Archive for April, 2011

With a storied heritage going all the way back to the early 19th Century, The Convent of Jesus and Mary Schools can be found in all the major areas of the world today, from Africa and Asia to Europe and the Americas. But even as they receive financial support from the Church itself,...
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Affiliate marketing is a superb way for the tech-savvy hobbyist to generate some money on the side. For a select few who have managed to put their finger on the Zeitgeist, however, it means full financial independence, with income in the tens of thousands per month! Probably the most celebrated cases of affiliate marketing made...
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Community support will always be a basic necessity for the survival and prosperity of hospitals and medical schools. Even smaller facilities such as those dedicated purely to research requires a large helping of such backing, particularly where money is concerned. Oftentimes, these generous donors can be found contributing to more than one...
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AC electric motor repair is commonly done these days, typically for generator turbines and the like, whether for power plants or ship and aircraft engines. Nothing unusual about any of that. But at one time, just a little over a century ago, AC, or alternating current, and DC, or direct current, were quite controversial...
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Wine racks are a sign of the serious oenophile, or wine conoisseur. That’s “racks,” plural, mind you – rows and rows of them, in all probability inside a climate-controlled basement cellar, in addition! So how exactly does one get going? A number of fairly good introductions exist online. Before purchasing wine racks and other paraphernalia...
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Technology enthusiasts simply look forward to gadgets starting from the latest unlocked cell phones to the hottest new tablets. But because of the different choices you have today when it comes to tablets, how do you pick the one best suited for you. Out of all the alternatives you’ve got for your tablet, the...
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Wind chimes are not just pretty decorations to hang up around the house or garden which happen to make noise from time to time. They have actually been used in real music, from high-brow modern music to well-liked everyday fare such as videogame soundtracks. The French composer Oliver Messiaen has written for glass, wood,...
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To me, On Off Digital World is like the old Montgomery Ward in Penn Station, one of those big old old-fashioned electronics retailers you used to find throughout New York City. Such businesses were simply mom-and-pop operations that got rather successful, to where they had perhaps fifty workers — still thought of a...
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Diversion safes are the stuff of childhood fantasies for me, when every book, key, or other typical item could contain a key or treasure map in its hollowed-out core. They capture the imagination like nothing else, for what is a child’s creativity but that everyday things should be in reality extraordinary? That secretly, the...
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The affiliate marketing testimonials just keep pouring in: the most up-to-date case history concerns one Ashley Qualls, a seventeen year-old who’s become a millionaire by simply giving away free MySpace layouts. Yes. It is no joke. A teenage girl in high school makes seventy thousand dollars a month by giving stuff away for free. Chalk...
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CPE requirements of late (relatively speaking) has emphasized ethics more and more, especially for lawyers and accountants. Usually, continuing professional education courses contain self-study, whether online or with the use of traditional materials like workbooks and the like. Nonetheless, credits may also be gained through attending qualifying seminars, such as those popular talks given...
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One of the most crucial developments in the field of professional continuing education (CPE) is the relatively recent concentration on ethics, resulting in the proliferation now of many an ethics CPE course. While absolutely a good thing when the professions insist on not just what is legal but what is ethical and, even, moral,...
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Ever heard of something called guerrilla marketing? I found it unwittingly while right across On Off Digital World at the middle of Manhattan. What guerrilla marketing is, is just undercover marketing. Yeah, covert marketing! Such as what happened to me, for example. I happened upon a pair of stunning...
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In 1982, a group of everyday New Yorkers outraged at the high levels of completely good food being tossed out every day by local grocers and restauranteurs founded City Harvest to serve as a collection and distribution point for such items. From then on, such discarded food would be gathered to be...
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The North Shore-LIJ Health System, generally also known as the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Group, was established in 1997 after the merger of the North Shore Health System with the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Headquartered in Great Neck on New York’s Long Island, North Shore-LIJ unites fifteen hospitals, seventeen long-term care...
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Blu Ray media have been making inroads for the past three years but only now do they threaten to finally dominate home entertainment. The specification calls for life-like visual clarity, thanks to 25GB of storage space on a standard single-layer disc.. While it’s possible to discern between even VHS and DVD images,...
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Small business loans are the way to go if you have only just gotten started and don’t have a lot with which to go to a traditional lending institution! Most banks don’t do start-up funding, and consider such companies nothing but a start-up. But you can find financing even so, in the...
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