China, China, China – what’s the big deal?
Why is every person 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 want to work [...]

Taking online CPE courses is more convenient than ever, but it’s still something that one would have to take seriously.
Those unfamiliar with continuing professional education may imagine that it’s just some kind of blow or they may think it’s like school all over again.
The truth is, however, somewhere in the centre.
Online CPE courses [...]

For many people, philanthropy is something that other people engage in – people such as billionaires. After all, who else has the money to fund entire schools or hospitals?
Yet in the Jewish tradition, whether Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, or Ultra-Orthodox, there is the idea of tzedakah, which comes from the Hebrew for “justice,” and this [...]

The recent Japanese catastrophe has shone a spotlight on the country’s relatively unique social structure.
Unlike many other situations of natural disaster elsewhere, no looting or rioting has followed to compound the catastrophe — and this has tremendously impressed many a non-Japanese observer.
From the patient orderly lines to the return of valuables, “yamoto-damashii,” or [...]

So it turns out that Jesse James likes Nazi paraphernalia.
No relation to the iconic Wild West figure, the only claim to fame that this latter-day Jesse James has is to be married to Sandra Bullock, one of the most favorite actresses of our time.
Certainly, she has been crowned “America’s Sweetheart” by the celebrity [...]

“Boys Town” and its sequel, “Men of Boys Town,” are movies loosely based on the famous real-life American charity of the same name. Established by a Catholic priest in 1917, it was an orphange that pioneered progressive methods of juvenile care. Thirteen Boys Town locations are now established throughout the country, but Father [...]

AC electric motor repair is often 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 [...]

DC electric motor repair is generally made for industrial equipment such as generator turbines and so on, though the most basic principles are recognized to the home hobbyist and his or her electronics science kit.
Needless to say, when it comes to power plants and other large-scale applications, the quantitative difference becomes a qualitative one [...]

Lots of personal household safes have been appearing at Japanese police stations in the wake of that country’s latest catastrophe.
They haven’t only been recovered by rescue workers excavating through rubble but have also been washed up ashore, and now law enforcement is running out of area to store them.
Up to now, these safes have [...]

Affiliate marketing is a good way for the tech-savvy hobbyist to generate 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!
Just about the most celebrated cases of affiliate marketing [...]