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While other industries are toppling down due to current economic crisis, the energy industries are booming continuously. These industries are creating thousands of ‘green’ jobs lately, particularly jobs related to the solar energy industry. So, if you’re a job hunter, dust your resume and apply for a high-paying solar job.

All Georgians or anyone who doesn’t mind moving to the Peach State are invited to Suniva. It is a small solar company that plans to build its first manufacturing plant in the state of Georgia. The Suniva Plant’s exact location will be in Gwinnett County. The company’s founder chose Georgia over other states: New Mexico, Massachusetts, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada; because Suniva wants to stay close to Georgia Tech. The plant can get cool ideas from the university labs easily.

Investors happily invested $50 million for the manufacturing plant because they liked the idea of Suniva bringing in $10 million revenues for this year and $100 million in sales next year. The company aims to have a solar production capacity of 32 MW and to create around 100 solar jobs as well.

Current hotbeds of cool solar jobs are found in San Francisco Bay Area and California. About 18,000 workers are presently employed by solar companies and another 5,000 positions are expected to be added by next year.

Employers say, there is a current shortage for skilled and qualified workers who are needed to install photovoltaic panels. These solar jobs pay well. Salaries range from $32,000 to $60,000. Median salary for solar designers and engineers is $85,000.

The solar companies are eyeing to get hold of the workers from the weakening construction industries to fill out vacancies. This is a big opportunity for those skilled individuals who had lost their jobs due to economic slump. Apply now for your green jobs and contribute to saving the earth.

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According to genetic researchers, we are currently living in a state of utopia, with human evolution at a standstill. There are three components to evolution, which are natural selection, mutation and random change, and according to scientists they have all come to a halt. Continue Reading »

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Scientists at the University of Reading say there’s a possibility of discovering the links between brain cell activity, memory and the complex behavioral aspects seen in organisms and animals. Experiments are been carried out on a robot controlled by a cluster of rat brain cells. The hoped key discovery here is to relate brain cell activity with diseases such as Alzheimer’s, but the potential for much greater discovery is also present in this experiment.

With 300,000 rat neurons connected to a sonar navigation system, the robot is been taught how to avoid obstacles along its path. The idea is to create something similar to a brain map, containing how memory is laid down in an active brain. The live brain cells are kept separate from the robot, in ideal conditions, for experimentation. The signals are input via the sonar on the robot. Bluetooth short-range radio waves are also used.

This is not the first time such an experiment has been carried out. In 2003, Dr Steve Potter (Georgia Institute of Technology) began the work on what he called “hybrots,” a project begun by connecting neural tissues and robots.

It seems that Hawaii has got itself a new moniker these days, in particular, Oahu’s northern shore. Imagine if you could, the smell that a decomposing carcass of a 12 ton whale would give. Needless to say, the residents of that area had to come to grips with the smell of their latest resident, the dead Sperm whale.

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Pets are trained to be obedient but it seems that pet pythons do not fall in that category. Recently, the cops were called to attend to a domestic disturbance involving the 21-year old Victor Rodriguez and his girlfriend. She had complained that Victor was threatening to attack her with his pet python, so the cops were sent to assist in calming the situation down.

But Victor, in a sudden spark of intelligence decided to order his python to attack the police instead of calming down. As a result, he has been charged with threatening police as well as disorderly conduct. It is one thing to threaten the cops but totally another when you expect your python to do so. Victor must have not taken his intelligence tablets for the day for any sixth grader would tell you that a python tends to move slowly. So what if the python decided to make the moves on the officers, would they have been standing still for the entire duration while the python took his own time to wrap around them?

Either way, the cops feel lucky that python refused to obey his owner, not that they were in great danger since they could easily outrun the slithering beast if they wanted to. Pets are a responsibility and should not be misused to serve the owners agenda, like here. They are more or less like members of one’s family and after having seen what Victor does with his pets, he should be barred from having any more pets, at least for the near future anyway. The building superintendent opened the door for the police and immediately on seeing them, Victor egged on his snake by telling him to “get them”. What an idiot, a python does not have any ears, nor does any other snake for that matter. Anyway, Victor has been sent to jail on a $10,000 bond and the albino python has been taken to an animal shelter!

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Ignorance certainly seems to lead to bliss, at least for this Kansas man who recently announced in Public Television that he did not even notice that a nail had penetrated his skull. George Chandler commented as to how he only felt a sting and that was the end of the story for the nail in the skull, it seems.

Mr. Chandler and his friend Phil Kern were putting up a latticework at his home when this accident took place. The long and short of it all was that it ended up with a nail making a temporary home in Chandler’s skull. This is not the first time that a nail was driven into a human skull with the person remaining healthy long after the incident. It is still a medical mystery as to how the human brain continues to function with no impact on the functioning of the body even after a nail had penetrated the head. Getting back to Chandler and the nail, well, they were using a nail gun to help prop up the lattice and in the process of doing so, the gun discharged and the nail, obviously happy not to be hammered in, found its way to Chandler’s skull.

Phil Kern searched for the nail and to his shock found it sticking out of his friend’s skull, not a pleasant sight, I imagine. After being rushed to the emergency room, the doctor in charge over there decided that he needed a claw hammer to free the nail. Just imagine if you will, that you have a nail sticking out of our head and the doctor comes up to you and says that he needs a claw hammer to get the nail out, just what thoughts would rush into your nailed head at that time, same as mine, I suppose. In the end, a screwdriver and a claw hammer were used to drive the nail out of its temporary home in Mr. Chandler’s skull, with Mr. Chandler suffering no ill effects whatsoever.

Tags: , accident, contractor work, head, inches, job, lattice, nail, nail gun, skull, Strange

Well, you have people getting bothered by huge issues and then you have those who get bothered by profanity. Here’s the clincher, it is not profanity but assumed profanity. Does that make any sense, well, the first time I read it, I did not to me either.

The Utah state administrators were a little bit bothered by the slogans behind the T-shirts at Utah state university, which read, “I am proud of my A”. The A is supposed to stand for Aggies but there are those of us who can only think of something to go with that A. So as a result, the State administrators had a talk with the University officials and now the T-shirt reads something like ” I am proud of the A”.

This is one issue that is going to make the “A” news in one way or the other. This story could possibly be labeled under both strange as well as “storm in a tea cup”. What about free expression? I guess that is out of the window for the moment as far as the Utah state administrators go. Lance brown, the designer of the T-shirt decided to change the slogan once it became apparent that “A” was bothering quite a few people and now the students will have to do with the new slogan in the bag.

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With science jumping in leaps in bounds with new technology, how many of us have stepped back and thought about nanobots? One dead in the not so far of future people will have nano bots injected into them. Those bots will be able to rebuild damaged cells, possibly even prolong our lives indefinitely - well almost indefinitely some deaths will still be quite permenant.

Here the problem: someone injects nanbots into you. Those nanobots live until they are programmed to stop. So lets say, you have them injected and they are suppose to “die” 6 months later. In the meantime, you get a fatal head wound. Well, those nanobots are still alive. They start working to rebuild the damage that was done. They can keep your entire body alive until the process is done. Minor problem: they can not rebuild you to exactly how you were before. You - as of current technology - would be a zombie.

That is just one way you could be zombified. Currently, there is one definite proven way - using blow fish poison. Someone has already done this.  They killed people and brought them back to life to work on a sugar plantation in Haiti.  The movie The Serpent and the Rainbow
is based on scientific research done on this process.

Another way: mad cow disease. When humans get infected by the virus, they turn into zombies due to serotonin level problems. Or you pick up a modified toxoplasmosa gondii from cleaning out your cat’s litter box. This sneaky parasite - which a lot of people carry around - turns rats into zombies and makes them run to the cat towards imminent death!

Are these zombie alive or dead? If you were “killed” and nano bots brought you back to life, would you still be yourself or would you be dead?

A Wisconsin man found out what it takes for a depression to translate to utter joy, at least that is how he felt as he came across a buried treasure containing bill notes from the depression era. To say that something good did finally come out of the phrase ‘depression era’ may be a bit of a pun but that is exactly what happened to Dan Deming.
Dan had already heard of the rumors of a buried treasure on his farm for quite a while as did the many other residents of that area. Dan Deming had made a few half hearted attempts to search for the treasure on his own but none of them yielded anything. So while he was tearing down this 100 year old rickety shed on this farm, a box tumbled out. The old box was found to contain about $1700 in depression era bills, with some of them marked out as ’silver certificate’ on the top. The markings made it obvious to Dan that the bills were for real and not some play money. In addition to the bills, there were a few newspaper scraps that were used to tally up the money. So Dan knew that he had found about $1700 roughly and that they must have been buried during 1928-1934 period.
But the bad news is that the bills had been buried for quite a while with the result being that most of the bills were badly damaged, whether it was on account of water seepage or some other cause. So instead of selling these notes to a collector on account of the damage, Dan has forwarded them to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and utilize any payment received from them to build a new shed. Dan is hopeful of finding out more treasure on his property and one can say that depression has finally given him a reason to hope, would wonders never cease?

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The usage of international phone cards is not a very common practice in most of
the world yet, but in some places it is getting more and more popular, and just
like everything that gets more popular, it is developing to become better
and fit more customers in, a lot of people are very scared to spend more money
than what they have, they are afraid to overspend, people who like to control
every penny they spend, that is why prepaid cards were created, and now
they are available on international phone cards as well as in usual phone
cards.

They way they work is pretty simple, you go to the provider’s company website or call them, and
instead of buying a service, where you agree to their terms that you will
be billed (most of the times in your credit card), you will go and buy a
card that already has a value, it can be for example ten dollars for you
to spend on calls, the website will certainly provide a list of countries and
what is the cost per minute for each country.

It is not a good thing, if you like to spend unlimited time on the phone because
with prepaid international phone cards, if the credits you purchased are over
your call ends, there is no time to say goodbye, so you have to do the math
to know for how long you can chat without worrying about anything, but if
the talking becomes good and you want to extend it, you can not do it, you have
to leave it for the next call.

On the other side, it is a very good thing as people can control exactly what
they are spending, they will never be surprised by the phone bill, you will
not have to worry about “how much did I spend?”, most people know how long
they usually stay on the phone, so it ends up being a good deal for the ones
who have self control and like to control what they are spending.

Summarizing everything, prepaid international phone cards are an awesome deal
for the ones who like to control their expenses, but they are a nightmare
for the ones who do not like to worry about time, to the ones who do not
like limitations, it has both a good and bad part, just like everything else.