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Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Filling the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement.” Oxford International Journal of Refugee Law 26.4 (2014). [Full text available online until June 2015.]
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article?
Noura Erakat (NE): I began to write this article as an LLM student in National Security at the Georgetown University Law Center. In the spring of 2012, I was enrolled in a research seminar on refugees, and at that point there had been very little discussion of Palestinian refugees caught in the middle of the Syrian Uprising, now civil war, which began in March 2011. That was largely attributed to the fact that Palestinians had maintained their neutrality in the conflict. Aside from the Syrian regime’s August 2011 attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia, they had been more or less spared from the country’s civil strife. Nevertheless, like other analysts and observers, I believed that Palestinian neutrality in the conflict would be short-lived. And even if they remained neutral, and precisely for remaining neutral, I believed the Syrian rebel forces or the regime would target them for not taking sides. Watching the Syrian Uprising unfold into a civil war, it appeared that the attack on Palestinian refugees would be inevitable. Indeed it was.
As I began the research, I was mostly concerned with how the United Nations refugee agencies, namely the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as well as the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), would handle the refugee influx of Palestinian and Syrian refugees. Without greater familiarity, this may seem like a random question; yet as a student and scholar of refugee law, this was of great concern precisely because the overlapping nature of refugee legal regimes has been a point of contention for many years, especially since legal scholars like Susan Akram, Brenda Goddard, and Michael Kagan have been highlighting something called a protection gap.
In the case of Palestinian refugees, the protection gap refers to a lack of adequate protection made available to all refugees. As I write in the article:
International protection refers to “all activities aimed at obtaining the full respect for the rights of the individuals in accordance with the letter and spirit of the relevant bodies of law (that is, human rights law, international humanitarian law, refugee law).” This consists of legal, diplomatic, human development, and humanitarian support.
UNCHR offers the full spectrum of protection to persons of concern to its Statute. However, UNRWA, which the UN General Assembly (UNGA) established in 1949, two years before the establishment of the UNCHR, only has the mandate to provide relief, education, and other forms of humanitarian support. The UNGA had created the UN Conciliation Commission on Palestine in 1948 to find a political solution to the conflict and thus to provide the legal and diplomatic protection that Palestinian refugees, like all other refugees, needed. The problem is that by 1951, the United States had impeded that process within the UNCCP, and by 1966 the agency became effectively defunct (though it continues to exist in name and to submit annual reports indicating that there is nothing new to report). While the UNGA has, since then, incrementally expanded UNRWA’s mandate to provide more protection for Palestinian refugees, it has arguably been insufficient. The exact scope of its insufficiency is contingent on a state-by-state analysis, but at the very basic level, UNRWA does not have the authority to search for a durable solution—namely integration, resettlement, or repatriation—on behalf of Palestinian refugees, thus indicating an absolute gap in this regard, unlike their refugee counterparts who fall under UNHCR’s mandate.
What does this mean for Palestinian refugees in practice? It amounts to differential and disadvantageous treatment of Palestinian refugees, especially during secondary forced displacement in the Middle East. My article examines the precise scope of that differential treatment, or protection gap, as a result of the Syrian Uprising relative to Syrian refugees who were also fleeing. It also seeks to make policy-based recommendations in order to close that gap during this crisis, as well as in more definitive ways in the future.
J: What particular topics, issues, and literatures does it address?
NE: As a policy article, this work has an explicitly prescriptive tone: UNRWA and UNCHR should collaborate much more closely and consistently to protect Palestinian refugees and close the protection gap that afflicts them most acutely during secondary forced displacement. To make this recommendation, I begin by providing the legal justification for collaboration between the two agencies. This is necessary because the UNHCR Statute includes what is both an inclusion and exclusion clause that suggests that Palestinian refugees fall under UNRWA’s mandate, while all other refugees come within the scope of UNHCR. In particular, Article 7(c) says that the competence of the High Commissioner shall not extend to a person “[w]ho continues to receive from other organs or agencies of the United Nations protection or assistance.”
This has been read to exclude beneficiaries of UNRWA, namely Palestinian refugees, and would indicate a rigid delineation of the agencies’ mandates. However, the preparatory documents, together with custom and the practice of inter-agency collaboration to protect Palestinian refugees during episodes of secondary forced displacement, demonstrate another reality: the agencies are meant to work together in order to provide Palestinian refugees the most robust form of protection possible. This has been the case during the exodus of Palestinian refugees from Kuwait in 1991, from Libya in 1996, and from Iraq in 2003. However, because such collaboration is ad-hoc and de facto in nature, it can be changed by ongoing customary practice. That has been the case during the Syrian Uprising, wherein these de facto policies have been insufficient to close the protection gap afflicting fleeing Palestinian refugees.
While the treatment of Syrian refugees is hardly stellar, the treatment of Palestinian refugees is even worse. I examine that differential scope in the countries to which Syrian and Palestinian refugees have fled, namely Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt, up through late October 2013. Conditions are worse today but the research findings remain apt and telling. In particular, I find that host countries treat Palestinian refugees from UNRWA areas of operation, (i.e., the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon) as stateless persons rather than as refugees, thereby severely truncating the necessary protection for them.
J: How does this article connect to and/or depart from your previous research?
NE: Previously I have been concerned with more theoretical questions about bias in courtroom litigation, the proper scope of self-defense, the meaning of self-defense in warfare, critical race theory, and the formation of customary law. In contrast, this piece is an explicit policy article based on field research I conducted in Jordan and Lebanon during the winter of 2012.
While I had dealt with these issues in practice during my capacity as a Legal Advocacy Coordinator for the Badil Center for Refugee and Residency Rights, this was my first opportunity to take a step back and examine the relationship between the law, the policy challenges, and an ongoing crisis on the ground.
The hardest part was to keep up with an unfolding crisis. Every time I thought I had a complete draft, I found myself faced with new facts and figures and state policies that I had to incorporate, which in part explains why it took nearly three years to see it in print. I ultimately had to arbitrarily stop the research. The other challenge was to make discrete policy recommendations that would be relevant. As a scholar looking in, I was not sure whether I was responding naively to these challenges, which practitioners were grappling with daily.
J: Who do you hope will read this article, and what sort of impact would you like it to have?
NE: I wrote this article primarily for policy makers and practitioners with the ability to influence institutional change within UNHCR and UNRWA. The issues with which I grapple in this piece are not new. In fact, human rights advocates raise them consistently in their interventions, and humanitarian practitioners deal with them daily. Still, the article does two things that I am hoping will impact pertinent stakeholders.
First, it traces interagency cooperation to fill the protection gap afflicting Palestinian refugees during conflicts in the Middle East dating back to the Gulf War in 1991. By re-examining those case studies with a particular focus on interagency cooperation, I demonstrate that UNHCR-UNRWA collaboration in practice overrides rigid delineations in their respective mandates. The article therefore demonstrates the existence of a de facto to provide the most robust protection to Palestinian refugees.
Secondly, I am also taking a very close look at the treatment of Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria into Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey. In doing so, I am demonstrating the precise scope of the protection gap during this conflict. This is critical because there are sensitivities, especially among practitioners, that scholars exaggerate the scope of the protection gap by paying meticulous attention to the text at the expense of field operations. What I attempt to do here is to examine the differential and inferior treatment of Palestinian refugees relative to their Syrian counterparts who are also suffering from inadequate protection.
I think that most practitioners concerned with the welfare of refugees will agree with my conclusions and recommendations. The challenge is to influence states that have the ability to shape the mandates of refugee agencies and who can also help leverage the political will necessary to impact the behavior of other states. I hope that my article will be a resource for those advocates who are working for this kind of policy reform.
J: What other projects are you working on now?
NE: At present I am working on two other projects. One is reading Cheryl Harris’s 1994 article “Whiteness as Property” onto contemporary Israel. I am examining how within Israel, concepts of white superiority are not based on a simple distinction between Jew and non-Jew, but rather are based on a tiered concept derivative of Enlightenment Europe. In response to their exclusion from Europe, Jewish nationalists internalized the Enlightenment’s orientalist and denigrating anti-Semitic discourse and sought to reconstruct a new Jew who could be properly White and European by being less overtly Jewish. This necessitated the rehabilitation of Middle Eastern Jews by violently bifurcating their Middle Eastern and Jewish identities. It also necessitated the removal and erasure of Palestinians who were not eligible for whiteness because they lacked Jewish nationality.
The other project is examining how Israel leveraged the relationship between law and power during its summer 2014 offensive against the Gaza Strip in ways that both expanded its right to dominate and kill as well as to disarm Palestinian militancy through the language of international law. While this could also be explained as the result of pure power, I am examining how it was done in ways that leveraged the law as a tool of legitimation. Specifically, how did Israel transform an occupied territory into a hostile entity against which it could invoke self-defense? How did it expand the category of legitimate targets in armed conflict in ways that collapsed the distinctions between combatant, non-combatant, direct participant in hostilities, and civilians?
J: How has the aftermath of the Syrian Uprising affected the status and circumstances of Palestinian refugees, as well as other refugees in the region, such as those from Iraq and Afghanistan?
NE: Even before the advent of the Syrian Uprising in March 2011, the Middle East had been home to the largest concentration of refugees in the world. That should not be surprising in light of the fact that the largest refugee population, Palestinians, are primarily dispersed throughout the Middle East, together with the fact that incessant warfare, internal conflicts, and interventions have afflicted the region from Iraq to Yemen, Libya, and of course Syria. What I find happens during these conflicts is a contraction of rights available to those most in need because of a scarcity of resources in light of acute demand. Consider also that states are both the aggressors and sources of conflict as well as the providers of relief and resources. It becomes incredibly difficult to protest and shame the state that you are also asking to reform its practices in the face of humanitarian crises. The victims are the most vulnerable populations, like refugees.
Regarding Palestinian refugees in particular, what became apparent is that Middle Eastern states do not treat them like humanitarian subjects, whose status is circumstantial and therefore in need of temporary relief. Instead, Middle Eastern states treat them like stateless persons and, therefore, as political objects in an ongoing conflict. That is why, for example, Jordan and Egypt have refused Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria, in violation of the customary prohibition on non-refoulement. In the piece, I describe the Jordanian Government’s politicized treatment of Palestinian refugees:
The General Secretary at the Jordanian Ministry of the Interior attributed [the] disparate treatment [between Syrian and Palestinian refugees] to their respective conditions. He explains that, unlike their Syrian counterparts, Palestinian refugees were not facing violence in Syria. Moreover, the General Secretary added, the fact that the state had not deported its Palestinian refugees all together is a “humanitarian gesture.” Jordan’s Minister of the Interior adds that Jordan will not consider Palestinians fleeing Syria as refugees because “…those Palestinians were forced to come to [Jordan] and they are refugees in another country…[Jordan] will only treat them as guests.”
This is a very troubling trend, especially in light of escalating and ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
Excerpt from “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Filling the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement”
The treatment of Palestinian refugees fleeing Syria demonstrates a regression from the de facto policy of collaboration established by UNHCR and UNRWA during their secondary forced displacement in the Middle East. Jordan and Egypt have refused to recognize the refugee status of Palestinians fleeing Syria. Both governments assert that Palestinians are only refugees in Syria indicating a static understanding of their refugee status in UNRWA’s areas of operation. To the extent that Palestinian refugees have been permitted entry, Jordan and Egypt have done so as a humanitarian gesture rather than in conformity with a legal obligation. Since August 2013, even Lebanon has barred some Palestinian refugees entry into the country. As a result, Palestinians have faced detention, exclusion, and refoulement from Jordan and other countries in the Middle East. While UNHCR stepped in to resettle several thousand Palestinians fleeing Iraq in the aftermath of war and stranded at the Jordanian border, the agency has been unable to meaningfully intervene on behalf of Palestinian refugees in this instance.
In Egypt, they lack any form of international protection in contravention of both the UNHCR Statute as well as the 1951 Refugee Convention. While UNCHR and UNRWA collaborated to assist the Palestinian refugees stranded at the Egyptian-Libyan border in 1996, in this instance, UNHCR observes Egypt’s directive not to register Palestinians, and UNRWA is not present at all. UNRWA’s absence stands in stark contrast to its intervention in Kuwait in 1991 when it transcended its strict geographical mandate to assist forcibly displaced Palestinians.
Palestinian refugees fleeing to Lebanon also endure a protection gap, as indicated by the distinct, and inferior, entry and residence policies applicable to them. Nevertheless, they fare better in Lebanon, where many are still permitted entry and where they benefit from more inter-agency collaboration. In Lebanon, Palestinian refugees are included in the UN’s regional response plan, which coordinates humanitarian assistance to refugees fleeing Syria. Moreover, when UNRWA lacked the capacity to do so itself, UNHCR tried to monitor the flow of Palestinian refugees at the Lebanese border on its behalf. Once admitted entry, however, the refugees are housed separately and are under the strict divide of UNHCR and UNRWA mandates, including their care and assistance programs. Moreover, in their earliest cluster meetings, UNHCR did not discuss the status of Syrian and Palestinian refugees as a single humanitarian category. Instead, it offered UNRWA a seat at the table to represent the Palestinian refugees. This is in contrast to the treatment of Palestinian refugees who fled Iraq into Syria, also an UNRWA area of operation, where the two agencies collaborated to aid the fleeing population. The only difference seems to be that Palestinians who fled Iraq were not registered with UNRWA as are those Palestinians fleeing Syria today. This reflects a geographic, rather than a needs-based, distinction.
Turkey may be the only site where inter-agency de facto policies have been advanced. There, many Palestinians and most Syrians are permitted entry, fall under UNHCR’s mandate, and benefit from Turkey’s temporary protection regime without distinction. Unlike Lebanon and Jordan, Turkey is not one of UNRWA’s areas of operation, which may explain why all refugees fall under UNHCR’s mandate. However, Egypt is like Turkey in that it is not an UNRWA area of operation, but it fails to implement such a positive policy. Notably, as the refugee flow from Syria increases, Turkey’s policy has become less favorable to Syrians and Palestinians alike.
There is too little information on inter-agency collaboration within Syria to draw any conclusions about the comparative treatment of IDPs. While UNRWA is still able to operate with some staff, it is difficult to know the extent to which other UN agencies are providing assistance and protection for Palestinian refugees who have now been internally displaced.
Whereas ad hoc inter-agency collaboration sufficed to protect Palestinian refugees enduring secondary forced displacement from Kuwait, Libya, and Iraq, it has been inadequate in the case of the Syrian war. On its face, the major difference between this event and those that preceded it is the magnitude of the crisis as well as the status of Palestinian refugees as registrants, or not, of UNRWA. In Kuwait and Libya, only Palestinians endured forced displacement. The reduced scope of humanitarian need in those instances presumably made resources within UNHCR and UNRWA more available, thereby heightening the potential for inter-agency collaboration. However, even in Iraq, where Iraqis and Palestinians fled in mass numbers and where the scope of the refugee crisis heavily burdened neighboring countries and international donors, inter-agency collaboration was greater, and the protection gap afflicting Palestinian refugees was much smaller than it is in the case of the Syrian war. As mentioned, the key distinction in these two cases is the status of Palestinian refugees; in Syria they are registered with UNRWA, in Iraq they are not.
Although Palestinians fled from Iraq into UNRWA’s areas of operation, they remained under UNHCR’s mandate and were assisted by UNRWA. In contrast, Palestinians fleeing Syria into UNRWA’s areas of operation and beyond, during the course of the Syrian civil war, have remained strictly within UNRWA’s mandate, with the exception of Turkey. This approach has proven detrimental to Palestinian refugees who have fled to Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon. Whereas, Middle Eastern states and UN agencies have treated Palestinians not registered with UNRWA like humanitarian refugees, they have treated Palestinian refugees registered with UNRWA like stateless persons. There is incongruence between UNRWA status, which is geographically bound and restrictive, and the vulnerability faced by Palestinian refugees in a quickly changing Middle East. Presumably, UNHCR would have assisted Palestinian refugees from Syria had they lacked their UNRWA status. Such an outcome does not conform to the intent and spirit of the UNCHR Statute and the Refugee Convention, which justifies inter-agency collaboration. Moreover, historical practice illustrates the feasibility and efficacy of such collaboration.
[Excerpted from Noura Erakat, “Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Filling the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement,” Oxford International Journal of Refugee Law 26.4 (2014), by permission of the author. © Noura Erakat 2015. For more information, or to read the full text of this article (which will be available without charge until June 2015), click here.]

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ISU researchers have had promising results using the biopharmaceutical corn to treat bacterial diarrhea in pigs.
Now they are shifting their focus. They are developing a male sterile corn that carries the transgene. Because male sterile corn plants do not produce pollen, the new biopharmaceutical variety could be grown in corn-producing states without risk of pollinating traditional corn varieties.
"Pollen movement is the issue," said Kendall Lamkey, interim chair of agronomy and Pioneer Distinguished Chair in Maize Breeding. "And that's the most controllable part of the corn production system."
Lamkey, who also directs the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, leads the breeding portion of the research. Kan Wang, the principal researcher, who successfully transformed the corn, is professor of agronomy and director of the Center for Plant Transformation. Both centers are part of Iowa State's Plant Sciences Institute, which initiated the research. The ongoing project is supported by the institute and the College of Agriculture.
Lamkey and Wang say it will take about five growing seasons to make all the breeding crosses needed. The first season took place last winter in the Plant Sciences Institute's Roy J. Carver Co-Laboratory biosafe greenhouse. The biopharmaceutical corn was crossed with the non-transgenic, male-fertile corn line to produce a transgenic F1 hybrid.
Seeds from that cross are being used this summer in a field trial on remote land owned by Iowa State.
The breeding process in the field trial will not shed transgenic pollen. The transgenic crop will be detasseled. It will be surrounded by rows of non-transgenic corn, which will pollinate the detasseled transgenic plants.
Iowa State received permit approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and from the state for the research.
The research plot is located on less than one-half acre of university land in Marshall county. It is about a half mile away from and was planted 28 days later than the nearest commercial corn. A fence will keep out wildlife. The research exceeds APHIS requirements for field trials of regulated plants.
The seed harvested in the fall will be used in the winter again in the high containment greenhouse. Another field trial is expected to take place next summer.
The 2006 field trial is the latest in a series of transgenic corn experiments led by Iowa State researchers. All have received federal and state approval. The trials have taken place three times in Iowa and once in Colorado.
The research is part of Iowa State's work to evaluate the safe use of plants for the production of proteins for pharmaceuticals and industrial products.
Wang engineered the corn to produce LT-B, a protein subunit produced by some strains of E. coli. Research has shown the ability of the protein to stimulate protective immune antibodies. Other Iowa State scientists have been evaluating grain from previous years' studies to understand how the corn-based pharmaceutical can help protect livestock from bacterial infections.
The system being developed in corn will work with other proteins. Corn is the preferred plant for producing proteins for non-food products.
"It's so easy to manipulate from a breeding perspective, and the pollen can be controlled," Lamkey said. "You can't control the pollen easily in self-pollinating crops like soybeans."
"And from a molecular biology and biochemistry point of view, we know so much about corn," Wang said. "Corn seed is such a good reservoir for foreign protein. And the grain, from a pharmacological standpoint, is the grain best tolerated by humans and animals both. Almost nobody is allergic to corn protein."
Lamkey said Iowa State is uniquely qualified to pursue this research because of access to germplasm and "not many places have the genetic transformation capabilities that Iowa State has."
Lamkey and Wang are considering breeding the transgene into a higher yielding, better seed producing, transformable corn inbred line.
"The line that has been used for this corn is really hard to work with in terms of pollination and seed production. It was bred for the purpose of transformation not the field," Lamkey said.
"The best part of this project is that finally conventional breeders like me are now working with molecular biologists like Dr. Wang," Lamkey said. "We're trying to get something that's mutually beneficial. This hasn't happened enough in the public sector."
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From the list on childhood in Civil War Era America.
Who are we?
We are two historians who have been writing together for about a decade now, first on project related to race relations after WWI, then on a book about debates over the enlistment age in nineteenth century America. Rebecca teaches at UCSD while Frances works at the University of Sydney in Australia, but we regularly meet online to write together and talk about our favorite new books.
Frances' book list on childhood in Civil War Era America
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Who gets to claim “childhood innocence” and the protections that come with this designation? Certainly not Black children in nineteenth-century America, according to Robin Bernstein. They were instead pictured as “pickaninnies”—comic figures who felt no pain, whatever mischief befell them. This book won a slew of awards for good reason: reading the racial ‘scripts’ in seemingly innocuous cultural products like children’s picture books, dolls, and knickknacks, Bernstein reveals how race-making hides in plain sight.

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The mother of a 14-year-old boy who killed himself at Dennis Intermediate School in Indiana is facing charges for allowing her son to have easy access to her firearms.
On December 13, Mary York's son took her boyfriend hostage and was planning to go to his school with plans to kill the students who bullied him. York called the police, who were able to lock down the school before the young boy arrived. He was armed with a rifle, a pistol, and Molotov cocktails.
Police cornered the boy in a stairwell and he took his own life. Nobody else was injured in the incident.
Authorities say that York was responsible for her son's actions, and she is facing seven charges, including six felonies. They accused York of ignoring the warning signs that her son was showing. Despite having suicidal and homicidal thoughts, York pulled her son from an inpatient mental health program and allowed him to stop taking the medication he was prescribed.
In addition, she failed to properly secure her guns, even after her son opened fire in their house.
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Government failure to solve the crisis of state-funded treatment is tantamount to abandoning healthcare for the poor. EIPR: Current events are an opportunity to discuss the flaws, not abolish the service, and financial ceilings will not solve the problem
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) cautioned the government that mishandling the crisis in the state-funded treatment program will lead to its abandoning its responsibility to provide medical treatment for the poor. The EIPR added that the renewed interest in the issue, particularly after investigations by the Public Monies Intelligence and the Central Accounting Agency into allegations of squandering public funds, offers a golden opportunity to discuss and rectify the flaws in the system to permit the state to fulfill its obligation to provide health care to the poorest and neediest.
The EIPR also asked that the Ministry of Health and the chair of the Specialized Medical Councils – which administers the system - reconsider its governing criteria and institute a tight oversight regime that does not obstruct citizens’ access to the service. The EIPR called on the Ministry of Finance to supply the funds necessary to sustain the system of state-funded medical treatment, develop it, improve capacities and provide service to those most needing medical care. The EIPR pointed out that public health expenditure in Egypt is still less than in other countries with similar growth levels and income; it is also less than the spending percentage recommended by the World Health Organization, a reflection of how low health is on the government agenda.
“Resources for the state-funded treatment system are supposed to be directed to the poorest citizens, those without health insurance coverage and most in need of care for expensive, catastrophic illnesses,” said Dr. Alaa Ghannam, the director of EIPR’s Right to Health Program. “But mismanagement of the state-funded treatment program, neglect and the politicization of resource allocation have created the existing crisis. As such, the system should not be abolished, but rather must be reformed to operate in accordance with specific criteria.”
The current debate was sparked when several hospitals began demanding their past due payments from the Ministry of Health, which administers the state-funded treatment system, and it was reported that the ministry had accumulated a debt of over LE1 billion, which some sources attribute to a misuse of resources allocated to the program. The Ministry of Health also revealed in early January 2010 that it had information indicating that a handful of MPs acting on behalf of their constituents had received a majority of the approvals for state-funded treatment, thus highlighting the need for a strict, transparent, qualified and fair administration of the system.
While welcoming the start of the investigations into allegations of spending waste and fraud in the state-funded treatment system by the Public Monies Intelligence unit, as well as the investigative efforts of the Central Accounting Agency, the EIPR nonetheless also demands that any crimes exposed be referred to the Public Funds Prosecutor.
For its part, the Ministry of Health has taken the initiative to establish new conditions governing the way MPs can draw on state-funded treatment funds for their constituents, including a ceiling on the amount of funds that individual members of parliament can claim under the state-funded treatment program.
“Setting limits on MPs will not solve the problem; indeed, it will continue to fester if it is not treated at the root,” said Soha Abdelaty, the deputy director of the EIPR. “The long-awaited solution is the establishment of clear, specific criteria elaborating who may benefit from the system and what treatment interventions are covered by the system. When concluding a contract with university and private hospitals, the Ministry of Health should maintain an up-to-date list of the cost of various medical services offered by these facilities to avoid fraud and manipulation.”

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Monadnock Conservancy plans to add to California Brook Natural Area in Keene
Anne McBride, Monadnock Conservancy land protection director, said the idea of creating the corridor of open land came out of a 1998 workshop. Since then, easements have created the corridor piece by piece, but this new swath of protected land would fill in a gap between Pisgah State Park and Keene, she said.
A couple owns the three parcels that make up 688 acres that sit in Keene, Chesterfield and Swanzey. Most of the land, 552 acres, sits in Keene and Swanzey.
About 97 percent of the land is ranked Tier I in terms of high ranking habitat, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game.“This corridor is within the largest unfragmented forest block in the southern part of the state,” McBride said.
Monadnock Conservancy is currently in the process of seeking funds from Chesterfield, Keene and Swanzey to help fund the project, McBride said.
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Advent: Misfit of Seasons
Have you noticed that Advent is a season that doesn’t quite fit? Nothing about it fits. It doesn’t play nice with the festivities going on around it. Most of us spend the weeks leading up to Christmas, well, celebrating Christmas—it’s “the holidays,” after all.
Even in the church, Advent doesn’t sit well. The readings don’t fit. The prophecies concerning Jesus don’t quite fit the reality of Jesus—neither the Jesus we meet in the New Testament, nor the Jesus most of us have met in our hearts.
Take our reading today from Micah. Jesus never actually becomes a ruler of Israel. The scattered tribes of Israel are never reunited, nor do they live securely in the land that was once promised to them. And while Jesus does attain some notoriety and fame during his short life, he doesn’t quite live up to the expectations set for him by Micah or by any of the prophets who were writing—supposedly about him.
Now let me make myself clear. I actually do believe that Jesus was and is the Messiah. And I think that the prophets had a lot to say about Jesus. But over the past 2,000 years a cottage industry of sorts has sprung up among Christian preachers and writers trying to make all of these prophecies fit together neatly. For instance, one venerable way of observing Advent is to focus our attention on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. That makes Advent about Judgment Day. But again—and you’re free to tell me otherwise—it doesn’t seem to me that getting excited for Judgment Day fits too well in this time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This way of keeping Advent is less about waiting for him to be born again in our hearts and more about waiting for Jesus to come back to earth and to finish what he started.
One of my favorite hymns—both for its music and its theology—is “Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending.” Listen as I recite the last stanza from the hymn:
“Yea, amen! Let all adore thee, /
High on thine eternal throne; /
Savior, take the power and glory; /
Claim the kingdom for thine own: /
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! /
Thou shalt reign, and thou alone.”
As much as we love it when Jesus is resurrected on Easter Day, we’re just not content to let the story end then and there. These prophecies—they still have too much vigor and force in them, don’t they? They still have too much forward momentum. They demand that we do something with them. They demand to be fulfilled.
So Advent gives us a chance to trot them back out and revel in their promise of deliverance from evil, violence and oppression. At the same time, however, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is depicted as an unprecedented day of violence and destruction. So when the Prince of Peace returns to—yes—rule the earth, a lot people are going to have to die first. There’s going to be a lot of wreckage and carnage.
It’s going to be so bad that scripture tells us that the righteous will be taken up into the air to meet the Lord as he descends on a cloud—hence the title of the hymn. Elsewhere in Matthew’s gospel, we are told that God will cut short this time of tribulation so that the rest of us have a chance to survive it and finally meet Jesus face to face. By that point, I am not sure that I would need or even want to.
I don’t think I can stand to hear any more stories of children being murdered, or any more stories of buildings being blown up. I especially don’t want to hear that this violence is the harbinger of my Savior’s Second Coming foretold in scripture long ago. Advent truly is the misfit season of the Church Year.
But somehow—and maybe you’ll just have to trust me when I tell you this—the prophecies we read during Advent were meant to sound comforting. They were meant to comfort an exiled and scattered people. Don’t think of ancient Israel so much as a country—the way you might think of England or the United States. Instead, think of it more as a large, extended family.
And then think of the prophets. Think of them as trying to comfort and reconcile this family with the hope of better things to come. Specifically, the prophets announced to the tribes of Israel that they were going to be gathered together and that they were about to be given their land back. The same land that Abraham had been promised; the same land that Moses had led them to; and the same land that Joshua had conquered for them.
For the tribes of Israel in exile and for the Jews living under Roman rule, the coming of the Messiah meant that their advent—their long period of waiting—was coming to an end. But it didn’t happen that way. Jesus disappointed a lot of his followers and was eventually killed by the Romans. So their advent wasn’t over, after all.
I suspect Advent will linger in Newtown, Connecticut this year. For many of the victims’ families, “Advent” —that curious season of longing, and waiting and hoping for something better . . . That curious season that doesn’t play nice with the other parts of life . . . That season . . . that season may be the only season they’ll know for a long time. Possibly for the rest of their lives.
On Christmas Eve, many of us, including me, will have a very hard time believing that the light is shining in the darkness. On Christmas morning, many of us, including me, will have a very hard time believing that the darkness is not winning. Maybe, in fact, if we’re honest, we’ll admit to ourselves that the darkness seems to have already won. Yes. Once again the darkness has won.
The darkness won again in Newtown, just as it did in Oregon before; just as it did in Aurora, just as it did in Wisconsin, and just as it did in . . . and . . . well, I don’t have to recite the whole, long, sad list for you. Perhaps the darkness is winning even now as I am preaching—for, unlike a prophet from the Old Testament—I can’t stand here and tell you with that kind of confidence that tomorrow evening, sometime around midnight, a Savior is going to be born—a Savior who will put everything right; someone who will put things back to the way they were meant to be.
I wouldn’t dare preach that with a straight face given recent events. Those words are not mine to speak. I am not a prophet. I am not a messiah. Neither was Elizabeth. She was not a prophet. Neither was Mary. She was not a messiah. But Elizabeth was the mother of the prophet John; and Mary was the mother of Jesus the Messiah.
Since the Gospel reading for today only gives us Elizabeth’s words, perhaps we should let her words be our words in these, the waning hours of this difficult and unworkable season. In a loud voice Elizabeth exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leapt for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”
Today, I am going to claim Elizabeth’s blessing. Today, I am going to believe with Mary. Today, I am declaring to you that I believe that somehow the Lord will keep his promises. Today, I am going to humble myself and acknowledge that God is God and that I am not.
And tomorrow, when we gather once more to welcome the Christ Child back into the world, I am going to pray that something inside of us might leap for joy—and that together, in our joy, we will stand up to—and defeat—the darkness.

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Tungsten is a rare metal element with a high melting point up to 3422 °C and have a high density similar to gold. Moreover, making jewelry is desirable as it doesn’t get rusted or oxidized easily in its natural form.
There are various tungsten elements like tungsten ball, tungsten carbide ball, and many others, but then to find pure tungsten is rare. Pure tungsten is rare to find as it is usually mixed with various substances like carbon, cobalt, nickel, and titanium to form a particular object.
One of the everyday uses of tungsten is in the form of a tungsten ball. Tungsten balls are also known as carbide balls, designed and made from cemented carbide. They have multiple advantages and uses because of their dynamic properties and specifications such as high hardness, bending resistance, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and suitable for a harsh environment.
Moreover, their dimensional stability and High hardness make tungsten balls the best choice for inertial navigation systems, ball screws, precision hydraulic valves, slideways, gauging, high-load bearings, linear bearings, checking instruments, and meters. Further, it has multiple uses, like ballizing, to work-harden and improves fretting fatigue strength.
Characteristics of Tungsten balls
Tungsten carbide balls are ideal and perfect for applications in which high and extreme hardness is required by high resistance to wear and impact. Moreover, they can bear extreme conditions, making them ideal for elevated temperatures, humidity, corrosion, abrasion, and poor lubrication conditions.
Composition of tungsten carbide balls
The Tungsten Carbide balls are mainly composed of several elements, including:
- A carbide (WC, TiC) micron powder is of high hardness refractory metal. It also comprises cobalt (Co) or nickel (Ni), molybdenum (Mo) as a binder in a vacuum furnace.
- The powder metallurgy products sintered in the hydrogen reduction furnace are common hard alloys YG, YN, YT, and YW.
Useful Characteristics of Tungsten
Tungsten is a refractory metal that contains niobium, molybdenum, rhenium, and tantalum. Also, all the constituents present in tungsten have high melting points. The melting end of tungsten ranges up to 6192°F (3422°C). Additionally, this high melting point enhances the importance and characteristics of tungsten, including:
- Resistance to oxidation and creep
- The lowest vapor pressure of all metals
- Extreme hardness
- High electrical resistance
- High tensile strength
Properties and features of tungsten
Tungsten is preferred in various industries and has unique properties and features because of its unique combination and characteristics. For example, tensile strength at upwards of 3000°F (1650°C) shows that tungsten is preferred for high-temperature application elements. Its high melting point and unique characteristic at high temperatures can maintain low vapor pressure.
Mechanical Properties of tungsten
- It has an ultimate tensile strength of 220,000 psi.
- It has an ultimate compressive strength of 643,000 psi.
- The transverse rupture strength of tungsten is 228,000 psi.
- Tungsten has a modulus of elasticity of 98,000,000
- The density of tungsten is (approx.) 0.54 lb./in.
- The specific gravity of tungsten is 14.85-15.5
- It has the capacity of electrical conductivity slightly and magnetically.
- It has a low thermal expansion rate.
- It has a higher hardness.
- It has a Rockwell of A 90.5-91.5
Moreover, well standard tungsten carbide balls are the best and verified by experts using a gauge, which gives an accurate grade to ±0.0001 (grades 10, 15, and 25). It helps the users maintain the ABMA standards quality requirements.
Features of tungsten carbide balls
There are various features of tungsten carbide balls that make them unique and appropriate for multiple applications, such as:
- It has high hardness.
- It has excellent wear resistance.
- It has good corrosion resistance.
- It has high bending resistance.
- It is best for a harsh service environment.
- It is the best alternative of all steel ball products—hard alloy ball hardness ≥90.5, density = 14.9g / m³.
- The large size tungsten ball makes them more suitable for grinding.
These features of tungsten ball have specific pros and cons, such
- Pros: Most dense, ideal for extremely tough samples
- Cons: Reacts with phenol and other acids and expensive.
Applications of tungsten balls
Tungsten carbide balls have a wide range of applications depending upon the requirement and purposes, such as
- It is applicable for precision bearings instruments.
- It is beneficial for tools.
- It is suitable for pen making.
- It is helpful if you used them in spraying machines.
- It is useful at water pumps.
- It is the appropriate element for the mechanical accessory.
- It is applicable for sealed valves.
- It is helpful to break pumps.
- It helps in punching holes.
- It is beneficial and valuable in oil fields.
- It is useful at hydrochloric acid laboratories.
- One of the main applications is as hardness testers.
- It is helpful in high-end industries for fishing gear, counterweights, decoration, finishing, etc.
The large size of tungsten balls has a broad scope in industries like bearing balls, but the small size is also beneficial for making a high-quality ball pen tip ball. One of the significant factors for Tungsten Carbide Bearing Balls is friction coefficient and accuracy.
Uses of a tungsten carbide ball
These balls have several uses because of their unique properties, characteristic, and combination as listed below:
- They necessary in YG6 hard alloy balls, YG6x hard alloy balls, YG8 hard alloy balls, YG13 hard alloy balls, YG20 hard alloy balls and YN6 hard alloy balls.
- The tungsten play an essential part in the YN12 cemented carbide ball composition, YT5 cemented carbide ball, and YT15 cemented carbide ball.
- As it has excellent hardness, strength, and durability, so it is very demanding in environmental applications.
- They’re often used as high-load bearings, linear bearings, slideways, and checking instruments.
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Happy Thursday my stamping peeps! The color challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary this week inspired me to bring a softer side to the holiday season. I love the Candy Cane Christmas stamp set and thought it would be fun to highlight a couple of the stamps in it.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Crime, healthcare, education, the economy, COVID-19, immigration, Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate change, and childcare are all ongoing topics of conversation and issues that the United States continues to face.
A new WHTM/Emerson College Polling/The Hill poll shows that 38.2% of Pennsylvania voters think the economy (jobs, inflation, taxes) is the most important issue facing the United States.
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TheHill reported this week that the economy faces mounting threats from the war in Ukraine and a COVID-19 surge in China, which could impact inflation even more.
The high gas prices both nationally and at the state level are also a concern for Americans.
The poll was conducted from March 26-28, 2022, interviewing 1,069 Pennsylvanians with a margin of error (MOE) of +/- 3 percentage points.
Among Democratic voters, 28.3% said the economy is the number one issue, but healthcare was only 4% behind (24.6%). However, Republican voters had a much larger gap between those who felt the economy is the number one (49%) and the next most important one, immigration, which had 15% of the votes.
Receiving the least number of voters was COVID-19 for Republicans (2.9%) and immigration for Democrats (2%).
Republican state lawmakers have been vocal the past two years about their dislike for the COVID-19 regulations and mandates and have criticized how Governor Tom Wolf and the Department of Health have handled the last two years.
Nationally, the Republican-controlled Senate just recently voted 57-40 to nix a requirement to wear masks on transportation as the country rolls back coronavirus rules and restrictions.
Other issues low on the list of issues for both parties include education, Russia’s war in Ukraine, and crime.
Among Hispanic or Latino voters, White voters, and African American voters, the economy is the number one issue. However, 41.9% of Asian voters said healthcare is the number one issue.
Male and female voters saw similar percentages across the board of issues. The top issue for both genders was the economy with 36.1% of male voters and 40.3% of female voters. The least number of female voters chose COVID-19 as the top issue and the least number of males chose crime as the number one issue.
While the economy is the number one issue for the 30-49, 50-64, and 65 and older age groups, healthcare takes the top spot for 18 to 29-year-olds (33.6%) with the economy as a close second (28.1%).
For all three of the older age groups, healthcare is second, but with a larger gap between the two. Less than 10% of each age group believed the war in Ukraine or education is a top issue.
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The highest percentage of those who voted for President Biden in the 2020 general election believe that healthcare is the top issue (27.9%) with the economy as a close second (23.3%).
Those who voted for former President Donald Trump, however, had 52.7% say the economy is the top issue and immigration is the second highest with only 8.9%.
While COVID-19 came in last for Republicans in the political party breakdown, education saw the least number of Trump voters. Biden voters, however, had a similar outcome to the party breakdown with immigration receiving the least number of votes.
A percentage of voters chose “something else” as their most important in each breakdown. When asked to name the issue, the voters listed: big government corruption, election fraud, theft freedoms, childcare, climate change, the environment, foreign influence on politicians, lying, the Biden administration, voting rights, and white supremacy groups.
The WHTM/Emerson College Polling/The Hill Pennsylvania poll was conducted from March 26-28, 2022. The general election sample consisted of registered voters in Pennsylvania, n=1,069 with a Credibility Interval (CI) similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/- 3 percentage points. The Republican primary sample consisted of likely voters, n=372, with a Credibility Interval (CI) similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/-5.0 percentage points. The Democratic primary sample consisted of likely voters, n=471, with a Credibility Interval (CI) similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/-4.5 percentage points.
The data sets were weighted by gender, age, education, race, and region based on 2020 turnout modeling. It is important to remember that subsets based on gender, age, party breakdown, ethnicity, and region carry with them higher margins of error, as the sample size is reduced.
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Centrifuge Technologies remove the non-dissolved particles from the waste stream typically resulting in a lower solid liquid that will not plug equipment or irrigation quality “tea water” depending on whether the technology is used with or without polymer:
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- There is significant variation of energy use depending on the site and by technology
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For 3pm PST Wednesday May 9, 2018
DOW + 182 on 675 net advances
NASDAQ COMP + 73 on 691 net advances
SHORT TERM TREND Bullish
INTERMEDIATE TERM Bullish
STOCKS: There seemed to be several factors at work on Wednesday. First, the political reaction to the decision on Iran seemed to be pretty mild on Tuesday. This probably encouraged investors.
Second, the inflation data was pretty benign. This suggested that the Fed may not be so anxious to raise rates.
Third, CNBC pointed out that there was a technical breakout for the S&P 500. We show this in the chart below.
GOLD: Gold was lower by $1. Very minor range at present.
CHART: The S&P 500 broke out of a declining trendline connecting a series of peaks going back to late January. This may have encouraged buying by traders who monitor this type of thing. Yes, we are overbought and that is something to be aware of.
BOTTOM LINE: (Trading)
Our intermediate term system is on a buy.
System 7 We are in cash. Stay there on Thursday.
System 9 We are neutral.
NEWS AND FUNDAMENTALS: The PPI-FD rose 0.1%, less than the expected 0.3%. Oil inventories dropped 2.2 million barrels. Last week they rose 6.2 million. On Thursday we get the CPI and jobless claims.
INTERESTING STUFF : There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -----Aristotle
TORONTO EXCHANGE: Toronto gained 68.
BONDS: Bonds were lower.
THE REST: The dollar had a mild drop. Crude oil surged to a new rally high.
Bonds --Bullish as of April 26.
U.S. dollar - Bullish as of April 23.
Euro --- Bearish as of April 23.
Gold ----Bearish as of March 27.
Silver---- Bearish as of March 27.
Crude oil ----Bullish as of May 4.
Toronto Stock Exchange----Bullish as of Feb. 12.
We are on a long term buy signal for the markets of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany and France.

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DAYTONA BEACH -- A free hurricane mitigation workshop will be held by the Volusia Building Industry Association on Thursday.
The community service workshop on how to protect homes from winds is open to the public, but with limited seating. Reservations need to be made before Tuesday by emailing email@example.com or by calling 386-226-1414.
The workshop will take place from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Volusia Building Industry Association offices at 3520 W. International Speedway Blvd., just west of Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach.
Workshop topics include gable-end bracing; securing soffits; proper roof coverings; the use of hurricane clips and straps; securing doors, garage doors and windows, storm preparation and installing temporary emergency shutters.


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Sarah Baudet creates wonderful pieces of art from Copper.
Find the full range of Sarah Baudet's creations at Creative Cottage, St. Peter or complete the form below to enquire about a particular piece.
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On Thursday night, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Denver Broncos in the worst game of the NFL season to yet.
In primetime, neither team scored a touchdown, sending the game into overtime knotted at 9-9. The Colts eventually won the battle of attrition with a fourth field goal in overtime.
Offensively, neither club was able to create a rhythm, and both of the high-priced quarterbacks acquired in the offseason sucked.
Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit, commentators for Amazon Prime, spent much of the night openly ridiculing the quality of play on the field.
When regular finished in a 9-9 tie, many Broncos fans decided it was time to head home because the game was so painful to watch.
—Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate)
7 October 2022
In overtime, the Colts kicked a field goal while the Broncos failed on a fourth-down effort to end the seemingly endless football game.
After the game, two sports anchors from a local Denver station that carried the program apologized publicly for what they had just broadcast.
Nick Rothschild, a sports anchor, stated, “Troy, I feel obligated to apologize to our viewers.” “I understand we didn’t play, and we didn’t even run this broadcast, but why did you have to see that? On our air? I feel awful.”
“I was present, but I had no desire to observe it. Where to start?”
Troy Renck, a Broncos insider, replied, “Well, that burns the retinas.” “It was that terrible. Both teams were offensively inept.”
—Poor Announcement (@PoorAnnouncement)
7 October 2022
The Broncos’ record is presently 2-3, with two of their defeats occurring in fairly alarming circumstances.
This season, the club has already played in primetime three times. In a perfect world, this would imply that national television audiences would not be forced to watch them in a night game any time soon.
You desire! Next week, the Broncos will travel to Los Angeles to face the Chargers on Monday Night Football.
At least for that game, Denver will not need to worry about its own fans leaving the stadium early.


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Mabe's Pizza Event and Luther Sketches Theatre Performance
|Date:||Saturday, April 9, 2011|
|Location:||Zumbro Lutheran Church, Rochester, Minn.|
Please join us for Mabe's pizza from Decorah and the opportunity to see Luther Sketches, a student production celebrating Luther's sesquicentennial.
Contact: Kirk Johnson, 563-387-1659


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May 23, 2013
News & Features
A lawsuit raises questions about the marketing of robotic surgical equipment.
A new study suggests that preserving ovaries during hysterectomies may not reduce the risk for osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and mortality.
Women whose ovaries are removed before menopause may be at increased risk for dementia, a new study reports. Researchers studied 1,489 women who had one or both ovaries removed, comparing them with a control group of 1,472 with intact ovaries. The team followed the women for 25 to 30 years, interviewing them or a caregiver to determine mental status.
Two important studies being published today challenge conventional thoughts about treating and avoiding breast cancer. One suggests that doctors may eventually be able to identify women who do not need chemotherapy. The others says that women who have had hysterectomies can take estrogen to relieve symptoms of menopause without increasing their risk of breast cancer.
A new report suggests that for women who have had hysterectomies, taking estrogen does not increase the risk of heart disease and may even protect the heart in those who are younger, from 50 to 59. The findings, being published today in The Archives of Internal Medicine, concern the use of estrogen alone and differ from earlier studies of estrogen and progesterone. The studies of combined hormones found that they increased the risk of heart disease, breast cancer and other ailments.
As many as 10 million women who have had hysterectomies and who no longer have a cervix are still getting Pap tests, a new study finds. The screening Pap test looks for precancerous cells in tissue scraped from a woman's cervix and can prevent what would otherwise be a common and deadly cancer. But testing most women without a cervix makes little sense, leads to false positives and wastes money, said Dr. Brenda E. Sirovich, a research associate at the Outcomes Group at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt., and the study's lead author. Each test costs $20 to $40, she estimated.
''Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options,'' by Dr. Edward E. Wallach and Dr. Esther Eisenberg. Johns Hopkins University Press, $16.95. More than a fifth of all American women have had surgery to remove the uterus, to treat a variety of painful medical disorders. Many of the women are in the prime of life when they have the hysterectomy, the authors of this valuable reference guide point out, with the median age 40.9.
Lamphan Yinsuth had stomach pains that went unexplained for six years, until X-rays revealed the cause: forceps left inside her after a hysterectomy in 1997. The hospital, in southeastern Chanthaburi, will perform a second surgery on the 46-year-old woman to remove the instrument, 2.4 by 11.4 inches, ''in a couple of days,'' a spokesman said. The hospital also apologized and agreed to pay the woman $9,520.
A hysterectomy patient has sued, accusing her surgeon of branding the initials of his alma mater, the University of Kentucky, on her uterus as he removed it. Nine other patients have asked to join the suit. The women say they discovered the branding after watching videotapes of their procedures that the surgeon, Dr. James M. Guiler, provided. Dr. Guiler has defended the practice, saying letters marked the organ's midline. ''Not only am I always able to remain oriented for the patient's safety,'' he said, ''I felt this was honorable since it made reference to the college of medicine where I received my medical degree.''
Several years ago, Monique Brown, a writer and editor from Brooklyn, visited a physician, worried about her heavy periods and bleeding between menstruation. Her disorder was diagnosed as fibroids, she said, noncancerous tumors that can grow in the uterus. ''It's normal,'' she recalled being told. ''Everybody has them.''
Fatigue is the most common, most debilitating and longest-lasting symptom for women recovering from hysterectomies, according to a new study, which suggests that physicians take a more active role in counseling and treating patients after surgery. The study, published last month in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, was based on a telephone survey of 300 patients who had undergone hysterectomies or myomectomies -- removal of the uterus or of uterine fibroids -- within two years.
Raquel and Tony Rivas had their life in order. They had married, built a house and were ready to start having children. But a visit to the gynecologist led to frightening news: Ms. Rivas had cervical cancer. Although detected early, the cancer had burrowed deep enough into the tissue that it could no longer be handled superficially with freezing or lasers. To treat the malignancy and halt its spread, the couple was told, doctors would have to perform a radical hysterectomy, removing Ms. Rivas's cervix and uterus. With luck, the surgery alone would take care of the malignancy; if not, radiation or chemotherapy might also be called for. However, the operation would destroy her ability to bear children.
Experimental technology that uses lasers to heat and shrink uterine fibroids is showing promise in helping women avoid hysterectomies or other surgery, doctors have reported. About three out of four women of reproductive age will develop fibroids, which are noncancerous tumors. They are among the most common reasons for hysterectomies. But surgeons sometimes try to remove just the fibroid and leave the uterus intact.
About 600,000 women a year have hysterectomies in the United States, usually only after a long and difficult consideration of the consequences. Now there is something else for them to think about: women who have had hysterectomies have a substantially higher risk of having urinary incontinence in later years, a new study reports.
For many women who need to undergo hysterectomies, the anxiety they feel is not just over the surgery to remove the uterus but over a widespread belief about the procedure's aftermath: that their sex lives will never be the same. Now, a study of 1,300 women by the University of Maryland medical school may put that fear to rest. It reports that most women said their sex lives were better, not worse, after the operation, which is performed on 600,000 women in America each year, mainly those who suffer the benign but painful uterine tumors called fibroids.
WHEN Susan H., age 40, began experiencing excessive menstrual bleeding and almost constant pelvic pain and cramping, her doctor's diagnosis was straightforward and certain: She had multiple uterine fibroids, benign tumors that grow within the smooth muscle of the uterine wall or on the uterine surface. Susan's response was equally sure: ''I did not want a hysterectomy. I hadn't ruled out having children, and even if I never had a child, I did not want to lose my uterus.''
Some women who suffer excessive menstrual bleeding now have a new alternative to a hysterectomy: a heated balloon that, in just eight minutes, destroys the source of the problem. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Gynecare Inc.'s Thermachoice, a device that the company, from Menlo Park, Calif., estimates will replace 20 percent to 30 percent of hysterectomies.
Health-care reforms encouraging second opinions and alternative treatments may have helped the rate of hysterectomies in the United States level off between 1988 and 1993. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week that the rate had not risen during that period, even though more baby boomers had reached the age when the operation was more likely.
LAST Thanksgiving, Antonia Alba had little heart for gratitude, turkey, or even a diverting family squabble. After months of dithering, she had scheduled a hysterectomy for the next week, and now she was in a panic. She did not want to lose part of her body. She did not know what to expect afterward. And though she was 40 years old, divorced, and with no new partner in sight, she still held hope of bearing a child, an option that obviously would vanish along with her uterus. ''I had delusions of a knight in shining armor and having a kid, after all,'' she said in an interview at her house in Arlington, Va. ''So now I really had to come to terms with all that.''
Hippocrates thought the uterus wandered and so drove women to hysteria, but in that belief he was the mad one. If anything, the womb is the body's Atlas, bearing the weight not only of the human future but of bitter social and medical disputes. The abortion debate can be viewed as a question of who owns the womb -- woman or embryo. The most common surgical procedure in the United States is the much-criticized Caesarean section. And the second most common operation is another, more radical storming of the uterus, the hysterectomy. The debate over hysterectomies is one of quiet fury. Nobody bombs surgical suites in protest, but for years critics have assailed what they call the hysterectomy industry.
MARIE NATALE'S gynecological problems began 16 years ago. When she was 29, shortly after her son was born, she developed pelvic pain and excessive bleeding caused by advanced endometriosis, extensive growth of uterine tissue outside of the uterus that pressed on other organs and bled monthly into the pelvic cavity. She had surgery to remove the errant tissue and relieve the distress, but two years later, the pain returned. This time the cause was uterine fibroids, benign tumors on the uterine wall. A hysterectomy was recommended, but Ms. Natale hesitated, having heard many reports about unnecessary hysterectomies and their unhappy consequences.
The White House today angrily defended its nomination of Dr. Henry W. Foster Jr. as Surgeon General and sought to paint his critics as right-wing extremists, even as it coped with new questions about his having performed a handful of hysterectomies on severely mentally retarded women more than two decades ago. With some prominent Republicans vowing to oppose the nomination and many Democrats openly contemptuous of initial missteps by the Clinton Administration in explaining how many abortions Dr. Foster had performed, the White House unleashed its most vigorous support yet for the nominee and prepared to escort him to courtesy calls on Capitol Hill on Monday.
Women who want to avoid having unnecessary hysterectomies should make their feelings clear to their doctors and may want to choose younger gynecologists, a new study concludes. "The more recently trained gynecologists tended to believe the uterus contributes more than just a reproductive function to women, and thus were less likely to believe surgery was the best type of treatment," said Dr. Nina Bickell, whose study appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
I am browsing in the New Gender Studies section of a bookstore in my hometown of Berkeley, Calif., searching for "hysterectomy" in the index of every book I can find. I am about to have one, at the hands of a trusted male physician, and while I am persuaded that mine is a necessary operation, you can never be too sure. Not with this all-too-common procedure that is widely considered to be one of the most overused in the United States.
BLACK women who have hysterectomies face greater risks of long hospitalizations and of dying in the hospital than white women do, a study suggests. Black women were nearly three times as likely to remain hospitalized for more than 10 days and three times as likely to die in the hospital, researchers found in analyzing more than 50,000 patients.
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One of the students brought Tintin in America. The author, Herge, is Belgian, and the book was published in Belgium in 1932. I will get a copy and read it, and invite anyone who knows the book to send me your thoughts (dreese dot nambe at gmail dot com).
In the book, Tintin goes to "Redskin City." From what I saw, the Indians are stereotypical characters in feathered headdress and buckskin. On the cover of the book, Tintin is tied to a post in front of two tipis. An Indian appears to be calling to others to join him; he brandishes a tomahawk in one hand and points to Tintin with the other.
An old publication date (1932), originally published in another country... But it was published here, too, in 1979, by Little, Brown. I'll spend some time reading and thinking about this book. There is a fan website called Tintinologist.org that says:
"Hergé had wanted to write a story about the oppression of the Indians in the
USA, but his boss, Father Wallez fancied a story about the Chicagocrime syndicate that would help illustrate how corrupt the really was. (Don't forget that Wallez was all in favour of a strong and unified USA Europe- without the rightist Hitler - type associations). That was not exactly what Hergé had in mind, so on page 16 he lets gangster Bobby Smiles flee to Redskincity, a town near an Indian camp. However, to stay out of trouble with Wallez, Hergé used the Indians to expose American corruption with the scene where the 'whites' found out about the oil on the Indian reserve, they established a town and oil industry within 24 hours.
Finding a publisher for this book in the
was impossible. Even in the mid-1940s, American publishers insisted that Hergé replaced the 'coloured' people featured in the comic with 'whites'. Then again, the USA was not the only country that gave Hergé a hard time publishing this comic. Most foreign publishers (i.e. non-Belgian or French) seemed to have problems with the almost apocalyptical scene in which the soldiers move out the Indians of the reserve, and the speed in which the new town is created." USA


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The question that I get asked the most from family and friends with regard to our household? What do I feed my family? Odd, I thought. Until I really thought about it. Planning and executing healthy, balanced meals for a family is becoming a more daunting task by the day. We get “educated” in the media on the benefits and perils of various everyday ingredients, leaving us more confused than ever. If this is bad, then how do I serve that. If I cannot afford this, then what do I do, etc. Hence the question. For me, the answer is always two-fold: We serve the best that we can afford, that can be prepared in the shortest possible time.
We are experts in the one-pot-wonder dish, whether that is prepared in the slow cooker, Instapot, or as in this case, in an oven-proof pan. The only requirements? Minimal prep, minimal washing up. The food should in effect cook itself without any babysitting or active participation from my part. As for the ingredients – we try to buy organic as far as possible. If not, we buy as fresh as we can. Meat, we try to only eat grass-fed, free-range, organic beef, lamb, chicken (grain-fed but organic in their case) and pork. Because that is not always possible (or affordable) we end up eating a lot of venison. When we do get lamb that ticks all the boxes we use the whole lamb, even tougher cuts like stewing chops. With them, I like making this dish. The slow cooking helps to tenderise the chops while bringing out the flavour. The beans and feta add a bit of interest. And the sauce that forms at the bottom of the pan is just delicious!
This dish is versatile. You can add sliced potatoes at the bottom, or if you do it in a casserole dish, uncooked rice (just add enough water to allow the rice to swell and cook). Leave out the beans, add a squeeze of lemon, some eggplant and baby marrow. Or substitute the lamb for butternut to make a vegetarian dish. So many options and all you need is your trusty oven-proof dish, about 15min of prep time and a 30min wait. As easy as that!
Give it a try, and let me know what you think!
Greek one-pot-wonder lamb pan (low sugar)
Esrida Brits | 17 Oct 2019
- prep time: 15 min
- cook time: 30 min
- total time: 45 min
- 2 tsp coconut oil
- 600g lamb chops
- 1 onion, diced
- 5 garlic cloves, whole peeled
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- A handful of flat leaf parsley
- A handful of rosemary
- A tin of red kidney beans
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- 250ml hot water
- 100g of feta
- 4 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- Baked potato with sour cream to serve
- Oven-proof pan
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Heat the coconut oil in the oven-proof pan. Quickly brown the lamb on both sides. Remove the lamb.
- Add the onions, garlic cloves and tomatoes. Place the lamb on top, then top with the beans, rosemary, parsley and season to taste.
- Pour the water over then place in the preheated oven for 20 to 30 min. Once the lamb is soft and the vegetables cooked, remove from the oven.
- Top with crumbled feta and more parsley if you wish, drizzle the olive oil over. Serve with baked potato or other starch of choice and a fresh side salad.