The Idea of You

A 40-year-old single mum begins an unexpected romance with a 24-year-old boy band singer.



Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.



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The Idea of You  
A 40-year-old single mum begins an unexpected romance with a 24-year-old boy band singer. 
 
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes  
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike. 
 
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Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB.

News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB. News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?

Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Francesca Rudkin: The Idea of You and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Winter is a mere 2 weeks away and that means the coldest periods are very nigh indeed. Frost is –for some plant species– quite damaging.

Growthbasically stops; Invertebrates tend to hibernate, and our birds will go through a hungry phase, frantically looking for something to eat.

Traditionally, many gardeners find ways to protect their plants and their soils; covering these is often the best way to keep everything intact.

Starting with Compost heaps: Drape tarpaulin over the top and keep it down with some bricks or heavy wood; alternatively: get some pea straw and put that over the compost (at least 10 cm thick). 

Pea straw. Photo / Supplied

If you are in an area where frosts can be too much for, say, fruit trees such as citrus, then Mulching the root zone might be a good preventative action: Citrus are “surface-rooting” and hence do not like a low temperature, so it pays to keep them mulched. Bark, Compost, Chippered branches, Organic matter is useful; anything that suppresses the cold nights! 

Mulch for winter. Photo/ Supplied

Lemons and other citrus plants are currently developing fruits. Frost Cloth is often a good preventative cover that will make a few degrees difference. There’s even a “Liquid Frost cloth” that will protect plants up to a -3-degree frost. Spray this Liquid VaporGuard over the sensitive plants well before the evening, so that the wax can set.

In really bad frosts (more than –3 degrees) it pays to drape some material frost cloth over the shrub or tree as well.  Extra Protection!

Late frost. Photo / Supplied

Another way to protect your plants is by positioning them under an existing tree that keeps its leaves in winter. In our Port Hills Garden we are lucky to get very few frosts in winter – on a clear frosty night, the cold air will usually tumble down the hill, taking that damaging stuff away.

But if we are expecting a mean frosty night we simply position the sensitive, potted plants under the Eucalyptus trees.

Frost cloth under a tree. Photo / Supplied

Planting sensitive plants under a good, covering tree will also help to make enough difference to keep them happy in winter.

Dendrobium speciosum care in winter. Photo / Supplied

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Winter is a mere 2 weeks away and that means the coldest periods are very nigh indeed. Frost is –for some plant species– quite damaging. 
Growth basically stops; Invertebrates tend to hibernate, and our birds will go through a hungry phase, frantically looking for something to eat. 
Traditionally, many gardeners find ways to protect their plants and their soils; covering these is often the best way to keep everything intact. 
Starting with Compost heaps: Drape tarpaulin over the top and keep it down with some bricks or heavy wood; alternatively: get some pea straw and put that over the compost (at least 10 cm thick).  
Pea straw. Photo / Supplied 
If you are in an area where frosts can be too much for, say, fruit trees such as citrus, then Mulching the root zone might be a good preventative action: Citrus are “surface-rooting” and hence do not like a low temperature, so it pays to keep them mulched. Bark, Compost, Chippered branches, Organic matter is useful; anything that suppresses the cold nights!  
Mulch for winter. Photo/ Supplied 
Lemons and other citrus plants are currently developing fruits. Frost Cloth is often a good preventative cover that will make a few degrees difference. There’s even a “Liquid Frost cloth” that will protect plants up to a -3-degree frost. Spray this Liquid VaporGuard over the sensitive plants well before the evening, so that the wax can set. 
In really bad frosts (more than –3 degrees) it pays to drape some material frost cloth over the shrub or tree as well.  Extra Protection! 
Late frost. Photo / Supplied 
Another way to protect your plants is by positioning them under an existing tree that keeps its leaves in winter. In our Port Hills Garden we are lucky to get very few frosts in winter – on a clear frosty night, the cold air will usually tumble down the hill, taking that damaging stuff away. 
But if we are expecting a mean frosty night we simply position the sensitive, potted plants under the Eucalyptus trees. 
Frost cloth under a tree. Photo / Supplied 
Planting sensitive plants under a good, covering tree will also help to make enough difference to keep them happy in winter. 
Dendrobium speciosum care in winter. Photo / Supplied 
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Covering and protecting your garden from frost

Apple's big software developer conference is next week - what will they be announcing?

Lot's of AI features... Surprise! Apple is set to unveil its AI strategy which is going to be more focused around automating tasks and summarizing information, rather than image and video generation. For example, the upgraded Mail app will use AI to sort emails in your inbox, there will be a way to 'catch up' on everything that's happened on while you've been away from your device, voice messages will be transcribed for quick scanning, and Siri will be able to complete more 'app-level' tasks like reply to a specific email or delete it, edit a photo, or summarize a news article.

Apple has played a big security card for the past few years so just how much personal data it lets leave your device will be interesting... and if it does, how it sells the security of its cloud processing.

Outside of AI:

Apple's password manager called "keychain" has been hidden away in the settings for years, but it's going to be made into its own app.
The calculator is coming to iPad!
Your iPhone home screen will be more customizable than ever before, including arranging app icons in something other than a rigid grid, and being able to change the colour of the icons.
And you'll be able to schedule an iMessage to be sent in the future. 


Microsoft has had to pull back on some of its new AI features because of security concerns 

The new Copilot Plus PCs come with a feature called "Recall", which effectively takes screenshots of what you're doing and stores them so you can go back to check what that price was for that item or recover a sentence from an email you decided you preferred. The feature was going to be turned on by default, which Microsoft has now reversed. There are also concerns the way it stores the images and the associated metadata was unencrypted, so bad actors could have installed ransomware and had full access to the Recall data.

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Apple's big software developer conference is next week - what will they be announcing? 
Lot's of AI features... Surprise! Apple is set to unveil its AI strategy which is going to be more focused around automating tasks and summarizing information, rather than image and video generation. For example, the upgraded Mail app will use AI to sort emails in your inbox, there will be a way to 'catch up' on everything that's happened on while you've been away from your device, voice messages will be transcribed for quick scanning, and Siri will be able to complete more 'app-level' tasks like reply to a specific email or delete it, edit a photo, or summarize a news article. 
Apple has played a big security card for the past few years so just how much personal data it lets leave your device will be interesting... and if it does, how it sells the security of its cloud processing.  
Outside of AI: 
Apple's password manager called "keychain" has been hidden away in the settings for years, but it's going to be made into its own app. The calculator is coming to iPad! Your iPhone home screen will be more customizable than ever before, including arranging app icons in something other than a rigid grid, and being able to change the colour of the icons. And you'll be able to schedule an iMessage to be sent in the future. 
  Microsoft has had to pull back on some of its new AI features because of security concerns 
The new Copilot Plus PCs come with a feature called "Recall", which effectively takes screenshots of what you're doing and stores them so you can go back to check what that price was for that item or recover a sentence from an email you decided you preferred. The feature was going to be turned on by default, which Microsoft has now reversed. There are also concerns the way it stores the images and the associated metadata was unencrypted, so bad actors could have installed ransomware and had full access to the Recall data. 
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Paul Stenhouse: Apple's next software developer conference and Microsoft pulling back on some AI features due to safety concerns

Bodies are complex, and although most people have a passing familiarity with basic bodily functions and facts, there’s plenty that most people don't know.

Kevin Milne finally got around to doing a CPR course last week and realised that there’s an unsettling amount of information about cardiac arrests that he wasn’t aware of.

He joined Jack Tame to share a few facts he learned.

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Bodies are complex, and although most people have a passing familiarity with basic bodily functions and facts, there’s plenty that most people don't know. 
Kevin Milne finally got around to doing a CPR course last week and realised that there’s an unsettling amount of information about cardiac arrests that he wasn’t aware of. 
He joined Jack Tame to share a few facts he learned. 
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Francesca Rudkin: The Idea of You and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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