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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) builds and strengthens systems at local, state, and federal levels to respond to all hazards. CDC's emergency preparedness and response is a collective effort among different offices and national centers within the agency. The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) leads the agency's preparedness and response activities by providing strategic direction, support, and coordination for activities across CDC as well as with local, state, tribal, national, territorial, and international public health partners.
In addition to the programs that PHPR manages directly, other CDC organizations and programs make significant contributions to emergency preparedness and response and are also listed below.
Preparedness Office
The Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (PHPR) (formerly the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response) coordinates terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities across CDC and strategically distributes funds that support a range of activities at CDC and state and local public health departments. OPHPR manages the following divisions and offices:
- The Division of State and Local Readiness (DSLR) manages the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement, which funds state and local efforts to strengthen response to a public health emergency and provides technical assistance to promote these efforts. In response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, DSLR also administered funds through the Public Health Emergency Response (PHER) grant to upgrade pandemic influenza preparedness and response capacity.
- The Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) operates and maintains the Strategic National Stockpile, a national repository of antibiotics, chemical antidotes, antitoxins, life-support medications, and medical supplies. During a public health emergency, state and local public health systems may become overwhelmed. The Stockpile is designed to supplement state and local public health departments in the event of such an emergency. DSNS also provides technical assistance to local officials to help ensure that local, state, and federal agencies can work together to receive, stage, store, distribute, and dispense medical assets from the Stockpile as well as other sources.
- The Division of Emergency Operations (DEO) coordinates CDC's preparedness, assessment, response, recovery, and evaluation prior to and during public health emergencies. DEO has overall responsibility for the CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which maintains situational awareness of potential health threats 24 hours a day and is the centralized location for event management when activated. The EOC is equipped with state-of-the-art communications technologies to support information pipelines with state, federal, and international partners.
- The Division of Select Agents and Toxins (DSAT) through the Select Agent Program regulates the possession, use, and transfer of biological agents and toxins (select agents) that have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety. This program is designed to ensure compliance with the select agent regulations by providing guidance and evaluating and inspecting registered entities.
- The Office of the Director (OD) manages strategy, budget, policy, workforce and career planning, communication, research, and science for terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities. In addition, OD manages the Career Epidemiology Field Officer program, which recruits and supports skilled epidemiologists in state and local public health departments. Through this program, state public health departments can choose to spend PHEP cooperative agreement funds to support a field officer in their agencies. OD also manages the Centers for Public Health Preparedness program (will be known as Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers in FY 2011), a national network of colleges and universities that collaborates with state and local public health departments and other community partners to provide preparedness education and training resources to the public health workforce, healthcare providers, students, and others based on community need.
Global Health
The Center for Global Health (CGH) (formerly the Coordinating Office for Global Health) provides leadership and works with global partners to increase life expectancy and years of quality of life, and also to increase global preparedness to prevent and control natural and manmade threats to health. CDC's global health presence includes more than 200 CDC staff assigned to more than 50 countries and international organizations.
CGH coordinates international response with the CDC Emergency Operations Center during international emergency response events and serves as the principal CDC point of contact for CDC programs, federal agencies, foreign governments, and other organizations concerned with international terrorism preparedness and response. CGH also works to build global public health capacity to identify, investigate, and contain outbreaks and other major public health emergencies. In addition, CGH provides epidemic aid and epidemiologic consultation and reference diagnostic services to state and local health departments, other federal agencies, and national and international health organizations.
Infectious Diseases
The Office of Infectious Diseases (OID) (formerly the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases) strives to protect the public's health by preventing and controlling infectious diseases. OID's ongoing public health preparedness activities include developing vaccine, improving diagnostic methods for select bioterrorism agents, and improving the Laboratory Response Network. Their mission is to lead, promote, and facilitate science, programs, and policies to reduce the burden of infectious diseases in the United States and globally.
- The Influenza Coordination Unit (ICU) is responsible for all aspects of CDC's pandemic influenza preparedness, from strategy through implementation. The ICU coordinates and synchronizes all pandemic influenza-related activities within CDC to ensure preparedness for a possible pandemic. These activities include setting priorities and promoting science, policies for the programs related to CDC's pandemic influenza activities, exercising readiness plans, and facilitating community preparedness.
- The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) (formerly the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases and the National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases) aims to detect, prevent, and control infectious diseases from spreading, whether they are naturally occurring, unintentional, or the result of terrorism. NCEZID manages the biological testing component of the Laboratory Response Network, an integrated network of national, reference or sentinel laboratories whose goal is to detect, characterize, and communicate about confirmed biological agents, decreasing the time needed to begin the response to an intentional act or accidental exposure. In addition, NCEZID tests the continuing effectiveness of existing drugs against bioterrorism agents and prepares U.S. ports of entry to reduce the risk of natural or intentional introduction of infectious diseases into the country.
- The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) works to prevent disease, disability, and death through immunization and by control of respiratory and related diseases. During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, NCIRD provided leadership; laboratory, epidemiology, and clinical subject matter expertise; and vaccine delivery expertise. To prepare against natural and intentional outbreaks, the center also conducts surveillance and laboratory activities for vaccine-preventable diseases and viral and bacterial respiratory diseases. As part of the Anthrax Vaccine Research Program, NCIRD has recently completed a large-scale human clinical trial of the anthrax vaccine and immunological studies in animals. NCIRD is also evaluating the use of anthrax immunoglobulin for severe systemic anthrax.
Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health
The Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health's (ONDIEH) (new office established as part of CDC's 2009 organizational improvement) mission is to increase the potential for full, satisfying, and productive living across the lifespan for all people in all communities. ONCDIEH preparedness activities include providing technical expertise in epidemiology, surveillance, and communications during emergencies for populations with physical and developmental disabilities and chronic diseases as well as at-risk populations.
- The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) is conducting ongoing projects to develop and strengthen intramural research and surveillance capacity related to emergency preparedness for at-risk populations.
- The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) has produced a number of publications addressing issues surrounding persons with chronic diseases following natural disasters.
- The National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) conducts ongoing projects to improve surveillance systems, laboratory capacity, and emergency response. NCEH/ATSDR manages the chemical testing component of the Laboratory Response Network, an integrated network of state and national laboratories whose goal is to detect, characterize, and communicate about confirmed chemical agents, decreasing the time needed to begin the response to an intentional act or accidental exposure. In addition, NCEH/ATSDR is improving various surveillance systems for chemical exposures, hazardous substance spills, and morbidity following disasters. NCEH/ATSDR also works with state and local public health departments to improve response to chemical, nuclear, and radiologic terrorism.
- The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) links to the injury care community to decrease morbidity and mortality from injuries caused by explosions. NCIPC is moving toward this goal through curriculum development for healthcare providers, development of clinical guidance resources for management of blast injuries, and translation of lessons learned from international and U.S. military experience. NCIPC is also working to improve surveillance systems for blast injuries due to bombings and behavioral/mental health outcomes associated with disasters and incidents of mass violence and is providing educational materials to prevent or reduce the impact of these events on mental health and behavioral health outcomes.
Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) provides leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death through information gathering, scientific research, and translation of knowledge into products and services.
The mission of the NIOSH Emergency Preparedness and Response program is to advance research and collaborations to protect the health and safety of emergency response providers and recovery workers by preventing diseases, injuries, and fatalities when responding to emergencies.
State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
The Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support's (OSTLTS) (new office established as part of CDC's 2009 organizational improvement) vision is to improve the health of America by supporting state, local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies to expand and develop their capacity in programs and policies related to the improvement of the health status of the nation. OSTLTS' activities will focus on public health systems (government relations, partners and strategic alliances, workforce development, and information technology and management which includes the Public Health Information Network), public health practice (Public Health Law program, technical assistance, and capacity development and improvement), and performance and accountability (public health standards and accreditation as well as program review, assessment and analysis).
Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services
The Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services's (CSELS) (new office established as part of CDC's 2009 organizational improvement) mission is to provide scientific service, expertise, skills, and tools in support of CDC's national efforts to promote health; prevent disease, injury and disability; and prepare for emerging health threats. OSELS will lead the development, adoption, and integration of sound national and international public health surveillance and epidemiological practices, based on advances in informatics, epidemiology, laboratory science, and public health research.
- The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) conducts and supports statistical, methodological, and epidemiological activities that will provide the data needed to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services in the United States.
Among the surveys fielded by NCHS is the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The survey is used annually to monitor emergency department crowding and has occasionally included supplements that help illustrate if emergency departments have the necessary training to recognize and treat patients suffering from diseases such as exposure to anthrax, and have formal plans to respond to mass casualty events. These data provide important context for planning and evaluating emergency preparedness programs at the national level, and may be used as benchmarks for individual states.
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Some people's idea of a perfect speaker might not be a big ugly black box that delivers pristine performance. Obviously, these folks' priorities are way out of whack.
But speaker companies have realized that even people whose priorities are way out of whack have money. So industrious industrial designers got to work creating speakers that may not sound quite as flawless as those big ugly black boxes, but they look one hell of a lot cooler.
Many of these new, stylish speakers sport unusual curves and rakish shapes. Others employ exotic materials. Some simply wear bright colors. But they all caught my eye as I walked around the CEDIA Expo.
Unless you're packing a shirt pocket full of pens and wearing too-short khakis that show off six inches of white tube sock, you're sure to find any of these products a welcome aesthetic alternative to the traditional rectangular box speaker.


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Less than a month into the New Year and the e-retailer and marketplace announces plans for three additional U.S. fulfillment centers.
Phones are for fun
Is leisure activity—including shopping—migrating away from the PC entirely?
I no longer own a personal computer, though I do borrow my fiancé's Google Chromebook from time to time when some task necessitates a good old fashioned keyboard, hard drive and web browsing that can handle non-mobile sites. Between the two of us, we have two smartphones, two tablets, an e-reader and, now, two Chromebooks—he upgraded to a more advanced version after finding the smaller one less suited to his work needs.
Which brings me to my point: After hours, at least in our household, the primary electronics used for leisure activities, including shopping, are overwhelmingly mobile. Work, meanwhile, seems to be something you do on a PC, or the closest device to it.
I recently spoke with Mondy Beller, vice president of e-commerce at apparel retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., which targets millennial shoppers—those aged 13 to 30. PacSun, as loyal customers call it, is in the midst of expanding its sweeping mobile program, which includes a mobile commerce site, an app and in-store iPads for associates to help customers bridge their physical and online shopping. The retailer is also working "feverishly" on a tablet-optimized site, she says. Already, about 10% of the retailer's sales come from smartphones, and it's on track for 20% of all sales to come from smartphones and tablets combined by the end of the year.
"Our customer is so comfortable using all these devices, they grew up with them," Beller says. "This space is constantly changing and evolving, and with millennials we need to be the first ones out there with new features."
Millennials may as well be the mobile generation. I wonder as they continue to grow up and move on, will they be leaving their computers behind, so far as shopping is concerned?
Beller tells me a story. Her 17-year-old son said he needed new shorts for the summer. She gave him her credit card and told him to go to PacSun's web site and pick some out. After taking her card, he got up from where he was sitting at the table, already using a computer to do school work, and walked across the room to get his iPhone. "What are you doing?" she asked, baffled.
"Mom," he told her, "My laptop is for homework, my phone is for fun stuff, like for shopping."
"It's no big deal for them," Beller says of teenagers. For PacSun, it appears the message has gotten through.
My fiancé and I are in our twenties and still have vague memories of mail-order catalogs, dial-up Internet and pay phones. Our children will not. They'll probably laugh when we pull out the dusty laptop to show them our old photos, the ones we saved on an actual hard drive before Facebook existed, or when we show them what we want for Christmas on a standard web site. Whatever it is we're doing on the laptop, I can only imagine them asking, "Seriously, you guys don't have an app for that?"
The future kids are coming, retailers. Consider yourselves warned.


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I am just NOT getting the oven spring I would like. What is/are the main factor(s) in good oven spring? Is it a hotter oven? More hydration or a drier dough? Too much (or too little) salt or sugar or not enough yeast? I am using a regular home oven set to 500/broil for an hour and cooking on a stone set on the top rack. I love that puffy airy crispy rim. I'm getting the crispy just not the puffy and airy. Cindy
Norma, actually I have been playing with your recipe - 100%, water 59%, IDY .55%, Morton salt 2%, oil 3% and sugar 1% and a one to two day cold ferment. I love the way your pizza's look and that is what I am trying to recreate. Your crusts always looks so puffy and airy and moist. I think your pizzas are the best looking I've seen, I just can't seem to get mine to look like yours. I don't know if it's the heat or the kneading times or methods or just practice. I'm also wondering if a thiner lighter crust will puff up more than a thicker crust. I think you said your crust has a thickness factor of .85 and I've been making mine .12. I did look at the link you sent and it does cover quite a few factors which could be involved but it didn't answer how those factors would be involved, ie: type of flour used could be involved, but how? Hi gluten, low protein, etc. Heat could be involved but again how? High or low heat? I will read the post further, maybe I went over it too fast and missed what I am looking for. Thank you both for your quick response.
Norma, I would very much appreciate the link plus your new formulation, thank you so much. Next time I think I will try one dough with reballing and another without to see if this helps.
I've read how a rolling pin will push out the bubbles so I stay away from rolling. I gently hand push the dough out and try to leave the rim alone. I have been experimenting with different flours. I've tried using all Caputo 00 but it didn't brown. I tried mixing the Caputo with bread flour 50/50 and that worked better. I just received my order of KASL so I will try my next batch using that and the Caputo. I've read some posts on using bromated flour for a better rise but so far I haven't been able to locate any in California. When mixing the dough I use a kitchen Aid with the paddle to just bring the dough together then I hand knead till it forms a smooth ball, probably about 3 -4 minutes. I then do 4 - 5 stretch and folds at 5 minute intervals. Then divide, ball and refrigerate for 1 to 2 days. I reball the morning of, back in the refrigerator and out at room temp for about an hour and a half before cooking. Thank you everyone for your help.
What is frustrating about this site is how many knowable people there are reading and belonging to this forum and yet no one has given you a cause and effect of oven spring.
Sonny,There is an element of truth in what you say. However, at any given time, there are only a small number of members who actively assist other members. Most members who join this forum do so out of self interest and come here looking for something. And they wish to get what they are looking for for nothing. In the vast majority of cases, they leave once they have gotten (or not gotten) what they were looking or hoping to get. I personally have over 19,000 posts, and closing in on 20,000 posts. Yet, I would estmate that well over ninety percent of my posts were addressed to members who are no longer here. Since I am also a Moderator who has to look at over 6000 new posts a month and over 70,000 new posts a year, that leave me with little time to devote to individual member issues or concerns. That means that I have to be very selective on what I post. I think other members who actively help others often do the same thing. They don't want to get too involved with other members when they know that the other members are unlikely to be around for long. They will reserve their best work for other active members or other members who show great promise and may stick around for a while and give something back to the forum. A lot of members address their questions to Tom Lehmann even when there are other members who can provide the help requested. Since Tom has a full time job with the AIB and writes for various pizza related publications and participates on other forums and in industry/trade events and is also a teacher and consultant who is on the road quite a bit, there is no way for him to answer every question or request for help directed to him. And he is among the most generous persons with his time that I know of in the pizza industry. Also, I suspect that there are members who choose not to respond to questions directed to Tom out of courtesy, given that the poster intentionally sought Tom out for help. I often play the role of facilitator to gather more facts to help Tom provide a fuller or better response but, on occasion, I will provide answers to basic questions that do not need Tom's personal attention.I appreciate your efforts to help others, much as others have helped you, but as a realist who has been around this place for about 9 years, and most of that time as a Moderator who sees everything that goes on on the forum, I am not optimistic that every member who comes to this forum will always get the best of what the forum can offer to them.Peter
Wow Peter. Great post and what an amazing contribution you make to this forum. Thx.


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We arrived in El Salvador just a few hours ago. This is the last stop on the President's second trip to the region. The President kept a fast-paced schedule in Brazil and Chile, even as he and his national security team have remained focused on U.S. leadership and responses to events in other parts of the world.
We flew overnight Friday, March 18, arriving early Saturday morning in Brasilia. It would be hard to overstate the excitement of the visit to Brazil. You could feel it everywhere the President went, from his conversations with Brazil's new President, Dilma Rouseff and her cabinet, to his meetings with American and Brazilian business leaders, to his encounter, along with the First Lady and their daughters, with children in Rio de Janeiro's Cidade de Deus favela. The President's very personal remarks in Rio's Municipal theatre Sunday afternoon received a warm response from a broadly representative audience of Brazilian society.
From Brazil we journeyed to Chile witnessing a spectacular view of the Andes shortly before landing. Thousands of Chileans lined the streets to welcome the President. After the President's meeting with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera in Chile on Monday, I was struck by the wide-ranging list of topics discussed with both his Brazilian and Chilean counterparts: the crises in Northern Africa and the Middle East, Space technology, international financial reform, expanding markets, civil aviation, climate change, food security, citizen security, economic competitiveness, nuclear safety, education, and so much more.
The President's engagement on these vital issues is a testament to the profound transformation that is underway in Latin America, as the President highlighted in the major speech he gave from Santiago on U.S.-Latin American relations. As he noted, authoritarianism has been largely overcome as countries have embraced democracy, sought to address problems of poverty, and pursued economic reforms that have led to economic growth and increased prosperity. As a result, our relationship with the countries of the Americas has also changed -- away from focusing exclusively on the region or on assistance projects, and toward ways we can work together on the most important global challenges of our time, while improving the lives and opportunities for all of our citizens.
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Anti-poverty program, conducted free food supplies to poor people, while expanding middle class, felt that economic growth and has built a mitgeoreumin sobicheung.
free food...free food&water;
Jorge N. in Argentina writes:
I think, USA have to fold back in order to reorganize their economics and politicals resouces. If USA and Sud America obtein an global understanding and get a strategic global agreement, like Europe and USA after 2 W.W., all the continent can be stronger in front of this new complex world. If we can not do this, Asia is gonna be the next great continet (China the head) and their gonna get all the benefits.
The problem to get this global agreement, is USA, because they wanna be the empire of the world and they never going to accede to negotiate in equality conditions with MERCOSUR.
IMAGINE U.S.A GIVING ALL THEIR KNOWLEDGE, FINANCIAL AND GLOBAL POLITICAL RESOURCES AND MERCOSUR all THEIR MANPOWER AND RAW MAERIAL. WE WILL BE INVENSIBLE!!!!!


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Arch-Terrorist Khaled Mashaal Returning Victorious to Gaza
Latest update: July 7th, 2014
One of the world's most prominent terrorists, Khaled Mashaal, since 2004 the "main leader" of the Hamas terror organization and the head of its political bureau since 1996, is going to make his first-ever visit [source: Washington Post] to the Gaza Strip this week.
WaPo is calling this "a sign of increasing boldness" after Hamas "held its own against an Israeli military offensive" and will be his chance to "congratulate its leaders and fighters for battling Israel" according to a senior – but "careful" – Hamas official in Gaza who "spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concern."
It's a propitious time to take a look at some of the open silliness that routinely affects media "experts" when they deal with the practitioners of child-murder.
Mashaal recently enjoyed a well-publicized on-air interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in which she reflected the spirit of honest journalistic enquiry as she asked him: "Is it useful to kill civilians?":
"Let me give you the truth… We don't target the civilians… The resistance does not target the civilians… We are ready to accept a purely peaceful way, as long as we obtain our demands… Our people is the victim… The offer must come from the attacker [Israel]…"
Noting that Ms Amanpour – like most on-camera reporters – evidently lacks the background information to demolish his absurd response, he presses on:
"I accept a Palestinian state according to 1967 borders with Jerusalem as the capital, with the right to return [meaning the entry of millions of Palestinian Arabs into Israel]…"
Somehow, the terrorist has been understood as implying that Hamas – whose declared, uncompromising, principal goal is to destroy Israel – has abandoned its ideology and is ready to accept something more moderate.
Arab-Israeli journalist Khaled Abu Toameh understands Mashaal better than most Westerners, and has no qualms about stating clearly what is happening. Even while Mashaal was on CNN, his Gaza-based Hamas colleagues were talking – in the Arabic language – about continuing the fight against Israel until the "liberation of all our lands, from the sea to the river."
Writing for the Gatestone Institute think-tank on Friday ["How Hamas Is Trying to Fool Everyone"], Abu Toameh re-states the one essential principle that outsiders keep avoiding and/or denying:
"Is Hamas really on its way to moderation and pragmatism, as some Western political analysts and diplomats have come to believe? And what do some Hamas leaders mean when they say that they are ready to accept a Palestinian state "only" in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem? …Mashaal's remark is nothing but an attempt to mislead the international community into believing that Hamas has endorsed the two-state solution and is willing to live in peacealongside Israel… Hamas has not changed or relinquished its dream of replacing Israel with an Islamist state that is funded and armed by Iran. Unless Hamas changes its charter, the talk about changes in its strategy only serves to spread the movement's campaign of deception."
He goes on to point out that the one true construction of Mashaal's statement is the opposite of what is being spun out of his words: Hamas knows it cannot achieve its goal of destroying Israel for now and will therefore take whatever land it can get from the Israelis… and then continue the fight to "liberate" "Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea".
In fact Mashaal said just that to Christiane Amanpour:
"Palestine, from the river to the sea, from the north to the south, it is my land. And the land of my fathers and grandfathers, inhabited by the Palestinians from a long time ago… but because of the circumstances of the region, because of the keenness to stop the bloodshed, the Palestinians today, and Hamas, have agreed on a program that accepts the 1967 borders."
Mashaal is not alone in putting things this way: first they take the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, east Jerusalem. Then they use these as a launching pad in the process of eliminating Israel. Mission accomplished.
Abu Toameh again:
"Hamas is engaged in a subtle campaign to win the sympathy of the international community by appearing as if it is ready to abandon its dream of destroying Israel. Mashaal's remarks should be seen in the context of a new Hamas tactic aimed at turning the radical Islamist movement into a legitimate and recognized player in the international and regional arenas. Those who have been misled into believing Hamas's lies should be referred to the movement's charter, where it is clearly stated that "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it…"
They know this. But they continue to ignore it. Why spoil a neat and compelling narrative by introducing facts?
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It's hilarious if it wouldn't be so pathetic. I wish for a day when the nation of israel would speak up their rights and like proud lions would stand up to defend the land of the forefathers.unfortunately israely government doesn't represent interests of the nation and with embarrasingly lenient and compromising policies make jews look like weaklings in the eyes of other nations.We are Lions, not Lamb.and we will fight like lions


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Krupicka says the current generation of runners is experiencing a mental evolution of what is possible, and he is inspired by this incipient shift. "Look at Kyle, who ran 23 hours at Hardrock," says Krupicka, referring to Kyle Skaggs' course record-shattering performance at the 2008 Hardrock 100, the same race that baffled Dakota Jones into becoming an ultrarunner. "The next year, Karl Meltzer, who's been around since the beginning of time, lopped two hours off his best time, simply because of this mental shift."
As Krupicka and Jornet screamed down the buttery trail called California Street beyond Foresthill at Western States, Krupicka says his will to win was fiercely reinvented. For miles, they "tried to drop each other, to make the other crack."
The American River intersects the course about 80 miles into the race, and Krupicka and Jornet were shuttled across together in a small rubber raft. Krupicka reflects, "He and I were doing this crazy thing. We'd just run for 80 miles, and now we're sitting next to each other. It was hot. We were tired. Kilian and I definitely had a bond."
After the boat ride, Krupicka bested Jornet to the finish line in an under-course-record time. The last 20 miles of Krupicka's race had one small hitch: Roes passed him and went on to win the race by less than seven minutes. But in the context of everything that went down that day, Krupicka says, "How could I be disappointed?"
Krupicka's Lessons on Running Locally
- Run some of the same trails every day and see subtle change. In 2010, Krupicka ran up Green Mountain outside of Boulder 296 times, and through that he was "in tune with the cycles of seasons, the changing nature of the trail, the weather, everything."
- Foster an intimate interaction with the land like you develop with close friends. Says Krupicka, "That's an enormous part of putting down roots, appreciating where you are and being happy in life."
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On the streets and trails of Boulder each morning, you'll find Susan Nuzum, master's standout in marathon and shorter-distance trail and road races, on her daily run. Some days you'll find her alone with her devoted running partner, Elsa, her yellow lab, other times, with members of the Boulder Trail Runners, chatting and laughing through a group run.
"I run almost everyday," says Nuzum. "It's a part of what I do. If I miss a run, all day I feel like there's something I haven't done."
Nuzum's path to this place, where running serves as a foundation for the rest of her life, has been a winding, and not always intentional, one. After collegiate tennis and swimming, Nuzum graduated to triathlons. For years she competed in triathlons up to the Half-Ironman distance, until she lost interest in swimming and cycling. She says, "After so many years, I just got tired of them." By default, Nuzum became a road runner.
Trail racing happened, too, by circumstance. Nuzum says that she stepped off the pavement on some of her training runs and began exploring Boulder's trails. Training runs led to trail races, which have taken Nuzum to her current place in running.
"I'm motivated to do the things that make me happy, the things I like. The act of running motivates me," says Nuzum. "I enjoy the feeling I get, sometimes during, but mostly after a run. I feel as if I'm making the most out of the body that was given to me." While Nuzum rarely misses a run, she isn't inhuman. She admits, "I'm not motivated to go on every run, say, when it's 10 degrees outside. But, it's a habit, and I'm never sorry that I've gone out."


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Saturday, January 14, 2012
National Delurking Day
Hello Friends,
I just found out that it is National Delurking Day! It's a day to stop lurking on the blogs you read, and leave comments. Come on out of the shadows!
I would love to know more about my readers. I can tell by my stats that I have a lot more regular readers than my comment box would suggest. I would love to know who you are and a little bit about you. If you are a lurker, or even if you are a long time reader and commenter, will you answer some questions for me please? It would be a wonderful gift to me to get to know you a little better.
I'll even let you just fill in the blanks:
My name is _______________ (you can use just your first name or even a screen name)
I am a ______________ (student, wife, mom, fellow person with dysautonomia, etc.)
I enjoy ______________ and _________________.
My favorite Bible verse or quote is ______________________.
I know it can be awkward to leave a comment on a blog for the first time, but if you are comfortable giving it a try, I invite you to delurk today! I can't wait to hear what you have to say.
28 comments:
I'm Phoebe - I'm a 26 year old woman with dysautonomia. I've been reading your blog for some time now but have (obviously) never commented. :) I found your blog one day as I was so discouraged about chronic illness, feeling like I was the only sick person the planet, and I just started searching the internet for blogs of other Christians with dysautonomia. I was so thrilled to find you (haha, that sounds totally creepy). But ever since then, your blog has been so encouraging to me! So... thanks! (Oh, I also follow your twitter... I'm @prosel)
- January 14, 2012 at 2:23 PM
I'm tonya
I am a fellow person with Dysautonomia
I love to read and do anything I have the energy to do!
Gosh, my favorite Bible verse? I hae different ones at different times! Lately I've been thinking a lot about Exedus 14:14 "the Lord will fight for you; you only need to be still" it's actually the verse that kept coming to mind when I was having my TTT
- January 14, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Hi Rachel!
I'm going to stop delurking-- thanks for the impetus! :).
I'm Emily Hogge, a friend from camp.
I love cooking, when I have time and money to do so.
My favorite bible "portion" at the moment is: In Revelation, Chapter 21, about the new Jerusalem someday.
25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.
I really like the image of this tall, glistening city where the gates are never shut, because it is a safe place-- the idea that someday, all will be right.
I read your blog pretty regularly, and I've recently been praying for you, particularly after your post about what it costs you to share time with your family recently.
- January 14, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Phoebe,
Thanks for commenting! It is so nice to meet you! It is neat to find other people with dysautonomia. If it weren't for the internet, we would likely never find one another. I'm sorry that you have to suffer from dysautonomia too. I'm glad you found me here, and it is a blessing to me to know that my blog has encouraged you. Thanks for letting me know who you are on twitter. I'm following you now. :)
- January 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Tonya! :)
Oooh, great verse. My favorite verses change at times too, depending on what is going on in my life.
Thanks for reading my blog, and thanks for commenting!
- January 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Emily!
Thanks so much for delurking! It is great to hear from you.
Revelation 21 is a wonderful passage. It is thrilling to know that one day all wrongs will be made right and that there will be peace on the earth.
Thank you for your friendship and your prayers.
- January 14, 2012 at 4:09 PM
My name is Jenny.
I am a psychology student, wife for 10 years this August, mother to three awesome kiddos, friend of Rachel.
I enjoy writing music, singing, the Great Outdoors, my family.
My favorite Bible verse or quote is 1 Peter 2:24 "
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed."
- January 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM
I'm not exactly a lurker, but you know how much I like filling out forms... I can't resist!
My name is Krista.
I am a math/science tutor and biology teacher.
I enjoy watching football, hanging out with my awesome niece and nephew (and sometimes their parents :)), and just generally having fun.
My favorite Bible verse is currently Hebrews 2:14-15. And 6:17-20 is a close second.
Love you!
- January 14, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Haha! I love it! :) So you like filling out forms too? I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't know that! How have I known you all these years and somehow missed that fact? I like filling out forms too. Maybe it's in our genes.
I'm glad you like hanging out with me sometimes too. But I will admit that William and Adelaide are cooler than me. :)
- January 14, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Jenny! Thanks for delurking. :) I wish we still lived in the same town. Glad we have facebook and blogs.
- January 14, 2012 at 7:10 PM
Hello Rachel,
I like filling out forms too!! I guess you and Krista get it naturally. :) I rarely post, but enjoy reading.
I'm glad you like the new shirt I sent over today.
- January 14, 2012 at 8:01 PM
- Kristin S said...
Ha, nobody told me it is national delurking day! :-)
Love your blog.
My name is Kristin (kristinwithani)
I am a daughter of the King!
I enjoy exercising and reading and blogging and Pinterest and friends and coffee and tea and very dark chcolate and the huge piece of tiramisu I just enjoyed.
My favorite Bible verse or quote is Psalm 119:105 - first verse I ever learned.
- January 14, 2012 at 8:04 PM
Hi Rachel,
Karen here. I lurk on your blog regularly. :) I enjoy keeping up with you guys and am excited to see God working in your lives. I must say that William's Lego party was a success with a certain 6 year-old daughter of mine. So much so that she spent her Christmas money on a Lego set and has played with it every day. Wish we'd gotten to spend more time getting to know one another when we lived just a few doors away! Oh, one of my favorite passages is Matthew 6:25-34 (I'm a recovering worry wart).
- January 14, 2012 at 8:19 PM
Hi Rachel! It's been a while since I commented so I figured I would delurk :) I'm Bethany and I have no idea how I found your blog, but it was years ago :) I am a single girl. I work as a nanny and would love to adopt my own children someday. i love to travel, read, make candles, go bowling, play phase 10... My favorite verse is Jeremiah 29:11
- January 14, 2012 at 11:13 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Mom! That's so interesting that you like filling out forms too! I thought that I was the only person who liked filling them out, and now I discover that you and Krista like it too. I'm glad I'm not alone in my quirkiness. :)
- January 15, 2012 at 12:10 AM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Kristin! Thanks for commenting! :) I found out about National Delurking Day on (in)courage this afternoon when I woke up (www.incourage.me). I had never heard of it before either, but it sounded like fun.
So you are a daughter of the King who also likes Pinterest, reading, blogging, coffee, tea, and chocolate? We would get along well!
- January 15, 2012 at 12:17 AM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Karen,
Thanks so much for delurking! :) I'm glad we got to visit briefly when we were in KY last month, and I'm so glad your daughter had fun at the Lego party. It was great to have you both there.
- January 15, 2012 at 12:19 AM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Bethany, thanks for commenting again! Making candles sounds like fun, and Phase 10 is one of my favorite card games. :) Jeremiah 29:11 is a favorite verse of mine also.
- January 15, 2012 at 12:40 AM
Hi Rachel, I'm Amz from Australia. I first started lurking on your blog just over two years ago, when my POTS got really really bad for the first time. It has been amazingly encouraging!!! I love your reflections on your faith and been sick. Been young, sick and christian is a pretty unusual combo, and your blog as made me feel way less weird and definately less alone. Thanks for blogging! Oh and psalms are my favorite, especially the Sons of Korah versions.
- January 15, 2012 at 7:07 AM
hi rachel
im emma, i have pots, a for of dysautonomia. im from london, england. ive been reading your blog for a while now, and have occasionally commented. thanks for writing about your experiences of your conditions, makes me feel like im not so alone with this disease. xxx
- January 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Hi Rachel: Guess I am not really a "lurker" because I have commented in the past but just wanted to chime in here and say that I very much enjoy your writing. Although I work in the medical field, I did not know much about dysautonomia or POTS. I have new awareness and respect for the fact that there are many people who suffer from these invisible illnesses. Best to you and your beautiful family always.
~Your second cousin (I think), Glenda ^_^
- January 15, 2012 at 6:46 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hello, Amz! It is so wonderful to hear from you. I'm glad you found me here, and I'm so glad you left a comment. I love hearing from my readers. Your encouragement helps to keep me going.
You aren't alone in your illness, even though you are on the other side of the world from me. It is neat how the internet can bring us closer together so that we can walk the road of chronic illness along with other Christians.
- January 15, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Emma! Thanks so much for reading my blog and for commenting. I always appreciate hearing from my readers; your encouragement helps to keep me going on those hard days. It is so nice to know that I have a friend in London who is going through some of the same things as me.
- January 15, 2012 at 10:30 PM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Glenda, thanks for leaving a comment! You aren't technically a lurker, but it is always fun to hear from any of my readers. Thank yo for your kind words and encouragement. I think we are first cousins once removed. You are my mom's first cousin, and so I am one generation removed from you. Your children would be my second cousins. I think that's how it works!
- January 15, 2012 at 10:32 PM
- Jennifer @ Live Art.fully said...
I'm not a lurker, but I too, enjoy filling out forms so here goes....
I am Jennifer, wife, mother of two, writer, and living with Ankylosing Spondylitis. I like coffee and writing and [currently] sitting in my recliner with laptop and heated blanket. My favorite text changes depending on the season in my life, but one I have enjoyed since my diagnosis is "The LORD Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged" (Deuteronomy 31:8).
- January 16, 2012 at 12:29 AM
- Rachel Lundy said...
That's so funny that you like filling out forms too! I wonder how many of us there are! I always thought I was the only strange person who liked filling out forms. I actually kind of have fun doing taxes.
I am so blessed to know you and have you as a blogging friend. You continue to encourage me with your words on your blog and on facebook. Thank you!
- January 16, 2012 at 4:36 PM
I'm a bit late to Delurking Day, but I want to be a part of the fun, so here goes:
My name is KaitlinI am a stay at home wife I enjoy having people into my home and My favorite Bible verse (today) is Hebrews 9:28 "...so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." What wonderful hope!
Thanks, Rachel for being such an encouragement to me. I enjoy reading about how you're doing, even when it's not easy, and I pray for you regularly. May God bless you abundantly today!
- January 18, 2012 at 11:58 AM
- Rachel Lundy said...
Hi Kaitlin! Thanks for joining in the fun. :) So are you unable to resist a fun form to fill out too?
Hebrews 9:28 - wonderful hope indeed!
Thank you so much for reading my blog and for praying for me. I appreciate it so much!
- January 18, 2012 at 4:29 PM


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In this sense, Djurberg has found a perfect medium in clay. "Few artists are using claymation with such a psychological charge to it," says Gary Carrion-Murayari, associate curator at New York's New Museum, which will house Djurberg's exhibition, "The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg," in its Studio 231 space from May 6 through August 26. "It's a format that's familiar to us from childhood, but her work never feels nostalgic. She uses her materials to imagine playing with your body in ways that would be impossible. She has created a unique visual language and the way she uses it, the way she can make these surrogates for our bodies and our emotional states is remarkable."
This latest exhibition is a dark, immersive installation that features five new animations scored by the artist's partner and collaborator, Hans Berg, as well as dozens of bird sculptures, each strikingly unique and handcrafted out of clay, wire, and strips of painted canvas. The show—Djurberg's biggest U.S. outing to date—originated at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, and will travel to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, later this year.
The 80 garish and menacing sculptures are the latest advance in a somewhat new direction for Djurberg, who first started creating environments for her work at the urging of curator Germano Celant (who organized her 2008 exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in Milan). This is the most ambitious environment she has constructed since her Silver Lion–winning appearance at the 2009 Venice Biennale, for which she crafted an oversized version of the sinister forest that attacks the stripped-down protagonists in her film, The Experiment.
Much has been made of Djurberg's blond locks, fair skin, and sweet demeanor, particularly in contrast to her startlingly graphic work. But in many ways these attributes confirm the larger point of her work: that these baser instincts exist within all of us, no matter how pretty or normal we might seem. Born and raised in Lysekil, Sweden, primarily by her mother (who, quite presciently, ran a puppet theater for several years), Djurberg studied painting at the Malmö Art Academy. She was frustrated by the medium and nearly gave up art entirely until she started playing with puppetry and clay, filming scenarios with a Super 8 camera. Suddenly, something clicked. The process kept her disciplined; the childlike aesthetic allowed her to take her ideas, dark and twisted, as far as they could go. The films made their way into group exhibitions throughout Europe. Djurberg was showing steadily on her own by 2004, and by 2006, exhibiting with New York dealer Zach Feuer.
Djurberg starts with a prompt, drawn from things she "sees, hears, experiences, or feels," as opposed to a fully formed narrative. "If I already see it entirely in my head, there doesn't seem to be any need for doing it," she says, sitting next to Berg and speaking via Skype from their home studio in Berlin. "It starts as more of a curiosity, which makes me look for it. And when I find the way I want to see it, then I feel like I have the urge to make it." She likens the process to sketching. "I am not that interested in making something that is perfect," she explains.
The story is slowly shaped with each meticulously tweaked frame, photographed as an HD still that is then stitched digitally to the other stills with little editing. "Because of the fragmented aesthetic, you're always coming from one point and from that point, there are a million different ways you can choose to go," she says. "So you narrow it down and make those choices. I find it very interesting, especially when everything falls into place."
On screen, Djurberg's clay puppets move and emote impressively, their glances and gestures aptly signifying complex emotions like pleasure, bloodlust, and fear. Most of the figures have a fairly specific aesthetic: big eyes, lanky limbs, lumpy skin. It makes them look almost familial and allows them to inhabit a world uniquely their own (as do, say, the Simpsons, and the jaundice they share with other residents of Springfield).
Djurberg is quick to note that Berg's accompanying music is key. The two were collaborators before they were a couple. "A mutual friend forced us to work together," says Berg, a self-taught electronic music producer, with a laugh. As Djurberg recounts, "I gave him a film that I didn't like—I figured he couldn't screw it up because I hated it anyway—and he turned it around." The music, which was largely electronic early on and has since evolved into something darker and more symphonic, "pushed the work in the direction that I wanted to go," Djurberg adds. "And it humbled me a bit. The music contains you and keeps you focused. It creates an emotional aspect to the work."
Djurberg's new films are not as explicitly sexual as fans might expect. Lately, she has been looking toward the animal world for inspiration—birds, specifically. The artist has never thought much of them. She once considered birds to be fairly dull, their pea-sized brains lacking the capacity for much beyond flapping, pecking, defecating, and slurping down the occasional worm. It didn't help that she had had some personal experience with an unruly winged creature. When she was a kid, her mother rescued a seagull that had fallen from its nest and placed it in Djurberg's bedroom. It smelled horrible, and it shit everywhere, but her mother fed it, cared for it, and taught it how to fly by tossing it in the air and forcing it to use its wings. Then one day, that dumb bird just up and flew away.
Ever since, Djurberg says, "I thought there really wasn't anything interesting about birds, except for the way they display themselves"—breasts forward, wings back, beaks up. But in researching birds' predilection toward pageantry, Djurberg came across something else. "The more research I did, the more I saw that there is an awareness and intelligence in them." For instance, some species try to engage others through play, others can recognize themselves in a mirror, and others make big, blue exaggerated nests—organic bachelor pads, if you will—to attract a mate. "It's kind of remarkable what this tiny brain can do," she adds. "The more I looked at it, the more amazed and amused I got. That outward parade or display is really an inward search for all these funny rituals and emotions."
This unexpected dichotomy and the way it relates to human codes of conduct is the basis of "The Parade." The new films, all 2011, are installed throughout the artist's winged menagerie and set to an aptly haunting soundtrack by Berg (think operatic violins and the occasional blast of a foreboding horn). They offer a series of semirelated vignettes, each picking apart a human/animal interaction and the often-tragic consequences thereof.
"Typically, when you interact with animals you don't have to protect yourself so much in an emotional and psychological way," Djurberg says. But what happens when animals behave in ways that are decidedly more human? And when we give in to our own animal-like instincts?
"When you look at animals, you start to see the behavioral patterns that we have more clearly," Djurberg says. "It simplifies them, in a sense. And makes people wonder what we really are. There is this YouTube video Hans showed me of a dog playing the piano, walking on the keys and shouting. You look at this animal at the keyboard and think, What is he doing? Whereas with humans, we know that it is this drive to create."
In Bad Eggs, three pudgy old women yank a colorful pelican from the sky. They pluck its feathers and torment it until it starts to produce eggs. In Open Window, a strikingly similar bird plays an entirely different role, serving as protector and advocate to a young boy who's spooked by seemingly supernatural goings-on in his room (the window just won't stay put). In the end, he clings to the bird as a child would its mother.
The most disturbing film on view is I Wasn't Made to Play the Son. In it, two men don Venetian-style bird masks and something akin to 18th-century European garb and torture and mutilate a woman while pacing back and forth atop her body. She calls out to one of them, via text scrawled in paint on the back wall (Djurberg's films never have dialogue), that she "treated him like a son." His response, per the piece's title, is that's not a role I was made to play.
As the woman writhes in pain, the bird-men start snipping away her extremities: first toes, then fingers, then nipples. Green, pink, and yellow clay seeps out of each wound. It's hard to watch, nauseating even, though the masks pose an interesting conundrum: Would it be quite so sickening if the perpetrators had not been men in masquerade, but actual birds? "You can't really say something is cruel when it's something one is not aware of," Djurberg says. "We don't use the word 'cruelty' to refer to how an animal behaves, we only use it with human beings."
Djurberg herself struggles to watch the films sometimes. But, she notes, "if I'm not nervous, and if I don't feel emotional about it or embarrassed, maybe it's not that important. Maybe
it is too clear and too safe."
"You have to invest," Berg adds. "Even if you're a little scared."
Click on the slide show to see the work of Nathalie Djurberg.
This article appeared in the May issue of Modern Painters magazine.


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Secretary Clinton spoke at the commemoration of the first annual September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance.
Tonight, Secretary Clinton delivered the keynote address at MyGoodDeed and ServiceNation's commemoration of the first annual National Day of Service and Remembrance on September 11. The September 11th and service communities worked for years to achieve this annual observance, formalized in federal legislation enacted in April 2009. The law, formally named the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, received strong bipartisan support from Congress. Tonight's event, attended by thousands of members of the September 11 and civilian and military service communities, took place at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.
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The Secretary continued, "The response of New Yorkers and Americans to the 9/11 attacks were not scripted. They weren't orchestrated. They were the acts of people who instinctively – reflexively – summoned the best within themselves to help others in harm's way. And while these were individual acts, they represented a collective and uniquely American characteristic: a willingness and a pride in serving others....This country was built and has endured on a tradition of service. It's a common thread that binds Americans of all generations together."
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Oralia writes:
My heart goes out to those who lost a love one, hope these tough times with new goals help you get through life. Realizing today is a new day and another year has gone by might be rough but it is achievable.
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Those who believe in Angels they do exist just look around!
Mattynr in California writes:
I have very serious emotional feelings about this. The sharing of this day is a distraction of focus. This is a day of Memorial. Honoring the memory with American Unity and Pride. Respecting the loss and honoring the duty of sacrifice.
National Day of Service and Remembrance tells the story. The tragedy of 9/11 does not even get top billing. "Remembrance" will be diluted to a fading, disposable priority. There will be so much energy in the organizing of "Service" even that will lose value.Service comes from the heart, not the dictatorship of a Government. We, Americans, serve every day of the year. The joy of the giving is from the act of giving, not from the orchestrated, controlled efforts from outside sources.
I know I am clumsy trying to express this deep, very deep, emotions I feel about this. Just think how much deeper the emotions are for those that lost so very much. I don't want to share the "Remembrance" I think it is wrong and I think we need to give this honor of remembering 100% focus.
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Extremism and the Destruction of Cultures....
In the wake of the 9/11 remembrance; and the eve of Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah; I'm struck by the NY Times photo by Rina Castelnouvo on pg. A8 9-14-09...It depicts a young Jewish settler in Hebron throwing wine on a Palestinian woman. The arch of the wine presents us with a question mark...or maybe a Sickle..or a whip....small acts of insult and disrespect can destroy cultures....and set the scene for 9/11's in the future...when will we learn?
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The politicizing of the 9/11 attack into some sort of "national day of public servitude" is an insult to the families who lost relatives in those buildings.
Most of the people killed in the WTC buildings were NOT public servants but ordinary people trying to earn a living unconnected with politics, political parties, or social agendas. They were exercising their liberty to earn a living in an occupation of their own choosing.
The investigation of 9/11 which was resisted by both the Bush and Obama administrations, has been denounced as a fraud and coverup by 6 of the 10 members of the 9/11 Commission, a former German defense minister, a former president of Italy, several directors of foreign intelligence services, and over 600 scientists, civil engineers, and architects, among others.
Our own government response to the 9/11 attack has been to add further insult to injury and abandon our constitution and our Bill of Rights, abandon international law prohibiting war crimes and the torture of prisoners of war, and occupation of countries without Declaration of War by Congress. We did wrongs to ourselves worse than anything a group of terrorist could hope to do.
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