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Careers on the Way Out

Posted by cls On January - 30 - 2010

Advances in technology eliminated the need for certain jobs and some careers have simply faded away over the past 10 years. Americans are also more focused on conservation. Here are a few jobs that are being phased out; hopefully your career isn’t on this list!

1. Bank Tellers
While the need for banking services has increased, services traditionally performed by tellers (receiving and dispensing cash, depositing money, etc.) is now performed electronically. The use of ATMs and online banking continues to increase. Tellers are only needed for complex transactions.

2. File Clerks
Even the most paper intensive organizations have decreased their use of paper files. Imaging, electronic forms and careful attention to process efficiency reduced the need to maintain paper files. One of the biggest threats to the file clerk occupation is the push toward environmental sustainability (preserving trees by using less paper). The new "file clerk" is a Database Report Writer who knows how to run database queries. Read the rest of this entry »

The Spinning Dancer

Posted by cls On January - 17 - 2010

This one’s fun and a little tricky. Do you see the dancer spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? Watch her seem to change directions!

Tips if it doesn’t work: Look around the image, at the shadow, or back away for a bit if she doesn’t seem to be changing direction. Also, this is simply a 2D image, and the image is not really rotating, but simply shifting back and forth. Keep at it, it’s really cool when it happens!

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History Facts

Posted by cls On January - 17 - 2010

  1. "The Boston Tea Party" took place in 1773, that was an act of direct action protest by the American colonists against British Government in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company on ships in Boston Harbor.
  2. A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.
  3. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the Pyramids at Giza over a period of 80 years.
  4. Black-eyed peas brought to the West Indies from West Africa by slaves, by earliest records in 1674.
  5. Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympic Summer Games in 1896.
  6. In 1783 an Icelandic eruption threw up enough dust to temporarily block out the sun over Europe.
  7. In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Office – Lovely Photos

Posted by cls On January - 17 - 2010

Funny Transportation Pictures

Posted by cls On January - 17 - 2010

Strange But True

Posted by cls On January - 17 - 2010

  1. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  2. 180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.
  3. 250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  4. 3,467 Nos. of confectionery nut stores in the United States, they are among the best sources of sweets for Valentine’s Day.
  5. 4% people drink cold drink daily.
  6. 40 percent of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
  7. 60% North Indians are pure vegetarian & in whole India 36%.
  8. 8.7 million of United State residents who were born in Asia.
  9. A Blue Whale can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.
  10. A Blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.
  11. A Boeing 747’s wing span is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.(the Wright brother’s invented the airplane). Read the rest of this entry »

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