Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Private English Lessons in Nagoya

If you need or want private "one to one" Business English lessons to help improve your position in today's economy, but you don't want to sign an expensive contract, this may be for you.

I teach a "one to one" lesson to those men and women in need of improving their Business English. This includes email, western business culture, vocabulary and presentation.

This is not for those looking for "fun" lessons. If you are serious about improving your language as well as practicing English business skills, continue reading.

The text used will be current newspapers, the Economist or current events. In addition, you will learn to speak on and describe your company, product, field and opinions. You will learn to speak, read and write executive style Business English.

The necessary tools for these lessons are: a digital voice recorder, a focused mind and a desire to succeed in the international arena.

Lessons are 3,500 yen for each 50 minute segment and are held in a public space in Sakae.

If you are interested you may contact me at: ucshea@hotmail.com (in English ONLY)

Places are limited
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Start the Revolution - in Chicago??

What happened on the trading floor of the Merchantile Exchange!
Is this the shot heard "live" around the world beginning the "capitalist" revolution?

Who is John Gault?
And where is he when you need him?

I wonder, is everyone who presently makes over $500,000 a year going to "go on strike"?

Monday, February 2, 2009

A culture of casual and chronic corruption

Bill Richardson: Ethics scandal - commerce secretary- withdrawn
Nancy Killefer: Owes D.C. Unemployment tax - Chief Performance Officer - withdrawn
Sen. Thomas A. Daschle: Failure to pay IRS $146,000 - HHS Secretary - withdrawn
Tim Geithner: Failure to pay IRS $34,000 - Treasury secretary - Confirmed
Eric Holder: Highly questionable associations and "legal" get out of jail free promotions to: Michael Adler Group, Pacific Capital Group, Gary Winnick, Rich, Evans, Rosenberg, and FALN pardons - Attorney General - confirmed
Lanny Breuer: Connections to Halliburton, KBR, and Sandy Berger - appointed Director of DOJ Criminal Division
Hilda Solis: torpedoed by husband, Sam Sayyad's tax debt - Labor secretary - confirmation still possible

So Mr. "I won!" - who exactly lost?

“Why do the folks who want to raise our taxes
seem to have such a hard time paying their own?”
Doug Bandow, a blogger on AmSpec
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Where is Augustine's "City on the Hill" and who lives there?
And perhaps more importantly: How do they live - with each other?

不知彼,不知己,每戰必殆 (孫子)

(If you don't know yourself and if you don't know your enemy,
then you are in for a world of hurt!)


γνῶθι σεαυτόν (Δελφοί)

“I couldn’t imagine this ... world.
Hell is so big and dark and heaven is so small." HJM

"the U.S. has a little manifest destiny over here,
and a little more manifest destiny over there..."

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How About a Bill of Responsibilities Rather Than A Bill of Rights

What if we chose the wrong religion?
Each week we'd just make God madder and madder.