Help Your (astronomy) Child Read
No commentsBy Jet Lee
Teaching your chidren to read exposes them to more opportunities in life. They can go anywhere and do anything when they are engrossed in reading books. But in today’s age of iphones and video games usually the last thing our kids want to do is to learn to read. However, you can overcome your child’s disdain of learning with some fun and simple tricks. Implement some of these tips on a regular basis will start your kids down the path of learning and they’ll be reading in no time.
Example Is Better Than Preaching
You cannot expect your children to love something that you personally dislike.Yes, your kids are more perceptive than you might believe!. If you desire your kids to be prolific readers you have to be one too. It may be books, magazines, or even lovely coffee table books full of pictures. Just let them see you reading and try to read often together.
Reading to Your Children
Kids love being read aloud to. Cuddling up on the couch with a good book is a wonderful way to spend time with your child. Even older children like to be read to, especially while they are involved in other hands-on type activities.
Create A Reading Environment
Make a reading corner in your house.You can create a specific theme also. Fix up a comfortable location with beanbag chairs, or a large overstuffed pillow, a small bookcase. You won’t have to look far when they get quiet to find them.Encouraging them to read will also significantlyreduce the noise level in your home! Once they start using the place, you may find that your home is a lot quieter too!
Scatter Books Around the House
Always Leave books lying around. Place books in the bathroom, on their nightstands, in the living room and even in the kitchen. When they are bored they will pick them up out of curiosity.
Use a Library Card
Get them their own library card. Children love having their own library cards and checking out books they choose, on their own.
Got to the Library Often
Visit the library often. Schedule a regular library day, and just let them sit and read for a while in the library. Take advantage of your local library’s programs, such as story times, to help capture a child’s interest in books.Of course, if they see you doing the same, it will reinforce this habit.
Throw Out Book Teasers
Drop tantalizing hints about a book. Start reading one yourself that your children might like and “share” some tempting tidbits. When they want to know what happens - say , “Oh you will have to read it for yourself, you won’t believe it!”
Watch The Movie First
Watch a movie about a book. Then say, “I wonder how close that was to the book? Maybe we should read that.”
Make Your Own Books
Let them make their own books. Younger children especially love this. Something as simple as plain paper stapled together becomes a timeless treasure when they write their own stories. Let younger children tell you the story and you write it out and they illustrate it. And if they’re really good, you might be able to make a quick buck or two.
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Energy And Science On This Planet
By Alisha Dhamani
Energy is central to achieving sustainable development goals. Some two billion people have no access to modern energy services. Energy makes everything happen and can be divided into two different types. Stored energy is called potential energy. ENERGY STAR is a voluntary labeling program designed to identify and promote energy efficient products and appliances. ENERGY STAR-labeled products save energy and money and protect the environment.
Energy is in everything. We use energy to do everything we do, from making a jump shot to baking our favorite cookies to sending astronauts into space — energy is there, making sure we have the power to do it all. Energy is the ability to do work. Energy is everywhere in nature-sunlight, wind, water, plants, and animals.
Wind can choose not to blow at the desirable speed. Alternative energy plants provide intermittent power supply, thus forcing us to store energy. Windmills may have even been developed in China before 1 AD, but the earliest written documentation comes from 1219.
Energy medicines are based upon variants of the metaphysical theory known as vitalism , a theory that has been dead in the West for over a century. New Age quackery often maintains that the older a theory is the more one should have faith in it.
Energy policy must make sense from a scientific (i.e. However the continued promotion of ethanol and coal-to-liquids calls for continued skepticism. Energy Northwest has been a leading power supplier to the Northwest public power community for 50 years. Headquartered just north of Richland, Washington, we provide electricity, at cost, to public power utilities and municipalities.
Energy and its uses (and misuses) are related to every penny spent on real estate investments, both large and small. REALTORS know this well: energy efficiency is a concern for many home and commercial property buyers as many recent surveys and studies confirm.
Energy is the capacity of a system to do work. That system may be a jet, carrying hundreds of passengers across the ocean. Energy is needed for heating, electricity , manufacturing, construction and transportation .
Since industrialization began over 200 years ago economic wealth has been immediately linked with access to fossil fuels for energy production, in the first instance coal, but more latterly oil and gas. Energy is a measure of how long we can sustain the output of power , or how much work we can do. Power is the rate at which we do the work.
Energy is transferred by work to an object or system when a force is exerted through a distance on that object or system. For a force to travel through a distance there has to be movement.
Energy is not a substance that can be held, seen, or felt as a separate entity. We cannot create new energy that is not already present in the universe. Energy is free; the human processes delivering energy according to our wants are not free.
Oil booms tend to raise expectations, and contribute to unrealistic projections of future income. This in turn leads to loss of control over public spending, including taking on high-cost public infrastructure projects, often financed with foreign borrowing.
Oil is a transportable commodity, so as far as prices are concerned it doesnt much matter whether the new capacity comes online in Alaska or in the Caspian Sea. It just isnt the case that we drop a well in the ground near Fairbanks, and prices at the pump drop the next day in Atlanta.
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The Science of Internet Marketing
By Billy Nudgell
In an interview with a senior corporate executive in one of Australias largest financial institutions, I asked what she thought had been the biggest change in marketing and sales over the past 10 years.She answered that marketing and sales are becoming much more scientific.The measurability of sales and marketing efforts will be what determines where marketing investment is directed.It is no longer good enough to guess - executives what to see a return for investment.
My own background is in the area of Information Technology and I have worked on some large transformational projects in the areas of Customer Relationship Management (or CRM), sales force effectiveness in direct distribution models and call centres.I have also played a large part in developing data warehousing and analytics strategies to exploit the rich information that effective CRM and sales force automation tools generate.So I was not surprised to hear that response to my question.What is surprising is how slowly corporate are to adopting the science.
One of the biggest challenges as a technology strategist is to ensure that technology is not the focus of most projects (there are some projects where it is appropriate, eg technology infrastructure projects).Information technology is a capability that exists to manage the real corporate asset - information.Dont forget the ‘I’ in ‘IT’!It is how the organisation uses the information assets that has the potential to drastically improve sales and marketing efforts.But there is a real challenge…
The word ‘change’.In many organisations twenty percent of the sales people generate eighty percent of sales.Furthermore, these people often believe that selling is an art, not a science, and are unwilling to change.Their experience in sales typically spans decades and they argue that their methods are proven.So achieving a positive return on investment in sales and marketing projects that have a significant technology investment is challenging.In fact Gartner Group have stated that 70% of customer relationship management projects fail.
It is not all doom and gloom though!Companies that achieve success in strengthening their sales and marketing capabilities and importantly, integrate the two functions, will enjoy a competitive advantage because the unwillingness to change is a barrier to entry of this elite group of companies.Let me explain.
There are only so many places of value to market on the internet.In Australia Google has about eighty percent of the search engine market.Any company that wants to be a leader online in Australia must achieve prominence in this search engine.As we all know though, this prominence comes at a price and the price is increasing.So converting this investment and the traffic that results to profitable business is the primary objective.How do we so that?
This is where the science offers promise.
I believe that companies that dominate the major search engine positions, particularly for paid advertising, will build positions of unassailable competitive advantage.Why?Because they will know exactly what the return on investment for each and every keyword is and will use this knowledge to prevent new entrants from entering.In future articles I am going to talk about how these companies will achieve this position of dominance.Interestingly, I dont believe that it will necessarily be big businesses either.They certainly have the buying power but they suffer from the change resistance more than smaller and more nimble businesses.So the battles will be very interesting going forward.
Billy is an Internet Strategist with a focus on internet marketing and internet strategy. He advises clients on how to maximise their return on investment on online marketing.
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