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The municipality is located in on the coast of the state district .

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Bordered north with the Municipio of San Andrés Tlacamama, south to the Océano Pacifico, east to the Municipio of San José Estancia Grande, to the west the Municipio of Pinotepa Nacional and Santa María Huazolotitlán.

Geographical coordinates of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional

16° 20’ of North latitude
98° 03’ of West latittude

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The area of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional is 719.56 square Kilometers, which represents the 0.75% of the territory of the State.

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1 71600 Pinotepa Nacional Centro
2 71602 Las Flores I
3 71602 El Rastro
4 71602 Magisterial
5 71602 Cbta
6 71602 El Dispensario
7 71602 El Panteón
8 71602 La Soledad
9 71602 La Raya
10 71603 Zapote Alto
11 71603 Miramar
12 71603 Viva
13 71603 Chico
14 71603 Yutacu
15 71603 Vicente Guerrero
16 71603 Uci de Ball
17 71603 Laboratorio
18 71603 Zapote Bajo
19 71603 Benito Juárez
20 71603 Santa Cruz
21 71604 Porvenir
22 71604 Ignacio Zaragoza
23 71604 47o Batallón de Infantería
24 71604 5 de Mayo
25 71604 Del Calvario
26 71604 CFE
27 71604 20 de Noviembre
28 71604 Nuevo
29 71604 Militar
30 71604 El Mirador
31 71604 El Puente
32 71604 Torres de La Libertad
33 71604 Loma Larga
34 71604 López Obrador
35 71604 Reforma
36 71605 La Posta
37 71605 San Isidro
38 71605 Ñuzaca
39 71605 Cuauhtémoc
40 71605 Guadalupe
41 71605 Shininuu
42 71605 Aviación
43 71606 Mancuernas
44 71606 Acuautepec
45 71606 El Santo
46 71606 El Alacrán
47 71606 El Tamal
48 71606 El Vizcaíno
49 71606 Lo de Candela
50 71606 Lo de Riaño
51 71606 El Ranchito
52 71606 Santiago Pinotepa Nacional
53 71606 La Banda
54 71606 El Tamarindo
55 71606 Motilla
56 71606 Los Horcones
57 71606 Lo de Mejia
58 71606 Lagunillas
59 71607 La Palma de Coyul
60 71607 Hornos Grandes
61 71607 Paso de La Garrocha
62 71607 La Planta
63 71607 Corralero
64 71607 Rancho de La Virgen
65 71607 Del Zapote
66 71607 Los Pajaritos
67 71607 Los Pocitos
68 71607 Cruz de Itacuan
69 71607 Santa Maria Jicaltepec
70 71608 Yayaquita
71 71608 Collantes
72 71608 El Palomar
73 71608 Piedra Blanca
74 71608 Mariano Matamoros
75 71608 El Jicaro
76 71608 Guadalupe Victoria
77 71608 La Noria y Minindaca
78 71608 Playa Banco de Oro
79 71608 Cerro de La Esperanza
80 71608 El Añil
81 71608 El Carrizo
82 71608 Mintán
83 71608 Barrio la Bomba
84 71608 Arroyo Seco
85 71608 Pie del Cerro
86 71609 El Ciruelo
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Useful Facts on Solar Energy

Posted on the 27 April 2011 by Derick Ajumni
Solar Energy as we  know is usually measured in kWh (kilo watt hours). To put this in perspective, energy measured at 1 KWh can burn a 100 watt light bulb for up to 10 hrs, and is comparable to burning 170 pounds of coal. Imagine that!!
Now let's fly back into history and visit Albert Einstein. Albert was instrumental to Solar technology for his experiments with solar energy and photovoltaics which landed him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics. Even further back in time; Leonardo da Vinci during his work at the Vatican, would use concave shaped mirrors to heat water. Doesn't that make you think of Solar Hot Water system?
Useful Facts on Solar EnergyBack to our time and maybe in the near future, we may be able to use Silicon extracted from say a ton of sand and incorporate them into solar panels to produce electricity equal to burning 500,000 ton of coal. Now how about that?!
That said, here are some interestingly 'geeky' facts on Solar Energy:
In full sun, you can safely assume that about 1367 watts (W) reaches each square meter (m2) of the Outer Edge of the Earth's Atmosphere. The Atmosphere absorbs, reflects, and diffuses a portion of the energy, and 1000 W/m2 is the amount of energy that reaches sea level on a clear day at high noon. This condition is for an air mass = 1.5. As the sun follows its path in the sky, the air mass increases and the amount of energy that makes it to a given location is less than 1000 W/m2.
Reference: New York Post, Wed, April 13, 2011

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Rutland, Massachusetts

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Rutland, Massachusetts
Community Hall
Community Hall
Official seal of Rutland, Massachusetts
Nickname(s): "Geographical Center of Massachusetts"[1]
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Location in Worcester County and the state of Massachusetts.
Coordinates: 42°22′10″N 71°56′55″W / 42.36944°N 71.94861°W / 42.36944; -71.94861Coordinates: 42°22′10″N 71°56′55″W / 42.36944°N 71.94861°W / 42.36944; -71.94861
Country United States
State Massachusetts
County Worcester
Settled 1686
Incorporated 1713
 • Type Open town meeting
 • Total 36.4 sq mi (94.3 km2)
 • Land 35.3 sq mi (91.3 km2)
 • Water 1.2 sq mi (3.0 km2)
Elevation 1,112 ft (339 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 7,973
 • Density 220/sq mi (85/km2)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern)
ZIP code 01543
Area code(s) 508 / 774
FIPS code 25-58825
GNIS feature ID 0618381
Website Town of Rutland, Massachusetts

Rutland is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,973 at the 2010 census. Rutland is the geographic center of Massachusetts; a tree, the Central Tree, located on Central Tree Road, marks the general spot.

The town was first settled in 1666 as Naquag. Officially incorporated in 1713, the Town of Rutland was made up of Barre, Hubbardston, Oakham, Princeton, and the northern half of Paxton. In Northern Rutland there are prison camps used during the revolutionary war used for captured Hessian (soldier) mercenaries hired by the British.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.4 square miles (94 km2), of which 35.3 square miles (91 km2) is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), or 3.16%, is water.

Rutland is bordered by Princeton on the northeast, Holden on the east, Paxton on the southeast, Oakham on the southwest, and Barre and Hubbardston on the northwest. Rutland has 5 villages within its limits, New Boston, West Rutland, Muschopauge, North Rutland, and Turkey Hill

Rutland is about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Worcester, 52 miles (84 km) west of Boston, and 181 miles (291 km) northeast of New York City. Rutland is the highest town between The Berkshires and the Atlantic. The town common is 1,200 feet (370 m) above sea level. It is also the exact geographical center of Massachusetts.

Historical population
* = population estimate.
Source: United States Census records and Population Estimates Program data.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
County-level state agency heads
Clerk of Courts: Dennis P. McManus (D)
District Attorney: Joseph D. Early, Jr. (D)
Register of Deeds: Anthony J. Vigliotti (D)
Register of Probate: Stephanie K. Fattman (R)
County Sheriff: Lew Evangelidis (R)
State government
State Representative(s): Kimberly Ferguson (R)
State Senator(s): Anne Gobi (D)
Governor's Councilor(s): Jen Caissie (R)
Federal government
U.S. Representative(s): James P. McGovern (D-2nd District),
U.S. Senators: Elizabeth Warren (D), Ed Markey (D)

As of the year 2008, there were approximately 8,257 people, 2,300 households, and 1,721 families residing in the town. The population density was 180.2 people per square mile (69.6/km2). There were 2,392 housing units at an average density of 67.8 per square mile (26.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.58% White, 1.04% Black or African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.46% Asian, 0.44% from other races, and 1.34% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.32% of the population.

There were 2,253 households out of which 42.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.1% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families. 19.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.21.

In the town, the population was spread out with 30.8% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 33.8% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 7.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.6 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $62,846, and the median income for a family was $70,689. Males had a median income of $45,824 versus $35,390 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,311. About 1.5% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.0% of those under age 18 and 7.3% of those age 65 or over.

Arts and culture[edit]

Each year, Rutland holds a four-day-long Fourth of July celebration, beginning on July 1. Events include performances by area musicians, a lip-sync concert, chicken barbecue hosted by the local Fire Brigade, a Historical Society Lemonade Social, and an acclaimed fireworks show. On the Fourth, Rutland holds a parade with floats made by local organizations and special guests including local and regional politicians. Scott Bakula is slated to perform a spoken-word piece at the 2017 celebration.

August also brings in the Central Tree Chowder Chilli Challenge, an event hosted and sponsored by the Rutland Fire Brigade. Area restaurants compete for local bragging rights for having the best area clam chowder. With two ways to "win", restaurants compete for both the people's choice as well as the votes of their peers and competitors.

While the main draw to the day is the clam chowder, the event has evolved into a family-oriented day. There is no admission fee except for those who wish to sample the chowder. However, there are also pony rides, face painting, "exotic" animal exhibits, inflatable rooms for kids, a free "train ride" (a lawn tractor towing three cars around the local athletic track), as well as miscellaneous vendors, both local and from surrounding towns.

Proceeds go to the local Fire Brigade, which uses the money for restoration of the town's original fire station, and also to help supplement the expenses of the Fire Department by purchasing much needed equipment that would otherwise have to wait for town funding.

Rutland is a part of the Wachusett Regional School District.

There are two elementary schools: Naquag Elementary, for grades up to 2nd, (named after the tribe of Indians that once resided there), and Glenwood Elementary, grades 3rd through 5th.

The middle school is Central Tree Middle School.

The public high schools are Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, and Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School in Charlton.

The Rutland public library began ca.1865.[12][13] In fiscal year 2008, the town of Rutland spent 1.16% ($159,360) of its budget on its public library—some $20.17 per person.[14]

See also[edit]

  1. ^ "Town of Rutland, Massachusetts". Town of Rutland, Massachusetts. Retrieved August 29, 2012.
  2. ^ "Total Population (P1), 2010 Census Summary File 1". American FactFinder, All County Subdivisions within Massachusetts. United States Census Bureau. 2010.
  3. ^ "Massachusetts by Place and County Subdivision - GCT-T1. Population Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  4. ^ "1990 Census of Population, General Population Characteristics: Massachusetts" (PDF). US Census Bureau. December 1990. Table 76: General Characteristics of Persons, Households, and Families: 1990. 1990 CP-1-23. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  5. ^ "1980 Census of the Population, Number of Inhabitants: Massachusetts" (PDF). US Census Bureau. December 1981. Table 4. Populations of County Subdivisions: 1960 to 1980. PC80-1-A23. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  6. ^ "1950 Census of Population" (PDF). Bureau of the Census. 1952. Section 6, Pages 21-10 and 21-11, Massachusetts Table 6. Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions: 1930 to 1950. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  7. ^ "1920 Census of Population" (PDF). Bureau of the Census. Number of Inhabitants, by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions. Pages 21-5 through 21-7. Massachusetts Table 2. Population of Counties by Minor Civil Divisions: 1920, 1910, and 1920. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  8. ^ "1890 Census of the Population" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. Pages 179 through 182. Massachusetts Table 5. Population of States and Territories by Minor Civil Divisions: 1880 and 1890. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  9. ^ "1870 Census of the Population" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1872. Pages 217 through 220. Table IX. Population of Minor Civil Divisions, &c. Massachusetts. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  10. ^ "1860 Census" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1864. Pages 220 through 226. State of Massachusetts Table No. 3. Populations of Cities, Towns, &c. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  11. ^ "1850 Census" (PDF). Department of the Interior, Census Office. 1854. Pages 338 through 393. Populations of Cities, Towns, &c. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  12. ^ C.B. Tillinghast. The free public libraries of Massachusetts. 1st Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1891. Google books
  13. ^ Rutland Free Public Library. Retrieved 2010-11-10
  14. ^ July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008; cf. The FY2008 Municipal Pie: What’s Your Share? Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Board of Library Commissioners. Boston: 2009. Available: Municipal Pie Reports Archived 2012-01-23 at the Wayback Machine.. Retrieved 2010-08-04

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ABANA (or Amanah, classical Chrysorrhoas) and PHARPAR, the “rivers of Damascus” (2 Kings v. 12), now generally identified with the Barada (i.e. “cold”) and the A‛waj (i.e. “crooked”) respectively, though if the reference to Damascus be limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be the modern Taura. Both streams run from west to east across the plain of Damascus, which owes to them much of its fertility, and lose themselves in marshes, or lakes, as they are called, on the borders of the great Arabian desert. John M‘Gregor, who gives an interesting description of them in his Rob Roy on the Jordan, affirmed that as a work of hydraulic engineering, the system and construction of the canals, by which the Abana and Pharpar were used for irrigation, might be considered as one of the most complete and extensive in the world. As the Barada escapes from the mountains through a narrow gorge, its waters spread out fan-like, in canals or “rivers,” the name of one of which, Nahr Banias, retains a trace of Abana.


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Glagoleva-Arkad’eva, Aleksandra Andreevna

Born Feb. 16 (28), 1884, in the village of Tovarkovo, now in Tula Oblast; died Oct. 30, 1945, in Moscow. Soviet physicist.

Upon graduating from the physics and mathematics department of the Moscow Advanced Courses for Women in 1910, she began working there. From 1914 to 1918 she worked in the X-ray department of a military hospital. From 1918 she was at Moscow University, becoming a professor both at the university and at the Second Moscow Medical Institute in 1930. In 1916, Glagoleva-Arkad’eva constructed an instrument for measuring the depths of bullets and shell fragments in wounds—the X-ray stereometer. In 1922 she constructed a new source of electromagnetic waves, the so-called mass radiator, a vessel with aluminum filings suspended in a viscous oil. The filings, being moving hertz oscillators, radiate electromagnetic waves when electric sparks are passed through them. Because of the small dimensions of the oscillators, Glagoleva-Arkad’eva was able to obtain (in 1923) wavelengths of 5 cm to 82 μm, filling a gap in the scale of electromagnetic waves between the spectra of infrared and radio waves.

Sobranie trudov, Moscow-Leningrad, 1948.

Malov, N. N. “Aleksandra Andreevna Glagoleva-Arkad’eva (1884-1945).” Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk, 1946, vol. 29, issues 1-2.
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(gä`grē), city (2011 pop. 12,364), Abkhazia, W Georgia, on the Black Sea and at the foot of the Greater Caucasus. It is a subtropical health resort.

a city (since 1933), center of Gagra Raion, Abkhazian ASSR. Seaside climate health resort. Located on the Novorossiisk-Batumi Black Sea Highway. A port on the Black Sea. Has a railroad station 80 km northwest of Sukhumi. Population, 23,000 (1970).

Gagra occupies a narrow coastal belt and the slopes of the Gagra Range, which are covered with thick forests. The summers are very warm (average August temperature of 23° C), and the winters are mild (average January temperature of 6° C); precipitation ranges up to 1,400 mm a year. Methods of medical treatment include air-sun and sea therapy, as well as baths using hydrogen sulfide water; this water is similar in composition to that of Matsesta, near Sochi. Patients with respiratory diseases (of nontubercular origin), circulatory diseases, and nervous diseases are treated in Gagra. The city has sanatoriums, balneological treatment centers, rest homes, and boardinghouses; there is also a tourist center. The season lasts the whole year round, and swimming extends from May through October. Along the coast of the Black Sea stretches a beautiful seafront and park (about 14 sq km in area) with ponds and rich subtropical vegetation. Gagra has picturesque environs (the gorges of the Zhvava-Kvara and Tsikherva rivers), and to the south of the city is located the new health resort of Pitsunda. The industry of Gagra is mainly connected with services to the health resort; it includes a meat-packing complex, a dairy, a winery, and a fish-processing plant, among others.

Sikharulidze, V. N. Gagra. Tbilisi, 1967.
Pachulia, V. Po drevnei, no vechno molodoi Abkhazii. Sukhumi, 1969.
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Achieving Uber’s goal of bringing reliable transportation to everyone requires effortless prediction and optimization at every turn. Opportunities range from matching riders to drivers, to suggesting optimal routes, finding sensible pool combinations, and even creating the next generation of intelligent vehicles. To solve these challenges, we are combining state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with the rich expertise of data scientists, engineers, and other users. We are exploring a tool-first approach that will enable us and others to make the next generation of AI solutions.

As part of this initiative, Uber AI Labs is excited to announce the open source release of our Pyro probabilistic programming language! Pyro is a tool for deep probabilistic modeling, unifying the best of modern deep learning and Bayesian modeling. The goal of Pyro is to accelerate research and applications of these techniques, and to make them more accessible to the broader AI community.

Uber AI Labs is diverse both in terms of the applications we are exploring and the techniques we use. We bring together multiple tribes of AI, with experts in deep learning, Bayesian methods, evolutionary computation, and reinforcement learning. Pyro itself brings together the best of modern deep learning, Bayesian modeling, and software abstraction: it is a modern, universal, deep probabilistic programming language.

We believe the critical ideas to solve AI will come from a joint effort among a worldwide community of people pursuing diverse approaches. By open sourcing Pyro, we hope to encourage the scientific world to collaborate on making AI tools more flexible, open, and easy-to-use. We expect the current (alpha!) version of Pyro will be of most interest to probabilistic modelers who want to leverage large data sets and deep networks, PyTorch users who want easy-to-use Bayesian computation, and  data scientists ready to explore the ragged edge of new technology.

Below we describe our motivations for creating Pyro, outline its design principles and a few implementation insights, and indicate next steps for further developing this framework.

Why Pyro?

Probability is the mathematics of reasoning under uncertainty, much as calculus is the mathematics for reasoning about rates of change. Models built in the language of probability can capture complex reasoning, know what they do not know, and uncover structure in data without supervision. Further, probability provides a way for human experts to provide knowledge to AI systems in the form of a priori beliefs.

Specifying probabilistic models directly can be cumbersome and implementing them can be very error-prone. Probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) solve these problems by marrying probability with the representational power of programming languages. A probabilistic program is a mix of ordinary deterministic computation and randomly sampled values; this stochastic computation represents a generative story about data. The probabilities are implicit in this representationthere is no need to derive formulas—and yet this specification is also universal: any computable probabilistic model can be written this way. Pyro builds on full Python as its base language, making it clear and familiar to many.

By observing the outcome of a probabilistic program, we can describe an inference problem, roughly translated as: “what must be true if this random choice had a certain observed value?” Probabilistic programming systems provide universal inference algorithms that can perform inference with little intervention from the user. Think of this as the compiler for a PPL: it allows us to divide labor between the modeler and the inference expert.

Yet inference is the key challenge for probabilistic modeling, and non-scalable inference is the main failure mode of PPLs. Leveraging the power of deep learning, recent advances have introduced a new approach to probabilistic inference and PPL implementation. The key idea is to describe inference in a model via a second model called an inference model, or guide in Pyro. (This is actually an idea that goes back as far as at least the Helmholtz machine.) Just as a model is a generative story for the data, a guide is a generative story for translating the data into latent choices.

Of course, we cannot simply write down the correct guide (that is why inference is hard). Instead, we use the variational approach, specifying a parameterized family of guides and then solving an optimization problem to move the guide toward the posterior distribution of the model. This optimization can be automated thanks to automatic differentiation, a technique for efficiently computing the gradient of a program, and several tricks for estimating the gradient of an expectation.

Pyro builds on the excellent PyTorch library, which includes automatic differentiation using very fast, GPU-accelerated tensor math. PyTorch constructs gradients dynamically, which enables Pyro programs to include stochastic control structure, that is, random choices in a Pyro program can control the presence of other random choices in the program. Stochastic control structure is crucial to make a PPL universal. Hence, Pyro can represent any probabilistic model, while providing automatic optimization-based inference that is flexible and scalable to large data sets.

In Pyro, both the generative models and the inference guides can include deep neural networks as components. The resulting deep probabilistic models have shown great promise in recent work, especially for unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning problems.

In summary:

  • Why probabilistic modeling? To correctly capture uncertainty in models and predictions for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, and to provide AI systems with declarative prior knowledge.
  • Why (universal) probabilistic programs? To provide a clear and high-level, but complete, language for specifying complex models.
  • Why deep probabilistic models? To learn generative knowledge from data and reify knowledge of how to do inference.
  • Why inference by optimization? To enable scaling to large data and leverage advances in modern optimization and variational inference.

Pyro design principles and insights

In developing Pyro, we have aimed to satisfy four design principles. Pyro was built to be:

  • Universal: Pyro is a universal PPL—it can represent any computable probability distribution. How? By starting from a universal language with iteration and recursion (arbitrary Python code), and then adding random sampling, observation, and inference.
  • Scalable: Pyro scales to large data sets with little overhead above hand-written code. How? By building modern black box optimization techniques, which use mini-batches of data, to approximate inference.
  • Minimal: Pyro is agile and maintainable. How? Pyro is implemented with a small core of powerful, composable abstractions. Wherever possible, the heavy lifting is delegated to PyTorch and other libraries.
  • Flexible: Pyro aims for automation when you want it and control when you need it. How? Pyro uses high-level abstractions to express generative and inference models, while allowing experts to easily customize inference.

These principles often pull Pyro’s implementation in opposite directions. Being universal, for instance, requires allowing arbitrary control structure within Pyro programs, but this generality makes it difficult to scale. Similarly, automatic construction of objective functions using minimal abstractions makes it much easier to prototype new models, but this also tends to hide the objective computation from advanced users who want the flexibility to modify the objective.

During our research, we resolved these tensions by borrowing many techniques from other PPL efforts (notably WebPPL and Edward) and discovering a few new ideas. For example, we found that composable effect handlers cleanly separate control flow manipulation from computation of the objective function. The basic operations in a PPL are sampling from a distribution, observing sampled values, and inferring the resulting posterior over executions. However, the required behavior of sampling statements depends on the inference context in which they occur. For instance, when computing the standard evidence-lower-bound objective, sampling statements in the guide should actually sample new values, while sampling statements in the model should only reuse these values. The Pyro implementation builds these context-specific effects out of a set of Poutine objects (a tasty portmanteau for Pyro Coroutine), such as Trace, Replay, and Condition. Each Poutine provides a small modification to the handling of Pyro constructs (sampling, parameter construction, etc); layering Poutines together allows us to build the operations needed for different inference algorithms. With this program logic handled by Poutines, the main inference code focuses on constructing objectives and estimating gradients.

Next steps

Already useful for research in its alpha state, Pyro will continue to change rapidly in the coming months as we further engage with the probabilistic programming and deep learning communities.

Possible directions for extending and improving Pyro are manifold, reflecting both the many application domains of Pyro and the vibrant research community working on deep probabilistic modeling and inference. Some of our highest-priority technical directions include:

Longer term, we hope that the main directions of Pyro development will be driven by applications and the priorities of the emerging Pyro community (as reflected in its Github issues).

Noah Goodman is a researcher at Uber AI Labs and an Associate Professor of Psychology and Computer Science at Stanford University.

The Uber development team for Pyro includes Eli Bingham, Jonathan P. Chen, Martin Jankowiak, Theofanis Karaletsos, Fritz Obermeyer, Neeraj Pradhan, Rohit Singh, Paul Szerlip and Noah Goodman.

Uber is also grateful for contributions and feedback from Paul Horsfall, Dustin Tran, Robert Hawkins, and Andreas Stuhlmueller.

Noah Goodman, on behalf of the Pyro Development Team


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‘Acting Is Fun But Giving Voice Over Is Difficult’

Mumbai: Indian disco king Bappi Lahiri, who has sung a song for Disney’s new animation movie “Moana”, says giving voice over to characters in the film was a difficult job.

Lahiri has crooned for a song titled “Shona” in the film, besides voicing the character, Tamatoa, a giant crab with fondness for shiny treasures. “I have acted in films like in ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ with Salman Khan, and in ‘Om Shanti Om’ with Shah Rukh Khan.

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Acting is fun. But giving voice over was difficult. The combination of singing and dubbing is not easy,” Lahiri said. Lahiri said he decided to come onboard because he liked the story of the movie.

“I liked the story and the character of the film. The song is long and is of opera style. It’s about a funny character who loves gold. I have also dubbed for the film and it was great fun doing it,” he added.

The 64-year-old musician found the character Tamatoa similar to his personality.

“The character that I play is very similar to my own personality. I am hopeful audience will like my part,” Lahiri, who has a fetish for gold jewellery said.

Starring Auli’i Cravalho as the titular heroine and Dwayne Johnson as Maui, “Moana” the movie revolves around the life-changing journey of a tenacious 16-year-old who teams up with the mighty demi-god Maui to fulfill an ancient quest. The film releases in India on December 2.


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Amit Shah Arrives In Agartala For 2 Day Visit

Agartala:  BJP national president Amit Shah, who is on a 95-day all-India tour, arrived in Agartala on Saturday. His two-day Tripura visit aims at the party’s expansion in the northeastern state where the Left has ruled for the last 19 years.

Mr Shah, who is behind BJP’s electoral victories in several states, will focus on the alleged lack of development in the state under the Left government and violence against his party workers.

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Tripura, with its two Lok Sabha seats, figures high on Mr Shah’s priority list as assembly polls in the state are due in 2018.

He will take stock of the party’s organisational work in meetings with state BJP leaders and hold a public rally tomorrow. With the BJP and RSS activists allegedly at the receiving end of violence by the ruling Left, traditionally seen as an ideological enemy by saffron groups in Kerala and Tripura, the BJP chief has been working hard to strengthen the party’s grip in the two states.

Having forfeited security deposit in 47 of the 50 seats it contested in Tripura in the 2013 assembly election, the BJP has increased its vote share and its candidates finished second to winning CPI-M nominees in three bypolls held there since.

BJP leaders claim the party has emerged as the principal challenger to the Left and pointed to the recent defection of a top Trinamool Congress leader and some others to the party.

Less than a week after the BJP formed government in neighbouring Manipur, virtually the entire state unit of the Trinamool Congress in Tripura had joined the BJP.

The revolt was led by Ratan Chakrabarty, chairman of the state TMC coordination committee. Mr Chakrabarty had joined BJP with 15 other members of the state committee.


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British Airways Passengers Stranded As Glitch Hits Worldwide Check-Ins

London:  British Airways warned Tuesday that customers could face further delays after a computer glitch in its global check-in system held up some flights, particularly in the United States, for hours.

“Our IT team are working hard to fix this issue,” BA wrote on its Twitter page in response to one customer’s tweet sent around 0635 GMT.

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Contacted by AFP, a BA spokeswoman said passengers gathered at London’s main airports would face delays to outbound flights. “We are checking in customers at Heathrow and Gatwick Airport this morning, although it is taking longer than usual,” she said in an emailed response.

“We would encourage customers to check in online before they reach the airport.”

At Phoenix airport in the United States, Karen Reyburn tweeted: “After six hours I am actually sitting on a plane! Excitement!”


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Daily Horoscope ( Feb 18 2017 )

Aries (March 21 – April 19)
Stick with what comes naturally, Aries. If something feels difficult or abrasive, this is a sign that your energy is better used elsewhere. But don’t turn away until you’re sure that what you’re facing is actually a combative force instead of your own skewed sense of reality. You could be overly sensitive about a given situation and thereby making up scenarios that don’t even exist.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20)
Your heart may feel extra loving today, Taurus, which is good, since you will probably need it. There is most likely someone close to you who needs a lift of some sort. You may be like the tow truck that arrives to pull a car out of the ditch. Be careful when you hook up the chains. Don’t scratch the bumper or pull too hard all at once!

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20)
You may feel a bit protective today, Gemini, and with good reason. Others are likely to be aggressive when it comes to moving in on your territory. Be strong. Assure yourself as well as those in your charge that everything will be fine. Take reasonable precautions, but don’t completely close yourself off to the outside world. That knock at the gate could just as easily provide much-needed help.

Cancer (June 21 – July 21)
You may be a bit confused today, Cancer. More than likely, it will be hard for you to get an accurate read on your emotions. One of your automatic responses in situations like this is to turn to a close partner for advice. Unfortunately, this advice may throw you into even more of a tailspin. What you need more than anything is to spend quality time alone.

Leo (July 22 – August 23)
Secure your emotions and make sure you’re set in your mind before you take action today, Leo. This is a terrific time to get things started. Following through to completion shouldn’t be a problem. The difficult part is taking that first step. This can be easily done on a day like today, so don’t miss this opportunity when your intuitive sense is extra keen.

Virgo (August 23 – September 22)
Break through the potential moodiness of the day, Virgo. Burst into song while walking down the street. Encourage others to sing back to you, as if your life were an opera. Your creativity is extra strong at this point, so let it shine in unexpected areas of your world. You have the wonderful ability to turn even the most mundane situations into something exciting.

Libra (September 22 – October 22)
You may be plagued with restlessness, Libra, to the point that you may not be able to get anything done. If you sense that this is happening to you even in the slightest degree, stop whatever you’re doing and take a break. Your work isn’t worth the sacrifice of your sanity. Consider going to a spa or call up a friend with a hot tub so you can soak in some warm, relaxing water for a while.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)
Be careful of exerting your will too strongly toward someone who really isn’t receptive to it, Scorpio. Be conscious of other people’s feelings. Be gentle when it comes to love and romance. You have a yellow light, which means that it’s OK to proceed. Be careful that the other person is receptive to your advances. Don’t come across as too aggressive and end up making a fool of yourself.

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)
Overall, this should be a pretty good day for you, Sagittarius, as long as you don’t get overly sensitive about certain things. Your awareness is bound to be extra sharp today, so use this ability to stay alert and open to what’s going on around you. Perhaps you’re feeling a bit restless when it comes to matters of the heart. This is telling you to stop fidgeting and take action.

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19)
This is one day in which your heart pounds with excitement. For some reason, Capricorn, there’s a quiet voice inside warning that you may be getting yourself into a great deal of trouble. An enthusiastic approach toward love may be necessary, but this may not be the best day to act. People are too sensitive and not necessarily that impressed with your potentially abrasive demeanor.

Aquarius (January 20 – February 18)
Be more aggressive when it comes to your intentions in a romantic situation, Aquarius. It would be a great idea to impress your lover with a delicious home-cooked meal on a night like this. Put a bit more passion into the equation and relight the spark that might have recently gone out. Don’t hesitate to be the instigator in love.

Pisces (February 19 – March 20)
It would be a good idea to socialize with others today in a comfortable, open setting. Say what you feel instead of just concentrating on what you think, Pisces. Be just as good a listener as you expect others to be for you. Join a writing circle or take a painting class. Your creativity is looking for an outlet today, so you might as well share this gift among friends.


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Lens on Mobile Retailer Who Sold SIMs To Jawans

Jammu: National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials are investigating 11 local shopkeepers, including a mobile phone retailer who sold SIM cards to the soldiers of 6 Bihar.

The retailer has drawn the NIA’s attention for exceeding his business day at the camp by three hours last Saturday. Hours later, at the crack of dawn on Sunday, the camp was attacked by Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists. The usual time for the daily closure of shops inside the Army camp is sunset, around 6.30pm.

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Digital and print registers for entry and departure are maintained by the Military Police (MP) at the camp gate. “Although he’s an old hand at the brigade, he’d recently curried favour with troops when he gave SIM cards to them. The day before the attack, he didn’t go (shut shop) until 10pm, which is very unusual. He will be interrogated,” a top sleuth said.

Among the 11 being investigated are shopkeepers who sell wares such as school and Army uniforms, groceries and tableware. The NIA is also looking at a couple of other shopkeepers who sell mobile accessories.

Meanwhile, Chinese cigarette gas lighters brought by the terrorists are likely to have ignited the massive fire at the diesel dump that took the lives of 13 troopers at the 12th Brigade headquarters in Uri. Three lighters, in the colours aqua blue, green and yellow, were recovered from the attack site.

The photographs reveal how the fire melted, and in some instances, cracked kitchenware like steel saucers and large metal food containers.

The pictures also reveal the details of the terrorists’ camouflage outfits, including gloves, waist packs, magazine pouches and tactical shoulder bags used to carry GPS devices, maps, opiate-type drugs, syringes, and first-aid items. “The pictures show how they’d taken shots of morphine in their arms whenever bullets struck them,” said an officer.


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Vice-Prez Polls: Opposition Hit By Cross-Voting, Missing Votes

New Delhi: Nearly two dozen MPs of opposition parties defied their leadership and voted for the NDA’s vice- presidential candidate M Venkaiah Naidu, BJP sources said on Saturday.

Naidu secured 516 votes against the pledged support of around 495.

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With the former Union minister securing over 68 per cent of valid votes against 32 per cent of the opposition’s candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi, who received 244 votes, the margin between two contestants at 272 was higher than Gandhi’s tally.

Outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari had prevailed over his rivals by 252 and 233 votes in 2012 and 2007 polls, respectively.

What should cause concern among the opposition, including the Congress, the Left and the TMC, is that their candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi got only 19 votes more than their presidential nominee Meira Kumar even though 40 more MPs had pledged support to him.

Kumar had received votes of 225 MPs, while Gandhi was supported by 244. President Ram Nath Kovind had received support of 522 MPs.

The BJD, which has 28 members in Parliament, and the JD (U) with 12 MPs had switched over to the opposition camp after supporting the NDA in the presidential poll. Despite desertion by 40 MPs, the NDA’s vote count went down by only six, underlining major cross-voting in its favour.

In an electoral college of 785 eligible members, 771 votes were cast out of which 11 were declared invalid, according to officials.

Among the 14 members who could not cast their votes for a variety of reasons, four belonged to the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, two each to the BJP, Congress and the IUML, and one each to the NCP and PMK. One nominated and one Independent member also could not cast their votes.

Polling officials said this was the highest turnout in the vice-presidential election. Before it, the highest number of votes in the poll was 759 in 2002 when BJP candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat had won the election.


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Video-enhanced lesson observation as a source of multiple modes of data for school leadership. A videographic approach

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Elizabeth Hidson

A growing body of literature recognizes the affordances of video in education, especially in relation to lesson observation and reflection as part of teachers’ initial teacher education and continuing professional development. Minimal attention has been paid to the outcomes of video-enhanced observation as a source of multiple modes of data for reflexive school leadership. This article focuses on the data of three participants from a larger set of nine teachers involved in an over-arching study exploring teachers’ professional knowledge and practices following a recent curriculum change in England. Data from video-stimulated interviews revealed that recorded video can provide school leaders with a window onto the practices and processes of daily school life, illustrated here through a focus on evidence of policy in practice. It is argued that the leadership perspective provides school leaders and managers with the analytical frameworks and competencies for critical interpretation of the data.

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Publication status: Published

Journal: Management in Education

Year: 2018

Volume: 32

Issue: 1

Pages: 26-31

Print publication date: 17/01/2018

Acceptance date: 04/07/2017

ISSN (print): 0892-0206

ISSN (electronic): 1741-9883

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Veterinary Work-Life Imbalance? - Business Solutions for Equine Practitioners | EquiManagement

Veterinary Work-Life Imbalance?

The phrase “work-life integration” has been suggested by some as being a more attainable and appropriate goal rather than work-life balance.
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The phrase “work-life balance” is a loaded one. First, it assumes that work and life are separate entities that do not mix. There is also the implication that balancing work and life is possible and desirable. The phrase “work-life integration” has been suggested by some as being a more attainable and appropriate goal. Proponents use the word “integration” to suggest a less dichotomous relationship between work and life.

As an equine vet, it is the latter part of this balance, the “life” part, that I find the most challenging. Being a horse vet is a large part of my identity, and even when I’m not working, I am inextricably tied to that piece of myself. I have many colleagues who feel the same way. To imply that any of us can stop being a vet when we aren’t actively doing farm calls is unrealistic.

However, one of the benefits to ambulatory equine practice is that it can be flexible and allow for both “life” and “work” activities to be scheduled on the same day. Given that work-life balance is a common challenge among vets, this article is also devoted to time management as it relates to the idea of work-life balance or integration.

On any given day, it can feel like your life is being run by everyone but yourself and that your time isn’t your own. One of the first steps to successful time management and finding a little “me” time is to adjust this view. Rather than simply addressing the task or the facet of our life that screams the loudest, we must conscientiously delegate our time to the activities and individuals of our choosing.

As Mike Dolan, writer and entrepreneur, noted on Twitter: “Time isn’t your master; you are.” This includes dedicating time to activities that you find rejuvenating and that support your own wellness.

Where You Spend Time

One of the truths about time management is that you need to spend time to make time. Changing the way you do things is going to require you to invest some time evaluating how things are currently in your life, determine what changes you want to make, and plang for the future. The better the planning, the greater the chance you have of being able to follow through on what you set out to do. It’s also not a one-time deal—each day, week, month, season and year you should set aside some time to decide how you are going to allocate your time and energy.

As you reflect on how to better manage your time, an important step is to determine how you’re currently spending time. Tracking your time is one of the easiest and most powerful things you can do to facilitate effective scheduling and time management! You will gain valuable insight by tracking your time for a week; this will help you understand your “timespending” habits and identify areas where there is room for change. Going forward, logging how you spend your time can help you remain accountable and on track with your plans and intentions.

Once you have an idea of how you’re spending time, try to create some broad categories and calculate how much time you are spending on each. For instance, you could have self-care (e.g., eating, sleeping, bathing), routine work, out-of-hours work, housework, family time and independent time (e.g., hobbies, volunteering, exercise).

From there, you should determine if the way you are spending your time aligns with how you would like to be spending your time.

In order to know whether how we are spending our time is consistent with our priorities and values, we need to first identify our priorities and values.

A simple Google search will display a number of websites with lists of core values. Reading through lists of core values and selecting and writing down five to 10 values that resonate most with you will provide you with a strong framework to help shape how you spend your time.

As writer Anton Chekhov noted, “Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out.”

Where to Spend Your Time

Once you know how you are spending your time and have reflected on whether it’s consistent with how you would ideally like to be spending it, the next step is to start making a plan for how to go forward. We are all familiar with the phrase “My eyes were bigger than my stomach” when we eat more than we should, then feel unwell. That can happen with our commitments, too; we agree to do more than we can reasonably accomplish while maintaining balance.

One way to avoid this is to create a time budget1 and refer to it before you take on any additional commitment or activity. For your time budget, there are three categories: fundamental self-care (e.g., sleeping, eating, bathing), external commitments (e.g., work, relationships and family, commuting) and internal commitments (e.g., hobbies, meditation, exercise). It’s important to be specific and realistic when calculating the time required for what you do on a daily basis. If the sum of these three categories is more than 24 hours, you are in a time deficit. If it is less, then you have a surplus.

What still remains after creating time budgeting and determining your priorities is to make choices that are consistent with these in the moment. We all have a finite supply of willpower and energy, and if we have too many decisions to make on a daily basis, we can wind up making decisions that aren’t consistent with our overall goals. Therefore, minimizing the decisions you need to make each day is important; establish routines and habits that facilitate effective use of your time.

For example, a colleague of mine blocks out the time following early morning breeding calls in her schedule for a workout three times a week. This eliminates the need to reassess whether she has time or not on a daily basis, and it allows her to consistently meet her priority of getting exercise. Another colleague does all her fruit and vegetable preparations on the weekend so it’s easy for her to eat nutritious food during the week.

A mentor once suggested to me that when tempted to respond, “I don’t have time,” to a potential commitment, I should try saying, “It’s not a priority.” This thought exercise has helped me recognize when I am making a decision that goes against what I know my values and priorities to be. In the moment, it can be difficult to say “no” to new opportunities or experiences, whether it is because you don’t want to let someone else down or because you genuinely want to do it.

Unfortunately, there are going to be things in life that you want to do but can’t because they just don’t fit with your other commitments.

Psychological Distance

Another idea that can be used to aide decision-making is the concept of psychological distance.2 It helps explain why an idea or commitment can feel manageable initially, then feel overwhelming later on.

Psychological distance refers to the gap between our thoughts about an anticipated experience and the experience itself. An article in the Harvard Business Review defined it this way: Psychological distances are the “gaps between yourself and other people (social distance), the present and the future (temporal distance), your physical location and faraway places (spatial distance), or imagining something and experiencing it (experiential distance).”

When psychological distance is large, things seem more abstract, and the desirability of the event or activity is heightened. However, when the distance is small, the feasibility and concrete nature of the task weigh more heavily on us. For example, you might have said “yes” to giving a talk on horse conformation to the local 4-H group three months ago, but as the time draws near, you are regretting that commitment because you are so busy.

Temporal distance (measured from the present to the future) and experiential distance (the difference between experiencing something yourself and imaging it) can impact our decisions and how we manage our time. Knowing that a large psychological distance can distort our assessment of a situation is helpful, because then we can try to reduce our psychological distance and make decisions from a place of knowledge.

Psychological distance can be reduced by thoroughly investigating what specific tasks would be involved or estimating how many hours a project would take. Consulting a colleague who has been in a similar position can also provide valuable insight.

Take-Home Message

Work-life balance and time management are ultimately about decisions. A favorite axiom of mine is: “It’s simple, but it’s not easy.” You want more time for “life”? Work less. Simple, yes; but it’s not easy. Balance can be achieved over time (years or decades). At the very least, trying to achieve balance might help you be happy with your decisions when you’re looking back.

1. Saunders, EG. A formula to stop overcommitting your time. Harvard Business Review, 2015.

2. Hamiton, R. Bridging psychological distance. Harvard Business Review, 2015.


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The vision of UWIN is to build an enduring research network that fosters innovation of integrated urban water solutions.  Our mission is to develop technological and sociopolitical solutions; build social capital and trusted regional leadership across the United States; and train scientists and policy makers as champions of innovation.

UWIN is a consortium of academic institutions coupled with key partners with longstanding programs in water research and education.   The conglomerate also has close ties to water stakeholders across the U.S.  UWIN is an agile network of researchers, educators and stakeholders that aims to understand water challenges and generate solutions for sustainable urban water systems and resilient cities.

Regional meetings in the six UWIN study areas bring together more than 250 individuals, including members of the science community, every year to learn about regional urban water sustainability challenges.  The meetings are held in conjunction with stakeholder engagement workshops in order to build relationships and foster collaboration between the scientific community and stakeholders.  These linkages are crucial to the execution of the Urban Water Sustainability Blueprint.

Stakeholder Workshops

Stakeholder engagement workshops aid in the development of a regional stakeholder network that actively contributes to project research and outreach.  These annual workshops bring together up to 500 stakeholders from various regions in the U.S. Stakeholder groups serve as an important vehicle for information exchange.  Feedback elicited from participants is central to the development of the Urban Water Sustainability Blueprint.

Annual Meetings

Annual all-Network member meetings provide a platform for understanding the common framework and desired contributions to the Urban Water Sustainability Blueprint. Major activities ranging from research progress and stakeholder engagement to network management are discussed.  The annual meeting consists of presentations from project PI’s, breakout groups, and graduate student presentations and posters.

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tapajuntas, n.

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    • It was also used for roof flashings and weights for scales.
    • Site-built or factory-supplied flashings are used to seal the roofing around the curb.
    • The coping, flashings and most of the rendering would need to be removed.
    • The trapped water may accumulate to levels higher than the roof flashings, resulting in water leaks.
    • Also check eaves, verges and ridges, and make sure that mortar, pointing and lead flashings are all in place around a chimney.


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Elderly patients are at increased risk for treatment failure in outpatient management of purulent skin infections

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Department of Emergency Medicine; Department of Quantitative Health Sciences

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Emergency Medicine | Geriatrics | Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

OBJECTIVE: Current Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) guidelines for the management of purulent skin or soft tissue infections do not account for patient age in treatment recommendations. The study objective was to determine if age was associated with outpatient treatment failure for purulent skin infection after adjusting for IDSA treatment guidelines.

METHODS: We conducted a multicenter retrospective study of adult patients treated for a purulent skin infection and discharged home from four emergency departments between April and September 2014. Patients were followed for one month to assess for treatment failure (defined as need for a change in antibiotics, surgical intervention, or hospitalization). We used multivariable logistic regression to examine the role of patient age on treatment failure adjusting for demographic variables (gender, race), comorbidities and severity of infection.

RESULTS: A total of 467 patients met inclusion criteria (mean age 37.9years [SD 14.0], 48.2% of whom were women). Overall, 12.4% failed initial therapy. Patients 65 years and older (n=35) were almost 4 times more likely to fail initial ED therapy in follow-up compared with younger patients (adjusted Odds Ratio (OR) 3.87, 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 1.24-12.10). After adjustment, for every 10years of advancing age there was a 43% increased odds of failing initial treatment (OR 1.43 95% CI 1.09-1.88).

CONCLUSION: Elderly patients with purulent skin infections, whose providers followed the 2014 IDSA guidelines, were more likely to fail initial treatment than younger patients. This study suggests that there is a need to re-evaluate treatment guidelines in elderly patients.

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Am J Emerg Med. 2017 Feb;35(2):249-254. 2016 Oct 29. Link to article on publisher's site

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I am the type of woman who sets a goal and allows nothing to stop her from achieving that goal. I am determined, ambitious with life, and persistent with it all. I set a goal to travel more and much to my surprise I visited 5 countries this year. The last country of the year (until next year of course) was Costa Rica. Tropical, rainforest, volcanos, and great times with great people.

My initial thoughts upon arrival was the atmosphere reminded me of a Haiti–it was tropical and humid. We ordered a transfer service provided by the hotel. Though the transfer service was timely in their arrival, we waited for one more couple to join us. As we waited we were directed to a cafe a few steps away and decided to wait there. The food smelled amazing. Rather than fill up on rice and beans and chicken, I ordered a cheese and ham croissant. It was fresh, warm, and flaky! The absolute perfect combination.

The drive from the airport to Jaco City was about an hour and a half. Our driver stopped at local store where we picked up snacks, drinks, and water. (By drinks I mean alcohol..because…vacation). Our driver made a second stop at a bridge where we could see tons of albino gators. It was like a fish pond, only it was filled with gators. Yikes. Not the type of water I would suggest falling into.

We got to the hotel, checked in and relaxed. There wasn’t much time for adventure, so we decided to find a restaurant and have some drinks. If you’ve been following me, I’m sure you can guess what I had to eat. If you guessed whole fish, then you are absolutely right! At this point, I’m convinced it’s impossible make a bad whole fish meal. The fish was amazing, I would have preferred red snapper or a thicker fish, but this was delicious and I would definitely order it again. This restaurant was great except for that fact that they jacked up a $20 bill to almost $100. I guess we got hit with a tourist tax and hidden fees? Is that even a thing? The server wasn’t even able to clearly articulate or defend the extra charges.

The next day we geared up for some
Adventure ! We decided to go Zip-lining. I was skeptical at first because of my unrealistic fear of heights. The Zip line was set up throughout the rainforest and there was a total of 10 stations. One station was titled “the big daddy” because it was a mile long and it was the fastest zip-line. After the first Zip-line I realized it wasn’t all that bad and was actually fun. Actually, I would zip-line over going on a rollercoaster any day.

After zip-lining, we took ATV’s and things through the rainforest and to the waterfall. At this point, it was pouring rain and the mud was flying everywhere as We sped through the rainforest.

On the last day, we took a boat out to the Sea so the men could fish. The boat was small and it rained a bit so the waves were violent. Still, it was a great time.

I would highly recommend visiting Costa Rica if you have the opportunity. It was an amazing trip and I would definitely go back and explore some more.

–esquire in love

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When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments, however, couldn't be bigger: to protect the U.S. chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials from a rumored Soviet NKGB kidnapping, and to hunt down and dismantle the infamous Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. It doesn't take long for the first attempt on his life, and then the second. NKGB or Odessa? Who can tell? The deeper he pushes, the more secrets tumble out: a scheme to swap Nazi gold for currency, a religious cult organized around Himmler himself, an NKGB agent who is actually working for the Mossad, a German cousin who turns out to be more malevolent than he appears, and a distractingly attractive newspaperwoman who seems to be asking an awful lot of questions. Which one will turn out to be the most dangerous? Cronley wishes he knew.

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