Do you have a list of STALKER packets ? I've seen two of your "tools" for that game. However I need more packets to be described.
So if it possible, share any kind of extra info.
Well.. thanks for your answer anyway.
is it really so hard to capture the packets yourself ?
or am i missing something here and you not talking about the same packets ?
it's not hard to capture them, it's hard/boring to understand all the fields which contain them.
Could you write how to use your program stalkerfp.
ip and port work. What am I doing wrong?
I'm sorry, already figured out. Thought that between the host and port should be placed in the gap as 39x, but it turns to a colon.
If the server is started with this program XRservermanager, then the server is not possible to bring down with your program stalker39x.exe, or fill out the players invisible stalkerfp.exe. My question is can we in any way to overcome the defense of this program .
I want to describe some of the fall of the server.
Another server collapses from eating first aid kit during the death of the actor. with the log.
Here is an example of a couple of logs, I think you know about this error.
All of the above applies to server errors .
There is one amusing error, using it can cause a crash all the players from the server. Enough to write in the chat or change the nickname to the "wrong" color. Stalker understands only the colors yellow, white, blue, green and red, of any color, all players ejected from the server, the server is running.
that fake players tool is provided as is to proove the bug in the default game.


There is an unmistakable revolution occurring in Healthcare. As a direct consequence of this, you are losing control of your health care provider and your money spent on health care insurance. You may not even be aware of this. The government and insurance companies would like you to think this problem is due to "greedy doctors." In fact the problems we are encountering are not new or unique to the United States, but are throughout the Western World. No country's solution to the problem of providing wide access to Health Care at a reasonable cost has been adequate. Canada's Health Care System has struggled in the past with care access, but has improved. Britain turned full circle from private fee for service to a purely government subsidized Health Service back to partial reinstitution of private care. This is largely due to inefficiencies in a highly bureaucratic government controlled system where cost outweighs quality, and the social and personnel impact of health problems are ignored rather than incorporating them into the complex equation. Sweden has excellent health care with a nationalized health care delivery system contributing to a large tax burden on the public. The United States is currently groping in unexplored territory with a Health Care System which most would agree is little more than a huge experiment. We also have the largest cost for treatment which is fragmented. This is clearly a result of Lobbying and monetary considerations with the added complexity of unregulated Insurance Companies.
Sports related tendon injuries often involve high repetitive loading of tendons with microscopic areas of rupture, surrounding inflammation and scar formation. In the tennis player, golfer or swimmer, this may be seen with a painful elbow or shoulder. In basketball this may be seen as patellar tendonitis of the knee, and in the runner it may be seen as Achilles tendonitis. Causes of tendonitis include repetitive or acute tendon overload, constriction of a tendon sheath with associated tendon friction, direct blow to a tendon attachment site, or systemic diseases which cause generalized soft tissue inflammation. The site of injury may be at the anchor site of tendon to bone, the midsubstance of the tendon , or at the muscle tendon junction. In tennis, lateral epicondylitis occurs at the bone-tendon origin of the wrist extensor muscles in the forearm. In golf, the medial epicondylitis is more commonly affected.


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Q: Hello, how to fix an error of creating Vue 3 project + Jest? how to fix an error of creating Vue 3 project + Jest?
I used npm i -g @vue/cli
and
vue create .
Logs:

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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17763.1217]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp>vue create .

Vue CLI v4.5.13
? Generate project in current directory? Yes

Vue CLI v4.5.13
? Please pick a preset: Manually select features
? Check the features needed for your project: Choose Vue version, Babel, Router, Vuex, CSS Pre-processors, Linter, Unit, E2E
? Choose a version of Vue.js that you want to start the project with 3.x
? Use history mode for router? (Requires proper server setup for index fallback in production) No
? Pick a CSS pre-processor (PostCSS, Autoprefixer and CSS Modules are supported by default): Sass/SCSS (with dart-sass)
? Pick a linter / formatter config: Prettier
? Pick additional lint features: Lint on save
? Pick a unit testing solution: Jest
? Pick an E2E testing solution: WebdriverIO
? Pick browsers to run end-to-end test on Chrome, Firefox
? Where do you prefer placing config for Babel, ESLint, etc.? In dedicated config files
? Save this as a preset for future projects? No

Vue CLI v4.5.13
✨  Creating project in D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp.
⚙  Installing CLI plugins. This might take a while...

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp\node_modules\fibers
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node-gyp rebuild
npm ERR! Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build, please add the "-m" switch.
npm ERR!   fibers.cc
npm ERR! C:\Users\Vector\AppData\Local\node-gyp\Cache\16.2.0\include\node\node.h(63,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'v8.h': No such file or directory [D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp\node_modules\fibers\build\fibers.vcxproj]
npm ERR! (node:1448) [DEP0150] DeprecationWarning: Setting process.config is deprecated. In the future the property will be read-only.
npm ERR! (Use `node --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! build error
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:194:23)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:365:28)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)
npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.17763
npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp\node_modules\fibers
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v16.2.0
npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v7.1.2
npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Vector\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-06-01T00_11_29_219Z-debug.log
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D:\Projects\FrontEnd\fcrp>
*/

Node is installed and additional files are installed, but the problem is not solved, What is going wrong
npm install --global --production windows-build-tools
npm install --global node-gyp

Didn't help to solve the problem
Mocha + Chai works fine without an errors but Jest get errors
WebdriverIO (WebDriver/DevTools based) also raises an error but Cypress (Chrome only) works fine

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Alliance aims to fast track energy transition
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) has joined forces with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to form an Energy Transition Alliance (ETA).
The ETA, launched on 22 July, will run for five years and look to deliver next generation energy technologies to accelerate the UK's transition to a net zero future. It will collaborate with the energy industry, driving forward a focused, funded programme to develop these technologies, including the next generation of hydrogen production and floating offshore wind. An initial five projects have been announced, including a study into maximising the full potential of the UK supply chain in the production, installation and decommissioning of offshore renewables, creating 27,000 jobs in offshore wind by 2030.
It also announced a UK supply chain specific competition to stimulate innovation in floating wind, to reduce the cost of floating foundations by 25-30%, as well as a project focused on developing a prototype AC/DC conversion technology that reduces CO2, has a footprint 10 times smaller and five times cheaper than existing technologies. This is anticipated to generate £7.7bn savings to industry.
Colette Cohen, OGTC CEO, said: "The creation of the Energy Transition Alliance comes at a pivotal time for our industry and the future of the North Sea as we transition to a net zero basin. Technology, innovation and a willingness to work cross sector will be essential if we are to successfully deliver on our net zero goal. This Alliance is an exciting step towards a more integrated energy future for the UK."
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PCMag Asia | ShopKeep | Review
ShopKeep
byBarbara Krasnoff Oct 01, 2019
US Street Price$69.00
Apps for Android and iOS phones offer real-time, back-office information. 24/7 support. Easy-to-navigate user interface.
Costs can increase with add-ons. No free trial period.
ShopKeep offers the point-of-sale (POS) system features that most small businesses will want without overwhelming them; however, the cost of add-ons can add up.
ShopKeep (which begins at $69 per month) is a tablet-based point-of-sale (POS) system especially built for small businesses with one to 20 locations (although it can handle more). According to a company representative, it is geared toward three specific vertical segments: retail, quick-service (counter) restaurants, and full-service restaurants and bars. In other words, it's geared toward businesses that often work with temporary or part-time help and which, as a result, need a very clean, easy-to understand user interface (UI). The service offers three UIs: an iPad-based UI for sales, a web-based back-office UI that works on any desktop or mobile device, and Pocket, which is a real-time back-office IU for Android and iOS phones. ShopKeep is an excellent POS system, but it does not beat Square Point of Sale and Vend POS, the two higher-rated Editors' Choices in our POS system review roundup.
Cost Considerations
ShopKeep begins at $69 per month per register (or $59 per month with a one-year commitment). Each register after the third register costs $29 per month. There are no limitations on inventory items, transactions, or number of employees.
While the initial price is relatively low, there are a number of add-ons that most shops will want to use but which will cost extra. These add-ons include gift cards, a hardware protection plan, social network reputations management (called "ShopKeep Spotlight," which uses the Yext solution), the ability to sync your financials to Quickbooks, and the ability to sync your inventory to online store manager BigCommerce. Each of these add-ons are priced from $15 to $30 per month, depending on the service. Therefore, potential users should be careful to track what their entire package will cost.
ShopKeep works with the major payment processors but also offers its own payment processing. A company representative says it customizes its rates "based upon each customer's average ticket size and payments volume." Prices start at 1.3 percent of each processed sale. There is no free trial period.
Sales Operation
The iPad user interface (UI) is divided into an active area on top and buttons showing inventory items on bottom. Your inventory can be divided into categories and you can move from one category to another using tabs at the bottom of the screen. The bulk of the upper screen shows product descriptions, prices, discounts and total. The sales slip is on the right-hand side and it is also there that the user can choose the type of sale (cash, credit, gift certificate, etc.).
Just above the sales slip is a button that lets you search for existing customers to associate with the sale; you can also add a new one. Currently, you can't associate a customer with a credit card; however, according to a ShopKeep representative, they are currently working on a feature that will associate a customer with a credit card's last four numbers, as long as it was used at the same location.
A pull-out navigation menu on the left-hand side takes the user to a variety of screens. Views include Transactions (unfinished orders put aside for later) and Checks. Checks for different customers can be split between customers or merged (more useful for food services where one person may pay for several). The General section offers access to a customer's history, including returns, gift cards, and hardware setup. A Manager section lets an authorized manager close a shift and access a shift report, put through a No Sale transaction, and access Pay In/Payout reports. Finally, there is a Diagnostics screen.
Unlike Revel Systems POS, you can't use the register screen to check for inventory in other stores or in an online store in ShopKeep. You would have to use ShopKeep's BackOffice software to do that.
ShopKeep's cloud-based BackOffice software has the same general look as the register. It's a clean, simple presentation with a pull-out menu on the left-hand side, and the UI is mobile-friendly. The software opens with a "Bird's-Eye View" that offers a quick look at the day's sales, active inventory items, customers, staff, and the register status. From the menu, the manager can manage a number of tasks, such as Analytics, Capital, Invoices, Items (inventory, in other words), Marketing, Settings, and Staff.
In the Items section, you can then do a search for a specific product or drill down the lists to the individual entry. Once the entry is found, you can edit the item name and add a department (only one). You can also add a category (again, only one), the sale price and any discounts, the tax rate, the status (active or not), a UPC code, and a price type and cost per item. You can then choose whether or not you want to track the quantity on hand. If you do, then you can add what the reorder trigger and recommended orders should be.
ShopKeep offers a good number of other features as well. For example, when you add a new item to your inventory, you can also add items with variants (such as colors and/or sizes), and there is no limit to the number of items in the system.
An item can also have one of three types of prices: Fixed, At the Register (so that variations in prices can be dealt with), and Unit Price (such as lb., oz., etc.). You can also track what supplier is used for that item. By using a drag-and-drop UI that's easy to use, you can choose whether or not an item appears in the register. For example, if the item is seasonal or not yet available, then you may want to track it but not make it available yet. Tasks such as Adjust Inventory let you count up what's actually on the shelves at the end of the month.
Staff, the employee tracking feature, is quite simple to use. It includes two radio buttons that let you give a staffer additional rights as either a Register Manager or a BackOffice Manager. The latter is assigned a log-in and password for the BackOffice. There is also a Time Clock section in which you can check the employee's sign in/sign out history.
ShopKeep's "Capital" feature is an interesting and unique one for a POS system. ShopKeep will advance cash to merchants that need it, based on what a ShopKeep company representative called "an understanding of their business": what they sell, what their revenue is, how many employees, etc. The advance is paid back automatically every day through 10 percent of credit card transactions.
Customer management includes the ability to track what customers buy; it is easy to add new customers on the fly.
Settings is a (somewhat confusingly named) catch-all for other features, such as the different store locations, receipt design, or what appears in the register. It is also the place where you can set BackOffice to report on multiple locations.
ShopKeep doesn't offer built-in email marketing or an online store. Instead, it works with third-party companies such as BigCommerce, MailChimp, QuickBooks, Short Payroll, and Yext.
Compatible Hardware
ShopKeep's hardware store includes several different starter kits that can accommodate a number of different types of shops. For example, the basic hardware kit for iPad includes a cash drawer, receipt printer, iPad enclosure, and credit card reader for $799. Meanwhile, a complete retail hardware kit adds a barcode scanner, scanner charging cradle, cash drawer mount, thermal paper case, barcode labels, and a label printer for $1,499.
There are also a wide range of a la carte hardware products available. A Lightning credit card swiper for mobile sales costs $99.
Robust Support
ShopKeep's support website includes a wide-ranging selection of software guides for getting started, setting up credit card processing and QuickBooks integration and cashier training. There's also a hardware troubleshooting section and a variety of explanatory videos.
Support can be accessed from the left-hand menu in the Register or the top right-hand side of the BackOffice software. Besides sending you to the support website, it also lets you start a chat session or call support (which is available 24/7, including holidays).
Other Ratings
To help evaluate ShopKeep, below we have included a SmartScore and Customer Satisfaction Rating from a website called Finances Online, which evaluates financial solutions. According to the FinancesOnline website, it calculates its SmartScores based on a POS system's main functionalities and features as well as its "collaboration features, customization, integration with other apps, customer support, and mobility. All these factors are taken into account when calculating the final score (on a 1 to 10 scale)."
FinancesOnline draws its Customer Satisfaction Ratings from its proprietary Customer Satisfaction Algorithm that "gathers user reviews, comments, and opinions across a wide range of social media and calculates a satisfaction rating based on what people think about the product."
Finances Online gives ShopKeep a SmartScore of 8.8 and a Customer Satisfaction Rating of 90 percent.
While ShopKeep may not have some of the higher-end bells and whistles that the more sophisticated POS systems supply, it does offer a good deal of what a small company may want. Possible users may want to make sure they understand how much it will cost them, however, since the add-ons can add up, and there is no free trial to test it out.
Bottom Line: ShopKeep offers the point-of-sale (POS) system features that most small businesses will want without overwhelming them; however, the cost of add-ons can add up.
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"Due to personal reasons I will be unable to attend the Munich Hall of Honours. Best of luck and congratulations to all the attendees."
I was born January 25th, 1963 in Des Moines, Iowa. My family had lived in the small farming community of Prairie City, Iowa for the first six years of my life and then when my father got a new job we ended up moving to the city of Des Moines. Unfortunately for us it was a bad area we ended up moving into. Gangs, drugs, neighborhood bullies, and break-ins were common. So, my oldest brother took myself and my other brothers to the local YMCA to start studying self defense under The Kim's Academy banner. This would begin my 49-year journey in the martial arts.
As time went by Kim's Academy stopped teaching at the YMCA and opened a series of stand alone dojos. Most of my other brothers stopped going but I had a friend in school whose mom would drive myself and him to the local dojo to continue training. My belt advancement in Taekwondo was a slow but a steady process. In 1976 my brother Bill was taking wrestling lessons at Iowa State University and decided to have me transfer my study of Taekwondo there under Grandmaster Yong Chin Pak. Training under Grandmaster Pak was more regimental and the training was more focused. As well as advancing in my belt levels I also started to compete in local and regional tournaments.
I was able to compete almost every weekend and started to follow the careers of such greats in martial arts as Cynthia Rothrock, Kathy Long, Karen Shepard, Don Wilson, Chuck Norris, Benny Urquidez, and Bill Wallace. My Taekwondo training was rigorous, and I had advanced to my 3rd Dan level. While in high school I started working at Montgomery Wards and met a gentleman there who himself was an accomplished martial artist and decided to workout with him at his West Des Moines dojo. This was the beginning of my training in Chinese Kempo under Grandmaster Angelito "Bobby" Barongan.
The summer of 1981 after I graduated from Des Moines East High School I left Iowa to attend college in California. While there I decided to once again turn to the martial arts for a source of exercise and protection. As I asked people at school where I should go the Gracie name seemed to be the one that stuck out so I decided to attend classes and check it out for myself. Thus, began my journey with the legendary Gracie family in Brazilian Jujitsu. I learned to adapt my size to defend against all size and style of attacker.
I was a student of the Gracie family for four years where I returned to Des Moines, Iowa and back to my roots. I once again took up Taekwondo and Chinese Kempo. Under Grandmaster Barongan I was able to train with other masters such as Hanshi Carl De Los Reyes, Master Danny Mulane, Sensei Roger Zoffi, Hanshi Frank Raymond, Master Jim Perkins, and so many others. This helped me to develop a wide range of skills to use not just for tournaments but also for self-defense.
Over many years of training in both Taekwondo and Chinese Kempo I was able to meet and train with some of the worlds best martial artists. Guru Dan Inosanto, Bill Wallace, Michael DePesquale jr, Dale Cook, Al Dacascos were some of the many legends I had the privilege of training with. In October of 2008 I found myself feeling rundown and tired constantly. I worked for Delta airlines for several years and was bounced all over the Midwest do aircraft repairs as an avionics technician. On 1october 24th, 2008 I collapsed while working on a jet in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After weeks of testing the doctors in Iowa couldn't figure out what was wrong so they referred me to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After running tests they determined I have an illness known as Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. This is a disease where the blood doesn't carry enough oxygen for your organs to work properly so your lungs struggle for air and your heart fights to pump blood so it becomes enlarged. The doctors at Mayo performed an operation where a Hickman Catheter was placed into my heart to pump a medicine called Flolan from a micro infuse iv pump.
I then moved to Valrico, Florida and started the long road to recovery. Two years after being diagnosed with the disease I was almost back to normal. I once again began training and decided it was time to open my own dojo but lacked the funds to do so. The Gracie family had a number of schools in the Tampa area so I reached out to them with a proposition. I would start a coop of martial arts instructors to rent a building from them and to teach out of. The idea was to get several instructors in many different styles to work together teaching daily from 6am to midnight. We would pay the rent simply by conducting seminars and all the funds from the seminars would go to the Gracie family. At this time a proposal of this type and never been done before on such a grand scale. But the Gracies accepted the offer and thus was born Dragon Warrior Martial Arts in Tampa. Under the direction of 50 instructors teaching 19 different styles we have prospered and excelled with our teachings.
Since my journey began in 1969 I have since earned the title of Master and am a 9th Dan in Taekwondo and a 7th Dan in Chinese Kempo and a high brown belt in Brazilian Jujitsu. Over the many years I have started a program traveling to different colleges over the summer teaching women's self defense classes. Also teach special needs, elderly, at risk youth which are kids who are borderline of ending up in jail or some other lockdown facility due to criminal behavior. I am also a guest speaker of the PAH Foundation at various events lecturing on how normal a life can be with a life altering disease.
I have achieved much success in the martial arts garnering such accolades as being inducted into three USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame, Black Belt Hall of Fame, Action Martial Arts Magazines Hall of Fame, Munich Hall of Honours, Masters of Karate/Kungfu Hall of Fame, Who's Who in The Martial Arts, Taekwondo Hall of Fame, United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame. I never achieved the honor of being in the Grand champions circle at tournaments but was very close on a number of occasions. I have no regrets and only feel lucky for the many things I have accomplished and the many martial artists I have been able to meet, train with and call friends.


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Dead sea ( part ii) -mosaic in the dead sea
Protecting the antiquities of the Southern Ghawr(s) has been a difficult task for the Jordanian Department of Antiquities. The problem is complicated by poor economic conditions of the local people and the development of lands containing underground unknown ancient sites.
Archaeological surveys have helped discoverProt such sites, though they are not always visible on the earth's surface. Co-operation of local people has led to identify and rescue antiquities. Some of these are on display in this museum.
The best way to protect antiquities is for local people to understand that they share in this heritage and that they can make a live hood by preserving them.
Conservation of Mosaic Pavements
Mosaics are an integral part of architecture, which convey cultural, historical and artistic values. Contemporary conservation theory and practice emphasizes the preservation of mosaics in situ (in their original archaeological context)
However, mosaics may need to be lifted if their original context is seriously endangered or has been lost. The mosaic that is presented in this exhibition was found ex situ in the collapsed deposit of a room presumed to be the Diaconicon of the church.
About one-thousand fragments which preserve their original bedding mortar were recovered and are currently being conserved in this museum. All the fragments, including single tesserae (mosaic cubes) and mortar remains, which preserve impressions of detached tesserae, are being joined together in order to reconstruct the mosaic pavement.
Mosaic – Making
Mosaics are founded on successive layers of cobble stones and lime mortar. These are integral parts of mosaic pavements and provide information of materials used, their technology and construction methodology. If mosaics need to be removed, careful excavation and detailed documentation of their bedding mortars should be undertaken.
The Nave mosaic in the Church of St Lot was lifted because its foundation was seriously deteriorating. During the process, the footprints of the people who laid the mortar were discovered in the bedding layers (some in this exhibition). The upper layer of the mosaic pavement (tesselatum) was re-laid after the Nave foundations were restored.
Conserving Mosaic
Mosaic paving originated in 4th century BC Hellenistic Greece and was introduced to the East after Alexander the Great's conquests. Initially the technique used river pebbles but by the Roman and Byzantine periods, tesserae, or cut stone cubes, were made. In order to properly conserve mosaics, their construction methods need to be understood.
During the course of excavation at Dayr 'Ayn ' Abata extensive conservation was carried-out on the mosaic pavements in the Church of Lot. They included documentation, in situ stabilization, consolidation, removal and reinstallation. Finally two mosaics were prepared for display in this museum.
Hellenism and Islam
Hellenistic cities were intensely and continuously occupied, therefore most of their original 4th-2nd century BC archaeological evidence has been destroyed. But finds from the succeeding Roman, Byzantine and Islamic periods attest to an enduring Greek influence.
This is evident as late as the 7th -8th centuries AD where the Greek language was still being used in official documents, tombstones and graffiti. Early Islamic coinage mirrored earlier prototypes depicting human portraits. In 9th century AD Baghdad at the Bayt al-Hikma ('House of Wisdom') ancient Greek scientific and literary works were translated into Arabic. This preserved them through the medieval period when they were translated into Latin and introduced into Western Europe.
The Hellenic Legacy
Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 333 BC and ushered in the Hellenistic period which influenced Near Eastern societies for over a thousand years. These people were influenced by Hellenic culture (Hellas means Greece) by adopting the Greek way-of-life in new-found cities. This is evident by many remains of Classical temples, theatres and hippodromes, but also with the daily use of the Greek language, novel pottery, coins and mosaics. Greeks married local people and never returned to Greece. The Decapolis, a league of ten cities, was formed in Jordan.
The Nabataeans, who prospered with the western trade of frankincense and spices, eventually were also influenced by Hellenic culture.
The Khribat Qayzun Cemetery
In 1996 a unique archaeological discovery was accidentally made at Khirbat Qayzun. Rare evidence of Nabataean people was found in a cemetery of over 5000 individual burials. The graves in the southern sector were deep shaft tombs, under-cut to the east, similar to those found at Khirbat Qumran, as-Sikkin and other cemeteries on the Dead Sea shores dating to the 1st-2nd centuries AD on the basis of pottery, clothing and other finds. The graves in the northern part were mostly shallow cist tombs with virtually no grave goods except for a few early Christian tombstones dates to around the 4th century AD.
Nabataeans on the Dead Sea Shores
From the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, the Nabataean people extended their domain from their capital at Petra to the shores of the Dead Sea via a network of roads protected by forts. There, they cultivated palms for dates and balsam plants for perfume oil, and collected valuable salt and bitumen.
Furthermore, they controlled the precious frankincense trade through the region. Historic texts such as Josephus and Pliny the elder and the 'Babatha archives' mention these activities of the Nabataeans.
A Monk's Life
During the early Byzantine period daily life in a Christian monastery was organized along strict rules. People in these monasteries were called monks, the Greek word for someone living alone. They prayed, worked and ate by themselves, in small cells or caves around the monastery. Monks normally survived on bread, fish, fruit and vegetables. On feast days they met for communal prayers in the church and might eat meat all together in the refectory. Usually monks would work in vegetable gardens, make woven baskets and offer water to pilgrims and travelers.
Recent archaeological work at Dayr 'Ayn 'Abata has provided new evidence for all these.
Around 3500 years ago in the Middle Bronze Age, the only known settlement in the Southern Ghawr(s) is Dhahrat adh-Dhra'. On the hillsides of the region there are many large cairns ( piles of stones) containing family tombs dating to this period. At Dayr 'Ayn 'Abata over 20 have been discovered and excavated. Some of these finds are on exhibit here. Similar cairn tombs have been found near Safi and at Khanayzira.
A couple of large agricultural settlements were founded around 3000 years ago during the Iron Age period. Finds from Tulaylat Qasr Musa al-Hamad and Khanayzira include typical 'Moabite pottery and many quern stones indicating large-scale wheat production. There are no large fortification walls such as those in the previous Early Bronze Age cities, so one might conclude it was a relatively peaceful period.


Why see a Holistic Nutritionist?
Sometimes even I wonder why people should come and see me as a Holistic Nutrition Consultant. We all need to eat and we should all know how to eat, but for various reasons adopt a diet that is convenient, tastes good and gets us through the day. We've lost the art of eating the way our ancestors did and we are seduced daily by slick ads and tantalizing tastes and smells that sway our best intentions. We also neglect to eat to match our activity level. I have known people over the years who either "eat to live" or "live to eat". Generally the "eat to live" types are slim and healthy, and the "live to eat" types look for any excuse to include eating in their daily activities. Which one are you?
I'm particularly fascinated by my dog's eating habits. It's all meat for her, the more nutrient-dense the better. We feed her a good grain free kibble and then bits of our meat scraps as well as her favourites, chicken hearts and liver. She eats when she is hungry and turns her nose up at unhealthy food and treats. She could eat more veggies, but as a small dog she can't afford any excess. She self regulates and we can leave her bowl full of kibble all day and she won't touch it until she really needs fuel.
How can we get our appetites under control and eat a good balance of macronutrients that nourish our bodies for optimal health and energy every day? Most of us have been raised on some version of the "Standard American Diet" (SAD), and we have lost the ability to make good choices, as we are ruled by pleasure and convenience more than practicality and optimal wellness. Also, finding and preparing the best choices, sometimes seems onerous and the products available are staggering. The manager in Save-On told me last weekend that they now carry 20,000 different products. Yikes!!! No wonder we're overwhelmed.
That's where I come in. I have learned as a Holistic Nutritionist that many things affect appetite regulation, including some complicated hormone interplay. Our bodies strive for balance, homeostasis in science speak, and will do anything to stay there. Stress is one area that wreaks havoc on all of these regulators, throwing all our best efforts out the window. We are under more stress than ever these days. It is possible to regain control, but we may need a little help along the way rather than rely on the musings of various diet gurus who find something that works for them and so they publish a best selling book on the subject. What worked for them, however, may not work for you. Each of us is an individual, in our own stage of life, which may require a different balance of nutrients. Couple all of this with some digestive issues due to poor eating habits and you have a recipe for disaster and huge profits for the pharmaceutical industry. In fact, I'm convinced that the food manufacturers and the pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots to maximize profits for each other.
So, if you've tried everything to get your weight under control, reduce sugar cravings, improve your digestion, (insert your own complaint) etc. If you know what you eat could have some bearing on your health/mood/sleep/energy/immunity. If you need help figuring it all out, give me a call for a complimentary initial consult and we can see if a few pointers or a customized program will get you back on track.
for me for all the right reasons was a god send -plus I ended up with way more energy. Thank U aunt Tanya!


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Q: can we measure resource usage by a task under sleep in linux/VxWorks? I have encountered sleep routines in VxWorks RTOS and POSIX thread(on Linux ).
Once I started with micro controller programming I came across
situations   where the tasks which are going to sleep will be run by a slower clock,
 i.e clock   switching happens before putting a task in to sleep.
From this I am getting the Idea that a sleeping task is still using the clock   cycles and memory.Taking the same concept to the VxWroks/Linux Scenarios,
Is   there any method by which we can actually check/profile  the resource/cycle usage  by sleeping tasks/threads?.
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The Picth: Gamera
I actually thought of this idea years ago, before I started this blog and before I even thought of "The Pitch" articles. On school holidays, I used to sit up with my father and watch the Wednesday night "Cult Movie" on SBS, here in Australia; which introduced me to Wuxia, Samurai, J-Horror and, of course, Kaiju. I gravitated more towards Gamera than Godzilla, mostly because Gamera is truly a hero, fighting for humanity, rather than just happening to be the "least worst option" that Godzilla is. I think coming across Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion first was probably a contributing factor, as they're easily some of the best Kaiju films ever made. I think, without the language barrier, Kaiju films have the potential to make a real impact in the West, but the translation of themes across the Atlantic never really seems to be great, and the films feel half-formed. Yes, this is probably my most fan-ficcy idea, that I've been sitting on for years, strap yourself in for minutiae and obsession with obscure references.
When all hope is lost... When your children cry out in terror... He will return.
Gamera: Defender of the Earth
When Earth is attacked by insect-like alien invaders, the governments of the world find themselves powerless, turning on each other in their panic. Just as the president of the USA is about to launch nuclear weapons in an attempt to "sterilize" infested cities, reports start coming in of something fighting off the aliens, something huge, yet unseen, flying through the sky and hurling balls of fire. A diplomatic mission from the Japanese arrives in the ruins of San Fransisco with a message; Gamera has returned.
Act One, aliens invade, massive destruction across the globe and plenty of buildings falling over. There is a decent look at the smaller aliens (for the Gamera fans, they're The Legion, the last lot Gamera fought were only the scout party) and military hardware, plus we are introduced to most of the major characters. There are hints at Gamera, but no good shots of his entirety.
Act Two, Gamera is revealed, he fights the Legion whilst our protagonist is brought into the narrative, with people trying to convince them to help out, even though it may cost their life. During a battle with a big Legion monster, Gamera is mortally wounded and/or killed, creating tension for the next act and to introduce mana as a concept.
Act Three, our protagonist accepts their connection with Gamera and the Worlds' governments agree to fight alongside a giant turtle. Mana helps get Gamera back on his flippers and we're off to the big fight. Assuming the emotional weight has worked in the previous two acts, this part of the film is an extended battle sequence, with jets, explosions, Kaiju fights and stirring musical cues.
Epilogue, Gamera departs, our protagonist is revealed to be hurt but ok and we tease the sequel. I'm thinking Gyos or Virus.
Godzilla (2014) and Kong - Skull Island are the framework here. The characters and setting already "work", they just need to be presented in a manner in which a "Western" audience can accept them. There is nothing more ridiculous in mana, Atlantis and a fire-breathing turtle than in Guardians of the Galaxy, it's not an impossible sell. Whilst the situations in this film are utterly silly, the characters within the film will take it utterly seriously, because, to them, it's actually happening.
There are only two major roles that really need to be filled properly, but, luckily, one of them is done already; Ayako Fujitani as Asagi Kusanagi.
Sometimes, things just work out. Kusanagi was the only non-Gamera character to appear in all of the 1990s Gamera films, becoming an expert on Gamera who is called upon during monster attacks to help. Having a character "legacy" like Kusanagi would tie Gamera to the previous Gamera films without relying too much on continuity or prior knowledge for the audience. Best of all, Fujitani has become a know actor in the West, appearing on The Last Ship, a popular cult series. In this film, Kusanagi's role is to provide exposition on Gamera and to train our protagonist. In an ideal world, she would be our protagonist, but having a 40 year old non-white woman lead a major action film is somehow still verboten in the 2020s.
Our protagonist needs to be an actor of Japanese descent that can speak English like an American, which is a combination I figured would be easy, what with the largest American population of Japanese extraction living in California. My gods, I had to dig for this one. Turns out she's Australian born, go figure. For our, as yet unnamed, protagonist, I'd pick Shioli Kutsuna;
You may know Kutsuna as Yukio/Surge from Deadpool 2, but she's been acting in Japan for years and speaks fluent English. In this film, her role will be that of a relative of Asagi Kusanagi, who has inherited the empathic link with Gamera and is needed to work with him in battle. Kind of like piloting a Jager in Pacific Rim, but with a whiff of magic and use of the Iron Ingots from Gamera - Defender of the Universe, Kutsuna must share the pain and triumph with Gamera to help humanise the giant turtle.
It's something that doesn't make it across to Western Kaiju films, but playing the monster is a big deal in Japan and the actors that have done it are famous in their own right. Of course, in the Western films, there is no rubber suit, just CGI. I get that many find the suits silly, and they've never looked convincing, but they're a part of the genre and always feel "missing" when not present. My solution is so simple that I can't believe I'm the only one to have thought of it; motion-capture the rubber suit. Seriously, build a suit, put an actor in it and then layer CGI over it for a better look than either the suit or CGI can achieve alone. Who do you put in the suit? Why, Doug Jones of course;
Do I even need to justify this one? Who would be more suited to making the movements of a 80-meter turtle engaging enough to carry a 2-hour film? His Silver Surfer was one of the better parts of a profoundly disappointing film.
This really needs to be a co-production. I know that several attempts to have a Hollywood studio adapt Gamera have failed, so get Toho to run a fair chunk of the production, but bring in an effects team and name director from a big Studio. In terms of director, I have a few ideas, but because I like to to highlight more than the obvious Hollywood "nerd" favourites, I'm backing Ang Lee for this one.
Essentially no one other than myself and my father have ever said anything overly positive about Lee's Hulk, but do you know what Lee does brilliantly in that and many other films? Make the audience care about the surreal and absurd. Hulk has a much stronger emotional through-line than The Incredible Hulk, and Lee's adaptation of The Life of Pi managed to keep the ethereal tone of the novel without alienating audiences. Lee came up through Wuxia films, so I trust him to direct a decent action feature with a strong emotional core woven through.
Despite the fact I doubt Gamera would be a big enough hit to build into a series, the current Hollywood model insists on trying to build a "cinematic universe" with anything faintly nerdy. For this series, which is kind of following on from the 1990s films, Gyos and Iris could work, but a reworking of one of the classic enemies would probably be better and just make a bit more sense. From what I can tell, Legendary Pictures has the Hollywood option on Gamera at the moment, so a having him appear in the WB Godzilla franchise isn't out of the realm of possibility. As I said in the very first "The Pitch" these are never about what I think a film or franchise should look like, merely how I believe it could go together. Hope you enjoyed this one.
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Canonical has switched its cloud software stack to the open-source OpenStack, the company announced Tuesday. The current version of its Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, uses the Eucalyptus platform.
Ubuntu Server 11.10 will include the OpenStack stack as the core of the company's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) package. The server release will also include a set of tools to help users move their cloud deployments from Eucalyptus to OpenStack.
Canonical still plans to support Eucalyptus as a standalone application in future versions of the server software. Users of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) edition will be supported until April 2015. The next LTS release, version 12.04 -- due in April 2012 -- will feature OpenStack.
Rackspace and NASA first launched OpenStack in 2010, as a fully open-source cloud platform. NASA developed the technology for its Nebula internal cloud.
Canonical did not offer a reason for the switch, which it announced at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, being held this week in Budapest.
The core components of Eucalyptus are open source, though the eponymous company behind the technology retains some advanced features only for commercial releases. Some observers have also expressed worry about Eucalyptus' reliance on the Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) APIs (application programming interfaces), which limits the number of public clouds that could be used to host a cloud instance.
Competitors such as VMware have pointed out that the EC2 API is proprietary, even if Amazon allows its reuse in projects like Eucalyptus. Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, however, has argued that the Amazon EC2 API is a de facto standard, one widely used across the industry.
Canonical noted that 53 commercial companies--including Dell, Intel and Cisco--have joined the OpenStack initiative. Eucalyptus recently touted that more than 25,000 clouds have been built with its software.
Eucalyptus did not immediately respond for comment.


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I've lived with Borderline Personality Disorder for years. Why I'm finally talking about my diagnosis
Erica Ruth Kelly was diagnosed in her teens, but stigma has kept her quiet—even amid calls for more acceptance of mental health challenges
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When I was 18, a psychiatrist kicked me out of her office in my hometown of Montreal. A framed Sigmund Freud witnessed my humiliation. I'd raised my voice, confessing that I'd scratched up my arm again because I was "fucking sad." My psychiatrist told me to go to the hospital. She couldn't help me, she said.
I wondered if she knew how helpless I already felt during our sessions. I wondered if she noticed how the frenetic sound of her keystrokes made me tense, or how I would hold my breath when she'd interrupt the logging of my despair into her laptop to look me in the eye. Would she again suggest that I was lazy? Could she tell my pupils dilated whenever we discussed my medication? I knew that she couldn't help. What I didn't know was that I had Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and for the next 17 years, help would be hard to find.
If you read an article on BPD, you'll likely see the criteria listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 (DSM-5), the standard classification system of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in North America. These criteria can tell you that a person with BPD likely has significant impairments in personality and interpersonal functioning, such as unstable self-image often associated with self-criticism. That doesn't explain what it's like to spend most waking hours feeling hollow. The DSM-5 describes pathological personality traits, such as anxiousness, separation insecurity, and depressivity. That doesn't tell you what it's like to think you might lose your mind because someone you care about is an hour late. The DSM-5 lists impulsivity, citing "self-harming behaviours under emotional distress," as well as hostility, manifested as "anger in response to minor slights and insults." That doesn't illustrate that despite improvements, BPD remains one of the most highly stigmatized diagnoses.
The professional stigma against BPD is only worsened by the performative one. Two percent of the North American population suffers from BPD. Yet mainstream representations of BPD consistently use the same characters bending to the same arc—a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman (think Girl, Interrupted; Welcome to Me) who has often been spurned by a male lover with whom she becomes violently obsessed (Fatal Attraction; Malicious; Play Misty for Me).
Through this lens, we only see BPD sufferers on their worst day. Context and history seem less important than presenting audiences with the hysterical woman, perhaps because it's easier than trying to understand the complexities of the disorder. But these representations negate the individual narratives of those with BPD and reinforce the stigma. The stigma reinforces silence. The silence reinforces stigma.
I've been contributing to this cycle for nearly half my life. I have never publicly disclosed my BPD diagnosis until now, because I've finally realized that not saying something says something.
The reality of living with BPD is as unique as the person experiencing it. For me, it means a heartless voice in my head that screams You're worthless. Sometimes the voice gets quieter, but it's always here, buzzing in the background like white noise. BPD means being scared easily and often—frightened that I'm one panic attack away from losing a job or losing a writing client, or that something someone says or does, or that I see in real life or on TV, will trigger a downward spiral. (One time I couldn't leave my bed for four days after binge watching the first season of True Detective.) I know others who have BPD. They hear the white noise voice, too—one that tells them they are fundamentally unlovable. They try to cope by using drugs, alcohol, food, sex, self-harm—anything, as long as it numbs.
We also contend with real voices of health care practitioners. One doctor told my friend with BPD that "everyone feels sad sometimes." Another told a friend they would have to attempt suicide to receive in any help.
"'Borderline' has become almost pejorative in the healthcare system," says Dr. Jonathan Petraglia, a licensed psychologist in private practice in Montreal, lecturer at McGill University, and my former classmate in high school. In Grade 11, Petraglia's locker was right next to mine. We would see each other in the morning, though I don't know if he ever noticed how tired my eyes always looked. After I emailed him about interviewing him for this piece, he became the first person from high school to know about my diagnosis.
The author as a teen.
While I've often thought my symptoms started to emerge when I was about 14, Petraglia tells me it's not possible to diagnose BPD in children or adolescents. Warning signs in children include frequent crying, hypersensitivity to interpersonal information, and separation anxiety. (At 9, I missed my mom so much at sleep-away camp that I cried until I nearly vomited.) But these signs are not uncommon in many children. Research indicates that it's a matter of degree, which can be difficult for a parent to assess.
The same can be said for warning signs in teenagers, since the criteria describes what a lot of people go through in adolescence, Petraglia explains. A good example of this is identity diffusion, characterized by a "deep sense of emptiness, of disconnect from people, of feeling unloved, of not understanding who they are, what defines them." It's why many teenagers hear: "You're going through a phase."
For a long time, my mother had come to this same conclusion. Recognizing the duration and consistency of this phase, and the distress and decrease in functioning it causes, can be difficult. As an adolescent, I was brooding. I worried a lot, listened to a lot of Tori Amos, and wrote tortured poetry. Then, I started cutting or scratching myself, sometimes more than once a day. I thought about death. I hid those things from my mom, from everyone. I dropped out of CEGEP, my pre-university program, with only one semester until graduation. I couldn't study. I couldn't work. I couldn't do anything but make macaroni and cheese and smoke cigarettes. I put on 50 pounds in six months.
"You always seemed like you were okay," my mom would tell me a decade after that first major depressive episode. By my late teens, I knew I wasn't. I was sure I was a terrible person. The nurse who assessed me after a cry-for-help overdose said it was my fault. I thought she was right. I thought I couldn't get better. Following a devastating break up, at 19, I tried to kill myself. Up to 10 percent of individuals with BPD will die this way.
The author as a child.
Following the suicide attempt, my mom confided her concerns about me in a cousin. He gave her the phone number of a psychologist, a friend of his. My mom met with him once, told him my symptoms. He told her it sounded like I had BPD. I read up on it: Yes. That was me. I began looking for help. Unfortunately, in Quebec, programs for treating BPD are not the "all-encompassing type of program you would need to treat personality disorders in a very effective way," Petraglia says. Instead, small treatment programs are offered at a number of clinics and hospitals; but they are not intensive.
I never knew such programs existed, but I did try everything else I could. For five years, I experimented with different medications, self-help books, modalities, psychiatrists, and therapists. One of the most marking experiences was the work I did with Lindsay Chipman, a licensed psychotherapist I saw from 2005 to 2009. Throughout that time, we never specifically discussed BPD. "Back then, I wasn't interested in relating to you as BPD," Chipman says. "I really just wanted to get to know you. And I think that's really important when working with any patient. We're not relating to the diagnosis," which, she explains, doesn't speak to any of the underlying dynamics that are creating any of the symptoms.
She's not the first person to tell me this. A therapist to whom I'd disclosed my BPD diagnosis also didn't want to focus on it, fearing the label might impede my progress in therapy. Some people with BPD find the label helpful; it helps them understand themselves better. Others find it forces them to pathologize what is actually very normal, human behaviour.
Chipman says BPD traits exist along a spectrum. She refers to the DSM-5's list of criteria for the disorder, which she prefers to call a "character structure," as "everything and the kitchen sink. You could fit many people into that category." For instance, one of the most common traits of an individual with BPD is black-and-white thinking, or "splitting," where we categorize things as all good or all bad. "We all do that," Chipman says.
It's also helpful to remember that at some point, the pathological behaviours that comprise this cluster called BPD "were absolutely necessary for (patients with BPD) to have their needs met…It's just that their adaptiveness has expired."
Chipman treated me until I came off my medications, Effexor and Seroquel, at the beginning of 2009. From 2009 to 2013, I was more functional than I'd been in years. I still occasionally had panic attacks, but I blamed it on graduate school, where I was studying English literature. I medicated with a more socially sanctioned method of self-harm: excessive alcohol. I thought I was fine.
Following a move from Montreal to Toronto in 2013, my symptoms re-emerged with a vengeance. I was in denial about it. Then, in November 2015, I had a dissociative episode. I dropped off my dog at a groomer, but something was off. As I walked, the sidewalk felt as though it was pulling me in, like the concrete was quicksand. About 72 hours later, I felt it again: I fell to my bedroom floor shaking and crying. I was convinced that if I left my spot, I would die.
I was too scared to tell anyone what had happened. It was too humiliating. I was a grown-up. I should be over BPD, I thought. What would people think if they found out? What would my family say if they knew I was self-injuring again? Would I be considered a lost cause? What would my friends do? Would they Google it and decide to never speak to me again? How could my doctor help? Would I get moved around the system in Ontario, the same way I was in Quebec, the same way one of my friends with BPD got misdiagnosed and tossed around in Manitoba?
Sobbing, I finally called a friend. Whether this was BPD or not, it was not a phase. It was not going anywhere unless I forced it to.
My friend recommended I look into the services offered by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). I learned about its Borderline Personality Disorder clinic. For a year beginning in January 2016, I was part of an outpatient research study, where I received Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Designed by Dr. Marsha Linehan, psychologist, author, and professor at the University of Washington, DBT is widely considered the gold standard for treating BPD. It involves seeing an individual therapist for one hour per week and group therapy for two hours per week. DBT was originally developed to treat suicidal behaviours, but was subsequently expanded to treat BPD and other complex mental disorders that involve serious emotion dysregulation. This treatment was easily the most emotionally brutal and effective therapy I've ever received.
During each individual therapy session, I would present my therapist with a diary card on which I'd tracked my daily fluctuation of emotions, my urges to resort to maladaptive behaviours, and whether or not I'd engaged in them. I had to assign a number to the strength of these urges, zero being lowest and five being highest. If it sounds tedious, that's because it is.
In group therapy, I learned skills from four different modules: interpersonal effectiveness, distress tolerance/reality acceptance, emotional regulation, and mindfulness skills. Every week, group members shared how they practiced the skill we learned the previous week. We often cried together, but it wasn't confrontational or confessional in the way I'd imagined. Instead, it was a compassionate support system, vital to my recovery.
One week, one of the group members coming off of medication started to cry. I started to cry, too. I was empathetic: Withdrawal makes everything too loud, too manic, too much. I told her she was doing much better than she realized; the fact that she was in group that day was proof. She smiled and thanked me—and I wondered if perhaps this pain can be used for good.
Dr. Carmen Wiebe, one of my group facilitators, has been working at the BPD clinic since 2002. After I completed the program, I asked her if moving to a new city would have been enough to trigger someone's symptoms. "Moving is definitely one of life's big stressors, so it certainly makes sense," she tells me, though it's not as clear-cut as that. It also depends on what the stressor represents and whether it overlaps with previous triggers.
"BPD tends to be a waxing and waning disorder," Wiebe explains. "The symptoms intensify and de-intensity over time." It's true. Sometimes BPD feels like an ever-looming spectre.
When I ask if these symptoms will ever go away, Wiebe says it's complicated. "It depends on which symptom," she responds. "The behavioural symptoms like self-harm and anger outbursts and other impulsive behaviours can go away completely." Having emotions that are easily prompted and take awhile to resolve can also go away, or at least become more manageable over time.
That said, the outcome of treatment varies greatly depending on the individual. And access to treatment is unfortunately less than ideal. Given the prevalence of BPD and that CAMH's clinic is "kind of tiny compared to a lot of other services… we are completely unable to meet the demand."
CAMH's BPD clinic treats approximately 280 patients per year. These patients included my fellow group members, Chantel, 33, and Elliott, 23, to whom I grew close. I heard my story in theirs. Misdiagnoses, getting tossed around the system, wrong medication, invalidation. "I've always been told I'm broken, or sensitive, or wired wrong, that I'm dramatic or crazy, untrustworthy, because I'm 'classic Borderline'," says Chantel. After suicide attempts brought them to CAMH's emergency room, Elliott and Chantel both entered the DBT program.
While we began treatment at different times, the first few months were challenging for all of us. "I had a lot of issues at first," Elliott, who identifies as non-binary and uses the pronoun they, recounts, "especially concerning the fact that I was one of the few people of colour, and I felt very surrounded by white folks… it was very hard to open up and connect." Chantel tells me that she'd struggled to get into the program for a year, during which time her then-girlfriend had become her caretaker. At the beginning, the program was "a band aid covering up too big a scar." Her partner left her a month or two into Chantel's therapy.
Things evolved for all of us, though. The "seemingly very easy skills" took some getting used to, but they eventually helped Elliott manage their emotions and symptoms "far more effectively." Moreover, "the group started to become a place where I knew everyone understood what I was feeling," they tell me. For Chantel, it was a matter of adjusting her focus inward. "It's taken me a long time to do the program for me," she says. "I can still be willful as fuck, but I can see myself trying… not to save a relationship, or convince my parents I'm not going to attempt to kill myself. For me."
After my graduation in early January, I admittedly felt lost without my therapist, my group, my facilitators. I had moments of dark, troubling thoughts. I was surprised to find out that even though I'd finished my program less than two weeks prior, the most the clinic could offer me by way of support were recommendations to other services. I could not receive any more coaching.
I understood the possible rationale. Other people need help. The clinic needs to minimize therapist burnout. I was also angry and sad about it.
Then a funny thing happened. I noticed that I wasn't hiding. I was reaching out to friends for help. I noticed that for the most part, I didn't have any strong urges to self-harm, self-medicate, dissociate, or avoid my life. I noticed that somewhere in this 17-year tangle of trying to become a better person for others, I'd decided to start living.
Erica Ruth Kelly is a Montreal-born writer, now based out of Toronto. Her essays, interviews, and reviews have been featured in an eclectic mix of publications, including the Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Maisonneuve, The Toast, BuzzFeed, She Does the City, The Puritan, Four Minutes to Midnight, and others.
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Title: The Bride Test
Helen Hoang
Tropes: Fake Relationship Virgin Hero Forced Proximity Mail Order Bride
Tags: Autism Asian Grumpy Hero Class Differences Grief Straight Wedding
From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions—like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.
As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working...but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection.
With Esme's time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he's been wrong all along. And there's more than one way to love.
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Title: The Kiss Quotient
Tropes: Fake Relationship
Tags: autism sex work straight
A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.
Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases--a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.
It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice--with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan--from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...
Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...
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\section{\label{sec:level1}First-level heading}

Scattering resonances are pure quantum mechanical effects that appear whenever the
collision energy, $E_{\rm coll}$,  matches the energy of a quasi-bound state of the
intermolecular complex. \cite{L:ACP12} Unlike other quantum effects, they can be detected
straight from the experiment, for example using molecular beams
\cite{neumark_lee:jcp85,VOCAGM:S15,JBSKAGM:S20,PDRKN:A20}, where they manifest as local,
sharp maxima in either the cross section or angular distribution of the products.

From a conceptual point of view, resonances are pictured as the result of the trapping of
the intermolecular complex in potential wells after tunneling through the barrier (shape
resonance) due to the presence of quasi-bound states, or as the excitation to a state of
asymptotic higher energy, which is stabilized by the potential well (Feschbach resonance). Indeed,
a dense resonance structure is observed for complex-forming reactions, (see for example
Refs. \cite{BCJKRAB:JPCA15,JABSBH:PCCP10,LJAL:JCP15}) where the deep potential well can
stabilize a myriad of quasi-bound states. \cite{BL:JCP20}

Very recently, Perreault \textit{et al.} measured the role that the initial alignment of
HD  plays in H$_2$+ HD collisions, which in the cold energy regime, is governed by a
resonance at around 1 K. \cite{PMZ:S17,PMZ:NC18} Using quantum mechanical scattering
calculations, it was possible to assign this resonance to a single partial wave ($L$=2)
\cite{CBHG:PRL18,CB:JCP19} and, to elucidate that, for a particular combination of
initial and final states, this resonance  could be controlled, vanishing for a
suitable alignment of the HD internuclear axis.\cite{JCGBBA:PRL19}

In this manuscript, we turn our attention to the FH$_2$ system, one of the most widely
studied systems in reaction dynamics both experimentally
\cite{neumark_lee:jcp85,skodje_liu:prl2000,qiu:science2006,dong:science2010,wang:science2013,kim:science2015,YHXCWDLASZYN:NC19}
and computationally (see for example refs.
\cite{manolo:jcsft1997,alexander:jcp2000,lique:jcp2008,jalde:pccp2011,tizniti:natchem2014,SVH:PCCP19,FAC:JPCA20}).
In particular, we will focus on H+HF inelastic collisions. HF is ubiquitous in the
universe, \cite{ACWDENTD:AA2011,Indriolo_2013} and is a key tracer of molecular hydrogen
in diffuse interstellar medium. \cite{DL:MNRAS18} Here we will show that, as far as our
calculations are concerned, collisions between H and HF($j$=1,2) in the cold energy
regime are dominated by a manifold of resonances, which have a strong influence in the
thermal coefficients for the range of temperatures relevant to the study of the
chemistry in diffuse interstellar medium. We will also study the origin of these
resonances and show the extent of control that can be achieved by preparing HF with a
given internuclear axis distribution resulting from the alignment of its rotational
angular momentum. Strikingly, our calculations predict that, for a certain alignment of
the HF molecule, it is possible not only to enhance or to diminish the intensity of the resonance, but also to split the resonance peak, allowing us to
disentangle its various contributions.

\begin{figure*}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Figs/Fig1.pdf}
  \caption{
Total and partial integral cross sections for the H + HF($v$=0,$j$=1,2) inelastic
collisions as a function of the collision energy. The total cross section for $j$=2
$\rightarrow$ $j'$=1 (top panels) and $j$=1 $\rightarrow$ $j'$=0 (bottom panels) are
shown as solid black lines. The contributions of each $J$ (left panels) and $L$ (right
panels) partial waves to the total cross section are also shown. } \label{Fig1}
\end{figure*}
Since the aim of this work is i) the characterization of the observed resonances, and ii)
to elucidate the extent of control that can be achieved, quantum mechanical (QM)
scattering calculations were performed in a dense grid of collision energies starting at
very low energies, $E_{\rm coll}/k_{\rm B}<$1 mK, and up to 100 K. To get an accurate
description of the dynamics, it was necessary to propagate the wave-function up to very
large distances ($6\cdot 10^4$ a$_0$), which made convenient to use the atom-rigid rotor
approximation. Calculations were performed using the ASPIN code
\cite{LOPEZDURAN2008821,GonzalezSanchez-etal:15} on the LWA-78 Potential Energy Surface,
\cite{LWLA:JCP07} which has been recently used to study H+HF collisions at higher
energies.\cite{DL:MNRAS18} To check the validity of the atom rigid-rotor approximation,
full-dimensional QM scattering calculations were carried out for a few energies using the ABC code.
\cite{SCM:CPC00} The agreement between the two sets of calculations is good (see
Fig.~S1), although the atom-rigid rotor calculations underestimates the full-dimensional
calculations at the highest energies by 20\%. Both sets of calculations show the same
overall behavior, and the main features of the full-dimensional results are well
accounted for by the rigid-rotor calculations.

 Figure~\ref{Fig1} displays the energy dependence of the rotational quenching cross
sections for HF($v$=0,$j$=1,2)+H collisions in the cold energy regime as function of the
collision energy, $\sigma(E_{\rm coll})$, in the 1\,mK--100\,K $E_{\rm coll}$ range.
Energies in this range are not sufficient to promote transitions to higher rotational
states, and, besides, the probability for the H exchange channel is
negligible.\cite{DL:MNRAS18,JGASA:JPCA19} Hence, the only possible transitions are
 $j=1\rightarrow j'=0$, and $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$, 0.
For a given $E_{\rm coll}$, $\sigma(E_{\rm coll})$ for $j=1\rightarrow j'=0$  is 3-5
times higher than for
 $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$ due to the wider gap between adjacent rotational quantum
states with increasing $j$.\cite{JGASA:JPCA19}
The Wigner regime for both channels is attained at energies below 5\,mK, where
 $\sigma(E_{\rm coll}) \propto
E_{\rm coll}^{-1/2}$. \cite{SBCEFMR:JPB00,ISCJ:NJP11}
The respective $L$ partial
cross sections, $\sigma^L(E_{\rm coll})$, and $J$-partial cross section, $\sigma^J(E_{\rm
  coll})$, are also shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig1}. As expected,
at the Wigner regime only the s-wave ($L$=0, $J$=$j$) partial wave
contributes significantly to the cross section. The corresponding Wigner limit,
$\sigma^L \propto E_{\rm
  coll}^{L-1/2}$, is also found for $L > 0$.\cite{LJLA:PRA15}

Most notably is that, at energies above the Wigner regime, $\sigma(E_{\rm coll})$ is
dominated by a narrow peak located at around 5\,K for the $j=2 \rightarrow j'=1$
transition and around 5.5\,K for the $j=1 \rightarrow j'=0$ transition. At significantly
higher energies, $E_{\rm coll} \sim$ 17\,K, a broader albeit smaller peak shows up.
Results for
 $j=2 \rightarrow j'=0$ are shown in Fig.~S2, and although $\sigma(E_{\rm coll})$ is
smaller by at least one order of magnitude, it features the same resonance peaks as  $j=2 \rightarrow j'=1$.
From inspection of  $\sigma^L(E_{\rm coll})$, it is clear that the sharp resonance peak
at 5\,mK is exclusively due to $L$=3 and that the second broader peak  can be mainly
attributed to $L$=4. Nevertheless, the analysis of $\sigma^J(E_{\rm coll})$ shows that
each peak can be decomposed in a series of maxima corresponding to different $J$s
and the same $L$.

A further analysis can be carried out by plotting the contributions from the different
$J$ to a given $L$, the double partial cross sections $\sigma^{L,J}(E_{\rm coll})$, as
shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig2} for $L$=3 near the resonance. For $j=2 \rightarrow j'=1$,
$J=1-5$ contribute to $L$=3 ($L - j \leq J \leq L+j$), and their respective
$\sigma^{L=3,J}(E_{\rm coll})$ show maxima that are shifted in a relatively broad
range of $E_{\rm coll}$, as shown in Table~\ref{t1}. From these peaks, $J$=1 and 5
contribute the most to the overall intensity, while the contributions of $J$=2 and 3 are
almost negligible. The shifting of the maxima for $J$=1 and 5 leads to the small shoulder
observed in the overall resonance peak. For the $j=1 \rightarrow j'=0$  transition, only
$J=$2 and mainly $J$=4 contribute to $L$=3 (due to the parity conservation). In this
case, the position of the maxima is very similar and hence there are no shoulders in the
overall $\sigma(E_{\rm coll})$.
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Figs/Fig2.pdf}
  \caption{
$L$=3 partial cross sections for $j=2 \rightarrow j'=1$ (top panel) and $j=1 \rightarrow j'=0$
(bottom panel). The white area correspond to the total cross section
 for $L$=3, $\sigma^{L=3}(E_{\rm coll})$, while the solid lines indicate the contribution of each $J$,
 $\sigma^{L,J}(E_{\rm coll})$.  The positions of the resonance
peaks predicted by the 1D-model are shown as solid vertical lines.
 }
  \label{Fig2}
\end{figure}

To characterize the nature of the aforementioned resonances, 1D adiabatic effective
potentials for different rovibrational states have been calculated as a function of the
atom-diatom distance (see supplementary information for further details). Two of them are
shown in Fig~\ref{Fig3}. The binding character at short distances and the centrifugal
barrier are evident in the figure. By tunneling, the trapping region is accessible,
supporting quasibound states that give rise to shape resonances. The energies at which
the 1D model predicts the peaks of each ($L$,$J$) resonance are shown in Table~\ref{t1},
and in Fig.~\ref{Fig2} as vertical ticks. As can be observed, the agreement between the
energies of the resonances and the maxima of the peaks is almost perfect, allowing us to
attribute these peaks to shape resonances arising from different combinations of $J$ and
$L$. The lifetimes and line shapes associated with each resonance were also
calculated using the 1D model (Fig.~\ref{Fig4}), and the scattering probabilities.
The results are compared in Table~\ref{t1} showing that the lifetimes obtained with the
two methods are in good agreement, with the 1D model predicting slightly longer
lifetimes. The lifetimes for the $L$=3 resonances are significantly longer, revealing
that $L$=3 and $L$=4 resonances have a different character.
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Figs/Fig3-1.pdf}
  \caption{
One-dimensional adiabatic effective intermolecular potential as a function of the distance between H
and the center-of-mass of HF for two combinations of $J$ and $L$ of the $j=2 \rightarrow j'=1$ transition.
The energies corresponding to the maximum time delay associated with
these potentials are shown as dashed lines, along with the continuum wavefunctions. The
shaded area is proportional to the square of the wavefunction.
 }
  \label{Fig3}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c|c|c|c|  }
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{$L$=3} \\
\hline
$J$ &  $E$ (K) & $\tau$ (ps) & $E$ (K) 1D & $\tau$ (ps) 1D \\
\hline
1 & 3.9 & 11.3 & 4.0 & 14.0 \\
2 & 5.5 & 4.4 & 5.6 & 5.2 \\
3 & 7.1 & 2.4 & 7.3 & 2.6 \\
4 & 7.0 & 2.6 & 7.0 & 2.8 \\
5 & 5.1 & 4.9 & 5.1 & 6.8  \\
\hline
\multicolumn{5}{|c|}{$L$=4} \\
\hline
6 & 16.2 & 0.90 & 16.3 & 1.0  \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Energy ($E_{\rm coll}$) and lifetimes, $\tau$, of each of the manifold of
resonances for $L$=3 and $L$=4 of the $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$ transition. The second and
third columns are, respectively, the energies of the resonance peaks and the lifetimes
obtained form the Lorentzian profiles of the collision probabilities after substraction
of the scattering background. The fourth and fifth columns are the respective data
obtained by applying the 1D model described in the Supplementary information.} \label{t1}
\end{table}
To further clarify the origin of the differences in the lifetimes of the  various
$J, L$ resonances, the effective adiabatic 1D potentials for the $L$=3--$J$=5 and
$L$=4--$J$=6 particular cases are shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig3}. Along with the potentials, we
show the energy of the quasibound states supported by these potentials (dashed lines) and
the corresponding squares of the wavefunctions. For the $L$=3 peak, the energy of the
quasi-bound state lies below the maximum of the centrifugal barrier, and it can be
properly considered as a shape resonance. However, for the $L$=4 peak, the resonance
energy lies slightly above the maximum of the barrier. As a consequence, the probability
is more evenly spread over all radial distances, and the resonance exhibits a smaller
lifetime. This kind of resonance can thus be characterized as an over-barrier (or
``above-the-barrier'') resonance, the quantum equivalent to classical-orbiting
\cite{PDRKN:A20}.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
\includegraphics[width=1.0\linewidth]{Figs/Fig4.pdf}
  \caption{
$t_{delay}(E)$ as a function of the collision energy for $L$=3 manifold of resonances
for $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$ transition.  $t_{delay}(E)$ for $L$=4 and $J$=6 is also shown for the sake of comparison.
The insert shows a blow-up of the energy range where the $L=3$ resonances show up.}
\label{Fig4}
\end{figure}

In Ref.~\citenum{JCGBBA:PRL19} it was found that the strength of the resonance peak can
be tuned by alignment of rotational angular momentum and hence by changing the
internuclear axis distribution. To check if it is also the case for H+HF collisions, we
have used the procedure outlined in
Refs.~\citenum{TutorialsbookChapter,CH:MP75,AMHKSA:JPCA05,AHJAJZ:JPCL12} to investigate
how the integral cross sections change by varying the angle $\beta$ between the
polarization vector of the radiation field, used to prepare the HF molecule in specific
rovibrational states, and the initial relative velocity vector. Each $\beta$ value
entails a distribution of internuclear axis: if $\beta$=0$^{\circ}$ collisions are
preferentially head-on, while $\beta$=90$^{\circ}$ implies a side-on geometry. The
respective cross sections will be denoted by $\sigma^{\beta}(E_{\rm coll})$. These
preparations can be contrasted with the ``isotropic'' distribution, with no external
alignment.

\begin{figure*}
  \centering
\includegraphics[width=0.80\linewidth]{Figs/Fig5nolog.pdf}
  \caption{
Left panels: cross-sections for different preparations of HF internuclear axis,
$\beta$=0$^{\circ}$ (red line) and $\beta$=90$^{\circ}$ (blue line). The isotropic
preparation (absence of external alignment) is shown in black. The dashed lines
correspond to the background cross section when the resonance has been removed. Results
for $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$ and $j=1\rightarrow j'=0$ are shown in panels (a) and (b),
respectively. Right panels: Thermal rate coefficients (averaged over the MB distribution)
for the mentioned transitions and internuclear axis preparations. The contribution of the
background (no resonance) is shown shaded.}
\label{Fig5}
\end{figure*}

The left panels in Fig~\ref{Fig5} display the cross sections for $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$
(Fig.~\ref{Fig5}-a) and $j=1 \rightarrow j'=0$ (Fig.~\ref{Fig5}-b) in the vicinity of the
$L$=3 resonance for isotropic distribution, $\beta$=0$^{\circ}$ and $\beta$=90$^{\circ}$.
For $j=2\rightarrow j'=1$ (a) the $L$=3 resonance is significantly enhanced for head-on
($\beta$=0$^{\circ}$) encounters while its intensity decreases for side-on encounters.
Outside the resonance region, the effect of a preferential alignment is unimportant. The
most interesting feature is that the $\beta$=0 alignment is able to disentangle the peaks
for $J$=1 and $J$=5; the contribution of $J$=1, which in the isotropic case manifests as
a shoulder in the $L$=3 resonance, is enhanced to the point of splitting the original
peak in two. Since $\beta$=0 implies collisions with $\Omega$=0 exclusively, where
$\Omega$ is the projection of the total angular momentum vector onto the relative
velocity, this implies that the $J$=1 partial wave has a strong component of the
perpendicular projection. For $j=1\rightarrow j'=0$ (Fig. \ref{Fig5}-b) the cross-section
is also enhanced for $\beta$=0, and this effect is particularly prominent at the
resonance. In addition, the preference for head-on collisions is observed in a broad
range of $E_{\rm coll}$. In this case, the resonance peak does not split for any HF
preparation, as the energies corresponding to the two shape resonances contributing to
this peak are very similar. These results for both transitions evince that the
trapping of the collision complex is more efficient for head-on collisions.

Figures~\ref{Fig5} c-d show the thermal rate coefficients, $k(T)$, calculated for the two
transitions averaged over the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. In general, it is not
guaranteed that a resonance may influence the rate coefficients significantly. However,
in the present case, the resonance has a strong effect on $k(T)$ in the 1-50\,K
temperature range, leading to more than a two-fold increase of $k(T)$ for $j$=2
$\rightarrow$ $j'$=1 at 5 K. The different intermolecular axis preparations also have a
strong effect on the $k(T)$ in the same temperature range, with $\beta=0$ encounters
leading to the largest $k(T)$. It also worth noticing that, while for $j$=2 $\rightarrow$
$j'$=1 the $k(T)$ calculated with the resonance artificially removed rises
monotonically with $T$, for $j$=1 $\rightarrow$ $j'$=0 it starts decreasing at 40 K,
effect that is even more clear for $\beta$=0.

In summary, in this study we have demonstrated that H + HF inelastic collisions in the
1-10\,K ($E_{\rm coll}/k_{\rm B}$) energy range are dominated by shape resonances, which
are themselves formed by a cluster of resonances, each of them characterized by orbital
and total angular momentum values. We have shown that a 1-D model, based on the adiabatic
effective potentials, can predict the position of the each $L$-$J$ resonance very
accurately. Lifetimes and line-shapes of each of the resonances were determined
using the phase-shift of the 1D continuum wavefunctions. In particular, the $L$=4
resonances exhibit shorter lifetimes and can be considered orbiting (over-the-barrier)
resonances where the quasi-bound states lie slightly above the centrifugal barrier. In
spite of the relatively large time delays associated to the resonances, alignment of HF
prior the collision changes significantly both the intensity and shape of the excitation
functions, which also manifest in the thermal rate coefficients. Remarkably, for
$j=2\rightarrow j'=1$, when head-on collisions are promoted, the main resonance peak
splits in two, each of them associated to collisions with a particular value of the total
angular momentum. These results are in contrast to those found for HD + H$_2$ collisions
in the cold energy regime, for which the resonance vanishes for head-on encounters,
showing that the degree of control associated to the resonance is very sensitive of the
topology of the system. The influence of the resonance persists after the energy
averaging and it leads to up to two-fold increase of the thermal rate coefficient at
relevant temperatures of the interstellar medium where HF is ubiquitous.

The authors thank Prof. Enrique Verdasco for his support and help with the
calculations. Funding by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant
and PGC2018-096444-B-I00) is also acknowledged.
P.G.J. acknowledges funding by Fundaci\'on Salamanca City of Culture and
Knowledge (programme for attracting scientific talent to Salamanca).

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ASHRAE introduces new strategic plan at 2014 conference
ASHRAE says it took major actions during its 2014 Annual Conference including introduction of its strategic plan, creation of a new indoor air quality alliance, and announcement of a milestone related to its research program and foundation.
Some 1,700 people attended the conference, June 28-July 2, in Seattle.
During the Conference, ASHRAE introduced its newly adopted strategic plan. Association officials said the plan's four strategic goals — connect, educate, extend, and adapt — serve as broad statements of what ASHRAE most wants and expects to accomplish over the next several years. The goals are supported, in each case, by a handful of objectives that further define specific accomplishments to pursue within the plan horizon.
President Bill Bahnfleth noted that the society has had many significant accomplishments this year, but he views the most important one to be the new plan. The plan can be viewed at www.ashrae.org/strategicplan.
"Planning provides our map from the present to the future," Bahnfleth said. "In laying the ground-work for the new plan that can guide us over the next three to five years, we asked key questions of ourselves and others. Who are our members and what are their needs? How do we structure our society to be truly global and financially sound? ASHRAE is a conservative organization and has a strong reputation and good financial health to show for it. However, there are times when we have to venture beyond certainties to meet new challenges and take advantage of critical opportunities. I believe we have been in such a period for nearly a decade. This plan allows us to be more proactive in shaping our future."
Coincidentally, Bahnfleth's father, Presidential Member Don Bahnfleth, oversaw creation of the society's first strategic plan adopted in 1985.
"We could not fully capitalize on the strength of our members' volunteer commitment if we did not provide a stable platform on which progress toward a collective goal could be built on from year to year," Don Bahnfleth said back in 1985 about the importance of planning.
The adoption of the new plan also shows how times have changed: the society used ASHRAExCHANGE, its member-based social media platform, to engage the membership in discussion about the plan and how ASHRAE should evolve to meet industry and professional needs. ASHRAExCHANGE completed its first year of operation June 22, 2013, attracting 15,120 users who generated a total of 80,082 page views, during that period. The society also used its Association App to make attendees aware of the new plan.
In other news, it was announced that ASHRAE's 2013-14 RP campaign reached a new high of $2.35 million donated by members, chapters, and companies. ASHRAE RP Campaign funds are used to support ongoing research projects, ASHRAE Learning Institute, YEA Leadership activities, and scholarships. In addition, the ASHRAE Foundation also surpassed a significant milestone with more than $10 million in funds and endowments. These funds are used to support the society's scholarships and educational programs.
Also, a memorandum of understanding creating the Indoor Environment Quality Global Alliance was signed. Other groups joining the Alliance are the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre (AIVC), the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA), the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA), and the Federation of European Heating and Air-Conditioning Associations (REHVA).The newly formed alliance will seek to serve as a global source for information, guidance, and knowledge on indoor environmental quality. More information can be found at www.ieq-ga.net.
The new president for 2014-2015 is Thomas H. Phoenix, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, ASHRAE-Certified Building Energy Assessment, and Building Energy Modeling Professional, principal and vice president of Moser Mayer Phoenix Associates in Greensboro, NC. His presidential theme is "People, Passion, Performance." His speech is available at www.ashrae.org/phoenix.
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