Are sick and tired of the days when you had no choice but to be locked in to some ridiculous one or two year contracts with the cellular phone carriers. From Verizon to AT&T to T-Mobile to Sprint all the carriers are looking to get customers and keep them as long as possible, but is making the customer sign a one or two year contract the answer. Why don’t they just provide the absolute best service at a fair price, I am sure their customers will stick around if that were the case. Luckily now with Unlocked Cell Phones, the consumer has an answer, they no longer need to sign a contract to get a phone at a fair price, unlocked cell phones are readily available on the internet and will allow the consumer to choose who they want to use as their wireless carrier.

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 charge a lot of money to provide something of a second chance for students rejected by American medical 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 a year. Compare that to the Caribbean ones, where it can cost up to sixty thousand dollars!

Now, due to such high fees, it’s no wonder that Caribbean schools can easily pay New York hospitals to let in their students – and no wonder, what’s more, the movement to restrict such access to American schools, which otherwise lose out.

Thus the turf war.

You see, what hospitals do is mentor medical students in exchange for using the school’s prestige. Caribbean medicals schools have no brand name to offer, but they do have several tens of millions of dollars to pump into a hospital’s coffers, in effect paying for their students to be placed.

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

Are you going crazy over the confusing IRS (Internal Revenue Service) tax forms and their uses? I know I was when I have to figure out what a W9 Form was. Now that I know I figure I should share my knowledge on the IRS W9 Form with the world, well at least with my loyal blog followers. The W9 Form is a form provided by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) in order for a business who has employed a freelance worker to get that freelancers information (that will be required to file a 1099 form with the IRS). The W9 Form does not get filed with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) so do not mail it to them, that is what the 1099 Form is for. Also if you are a freelancer who has received the W9 Form do not mail it back to the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) instead you will need to mail it back to the company requesting it from you.

Did you know that neoprene gloves came about thanks to a Catholic priest?  Neoprene is the trade name for a brand of polychloroprene synthetic rubber made by DuPont.  It is stable and yet flexible, chemically speaking, and can maintain these qualities over a wide range of temperatures.  The material has quite a diverse variety of applications and is found in just about everything from orthopedic braces to protective gloves.

And the Catholic priest?  That was Reverend Julius Aloysius Nieuwland, whose scientific studies on acetylene inspired the subsequent invention of neoprene.

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 their real bread and butter comes from selling to tourists some desperately needed photography equipment. After all, the store is practically in the heart of the city, near most of the major attractions. Tourists are a naturally captive audience, willing to pay just about any price, as they are on holiday and unlikely to shop around for bargains on esoteric hardware and supplies when photo ops abound and time is ticking by.

Ear plugs are a thinking person’s best friend in this day and age, when it seems like everyone and his dog is busy blasting the latest noise-for-music all hours of the day and night!  Great little things, really inexpensive, and amazing life-savers.  I still shudder to think of all the murders I’d have committed if it weren’t for the fantastic help these foamy or rubbery bits provide!  After a hard day’s work the last thing I’d want to do is murder anyone, but then again the very last thing I’d want to do is put up with anyone’s noise, especially that so-called music now so popular!

It’s funny, but when DVD first came out, the adult film industry was complaining about how the increased resolution showed up performers’ physical flaws, such as pimples and the like – so what are they going to do now about Blu Ray Video, hmmmm??

It’s true that with a full resolution of 1440p, you can see skin pores even when the subjects are not close-up, as in ordinary head-shots.  That’s right!  High-definition resolutions won’t lie!  And that means adult performers must use make-up if they have blemishes or any other imperfection they want to not show up on video!

But would fans really notice such little things anyway??