I often times forget about the forth dimension. Which I suppose is natural, given that it isn’t apart of our daily conscious the way that space is. However, when I think about the fourth dimension I am reminded of the Buddha’s teachings to always remain in the present moment. The brief video below explains this idea very well, enjoy.
Believe it or not this site was hacked. And, the strange part about it is that if you were to look at it in its hacked state it would have looked completely normal, from the outside no changes were visible. However, after looking at the HTML’s source code you would have seen close to a thousand links hidden from the public’s view using CSS.
I know some of you are thinking, why?? Why would anyone want to hack a site just to post hidden links? Links you can’t see, don’t get clicked, right? Yes that’s right, but these links aren’t supposed to be clicked, these links were there for the sole intent of being picked up by Search Engines like Google.
Why would anyone go to such an extent to post a link for Google to find? SEO, Search Engine Optimization is the method of changing a series of factors to get your web site ranked higher in search engines. One of the most important aspects of SEO are links pointing to your web site. Therefore it is easy to understand why some black hat SEOs will hack a blog to post more links that will benefit them.
How can we protect our sites and blogs from this type of attack? Well, if you have a WordPress blog you need to make your way over to a post that thet amazing Donna Fontenot wrote at SEO Scoop. Thanks to Donna for this awsome post and her constant reminder to keep our WordPress up to date!
By: Jerry Costley
ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today) in solidarity with our brothers and sisters who are languishing in nursing homes and whom are in fact homeless have decided to likewise render ourselves homeless through the creation of DUH city—a homeless tent city. Established in the shadows of the Housing and Urban Development Offices and built on a foundation of HUDs broken promised (see the following articles), we expect that DUH city will highlight the plight of nursing home inmates—why we consider those in nursing-so-called homes homeless, what HUD has failed to do about this and what they can do about it.
Along with the founding of DUH city we are proud to announce the establishment of the DUH City times. Published daily throughout our protest we will provide background information on the incarceration of thousands of our brothers and sisters in nursing homes for the crime of having a disability. We will also provide updates on our daily protests. We hope this newspaper will go beyond enlightening and will serve as a call to action to Congress and all who care about individual freedom and dignity.
For Information Contact;
Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982
Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504
Who: ADAPT Community (500 disability rights activists from all over the country.) ADAPT is the nation’s largest cross-disability grassroots disability rights organization.
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What: News conference to announce opening of DUH City.
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When: 10 a.m. on Monday, September 15, 2008
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Where: The plaza outside the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
451 7th Street S.W.,=2 0Washington, DC 20410
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Why: The 2008 election campaigns have included rhetoric about tax breaks for middle income families, and media coverage has included stories about families who have children with disabilities.
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Left out of all the election rhetoric are the candidates’ positions on and commitments to those babies with disabilities who grow into adults with disabilities who all-too-often survive on extremely low incomes (less than 30% of the median income). These extremely low incomes are often the fixed benefit amounts of SSI and Social Security.
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In 2006, according to Priced Out in 2006, the federal SSI benefit was $603/month and the average cost nationally of renting a studio/efficiency apartment was $633/month.
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There are not enough AFFORDABLE, ACCESSIBLE, INTEGRATED housing units to handle the current demand in communities across America. When the Community Choice Act (S 799, H.R. 1621) passes, and older and disabled people can choose to live in their own homes instead of being forced into nursing homes and other institutions, the need for affordable, accessible housing will increase. And as the baby-boomers continue to age, the demand will grow exponentially.
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HUD, Congress and the Administration have broken promises, cut funding for housing stock and housing subsidies and enforcement of anti-discrimination housing laws, and simply ignored the nation’s low-income people with disabilities altogether.
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ADAPT has established “DUH City” (reverse of HUD) to bring attention to and document the struggle of low income people with disabilities. When the average rent for even an efficiency apartment is more than your monthly income……where do you wind up? All too often you’re forced out on the street or into a nursing home or other institution. DUH!
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ADAPT’s tent city will be typical community complete with its own newspaper, TV coverage, and other services.
For information contact;
Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982
Chris Hilderbrant (585) 267-0343
Washington, D.C.—Over 500 ADAPT disability rights activists committed to getting the Community Choice Act passed during this Congress are coming to town September 13-18 to exert some pre-election pressure on policymakers. The Community Choice Act (S. 799, H.R. 1621) would allow people with disabilities and older Americans to choose to live in their own homes and communities instead of being forced into nursing homes and other institutions by the current institutional bias in the nation’s Medicaid program.
“We are coming up on an election,” said Chris Hilderbrant, ADAPT organizer from Rochester, New York, “and one of the two candidates for president, Sen. John McCain, has blatantly refused to endorse the Community Choice Act even though he says he supports community services. On the other hand, Sen. Obama and his running mate Sen. Biden have both signed on to this legislation. Maybe Sen. McCain needs some more convincing.”
ADAPT will be in D.C. to confront a variety of policymakers and systems that continue to put up barriers to community living for disabled and older Americans. Home and community-based services, housing, transportation, hospital discharge planning, and managed care of long-term supports and services are all on ADAPT’s list of possible targets.
ADAPT celebrated 25 years of activism in Washington, D.C. in April of this year, closing down both the Republican National Committee offices and Sen. McCain’s office in the Russell Senate Building demanding that Sen. McCain, himself a person with a disability, sign on to the Community Choice Act.
“Not only does Sen. McCain have a disability himself, but he has an aging mother,” said Randy Alexander, ADAPT organizer from Memphis, Tennessee. “You’d think he’d understand our issues, but maybe having all that money and all those homes puts him totally out of touch with the reality that older Americans and Americans with disabilities live everyday. Being able to live free in the community shouldn’t only be available to the ultra-rich. Civil rights are not based on income!”
Since its inception in 1983, ADAPT has fought for the right of people with disabilities, old and young, to live in their own homes and communities. ADAPT efforts have resulted=2 0in a significant shift toward community of the Medicaid dollars formerly directed overwhelmingly to institutions. ADAPT has also been credited by former federal Medicaid officials with creation of the Money Follows the Person portion of the 2006 federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. ADAPT is the nation’s largest cross-disability grassroots disability rights organization.
During the week of September 15, 2008, ADAPT will debut internet tools that will help the disability community across the country stay closely in touch with ADAPT action activities as they happen. ADAPT will widely publicize these tools as soon as they are available to the public.
So, yesterday I was bored at work and decided to play a bit with tech support at Hostgator! Don’t get me wrong, I love hostgator! i have used them for the last three years and I always recommend them to my clients and friends. But, I just couldn’t help myself yesterday and had to have some fun! The results are as followed!
The name of the support technician has been censored to protect his idenity and me from lawsuit!
One weekend while I was still in college I was hanging out with a friend of mine. He was browsing myspace on my computer and stumbled upon one of the many myspace groups that I belonged to. Next thing I hear is, “Hey man, all these people look like you!†When I looked at the screen I said, “that’s because they all have OI†“OI? Whats OI?†OI stands for Osteogenesis Imperfecta – a rare bone disorder that causes bones to fracture easily some times for no apparent reason. One of the common characteristics of folks with OI are similar facial features and blue sclera (which I have both). As my friend continued to browse he would ask me if I knew any of the people on the site. For the most part I didn’t know anyone on that site, except for maybe a few. This shocked my friend and he asked me, “Well, why don’t you know them?†My response was, “Well, its not like we all come from the same village!†And, then I thought, “but that would be cool!â€
Years past and I graduated college with a degree in Political Science. While I looked for an avenue to start my career I began developing web sites for non-profits and small businesses. What started as a small part time way to make extra money, developed into a real business with clients from across the country. As time went on, more of my time was devoted to web development, I started to realize the amazing power of the web. A type of power that can transform individuals’ lives. For the first time I wasn’t reading how the internet was changing the world, I was experiencing it first hand!
One of the things that I realized is that the internet not only has the power to bring together lots of people. But it also has the amazing power to bring together groups of people that share a similar life experience but are geographically separated and isolated (like people with OI). Many times it is these types of connections that can be truly transformative.
As a web developer I am naturally creative and am always trying different things. So, when it came time for me to try my hand at developing a social networking portal it only seemed natural for me to develop a site that’s sole intention is to bring people with OI together.
While brainstorming I remembered the conversation I had with my friend in college. Instantly OIVillage was born!
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