ESPN

What is the feeling of a bull break into a corn barn?
When I visited ESPN, if I felt there would be too much to eat, where should I start? I need some sports.
There are a lot of big meals, some of them I even have never touched before? Do they taste good or easy to digest?
I need to start from some favorite meals first because I think I will not regret if have am full of what I like.
If there are some spare places in my bell, I think I would like to give the other food a big bite, if I could find some thing really good, it will be great!

Why we fear?

It is a interesting topic in the HeathyLife.Net Radio.
The hosts ,a female and a male, are talking in the slow rhythm of background music, like chatting between two old friends.
They think that human fears is a kind of abnormal status because they don't believe they can do splendid things and they don't know how powerful they are, it a lost from their nature. I feel very interesting to this opinion. Some people fear to take the elevator, but there should be very safe and there should be nothing to fear. But why they fear, because they don't believe it is safe enough, and they don't believe themselves can be in it comfortably. Fear causes a lot of problems. We may fear new change and fear to lose what we already have.
Most of us may fear spiders and snakes, and we may guess it comes from our evolution history. The program hosts said that fear is coming from the disconnection with god at the beginning when human committed sins. Anyway, it is a interesting topic to consider a little bit when we want to live a health life.

E-say 2008-12-04

英语口语培训专家/易说堂英语 ::e-say

Today's Correction & Comment:
Hi Nicholas

Wrong Pronunciation

: thorne

Wrong Expression

: go for a jaunt or stroll in the park

*jaunt-noun 1. a short journey, esp. one taken for pleasure.

New words & Idiomatic expression you didn't understand during class

:
Imagine a world in which work was pressure-free, office politics were a
thing of the past, colleagues were always nice to each other and job
security was guaranteed. Nice work, if you can get it.


The
reality is that every job comes with responsibilities, people are often
competitive and pushy and jobs are no longer for life. No matter where
you work and for whom, work can be stressful.



On one
level, pressure at work can be healthy. Feeling the excitement of new
but reasonable demands helps motivation, as the adrenaline that stress
produces pushes us to perform better. But when workload is excessive we
cross the dividing line from 'positive' to 'negative' stress and start
to feel out of control.



what employers can do to reduce stress



investigate stress levels and their likely causes
make sure individuals are well matched to their jobs
set clearly defined objectives for staff
provide training in interpersonal skills
have proper procedures for investigating complaints
introduce flexible working hours
provide opportunities for staff to contribute ideas
provide support for staff experiencing high stress levels
encourage shorter hours.




Thank you
Teacher Jeffrey

E-say 2008-12-03

Today's Correction & Comment:Hi NicholasWrong Expression
: x>little uncle o>youngest unclex>wedding are noisy 'could be a negative statement 0>weddings are livelyNew words & Idiomatic expression you didn't understand during class
:go big or stay home 'expression'

Western wedding
A wedding is often followed or accompanied by a wedding reception, at which an elaborate wedding cake is served. Western traditions include toasting the couple, the newlyweds having the first dance, and cutting the cake. A bride may throw her bouquet to the assembled group of all unmarried women in attendance, with folklore suggesting the person who catches it will be the next to wed. A fairly recent equivalent has the groom throwing the bride's garter to the assembled unmarried men; the man who catches it is supposedly the next to wedThank youTeacher Jeffrey

How to imply the really intention

Dear Bo$$
In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding of the need$ of u$ . worker$ who have given $o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company.
I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.
Your$ $incerely,
Marian $hih

reply to her request

Dear Marian
I kNOw you have been working very hard.NOwadays,NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticeably well as yet.
NOw the newspaper are saying the world`s leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections things may turn bad.
I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean.

Yours truly,
Manager

Men are from Mars, Women are from the Venus

If you search the title in Google, you will get the result from Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia) that it is one of the series books written by John Gray who is concerning about the communication and emotional needs between the opposite gender.
Men and women are naturally different as if they are beings coming from planets. In contrast, there are some similarities between the sexes against Gary's assertion, or there will be no any platform to communicate.
My wife and I argued about the way to raise our baby. I may want to have fun and play together with him but my wife may concern more about the health and disciplines. There are common ground and also conflicts and sometimes the conflicts are very furious. Tow days ago, we even fight each other. It is said the war will never end.
Recently, I have to move to another city (Zhangjiagang 3-4 hours from Shanghai) to work, it worried me a lot and I even don't know how to arrange the family and especially my 2 year old baby. In such kind of economical weather of Nov. 2008, it seems that we have not too much space to choose a better opportunity. Wife is not easy to work in a industry zone and starts every early each morning to catch the shuttle bus.  It seems so difficult, but there must be a solution and I have think about it tomorrow.

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ScribeFire

I am so happy to find ScribeFire as my blog writer as well as Flock.
It is recommanded that the Windows Live Writer and Zoundry Raven are the best ones to write blogs when offline, but to my laptop, it is alright to it to use Flock and ScribeFire. I guess that is because my firewall has some setting problem.
There is also a Chinese one called (crysanthemum speaking)菊花说，but it is said it is a little bit overstaffed and redundant.
To me, there still have some time to be familiar with the functions of each of both. For there are all FireFox 3 based softwares, Flock seems more independent and ScribeFire will be implanted into FF3. You will have to find where it is on the tool bars if you don't read the intruductions for the beginners.
Another important issue is that they are supporting multiply blogs and you need not to publish blog via log in each of the blogs.
For the Spaces you need to set some E-mail publishing options before using it. Just look at some instructions on the Zoundry web site and you will get the tips.

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Tags: IT

E-say 2008-12-02

英语口语培训专家/易说堂英语 ::e-say

Today's Correction & Comment:
Hi Nicholas

Wrong Expression

:
over indulge
New words & Idiomatic expression you didn't understand during class

:Friedman defines ten "flatteners" that he sees as leveling the global playing field:

#1: Collapse of Berlin Wall--11/'89: The event not only symbolized the end of the Cold war, it allowed people from other side of the wall to join the economic mainstream. (11/09/1989)
#2: Netscape: Netscape and the Web broadened the audience for the Internet from its roots as a communications medium used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to ninety-five-year olds. (8/9/1995). The digitization that took place meant that everyday occurrences such as words, files, films, music and pictures could be accessed and manipulated on a computer screen by all people across the world.
#3: Workflow software: The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved. Friedman believes these first three forces have become a "crude foundation of a whole new global platform for collaboration."
#4: Open sourcing: Communities uploading and collaborating on online projects. Examples include open source software, blogs, and Wikipedia. Friedman considers the phenomenon "the most disruptive force of all."
#5: Outsourcing: Friedman argues that outsourcing has allowed companies to split service and manufacturing activities into components which can be subcontracted and performed in the most efficient, cost-effective way.
#6: Offshoring: The internal relocation of a company's manufacturing or other processes to a foreign land in order to take advantage of less costly operations there. China's entrance in the WTO allowed for greater competition in the playing field. Now countries such as Malaysia, Mexico, Brazil must compete against China and each other to have businesses offshore to them.
#7: Supply chaining: Friedman compares the modern retail supply chain to a river, and points to Wal-Mart as the best example of a company using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping.
#8: Insourcing: Friedman uses UPS as a prime example for insourcing, in which the company's employees perform services--beyond shipping--for another company. For example, UPS repairs Toshiba computers on behalf of Toshiba. The work is done at the UPS hub, by UPS employees.
#9: In-forming: Google and other search engines are the prime example. "Never before in the history of the planet have so many people-on their own-had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people", writes Friedman. The growth of search engines is tremendous; for example take Google, in which Friedman states that it is "now processing roughly one billion searches per day, up from 150 million just three years ago".
#10: "The Steroids": Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).


Thank you
Teacher Jeffrey

E-say 2008-12-1-01

英语口语培训专家/易说堂英语 ::e-say

Today's Correction & Comment:
Hi Nicholas

Wrong Expression

: reading the newspaper can be informative

New words & Idiomatic expression you didn't understand during class

:RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader", or "aggregator", which can be web-based or desktop-based. A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's URI (often referred to non-technically as a URL) into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The RSS reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new work, downloads any updates that it finds, and provides a user interface to monitor and read the feeds.




Thank you
Teacher Jeffrey