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thematic session on standards development in codex
Moderator's report
WTO Members and stakeholders will discuss standards development in the Codex with a view to deepening their knowledge of Codex's standard-setting activities, including in relation to TBT-relevant standards. Members will also be sharing experiences and good practices on how to better participate in these discussions with a view to increasing participation, including by developing Members.
Preliminary Guiding Questions
What are the main standard-setting activities undertaken at the Codex Commission that have relevance in the area of technical barriers to trade?
What are the main challenges and opportunities for the participation of members in the standard-setting activities of the Codex?
How can developing countries be supported further in order to increase their participation in Codex's standard-setting activities?
What recent developments in the Codex Committee on Food Import and Export Inspection and Certification Systems (CCFICS) are relevant from a TBT perspective, including in the area of conformity assessment procedures?
What recent developments in the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) are relevant from a TBT perspective?
Verna Carolissen
Codex Secretariat
Gracia Brisco
Rommel A. Betancourt
CCLAC, Ecuador
Dr. Douglas Balentine
Senior Science Advisor International Nutrition Policy at the United States Food and Drug Administration
Kathy Twardek
Chairperson of Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL, Canada)
Rodrigo Martins Vargas
Anvisa, Brazil
Blanca Cristina Olarte
Ministry of Health, Colombia
Esther Ngari
Director Standards Development and International Trade, Kenya Bureau of Standards
André Luis de Sousa dos Santos
Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Brazil
Cassandra Pacheco
Agencia Chilena para la inocuidad, Chile
Malose Daniel Matlala
Deputy Director: Inter-Agency Liaison and Regulatory Nutrition
(National Codex Contact Point: South Africa)
Directorate: Food Control
Lorena Rivera
Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Colombia to the WTO
Biography Douglas A. Balentine
Dr. Balentine holds the position of Senior Science Advisor International Nutrition Policy at the United States Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) (2019- current). In this role, Dr. Balentine supports the critical work of the Codex Alimentarius as the U.S. Delegate to both the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use (CCNFSDU) and the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL). In addition, Dr. Balentine leads international activities and multilateral issues related to FDA's nutrition and food labelling programs. This includes authoritative scientific and policy advice and guidance, and recommendations on international nutrition activities and programs, considering input from U.S. stakeholders while advancing FDA's science-based public health mission. Formerly, Dr. Balentine served as the Director of the Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling at CFSAN from 2015-2019 and in that role, he provided leadership and scientific direction to a multidisciplinary staff that managed the regulatory programs relating to food labeling, nutrition, infant formula, and medical foods. Prior to joining FDA, he served as the Director of Nutrition and Health for Unilever North America and was a member of Unilever's Global Nutrition Leadership Team. He has worked closely with many organizations and served on a number of committees with goals of improving public health. Dr. Balentine holds 10 U.S. patents and has over 40 publications in scientific literature. Dr. Balentine has a Ph.D. in food science and nutrition from Rutgers University.
Biography Blanca Cristina Olarte Pinilla
Ingeniera de Alimentos e Ingeniera Ambiental y Sanitaria de la Universidad de la Salle, se encuentra en curso de la Maestría de la Economía de las Políticas Públicas en la Universidad del Rosario.
En los últimos 22 años me he desempeñado como profesional en el Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, en el área de inocuidad de los alimentos.
Durante el tiempo de trabajo en el Ministerio, he adquirido experiencia en el desarrollo de reglamentación relacionada con inocuidad de los alimentos y de inspección, vigilancia y control de estos a nivel nacional. Punto de Contacto del Codex Alimentarius y secretaria técnica del Comité Nacional del Codex Alimentarius, coordinadora del Subcomité del Codex de Higiene de los Alimentos y he coordinado otros subcomités como el de resistencia a los antimicrobianos, especies y participó en algunos de los subcomités a nivel nacional como el de Sistemas de Inspección y Certificación de Importaciones y Exportaciones de Alimentos. Punto de Contacto en el Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social de notificación de reglamentos técnicos ante la Organización Mundial del Comercio y he participo en negociaciones comerciales, como la de EE. UU., la UE, MERCOSUR, Corea del Sur, entre otros.
Actualmente, participo en la puesta en marcha del Modelo de Inspección, Vigilancia y Control de alimentos, en el proyecto "Implementación de las normas del Codex Alimentarius para apoyar la contención y reducción de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos (RAM) transmitida por los alimentos", debido a que los sistemas de alimentos juegan un rol importante en la propagación de RAM en la población. También, en las negociaciones comerciales, reglamentación sanitaria y las activades del Codex Alimentarius en Colombia.
Biography Gracia Brisco
Gracia Brisco works in the Codex Secretariat. For over 10 years she led several Codex worldwide commodity committees and grew extensive experience on Codex work on the development of commercial quality standards related to product description and essential composition and quality factors. For the past years, she has also provided support to Codex work on nutrition and conformity assessment in particular food import/export inspection/certification systems and methods of analysis and sampling. She has also wide experience on Codex work on food safety in key areas such as pesticide residues, veterinary drugs, contaminants, foodborne AMR and feed safety. She is currently located in the FAO Liaison Office in Geneva where part of her portfolio devotes to enhance cooperation with international organizations notably WTO and WHO. She represents the Codex Secretariat in meetings and activities of the WTO SPS and TBT Committees and also works closely with FAO and WHO on capacity building activities to assist countries to improve their participation in Codex work and the application of Codex standards.
Biography Malose Daniel Matlala
Malose Daniel Matlala is the Deputy Director: Inter-Agency Liaison and Regulatory Nutrition in the Directorate: Food Control of the Department of Health (South Africa). He is also responsible for managing South Africa's participation in Codex Alimentarius Commission as the National Codex Contact Point, since 2008 as well as being the delegate in CCGP, CCFL, CAC and CCAFRICA. Malose has been involved in Regulatory activities for over 24 years, having trained in the fields of Biological and Food Sciences, Quality Management Systems and Public Management.
Biography Rodrigo Martins de Vargas
Position: Specialist in Regulation and Sanitary Surveillance/Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (ANVISA)
Since 2005, Rodrigo Vargas works at the Food Office of ANVISA, where he develops activities related to health surveillance and food regulation, including nutrition labelling regulation.
Biography Esther Ngari
Esther Ngari is the Director, Standards Development and Trade at Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS). Backed by over 20 years of experience in the agri-food business, she has done exemplary work in the development of new standards in the country. A graduate of Dairy Science and Food Technology from Egerton University, she also holds a Master of Business Administration from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Other areas of study include Agribusiness and Value Chain Analysis & Development from the University of Queensland, Australia. Esther also earned a Professional Diploma in Supply Chain Management from Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supplies (CIPS) in the United Kingdom and is also trained in Strategic Leadership Development Program. She is a certified Lead Auditor for Food Safety Management Systems, Quality Management Systems and Environmental Management Systems.
Biography Kathy Twardek
Ms. Kathy Twardek is a director in the Food Safety and Consumer Protection Directorate at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), Government of Canada, and is the Chairperson of the Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL).
Kathy has been a part of CFIA since it was established in 1997. She has extensive knowledge and experience on domestic regulatory frameworks for food labelling, food safety, and consumer protection through her various roles at the Government of Canada. Kathy has been active in Codex for nearly 20 years, contributing to the development of international food standards at CCFL and other Codex Committees such as the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils, the Codex Committee on General Principles, and the Codex Committee on Milk and Milk Products. Currently, she participates at both the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as both a delegate and as Head of Delegation for Canada to the CAC in 2020 and 2021 and the Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, as an advisor to North America.
Kathy has been the Chairperson of CCFL since May 2019.
Biography Cassandra Pacheco Vásquez
Ingeniera en Industria Alimentaria y Magister en Alimentos, mención Gestión, Calidad e Inocuidad de los Alimentos. Sus capacidades se han centrado en la reglamentación nacional e internacional, trabajando en proyectos de cooperación internacional relacionados con inocuidad alimentaria y sanidad agropecuaria. Actualmente sus labores son el representar a Chile a través del Punto Focal del Codex Alimentarius en los distintos foros internacionales.
Biography Lorena Rivera
Lorena Rivera Orjuela, is a Trade Policy Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the WTO. She has served In the Ministry of Trade for over 12 years, where she has also worked as advisor to the Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade, in the Directorate of Economic Integration and in the negotiations team. She is responsible for the files on Trade in Goods, including TBT; Trade and development; and Trade and Environment, where she is currently co-facilitating the Dialogue on Plastics Pollution.
She has an MA in Political Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a BA in International Relations at Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Biography Rommel Betancourt
Mr. Rommel Betancourt is the General Coordinator of Food Safety of the Plant and Animal Health Regulation and Control Agency (AGROCALIDAD) in Ecuador, where he has worked on the development of the Primary Production Safety System in Ecuador and on process management, regulation, surveillance and control, among others.
Additionally, Mr. Betancourt is the president of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean – CCLAC; Chairman of the Electronic Working Group of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods – CCCF; and president of the Inter-American Commission on Organic Agriculture. Additionally, he has been president of the National Committee of the Food Code, Codex Alimentarius.
Biography André Luis de Sousa dos Santos
Civil Servant at the Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology and act as the Deputy Head of International Affairs. André is in charge to coordinate the National Codex Committee and the establishment of Codex national positions.
Biography Verna Carolissen
Verna Carolissen works in the Codex Secretariat. She has several years' experience in the Codex Secretariat where she has been involved in managing several Codex worldwide committees ranging from committees on food hygiene, contaminants to methods of analysis and sampling, fish and fishery products and other commodity specific committees. More recently she is responsible for the Committees on nutrition and foods for special dietary uses and on food labelling. She has represented the Codex secretariat in the WTO TBT committee and currently supports activities of the WTO SPS and TBT Committees and also works closely with FAO and WHO on capacity building activities to assist countries to improve their participation in Codex work and the application of Codex standards.
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Oh you.re just a moochie mooch girl.
When your cruising in my car.
Oh, you're just a moochie mooch girl.
What I need now is relaxation.
No more rollin' my hootie.
Ya just a moochie mooch girl.
Don't need that booty no mo'.
You're just a moochie mooch girl.


Over the past 10 days I've found myself forced into a wee bit of an existential quandary.
While that might sound over the top, it seems to me a perfectly adequate reaction given what was unfolding. Last week, out of nowhere, I found out that our governing body (the International Association of Athletics Federations) would be voting on a proposal to scrap the 50-kilometre race walk from the Olympic program in 2020 (Spoiler alert: the walk survives for another Olympic cycle).
The walks community, lacking in full details of what was unfolding (as it had all gone on behind our backs) but also lacking much more significantly in time, organized, and within a couple of days had our voice loud and unified. While we were battling publicly for our event, I was pondering privately, trying to come to terms with the IOC's rationale for wanting to get rid of race walk and wondering what, if any, value I bring to the table as a race walker.
The IOC provided several reasons for getting rid of race walk. Some, like gender equality, are valid (although easily fixed by incorporating a women's 50k, following the IAAF's lead this year). Other reasons, such as: it takes too long, it is too hard and too costly to close the one kilometre of road the race occupies, and it doesn't appeal to a younger audience for television are, in my biased opinion, completely misguided. Basically, the IOC doesn't like that it can't make money off the event (my words).
The IOC is charged with upholding the values of the Olympics, as defined in the Olympic Charter but the modern Olympics have strayed so far beyond the charter's intention that the IOC now finds its actions and responsibilities at odds with each other. My friend and training partner Quentin Rew wrote in eloquent detail about the Olympic hypocrisy.
So just how does race walk fit into these Olympic values that the IOC is supposed to uphold? What kind of value is there in an event requiring minimal infrastructure and representing the most basic of human movements, something billions of people do every day?
The walk requires peak physical conditioning combined with a will to endure for nearly four hours. This ability to endure is not done seeking fame or glory (we know we aren't the event for that) rather, it stems from a passion to push our limits and find out what our potential is.
When you consider that the walk is also a free event at the Olympics, occurring on just one kilometre of closed road, it is easy to see how our event can take these Olympic values and showcase them first-hand to an audience that couldn't otherwise afford to see them, in the highly capitalistic Games we have now, wherein watching Usain Bolt run for 10 seconds will cost you several hundreds of dollars.
The Olympic symbol, the five interlaced rings, represents the unity of the five continents. The 50km walk in Rio was one of only two athletic events in which the top-four finishers each represented different continents.
It is an accessible event, requiring no more than a pair of shoes (and some guys I've raced against don't even wear those). This worldwide representation and accessibility are two further principles of "Olympism." The Olympic Spirit is defined as "a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." In my 16 years as a race walker, aspiring to Olympic success, I feel like I have grown to embody these values.
And I believe the race walking community as a whole has these values in spades.
You don't have to look very far to find the impact of friendship in the race walking community. We mounted a three-week high fat diet study eight months before the Olympics, and brought two dozen athletes from a dozen countries and every continent together to train, hang out and make each other better.
That is a testament to friendship among race walkers. At the end of the day, we are out to win, but we celebrate the successes of those around us as much as we celebrate our own victories. When I do school talks, the one thing that resonates most with kids is how many countries I have been to, and how many friends I have made from all around the world.
Furthermore, and there is no way to say this humbly, but I think there are few greater authorities to speak to the value and importance of fair play in sport right now than me. But one thought that makes me very happy is knowing that almost everyone in the race walking community, if faced with the same decision that I was on whether to appeal for a chance at a medal, would have made the same decision I did. And that is the Olympic spirit in action.
Personally, I think my sport manifests its greatest value directly in the community. I train for several hours a day on the streets, doing a movement that makes me uniquely visible. I see hundreds if not thousands of people every day, many of whom know my name, know my story and cheer for me. I believe that when people get to see others striving for excellence in anything it inspires them to do the same. There are not many other sports in which the athletes are so visible on a daily basis in their wider community.
For Dunfee, there is room for sportsmanship in competition.
I would be naïve not to understand the position of my event. It is a little weird, it looks funny, and not a lot of people care about it. However, I think that is part of the reason I was drawn to it so strongly as an 11-year-old. I was weird, I looked funny, and I thought know one cared about me.
If race walking can provide the same kind of outlet and opportunity for a kid that feels the same way I did, and carry them 16 years to a point where they are inspiring a community, I can't see how that alone does not justify its worth in the Olympics.
I understand that race walk is never going to make the IOC millions of dollars. But the value of the event and the value of the athletes in a wider context of what they can offer, how they can inspire, and how they represent the Olympic spirit so truly that value cannot be measured monetarily.
We may have won the first battle, with the IAAF deciding not to axe the 50km from the 2020 program, but our fight with the IOC to prove that we belong continues. I can't thank people enough for the support they have shown our community over the last week. It has really helped cement my belief. What I have said here is true, and it is worth fighting for.


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McGee K. Hazardous Materials Operations. 2010.


M.P. Galanin, V.T. Zhukov, N.V. Klushnev, V.V. Lukin, A.S. Rodin. On the solving of conjugate problems for definition of parameters of wrap and heat exchange between elements of constructions.
E.I. Kraus and I.I. Shabalin. The tool for high-velocity interaction and damage of solids.
A.S. Larkin, V.S. Filinov and V.E. Fortov. Solution of the sign problem in pair approximation.
S.V. Ershov, A.A. Garbul, S.G. Pozdnyakov, V.G. Sokolov, A.G. Voloboy. Lighting simulation in anisotropic media.
O.N. Koroleva, A.V. Mazhukin. Determination of transport properties of silicon electron gas.
G.K. Borovin, V.V. Lapshin. About a motion of free–floating space robot.
K.K. Inozemtseva, M.B. Markov, F.N. Voronin. The electromagnetic and thermomechanical effects of electron beam on the solid barrier.
A.V. Utkin. Analysis of parallel molecular dynamics for MPI, CUDA and CUDA-MPI implementation.
A.L. Khomkin and A. S. Shumikhin. Electrical conductivity of warm dense matter: electron jellium—newgas–plasma component.
A.S. Dobrovolskaya, N.I. Klyuchnikov and V.A. Bityurin. Numerical simulation of dust particle in weakly ionized plasma in collisional regime with finite-difference lattice Boltzmann method.
A.Yu. Shemakhin and V.S. Zheltukhin. Mathematical modeling of rf plasma flow with metastable atoms at low pressure.
M.V. Mikhaylyuk, E.V. Strashnov And P.Yu. Timokhin. Algorithms of multibody dynamics simulation using articulated-body method.
M.P. Galanin, M.M. Gorbunov-Posadov, V.P. Kandidov, T.A. Polilova. Publication of the scientific monograph in Russia.
V.I. Mazhukin. 16th International Seminar on Mathematical models and modeling in the laser-plasma processes & advanced science technologies (LPPM3-2017).


For over 20 years, South Eastern Efforts Developing Sustainable Spaces, or SEEDS, has taught children throughout Durham, North Carolina how to lead and work with others through its community garden.
This nonprofit uses its garden to develop the capacity of young people to respect life, the earth and each other. Its after school and weekend programs include hands-on gardening, cooking lessons and various creative activities.
Budget Dumpster recently had the opportunity to partner with SEEDS to clean up their learning center. A dumpster donation supported community members, parents, board members and the SEEDS staff in throwing out trash and unused materials in their garden and kitchen classrooms. The day went off without a hitch, allowing the group to start fresh and bring new ideas to the organization.
Howell and his team of garden educators work constantly to maintain and grow their garden, as it often hosts several dozen students at a time. Getting so many students involved in gardening helps the organization spread its core values, including teamwork, responsibility and environmental stewardship, to youth across Durham.
A clean and healthy garden is home to various educational programs for SEEDS.
Creative Problem Solvers – Individuals that can make lasting, positive changes in their lives no matter the circumstance.
Engaged Community Members – People that are able to understand and help out in the community they live in.
Adept Team Leaders – Empowered and confident individuals that can lead diverse groups of people.
Budget Dumpster is happy to partner with SEEDS and like-minded organizations that provide educational programs outside the traditional classroom. Their work continues to inspire young people in the Durham area and helps create future leaders in their communities.
Interested in getting involved with SEEDS? Consider volunteering or donating to one of their programs. If you work for a nonprofit or organization with a cleanup project in the works, visit our dumpster donation page to learn about requesting a free dumpster.


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Morgan Creek Productions
Davis Films
Clarence Worley
Christian Slater
Alabama Whitman
Patricia Arquette
Vincenzo Coccotti
Drexl Spivey
Big Don
Dick Ritchie
Nicky Dimes
Chris Penn
Mentor(Elvis)
True Romance is a 1993 romantic crime film that stars Christian Slater as Clarence and Patricia Arquette as Alabama, two young newlyweds who decide to travel to Los Angeles to sell off a suitcase full of cocaine that they took off Alabama's drug-dealing pimp. In their journey, they are pursued by both the mob and law enforcement. The film was directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, the very first that he sold to Hollywood. The cast includes Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Brad Pitt, Samuel L. Jackson, James Gandolfini, and Christopher Walken.
The following weapons were used in the film True Romance:
1.2 Smith & Wesson Model 625
2.3 Heckler & Koch P7M13
2.4 IMI Desert Eagle Mark VII
3.1 Ithaca 37 "Stakeout"
3.2 Remington 870 (sawed-off)
3.3 Mossberg 500 Cruiser
4.1 Heckler & Koch MP5K
4.2 Uzi
Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) uses a snub-nose Smith & Wesson Model 66 in the first half of the film. This revolver manages to fire 7 shots when Clarence shoots it out with Drexl.
Smith & Wesson Model 66 Snub with 2.5" barrel & Pachmayr Grips - .357 Magnum
Clarence draws his Smith & Wesson revolver on Drexl.
Great closeup of the Model 66 as Clarence continues to fire the revolver.
Clarence bursts into the hotel room where Alabama had just been assaulted.
Smith & Wesson Model 625
Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) packs a Smith & Wesson Model 625 revolver throughout the second half of the film, after taking it from Virgil (James Gandolfini). He uses it to intimidate Elliot (Bronson Pinchot). In the uncensored Director's Cut of the film, Alabama (Patricia Arquette) also uses it during the final shootout, after she thinks Clarence is dead.
Smith & Wesson Model 625 - .45 ACP. This is the screen used Smith & Wesson Model 625 revolver. Being a massive N-frame .45 ACP revolver, it makes all the actor's hands look small.
Virgil draws his Model 625, but Alabama sprays him with a make-shift flamethrower made from a hair spray bottle and lighter.
Clarence checks his revolver just before entering the hotel.
Clarence uses it to intimidate Elliot (Bronson Pinchot)
Elliot (Bronson Pinchot) is threatened with the revolver.
The revolver is put to Elliot's cheek.
Clarence pulls his revolver out on Elliot to make sure he hasn't cheated them.
Clarence places his revolver on the sink in Lee's bathroom.
Alabama fires the revolver in the Director's Cut.
A bright nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 is briefly seen as one of the many guns packed into the bags of the Mafioso gunmen.
Nickel Smith & Wesson Model 36 - .38 Special
A mobster picks up several shotgun shells and a revolver.
Det. Wurlitzer (Michael Beach) during the final standoff pulls out his Smith & Wesson Model 649 backup revolver, firing it akimbo with his Beretta.
Smith & Wesson Model 649 with wood grips - .38 Special
Wurlitzer fires his Beretta with a S&W Bodyguard.
Wurlitzer with his Bodyguard and Beretta in a standoff with Luca.
Frankie (Frank Adonis), another of the Mafioso, carries a Beretta 92FS Inox, which he holds to the head of Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) and later a woman he holds hostage in the hotel.
Beretta 92FS Inox - 9x19mm
Clifford enters his trailer only to have an Inox placed on his head.
Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) is threatened with the Inox.
Frankie holds his Beretta while watching his boss (Christopher Walken) interrogate Clifford.
Closeup of a Beretta 92FS Inox being loaded before the final standoff.
Frankie holds a woman hostage in the hotel after the final shootout.
Most of the police officers in the film, including Det. Nicky Dimes (Chris Penn), carry Beretta 92FS pistols, as were issued to the LAPD at the time. The Italian gunman, Luca (Paul Ben-Victor), also draws his own Beretta during the final standoff.
The LAPD officers including Det. Wurlitzer (Michael Beach) draw their Berettas.
Squad Cop #1 (John Cenatiempo) with his Beretta.
On the right, Det. Wurlitzer (Michael Beach) fires his Beretta along with a S&W Bodyguard.
Det. Dimes (Chris Penn) firing his Beretta 92FS.
Luca (Paul Ben-Victor) draws his Beretta after Dimes tells him to drop his shotgun.
Heckler & Koch P7M13
Italian mob boss Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) uses a Heckler & Koch P7M13 after questioning Clifford Worley (Dennis Hopper) about his son's whereabouts.
H&K P7M13 - 9x19mm. This is the screen used gun carried by Christopher Walken in the film.
"I haven't killed anybody since 1984."
Don Vincenzo Coccotti (Christopher Walken) uses a Heckler & Koch P7M13.
Don Vincenzo with the pistol.
Closeup of the H&K P7M13 being fired. The M13 is visible on the slide.
IMI Desert Eagle Mark VII
A Sicilian mobster is briefly seen with a Desert Eagle Mark VII in the weapon-assembling scene before the final shootout.
Desert Eagle Mark VII - .357 Magnum
A Desert Eagle and extra magazines sit on the mobster's table.
Ithaca 37 "Stakeout"
Drug dealer and pimp Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman) uses an Ithaca 37 "Stakeout" to kill the drug dealers he stole from.
Ithaca 37 "Stakeout" blued finish with wooden forearm. The one in the movie has a synthetic forearm - 12 gauge
Drexl prepares to shoot the first of two thugs.
Remington 870 (sawed-off)
The Sicilian hitman Virgil (James Gandolfini) carries a Remington 870 sawed-off shotgun when he confronts Alabama while waiting for Clarence to return. Alabama (Patricia Arquette), after grabbing it from him, kills him by shooting him and beating him with it. Luca (Paul Ben-Victor) also carries a sawed-off Remington 870 as the mobsters question Floyd (Brad Pitt) about Clarence, Alabama, and Dick, and during the final shootout.
Sawn-off Remington 870 shotgun with pistol grip - 12 Gauge
Virgil smiles with his Remington in his lap.
Virgil, in the mirror, watches over Alabama.
Alabama in a beaten and crazed state shoots Virgil several times.
The Remington sits on a bed with ammunition being packed away.
Quite a few shotguns sit on the bed as the mobsters pack.
Remington 870 with sawed off barrel and stock - 12 Gauge
Luca holds his shotgun on Floyd.
Luca hides in the hotel room with his shotgun.
Mossberg 500 Cruiser
Marvin (Kevin Corrigan), one of the Mafiosos', uses a Mossberg 500 Cruiser in the final standoff.
Mossberg 500 Cruiser - 12 Gauge
Marvin aims his Mossberg at Monty.
Marvin fire his shotgun.
Heckler & Koch MP5K
Lee's guard Monty (Patrick John Hurley) carries and fires a Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine gun during the final shootout.
Heckler & Koch MP5K - 9x19mm
Boris, with his Uzi, and Monty, with his MP5K, watch over Clarence, Alabama, and Dick.
Monty holds his MP5K up at the police bursting into the room.
Lee's guard Boris (Eric Allan Kramer) carries and fires an Uzi during the final shootout.
IMI Uzi - 9x19mm
Boris holds his Uzi on Clarence, Alabama, and Dick as Clarence puts his revolver away.
Boris, brandishing an Uzi, confronts the police with the assistance of Monty's MP5K.
Close up of the Uzi firing.
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Under DC law all commercial properties or establishments located in the District of Columbia must maintain an active commercial recycling program. A commercial recycling program includes separation of recyclables from other solid waste, ensuring an adequate number of containers for separated recyclables and hiring a licensed, registered recycling hauler to regularly pick up recyclables.
Starting January 1, 2018, all District commercial properties are required to recycle the materials on this expanded recycling list. To help organizations transition to this new list, the District has developed a series of tools and resources, including: printable signs, fact sheets, and recorded webinars.
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Train and Deploy TensorFlow Models Optimized for Google Edge TPU
tutorial,
IoT edge computing / Machine Learning
6 Sep 2019 8:46am, by Janakiram MSV
Edge computing devices are becoming the logical destination to run deep learning models. While the public cloud is the preferred environment for training, it is the edge that runs the models for inferencing. Since most of the edge devices have constraints in the form of available CPU and GPU resources, there are purpose-built AI chips designed to accelerate the inferencing. These AI accelerators complement the CPU by speeding up the calculations involved in inferencing. They are designed to optimize the forward propagation of neural networks deployed on the edge.
Google Edge TPU is one of the AI accelerators in the market that's highly optimized for running TensorFlow models in inferencing mode. Developers can get started with Edge TPU through the Google Coral Dev Kit and Coral USB Accelerator. For details on the configuration and specs of these two devices, refer to my previous article.
Typical TensorFlow models trained on CPUs, TPUs, and TPUs cannot be directly deployed on Edge TPU. The models need to be converted and optimized before they can take full advantage of the acceleration provided by Edge TPU.
TensorFlow developers are familiar with TensorFlow Lite, a toolkit to convert and run TensorFlow models on mobile, embedded, and IoT devices. TensorFlow Lite is exclusively designed to run models efficiently on mobile and embedded devices with resource constraints. The workflow of converting an existing TensorFlow model to TF Lite includes using the Python SDK or the CLI. Models from SavedModel directories, frozen graph, Keras HDF5 formats can be easily converted into TF Lite through the SDK or the CLI. Converted models can be deployed and run on mobile or embedded devices that have the TF Lite interpreter.
The TensorFlow Lite interpreter is a library that takes a model file, executes the operations it defines on input data and provides access to the output. This interpreter works across multiple platforms and provides a simple API for running TensorFlow Lite models from Java, Swift, Objective-C, C++, and Python.
Unfortunately, Edge TPU doesn't support TF Lite models for inference. Developers are expected to further optimize a TF Lite model for the Edge TPU. Google has shipped a command-line tool to convert and optimize TensorFlow models for Edge TPU.
TensorFlow supports a model optimization technique called quantization, which is required by the Edge TPU. Quantizing a model essentially means converting all the 32-bit floating-point numbers (such as weights and activation outputs) to the nearest 8-bit fixed-point numbers. This technique makes the model smaller and faster. Even though this results in reduced precision, the model still maintains an acceptable level of accuracy.
Since the Edge TPU executes deep feed-forward neural networks, it supports only TensorFlow Lite models that are fully 8-bit quantized and then compiled specifically for the Edge TPU.
This article discusses two specific mechanisms to train, optimize and deploy TensorFlow models on Edge TPU.
Google Cloud Auto ML Vision
AutoML attempts to accelerate the process of training a model by automating the majority of the steps. Users are expected to upload the datasets and wait for the predictions to become available. From feature engineering to hyperparameter tuning, AutoML tackles the most complex steps of the pipeline.
Google is one of the first to offer AutoML for vision computing. Cloud AutoML Vision accesses image datasets uploaded to Cloud Storage buckets and trains a model that's ready for inference. The trained model can be hosted in the cloud for online predictions or deploy it on the edge for offline inferencing. For a detailed guide on using Cloud AutoML Vision, follow the tutorial I published earlier.
Cloud AutoML Vision can generate standard TensorFlow Lite models that can be deployed on mobile devices including the Raspberry Pi. It also supports generating a model highly optimized for the Edge TPU.
Once the model is trained, it can be further optimized for the target inference environment. The below screenshot shows supported devices.
The service uploads the Edge TPU-optimized TF Lite model to a Cloud Storage bucket that can be downloaded and deployed for inference.
The other option is to train a standard TF Lite model and then compiling it for Edge TPU which is discussed in the next section.
The best thing about using Cloud AutoML Vision service is the no-code approach to training and generating models. Depending on the size of the dataset, the model would be ready in a couple of hours. Google has done a fantastic job of connecting AutoML Vision service with Edge TPU.
Transfer Learning Combined with Edge TPU SDK and CLI
The other technique is to use the powerful transfer learning process to train the model and optimizing it for the Edge TPU. This approach gives better control of tuning the neural network architecture and the hyperparameters.
Training a convolutional neural network from the ground up can take days or even weeks of computing time and demands large amounts of training data. But transfer learning allows developers to start with an existing neural network architecture that's already trained for a similar task and then performing further training to teach the model to classify new data points using a smaller training dataset. We can do this by retraining the whole model (adjusting the weights across the whole network), but we can also achieve very accurate results by simply removing the final layer that performs classification, and training a new layer on top that to recognize the new classes.
For example, we can take an existing MobileNet model and reuse it to train a model that classifies a dog image into one of the breeds. Since 90% of the neural network architecture remains the same, the training will take just a few minutes.
Once the model is generated from the transfer learning-based training, it can be easily converted into a TF Lite model optimized for the Edge TPU.
Google has made popular models optimized for the Edge TPU available for download. These models can be used as the baseline for performing transfer learning. Some of these models can be even used for on-device training where the entire training process runs on Google Coral Dev Kit without the need to use the cloud or a powerful computing environment. Since the Dev Kit has enough horsepower, it can be exploited to train models based on smaller datasets through transfer learning.
Google not only extended the Cloud TPU to the edge, but it also made it simple for developers to convert and optimize TensorFlow models for the Edge TPU.
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The founding playwrights are Bryan Colley, David Hanson, Michelle T. Johnson and Vicki Vodrey. Work by the founders has been seen at KC Fringe, MeltingPot KC and out-of-town theaters and festivals. The center will begin accepting applications on Jan. 15. For more information, go to MidwestDramatists.org.
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Jonathan Simpson, global expert in commercial sales & shopper marketing at OxfordSM, considers whether we still need shopper marketing.
As a passionate shopper marketer, the question 'is shopper marketing dead' may seem odd (unless I'm trying to put myself out of a job). After all, I've specialised in shopper marketing for over 8 years whilst client-side, have spoken at conferences about the need for shopper marketing, and now work with clients all over the world to help them develop their shopper marketing strategy and capability. So, why then, am I asking?
First, some context; at OxfordSM many of our clients ask us to help "embed shopper in our business", or to "make the case for shopper marketing", which are, of course, entirely valid requests. Many organisations have historically either been consumer marketing or sales led, with shopper marketing the vehicle through which to sell in what these teams needed to happen in store. Therefore, any attempt to redress this balance, and bring shopper marketing into the planning process in a more strategic way would be a significant step forward from where they are now.
However, will it be enough of a step forward? As I work with more and more businesses, and as brands move increasingly to being more purpose-driven, I'm starting to wonder whether we still need shopper marketing, or whether the existence of shopper marketing is actually part of the problem?
We've seen and helped many leading service businesses adopt experience-led marketing as the core of their approach, resulting in disproportionate sales growth. CPG businesses are increasingly starting to see the benefits of this approach, but it's not something that can be done with the existing structures and siloed ways of working; it requires a fundamental change in how an organisation goes to market.
For example, in 2016 Domino's Pizza were in decline, so initially planned to do what they always had to drive sales… more TV ads. However, by looking across the whole experience journey, they were able to identify that the issues were the pizza (so they improved the recipe) and the act of ordering the pizza, so they developed "push for pizza" where people were able to order from their phone via the Domino's app with one push of a button. Domino's now have more than $2billion of sales from online each year, showing that focusing on the experience, rather than 'doing what you've always done' really works.
So, if we're really trying to market along the whole experience journey, thinking of "consumers" and "shoppers", and by extension the "consumer journey" or the "shopper journey" no longer works. Disjointed working practices will lead to a disjointed experience journey, and it's a seamless journey that makes a difference with people. And what does that mean for structures and ways of working?
Often these days, CPG innovation and activation are developed according to a typical "stage and gate" process, where teams do their bit, and then pass it on to the next team in the chain, in exactly the same way Henry Ford built the Model T all those years ago. And like the Model T did, this approach will get results, but will deliver a formulaic experience, rather than one that stands out in any way.
If we truly want to deliver a seamless experience, we have to develop it seamlessly too. This means teams composed of the people relevant to delivering that experience. Not brand teams handing off to shopper teams handing off to sales teams, but brand, sales, and shopper people all working together on the experience, at the same time, in the same room, with the same goals. No silos, no "well I did my job", no finger pointing – just one team, all orientated around the journey, each bringing their special set of skills to the team, to deliver one goal.
It also requires much more agility in ways of working. Experience journeys can change quickly, so the old processes need to be significantly accelerated, with fast iterative cycles of test and learn replacing hours of consumer and shopper testing, delivering seamless experiences in real time, not 6 months later. Team members will change too – for some journeys every function will be needed, but for others it will only be some functions or skills – and this is quite a change to the set teams we have now. Budgets will need to be more fluid, and pointed towards where they're needed, rather than where money has always been allocated.
We then need to break out of our old routine. Domino's were going to do what they always had done, but by examining the journey, they changed their approach. The same will need to happen in all businesses, and amongst their teams, so that we do what needs doing to deliver that great experience, rather than doing what we've always done. This will no doubt be uncomfortable at first, but eventually will surely be more interesting, rewarding, and successful than simply producing yet another case stacker or digital coupon.
So, is shopper marketing dead?
As a department, maybe. But if it is, the same can be said for brand marketing and pure sales… These old silos, where brand dealt with "above the line" and shopper with "below the line" look outdated now, and will actually lead to exactly the kind of disjointed experience that make people leave brands.
However, there is still a need for people who really understand how people shop, where they shop, and how behaviour might be changed, just like there is still a need for people who understand how and when people consume media, and what messages appeal to them.
In most cases, our retail partners will play a key role in the experience journey – our brands will be viewed and bought (or not) on their websites or in their stores, and so we have to ensure that what we are developing works for them and their shoppers, and this is where the skills and discipline of shopper marketing will still be needed. We will still need to uncover those great shopping insights, and develop the platforms that will help turn those insights into opportunities to change shopper behaviour and deliver growth. We'll still need to understand our retailer's categories, and how we might help to grow them. And flawless execution becomes even more important than it ever was, plus we'll need to understand where our execution gaps are, and how to plug them in real time.
Shopper marketers will need to up their game, to understand the role they play in the whole experience journey rather than being experts in the shopper journey. We will have to adapt as the world changes; what does voice mean for shopping? What does the Internet of Things mean for shopping? If a fridge orders beer itself, how do we influence that behaviour? For years the first goal of shopper marketing was to get on the list, but what if there's no list?
This isn't a eulogy for shopper marketing. I'm just as passionate about it as I ever was, and I still believe in it as much as I ever did. It does need to change to play a part in delivering a great experience journey to people, but it's not only shopper that needs to change. Businesses need to understand where they are now, and where they want to get to, and quickly, but in all that change, there'll still be a need for people who understand shoppers.
This, and more like it will be discussed at our "Business Not As Usual" event in Amsterdam on 27th September, where we're bringing together leaders from across the globe to talk about the issues they're facing.


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A good stock: Use stock (or broth) in salad dressings in place of some of the oil, to cook vegetables for more flavor, to start a homemade soup, or in place of butter or oil when a recipe says to sauté in oil.
Store extra stocks (or broths) frozen in an ice cube tray to punch out 2 tablespoons whenever needed. You also can buy canned broth. For beef or fish, try stock base. They're superconcentrated, and you must add water to them before use. Look for them in gourmet shops.
A selection of vinegars: Sherry, rice, raspberry, wine, and balsamic vinegar are all milder than acidic white or cider vinegar. To make a lowfat vinaigrette, cut back on oil as you do when you cook low-cal. But oil helps tame the punch of vinegar's acid, making the dressing taste mellower. Therefore, you need a milder vinegar. Also consider using vinegar to sauté chicken breasts, or add a splash instead of fattening butter or cream sauces.
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Quora contributions from August 2016 to March 2017
Quora is a question-and-answer site. You can view all my contributions here; selected highlights are listed below. I encourage you to check out the other answers submitted for each question, too!
What molecular mechanisms regulate methylase activity?
Why is the epitranscriptome (epigenetic marks on mRNA) important when mRNA molecules last so transiently?
What is the difference between histones and nucleosomes?
What's "Histone modification"?
What is the difference between acetylation and methylation?
Why does acetylation remove the positive charge on histones?
Why does trimethylation of histone H3 on lysine 27 (K27) result in chromatin repression?
Should histone modifications be labeled as an epigenetic modification? Or just a chromatin modification?
Are epigenetics a type of post-translational modification?
Could stem cells just be epigenetic?
I want to start learning about epigenetics. Where should I start?
What are the best books on epigenetics, for a layperson?
Can cancer cells evolve resistance to treatment?
Why are familial tumors usually multiple compared to sporadic cases, even when the same mutation is responsible for both types?
Why can't people with cancer donate their organs?
Can we use mRNA silencing techniques to inhibit the HIV genome?
Other scientific topics
Once we insert a desired gene into the human genome, how is its expression limited to the specific target organs where the gene is needed?
Do our parents have the same DNA as us?
Do red blood cells have functional miRNAs?
My ex-husband and I both have blood type O (positive and negative). How is it possible that our son has type B+?
Do you think Goodreads should ask a few questions from a book before letting anyone rate it?
Posted by cathennis604 on 2017/04/01 in Books, cancer, epigenetics, genetics, Quora, stem cells, viruses
Quora activity for January 2015 – August 2016
Would it be possible to avoid cancer by modifying our DNA?
Is whole genome sequencing of any use in cancer diagnostics?
If our body can detect cancerous cells, why do people still get cancer? Does it mean that we can improve our body's defenses against cancer before even getting sick?
If 2/3 of cancers are caused by chance mutations, why should I work to help prevent cancer?
Is it possible that cancer is not actually a disease to be "cured", but it is actually an inherent defect of genetics?
Is cancer an intrinsic feature of life?
Is worrying about cancer the biggest cause of cancer?
What are the chances (if any), that a blind person getting cancer in the eye would allow them to see again?
What cure would be most beneficial to discover: HIV/AIDS or cancer?
Can Ebola be treated with cancer drugs?
If two people have identical DNA fingerprints, what other molecular evidence does forensics use to distinguish between biological samples?
Can a methylation pattern be sequenced?
What could potentially be the most exciting application of epigenetic research?
Why hasn't Lamarck been acknowledged in the face of the burgeoning advances made in the science of epigenetics?
In what way does histone methylation prevent transcription?
Is the epigenetic system of a person heritable?
Is there a meaningful way to diagnostically test a patient for epigenetic changes caused by long term use of medications?
Other Scientific Subjects
Is it a possibility that parents of genotype AA have an offspring with AS?
What is the reason that viruses are inactive when not inside any organism? What is the mechanism?
Will the final solution to HIV be to just accept it as part of the human genome?
What can you tell about a gene based on its tissue expression patterns?
What are some interesting examples of people becoming infected with typically fatal diseases (e.g. Ebola, HIV/AIDS, rabies, anthrax) through unusual means or at long odds?
Could cellular environment (pH, temperature, molecular crowding, redox state) affect a cell's interactome?
What causes mutation in viruses?
Which (multicellular) animal is most deadly to humans?
What would happen if all the DNA in my body suddenly disappeared?
What are the most useful lab hacks, tips and tricks for molecular biology/biochemistry?
Do viruses have nutritional value for any organism?
What will next-generation sequencing be called a generation from now?
When will we be able to sequence the genome of every living vertebrate on Earth?
What are the oddest organisms?
Biochemistry: Why does the yeast two-hybrid system system have low specificity?
About Scientific Research and Careers
What does a principal investigator at a molecular biology lab spend time doing during the day?
How common is it for scientists to hire people to write their grant proposals?
How do I improve my grant writing?
I want to apply for a grant for a project, but I have no idea how to write a proper grant proposal. How can I go about this?
What is your favorite annual scientific conference?
Does a biochemist/biologist have to know all the reactions of cellular respiration or other general topics by heart after graduating?
Is there racism in Canada? Why?
What's the best story about "fighting fire with fire"?
What are some of the best moments while taking exams?
Why do people believe in the ancient aliens theory?
If cloning of people was legal, whom would you choose and why?
What are some great optical illusions?
Which is the best way to pass the PMP exam?
Why do some people choose to use Quora over writing a blog?
Posted by cathennis604 on 2016/08/13 in cancer, epigenetics, evolution, genetics, genome sequencing, hoaxes conspiracy theories and pseudoscience, mutation, personalised medicine, Quora, viruses
Can a trigger-happy immune system cause cancer after viral infection?
(Originally published on Occam's Corner at Guardian Science, in June 2014)
Friendly fire: while the immune system tries to protect us from viruses, it could be causing cancer
The immune system is a fickle thing, both hero and villain.
The ability of our ancestors to survive plague and pestilence was one of the forces that shaped the evolution of the human species into its current form. But many of us now find ourselves in environments where many of the biggest infectious threats have been neutralised by a combination of vaccination programmes, improved hygiene, and (temporarily) effective treatments. With their usual duties cut back so drastically, our evolutionary superstar immune systems sometimes lash out at innocuous perceived threats. This can cause allergies, multiple sclerosis, and other auto-immune disorders in the process – sins of commission, if you will.
But at least our immune systems are still pretty good at protecting us from infections and most cancers, right?
Well, much of the time, yes. The importance of the immune system in protecting us from cancer is evident from the increased rates of the disease in people with reduced immunity due to HIV/Aids or followingorgan transplants. And yet the immune system's sins of omission mean that far too many cancer cells slip through the net – and we still get colds and the dreaded norovirus, too.
This week, though, new research from University College London (UCL) suggests for the first time that the immune system also commits sins of commission when it comes to cancer.
The research, published in the journal Cell Reports on Thursday, concerns a class of genes called the APOBEC family. These genes code for proteins that attack invading viruses by mutating their DNA, a tactic that can stop or at least slow the replication and spread of the virus. The mutations caused by APOBEC proteins occur in a characteristic pattern – a pattern that also shows up in some types of cancer, including types that are often caused by infection with human papilloma viruses (HPV). Could the mutations in these cancers be caused by misfiring antiviral defences?
Human papilloma virus. Photograph: Laboratory of Tumor Virus Biology/Wikimedia Commons
Drs Stephen Henderson, Tim Fenton and their teams at UCL have now demonstrated that there is indeed an association between the presence of HPV in some cancer cells, elevated activity of the APOBEC proteins in those cells, and the presence of the characteristic APOBEC-mediated mutation pattern. These findings support the idea that HPV infection triggers an anti-viral attack that not only hits the intended target – the viral genes –but also the cell's own DNA. The UCL team also found that mutations caused by APOBEC have a strong tendency to hit genes such as PIK3CA that help to regulate the growth and division of the cell, and whose mutation is associated with the development of cancer.
"It is not clear why HPV infection causes the APOBEC genes to misbehave and mutate PIK3CA,"says Dr Henderson. "It could be that the body responds to HPV infection with increased ABOBEC activity, simply making 'friendly fire' more likely. Alternatively, there may well be something about the virus that causes the APOBEC response to wrongly target the body's own genes for mutation."
The good news is that these new findings open up new avenues for researchers working on diverse aspects of the cancer problem: there are known inherited variations in a member of the APOBEC family that have been linked with an elevated risk of developing breast cancer; other viral infections may also be associated with cancer, possibly via the same mechanism; and drugs that target mutated versions of the PIK3CA protein are already being developed.
Meanwhile, if you don't want to give your trigger-happy immune system a shot at the human papilloma virus, effective vaccines are now available.
Posted by cathennis604 on 2014/09/14 in cancer, genetics, viruses
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Drawing A Blank: The Art of Cody Schibi: It's A Friday Giveaway!!!
For those of you that follow me on Twitter you know I like to give away some art now & then to random followers. TODAY brings another chance to win some cool goodies!
My buddy Spanky Stokes has an amazing blog which showcases some super talented artists from around the globe usually specializing in custom vinyls & toys. He tends to have a "Friday Giveaway" every week, so definitely bookmark his blog & revisit daily! I got with him a few weeks back & we set up some neato FREE stuff for today's giveaway!
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I love giving things away to art lovers, so this is exciting for me too! I'll be continuing to do it, so continue to follow me on Twitter! Another reminder for those attending Austin Comic Con, I'll be having daily giveaways to my followers who come up to my table with the "secret words". Not only will I scream frantically like PeeWee Herman, but you'll walk away with free art!
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Silvermist uses a combination of cognitive behavioral and skills-based therapies to help you recognize triggers and how they impact negative behaviors. Family education and engagement is stressed throughout, and medication-assisted therapy is thoughtfully integrated into treatment planning when appropriate to ensure a successful transition back to your life once you leave out treatment center.
The undeniable link between mind and body makes it crucial to effectively address both during your stay at our inpatient drug rehab. Improving one facet can drastically help to improve the other in working toward both physical and emotional well-being.
Silvermist offers BioSound Healing Therapy through our BioLounge. BioSound Healing Therapy integrates biofeedback, music therapy, sound frequency massage and guided imagery selections designed to address any trauma from your past.
The BioLounge in our inpatient drug rehab is a vibrational reclining platform constructed with memory foam and consisting of audio and visual features that induce a theta-level meditative state This type of therapy helps clients overcome deep-rooted negative thoughts and behavior patterns while encouraging relaxation and healing.
For more information about the BioLounge and BioSound Healing Therapy, visit www.biosoundhealing.com.
Family involvement is a vital component of long-lasting recovery. Your family members are encouraged to regularly participate in educational and counseling services at our drug rehabilitation center. Weekend schedules are geared toward family visits and include programs for support and education. You and your family members can contact clinical staff for advice and assistance about all aspects of treatment.
Silvermist offers weekly family sessions by phone and in person. We also offer a monthly Family Day on the first Saturday of every month to provide education and support for family members. See the schedule below to see how we involve family in treatment.
Effectively addressing mental health issues plays a crucial role in addiction recovery.
Our therapists use the most effective treatment approaches to help with your journey to better mental health.
The multi-disciplinary team at Silvermist has experience and comfort treating a variety of co-occurring mental health conditions that often require attention during treatment.
Our psychiatrist works closely with our licensed clinical staff to come up with a comprehensive plan, often including multiple individual therapy sessions per week and monitoring of the appropriate medications.
Silvermist is an ideal setting to be able to put life's distractions on hold and fully explore your opportunity for inner growth and healing. Through a rich curriculum of research-based, individualized practices and client-centered thinking and philosophy, Silvermist allows you to discover your true potential.
Our team of experienced, licensed clinicians works closely with each client to help identify negative attitudes, feelings and behaviors that have likely developed as a means of coping and replace them in ways that will lead to a more productive way of life.
Silvermist inpatient drug rehab takes a two-phase approach to helping young adults stabilize their addictive behaviors, understand the issues at the core of the addiction and provide a clear path to lifelong recovery in adulthood.
During Phase I, a typical day at Silvermist might include group therapy, personal time for journaling or reflection, sober living skills classes and a yoga class or other recreational activity. In addition to evidence-based addiction treatment practices and modalities, we provide complementary holistic therapies designed to help heal mind, body and soul and encourage an overall healthy lifestyle, free of the influence of drugs and alcohol. Silvermist's executive chefs will provide breakfast, lunch and dinner in the residences' fully-equipped kitchens and can accommodate all dietary restrictions.
Clients in Phase II meet with their therapists for a minimum of two sessions per week in addition to a schedule of group psychotherapy and holistic treatment. However, there are additional freedoms not afforded to clients in Phase I, including less group time and self-directed study time. These freedoms allow clients to begin to use the sober skills they have learned in treatment as they prepare for discharge from the program and a return home.
Throughout the program, Silvermist staff focus on making sure each client is comfortable at our inpatient drug rehab. We want you to be able to find your own unique best path toward recovery with substance abuse treatment that works.
Research reveals that young adults are at greatest risk of relapse within 30 days post‐treatment, and that post‐treatment recovery support activities significantly reduce chances of relapse. For that reason, Silvermist offers extensive aftercare planning that involves a team of individuals dedicated to ensuring that all Silvermist clients transition to a trusted aftercare program that best meets their needs and maximizes their chance for long-term recovery.
We urge all clients as well as their family members to take an active part in the aftercare planning process. Silvermist staff will continue to support your recovery via post-discharge follow up calls. These calls are conducted after 7, 30, 60 and 90 days.
We encourage former clients to call Silvermist at (724) 481-1284 at any time if they need additional support, or just to check in.
By encouraging participation in 12-Step and other fellowship meetings, we help you form a support network of like-minded individuals outside of the facility. Meetings can also teach coping tools and behavioral strategies necessary for our residents to successfully re-enter society while achieving their most important goal: long-term recovery.


Last week, I was boarding a flight home from the always great Cisco Live Barcelona. I travel a fair amount, so the plane routine is, well, routine.
#CLEUR had been a long but productive week of phenomenal conversations with our customers, partners, and fellow Cisco-ites. Reflecting on the week, and the challenges our customers face, I realized that the aviation industry and our service provider industry are both critical infrastructure and we likely could learn a lot from each other.
It turns out that Network Operators and Pilots have a fair amount in common. Apparently, most of the pilot's work is not spent actually flying the aircraft. Instead, it is about making highly skilled decisions and adjustments. They must manage everything that goes into a successful flight: safety, weather, navigation, finding "good air" for stability, fuel consumption, and communication.
Autopilot enables pilots to focus on what truly matters, flying the plane safely and optimally. High-definition telemetry informs the pilot of events that may need attention. The low-level mechanics of flying are offloaded so the pilot can focus on critical decisions. Pilots also have a tremendous amount of data and training they can leverage in case of challenges. In fact, there is a great book called "The Checklist Manifesto" which details how incidents are responded to in real time.
Essentially, network operators are the pilots of networks. They are highly skilled, manage critical cargo, and are always seeking smoother operations. Cisco innovates so that network operators can focus on what really matters, delivering experiences from point A to point B. Modernizing network operations with advanced automation is a business imperative. Network operators also have checklists – Methods and Procedures (MOPS). Many of our SP Network Operators are in the process of automating those MOPS so they can spend more of their time on more critical decisions. That is a big reason Cisco heavily invests in software and automation as a strategic imperative.
With all of the acquisitions that Cisco does, it can be difficult to tie a thread to all of them to understand what the outcome could or might be. In the last twelve months, we have made three strategic software additions to our SP organization. These acquisitions emphasize our commitment towards more software, automation, and cloud powered applications.
Cisco continues to evolve the capabilities of its networking software and the IOS XR platform. With the acquisition of Ensoft, we add high-performing team members who help accelerate high-definition telemetry and open programmability.
Singularity Networks adds the ability to harvest that telemetry and bring it into cloud analytics. Network operators will have broader visibility into the network to manage their operations at scale.
Skyport Systems has key intellectual property on how to securely pull data from any network element and ensure that this data can be trusted. Data is pulled from the network, analyzed, and then used to drive value and new service innovation.
These acquisitions bring intellectual property, seasoned software, and great team members that will accelerate our Crosswork Network Automation solution portfolio. By effectively extracting and managing huge amounts of data, operators can rapidly address and even proactively avoid disrupting events and impending security threats. Furthermore, those same valuable insights can be used to expand the value of the organization into driving new service innovation.
A great example of this collaboration at work is our shipping product, Crosswork Network Insights which enables you to understand if your critical route infrastructure is being hijacked anywhere in the world.
I strongly believe that we are reinventing networking here at Cisco. We are bringing in exceptionally talented teams that are driven to innovate a smarter, simpler, and better network. I look forward to hearing your thoughts on planes, automation, and how we can help you with your critical infrastructure.
I am impressed the way you have connected all three acquisitions in plane backdrop.


A flurry of activity surrounded the news. Immediately prior to it, a high-powered security meeting was chaired by PM Narendra Modi. An all-party meeting was called soon after. Modi also kept the President, vice-president, his predecessor Manmohan Singh and J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti in the loop. All the usual markers of rising tension were there: the Sensex tanked by over 500 points, the rupee too inched down gloomily.
Clearly, the rules of the game have changed. It is not the first time the Army has carried out tactical raids across the border. The idea of 'hot pursuit' was much discussed during NDA-I; it was then home minister L.K. Advani's pet theme. (The present NSA, A.K. Doval, then in the IB, was closely associated with the policy.) But with Kashmir in the global limelight, India had to give an assurance then that it would not go ahead with it. Later, P. Chidambaram as home minister is believed to have green-signalled several tactical raids across the LoC, but thought it prudent to keep them under wraps. It is a first for the government to actually announce the strike. The DGMO even called up his Pakistani counterpart to inform him about it. "The operations may have been covert, but we are not going to be coy about them," says an official.
Across the globe, however, another armed conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbours would be the ultimate 'black swan' event. US Secretary of State John Kerry had in fact been in touch with his Indian counterpart, Sushma Swaraj, over the past few days, asking for India to show restraint. Even US national security advisor, Susan Rice, spoke to Doval, her counterpart, assuring redoubled efforts to persuade Pakistan to act against Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Modi too had reassured the outside world, through a speech at a recent public rally, that despite India's deep frustration with Pakistan, his government was not thinking of an armed response. Instead, talk had shifted to 'non-military' options: including using 'water as a weapon'. The pros and cons of "turning off the Indus tap" via a revisiting of the 1960 water sharing treaty were much discussed—the PM got an expert presentation—before realisation dawned that major tinkering was impossible.
But diplomatic warfare was unremitting, and turned to new territory. Mid-week, Modi announced he would stay away from the SAARC summit slated for November in Islamabad. In an unprecedented gesture, three other member-nations, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan, made common cause with India and said they too would stay away. Thursday's dramatic announcement, therefore, came somewhat against the run of play.
A lot now depends on Pakistan's response. So far, it has tried to play down the incident, dismissing it as routine shelling. But the hype in India may well force it to alter its response—any retaliatory strike at Indian positions could dangerously escalate things.
The SAARC snub will hurt, being an index of Pakistan's growing isolation in the region. Before that, something else left a trail of red faces in New Delhi too—news that India's trusted ally, Russia, was going to do joint military exercises with Pakistan (see story on page 30). As the smell of cordite clears from the LoC, this event and what it connotes might prove to be the more durable factor. Russia inching closer to the China-Pakistan axis would mean Asian geopolitics itself getting reshaped.
Even so, a cancelled SAARC summit is not without diplomatic force. "Pakistan should have seen the writing on the wall," says former Indian diplomat Sheelkant Sharma, who had a stint as SAARC secretary-general. "If it had passed on the chair to some other member-country, the summit could have been held." But a beleaguered Sharif did not want to lose the opportunity to play host to the session, hoping the summit would shore up his stocks.
If that has now earned him some egg on the face, there were enough straws in the wind. A growing dismay among other members was apparent during the run-up meetings. A few months ago, when Pakistan hosted the home ministers' meeting, it allowed militant groups to hold 'anti-India' demonstrations outside the venue, raising the hackles of the Indians and even others. Within SAARC, it lacks the economic clout to pull others towards its agenda; its reluctance to include 'the fight against terrorism' as a key point in the SAARC document only sharpened that alienation.
The cut and thrust of diplomacy and limited 'warfare' apart, some feel much of Modi's verbal and policy moves are meant to assuage frustration among BJP's core support base. "This is jingoism without going to war," says former MEA secretary K.C. Singh. He argues that while the PM cannot go to war without jeopardising India's growth momentum, he is mindful of the ire among BJP supporters.
"Modi is caught in a rhetorical trap. He can't damage his image of a tough leader. He also can't risk going to war. He will have to think of innovative ways to convince camp followers that he is taking steps to hurt Pakistan," says Singh. This goes back to 2014, when Modi was projected as a leader who could respond fittingly in the event of a terror attack. However, since he became PM, there have been several attacks by Pak-based terror groups on Indian assets in Afghanistan and India.
Modi's own stated commitment to growth—for which stability is a prerequisite—is what complicates acting on his public image without hindrance. Especially because the two countries are in a sort of sibling feud that can, in a worst-case scenario, deteriorate to a nuclear conflagration. Those who rely on the idea of equal deterrence have reason to qualify their optimism. India has a declared doctrine of 'no first use', while Pakistan has been ambiguous on this. This week, Pakistani defence minister Khwaja M. Asif was heard lobbing dark hints. "If Pakistan's security is threatened, we will not hesitate in using tactical (nuclear) weapons," he asserted in a tweet. At other times, this would be read as sheer bravado. But banking on something as mutable as sentiment cannot be good policy.
Rivers are largely innocuous entities compared to nukes but, as the Cauvery dispute shows, an underlying animus can set even water on fire. When Modi said "water and blood cannot flow together" at a rally in Kerala, it signalled India was willing to open up another tricky front. India releasing less water from the Indus and its tributaries is something even Lashkar supremo Hafiz Saeed makes propaganda points out of. New Delhi, of course, cannot unilaterally abrogate the World Bank-brokered treaty. So it is looking at using up to 20 per cent of the Indus waters—something it is entitled to do under the treaty.
Again, Durrani foresees this. "Abrogation does not seem to be feasible, as it has serious implications under international law. What seems doable (for India) is control of water to make things difficult for the lower riparian (Pakistan)...unexpected discharges resulting in flooding and less release in drier periods. It has been done in the past," he says.
India is entitled to campaign globally against Pakistan, says Durrani—"it's a legitimate effort"—but he doubts its effectiveness, pointing to changed geostrategic priorities. "For the past decade or more, Af-Pak seems to have become the world's centre. Then we have the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Istanbul Process." (The SCO is a China-Russia-driven initiative in Central Asia; the latter is more Afghanistan-specific.) "Most importantly, some vigorous efforts by our diplomats have improved Pakistan's relations with Iran and Russia," adds Durrani. The Modi regime's "main plank in this game, the US, too is stuck with us because of what is loosely called the 'New Great Game'," the former spymaster says.
All this attritional talk shows how contrasting the mood now is vis-a-vis the bonhomie of May 2014, when Modi invited Sharif at his swearing-in. Even later, when Modi landed in Lahore to greet Sharif on his birthday, it kept alive the paradoxical hope that a 'strong' PM could deliver peace. All such attempts at goodwill hunting seem to have fallen back on the beaten track of Indo-Pak relations.
"Every Indian PM goes through this route," says former diplomat Vivek Katju. "They all come to the same conclusion: Pakistan is not a friend. It's the turn of Modi to learn this hard truth." Hence, the idea of causing 'pain'. Among the options, there is also the idea of withdrawing Most Favoured Nation status. Pakistan had not conferred it back, but New Delhi allowed it to stand as a goodwill gesture. That now seems in doubt. Bilateral trade is negligible, so it's a 'symbolic' gesture, says Katju. "But it's better to try something." The jury is still out on what degree of 'pain' will succeed—or boomerang.
Russia's decision to hold military exercises with Pakistan in disputed PoK marks a shift in regional balance. Now, India can't take oldest ally for granted.
Despite a joint military drill with Pak, Russia is still India's friend. But due to various factors, this relationship isn't exclusive anymore.


District plans identify whether subdivision is a permitted, controlled, restricted discretionary, discretionary, non-complying or prohibited activity. In almost all cases, an owner of land wishing to subdivide will need to obtain a resource consent and even if subdivision is a permitted activity an owner of land wishing to subdivide will need to obtain a certificate of compliance. 272 Activities associated with a subdivision, such as earthworks and vegetation clearance, may also require resource consent(s) from the district or regional council.
a condition requiring that any existing easements in respect of which the land is the dominant tenement and which the territorial authority considers to be redundant, be extinguished.
Next, legal title documents and the survey plan must be lodged with Land Information New Zealand for approval. Land Information New Zealand checks the documents meet the legal requirements, including whether the survey plan meets the required standards of accuracy to correctly fit into the national cadastral database (an electronic database called Landonline).
A survey plan shows a property's legal boundaries, areas and dimensions. Under the RMA, survey plan means (i) a cadastral survey dataset of subdivision of land, or a building or part of a building, prepared in a form suitable for deposit under the Land Transfer Act 1952; and (ii) a cadastral survey dataset of a subdivision by or on behalf of a Minister of the Crown of land not subject to the Land Transfer Act 1952. Cadastral survey dataset is defined in the Cadastral Survey Act 2002.


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Q: Critical components in CF I'm new to Cloud Foundry and started wondering which CF components are critical

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*to keep application running

*to allow applications to receive/send back traffic

*to persist the application logs

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*to keep application running: cell

*to allow applications to receive/send back traffic: router

*to persist the application logs: loggregator

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to keep application running: cell

Technically just the Cell, but a couple things to consider. Traffic can't get to your Cells if your Gorouters and external load balancers are not working correctly. In addition, if your apps crash or need to be restarted that can only happen if Cloud Controller and the rest of the Diego components are running.
Tangentially related, apps also tend to use services. If those are down or not working, then your apps will be too. Just something else to consider.

to allow applications to receive/send back traffic: router

Most deployments have an external load balancer which balances traffic across your Gorouters. This would also need to be up to receive traffic.

to persist the application logs: loggregator

Technically there is no persistence of logs in Loggregator. It temporarily buffers logs in memory, but does not store them. You would need to have Loggregator running and sending logs to somewhere else like a syslog service that actually stores and persists the logs.
These two pages provide additional details:

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*https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/2-6/concepts/high-availability.html

*https://docs.pivotal.io/pivotalcf/2-6/concepts/maintaining-high-availability.html
Hope that helps!

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10 Aug 2016 // Latest Airline Route News // Comments OFF
Southwest Airlines starts seven services
Southwest Airlines added its second route to Nassau in the Bahamas on 7 August, a daily 293-kilometre sector from Fort Lauderdale. Taking part in the gift exchange in Nassau are Steve Goldberg, VP Ground Operations for Southwest Airlines, and Obediah Wilchombe, Bahamas' Minister of Tourism. The first flight to Nassau from Fort Lauderdale was flown by Bahamian-born Sean Smith. "It gave me goosebumps to fly the inaugural to my home," said Smith. Nassau is already connected by the airline to Baltimore/Washington with weekly (Saturdays) flights.
Sacramento Airport celebrated with this cake the start of Southwest Airlines' daily service from Baltimore/Washington on 7 August. The 3,843-kilometre sector will be flown by the LCC's 737-700s facing no direct competition.
Southwest Airlines chose the last week as the launch pad to debut seven new routes on its North American network, starting on 6 August with a 2,791-kilometre link between Milwaukee (MKE) and San Diego (SAN), a route facing no competition. The only other route launched by Southwest Airlines that will not face an incumbent is the 3,843-kilometre coast-to-coast paring of Baltimore/Washington (BWI) and Sacramento (SMF). This becomes the airline's third longest route after Los Angeles to Liberia (4,228 kilometres) and Baltimore/Washington to Oakland (3,925 kilometres). The five other routes launched by Southwest this week will face direct competition, with the international link from Fort Lauderdale (FLL) to Nassau (NAS), the carrier's second route to the Bahamas airport after Baltimore/Washington, seeing the strongest contest as three other airlines already serve the short 293-kilometre pairing. The average weekly frequency of Southwest's new services is 6.8.
Aircraft (W/F)
6 August Milwaukee (MKE) San Diego (SAN) B73W (7)
7 August Baltimore/Washington (BWI) Sacramento (SMF)
Fort Lauderdale (FLL) Nassau (NAS) JetBlue Airways (35),
Bahamas Air (28),
SkyBahamas (8)
Los Angeles (LAX) Pittsburgh (PIT) American Airlines (6)
Nashville (BNA) Charlotte Douglas (CLT) B73W (6) American Airlines (54)
Portland (PDX) Burbank (BUR) B73W (7) Alaska Airlines (21)
Ontario (ONT) Alaska Airlines (14)
Source: OAG Schedules Analyser data w/c 9 August 2016.
BNA BUR BWI CLT FLL LAX MKE NAS ONT PDX PIT SAN SMF Southwest Airlines