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To me, On Off Digital World is like the old Montgomery Ward in Penn Station, one of those big old old-fashioned electronics retailers that once existed all over The Big Apple. These guys were just mom-and-pop operations that got kind of big, to where they had perhaps fifty employees — still considered a small business by many criteria but certainly rather doing well. But it was all before the big box stores and I was still a youth at the time so they were all “big” to me — after all, they had all kinds of gadgets on display! That’s what pops up in my mind now when I happen upon one of the few remaining stores of this kind.

Tax continuing education is essential for accountants as tax laws change on a regular basis and with every Republican victory at the polls comes a new pair of corporate giveaways.
With a tax code that spans some sixty thousand pages, somebody’s got to keep an eye on it all!
And those somebodies have a lot on their plate.
Hence all the frequent keeping up with industry developments – particularly, changes in the tax code.

So chalk it up to the clever bean-counters at General Electric and their tax continuing education classes for helping the company post its latest achievement in the annals of corproate notoriety: zero tax liability for the filing time of year ending in 2011.
That’s right: this year, one of the world’s richest multi-billion-dollar companies will pay
no taxes.
None whatsoever!
And that’s not all.
They may actually be owed some money instead!
That’s right – the government may truly have to pay G.E. some money.

How’s that for tax continuing education!

It’s amazing but all flawlessly true.
Through the creative use of loss write-offs and the like, the accounting department at G.E. has been able to save its employer a lot of money, with the probability of getting money “back” from Uncle Sam on top of that.
This is in addition to the use of unpaid labor throughout the business in the form of college interns, such as at its NBC subsidiary.

Needless to say, it isn’t just G.E. and NBC that’s benefiting from such unethical and even illegal practices.
Viacom and subsidiary Paramount Pictures also makes use of such loopholes.
Most corporations of a certain size do.
’80s boogeyman Leona “Queen of Mean” Helmsley was only telling the truth when she scoffed that “only little people pay taxes.”
Under the right conditions – which are not as rare as one might imagine at first – it is entirely probable to keep all the money you generate while making use of public services.

Comfortably nestled on the upscale Upper East Side of New York City, the school of medicine at Cornell University both teaches and conducts research. It has produced many a notable physician, boasting of alumni such as Robert C. Atkins of Atkins Diet fame and Henry Heimlich of Heimlich Maneuver fame. Other famous graduates include former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop and Nobel Prize winner Robert W. Holley.

It was the first medical school in the country to admit women alongside men, and more recently it has been the first American one to operate outside the United States, with an Education City, Qatar campus offering an integrated six-year curriculum focused primarily on patient care. Such a respected institution has benefited from the generous support of donors throughout its history – since the very beginning, in fact, funded as it was through an endowment established by Colonel Oliver H. Payne, a prominent New Yorker of the mid-nineteenth century – with a roster of supporters full of prominent locals such as real estate pro Isaac Toussie.

Still, the one biggest benefactor of all has got to be the one whose name now graces the school itself, Sanford I. Weill. Billionaire banker and philanthropist, Mr. Weill and his wife donated two hundred and fifty million dollars of their own money, with a further hundred and fifty million secured through the fundraising efforts of Mr. Weill. Today the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, or Weill Cornell Medical College (or even more colloquially, especially within the field, “Weill Cornell”), ranks among the most selective of medical schools in the whole country, enrolling only about a hundred students per class out of some six thousand applicants in any given year. How selective? Well, 3.8 GPAs are typical, as are 35Q MCAT scores!

Blu Ray media is the latest thing to hit the home entertainment market in some time now. Their main claim to fame rests upon the startling visual clarity offered by the 1080p resolution.. Though the difference between a VHS image and one from a DVD is noticeable enough, there is no comparison possible between Blu-ray and standard DVDs! There is no other way to describe the difference other than with hyperbole. No wonder, then, that shoppers should run to Blu-ray so enthusiastically, a market has grown around recordable Blu-ray media that allows people to preserve their own special occasions in the clearest most life-like manner possible yet.

So you want to be a lawyer. You understand it is going to mean a lot of researching, a lot of time used with books – but you like reading, and figuring things out, and you enjoy words, language, and all the semantic nuances required.

You even know that the LSAT exam for admission to law school is hard, and something to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for, for special prep courses, coaching classes etc. You also realize that law school itself will be difficult as nails, at least throughout the all-too-crucial First Year.

Great. Maybe you even know that you will be forever hitting the books as a practicing lawyer, forever taking online CPE courses and their tests, one after the other, in order to maintain your ranking with the professional association governing your licensure.

Super.

But did you know that it will be rather tough getting a high-enough-paying job as lawyer in order to pay back your student loans? In reality, those online CPE courses will definitely cost some money, too.

Oh, you probably think you’ve got that covered. You’ll graduate at the top of your class, or you’ll be accepted into an Ivy League law school and graduate none too low in the rankings so as to get hired by a top corporate law firm and easily recoup your investment in two to three years’ time.

And without a doubt, if such a thing does happen, your odds would be better than those for virtually the rest of your peers, even in this economy. But “better than” does not mean “inherently good.” ’Cause guess what – globalization is coming to the legal profession also.

Yes, you heard that right – outsourcing. Certainly, some of the online CPE courses available on the worldwide web were developed overseas! And though the legal profession has attempted to resist it (after all, it took a whole decade for everyone to switch from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word!), it’s finally started to affect the industry.

The Swarovski 2028 rhinestone is a small general-purpose diamond simulant with a flatback which makes it suitable for a variety of applications.
You can use them to spruce up just about anything, such as articles of clothing.
Many music artists have taken to doing just that, from jackets and vests to pants and of course shoes.

The Swarovski 2028 is also ideal for other purposes, such as in arts and crafts.
Many like to decorate scrapbooks with rhinestones.
The diamond-like effect is impressive.
And with a Swarovski, the visuals are very faithful, so much like the real thing that it could well demand a professionally trained eye to spot the variations – and then perhaps only under magnification!

Obviously, as can be imagined, the Swarovski 2028 isn’t the company’s top-of-the-line offering.
No such thing is offered for sale in gross volumes (literally, with a gross being a hundred and forty-four individual units), after all.
But the Swarovski name should mean a certain level of verisimilitude, craftsmanship for which it has developed a famous reputation worldwide.
With more than a hundred years of knowledge in making fine crystal glass products, you can trust rhinestones from them.

That’s why Rockefeller Center in New York City uses them year in year out to adorn the top of their world-famous Christmas Tree.
With skills like that, you can depend on a Swarovski to suffice for most any job.
Whenever something requires the dazzle of a diamond without the price of one, use a rhinestone.
But when only the best will do, go with a Swarovski.
Founded back in the days of the Dual Monarchy of the Hapsburgs, everything they make is heir to a tradition of technical excellence second to none.
Glistening sparkles and rainbows, just as with a real diamond, are available for thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars less!