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Review: 'Sightseers' Sticks an Accidental Bonnie & Clyde in an RV with Dark and Hilarious Results
Fantastic Fest By Rob Hunter on May 10, 2013 | Comments (3)Editors' note: Our Sightseers review originally ran during last year's Fantastic Fest, but we're re-posting it as the film gets a limited theatrical release starting today. The problem with making a truly fantastic film is that sooner or later you have to follow it up with a new movie. If it was your first then rumors will swirl about a sophomore slump, and if it's your second then people will wonder if you can keep delivering the goods. Ben Wheatley's last film was the dark, brutal and highly acclaimed Kill List, and that in turn was a giant leap up from his debut, Down Terrace. Wheatley's new movie is more of a jump sideways than up, but that's actually even more impressive. Sightseers maintains the quality and effectiveness of Kill List even as it surprises with a constant stream of laugh out loud hilarity. Where his earlier movies featured darkly comic moments, this one is a flat out comedy… with gory murders. Has there ever been a love story as great as the one between Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram)? The answer is a resounding yes, but don't tell that to these two sad-sack lovebirds. Tina is still reeling from the accidental death of her dog Poppy, but when her new beau Chris suggests the two of them take an RV trip across the English countryside she ignores her flatmate's warnings and hits the road. It doesn't hurt that her flatmate is her mother who constantly reminds Tina […]
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Movie Reviews By Andrew Robinson on September 15, 2012 | Be the First To CommentBen Wheatley's Sightseers is the ultimate dark comedy. It puts the most audacious visuals in front of you and dares you not to laugh at them. In the film, Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) take a week out caravanning across the English country-side. Little does she know, he's a murdering psychopath with a short temper. Eventually, the two are traveling from one landmark to another killing anyone who pisses them off. Earlier this year, Bobcat Goldthwait similar God Bless America received a lukewarm response from critics. This feels like a less overbearing version of that film. While most instances of violence come from things that aggravate our protagonists, the murder spree doesn't come out of some sense of entitlement. Chris and Tina kill just because they prefer that person dead, for their own gratification and to better enjoy their holiday. It's not to improve the world around them. The film derives some great comedic moments from the bookends holding scenes together. Chris kills a man for telling him and Tina to clean up a piece of excrement, which is followed by them asking themselves, "Isn't the country lovely?" The film revels in how easily Tina and Chris can justify their murders and brush them off as a part of their holiday.
'Sightseers' Trailer Is Full of Laughs, Love, and Casual Murder
Movie News By Nathan Adams on August 28, 2012 | Comments (1)Given that it's British and it's about two people taking a laugh-filled trip through the countryside, the initial instinct is to compare Sightseers to Michael Winterbottom's 2010 release, The Trip. Or maybe given the inclusion of a cute little dog that gets in on all the action, Michel Hazanavicius' Oscar winner from last year, The Artist. But, about halfway through its new trailer, when all of the casual murdering starts, it becomes clear pretty quick that comparing Sightseers to anything else just won't do. For those who've seen its director Ben Wheatley's previous film, the shocking and grizzly Kill List, that probably comes as no surprise. If Wheatley proved anything there it was that he's a storyteller who can keep an audience on their toes, and a visual artist who isn't afraid of graphic depictions of murderous acts. Trying to pin his films down is an exercise in futility, you might as well just go along for the ride and try not to get any on you.
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In Development By Scott Beggs on August 15, 2011 | Be the First To CommentHappen to remember the SXSW Midnight film that Rob called "a blood-drenched trip down the rabbit hole"? Hopefully you added it to that list you keep of smaller films to look out because there's good news on the horizon. IFC Midnight is looking to give Kill List a release sometime in the near future, and its director Ben Wheatley already has his next project lined up. According to The Playlist, Wheatley will be joined by executive producer Edgar Wright to create Sightseers – a dark comedy that focuses on two road-tripping psychos. Those psychos will be played by the screenwriters Alice Lowe and Steve Oram who are no strangers to the British comedy world or the mind of Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge. In fact, Lowe appeared in Hot Fuzz as Tina, one of the residents of the sleepy little hamlet of Sanford, and Oram was on the best-named television show of all time: Tittybangbang. The best part about this not-yet-publicly-defined project is all the comedic talent involved. It sounds like a violent meeting between the happy clown and the one angry clown who wields a blunt instrument and carries a lot of childhood trauma with him. Wheatley has proven himself unyielding in his ability to make audiences delightfully uncomfortable, and the rest of the pedigree here is strictly for laughs. As such, it's exciting to see what twisted baby might come from this partnership.
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With a new track layout awaiting the drivers at Silverstone this weekend, there's been plenty of homework for all the teams to do, as Renault explain. The circuit is now 745 metres longer and lap times will be around the 90-second mark, some 10 seconds slower than last year. Over the past few months, the team's engineers have carried out hundreds of simulations to get to grips with the challenge ahead.
In fact, simulation work has become an essential tool for any Formula One team, even when preparing for circuits we've been racing on for years. Using complex computer models, it allows the engineers to evaluate set-up options before arriving at the circuit in order to maximise the track time available during free practice.
"We received the circuit map showing the new Silverstone layout about three months ago," explains Nick Chester, Renault's head of performance systems. "The first step was to digitise the map and add a driving line to the circuit, which we obviously had to estimate for the new part of the track. Then we started evaluating different settings on the virtual car, changing parameters such as wing levels, suspension settings and gear ratios to try and work out a good base set-up for the start of the weekend."
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Of course the motivation behind the Silverstone facelift was to encourage overtaking and improve the show. So, can the simulations tell us whether the new arena section has hit the sweet spot?
"On paper it certainly looks like there could be a couple of overtaking opportunities," confirms Permane. "Turn 16 is a good opportunity because there is a long drag from the low-speed Turn 14, and Turn 15 will be taken easily flat out. Turn 13 is also a possibility for overtaking, but it will depend how closely the cars can follow each other through Turn 11 because Turn 12 will be another flat-out corner. We expect Turn 11 to be flat out on low fuel, but far more challenging with a heavy car."
The simulation work carried out by the team has also shown up the extra demands on the brakes compared to 2009. Although the percentage of the lap spent braking has reduced by 0.3 percent, the energy going through the braking system will be 2.3kW greater on the new layout with the big stops into Turns 13 and 16.
Yet, no matter how accurate your simulations, there are some things they simply can't predict. Variables such as grip levels, bumps in the road and kerb characteristics cannot be known until the cars take to the track, so the simulations rely on average values. Likewise, the finer details set-up comes down to driver feel and there's no computer programme in the world that even comes close to a Formula One driver's brain. So while simulation tools set the teams on the right path, the real work will begin when practice starts on Friday morning.

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(Read article summary)The ash cloud from the June 4 eruption of a Chilean volcano is drifting over Australia for a second time, grounding flights and further choking tourism and airline industries that are already suffering.
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An ash cloud from the June 4 eruption of Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex is making a second lap around the globe, crossing Australian airspace today after disrupting travel to and from Australia and New Zealand for six days last week.
Flights are grounded because the ash is capable of damaging the airplanes' engines.
Although the country's tourism industry has declined to give a speculative figure for the losses, an industry group told Xinhua that Australia's tourism industry is losing at least 10.5 million US dollars a day as a result of the grounded flights.
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I introduced Loongson 2E/2F general purpose RISC CPU in my blog. Loongson is based upon MIPS III ISA, developed by ICT and manufactured by ST microelectronics. I also mentioned HiSand in Guangzhou China, who uses Loongson core to roll out the SoC, HS3210, for consumer and industrial applications. HS3210 has comparable performance of popular ARM9, with relatively lower price. According to their website, the 1K order costs 5.5USD/pcs only. They accept small orders less than 49 pieces as well. It is the commercial information. Let us check out the specification.
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- Loongson, general purpose MIPS III ISA
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- Fully pipelined multiplier module
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Loongson Zhijian is HiSand's distributor, offering a low-cost kit for Hi3210i. The DEV3210 kit contains a Hi3210 board, JTAG interface, DVD and related accessories. The price is only 88USD. However, you can not expect too much support from the distributors. This kit is a good board for Linux fans, MIPS processor evaluation and product prototype. Meanwhile, Loongson Zhijian offers a Hi3210 core board, which contains all necessary resources on a miniature PCB. You can plug this board into a main board to build a complete system.
Besides on-chip resources, the DEV3210 also installed the following devices on board:
- ROM: 2MB NOR Flash
- RAM: 64MB SDRAM 100MHz
- DOC: 256MB NAND Flash (up to 2GB)
- USB: Host/Slave USB 1.1
- SD: SD Card over SPI bus
- JTAG: bootloader download
- WiFi: SDIO WiFi, optional
- AV/TV: via VIA VT1622 video encoder
- LAN, RS232, CAN bus, Audio, VGA, expansion bus socket
- LCD touch panel, optional
- Keypad, optional
- IrDA, optional
- Dimension: 135x117mm
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Linux is the preferred software platform for MIPS. You may use Windows CE or Android for MIPS, but you have to handle many problems during porting them onto Loongson SoC. In the DVD comes with DEV3210 board, you can find all necessary documents, Linux BSP, bootloader, device drivers, schematics, user manuals... You can also find some interesting demo software packages for the reference designs. You may contact the suppliers to get the source for the reference designs. Up to now, HiSand offers following reference designs for OEMs.
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I compared Hi3210i with popular ARM920 chips (Samsung S2410/2440). The performance and price are comparable. However, Hi3210 has no native USB and SDIO interface. The final design has to interface the external USB controller to its HPI interface. The SD card has to be interfaced to the SPI master, which is much slower than native SDIO socket. Maybe HiSand can integrate them in the next version? The USB bus and SDIO interface are so popular. Hi3210 can support both LCD and VGA output, makes it suitable for embedded system involving human interaction.
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Document Type Doctoral Thesis Author Pienaar, Jason URN etd-02012006-120955 Document Title Evolution of alternative mating tactics and sex ratios in the southern African Otiteselline fig wasps Degree PhD (Genetics) Department Genetics Supervisor
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Date 2004-12-02 Availability restricted Abstract This thesis considers the evolution of alternative reproductive tactics and sex allocation in the non-pollinating Otitesella fig wasp genus. Fig wasps provide an excellent model system for testing hypotheses of how selection could act on the above-mentioned traits as it is relatively easy to obtain accurate data for both sex and morph ratios.The male dimorphisms exhibited by many fig wasps are often seen as a genetic polymorphism. If this is the case, morph ratios in one generation depend on the mating success of the alternative morphs in previous generations. The match between the alternative morph proportions of Otitesella pseudoserrata and the proportion of females each morph can mate across generations however is shown to be too tight to be produced by a genetic polymorphism mechanism.
Rather, morph ratio data from three Otitesella species are in strong quantitative agreement with a model that allows ovipositing females to determine both the sex and male morph of their offspring, based on an assessment of arrival order at a fig and the average mating population densities. Early arrivals were predicted to lay females or dispersing morphs and later arrivals females or a non-dispersing morph. Given that they lay one egg per fig, it can be seen that fitness pay-offs to non-dispersing males increases when more females utilize a fig as the number of mating opportunities within that fig increases.
Statistical analysis reveals that the non-dispersing males of a number of Otitesella species are themselves dimorphic. The smaller morph, a result of a condition-dependent decision, is shown to have a fitness advantage in the specific case where there are two larger males in the same fig. Hence the lengthy fights between the larger males give the smaller male an opportunity to sneak matings in the resulting confusion. A comparative analysis demonstrates that the specific body size at which males switch tactics is set by frequency dependent selection.
An interesting result of the maternal control model was the prediction of female biased sex ratios in certain situations. Further theoretical analysis reveals that when females have knowledge of their arrival orders, they are able to take advantage of an asymmetry in mating opportunities that arises because dispersing males are also able to mate within their natal figs. As they only laid one egg per fig, local mate competition does not occur and as such the mechanism, termed "mating opportunity distribution" (MOD), is a new addition to sex ratio theory. Sex ratio data from O. pseudoserrata conform to MOD predictions.
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A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure -- garbage removal, clean water, sewers -- necessary to support its rapidly expanding population, the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease no one knows how to cure. As the cholera outbreak takes hold, a physician and a local curate are spurred to action-and ultimately solve the most pressing medical riddle of their time.
In a triumph of multidisciplinary thinking, Johnson illuminates the intertwined histories and interconnectedness of the spread of disease, contagion theory, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, offering both a riveting history and a powerful explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.
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Hey all, Starting a new thread since I've moved from a contemporary design to a lagoon style. Here's the layout. Couple of minor changes from the below like we're going to outline all of the decking with flagstone Pool specs: Custom freeform pool 4" deck drain system run to street 8 return lines Hayward 2.7hp total hp Tristar max efficient pool pump Polaris Black Max 280 pool cleaner Wet edge pearl matrix or satin matrix 8 ton moss rock boulder waterfall with cave with 3 water locations on independent pump 1,100 sqft new decking, 1350 sqft stamped overlay over new and existing decking Dig scheduled for 8/3!! Woohoo! :) |
This post was edited by cbink on Mon, Jul 22, 13 at 12:22
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Since photobucket links don't appear to be working I'll do them one by one. Here are the before pics - plain yard! |
This post was edited by cbink on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 8:23
- Posted by zookeeper93 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 7:00
Lovely yard to build a pool. Your design is very lovely too. I have noticed in your design that you have a fire pit that has moved a few times. You may be experienced with fire pits and that may be what you desire, but if I might make a suggestion to you. We have built two fire pits, or Kiva's actually, at two vacation places. The pits are ground level and 5 foot diameter. The outer rings around the pits are built 8 feet from the pit itself. You can sit on the rings or have chairs in the ring. They both are wood burning. We love sitting by the Kiva but the one drawback is the smoke. Unless you are going with fire glass and propane/butane, you may not use it as much, and you wont sit close to it, with the smoke a wood burning fire pit will produce. When we built our pool, we had a fire pit also. Due to costs at the time, we held off on building that in order to do other things. That said, we still want something and I think we have found it by going with an outdoor fireplace with a low hearth. Our inlaws bought a little home with one (wood burning) and it is wonderful in winter time to sit out by the fireplace and not worry with the smoke, as it goes up the chimney. |
Thanks. Beautiful Kiva's! We're going with natural gas/fire glass for ease of starting and the lack of smoke. I love the romantic notion of burning wood on it but the gas/fire glass combination is a whole lot likely to get used more frequently. |
- Posted by lindahildreth (My Page) on Sun, Jul 28, 13 at 0:25
Congrats on the pool! Who did you end up using? |
We're going with Grand Isle Pools. He was the most enthusiastic about what we were trying to do and liked that we were trying to blend styles a bit. So far so good and getting excited that dig day is now less than a week away. |
So they came out this morning at 6.45 to mark out the pool! Unfortunately, I had to go to work before they finished so I'll try and see if I can get pictures tonight! Have a schedule moving forwards too now (at least for the first part). 8/3: dig scheduled along with rebar 8/5: finish rebar and do pool plumbing 8/6: shoot gunite! It's starting to get real! :) |
So they came out yesterday morning and marked it all out. The PB warned us it would probably look small and close to the house but that it really isn't a small pool and it will feel much bigger when its built than it looks drawn on the grass. We actually didn't feel it was small when it was drawn out - in fact both my wife and I hadn't realized how large our spa had become (a good thing). Anyway, it's hard to figure out the layout from the pics but here are a few anyway. |
This post was edited by cbink on Tue, Jul 30, 13 at 14:40
Here's an alternate view. The spa's in the foreground - you can just about make out the red line which goes into the pool, defining the spa's shape |
It's exciting isn't it? We had so much fun watching them dig. We had lawn chairs all lined up and watched all morning as they did it. |
I'm so happy they're digging on a Saturday! They started marking out the pool on Monday at 7am but unfortunately I had to go to work and had to wait all day before I could get back and see it. They're scheduled to gunite a week today so I may have to 'work from home' that day! :) We're going palm tree shopping today too! |
So no pool progress until Saturday but just went and got 5 palms for less than $130! Houston Garden Center has a 70% off sale all trees/palms at the moment. We bought 2 Pygmy date palms, 2 canary date palms and a rorbellini palm. We'll probably go back for some Sago palms at the weekend. Worth looking into for anyone in the Houston area. |
I have been waiting all month for this sale! I went the beginning of July for their 50% off sale and asked when the sale ended and they said the end of the month, then the 70% off sale starts. I am going after palms, oleanders, and hydrangeas. I am just waiting for them to finish grading the dirt around the pool before I go. |
Woohoo! Got an unexpected (pleasant) surprise this morning... Woke up to find a bobcat outside and my PB! Apparently they'd had to shift another dig due to extra tree removal work so they came to do my dig today instead! Dig was done in about 5.5 hours. Now the rebar crew is here! |
Pool and spa rebar is done although its hard to see as the light is fading. |
This post was edited by cbink on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 11:58
Thank you for the updates, this is very exciting and it not even my home!!! It looks like this Company does a great job! |
Thanks. The crews have all been great so far. The rebar crew worked until gone 9pm last night. Also the PB was on site nearly all day keeping an eye on progress. Finished rebar waiting on plumbing now. Still scheduled for gunite on Tuesday as they haven't been able to bring forward the schedule despite digging early. Very happy with it so far. Love the shape and the way it sits in the yard now that I can actually picture the pool in-situ. |
This post was edited by cbink on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 9:27
- Posted by memama_gayle (My Page) on Thu, Aug 1, 13 at 21:09
congratulations!! looking great! |
I have to say, the dig was one of my favorite things to watch! Congratulations, and I can't wait to see all the future progress. |
- Posted by peytonroad (My Page) on Sun, Aug 4, 13 at 15:33
I love love love this design! I am wishing for a pool. Looking forward to your posts, enjoy! |
Thanks all! We're very happy with it so far and think it's actually going to exceed our expectations when it's all done. Not much progress in last few days since although our dig was early, nothing else was able to be moved forwards so we're on our original schedule with the exception that gunite is now Wednesday not Tuesday. Plumbing is currently being done so I'll post pics of that when its done later today. |
This post was edited by cbink on Mon, Aug 5, 13 at 11:53
Gunite today! Was originally meant to be yesterday but it was pushed back a day over the weekend. Really excited! Looking forward to seeing the full shape of it today! |
So no real activity to occur today just a clean up of the trash from gunite/excavation and prep for trenching for the plumbing. Equipment arrives tomorrow and trenching/plumbing should start Fri/Sat although it's now looking like there will be rain this weekend so we'll see if that slows things down at all. |
Not much to post about. Equipment arrived Thursday, post gunite cleanup and backfilling of excavation entry by bobcat into the pool was done. Plumbing trenches have been started and will continue this week. Tile and coping scheduled for late this week. Stonework will probably take a week or so as there's quite a lot of stacked stone to be laid and 8t of rock on and around the grotto/waterfall. In the meantime, here's a video of roughly what the final product should look like: |
Here is a link that might be useful: Video (virtual) tour of Cbink's pool
- Posted by peytonroad (My Page) on Tue, Aug 13, 13 at 15:41
I am waiting....! |
I know, right?! Me too! Not much progress recently. They have been trenching for the plumbing and starting to do that and the equipment install. Tile arrived today and hopefully tile/coping will start in Thursday. Plumbing should be finished tomorrow. |
This post was edited by cbink on Fri, Aug 16, 13 at 10:19
Don't know what's up with the pictures - I'll go and put them all upright tonight (I think it's when I directly upload from my phone). Plumbing is complete, tile and coping due to start today and scheduled to take about a week: |
Tile is in. I don't have much - most of my waterline is stacked stone. Stacked stone & waterfall stone are likely to take most of this week... |
- Posted by windowsonwashington (My Page) on Tue, Aug 20, 13 at 20:34
Looking great!! |
Do you mind telling me what tile you chose? I am in the process of picking mine and I love the look of yours so far! Thank you! |
The tile is Vulcano from Noble Tile. We're really happy with it. It does have a lot of variation from tile to tile. Not a problem for us as we liked that but worth knowing in advance. We only have a small amount of tile though. Most of our waterline is stacked stone. |
This post was edited by cbink on Sat, Aug 31, 13 at 8:33
Grading and rebar done for decking. Concrete is being poured today. Stamped overlay will be the very last thing to be done. |
- Posted by peytonroad (My Page) on Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 17:26
Hello!!!! I haven't been here in a while- love the progress! Have you considered using that stackstone on the lower levels of your deck columns? It is really a nice contrast! |
I like the idea but they're already quite large. I plan to add an outdoor kitchen in a L shape between 3 of the columns (I've had everything pre-wired/plumbed for this) and will face that with stacked stone I think. That's a project for next year though. I've spent enough this year!!! We also have flagstone on the front of the house and inside we have a flagstone fireplace which extends to the ceiling so the rock is all tying in quite nicely. |
Concrete for decking done. Stamped overlay will be the last thing to be done after the pool is plastered. |
- Posted by banana_fanna (My Page) on Wed, Sep 11, 13 at 11:03
Looks amazing! I love how you plopped the palm in the hole - I would've done the same thing just to get the 'feel'. LOL It's gonna be great. The stone coping around the pool and the side walk is really gorgeous. |
Thanks banana_fanna! Yeah, we couldn't resist 'trying out' the palms! Actually, those two are canary date palms so they won't be going in the planters as they may get too big but we just had to see how it would look! Haven't decided for sure on what we're putting in there. Probably a combination of Pygmy's and maybe a Queen or a windmill (these were the recommendations from my landscape guy). We're really happy with the pool - just want to be able to swim in it now. Thanks for the compliment on the stone coping - we ummed and ahhed about doing it but are really happy with how it's turned out. Can't wait to see what it will look like when the stamped overlay gets done on the rest of the deck. |
Your pool is looking great. Have been watching your build while getting ready for mine. Really like the stone looks on the entry steps. |
Thanks Corky! Slide was being worked on today. Will try and post pictures later on of that. |
- Posted by bossyvossy (My Page) on Sat, Sep 14, 13 at 17:40
very good looking. have you decided on plaster yet? if Y, what have you chosen and why? |
Bossyvossy - yes, we have decided on plaster. It is getting installed on Monday. We are going with WetEdge pearl matrix Chilean beach Tahoe. It's essentially the same as PebbleTec as best I understand. It was a tough choice for us. Our PB took us to see several pools with colors we were interested in. We really loved the Tahoe in person. It was between that and the Caribbean version for us. We were looking for a blue that didn't look too fake. I'll post pictures of it next week. Our slide was finished today! :) Very happy! EDIT: rotated picture. Any idea why direct uploads from an iPhone are always upside down on a pc but look fine on the iPhone?! |
This post was edited by cbink on Mon, Sep 16, 13 at 7:40
So the pool's not finished yet but the fire pit has already had some use. Really glad we decided to get one! Had s'mores on it tonight!! |
This post was edited by cbink on Mon, Sep 16, 13 at 7:41
Wet Edge Pearl Matrix Chilean Beach Tahoe was installed today! All set for acid wash tomorrow, then we start filling!! |
This post was edited by cbink on Tue, Sep 17, 13 at 20:57
Wow...that looks awesome! So exciting! Love all your choices....just beautiful! |
Thanks jenspence! We're very excited to see the color 'pop' after acid wash tomorrow and then finally get some water in this thing!!! :) We love the pool so far, so can't wait for it to be full! |
This post was edited by cbink on Tue, Sep 17, 13 at 22:06
So exciting! Looks awesome! |
- Posted by banana_fanna (My Page) on Tue, Oct 1, 13 at 17:09
Beautiful. Doesn't it just make you HAPPY?? |
Thanks, and yes! Very happy! Decking is done, palms are in the planters and sod has been laid now!! |
This post was edited by cbink on Wed, Oct 2, 13 at 11:26
Great setup. Beautiful lighting. really like your pool. The shape of the pool seems to fit your yard great. Now that the pool is filled, how deep is the water? |
- Posted by womanowned (My Page) on Fri, Oct 4, 13 at 20:49
Beautiful! |
Thank you to you both! We spent the afternoon in it today. The slide is a whole hoot of fun. It's actually pretty quick. Our 2 yr old boy adores it. He can't get enough of it. Ricky73 - it's about 7'3" (it is 7'6" at the drain but 7'3" is more representative of the deep end as a whole) |
I have a 2 year old and a 9 year old. Great idea for the safety fence. They will love your pool. I'm planning to build mine next year. You mind telling me how much did you spend on total price of the pool and landscape. |
The pool, deck and all equipment came out at about $87 ($2k of that was additional electrical outlets and pre plumbing for a future outdoor kitchen as well as guttering round the back of the house). The only landscaping I've done is the 3 palms which ran me about another $1,800. The sprinkler repair was another $2,250 and the safety fence about $1,500. The sod repair was included in the $85k pool price. As you see it in the pictures and all up I'm at about $93k. |
Thanks, I live in Richmond Tx. I was thinking to built the same pool with different stone and outdoor kitchen. Did they give you a quote on the kitchen. |
For what I was looking for; grill, side burner, fridge and sink it was about $10k. That's to build under my pre-existing covered patio. Since I decided to wait I think I'm going to add a separate bar area too. I had to draw the line at some point on the spending and the kitchen was the natural place to stop. I'll do it another year along with more extensive landscaping. |
Deck looks great! Really helps bring it all together. I started with stamped concrete and moved down to spray deck to cut out about $5K...trying to keep budget down is tough. |
Thanks - we're really happy with how it turned out. We did have a flip out moment where we couldn't decide on colors for the decking and nearly went with spray deck instead. I think spray deck is a classic & fairly timeless look - I'm sure you'll be really happy with it. Trying to keep budget down is definitely tough. My take on it was we're intending to live in this house for a decent amount of time (at least 10 years) and I didn't want to regret spending just a little more on things I couldn't change down the road. So the pool had the money put into it and the landscaping and outdoor kitchen will get done in the future since it's fairly easy to add them (especially since I've pre-plumbed the kitchen and designed my sprinkler system around future landscaping). |
- Posted by poolprincess (My Page) on Fri, Oct 11, 13 at 10:01
Looks great! Congrats!! |
- Posted by bossyvossy (My Page) on Fri, Oct 11, 13 at 20:23
fantabulous, truly fantabulous |
- Posted by peytonroad (My Page) on Sun, Oct 13, 13 at 8:54
thank you for sharing, it looks gorgeous with the brick. Thanks for the $number too, helps with my eventual plan some day.......far.....far......away. |
Thanks all! We've really been enjoying it. Peytonroad - Don't give up. This has been a few years in the waiting for us. |
Summer can't get here fast enough. I am so tired of the cold weather we have had in S.E. Texas this year. |
Wow... Such a beautiful pool!!! We live in west Houston, and are about to choose a builder... How did you like your pool builder? Your entire timeline of photos has been so helpfull!! |
Sbutos624 - Thank you! We were very happy with our pool builder. We used Grand Isle Pools and only have very positive things to say about the builder and the whole experience and would happily recommend them to others. |
- Posted by banana_fanna (My Page) on Thu, Jan 23, 14 at 19:07
It's just beautiful. One of my favorite elements are the palms. Something about palm fronds in a breeze by the pool.... |
- Posted by womanowned (My Page) on Sat, Feb 8, 14 at 14:57
Great pool, cbink! May I ask how the gunite slide feels going down it? Is it rough on the skin or have any issues that you have noticed |
Thanks All! Womaowned - We're very happy with the slide - It's plenty slick and we've not noticed issues with roughness. The guys that did it (MMG) did tell me that when it starts to not be as slick that it will need refinishing. |
Your new build looks absolutely beautiful. I recently did a full remodel on my older pool. May I ask where you got your palms. My three palms two of which are over 25 ft tall recently were diagnosed with Texas Phoenix Palm Decline and are dead or dying. I will have to replace them in the coming year or so. So I'm looking for something which may be resistant to this disease. |
Thanks Elizablue. I got the palms from Beyond Paradise. They have a location in Cypress and one in Katy. They all are doing great and the triple Pygmy survived the cold winter which we feared it may not (I was in San Antonio when we got freezing rain that wasn't predicted so I didn't get to wrap it in a planket). The service and advice there was great too. Hope you find something you like. |
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Moffat County School District releases draft options for budget cuts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Moffat County School District superintendent Joe Petrone never wanted to have to explain the two sheets of paper that he passed out to School District Accountability Committee members Thursday night.
"It's gruesome," Petrone said, as he handed out a draft of potential cuts ranging from $1.8 million to $2.8 million from the district's $20 million budget.
Because of reductions in state funding, the Moffat County School District is facing a nearly $2 million deficit for the 2010-11 school year and beyond.
"It is very difficult to put all of the options on a two-dimensional piece of paper," district finance director Mark Rydberg said. "This is a range of options to create dialogue. There's going to be give and take. We want to create an understanding, and this is just the first push."
School district administrators presented the first draft of potential budget reductions to teachers, followed by releasing it to the community via SDAC, a committee of parents, on Thursday night.
Discussions about the first draft will be the highlight of upcoming Parent Advisory Committee meetings for each school, which take place the first two weeks of each month.
The state has told districts to expect and budget for a 10-percent decrease in funding. Still, the exact number of cuts Moffat County will have to implement is ambiguous.
"Could it be 5 percent?" Rydberg said. "Yes. Could it be 8 percent? Yes. Could it be 10, 12 or 15 percent? Yes."
Petrone agreed that the district's financial future was uncertain, but it was important to begin planning and presenting as many options as possible.
"I know that uncertainty, that living with ambiguity, is difficult for most of us," Petrone said. "We want people to understand we're moving as fast as we can."
The options for budget reductions include several smaller amounts of savings, like furlough days or a 5-percent salary decrease for the assistant superintendent, which could save anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000. A similar reduction is proposed for the finance director, which could save $1,000 to $4,500.
Also, reducing central office staff paid holidays by 11 days potentially could save $25,000.
Limiting the distance for out-of-town busing, reducing the school supply budget and eliminating teacher leader stipends also are up for discussion.
But there are larger chunks of money also on the table, according to the draft of potential cuts.
Closing the Moffat County High School swimming pool could save an estimated $75,000.
A restructuring of counselors and paraprofessionals could result in more than $400,000 in savings.
The attrition and subsequent replacement of five retirees district-wide also could result in $175,000 in savings, if the replacements are hired at a lower pay grade, Rydberg said.
However, there are some things that are noticeably absent on the list of potential reductions.
Art, music and physical education are a few things that are deliberately not on the table for reduction.
Also, there is no mention of reducing teaching positions.
"There isn't any option on here that indicates having fewer teachers," Rydberg said.
Still, the 169 licensed staff members likely will not be unaffected.
Because about 85 percent of the district's operation expenses are used for personnel, the draft of potential reductions presents options ranging from two furlough days to a 5-percent pay cut for licensed staff, which could save anywhere from $100,000 to $400,000.
Other members of the district staff of 350 also will be affected.
The draft indicates that the removal of one high school administration position — either an assistant principal or the athletic director — could save $60,000 to $90,000.
"Everything here is a sacrifice," Petrone said. "And everything impacts the child to a degree."
Still, Petrone said the district's aim is to keep the cuts far away from the classroom, and that includes preserving current class sizes.
The draft of potential cuts mentions a few increases in expenses, including adding extra classes as larger grade levels advance through the district.
For example, there are 68 Sandrock Elementary School third-graders, which is three classes of about 22 students.
However, there are only two fourth-grade classes. Next year, the district still plans to look at the option of adding another teacher to the fourth grade to accommodate the larger grade and abide by the school's class size policy.
But it will cost an additional $100,000 to accommodate these larger grades throughout the district.
"It's the very last thing we'd want to consider," Petrone said of allowing class sizes to inflate to save money. "There are other larger districts out there that are making decisions like that. But we want to continue to value the current targets."
Although the school district has a reserve fund for emergency situations, Rydberg warned the SDAC committee Thursday to be mindful of the future.
There still is the possibility of another 8 to 10 percent cuts for the 2011-12 school year and beyond, Rydberg said.
"The district wants to avoid deficit spending — i.e. using the reserve — with no future plan to achieve a balanced budget," he said.
As part of a long-term approach, the district is open to ideas for increasing revenue. For instance, the draft of possible reductions also outlines a potential doubling of athletic and book fees, and plants the seed of going to voters in November to seek an additional 5 to 10 percent in the mill levy override.
Although increasing mill levy taxes could bring in as much as $1.1 million in revenue, Rydberg said asking for an increase in tax in current economic situation is a difficult request to make.
Going to the voters is just another option on a list of what the administration sees as hurtful, but necessary changes.
"It's just the beginning of a long, difficult process," Rydberg said.
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John Kinkaid 4 years, 11 months ago
I still have questions. Is the superintendent taking a 5% pay cut and leading by example? Are teachers going to be asked to take a 5% pay cut? I'm not suggesting that they should. I'm just asking if it is on the negotiation table.
I applaud the district for not proposing deficit spending. There's enough of that going on already (federal govt.)
Thank you Daily Press for this article today! It helps to answer some questions.
eieiolrighty 4 years, 11 months ago
I don't think the superintendent can take a pay cut. He has a contract already. Wouldn't they have to redo this contract for that to happen? This is really scary. We as a community have to trust that they will do what is best for our children.
John Kinkaid 4 years, 11 months ago
He can take a pay cut.
Lead by example. Tear up the contract. 5% paycut?
Leaders should set the example, that they expect others to follow.
What is the superintendent making this year?
Anitadunnce 4 years, 11 months ago
Reply to jasonbourne @5:13pm: ..... and here is another point to consider. Is it more painful for the employee who loses 5% of $120-K, or for the one who loses 5% of $30-K? Even if one is not a math major, that one should be pretty easy to calculate.
The thing that I'm really looking forward to is hearing about Thom Schnellinger actually doing his job, since he will no longer have TWO assistant principals to foist the problem-students and the blame onto. In fact, to hear Thom tell it, he had such amazing and perfect control in his classroom (art class, .... has anyone ever heard of a discipline problem in an art class? Ever?) down in Buena Vista that he probably should spend some time traveling around the State on a lecture circuit and giving seminars on his knowledge of classroom management.
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Are Union Leaders So F#!@ing Stupid?
I am convinced that, hundreds of years from now, when anthropologists dig up the remnants of our culture and study our behavior, they will not be able to figure out why most of the leaders of our major labor unions rolled over and let the company bosses destroy the lives of their members. "Just how friggin' stupid were these guys?" the social scientists of the twenty-third century will wonder in amazement. Should future Americans run across a copy of this book, allow me to explain just how stupid. Douglas Fraser of the United Auto Workers was so stupid that, when he was president of the union in the early eighties, he accepted a seat on the Chrysler board of directors so he could be a "watchdog on the board." While Fraser was watchdogging on behalf of his union, Chrysler closed twenty factories and three parts depots, eventually firing more than 50,000 people! Remind me never to ask this guy to watch my house while I'm away. The next president of the UAW, Owen Bieber, was so stupid that, in 1987, he signed an "attrition agreement" with General Motors. For every two people who retired, died, or quit, GM would only have to replace one of them. Bieber decided it was better to decrease the membership of his union and then have the remaining members working faster, harder, and longer than ever before. The year he agreed to this, GM was already making a profit of $3.6 billion. The leadership of the Communications Workers of America was so stupid that, in 1992, they agreed to let AT&T start a "Workplace of the Future" program in which labor and management would work "more closely together" in teams, instead of in the traditional "confrontational" mode. The next year, AT&T closed forty regional centers and eliminated 4,000 jobs. After six more months of "cooperation," AT&T cut 15,000 more jobs. The union still didn't want to dissolve the "team" and so, a year later, AT&T announced it was firing another 40,000 employees! Only then did it dawn on the union leaders that AT&T was up to something. Other union leaders have also stupidly fallen for this trend of "cooperation" with management called "Quality of Work Life." It is nothing more than an effort to find new ways to eliminate jobs and bust unions. In another blast of official union stupidity, Lane Kirkland, the recently dethroned head of the AFL-CIO, decided that the best way to oppose the North American Free Trade Agreement was to do so by quietly lobbying Congress. So along came Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan to fill his void and spearhead a very public movement against NAFTA. By stupidly surrendering the issue to these two nutcases, Kirkland allowed Clinton to appear rational, and the President was able to get NAFTA passed. Union leaders are so stupid that, since the late seventies, they have continually agreed to cut their members' wages and benefits simply because the company asked them to! The companies have taken the newfound savings, and instead of creating more jobs in the United States, they've built new plants overseas, resulting in the firing of the very American workers who gave them that money! In my hometown of Flint, Michigan, the UAW leadership was so stupid that they actively lobbied the city council to grant General Motors tax abatements that, over the last twenty years, have given them tax breaks on $1.8 billion worth of property. They did so because they believed GM would create new jobs if given the tax breaks. Instead, GM eliminated more than 40,000 jobs in that period in Flint and hasn't given a dime of its tax savings back to the city. The list of Union Leadership Stupidity could fill the rest of this book. It is sad for me, on a personal level, even to have to write this chapter. My uncle Laverne participated in the Great Flint Sit Down Strike of 193637, which resulted in the first contract for the United Auto Workers and was, as historians have written, the beginning of the modern-day labor movement across America. Because of what my uncle and others fought for over the years, families like mine were able to live in homes that we owned, go to a doctor whenever we were sick, get our teeth fixed whenever they needed it, or go to college if we chose to, all thanks to the union. This progress all came to an end on August 5, 1981, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,400 striking air traffic control workers and permanently replaced them, an event unheard of in U.S. history. From that day on, the union movement has been on a downward slide to oblivion. Labor union leaders, in the stupidest moment in their history, refused to call for a general, nationwide strike that would have shut the country down until Reagan rehired the controllers. Union members crossed picket lines and continued to fly. I remember refusing to get on a plane for the next eight months and having a hard time persuading others to do likewise. Boy, walking from Michigan to L.A. was a bitch! So I gave up and started to fly. Reagan broke the air traffic controllers' union, which, in their own stupidity, had endorsed him in the election, thinking they would get the best deal with Ronnie in the Oval Office! Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Reagan became a hero to big business which then went on a tear throughout the rest of the decade, smashing unions, making record profits, copping huge tax breaks, and tripling the national deficit. Reagan and company were able to get away with this because they knew labor would not challenge them on any of it. And that's exactly what happened. Our labor leaders all should have changed their names to Neville Chamberlain (the Brit who gave Hitler whatever he asked for in 1938). Instead of fighting back hard, our union leaders let the right wing and corporate honchos take our country away from us, without a peep from anyone in labor. Here, in essence, was labor's response to Corporate America's downsizing: "Yes, sir, General Motors, you want to close these factories and move them to Mexico? No problem! How can we help you? You say you don't want to pay your corporate taxes? No problem! You don't have to pay any! So you want five of us workers to do the same exact jobs it used to take ten workers to do? Happy to oblige! No, we don't mind working seven days a week! Why give jobs to the unemployed when we can just work longer hours ourselves? We don't need to see our kids! You want us to blame the Japanese for taking our jobs? Hey, that's easy! Gimme a sledgehammer and a foreign car to bash! Heck, just give me a foreigner to bash! I'll have no trouble venting my anger against the enemy you've created for me! Better them than you!" Our labor leaders seem to have forgotten an important lesson we learned in elementary school: if you give the bully what the bully wants, the bully doesn't become your friend, he just wants more because he knows he can get it! The only way you stopped the bully back in school was to stand up to him and face him down. Even if he did end up kicking your ass, he suddenly had a newfound respect for you that he didn't have for the others who appeased him. He would generally leave you alone after that, because it was too much trouble to have to wrestle you down and wash your face in the snow. It was easier just to move on to the others who would give him what he wanted. Life in the work world is not that much different. When the early unionists stood up to the companies, it resulted in a higher standard of living for all of us, even for those who didn't belong to a union. Thanks to labor unions, we have social security, Medicare and Medicaid, child labor laws, safety standards, and wages that allow even the most unskilled worker to purchase many products, which, in turn, gives more people jobs. Those of you who like to say nasty things about unions should look around and see how much better your life is because somebody else in a union fought for those things. Businesses will never do the right thing unless they are forced to. So what happened to our union leaders? Why did they go soft? Did they get too accustomed to their $100,000-a-year jobs and plush offices, forgetting where they came from? Or did we, as union members, forget our responsibility to remain vigilant? Decades ago, monthly meetings at the union halls were packed. By the mid-1980s, you could barely get a quorum. Union people were too busy being stupid and voting for Reagan and Bush. Or maybe we were just enjoying all those creature comforts that our union paychecks bought that we forgot to put down the remote control to our big-screen TV, get off the couch, and get down to the union meeting. How many of us even know who our union leaders are? As I sit here today, a member of three different unions (the Writers Guild, the Directors Guild, and AFTRA), I cannot tell you the name of the president of any of my unions. If yours truly, Mr. Big Time Pro-Labor Guy, doesn't even know that simple information, it isn't hard to understand how we have all fallen asleep at the wheel. I've come to the conclusion that, instead of carping about the jerks who run our unions, maybe I should do something myself to help save the labor movement in my own small way. While producing the hardcover edition of this book, I discovered it to be a nonunion affair. Crown Publishers, Inc., and its parent, Random House, were (and are) nonunion. The people who edited the hardcover edition of this book were not represented by a union. The guy who designed the jacket had no union affiliation. The printers Random House used were also nonunion, as was the warehouse that distributed the books. I spoke with many of these individuals in an attempt to get them to join a union. They were at least polite as they tried not to roll their eyes. Only the paper that was milled for the pages and the cover of the book was produced by union labor. I, myself, have hired two individuals who are doing research for me on this book. Their names are Gillian Aldrich and Tia Lessin. Neither belongs to a union. Now, I know, you're saying, "Hey, Mike, your workers don't need a union! I'll bet your office is a really cool place to work, a nonstop rock-'n'-roll party for the proletariat!" Right, except for one thing: they do not own this book, will not share in its potential profits, must work long hours, and can be let go at any time. They have no protection, and no matter what a nice guy I've convinced myself that I am, they are at my mercy. Unless they are true equity owners in this project, I have the up position, and their work lives are controlled by my whims. That's why Tia and Gillian and all workers need representation. Think of it as an equalizer. We live in a country that's founded on the basic principle of fairness: that all people should be treated with dignity and should have a say in the matters that affect their lives. Why do we abandon this principle when we enter the office door? Isn't this America, too? Or is "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" not allowed from 9 to 5 (or 6, 7, or 8 pm)? So I began a movement to organize this book. I encouraged Tia and Gillian to find a union they would want to join and told them I would recognize it and enter into a contract with them. They seemed excited by this prospect (some would say a little too excited) and began their organizing drive. What they discovered during the next few months speaks volumes about everything that's wrong with organized labor these days. First they called the Writers Guild, thinking, rightly, "Hey, this is a book." So a writers' union would be a natural. The Writers Guild told them, "Sorry, we don't represent workers in the book industry, only writers in radio, TV, and film." The receptionist suggested they call the Authors Guild. So they called the Authors Guild. They were told that the Authors Guild isn't really a union "We just provide members with legal advice and stuff like that." They suggested Tia and Gillian call the Association of American Publishers. Of course, the AAP is the anti-union, it's the group that represents management and owners in the publishing world. A friend of Tia's suggested the National Writers Union. I had heard of them and they sounded like a good group of progressive folks. But when Tia called the office of the New York local, at two o'clock on a Monday afternoon, all she got was an answering machine. She left a message saying she urgently needed to join a union. Four months later she still hadn't heard from them. Feeling exasperated, they decided to call the Brooklyn local of the seafarers' union. They explained that they both "loved the water," and each of them owned a blue striped T-shirt. They spoke with the "port agent," who told them they had to get "seaman's papers," and the only way to do that was to apply to the Coast Guard. Tia called the Coast Guard, but there was no answer. So much for national security. Next up was the longshoremen's union. The guy there told them to get papers first from the Waterfront Commission. But the man at the Waterfront Commission told them they don't issue papers anymore to anybody "not even [New York City Mayor] Giuliani himself." I guess that means nobody. Their next call went to the machinists' union (Tia and Gillian have to keep fixing the fax machine here in the office, so we thought they would qualify as machinists). The union seemed interested, but said the women would have to fork over a $300 initiation fee. That's a month's worth of groceries. So it was on to other unions. Tia called the sanitation workers' union. The representative asked her which trash company she worked for. "Random House," she replied. "That's not a trash company," he said. "Yes, it is. They publish Joan Collins." "Our rules are very specific. You have to pick up trash, not put it out." He did refer her to Teamster locals 1034 and 840, the miscellaneous locals that cover hay-and-feed workers at the racetrack, cemetery groundskeepers, and needle workers at the blood bank. Finally she was getting somewhere. The people at Teamster local 840 were more than happy to sign Tia and Gillian up. All that was left was for me to sit down and negotiate the contract. But the process of finding a union had taken so long that I did not speak to the union rep until Tia and Gillian had finished working on the book. Hey, what's two less non-union workers when you got 108,800,000 of 'em! But, in spite of all this, I remain hopeful. The more Corporate America destroys the average person's American Dream, the more they're doing the organizing for us. And some unions, lately, have elected better leaders. As labor historian Peter Rachleff pointed out recently in The Nation, back in the 1920s, unions went from representing nearly 20 percent of the country's workforce down to almost 10 percent. Unions looked like they were finished. At that time, like today, the wealthy 1 percent earned more than the entire combined income of the bottom 40 percent. Strikes had become a thing of the past, and labor leaders urged the rank and file to "act with caution and to cooperate with management." Wages became stagnant, the work week lengthened, and Wall Street was giddy with investors. But eventually, the chickens came home to roost. The stock market crashed, and within ten years, millions of Americans had gone on strike and formed new and bigger unions. Life got better. It can again. And this time, with so many white-collar workers and managers being downsized, we'll soon have the chance to see our former bosses marching with us in solidarity on the picket line. Whatever hardships we've all been going through lately, it will have been worth it just to see that day! By the way, this paperback edition you're now reading is brought to you by the country's only unionized major publishing house, HarperCollins. One small step leads to one giant leap . . . © 1996 Michael Moore. All Rights Reserved. |


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Trentors wrote:
- Buy the app from Google Play and download it to a compatbile device (like SGS 2).
- Download the app "AppMonster" from Google Play (there is both a free and pay version - I used the latter).
- With AppMonster backup the TomTom app.
- It creates an apk-file in AppMonster's folder.
- Copy this file to SGS3 and use a file explorer program (like Samsungs built-in) to open the file.
- This will install the file on SGS3. However the program is not automatically updated since it did not come via Google Play.
TomTom is not telling the truth about resolutions. A lower resolution Android app will always work on a higher resolution display and many apps do this like Cut The Rope and even Navigon. But it is not in HD (looks great anyway).
TomTom has for some reason decided not let Google Play install this app on our devices even though it is fully compatible. They may hide behind the "it is not in the correct resolution" but that is rubbish since most apps are not run in the natively resolution. So this is an intentionally restriction on TomTom for Android.
Maybe they just haven completely left the habit of treating Android users like S*** :-(
The app isn't fully compatible with higher resolution devices:
- the car icon isn't centered in landscape
- the status bar has weird gaps in portrait
- not all numbers fit in their boxes
- view map is squished in the corner
- etc, etc
So I certainly agree with TT for not selling this app directly to higher res devices until they get things fixed. But it does work, and steps like you posted work flawlessly.
Just one key point on the install steps: The low-res device you buy the app on, and your high-res device you plan to use it on, have to have the same Google Play account, or else the app will fail due to license check
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tt works great on my mediapad tablet 1280x800. moved apk from my phone (legally acquired license via google play of course) installed and downloaded maps. Only some glitches on menu and view not centered but shifted on the left... tt should take really a short time to expand compatibility, just fix the menu and correct zooming. Even junction view is already correctly showing
unforunately (shame on you tomtom) autovelox and hdtraffic has to be repurchased with differrent tt account or moved from previous device
You can move speedcams and hd traffic back and forth across devices whenever you want. You just can't use more than one device at the same time.
Actually it is every 6 months
I have a SG3 and have a free app "navigation" that is far better than my TomTom device. I use my phone when TomTom doesn't have the address I'm looking for, or when TomTom is wrong. Google maps and navigation on the SG3 is fantastic.
You can use this app on the Galaxy S3 by sideloading it onto the Galaxy S3 when you get it. However resolution is off as high-re isn't supported.
Tomtom said "Most likely" the same app will work on the galaxy S3 once high-res support is implemented. I wish they could be more concrete about it.


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Idalia Zamora has two children who go to school in Sunnyside. Like all parents, she wants her children to follow their dreams.
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After working at an orchard for nearly 20 years, Idalia says she wants a better future for her two children.
"It appears easy, it doesn't look like it, but it's hard work," said Zamora. "You become more tired. I don't want them to end up in the field, when they could have something better for themselves, that they have a life much better than what we have right now."
The Sunnyside School District is reaching out to parents like Idalia through a unique pilot program. The District partnered with Transformation Sunnyside to provide classes for families of students who are still struggling in school. Many of the parents haven't graduated high school or college, and it's not easy to help their students academically.
"Many of the parents are working many hours," said Lorenzo Garza, Sunnyside District Parent Engagement Director. "Not that they don't want to get engaged, but many times we find that it's very hard for them."
This is one of the first times businesses in Sunnyside are getting involved in academics. The classes will provide leadership training, or point them towards local resources, like courses to learn English. Idalia is looking forward to the opportunity.
"I want to learn more English so I can have more communication with the teachers and so I can help my children more," said Zamora.
The goal is to reach a 100 percent graduation rate. Finding out how to help students succeed is one of the starting steps.
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