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Jun 27 2011

Blank Envelopes and the Industrial Revolution

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This is what happens when computers take over. No more blank envelopes! You won’t find them anymore. All those science fiction movies that depict a world taken over by computers show something really diabolical, but real life is at once more imaginative and less exciting (up to now!). On the other hand, for those thrown out of work by computer automation, it’s probably just about as sinister, if they really thought about it.

Now it’s true that technology has always changed our lives, often in a most disruptive manner, and blank envelopes won’t be made here again anyway – and even then, it will be machines that do the making. After all, papermaking used to be quite a skill, and yet machines have long taken over that trade. But even these overseas workers will be thrown out of work soon enough thanks to all the wireless communications that’s revolutionized just about every facet to how people interact.

Is there anything better than firing off an e-mail or text message at practically the speed of light? Nothing to be printed out, no postage to fumble around for, and never a necessary wait on a response – never mind having to go out and do a drop-off at the nearest mailbox! Well, at least not unless one’s correspondent isn’t interested in communications anyway!

The need for blank envelopes is at an all-time low these days. It’s now hard to find them, even, and one must resort to dedicated stationary stores oftentimes. And it’s all due to the computer revolution that’s totally changed just about every aspect of our lives. It’s a far cry from the first envelopes used by man, which would appear to us today to be more like pottery than anything else, made as they were from clay that were dried or even baked in order to be “sealed” – never mind the breaking necessary to be opened!

There is nothing new, then, to the impact of technology. It is, moreover, dramatic in impact but not necessarily in that immediate, visceral way of fiction. Therefore, the actual year of 2001 gives us unmanned drones and the worldwide web while the film 2001 envisioned moon bases, space travel, and artificial intelligence.

So no more blank envelopes. You can bet the family jewels that that will be the most dramatic impact of our advancing technology. Soon there won’t be any envelopes at all in the whole world!

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Jun 25 2011

The Coolpix L24 by Nikon

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How do you know what the best product for you is when there are several or more products you can buy? Comparing items, and reading different reviews, will allow you to pick the right product for you. It really is very challenging to choose a digital camera that will fit your style. Nikon is known as a company which has had a wonderful reputation, and has introduced it’s premium quality Nikon Coolpix L24. Take into account that every single piece of merchandise can fit very well for a market. One must always go through the advantages and disadvantages of a product, and we’ll do that with the Nikon L24.

With many different digital cameras in the present day you can actually record videos as well as normal photographs, and the Nikon L24 is no exception to this. Not only is this digital camera extremely handy, but quite simple to make use of. To help you take the very best photographs possible, you should utilize the Scene Mode to pick from among sixteen possible scenes. For the easiest camera settings, all you have to do is to switch into Easy Auto Mode and taking a photograph with the best possible settings will automatically be configured for you. If a picture is taken and someone blinks, the camera will recognize this and alert you about it. That feature is part of the Smart Portrait system.

The Nikon L24 is a portable camera that is inexpensive and very flexible when it comes to taking pictures. It will easily fit in the palm of your hand, and it operates on AA batteries. The camera’s resolution is 14 mega pixels so you know it generates high quality pictures. From 37 mm going up to as high as 135 mm, the zoom is very adjustable for anything you need. The zoom of the camera uses a 3.6x optical system. If you have shaky hands, you will enjoy Canon’s Vibration Reduction system which reduces shakiness. You can see the photo or video you are about to take very simply with the three inch LCD monitor screen.

You can take high quality movies that include audio which are easy to transfer to other media. So you can watch all of your movies on your Tv or computer. For those who have a blog, publish your videos for everybody to see. The actual quality specifications on the L24 with regard to films and video are 640×480 resolution at 30 FPS (frames per second). All of the software programs you need to adjust and process your pictures and films are included along with your camera.

If you’re a novice and don’t require all the additional features, you need not be concerned as the Nikon Coolpix L24 digital camera offers many straightforward but effective functions which will enable you take amazing photos. Even so, specialists can appreciate the effectiveness of this specific camera. Amateurs and also beginners should find that digital cameras just like the L24 are actually more suited to them. Together with every single successive generation of cameras, the particular technological innovation is improving so fast that just about anyone can create amazing photos and videos.

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Jun 22 2011

Healthy Finances Finance Health

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Caribbean medical schools have long been decried as diploma mills for the rich and undeserving; they are strictly for-profit institutions serving American kids rejected by U.S. medical schools, yet they rely on hospitals in the U.S. to provide the necessary clinical experience in the third and fourth years of a medical education. Recently, however, an effort has begun in New York City to limit their access to local hospitals since there are only a certain number of spots available for such field work, and charges of elitism are flying. But how is it possible for foreign medical schools to threaten turf belonging to American ones?

Because Caribbean medical schools are first and foremost businesses, they take just about anyone able to pay, especially those rejected by more prestigious American schools. At an elite institution like Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, donors from investment banker Sanford I. Weill to real estate developer Isaac Toussie with all their money, resulting in tuition and fees of about forty-five thousand dollars every year. In contrast, a Caribbean medical school can charge as much as sixty thousand dollars!

And with so much money available, Caribbean medical schools can easily pay New York City hospitals to take on their students for the practical clinical experience required of an accredited medical education – ahead of Weill Cornell’s, or NYU’s, or that from any other New York medical school.

Thus the turf war.

Traditionally, hospitals agree to mentor, in effect, a medical school’s students because they like to be associated with prestigious names. And though Caribbean institutions are not prestigious, they have tons of money, which is a most important consideration, naturally.

And what administrator is going to do without such money, especially in this economy?

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Jun 12 2011

Standard Business Cards an Abridged Whos Who

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Standard business cards are exchanged every day by Japanese from all walks of life. Does that seem funny? It’s been long observed, since The Eighties if not The Seventies or even before that, how the typical Japanese, and not only the average salaryman, carries around business cards to exchange with people by way of an introduction. It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that in Japan, folks use standard business cards as conversational ice-breakers!

The movie “Good Morning” parodies this cultural tendency to substitute meaningless signs and symbols for real conversation and real connections. The social milieu depicted in the film is that of postwar Japan in the 1950s, though relatively few signs of want are to be found and indeed no mention whatsoever of war. This was a long time before handing out business cards became a customary greeting on par with the handshake, but the psychological motivations remain the same – as so ably and mostly humorously pointed out by the movie.

Of course, all human societies revolve around signs and symbols; we are creatures whose first impulse seems to be to indulge in abstract thinking. But the Japanese are justly noted for having taken such instincts to a higher level of development, of formalizing them so much more elaborately than many, to the point that their very language reflects social status by offering alternating forms of address depending on the listener’s place in the greater hierarchy: words will take on different suffixes simply to recognize such social distinctions!

And so today’s practice of trading business cards. It’s the ultimate in getting to know one another in a way that’s really important: one’s relative ranking! It’s all very important in Japan, where the culture avoids the false modesty of an egalitarian myth by plainly stating expectations beforehand; right from the get-go one knows what duties are owed, by oneself or from another.

A militaristic mindset, potentially. It isn’t limited to Japan, of course – at least not in kind, though few other places can match it to the degree of its intensity, the degree of its prevalence and common observation.

One most conducive to modern business.

Business cards. Indeed, much too much could be made of something so straight-forward. Yet that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything “going on,” underneath the proverbial surface.

Americans trade business cards quite often, too. Indeed, the practice originated in the West, with Europe and America. But there isn’t the same “moral authority,” for lack of a better phrase – there isn’t the same “cultural force” (for continuing want of a good way of putting things) – attached to the business card in the West as there is in Japan.

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Jun 05 2011

Green To Save The Earth

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Global warming and acid rain are but two of the destructive side effects we are presently observing as the result of pollution. It would be marvelous if we could reside on this remarkable planet without destroying it in the process. For city-dwellers it might look like a tantalizing mirage to think of breathing cool, clean air into their lungs, with no harmful poisons or toxins. Sadly pollution caused by us humans has made this not possible; in fact you’ll be breathing in toxic fumes that can have adverse effects on your health as well as the environment.

We humans cannot avoid the fallout from the disastrous impact that pollution, such as oil and chemical spills, is having on our oceans and all its inhabitants. The harvesting of fish used to provide many people with livings, but pollution is rapidly putting paid to those livelihoods. Since way back in time, fishing has fed and given economic means to a large section of our population, all of which is now being taken from many. Anyone wanting to be persuaded of how damaging oil spills are, need look no further than the recent Deepwater Horizon disaster, which cost billions to eventually fix and left many unemployed. The food chain and the whole of the ecosystem sustained heavy damage, as a direct consequence of the deaths of large numbers of not only fish but also birds. All of this just to obtain oil, a shameful demonstration of humans putting themselves before other creatures and the planet.

As the the planet’s known oil reserves creep toward exhaustion, billions are pumped into exploration for new fields, money which could be used to broaden and develop green energy production. Green energy has absolutely no harmful influence on the environment and can still furnish a lot of energy for people. Take solar panels by way of example, they will work efficiently in sunlit locations and they can produce electricity as well as heat up water. And something that’s every bit as simple in concept, wind turbines, employs another free resource (wind) to provide energy. The good side of wind turbines is they work 24/7, assuming there is enough wind. The search for green energy alternatives is now progressively more important as we near the end of our oil reserves, not to mention the harm oil does to the environment. It is not unthinkable that, maybe the devastation of pollution and global warming could not just be terminated, but possibly reversed.

It is you and me that are going to experience some benefits in the short term and our children and grandchildren will benefit in the long term. We desire for our children to grow up surrounded by all the magnificence the earth is gifted with, happy and without fear of violent, distressing weather events and food shortages. Beginning to live green, in addition to preserving the environment, could be the only way we can ensure this.

It will be a tremendous and rewarding achievement to confine the harm to our home, planet earth, and it’s environment, but it will take time, much money and a substantial amount of work.

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Jun 03 2011

The On Off Digital World Store Display

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Passing by their front window, you can’t help but notice how On Off Digital World seems to have all the latest in consumer electronics, yet what really keeps them in business is catering to all the photographers with a well-stocked inventory of hard-to-find hardware. After all, the store is practically in the heart of the city, near most of the major attractions. The bottom line is that out-of-towners are not going to spend their time shopping around, and will simply pay just about any price necessary in order to get on with their vacation.

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