Even as trends reports for the coming year have all been wrapped up and shared around, a trendspotter's work carries on. Scouting what's next requires always keeping an eye open and an ear to the ground, and pattern recognition helps a lot—who or what is getting buzzed about where?
This vocation is as much art as science, and not every item on a what-to-watch list is going to take off. But several of them just might take over the world. We'll see what happens with the list I just compiled, "11 Trends for 2016," with my agency, Havas PR. Our übertrend for next year: a sense of unease (and fear) pervading much of life, giving everyone a lingering feeling that things aren't as they should be. Technology is central to that übertrend and serves as a running theme through the rest of the list, including renewables chic, the rise in apps and everything smart, and bigger audiences for virtual events than real ones.
Watch two strong female governors, Nikki Haley of South Carolina and Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island (the state's tourism agency is a client of Havas PR's), emerge in the national spotlight and female senators like Kirsten Gillibrand become more prominent as that spotlight moves onto women. Similarly, the LZ Sunday Paper is set to become that much more important as the aggregator of women's news for the thinking class.
Watch Cuban tourism (No. 2 on Skyscanner's list), marijuana branding (as noted in the Motley Fool, among others) and dangers in Yemen become increasingly more talked-about.
Watch for Malia Obama's college choice (and her parents' post–1600 Pennsylvania Ave. homestead selection). Whatever she chooses will become America's It School.
Courtney Act: The "Australian Idol" semifinalist and "RuPaul's Drag Race" runner-up is poised to become the world's first big-time pop star in drag.
Jerrod Carmichael: The 27-year-old comedian behind NBC's fan favorite "The Carmichael Show" is making race-conscious family television that people actually want to watch. Maybe this will be the answer to the trend of people watching separate shows on separate screens in separate rooms.
Julián Castro: The former mayor of San Antonio commanded plenty of trendspotters' interest (including mine) in that role. Now the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he's emerging as some commentators' bet to be Hillary Clinton's vice presidential candidate.
Kamala Harris: The California attorney general is running for Barbara Boxer's longtime seat. If she wins, she'll break more color barriers: the first black and the first South Asian senator from California.
Alexa Karolinski: The filmmaker, whose clients include design houses like WREN, makes genre-bending videos that stand to make fashion films the new music videos.
Zane Lowe: The longtime BBC Radio 1 DJ leapt into digital this year when he signed on to anchor Apple's foray into radio, Beats 1. Although it seemed to some like an odd move—haven't we been saying for 35 years that something killed the radio star?—he has turned Beats 1 into a staging ground for big artists like Drake and small collectives like Soulection.
Charlotte, N.C.: Downtown has a critical mass of young people; with 72 percent between the ages of 20 and 49, compared with 41 percent nationally. They're drawn by a subtropical climate and high quality of life, minus the major sprawl of former Southern business epicenters like Atlanta. The city has upwards of 100 startups, an angel investor firm, collaborative workspaces, incubators and accelerators.
Providence, R.I.: This New England city (more disclosure: I have personal and professional ties here) topped Realtor.com's recent list of the housing markets to watch in 2016. The rankings can be attributed to factors like growing household formation, a prosperous job market, and a large population of older millennials (25-34) and younger Gen Xers (35-44), according to Realtor.com.
Sacramento, Calif.: California's boom isn't only on the coast. Not only does Sacramento come up in Realtor.com's list of the most promising real estate markets, but its quirky suburb Davis also landed on MarketWatch's list of "top U.S. cities for hipsters," thanks to ironic antics like a "hipster Western" involving two men dueling for a woman through text messages.


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Let's face it, cruising is addicting.
And the problem with any addiction is that it costs money. Thankfully for us, cruising is one of the cheapest vacations out there. If you just need to get on the ship for a quick getaway, it's possible to find deals for less than $300 per person.
Still, not everyone just has $300 laying around. And if you want to make that cruise a little longer, or upgrade your cabin, or travel with a family, then it's not unusual to see total price of your cruise rise to several thousand dollars.
So when it comes to take a cruise there are two ways you can get the funds. You can either scrimp and save — finding ways to cut your budget — or make more money to put toward your cruise.
We've rounded up more than 20 ways that you can make extra money for your cruise, without having to take on another job. All of these methods give you an opportunity to earn some cash in your spare time.
Do you buy things online from sites like Walmart.com, Target, or BestBuy? Then Paribus can earn you money without you having to do any work.
The app is simple. It connects to your email, scanning receipts of things you bought online. It then constantly price checks those items. If the app finds something that is now cheaper, it automatically files with the merchant for a refund of the price difference.
Paribus takes 25% of the refund amount and sends the rest to you. Basically, it's free money that's returned to you without having to do a thing.
If you live in a major city, then you may have heard of Instacart. It's a grocery delivery service. Workers go grocery shopping and deliver items to customers, earning up to $25 an hour for their work. Best of all, the work is flexible, allowing you to work whenever is convenient for you.
You will need to live near a major city to work. The good news is that you can also work for Instacart as a shopper even if you don't have a car.
You've likely heard of rideshare services like Uber and Lyft. With these services you drive you own car, like a taxi service. You can make good money (up to $35 per hour) and score bonuses the more you drive.
You can also work whenever you want — 24 hours per day — and you don't have to be in a major city as the services are available just about anywhere. This is by far the best-paying job of our list and the one with the most people currently working. It's also a favorite because you can get paid quickly, instead of having to wait until the end of the month to see your earnings.
You'd be surprised at how much income you can make with blogging. You'd also be surprised at how simple it is to get started.
If you're going on a cruise, then it's obvious you have an interest in travel and cruising in particular. Blogging about your experience, cruise news, planning, packing, and more is a fun way for any cruise fan to get ready for their trip or relive it once it's over.
What's also nice is that your blog can earn you money even when you aren't working on it. With advertisements, you earn as visitors read your site, even if it's in the middle of the night. For more on getting started writing a travel blog, read how we earned more than $8,000 a month writing about cruises.
Do you have a computer and headphones? Then you can get started today making money as an audio transcriptionist. Rev.com is a cool site where users can upload audio they need transcribed. It's everything from presentation videos to the minutes of a business meeting.
Rev's transcriptionists then login and pick and choose the jobs they want. You have full control over when and how much you work. Pick and choose the work that's most appealing to you… or simply the jobs that pay the best.
You do have to take a transcription test before you can start getting paid, but it's fairly straightforward.
Remember the days when you used to get a few dollars for to answer a survey from a person in the mall? Nowadays surveys have moved online, which gives you the ability to earn bits of cash or gift cards for answering a few questions.
In addition, marketing companies have moved well beyond simple surveys and will pay you for being part of focus groups, searching online, watching videos and playing games. It's all things you'll do anyway, so why not get paid for it?
Best of all, many companies have free cash bonuses just for signing up, and you can sign up for multiple sites, increasing your earnings.
Here are a few companies offering surveys and other opportunities: American Consumer Opinion, InboxDollars, Swagbucks, Pinecone Research, ProOpinion, Harris Poll Online.
With the website UserTesting.com, you can earn up to $10 for a 15-minute session to give your opinion on websites and apps. The site claims Google, Apple and eBay as customers.
No, you don't need to be an expert with the computer to be a member. In fact, people of all ages and abilities are welcome since e-commerce sites want to get feedback from all sorts of users — not just web-savvy shoppers.
Getting started is pretty simple. Sign-up with your email address, download the screen-recording software, and submit a sample. The company is looking for reviewers who will talk through their thinking while browsing a website, so be sure to give details aloud as you review.
With the boom in the Internet has come a massive need for content and images. Today there are dozens of sites that allow you to upload images to sell online to websites, news organizations and blogs. You upload the images and the site takes care of the selling. In return you get paid every time someone buys your image.
With enough images you can actually take this from a part-time opportunity to a full-time gig. But it's not as simple as taking a few snapshots and calling it a day. The stock-photo websites can be picky. We tried to put our photos for sale and weren't approved. If you have an eye for photography, however, you can make some decent cash. Some sites pay up to 50% of their earnings for each download to the photographer.
The biggest companies in the field are iStockPhoto.com and ShutterStock, but there are dozens of lesser-known sites that generally pay photographers higher rates per download. If you want to learn more, check out this cool site that compares all the stock photo sites.
Fiverr.com is an online bazaar of random tasks. The premise is simple. You sign up, offer a service starting at $5, and then users hire you. For example, if you are good at graphic design, you might create a logo for someone.
The things you can do on Fiverr are limitless. There are "normal" tasks like resume writing, photo editing, translation services, and voiceovers. But there are also more unusual tasks you can do. There are women who will sing Happy Birthday while wearing a bikini, psychic readings, and even people offering to be your fake boyfriend/girlfriend.
Fiverr definitely has its unusual side, but if you have a skill to offer, then it's a place where you can pick up a few extra bucks. One key to earning more: Offer "upsells" for more money than just $5.
Are you bilingual? Then you have a skill that's in demand. As the world gets more connected, the need for translation is greater than ever. And thanks to the internet, it allows people like you to make income from home.
To get started, check out sites like Gengo.com, which pays its translators between $0.03-$0.08 per word. You'll have to take an initial test to get started, so don't think you can just sneak in by running the text through Google Translate!
We all know that in the past several years banks have tightened up lending. That's helped lead to the rise of peer-to-peer lending networks. It's a win-win; borrowers receive loans that a bank wouldn't give them (or at a lower interest rate) while lenders receive higher interest rates than they could earn otherwise.
Sites like Prosper.com allow you to sign up and loan small amounts of money to other people, while earning a healthy interest rate. Prosper takes care of all the back-end paperwork and documentation. You loan the money and earn interest. The rates can vary from around 5% to 25%, depending on credit worthiness of the borrower. The amount you loan is up to you. Loans are crowdsourced, so if someone is borrowing $5,000, it may be there are 100 lenders putting up $50 each. Being able to diversify helps lessen your risk of loss. Prosper takes care of collecting monthly payments and distributing them to lenders.
Are you a fashionista? Do you buy clothes, shoes or designer handbags, use them for a season and then let them sit in the closet? If so, then you could earn some serious cash with Tradesy.
Tradesy is an online outlet for selling d esigner goods. Users with old things to sell sign up and list their items. Buyers come to the site to buy high-quality items at discounts to retail. Tradesy acts as the middleman. They'll send you a box to ship in and take care of payment. In return, the site takes a 9% commission on what you sell.
If you're a saver, then you know interest rates pay next to nothing. However, the bonuses on opening up accounts are still healthy.
The rules are usually pretty simple. Open up a checking or savings account with a bank while keeping an average balance above a certain level for 90 days and the bank will deposit a bonus into your account. Some offers also require you direct deposit at least one item per month.
One of the best places to check offers is NerdWallet. They have roundups of all the latest bonuses you can qualify for. Bonus amounts can range from $100 all the way to $500.
The rise of educational sites like KahnAcademy.com has created a massive shift in how people learn. Now practically any topic can be learned online. But that doesn't mean everyone can learn from watching a YouTube video. There is still a need for one-on-one instruction.
To fill that need, a number of tutoring sites are available that offer online instruction to students. These sites are always in need of instructors. Tutor.com is one well-known site, and has a need for people to tutor in everything from Geometry to German. You'll need to be a college sophomore or higher to apply, and many subjects require a degree.
Do you shop at Walmart, Target, Kroger, or nearly any well-known retailer or grocery store? Then you should be earning cash back on what you're already buying. With Ibotta.com, you earn rebates at stores by completing small tasks like taking a survey or watching a video and then uploading a photo of your receipt. Many of the rebates are pretty substantial too. For example, you can earn $10 back on $100 spent through Ibotta at Macy's or Nike.com.
What we like most is that the rebate is paid in cash to your PayPal account. It's not in the form of a gift card.
BuddyTruk isn't available everywhere just yet, but if you live in Austin, Chicago, or Los Angeles and have a truck, then you can make up to $40 a hour. Think of the site like Uber for people with trucks. You download the app and can see people in the area that need a truck to help move something like a couch or make a pick-up from IKEA. It's still in the early stages, but looks like a promising way to pick up some extra cash on the weekend. Note that you will have to go through a background check to get started and be approved.
If you have extra time, then you can earn money helping other people cross items off their "to-do" list. TaskRabbit is a cool site that offers on-demand household help. People who have a task they want to outsource sign up and hire "taskers" from the site.
To be a tasker you need to undergo an identity and background check. You'll also need to live in or near a major U.S. city for most tasks. If you don't, there are still some remote jobs you can do like research, graphic design and data entry.
Similar to the contests mentioned earlier where you can create slogans to win prize money, there are also several sites with contests to create company names and logos. Competition is usually pretty fierce with hundreds of entries for each contest. That said, if you win you can earn anywhere from $50 to several hundred dollars.
To get started, check out any number of sites, including LogoForce.com, NamingForce.com, or SquadHelp.com. Each of them are free to join, so there is no risk and the potential to earn some serious cash.
Research panels have moved online, allowing you to participate from anywhere in the world. Best of all, if you are selected for a panel, you can earn some pretty hefty amounts. Payments of $50 to $150 are usual, but even up to $250 is possible.
To get started, sign-up and create a profile on any number of research panel websites. Signing up for more than one will increase your chance of being picked for a panel. Try FocusScope.com, 2020Panel, MediaBarn Research Services, or MindSwarms.com to learn more about opportunities and start earning money.
Advertisers and consumer researchers love to know how you use your cell phone. There are a couple of companies out there that will pay you to download their app (which anonymously tracks your phone use) and let it run in the background while you go about your daily business.
In return, you will earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards to places like Amazon, Target and Starbucks. To get get started, sign up at MediaInsiders.com or Nielsen (of the Nielsen ratings fame).
Amazon's new Flex program is only in a few areas, but is rapidly spreading to major cities across the country. Think of this program like Uber/Lyft for Amazon's packages. You deliver packages for the company's Prime Now services (which delivers certain items in two hours or less) and get to work when you want.
The work pays up to $25 an hour. You'll need to be 21 years old to sign-up and have a car.
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Are you looking for the fast track to starting your business? You want to make sure you hit all the high points but don't get bogged down in too many fine points that lead you nowhere, right? Then read this guide, and get your business running in no time.
Does anybody need (or want) what we're going to be selling? How bad is the need, or how much do they want it? Think about it in common sense terms. Vigorous market research will come later.
Will they pay for it? While they say people will beat a path to your door for a better mousetrap, that's not always true. Think about it in your case.
Are they paying for something else, now, already? Can we go from that to honestly believing they'll pay for what you're going to offer?
The answers to these questions may seem obvious, but the point of this exercise is to give yourself a reality check. Essentially, you're asking whether there's a market for your product or service. If you're laying out a lot of money, and especially if that's somebody else's money (like investors), it's worth it to do the background research.
Start with some of these business ideas to help get you rolling.
There are no formulas for ownership, and it may seem awkward at first, but if you're partnering with someone, it's a thousand times easier to do it now than to wait until after the money starts flowing.
Determine the percentage of ownership, who does what, whose idea it was and how much that matters. There are no formulas for ownership. The closest thing to it is money spent, especially if you add in time spent (so-called sweat equity) and work that into a money value.
It's extremely hard to value the original idea – I say the idea has very little real value, because it's the work that matters. You have to talk through this. For now, talk about it first, and leave it to settle for tomorrow. Now that you have mulled over the potential legal issues surrounding ownership, it's time to get concrete. Today, get a draft of the agreement in writing.
We don't mean go to the attorney, but we do mean write down the main points of your agreement with the other people involved.
You don't need formal legal language. That will come later (actually, Step 17). What you want is a simple, plain agreement: Percentage of ownership, money invested, time invested and who owns what.
That might be just using your own name, but usually it's more than that, including not only coming up with the ideas, but also checking them for availability, and registering the name to make it legally yours.
You don't have to make it final, at least not yet (you will later, Step 17 again). Start with the ideas, though, and start thinking about it.
Many people misunderstand what you can and can't do with names. You can waste a lot of time with those misunderstandings. Some people dread the forecasting, but your business won't succeed without it. How can you estimate expenses without knowing sales? How can you estimate your initial cash needs, as part of your starting costs, without knowing sales? A lot of people think sales forecasting is some highly sophisticated scientific thing they don't know how to do.
Don't worry; back here in the real world, a sales forecast is an educated guess. How can you forecast something brand new? Break it down into pieces. Lay it out onto a spreadsheet over 12 months and make your estimates for each month.
Think about how many tables, how many stalls, how many hours? How much per each? Multiply those units by the rands per unit, and you have a sales forecast. Like your sales forecast, lay out a spreadsheet with rows on the left, months along the columns and a sum at the bottom to come up with an initial expense budget. Think about rent, utilities, marketing costs and payroll.
Note: remember to include what you're going to pay yourself.
Start this with two simple lists: Expenses you'll incur before you start, and the things (assets) you'll need to have. Expenses are things like legal costs, fixing up the location, setting up your website and so on. Assets are the things (inventory) you're going to sell.
The harder part is estimating how much money you need to have in the bank, to support the company through the normal drain period during the early cash-negative days.
You have to lay this out month by month, comparing your sales to your expenses, watching the way the money goes in and out. Remember, in most business-to-business settings, you have to wait to get paid.
Think about your target market. Imagine a hypothetical, ideal customer. Determine his or her age, gender, job, favourite media and family situation. It's important to know your customer well.
Start developing a sense of the look and feel of your company as your buyers will see it. What will your logo look like? What sense will it have to convey? Old-fashioned? Trustworthy? Leading edge? Everybody has a brand. What will yours be? How will you get that idea across to customers and potential customers? Develop your look and feel with logos, signs, letterhead and graphic standards. These are your branding essentials, and you need to have them in place before you get much further.
Have you started your website already? Have you been thinking about it? Today's the day to get going with that. If you're building a Web 2.0 application or any website that's core to your business, then you might have to settle for simply having begun by the end of the three weeks.
For most businesses, you can have a website built very quickly. Think about the basic elements of your website, and at least get a site up with basic information about you, your business, your products and your services.
These days there are some good shortcuts available: Take a look at TypePad, WordPress and blogger platforms, for example. These were built for blogging but can apply to many small sites, with little to no formatting work. Think about how your customers will pay you. If you're going to be selling to consumers, then you probably want to establish a merchant account so you can accept credit cards.
Be warned – there are a few mistakes start-ups make when it comes to designing their websites. Find out more about them here.
These days, because of the online suppliers, there are a lot more options. In the old days you had to go straight to your favourite bank, which had a detailed and time-consuming process.
These days, you have the option of setting yourself up with some web stores (like Amazon, Yahoo! and others) that can handle that part of it for you. If you're selling to businesses, then think about invoices and credit policies for business customers. There's no underestimating how important getting paid is.
This is where you get to make sure that people want to buy what you're selling. Even if you can't make a sale, because things aren't ready, talk somebody through it.Have you been able to make a sale yet? Maybe you should take today to peddle your goods. Even though you're not fully established yet, lots of businesses (maybe most of them) start selling before they're fully launched.
The selling will continue for as long as your business is open, but we wanted to include it here as well because so many businesses are born at the moment the first customer says "yes".
Take time to talk to an insurance broker and get your business insurance started. These days, you can do a lot of research or even do the whole thing online. And if not, remember the old-fashioned telephone style of finding the right people.
Talk to any insurance broker you can think of, ask some questions, and if he or she isn't the right one, ask who else you should talk to. Find the right person by asking the wrong person who else you should talk to.
Have you been thinking about how to build your team? Do you know the people you want to bring on? It's time to start ironing down the team and the employees, and start the recruiting process. Depending on your specifics, you'll probably need job descriptions, and you'll need to place ads on the right websites.
To get started, take another look at the financial planning you did in steps 1-7, see who you can afford to hire and start looking. Most people know they're either going to work out of their home or they know where their office will be. They're considering the right location, how it should look, where it should be, what else is nearby, and so on.
Even if it's a home office, you've probably been thinking about it. Now's the time to make sure you're set up. Desk, computer, telephone, Internet, quiet if you need it, view or not, the whole nine yards.
For a retail shop, workshop or office space, if you haven't done so already, start looking. It's almost time to make a decision.
There are brokers to help, and they won't charge you because they get their commission from the landlords (which you should keep in mind as you deal with them because it's always good to remember who's paying). Find a broker who'll work with you; one who listens to you about what you want and don't want.
Today take steps to establish the location, whether it's simply adding desks and phones in your home office or making calls to revamp a restaurant or manufacturing plant. For some people and businesses, this takes more than three weeks. Sometimes you can't even lock in the location you want in that time. But start planning the office space in which you want to work, as this can create the most lag time.
Related: How do I choose a location for my business?
With some good accounting software, you can keep track of every transaction – every cheque, each invoice you receive and those you send out.
Keep careful track of spending and invoice categories, and before you know it, you're doing the bookkeeping. The best way to choose your new accounting software is to check with your bank so your systems will be compatible.
That will save you endless frustration with inputting records.
Way back in Stage 1, you got together with the others involved and wrote down your agreements on who is supposed to own how much of the business, who does what and who is putting in how much money. And you started looking at possible names for the business. Today, get it locked in by creating the legal entity online talking to an attorney or both.
Do yourself a favour, though, before you start the attorney's meter running: Make sure you understand the basic trade-offs, so you can spend the billable attorney time making the right choices, rather than just understanding the options. We don't recommend setting up your business without an attorney (online or not), but if you get informed first, you'll reduce the expense.
You're nearing the end of your three-week start-up. Just three steps left, so if you're going to have employees, it's time to hire them or at least begin hiring. You started the recruiting process last week, so you should have some people in mind. Don't do job interviews without first going over a simple review of what you can and can't say.
A lot of what would at first glance seem like common sense is technically illegal. For example, you're not supposed to ask someone his or her age or marital status because that information can lead to the appearance or suspicion of discrimination.
This is another one that depends on the details. It can be as easy as deciding to spend a few thousand rands you already have or as hard as raising millions of rands from professional investors.
Your simple start-up, involving a home office and a computer, might need nothing more than what you can get at a retailer like Dion or Makro in an afternoon.
If you have to raise more money than you have, you need to write a detailed business plan, find potential investors and do a lot more work. If you're looking for professional investment, you almost certainly won't get that in three weeks (although there are some rare exceptions). You can still get your business going with the money you can get quickly so that you look that much more attractive to investors.
This should be fun: Imagine the big party, the searchlights beaming into the sky, a brass band. Well maybe not all that, but opening day is a good event to start your business marketing right.
Plan your opening day and make sure everyone knows about it. Write a press release, talk to local or trade reporters and generally let people know about your business. You want to build buzz so that when you open, people are aware of you.
You're up and running, and in 21 steps, just as we had hoped. That makes today the first day of the rest of your business. Today you'll want to take another day to make the sale.
Focus today and see how many customers you can get in the door, figuratively or literally, depending on your business. On your first day, remember to observe what's going right, what's going wrong and to note what could be better.
Your business will quickly become different from what you expected, and that's OK. The key is to record what's different and why, and make course corrections. In the real world, your planning should become management. So review your plan vs. actual frequently, and run your business better.
Hello, I found this information for you: "21 Steps To Start-Up Success". Here is the website link: https://www.entrepreneurmag.co.za/advice/starting-a-business/launch/21-steps-to-start-up/. Thank you.


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We are so happy to announce that we've added a new member to the EAT.PRAY.MOVE family and wanted to introduce her to you all, as you may be in contact with her someday. Sarah is currently living in Brooklyn, NY and is a health and life coach and an overall amazing woman who just teems with positivity. She'll be helping with social media, press, and customer relations. To get to know her more, we did a small Q&A...say hi to Sarah!
How do you know Erin and EAT.PRAY.MOVE?
After meeting Erin in NYC, I took one of the retreats to Ischia, Italy, and my life was changed! First of all, I got to cross two life list items off—taking a yoga retreat and going to Italy. But the takeaway was so much bigger than just a vacation. I have never come away from time off with so much insight into who I am and what needed to change in my life. Taking one of her retreats makes you realize who you are beyond the noise of regular life, and it lets you experience joy you didn't know was possible. People noticed a tangible difference in me when I came back home.
What do you do outside of EAT.PRAY.MOVE?
I am a certified holistic health and life coach, in addition to being a blogger. I work with modern women who are stuck or in a transition period and need support to move forward in life. From nutrition to relationships, I look at the big picture and help them remove obstacles and give them tools to become the best version of themselves. I have had my own struggles with health and stress in life, and I love being able to use my experiences to help others break through to the other side.
Why is yoga important to you?
I found yoga in a dark time in my life, and it truly saved me. While all the rest of the world was stressful, I found that the space of my mat was a comfort zone. And it was one I could access at any time. It's a gift, not only to our bodies, but to our hearts and minds. It's a reward really, after all the stress we put on our mind and body on a daily basis. It balances me in so many ways.
What do you love about travel?
I was fortunate enough to travel North America for 3 years with my husband's work, so I was kind of forced into it a nomadic life for a bit. Within a month, I was hooked. I realized how much is out there and how much of it I didn't even know I needed to see. You also get to see how much people are alike, no matter where they live. You get to learn the feeling behind a place, what drives it. Most of all, you get to learn and relearn how small you and your problems are. Travel makes me feel alive, period.
Favorite place you have traveled?
It's a toss up. I loved Lake Louise, in Banff National Park, Alberta, I got to kayak in mint colored glacial waters, surrounded by snow capped mountains. It was like stepping into a postcard. But I was speechless at the beauty of Positano on the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Italy in general is everything you have ever imagined it to be and more.
throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, ensuring a return visit!
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Strategy Sidenote – Who is Our Customer?
This is a quick sidestep that is a bit a segue into my next strategy post. It's a response to a great comment from Anthony, one of EWB's staff working in Zambia on my post about our strategy and Customer Development. You may want to read my previous post on Impact Models (at the very least) for the context.
The question being asked is who should be the primary customer of our work? EWB ultimately works to serve smallholder farmers, but we do so through partners. In my case that partner is the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). So who should we consider as our customer? I'm going to take a (slightly controversial) stance that in the context of the Impact Model framework that I introduced yesterday it should be MoFA, and not farmers as our customer. This means that our Value Proposition is written with MoFA as the beneficiary.
To understand why I think this is a better approach, let's take a look at the implicit scale model of my team's work. EWB is a small organization – we have a limited number of staff and don't expect to be able to take our programs to scale with those staff alone. We work with MoFA for a reason – they're a large, public sector institution which will be around in the long term. We've chosen to work with MoFA because of the relative permanency compared to NGOs who come and go, even if it generally means taking a hit on staff capacity and motivation. Success for us means a roll-out across MoFA to whatever scale is appropriate for a particular Impact Model. Any ideas we bring forward have to provide value for MoFA if they have a hope of being effective without EWB's continued support. Putting farmers first may generate fantastic ideas that make huge differences to farmers, but our bottom line is improving public sector agriculture. If MoFA can't pick up the idea and run with it, then at the end of the day it won't benefit farmers. If we don't make MoFA our explicit customer then we are disadvantaging ourselves for no reason – it would be much easier to find ideas that impact farmers in other higher capacity environments.
As engineers it is especially easy to get caught up in the 'product' development side, which is usually more fun than navigating politics and power structures. In EWB we're (mostly) engineers, and we like to build things that work! That's what we've spent a long time doing with AAB. At the end of the day, we certainly need to have a good product that ultimately provides value to smallholder farmers, but on a day-to-day basis, our focus needs to be on providing value to MoFA so our program will be sustainable at scale in the long term.
For ideas that impact farmers immediately, we are providing value to MoFA, who in turn needs to provide value to farmers. We can eventually show the full effect of our work by writing out an Impact Model for each level – one from our perspective providing value to MoFA, and one from MoFA's perspective providing value to farmers. By showing that our program provides a key piece in the model where MoFA is benefiting farmers, the impact of our work on farmers can be illustrated. So despite MoFA being our immediate customers, farmers are the ultimate beneficiary, and we should also be rigorous about showing that the work we are doing impacts farmers at the end of the day.
On top of being a more accurate representation of how our work will scale, the ability to draw out an Impact Model for MoFA from their perspective might be a great way to better communicate our understanding of their role and how we can support weak or missing pieces. We haven't tried this yet but we'll see if it proves to be useful or not as we go forward. Having a strongly articulated value-add with evidence to back that up should also make it easier to gain influence at a higher level within MoFA or within other development partners who support MoFA. Although it would be great if programs and initiatives that benefit farmers would spread easily through MoFA, the world is unfortunately not that simple.
There are also some changes we are investing in that do not have impact on farmers at a timescale that makes sense to manage or measure. One of the core beliefs on our team is that further decentralization is necessary in order for MoFA to serve farmers better. In brief, district offices should have control over managing their budget, the programs they implement, and should be responsible for the results. This is not a one-year change. This likely not even a five-year change. Decentralization is a chicken-and-egg problem because districts currently aren't structured to perform as decentralized units with full control over planning and budgeting, and there is not a strong accountability system for results. Fully decentralizing tomorrow would be a disaster. At the same time, without the responsibility (and thus incentive) to do so, districts will never have the opportunity to build the skills required to succeed and will never be ready to take that step.
We are trying to support the long-term goal of decentralization with small steps by increasing operational capacity in district offices, as well as leadership and management capacity building programs like the DDA Fellowship. Farmers should ultimately benefit from this work, but the timeline for decentralization is long and uncertain. Despite this, the work is important, so we need to invest in it now. Thus we make MoFA, not farmers, the "customer" of our Value Proposition. This allows us to measure results and make management decisions on a day-to-day basis. If we took farmers as our primary customer, we would never invest in this type of work, which we believe is very important to the role of MoFA in the long term.
If the programs we support or the services we offer do not provide value to MoFA then we will never drive sustainable change. For a program to continue without EWB's ongoing support, the value to MoFA needs to be clear, along with all of the systems in place to make it work. Programs that benefit farmers will not spread throughout MoFA without incentives and benefits that in line with the needs district offices and other decision makers within MoFA.
Making farmers our primary customer is dangerous not only because a program that isn't in line with MoFA's needs will not scale, but it also leads to a general frustration with MoFA if they are unable to implement those programs. If our focus is farmers and we create a program that MoFA doesn't have the skills or motivation to implement, then the program has failed, EWB staff become demotivated and our relationship with MoFA suffers. Our perspective should instead be on adapting the program to make sense for all involved, which right now means a stronger emphasis on MoFA's needs. While our values will always put impact on smallholder farmers as our bottom line, I believe MoFA needs to be seen as our primary customer in order to manage our programs effectively on a day to day basis.
What do you think? What are your reactions to this (slightly heretical?) departure from the usual? Would love to hear your thoughts on what makes sense and what doesn't, as well as how to appropriately connect the dots to impact on farmers at the end of the day.
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Well, the only "heretical" part is the outward acknowledgement of farmers as not the "customer". From the rest of the logical flow, your articulation really seems to match up with the general ideas that I have gotten from EWB's overseas programs: that you have to work two or three levels up to get enough impact with our limited workforce, that we are working to strengthen local systems such as government in order to maximise long-term sustainability. Well done for coalescing this thought process, and I am seriously excited now about the prospect of being placed with a MoFA team.
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Really interesting! I'm glad you dove a bit more into this after Anthony's comment, because it definitely perked my interest also.
I agree with you for the most part about considering MoFA the customer, but given that the farmer is the ultimate beneficiary, I see where Anthony is coming from. I think the problem arises because the model is adapted from business (which would see the company serving the customer – product beneficiary – directly) to impact (where EWB is looking at working *through* another organization to affect the beneficiaries). Thoughts?
I like the idea of perhaps working through this model from MoFA's perspective on what they offer to farmers. Maybe a triangulation of impact models from EWB's perspective on MoFA, from MoFA's perspective on farmers, and a hypothetical "EWB's perspective on farmers" could point to where EWB can best support MoFA, and support this with evidence that it's an area that will impact farmers?
Keep it up Ben, I'm really liking these posts!
After writing the post that one thing I touched on but I could have emphasized a lot more is farmers as our bottom line. I think that's the distinction that makes it fit together – MoFA is our customer but impact on farmers is still our bottom line and what we care about at the end of the day. I think this is pretty consistent with what you wrote about beneficiaries and impact as well.
There are also some parallels in business when it comes to businesses selling to other businesses (B2B) who then serve customers. A B2B business serves another business on a day to day basis but at the end of the day they need to be relevant to the end customer in some way in order for the business they serve to stay profitable.
I do like the triangulation thoughts as well. Maybe there are spaces where we (or other EWB teams even) need to fill in gaps that MoFA won't fill. Very interesting as we also try and work our way into positions of higher influence with donors.
I do agree that MoFA is your direct customer, and working with them, we're all hoping for the farmers to be our direct beneficiaries.
This is where I still believe MoFA should be considered a partner+channel+customer hybrid. I think looking at MoFA through all these lenses will shape the discussions and ultimately the decisions when interacting them. Also, it's best when making a strategy to ensure that all people in our scope are considered, which is driving my desire to keep farmers on the canvas.
However, all that said, the Business Model Generation Canvas' value, ultimately, is driving conversation amongst a group of collaborators. So, instead of debating who/ or what is our customer. It might be best placing MoFA, farmers, EWB's resources at different places on the canvas and see how that brings up new ideas, opportunities, challenges that can add weight to discussion on strategy.
Lastly, … one thing needs to be added to the customer mix: EWB's donors.
Hmm, I have conflicting ideas about making MOFA the customer.
On the one hand, making government more effective is a good goal, and something that often does not get enough focus and attention.
On the other hand…as a former University of Waterloo student, how do you feel about Quest, the online course enrollment system?
I have used Quest, and was quite frustrated with it. Everyone who I talked to who had to use Quest was unhappy about it. Students, staff, professors all didn't like it.
The people who made the decision to buy Quest for thousands of people at the university to use were in the upper management of the university, and never had to use it. Peoplesoft, the company that sold it to them, thought of the upper management as their customer. The students and staff and professors were the ultimate end-users, but not the ones who held the purse-strings and made the decisions about what to implement.
It's pretty easy to think of ways to improve Quest once you have used it. It is very difficult to get anything implemented, not because it is technologically difficult, but because of who controls the technology.
So, if you make MOFA the customer, you risk alienating yourself from the end users. You risk joining the fantasy land of upper management.
Canada's agricultural policy suffers because our government implements programs that benefit agribusinesses rather than individual farmers. Making a middle layer a customer is also a problem there, in my opinion.
But perhaps that is a risk worth taking. It is possible that the benefits outweigh the risks and problems with the approach.


Last week, in "Is There A 'Corporate Education Reform' Movement?", I wrote about the logic of forming strategic alliances on specific issues with those who are not natural allies, even those with whom you mostly disagree. This does not mean, however, that there aren't those – some with enormous wealth and power – who are bent on undermining the American labor movement generally and teachers' unions specifically. This is part one of a two-part post on this reality.
Leo Casey is the Executive Director of the Albert Shanker Institute and a former union Vice President of Teachers in New York City.


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Home Sports All about the Grand National – the UK's most famous horse race
All about the Grand National – the UK's most famous horse race
All about the Grand National - the UK's most famous horse race
Horse racing is more than a sport in the UK, it is a way of life. The major festivals like Cheltenham and Royal Ascot are as famous for their pageantry and royal connections as they are for the racing. Her Majesty herself is a regular attendee and still enjoys horseback riding at the age of 94.
But the British racing calendar is not all about royalty and champagne cocktails. The Grand National is known as "the people's race," as it is one of those sporting events that everyone talks about, even those who usually have no interest in horse racing. This year's Grand National takes place on April 10 – let's find out more about it.
An illustrious history
The first Grand National was run in 1839. Since then, it has taken place every year, except for cancellations during the Second World War, a void race in 1993 due to a false start and, of course, the 2020 event being cancelled along with practically every other sporting event. It is run over a distance of four miles and 2.5 furlongs, during which the 40 runners must negotiate 30 fences. These are made from spruce and have names like The Chair and Beecher's Brook – just those words can strike fear into even the best jockeys.
Everyone's a punter on Grand National Day
There's a festive atmosphere associated with the Grand National that can best be compared with Super Bowl Sunday or FA Cup Final day. It's one of those events for which the world stands still for an afternoon, and it is by far the biggest horse racing betting event on the calendar. The large number of runners make the Grand National an ideal candidate for impromptu sweepstakes, and these are a common sight in pubs and even offices across the UK, with participants paying a pound or two and selecting the name of a horse at random.
This year's tips
Last year, all the talk was about Tiger Roll. In 2019, he'd become the first horse in 45 years to win back-to-back Nationals, and there was a real buzz in the air that he could rewrite the history books by making it three in three. Sadly, he won't be running in this year's National, so it leaves the door open for a new winner. Entrants are still to be confirmed, but the early favorite among the bookmakers is Cloth Cap. The nine years old is in the form of his life and the latest odds have him way ahead of the rest at 4/1.
A little further down, Kimberlite Candy is an interesting choice at a generous 16/1 if you choose your bookmaker with care. The nine year old, trained by Tom Lacey has been talked up by veteran tipster Tony Calvin, who described the horse as an "irresistible punt" at 20/1. Those odds will just keep shortening, so grab them while you can. The horse pulled up earlier this year in the Irish Grand National, but since then, he's looked raring to go, managing at strong second at Aintree before winning over a long distance at Warwick.
If you prefer a tempting outsider for an each-way bet, Potter's Corner could be just the horse you are looking for. Don't be put off by his 11 years, this is a race in which experience and maturity count for a lot. Wins in the Welsh Grand National and the Midlands Grand National show that this horse has what it takes in the big race atmosphere. His withdrawal from this year's Cheltenham Festival caused some concern, but sources close to the stables say he's back to full fitness.
Drama and controversy
The distance, the difficulty of the jumps and the number of runners in the Grand National add up to a high attrition rate. In fact, in 1928, 42 runners started and only one finished, a horse called Tipperary Tim. The Grand National has proved to be one of the most controversial races on the calendar, due to the risks to both runners and riders, and there have been tragedies.
Of the 53 equine fatalities over the years, 14 have taken place at Beecher's Brook. The sixth and 22nd fence has been compared by some jockeys to "jumping off the end of the world." Things came to a head in 1989, when six horses fell at Beecher's, two of which had to be euthanized. This persuaded organizers to bow to pressure and make significant alterations to the jump.
In other safety improvements in recent years, the organizers have shortened the overall distance, restricted the number of entrants and altered the more dangerous fences in a bid to make the racer safer and to preserve its future. Nevertheless, the Grand National remains one of the world's biggest horse racing challenges.
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Q: Android WebView: intercept error 404 on one element (not entire page) I am trying to make WebView display remote image (with certain stylistic tweaks). This works perfectly by loading WebView with an HTML snippet that references that remote IMG amongst other things. But the only problem is that sometimes this remote image is not present which results in a broken image icon.
What I would like to do is to intercept the (un)availability of the remote image and recover by switching to another one. I've tried using onReceivedError() of WebViewClient but somehow it does not trigger even when the image is not available.
My current image loading logic is as follows:
String url = "...";     // remote image URL
String html = String.format("" +
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wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    @Override
    public void onReceivedError(WebView view, WebResourceRequest req,
                                WebResourceError rerr) {
        Log.e("WEB_VIEW_TEST", "error code: " + errorCode);
    }
});

wv.loadData(html, "text/html", null);

I suspect onReceivedError() only triggers for page-level errors and I'm not sure how to make it trigger for element-level errors. Any help would be very appreciated.
PS. While typing this, I've just thought about handling it in JS - that is, load webview with a JS snippet that tries to load the remote image and in case of an error loads another one - all within the JavaScript realm. I'll try it and if it works will post it here as well.

A: OK, the JavaScript solution works, although the question about intercepting in Android real still remains. Here's the JavaScript way:
    String url = "...";         // real image
    String backup_url = "...";  // backup image

    WebView wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.fullImageWebView);
    WebSettings webSettings = wv.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

    // FIXME: put into assets as an HTML file
    String template = "" +
            "\n" +
            "\n" +
            "\n" +
            "\n" +
            "";

    String html = String.format(template, url, backup_url);
    wv.loadData(html, "text/html", null);

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Through bone chemistry, bioarchaeologists established environmental lead as one of the many "life stresses of slavery." In this paper, we revisit the issue of lead in African-American biohistory using laser sampling of tooth enamel to measure biogenic concentrations in developmental real-time, i.e., during crown calcification. We report recent findings on early-life lead burden of those buried at the 18th-century New York African Burial Ground and discuss implications for reconstructing migration and health.
Mean M1/I1 lead concentrations for young children (5.88 μg g-1) are over four times those of adults (1.33 μg g-1), suggesting American versus African geographic origins of the children. Other findings raise questions at the intersections of natality, health and culture. For example, why were mean enamel-lead concentrations for males over twice that observed for females? Do differences in lead concentration correspond to differences in the timing (age), sources or nature of lead exposure? Do high lead levels indicate American birthplaces for a few adults with culturally modified teeth, contradicting the practice's well-established relationship to African natality?


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Online Facilitation
Judith C. Jones Fellowship
West Virginia Trainers Project
Direct Education
Our Story Direct Education People
Training for Change is a training and capacity building organization for activists and organizers. We believe strong training and group facilitation is vital to movement building for social justice and radical change.
Since 1992, we've supported groups taking direct action, building strong teams and organizations, and working at the grassroots. We train thousands of people each year in North America, and also internationally, across issues and sectors – from campaign strategy retreats for anti-gentrification community groups, facilitation training for union leaders, to de-escalation skills for immigrant rights groups resisting deportation.
We're dedicated to transformation – beyond training new skills and tools, we support folks to wage conflict, challenge self-limiting beliefs, practice emotional intelligence, and expand what's possible for them and their groups. We believe training is most effective when it builds on the wisdom of people's lived experience. Our participant-centered practice follows emerging group dynamics in a workshop, adapts to local cultures and theories of change, and is oriented toward action – we call it Direct Education.
We're adept at cross-cultural work and bring an awareness of power, identity, and conflict to every workshop we do. As an organization, we're committed to supporting historically marginalized communities in the U.S. and across the world, including Indigenous, Black, and other people of color, working class and poor communities, and women, femme, trans, and gender-nonconforming folks. We're also working to increase language access to trainings and tools, especially for Spanish speakers.
Our Direct Education Approach
At the heart of Training for Change is a shared practice of training and group learning, which has evolved from over 25 years of work with activists, organizers, and change-makers.
Just as direct action directly confronts systems of injustice, our approach challenges traditional education, confronting the beliefs, conflicts, and oppression that keep leaders and groups from being their most powerful – that's why we call it Direct Education.
Direct education is about liberation and empowerment. Unlike traditional education, which gives all the expertise to textbooks and teachers, Direct Education invites the wisdom of people's own experience. The practice comes out of popular education traditions – like those popularized by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire – and adds to it. We've learned lessons from dozens of teaching modalities and approaches, making the most useful elements accessible in our training of trainer workshops.
The approach is group-centered. Our trainers build upon group dynamics in the training room and people's own experience to introduce new content and help the group access their own wisdom. This deepens learning in the training and also cultivates resources for people to access long after the training is over.
Here are some elements of our Direct Education approach as we see it:
Emergent design: In our approach, facilitators are skilled at adapting the agenda in the middle of a workshop to follow the needs of a group and better meet learning goals. Our trainers often use "diagnostic" tools in the beginning of workshops to assess group needs and make agenda changes. This way, they're open to what issues, challenges, and growth edges are present. Emergent design isn't about letting the group do whatever it wants – it's the ability to identify teachable and transformative moments where new content can be most effectively learned.
Difference & diversity: Not just theory, but a theme running through the workshop: We believe that an anti-oppression commitment shows up at every level of facilitation (agenda design, exercises used, training content, etc). Therefore, we pay constant attention to the dynamics of a group's mainstream and margin, and stay ready to support the group to go deeper.
Teachable moments on diversity often arise from unwitting expressions of stereotypes or other oppressive behaviors. Because we are open to the group and use emergent design, we're able to make the most of these moments and are willing to work through conflict as it arises.
Workshop as laboratory: We ground much of our design in a four-step model of experiential education: experience, reflect, generalize, apply. Without incorporating application in the workshop, new information or actions are difficult to internalize, and there is little difference back home. One way we design for this challenge is to create the workshop as a lab in which participants try new behaviors in the training room, practice new skills, and plan for applying lessons at home.
Different learning styles: Traditional education stresses reading, writing, and lectures as the major modes of learning. We recognize people learn in all sorts of different ways: visual, auditory, through the body (kinesthetic), through heart connection, and more. We design for a diversity of learning styles — for example using Adventure Based Learning exercises and other kinesthetic tools, instead of relying only on auditory and visual learning channels.
Learning as risk taking: TFC trainers operate on the principle that deep learning is change, and change requires risk; the facilitator's job is to not only invite risk, but make the workshop safer for risk-taking. This has agenda design and facilitation implications (such as intentional "container-building"), but also means the facilitators themselves must take risks, including the risk of transparency to the participants.
There are many more characteristics of TFC's unique Direct Education approach, especially when applied in specific contexts such as cross-cultural workshops, direct action and strategy trainings, and transformational and high conflict workshops, but this gives a taste of our work. The best way to get a sense of our approach is to experience it yourself in a training!
Meet Our People!
Matthew Armstead
Matthew Armstead is a community builder, facilitator, and organizer in Philadelphia, PA, and he is a trainer with Training for Change. He has worked with diverse groups of people from Occupy Wall Street activists to Ivy League university students, and led sessions on a variety of topics, such as anti-oppression, strategic planning, community outreach, peer counseling, nonviolent direct action, training of trainers, and organizational development. He has designed workshops on raising class awareness among students, building toward racial justice with college administrators, utilizing conflict with LGBTQ community leaders, and fostering an inter-generational movement with Occupy activists.
Dedicated to social change, Matthew develops curricula based on the framework of interlocking oppression with the goal of increasing people power. He is passionate about using music, theater, and dance to learn from groups and create dynamic change. Matthew has spent time fostering community among LGBTQA people as well as being an ally to student movements. He has been an organizer for large social justice convergences, most recently as core organizer during the Occupy National Gathering. He is currently working as a part of the grassroots, nonviolent direct action campaign, Earth Quaker Action Team.
Katey Lauer
Katey Lauer is an organizer, facilitator and trainer in Central Appalachia, with a deep love of place. She has worked with grassroots groups in and outside of the mountains for ten years, as lead organizer in student/worker campaigns to take on Sodexo, as Coordinator of The Alliance for Appalachia, as Coordinator of Appalachia Rising and The March on Blair Mountain, and as organizer with Advocates for a Safe Water System. She has provided mentorship to young people throughout the country including members of the Highlander Center's Appalachian Fellowship and students with the national Divestment Student Network. She is currently the Director of The West Virginia Trainers Project, as well as a part-time Administrator with The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, and an Honorary Member of UMWA Local 1440.
Erika Thorne
Erika Thorne has been a progressive activist, writer, facilitator and cultural worker since 1974. She focuses on cross-race coalition-building, anti-racism work with other whites, and diversity work. Erika has worked with environmental and media justice groups, undocumented immigrants, Hmong organizations, domestic violence activists, housing projects residents, the national education department of a large US union, and a full range of non-profits, organizers and rabble-rousers. In 2012, she collaborated with local training organizations to co-facilitate four workshops for 98 Burmese nonviolent activists in northern Thailand. She trains multi-racial groups of trainers in the UK through Campaign Bootcamp, and in northern Europe with Vredesactie. Erika is on the core organizing team of SURJ-MN (a white co-conspirator group.) She also loves to facilitate training of trainers, hate-crimes response, conflict waging, ethical grassroots fundraising, and meetings – especially real sticky ones! Erika was the Managing Director of MN Friends for a Nonviolent World for nearly three years, and coordinated the Alternatives to Violence Project-MN, offering intensive workshops in prisons and jails, for five years. As a former dancer for social change, she brings joyful physicality to her facilitation.
E-mail Erika at avperika@gmail.com
Andrew Willis Garcés
Andrew Willis Garcés works primarily with organizations that want to transform their practices to become more powerful, by offering coaching and strategy support for organizational leaders, curriculum development to support the nurturing of new practices, and trainings for the organization as a whole.
Originally from Memphis and now based in North Carolina after several years in Texas, Andrew especially enjoys working with Southern organizations, and with roots in Colombia, has worked with Spanish-speaking immigrant groups around the country, in addition to organizations in Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.
For organizing groups, he also offers support planning outside-the-box campaigns that use creative direct action to expand what's possible. Here are some articles about campaigns he has helped undocumented immigrants and taxi drivers to win. He's also worked on successful campaigns with janitors' unions, public housing tenant associations and immigrant voters, and two short campaigns to impact US foreign policy towards Colombia, Obama Remember Us and No More Broken Hearts. He also helped plan a campaign that resulted in a new income tax increase on the top 2% of taxpayers in the District of Columbia to pay for safety net services.
He's also trained hundreds of people in civil disobedience techniques, including groups of white people and faith activists who want to be more powerful accomplices to Movement for Black Lives and immigrant-led organizations.
Andrew has also worked with numerous youth and student groups, and has taught undergraduate courses for Georgetown University's Program on Justice and Peace.
Contact Andrew at andrew@trainingforchange.org.
Naomi Long
Naomi has almost two decades experience as a community organizer, youth mentor, and teacher. She began as a faith-based community organizer with the Gamaliel Foundation and organized successful statewide grassroots campaigns around the DREAM Act, education funding policy, and prison reform. From there, her passion for intersectional organizing brought her to D.C. as the Metro Director for the Drug Policy Alliance, where she helped lead a winning drug policy reform campaign. She served as Senior Principal at Wellstone Action for six years, where she built a national network of youth organizers and trained hundreds of progressive organizers and candidates. As the proud owner of her family's nine-acre farm in Texas Hill Country, Naomi hopes to continue the legacy of black-owned farms and community-based entrepreneurship. Naomi lives in Houston and on most days can be found finding balance between being tough minded and tender hearted.
Kim Huynh
Kim Huynh is an organizer, facilitator, and community weaver based in Philly. Over the last decade, Kim has strategized, struggled, and been sharpened alongside immigrant black and brown women to win the best municipal Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in the country; multiracial faith groups for living wage jobs and energy democracy in Philly; community organizations fighting against environmental racism and gentrification in Houston's Black, Latinx, and Southeast Asian working class neighborhoods; and creative direct action and mass mobilization projects across the country.
A 2014 recipient of the Judith C. Jones Fellowship for Trainers of Color with Training for Change, Kim brings her rebel heart and an unwavering belief that transformation is possible and constant to her liberation work. As the first-born daughter of first-generation Vietnamese refugee immigrants, she bridges continents, cultures, languages, issues, and identities and carries that literal and metaphorical translation into her work with groups waging grassroots campaigns, building leadership, navigating conflict, and trying on new shapes to increase their power through facilitation and curriculum building.
Contact Kim at kim@trainingforchange.org
Zein Nakhoda
Director & Core Trainer
Zein is a trainer, media maker, and organizer based in Philadelphia. He's organized for environmental justice through fossil fuel divestment campaigns and as a co-founder of Philly Thrive, a community organization fighting environmental racism and fossil fuel expansion. He's made community and movement media with Scribe Video Center, Media Mobilizing Project, and independently. His latest film, Grounded While Walls Fall explores practices and rituals of resilience among organizers in Greater Philadelphia. He's also a compa member of LeftRoots.
Zein has been in relationship with Training for Change since 2009 and joined staff in 2017; he's now Director and a Core Trainer.
Celia Kutz
Celia Kutz has been training and facilitating in the movement for social change for 15+ years. Her primary home during this time has been Training for Change, as Core Trainer and Co-Director. Her background in organizing and training is diverse. For eight years she lived in Minnesota, working with neighborhood folks fighting for self-determination and as the coordinator of a national network of street medics and wellness healers to support mass protest during the 2008 RNC. Nationally, she has led direct action trainings to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline, convened Jews working to end the occupation of Palestine prior to the 2010 US Social Form, and supported leaders from a wide range of groups including Momentum, the Wildfire Project, Sierra Club, Service Employees International Union, West Virginia Can't Wait, and Siembra NC.
Celia works 1-1 with activists in their context and supports whole organizations to move through a process. Her approach blends her study of somatics, strategy, spirituality and nature alongside an early interest in dissonance and tension in groups. This led her to quickly dive into the study and practice of World Work, a project held by Process Work Psychology, in which conflict is facilitated in groups of 100+ from across the world. Celia is a trained mediator and restorative justice practitioner, loves training trainers and facilitating hot spots in group conflict.
Facilitating Conflict and Leading from the Feminine
Healing Justice Podcast, Nov 2017
Healing Justice Podcast, Reflection Part 2, the Power of Practice, August 2018
Tips for White Trainers Leading Multiracial Groups
Training for Change Article, September 2015
How Black Lives Matter came back stronger after white supremacist attacks
Waging Nonviolence, Nov 2015
Andrea Parra
Andrea Parra is a queer Colombian human rights lawyer, activist, professor, trainer and translator, who has worked for almost 20 years on issues related to sexuality and rights, gender-based violence, disability justice and immigrant rights. She has conducted numerous trainings to activists, public officials, attorneys, survivors, students and academics, among others. She has trained in several countries and various cities in Colombia and the US. She's been a core trainer with TFC since 2014 and has worked with feminist and human rights organizations in Colombia and South Asia. She has also translated several texts related to feminism and social justice issues. @andreparrafo
Ali Roseberry-Polier
Operations Coordinator
Ali's background is in community organizing and activist storytelling, connecting present-day movements to historical legacies of resistance. Ali was first politicized through the fossil fuel divestment movement and queer community education as a student. In more recent years, Ali's work has included archival and oral history research with activist elders, most recently with Black Liberation 1969 and the Philadelphia AIDS Oral History Project. Ali's writing on organizing and social movement history has appeared in Waging Nonviolence, Hidden City Philadelphia, and other sources. Ali first attended a Training for Change workshop in 2011, and joined staff in 2017.
Allison Chin
Allison Chin (she/her, they/them) is originally from New York City, grew up in Southern California and has lived in Leesburg, VA for the past 11 years. They are a retired biologist and, since 2008, have been immersed in non-profit governance, and organizational and leadership development. Allison is particularly excited about working with organizers, activists and change makers to facilitate the deep individual and group work that is transformational and long-lasting. They are nourished by being outdoors, gardening, and carving wooden spoons.
Vega Subramaniam
Vega Subramaniam is a leadership coach, trainer, and long-time activist promoting gender, racial, LGBTQ, and economic justice. She's facilitated leadership workshops, given keynote addresses, and presented leadership trainings for college students as well as for local and national organizations. One of her favorite activities is facilitating daylong Intentional Life Planning workshops with her wife, Mala Nagarajan. She has also taught sociology and worked in student services at Penn State University, Western Washington University, and the University of Washington.
Kelley Lou
Kelley Lou is the Training and Capacity Building Manager at National CAPACD. Her work for the past decade has been committed to empowerment and community building for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. She has facilitated and trained individuals and community-based organizations across the country to build their advocacy and leadership skills. She is also passionate about working closely with faith communities on social justice issues.
Janée Woods
Janée is the Director of Organizational Culture for the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Foundation, whose mission is to achieve equity in education by working with those affected and inspiring all to end racism and poverty. She also has several years of experience as a facilitator and trainer of grassroots organizers and community coalitions seeking to create change by addressing racism, economic injustice, early childhood education, and food security. She writes about social justice issues on her blog What Matters.
Hilary North
Hilary North (they/them/theirs) is Director of Diversity and Equity Initiatives at The Calhoun School in NYC. Their work in supporting anti-oppression change in independent schools spans twenty years and flows directly out of personal experience as a queer, black, multiracial transracial adoptee and parent. Hilary is particularly excited about opportunities that allow teachers and young people to explore the intersections between education and anti-oppression activism, and TFC workshops have been instrumental in resourcing their professional toolbox.
Sonia Silbert
Sonia Silbert is originally from New York City and has lived in Washington, DC for the past ten years. Since 2008, she has served as Executive Director of the Washington Peace Center, providing education, resources and action for activists in DC working for social justice and a world free from oppression. Under her leadership, the Peace Center developed and led the DC Trainers Network, hosting monthly trainings using popular education methods to develop the skills of DC activists. She has personally led trainings for groups up to 400 on Nonviolent Direct Action, Grassroots Fundraising and more. She loves backpacking, gardening and talking about facilitation strategies, and is honored to be on the board of Training for Change.
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The Space Traveller's Watch
The Tompion Gold Medal
George Daniels	Master watchmaker
31. I beat the quartz watch for timekeeping 1 2336 04:23
32. The Daniels cipher 1 2081 01:25
33. Tick and tock - the double wheel escapement 1 2082 01:20
34. The Tompion Gold Medal 1773 01:31
35. The Space Traveller's Watch 1 3265 06:21
36. The origins of the co-axial escapement 1 2194 04:06
37. Moving to the Isle of Man 1 2165 00:59
38. My aim was to produce an original watch 1 2487 04:08
39. Making all the components for a Daniels watch 2087 01:04
40. The business of selling watches 1943 02:18
So Sam Clutton said look here, he said you know you've got this rate out of this watch and you ought to get a Tompion Medal. Now, a Tompion Medal is a gold medal given by the Clockmakers' Company, and it hadn't been awarded for about 30 years and so it was proposed that I would get this and I thought it would be a fait accompli. I thought well I've made the watch and it keeps this phenomenal rate of time, which was required by the citation. But no, not a bit of it, everybody wanted to kick it around and discuss it and pontificate on it and it took oh, two or three years to get this through but finally it was awarded. I did get the gold medal, which I was very pleased about because it was a great coup for me because at that time, we're now talking about 1978 when this citation was sent in, that was a bit of a critical time for me because I had more or less run out of customers for my watches and where was I to get more, when I automatically got more once this news was out. It was in all the papers and the television news and all that sort of thing. And so I got more customers, which was the object of the exercise, really. So, there you are, you can't be afraid of a little bit of publicity.
George Daniels, CBE, DSc, FBHI, FSA (19 August 1926 - 21 October 2011) was an English watchmaker most famous for creating the co-axial escapement. Daniels was one of the few modern watchmakers who could create a complete watch by hand, including the case and dial. He was a former Master of the Clockmakers' Company of London and had been awarded their Gold Medal, a rare honour, as well as the Gold Medal of the British Horological Institute, the Gold Medal of the City of London and the Kullberg Medal of the Stockholm Watchmakers' Guild.
Title: The Tompion Gold Medal
Listeners: Roger Smith
Roger Smith was born in 1970 in Bolton, Lancashire. He began training as a watchmaker at the age of 16 at the Manchester School of Horology and in 1989 won the British Horological Institute Bronze Medal. His first hand made watch, made between 1991 and 1998, was inspired by George Daniels' book "Watchmaking" and was created while Smith was working as a self-employed watch repairer and maker. His second was made after he had shown Dr Daniels the first, and in 1998 Daniels invited him to work with him on the creation of the 'Millennium Watches', a series of hand made wrist watches using the Daniels co-axial escapement produced by Omega. Roger Smith now lives and works on the Isle of Man, and is considered the finest watchmaker of his generation.
Tags: Tompion Medal, The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, Tompion Gold Medal, Cecil Clutton, Cecil (Sam) Clutton, Thomas Tompion
Date story recorded: May 2003
Date story went live: 24 January 2008


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