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June 29, 2011

The Need for Ear Plugs

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Ear plugs can not only protect your ears, but also your peace of mind as well! To be sure, a great number of folks actually enjoy a riot. But a significant number of people also need real peace and quiet — even in the city?

Get some ear plugs, that’s all! Inexpensive, they’re practically free when compared to what you get, some peace of mind. It’s an unfortunate fact of urban life that one’s neighbors are usually on the other side of the wall – or, even, the other side of the door in the case of roommates!

And that’s when ear plugs come in. They should be helpful to some degree, if not a perfect final solution. That’s because the ones you’re likely to find are only good for blocking up to 33 dcB of noise, which is about the level of a typical conversation. Those of better quality are not as easy to find and will require a bit of research to procure.

But it may be impractical to wear them continuously. While many people get used to them, others find the practice increasingly irritable, especially when reusing ear plugs. Ultimately, no one should have to live with noise pollution in the first place. Good luck getting anyone in government to care, however. In fact, even in New York City, reputedly the one place in the entire United States with stringent anti-noise laws on the books, enforcement is often wanting due to not enough resources being devoted to the issue, particularly manpower. In fact, while most noise complaints involve residential neighbors, it is precisely this class of disputes that authorities there avoid handling!

“Hell is other people,” noted the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and municipal authorities in Gotham are loathe to intercede between neighbors. But what do the laws on the books do, then? And what else does a call to 311 offer besides a chance to gripe to someone?

It seems like most people don’t mind noise. “It is what it is,” and most don’t mind what it is. Hence, some things will never change. Folks likely aren’t all that aware how important mental sanity is – nor, even, the inverse relationship between it and noise pollution!

June 24, 2011

A World of Blank Envelopes

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This is what happens when computers take over. No more blank envelopes! No way, nohow. 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!). Well, actually, it’s exactly that kind of a nightmare for those whose livelihoods have been lost on account of computer automation!

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, by machines. Whereas making paper was once a craft in its own right, it’s all done automatically by machines now. But even these overseas workers will soon find themselves replaced in turn as technological change renders them obselete as well.

Why write a letter and stick it in an envelope when e-mail and the like can transmit your message so much faster? 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!

Demand for blank envelopes is at an all-time low these days. The situation has gotten so that they are often hard to find, and one frequently has to resort to a specialty store in order to obtain some. 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” – not to mention a right ol’ cracking in order 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. Thus, instead of space travel, the year 2001 (as opposed to the eponymous movie by famed filmmaker Stanley Kubrick) offers us the worldwide web; instead of moon bases, we USAF Predator and Reaper drones; instead of artificial intelligence, we get cell phones.

So no more blank envelopes. That’ll be one of the most prevalent effects of computers taking over even more than they already have by now. Soon there won’t be any envelopes at all in the whole world!

School Fight at City Hospitals

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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. Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, for example, has the likes of investment banker Sanford I. Weill to real estate developer Isaac Toussie provide a lot of 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!

Now, due to such high fees, 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.

This is the business of a medical education today.

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 hospital administration could possibly refuse such funds, particularly with this economy?

June 11, 2011

How to Put Up Your Own Environmentally Friendly Green Business

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June 10, 2011

On Off Digital World Is for Tourists

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It’s obvious from looking at their window display that On Off Digital World seems to have all the latest in consumer electronics, yet the one thing really keeping them in business is their photography department and all the specialized items they keep in stock there. 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.

June 7, 2011

GSM Cell Phones for ExtraTerrestrials

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When in the market for GSM cell phones, be sure to find those you really need. Okay, so that’s not earth-shattering advice, but it bears repeating for it’s surprising how so many shoppers actually get stuff that they don’t really find useful. Ironically enough, the wide proliferation of GSM cell phones available on the market today seems to exacerbate the situation: called embarass de riches by Francophones. That is, a bewildering array of possibilities only leads to glazed eyes and actions born of impatience.

Those who study consumer psychology are familiar with this phenomenon. Whether it’s GSM cell phones or anything, really, people just have a harder time — and feel the attendant anxiety — when confronted (yes, “confronted!”) by too many choices. Even though such a finding might sound crazy, there are quite a few good reasons for it. Consider that about half of humanity — those typically called “guys” — hate to shop. Ever wonder why? In a word: instant gratification. Guys just want to “get it over with.” This is the predominant feeling even if the purchase to be made is a simple affair, eve with something such as picking up groceries on the way home from work. So just think how much more aggravating it is when something as complex as electronics is involved!

To be sure, guys generally like technological gadgetry, since guys are typically enamored of toys to begin with. Guys like objects; they like controlling things. Yet today’s technology has lead to an incredible variety of features, feature-sets which only hard-core geeks would love spending time poring over…and few people of either sex really want to spend so much time over what is basically a common everyday object, which most consumer electronics are.

Yes, then there are the ladies, the female half of the human race. These are people who often love to shop, but who find technology purchases none too interesting.

And so here’s a population of folks who are not jumping with joy when it comes to buying a cell phone. Is it any wonder, then, that they fall prey so easily to marketing hype? Thus, not knowing the latest from the greatest, they sometimes wind up with gear they not only don’t need, but which may actually hamper their daily mobile communications!

This means that a bit of self-awareness is important when looking to buy a cell phone. What exactly do you need to do with a handset anyway? Do you need to send audio-visual material? Must you have an on-board radio? Receive e-mail? If you absolutely need data capabilities, do you also have to have WiFi or would your carrier’s cellular network be enough?

June 2, 2011

How On Off Digital World Stays in Business

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Not as numerous anymore, a store like On Off Digital World, found in busy high-traffic locations. They were once prevalent throughout the metropolis, but these days, thanks first to the prevalence of “box stores” and then the ease and convenience of online shopping, these old-timey mom-and-pop kind of operations are fairly rare. They still exist, naturally, but now must make their living off passers-by such as tourists in a bind, out-of-towners who need some missing piece of photographic equipment right then and there. These stores are more for the tourists than for any locals to patronize.

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