It's Been a While Since I Worked
It's been a long time since I posted anything here! But I have been working doing a little writing. And I'm still learning website development. I just finished reading the content below about Amazon. The company is going to create thousands of jobs in North America.
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Amazon HQ2 will be Amazon’s second headquarters in North America. We expect to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs – it will be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle. In addition to Amazon’s direct hiring and investment, construction and ongoing operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community.
Amazon estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city’s economy – every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional $1.40 for the city’s economy overall.
Entrepreneurship
At Amazon, we empower small businesses to grow and seize the opportunities of the digital economy. Last year alone, more than 100,000 small businesses each made over $100,000 in sales on Amazon, and Amazon shipped 2 billion items to customers in 185 countries on behalf of small businesses using our Fulfillment by Amazon program. Today, more than half of the items sold by Amazon worldwide are from small businesses and entrepreneurs using Amazon Marketplace to reach millions of new customers, in the U.S. and abroad. Small businesses and entrepreneurs selling on Amazon have created more than 600,000 new jobs worldwide outside of Amazon.
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Working at Amazon
We have more than 540,000 employees worldwide and all of them—from our hourly associates to our most senior executives—have access to the same generous health benefits and parental leave, including innovative programs like Leave Share and Ramp Back. Amazon ranks #1 on Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, #2 on Fortune’s World's Most Admired Companies, #1 on The Harris Poll’s Corporate Reputation survey, and #2 on LinkedIn’s U.S. most desirable companies list. Amazon was also included in the Military Times’ Best for Vets list of companies committed to providing opportunities for military veterans.
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In the Community
It’s important to us to invest in the communities where we operate in ways that benefit our neighbors and our employees. In Seattle, Amazon has donated to hundreds of charitable organizations across the city that support people of all backgrounds and income levels. And we do it in innovative ways – we are building a permanent home within our Seattle headquarters for Mary’s Place, a local nonprofit offering shelter to homeless families. This charity will receive more than 47,000 sq. ft. of space in one of our newest buildings, providing housing for 200 families.
Find out more here.
Sustainability & Environment
We are putting our scale and our inventive culture to work on sustainability and protecting the environment. Our packaging innovations like Ships in Own Container and Frustration-Free Packaging eliminated more than 55,000 tons of excess packaging in 2016 alone. Last year, Amazon was the leading corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the United States according to the 2017 State of Green Business report. We currently purchase energy generated by wind farms located across the country, and plan to deploy solar systems on 50 fulfillment and sortation centers globally by 2020. Additionally, the newest buildings on our current campus in Seattle are heated using an innovative energy recycling system that uses the heat generated at a nearby data center to warm up our office space.
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What is Amazon HQ2?
HQ2 will be the second Amazon headquarters in North America. We are looking for a location with strong local and regional talent—particularly in software development and related fields—as well as a stable and business-friendly environment to continue hiring and innovating on behalf of our customers.
How have you selected the 20 candidate locations?
We evaluated each of the proposals based on the criteria outlined in the RFP to create the list of 20 HQ2 candidates that will continue in the process.
What are the next steps of this selection process?
In the coming months, Amazon will work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals, request additional information as necessary, and evaluate the feasibility of a future partnership that can accommodate our hiring plans as well as benefit our employees and the local community. We expect to make a decision in 2018.
What will be the benefits for the city finally selected to host your second headquarters?
We expect to invest over $5 billion and grow our second headquarters location to be a full equal to Amazon’s current campus in Seattle, creating as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. In addition to Amazon’s direct hiring and investment, construction and operation of HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community.
Amazon estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city’s economy – every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional $1.40 for the city’s economy overall.
Why is Amazon choosing its second headquarters location via a public process?
We want to find a city that is excited to work with us and where our customers, employees, and the community can all benefit.
Stay in Touch
Follow Amazon at the Amazon Blog, and on Twitter and YouTube to get our latest news and announcements.
Learning HTML 5 and CSS3
I've Been Learning HTML 5 & CSS3
Not long ago I decided to learn how to create responsive websites. I know the old HTML code so I didn't have far to go to learn HTML 5.
But I don't know CSS3 so that presents a challenge for me. I am learning CSS3 along with Bootstrap which is a website development framework created by a couple Twitter executives.
Don't Have Far to Go
I'm learning pretty fast and I don't have far to go to be able to create awesome websites. Yesterday I completed a video series on Bootstrap which was very good. It
Still Studying Website Development
When I launched this blog about a year or more ago I had started to learn how to create websites and how to style the content with CSS3. Today, stylesheets and web content are separated as much as possible so the only thing on the page is the content and HTML5 tags.
HTML5 is one of the most easy to learn computer programming languages so it's usually not extremely difficult for students to learn. With that said, I now have to say that CSS3 is more challenging to learn. I tried several CSS3 frameworks before I decided to begin studying a framework developed by the W3Schools.com website. The schools framework is named, aptly W3CSS.
W3.CSS is a modern CSS framework with built-in responsiveness:
Smaller and faster than any other CSS frameworks. Easier to learn, and easier to use than any other CSS frameworks. Better cross-browser compatibility than any other CSS frameworks. Uses standard CSS only (No jQuery or JavaScript library). Supports modern responsive mobile first design by default. Provides CSS equality for all browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, IE, Safari, Opera, ... Provides CSS equality for all devices: desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile. Speeds up and simplifies web development:
Great Link Building Ideas
The video below was created by a YouTube personality named, "Lazyassstoner". He shares a lot of great backlinking ideas that'll make you wonder why you didn't think of those tactics.<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SYM_6ut8Qeg?ecver=2" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Ramiro Rodriguezhttp://seocontentwriter.html-5.me
I May be Hospitalized Tomorrow
My Right Leg is Infected so I’m going to the Hospital
I’ve known that my left wasn’t operating at full capacity for the past two days. Today it is swollen and it hurts really bad. It’s a good thing I have plenty of pain killers in the house so although the leg hurts a lot, it is tolerable because the meds take edge off the discomfort.
One of the reasons I decided to wait until tomorrow to go the doctor’s office is becausse I havce any appointment at 4 p.m. and I figured it’d be alright to take the risk. I made that decision earlier today, but know I am second guessing the choice to wait.
Currently, I have more than
Google Keyword Position Tracker Tool
In one of my last blog posts I wrote about how I was learning web development. I forgot to mention that one of the biggest benefits of web development is search engine optimization.
It is very difficult to get on Google's first page for most popular keyword terms. But once you do get on the first page, you'll experience a lot of website traffic. Use the tool below to see where your blog is positioned on Google's search engine results pages.
The below Google keyword position checker tool below will instantly reveal any website's position in Google's SERPs for a keyword. So, decide on a keyword then insert it in the lox below and in the other box, insert your website's URL.
I just finished checking my site and I was happy to learn that I am number 7 on Google's first page. Ain't it cool?
At any rate, please post a message if you have any questions. Thanks for visiting this site.
Moonsy.com Google Keyword Rank Checker
This SEO tool is extremely fast. It works almost instantly.
Still Learning Web Development and Getting Better
Google AMP Pages - Bootstrap - Various Frameworks
When I was in my mid-twenties, I remember reading something about a powerful affirmation which required the user to repeat the term, "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better". It is indeed a powerful affirmation.
In fact, after more than two decades of experimenting with mind control, affirmations and prayer, I can say that all affirmations are very powerful if you use them the right way. I've used different time limits on reciting affirmations and the most effective is 10 minutes non-stop.
The picture below is of a website I created about a week ago. I am thinking of learning how to write AMP pages. It's a new publishing platform developed by Google. AMP Pages loads websites very fast on mobile phones and the sites don't have a lot of baggage.
If you say something over and over for 10 minutes every day, sooner, rather than later, it will manifest in your life. I've experienced it too many times not to know it is a universal fact. For example, ten years I suffered from bleeding gums. Every time I brushed my teeth, my gums bled so much, the water in the basin would turn pink. And it was running water!
My gums bled so much I had to continue to rinse my mouth for several minutes after I finished brushing my teeth just to get all the blood out of my mouth. After experiencing the bleeding gums for a few weeks, I decided to create and say an affirmation for ten minutes at a time. The affirmation I wrote was, "My teeth and gums are healthy."
I repeated the affirmation for 10 minutes non-stop every morning and sometimes at night. Guess what happened? After two weeks my gums stopped bleeding. Not only that, a couple years after that occurred, I was in a dentists office when he informed me that I had a very clean mouth. He said that I had some sort of strong thing in my mouth that killed the bacteria that should've been present, but wasn't. I just looked at the dentist and smiled because I knew what was going on.
Getting Better at Web Development
Although I am still fairly new to the web development profession, I already know CSS3 and HTML5. I can create professional looking websites on WordPress and Blogger and I can code a site from scratch (which is a lot of work!).
As always, I hope you are doing well. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog :-)
The Lion of Africa #NatGeoWild #Documentary
I seriously enjoy watching lion documentaries on YouTube. The video below is a pretty good documentary. After viewing the content you will have a greater understanding of animals and how they are not extremely different than humans.
