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The U.S. Department of Education launched their annual summer campaign, Let’s Read, Let’s Move. The campaign encourages children to participate in summer reading programs and parents to read to their children more often.

Through summer reading, kids may discover a favorite author that sparks a lifelong love of reading. Summer reading can also prevent learning loss and help prepare a child for the next academic year.

Check out a few reading resources for kids:

• Classic Books Online — Explore time-honored tales, available from the Library of Congress.
• Locate a Public Library — Find reading programs and borrow—rather than buy—books.
• Strong Minds Project — Volunteer to help kids read during the summer.
• Reading and Writing, Grades K-5 and Language Arts, Grades 6-8 — Find a variety of resources on Kids.gov.

• If you have a physical building for your business, consider including an email sign-up form in a visible place. You will be amazed at how many subscribers you will get by keeping a form by the register.

Whenever you attend a networking event, mention your email list to the people you meet and ask their permission to add them. Then, follow up with a quick email mentioning where you met them and that you would like to add them to your list.

If you have a website, you can use iContact’s sign-up form generator to create a sign-up form for your website visitors. Make sure to include an explicit permission statement detailing the kind of content that you will send so that your customers know what to expect.
Once your list begins to grow, you may need a larger iContact account. Plans start as low as $10 per month. To upgrade, simply log in to your account and click on the “Upgrade” link in the upper right-hand corner. 


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• 1.3% the rate of GDP growth the economy showed in its second quarter — which is pretty lame, by the way
• 1.8% the projected rate economists projected in the second quarter; yeah, we missed that source

» One word — anemic. On top of all this drama, the rates for GDP growth in the first quarter was projected down to an even lower 0.4 percent growth. While this does not bode well for our recovery, it doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily have a double-dip. It just increases the chances of one.

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The national September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade centre site in New York is scheduled to be dedicated on 11 September

boehner’s bill falls short: After a chaotic day of vote-whipping, vote-delaying, and vote-switching, John Boehner has decided to postpone the vote on his debt ceiling bill. Despite multiple assurances that it would be brought to a vote before tomorrow, at the end of the day, Boehner didn’t have enough votes to ensure the bill’s passage (and he wasn’t going to embarrass himself by introducing a bill that was sure to fail). In an unusual alignment, conservative Tea Partiers and House Democrats all pledged to vote against the bill, albiet for different reasons. While the legislation has virtually no chance of passing the Democratic-controlled Senate, Boehner’s ability to shepherd it through the House is seen by many as the first real test of his leadership abilities. If he doesn’t eventually pass it, there’s a good chance he’ll (eventually) be deposed as Speaker. But it’s not over yet—sources say Republicans plan to tweak the bill a bit, and re-introduce it tomorrow.

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A praying mantis at the baseball and a squirrel at the golf - the pick of this week’s images from the natural world

Photograph: Rex Features

Mephedrone, the former legal high known as “meow meow”, is as popular as cocaine among teenagers and young adults, despite being banned last year. according to official figures published today.