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Seconded, was there last weekend and it was spot on.

Yeah, I think WoW was moving away from the 40 man raid grind around when I jacked it. Great fun, but impossible to maintain with any kind of life balance. You'll have the nippers playing yet, that's almost a guild in itself

Yeah Shill. Cor you jammy slag. I didn't think any non usa folks got in?

I got a resurrection thing a little while ago, and logged in on one of my old chars. Was amazed that the guild I started in the original open beta was still there and people I used to raid with said 'hi' when I logged on. Weird Not interested in playing more wow. Enjoying a bit of Diablo 3 and gagging for a burn on Hearthstone.

Heh, that's ace the ends worth hanging around for too, nice one.

I'm not an expert on road works mat, but I think accomodating resident access is different from keeping a lane of the main road fully open. Still, be glad when it's done either way, Peel Roads been shite for as long as I can remember. It's against the law to ride on the pavement, a cyclist isn't being inconsiderate, he's obeying the law. Yes, you can push your bike on the pavement. Baffled why you say you're scared of riding on the road in one post, then slag cyclists for riding defensively in another. It's not about being selfish, it's about being safe.

Like it or not, the pavement is for pedestrians, the road is for vehicles. You're on a bike, you're a vehicle. That you don't think that way says a lot about why cycling is considered dangerous. Agree with Ans too, accommodating the half open road must slow the process down. Just close it, deal with the divert for a shorter time and get it over with.

I could understand that if it meant everyone working on the same bit of road, but you could do two parts of the same road at the same time surely?

I know it's intimidating, but if you ride correctly it's not as dangerous as you think, and the pavement is often more dangerous. Hopping up and down curbs into traffic, avoiding pedestrians, cars coming from driveways makes for all sorts of obstacles. That peel road bit, just stand your ground, the cars will have to wait.

Only seen this recently. Didn't go in with any expectations, but loved it, thought provoking, interesting and beautiful. Wife didn't like it at all, and didn't understand my enthusiasm, poop.

The premise is quite similar to Miss Potter, a movie that cost a similar amount and went on to make money. The track record is there. It's a notoriously difficult thing to call pre-production. Look at 'The Help', a film about the lives of black maids, who'd back that? Cost about what we're talking here but grossed $200 mil. No shortage of flops in all genres. Is there another example of a £15m movie that's got a proven track record over the last few years that you can think of? Just addressing the room

Come on now, the films been backed by pinewood which will presumably include money from the development fund, so part of that backing agreement is that it'll be filmed in Pinewood studios and in the IOM. Given the 10-15m budget, it would seem likely that it will attract 'UK' A-List cast if not a big hollywood name. That's not exactly a guess now is it? Dead certs don't need to hunt for funding though, do they? Dead certs also do not cost £10m. Avatar, Titanic, Harry Potter, Lord of the rings, dead certs but they cost over $1b. Even a modest budget blockbuster like Bond costs upwards of $160m. PS, where's that big share price drop I was slagged off for saying wouldn't happen?

Yeah, they're different peoples gadgets. On all it's Isle of man, United Kingdom because they've all got the wimanx VPN on em.

For my family: Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Manx Telecom Contract: Working Samsung Galaxy Nexus on Manx Telecom PAYG: Not working Google N7 Nexus Wifi: Not working Logged out play.google.com website: Not working

It's this one, which has had a few false starts. Sounds very like 'Miss Potter', if that floats your boat. http://enchantedserenityperiodfilms.blogspot.com/2010/06/goodbye-christopher-robin-2011.html There's Our Robot Overlords filming here in June: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2145829/

Is there a need to be so aggressive? I wouldn't say -1.8% was a 'big drop', particularly when we're in at 2.50. It's nothing like Gold's -20% in six months eh?

So where's the big drop?

I'm not pro the investment at all. I personally think the media development fund would have been better spent on local investments and the reserves that were invested in pinewood kept with the existing fund managers who seem to be doing a good job. I think A failed slew of film investments could have seen the remaining funds channeled towards the future, new media, app devs, animators, etc. I'm pro the british film industry though, I like british film vs hollywood and regret the loss of uk funding. I'm also anti bollocks, and there's a fair bit of it on here

Unlikely with less than 1% free float shares. Pinewood said that if the local application failed that they'd appeal to the government, so the process isn't over yet.

Just installed the BBC Media Player app using my galaxy nexus on manx telecom just fine. Went to the nw 200 site on the bbc and the browser plays the video perfectly. Doesn't work in Chrome though, had to use the android stock browser, but your post isn't entirely correct.

Newsnight, I think I'm up on the facts thanks. Quite hard, as you don't have the same sentiment for the bulk remainder of the reserves. Do you know who's managing them, what their track record is? What the performance has been like?

But why's that appropriate for this topic? I could understand if you were saying something like 10% of reserves should be spent on economic development, but to object specifically to the Pinewood thing seems odd.

I don't see how this one or two staff locally vs employing Pinewood makes a difference. It's a minimal loss vs the gain of a whole specialised company vs a little office of dabblers. I'm not sure about much of this deal, but I think if you are committed to investing in films, Pinewood as a manager is a sound horse to back vs Cinemanx.

Let me state my point more simply: This is redirected reserve funds. Those reserve funds weren't invested in local companies or infrastructure. Why should they be now (in the context of an argument about filums).