Problem: Article: Making your tone of voice friendlier requires you to be aware of how fast you talk and how high and low your voice gets. Use strong breaths from your abdomen for better control. To check if you're breathing from your diaphragm (the muscle that sits right below your lungs), watch yourself in the mirror while you breathe in. If your shoulders and chest rise, you're taking shallow breaths without using your diaphragm. Practice using your diaphragm by placing your hand on your abdomen and pushing it outward while you breathe in. Don't speak in a monotone voice. Instead, make your voice both high and low as you talk. Stressing important words in your sentence with a higher pitch reassures listeners, while lower pitches can inject calmness into your conversation. End questions on a higher pitch and statements on a lower pitch. If you end statements with a high pitch, you'll sound like you don't believe what you just said. The best way to keep up a friendly tone is to have varied pitches while you talk. You don't want to have a totally high-pitched conversation, as people might think you just inhaled a helium balloon. A completely low-pitched conversation, however, could make your listener think you're uninterested in your chat with them. When you speak too quickly, you sound like you just want your conversation to be over and done. Instead, speak slowly to allow your listener to hear every word you say. This will tell them you actually want to be there talking to them. You don't need to take thirty seconds to get out every word. Be aware of your speed, and you'll naturally slow down. Add some pauses to let your listener keep up with you. There's nothing worse than feeling like you're being yelled at by someone. Keep your voice at a level that allows people to hear you without shouting at them. Breathing from your diaphragm will help with this problem. These controlled breaths let everyone hear you without making you work too hard to push out the sound. Any time you're struggling to make yourself heard, you're probably going to end up shouting, which won't sound friendly. If you're not clearly articulating every syllable of each word, your listener might not understand you. Worse, they may think you're saying something they can't hear on purpose. This could make them confused and frustrated. Practice good articulation by saying tongue twisters to yourself for five minutes each morning or night. For example, say these as fast as you can while still keeping the words clear: "James just jostled Jean gently. Jack the jailbird jacked a jeep," "Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest," and "The shrewd shrew sold Sarah seven silver fish slices." Use your smartphone or a camera to take a voice recording or video of you while you speak. Pay close attention to the pitch, speed, and loudness of your voice. Make improvements after each new recording.
Summary: Breathe from your diaphragm to control your voice. Vary your vocal pitch. Speak slowly to keep people engaged. Use a softer voice to avoid sounding aggressive. Avoid mumbling to keep your listener from getting confused. Record yourself to practice your changes.

Problem: Article: Certain chemicals are just about as effective as others. To prevent insect resistance, it's a good idea to rotate different chemicals when you treat the area. Possibilities include: Pyrethroids (cypermethrin, fenvalerate, permethrin, resmethrin, tetramethrin, s-bioallethrin, sumithrin); Organophosphates (coumaphos, dichlorvos, malathion, tetrachlorvinphos) Organochlorines (lindane, methoxychlor) Always double-check that the chemical you're using is safe to apply directly to livestock. Then: Use a small mist blower or a handheld mist sprayer to mist the chemical over your animals. If your animals are spooked by the sprayer, then dip a sponge or a mitt in the chemicals and rub the sponge or mitt on your animals. Always wear rubber gloves. Never let these chemicals come into contact with your skin. Spray a resting areas or barns around the eaves, walls, ceiling and and rafters. Always remove your livestock from the barn before you spray. Some of your animals may have to stay outside for a while. Just follow the directions on the packaging. Coarsely spray resting areas with insecticides. Make sure to spray under low pressure. Be careful not to contaminate your animals' water and feed buckets. Also, keep the spray off of your farm equipment. Spraying a big area is efficient; it won't require too much time or labor. However, area sprays tend to have a short-lived effect. Use aircraft, loggers, hydraulic sprayer or mist blowers to dispense the chemicals. The find chemical droplets will travel to where flies live, killing the insects.
Summary: Pick a chemical. Treat your livestock directly. Apply insecticides to areas around your property. Spray a large area that will protect multiple properties.

Problem: Article: Simply put: Anytime you multiply by a number with zeros on the end (like 120 x 160), you add the number of zeros to the end of the product.120 x 160 becomes: 12 * 16 = 192 Place the two zeros on the end (One from 120 and another from 160) = 19,200 Start with a one digit times two digit multiplication problem Remind the child that the units column has already been multiplied. Tell the child that when you multiply the units column by the tens column it's like multiplying something with a zero on the end. Do not continue until the child can manage any problem of this type (1 x 2)! Continue with a two digit times two digit (2 by 2) multiplication problem. Most children have no idea why their teacher skips a space on the second line of "conventional" long multiplication. Mark the two multiplications (which will look like a big X). Show the child that this is like multiplying by 100. Have the child place zeros in the two right columns and place the product to the left. Put it together with unit times two digit (1 by 2) multiplication Have the child compare this to carrying in addition. The child should become proficient at this before proceeding. Complete the process of (2 by 2) multiplication. Remind the child of the zero in the right column. This would be a good time to tell the child that the zero in the right hand column is not necessary, but it won't hurt if they leave it.
Summary:
Make sure the child already knows the basic multiplication tables. Teach the child how to handle multiples of ten; we see this as zeros on the end of a number. Place column lines on the paper and make sure the digits are properly placed. Multiply the Units column and place the answer in the correct columns. Before multiplying the Units column by the Tens column, discuss the implications. Place a zero (0) in the units column underneath the first answer. Multiply the Units column by the tens column and place the answer to the left side of the zero (it will be underneath the first answer). Have the child add the numbers together. Have the child complete the problem with the bottom tens digit hidden (at first). Remind the child that he/she placed a zero in the right column before multiplying a unit column by a tens column. Reveal the hidden digit and show the child that he/she will be multiplying a unit by a tens digit again. Again, have the child place a zero(0) in the right hand column and answer the units x tens multiplication to the left of the zero. Discuss multiplying the tens by the tens column. Have the child do the addition to finish the problem. This time, instead of writing the tens digit (from the unit x unit product) under the line, write it ABOVE the tens digit column. Have the child do the units times tens multiplication; have the child add the carried number to the product and write the number to the left of the units digit already present. Place a tens digit in the lower factor and have the child cross out any carrying that has already taken place. Have the child treat the tens digit like the other one times two digit work. Have the child finish by doing the addition.