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Look back at your life and point to the people who made the biggest positive difference. Parental figures and strong friendships may come to mind, but the teachers who were there through your high school education likely had a large impact on your career goals, your worldview, and perhaps–as a recent study suggests–your sense of self. In fact, high school students often cite their teachers as the most influential adults in their lives. If you’ve long wanted to make a difference in your community, becoming a teacher at the high school level could be a satisfying career move.
Educators among Important “Natural” Mentors

A recent study by Students Against Destructive Decisions found that teens who identify at least one “natural” mentor in their life–a teacher, parent, or other adult not assigned to them through mentoring programs–had a higher sense of self, and were more likely to take positive risks like taking on volunteer work or joining an athletic team.

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A growing number of Americans have discovered the joys of working for themselves. By developing a marketable skill, you can work directly for customers and clients without having to worry about middle managers or boring company presentations. In today’s increasingly flexible job market, medical careers no longer require working in hospitals, and technology degree holders can find lucrative work from their home offices.

According to government data, these five careers offer some of the easiest ways to get started with self-employment. In many cases, you can usually start earning money while completing your formal training.

1. Home Health Aide

While most home health aides spend their time working from clients’ homes, this fast-growing profession combines many of the benefits of a nursing career with the flexibility of self-employment. Earning $20,000 per year or more by working part-time, a typical home health aide assists clients when he or she is not caring for family members or completing a nursing degree program.

Many states require a prospective home health aide to hold an associate medical degree, as well as a personal bond. Though some home health aids are truly self-employed, the vast majority of professionals book clients through a professional agency. Agencies provide tax withholding, bookkeeping, and business support for home health aides. Some larger agencies even provide tuition reimbursement for online health degrees.

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In the car color popularity contest, silver continues its reign.

Nearly 20 percent of all 2006 vehicles (the latest year for which figures are available) were silver — the seventh consecutive year that the color has taken the top spot.

There’s good reason for that, says Chris Webb, the exterior color and trend designer for GM North America. “There’s no question that silver on a vehicle looks incredible,” he says. “When the light hits it and refracts, it shows off the vehicle’s architectural form beautifully.”

The color has other advantages, too: It hides dirt, it’s an enduring favorite and it’s easier to resell than other colors. (In the United Kingdom, many police agencies have switched from white to silver, because the silver cars fetch a higher resale price — up to 10 percent higher than white cars — after they’ve been pulled from the fleet.

Silver got a bump in the late 1990s as a result of a growing interest in technology, the future and Y2K, says Karen Surcina, color marketing and technology manager at DuPont. “Metallic finishes — whether on cars, cell phones or stainless steel kitchens — really took off,” she says. “And now that it’s stayed a top color for so long, it’s become a safe color.”

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Intel plans to launch an effort called LessWatts.org on Thursday, a combination of open-source software and helpful hints to reduce power consumption of Linux servers, PCs and gadgets.

LessWatts, to be detailed during a Intel Developer Forum speech by Renee James, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, is geared toward technically sophisticated folks from programmers to system administrators. It gathers together a number of Intel projects, such as the PowerTop utility for finding which software is pestering the processor and preventing it from dozing in low-power states.

Taking Intel’s advice and fixes can trim about 10 watts of power consumption off a modern dual-processor server, said Dirk Hohndel, chief technologist of Intel open-source technology center. That’s not a gargantuan amount–until you consider that if done correctly it’s free power savings, that each watt of server energy saved cuts another 1.3 watts from air conditioning (according to Intel figures), and of course that 10 watts per server is a lot when multiplied by the thousands of servers that populate larger data centers.

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Firefox users had a recent rude awakening about a vulnerability in the way Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple QuickTime Latest News about QuickTime plug-in interacts with their Web browser. Far from grumbling, however, Mozilla Latest News about Mozilla Foundation supporters say their patch for the vulnerability says more about Mozilla’s strengths than its browser’s weakness.

“It seems that QuickTime media formats can hack into Firefox,” wrote security Webroot AntiSpyware 30-Day Free Trial. Click here. investigator Petko Petkov, a post that sent Mozilla’s community developers into action to come up with a solution.

The bug presented risks of data theft and malware. Mozilla’s spokesperson publicly recognized that the issue was serious.

Empathy at Opera

Opera, a second-row contender to diva browsers Internet Over 800,000 High Quality Domains Available For Your Business. Click Here. Explorer and Firefox, is not gloating over Mozilla’s bug flap, however.

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