When “not mandatory” still means compulsory

If you’re reading this, odds are good that you live in a location already affected to some extent by H1N1, or as we like to say in French, “grippe porcine” (sorry, it sounds better than “swine flu”).
To be honest, I’m having a hard time telling where the hysteria stops and the epidemic begins; with all [...]

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Surviving Anxiety

Anxiety and fear have taken hold. Many lives these days are influenced by decisions not based on reasoned sense but on the fear that has been created all around us.  But how much of that fear is real and how much of it is inflicted upon us by our own sense of lack and doubt?

If [...]

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How to Read Forex Chart

When you’re first beginning to trade forex, the very first thing to understand is how to read forex chart. You have to learn how to read the charts in order to understand the current, real-time foreign exchange market. In forex, you’re dealing with currency pairs which means EURUSD is a pair between euro and U.S. [...]

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Happiness and Television: What My Family Learned from “Chopped”

A recent University of Maryland study found a whopping correlation between television watching and well-being: Happy people reported spending more than 30% less time watching TV per day than their less happy peers.
A case of confirming the obvious? I am not so sure.
Since 1985, I have mostly hated and disdained TV. I would tune in [...]

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Registration Opens October 1 for CBP’s Annual Trade Symposium

Washington — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Jayson P. Ahern will host CBP’s 10th annual trade symposium at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on December 8 – 10. Registration will open on Thursday, October 1. The registration fee is $290.
All registration must be completed on the CBP Web site [...]

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Clinton Identifies Food Security as Top U.N. Agenda Item

Washington — “It takes a village to raise a child,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton famously wrote in a best-selling book, and it will take the entire world community working together to feed the estimated 1 billion people that are undernourished — an approach she will emphasize at the September 2009 meeting of the [...]

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5 Things You Should Know Before You Invest On The Stock Market

The stock market is an untamed animal, a wild beast. Sometimes, it is a raging bull that lifts and throws all stocks upwards into the sky. Sometimes it is a marauding bear that beats all stocks into the ground with brute force. And if you are entering the stock market, you have to ride this [...]

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The Psychology of Children

Children psychology, or the psychology of children, comes under the purview of developmental psychology. It deals with the motor, cognitive, social, emotional, and psychological development of children. The psychology of children aids in the diagnosis and understanding of behavioral and developmental disorders in children.
Child development is categorized into five developmental stages - Infant, toddler, early [...]

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Parenthood and the Intentional Life

True Wisdom, according to Socrates, comes from embracing the realization that there is much we don’t know, and that we will always need to seek knowledge of the most important of these.
My kids show me this all the time.  From my failure to grasp the complex social world of Bionicles to my Vulgarian lack of [...]

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