With my son coming home from the Army (it has been a nice visit), I am surprised at how many people think this is the right time for me to sit down and "have a talk" with him. I am not at all sure where this idea originates, but it is amazing how many people have brought this up.
Apparently, the theory is that I (as the Father) have some great knowledge that he (as the Son) needs to hear and that, for whatever reason, I have never given it to him before. Now That He Is A Man (as they will say it), I am apparently supposed to impart this knowledge to him over lunch or dinner or something, in a very important Talk.
I think, maybe, it arises from television and movies, where we always see fathers and sons sitting down for a serious talk. It may just come from the increasing feminization of things, given how much women seem to like having such talks. I know that wives are frequently the ones who want their husbands to have such talks. Who knows where it comes from, but I wish it would go away. Seriously.
My son lived in my house for 23 years. Do you think there is something I wanted to tell him but just kept forgetting all those years? Is there some wisdom or understanding I just never got around to mentioning but which he needs now? I don't think so.
I can imagine having some kind of a talk. If he had some girl he was preparing to marry, then maybe we could talk about marriage. Of course, I am not sure what new I could say to a man who observed 23 years of my marriage that he would not already know.
I can imagine having a son who is troubled by some temptation to sin imposed by his peers and who comes to me for help, but I find it hard to work out how that would happen. If it is sin, I would tell him not to do it. He knows I would tell him not to do it. So, that conversation is not very useful or very long.
He is not going into my profession (he is a soldier, I am a lawyer), so not a lot of professional advice is needed.
In short, I raised my son the way I wanted him raised. I made mistakes, I am sure, but how would I know? There are things I theoretically would "have done differently," but so what? He does not need to sit and listen to me whine about how I raised him. I do not live a life of regrets, after all. We are where we are.
In short, this is not a movie script. In scripts, they include these talks to create a sense of emotional closeness for the audience, but I cannot imagine sitting my son down and talking to him that way. I can imagine him coming to me with questions, but that is up to him.
So, we sit and have lunch and talk about all the little things people talk about when they like each other's company. In two days, he will be headed back to his duty station. He is a man, with a man's world to live in. I raised him and have faith in him.
In short, it was not television. It was not a movie. It was me and my son. It was perfect. It was just what it ought have been.
Driving earlier today, I saw a couple walking along in which the young man had a long ponytail. It reminded me of a young preacher I knew many years ago, who also had a ponytail.
I assisted the church in some trouble it had with a prior pastor and in its search for a new pastor, but was not involved in the actual hiring process. The church was not a great church, being more of a community church with no strong theological convictions, but felt it could find a good pastor anyway. They ended up hiring this young man.
When I first spoke to him by telephone, I was surprised to hear him mention having a ponytail (as if it mattered to me) and how "surprising" it was to the people where he had started working. When I visited him at his church, he talked again about his ponytail and how "cool" it was that they hired him anyway and how "shocked" people were to see his ponytail. He was really quite proud of that ponytail and how he perceived others responding to it. He even asked if I was "surprised" to see a minister with a ponytail. I was rather amazed that he thought it was such a big deal at all. I knew lots of men with ponytails. It was the Seattle area, after all.
Over the years, I have thought about him a great deal. A ponytail is an interesting thing, isn't it? It does not matter at all. Seriously, what difference does it make? It does not make you stronger or wiser or a better Christian. A ponytail (like any hairdo) is important only in so much as it impacts others. My looks don't matter to me, they matter to those who look at me.
But that was not his attitude at all. His attitude was that having a ponytail was important to who he was. It would have to be because no man in our culture would grow one without thinking about it. He wanted to be a man with a ponytail, regardless of how it impacted his ability to work for God. He knew the ponytail would bother others, but felt that it was a good idea to force them to deal with his ponytail. He knew it would be a problem, and he kept it so that it could be a problem because of how important it was to him.
I knew, or I felt strongly, that he would never succeed. No man who values his hair more than the members of his church will succeed as a pastor. No man who believes that shocking people is a valuable ministry choice will succeed in a job that requires love. A true minister would have been concerned about more than his ponytail.
We see this in other areas. A pastor will insist on the music he likes, not what his people respond to, and say they "need to change." A pastor will insist on preaching the way he likes ("It's my style") rather than the way his people need to hear the word. Young pastors will want to dress casually in an area where preachers dress nicely, even though the people like to have preachers dress nicely. How many pastors have told me, in effect, "they have to adjust to me"? They have to like my ponytail.
I was right about the young minister with the ponytail. He lasted almost two years but was fired because of what seemed to be a simple matter, but no one there had ever come to really love him. Why? Because he did not love them. He loved his ponytail.
Preachers need to know that their duty is to love their neighbors, to love their people, to love their God. It is not their duty to have ponytails (or not have them). It is not their job to love themselves in such a way. If I ministered in a place where men had to be bald to be heard, I would shave my head in a moment. If I minister to people who need my hair to be longer than it is, I would grow it longer. What is hair compared to the faith of God's people?
Preachers and ponytails. An odd and a sad connection in the life of a small church and a young minister. I hope they both learned a lot through the process.
Earlier this week, I blogged on the question of God and American Football. I previously spoke also of my concern over how many Christians seem to view the Tim Tebow situation as some miraculous work of God.
Anyway, a good friend asked a good question about the whole Tebow situation. "But I have been wondering lately if God is particularly blessing Tebow's efforts because Tebow is presenting a positive image to the world of how a Christian should live their lives, even the rich and famous." She concludes this way: "It's not because Tebow's a Christian, but because he is a powerful witness and God is using that. Does that make any sense?"
The answer, of course, is that it makes a lot of sense in modern American ways of thinking. It is, in fact, an excellent question about how we think about God and about life. The argument is that there is something special about Tebow that God wants to promote by allowing him to win games.
Perhaps, as my friend suggests, this could be a sign to us of "how a Christian should live" life. We should, in that sense, be more like Tebow. God, in this view, is blessing Tebow so that we would want to be more like him.
Trouble is, we really don't have any basis for this idea because we know almost nothing about him. We think we know a lot, but we actually know very little He makes a whole lot of money, we know that, but we cannot mean that God wants us all to make a lot of money. He is publicly praised and admired by thousands, but God surely does not mean that. But we really don't know much else. We do not know what he does on a daily basis. We have no idea about "how he lives" at all. All we know is what we see on Sunday.
The Bible tells us that we are to look to Christ and to the apostles as examples of how to live (and, generally, to leaders whom God has given us). The example of Christ is about how to deal with suffering, something with which Tebow seems totally unacquainted. I have heard people say that he "suffers" because "people mock him." Christians being mocked is common. Has he had a child die? I know many Christians who have lost children, or whose parents are ill, or who are suffering for their jobs. How is Tebow an inspiration to them? He is still a very young man, after all. Does him winning a few football games really inspire greater Christian faithfulness? God has given us leaders of the faith, men and women who have endured the suffering of life. We should not look to young men barely beginning life as our examples.
In America, we think of success as something to emulate, but the Bible tells us to remember those who suffer for Christ and those who lead the body of Christ, and to emulate their way of life. Hebrews 13. We are not to emulate the wealthy, but the faithful. From God's point of view, exalting Tebow in order to have others act like him seems inconsistent with what we are commanded to do.
God has told us, in fact, that we are not great. We were chosen as the weak, the dishonored, the despised, the low. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. His purpose was to ensure that we would not be proud in ourselves but only in God's power. It would be quite inconsistent to hold that He would then create a great athlete as the one whom we are to exalt and emulate.
We also have to consider that not everyone considers Tebow a great Christian example. Tebow's very career choice is anathema to many faithful Christians, who believe that Sunday is a day given by God for rest and worship, so any admiration for him would be tempered by his helping Christians justify ignoring that requirement. I do not hold this, but many faithful Christians do. Catholics will not admire his rejection of their faith, certainly. Tebow's faith, what little we know of it, seems a fairly common brand in many ways, but is not consistent with most churches at all.
Further, of course, is the question of how this is all working anyway. I suppose you would have to say that part of God's plan is having Tebow play terribly for three quarters, being entirely dependent on his defense succeeding, and then suddenly play well for a few minutes to win (even being dependent on other players making major mistakes). How is this evidence of God's wanting us to be like Tebow? If God has decided to give us athletic success as a standard to follow, wouldn't we be excited about Aaron Rodgers?
Aaron Rodgers is a Christian, a very open and apparently faithful Christian. He quarterbacks the best team in football. They are undefeated. They have not required miraculous turnarounds in the fourth quarter, but are dominant throughout games. Rodgers is the highest rated quarterback in the NFL and is universally said to be playing the position as well as anyone ever has. Yet no one speaks of God being involved at all. He does his job, as we all do, and remains faithful to his testimony and his God.
Let me be clear. I know that God has, for whatever reason, decreed that Green Bay be undefeated and that Denver be winning these games. His reasons for doing so are beyond my knowing. These facts impact millions of lives, not just a few fans, and I do not understand how all of it works. God is far beyond my understanding.
But I know that I will never look to Tim Tebow or Aaron Rodgers as an example of how to live my faith, but to Christ. In the same way, their losses will never cause me to reject my faith.
Put simply, I do not know why Denver is winning now. I do not know if God is somehow rewarding Tebow (at the expense of faithful Christians on other teams). I do not know if it is part of a test of Tebow's maturity. I do know that whatever He is doing, it is much more than I can understand.
Enjoy the football (at least the fourth quarter), but be careful about attributing your feelings to God. God is far beyond our understanding.
My older son, Andrew, is coming home tomorrow for a Christmas season visit. Andrew is our second child and left us at the end of March for his new Army career. We saw him in very early June at his boot camp graduation, but have not seen him since that time. He is stationed out west.
There are a lot of things to think about with him coming home. First, of course, we have to find a place for him to sleep (having emptied his room of his stuff), but that is not a big issue. As he says, he is a soldier now and can sleep just about anywhere.
More importantly, this is his first visit home as a grown-up. He was a legal adult when he left, of course, but had never lived away from home. He comes back as a grown-up. He left as a skinny kid but has had months of physical training and can pass military physical tests, so he is certainly going to look different. He has lived nine months away, with different people, doing different things, so he will be different.
He is our second child to leave home, so we are not totally out of touch with the situation, but it remains interesting.
How quickly people change. I think we forget this as we go through life. We see the same people all the time and their changes just seem natural to us, so we don't think about it. I have a friend who was single when I met him, now he is married with two children. He has changed a lot.
Andrew comes "home" to a very different place than he left, just nine months ago. Our second daughter has been in college since June (so she has changes, too) and the second son (our last child) is now 17 and driving, with a job, so many things have changed.
As you get ready for your Christmas time, spend some time thinking about how you have changed. And, especially, remember this: change is what you want.
As Christians, we are never at the end of our changes. God is in the process of making us like Christ. The Holy Spirit is producing fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Gal. 5:22.
Are you more loving this year? Is your joy greater, your peace more consistent, your patience more steady? Is your life (your every day) filled with your kindness, your goodness, to others? Are you more faithful, more gentle, in greater self-control.
If so, then rejoice in a good year. Peter tells us that these qualities make us useful and that if we lack these things, then we are "blind or short-sighted." 2 Peter 1:8-9.
It will be nice to see Andrew again. I am curious about what I will find in my son, but, to be honest, I am also concerned about what he will find in me. Will it be the great things of God coming true in my spirit and life? Or will it just be the same old me he left?
Tomorrow could be interesting for both of us.
As the Tim Tebow craze continues (see the blog from November 17), we find ourselves back into the old question: "Does God Care About Football Games?"
The same question can be asked of any other sport, of course. We see athletes frequently claiming God's hand in their victories. These claims are always followed by someone arguing that "God does not care about football games." Then, of course, you get the old "with all the terrible things in the world, God is too busy to worry about football games." Or, finally, you get the "football just isn't that important anyway, why would God care?" response.
So, does God care about football?
When an unbeliever states any opinion about God, we can forget it having any validity. Unbelievers do not believe anyway. So, let's think about professing Christians who ask the questions.
This, of course, is a false question at its heart. The question presupposes that God exists in the same way we exist; that he is waiting to see who wins or how he can help his person win. We know this is nonsense. The idea that God is "cheering for" a team is nonsense. He is God. He already knows who will win and who will lose and how they will win or lose. He is not waiting to see what happens. He does not care in the way that we care.
But, of course, that does not really answer the question either. Those who say "God doesn't care about who wins a football game" are saying a lot more than they think they are saying. "It's just a football game" they will say. Well, no, it's not.
There are dozens of men whose livelihoods are involved in every game. Their errors and heroic acts will be judged by their bosses and they could lose their jobs. Jobs matter to God, do they not? Players are often injured, sometimes severely. God cares about injuries, does he not? Coaches are fired. Does that not matter to God? Christian coaches get fired, does God not care about them?
The Tebow crowds have the idea that God just "wants Tebow to win," but that means he wants the Christians on the other team to lose. Tebow is not the only Christian in football. Every time his team wins, some other Christian's team loses. Does God not care about the other Christians? That is ridiculous and Tebow would say it is ridiculous. God does not love Tebow more than his other children.
Each team has thousands of fans, hundreds of thousands, all of whom are impacted by whether their team wins or loses. Does God not care about them? Many of them are Christians. If a team loses, then its fans lose and this matters to them. So, when we say God does not care about football, we are saying God does not care about his aspect of the lives of his people. The circle of "uncaring" widens a great deal.
If the team loses, then fewer fans will come to the next game, impacting hundreds (thousands) of workers in the stadium, in the restaurants around the stadium, in stores that sell football gear. A family who normally gets a few hundred dollars from parking cars in their yard will get less now, money they could have used. Do you say God does not care for them, or for the people who are laid off in the stadium because attendance is down?
If the team wins, then people will be happy for a little while, if they lose, people will be saddened. Does God not care how people feel?
Eventually, you have to decide if you believe in God at all. A God who "does not care" about an activity that impacts hundreds of thousands of lives, in dozens of ways, seems pretty small to me. There are sixteen games a week, millions of lives being impacted, dozens of men being injured, thousands of jobs being effected, millions of dollars moving from here to there, but they say God does not care. This is absurd.
God is sovereign. To say that a team wins "because God wants Tebow to win" is just nonsense. God would not put one man above all other men in such a foolish way. God did not "choose" a team for some childish reason. He is sovereign.
Teams win and lose because of how people play, they play because of who they are, and they are who all history has made them. And God makes history. God cares about people in a far more comprehensive way that can be explained either by "He cares about football" or "He doesn't care about football."
Too often, we think that "God is sovereign" just means that He has the ability to control events. On the contrary, it means that events are all under His control. We each, as independent agents, work in accordance with who we are, with the skills he has given us, with the level of commitment and caring he has given us. The result is what God intended and decreed from the beginning.
My God is not careless, neither is He is a team booster. He is the soveriegn Lord of All. Including football.
I think most of us kind of enjoy the holidays, but it can certainly be a time of great busyness. We are two weeks out from Christmas and things are starting to "heat up" a little bit.
In the midst of all the gifting and cooking and baking (and eating), we are also repeatedly told that we are "too busy" doing all the gifting and cooking and baking (and eating). We are told to "be hospitable" but not to "go overboard." We are told that we "celebrate Christmas to remember Christ" but also told "not to forget Christ." We are told that our gifts to others are like the gifts given to Christ, but that we are not supposed to give too many gifts (which seems really odd).
We are, in short, guilty no matter what we do. We are guilty if we spend to much money or too little money. We are guilty if we invite lots of people over or invite too few. We are guilty if we enjoy Christmas too much and guilty if we do not celebrate it enough. This is crazy.
We sit in churches filled with Christmas decorations to hear sermons about how wrong it is that we decorate too much at Christmas.
First of all, please remember at all times that Christmas, like all our so-called "Christian holidays," is not something God ordered us to do at all. It has come and gone through history. It is sometimes very popular and sometimes it has been outlawed (by serious Christian rulers, by the way). Today, people think that Christians are the ones who insist on the holiday, but, in fact, it is the most serious Christians who have had the most objection to the holiday over the centuries.
In short, you cannot "keep Christ in Christmas" because He was never there, except when someone wanted to think of Him in it. The celebration is a purely secular celebration of a day. If you spend any time being upset that lost people do not remember Christ at Christmas, then think about the fact that they don't remember Him any other time either.
Second, do try to keep your head about you. Christmas is like every other day of your life. Your duty is to love God and love your neighbor. So, how are you doing? It may not be as simple as you think.
For many of us, Christmas is a time of rather undisciplined love. We give more than we should to the people around us, in part because we have lost touch with how to really love them. I can give my children gifts, which is far easier than giving them myself.
As wives, try to take some of the "busy busy" out of the season, for yourself and your family. Relax a little. Enjoy the time with your family and friends.
Whether or not to celebrate Christmas is, to be honest, not much of a spiritual question, because it is not really a spiritual holiday (we are past the Old Testament days of feasts and such). But, each day remains a spiritual day on which the spiritual duties are the same.
Love your husband or wife this Christmas. Love your children. Love your neighbors. Love your God.
And don't worry too much about the food.
I am back to the problem of days. The calendar tells me it is Thursday, but it feels like Friday to me. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday also felt like Friday. It is a week of Fridays.
How odd that we have "feelings" about days. There is a Monday feeling (usually not considered a positive feeling). There is even a Tuesday feeling and a Wednesday feeling. There is certainly a Sunday feeling. How odd this all seems.
We have to remember that days are just an invention of mankind. The day I call Thursday could just as well be called Kumquat or Dirt Shoe. There is no permanence to the days. We even changed our calendar a couple of hundred years ago, keeping the same names but changing what day it was. So it isn't "really Thursday" in any sense.
But this is how human beings are. We tend to attach meaning to things that have no real meaning at all. Once something is part of our life, we think it is important. We eventually come to embrace whatever it is and defend it or, in the alternative, we hate and despise it and fight against it. But "it" is just something we made up.
We see this with the flags of countries. A country makes a flag from a design of cloth. The cloth is not special and could have been used for shirts or socks, but is used in a flag. Somehow, over time, the flag design becomes special to us and we "defend the flag" in some odd sense. In the United States, we now have people who will fight each other over a flag. Not in a war defending their country, mind you, but in a parking lot. Why? Because the flag gives us a feeling.
In this sense, people who burn flags for political theater and people who object to people burning flags share the same problem. They think the flag has inherent value. They have decided that the symbol actually "is" the actual thing it symbolizes. There are men in my area who would physically fight anyone who tried to burn the flag, but who will not obey the speed laws of the country the flag represents. How did we get so strange? We honor the symbol more than the reality.
The same thing is true in our churches. We have decided to "observe Christmas" on December 25, for no really good reason, and now it is a big deal. We are angry if anyone does not want to "observe Christmas" on December 25 and we claim there is a "war on Christmas," but that is like a war on the flag. Christmas is not real. It is just something we invented (well, not us, but people a long time ago). If no one ever celebrated it again, God would remain God. God never said to celebrate it anyway.
So, it is always Friday to me this week. Next week, it may always be Tuesday. You just never know. When I tell someone I feel like it is Friday, they don't laugh at me. They tell me what day it feels like to them and we laugh together.
All told, I think I prefer reality to symbols. I love my wife more than my wedding ring. I love my country more than I love any flag I see. I love Christ much more than any celebration of Christmas or Easter or any other day someone made up. I am not upset when someone doesn't celebrate Christmas or tell me "Merry Christmas."
But I wish I could get rid of the every day as Friday feeling. That's just weird.


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Joyce T. Boone Southern Authors Series welcomes poet-musician Jim Clark on Sept. 22
Posted On : September 14, 2020 Published By : mkbrantley
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Barton College will welcome poet and musician Jim Clark as the featured speaker for this year's Joyce T. Boone Southern Authors Series Lecture. The program will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. in Howard Chapel on campus.
This event is open to the public at no charge, and the community is invited to attend. There is a limit of 50 seats for this event. Please note that all guests attending the event must wear face masks and observe social distancing protocols.
Clark grew up on a farm on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau surrounded by music –
from the unadorned a cappella Church of Christ harmonies to the old-time country of his father's guitar and mandolin playing. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Vanderbilt University, a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Ph.D. in modern literature and creative writing at the University of Denver.
Professor Emeritus of English, he taught in the Barton College English Department for 25 years and retired as Dean of Barton's School of Humanities in 2019. Joining his love of language and music, he has recorded two solo CDs: "Buried Land," featuring original poetry and traditional folk music, much of it related to the TVA Dale Hollow Dam project's flooding of his parents' family farms in the 1940s; and "The Service of Song," showcasing his musical settings of poems by north Georgia "farmer-poet" Byron Herbert Reece. He also has recorded three folk-rock/Americana CDs with his band The Near Myths: "Wilson," "Words to Burn," and ". . . and into the flow."
Clark has published two books of poems, "Dancing on Canaan's Ruins" and "Handiwork"; written a play, "The Girl with the Faraway Eye," staged at the Portland Actors Conservatory Theatre in Portland, Oregon; edited "Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece"; and he served as editor of literary journals "The Denver Quarterly," "The Greensboro Review," "The Vanderbilt Poetry Review," and "Crucible." His most recent book is "Notions: A Jim Clark Miscellany."
Joyce T. Boone Southern Authors Series
Joyce T. Boone graduated from Atlantic Christian College with degrees in business administration (1978) and nursing (1988). An enthusiastic advocate for students and alumni of Barton College, Boone believed in the mission of the small, private, liberal arts college. She served on both the Barton College Board of Trustees and the Barton Alumni Council. Boone was president-elect of the Barton College Alumni Council when she passed away in October 2004.
For more information about this event, contact Dr. Rebecca Godwin, Elizabeth H. Jordan Chair for Southern Literature, at 252-399-6364 or rlgodwin@barton.edu.
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It's a Small World, but There's Room for a Walrus!
I was recently in Disneyland with my son for a few days of spring break. Of course, I was on the lookout for walruses! Now, I know what you're going to say – go to Alice in Wonderland, but to be honest – I totally forgot about that one, and plus, with a 17-year-old son in tow, "Alice" wasn't exactly on our list of must-rides. However, we respect the old-school rides, and made a point to even brave the CRAZY spring break line for Peter Pan. Alas, no walrus to be found.
I have pretty much given up when we decided, on our last night that we had to hit up It's A Small World, and accept the risk of having the song stuck in our heads for the rest of the evening. We cruised over late at night, after the fireworks and walked right on to the ride. Settling in for what is still one of the longest rides in Disneyland, we started… And found a walrus!
Yes, I am happy to report that not only is there a walrus in the Eskimo scene on the ride, it's literally the FIRST creature that you see! So keep your eyes peeled or you'll miss him/her and you'll have to go through the ride twice – and that will DEFINITELY stick that song in your head!
Here's picture proof, and the link to the Disney parks blog post that features this photo.
Here's the link to the "The Cultures of 'it's a small world' at Disneyland Park: North America" article on Disneyparks.com.
A younger walrus follows the National Geographic media team around Rubini Rock. Photo by Lucie McNeil.
It's things like this that still, after all these years, get me excited about National Geographic – the magazine that was a staple of every coffee table in every house I grew up in. There's this place, up in the middle of absolute nowhere, called Franz Josef Land. It's the sort of place that still draws explorers, since almost no one can get there. You see, Franz Josef Land is probably one of, if not THE most inaccessible island chains (archipelago actually) that there is. Basically, you get to Svalbard – already pretty much at the end of the Earth – and then turn northeast and keep going, and going, until you are about as far from any land mass as you can get. And there you are.
Fans of the walrus have their whiskers perk up when they hear the name Svalbard, since it's pretty much Atlantic walrus central. One would assume that if you were already in Svalbard, and kept going northeast, one would run into a lot of walrus. One would be right!
The posts have titles guaranteed to attract a guy like me – "Walruses in the Mist" and "Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Walruses Roam". There are incredible photos and engaging text snippets. The posts are short, but they give you a feeling for what must be a mystical, albeit cold adventure!
Here's a link to all the blog posts tagged Franz Josef Land on National Geographic.com's Explorer's Journal. I'll be following along and I hope you will too!
Here's a link to the Wikipedia page about Franz Josef Land.


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Winner of the 2019/20 Humanities Research Fellowship: Alicia Estrada, Ph.D. for her proposal titled, "Ka Winaq: Genocide, Survival and the (Re) Construction of Maya Communities in Los Angeles"
Most research root the migration of Central Americans to the United States in the Civil Wars of the 1980s. In most recent decades these migratory movements are contextualized as a consequence of economic hardships as well as the rise of drug and gang violence in the region. My book expands the existing literature both in the framework employed and its scope. It contextualizes Maya migration within the ongoing legacies of genocide and state violence against indigenous peoples in Guatemala. I suggest that migration to the United States becomes another form of survival for members of these Maya communities. Though Mayas have been migrating to the US since the late 1970s, their migration recently gained international attention with the violent deaths at the US/Mexican border of seven-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquín (Q'eqchi), eight-year-old Felipe Gómez Alonzo (Mam) and twenty-year-old Claudia Gómez González (Mam). While scholars and the media made the conditions in which the migrants died visible, they continued to explain their migration as merely economic. Thus, in framing these forced displacements as part of the ongoing legacies of the genocide that continue to violently shape Maya lives, my manuscript not only expands the established literature, but also provides other ways of thinking about Maya migration to the United States. Though there are Maya diasporic communities throughout the US, the largest Maya population outside of Guatemala is located in Los Angeles. For this reason, in the book, I also examine the ways Mayas in Los Angeles (re) construct a sense of community through the production of collective memories on the genocide, the creation of community spaces and the affirmation of their cultural practices. In doing so, these diasporic communities construct transnational Maya identities that are rooted in their own specific histories and experiences and contest assimilationist as well as homogeneous Latina/o paradigms.
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While 2017 was the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, our celebrations continue into the 501st year since Martin Luther posted the Ninety-five Theses on the practice of indulgences. The Reformation is a celebration of freedom in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This can particularly be found in today's Epistle from Romans 3. In a marvelous, great exchange, Christ takes our unrighteousness and gives us His righteousness. Even though we all sin and fall short of the glory of God, we are justified by God's grace, as a gift. We celebrate God's love and activity on our behalf to save us. Listen in or Watch below!
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The Senate moved beyond Crossover Day this week thus reaching an important milestone in the legislative process. Since it is the last day bills can cross from one chamber to another, we worked late into the night debating and voting on a list of 29 bills in an effort to pass the remaining important legislation before the 40th day. Moving forward, we will begin taking up bills from the House and working on compromises between similar legislation in conference committees.
The only required bill we must pass in Georgia is the budget. Georgia has two budgets, a general, "big" budget, as well as an amended budget, mid-year budget. Luckily our state, like your family, must pass a balanced budget, meaning we cannot spend money that we do not have. The general budget is based on projections for the next year and the amended budget is used to adjust changes in the mid-year that may be needed due to actual changes in revenue collections, student enrollment, or the economy. The amended (mid-year) budget passed with a unanimous vote last week. I will continue to update you as the Senate and House continue to meet do discuss the general budget for 2014.
This year the Senate passed Senate Resolution 245 requesting Congress to adopt a resolution proposing a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution as well as submit the same to the states for ratification. This resolution is proposed by the General Assembly of Georgia, and requests that members of the Senate request that their counterparts in all 49 other states act upon an identical resolution. Finally, this resolution requests all the members of the Georgia congressional delegation testify before the Senate as to why the federal budget is not balanced. I am happy to vote yes to this legislation and intend to continue voicing my concern for the lack of a Congressional balanced budget.
Senate Bill 13 will require nurses and health care entities to report suspected professional violations to the Board of Nursing or the Board of Examiners of Licensed Practical Nurses.
Senate Bill 101 will remove burdensome reporting requirements for firearms dealers and recognize out-of-state weapons carry licenses in Georgia.
Senate Bill 156 revises the term 'borrow pit' to allow a property owner to use earthen materials from excavated areas of less than five acres without having to apply for a mining permit. However, these materials cannot be sold.
Senate Bill 195 will authorize physicians and other practitioners with prescribing authority to prescribe auto-injectable epinephrine in the name of a public or private school.
Senate Bill 210 will create the Georgia Legacy Program to conserve the state's land, water, fisheries and wildlife resources. It will also create the Georgia Legacy Council to approve projects eligible for funding, and would establish two funds to provide grants and loans for the approved projects.
Senate Bill 236 will mandate for when a health insurer increases a premium, they must provide a notice explaining how much of the increase is attributable to the Affordable Care Act.
As always, it is an honor and my pleasure to serve you in the nineteenth Senate district. Please feel free to contact me with your ideas and concerns as we work together to improve Georgia.
Sen. Tommie Williams represents the 19th Senate District, which includes Appling, Jeff Davis, Long, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, and Wheeler counties and a portion of Liberty and Tattnall counties. He can be reached at 404.656.0089 or by email at tommie.williams@senate.ga.gov.


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Discover This Drink: Makgeolli—It's Alive!
By Melissa McEwen in Food on Jul 24, 2014 8:30PM
Pouring makgeolli at Parachute
It's delicious, hard for most people to pronounce, and definitely alive. Makgeolli (pronounced mak-gol-li) is a type of Korean unfiltered rice wine. And Parachute Restaurant (3500 N. Elston Ave.) aims to introduce more people to the joys of this unusual brew.
Parachute Sommelier Matty Colston first tried makgeolli at a Korean bar. It was the kind you typically find in the U.S.: heat-treated and sealed. "I liked it, but I didn't love it" he says. That all changed when he traveled to Seoul, where he first tried fresh makgeolli.
Chicagoans are enormously lucky to have the country's only makgeolli brewery, Slow City Brewery, right at our doorstep. This allows us to taste the Korean rice wine fresh, with the microorganisms responsible for fermentation still living.
Slow City designed a special bottle so their living makgeolli can breathe properly. If you pick up a bottle at local markets like Joong Boo (3333 N. Kimball Ave.), make sure to keep it upright. Once at home, it continues to ferment in the fridge.
"It's best when 'young'" Colston says "it changes a lot as it ferments. The first week it's sweeter, with fresh banana-like flavors and a mild acidity. I think the sweet spot is is between a week and two weeks."
"It's great for pairing" he says "it works well with everything. It's often paired with pajeon" which is a popular korean pancake usually made with seafood. "We do a version made with pork belly and mung bean, with a puree of kimchi and black garlic, an egg on top, and spicy mustard greens. The spicy food works well with [the makgeolli's] sweetness, it has carbonation that helps cleanse the palate"
Colston recommends it with any of their spicy dishes, but especially with their hotpot of spicy gulf prawns, blue crab, and dduk (Korean rice cakes). "You're missing out if you aren't getting makgeolli with it" he says.
But getting people to try it is a challenge. "We offer it by the carafe" he says "we keep one open for curious people. It's a weird thing. People do ask about it and we aren't afraid to give tastes out. It's natural and loaded with B vitamins. I'm passionate about wine and beer, but there is just something about this product."
At dinner at Parachute recently I sold my friend on it by describing it as creamy sake crossed with kombucha. And indeed it has much in common with kombucha- both are effervescent and vibrant, though it makgeolli has more alcohol and when served young it is far less acidic.
Slow City prints the brew date on each bottle and places like Joong Boo typically stock a few different brewings, which allows the curious to sample multiple ages.
But you don't want to wait too long to drink it. Slow City recommends drinking within a month. It gets more and more acidic as it ages. It doesn't spoil though, it just turns into a fine rice vinegar. So if you neglect a bottle, it's not a total loss.
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At Korean bars like Dancen (5114 N. Lincoln Ave.) it's served communally in a bowl with drinkers pouring it into their cups with a self-serve ladle. Colston says his father, who is a potter, made the cups they are using now and is working on custom carafes for the restaurant.
A few months ago I tried Great Lakes Brewery's recreation of ancient Sumerian Beer, a collaboration with University of Chicago archaeologist Tate Paulette. The cloudy bubbly actively-fermented beer they brewed was amazingly similar to makgeolli. And indeed there is something ancient about the drink. You can easily imagine Asia's first rice farmers at the dawn of the Neolithic imbibing on a similar drink. Whether you are at a traditional Korean restaurant or Parachute, Makgeolli in Chicago means taking advantage of something that's truly living history.
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Bata, founded in 1894, has been at the lead of innovation. But not only produces and designs a new style rather it also involved in the production of business models which is a response to the ever changing needs and desires of the customers. As a result of which, Bata enjoys a long history of being a leading manufacturer and retailer of quality footwear. Bata is proud of serving more than a million customers each day. Bata is successful in delivering an unequalled combination of quality and service to customers in every part of the world.
Bata is an international as well as a local brand also. International manufacturing helps Bata in meeting the needs and wants of local customers as well. Bata continued to follow the same core principle over a hundred years. Looking back at the history, Bata is seen to be the oldest and leading brands of footwear. Bata succeeded in manufacturing every kind of footwear for all people differing in tastes and preferences. Not only men's footwear but Bata deals with women's footwear as well. Its brands are Bata, Mocassino, Ambassador, Comfit, Bublegummers, Weinbrenner, Footin, Hush Puppies, Marie Claire, Naturalizer, North Star, Power, Scholl and Sundrop.
The showroom of Bata in Celebration Mall, Udaipur provides you with an immense variety of footwear that you cannot refuse to take over on first place. Being a traditional company, Bata is quite a reasonable one. We would like to see you shortly at our service.
The store is available at shop no. 17, 18 & 19, first floor, The Celebration Mall, Udaipur.


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Something that comes up in conversations with other business owners is figuring out what to charge and the battle between wanting to be "affordable" but still make money. I had the realization in my own business was realizing that what I was charging versus the amount of time it was taking me to accomplish my services versus the value for the customer were not equaling out to a profit. I realized this pretty early on and made immediate adjustments, but I wanted to share with you the three times that you are not paying yourself correctly so that you can start seeing profit in your business.
The first issue is not having a solid package or offering. From experience I can tell you, I've wavered between packages since I started. What I wanted to offer got glazed over by what I thought I had to offer which got tweaked and nitpicked by clients. In the beginning you are so terrified to turn down any clients or any money, so you take time to tweak and customize and go out of your way to become what someone needs you to be (just to lose the proposal anyway).
I'm not saying this is wrong by any means. But it's not the most efficient or the most profitable way. What I want you to do instead is go back to that initial spark of an idea that motivated you to start this business (your passion). Write that down and DO NOT forget it, lose it, or let it disappear within your offering.
Forget what every other copywriter or coach or designer offers and focus instead on what you really, really, really enjoy doing. Combine your strengths with the needs of your audience or potential clients. Do not just mimic or pick and choose pieces of your competitor's packages – or you're just putting yourself in competition. Instead, create something that is catered to your ideal situation and skillset that can still be a solution for a client.
Here's what I've landed on (This was updated in February of 2017). When I started I referred to myself as a branding designer and strategist. Somewhere along the way I realized no one else was talking about what happened after we stopped working together. You had a logo and a color palette... but what about a way to make content upgrades or branded materials for courses, etc.? It dawned on me that there was a solution in this open arena - becoming a design assistant for established business owners who need more time to focus on their passions. You can learn more about this evolution here.
If you want to talk more about how we can work together click here.
I tell you this evolution to teach you a lesson. When you don't have a solid package or offering you lose money. You lose money by wasting time first and foremost, but you also end up losing potential clients. If a client doesn't know exactly what they need and you can't tell them what they need/what you can do, then you've lost their interest.
Create something that is complete, easily explainable, and repeatable and offer that like it's the greatest thing that could ever happen to them – because it will be! You'll be doing your best work, because you'll love what you do, and provide great results.
Another major way you lose money is by not having systems in place. This falls back into the time is money thought, because in our businesses, with out 27 hats, time IS money.
I've written a lot about different ways I stay productive and it has definitely evolved as my business has, but the biggest piece of advice I can give you is this: CREATE SYSTEMS.
I co-hosted a Masterclass about this called Systemize Your Branding, which you can still catch the replay of. We go in depth about systemizing your process and documenting it, so that anyone (a VA, an assistant, etc.) can help you out easily and efficiently.
I highly recommend having a system for creating quick social media graphics, a system for quickly outlining blog posts, and a system for quickly answering emails – because these are the things that end up taking up your whole day.
For social media graphics all you need to do is make a template. I cover this in depth and show you behind the scenes of my templates in Systemize Your Branding. I go more in depth to my blog post process here, but I will say that outlining saves a TON of time and can (and should) be done in bulk. The hardest part of blog posts is generating the topic and the main points, so get that out of the way in bulk on a day you are feeling productive. The actual writing will be easy after that! With answering emails, please, please, please create canned responses. It is a LIFE SAVER because you will (if you don't already) get the same emails over and over again.
These three things will definitely save you time, and therefore money, because you will free up your day to do things that make you money – client work, creating products, etc.
Another extremely valuable place to implement systems is within your client work. Have an onboarding process that quickly gets contracts signed and invoices paid and homework or whatever initial steps started. Once you have a solid package or offering you should be able to have a ready made invoice and contract that details it so you no longer have to create custom ones each time.
This is one that I was guilty of for so long. Even though my proposal detailed that I wouldn't work outside of it, and doing so would require a new contract… I still did. They'd ask me to quickly do this or that, or show them how to set this up – which I wanted to do because I want clients to have a good experience – but that is money down the drain.
Repeat after me: Your time is valuable. Your work is valuable. You bring something to the table that can help others and you need to charge for it.
I know how awkward it can feel to say, "yes I can do this but it will cost xyz amount." But, if your client respects you and your time – which your ideal client will – they will understand. Or if it's something that you just don't want to do, or can't do, then say, "that's a great idea, but not my area of expertise. I recommend person so-and-so for things like that." You're still offering a solution, but not losing time or money in the process.
The last thing I wanted to focus on in this post is knowing your worth. I don't want to get to motivational-speaker on y'all, but it needs to be said: you bring value to your client's lives. You solve a problem that they cannot solve on their own. You fix, adjust, navigate, or somehow alter something for them that was holding them back – and that is important and necessary and worth charging for.
I want you to eliminate the thought that a project takes you 5 hours so you should be paid hourly rate times 5. I want you to instead approach it as value-added to your client's lives and price accordingly for that. Maybe you can build a website in 12 hours, but what is that website going to do for your customer? Grow their business? Convert people from passive viewer to subscriber or lead? Create your pricing with these thoughts in mind. I'm saying all of this with the thought that obviously you are going to provide these things (whatever these things are in your line of work) and therefore you're worth more than $5/hour or whatever the lowest-priced freelancer is charging on Fiverr.
This post ended up significantly longer than I thought it would when I outlined it the other day. (See what I mean, once you start writing it's a piece of cake). But I hope it shed some light on ways you can make sure you are creating a profitable business.
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Like "social distancing," "contact tracer" may be a term you'd never heard of before 2020, but now seems to be everywhere. These disease detectives track down all the people who an infected person has been in contact with recently and let them know about their exposure, as well as what they should do next to prevent spreading the coronavirus further. Contact tracing is considered to be a key step in overcoming the pandemic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization. Online Income
Appen once again took the top spot on the FlexJobs list. The Australia-based technology services company also has offices in the US, as well as employment opportunities in more than 130 companies. In fact, the company claims more than one million contractors employed globally. As you might expect, they work with some of the biggest companies in the world, especially large technology organizations. Internet Money
If you don't mind doing other people's chores, then TaskRabbit is a great option for making money online. Earn extra income by walking your neighbor's dog or mowing Mr. Smith's lawn. It might seem like not the most lucrative option, but the top taskers reportedly earn as much as $7000 a month, making this a full-time way to make money online for some. Affiliate Marketing
If you love to travel and find yourself randomly searching for airfare sales or browsing Lonely Planet, why not carve out a niche for yourself as a private travel agent? My friend, Mark Jackson did just that, making extra money online with his travel consulting side business. Start with word of mouth recommendations from friends who know they can count on you for the cheapest flights, and then move on and create a Facebook or LinkedIn group to invite people who want to stay on top of the latest deals. Eventually you could spin this into a full-time consultancy teaching people how to make their dream trips a reality. Affiliate Marketing
First off, I'm a blogger so it seems wrong not to mention it, but more importantly, it's a legitimate way to make money. It's quite possibly the least straight-forward way on this list, but it's very doable and it's also quite possibly the funnest way on this list. I love blogging and I know hundreds of bloggers who feel the same. So let's talk about making money blogging and what it really means. Affiliate Marketing
Keep your accounting expertise at home and provide your services virtually. AccountingDepartment.com is hiring accounting professionals for a variety of full-time and fully remote positions that come complete with health insurance, a 401(k) plan and paid vacation time. Beech Valley Solutions is seeking hourly contract accounting pros for ongoing work. Bonus: Bookkeeper tops our list of the 25 best part-time jobs for retirees. Work From Home
What makes even more surprising is the variety of positions available remote through the company. In fact, a search of their website using the term "work-at-home" turned up more than 1,000 positions. They include jobs in everything from customer service to clinical care. Nursing is naturally a common position, and one that's often available on a remote basis. They're often needed for online or phone consulting, both to provide clinical information and to direct incoming callers to direct care services.
How to Get It: Customer service is the biggest work-at-home field, with companies including Spiegel, Hilton, Best Western, HSN, 1-800-FLOWERS and many others using at-home reps. Fill out an application with staffing companies such as Arise, Alpine Access, VIPdesk, LiveOps, and Convergys, all of which vet the companies who are hiring through them. If you need benefits, search through a staffing company that will hire you as an employee (Alpine Access, VIPdesk and Convergys do this) rather than an independent contractor. If you're a contractor, you may be asked to pay a small fee (between $15 and $35) for a background check. While a fee can be a sign of a scam, independent contractors are responsible for their own expenses.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Most of the software and apps you use on a regular basis are made by massive companies or established development studios. Well, yes. But many successful apps, particularly those in the Apple and Google stores, are created and marketed by individuals and small businesses. In fact, independent developers made $20 billion in the App Store in 2016 alone. Affiliate Marketing
Bootstrap: This means you'll be self-funding your business. While not everyone will have the funds to pay for everything they need to start a startup, bootstrapping means that you retain 100% control over your company. You'll be using the financial tools you have at your disposal—whether that's financing your business growth with credit cards, personal loans, traditional business loans or a home equity line of credit. The payoff if you can bootstrap your company to an exit or IPO though, is that you might not ever have to work another day in your life. Affiliate Marketing
"Farming can be one of the most fulfilling lifestyles you can embark on," advises International Living. "But many might dismiss it as too much hard work, or too expensive to get started." That may be true in the US, but overseas there are opportunities that will make it easier than you think to live off the land—and you can make money while you're at it. It could be as simple as creating a veggie patch to feed the family and bring in a little extra cash at the local farmers' market. Or you could oversee a large acreage of land that turns out big profits.
Nick Mira: Internet Money is a huge family that you can't recreate. You can't really understand how organic it is. It's hard to understand the chemistry of the actual relationships, and how natural it is. We want to show that there is no limit to what we can do. Just like Taz said, we could do food, we could do drinks. We could do a store with equipment. We could literally make whatever. The people will support us, because of the way we started on the internet, collecting all the producers and everything. We have a whole community behind us, and a whole team. With the platform that we have, we're able to constantly give back and show everybody else that they can do the same thing.
Once you've gathered a list, put together an outreach email template (as you'll be doing this over and over) that's short and clear with expectations. Tell your potential interviewee who you are, what your podcast is about, and what you're asking of them. Do a few test interviews with friends and family to make sure everything is being recorded at the quality you want and then book your first episode.
Jumping into the field is relatively simple. Most prospective transcriptionists start by taking an online transcription course that teaches them the skills necessary to perform common job duties. Companies, such as Transcribe Anywhere, offer classes that teach students the basics of general, medical, or legal transcription, and just as importantly, how they can go about finding clients for work. Online Income
If you were not able to find luck with the list of jobs I have presented above, visit FlexJobs. This job site has been rated by the Better Business Bureau with an A+. They even provide a money-back guarantee in case you are not satisfied with how they deliver their service. FlexJobs assures that every single work posted is hand-screened to check its legitimacy. This is a fantastic method to find legit home-based jobs without the worries of handling scams.
Taz Taylor: I think it's kind of still SoundCloud. Everybody looks at the golden years when the bigger artists came from there. Because they're not on there anymore, and they're on DSPs, people think they're not a favorite little secret anymore. They're like, "Oh, it's over. It's dead." But in reality, SoundCloud is the one place where, if I made a song tonight and I really fucked with it, I don't need no labels. I can just go put it out tomorrow, and it can still go up. Even with YouTube and all that, you still need to go shoot a video. But you can literally just record a song in your bedroom and still put it up tomorrow. If it's good and it reaches the right person, you could really change your whole life off that one record. Affiliate Marketing
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Take it seriously. Yes, you're applying for an online job. Yes, you can do the work in your underwear, but that doesn't mean it's not a "real job". You must treat it as such or they aren't going to treat you as a serious candidate. You aren't the only one who wants to work in their underwear. In fact, the competition online is likely higher than it is in your local area. Affiliate Marketing
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Kelly Services is one of the most popular employment agencies in the US. Best known for temporary jobs, the company began operations in 1946, and now offers positions in more than 30 countries around the world. It has more than 500,000 workers around the globe. Ranked Number 8 on the FlexJobs 2019 list, Kelly Services has moved up two notches for 2020.
Work-from-home writing jobs cover a wide range of positions, including freelancing for consumer magazines, blogging, crowdsourcing, and editing jobs. Typically, writers and editors who work from home are freelancers, but if you're already working for a company as a writer or editor, the first step may be to convince your boss to let you telecommute. Internet Money
Has anyone ever told you you have a voice for radio? Are you great at creating original characters with just your voice? There are tons of people looking to pay for quality voice overs for their corporate videos, animation series, or educational videos. Check out Fiverr and UpWork or create a profile on a specialized site like Voices.com or The Voice Realm to get started making money online doing voice overs.
Photos of people can only be sold for commercial use if they've signed a 'model release' that gives you permission to use their image (children need a parent/guardian to sign). Without a release, these photos can still be sold for editorial use, as long as they were taken in a public place – eg, if you submitted a 'breaking news' shot with people in the background. If there's any doubt, always ask permission.
You don't have to start your own online business from scratch. Instead, you can build one (very quickly) by helping out people who already have a successful business. Every service business has a long list of past clients they're most likely not doing a good job of keeping up with—but their neglect is your opportunity. It's up to 5x more expensive to attract a new customer than it is to keep an existing one. By helping businesses follow-up and bring back their old customers, you're saving them money (and making your own!). A follow-up business like this can be as simple as a series of emails you write for a client to help them bring back old customers (check out this step-by-step guide for videos and example pitches). All you need is some writing skills, time to research and craft an effective outreach campaign to prospects in a profitable niche. Internet Money
Build your audience on a course community: If you're just getting started building an audience for yourself and want to leverage communities already actively looking for content you can choose to host and sell your online course on a site like Skillshare or Udemy. These are easy, cost-effective ways to build an audience and test your niche to see if there's demand for it. Work From Home
As you start regularly putting out content, you'll hopefully start to build a bit of an audience. But to start seeing real money from YouTube you need to market your videos elsewhere. Share your channel on Twitter and Facebook. Distribute videos anywhere else you can think of. Also, interact with comments and build a community around the videos you're making so people will share it with their friends. Work From Home
The service offers English as a second language to children in China, up to age eight. Teachers are English speakers who provide one-on-one courses based on the US Common Core State Standards. And as a teacher, you'll receive ongoing paid training as well as professional development opportunities. You'll be able to work from home, and choose your own schedule. Internet Money
"Life coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process that helps people focus on both personal and professional goals," advises International Living. "People use life coaching to overcome fears, boost their self-confidence, create goals and instill success-oriented habits." You can find thousands of online training programs on how to be a life coach, and many certification programs offer an entire website setup once training is completed. If travel is your area of expertise, you can even become a travel coach. Read this story about a travel writer who became a travel coach.
Though it's based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Lionbridge offers positions in 26 countries, and provides the option to either work from home, or at one of their 47 offices around the world. Positions are available for both full- and part-time work. You can also work as a freelancer through the company, depending on the specific service you can provide.
You know those top-down cooking or craft videos you just can't seem to get away from these days? There are people out there making a living from them, especially those that also run their own food blogs or travel blogs. In fact, a whopping 78% of B2C companies depend on user-generated content (like these videos) for their marketing campaigns. You can sign up as a creator on a site like Darby Smart and potentially work with brands like Nordstrom, Mattel, and BarkBox. Or, learn how to master PPC advertising and you can use the content to build your YouTube following and monetize through ads and views. Affiliate Marketing
And while it will take time to build up a big-enough audience to attract advertisers and other ways to make extra income from your podcast, the opportunity is there—though it all starts with getting podcast hosting and launching your show. John Lee Dumas interviews entrepreneurs seven days a week for his podcast Entrepreneur on Fire and now makes more than $200,000 a month from it. In fact, John publishes all his income online and showed that he's made almost $13 million since launching in 2012.
This list is great, thanks! I wanted to point out, though, that it looks like at least some of the transcription jobs are listed as paying per audio hour which would work out to a lot less per hour of work. One hour of audio can take 3 to 4 hours for an experienced transcriber to complete, so $24/audio hour=$6-8/hour. Just something for people to be aware of. Internet Money
Being a blogger is one of the best ways to earn money online. Apart from this, another way one can also make money is by playing online, real money games. Recently I have found a browser game – Wealth Words. It's an online crossword gaming website where a user gets real cash money for solving the crossword puzzles right. You can add this to the list as well! It's really entertaining to play and win. Internet Money
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Have you heard of drop-shipping? It's a method of retail where the seller doesn't actually have a physical inventory. Instead, when a customer makes an order, you purchase the item from a third party, and they ship it directly to the customer. "This means you'll never have to fork over a single dime to store your products or maintain your inventory," advises International Living. "And you'll never have to buy products in bulk, hoping to sell enough to recoup your investment." This method can be done with online selling platforms like eBay or Amazon. You can find out more about drop-shipping in this helpful article from Shopify. Online Income
Teachers aren't the only ones migrating from shuttered schools to remote work. Speech language pathologists work with K-12 students to identify communication disorders and develop individualized education plans to address their needs. And with schools currently practicing remote learning, school districts are seeking remote workers to provide this important specialized service via teletherapy. Some opportunities are available immediately to serve for the remainder of this school year, while others may begin before fall. You must have proper licensure for the state in which you'll work.
What It Is: Create virtual displays of art and graphics by assembling images, typographies, and motion graphics for published, printed, or digital media. This may include drafting logos, packaging, labels, and advertisements for brands. Top candidates will have skills in creativity, typography, software, web design, Adobe Photoshop, technology, and more.
It takes time and effort, but website owners like myself and Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income, have built life-changing careers through affiliate marketing. In fact, Pat even publishes his income reports online, showing how he made over $2 million in the past 12 months alone. So, if you're wondering… do people still read blogs? The answer is a resounding yes.
What It Is: If you're already fluent in two languages, why not put your skills to use and work as a translator? Translators are often required to translate documents or audio recordings from one language into another. You can work for yourself as a freelance translator, or apply to work with companies like Welocalize that offer a wide range of remote translation services. Internet Money
We just reached out to XO, and they were really helpful. They got Nav on it. The label has a really close relationship with Gunna, obviously, so that wasn't a problem. And then me and Don, we've known each other since he signed his deal. So I was like, "Hey, bro. If you're not doing anything with this, I'd love to turn it into a hit." He gave us his blessing and let us turn it into something, man. It's kind of crazy, because the song "Cafeteria" by Don was getting worked on at the same time. So Gunna thought he cut "Cafeteria" for Don. But in reality, he cut "Lemonade." So he had to cut "Cafeteria," too. It's just a big ass mix-up. Luckily, he did both songs, and both are about to be out. It's just a crazy story. That song has been going around since 2017.
I think dropshipping is the best way that can help you make money online. It is the only way that allows you to start an online business without investing capital in inventory or warehouse storage (you can buy products individually from a wholesaler and ship them directly to your customer). Moreover, with my dropshipping experience, you will learn key strategies that you won't learn anywhere else to help your online business grow and thrive.
Real estate can potentially earn you more money than the stock market. Over the long term, investing in the stock market will earn you an average annual return of 7%, adjusted for inflation, according to a number of studies. DiversyFund can't guarantee how its investments will perform in the future — no one can — but historically, it has earned an annual return of 17% to 18%. Internet Money
If you're looking for a work-at-home position, even among some of the employers listed above, you should be aware that not all such positions will be readily available. You may have to go on the company's careers page or job board and enter terms such as "work-at-home", "work-from-home", "remote position", or something similar. This will be especially important if most of the jobs offered by an employer are on-site.
This list is great, thanks! I wanted to point out, though, that it looks like at least some of the transcription jobs are listed as paying per audio hour which would work out to a lot less per hour of work. One hour of audio can take 3 to 4 hours for an experienced transcriber to complete, so $24/audio hour=$6-8/hour. Just something for people to be aware of. Work From Home
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When it comes to giving your website and social network content an attractive edge, Canva is the online graphic design application and resource that can make it happen.
I started a new blog site this year, and nearly all my designs for the site originate from Canva. I use Canva because it allows me, a novice graphic designer 5 Free Awesome Graphic Design Tutorial Sites You Should Check Out 5 Free Awesome Graphic Design Tutorial Sites You Should Check Out Read More with a basic understanding of the principles of graphic design 5 Basic Principles Of Graphic Design You Take For Granted Everyday 5 Basic Principles Of Graphic Design You Take For Granted Everyday In the visual age of the Internet it's relatively easy to create your own graphic designs, but they don't have to look homemade. Read More , to start with professionally designed templates, graphics, and font styles to make my site and social networks more appealing.
Since we last reviewed Canva Making Beautiful Designs The Easy Way With Canva [Signup & Free Credit] Making Beautiful Designs The Easy Way With Canva [Signup & Free Credit] What if an application promised to make it possible for anyone to create aesthetically pleasing designs? What if creating a genuinely beautiful design was just a matter of dragging and dropping? Read More a few years ago, several useful tools and features have been added for all sorts of graphic design needs, including Facebook and Twitter account covers, email headers, real estate flyers, Kindle covers, and Facebook ad templates.
Canva is very simple for the newbie who has little inkling of design. After registering an account on Canva, start by selecting the design you want to use, (e.g. Google+ cover, Twitter post graphic, Pinterest design, photo collage.) The dimensions are set for your selected template, but you can select a custom design with your width and height.
Canva provides a set of layouts you can customize for your needs. Naturally you can start from scratch and create a new background and search for images and icons you want to use. Many designs are free, while others cost a $1 per design or graphic element.
For example, the following Twitter post layout is a paid design, which is watermarked. You can customize the design and even download it before deciding to purchase.
Canva gives you 24 hours after you pay for the download to make additional changes to a paid graphic free of charge. After I downloaded a paid design, I made a copy of it in Canva, opened it in the editor, removed the added words, and downloaded the graphic or illustration in case I want to use it again in the future.
Canva has added numerous design templates — notable ones are the Kindle covers and email header designs. A professional Kindle book cover 8 Self-Publishing Secrets For Designing An eBook Cover 8 Self-Publishing Secrets For Designing An eBook Cover A good ebook cover is a visual and emotional glance into the contents of your writing. But if you design your own ebook cover, there are some important things you need to take into consideration. Read More can run into hundreds of dollars, but if you're an independent author wanting to save some money, Canva provides great templates for getting started with your own cover.
The new email headers are useful when you don't want to design an entire graphic email, but would like to incorporate a design element that could make your special email more attractive.
Basic designs tools are similar to what we use in all desktop design applications, but there are a few advanced features that might not be obvious when using Canva for the first time. For example, you can not only customize the font style, size, and text alignment in any layout, but you can also use the advanced text spacing and line height tools.
Canva also expanded its sharing options to support Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and email. Shared designs get embedded into Facebook and Pinterest posts, whereas with email and Twitter, only the link to the design is shared.
Canva is doing an excellent job of providing tutorials about strategies and principles of graphic design and using its design tools. If you're new to graphic design, you owe it to yourself to work through the Canva Design School, as well as read The Non-Designer's Design Book, by Robin Williams. The Canva tutorials only a take a few minutes each to complete.
For inspirational purposes, Canva added Streams, which is nothing less than a huge library of awesome designs you can like and comment on.
I like browsing and sometimes working in Canva on my iPad. The Canva app on iOS includes all the features of the online version, except for the Stream and tutorial sections, as well as a few missing template categories. The app is a free download.
Canva is easy to use and affordable. You can even upload your own images and artwork to the site, and make use of the templates and fonts for free. For design professionals, the Canva Marketplace has opened its doors. Contribute and earn from your creative designs How to Be a Profitable Online Graphic Designer How to Be a Profitable Online Graphic Designer If you're a graphic designer struggling to turn a profit, all is not lost. Here are some tips for getting your freelance career back on track. Read More . With tools like Canva around, there's little excuse these days for not having an attractive online presence.
Let us know what you think of Canva and how you're using it with your blog or other online content and social networks.
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Oh, yeah. I never pay for the images on there. I typically go for creative commons photos on Flickr or Pixabay. Check out this Canva GIF tutorial I recently made with a combination of public domain photos and creative commons.
Hey Rachel, is there a link to your Canva tutorial?
I thought I included it in another comment. :/ The tutorial is more GIF-focused, but I used Google image search(reuse with modification settings), Flickr (creative commons) and Pixabay (public domain) to find all of the images to keep the theme consistent. Sometimes, you just have to use multiple resources to find what you need. Hope you like it!
Thanks, Rachel, for sharing. I've bookmarked it, and will definitely give it a try.


Undoubtedly one of the most well-known American artists of the twentieth century, Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. Although art was not taught as part of the curriculum, he began to paint and draw in independently while in high school. He began to study at Ohio State University but suspended his education in 1943 to serve for three years in the United States Army.
After the war, he resumed his education and received a bachelor of fine arts, and later a master of fine arts, from Ohio State University. Lichtenstein taught painting at Ohio State until 1951, when he began teaching in upstate New York. During this time, Lichtenstein began to paint iconic images of the American West, cowboys, and Native Americans.
In 1960 he moved to New York City upon accepting a teaching position at Rutgers University in New Jersey. At this time, he began to create the images for which today is considered his distinctive style. Using commercial art and printing methods, Lichtenstein used projectors to magnify spray-gun stencils and replicate the Ben Day dots of illustrations from contemporary newspapers and comic books.
In 1962, Leo Castelli held the first solo exhibition of Lichtenstein's work in his New York gallery. To the artist's surprise, the entire show was bought by a roster of influential collectors prior to the show's opening. Following this show, Lichtenstein began to make enough money to stop teaching and devote all of his time to painting. In 1966, his work was exhibited in the Venice Biennale, and in 1969 the New York Guggenheim held a large-scale exhibition of his work. The 1970s are marked by Lichtenstein's experimentation with different styles, including op art and commercial -based design, and media, including sculptures in metals and plastics. His work considers representations of life by the media, and the ways in which these images construct popular culture.


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#ifndef RNDTREE_H_
#define RNDTREE_H_

#include "../include/utils.h"
#include "../include/dtinduc.h"

/********************************************************************
*
*   Name:           class RndTree
*
*   Description:  	Implementation class of the Random Tree Induction algorithm.
*       it inherits from the DTinduc class. Thus it must implement the growTree method.
*
*       A Random Tree is a tree grown with a modified CART algorithm, that implement a random feature selection
*       at each node for the splitting criterion selection.
*
*********************************************************************/
class RndTree : public DTInduc
{
	private:
		// Parameters
		int 		nbFeat;		// the size of the random subset of features selected for each node split
		bool 		gin;
		bool 		disp;
		int 		prePrun;	//pp the number of instances in a node under which the node is considered as a leaf
						//=> It is used to specify wether or not to used a prepruning. If not has to be set to 0

		double 		log2;
		bool 		rndFeatSel;///TODO: default value

		int  		growSubTree(Node * node, u_int ** sortedInd);
		Rule * 		featSelection(Node * node, u_int ** sortedInd);
		Rule * 		randomFeatSelection(Node * node, u_int ** sortedInd);
		long double	evalAttribute(Node * node, u_int attInd, u_int * sortedInd, double * splitPoint, double gini0, double w_size);
		long double 	eval(double n, u_int nbClass, double ** distribs, double * tots, u_int nbSplit);
		long double 	gini(double * distrib, u_int nbClass, double tot);
		long double	entropy(double * distrib, u_int nbClass, double tot);
		u_int ***	partitionNode(Node * node, Rule * rule, u_int ** sortedInd);
		bool  		is_leaf(DataHandler * set, u_int lvl);
		int		getPrediction(DataHandler * set);

	public:
        			RndTree(int nbf, bool d, bool gin=false);
		virtual		~RndTree();

		DTree * 	growTree(DataHandler * set);

		void		setNbFeatParam(int k);
};

#endif /*RNDTREE_H_*/

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