The Yankee or Dixie Quiz
This is quite interesting. It will test … REALLY test your American English!!!
Click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser. Takes only a few minutes.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html
In a news report summation from the Investment Business Daily checking on trends and innovations, a little town in Germany, Bohmte, has removed all traffic lights and stop signs because it believes it will improve traffic safety. They have to share the right of way with pedestrians.
The idea was first implemented in Holland and the conclusion was that accidents have since decreased according to a check with local officials.
(a message sent by Bryan Todd) "Stumbled across this video:
Background: 1969, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was in danger of getting their funding cut in half by Nixon because of war costs.
So the CPB calls in Mr. Rogers to testify before the Senate.
Amazingly, as he starts talking you feel the same way I do: What alien from the NeverNeverLand Nursery just landed here?
As you listen you realize, this guy is for real. Disarmingly real. He delivers an emotional 6-minute pitch. Watch the effect he has on John O. Pastore, notoriously gruff and impatient.
You never see marketing messages quite like this one, but boy, did it work."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41lJIhW7fA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41lJIhW7fA
Personal checks and labels with school and student related designs are offered by 4checks that are perfect for teachers, administrators and teacher assistants. The address labels are especially useful to identify “Property Of Miss Dorothy” and placed on books, toys and other classroom supplies.
Each check design comes with 4 rotating scenes. These checks are complemented by matching self-sticking address labels, contact cards or even a leather checkbook cover. These are useful throughout the year and i make great end-of-year thank you gifts for teachers.
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A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in High School by telling them the difference each of them had made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First, she told each of them how they had made a difference to her, and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon, imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference."
Afterwards, the teacher decided to do a class project, to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a Community. She gave each of the students three more blue ribbons, and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom, and report to the class in about a week.
One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive in a nearby Company, and honored him for helping him with his career planning. He gave him a blue ribbon, and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons and said, "We're doing a class somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbon so they can acknowledge a third person, to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going. Then please report back to me and tell me what happened."
Later that day, the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been noted, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy fellow. He sat his boss down, and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon, and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure."
The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss's jacket, above his heart. As he gave him the last extra ribbon, he said, "Would you take this extra ribbon, and pass it on by honoring somebody else. The young boy who first gave me the ribbons is doing a project in school, and we want to keep this recognition ceremony going and find out how it affects people."
That night, the boss came home to his 14-year-old son, and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office, and one of the junior executives came in and told me he admired me, and gave me a blue ribbon for being a creative genius. Imagine! He thinks I am a creative genius!
Then he put a blue ribbon that says, "Who I Am Makes a Difference", on my jacket above my heart. He gave me an extra ribbon and asked me to find somebody else to honor. As I was driving home tonight, I started thinking about whom I would honor with this ribbon, and I thought about you. I want to honor you.
My days are hectic and when I come home, I do not pay a lot of attention to you. Sometimes I scream at you for not getting good enough grades in school, and for your bedroom being a mess. Somehow, tonight, I just wanted to sit here and, well, just let you know that you do make a difference to me. Besides your mother, you are the most important person in my life. You're a great kid, and I love you!"
The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he could not stop crying. His whole body shook. He looked up at his father and said through his tears, "Dad, earlier tonight I sat in my room and wrote a letter to you and Mom, explaining why I had took my life, and I asked you to forgive me. I was going to commit suicide tonight after you were asleep. I just did not think that you cared at all.
The letter is upstairs. I don't think I need it after all." His father walked upstairs and found a heartfelt letter full of anguish and pain.
The boss went back to work a changed man. He was no longer a grouch, but made sure to let all of his employees know that they made a difference. The junior executive helped several other young people with career planning, and never forgot to let them know that they made a difference in his life…one being the boss' son. In addition, the young boy and his classmates learned a valuable lesson, "Who you are DOES make a difference".
You are under no obligation to pass this on to anyone…. not to two people, or to two hundred. As far as I am concerned, you can forget it and move on. On the other hand, if you want, you could send it to all of the people who mean something to you, or send it to the one, two, or three people who mean the most.
On the other hand, just smile and know that I think that you are important, or you would not have received this in the first place. Who you are does make a difference, and I wanted you to know that. this a wonderful story? I'm passing the blue ribbon to you, for who YOU are does make a difference, too.
(reprint of an anonymous email)
