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I had the wonderful pleasure of being guest lecturer in two classes at Shepherd University today, located in the heart of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

Shepherd University Logo

I presented a lecture I created just for this two-class occassion entitled International Business: Leave Your Ethics At Home. I had great fun sharing my knowledge about International Business and how Ethics and Codes of Conduct fit in the picture. The students were mostly junior Business Majors. Considering it was the first day back after Labor Day weekend I was surprised that all of my students were awake and raring to go for the class.

It is my hope that more teachers will hear about today’s lectures and garner an interest to have me come and speak at their classes. My resume on life and past experiences are well documented in my WordPress blog as well as on LinkedIn. Today’s subject was just a small part of my knowledge base in International Business.

If you teach at Shepherd or any other schools in the area and would like to talk to me about being a guest lecturer for your classes, or even better, would like to talk to me about teaching a class next semester, let me know and we can meet for lunch at the Carriage House Cafe in Shepherdstown and talk face to face.

Thanks for reading. 

If you are from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, you may have noticed by now that Stink Bugs have disappeared. Ants appear to be taking their place. My kids, my wife, my neighbors, the shop keepers and the rest of the Community have started looking around wondering where they went.

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

At a recent pool party we spent at least 30 minutes talking about where they came from. China? Peru? A Chemical Meth Lab?

They were so strange looking, almost as if they were engineered. They reminded me of a warriors shield. Hmmm.

If they were in fact engineered perhaps they were scheduled to die out and disappear. I guess they served whatever purpose they appeared to accomplish.

Problem now is the ants. Maybe stink bugs were eating the ants which is why we did not see them in the kitchen while the stink bugs were here. The stink bugs were everywhere, Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall. They occassionally few into us, landed on our heads and a few ended up on forks at the wrong time. But what they never did was BITE. A nuiscance they were. The plague NOT. I did happen to change the words to the Passover Seder held in the community and made Stink Bugs one of Pharoah’s plagues. I guess we will have to change the wording back to the original wording.

Maybe I just need to change it to ANTS.