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Mental Health Care Status in South Africa: Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre; Department of Health briefing
12 June 2013
Chairperson: Mr B Goqwana
Meeting Summary
The Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre said that they were a primarily awards-based organization, providing prizes to highly innovative development solutions that were homegrown. The winning projects were then replicated around the country in order to improve development practices within South Africa. This involved training sessions, to pass on the innovative practices.
A key part of the presentation was an overview of the ART club's programme that had been successfully implemented in Khayelitsha, and subsequently adopted by the Western Cape Department of Health. This programme allowed patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS to receive their treatment in a much more convenient manner, without having to spend valuable workdays at the clinic. Patients who were well on their way with treatments, were placed in groups of 30 patients, and were then able to meet at their convenience to receive their treatment. This programme provided several benefits, including easier access, the support of group dynamics with peers (which was also helpful for the monitoring of individuals), and the easing of a large amount of pressure off of the health system. Following a short question period, the Chairperson declared that Impumelelo would return to the committee at a later date with a more in-depth presentation.
The Department of Health discussed the current state of mental health and mental health services in South Africa. It was strongly emphasised that roughly three-quarters of people with mental health issues in South Africa were currently not receiving any treatment. Factors involved when looking at mental health included the association between poverty and mental health, the large number of children orphaned by AIDS and other diseases, militarized individuals who had returned to civilian life without psychological and social assistance, torture under apartheid, large numbers of unemployed people who had become immobilized by their circumstances, infants and children that received minimal bonding and love from parents, people that worked such long hours that they had little interaction with their families, and stigma and discrimination
Work was needed to improve and increase the number of hospitals that could deal with psychiatric patients. Psychiatric hospitals should not be seen as the only ones responsible for mental health issues, but also general hospitals and community clinics. Community healing was also strongly emphasized as an integral part of improving the state of mental health.
Key challenges facing the country were inadequate community care, the stigma that led to discrimination and abuse, the shortage of trained professionals to meet the need, a lack of infrastructure – with some mental health facilities not fit for human habitation and requiring revitalization or new facilities built, and mental health needing to be prioritized so that it became part of not only the national, but also provincial annual performance plans.
Members asked questions about the difference between voluntary and involuntary admission,
the relationship between nutrition and mental illness, the protocol on referrals, why five of the provinces did not have any child or adolescent clinics, what was being done about the lack of funding, the relationship between HIV and mental health, whether there was there any counseling for the families of patients, and whether there was a national suicide prevention
Meeting report
The Chairperson began the meeting by wishing former President Mandela a speedy recovery. The agenda originally included a round table discussion with a delegation from Uganda, but owing to passport problems, they were not able to attend. The new agenda included a briefing by the Department of Health on the status of mental health care in South Africa, as well as a last-minute brief presentation by the Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre. This group had done much work nationally and internationally, so it was important for Parliament to learn more about it.
Ms Rhoda Kadalie, Executive Director of Impumelelo, introduced it as an organization that had started in 1999 as a part of an innovative international network. It was funded mainly by the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Foundation for South Africa and the Canadian International Development Agency, and had sister organizations in the United States, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Philippines, China, Mexico and Kenya. The mission of Impumelelo was to use innovative service delivery, reward those with successful innovative ideas, and then to inspire people to replicate what worked and adopt the innovations. Initially, the organization was an awards programme, as awards were, and remained, the fulcrum around which all the projects revolved. Some pictures of previous award ceremonies, as well as different workshops and projects, were presented to the Committee (see attached document). It was indicated that the ceremonies were always very well received by the people. Annually, Impumelelo had submitted the top projects to the United Nations (UN) and South Africa had won almost every year. In the past year, South Africa had five projects shortlisted by the UN, which indicated that South Africa had created homegrown solutions to its own problems.
Impumelelo was currently using the award winners to train public officials on the new innovative service delivery methods. The award winners had been taken around the country and had presented their projects so they could be replicated. A map system had been created to track the progress of different projects in each province.
Ms Kadalie presented the Ndlovu Care Group project as an example of an award-winning project that had been highly successful. This project had been started in Limpopo, where a man had taken out a bond on his home in order to open up a clinic for the local community, run by the locals. The project had a human resource strategy, in that it aimed to provide the local people the skills and knowledge to run the clinic. This also motivated rural doctors to stay in the rural areas. As a result of this clinic, many other entrepreneurs had emerged from the community to create other projects such as a petrol station, internet café, nappy factory and a successful car wash. A very significant outcome for the community had been the boreholes that had been dug by the community to alleviate their lack of water supply. The community currently had four boreholes, which allowed them to control their own supply of water.
ART clubs
Dr Lynne Wilkinson, project coordinator from Doctors Without Borders, introduced an HIV/AIDS treatment project, ART clubs, that had been piloted in Khayelitsha. According to the provided statistics, it was said that South Africa had the largest number of people infected with HIV/AIDS, as well as the most people on treatment in the world. In South Africa, there was a strong focus on starting people on treatment, but maintaining long-term care for those patients wasd largely neglected. The goal was to ensure that 70% of people who started treatment, remained in care after five years, but South Africa was doing very poorly in this regard. The increase in the number of those infected had put great pressure on clinics, as they struggled to find the time and space for all the patients. There was also some frustration shown by those on treatment who were responding very well, yet had to keep coming back to the clinic very often for a long day in order to receive treatment.
As a result, the ART club model had been created to provide quick service options. 30 stable patients would be grouped together and would then arrange to meet at any location outside of the clinic for 45 minutes. At these meetings, they received their pre-packaged treatment and as result were required to go to the clinic only once a year for check-ups. These meetings provided the patients with the opportunity to meet at a time best suited to their schedule and needs, and also to discuss any issues that may have come up. The person who was bringing the medication from the clinic to the groups was also responsible for ensuring that all was going well with the patients and if any issues were noted, they were responsible for having the patient seen at the clinic. The project had been highly successful in Khayelitsha, with 97% retention of patients in the clubs. The model had been looked at by the Western Cape Department of Health, and had been adopted at the provincial level. A team had been developed, and currently there were 670 clubs in the Cape metro region and 17 685 patients enrolled in ART clubs.
The Chairperson said the presentation provided an opportunity to show that South Africa had unique challenges but was also unique in finding innovations to deal with such issues.
Ms B Ngcobo (ANC) asked about Impumelelo's relationship with provincial legislatures. How was the organization working with the National Department of Health since it had started working with the Department of the Western Cape? How did you ensure that the medication was not abused, as there had been incidences where the drug had been sold for profit by patients. Where did the data presented come from?
Ds Wilkinson replied that the statistics used in the presentation were national statistics confirmed by the Department of Health, as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO). Although the data had been proven to be relatively reliable, however, it was known that statistics could not be perfect. On the issue of drug control, she replied that the medicines were pre-packed and labeled per patient, according to script. If the patient was not at the meeting for whatever reason, the medication would be immediately returned to the clinic. There was no need for concern.
Ms D Robinson ((DA) was impressed by the work that was being done and was interested in seeing projects that were being done all over South Africa. Why were African countries not more prevalent as sister organizations? Did the organization expect to be reimbursed or paid when doing training?
Ms Kadalie replied that the Canadian Development Agency (CIDA) had been supporting the training that Impumelelo had done for the past two years. Once a training opportunity became available, they submitted a proposal to CIDA and the process went on from there. Aside from CIDA, the Open Society and the Ford Foundation had been among the highest funders.
Department of Health: State of mental health and mental health services in South Africa
Prof Melvyn Freeman, Chief Director of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) at the Department of Health, provided a detailed presentation that consisted of an overview of mental health in South Africa, as well as an outline of the mental health services offered. The World Health Organization (WHO) had recognized mental health as not just a health concern, but also a key towards development. With regard to the prevalence of mental health issues in South Africa, the National Stress and Heath Survey conducted in 2002 had been the last, and probably the only one, done to establish statistical data. There was a need for statistical data, and an understanding of what the numbers meant and their impact on society. It was strongly emphasised that roughly three-quarters of people with mental health issues in South Africa were currently not receiving any treatment. The shortage of treatment among patients was closely related to the associated high costs incurred. It had been found that indirect costs resulting from the lack of treatment outweighed the treatment costs by two to six times in developed countries, and even higher in developing countries.
There were many other factors involved when looking at mental health, which included the association between poverty and mental health, the large numbers of children orphaned by AIDS and other diseases, militarized individuals who had returned to civilian life without psychological and social assistance, torture under apartheid, large numbers of unemployed people who had become immobilized by their circumstances, infants and children that received minimal bonding and love from parents, people that worked such long hours that they had little interaction with their families, and stigma and discrimination
Prof Freeman went on to indicate that the past and present were both a part of us, and if those two were not optimal, then one could not function at optimal levels. If mental health was to be changed, then the conditions that were not optimal to health also had to be changed. In particular, factors of social and economic development were detrimental to the prospect of change in mental health. In other words, the internal factors impacted the external, and vice versa. The Mental Health Care Act of 2002 was provided in detail in an attached document, and was briefly mentioned in the presentation. It was emphasized that mental health needed to be acknowledged as a dimension of health that was dealt with as a condition at all levels, as indicated in the Act. The Act also described when one was legally allowed to assist a person in giving consent for treatment.
Work was needed to improve and increase the number of hospitals that could deal with psychiatric patients. Psychiatric hospitals should not be seen as the only ones responsible for mental health issues, but also general hospitals and community clinics. Community healing was also strongly emphasized as an integral part of improving the state of mental health.
The four objectives of the World Health Assembly Resolution 2013 were to strengthen effective leadership and governance for mental health, to provide comprehensive, integrated and responsive mental heath and social care services in community-based settings, to implement strategies for promotion and prevention in mental health, and to strengthen information systems,
and to conduct research for mental health
Prof Freeman presented a list of key challenges facing the country. These were:
Inadequate community care. People roaming the streets with mental illness mostly did not need hospitalization, but good community care. Hospitalisation of such people may not only constitute an abuse of their human rights but was more expensive than providing good community care, including housing, social support, etc.
Stigma. People with mental disorders were still subject to discrimination and abuse. The answer to this was not to remove them from society (and thereby subject them to secondary punishment), but to integrate them through educating the public, and providing facilities so that they did not cause harm to others.
Human resources. There were far too few trained professionals to meet the need. More professionals had to be trained, but there was also a need to make the best use of health staff at all levels through integrated mental health care and greater use of community health workers. There should be more equitable care between the private and public sectors.
Infrastructure. Some mental health facilities were not fit for human habitation and required revitalization or new facilities built. However this had to be balanced with establishing community- based facilities.
Prioritization of mental health in annual performance plans. Mental health needed to be prioritized so that it became part of not only the national, but also provincial annual performance plans. Without this, mental health would remain the "Cinderella" of health. Neglect of mental health would impact negatively on physical health as well as mental health, given the high co-morbidity. It would also impact on education, productivity, violence etc.
Ms M C Dube (ANC) wanted clarity regarding the voluntary, compared to involuntary, committing of patients. Where did one draw the line of who should be admitted involuntarily and how did one decide who had to be treated within the community and who should be institutionalized?
Prof Freeman replied that Chapter Five of the Act was fairly clear about the difference between voluntary and involuntary admission. If a patient had identified that they had a mental health issue, they were able to self-admit at a facility. In South Africa, roughly 80% of the people treated were categorized as involuntary patients who did not agree to treatment. If admitted involuntarily, the patient was required to undergo a 72-hour assessment by two health care practitioners. Involuntary admission was also used in times where patients were admitted due to fear of doing harm to themselves or others.
Ms Ngcobo wanted elaboration regarding the statistic that three-quarters of South Africans who suffered from a mental disorder did not receive treatment. What was the Department doing to reduce that number? What was the relation between poor nutrition and mental illness? How can the structures at a local level be strengthened to have all departments involved in a forum that addressed mental health in the community? What was the protocol on referrals and transporting of mentally ill patients from one location to another? Who should be responsible for transporting the patient?
Prof Freeman replied that the statistic of "three-quarters" was established in a study based on the people who met the diagnostic criteria. There was a need to create a way to assist those included in this statistic, because the majority of them suffered from everyday illnesses, such as depression and anxiety. He replied to the question of nutrition by referring to the 'outside in story', in which people were affected by what they eat (or do not eat), as nutrition impacted on both the physical and mental development of people.
Ms P Kopane (DA) asked for a breakdown by provinces of the 16.5% prevalence rate of adult mental disorders. Why was no national data available? Had a specific study been done on the impact of people in liberation movements in relation to mental health? According to the map in the document, about five provinces did not have child and adolescent clinics -- how was this dealt with? What proportion of the health budget was allocated to mental health? What was the Department doing to ensure that the budget was actually being used appropriately? How many psychiatrist nurses were there, how many were still in training and how many worked in the departments they were supposed to?
Prof Freeman replied that there was little to no difference in the prevalence rate of adult mental disorders between the provinces.
Dr Precious Matsoso, Director General: Department of Health, replied that the allocation of budget for health services was determined at the national level, after which the provincial level determined the budget of the different health services. There was a concern about priority areas, and the Department had therefore established non-negotiable factors to identify priority areas. There was a monitoring and tracking process to check how the provinces had arranged their budget allocation according to the priority areas. Mental health services had often not received proper attention, and there had also been some abuse of funds in the past.
Ms Robinson thanked the presenters for the thorough and in-depth presentation. How did the Department deal with the lack of funding in order to achieve all the objectives? How did the Department ensure that community care was properly initiated and effectively implemented? Could there be more assistance from the provincial or national level? What did one do to deal with people living in the streets? How could a place be found for them? Had the department come up with any solution for the link between HIV and mental health?
Prof Freeman said there were certain checks and balances that had to be followed with regard to cleaning up the streets. Mental health institutions could not be used to get all the people off the streets, as this was a social development issue. This was primarily why the 72-hour assessment period had been enacted.
Ms T Kenye (ANC) asked what the Department's plan was to deal with the external factors like apartheid? Were there any support centres for counselling so that patients had on-going care after rehab to maintain the recovery process? How could a national suicide prevention plan be achieved?
Ms H Makhuba (IFP) asked what the challenges were in working with the Department of Social Development to provide social support to families of patients? Were there forensic psychiatric units in all of the nine provinces?
Ms M Segale-Diswai (ANC) asked for clarity on the people who used ambulances to travel from one province to another.
The Chairperson said that due to time constraints and the large number of questions, answers would have to be submitted in writing.
The meeting was adjourned.
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Record low housing supply has fuelled towering property prices in Toronto, as values hit an average of $1m for the first time.
The CMHC reduced its housing starts forecast to 32,400 units for the Canadian city this year, which falls short of the household demand of 35,000 to 38,000 annually. Builders finished construction on just 6,559 ground-oriented houses in the first half of the year, setting 2015 on pace for the lowest total in 20 years.
This trend is expected to continue, warns a new report from Fortress Real Developments, leading a multi-year period of underbuilding.
The shortfall in supply has already pushed up prices to over $1m, with low-rise sales increasing. With demand outpacing supply, low-rise unsold supply declined to a record low of just 5,155 units at the end of June (a three month supply), and prices spiked 16 per cent annually for new ground-related housing overall and 33 per cent for single-detached housing.
The record supply of completed and unsold new condominium supply in the GTA is "misleading", argues the report, as it ignores context and units rented by the developer.
The percentage of condominium units sold at completion has been climbing for four consecutive years from 92.5 per cent in 2010 to 97 per cent in 2014 (97.6 per cent in June 2015). According to a 2015 survey, 51 per cent of Canadian builders/developers target absorption of 80 per cent to 95 per cent of their condominium apartment building at completion to maximize profit, and 25 per cent would rent unsold units at occupancy. When figures are broken down by project, it shows that 33 per cent of the unsold supply is located in just five of the 115 built projects with standing inventory, and 23 per cent of the unsold supply belongs to just two developers.
12 per cent of developers siad they would never lower their prices on unsold inventory, while 37 per cent would wait over six months to drop prices.

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After the outcome of the last battle, the rangers realize that their power comes at a cost.
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Okay so i got bored and i started writing these. Sorry if they seem short at first that's when I began writing them in 2013.
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Comment if you want an imagine by choosing a character from the fandom list and number or numbers from the prompt list and I will make an imagine.
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Shawn finally gets what he wants — and that's Austin.
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This boy might just be the death of him.
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25 Apr 2014
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I was so upset. I can't believe I was stuck doing yet another reach ahead summer school course. Obviously I wanted to get ahead, but in honesty it was summer and I like any other teenager wanted to soak up the sun, and be lazy, NOT be stuck in a non air conditioned building learning about Steven Harper. Then I saw him. Fuck I love summer school
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Stay in My Backpack Forever by orphan_account
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25 Jan 2014
"You don't know what they're like if they know that you're alive; They're gonna try to take away the secrets of your planet's life; I know you must be upset, you lost your family in a wreck; But you gotta listen…"
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Escaping all it takes to take our mind from reality to this cloudy area in our mind to image our self in this la la land where we have all our drams just from of our eyes .
Jan was nothing but a dream came true on set with his natural beauty, from hair .. height and his sensational vibe. We said to high fashion good bye, cause what we have here is more than high fashion it self. Jan is just source of natural beauty we dont want to ruin it with clothes and focus on him as a real person not as a model.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Stood Up… Again
Out here, however the rules are all different. It is all about what you are doing in the moment. The most important plans are announced at the last minute so that you can be guaranteed that no one will forget. Important meetings at work and wedding invitation are no exception. Even here at the areas biggest and most important university students are told just a week before when their vacation time will be. The later you get told about something, the more important you can assume it is. So if I make plans to see my friend two days from now, and they get a better offer before we meet, I am often left standing around. Calling isn't always considered necessary because we made our plans so far in advance.
I guess the old saying holds true… when in Rome do as the Romans. The sooner I learn to live spontaneously and throw away the day planner… the less nights I will spend stood up alone in my room.
Monday, October 30, 2006
My Friend's Rules are Even Better
So my last two posts have all been about eating, and the enormous amounts of food you are expected to consume as a guest in a Uyghur home. Last night I was walking down the street and ran into a girl I know from Australia. She was complaining about how much weight she always gains over local holidays. We then got talking about the games we play to survive the onslaught of food. I told her my rules and she shared hers.
When ever the host leaves the room she simply takes food off of her own plate and adds it to her hosts. "As of yet", she says, "none of them have noticed". I tell you this woman is a genius.
After all this talk of getting rid of, avoiding, or trying to eat less food, I don't want you to think that I dislike Uyghur food. In fact most of it is very good, if I am away from the area on vacation I actually have Uyghur food cravings. The bottom line is that I have a very small appetite.
A plate of pollo for one
Sunday, October 29, 2006
I Forgot an Important Rule
After we had been encouraged for over half an hour to eat the dried fruit and nuts in front of us our teacher brought out a large plate of pollo. Pollo is one of the Uyghur peoples favourite meals. It is rice, carrots and mutton all together. She also had prepared about six side dishes including vegetables and chicken wings. It was enough food to feed an army instead of just three girls that had come for an afternoon visit. I worked hard to follow all rules that I posted the other day, and was actually quite pleased with how I was doing. I was just hitting a comfortable level of fullness when the large plate of pollo was finished.
But As I was still patting myself on the back, I realised I had forgotten one of the most important rules: Never, Ever assume that the food in front of you is all there is. There is always more food on the way.
The plate of pollo was removed from the table and replaced by an even bigger plate of Kordock. This is a dish of small noodles and thinly chopped, fried veggies on top, with of course more mutton. The game was far from over… in fact I felt like we were starting back at the beginning.
I once again left my friend,s house painfully full, but I guess if my biggest compliant about life out here is that they feed and host me too well, then life is pretty good.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
My Rules for Eating
Yesterday was one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar. It was the breaking of the fast. Uyghurs celebrate this day by going from house to house of family, friends and neighbours. At each house you visit the amount of food on the table is just overwhelming; fruit, nuts, cakes, breads, candies, and sometimes several bowls of each. Over the past two years that I have lived here I have developed three rules of survival when being a guest in a local home:
Number One: The only food that counts is the food they see you eat. Therefore whenever your host leaves the room stop eating.
Number Two: Always be in the middle of eating something. This may mean you need to take very small bites to make the same piece of food last a long time. If your hands or plate are empty, your host will give you more food. Out here it is considered polite to put food on someone else's plate. Therefore if you don't keep your plate full they will do it for you and give you way more food than you can eat.
Number Three: If your plate gets filled for you, in a moment of weakness against rule two, you can hope you are visiting with another foreigner (especially male, or a girl who is an eating champion). The next time the host leaves the room take the opportunity to give a large portion of your food to your friend.
Number Four: If you are eating from a common plate you must learn how to rearrange the food so as to look like you have eaten a lot. This can be done by slowly pushing food to the middle.
Number Five: After just a few minutes start announcing how full you are (even if you are still hungry), by the time your host finally stops insisting that you eat a little more you will have reached the painfully full point. If you don't start announcing it soon enough you will have to eat a lot more.
These are my rules of survival. Yet despite the long hours of trial and error I have put into developing them, I still went to bed feeling almost sick yesterday. I visited a few of my friend's homes and by the end of the day I knew I had eaten a weeks worth of food. Oh well I tried.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Fashion failure – Fashion fabulous
If you read my last post you might have taken notice of the dress I was wearing in the picture. I know… I know, it looks like a rainbow threw-up on me. But as hideous it looks to you and as much as I felt like a fashion failure wearing it, the truth is, out here it is the height of fashion fabulous.
The dress is made from a very famous fabric called atlas. Traditional atlas is made from silk and then dyed bright colours and woven into intricate designs. When I was down south I got to go to the factory and see the process first hand. As interesting as it may be, the material is still a little much for me personally. But every time I inculturate myself and put it on, I get so many compliments. As far as fashion is concerned the Uyghur rule is the brighter the better.
Thankfully right now I still live in the big city on the university campus. Most of the girls at the school have been effected by western culture and TV. Therefore most day I can get away with wearing just jeans and a sweater. But watch out for holidays when I pull out the atlas and try to fit in.
Boiling the silk worms
Weaving the fabric
An atlas seller in the local market
Monday, October 23, 2006
Memorable Me
On our last day in one town I was walking down the street and passed two men working away, as I walked by, one man said to the other, "oh that girl is from Canada, but lives in the area capital and is studying Uyghur language at the university." It seemed like everyone not only knew who I was, but they also knew everything about me. At first I thought, "Wow, these people have good memories, or else nothing better to do all day". But the more I thought about it the more I had to admit I must seem like a strange commodity to them. I am sure not many Canadian come through town who speak their language and walk with a limp. What ever the reason: I am famous ;)
I meet these two woman in the summer and actually went back to visit them in their homes.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
A Game, an Adventure and a Snack
Right now it is pomegranates, and I must admit I am addicted. This juicy red fruit however is more than just something to eat, it is a game and an adventure all in one. My classmate refuses to let anyone eat them in her room unless they are standing over the kitchen sink, because each one of these bright red morsels is a stain just waiting to happen. When you crack one open you have to be wary of where each little seedling lands, so as to avoid squishing it under foot and turning your socks red. The fear and the anticipation can really get the heart rate up. Not to mention that they seem to be hidden all through the thing, it is like a game of hide-and-go-seek with every fruit.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Somethings are not that Simple.
Fast task examples:
- When Mel was out visiting last year we bought her new glasses in record time. She had an eye exam, chose new frames, and got them made all in less than forty minutes ( we even had a coffee break in there).
- Have anything custom sewn. You can get custom clothes, curtains or bedding done very easily. At one seamstresses shop you can choose the material and be measured. If they are not too busy you can pick up you tailored clothes in two days and they are prefect.
I have to remind myself of the easy tasks when I run into days like today. I went to get my blood tested. I was at the hospital for over an hour still hadn't felt the prick of a needle. I have to go back in the morning for the actual test and then return the next morning to pick up the results. All I did today was register at the hospital, talk a doctor into giving me the tests I needed and pay to have them done. When I whet to the blood test laboratory they told me they could only do those tests in the morning (to tell the truth a lot of my time was spent arguing with the lady at the lab trying to convincer her that she could do it now). Now I have to take time off of school to get this done. We have a saying out here that sums it up perfectly. Ma Fan. It means to be troubled or hassled in a situation and that is what I feel. Oh well there is no other solution.
Monday, October 16, 2006
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Don't Talk to Strangers?
This lesson was drilled into my head as a child. And yet now that I live in Central Asia I not only talk to strangers, but after only knowing them for two minuets I give them my phone number, tell them where I live and invite them over any time (okay mom if you are reading this you can feel better I have never once given my name and number to a scary looking guy, only young college girls and nice old women). After a while however I forget half the people I have given my number to.
A woman called me earlier in the week and told me she was Arzigul ( a name around here that is almost as common as Jennifer). Then she told me she was a teacher at some school (she said the name really fast and my Uyghur listening level on the phone is still pretty low) and that we had met one day on the road in front of my school. Since I didn't catch the name of the school, that narrowed it down to about three Arziguls that I knew who are teachers. So I just guessed which one (based on who I had seen most recently and who tended to call me the most) and gladly agreed to go over to her house for lunch on Sunday.
Sunday at 11:30 I hear a knock on my door and assume it is time to go. When I swung the door open there were two teenage boys standing, asking if I was ready to go. Since I didn't know what else to do I followed them out of my building and towards the teacher housing at the back of the campus. When we arrived at a home I realised the woman was not the Arzigul I was expecting… in fact I had only met this woman one time about six months ago. It has taken her that long to get up the nerve to call me.
Even though I knew nothing about the family or the woman I was visiting we ended up having a great time. Her husband just started studying English and so had convinced his wife to call the foreign girl. When I got there he proudly declared "I have cats" and pointed to the two big fur balls on the floor. That was all the English he could remember from his first week of class. So the rest of the after noon was Uyghur language class for me as a family of four all tried to talk to me at the same time. They have invited be back for lunch every Sunday.
Out here the best things come from talking to strangers. I am very thankful.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
The heat has finally come. For the last week and a half I have been constantly cold whenever I am at home. The outside temperatures have actually been warmer than my room. Because of the cement walls and the tile floor when it gets cold outside my room just seem to trap the cold and keeps it like an ice box. I would wash my hands ( with cold water since that is all that comes out of my taps) and then they would literally freeze as I sat in my room. One night I even wore gloves to bed to try to warm them up.
But no longer the heat has come. Instead of each room having its own individual thermostat that can be adjusted to meet the needs of each tenant,I live in a city were every ones heat comes on on the same day. All the buildings are heated with coal and they all start on basically the same day: October 15th. Last night I was in bed wearing wool socks, and a sweater with my pj's, I also had an extra blanket. When I fall asleep I was still shivering, part way through the night however I woke up to the sound of water filling the pipes ( a slightly scaring sound considering last year it burst and flooded my whole room). An hour later I woke up again and had to toss off the extra blanket and sweater. My room was warm… the heat had finally come.
The only down fall to this wonderful event is once the city starts burning the coal, our beautiful brilliant blue skies are overshadowed by a thick grimy grey haze. That will hover in the sky and fill my lungs until they finally turn off the heat on the 15th of April. Oh well, I won't think about that today, I will just be thankful that I am warm.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
That makes Christmas shopping seem tame
My first sight upon arriving at the village market last week during my trip south was the donkey cart parking lot. As far as the eye could see were lined up donkeys and carts. I have no idea how at the end of the day one family can find their matching set and drive home (although maybe a Uyghur lady would think the same thing if she saw a picture of a mall parking lot).
After you have walked though the material market, the metal and tool market, the food market (where you can buy any part of the sheep including lungs, intestine and heart cooked the way you like) you come to my favourite section of the market: the animal section. Where sheep, cows, donkeys and horses are being sold and traded as fast as you can imagine. New purchases are then dragged away by their back legs, kicking and complaining the whole way. It really is a site to see a man drive away with four sheep and himself loaded on his motorcycle.
Last week was not my first trip to a village bazaar but each time I am overwhelmed from every angle. The smell of cooking meat and too many people crowed into one space, sight of sheep's blood being spilt on the ground and stuff strewed on the ground for sale,. the sound of prices being called out in a foreign language combined with the animal grunts, yelps and squeals. I now understand the quote in Anne of Green Gables part two "this is not a Turkish bazaar girls" In deed it is not, Miss Brook for nothing can quite compare to the craziness of a Turkic/Uyghur bazaar. As overwhelming as it is I love it. This is Uyghur culture at its best… just be careful not to get run over.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Ode to the Sleeper Bus
I remember back when I was in college one weekend my roommate and I decided to make an unexpected trip to London, just to get away. Before hitting the highway we stopped in at the corner store to buy road food. There was no way we could survive the whole hour long drive without fuelling up our own systems on junk food.
Oh for the day when driving an hour was considered a road trip. Last week was a national holiday. With our week off my classmate and I decide to hit the road and go travelling. She had never visited the southern part of our region. I wanted to take her to my favourite little town in the area. The only draw back is that it is a twenty hour bus ride. You read that right 20 hours on the bus. But not just any bus… the dreaded sleeper bus. The first time I rode a sleeper bus out here I swore to myself I would never do it again. Unfortunately it is the only means of transportation to many of the surrounding towns and therefore I have broken my promise to myself at least 15 times.
Why do I write an "ode to the sleeper Bus" you might ask. I mean in does sound more comfortable than sitting upright for that long of a time. But Oh those sleeper buses, are anything but comfortable. I am a fairly small sized adult and even still I just fit onto the bed. My head brushes the top; my toes are painfully jamming into the end. If I put my purse on the bed beside me (which is necessary if you want to leave with all of your money and documents) I feel like it is hogging half of the space. It is not just the minisculeness of my sleeping space that sparked the Ode… but rather the whole experience. In a regular sized bus they cram in three rows of double stacked beds. In the middle of the night they pick up travelers on the highway and sell them cheap seats. These people end up sleeping in the aisles, so that when you wake up there is a stranger sleeping only inches from your face. The whole bus smells of feet odour since everyone takes off their shoes. To reduce the smell the driver will sometimes come through and spray air freshener until you can't breath and wind up gasping at the sealed shut windows.
So in our one week holiday my classmate and I spent over 40 some odd hours enjoying this cultural experience. You will have to wait till the next blog to hear about bathroom stops along the way.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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Hi Andrea
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Happy Birthday Andrea. Hope you have a wonderful day :)
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Doing fine, Andrea.............and nice to hear from you!
Thanks for the yarn offer! I'm sorry that I missed it; I haven't been on this site for a while now. :(
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Thanks for the birthday wishes! How kind :-)
Hi Andrea,
Wishing you a "Happy Birthday". Enjoy your day !!
Thanks for the lovely article you contributed to the e-zine. KAS has certainly changed our lives.
Hope you get lots of yarn for your birthday.
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hi Andrea. I like you because you are kind, you like red and you live in Canada.
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You are so kind. I have send I friend add invite I think. M
Thank you for kind comments Andrea.. OUr daughter in law is Andrea too. I am going in to get a quote for publishing the two books in Tassie - It might be a scary price. It is just that I wanted to factor in some donations from the sales to KAS but if I buy them for $15.00 then charge people the postage there will not be any KAS money. Anyway I will report back on my findings. I have put a few photos in the "Wool-Girl has fun" book on Marion Bay on the East coast.
We go up to Canada regularly.
Bye for now M
Hi Andrea!
Thanks for your message. I did this with a load of small squares I discovered when clearing my late Mum-in-Laws house, and posted them off to SA. However, until Christmas there is a retail chain over here called Jigsaw who are accepting squares into their branches and they will pay to transport all the squares donated over to KAS in SA. But they will only accept squares, nothing else, so whilst we are able to take the opportunity of not paying any postage, I thought I would ask for help! if I get any donated after this, I will make them up again as you suggested (oh wise one you!!). The response I had to my plea for help was amazing, there are so many really lovely people who love knitting for KAS. Thanks again for your sensible advice! Love Kathyxx
Andrea, I feel like rather an idiot-after reading your posts yesterday I thought I would look at how I crochet and -surprise!-I wind the yarn round the fingers of my left hand already! I honestly couldn't have described what I do, I suppose I have been doing it for so long! I cannot remember what the first item I crocheted was but I know that one of my first knitted items was a pair of slippers in thick white carpet wool (with pink pompoms so I loved them even them) made when I was in primary school being taught by nuns! Not the most practical things ever ;) I still have a few granny square waistcoats from my student days-interesting colour choices!!


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UNICEF Middle East and North Africa Regional Office
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This is the first in a series of writings that I am feeling guided to share about my personal, yet very collective, journey into the shadow of the masculine heart, and the soul aspects that are contained within. The purpose is to feel and heal what has still been hidden around power and leadership in the service of Love to Self, romance, community, humanity, and Gaia. I look forward to any engagement that you may feel guided to express along the way. You can even recommend a place for me to go that may have some significance for you. I feel this is a co-creative journey between myself and those that take this in. You can find the beginning of the series at https://soulfullheartblog.com/category/by-gabriel-heartman/recreating-history/
Our imagination is the portal to our healing and our greatness. It is the receiver and transmitter of our multidimensionality. The stories we create, witness, or both, bring us into a relationship to our selves and our other lives living in this Current of Now. There is no knowing whether these stories are "true" or not in the 3D scientific way. They are just embraced and felt. It is the feeling of the story that brings us to the precipice of healing.
This can be difficult for many men, myself included, to lean into the intuitive imagination as a guide to where the healing lies. It has direction but it is rarely linear. A more skeptical part of us may have a hard time just trusting what is being seen, or even 'seeing' at all. And then, of course, is the fear of witnessing what we may not want to see. A hidden or repressed reality that lives within us in our consciousness in protected and/or locked places in our heart and soul.
My journey has taken me into a deeper realm of my unconscious, my shadow. It has been centered around truth-telling and care-taking. In my initial explorations, I could feel a deeper distrust of my own power in relation to others, women, and life itself. This comes from a part, or parts, of me that feel to keep a lid on the volcano within in fear of what it may expose, or harm.
When I felt more into it, I could sense a collective male dimension to it. The over-expression and under-expression of true male power. There was a feeling of many timelines where power was abused and lorded over. It was both claimed and given away. It feels like a necessary journey for any man to come face-to-face with his own conqueror, demiurge, and killer, as well as the dominator and suppressor of the feminine.
This is not to assume singular responsibility of guilt for the collective, but rather to feel where power and love were not aligned with each other in our HIStory. Where do we have brothers in our soulscape that are experiencing the horrible events that have caused so much suffering and death? Where have we felt deep shame and guilt that have caused our truth to remain contained in the depths of our being?
This is a cosmic rebalancing act of ambassadorship. A quantum, multidimensional service of love. I feel to stop here and let this digest as I have written more about a meditation experience that I had with Raphael and Jelelle recently. It is proving to open out the possibility of a longer arch of writing that will focus on the journey of discovering and feeling the heart and soul of men. Feels like a big thing to take on but I can follow the feminine in me telling me to take it one step at a time.
To be continued…..
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Fuel delivery is a common problem in biomass plants. Wood fuel is not uniform in shape, density, moisture content, ash content, or energy content. In plants operating in manual mode, an operator makes a fuel adjustment every 5 minutes. More often than not, the adjustment is excessive, causing predictable system oscillations, which cause decreased efficiency, boiler upsets, lower steam production, and emissions violations. The fact that wood fuel is problematic is the justification many plants use for resorting to manual fuel control.
For plants that use automated fuel control, a pressure-based controller is the most common. A pressure-based controller depends on variations in drum pressure to make fuel adjustments. Percent oxygen (O2) is a leading indicator of drum pressure; therefore, a pressure-based controller is slower and less accurate than an O2-based controller. An O2 controller can predict pressure errors and adjust the fuel rate before the error occurs. An O2-based fuel controller stabilizes the combustion process, which increases steam flow, reduces average percent O2 (leading to greater fuel efficiency), and reduces the chances of emissions violations. A well-designed controller will pay for itself within a year.
Figure 1 shows a characteristic curve for a theoretical boiler. The curve represents the interrelationships between swings in O2, load efficiency, and the production of carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrous oxide (NOx). The corner point is the ideal percent O2 operating point for a given boiler. Each boiler has a unique ideal operating point. The role of the O2 controller is to stabilize the combustion process around the boiler's ideal operating point. Given a fixed amount of air flow into the furnace, the controller varies the fuel rate to maintain a percent O2 set point. The operator selects the amount of air flow based on the desired steam flow or megawatt (MW) output. Because the air is constant, the percent O2 in the flue gas only increases if the amount of air being consumed in the combustion process decreases. Increasing percent O2 is a leading indication of decreasing drum pressure and steam production. A decrease in percent O2 in the flue gas occurs if the amount of air being consumed has increased; decreasing percent O2 is a leading indication of increasing drum pressure and steam production.
Figure 1. Characteristic curve of boiler
An O2 controller was installed in boiler #1 in 2010. Process data was collected in 1 minute increments on 8 June 2010. Steam flow, drum pressure percent O2, feed rate, and control mode (auto or manual) were collected. The data elements are represented as a percentage of their respective averages. This was done to compare the data on relative terms. Actual values are in table 1.
Number of fuel changes
Average speed
Average adjustment
Max change
Average percent O2
Standard deviation percent O2
Maximum percent O2
Minimum percent O2
Average pressure
Standard deviation
Maximum pressure
Minimum pressure
Average steam
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Figure 2 shows 100 minutes of percent O2 and feed screw speeds while operating in manual mode. The changes in percent O2 vary inversely as the metering screw speeds. Percent O2 lags the changes in fuel rate by about 1 minute. The range of percent O2 in figure 2 is 2.73 percent to 7.94 percent.
The three severe dips in percent O2 at the beginning of figure 2 can be directly correlated to increased CO levels. CO is used as a surrogate volatile organic compound by maximum achievable control technology as an indication that other hazardous air pollutants are present. The three peaks in percent O2 in the middle of the graph can be correlated to lost revenue from decreased steam production.
Figure 2. Percent O2 swings based on fuel variations, manual
The metering screws are controlled by variable frequency drives (VFDs); screw speeds are entered by the operator in hertz. In 100 minutes, the operator makes 24 changes ranging in magnitude from –15 Hz to 10 Hz, with the average adjustment magnitude of 5.08 Hz. The average VFD speed is 36.05 Hz.
Figure 3 shows variations in steam flow and drum pressure with feed screw speeds. Steam flow and pressure respond similarly to changes in fuel rate, both lagging the fuel changes by about 5 to 6 minutes, which mean they lag changes in percent O2 by about 4 to 5 minutes.
Figure 3. Pressure and steam swings based on fuel variations, manual
Figure 4 shows 100 minutes of percent O2 and feed screw speeds while operating in auto mode. The controller set point was 4.97 percent. The range of percent O2 shown is 3.84 percent to 6.09 percent. The average percent O2 was 4.97 percent. Note that the magnitude of changes is much smaller than it was in manual mode. In 100 minutes, the controller makes 80 changes ranging in magnitude from –3.5 Hz to 2 Hz, with the average adjustment magnitude of 1.18 Hz. The average VFD speed is 33.24 Hz. (It is likely that the controller made more than 1,000 speed adjustments in 100 minutes. The data collection was set up for 1 minute intervals, and so higher frequency changes are not represented.)
Figure 4. Percent O2 swings based on fuel variations, auto
Figure 5 shows variations in pressure, steam, and feed screw speeds while in auto mode. The steam flow is higher and more consistent than in manual mode. The average steam flow shown in figure 5 is 67,129 lbs per hour with a standard deviation of 698.9 lbs. per hour. This represents approximately 1 percent variance from average.
Note the differences in pressure and steam waveforms between figures 3 and 5. In manual mode, the pressure and steam waveforms are nearly sinusoidal. In figure 5, there are still some oscillations, but the frequency is much lower and the magnitude smaller.
Figure 5. Steam swings based on fuel variations, auto
The average steam production for the manual control data was 58,595 lbs. per hour; the average steam production for the auto control data was 67,129 lbs. per hour. This is an increase of 14.6 percent, or approximately 1 MW in electrical output. (Note that the case study assumes that the same fuel was used throughout the course of the day. No information is known about possible changes in fuel quality, which may have contributed to the improvement in steam production.) At 6¢ per kWh, this represents a potential increase in revenue of $480,000 per year. Furthermore, it can be inferred from figures 2 and 3 that in manual mode the CO emissions were significant, and in the auto mode the emissions were negligible.
To maximize steam flow and to minimize emissions problems, the combustion process must be stable. An O2 controller is designed specifically to stabilize combustion. Although a pressure-controlled system may be better than a manual system, a pressure-controlled system is designed to correct an error in drum pressure that has already happened. An O2 controller can predict and prevent the error from happening.
In the case study of boiler #1, the O2 controller helped the plant to produce more steam. It enabled the plant to run with a lower average percent O2, lowering operating costs, and the increased stability of the combustion process helped to minimize emissions violations.
About the Authors
Andrew Gentile, PE, is the president of Gentile Engineering, Inc. where he does design work in electrical power distribution and control systems. He is currently working in the petroleum industry developing control standards for distributed networks in pipeline applications.
Sheldon Schultz, PE, is the general manager of Yanke Energy, Inc. Schultz has designed, built, and operated numerous renewable energy generation facilities. He is currently doing consulting work for biomass facilities. He specializes in improving boiler performance and emissions control.
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