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Some things are evolving and some things stand still…
We all travel on the motorway and stop off to have a sandwich or pasty with a coffee, or pop by the fast food 'joint'. We've all accepted this as the norm, and as a stop gap to something better – by why?
I've just had the most amazing shopping experience at Gloucester service station, where they are doing things differently!
It's eating as if I'm sitting in a trendy cafe in Notting Hill – I've bought dinner with the most outstanding local fresh produce, all from the Gloucester services on the M5.
It's just great for someone to stop, think honestly about what their customers want, and not accept what everybody else is doing. Instead they are using the space to the customer's advantage.
I think it's probably a step too far to take the wife for dinner , but it's always good to have it up your sleeve!
So, how does this apply to spa retail?
Ever feel like your pushing water up the hill? The management and commission systems have not changes for donkey's years and the space is a few shelves with spot lighting is the same place in nearly all spas. It could be that the typical product houses net margins are so poor that spas don't really see this as time well spent.
If you look at Gloucester services, it's really inviting – you want to go in and spend money. You have the choice to spend a small amount or even do your weekly shop. You've got choice and that's a major issue for spa retail – lack of choice.
Why not sell chocolate bars, we all eat them and love them? Clothes, books, magazines – you need to have something the for 'guilt' purchase. What about your till teaser? The Natural Spa factory have some great ideas with this from face mask to massage candles.
If you fancy a chat about how you can make the most of your space, get in touch.
How things are changing…
10 years ago we didn't fully understand what a Spa was and how to utilise the space that was given to it. How things have changed!
We're having some really fascinating conversations with Hotel Owners and General Managers about the contribution of 'Spas' and what they can bring to the hotel. Years ago, the word 'Spa' would appear on the bottom of the P&L under leisure or other income, and generally only get about 2 minutes in the 'lime light' of the management meeting.
However, in some cases Spas are now bringing in more profit than food and beverage, and more than conferencing.
The Spas that we are talking to bring in between 46-50% operating profit to the hotel, plus the increase in hotel room occupancy of 7-15%, annualised or an increase in room yield of £3-£10.
So, the Spa has really found it's place within the hotel industry and, as General Managers start to embrace the business of Spas and selling the space just like hotel rooms, we will only see revenue grow.
You still need to look at margins and how to make the Spa stand out and sell more treatments a the right price. This comes from independence, just like your hotel restaurant, you're not a chain and don't have the same menu as the hotel down the road, so why does your Spa? It's time to let the Spa Managers do exactly that – manage.
Just like your Head Chef changes the food menu every season, so should your Spa. Does your Head Chef go to his suppliers for training or food ideas? I hope not! So why is your Spa Manager following the formulaic guidance of the Product House? Its time for you to come up with treatments that are right for you and your customers, and that sell and give you back the margins that work for you. Freedom is what's required from the typical Product Houses. That's why we use the Natural Spa Factory for all our products.
I'm always happy to chat on the subject of Spas, so please feel free to contact me.
Top Tips… on Designing a Spa
- Understand what your brand is and who you are.
- Visualise your facility in 3 images. Are they attractive? If yes, these will be your marketing shots and should sum up your business without words.
- Understand your Revenue Centres and the costs each will need to run them.
- Ensure the spa space will entertain your clientele for 5 hours or more.
- Design v Cost – make sure you have budget for your vision.
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Top Tips… on selling your products as retail
- Design your retail area – your customers are buying the experience as well as the product.
- Full shelves are more attractive than empty ones. Fill them from the front a maximum of two deep.
- Leave a tester pot on the side, with some tester sticks, customers love to try beforehand.
- Buy in multiples of 3. It looks like you are offering more.
- You will need POS material – perhaps with your brand on it – it attracts attention.
- Put small items such as massage candles, or face packs at the till as inexpensive, little add ons.


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From the northern tip of Sumatra, we headed back down to the village of Bukit Lawang, famous for its orangutans and jungle park. We needed to get back to Malaysia so we only stayed one day, but we were still able to see some orangutans. Bukit Lawang is on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park and has an orangutan rehabilitation center where you can watch them feed the primates up close. Read the rest of this entry »
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A common piece of advice on getting through a breakup is to "take advantage of your support system". Of course times like these are one of the reasons we call family and friends a support system in the first place, but how we act during the breakup can put a strain on relationships with the people who love us and care about us the most. Friends and family may get impatient and frustrated with us, while we end up feeling let-down and disappointed. Sometimes we start to wonder if they really care, but the problem may be how you're trying to get support rather than whether they're willing to help.
Before you stop talking to your sis or give your best friend the cold shoulder just when you could really use HER shoulder to cry on, check out these guidelines for using your support system wisely.
Realize that there are different kinds of support and appreciate what each person can offer. Everyone has their strong and not-so-strong points and no one person is likely to give you all the support you need. Identify each person's strong point and concentrate on that for the time being.
Fun Distraction: Some friends are best for laughs and good times. They're not so good with the serious stuff but they're almost always ready to go out for a night on the town or a new adventure. Let your time with them be a time to get away from your troubles for a while and don't bring a lot of your troubles to them.
Activity Buddies: These relationships are similar to "fun friends" but your main bond is around a specific interest or activity (running partners, chess opponents, the other "doggie moms" at the local run). It's super-important to keep busy and stay involved with things you're interested in to reinforce the fact that you have your own life, but you won't really get that benefit if you spend all your time at pilates talking about your ex's commitment issues.
Advice Givers: They want to help and they've got some ideas about how to handle the situation. They're best to talk to when you're open to another opinion. They can get impatient when you're floundering and not sure about what you want, or when you just want to talk about how you feel, or if you bring up the same thing when they've already given you advice about it. Parents often fall under this category.
Good Listeners: Some people are just great at being patient and willing to listen when we need to talk They don't try to fix it and they don't brush it off. Go to these friends when you need a shoulder to cry on. Just make sure you don't overload them (more on this below). And even though they're good at it, don't only come to them to talk about your problems--share some happy moments with them too.
These aren't strict categories and many people can fill more than one of these roles; just try to focus on where each support person's strengths meet your needs rather than trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Spread it around. This kind of naturally follows from the point above, but try not to load too much on any one person. I once saw a great demonstration about support systems in which the presenter put a dixie cup upside-down on the floor and identified it as a single-person support system. She stepped on it and of course it crumpled. Then she put about 10 cups in a group on the floor, placed a board on them, and stood on the board. The cups held her up! You can try it at home--it's pretty cool. Even your best friend in the world doesn't need to hear every single thought and feeling you're having. People are able able to support you better when you don't overburden them and no single person can be there for you all the time.
Avoid broken-record syndrome. Have you ever been listening to someone talk about something and gotten the feeling they'd gone through the same thing a bunch of times before? Either their speech sounds rehearsed, they seem sort of hypnotized as they talk, or even worse you've actually heard them say exactly the same stuff 10 times before! Whether it's with one listener over and over, or several different people over time, the speaker and the listener aren't really connecting when it's a broken-record speech. The speaker is basically talking to themselves with the listener in the room. When you're the speaker you're not really getting support from the listener; you're just telling yourself a story over and over and it's usually not a good one. And you're also alienating whoever is stuck listening. If you find yourself doing this, try journaling instead. It will give you a space to express your thoughts and you'll be able to see in black and white if you're having the same thoughts over and over--and start working on moving past them and get unstuck.
Don't forget to express gratitude. We can get so focused on our own troubles we forget to thank the people who are there for us when we need them. Take the time to express your appreciation in words and actions. A simple note, card or small gift will make them feel good; plus focusing on someone else's happiness for a bit is actually good for you too.
Find new support if you need it. Sometimes a crisis highlights the fact that our support network needs building. If you need more people in your corner, look into joining a support group (in-person or online) to have more people to talk to, or start a new class or activity if you just need more connection/distraction.
Just remember: the more you care for your support system, the better it can take care of you. And that's the point here--taking good care of you.
Copyright 2009 by Sasha Carr
The Care and Feeding of Your Support System: How to Avoid Collateral Friendship Damage During a Breakup
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The world is turning into a slightly scary place lately. It is so terribly sad that this beautiful world we all share is becoming like this.
It is so difficult to try to shield our little ones from all that is happening in the world around us, they see the news, no matter how much we try not to discuss these things around them, they still hear.
My belief in human kindness however, has been restored. I now believe even more in the importance of allowing and encouraging our little ones to believe in magic, in fairies, in elves and in Santa.
Everyday my boys and I walk to school. We are lucky enough to be able to walk to our local school in around ten minutes. The route from our home takes us through a little park with a little river running through it. In the autumn the huge trees which line the path through the park are all shades of brown, orange and red. In the spring the fresh green leaves slowly show all over the bare branches as daffodils line the path. To me it has always be an almost magical little haven.
Yesterday as we were walking through we noticed something even more magical than just leaves and flowers. The park had been transformed into a 'Fairy Village' – the trunks of the large oak trees had been made into 'Fairy' homes, each with it's own entrance adorned with toad stools, twigs as the steps leading up to the beautiful door, even a little sign on the door. So wonderfully magical.
You can just imagine the wonderment on the boys faces as they leaned in to take a closer look, the way they knocked on the tiny little doors half expecting a fairy to open the door and welcome them in.
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The modern city, no matter what its activities or the impulses of its growth may be, requires a layout of its streets quite different from that of any city of the past. The conditions of urban life and the needs of urban growth have changed radically with the wider diffusion of industry, education and wealth, and with the increasing tendency of the people to congregate in vast communities. There is little probability of any effective check being put upon the drift of the people to the cities so long as the country fails to provide opportunities for business and social success and for legitimate recreation and diversion relatively equal to those of the city, and if cities are to continue to expand and increase in population as rapidly during the next few decades as they have in the past, new measures for controlling, regulating and directing their physical growth must be established and enforced, and among these new measures none will be more necessary or exert a more far-reaching and beneficial influence than those directed toward more efficient and economic street planning if administered by courageous, skilful and wide-public officials.
Excepting the recent work of the new school of city planners and a few isolated instances of much earlier date, nothing in all the science or art of city building in America, whether it be of much or little consequence, has received such scant consideration as the street layout. Although street planning in Europe seems always to have been esteemed a matter of importance, its history in America is a record of thoughtless, inconsistent and unreasoning acts, and the plans evolved require little more than a hasty glance to arouse a strong suspicion that the street systems they represent were of accidental or mechanical origin; that they were laid out by property owners in the manner believed to offer the best immediate returns in the sub-division and development of individual estates or by public authorities who arbitrarily applied the simplest and easiest method that suggested itself to them and enabled them to plot the largest area in the least time and with the least labor possible; and that in neither case was there any attempt to forecast accurately the future needs of the street or the territory it would help to serve or to investigate the probable efficiency or economy of the general layout.
The city planner who approaches the problem of extending and revising the street system of a city with a view of applying both science and common sense to its solution quickly learns that forecasting the mysterious probabilities of the future is less appalling than the task of correcting the errors of the past. The difficulties in the way of correcting past errors do not lie in the lack of wisdom, skill, or courage to perform the work successfully so much as in the physical and financial obstacles to be overcome, and in the hesitancy to assume the responsibility for the temporary destructiveness and large initial cost involved in the undertaking.
There are always sufficient data obtainable, if collated in an intelligent and painstaking manner, to give the planner a fairly accurate basis upon which to work out a scheme of replanning which will be fully adequate to correct the evils that have resulted from careless and haphazard work. A thorough and systematic study of the physical condition of a city, of property values, of the distribution of business, industrial and residential areas, of the health of the people, of the mediums and facilities of circulation, and of the volume and directions of the currents of traffic, is of the greatest importance as an aid to efficient and economic replanning. The collection and systematization of data of this kind in a form available for practical use are, in themselves, an undertaking requiring patience, time and skill, but they afford the only rational and safe basis for working out the problems of reconstruction which now confront most of our large cities, and it is possible to reduce them to a systematic process, uniformly applicable to the investigation of the needs of any city.
It does not appear, however, that any fixed rule or principle, based upon practical experience or exhaustive investigation, can be established for planning streets, either singly or as systems, for a new town or for the extension of an old one. Here lies the planner's opportunity to give free rein to his imagination and his individuality, here is the test of his genius, judgment and common sense, here his powers of prevision and of prophecy are brought into service untrammeled by masses of figures and statistics; he is not called to prescribe a cure for an existing ill but to peer into the future and create something that time will applaud or condemn and he must solve his problem without any very tangible data to guide him, unless it be the desire of a client to accomplish some well defined object.
Much of what is considered good modern planning is done by "rule of thumb" in order to produce speedy results, to conform to some ingrained prejudice, or to carry out some favorite practice. The application of new theories, no matter how rational or well grounded they may seem, is often confronted by many obstacles; it is sometimes difficult to convince those in authority that a radical change of practice is necessary, or even advantageous; long standing custom is difficult to overcome; local conditions and local sentiment, whether favorable or unfavorable to good results, exercise much influence; the depth of lot that has been customary in a community, whether or not it is suitable for the best form of development, is permitted to regulate the distance between streets and certain street widths have become a confirmed habit too deep-seated to be easily reformed; real estate interests often dominate the situation and the profits of speculators and builders must receive first consideration. These and many other influences often hamper the planner and prevent him from establishing the system which his best judgment, after a careful study, points out as the one best adapted to the case before him. Many street layouts have been put upon paper, and even officially adopted for the purpose of development, which indicate a desire to produce an attractive and mechanically well proportioned plan rather than an effort to obtain really efficient results; in other instances theories have been applied which are popular at the moment but which may ultimately result in conditions which future generations may find just as oppressive and as difficult as those which now confront us. In the present zeal for comprehensive planning there is danger that cities may undertake to execute ambitious and costly plans which look well upon paper and seem to possess much real merit but which have received only superficial study by reason of the limited time and funds placed at the disposal of the planner; such plans may produce no better results in actual practice than those that happen accidentally although they will cost much more.
Much has been said and written in earnest advocacy of maintaining the individuality of towns and the individuality of a town is influenced to a marked extent by the street layout. Individuality is an element that does not yet seem to deserve great consideration in American cities; their rapid and undisciplined growth, the constant wrecking and re-erection of buildings, the conversion of the character and use of whole neighborhoods and the lack of stability and dignity of their domestic architecture have prevented them from achieving much that is distinctively characteristic or worth the effort to perpetuate. For individuality worth preserving we must revert to the communities that have not entirely lost the atmosphere of colonial days by destroying the last remnants of their colonial architecture and covering their "village greens" with workshops.
Some tendency is being shown in American street planning toward the adoption of the medieval street in some of its forms and also the schemes suggested by the garden cities and industrial colonies of England and Germany. Such layouts approach the ideal for small self-contained and proprietor-controlled communities but their adoption in large and rapidly growing industrial cities, or in cities where there is a constantly shifting ownership and use of land and a periodical, and sometimes radical, change in public policies and administration, should be undertaken cautiously and conservatively. The plea for the medieval street lies in the opportunity it gives for picturesque effect, and picturesque it most truly is when we find it within the rugged walls of an old feudal city, wandering aimlessly between solid rows of quaint and many gabled buildings gray and bent with age, and full of an atmosphere of mystery and romance. Whatever of verity there may be in the plausibly argued contention of the town-planning savants that the picturesque chaos of the medieval towns of Germany and Italy is the perfect result of deliberately worked-out design, and however much we may delight in threading the narrow and devious courses of those quaint and captivating highways and byways, it is doubtful whether any attempt to reproduce them or adapt them to the needs of the modern industrial community under modern social and political conditions is desirable or commendable or could be fully successful; they belong to and are a part of a picturesque and romantic, although stern and strenuous, period of the world's history and should be permitted to remain exclusively characteristic of that period, since any attempt to reproduce them with modern architectural settings will probably result in unsatisfactory imitation at best and is certain to corrupt the well deserved admiration we hold for the pure, original type.
The street layouts of the garden cities, co-partnership tenants and industrial communities of England and Germany have found many earnest admirers and enthusiastic advocates in our own country and there appears to be no doubt that their application to limited and self-contained areas has proved eminently satisfactory. Before such layouts can be safely introduced into the planning: of our large and rapidly spreading American cities, however, it will be necessary for our municipal authorities to have complete control over the laying out of streets and the subdivision and use of private property and to exercise that authority with the utmost discretion and impartiality. Very many difficulties of administration and maintenance, which could scarcely be successfully managed under our present methods of municipal government and individual ownership and control of land, would occur if we should attempt such planning as we find in the garden cities. In those communities the tenants are a selected class, do not acquire actual ownership of land and are always subject to the strict rules of a governing body in the care and use of the property they occupy. This permits the enforcement of a uniform and thoroughly effective system of maintenance; such a system of supervision and maintenance would not be possible in a large community where the owners or tenants, or both, change frequently and where neither may give active aid in keeping up the character or physical condition of a neighborhood. The narrow ways, dead-end streets, alleys, enclosed courts, allotment gardens, secluded open spaces and other features which contribute much to the financial success and physical enticement of the garden cities would, by their nature, make them an easy prey to degenerative agencies and permit their rapid deterioration to slum conditions were it not for the constant vigilance and thorough supervision of the managers or trustees of the estates. Until the same perfection of control and upkeep can be exercised the experiment of applying garden city methods of planning in American cities should be undertaken very cautiously.
Of virtue no less doubtful than the grafting of the feudal street or the garden city layout upon the metropolitan city is the street system where travel never has an opportunity for reaching its destination by a direct route, but must accommodate itself to the necessity of changing its direction at every forward move. No feature of the new street-planning practice is overworked, maltreated or misapplied so persistently as is the curving street. It has a legitimate mission and an undeniable charm when justified by the topography, cast in an appropriate setting, or skilfully introduced either as an incident or a special feature of a general scheme; but when applied indiscriminately and arbitrarily with the sole object of a presumed beauty and without any guarantee that that object will be fully achieved in the development of abutting property, it loses all force or reason for its creation and becomes less desirable, more wasteful, and more productive of nuisances and misfits than even the despised checkerboard.
All successful street planning is predicated upon the skill and fidelity with which the planner co-ordinates the three fundamental purposes of the plan and makes ample provision for every form of transportation and circulation, provides for the most advantageous development of property for its various uses and creates opportunities for the expression of civic art. The needs of transportation have generally been ignored, or subordinated to the profits of land speculation, but we are beginning to realize that the first requisite for the healthy growth of the modern city is rapid transit and easy and direct routes of communication.
Nothing has contributed so largely to the increase in the importance and usefulness of the street as the rapid development of the forms and mediums of transportation, and street-planning methods have not nearly kept pace with its normal requirements. The twentieth century city is growing much larger and much more rapidly than any of its predecessors and the service required of its streets is vastly greater and widely different from that which was required of the streets a century ago when they were given over chiefly to the use of pedestrians, beasts of burden, and the comparatively few clumsy and slow moving vehicles most of which were only two-wheeled. The character, volume and rapidity of present-day traffic make the adoption of scientific methods of street planning necessary if real efficiency and economy are to be obtained. The old practice of laying out a more or less regular system of streets of uniform width at uniform distances apart and paving them as driveway or sidewalk for their full widths is wasteful of land and imposes an unnecessary cost for construction and maintenance. Instances may be found in every city where certain streets by reason of having better approaches or more direct connections to important points or by passing through more lively or attractive environment carry a great amount of traffic, while adjacent paralleling streets of equal width carry very little; this is particularly noticeable in residential sections and those sections outside the zones of business concentration. It is human nature for people to wish to be among their fellows and even in crowds and whether walking or riding they prefer to move slowly through a busy thoroughfare rather than seek greater freedom of movement by going a block or two out of their way. All the great cities that have experienced rapid growth in comparatively recent years have achieved that growth, directly or indirectly, through the agencies of modern industrialism. The tremendous development of industrial and commercial activities during the past half century has been made possible only by the swift progress that has been made in improving and extending the facilities for transportation. The carriers of the world's trade have bent every energy to meet the demands of commerce on both land and sea, but the people, especially in the United States, acting through the officials in whom they have vested the powers of government, have failed lamentably in enlarging and improving the public channels of traffic, the roads and streets. The city is the workshop and the commercial center where industrialism flourishes and from which its products are distributed over all the world. The city inevitably reaps the benefits and profits but loses much of both through its failure to provide proper facilities for transportation, while private capital and private energy are put unsparingly into larger and better facilities for acquiring greater private benefits and profits.
Our cities should have awakened long ago to the fact that the convenience, prosperity and prestige of all their citizens would be enlarged and enhanced by remodeling their antiquated street layouts and planning their additions and extensions with an intelligent purpose of providing ample, direct and convenient means for the circulation necessary to the highest development of their industrial and commercial activities, just as the great industrial and carrying corporations have extended their zones of activity and increased their earnings by reconstructing and enlarging their plants, by constructing new ones, and by throwing obsolete machinery and equipment upon the scrap pile and taking advantage of every new invention and appliance that spelled progress.
There is no stronger competition today than that which exists between cities for the material things that count for national and international greatness, and, except in those rare instances where a city is so located strategically that industry cannot ignore it or traffic evade it, those cities must inevitably achieve the leadership which offers the widest opportunity and the greatest freedom for the highway circulation necessary to the economic development of intensive industrialism and commercialism, and at the same time controls and regulates the layout of streets and the subdivision and use of property in their residential sections in such manner as will guarantee homes of comfort and contentment among healthful and attractive surroundings for the workers whose energy is the mainspring of industrial progress.
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Another year, another Hollywood superhero blockbuster. A film about someone with superpowers who takes down petty criminals, local gangs and the occasional super villain. The bourgeoisie has to keep us spoon fed on this kind of "culture". But what about real super heroes? Men and women who have given their lives in the struggle against … Continue reading Superman or Stalin – who's the real Man of Steel?


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We are told that Jim Miller's Never Left Behind (RichLife Publishing, 334 pp., $20.99, paper) is a work of fiction. "The characters are either vestiges of my memory or products of my imagination, " Miller says. "My time in Vietnam was too historically unremarkable to bother with."
He goes on to say that he "came home angry, too. I couldn't hear the name Jane Fonda without foaming at the mouth." Miller got home "just before Christmas of nineteen sixty-seven, " which was five years before Jane Fonda went to Hanoi. At that time Fonda was a pin-up in Vietnam due to her film work, especially in Barbarella .
So Miller was foaming too early—and wrongly—when he head Fonda's name. On the other hand, he seems to have no problem hearing the names Kissinger, Westmoreland, LBJ, or Nixon. Which makes me wonder why he doesn't put the blame where it belongs, rather than displacing it to Fonda.
After I read the author's note about Fonda, I had little hope the book would be worth much. However, I plodded onward, hoping that I would be wrong.
The author also says, "It was still early in the national turmoil that the end of the sixties brought, but showing up at my parents' front door felt like arriving from Mars." Many Vietnam veterans shared that experience, including me.
The central character of the book is Edgar Allan Jollar, a Navy SEAL who is left behind through no fault of his shipmates, all of whom died in an attack in which Jollar took two bullets to the head, leaving him near death and with total amnesia. He is nursed back to health by loving Vietnamese people, one of whom becomes his wife.
The novel jumps back and forth in time and takes place on several continents. The book is held together by amazing coincidences of the sort that I last encountered in an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. These coincidences are communicated to the reader in prose that varies from workmanlike to cliché ridden.
This reader encountered the cliche "as tough as a two dollar steak" twice. I admit I'd never heard the phrase "as ugly as homemade soap, " but I won't be using it in my own writing.
Characters say things like, "No speakee gook, " and Asians are often called "Orientals. "Vietnam is referred to as "this shithole." Also, "Gook names all sounded the same to Jenkins." We are also told that "Vietnamese are superstitious people who live in the present."
When the characters venture into Vietnam, one of their big fears is that they will be fed pets at dinner. One of their hosts actually makes fun of this fear by serving them a platter of food and making a mewing noise. I laughed at that.
It's hard to place some of the dates in the novel, but my interpretation is that Jane Fonda is castigated for going to Vietnam in 1969. The reader learns that Hollywood actors went to Hanoi, "desperately trying to pump up sagging careers." Antiwar protestors are characterized as "dirty rabble marching in the streets and singing old songs, " and as "wild-eyed liberal radicals."
Audie Murphy is mentioned, as is Agent Orange. This book also tries something few attempt, to create a Vietnamese character who is not just a walk-on. Phung Tu is presented to us early as he tries and fails to kill Jollar. The back and forth of the narrative shows us the progression of his life. I didn't find him to be a sympathetic or believable character, but the author deserves credit for trying.
As the back cover blurb notes: "middle age has found both Tu and Jollar; their lives have settled into a routine that has left the war behind. But unbeknownst to either man, they [sic] lives would continue to enmesh in ways neither man could fathom."
For the reader who cannot get enough about the heroism of Navy SEALs, perhaps this book is for you.
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Foldpass - Creative Haiku Writing Game. 25+ iPad Apps for Integrating Technology into the Writing Process. Sentopiary. Breathing Anchor Charts. I finally had a chance to try an idea this summer during our literacy summer school and wanted to quickly share before the new year.
We use anchor charts all the time – math, reading, writing, etc… Like everyone else, anchor charts are great because we build them together as a class and it anchors important concepts or strategies on a chart for students to use as a resource. However, as much as I wish and hope my kids are using the charts, they're really not taking advantage of them. Honestly, I sometimes feel like my anchor charts are tacky wallpaper to them. So I'm always asking myself, how can the iPads help do something great that we couldn't do without them? I thought it would increase the value of anchor charts if they "came alive" and became breathing anchor charts. Gradually, every student wants their work or their face embedded on the charts.
Tip: I have a roll of stickers and they place a sticker on the chart to create the "trigger image". Like this: Like Loading... Related. Blog Entry. Many teachers ask me what to do with just a handful of iPads.
Whether you are in a second grade classroom with two iPads, or a library with five devices you can create stations for students of all ages. Here are a some of my favorite apps for creating stations in your classroom – add your favorites to the comments section! News-O-Matic (reading and listening with extra activities) 7 Little Words (word games) Quizzitive (vocabulary game) KidEWords (word games) Storyline Online (read aloud videos) DK Readers (read along books) SpellMania (word games) World's Worst Pet (vocabulary games) Synopsis (flashcards with games) Vocabulary and SpellingCity (word games) Avokiddo ABC (alphabet games) - Class Tech Tips: 11 iPad Literacy Apps for Stations! 0 Comments December 4, 2014 By: Monica Burns Nov 30 Written by: 11/30/2014 5:33 PM ShareThis Many teachers ask me what to do with just a handful of iPads.
Here are a some of my favorite apps for creating stations in your classroom – add your favorites to the comments section! Five iPad Apps That Help Students Start Creative Stories. In the year that I taught language arts before moving into the social studies department one of the challenges that my students faced in writing short stories was coming up with ideas to get started.
I held a lot of brainstorming sessions with those students. Today, there are lots of apps that can help students generate creative story ideas. Here are five worth taking a look at. Things to Think About is a free iPad app that offers 100 writing prompts created by students for students. The prompts were created by 2nd through 5th grade students in Jackson County, Michigan. Write About This is an iPad app (free and paid versions available) containing visual, text, voice writing prompts for students. Shake-a-Phrase is a fun iPad app (currently priced at $1.99) for elementary school and middle school students to use to start stories and practice recognizing parts of speech.
Brainstormer is an iPad app (current price $1.99) that started out as a website in 2009. 11 iPad Apps That Promote Close-Reading. iAnnotate's intuitive interface and customizable set of features make it the "go-to app" for taking notes on lecture slides, annotating important business documents, revising screenplays, grading papers, and much more.
Read on to learn about the great capabilities of iAnnotate: ANNOTATE: Choose from the pen, highlighter, typewriter, stamp, straight-line, note, underline, strikeout, photo, voice recording, and date stamp tools. Copy and paste annotations, even from one document to another. CUSTOMIZE: Drag and drop the exact tools you need to create custom toolbars for your specific workflow. Switch between toolbars with a swipe, or open the Toolbar Drawer to edit your toolbars.
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Why go the length of hiding your sins when God knows all? Come clean with Him today in confession. The Lord is waiting.# Permanent link to Today's Inspiration (09/04/2018)
Daily Prayer:Oh Lord, I pray that more people will give into Your counsel and repent. When they are convicted of their faults may they act on those feelings and pray. May they realize how wicked they have become, and desire a true change of heart. I pray that confessions will come out of their mouth and that their soul will long to be better. That they may finally become right in Your presence. Break the hardness of their hearts, this day. Come and break down the walls that they have put up. May their shame and guilt bring them to a point of brokenness, that they may find You, even at their lowest point in life. I know that when we are broken, there is also humility. There is a heartfelt seeking for something greater. When we discover that what we are doing does not bring lasting happiness but only pain, is when things start to change. May this realization of something better come to these people's minds today. Help them see past themselves and seek You out with their whole hearts. I know that all peace, joy, happiness and love comes from You. And that these people that are lost can be restored into Your fold Your blood can cover anyone that calls upon Your Name, Jesus. I trust in You, Lord. You are my hope and my salvation. I love You. Amen.# Permanent link to Today's Prayer (09/04/2018)
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13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
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9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
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Teaching Kindness Through BooksEarly literacy itself is so important. The more children are exposed to print the better off they will be in school. Here are three books I love to teach kindness
How Kind by Mary MurphyThis book is about small acts of kindness. One animal is kind to the other which inspires them to be kind and pay it forward. Spoiler alert: It comes full circle at the end. The first animal is the last to have it paid forward. It is so simple and uses the words, "How kind!" over and over. When working with young children this is a great to introduce kindness and start using words such as, "How kind!"
The Last Stop On Market Street by Matt de la Peña, Illustrated by Christian RobinsonThis book not only teaches kindness but also optimism. Things may not always go your way, but it is important to still be kind and see the light in the dark. A grandmother teaches her grandson to lift others up, even on bad days. It is a great way to show children that their actions, even as children matter.
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie KellerThis book is about the Golden Rule: Treat others how you want to be treated. That rule has stuck with me since I was in elementary school. If I could have one law for everyone to follow it would be this. This book focuses on treating others with kindness, just how you would want to be treated. Although I know this is over the some of the kiddos head sometimes I will ask, "Would you want them to do that to you?" Usually the answer is no and then we talk about why the action or word was unkind and if they wouldn't like it they shouldn't do it. Play is also a huge way to teach kindness (and other topics)
Teaching Kindness Through PlayChildren learn so much through play. Most importantly, they learn social skills while interacting with peers. While engaged in play children will have to think about what they want and what their peers want. They will have to handle disagreements and find ways to get their needs met. With a lot of young children, they take what they want regardless of who has it. When that happens children begin to argue or they begin to tattle. Both of which are not helping your cause. Instead get down on the child's level. Explain their feelings: "Look how sad/mad/angry Jimmy is because you took the toy he is playing with." Often times children need to see that their actions hurt others and that you, the adult notice and call them out. Discuss the issue with them. "I see that you both really want to play with this truck. Was it kind to take it away?" Hopefully they say no, it was not kind. Sometimes I'll say "Just because you want it does not mean we get to take it" or "Jimmy was playing with a fun toy, but we made him so sad." I always make sure to ask, "What is a kind way to get the toy?" We can ask for a turn, how many more minutes, or just wait until they are done. And then we do it. This way of problem solving helps encourage independence and eliminate tattling. I encourage children to speak up and say they do not like something. It is okay for children to stand up for themselves. When they say "I do not like when you push me" it shows the other child that their actions aren't okay by some. At times while playing games where the bad guys are caught, some children do not enjoy being guided by their peers. There are ways for children to get their points across while still being kind and respectful to their peers. Instead of yelling and tattling, children can say "please stop" or "No thank you." The best way to learn is by doing and watching. I have told children before "Please do not lick me, I do not like that," or "I do not want anyone sitting on my lap right now, but you can sit right next to me." I can be a model for them.
Teaching Kindness Through ModelingChildren watch what we do. They hear what we say and repeat it. If we want to raise kind generations who ready to tackle the world, then we need to show them how to be kind and give them tools to tackle the world and be successful. Teaching kindness through manners is a great way to start, even at young ages. It may be difficult, but the sooner you show your boundaries the easier it will be. Staying seated until everyone is done with a meal, using utensils to eat, taking turn, checking on others, and using eye contact are just a few ways children can learn manners. My favorite Disney Princess is Cinderella. When I was little I liked that she had blonde hair and I had blonde hair so she had to be my favorite. As I have gotten older and analyzed it through an adults eye, I still love her. She is the queen of kindness. Regardless of how she was treated by others, she treated them with kindness and respect. That's what how I want the world to be, how I want my children to be. What is great with Cinderella is she was kind to everything. She is a great model for showing children that animals, nature, people, and possessions deserve respect and kindness too. Materials are bound to break eventually, hopefully through loving wear and tear through play. Sadly, they are sometimes broken by children not realizing that their actions have consequences, their actions are not kind to the materials. Rather than getting upset that children are breaking materials, use it as a time to talk about kindness. "When we step on our books they break. When they break we cannot read them and that makes me so sad." Redirect the child to their behavior and consequence rather than a punishment for being a child. Our kindness towards children matters.
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Worthless Slow City
Published Aug 01, 2001This record's snottier than a hanky at a loved one's funeral. The 15 songs on here have a lethal dose of stunted adolescence and criminally un-P.C. lyrics set against a blazing old school punk/early SoCal hardcore sound. On "Mandy Was," the singer laments how the sudden drug overdose death of his girlfriend has messed him up because he was deprived of one last blow job. "Booster" is about a 13-year-old girl that he wants to "use" and "Little Girl" tells the story of a girl who moves to L.A. and becomes a hooker. They also like to fight, as evidenced by tunes like "Gonna Fight" and "Mission Blvd." If you're after some ballsy punk rock that has no pretensions of ever emerging from the gutter, then check this out. (Taang!)


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Some breakups can pierce so deeply that you can barely do anything productive for some days.
Nevertheless, as bad as it gets, you still have to move on and try not to remember all the shared memories, but sometimes, your ex still surfaces somehow, and you can't tell if they've fully moved on.
In case you are in doubts, here are 15 signs that show that this ex of yours can't or hasn't moved on.
With Someone New, Who Looks Like You
One sure sign that your former significant other hasn't totally moved on is when he/she is dating someone new that looks just like you.
Awkward Posts
You can almost tell the mood of a person by the post they put up on social media. An ex that can't move on would have post-breakup quotes and posts which your mutual friends can tell is about you.
They Ask If You Are Seeing Someone New
If you haven't blocked your ex yet and they still have access to your phone number, the ones that are stuck usually like to keep up with your life, by asking if you are seeing someone new now.
Loose Ends Left Untied
Asides sharing memories, you probably shared some other tangible things and have stuff left in each other's houses. One that is still hung up on you would find it hard getting their remaining things from your place.
The stalking part on social media is almost inevitable. Even when accounts have been put on private, some could go as far as opening a new account for the purpose of stalking.
They Want A Second Chance
Stalking is child's play for some exes. When some exes can't clearly move on, after they must have seen that you are the best thing that ever happened to them, they start expressing their desire to want you back.
They Contact You
Again, if you haven't already blocked your ex who probably wants you back, they contact you through your emails, social media or your number.
They Ask About You
If they are not able to contact you directly because of how things ended or because you have blocked them, they are most likely going to ask a mutual friend about how you are faring.
Talk About The Past
In cases where they get through to you, and you both don't mind remaining just friends, an ex that can't move one would always bring up memories from the past.
An Apology
To err is human, to forgive is divine. Your ex knows this and would try to apologize repeatedly, especially if they caused the split, or didn't like how things ended and would want a fresh slate.
They Flirt
Aside from bringing up old memories, they might also try to use the lingua that you are used to when you were together. They flirt and give compliments just like when your relationship was still good.
They Ask About Family
Before the breakup, you probably introduced your ex to your family, and everyone was familiar with him or her. When they can't move on, they ask about your family and try to show care for your loved ones.
They Want A Friendship
A second chance might not be possible anymore, but some of them wouldn't mind getting you back as their friend. That way, they still have access to your life.
They Tell You What's Up With Them
To show that they have changed, or have improved on their lives, exes that can't move on always find a way to bring up what they have achieved, especially something that you were aware of when they were trying to achieve it.
You Just Know
Talk about gut feeling. Sometimes, you just can tell that your ex hasn't moved on. In order to be sure you are not just making up things in your head, you can find a way to talk about it


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LSU quarterback Joe Burrow will reportedly be passing on the opportunity to play in next week's Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. Ben Baby, who covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN, reported the Burrow Senior Bowl news, via Twitter, Saturday morning.
The Senior Bowl is the highest-regarded college football all-star game and is the last major offseason event on the NFL Draft schedule before the annual scouting combine. Many of the nation's top seniors will arrive in Mobile, Alabama next week to begin a week of workouts instructed by coaches from the NFL. This year's Senior Bowl teams will be coached by the staffs from the Cincinnati Bengals and Detroit Lions.
The Bengals own the top draft pick in this year's NFL Draft, and they just so happen to be a team many believe might draft Burrow to inject some life into the Bengals offense. The Lions own the No. 3 overall pick. The Senior Bowl is attended by scouts and coaches from around the NFL, and with the top tier of seniors typically at the Senior Bowl, the whole week is a terrific opportunity for seniors to impress their future employers.
Of course, Burrow not playing in the Senior Bowl will be made out by some to be a negative on his draft profile, but that should not be the case. Burrow admitted to playing the national championship game against Clemson with a rib injury. Coming off a historic season that saw Burrow break the NCAA record for most passing touchdowns in a single season (and doing so in the SEC), missing out on the Senior Bowl shouldn't be a concern. The Heisman Trophy winner has done more than enough to raise his draft stock for 2020 off the wild successes of the 2019 season. Burrow will still get a chance to focus on the scouting combine and decide what's best for him in Indianapolis.


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For much of human history, the messenger was a person. An envoy sent from one to another, carrying news. The message came laden with physical journey. It was handed over, from hand to hand.
In their solo show at Shore Gallery, Timon and Melchior Grau enact a new kind of exchange, asking what a message becomes when it is sent and seen on a screen. Evolved from the brothers' own exploratory practice over iPhone, their series of word paintings take abrupt text excerpts and frame them into tangible objects. The linguistic artefacts forge a new kind of corporeality — but one from which the speakers themselves have withdrawn.
With their reflective glass surfaces, these impersonal messengers summon us into a relationship, but on uncertain ground. As direct appeals, repetition, and compressed text-speak alter the tone and terms of exchange, the viewer's position keeps shifting. We find ourselves in a strange, oscillating territory where identity falters. r u sure what side ur on?
Holding up passivity against possibility, the Grau brothers interrogate the inescapable bind of digital communication, where limitless scope comes with meticulous surveillance, and each messenger and message is mined for data. As the works reflect on the traditions of text and portraiture to ask how we look at icons, signs, and objects, so too must the viewer scrutinize their own body — are they unique and expressive subject, or only a target group?


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Material: Solid Wood
Usage: Religion Gifts, Collection, Personal Decoration, Commerce Gifts & Decoration, Daily Use, Gift, Home Decoration
Shape: House
Style: Warm
Color: White
Processing: Painting
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The house shape white MDF Wooden Photo Frame is 34*49.5*2CM.
The color is white(any color is ok).
The shape is like house.
The style is "Happy Famliy".
1.Cut a denisty plate out of the shape of a 34*47.5cm house and a three-dimensional triangular roof.
2.In the specified position,cut out two 15*10CM cross photo hole and vertical 10*15 and 8*8CM heart shape hole on the top of the house.
3.Spray bottom painting and first white painting.pay attention to uniformity of each angle.
4.smooth the rough part.
5.spray the second white painting.
6.two samll 3.5*3.5 heart with butterfly section hemp rope on the middle of the four photo frame.Heart is white and the edge have a little peeling off the bottom.
7.On the back of the wooden photo frame,there is a metal for hanging and plastic button and photo frame back plane.
8.The photo frame surface is glass,it is suit for 6*4 ,4*6 inch photo.
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