Hu X, Erb M, Ackermann H, Martin JA, Grodd W, Reiterer SM (2010) Voxel-Based Morphometry Studies of Personality: Issue of Statistical Model Specification - Effect of Nuisance Covariates. NeuroImage :in press .
Reiterer S, Pereda E, Bhattacharya J. (2009) Measuring second language proficiency with EEG synchronization: How functional cortical networks and hemispheric involvement differ as a function of proficiency level in second language speakers. Second Language Research 25(1) :77-106.
Reiterer Susanne. (2010) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism. Factors that matter in L2 acquisition: a neuro-imaging perspective. In Kail, M., Fayol, M. & Hickmann, M. (eds.). Language acquisition acrosslinguistic and cognitive systems. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 307–321.
Reiterer S, Erb M, Grodd W, Wildgruber D. (2008) Cerebral Processing of Timbre and Loudness: fMRI Evidence for a Contribution of Broca's Area to Basic Auditory Discrimination. Brain Imaging and Behavior: 2(1) :1-10.
Ethofer T., Anders S., Erb M., Droll C., Royen L., Saur R., Reiterer S., Grodd W., Wildgruber D. (2006) Impact of Voice on Emotional Judgement of Faces: An event-related fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping 27(9):707-714.
Reiterer S., Hemmelmann C., Rappelsberger P., Berger M.L. (2005) Characteristic functional networks in high- versus low-proficiency second language speakers detected also during native language processing: An explorative EEG coherence study in 6 frequency bands. Cognitive Brain Research 25: 566-578.
Reiterer S., Berger M.L., Hemmelmann C., Rappelsberger, P. (2005) Decreased EEG coherence between prefrontal electrodes: a correlate of high language proficiency? Experimental Brain Research 163: 109-113.
Reiterer S.M., Erb M., Droll C.D., Anders S., Ethofer T., Grodd W., Wildgruber D. (2005) Impact of task difficulty on lateralization of pitch and duration discrimination. NeuroReport 16: 239-242.
Hemmelmann C., Horn M., Reiterer S., Schack B., Süsse T., Weiss S. (2004) Multivariate tests for the evaluation of high-dimensional EEG data. J. Neuroscience Methods 139: 111-120.
Reiterer, S. (2009). Brain and Language Talent: A Synopsis. In: Dogil, G. & Reiterer, S. (eds.) Language Talent and Brain Activity. Trends in applied linguistics 1, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York: in press.
Talent and Brain Activity. Trends in applied linguistics 1, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York: in press.
Nardo, Davide and Reiterer, Susanne (2009). Musicality and phonetic language aptitude. In: Dogil, G. & Reiterer, S. (eds.) Language Talent and Brain Activity. Trends in applied linguistics 1, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York: in press.
Hu, Xiaochen and Reiterer, Susanne (2009). Personality and pronunciation talent in second language acquisition. In: Dogil, G. & Reiterer, S. (eds.) Language Talent and Brain Activity. Trends in applied linguistics 1, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York: in press.
Jilka, M; Rota G; Reiterer S. (2009). Exploring different manifestations of phonetic talent in second language performance. GURT, Georgetown University Round Table Discussions. Conference on "Implicit & explicit conditions, processes, and knowledge in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) & Bilingualism". Georgetown University Press, U.S.A.
Jilka, M., Anufryk, V., Baumotte, H., Lewandowski, N., Rota, G. & Reiterer, S. (2008): Assessing Individual Talent in Second Language Production and Perception. In: Rauber, A. S., Watkins, M. A. & Baptista, B. O. (eds): New Sounds 2007: Proceedings of the 5thInternational Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech. Florianópolis (Brazil): Federal University of Santa Catarina, pp. 243-258.
Natalie Lewandowski, Matthias Jilka, Giuseppina Rota, Susanne Reiterer and Grzegorz Dogil, (2008). Phonetic Convergence as a Paradigm of Showing Phonetic Talent in Foreign Language. In H. Zimmer, C. Frings, A. Mecklinger, B. Opitz, M. Pospeschill and D. Wentura (Eds.): Cognitive Science 2007. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Society of Germany, Saarbrücken. p.44-50.
Baumotte, H., Lenz, M., Dogil, G. & Reiterer, S. (2007): Coarticulatory resistance as a basis for a foreign accent: V-to-V coarticulation in German VCV-sequences: A pilot study. In: Van Daele, S., Housen, A., Kuiken, F., Pierrard, M. & Vedder, I. (eds): Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Second Language Use, Learning & Teaching. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. Wetteren: Universa Press, pp. 11-25.
Rota G (2007): Introducing a comprehensive approach to assessing pronunciation talent. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Saarbrücken (Germany), 1737-1740.
Reiterer S; Hu X; Erb M; Rota G; Jilka, M; Grodd W* & Ackermann H* (2009). "Second language pronunciation "talent": Individual differences between good and poor "pronouncers" of foreign language during speech production. An fMRI investigation", presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of "Human Brain Mapping" Organization, San Francisco, USA, June 18 - 23, 2009.
Hu X; Ackermann H; Erb M; Grodd W & Reiterer S. (2009). "Mapping Brain Structure and Personality in an Adult Sample of Second Language Pronunciation Talent", to be presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of "Human Brain Mapping" Organization, San Francisco, USA, June 18 - 23, 2009.
Jilka M, Rota G, Reiterer S. Assessing phonetic talent in second language per-formance: The relationship between perception abilities in the native and the second language and production. J Acoust Soc Am. 2009 Apr; 125(4):2755.
Reiterer S; Hu X; Nardo D; Erb M; Jilka M; Grodd W & Ackermann H. (2009) "Neuronal correlates of pronunciation talent in a speech imitation task: a magnetic resonance imaging study". Presented at Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers "Social Cognitive Neuroscience", organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF). Maratea, Italy, 27.2.-4.3.2009.
Mang SC, Reiterer S, Grodd W, Klose U. (2009) "DTI-Based Thalamus Segmentation - A Group Study". To be presented at the 11th World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, Germany. 7-12.9.2009.
Reiterer S; Pereda E; Bhattacharya J. (2008) "On possible relationship between linguistic expertise and gamma band phase synchronization as revealed by EEG: an exploratory study". Presented at the Ghent Workshop of Bilingualism (functional and neural perspectives), University of Ghent, Belgium, 18-20.9.2008.
Reiterer S, Pereda E, Bhattacharya J. (2006) "Human EEG Gamma Synchronization in bilinguals: individual differences revealed by high frequency EEG", Human Brain Mapping Conference, Florence, ITALY.
Reiterer S, Erb M., Ethofer T, Anders S, Droll C, Grodd W, Wildgruber D. (2005) Discrimination of sound quality and volume: Differences and commonalities in fMRI Activation. Human Brain Mapping Conference, Toronto, CANADA.
Reiterer S., Erb M., Droll C., Anders S., Ethofer T., Grodd W., Wildgruber D. (2004) Common patterns for the processing of time and frequency information. New evidence from fMRI. Abstract, Human Brain Mapping Conference Budapest. NeuroImage 22-S1, TU 290.
Reiterer S., Erb M., Droll C., Anders S., Ethofer T., Grodd W., Wildgruber D. (2004) Cerebrale Verarbeitung akustischer Signale: Diskrimination von Tondauer- und Tonhöhenunterschieden. Abstract, 77, Aktuelle Neurologie 31 (S1): P 439.
Wildgruber D., Ethofer T., Droll C., Reiterer S., Anders S., Grodd W. (2004) Cerebral responses related to expressiveness of non-verbal emotional signals. Abstract, Human Brain Mapping Conference Budapest. NeuroImage 22-S1, MO 243.
Ethofer T., Anders S., Erb M., Reiterer S., Droll C., Grodd W., Wildgruber D. (2004) Integration of emotional information in voice and face. Abstract, Human Brain Mapping Conference Budapest. NeuroImage 22-S1, MO 174.
Anders, S.; Reiterer, S.; Ethofer, T.; Lotze, M.; Birbaumer, N.; Grodd, W.; Wildgruber, D. (2004) Dissoziation kortikaler und subkortikaler Verarbeitung eines aversiven visuellen Stimulus bei partieller Rindenblindheit. Abstract, Aktuelle Neurologie 31(S1): V40.
Reiterer S., Rappelsberger P. (2001) EEG-Coherence Analysis and Foreign Language Processing. Abstract, Human Brain Mapping Conference Brighton. NeuroImage 13 (6/2) : 592 .
Reiterer, S. & Rappelsberger, P. (2001) Foreign Language Learning measured by EEG Coherence Analysis. Brain Topography 13/4: 323.
Reiterer S. (2002) Neurocognition of Bilingualism: High proficiency level of English language students is reflected by their brain activity. Vienna English Working Papers [VIEWZ], Vol.11(2) , pp 27 – 52.
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Get-up-and-go
Our main areas of activity at Nordic Houses are the design, production and construction of timber-frame buildings. We've been operating over 16 years, and in that time we've grown into a group of companies whose collective aim is to promote, all along the value chain, a way of living in your own home that brings you enjoyment of life. Our biggest clients are distributers, developers and construction companies in the Nordic countries and Central Europe. In Estonia, we also offer our products and services to private clients.
The companies in our group are Nordic Houses KT OÜ in Estonia and Buen Gruppen AS, Nurban AS and NH Norge AS in Norway. Buen Gruppen includes Norwegian resellers and markets the Buen mountain cabin brand in Norway. Nine resellers in total operate under the Buen Gruppen name, including one on the Swedish market.
World-renowned architect Louis Isadore Kahn, who has Estonian roots, once said: "Don't build buildings – design ways of living". That's our way of thinking, too: a building is a means to an end; the end itself is the benefit people get from the building, which is to say the enjoyment of life it brings them. And that's why our overall objective is to promote a way of living in your own home that brings you that enjoyment of life.
We believe in:
The innovative technology of the Nordic countries;
Nordic nature, which provides the best possible materials;
the Nordic aesthetic.
We take timber and turn it into buildings
Our task is to turn the visions provided as input by architects into actual timber buildings. In fulfilling that role it's important to us that we follow certain principles.
WE TAKE THE INITIATIVE – The challenge for Nordic Houses is to drive the creation of value all along the value chain. To do this, we need to take the initiative and make sure we're agreed on how we'll work together down the value chain.
WE DARE TO THINK DIFFERENTLY – Long gone are the days when being a decent carpenter was the only qualification required to build a timber house. You not only have to keep pace with change, but be the ones making them.
YOU CAN COUNT ON US – Sticking to the promises we make is important to us. In order for us to be able to do that, we have to get things right, we have to be trustworthy and we have to keep our word.
Brand concept
Based on responsible approach and standardised solutions combined with the latest technology, the aim is to offer clients ''more time for living''.
The story behind our logo
In coming up with the Nordic Houses logo we gave a lot of thought to where we come from, what we do and what we value. The form of the logo conveys a number of messages we advocate and want to pass on:
the image of the swan from ancient Norwegian granite drawings – the waterbird of the North;
technology and precision tools processing natural, high-quality timber;
the roof of a house with a chimney – the covering of a home; and
N for 'north', the needle-point of the compass, and the mountainous landscape of the Nordic countries.
"Good ideas will make something of themselves" – that was the belief with which Argo Saul laid the foundations for the success of his company. The story of Argo and his timber houses dates back to 1997 when he started working in Norway. A player in the sales and consultation sector, he noted the popularity of environmentally friendly timber houses in the homeland of the fjord. Five years later he met the grand old man of recreational housing, Asbjørn Buen, whose main area of interest was merging the timber house construction resources of Norway and Estonia. The undertaking the men pioneered and their shared vision led to the creation of a successful joint company between the two countries. The first production unit manufacturing Nordic Houses' pre-fab timber buildings was established just two weeks after the men met. One good idea really had made something of itself! The first contract between Argo and Asbjørn was signed on a napkin.
Our certificates:
ETA (European Technical Approval) certificate – ETA -11/0205. This certificate was issued by SINTEF (Selskapet for Industriell og Teknisk Forskning ved Norges tekniske høgskole), the biggest independent institute for industrial and technological studies in the Nordic countries. Products certified by SINTEF meet all valid European technical requirements and guarantee clients the reliability of a certified company.
ISO – The ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certificates issued to us by DNV Certification is valid in the fields of design, production, sales and assembly of timber-frame buildings.
As a company we value good, dependable partners who help our everyday operations run smoothly and successfully. We turn a lot of attention to ensuring that the materials and services we supply are first-rate, since that's the only way that environmentally friendly timber buildings that have been produced responsibly and to a high degree of quality can be made.
Contributing to our success on a daily basis are our valued partners:
We're looking for partners on the following target markets: Norway | Sweden | Germany
These are our main expectations of our B2B partners:
your company must be registered;
you must speak the language(s) of the local market, as well as having a good grasp of English;
you must be prepared to strike up a long-term working relationship with us;
you must have construction-related knowhow relevant to your market;
you must be familiar with construction-related legislation in your region;
you must have experience of customer service and project management;
you must be familiar with import/export-related legislation; and
you must be reliable.
Running a business responsibly means readily taking the surrounding environment into account in your everyday operations and relationships and adopting a respectful and considerate approach to your employees, your clients, the market, Mother Nature and those in need. Responsible companies take an interest in assessing the social and environmental impact of what they do. In fact, such responsibility accompanies us every step of the way, every day, because it's not just a set of regulated activities – it's a way of thinking.
For us, one way of actively contributing to the sustainable development of the living environment is to organise activities with a social angle or that are designed to be kind to nature. We favour projects that have a positive influence on the world around us and that support development, education and broader horizons. "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
Below are some examples of things we've championed.
We know the true value of a timber house, and we do everything we can to pass that knowledge on to others.
In terms of both ecology and the cost of construction, timber-frame buildings guarantee a durable, environmentally friendly, high-quality home for generations to come.
Timber's a strong, energy-efficient material that creates a warm, healthy, safe and cost-effective living environment. Use of timber as a building material ensures a low carbon footprint – in fact, timber structures save CO2 rather than generating it.
The production of timber-frame buildings hasn't led and won't lead to the disappearance of our forests. Quite the reverse: FSC- and PEFC-certified suppliers guarantee the economical and sustainable management of forests, thanks to which more trees are planted in Estonia than are felled.
The big advantage of timber structures is that they're produced under controlled conditions indoors, protecting the building from external conditions and ensuring that a close eye is kept on the production process all along the chain. This reduces the risk of moisture damage and enhances the quality of the project.
Timber-frame buildings are just as durable as the old log houses that have proven their worth, many of which here in Northern Europe are over 100 years old. Moreover, if you compare a timber-frame building produced in a factory with contemporary construction methods, the quality and simplicity of the structure are significantly greater and the environmental impact they have is smaller.
Estonian timber house producers have long since shown that the story of the three little pigs needs rewriting, since in a timber house you're fully protected from the big, bad wolf: he can huff and puff all he likes, but there's no way he's blowing your house down!
The charity projects we undertake are mostly connected to being environmentally friendly in an educational way.
Nesting boxes all over Estonia
In 2014, in cooperation with Tallinn Bird Club, we made nesting boxes for a variety of birds according to their needs and characteristics. We made them so that the birds can again nest in parks and forests close to us where management has resulted in a lack of old, hollow trees. School kids from all over Estonia helped us put the nesting boxes up.
Between November 2015 and May 2016, instructors from the Estonian Ornithological Society paid visits to kindergartens the length and breadth of the country, teaching the kids about the birds they find in their gardens in summer and winter and how they can help them. Throughout winter they monitored the comings and goings at the feeding stations, then in spring nesting boxes were prepared and the kids studied the birdlife around their kindergartens. A total of 57 classes from 39 kindergartens in nine counties took part in the study programme, including 1089 kids and 148 teachers and other grown-ups. The project was supported by the Environmental Investment Centre, while Nordic Houses provided the nesting boxes.
Nordic Houses made a gift to Kuusalu kindergarten - outdoor learning pavilion
In association with Kuusalu Commune Administration and Nordic Houses, a pavilion was founded for outdoor learning, which is also available for kindergarten open air stage and learning space. The pavilion has a height of 3.3 meters, an area of 7 × 6 meters, and a stepping stroke that extends 2 meters further. In addition to kindergarten outdoor lessons, it is possible to organize open-air parties, concerts and performances there. We also donated wooden flower boxes with flowers in it to the kindergarten and to Kuusalu Commune Administration. Everyone was happy!
We plant trees
On 7 May 2016 we held a tree-planting event during which we planted close to 3000 pine trees in support of the education of Estonia's youngsters. Our hard-working collective, alongside the NGO Hea Tahte Koda, whose members are the Estonian alumni of the unique international youth programme Up with People, have put together a project giving members of the public the chance to support the involvement of kids from Estonia in the programme by buying trees (see http://will.ee). In its activities, Up with People supports (among other things) an environmentally friendly and sustainable way of life at the global level, since over the years youngsters from 100 different countries have taken part in the programme. Estonia is a country of forests. Ulvar Kaubi, a representative of the State Forest Management Centre, commented on the busy day: "Everyone really put their backs into it. By the time we'd gotten about halfway through I thought the heat might wear people out and their rumbling tummies might get the better of them before everything was finished, but they soldiered on and we got all 3000 pines planted. Making a forest together puts a smile on people's faces – everyone was really happy to be a part of it. The symbolic value of the land we were planting the trees on, which is just outside Hageri in Rapla County, is boosted by the knowledge that it'll contribute to Hea Tahte Koda's support for kids' education.
Replenishing forests and planting new trees is a very important area of activity for the State Forest Management Centre. In order to manage forests sparingly you have to take good care of them over the years. This spring we'll be planting almost 20 million trees in our national forests. After that we'll be keeping an eye on all of the areas we plant them in, which will see the growth of a new generation of forest."
Hea Tahte Koda and Nordic Houses would like to thank the fantastic instructors and everyone who shared their forestry wisdom with us, as well as the State Forest Management Centre's Priit Kõresaar (director of silviculture for the south-west region) and Kadri Rütmann (forest ranger and forestry manager for the Rapla County forest management district). We hope this one-off event will turn into a long-standing tradition in support of expanding the horizons of diligent youngsters from Estonia and helping them discover the world.
Bird-watching tower in Vihasoo
A brand-new bird-watching tower is under construction in the coastal meadow in Vihasoo in Kuusalu municipality. Once completed, it will reach a height of 7 metres. "At first the plan was to build a 3-metre tower, but the decision was taken to erect a taller tower in order to provide a better view of the small islands in Eru Bay," explained Linda Metsaorg from the Eru Bay Coastal People's Association during the cornerstone ceremony held on 6 July 2016. "It's great that there's a company like Nordic Houses in Kuusalu that's so willing to help out. The support they've given us in financing the construction of the tower and helping to get it erected is really gratifying." We'll find out more about the tower once it's been completed.
We support culture
The Estonian Golf & Country Club in Jõelähtme played host to a summer theatre performance of 'Salamander'. We provided the theatre building for the event, along with a terrace, so that the public would have a brand new venue at which to enjoy culture during the warmer months. The performance was a great success, as our own enterprising troupe saw first-hand.
Good companies care about their employees all the time – not just when they're at their desks or on the factory floor. Here at Nordic Houses we like to spend time together in a different sort of way every now and then.
In order to gauge the internal climate in an organization, people normally measure employees' satisfaction. It's a fact that's been proven in innumerable studies that contented workers work more efficiently and with greater dedication. Of course, whether and how companies contribute to their employees is up to them. Satisfied staff are also important from the point of view of a company's reputation. Happy workers do better teamwork and there's a nice atmosphere in the company. Events that all of your workers get involved in give everyone a lift – they'll still be talking about them months later.
Estonian Companies Summer Day 2017
In august 2017 we participated in Estonian Companies Summer Day. The day was full of entertainment, facinating workshops and sport.
Special days are always worth marking – especially when they're anniversaries.
Motivation day at Raudsilla
A great day spent in great company, striking a balance between useful brainstorming and much-needed fun!
Opening party of our new office
An Estonian take on Norwegian Independence Day
Generating ideas on how to improve our processes, first in theory and then in practice – leading to creative solutions via Photo Hunt. Here are some of the best!
Theatre, meet Nature – Nature, meet Theatre
The Estonian Golf & Country Club in Jõelähtme played host to a theatre performance in summer, staged in none other than one of our Nordic Compact home modules. Our troupe was in the audience and enjoyed a warm summer's night full of culture.
Fundertakings
High-profile is as high-profile does.
http://www.puitmajaliit.ee/news/environmentally-friendly-and-responsible-nordic-houses
https://www.koda.ee/en/news/leading-brands-estonia-out-now
https://estonia.ee/the-role-model-for-the-estonian-wooden-house-industry/
Creating the 21st century Estonian cultural heritage
Within the framework of the Estonia 100 events, the Estonian woodhouse producers and their value chain partners will make a modern wooden house as a gift, which will be part of the Estonian Open Air Museum. This will become Timber Construction Competence Center.
• Part of the Estonian Open Air Museum collection
• Centre of Rural Architecture of the Estonian Open Air Museum
• Estonian Woodhouse Association / Estonian Wooden Houses Cluster
• Tehasemaja (consortium of Estonian house manufacturers)
• exhibition area / showroom of wooden house manufacturers
• outdoor education pavilion (workshops, trainings, seminars, etc.)
The opening of the centre is June 2019. The project has had and will have a media coverage.
This far there is online, radio and TV news: Museum webpage, Newsclip on Channel2, Kuku radio interview
The centre's solution was selected from all the works of the Prefab House of the Year winners. The selected house was a project created in cooperation between Nordic Houses OÜ and Trilog Studio architects in 2015. The Timber Construction Competence Center to be built can be created with the joint contribution of Estonian woodhouse producers and our good value chain partners.
Do you want to be in picture for the next 100 years?
You can contribute to the account below or with your products and services.
If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us.
Nordic Houses and NECC took cooperation partners and friends to UEFA Super Cup 2018!
Nordic Houses with Norwegian Estonian Chamber of Commerce (NECC) arranged for our cooperation partners and friends a great event at UEFA Super Cup 2018 in Tallinn. In our VIP lounge we had 29 people from Estonia, Norway, Sweden, UK and Ukraine.
During our evening together where we had great entertainment, exitement and networking, we arranged altogether a contribution to Aitan Lapsi fund - it is one of the largest charity campaigns in Estonia and which NECC is one of the founding member of.
A huge thank you to everybody who participated. This was an event long to remember!
Photos: Jason Barry and Argo Saul
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This is the gunslinger's world, which has "moved on" — but from what? Atomic slugs tick their lives away; books and paper are unknown; danger and death lie at every hand. Along his way, urgently following the mysterious man in black, Roland must encounter demons, mutants, and a child, Jake, who may be from another world altogether.
Teresa: I've read this at least once, maybe twice, and I've listened to the audiobook, so I feel like I know the story well, but it was still great fun to revisit it. There's so much mystery in this first book. Who is Roland the gunslinger? Why is he pursuing the man in black? What was his world like before it moved on? As a repeat reader, I already know the answer to a lot of these questions, but I enjoyed going back to see the setup. King does a marvelous job making those questions matter, even when we have no particular reason to care about the gunslinger. In this first book, especially, he's not a likable guy—he shoots down a whole village!—but there's something about him. I don't know if it's his drive, his commitment to his quest or what, but I want to know what makes him tick.
Jenny: I agree that this book makes you want to follow Roland, if not be his best friend. He's far less sympathetic in this book than he will be in other chapters. I'm especially thinking of King's insistence that Roland is a slow thinker, not any great shakes in the intellect department.
King does a surprising amount of worldbuilding in this book, for the start of a series he didn't know the scope of at the time. I wondered, reading it, whether he later regretted some of the choices he made — felt stuck with them — or whether they seemed natural and right. All the background and mythology of Roland's past, for instance, and the hints that he is somehow linked to Arthurian tales. Or the recurring imagery of the scar on the forehead (Allie, Roland, and Jake all have one. And so does Harry Potter. Hmmm.) And of course there's the tarot that the man in black tells at the end: the Sailor, the Prisoner, the Lady of Shadows, and Death and Life, but neither for Roland.
Teresa: That's a good question. It's hard to believe he didn't at least have some sense of what it all meant, despite his insistences to the contrary. Certainly he knew something of who the three from the tarot would be, even if he didn't know them well yet. But yeah, some aspects of this world get more attention later than others. Then there's the 2003 edition, which apparently resolves some inconsistencies, so he must have had some regrets or perhaps just felt a need to tidy things up.
It's impressive, though, how much about this world is clear in his mind and how well he sustains it throughout the series. In fact, I think it's the world-building as much as Roland himself that caught my interest when I first read The Gunslinger. For example, we know that somehow this world is linked to our own—"Hey Jude" on the piano—but it's not a future version of our world, given Roland's bewildered reaction to Jake's description of New York skyscrapers. How could that be? The Beatles, but no Empire State Building?
Jenny: I love the mystery of that, and the way we get tiny pieces of information about what filters back and forth between the worlds. My mind kept ferreting away at what had, perhaps, happened to Roland's world (nuclear war, because of all the mutants?) but never came up with a satisfying answer. Maybe that's because it's not really important to Roland himself. All that matters is the pursuit of the man in black, and ultimately the Tower.
And that's another thing that really struck me this time around. Near the end of the book, there's a huge wad of cosmic philosophy that I'd almost forgotten: what the Tower is, what it's for, who's in charge of it, why someone like Roland might be looking for it. The notion of the Tower as the nexus of all universes, of Time (which doesn't work right in Roland's world) and Size (that either) and God himself (Who appears to have disappeared), was pretty trippy.
Teresa: I had remembered a lot of the philosophy, but I had forgotten how early it appears in the series. So much about Roland's world is revealed gradually that I was startled to see all this information on the Tower presented all at once. It does raise the stakes, knowing how important the Tower is, especially since we have no particular reason to be attached to Roland as a person yet.
As fans of the whole series, we're going to naturally view this book as an exposition to a larger story, but there's some darned impressive storytelling in this single volume. The flashback to Roland's coming of age would just about work on its own as a short story, but in the context of the book it helps us to know him better. We see his capacity to friend the unfriendable, as well as his capacity to use his friends to his own advantage—his magnetism and his ruthlessness. This all feeds back into the relationship with Jake, which forms the heart of the book. I loved the dynamic between them.
Jenny: You're right that this book works really well on its own. Some of the details are tantalizing, and point forward to future books, but others are so satisfying. And the journey with Jake, the love and the pain of that relationship, is wonderfully done. Roland doesn't ever expect to see another gunslinger, since he's the last of his kind; finding a kindred spirit in a child from another place and time is strange but somehow perfect for the story.
I do think, though, that the tone of the book — its style — is different from what I consider "normal" Stephen King. It's not just the lack of typical horror elements (with a few notable exceptions), it's the quieter, sterner voice. It fits with Roland's stoic demeanor, but once we get other points of view, things change. I look forward to talking about the way this shifts as we go forward!
Teresa and I discussed The Gunslinger as part of our Dark Tower readalong. Please join us at any time! If you read The Gunslinger for May (or if you're catching up later — we are glad to have you whenever you join the Ka-Tet), please leave the link to your post in the comments.
Thank you so much for joining us! Your post was great fun.
Sounds like something Tarantino would love to adapt!
I never thought about it that way, with the fantasy elements, but I think you might be right!
He'd certainly be a better possibility than Ron Howard, who will be adapting it.
Every time I think of any one of the books of the series, I think about the ending of the last book, but I won't talk about that here. I did enjoy that first book, though, The Gunslinger, and I thought that King did a great job with the tone, as mentioned in this post. Although third person, it is totally Roland's p.o.v., and it feels like Roland. It's a quiet tone, very spaghetti western-ish, and the pacing is just right.
What I really enjoyed about this first volume is its eclectic mix of something that mimics the medieval and something that mirrors the American old West. Somehow, it works. And it continues to work, as he draws those others in the subsequent volumes.
I really enjoyed the tone of this one–it's impressive how well King ties together the Western and Arthurian feeling of it.
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Stephen King tried something different with The Dark Tower series. He wrote in the Preface (The Gunslinger) "I wanted to write my own kind of story".. I guess he succeeded.


The Vanderbilt Commodore Orchestra brings together undergraduate and graduate students from all of Vanderbilt's colleges and professional schools as well as members of the Nashville community who are united in their love of making great music. Led by conductors Caleb Harris, Emily Krasinski and Ramakrishnan Kumaran, the concert will open with a "patchwork" piano concerto in D minor, comprising three movements by different composers to be performed by three different soloists. The second half of the program features several holiday pieces from different traditions and is sure to have something for everyone!


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FOX Networks Group Asia to invest in mm2 Entertainment's slate of four feature films
The four films came from a Scriptwriting Masterclass, and Scriptwriter's Lab, in a partnership between mm2 Entertainment and the Info-communications Media Development Authority of Singapore.
SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 7, 2018 – FOX Networks Group Asia ("FNG Asia") flagship Chinese movies channel, SCM (衛視電影台) announced today that they will invest and co-produce a slate of four feature films developed by mm2 Entertainment Pte. Ltd. ("mm2 Entertainment"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Exchange-listed mm2 Asia Ltd. ("mm2 Asia").
FNG's investment springs from its longstanding commitment to make bold investments in premium original productions, as well as quality acquired content, to ignite imaginations in Asia.
Cora Yim, Senior Vice President and Head of Chinese Entertainment at FOX Networks Group Asia, said, "Investing in Asia's next generation of creative talent is a top priority for FOX Networks Group Asia. By developing amazing scriptwriters in the region, we can bring even more awe-inspiring stories to life. We are thrilled to support mm2 Entertainment in taking promising content from conception, to script, to viewers across the region."
These four films came from a Scriptwriting Masterclass (a four-day workshop conducted in March 2016), and Scriptwriter's Lab (a six-month programme held from July to December 2016 mentored by renowned Hong Kong scriptwriters Sunny Chan and Jack Ng), in a partnership between mm2 Entertainment and the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA).
"We're very pleased with FNG's investment in the development of this slate of movies," said Ng Say Yong, Chief Content Officer of mm2 Entertainment. "Their regional presence and expertise have helped shape the creative and commercial texture of these films, to ensure their reach to audiences beyond Singapore."
Two of these movies, Shadows and Scared To Death, will be shot in Hong Kong, while the other two, Number One and The Fatekeepers, in Singapore and Malaysia. This collaboration will further leverage on the two companies' respective strengths on the creative development and distribution of the four films.
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Genre: Family Comedy
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Cast: Mark Lee, Jaspers Lai, Kiwebaby, Darius Tan, Gadrick Chin, Henry Thia
Synopsis: Number One is a heart-warming family comedy that follows the story of Chee Beng, a retrenched middle-aged white-collar manager who applies for a job at a nightclub featuring … drag queens! He's dragged screaming and kicking into the show and forced to strike a delicate balance between his increasing popularity and hiding that double life from his wife and teenage son.
Genre: Horror Comedy
Director: Mark Lee
Writer: Allan Ho
Cast: TBC
Synopsis: Xiaogui is a timid ghost, but he has to win the underworld's "Scare People to Death" Olympics in order to be reborn. Although he's scared to death, he's determined to win the competition so he can stop his dream girl from marrying a jerk.
Genre: Crime Thriller
Director: Glenn Chan
Writer: Chiang Kai Xiang, Link Sng
Synopsis: A psychiatrist with the ability to enter and influence the subconscious minds of criminals must track down a psychological killer who has the same ability, to stop him committing more crimes in order to overcome demons from her own traumatic past.
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Director: Daniel Yam
Writer: Kenneth Hu, Wen Xue Ying
Synopsis: As Singapore is shaken by a series of unfortunate events, the fate of the country lies in the hands of five youths, who must overcome all odds to reset Singapore's feng shui formation and save the country from impending doom.
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SCM (衛視電影台) (formerly known as STAR Chinese Movies) is the No. 1 Chinese movie channel in Asia and is the premier destination for lovers of blockbuster Chinese cinema, with more than 1,000 titles in its film inventory. SCM is dedicated to providing first-run, premium content as well as cutting-edge advanced services. Premiering box-office hits from Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan, SCM guarantees exclusives from top Chinese and Asian producers and major studios such as Emperor Motion Pictures, Media Asia, Pegasus and Fortune Star. In addition to hit movies, SCM also offers a powerful combination of original production (miniseries), live events, major concerts and acclaimed Asian documentaries in Cantonese or Mandarin with Chinese and English as well as Bahasa Indonesia and Thai subtitles. With this unrivalled content, the channel provides an unmatched entertainment experience.
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Nominations are being accepted until March 12 for candidates for the Farmington Area 2012 Artist-in-Residence and Distinguished Service to the Arts awards.
Each year, the Farmington Area Arts Commission proudly presents these two very special awards in celebration of the positive spirit of the arts and how it contributes to our community. Last year's awardees were painter Robbie Best (Artist-in-Residence) and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (Distinguished Service to the Arts).
The Farmington/Farmington Hills community abounds with accomplished artists, cultural organizations, events and successful cultural programs -- evidence of an overwhelming support for the arts. Each year since 1976, the Farmington Area Arts Commission has recognized talented individuals in visual art, drama, dance, literature, music, photography, film or music. To qualify, the Artist-in-Residence must reside in Farmington or Farmington Hills. The awardee will receive a plaque at a reception in their honor, held as part of the Artist Awards Ceremony on April 19 at the Costick Center.
The Distinguished Service to the Arts Award recognizes outstanding service to the community in the arts. Groups, organizations, businesses or individuals receive this award for support, promotion, management or teaching of the arts and will also be honored with a plaque at the Artist Awards Ceremony.
Nomination forms should be accompanied by a complete package including samples, publicity clippings, resume and other information to ensure that the candidate's efforts receive substantial representation. Visual and performing artists should submit a CD or DVD of their work. Previously nominated candidates are encouraged to re-apply; however, previous award-winners are not eligible.
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While national supplier Energie Steiermark is already operating its own broadband infrastructure along the nationwide high-voltage network, it has recently started its own fibre optics expansion phase to meet the growing requirements of future digital applications. This expansion is also a premiere: Experts from Energie Steiermark and EQOS Energie are expanding their previous infrastructure with the new high-performance fibre optics cables, which are added to existing 110-kV overhead lines in Austria for the first time ever. Energie Steiermark and EQOS Energie are currently rolling out the new technology for about 530 kilometres of overhead lines nationwide, thereby assuming a pioneering role in fibre optics expansion in all of Austria.
The so-called all-dielectric self-supporting (ADSS) telecommunications all-dielectric self-supporting cable, which were used on 110-kV overhead lines for the first time, will play an important role in future broadband expansion. Like conventional fibre optics cables, they can transmit signals up to 100 kilometres without amplification but offer a multiple capacity at significantly lower weight. As a result, they can easily be fitted to existing overhead lines and stand up to the strain of wind and ice without problem. This is enabled by a plastic construction without metal parts, which is strong enough to bear its own weight over distances of up to 700 metres.
On average, about 25 EQOS Energie experts are working on the project at the Mittersil location in Salzburg. At peak times, i.e. when only weekend work is possible due to the required disconnections of the overhead lines, up to 35 people are deployed. The work is scheduled to be completed and the infrastructure to be commissioned by the spring of 2019. "We are happy to be able to realise such an important lighthouse project for the nationwide provision of fast fibre optics internet together with Energie Steiermark and also want to use it to explore new opportunities for digitization," said Eric Mendel, head of the Communications Technology business unit at EQOS Energie.
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Q: What is the difference between CurrentDomain and UserDomainName? Recently, a customer complained that our product was not populating the domain name.
Our code uses the Username and the User's Domain Name to query their membership rolls in Active Directory.
In our code, we use Environment.UserDomainName:
var domain = Environment.UserDomainName;

When I looked at this simple line of code, I discovered it could raise the PlatformNotSupportedException and the InvalidOperationException.

Looking for an alternative method of reading the domain name, I came across AppDomain.CurrentDomain:
var domain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName.Split(".".ToArray())[0];

That is nice, but it also appears to have an AppDomainUnloadedException that could be triggered.

First Question:
Will these 2 methods always return the same information for a given user who is running our program on a local PC?
Second Question:
Is one method less "exception prone" than the other (again, for a given user who is running our program on a local PC)?
Last Question:
Is there a method of getting the local domain name of the user running our application that will not cause an exception to be thrown?
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A: Did you even try to see what the value of AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName was?

To Answer question 1: No, they will not.
Question 2 does not seem to apply considering question 1
Question 3: probably not. Environment.UserDomainName seems to be the source for getting a network domain name, and as you found, it has the potential to generate exceptions. The MSDN page gives details on when those exceptions are thrown, and you should write your code to be able to deal with it if they happen.

A: The AppDomain.CurrentDomain Property is the domain of the current application and the current thread.
In other words, this is the domain of a project.
In Visual Studio, under a Project's Properties page, this would be referred to as the Project's Assembly Name.

By contrast, Environment.UserDomainName Property is the name of the network that the current user is logged in through.
The two are not related.

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Q: Best way to save small amout of data on android I have an android project in which I need to save small amount of data. Either 3 tables with 1-20 entries each or 2 dictionaries with nested dictionaries inside (so not only primary data types) or something close to that. These are simply user preferences and login(s) for the server.
I already read about the options for storing data but I don't know which one is the best for my case. I would like to use shared preferences but I am not quite sure that I can store my nested information there. Does it work? Is there a better solution?
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*Server logins: Some keys, including data key. Data contains URL, user, password etc.

*Favorites: Different info for the items, including server key/data.

The data will be updated rarely, so I can also store some info redundantly to avoid connecting tables or reading from multiple files. The data has to be persistent across sessions and securely stored, not available to any other applications...

A: I would recommand to use the sqlite Database. This storage is persitent across killed processes and is only private accessable from your App. Have a look here for a first introduction.
SharedPreferences are desigend to store primitive data types, so you cannot easily store nested dictionaries.
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The SharedPreferences class provides a general framework that allows
  you to save and retrieve persistent key-value pairs of primitive data
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1970 : The Beatles twelfth and final album, 'Let It Be' was released, (it was recorded before 'Abbey Road' and originally to be called 'Get Back'). The album came in a deluxe-boxed edition with a 'Get Back' book.
1972 : Billy Preston becomes the first rock star to headline at New York's Radio City Music Hall
1974 : UK keyboard player Graham Bond committed suicide after throwing himself under a London tube train at Finsbury Park station, aged 36. It took police two days to identify his body which was crushed beyond all recognition. Briefly a member of Blues Incorporated, a group led by Alexis Korner, before forming the Graham Bond Quartet, with a lineup of Bond on vocals and organ, Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on bass.
1976 : Abba scored their third UK No.1 single with 'Fernando', the song went on to become ABBA's biggest selling single, with sales over 10 million. And also on day Abba started a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their 'Greatest Hits' album.
1976 : BBC Radio 1 DJ Johnny Walker announced he was quitting the station after being told he must pretend to like The Bay City Rollers (good on ya Johnny)
1976 : Former lead singer of the Lovin Spoonful John Sebastian went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Welcome Back', taken from the US TV show 'Welcome Back Kotter'.
1977 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Leo Sayer's "When I Need You"
1982 : Neil Bogart died of cancer at the age of 39. Bogart was the founder of Casablanca Records, with Peter Guber, home of Donna Summer, The Village People, Kiss, T.Rex and Joan Jett.
1982 : Paul McCartney scored his fifth UK No.1 album with 'Tug Of War'. The album featured the duet with Stevie Wonder 'Ebony & Ivory', which was inspired by McCartney hearing comedian Spike Milligan say "black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!", (the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano).
1982 : Vangelis went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Chariots Of Fire', his only US No.1. Vangelis was accused of plagiarising 'Chariots of Fire' from a song by fellow Greek composer Stavros Logaridis called 'City of Violets'. Vangelis won in court by convincing the judge to allow him to bring his keyboard setup into the court to demonstrate his method of composing by improvising new music.
1984 : Roger Waters released his first solo album The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking. The concept album, as originally envisioned by Waters in 1977, rotated around a man's thoughts during a midlife crisis, and featured guest musicians Eric Clapton on guitar, David Sanborn on saxophone and Michael Kamen on piano.
1993 : The comeback is complete, as Aerosmith's "Get a Grip" album debuts at #1, marking their first trip to the top of the album charts.
1993 : Mark Knopfler received an honorary music doctorate from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1995 : Rick Nelson receives a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1996 : A Los Angeles judge ruled against Tommy Lee and wife Pamela Anderson in their bid to keep Penthouse magazine from publishing still photos from an X-rated home movie that was stolen from their home.
2005 : Bruce Springsteen was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Devils and Dust' his 13th No.1 studio album.
2006 : The Rolling Stones called off their forthcoming European tour after guitarist Keith Richards underwent emergency brain surgery. The 62 year-old guitarist suffered "mild concussion" when he fell out of a coconut tree on holiday in Fiji.
2008: American Country artist Eddy Arnold died of natural causes, one week before his 90th birthday. He sold more than 85 million records and had 147 songs on the US charts, including 28 number one hits on Billboard's Country Singles chart. He was once managed by Colonel Tom Parker (who later managed Elvis Presley). Arnold had the 1965 US No.4 hit, 'Make The World Go Away'.


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Sonardyne International wins contract from Magseis to supply acoustics for Saudi Aramco's S78 Project in the Red Sea.
Hyundai Heavy Industries union members launch a partial strike after wage negotiations broke down with the South Korean shipyard.
BHP Billiton cuts oil and gas capital expenditure (CAPEX) by 44 percent in financial year 2017 to $1.4 billion, compared to $2.5 billion in the previous year.
Sweden's Lundin Petroleum says profitability during the second quarter will be adversely affected by a net foreign exchange loss of $64 million and financing fees of $22 million.
The world's number two oilfield services firm, Halliburton, posts a quarterly loss due to the $3.5-billion fee it paid for terminating a deal to buy rival Baker Hughes.
Russian oil output will exceed the former Soviet record set almost 30 years ago by the end of 2018 as low-cost fields allow producers to defy the slump in prices, according to Goldman Sachs.
Saudi Arabia's oil and natural gas production is unaffected by crude prices at current levels, the state-run producer's CEO says, signaling that the world's biggest oil exporter will maintain its battle for market share.
State oil giant Saudi Aramco signed four engineering contracts to build its Fadhili gas processing project, the company says.
Unique Group acquires Singapore-based Oceanvision as part of its business growth strategy.
Bangladesh signs deals with Excelerate Energy to build the country's first floating storage regasification unit (FSRU).


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Wild Edibles Gets Caught in the Net of the Law
In the latest labor-law fiasco, thirteen employees of Wild Edibles, which sells seafood to restaurants like Union Square Cafe and Pastis as well as the general public via its retail stores, have filed a lawsuit against the company for failure to pay overtime. According to the plaintiffs' lawyer, David Rankin, and as is evident in copies of the complaint we've obtained, the individuals — most of them warehouse workers — worked in excess of 50 hours a week for flat wages varying from $450 to $550 ("right on the edge of minimum-wage violations," Rankin says, though he decided not to pursue those charges). Rankin also says that four workers were unjustly fired after they requested overtime pay at the end of August, and that another worker was unfairly written up for stealing fish. A motion for a restraining order, which we've also obtained, will be heard in court tomorrow. Between the overfishing and underpaying, caviar is truly getting hard to swallow.
Cesar A. Barturen, et al. vs. Wild Edibles [PDF]
Memorandum in Support of Restraining Order [PDF]


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Range riders hard at work for coexistence with wolves
ConservationNWAdmin / Aug 15, 2019 / Range Riding, Restoring Wildlife, Wolves
These on-the-ground efforts provide the pathway to coexistence, and a future with healthy wolf populations and thriving local communities.
BY JAY SHEPHERD, WOLF PROGRAM LEAD
Range riders working with Conservation Northwest's Range Rider Pilot Project, the Northeast Washington Wolf Cattle Collaborative (NEWWCC) and local ranches have been hard at work this summer striving to keep losses of both wolves and livestock to a minimum.
While much of the news coverage has focused on the OPT Pack and recurrent wolf-livestock conflicts in the northern Kettle River Mountain Range, we've also been working in the territories of the Leadpoint, Smackout, Nc'icn and Sherman packs in northeast Washington, and the Teanaway pack in the Central Cascades. Ranching families are working day and night to prevent further depredations.
Through our Range Rider Pilot Project and other efforts, we've spent significant money and effort working with local ranchers to reduce conflicts and promote coexistence between people and wolves.
Range riding for coexistence
The Range Rider Pilot Project, a collaborative effort between Conservation Northwest and local ranches, works to increase the effectiveness of non-lethal measures in deterring or reducing conflicts where wolves and livestock overlap in Washington state. Founded in 2011, the project is now in its ninth year.
Conservation Northwest has provided more than $50,000 in direct funding for range riders, training, equipment and other logistical costs this year, including three full-time range rider positions working on more than 85,652 acres of state, federal and private lands in northeast Washington, and on roughly 50,000 acres of state and federal land in the Central Cascades. Together these riders cover more than 945 cow-calf pairs, or just under 2,000 animals.
The Northeast Washington Wolf Cattle Collaborative is in its second season and has gained momentum, and local ranchers are also using state-contracted range riders or state cost-share contracts. This is due to the success of these measures and the requirements of the state's Wolf-Livestock Interaction Protocol, but largely due to relationships built over the years.
We are slowly scaling back our funding for the Range Rider Pilot Project. This program was initiated as a pilot, and range riders and conflict-deterrence funding are also available from the state (funding we've repeatedly gone to bat for during budget negotiations in Olympia). But this doesn't mean we're done supporting our local partners and rural communities to help keep wolf-livestock conflict at a minimum.
Starting in 2018 and again this year, we've increasingly been investing in "rapid response" range riders—well-trained folks who can be deployed with flexibility to areas where wolf-livestock conflict is brewing. These riders, two to four of them at any given time depending on capacity and need, have been providing herd supervision in northeast Washington from the early spring calving season to where depredations are occurring during the summer grazing season.
It's important to keep in mind that as wolf recovery has progressed in our state, more than 16 wolf packs now reside in northeast Washington, and active wolf territories cover public and private lands from rural backyards to backcountry roadless areas. It's vital that we have capable people with knowledge of these animals and local landscapes ready to respond to help keep conflicts as infrequent and painless as possible. That's exactly what our rapid response range riders aim to do.
NEWWCC also deploys range riders. This local outfit's long-term goals include sharing husbandry and mitigation techniques from ranchers in areas that have had wolves for decades, such as Montana, and helping to bridge the cultural divides that exist within our state. For example, Low-Stress Livestock Handling methods that can help make herd monitoring easier where livestock and predators overlap are being implemented.
Importantly, NEWWCC has flexibility, local connections and the long-term approach that allows collaboration to be a part of the community in wolf country. There has been an average of eight range rider positions provided over the last two summers that help watch cows overnight on summer range and during calving in the winter. Equipment such as fox lights (randomly-timed strobe lights), fencing and other supplies has been lent out to private individuals and the state. As many folks ask for support and advice, we realize our work is vital for the long-term recovery of wolves and other large wildlife.
A wolf from north-central Washington's Lookout Pack, photographed by David Moskowitz Wildlife Tracking and Photography. All Rights Reserved. Used with permission.
On-the-ground and at-the-table
Our staff presence in local communities in Washington's wolf country, from Twisp and Omak to Deer Park and Chewelah, where I live, and our network of contract range riders and partners makes Conservation Northwest unique in the Northwest wolf conservation arena.
Jay Shepherd, our Wolf Program Lead, at work in northeast Washington.
Last week, I checked in with ranchers on the Smackout grazing allotment near the town of Ione. One of the families that operates there are long-time partners in our Range Rider Pilot Project. Our staff and the family's cost-share range rider have worked closely for nearly a decade, supporting coexistence and together doing our best to prevent conflicts. Things haven't always been perfect, with some losses of wolves and livestock. But this area is a prime example of the challenging reality of making things work in wolf country today, and the often under-appreciated hard work of local ranchers who sincerely accept healthy wolf populations, yet want their communities and livelihoods to be successful.
After talking with the ranchers about the wolves that have been active near the meadows they use during the early part of the grazing season, an employee of NEWWCC and I watched the Smackout allotment until dawn, providing constant human presence and checking for any separated cows and calves, or stragglers, that might be a tempting target.
It was a long and exhausting night, and one of more than a few in the past several summers, but it's exactly what ranchers and range riders across northeast Washington have been doing nearly every day and night to keep some relative peace. I was glad to be able to give our partners in coexistence at least one night off, and they were grateful for our support. They recently called again, a couple of weeks later, to express gratitude to Conservation Northwest and NEWWCC.
It's this type of hard work, so often beyond the headlines and overlooked by outside groups, that provides a future with healthy wolf populations and thriving local communities. This is the pathway to rural coexistence with wolves.
Washington's Wolf Advisory Group meets in Ellensburg in March. Photo: Chase Gunnell
In pursuit of that goal, our key objective is securing maximum effort aimed at proactively deterring conflict between wolves and livestock. We also pursue this by working in the policy arena in Olympia, through collaboration with other stakeholders on the state's Wolf Advisory Group, and working in the legislature to secure funding so the state can continue helping ranchers with the cost of proactive deterrence, as well as by working directly with ranchers through the field programs described above.
The desired result of increasing conflict deterrence efforts is minimizing conflict, not creating the complete absence of conflict. We know we're not able to prevent wolf-livestock conflict entirely, but we can make it less common, and therefore keep Washington the state with the lowest rate of wolf mortality by human cause. With lower conflict, we intend to maximize the number of packs able to live wild as nature intended.
Editor's Note: Based in northeast Washington, Jay Shepherd, Ph.D. is Conservation Northwest's Wolf Program Lead, managing our wolf field operations and the Range Rider Pilot Project. Working with local partners and a Board of Directors, Jay also administers the Northeast Washington Wolf Cattle Collaborative, a grassroots, community-based program that is designed to promote a sustainable, long-term effort to reduce wolf-livestock conflict.
READ MORE FROM JAY SHEPHERD ON UNDERSTANDING WOLF-LIVESTOCK SCIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING WOLF BEHAVIOR.
A range rider at work in northeast Washington. Photo: Chase Gunnell, Conservation Northwest


"We consistently evaluate our business, including the products and services we choose to offer our customers," said Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw. "The sale of PIX locations gives us the ability to remain passionately focused on our core business, our customers and the products and services we offer within our grocery retail environment."
The 14 PIX sites are located adjacent to Publix-anchored shopping centers. Publix will retain the PIX name.
Publix is privately owned and operated by its 160,500 employees, with 2012 sales of $27.5 billion. Currently Publix has 1,075 stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee. The company has been named one of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" for 16 consecutive years. In addition, Publix's dedication to superior quality and customer service is recognized as tops in the grocery business, most recently by an American Customer Satisfaction Index survey. For more information, visit the company's website, www.publix.com.
Chicago-based NRC Realty & Capital Advisors, LLC served as an advisor during the sales process.


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Tuesday August 13th 2013 Tuesday December 31st 2013 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
Signs of the third Vu-pocalypse appear as LG prepares to resurrect the square phablet
Leak, Phablets, Smartphones
800, Berlin, G2, IFA, II, III, Intuition, Leak, LG, Optimus, Phablet, Snapdragon, Verizon, Vu
Remember LG's ridiculous Optimus Vu, the 5″ phablet with a 4:3 1024 x 768 display? Or its international variant, which was one of the few devices to call itself a phone and carry a Tegra 3 processor? Or Verizon's variant, dubbed Intuition, which could only muster a review score of 4.4 from The Verge? Or the Vu II, which took the original device and bumped the internal hardware up to appropriate levels for a 2012 flagship?
There's a reason nobody (except me) remembers these things. It's because they were horrible. And yet, LG just doesn't know when to stop. Continue reading →
Wednesday July 10th 2013 Tuesday December 31st 2013 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
Digixav Podcast 012 – July 10th 2013
Podcast, Technology
#AskChris, 1020, 909, Apple, Ativ, Beta, EOS, Featured, G2, HTC, iCloud, III, iPad, iPhone, iWork, Jay Z, Leak, LG, Lumia, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Moto X, Motorola, Nokia, Note, One, Optimus, Podcast, PureView, Q, Red, Samsung, Sony, The Duckworth Lewis Method, The Last of Us, X Phone, Xperia, Z Ultra
https://digixav.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/digixav-podcast-012.mp3
Twelve. That's a mighty large number, and it's also the number of topics in the show notes for our return from yet another unintentional hiatus. While Henry lies in a field getting fried by the British heatwave, Xavier and Chris take cover in the depths of the night to talk about Apple's mobile product lines and web ambitions, imminent announcements from Nokia and Motorola, new devices from Sony and HTC that are scaring Xavier's wallet and leaked information about upcoming phablets from the Korean pairing of LG and Samsung. Chris goes on to wax lyrical about rap music while Xavier enthuses about The Last of Us while finding it horribly difficult (yet completely possible) to avoid spoilers. We also answer some user questions from Twitter, thanks to our wonderful listeners and #AskChris, which we've chosen to hijack.
If you have any feedback, questions or comments, tweet us or send us an email to podcast@digixav.com. We'd love to hear from you!
Right click and save this link to download, and you can now subscribe (and rate and review the show) using iTunes! Don't fancy iTunes or use a different podcatcher? Here's our RSS link!
You should also check out our intro music on SoundCloud! It's Melodic Trap by Harry Ling.
Friday March 22nd 2013 Tuesday December 31st 2013 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
Don't trust any Samsung Galaxy S4 pre-order news as none of it is (yet) true
3, 4, 446%, Carphone Warehouse, Galaxy, Graham Stapleton, III, IV, Launch, Pre-order, S, S4, Samsung, TouchWiz
Over the past couple of days, I've seen numerous sites pick up on the story spread by a Carphone Warehouse press release that interest for Samsung's new Galaxy S4 is so high that pre-registrations for it are 446% higher than with last year's Galaxy S III. Many blogs, most notably VentureBeat and Pocket-lint, have sprung upon the opportunity to say that this is a sign that Apple is dying and Samsung is king and all that regurgitated nonsense, but they fail to point out any facts in these articles. The big one that is being ignored is that you can't even pre-order the phone yet at Carphone Warehouse. The press release in question, published below, refers to pre-registrations, not pre-orders. With Samsung yet to confirm pricing for the phone, no retailer worth their bacon should be letting consumers order it yet, with Carphone Warehouse cleverly taking £29 deposits from interested parties or, for those less inclined to splash their cash, and crucially what they are most likely referring to when they give this figure of interest, email updates. Even if they were referring to deposits, these figures should be taken with a pinch of salt, and you should not trust any figures you see regarding the popularity and sales of the S4 until Samsung themselves give solid evidence.
Graham Stapleton comments on the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S4
Graham Stapleton, Chief Operating Officer at Carphone Warehouse, says, "The Samsung Galaxy S4 is huge news for anyone who already uses or is interested in getting a smartphone.
"Samsung has the timing spot-on with a late April launch, 4G coming to more UK networks this summer means that interest in new devices will be building considerably. We're anticipating a massive amount of customer interest in this handset and are expecting our stores to be busier than at the height of the Christmas period. We are planning to extend opening hours at our larger sites to cope with the increased demand.
"The record breaking launch of the Galaxy SIII last year was always going to be a tough one to beat, but Samsung have pulled out all the stops with a dazzling new device that's sure to inspire many people to make the switch to Android from other operating systems."
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be available from Carphone Warehouse on all major networks from 25th April. To register your interest, visit http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/new-samsung-galaxy-phone.
Saturday February 23rd 2013 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 revealed early on MWC show floor
MWC, Tablets
10.1, 2013, 8.0, Android, Barcelona, Engadget, Galaxy, II, III, IV, MWC, Note, Phablet, S, S Pen, Samsung, tablet, TouchWiz
We've known about its impending arrival for a while, but only now has an Engadget tipster shown us what Samsung's latest Galaxy Note form factor will look like. Following on from both of the phablets and the 10.1″ slate we saw at MWC a year ago, the new 8″ tablet appears to aim squarely (or rectangularly) at the Nexus 7 and other small slates, and, unsurprisingly given its Galaxy Note nomenclature, there's an S Pen involved. The design language appears to closely follow that of the Galaxy S III and Note II, and we should get to see more of the device, set to be the main inspiration for the upcoming Galaxy S IV, at MWC in Barcelona this week.
Source Engadget
Wednesday October 3rd 2012 Tuesday October 23rd 2012 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
EE 4G LTE network to launch in UK on October 30th
4G, 4GEE, 5, 820, 920, Apple, Ascend, Deutsche Telekom, EE, Everything Everywhere, France Telecom, Galaxy, HTC, Huawei, II, III, iPhone, Launch, LTE, Lumia, Network, Nokia, Note, Olaf Swantee, OM4G, One, Orange, P1, S, Samsung, T-Mobile, T-Morange, XL
After introducing themselves and their initial 4G plans to the UK last month, EE CEO Olaf Swantee today confirmed that the nation's first LTE network will go live on October 30th. The network will initially become active in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester and Sheffield, and service will expand to Belfast, Derby, Hull, Nottingham, Newcastle and Southampton before the year is out. From that point, their ambitious rollout plans expect to have 70% of the country covered by the end of 2013, with this figure increasing to 98% a year later, matching their current 3G footprint. Device-wise, 7 compatible phones and 2 mobile broadband devices have had compatibility confirmed. These are:
Huawei Ascend P1 LTE
Nokia Lumia 820 LTE
Samsung Galaxy Note II LTE
Samsung Galaxy S III LTE
Huawei E589 Mobile WiFi
Huawei E392 MBB Stick
Pricing and availability for these devices have yet to be confirmed, but the press release also confirms a forthcoming event where full details will be announced. As for customers who have already purchased the iPhone 5 from T-Mobile or Orange, they will be able to switch networks at launch.
Statement to be attributed to Olaf Swantee, CEO, EE
We are delighted to announce that the official launch of our new customer brand, EE, offering the UK's first superfast mobile 4G and fibre broadband service, will take place on the 30th October 2012. This is a significant milestone for the United Kingdom, and for the people and businesses of our country who will now be able to enjoy the huge advantages of superfast 4G technology for the first time. We are very proud to be pioneering, innovating and leading our industry in launching 4G for our nation through our new EE brand.
1. EE will be releasing invitations to a press event shortly to announce full details of its new brand and exciting new superfast services.
2. EE will be the first brand in the country to offer a mobile 4G LTE service, the pioneering new technology that offers superfast mobile internet at speeds typically five times faster than 3G speeds today.
3. EE will launch 4G in ten cities on the 30th October, and will cover 16 cities – a third of the UK population – by the end of the year. Customers on the EE brand will also have access to the biggest and best 3G network in the UK. Further towns, cities and rural areas, will follow rapidly with coverage to reach 98% by 2014.
4. 4G technology provides indoor and outdoor coverage for superfast web browsing.
5. EE's 4G services will be available on a number of exciting handsets including the iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III LTE, Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 820, HTC One XL and the Huawei Ascend P1 LTE.
Source EE Newsroom
Tuesday September 11th 2012 Wednesday October 3rd 2012 by Xavier Voigt-Hill
Everything Everywhere announces UK's first 4G LTE network and name change to EE
Smartphones, Technology
4G, 4GEE, 5, 820, 920, Apple, Ascend, Deutsche Telekom, EE, Everything Everywhere, France Telecom, HTC, Huawei, III, iPhone, LTE, Lumia, Networks, Nokia, OM4G, One, Orange, P1, S, T-Mobile, UK, X, XL
At an event in London today, Everything Everywhere, the company that was formed from the merger of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom's UK operations, announced their ambitious rollout plans for the UK's first 4G LTE network. CEO Olaf Swantee also confirmed that the T-Mobile and Orange brands would remain in action, but the 4G network, along with superfast fibre broadband, would be marketed under the new EE brand.
EE's 4G network, known as 4GEE, is set to initially launch in London, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol, with 12 more cities set to receive 4G by the end of 2012, covering a third of the UK population. By 2013, this figure is set to rise to 70%, and EE's current 3G mark of 98% coverage will be matched in 2014 if all goes to plan. Speeds are expected to peak at around 25Mbps, but EE is advertising average speeds of 8-12Mbps at launch, in line with peak 3G speeds across the country.
The range of devices that will support the network is very limited, featuring 5 phones and 2 mobile broadband devices, but Swantee hinted at further announcements during the press event. Apple's new iPhone, set to be announced tomorrow, is expected to carry support for LTE networks, but has been rumoured that support for UK networks such as EE's may not be present in this generation of iPhone. The full device range announced today is below, and both Nokia devices, announced last week, are set to be exclusive to EE in the UK.
Update: EE has confirmed that it will have an exclusive on the LTE iPhone 5 in the UK.
Source EE
Via The Verge / Coolsmartphone