Megazines And Book Education

The theme of 10 Conversations You Need to Have With Your Children by Shmuley Boteach is to teach your children to find their own way in the world by listening to their own, unique, inner voices. It’s a great message for all parents.

Boteach stresses the importance of interaction with your children. He says that everything that happens in life provides an opportunity for conversation, and you shouldn’t overlook those opportunities; rather, you should train yourselves to see them.

All parents can learn from Boteach’s book that making the investment in children by conversing with them and teaching them their uniqueness will reap rewards. Work on motivating your children to hear their inner voices, and it will inspire them to become better people. Boteach says, “Success is never immediate, and sometimes it’s nowhere in evidence, but talking to your kids really works.”

Boteach’s book also has four great lessons for improving communication skills with everyone you live with or work with. These are Boteach’s four lessons:

1. You can control your emotions by controlling your actions. When you force yourself to behave in a certain way, even if you don’t feel it, the action creates the emotion.

2. The foundation of every relationship and interaction you have is the “desire to know”. Much of Boteach’s advice is based on the premise that you have to find ways to be stimulated every day, and your relationships and interactions are a source of stimulation.

3. The world will be a kinder, gentler place if we each honor and exhibit what Boteach identifies as the “feminine qualities” we all have within ourselves, such as peacefulness, tenderness, nurturing, and relationship-building.

4. Show the people around you that you know you make mistakes and that you are seeking forgiveness. Furthermore, you should be willing to forgive those people who are seeking forgiveness from you. Boteach says, “An unforgiving heart is a heavy heart. When you don’t forgive someone, you become bitter, and that feeling festers, affecting you more than it affects them. When you forgive, the one you are truly freeing is yourself.”

The book has great lessons on parenting skills as well as general communication skills.

By Keith Grossman

The book under review Nature’s Numbers by Ian Stewart is worth reading by one and all.

Ian Stewart is the author of over sixty books. In a very lucid style he explains the complicated mathematics that is found in nature to a layman.

He writes the well-known ‘Mathematical Recreations’ column in the famous magazine ‘Scientific American’.

To the non-mathematical readers the book is a boon.

The book has nine chapters namely, The natural order, What mathematics is for, What mathematics is about, The constants of change, From violins to videos, Broken Symmetry, The rhythm of life, Do dice play God, Drops, Dynamics, and Daisies. All the chapters are with very interesting examples.

In chapter one titled, Natural Order, the author explains the amazing facts of patterns that are found in the nature! In nearly all flowers, the number of petals is one of the numbers that occur in the strange sequence 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89!

The great scientist Kepler found that if you take the cube of the distance of any planet from the Sun and divide it by the square of its orbital period, you always get the same number. It was the same for all the six planets!

Io, Europa, and Ganymede are three of Jupiter’s larger satellites. They orbit the planet in, respectively, 1.77. 3.55, and 7.16 days. Each of these numbers is almost exactly twice the previous one. There is a significant pattern.

It is interesting to note about the Ship/Dock theorem. That is, if you want to change the word ship into the word dock by changing one letter at a time and getting a valid word at every stage, you will find that all solutions have one thing at common: at least one of the intermediate words must contain two vowels. Readers will be motivated to do this puzzle on their own to find out the result.

The rhythm of life is wonderful. In nature everything is rhythmic! There are numerous examples given in the chapter ‘The rhythm of life’. The author analyses the chaos theory in the chapter ‘Do dice play God’.

There is a list of books for further reading to those who are interested to know more about natures’ secrets.

It is highly recommended that all should read this book to understand natures’ secrets or rather secrets of God!

S. Nagarajan is a vehicle body engineer by profession. He has written more than 1300 articles in 16 magazines and published 18 books. He is revealing Eastern Secret Wisdom through T.V. Programmes, magazine articles, seminars, courses. His email address is: snagarajans@gmail.com. His articles on Yoga, laughter, efficacy of mantras and sound, Hypnotism, Tele Kinesis, Power of Prayer, Vastu and Feng Shui, Auto suggestion, Success Formula, Out of Body Experience etc are regularly appearing in EzineArticles.com. So far seventynine articles have been published in EzineArticles.com.

By Santhanam Nagarajan

Using The Proper Black Powder For Your Project

Black powder, the key component in all fireworks, consisting of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. All put together in the proper percentages will produce the desired effect. There are different grades of black powder, all used for specific applications. For example the two types are sporting, which consist of your FG, FFG, FFFG, FFFFG Grades and so on. Then there’s blasting, which are your “A” grade powders, most frequently used in fireworks. 2FA, 4FA and Meal-D, these are the grades that make it all happen. So you see, the proper black powder is needed as per your project.

Making Quality Black Powder At Home

Being that you need a BATFE license to buy commercial 2FA black powder in bulk {50 or 100 lbs at a time}at the current price of $7-8 per pound, you can see how the costs can add up. So making your own is the most cost effective way to go and the good news is that it is federally legal to make your own without an ATF license. But check your state and local laws first to make sure you comply.

Many would argue the very first most important step to learning the art of fireworking is tackling the skill of making high-quality black powder. Once this is achieved, the sky is the limit. You’ll be able to go in any direction you want, experimenting in ground effects, sound effects and most important sky effects at next to no cost… You can also accomplish all of this with store bought powder but then your money would be going up in smoke, {literally} because of the cost involved. There are four simple steps in making black powder, once you master these, it will all be second nature allowing you to concentrate on manufacturing your product.

Setting Up Your Fireworks Display

You should set up a small pre-show, nothing to spectacular leading up to the main display. This is usually done a half hour before the show. Kinda wetting the audiences appetite for whats to come down the road, it will also build anticipation for the main display.

You can set off some smoke cakes, they look pretty good against the twilight sky and a couple of parachute cakes which will give the children something to chase and collect. But make sure these parachutes do not come back to earth with anything hot attached to them as to not injure the kids. Then we can launch some sky lanterns at dusk. They only take a few minutes to launch and fly away. The crowd always gets quite as they watch them disappear.

You will save time, money and effort by doing all these steps yourself. Making your own materials to make your own fireworks can also be a lot of fun. You’ll have control over the quality of the product so that will never be an issue, and the ability to set up your own pyro display with confidence.

This of course are just a few things covered in making fireworks. Every aspect of the process is covered from different types of fireworks to the steps used to make them to the materials used in the process.

By Mark Szypulski