Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Blackbaud Internet Solutions - Online Events and Marketing Solutions
Blackbaud Internet Solutions - Online Events and Marketing Solutions
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"Blackbaud Professional Services — Blackbaud Professional Services has been helping nonprofits build and run effective technology strategies for 25 years. Over that time, Blackbaud professionals have managed countless data migration projects and can help you build and maintain an effective data accessibility discipline."
www.blackbaud.com/services/designservices/bbi_overview.aspx
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Amazon Mechanical Turk - UnFFFFing Believable!!!!
Write a minimum of 200 words original article about how to select Customer Relations Management software....
and you may get paid a whopping 35 cents!!!!
What the f*ck?????
This is progress????
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Write a 200+ Word Article on How to Select Small Business CRM Software
This article must meet the following requirements:
*
Write a 200 + word article on How to Select Small Business CRM Software.
*
ALL ARTICLES MUST BE FACTUAL.
*
All articles should start with an introduction.
*
All articles must have at least 3 proper steps on how to accomplish the task.
*
Each article must include the term "Small Business CRM Software" in the introduction and at least once in the steps.
*
All articles must have proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.
*
Please use only standard punctuation like commas, quotes, parentheses and periods.
*
This must be an original article in your own words. It must not be pasted from
somewhere else. Any articles with a plagiarism rate of 30% and above will be rejected and you will not be paid.
*
Test your article yourself at the following link Plagium. If you plagairise, your hit will be rejected.
*
DO NOT use offensive language or inappropriate comments
*
This article MUST NOT be the same article as any previously submitted HIT assignment or appear elsewhere on the web.
*
Sole rights to this article will be retained by myself upon approval
*
Any HITs that do not meet the above requirements will be rejected
and you may get paid a whopping 35 cents!!!!
What the f*ck?????
This is progress????
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Write a 200+ Word Article on How to Select Small Business CRM Software
This article must meet the following requirements:
*
Write a 200 + word article on How to Select Small Business CRM Software.
*
ALL ARTICLES MUST BE FACTUAL.
*
All articles should start with an introduction.
*
All articles must have at least 3 proper steps on how to accomplish the task.
*
Each article must include the term "Small Business CRM Software" in the introduction and at least once in the steps.
*
All articles must have proper English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization and sentence structure.
*
Please use only standard punctuation like commas, quotes, parentheses and periods.
*
This must be an original article in your own words. It must not be pasted from
somewhere else. Any articles with a plagiarism rate of 30% and above will be rejected and you will not be paid.
*
Test your article yourself at the following link Plagium. If you plagairise, your hit will be rejected.
*
DO NOT use offensive language or inappropriate comments
*
This article MUST NOT be the same article as any previously submitted HIT assignment or appear elsewhere on the web.
*
Sole rights to this article will be retained by myself upon approval
*
Any HITs that do not meet the above requirements will be rejected
How To Score Secret Airline Perks - Forbes.com
How To Score Secret Airline Perks - Forbes.com
Y-Ups are special codes on first-class airfare that indicate that the seat can be assigned to those looking to upgrade from economy. To find one of these fares, go to your preferred airline's Web site. Search the first-class seats on the flight you want to take. If any of those seats are tagged to a code like Q***UP, write down that code. Then, search for an upgradeable coach seat (some airlines don't allow upgrades for super-cheap coach fares), and write down the code for that seat, too. Finally, call the airline--they'll usually waive the telephone service fee for frequent fliers, if you ask--and use both codes to request that your coach seat be upgraded to the first-class seat. For the price of coach, of course.
Y-Ups are special codes on first-class airfare that indicate that the seat can be assigned to those looking to upgrade from economy. To find one of these fares, go to your preferred airline's Web site. Search the first-class seats on the flight you want to take. If any of those seats are tagged to a code like Q***UP, write down that code. Then, search for an upgradeable coach seat (some airlines don't allow upgrades for super-cheap coach fares), and write down the code for that seat, too. Finally, call the airline--they'll usually waive the telephone service fee for frequent fliers, if you ask--and use both codes to request that your coach seat be upgraded to the first-class seat. For the price of coach, of course.
Getting to Greece by train – using the rail passes
Getting to Greece by train – using the rail passes
http://www.greecelogue.com/getting-to-greece-by-train-%E2%80%93-using-the-rail-passes.html
Getting to Greece by train from Scandinavia or Germany
munich-train-station
If you need to get from Scandinavia to Greece, the first stop is Copenhagen (Denmark). Then you need to catch a train to Germany (Hamburg or Munich). Now catch a train to Vienna (Austria).
From here you have two choices: either travel by train to Italy, then catch a ferry to Greece from Ancona or you can get on a train to Bucharest (Romania) and then use the night train from Bucharest to Thessaloniki.
http://www.greecelogue.com/getting-to-greece-by-train-%E2%80%93-using-the-rail-passes.html
Getting to Greece by train from Scandinavia or Germany
munich-train-station
If you need to get from Scandinavia to Greece, the first stop is Copenhagen (Denmark). Then you need to catch a train to Germany (Hamburg or Munich). Now catch a train to Vienna (Austria).
From here you have two choices: either travel by train to Italy, then catch a ferry to Greece from Ancona or you can get on a train to Bucharest (Romania) and then use the night train from Bucharest to Thessaloniki.
How many days to drive to greece from uk - hi! How many days to drive to greece from uk? Drop me a clue please? :: GoFTP Answers
How many days to drive to greece from uk - hi! How many days to drive to greece from uk? Drop me a clue please? :: GoFTP Answers
ANSWER:
Drive from germany to greece
There`s a couple of ways you can drive here from the UK, it all depends on how quick you want to get here and which countries you`d prefer to drive though. The drive can be done in 2-3 days. We took 5 days when we made the trip here, but we made it into a mini holiday and and stayed a couple of days in Switzerland. We took the route through France down to Italy and caught the overnight ferry from Ancona to Igoumenitsa, then drove across and down to Halkidiki. You can take another route which avoids the cost of the overnight ferry and is actually quicker. This route takes you across France, Germany, Austria and then down through Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. It`s about 1625 miles and you can do it in 2-3 days. Alot of people are a bit unsure of driving through countries like Serbia, but from the people I`ve talked to here who regulaly make the trip, there`s never any problems. Infact, we will be taking this route at the end of this month as we`re driving to Germany, up near the Danish border. I don`t know when you`re planning on coming to Greece but if it`s after this, I will be able to give you more info on driving through Serbia. They`re very cheap, basic but clean. Also, plan your route to make sure you get to Ancona well ahead of the departure time of the ferry as the port can be a bit of a nightmare. Insurance wise, if you take the France/Italy route, you`ll be ok with normal european cover but if you take the Serbia route, check with your insurer about a green card for those countries. Once in Greece, the main highways are very good and well sign posted. You didn`t say where in Greece you`re heading but if you are heading here to Halkidiki you`ll have no problems finding your way. I hope this helps, and if you decide to make the drive I`m sure you`ll find it as an amazing drive as we did.
ANSWER:
Drive from germany to greece
There`s a couple of ways you can drive here from the UK, it all depends on how quick you want to get here and which countries you`d prefer to drive though. The drive can be done in 2-3 days. We took 5 days when we made the trip here, but we made it into a mini holiday and and stayed a couple of days in Switzerland. We took the route through France down to Italy and caught the overnight ferry from Ancona to Igoumenitsa, then drove across and down to Halkidiki. You can take another route which avoids the cost of the overnight ferry and is actually quicker. This route takes you across France, Germany, Austria and then down through Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. It`s about 1625 miles and you can do it in 2-3 days. Alot of people are a bit unsure of driving through countries like Serbia, but from the people I`ve talked to here who regulaly make the trip, there`s never any problems. Infact, we will be taking this route at the end of this month as we`re driving to Germany, up near the Danish border. I don`t know when you`re planning on coming to Greece but if it`s after this, I will be able to give you more info on driving through Serbia. They`re very cheap, basic but clean. Also, plan your route to make sure you get to Ancona well ahead of the departure time of the ferry as the port can be a bit of a nightmare. Insurance wise, if you take the France/Italy route, you`ll be ok with normal european cover but if you take the Serbia route, check with your insurer about a green card for those countries. Once in Greece, the main highways are very good and well sign posted. You didn`t say where in Greece you`re heading but if you are heading here to Halkidiki you`ll have no problems finding your way. I hope this helps, and if you decide to make the drive I`m sure you`ll find it as an amazing drive as we did.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
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Comment from: Vital Signs: A public health plan? 30% of us already have one - MarketWatch
Vital Signs: A public health plan? 30% of us already have one - MarketWatch
Comment from "CAREFORPEOPLE":
WHY?
Why can't we ALL have the guaranteed health care that seniors have? Why do we have to wait until age 65 to get health care that is publicly financed and privately delivered? Why should insurance companies get to fleece us when we are young and healthy, then dump us on the taxpayer when we are older and less healthy? Why are we even discussing the continuation this obscene practice?!
Watch and listen to a former insurance exec's epiphany:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
Coverage does NOT equal care. We need to get the health insurance cartel out of the health care equation. Continued toleration of the 30% administrative waste caused by having 1,200+ insurance companies is an economic suicide pact. Insurance is for accidents. Health care is no accident! Support health care for people, not for profit, by supporting H.R.676, single-payer, universal health care. The Congressional Budget Office projects that single-payer would reduce overall health costs by more than $225 billion despite the expansion of comprehensive care to all Americans. No other plan projects this kind of savings:
(http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/11/741100/-The-Truth-About-Health-Care-Reform).
For more info on single payer, including the Mike Farrell videos:
http://www.1payer.net/
Single-payer Medicare for all is the ONLY real healthcare reform.
Everything else is just putting lipstick on a pig.
Comment from "CAREFORPEOPLE":
WHY?
Why can't we ALL have the guaranteed health care that seniors have? Why do we have to wait until age 65 to get health care that is publicly financed and privately delivered? Why should insurance companies get to fleece us when we are young and healthy, then dump us on the taxpayer when we are older and less healthy? Why are we even discussing the continuation this obscene practice?!
Watch and listen to a former insurance exec's epiphany:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
Coverage does NOT equal care. We need to get the health insurance cartel out of the health care equation. Continued toleration of the 30% administrative waste caused by having 1,200+ insurance companies is an economic suicide pact. Insurance is for accidents. Health care is no accident! Support health care for people, not for profit, by supporting H.R.676, single-payer, universal health care. The Congressional Budget Office projects that single-payer would reduce overall health costs by more than $225 billion despite the expansion of comprehensive care to all Americans. No other plan projects this kind of savings:
(http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/11/741100/-The-Truth-About-Health-Care-Reform).
For more info on single payer, including the Mike Farrell videos:
http://www.1payer.net/
Single-payer Medicare for all is the ONLY real healthcare reform.
Everything else is just putting lipstick on a pig.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Jordan's night to remember turns petty - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
Jordan's night to remember turns petty - NBA - Yahoo! Sports
Jordan’s night to remember turns petty
Adrian Wojnarowski
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports Sep 12, 3:56 am EDT
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Buzz up!
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Print
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The tears tumbled, flooding his face and Michael Jordan had yet to march to the microphone at Symphony Hall. He had listened to the genuine stories and speeches of a remarkable class. He had watched a “This is Your Life” video compilation of his basketball genius. Everything flashed before him, a legacy that he’s fought with body and soul to never, ever let go into yesterday.
Yes, Michael Jordan was still fighting it on Friday night, and maybe he always will. Mostly, he was crying over the passing of that old Jordan, and it wouldn’t be long until he climbed out of his suit and back into his uniform and shorts, back into an adolescent act that’s turned so tedious.
This wasn’t a Hall of Fame induction speech, but a bully tripping nerds with lunch trays in the school cafeteria. He had a responsibility to his standing in history, to players past and present, and he let everyone down. This was a night to leave behind the petty grievances and past slights – real and imagined. This was a night to be gracious, to be generous with praise and credit.
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“M.J. was introduced as the greatest player ever and he’s still standing there trying to settle scores,” one Hall of Famer said privately later.
Jordan didn’t hurt his image with the NBA community, as much as he reminded them of it. “That’s who Michael is,” one high-ranking team executive said. “It wasn’t like he was out of character. There’s no one else who could’ve gotten away with what he did tonight. But it was Michael, and everyone just goes along.”
Jordan wandered through an unfocused and uninspired speech at Symphony Hall, disparaging people who had little to do with his career, like Jeff Van Gundy and Bryon Russell. He ignored people who had so much to do with it, like his personal trainer, Tim Grover. This had been a moving and inspirational night for the NBA – one of its best ceremonies ever – and five minutes into Jordan’s speech it began to spiral into something else. Something unworthy of Jordan’s stature, something beneath him.
Jordan spent more time pointlessly admonishing Van Gundy and Russell for crossing him with taunts a dozen years ago than he did singling out his three children. When he finally acknowledged his family, Jordan blurted, in part, to them, “I wouldn’t want to be you guys.”
Well, um, thanks Dad. He meant it, too. If not the NBA, he should’ve thought of his children before he started spraying fire at everyone.
No one ever feels sorry for Isiah Thomas, but Jordan tsk-tsked him and George Gervin and Magic Johnson for the 1985 All-Star game “freeze-out.” Jordan was a rookie, and the older stars decided to isolate him. It was a long time ago, and he obliterated them all for six NBA championships and five MVP trophies. Isiah and the Ice Man looked stunned, as intimidated 50 feet from the stage, as they might have been on the basketball court.
The cheering and laughter egged Jordan on, but this was no public service for him. Just because he was smiling didn’t mean this speech hadn’t dissolved into a downright vicious volley.
Worst of all, he flew his old high school teammate, Leroy Smith, to Springfield for the induction. Remember, Smith was the upperclassman his coach, Pop Herring, kept on varsity over him as a high school sophomore. He waggled to the old coach, “I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”
Whatever, Michael. Everyone gets it. Truth be told, everyone got it years ago, but somehow he thinks this is a cleansing exercise. When basketball wanted to celebrate Jordan as the greatest player ever, wanted to honor him for changing basketball everywhere, he was petty and punitive. Yes, there was some wink-wink teasing with his beloved Dean Smith, but make no mistake: Jordan revealed himself to be strangely bitter. You won, Michael. You won it all. Yet, he keeps chasing something that he’ll never catch, and sometimes, well, it all seems so hollow for him.
This is why he’s a terrible basketball executive because he still hasn’t learned to channel his aggressions into hard work on that job. For the Charlotte Bobcats, Jordan remains an absentee boss who keeps searching for basketball players on fairways and greens.
From the speeches of David Robinson to John Stockton, Jerry Sloan to Vivian Stringer, there was an unmistakable thread of peace of mind and purpose. At times, they were self-deprecating and deflective of praise. Jordan hasn’t mastered that art, and it reveals him to be oddly insecure. When Jordan should’ve thanked the Bulls ex-GM, Jerry Krause, for surrounding him with championship coaches and talent, he ridiculed him. It was me, Jordan was saying. Not him. “The organization didn’t play with the flu in Utah,” Jordan grumbled.
For Jordan to let someone else share in the Bulls’ dynasty will never diminish his greatness. Just enhance it. Only, he’s 46 years old and he still doesn’t get it. Yes, Jordan did gush over Scottie Pippen, but he failed to confess that he had wanted Krause to draft North Carolina’s Joe Wolf. Sometimes, no one is better with a half a story, half a truth, than Jordan. All his life, no one’s ever called him on it.
Whatever Jordan wants to believe, understand this: The reason that Van Gundy’s declaration of him as a “con man” so angered him is because it was true on so many levels.
It was part of his competitiveness edge, part of his marketability, and yes, part of his human frailty.
Jordan wasn’t crying over sentimentality on Friday night, as much as he was the loss of a life that he returned from two retirements to have again. The finality of his basketball genius hit him at the induction ceremony, hit him hard. Jordan showed little poise and less grace.
Once again, he turned the evening into something bordering between vicious and vapid, an empty exercise for a night that should’ve had staying power, that should’ve been transformative for basketball and its greatest player. What fueled his fury as a thirtysomething now fuels his bitterness as a lost, wandering fortysomething who threatened a comeback at 50.
“Don’t laugh,” Michael Jordan warned.
No one’s laughing anymore.
Once and for all, Michael: It’s over.
You won.
Jordan’s night to remember turns petty
Adrian Wojnarowski
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports Sep 12, 3:56 am EDT
*
Buzz up!
*
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The tears tumbled, flooding his face and Michael Jordan had yet to march to the microphone at Symphony Hall. He had listened to the genuine stories and speeches of a remarkable class. He had watched a “This is Your Life” video compilation of his basketball genius. Everything flashed before him, a legacy that he’s fought with body and soul to never, ever let go into yesterday.
Yes, Michael Jordan was still fighting it on Friday night, and maybe he always will. Mostly, he was crying over the passing of that old Jordan, and it wouldn’t be long until he climbed out of his suit and back into his uniform and shorts, back into an adolescent act that’s turned so tedious.
This wasn’t a Hall of Fame induction speech, but a bully tripping nerds with lunch trays in the school cafeteria. He had a responsibility to his standing in history, to players past and present, and he let everyone down. This was a night to leave behind the petty grievances and past slights – real and imagined. This was a night to be gracious, to be generous with praise and credit.
Related Video
Jordan speaks on honor
Jordan speaks on honor
Jordan speaks on honor
More NBA Videos
More From Adrian Wojnarowski
* Against Jordan, defense never rested Sep 11, 2009
* Trail of Crumbs leads Jordan to Hall's doorstep Sep 9, 2009
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“M.J. was introduced as the greatest player ever and he’s still standing there trying to settle scores,” one Hall of Famer said privately later.
Jordan didn’t hurt his image with the NBA community, as much as he reminded them of it. “That’s who Michael is,” one high-ranking team executive said. “It wasn’t like he was out of character. There’s no one else who could’ve gotten away with what he did tonight. But it was Michael, and everyone just goes along.”
Jordan wandered through an unfocused and uninspired speech at Symphony Hall, disparaging people who had little to do with his career, like Jeff Van Gundy and Bryon Russell. He ignored people who had so much to do with it, like his personal trainer, Tim Grover. This had been a moving and inspirational night for the NBA – one of its best ceremonies ever – and five minutes into Jordan’s speech it began to spiral into something else. Something unworthy of Jordan’s stature, something beneath him.
Jordan spent more time pointlessly admonishing Van Gundy and Russell for crossing him with taunts a dozen years ago than he did singling out his three children. When he finally acknowledged his family, Jordan blurted, in part, to them, “I wouldn’t want to be you guys.”
Well, um, thanks Dad. He meant it, too. If not the NBA, he should’ve thought of his children before he started spraying fire at everyone.
No one ever feels sorry for Isiah Thomas, but Jordan tsk-tsked him and George Gervin and Magic Johnson for the 1985 All-Star game “freeze-out.” Jordan was a rookie, and the older stars decided to isolate him. It was a long time ago, and he obliterated them all for six NBA championships and five MVP trophies. Isiah and the Ice Man looked stunned, as intimidated 50 feet from the stage, as they might have been on the basketball court.
The cheering and laughter egged Jordan on, but this was no public service for him. Just because he was smiling didn’t mean this speech hadn’t dissolved into a downright vicious volley.
Worst of all, he flew his old high school teammate, Leroy Smith, to Springfield for the induction. Remember, Smith was the upperclassman his coach, Pop Herring, kept on varsity over him as a high school sophomore. He waggled to the old coach, “I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”
Whatever, Michael. Everyone gets it. Truth be told, everyone got it years ago, but somehow he thinks this is a cleansing exercise. When basketball wanted to celebrate Jordan as the greatest player ever, wanted to honor him for changing basketball everywhere, he was petty and punitive. Yes, there was some wink-wink teasing with his beloved Dean Smith, but make no mistake: Jordan revealed himself to be strangely bitter. You won, Michael. You won it all. Yet, he keeps chasing something that he’ll never catch, and sometimes, well, it all seems so hollow for him.
This is why he’s a terrible basketball executive because he still hasn’t learned to channel his aggressions into hard work on that job. For the Charlotte Bobcats, Jordan remains an absentee boss who keeps searching for basketball players on fairways and greens.
From the speeches of David Robinson to John Stockton, Jerry Sloan to Vivian Stringer, there was an unmistakable thread of peace of mind and purpose. At times, they were self-deprecating and deflective of praise. Jordan hasn’t mastered that art, and it reveals him to be oddly insecure. When Jordan should’ve thanked the Bulls ex-GM, Jerry Krause, for surrounding him with championship coaches and talent, he ridiculed him. It was me, Jordan was saying. Not him. “The organization didn’t play with the flu in Utah,” Jordan grumbled.
For Jordan to let someone else share in the Bulls’ dynasty will never diminish his greatness. Just enhance it. Only, he’s 46 years old and he still doesn’t get it. Yes, Jordan did gush over Scottie Pippen, but he failed to confess that he had wanted Krause to draft North Carolina’s Joe Wolf. Sometimes, no one is better with a half a story, half a truth, than Jordan. All his life, no one’s ever called him on it.
Whatever Jordan wants to believe, understand this: The reason that Van Gundy’s declaration of him as a “con man” so angered him is because it was true on so many levels.
It was part of his competitiveness edge, part of his marketability, and yes, part of his human frailty.
Jordan wasn’t crying over sentimentality on Friday night, as much as he was the loss of a life that he returned from two retirements to have again. The finality of his basketball genius hit him at the induction ceremony, hit him hard. Jordan showed little poise and less grace.
Once again, he turned the evening into something bordering between vicious and vapid, an empty exercise for a night that should’ve had staying power, that should’ve been transformative for basketball and its greatest player. What fueled his fury as a thirtysomething now fuels his bitterness as a lost, wandering fortysomething who threatened a comeback at 50.
“Don’t laugh,” Michael Jordan warned.
No one’s laughing anymore.
Once and for all, Michael: It’s over.
You won.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Lady Gaga Fabulousness
she's having fun! and she's entertaining us - who needs everyone to be the same?! and she's toying with the media conception of personal identity by creating a flagrantly manipulated persona. she is the embodiment of retro semiotics.
How Life Works - the Advertorial Website
How Life Works
Advertorials. Interesting. A website of all advertorials.
My god, if everything on this site were true, we would all be fabulousnesses!
Advertorials. Interesting. A website of all advertorials.
My god, if everything on this site were true, we would all be fabulousnesses!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Web Designer jobs & Word press sites
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/
http://icondock.com/
http://jobs.webdesignerwall.com/job.php?id=385
http://jobs.webdesignerwall.com/job.php?id=382
Job Responsibilities:
* Develop production-level code from design mockups
* Willingness to assist integration with back-end functionality
Minimum requirements:
* Extensive experience in HTML/CSS/Javascript
* Extensive experience in cross-browser development techniques, browser degradation strategies
* Portfolio of previous work demonstrating above
Preferred requirements:
* Experience in YUI or other Javascript frameworks.
* Familiarity with any MVC frameworks (Catalyst, symfony)
* Familiarity with any templating language (Template Toolkit, Smarty, Mason)
* Experience working in Unix environment, source control, and bug tracking tools
http://icondock.com/
http://jobs.webdesignerwall.com/job.php?id=385
http://jobs.webdesignerwall.com/job.php?id=382
Job Responsibilities:
* Develop production-level code from design mockups
* Willingness to assist integration with back-end functionality
Minimum requirements:
* Extensive experience in HTML/CSS/Javascript
* Extensive experience in cross-browser development techniques, browser degradation strategies
* Portfolio of previous work demonstrating above
Preferred requirements:
* Experience in YUI or other Javascript frameworks.
* Familiarity with any MVC frameworks (Catalyst, symfony)
* Familiarity with any templating language (Template Toolkit, Smarty, Mason)
* Experience working in Unix environment, source control, and bug tracking tools
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
3 Tips from the World's Most Ancient Cultures for Staying Happy and Healthy in Tough Times - Healthy Living on Shine
3 Tips from the World's Most Ancient Cultures for Staying Happy and Healthy in Tough Times - Healthy Living on Shine
3 Tips from the World's Most Ancient Cultures for Staying Happy and Healthy in Tough Times
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This economy continues to grind and we're starting to see the ripple effects. It started with job loss and financial hardship. Now there are painful breakups, stressed out kids, road rage, and old injuries rearing their ugly heads. Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t something about life seem terribly wrong?
I stumbled upon some information over the past week that has done more to lift the veil and ease my mind than hours of hard work, multiple trips to the therapist, or countless staff meetings. I read about Christopher McDougall’s research on the Tarahumara Indians* who are considered by anthropologists as one of the world’s great unsolved mysteries. The Tarahumara live very much off the grid…in the Copper Canyon region of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico. Like the Moken people (see above photo) who reside on the islands surrounding Burma or the austere yogis of the Indian subcontinent, these deeply primitive cultures maintain ancient tradition and seem immune to the infectious pace, ultra-connectivity, and ensuing confusion, struggle, and passionless existence of modern times.
What can we learn from these primitive cultures who seem happier, healthier, and barely connected to the outside world but deeply connected to their instincts, passion, and faith?
1. EMBRACE A GENTLE NATURE
The Tarahumara don’t like to be asked direct questions. They feel like it’s a show of force, a demand for a possession in their head. Force is considered unhealthy. In much the same way, the Tarahumara are famous for their ability to run great distances (see photo below), in some cases 300 miles in one pop. When the Tarahumara were entered in the Leadville Trail 100 race in Colorado, their 55-year-old team captain won, becoming the oldest winner in the race's history. Team Tarahumara grabbed three of the first five places. The first non-Tarahumara finisher was nearly a full hour slower than the winning time. When studying how they do it, running coaches and trainers marvel at the Tarahumara’s fluid, gentle running style noting that their upper body seems as if it’s gliding on ice. The yogis have a saying, “Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely non-resistant person.” In these tough times, instead of trying to fight, hustle, and overpower your challenges…take a cue from the ancient cultures and consider the gentler approach. Kill your nemesis with kindness. Heal your embattled friend with an afternoon of love, attention, music, and chocolate. Embrace your stressed out colleague with sweet words and hopeful visions. As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
2. TAKE THE MAGIC POTION
Fun is the magic potion to lift the veil in these tough times. For the Tarahumara, fun is the secret to their supernatural athleticism. As author McDougall wrote, “That’s the most important thing I picked up from my time in the Copper Canyons, the understanding that running can be fast and fun and spontaneous, and when it is, you feel like you can go forever.” The Tarahumara don’t run for money, they run because it’s in their blood, in their soul, because they have passion. When we lose passion, we lose strength, we lose leadership, we lose respect. John Maxwell said, “A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” So if you, like me, are feeling weak and overwhelmed in the great recession of 2009, consider a shortcut on the road to recovery. Take a moment to remember what you love most in life. And go do it.
3. TURN OFF THE CLOCK
Time stresses me out. I’ve got 8 days, 12 hours, and 15 minutes until the bank automatically deducts my latest mortgage payment. I’ve got 1 day and 13 hours to book my airfare to Chicago or else the airfare will increase. I’ve got 38 minutes to complete this blog before I’m meeting someone for breakfast. I always feel like I’m running out of time. Interestingly, the Moken people barely notice time. They don’t even have in their vocabulary a word for “when.” As Dr. Narumon Hinshiranan writes of their dreamy perspective, “To be born and raised and, to die on the sea; to live out one’s seamless days together with one’s family, wandering the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea in a hand-built boat and feeling suffocated by contact with land or civilization—this is the heritage of the Moken.” Sharing a very similar perspective, the yogis will tell you it’s very unhealthy to always subject yourself to time. What can we learn here? Take a day, or a road trip, or a place where you forget about time. Whether it’s a yoga class, or a Sunday stroll, or a bike ride without your watch, “step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” (Rumi)
As we head into this holiday weekend, I challenge you as a I challenge myself, take a step back. What if, just maybe, the yogis, the Tarahumara, and the Moken know something we don't? What if, just maybe, the iphones and blackberries are actually making life more difficult? What if, just maybe, you could restore relationships, faith, and dreams through simple pleasures like chocolate, wine, music, and laughter? It might not make "sense" but neither does the 90 year old Tarahumara running across the Copper Canyon mountaintops.
By David Romanelli (www.yeahdave.com)
For more inspiration and healing through chocolate, wine, music, and laughter, check out my book Yeah Dave's Guide to Livin' the Moment
*Taken from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
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This economy continues to grind and we're starting to see the ripple effects. It started with job loss and financial hardship. Now there are painful breakups, stressed out kids, road rage, and old injuries rearing their ugly heads. Maybe it’s just me but doesn’t something about life seem terribly wrong?
I stumbled upon some information over the past week that has done more to lift the veil and ease my mind than hours of hard work, multiple trips to the therapist, or countless staff meetings. I read about Christopher McDougall’s research on the Tarahumara Indians* who are considered by anthropologists as one of the world’s great unsolved mysteries. The Tarahumara live very much off the grid…in the Copper Canyon region of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico. Like the Moken people (see above photo) who reside on the islands surrounding Burma or the austere yogis of the Indian subcontinent, these deeply primitive cultures maintain ancient tradition and seem immune to the infectious pace, ultra-connectivity, and ensuing confusion, struggle, and passionless existence of modern times.
What can we learn from these primitive cultures who seem happier, healthier, and barely connected to the outside world but deeply connected to their instincts, passion, and faith?
1. EMBRACE A GENTLE NATURE
The Tarahumara don’t like to be asked direct questions. They feel like it’s a show of force, a demand for a possession in their head. Force is considered unhealthy. In much the same way, the Tarahumara are famous for their ability to run great distances (see photo below), in some cases 300 miles in one pop. When the Tarahumara were entered in the Leadville Trail 100 race in Colorado, their 55-year-old team captain won, becoming the oldest winner in the race's history. Team Tarahumara grabbed three of the first five places. The first non-Tarahumara finisher was nearly a full hour slower than the winning time. When studying how they do it, running coaches and trainers marvel at the Tarahumara’s fluid, gentle running style noting that their upper body seems as if it’s gliding on ice. The yogis have a saying, “Nothing on earth can overcome an absolutely non-resistant person.” In these tough times, instead of trying to fight, hustle, and overpower your challenges…take a cue from the ancient cultures and consider the gentler approach. Kill your nemesis with kindness. Heal your embattled friend with an afternoon of love, attention, music, and chocolate. Embrace your stressed out colleague with sweet words and hopeful visions. As Albert Einstein said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
2. TAKE THE MAGIC POTION
Fun is the magic potion to lift the veil in these tough times. For the Tarahumara, fun is the secret to their supernatural athleticism. As author McDougall wrote, “That’s the most important thing I picked up from my time in the Copper Canyons, the understanding that running can be fast and fun and spontaneous, and when it is, you feel like you can go forever.” The Tarahumara don’t run for money, they run because it’s in their blood, in their soul, because they have passion. When we lose passion, we lose strength, we lose leadership, we lose respect. John Maxwell said, “A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” So if you, like me, are feeling weak and overwhelmed in the great recession of 2009, consider a shortcut on the road to recovery. Take a moment to remember what you love most in life. And go do it.
3. TURN OFF THE CLOCK
Time stresses me out. I’ve got 8 days, 12 hours, and 15 minutes until the bank automatically deducts my latest mortgage payment. I’ve got 1 day and 13 hours to book my airfare to Chicago or else the airfare will increase. I’ve got 38 minutes to complete this blog before I’m meeting someone for breakfast. I always feel like I’m running out of time. Interestingly, the Moken people barely notice time. They don’t even have in their vocabulary a word for “when.” As Dr. Narumon Hinshiranan writes of their dreamy perspective, “To be born and raised and, to die on the sea; to live out one’s seamless days together with one’s family, wandering the turquoise waters of the Andaman Sea in a hand-built boat and feeling suffocated by contact with land or civilization—this is the heritage of the Moken.” Sharing a very similar perspective, the yogis will tell you it’s very unhealthy to always subject yourself to time. What can we learn here? Take a day, or a road trip, or a place where you forget about time. Whether it’s a yoga class, or a Sunday stroll, or a bike ride without your watch, “step out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” (Rumi)
As we head into this holiday weekend, I challenge you as a I challenge myself, take a step back. What if, just maybe, the yogis, the Tarahumara, and the Moken know something we don't? What if, just maybe, the iphones and blackberries are actually making life more difficult? What if, just maybe, you could restore relationships, faith, and dreams through simple pleasures like chocolate, wine, music, and laughter? It might not make "sense" but neither does the 90 year old Tarahumara running across the Copper Canyon mountaintops.
By David Romanelli (www.yeahdave.com)
For more inspiration and healing through chocolate, wine, music, and laughter, check out my book Yeah Dave's Guide to Livin' the Moment
*Taken from Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Related: yogis, yoga and wine, yoga and chocolate, yeah dave's guide to livin' the moment, yeah dave's guide, yeah dave yoga, the schtick, tarahumara, moken people, livin' the moment, laughter, india, david romanelli, chocolate
Monday, September 07, 2009
Franciscan Newsletter & Collectors Web Site
Franciscan Newsletter & Collectors Web Site
Do you know what is now located on the site of the Glendale Franciscan Ceramics Plant - Formerly located at 2901 Los Feliz Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Costco.
We used to make things.
Now we buy things.
How far down this road will we go?
How far down this road can we go?
Do you know what is now located on the site of the Glendale Franciscan Ceramics Plant - Formerly located at 2901 Los Feliz Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Costco.
We used to make things.
Now we buy things.
How far down this road will we go?
How far down this road can we go?
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Obama adviser Jones resigns in controversy - White House- msnbc.com
Obama adviser Jones resigns in controversy - White House- msnbc.com
huh?
did he actually do something wrong? or Fox just doesn't like him?
huh?
did he actually do something wrong? or Fox just doesn't like him?
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Friday, September 04, 2009
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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