Creative Way Making Money Online?
Tina R asked:
I am trying to figure out a way to supplement my income.
I have a B.A. in Communications/Journalism, and have work experience in all forms of media. However, I also have years of experience in ALL forms of research, everything from legal issues and case work to academic and background checks, and I there were times that I was actually hired by other people to get this information for them. I’ve also worked as a freelance journalist, and I’ve had to conduct investigations and do photography for stories that I’ve published.
With my background, what is the best way that I can make money online? I am considering starting my own background check/investigation service, but that’s just one idea. Any advice or suggestions?
Thanx so much!
veterinary technician
P.S.–No MLM, or “get rich quick” plans, please.
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Do you practice attachment parenting? Why or whynot? What are your thoughts?
Lane asked:
I was thinking about attachment parenting after I read about it in one of my baby books, but after spending a weekend with one of my friends who was doing attachment parenting I decided against it.
My friends son is now 2 and a half, and she WAS doing attachment parening, up until about 8 months ago. When I spent the weekend at her house, she couldn’t leave her son long enough to go to the bathroom.. she has to take him in with her because he throws fits and cries if she leaves the room without him, he is always wanting to be picked up and she can’t anymore because he is heavy and she has cleaning / cooking / school work to do. She said that when she takes him to daycare on her school days that he throws tantrums and tries to pull his hair out because she is gone, and she said sometimes she has to lay with him at night for up to 2 hours for him to fall asleep and she said she just couldn’t handle it anymore ( She is a full time student, freelance journalist - works from home, and has another son as well ) because she said he was too dependent on her and couldnt do anything by himself.. he can’t even sit on the couch and watch a movie long enough for her to make his supper.
I don’t know if it’s this way with all parents who practice AP, but this seriously scared me. My daughter is 7 months old and I decided not to do AP with her. We’re still very close and spend all day together, but I still try to get her to play by herself a bit and watch movies by herself, so that she can be independent enough so that I can make her supper and do laundry. I still breastfeed by choice but she sleeps in her own bedroom and I only wear her sometimes. I find as a 7 month old she is way more independent than my friends son, I can leave her in her playpen while I am making supper ( she is close enough I can still keep an eye on her ).. and I’ve never layed with her to fall asleep, and I find this so much better, for me atleast.
I couldn’t picture having a kid in the same bed with me and my boyfriend every night, unless she gets sick or something. I think it would be too hard on our ‘personal time’ and once she got older and needed her own bed it would be too hard to get her to sleep by herself.
What do you think about AP?
Mustand_Girl - I totally agree with everything you said. My friend also has an 11 yr old son, and he STILL tries to sleep with her, most nights she ends with the 2 yr old, 11 yr old, and her all squashed in a bed together. I think that is so unhealthy for the kids. Kids NEED a certain level of independence to function properly later on in life, I don’t think it would be healthy for my daughter if she was attached to me all the time, she needs to learn that time on her own is good, too. I’m trying to teach her early so that in a few years when she can actually throw tantrums, she won’t freak out if I have to make supper or clean and won’t be able to give her attention 24/7.
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What should i do next to further my music career?
iammegaawesome asked:
Ok, so im seventeen and currently in my final year of college. I want a career in music possibly as a journalist, but don’t know what to do next. I’ve freelanced for numerous websites and even worked for a magazine on an internship.
I have an option to do university but i’m not sure if that’s the best option. I could take a gap year and learn some skills as a producer, or attend university. Advice please!
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Thailand non-immigrant Visa?
luke asked:
I was going through the list of things I need to send to the Thai embassy in Birmingham (UK) and a couple of them are confusing at the mo.
“Official Note certifying the purpose of travel from the Government Agencies /Embassies and Consulates / International Organisations / State Enterprises in Thailand”
and “Letter of acceptance from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare”
I am going to work as a freelance journalist which comes under ‘M’ as the code. And its for the return entry option so 12 months visa.
Thanks for reading this far. And thanks in advance as well if you can help
Luke
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Was Pope John Paul II right about GW Bush?
Morgaine asked:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_9_27/ai_108881880
Pope fears Bush is antichrist, journalist contends
Catholic New Times, May 18, 2003
WASHINGTON DC — According to freelance journalist Wayne Madsden, “George W Bush’s blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to ‘evil doers,’ in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations–the anti-Christ.”
Madsen, a Washington-based writer and columnist, who often writes for Counterpunch, says that people close to the pope claim that amid these concerns, the pontiff wishes he was younger and in better health to confront the possibility that Bush may represent the person prophesized in Revelations. John Paul II has always believed the world was on the precipice of the final confrontation between Good and Evil as foretold in the New Testament.
Mariam - wrong pope. I’m sure the Nazi pope gets along find with Bush. You do know all the Bush fortune originated with his grandfather doing business with the Nazis, right?
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The reason I ask is I saw a show on the Apocalypse on the History channel and they mentioned a prophecy that there were two believers who would oppose the AC and he would kill them and let their bodies lay in the street, and people all over the world would see them lying there dead.
Quick! For 10 points - what 2 guys am I thinking of?
The article is from the CATHOLIC NEW TIMES!
I didn’t write it - they did. The only parts of this I wrote is the title of the question and the additional details. The rest of it comes from a Catholic paper.
Cindy - you know nothing about me. I only hate stupidity and hypocrisy - not people.
Todd Maz - close but no cigar. Try again!
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george@fullerg.fsnet.co.uk?
ramo24vali asked:
freelance journalist
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Muslims what do you think about this story?
Lena Rose asked:
NY Times October 24, 2001
Beaten in Pakistan, Battered in Brooklyn
SOMINI SENGUPTA
Haider Rizvi, a freelance journalist and native of Pakistan, has
spent much of the last six weeks talking to cabdrivers, deli workers
and other New Yorkers who have been picked on, yelled at and
roughed up because, to untrained eyes, they resemble the
terrorists who struck the World Trade Center. Late last month, he
wrote an article about such bias for a South Asian news service.
Early Sunday morning, on a Park Slope street corner not far from
his home, Mr. Rizvi, 38, found himself in the middle of such a
story.
As he stepped out of a Pakistani- owned grocery on Fifth Avenue,
three men approached him. “One of them looked at me and said:
`You look like Osama bin Laden. Are you from Pakistan?’ ” he
recalled yesterday. “I said, `Originally, yes.’ ”
Mr. Rizvi said he remembers being kicked and punched, falling to
the sidewalk and waking up at New York Methodist Hospital. His
assailant had knocked out one of his front teeth and beaten him
unconscious.
The police are investigating the incident as a possible bias crime.
There is a peculiar sense of déjà vu to Mr. Rizvi’s story. The last
time he was roughed up he was a college student in Pakistan; his
assailants were thugs belonging to the Jamaat-i Islami, the pro-
Taliban fundamentalist political party, whose members have been
on the streets of Pakistan in recent weeks protesting the bombing
of Afghanistan. In fact, Mr. Rizvi said yesterday, he left Pakistan in
part because he was tired of being harassed by the Islamic right.
A couple of weeks ago, the editor of an Indian newsmagazine wrote
to ask him to write a personal essay about being a Muslim in
America. He wrote back with this suggestion: “I asked if she’d like
to read a piece about what it’s like to be an atheist living in the
United States.”
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Annotation in the U.S. I-visa (media/journalist’s visa)?
lei2ol asked:
Hi! I’m a freelance contributing journalist from the Philippines and last year, I applied for and was issued a multiple entry U.S. I-visa or media/journalist’s visa, valid until July 2013. It has an annotation that states my position and the company where I worked for at the time I applied for the said visa. A few months after I was issued the visa, though, I resigned from the company, leaving my regular, full-time post that’s annotated in the visa. But I still have affiliations with that former company of mine, as a regular contributor; I have signed a contributing writer’s contract with them prior to resigning. I want to know if:
1. Will there be any problem if ever I need to use my current I-visa for possible event coverage in the United States in the near future?
2. Is an annotation in the I-visa - or any U.S. visa, for that matter - a big deal?
3. Can I apply for another type of U.S. visa (e.g., tourist visa) while still possessing another type of visa?
Thanks and hope to be enlightened soon!
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Did my interview go well according to you?
lagartija_azul84 asked:
It is for a media executive position. The company is international and is looking for someone with both Italian, Spanish and English.
I have all these languages at mother tongue level. With regard to my media experience, I am working as a freelance journalist. Besides, have lots of international experience in NGOs.
They were quite impressed with my achievements, but pointed out that my background is quite academic and I have no marketing background. However, I told them that I worked in several different places and am good at customer interaction.
The interviewer was ultra friendly. At the end she asked me personal questions about where in Italy I lived and told me she’d give me a reply in max 2 days. Then before leaving she said: Thanks for coming.
I see these as mixed signs and I can’t really tell if my interview went well or not…
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Article - Latin America 700 cases child trafficking. What are the Governments doing to protect the Children?
Emeralddove asked:
The Governments of the World are supposed to protect the children. What makes you think that your children or your children’s children won’t be the next victim of child sex slavery?
*Perilous Times Latin America’s secret slave trade* Oliver Balch reports from the triple frontier of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where humans have become the most sought-after contraband. Wednesday December 20, 2006
Guardian Unlimited Sit by the swimming pool of the exclusive Iguazú Jungle hotel and you can watch the “contrabandistas” emerging from the undergrowth. All day, an army of smugglers can be seen passing along the mountainous path that separates Argentina from Brazil. Locals know it as the “pique”. It is just one of a dozen or more unofficial crossing points on the so-called triple frontier, the name given to the porous border area where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet. Article continues Everything from fake branded clothing to Class A drugs are ferried back and forth along these clandestine routes. The list of contraband goods now also extends to human beings. The human-trafficking business is estimated to be worth over £10bn a year, making it the world’s third most profitable criminal activity after drug-smuggling and gun-running. Many of those trafficked through the triple frontier are destined for the illegal labour market in Brazil or Argentina. The trade in babies for adoption is also widely reported. But a large proportion end up as sex workers. Many end up in brothels across the region, although a high number are destined for the triple frontier’s own thriving sex industry. Children are particularly vulnerable to human traffickers. Charities working with at-risk children in the border region estimate that as many as 3,500 young people could be involved. “Many girls are trafficked via the pique. It’s all highly organised”, explains Marcelina Antunez, director of Luz de Infancia, a children’s care centre in the Argentine town of Puerto Iguazú. Driving the trade is the flood of foreign tourists who come to visit the world famous Iguazú waterfalls. Much of the demand for prostitution is casual. Yet the region also attracts a hardened group of sex tourists. The region’s reputation for prostitution is not new. In the late 1970s, around 40,000 workers flooded into the triple frontier to help build the colossal Itaipú hydroelectric dam. Around 97% of the new workforce were men. As the dam went up, so too did the demand for paid-for sex. “The triple frontera is the Bangkok of Latin America…after the tsunami, many sex tourists started coming here instead of Asia,” notes Cynthia Bendlin, director of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) for the triple frontier area. IOM runs a number of awareness programmes to highlight the dangers of the trafficking trade. But it is an uphill struggle. Many of the children most at risk either live on the street or come from very impoverished families, Ms Bendlin explains. In some cases of extreme destitution, children are even contracted out by their parents. There is a blind beggar in Puerto Igazú, for example, who walks the streets hand-in-hand with a seven year-old girl. He makes his living by renting her out for sex. She is his neighbour’s daughter. The situation is complicated further by the “recruiters”. Often known to the victims, they promise the opportunity of work across the border. When the fictitious jobs never materialise, the victims finds themselves trapped and unable to return home. IOM also works with local government agencies and the police in an attempt to develop coordinated strategies to stop the traffickers. Again, prgress is slow. In Argentina alone, there are at least five separate security agencies operating in the border zone. Between the three countries, the problem of coordination becomes triply complicated, Ms Bendlin admits. At a national level, there are some signs of encouragement. This week, Argentina’s lower house is scheduled to discuss a bill that would officially recognise underage human trafficking in the criminal code. Victim organisations welcome such measures, but remain sceptical about how much difference they will make on the ground. Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay all have separate laws and legal processes. Add to that the variety of municipal, provincial and national legislation and you have a complex legal web to navigate. It is a journey that many victims would rather not undertake. In addition to the psychological and financial implications of pursuing a court case, many fear the threat of reprisals. “Although we know about more than 700 cases of child trafficking, we have only reported 40 in the last three years”, confesses Benigno Cáceres, a lawyer with CEAPRA, a children’s charity in the Paraguayan border town of Ciudad del Este. Only one of these complaints resulted in a guilty verdict. The relative impunity for sex-related crimes is in keeping with cultural attitudes in the triple frontier. The region’s strong culture of machismo holds that sex with underage girls is safer and a sign of male virility, says Norma Pereira, a child psychologist in Ciudad del Este. In addition, the mothers of trafficked children are frequently themselves the victims of abuse or involved in prostitution, she explains: “Families often refuse to recognise the problem. It’s as if this new form of slavery has become natural.” · Oliver Balch is a freelance journalist based in Argentina.
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