One plus one
More and more often these days I find myself wondering if online math help would have been much different a decade and a half ago, if Internet at home had been available to me and my young family. Math help would have been a boon with my sons growing up and in school. I was a young and unemployed full time mom at the time, and could have appreciated all the assistance that an online math tutor could provide. Ever since I started to be on the Internet on a regular basis I found that it was the best, if not only at times, source of information for me, especially in times that I needed free online math help.
My daughter and youngest child Maia, now five years old, learned to read on the internet. It was on a site called starfall.com which I now recommend to all of my friends with pre-school kids who have access to the internet at home. She learned not only to read, but to count and to do simple addition through its online math tutoring section. The only disadvantage to online tutoring is that my daughter did not learn to write by hand, actually holding a pencil to paper, because she had become accustomed to typing her letters and numbers out on a keyboard.
But that’s been remedied by going to kindergarten school, starting June of this year. Now her handwriting is quite legible, and coupled with reading on her books and on the internet I believe she has taken in far more information than her classmates who are less exposed to the internet. Of course, internet learning should not completely replace parent- or teacher-supervised learning. Human interaction, after all, is probably the best teaching tool a young person can have.
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It’s no secret that I do sponsored posts on this blog. Internet marketing is fascinating and rewarding at the same time, both as a publisher and as an advertiser as well. The worldwide community of blogging has opened an new arena for product marketing and positioning, and at the same time it has provided legitimate bloggers with the opportunity to earn a little on the side.
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What is mesothelioma?
Quite a number of people who develop mesothelioma have worked in locations where they inhaled asbestos dust, or they have been exposed to asbestos particles and fiber by other means. Regularly washing the clothes of someone who worked with asbestos can also put one at risk for developing mesothelioma.
According to Asbestos.com,
approximately 2,000 to 3,000 cases of mesothelioma are diagnosed each year in the United States, comprising around 3 percent of all cancer diagnoses. This cancer occurs more frequently in men than in women, about four times more frequent. All forms of mesothelioma, except for benign mesothelioma, are invariably fatal. The prognosis for mesothelioma is almost always poor and most studies report a median survival of less than one year, but the prognosis really depends on how early it is diagnosed and aggressively it is treated.
Mesothelioma treatments can be divided into two main categories: curative treatments and palliative treatments. Curative treatments are those carried out in an attempt to remove all cancer cells and cure the disease. Palliative treatments are designed to ease pain and make a patient more comfortable.
Stop that spam
One of the perennial problems that are reported to me by my clients is that they have, all of a sudden, lost the ability to send email over their office internet connection. Some of them even report that they cannot send email at all, that bounce messages come into their inboxes as undelivered mail due to one reason or another.
This is usually because they have tried to send out mail to all the contacts in their address books in one go, or have tried to send out their newsletter for the first time with all addresses in the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) field. This usually results in their current IP being blocked at various spam gateways, which causes their mail to be rejected at the destinations. This is when I tell them of the necessity for Email Marketing Software.
Using Email Marketing Software for sending out bulk mailing is the right way to go. It puts the responsibility of sending out mail on the host server, resolving the issue of spamming on the client’s side as well as freeing up bandwidth. Email Marketing Software also allows them to format emails in a professional manner, automatically providing links for unsubscribing which is a must for all email newsletters.
*photo of spam-eating-cat from here
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