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technology

June 30, 2011

Blu Ray Media Bringing It On

If it’s Blu Ray Media you are looking for, just look to today’s great selection of from twenty-five to fifty gigs of storage on each disc! Wow, that sounds impressive all right, but really, what could one possibly do with all that space?? Okay, if you’re authoring some definitive edition of an artsy-fartsy flick crammed with interviews, out-takes, and behind-the-scenes stuff, fine, maybe, but the average consumer is just buying recordable Blu-ray media for capturing some frisky girlfriends on video, that’s all! So just how many girlfriends could a guy happen to have, anyway — at least until the next Big Thing in high-definition formats show up in the marketplace!

business

June 12, 2011

Top Dollar Gets Top Billing

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. Yet how did foreign and domestic medical schools come to be competing for the same spots in domestic hospitals?

As the foreign schools were profit-making businesses above all, they charge a lot of money to provide something of a second chance for students rejected by American medical 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 provide a lot of money, reducing costs to around forty-five thousand dollars each year. Compare that to the Caribbean ones, where it can cost up to 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, what hospitals do is mentor medical students in exchange for using the school’s prestige. 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?

leisure

June 11, 2011

Electronics and More at On Off Digital World

Passing by their front window, you can’t help but notice how On Off Digital World is full of technological marvels, all the latest in consumer electronics today, though what really keeps them in business is catering to all the photographers with a well-stocked inventory of hard-to-find hardware. Located in almost right in the middle of Manhattan, they get a lot of foot traffic from all the tourists who flock to The Big Apple day in/day out. This means that someone’s going to stop by and pick up film, lenses, and the like, and because they’re from out of town, well, it’s naturally easier to get them to pay a premium, especially for hard-to-find specialty items.

business

June 4, 2011

A Guy’s Take on Modest Swimsuits

It’s funny that modest swimsuits are supposed to hide the female figure, because they can attract just as much attention, in their own way! That’s because minimalism is really powerful, which is why lingerie can be so seductive in a different way than what bare naked flesh offers – that is to say, stimulating the imagination can be much more erotic than leaving nothing to the imagination. Besides, there’s also the unfortunate fact that some people really do look better covered up! Just as a man, I have nothing against either choice a lady makes, but I just have to say how funny it is that while they might think they’re avoiding stares, they could in fact be stoking the imagination!