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Global energy needs are a major concern for our future. World-renowned MIT Professor Mildred Dresselhaus offers hope for the world energy outlook in her lecture "The Promise of Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Applications" at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 26 at the Tate Laboratory of Physics, Room 150, The lecture is part of the annual Van Vleck Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed live.
Thermoelectricity, in which temperature differences are directly converted to electrical voltage, has played a small role on the energy scene in the past. With the increased conversion efficiencies promised by new materials at the nano scale, however, thermoelectrics are likely to be increasingly important in the future.
Dresselhaus's lecture will describe broad challenges of materials physics research and the specific promise of the nanomaterials that she studies. She will recount recent research breakthroughs with nanocomposite materials that demonstrate significant enhancement in thermoelectric performance. She will also describe the promise of future progress based on current knowledge and the deeper scientific understanding that will come from continued research.
Nanomaterials, composed of structures with typical sizes measured in billionths of a meter, have exceptional promise. Configured as chains of atoms or very thin sheets, they allow a level of independent control of properties that is not achievable in bulk materials. Such control of thermoelectric properties allows the design of materials optimized for energy production.
About the speaker:
Mildred Dresselhaus is an Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the recipient of the National Medal of Science and 28 honorary degrees from universities around the world. She has served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences, President of the American Physical Society, and Chair of the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics.
She is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She served as the Director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy. Professor Dresselhaus's research over the years has covered a wide range of topics in condensed matter and materials physics. She is best known for her work on carbon science and carbon nanostructures, as well as nanoscience and nanotechnology more generally. She is also one of the researchers responsible for the resurgence of the thermoelectrics research field through her early work on low-dimensional thermoelectricity.
About the Van Vleck lecture series:
The 36th Annual Van Vleck lecture is hosted by the School of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering in memory of former faculty member and Nobel Laureate John H. Van Vleck. Since 1983, the Van Vleck lecture series has brought distinguished scientists to the University. Dresselhaus is the first-ever woman lecturer for the Van Vleck lecture series. For more information, visit www.physics.umn.edu/events/vanvleck


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Immigrant Rights Groups' Letter to President Obama Demanding An End to
Homeland Security's 287(g) Program and Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement
Also see press release Obama Accused of Continuing Bush's Racial Profiling of Immigrants, Democracy Now on racial profiling and abuse in the 287(g) program, and NY Times Firm Stance on Illegal Immigrants Remains Policy (sic), Shackled While Giving Birth – Police Abuse 287(g), and Immigrant Groups Protest Napolitano's Visit
San Francisco Gray Panthers and the national Gray Panthers have endorsed this letter.
July 31, 2009
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We, the undersigned civil rights, community, and immigrant rights organizations, urge you to imme-diately terminate the 287(g) program operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The program has come under severe criticism this year because local law enforcement agencies that have been granted 287(g) powers are using the program to target communities of color, including disproportionate numbers of Latinos in particular places, for arrest. Racial profiling and other civil rights abuses by the local law enforcement agencies that have sought out 287(g) powers have compromised public safety, while doing nothing to solve the immigration crisis.
We applaud your recent remarks acknowledging, that "there is a long history in this country of Afri-can Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately." However, DHS's continued use of the 287(g) program exacerbates exactly this type of racial profiling. In light of well-documented evidence that local law enforcement agencies are using 287(g) powers to justify and intensify racial profiling, Secretary Napolitano's July 10, 2009 announcement that DHS has ex-panded the 287(g) program to include 11 new jurisdictions is deeply alarming.
Since its inception, the 287(g) program has drawn sharp criticism from federal officials, law enforce-ment, and local community groups. The program, largely recognized as a failed Bush experiment, relinquishes the power to enforce immigration law to local law enforcement and corrections agencies and has resulted in the widespread use of pretextual traffic stops, racially motivated questioning, and unconstitutional searches and seizures primarily in communities of color. In a country where racial profiling by law enforcement agents has led to massive arrests of people of color, these efforts to push immigrants into the criminal justice system is not surprising, but absolutely counterproductive to increasing public safety.
A March 2009 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report criticized DHS for program misma-nagement and insufficient oversight of the controversial program. The DHS Inspector General is currently conducting an audit of the 287(g) program, and the Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, whose 287(g) program has been widely criticized for engaging in racial and ethnic profiling. The Police Foundation, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Major Cities Chiefs Association have expressed concerns that deputizing local law enforcement officers to enforce civil federal immigration law undermines their core public safety mission, diverts scarce resources, increases their exposure to liability and litigation, and exacerbates fear in communities.
Reports of abuse in local communities have been widespread. In Davidson County, Tennessee, the Sheriff's Office used its 287(g) power to apprehend undocumented immigrants driving to work, standing at day labor sites, or while fishing off piers. One pregnant woman—charged with driving without a license—was shackled to her bed during labor. In Gwinnett County, Georgia, even without formal 287(g) powers, over 350 individuals were detained and deported from the jail this February after being arrested for driving without a license, a county ordinance violation, or on traffic or misdemeanor charges. The Gwinnett jail is triple-bunked, with one person in each cell sleeping on the floor, and the jail's internal SWAT team is known for appearing in ski masks to subdue detainees it deems uncooperative. Yet, Gwinnett County is among the 11 jurisdictions granted new 287(g) approval by Secretary Napolitano earlier this month.
In a recent research report, Justice Strategies, a nonpartisan research firm, found evidence that links the expansion of the program to racial animus against communities of color. According to FBI and census data, sixty-one percent of ICE-deputized localities had violent and property crime indices lower than the national average, while eighty-seven percent of these localities had a rate of Latino population growth higher than the national average.
The abusive misuse of the 287(g) program by its current slate of agencies has rendered it not only ineffective, but dangerous to community safety. The program has worked counter to community po-licing goals by eroding the trust and cooperation of immigrant communities and diverted already reduced law enforcement resources from their core mission. DHS's proposed changes to the program not only fail to correct its serious flaws, but also create new ones.
We know that you are committed to tackling our nation's most complex issues, for these reasons we ask that you examine the damaging impact the 287(g) program is having on immigrant communities across the country and terminate the program. We would be pleased to provide additional information or recommendations regarding current programs and operations of DHS.
Thank you for your consideration. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Marielena Hincapié, executive director, National Immigration Law Center at (213) 639-3900 ext. 109.
Janet Napolitano, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Eric Holder, Attorney General, USDOJ
Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, USDOJ
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Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, Rep. Jeff Flake, Sen. Jon Kyl, Sen. John McCain
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Rep. Dean Heller, Sen. John Ensign, Sen. Harry Reid
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amazincc wrote:I think if you feed dry kibble as a training treat or w/a Buster's Cube the chances of bloat would be slim to none since Shelby wouldn't be able to wolf down a whole bowl in 30 seconds???
madremissy wrote:I feed TOTW. It doesn't really gravy up. They get a little bit of warm water on it right before it is given. Seems to slow my gulpers down. (Gotty and Sammy)
Marinepits wrote:I don't soak, except as a "treat" sometimes. It just doesn't seem necessary for my guys -- they like their food and eat it any way it's prepared. Plus, you can't really keep soaked kibble in your pockets for training treats, LOL.
Malli wrote:I don't soak it but Oscar doesn't gulp down his food and he gets smaller (for him) portions throughout the day, or he grazes.
TheRedQueen wrote:I use a Brake-fast bowl for Score, as he tends to inhale...and I HATE that...whether or not it causes issues, it's a pet peeve of mine.
This really slows him down, with plain dry kibble, watered kibble, even kibble with mix-ins added...
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Ernest Becker
American anthropologist
Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was a cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary thinker, noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
The Denial of Death (1973)Edit
- When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what life ought to be, what a good man is, how to live, and so on. If we are especially sensitive it seems more than puzzling, it is disheartening. What most people usually do is follow one person's ideas and then another's depending on who looms largest on one's horizon at the time. The one with the deepest voice, the strongest appearance, the most authority and success, is usually the one who gets our momentary allegiance; and we try to pattern our ideals after him. But as life goes on we get a perspective on this and all these different versions of truth become a little pathetic. Each person thinks that he has the formula for triumphing over life's limitations and knows with authority what it means to be a man, and he usually tries to win a following for his particular patent. Today we know that people try so hard to win converts for their point of view because it is more than merely an outlook on life: it is an immortality formula.
- The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
- Mother nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates.
- What are we to make of creation in which routine activity is for organisms to be tearing others apart with teeth of all types - biting, grinding flesh, plant stalks, bones between molars, pushing the pulp greedily down the gullet with delight, incorporating its essence into one's own organization, and then excreting with foul stench and gasses the residue. Everyone reaching out to incorporate others who are edible to him. The mosquitoes bloating themselves on blood, the maggots, the killer-bees attacking with a fury and a demonism, sharks continuing to tear and swallow while their own innards are being torn out - not to mention the daily dismemberment and slaughter in "natural" accidents of all types: an earthquake buries alive 70 thousand bodies in Peru, a tidal wave washes over a quarter of a million in the Indian Ocean. Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all creatures. The soberest conclusion that we could make about what has actually been taking place on the planet about three billion years is that it is being turned into a vast pit of fertilizer. But the sun distracts our attention, always baking the blood dry, making things grow over it, and with its warmth giving the hope that comes with the organism's comfort and expansiveness.
- I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still crowd me and give me no rest, and I see no way to avoid ambitious synthetic attempts; either we get some kind of grip on the accumulation of thought or we continue to wallow helplessly, to starve amidst plenty. So I gamble with science and write.


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I feel like every other thread on Tankspot is about deep wounds. And every other post in those threads it someone saying, 'I don't like putting dots on mobs' or, 'my crit is too low for it to work', or 'I don't want to give up all my survivability' or 'I tried it and it wasn't that good'. It is driving me crazy. Yes, you are putting dots on mobs but nobody uses CC anymore so it really doesn't have a negative effect, it will however increase aoe threat. Yes, your crit looks low at a glance, but check your talents and consider raid buffs – you have plenty of crit. Yes, you lose 3% shield block but you probably won't notice it because you aren't reliant on blocks to save your bacon and because there are really only 3 bosses that kill tanks – enraged maexxna, patchwerk, and Sartharion while Shadron and Vesperon acolytes active.
The last point is really the only semi-valid argument because a lot of tanking is subjective and maybe your playstyle doesn't fit with a high tps/dps spec. To that I would say: adjust your playstyle because deep wounds is quickly becoming THE cookie cutter tank spec for the expansion. If you look at the tanks in top end raiding guilds, they all use deep wounds and if you read through Tankspot, all the 'opinion makers' use deep wounds. Those guys aren't using a deep wounds spec because it is the flavor of the month, they are using it because deep wounds is a very powerful tool and the spec is an amazing overall performer.
So give it a try. If you don't like it, keep trying it until you do like it. If you just plain can't stand it, then you can go back to whatever spec you like with full knowledge that for whatever reason, deep wounds doesn't work for you. But know that all the math says that deep wounds gives you a ton of tps and dps for the very small sacrifice of 3% block.


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I downloaded rtmpexplorer from here, https://www.videohelp.com/tools/RTMPExplorer
MD5 Checksum of the exe file
rtmpexplorer requiring Flash (portuguese)...
But I had already run it without problem here, before I recovered my system from scratch. I guess it's something about conflicting versions or something about libs or registry entries. I don't think is related with the exe file.
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Thank you.
Your IE gave this same error too?
How did you know that? I never use IE, just Firefox (7.0.1). My IE is 8.0.6001. I also have Chrome 14, but it has the same behaviour of Firefox, I mean, show the flash without problem.
Firefox 7 - OK
Chrome 14 - OK
IE 8 - Requires flash install
rtmpexplorer - Requires flash install
How to rtmpexplorer get the Firefox and Chrome examples and do accept that installation?Thank you.
rtmpexplorer uses IE for exploring the webpages!!
Chrome is based on sth and doesn't need Adobe flash player!!
Did you download adobe flash player ActiveX too(is only for IE)? or you have downloaded only flash plugin (that's for firefox and other browsers except IE)?
Try this and report problem if you have again:
Sorry because I stayed away from computer/internet all day and could not send reports. Now, I installed the standalone version of FlashPlayer and rtmpexplorer is running fine (finally!).
But it brought an error message trying to download this page:
And what? I'm trying to get the strings and parameters to give to rtmpdump or try to download just with rtmpexplorer itself.
In fact, I'm trying to learn and understand better how do you get that long strings with url and rtmpe video files. It's only exercises for better understand the workflow to download those "hidden" videos, not the video itself is important.
Not only me, but if you could point some "first cares" how to act when facing rtmp videos, we would learn a lot. Many people who come to this thread is because they do not master the technics and do not know the right directions. Some lines explaning such things would be great.Thank you.
XaKePXah, I'm not sure, but it seems you're facing the same problem than me, lately. Try to remove %% and put only one %, like this:
rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://fun.now.mn:1935/vod" -a "vod/" -W "http://fun.now.mn/flowplayer/flowplayer.securestreaming-3.2.3.swf" -T "#ed%h0#w@1" -y "mp4:clip/Ansu_Gantulga_-_Zahidal.hd.mp4" -o "Ansu Gantulga - Zahidal HD.flv"Thank you.
If you really want this videoclip, you may find it here, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNiwtT-n95kThank you.
If you use rtmpexplorer, you can get those strings automatically! if didn't work, try rtmpexplorer+rtmpsuck(not rtmpsrv)!! Will does the trick!!
anyway look at this:
notice: each time you open that url, you will get new auth string!! each auth string can be used only for 5min after generated!! After 5min that "auth string" is dead and you will be rejected from server!!
Coojah, rtmpexplorer, StreamTransport!! finally one of them will be able to detect link!
rtmpdump via batch script, you have to add another "%" too!! but if you run rtmpdump in any another way, you should use exact/original securetoken which is "#ed%h0#w@1"!!
Thx, Bahman. We almost there, if you are a little more patient with me (us), we'll get there.
rtmpexplorer+rtmpsrv is automatic, but rtmpsuck not.
.Thank you.
Coojah or Wireshark, you can track send/receive packets!! So, it's one of the urls between them!
How to download the vid? Easy!! try to writing a script with parameters (r,a,W,y and o) and then input those values that you have seen in that URL!!
Thank you.
Thanks all. I'm very happy. . I'm sorry but i have a one request. Can u help me.
I want download more videos http://fun.now.mn
I want download http://fun.now.mn/watch/movie/1099.html
this video HD and translation Mongolian language in only one. =))
tnaks for read and thanks for replay me.
Coojah .DLLs keeps getting flagged by Avast (as a Trojan of some kind, IIRC), but I disregard that, believing it to be a false positive. Also, I think Coojah has not been updated in quite some time, so I hope it is still being developed, since I consider it a good item to have in the toolbox.When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form.
CooJah DLL's to VirusTotal. The last one, URLSniffer.dll, was flagged as some kind of Riskware, as reported here.
I'm not sure, but would be good to hear other people with more experience about viruses.
As Bahman said, it IS some kind of trojan. But I believe, a trojan working for us.Thank you.
and of course, if you have a McAfee Antivirus Enterprise 8.8, you can clean it!!
When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form.
Bahman and Jairovital thank you very much. so so it's Worked....
Good Luck your life..
I've been trying to save the video on this page:
and haven't had any luck.
Normally anything on youtube is easy, but even with cooljah, URLSnooper and Stream Transport I can't find the URL. Why is this one so different from everything else on youtube?
^As I said before, Youtube uses RTMPE Protocol with Handshake 10 for streaming movies & TV Shows!! only GetFLV supports Handshake 10!! rtmpdump & StreamTransport still don't support it!
Hi all!!
Can please someone help me find the correct command for the following video: http://kanaalz.knack.be/z-talk-goossens-%E2%80%9Cik-denk-dat-er-nog-vele-bekaerts-zull...2%80%9D-040212 I've tried everything but nothing seems to work
rtmpdump -r "rtmpt://rtsp.roularta.be:80/vod" -a "vod" -W "http://kanaalz.knack.be/sites/all/libraries/jwplayer/player.swf" -y "mp4:BBT/KANZ20120202_Z_TALK_GOOS_20120202.mp4" -o "KANZ20120202_Z_TALK_GOOS_20120202.flv"Code:
RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2011-12-22 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... INFO: Connected... Starting download at: 0.000 kB INFO: Metadata: INFO: duration 2012.00 INFO: moovposition 32.00 INFO: width 640.00 INFO: height 352.00 INFO: videocodecid avc1 INFO: audiocodecid mp4a INFO: avcprofile 77.00 INFO: avclevel 30.00 INFO: aacaot 2.00 INFO: videoframerate 25.00 INFO: audiosamplerate 44100.00 INFO: audiochannels 2.00 INFO: trackinfo: INFO: length 50300000.00 INFO: timescale 25000.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype avc1 INFO: length 88728576.00 INFO: timescale 44100.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype mp4a 81.731 kB / 0.91 sec (0.0%)
thank you very much Bahman!!
rtmpdump -r "rtmpe://main.eu.cdn.streamprovider.net:80/securestreaming" -a "securestreaming" -W "http://s.cdn.acunn.com/static/player/cdnauth2.swf" -p "http://www.acunn.com/video/yetenek-sizsiniz/nurullah-selimin-2-tur-performansi/1608" -T "tolga" -y "mp4:acunn/b/yetenek-sizsiniz/1330887317.mp4" -o "1330887317.flv"Code:
RTMPDump v2.4 GIT-2012-02-24 (c) 2010 Andrej Stepanchuk, Howard Chu, The Flvstreamer Team; license: GPL Connecting ... WARNING: Trying different position for server digest! INFO: Connected... Starting download at: 0.000 kB INFO: Metadata: INFO: trackinfo: INFO: timescale 25.00 INFO: length 19625.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype avc1 INFO: timescale 48000.00 INFO: length 37678080.00 INFO: language eng INFO: sampledescription: INFO: sampletype mp4a INFO: audiochannels 2.00 INFO: audiosamplerate 48000.00 INFO: videoframerate 25.00 INFO: aacaot 2.00 INFO: avclevel 21.00 INFO: avcprofile 100.00 INFO: audiocodecid mp4a INFO: videocodecid avc1 INFO: width 540.00 INFO: height 360.00 INFO: moovposition 89757733.00 INFO: duration 785.00 36.313 kB / 0.32 sec (0.0%)
Hopefully someone can help me with this. I'm a registered user at Digital Tutors. I'm trying to use rtmpdump to capture the streams, but when I do download a stream, I'm unable to play the flv as it's somehow corrupted. I've used VLC, GOMplayer and other media players but nothing seems to work. I'm using rtmpdump 2.4 on Windows 7 x64, as well as the latest rtmpExplorer, by the way.
The strange thing is that when I'm logged out and download the free videos, they download completely and I'm able to play them without any problem. It's only when I'm logged in and I download that I get the corrupted videos. Is anyone else having this problem?
^Perhaps, those videos have DRM!!
Please, Bahman, what is going on with this video I cannot find the correct url?
StreamTransport detect this:
but it fail to download. Log says:
Download: Task failed. Download: Internal error occurred in CURL, the error message is "HTTP response code said error."
Firefox DownloadHelper could get this site videos in the past, but not now.
And Coojah is running wrong on my system. Always blank screen (maybe Malwarebytes is blocking the use of the program, I'm not sure).
Any clues?
Please, if you show the steps to get the correct url to use with rtmpedump would be cool.
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Battle of Shiloh
"Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, left wing- the woods on fire during the engagement of Sunday, April 6th, 1862- Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteers engaged. The right wing of General Hurlbut's division stopped the advance of the Confederates by a determined defense along a side road leading through the woods on the right of the field. The Twenty-fifth and Seventeenth Kentucky and Forty-fourth and Thirty-first Indiana Regiments were engaged. By some means the dry leaves and thick underbrush which covered this locality took fire, filling the woods with volumes of smoke, and only discovering the position of the opposing forces to each other by the unceasing rattle of musketry and the whizzing of the bullets." — Frank Leslie, 1896
44th Indiana Volunteers, April 6 1862, Battle of Shiloh, Civil War, Forty-Fourth Indiana Volunteers, Pittsburg, Pittsburg Landing, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh, War
Frank Leslie Famous Leaders and Battle Scenes of the Civil War (New York, NY: Mrs. Frank Leslie, 1896)


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Mining economic misery for laughs
''The Internship" is exactly what it seems to be: a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson that provides two or three opportunities to laugh and more than a few chances to feel a mild flutter of amusement. There are moments of fake uplift, in which one guy bucks up the other with a pep talk that the audience is supposed to register as absurd and yet feel something. And there is exactly one well-placed f-word, because two would get an R-rating.
So this is the usual, a pair of genuinely funny guys struggling with a weak script, but what makes "The Internship" a little bit different is that it's all about Google — about two unemployed salesman in their 40s who get an internship at the company. Along the way, the movie touches on a few things that are true and disturbing about today's economy, that middle-aged people are being cast into poverty as technology wipes out their jobs; and that young people, entering the economy, are fearful and dispirited, wondering if they're ever going to make a decent living.
It's great when comedies deal in serious issues, and yet not so great when they deal with them in dumb or insensitive ways that miss the point or trivialize the problems they're seeking to depict.
In the case of "The Internship," it's easy to imagine some people being offended by it: Here we have a comedy, co-written by a wealthy movie star (Vaughn), that celebrates entry-level employment at one of the richest companies in the world as the height of human aspiration, like some corporate version of peasants being relieved of the pox by the touch of a medieval lord.
If you were to believe "The Internship," all you need to thrive in today's economy is gumption and a willingness to travel across the country to work for free. Just think, with a little luck, you might be one of the 5 percent to get a permanent job from out of the intern pool! As for the other 95 percent, why think about them? They're not exactly going to be part of any happy ending.
Was a movie like this ever made during any previous bad economy? The Great Depression equivalent might be the story of a pair of unemployed guys competing against hundreds to go work on Henry Ford's assembly line. But no, such a movie was never made — and could not exist — because in no previous America would turning yourself into a cog in somebody else's machine be considered an achievement worthy of celebration.
And in no previous America would it be considered a victory if 95 percent of your fellows were still left on the street. Rather, the Great Depression cinema made heroes of gangsters, con men and fast talking individualists, guys who chose survival by not fitting in.
Still, hardly anyone will look at "The Internship" in such bleak terms. It's meant to be fun, and it almost is. But if you do feel a little queasy when you think about it later, the reason is simple: The movie just assumes, as a matter of course, that people are totally defeated, without energy or hope — and then it asks you to feel OK about that.
As for the rest, Vaughn is blustery and oblivious, Wilson is bumbling and sincere, and they become part of a team of interns — all in their 20s — competing against other teams in various categories, such as sales, app creation and customer service. Again, this is a comedy, but the comedy is not that they should even want to succeed in such things, but that rather they might not be good enough to make the grade.
Accordingly, "The Internship" just might be the saddest movie of 2013. That few will realize this makes it even sadder.
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Length: 119 minutes
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NORD gratefully acknowledges John JP Kastelein, MD, PhD, Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, for assistance in the preparation of this report.
Familial lipoprotein lipase (LPL) deficiency is a rare genetic metabolic disorder characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme lipoprotein lipase. Deficiency of this enzyme prevents affected individuals from properly digesting certain fats and results in massive accumulation of fatty droplets called chylomicrons in the circulation (chylomicronemia) and consequently also an increase of the plasma concentration of fatty substances called triglycerides. Affected individuals often experience episodes of abdominal pain, acute recurrent inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), abnormal enlargement of the liver and/or spleen (hepatosplenomegaly), and the development of skin lesions known as eruptive xanthomas. Familial LPL deficiency is caused by mutations in the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene and is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Recently, mutations in other genes besides LPL were found to cause a clinical picture similar to LPL deficiency.
Chylomicronemia syndrome is a general term for the symptoms that develop due to the accumulation of chylomicrons in the plasma. There are many causes of chylomicronemia syndrome. The term familial chylomicronemia is sometimes used synonymously with familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency. However, there are different causes of familial chylomicronemia. In the past, familial lipoprotein lipase deficiency has also been called hyperlipoproteinemia type I. Familial LPL deficiency was first described in the medical literature in 1932 by Drs. Burger and Grutz.
Most cases of familial LPL deficiency are identified during childhood, usually before the age of 10. In approximately 25 percent of cases, the disorder is identified during the first year of life. Some cases may not be identified until adulthood. For example, some women may not be diagnosed until after becoming pregnant or when they begin taking contraceptive medication.
The severity of familial LPL deficiency varies depending upon the degree of chylomicronemia, which fluctuates depending upon the amount fat in an individual's diet. The main symptoms are abdominal pain, pancreatitis, eruptive xanthomas and hepatosplenomegaly.
The most common symptom of familial LPL deficiency is episodic abdominal pain. The severity of abdominal pain can vary, ranging from mild to severe and, in some cases, can be incapacitating. The pain may be located in the upper, central region (epigastric area) of the abdomen and can radiate to cause back pain. In some cases, the pain may be widespread (diffuse) and can potentially resemble acute abdomen (peritonitis). In the past, this has led to unnecessary surgery.
Abdominal pain in individuals with familial LPL deficiency may result from recurrent episodes of inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis). The pancreas is a small gland located behind the stomach. The pancreas secretes enzymes that travel to the intestines to aid in digestion and hormones that have specialized roles in the body. The main symptom of pancreatitis is pain, which is sometimes intense, and is most often felt in the upper left side or middle of the abdomen. Pancreatitis can also cause nausea, sweating, weakness, chills, clammy skin, and mild yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes (jaundice). Some individuals will develop acute, recurrent pancreatitis, which can potentially be lethal.
Chronic pancreatitis can be associated with additional complications including diabetes, hardening of the pancreas due to the accumulation of calcium salts (pancreatic calcification) and stools containing excess amounts of fat causing them to be frothy, foul smelling and to float (steatorrhea). However, these complications are unusual in individuals with familial LPL deficiency. Even in individuals with recurrent episodes of pancreatitis, such complications rarely develop until middle age. Although rare, pancreatitis in LPL deficiency can cause severe, life-threatening complications.
Enlargement of the liver and spleen (hepatosplenomegaly) can also occur, especially in infants and young children. The degree of enlargement varies, often in conjunction with the amount of fat in the diet. Hepatosplenomegaly is caused by the accumulation of a special type of macrophage. Macrophages are white blood cells that ingest foreign or harmful substances. In familial LPL deficiency, macrophages ingest excess triglyceride and transform into foam cells. Foam cells are specialized macrophages that attempt to deal with excess fat in the body and usually contain fatty materials. Foam cells in individuals with familial LPL deficiency abnormally accumulate in the bone marrow, liver and spleen.
Approximately 50 percent of affected individuals develop eruptive cutaneous xanthomas, which are skin lesions make up of certain fats (lipids). Xanthomas may appear as raised, reddish-yellow bumps or nodules on the skin. They often occur on the buttocks, knees and outer arms. Individuals lesions may measure about 1 millimeter in size, but xanthomas often cluster and may grow together (coalesce) to form larger lesions. Eruptive xanthomas are generally not painful or tender, unless they develop on an area of the body where they suffer repeated trauma or abrasion. Xanthomas usually appear within a few days after triglyceride levels in the plasma have begun to increase. They may contain a greasy, yellowish substance and sometimes a milky fluid. Xanthomas will disappear over a period of weeks to months as the amount of triglyceride in the plasma decreases. The persistent presence of xanthomas in individuals with familial LPL deficiency indicates inadequate therapy to lower triglyceride levels.
In the presence of excessive fatty substances in the circulation the small arteries (arterioles) and small veins (venules) in the outer parts of the retina and the back of the eyeball (fundus) may appear pale pink upon examination by an eye specialist (ophthalmologist). This condition may be referred to as "lipemia retinalis". The change is related to the degree of fatty build up (i.e., large chylomicrons), which causes incoming light to scatter. This discoloration is reversible and does not affect the vision of individuals with familial LPL deficiency.
In some cases, additional symptoms have been reported in individuals with familial LPL deficiency including a variety of reversible neuropsychiatric findings including depression, memory loss and dementia.
Some individuals with familial LPL deficiency have developed premature atherosclerosis, which is characterized by thickening and obstruction of various blood vessels due to the accumulation of fatty material, potentially causing coronary heart disease or peripheral vascular disease. However, most researchers do not believe that individuals with familial LPL deficiency have an increased risk of developing atherosclerosis.
Familial LPL deficiency is caused by mutations of the LPL gene. This genetic mutation is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. Genetic diseases are determined by the combination of genes for a particular trait that are on the chromosomes received from the father and the mother.
Recessive genetic disorders occur when an individual inherits the same abnormal gene for the same trait from each parent. If an individual receives one normal gene and one gene for the disease, the person will be a carrier for the disease, but usually will not show symptoms. The risk for two carrier parents to both pass the defective gene and, therefore, have an affected child is 25% with each pregnancy. The risk to have a child who is a carrier like the parents is 50% with each pregnancy. The chance for a child to receive normal genes from both parents and be genetically normal for that particular trait is 25%. The risk is the same for males and females.
Investigators have determined that the LPL gene is located on the short arm (p) of chromosome 8 (8p22). Chromosomes, which are present in the nucleus of human cells, carry the genetic information for each individual. Human body cells normally have 46 chromosomes. Pairs of human chromosomes are numbered from 1 through 22 and the sex chromosomes are designated X and Y. Males have one X and one Y chromosome and females have two X chromosomes. Each chromosome has a short arm designated "p" and a long arm designated "q". Chromosomes are further sub-divided into many bands that are numbered. For example, "chromosome 8p22" refers to band 22 on the short arm of chromosome 8. The numbered bands specify the location of the thousands of genes that are present on each chromosome.
The LPL gene contains instructions for creating (encoding) an enzyme known as lipoprotein lipase. This enzyme is essential for the proper breakdown of certain fats in the body. Fat is obtained through the diet and is absorbed by the intestines. It is transported in the form of triglyceride by large lipoproteins known as chylomicrons. (Triglycerides are fatty molecules that are used by the cells of the body for fuel.) When chylomicrons are released into the bloodstream, a protein within chylomicrons called apolipoprotein C2 is activated. This protein is recognized by the enzyme lipoprotein lipase, ultimately resulting in the breakdown of triglyceride. When lipoprotein lipase is inadequate or impaired, chylomicrons accumulate in the plasma, which, in turn, causes abnormal amounts of triglyceride to accumulate in the plasma as well. The accumulation of excess triglyceride and chylomicrons in the blood causes the symptoms of familial LPL deficiency.
Individuals who inherit one mutated gene and one normal gene (heterozygotes) do not develop familial LPL deficiency. However, these individuals may have a slightly increased risk of developing mixed dyslipidemia with low HDL cholesterol levels. Heterozygotes may also be more susceptible to developing atherosclerosis than non-carriers, especially if they gain weight or remain on a high fat diet.
Familial LPL deficiency affects males and females in equal numbers. Based on recent data (2013), it is estimated to occur in approximately 1 in 250,000 people in the general population and has been described in all races. The prevalence is much higher in Quebec, Canada due to a founder effect. A founder effect is when a small isolated population of settlers (founders) expands over several generations leading to a high prevalence of a particular genetic trait.
A diagnosis of familial LPL deficiency may be suspected based upon identification of characteristic symptoms, a detailed patient history, a thorough clinical evaluation and certain tests including blood tests.
Clinical Testing and Workup
Blood tests can reveal reduced activity of the lipoprotein lipase enzyme in the plasma, following intravenous administration of heparin. Heparin is a substance normally found in the liver that stimulates the release of lipoprotein lipase in the body.
A diagnosis of familial LPL deficiency can be confirmed by the molecular genetic testing for mutations in the LPL gene. Molecular genetic testing is available through commercial and academic research laboratories.
A proportion of LPL deficient individuals can be successfully treated by dietary restriction of fats, but many are still plagued by recurrent abdominal pain and episodes of acute pancreatitis. The goal of restricting fat intake is to reduce chylomicronemia and hypertriglyceridemia enough to prevent symptoms. Many individuals learn on their own to avoid foods containing fat. However, many physicians recommend reducing fat intake significantly to no more than 20 g/day or 15 percent of total energy intake in order to prevent symptoms.
Drugs that lower lipid levels in the body are not effective in reducing fat levels in individuals with familial LPL deficiency. Alcohol and drugs that increase triglyceride levels should be avoided. Such drugs include oral contraceptives, diuretics, beta-adrenergic blocking agents, isotretinoin and Zoloft®.
Medium chain fatty acids can be used for cooking because they are absorbed directly by the portal vein of the liver. Many individuals have been successfully treated with a diet rich in medium chain fatty acids. Fish oil supplements are not effective for individuals with familial LPL deficiency and are contraindicated.
An enlarged liver or spleen will usually shrink to normal size within one week of reducing triglyceride levels. Eruptive xanthomas usually clear up within several weeks to months. If xanthomas persist or recur despite treatment, it indicates inadequate therapeutic efforts.
Pancreatitis is treated following standard guidelines.
Genetic counseling will be of benefit for affected individuals and their families.
Gene Therapy
On November 2, 2012, the European Commission approved the marketing authorization of alipogene tiparvovec gene therapy (Glybera®) for the treatment of individuals with familial LPL deficiency. Glybera is the first approved gene therapy in the Western world. Gene therapy involves either replacing mutated genes with healthy copies or inactivating the mutated genes. With Glybera, physicians insert healthy copies of the LPL gene into affected individuals. Since directly injecting the healthy gene copies into a cell does not work, physicians must use a carrier (vector), which is usually a virus. Viruses are used because they have the ability to "infect" cells. Viruses are modified so that they can no longer cause disease. Glybera uses the adeno-associated virus (AAV), serotype 1, to deliver the healthy copies of the LPL gene to cells in affected individuals. This virus has a propensity to "infect" muscle cells particularly. These healthy copies of the LPL gene start to produce the LPL enzyme, which as described above, is required for the proper breakdown of certain fats. Glybera is administered via one-time small injections into the legs. Gene therapy is considered curative for individuals with familial LPL deficiency, and recent follow-up studies of affected individuals have shown remarkable improvement in pancreatitis episodes and symptom frequency after Glybera-therapy.
UniQure, the company that developed Glybera, has not yet filed the therapy for approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After Glybera is filed for approval, the FDA will review the therapy as a potential treatment for individuals with familial LPL deficiency. Until attaining FDA approval, Glybera will be unavailable in the United States.
The Foundation of the National Lipid Association has established a patient registry for individuals who have rare conditions that involve high levels of triglycerides. More information is available in the following link:
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The Atelier games are a series of Japanese role-playing games aimed at young women. They feature teenaged female protagonists who have a talent for alchemy—the ability to mix together items and magically transform them into something completely different. After an excellent trilogy of games set in the kingdom of Arland, the series has moved on to a completely new world in Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk. Atelier Ayesha continues to show why this series deserves more attention than it gets, both in terms of its audience size and the lack of marketing it receives.
Atelier Ayesha takes us from the prosperous kingdom of Arland to an unnamed world that is in a state of decline, with wells drying up and most people barely making a living from the land. This change in tone fits well with our heroine's state. Ayesha is an apothecary living alone after the complete disappearance of her younger sister Nio three years ago. When a certain event shows Ayesha that her sister is alive and in need of rescue, Ayesha bravely decides to journey in search of Nio despite having no idea where to begin.
Along the way, Ayesha learns that she has a talent for alchemy, which she must develop in order to solve the mystery of what happened to Nio. A naturally kind young woman, she befriends a number of colorful characters who help her on her journey, as she is determined to assist them in return. Ayesha's clear goals contribute to the best storytelling seen in the series' English-language run. While previous games have tended to lose focus in the middle, Ayesha continually pulls the player back to the main goal of finding and rescuing Nio. The interactions she has with the friends she makes along the way are nicely done (with the exception of her mentor Keith, who comes off as more of a jerk than intended), helping the player feel genuine affection towards the game's characters.
The game's story happens alongside the traditional pillars of Atelier gameplay: alchemy and adventuring. For reasons that become clearer as the game progresses, Ayesha must master alchemy in order to rescue Nio. This involves harvesting ingredients in the wild, then taking them to a workshop and mixing them together to create everything from bombs to bread. As Ayesha grows in power, she must venture further afield in order to find rarer and more powerful ingredients for her recipes.
The alchemy system in Ayesha has been simplified from the ever-increasingly complex systems in the Arland trilogy. Most recipes require mainly general categories of ingredients rather than specific items, and the number of multi-step recipes has been minimized. This makes the alchemy system flow naturally with Ayesha's explorations, as she rarely needs to return to early maps simply to collect a basic ingredient she's run out of.
Instead, Ayesha will spend most of her adventuring time helping out her friends and exploring new areas on the map. This naturally involves battling all sorts of meddlesome and hostile beasts, which is done via a fairly traditional turn-based battle system. Ayesha and two other party members will face off against various foes. As usual, Ayesha can only attack and use alchemical items, while her companions have various special attacks they can execute.
This game expands on the teamwork system found in Atelier Meruru, in which party members can follow up each other's attacks or protect each other from harm. There's a positioning aspect to battle now, in which a character can do more damage with a back attack or contribute extra effects to the battle by attacking from up close or far away. Characters can use a turn to move to a new position, but frankly, that's hardly necessary. It's easier to simply wait for a follow-up command that allows a character to naturally become positioned behind the enemy.
Combat is fairly interesting, but there's a bit too much of it in the game. The player will need to clear all monsters off of many maps in order to discover new areas. This can be a nice challenge sometimes, but once the enemies in a particular area are fairly trivial to defeat, it becomes tedious. The maps could have used fewer enemies overall. Boss battles, however, are interesting and can be quite challenging once the player actually encounters them midway through the game.
One notable addition to gameplay is Ayesha's diary, in which she records her memories of major game events. She accrues dream points by performing activities throughout the game, and uses them to unlock diary entries, which come with nice combat and alchemy bonuses. This system would have worked just as well without the need to build up points, since past the first few in-game months, the player always has enough to unlock any diary entries that have been earned. It's a cute addition to the game, but not really necessary.
All of Ayesha's major activities, from traveling to gathering to synthesizing ingredients with alchemy, take time. Ayesha is on a schedule, as she only has three years to rescue Nio, but this time limit is quite generous. After Nio's story is resolved, Ayesha has several more years during which she can help pay back her friends for all their assistance and face the deeper crisis threatening her world. The only real problem with the game's time limit is that it's not always clear how to advance the main story. The clues that the game gives can be vague, and sometimes the best way to move forward is not to concentrate on the main goal, but to wander the world or develop Ayesha's relationships instead. Most players shouldn't have too much trouble with the time limit in the end, but a clearer path towards clearing the main story path would have been nice.


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The Senate's top Democrat offered fresh details Sunday about his position in the renewed debate over guns, as he endorsed expanding background checks on gun sales and promised to consider bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"Everyone acknowledges we should do something with background checks," Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said in an interview on ABC News's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."
While Reid pronounced his support for expanding background checks on gun purchases, he said he was undecided about proposed bans on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.
"I didn't vote for the assault weapons last time because it . . . didn't make sense," Reid said. Nonetheless, Reid said he plans to "take a look" at the latest proposal. And imposing new restrictions on high-capacity magazines is "something we definitely have to take a look at," he said.
Reid's support for expanding background checks is a boost to the gun-control measure that appears to stand the best chance of garnering broad support on Capitol Hill. A bipartisan group of senators has been working on a proposal to expand background checks, and polls show that most Americans support mandating background checks for all gun sales. Under current law, sales involving licensed gun dealers require background checks, but those between private citizens do not.
By comparison, it's been much more difficult for gun-control advocates to build consensus around a proposed assault weapons ban, which a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced last month. It's not just Republicans who are likely to oppose the ban; Democrats facing reelection in conservative states next year could face intense criticism from gun rights groups over a vote in favor of the measure, which might prompt some of them to oppose it.
The nation's largest gun rights group, the National Rifle Association, staunchly opposes universal background checks. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre warned on "Fox News Sunday" that requiring universal checks would lead to "a "universal registry of law-abiding people."
Reid is the recipient of a "B" rating from the NRA, a better mark than most Senate Democrats. "I know Wayne LaPierre; he's always been extremely pleasant to me," Reid said, but "just because they resist it doesn't mean we can't do things."
As the gears turn in Congress, President Obama will make his latest push for stricter gun-control laws in a Monday appearance in Minneapolis, where he will meet with local leaders and law enforcement officials and deliver remarks. The president last month unveiled a sweeping slate of new gun-control proposals including a call for Congress to pass laws requiring background checks and banning assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines.
The White House released a photo Saturday of Obama skeet shooting at Camp David last summer. The president was recently asked by the New Republic magazine whether he had ever fired a gun. "Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time," the president responded, prompting an outpouring of questions about whether the White House could validate the claim.
The Senate Judiciary Committee last week called witnesses to testify at a hearing. LaPierre appeared before the committee, as did Gabrielle Giffords, who survived an assassination attempt as a congresswoman in 2011.
Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, recently announced the formation of a group designed to counteract the influence of the NRA. On Sunday, Kelly kept up his push for new gun-control measures, citing the mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school as a reason to take urgent action.


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The Washington National Guard is leveraging a decade of investment in cyber security at Camp Murray in Lakewood into projects that could protect state and local governments, utilities and private industry from network attacks.
The aim is to bring to the digital world the kind of disaster response the National Guard already lends to fighting wildfires and floods, said Lt. Col. Gent Welsh of the Washington Air National Guard.
"Just as 'Business X' needs the National Guard to come in and fill sand bags, 'Business X' might need to call the National Guard if it's overwhelmed on the cyber side," Welsh said.
The new task plays to a growing strength in the state's National Guard, which draws on employees from companies including Microsoft and Amazon to provide special expertise in its network warfare units.
I first learned of this initiative when Russ Tweeted about it in June. In an email exchange he described his role in the Washington State Guard (WSG):
"The WSG is an all volunteer force that is a state defense force, with what is typically an emergency management mission. See Title 38 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW). WSG is also authorized by Federal law, Title 32 of the United States Code.
We most often serve as liaison officers in support of the Emergency Support Function (ESF) 20 (defense support for civilian authorities) function per Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Incident Management System (NIMS) / Incident Command System (ICS) guidance during major events (disasters, natural or human caused).
WSG remains a place where extremely experienced soldiers who have exceeded age requirements for active/reserve service can continue to serve as well as folks like me with no prior service who can't get the federal services to consider them for age reasons.
We can be called to active duty but in-state only. I was on active duty with orders for two days in June for a major statewide exercise. When we're called up for such activity we become peer in rank and responsibility to our National Guard counterparts.
I'll also be seeing some active duty time again in the immediate future in support of the initiatives mentioned in the article."
I think this is a great start on a journey towards applying private sector expertise to national digital security problems, but on a local scale. The News Tribune article mentions that the Guard (in all its forms) is working to figure out how it can provide help to besieged companies, from a legal and logistical perspective.
I think this line from the news article summarizes a key theme in this discussion:
"We're not going to wait for the feds to hand us everything," Welsh said.
In our Federal system, we should allow the States (per the 10th Amendment) the freedom to innovate, and thereby invent multiple approaches to fighting digital threats.


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Does anyone know if we have a final tally of how many from the 104th are left after the Battle of Trost?
I wonder how people are going to react to 2-3 episodes of non-stop Titan snacking and what is perhaps the first big reveal of the entire series (Titan Eren). Although I'm afraid everything is going to be censored to hell and back.
P.S. It's a shame we won't be getting Titan-scale MMA animated any time soon though.
|2013-04-28, 21:28
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I'm not sure, but I think that after the Annie's finding everyone from the 104th trainee squad was put under surveillance. And that means that excluding the top ten minus Marco only Ymir survived. All the unnamed ones are dead.
EDIT: Actually after rechecking it appears that there are others from 104th squad that were put under surveillance apart from the named ones. But there aren't many of them. What I don't get is why Jean isn't with them.
Wait... where is Jean at this moment?
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I think the last we saw of him was before Eren and everyone else left to go around Wall Rose but I'm not really sure.
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We then see him the last time (as far as I could find) together with Mikasa, Eren and Armin. They talk about how the walls are filled with titans.
But I don't get why Jean wasn't sent with the rest of the 104th squad. There could be others that could have worked as replacements. I can understand that they don't have reasons to suspect Mikasa and Armin since they are clearly aligned with Eren, plus Armin is actively trying to to catch Annie.
But what is the reason for trusting Jean? Anyone who wanted to be sent to the military police and that was among the first 10 should be at the top of everyone's suspicions.
And now Jean for a non well specified reason was left behind while Mikasa, Eren and Armin were dispatched to fix the wall.
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I had totally forgotten about Jean
I don't get why they're trusting him over all the others either. I assume Armin somehow managed to remove him from suspicion. As for his current whereabouts... what if he is the person Bert grabbed? We never saw him with the others at the wall, but perhaps he was there and the mangaka avoided showing him on purpose to fool the readers. Doubt it but just throwing that out there.
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Adding credence to that theory is the fact that Titans only die when the back of the neck (where the 'operator' in 'human titans' are) is obliterated. Is it possible that the 'human pilot' of normal titans is there as well, just much more fused with the titan part? It could also explain the lack of awareness/intelligence- they are no longer themselves any more, just a melded mass. Could also be that this fusion is gradual, as Connie's mother still seemed to be vaguely aware.
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The flashback did also happen in the manga before the second titan attack, however I believe people are more aware of it in the anime than in the manga for some reason. I admit that until Eren remembered it again later on (when they were cornered by soldiers) I completely forgot about the flashback, but for the anime I keep seeing anime-only viewers people referencing it.
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I agree people won't think Eren will die. In the manga it still felt like they might kill him. He still felt like just one player in a larger conflict. He could die in a sudden twist as part of the world building. It would just show how grim the fight with the titans was.
But the chronological ordering meant a bit more time following Eren's character. So he's more of a main character who won't be killed off. And there's the OP too.
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I didn't think he would die for the mere fact he's the MC. But when his hand got chopped off I was like "Wait, will he fight later with only one arm..." and then his leg got bitten off and I thought "Waaaaaaait, how is he supposed to fight later?!" and I was very confused
Though I can't remember if I really thought he's dead, there was still this confusion. And when that one titan appeared I immediately thought "Wow, did Eren take control of the titan that ate him?!", well, wasn't too far off I guess
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General Mental Health
Tips for managing difficult emotions.
Six tips for taking control of your emotional health.
Improving emotional health: strategies and tips for good mental health.
Experiencing and expressing emotions.
Self-Care, Wellness and Sleep
Preventing burnout: signs, symptoms, causes, and coping strategies.
Tips for getting a good night sleep.
Self-care checklist. Assess how you are doing with your own self-care.
Self-injury: help, support and treatment.
Anxiety/Stress Management
Managing stress: a guide for college students.
The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (5th Ed.) by Martha Davis, Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman, and Matthew McKay .Comprehensive workbook with instructions on how to relax and manage stress, inducing breathing, meditation, worry control, nutrition and exercise.
Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks by R. Reid Wilson.Practical self-help book for reducing panic attacks.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and Feel the Fear... and Beyond by Susan Jeffers. Both books offer techniques for confronting fears and anxieties to achieve inner strength and self-fulfillment.
The Worry Cure by Robert Leahy, Ph.D. Seven steps to stop worry from stopping you.
Borderline Personality Disorder
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation &...Tolerance by Matthew McKay
Stop Walking on Eggshells by Randi Kreger. Essential tools and techniques on taking your life back when someone you care about has BPD.
I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
Marsha Linehan's youtube video, "Back from the Edge: Borderline Personality Disorder" provides clear explanation of the disorder coupled with individuals who have BPD speaking about their experiences and helpfulness of DBT
Depression/Bipolar Disorder
Darkness Visible by William Styron. A short autobiographical account of the author's encounter with severe depression
The Chemistry of Joy: A 3-Step Program for Overcoming Depression Through Western Science and Eastern Wisdom by Henry Emmons. Gives an introduction of how Western medicine and Eastern traditions view depression. Addresses depression from these perspectives. Offers a clear description of how to think about brain chemistry and what happens to depression suffers' brains.
Feeling Good by David D. Burns. Introduces readers to cognitive therapy and helps identify and challenge self-defeating beliefs.
64 Ways to Beat the Blues: From Blah to Bliss! Without St. John's Wort, Shopping or Too Much Ice Cream by Yolanda Nave. Short, illustrated, easy-to-read, fun reading to get over the blues.
Undoing Depression by Richard O'Connor. Written by a psychotherapist who once suffered from depression. Offers information and skills to combat it.
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield, Jamison. Autobiographical book by psychiatrist with bipolar disorder.
Perfectionism vs. Healthy Striving.
Never Good Enough: How to Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting it Ruin Your Life by Monica Ramirez Basco. For perfectionists (and those who think they might be) and those who live with one (a chapter). Provides tests/activities, examples, and way to cope with what can be a debilitating obsession.
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene' Brown, Ph.D. L.M.S.W.
The Worry Cure: 7 Steps to stop worry from stopping you by Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D.
Tips to overcome procrastination.
Beat Procrastination and Make the Grade: A Life-Saving Guide for Students by Linda Sapadin. Step-by-step guide in dealing with procrastination. Deals with six types of procrastinators: perfectionists, dreamers, worriers, deifiers, crisis-makers, and over-doers. Offers strategies for each types.
Overcoming Procrastination by Albert Ellis and William Knaus. Discusses the causes of procrastination and offers tools to overcome it. Authors are psychologists.
The Now Habit by Neil Fiore. Written by another psychologist. Offers strategies to deal with procrastination.
Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now by Jane N. Burka & Lenora M. Yuen
Controlling anger before it controls you.
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner. Normalizes anger and offers a different way to understand and think about it.
The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection by Robert Karen. Written from a Western psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores forgiveness, loss and reconnection.
National Students of AMF Support Network: College students supporting college students grieving the illness or death of a loved one.
The Loss That is Forever: The Lifelong Impact of the Early Death of a Mother or Father by Maxine Harris. Stories from more than 60 women and men who have lost a parent, including famous figures like Eleanor Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, and C.S. Lewis.
Don't Let Death Ruin Your Life: A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Happiness After the Death of a Love One by Jill Brooke. Addresses accepting loss and transforming it into a positive memory.
Recovery from Bereavement by Volin Murray Parkes and Robert S. Weiss. For readers who want to understand or help those who are recovering from losing someone.
The Farewell Chronicles: How We Really Respond to Death by Anneli Rufus. Explores the complex reactions to death (apathy, guilt, greed, relief, etc.) and the different ways we mourn.
Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman. About author's own story and stories of other women who have lost their mothers at a young age. A NYTimes Bestseller.
Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family by Froma Walsh and Monica McGoldrick. Talks about the impact of loss on families. Also addresses spirituality, traumatic deaths, and loss in diverse cultures.
Living Through Personal Crisis by Ann Kaiser Stearns
Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers by Janet Treasure. Supportive and informative book for sufferers and their caregivers.
Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn. Based on scientific research, this excellent self-help guide has information about binge eating.
Surviving and Eating Disorder: Strategies for Family and Friends by Michele Siegel, Judith Brisman, and Margot Weinshel. Covers all eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder) and is also great for those who think they have an eating disorder.
Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery by Lindsay Hall and Monika Ostroff. This text is written by two who have recovered from anorexia. In addition to sharing their experiences, they give an overview of the treatment researched.
Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston, Ph.D.
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin & Gwen Schubert Grabb
Body Wars by Margo Maine, Ph.D.
Goodbye ED, Hello Me! by Jenni Schaefer
Healing Your Hungry Heart by Joanna Poppink, MFT
Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders by Gregory L. Jantz, Ph.D.
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, M.S.RD & Elyse Resch, RD
Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder by Johanna S.Kandel
Life Without ED by Jenni Schaefer
Making Weight by Arnold Anderson, M.D. & Leigh Cohn MAT, & Thomas Holbrook, MD
Man Up to Eating Disorders by Andrew Whalen, LCSW-C
Midlife Eating Disorder by Cynthia Bulik, Ph.D.
Regaining Yourself by Ira Scker MD & Sheila Buff
Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives by Aimee Liu
Shattered Image by bruan Cuban
The Body Image Workbook by Thomas Cash, Ph.D
Women Food and God by Geneen Roth
Anatomy of Anorexia by Steven Levenkron, Ph.D
Beating Ana by Shannon Cutts
Decoding Anorexia by Carrie Arnold
Andrea's Voice...Silenced by Bulimia by Doris Smeltzer with Andrea Lynn Smeltzer
Bulimia: A Guide for Family and Friends by Roberta Sherman, Ph.D. & Ron Thompson, Ph.D.
Overcoming Bulimia Workbook by Randi Cabe, Ph.D., Traci McFarlane,Ph.D., Marion Olmsted, Ph.D
Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook by Carolyn Cooker Ross MD
Break Free From Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
Crave: Why You Binge Eat and How to Stop by Cynthia M. Bulik, Ph.D.
End Emotional Eating by Jennifer Taitz, Psy.D.
Food: The Good Girl's Drug by Sunny Sea Gold
Overcoming Overeating by Jane Hirschman & Carol H. Hunter
Smash: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Koren Zailckas. Author tells her story as an "alcohol abuser" from age 14 to 23.
Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs, From Alcohol to Ecstasy by Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Sqartzwelder, and Wilkie Wilson Clear. Easy-to-read handbook about drugs, including how they work and their physical effects.
Sexual Assault/Rape and Intimate Partner Violence
The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura David. For women sexually abused as children (and their families and friends), this book discusses how to come to terms with the experience and heal.
After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back by Nancy Venable Raine. The author's journey from her rape on to recovery.
Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self by Susan J. Brison. The author shares her rape survivals. She relates rape to other violent and traumatic acts, like war, murder, and abuse.
Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence by Lisa Factora-Borchers and Aishah Shahidah Simmons. Shares the lessons, meomories, and vision of over fifty artists, activists, mothers, writers, and students who share their stories of surviavl or what it means to be an advocate and ally to survivors.
Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multicultural Guide by Thema Bryant-Davis. Explanins how cultural factors affect our perception of, and recovery from, trauma triggered by events including sexual assault, domestic violence, racial and homophobic hate crimes and discrimation. Each chapter offers activities to aid recovery-from journaling, movement, music and spirituality to activism and social support.
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a world without Rape by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti. Feminist, political, and activist writers present their idesas for a paradigm shift that dismantles how rape is understood in our culture and replaces with respect and understanding for female sexual pleasure and autonomy.
Trauma Stewardship: An everyday guide for caring for self while caring for others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. Explores the impact of working to support people who have experienced trauma and offers examples of intentional practice to increase mindful presence and decrease feeling of burn out and being overwhelmed.
Identity/Sexual Orientation
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman by Leslie Feinberg. This book documents the transgender experience through history and invites readers to consider the spectrum of gender possibilities. It presents the transgender experience as nothing new, but as it has existed throughout time.
Middles by Jeffrey Eugenides. A fictional account of an intersexed person and three generations of the person's Greek-American family. Pulitzer Prize winner.
Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families by Arlene Istar Lev. Provides views on assessment and treatment through a nonpathologizing lens that honors human diversity. A thoughtful and clear exploration of assessment and intervention issues with gender-variant people and their families.
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue by Leslie Fenberg. A collection of Leslie Feinberg's speeches on transliteration and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. Easy to read and inspiring.
Gender Identities in A Globalized World by Ana Marta Gonzalez
Two Spirit People edited by Wesley Thomas
Transforming Families : Real Stories about Transgendered Loved Ones by Mary Boenke
She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders by Jenny Finney Boylan
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Gender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam
Transgender Voices: Beyond Women and Men by Lori Girshick
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green
She's Not The Man I Married by Helen Boyd
The Transgender Child by Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present by Neil Miller
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
Ten Days to Self Esteem by David D Burns.
Author of Feeling Good, this manual provides techniques to help readers identify and challenge their self-defeating beliefs and distorted thinking.
The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner. Normalizes anger and offers a different way to understand and think about it.
The Forgiving Self: The Road from Resentment to Connection by Robert Karen. Written from a Western psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores forgiveness, loss and reconnection.
The Two Step: The Dance Toward Intimacy by Eileen McCann. Illustrated (by Douglas Shannon), fun, and humorous book that covers all relationships, including heterosexual, homosexual, family, and friendship.
Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood. Helps the reader understand why women are attracted to the wrong men for the wrong reasons.
Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry by Albert Bernstein. The author shows you how to spot and protect yourself from "emotional vampires" such as the self-serving narcissist, Histrionic drama queens, and hedonistic Antisocialists.
Attention Deficit Disorder
Delivered from Distraction: Getting the Most Out of Life with Attention Deficit Disorder by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey. Offers advice and tips about how to live successfully with ADD. Written by two authors who have ADD themselves.
Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, M.D.
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother by James McBride. A memoir and autobiography of an African-American biracial man who grew up in an all-black housing project in Brooklyn. The author describes how he and his mother grappled with issues of race, religion, and identity.
The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri. Describes the cultural and generational issues faced by an Indian family. The main character is Gogol, the son of first generation Bengali parents, who struggles with his bicultural identity and an awkward name.
The Maria Paradox: How Latinas Can Merge Old World Traditions with New World Self-Esteem by Rosa Maria Gill and Carmen Inoa Vazquez. Authors introduce and concept of Marianismo, the traditional, subservient role of Hispanic women, and the way many Latina women define themselves. They present practical advice on how to integrate the Latin cultural tradition with an American way of life.
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat. This novel is about Sophie, a Haitian woman, who comes to New York to be reunited with her mother and learns about her mother's dark past. The author is a Barnard alum.
Sister of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by Bell Hooks. The author examines the various -isms (sexism, racism and capitalism) that Black women face and describes strategies for self-recovery and healing.
Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian-American Women and
Making More Waves: New Writings by Asian American Women edited by Elaine Kim, Lilia Villaneuca and Asian Women United of California. Both are collections of essays, poetry, and short stories by Asian American women who share their stories about immigration, identity, war, work, generational differences, injustice, and activism.
Making Face, Making Soul: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color edited by Gloria Anzaldua. A collection of essays and poetry by and about women of color.
Real Life Stories
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. Gilbert's humorous, wide-ranging tale brings home the challenges of the search for self and the pain of loss. Reading about someone else's struggles illustrates the realization that these are universal themes and that you are not alone.
YELL-Oh Girls: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American edited by Vickie Nam. Everyone usually find one story that speaks to them in this collection written by Asian-American girls and women. Use this book as an opportunity to connect with others' experiences and start to talk about your own.
Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian-American Voices edited by Agar Han and John Hsu. These stories speak to the search for identity and the tension between Eastern and Western values.
Beginning Mindfulness: Learning the Way of Awareness by Andrew Weiss. A practical step-by-step guide to mindfulness training.
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh. More than a how-to, this book conveys the joyfulness and playfulness that can come from mindfulness in everyday life.
Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chodron. Chodron writes about a Tibetan Buddhist technique, tonglen, in which one breathes in and pictures the most painful and difficult things and then breathes out and pictures clarity, calm and peace.
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron.
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Parental Divorce
A Grief Out of Season. When Parents divorce in Your Adult Years by Noelle Fintushel and Nancy Hillard. Second Chances: Men, Women and Children a Decade After Divorce by Judith Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee.


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Yeah... But to tell the truth, her look in anime kinda dissaponted me...
She is supposed to have pure white dress, but she had pink...
And color of her hair and her eye-rose and other eye are different too...
Well maybe in season 3 they will change it..
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Her wings...well, it's a mystery to me cuz in Ouverture, she didn't have any until in the ending when she get mad at Shinku and that's when those wings appeared. Not like the manga but it didn't talk about her past yet. In my theory (another one!), I think she didn't have any wings cuz she don't have the power source until she get her rosa mystica. How she move around is due to her strong willpower. Some people said that when she was created, Rozen put the black wings on her back but I don't believe that piece of cr*p! Well?
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Well in terms of the wings. Do think it was just connecting to the dark rage she felt and it burst forth literally in the forms of those wings. Not sure if Rozen programs in the powers into the dolls, whether each Rozen Mystica comes with its unique power, or if it simply depends on the character and mindset of the doll in question. Personally just sit on the anger and creating a physical manifestation of her emotion.
Agree Kira probably wouldn't have a problem fulfilling that kind've request.
On the slightly offtopic conversation about a 3rd season. Do feel the ending would lead to that. Giving another option to become Alice, a lot of things not being resolved, just seems like they can't leave it like that. The atmosphere certainly was one for finality for that season and maybe for a time that people would have to wait for the next one. Considering Ouverture got me into RM (watched some of the first and then decided seeing the series first might help), wouldn't mind continuation.
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The Yarn Corner had organized to Yarn Bomb a squiggly piece of metal in the Bourke Street Mall just outside the G.P.O.Building. I am not sure what the metal piece really represents in the way of street art, but after we all added our crafty bits to it, it looked spectacular. My very small contribution was just 4 hand knitted flowers, not much compared to some, Kylie even managed to spell out BOURKE STREET in Knitting !
We all wanted to go and have coffee after we finished, but people kept coming up, taking photos, asking us about it, so we dawdled for quite some time, chatting to all these interested locals and tourists.
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Elected Candidates
The following sailors were automatically elected to the ISAF Athletes' Commission:
RS:X - Women's Windsurfer
Olga MASLIVETS (UKR)
RS:X - Men's Windsurfer
Ben BARGER (USA)
470 - Women's Two Person Dinghy
Marcelien DE KONING (NED)
470 - Men's Two Person Dinghy
Andreas KOSMATOPOULOS (GRE)
49er - Skiff
Peter KRUGER ANDERSEN (DEN)
Finn - Heavyweight Dinghy
Dan SLATER (NZL)
Voting For 5 Events
Voting is now underway to select the candidates who will represent each of the following Olympic events:
Roope SUOMALAINEN (FIN)
Haris PAPADOPOULOS (CYP)
Laser Radial - Women's One Person Dinghy
Laura BALDWIN (GBR)
Tania ELIAS CALLES (MEX)
Star - Men's Keelboat
Brad NICHOL (USA)
Torben GRAEL (BRA)
Mark REYNOLDS (USA)
Yngling - Women's Keelboat
Monica AZON (ESP)
Sofia BEKATOROU (GRE)
Tornado - Multihull Open
Enrique FIGUEROA (PUR)
Konstantinos TRIGONIS (GRE)
Rules of Voting
Only athletes officially entered to the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships are entitled to vote. Athletes shall only vote for a candidate to the ISAF Athletes' Commission in the event in which that athlete is entered to compete at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships.
In order to access the online voting an athlete will be required to enter his/her ISAF Sailor ID and password. All votes will be scrutinized to ensure that this requirement has been complied with. If an athlete casts a vote for a candidate not in his/her event the vote will not be valid and will not be counted.
Those sailors who have not submitted accurate ISAF Sailor IDs when entering the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships will not be able to access the online voting and will be requested to send their correct details to firstname.lastname@example.com
Each athlete may vote only once. The vote an athlete casts will be final and athletes may not change their vote having voted. Voting will be determined by simple majority, with the candidate receiving the most votes by 2300 hours UTC (2400 hours BST/local time in Portugal) on Sunday 15 July 2007.elected as the event representative on the ISAF Athletes' Commission.
In the case of a draw in the number of votes, the athlete who is highest on the ISAF World Sailing Rankings as at 27 June 2007 will be elected.
Athletes without access to laptops may use a computer in the Race Office to vote.
Voting is accessible on: www.sailing.org/athletevoting
About the ISAF Athletes' Commission
The Athletes Commission is composed of eleven athletes representing each of the eleven Olympic events, elected by the athletes themselves.
The Athletes Commission holds at least one meeting each year and meets with the ISAF Executive Committee, to which the Athletes Commission makes recommendations.
The Athletes Commission has the following objectives:
- Be a non-political consultative body which can offer advice and assistance to ISAF on matters and issues of relevance to athletes and act as a link between the Olympic sailors and ISAF
- Ensure that the Athletes points of view are presented to ISAF
- Ensure respect of the rights of the athletes within the sport and draw up recommendations to that effect
- Promote high standards of sportsmanship and ethical performance when competing/participating
- Relate immediately to athletes competing/participating at the highest level and establish relationships to promote feedback to ISAF on matters concerning elite athletes
- Establish a working group responsible for liaison with ISAF for ISAF Events to help ISAF respond to the needs of the athletes;
- May put forward its recommendations/proposals to the ISAF Executive Committee for consideration
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