Miyamoto Musashi - a Legend of the Samurai Are you attracted by everything related to the samurai, their way of life and philosophy and dream about becoming a master - swordsman performing wonders with one's samurai sword? In order to understand better the way the samurai treated their samurai swords and acquired their remarkable skills in sword fighting, find out more about the most prominent Japanese swordsmaster, Miyamoto Musashi. The warrior's height well exceeded the average mark and... Read Full Story
How to Become a Good Investor
Anyone can become a good investor. All it requires is time, patience, discipline and a little money. With all those elements you will someday have a lot of money to invest. The key is to be educated about your options and realistic about your expectations.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Things You’ll Need:
• Money Time Patience Discipline
How to Become a Good Investor
Step 1:
First of all, determine whether you should be investing at all... Read Full Story
We are entering a new era in journalism. The future belongs to the citizen journalist. Newspapers are shutting down all over the country. TV stations are downsizing or getting rid of news altogether. Magazines subscriptions are dwindling. Each of us now has unprecedented access to a worldwide audience through the internet. Anyone can write an article or shoot a video and have it viewed around the planet instantly. No longer does an affluent elite hold the reigns to the flow of information. A... Read Full Story
Beijing is ordering six Chinese telecom companies to join forces to create three giant cellular phone companies. While this move may seem to be limiting competition in the booming cellular phone industry in China, it is actually intended to level the playing field. It is meant to foster "healthy market competition and prevent a monopoly by any," according to a joint statement, issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information, Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform... Read Full Story
by Kent Ninomiya Satori is a beautifully simple yet infinitely elusive concept. This is especially true for the western mind that deals primarily in the physical realm. Yet I would argue that it is the western mind that is especially in need of attaining satori. Defining satori is as evasive as satori itself. Ask many experts on the matter and you will get many answers. None of these answers will tell you how to attain satori or even what to look for. There in lies the difficulty for the... Read Full Story
by Kent Ninomiya We are in trouble. Really, really big trouble. Monster trouble that few of us think much about. It's all about oil. That stuff that used to shoot out of the ground is getting harder and harder to find, pump and refine while the demand increases by the day. Most people glaze over when the subject is raised. Our "oil culture" has been around all our lives. Since the 1970's we've been inundated with stories of gloom and doom, yet the oil still flows. Sure we pay more for gas... Read Full Story
I challenged my son to a series of foot races. He loves to run. They were from the light post to the trash can then from the car to the playground. I decided to go all out and give him a challenge. So I backed up about 20 feet and told him I was giving him a head start. He looked at me puzzled and said, "why would you do that? You're and old man." Keep in mind this kid is about a third my size and not even in the 2nd grade yet. I burst out laughing and remarked, "sad but true." I said, "ready... Read Full Story
The Classic Japanese Text on the Way of Strategy by Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) Article and summary by Aikido Student, Sean Hannon The Water Book is the second of Musashi's Book of Five Rings . Musashi continues his warriorship dissertation by describing why the second book is called the Water Book. "When water is at its base, the soul is like water. Water takes on the shape of its vessel." Musashi explores the virtue of ADAPTABILITY as it pertains to warriorship. He uses the element of... Read Full Story
If there was ever any doubt that there's a link between genetics and the remote control... I have the proof. It's a universally known fact that men need to control the remote. It's programmed into their DNA. When man first stood upright he headed straight for the couch to sit on his ass and use his newly opposable thumb to channel surf. Various heretics out there might cluelessly claim this is a cultural behavior. Silly them. Today I watched my just past kindergarten son walk into a room... Read Full Story
How many cellular phones have you owned in your lifetime? If you're like me you have no idea. When I got my first cell phone in the early 1990's it was the size of a brick, cost $500 and the calls cost 75 cents per minute. I felt cool carrying it around but was afraid to make calls fearing an outrageous bill. Fast forward a decade and a half and cell phones are like pants. Quite literally everyone has them. In fact I don't know a single person past puberty who doesn't have one. The once... Read Full Story
