Dozens of tunnels were hidden behind furniture, washing machines; IDF looking for volunteers to help search for kidnapped teens.
The IDF is seeking to expand the number of people searching for three teens kidnapped ten days ago by Hamas terrorists – and is turning to volunteers who are familiar with the Hevron area for help. The army hopes that the volunteers will help in the discovery of clues that could indicate where the teens are.
In the meantime, the army said, the intense searches in the Hevron area have yielded a great deal of information and new discoveries – such as the discovery of a network of tunnels in the Hevron area that the IDF did not know existed.
In an e-mail message sent out to organizations that sponsor hikes and outdoor activities in the Hevron area, officials wrote that “now is the time for action. We need volunteers to help find our missing boys.” The message stresses that those who answer the call are responsible for their own personal safety.
What security officials are looking for are former soldiers and experienced hikers who have spent a lot of time in the southern Hevron Hills area, who will be able to examine areas and indicate whether recent geographical changes have taken place – such as the digging of an underground bunker, where the kidnapped Israeli teens, Eyal Yifrah (19), Naftali Frenkel (16), and Gilad Sha’ar (16), might be held by Hamas kidnappers.
Soldiers have been working from sunup to sundown, and even later, security officials said, as they seek clues to the whereabouts of the teens. Soldiers have been investigating caves, wells, holes, and homes in the search for hints. An IDF spokesperson said that soldiers were combing the area where they suspect the teens are being held “meter by meter. We are literally turning over every stone.”
Among the things soldiers have already found, officials said, is a network of dozens of underground tunnels that were hidden behind furniture, washing machines, and the like. It is not clear what the purpose of the tunnels are, and IDF soldiers are exploring them to see if they lead into the area of the 1948 armistice lines, used for smuggling illegal Palestinians into Israel.
In addition, the army said, soldiers have discovered several bomb-making facilities in private homes, throughout Judea and Samaria, and especially in Hevron.
@ honeybee:
What does it entail?
Why only summer/fall instead of year-round?
dweller Said:
Was iin PT last summer and am due for another round this summer/fall.
@ honeybee:
What say the medics about strengthening the muscles?
dweller Said:
Should stretch more.
dweller Said:
Drink lots milk,yogert
The idea to elevate my legs was very helpful, thanks..
@ honeybee:
So, slower is better? — Or less heavy is better?
— Which are you saying?
@ honeybee:
Yes, for flexibility (and for proprioception too).
But for STRENGTH, you need resistance — free weights & weight machines.
From activity specifically?
Or from lack of it?
Do you get plenty of calcium? — what form?
dweller Said:
Yes
honeybee Said:
Yes plus muscle cramps
honeybee Said:
Never tried that, good idea. I rest in the afternoon, but siestas are a tradition.
dweller Said:
To vigorous, I should never leave the ground. My parent put me in ballet, that was an unintentional mistake especially because I fell in love with ballet and went on to point. Yoga is very good.
@ honeybee:
“Too much” — as in, too frequent?
— or too heavy a load? — WHICH?
When?
By whom?
What were you (erroneously) told?
I understand that. Something destroys the myelin sheath that insulates the body of the neuron. Hence, “poliomyelitis.”
But obviously it affects the muscle with which the nerve connects.
@ honeybee:
When they are fatigued, how do you rest them — & for how long — to get them suitably functioning again?
Do you have to be asleep to obtain the proper rest which those muscles need?
— or can you just put your leg up for a spell?
WHICH impulses are they that the nerves are failing to properly transmit at those times? — is it the proprioceptor impulses specifically?
— What I’m asking here is, when you fall (because the nerves aren’t properly transmitting), is the fall caused by your not feeling where your foot/leg is at that moment (i.e., by your foot/leg not ‘knowing’ where it is at that moment)?
@ honeybee:
What is that kind of pain like?
Are we talking about the aching of serious exhaustion? — viz, major fatigue?
— accompanied by the burning sensation that weightlifters experience when the overworked muscles accumulate a temporary excess of lactic acid?
Or, OTOH, is it more like a sharp, shooting pain?
Or something else, entirely different?
@ yamit82:
Looks like a skunk, had one the other night, first one in long time.
honeybee Said:
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@ yamit82:
Always leave them laughing
@ yamit82:
Monteczuma’s children. Pobre Mexico.
I like to paint the female dancers on 11×14 canvasses. I have a large 30×36 canvass of a Panamian dancer in my bathroom. She is looking very fetchingly over her shoulder. I painted my dental teck’s Julianna’s face.
honeybee Said:
As for body snatchin, no tetes a tetes.
@ honeybee:
Folklore group
muy hermosa, muy bella
Mexico shouldhave won but the coach made bad and early substitutions and Holland was in better physical condition at the end. Mexicans pooped…
@ <a href="#comment-63356000132099" title="Go to comment of this author:yamit82
I am disconsolate Mexico lost it's match with Holland. http://youtu.be/45KAm_pUEFE
yamit82 Said:
CALL ME CORTEZ, Dulcino As for body snatchin, no tetes a tetes.
@ BethesdaDog:
Texas has the fifth largest economy in the world and excellent medical facilities.
honeybee Said:
Call me ‘Montezuma,’ King of the body snatchers.
@ BethesdaDog:
I answered you, but was spammed, don’t know what I said. I think Yamit82 has cursed me.
@ BethesdaDog:
I were custom she inserts that turn every shoe into orthopedic shoes. I had a very mild case that was not detected until I began to my adolescent growth sprit. I was always the last one chosen for athletics, but was a fanatic ballet student. No braces, no iron lung. I was chased by some bigger boys until I discovered I had a mouth and vocabulary to accompany. I was in PT last year and I am due for a round again.
@ BethesdaDog:
In the German commutes of early Texas it was common for siblings from one family to marry siblings from another family. This was a very workable strategy because they shared the same language, cultural and religious backgrounds. They would then homestead next to one another. They could depend on one another in all types of situations that arise in remote areas. The German were vehemently anti-slavery and never hired outside the family. They were much scoffed at and abused by their Scotch-Irish neighbors.
@ honeybee:
Have you tried custom orthopedic shoes? I’m sure you have, but they could probably design a shoe to compensate for the short leg and perhaps a brace as well. They do some pretty effective things these days. I’m not sure if you’re located out in the country, but there are some very good places here in Maryland, there must be a bunch in Texas. Not trying to act like a doctor, but is your pain neuropathic? Maybe one of the drugs used to treat that might help, but they have their own side effects and can cause dizziness (gabapentin, Lyrica). Feel for you that you had to go through that as a kid. For some reason, I only recall one kid who had polio. He lived in the neighborhood, and I remember going into his house once and he was lying on the living room couch. He couldn’t move around. I don’t know what happened to him. I have a vague recollection he walked again and ended up in school but I don’t really remember if it was the same kid. It was so long ago. I remember the iron lungs. So sad.
@ honeybee:
Jews have inbred. I was reading some of the family history for my large Lithuanian extended family. Not that long ago people were marrying first cousins. Often in late 19th and early 20th century Lithuania, and I’m sure earlier, it was not that easy to travel to other communities, even 20-30 km. apart, and the shtetls were small, so the odds are you were paired up with a cousin.
dweller Said:
It is what it is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dweller Said:
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ honeybee:
You DO have sensation in both the foot AND the leg?
Why, then, do you say “the nerves don’t transmit”?
Evidently they do transmit PAIN.
Do they not transmit PRESSURE?
Do they not transmit PROPRIOCEPTION? — viz., a sense of where your foot/leg is in relation to the rest of your body
— and in relation to its surroundings?
If you’re not up for talking about it right now, maybe we should save this discussion for later?
dweller Said:
of course I do foot is smaller too. It s hurting like SOG right now.
@ honeybee:
The SPAMBOT often seems to have a mind of its own.
(If your reply hasn’t posted after a day or so, send Ted an email, identifying the article whose thread it was meant for. He can find it.)
Do you not have any sensation at all in the shorter leg
— or in any part of that leg?
What about the foot of that leg?
@ dweller:
I have answered you twice but kept being spamed.
@ dweller:
Polio is a Nuero-muscular disease. I have had lot of PT with electrical impulses. I am due for a round about now. The muscles fatigue easily and that when I fall. Because the nerves to not transmit impulse well I often stumble which causes falling. People think I am a dipsomania. I tell the nosey one that I injured myself skiing in Vail or Aspen.
dweller Said:
No the muscles deteriorate, to much exercise damages them.
Unfortunately I was given the wrong advice.
dweller Said:
Polio is a nuero disease not muscular. Electrical stimulates when correctly applied help ease the cramping and pain. Today I was at a Western Memorabilia Show and the leg became tiered and I came close to falling. Left for home immediately to rest. Did spend a fist full of dollars though. People think Iam a dipsomaniac. sometimes I tell nosey people that I injured myself skiing in Vail or Aspen.
@ honeybee:
So it’s not enough to just put a 1/2″ lift in the shoe with the shorter leg and work on strengthening the muscles?
What do the medics say about the nerves not transmitting?
Are they dead? dormant? wrongly attached?
— subject to electrical stimulation?
Don’t think so — not from what you’ve said, thus far, anyway. If your falling were truly a balance issue, the locus of the problem wouldn’t be your legs
— but your inner ear.