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Why a Boy's School
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About PDS: Our Mission & Vision
Leadership & Faculty
Working at PDS
Discover PDS
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Why PDS?
What does the future of K-12 education look like?
How can we prepare students for their future and not our past? At Presbyterian Day School, we're not just asking that question, we're working on answering it by leading the way with an innovative approach to elementary education.
About Presbyterian Day School
Our mission statement is the same as it was in 1949:
Presbyterian Day School strives to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man
Someone famous in (1 Corinthians 10:31 and Luke 2:52).
No one knows boys better.
At Presbyterian Day School, we know how to teach boys, reach them, and channel their energies in positive and productive ways.
Boys Thrive at PDS
PDS is a school of tomorrow for the world of tomorrow. Our curriculum focuses on critical and creative thinking, connecting ideas and collaboration. It is both challenging and current...and engaging and exciting to boys.
Whether they are learning to draw, play an instrument, or shoot a basketball, boys love the hands-on, active, creative approach that we offer at PDS.
PDS Advancement Team
Chris Oliver
Chief Advancement Officer
Lyndsey Kelley
Interim Director of Admission
Winston Baccus
Director of Communication
Molly Beard
Assistant Director of Admission
Kim Bridgforth
Director of Annual Giving
Kristen Griffith
Advancement Assistant
Laura Lee Jones
Promotion & Sales Coordinator
Anne-Davis Vander Have
Director of Marketing and Summer Programs
Young Scholars
Annual Giving Report - 2021-2022
At the core, the work of a school boils down to students and teachers. The culmination of what we do as an organization is on display at graduation. That's our product — a PDS graduate — and teachers are the ones in direct contact with the boys, shaping and molding them.
But it takes a lot of support staff to help us get to that point at graduation from our custodial staff to our technology department.
The school's advancement team helps augment the amazing work that teachers do in the classroom to help the school in its mission to "develop boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man."
To help you process some of the ways Advancement serves the school, let's look at just some of the ways in which the work of the Advancement team intersects with a PDS family's experience at PDS and even beyond. Along the way we'll highlight some of the members of our team so that you know a little more about what they do.
Simplied, the purpose of Advancement is to ENGAGE the PDS community at various points in their life cycle, DISCERN their needs, interests, and passions, CONNECT them to the school in ways that align with those needs, interests, and passions, and COMMUNICATE with them in meaningful ways.
At PDS, we have boys during the most formative years of their lives. We don't quite get the boys from cradle to graduation but our relationships with families and boys can start as young as the toddler years. Our Toddler Time Admission events are led in part by Molly Beard, our Assistant Director of Admission. Molly has been with PDS since 2013, she started out in our Early Childhood classrooms, and now she serves in the Admission office.
One way a family may be introduced to our school is via one of our social media channels. They may see a post that is talking about a great classroom experience, maybe it's duck-hunt math or JK boys dissecting sheep hearts. That's where Anne-Davis Vander Have comes in. Anne-Davis joined the school in 2019. She previously had a title with a bunch of commas in it: Advancement Officer, Alumni, Public Relations & Social Media Coordinator, indicative of the multiple roles she plays in Advancement tasks.
One of the first interactions prospective families have with PDS is through the website. After a toddler event or seeing a social media post or ad, they can visit our website to learn more. If you spend a few minutes looking through the website, you'll gain a new appreciation for just how much information is on it beyond the home page and the news page. Most independent schools pay a company tens of thousands of dollars to design, develop and maintain their site, but since 2003, Winston Baccus, Director of Creative Services, has developed and maintained our website. Winston's role is basically to oversee anything with a PDS shield on it, along with making sure that what we're doing as a school gets communicated to our parents.
As a boy grows out of the toddler stage, it's time for families to begin looking at schools. That's when Lyndsey Kelley, our Interim Director of Admission comes in. Lyndsey has been with PDS since 2016. You'll Lyndsey giving tours, setting up testing, and hosting admission events. She loves introducing prospective parents to lots of teachers, so feel free to say hi when you see her in the hall or looking into your classroom.
While the work of admission in a family's PDS years goes on through the re-enrollment process each year, once a family enrolls one of the first experiences they'll have is probably the Buddy Party one of the many special events that is coordinated by the next member of our team, Cynthia Cross, Director of Special Events. Cynthia has been with PDS since 2008 after having been a PDS mom. She even did the yearbook before Casey Smith took it over.
Cynthia's interactions and impact on PDS boys and families continues all the way to graduation and even beyond when our boys graduate from high school and they come back to a reception. Whether it's Grandparents' Day, Father/Son Dinner, or the Book Fair, Cynthia is coordinating and managing parent volunteers to make it happen.
Moving onward through a boy's PDS years, families may begin to utilize another program that the Advancement team manages: our summer camp program. The Advancement department has always played a role in communicating about summer and with helping with online registration, but last year we took over the reigns of the program to redevelop and relaunch a full summer of camps, with offerings for all grades every week of the summer.
One of the more complicated processes our department keeps up with is all the data from our entire PDS family. If a family moves to a new house or even gets a new cell phone number or email address. If you've ever moved, you've probably dealt with organizations that don't get this right. It's a complicated process because we have multiple departments in the school that need that information and none of the databases talk to each other. There's the admission database, the business office database, PowerSchool, the donor database. Kim Bridgforth, our Director of Annual Giving, works with Lyndsey to help us keep up-to-date records for all of our students — including not just their parents, but also their grandparents and the thousands of alumni records.
That's not Kim's main focus though, her main job is all about raising money to help supplement our budget. The Annual Fund helps us make up the difference between what it costs to run the school and the amount of tuition money that comes in each year. If a boy gets sick or hurt, the Annual Fund helps us pay to have a full-time nurse, pay for security guards, and much more.
Our offices' fundraising efforts don't stop there. While you hear much more publicly said about Annual Fund, Chris Oliver, our Chielf Advancement Officer is also working behind the scenes to help in all aspects of Advancement including raising money to support our other programs and projects. Over the last few years, we are averaging over $1 million dollars a year raised through the Annual Fund and other strategic projects.
As you can see from the word cloud below, this only scratches the surface of what the Advancement office does to help advance the mission of the school.
Presbyterian Day School (PDS) is a private, Christian preschool and elementary school serving boys from 2-years-old through 6th grade for almost 75 years.
With our mission of striving to glorify God by developing boys in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man, we take a holistic approach to education, nurturing the heart, soul, mind, and body of each boy.


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VOR 2017-18 — 30 July 2017
A Plastic Ocean
Mirpuri Foundation's participation in the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race is a big step forward raising awareness of the ocean pollution dangers revealed in the "A Plastic Ocean" documentary.
The Foundation's "Turn the Tide on Plastic" team, led by skipper Dee Caffari, will sail across the world with a powerful sustainability message.
"A Plastic Ocean" is a documentary made by Craig Leeson, a journalist who found plastic waste in the ocean during his search for the elusive blue whale. He then travelled to twenty locations around the world for four years to explore the state of our oceans and uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution.
Eight million tons of plastic are dumped into the ocean every year. That's a garbage truck per minute.
Specialists say that, if no action is taken, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050.
"We must act now", says Paulo Mirpuri, Foundation's President and Founder. Ocean waste impacts the health of marine ecosystems and, therefore, human health as well.
VOR 2017-18 — 26 April 2019
Winners of BT Sport Industry Awards
The Ocean Race has won two BT Sport Industry Awards, earning recognition amongst some of the world's biggest sporting brands and organisations by scooping the Cutting Edge Sport Award and...
VOR 2017-18 — 10 December 2018
Global leader in sport and sustainability
The sustainability programme of Volvo Ocean Race with Principal Partner Mirpuri Foundation, created to find solutions to the impacts plastic is having on our seas, came out on top in...

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Lockwood Design Associates is guided by a commitment to provide our clients with high-quality, creative architectural design. The ability to successfully meet each project's budgetary and time considerations is what has established us in the architecture and design industry.
We work in partnership with our clients from the initial meeting through project design completion. That is how we earned our reputation as a quality architectural design firm. We have a proven record for turning design challenges into creative solutions. This is prevalent as you view some of these past projects.
– View a List of LDA Projects and Clients.
After the Carmel Library moved to its new facility, it was re-purposed and renovated for use as a community learning center, providing multipurpose meeting rooms and classrooms for continuing education.
– Library furnishings were salvaged, re-furbished and re-used throughout the project.
– Existing modular carpeting was salvaged, cleaned and re-used.
Click on any photo to start the photo gallery. Click on the photo you're viewing to end the gallery.
– Constructed in 1801 at the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Children's Home, Lincoln Hall serves as the campus chapel, auditorium and theater.
– Unique to the building are two large ornate stained glass windows on both ends of the auditorium. One depicts a soldier and the other a sailor. There are also "Lincoln Head" auditorium theater seats with a bust of Lincoln on the aisle pedestals.
– Work included the restoration of the stained glass windows, wood paneling and ornate wood trusses. We also removed and restored existing plaster ceilings and walls, installed an exterior ramp for accessibility, and installed accessible washroom facilities.
– A new worship center for Lubavitch of Indiana that includes a prayer room, multi-use room, kitchen, administrative offices, library and classrooms. This project is currently slated for construction sometime in 2012.
Projected added a new sanctuary and entrance foyer to an existing building.
– Project included a new entrance and narthex, fellowship hall, chapel, administrative offices and choir rehearsal room.
– National corporate offices for Nightingale Home Healthcare, Inc.
– Converted vacant first floor into offices and training rooms.
– Building size is 30,000-square-feet.
– Construction cost was $4.2 million.
– Addition made to an existing facility.
– New glass atrium connects existing building to the addition.
– Included full basement under the addition,.
– Staff sized doubled from 6 personnel to 12.
– Station became home for Carmel Fire Department's tactical unit.
– Addition size was 6,783-square-feet.
– Construction cost was $1.5 million.
Please note: Some of these projects (renovations/additions) were performed by Dennis Lockwood while serving as Project Architect for other firms.


I am broadcasting from New York City's Legal Tech show, the mama of all of the mama's as far as legal nerd conventions are concerned.
Hence, there will be no posts of substance until this Thursday. I plan to post a full report upon my return from the show. Hang in there for me.


I created this blog in March 2010 during my first year in Hawaii. It replaced an email newsletter I sent to romance readers who wanted to support military families. The blog grew to include book reviews, author interviews, Hawaiian culture, and international travel.
My blog allowed me to connect with other romance readers - we celebrated the hope in our beloved books. We also mailed hundreds of letters to deployed personnel.
`A`ohe lokomaika`i i nele i ke pâna`i.
No kind deed has ever lacked its reward.
My part time job is now migrating to full time work. I also have increased responsibilities with my ohana. Thus, I am taking a temporary hiatus from SOS Aloha.
I will still post reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. I will post the links to those reviews on Facebook (link) and Twitter (link) - make sure you follow me on Social Media!
Likewise, I will continue to post travel adventures over at ALOHA ON MY MIND (link).
I welcome your emails to chit chat at sos.aloha@yahoo.com.
I have contacted this week's winners. I still have books to giveaway ... I'll let you know via Facebook and Twitter when I am hosting giveaways!
Thank you for being a part of my journey as a reader, reviewer, blogger, and advocate for military families.
I'll miss your daily blog but I know how much work goes into doing one everyday. All the best....see you on Facebook and Aloha on My Mind!
Aloha my friend. Hope to see you around - take care.
Thank you for everything, Kim! Best of luck with your work & family, and glad you will still stay plugged in to other media formats. Your blog has been one that I have consistently followed, as you seem to review books by authors that I love.
I will miss you. Thank you for spending time with us and good luck with your family and your blog.
I will miss the daily blog, but will certainly be in touch and see you on Facebook. I look forward to the posts on Aloha on my Mind. And I was so happy to meet you in person! Looking forward to seeing you again Kim. Mahalo for everything!
Will miss the daily posts. Thanks, Kim.
Thanks so much for 6 years of fun and frolic and information shared!!! Glad to know you'll still be around, just not blogging!!
I completely understand! I've had to do that on occasion myself. Thank you for all your hard work on the blog! I wish you well!
I've enjoyed your posts but have wondered how you did it all! I thought maybe you didn't require much sleep! See you on FB!
Best wishes in your new adventures, Kim. I wish you much success and will be waiting for your blog return. Take care.
Best of luck with the job. I will miss hearing about new books and authors as well as the military tid-bits. Thank you for all the great giveaways over the years. Will you still be able to attend RT and RWA? Your sessions were enjoyable.
All the very best!!! Always such a pleasure to visit with you.
Taking a break is understandable, but I'll miss your daily blog posts!
The best of luck Kim . Will miss your great posts and interviews. I don't have FB but will catch your reviews.
Have fun in your new endeavor,. I wish you all the luck. It was fun!
Wishing you all the best, Kim! You're a wonderful advocate for romance and military families. Glad to hear you'll still be on social media. You've always been a highlight of my RWA conferences. I'm so happy Cathy introduced us!
Totally understandable. Thank you for the many times of fun on here and I do wish you the best in your job!
Believe me, I know what it's like when you've got work and family obligations demanding your time. It's amazing any of us ever has time to get reading done.
I'm really going to miss you're daily blog posts but glad to hear you'll still be on social media. Good luck with the changes coming in your life. Hopefully one day you'll be back to blogging more regularly.
Good luck with all your changes Kim. We will miss you, but will try to keep in touch. HUGS!


Hey ladies! I hope you're all staying warm cause currently where I live it's 10 degrees and constantly snowing :( I seriously can't stand winter but if I get to wear awesome coats like this J. Crew one then I guess I can survive it. One of my favorite colors is mint so when I saw this at the outlet back in November, I just knew I had to have it! (P.S. look how short my hair is back in November, why does short hair grow so quick?!). Anyways, the coat is super warm since it's wool and is a nice change from the usual dark colors that we see around this time of year. It also comes in grey just in case you don't feel like wearing anything this bright.
I noticed everyone's going back to work after the holidays and it made me grateful that I still have until next Thursday before I have to go back to school. One of the few perks of being a college kid haha. Is it just me or did break go by ridiculously fast?! I'm totally not ready for the semester to start and have gotten way too used to wearing leggings everyday over break so I'm really not in the mood to wear normal clothes again.
Very cute coat - I love the color!
I love this coat! The color is fabulous!
Pastels for the winter are my favorite! This coat is gorgeous!
So cute! I love pastels for winter, its so bright and fun!
I love pastels for winter! Also in love with your coat and purse! so cute!!
We haven't seen snow in Southern PA since last February!
That jacket is gorgeous!! I LOVE the color of it!
And paired with that purse it reminds me of cotton candy which I absolutely adore.
I love the colour of your jacket! It is just beautiful!
Cute coat!!! I have one just like it!
What a gorgeous coat! I love the unique color.
Love the mixture of colors!
I've been obsessed with all things coats and Jcrew recently so I may or may not need to get this. I like how it is sort of like a more stylish Northface. Looks really warm!
That coat is incredible! I love the clean lines of it, and I bet that ice blue looks amazing against the snow!
adore that coat! wow!! I need it!
It is definitely nice to have time after the holidays to decompress before starting school again. That is such a great coat!
That's such a unique color for a coat!
Love the coat! Enjoy the rest of your break!
Tiffany Blue is one of my favorite colors! I love this coat so much, it's perfect for staying warm in the winter time. Loved this look so much!
I'm obsessed with that coat! It's beautiful!
I love the color and the clean lines of this coat!
Love that coat! It is such a gorgeous shade of icy blue and you look so cozy in it. This is such a great look!
Loving that coat! I have been needing a new coat, but with the weather being so warm until this week, I haven't thought to get a new one!
Gorgeous! Love the pink purse against the blue. Beautiful look!


DJO, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and understands the importance of safeguarding your medical information. We are required by federal law to maintain the privacy of health information that identifies you or that could be used to identify you (known as "Protected Health Information" or "PHI"). We also are required to provide you with this Notice of Privacy Practices, which explains our legal duties and privacy practices, as well as your rights, with respect to PHI that we collect and maintain. DJO, LLC is required by federal law to abide by this Notice. However, we reserve the right to change the privacy practices described in this Notice and make the new practices effective for all PHI that we maintain. Should we make such a change, you may obtain a revised Notice by calling our office and requesting a revised copy be sent in the mail, or accessing our website at djoglobal.com.
For Treatment: We will use and disclose your PHI to provide, coordinate, or manage your treatment. For example, we will disclose your PHI, as necessary, to the physician that referred you to us.
For Payment: Your PHI will be used, as needed, to obtain payment for the health care services we provide you. For example, we may tell your health plan about an orthotic device you will receive to determine whether your plan will cover the device.
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E. You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures that we have made of your PHI. You have the right to receive an accounting of certain disclosures we have made, if any, of your PHI. This right only applies to disclosures for purposes other than treatment, payment or health care operations as described in this Notice. It also excludes disclosures we may have made to you, your family members or friends involved in your care. The right to receive this information is subject to certain exceptions, restrictions and limitations. You must specify a time period, which may not be longer than 6 years and cannot include any date before April 14, 2003. You may request a shorter timeframe. You have the right to one free request within any 12-month period, but we may charge you for any additional requests in the same 12-month period. We will notify you about any such charges, and you are free to withdraw or modify your request in writing before any charges are incurred.
F. You have the right to obtain a paper copy of this notice from us.
We will not retaliate against you in any way for filing a complaint. You may also submit your complaint to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
This is a revision to a notice that was first published and effective April 14, 2003.
This notice is effective on June 1, 2013.


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Q: how to get deleted items from parse platform database? I'm working on an application that requires offline operation, and the  Parse local datastore not work for me.
when some change occurs while the application is closed, that is, the subscriptions are not active, i can get created and updated items with createdAt and updatedAt fields, but in case of deleted items, i cant recover them.
any idea about how to solve this
I thought about creating a field that records the date it was "removed", and using it as a filter to remove them from my application
const createdAt = new Parse.Query("AnyClass");
createdAt.greaterThan("createdAt", new Date(1560443963000));

const updatedAt = new Parse.Query("AnyClass");
updatedAt.greaterThan("updatedAt",  new Date(1560443963000) );

const mainQuery = Parse.Query.or(createdAt, updatedAt);
mainQuery.find()

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Q: Invalid or unsupported currency code paypal error when using multiple currency I am using payflow pro. When I use currency code 'USD' all payment flow's works fine. But when I change currency code to 'CAD' it will return error with result code 06 which means Invalid or unsupported currency code. How to solve this problem?

A: This is not problem with your code.
Following  https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/api/currency_codes/
Payment Receiving Preferences
If you have a PayPal Premier or Business account, configure your Payment
Receiving Preferences to handle payments automatically. You can convert
any payment into your primary currency or block certain types of payments.

You can set the following:

Block or unblock payments from U.S. customers who don't have a confirmed address.
Block or unblock payments sent to you in a currency you don't hold.
Block or unblock payments for duplicate invoice IDs.
Block or unblock payments from customers who have non-U.S. PayPal accounts.
Block or unblock payments from Student Account holders.

Log in to your PayPal business account at www.paypal.com. Click the
 profile icon (Profile menu) on the top right side of the page. From the
 Business Profile menu, select Profile and Settings.

Note: If you do not see the profile icon on the top right, select
Profile which appears in the top menu when the My Account tab is selected.

From the left menu, click My selling tools.

In the Getting paid and managing my risk section, click the Update link
 for the Block Payments item.

Update your settings and click Save.

A: Just happened to hit this problem with Magento 2.3.1, when paying with credit card against PayPal Payflow Pro. Our default currency for the store is "CAD".
The support team is super, after our several failed transactions they managed to figure our the problem, let me share their reply here:

Thanks for reaching out today. Happy to help.
It looks as though this is an issue with the currency code you're passing. Right now it appears you're trying to pass USD in on the $0.00 verification call, but CAD on the actual 2.20 transaction itself. When you verify a card, the transaction you attempt against that verification must use the same currency. Try passing the subsequent transaction with USD, or create the verification in CAD and then run the transaction against it using CAD. See https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/payflow/integration-guide/#submitting-account-verifications for more on verifications. That's a great resource for Payflow in general as well.
That should resolve the issue you're seeing, but please let us know if you run into any other issues.
I hope that helps. Let us know if you have any questions.

That says for two API calls from our server (Magento 2.3.1) to PayPal need to specify the same currency code. While our first API call which sending amt=0 field doesn't have separate currency field there, so I guess the default value was assigned which is "USD". While the second API call which sending the real amt number had currency=CAD field, that might confused the API and eventually refused by it.
For Magento 2.3.1 the fix is to add the currency filed for the first API call, which the same idea may apply to other conditions as well.
Here is the Magento fix in case you are interested.


I've been really busy and so I've been having a hard time lately with this blog. For the most part, that's because I really only ever wanted to talk about positive things, and not get down in the negative gutter about Christian issues. Even though I occasionally rag on Darwin Speak, I do it to uplift people so that they won't let anyone tear God down.
But lately the only stuff in the news deals with the ugliest presidential election I've ever seen. This has been weighing on me, so I'm going to post this one negative blog and be done with it.
The other day, Donald Trump was at a rally where he asked all "Conservative Christians" to raise their hands. Apparently, he thinks all "Conservative Christians" are for him, because when some didn't raise their hands, he said, "Well, I suppose we can let them stay," or something like that. In the story about this meeting, the reporter also talked about Trump's support by "Evangelical Christians." All these labels got me thinking about a few basic notions.
This next notion, though, is new to this blog, which deals with what it means to be an "Evangelical Christian." To me, if you're an Evangelical Christian, then you believe in the Bible and all it teaches, and you feel you have a responsibility to help others understand the good news presented in it. That much is clear. But if you believe in the Bible and all it teaches, you must be able to see that the Republican nominee for president is about as far away from the Bible and what it teaches – about as far away from Jesus as a model – as someone can possibly be. In a previous blog, I already wrote that one of the central tenants of Donald Trump's existence is his belief in doing unto others as or before they do unto you, which is, by the way, a central tenet of Satanism. And since I wrote that blog, I've seen one thing after another that makes me think that he could care less about any person other than himself. Certainly not his neighbor, and certainly not God. In short, there's virtually nothing that this nominee does that in any way looks or feels like something Jesus would do (by the way, I wrote this draft about a week ago – before the amazingly vulgar things reported yesterday). The Bible talks about recognizing certain people by their fruits, and by fruits it doesn't mean money, or structures, or any other natural world things. It means by their spiritual fruits. Unfortunately, in the case of Mr. Trump, the fruit tree is incredibly barren, maybe even dead. Yes, God loves Donald Trump, and yes, Evangelical Christians should attempt to reach him and minister to him. But for goodness sake, they should never vote for him.
Now this last notion is based on the fact that this blog is designed for Christians, and, in particular, Christians who are charismatic and open to the supernatural in their lives. If you aren't, then I can guarantee that you'll simply find what I have to say silly. But here goes. In supernatural and charismatic circles, I'm what's called a prophet in the church, which only means that I'm really good at sensing good and evil in people and situations around me. And folks, let me tell you that the Republican nominee for president of the United States is operating mostly – if not entirely – out of evil. Some say he has a demon, which is probably true since most demons are incredibly dumb and often tip their hands, which makes them easier to spot. No, I don't think he's the antichrist, because the antichrist is supposed to be pretty smart.
But here's the bigger deal, supernaturally speaking. We all know that God runs everything, and so if this nominee – a person who continually, day after day, does about a million things that would normally disqualify any other candidate for doing only one – actually wins this election, you will most definitely know that it's a supernatural event. And if it's that much of a big-deal, supernatural event, then watch out because that means that God wanted him in there for a reason. I believe we're getting quite close to what we all call the End Times, and electing a president who is more capable than most of triggering events leading to those End Times is something that actually makes a bit of sense in an otherwise crazy, nonsensical election.
Oh, and because someone once questioned my street cred, politically speaking, I should tell you that my family is and was incredibly political. My grandfather was Republican Party Chairman for Kansas and ran around with Alf Landon, who was the Republican nominee for President in 1936. My dad was the state's youngest party chairman ever, and gave a nominating speech at the Republican National Convention in 1968. I grew up attending conventions, party meetings, and various political campaign events. I worked on countless campaigns before I knew any better, and a presidential campaign when I did know better. My brother worked on two. I've been registered as a Republican since I was 18, even though I don't always vote that way and I vote so less and less every year.
I say all this merely to note that in the natural world I suppose I'm a Republican. In the supernatural world, though, I'm a follower of Jesus, which means I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I'm a follower of Jesus. I suppose most would call that a Christian, and maybe even an Evangelical or Charismatic Christian, but I'm definitely not "conservative" or a "liberal" Christian. And in any event, I can't possibly vote for Donald Trump.


The group, as it often is, is from varying backgrounds, brought together through facilitation work and the interest in taking the work further and deeper. We talked about different kinds of agendas, about the development and suitability of different ones for different circumstances.
This year I am very excited to host two workshops focused on the use of visuals in our facilitation practice. This is being developed with Nancy White (my co-conspirator of the last six years). We are treading into new territory as we explore the role of visuals in design and facilitation. We are looking to push our boundaries (and yours) in terms of the role of visuals in design and facilitation. What is the process of others capturing and harvesting content?
In Lyon, I really stepped into a new domain for me, Open Source Software (OSS) development. day gathering of mostly French and Italian OSS developers and academics, along with a few philosophers and inventors thrown in to spice up the mix. I'm home from another adventure!
Objective of the workshop: Introduce researchers, communications professionals and knowledge sharing practitioners to social media tools and support their social media strategy development. Develop your strategy.
Dev: Dr. Steve Eskow Published by Nancy White at 5:41 am under international development , non profits/ngos , podcasts , social media , technology stewardship Finally, I have grabbed a few minutes to add the next couple of podcasts in the series on Social Media in International Development.
Relationships develop over time. It's an almost inevitable development, given the way Web2.0 But I do know individuals can catalyze and create community – it just takes 2 to start and that we don't have to rely on formal organizational development paths.


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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? READING 1978-79 FOURTH DIVISION CHAMPIONS
LAWRIE SANCHEZ admits that he thought every season in professional football was going to be like his first when he helped Reading to the Fourth Division title.
Sanchez was straight out of Catholic Boys School Presentation College after doing his A levels when he broke into the Royals first team squad on a regular basis.
He had made his debut the previous season as a schoolboy before going on to study management science at Loughborough University while still playing for the club.
"When I finished my A levels manager Maurice Evans asked, 'Do you want to sign pro?'. I said 'yes' and I wanted to spend some time improving my grades before going to Loughborough.
"A year playing football would give me the chance to do that. We won the league and I thought that was what football was about, winning a trophy every year.
"It's not until you finish playing that you realise events like that are few and far between unless you're playing for Man Utd.
"It was all new to me. I used to come home from training at two and then sleep until five or six and my mum thought there was something wrong with me.
"I finished my final exam on the Friday and started pre-season training on the Monday. It was quite a shock.
"I remember sitting in the dressing room for my first few months listening to the tales of what went on on a Saturday night. I just sat there with my mouth open and my jaw dropped!"
Reading were crowned champions after going unbeaten in their last 11 games, eight of which they won without conceding a goal.
Royals keeper Steve Death set a Football League record of 1,103 minutes without conceding a goal and it has been beaten only once since – by Edin Van der Sar.
Death's run, which continued into the following season, saw Reading take the title from Grimsby Town by a four point margin.
Sanchez says: "Steve was one of the smallest goalkeepers in the League but he was an extraordinary goalkeeper.
"He never did a thing in training. In fact if we ever did shooting in training, he just stood in the centre of goal. If the ball went near him he elbowed it or punched it out.
"But if the ball went into the corner he just stood there. He wouldn't dive in training, which was frustrating. Then come Saturday he was superb."
Death's record sequence ended the following season and even then it wasn't an opposition player who beat him, it was an own goal from Stewart Henderson who was player-coach at the time.
BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT:
1. Ollie Kearns: He lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire and has had a success career in property development.
2. Martin Hicks: The Royals record appearance holder returned to his native Stratford-Upon Avon where he is working as a postman.
3. Sean Price: He is living in Saxmundham, Suffolk running his own tree clearance business.
4. Paul Miles: A local player who continues to live and work in the Berkshire area.
5. Dave Moreline: Now living in Rainham, Essex and works locally as a postman.
6. Jerry Williams: He lives in West Hagbourne, near Didcot and went into the financial services sector as an insurance broker for Premier Financial Management in Woodstock.
MIDDLE ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
7. Paul Bennett: He spent four years in eduction at a school in Southampton where he now lectures in business studies and he is a director of the Eastpoint Centre.
8. Gary Peters: Has managed Preston North End, Exeter City and Shrewsbury Town. Is now football consultant to Midas Sports Management, also has property interests.
9. Steve Death: He lived in Reading and worked as a greenkeeper at Mapledurham Golf Club until his untimely death from cancer in October 2003 aged 54.
10. Jimmy Gordon: Now living in Saxilby, Lincolnshire where he ran his own newsagency.
11. Lawrie Sanchez: He lives in Reading and has managed Sligo Rovers, Wycombe Wanderers, Northern Ireland, Fulham and Barnet.
12. Mike Kearney: The father-in-law of Brendan Rodgers, was associated with the club for 35 years and worked as facilities manager until retiring in the summer.
FRONT ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
13. Alan Lewis: Lives in the Reading area and works in the building industry as a foreman for a building contractor.
14. Wayne Wanklyn: Lives in Wokingham, Berkshire and has worked as a sales controller at Nestlé for over 26 years. He has managed Wokingham & Emmbrook.
15. Pat Earles: He lives in Southampton and works locally as a probation officer.
16. Steve Hetzke: He lives near Newbury, Berkshire and is employed by the Premier League as a technical monitor.
17. Roy Davies: Based in the London area and earning a living as a professional musician.
18. Mark White: He lives in the Reading area and is working as a chartered physiotherapist with the Royal Berkshire NHS Trust.
19. Martyn Britten: Lives in Butcombe in north Somerset. He has worked as a bricklayer but is now running his own building company.
20. Richie Bowman: Based in Eltham, South East London, he was a restaurant proprietor but now owns a London sandwich shop.
John Alexander: He took a job at the BBC before going back into football as club secretary at Watford, Tottenham Hotspur and now Manchester United.
George Shipley: Has been youth team boss at Gillingham and Middlesbrough, assistant manager at Bradford City, and fundraising manager for Newcastle's community scheme.
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NEVERLAND – MOVIE MAVIN MAKES A MOVIE
A little over a year ago I created a post alluding to a short I had written for a competition. While the competition fell through a 6 minute video was produced by a truly lovely man named Robert Campbell through his business CCS Video in England. Also volunteering their time and talents were Alice Ryan and Kristian Evans as lead actors and Tony Maas in a supporting role. My dear friend Stuart White (published author and screenwriter par excellence – see his page on us.imdb.com which has only some of his accomplishments) and his best friend, the incredibly clever and brilliant photographer, Dave Thorpe graciously and generously showed up to lend support and encouragement as my representatives, as the trip to England for this was just not practically possible for me at the time. Also lending their time and talents to see this project to fruition were: aerial cinematographer and production assistant Roger Allen, assistant director and sound engineer James Skinner, production assistant Michael Winborne, composers Dimitrs Keramidakis, and Enrique Cervera, as well as the kind cooperation of City West Homes.
I will be grateful to all of these people – most of whom I will likely never meet – for the rest of my days, for bringing to life the singular vision I had and breathing life into characters which were only ephemeral specters in my head and words on a page, until these wonderful people created this brief moment which I now share.
While it is too large to place on this blog, the site for accessing this film is here: Neverland.
Please send comments and let me know what you think.
Thanks – Home School Mom Movie Mavin
Posted on July 9, 2019 July 16, 2019 Tags aerial, Alice Ryan, apocalypse, Armaggedon, asteroid, cataclysm, CCS Video, cinematographer, City West Homes, David Thorpe, Dimitrs Keramidakis, director, engineer, England, Enrique Cervera, gas mask, homeschoolmommoviemavin, independent, independent movie, James Skinner, Kristian Evans, meteor, Michael Winborne, Neverland, Peter Pan, Robert Campbell, Roger Allen, sand storm, security guard, short, Stuart White, Tony Maas, video, WendyLeave a comment on NEVERLAND – MOVIE MAVIN MAKES A MOVIE
EARLY MAN – LAUGH AS WALLACE AND GROMIT MEETS EVERY SPORTS MOVIE CLICHE KNOWN TO MAN
Adorable, funny, family friendly, typical sports outing about an underdog cavemen team playing soccer against a more sophisticated "Bronze Age" team to win their valley back, all brought to us by Nick Park and friends, the creators of SHAUN THE SHEEP!!!
WHO SHOULD SEE IT:
If you like Wallace and Gromit or Shaun the Sheep or Chicken Run or The Wrong Trousers or…. oh EVERYBODY!!!
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What do the fantasy franchises: Harry Potter, The Avengers, Game of Thrones and……. Wallace and Gromit have in common? Wallace and Gromit????!!!!
The answer is: Early Man.
Early Man is an adorable plasticine animation feature length movie brought to you by the same instigators, led by Nick Park, who created The Wrong Trousers, and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
With tongue firmly planted in cheek, the story is spun about the lives of a group of Cavemen who were forced into the lone habitable spot by a meteor which devastated the rest of the known Earth. Their valley is lush and green, where all about them is the Badlands: with dangerous mutant animals, harsh rocky ground, and volcanos. The Badlands looks a bit like I'd imagine the Wembley Stadium parking lot after an EFL Championship game. But there are a couple of silver linings. Not only did the meteor strike carve out at least this one fertile area but the meteor, itself, also gave them the template for history's first football. By that, for those of you reading in America, I mean soccer. But the Brits call it football, so there it is.
Fast forward a couple "eras" and Dug (voiced by Eddie Redmayne – Newt Scamander from the "Harry Potter" world of Fantastic Beasts) and the tribe of which he is a member, happily lives on fruits, nuts and the odd rabbit (which said presented rabbit is about as catchable as Bugs Bunny so, in effect, they are de facto vegetarians). But Dug is ambitious – he wants to hunt mammoths………!
But that's not what the story is about. Their idyll is interrupted when Lord Nooth (voiced by The Avengers' Tom Hiddleson) sporting an impenetrable guise of Italian accent, comes upon the scene with equipment made of the bronze which he has mined from his nearby kingdom.
Dug challenges them to a game of soccer/football to win their valley back. Completely outmatched, Dug's group has no equipment, no training, no experience and doesn't even know the rules, but his chutzpah gets the attention of a local girl, Goona (voiced by Game of Thrones' Maizie Williams) from the Bronze kingdom who coaches Dug's tribe in exchange for a spot on the team. Nick Par, the creator, even lends a hand — or voice — for the emotive and communicative grunts and snorts of Dug's intelligent pig, Hognob.
The story is a pretty formulaic case of underdog team goes up against much better players with nothing but a good cause, lots of heart, and a ringer. We've seen the like in everything from The Karate Kid (karate) to Facing the Giants (American football) to Bad News Bears (baseball) to Mystery Alaska (hockey) and Balls of Fury (ping pong), and it works — every — time because, as Patton put it so well – "Americans love a winner" and everyone loves the underdog because in them we all find inspiration. But this time it's played for laughs, parodying the sport, the genre, diva professional players, sports announcers, a "win one for the Gipper" moment, a hen pecked husband, you name it.
It's a clean, gentle, lovable movie that kids will enjoy for the claymation/plasticine animation and adults will appreciate for the pokes at the cliches. While there is a good deal of spoofing and teasing, there's not a mean spot in Nick Park's entire imaginative brain.
The cast list is like an old home week of favorite kids' characters, especially from the Harry Potter franchise. So when you take your kids you can happily point out that Eddie Redmayne is both Dug and Newt Scamander. Timothy Spall, who voiced Chief Bobnar also moonlighted as Peter Pettigrew. Mark Williams, who does the voice for Barry, was also Mr. Weasley.
Miriam Margolyes, who voices Queen Oofeefa was also Professor Sprout. And Tom Hiddleson is Lord Nooth and Loki! I'll let you figure out how to explain Maisie Williams' stint in Game of Thrones. But, if it helps, she was also in a handful of Dr. Whos.
Early Man is available on Amazon now. So go watch this cute movie that will be delightful to kids, footballers, adults, fans of Wallace and Gromit, Harry Potter afficianados, pig farmers, rabbits, cavemen ………………
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I HAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE
OK BOYS AND GIRLS – I HAVE A CONFESSION. I wrote a two minute short and entered it into a competition – the challenge: what story could you tell in two minutes if your characters had only hours, or minutes before an Earth shattering – no last minute reprieve – meteor was going to hit Earth? I won one of the 50 spots. Stuart White, one of my guest reviewers, and, I am very pleased to say a good friend, won a spot as well. There are 50 shorts – 2 minute spots from 50 different screenwriters were or will be filmed and compose one 100 minute movie.
Although the video will not be out for a while yet as not even all the shorts have been finalized, Chris Jones – the orchestrator of the project – just released the trailer. Here it is.
So — the movie reviewer has had a hand in writing a movie. I am only one of fifty but win, lose, or draw I am complicit in Impact 50's creation.
While you won't be able to see my short until the film comes out, tell me what you think of the idea of the project in general and this trailer in particular. FYI none of the filmed portions of my short are in the trailer but there are some truly stunning bits shown.
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Home composting is the stuff great gardens are made of and you'd be hard-pressed to grow an organic garden (or be a true Treehugger) without it. This is where we get into our bonafide Dirt Worshipper doctrine. It's where we break out the Holy Grail of Hippie Commandments and permanently soil our fingernails for the good of mankind while we discuss the wonders of Black Gold.
Compost is decomposed (broken down) matter consisting of organic materials, such as food scraps or yard debris. Organic matter in the right conditions will decay through the activity of aerobic bacteria and micro-organisms, which break down the ingredients into a usable form. By creating a home composting pile, you are creating exactly what nature creates when matter decomposes - a natural fertilizer, a soil builder and a cycle of life not sustained in a landfill.
Nearly 25% of all landfill waste could have been composted into a rich, beneficial resource.
Compost consists of a high concentration of minerals and nutrients to fertilize plants and trees.
It retains moisture better than most soils and thus helps to maintain healthy plant life and decrease evaporation.
It helps us to never waste a single penny of our grocery budget by tossing food scraps.
Compost can be used indoors in houseplants or anywhere outdoors.
When planting new plants it can be mixed into the soil as a fertilizer, added to potting soil for container gardening or used as a mulch atop the soil and around the plant.
In our modern society, we unwittingly erode our soil and diminish its ability to retain water or support life. Home composting helps reduce this soil erosion and prevent water runoff, especially in heavily compacted areas of dirt.
It reduces landfill (because organic matter will not break down when so tightly packed without the right conditions of air and water) and nourishes our land enabling us to get more use from it in the future.
Home composting continues the natural cycles of the Earth that we often interrupt with development and affords us more options down the road when we maintain healthy soil.
This requires a bit more attention. You can create hot compost in a pile, bin or container. You must have a balance of "greens" (nitrogen) and "browns" (carbons) to create a pile that will heat properly. The heat generated will rise the inner temperature of the pile to over 130 degrees. I think of "green" as things that are still moist or "alive" such as fruit and vegetable waste or fresh grass clippings. "Browns" are things such as sawdust, dried leaves or shredded paper. A hot pile works rather quickly to break down material but it will need to be kept moist (not soggy) and turned at least once a week or whenever the inside temperature cools down.
The drawback to a hot compost pile is a lower nitrogen level. The pile heats up by eating through your nitrogen and the more you turn it, the more it will heat up. However, if you need organic fertilizer fast, this is the way to do it.
This is usually what my home composting pile ends up becoming. The decay is slower but the effort is minimal. Simply find a spot (preferably an open space in the yard, rather than a container), pile up the compostable materials and let nature do its thing. You can turn this pile once to get the temperature rising and kill off any bad bacteria or sterilize seeds, but after that it's best to let it be. Because you're not keeping the pile moving, you are maintaining higher levels of nitrogen.
The drawback to this kind of home composting is a much slower breakdown of matter. Also, you will see more insects as they help to decompose the pile.
This is generally done in a container and uses worms to digest and produce worm castings (poop) of the scraps. Worms can be purchased through a plant nursery or bait and tackle shop or, worse case scenario, online. Using regular garden worms will not generally work as well as red wrigglers. Vermicomposting can also create a compost tea (water runoff from the bin) that can be used as an additional fertilizer. Worm compost is among the most beneficial of all and makes for a fun project for critter-loving kids.
The drawback of vermicomposting is in maintaining the worm bin, ensuring proper moisture and temperature, as well as the right levels of food. You also have to be more careful about what you add to the bin, as you can only add safe food matter.
Sometimes called the "Lazy Man's Compost" this is among the simplest to do and only involves burying waste underground. Many people bury it under new plants, or they create an in-ground waste collector (also known as, a giant hole) and covering it with soil as they add waste, then moving to a new spot when it's full. This method encourages earthworms and can occasionally surprise you with new fruit or vegetable plants grown from buried seeds!
The drawback to burying your compost is not having any when you need to amend soil, mulch or fertilize a plant organically.
Composting Worms: Red Wigglers are the most popular worms to use for composting kitchen scraps. They can eat up to their body weight in food each day (so 1 lb of worms will compost 1 lb of food scraps each day) and they quickly multiply.
Stainless Steel Kitchen Pail: Probably the most popular way to collect kitchen scraps and keep any odors trapped within the charcoal filter or liner until you can transfer them to your compost bin or pile, and it's one of the few that aren't plastic if you're trying to decrease your exposure to plastic in your home.
Worm Composting System: These tray systems are great for indoor or outdoor use. They help you to "harvest" your worm castings without having to sift through the worms, and also gives you a way to remove the compost tea easily.
Compost Activator for Hot Composting: This mix of fungi, bacteria, and nutrients helps to kickstart your compost pile, especially good if you're working with soil or an environment that has been treated with chemicals and have created an imbalance in your ecosystem.
Compost Tumbler: If you don't have the ability to leave your compost open, or you need an easy way to turn your compost pile without strain, using a tumbler is a great option. It also decreases the amount of time it takes to breakdown food and yard debris by turning it more often, easily.
What Can Be Composted and What Can't?
Any organic matter can be composted, but there are some things that are usually suggested to avoid. Many people have successfully composted these items without issue, so don't take my word for it.
Meat products can attract unwanted wildlife and cause odor.
Dairy and other fats can also attract wildlife or flies.
Do not use cat or dog feces, which may contain pathogens.
Manure from farm animals (horses, pigs, cows, backyard chickens, etc) are generally a great source of nitrogen but know your source and do not use manure from sick animals or any animals taking routine antibiotics or hormones.
Onion or garlic, as it can scare off beneficial bacteria and insects.
Dead animals - these are better off buried deeply underground.
The list of what can be composted goes on and on!
"But I Have No Use For All That Compost!"
Petition your local representatives to start a town or city-wide composting service with either curbside pickup or nearby dropoffs.
Or give a gift to the Earth (and your neighborhood) by placing the finished product around the plants in a public area.
But whatever you do, don't throw away what could benefit our ever eroding soils. Sustaining the soil - not just our own backyard soil - should be a community priority and home composting is the key!
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Hallmark is giving away 2 million greeting cards to promote connection during pandemic
As we all continue staying inside and socially isolating from others during the coronavirus pandemic, it's important to maintain a connection to loved ones and friends — even if that isn't in person.
Along with phone calls and chatting over video, Hallmark is offering another way to stay in touch. The company is giving away two million greeting cards in an effort to encourage people to lift spirits and connect through acts of care.
Anyone in the continental U.S. (which excludes Hawaii and Alaska) who signs up on Hallmark's website will receive a three-pack of cards for free, including shipping, while supplies last.
The three cards you will receive for free include the sayings, "I believe in you and unicorns," "Here for you, here for everything" and "There's a surprising amount of love in this folded piece of paper."
Whether they're sent to a loved one, neighbor, senior center or a healthcare worker, Hallmark is hoping the cards will serve as a small act of kindness that can make a big impact on someone's day.
"Hallmark has been in the business of caring for more than 100 years, so lending a hand to help others connect is part of our DNA," Lindsey Roy, chief marketing officer of Hallmark, said in a press release. "During a time of unprecedented social distancing, we hope these cards will be shared across neighborhoods, towns and the country to help lift spirits."
The giveaway was actually initially for just 1 million cards, but after what Hallmark says was an "amazing response," they have added another 1 million.
If you're lucky enough to get some cards during the giveaway and find that you're out of stamps once you receive your cards, those can be ordered online via the USPS and delivered right to your door — so you can stay safe at home and still send your cards to a loved one or friend.
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Frontline health workers represent the lifeblood of many health care systems in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Often overworked and underpaid, these workers operate outside hospital settings to meet the community's poorest people where they live and work, ensuring health care initiatives impact the families that need them most.
The global growth in cell phone ownership has increased the potential for mobile solutions to help these workers, and perhaps no company has unlocked that potential with more success than the social enterprise Dimagi.
Dimagi's flagship product, CommCare, lets users with no coding experience build apps featuring things like registration forms, decision support, and multimedia that can be accessed offline by cell phones of all types. With the backing of nonprofit organizations and governments, those capabilities have been put into the pockets of frontline workers in the most remote, impoverished regions of the world, transforming the way they collect information and provide care for hundreds of millions of people across 80 countries.
Multiple studies have documented CommCare's transformative effect. Randomized control trials have shown it helped frontline workers improve child nutrition in India, increase the percentage of in-facility births in Tanzania, and reduce errors in screenings for cardiovascular diseases in South Africa. Other studies have shown CommCare helped increase the frequency of HIV tests for pregnant women in Nigeria and reduced infant and maternal mortality rates in Guatemala.
Beyond health care, Dimagi's mobile tools are also being used in education, agricultural, and financial initiatives around the world. For founders Jonathan Jackson '03, SM '05 and Vikram Kumar, the company's impact has come one successful project at a time through a user-centered approach to creating the most empowering and scalable solutions possible.
"Our motto at Dimagi is 'impact, team, profit,' in that order," Jackson says. "It's not just what's the most impactful thing we could make in theory, it's what's the most impactful thing we could make in practice that will scale with the market."
An idea scales
In 2002, Kumar was a graduate research assistant in MIT's Media Lab and on his way to earning his MD in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Jackson was building a personal digital assistant for nurses in Zambia as part of his master's work at MIT.
The two students met through a teacher's assistant in one of Jackon's classes and immediately decided to start a venture together. They initially planned to use health informatics to improve public health but realized the developing world wasn't quite ready for that approach.
"As soon as we got into the sector we realized there's no good data to begin with, so we had to build the underlying data management systems," Jackson says. "We rapidly shifted the company from public health informatics to more of a global health software focus."
In early consulting projects around Africa and India, the founders built a drag-and-drop system for building forms that clinicians could use in hospitals, using the Nokia phones that were quickly becoming common.
"The writing was on the wall for massive mobile adoption in general, with dumb phones, and then you could see smartphones were going to take off," Jackson says. "But we always focused on building for the phone technology that users had today as opposed to the technology that might be available tomorrow, and I think that was one of the reasons we were so successful."
One of Dimagi's early projects was working with partners to create a national medical record system for Zambia. The system is still in use today, and because Dimagi's solutions have been open source from the beginning, the system has since been adopted by other countries around Africa.
Around 2008, with SMS-based solutions and a case management app built out, Dimagi began focusing on helping frontline, or community, workers. Such workers have traditionally relied on paper-based data management systems in the field that offer little on-site guidance and require data entry into a central system later on.
With health care workers in low- and middle-income countries, "you have a workforce with amazing potential, and they are often the only option for health care provision in rural settings," Jackson says. "These workers are often not able to be trained sufficiently, not able to be paid well, and they're often overburdened. We thought the inclusion of mobile phones and the value that could be delivered by community health care workers and frontline providers was a great synergy."
The pivot made Dimagi's users more dispersed and numerous, but Jackson says his team never wavered in its philosophy of working closely with the people they are trying to help and learning from them as they design solutions.
"We feel incredibly strongly about getting field experience and being humble," Jackson says. "We have a methodology called 'Design Under the Mango Tree' based on how we did a lot of our early work with CommCare. We were out there with the users, getting feedback, staying up late and overnight so it looked how they recommended the next day. That experience, of seeing the frontline workers, them being able to tell us they want something different, going in and changing it, and then asking if they like the change, that was an adrenaline boost for us."
Designing under the mango tree
Dimagi's approach has led the company to a scale the founders never could have imagined when they first started out. It has also guided them as they've built out features.
Today, Dimagi boasts that CommCare allows users to "collect data on everything, in any language." The data can include text, images, GPS coordinates, barcodes, audio, and more. Customers designing a data collection app on CommCare can monitor field workers in real time and include notifications or progress updates. Incorporating multimedia components into the app, like pictures and video instructions, allows illiterate field workers and patients to interact with CommCare and gives credibility to the workers.
Dimagi also offers extensive support services to go with some of its subscription options. The company of about 150 people includes experts specializing in programs around women's health and empowerment, agriculture, financial literacy, and more.
Some of Dimagi's biggest customers are governments. India, for example, has equipped more than half a million workers with a CommCare solution to help with state childcare and nutrition services.
Unfortunately, scale has not brought simplicity. In fact, Jackson says things have gotten more difficult as Dimagi has grown, noting the donor-centered social enterprise space is great at launching new projects, but not good at incentivizing mature companies to continue innovating in areas where they're already deployed.
That's one of the reasons Dimagi restructured its company last year. Jackson says Dimagi is now divided into three parts: its software division, its professional services team, and what he calls the impact team, which has been instructed to break even while making as much impact as possible and not worrying about profit.
"We're built to make an impact," Jackson says. "That's why everyone works at this company. It's why we're here. A lot of that just requires going that extra mile for the end users and that's something that is infused in our DNA as an organization."
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Turning Gaharu into liquid gold: Ihsan Oud
A former airforce pilot turned artisinal distiller wants to bring the regal scents from Brunei's forests abroad. Will he succeed?
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On foot, in the dense jungles of Brunei's south, was when a young infantry soldier learned of the value of gaharu first hand.
Mohd Sallehin Hj Mohd Taib (pictured R) was on routine duty, patrolling forest for illegal loggers who came in groups of six to ten across Brunei's borders through mouse trails in search for 'liquid gold'.
The bandits' modus operandi: identify gaharu trees, fell them before sawing them into smaller chunks, while searching hurriedly for signs of resinous streaks.
"They were looking for agarwood," says Sallehin. A dark fragrant resin that forms as part of the gaharu tree's attempt to protect itself from an infection, agarwood is arguably the most expensive timber in the world; with the oil distilled from it – called oudh – commanding up to $100,000 for a single, undiluted litre of the highest grade.
Agarwood chips seen at Ihsan's store in Centrepoint. Chips of the left, with more dark, resinous streaks – as a result of the gaharu tree being infected by mold – carry a higher value.
Historical anecdotes of oudh border on the mystical; touting its power to heal ailments both mental and physical, while some cultures use it for embalming when preserving the dead.
Sallehin's earliest memories of oudh came in perfume bottles brought by family and friends who visited the middle-east – where it is considered a cultural touchstone due to its rarity and scent.
"I became a big fan," he said. "I would be so happy whenever a friend or relative gave them as a gift. I would collect the bottles, something i still do to this day."
But for the young soldier with aspirations of becoming a pilot, becoming an artisinal distiller – was not on the list.
Fast forward three decades, and in the grand halls of the Empire Hotel & Country Club's lobby, you'll find Sallehin's scent – the Oud Sa'eed Royale Ad-Durra – in an exclusive, high-end display as part of a first line of locally made products showcased under Darussalam Enterprise's Made in Brunei initiative.
Ihsan's Oud's most expensive product retailing for $570 – which contains 3ml of pure premium grade Brunei agarwood oudh oil. The business also sells more affordable oudh roll-on blends which range from $6 to $48.
If there's anything to be learned from the illegal loggers, or the insatiable demand for oudh abroad- it's that Brunei's has a valuable natural resource in gaharu. But can Brunei find a way to do it sustainably?
With land in Tanjong Maya, Tutong where his grandfather formerly resided, and the support of the village's residents – Sallehin has found just enough supply of agarwood to get his business off the ground.
Ihsan Oud – named after Salehin's first born, who he tragically lost just four days after birth – now adorns the signage of a small kiosk at Gadong Centrepoint's arcade of shops on the first floor.
The retired Lieutenant Colonel greets his customers warmly as they enter; for those a little curious about the origins of oudh, Sallehin is keen to provide a introduction; and for the oudh enthusiasts – he'll get into the painstakingly detailed process of distillation which he traversed to Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia to learn.
"We're starting to see a trend of more and more gaharu plantations abroad," said Sallehin. " Aquilaria Malaccensis (gaharu) itself is unique to this region and you're seeing large corporations taking it on."
In Brunei – the word on whether one can seek for government land to plant agarwood remains unclear, according to local oudh sellers, who can only recall a directive, several years ago, that prohibited such applications.
The problem can be traced back to the rarity of tree – considered in some parts to be endangered – and made worse by indiscriminate and illegal logging.
And then there's the finding that it's only a percentage of gaharu trees in the wild – some experts estimate as low as 10 per cent – that actually bear the dark resin known as agarwood.
Learning from best practices from sustinable gaharu plantations, Sallehin employs a different approach on his grandfather's privately owned land.
He bores a hole into the tree, inserts a tube that's attached to a litre sized bottle which slowly releases a bacterial mold that seeps into the tree – resulting in the formation of the agarwood as the tree works to protect itself, a process known as inoculation.
"Depending on how tall the tree is, sometimes we put up to 50 (bottles)," he said.
The process however, is far from overnight. A gaharu tree that's planted, takes about five years before it can be inoculated, a processs that will take another one to two years.
Instead of felling the tree once it's ready, Sallehin shaves off the barks, which can repeated for up to five years, before the tree will be chopped down.
An average-sized gaharu tree that's been thoroughly inoculated can yield about 100 kilogrammes of agarwood – and you'll need 500kg to distill a litre of pure oudh oil.
At Ihsan Oud -Sallehin now sells more than 10 varieties of oudh blends, experimenting with mixtures from sandalwood to rose. He sells them as handy, potent roll-ons, in small three and six milliliter vials – priced between $6 to $48 – as opposed to bottled perfume sprays.
At the recent Made in Brunei Market Fair – Ihsan's first major public event – they sold more than 300 vials, but Sallehin's ultimate ambitions actually lie in being a premier supplier of pure oudh oil.
"We see oudh taking off in West now, with all the big name brands having an oudh line," he said. "And I believe and am willing to prove that we have amongst the best pure oudh oil in the world. So why should we not be supplying to them?"
Ihsan Oud is located at T1-06 of the Terminal One shops at the Centrepoint Hotel in Gadong, and is open everyday from 10am to 9.30pm, except for Fridays where doors open at 2.30pm. Follow @ihsan_oud on Instagram to learn more. You can contact Ihsan Oud directly at +6737162356.
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Planetary Health: An Essential Part of Human Health
Published on 21st November 2017
Never before has humanity been mobile, connected, socially aware, or had the tools to affect change like we do right now. This connectivity has helped people around the world address some big, interlinked challenges. For example, life expectancy has increased more than 20 years in the past half century. Death rates in children under five have decreased. And the total number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen by 700 million people over the past 30 years.
But we've neglected other connections that allowed us to advance to this point—connections that were instinctual to our ancestors. We must re-establish the idea that the health of humankind is intricately connected to the health of the overall environment and with other living beings. It seems like such a basic, fundamental idea, but one we seem to have forgotten.
Our use and abuse of natural resources has had severely negative impacts for people throughout the world. For example, pollution from fires and the combustion of fossil and solid fuels is resulting in respiratory diseases and millions of deaths—especially children.
Overfishing and the warming and acidification of water bodies are disrupting coral reefs and fish supplies—resulting in food insecurity, disease and poverty. Extreme weather events related to climate change, as we've recently seen in all parts of the world, are also a significant cause of illness and death.
Carbon dioxide emissions caused by human activity are reducing the nutritional content of crops such as wheat, rice, barley and soy. This puts hundreds of millions of people—especially those living in Africa and South Asia—at risk for vitamin deficiencies.
If we're to correct the course we're currently on, we need a broader view of health; one that directly connects human and animal health with the health of the planet. If we take this view, we can improve the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world, today and in the future.
For the idea of planetary health to be truly effective, however, we need everyone to do their part. We need researchers to develop further evidence on the health effects of environmental change. We need health professionals to educate communities about those changes and advocate for policies that integrate health care and environmental care at the primary level. We need multilateral institutions such as the UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to help in a variety of ways.
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