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1LiveOps liveopsLiveOps is a company that hires virtual call center agents. When you work for Live Ops you are considered an independent contractor with your own business. You are responsible for paying for your own criminal background check prior to starting work (this costs around $30). You also must have your own dedicated phone line and a quiet workspace. Once you are all set up, LiveOps has an excellent online training program that teaches you how to handle calls from customers. You will be taking calls for many different companies. When you start working, your phone will ring and a script will pop up on your screen. You simply read the script word for word and input customer information as you go along. If customers have questions, there is a section on your screen with FAQs and you are also logged into a virtual chat room should you need to ask for support from a supervisor. LiveOps is great because they often offer extra incentives for sales and they give you constant feed...

Console Living Room – Created by the Internet Archives, you can play 900 classic arcade games in your browser.  Reddit – Reddit is the most addictive website for millions of people worldwide. According to traffic stats the site makes a little less than 1 million unique visitors every day and 90% of them are returning users.  The useless web – Similar to StumbleUpon (which can also be addictive), but instead of useful and educational sites it shows you completely useless one.  Mental_Floss – Random interesting and amazing facts.  Plink – Make music with other people live.  SNES Fun – Play SNES games in your browser!  GeoGuesser – This awesome websites gives you a random street view location and you have to guess where you are in the World. You can also share your map and challenge your friends.  Wonder How To – Learn impressive and useful things.  2leep – Collection of bizarre blogs and articles.  Eyes In Space – Fly up to...

Lenticular cloud, Mt. Fuji, Japan Altocumulus lenticularis is one of the more obviously 'bizarre' cloud types -- they don't occur too frequently, so when you see one, you take notice. They often form above or near mountains, as moist air flows rapidly over a rise in elevation. Mt. Fuji makes a pretty sweet base for this one.   Lenticular cloud, Mt. Fuji, Japan Altocumulus lenticularis is one of the more obviously 'bizarre' cloud types -- they don't occur too frequently, so when you see one, you take notice. They often form above or near mountains, as moist air flows rapidly over a rise in elevation. Mt. Fuji makes a pretty sweet base for this one. Asperatus formation, Canterbury, New Zealand This one's so rare it doesn't even have official classification. "Undulatus asperatus" is its proposed designation, and if accepted as a new form by meteorologists, it'll be the first such addition since 1951. As of now, it's just another exa...

View of the monastery from Svetlitsa Island, Saint Nil Stolbenskii Monastery, Lake Seliger; 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Peasant girls, Russian Empire. Three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov; 1909 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress). Trans-Siberian Railway metal truss bridge on stone piers, over the Kama River near Perm, Ural Mountains Region; ca. 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Cotton textile mill interior with machines producing cotton thread, probably in Tashkent; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress) Man and camel loaded with packs; between 1905 and 1915 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).

125+ Year Old Rhododendron “Tree” In Canada 144-Year-Old Wisteria In Japan Wind-Swept Trees In New Zealand The President, Third-Largest Giant Sequoia Tree In The World, California Rainbow Eucalyptus In Kauai, Hawaii Blooming Cherry Trees in Bonn, Germany Dragonblood Trees, Yemen The Dark Hedges In Northern Ireland Angel Oak In John’s Island In South Carolina Flamboyant Tree, Brazil

1. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry  2. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut  3. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes  4. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez  5. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are – Alan Watts  6. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky  7. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk  8. The Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss  9. The Stranger – Albert Camus  10. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse