Although it's one of the most commonly prescribed pain relievers, hydrocodone is also very addictive. Rehab for hydrocodone has helped many individuals break their ties with this drug, and it can help you as well. Read on for more information about rehab for hydrocodone and what to expect.
ARTICLE SUMMARY: Rehab includes detox, medications, and psychotherapy. This article explores the types of rehabs available for hydrocodone problems and what you can expect during stages of treatment.
Has your hydrocodone use led you down a dark, unwanted path to addiction? We've got good news. You can get better! In fact, addiction is a medical condition. When treated medically, you can live a life of purpose and satisfaction. You can live totally drug-free.
So, if you have dealing with hydrocodone addiction on your own, it may be time to seek help. Trying to quit by yourself can be difficult and less effective than seeking professional help. So, if you've tried (and failed) to quit hydrocodone in the past, we encourage you to think about seeking help.
Here, we'll review best practices in the treatment of hydrocodone addiction. We'll explain what every reputable rehab should have in place. Then, we welcome your questions at the end of the article. In fact, we try to respond to all real-life questions with a personal and prompt reply.
Hydrocodone is a commonly prescribed strong opiate pain reliever. This drug is usually prescribed to patients experiencing intense acute or chronic pain, but it can also be used as a recreational drug. Either way, hydrocodone has a high risk for addiction. This is why it has been classified as a Schedule II drug by the Controlled Substances Act.
In sum, hydrocodone is psychoactive; it affects and changes the way that the brain functions. It has a relatively high risk for addiction, even when it is prescribed for pain.
Making the decision to enter rehab for hydrocodone is not always as simple as it sounds. Some individuals addicted to this pain killer may spend years convincing themselves that they don't have a problem, and others may not believe that they need help. Unfortunately, a hydrocodone addiction can be very strong, and quitting on your own may not work.
My parents deserve a son/daughter to be proud of.
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My girlfriend/boyfriend deserves a healthy partner.
It does not always have to be just kids and relationships that give you something to be sober for. A dream of an early retirement became some people's motivation force. Some people even calculated how much they've spent on hydrocodone and planed how to save that money and use it for a much meaningful purpose. Discover what you want from life and use it as a motivational fuel to reach sobriety.
Rehab is an excellent option for anyone looking to live free from opioid drugs. Hydrocodone rehab programs can be hosted by inpatient or outpatient centers, and are designed to teach people how to live drug-free lives. In fact, addiction counselors, psychiatrists, and medical doctors use a number of methods and offer several services to help addicts learn how to break a hydrocodone habit for good.
While there is no one size fits all approach to hydrocodone addiction treatment, some of the main stages of treatment, therapies, and services are listed below.
Everyone entering rehab should be first evaluated and assessed by medical professionals. This initial assessment is used to determine the severity of a person's addiction (both physical and psychological dependence) as well as possible underlying causes. This information is then used to put together a unique addiction treatment plan based on a patient's individual situation.
Patients are also evaluated periodically during the course of their treatment to determine how well it's working. In some cases, a patient's care plan may need to be adjusted, such as when a certain treatment method is not working.
When a person stops taking hydrocodone completely, it will often cause a number of withdrawal symptoms as the body tries to adjust to the absence of the opioid drug. Some of these withdrawal symptoms include pain, trouble sleeping, restlessness, and gastrointestinal problems. Doctors and nurses attend to addicts during medical hydrocodone detox to help ease withdrawal symptoms and provide encouragement.
Some people may opt to go through medical detox, which is the process of detoxing from hydrocodone under medical supervision. Although detox for hydrocodone isn't usually necessary, medical detox can decrease the likelihood of a relapse during this crucial stage. Additionally, many doctors advise against quitting hydrocodone cold turkey. Instead, they recommend slowly reducing the amount of hydrocodone a person takes each day until they are eventually taking none. Weaning off of the drug can help prevent the uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms that many hydrocodone addicts experience.
A strong, healthy mind is often the key to beating a drug problem. This is why rehabs include psychological treatments like psychotherapy and counseling as cornerstone modalities. During these sessions, recovering addicts will learn about their addictions, what contributes to them, and how to overcome them.
Underlying mental health problems will also usually be treated with therapy during hydrocodone rehab. Family counseling or family therapy may also be used to address systemic dysfunctions within the family system. Family therapy helps loved ones better understand addiction and work on repairing relationships to ultimately support and love the addict during recovery.
The disease model of addiction states that addiction is a disease caused by biological, environmental, and genetic factors. During rehab, most people usually attend and benefit from several educational sessions. These sessions are designed to help you better understand theoretical models of addiction and teach coping skills. You'll understand how hydrocodone really affects and changes the brain. You'll also look at what triggers your cravings…and how to overcome them. This added rational element of treatment helps peoples make different decisions about drug use upon discharge from treatment.
Rehab programs are typically designed to provide recovering addicts with all of the support they could need during this difficult time in their lives. Adjunct or complementary services can include social services, such as case management. Since rehab can also be rather expensive, some patients may even qualify for financial support or assistance that can help cover the cost of treatment.
Finally, a goodrehab center may offer vocational or educational training services, in addition to connecting patients to halfway houses, addiction counseling, and aftercare programs.
Methadone is used to prevent withdrawal symptoms and help you with cravings.
Buprenorphine discourages drug use by providing a ceiling to the euphoric effects. Once hydrocodone effects reach a certain point, taking more won't feel good.
Naltrexone blocks the euphoric effects of hydrocodone. This medicine discourages the need for continued drug abuse.
You may also benefit from short-term antidepressant medications to treat serotonin imbalances in the nervous system. However, each case will be individually assessed and medications prescribed during rehab, as necessary.
Addiction is treatable with professional help.
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\section{Main}

Thermal radiation describes the universal phenomenon that all objects at non-zero temperatures emit infrared electromagnetic energy\cite{Review1}. Controlling this omnipresent radiative energy source is of vital importance for various modern world applications\cite{Review2}, ranging from thermophotovoltaics \cite{TPV_SExp3.2, TPV_SExp4, TPV2022}, radiative cooling \cite{RC_MultiLayer, RC_Porous}, to novel information-processing devices \cite{ThermalRectification, ThermalTransistor} and optical gas sensing \cite{popa2019towards}. Looking at the recent efforts on controlling thermal radiation,  significant progress has been made in tailoring its temporal coherence, i.e. spectrum\cite{MM_SemiSirods, MM_SemiSirods, ENZ_MMExp, PC_2DCore, MM_TEGold1Antenna, PC_NP}, and the spatial coherence, i.e. directivity \cite{Direction1, Direction2}. However, the photon spin, as another crucial characteristic of electromagnetic radiation, is so far commonly ignored, due to the fact that conventional thermal emitters show weak to zero spin-angular momentum (SAM).

Nevertheless, the photon spin, especially its intertwined characteristics with spectrum and directivity, can bring in a brand new degree of freedom for tailoring thermal radiation.  Fundamental obstacles arise from the fact that thermal radiation is substantially determined by the Bose-Einstein distribution of photons. The statistical behavior of thermal photons indicates thermal radiation is commonly incoherent and spin degenerated. Surprisingly, it has been observed that some astronomical objects in nature show observable SAM. This unique phenomenon has drawn increasing attention as it contains exclusive information about the universe and is regarded as a possible signature of life.  However, the fundamental mechanism of these observations is either the filtering by chiral molecules \cite{Star1} or the existence of a strong magnetic field \cite{Star2}. They are not ideal pathways for practical applications, and thus not of general interest to the subject of thermal radiation engineering.

Besides, recent studies reveal that the thermal radiation from topological insulators\cite{TopologicalInsulator1, TopologicalInsulator2} and Weyl semimetals \cite{WCP} exhibits circularly polarized characteristics. This is a manifestation of the microscopic mechanisms where the fluctuation-driven torque is generated under magnetic fields. As a result, macroscopically, it is expected the circularly polarization can be omnidirectional in the far field. In other words, the summation of SAM projected on wavevectors, namely the optical helicity, can be non-zero in these cases. However, complicated material systems or high magnetic fields are required here to break the time-reversal symmetry. Until now, there is no direct demonstration of non-vanishing optical helicity in a time-reversal symmetry preserved system.

To overcome this,  we consider the fundamental constraints and opportunities for spin-degeneracy removal from a symmetry point of view. We investigate here pseudo-2D systems under time-reversal symmetry. Firstly, assuming inversion- and mirror- symmetry are both preserved, the spin degenerates, and no circularly polarized radiation can be observed as illustrated in Fig.1e.  Secondly, by breaking the inversion symmetry, an anti-symmetric spin characteristic can be observed \cite{shitrit2013spin}. However, we emphasize that although circularly polarized thermal radiation can be generated in this scenario, it only occurs in oblique directions, as the mirror-symmetry guarantees spin degenerates in the surface normal. The anti-symmetric spin pattern ensures the total optical helicity is zero (Fig.1f).  Lastly, we show that by further breaking the mirror-symmetry, an extra $k$ term can exist, which releases all the constraints and make asymmetric spin characteristics and non-vanishing optical helicity possible (Fig.1g).

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{Figure1.png}
\caption{\label{fig1} \textbf{a-d.} Various aspects of thermal emission engineering. In this work, by adding the optical spin control, we achieve comprehensive tailoring of thermal emission.  \textbf{e-g.} Schematics demonstrating the constraints of spin degeneracy removal from symmetries. The non-vanishing optical helicity can only be observed when both inversion- and mirror- symmetries are broken (g)}
\end{figure}

Based on the symmetry analysis, in this work, we show an experimental realization of the symmetry-broken metasurface with removed spin degeneracy, generating magnetic-field-free circular-polarized thermal radiation with a degree of circular-polarization (DoCP) exceeding 0.6. To reveal the energy-momentum dispersion and the corresponding spin characteristics in the thermal radiation, we establish a unique spin-polarized angle-resolved thermal emission spectroscopy (SPARTES) system, overcoming the limitations of conventional thermal emission spectroscopy where the measurements are limited to the proximity of surface-normal direction. Based on a thorough characterization, we show an omnidirectional high DoCP and spin asymmetry at a remarkable dispersionless band around 7$\mu$m. Particularly, we directly observe a non-zero total optical helicity in thermal radiation, which originates from the breaking of mirror symmetry. We emphasize this is fundamentally prohibited in previous studies, where mirror symmetry is preserved and the spin characteristics are thus anti-symmetric in k-space. The complete symmetry breaking also provides full freedom to introduce new symmetries when used as constitutive building blocks. As some examples, we discuss later three representative configurations with mirror, inversion, and four-fold rotational (C4) symmetries, and show that thermal radiation can be significantly altered by the symmetries. With this symmetry-based approach, we provide a general and effective pathway to comprehensively engineering the spectral, spatial, and spin characteristics of thermal radiation.

\section{Circularly Polarized Thermal Radiation}

To show the non-vanishing optical helicity, we start by demonstrating the spin degeneracy is removed in our symmetry-broken metasurface and the far-field thermal radiation is significantly circular-polarized at 7µm. A schematic of the metasurface is shown in Fig 2a, where a rectangular array of F-shaped meta-atoms is patterned on a SiO2 dielectric layer with a gold backplane. The measured emissivity of left-handed circular-polarized light (LCP) is more than 4 times larger than the emissivity of right-handed circular-polarized light (RCP) at the surface normal direction as shown in Fig 2b, which is in good agreement with our simulation results. In Fig 2c, we show a complete characterization of the polarization state based on Stokes parameters, where $S_1$ and $S_2$ reveal the degree and the direction of linear polarization, and $S_3$ is equivalent to the DoCP. We emphasize that at the peak wavelength of 7µm, although the DoCP is below 0.7, the thermally-excited photons are still in highly circularly polarized eigenstates because of the near-zero $S_1$ and $S_2$. The polarization state can be represented by a circular area that is centered close to the north pole of the Poincare sphere (inset of Fig 2c). The relatively limited DoCP is actually from the limited coherence of the thermal emission signal.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{Figure2.png}
\caption{\label{fig2} \textbf{a.} Schematic of the symmetry-broken metasurface with F-shape meta-atoms. \textbf{b.} The measured LCP ($\sigma+$) and RCP ($\sigma-$) emissivity (solid) of the fabricated devices, which show good agreement with the simulation results (dashed). Inset: SEM imaging of the fabricated device. \textbf{c.} Stokes parameters show the full polarization state. Inset: representation of the polarization state in the Poincare sphere. \textbf{d.} The time-averaged electric field strength (normalized by the field $E_0$ of incident waves) at 7µm under LCP (left) and RCP (right) excitations. The fields are plotted along the XY (top) and XZ (bottom) planes, respectively. \textbf{e.} Evolution of the vector electric field is plotted for the boxes in d. The field is significantly circularly polarized under LCP excitation (top), while it is more linearly polarized under RCP excitation (bottom). \textbf{f.} The local optical chirality density $C$, normalized by $C_0$ of the incident LCP.}
\end{figure}

To show the microscopic mechanisms of the cicular polarization and non-vanishing optical helicity, we investigate the near-field electromagnetic response of the metasurface. Fundamentally speaking, the mechanisms of spin degeneracy removal in photonic systems can be divided into two categories. On the one hand, the Pancharatnam-Berry phase generated by a geometric gradient can lead to spin-dependent photon behaviors \cite{SpinHall1, SpinHall2}. On the other hand, the phenomenon can also originate from the intrinsic local chirality in the meta-atoms \cite{CP1, CP2}.  We reveal that the strong intrinsic local chirality of our F-shaped plasmonic meta-atoms is the origin of the observed circular-polarized thermal radiation in the far-field. To start with, we calculate the electric field distribution using the finite element method (FEM). The normalized electric field strength at 7µm under LCP and RCP excitations are plotted in Fig 2d. An evident resonant enhancement can be observed for LCP excitation near the region of the two horizontal lines of 'F', while the enhancement is clearly absent for RCP excitation. Obviously, the spin-selective resonance is the direct reason for the LCP emissivity peak at 7µm. For more insights, we plot in Fig 2e the temporal evolution of the electric field polarization around the strong-field region. The electric field is predominantly circular-polarized under LCP excitation, where it is mainly the direction of the polarization vector that is evolving with phase. In contrast, under RCP excitation, the magnitude of polarization is oscillating, which reveals the field is predominantly linearly polarized. We argue that the circularly polarized near-field indicates the high absorption and thus strong emission of LCP, while the linearly polarized near-field corresponds to weak emission of RCP. We use optical chirality density $C$ as the metrics to quantitatively characterize the circular-polarized feature of the near-field\cite{tang2010optical}, as $C \equiv \frac{\varepsilon_{0}}{2} \mathbf{E} \cdot \nabla \times \mathbf{E}+\frac{1}{2 \mu_{0}} \mathbf{B} \cdot \nabla \times \mathbf{B}$, where $\mathbf{E}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ are the time-dependent electric and magnetic fields, and $\varepsilon_{0}$ and $\mu_{0}$ are the permittivity and permeability of vacuum. We emphasize that the local chirality is two orders of magnitude larger than the chirality of the incident LCP as shown in Fig 2f. The super-chiral near-field under LCP excitation is a manifestation of a strong LCP absorption/emission, and at the same time indicates the intrinsic local chirality is the dominant mechanism for our observation of circular-polarized thermal radiation.

\section{Spin-Polarized Angle-resolved Thermal Emission Spectroscopy}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=1\columnwidth]{Figure3.png}
\caption{\label{fig3} Spin-polarized angle-resolved thermal emission spectroscopy (SPARTES) \textbf{a.} Schematic of the coordinate system. \textbf{b-c.} Calculated (b) and experimentally measured (c) differential emissivity at 7 microns. The thermal radiation is predominantly LCP over the entire hemisphere. The total optical helicity, which is proportional to the integral of the differential emissivity in the k-space, is non-zero. It reaches more than one third of the fundamental limits (P=39\%).  \textbf{d-k.} Simulated (top) and measured (bottom) angle-resolved thermal radiation spectra in the energy-momentum space. The LCP emissivity (d, h), RCP emissivity (e, i), unpolarized emissivity (f, j), and DoCP (g, k) are plotted for comparison. A unique spin-polarized dispersionless band and the spin asymmetry can be clearly observed.}
\end{figure}

To demonstrate the non-vanishing optical helicity and map the energy-momentum ($E-k$) dispersion of thermal radiation, we establish a unique SPARTES system. The system allows us to characterize the spectral and polarimetric properties of thermal radiation signals at all azimuth ($\phi$) and deflection angles ($\theta$) over the entire far-field hemisphere as shown in Fig.3 a. (The detailed description of the SPARTES system and full thermal emission spectroscopy data can be seen in supplementary section II.) In the following, we take the experimental data along $k_x$ for our discussion ($k_y=0$). The measured spectra are plotted in Fig.3 g-j and show an excellent agreement with simulations (Fig.3 c-f). A strong contrast between the emissivity of LCP and RCP can be observed, which is a direct manifestation of the spin degeneracy removal. Despite the LCP and RCP emissivities being asymmetric in $+k$ and $-k$ by themselves, we note that there is a clear symmetric pattern of the averaged emissivity ($\sigma_+/2 + \sigma_-/2$). This is because the averaged emissivity is proportional to the total radiative power, and the symmetric total radiation in k-space is fundamentally guaranteed by the time-reversal symmetry in this magnetic-field-free system. The asymmetric LCP and RCP emissivity also leads to a unique DoCP pattern, which is neither symmetric nor anti-symmetric. Here, the DoCP is defined as $(\sigma_+ - \sigma_-)/(\sigma_+ + \sigma_-)$, which is +1 for LCP, -1 for RCP, and 0 for spin-degenerated radiation. We point out that this spin asymmetry in k-space is from the complete symmetry breaking of our 'F' structure, where neither the 2D inversion-symmetry nor the mirror-symmetry is preserved.

Interestingly, we observe that the strong thermal emission at 7µm is from a dispersionless energy band along $k_x$. To reveal the thermal radiation characteristics in this dispersionless energy band, we plotted the differential circular-polarized emissivity ($\sigma_+ - \sigma_-$) at 7µm on the entire hemisphere (projected onto the $k_{xy}$ plane). As evidently illustrated in Fig. 2b, the thermal radiation is highly left-handed circularly polarized in all directions. The total optical helicity $H$ is nonzero as\cite{Helicity},
\begin{equation}
I=\sum_{k} \hbar\left(n_{k, \sigma+}-n_{k, \sigma-}\right)  \propto  \sum_{k} \left(\sigma_+ - \sigma_-\right)
\end{equation}
where $n_{k,\sigma+}$ and $n_{k,\sigma-}$ are the photon numbers of LCP and RCP associated with the wavevector $k$. To explore the fundimental limit, we use a $P$ parameter, defined as the optical helicity in percentage, normalized by the optical helicity of a emitter where the thermal radiation is perfectly LCP towards all directions. We show our design reaches P=39\% of the fundamental limit from the experimental results. This is in strong contrast with previous demonstrations, where the spin characteristics are anti-symmetric in k-space ($n_{\sigma+}(k) = n_{\sigma-}(-k)$) because of the preservation of mirror symmetry, and the optical helicity has to sum to zero. We emphasize the breaking of mirror symmetry in the metasurface is the fundamental mechanism for this observation of non-zero optical helicity in the radiation excited by thermal fluctuations.

\section{Symmetry Engineering}

Moreover, we show in the following the photon spin characteristics are explicitly governed by the spatial symmetries. We emphasize that one distinctive feature of the 'F' structure is the complete symmetry breaking. None of the mirror symmetry, inversion symmetry, or rotational symmetry are present in the meta-atoms, which provides the full freedom for symmetry engineering. In other words, by introducing new symmetries, we find effective control of thermal radiation can be realized in its spectral, spatial, and especially spin properties. To show this, in Fig. 4, we present the $E-k$ dispersion along $k_y$ ($k_x=0$) of the averaged emissivity and the corresponding DoCP in three different metasurfaces with mirror, inversion, and 4-fold rotational symmetries (C4), respectively. We point out some interesting features in the obtained thermal emission spectra. Firstly, by introducing mirror-symmetry, the DoCP becomes zero, as the symmetry along y-axis guarantees DoCP $= 0$ at $k_x = 0$, regardless the value of $k_y$. Secondly, we show that the DoCP in the inversion-symmetric device becomes symmetric in the k-space, which is in strong contrast to the 'single-F' metasurface where the DoCP is asymmetric. Thirdly, the C4 device also exhibits symmetric patterns, as in 2D, the C4 symmetry contains the inversion symmetry (equivalent to C2). However, distinctive spectral, spatial, and spin features are present as a manifestation of the additional rotation symmetry. Reassuringly, all averaged emissivity plots show symmetric patterns in k-space, which guarantees the time-reversal symmetry is always preserved in our devices.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.75\columnwidth]{Figure4.png}
\caption{\label{fig4} The optical images (left), averaged emissivity spectra (middle), and DoCP are plotted for devices with mirror symmetry (a-c), inversion symmetry (d-f), and four-fold rotational symmetry (g-i), respectively. The average emissivity is symmetric along k=0 in all three cases, which is a manifestation of the time-reversal symmetry. The DoCP is zero for the mirror-symmetric device, and symmetric for the inversion- and C4- devices.}
\end{figure}

\section{Discussion}
Finally, we discuss the impact and some potential applications of our results. First of all, the observed non-vanishing optical helicity indicates omnidirectional circularly polarized thermal emitters can be realized through metasurfaces. Our demonstrated devices can be directly applied as a wide-angle, narrow-band circular-polarized mid-infrared light source, for applications including optical gas sensing, illumination, and display. We highlight that the metasurface-based device can be integrated into on-chip systems to achieve compact functional devices for commercialization, while the current approach generally requires bulky optical components like linear polarizers and waveplates. Especially, traditional waveplate also suffers from the strong angular dependence, which makes omnidirectional circular polarization inaccessible.
Moreover, considering the field of near-field heat transfer, we expect our designs can transfer net angular momentum and torque through heat, which may facilitate the discovery of novel phenomena at the nanoscale and benefit the development of near-field thermophotovoltaics. Additionally, the unique spectral-spatial-spin feature of the engineered thermal emission can be exploited as high-contrast thermal beacons for astronomy applications, as the thermal emission from other natural objects is highly incoherent, especially lack of spin textures. Finally, our symmetry-based strategy for controlling optical spin introduces a new degree of freedom of thermal radiation engineering, providing a general approach to comprehensively tailoring thermal radiation for future energy applications.

\section{Data Availability}
The data that supports this paper and other findings are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

\section{Acknowledgments}
The authors thank F. Kalhor for useful discussions. The authors thank A. Jishi for experimental assistance. The authors thank the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Nascent Light-Matter Interactions (NLM) for funding to pursue this research.

\section{Competing Interests}
The authors declare no competing interests.

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It's been a while since I made a "Good, Better, Best" design board so I thought I'd bring you one today. Just a reminder: It's a room design that I create virtually and you implement. I'll separate the design in tiers. The ideas in the 'Good' level are small, easy updates you can make, thrift or buy, that your budget will barely even notice. The 'Better' category can be layered on top of that at any time and will add some more polish to the space. The 'Best' category works the same way: another layer of goodness that you can add to your design now or over time. NONE of the rooms in my house were done at once. A good design and room that makes you happy, takes time to gather and evolve. There's no rush!
They moved into this house not even a year ago and there have been more important things to do PLUS the aforementioned blazing Texas heat.
That's the front door on the far left, the shadow on the wall is a balcony looking facade that frames an upstairs window.
You enter from the front yard through this gate and the front door is almost directly across.
Its an awesome space. It just needs some love. So let me show you what I'm thinking.
First things first, a new front door color! Its such an easy update for once the weather cools down when you can leave the door open for the day. Kelsey and I have already talked front door colors so I know she'll love this. Dark Harbor by Benjamin Moore. AND she wants to paint the inside of the door too. DO IT. I love the pop of color it brings into your house. And it's so happy!
Another easy thing is the arrangement of the furniture. I'd keep the bakers rack out there and just move it to a smaller wall so that its more in scale. The wall next to the gate is where I might try it. You could even spray paint it a fun color or give it a fresh coat of black. It could be staged with potted plants and metal decor and could even be a serving space for get-togethers on the patio. I can't tell by the picture but if the shelves are metal slats, you could buy a few cute plastic placemats to give yourself a sturdier table top.
The little table that's against the window would look nice placed under the porch light, next to the front door. It could display a few potted plants, a lantern or wreath or even seasonal decor like a cute little pumpkin for fall. I like this idea also because the front door is a little off center from the view through the gate, so this gives a little view of charm from out in the yard.
I love this 'Hello' cut out too. It's one of my favorite things to have elements of fun in a space. Something that tells people you don't take yourself too seriously.
Plants! I love potted plants and in Texas my theory is 'bigger is better' not just because in Texas bigger is better but because it gets so hot, that plants in small pots can get fried REALLY quickly. We buy these awesome planters from Walmart. They come is lots of sizes and a few more colors.
They look ceramic but they are that light, molded plastic making them much easier to move around or move in for the winter. We just drill some holes in the bottom for drainage and plant them. Read this article below for making pretty potted plant arrangements.
Another tip: when you display your potted plants, put them in groups of 3 and try to display them at different heights for more interest. Like I said, we move ours in to the garage in the winter because they survive and because it cuts down on plants you'll have to buy the next spring.
Kelsey said the rug is in ok shape, just faded so she could try painting it to give it new life. Here's a cute rug makeover and the tutorial that would help!
Or, if you do decide you're ready for an update, that brings me to the 'Better' segment of this makeover.
This is a great looking outdoor rug that would give you a good neutral backdrop for the pops of color coming later. Bigger is most always better when buying area rugs. The more space you fill and the more furniture that is grounded on the rug, makes a space look more cohesive. When you start rearranging, move the rug out into the center of the space.
Kelsey already has great patio furniture on the back porch and wants to make the front porch more of a dining area so she's been scouring Craigslist for a round metal table and 4 matching chairs to spray paint. These tables are pretty easy to find but the price, location for pick up make it a little more tricky. I found this one with a quick search of Dallas postings.
I even thought it might be fun to give it a bright makeover with this pop of yellow.
This is also a simple, cheap addition but some string lights would really help finish the space and make the patio a great, relaxing place to be on a nice night.
They will have some blank walls to fill and I found some cute ways to fill the spaces and create more interest. Just because you're outside, doesn't mean you can't decorate the walls.
This chalkboard art is made from plywood and 1x4's. It would look great on the wall under the little balcony and beside the door. I would make it pretty large so that it doesn't get lost on the wall. The size of the one in the picture is good or don't be afraid to go a bit bigger.
Another great idea for filling wall space is to install slatted shutters or ahem, you can have our old closet doors for the same effect. I would mount them on the wall to the right of the windows.
To really pull the space together, I think it would be nice to bring in some fabric. Some throw pillows on the chairs would make for an inviting place to sit. I saw this fabric and thought it would be awesome with the turquoise door. I see this banana leaf pattern in a lot of spaces lately. Love it!
I thought this geometric print would work well with the rug and give you a little more contrast.
Here's a third that will pull the colors from the door and greenery together.
The inside of their house is very neutral but I always think it's fun to do something unexpected outside. It can still look grown up and polished even with a more bold palate. I can't wait to see what you do with this, Kelsey! Also, when it's done and cooler, lets sit out there with some wine ok? Thanks.
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Also, if you are stuck in a decor rut and need some ideas for a specific space at your house, contact me! I'm open for business and for a fee, I'll give you all the resources you need to get started and finish with a room you'll love. If you're local and want a face to face consult, I can do that too!


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The Trade Boards Act 1918 (c 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that heavily shaped the post-World War I system of UK labour law, particularly regarding collective bargaining and the establishment of minimum wages. It was the result of the second of five Whitley Committee reports.

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The 1918 extended the piecemeal system for tackling sweated labour begun under the Trade Boards Act 1909. The Second Reading took place on 17 June 1918. It received Royal Assent on 8 August 1918.

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Case law
Pauley v Kenaldo Ld [1953] 1 W.L.R. 187
Hulland v William Sanders & Son [1945] K.B. 78, extension of terms
National Association of Local Government Officers v Bolton Corp [1943] A.C. 166
Nathan v Gulkoff & Levy Ltd [1933] Ch. 809
R v Minister of Labour Ex p. National Trade Defence Association [1932] 1 K.B. 1
France v James Coombes and Company [1929] AC 496
Skinner v Jack Breach Ltd [1927] 2 K.B. 220

See also
UK labour law
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Wages Councils Act 1945
National Minimum Wage Act 1998
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The Southern Transitional Council has stated it introduced self-governance and a state of emergency in Yemen's south. The council has been accusing the Yemeni government of corruption, failure to fulfill its obligations, plotting against Yemeni people and failing to pay salaries to civilians and servicemen for months.
Five provinces in southern Yemen have rejected the Southern Transitional Council's (STC) decision to introduce self-governance and declare a state of emergency in the region, the Riyadh-based Yemeni news agency SABA reported on Sunday.
According to the SABA news agency, citing the statement received from provincial authorities, the provinces of Abyan, Shabwah, Hadhramaut, Al Mahrah, and Socotra refused to support the council's decision.
The Abyan provincial administration confirmed renouncing the STC's announcement by calling it a violation of the agreement reached in Riyadh on the termination of the military confrontation between the government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) security forces, according to the outlet.
It added that residents of the Abyan province supported the legitimate government led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Similar statements were made by the authorities in four other provinces.
In November 2019, Yemen's internationally recognised government, headed by Hadi, signed a peace deal with the STC aimed at putting an end to their confrontation. Apart from other things, the Riyadh agreement envisioned that the separatists should return facilities and state institutions, which they had previously seized in Yemen's south, to the government.
The STC was created in 2017. The secessionist movement is backed by the United Arab Emirates, which is part of a Saudi-led coalition that has launched an air campaign against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
On 8 April, the coalition announced that it would cease operations in Yemen for a 14-day period in response to a call of the United Nations for a global ceasefire amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, since then, the Houthi movement and the coalition have repeatedly accused one another of violating the truce.
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But Trump has now taken things a step further — much further — saying he would be "honored" to meet with Kim.
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And now we know the real reason Trump has been saying all those nice things. Combined with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson floating the idea of diplomacy last week, it's clear what Trump is getting at here: He wants to cut a deal.
Some immediately compared Trump's posture here to former president Barack Obama saying in 2008 that he was open to negotiating with Iran without preconditions. It's not quite the same thing, though, as Trump emphasized — repeatedly — that there very much needs to be preconditions.
The part of Trump's comments that should raise eyebrows are the ones where he says not only that he would meet with Kim, but that he would be "honored" to do so. It's one thing to talk with an adversarial foreign leader; it's another to lend them the legitimacy of saying you, the president of the United States, would be honored to meet them.
Kim consolidated power by executing not just his uncle, but another estimated 140 or so senior officials in the North Korean government. Most recently, he is believed to be behind the assassination of his half brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. The power that Trump credits him for holding on to has been held on to via the use of brute force and even the starvation of his own people.
Imagine if President Barack Obama had said he would be "honored" to meet with then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back in 2008. The feeding frenzy would have been swift, and it would have been led by Republicans.
Trump's own history of comments about authoritarian leaders make this all something less than shocking. He has praised the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein for killing terrorists without worrying about due process. He said the world would be "100 percent" better with Moammar Gaddafi in charge of Libya. He has of course praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. He retweeted a Mussolini quote. He congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently on growing his presidential powers. And he gave Egyptian President President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi the thumbs-up in a shift in U.S. policy.
The New York Times's Glenn Thrush asked White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Monday if Trump has "a thing with these totalitarian leaders?" Spoiler alert: He does. And it's not even subtle.
Spicer responded to such questions by saying Kim is "still the head of state, so there is a diplomatic piece to this." Which, fine. But there is also a piece about legitimizing brutal tyrants and their methods.
Trump's recent comments about Kim actually echo what he said in Iowa in January 2016 , when he pointed more directly to the North Korean leader killing his political opponents.
In other words, it's clear Trump knows how Kim has stayed in power. And even considering his past praise of authoritarians, his decision to say Kim is worthy of "honor" and is a "smart cookie" suggests Trump has more admiration for authoritarians even than he lets on.


wife also joined dinner this evening so we had 7pax.
& chicken rice was very flavourful.
i had 3cups rice for 7pax, fried in chicken fat & cut ginger & lots of garlic, added 1/2tsp salt & added 3 cups very intense chicken stock…& the rice was really flavourful & tasty…i finished all the remaining rice the next day by myself, without any meat, just rice & the sauces.
i cooked the chicken just right – 12mins simmering, 25mins off fire poached, then ice bucket, and placed in fridge.
when i deboned the chicken, i could feel the smoothness & tenderness of the chicken.
i made the chicken rice chili – 6 red chilli, 1 chili padi, 5 tbsp chopped garlic, 3cm chopped ginger, 1tbsp flat sugar, 1/2 cup intense chicken stock 1/2 tsp salt..
i had 1/2 duck in the freezer, so took out 2 days ago, marinated with the spice mix & sealed in container in chiller compartment.
took out this after & poached like the chicken – 15mins boiling, and 30mins off fire poached.
still not as good as my best in the photos here.
even my best cannot compare with the quite excellent benson's 盐水鸭 at toa payoh lor 1 of course, but still this was a pretty good rendition.
just a small 1/2 duck, so all finished in fact..
tofu prawns quite a practiced delivery nowadays..
prawns were done just right, and set aside so not overcooked, succulent, sweet & bouncy.
tofu was fried earlier, set aside and added to the very tasty gravy with egg before serving. then garnished with coriander.
tifu were infused with the tasty gravy, so a very tasty prawn tofu dish.
my OPS bro bought the S$15 duck master duck from chinatown.
but the duck was small, looked tasty, and ther papers were just talking about duck master & we would all want to just try it, so i deboned the duck & served.
anyhow the roast duck & the 1/2盐水鸭 were all finished.
my friend brought a 800g red snapper.
sauce was ok, but fish meat was overcooked & such a waste la!
cuttlefish kang kong with the excellent gimson nonya sauce was very good as usual, and all my friends liked it.
my dining aircon was not working. after dinner, we migrated to the aircon room & chatted about another OPS bro's recently bought audi car, hong kong, next food tour & others..
my OPS bro who brought the duck & snapper also brought a very nice korean musk melon, bought S$5,99 from sheng shiong, very sweet melon.
another fun evening with very good OPS friends.
this though the menu has changed & there were no menu page on steaks but instead all the burgers…is portico prime morphing to like the other portico or like relish & bistro type? don't know.
anyhow we asked the server & she said there is only 1 cut, the USDA ribeye, 200g at S$46. it is NOT on the menu. i recalled from previous that it was USDA choice ribeye & anyway the aussie rump steak etc were not great, so this was the only cut previously (other than the japanese wagyu which has no discounts) that was the really good steak, so it suits us fine.
& we ordered the truffle chilled pasta to share.
the ribeye steak was very good, though somehow i thought previously it was better.
just looking at the photos for my dinner with son on 24.5.2017, somehow the ribeye looked bigger, maybe flatter & the colour & grilling looked better? maybe just psychological.
wife was saying the steak we bbq ourselves during our recent trip to iceland on number of occasions were like the same or perhaps better.
the reconstructed blackforest very small helping & very ex at S$18.
the chocolate mousse was very good. but then i have no special affinity to this now.
dinner came to $97 nett for 2 inclusive of a glass of red wine for wife at S$13, no discounts.
maybe i should go back to la brezzato try again, but they have also upped their prices there, the last time i went with son on 22.4.2017!
this my 37th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre.
the residents joining breakfast grew to almost 130.
when i first came in jan2016, there were like about 80 attendees for the breakfast.
i bought about 1.6kg+ of belly pork and decided to make a simple & quick braised belly pork (kong bak) and taupok.
i used tai hua braising sauce to save time & effort.
fried 2 cinnamon bark, 4 star anise, 2 cloves, 1 whole bulb of peeled garlic cloves in oil till fragrant.
then added the belly pork and browned all sides a little.
added 1/2 cup braising sauce, then 1 cup of water, and boiled & covered the wok pan.
the kong bak came on nicely. i removed & set aside.
then i added 2 packets of hara taupok.
these were 12 to a packet & i cut eahc into 4 strips so i had 2x12x4=96strips..
boiled the taupok in the sauce for 30mins or so, till the right texture.
as i have to leave the house by 8.15am to deliver the dish to teban gardens, it would be too late.
so for this breakfast dish i braised the kong bak the evening before & kept in a sealed holder in the fridge. & after taking it out the next morning from the fridge, i placed it int he steam oven & steamed for 15mins to give it the right moisture & texture before plating them in the aluminium carrier.
then i added the taupok on top & some braising sauce to keep warm & moist & covered with aluminium foil.
i run with my RI buddy at ulu pandan joggin track at faber heights.
usually i stayed for 100plus and coffee chat at his place near there.
we were at this outlet previously on 25.7.2017 when we visited a friend's mother who was hospitalised at ng teng fong hospital, and we walked over to westgate for lunch!
i don't really need this appetiser though. for me the mala 麻辣夫妻肺片type or drunken chicken or pork trotter terrine type appetiser would be more compelling.
we ordered a fish fillet.
it was nicely done, steamed with ginger, carrots and cloud fungus…very good indeed!
the mildly spicy tofu with vegetable dish was quite good too, quite matching the other food orders.
we ordered the spicy dumplings 抄手 noodles.
spicy dumplings 抄手 a dish i always liked.
this dish combined the nice spicy dumplings with the noodles…very good indeed. i enjoyed the noodles thoroughly.
after lunch we walked over to lady M cake shop and bought 2 slices – the natural & also the greentea millicrepe..
we had done tapas at foc (good!) several times, and foc's sister restaurant pimpam (of which i am unimpressed). we were game to try another new place ya..
the charcuterie was low quality, not good cuts of prosciutto, salami & chorizo & cheese was also cheap stuff.
restaurant was quite well taken up so quite popular place for diners on a sunday night.
the photo menu were quite helpful, easy to make orders.
we had ham croquette, for me a far cry from the excellent intense flavourful ham & also mushroom croquettes at foc.
the spanish omelette or tortilla was excellent. daughter said better than my own..haha!
squid ink paella had not much squid ink flavours too dilute & indistinct…overall taste was ok, just not the flavourful squid ink.
there were cut pieces of squid. clams were ok.
fpr me a very mediocre paella. i think i do better squid ink sometimes, though not always.
the seafood paella was quite good..
though for me foc's paella & fiduea were just so much better.
the pork shoulder were ok but not too great.
again, foc's iberico pork ribs was so good this was like just an average passable do.
my son & daughter liked this though. it was too strong gamey taste for wife. i knew when i tasted it. but it was good lamb. but foc's lamb rack was for me, miles better.
beef steak was ok. it's not expensive cut so just an average steak tagliata but done quite well.
the suckling pig had good crackling skin & overall good taste.
for these i think western suckling pig are double the price of chinese ones & not even 1/2 as good.
it was overall a good dinner for daughter & all of us, spending time together & enjoying a great meal that was not too costly.
if i not compaing with foc, this was ok for me. c/w foc this would not be my preferred dining location.
this place was discovered by daughter. she shared the chirashi don photo in the family whatsapp.
wife & i decided to drop by en sakaba at orchard central mall for dinner on 22.7.2017.
i reserved a table for 2pax at 7.30pm. the other tables were filled when we arrived.
service was kind of haphazard.
we waited long time for the menu. nobody came to the table.
i picked up 2 menus myself, and had to signal like 4 times, even though each time it was acknowkedged, the 3 servers managed to find other things to do & took a while to come just to take orders.
sweet & tasty, with a touch of ponzu sauce…very nice beef tataki..
we tried the kaki furai – deepfried oysters…it was ok, competent i guess, nothing special, can skip this.
we ordered a chirashi don each. quite good for S$28.
there was no botan ebi, but the aka ebi was almost as good, couldn't really tell much difference, certainly better than small amaebi at other places.
the pink rice was supposed to be a special thingy…but it was NOT good..the next time i would ask for normal sushi rice.
went with sis & bil to yelaixiang 夜来香 teochew porridge for early lunch at kim san leng bukit merah view on 22.7.2017.
this was the spot vacated by the former 夜上海which had moved to lengkok bahru.
i have never tried 夜来香. the display of food looked mighty similar to the former 夜上海.
we asked about the fish. garoupa was S$10 & mullet 乌鱼was S$12. my first reaction was expensive as 夜上海 used to sell at $8, and now S$9 at lengkok bahru.
"sis ordered a teochew chilled mullet 冻乌鱼 (S$9) and 6 vegetable dishes + one porridge for S$14.60" – from our recent visit to 夜上海.
anyhow my sis ordered 2 cheaper fish – a selar & a kee fish plus like 6 or 7 veg dishes for S$14.20. so quite ok, though perhaps still more ex a bit than 夜上海. but ok la..
aftewards sis went to add a red garoupa S$10. very fresh & sweet, quite ok also as a 350g-400g red garoupa would cost like S$6-S$7 at chinatown wet market.
we were ther at 11.20am on a saturday.
there was no queue, crowd had not arrived.
later at 12pm there was a longer queue but not like 夜上海 where it was here previously.
son ordered the usual chirashi don. this time he asked for aburi (flamed), which we have not taken before.
the server said it was the same. however, it came without the usual botanebi, not very satisfying.
the serving of uni was quite good though, 3 portions & more below. the other sashimi cuts quite the same, except also no hotate & kajiki which they usually serve.
the sushi rice has improved but still not as good as many other places.
i ordered the kagoshima wagyu don.
i ordered the lobster uniyaki to share.
it was good, mostly the case, though once it was like overcooked & not bouncy.
i also ordered the boned-in belly pork robatayaki S$40.
we had some long chats & sharing, father & son. food & ambience were great & we had some treasured moments together this evening.
we did this a few times over the years. i counted maybe this the 3rd time at top table, once with CIA downstairs for asean cuisine in the classrooms & once at sugar loaf.
there was a choice of salad or cream of cauliflower. i had the salad which was good, refreshing. did not try the cream of cauliflower but it looked pretty good, the right color & texture of a dish done right….
the chicken looked like a chicken roulade pressed meat..my friend it was like the one i made quite a while back..a chicken ballotine..
of course this one was beautiful served with the entire gamut of sauce & sides, so really quite a different proposition altogether.
they had limited servings of roast of the day.
we managed to get our order of ribeye roast, medium rare for me.
it was done excellently, basically like a prime rib, cut from an entire ribeye roast, hence the charring was on the rim & not on the flats like a grilled or pan-charred steak.
i also made chicken rice, together with chili & ginger sauce.
they also found the 盐水鸭 spiced duck ok, and the 1/2 duck was all finished.
to mix things up a bit, i planned a couple of western/european/japanese dishes, nobu miso cod & teriyaki salmon belly.
the advantage being also that of the 10 dishes plus tiramisu i made on this day, only the steamed snapper fillet & the cuttlefish kang kong required cooking when guests arrived. the other dishes could be done & ready beforehand, or a few could be heated up & served.
so i was able to bring all the dishes to the serving table in 10, maybe 15mins of guests arrival. pretty good eh?
the nobu miso cod was quite excellent.
quite a few, including JH's sis, liked the teriyaki salmon belly even better.
it was very, very good, the nice flavours of light soy sauce with miso, and the chopped garlic & ginger combined very well with the fatty/marbled salmon belly.
i shallow fried the silken beancurd first. then prepared the gravy, and cooked the prawns nicely, about 5mins & 90% cooked, which imparted shellfish flavours to the stock…& set aside.
i also had steamed minced pork 蒸肉饼 topped with an egg. quite a nice comfort food.
the steamed red snapper was an excellent dish as well.
the cuttlefish kang kong was another wonderful dish.
the trick was also gimson nonya sauce. & of course doing the cuttlefish doneness & texture just right.
did 5 wonderful, delectable dishes.
the teochew fried crayfish egg onions was really "pang", fragrant with good wok hae.
wife said some crayfish weren't the freshest. i got those from chinatown market, no choice from the stall which i thought was not honest, but no choice, only crayfish that day.
i did the dish beforehand. fried with chili padi & chopped spring onions & garlic, softened the onions, then added 2 eggs, added some oyster sauce, fried fragrant & set aside.
then i fried the crayfish with cut chili padi, sliced ginger & chopped garlic, a little fish sauce, and set aside.
when serving, i heat up the egg onions, added the crayfish, stir-fried, the served.
the tofu prawns, i shallow fried the silken tofu earlier.
i seasoned the shelled prawns with fish sauce & white pepper, cooked the prawns like 90% in the gravy & removed. when about to serve, i heated up the gravy, added the tofu & the prawns, and voila!
i deboned 1/2 chicken, & seasoned with 1 tbsp fish sauce, 1 tbsp oyster sauce, 1tbsp light soy sauce, 2 tbsp shaoxing wine. i fried cut chili padi, chopped spring onions, garlic, then added the chicken, fried, & added the intense chicken stock. i cooked the chicken for about 5-6 mins, just tender not overcooked. then i removed the chicken & cooked cut taupok strips in the gravy.
when my friends arrived, i just heat up the dish & served.
the lobster yeemeen this evening was the best i had made, so very tasty, fantastic.
this were smallish frozen lobsters from phoon huat delicatesen, about 350g-375g, so i used 3 pieces, shelled the pincers & cut each lobster tail into 3 pieces.
i fried cut chili padi, chopped spring onions & garlic, then added the remaining intense chicken stock. then i cooked the lobster head first, then added the pincers & lobster tail pieces, and removed them about 90% cooked.
when serving i boiled the stock, added the lobster and the yeemeen, off the fire & braised the noodles in the superior broth.
the last dish for the evening was cuttlefish kang kong.
this i cooked on the spot when friends arrived.
just fried the cut stems with chili padi & garlic, added oyster sauce, then added the cuttlefish & the jang kong leaves, & 1 heap tbsp gimson nonya sauce. and stir fried.
a really tasty dish, great cuttlefish texture & special flavours of the nonya sauce made the dish quite unique & different. excellent ending to the dinner.
of course dinner was overflowing with wine, jokes, laughter, sharing.
1 bro was travelling, the rest 13pax attended.
i went early with 4 others who played tennis.
the organisers ordered & picked up the food from my seafood house 珍阁 zi char at blk 130 next to JCube.
surprise, surprise, the food was really good! much owing to the good selection too by our organiser who also the games convenor.
the herbal chicken soup very competent. tasty & nice herb flavours.
seafood roll & dragon beard combo was quite standard. still, they were crispy & tasted good.
the pork fritters were good.
the deepfried big intestines were pretty ok though one friend found it strong taste. quite ok for me.
the calamari was surprisingly quite good too. crispy & sotong not overdone, not rubbery..
salted egg pork ribs were ok, competent, not the most juicy rendition..
the crispy trotters was quite excellent, especially the skin, but also tendons & gelatinous bits.
there was another dish of tofu, pretty ok forgot to take photos.
overall cost was quite good = S$234.50 for 13pax…we enjoyed the dinner very much.
it was fun too having makan at the open air roof garden.
after makan, we played several games, about 4 or 5 games.
very good starters platter – veg samosa, pakora, fish vadais, yogurt?
we had 6pax. another friend who is vegetarian joined later at 9pm.
i hardly had north indian food as no kakis…except in london my family went to dishoom a few times…food at chat masala is better & the range of food many times more.
my friend made excellent orders for this evening.
the starters were all very good – veg samosa, pakora, fish vadais, yogurt?
& the coriander cheese triangles – cheese naan came with an excellent eggplant dip.
the romali (hankerchief) roti was the best! tandoori roti dry & the garlic naan also dry out a bit over the course of dinner.
butter chicken was very good. chicken was tender & gravy was excellent!
this a favourite dish when my children were young…we had home parties then & sometimes we ordered from delhi restaurant & went to pick up the food for small 10-15pax parties.
kerala fish curry was very good too. gravy was very tasty & fish had firm texture.
one friend like this dish – a must order for her.
for me the best dish was the mutton briyani.
at this carb-less age, we finished the rice & there were still mutton pieces to enjoy.
i not into indian dessert…they usually overwhelmingly (sickeningly came to mind) sweet!
these ones here were a tad better.
but gulab still far too sweet.
the kulfi were better, both mango kulfi & also baileys kulfi..
i would say this chat masala food is much better than the dishoom dishes we had in london.
this my 36th friday breakfast community meal at teban gardens community service centre.
i bought 2kg of frozen sutchi fillet from sheng shion & cleaned with salt & dried laid on kitchen towels in the fridge overnight.
i started at 7am to prepare the dish.
basically i just fried cut ginger & 2 chili padi till fragrant, then added chopped garlic. then added the sutchi fillet. lastly i added the braising sauce = 3 tbsp light soy sauce, 2tbsp olive oil & 2 tbsp mirin.
cooked fillet for about 6mins, test the taste & texture..
it was quite perfect, the nice flavour of light soy sauce & olive oil.
i transfer to the aluminium foil carrier, then drained the sauce & used for frying the leek & onions.
leek texture was just right, not yet mushy, still with good bite, and very tasty with the sauce.
after tangs market sungei road laksa & cendol, we retired to my clubhouse for coffee drink aircon & chat.
the last makan stop was Keng Eng Kee (KEK)@ alexandta village.
the last time i was here was with a RI friend on 2 yrs ago on 17.6.2017.
i ordered the min zhu rolls, i think S$12.80..it's a specialty here, with prawns, ham, mushrooms, celery etc..
i thought it was quite good, outside crispy & inside ingredients quite nice, though one piece was enough for me. my OPS friend thought it was so so..
the claypot duck with sea cucumber turned out to be the best dish this evening.
the 3 eggs spinach was competent, nothing special.
my friend thought it was not as good as quan ji zi char at telok ayer market. i think he is right.
dinner 5 dishes for 4pax = S$79 & drinks about $6.40.
we agreed that the dishes weren't great & that quan ji zi char at telok ayer market would be better.
i thought KEK has a wider range of dishes, whereas quan ji mostly carb dishes.
& i probably did not order the best dishes. there was a crab promo=2 crabs 1.2kg for S$78. perhaps i should have ordered that.
last time i went to sungei road laksa at jln berseh on 1.12.2016, laksa was $3 & i added $1 cockles.
here it was S$3.50. my friend who bought the 3 bowls of laksa asked for no cockles.
the laksa gravy was tasty ok, but..
then, just looking at my photos then & now, the gravy looked different actually. this one here kind of yellow like many katong laksa. maybe it was the chili, but then i went to get more chili & added in.
still i guess it was a rather good bowl of laksa..
we also bought the cendol..
in fact i only started to take cendol again after taking the intense flavourful cendol at four seasons at toa payoh lor 8. that one real nice, never tired of it!
i think he charged us like S$6.10 for 6-7items, on the low side.
the items/selection was a bit limited.
the ngoh hiang were a tad drier. guo hua said that he made everything himself. so not like the central supplies with fat ngoh hiang…hmmm…actually i preferred the fat nogh hiang..
beehoon was soft, al dente, i guess quite standard for such stalls.
the nogh hiang was pretty ok & not pricey.
we were seated in front of this fish stall. it just happens that the stall holder was an army mate of our same OPS buddy, so he went to chat with him. such co-incidence.
guo hua said this stall fish soup very good, and during lunch hour, the queue is very long. he said many new stall holders bidded high for the stalls, but found it difficult to offer the same. so some packed up after a few months…that's just the story of a market centre stall, isn't it?
we started our food tour with our first lunch at 祥源记Xiang Yuan Ji at jalan besar.
the first & only time i came here was on 1.12.2016, very good panfried dumplings 生煎包 indeed.
the panfried dumplings 生煎包 here is the best i had.
my OPS friend liked the beef terrine 酱牛肉 best.
this dish so so for me, never my favourite. i prefer the teochew ter kar tan猪脚冻.
the savoury beancurd was very good, very tasty & nicely flavoured with 芹菜???
pork cutlet was good too, and the sauce, little bit of it, was pretty good.
this first lunch was just S$36.70..
my OPS buddy bought frogleg porridge (my first time here) on 11.3.2016. after that i came couple times, always good.
likewise today, very good lunch.
frogs were fresh & tender & very substantial serving of 7 frogs in 2 pots. sauce was tasty & not too sweet & porridge also tasty, went very well with the sauce.
both the mild & normal spicy were good.
i had very spicy ones with my wife here once. that was NO GOOD!
my 2 friends first time here thoroughly enjoyed it!
my friend ordered a fried baby kailan maybe like S$8.
very nice lunch chat with my 2 friends.


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Sharing certain aspects of both the Independence and the Crown Jewel, the Club racer is a dual personality bike. Rip up the tarmac at a local 10, or load up for some lightweight touring. Designed to take deep drop brakes, to allow clearance for bigger tyres and mudguards, the usual IF touches apply here as much as any of the other frames - full custom,size specific tubing, and the full option list. The Club Racer is a versatile performer at all levels.
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Relax Lines, Inc. is a luxury cruise line that has hired you as a job crafting consultant for two groups of their employees. The first group is the ship crew. The crew have responsibility for safety, navigation, and maintenance of the ship. The second group is the hospitality staff. The hospitality staff is tasked with making sure the passengers are enjoying themselves and are properly entertained with various events that this staff plans and prepares. Before arriving at the cruise line to do interviews and make recommendations, you first need to do some reading on what general approach you will use. As a first step, review Dik and Duffy (2012), where they discuss task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting. Which of these three types of job crafting do you think would be most appropriate for the ship crew, and which one do you think would be most appropriate for the hospitality staff? Also, read up on "job-crafting swap meets" in Wrzesniewski (2014). Do you think a swap meet would be appropriate for either ship crew members or hospitality staff? Any other strategy from Wrzesniewski (2014) that you think would be useful for either pilots or online marketers?
The ABC Corporation has a team of telemarketers. The job description for the telemarketers is pretty basic: They call up potential customers who have visited his company's web page and requested information about the product. Telemarketers' performance evaluations depend mostly on their monthly sales as well as customer satisfaction surveys, and they receive monthly feedback reports. Their supervisor gives them some initial training, but these telemarketers have a lot of freedom to choose how and when to call customers. For example, they are free to customize their own sales pitch as long as they don't mislead potential customers. Also, they are not required to fill out a time card or work at the office (they can work from home, if they want). As long as they are making enough monthly sales they are free to set their own schedules. While the telemarketing team is performing well, the company is concerned about high turnover among telemarketers and wants to do some job enrichment. Which of the five core job dimensions discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007) do you think should be revised the most during a job redesign intervention? Which ones do you think do not need to be revised? Explain your reasoning and cite some of the required readings in your answer.
Suppose a sports injury clinic has three main practitioners. First, there is a general practitioner doctor who does the basic diagnosis of the injury and works with the patient to come up with an overall treatment program. This doctor also prescribes medicine as needed. Then there is a surgeon who specializes in sports injuries. This doctor only does surgery. Finally, there is a physical therapist who helps patients with exercise programs to help them recover. The owner of the clinic though becomes worried that these three practitioners are becoming bored and dissatisfied with their jobs and there is concern they might all leave unless their jobs change. However, given the high degree of training required for each of their specializations management is not sure how to go about making their jobs less monotonous and more rewarding. In general, would you recommend management undergoes a traditional job redesign approach or a job crafting approach? Which specific job redesign strategy or job crafting strategy would you recommend? For example, if you choose job redesign discuss whether you would recommend job rotation, enlargement, enrichment, etc. If you choose job crafting, refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012).
Create a table with the definitions of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment) and the three main types of job crafting (task crafting, relational crafting, and cognitive crafting). Then write two paragraphs explaining which of the three types of job crafting are most similar to any of the three types of job redesign, and on what you think are the key differences between job crafting and job redesign based on the definitions in your table.
Answer the assignment questions directly in 4 to 5 written pages.
Make sure to use reliable and credible sources as your references. Articles published in established newspapers or business journals/magazines are preferred. If you use articles from the Internet, make sure they are from credible sources.
Reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a High-Quality Academic Paper, including pages 13 and 14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the "Writing Style Guide," which is found under My Resources in the TLC portal.
Of the three main types of job redesign (job enlargement, job rotation, job enrichment), which one do you think would be the most effective in your current workplace? Explain your reasoning, and cite Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or Griffin (2007) as part of your answer.
Suppose your supervisor decides to use job enrichment to redesign your job. Of the five core job characteristics discussed in Bauer and Erdogan (2012) or page 9 of Griffin (2007), which one do you think should be changed as part of your job redesign?
Which specific job crafting strategy or intervention do you think would be most effective at your organization or for your specific job? Refer to one of the specific strategies or interventions discussed in Wrzesniewski (2014) or Dik and Duffy (2012).
Answer the assignment questions directly in 2 to 3 written pages.
Hartzell, S. (2015). Types of job redesign: Job enrichment, enlargement & rotation. Intro to Business.
Wrzesniewski, A. (2015). Job crafting - Amy Wrzesniewski on creating meaning in your own work. Re:Work with Google.
The job crafting survey appears in a complicated article, but the survey is relatively straightforward and appears on page 177 of the article linked below. For each question, a "5" indicates strong agreement, a "4" means moderate agreement, a "3" means neutral, a "2" means mild disagreement, and a "1" means strong disagreement. There are four dimensions of job crafting on this survey. All of these dimensions have five questions, with the exception of "decreasing hindering job demands," which has six questions. The total possible score on each dimension is either 25 or 30, depending on the number of questions: http://www.academia.edu/2796261/Development_and_va.... You may also click the following link to access the Job Crafting Survey.
Report your scores on both surveys to your classmates and explain whether or not the results accurately describe your current job situation and the overall usefulness of each survey.
Also, discuss any practical implications that the results of each survey has on your organization. Do the results indicate that any specific job redesign or job crafting intervention should be done? Would you recommend either survey be used for a wider range of employees at your organization to assist in deciding on a job redesign or job crafting strategy?
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This cause came on to be heard by this Court upon the exceptions of the parties to the report of the special master.
1. At the time of the admission of the state of Oregon into the Union, February 14, 1859 (11 Stat. 383), the United States of America was the owner in fee and entitled to the possession of 81,786 acres, more or less of unsurveyed land lying within the meander line boundary as more specifically described in paragraph 13 of this decree, and divided for the purposes of this case into five divisions: (1) Lake Malheur; (2) Narrows; ( 3) Mud Lake; (4) Sand Reef; and (5) Harney Lake, and of all the surrounding region for many miles.
2. No part of the 81,786 acres within the meander line boundary constituted navigable waters on February 14, 1859, and the title and interest in no part passed from the United States of America to the state of Oregon upon her admission into the Union.
3. The United States of America has never in terms conveyed or otherwise disposed of any part of the area lying within the meander line boundary, except such disposition, as may have resulted (as matter of law) from its patents, grants, and listings of land bordering on the meander line boundary but not lying within it. [295 U.S. 701, 702] 4. The state of Oregon is the owner of upland having a frontage of 159.67 chains along the meander line in subdivision B of the Narrows Division (between the bridge and Mud Lake Division). 70.52 chains of this frontage are on the north boundary and 89.15 chains on the south boundary. The frontage of the state of Oregon on subdivision B of the Narrows Division constitutes 86.85 per cent. of the total frontage of 183.85 chains in that subdivision. The state of Oregon is the owner in fee simple absolute of the bed of subdivision B of the Narrows Division extending to the center line thereof and lying opposite and adjacent to her upland frontage (including stable lands, if any, lying within this area), subject to any rights with respect to ditches and canals retained by the United States by its patents of the upland, and subject to any easement for the flowage of water through the Narrows from the Malheur Division to the Mud Lake Division.
5. The United States of America has no right, title, or interest in the area known as the 'Narrows Division' (R.S. 2476 (43 USCA 931)), except the rights with respect to ditches and canals, if any, retained by its patents of adjacent uplands, and any easement for the flowage of water from the Malheur Division to the Mud Lake Division through the Narrows Division.
6. The United States of America is forever enjoined from asserting any estate, right, title, or interest in or against the estates, rights, titles, and interests owned and held by the state of Oregon in the Narrows Division, as determined in paragraph 4 of this decree.
7. The state of Oregon is the owner of upland having a frontage of 72. 31 chains along the meander line in Mud Lake Division, which constitutes 8. 96 per cent. of the total frontage of 806.94 chains on that division. In accordance with the findings of the special master, to which no exception is taken, it is decreed that the state of Oregon is the owner of a ratable portion of the bed of Mud Lake Division to [295 U.S. 701, 703] the extent of 8.96 per cent. of said bed (as 72.31 chains bears to 806.94 chains), allowing for equitable considerations which may affect this ratio, subject to any rights with respect to ditches and canals retained by the United States by its patents of the uplands on Mud Lake Division, and subject to any easement for the flowage of water from the Narrows Division to the Sand Reef Division.
8. The United States of America is forever enjoined from asserting any estate, right, title, or interest in or against the estates, rights, titles, and interests owned and held by the state of Oregon in the Mud Lake Division, as determined in paragraph 7 of this decree.
9. The surveys, as school lands, of lots 1, 2, 3, Sec. 36, T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (north of Lake Malheur), in the Sand Reef Division; lot 4 of this Sec. 36, and lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Sec. 36, T. 27 S., R. 29 1/2 E. in the Harney Lake Division, were approved subsequent to the establishment of the Lake Malheur Reservation by Executive Order No. 929, dated August 18, 1908, which appropriated these lots as a part of the Reservation, and no title or interest in them passed to the state of Oregon. Section 36, T. 26 S., R. 29 E., lying on the meander line boundary of Harney Lake, was surveyed as school lands, and the survey approved, prior to the establishment of the Lake Malheur Reservation. The state of Oregon claimed and received lieu lands elsewhere for a deficiency in this section, equivalent to the part thereof which lay within the meander line boundary, and it has no interest in the area within the meander line as an incident to its ownership of these uplands.
10. The state of Oregon has no right, title, or interest in or to any part of the area within the meander line boundary, including all stable lands above the water surface elevation of 4,093 feet above sea level, except as determined in paragraphs 4 and 7 of this decree.
11. Except as determined in paragraphs 4 and 7 of this decree, the United States of America is the owner in fee [295 U.S. 701, 704] simple absolute, and entitled to the possession, of all the area within the meander line boundary, but not including such parts, if any, as may have been, as matter of law, transferred by the United States of America by reason of and as an incident to patents of uplands bordering on the meander line boundary. As neither the patentees nor their successors in interest (except in so far as the state of Oregon is a successor in interest of some of the patentees) are parties to this suit, no determination is now made in respect of the rights, titles, and interests, if any, acquired by the patentees in the areas within the meander line boundary.
12. The state of Oregon is forever enjoined from asserting any estate, right, title, or interest in or to any of the area within the meander line boundary, except the estates, rights, titles and interests determined in paragraphs 5 and 8 of this decree not to be owned by the United States.
Thence, in T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (South of Malheur Lake), N. 88 W. 54.00 chs.; to the place of beginning.
Thence, S. 42 E. 32.50 chs. across unsurveyed land to the meander corner at the most northwesterly corner of lot 11, Sec. 25, T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (South of Malheur Lake); the place of beginning.
Thence, S. 65 E. 13.00 chs.; East 6.50 chs.; N. 68 30 E. 3.00 chs.; N. 9 E. 7.50 chs.; N. 69 E. 26.00 chs.; N. 45 30 E. 8.00 chs.; N. 61 30 E. 9. 00 chs.; S. 42 E. 9.00 chs.; N. 81 E. 4.00 chs.; N. 24 30 E. 11.00 chs.; S. 87 E. 3.00 chs.; S. 63 30 E. 4.14 chs.; S. 66 E. 5.00 chs.; N. 55 E. 7.00 chs.; S. 82 30 E. 3.60 chs.; N. 21 30 E. 5.00 chs.; N. 37 W. 12.00 chs.; S. 86 15 W. 8.53 chs.; North 12.00 chs.; N. 54 30 E. 10.00 chs.; N. 83 E. 10. 00 chs.; N. 53 E. 10.00 chs.; N. 26 E. 10.00 chs.; N. 57 E. 14.00 chs.; N. 61 E. 10.00 chs.; N. 36 E. 12.00 chs.; S. 75 30 E. 14.00 chs.; S. 62 E. 9. 00 chs.; S. 38 E. 3.62 chs.; S. 62 30 E. 11.00 chs.; S. 72 30 E. 9.00 chs.; S. 69 E. 20.00 chs.; S. 42 30 E. 4.00 chs.; to the meander corner at the most southwesterly point on the west boundary of lot 2, Sec. 27, T. 26 S., R. 31 E. (North of Malheur Lake); [295 U.S. 701, 711] Thence, S. 27 E. 31.40 chs. to the meander corner at the most northwesterly corner of lot 2, Sec. 27, T. 26 S., R. 30 E. (South of Malheur Lake); the place of beginning.
Thence, in a southeasterly direction across unsurveyed land, along the west base of the Sand Reef on the 4,095-foot contour line, a distance of approximately 303.75 chains to the place of beginning.
14. The rights of persons not parties to this suit are not determined. It is not determined whether any part of the meander line boundary is or was in fact a true and correct meander line upon which the lands of such upland owners border, and no reference, here or in the special master's report, to parts of such line shall be taken as an adjudication that the meander line in this respect is the true or correct boundary.
15. The counterclaim of the state of Oregon is hereby dismissed except as to matters determined in paragraphs 4 and 7 of this decree.
16. It is further decreed that each party pay its own costs, and that each party pay one-half of the expenses incurred by the special master, and also one-half of the amount to be fixed by the Court as the compensation of the special master.


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namespace Maba\Bundle\WebpackBundle\DependencyInjection;

use Maba\Bundle\WebpackBundle\Compiler\WebpackProcessBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocator;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DependencyInjection\Extension;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader;

class MabaWebpackExtension extends Extension
{
    public function load(array $configs, ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        $configuration = $this->getConfiguration($configs, $container);
        $config = $this->processConfiguration($configuration, $configs);

        $loader = new Loader\XmlFileLoader($container, new FileLocator(__DIR__ . '/../Resources/config'));
        $loader->load('services.xml');

        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.enabled_bundles', $config['enabled_bundles']);

        $this->configureTwig($container, $config);
        $this->configureConfig($container, $config);
        $this->configureAliases($container, $config);
        $this->configureBin($container, $config);
        $this->configureDashboard($container, $config);
        $this->configureEntryFile($container, $config);
    }

    public function getConfiguration(array $config, ContainerBuilder $container)
    {
        return new Configuration(
            array_keys($container->getParameter('kernel.bundles')),
            $container->getParameter('kernel.environment')
        );
    }

    private function configureTwig(ContainerBuilder $container, array $config)
    {
        $twigDirectories = $config['twig']['additional_directories'];
        $twigDirectories[] = '%kernel.root_dir%/Resources/views';
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.twig_directories', $twigDirectories);
        if ($config['twig']['suppress_errors'] === true) {
            $errorHandlerId = 'maba_webpack.error_handler.suppressing';
        } elseif ($config['twig']['suppress_errors'] === 'ignore_unknowns') {
            $errorHandlerId = 'maba_webpack.error_handler.ignore_unknowns';
        } else {
            $errorHandlerId = 'maba_webpack.error_handler.default';
        }
        $container->setAlias('maba_webpack.error_handler', $errorHandlerId);
    }

    private function configureConfig(ContainerBuilder $container, $config)
    {
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.webpack_config_path', $config['config']['path']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.webpack_config_parameters', $config['config']['parameters']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.config.manifest_file_path', $config['config']['manifest_file_path']);
    }

    private function configureAliases(ContainerBuilder $container, $config)
    {
        $additionalAliases = $config['aliases']['additional'] + array(
                'app' => '%kernel.root_dir%/Resources/assets',
                'root' => '%kernel.root_dir%/..',
            );
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.aliases.additional', $additionalAliases);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.aliases.path_in_bundle', $config['aliases']['path_in_bundle']);
    }

    private function configureBin(ContainerBuilder $container, $config)
    {
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.disable_tty', $config['bin']['disable_tty']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.working_directory', $config['bin']['working_directory']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.webpack.executable', $config['bin']['webpack']['executable']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.webpack.arguments', $config['bin']['webpack']['arguments']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.dev_server.executable', $config['bin']['dev_server']['executable']);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.bin.dev_server.arguments', $config['bin']['dev_server']['arguments']);
    }

    private function configureDashboard(ContainerBuilder $container, $config)
    {
        $dashboardModeMap = array(
            'always' => WebpackProcessBuilder::DASHBOARD_MODE_ENABLED_ALWAYS,
            'dev_server' => WebpackProcessBuilder::DASHBOARD_MODE_ENABLED_ON_DEV_SERVER,
            false => WebpackProcessBuilder::DASHBOARD_MODE_DISABLED,
        );
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.dashboard.mode', $dashboardModeMap[$config['dashboard']['enabled']]);
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.dashboard.executable', $config['dashboard']['executable']);
    }

    private function configureEntryFile(ContainerBuilder $container, $config)
    {
        if (!$config['entry_file']['enabled']) {
            // both empty disables the functionality
            $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.entry_file.disabled_extensions', array());
            $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.entry_file.enabled_extensions', array());
        } else {
            $container->setParameter(
                'maba_webpack.entry_file.disabled_extensions',
                $config['entry_file']['disabled_extensions']
            );
            $container->setParameter(
                'maba_webpack.entry_file.enabled_extensions',
                $config['entry_file']['enabled_extensions']
            );
        }
        $container->setParameter('maba_webpack.entry_file.type_map', $config['entry_file']['type_map']);
    }
}

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Grada is een vrouwelijke voornaam van Germaanse afkomst. De voornaam is afgeleid van de voornaam Gerard. De achternaam Grada is afkomstig uit Ierland.

De naam is samengesteld uit 'ger' (speer), en 'hard' (sterk, stevig) en betekent dus 'sterk met de speer'. In 2014 kwam de naam in Nederland 4101 maal voor als eerste naam en 3973 keer als tweede naam.

De naam komt in heel Nederland voor, maar vooral in Gelderland en Overijssel. De naam wordt in Nederland gebruikt sinds midden achttiende eeuw en werd tot de Tweede Wereldoorlog vaak gegeven. Vanaf 1980 raakte de naam in onbruik.

Bekende naamdraagsters
 Grada Eding-Askes, Drents toneelschrijfster
 Grada Kilomba, Portugese psychologe en schrijfster
 Grada Hermina Marius, Nederlands schilder, kunstcriticus
 Grada van Wessel, Nederlandse kunstenares
 Grada Wolffensperger, architecte
 als variant
 Gra Rueb , beeldhouwster en medailleur

Zie ook
 Lijst van veelvoorkomende meisjesnamen in het Nederlands taalgebied

Meisjesnaam


After what seems like hours, days, weeks of walking, I come upon the edge of a beautiful valley. To the left I see a small village. Looking out of the windows, I see people waving there hands beckoning me to come for a visit. Turning my head to the right I see a few scattered house along with a few more people beckoning me to come for a visit. On the other side of the town there is a gentle steam bubbles over the top of rocks, flows under logs, and flows around bends in its stream bed. There is a bridge that stretches across the river. I walk up to the edge of the bride where I see a hill covered with trails leading seeming everywhere and yet at the same time nowhere. Behind the hill I see more hills that slowly climb up into the clouds.
As I sit down on a rock, I have a feeling that this was the same village, the same hill, and even the same people I have seen countless times along my journey. I stare at the hill side and at all its paths, when a rattling sounds catches my attention. Suddenly a train speeds by. I let out a sigh, knowing that train has found its way and yet here I am still lost, confused and alone.
I look behind me and see the steep path that had lead me into this valley. As I look back I am forced to wonder am I better off now then I was then, have I grown any closer to my destination, am I any farther away from it.
Something on the hill catches my eye. Is it just fog, a mirage or even a figment of my imagination? I look longer and realize its a girl, a woman, maybe even the answers to my prayers. As I stare, its almost like we become face to face. She seems to tell me to trust her and she will help me find my way. That she will wander the wilderness with me and help me stay on the right trail.
I jump as something or someone taps me on the shoulder. I turn around and see an elder monk. He leans down and whispers into my ear "believe in what your heart is saying, in what you feel, give your dreams the wings to fly as you have everything it takes, if you will only just believe". And then he was gone.
What is going on! This is nothing like the last village. Something is so strange here.
I start running around, going nowhere and yet going everywhere. Out of each window there is someone who shouts at me "just believe".


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FLASHBACK: THE SUPREMES RECORD 'COME SEE ABOUT ME'
by admin | Jul 12, 2019 | Music News
It was 54 years ago Saturday (July 13th, 1965) that the Supremes recorded their third Number One hit, "Come See About Me." The song, like its predecessors "Where Did Our Love Go" and "Baby Love," was written by Motown's hit-making songwriting and production team Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland.
Motown founder Berry Gordy sprang into action after hearing that a rival record label was issuing their own version of the song by singer Nella Dodds. Motown rush-released the Supremes' version of "Come See About Me" on October 27th -- even before "Baby Love" had reached the Top Ten.
Both versions of the song ultimately entered the Hot 100 the same week, but from the start it was clear that the Supremes had the hit. "Come See About Me" climbed into the Top Ten after four weeks, and two weeks later, on December 19th, 1964, "Come See About Me" hit Number One, staying there for two weeks.
Holland-Dozier-Holland went on to write seven more Number One hits for the Supremes, including "Stop! In The Name Of Love," "You Can't Hurry Love," and "You Keep Me Hangin' On."
Mary Wilson of the Supremes told us that a major part of the group's success was due to the material Holland-Dozier-Holland hand-crafted for them: "First of all, we were very fortunate to have the writing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. They wrote some great melodies. And those melodies are even still today still memorable, sing-able and they have lasted just like any great standard."
Lamont Dozier says that he and the Holland brothers took great pains to make their compositions great records -- as well as timeless songs: "If I'm there working on 'I Hear A Symphony' or Brian is working on 'Stop! In The Name Of Love' -- whatever it is, we would get together and figure out where do we go from one point to the other, so that the song sounds different, that it's not trite musically, production-wise. And have something that would say something that would give a person a lift."
Diana Ross performs tonight (July 12th) in Toledo, Ohio at Promenade Park.
Mary Wilson next performs on August 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in Honolulu, Hawaii at Blue Note Hawaii.
AUDIO: LAMONT DOZIER ON HOW HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND COLLABORATE
AUDIO: MARY WILSON ON HOLLAND-DOZIER-HOLLAND WRITING MODERN STANDARDS


A lane has been closed on the M25 and long queues are forming after a car collided with the nearside barriers.
The incident happened at junction 25 (Enfield) at around 8.30am this morning (Friday, November 23).
One lane has been closed following the accident.
A car collided with the barriers on the nearside of the road and came to rest on the hard shoulder.
There are now long queues after all traffic was temporarily held earlier this morning while the incident was being dealt with.
Drivers are being warned to expect delays to their journeys in the area as a result of the collision.


This page is a varied selection of things that are characterised by ... superlatives.
Incidentally ... "superlative" is one of the most misused words in the English language. How often do we hear someone say in the media (particularly the sports media), "I'm running out of superlatives ...", when they haven't actually used any superlatives at all? What they invariably mean is that they're running out of terms to imply excellence. You have to wonder if they think a superlative is any word that means something like "super" or "superb".
"Superlative", when used as a noun, refers to the superlative form of an adjective. All adjectives can have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative. For example: the positive form of the adjective "good" is "good"; the comparative form is "better", and the superlative form is "best".
A superlative doesn't necessarily need to denote that something is good. "Worst", "stupidest" and "slowest" are superlatives, as well as "best", "cleverest" and "fastest".
Take a look at the descriptions in the table below: we have "most", "commonest", "first", "largest", "longest", "highest" ... etc., etc.
You can also use "superlative" as an adjective, as in "superlative wisdom". But this is still not what the media morons mean when they say they're running out of superlatives – because they're clearly using the word "superlative" as a noun.
At the bottom of the page are a few things where the superlative – in other words, the quality that the named item is famous for – is the answer.