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There is not a better, more free feeling in the world than being naked and letting your body breathe! I love it and I do it as much as I can! Amazing things happen to your body and mind when you sleep. It's important to let your body do it's thing, and simply taking off your pajamas and sleeping naked is the one of the most effective practices to let it!
Our bodies sleep better with a slightly lower body temperature. This is a reasoning why you're more comfortable sleeping with AC rather than sleeping in a hot room, or why you want to stay in bed longer when it's chilly in the morning. In contrast, when we wake up in sweat, most of the time we will want to get OUT of bed. When you do wake up in sweat, your body is too hot! This is when the cortisol and melatonin levels rise.
Cortisol is a "stress hormone". If our levels get too high, it can wake us up, cause nightmares, increase anxiety, welcome weight gain, and even affect our growth and hormones. Our growth hormones are released during our sleep, contributing to growth and muscle development. Our melatonin hormone is what regulates our sleeping cycles and prevents aging. When your body heats up, it can prevent this hormone from working properly. So, sleeping naked is the biggest factor into lowering our body temperatures so we can balance the cortisol and melatonin levels.
For men, sperm is produced healthier with a slightly lower body temperature. For women, wearing no clothes in bed (or ever) allows your body to breathe, particularly your pussy! It can help prevent infections and stronger smells down there.
Here are some more benefits of sleeping naked:
- You don't have to buy more pajamas!
- It can make you feel more free and happier!
- If you sleep with a partner, skin-on-skin contact releases oxytocin which can help with bonding and a better sex life!
- You don't have to worry about buttons digging into your skin or shirts twisting when you sleep!

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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Review: Ivy League Athletes (2014)
After reading such books as "The System" (see below), it's easy to become a little discouraged about the state of athletics at our nation's universities. There certainly is a lot of cheating going on, and even the biggest supporters of college sports probably could be convinced that the competitors often should be called athlete-students instead of student athletes.
Well - Sal Maiorana to the rescue.
The Rochester sports writer is back with yet another book - he's practically a one-man industry as such things go - and this is one of his most interesting projects. It's called "Ivy League Athletes," which isn't exactly catchy but gets the point across about what the book is all about.
Maiorana spent much of the 2011-12 school year keeping up with nine different Ivy League athletes from seven different schools. (Princeton opted out, for no obvious reason.) He wanted to see what a season was like for them.
Maiorana chose his subjects wisely. Yes, they are mostly overachievers, decidedly on the brilliant and articulate side. Not only do they go through a full course load during the year, but they also play sports at a high level in their spare time - even if they don't have much spare time. Melanie Baskind of Harvard gets extra credit in that sense, because she played soccer in the fall and lacrosse in the spring.
What's more, the backgrounds of those followed are very different. Lucky Mkosana came all the way from Zimbabwe to play soccer at Dartmouth. Andy Iles came all the way from Ithaca, New York, to play hockey at Cornell. Greg Zebrack came from a typical Southern California family to play baseball at Penn; Sheila Dixon was adopted by a woman who already had 14 children after Dixon's drug-abusing mother put Sheila up for adoption. Some had hopes of playing professionally once they were done in college, but all of them wound up with a degree (or appeared to be headed toward one when the book was finished).
It's difficult to play high level sports and go to school at the same time, and many have to cut corners at other schools. There are no such corners at Harvard and Yale, but the players come across as interesting individuals because of the experience. It must have been odd for Maiorana to do interviews where so many of the answers were better than the questions.
The book comes with a couple of slight drawbacks, and I'm not sure they could have been easily fixed. First, there are plenty of descriptions of games and teams from a couple of years ago, and it's difficult to make some of those interesting even thought we certainly don't know how the story is going to come out. About the only exception to that is the experience of Harvard men's basketball; some might have a vague recollection of the outcome of that particular season.
Second, the book winds up in the summer of 2012. That's more than two years ago at the time of this reading. My guess is that it took some time for the book to find a publishing home (Northeastern University Press finally came through in that department). That extra year of narration could have changed the epilogue a bit, telling us whether certain athletes went on to success well after graduation.
It's difficult to complain too much about those issues, though. "Ivy League Athletes" shows that it doesn't take a national championship for athletes to become success stories, because there are plenty of good tales going on in other places. Those looking for some will find their fill here.
Four stars
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Autumn Tree of Life
© 2012
available HERE as a greeting card
may also be available in my Etsy shop
In celebration of Samhain, Lughnasadh, harvest, autumn equinox, fall, Halloween, Celtic knots and trees (as well as tree huggers!).
The design is my own (including the knotted border, tree and cloudy sky).
I just finished this piece just yesterday. It was a miracle to get anything like this done since this year has been the most crisis ridden year of my life with barely enough time to catch my breath between unexpected (and emotionally catastrophic) events.


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Best Baby Wrap
Baby wearing is a way of carrying your baby that has been practiced ages ago but a lot of parents in modern times due to the manufacturing of different baby gears have forgotten the importance and the comfort of wearing your baby.
There are different baby carriers that you can use to carry your baby around in a fashionable and comfortable manner and that is through baby wraps. There are different styles of baby wraps and here we have featured the best baby wraps that you can choose if you want to wear a trendy baby wrap with you.
Boba Wrap has a simple yet stylish design that allows beginners and advanced babywearers to bring their baby anywhere in a fashionable manner. It does not require you to memorize a lot of tying steps as it is easy to set up and use. It is also easy to store in bag.
It is made of 95% cotton and 5% spandex which make it stretchy and comfortable for you and your baby. It supports up to 35 lbs. Can only be used in front and infant hold.
It is made of 95% cotton and 5% spandex which make it stretchy and comfortable for you and your baby. It supports up to 35 lbs. Can only be used in front and infant hold.
|Boba Wrap
The Moby Wrap is a wide piece of fabric made of 100% cotton that uses your entire back and shoulders to carry the weight of your baby. It no longer requires rings, snaps at buckles for you to use. It is easy to store, just fold it like a regular cloth and store it in your baby bag.
It can carry up to 35lbs of weight. Comes in only one size, so all care givers can share and use the wrap.
My Baby Nest is the original wrap less wrap that can be used for newborns and preemies. It can support up to 35 pound toddler. It is very versatile and allows you to wear baby in several positions. It can also be worn when nursing the baby and helps soothe the baby when it fussy by letting you hold him/her close.
It is made of ultra soft organic fine cotton. It is machine washable and dryer safe as well.
It is made of ultra soft organic fine cotton. It is machine washable and dryer safe as well.
|My Baby Nest
The Baby K'Tan is an innovative soft cotton baby carrier, a combination of a sling and a wrap. It is made of 100% knit cotton fabric with unique one way stretch. It can be used in multiple wearing positions for babies weighing 8-35 pounds.
It has an adjustable back support band which provides optimum back support and has a waist band that can be converted into a storage tote, thus, making it easy to store.
|Baby K'Tan
Wrapsody carries three types of wraps, the Bali Breeze, the Bali Stretch and the Water Wrap.
- The Bali Baby Breeze is made of cotton gauze, and is of lightweight, although it is not stretchy, can carry up to 35 lbs.
- The Bali Stretch is made of t-shirt fabric that makes it stretchy and suitable for use with newborns.
- The Water Wrap is suitable for use in water, like swimming and other water activities but is only recommended to hold up to 25 pounds.
Ellaroo Wrap is made of hand woven Guatemalan fabric, that forms around you and your baby without being too bouncy.
It has a simple design that allows babywearers to wear baby in various positions which makes it a very versatile carrier. It allows you to carry your baby on your back.
It allows you to carry your child hands-free from birth to toddler-hood.
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Let me take you back to a time when my mother was just four years old. Her favourite things to do were carving pictures into rocks and riding her pet dinosaur (juuust kidding, sorry Mum if you ever read this). The year was 1968 and a redbrick house in Sydney's Sylvania Heights was home to Robyn, her parents, and her 4 siblings, as well as a tortoise, several ducks and even more chickens. Enter the front door of the redbrick house and head towards the back of the home, and you'd come to what Robyn refers to as the sitting room. In that sitting room, all the furniture pointed towards a teak-coloured (apparently teak is a colour, who knew?) television which stood on four long legs. Switch on the TV and you'd be presented with four channels all shown in vivid black and white. To choose between these channels, you would press a long button which would flick between channels – if you miss the channel you want you have to go all the way through the channels again.
It's crazy to consider how far technology has come in a relatively short amount of time in the scheme of things. Being of an age where I was born into a world that was already immersed in the television culture, it is quite difficult to imagine what life was like back then – life without colour television, let alone Blu-ray discs and 3D viewing. In an attempt to understand and appreciate these earlier times, I spoke to my mother about her memories of the television as a child and how much she has seen technology change. Amongst the countless "I'm 52, how do you expect me to remember!" statements, a real insight into my mother's life as a child arose.
Robyn recalls sitting on the floor watching the television, as the lounge was only for adults. Shows like Lassie, Gilligan's Island and Saturday morning cartoons were what Robyn has the most memory of, but she emphasizes that she didn't spend a lot of time watching television, "When we were children, you had breakfast and you had to go outside, and you would come back inside when the sun went down." Robyn definitely didn't spend hours at a time watching television, and unlike her daughter, she most certainly did not procrastinate and watch late night TV (guilty), simply because at around 10 o'clock at night the channels finished and were replaced by "that barcode picture thingy". Sharing a room with two other sisters, Robyn remembers listening to 2SM on a battery-powered radio as she went to sleep – a fairly rare notion nowadays. Similarly, she speaks happily of the fact that the television shows were much more innocent, simpler and family orientated than today. Shows, according to Robyn, were how you educated yourself, "now you would use the computer, but back then the TV was what you would use, or you'd walk down to the corner phone box to ask someone something. Technology has just come so far."
A fond memory that Robyn recalls was noticing that every day, without fail, her mother would stop whatever she was doing at 1pm to ensure that she didn't miss a second of Days of our Lives or The Young and the Restless. But this is what every housewife did apparently; similarly, due to the lack of variety in the shows, every single person watched the same shows, which definitely meant there were opportunities to talk about them outside of TV hours. Robyn speaks of her Grandma who saw the actors on The Days of Our Lives as real people – she was so invested in and connected to the characters that she spoke of them as if she knew them (by the way, thanks The Young and the Restless for the inspiration to my mother to name me the very original and creative name of Ashleigh 😐 ).
The television was not the main focus of the house back then like it is now. Robyn, who started out with one tiny black and white television, now has eight set up in her house. When asked if she preferred the television culture back then or now, Robyn answered "well I don't want to talk to you guys all the time, so yeah I like that we can all watch TV separately". Naw thanks Mum ❤ lovely to hear about your childhood.
For a little humour (well my mum thinks it's funny), check out this great post on what it was like growing up in the 70's and 80's – http://www.thesuburbanjungle.com/things-we-did-in-the-70s-and-80s-that-would-horrify-us-now#sthash.zIoge7dq.dpbs


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Let me guess, you have been playing Irish Times Simplex crossword and got stuck on the clue Type of sliding window. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
While some crosswords are much simpler than others, most require that players have a vast knowledge of the language and possibly even various topics. So while crossword puzzles are seen as a more intelligent game, they can be very frustrating for players to complete and even experienced crossword players need some help occasionally.
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Port Severn Postal Codes
Port Severn city is located in Ontario, Canada
You can search for the Port Severn ON postal codes by its streets and block numbers
Port Severn Area Code is 905/289 and Time Zone is Eastern (GMT -05:00).
Port Severn Postal Code - Ontario
Port Severn Postal Code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada. Like British and Dutch postcodes, Port Severn - ON postal codes are alphanumeric.
The first three characters (alpha-numeric-alpha) of the postal code which represent a geographic area in Port Severn.
The last three characters denote a Port Severn local delivery unit (LDU). An LDU denotes a specific single Port Severn address or range of addresses, which can correspond to an entire small town, a significant part of a medium-sized town, a single side of a city block in larger cities, a single large building or a portion of a very large one, a single (large) institution in Port Severn, Ontario, such as a university or a hospital, or a business that receives large volumes of mail on a regular basis
If you want to send a mail to Port Severn City, you should use the corresponding Postal Code.


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Well its been some time since I did this blogging thing so thought I would update you on the wanderings of the Pigeon this festive season...
My suitcases are fit to burst and I am off tomorrow to set up shop at the Country Living Christmas Fair at the SECC in Glasgow. Come and visit me at Stand G17 and buy a few Christmas pressies.
17th - 20th November.
...Then next in the calendar is Bunty and Bella's Big Boutique Bash at the Maggie's Centre in Dundee. This is an all-star creative event featuring the wonderful Yoke, Hilary Grant, HelloJenuine, Jane Gowans, Nikki McWilliams and many more. Come and eat cake, buy stuff and admire the beautiful building.
Sunday 4th December, 12-4pm
...then onto Dundee Contemporary Arts to take part in a workshopping extravaganza featuring a Pigeon Shrinkie workshop, Syrah Jay's Felting and Bunty and Bella's Printing. All in one day! Book early at the DCA to avoid disappointment...
Sunday 11th December 12-5pm
... and finally, I am opening up my studio as part of FCA&C's new Treat Christmas events programme. You can come and sip wine, eat mince pies and buy work from Hilary Grant, Sharon Kirby and me.
15th December, 6-9pm
Phew... think that just about does it. Can I sleep now?
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Bon Noel
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I think trying to remove the Islamic Regime from the United Nations due to the gross human rights violations commited by them is one thing, but removing them for a comment made by Ahmadi Nejad is a whole other story. I spten about two years reading every book i could find on the Holocoaust and I have no doubt that it occured and that it was one of the greaters tragedies committed by the human kind. I also think its extremely dnagerous to deny the past becasue then we are bound to repeat the same mistakes. That is exactly what is happening in Iran. What is happening to the Iranians in Iran is no less then a genocide, people are being executed in public everyday, we have the same type of torture, rape and disapearances that took place during the holocaust, granted not in the millions, NOT YET. Not to mention the cultural genocide undertaken by the Islamic Regime in the past 27 years. It is all good and well for human rights activists like Elie Wiesel to condment the comments made by Ahmadi Nejad, but its disturbing that no where in the article anything is mentioned about any of the human rights abuses going on in Iran. Could it be that the real concern here is STATE Soverignty rather then human rights? When UN was first created it was meant to prevent anything like the Holocaust from ever occuring again. Unfortuantely th eUN has done anything but to fulfill its purpose. Over the years the only thing that has gained importance within the United Nations is the concept of state soverignty. thats probably why some of the worst human rights violators have seats on the human rights commision in the United Nations. Since the holocouast at leasttwo genocides hae taken place in Rwanda and Yougoslavia and UN has done literally nothing to even attempt to stop it. I would go fruther and argue that what is going on in Iran is genocide although on a smaller scale. I think the point here is that we as Iranians canot sit and wait for other people or other nations to keep the best interest of the Iranian people in mind, we cannot depend on the UN or the international community because at the end of the day the only people that have the best interest of Iran are Iranians. Iran is our homeland and we have Iranian blood flowing through our veins and always will, it is time for us to unite under the Shiro Khorshid (Lion and Sun) and take the faith of our country into our own hands.
Elie Wiesel calls on U.N. to expel Iran
NEW YORK -- Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel says Iran should be expelled from the United Nations.
"I began a campaign for the expulsion of Iran from the U.N. and the declaration of its president as a persona non grata all over the world because he threatens a member state of destruction," the Holocaust survivor said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Iran announced April 11 that it had enriched a small quantity of uranium, fueling international concerns that it is well on the way to developing an atomic bomb. The country insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and has dismissed the Holocaust as a myth.
2 Comments:
- Shervan said...6:51 PMHi Sayeh,
Your weblog is great and I admire your motivation id the job. But here are some friendly pieces of advice:
1-Reading in red or blue on a dark background in 10pt letters does do much favor to readers' eyes
2-Most posts are way too long. Is this a magazine or a weblog?
- Shiro_Khorshid said...9:57 PMHey Shervan,
thanx for the comments, did something about the size and the color of writing, hopefully this is better. Will have to work on the length though, im not a woman of few words lol


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Van Clootwijck
For younger generations of ancestors who are descended from this family:
|see page on
|Ten Hage
Much information on the different branches of the Van Clootwijck family can be found in the homepage of
Kees Klootwijk. (See bottom of this page for the sources
he used.) Here we present some information on the "old Dordrecht-branch", from which we have descended. The founder of this
branch was Adriaan Danielsz. van der Merwede (born around 1250-died around 1298), who is said to have been a grandson of
Count Floris III of Holland. (Even if this is not true, Count Floris III is our ancestor anyway through the
Aleman family as well as through the Van Rijswijk family.)
Adriaan was the first to use the family name "van Clootwijck", after the name of his "ridderlijke hofstede" (a knight's
fortified farmhouse). The "Van Clootwijck-hoeve" is still there, to the north of Almkerk in "Het Land van Altena", the area
west of Dordrecht and south of Gorinchem, see map.
There is uncertainty about the succession of generations towards the end of the 14th century. Our ancestor Adriaen Jan Arntsz. may not have been related to the original Van Clootwijck family at all. He bought "Clootwijck" from Floris van Klootwijck in 1418 and began calling himself "Van Clootwijck" only after this. A 17th century historian, Matthijs Balen, names Reyer van Clootwijck (born around 1350) as the father of Adriaen Jan Arntsz., which is unlikely because Adriaen would then have been called "Reyersz." instead of "Jan Arntsz."
Like the Van der Dussen family, the Van Clootwijck family lost their house and farmlands in the disastrous "St. Elisabeth's Flood" on 18-11-1421.
Child of
Jan Arent ? (?-?)
and Unknown
(See 17, 16 generations back)
Adriaen Jan Arntsz. "van Clootwijck"
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,0038 %)
* 1390? x jonkvrouwe Dirkje van Polanen? + 1468?
Adriaen bought "Clootwijck" from Floris van Klootwijck in 1418 and began calling himself "Van Clootwijck" only after this. Adriaen may have been married to Dirkje van Polanen, but other possibilities are a daughter of Reijmbert van der Brugge or Johanna Willemsd. van Nederveen.
(Not known if any other children)
Children of
Adriaen Jan Arntsz. "van Clootwijck" (1390?-1468?)
and jonkvrouwe Dirkje van Polanen? (?-?)
(See 16, 15 generations back)
1. Reywaert Adriaensz. van Clootwijck
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,0076 %)
* 1415? x Willumke Willemsd. van Nederveen (around 1440) + ?
2. Dirck Adriaensz. van Clootwijck
* ? + ? (before 1473)
Child of
Reywaert Adriaensz. van Clootwijck (1415?-1468?)
and Willumke Willemsd. van Nederveen (?-?)
(See 15, 14 generations back)
Jan Reynaertsz. van Clootwijck
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,015 %)
* 1440 x Elisabeth de Borchgraeff + after 1518
Occupation: heer of Clootwijck
Children of
Jan Reynaertsz van Clootwijck (1440-after 1518)
and Elisabeth de Borchgraeff (?-?)
(See 14, 13 generations back)
1. Reijwaert Jansz. van Clootwijck
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,030 %)
* 1470 x I. jonkvrouwe Elisabeth van Emmichoven, II. Catharina ? + ? (after 1549)
Occupation: heer of Clootwijck
2. Jan Jansz. van Clootwijck
* ? x Elisabeth Burgen + ? (before 1557)
3. Dirck Jansz. van Clootwijck
* 1479 x Lysbeth Claesd. van der Velde + 1530?
Occupation: "schout" and "heemraad" of 's-Grevelduin
4. Gerrit Jansz. van Clootwijck
* ? + ? (between 1542 and 1544)
Occupation: priest
5. Adriana Jansd. van Clootwijck
* ? x Gijsbert Anthonisz. + 1512
6. Jan ("de Jonge") Jansz. van Clootwijck
* ? + ? (before 1616)
Occupation: "heemraad" in Klein-Waspik
7. Zeger Jansz. van Clootwijck
* ? + 1557
Child of
Reijwaert Jansz. van Clootwijck (1470-after 1549)
and jonkvrouwe Elisabeth van Emmichoven (?-?)
(See 13, 12 generations back)
Johan Reijwaertsz. van Clootwijck
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,061 %)
* ? x jonkvrouwe Jenne van den Hooven (around 1530) + ?
Occupation: heer of Clootwijck from 1519.
(Not known if any other children)
Children of
Johan Reijwaertsz. van Clootwijck (?-?)
and jonkvrouwe Jenne van den Hooven (?-?)
(See 12, 11 generations back)
1. Pieter van Clootwijck
* 1530? (Dordrecht) x jonkvrouwe Margriet Heys + after 1596
Occupation: heer of Clootwijck, "schout" of Geertruidenberg, after he had retaken this town in 1573 from the Spanish by surprise, with an army under General Poyet, for the Prince of Orange.
2. Dirck van Clootwijck
* ? + ?
3. Elisabeth van Clootwijck
* ? + ?
4. Bertruyt (or "Geertruyd") van Clootwijck
(4 times our ancestor, blood-relationship 0,12 %)
* ? Abraham Dircksz. ten Hage (around 1570) + ?
For her descendants see the page on Ten Hage.
Among the sources Kees Klootwijk mentions in his homepage the following are relevant:
Matthijs Balen, "Beschrijvinge van Dordrecht", 1677
A.I. Menalda-van der Hoeven, "Een speurtocht door de Langstraat (1500-1650)
A.J. van der Aa, "Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden", and the newer version of 1911
Maris, "Een honderdtal Nederlandse Families"
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"It's like another world" I often say to myself when I return to a place that has changed beyond all recognition. Back in the early 1990's I was spending a lot of time traveling to South Wales to record oral history interviews with people who were involved in the steel industry. Inevitably this meant many trips to Port Talbot, a town that had been associated with steel making since the beginning of the twentieth century.
During my time off between the interviewing sessions, I'd wander around taking photographs, and I often made a beeline for old cinema buildings, which have always fascinated me. This photograph captures the deserted hulk of what was once the marvelous MAJESTIC cinema, which had first opened in 1938.
During what was actually a very short life for this cinema, it had several name changes including the Odeon and the Plaza, and then THE MAJESTIC spent the last decade of its life as a bingo hall until it closed down forever in 1980.
I took the photo during the very last years of a long period that the MAJESTIC had stood empty - before the wrecking ball paid a visit in 1995.
|Not so Fine & Fair for the Majestic
Today a massive Tesco complete with car park covers a landscape which looked so vibrant in a lovely 1958 photo that I've come across online - and which asks so many questions about how such a bustling scene ended up looking so maudlin when I took my photograph 25 years ago?
|John Wayne starring in John Huston's 'The Barbarian and the Geisha' at ODEON, Port Talbot


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Take a class on parenting. Best to do this before you have a child. Some classes are free through local community groups. You will learn how to understand what your child needs at different ages and stages of growth.
Be sure to get prenatal care and be sure to take your child to the doctor for scheduled check ups, shots, and when he is not feeling well.
If yo need assistance with food or rent, contact your township trustte's office, a local food pantry, a local church, shelter or other organization that can get you connected to local assistance. Once you are back on your feet, be sure to return the favor by donating to the organization that helped you.


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You Gave Freedom to Over 100 People with Disabilities
"I knew we had to become involved when I learned about the growing need for ramps. Some couldn't get out of their own homes; one lady hadn't gone outside in nine months! Can you imagine that?" said Dwight Ingalsbe, 2011 Gift of Time Award Recipient.
Ingalsbe has built and coordinated volunteers to build over 100 wheelchair ramps over the past few years. "The joy on their faces touched my heart. Now they can safely access the world."
Having the freedom to access the world safely means that people with a mobility disability can venture outside their homes and into the community for medical appointments, shopping, and socialization. Without them, they would have remained isolated in their own homes. All of the people who receive ramps have limited financial resources and could not afford to build on their own or to move to a more accessible home.
"I was not going out at all—only to church. Getting up and down the steps was hard work and now it is easier to get in and out," said Jean about how life was before Ingalsbe's team built her ramp. "There was a lot of 'em here! They were putting in the ramp, washing windows, cleaning the floors, and they got it all done in one afternoon! They did a marvelous job! It was a big blessing!"
Each wheelchair ramp typically requires at least one full day and sometimes two full days of work. Without the help of volunteers, building a ramp can cost 40-60% more for labor. In the past year, Dwight volunteered over 150 hours to complete 15 ramp projects. While his volunteer groups totaled over 4,500 man-hours since 2008. Dwight's volunteer workforce has reduced the waiting list for ramps from 4-5 years to only a few months.
"SCIL seems to be the most organized in getting something done to help people with disabilities," said Dwight.
When an individual requests a ramp, the Southwest Center for Independent Living (SCIL) will survey the location, provide ADA compliant sketches and coordinate materials, volunteers or contractors.
"A team of volunteers built my ramp and I use it constantly with my power chair. Thank you, I couldn't have bought the materials on my own and I don't know anything about designing or building a ramp," Mekelle, consumer who received a SCIL ramp built by Ingalsbe and Wesley United Methodist Church volunteers. "I don't know what I'd do without the ramp to get in and out of my home."
This past June, the Council of Churches recognized ten individuals from the community including Dwight Ingalsbe for utilizing his skills and technical expertise to provide wheelchair ramps and other home modifications and coordinating volunteer groups from Wesley Methodist Church for SCIL consumers.
"I didn't feel deserving, but appreciate the honor they gave me," said Dwight. He continues to go above and beyond in serving people who would remain isolated in the community without his help and motivates others to give of themselves to make our community a better place. Through his service and expertise in home modifications and volunteer coordination, he has provided countless volunteer hours to assist people with disabilities, making him worthy of a Gift of Time award.
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Friday, 26 July 2013
First of all, I'm sharing a couple of bits I keep forgetting to blog! The top two are on glossy card.
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I spent Tuesday with a lovely friend, who came to visit, and we had a great time. She arrived with presents of hand made books and brought some of her most recent work to show me. I was inspired!
Doing as I'm told (as always??? ahem!) I dragged out my BIA and blew away the cobwebs, then took out my treasure box of backgrounds and proceeded to make a journal from some of them. I added a few other bits I've been saving up along the way.
This is the cover, though it's in its bare bones state at the moment, waiting to be decorated if I ever get my room sorted out – help!!!
Inside cover and end pages. Sorry, but this won't load the right way round – it's A4 landscape size, so too wide!)
Today, I've worked on a couple of the pages, though I'm not quite finished yet.
I've been hoarding some of these papers for years and been trying to use them up when I start things, instead of creating more and more to add to them. This is a great way to use up some of your stash so that you're free to make more! He, he…!
Thanks, Ann.
I'm already looking forward to next time…
Happy Weekend, everyone!
8 very kind comments from lovely people:
- Carol Q said...
you've been busy Ann. I absolutely LOVE the first card and your journal is gorgeous - something I would really enjoy making myself.
- Friday, July 26, 2013
- Von said...
All fab creations Cath and love the corner treatment of the first card :)
Von ♥
- Friday, July 26, 2013
- Rosie Schirrmeister said...
So wonderful artwork. Thank you for sharing.
Have a lovely weekend
- Friday, July 26, 2013
- Chris said...
Love your cards, Cath. The first one is gorgeous with all the inky layers and colours.
Great idea to bind your backgrounds and turn them into a journal. I hope you get to decorate them, too. :)
- Friday, July 26, 2013
- Brenda Brown said...
Fabulous pieces here Cath and I love your journal pages. Great work.
hugs {brenda} x0x
- Saturday, July 27, 2013
- hazel said...
Wonderful creations Cath, I love the top card and your journal looks fab.
xxx Hazel.
- Monday, July 29, 2013
- Ann B said...
Just playing catch-up as I have been absent from blogland for months. Love the cards Cath, so what's new about that as I love all your work. The colours and stamps you used on the first card are particularly beautiful. Love the way the stamps fade at the edges and the colour combination is so pretty and fresh.
Ann B
- Saturday, August 17, 2013
- Sally H said...
Beautiful Inkiness, Cath. Was just thinking that I hadn't been over here for a while, so thought I would check. You must have posted this as I was packing for a fortnight in Wales - saw choughs and lots of red kites!
Hope you are having a good summer. Back to work on Friday for me
- Sunday, August 25, 2013


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Flower confident England can win without stars
England's coach, Andy Flower, is confident that his team can build on the success and momentum they took from their historic victory over Australia at Lord's on Monday, regardless of whether their two star players, Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen, overcome their fitness concerns.
Amid the euphoria of England's first Ashes win at Lord's for 75 years, a result that gave them a 1-0 lead over Australia for the first time since 1997, there have been growing concerns about the ability of both Flintoff and Pietersen to take the field in the third Test at Edgbaston, which starts on July 30.
Pietersen, who struggled through the Lord's Test and made a laboured 44 from 101 deliveries in the second innings, will see a specialist later in the week, amid reports in some daily papers that he has already been ruled out of the contest. Though Flower denied that that was the case, he admitted that the prospect of surgery on Pietersen's troublesome Achilles tendon could not be ruled out at this stage.
"Kev is seeing a specialist later this week, they'll assess his Achilles problem, and we'll just get the expert advice and take it from there," said Flower. "I'd rather not make a prediction [about his fitness], I'll just let the medical guys make their decision. I don't know if an operation is the right action to take, but those sorts of decisions will be made by the end of the week."
Pietersen required four injections to get through the Lord's Test, and admitted at the weekend that the injury - the first significant problem of his career - has been playing on his mind "all day and every day". The same could not, however, be said of Flintoff, whose immense performance on the final morning at Lord's propelled England to victory with 10 unstinting overs off the reel.
Flintoff's final figures of 5 for 92 enabled him to become only the sixth player to score a century and take five wickets in Test cricket at Lord's, a belated statistical accolade in a career that has often gone under-rewarded. But Flower admitted to feelings of unease as he watched his star player thunder in in the closing stages of the match, with the result more or less sewn up already.
"Fred had a tough physical game," said Flower. "I was sitting up there thinking I'd quite like to see him taking a break, but he carried on, and he feels strong, and it worked out okay in the end ... I hope. Chatting to him afterwards he was very bullish about being ready for the third Test, but obviously with his injury record we have to be careful about wear and tear on his body, and he will be reassessed."
Regardless of what the doctors make of his conditions, with Steve Harmison finding menacing form for Durham in the County Championship, and James Anderson producing a superb four-wicket spell to help roll Australia over for 215 in their first innings at Lord's, Flower was confident that England have the fast-bowling resources to see them through an arduous summer.
"Flintoff is a world-class performer as we know, so if he's out of the side, of course that's a blow," said Flower. "But we've got a few fast bowlers waiting in the wings that we know can play international cricket, and can be very successful. Obviously we want Flintoff in the side, but we'll see if his body is up to it. If not there are other guys that can do good jobs for us. This is an Ashes series, a Test series, it's not his farewell series."
With a ten-day break between matches, England's players have got a timely opportunity to patch up their wounds before Edgbaston - and that includes the seamer Graham Onions, who was struck on the elbow while batting in England's first innings, and was said to be experiencing a lot of pain when he straightened his arm. "I should imagine he'll be fine because of the rest time available," said Flower.
"Usually the man involved knows his body best and can feel certain things," he added. "If the guys are fit enough to get through and contribute to winning Test matches, then they'll be selected. If they are not, it's not a tough decision to make, they are just not fit enough to be selected." Flower confirmed that, if Pietersen was unable to take part at Edgbaston, then Ian Bell - a squad member for the past two Tests - would be the logical man to stand in.
"When asked before the series if we believed we could win the series, I said yes," said Flower. "Whether we will win or not, we don't know. The guys are confident, but we'll have to play very good cricket. We're playing against the No.1 side in the world. We know they will regroup and come back strongly at us, so we've also got to regroup. Sometimes you can get distracted as much by winning as by losing. We have to regroup this following week as well, and hit them hard at Edgbaston."
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Dansereau, Davis honored as top maintenance, safety employees
Dave Dansereau and Dan Davis, both from District 3's maintenance force, were honored as ITD Maintenance and Safety Persons of the Year Thursday in a service awards ceremony at Headquarters.
Dansereau, who wore the hats of foreman for both the Special Crew and Boise Maintenance crews for half of 2010, started with ITD in November of 2000 after spending four years as an hourly employee.
In his award nomination form, Dansereau is referred to as the "go-to guy for maintenance projects outside of the routine activities of a district" because of his experience at ITD and as a contractor before that.
"Dave readily volunteers for the most difficult projects" notes the award form. He often volunteers to try new methods or equipment, and is well-respected by partners such as the Idaho State Police, State Communications, other ITD maintenance foremen, and outside vendors and contractors.
Davis, the Banks Maintenance foreman, has been with the department since 1981.
"It is obvious that Dan recognizes when change is needed and is not hesitant to take the initiative to improve the safety environment," his award form said. Among those improvements were significant safety initiatives in the areas of accident reduction, plow truck safety, chemical and salt applications, and many others.
"Dan is adamant that his personnel are trained to operate all equipment in a safe manner," the form said. Davis remains in compliance with Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices as well, which not only protects his crew members but also the traveling public.
"Dan's leadership to provide a safe environment for ITD employees and the public is greatly appreciated by District employees, the traveling public, cities, counties and other agencies," according to the award form.
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Philippine law enforcers arrest Duterte critic on drug charges
Senator and renowned critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, Leila de Lima, is arrested at her office for drug-related charges and vows to keep on fighting. Samantha Vadas reports.
Duterte's drug war going after one of its biggest critics. Filipino Senator Leila de Lima escorted from her office on Friday (February 24). The staunch opponent of the president facing arrest for drug-related charges. (SOUNDBITE) (Filipino) PHILIPPINE SENATOR, LEILA DE LIMA, SAYING: "The truth will be out in time. If they think they can silence me, if they think I can no longer fight for what I'm fighting for, especially finding the truth behind the daily killings, the pressures and tyranny under Duterte's regime, then it is my honour to get arrested because of what I'm fighting for." The former human rights lawyer is accused of receiving money from drug dealers inside the country's prisons. Charges she says are a vendetta against her after leading a senate probe into alleged extrajudicial killings in Duterte's drug war. De Lima was removed from the role by allies of the president just days before coming under investigation herself for her apparent role in the narcotics trade. More than 7000 people have died in Duterte's drug crackdown. De Lima this week describing the President as a "sociopathic serial killer" with a "criminal mind".


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Horror is an interesting genre in cinema. It is a genre that is as old as cinema itself, with the first depictions of supernatural events appearing in films from the 1890's. Perhaps the first horror film of substance and style, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, was released in 1920 by German filmmaker Robert Wiene. Since then, the horror genre has seen more reinventions and re-vitalizations than one can possibly keep track of.
There was the Universal horror phase that occurred in the 1930's when classics like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Mummy all graced the silver screen. The monster movie phase continued into the 1940's and 1950's, but the 1960's gave way to a whole new grouping of horror films. As Cold War tensions began to rise during this period, horror films shifted towards observing more tangible fears and concerns. Zombie movies of the 1960's dealt with concerns about the fallout of nuclear war, and zombies were used to represent an enemy that we didn't fully understand.
As horror film progressed into the 1970's, supernatural themes began to create the structure for such classics as The Exorcist and The Omen. The end of the 1970's gave way to the rise of slasher films in the 1980's. The 1978 classic Halloween would influence films like Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Hellraiser. This phase would stretch into the 1990's, with the Scream franchise not only embracing the conventions of slasher films but also parodying them.
The horror genre would largely stall after this time, with the early 2000's producing mostly forgettable horror films that focused on body count and gore. A long stretch of remakes would also cause the impact of horror films to wane. From time to time audiences would be graced with such modern day classics as 28 Days Later, Let the Right One In, The Babadook, and It Follows. Even now, great horror movies are few and far between. It's not that Hollywood hasn't continued to churn out horror movies. It's just that few, in my opinion, have made an impact and widened my appreciation of cinema. This realization begs the following questions: what truly makes a horror film great and is Hollywood still capable of producing them?
Both of those questions are answered by the film Get Out. To talk about the film, it is easiest to first answer the second question that was posed above: is Hollywood still capable of producing great horror films? The answer is a resounding yes, as Get Out clearly proves. The film does a great job of building suspense through pitch-perfect direction, a lean script, and contained performances. Get Out is a film that sets out to scare you, and it does. It doesn't accomplish this through excessive gore and violence, though, and that is sometimes the key to a great horror film. I think that Hollywood needs to keep this in mind when making new horror films. The building of suspense is perhaps the most important part of a horror film. It's not about how many bodies we see or about the amount of blood that is shown onscreen during our journey as a film-goer.
This brings be to the first question that I posed: what truly makes a horror film great? For me, a horror film is made great when it can rely less on violence and more on brains. When I consider what my favorite horror films are, I often arrive at films that connect to the every day. Take A Nightmare on Elm Street, for example. On the surface, the film is a slasher film about a knives-for-fingers villain that is hunting the children of individuals who wronged him in the past. On a deeper level, though, the film deals with more intriguing ideas. A Nightmare on Elm Street ultimately asks whether children should be made to answer for the sins of those that came before them. Additionally, the film deals with the mystery of dreams and it argues that we are most vulnerable during periods of sleep. These ideas are what make A Nightmare on Elm Street such a great film for me.
Not convinced on the gore vs. brains argument yet? Let me provide one more example.
One of my favorite films from 2014 was The Babadook. Many horror fans watched the movie and didn't enjoy it at all. They said it wasn't scary and they didn't quite understand why there was no villain. To voice these two concerns is to miss the film's impact all together. When horror was first created as a genre, it wasn't necessarily about good versus evil. It was instead about the fears of everyday people. This became increasingly noticeable during the 1960's when the United States and the Soviet Union were on the brink of nuclear war. The Babadook is less about the eponymous creature of the film and is instead about grief and the hold that it can have on people's lives. To live with grief is a terrifying thought, and that is where the scares come from within the film. Again, it is not about violence or what we are shown onscreen. In fact The Babadook decides to show us very little, and by doing so it forces us to dig deeper into the film to find its true connection to everyday life.
Like The Babadook, Get Out also proves to be a great horror film because it connects so relevantly to life now. The film is about Rose and Chris, an interracial couple in modern times. The film centers on a trip that the two take so that Chris can meet Rose's parents for the first time. To reveal any more about the plot would be to ruin some of the films greatest moments. Just know that the film is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with a more terrifying twist. Like the seminal 1967 film, Get Out has a lot to say about race relations. Race relations has always been an interesting topic, and a number of films have examined it over the years. Get Out is noteworthy, though, because it somehow manages to mix elements of horror and comedy into the discussion. Prior to 2008, many people might have believed that race relations were better than they were in the past. The election of the 44th president seemed to refute this claim, though. Race relations seemed to have worsened in the last 8 years, and deep seeded conflicts between different races seem to have again been laid bare. Get Out succeeds partly because it doesn't shy away from this realization. At one point in the film, Rose's father, played by the brilliant Bradley Whitford, says that he would have voted Obama in for a third term if he could have. Does this make him any more or less racist than those around him? Does supporting racially diverse individuals and causes on the surface help to change a history of past perceptions and persecutions? If somebody were to mention in discussion that they voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 would that lead you to think they were more or less racist than the next person who may not have? Get Out addresses these questions, and so many more, quite masterfully. It shows, that despite our best efforts, racism is alive and well.
Still, I don't want everybody to think that the film is an almost two hour lecture on race and race relations. There is so much more to the film that is to be admired. As I mentioned earlier, the film is an incredibly lean film that is perfectly structured. There are really no "gotcha moments" in the movie, and the scares come gradually. They build and use characters and situations to create a truly memorable experience. First-time writer/director Jordan Peele, best known for his sketch comedy show, proves to be a great talent. He has full control over the movie and I have few complaints about the finished project. He manages to infuse the film with laugh out loud moments at the same time that he aims to scare the daylights out of us.
Something that Get Out has that not all great horror movies do is a great cast. Everybody in the film is uniformly great, with newcomer Daniel Kaluuya anchoring the film in the lead role. Allison Williams, Whitford, Catherine Keener, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root, and LilRel Howery are also all great in their roles. The all walk a fine line between camp and truly effective horror.
Final Thought: Get Out is a rarity: a great horror film that deals with real life issues in an effective way. It forces use to examine our own thoughts about race and the perceived progress that we believe we have made.
Rating: 10/10


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Derek Mills
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|July 9, 1972
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Derek Mills (born July 9, 1972) is a former American sprinter. He was a 1996 Olympic Games gold medalist in the men's 4×400 meter relay for the United States. He has a career best of 44.13 in the 400 m. After going to college at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and winning the 1994 NCAA Championship in the 400 m at Boise, Idaho, Mills ran to a #2 World Ranking behind Michael Johnson—breaking 45.00 seven times that year.
A native of Washington, D.C., Mills attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Mills received his juris doctor from Tulane University Law School and his MBA from the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in 2006. He is currently an assistant track and field coach at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1]
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A photograph from the official promotion of the barefoot doctor program in the early 1970s.
by Jeffrey Hays
Barefoot Doctors
Doctors in the Mao era
In the Mao era, around 1 million ��barefoot doctors�� were give six months of training and sent out to countryside to open rural clinics, provide immunizations and offer basic medical care. They often wore straw hats and carried small wooden medical boxes from their shoulder.
Some of barefoot doctors only had an elementary school education. One 68-year-old man said he took an aptitude test on the suggestion of his mother. ��They asked me, why does a train run so fast. I��d never seen a train before, so I racked my brain.��
The barefoot doctors traditionally roamed the countryside, visiting around a dozen farmers a day, charging them a nominal registration fee and giving out medication for free. They didn��t do anything too complicated. One doctor told the Los Angeles Times, ��I don��t treat serious illnesses. I don��t know how.��
The barefoot doctor tradition lives on in services such as the Lifeline Express, a train that operates in poor areas in Xinjiang Province and offers cataract surgery for free to all comers. The cataract operations take 15 to 20 minutes, involve cutting the cornea and replacing a clouded lens with a clear artificial one,. The operations given in an assembly line fashion to patients by doctors who put in 12 hour days and volunteer their services for little pay for one-year stints.
Although China��s ��barefoot doctors�� scheme relied on primitive supplies and under-trained doctors, it has been acknowledged by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the pioneering role it played in the development of China��s rural primary healthcare.
Treatment by Barefoot Doctors
Describing the difficulty in bringing good medical care to rural areas in China, one barefoot doctor told the New York Times, ��When we go out and try to inoculate babies, some peasants are very frightened and hide their kids. Or they turn their dogs on us to bite us and drive us away��We give them injections for measles, and then the kid gets a cold. So the parents come, and complain. They say, ��You promised that my child wouldn��t get sick!���� The inoculations themselves are fairly easy to give to young children because many of them don��t wear pants or they wear pants purposely made with holes in them..
These days the doctors don��t roam so much any more. Each village has its own doctor. A typical rural clinic run by a barefoot doctor consists of a single room in mud-brick, thatch-roofed building or concrete, tin-roof structure with a couple of bamboo cots, a desk and wooden cupboard with some pain, fever, diarrhea, and cold medicines inside. It typically doesn��t have a phone but it does have disposable needles, an improvement from the old days when needles were reused after they were swabbed with alcohol.
Rural clinics typically have dirt floors and lack sterilizing equipment, Many of the medicines are fake but are sold by doctors anyway because the drugs are their primary source of income. Equipment consists of a thermometer and a blood pressure machine that doesn��t work. Wish lists by barefoot doctors include a stomach pump, tools for extracting abscessed teeth, and oxygen cannisters for respiratory problems.
With the introduction of economic reforms and capitalism, money for public health has declined. Barefoot doctors see fewer people because their patients have to pay considerably more than they did in the old days and people get sicker less. One barefoot doctor told AP, ��Now the job is easier because vaccinations have eliminated so many diseases, like measles.��
One their most successful herbal medicines, pumpkin seeds, was used to rid victims of worms. Today the treatment is also used in Africa to combat schistosomiasis.
Pre- History of Barefoot Doctors
Alexander Casella wrote in the Asia Times,
��When the communists come to power in China in 1949, the country had some 40,000 doctors for a population of some 540 million, which meant on average one doctor for some 13,500 inhabitants (the figure today is one for 950). The vast shortages in terms of numbers was compounded by another problem. Most of the doctors were in the cities and except for some practitioners of traditional medicine, the countryside was practically deprived of any real medical care and epidemics. This meant infectious diseases and poor sanitation were pervasive.��[Source: Alexander Casella, Asia Times, January 16, 2009]
��While many of its top leaders were of urban or semi-urban origin, the communist movement in China derived its strength from the fact that it had succeeded in mobilizing the peasantry in its support and, once in power, the party made rural healthcare one of its priorities.�� [Ibid]
��With trained doctors in short supply, the central government in 1951 decided that basic healthcare in the countryside should be provided by health workers rather than by fully trained physicians. In 1957, there were more than 200,000 such ��village doctors�� whose administration was under the responsibility of the local authorities. While these village doctors had received only basic training and could not treat complicated cases, their impact was considerable and especially so in preventing minor ills or wounds from developing into complex medical problems and in implementing nation-wide vaccination campaigns.�� [Ibid]
Early History of Barefoot Doctors
��In 1968, the village doctor program was renamed ��barefoot doctors��, with the name derived from southern farmers who would often work barefoot in the rice paddies. It was presented as one of the great achievements of the Cultural Revolution. Actually, it had been in force since long before but the rebranding suited the politics of the time. With millions of ��educated youth�� sent to the countryside, the barefoot doctor scheme acquired an iconic dimension. Actually, it was nothing more than ideology on the rampage combined with a reform of the existing medical system, which now included an expansion of the short-term training program of village doctors.[Source: Alexander Casella, Asia Times, January 16, 2009]
��Reducing the number of years of training for doctors, a policy that now applied to all university education �C was very much an obsession with Mao Zedong. The chairman had a strong mistrust of doctors, including his own, and used to claim that six or more years of medical training were a waste of time and resources when one or two were sufficient. Given the state of China��s economy at the time, this view was not totally misplaced except it was not derived from an objective analysis, but rather from a personal suspicion of the medical profession. If implemented, it would have set medicine backwards in China for decades.�� [Ibid]
��Nonetheless, the impetus it gave to overall rural healthcare was considerable. Even though the supplies provided to the barefoot doctors �C generally a few medicines, some needles and syringes and not much else �C was primitive. Therein lay the weakness of the system; it provided the rural poor with a level of healthcare unknown before the revolution, but was unable to develop beyond the requirements of the most basic of health needs.�� [Ibid]
��Given, however, the requirements of China at the time, the flaws in the system were slight as opposed to the program��s achievements, an accomplishment that was acknowledged by the declaration of Alma Ata of September 12, 1978, when a WHO-sponsored conference recognized China��s achievements in public health as a milestone for Third World countries.��
Collapse of the Barefoot Doctor System
��Initially, the barefoot doctor scheme survived the Cultural Revolution and in 1980 the State Council directed that, after having passed an examination, barefoot doctors could qualify as village doctors. This was hoped to fill the gap in rural areas between primary needs provided by barefoot doctors and advanced healthcare provided by fully trained practitioners.�� [Source: Alexander Casella, Asia Times, January 16, 2009]
��The rural health system started to collapse in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a result of China��s economic liberalization and the privatization of agriculture. Local medical facilities that had been financed collectively by the communes lost their source of income and had to close down. This in turn led to a collapse of primary healthcare and inoculation facilities and the result was that many diseases that had been eradicated re-emerged in the countryside. Regarding hospitalization, the user-pays system introduced in the 1980s left many rural patients, practically all of whom had no health insurance, unable to pay for medical care, which led to a further decline in rural health standards.�� [Ibid]
��While the authorities were not totally unaware of the collapse of the rural health system as a price to pay for de-collectivization, no systematic measures were taken to redress some of the downsides of economic reform. Indeed, in this field, like many others, the regime demonstrated its inability at implementing parallel policies rather than skipping from one priority to another. By the early 1990s, the government had not only done away with the constraints of collectivization, but had also, in the process, seen the collapse of the rural healthcare system. This was akin to throwing the baby out with the bath water.�� [Ibid]
Rural China Misses Barefoot Doctors
Today primary care, even in the cities, is almost non-existent and with no independent doctors or neighborhood clinics, people have to go to hospitals even for simple healthcare needs. With hospitals told to finance their own costs and 79 percent of the population having no health insurance, the burden on the average Chinese is considerable, with the result that many simply cannot afford any healthcare at all.�� [Source: Alexander Casella, Asia Times, January 16, 2009]
��The one to 950 ratio of doctors to the population appears encouraging, but it only reflects part of the picture. It compares favorably to one for 500 inhabitants in Japan, 400 in Australia and 300 in Western Europe as opposed to 1,700 in India and 50.000 in Tanzania. But these numbers don��t reflect the fact that most of China��s doctors are concentrated in the cities. Likewise, while most general hospitals are clearly below Western standards aside from a few specialized hospitals which routinely perform complex operations with well-trained doctors and the latest equipment. These are increasingly catering to the need of the newly affluent Chinese.�� [Ibid]
��In a country where large swaths of the population do not have access to the most basic healthcare, it is this group which spends an estimated $2 billion a year on cosmetic surgery. This can only increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots. �� [Ibid]
��According to current estimates, it would take half a million additional doctors, well distributed across the country, to provide the healthcare that the Chinese really need. This, however, would require not only additional training of doctors but also a reform of their status and remuneration. This would go a long way towards reducing the exodus of Chinese doctors, an increasing number of whom are now practicing in Africa, where they not only receive better wages but also have a higher social standing.��
��According to Western medical sources, the Chinese government is coming to realize that it needs to address what could develop into a major health crisis in rural areas, but there remains a large question mark over what priority they have set for this and how they plan to address it.��
Text Sources: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, National Geographic, The New Yorker, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AP, Lonely Planet Guides, Compton��s Encyclopedia and various books and other publications.
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Village doctors have dramatically improved access to health care in China��s rural communities over the last few decades. Cui Weiyuan reports.
China��s barefoot doctors were a major inspiration to the primary health care movement leading up to the conference in Alma-Ata, in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan in 1978. These health workers lived in the community they served, focused on prevention rather than cures while combining western and traditional medicines to educate people and provide basic treatment.
Dr Philip Lee, then a professor of social medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, wrote glowingly in the Western Journal of Medicine about China��s primary health care system after visiting the country in 1973 as part of a United States of America (USA) medical delegation. He said prior to the founding of the People��s Republic of China in 1949, epidemics, infectious disease and poor sanitation were widespread. ��The picture today is dramatically different �� there has been a pronounced decline in the death rate, particularly infant mortality. Major epidemic diseases have been controlled �� nutritional status has been improved [and] massive campaigns of health education and environmental sanitation have been carried out. Large numbers of health workers have been trained, and a system has been developed that provides some health service for the great majority of the people.��
Three barefoot doctors, part of a production brigade near Shanghai.
Dr Zhang Zhaoyang, the deputy director general of China��s Department of Rural Health Management, says the barefoot doctor scheme had a profound influence on the Declaration of Alma-Ata. ��WHO research in the 1970s found problems relating to the health-cost burden and unequal distribution of health resources. To try to solve the inequality, it did research in nine countries, including four cooperation centres in China. China��s experience inspired WHO to launch the health for all by 2000 programme.��
Zhang says the barefoot doctor scheme, initiated by central government but largely administered locally, had its origins in the 1950s. ��The name barefoot doctor became popular in late 1960s after an editorial in the People��s Daily by Chairman Mao in 1968,�� he says. ��The name ��barefoot doctor�� originated in Shanghai because farmers in the south were often barefoot working in the paddy field. But China��s village doctors had been there long before. In 1951, the central government declared basic health care should be provided by health workers and epidemic prevention staff in villages. In 1957, there were already more than 200 000 village doctors across the nation, enabling farmers to receive basic health care at home and work every day. The barefoot doctor scheme was simply the reform of medical education in the 1960s. In areas lacking medicine or doctors, village doctors could go through short-term training �C three months, six months, a year �C before returning to their villages to farm and practise medicine.��
Zhang says the scheme has evolved over the decades, though the term barefoot doctor is no longer used. ��The scheme has never stopped. In the early 1980s, the State Council (the Central People��s Government, the highest executive organ in China) directed that barefoot doctors, after passing an examination, could qualify as a ��village doctor��. Those who failed would be health workers and practise under the guidance of the village doctors. The village doctors and rural health workers still undertake the most primary health work �C prevention, education, maternal and child health care, collecting disease information. The quality of [care provided by] rural doctors keeps increasing in line with social and economic development.��
Dr Liu Xingzhu, the programme director at the Fogarty International Centre at the National Institutes of Health in the USA, was a barefoot doctor from 1975�C1977. Aged 19, his senior secondary school classes were interrupted during the Cultural Revolution drive to equip people with practical skills. ��The county��s health bureau organized medical training in my school and provided free accommodation and food. The trainers were the best from the county��s central hospital in various fields. Many of the doctors were dispatched from the urban hospitals during the Down to the Countryside Movement (when Mao decreed ��privileged�� urban youth go to rural areas to learn from workers and farmers) and showed great professionalism. They were very good trainers and doctors.
��After graduating in June 1975, I became a barefoot doctor at the Suliuzhuang commune (in northwestern Shandong Province, south of Beijing) serving 1800 residents. Despite the knowledge I learned from the strict training, the conditions and equipment in the countryside were very limited. I was given only a bag of some basic medicine with two syringes and 10 needles.��
Therein lay both the strength and weakness of the barefoot doctor scheme. It provided the rural poor with health care not known in pre-Revolution days, but the doctors�� limited training, equipment and medical supplies meant they could not do a lot.
Another of the barefoot brigade, Dr Liu Yuzhong, still offers basic health care to his fellow villagers after 43 years�� service. Now 69, he is known by patients as a caring, skilful doctor, though he says, ��I learned something of everything, but specialized in nothing.�� He adds: ��There are great advantages to having a barefoot doctor in the village. The patients are all my neighbours. I know each family��s situation, lifestyle and habits. Since I see my patients very often, even if I cannot diagnose precisely the first time, I can follow up closely and give a better diagnosis the next time.��
When the rural cooperative health-care system was dismantled in the 1980s as a result of China��s economic liberalization, Liu Yuzhong was hired by the local Dingfuzhuang Health Centre on the eastern outskirts of Beijing. ��I was lucky because I had passed a Ministry of Health exam in 1981 and acquired the certificate to practise as a village doctor.��
Liu Xingzhu believes health-care services did suffer in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the agricultural sector was privatized. ��The barefoot doctors, who were paid collectively by the commune, lost their source of income. Many turned to farming or industry. The most direct effect was that few did inoculations or provided primary health care for the peasants. Many diseases that had been eradicated emerged in the countryside again.��
The user-pays system introduced in China in the 1980s left many out of pocket or unable to afford treatment. The government in recent years has recognized the need to increase health spending and promote new health insurance schemes, a reflection perhaps of China��s special commitment to a primary health care system that ��everyone can enjoy, reflects social equality, is affordable for everyone and matches social and economic development,�� according to Zhang. Dr Lei Haicho of the Department of Health Policy and Regulation at the Ministry of Health, says the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme introduced in 2003 now covers more than 800 million rural residents, while public financing of the health system has increased substantially.
Zhang maintains, however, health-care standards have risen steadily in China, thanks in part to the work of village doctors and health workers, who, he says, receive excellent training and support. ��The maternal mortality rate in rural China has decreased from 150 per 100 000 before 1949 to today��s 41.3 per 100 000. The infant mortality rate for the same period has decreased from 200 per 1000 to 18.6. China now has more than 880 000 rural doctors, about 110 000 licensed assistant doctors and 50 000 health workers.�� He believes primary health care has also helped reduce poverty in China. ��Only with a health body can people undertake education and production activities and improve their living standards. Village doctors have played a significant role in preventing people from becoming impoverished.��
Despite the challenges China faces in providing a modern health-care service to all of its 1.3 billion people, the barefoot doctors and their successors can still show the way to the rest of the world in primary health care, according to Zhang Lingling. Writing in the Young Voices in Research for Health 2007 essay competition sponsored by the Global Forum for Health Research and the Lancet, the doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health said: ��The impact of barefoot doctors in rural health-care services still exists. Today, both researchers and policy-makers have widely acknowledged it is hard to bring people to work in rural areas. Even the developed countries have experienced a difficult time attracting medical professionals to rural places [so] training local people seems to be the optimal solution [in] building sustainability in rural health-care services.��
Liu Xingzhu also believes the Chinese model can inform other countries�� approach to primary health care. ��Chinese experience showed that to promote primary health care, the key issues are human resources and medicine. Chairman Mao advocated there was no need for five years�� training; one year was enough to train a doctor. Short-term training focusing on specific types of work, such as antiviral treatment or prenatal care, is sufficient to meet the demands of primary health care, especially in the countryside or poverty-stricken areas.�� ��
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