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Awesome read. Pretty true.

Groupon clone after Groupon clone, yawn… yet another social media dashboard, a cloud-based enterprise solution or, worse still, another photo sharing app; I’ve heard pitch after pitch of the same technology and keep wondering why all these highly intelligent, well educated youngsters, many of whom have been educated in the best universities in the world (Stanford, Yale and Harvard) are not putting their brains to good use by solving real-world problems. Instead they’re building technology to solve trivial issues – like apps that show where to spot your nearest tofu cupcake and share it with your friends.

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Thinking of blowing your pay-check on the iPad2? Perhaps these numbers will convince you, after all, more people are switching to tablet computing!

“Given the hype around media tablets such as the iPad, retailers were very conservative in placing orders for PCs,” Mikako Kitagawa, a Gartner analyst, said in a statement. “Instead, they wanted to secure space for media tablets. Some PC vendors had to lower their inventory through promotions, while others slimmed their product lines at retailers.”

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For those who dreamed of working in a Casino or in Sentosa, here’s your chance once again!

RESORTS World Sentosa (RWS) is seeking to fill more than 700 vacancies for its second phase of development.

This will include a maritime museum and aquarium, and two hotels, the Equarius Hotel and Spa Villas. These are scheduled to open progressively from the second half of this year. To help fill the vacancies, the integrated resort will be recruiting in the heartlands over the next two months, with the help of the National Trades Union Congress’ (NTUC) Employment and Employability Institute (e2i).

Three recruitment fairs will be held in Bukit Batok, Bedok and Kallang, with the first job fair to be held at the HomeTeamNS@Bukit Batok building today and tomorrow.

Previous RWS recruitments held by e2i have been held at the e2i campus in Redhill, since 2009.

The e2i was set up by the NTUC to help job seekers find jobs and get training, and also help employers looking to hire or train workers.

The institute said yesterday that the job fairs are shifting to the heartlands, after it received feedback from previous applicants who said they could not travel far for job interviews because of family or work commitments. Subsequent job fairs will take place at Bedok Community Centre and Kallang Community Centre on July 28 and 29, and on Aug16 and 17, respectively.

via Straits Times

1. Chemistry of Gum

   • It’s an old home remedy that really works: getting chewing gum out of someone’s hair using peanut butter. To understand how peanut butter works on chewing gum in hair, it’s important to learn what each is made of and how they react when mixed together. Gum is made up of a natural gum base, usually from trees, mixed with sugars, syrups, food coloring and flavorings. The gum base molecules will cling tightly to the proteins in the dry hair. However, the gum base is hydrophobic, or “afraid of water” in Greek. This means that the gum doesn’t dissolve in water. If you attempt to wash the gum out of the hair, the water will have no effect on the gum. Interestingly, because gum is hydrophobic, you can’t get gum stuck in already wet hair. Dry hair, however, becomes a sticky mess with chewing gum.

   Chemistry of Peanut Butter

   • Peanut butter is a paste made from ground and roasted peanuts. Peanuts produce a lot of oil during the process of becoming peanut butter, and some manufacturers even add some extra peanut oil into the formula for extra creaminess and enhanced taste. In other words, peanut butter contains lots of oils and fats. These are also hydrophobic substances. When gum is stuck in dry hair, take a generous slab of peanut butter and rub it all around the chewing gum. Work it into the gummy hair as much as possible.

   Peanut Butter Meets Gum

   • The oils in the peanut butter attract the gum base in the chewing gum. That means the hydrophobic materials in both substances find it easier to stick to each other than the proteins of the dry hair. The oils in the peanut butter get in between the hair and the gum and makes the gum stiffer and less sticky. Keep working the peanut butter around the gum and you’ll soon find you can pull out big chunks of gum. Make sure the peanut butter coats all the gum surface, and keep massaging it in until all the gum has been removed. Wash hair as normal and nobody will ever be able to tell there was once chewing gum in the hair. Salad oil and mayonnaise will also work the same way with chewing gum and hair because they too are oils.