For many people, philanthropy is something that other people engage in – people such as billionaires. It makes sense, of course, since hardly anyone else can be expected to have the funds necessary to endow schools and hospitals. But for Judaism, whether Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, or Ultra-Orthodox, there is the idea of tzedakah, which comes [...]
Wind chimes are not just pretty decorations to hang up around the house or garden which happen to make noise every now and then. They have actually been used in real music, from high-brow modern music to popular everyday fare such as videogame soundtracks. The French composer Oliver Messiaen has written for glass, wood, and [...]
China, China, China – what’s the big deal? Why is everybody going on and on about China on a regular basis? Okay, so they own billions (or is that trillions) in American securities, currency, whatever. And they make lotsa stuff. Like NFL beach towels and stuff. Yeah. Okay. It’s not like most people wish to [...]
Affiliate marketing is a great way for the tech-savvy hobbyist to make some money on the side. For a select few who have been able to put their finger on the Zeitgeist, however, it means full financial independence, with income in the tens of thousands per month! One of the most celebrated cases of affiliate [...]
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 matters [...]
Probably the most surprising uses of wind chimes has been as musical instruments in their own right. This appears quite impossible at first, as standard varieties appear to consist of only tinkling cylinders, with the sound only slightly different depending on whether stone, wood, metal, or glass is used. And so it is that [wind [...]
No need to be an industry insider like Isaac Toussie to know that real estate laws throughout the country will vary. This is part of what makes real estate law so very interesting, after all – and often so challenging! Look at Alabama, for instance. In that state, “buyer beware” is held in a very, [...]
So you want to be a lawyer. You realize it will mean a lot of researching, a lot of time spent with books – but you like reading, and figuring things out, and you enjoy words, language, and all the semantic nuances involved. You even know that the LSAT test for admission to law school [...]
When I was a personal fitness trainer, I wasn’t too delighted with the idea of a whole certification process just in order to help people exercise. But that was nothing compared to my shock that certification had to be maintained via online CPE courses as well! Now obviously the point of certification is to be [...]
One of the most important developments in the field of professional continuing education (CPE) is the relatively recent emphasis on ethics, leading to the proliferation now of many an ethics CPE course. While certainly a good thing when the professions insist on not just what is legal but what is ethical and, even, moral, it’s [...]
The affiliate marketing testimonials just keep pouring in: the most recent situation history concerns one Ashley Qualls, a seventeen year-old who’s become a millionaire by simply giving away totally free MySpace layouts. Yes. It’s no joke. A teenage girl in high school makes seventy thousand dollars a month by giving stuff away for free. Chalk [...]
I passed On Off Digital World some time ago and a sudden sense of nostalgia hit me. That is, the store reminded me of them “mom-and-pop” kind of places from my childhood, when a personal computer for most people meant the ever ubiquitous Commodore 64. I can still remember the ad for one of those [...]
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 seize the imagination like nothing else, for what is a child’s creative imagination but that everyday things should be in reality extraordinary? That secretly, the [...]
The potential of Blu Ray video is being fulfilled as we speak. Despite the fact that some discss do fall rather short of the technological mark established for the format, most of what’s available on the market today are excellent examples. Compared with the situation with DVD a decade before, where too many products were [...]
Wine racks are a sign of the serious oenophile, or wine conoisseur. Which is “racks,” plural, mind you – rows and rows of them, in all likelihood in a climate-controlled basement cellar, in addition! How does one begin? A number of fairly good introductions exist online. Prior to purchasing wine racks and other paraphernalia of [...]
Are wedding favors going out of style as society becomes ever more casual? Not if the girls have anything to do with it! The practice of giving gifts to matrimonial guests may not be the cultural institution it once was, but weddings will always be one of the biggest dynamos throughout any economy. While wedding [...]
You’re a web Marketer so you recognize just how much work should be done to make sure that your business is successful. In addition to building merchandise, you need to market those products and solutions and build buzz for those products. You must record the sales you make, the e-mail addresses you attain and client [...]
Blu-ray disc – or also called “Blu Ray disk” by people typing into the search engines – is the hottest new thing in home entertainment these past couple of years. Each standard single-layered disc offers 25GB of storage capacity, meaning much sharper video and much better-sounding audio. From the under-500 lines of resolution offered by [...]