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In the true spirit of World Earth day, we need to think both at personal and professional front, how and what are we doing to save our environment. Green Jobs is one of the hot keywords of this time! First of all, what does a Green collar worker mean; someone who does a "Green Job" for leaving. A green job can be anything which has a net positive impact (improvement) on our environment. It can be engineering job that is developing complex systems to make our roads and transportation smarter so that less fuels are wasted on road, or making intelligent global utility network to smartly distribute power to masses. It can be thousands of other types of jobs in the area of renewable energy development and distribution and many other professions which are evolving but not matured yet. Take a look at the Green Jobs Network Portal , where you can browse by Job Category or Locations. California is forefront of Green Energy development and leading the country in producing Green Jobs...

Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine, entrepreneur Shai Reshef is tackling the higher education system problem, which no one has tried to addressed before this way. He has tried to address  the global need for democratized education, Reshef founded University of the People (UoPeople), the world’s first  tuition free online university  providing quality, accessible higher education to those who have the desire to learn but lack the resources.  Currently University of the people offers higher grade courses in Business Administration, Computer Science and  General Studies. Look at the Admission process and Mark your calendar, University is taking new application on April 25, 2010.  University of the People is a tuition-free, non-profit institution. The University does not charge students to take classes. Readings and other study materials will be available online free of charge. The University advisory committee ...

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Home-owners face problems around the house and I am no exception, but no hot water on an unusually cold April Saturday morning is not a good surprise by any means. I am a big DIY fan for the small problems around the house. See my other posts on 5 DIY Things to do . However when it comes to appliances that run on gas, I am initially little hesitant to touch. But when things break on Saturday, you have no other option than take a first look and analyze the problem before trying to make a call which can cost you at least $100 for someone to show up on your door. I had very generic idea about how a gas water heater works, but absolutely no idea on how the appliance maintains a small flame for thermostat to kick and use the flame to heat the water. After a basic google search I got the clue on where to look; it was pilot light assembly one of the very important part of water heater system. Pilot light keeps the flame burning which remains the gas valve open. So how pilot keeps the flame ...

Gartner has come with it's 2010 predictions on IT trends for organizations and users. As an IT professionals I take these predictions seriously and try to make sense out of it. It helps us shape up our career goal and twist them as necessary. The report is an 8 page PDF that can be downloaded from Gartner's website after providing your own professional information and email. Here is my summarized versions: 20% of businesses will not own any IT assets, This is a powerful prediction, basically Gartner is saying that IT asset management will go to outsourcing providers and businesses will adapt to cloud computing environment where there will be no need to own IT assets. This will eliminate need for expensive manpower needed to maintain those IT assets. Gartner is predicting hardware professionals will have tough time finding jobs in 2012 and beyond. India based IT services providers will play major role in offering cloud based services offerings. Gartner is predicting that Ind...

The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America is inviting applications for Fellowship at Washington DC. This is a wonderful chance for students to work on the technologies and tools that are powering www.barakobama.com portal. See detail here:  http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/devjobapp

Seems like they are real my friend, if you qualify. It is actually possible to receive both the Federal and State tax credits on one transaction.  23 days left to get into contract to try to make this happen.  That is you must be in contract before April 30th and close escrow between May 1st and June 30th to try to get both. Here are the simplified version: Federal Tax Credit $8,000 for first time home buyers (those who have not owned a home they live in for the past 3 years) $6,500 for move up or move down home buyers (must have owned a home they live in for 5 of the past 8 years consecutively) Max purchase price is $800,000 Max income to receive the full credit is $125,000 for single people and $225,000 for married couples Can apply the credit to 2009 or 2010 tax year Get the full credit in one shot in the year applied To claim it you include it when filing taxes for 2010 or amend the return for 2009 Must be in contact to buy on or before April 30th 2010 Must...

This is from The Christian Science Monitor Global News Blog - A must Read Top 10 April Fools' Pranks.. Here is the interesting ones... CHINA: 1993: Getting in on the liberal fun, state newspaper The China Youth Daily announced those with doctorate degrees were exempt from one-child limits. According to an article, doctorates’ children would reduce the need for foreign experts. As with the joke in Greece, the news wire Agence France-Presse reported it as true. The next day, a Beijing newspaper ran an editorial stating that April Fools' jokes "are an extremely bad influence."