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Erin Ingvalson, assistant professor in FSU's School of Communication Science and Disorders, is focused on helping children with hearing loss: "We want children to get a cochlear implant, and we want them to be able to use it successfully."

A Florida State University researcher joined an international team using brain scans and machine-learning algorithms to determine which areas of the brain were most associated with learning speech among deaf children with cochlear implants.

The breakthrough, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, puts the team on track to develop a tool that can help predict which children will need more intensive speech therapy.

“That’s where we want to go with this,” said Ingvalson. “We want to develop a measure that clinicians can use to identify which children will need more speech-language support after they get their cochlear implant. That kind of tool would allow us to intervene with focused therapy that increases their ability to learn language.”

The cochlear implant can be a life-changing technology. However, over the past decade, researchers have documented a gap in speech outcomes among children who receive the device. Some acquire language and catch up to their peers with normal hearing, while others lag well behind.

“We want to figure out how to close that gap,” said Ingvalson, who began work on the project as a postdoctoral student at Northwestern University in Illinois.

The team of researchers used MRI scans of children at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago to identify changes in the brain among those with hearing loss.

Using those scans and machine-learning algorithms, the team identified regions in the brain, including the fronto-parietal network, that would best predict a child’s ability to perceive and learn speech after receiving a cochlear implant.

The discovery opens the door to developing a clinically viable tool that uses a brain scan to determine which children will need more intensive speech-language support after they receive a cochlear implant.

“We want these children to be successful cochlear-implant users, so we no longer have this gap in speech outcomes among those with hearing loss,” Ingvalson said.

Decades of research show a cochlear implant is the most effective treatment for children born with significant hearing loss when hearing aids fail to help them develop age-appropriate listening and language. Helping them acquire language and literacy is critical for academic success, social and emotional well-being and getting a job.

Co-senior author Dr. Nancy M. Young — medical director of Audiology and Cochlear Implant Programs at Lurie Children’s Hospital and a surgeon and professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine — said researchers have not had a reliable way to predict which children with hearing loss would have more difficulty learning language.

“Our study is the first to provide clinicians and caregivers with concrete information about how much language improvement can be expected given the child’s brain development before surgery,” Young said. “The ability to forecast children at risk is the critical first step to improving outcomes. It creates a foundation for development of customized therapies.”

Successful development of hearing and speech depends on both the ear and the brain. When auditory areas of the brain are not stimulated in children, they experience abnormal patterns of brain development.

“We used MRI to capture these abnormal patterns before cochlear implantation and constructed a machine-learning algorithm to predict language development with a relatively high degree of accuracy, specificity and sensitivity,” said co-senior author Professor Patrick C. M. Wong, director of the Brain and Mind Institute at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Although the current algorithm is built for children with hearing impairment, more research is underway to predict language development in other pediatric populations.”

The next step for the team is to expand the project to more hospitals and track children with cochlear implants over a longer period.

“It’s exciting to get to this stage of the project and rewarding to see some robust results,” Ingvalson said. “You can see the clinical relevance, and you know it will have a real impact on children’s quality of life. That gives extra significance to the work and becomes a strong motivator to keep going.”

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Every time a strong storm blows through Tallahassee, I listen to pine cones pummel our roof and watch our tall trees sway in the wind. Then I wonder how many baby squirrels are tumbling from their leafy nests.

From August to October, people in this community discover hundreds of baby squirrels on the ground. Assuming the babies are orphaned, wildlife lovers scoop them up and take them to St. Francis Wildlife.

While St. Francis Wildlife’s dedicated staff and volunteers have been doing a great job of raising these babies for the last 39 years, no one knows how to raise a baby squirrel better than a mother squirrel. So unless it is injured, you rescued it from a pet’s mouth (it will need antibiotics), its mother is dead, or it is covered with insects (or their eggs or larvae), try to reunite the baby squirrel with its mother.

Many people wonder if the mother will reject her baby if a human handles him.

I once saw a mother squirrel attack a large gray rat snake that was approaching her nest. She grabbed the snake in her mouth, ferociously shook it, and then flung it 30 feet to the ground. I’ve also seen a mother squirrel jump a Barred Owl that was too close to her nest. The surprised (embarrassed?) Barred Owl flew away.

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If you find a baby squirrel, pick it up and examine it. If it feels cool, but appears otherwise healthy, warm it up. Place an old T-shirt (not a towel) in a small box (a shoe box is fine) and punch air holes in the lid. Place half the box on a heating pad set on low. Or fill a bottle with warm water, wrap it in another T-shirt and place it in the box. Never try to feed the baby squirrel or give it milk.

When the baby is warm, bring your pets inside and place the open box at the base of the tree from which it fell. Go inside and monitor the situation from a window. Chances are, the mother will race down the tree, blow you a kiss, and then scamper back to the tree canopy with the baby in her mouth.

If it is getting dark and mom has not returned, bring them inside and call St. Francis Wildlife at 850-627-4151.

It’s only the beginning of September, and St. Francis Wildlife is already caring for more than 250 baby squirrels (in addition to all the other orphaned, injured and sick wild animals).

So the wildlife rescue organization can sure use your help. Volunteer at the wildlife hospital, donate funds, collect items on their wish list (, or run for wildlife at the Gulf Winds Track Club’s annual Prefontaine Forest 5K Run. All the baby squirrels and their wild friends will be cheering for you.

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Dr Jennifer Edmond, Director of Strategic Projects

Jennifer EdmondDr Jennifer Edmond, is Research Fellow and Director of Strategic Projects for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Trinity College Dublin and the co-director of the Trinity Center for Digital Humanities. She holds a PhD in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Yale University, and applies her training as a scholar of language, narrative and culture to the study and promotion of advanced methods in and infrastructures for the arts and humanities.

In this vein, she has developed a significant profile in European research and research policy circles in the past 5 years, having been named one of Ireland’s five “Champions of EU Research” in 2012.  She coordinated the €6.5m CENDARI FP7 (2012-1026) project and is a partner in the related infrastructure cluster, PARTHENOS. Her other EU projects have included coordinating Researcher Night in 2013, Europeana Cloud, the ESF Network NeDiMAH and the forthcoming ICT ‘sister project’ Knowledge Complexity (KPLEX).

Jennifer is a member of the Board of  Directors of the pan-European research infrastructure fort eh arts and humanities, DARIAH. Additionally she represents this body on the Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP), which supports the European Commission in developing and promoting Open Science policies.

Jennifer has played a leadership role in numerous strategic developments at national and institutional level, and has lent her expertise in the development of infrastructure to a wide variety of initiatives and agencies, from the food manufacturing industry through to the Korean national maritime agency. She is also a strong proponent of public outreach for academic research, having presented her work to general audiences, live as well as through radio, television and video, and even through the medium of stand up comedy.

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Deirdre Byrne, Projects Officer

Deirdre Byrne is a Research Projects Officer in the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, working on the management and administration of a number of EU-funded research programmes, coordinated by Dr Jennifer Edmond. She is currently working on the PARTHENOS project as well as the SPECTRESS network. She was previously the project manager for the four-year, FP7-funded CENDARI project as well as the Researchers’ Night 2013 project, coordinated by TCD. She holds a M.Sc. from Trinity College and is certified as a Project Management Professional by the PMI (Project Management Institute).

Before joining the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2012, Deirdre worked in regional government for the project management of a number of EU-funded regional development initiatives as well as in private sector consultancy for the provision of technical and project management services.

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Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) & Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities

Jennifer EdmondDr Michelle Doran is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity Long Room Hub, where she is contributing to the CHIST-ERA PROVIDEDH (PROgressive VIsual Decision-making in Digital Humanities) project and Project Officer for the Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities.  She holds a PhD in Medieval Irish Studies, and her principal research interests lie in the field of humanities research and the underlying epistemological and ideological premises.  She is module coordinator of the Digital Scholarship and Skills workshop series hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub and facilitates a number of workshops on the subjects of Digital Humanities, Data Management Planning and Digital Scholarly Editing.

More recently, her research interests have moved to consider the epistemic culture of Digital Humanities.  In 2016, following the completion of her doctoral studies Michelle returned to university to complete a MA in Digital Humanities.  Her MA considers the new directions of Digital Humanities research through an examination of emerging Digital Humanities Laboratories.

Her other Digital Humanities roles include Research Assistant on the Horizon2020-funded Knowledge Complexity (K-PLEX) project, Research Assistant on the Irish Research Council-funded Letters of 1916 project, collaborator on the Horizon2020-funded Chronologicon Hibernicum project and research assistant on the Ogham in 3D project.

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Vicky Garnett, Researcher, PARTHENOS

Vicky Garnett works on the EU Digital Humanities research infrastructure PARTHENOS project with Dr. Jennifer Edmond, predominantly working alongside fellow project members to design and implement training activities and materials associated with the work of the project.  Prior to this, she has worked on Europeana Cloud, SPARKLE and DigCurV.  She is also a Co-Chair of the DARIAH VCC2 Community Engagement working group.

In addition to her work in the Trinity Long Room Hub, Vicky is also undertaking a PhD in Sociolinguistics, investigating language change within her home county of Somerset in the UK (  As part of this, she also chairs a team of fellow Linguistics PhD and Postdocs to produce the Dublin Language Garden; an annual community engagement event that was initially held as part of the Discover Research Dublin programme, which now features as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub’s activities on Culture Night.

Before joining the Trinity Long Room Hub, Vicky worked in Higher Education administrative roles, such as Graduate Studies Officer at NUI Maynooth (now University of Maynooth), and in funding administration in IRCSET (now the Irish Research Council).  She went on to complete an MPhil in Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin in 2011 and has worked in research since 2012.  She also holds a Diploma in Public Relations from the Public Relations Institute of Ireland, and has an ongoing interest in communications and outreach within academia.

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Engaging with colleagues in the Library and unlocking its treasures was core to the founding vision for the Institute and has been ever since. We enjoy a very close working relationship with the Library and with the Digital Resources and Imaging Services Unit, which is housed in the Trinity Long Room Hub building.

Tim Keefe, Head of Digital Resources and Imaging Department

Tim Keefe is the head of the Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) Department at Trinity College Dublin. The Digital Resources unit is the Library department dedicated to the development of digital library resources from the university’s special collections and treasures, and the ongoing development of the University’s internally developed Digital Collections Repository software and hardware infrastructure

Tim Keefe is the Director of Finance and Board member of the UK based Digital Preservation Coalition. And is an adjunct faculty member in the graduate level programme in the school of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin.

Prior to this position, Tim worked as a Research Scientist and Innovation lead at the Eastman Kodak Corporation in the Research and Development Division as a member of the System Concept Centre, a new product development and innovation laboratory. Tim Also worked in the Kodak Professional Digital Capture Group supporting the development of innovative new professional digital capture products.

Tim’s academic background includes undergraduate studies in Photography and Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Maine College of Art. Graduate Studies in Image Science Engineering through the Eastman Kodak sponsored Imaging Science and Technology Development Program. And most recently, a Masters of Business Administration from St John Fisher College in Rochester New York in the United States.

Phone: +353 896 2888 | Email:

Gillian Whelan, Senior Digital Photographer, Digital Resources and Imaging Department

Gillian holds the position of senior photographer within the DRIS unit, supporting the library’s digitisation programme and providing the Library, college research community, and an international research and media audience with imagery of TCD’s research collections. This is undertaken though specialised heritage photography and imaging techniques to international best practice and standards.

Most recently she was team member of the interdisciplinary Early Irish Manuscript, and Changed Utterly research projects, however her role involves her in much of the virtual exhibition and outreach work of the Library.

She holds a BA Hons. in Photography and Digital Imaging from D.I.T. alongside qualifications in Digital Marketing and Strategy. She is a member of the Association of Fine Art and Historical Photographers (AHFAP), and is the Vice President and co-founder of the Dublin chapter of the Emerging Museum Professionals network where she advocates for strong community building and the value of non-traditional roles within the cultural heritage sector.

Her background is in technical and studio photography, and she specialises in heritage imaging technologies and workflow, digitisation implementation, quality assurance and imaging best practice standards for Museums, Archives, and Special Collections. She has consulted on projects for the National Archives, University of Limerick, the Royal Irish Academy, Worth Library, and the Natural History Museum, Dublin.

Phone: +353 896 2889 | Email:

Sharon Sutton, Digital Photographer/Library Assistant Executive, Digital Resources and Imaging Department

Sharon is a member of the Digital Resources Team with overall responsibilities for Services, providing images on request to a wide range of customers including Academics, Broadcast Media, Assorted Publications and Researchers. In additon to working in DRIS, she is a Library Assistant working rostered Evening Duties on the main BLU Counter of the Library and Saturday Duties in the John Stearne Medical Library, St. James’s Hospital.

She holds a B.A. in Photographic Media from Griffith College and is a Graduate of the Gaiety School of Acting. She represents Trinity on the AHFAP (SIG) Libraries and Archives Imaging Group.

Previous experience includes working in the Microfilming Unit of the Library where she worked on the Mellon Microfilming Project and represented Trinity on the the National Preservation Office Working Group on Preservation Microfilming which consisted of representatives from the British Library, Cambridge University Library, The Bodleian Oxford, The National Archives U.K. & Ireland and the National Libraries of Ireland, Scotland & Wales.

Phone: +353 896 4647 | Email:

Eliza Papaki, Outreach and Communications Officer for DARIAH-EU

Jennifer EdmondEliza Papaki is Outreach and Communications Officer for DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) at Trinity Long Room Hub. She completed studies in History and Archaeology and holds an MPhil in Public History and Cultural Heritage from Trinity College Dublin.

Before joining the Trinity Long Room Hub, Eliza worked in different Digital Humanities projects at the Centre for Digital Humanities, Maynooth University and the Digital Curation Unit, Research Centre ATHENA in Athens, Greece. Examples of these projects are Europeana Cloud, #dariahTeach, NeDiMAH, Europeana Research and DARIAH Greece. Her role in these projects was mainly in the area of User Requirements, dealing with finding, collecting and understanding digital research practices of different Humanities disciplines but also in communications and outreach between diverse academic communities and user groups. She is also co-chair of the DARIAH Working Group Community Engagement.

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Brag tags have now evolved into class tags! Students complete choice boards to earn their badge. These academic badges extend and enrich all subject areas and are perfect for differentiation because they cater to all learning styles!

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Academic badges (or class tags) are like brag tags, but instead of being used for classroom management, they are used for academic purposes. And, much like Girl Scout or Boy Scout badges, students complete a series of choices related to the badge theme and the concept being taught in the classroom. Once the student completes the choices to the teacher's satisfaction, the student has earned the tag.

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Pixyul, a new studio formed by ex-Ubisoft employees, has set off on a major undertaking in creating its first open-world RPG. Using drones equipped with tiny HD cameras, it and its partners at senseFly are out to map the entire world one square kilometer at a time. What will they do with such information?

Naturally, they are going to create a massive RPG which uses real world places as its environment. Using their knowledge of building lifelike settings in Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry, the developers at Pixyul will use all of their data to make ReROLL, an action survival RPG in which our world is on the brink of collapse one city at a time. Make weapons, eat, travel, survive. All part of the final game.

Starting the world over by using real world places. Re-rolling mother nature’s character sheet. That is Pixyul’s dream. Photography with the drones isn’t even expected to wrap up until 2015. Of course, with the planet covered two thirds by water, the ocean should be easy to recreate, but the tricky part will be seeing how the team will be able to get into some of the world’s more dangerous countries and environments.

Check out the ReROLL announcement trailer and see what Pixyul has in mind. It’s a grand idea for such an isometric looking game, but it’s fascinating none-the-less.

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The MacBook update that was leaked over the weekend has gone official, with the UK Apple store offering the latest laptop for £849.

The new entry level MacBook features a 2.4GhzIntel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 RAM and 250 GB of storage.

The MacBook – which is priced at £150 less than the 13 inch MacBook Pro, also boasts an extended 10 hour battery life, a significant increase on its predecessor.

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"With the new 13-inch MacBook Apple has pushed the processor up to 2.4GHz from 2.26GHz, but more importantly upgraded the graphics card to the same NVIDIA GeForce 320M that features in the MacBook Pro line-up," commented MacFormat editor Graham Barlow

"The new graphics chipset has a powerful discrete GPU that can intelligently take over graphics processing when required, but power down to save battery life when not.

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Hewlett-Packard has promised to build a core switch using high-speed technology it says it has acquired from Riverstone Networks. Not just any core switch, though. Although it will be a chassis switch, it will be based on a low-cost high-speed architecture which puts intelligence at the edge instead of focusing on expensive centralised intelligence in the manner of Cisco. The company also announced upgrades to its existing network products.

"You can assume that what we do will be 180 degrees out of phase with what Cisco does," said Jon Weatherall, HP's UK Procurve networking manager. "We are moving functions like prioritisation and authorisation from the core to the edge. Our customers need a fast switching fabric without too much intelligence." Cisco's strategy is to continue building more in the core he said: "That is more expensive and less resilient."

The new switches, due in the autumn, will give HP more in-house switch technology, reaching further into the core. Till now HP has made its own products (the 5300 range) for workgroup and wiring closet, but has had to re-sell Foundry's chassis switches as its 9300 range.

These switches aren't exactly in the doldrums, however, and the Foundry deal will continue, said Weatherall: "The 9300 business is increasing dramatically at the moment. We've always sold our edge switches alongside other vendors' core switches." However, the new core switches will be "an option" instead of a Cisco-style core-centric network and will be a lot cheaper, he said.

HP's ProCurve network division has acquired hardware designs and operating system technology from Riverstone, along with the rights to develop the technology further for enterprise customers, while Riverstone will continue to develop it further for service providers.

HP has launched products including higher density Gigabit-Ethernet and power-over-Ethernet modules for its 5300 series. The 16 port Gigabit-on-copper module replaces a current module with only four ports, presumably cutting port costs (prices not available yet). "There's a massive increase in Gigabit to the desktop," said Weatherall.

The company is also packing 24 ports of powered Ethernet in a 5300-series module. This kind of power demand (15W per 802.3af port), means the company also needed to launch an external power supply, the 610, which takes up 1U of rack space and can drive four of the PoE modules, supporting up to 96 PoE ports. The company is putting together switch-plus-power supply bundles, intended for users wanting to roll out IP telephony, or other PoE intensive applications (if that's you, you need to read our feature on the subject). The powered-Ethernet market is set to take off, as port costs fall.

Other announcements in today's portfolio include new software for the company's 700wl wireless system (a badged version of the Vernier wireless gateway), intended to improve its usability. There is also new software for the Foundry switches which make up HP's 9300 line. Other hardware goodies include better aerials for the company's 420 and 520 wireless access points.

Readers who know too much about the networking industry will remember Riverstone as the high-speed networking fragment of the 90s networking giant Cabletron. Some may even see a tenuous connection (Very tenuous - Ed), since Cabletron inherited Digital Equipment's networking division when Compaq bought the company, and HP now owns the rest of Digital Equipment thanks to its merger with Compaq.

HP's ProCurve switch division operates fairly independently from the rest of the company, and might be another obvious standalone division, in the (admittedly very unlikely) event that calls to break up HP are heeded.


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Granulation and Mixing

Tecwill Granulators products enable the effective handling and re-using of industrial by-products. Our products offer our customers an invaluable addition to their operational chain.

Granulation - Agglomeration

Tecwill granulation systems allow the effective agglomeration of powdered and dusty industrial by-products into granules. The granules can then either be returned into the normal production process or used for new purpose. The most suitable granulation technology can be chosen for the process regarding industrial by-products and requirement of the recycled product.

We offer a test granulation service for materials/by-products of the customer. Test granulation service can be used to ensure the agglomeration of by-products and give solid information for the investment decision.

The process eliminates unnecessary disposal of by-products in landfill sites. The result is a more effective production process in which re-using by-products instead of disposing of them helps generate a positive, environmentally friendly image. Production losses are lessened, more sales revenue is generated, and landfill costs and environmental taxes are lessened.

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Freshly former granules need some after treatment before granules are ready for sales.

Granules can be dried with different technics drying technics. Heat source can be recovered heat from the existing factory, electric or diesel/gas burners.

After surface of fresh granules are dried, then granules are ready for sieving. Fines and over size granules can be separated from granule stream. There are different kind of sieving solutions regarding granule hardness and durability. Fine and oversize granules can be returned back to granulation process or directed to lose material containers.

Conveying and storing systems for granules can be tailor made for customers’ needs and the location of the plant. Storages solution can vary from tubular silos to tent halls. After storing period granules can be loaded to the truck or exchangeable skip with granule feeders.

If the customer prefers big bagged granules, big bagging solutions can be combined to total solution. Big bagging station can be either manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic.

Tecwill Granulators can deliver tailor made granulation stations regarding customer’s needs.

Tecwill mixing systems are suitable for mixing and stabilising different types of materials, mass, ash and contaminated soils.  The stabilised mass can then safely be used as an alternative material for landscaping or other uses. The unnecessary environmental burden of landfill disposal is minimised. Re-using by-products saves depleting natural resources, environmental taxes and landfill costs. It also increases sustainability and generates new revenue as well as a positive, environmentally conscious image.
Tecwill mixing stations represents a new way of thinking about mixing and stabilising. The mixing station is completely assembled at the factory, then delivered to the customer. When the market situation or production processes change, the station can be moved to a new location.

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Tecwill’s in-house developed WillControl system is a modern, user-friendly, fully automatic Windows-based control system. The system leverages today’s latest bus technology and data transfer methods, enabling reliable and fast operation.

The WillControl system supports the control of the granulation/mixing station from proportioning/dosing to quality control. The system can be composed of suitable control modules according to the customer’s application needs. The software application can be designed, for example, for production of recycled product.

The WillControl system is flexible and can be linked to the customer’s information system, such as invoicing, material management programs. The system offers versatile reporting features in accordance with the actual needs of the customer.

The WillControl control-system has been developed corresponding to the requirements of the EN 206-1 standard.

The Willcontrol system enables remote control via internet. Operator can operate the Willcontrol system with the remote desktop tool.

There is also available HD-quality camera monitoring system to help the operator follow most critical points of production process.

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Tecwill has developed a machine vision to monitor quality and grain size of granules on the granulation disc. The Willcontrol system can be equipped with the machine vision, then granulation station can be fully automatized. The willcontroll operation system operates and adjust granulation process automatically regarding given target grain size and quality of granule. There is no need for an operator in Tecwill Granulation station.

Tecwill is the first company, who has developed fully automated control system for the granulation stations with the precise machine vision.

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The Tecwill machine vision system can also be integrate to the existing granulation plants.

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Whataboutery, a word that has grown like knotweed around popular discourse, is essentially the art of drawing false moral equivalence. One Northern Irish MP defined it, in 1982, as a “macabre game of ‘You are worse than us’”. All sides did it to each other during the Troubles, the Soviets did it to the Americans during the Cold War, and now, risibly, Pep Guardiola is doing it to defend Raheem Sterling after the winger’s toe-tripping tumble against Shakhtar Donetsk.

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How do you know when it's time to call it quits?

The difficulties you have been having in your marriage may be causing you to consider things you never dreamed you would. Maybe you are in marriage counseling, have already tried a separation or are thinking of leaving for good.

These thoughts, your emotions and the problems you and your spouse are having may have seemed minor in the beginning. In fact, the issues that are tearing your marriage apart may be similar to problems you have seen other couples go through. Nevertheless, those couples came out stronger, and your marriage seems to be ending. What is the difference?

Is your marriage on the rocks?

Professionals who work with partners recognize that every couple deals with many of the same stressors, yet not every marriage breaks up as a result. For example, there are few spouses who have not faced a tragedy, whether it is a devastating illness, a job loss, the death of a child or other disastrous event that disrupted life as they knew it. Most couples struggle through these times, and some marriages survive while others do not. Some common difficulties that test a marriage include the following:

  • Financial stress, whether it is poverty, one spouse out-earning the other or an inability for you and your spouse to agree about how to manage your money
  • Addictions, including alcohol, drugs, gambling or pornography
  • Incompatibility on issues that grow more important as the years pass, such as having children, practicing a certain religion or where to live
  • An increasing lack of respect for each other's differences

Even infidelity can be a turning point for one marriage and a breaking point for another. Infidelity does not have to be a physical liaison. In fact, these days, social media makes it possible to have an emotional affair without ever meeting in person, but this may not make it feel like less of a betrayal to you.

What does tomorrow look like for you?

Psychologists believe the difference may be in the couple's reaction to the event, rather than the event itself. For example, you may ask yourself if you and your spouse are more likely to lean on each other or to blame each other when times get rough.

If you are looking back and seeing a pattern of deterioration in your marriage, you may believe the only hope for a positive future is to seek a divorce and begin a new life. Undoubtedly, you have many questions about whether this is the right choice and what the process involves. Seeking answers from a Texas family law professional may give you the peace of mind you need to make a wise decision about your future.

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As the Data Analyst Specialist, you will join a team working within the Law and Professional Services Academy – Computing and IT provision, teaching upon a range of Apprenticeship programmes relating to your area of expertise. In addition, you will be responsible for delivering courses relating to your specialist area, for devising schemes of work, lesson plans, course reviews, and assessments, for internal verification, for work place visits, complying with Weston College procedures, and for staying abreast with developments relating to your specialist area.

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Burying the Opposition

Burying the Opposition

A plan for radioactive waste burial is so bad even some TCEQ staffers think it should be killed. Fat chance.

For more than a decade, Waste Control Specialists has had big plans for a desolate corner of the West Texas oil patch near Andrews along the Texas-New Mexico line. There, this aggressive company, controlled by Dallas billionaire and major Republican donor Harold Simmons, has been preparing a permanent home for some of America’s most unwanted waste, a sort of poisonous melting pot. Along the way, Simmons has donated millions of his fortune—$1.3 million to Texas politicians in 2005 and 2006 alone—to help political leaders see the value of his plans.

Waste Control, a subsidiary of Simmons’ holding company, Valhi Inc., has already wrangled permits from state regulators allowing it to dispose of hazardous and toxic wastes, and to operate temporary storage and processing facilities for radioactive waste. In 2006, Waste Control scored a major contract from the U.S. Department of Energy to temporarily store thousands of tons of highly-radioactive tailings from a Cold War-era uranium processing plant in Fernald, Ohio. Utah and Nevada had rejected the waste. PCBs dredged from the bottom of the Hudson River, an EPA Superfund site, will start arriving by rail from New York in 2009.

The right to permanently dispose of radioactive waste has long been the company’s Holy Grail, the key to unlocking billions in revenues. Waste Control, a small corner of Simmons’ business holdings, consistently loses money ($9.7 million in the first three quarters of 2007, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings). Burying vast quantities of state and federal nuclear spoils in the red clay of West Texas could make the outfit a national player. As other radioactive waste dumps around the nation close or curtail their operations, Waste Control is anxious to close the deal in Texas.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality appears on the cusp of granting the company two permits it covets, despite the objections of some of the agency’s own scientists and engineers. They worry that the company’s political clout will trump their fears of a future environmental disaster, and say the company’s permit application is shoddy and incomplete. In documents obtained by the Observer, several TCEQ staffers assert that Waste Control’s current application for one of two planned waste dumps is out of step with the law.

TCEQ did not respond to repeated Observer requests for responses to the startling charges made by some of its staff, or to explain why some of those concerns have been omitted from the draft license documents released for public comment.

A spokesman for Waste Control says the company’s license application was “thorough, complete, technically correct,” and addressed safety concerns.

In 2003, after years of failed attempts, Waste Control managed to ram a bill through the Texas Legislature privatizing radioactive waste disposal in the state. It allowed a private entity-and Waste Control was the only one in line-to apply for a permit to construct a landfill for federal and state low-level waste. In 2004, Waste Control sought permits to build permanent dumps for two different categories of radioactive waste, technically known as “low-level” – generally remnants from nuclear reactors – and “byproduct material,” which includes uranium and thorium mill tailings and radioactive soil.

In October , the TCEQ issued a draft license and environmental analysis for the byproduct waste dump. The draft license terms are being challenged by the Sierra Club-which says it is not restrictive enough-and Waste Control, which says it is too restrictive. The draft permit would allow the company to dispose of up to 1.17 million cubic yards of waste with up to a total of 24,530 curies of radioactivity. (A curie is a measure of radioactivity energy.)

Along with environmental groups, some TCEQ insiders are publicly and privately expressing grave concerns about Waste Control’s plans. They argue that the company’s voluminous application has failed to prove that the landfill will be safe for people and the environment.

Specifically, they worry that the landfill, as proposed, could contaminate groundwater with radionuclides; that the same High Plains winds that gave birth to wind farms might spread soil-like, radioactive byproduct around the region; that workers could be exposed to harmful levels of radiation; and that rail deliveries of waste could be unsafe for towns along the route.

The company proposes burying the byproduct waste in a 16-acre pit, about 100 feet deep, that would remain open for 30 years and then be sealed. Five years after it is closed, the state or federal government would assume responsibility for the site for the next few millennia.

“WCS stands to make millions on this and stick the liability with the taxpayers,” says a former state regulator familiar with the application.

The regulator, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, says the framework for the byproduct dump license is outdated and inadequate, based on rules that were written for already-contaminated uranium mining operations in South Texas rather than a new commercial landfill for radioactive materials.

“WCS exploited a loophole in the regulations to apply for this landfill,” says the former regulator. “The regulations require WCS to only look 200 years into the future as to how far the groundwater contamination may have migrated, when in fact, the waste is going to be radioactive for much longer than that.”

Retired geologist Stephen Etter says he left TCEQ in 2002 rather than suffer through what he expected to be a less-than-rigorous review process for Waste Control. “I had a real concern that the information requirements for the Andrews County site would not be nearly as extensive as the Sierra Blanca site,” Etter says, referring to the proposed state-run radioactive waste dump in West Texas that was killed in 1998 after a massive public outcry.

Critics charge that the application Waste Control submitted is riddled with incongruities, errors, and subtle evidence of reverse engineering. “The [byproduct] application was voluminous, but it was very poorly organized and written, making it very difficult to decipher or to figure out what [WCS] was planning to do,” says the former regulator. “It was presented in a very amateur way, with big chunks of data you needed to review it not there. It wasn’t well thought out. It was contradictory and inconsistent from one page to the next, from one section to the next.”

For example, computer modeling performed for the low-level waste permit application shows that radioactive waste in the byproduct dump will come into contact with groundwater. Waste Control did not include these findings in its byproduct application, according to a report by two TCEQ geologists working on the byproduct licensing review team.

The geologists wrote in a draft technical review of the application that they are “uncertain” why this information wasn’t included, since it “shows that the site features do not assure isolation of the waste material,” a key requirement for a potential radioactive waste site.

Waste Control also omitted specific data on the “nature and width” of fractures in the red-bed clay in which the landfill is located. The gaps could be pathways for contaminants to reach underground water sources, according to the geologists. Waste Control ran a computer simulation of water movement based on a maximum fracture size of 300 microns, about the width of three to six human hairs. On this assumption, the company calculated that it would take at least 70,000 years for radionuclides to reach saturated sands. However, the geologists assert that Waste Control never gave any justification for the use of a 300-micron fracture or any research on the actual size of fractures in the landfill area.

Waste Control has bragged to legislators, regulators, industry, and the media about the impermeability of the red-bed clay that underlies the site. A narrow portion of the Ogallala Aquifer, the primary source of water for much of the High Plains, is near the landfill. The landfill will be excavated into the Dockum Group, a minor aquifer used for irrigation and municipal water. Usable groundwater from the Dockum is found about 500 feet below the proposed byproduct dump. In a document obtained by the Observer, two TCEQ geologists concluded that these problems and others were so serious that the application did not meet the requirement that “the issuance of the license will not be inimical to the health and safety of the public.” This part of the geologists’ technical review was not included in the publicly released environmental analysis.

TCEQ would not make Susan Jablonski, who directs the agency’s radioactive materials division, available for an interview, instead insisting that questions be submitted in writing. By press time, the agency had not provided responses.

Another technical report, the process engineering review, raises the possibility that if the waste is not sealed in containers, high winds in the area could disperse the soil-like material outside of the pit, spreading radioactive contamination. Waste Control argued in its application that “windblown dispersion is expected to be minimal” because of the natural protection offered by the landfill and the use of water sprays for dust suppression. The company also says it will stop work when winds reach 25 mph. However, the TCEQ process engineer notes that Andrews County lies in the “highest dust emission zone in the southwestern United States” and that winds in the area sometimes exceed 50 mph.

Lou Gloystein, the author of the engineering review and a TCEQ engineer, also criticizes Waste Control for not checking the condition of a railroad line in southeastern New Mexico that apparently will be used to transport waste. He also raises the specter of “the potential for fire and explosion involving [hazardous] wastes,” which might affect the railcar receiving area for the byproduct dump, and “cross-contamination” between the adjacent byproduct and low-level landfills.

In the executive summary of the engineering report, Gloystein disparages the Waste Control application as “difficult to review,” “fragmented,” and “contain[ing] significant errata.” These comments were not included in the agency’s draft environmental analysis.

Gloystein’s report suggests a motive for Waste Control’s haste. “The proposed site in Andrews County appears to have been selected primarily because it is already owned by WCS, and currently represents a significant capital investment in land and existing facilities.”

As far back as 1987, before WCS had been formed, the state was questioning the suitability of locating a radioactive dump in Andrews County. The state-run Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority sent a team out to Andrews to investigate. The team described the site as “marginal,” and Rick Jacobi, then general manager of the authority and now a Waste Control consultant, decided to scratch Andrews County as a possible site. In 1996, two years before the state rejected the contentious Sierra Blanca site, geologist Etter prepared another unfavorable report on Andrews.

Now retired and living in Austin, Etter says he prepared the memo on his own initiative because Waste Control had begun discussing its desire for a radioactive waste facility with state regulators. In the memo, which he took heat for, Etter used rough calculations to predict that “wastes disposed of at the WCS site could be exposed and removed within 5,000 years.”

“All I was saying was, ‘Hey, this site is an erosional regime’,” Etter recalled. “It’s actually losing material, and it will eventually be eroded away … I still think that’s probably the case.” Waste Control contends the site is actually “aggrading,” the opposite of erosion.

The draft license, issued in October, addresses many of the staff’s concerns by imposing 96 conditions on the company. Under the draft license, Waste Control would have to put the waste in containers, bring it in by truck instead of rail, and conduct further study of groundwater and engineering. However, in a voluminous filing during the public comment period, Waste Control proposes “alternative language,” which in many cases means striking or altering many of the license conditions. In all, the company proposes 59 modifications to the license conditions, including eliminating the container requirement, allowing rail transport, increasing the level of radioactivity allowed at the dump, and shifting toward monitoring conditions at the site versus verifying them before building the landfill.

“WCS is proposing changes to the individual license conditions to be consistent with the license application and the license application was thorough, complete, technically correct and fully addressed the safety and potential health effects of the proposed” byproduct facility, said Chuck McDonald, a WCS spokesperson. McDonald said that modeling done by the company shows that containerization is “not required for safe disposal.”

WCS also proposes major edits for the civil engineering, process engineering, environmental health physics, and operational health physics sections of the Environmental Analysis, gutting or weakening critical passages. In the case of the geology section, WCS simply asks to replace TCEQ’s skeptical language with an assessment written entirely by their own consultants.

“Everything that was said about the environmental analysis was done in a fashion that was consistent with the license application,” said McDonald.

“From our perspective, what happened is it was a shoddy application, TCEQ reviewed the application, saw it was shoddy, and added in the draft license a bunch of conditions to make up for the fact that the applicant failed to show it was a safe site,” says Cyrus Reed of the Sierra Club; he had not reviewed Waste Control’s latest filings at press time. The Sierra Club argues in public filings that the license should never have been issued and asks for a contested case hearing on behalf of 11 New Mexico residents and Sierra Club members if the draft license is not scrapped.

Critics say they believe TCEQ, under pressure from the company and its political allies, is speeding recklessly toward final approval, perhaps within 60 days. A draft license for the low-level waste facility, which some environmentalists say is the worse of the two, is expected soon as well. This favorable treatment of Waste Control was set in 1994, when the company got its first permit from the state in record time.

“There was always some, I don’t know, feeling that their hazardous material permit had been issued rather quickly,” says Edgar Bailey, a retired health physicist for the Department of State Health Services. “It just sort of left a bad taste in people’s mouth in how the company operated vis-a-vis the regulatory agency. They tended to seek political solutions.”

Critics fear politics will allow Waste Control to prevail on its new permit applications. “I think that the agency is generally in the business of promoting business and doesn’t regard the environment on an equal footing with business,” says the former regulator, “and I think particularly in this case, given the ownership of WCS, that there is pressure to approve this in spite of the harmful effect to the environment.”


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Big Oil Gulps More Gulf

On Aug. 19, after the Observer went to press, representatives from some of the world’s biggest oil companies were set to gather in New Orleans to bid on oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama administration is auctioning 18 million acres of oil and gas tracts, some just nine miles from the Texas shore.

If all the leases were snatched up, some 3,400 new oil wells could be added to the 3,800 wells already active in the Gulf. That won’t happen; industry analysts say only the most potentially productive leases will be bid on. “With the economy and prices on oil being down, we will probably see less money and less bids,” says Andy Radford, a senior policy analyst with the American Petroleum Institute.

Even so, with environmentalists viewing the Gulf as already under siege, the auction is unwelcome to many. Expanded drilling will hasten climate change and further pollute the Gulf, says Jackie Savitz of the nonprofit environmental group Oceana. She cites studies showing that drilling for natural gas and oil dumps massive amounts of untreated mud into ocean water, and that oil spills kill marine mammals and fish. She cites a spill off the Louisiana coast in late July, when more than 58,000 gallons of oil oozed into the Gulf from an underwater pipeline owned by Royal Dutch Shell plc.

So far, oil companies are winning the debate over drilling in the Gulf. Rather than organize against more offshore platforms in platform-rich Texas, some environmental groups are turning to other fights—like  opposing drilling near the coasts of Florida and Alaska, which compared with Texas have been left largely untouched.

The Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that successfully sued the Bush administration to stop expansion of offshore drilling, says it’s concerned about the Gulf’s health, but is focused on saving Alaska. “Decisions were already made decades ago about the Gulf, and it already has significant gas and oil infrastructure,” says Bill Snape, senior counsel with the center. He says his group and others are “drawing a line in the snow on Alaska when it comes to climate change.” Others are focused on environmentally fragile areas off the coast of Florida that would see more drilling under an energy bill now in the Senate.

“Big Oil is never satisfied,” Savitz says. “They keep asking for more of the Gulf to drill, and now they are back for another bite of the apple.”


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Ben Platt-Led Dear Evan Hansen Finds a New Broadway Home

Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson's acclaimed musical will switch theaters before its premiere.

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The Broadway production of Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson's award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen will not play the Belasco Theatre as previously announced. Instead, it will take up residence at the Music Box Theatre, beginning as scheduled on November 14. All ticket transactions will remain intact, with customers having comparable seats at the show's new home. Opening night remains December 4.

Ben Platt, who played the title role in the recent Second Stage Theatre and Arena Stage runs, will reprise his performance, alongside fellow returning cast members Laura Dreyfuss, Mike Faist, Rachel Bay Jones, Will Roland, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Kristolyn Lloyd. Michael Park, who played the role of Larry Murphy in the Arena Stage run, will return to the show for the Broadway premiere. John Dossett took on the role at Second Stage.

With a score by Tony nominees Pasek and Paul (Dogfight, A Christmas Story), and a book by Levenson (Masters of Sex), Dear Evan Hansen is described as follows: "All his life Evan Hansen has felt invisible. To his peers, to the girl he loves, sometimes even to his own mother. But that was before he wrote the letter — that led to the incident— that started the lie — that ignited a movement – that inspired a community — and changed Evan's status from the ultimate outsider into the somebody everyone wants to know. But how long can Evan keep his secret? And at what price?"

Dear Evan Hansen is directed by three-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, with choreography by Danny Mefford. Scenic design is by David Korins, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, and projection design by Peter Nigrini. The musical director is Ben Cohn and the music supervisor is Alex Lacamoire.

Dear Evan Hansen won Best Musical prizes from the Obie Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, and Helen Hayes Awards. Ben Platt won an Obie Award for Performance, Steven Levenson won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical; and composers Pasek and Paul won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.

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In the online world, there is this relentless obsession with relevance. Everything has to be relevant, relevant, relevant. The way the word is normally translated in common speech is that something is relevant when you're interested in it at a particular time and place. Facebook's news feed is all about showing you things that are relevant to you from your friends. Google wants to show you the most relevant pages for a given search. And, to my mind, they actually do a pretty good job doing these things.

As businesses, though, what they really want to do is serve up the most relevant advertisements. That is to say, they want to serve up the ads that you're most likely to click on. So they refine and refine and refine the algorithms they've got with more and more and more data in the quest to find ads that people want to click on.

It's fair to ask, I think, how are they doing? One indication comes courtesy of this infographic that these marketers created showing the differences between Facebook and Google's ad networks. It contains three remarkable stats about clickthrough rate (CTR), which is the percentage of the time a user clicks on an online advertisement. The average, these marketers say, is about 0.1 percent. Facebook's CTR is below average at 0.051 percent and Google's is above average 0.4 percent.

While these differences are meaningful and say something powerful about Google and Facebook, let's do the math on those percentages to see how relevant the ads you're seeing really are. For Google, people are clicking on about 1 of every 250 ads they see while searching. For the average, it's 1 out of every 1,000 ads. And for Facebook, people are only clicking once every 1,961 ads they see.

That's the reality of relevance in the online world -- and, not so incidentally, while companies are so eager to scoop up any data they can to increase the likelihood that you'll click.

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Iraqi prominent politician Adnan al-Dulaimi died on Wednesday at the age 85 in Erbil, according to a well informed source.

In a press statement, the source asserted that the lawmaker and former head of the Sunni Endowment died on Wednesday morning in Erbil.

Adnan al-Dulaimi, who was born at Anbar governorate in 1932, worked as an Islamic studies professor at Baghdad University, but soon after the fall of Saddam Hussein he became head of the Sunni Endowment (Diwan al-Waqf al-Sunni).

He was a leader of the General Council for the People of Iraq, a component of the Iraqi Accord Front (IAF). إYet he has been a leading Sunni Arab politician since the fall of Saddam Hussein and has often been at odds with the country's Shiite-led government.

Dulaimi has survived multiple assassination attempts. A February 22, 2006 attack on his car killed one bodyguard and wounded five others. After the attack, Dulaimi called for restraint. “I don’t accuse anyone. ... I consider it accidental, and I call on my brothers for self-restraint and to contain what happened because Iraq is bigger than Adnan and his guards,” Dulaimi said.

In 2007, he complained about forced displacement and sectarian killings in the Al-Adel district of western Baghdad which had been relayed by Sheikh Jalal al-Din Ali al-Saghir, a Shi'ite imam and member of the parliament from a neighboring area. Parliament asked for Dulaimi's immunity to be lifted.

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In our attempt to bring you ideas from around the world, here is a ground breaking invention which is capable of saving the lives of thousands of babies in underdeveloped and developing countries.

Every year, more than 1 million infants die the very day they are born and many more lose their lives in the first week after birth.

The causes of these deaths are multiple, especially in underdeveloped and developing countries.

However, one of the major causes of a baby dying within the very first week of its birth is hypothermia.

Hypothermia is a medical condition in which the body loses heat quicker than it can produce it. Although such a condition occurs all around the world, the death rate in the developed countries is lower because of the availability of incubators in good numbers.

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Do you like to ride your bike?  Do you enjoy riding in a unique setting?  Are you up for a fun evening of a bit of exercise, community togetherness, nature and fun?  Then the Glow Ride on Percival’s Island is just for you.

On Friday, August 24, 2018 you will pedal under a full moon.  Meeting at Percival’s Island, you will ride 3 miles down the trail, turn around and ride back, for a total ride of 6 miles.  Dress up.  Wear bright colors, funny hats, unique shirts, have fun with it.  Decorate your bike with glow sticks and lights.  What about streamers?  Flowers?  Bows?  Bells and horns?  Again, have fun with it.  A prize will be awarded for the most festive bike, so let your imagination run wild!

The ride starts at 8:00 pm and lasts until 9:00 pm.  It is open to riders of all ages and abilities.  All bikes MUST be decorated in lights of some sort to participate.  The Glow Ride is free but you must register at www.lynchburgparkand  If you have any questions call 434.455.5858.

For guests staying at the B & B, Percival’s Island is located at the far end of downtown Lynchburg, VA from The Carriage House Inn Bed and Breakfast, about 1.25 miles.  You can ride your decorated bike from the B & B.  Just remember, it’s a steep ride or climb back up Cabell Street from the trail.  Main Street to Rivermont Avenue to D Street is a flatter route that may be a better choice.  See you at the Glow Ride!


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Excerpted from Mourad: New Moroccan by Mourad Lahlou (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2011. Photographs by Deborah Jones.

A versatile and smoky flavored way to cook eggplant.  From MOURAD: New Moroccan, by Mourad Lahlou.

Chef Mourad Lahlou writes:

"You know baba ganoush? This is not that. Flavorwise, it’s got more to do with zaalouk, one of the many Moroccan “seven salads” options: strips or hunks of boiled eggplant seasoned with garlic, harissa, cumin, and preserved lemons. I wanted to whip that idea into a purée for our popular spreads-and-flatbread sampler.  But I’m not a big fan of boiled eggplant, so I came up with this method of charring — not the skin, as people often do, but the flesh. Bingo.  It cooks the eggplant, making the pieces easy to peel, and adds smoky flavor, as well as drawing out some of the bitter moisture, the way salting would.

"And I do mean charring.  As in burning. Don’t be put off by this — just give it a try. You’ll find that the burnt part ends up being only a small portion of the mix, because a lot of it remains in the strainer. Use firm eggplants with small seeds. If you want to use the slender Asian kind, just cut them in half the long way before charring. You can also do your charring on the grill or under the broiler instead of in a skillet, brushing the pieces with a light coating of oil first.

"Lamb with eggplant is a major Moroccan combination, and this spread suggests all kinds of lamb-enhancing possibilities. Smear it on the plate with grilled lamb chops, dollop it onto slices of roasted leg of lamb, or spread it on a lamb sandwich with some fresh spinach or arugula."

  1. Cut off and discard the ends of the eggplants. Cut the eggplant crosswise into 3/4-inch slices.
  2. The eggplant is best if charred in a large dry cast-iron skillet. Turn the fan over the stove to high and set the pan over medium-high heat. Let it heat for about 5 minutes. Add as many eggplant slices as you can fit without crowding the pan. Char for about 10 minutes, using a spatula to press down on the slices and rotate them in the pan as necessary until the bottoms are blackened and burnt. Turn each piece over once it is charred and repeat on the second side. As the pieces are charred, move them to a large bowl. Repeat with the remaining slices.
  3. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and allow the eggplant to steam for about 10 minutes. Pull away and discard the peel from each slice of eggplant. Chop the eggplant and put it in a colander in the sink to drain for 20 minutes.
  4. Put the eggplant in a food processor and add all the remaining ingredients. Process to a smooth purée. Pass the purée through a fine-mesh strainer to strain out the charred bits (there will still be small dark flecks in the purée). Taste it and adjust the seasoning, adding more lemon juice, salt, and/or pepper if you think it’s needed.
  5. The spread is wonderful when just made, but it can be stored in the refrigerator for about a week. Bring to room temperature before serving.
  6. To serve, put the purée in a serving bowl, drizzle the top with olive oil, and sprinkle with Marash pepper. Serve with warm flatbread or pita chips, if desired.

Garlic Purée (Garlic Confit)

Makes about 1 cup.

3 cups garlic cloves
About 2 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil, plus additional for storing

  1. Put the garlic cloves in a small saucepan and add enough olive oil to cover them. Bring the oil to a simmer over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes, or until the garlic is soft and golden brown. At this point you have garlic confit, which can be stored in its oil for up to 3 weeks in the refrigerator.
  2. To make garlic purée, use a skimmer or slotted spoon to remove the garlic from the oil, and pass it through a fine-mesh strainer or or tamis.
  3. Put the purée in an airtight container, smooth the top, and cover with a thin layer of fresh olive oil. The purée can be refrigerated, covered, for up to 3 weeks.

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What Motivates Extreme Athletes to Take Huge Risks?

Dean Potter executes a free solo climb and fall with parchute in summer 2008 at Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.
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Last weekend, famed extreme athlete Dean Potter, along with fellow climber Graham Hunt, died in a BASE jumping accident as the pair attempted a wingsuit jump off Taft Point, an overlook that towers over Yosemite Valley. And on Monday, a YouTube video surfaced of a 73-year-old BASE jumper named James E. Hickey, who died earlier this month after setting his parachute on fire, in what was supposed to be a stunt. These three deaths seem to confirm the inherently tragic implications of the extreme athlete’s impulsive, thrill-seeking personality – what else could explain a hobby that involves diving 7,500 feet off a cliff (with or without a flaming parachute)?

These are, after all, truly dangerous pursuits. Wingsuit jumping, for the uninitiated, is a little like transforming yourself into a human flying squirrel: the suit has parachute-like flaps of fabric under the arms and between the legs that allow the wearer to “fly” along with the wind. It’s a form of BASE jumping — BASE standing for building, antenna, span and Earth (as in, the broad categories of very high things from which one can jump) — which is in itself incredibly risky, to phrase it mildly. One recent University of Colorado School of Medicine–led study found, for example, that 72 percent of the 106 BASE jumpers interviewed had witnessed the death or catastrophic injury of a fellow jumper.

So it makes sense to think that people who engage in these activities are taking foolish risks purely for the exhilaration of it all. (Potter himself lost Clif’s sponsorship last year after a documentary showed him taking chances the company wasn’t comfortable with.) But this isn’t an accurate depiction of the individuals Eric Brymer, a psychologist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, has encountered in more than a decade of studying experienced extreme athletes. On the contrary, Brymer said his work has suggested that many extreme athletes are the opposite of impulsive; not only are they careful and thoughtful planners, but they actually avoid thrill-seekers “like the plague,” he said.

When he began his work, he explained, most of the scientific literature on psychology and extreme sports linked the activity to a certain set of characteristics, “and not very good ones at that — thrill-seeking, hedonism, that they were doing this because they liked risk.” And yet none of these things accurately described the people he’d met at the outdoor adventure company where he worked while in grad school. As he looked into it further, he found that the bulk of the research up to that point had been done on teenagers and young adults, who tend to be high in impulsivity and poor decision-making anyway.

But when he conducted research specifically on experienced extreme-sports enthusiasts, he found little evidence that participants are reckless, or have some kind of Freudian death wish. Instead, Brymer has found that “older” extreme athletes — as in, those who are past their mid-20s — exercise deep care in equal proportion to the high risk involved. “A lot of these people are highly intelligent people, methodological and systematical,” Brymer said. Those he’s interviewed don’t take one spontaneous trip to REI and then sail off a cliff; rather, they spend years studying the environment and the mechanics of, for example, parachutes, before taking any action, “in order to make it as safe as it possibly can be.”

If the approach is more thoughtful for these athletes than the rest of us might suspect, so are the motivations that drive them to extreme sports in the first place. They’re not just seeking an adrenaline rush, he said: rather, what keeps many of them coming back is something akin to the flowlike state achieved through mindful meditation, one in which “you’re so in the moment that everything else drops away,” Brymer said. “You’re focused on the here and now.”

Potter once described it this way to ESPN: “My vision is sharper, and I’m more sensitive to sounds, my sense of balance and the beauty all around me. … Something sparkles in my mind, and then nothing else in life matters,” he said. Athletes interviewed by Brymer have expressed similar sentiments. “The activity itself enables experiences that are beyond the everyday,” he said. “People talk about their senses being alive, about being able to see things much more clearly. It gives them a glimpse of what it means to be human as in the capacities they have that we don’t tap into in everyday life.”

Another common misconception about extreme athletes is that they must have a weaker fear response than the rest of us, who might feel woozy just watching a video of Potter slack-lining in a Yosemite mountain range. “People assume because you’re doing things like base jumping, you have no fear,” Brymer said. “In reality, fear is an important part of the experience.” It isn’t about the absence of fear, or ignoring it when the feeling does creep in — rather, it’s about learning to use that feeling.

People tend to divide emotions into “good” and “bad,” and the unpleasant anxiety of fear means it gets placed in the “bad” category. But that’s probably not the best way to think about the feeling. Fear wakes you up, making you more alert to the potential threats or things that could go wrong — all things that are very useful in a potentially dangerous situation. (Brymer has interviewed BASE jumpers who say they don’t like to jump with people who aren’t afraid.) If, when standing at the edge of a cliff, the jumper gets a little scared, this becomes a time to check in with the prep work: their physical readiness, the environmental conditions, the gear itself. If something isn’t quite right — if the wind isn’t blowing correctly, for instance — the seasoned extreme athlete will pack it in and come back another time.

But if, after ticking through that mental list, everything checks out, it’s time to push past that fear. “There seems to be a link between that experience of fear and being able to move through it with the proper knowledge and expertise and training,” Brymer said. “Instead of fear stopping them, it gets turned into this way of saying, Okay, I need to really pay attention and be serious here.” The presence of fear is, counterintuitively, what ultimately gives them “the ability to move through fear … it’s part of what allows them to have these experiences.”

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On May 15, Chicago-based furniture shop Interior Define will debut in New York with customizable couches, sectionals, chairs, and beds (68 Greene St.).

1. Help desk: Employees assist with the customization experience using giant swatch rings and an iPad that allows customers to see different configurations.

2. Beds: Low-slung bed frame with flange seams displayed with a Tuft & Needle mattress and Parachute bedding (from $1,300).

3. Fabric wall: A 77-foot wall lined with fabric options organized by color, including reds like ruby-red suede and sunset-pebble weave and blues like sapphire velvet and ocean sateen.

4. Sofas and chairs: Three Owens chairs (from $900) hanging on the wall by eyelet hooks, each upholstered in a different color and leg style; an updated Chesterfield sofa (from $1,500).

5. Leg station: Four floating metal wall shelves displaying eight leg options, including chrome, oak, and walnut.

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Annie Bruce, owner of the new unicorn-themed accessories shop Brooklyn Owl (252 Flatbush Ave., Park Slope).

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So why is the shop called Brooklyn Owl?

“I used to be known for the owl hair clips I sold at the Brooklyn Flea. But then I started making unicorn horns and had the idea to make the shop a place where customers can actually be transformed into unicorns. First, we let them choose a horn to wear — they come in rainbow, sparkly stripes; some are printed with cats’ faces (from $14). And once they put on their horns, they get to go on a hunt for self-affirming phrases that we’ve hidden around the shop — like ‘I am amazing.’ Once they find a phrase, they have to say it into our magic mirror. And then the lights turn on and the mirror speaks back.”

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On April 15, Haro Keledjian and Sari Sloane, the husband-and-wife team behind Intermix, opened kids’ shop Ever After (349 Greenwich St.).

Sari: Last week I saw three girls about 12 years old come in by themselves. They went right back to our in-shop photo booth to take pictures of themselves, then looked through the clothes. They didn’t buy anything — I don’t even know if they had wallets.

Haro: I saw some girls buying stuff from the boys’ section, like graphic tees from Chaser and Prefresh (from $30).

Three in One
The West Village’s new épicerie-slash-retailer Clover Grocery (259 Sixth Ave.) has chickpea spaghetti, feminist T-shirts, and Burmese tableware.

1. Health
Yuzu tonic with wildflower honey ($6), quinoa tagliatelle ($13), and jarred cumin-maple barbecue sauce ($9) stored on a mahogany shelf.

2. Fashion
Alison Lou mushroom brooches in baby, mama, and papa sizes (from $110); a rack of Prabal Gurung “Femininity With a Bite” T-shirts ($195).

3. Home
A shop-in-shop of designware, with copies of Luncheon magazine ($20); pebble soaps ($15); and Hill House mini monogrammable pillowcases ($80).

Top Five
Denise Williamson, publicist and owner of the fashion-and-botanicals-focused 180 the Store (180 Duane St.), on her favorite veggie suede shoes, titanium-studded sunglasses, and asparagus plants.

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“These light-wash Chimala jeans ($506) are made with 13-ounce denim by a husband-and-wife team in a small factory in Japan. I love their raw hem.”

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“This Kataoka ring ($4,870) is made of two fused tourmaline stones and is set on hand-blended rose gold. It’s inspired by overlapping flower petals.”

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“Our Huron Moc Folk ($660) shoes are made of two pieces of leather that are sewn together over a brown veggie suede, which lets your feet breathe.”

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“These Eyevan 7285 sunnies ($438) have titanium nosepieces and temples. They’re hand-cut in Japan and have flat lenses that take out the glare.”

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“Our asparagus ferns ($20) are soft and wispy, with spindly arms that look like asparagus shooting out of the ground. And they purify the air.”

*This article appears in the May 15, 2017, issue of New York Magazine.

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Bullet For My Valentine release the first official single from their forthcoming album Temper Temper, entitled 'Riot', on 2nd February. The album will follow on 11th February.

Album tracklisting:

01. Breaking Point
02. Truth Hurts
03. Temper Temper
04. Pow
05. Dirty Little Secret
06. Leech
07. Dead To The World
08. Riot
09. Saints n Sinners
10. Tears Don’t Fall (Part 2)
11. Livin Life (On The Edge of A Knife)

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