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whjohnson 6 months ago
I wonder if we'll eventually see the same problem with a growing number of expired electric car batteries too?
Growing number of Solar panels going to landfill due to cost of 'recycling'.
Millions of solar panels in California risk being dumped on landfill sites as they reach the end of their life cycles.
Over the past two decades, more than 1.3 million homeowners and builders took advantage of state incentives to install the panels on their rooftops.
However, they have a lifespan of 25-30 years and defunct ones are starting to pile up in dumps, raising fears they will contaminate groundwater with toxic metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.
Sam Vanderhoof, a solar industry expert and chief executive of Recycle PV Solar, told the Los Angeles Times it estimated only one in ten panels were recycled because the process is expensive and time-consuming.
It costs about $20 to $30 to recycle a panel compared with $1 to $2 to send it to a landfill, according to figures from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. "The industry is supposed to be green," Vanderhoof said. "But in reality, it's all about the money."
California, with abundant all-year sunshine, was a pioneer in the adoption of solar power. In 2006 it introduced the California Solar Initiative which granted $3.3 billion in subsidies for installing panels on rooftops.
While the scheme was considered a success, officials are now grappling with how to safely dispose of the panels.
Serasu Duran, assistant professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business in Canada, warned in an academic paper last year that the industry was "woefully unprepared for the deluge of waste that is likely to come".
The issue is not limited to California — a solar panel was installed every 60 seconds last year in the US, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Duran told the LA Times: "While all the focus has been on building this renewable capacity, not much consideration has been put on the end of life of these technologies."
0 broadgage 6 months ago
I would consider that solar panels are fairly green, almost certainly better than the alternatives.
Not certain WHY so many solar panels are being dumped ? They are very long lasting and I see no need for replacement on a life cycle basis. The output slowly declines in time but should should still be useful after 50 or even 100 years.
Fossil fuel power stations generate a lot of waste at end of life. Copper is recycled, and some of the larger steel components are recycled, but a lot of the structure ends up in landfill.
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0 Jam 6 months ago
Is reducing landfill of electronic goods, including solar panels, not one of the objectives of the WEEE directive in the EU (and inherited from there now in the UK)? I am far from an expert but I believe that means implementing a take-back scheme including recycling.
Most reputable manufacturers demonstrate compliance through membership of PVCycle.
0 mapj1 6 months ago
They are mostly sand. The amount of nasty metals is almost nil, and there are not that many broken ones.
0 Simon Barker 6 months ago
We keep hearing stories of how wind turbines aren't recyclable, and solar panels aren't recyclable. Nobody mentions the recycling of coal fired power stations.
It's almost as if there's a large number of people who have a vested interest in seeing renewables curtailed.
PS. Lithuim batteries are recyclable. There aren't that many recycling centres around yet, because we don't yet have large numbers of them to recycle.
0 Andy Millar 6 months ago in reply to Simon Barker
Very very true Simon. The sad fact for our profession is that no technology is perfect in terms of environmental impact, however some technology is less imperfect than others - in some cases much less.
0 whjohnson 6 months ago in reply to Simon Barker
It is down the the cost of recycling versus that of simply burying in landfill. Landfill is cheaper.
If no longer required PV modules are still functional, then in my view re-use should be encouraged. If someone replaces a PV array, then I suspect that most of the modules still work. If a building fitted with PV modules is knocked down, then ALL the modules probably work.
A poor person living off grid would be very glad of otherwise redundant modules, even if they no longer meet the original specification. A nominal 350 watt module that now produces only 250 watts is more than enough to light a basic rural home, with a couple of secondhand or even home made batteries.
Half a dozen such modules would power a rural school or clinic in Africa.
And even completely dead modules, if physically intact make useful roofing for sheds or basic homes. In the developing world there are people who repair dead PV modules, perhaps by bypassing a failed string of cells to produce a lower but still useful voltage.
0 whjohnson 6 months ago in reply to broadgage
I agree. I keep looking at 2nd hand ones just for a project, but it's the inverters which are the expensive bit. And I didn't fancy ponying up £600 for an inverter, only to have a dodgy 2nd hand panel destroy it upon connection.
I doubt that a dodgy second hand PV module could destroy an inverter.
In the case of a battery charging system, then the battery voltage into the inverter is roughly constant, with only the charge rate determined by the PV module.
In the case of a grid tie inverter, then these are designed to operate over a very wide range of input voltages. A lower than expected voltage will reduce the energy fed back into the grid, but can not damage the inverter.
0 Roger B 6 months ago
Some interesting thoughts on reusing solar panels.
I have read about people making one good Nissin Leaf battery out of two used ones by selecting the best modules of even as far as swapping cells. That must have some risks, but as long as you understand them it should be ok to do.
The problem with the solar PV industry is that most systems, especially large ones, exist as subsidy farms and the owners/operators don't think reduce/reuse/recycle at all (as noted by those who boosted their solar output with diesel generators).
How could a market/distribution system for used but working solar panel be set up? There will be a cost in removing the panels without damage, transporting them and storing them. A solution would be to significantly increase the cost of landfill (but that also encourages fly tipping) so it is more economical to reuse/recycle. Here, Switzerland, you pay to dispose of anything that cannot be recycled, either at around 90p for a 35L rubbish bag or £1.50 per 5kg at the recycling centre. I am not sure where solar panels would fit in, are they electronic waste, covered by a WEEE supplement when purchased, or building rubble, pay by the kg?


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We Must Insist on Autonomy in the Practice of Medicine Before It's Too Late
By Stacey Lennox 4:05 PM on September 29, 2021
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It is becoming increasingly evident that vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans who are infected with COVID-19 need early outpatient treatment for COVID-19. When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decided to ration monoclonal antibodies, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis noted that even many Floridians who did precisely what the government has asked them to do require the treatment. In a September 16 press conference, DeSantis said, "At our Broward site, 52% of the patients that have received treatment have been vaccinated, 69% of those over 60 that have received treatment at the Broward site had been vaccinated."
He continued, "In Miami Dade, almost 60% of everybody that's been treated at the Tropical Park site has been vaccinated. And 73% of the patients treated at the state site in Tropical Park that are over the age of 60 have been vaccinated. I think that the message is you do need to have treatment as an important component when you're dealing with COVID."
Unfortunately, institutions are preventing doctors across the country and globally from providing treatment before hospitalization for an illness with pretty common symptoms, such as inflammation and viral replication. There are existing medications that improve both. In the United States, doctors are being threatened and intimidated by state medical boards, being overruled by hospital administrators and chain pharmacies, being censored by the media, and being investigated or even disciplined by their universities for recommending early treatment. This unprecedented interference in clinical practice motivated frontline clinicians and researchers worldwide to meet recently in Rome, Italy.
The result is the Rome Declaration, posted on September 23, with 7,200 signatures from doctors and researchers. They are demanding a restoration of the doctor/patient relationship, an end to political intrusion into the practice of medicine, and a restoration of their rights to prescribe treatment under the principle of "First do no harm." Republican governors should immediately move to restore autonomy in the practice of medicine within their borders. The regulation of licensure and the practice of medicine is primarily a state responsibility, and governors need to act like it.
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In the United States, a lack of guidance from our health bureaucracies does not mean that doctors can't look at treatments, research, and results and choose to prescribe an FDA-approved medicine in light of their findings. Even the FDA says so:
From the FDA perspective, once the FDA approves a drug, healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient.
You may be asking yourself why your healthcare provider would want to prescribe a drug to treat a disease or medical condition that the drug is not approved for. One reason is that there might not be an approved drug to treat your disease or medical condition. Another is that you may have tried all approved treatments without seeing any benefits. In situations like these, you and your healthcare provider may talk about using an approved drug for an unapproved use to treat your disease or medical condition.
Unfortunately, doctors are being threatened and intimidated into providing only treatments recommended by federal agencies for COVID-19. This paradigm is unprecedented. GOP governors should take immediate executive action to prohibit harassment from state medical boards when a doctor provides a patient with informed consent and prescribes an otherwise approved drug to treat the symptoms of COVID-19 or assist in prevention. Further, governors should use every tool possible to prevent chain pharmacies and hospital administrators from interfering in the practice of medicine.
There are some indications that Pfizer and Merck will receive emergency use authorizations for antiviral medications to treat COVID-19 in the next several months. Purportedly, these drugs prevent transmission. So did the vaccines until five minutes ago. The availability of these drugs should not preclude patients from choosing to take medications with known actions and longer safety records. Nor should politics and institutional capture.
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Until these new drugs are available, vaccinated and unvaccinated patients will need treatment. HHS is rationing monoclonal antibodies, the only approved outpatient medication for COVID-19. Governors need to free doctors to provide relief and hope using existing drugs known to treat the common symptoms of COVID-19, such as inflammation. At worst, they won't help but won't hurt. At best, they will continue to disconnect illness from hospitalization. If these governors don't restore autonomy in the practice of medicine now, it may disappear for good.
Stacey Lennox is a recovering Fortune 500 executive and healthcare professional. PJ Media readers can hear Stacey on the weekly Loftus Party podcast with comedian Michael Loftus and multiple shows a week on KLRN Radio. Want your story told anonymously? Contact me via e-mail: [email protected]
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Two of the words used for sin in Hebrew are Chata and Pesha. Why is there more than one word to describe sin? What makes Chata different from Pesha? How would we know if we have committed these offenses? Is there anything in the pictographic letters that would help us understand more and will they point to Messiah? Let's find out.
In the Ancient Scriptures, there are at least five different Hebrew words used to describe sin. Only two of them are found in the book written by Joshua that we have been following.
Therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD; for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Both of the words for sin that can be found in the writings of Joshua are here in one verse. The word sin that Joshua uses is the word Chata. The word that is translated transgressions is the other Hebrew word for sin found in Joshua's writings. That word is Pesha. Let's investigate the information hidden in both of these words to see what the nation of Israel is guilty of doing.
In the conventional Hebrew, Chata means to sin by missing the goal or by missing the mark. Chata is spelled Chet Tet Aleph.
Chet is the picture of a fence and means private and can mean to separate or to be cut off.
Tet is the picture of the snake and means to surround, to ensnare, or to encircle and can mean in either a good or a bad way.
Aleph is the picture of the Ox and stands for the strong leader or the head of the family and can mean God the Father.
So the first mystery we see in Chata is that Joshua's people are surrounded and cut off from God the Father even though they missed the goal or missed the mark unintentionally.
Chet is also the number 8, which when it is found in Scripture refers to a new beginning. Tet is the number 9 which is used to point to an evaluation of man resulting in judgment. Aleph is the number 1 which points to God the Father. So the judgment resulting from our missing the goal stands between God the Father and the new beginning He wants to offer us.
But remember that Tet can also mean to surround in a good way. God the Father in His evaluation has always had a plan to encircle the people He loves and provides a way for them to experience that new beginning. That plan would be revealed in Messiah.
As bad as Chata seems, the transgressions that Joshua mentioned is worse. In conventional Hebrew, Pesha is a stronger word for sin and implies a deliberate rebellion against Yahweh and His law. Pesha is spelled Pey Sheen Ayin.
Pey is the picture of the mouth and means to speak or to open.
Sheen is the picture of teeth and means to press, to consume, or to destroy and is the one letter that God uses to identify Himself.
So the pictographs of the word Pesha tell us that for those who deliberately rebel against the laws of Yahweh, He declares He will make them know and experience judgment and destruction. But there is good news in the numbers these three letters represent. Pey is the number 80 and points to a new birth. Sheen is the number 300 and is used to represent the final blood sacrifice of the perfect Lamb of God. Ayin is the number 70 and indicates perfect spiritual order carried out with spiritual power and significance.
Yahweh has wanted all along for His people to turn from their rebellion and let Him heal them by the perfect blood sacrifice of Yeshua Ha-Mashiach, Jesus the Christ.
But why did Joshua say that his people could not serve the LORD? Why would Yahweh not forgive their Chata, their unintentional sin, or their Pesha, their deliberate sin?
Unbelievably, they were still worshiping idols instead of Yahweh.
For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgement and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
The word sin used here is again the word for sin that means to miss the mark. But here we are looking at someone who is missing the mark on purpose! For this person, the blood sacrifice of Yeshua will not apply. He instead is going to suffer judgment.
For those of us who Chata or sin even though unintentional, Yahweh has preserved in the pictographs the picture of us being cut off and fenced in away from our Heavenly Father. In the pictographs in Pesha, Yahweh says we will see our intentional sin result in crushing judgment and destruction.
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Interview with Rising Dutch Talent D-Wayne | TURN UP THE BASS
D-Wayne has been making waves in the EDM scene since being selected to join the Jacked team by Afrojack himself last year. He's worked on high profile projects such as remixing Tiesto, Jennifer Lopez and Afrojack & Chris Brown's collab "As Your Friend." We caught up with the skilled producer for a chat about working with Afrojack, creating his own sound, and ghost producing for others.
You and Afrojack collaborated on the track "Freedom" off his album 'Forget The World,' how did that track come together?
I performed at the EMAs this year in Amsterdam and we met up right afterwards. Usually when we are together we just open up our laptops and we start working. Right after the EMAs we hit the studio in Amsterdam. I think the initial plan was to stay for one week but in the end we stayed for like two months. We had a lot of fun creating tracks every day. We would wake up at 3 or 4 and go to the studio at 5 and stayed working until 7 or 8 in the morning. "Freedom" was our two ideas together, then Jack threw down some vocals on it. He is also on my next single, the anthem for Electric Run in the Netherlands. I'm actually flying down tonight for it because I'm the European headliner for the party tomorrow in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands it sold out right away – 15,000 people. I'll be closing out the main stage.
Electric Run is kind of like a marathon with an EDM twist.
Yeah, everyone is running. It's like 5 km and when they finish they just have a party. It's a really cool concept because I've ran a marathon that was 5 km and when it was finished I was so excited and so full of adrenaline. I like the idea of crossing the finish line and then having a party.
What was the production process like for your next single?
What I want to do with my tracks right now is work towards my own sound. I want to add a touch of organicness to my tracks so live instruments for example. We had an electric guitarist write with us and Jack is singing on it. Jack is an artist who comes from the rock side of music and that's what I found really interesting about the collaboration. In music there are no rules and you can collaborate with anyone. That's what it was like when we were together in the writer's camp. We all came from different sides and we just started writing and this is what popped up. It was an inspirational process as well because it changes your whole mind set about producing music. I'm really excited about the track.
It sounds like you went about it the right away and didn't try and force anything unnatural out.
Yeah because right now everyone sounds the same. Martin Garrix respect to him for "Animals" because he came up with something completely new and he did it really well but right afterwards you had so many copycats who made "Animals 2," "3","4," "5," and so on. I want to do something new. The only advice Afrojack ever gave me was when I first started working with him and that was to stay true to myself. That's what I've been doing. Music is my hobby and my job right now. I just want to make what I like. Staying unique might be hard in the beginning because you want to get the recognition for your hard work but in the end it will pay off because people will see that your sound keeps evolving and it's your own sound. Eventually you will get more fans.
For sure, think about Avicii last year at Ultra. He came on with a country music band and people were shocked and didn't like it at first. He had a lot of hate on his social media pages from angry fans, then flash forward a few months later and he had the #1 album and the #1 single on iTunes in almost every country. In the beginning people didn't know how to take it because it was so different.
Respect to Avicii. He took a big risk and now it's like a big fuck you to everyone.
Definitely, so if you could be any animal what would you be and why?
I think I would like to be some kind of bird or something because I really love flying. I think being up in the air with all the silence is so peaceful. My life is very hectic right now so peaceful time is good.
"X-Ray Vision" on Wall Recordings and then the Electric Run anthem we are waiting to get signed. I have about 5 or 6 tracks ready to release. I did a track with Marcus Schossow – he's a really great guy, really amazing and such a funny guy. I also have something coming out together with Leon Boiler.
Leon Boiler the old-school guy? He's very out spoken.
Yes, he's very outspoken and one of the few guys that's maybe suffering from being too unique. The shit he makes is awesome. We made a really nice track together and it's going to be on Wall Recordings. There's also a track coming out together with Far East Movement for a single on their album. They are great guys to work with and have a great team behind them as well. I actually made a trap beat for them.
Trap?
Yeah, people don't really know that I make a lot of different music. I make commercial tracks as well. Sometimes I even just do classical stuff on the piano. I want to make what I like. Sometimes I'm in the studio and I make some weird trippy shit too.
What do you do with all that other music you make?
I keep it and sometimes we send it out to labels. Some of the labels have sent out my new beats to some pretty big artists and they are writing on it.
I guess that's kind of like ghost producing. How did you get started ghosting for others?
When you start producing people start getting excited about your tracks and people just email you. I mean it's not like my main priority but I still do it for other people. I don't think it's a bad thing as long as people say they use a ghost producer. I'm not anti-ghost producing. In the end it's about the music and the way people market themselves. I had a panel with Markus Schultz and David Tort and a guy from the audience asked how do you build a loyal fan base. They were like the best way to do that is to be unique and have your own unique selling point and sounds. I took the mike and was like I totally agree but nowadays the music is the essence but it's such a small part of it. It's all about social media these days. It's so important to connect with your fans and engage them. The market in the industry is just changing. Ten years ago there weren't marketing and PR companies doing social media for artists but right now they are just popping up everywhere.
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Join us for the unveiling of two artistic projects engaging landscape: Pablo Helguera's performative symposium on "Intranscendentalist" art and Hope Ginsburg's exhibition Land Dive Team. Artist and educator Pablo Helguera and the Mildred's Lane summer fellows will present a performative body of research they have developed together exploring the "Intranscendentalists," an obscure group of late-19th-Century pre-avant-garde thinkers and artists who created an (ultimately failed) artistic/philosophical movement to "kill the father" of Transcendentalism.
After this, join Hope Ginsburg for the opening of Land Dive Team. The exhibition features Breathing on Land, a new body of work that takes meditation with SCUBA gear as a starting point to refocus attention on our bodies, their contexts and implicitly the health of our atmosphere. Presenting images and documents of recent "land dives" in the desert of Qatar, a remediated wetland in Virginia, and at Mildred's Lane, the exhibition presents the viewer with an absurd practice of hyper-mediation that evokes an ominous survivalist impulse in the face of environmental catastrophe.
The Complex(ity) Project Space is located at 37b Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY.
Pablo Helguera (Mexico City, 1971) is a New York based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, socially engaged art and performance. Helguera's work focuses in a variety of topics ranging from history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics, ethnography, memory and the absurd, in formats that are widely varied including the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction. Helguera has exhibited or performed at venues such as the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; ICA Boston; RCA London; 8th Havana Biennal, PERFORMA 05, Havana; Shedhalle, Zurich; MoMA P.S.1, New York; Brooklyn Museum; IFA Galerie, Bonn; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; MALBA museum in Buenos Aires, Ex-Teresa Espacio Alternativo in Mexico City, The Bronx Museum, Artist Space, and Sculpture Center, amongst many others. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, ArtNews, amongst others. In 2008 he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and also was the recipient of a 2005 Creative Capital Grant. In 2011 he was named winner of the International Award of Participatory Art of the Region Emilia-Romagna in Italy. He has also received the Franklin Furnace and Art Matters grants.
Hope Ginsburg makes project-based work that pivots around the production of live events and the images, objects and physical spaces that they generate. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as MoMA PS1, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Wexner Center for the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art and SculptureCenter. Ginsburg's pedagogical project Sponge (2006–present) has been the focus of solo exhibitions in Richmond, VA and New York, NY and her Sponge HQ, sited at Virginia Commonwealth University will celebrate its fifth anniversary this August. In 2014, at a Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, she began a new body of work entitled "Breathing on Land", which takes meditating on land with scuba as a starting point for considering the health of our atmosphere. Hope Ginsburg is an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts.


This New York Times article had us at the first line: "The winner of a contest to encourage creativity in print advertising, with a grand prize of $1 million worth of full-page ad space in USA Today, is a company that, it can be said, is a reason there are contests to encourage creativity in print advertising with prizes like $1 million worth of full-page newspaper ad space." Can you guess who it was? Don't cheat now. Don't Google it.
This New York Times article had us at the first line: "The winner of a contest to encourage creativity in print advertising, with a grand prize of $1 million worth of full-page ad space in USA Today, is a company that, it can be said, is a reason there are contests to encourage creativity in print advertising with prizes like $1 million worth of full-page newspaper ad space." Can you guess who it was? Don't cheat now. Don't Google it.
Shoot we didn't give it away, did we? Yup, it was Google, well the Google Creative Lab. The ad was for the Google+ Hangout service and involved the reprinting of an article about the Dalai Lama and Desmond M. Tutu not being able to meet up - there were words very humanly crossed out and replaced to indicate had they used Google+ Hangout there wouldn't have been a problem. And while we wouldn't normally touch on anything offline, this one was too ironic not to mention.


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Childish Gambino 3.15.20
By A. Harmony
In the same vein as his explosive 2018 single, "This Is America," Childish Gambino continues to contemplate the state of the world on 3.15.20. His latest effort is obscure and experimental, combining the uptempo, pop-leaning feel of Gambino's earlier albums with the withering social commentary of his most recent work.
The album is dotted with unintelligible moments, like the intro, "0.00," and the murky "32.22," on which Gambino tries a bit too hard to be mysterious and highbrow. But although the sounds on the album don't always quite fit together, 3.15.20 has plenty of peak moments to spare.
Among them is "12.38," a flirty, hip-swinging affair featuring uncredited guests 21 Savage, Ink and Kadhja Bonet. "19.10" is a bright and bouncy summary of the Black experience, an ode to existing in a world where one's very being is both hated and coveted. "47.48" reaches back to the vintage, soulful sound Gambino toyed with on 2016's Awaken, My Love! Though the lyrics on this song fret over the scourge of chronic violence, the music is still laced with hope.
Though Gambino takes himself a bit too seriously at times, 3.15.20's pleasant moments make up for his missteps. (RCA)
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Spatial variability of intraurban particulate air pollution: epidemiological implications and applications
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Wilson, J. Gaines
The past twenty years of research that has associated air pollution with health outcomes has brought remarkable advance in statistical techniques that effectively tease out the intricacies of the relationship. However, while statistical techniques progressed, an assumption based on seminal work in the field persisted: that concentrations of particulate matter (PM) air pollution are spatially homogeneous within urban areas, and consequently, that personal exposures could be based on central monitoring site data alone. Although this assumption went unaddressed for years, it has now come to researchers' attention that it may be flawed and that the assumption may induce exposure misclassification error under certain conditions. This thesis explores intraurban spatial variability in PM through a systematic review of the literature, experimental field testing, modelling, and new methodological approaches. The key outcomes of the thesis are as follows: (i) the publication of the first systematic review of the intraurban particulate literature, challenging the widely-held assumption that PM concentrations are spatially uniform; (ii) an experimental test was conducted in Christchurch, New Zealand, revealing that the homogenous assumption was false for a city with high wintertime particulate matter concentrations; (iii) an integrated meteorological-emission model was evaluated for the first time at the intraurban level for PM and a new study design was suggested; and (iv) the spatial modification effect of social and ecological confounders was analysed with respect to respiratory hospital admissions and PM. Collectively, these outcomes provide a new body of knowledge informing researchers focused on assessing the relationship between air pollution and health in applications ranging from small-area exposure assessment to the wider field of environmental epidemiology.
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HomeTravelPure medieval spirit - the most beautiful village in Spain
Pure medieval spirit – the most beautiful village in Spain
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A piece of the medieval Spain has been conserved extremely well in the village Albarracin of the Aragon Province, situated in the northeast corner of the Iberian Peninsula.
Surrounded by hills, the village is full of attractive sights, from Romanic alleys and beautiful houses to imposing castles and chapels. Above the village rises a majestic cathedral built in the Mudéjar style, full of elaborate ornaments inspired by Islamic art.
The village has only about 1,000 inhabitants today, but it used to be a settlement of exceptional importance during the Middle Ages as the capital of a taifa, that is, an independent Muslim-ruled principality; these small kingdoms were established after the caliphates had been liquidated. Some of these taifas actually paid tribute to Christians in order to maintain their independence.
Enjoy the images of this amazing Spanish village – click on a photo to view the next one in the gallery.
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Facing deportation, woman finds sanctuary in church
Saheeda Nadeem moved into a church in the southwest part of the state in an effort to avoid being deported to Pakistan
Facing deportation, woman finds sanctuary in church Saheeda Nadeem moved into a church in the southwest part of the state in an effort to avoid being deported to Pakistan Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2Hytdwh
Associated Press Published 5:22 p.m. ET March 13, 2018
Saheeda Perveen Nadeem sits in the First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in downtown Kalamazoo, Mich., on Monday, March 12, 2018, the day she was scheduled for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The church has offered sanctuary to the Pakistani who has lived in the U.S. for 13 years and who's 20-year-old son is protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.(Photo: Mark Bugnaski / AP)
Kalamazoo – A Michigan woman has moved into a church in the southwest part of the state in an effort to avoid being deported to Pakistan.
Saheeda Nadeem moved into an apartment at First Congregational Church in Kalamazoo Monday.
"I'm worried, but I feel safe here," she said.
A GoFundMe page has been started to raise funds to help support her.
The 62-year-old was born in Pakistan, and then lived in Kuwait before moving to the U.S. 13 years ago. She came to the U.S. legally but overstayed her visa. She's worked as a caregiver at a Kalamazoo group home for more than a decade and hasn't been back to Pakistan in 40 years.
"My only son is here and they are asking me to go back, I don't want to leave him," Nadeem said. Her 20-year-old son is protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy until 2019.
First Congregational unanimously voted to become a public sanctuary church last year. The congregation won't let ICE tear families apart, said Rev. Nathan Dannison, a senior pastor at the church.
"We do these things today not for political reasons, but because we are disciples of Jesus Christ," Dannison said. "We follow a higher law."
A 2011 Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo says the agency's policy limits actions at places of worship, except in extreme cases. ICE didn't immediately respond to the Kalamazoo Gazette's request for comment.
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Q: Data extraction using Regular expressions Hi I have a file of the format
 [stuff not needed]Type:A1[stuff not needed]
 [stuff not needed]Name:B1[stuff not needed]
 Row:Sampletext
 Row:Sampletext
 [stuff not needed]Type:A2[stuff not needed]
 [stuff not needed]Name:B2[stuff not needed]
 Row:Sampletext2
 Row:Sampletext2
 Row:Sampletext2

I am using regexin powershell to extract the data.
I am using something like Regex1|Regex2|Regex3 ,and saving the output to a file.
The output comes in the format:
A1
B1
Sampletext
Sampletext
A2
B2
Sampletext2
Sampletext2
Sampletext2

I want it in the format
A1 B1 Sampletext
A1 B1 Sampletext
A2 B2 Sampletext2
A2 B2 Sampletext2
A2 B2 Sampletext2

I am new to PowerShell, is there any way I can do this ?
This is the exact code the I have:
$input_path = 'idx.txt'
$output_file = 'output.txt'
$regex = 'Type:\s([A-Za-z]*)|Name:\s\s([A-Za-z]*)|[A-Za-z][a-z0-9A-Z_]*(?:\s*[0-6]\s*[0-4]\s\s[\s\d]\d\s*0)'
select-string -Path $input_path -Pattern $regex -AllMatches | % { $_.Matches } | % { $_.Value } > $output_file

The data is too big to be posted here ,but ill just create a sample data set.But the regular expressions are working ,maybe crude but its capturing the data required .
for the sake of the example ,we can have Type:([A-Za-z])|Name:([A-Za-z])|Row:([A-Za-z]*) as the regular expressions

A: Check every line if it has type or name and set the corresponding variables only, but if it has row output the type and name variables along with the current row contents.
$allmatches = Select-String '(Type|Name|Row):\s*(\w*)' $input_path -allmatches
$output = foreach ($m in $allmatches) {
    $data = $m.Matches.Groups[2].Value
    switch ($m.Matches.Groups[1].Value) {
        'Type' { $type = $data; break }
        'Name' { $name = $data; break }
        'Row'  { "$type $name $data" }
    }
}
$output | Set-Content $output_path -Encoding UTF8

Notes:

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*We use a faster foreach expression instead of slower pipelining via foreach with a scriptblock.

*\w in regex means any word character including a-zA-Z0-9 and _ and some more

*Regex-matching and string comparison are case-insensitive in PowerShell by default

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Princeton graduate alumnus Goyal named Schmidt Science Fellow for close view of cell behavior
Scott Lyon, Office of Engineering Communications
April 30, 2018 9:56 a.m.
Princeton graduate alumnus Yogesh Goyal, center, has been named to the inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows, a postdoctoral program that strives to "drive world-changing advances across the sciences and society." From left are Goyal's co-advisers at Princeton, professors Stanislav Shvartsman and Gertrud Schüpbach.
David Kelly Crow
Graduate alumnus Yogesh Goyal has been named to the inaugural class of Schmidt Science Fellows, a postdoctoral program that strives to "drive world-changing advances across the sciences and society."
Goyal arrived at Princeton in 2012 having trained strictly as a chemical engineer. But his work quickly evolved into a collaboration with departments and labs across the campus, connecting with researchers in molecular biology and genomics. He completed his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering in 2017.
"He emerged as somebody who is equally versatile with a pipette and a microscope and a computer and a paper and pencil," said Goyal's co-adviser Stanislav Shvartsman, professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
Now Goyal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, plans to pivot again, applying computational approaches to single-cell biology and phenomena that biologists call rare events. For example, when a bacterial cell mutates and becomes impervious to antibiotics, that small change can grow to dominate the bacteria population. Understanding the original mutation — the rare event — gives scientists a clarifying view of how organisms develop. Shvartsman said the work could have major implications in molecular medicine, impacting areas like cancer resistance and the spread of infectious disease.
"Single-cell techniques allow us to get the whole repertoire of genes expressed in a particular cell at a particular time in development," said Gertrud Schüpbach, the Henry Fairfield Osborn Professor of Biology and professor of molecular biology, who also co-advised Goyal at Princeton. By collecting snapshots of this information repeatedly over time, scientists can develop a picture of gene expression that outstrips older methods, which tend to work gene by gene.
"You really get down to the actual genetic program that is developing," Schüpbach said. "And that is very exciting."
Goyal, who grew up in a mountainous region of India, attributes his success largely to an organic process of discovering science on his own terms as a child, without the heavy burden of social pressures. "There were no rules for me to do well in school," he said. "I did end up doing well in school later on in my life, but slowly, because of my interests outside of the classroom." Goyal has been studying and working in the United States since he arrived at Princeton six years ago.
The Schmidt Fellows — eight men, six women — represent nine nationalities and 12 universities. Shvartsman said opportunities like this are key to retaining foreign talent in the United States.
The program was created by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Google, graduated from Princeton with a degree in electrical engineering in 1976. In addition to a one-year placement in a "field-leading lab" outside his or her existing expertise, each fellow receives a $100,000 stipend and attends four global meetings to train in issues of leadership, policy, and the interfaces of science with the public and private sectors.
Along with developing cutting-edge technologies with wide applications, Goyal hopes to use his fellowship year to work directly with artists. He envisions expanding on an unusual two-way process that began in Shvarstman's lab at Princeton. "The processes of thinking in science and art are very similar," he said. "Getting opinions from artists from different perspectives is very important to me. Now I want to do it much more systematically." Imagery from his scientific work was featured in the 2014 and 2017 exhibitions of Princeton's Art of Science competition.
When asked what he thought about his former student's mounting success, Shvartsman leaned back in his chair and grinned. "I think we'll be hearing about him."
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California Eliminated Bail To Try To Make Its Jail System More Fair
By Monica Hunter-Hart
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will eliminate cash bail in California, the first state in the country to make such a move. Although many social justice advocates condemn the practice of requiring bail, they haven't necessarily backed the legislation. The ACLU first gave and then withdrew its support after arguing that new adjustments to the bill allow judges to discriminate against defendants.
Bail is meant to ensure that people accused of serious crimes show up to their court proceedings, per a congressional report. If you're arrested, you'll often be required to pay a sum of money in order to be released before your court date, frequently in cash. You'll get that money back if you show up for every court date like you're supposed to.
The system has been heavily criticized. According to The New York Times, around 60 percent of those who are currently in jail (which is around 2.3 million people, per the Prison Policy Initiative) haven't yet been convicted of a crime: They're waiting for decisions to be made about their cases. Many will be behind bars until their court dates just because they can't afford bail.
Even bail sums that are considered comparatively low can often be difficult for people to acquire. The Times reports that a third of nonfelony cases are given bail of $500 or less in New York City, and that only 15 percent of the accused can put that sum together. In 2015, Sandra Bland died in jail after being unable to pay her $500 bail.
California's new bill aims to prevent low-income people from getting stuck in jail just because they can't afford bail. Decisions about whether to hold the accused in custody will now be made by local courts using an algorithm that they each create (it will be based on "how likely they are to show up for their court date, the seriousness of their crime, and the likelihood of recidivism," according to NPR). Most people accused of committing nonviolent misdemeanors will be released within 12 hours.
"Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly," Gov. Brown said in a statement on Tuesday. Senator Robert Herzberg, one of the legislation's authors, added: "Our path to a more just criminal justice system is not complete, but today it made a transformational shift away from valuing private wealth and toward protecting public safety."
But not everyone thinks that this new bill is equitable. The ACLU originally co-sponsored it but backed out, claiming that new changes give judges too much power in deciding who gets to leave jail. "We are concerned that the system that's being put into place by this bill is too heavily weighted toward detention and does not have sufficient safeguards to ensure that racial justice is provided in the new system," a spokesperson for the ACLU told NPR.
Silicon Valley De-Bug, another organization that originally supported the bill but changed its mind, said that the legislative changes constituted a "bait-and-switch." Co-founder Raj Jayadev told The Sacramento Bee, "They took our rallying cry of ending money bail and used it against us to further threaten and criminalize and jail our loved ones."
California's new law will take effect in October of 2019.


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Q: Vertically Align Text Within Floating Div I have a div right floating within another div container. Within the right floating div I'm displaying text (date / time). How do I vertically align the text without using top padding? When I use top padding it moves my div down and then it's no longer center within the container. Thanks!

A: In your css try using line-height on your container. Use the same value in your line-height as in the height of your container. That should vertically align you text.
If the div is height:50px; than add line-height:50px;

A: Here is an example that adds a floating DIV to the right and centers the text in it vertically and horizontally.
http://jsfiddle.net/johnpapa/pUr6T/
The trick here is to set the line-height of the element to be the full height of its container.

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It is a year now since SH&BA reformed itself as SH&BA 2016 Limited but we are picking up members and running panel meetings that are adding to the understanding of the Smart Home and are adding new dimensions to the market.
Reducing the energy the home uses and also the cost of that energy. This area of work includes projects which seek to look at groups of homes, buildings and businesses and to see how their aggregate energy can be bought as if by a "Large Energy User" and provided to all the end users at costs which are significantly less than when purchased directly from standard Energy Suppliers. (Of course it is in the energy suppliers interest to be involved in this since they have the opportunity to manage more effectively their trading and can grow their market). For this to be effective, these groupings have to be able to manage the overall load on the distribution system such that the system charges are minimised and energy costs through half hour purchase are constrained when energy is expensive. Our projects have looked at many potential groupings of end users and one of our potential solutions is to create community cooperatives that own, buy and provide energy for the group. There are many issues with this approach including the way energy is regulated. SH&BA will be discussing these issues in its Energy Panel.
Another area of this work is to lessen the amount of energy the Smart Home (and building) uses and SH&BA will be operating a Panel concerned with the built environment. This is an area where quite massive benefits can be realised. For instance, we know that Passiv Haus homes use virtually no energy and the technology to create homes such as this is well known. The question SH&BA and the UK and Europe (and the rest of the world) should be asking is "can the existing housing stock have its energy use lessened to around Passiv Haus levels?". If we could do this today the amount the UK would spend on energy in the domestic sector would fall by around £30 Billion per annum (€600 Billion for Europe as a whole). Of course we cannot do this overnight, there are some 25 million homes in the UK and 20 times that in the EU, but we can look at the ways in which this can be achieved. SH&BA has looked at this in the past and came up with the 20 20 20 project which aimed to reduce the energy a house used to just 20% of its existing energy consumption, use off-site construction and robotic assisted systems for on site working 24/7 to do the work in (an average of) 20 days and do it for an average cost of £20k. The sums involved are massive, but for a 30 year period from 2020 the UK would be engaging in £18 Billions worth of construction, find work for potentially 500,000 people and increase GDP by upto £50 Billion per annum. The work would improve the homes of and employ people in every part of the UK. I will return to this in future blogs.
How people are cared for in our Smart Homes is also a major area of SH&BA's work and we are involved with the CHIRON project which is looking at how we can introduce care assistance robots to reduce the pressure on carers, social services and the NHS. This is the subject of the next SH&BA Panel meeting. But we are also looking at what a home needs to be if it is to be a Caring Home and be a place where we are safe and well looked after as we age or if we have disabilities. Obviously Smart Systems and Smart Devices play their part and finding ways in which today's elderly can use Smart devices and systems to help them live well is another area we will be looking at.
For instance, voice control is beginning to be used by many people at home now with Amazon Echo, Dot and Alexa but finding ways in which today's elderly people can intuitively use them when the user may be in the onset of dementia is a major level of difficulty. However, such devices can begin to understand and converse with their subjects, they can deliver a level of conversation to deliver contact and intelligent presence and thus stimulation, motivation and reassurance for the isolated elderly are immense. Furthermore they can recover memories and feed these back to engage and stimulate people and potentially delay dementia. If a voice system can combat loneliness and provide contact with family and friends, one of the major problems of old age can be lessened.
There are two aspects of Security that SH&BA is interested in.
One is the physical security of the home and how safe the people living in it are. So a Smart Home must have windows and doors that are secured and have smart systems which ensure that doors and windows are locked and safe at night. Such systems often link to smart devices. SH&BA covers physical security under its Built Environment Panel.
Who is responsible for security in the Smart Home?
Who has the liability when failures of security cause loss of privacy, of money or injury.
The liabilities could be very expensive. Indeed for some companies, it could be existential.
taken every step to ensure their product or service is secure and can prove it.
collaborated with other industry players to ensure their combined services are secure and can prove it.
followed every guideline put forward by standards, their insurers and government agencies and have followed "best practice" and can prove it.
This is not straightforward. Therefore the SH&BA Security panel going forward will consist of a series of meetings whose aim is to understand the issues and identify potential risks and their mitigation.
SH&BA has in the past been highly involved in helping members understand the underlying technology of the Smart Home. We will continue to do this as the technology landscape becomes evermore complex. Interoperability is still not something that is a given in the Smart Home and understanding all the systems and the interactions between them will help all the players in the Smart Home understand the issues. The SH&BA Technology Panel may well be held again this year.
Ultimately, if the Smart Home is to become something everyone has, then the supply chain between the people using such systems and the manufacturers and retailers needs to understand one another. SH&BA is feeding understanding across sectors through its Manufacturers and Retailers Panel which involves a wide range of service providers, manufacturers and retailers in attendance.
The consumer's perspective though is not covered by SH&BA and we think that this is an issue. Perhaps this Blog will provide greater clarity for the people who buy and use Smart Systems, Smart Devices and Smart Appliances in their Smart Homes as the blog covers the above issues in more detail and provides feedback from the panel meetings.
Stephen Pattenden is a Board Member of SH&BA.


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We had a nice jag of smaller yellowtail and rainbow runners...close cousin to yellowtail...this week like the one held here by our amigo, Leonard Bishop. The fish are great on light tackle and great eating. Hopefully, some of the larger yellowtail will pop up soon!
Emily Duncan from Santa Barbara usually outfishes dad when she comes to visit and shows off the type of sierra we were getting this week. Pretty typical for this time of year. The sharp-toothed speedsters can come in packs!
A crazy mixed week of weather and fishing down here. Some days windy and other days nice, flat and sunny. Thankfully, the wet stuff that hit the West Coast of the U.S. this week didn't make it down, but we still got winds.
Talk about a crazy week of fishing, we got warm water species like dorado, bonito and even had a marlin hookup, but at the same time…same days…and sometimes even the same panga, we got pargo, snapper, cabrilla (seabass) and even some smaller yellowtail and rainbow runners…all coldwater fish.
That's kind of encouraging to hear about the yellowtail and rainbow runners. I've been getting alot of inquiries asking when the yellowtail will show up. I wish I had a crystal ball, but it really all just depends on the water temperatures. The best time is usually about Feb. or March to start and then through May. Again, it just depends on the water. The big jacks are cooler water fish so don't count on catching yellowtail at the same time as dorado and tuna. It's not impossible, just not real likely! But yellowtail are brutes when they come on strong! We'll keep you posted.
Not many anglers down right now so you get the whole honey hole all to yourself. Live sardines are working best. Highs in the upper 70's to low 80's in the day time and a pleasant mid-60's at night. A great time to be down!
Unfortunately, for those of you who belong to the Bloody Decks message boards, we're no longer able post our fishing reports there but you can still find us on other great sites such as www.senortuna.com ; www.getbentsportfishing.com and www.allcoastsportfishing.com and many others . We'll miss our Bloody Decks amigos! We enjoyed it and they were always great to us!
Lastly…hope everyone had an outstanding Christmas! Let's continue on…Jill and I and all of our Tailhunter Crew and Tribal Members wish all our fish brothers and fish sisters and your families a fantastic New Year for 2011 and we hope to see you in La Paz!
From both Jill and I and all of our Tailhunter family here in La Paz from our captains to our drivers and managers as well as our our great folks at our Tailhunter Restaurant, we want to wish you and your family the very best for a peaceful and safe holidays and Christmas. Thanks for being part of our fun adventure and we hope the new year brings all things good! God bless!
There's alot of sierra like this beauty that have moved into all kinds of shallow areas around La Paz and especially along the shoals just inside the bay. You definitely don't need to go out far to get into a great bite. Besides using bait, these toothy guys will readily hit flashy, shiny splashy lures like shiny feathers, trolled crank baits and shiny spoons. Thanks to William Boyd for this shot of his fish.
No promises during this time of the year, but sure...there's still dorado around. In fact, earlier in the week we had a pretty decent dorado bite that gave way when the winds picked up. But, there are still warm fingers of water around holding these great fish like the one being held by William Boyd.
DORADO STILL HOLDING BUT WINDS LATE IN WEEK KEEP ANGLERS CLOSE TO SHORE!
For once, this past week was more typical of December fishing. Beautiful sunny weather puntuated some days by some extremely high winds then other days that are completely calm. Just no telling which days will be breezy and which days will be flat…so you just go out and do what you're gonna do. It's still going to beat mowing the lawn or sitting in traffic.
By the same token, fishing reflected the weather Earlier in the week when the winds were down everyone was surprised by dorado which bit nicely. They were a nice grade of fish as well and not too far from shore with fish up to about 18 pounds. For winter, that's a decent fish and some of the anglers we had early in the week were fishing with light tackle or with flyrods. So, we had alot of happy folks with tired arms.
Later in the week, winds came up and the conditions dicated more inshore fishing. Accordingly our catches reflected more sierra, jack crevalle, bonito, snapper and cabrilla.
Everything is biting live bait right now so sardines and a good hook are pretty much all you need…except with sierra. Their sharp teeth are best thwarted with a bit of wire leader.
That's our story! Merry Christmas y Feliz Navidad everyone!
Sherriff's Officer and good friend from the San Francisco Bay area, Verda Boyd always makes it down for her birthday at the beginning of December and does well. She's holding a trophy-sized sierra here and got limits of the toothy fish...cousins to wahoo...while fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas fleet.
We try not to get anyone's expectations too high when it comes to the kind of fish they might catch right now especially with the winds blowing, but when the winds are down, there's still some good blue water fishing here as shown by Ed Runyon who poked up some quality dorado fishing with our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet.
Captain Tim Zimmer is a fishing veteran so he knows all the tricks...like holding his sierra close to the camera to make it look bigger. (The giant hands are the giveaway) Nice try, Tim!
This week was more typical of December fishing in La Paz. Seasonal winds are the biggest variable right now in where we fish ; how we fish and what we catch. But, this is not unusual for winter.
If the winds are not blowing, we can fish both our La Paz and our Las Arenas fleets. But, that's not usually the case and since my crystal ball doesn't predict winds, we do about ninety percent of our fishing with our Las Arenas fleet. Not only is the fishing closer, but if the winds do kick up, at least we're not far and generally more protected.
Likewise, if the winds aren't blowing , the waters are still warm enough to fish for pelagic species like dorado, some tuna, wahoo and billfish. They're not abundant, but there are still scattered blue-water fish around with dorado being the most prevalent. The nice thing about dorado is that they will come close to shore so even if it's windy, the possibility of nailing a dorado or two while fishing close to shore is not out-of the-question.
But, if it's windy, well…that changes the gameboard. I'd say right now about 3-5 days of the week are blustery. So, we're fishing inshore for lots of sierra, pargo, snapper, bonito, cabrilla and other species of rock fish. There's an occasional roosterfish as well. These are not necessarily small fish either. Some of the sierra are 5-8 pounds. Pargo and snapper can be up to 20 pounds. Bonito are…well, bonito…they act about 3 times bigger than they are!
Our condolences to the Van Wormer family. Earlier this week, Bobby Van Wormer, the Baja icon who came down when Baja was just a desert smudge as an engineer to fix boat motors and went on to build the East Cape empire that includes Hotel Palmas de Cortez, Playa de Sol and Punta Colorado passed away earlier this week. He had been battling cancer and respiratory problems. Bobby was a giant which is what it takes to survive down here and turn patches of desert into an oasis in the days when there weren't even roads and electricity. He was a pioneer and one of the first to promote environmental conservation of the fisheries as well. And, for me, he always had a smile and I was privileged to have broken bread with him a time or two. Sadly the end of an era.
That's our story! Stay warm!
No matter what time of year, it's a good day when we can get dorado like this beauty taken by Ed Runyon. He and his 10-year-old, son Blake were fishing with our Captain Archangel. There's some great video Ed sent us. Check it out below.
What a great combination. A honeymoon and catching dorado for Jessica Henry from Alaska. Dorado are still biting, but it's getting cooler and windier these days.
Captain Jorge of our Tailhunter Las Arenas Fleet poses with Ryan Orr and Ben Darling after a day of fishing out've Muertos Bay. Both anglers are from Canada. Almost all of our fishing right now is out've Muertos Bay to protect from the northern winds that are becoming more predominant.
Darren Henry gets up-close-and-intimate with a bull dorado he caught fishing off Punta Perrico with live bait.
It's been an incredible year for swimming with the whalesharks in the bay! I don't think I've ever seen so many in the bay for a good part of the year or we've had so many days when they were just "hanging out!" It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience to get in the water with these gentle giants that can reach 40 or more feet long and are true sharks, but are plankton eaters. That's Don Busse snorkeling in about 10 feet of water in this photo. La Concha Beach Resort is in the background. There's some cool video later on in the fishing report below.
Sometimes, it's not just about catching a fish. Sometimes it's a cold drink in one hand and a rod in the other on an empty warm ocean! Town isn't very busy right now but more snowbirds are in town escaping colder areas to enjoy some sunshine and get in some beach or watertime. Great time to visit between the holidays.
QUIET TIME BETWEEN THE HOLIDAYS BRINGS WARM SUNSHINE AND DORADO!
It's been a quiet week around here after two massive weeks that included the Baja 1000, an Independence weekend celebration and Thanksgiving. I think town is just re-charging and this is that lull before the holiday crowds and more snow-birds descend. It was like that for fishing too. Not many anglers in town. Not much of anyone in town really! It's a great time to be here. You have everything all to yourself.
It was extremely windy earlier in the week. It wasn't unfishable, but not exactly comfortable. In fact, I told clients who had extra empty days to just hang out around the pool or go shopping and enjoy the sunshine and fish later in the week when winds calmed down. As I said, it wasn't unfishable, but why get bounced around if you don't have to?
Anyway, much more sierra in the counts which shows that waters are surely cooling. The fish are close and in shallows so you can get into some really nice schools and have yourself a blast. But, as far as bluewater species, there are still fingers of warm water here and there holding dorado and an occasional marlin or wahoo. I'm hoping they linger for a bit. Not sure how far the waters will cool or how fast. But, for now, no one complains about a nice dorado on the end of their lines with fish up to 20 pounds.
On days when it's too bumpy to be out, the inshore fishing is a great fallback. In addition to the sierra, there's smaller roosterfish, plus pargo, cabrilla, snapper and jack crevalle. Maybe we'll start getting some yellowtail and amberjack if the waters go colder.
Ed Runyon was good enough to take some great video clips this week. This first one is his son, Blake…10 years old battling his first dorado. You can see they're just inside of Bahia de Los Muertos. Thanks Ed and congrats to Blake!
Ed also took this other great clip of his family out to swim with the whalesharks in La Paz Bay. Check out the size of this "baby" whaleshark…ONLY 18 feet long and watch the underwater footage!
That's our story! Have a great week everyone!


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A galáxia NGC 2199 foi descoberta em 8 de Fevereiro de 1836 por John Herschel.

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Astronomia extragaláctica
Lista de galáxias
Lista de objectos NGC
New General Catalogue

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NGC 2199
Constelação de Mensa
Galáxias espirais

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ACT for Behavior Analysts: Interview with Tom Szabo, PhD, BCBA-D
This is an exciting time for behavior analysts. First of all, why are psychotherapy tools like acceptance and commitment training (ACT) taboo in the behavior analysis community?
Applied behavior analysts (ABA) do not conduct psychotherapy. It's one of many kinds of work that are not within our scope of practice. Broadly speaking, psychotherapy is talk therapy that aims at helping people flourish in the context of emotional problems.
ABA is interested in helping people flourish. But in contrast to talk therapy approaches, ABA scope of practice involves direct intervention upon socially significant behavior that can be observed, measured, and the analysis of which can be arranged – within clinical work – to rule out the possible influence of other variables.
The procedures are described precisely enough that others will obtain the same, strong results that can be traced back to basic principles and are sustainable over time and in new environments. One important distinction is that ABA practitioners don't target private behavior such as thinking, emotion, and remembering for intervention – whereas most psychotherapies do.
But as you say, it's an exciting time for behavior analysts because some are beginning to see the usefulness of strategies first developed in psychotherapy. For behavior analysts, first and foremost, the goal is to change overt behavior that is socially important. Nothing in that says we can't address emotions, sensations, thoughts, and memories. But we don't target these for change, so we don't try to measure them. Instead, we might address them as part of the antecedent context in which behavior occurs.
How are ACT tools helpful for supporting parents of children with autism?
Kids with autism, even those at the high end of the spectrum, need a lot of help from others at learning effective behavior that's sensitive to the context. Their chances of learning are best when parents offer consistent, contingent learning opportunities.
Learning how to do this as a parent is tough, and doing it with a resistant kiddo is even harder. It's painful. All of that is on top of mourning the loss of the kid you thought you'd have, struggling to keep the finances together, making a parenting partnership work in the context of escalating medical bills and work obligations. Parents of kids with special needs feel isolated, ashamed, abandoned, and betrayed. It's no wonder that they contact the most reinforcement by just giving their kids what the kids want.
Many of us focus on ways to increase parent engagement in ABA sessions when we're there and when we've left for the weekend. The problem is we don't control the reinforcers available to parents for avoiding this work when we're not around, and there are plenty of opportunities for negative reinforcement by avoiding the work even when we're right there in the room. How do you help parents become effective contingency managers? Again, it's a question of time. When there is little money in prior authorizations for parent training, then extended modeling, role-play, rehearsal, feedback, goal-setting and fading strategies may be impractical.
An alternative is to do some very fast-acting ACT work in session. Train parents to do things that transform the function of private events and to self-monitor their allocation of time. Measure the duration of parent engagement and rate of child behavior changes. Ask parents to record their sessions with their kids when you're not there. You'll know pretty fast if the behavioral flexibility training (aka ACT) work you did was effective or not.
What are some of the unique challenges of being a behavior analyst, and how does ACT help you face those challenges?
Before I graduated, I was convinced that I was an imposter and was soon to be discovered. My world was about to come crashing down on top of me. The fact that I was training people to use ACT in their lives only added to the verbal traps I was digging for myself. After all, "I'm a behavior analyst, not a psychotherapist, so surely, I'm out of my depth," I kept saying to myself.
I still go there. I still fret the night before a training. When I'm going to try out new things, I want to duck and cover. And in the past, I did just that a few times. The cost was more than "my vitality" or whatever else some people talk about. For me, the cost was that I darn near lost my life.
The difference is that now, I show up: frail, wobbly kneed, mistake-making me. I show up.
The difference is everything. I can talk about it. And it makes other people feel at ease, because I'm not the only one in the room who's experienced that. Every. One. Of. Us. Does. When I show up with service as my value, I help someone in the room. For me, that's just enough.
How would you like to see the scope of work evolve in behavior analysis?
I'd like ABA to expand inside our current scope of practice to use strategies that come from outside our own labs and clinics. The bottom line is that if ABA is going to be relevant in the 21st century, we need to address many more real-world issues than those faced by parents of kids with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities.
What about behavior in conditions of poverty, recruitment into gangs and terrorist cells, or intimate partner, gender-based violence? Strategies and tactics that worked in the basic labs, clinics, and school settings may need to be retooled for new environments. This is where some ACT strategies can be quite powerful – again with a focus on socially significant, observable, measurable behavior.
See also: Positive and Negative Reinforcement in Context: A Look Inside Relational Frame Theory
Will you share a success story with us?!
A few years back, I was asked to help teach male therapists in Sierra Leone working with men who had committed acts of intimate partner, gender-based violence. I didn't know if I could do anything to help. There are virtually no ABA models in this area. So, I got a bit of supervision and set out to meet with therapists. I ended up meeting therapists who had hurt their own domestic partners and needed help.
Working with couples online was a trip. Again, I had no clue what to do. So, I got some more supervision and set out to learn while doing. And I got results. So I wrote a grant and got funding to travel to Sierra Leone and conduct a multiple baseline study across couples, primarily targeting within-session microaggression (which I could see) and between-session physical aggression (which I could not see, but I found some ways to get a measure of inter-observer reliability).
The results were way better than I had imagined. By the third session, couples looked and behaved differently. And, they were coming in with stories about how neighbors and family members were asking them for help in their relationships. Later, tribal chiefs started asking for a larger roll-out of the intervention, which we called DARE to Connect.
So, now we're writing a larger grant for a train-the-trainer study. We want to know what are necessary and sufficient conditions for becoming a competent DARE trainer. A manual? A manual plus in-person instruction from a couple who has gone through the DARE to Connect intervention? Or a manual plus instruction from a PhD ACT trainer? We will see.
This is the most exciting work I've ever done. I'm headed back to Sierra Leone in a few weeks to write the manual with folks who completed the pilot study with me. Wish me luck!
Tom Szabo, PhD, BCBA-D, is a faculty member in the Hybrid Master's Degree Program for Professional Behavior Analysis at the Florida Institute of Technology, site director at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, an internationally recognized ACT trainer, a practicing Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, where he studied under Steven C. Hayes and W. Larry Williams. Over the last 10 years, Tom has focused his practice on teaching people ways to ignite behavioral flexibility in their personal lives and with others in clinical practice, schools, board rooms, shop floors, and community centers.
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