The Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan, commonly known as the "Johnston Plan", was a plan for the unified water resource development of the Jordan Valley. It was negotiated and developed by US Ambassador Eric Johnston between 1953 and 1955, and based (...)
In the years 1952-55, Egypt received considerable sums of American aid money for economic development. American diplomats in Cairo had been trying to convince Nasser to sign a military assistance agreement with the US, which would have allowed Egypt (...)
"The coming to power in Egypt of an energetic young warrior sent shockwaves through Britain, France and Israel. Leaders in all three countries feared him as a galvanising ruler who had the potential to unify the shattered Arab world at the expense (...)
In the not too distant past, just wearing prosthetics could induce shame: The Barbie doll cosmesis (a cosmetic cover), tipped with a hook, acted like social repellent, pushing the user and the observer apart. "It was like having a scarlet letter," (...)
On May 13, 1953, during a meeting between the Egyptian Ambassador Mohamed Abdul Moneim Mohamed and Vaclav David, the Czech Foreign Minister, Mohamed expressed the Egyptian government's wish to strengthen its commercial relations with Czechoslovakia (...)
"A boom in sophisticated prostheses has created a most unlikely by-product: envy", wrote Paul Hochman, the gear and tech editor for Today on NBC and host of msn.com's GearDaddy.
There are many advantages to having a leg amputated. Pedicure costs (...)
While Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser was perceived by American diplomats as the ‘power behind the throne' with General Mohamed Naguib, the President, as a mere figurehead, archival evidence shows that Naguib had considerable influence over negotiations (...)
The Prime Minister, Hesham Qandil, has recently emphasised the State's interest in the micro-enterprise sector, which he described as ‘an instrument of socio-economic development'.
In an address to a micro-enterprise conference in Alexandria, the (...)
Because of the obstacles to the purchase of weapons from the West, Egyptian governments made attempts to explore arms deals with the Communist Bloc from 1946 onwards. During 1946-47, Egypt bought weapons from Czechoslovakia totaling 368 million (...)
The Executive Director of the Science and Technological Advancement Fund, Dr. Mahnmoud Saqr, has recently announced that next September will witness a call for joint Russo-Egyptian research project proposals in the fields of agriculture, health, (...)
Successful businesses rarely miss opportunities to Learn, Share, Inspire and Connect. International prosthetics conferences, symposiums, workshops and exhibitions provide invaluable opportunities and open up immeasurable vistas, all in the best (...)
In 1923, an agreement between the United Kingdom and France established the border between the British Mandate of Palestine and the French Mandate of Syria. The British handed over the southern Golan Heights to the French in return for the northern (...)
Ekso Bionics is a firm that develops and manufactures intelligently powered exoskeleton bionic devices that can be strapped on as wearable robots, and can enhance the strength, mobility, and endurance of soldiers and paraplegics. They are the (...)
O&P Business News, Spring 2011, carried a report from Global Industry Analysts (GIA) which provided a review of the global prosthetics industry, market trends, product innovations, industry activity and profiles of market organisations.
Orthopedic (...)
On April 13-14, 1948, a contingent of Lehi and Irgon entered a village (near Tiberias) on the night of April 13 dressed as Arab fighters. Upon their entrance to the village the people went out to greet them, the terrorists met them with fire, (...)
Estimates of the number of Arabs who died at Deir Yassin varied wildly. Haganah soldier Daniel Spicehandler said he saw “maybe some fifty dead." Shimon Monita, the Haganah spy in Lehi, estimated 60 Arabs dead; the Lehi's Moshe Idelstein recalled the (...)
United Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has recently said that ‘renewable energy has the ability to lift the poorest nations to new levels of prosperity'. Since time immemorial, wind, sun and water have been an infinite source of sustainable (...)
The Export Council of the Chemical Industries Federation has recently warned that chemical exports have receded in February by 22 per cent. The recession, according to the Council's chairman, Dr Walid Hilal, is an alarming evidence that Egyptian (...)
LAST FRIDAY, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador opened the 128th session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) at Quito. He stressed in his opening speech the importance of adopting democracy as the ideal form of governance. He added that (...)
Dozens of companies — large and small, foreign and domestic — have received grants to invent and improve prostheses for use, first by wounded warriors and eventually by the much larger number of civilian amputees. Wars typically yield such (...)
Leftwing activist, Uri Avnery, claimed to have elicited semi-confessions from some of the participants after the battle. He wrote in his 1968 book Israel Without Zionists that “all the inhabitants of the village who had not fled were massacred." (...)
The Findlaw Legal Curiosities Blog published the following crime story on September 17, 2012:
“A Florida mother tried to give herself a leg up in a child-custody dispute, but here's the kicker: She ended up allegedly beating her son's father with (...)
Accounts by Red Cross and United Nations observers who visited the scene, said that the houses were first set on fire and the occupants were shot down as they came out to escape the flames. One pregnant woman had her baby cut out of her stomach with (...)
A delegation from the Association of Egyptians in Europe is recently visiting the homeland to discuss with officials means and ways of further steps and measure to further maintain and strengthen ties with the motherland. While commending the recent (...)
The Huffington Post of November 7, 2012 carried a story headlined: 'Angel of Death' Used Prosthetic Leg To Kill Boyfriend. The story said:
“Debra ‘Angel' Hewitt was sentenced to life in prison for using her prosthetic leg to kill her boyfriend.
“It (...)