What is a Genie?
A Genie is a Jeans for Genes volunteer. This special group of people volunteer their time to help with Jeans for Genes events, activities in the workplace, at school or in the wider community. This may include, collecting donations, selling merchandise, gift wrapping, selling raffle tickets, organising a trivia night and loads of other fun things to help raise money to prevent children’s diseases.
In Arabian mythology, a genie or djinn is a type of spirit, similar to the Western concept of a ghost. In Pre-Islamic thought, a genie had magical powers and was sometimes, though not always, wicked, or at least mischievous. In Islam, the genie has become more analogous to a demon, with the Devil as the most powerful of the genies, while in Western culture, the genie is typically portrayed as a magical spirit with no religious connotations who is capable of granting wishes. The English word genie comes from the French for “spirit,” which was used to translate djinn in the first French translations of the Arabian Nights. The Western concept of the genie is drawn mainly from the tale of Aladdin in the Arabian Nights, in which Aladdin frees a genie from his imprisonment in a lamp and is granted wishes in return. However, a wider reading of the Arabian Nights reveals the genie as a creature quite different from the modern Western version. There are different types of genies with different
With years of experience in the construction software industry, Foundation Software understands that each contractor wants to see the information from his accounting and job costing systems configured, sorted, filtered and presented in a different way. And we know that the report writers in most construction accounting systems – if they even have one – are cumbersome and require you to write programming code or understand how the database is structured. That’s why we built the Genie Series of report and form designers. These tools allow you to report, import, export and input your data in the way that suits you best. And they do it using an easy-to-understand interface. All you have to do is click and drag. And you’ve built what you need. Just imagine!
