Capture His Attention and His Thoughts With The Right Sexy Tattoo

We’ve all seen them. Those sexy tattoo designs on a woman’s lower back that turns a man’s head, captures his attention, and fills his mind with sexy thoughts. Of course I’m talking about the classic Tramp Stamp. Seeing that sexy little inked artwork peeking above a lady’s jeans usually sends a man’s mind into overdrive with admiring thoughts and fantasies.

Believe me ladies, a sexy tramp stamp is like 100 proof visual catnip for men. When we see that tramp stamp peeking out above your jeans, we can’t help but look and fantasize. We can’t help it! I once walked straight into a cement light pole because I couldn’t take my eyes off a young lady’s tramp stamp.

Not only can a well-placed tattoo charm a man’s thoughts, it also can work miracles for the woman sporting such a design. A tattoo in the right location, of the right design, can enhance how a woman feels about herself, her self image, and gives her a sudden new charismatic effect on men.

Let’s face it, every woman wants to be thought of as sexy, desirable, and charming. A carefully chosen feminine tattoo in the right place, helps achieve this goal. A woman expresses herself, her personality, and her femininity through her body art designs.

Location, Location, Location

The sexiness of feminine skin art is based on location and design. Whether she feels her tattoo design is sexy or trashy often can be reflected in her self image. If she loves her tattoo art, she’s more confident and often has an air of confidence in her aura. She’s knows she’s sexy and it shows in her attitude.

So, what are a few places on a woman’s body where tattoos can have the most devastating sensual effects?

The Classic Popular ‘Tramp Stamp’

The lower back is almost universally thought of as an ideal location for a sexy tattoo. Better known as the Tramp Stamp, a lovely sexy tramp stamp plays havoc with a man’s thoughts and fantasies. How do I know this?

Well, I’m a typical average guy, as are all of my male friends. I know how most men think. It’s no secret we think sexy thoughts when we see a tramp stamp. All it takes to light our fuse and prime our lusty thoughts is a little sexy skin art peeking out above the jeans. As men, we can’t help it. It’s genetic.

Sexy Shoulder Art

The shapely feminine shoulder is another part of the body that is perfect for a carefully selected tattoo. A beautiful display of flowers on a woman’s shoulder is very sexy as long as the design is suitable to the woman’s personality and is feminine in nature.

Hip & Waist Tattoos

Right above the hip on the waist is another area of the body that’s becoming more popular among female tattoo adventurists.

Tattoos in this area, on the sides above the hips, are highly flattering to a woman’s body curves and figure. A tattoo on a woman’s side can look super sensual when she’s wearing jeans, a bikini, or sexy panties.

The Lower Tummy – The Hot ‘V’ Zone

Ahh yes…the lower tummy. This is an imaginative, mysterious, sensuous place for a feminine tattoo. A tattoo in this area is super provocative when peaking out of low cut jeans. And when a new lover discovers such a tattoo, expect the fireworks of passion to explode.

Again, choose the design carefully before getting inked. Let’s face it, a carefully chosen design adds to the mystery and sensuality. When choosing a design though, think ahead twenty or thirty years.

Finally…

Before getting inked, think how a tattoo will affect you after you’re married, you’re in a job, have kids, going on a honeymoon, or are in a profession or job. Choose carefully and think carefully, and think of the future before getting inked. Tattoos can be a visual aphrodisiac. But always remember, tattoos are permanent.

You could say that landing in Hong Kong by night after thirteen long hours spent eating highly questionable airline food, watching ruthlessly edited in flight movies and breathing cold, dry, recycled air whilst Faye lay with her head on my shoulder, gently drooling onto my shirt collar felt like something of a relief. But that would be like saying that George Best liked the odd glass of wine with friends. I quite simply couldn’t wait to get off the plane. My intensely irrational fear of flying had kept me both wide awake and bolt upright for the duration of the journey, painfully aware of every tiny shake, quiver and judder of turbulence the aircraft experienced. My hands had been gripping the rigid plastic armrests so tightly and for so long that I was unsure as to whether I would be able to let go of them when the time finally came to get off the plane.

I also seemed to have once again developed what I call my ‘spidersense’, a phenomenon that occurs every time that I set foot on a plane. This consists of an almost superhuman sense of hearing, the tiniest sound amplified in my mind to some precursory indication that the wings were about to fall off and we were all going to plunge, screaming into the side of a mountain, to die in a ball of flames or survive for a few more painful weeks, cold and hungry in the unforgiving, isolated wilderness of some far flung dictatorship.

Luckily for me, I had already planned for this eventuality by watching endless long hours of Ray Mears and the Bush Tucker Man happily surviving, in fact thriving, in some of the harshest environments in the world, accompanied by the gentle noodlings of some dreadlocked, pot smoking acoustic guitarist who always seems to be just off camera.

This somewhat heightened state of mind was probably eased slightly by my excessive alcohol consumption since arriving at Heathrow about fifteen or sixteen hours earlier. Not to mention the two packs of seemingly totally pointless nicotine gum that I had chewed my way through whilst on board the plane. However if it was then it was an imperceptible chip out of what was otherwise a mountain of irrational anxiety.

Interestingly, since banning smoking on all flights, airlines have saved a hefty fortune recycling the air that we breathe in the cabin. Before smoking was banned by airlines, the air that we breathed was completely replaced every three minutes. Now they use a mixture of fresh and recycled air, saving a not insignificant six percent on their fuel bills. The downside to this is that levels of carbon dioxide in the cabin are significantly higher, causing various unpleasant side effects, not least a sizeable increase in airborne bacteria and an elevated likelihood of ‘air rage’ incidents. This in turn means that the majority of modern day travellers leave their flights in a bad mood and are quite possibly ‘coming down with something’ too. 1

However, all of this is very suddenly forgotten as Hong Kong finally begins to slowly creep into view like a burning beacon on the dark horizon. Edging its way closer until before you know it you have flown right over it and are now watching it out of the cabin window. The plane then banks steeply around on itself, allowing you a momentary glimpse of the vista below and joins the stack of aircraft waiting for their turn to touch down.

The view from the cabin as the plane begins circling the city is nothing short of phenomenal. Neon clad buildings reach into the clouds in juxtaposition with the tree covered slopes that enclose the city like a huge, natural medieval curtain wall, all starkly silhouetted against the dark horizon. Huge billboards advertising familiar western brands tower alongside their more exotic cousins which stand beside them, equally as colourful and splashed with Chinese characters, serving to illustrate the influence that one hundred and fifty six years of British rule has had on the city’s culture. From the air the city appears infinite, sprawling and twinkling below you as if the stars themselves have fallen from the sky and carpeted the ground beneath. Yet, at the same time Hong Kong appears insurmountably finite, hemmed in by the hills and ocean that surround it like a beautifully iridescent jewelled egg nestled snugly in the majestic landscape.

As the city has developed over the last thirty thousand years from the collection of small Stone Age settlements uncovered by archaeologists beneath the foundations of the city into the vast metropolis that it forms today, these obvious topographical limitations have had to be overcome. Instead of sprawling endlessly outwards as many modern cities have, Hong Kong has had no choice but to build upwards. As a result of this almost every building in the city is at least ten stories high.

As the plane embarks on its final approach it becomes apparent that the runway in fact stretches out into the sea. This is not a pleasant realisation to dawn on a person, particularly when that person is mortally afraid of flying. Thankfully though, as I’ve mentioned, I had been wise enough to get drunk in the extortionately expensive Irish bar in Heathrow airport by sharing more than a few beers with family and friends who had come to see us off on our big adventure. Outwardly, of course, I endeavoured to appear cool and relaxed although it was probably fairly obvious that I was trying to consume as much alcohol as was humanly possible before the last call to board the flight. I continued along a similar vein once on board the flight and nearly fifteen hours of Dutch courage coupled with the magnificent vista stretched out beneath the plane seemed to ease the stress of grappling with my irrational fears for over half a day more than a little.

Singapore Airlines had also presumably pre-empted my nerves and decided that in order to help me to clear my mind of any unwelcome images of every disastrous plane crash I had ever seen on the BBC news, that they would crew the plane with a harem of stunning oriental beauties instead of the usual effeminate ‘bachelors’ that serve refreshments on the majority of long haul flights. This pleasantly surprising upgrade in scenery allowed me to steady myself enough to keep the yelps, cries and shouts that usually punctuate any flight that I take to a minimum, even during take off and landing, managing to only lose control momentarily during a couple of particularly bumpy bouts of turbulence.

Only about twenty minutes after Hong Kong had appeared on the horizon the plane touched down gently onto the tarmac and taxied up to the terminal. Waiting at the end of the tunnel was an extraordinarily stern looking gentleman dressed in what appeared to be the kind of dark green military uniform preferred the world over by despots and dictators. A small pistol was holstered on his belt in what seemed to be a deliberately visible fashion. Naturally I nodded at him and smiled the ridiculous smile of a tourist embarking on a new trip from under the wide brimmed leather hat that I had been wearing, perched on top of my head since leaving the house the previous morning. This gesture was met only with silence and an almost imperceptible increase in the intensity of his stare and so I took Faye’s hand and we made our way swiftly past him to the luggage carousel to see if our backpacks and my guitar had been kind enough to come to Hong Kong with us.

Thankfully they had. So we joined the crowd of people, not really knowing where we needed to go next, and let ourselves get swept away by them in the hope that they had a little more idea of where they were going than we did. Sure enough after swirling and eddying our way through a maze of corridors the crowd became a queue. The queue for customs in fact, which turned out to be a surprisingly painless affair considering that we had just arrived in what some suggest may be a communist ‘Police State’.

Having made our way fairly effortlessly through customs we walked out into the main building of the airport. A huge modern glass structure enclosed this part of the terminal like an enormous greenhouse. It was one of those buildings that are very aesthetically pleasing but you can’t help but wonder why they have made it so big. And when I say big I don’t just mean big. I mean enormous, cavernous, colossal even. At ground level it was a triumph of engineering that Isambard Kingdom Brunel himself would have been proud of. Everything had clearly been meticulously thought out in order to arrange things in a logical and useful manner. However it seemed to be about thirty times taller than it really needed to be, as if the comrade who had designed it was perhaps trying to make up for certain shortcomings in other, more personal areas of his life.

And speaking of over compensation, that brings me neatly on to the subject of the airport security. As if the cheerful chap who greeted us from the plane was not intimidating enough, then the airport police most certainly were. As wide as they were tall, sporting mirrored aviator sunglasses, clothed in blue combat uniforms reminiscent of a hundred appalling Jean Claude Van Damme movies and carrying machine guns that would not have looked out of place bolted to the side of H.M.S. Invincible they stood dotted around the building ominously eying every traveller with a worrying degree of suspicion.

We made our way past these humourless, posing sentinels, through the airport and towards the exit, eager now to get to the hotel that I had booked online some time before. It was not long until we were accosted by a friendly man who asked if we needed a taxi. Obviously he had noticed the huge backpacks we were pushing along on our luggage trolley, the lost looks on our faces and of course the big leather hat that all inexperienced tourists feel obliged to wear and decided to come dashing to our aid. Faye argued that there was probably a much cheaper bus that would take us to our destination but I insisted that we should trust this man as he was nice enough to have already taken control of the luggage trolley for us and so in my infinite wisdom we followed him out to the taxi rank, loaded up the bags and hopped into the back of the taxi.

Oddly the man who had taken us there was simply a passenger and the driver himself, who looked strangely like a Chinese version of Lee Van Cleef in ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’, was waiting in the car for us. He looked into the rear view mirror at us and smiled, obviously impressed by my big leather hat and so I smiled back with pride. The journey didn’t take nearly as long as expected and we passed the time chatting with the driver and his companion about the pros, pros and further pros of David Beckham who for some inexplicable reason seems to be considered as some sort of deity in China.

When we arrived at the Hotel, the prestigious sounding although in fact triumphantly middle of the road Ramada Kowloon we paid the driver $600 which it seems after further research was in fact just under twice the going rate, although of course we had no idea at the time. We realised the next day as we took a walk around Kowloon that we could account for this discrepancy because we had driven along pretty much every road on the island en route to the Ramada before finally turning into the one where our hotel was situated.

I had heard terrible stories from all the usual sparsely travelled doom-mongers back in England about taxi drivers dropping you off and then making off with your bags before you reached the boot of the car so I was almost pleasantly surprised that he had simply realised that we had no real idea of where we were or where we were heading and taken the piss a little bit. Something that we weren’t unfamiliar with from years of experience dealing with cabbies in London. Faye suggested that perhaps my big leather hat had incurred some sort of penalty charge but of course I knew that couldn’t possibly be the case because it was my hat which had secured us the taxi in the first place.

The hotel was rather nicer than I had secretly expected given the decidedly modest price I had paid for the room. The room was basic but clean and the view from the window across the city was outstanding. Even though it didn’t incorporate anything particularly remarkable or beautiful the view typified Hong Kong with its bright lights, tall buildings, endless crowds of people and as it turned out in the morning, fabulous sunsets. We took a quick shower and then headed down to the hotel bar for a quick drink. Faye had a glass of wine and I opted for a pint of Guinness which had most likely travelled as far as I had to get to my table and tasted like it had too. By now it was about half past eight in the evening so we drank up and headed out into the night to explore the city a little and get something to eat.

I had been quite excited by the idea of trying some of the local delicacies but unfortunately Faye’s vegetarianism proved a hindrance to this plan and instead we found a little café where we could enjoy jacket potatoes with cheese. Although a little disappointed by our extraordinarily anglicised meal, I was pleased that it looked and tasted like a jacket potato with cheese in stark contrast to the tasteless grey food we had eaten on the plane hours before.

The air was heavy with humidity in Hong Kong at this time of year. Clouds hung over the city, constantly threatening to rain. This kind of humidity heightens the inevitable fishy smells of any international port and Hong Kong was no exception. If anything I quite liked the smells that wafted through the streets but Faye was somewhat less enthusiastic about them. The strong fishy aromas disagreed with her sensitive vegetarian nasal palate, something that she wasn’t afraid to mention on a number of occasions. Much to my embarrassment.

Once we had polished off our dinner we headed back out into the night in search of the legendary bargains that Hong Kong has to offer. We had read in the tourist guides that the street markets were full of clothes and souvenirs that could be picked up for next to nothing as long as you weren’t afraid to barter with the sellers. We both found this idea quite appealing and so we asked a local couple where the closest market was. Following their directions we realised that the market was conveniently just around the corner from our hotel. Faye’s mother’s birthday was coming up in the next couple of weeks and we thought it would be nice to send her something back from our travels. At this point we were on a strict self imposed budget designed mainly to minimise unnecessary spending on extortionately priced taxis and other such frivolities.

After a preliminary wander around the stalls we decided to try our hand at bartering and so we went into a little canvas canopied stall which was selling traditional Chinese clothing and picked out a beautiful red silk blouse, patterned with tiny flowers and cut in that classically elegant high necked Chinese style that is recognised all over the world. I asked the stallholder how much he wanted for it and was surprised when he said only $30. At the time the only thing I had to compare that with was the taxi fare from the airport to the hotel earlier that evening and based on that it seemed to be a pretty reasonable price.

Faye reminded me that although it may seem reasonable I had to bear in mind that I was still wearing my big leather hat which seemed to carry with it some sort of ‘headgear levy’ that would at least double the cost of any transaction, and so taking that into account she took over from me and expertly persuaded him to part with it for only $10 instead. Pleased with our purchase we walked back out from under the canvas and into the warm sticky night air again before Faye turned to me and whispered,

‘You might want to leave that hat in the hotel room tomorrow.’

As it happened, Faye, the Big Leather Hat and I didn’t see very much of tomorrow as our confused body clocks kept us awake until seven o’clock the following morning. We went for another drink in a bar near the hotel before heading back at about one o’clock in the morning. We tiptoed past the sleeping concierge and headed back up to our room from where we watched people milling around in the streets below.

Eventually we realised that sleep was not going to happen so we went back out and took a stroll around the still lively streets. People in Hong Kong don’t seem to rest unless they are at work. The streets were full of people wandering between bars, cafés and late night eateries enjoying themselves into the early hours of the morning and beyond while occasionally you would catch site of a group of labourers sleeping around the edge of a hole that they clearly should have been digging, a telephone engineer asleep in the bottom of a phone booth that he is clearly supposed to be fixing and of course the sleeping concierge in our hotel lobby whom we crept passed for a second time just before seven o’clock in the morning as we finally made our way to bed.

We awoke the next afternoon at around 3 o’clock and decided to try and make the most of what was left of our only full day in Hong Kong and go and explore the local area some more. As Faye had suggested the night before, I chose to leave my hat in the hotel room in an attempt to save us some money and in its place I picked out a fetching orange bandana to keep the hair out of my eyes.

We walked for hours around Kowloon with no real idea of where we were going or indeed where we had been but it was exciting just to spend some time wandering around a city so different from any that we had visited before. Huge buildings towered either side of the long straight roads and stretched across the streets, starting about thirty feet up and going on upwards to the full height of the buildings were wires bearing colourful Chinese characters. Hong Kong is as colourful during the day as it is by night. And at street level thousands upon thousands of people flowed through the valleys between the high rise buildings as a river flows through an ancient gorge. Everywhere we went it seemed as though all of China had come with us.

Indoor shopping malls teemed with people shopping in surprisingly familiar retailers, but unlike the sprawling out of town shopping centres we are used to in the West these were compact shopping areas built around the inside of the skyscrapers, each floor connected to the next by escalators and elevators. Commerce seemed to be central to Hong Kong’s existence which was odd as it is ruled by a communist government. I suppose that this odd mix of communism and capitalism is yet another manifestation of Hong Kong’s recent British colonial history.

After grabbing a bite to eat from one of the many stalls selling noodles in the street we ducked into an internet café, bought ourselves a cold drink and spent an hour emailing friends and families to let them know that we had arrived safely, were having a good time and that apart from the taxi debacle everything had gone pretty smoothly so far.

When we got back out into the street, darkness was beginning to descend and so we decided to start making our way back to the hotel. We asked a busker for directions, partly because he was white and so there was a fair chance that he would speak English but mainly because he was playing some fantastic Hendrix style chops on a beautiful Fender Stratocaster and I wanted to have a closer look. He pointed out where we were and where we needed to go on our tourist map and we began to make our way back across town. Unfortunately even with the map we had very little idea of where we actually were and proceeded to wander around fairly aimlessly for the next half an hour. This began to frustrate Faye who was worried that we would never find our way back to the hotel. She also seemed to be convinced that the map was some sort of forgery, printed by some maverick cartographer, eventually deciding that it was of less use to us in the situation than a copy of War and Peace, promptly screwed it up into a ball and deposited it in the nearest litter bin. I was slightly annoyed by this as I felt that if anything it would be detrimental to our predicament and I didn’t particularly fancy chancing another taxi. Miraculously though, just around the next corner was the market we had visited the night before.

Pleased by this unexpected providence we started to wind our way through the stalls towards our hotel. As we neared our destination it started to rain. A kind of rain that neither of us had experienced before. A tropical rain. It seemed to arrive from nowhere, a torrential downpour that lasted nearly three quarters of an hour before stopping as suddenly as it had begun. It was warm but refreshing after the humidity we had been experiencing before and for a few hours after the air was fresher, sweeter and less stifling, cleared and temporarily refreshed by the rainfall.

We stopped at a seven eleven on the way back and I grabbed a fresh packet of cigarettes and a couple of cabbage flavoured pot noodle type snacks to eat (which although hardly ‘cordon bleu’ were not as disgusting as one might have expected them to be) before we made our way back to the hotel for a quick drink in the bar before bed as we had a plane to catch in the morning.

A quick drink turned inevitably into a few more as we began to set a boozy precedent for ourselves which we were to studiously honour for the rest of the trip. Eventually the barman politely reminded us that the bar was about to close and that if we wished to continue drinking then there was an excellent selection of beverages provided in the mini bar in our room. We duly obliged to his suggestion and headed upstairs where we spent what remained of our last night in Hong Kong watching the endless ebb and flow of the sleepless crowds as they ate, drank, shopped and generally did everything but sleep until we could keep our eyes open no longer and we finally turned in.

In the morning we packed up our limited possessions and waited outside the hotel, where we had been told by the concierge that every half hour a bus would stop and pick up passengers en route to the airport. The cost of this bus…two dollars. Needless to say I felt like a bloody fool.

IGCSE is expanded as International General Certificate of Secondary Education. It is a popular international certification for the secondary school. It is also referred to as O-Level or year 11 or fifth form in respective schools and countries, prior to proceeding to advanced levels such as the sixth form or A-level or 12 &13 year or even the pre-university studies.

IGCSE was previously University of CIE, Cambridge International Examinations, in 1988. In fact, since 1858, University of Cambridge is the UK local examination board. The term “IGCSE” is a trademark registered of University of Cambridge. Normally, when someone says IGCSE, it is taken as the IGCSE Cambridge from the CIE board.

The curricula of the IGCSE are similar to O-Level rather than the GCSE UK national curriculums. Thus, the examination basis is considered rigorous and more challenging.

Recognition

IGCSE is now offered in independent schools and private international schools in more than 120 countries. The IGCSE certificate is recognized by most major colleges and universities. It satisfies the entry level requirement of universities and institutions in many countries. Thus, students may enter university on completing IGCSE. Nevertheless, most prefer pursuing to International Baccalaureate or A-Level.

IGCSE is prominent among adult students and homeschoolers. IGCSE is taken by students in the age group of 14-16 or 15-17. It permits students from alternative education and also the adult students to sit for exams and pursue personal education advancement.

Some homeschooling educators are choosing IGCSE opposing the regular American high school curriculums as it is one more year advanced than the regular course of American high school.

Subjects

IGCSE has over 70 subjects. Students must take a minimum of 5 and maximum 14 subjects. First, second languages, sciences including physics, biology and chemistry and Mathematics are the core subjects. Students choosing other subjects are accounting, economics, business studies and sociology to computer studies, art & design and information & communication technology.

Students are awarded the IGCSE certificate for each subject. If you take 5 subjects, you receive 5 IGCSE certificates. The number of subjects to be taken vary with each school.

The IGCSE follows grade system from A* to G, and “Ungraded” is U. Students must obtain minimum C grade for the 5 core subjects to proceed to the advanced level or further education.

IGCSE grading overview is as below:

A* is 4.0 or 4.3 as grade

A is 4.0

B is 3.7

C is 3.0

D is 2.3

E is 2.0

F is 1.3

G is 1.o

U is 0.0(ungraded)

Group Award Cambridge ICE

The Cambridge ICE certificate denotes group award designed to offer a broad curriculum. Candidates give minimum seven subjects from the five IGCSE curriculum areas:

Group 1 – Languages

Group 2 – Social Sciences and Humanities

Group 3 – Sciences

Group 4 – Mathematics

Group 5 – Creative, Vocational and Technical

Cambridge ICE is awarded on passing in at least 7 Cambridge IGCSE subjects, and this includes two from Group 1 and one from Groups 2 to 5. The seventh subject can be anything chosen from the syllabus groups.

Teaching is a challenging and demanding profession yet seeing students learn is also very rewarding.

One of the challenges of teaching is having enough time to teach the many areas of the curriculum that are expected and to cater for the varying needs of the students in the class.

With the many disruptions in a day it can be worthwhile to look out for, and guard, any solid blocks of teaching time that are available. You might hang a “Do Not Disturb” sign outside your door during those times.

Timetabling is a complicated and complex task. However through working with the person who arranges the timetable in your school you can raise the awareness of the need to have appropriate blocks of time. The length of time that is ‘appropriate’ for your class will depend on their age and the learning intention.

It may be worthwhile raising the issue to secure your principal’s help in scheduling withdrawal programs around those blocks and ask parents not to schedule medical of dental appointments then.

To minimise lost time it is important to plan for smooth transitions between lessons. Transitions are those times during the day when you move from one activity to the next. Because students work at different paces and different levels, some may be able to make the transitions faster than others. Transition time often leaves openings for misbehavior and disruptions. To avoid this it is important to make your expectations for transitions clear and establish routines for transition times:

• Provide opportunities for students to practice those routines: “When you come in, be sure you complete your ‘Ready! Checklist’ before you sit down.”
• Let students know when an activity will end: “In two minutes we’ll have a whole-class review of this problem solving approach.”
• Let students know what they can expect in any subsequent or follow-up activity: “After lunch, we’re going to continue working in reading groups.”
• Be sure your lessons have clear beginnings and endings. Review the lesson objectives before the lesson begins and again at the conclusion of the lesson.

Be clear, be close

Students achieve when they know exactly what is expected of them. Incomplete work can be the result of incomplete directions. As a result, time is wasted. It’s equally important that students know you are available. Always provide clear, precise and thorough directions to any task. If students are asking lots of questions about what they’re supposed to do, the directions were not clear and precise.

A useful strategy can be to ask one of the students to repeat the directions. This not only checks that THEY have understood, it also gives other students a chance to hear the directions a second time and perhaps explained in a different way.

The amount of learning that takes place in a classroom is often related to the distance you maintain with your students. Time is saved when you are readily available and can take advantage of mini-teaching opportunities.

It is therefore important to closely monitor student progress by circulating throughout the room and maintaining a physical presence with the students. Your desk should not be a sanctuary from students.

Make the most of blocks of uninterrupted teaching time. Classrooms today face constant interruptions with specialist teacher lessons, events and interruptions to learning time. Over the course of a year, this can take as much as half of the day’s potential learning time away. Guard the blocks of teaching time that you have as GOLD! Protect them at all cost and use them to teach the most important lessons.

The relationships we have with students have a direct impact on our stress level and happiness. Behavior management guru Bill Rogers uses the term Warm-Demands to describe the ideal demeanor of staff in schools.

Rogers argues that our interactions with students should be characterized by a balance between the 'warmth' that shows we care about them as individuals and 'demanding' that shows we have expectations of them and their behavior. I find it helpful to see this as a continuum.

I have worked with staff in schools who have been too far to one end of the spectrum. Some staff have presented as being 'too warm'. They are clearly very keen to be friendly with students and work very hard at building rapport. At times it has appeared that the staff member was afraid to do anything that would jeopardize the friendship and the student 'liking' them. The friendship looks to be the highest priority. The staff member therefore had very limited control. In that situation the student is setting the tone.

I have also worked with staff who are 'too demanding'. I'm sure you know the "Do not smile until Easter!" approach. They display an attitude which could be described as harsh. There is no warmth displayed or any effort to build rapport with the students. They are very demanding, have very high expectations of students and could be interpreted as aloof. Whilst they make their expectations explicit to students, they are at risk of being unrealistic and disconnected from the students.

Obviously the ideal situation is an appropriate balance between warmth and demanding. The warmth is necessary to connect with students, have a good rapport and a relationship where students know you care about them and their learning. In this situation the student is more likely to respond by doing their best. Being demanding is also important as students need clear expectations and boundaries so that they know what is expected of them and rise to those expectations. The balance of warm yet demanding is as relevant at the front office as it is in the classroom.

Rogers advocates teachers developing a discipline plan to keep the focus of our classroom leadership on our core business – teaching and learning, rather than on student behavior itself.

While most teachers make focused and careful plans for day-to-day teaching, Rogers advocates giving the same reflection, consideration and planning to day-to-day discipline. We know there will be distracting behavior occurring in our classrooms as the social mix of students find 'their place' and the students 'measure' our leadership of the class.

A discipline plan is essentially a conscious framework for how we thoughtfully address the typical range of distracting and disruptive behaviors that can occur in any classroom. In the heat of busy, teaching and management moments, we do not have the luxury of time to think about an appropriate, helpful, discipline strategy and language.

To find out more read Bill Rogers' "Making A Discipline Plan" from Thomas Nelson publishing.

Choosing the correct plastic injection casting machine is one of the most crucial criteria for creating efficient machining parts constantly and beneficially. The appropriate machine will assist in keeping prices low and turn you more productive. This will let you sell more parts, make more money and simultaneously establish a status as a reliable company.

Even better, you’ll have the safety of long-term customers. The other vital criterion in manufacturing the efficient and quality parts is choosing the quality mold design.

How Can You Keep Your Costs Low?

• Reduce rejects rate (set a target <1%)
• Cut down the energy use of all injection casting machines
• Get rid of spontaneous machine downtime -(without any breakdowns)
• Get quicker cycle times

An accurately picked the casting machine will provide you the above mentioned points.

Here are Some of the Most Common Machine Choice Mistakes and Their Effects

The most effective way to value the significance of correct machine selection is to list down the most common faults made when choosing machines and the consequences on part productivity and condition.

Mistake 1: Purchasing Used Injection Machines Working Poorly

The key to purchasing a dependable used machine is to look for the one that has been completely examined and checked before delivering it so that you don’t undergo the production loss because of multiple breakdowns.

Mistake 2: Choosing Large Screw Diameters.

Sometimes the big screw diameters can lead to poor quality problems because of the material deprivation. When small shot sizes are utilized with big screw thickness, the plastic material takes more time to get warmed by the barrel heaters as a comparison to the big shot sizes. Material deprivation is more probable to happen if the shot size is undersized as a comparison to the injection unit’s utmost shot capacity, particularly for heat sensitive materials.

The other difficulty with large screw thickness are the big clipping forces produced during screw revolution, this can also break down the material and is probable to cause reject parts.

Mistake 3: All-purpose Screws

The main benefit of an all-purpose screw is that they can be utilized with most plastic materials like PE, PP, PET, Nylon, and PC so they’re very adaptable and good for molding companies that mold a range of various materials.

The drawback is that, for a few materials, component types and efficiency rates will be lesser compared to more superior injection casting screw designs like the barrier screw.

Mistake 4: Injection Pressure Controlled

For constantly making the efficient parts the molding technique should not be restricted by the pressure of injection. It is recommended to have at least 10 percent injection pressure aside so that the injection casting machine can automatically tweak to a normal variation in the plastic material thickness. Less injection pressure will create short moldings.

Usually the injection units screw thickness controls the obtainable utmost injection pressure so it is important to select the right diameter when purchasing a plastic injection casting machine.

When selecting a supplier for printed metal components with important and essential features, you have to consider some key elements. Although important, unit cost cannot be the only determining factor. Taking a purchasing decision as per the quoted cost may lead to overall disappointment having a supplier’s performance or maybe an unfortunate situation.

Firstly, it’s very crucial to select a right metal stamping supplier having significant experience in this field. Make sure that you’re taking enough time to be knowledgeable about how long a supplier has been in this business, and also to identify with the kinds of machinery they have placed in the past. You should also know whether a supplier’s proficiency is within created parts, flat parts, or both. You should the take time to discover about the supplier’s experience when managing difficult, complex parts, significant ability to hold strict specifications, in addition to their capability to get complex corners.

The 2nd and 3rd things that should be considered are whether the supplier’s practical experience in constructing and creating stamped metal dies. A dealer who is capable of designing and making the stamp precision dies will eventually more eligible to accomplish rubber stamping your parts than the ordinary supplier without these skills. A reliable supplier designing the precision stamped metal dies is well aware of the importance of achieving certain features and situations within a die which result in the greatest competence and quality all through the rubber stamping process. A dealer who is well-skilled at planning and developing metal marking dies has the added benefit of having the power to troubleshoot and deal with any type of unplanned issues related to stamps.

The 4th step to take into account while selecting a precision metal mold supplier possibly will be the capacity of the supplier in overall process control. If your chosen supplier is ISO-certified, it will give you a particular level of assurance that manages procedures. Focusing on the way a metal molding supplier creates and works together with control strategies is very crucial. Visiting the local supplier to go through their quality system performance and working is most probably the easiest and most convenient way of evaluating the supplier’s application on process control. Recognizing the working of the standard expert in the industry will speak volumes to make sure that the work will finish up effectively and successfully. Assessing a dealer’s purchase of inspection gears is another sign of potential success.

Subsequently, it is beneficial to realize if your precision metal molding supplier offers a die maintenance program. It can eventually lead to making the most of the existence of the die and can optimize your overall existence cycle cost for the placed part. It will help in dealing with the component and die inspection, tweaking of die/press/peripheral kit, properly set up/disassembly methods, die component alternative programs, synchronization, and others.

Finally, a precision stamped metal supplier’s supply history will reveal whether a dealer has got the proper mechanisms in a position not just in the pages and employ a good delivery time period, but actually to provide on-time. If your supplier isn’t properly monitoring their on-time delivery performance, then it’s better to choose another supplier.

Small Island in the Arabian Sea

The southwestern Pakistan was stricken by a major earthquake,

Which killed people, and collapsed so many buildings and houses.

The forming of a small island in the Arabian Sea was not a fake.

Men had to leave their homes together with their kids and spouses.

The quake that hit Pakistan’s Baluchistan province had 7.8 magnitude.

On the coast of Gwadar, many houses collapsed on the people inside.

The island having a width around 100 feet and up to 20 feet altitude,

Is a new rocky formation above the water rising like a sea tide.

Mud volcanoes have risen off that coast and disappeared again

Within a few months being washed away by the currents in the Sea.

The mystery of this volcano, which can meet the same fate, no one can explain.

The Vikings Edda and the Bible, in searching for the truth, can form a key.

This quake was centered at a strange triple junction in the Earth’s surface

The Arabian tectonic plate being pushed its way beneath the Eurasian plate.

The Indian plate rammed into both of them, the terrain was deformed to resurface.

This effect of the quake is more interesting than the changes in the atomic weight.

The tremors were even felt in northern part of India including its capital

This quake being similar with that one moving parts of Chile 10 feet to the west.

The story about another island temporarily rising from the Arabian Sea is real.

The ‘super typhoon’ formed in the Pacific Ocean proves that the weather is stressed.

Usagi swept through the Luzon Strait separating the Philippines and Taiwan

To bring torrential rains and high winds to the island while weakening slightly.

It made landfall in China’s Guangdong Province in the city of Shanwei, near Kowloon.

The rain continued inland over China triggering flooding, the life changing sightly.

The Batanes Islands, in the northern Philippines north of Luzon, took a direct hit.

The rain has fallen in the northern Philippines, where the typhoon was named Odette.

Japan is damaged by the quake and the tsunami, because it’s time to start a split.

People of San Francisco wait for their turn thinking that the life is not finished, yet.

An Antique Beauty

This antique mirror boosts no confidence. Concave

reveals its magic tricks with an incurvate

red surface. Some human hair

blending braids are there to fancify your boxers, your removable

metallic silver suspenders underwear and

her red bra underwire slips. It is a new style.

I feel anguish, when I touch the pull locks. Her picture

of the antique statue is hidden between all those things. She

enters the mirror to kiss you every time you look at it. Like jelly candies

are her lipsticks on that silver, but

they have different taste. For me,

they look like isoquants, or indifference curves. I want

to leave you. What do you think?

The water that drips from the mirror, when I wash it, is like crimsonblood. Scary

optical illusions split the reality into two variants through my woe,

and create a much looser and less direct relationship

between us than ever. You live for

your comfort and versatility. You cannot change it.

Dragon Mythology

No one knows precisely when human beings started applying body tattoos, but all historical evidence show that this form of art is almost as old as human civilization. Historians have also proposed that it is one of the earliest forms of art. If you think of tattoos, then one of the pictures that come to your mind is probably a dragon tattoo. Despite being very attractive, this tattoo is also one of the most widespread as it can be found in most cultures from East to West.

To understand why these tattoos are so popular, it would be significant first to comprehend the mythology behind the creature that forms the subject of this tattoo. A dragon has many definitions, but the Standard English dictionary defines it as a giant mythical and scaly serpent that usually has a crested head and also giant claws.

The dragon is represented differently in different cultures for example in the west it is described as a giant winged reptile that breathes fire. There are many mythical creatures across different cultures but very few if at all any can be found in as many cultures as the dragoon.

In the various cultures that the dragon can be found there is always a different perception of this creature. In the West, the Dragon is viewed as an evil or merciless being that brings destruction to mankind by burning homesteads and taking away livestock. It is also known to have a massive treasure hoard and people are always trying to find a way to steal the treasure from the dragon, but the dragon protects its hoard with all its might. However, in some cases the dragon is also perceived as benevolent and protective in the west. This dragons protected mankind from other mythical creatures and were also used in battles.

In the East, the dragon is viewed differently as it is not considered to be as evil as people in the West believe it to be. In the Eastern cultures, the dragon is perceived as a benevolent creature that aims at protecting mankind sing its supernatural powers. The eastern dragon is also quite different from the western dragon that adopts a primitive lizard look. The Eastern Dragon is a giant serpent-like creature with a long body and two sets of legs. In the East, dragons can be found in the Korean, Japanese and Chinese cultures. The oldest dragons in the East come from the Chinese culture, and they are most linked to religion. Buddhist temples are adorned with dragons in both carvings and paintings to show the special place they hold in this religion.

Legends behind dragon tattoos

Of all the dragon tattoos that you can have few if at all if any are as legendary as Chinese dragons. The ancient Chinese dragons are said symbolize cosmic energy and are a symbol of good fortune. Most people have these tattoos because they believe that it will bring them luck and make life better for them. Besides from this legend has it that dragons have an array of good qualities that will benefit your life. For example, they lead to infinite success, high achievements in life and prosperity beyond your wildest imaginations.

There are many legends surrounding these tattoos, but the Nine Dragons Legend is perhaps the most well known one. This is probably also the reason the nine dragon tattoo is very popular. The legend comes from the name given to the mainland overlooking Hong Kong; Kowloon. This area was named by a Chinese Emperor, who named it after the eight predominant hills in the area. After the emperor was forced to go into exile one of his loyal servants, so it was befitting to count the emperor among the regal figures in the area and hence the name Kowloon which means nine dragons was born.

Each one the nine dragons represent a particular characteristic and so if you have the tattoo you will benefit from the advantage that it brings. For example, the P’u-lao serves as a protector and will alert you to any impending danger. The Pa-hsia, on the other hand, is the provider of the strength. By having any of the nine dragons you will enjoy the powers of that specific dragon according to legend.

What makes these tattoos so popular in the East?

These tattoos are famous across the world but in the East they seem to hold a very special place. In fact when a person goes to get a tattoo the chances are that he or she is most likely to request for a dragon tattoo is they do not already have one. The main reason behind this is that culture and beliefs are more important in the East compared to the West.

Although there is no physical evidence of the existence of dragons in real life they are depicted as wise powerful and free creatures, and this also acts as an inspiration for people to have their tattoos. Stories of dragons have been passed down in Easter cultures for generations. These stories create a fascination with the younger generation, and this is what drives them to get these tattoos.

Unlike in the west where dragons are merciless creatures in the East they adapt the opposite characteristics with protection being one of the main things that they promise to offer human beings. Instead of getting any other tattoos most people will prefer to go for these tattoos that will also provide them protection against various types of dangers.

Dragon images look great on the skin compared to many other tattoos and so this is also one of the reasons that make it so popular in the east. Due to the nature and appearance of this tattoo it will look well on any skin regardless of its color and complexion. Over the years, tattoo artists have perfected the dragon image, and so you are likely to get a perfect tattoo when you have it.

This is normally very massive which gives it more appeal for people in the East who mostly do not like having very many tattoos on their body like in the West. Instead of drawing many tattoos on your body the dragon tattoo makes it possible to have one that covers a large area in your body.

Hong Kong today remains one of the best offshore banking jurisdictions. It offers a great combination of bank secrecy, corporate secrecy, a financially and politically stable environment, and strong banks. But perhaps most importantly, it’s a secure offshore investment haven for those who want to diversify out of sinking western currencies into booming Asian markets, and China in particular.

So how can you go about opening an offshore bank account in Hong Kong? Do you have to travel there? This article will answer these questions and give you some practical hints and tips. But first some background.

A Successful Free Market Experiment For East and West Alike

Hong Kong, in my opinion, is the only practical example in the world of a major city that has been developed from scratch and run as something of an offshore, free market experiment – first by the British, then by the Chinese.

The main Island (and later Kowloon and the New Territories, parts of the mainland) was a British colony for most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this time it grew from a fishing village and opium trading hub, into a city-state of seven million people. It became known as a free-wheeling, free market paradise for capitalists, with an economy characterized by low taxation, free trade and no government interference in business.

In 1997 the British returned sovereignty over Hong Kong to China. The former colony became one of China’s two Special Administrative Regions (SARs), the other being Macau. Many people were initially doubtful about one of the world’s capitalist bastions being run by a communist power, and at the time a lot of investors pulled out, many taking their dynamic business acumen heading to places like Singapore and Vancouver.

However, the “one country, two systems” model adopted by Beijing to coincide with free market reforms and the growth of China into an economic superpower has proven very successful. The Basic Law of Hong Kong, the equivalent of the constitution, stipulates that the SAR maintains a “high degree of autonomy” in all matters except foreign relations and defence. The SAR today operates as a major offshore finance center, discreetly oiling the wheels of commerce between East and West.

These days, rather than being put off by the Chinese influence, most international investors who are attracted to Hong Kong are coming precisely because of this Chinese connection. Hong Kong is the point of access to Chinese trade, without the legal and cultural difficulties of doing business in mainland China.

Those who do not trust their own governments are reassured by the fact that under the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s foreign relations are run from Beijing. While most offshore jurisdictions humbly submit to demands from the USA and other western countries, in the case of China, the relationship is definitely reversed. Hong Kong does have a number of Tax Information Exchange Agreements (see below) but these are sensibly policed and do not allow for fishing expeditions.

Offshore Banking in Hong Kong

The region’s population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups, but English is very widely spoken and is the main language in businesses like banking.

One thing I like about using Hong Kong for offshore bank accounts is the same argument I have used for Panama and Singapore: it’s a ‘real’ country with real trade going on. The Hong Kong dollar is the ninth most traded currency in the world. Compare this to doing business on a small island or other remote banking jurisdiction, where everybody knows your only reason for doing business there is offshore banking. It also means that there is no problem doing your banking in cash, if you so wish.

For now the HKD, the local dollar, still tracks very closely the US dollar, but this appears to be changing as the Chinese Yuan circulates freely in Hong Kong, both in cash and in bank deposits. We think this represents an excellent opportunity to diversify funds out of the US dollar now, gaining exposure to Chinese growth in the meantime. (Of course, you can also hold HKD in banks in other parts of the world too)

Bank accounts in Hong Kong are almost all multi-currency by default, allowing all major local and international currencies to be held under one account number and exchanged freely and instantly within the account at the click of a mouse.

There is no capital gains tax, no tax on bank interest or stock market investments, and no tax on offshore sourced income. This, combined with a welcoming attitude to non-resident clients in the banks (including US citizens by the way, who are generally unwelcome in traditional offshore banking havens like Switzerland), and strong cultural and legal respect for financial privacy, makes Hong Kong one of Asia’s best offshore banking jurisdictions.

For those who want to establish a small offshore account under reporting limits, or simply to have the bank account established in view of future business, Hong Kong is also attractive given the low minimum deposits demanded by the major banks there. The minimum bank account balance can be as low as HK$ 3,000. Of course, you can’t expect red carpet, VIP private banking at this level – but you get a perfectly good functioning bank account with all the technological trimmings.

Offshore Corporate Bank Accounts in Hong Kong – Do’s and Don’ts

Typically, offshore clients choose to open accounts using corporations, as opposed to personal accounts. This not only offers greater privacy, but also flexibility and can – depending of course on how things are structured – offer significant tax and asset protection advantages.

Accounts can easily be opened both for pure offshore companies like Panama, BVI, Nevis or Marshall Islands, or for local Hong Kong companies that are set up using nominee directors and shareholders.

When contacting local corporate service providers in Hong Kong, you’ll find that most of these corporate service providers will recommend you use a Hong Kong company to open the account. The reason they do this is that it’s simpler and more profitable for them. They can incorporate a local company at low cost, opening the bank account is smoother and faster with a local company, and they can carry on billing nominee director fees every year. But it may not be the right thing for you.

Whilst it is true that Hong Kong companies do not have to pay any tax provided they do not make any local source income, administering such a company is not so simple. For example, Hong Kong companies are required to file audited accounts every year. They must file pages and pages of documents to convince the Inland Revenue Department (HKIRD) that they don’t have any local business, and, from practical experience, the HKIRD is getting much stickier about this. Long-established companies are normally left unmolested but newly established companies can expect a lot of compliance work in their first few years. Again, this suits the Hong Kong corporate service providers who charge handsomely for such services.

Another factor to consider is Controlled Foreign Corporation (CFC) legislation in your home country. (For an explanation see Wikipedia ) Many clients choose to set up LLCs as they can be treated as passthrough entities, vastly simplifying reporting requirements in some countries like the USA. Hong Kong corporations are not LLCs and cannot be treated as passthroughs for tax purposes.

My advice – assuming you don’t intend to do any business in Hong Kong besides banking and perhaps the occasional trip to visit your money – would be to open the account in the name of a company from a foreign offshore tax haven. It’s a little more work and expense at the beginning, and the bank might ask you more questions, but it will save you a lot of money and headaches in the long term. If you want a local look and feel for your company, numerous virtual office services are available.

Hong Kong Tax Information Exchange Agreements

Contrary to what you will read on some out-of-date websites, Hong Kong has signed a number of Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs). However, the HKIRD is at pains to point out that fishing expeditions are not going to be tolerated.

The HKIRD has issued Practice Note 47, available on the internet, which usefully explains how the HKIRD seek to achieve a balance between the requirements of compliance with the OECD requirements, whilst providing checks and balances to protect the rights of businesspeople.

The HKIRD are professionals and should be well positioned to deal with TIEA requests properly and justly in accordance with the treaties and guidelines. I am confident not going to allow their ‘clients’ rights to be trampled on.

Regulation of Banks in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Banking Ordinance was revamped in 1986. It has since undergone several amendments to improve prudential supervision. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) was formed in 1993 as a one-stop financial regulator, responsible for everything from banks to stored value anonymous debit cards.

The SAR maintains a three-tier system of deposit-taking institutions, comprising licensed banks, restricted license banks, and deposit-taking companies. Only licensed banks may operate current and savings accounts, and accept deposits of any size and maturity. RLBs are only allowed to accept deposits of HK$500,000 and above, while DTCs are only permitted to accept deposits of a minimum of HK$100,000 with original maturity of not less than three months.

Both these latter categories provide an opportunity for overseas banks to conduct wholesale, investment or private banking activities in Hong Kong without having to jump through the hoops of applying for a full banking license. In addition, some foreign banks have chosen to open representative offices in Hong Kong, which are not allowed to take deposits but can assist in opening accounts at other offices within their groups.

As Hong Kong is an international financial centre, it is an explicit policy of the HKMA that the regulatory framework in Hong Kong should conform as much as possible with international standards, in particular those recommended by the Basel Committee.

Hong Kong’s five largest banks, in terms of total assets, are as follows:

– Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)

– Bank of China (Hong Kong)

– Hang Seng Bank Ltd

– Standard Chartered Bank

– Bank of East Asia Ltd.

A full list of updated Hong Kong banks can be found on Wikipedia.

Visiting Hong Kong to Open a Bank Account

If you are visiting Hong Kong to open your account, it can normally be opened the same day provided you have made some arrangements with a local service provider, or directly with the bank, in advance. This is assuming you use one of the major banks, that nearly everybody does. You can then simply visit the bank, sign documents and receive the bank account number immediately. This will be a full multi-currency account and you will typically receive a digital token for internet banking, a password and a debit card.

The documents required for opening offshore bank account are:

1) Formation documents (in the case of corporate accounts. Apostilles are required in the case of foreign corporate accounts – your offshore provider will know how to obtain these.)

2) Bank forms and business plan/expected activity (a corporate service provider will normally supply these as part of the service)

3) Passport copies of each director, signatory and shareholder (take special note of this requirement if you are using nominee directors – if the persons are not present, copies will have to be notarized.)

4) Proof of address (such as updated bill statement which shows up your name and address) and signed (of each director and shareholder)

A bank reference is generally required if you are dealing direct with the bank. If you go through a corporate service provider, they normally write a reference so you do not need to supply a bank reference. However, if you can obtain a bank reference it is better.

Opening an account without visiting Hong Kong

It is also perfectly possible to open accounts without visiting Hong Kong (known as ‘remote account opening’) though this process tends to take substantially longer as banks will ask a lot more questions. In this case, your bank or service provider will generally e-mail you the forms, that you will need to print out and sign.

Depending on the bank, there may well be certain special instructions about how and where to sign – for example, HSBC in Hong Kong will typically request that you have your signature witnessed in the HSBC Bank nearest to you. As with all foreign bank accounts, you should be sure to use the same signature that appears in your passport, otherwise the documents will be rejected.

In the case of remote account opening the bank will normally courier the password, debit card, and token direct to your address in your home country. Then you need to activate them via the bank’s website.

Conclusion

Hong Kong competes very favorably with Singapore, the other Asian banking jurisdiction we favor. If you have not yet diversified your offshore holdings into Asia, you should seriously consider doing so. I hope this article will be helpful in this regard.