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How is the new flash version of LR's NAV working out for everyone? Pick mine up in a month - just finished build in UK - I'm in Germany (:
How is the new flash version of LR's NAV working out for everyone? Pick mine up in a month - just finished build in UK - I'm in Germany (:
Congrats! The wife and I are looking at the LR2 as a replacement for our second vehicle. I've had my LR3 about 6 months now and have also taken the offroad LR driving school course.
Very fun! If you're lucky they may still offer the free voucher for 4 hours at the school with all new purchases.
Ask your dealer for the VIN# and call the closest driving school directly with your VIN#. You won't have to wait for the voucher that way.
yeomancavalry Posts: 3Hello
Yep, the Nav system in the LR2 is simply one of the best I have seen out there. You won't find touch screen capability in the BMW X3, and in the supposedly lowly Land Rover LR2 you do. Hmmm... It has been performing flawlessly even if the sun is directly shining on it, I can still read it. :-)
I like the navigation system in the LR2 better than that in the Range Rover Supercharged too. Just a little user-friendlier, although I'd like to change the type of voice, but I can live with her.
She updates quickly, and only has one "bug" that I could find. My regular route to work takes me over a 2 mile stretch of dirt road (which is a major, state maintained road and on every map), and she will NOT recognize it as a valid road. Not sure if the next update will fix this or not.
well - like the nav so far.
Only quark issue was yesterday, started her up, put in dirve (didn't touch the screen yet) but it was past the logo stage and was on the settings screen. All the sudden (this is like 10 seconds into the drive) a pop sound (like a fuse had blown), I had glanced over and the nav was, in what looked like, a fresh start. The LR logo was up and it was, in seconds, in the ready all over again. But, it worked fine after that and has since.
The only other thing, what last week while driving listening to CD, the LR switched over to the FM without me telling it to.
so, that's my quick recap. Everything working good since.
A friend at work is convinced the nav is voice activated. But, I can't see where that is the case. :confuse:
Well it is brand new NAV and the 2007 XK is the only other car to have the flash animation based navigation system. You could still say that this NAV is only used in the LR2 since the XK nav is slightly different with the VA and a couple of other things. The XK has all of its radio functions built onto the NAV screen along with other things.
Unless your dealership is a dual point with a Jag store or has been around the new XK they probably wouldn't know about the relation.
they are jag too - had one for loaner the x s (some) type. ehh ok. love the LR better. Once thing sold me on the nav was just that ITS the nav only NO other function. i wish the radio display was a bit larger, but i guess that was a straight shoot from the LR3 minis the 7.1 system.
Yeah I don't like having the NAV screen doing the radio stuff either it bothers me but nothing bothers me more then having climate control stuff on the NAV screen.
The Radio is designed by Alpine in the LR2 and by Harmon Kardon in the LR3. They are completely different from each other but both top level systems have 7 channel surround sound.
fanrover Posts: 5Hi Everybody,
Firstly i want to thank you all, for your inputs have really helped me make decision on the rover. Right now my only concern is the nav,I was thinking of buying a in dash external nav other than factory installed. As the technology keeps changing i wanna be trying new things on my nav, with factory installed i thought i would be stuck with just 1 model and a very high price. what do u think?..
anyone having any issues with the nav/stereo?
I am - this week each time I start the car, it starts with the FM, when I had shut it down I was playing CD or aux(ipod) input. Or during driving it just all the sudden decided to switch over to the FM from CD or Aux.
today, the nav showed no maps on the way to run an errand. One the way back, the nav worked, but the no sound at all would come from the stereo, CD, ipod - during a light I even shut the car off, but it didn't help.
On the way home, again it stared with the FM when I was playing CD, and it flipped over to FM when I had the ipod playing (nav worked ok)after about 10 minutes of driving.
its getting old quick, very quick. I surely expected more from a 3500 system, my Ridgeline never had any stereo issues well no issues to think of.
I know, don't compare the 2. Still, I hope it either corrected it self or I guess the dealer here in Germany will have to start tinkering. Bad side is- they are 45 minutes away.
Oh, on the way to work, the auto headlights (xenon) stayed on the whole time, with the nice bright sun shining - some electrical bug i got going on
4 weeks and 1200 miles.
ok, thanks for listening :P
There are some known issues with the Radio.
I've had it so that the radio was turned off when I turned off the vehicle, and when I restarted the vehicle several hours later, the radio wouldn't come back on.. Had to pull over turn the car off then restart, and it was fine.
I was told by the dealership that they had a software patch for it, and it didn't re-occur.
As for the headlights, that could be a software thing as well. Here in Canada, our particular zone has it so the headlights are on all the time too - they call them "daytime running lights"
zdleifer Posts: 1Hey Stonefoxx-
Was reading your posts...
I just left the Manhattan LR dealership and their numbers seem high to me.
I would greatly appreciate if you could answer a few questions for me:
1. How is the car working out for you? It seems as though you have not posted in a few months, have you worked out all the kinks?
2. What do you like about the car and what do you dislike about it?
3. When you stated you got the nav package did you mean the technology package?
4. Which dealership did you end up leasing from?
5. What were your final lease numbers, mi/yr, due at signing, lease price, money factor and residual value
Thank you very much for your time.
danielwollmann Posts: 8Hello,
Does anybody knows how to unlock the navigation system in the LR2? I use it most with my wife and is pretty bad having to pull over the car everytime I need to add a new destination.
I know that in BMWs, Lexus and other brands there is a way to unlock it through the service menu.
I've entered the address in our Range Rover's nav system while driving. It is impossible to keep your eyes on the road and set the navigation at the same time. We've also tried it with me driving and my hubby setting the nav, which is just as distracting as if I were doing it myself.
My advice? With all the problems on the road - people yakking on their cells and not paying attention, women and men paying more attention to their children in the back seat than driving, and just plain driver-stupidity - it is far better to have to pull over than to have to explain to a police officer why you just killed another driver - "I'm sorry sir, I was trying to input the address to Arby's!" :-)
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PLYMOUTH — June C. Thake, 85, of Eastwood Estate's Cedar Ct., Plymouth, died peacefully at her home at 9:55 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010.
Born in Janesville, Wis., July 21, 1925, June was the daughter of Herbert G. and Clara E. (Edwards) Sarney.
She graduated from Steinmetz High School, Chicago, in 1943. June earned her R.N. from Grant Hospital School of Nursing in Chicago in 1945.
On April 19, 1947, in Chicago, Ill., June and Arthur E. Thake were married. She liked to travel and enjoyed cooking and reading. She was always interested in the activities of her children and grandchildren.
She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Bremen.
June was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Herbert G. Sarney; and is survived by her husband Art of nearly 63 years; and their three sons and two daughters. They are sons David A. Thake, Belvidere, Ill.; Dale R. (Colleen) Thake, Charleston, S.C.;  Dan F. (Beth) Thake, Wauconda, Ill.
Daughters include Diane J. (John) Schumacher, St. Charles, Ill. and Donna D. (Mike) Gordon, Plymouth. Fifteen grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, survive as well.
Friends are invited to share memories with June's family Sunday, Jan. 2, from noon to 2 p.m., at the Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan St., Plymouth.
Funeral services for June will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday following visitation in the funeral home. Pastor Roger Rohde will officiate.
Burial will be in the Plymouth New Oakhill Cemetery.
Memorial gifts may be made in June's name to St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 605 S. Center St., Bremen, IN, 46506 or Memorial Hospital, 615 N. Michigan St., South Bend, IN, 46601.
Messages of condolence may be sent to the family through the funeral home's website: www.johnson-danielson.com.
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The crosswordians
February 7, 2014
When I arrived at Conn, I ate most of my meals in the dining halls nearest to my dorm. As I expanded my horizons, at the urging of a friend, I ventured south to Freeman Dining Hall (in Freeman House.) It was there where I first discovered the joy of at the New York Times crossword puzzles.
Of course, I knew what the crossword was, but had never actually tried it before. What started as a simple lunch became a meeting of the minds. An architectural studies major/art minor with French language skills teamed up with this environmental studies major/English minor who knows Spanish. Together we managed our way through the Tuesday puzzle and -- on a good week -- even the Thursday crossword.
Since my friend graduated, I have continued doing the crossword almost every weekday. My group of crosswordians has grown to include two psychology majors and an East Asian studies major, all of us with varying language abilities. One time, our crossword attempts extended to an evening meal with my track team, and all of us worked together to complete a Wednesday crossword (which, for those who haven't yet become familiar with the New York Times crossword, is kind of difficult.)
Doing the crossword is one of the new routines that I've developed at Conn. It is easy to pick up, because Conn students have access to free copies of the New York Times every school day. The daily challenge has also helped me keep up with current events beyond our small campus, and I've met some great new competitors in the process, too.
Snow day!
February 6, 2014
The dorms are especially cozy during snowstorms. I was heading to sled in the Arbo with some friends during yesterday's snow day but the flurries outside made Smith, my dorm, almost too cozy to leave.
Terraforming nightmare
February 6, 2014
Think of your worst nightmare. Maybe it involves a dangerous, scary or intimidating situation you find yourself in.
I'm sorry for making you envision that, but I recently faced a similar fear in my new class, "The Soviet Union and its Legacies."
In the first five minutes of class, my professor placed a blank map of the eastern hemisphere in front of us and asked us to fill in as many countries as we knew. When my face turned white, it was probably a dead giveaway that geography is my worst topic of study by far. I probably know more about quantum mechanics.
After the short quiz, in which I could only locate a few country names, my professor reassured us that we would learn this entire map in just a few weeks. Sometimes you have to start at the bottom to realize that there is somewhere to go and more to learn. Taking classes like Soviet Union excites me and gives my brain a welcome break from my usual science courses.
At the same time, I learn more about places I've never studied, and I learn to look beyond the cultural misconceptions about these foreign countries and their people. Pretty soon, I'll know what the true history of the region was like, but for now, I'm comforted to know that my fears, fears of being put on-the-spot and fears of geography, aren't always as bad as they seem in my nightmares.
New semester, new ideas
February 4, 2014
Second semester has kicked off! Gone are the multiple-hour-long meals of winter track camp. Back are rehearsals, volunteering, homework, club meetings, jobs and classes. Fortunately, I love my courses. Here are some interesting tidbits I have learned from them:
From my International Studies course, Perspectives of Modern Global Society:
Individuals raised bilingual are better at adapting to new rules than those raised mono-lingual. They are better at solving tasks that are confusing due to rules of the task changing unpredictably. "Monolinguals have much more difficulty than bilinguals at accommodating to a switch in rules." — Jared Diamond in "The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?"
From my French course, Historicizing France:
The souls of true friends are so joined into one another that one cannot find the seam that joins them in the first place. "En l'amitié de quoi je parle, elles [leurs âmes] se mêlent et confondent l'une en l'autre, d'un mélange si universel qu'elles effacent et ne retrouvent plus la couture qui les a jointes." — Michel de Montaigne (1580)
From my voice lesson instructor:
The vibration of vocal chords in the larynx produces sound. The speed at which vocal chords vibrate determines pitch. The amount of air one breathes determines volume.— Professor Jurate Svedaite-Waller
From my Logic course:
A tenuous argument gains strength by narrowing its conclusion, the statement that evidence (premises) claim to justify. Therefore, one sure-fire way to strengthen one's argument in any field is to narrow the scope of one's claim. — Professor Derek Turner
As much as I love the leisurely meals of vacation, nothing quite beats the wonders revealed through classes.
The 'basement party'
February 3, 2014
Do you remember in high school when you were finally old enough to understand what made the "big kids" so cool? Those secret after-school festivities and late-night parties…
Every spring, the annual student-directed, all-inclusive dance show, Eclipse, takes place at Conn. It is one of the highest attended dance events, and it showcases underrepresented art forms, specifically African American and Latino art. This year the theme is "Basement Party," drawing from high school memories of those "big kids" and the music they listened to.
After my first rehearsal, I am more excited than ever to be a part of this annual production. My group is dancing to Katy Perry's Dark Horse, 23 by Mike Will Made It and Flawless by Beyonce, among other songs. Working with such an energetic group of Camels to produce something amazing has proven to be fun, but also challenging. Sometimes an hour and a half in the studio doesn't seem long enough. Once everyone starts dancing, you can't help but want to continue. I can already imagine the greatness to come, and I am thrilled to be a part of this tradition.
The 38th annual Eclipse takes place April 26 at 7 p.m.
Creative writing in the community
January 30, 2014
With my love of creative writing and my interest in serving the community, I have begun volunteering at Sound Community Services, a non-profit organization that helps individuals with behavioral needs gain independence. It's a place where I continue to learn about New London and individuals with behavioral health needs.
The College's OVCS (the Office of Volunteering and Community Services) helps match students with volunteer opportunities and arranges for vans to transport volunteers to and from their sites. For the first time last semester, the van dropped me off at Sound Community Services. Cynthia, the program director, greeted me warmly. Having told her I intend to major in English, she suggested that I help out with Friday morning creative writing workshops.
I had no idea that, only one week later, I would lead the workshop single-handedly. Fortunately, I had arrived prepared, and I handed out a poem, "Where I'm From" by George Ella Lyon, to the five participants. We read the poem aloud, then we each wrote poems describing where we come from, both literally and figuratively. These poems conveniently helped the group get to know one another. As much as I love learning about the backgrounds of the patients, I also enjoy hearing their fiction pieces.
On Halloween, I copied an exercise that Professor Boyd (an author and professor of English at Conn) uses in her creative writing courses. I prompted my students to invent the age, profession, and gender of an imaginary person, to write these traits on the page, and to share the page with a partner who would then write a story about the fictive person.
The stories that came out of the exercise were out of this world. Outer space, God, free weights, after-work rituals and, yes, a few ghosts all came into the mix.
The workshop took another festive turn with the approach of Thanksgiving. I prompted participants to make a list of what they were thankful for. Friday mornings at Sound Community Services made the top of my list.
Camaraderie from across the street
January 28, 2014
I'll forever remember March 16, 2013: It was the first time I pole-vaulted competitively. It was about 30 degrees, and snow started falling halfway through the meet. When I cleared the first height, I was surprised to see that among those cheering for me were two pole-vaulters from the Coast Guard Academy.
Our team practices at the Coast Guard Academy's indoor track. The Academy is just across the street from campus, only a few hundred feet away. Sharing their track gives us a sense of camaraderie, even though we're also hometown rivals.
Those of us who practice at the Academy get to know a side of the Cadets that many Conn students don't see. At track meets, our Coast Guard rivals are also our supporters and friends with whom we chat with while warming up. As a first-time pole vaulter (and as last semester's only female vaulter from Conn,) I especially appreciate the new friendships I have found with our neighbors across the street.
January 23, 2014
Every Friday, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fiddlehead's, New London's organic food co-op, sets up a booth in Cro, our student center. They sell all sorts of fresh and organic fruits, vegetables and sweets. (I'm known to buy their raspberries, apples and mangos.) Having Fiddleheads and other groups visit campus is perfect for stocking up on healthy food before finals or late-night study sessions.
Shabbat dinners
January 21, 2014
Often on Fridays, my friend Joanna will invite me to a Shabbat dinner, hosted by Hillel, the Jewish organization on campus.
Although I am not Jewish, these dinners have become one of my favorite weekly traditions. A group of about 15 people (often including "Coasties," our affectionate name for students from the Coast Guard Academy,) gather around tables pushed together in the Jane Addams dining hall.
One of Hillel's leaders guides us in song and, once we've finished singing, we pass around challah and share snippets of our week with one another.
I am grateful to Hillel for providing me a calming space to reflect on my week, catch up with friends, and meet new ones. With the new Hillel House opening this month, I'm excited to be part of more Jewish cultural events.
Bed vs. bed
January 17, 2014
While I'm here at school, guests occasionally stay in my room at home. Almost everyone tells me how great the room is and how much they enjoy the bed. When I'm home during break, however, it doesn't really feel like my room anymore. It's not that I don't feel at comfortable there, but I long for my dorm room.
People forget that going to college nowadays involves bringing more than just clothes. We bring posters, knickknacks and pictures to make our dorm become our home.
To me, my little dorm room at Conn is my bedroom, study, kitchen and living room. My bed is covered with pillows and blankets I've had since childhood. (My purple striped duvet cover is hiding a Little Mermaid comforter.) It is strange, yet oddly comforting, that overtime, my dorm room has begun to feel a little more like home than where I grew up.
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I carefully looked over the prior reviews and this review is guided by them. First, YES to the suggestion of 50 percent increase in all the spices, with exception of holding the cloves back so they don't overwhelm. Second, NO to deleting the water. I doubled the recipe; one-half went into mini-pans without the water, the other half went into one loaf pan with the suggested water. No question, the loaf pan with the suggested water was moister and the crumb was a superior texture.
This was great...did not use 2/3 cup of water, because I used the entire can of pumpkin. Used canola oil instead of veggie oil. I also added a cup of chopped walnuts...My entire office said "Best they ever had." I had to print out numerous copies of this recipe. Served with whipped cream cream...YUMMY!
I made a quasi-healthy version of this by subbing whole wheat flour (7/8c per 1c white flour), leaving out the sugar and vegetable oil, and halving the butter. In place I used 2 small mashed bananas, a half a cup of homemade applesauce (no sugar) and a generous 1/3c of dark brown sugar, packed. The whole wheat flour adds a little bit of a healthy taste but given that it has so little fat and sugar, I think its delicious (especially warm with a little cream cheese)! I feel great serving it to my kid, who at 16 months gobbles it up.
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To binge or not to binge (on TV)
Advertisers, networks struggling to cash in on TV's 'Shakespearean' era
Before the days of Netflix, Hulu and even DVDs, Helen Popkin called in sick from work because she was too busy watching all of Twin Peaks with her roommate.
"I didn't watch Twin Peaks when it first came out, but my roommate had always been obsessed with it, so when the box set came out on VHS, my roommate got it... so we watched one episode and we couldn't stop," Popkin, who is now the deputy editor of technology and science at NBC News, said. "We stayed in three days and called in sick Monday and just plowed through every single episode. I remember on Monday morning I got up -- we hadn't yet decided to call in sick -- and he's sitting there watching an episode without me, and I was furious."
This story isn't as extreme as you might think. Binge-watching, by definition, is watching many, many episodes of a television show all in one sitting.
Binge-watching, as a trend, is puzzling to advertisers, viewers and executives alike -- how can networks satisfy viewers and vice versa?
With sites like Netflix ($7.99/month) and Hulu ($7.99/month for Hulu Plus, free for limited episodes with advertisements) streaming complete seasons of shows -- as well as original content -- theoretically, one could spend a lifetime at a computer consuming as much TV as they'd like.
Thomas Cooper, a visual and media arts faculty professor at Emerson College in Boston and author of Fast Media, Media Fast (AuthorHouse, $17.96), spoke about binge-watching as a means of catering content directly to viewers over and over again.
"Vendors/programmers/corporations always want more 'eyeballs,'" Cooper said. "Releasing multiple episodes and complete series increases revenues and makes viewers into repeat viewers when they can watch all episodes in rapid succession. The market is increased and products can be recycled more readily in addition to reruns. Since both initial releases and reruns are scheduled, whole menus and clustered episodes have the value of time-shifting, serialized viewing and complete ownership... The trend will eventually peak, as all do."
Netflix's director of global corporate communications, Joris Evers, says Netflix's purpose is not to encourage binge-watching, just to offer as much content for its customers as possible, given the changing times.
"While it is possible to watch an entire season of a show on Netflix in one sitting, most of our members don't do that," Evers wrote in an email. "It is much more common for a Netflix member to watch two, maybe three episodes in a row. For us, making full seasons of TV shows available is about giving our members the freedom to watch what they want to watch, when they want to watch it, on their device of choice. We don't want to limit our members to a once-a-week time slot."
Illinois State University freshman Daniel Esquivel often tweets about TV shows and believes Netflix is where it's at in terms of what to watch -- but there's a price to pay. "The upside is that they don't have to worry about censorship, because it's really aggravating that we're so concerned with that," he said. "But the downside is that of any other TV show that is on Netflix in whole, you lose whole weeks of your life to one TV show. Also, I have no idea when (the Netflix original series) Orange is the New Black is coming back and it's killing me because the season finale is a huge cliffhanger."
This concept of binge-watching predates television altogether, if one considers the evolution of media consumption over time.
John Branch, a copy editor at Vanity Fair, wrote a blog post for HuffPost TV commenting on the nature of binge-watching and its early incarnations through books, music and more. Famous authors such as Charles Dickens released novels in serial format, with chapters released individually in newspapers, similar to weekly episodes of broadcast and cable-TV shows.
Critics often refer to the current period as the golden age of television, with layered, incomparable storytelling, but Branch warns this may not be permanent, as history tends to repeat itself. "There's always a desire for this complex story," he said. "It may well happen and TV will decay, because they always have. The Elizabethan Age of literature in England is another comparison. Shakespeare declined too."
Part of the nature behind how these shows work and resonate with viewers is the Shakespearean-like quality behind them.
Take Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy. Both have strong, conflicted antiheroes you root for one week and wish dead the next. Sons of Anarchy makes subtle nods to older tragedies, some noting its likeness to Hamlet, in particular.
Branch said shows like Game of Thrones, and before that The Sopranos and even Sex and the City, are crucially episodic and part of what makes each one tick. "A season of Game of Thrones is like the next book in the series," he said.
However, sometimes the most binge-worthy shows aren't ones that are necessarily good -- just addicting. Popkin named True Blood as an example, "because it's so ridiculous."
With Netflix original shows like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, and Hulu originals like The Awesomes and Misfits, will there be any reason to have shows broadcast on TV? Most think so.
Popkin makes the prediction that reality television will dominate broadcast TV, as it is cheap to produce, but watercooler shows like Scandal that ignite strong buzz on Twitter are the possible saving grace for the advertising industry. "We'll always have broadcast shows. Reality TV is so cheap and so successful. That depends on watching in the moment," she said.
"I didn't even realize Scandal was a thing and I happened to go on Twitter," Popkin said. "I could tell what was going on just by reading the hashtags. People love to have this conversation and love to interact with each other (about TV shows so much) that Twitter is attempting to monetize it."
Branch said the advertising industry won't give up that easily. "Any company that is used to selling or creating television series is used to accommodating and breaking them into parts," he said. "The networks that are carrying them are used to paying for them. The way that Netflix has done it so far hasn't got anything to do with advertising. You're paying them a fee."
-- McClatchy-Tribune
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 17, 2013 A14
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