Sam Antar was the former CFO of Crazy Eddie’s, his cousin’s electronics retail empire.
Sam is a much sought-after speaker on the lecture circuit currently, and his seminars may even earn CPE and CLE credits for the attendees.

That’s because he is a convicted fraudster.

Ethics continuing education courses are generally self-paced correspondence courses one takes at one’s own leisure as a part of maintaining one’s professional good standing.
Reading through Sam’s site on the worldwide web, however, is as educational as any structured academic account can be.

As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie’s, Sam presided over one of the most famous scandals in the chronicles of corporate crime.
He lays everything out, bare, raw, and unembellished by any of the usual self-serving rationaliziations typically given to insiders’ accounts – all unadulterated on his website.

This is an ethics CPE program like no other – if it were accredited as such.
As it is, it’s just a website – but oh, what a website!

White-collar offense never sounded so exciting.
That’s because the Crazy Eddie’s scandal was at heart a soap opera presenting all the familiar human foibles known to a Greek chorus – lust, greed, betrayal, and family.
Yes, family.

The familial element in this drama makes this instance of corporate crime so – if the pun is going to be pardoned – familiar to lay readers, grabbing and holding their attention where other accounts would lose them under a hill of technical information.
However, it isn’t that Sam offers no minutiae of his own; his very goal nowadays is to combat criminal activity, after all; it’s that these details, which would be so boring otherwise with no benefit of a human drama in which to place them in the proper perspective, come to vivid life against the circumstance of a family power fight that resonantes forcefully with everyone who’s actually underwent any semblance of sibling rivalry.

How’s that for an ethics CPE course!

China, China, China – what’s the big deal?
Why is everybody going on and on about China all the time?

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 on an assembly line in any case, making trinkets and curios for Walmart.
But whatever.

Okay, so it’s not merely NFL beach towels that they make.
It’s that they are also climbing up the food chain, making stuff that’s more and more high-value, such that good-paying jobs may be the next to go.
They’re hardly making textiles any more – notice that many of the clothing nowadays come from even more exotic locales – like Indonesia and Sri Lanka?

In fact, to be fair, it isn’t NFL beach towels that anyone’s upset over.
It’s the fear that aircraft manufacturing may be next!
Already the Chinese government is on record as gunning for leadership in green energy products including wind mills and solar panels, and witout a doubt they are well on their way towards dominating those industries.

But does it need to be a zero-sum game?
Does China’s rise equate to everyone else’s loss?
Put another way, are they merely gobbling up ever more slices of the pie – or could Chinese ascendancy grow that pie for everyone worried?

Well, speaking of the NFL, it’s interesting to compare and contrast that sporting league’s business decisions with the ones from the NBA.
Basketball continues to grow in popularity over there while years ago a planned exhibition game of American football was canceled practically at the last minute.
If this serves as any suggestion, it may be that being engaged surpasses staying on the sidelines!

When I was a personal fitness trainer, I wasn’t too delighted with the idea of an entire certification process just so as 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 purpose of certification is to be publicly recognized as being appropriately competent, and since things are constantly changing in our fast-paced modern world being competent naturally means some kind of continuing education.
My shock, however, stemmed from the standard view of those outside the fitness industry that trainers are simply muscle-heads and nothing more.

However, just because I was a muscle-head who happened to be aware of a little bit about the human body doesn’t mean that everyone else interested in becoming personal trainers also do.
But more to the point and very much to my chagrin, it turned out that as much as I actually believed there was so very much, much, much, much, much more that I didn’t – never mind online CPE courses; I barely had the basics covered!

My newly found respect for education with respect to the fitness industry now means that I no longer laugh at online CPE courses for personal trainers.
It isn’t likely to be as hard as what lawyers, doctors, and accountants have to contend with, to be certain, but neither is it just a laugh, either.
Of course it is primarily memorization of facts at this point, nothing so academically rigorous that any high school student would find it not familiar, but still – it’s a good step in the right path for the industry as a whole and one which I now not only understand but additionally fully support myself.
My days as a trainer are over but I have stored a lot of respect for continuing education for anyone.

Community backing will always be a basic necessity for the survival and prosperity of hospitals and medical schools. Even smaller facilities such as those dedicated purely to research requires a large helping of such backing, particularly where money is concerned. Typically, benefactors are helpful to more than just one organization, as is the case with Isaac Toussie and family when it comes to the top two leading lights of New York in healthcare education and practice, Weill Cornell Medical College and the North Shore-LIJ network of hospitals and research centers.

Weill Cornell is named after its two single best benefactors, Ezra Cornell, of Western Union fame, and Sanford I. Weill, the onetime chief of Citigroup, Incorporated. It is one of the most selective such institutions in the country, it admits only about a hundred hopefuls out of the nearly six thousand that apply each year. Additionally, Weill Cornell was first to accept women right alongside men as well as the first American medical school to establish its own premises overseas, right by the capital of Qatar, Doha. It can also claim a long line of famous alumni, physicians such as C. Everett Koop, U.S. Surgeon General; Robert C. Atkins of the eponymous diet; Nobel Prize winner Robert W. Holley; and Henry Heimlich of the Heimlich Maneuver. The North Shore-LIJ Health System is the second largest healthcare network in the country as measured by the number of beds and the largest in New York State based on patient revenue. It serves over seven million people a year through more than forty-two thousand employees – the single largest employer on Long Island and ninth largest largest in the City of New York.

These two institutions owe much of their success to vigorous community support, whether through charitable donations by prominent businessmen and women or non-monetary offerings such as time and expertise by community volunteers of civic or religious organizations. Even with an annual budget of several billions between them, Weill Cornell and North Shore-LIJ will always depend on the support of the host communities they serve.

Diversion safes are the stuff of childhood dreams for me, when every book, key, or other frequent 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 imagination but that everyday things needs to be in reality extraordinary?
That secretly, the world is not as it seems.

Such is the suspicion of a child slowly and gradually waking up from childhood, slowly adapting to the chance that the world is both more limited – with its principles and adults – and much more fantastic – with its secrets and diversion safes – than apparent at first sight, the first sight of childhood.

There’s something intrinsically intriguing about objects that double as something else entirely – or, to put it another way, objects that pretend to be one thing while actually functioning as another.
And thus there’s something of the moral lesson in diversion safes, which may describe a child’s interest in them.

That’s probably the single biggest reason why the Transformers line of toys and games were such a runaway success.
There had never been anything like it before – robots that would have been quite interesting in themselves, as robots, but to that was added the ability to, well, transform into (generally speaking) some non-robotic object, typically vehicles such as cars and airplanes but occasionally even animals like dinosaurs.

Now isn’t that somehow rather like a diversion safe?
An automobile that hides a robot, an apparently unthinking vehicle housing actually artificial intelligence of the most incredible order.
A car, or a plane – or a armed pistol, or a radio cassette player (with the cassettes themselves transformable into birds of prey and hunting dogs).
There have been few objects which Japanese toymakers didn’t, origami-like, re-imagine as robots.

And so a safe transforms into memories of the Transformers!

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 – especially for the two men bitterly locked in what would become known to history as the great War of the Currents.

Sure, AC electric motor repair is frequent enough these days, but back then, AC was new, and initially appeared unsafe – ironic considering that it won out over DC in lots of applications due to its superior safety.
But before this came about, there were the most acrimonious protests, right down to court battles, as well as personal smearing strategies in the court of open opinion, against AC, the newer technology.

While it’s arguable that the superior AC standard may have gradually been adopted, it’s almost certain that the campaign against it, and its most well known proponent, delayed its widespread use for quite a few years.
While something similar to AC electric motor repair is still rather qualified work, it isn’t the revoluntionary thing it was back when engines running on AC were deemed exotic and, as previously mentioned, dangerous.

Thomas Edison, the excellent inventor, used AC’s initial faults as a means of personally attacking his one-time assistant Nikola Tesla, another brilliant mind.
Likely because of professional jealousy (though a lot of money had also been at stake, as numerous patent royalties were involved), Edison went to great diets to discredit not only the technology but its most notable proponent – to the point of macabre demonstrations electrocuting animals as well as a condemned prisoner in order to get the public agitated against AC!

Tax continuing education is essential for accountants as tax laws change constantly 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 constant keeping up with industry developments – namely, changes in the tax code.

So chalk it up to the smart bean-counters at General Electric and their tax continuing education training for helping the company post its newest achievement in the history of corproate notoriety: zero tax liability for the filing period 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 really have to pay G.E. some money.

How’s that for tax continuing education!

It’s incredible but all completely 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 big money, with the possibility of getting money “back” from Uncle Sam in addition to that.
This is in addition to the use of unpaid labor all through the business in the form of college interns, such as at its NBC subsidiary.

Of course, it isn’t just G.E. and NBC that’s benefiting from such unethical and even unlawful practices.
Viacom and subsidiary Paramount Pictures also makes use of such loopholes.
Most corporations of a specific 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 earn while using public services.

So you want to be a lawyer. You know it’s going to mean a lot of studying, 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 test for admission to law school is hard, and something to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for, for special prep courses, coaching classes and so on. You also know that law school itself will be difficult as nails, at least during 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 exams, one after the other, in order to maintain your ranking with the professional association governing your licensure.

Super.

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

Oh, you probably think you have 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 positions 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 a lot better than those for practically 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. Indeed, some of the online CPE courses available on the worldwide web were created overseas! And though the legal profession has attempted to resist it (after all, it took a whole decade for everyone to change from WordPerfect to Microsoft Word!), it’s finally started to affect the industry.

As an Internet Marketer, you recognize precisely how much work is needed to ensure that your business succeeds. 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 information. You have to work to take care of client relationships and talk on a regular basis with existing buyers and potential buyers. Not only that however, you should work on developing your reputation. At the same time you will find only so many hrs in your day-how are you supposed to get every thing done? Here are a number of suggestions you can use to handle your time better and be more productive during the day.

You really need quick and lasting pursuits. This will involve building a list of everything that you want to have transpire from making lots of money to writing the e-mail you’ve been putting off or forgetting for a while. Write out precisely what you want to achieve and then break down your list: things that will take a massive amount time, things that will take only a little time and things that you can easily do right now. First do every one of the points on the “right now” list and then program out your long and short term goals.

Every day, create a to-do list. You may either create the day’s to-do list towards the end of one day for the next day or every morning as you settle in to get to work. Write out every one of the items you need to get done before you quit work for the day. Then, after those, jot down one of the short term tasks that you need to put work into and then one of the long term projects that you need to work on. You shouldn’t work on the end of the list until you have finished the beginning of the list. When you finish everything on your list as well as the items for your short and long term goals, you can decide whether you want to do more work that day or if you’d like to have some free time for something fun.

Do not forget to allow time for breaks. It is easy to think that productivity depends on your lashing yourself to your desk for many hours a day without ever getting up to do anything beyond using the bathroom. The fact is that people are the most productive when they begin working. So-allow yourself a few breaks during the day. A good break schedule is a short morning break, a longer lunch break and a short afternoon break. Some people also enjoy taking a few minutes to relax after finishing big ticket items on their to-do lists.

There are lots of ways that you can use to help yourself get more done each day. The ideal way to make sure that you get enough accomplished each day is to know exactly what it is that you need to do. If you know what has to get done you will be more likely to stay on track and actually get it done!

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New Blu Ray releases are but the latest embodiment of the observation captured by the familiar French proverb that notes how “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” That’s because just as with the introduction of DVD a decade earlier, not every release in the new Blu-ray format lives up to the potential of the technology. Sharper pictures? Digital audio delivered across more than seven discrete channels, including the subwoofer? Not necessarily, despite the 25 GB of storage available on typical single-layer discs. Though much better than was the case with DVD, when VHS resolutions were just copied and pasted to disc, still too many a Blu-ray title seems rather like the DVD version!