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• Fulfill your Destiny by Rhea Powers
• How to Argue and Win Every Time by Gerry Spence
• Strengthen your Self Image Automatically by Bob & Deirdre Griswold
• Eisenhower in his own voice Edited by Jim Wessel, Narrated by Bob Considine
• Powertalk! Strategies (tapes volume 1-24) by Anthony Robbins
• Everyone’s a Coach by Don Shula & Ken Blanchard
• First Things First by Stephen R. Covey; A. Roger Merrill; Rebecca R. Merrill
• Secrets for Success & Happiness by Og Mandin
• You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen
• The Courage To Live Your Dreams by Les Brown
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephan R. Covey
• Advanced Sales Survival Training by Tom Hopkins
• The Politics of Meaning by Michael Lerner
• Biography John F. Kennedy by A & E’s Jack Perkins
• Biography Patton by A & E’s Jack Perkins
• Biography Lincoln by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, and Peter Kunhardt
• Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff… and It’s All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, PH.D
• Achieving Credibility – The Key to Effective Leadership by James M. Kouzes
• High-Tech Selling by George Colombo
• The Science of Self Discipline by Kerry L. Johnson
• The Anthology of Achievement MISSION SUCCESS by Og Mandino
• How to Build a Network of Power Relationships by Harvey Mackay
• The Secrets of Power negotiating by Roger Dawson
• High Impact Communication by Bert Decker
• Hardball by Robert L. Shook
• Managing Your Goals by Alec Mackenzie
• Mastering The Disciplines of Persuasion & Sales by Jimmy Cabrera
• Low Profile Selling by Tom Hopkins
• Guerrilla Selling Live! by Orvel Ray Wilson
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The Aladdin Factor by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen
• Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat by Lou Pritchett
• Spanish – complete course, revised & updated REVISED by Irwin Stern, PH.D
• Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mendela
• Zen Lessons – The Art of Leadership by Thomas Cleary
• Success as a Choice by Rick Titino
• First Things First Everyday by Stephan Covey
• Doing It Now by Edwin C. Bliss
• Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff With Your Family by Richard Carlson, PH.D
• Action Strategies for Personal Achievement Ð volumes 1-15 by Byron Tracey

This Wonderful Language of Ours

The World According to Our Students
(author unknown)

Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language… until they tried to pronounce it. To help them deal with an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.

Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.

Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation — think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?

It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough –
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

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Happy About Announces Release of ‘They Made It!’ by Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D.

Author Angelika Blendstrup interviewed successful entrepreneurs from around the world and compiled her findings in “They Made It!: How Chinese, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Israeli and other foreign born entrepreneurs contributed to high tech innovation in the Silicon Valley, the US and Overseas.

Cupertino, CA (PRWEB) — February 27, 2008

Happy About today announced the release of “They Made It!: How Chinese, French, German, Indian, Iranian, Israeli and other foreign born entrepreneurs contributed to high tech innovation in the Silicon Valley, the US and Overseas”. Great leaders have been the stuff of many business books over the years with authors often promising to deliver THE key ingredients that can guarantee the readers success in their own careers.

As author Angelika Blendstrup shows, there is no “secret sauce”, but a number of “recipes for success” with specific ingredients that if applied, may smooth the path upward. These recipes are the result of conversations with foreign-born (as well as US) Silicon Valley/US entrepreneurs who tell it as it is. Each leader tells a unique, personal story of how s/he came to the US and ultimately made it.

If you plan to immigrate to the US and establish yourself in Silicon Valley, or if you are just curious to find out what make these extraordinary individuals tick, you can listen to these foreign-born professionals and gain personal insight into the fulfillment of their ambitions and dreams.

“Immigrants from Andy Grove, to Vinod Khosla, to Sergey Brin have made Silicon Valley the extraordinary success it is today. This book provides valuable lessons learned from the successful entrepreneurs that will prove inspiring to people from every country.”

— Steve Westly, Founder and CEO, The Westly Group, Former California State Controller

The book is available from Amazon.com and Happy About.

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