A career, a profession or a job is very important for every one of us. Even the royals or people with huge inheritances to their credit have to work, simply because if they do not manage their assets efficiently, they will be hopeless losers in no time. But for the rest of us, including those who hunt for jobs, finding not only the right job, but a job that we enjoy performing is important. If we do not like what we do, no matter how paying the job might be, we would soon become insincere to our jobs and, as a result, possibly fired by the employers. So the most important key is a job that we love performing, and at the same time paying well for what we do.

A better insight into the above aspects can be found by reading career advice articles written by A. Harrison Barnes, the founder and CEO of CareerMission.com, that owns over 100 job search websites and various other professional companies and services. Whether you need a job right now or not, whether you are looking for a change or not, it pays to read each and every word written by Barnes, simply because he writes with a rare insight about the whole concept of jobs and professions, enriched by his commendable educational, professional and entrepreneurial backgrounds.

It appealed to me greatly when Barnes wrote about people who resent their jobs just because they have to do their jobs. Then what about people who are worried because they are unemployed, or fired out of their jobs, and are desperate to find a job? The unemployment or underemployment is one that many people are either already facing, or are afraid of facing sooner or later, especially because of continuing retrenchments caused by recession, even though the media supported by government statistics tell us the economy is looking up.

I would like to mention that the whole concept of careers and jobs Barnes write about are not for only times of recession, but for all times. Additionally, Barnes being an entrepreneur himself with over 100 websites related to careers and job search in all perceivable spheres of jobs and professions, it is highly recommended to visit his sites, read his articles, subscribe to his newsletters, etc.

In one of his articles in his personal blog, Barnes asks the pertinent question whether you should be waiting for announcement of jobs, or is it better that you should search for jobs. He explains that the beaten path of waiting for jobs to be announced and then applying for it makes you face more severe competition as most job hunters will be applying for it. In contrast, if you search for jobs, it is more likely that you will find the perfect job that suits you and pays you well. Barnes’ blog contains lots of highly useful career advice about job search and how to find a job that really suits you and you enjoy doing.

In 1971 US military scientists detonated Cannikin, a five megaton nuclear bomb, beneath the Alaskan island of Amchitka to test the geographical impact of a huge underground nuclear blast. As this video clip shows the explosion caused the ground to rise 20 feet and led to the formation of a new lake.

Amchitka is a volcanic island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It was selected by the US Atomic Energy Commission as the site for underground nuclear tests. Out of three such tests, Cannikin in on November 6, 1971, estimates for the precise yield ranging from 4.4 to 5.2 megatons, or an explosive force equivalent almost 400 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. The explosion created a new lake, over a mile wide and a seismic shock of 7.0 on the Richter scale, causing rock falls and turf slides of a total of 35,000 square feet (3,300 square m). A number of small tectonic events occurred in the following weeks, some as high as 4.0 on the Richter scale. According to wildlife surveys by the University of Fairbanks, 700 to 2,000 sea otters were killed by overpressures in the Bering Sea as a direct result of the explosion.

The note at YouTube says, “Nearly three hundred deceased rock greenling fish were found offshore, and subsequent catches of rock sole declined substantially. The remains of over 10,000 three-spined sticklebacks and 700 Dolly Varden were found in the island's lakes, streams, and ponds. Perhaps 1,000 sea otters were killed, their skulls fractured by the force of the blast driving their eyeballs through the bones behind their sockets. Harlequin ducks were found with their backs broken and their legs driven into their bodies by the force of the explosion."

With the US Geological Survey (USGS) reporting that a powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake hitting the Banda Sea, near the Maluku islands to the east of East Timor, it calls for more urgent steps for earthquake preparedness on the part of the Indonesian government as well as the governments of the nations of the area of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Such measures are more urgent for Indonesia as the country lies between the Pacific Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores and Timor. It may be noted that the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake just off the coast of Sumatra was located within the Alpide belt.

The Ring of Fire is a 40,000 km horseshoe shaped area with a series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs and volcanic belts that was rocked regularly by tectonic plate movements. The area has 452 volcanoes, and over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes are situated here.

About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 80% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. More disturbingly, the next most seismic region, with around 6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes, the Alpide belt, starts from Java and Sumatra and extends through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic.

The combined effect of Ring of Fire and the Alpide Belt, coupled with seemingly more frequent occurrences of quakes in the region (in September dozens were killed by a tremor off Java, while a quake which hit Sumatra left more than 1,000 people dead) is a strong indication that the government should implement policies to construct quake-resistant structures, build infrastructure to reach quake hit areas immediately with emergency rescue services, and review the existing high-rise and other vulnerable buildings to see how far they can withstand major tremors.

It may be noted that in the recent quake that hit Sumatra killing over a thousand people, rescue workers could not reach even the worst hit areas in cities for weeks. Equipments for removal of collapsed structures and rubble were ridiculously inadequate.

Luckily, in Saturday's earthquake that struck mostly uninhabited areas there were not immediate news of injuries or damage. According to Seismologists the earthquake was too deep for there to be a tsunami risk, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

The UK economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% between July and September, according to official figures released by the British Government, indicating that UK is still in recession. There was a contraction by 5.2% compared to the same period in 2008, and the net figure would be 5.9% from its peak before the recession began.

Since quarterly figures were first recorded in 1950s, it is the first time that GDP (gross domestic product) of UK has contracted for six consecutive quarters in a row. Analysts consider that the recession in the UK is the longest since modern records began in the 1950s.

A quarterly GDP growth of 0.2% was expected as figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. But the bad performance in retail sales in September and a 2.5% decline in industrial output in August made the situation worse.

soon as the GDP figures were released the pound (£) fell sharply in the market. It was down by 1.6% against the dollar at $1.6339, and down 1.7% against the Euro at 1.0878 Euros.

The sharp decline in the services sector was to blame, with the distribution, catering and hotels sectors performing badly. UK's reliance on service sector, financial services in particular, may be the reason why it is still in recession. Many millions of people are deeply concerned to see that Britain is still in recession six months after Germany, France and Japan have all come out of recession. But the decline in UK continues, with no immediate recovery in sight.

From the times of the Industrial Revolution, with a boost in heavy industries, particularly shipbuilding, coal mining, steel production, textiles and general manufacturing, the British Empire created an overseas market and continued to dominate international trade in the 19th century. But with industrialization in other countries and the economic decline after two world wars, UK began to lose its competitive edge throughout the 20th century.

Manufacturing still remains a significant part of UK economy, but accounts for only a minor part of it with the service sector now giving over 70% of GDP. The service sector is dominated by financial services, especially banking and insurance which are the worst hit by global recession. It becomes more pronounced as London is the world's largest financial centre with the London Stock Exchange, and other major international business and commerce entities based in London.

The UK government’s quantitative easing program of £175 billion will have been spent by next in the next week at the current rate of disbursal. In this context, David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce said, "Continued intervention - including help for businesses to access finance, and incentives to promote investment - is still needed." Financial analysts were worrying that the decline has continued despite the stimulus measures that the Bank of England have introduced.

Interestingly quantitative easing is the British central bank's policy of printing money to buy bonds from banks and other companies to stimulate the economy. The worst GDP figures may compel the Bank of England to extend quantitative easing for some more time.

On 23 January 2009, UK Government figures showed that the UK was officially in recession for the first time since 1991, starting in the final quarter of 2008. It was accompanied by rising unemployment which increased from 5.2% in May 2008 to 7.6% in May 2009. The unemployment rate among 18 to 24 year-olds has risen from 11.9% to 17.3%.

The UK has the fourth highest military expenditure in the world, total defense spending currently accounting for 2.5% of total national GDP, and as of July 2009, UK's government debt was 56.8% of GDP, unusually higher figures for a healthy economy.

One of the measures expected to be a particular help in the final quarter of the year is the change in VAT. It is due to return to 17.5% from 15% at the beginning of January.

Based on market exchange rates, the UK is today the sixth largest economy in the world and the third largest in Europe after Germany and France. There is every indication that there is no fast route to recovery for the British economy, and it is a cause of worry for all, even outside UK.

As you are aware there were a series of natural calamities and disasters in the Asia Pacific region recently. There are thousands of families who have lost everything. You can help them with whatever little money you can. For this, the British Red Cross has launched an appeal to support emergency relief operations.

• Typhoon Ketsana slammed into the Philippines on 26 September, killing at least 240 people and affecting more than 1.9 million.
• On 29 September, the typhoon moved west to Vietnam.
• Typhoon Ketsana has also affected Cambodia and Laos.
• On 29 September, a strong earthquake followed by a tsunami hit the Samoan islands, in the Pacific. This was shortly followed by another earthquake on 30 September off the west coast of Indonesia.

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At least 1100 people are confirmed to have died and almost 2,400 people have been injured, in the powerful quakes that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Thousands more are missing or trapped in rubble. The quakes destroyed about 75% of buildings in and around Padang, the capital of West Sumatra province which has a population of over 900,000.

According to the US Geological Survey, the first earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck at 1716 local time (1016 GMT) on Wednesday, some 85 km (55 miles) under the sea, north-west of Padang. It was followed by a second tremor, of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale, that hit close to Padang at 0852 local time (0152 GMT) on Thursday, about 150 miles further south-east.

Part of the Pacific's Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped area of seismic activity ringing the Pacific Ocean basin, Indonesia is in the world's most seismically active region, registering 6,000 to 7,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 4.0 or above annually.

The Indonesian earthquake struck nearly 12 hours after a powerful quake in the South Pacific that triggered a devastating tsunami that hit struck American Samoa and Tonga. But experts said the two events were not related. "They were 10,000km (6,200 miles) apart," New Zealand seismologist Bill Fry told AFP news agency. "You can get quakes that are close temporally and spatially as one transfers stress to another place against the fault, but that's not possible this far apart."

The Indonesian earthquake brought down hundreds of buildings, including hospitals, mosques, hotels, a mall and homes, and left thousands trapped under rubble. The quake cut power lines, snapped phone lines and communication networks, and triggered landslides. Many large buildings in the town had been severely damaged and some buildings were on fire. However, many smaller residential properties had escaped the damage. Power has now been restored to some parts of Padang.

In Padang residents fought some fires with buckets of water and used their bare hands to search for survivors, pulling at the wreckage and tossing it away piece by piece.

There are huge cracks in the concrete roads, a few feet wide, showing the full force of the tremors. Rescue officials have told reporters that some of the worst damage is in the heart of the city where they say a shopping mall has collapsed. Another worst disaster appeared to be the collapse of a school in Padang.

Wednesday's quake was along the same fault line that spawned the 2004 Asian tsunami (Boxing Day tsunami) that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries. Padang lies on the same fault line as Indonesia's Aceh province, which was devastated in the 2004 tsunami with 130,000 dead. Geologists have long warned that Padang could one day be completely destroyed by an earthquake because of its location in a highly active seismic zone.

Military planes were flying medical equipment and personnel to the affected region. Government health ministry teams and Indonesian soldiers have arrived in the city to aid the search for survivors. Military personnel, as well as police and health ministry workers, were in the affected area, but they urgently needed heavy machinery to lift the rubble.

Stocks of emergency shelters, hygiene kits and clothing are ready to be distributed by aid teams funded by British charity Oxfam once workers can get through to the worst affected areas. Food, medicine and body bags have begun to arrive. Tents and blankets were also on their way to help the homeless, the health ministry said.

Australia is among the countries that have offered to send emergency assistance to Indonesia if needed. Bob McKerrow, Red Cross head of operations in Indonesia, told it had more than 400 personnel on the ground, including 50 doctors flown in on Thursday morning. "But it's just such a vast area to be working in with such bad infrastructure," he said. The roads and bridges have all been damaged, so there is a huge challenge ahead of rescue workers.

British aid is being sent to areas of western Indonesia, where the tremors have caused widespread landslides and at least two hospitals, mosques and hotels to collapse. The British Red Cross has launched a fund-raising appeal to help those caught up in both the earthquake and the tsunami in American Samoa and Tonga.

Titi Moektijasih, of the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AFP that emergency efforts so far were insufficient, and added, "Compared to the extent of the damage, you see there should be more equipment, more people to do this."

In recent times Indonesia and the surrounding regions are hit by earthquakes and tsunamis. Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 killed 170,000 in Indonesia alone. On 28 March 2005, about 1,300 people were killed after a magnitude 8.7 quake hit the coast of Sumatra. On 17 July 2006 a tsunami after a 7.7 magnitude quake in West Java province killed 550 people.

However, it is a double devastation now, two disasters in fewer than 24 hours, earthquakes in Indonesia and the tsunami in Samoa, and experts are trying to determine whether the quake was linked to the one earlier in the South Pacific.

We quite often come across situations in which doing a particular task may be time-consuming, or we just cannot do it, but a skilled person can do it faster and professionally. What do we do in such situations? We simply outsource it, or hire a skilled person, and get the job done. The same thing happens with companies or websites, and if they try to do such jobs by themselves, it will simply be wastage of time and money.

But sometimes finding a skilled person to do such jobs is also not so easy. Ironically there are millions of skilled online workers who want to earn money from such short tasks, but cannot find job providers easily. But I came across a site, Short Task, which is an ideal meeting place for both workers and job providers. They have broadly classified their work into two categories; seekers and solvers. Seekers are companies and sites that are looking for workers to whom they can entrust their work for a certain payment. They are sites/companies, SEO companies and others needing certain tasks such as link building, writing short task review, editing services, content writing, transcription, etc.

Mostly the jobs are typical short tasks that can be completed in a minimum possible time. The seekers just have to post their job requirements. There are a great number of solvers who are efficient and skilled to do such jobs. They quickly take up the jobs and send the seekers the finished work. If it suits their requirements and approve the work, solvers are paid for their work. Take up any number of such tasks and Work at Home. There is no restriction or shortage of work.

Similarly the site is a virtual goldmine for those who seek opportunities to work from home. If you are one seeking to make money, you can find many thousands of opportunities that suit your skills. Just find the work, finish it in your own time and submit it. Once it is approved by the job providers, you get paid for your work. All that you need to have is a computer and an internet connection.

Short Task is an excellent meeting place for both job providers and those who want to work from home. It helps companies as they get instant performance of their jobs without employing workers, and saving them valuable office space and other commitments as employers. It is the best for workers as they can get as much work as they want and get paid, without any limit on their monthly earnings.

Rags-to-riches stories of people starting their lives from almost nothing in terms of money, and becoming billionaires and international celebrities on the strength of their innovative ideas, business acumen, leadership qualities etc. have always fascinated me. They are the nouveau riche who acquired considerable wealth within his or her generation.

Once nouveau riche were looked down upon by the traditionally rich, but in the 20th century, there is a shift in attitude towards them, for example, Ronald Reagan, a self-made man who was surrounded by other self-made men and became the US President. In the sphere of technology, industries and business, accomplished men like Dhirubhai Ambani, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, David Filo and Jerry Yang, are some examples of nouveau riche.

Dhirubhai Ambani (1932 - 2002), was an Indian rags-to-riches genius who founded Reliance Industries in 1977. By 2007 his combined fortune, with sons Anil and Mukesh, was $60 billion, making the Ambanis the richest family in the world. Born as the second son of a school teacher, when Dhirubhai Ambani was 16, he moved to Aden, Yemen and worked for a salary of Rs.300 a month (about $6 in today’s rates), and later was promoted to manage his employer’s filling station. He eventually returned to India and started business in partnership his cousin to import polyester yarn and export spices, a humble beginning that later made Ambani family the worlds’ richest.

In 1996 Google was born as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were both PhD students at Stanford University. And now Google has grown to become the world’s largest internet search company, running millions of servers worldwide, which process hundreds of millions of search requests each day. Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin are ranked 26th on the 2009 Forbes list of the world’s billionaires.

More nouveau riche can be found in Silicon Valley like Jerry Yang, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! created the company in April 1994 with David Filo as a website consisting of a directory of other websites. Later Yahoo became one of the topmost search engines. In 2006, Filo was estimated to be worth $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world.

For the last five years I have been wearing prescription glasses and I think I must have spent a fortune on them so far. I was a little lazy in finding out if I was overcharged for my glasses as I used to purchase them from the shop owned by my optometrist. Every time I paid $ 275 or more for a pair of glasses. Recently I came across the site of Zenni Optical that showcased eyeglasses of equal or better quality. Astonishingly they are $ 8 Rx eyeglasses), scaling upwards.

I happened to read Greg Karp’s interview with CBN News that was an eye opener. Karp is the author of ‘Living Rich by Spending Smart’, and he has spent a lot of time researching on reducing wasteful expenditure so that you can live rich. So it makes great sense when Karp elaborates on How You Can Start Spending Smart. Coincidentally, Karp was wearing a very fashionable pair of prescription glasses from ZenniOptical.com at the time of the interview, costing only $8 plus shipping compared to $300 that he used to pay previously.

The best thing about Zenni is that they introduce new styles to keep pace with the latest fashion trends. As a person who changes my prescription glasses quite often in line with the fashion trends, my favorite high fashion eyeglasses are Zenni. The variety and range of high-fashion, yet affordable glasses with Zenni is unmatched.

They are highly quality-conscious too. They use the best materials, apart from their enviable styling and durability. Still they offer the glasses at rock bottom prices just because they manufacture all the glasses sold by them at their own factory, and they do not have middle men that make their prices so affordable.

The military regime in Burma (Myanmar) is one of the world's most repressive and abusive regimes, as human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have reported on human rights abuses by the military government.

The military junta of Burma rules at its will, controls the judiciary, suppresses all basic rights, and commits human rights abuses with impunity. Military officers hold all cabinet positions, active or retired military officers hold all top posts in all ministries.

According to Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP), on April 18, 2007, several of its members were met by approximately a hundred people led by a military official U Nyunt Oo, and beaten up and some were badly injured and hospitalized. HRDP was formed in 2002 to raise awareness among the people of Burma about their human rights.

Burma holds one of the worst records as regards children’s rights. Child labour is very common, especially in view of the fact that an estimated 70,000 of the country’s 350,000 to 400,000 soldiers are children. According to Human Rights Watch, not only recruiting but kidnapping of children by the military is commonplace.

Several hundred thousands of men, women, children and elderly people are forced to work against their will by the military administration. Those who refuse to work are made victims of torture, rape or murder. The International Labour Organization has continuously called on Burma to end the practice of forced labour since the 1960s. In June 2000, the ILO Conference adopted a resolution calling on all governments to cease any relations with countries that might support the military junta to continue the use of forced labour.

The military government restricts Internet access through software-based censorship that prevents ordinary citizens accessing internet or contacting online.

A 2002 report by The Shan Human Rights Foundation and The Shan Women's Action Network, License to Rape, details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, involving 625 girls and women, committed by Burmese army troops in Shan State, mostly between 1996 and 2001. According to the report, "the Burmese military regime is allowing its troops systematically and on a widespread scale to commit rape with impunity in order to terrorize and subjugate the ethnic peoples of Shan State. There is a strong case that war crimes and crimes against humanity, in the form of sexual violence, have occurred and continue to occur in Shan State. The report gives clear evidence that rape is officially condoned as a 'weapon of war' against the civilian populations in Shan State." Furthermore, the report states that "25% of the rapes resulted in death, in some incidences with bodies being deliberately displayed to local communities. 61% were gang-rapes; women were raped within military bases, and in some cases women were detained and raped repeatedly for periods of up to 4 months." In a 2003 report, "No Safe Place: Burma's Army and the Rape of Ethnic Women", Refugees International document the widespread use of rape by Burma’s soldiers to brutalize women from five different ethnic nationalities.

The Burmese regime has marked certain ethnic minorities such as the Karen for extermination or 'Burmisation'. In early August 2009, a conflict known as the Kokang incident broke out in Shan State in northern Burma. For several weeks, junta troops fought against ethnic minorities including the Kokang, Va, and Kachin. From August 8 to 12, the first days of the conflict, as many as 10,000 Burmese civilians fled to Yunnan province in neighboring China.

According to Amnesty International, the Muslim Rohingya people have continued to suffer human rights violations under the Burma military rulers since 1978 and many have fled to neighboring Bangladesh as a result. "The Rohingyas’ freedom of movement is severely restricted and the vast majority of them have effectively been denied Burma citizenship. Muslim Rohingya people are also subjected to various forms of extortion and arbitrary taxation, land confiscation, forced eviction and house destruction, and financial restrictions on marriage. Muslim Rohingyas continue to be used as forced laborers on roads and at military camps, although the amount of forced labor in northern Rakhine State has decreased over the last decade."

In 1978 over 200,000 Muslim Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh, following the ‘Nagamin’ (‘Dragon King’) operation of the Burma army. Officially this campaign aimed at "scrutinizing each individual living in the state, designating citizens and foreigners in accordance with the law and taking actions against foreigners who have filtered into the country illegally." This military campaign directly targeted civilians, and resulted in widespread killings, rape and destruction of mosques and further religious persecution." During 1991-92 a new wave of over a quarter of a million Muslim Rohingyas fled to Bangladesh. They reported widespread forced labor, as well as summary executions, torture, and rape. Muslim Rohingyas were forced to work without pay by the Burma army on infrastructure and economic projects, often under harsh conditions. Many other human rights violations occurred in the context of forced labor of Rohingya civilians by the security forces.

The military authorities permitted only believers registered religious groups to worship as they choose. However, the Government imposed restrictions on certain religious activities and is accused of abusing the right to freedom of religion.

The military is notorious for rampant use of sexual violence as an instrument of control, including systematic rapes and taking of sex slaves as porters for the military. There is a growing international movement to defend women's human rights issues.

A 2004 Amnesty International report says that, between 1989 and 2004, more than 1,300 political prisoners have been imprisoned after unfair trials. The prisoners, including National League for Democracy (NLD) leaders Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi and U Tin Oo, have "been wrongfully denied their liberty for peaceful acts that would not be considered crimes under international law", Amnesty International claims. The Freedom House report notes that the authorities arbitrarily search citizens' homes, intercept mail, and monitor telephone conversations, and that the possession and use of telephones, fax machines, computers, modems, and software are criminalized.

Since 1992, the government has encouraged tourism in the country. But few tourists visit Burma, because of restrictions and insulting controls. May be due to this, Aung San Suu Kyi has requested international tourists not visit Burma. The military junta's forced labor programs were focused around tourist destinations which have been heavily criticized for their human rights records. Much of the country is completely off-limits to tourists, and the military very tightly controls interactions between foreigners and the people of Burma. They are not to discuss politics with foreigners, under penalty of imprisonment, and in 2001, the Myanmar Tourism Promotion Board issued an order for local officials to protect tourists and limit "unnecessary contact" between foreigners and ordinary Burmese people.

The above restrictions explain the John Yettaw case. On 4 May 2009, the American John Yettaw swam across a lake to the house of Aung San Suu Kyi and remained there for two nights, resulting in the arrest of Yettaw and Suu Kyi. Suu Kyi was charged with violating the terms of her house arrest. Suu Kyi's current house arrest term was due to end on 27 May 2009. On 11 August 2009 Suu Kyi was sentenced to an additional 18 months of house arrest following conviction on charges of violating the terms of her previous incarceration.

John Yettaw told the BBC's Newshour program that he had a dream that Ms Suu Kyi was going to be murdered, and swam to her home wearing home-made flippers to warn her. The real reason why the military wants to keep Suu Kyi under house arrest is what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated, "This is a purely political sentence designed to prevent her from taking part in the regime’s planned elections next year."