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Hi everyone! So today I wanted to share my simple at home dry hair remedy, because if your hair is anything like mine at the moment, it needs a little TLC thanks to this winter weather.
Here's what you need:
I like to mix a tablespoon of coconut oil (make sure to get organic Virgin or Extra Virgin oil) with about two tablespoons of my favorite deep conditioner. My favorite happens to be the Organix Moroccan Argan Oil Intense Moisturizing Treatment ever since I read Lauren Conrad loves it…and who doesn't want hair like the lovely Ms. Conrad? For further proof on the matter read here.
I usually cover my hair with a shower cap, or a plastic shopping bag (if I'm desperate) and watch TV for an hour while this sits on my hair…great multitasking if you ask me! After, make sure you shampoo your hair really well to get all the coconut oil out, and continue your style routine as usual. The result will be super soft locks that smell amazing. Side note, coconut oil is also great for dry skin!


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"Baby it's cold outside!" Dean Martin couldn't have summed up any better invitation to stay snuggled up at home. But a warm home is becoming more of a luxury when you consider the rising cost of energy prices and the gloomy outlook for power outages across the country.
While on www.Home-Dzine.co.za we look at many different ways to warm up a home, one place to start is by adding the right window treatment. Most homes are fitted with standard 5mm-thick glazed windows, and these windows can lose up to 50% of heating and cooling energy generated during the summer and winter months.
Simply adding the right window treatment will reduce energy loss and provide increased protection for a home by minimising solar heat during the summer months and heat loss when it's cold outside.
Let's take a look at some of the latest window treatments available locally:
Honeycomb or cellular blinds
Honeycomb or cellular blinds are the latest innovation that combines high fashion and technology. These blinds not only look good, the honeycomb design traps air in a cellular pocket, which then provides a layer of insulation thereby helping to reduce energy consumption and save on your monthly bill. Honeycomb or cellular blinds are available in a wide range of styles, colours, and opaque or semi-opaque fabrics to decorate a home with flair.
If you prefer a more traditional approach to dressing windows, there's no reason why you can pair honeycomb or cellular blinds with fabric drapes.
Roller Blinds
Roller blinds offer a stylish and affordable alternative way to reduce energy loss via windows. Fitted with a roller mechanism bar at the top, these blinds can be designed to fit onto any window and are available in varied colours and fabrics. Innovation in design allows you to choose between manual pull-mechanism and electrically operated system, depending on your budget.
Sliding panel blinds
Sliding panel blinds provide a contemporary way to dress larger windows or install a room divider with style. These panel blinds are perfect for reducing light and glare without losing privacy. The installation allows the panels to slide to one – or both – sides of a window in a neat arrangement.
When temperatures drop, the fabric panels serve to reduce heat loss or gain through large expanses of windows or doors.
Wooden shutters are great thermal insulators for small or large windows and are considered more of a fitting and, as such, add value to any property. Wooden shutters can be opened and closed on demand to allow in natural light during the warmer part of the day and be closed to keep warmth locked in when temperatures drop.
Don't waste energy in the home when installing the right window treatment will not only add good looks, but
Visit: www.Home-Dzine.co.za for ideas and inspiration for your next home makeover.

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As a baby Christian I often stood in awe at some of the antics people played with the local church. Case in point: One evening following a potluck dinner the church members were making their way to the sanctuary from the social room. There were still a few folks clearing dishes and chatting about when a couple and their children came through the door. We greeted them with Baptist's niceties and welcomed them in. Not long after that they began to share their story of hardship and how they were traveling through the area in need of food and gasoline to make it on to a very important destination. It's been too long for me to remember all the details. But the details I do remember make me nauseous still today.
Victory Baptist Church is one of the most loving churches I've ever encountered. Immediately our guests were offered the food from our dinner, which was no small amount of some of the finest homemade foods you could lay eyes on. They were then told to fill their bellies full and when they were finished they could go to a local gas station where we would arrange for them to fill up their car on credit. They declined it all, they much preferred cash.
Over my nearing twenty years of salvation I've seen similar events take place time and time again. It's not long until you begin to get a skeptical heart towards people needing help. You want to help, but are they for real? I find the same truth in business. Not every "Christian" organization is on the up and up. For some they know that it's a tender market and not always monitored by astute financial leaders of the church. Or perhaps they truly believe in what they're doing and unknowingly sell a church on unnecessary products or services. So I'm skeptical of people in need, businesses and non-profits who tout success and blow their own horns.
It's also why the Pocket Testament League has been such a blessing. I was recommended by a friend to apply for an ambassador's position, which I did, and was accepted. I read the background of the ministry which in short was began in 1893 as the vision of a teenage girl named Helen Cadbury, daughter of the president of Cadbury Chocolates. She was so excited about sharing her faith that she organized a group of girls who sewed pockets onto their dresses to carry the small New Testaments her father had provided. The girls called their group "The Pocket Testament League." Using small membership cards, they pledged to read a portion of the Bible every day, pray, and to share their faith as God provided opportunity. That same vision still drives the ministry today. (https://www.ptl.org/about/history.php)
So what does that have to do with my story of the skeptical saint? First… Who wouldn't trust a fella that makes Cadbury eggs? Secondly, over my almost 20 years of salvation I've also learned to try the spirit.
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
As children of God we are warned not to trust everyone, and God has instilled in us a discernment for such matters of the heart. The world would call it a "gut" feeling. Leave your gut to discern the taste of Cadbury chocolates, but when trying the spirit of a new person or organization, leave that one to God. If possible make no rash decisions, my best way of getting myself into a mess is to leap first and then start looking for a net; that's my best described personality trait. But God said no, test the waters… there are people out there who want to take you for a ride.
The Pocket Testament League (PTL) has a Spirit of God. They've asked me for nothing. I'm provided the KJV Gospel of John Testaments, (other versions are available, I prefer only KJV) which also clearly outline salvation, to share with people one on one that I meet along the way or in larger quantities for speaking events. I do send them a donation each time I order because God laid it on my heart to that, and without request people have read or heard my story of the PTL and provided funds to help me out. No, that's not a request, just a statement of truth that God is so good at not only speaking to our hearts when something is of Him, but providing for His children.
It's a hurting world out there. People need to see generous, loving saints of God (even the crooks need Jesus). So try the spirit of those you meet, ask God if they're for real and then love on them the best way you can regardless.
If you choose to take a part in The Pocket Testament League please provide them with my PTL Member ID# which is 574096 when offered the opportunity. Thanks and God Bless!


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How would you have America's next generation discover the great game of business?
Through the examples of corrupt corporate CEOs and greedy Wall Street speculators? Or from principled leaders who lend strength to the fabric of American enterprise? People who use real talent to build businesses that serve customers, employees and investors?
If there's one thing lacking in the business world today, its principles. Dishonesty and greed have reared their ugly head on more than one occasion. There are some of us, however, that would like to restore the tarnished image of business and remind people that for principled entrepreneurs, integrity is not for sale.
Instead of watching more students acquire cookie-cutter MBAs, what if you could pass on the hard-earned lessons from your own failures and success to young people eager to know how to create wealth and live a fulfilling life?
You are part of the solution. By learning to teach with questions, you enable students to think for themselves. By passing along the timeless lessons of business, economics and ethics, you let them know that the future success of entrepreneurship can be in their hands one day. And by helping students discover that a "calling" is much more fulfilling that a job or career you illustrate the value of balance in business and life.
Read Jeff Sandefer's thoughts: Why Do I Teach Entrepreneurship


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In the pipeline - Information Blog #27 - Leak Detection Melbourne - Infra-red Cameras
March 27 2015
Webbplumbing services are engaged on a daily basis to trace water leaks with some more difficult to locate than others.
Case Study 1:
Water was leaking into lower-level bedroom in a large property in Mount Eliza. This large property was over two levels with concrete slab floors and ceilings and unfortunately the hot and cold water supply pipes had been run in these concrete slabs.
Our leak detection specialist commenced his work by,,,
*Initially inspecting where the water damage was occurring and what infrastructure was directly above. Directly above the leak was a bathroom, laundry and nearby hot water service room. Water was dripping constantly through the lower-level ceiling.
*The decision was made to pressure test the hot and cold water pipes. Pressure testing of the pipes confirmed that the burst water pipe was in the hot water pipe work. This simple strategy narrowed the search area by 50% and meant that we were only searching for a burst hot water pipe.
*As the burst was in a hot water pipe our leak detection specialist decided to use Infrared/thermal imaging camera equipment to not only trace the course of the hot water pipe work through the concrete slab but to search for the area of the leak. The course of the hot water pipe was mapped out on site and an area of increased temperature was found in one area of the concrete slab floor. This area of temperature difference combined with the visual findings narrowed the search area to approximately 0.5 sqm.
*Audio equipment was then used to try to narrow the search area further but no audible sound of a burst could be heard even with the use of inert gas which normally increases the noise of the leak.
*In conclusion our leak detection specialist marked the position of the burst on the bathroom tile floor and one of our emergency plumbers who lives in the neighbouring suburb of Frankston attended the property and uncovered the burst and carried out a permanent repair.


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How To Decide on A Excellent Marine Insurance
18 Apr
Just before actually getting your new boat, verify out the different types of boat marine insurance as marine insurance varies depending on the kind of boat you are purchasing and diverse businesses have bonuses and rewards that may possibly not apply to all kinds of boats. The price tag of the numerous various sorts of boats offered right now will also have an impact on the variety of policy and terms and circumstances obtainable to you.
Choose at least 3 reliable marine insurance companies to verify out all relevant details for your boat.
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To get a competitive cost for your marine insurance quote ask at least 3 well known firms for a quote.
Verify no claim bonus and if there is total cover on and off the water, also if boat excess is waived if your boat and automobile are both damaged and each insured with the one organization.
You would want versatile payment choices like month-to-month payments. Access to 24/7 Helpline assistant service would be important also and examine the 24/7 claims service is paperless, creating claims faster and simpler to finalise.
you need to have to examine out each and every detail on the type of marine policy you pick as they are all worded differently dependent on sort of boat, sleeping capacity, number on board at any a single time, facilities available, modifications, security equipment and procedures and so forth.
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Keep your boat in the proper way and you will have numerous years of trouble free of charge sailing for all your close friends and family to enjoy.


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Fat Boy's Burger Bar @ Publika, Solaris Dutamas
The interior of the restaurant reminds one of a cafeteria (an exclusive, artsy cafeteria where only cool kids are allowed to sit) with glossy white tables and black plastic chairs. The walls and glass windows feature black-and-white silhouettes of Pac-man like monsters waving pitchforks, robots, curving arrows, butterflies and birds. All in all it is a pretty surreal-looking piece of artwork, blending in perfectly with Publika's edgy artistic vibe.
Those who are not keen on burgers can opt to sample one of the dishes from Fat Boy's Burger Bar's Best of the Rest section of the menu a thick and juicy slab of crispy, herb marinated meat drizzled with cheesy béchamel sauce and served with a heaping of mashed potatoes and coleslaw.
you can build ur own burger by ur own choice...some thing fun here huh!!
If you want to divert from the standard menu options (and there are many choices here), you can opt to create your own burger. All it takes is four simple steps to build your own: first off, you have a choice of white sesame, whole wheat or honey oat bun.
Next is your choice of chicken, beef or pork patty, and then come a wide variety of add-ons: the selections range from bacon to guacamole, sautéed shitake mushrooms and grilled bananas. Lastly you have a choice of sauces, and once again the choices are simply staggering and included wasabi mayonnaise, curry remoulade and even peanut butter.
inventive burger combos, as well as for the fact that this Singaporean chain's burgers often sport even stranger names. Located at Publika mall in Sri Hartamas, it is a quirky restaurant that blends in well with the mall's surrounds.
funny burger names aside,the food served here is pretty fantastic.
all sandwiched between a sesame seed bun.
The first item on the menu is the Fat Basterd. It is prepared with a double heaping of beef patties, chubby strips of bacon, slices of cheddar cheese and fried egg, topped with Fat Boy's signature homemade barbecue sauce.
If the size of the burgers at Fat Boy's Burger Bar make you break out in a sweat, try the Wimpy: it is basically half of a Fat Basterd, and so much easier to finish on your own....
|The Tissue Was Special also..haha
|The Fat Basterd is Fat Boy's Signature Burger RM28
|The Elvis RM 16.00
|Whimpy RM19.00
Tel: +603- 6206 1352
Opening Hours:10am -10pm, daily
GPS Coordinates : 3.170865,101.667781
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The German firm Ingenhoven Architects designed two towers, a lifestyle and an office high-rise, for Tokyo's Toranomon District.
The Toranomon Hills Residential Tower and Toranomon Hills Business Tower will be part of a project led by Japanese developer Mori Building. OMA designed a separate tower in the project, the mixed-use Toranomon Hills Station Tower that will connect with a new train station.
Designboom reports that at 220 meters, the 122,000-sm residential building will be Tokyo's tallest residential structure. The 175,000-sm office tower will stand 185 meters tall.
The towers will abut the existing Toranomon Hills Mori Tower.
Ingenhoven stressed green space. Both buildings feature horizontal ledges that will shade the glass façades. Tenants will be able to use landscaped areas like terraces, decks, and rooftop gardens. All the integrated plants and green space will, according to the firm, reduce air pollutants and enhance the microclimate.
The towers, which will also utilize rainwater harvesting, photovoltaics, and high-efficiency lighting, are expected to be completed by 2019.


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I'm Albert Steed with Advanced Computer Solutions talking small business again. Earlier, I talked about having a business coach and peer group. I mentioned in that podcast and that article about getting mentors. So, a mentor is different, I think.
And so for me, I meet several times a week with several mentors, people who own businesses in my community and successful people who I can bounce some ideas off or I can talk about the very personal things maybe that are happening within my business and they can give me a perspective. They can share their war stories of growing their business and it all goes back to that kind of classic, "You are who the average of your five friends are." Whoever you associate the most with, that's basically where you're going to either be or end up or who you are.
So, I like having a solid group of hardworking smart mentors that I associate with. And, one of the things I love to do, I love to have a breakfast with these guys, once or maybe twice or three times a week. And, however often I can get with them, we'll have lunch together or kind of split my time between my clients and my mentors so that I can learn how I can be better in doing all the things that I need to do as a business owner.
So, that's a mentor. I highly recommend that you find people in your community people that are people you either aspire to be like or people who you trust. And, that's why I'm looking for people who push you to higher levels that you as a business owner can grow.
I'm Albert Steed with Advanced Computer Solutions. Thank you for listening!
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Leighton Buzzard Arts Society is holding an exhibition at Leighton Middle School this Friday and Saturday (October 30-31).
The event is free to enter (Church Square entrance) and is open from 10am to 5pm on Friday and 10am to 4pm on the Saturday.
Work by local artists will be shown, ranging from amateur up to an internationally-renowned professional artist's work.
The society is coming up to its 70th anniversary and have held art exhibitions in Leighton Buzzard at least once a year since 1946.
This year they were struggling to put on an exhibition after a problem sourcing affordable display screens, before Leighton- Linslade Town Council and the Leighton Arts Forum came to the rescue.
The council lent some screens for free, while the forum gave a grant for some more screens and hangers.
Leighton Buzzard Arts Society is open to anyone over 16 with an interest in art.
They meet once a month on a Thursday for demonstration evenings by well-known artists and also hold regular Saturday workshops.
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> Pictured is a copy of last year's most popular painting – Mango and Blue Paper by John Wilkinson.


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Trainer David Hall has been able to give Super Turbo a freshen up after his last Happy Valley win and it should pay dividends tonight there in the Mars Handicap, 1,200m.
Super Turbo (Joao Moreira) arrived in the final stride to score over subsequent easy winner Wonderful Journey on November 23 when the gelding was a reserve promoted into the Class Three field.
Hall did have Super Turbo engaged at Sha Tin the following Sunday over 1,400m and would no doubt have considered taking up that assignment until the horse showed himself to be flat from his exertions and was a scratching for a lack of appetite.
And that was perhaps a blessing, because the Irish-bred three-year-old has now had 29 days between his races and does look to do his best on the fresh side.
Not that he has been convicted backing up – his only test on a back-up was probably his worst run when sixth two starts ago at the Valley but it wasn't bad or totally definitive and he should have finished a touch closer.
But he has shown good form when on the fresh side and comes to tonight's event that way, with a trial to keep him ticking and with the promise of a decent pace that will suit his get-back style, with Molly's Jade Star, Dragon General, Team Fortune and Charity Joy all having good speed.
Super Turbo has been deceptively good in six runs to date, even when considered to have little chance as a 200-1 pop at his debut last season, when beaten only half a length.
So, the ascent to Class Two now probably shouldn't hold any fears as that looks his grade but he gets in with no weight coming from Class Three.
For a danger, look no further than the in-form Verbinsky (Neil Callan), who has won two of his last three at the Valley 1,200m and will appreciate having a nice speed to chase as well.


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LegCo Paper No. CB(2) 1817/96-97
(The minutes have been seen
by the Administration)
Ref : CB2/BC/14/96/S2
Members present :
Members absent :
Attendance by invitation :
Clerk in attendance :
Staff in attendance :
(LegCo Paper No. CB(2) 1537/96-97)
1. The minutes of the first meeting held on 12 March 1997 were confirmed.
2. Assistant Director of Administration (ADA) briefed members on the Administrations response to the Bar Associations concerns contained in its letter dated 18 February 1997 (LegCo Paper No. CB(2) 1585/96-97(01)).
4. ADA pointed out that as subsection (5)(a) was now drafted, the Court had the power to direct the person having custody of the applicant to have the applicant brought before the Court at a specified time. The Administration considered it appropriate to leave the discretion to the judge issuing the writ to fix the return and production date. SASG remarked that as there had not been any problem with the court acting expeditiously and as there was no provision in the present law, he did not consider it necessary to introduce a measure of inflexibility into the legislation.
7. ADA advised that the Administration saw difficulty with the Bar Associations suggested reformulation as it would preclude redetention on the same ground under any circumstances. A possible solution would be to restrict the provision to criminal matters. Senior Assistant Solicitor General (SASG) said that the problem of change in circumstances arose in the civil area particularly in relation to detention under the Immigration Ordinance where it might be necessary to re-detain on essentially the same ground because of a change in circumstances. The Administration would therefore wish to have the capacity to do that, and hence the reference to the authority of the High Court. The proposed restriction to criminal matters was based on section 5 of the Habeas Corpus Act.
8. In response to Ms Emily LAUs enquiry, SASG said that administrative detention was not for a criminal offence. Obvious examples included detention of Vietnamese migrants pending removal under the Immigration Ordinance and detention under the Mental Health Act. The protection on redetention was historically restricted to criminal matters. In reply to the Chairmans question, SASG confirmed that the Administration was of the view that there should be no redetention in respect of criminal matters but redetention should be permitted in respect of non-criminal, particularly immigration, matters to allow for changes in circumstances. He added that the proposal was in line with the present law.
9. ADA said that the Administration had no strong views on the Bar Associations proposal to remove the words "and is affected by this section only insofar as it is inconsistent with this section".
11. The Chairman stated that the aim of the Bill was to put into legislation the present law and practice on habeas corpus having regard to the circumstances in Hong Kong. The areas requiring further discussion were subsections 5, 11 and 12. She then invited the Bar Associations representative to brief members on the present practice, the Bars submission and the Administrations response to its suggestions.
12. Mr Gerald McCoy of the Bar Association said that there were two ways in which habeas corpus could proceed. Firstly, when applying to the judge for habeas corpus, the judge could immediately order the writ run, i.e. the person holding the detainee was obliged to bring the person to court within a specified time and the detainor had the burden of proof to establish that he was lawfully holding the person. Secondly, the judge said that the writ would not issue and order the case to be heard on the same basis as if the writ had been issued. The Bar Association preferred some flexibility on the approach in that the writ was issued upon success. In general, the system worked because of the supremacy of the rule of law. The Bar Association took the view that members should consider either that the writ was a formal document and was only granted if a person was to be set free finally by the court or that the writ was issued in every case as the originating documentation. At the moment it worked both ways. The advantage in having the writ actually issued was that, if the custodian failed to comply with the terms of the writ, he committed an offence. The writ of habeas corpus gave precedence to all other court business. Secondly, it underlined the sanctity and importance of the issue at stake, viz. liberty. Thirdly, it was a reflection of the continuum of the common law at work. Lastly, it told in plain terms what happened if the writ was not complied with.
13. Mr McCoy further explained that habeas corpus applied to everyone in Hong Kong as it was the remedy for unlawful detention. It was applied in the following circumstances :
The most common examples of criminal cases in which habeas corpus was applied were unlawful arrest and extradition. The Bar Association expressed concern about the Administrations intention to distinguish between civil and criminal habeas corpus. Mr McCoy then explained briefly how an application for habeas corpus was made. He suggested that the Administration should review the drafting of the subsidiary legislation in respect of the procedure for application for writ of habeas corpus.
14. On subsection (5)(a), Mr McCoy said that the Bar Association had proposed that 48 hours should be the maximum time permitted to comply with an order for production. The proposal was in line with the time within which police officers had to produce suspects before a magistrate. He pointed out that the Administrations justification for not agreeing to a time limit was flawed since the 1679 Act and the 1816 Act looked at separate matters : the former at criminal law and the latter at civil law. The Chairman advised that since the Administration would be submitting draft CSAs on subsection (5) for consideration at the next meeting, discussion on this aspect should be deferred till then.
15. Mr McCoy tabled at the meeting the proposed amendments to proposed sections 22A(11) and (12) by the Bar Association. Mr McCoy stated that the Bar Association objected to conferring on the High Court the power to order the removal of a person from Hong Kong. He stressed that judges did not remove people, Government did. The Bar Association also objected to the removal of a person under the authority of an enactment because would have an impact on the independence of the Judiciary. The Bar was gravely concerned about the possibility that during the course of the habeas corpus proceedings, an applicant could be removed from Hong Kong. He cited a case in 1991-92 in which his clients were taken out to the United States whilst court proceedings were underway. Mr McCoy stressed that the Administration was not entitled to remove people once court proceedings were in train and until the legality of the detention had been finally determined by the court.
17. In response to members enquiries concerning judicial review, Mr McCoy said that some judges permitted applicants seek judicial review as an additional legal redress. The Bar Association considered this to be unnecessary because habeas corpus writ would take precedence over all other court business. The practice was therefore not supported by principle and should cease to operate.
18. Referring to the draft subsection (12) proposed by the Bar Association, Mr McCoy said that it had taken into consideration the intention of the law and the objection raised by the Administration. The Bar Association objected to the Administrations proposal to distinguish between criminal and civil matters since all people should be treated equally. He stressed that re-detention was possible only if there was a material change in circumstances.
21. Mr McCoy said that the Bar Association was pleased to note that the Administration had agreed to their proposal for habeas corpus proceedings to be heard in open court. He remarked that the draft CSAs should have the following characteristics :
22. Mr Patrick MOSS of the Law Society of Hong Kong said that the Law Society would reconsider its position on subsection (11) in the light of the comments made by the Bar Association and the background information to be provided by the Administration. He had no further comments to make on subsection (12).
24. The next meeting was scheduled for 2 April 1997 at 8:30 am. Further meetings were scheduled for 16 April 1997 (8:30 am) and 24 April 1997 (4:00 pm).
(Post-meeting note : The meeting scheduled for 2 April 1997 at 8:30 am has been cancelled.)
25. The meeting ended at 12:30 pm.
LegCo Secretariat
10 April 1997
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McCarthy's rise in Congress has been rapid
WASHINGTON - Rep. Kevin McCarthy , R-Calif., finds himself at the doorstep of becoming the next speaker of the House after less than nine years in office, following Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who announced Friday that he will resign from Congress next month.
If he does claim the speaker's gavel, McCarthy's climb to the top spot in the House will be the fastest since the 19th century. But his rapid ascent is grounded in a simple fact: In many ways, this is Kevin McCarthy's GOP majority.
He did not amass nearly as much campaign money as Boehner, 65, or work the policy agenda as avidly as Eric Cantor of Virginia, the ex-majority leader who McCarthy succeeded last year. But McCarthy has tended to this flock of House Republicans more than any GOP leader of the past five years.
He recruited many of the members to run in the 2010 elections that delivered the majority, he has been their adviser and confidant, he works out with them in the House gym and keeps tabs on family members.
Building trust
"Kevin has really risen with the conference," Cantor said Saturday in an interview, noting that his relatively brief tenure fits the narrative of a House Republican Conference dominated by lawmakers who have less than five years experience. "It's about building the trust. Kevin's had a very intensive training in that process."
However, the very reason for his success - his amiability and relationship savvy - is an issue that could return to haunt McCarthy should he succeed Boehner. The transition from a lower level post - just 15 months ago he was No. 3 in leadership - to becoming speaker is a sharp climb that will require more than just being the most likeable face at the leadership table.
He has never served as a committee chairman, nor does he have a major piece of legislation that defines his policy interests.
Some veteran lawmakers fear that the same troubling group of conservatives that bedeviled the current speaker will trouble his successor.
The next few months present several fiscal battles in which conservatives are pushing for a confrontation with Democrats in the Senate or a veto fight with President Barack Obama. Democrats can slow or kill almost any legislation in the Senate where the threat of a filibuster requires 60 votes to move almost any legislation; there are 54 Republican senators.
'A haze and a fog'
"The next speaker is going to have to deal with those who deny basic math," Rep. Charlie Dent , R-Pa., a leader of the moderate wing, said. "It's not just sad, there's a sense of uncertainty and a little bit of a haze and a fog of not sure where things are going to go."
McCarthy has made no official declaration that he will try to succeed Boehner, but many rank-and-file Republicans have coalesced around the Californian as the next in line.
Many Republicans could be seen lining up to talk to McCarthy during votes Friday after Boehner's announcement. Advisers said that he has been taking and making phone calls to lawmakers to test their feelings.
The only rival so far is Rep. Daniel Webster, R-Fla., a third-term lawmaker whose long-shot challenge to Boehner early this year secured just 12 votes. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the only other Republican viewed to have enough gravitas to be speaker, all but endorsed McCarthy after Boehner dropped his bombshell on Friday.
Some committee chairmen, including Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, are taking the weekend to consider their options, including whether to launch bids for the No. 2 leadership post that McCarthy will likely vacate to become speaker.
The internal GOP election has not been set, but many expect it to come in less than two weeks to allow for the new speaker and his lieutenants to have a transition before Boehner's Oct. 30 exit date.
McCarthy would represent a sharp shift in the historical trends of the last 125 years. In that time, it took an average of almost 23 years in the House to be elevated to speaker, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
McCarthy's mornings are spent in the House gym doing mixed martial-arts training led by Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., including Democrats such as Reps. Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.
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Farryl Last: April 2016 Poet of the Month
Dear _ from a Faraway Moon
I spend six days & ten nights, out of count, counting back
the sky
a reckless purple; I do
dishes, scrub windows, borrow sugar from the house next door
to sweeten under swaying light. I will make something of this
Do you remember the evergreen sky
the first night in space? From the overlook ten flights up black all we could see
where there should have been a city, I superimposed a skyline by looking hard.
Once we'd met the first time near the train tracks near the spitting tank of artificial water
near the close view of the other three moons,
I'd seen it all.
There is a woman who sits at the water, counting her legs.
but tell me, first, how again you anatomized leaving:
On Europa there is water ice. On Io there are
volcanoes. On Ganymede there is a magnetic field. On Callisto there is an airport
where, like other travelers, we discuss weather patterns & flight paths & I finger the wool
of your jacket's collar. Later I will press the coins you left in the kitchen
to my skin. Can we talk
about your need? Nine days & six nights
you stayed. If you'd waited, well
I'd seen it all, hands in the water.
Lick of salt. Off the plane, off the legs the body moving toward atmosphere gilded
hands in the soil, hands in the memory of soil. Hands turning weeds turning seasons static
static the TV flickers in the back room &
whose ground is it anyway.
the garden needs seeding. But I
sat with the neighbors separated from the basalt sky & kept
only what was left
nights here flicker in
the planet's shadow; the neighbors say I'll learn it. Let's talk about the hurting.
And the exhausted sky. Instead, remember the garden I left on Earth
all aphids, how long
I cannot see when my legs don't work. I cannot walk, ground doesn't hold me, the ground
isn't anyway ground but a mess of foreign rocks & atmosphere how could I hope to walk?
Don't you understand?
How could I hope,
the atmosphere tastes like blackcurrant.
Best we leave the light off.
Don't you understand?
can I carry you when you're not here
when the atmosphere even can't keep me?
We'd have: the neighbors & an ocean's scaffolding next door.
Enough: that kerosene that fuels
the stars. Interstellar currency, we'd need nothing but our own palms, what comes from the tip of a finger against a chin. The neighbors will bring us salt. Sometimes
submerge & think I'm feeling tectonic ice, know it's my own veins
echoing. It's enough to be, for a moment, solid, it's enough
feel beneath our feet the spasms
of the ground. How long can I carry you when you're not here. Anyway it's
spring but it's not here spring isn't for the distant.
I'd plant another garden if the ground
here wouldn't poison the leaves.
Sadness: The Train
Town one: nameless, factory smoke clouded, wanting speed and wanting
tracks the train moves fast. Then
it moves faster.
Town two: apples beneath torn trees. The world is in that particular quiet
reserved for before-storm and funerals; children climbing up and down the branches;
a woman unravels a pink fleece blanket on a balding patch of grass. Endless stretch of field.
Town three: the clouds grow heavy again, the winter is always feeling heavy. By shop windows
tables lined with scarves and sweaters, winter has come early again, in the middle of spring,
in the middle of the living, strangely like an angel. Endless stretch of field.
The men are kicking, shy, the wrapping paper lying at the curb
and leaves, the sky washes in a hearty purple, like the too-soft parts of a plum.
I am that indentation; I play with the shade. Who am I to govern light?
Town four: I am unmade. In a monstrous pond, there are dirty seagulls pulling
at bottle wrappers, French fries. The insides ooze out, like yellow mashed by wheels.
I count fourteen seagulls, six light bulbs, three people at the water's edge.
The fields fill with old factories. The fields fill with grain. The fields move quickly, buzzing
like fireflies trapped in a glass jar, wings beating against up down the tinny metal top the smooth
sides so cold and so clear. A crowd of disembarked passengers wave from station windows
signs scrawled on scarves, on wrappers from orange juice bottles to greet, is it me? It isn't:
like a crowd once passed on the way to meet you. From the window, sunrise poisons the rain,
but this is not a gesture of defeat.
Farryl Last is a 2015 MFA graduate from Hunter College, where she now teaches. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Word Riot, great weather for MEDIA, Hoot Review, and The Intentional, among others. She once lived in Mantova, Italy and taught English there.


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On the 8th of September Claire Robertson will be visiting Heavitree Hospital in Exeter, to present her highly recommended workshop. This is a one day course devoted to clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of that tricky old stick patellofemoral pain. This is a practical course packed full of evidence based clinical hints and tips to … More Claire Robertson – Patellofemoral Pain Update
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FOUR HOURS. Fuckity. I could have watched an entire anime series in that time.
Anyway, here it is. Gah.
What's the last thing you ate? What I've had today since waking: Slice of Breadsmith brioche bread. Pre-wrapped serving of extra-sharp white cheddar. Mouthful of cider (spat out into sink because it had gone off). Glass of milk mixed with matcha tea latte concentrate. Buffalo-wing potato chips. Concord Grapes. Banana. Spoonful of almond butter. Two pieces Breadsmith Honey White bread. Date bar. Peanut butter chocolate Lindt truffle. Square of Vosges Goji bar. (It's late afternoon now.)
What's your favorite cheese? Let's start off by saying that cheese IS my favorite food. By itself, accompanied by apples or bread or crackers, melted into pretty much anything. (Yes, I've had Vosges cheese-and-chocolate truffles, and they too are fantastic.) If I had to pick one I'd of course go with the reliability of aged-ten-jillion-years cheddar.
What's your favorite fish? It took me a long time to appreciate that there are differences between fish, and not just differences in the way they're seasoned or prepared. I like cod and scrod, because they're meaty and strongly flavored, and mahi mahi was a favorite once I discovered it. Catfish and tilapia taste muddy to me, but I may still eat them if they're there.
What's your favorite fruit? Once I would have listed exotica like persimmons and cherimoyas, because I still have remnants of an "exotic is best" attitude. I love strawberries but only if they're perfect, and cherries, both tart and sweet, are one of the blisses of summer. But for reliability, give me a wonderful tart apple. Really, really tart. Like, "Oh, don't eat that, Miss, that's only for baking" tart. My current favorite apples are Honeycrisps.
When, if ever, did you start liking olives? I still give dirty looks to people who don't like olives. How dare they diss the beauty that is a brined olive? Sicilian, Greek, Kalamata, fat green Spanish olives...*happy moan* I shudder, though, at those tasteless atrocities known as canned California black olives. They're like eating congealed salted water; there's nothing there.
When, if ever, did you start liking beer? Just this year! I never have liked beer, but wanted to like it as it seems like the sort of beverage that would be perfect to wash down greasy, highly-seasoned food. But I just never liked it. So I started trying to get used to it by starting with non-alcholic beer, so that I could drink it whenever. True anecdote: fabularasa came to visit me, grabbed an NAB out of the fridge, asked, "May I have this?" I said, "Sure. You did notice it's non-alcoholic, right?" She started making gagging noises, asked to know what on earth it was doing in my home. I said, "I'm trying to learn to like beer; I'm starting with non-alchoholic beer." She said, "That's like saying, 'I'm trying to learn to like sex; I'm starting by going out and getting raped.'"
But the end of the story is that I do like beer now! I like it with greasy spicy food. It was my drink of choice when I went to a churrascaria. But I still drink non-alcoholic beer and can't tell the difference between it and other beers, except that the alcoholic ones make me sleepy. Sorry, Fab.
(But I'd still rather have a caffeine-free Diet Coke most of the time. Especially with pizza.)
When, if ever, did you start liking shellfish? I've liked it forever. Lobster, shrimp, mussels...I grew up thinking I didn't like crabmeat because the only crab I had was that stringy spiced crabmeat you find stuffed into flounder, made into sub-par crabcakes and such. Yuck. But then I was in D.C. and was served real crabcakes. They were like lobster cakes. Amazing.
What was the best thing your parent/s used to make? My mom is a really good cook. She's the kind who doesn't use a recipe (while I need a recipe to breathe. I cook like it's a neat new lab experiment, rather than as if I'm trying to get people fed). Everything she makes is well-seasoned. Her type of dinner typically involved a slow-cooked meat dish, a potato, a salad, and some accessory vegetable. Box-mix cake for dessert. No salt or pepper or bread on the dinner table; we had enough without it. She also didn't do casseroles, because my dad didn't care for them. I keep pestering her to remember how she made spaghetti sauce. She didn't use ground beef; there were these giant chunks of slow-cooked meat in her sauce that were so delicious. They'd cut with a fork and oozed fat as you ate 'em. She tells me she can't remember what she used, but that it wasn't very complicated. Argh!
What's the native specialty of your home town?...I don't know if there is one. Potato chips? Apple cider?
What's your comfort food? Now, see, I don't get that question. Never have. To me, food IS comfort. When I eat, it brings me happiness. Someone define "comfort food" for me in a way we can all agree upon and I'll let you know.
What's your favorite type of chocolate? I'm not a chocolate snob. I love expensive chocolate (and hoard it), sure, but I'm just as thrilled with a handful of M&Ms. Dark is good. Milk is good. White is good sometimes. My favorite might be chocolate that involves almonds or peanut butter, and salt.
How do you like your steak? Bloody. Grilled over a flame. With charred fat lining the edge.
How do you like your burger? Cooked at a restaurant. I can't enjoy a burger made at home. I want the bun buttery and toasty and the burger rare and dripping and no one can seem to recreate that at home. Red Robin's Royal burger delights me, the one with the fried egg and the mayo. I ask them to substitute cheddar for the American cheese and add a slice of red onion, and it's perfect. (I couldn't eat McDonald's burgers at all, growing up--they were grilled on onions, which I couldn't stand back then, and had no mayo. Hadda go to Burger King and get Whopper Jrs.)
How do you like your eggs? Made by me, as opposed to the way I like burgers. My favorite way to eat an egg is to toast a piece of Breadsmith's Honey White bread, butter it while it's hot, rip it into pieces into a bowl, then boil an egg for exactly four minutes, break it in two, scoop out the egg with a spoon and plop it into the bowl, the white softly solid and the yolk runny, and mix the whole thing up and eat with a spoon. If I scramble eggs they must have cheese, lots of it. I make a decent potato frittata, too. I don't trust omelets at most restaurants because they make a little pancake of egg, throw it on a plate and fling cheese and ingredients inside and fold it over and call it an omelet. Gag. The cheese has to be incorporated into the omelet, you doofi! There's one restaurant that makes their omelets the way I like them, and they're huge, with the cheese oozing out of all the pores. I'll order one for carry-out and it makes three meals for me.
How do you like your potatoes? French-fried.
How do you take your coffee?
1. Go to coffeehouse chain.
2. Smell delicious coffee smell.
3. Order milk steamer (most often with almond syrup) and muffin. Do not be seduced by delicious coffee smell into actually ordering coffee. That way lies bitter disappointment.
How do you take your tea? Hot. Plain. If I'm emotionally prepared to drink a pound of sugar, I'll make a pitcher of sweet tea, but I can't drink it without being conscious of how many calories are in it.
What's your favorite mug? The one I got from Café Press, with Friede's Stealing Harry artwork on it.
What's your cookie of choice?Raw. I love cookie dough--chocolate chip, sugar, whatever. My current favorite cookies are three-ingredient peanut butter cookies: a cup of no-sugar peanut butter, a cup of sugar, one egg. Bake at 400 degrees for 8 minutes.
What's your ideal breakfast? Whatever I'm hungry for, eaten whenever I get hungry. Without anyone pestering me, "Aren't you gonna eat something?" or "Oh, are you eating your lunch already?"
What's your ideal sandwich? I've never thought about it. I guess if the bread's good that's the main thing.
What's your ideal pizza (topping and base)? Not fair! Pizza is a food group in itself! I could pick a dozen from a dozen different restaurants that are my favorites, crust- and shape- and texture-wise. I'm perfectly happy with pepperoni and cheese for all of them, though. I guess I'll have to say that my favorite is Brooklyn-style pizza. I didn't know what to call it until just a couple of years ago, and was reduced to asking pizza places, "Do you make a pizza where the crust is, you know, kind of wet, and falls over when you pick up a piece, like you have to roll it up to eat it?" Finally Domino's had a campaign for it and I knew what to call it. (Though I still can't find it locally outside of Domino's.)
What's your ideal pie (sweet or savory)? Remember in the movie "Michael," where the groom looks at his new bride in the diner and says, "I like cream pie better than fruit pie," and she says, "That's just so wrong"? Yeah, that's me, in the group of the wrong. My favorite pies are shoo fly (I make my own), sweet potato (it MUST be made with lemon extract and nutmeg only; no cinnamon or clove can come anywhere near it; I make my own of that too), chocolate cream (NOT French Silk. Two different animals), and coconut cream. The local deli makes both the perfect chocolate cream and coconut cream pies; how lucky is that. Sometimes when I get carryout from there I can't decide and have to order a slice of both.
What's your ideal salad? It's all in the dressing. You can put plain lettuce in a bowl, and if the dressing's delicious, I can overlook everything else. I have been spoiled by some amazing gourmet salads, and now I crave them, but they're all united in having wonderful dressings--lemon thyme cream, vodka vinaigrette, sesame caesar, ginger miso. There are a few commercial dressings that I love, too, including a modest nationwide chain's creamy blue cheese dressing that I adore.
And it's very hard to f*** up a Greek salad for me. Unless you use California olives. AIE!
What food do you always like to have in the fridge? Kim chi. Eggs. Cheeses (lots). Miso paste. Apples. Lettuce. Butter. Cookie dough. Green onions. Olives. A Trader Joe's packaged Pot Roast. Pickles. Pickle relish. Nineteen different sauces, including salad dressings, lemon juice, mayo, sriracha sauce, Korean spicy red paste, oyster sauce, barbecue sauce, Sarabeth's Orange-Apricot Marmalade (I use it as a dipping sauce for everything). One jar of instant coffee for when my mom visits. I would like to keep a cooked rotisserie chicken in the fridge at all times, throwing out the old after a few days and buying a new one, because it's something I find myself craving frequently when I don't feel like going out shopping, but that seems too wasteful, so, I don't do that.
What food do you always like to have in the freezer? Frozen peas, pre-seasoned fish fillets, Ore-Ida potatoes, Trader Joe's Chocolate Lava Cakes, Trader Joe's Naan, some instant foods like gourmet frozen pizza and egg rolls, ginger root, soups I've bought/made, at least one New York strip steak. Usually ice cream though I will go through periods of rejecting all store-bought tub ice cream (I'm having one of those right now).
What food do you always like to have in the cupboard? Canned tomatoes, chicken broth, beef broth, cannelini beans, coconut milk, tuna, smoked oysters, sundried tomatoes in oil, nut butters, Kraft Easy Mac Extreme Cheese flavor, Turtle Island instant soups, potato chips, Cheez-Its, other crackers or pita chips, Lime Shrimp Chili flavored ramen, chinese noodles, semolina pasta (cavatappi's my current staple), short-grain rice, dry milk, cake mixes, flour, sugar, confectioner's sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, vegetable oil, extra virgin olive oil, sesame oil, five different vinegars, maple syrup, head of garlic, teas, instant hot chocolate, nuts, chocolate, non-chocolate candy, caffeine-free Diet Coke, La Croix flavored sparkling water, and another nineteen different bottles of sauces, most of them Asian.
What spices can you not live without? Sea salt, vanilla (extract), garlic, ginger, cayenne, cinnamon.
What sauces can you not live without? Sriracha, Thai Chili Garlic, oyster, A1 Bold and Spicy, mayo, Red Hot, Vietnamese fish. I take soy for granted, so I shouldn't forget it.
Where do you buy most of your food? When in season there's a farmer's market on my way home from work and I try to ge all my fruits and vegetables there. Otherwise it's the chain grocery near my house, with frequent trips to smaller gourmet groceries nearby. And I carry out a lot of dinners.
How often do you go food shopping? Anywhere from "Daily" to "Let's see if we can have fun eating up what's in the house without buying more; it'll be a fun (and frugal) experiment!" which may mean I'll try not to go more than once a week.
What's the most you've spent on a single food item? Hmm. Well, Vosges chocolate makes this dark-chocolate covered charoset, full of dried apple and walnut pieces and cinnamon, and it costs $15.00 for a container that has only five pieces in it--that's a luxury I decided not to deny myself. I've probably bought more expensive cheeses, though. But I can't remember.
What's the most expensive piece of kitchen equipment you own? ...I have a blender? Wait, I have a Cuisinart, but I bought it second-hand. I never use the thing.
What's the last piece of equipment you bought for your kitchen? Was it the tea ball or the chef's knife? I don't remember, it's been a while.
What piece of kitchen equipment could you not live without? The fridge? The stove? The oven? The knives? The pots and pans? Ah, don't make me choose.
How many times a week/month do you cook from raw ingredients? Would you count chopping a tomato? Or tearing up lettuce leaves or boiling an egg? If so, daily. If not, a couple of times a week, I guess.
What's the last thing you cooked from raw ingredients? Scrambled eggs with tomatoes and cheddar cheese and garlic salt.
What's your favorite thing to make for yourself? Omelets, probably, since I prefer to cook my eggs myself.
What meats have you eaten besides cow, pig, chicken and turkey? Duck, elk, venison, quail, lamb, goat. Might have forgotten one or two.
What's the last time you ate something that had fallen on the floor? Every day. As long as it's my own floor. That doesn't bother me, since I have no pets and don't wear shoes in the house.
What's the last time you ate something you'd picked in the wild? A long time ago. I went strawberrying as a girl once? Oh, wait, there was a berry tree near my apartment in college--were they huckleberries? I never found out. They were purple and shaped like rasperries and were mild and sweet, not tart at all.
Place the following cuisines in order of preference (greatest to least): Chinese, sushi, Indian, Thai, French, Italian, Mexican. I love French cooking but where can you get it without spending $50? I eat much more Asian cuisine. I could eat Chinese every day, and I love sushi, but I like Japanese cuisine beyond sushi and it frustrates me that I can't find it nearby. And where I live, Italian is "default non-ethnic cuisine," where you say, "Let's go out and have plain, American food," and you go to an Italian restaurant. So I take Italian for granted. And I just don't crave Mexican very often; when I do, it's for the guacamole and the cheese and not the spices.
Place the following boozes in order of preference (greatest to least): Tequila, run, vodka, brandy, gin, whiskey. I chose that order because I only like girly mixed drinks, so, I'm most likely to order a margarita or a creamy fruity rum drink. Brandy and whiskey, blech, medicine. (Though brandy does its duty in flaming desserts.)
Place the following flavors in order of preference (greatest to least): Garlic, ginger, lime, basil, aniseed. I like them all, though.
Place the following fruits in order of preference (greatest to least): Cherry, apple, pineapple, watermelon, banana, orange.
Bread and spread: Crusty baguette and butter.
What's your fast food restaurant of choice, and what do you usually order? McDonald's soft-serve vanilla ice cream. Go ahead and laugh; I'm sure the people at the McDonald's drive-through do, every time they see me. "Here comes the lady who only gets an ice cream cone." But it's the most reliable place for vanilla soft-serve in the winter!
If I want an actual fast-food meal, I'll probably hit the combo White Castle/Church's Chicken and buy four White Castles and some onion chips, or maybe a chicken thigh and a biscuit if I'm in that mood instead. Or Burger King for the Whopper Jr. with extra pickles, hold the onion. (And, yes, I have been known to get a Big Mac to go with that vanilla cone.)
What are three of the best dining-out experiences you've had?
1. Bar Harbor, Maine vacation. Lobster every night, clam rolls every noon. Bliss.
2. Pepperoni-mushroom calzones and vanilla-caramel shakes, eaten at 1am while in college from a place that delivered until 4am every day.
3. Salt-jalapeno crispy squid, also discovered during college, and more recently tracked down at a Chinese restaurant 20 mins from where I now live.
What's your choice of tipple at the end of a long day? That's an alien concept to me. I don't unwind with alcohol.
Favorite cookbook/s? What to Cook When You Think There's Nothing In the House to Eat, by Arthur Schwartz. I still make Macaroni in Brodo on a regular basis, though it's been a while since I made the Peanut Butter Soup or the Cheddar Cheese Soup.
Got any favorite food blogs? I just run my flist and save all the interesting recipes you guys post! Made some fantastic dishes, like matociquala's Beef Stroganoff and violetisblue's Yorkshire Pudding.
What's the next thing you'll eat? I might make that Lemon-Tahini Marinated Tofu recipe that I got from someone on lj; can't remember who! Saved it as a text file, way back when.


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