A three dimensional exercises for scoliosis has been the cornerstone of conservative management in Germany since 1927, but is relatively new here in the U.S. It was initially developed by the pioneer physiotherapist Katharina Schroth for treatment of her own scoliosis condition. She expanded her work when opening the Schroth Institute and the Schroth Method became widely adopted as the treatment of choice for both mild and severe cases of scoliosis in adults and children.
Because of the effectiveness of her treatment she was awarded the "Federal Cross of Merit" by the Federal Republic of Germany. She has been praised for the introduction and development of her revolutionary treatment for scoliosis, which is unique in its specificity, effect and results.
It has been continually updated over the years and has become the premier treatment of scoliosis in Germany and much of Europe. It has only recently crossed the Atlantic and is now being incorporated for scoliosis treatment here in the US. Our offices in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Jose offer comprehensive scoliosis treatment that includes exercises for scoliosis based on the Schroth Method.
This method of exercise for scoliosis is a conservative treatment that works to elongate the trunk, correct the imbalances of the body and use a special breathing technique to change the shape of the rib cage that has been affected by scoliosis.
Recognizes that it is a three dimensional problem that requires a three dimensional solution.
This system of exercises for scoliosis not only takes into account the rotation component of scoliosis but also the affects of the rib cage and helps the patient develop specific breathing exercises designed to correct the biomechanical faults by re-educating the patient's neuromuscular system to new movement patterns that correct the underlying faults.
The Schroth Method develops the inner muscles of the rib cage to change the shape of the thorax allowing for a correction of spinal deformity, slowing or halting of progression, improve cardiopulmonary function, improving mobility and postural stability as well as diminishing pain.
The patient is taught specific exercises for scoliosis that puts their bodies in positions that enable an expansion of the flattened portion of their rib cage on the concave (inside) of the thoracic curve in the back and chest areas. Through many repetitions in the proper positions the patient develops a new awareness of their posture and alignment. Many scoliosis patients also have a flattening of their back as a result of the curvature. Schroth Method of exercises for scoliosis encourages restoration of the proper curvature of the rib cage on that side.
These specific exercise for scoliosis are performed in many postures, sitting on a physioball, lying facedown, and face up or on the side. The method also utilizes many standing postures as well as utilization of other simple tools to assist in regaining and maintaining the proper positioning. The exact combination of exercises is determined by curve pattern and severity.
After completing an intensive training in the Nu Schroth Method of Exercises for Scoliosis in the office, the patient is able to do them at home. Periodically undergoing progressive NuSchroth training in the office is recommended as these exercises will be utilized as a lifetime management tool for Scoliosis.
"One of the most important aspects of this method is the perceptual changes of the body during and after the scoliosis exercises. The patient is instructed to keep this new body awareness in their mind. This is enhanced further by receiving visual feed back by looking in the mirror while doing the exercises. By recognizing the differences in their postural alignment and continually readjusting their body mechanics to the ideal positioning, they increasingly develop a better sense of postural awareness and correction.
Our Program of specific exercises for scoliosis combines the Schroth Method of scoliosis exercises with other effective scoliosis exercise therapies and is provided in a small class size, circuit training programs as part of a comprehensive rehabilitative therapy for treatment of scoliosis. Each exercise is designed to reduce and stabilize specific scoliosis curvatures. Our programs often combine the use of a flexible dynamic scoliosis device called SpineCor, Active Release Techniques A.R. T. with these specially designed scoliosis exercises and breathing techniques that help retrain aberrant movement patterns found in scoliosis that contribute to the progression of the curvatures. Patients and families are given the tools and information necessary to live successfully with scoliosis, while avoiding the need for rigid braces or surgery.
The program was developed by a team of doctors and an advanced exercise therapists: Dr. Marc J. Lamantia, D.C. one of the foremost experts in the country on alternative scoliosis treatment and a Certified Master Trainer in the Schroth Method of scoliosis exercise and has modified and integrated this method to be used in conjunction with A.R.T. and dynamic bracing: Dr. Brett Diaz, D.C. a SpineCor provider, Certified ART Provider, Certified NuSchroth Instructor and a Certified Exercise Rehabilitation Specialist through the American College of Integrative Medicine.
We also have an advanced Exercise Therapist Gigi Leonte who is a Certified Schroth Therapist who specializes in movement based rehabilitative therapies and was the past exercise therapist and coach to the Romanian Olympic Gymnastic Team.
Blending these approaches into a comprehensive Scoliosis Specific Exercise Program as part of a complete scoliosis treatment program has been proven to be clinically effective for the stopping or reversing the progression of scoliosis curvatures.
To find out if you may be a candidate for this type of scoliosis exercise program call us today at (800) 943-1254 for a Free Phone Consultation to discuss your case of scoliosis and find out if our exercises for scoliosis can help you.
I am intensely interested in working with a physical therapist to help improve my scoliosis. Is there any way that he and I can get the specific exercises needed to help my condition? I am 81 years old in otherwise good health and noticed my scoliosis about 4 years ago.
Ginger, Thank you for your interest. Please give us a call at (800) 943-1254 for a Free Phone Consult to find out if the Schroth Method is right for your scoliosis. If so, we can find the location nearest you to come for the class. Dr. Brett Diaz, D.C.
I have been in pain management for over 3 years taking very strong pain pills that are killing me but with no Insurance and my Doctor with no plans of helping me but with another prescription I am at the end of my rope. The pain in my whole body now is terrible and I could sure use your help .I was told I had scoliosis over three years ago but not much they could do about it but live with it. But with no Insurance no one will help . No one should have to live with this much pain every day , people don't let even animals live like this so Doctor if you can do anything to just even ease the pain I would sure appreciate it.
Please give us a call at (800) 943-1254 for a Free Scoliosis Phone Consult to discuss your scoliosis to find out if our treatments are right for you.


Israel is being hanged on a public gallows erected on the grounds of the United Nations with yards of rope gleefully supplied by the Muslim world. But the hangmen are mostly Westerners who still think that the Muslim lynch mob at their doorstep can be pacified with the death of a single victim.
There are three things you can do when you are about to be hanged. You can walk proudly, recite a glorious line or two to embed your martyrdom in historical memory, and then allow yourself to be hanged. Jews have an extensive body of experience with that brand of martyrdom.
Alternatively you can plead your case all the way to the gallows, arguing that a mistake has been made, that your case has been improperly reviewed, begging for someone to listen and do something. This way also ends in a hanging. But it's the hanging of a slave without even a shred of dignity attached to it. A man that dies pleading with his murderers, and puts his fate in the honesty of the liars and hypocrites whose own crimes makes the worst of his look like virtues, is a craven fool.
Because there is really only one thing you can do when the noose is being placed around your neck. Resist. A noose works by tightening around your neck and cutting off your air or breaking your neck. If you resist the tightening of the noose, you may actually survive. On the other hand if you follow through all the procedures, if you allow your hands to be tied behind your back, and the noose to be fastened around your neck while trusting in the system to do right by you-- your death is inevitable.
For seventeen years Israel has been walking toward the gallows. Its leaders have led it there by the nose ring of international assurances. Its people have been led there by refusing to see what is waiting ahead for them, even while the blood was being cleaned off the streets. Every attempt to reach a peaceful solution, every concession and show of good faith, has only tightened the bonds around its hands and the noose around its neck.
That is because every concession Israel has made, has further restricted not only its ability to defend itself, but even its ability to do basic things such as build residential housing in the capital of its own nation. Every gesture and agreement Israel has signed has bound it to ever more restrictive terms. And none of them have brought any peace. All they have ever done is set the bar higher for the next round of concessions demanded by the enemy and its aiders and abettors in the next phase of negotiations.
This is not a peace process, and it has never been one. It is a public lynching. It is the lynching of a country whose only real crime is that its existence offends the religious fanaticism and prejudices of a billion Muslims, who control much of the world's oil, and whose followers are willing to riot and kill in the streets of nearly every major city in the world at the slightest offense.
The lynching began as a trial where the murderer wore a fine suit and his victim sat in an orange jumpsuit in the dock. Every day during the trial, the murderer would be allowed to leave the courtroom to kill again. And every afternoon he would return to the courtroom with bloody hands that the judge and jurors would pretend not to see. And if the victim dared to call attention to those bloody hands, he would be silenced and told that those murders too were his fault. Hadn't he after all provoked the murderer into committing them?
Now the trial is coming to a close. The farce that the proceedings ever had anything to do with peace is unraveling. And we can thank Hamas and Obama for that. The endgame is all too clear. The undoing of that "mistake" which allowed the oldest and most persecuted minority in the Middle East to briefly reclaim their homeland from the tyranny of Muslim Caliphs and Sultans. To serve as a homeland for their persecuted brethren from the east and the west. From the south and the north. That mistake.
In a year in which the Iranian regime raped and murdered protesters after a stolen election. In which China and North Korea continue torturing and murdering political dissidents. In which Saudi Arabia and Dubai live off Southeast Asian slave workers. In which Venezuela's Chavez continues shutting down independent media outlets and imprisoning opponents. In which Turkey continues holding thousands of Kurdish political prisoners while occupying Cyprus. In which Russia continues to dismantle democracy and murder journalists. In which Sudan continues perpetuating genocide and the rest of the world nods mournfully but continues on with business as usual. In that year, Israel is the main culprit for such dastardly acts as reportedly assassinating a Hamas terrorist leader in Dubai and intercepting a flotilla providing aid and comfort to Hamas. Every country, including the nations on this list, are rushing forward their condemnations and demands that Israel be held accountable. Accountable for what? For refusing to be lynched.
Every time Israel tries to be accommodating, it instead takes a step closer to the gallows. It allows the noose to be tightened around its neck. And every time that happens, it has to fight harder for air. Eventually if things keep going this way, there will be no air at all. Only a sad forlorn figure swinging in the hot eastern wind from the desert. And cries of Ibtach al Yahood among the rubble of cities and gardens of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Ariel.
Israel cannot survive by accommodating a lynch mob. Only by having the courage to defy it. When the international community at the behest of the Muslim lynch mob dictates the parameters of Israel's survival, it must expand those parameters by pushing through them to the other side. If they want to recognize terrorists, then we kill those terrorists. If they want to break the Gaza blockade, then we retake Gaza. If they want to unilaterally create a Palestinian state, then we annex those territories. Accommodation is a noose. Defiance is the air of freedom. Every time Israel retreats, it is condemned for it. When it advances, it is condemned for it also, but its freedom of action expands.
The world will always condemn Israel regardless of its intentions. But like any form of namecalling, those condemnations only gain power when Israel allows its actions to be dictated by them. Israel is not condemned because of what Israel does. It is condemned because of a diseased pattern of Islamic bigotry, left wing radicalism and international dhimmism converging in one place. This is a pattern of hate that cannot be undone. It can only be ignored.
When you listen to the threats and taunts of those who hate you, you give them power over yourself. If you try to accommodate your behavior to gain their favor, their outpouring of hate for you will only grow. For it is not your behavior they hate, it is you. By showing weakness, you invite attack. By giving your enemies power over you, all that you accomplish is to drive them into a feeding frenzy at your vulnerability. If you go on this way, you will either be a slave or a corpse. A slave if they have any use for you alive. A corpse if they don't. Either way you have put your head into the noose they made for you.
Israel cannot go on this way. No country could for long. Yet it does, marching on toward the gallows, protesting that there has been a terrible mistake here. But there is no mistake here. None at all. The executioners nod sympathetically and promise to look into it, as they bind his hands behind his back. It's a farce and everyone except the dumbest among the lynch mob, and the condemned knows it.
But like the condemned man refusing a blindfold in the anecdote who's scheduled to be executed, we keep being warned not to make trouble. Go quietly. Breathe deeply. Soon it will all be over. What will the world say, if we resist? Exactly what the world says now. That we're the neighborhood bully. The troublemakers that are the cause of all the troubles of the otherwise peaceful nations of the Middle East. The worm in the lovely healthy apple otherwise covered with Muslim tyrannies.
Every threat that has been made has come about when Israel made concessions, not because it refused to. Every time Israel has chosen the high road, its enemies have ambushed it from the low road. It's past time to wake up and start learning some lessons. The noose is drawn. And the nation is gasping for air. That breath of air was Jerusalem. The next one will be the Galilee. And then what? How many more breaths do we have left before we choke and die?
Before Oslo, Israel was threatened with terror if it did not comply. It complied and the terror increased manifold. And if did not negotiate further, it was threatened with international isolation. It negotiated. It gave. And it was isolated anyway. It was threatened with boycotts, and it gave, and the boycotts came anyway. Now they threaten the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state. Followed by a One State Solution. Followed by international intervention. Noose, gallows and all. And does anyone think that all these will not come about anyway, if Israel gives Abbas and his terrorist cronies their own official state with a capital in Jerusalem?
No compromise has worked until now. Which means no compromise will work. A process in which one side repeatedly compromises and the other side repeatedly threatens and takes, is not a process, but a holdup. If a man threatens you with a gun, then you might think that you can buy him off. Until he returns again and again. And then it is no longer a threat, it is a process. Israel is in that process, or rather it is being processed. At the end of the process is death. If you pay attention only to the gun, and not the pattern of threats, you may keep giving in, until you have given up your home, your wife and your children, and you have nothing left but your life. And then you will lose that as well. That is the nature of the process. To survive, you must not see the gun alone, but the process it is part of.
The last month should have been a final education. A grim testament to the fact that even when Israel withdrew from Gaza, allowed Hamas to control it, and did nothing but prevent Hamas from having outside access, the world is howling as if Israel had filled the country with graves from end to end, as Sudan or Iran or some of the other members and former members of the UN Human Rights Commission have. That is not justice. That is a lynch mob. And what does Netanyahu do in response? Like nearly every Israeli government before him, he backs off on the blockade. Because given that tidbit the lynch mob will be appeased. It will, won't it. Won't it?
We are no longer talking about negotiations. Or any serious discussion of a state. We are talking about the world rising up in one voice to defend the rights of a genocidal organization funded by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose charter includes the words; "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdullah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him." The pretense is over and done with. This is not about anything resembling peace. This is about death. This is a lynch mob. Some come willingly. Others think that they have no choice. That a single murder will buy them the tolerance of the Dar Al Islam.
This is what a noose looks like. These are the gallows. As its hands are bound, Israel loses the ability to defend itself. As the noose tightens, Israel dies. Only by resisting the noose, can it survive. Only by fighting to free its hands, can it resist. The way of surrender is the way of death. And after Israel dies, its own hangmen will be next. Because the lynch mob has only begun. Its appetite is whetted by death. Its hunger will only be sharpened by blood, not sated by it. And it will cover the world in blood, if it is not stopped. But now the noose draws tight. Only a little more air is left. What will we do with that air? Appeal for justice, or fight with all our strength to rip the noose away. For now the choice is still ours. When the noose has done it work, it no longer will be.
Muslims say 'first the Saturday people then the Sunday people'.
thank you Mr.knish for your logic. Its about time someone let the people know the truth and not the web of lies that the main street media feeds them. now if only you could find someone who can translate your website to Hebrew so the sleeping majority in Israel can get the truth and rise up against the leftist media dictatorship then maybe we can all save Israel once and for all. if you translate it they will come, and I will personally make sure they wake up. more power to you my brother.
Uh. Thank you for this post. I just re-posted a piece from Sara Eisen's blog about a similar topic. God bless Israel!
Arius, your comment is chilling.
A very depressing article but I think you're right. I'm an admirer of Israel and I wish Israel the best, whatever it decides to do.
Excellent piece Daniel. Forward it to the Israeli gov't.
Thanks for again reading my thoughts, and eloquently turning them into words.
My views are clear and have been since 2002, just months after 911, when normally intelligent people were already searching for reasons to 'move on' from the actions of a few 'isolated extremists', or were resorting to self criticism to excuse Islam's contempt for the free world, that Israel cannot survive as a Jewish state beyond at best halfway through this century.
Eight years later, and now I give Israel another 25 years, at best, before it ceases to exist except as the memory of an honourable, courageous experiment that was overwhelmed by the lunacy of a single man promoting the message of intolerance and savagery.
Although Islam has expanded by devouring its neighbours through Europe, Asia and Africa for 14 centuries, the tragic if not hysterical irony is that it has numbed through violence and coercion the most advanced civilisation in the history of the world, into marketing it as a peaceful and tolerant religion.
Israel shall not die. Hashem has sworn it. Ezekiel chapters 35-39.
Brilliant and sobering, in equal measure - as are so many of your pieces.
I hoped that Netanyahu would prove a tough leader but it seems we need a Ben Gurion or a Golda Meir to stand up to the international fondness for Muslim fanatics and appeasement.
Things are getting scary - rather, more scary.
*Pakistan whose state-sponsored persecution of the Ahmadiyya minority led directly to a number of massacres notably the coordinated attacks on their mosques earlier this month. Also whose security service the ISI is both funding and advising the Taleban.
* Indonesia for the continued state sponsored persecution of Christians and Bhuddhists leading to frequent massacres.
...basically you can add just about every Muslim country.
* US and its allies in Afghanistan have killed many times more civilians from bombing and drone attacks than were killed in Gaza in 2009. Although this occasionally brings out the Muslim and leftist protesters the scale of fury is a tiny fraction of that directed at Israel for lesser "offences".
* Switzerland's ban on Mosque minarets brought minor condemnation from Muslims and some leftists but if Israel had brought in a similar law then we would certainly have seen mass worldwide hysteria and UN resolutions against its 'apartheid'.
* In many Western countries (notably Holland and Austria) elections have brought stunning advances by political parties fighting almost exlusively on an anti-Islamism agenda. Again similar gains by such a party in Israel would have seen mass worldwide hyteria and UN resolutions against its 'apartheid'.
Briliantly put. However, who is this column addressed to? To us? Not enough. It should be distributed all over the web.
AND it should be sent to the PM and every centrist and right wing MK in the Knesset with a note saying: "YOU KNOW ALL THIS. You have the power to stop the hanging - WHAT are YOU going to do about it NOW?
And demand an answer. If only to embarrass them. Because their course seems unwavering: to keep their jobs and to continue to fool the Jews until it's too late to retreat.
- Make nice speeches. Promise, promise, and promise again. Mental Prozac for the Jews.
- Blame appeasement on someone else: Obama. A weak PM. Or call it a necessary sacrifice, a tactical retreat.
- And continue to reassure Jews that eastern Jerusalem is safe. Really.
Sadly, Jerusalem is all they dare to defend now from the large 1967 territorial gains.
To citizens' concerns that Jews are not allowed to build in E. Jerusalem, that the PA manages the area, and that Israeli police no longer assist Jews in fear for their lives over there, well, that doesn't mean anything, believe me - they say. We won't give up Jerusalem. It's a promise.
There is a lot of madness and irrationality in the world, but Israel takes the cake. There just isn't any way to explain Israel's behavior since 1967.
It's not just the political mistakes. Or the desire to accommodate. All that is within the range of human fallibility.
What boggles the mind is the complete unwillingness to learn from past mistakes. It's as if Israelis are in a trance.
Leftists have turned into outright zombies, loving their killers.
Others, who hold some notion of what's ahead, still ALLOW the government to proceed with daily retreats - small and big ones - and do nothing but wait and hope for some miracle - or a new US administration (that will still treat Israel as a vassal state).
This column says exactly what I've felt for a very long time. I cringe at every official apology, at every "investigation", at every IDF directive to be gentle with the enemy. And daily, at every appeasing gesture.
What is there to say after this column?
Unless something drastic is done to change course, politicians will continue to lead Jews to the gallows.
congrats! awesome post! you are now about to get your post to become 'viral' :) enjoy - the next step for you would be to setup public speaking engagements perhaps... Good luck!
Very true article, which anyone should be able to understand.
and Neighborhood Bully is among my favorite lyrical Genius's most inspired works.
His point best displayed within the lyrics' entire context, but it's all good.
Israel, the worlds' smallest ever "portrayed" bully, indeed.
In truth, an inconvenient scapegoat for the world which just will not go away!
That remains so relevent, it could have been written AFTER the flotilla incident.
Oh the hypocrisy of this world, all together against Israel which is smaller than our state of New Jersey.
Too bad every media release about Israel is not shown against a background map showing the size of Israel compared to all who surround them!
I am very upset that obama promised $400 M of our tax dollars to gaza after the flotilla.
hamas, Fatah & are buying up property in Jerusalem - yet no Jews allowed in Saudi, at all.
Israel should be Arab-free and liberal-free.
The comment was "it's certainly time to go back to YY and stop making covenants with idiots"
OK, there's an old gentile in the room- so what is "YY"?
I get the point, but still would like to know what YY stands for.
Israel's discovery of gas deposits off her northeastern Mediterranean Coast is already fueling the fire of enemies' rage, and even more incessant whining and false claims to it.
If Israel deals with its internal Moslem enemies the same way, soon all of them will leave Israel.
retaking Gaza is wrong. one million lazy Arabs who only want to feed on others will come with it. Israel won't be able to deal with the international pressure.
I just heared in the news about these one hundred thousand haredim who went to streets protesting some small school issue. if All these people would gather in front of U.N headquarters in Israel, protesting the approach of these terrorist ships, before they got close to Israel, if these thousands of people would gather in protests more often asking for the release of Shalit, Hamas and other Islamist countries propaganda couldn't be so successful. can you please tell me Why they dont' act in such cases? why no one asks them to act? aren't they interested in their country's survival?
YY, I believe, is shorthand Hebrew for God.
Don't know who you are, but your words ring true!
I remember listening to WINS, hearing that Ehud Barak was prepared to give Arafat everything including the kitchen sink; I cried, really cried in disbelief. But, as usual, Arafat walked away. The US should have realized at that point that Arafat and all his ilk want the elimination of Israel. Nothing less. Please 'O Israel....WAKE UP! Please, please wake up and smell the coffee. Before it's too late. Yes, Hashem is watching over us, but don't forget that he watched the destruction of two Batei Mikdash. Let us hope and pray that the Israeli leadership will have the courage to withstand American and European pressure, and realize that we ARE in the 11th hour.
Virtually the entire UN recently voted to deny Israel's right to defend itself, a final wake-up call for Israel. It's now the world against Israel and Israel's policy of accommodation is now exposed, beyond dispute, as strategically and politically bankrupt.
According to military experts, Israel lacks the needed resources to mount an effective attack upon Iranian nuclear facilities using conventional arms.
So only an Israeli first-strike, nuclear attack can stop Iran. But that's a political non-starter because the repercussions would destroy Israel. Israel can survive the cutting off of American aid but Israel cannot survive a total economic blockade and embargo.
Obama would have his excuse and would eagerly participate in a world-wide economic blockade and embargo of Israel.
That is the first of many realities Israel must face.
Obama has already decided that he can live with a nuclear Iran.
Which means Iran is going to get the bomb.
Israel is going to have to figure out how to live with it too.
That's the next reality Israel must accept.
Israel can withstand conventional armies and conventional attacks.
It is a nuclear attack upon Israel, direct or terrorist, which poses a mortal danger to Israel.
Following Israel's liberal left will lead to Israel's surrender and dissolution or genocidal extermination.
The Israeli left is a greater threat than Islam because they are blocking the implementation of effective defensive strategies.
That is the third reality Israel must accept.
There is only one effective strategy for dealing with a nuclear Iran and nuclear Islamic terrorism.
That is the fourth reality Israel must accept.
That strategy accepts that if necessary, Islam will continue to throw logistical resources at Israel, for the next 1000 yrs.
That strategy recognizes that Israel is under assault from Islam, that 'rogue' nations and terrorist organizations are merely Islam's agents in its war with Israel.
That is the fifth reality Israel must accept.
Which leaves two more realities Israel must accept.
That strategy recognizes that Muslims do not value their nation's, tribes or individual survival and, that there is only one thing that Muslim's cherish more than Israel's death...the survival of Islam itself.
Therefore, the only strategy that has a prayer of deterring a nuclear attack upon Israel, is to make Islam accountable.
That strategy would consist of a new doctrine that would declare that any nuclear attack upon Israel, by any nation or terrorist organization... will bring a nuclear response; the utter destruction of Mecca, Medina, the city of Qom and the demolition of the Dome of the Rock.
Such a doctrine must also account for the predictable response of the West and the UN; an embargo and/or blockade of Israel.
So Israel's new doctrine must also include the proviso that any embargo and/or blockade of Israel by the West or UN will result in the nuclear destruction of the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.
Islam would now face a choice; a nuclear attack upon Israel will result in all of Islam's holiest shrines, ceasing to exist within moments of a nuclear attack upon Israel.
That is the sixth reality Israel must accept.
Announcing such a doctrine with its identification of Islam as Israel's enemy, will necessitate Israel acknowledging its possession of nuclear weapons and Israel accepting the consequences of telling the US to-go-pound-sand. The ending of US aid to Israel.
That is the seventh reality Israel must accept.
It's time for Israel to stand on its own and to institute a doctrine which targets Islam's holiest sites and the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel's back is now up against the wall and the only hope she has is to make absolutely clear to Islam and the US, that should Israel fall, they shall pay an unthinkable price.
It's time for a game changer.
1.5 billion Muslims cannot be held responsible but what makes Islam, Islam, can be held hostage.
Islam's holy sites are of inestimable value to the Muslim. A pilgrimage to Mecca is a holy duty and the fifth 'pillar' of Islam.
Like the Japanese in WWII, the Imam's and Mullah's won't believe the Israeli's will do it, so a demonstration of resolve will have to be made.
Israel must level the Dome of the Rock.
commonsense, thanks for the response. I feel quite stupid now, having not known of YY before, I had known of only another as short, the YH.
Ah well, at least my name is honest.
I don't want to promote treason (mostly because I'm quite cowardly and won't push anyone where I couldn't go) but the only answer i can think of is that eventually someone's going to have to wrestle the Israeli gov out of the hands of the secular/left.
Sometimes it seems like the whole world is a body, and Israel is that small part of the body that whenever it gets touched, everyone gets soooo excited! So bothered! They're all beside themselves! Every move Israel does makes the world nuts.
But just like the Biblical Joseph, who resisted the temptations of Potiphar's wife, Israel needs to resist the call to give and give and give concessions after consessions --we are only creating bad "offsprings"/outcomes for ourselves. And the only way I see this happening is w/a leader who is unafraid and not simply reactive.
What does all this mean for the regular simple Israeli citizens? Some how they/we need to embolden ourselves to feel righteous, to protest.
BTW - how can u, Daniel Greenfield and Geoffrey Britain and a slew of others be so smart and the Israeli gov be so faulty??
Is it the massive pressures that one faces when in the governing seat? Is it a conspiracy of the governing left to hurt Israel? Those were some very good points made, surely the gov knows all this???
You should be taking this strategy to Israel! It's awesome.
and while you're at it, can ya throw in something about that dam ground-zero mosque that's planned here in USA?
"As for me and MY house... we shall buy rockets for Israel"
Same can be asked about politicians in many countries, including the US and Europe. The answer is that politicians follow the path of least resistance and sometimes most corruption.
Never have I seen such irrationality and obsessive focus by the liberal world against Israel for not compromising its own security. The leaders of the world should be ashamed... not ONE national leader has come out loud and clear that Israel has the moral and legal right to defend herself.
I was proud to be Canadian because of Canada's pro-Israel stance, but the Obama-like neutrality from Canada "wanting to see more facts" before stepping away from world opinion makes me realize that even Canada is acting like a sheep.
No government will speak out: there is not ONE national leader that has stood up and called this kangaroo court for what it is, while any 12-year-old should be able to figure this out. It's no moral dilemma at all.
Pilar Rihola, a Spanish politician put it well when she said that otherwise intelligent people, when they regard Israel, turn into IDIOTS. See her speeches on Kitman TV.
Thanks Sultan Knish for saying what needs to be said. The rational world with all our small voices, must make all our voices ring loud and clear, and let our politicians know it, that the world had better regain its sense of real justice.
A letter to a politician represents at least 40,000 of his constituents, and so our letters are powerful and the message must be reinforced before this public lynching of Israel (and resultingly the free world's values) gets out of hand even more than it has.
Plese Sultan and anyone reading this comments, there are 2 masterpieces in Jerusalem Post by the 2 best journalists today in Israel: Caroline Glick and Sarah Honig. Not to miss!
I too was disappointed with the government's stand regarding the flotilla investigation, which basically echoes Obama's.
But to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's credit, he has been a strong supporter of Israel, its right to exist, its right to defend itself, and in other issues as well. Netanyahu was received very warmly by the government on a recent visit to Canada.
This week, in response to a "Helen Thomas moment" by a leftist member of Parliament he vigorously defended Israel's legitimacy and criticized the MP's assertions that Jews had been occupiers since the birth of modern Israel.
It's possible that PM Harper is more of a Zionist than many of the members of Netanyahu's government, but his statements have to be restrained for reasons of diplomacy. He can't appear to be more right wing than the Israeli government!
It should also be noted that the US takes Canada for granted and is used to push the government around. There may have been more than subtle pressure applied on Canada to side with the US in this matter. If so, it does not bode well.
Thx for your so right analys. I wish that in a short time a new leader will raise from the middle of our people to lead him to the victory which can be obtain, but with a high price. we shall stop to act like the jews in the 30`s in europe. enough is enough. Let`s roll! and Am Israel hai!
It is easier to agree with the greater population than stand for what you believe to be true. Unfortunately, nowadays people have turned almost zombie like and adopt the opinions of someone/anyone who has any leadership qualities, even if bad without question. It is very sad indeed.
My home, my heart will always support Israel. Always.
Have been saying this for years. A strong Israel that punishes those who attack it, and punishes them in a manner such that it hurts, will be respected by Muslims as well as the international community, for they know that any nonsense will only lead to further punishment.
Over the years I have advocated that Israel should annex territory for each terrorist attack that leads to the death of Israelis. It will soon get through to the Islamic states that this is a no win game, and they will forcefully stop the idiot Leftists from creating any situation that will cause Israel to punish them. By the mid eighties, Israel would have had a nice strategic buffer, and maybe even a kind of peace.
By appeasing Israel only whets the appetite of the Islamists and Leftists, as well as indicating to neutrals, that Israel must have a weak political and moral case, and that is why it is surrendering itself.
STOP IT ISRAEL. STOP BEING SUCH A MUG.
FWIW I've linked to this post and added you to my roll. I knew it was bad but obviously I've been napping because I didn't realize it was quite this bad. Please keep up the good work. I'm learning.
I'm open to other strategies but given the circumstance see no other viable one.
Realities must be faced or as you point out, the slow march to the gallows will continue.
Yes, "eventually someone's going to have to wrestle the Israeli gov out of the hands of the secular/left" is correct or Daniel's gallows scenario will play out.
The Gov't. isn't stupid, just locked within its premises and the 'logic' of the world-view they necessarily impose.
I was born in 1948, my step-mother's Jewish (whom I adore) and I've been a strong supporter of Israel my whole life. I've been focused upon this issue since 9/11 and it's been a long journey. From examining the premises of Just War Theory to understanding the infrastructural geo-political foundations of Islamic terrorism. To the Left's post-modernism's nihilism to coming to understand the nature of appeasement to understanding the Arab shame culture to understanding the strong horse-weak horse dynamic and finally, to the necessity for Israel (US+West too) to learn a difficult lesson.
I've only recently accepted the conclusion that Islam itself is the problem. What prevented an earlier acceptance was a natural reluctance to hold an entire religion (or cult) responsible.
What enabled me to finally do that was in finally making a break through in understanding the theological reason (see my first comment below post) why Islam is the way it is, the theological impossibility of reform or an Islamic reformation and, why moderate Muslim's are complicit in the violence.
Once I did that, my prior premises evaporated and I was easily able to formulate the strategy I've laid out above. It's not smarts, it's premises that form bedrock beliefs that prevent obvious options from occurring to us.
Thanks, I have no contacts that would enable me to take this strategy to Israel but I am putting it out there on numerous blogs, including Caroline Glick's.
Now that "anonymous" has shared Sarah Honig (previously unaware of her) perhaps I'll share it with her too. So I'm doing what I can.
"So Israel's new doctrine must also include the proviso that any embargo and/or blockade of Israel by the West or UN will result in the nuclear destruction of the Saudi and Iranian oil fields and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz."
You're assuming that the USA would sit by whilst all this is going on and let Israel take the Saudi and Iranian oil fields? I think it's more likely, that the USA would act against Israel first and if after, would finish off that the mullahs started.
You're assuming that the USA would sit by whilst all this is going on and let Israel take the Saudi and Iranian oil fields? I think it's more likely, that the USA would act against Israel first and if after, would finish off that the mullahs started. Free our hands!"
I'm not suggesting that Israel seize anything, just make a compelling threat that an embargo/blockade will result in the nuking of the oil fields upon which the West's economic survival depends.
My assumption is not that the US is willing to lay a nuke on Israel (we're not), which the US would have to do to stop a determined Israel but whether Israel can find it's backbone (not looking good).
If Israel could find it's manhood, it has the West by the 'short hairs', it's just too nice to fight dirty and delusional enough to think that the US won't really let the scary monsters get them.
Time to man up, face reality and make the hard choices.
"My assumption is not that the US is willing to lay a nuke on Israel (we're not), which the US would have to do to stop a determined Israel but whether Israel can find it's backbone (not looking good).
Israel will not do that, because the US will not let it.
Like it or not the US is not on Israel's side. If it's interest are threatened, it will nuke Israel. The US has never been there for Isreal unless it benefitted her.
Shlomo, many people are praying that the current US administration will somehow be removed from power, as obama & all his chosen ones are especially bad towards Israel.
but I am not sure if the US has "never" been there for Israel unless it benefitted her? I am not as educated as others here about political science, history & such.
Nixon (in spite of his negative traits) sent Israel military supply during the Yom Kippur War. As I heard the story, he told Golda Meir that his mother was a christian and had made him promise her that "if it ever really came down to it" he would help Israel. Thus he felt compelled to send military & medical supplies during the Yom Kippur War when Meir requested it. His mother had passed away before this.
In any case, even if the government is against Israel, this nation still has thousands upon thousands who support her on their own.
When politicians do something that they can exploit, they will lie.
That is what Nixon did.
The US HAD to intervene, simply to stop the Russians from getting a foothold in the Mid East. Nixon's anti-semitism is well documented.
So he exploited that, and said "my mother told me..." just to curry favour with Jews he needed.
Any other President of the US would have done the same. Nixon merely exploited it cleverly.
Same as in Afghanistan. The US didn't fight in Afghanistan for the Afghani's during the Russian invasion, it was to drive out the Russians.
To put it another way, not even a staunch Xtian Zionist would help Israel if the US interests were threatened. Thus confirming what i said first to Geoffrey. That the US will attack Israel if it threatens it's relations with the Arab world in any way. All Israeli politicians know this.
@ Shlomo~~ "That the US will attack Israel if it threatens it's relations with the Arab world in any way."
A rather cynical assesment...but I believe you're right -- if B. HUSSEIN Obama is still president.
However, if your prediction ever comes to fruition - regardless of who's pres. - we can kiss our a$$ goodbye as a nation.
God in heaven forbid it!!
Shlomo, nixon's own reputed anti-semitism makes him personally without defense. Only the one act of aid remains an important historical difference to Israel.
Can't know for sure if his statement re "mother making him promise" was lie or true.
However, was it even neccessary to exploit a mothers' forced promise, "to curry favor with the Jews he needed" while he was actually sending Israel aid?
My opinion toward a bigot would be that, THAT "mother-claim" painted himself with no personal merit. Never underestimate the sentimental guilt trip which the memories of a deceased mother can induce. even on a bad boy.
I do disagree with you regarding "not even a staunch Xtian Zionist would help Israel if the US interests were threatened".
because such a person (really scripture studied AND believing) knows that G-d said "... and I will bless them that bless you, and curse them that curse you.."
It doesn't get any clearer than that, and His covenant never changed anywhere in scripture.
The fact is, defending Israel is the ONLY WAY to defend our own interests. Having G-d's blessing is #1 priority. He would make everything else fall into place if we helped Israel.
If our government won't, individuals must do whatever we can.
5. There is no way to conclusively prove who the perpetrator of a nuclear attack is, so how can israel justify their response?
6. Muslim heads of state aren't the only powers that want to destroy israel. What if iran sells a nuclear bomb to a neo-Nazi or other non Muslim extremist organization which then carries out a nuclear attack?


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KVCC Women, Ancilla Men Earn Wins
By JordanSlocum on January 7, 2017
Kalamazoo Valley Community College split Saturday's home doubleheader against Ancilla College, with the Cougar women taking a 72-51 win, followed by an 88-49 Charger win in the men's contest.
The women's contest was led the entire way by Kalamazoo Valley. While they only led by five after the first quarter, they extended it to 16 by halftime and to 21 for the final. KaLeah Ryan led the way with 24 points with another 18 from teammate Chloe Salman, pushing KVCC to 9-3 overall and 1-1 in MCCAA play. Shelly Daniels topped Ancilla with 18, as they fall to 7-5 and 1-1.
Meanwhile, the men's contest was very tight initially, despite the lopsided win for Ancilla. The Cougars held a six-point lead toward the start and kept the game close for much of the first half, with the score at 22-22 around the eight minute mark. From there, the Chargers started draining three-pointers en route to an 18-2 run. The Cougars made it back within 11 by halftime, 42-31, but the damage was already done. Ancilla continued to pile on, making 16 three-pointers total, on their way to an 88-49 win.
Dylan Phair led the scoring with 23 points, including five makes from outside the mark. Jair Rodgers had six three-pointers and 22 points total. Leading KVCC was EJ Finch with 13. The Cougars drop to 6-7 and 0-2 in MCCAA play, while Ancilla jumps to 12-1 and 2-0.
Both schools return to the floor Wednesday for doubleheaders at home. Kalamazoo Valley welcomes Kellogg with Ancilla hosting Mid-Michigan.
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As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated and divisive hallmarks of modern schooling.	In the early 1900s, the United States pioneered sex education to protect citizens from venereal disease. But the American approach came under fire after World War II from European countries, which valued individual rights and pleasures over social goals and outcomes. In the so-called Third World, sex education developed in response to the deadly crisis of HIV/AIDS. By the early 2000s, nearly every country in the world addressed sex in its official school curriculum. Still, Zimmerman demonstrates that sex education never won a sustained foothold: parents and religious leaders rejected the subject as an intrusion on their authority, while teachers and principals worried that it would undermine their own tenuous powers. Despite the overall liberalization of sexual attitudes, opposition to sex education increased as the century unfolded. Into the present, it remains a subject without a home.	Too Hot to Handle presents the stormy development and dilemmas of school-based sex education in the modern world.
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Vertex Seeks FDA Green Light for Hepatitis C Drug; Chomps at the Bit For Fast Review
Luke Timmerman
Vertex Pharmaceuticals has spent 15 years working to reinvent the way hepatitis C infection is treated, and now the fruits of that labor are in the hands of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Cambridge, MA-based Vertex (NASDAQ: VRTX), which has West Coast operations in San Diego, is announcing today that it has filed its new drug application, in which it is seeking clearance from the FDA to start selling telaprevir as a hepatitis C treatment in the U.S. The company is seeking a faster-than-usual six-month regulatory review, instead of the usual 10 month period, a request the FDA sometimes grants for potentially lifesaving or groundbreaking new therapies. The filing comes right on schedule, as the company said throughout this year it planned to complete its application before year's end.
The company's application is based primarily on a trio of Phase III clinical trials that enrolled more than 2,000 patients. One trial showed that the new drug, in addition to standard meds, was able to essentially cure three-fourths of patients getting their initial round of therapy for hepatitis C infections. The second study showed that the drug could shorten the standard treatment time by half. A third trial proved the new treatment could cure two-thirds of patients who failed to respond to a prior round of therapy. Taken together, Vertex is hoping the body of evidence in this application will pave the way for a completely new treatment strategy that will roughly double the cure rate of the existing regimen, while requiring patients to put up with fewer of the nasty flu-like symptoms that dog the current standard of care.
An estimated 6 million patients in the U.S. and Europe have hepatitis C, out of an estimated 170 million worldwide. While many go untreated today, Vertex and its investors are hoping that if the new treatment is approved, it will open the floodgates for patients to rid themselves of the infection that can cause significant liver damage and death later in life. If Vertex can get the FDA's green light, it will be the first major product for this company founded in 1989, which has accumulated a deficit of $3.26 billion through the end of September. If Vertex wins market clearance in 2011, as most analysts expect it will, the payoff could come relatively quickly. U.S. sales alone could amount to more than $2 billion after a couple years because of the pent-up demand built for the drug during the clinical trial process, analysts say. Vertex's market valuation yesterday was about $7 billion, based mostly on the projected value of this new treatment for hepatitis C.
"This submission is a milestone in our more than 15-year effort to change the way hepatitis C is treated," said Matt Emmens, Vertex's CEO, in a statement. "We are committed to working closely with the FDA to make telaprevir available as quickly as possible to the millions of people with hepatitis C who need new medicines to increase their chances for a viral cure."
Hepatitis C is currently treated with pegylated interferon alpha and ribavirin, a combination therapy that causes flu-like symptoms, and which many patients consider worse than the disease itself, which can lie dormant for years. Telaprevir, an oral pill taken three times a day, is designed to attack the virus through a different mechanism than the other meds, as a member of the class of protease inhibitors. Vertex's success at boosting viral cure rates and reducing the dependence on a widely loathed standard regimen has invited one serious late-stage competitor—Merck's boceprevir. It has also helped inspire a wide array of other companies to attack the virus in various cocktail regimens with nucleoside inhibitors and non-nucleoside inhibitors, through a strategy that resembles the multi-drug approaches that are now standard therapy for HIV.
There are a lot of details about the safety and effectiveness of this drug in its main clinical trials, which I won't attempt to repeat here. You can follow the links to our past coverage, including a Phase III results preview story in May, followed by the reports on the critical trials known as Advance, Illuminate, and Realize. You can also get a sense of Vertex's vision for commercializing this drug through a profile of Emmens that ran back in January.
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gregory alan hickey says:
I have 1st stages of scirosis of liver will i be able to take telepravir?, for my gi dr. says i cannot take current treatment{ combo drugs} for it would be lifethreatening.
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When Lily was about ten months old I wrote a post going over the different childcare options we'd tried. Since then we've tried several more configurations, and have a second kid, so I thought I'd write an update, continuing where the other left off.
Looking back at what I wrote before, I think we hadn't been doing it very long yet, less than two months? Because I wrote "We're both really liking how much time this lets us have with Lily, and while we were initially worried about not seeing enough of each other this hasn't turned out to be a problem" and that's definitely not how we were feeling later. For most of this period it was really hard for me and Julia to have so little time together. Near the end of this period we moved into our new house, which meant shorter commutes but also me no longer being able to borrow a car to pick Julia up in the evenings. We developed a protocol for getting onto the subway together.
At 15 months Lily was eating enough solid food that we thought chances were good enough for trying daycare again. We found a family daycare, an older woman who would watch Lily in her home along with a couple other kids, that could take Lily starting at the beginning of July. I forget whether we used this extra time to have more overlap between my and Julia's time home, or so Julia could start getting back to full time. This daycare was ok, but over time as the person who ran it started taking in more kids, eventually getting up to six, it seemed like it wasn't a very good place for Lily.
A two days per week slot opened up at another family daycare, one that we were very excited about, and we started Lily there in addition to the other family daycare. This one was pretty great: a bit larger, two staff on at a time, lots of activities, lots of fun with other kids.
Once Anna was born, we took Lily out of daycare and Julia watched both kids from home. I think I took two weeks leave when Anna was first born, and saved the rest for later. Julia took less leave this time than last time because she really wanted to get back to her job at CEA, and because working from home she'd still be able to feed Anna. For Anna's first year, when Julia travelled she'd take Anna with her, lining up temporary care wherever she was travelling to. These trips were generally pretty hard for Julia: travelling with a baby, coordinating with a new short-term childcare provider, plus Anna not sleeping well in the new environments. This included about half of the short-term providers either cancelling right before or midway through the trip.
I took paternity leave and watched both kids from home. This was much busier feeling than when I did it with just Lily, very little down time, minimal blogging, no quantified other. I had a lot of trouble getting Anna to take the bottle, so I mostly timed trips out so that she would be awake for a while, then asleep, and wake up just as we were getting home, so Julia could nurse her again. This limited what sort of things we could do, but there were still a lot of options that fit that timeframe. I had Anna do basically all her naps on me in the carrier, which I liked for the easiness of her just being able to sleep whever we were and the coziness of being right next to her.
We decided to go with an au pair for childcare, but our housing was in flux with dormer construction. While we were waiting for our initial contractor to finish, and before we gave up on him as a fraudster, we hired a friend from contra dancing to watch both kids in our home.
Currently an au pair lives with us and watches the kids during the day. Most weeks they work 8:30-5pm, Monday-Friday, though some weeks we ask them to work different hours. They have their own room, eat with us when they're not out, and don't have any household responsibilities aside from watching the kids during their shift. Julia's written more about the pros and cons of having an au pair. We had an au pair from Australia for three months who ended up going home early because they were homesick, and now have one from Argentina. The transition between them was kind of rough: we needed to line up temporary childcare on short notice, several of the childcare providers didn't work out or could only do part of the time, and to cover the ~4 week gap between the au pairs we ended up working with three different ones.


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2. Add basil, oregano and garlic; stir until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add tomatoes, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Cook for 15 minutes, stirring often and smashing tomatoes against the side of the saucepan with back of a wooden spoon, until sauce has thickened.
3. Serve in bowls over cooked linguine.
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According to historical records, Alexandre Liwentaal flew for the first time in 1894 in England, ten years before the famous Wright brothers. The glider built by the man himself managed to cross the distance of as much as 80 meters in the air.
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Ülemiste City is the largest and quickest developing business campus in the Baltic countries. It is compactly situated on a 36-hectare plot in Tallinn, next to the Lennart Meri Airport.
The favorable location and the development of the business campus based on the concept of a smart city have expanded the surface area of the office premises in Ülemiste City to 100,000 m2 with approximately 300 successful companies with more than 7,000 employees operating on the premises.
Ülemiste City has given the historical industrial area a new lease of life. The former heavy industries have been replaced by modern office spaces, as well as green areas and parks, which bind the offices into a unified whole, creating an inspiring environment for all the companies operating here.
Thanks to the active development of the business campus, convenient transport connections have been established with Peterburi and Tartu roads, as well as downtown.
We ensure a well-functioning parking system with various spacious outdoor parking lots for the lessees and visitors of the business campus. The first 2 hours of parking is free for visitors using a parking clock.
The business campus also has a 6-floor, 280-space parking house. The Alexandre Liwentaal Office Building will be serviced by a new nearby 440-space parking house.
Technopolis Ülemiste AS is the major developer of the Ülemiste City business campus located in the immediate vicinity of the Tallinn Airport. In 2015, Technopolis Ülemiste was named the most competitive real estate company in Estonia.
Technopolis Ülemiste AS is owned by the public limited company Mainor Ülemiste and by a Finnish publicly traded company Technopolis Plc with the shareholdings of 49% and 51%, respectively.
We are part of the Technopolis Group and render first class services, as well as provide flexible and modern office premises in 20 business campuses in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, and Lithuania. We provide services to our lessees in more than 120 modern office buildings employing nearly 49,000 people.
The elaborate work environment ensures around-the-clock smooth operations. Our services increase the efficiency of businesses, keep expenditure under control, and decrease the environmental load.
The services provided to the employees of the business campus help them to smoothly take care of their daily errands. Among other things, our business campus houses Dvigatel – the largest restaurant in Estonia, a kindergarten, a dentist's practice, a private physicians' center, a dry cleaners, sports club with a swimming pool and a grocery store.
Our business campus brings together inspirational people. The pleasant environment and interesting events of the business campus make communication with one another easy. Introduce your services, organize meetings and joint events, and let us create new productive contacts together!