Strategies for Understanding and Assessing Suicide Risk in Psychotherapy

This 1-credit continuing education opportunity is co-sponsored by the American College of Forensic Examiners International (ACFEI) and the American Psychotherapy Association. ACFEI maintains responsibility for all continuing education accreditations. This article is approved by the following for 1 continuing education credit:

APA provides this continuing education credit for Diplomates.

The American College of Forensic Examiners International is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program. Provider #5812. Read on» » » »

Employment Based Immigration: 3 Steps to Understanding the Process

U.S. employers wishing to sponsor a foreign national for permanent residency face the daunting task of navigating through the treacherous waters of U.S. immigration laws. This article seeks to provide employers with a basic outline of the process. Read on» » » »

SAP Consulting Market Outlook in 2008

SAP is moving fast towards Enterprise SOA, and its products are being groomed so as to be SOA-enabled. In simple words, web services will be the backbone of NetWeaver platform going forward. SAP PI (XI) will serve as SOA Middleware. Another product namely Master Data Management (MDM) will serve as a tool to consolidate and streamline master data across systems. According to Ray Kelly, vice president - B2B Solution Center, PI and MDM are here to stay and will be mandatory for all of SAP’s current and future new product introductions.

Career expert Jon Reed advises on choosing BI, PI and Portals as the career path. He feels that BI has the most customer acceptance and hence the most demand at present. Also, the usage of PI will eventually surpass that of Portals. He also adds that the most sought after SAP Professionals will be the ones who are able to easily move between Java and SAP (ABAP) environments. Read on» » » »

Five Major Ways Of Attaining Legal Residence In The United States

There are several ways of attaining legal residence in the United States. In this lead article, I will discuss what I consider to be the five major routes to legal residence Read on» » » »

Take a break, get an MBA degree

The Indian School of Business was set up with the express purpose of imparting accelerated management education to working professionals. Its one-year MBA programme relies on the fact that since the students have work experience, they don’t have to be taught from scratch.

The Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, has a similar executive MBA programme for working professionals. Other MBA institutes are also considering such programmes, in spite of the fact that a number of them have been offering the three-year MBA programme for years now. Read on» » » »

Book Review: This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me

This exuberant autobiography takes us through movie director Norman Jewison’s entire career, from the fluffy Doris Day comedies of his early years to his most powerful dramas. Over more than forty years, he has made films that are not only highly entertaining, but at times manage to make a valuable moral statement about the world. Read on» » » »

Visa Backlog: Options For Employers

According to the December, 2007 Visa Bulletin foreign workers falling in the EB-3 category and EB-2 workers from Mainland China and India will be affected by a severe backlog of visa numbers. This means there are more individuals wishing to immigrate than there are allotted visas. As a result, foreign workers in the effected categories may have a wait time exceeding 5 years before they are able to file an application to adjust status to that of a permanent resident. Read on» » » »

Crank up your car quotient

It may be high maintenance, but a car ranks only second to a home as far as life’s most important investments are concerned. So what do you do to get the ideal 200,000 miles plus out of your beloved car while keeping the running and repair costs to the minimum?

Just follow the owner’s manual as far as possible and also pay heed to some useful tips: Read on» » » »

Beware while filling up forms

Whether you are opening an account in a bank or seeking a car loan, buying insurance or a credit card, one of the first things that you are asked to do is to fill up a form. We tend to treat this chore as drudgery and go about it rather mechanically.

Often, we skip the fine print, ignore all the conditions listed in a form and fill it up without applying our minds properly. This attitude of disdain for the printed word and the application process also prompts us to leave the job of filling up the form to others and just sign on the dotted line. Read on» » » »

Movie Review: Race

Think drinks. One guzzles lime water, the other’s addicted to beer and assorted booze. Indeed, these step-brothers are enough to make you blow an electrical mind fuse. They have no other work in life but to confound and confuse.

Indeed, it would take super-brains - right from Aristotle and Plato to Amartya Sen - to decode Race, a crime-grime-adultery-disco-bomb-explosion thriller. Cars somersault, thud, bang and crash. A very hungry assassin, called Franco, looks as if he could do with potato mash. Meanwhile, the plot turns out to be a mega-rehash. Gnash. Read on» » » »