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The powerful but flawed film Child 44, set in early 1950s' Russia, is an adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Tom Rob Smith, whose central theme is taken from the true story of the serial child murderer Andrei Chikatilo. Directed by Daniel Espinosa, whose previous films include Safe House and Easy Money, Child 44 starts with a boy escaping from an orphanage and joining the army.

Rob Smith is a primary school teacher and the curator of the Literacy Shed. He is a school librarian's dream; he reads, he enjoys books, he shares that joy with others. and what's more he is organised. He started the Web site and blog and it has grown considerably since I was first aware of it, and continues to expand. The Literacy Shed is a wealth of visual resources. Rob makes the effort to trawl YouTube, Vimeo and other sites looking for suitable resources to use in the sheds. The sheds are broadly thematic but even searching for a particular theme, you can't help but get sidetracked by all the useful resources on the site.

iDevices (iPads, iPod Touches, and iPhones) do not actually perform true multi-tasking. But didn't Steve Jobs tell me they did? In some cases, yes they do. All Apple apps for example can run constantly at any time. However, for the average developer there is no way to enable an application to always be on and always watching your device. Only a single non-Apple application can be active at any given moment. The rest of them are frozen like a Star Wars DVD when you hit the pause button on your DVD player. There are a few exceptions to this rule but none that allows an application to watch what another one is doing. Most are offering you the perception of control without actually giving it to you. The reason is these management tools are an extension of Microsoft's ActiveSync for Windows XP or Windows Mobile Device Center for Vista and Window 7; and on the Apple side, they are similar to the iPhone Configuration Utility. They enable such features as remote wipe and enforce a password on the device. All are very useful tools. Some even developed their own sandbox where you can surf securely. However, once you close the sandbox, you are not protected. This is simply not good enough as you must protect the entire beachhead and not just a small sandbox.

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