
The ease with which Fleck crosses the line between justified, sympathetic victim and outright villain further demonstrates that there are some people in society who should not be trusted with the power to take a life (i.e.: making sure that guns aren't available to people without the mental or emotional stability to own them). Thus, I'd argue that Joker, like Breaking Bad before it, is a document in favor of healthcare reform, particularly in the treatment of mental illness, and, like Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, a statement against arming the mentally disturbed.
But this is not what many people will see. Many will look at Joker as a symbol of rising up against the elites who wouldn't care if they saw them—the "regular" people—freezing to death on the streets they'd prefer their chauffeur not drive down. There are elements which validate this reading, particularly in Joker's third act, yet we have to remember that was not Fleck's purpose. Instead, as always, the people of Gotham place onto Joker the message they want him to have. This, more than anything, is the brilliance of Joker: it anticipates its own misinterpretation.
The fictional citizens of Gotham misread and misinterrept events the same way way we real people historically have. Just look at how both Colin Kaepernick and Donald Tr*mp (who is clearly the model for Joker's Thomas Wayne, except that Wayne is an actual tough guy) are hailed and hated in equal amounts. The fact that I can argue that Joker is a treatise on universal health care and gun control while others could claim it's a screed against those exact things perfectly demonstrates what makes Joker a compelling character: he is a Rorschach test for the audience. The danger of Joker is not what is in the film, but in who is in the audience. Anyone who would use Joker as an inspiration for violence already has their inspiration. Joker's only danger is the all-too-real possibly of misinterpretation in a country which has had more mass shootings than days of the year. And that is a danger inherent to any film shown where people like Arthur Fleck are denied treatment but allowed weapons.
We put onto Joker what we want him to be. (Image: Warner Bros. Pictures)
If I may be honest once again, I began this review from a much more critical standpoint. Initially I saw Joker as a beautifully shot film with an immaculate sense of pace entirely derivative of better films released more than 40 years ago. I even saw Joker's general disconnection from anything DC as an attempt to cash in on name recognition rather than risk doing the same film without a built-in fanbase. These may still be true, however I may also have written myself into appreciating the movie more than I did while leaving the theater.
Phillips and Phoenix have a crafted a compelling story of a villain who thinks he is a hero, of a man who thinks his problem is the world around him, and the consequences when that man is met with indifference. This is a crime movie, maybe even a horror movie, dressed up as a comic book movie. After Shazam and putting aside Aquaman, one has to applaud Warner Bros. and DC for taking the bold step of putting their characters into intriguing, if highly derivative, riffs on superhero cinema, a formula which is at least a lot more exciting than Zack Synder's all-gloom all-the-time DCEU. We also have to applaud Todd Phillips for embracing the ambiguity of his title character. As such, Joker is not a rewriting of the comic book movie genre, it is not a social movement, and it should not (nor should anything else) inspire anyone to commit acts of violence, but it is definitely a film worth talking about. How you choose to interpret what it says is up to you.
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In nearby Riverside, take a look at a number of other restaurants, including Mi Casita Grill & Bakery and Js Fort Group.


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Johnson Park At-A-Glance
Summer Experience
Family Ambassador Changing the Culture at Johnson Park Middle School
December 2, 2022 -- "Is there anything that you need or anything I can help you with?" Those are not questions adults are used to hearing. But they are questions parents and guardians at Johnson Park Middle School get when receiving a call from Cheri Bowman.
Bowman is the Family Ambassador walking around the building, talking with students about anything on their minds, and connecting with parents to ensure they know how students perform in the school. While it's her first year in the position, she's no stranger to Columbus City Schools.
"I've actually been coaching for CCS for about 20 years. Volleyball at Africentric, Marion Franklin and Wedgewood, boys and girls basketball at Northland, and boys basketball at Berwick for the last 12 years." Bowman said.
Coaching was one way Bowman thought she could help students stay connected to their schools, learn about discipline and become better overall students. This school year, she decided it was time to do more.
"This is the first year I decided that I wanted to do something different, so I retired from coaching. Nobody understood it, but I did. I got to the point in coaching where I thought I had done all I could, and I thought I could reach more kids than just the 10 to 12 I was reaching each season," Bowman said.
When asked how she likes the change, "I love it, I absolutely love it!"
That's because as the school year progresses, Bowman finds herself joking with students in the hallways and having serious conversations with them and their guardians about their needs.
"I was on the phone with a guardian who said she had a child who doesn't have any medical insurance," Bowman began. "I said ok, well, let's look into Caresource and Kinship Care, and she said what is that? So it's about getting that information to them about things they may not know about but will help them."
Check & Connect is one of the tools Family Ambassadors like Bowman use to stay connected with families. In addition, the platform allows guardians to talk with FAs in the schools to monitor their child's success.
"The great thing about check and connect is I'll see students in the hallway and tell them I talked to your mom yesterday, and they'll be like, 'You did!' and I tell them we had a wonderful conversation. So now they're thinking ok, maybe she's not as bad as everybody thinks disciplinarians are supposed to be."
Bowman's work is helping to break down walls between students, guardians, and administration at Johnson Park, creating a more welcoming and supportive environment.
As she works to engage with all families at the school, Bowman said her goal for this school year is to feel like she made an impact at Johnson Park Middle School.
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Peer review: Big-name coaches congratulate Coach K on 1,000 wins
foxsports Jan 25, 2015 at 6:07p ET
If you needed further proof of just how much respect Coach Mike Krzyzewski has earned over the course of his 1,000 career victories, you need only to ask his peers.
In the video above, his praises are sung by none other than Tobacco Road arch-rival coach Roy Williams, who knows a little bit about winning himself and whose Tar Heels teams have engaged in plenty of memorable battles with the Blue Devils over the years. It may seem to some like an unlikely endorsement, but the two ACC legends respect each other greatly.
Williams jokingly pleads with Coach K: "You've got 1,000; why don't you get your butt outta here and leave the rest of us alone, OK?"
Williams is joined by NBA coaching heavyweights and former champions Rick Carlisle (Dallas Mavericks) and Erik Spoelstra (Miami Heat). Carlisle, a former Virginia Cavalier, admits that "we're all very grateful that we don't have to coach against you in the ACC," and Spoelstra thanks Krzyzewski for all those great NBA players he's introduced to the league.
And there was plenty more backslapping to go around. Several coaches weighed in on-air during the Duke-St. John's game Sunday.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim — who's no slouch in the wins column with 962 (second place behind Coach K) — good-naturedly ribbed his friend over his age and his use of "my zone":
Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self has racked up 548 victories, 10 consecutive Big 12 Conference titles and a national championship — but said "no one has done it better" than Krzyzewski:
John Calipari, who has 574 wins and is coach of the No. 1-ranked Kentucky Wildcats, marveled at how Krzyzewski has succeeded despite all the Duke haters out there, noting that "every game he plays is someone's Super Bowl":
Perhaps no one's tribute Sunday was as heartfelt as that of Marquette head coach Steve Wojciechowski, who played for Coach K at Duke and considers him a mentor. "Could not happen to a better man and a better family."
So what's next for Krzyzewski? Just how high will his win total get?
Well, to hear him tell it, "there's an end in sight":
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Q: UIView Animation Removes layer.cornerRadius After Completion I have a UILabel that I am animating the constraints for so that it drop down into view. I am using layer.cornerRadius to give the view rounded corners, but for whatever reason after the animation completes the corner radius is removed.

[UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 delay:0 usingSpringWithDamping:0.7 initialSpringVelocity:0.4 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut animations:^{

        if (shouldShow) {

            self.labelOverMapTopConstraint.constant = 16;

        } else {

            self.labelOverMapTopConstraint.constant = -40;

        }

        [self.view layoutIfNeeded];

} completion:nil];

cornerRadius is set in viewDidLoad.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

A: I suspect you're subclassing UILabel here since it looks like you have padding in there, is that correct?
There could be something going awry with any custom drawing/calculations you're doing in there, so it would probably be helpful to post that code for inspection as well.
A few questions:

*

*Do you have masksToBounds set to YES?

*If you're not using a custom UILabel subclass, are you wrapping the label in a view?

*How is the animation being triggered? Is it by a button? A callback from a NSURLRequest? If it's triggered by an async callback are you jumping back on the main queue to perform the animation?

*If the animation is triggered automatically within the lifecycle, which lifecycle method is it triggered in?

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue in a test project with a vanilla UILabel. I then tried it with a UILabel subclass which includes additional padding and still wasn't able to reproduce it there.
I've included example code snippets below:
#import "ViewController.h"
#import "R4NInsetLabel.h"

@interface ViewController ()
@property BOOL showingToast;
@property (strong, nullable) IBOutlet R4NInsetLabel *toastLabel;
@property (strong, nullable) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint *toastLabelTopConstraint;
@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]};
    self.showingToast = NO;
    // start with the label pushed off the top of the screen
    self.toastLabelTopConstraint.constant = -40.0f;
    self.toastLabel.layer.cornerRadius = 6.0f;
    self.toastLabel.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
}

- (IBAction)toggleToast:(id)sender {
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 delay:0 usingSpringWithDamping:0.7 initialSpringVelocity:0.4 options:UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut animations:^{
            if (self.showingToast == NO) {
                self.toastLabelTopConstraint.constant = 16;
                self.showingToast = YES;
            } else {
                self.toastLabelTopConstraint.constant = -40;
                self.showingToast = NO;
            }
            [self.view layoutIfNeeded];
    } completion:nil];
}

@end

#import "R4NInsetLabel.h"

IB_DESIGNABLE
@interface R4NInsetLabel()
@property IBInspectable CGFloat contentPadding;
@property (nonatomic) UIEdgeInsets contentInsets;
- (CGSize)_addInsetsToSize:(CGSize)size;
@end

@implementation R4NInsetLabel

- (UIEdgeInsets)contentInsets {
    return UIEdgeInsetsMake(self.contentPadding, self.contentPadding, self.contentPadding, self.contentPadding);
}

- (CGSize)_addInsetsToSize:(CGSize)size {
    CGFloat width = size.width + self.contentInsets.left + self.contentInsets.right;
    CGFloat height = size.height + self.contentInsets.top + self.contentInsets.bottom;
    return CGSizeMake(width, height);
}

- (void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    CGRect insetRect = UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, self.contentInsets);
    [super drawTextInRect:insetRect];
}

- (CGSize)intrinsicContentSize {
    CGSize baseSize = [super intrinsicContentSize];
    return [self _addInsetsToSize:baseSize];
}

- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
    CGSize baseSize = [super sizeThatFits:size];
    return [self _addInsetsToSize:baseSize];
}

@end

And here's what it looks like:

A: You also need to set the corner radius on viewDidLayoutSubviews
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {

    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    label.layer.cornerRadius = yourValue
}

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I haven't been writing very much about Texas, which is strange for me. There is a lot of good material here, but I wasn't feeling it for a little while. I worry people will think that I stopped examining culture and our daily intersections with it; but fear not. On the matter of Houstonian daily life, I just went quiet, like a submarine. But I'm back at the surface now.
There is something that has struck me from day one here, and I'm told it is common practice in Texas. Almost everywhere you go, there is valet parking. Every restaurant, which in most cases means in every strip mall since that's where most of the restaurants are, even in every shopping area...I can't think of a place where you can't roll up to the front door and hand over your keys for a couple of bucks. There is usually a little handful of front row parking spots marked off with orange cones right in plain view of the entrance to said destination.
My husband and I find it hilarious because you can emerge from dinner in the curious position of standing directly in front of your car, but not being able to drive away in it because you gave your keys the the valet guy who is now nowhere to be seen. Where we are from, valet is only for the weak of spirit, or for when it is forty below and you are forced to wear special-occasion clothing that exposes your skin to the frigid air, or possibly for when you are faced with undeniable evidence that if you try to park your own car, you will have such a long walk to your destination that you will miss the engagement for which you were parking in the first place.
A few weekends ago we had a big discussion about all of this valet business with our friend who is (sort of) from here. He said, "that's just the way we do it in Texas," and I told him that that did not exempt it from being silly. However, I must be getting used to it, because later that week, I used valet parking twice in one day, even though regular parking was available and it was sixty-five degrees: once for a doctor's appointment and later on a quick errand to a clothing store.
Tonight we ate at a Texan-taco response to the Chipotle craze: Torchy's Tacos. Cheap, fresh, generally delightful. As we sat outside in the balmy evening having a beer and eating cilantro-infused queso, I felt relaxed in a way I don't normally feel at restaurants here. There was something about this place reminding me of home, even though there was nothing Minnesota about the menu. Half-way through dinner, I realized that Torchy's hadn't gotten the memo about the valet parking. We found a casual, yummy restaurant that didn't involve surrendering our keys or making a cash transaction in the parking lot. We had to hunt around a little for a parking spot and it made me feel right at home.


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Of Love and Other Demons () is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez published in 1994.

In the prologue, García Márquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his grandmother when he was a boy: of a 12-year-old marquise with long flowing hair who had died of rabies, and was believed to be a 'miracle-worker'. In this frame-story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that García Márquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with long red hair still attached to the skull, that he was inspired to write Of Love and Other Demons.

In 2008, the opera Love and Other Demons, by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös was premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival.

Plot
Sierva Maria de Todos Los Angeles is the twelve-year-old daughter of the Marquis and his wife Bernarda. Her hair has never been cut, and was promised to the saints when she was born with the umbilical cord around her neck. She was raised by the slaves, fluent in multiple African languages, and familiar with the customs. In the beginning of the book she is bit by a rabid dog. Even though she shows no signs of rabies, she is subject to multiple "healing" methods, which can be considered torture. She is sent to the convent of Santa Clara to receive an exorcism, which many people have died from. She receives attention from a priest, Father Cayetano, who is kind to her and initially believes she does not need to be exorcised. Father Cayetano falls in love with Sierva Maria and declares her his love; he soon begins visiting Sierva in her cell in secret, climbing up from the sewer (that in future is fixed). They eat, sleep, and recite poetry together, even though it does not appear that they are sexually involved. Later Father Cayetano is sent away to a leper hospital where he hopes to get the disease but never does. Sierva Maria in the meantime is last summoned to be exorcised and she eventually dies 'of love' wondering where Father Cayetano is and after having her hair cut. After her death, her hair magically grows back on her skull.

References

Sources

1994 novels
20th-century Colombian novels
Alfred A. Knopf books
Colombian magic realism novels
Novels about exorcism
Novels adapted into operas
Novels by Gabriel García Márquez

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México firma con España los acuerdos que formalizan su participación en el Gran Telescopio CANARIAS
ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision
An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has confirmed the presence of the extrasolar planet Proxima b using measurements of radial velocity with the ESPRESSO spectrograph, on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile.
Astrophysical Technology for early detection of diabetic foot neuropathy
Today, November 14th, World Diabetes Day, we celebrate that the prototype PINRELL (Prototype for INfraREd analysis of Lower Limbs) of the Medical Technology Programme (TECMED) of IACTEC, has passed the preliminary proofs of concept and is in the initialization phase for the start of clinical trials. The prototype has been developed in the programme of Medical Technology within IACTEC, the area of technological and business collaboration of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), which has economic support (Training Programme) and infrastructure support (the IACTEC building) from the
The structure of the famous Jet of material in M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, revealed
A Master's degree research project at the University of Barcelona (UB), carried out at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) by the student Alejandra Yrupe Fresco, currently studying for her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, in Germany, has revealed the faint nucleus and the structure of the jet of particles in the nuclear region of M87, the brightest galaxy in the Virgo cluster. This project was carried out in collaboration with the IAC researchers Juan Antonio Fernández Ontiveros, Almudena Prieto and José Antonio Acosta Pulido, and was possible


Option one is a guided approach where in you can provide, at a minimum, the resource ID for the notification's small icon. Optionally, you could provide a NotificationManager.NotificationLaunchIntentProvider to customize the destination of a notification when clicked, and/or a NotificationManager.NotificationChannelIdProvider to specify on a per message basis which notification channel will be assigned to the notification.
The SDK will still display the notification with this option.
Creates a NotificationCustomizationOptions with only a NotificationManager.NotificationBuilder.
Creates a NotificationCustomizationOptions with only the notification's small icon resource id.
Created a NotificationCustomizationOptions with the notification's small icon resource id and optional instances of NotificationManager.NotificationLaunchIntentProvider and NotificationManager.NotificationChannelIdProvider.
Creates a NotificationCustomizationOptions with only a NotificationManager.NotificationBuilder. This options leaves everything about setting up the notification up to you. See "Option two" in the class documentation for more details.
Creates a NotificationCustomizationOptions with only the notification's small icon resource id. This is the simplest approach to notifications in the SDK. Everything else will be handled by the SDK.
The notification's small icon resource id.


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Where have I been? Summer 2012 Edition
By Leprekawn on September 21, 2012 in Video Game
Summer was an ugly dry-spell for gaming as my interests are highly focused. I played a significant amount of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning after the parent studio closed shop. It was in the news, you can google the closure and read all about it.
I saw the closure as an opportunity to strike early and fast. And so I bought a copy of KoA: Reckoning at barely under release price new. I bought all of the extra quest DLC, hoping to avoid any future cutoff on account of the studio closure.
And then I played for nearly a week straight. My girlfriend went out of town to visit family and so I spent more time focused on it than I might have normally. Anyone who liked Fable but had some second thoughts I will heartily recommend to this game. It's great, it's that single person quest game in a style similar to Fable but without some of the naggling mechanical breakdowns. And sweet mother of god.. it's long. 40 odd hours in and i'm only maybe 2/3 through the main plot and some of the side quests. I wholly expect another 10 or more hours out of clearing all the major milestones. This is a great game with crafting, questing and boss-style fights. An Xbox exclusive, definitely worth checking out.
Late August saw the release of Guild Wars 2 which I already talked about. I'll just take this time to say it's worth it. If you like MMO's, are tired of the classic quest grind but still want that fantasy 'save the world' experience, then this is for you. I've invited a number of my friends to play and all my mmo-centric fans are enjoying it. It's a highly social game, rewarding you for helping players from a defeated state and for assisting them in combat. Nobody's penalized for partying, no xp share fractionalization for joining up with your four chums. I'm still up to my eyeballs in thrill for the game even after three weeks of exposure.
Mid September saw the release of Borderlands 2 which is challenging FTL for what scraps of attention Guild Wars 2 is leaving behind. Borderlands 2 is a FPSRPG. That is, you shoot guns and do quests and get xp from the First-Person perspective. And boy howdy does it have guns. The first game had a randomization system proving that no two guns will ever be exactly the same. Story tells that the sequel only does it better with refinements to this and other systems streamlining an otherwise well-structured system. More of the adolescent humor dotted with quality plot development. This is the B-Movie Action Flick you're going to go see with your friends even though you know it's just going to have big muscles, guns and explosions. You know what you're getting in Borderlands 2 and dammit, I want to play. But I'm holding out, Borderlands 2 is a co-op game and there's no good reason to play alone if you don't have to.
FTL is a space strategy game in the likeness of Rogue and Rogue-clones. You have a ship, a crew and a series of random events based on where you send your ship. At a measly 10 bucks I tried it out on a whim since I passed on the Kickstarter they ran several months ago. I'm amazed and pleased. Simple gameplay with a structured plot you can replay to experience random events every time. A game I can pick up for five minutes and not spend 2 1/2 minutes just loading. More of an rpg than really a space game, your crew gains xp, fights off boarding pirates and aliens and douses fires when necessary. I recommend checking youtube as the screenshots don't really do it justice. And for my strategy/rpg fans surely you should give this an extra close look.
And that, was Summer 2012. If nothing catches up to me in the interim, we'll be talking again near the end of Fall.
-Mercator
XCOM: Enemy Unknown vs Tiny Tower


ANNIVERSARY: 50 Years ago a strike ended!
But nobody knew about it.
The only person on strike was Jim Bouton.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the season Bouton chronicled in his iconic book "Ball Four". There is a preamble from the previous November prior to the excerpt above, however, The day that Jim Bouton reported to spring training was February 26th.
I bring this up now as a heads up to anyone who wishes to follow along with the 50th anniversary of the book - It is time to crack open "Ball Four" and start enjoying the inaugural and only season of the Seattle Pilots.
I have covered Frank Robinson a few times on this blog but not nearly enough. While I never got to see him play, I did get to see an historic game in which he was involved.
The April 2005 game was so historic that Topps honored it with a trading card - It was the first game in the history of the Nationals.
Robinson appears prominently on the card twice. First in the top photo he is at the center to the left of home plate, while the Phillies skipper Charlie Manuel guards the other. The inset photo on the bottom left features Frank Robinson even more prominently. The two images are clearly from different games - note that the smaller picture features the Nats in their Home uniforms at RFK.
The Phillies won the game 8-4 you can read more about the game at the SABR Baseball Game project.
I go into this card more in depth here, but at the time I didn't mention Frank Robinson.
Fresh Air - Terry Gross Terrific interview (13 mins audio & text) includes Robinson's views on integration/segregation.
If you do take in the SuperBowl or promotional programming today you may hear the name Radcliffe Bailey. No he is not a player or coach, he is an Atlanta based artists who has a marquee work in the Mercedes-Benz stadium which is hosting tonight's game.
The canvas of the collage is shaped like a baseball field with a #25 in a star at the center which represents Satchel Paige. The number was worn by the future Hall of Famer while a member of the Kansas City Monarchs. Similarly Josh Gibson #20 his shown at home plate. There are a number of other baseball references throughout the picture included a black & white photo in the second base area.
Radcliffe Bailey's work at Mercedes-Benz stadium is an 84 foot mixed-media behemoth which chronicles the journey of football at Atlanta Historically Black Colleges. However that is just part of the artwork which also tells the much broader story of the black experience and African-American history.


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Yy3.6 billion dollars sold in Baidu, Li Xueling's strategic shift
By Zhang Xin, edited by Yang Yang
Source: understand finance and Economics (ID: dudongcj)
Under the tuyere, Internet enterprises are stepping up the layout of live broadcasting business.
This transaction means a new starting point for both sides.
For Baidu, the live broadcast service can not only fill the short board of mobile content ecology, but also build a commercial closed loop of content, users and e-commerce, which is expected to revitalize the flow and improve the liquidity.
For happy gathering, globalization is the focus of the next stage in the context of the declining domestic live broadcasting business. Moreover, at present, its overseas business is developing rapidly. If it sells its domestic business, it can be loaded with ammunition and all in overseas.
In fact, gathering all in overseas may be the epitome of the development of most Chinese Internet enterprises. Consumer Internet is a wide range of competition, each giant in the original does not belong to their own territory, launched a new attack.
Moreover, from the perspective of the trend, the pattern of oligopoly competition in the domestic consumer Internet is becoming more and more obvious, which has shown the situation that the strong are always strong. This also means that the market space of non head Internet enterprises will be continuously squeezed. The overseas market, due to the immature development of the Internet, has a better competitive environment than the domestic market.
From this point of view, the sea going of Internet enterprises will become more and more common.
Baidu fans live
Since this year, Baidu's actions have been frequent on the live broadcast.
Subsequently, Robin Li personally for live broadcast business platform, in fan Deng Live Room talked about, in the future hope live broadcast can satisfy users' search needs in time. At the end of June, baidu mobile ecological business group completed the construction of live broadcasting platform, and Gu Feng, the former founder of Huya, became the person in charge of Baidu's live broadcasting business.
On November 17, baidu announced another $3.6 billion acquisition of YY. This is the biggest acquisition of Baidu so far, which shows that Baidu attaches great importance to the live broadcast business. The reason why baidu has to do live broadcasting is very simple.
First, YY can make up the last piece of puzzle of Baidu mobile content ecology.
Despite AI's support, the core of Baidu's business is still content distribution, which aggregates diverse content to attract users, so as to bring traffic and generate revenue for itself.
However, for Baidu, it is more and more difficult to obtain content. In the era of PC, search engine is the only access for users to obtain information. In the era of mobile Internet, microblog, wechat, xiaohongshu and other super apps have become new information portals. Moreover, these apps usually do not open content interfaces to the outside world, and the quality and quantity of Baidu content distribution are challenged, and users also flow to vertical content apps.
In order to build a deeper content moat, Baidu has incubated content platforms such as baijiahao and good-looking videos internally in the past few years. It has invested in and acquired iqiyi, dragonfly FM, pear video, Zhihu, Netease cloud music, palm reading technology and other content aggregation platforms, and established a content matrix covering pictures, texts, audio and video.
But only in the live broadcast, Baidu in the past did not have more layout. Since this year, although Baidu has made frequent efforts, but as a latecomer, after all, there are still some short boards, and it takes some time to catch up with the head players. And in the whole Internet traffic to short video, live to accelerate the migration trend, baidu want to make up for the short board in time, the acquisition of YY is a good move.
Second, revitalize the flow and create a new income growth pole.
Baidu's revenue structure, the vast majority of revenue from the mobile Internet, the core is search and information flow advertising. According to the third quarter report, this part of revenue accounted for 65%, in addition, iqiyi's revenue accounted for 25%, and the key business AI is still a long way from commercial realization.
More importantly, the live e-commerce business derived from live broadcasting has developed rapidly. According to the statistics of Taobao live broadcast list, on the first day of the pre-sale of double 11, Li Jiaqi and Weiya watched more than 300 million live broadcast, and Gmv was close to 7 billion. You should know, vertical e-commerce has worked hard for half a year, and Gmv is of this magnitude.
Moreover, with the trend of video content, live e-commerce has a huge growth space. According to imedia data, China's live e-commerce market scale will increase by 226% in 2019, and it is expected that the market size will at least double year-on-year in 2020.
As a search giant, Baidu has more than 1 billion users and more than 200 million live months. If you take advantage of this wave of live broadcast, the huge traffic deposited in Baidu system will be revitalized again to create a new revenue growth pole.
That's why baidu spent $3.6 billion on YY. Baidu is not short of money. It not only makes a short-term investment of more than 120 billion yuan, but also has 18.4 billion yuan of cash on account, and it can steadily generate more than 10 billion yuan of cash inflow every quarter.
Get together and sell chicken ribs
If you observe the development of happy gathering in recent years, you will not be surprised by the rumor that YY is selling herself.
In the third quarter of this year, the number of monthly lives gathered around the world was 390 million, of which YY accounted for only about 10%. YY, or the domestic market, is no longer the main battlefield for gathering.
YY, which focuses on the domestic market, is also declining. In terms of revenue, from 2019q2 to 2020q2, YY's live broadcasting revenue continued to decline. In the first half of this year, the revenue in both quarters was less than 3 billion yuan, with a year-on-year decrease of 9.7% in Q2.
Behind the decline in revenue growth is the pressure on the growth of paying users. YY live broadcasting belongs to show live broadcasting, and its revenue mainly comes from live broadcasting and reward. The number of paying users is the core index affecting the revenue. However, since 2018, the growth rate of monthly live and paid users of YY live broadcast began to slow down, and then continued to increase.
During the period from 2019q2 to 2020q2, the growth rate of YY live payment users dropped by a cliff. In the first quarter and the second quarter of this year, the growth rate even dropped by 3.6% and 2.2% year-on-year.
In addition, another important reason why huanju is willing to sell YY is that YY's domestic live show mode drags down the overall valuation of the company.
What's more, we can't see a good transformation direction at present. Due to the small number of users, it is difficult to transform the live broadcast on the show to e-commerce; moreover, the users of live show show show are basically male, and the demand for online shopping is low.
Obviously, the domestic business Yu huanju is a chicken rib. Baidu's $3.6 billion purchase price is equivalent to Momo's valuation, which is also very kind. After huanju sells the domestic live broadcasting business, it can provide a large amount of stable cash for going out to sea. Li Xueling has no reason to refuse.
Li Xueling all in overseas
After the completion of the acquisition of YY by Baidu, only overseas business remained for the reunion, which also means that Li Xueling has completed the strategic transfer, leaving behind a new gathering focusing on globalization.
Compared with the decline of domestic business, the rapid growth of overseas business will bring more imagination for new reunion. There are three quarters of the world's Internet users abroad, and the huge scale of users provides a broad space for commercialization.
At present, the trend of globalization is also good.
From the product point of view, the overseas business layout of huanju is more diversified, including the live broadcast platform bigo live, the short video platform like, and the game social platform Hago. Multi business layout can not only reduce the dependence on single business, but also realize income diversification and improve the ceiling.
In addition, despite the impact of India's ban, the overseas products still maintained good user growth. According to the third quarter report, the monthly active users of bigo live mobile terminal reached 28 million, with a year-on-year increase of 27.7%; the monthly active users of like mobile terminal reached 104 million, with a year-on-year growth of 3.8%.
It is worth mentioning that huanju overseas users have ushered in the realization period, which can provide stable cash income for the company. For example, bigo's live broadcasting revenue reached 2.95 billion, up 158.8% year-on-year, accounting for more than half of the company's live broadcasting revenue.
The high-speed income growth also makes the overseas products gathered together become the most outstanding enterprise among the domestic enterprises going abroad. According to sensor tower, a third-party mobile application data analysis company, in the list of overseas revenue of short video / live app in China in the first half of 2020, bigo live ranked first and like ranked fifth.
Earlier, Li Xueling said in the financial report conference call that in the field of live broadcasting, huanju could not see competitors around the world. Selling YY, which is $3.6 billion, may give him more confidence.
It seems that the overseas ambition of reunion is more than that. In addition to live broadcasting, it is also constantly adding code for short videos, social networking, and getting involved in e-commerce. In August, Li Xueling even said to the public that he wanted to turn e-commerce into a major income.
Step by step, reunion has turned overseas into our main battlefield.
In fact, gathering all in overseas can be seen as the epitome of the development of most Chinese Internet enterprises. Consumer Internet is the competition of breadth, more business layout, can bring more traffic, more income, and finally present the situation that the strong are always strong.
This means that Alibaba, Tencent and other leading companies will seize more resources, and when the industry development dividend fades, the survival space of new entrants, even the second echelon players of the stable Internet, such as huanju, will continue to squeeze in the stock market competition.
From this perspective, in order to find incremental space, the global layout of most Internet enterprises will become a trend.
YY "sell oneself", baidu picks up double-edged sword
Why can't Baidu buy YY?
Finally! Baidu Guanxuan :23.7 billion yuan acquisition YY live domestic business
Robin Li's 52 birthday, Baidu bought YY live broadcast, $3 billion 600 million value is not worth.
Muddy water claims that 90% of YY's live broadcasting is fake, and it has just been sold to baidu this week


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Boris Johnson news – live: PM 'at end of road' as 54% of Tories don't believe he is telling truth on parties
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'You're taking the mickey': Beth Rigby grills Johnson over Downing Street party
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner says Boris Johnson is "at the end of the road", after the PM denied knowing a drinks party held in his back garden during lockdown would breach Covid rules.
Now, an exclusive poll for The Independent has revealed that 65 per cent of voters and more than half (54 per cent) of Conservative supporters do not believe the PM's claim he thought the 20 May 2020 drinks in the Downing Street rose garden was a "work event".
A further 80 per cent, including 73 per cent of those who voted Tory in 2019, agreed that under Johnson there was "one rule for the government and another for everybody else."
It follows a tense interview between Mr Johnson and Sky's Beth Rigby earlier, during which the PM became flustered as she grilled him on his "ludicrous" claim that he thought the 20 May 2020 event was work-related.
The Tory leader insisted he "categorically" was not warned the party was unlawful, despite ex-No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings claiming Mr Johnson pushed for it to go ahead and attended knowing full-well "it was a drinks party".
No 10 denies Boris Johnson said aides objecting to 'bring your own booze' party were 'overreacting'
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UK should recognise Somaliland as its own country, Tory MP says
Former education secretary Gavin Williams called on the government to recognise Somaliland as its own sovereign state in the Commons on Tuesday evening.
Somaliland is considered by most countries to be part of Somalia, but it has its own de facto government based in the city of Hargeisa
Mr Williamson told MPs: "We have seen the people of Somaliland pay a price for the defence of this nation both in the First World War and the Second World War.
"If you go to Somaliland you can see the Commonwealth war grave cemeteries of where so many Somalilanders gave their lives to the defence of this country and also beating fascism on the Horn of Africa.
"I think there is a debt of honour that we owe the people of Somaliland to restore the freedom to them that they actually fought to preserve for us as well."
He added: "This is a country that has incredibly proud links with this country. This is a country that when we have been in need and when we have asked for help, they've responded by sending their young men to defend our values and our freedoms."
Ella Glover18 January 2022 20:40
Government accused of having 'no plan' to reduce Channel crossings
The government has been accused of having "no plan" to curb Channel crossings as it emerged that reports ministers were in talks with Ghana about creating an offshore processing hub in the country were false.
As reactions trickled in, Labour MP Chris Bryant said: "Nothing has changed. There's no plan. The government has completely failed to tackle what is a real issue […] and the people who bear the brunt of this danger are those who are being illegally trafficked themselves."
Our social affairs correspondent May Bulman has the full story:
Plans to draft military in to tackle small boat arrivals branded 'desperate' by MPs
Exclusive poll finds more than half of Tory voters do not believe PM is telling truth on partygate
An exclusive poll for The Independent found that almost two-thirds of voters (65 per cent) and more than half (54 per cent) of Conservative supporters do not believe the PM's claim he thought the 20 May 2020 drinks in the Downing Street rose garden was a "work event".
An overwhelming 80 per cent of those questioned by Savanta ComRes - including 73 per cent of those who voted Tory in 2019 – agreed that under Johnson there was "one rule for the government and another for everybody else.
And almost three-quarters (73 per cent) – including 60 per cent of Conservative voters – said they were angry about the reports of repeated drinks parties in No 10.
Andrew Woodcock reports:
Nobody told me drinks event was against rules, says Boris Johnson
Exclusive: Poll finds more than half of Tory voters do not believe PM is telling truth
Government ad campaign to turn public against phone security attacked as 'alarmist' and 'scaremongering'
A government campaign aimed at turning the public against phone security has been attacked as "alarmist" by critics.
The campaign, backed by the Home Office and named 'No Place To Hide', aims to encourage social media companies to stop using end-to-end encryption.
That technology ensures that messages can only be read by their recipient and sender, with even the company relaying them unable to see their contents.
The government has repeatedly argued that such security is hindering law enforcement work, and the latest campaign seeks to suggest that companies such as Facebook are covering up child sexual abuse and other crime by protecting those messages.
But critics called the campaign "alarmist" and "scaremongering", and suggested that its plans would actually leave children more vulnerable than before.
Andrew Griffin reports:
Government ad campaign to turn public against phone security attacked as 'alarmist'
Matt Hancock's swim in Serpentine 'broke rules', says angry club member
Matt Hancock's decision to go for an impromptu swim in London's Serpentine Tuesday morning was "against the rules," a member of the lake's swimming club has told The Independent.
The former health secretary was pictured swimming in the water with Tory colleagues Robert Buckland MP and Lord Bethell following a run in Hyde Park.
However, the Serpentine Swimmers' Club tweeted that swimming is "strictly for members only" and "no guests [are] permitted".
The member, who did not wish to be named, told The Independent: "[Mr Hancock] definitely broke the rules because you're not allowed to swim if you're not a member and you're not allowed to have guests in."
The added: "The rules are there for a reason – you have to do a 25m test and you have to accept responsibility to be a lifeguard if you see someone in distress. These rules are agreed with the Royal Parks."
A spokesperson for Mr Hancock insisted that club members at the lake had invited the former health secretary to join them.
Adam Forrest has the full story:
'It's foolhardy to jump in because you want to show you're like Vladimir Putin'
First week of 2022 saw Scotland's worst ever A&E wait times
The first week of 2022 saw Scotland's worst ever accident and emergency wait times recorded, according to NHS figures.
Almost a third (32.6 percent) of the 21,163 patients attending A&E waited more than four hours before they were admitted to the hospital, transferred or discharged.
Of the 6,902 patients who waited longer than four hours, 2,079 waited over eight hours and 690 people spent more than 12 hours at A&E before being seen.
Commenting on the figures, health secretary Humza Yousaf told the PA news agency: "Today's figures have undoubtedly been impacted by Omicron-related staff absences, with health boards reporting a 31 percent increase in coronavirus absence compared with the previous week.
"On average, 7,174 NHS staff were absent per day for reasons related to Coronavirus, or around 4.0 percent of the NHS workforce. Additionally, Covid-19 general occupancy was 1376; 44 percent higher than at the same point the previous week (January 2) and 161 percent higher than at the same point two weeks previously (December 26).
"These figures are a reminder of the unprecedented challenges our NHS continues to face including high levels of people whose condition has deteriorated during the pandemic due to the backlog of waiting lists and the significantly faster rate of increase in Covid-19 hospitalisations this year compared to last January.
"Although the next few weeks will undoubtedly continue to be the most difficult very challenging, I would expect to see an improvement in performance next week and in the weeks ahead.
"To support the workforce and maximise capacity, we have introduced a range of measures including new remote monitoring tools to support people with Covid-19 to stay safely at home. We have also expanded capacity in NHS 24 so they can help more people and further alleviate pressures on the rest of NHS and social care."
Government will vote against making misogyny a hate crime after House of Lords backs new law, Dominic Raab suggests
The government will vote against making misogyny a hate crime when the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is brought back to the commons, Dominic Raab suggested.
The amendment, brought by Tory peer and former victims commissioner Baroness Newlove, would require police to record crimes motivated by hostility towards the sex or gender of the victims, and make judges take it into account when sentencing offenders.
He told BBC Breakfast on Tuesday: "We looked at [the amendment] very seriously, the Law Commission went and looked at it for quite some time and came to the view it would be counter-productive and not effective as a measure, so we want to take the most effective measures.
He said the government was taking other measures to "make women feel more supported", including extending time limits for reporting domestic assaults, and criminalising "breastfeeding voyeurism".
Our Home Affairs editor Lizzie Dearden has the full story:
Government will vote against making misogyny a hate crime, Dominic Raab suggests
Peers backed an amendment to the policing bill that would require police to record misogyny
Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill a 'magnet for judicial review' says Tory MP
Conservative MP Richard Drax accused Boris Johnson of "driving a coach and horses straight at our core supporters" via new legislation to recognise that animals have feelings.
The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill recognises that animals are sentient beings, able to feel pain and joy, and creates a body to ensure UK ministers take account of their welfare needs when drawing up and implementing policy.
Mr Drax told the Commons: "This is a bad Bill, an unnecessary Bill, and a Trojan horse for those who have no understanding and sadly in some cases despise the countryside and all that goes on in it."
He went on to sat that the UK "left the EU in order to pass our own laws" but that the Bill "is even more intrusive than the former legislation under EU law".
He added the Bill would be a "magnet for judicial review" and warned about a committee it would establish, saying: "I and many others fear that those with different agendas, often partisan and politically motivated, will hijack this committee and its role to attack activities like shooting and fishing."
Cummings to give evidence to Sue Gray for party-gate inquiry
Dominic Cummings will give evidence to senior official Sue Gray as part of her inquiry into the parties and gatherings attended by MPs during the coronavirus lockdowns, PA has reported.
Mr Cummings, the PM's former chief aide, alleged that Boris Johnson misled Parliament after being told an event on May 20 2020 would breach coronavirus guidance.
Mr Cummings has alleged the Prime Minister misled Parliament after being told an event on May 20 2020 would breach coronavirus guidance.
In an explosive blog post, Mr Cummings said he would "swear under oath" that an email sent by "a very senior official" warned the "bring your own booze" event broke Covid rules.
He wrote: "The events of 20 May alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the PM lied to Parliament about parties.
"Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened."
The PM has denied this and earlier said "nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules" to the "best of my recollection".
Javid says he is optimistic restrictions will be 'substantially reduced' next week
Health secretary Sajid Javid has said he is "cautiously optimistic" that Covid-19 regulations can be "substantially reduced" next week.
Mr Javid told MPs it was likely "we have already reached the peak of the case numbers of hospitalisations".
This, along with the UK being the most boosted country in Europe with the most anti-virals per head, he said, will see likely restrictions loosened next week.
The government is set to review its so-called plan B measures on 26 January, which apply to England, and include mandatory mask wearing in certain places as well as working from home where possible.
"I have always said that these restrictions should not stay in place a day longer than absolutely necessary," the health secretary added.
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Q: AJP configuration fails I am trying to connect to a TC app with the virtual host below.  The TC app works directly mysite.net:8080/mysite and serves the entire site from index to compute. However the configuration just gives the default apache2 page.  What am I missing, please?
<VirtualHost  *:80>

        ProxyRequests off
        ProxyPreserveHost On
        ServerName mysite.net.localhost

        ServerAdmin admin@localhost

        ProxyPass "/"       "ajp://localhost:8009/mysite"
        ProxyPassReverse "/" "ajp://localhost:8009/mysite"

        LogLevel warn

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite.net_error.log
        CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite.net_access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

Below is the server.xml change and both server have been rebooted
<!--connector enabled 210818-->
<Connector protocol="AJP/1.3"
           address="::1"
           port="8009"
           redirectPort="8443" />

Also I put a symlink in /var/www/html/vhosts/[sites-available.conf].  Still showing the default.  Prefix the default.html and shows the directory.


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Tag: death
The Queen's last act
On the 6th of September this year Queen Elizabeth II performed her last act as regent of the United Kingdom – she handed the baton of UK's PM to Liz Truss after accepting Boris' resignation. It marked the end of an era. It may also have marked the end of the UK in its present form. So, it was her last act, you say? Well, do tell. Because on the 8th, two days after the Queen's final official act, her family was summoned to Balmoral in expectation she was breathing her last. Did Liz Truss kill the Queen, then? Read on to find out… Continue reading "The Queen's last act"
Eddie Van Halen. 'Nuff said.
We'll let the video be the introduction to this piece:
Continue reading "Eddie Van Halen. 'Nuff said."
Robert Trump, a short study in 'The Great Transition'
On 15 Aug 2020 Robert Stewart Trump, brother of Donald J. Trump, passed on. The cause of death was not disclosed. However, a family friend stated that Robert had suffered a recent fall and was suffering from 'brain bleeds' (intracerebral hemorrhaging). Robert was called 'the nice Trump', understated and not in the limelight, unlike his older brother. Donald said his brother's death was a great and sad loss to him. Was it shown in Donald's chart? And was it shown in Robert's chart as well? This post gives a brief overview of death as shown in horoscopes. But more than that, it gives a peek into Trump's fortunes into the near future, given the election is just over two months away. Continue reading "Robert Trump, a short study in 'The Great Transition'"
Epstein: Is he or isn't he — and how?
I like good mysteries. They sharpen the analytical skills, point us in different directions of thought, which we like to call "thinking outside the box" and often bring in new areas of study. More than that, however, they are a good measure of our common sense. Such is the current state of affairs with the mysterious 'death' of Jeffry Epstein. I put 'death' in quotes because we are only told of his demise. We have yet to see a body or an autopsy report. What do we really have, then? Continue reading "Epstein: Is he or isn't he — and how?"