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Posts by James Greenhalgh
76 posts • joined 30 Apr 2008
Don't buy your iPad in a McDonald's car park
Leave it out...
The girl's barking mad handing her money over like that. And to leave the thing in the trunk for all that time without looking to see? She wood have thought she was getting a treet out of that transaction. Hope they root out the perps and proseed to give them hard time for abusing this sap and taking the fruits of her labour!
Apple frees iOS 4.3 two days before iPad 2 Arrival™
Don't think so.
I was a paid developer last year. Did you try clicking through to the download link? It took me back to the same page I was seeing earlier.
Could you point me to where you found it? I've logged in with my developer account to
Where I am met with the message posted above.
Is there an alternate (legal) source? I would be surprised.
Using my free developer account...
"Hi James,
You must be an iOS or Mac Developer Program member to download Xcode 4 or you can purchase Xcode 4 from the Mac App Store."
Being part of either of these developer programs will cost me $99 so the article stands.
But never let blah blah bah facts bah blah.
Jobs' Lion to marry Mac OS X and iOS
@ previous comments
Remember, this is a company for whom 100 minor bug fixes and irrelevant new features constituted a major mobile OS revision...
Face it, apple have all but given up on "the most advanced operating system in the world" and I say that writing on a mac castrated to openGL 2.1 by negligence...
Gizmodo editor reunited with seized goods
Predictable joke.
Why is it that everything involved with iPhone 4 seems to be being wrongly held?
I'll get my coat.
Ambulance radios don't like the rain
Have they considered?
That they may just be holding it wrong?
Amazon.co.uk takes on Tesco
Sweet Delicious Mail Order Beer
And a much better range than my local "online" variants carry.
Now if only I could convince myself that The delivery wouldn't be shited up by Royal Mail we'd be on to a winner...
Apple denies iPhone 4 antenna glitch, blames inaccurate signal bars
Grab a 'Droid
Settings -> About Phone -> Network.
No need to deal with nonsense of the bars any longer. Quite a nice feature, even if mostly useless for me.
I was amused to see just how poor my signal really was, although I'm on the edge of a 3g network and a higher power 2g one so that may explain it. I was amused to see that while my desire was at -99dBm and showing 2 bars an equivalent iPhone would be showing 4 bars. Nice marketing hack there.
Government lunatic magnet goes live
The best part
Is watching the Nick Clegg intro with Google Audio Transcribe turned on. I know it is mean to bully their voice recognition software... But that is one horrible piece of transcription right there.
"Government, He's listening"
Google can kill or install apps on citizen Androids
Except that...
"An attacker could use such an approach to gain a large install base for a seemingly innocent application and then push down a local privilege escalation exploit as soon as a new vulnerability is discovered in the Linux kernel and root the device,"
The large install base waiting for a vulnerability to be discovered to actually allow the rootkit to be installed would be somewhat scuppered by google's auto-delete. Which was the point I was making.
So he created a demo of how an app could misrepresnt itself and sit checking for remote code vulnerabilities.
And google showed their demo of what they do in that situation, namely - Remote nuke it.
Then he said "what if someone ran 'INSTALL_APP' with a MITM attack.
And the response is, presumably, when control is restored to the server - Remote nuke it.
And this is bad because if this useful interface exists then it could be used to remove apps google doesn't like?
Well... um... tough. I prefer the knowledge that if an app goes rogue the app dissapears to the fear of "if google goes rogue my pointles game may dissapear".
Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip
I've just picked up all the different smart phones I could see around my flat and the most natural position for using the internet would cause this issue. And the most natural position for texting. And the most natural position for using any portrait mode app. And handsfree calling... In fact, only when you put it to the ear would it be unnatural. And even then, not terribly so.
Of course, lets not let that get in the way of a bit of blind apple defending by someone so confused about their role in a consumerist society that they feel the need to defend and advertise the companies who feed off their confusion.
What a strange world we live in.
Microsoft sneak peeks Hotmail makeover
So is this Windows Live Mail upgrading back to being Hotmail, after recently being changed to Windows Live Hotmail which is "the new busy" and replaced Windows Live Mail which was a replacement for MSN Hotmail, which came from hotmail?
Gmail is at least one single brand. Not a yearly rebranding exercise for bored marketing drones.
F*ck you, thunders disgruntled
fanboi Apple user
...Jumping out a plane is the number one reason for planes crashing. Jumping is also one of the least efficient ways to use your energy and leads to shorter "awake" times. Most importantly, if in the future we think of new things to use instead of legs jumping will be left behind. You may be trying to jump with what we have given you, but there is no way you can guarantee that you will be quick to adapt the newer, better limbs we have added to our system.
Conclusions: Jumping was created for the 2 legged humanoid era. For two legged humanoids and mice. But the mind-meld era is all about low power consumption and open standards. Perhaps the pilot should concentrate more on flying the plane and less on criticising me for leaving the past behind.
Pirate Bay co-founder hopes it will die
@AC "Oh, Boo hoo"
I'm truly lost for words.
How a Tory gov will be the most tech-savvy in history
Our government will be Open Source! I can finally port David Cameron to Linux and sort out that annoying smarmy bug he has had since version 3.2...
Anti-Internet Explorer 6 protests grow with online petition
Running firefox on mac with a memory leak analyser always makes for a hilarious drinking game. Every time you hit a multiple of 1000 Mallocs that go unfreed and unreferenced take a shot...
Can get through a litre of vodka quite quickly in a normal web browsing session.
Microsoft loses appeal on Word injunction
Reading Test
You failed it.
Webmasters fume as Google profiles signed-out searchers
Oh snap!
People who make money gaming a system are upset that they won't be able to game the system as well any more. Are you sure?
There are privacy issues, but these people don't care about them. All they care about is your click, so that they get the opportunity to ruin your privacy first.
Bloody scavengers.
Apple seeks OS-jacking advert patent
Windows has had this for years... They just call it a BSOD
Windows 7 sales leave Microsoft coffers unstuffed
Lower prices leads to higher demand and lower marginal revenue?
Get this to the economists quick!
Nokia lets operators
screw with customise the N900
Another device I'll have to invalidate the warranty on just to get it working as intended by the engineers. Good Job Nokia... Good job.
O2 data fails, again
Right. Hands up. Who used a jailbroken iPhone on the network and brought all this down...
Mozilla Labs' Weave 0.5 aligns Firefox planets
That would be another Opera feature added to firefox then...
Apple says jailbroken iPhones endanger cell towers
This explains that clause in the iTunes EULA about not using the software for terrorism then...
Opera chief: history will silence Unite doubters
@apache whining
So you take offence at being told you wouldn't understand Unite. And to prove you would understand it you write a bunch of comments missing the point spectacularly.
Foot, meet rail-gun.
And he's also right about open sourcing things. In order not to branch the distributions in a convoluted way they would need tight, centralised version control. They would need a team of people deciding the direction for the browser. And they would need to be very careful of what code was being changed. Basically, they would be running a company with its main asset revealed. A marketing tool fine. A good strategy. No.
Microsoft airbrushes anti-Apple ad
It is very important that i stick up for a company with millions of marketing dollars because it is important that everyone knows how great they are. And they are great, they're so great you have no idea how great they are because you are blinded by the rival company. That makes you a moron. Do you like being a moron? I bet you and your moron friends gather round and play spot the moron and then just point at yourselves. Ha.
Or maybe you are too poor to afford more expensive Company's products. Or maybe you're too much of a snob to buy cheaper Company's products. In either case you're flawed. And I'm going to tell you how flawed you are because you NEED TO UNDERSTAND. I bet you go to bed at night crying about your inferior, or maybe superior monetary position and wish you had bought a product from the Company I buy products from. Because the company I buy products from is amazing!
Have you ever even looked at your company's products properly? They are not well made at all. I've heard lots of stories of your company's products failing all the time. And I've never heard any problems with my company's products. I love my company so much.
I really feel bad for you. You'll never know the joy of using my company's product. You'll just sit there playing with your company's product all day. And I'll be laughing at you. Ha ha ha. You're such a silly person. If only you were better like me. Then you would have superior products and people would like you more.
Well, it was nice talking with you, but I need to go now. I really appreciated the chance to remind you how great my favourite company was. I bet my favourite company is really proud of me for helping them do their advertising for them. I can't talk to any of my real friends about this sort of thing because they think I'm petty and need to stop advertising my Company. But I just love them so much. Any time anyone says something bad about my Company I have to get in there and show them how wrong they are.
God, I love my company.
Mac OS X gets rootkit coding manual
I see nobody has got a sense of humour running on a mac yet then... Why all the angst?
"Nobody takes Mac Security seriously"
Nobody takes anything running on a Mac seriously apart from Hippies, Graphic Designers and Graphic designing hippies.
Mine is the one coated in Kerosine thanks, I'll be at the bar.
Metallica sticksman gloats over Napster downfall
Trebles all round!
Now instead of downloading tracks one at a time, sometimes struggling through mistagged things and record label corrupted files I can just download the entire album in one handy torrent file!
Well done Lars, you rock!
Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel
@AC "Slight off-topic"
But writing Assembly code is, as you found slow, slow, prone to error, inflexible, and worst, architecture-dependant. You write a kick ass kernel now, Intel releases a new processor with an extra 5 registers, just for a laugh. Or switches to 128 bits, or changes endian-ness. Even adding a new instruction set and your kernel has to be rewritten to take advantage of these features.
Releasing a 32/64 bit kernel becomes two major rewrites. All of which has to be done at the basically unreadable byte code level.
There are reasons why Kernels stopped being written in Assembly in the first place.
Contrast to writing in C and compiling with a compiler optimised for the correct architecture.
Unfortunately your 'Tiny experience" programming shows very much as ignorance.
There are times when a nice bit of assembly is very useful for raw control. Then there are 10 million line kernels.
So just to be clear, the problem is:
Bad code?
Bad compiler flags?
Bad Compiler?
Uncaring developers?
Arrogant developers?
The C language itself?
Security researchers for bringing up the bug?
A lack of using proper tools to analyse the code?
Hundreds of eyes, hundreds of opinions, hundreds of wrong ideas. Wisdom of the crowd innit?
DRAM patent holder sues Big Blue
If a company goes into the research and development of a product or technique but has not have the market capital or position to release the product to market why should it not reap the rewards?
If it feels its design and technique are being used by another manufacturer then why should it not ask for money?
Just because a company is not well known does not make it a troll. As much as you may like it to.
Mandriva's Linux-on-a-stick refreshed with Spring '09 release
@Matt.(Not So... hohoho)Smart
Yes, they ask that you pay for some merchandise thereby supporting development. You are more than free to download for free. To compile it for free. To take a free USB stick and put it on there for free. To ram said USB forceably wherever you want for free.
But if you feel like giving something back to a community and have the coding skills of a cock-fingered rabbit you are also free to give some money to the foundation and recieve a fancy little USB stick in return.
Incidentally... Ubuntu also sells a USB stick preloaded with 9.04. Yes, they want you to PAY FOR it. For a free open source etc, etc, etc...
Government defeats Tories in 'McKinnon' extradition vote
In before...
In before the ignorant comments about asberger's, the rehashing of argument about whether he should be debated, the morons yelling "Hang 'im", the UFO jokes, the sympathy posts, the black helicopters, the "just give him a job", the intense and unfounded hatred, the freedom fighters, the submissive America supporters, the anti-Jaqui Smith comments, and of course the inevitable post from Ms. Bee chastising each of the above...
Why even enable comments on these articles, you could just copy the same discussion over from previous threads...
Have a fun afternoon moderating!
Intel cozying up to Google Chrome OS
Ah hah!
I understand now Lou, don't worry. You see I was confused for a second that you and me might be designing a system which could work in the real world. Seems you don't require this as an outcome. Which is fine, I guess. But you have to make it clear that you are allowed to bend physical rules like access speeds for silicon or hardware. It means I can too.
In fact, it means I can take your system to its logical conclusion and point out a nasty little truth about your entire idea. You see, what you have designed are a series of interconnected components, that when dealt with provide a change or a signal to other interconnected cells.
Put simply, your cells take some degree of input. Process it. And provide output. - If this sounds similair, it might be... Depends how far through that textbook you got.
Furthermore, as a collection of cells the input is stored in one queue, the output in another. On a switch input becomes output and vice versa. These lists of cells provide a series of instructions of which cells are to be affected on the next cycle. For the sake of historical correctness, lets store these lists on tape. But I mean, you can store it on whatever you want, including physics bending infinite write speed silicon if you want.
Next, you have at least one processor which deals with the Head of the queue, it takes it, performs the calculation needed to do whatever it is the cell needs to do, and provides some change in the output. As this processor deals with the head of the queue, lets be nice and call it, well... Lets call it the Head.
And then we're going to have changed the state of the system, and that will be stored somewhere. Lets call that somewhere the state.
Now we have infinite read and write speed. And, as we have infinitely many processors we presumably have infinitely many heads. Because, as shown in my argument in a previous post, as soon as you don't have either of these things your system becomes indeterminate in terms of real world processing time. Although, for this argument it doesn't particularily matter if you didn't. Because by now you must be noticing something happening here...
--The Million Dollar Question--
So Lou, when you have an infinite number of HEADS, working through a list of instructions stored on TAPE, with infinite read and write speed affecting the STATE and a TABLE who's instruction is, move one place forward. What do you think you have?
It looks like an incomplete, but otherwise Universal Turing Machine to me.
It also has horrible overheads for reraltime processing on anything other than n dedicated processors, where n is the number of *Single Components* in your program. It is why research into a similair thing cannot be used in real robots until hardware provides the ability for millions of dedicated processors, all running a simple vector transformation.
You are not revolutionary. You are not a rebel. You are just misinformed. And so convinced of your own intelligence that criticism is ignored. I'm more than willing to take this up with you on your own site rather than wasting more of the poor Moderatrix's time. But I get the feeling the argument would descend quickly into you calling me an idiot and deleteing any further comment of mine. It seems to be your style. Like a child unwilling to accept that their long held belief in Father Christmas is misguided.
I'll repent. I'll quite happily join the Church of Lou. Just as soon as you deal with the nasty little truths behind your system.
@Louis - Round 3 - Knockout?
Interesting rebuttal.
So, again I ask the crux of my post.
How do you plan on mapping inherently non-deterministic events into your deterministic system. You have, as I see it, 3 options for controlling input events.
1) Defer them until the next virtual cycle and give them priority, the time to service is then indeterminate and is the number of real cycles needed to complete accessing the input buffer. This input buffer could be in any state.
2) Service them immediately. In which case you are unsure what the current state of the system is when they are serviced.
3) Defer servicing them until the end of the next buffer. In which case you could either overflow the buffer or just drop the request. With no way of determining as a programmer which outcome would occur.
And you similairly have three options with output.
1) Abort each request for a shared resource that occurs while the first is being serviced (disk read/write for example). This prevents a programmer from knowing if his request will be serviced.
2) Defer each request indefinitely, awaiting the correct time in turn for access to the disk. This prevents the programmer from knowing the state of the overall system when the access will complete and adds a layer of asynchonous behaviour.
3) Halt the system until each request is complete - This will slow down your system immensely and add to the issues described for input.
I await, with tepid enthusiasm, your response.
@Louis - round two.
Good start... My turn.
1) Your theory on spacetime shows a fundamental misunderstanding of calculus and furthermore of relativity. Even as someone with very little knowledge of physics I can see the problem with your argument. I'll illustrate by applying your same principle to a one dimensional space, with vector (x), clearly, when you differentiate this with respect to x, you get 1. Ergo, by Louis maths movement in a straight line is fundamentally flawed. You see, when differentiating by t you are calculation the rate of change of whatever you are talking about with respect to that variable. The rate of change of t, with respect to t is clearly going to be one. By first principles of calculus. A small change in something creates an equally small change in itself. Congratulations, a huge victory in stating the obvious, but not a victory against space time. In order to measure some velocity in the time direction you would have to paramatise the time vector in your calculations creating a geodesic equation {ct(k), x(k), y(k), z(k)} differentiating now with respect to k, you will find a velocity, acceleration and whatever else you want can be quantified. Your problem here was that you misunderstood calculus. Don't worry it's hard.
b) Your argument that it is possible to create a deterministic way of programming removing the problem of non-determinism. This relies entirely on things being perfect. Your model for computing fails entirely to consider user interactions and the need for interrupts. You argue that hardware can be modelled by a finite state machine, and as such software should be able to be too. But software compensates for the limitations of hardware and solves some of the problems of the non-deterministic world we live in. Consider. By your model two objects could request a read from different areas on a disk, A third object would recieve a signal when the read was complete from object 2, and pass a signal giving the current clock value. Unless your entire system halts while accessing disk, creating a huge bottleneck, you have no possible way of knowing what value will be sent as a signal from object 3.
cat) Your model of programming, by mapping the idea of a neural network into software is inherently slow. On each clock pulse you must pass messages, analyse messages and send messages. From every active software object. And as the only way to communicate with an object is through signals and there is no grand operating system to control it a cycle soon becomes great fun. In a world void of interrupts and controlling software a simple three object cycle soon becomes cataclysmic to the operating of your system. Exponentially growing the number of signals generated for each swap. While a cycle may be easy to see in a small system, in a grand system you can destory everything, sometimes only in rare conditions.
4) Your model of programming fails entirely to consider the fundamental part of the Turing Machine. Input. Returning to 2) Input from a user can occur at any time, while your system is in any state. Lacking any way to handle this input your model collapses spectacularly. If your way of handling input is to give it priority and handle it at the front of the queue, your system is non deterministic. If your model is to add it to the front of the next queue your model is non-deterministic in the time to service. If you add it to anywhere else in the next queue your model is non-deterministic in terms of its own state.
I'm a sodding first year computer science student and I can see holes in everything you do. My friends and I had a good laugh yesterday reading through your page. Of course, we're all blinded by the establishment, etc, etc, etc. But your ideas are so fundamentally broken as to become insanity.
Seriously, seek accademic review. Find out what is wrong with your theories from people with more experience than I have.
Or keep making an arse of yourself online. I mean, I'm really not that bothered...
You put your arguments forward precisely the way any delusional pseudo-scientist might. Avoiding peer review, avoiding having any effect on the scientific community and avoiding open debate.
You argue your superiority to 'experts' through assertion alone. Discrediting their work as 'so-called' and flawed without providing any support for any of your ideas.
Perhaps you are a unique genius, the likes of which never seen before. A true revolutionary against our broken information society.
I think it's more likely your grandiosity is showing...
Schneier says he was 'probably wrong' on masked passwords
"Schneier now backs an approach taken by BlackBerry devices and iPhones, which display each character briefly before masking it. "That seems like an excellent compromise," he said."
Translates roughly as "Schneier still misses the point spectacularly and thinks that briefly displaying each character of your password on a screen in front of your colleagues, students, children or general shoulder watchers is a great idea!"
Plenty comments calling him a moron on the other article. Seems he's still a moron now.
Trading Standards calls for online knife sale ban
re: Credit Cards
You can sod off if you think I'm going to be getting myself a credit card I don't need just so that I can buy a knife. Its bad enough I need to pay for a passport/driving license to prove my age despite being in no position financially to go abroad or to run a car around London.
Student leader demands lectures be 'put against the wall'
And to think...
Some people say that the NUS is utterly out of touch with the students it represents. Fools they are, contemptuous fools!
Microsoft fans call for Opera boycott
Whenever I click a link in Windows Live Messenger the hooks open the page in IE, despite opera being my default browser. Whenever I open a moron app with a small integrated browser, the browser rendering engine is that used by IE, the User-agent reports as IE, and to all intents and purposes I would be as well using IE.
Whenever a site fails to render properly due to non compliance with standards - You can blame IE hacks.
Whenever you have to spend half an hour testing your layouts and scipts in 5 different browsers - You can blame IE workarounds.
Whenever your corporate software relies on you using IE - You can blame the IE hooks.
Tell me which of these things makes a microsoft Auto-monopoly a good thing and I will happily uninstall my Opera and concede your victory.
Millions opted into UK mobile phone directory
@:Worried people
The service is pathetic. And seems to be utilising some subtle social engineering to build up its numbers. Y'see, I searched for myself giving them an address better known as Edinburgh Airport. Needless to say, not only was there one result. But there were many results!
Yes, That's right. IN AN AIRPORT.
But of course, for me to see these details I have to input my mobile phone number for them and opt-in to the service.
Do your readers a favour Reg and remove the link to this site...
Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online
Oh, I listen to plenty of BBC material. The TV license doesn't cover radio though. Nor has it ever. As for the TV, I enjoy BBC News 24, but that's available worldwide, again with no TV license requirement and chrsit, even that is mediocre these days. Recently I've watched Heroes on the iPlayer, A few episodes of Doctor Who, the usual mix of non-essential stuff that I could really live without.
I don't think I'd be missing out on much at all frankly.
...Ok, I'll just go back to torrenting the ~3 pieces of BBC output worth watching then. Greedy twats.
Kanye West doesn't have a f***ing Twitter, OK?
What I don't understand...
...Is why anyone would want to follow a gay fish on twitter anyway...
DHS tests bomb-proof CCTV by blowing up bus
Time Travel?
"The collection of forensic data from tragic events like bombings helps us develop strategies to prevent the crime in the first place,"
But by preventing the crime there would be no evidence to collect, so they would be unable to prevent the crime, which would result in the crime happening again, so then they would have the evidence to prevent the crime...
Unless we were in a universe resistant to changes in the time-line, in which case the event would happen anyway and these cameras would be useless.
They haven't thought this plan through at all...
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Janice Steinmetz of Somers, Connecticut sends this super easy coating for flavorful chicken. "It's a great recipe if you like garlic. I've shared it with several friends who say their families went wild over it," she remarks.
6 Servings
Prep: 15 min. Bake: 25 min.
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1/2 teaspoon salt, optional
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup milk
6 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (1-1/2 pounds)
1 to 2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 tablespoons lemon juice
In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the bread crumbs, cheese,
parsley, salt if desired and pepper. Place milk in a shallow bowl.
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Back in the mists of time, "internal communications" used to mean the comms person having five minutes with the CEO each week to grab a few idea threads and subsequently issue a finely crafted staff message.
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Ok, so that's simplifying things but there's no doubt that the challenges, complexities and available channels for internal communicators grows each year - as does the pressure for the function to better support organisational success.
There is a clear link between good internal communications and bottom line results; companies highly effective at both communication and change management are two and a half times as likely to outperform their peers as companies that are not highly effective in either area (Towers Watson, Clear Direction in a Complex World, 2011 – 12).
Victoria University's recently released Language in the Workplace research into the culture of New Zealand workplaces provides a strong lead as to where internal communication resources should be invested to get the best bang for buck in terms of engaging staff and lifting performance.
Among other findings, the research (carried out over 15 years in more than 30 NZ workplaces), reveals that our workplaces are, by global standards, very informal and that the comparatively high use of small talk in the workplace helps build relationships between management and more junior staff.
What a gift for internal communicators! Repeated research on organisational communications shows that the strongest, most engaging communication channel is between an immediate manager and their team. It's in these interactions that complex ideas, such as a new strategy, can be communicated and organisational values can be translated into behaviours. It's also the best forum for staff to open up and share ideas and feedback which can be sent up the organisational food chain.
There will always be a role for the high level CEO type messages, but these more formal written pieces need to sit alongside other channels in a carefully considered internal communications strategy that prioritises people leaders and understands the changing environment that the increase in social media is creating in our workplaces.
For many organisations, a shift to strategically using people leaders as communicators will be a big deal. Not just from a resource allocation and training perspective, but also as a cultural shift where active communication is an expected, and measured, function of leadership. Working with Internal Communications, it requires the commitment of the Executive team and a partnering relationship with HR.
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Angelina Jolie's talks about her Cambodian journey for Louis Vuitton
This powerful video shot on location in Cambodia really goes some way in revealing Angelina Jolie's connection to the country. As the face of Louis Vuitton's 'Core Values' campaign, the actress travelled back to the birthplace of her adopted son, Maddox, to shoot the ad. In an interview for the label, Jolie recounts her first visit to Cambodia (to shoot Lara Craft: Tomb Raider) and how she fell in love with it.
"I remember standing in the waterfall during one of our shots and they said 'just stay on this side of the waterfall because that side of the waterfall still hasn't been de-mined'. And I thought, as somebody from America, what does that mean, hasn't been de-mined? It's just the craziest, it doesn't cross our mind that all these children, and people walking around these areas, have landmines in the ground and that's just a part of their daily life." Really worth a watch!


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You'd think that being the winner of the biggest contest in the country would make life easier.
Yeah, you'd think, unless you were Katniss Everdeen and living in the wretched world of The Hunger Games.
Tension is ratcheted up from the beginning of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," the second film in the series. And it's a far better film than the first because of it. Stakes are higher here. Katniss is not just protecting her own life; now she must protect her family, her friends, her district and even the country of Panem itself.
Jennifer Lawrence, who improves anything just by being in it, again holds the movie with her steady, multilayered performance. She plays the 16-year-old Katniss taut as a bowstring in most instances but, at 23, she is mature enough to subtly display Katniss' conflicting emotions — her terror, her compassion, her anger. Yet she's not so far removed from her own teenage years that she can't still tap into them to bring out the confusion of that age, especially the problem of having feelings for two boys.
And keep an eye on her reaction during her first meeting with former Hunger Games victor Johanna Mason. Lawrence says nothing but provides an acting class on how to use facial expressions to convey absolutely everything.
"Catching Fire" picks up a few months after the end of "The Hunger Games." Although she and partner Peeta Mallark survived the games — the first duo ever to do so — Katniss' ploy to pretend to be in love with Peeta hasn't been bought by everyone, including the malevolent President Snow (Donald Sutherland). But worse than that — both for Snow and Katniss — many in the country are more interested in the compassion, humanity and bravery that she displayed in the game than the love story. Katniss has become a symbol, giving the masses the courage to push back against the totalitarian regime.
To get rid of her and her rapidly growing influence, Snow invokes a rule technicality (that may or may not be legit) to bring former victors in the Hunger Games back to the arena. This time around, Katniss cannot go it alone, which is her preference; she must form alliances and, even harder for her, she must trust others.
Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) could be the sweetest human being on the entire planet, but Katniss ostensibly is in love with Gale back in District 12. Gale may be a great guy (he seems nice in the scenes he's in), but we just don't see enough of him to get a clear view.
Peeta, though, is selfless, kind and caring, and Katniss can't help but be touched by his love for her and his innate goodness, especially in the heat of battle, when he becomes her rock. Peeta is so good (without being saccharine about it), you just want to give him a big hug all the time.
Like "The Hunger Games," "Catching Fire" builds up to the actual violent game itself, which takes up the final third of the movie. But the scenes setting everything up hold interest because of the emotional turmoil swirling around everyone, as well as the political maneuvering and gameplaying going on behind the scenes.
Surprisingly for a film so focused on a single character, "Catching Fire" also allows some development in its secondary roles. Even minor characters like Effie (Elizabeth Banks) have chances to shine, providing an unexpected depth to the film. Someone should have told Stanley Tucci to tone it down a bit, though, because his game-show host Caesar Flickerman, a hoot in "The Hunger Games," is hammier than a pork butt here.
Once things rev up, director Francis Lawrence (who directed "I Am Legend" and "Water for Elephants," which had scenes filmed around Chattanooga) juggles the pacing well, alternating the headlong rush of action with slower, explanatory scenes. And, of course, the ending sets up the final book, "Mockingjay," which will be presented in two parts (damn you "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.")
Lawrence is tapped to film both parts of "Mockingjay" and, judging by "Catching Fire," the franchise finale is in good hands.
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WASHINGTON—The War of 1812 bequeathed a national anthem (heard before every ballgame) to the United States. But in today's popular consciousness, that's about all.
Fortunately, along comes an exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery that's full of surprises, great artwork and riveting tales.
Not that "1812: A Nation Emerges" is lighthearted about a conflict that cost 15,000 American lives and changed world history. For our fledgling nation, survival was at stake. America, only a generation old, fought principally to stop Britain from halting U.S.-flagged ships and abducting its sailors into service in the British navy.
The conflict, lasting 2 years, was sort of a draw.
America lost most of the land battles, and its attempts to invade Canada failed, fostering that nation's emergence. But what's sometimes called the Second War for American Independence did give the United States a secure spot among sovereign nations.
Indians lost their British allies, opening the way for westward expansion; patriotism and Andrew Jackson-style democracy flourished; citizens called for better methods of transportation, including the Erie Canal; and the way was paved for the Monroe Doctrine and empire-building.
Important stuff. Yet this unique show manages to have fun.
Not all the intrigue came on the global stage, it notes. Washington's salon society, especially in first lady Dolley Madison's court, was heaven for early deal-makers—as well as debutantes in search of a beau. (Perhaps it was the ice cream that Dolley dished out during her Wednesday-night "squeezes," so called because everyone wanted to get in.)
One gets a good look at "War Hawks" Henry Clay and John Calhoun and military heroes-to-be Andrew Jackson and Winfield Scott. And in these works of art, they are all young and good-looking.
"They were hunks," said the National Portrait Gallery's acting director, Wendy Wick Reaves.
That's a useful perspective to have on the period, especially if your mental picture of Scott—"Old Fuss and Feathers" as he eventually came to be known—is colored by his corpulent Civil War-era appearance, when he had to be hoisted onto his horse.
Walking around the exhibit's five bays, beneath the gallery's distinctive vaulted ceilings, one gets the feeling that a "Night at the Muse um" moment could happen at any time. And that if the figures on these walls came to life one evening, they would know one another and have lots to talk about.
That's just what curator Sidney Hart and assistant guest curator Rachael L. Penman sought—to evoke you-are-there connections. The resulting exhibition is on a grand scale, encompassing nine sections and 100 pieces (with a dozen Gilbert Stuarts) drawn from public institutions and private homes in the United States, Great Britain and Canada.
Visitors get a sweeping visual history of the war and the world in which it took place. But the show's strength is that it tells the big story through the lives of extraordinary individuals.
From the moment you walk through the door, cool stuff clamors for your attention.
Just overhead is a 17-star, 17-stripe U.S. flag, the only such flag known to survive from the period. Here, it is being shown to the American people for the first time.
To the right is a marble bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, the military genius who loomed so large in the French–British–American loggerheads. This particular sculpture was a prize possession of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
Ahead, ships practically sail off canvas in a mammoth painting by Thomas Birth, "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie." This battle cemented the phrase "Don't give up the ship!" in our national lore.
U.S. naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry, who supervised building of the American fleet at Lake Erie, had the words stitched on a blue ensign flown from his flagship during its duel with the British in September 1813.
They commemorated the dying words of his friend James Lawrence, a naval officer killed that June when his USS Chesapeake fought the HMS Shannon off New York, trying to break through the British blockade.
The war brought other memorable phrases: "We have met the enemy and they are ours," from Perry's dispatch to Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie. And "Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light," from Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled Banner."
Key was inspired to write his now-famous lines as he—negotiating for American prisoners aboard a British ship—witnessed the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry outside Baltimore, the nation's third-largest city. HMS Meteor delivered some of the "bombs bursting in air" that Key described, and HMS Erebus fired the "rockets' red glare."
The exhibit pairs the latter line with a mural of the scene and reproductions of Key's handwritten poem and one of the Congreve rockets the British fleet rained down.
For visitors from the Fredericksburg area, a special delight is that many of the show's characters are Virginians:
–Thomas Jefferson, who as president failed to halt British encroachment on American trading rights during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800s.
–James Madison, Jefferson's successor, who encouraged Congress to declare war on Britain (hence the nickname, "Mr. Madison's War") and signed its bill into law on June 18, 1812.
–John Randolph, the Roanoke congressman who thought the war a fool's errand.
–Dolley Madison, sometimes called the nation's "first first lady" for her trend-setting role.
–Paul Jennings, body servant to President Madison, first White House memoirist and the slave who helped Dolley Madison save some of the executive mansion's iconic treasures—including Gilbert Stuart's portrait of the first president—from British troops bearing down on the capital Aug. 24, 1814.
Dolley Madison also saved silver, china and some of the White House's red-velvet draperies. The exhibit includes a red-velvet, empire-style gown that Dolley owned, perhaps made from the curtains she salvaged. Given the garment's fragility, this is probably the last time the dress will be put on display.
A copy of the only known photograph of Paul Jennings, taken in Washington after he secured his freedom, is one of the exhibit's other great treats.
That category includes a family portrait of Robert Ross of Bladensboro, the revered British army commander killed by an American sniper in Maryland in 1814 (Ross spared private property when his troops burned Washington); a giant, ego-driven portrait of British Adm. George Cockburn, advocate behind the sacking of Washington, who had the artist make the burning capital the painting's background; and a green-leather-bound book of James Madison's that Cockburn took from the president's room in the U.S. Capitol when his troops torched the building. (It wasn't returned to the U.S. until 1940, perhaps to encourage its wartime alliance with Britain, said Hart, the gallery's senior historian.)
Intriguing, too, are a romanticized, life-size statue of a dying Tecumseh, the Shawnee leader whose alliance with the British bedeviled the Americans; a large-scale model of the USS Constitution, kept by President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office; and the U.S. copy of the Treaty of Ghent, the document that ended the war, still bearing diplomats' signatures and wax seals.
Ironically, the war's final battle—Andrew Jackson's triumph at New Orleans in early 1815—came two weeks after negotiators inked their Christmas Eve peace pact.
The exhibit's last gallery holds a special War of 1812 video shot by History, the cable-TV channel that underwrote the show with TD Bank Group, and three final flourishes:
A 1828 copy of Noah Webster's first dictionary, created to encourage nationalism and replace British spellings with Americanized ones.
A pamphlet bearing the first mention of Uncle Sam, the figure who evolved from the initials "U.S.," stamped on barrels of meat supplied to the U.S. Army during the war by Samuel Wilson of Troy, N.Y.
A beaver pelt, a nod to early American millionaire John Jacob Astor, who made his fortune in the fur trade and Manhattan real estate. (In 1814, he lobbied for a bill to permit only U.S. citizens to trap fur-bearers on American soil.)
Curators Hart and Penman have written a beautifully illustrated catalog, co-published by Rowman & Littlefield and the Smithsonian Press, for the show.
"1812: A Nation Emerges" is full of not just great art, but great stories. You'll leave wanting to know more.
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Oct 10
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ACEEDSTORM says:
Lets face it.Bikers are second class citizens in the UK & this sentance is totaly consistant with what is normally handed out to idiot drivers who maim/kill us.I'm glad the lads bike was legal,they would have thrown the book at him & probaly twisted it into being his fault.Also,what has the fact he was wearing protective gear/hi-viz clothing got to do with it,it isn't law to dress like a stormtrooper & be seen from outer space to ride a bike in this crappy country or does the fact you aren't make an accident your fault now?
Dec 10
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preunit says:
"although they may have been considering his family I suppose"
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Jul 11
Posts: 2
DonkeyBoy says:
@preunit, did you even red the article? 'The fact that this rider did not die should not justify the leniency of the driver's sentence.' The kid didn't die you peanut!
My apology, you're indeed correct, I read "leaving 17-year-old Michael Daniels for dead" and the red mist fell.
Saying that, this is one in a long line of "questionable" sentences when bikes are involved.
This cnut should never drive again and do time!.
Mar 09
Posts: 52
oily1984 says:
Absolutely shocking if not surprising. A few years back I was side swiped by a motorist pulling out after I'd alerted her to my presence and reduced speed. Then she drove into the side of me breaking my ankle and whilst lay down in an ambulance some jumped up prick of a policeman tried to insinuate it was somehow my fault.
But it all worked out as I obtained his PC number from his shoulder boards filed an official complaint and the blame was 100% on the other driver. Although I still feel she should of atleast been charged with driving without due care and attention.
Feb 10
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JiggyJ says:
A similar thing happened to me, although not so serious, thankfully. 4 or 5 houses from home, neighbour pulled out of a side street into my path, I tried to stop on a sixpence, was thrown off and broke my shoulder blade and elbow on the road (missed the car) and wrote off my bike due to it slapping onto the tarmac (bikes dont roll so well sideways on, do they?...). The driver stood over me and said you were speeding mate, then walked off telling neighbours how careful a driver he was... Oh, and he moved his car, parking it away from the scene of the accident. When the police came the made sure I was ok (thank you), pushed my bike to my house, took a staement and then proceeded to tell me "that was a learning curve, mate" as I was loaded into the ambulance car. No measurements, no breathalyser.... It took 2 1/2 years to resolve with my solicitors very strongly insisting that I accept 10% of the blame because the police officer was going to stand up in court and say I was riding too fast for the conditions... (on a 30mph road 4 or 5 housed from home??? yeah, very likely). My solicitor felt that the judge would go against me as the courts are "very anti biker...." That was in 2007... some things never change :(
Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery to Mr. Daniels
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specialsparky says:
... un-f**king believable!!! To the innocent victim Michael Daniels I wish you a full and speedy recovery... and to the witness who followed this serial-offending scumbag drunk and stopped him, took his keys and called the police, I just wanted to say that it is people like you that restore my faith in human nature. Thank you for doing what you did.
... and as for the so-called 'Justice system'... you are beneath contempt... nothing more, nothing less
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KCollins1304 wrote:The Cow wrote:Well I know a lot of the cafe "experts" think my backwards approach to winning fantasy baseball doesn't work. I would relish the opportunity to have them eat crow. Though I don't feel the need since I win virtually every league I enter and when I lose I am top 3. So I don't think anybody in this cafe is more of an expert than THE COW. People hate being in leagues with me, why? Because people hate to lose. Generally people are afraid of THE COW! FEAR THE MOO!! 2 leagues last year, 2 titles, ho-hum. I don't think there is such a thing as an "expert" league without THE COW. If you choose me you will get an owner that does not conform to ESPN or even the Cafe's rankings. I will make some picks and you will laugh, but at the end of the year you will realize THE POWER OF THE MOO DYNASTY!
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Unfortunately the one thing that most pools in Canberra have in common, is that they are run by incompetent halfwits – although this is to be expected considering the low pay and low skillset associated with the job.
Dickson and the AIS are the ONLY two decent pools around. They have the best water quality and are the cleanest facilities by far. Not sure about Dickson's prices, but the AIS is much cheaper than CISAC, Phillip or Civic/Tuggerz, and it is by far the best pool of the lot. Only drawback is the limited availability of the pool and lack of a play area for children.
CISAC is unfortunately a complete botch up of a pool, us belco residents waited a long time for this pool to open up, and it has been a complete disappointment. The bottom of the 25m/leisure pool has been lifting off the ground for years, and there are now splits of several metres in certain places, yet management don't want to fix this because it would mean lost revenue. Instead they've just thrown some rubber mats down on top. The water quality and cleanliness in both pools is terrible, there was a front page article in the canberra times a couple years back about this. There used to be a watergun which gave a child an electric shock, so it was removed, but the metal stump has been left behind because it would cost more money to remove this. There was a large fibreglass mushroom that fell on top of a child, so it was removed. The whirlpool has not worked in years, the showers often don't work, there are cockroaches everywhere, yet nothing is ever done. The tyrants that run the place are also not the friendliest bunch going round, so no point trying to suggest anything to them. Worst of all, a child died at this pool just a few months after it opened. Don't care what the reason was – lack of staff, design fault, overcrowding, this just shouldn't happen.
That guy who runs Phillip is also unpleasant to deal with – never going back there as long as he's around. It's otherwise quite a nice pool to swim at in summer, albeit with a hefty price tag.
Civic and Tuggeranong pools are run by the same company of clowns. Don't go to civic pool in summer unless you want filthy changerooms, dirty water, and a fair chance of your wallet and keys being stolen. Also expect abuse from the adolescents if you or young children want to use the dive pool, while the staff stand around chatting to one another.
I am a bit slow commenting but wanted to check a couple of things first.
I am Secretary of a club that has 4 regular weekly sessions booked at one of these pools.
We only found out about the survey on here!
OK to be fair TAMS would not know which clubs have bookings or the contact details for those clubs with out a lot of mucking around.
Anyway I will now pass the link onto our members and suggest they make their rather strong negative feelings known.
Pity CISAC is not one of these. The issues with that pool have already been well covered. Suffice to say the people that know swimming and pools were not consulted when it was built. A couple I know saw the kids pool/whirlpool and immediately commented that it was an accident waiting to happen. Sure enough a child unfortunately died in that pool shortly after.
Snow has his people busily building a little aquatic centre at Majura Park, outside Brand Depot. They've been digging holes and pouring concrete since before Xmas. Looks like 2 pools 25m in length, very close to each other, and I heard they were for teaching kids to swim. So that will be another option I guess.
Being a keen daily swimmer, I have tried all the pools in Canberra since arriving here in December 1991. Manuka Pool is the best and very good value when you consider it has at least 3 lanes open at any one time for serious lap swimmers, wonderful eclectic music playing through speakers, beautifully kept grounds and picnic facilities, children's pool and play area and clean spacious change-rooms. The best part is that it is run by a family who know how to manage pools and people. If only it could be open all year round – my life would be complete! Alas, I have to tolerate the too warm Erindale pool or the Tuggeranong fiasco during winter.