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- Cyclists travelling on the left or right-hand edge of the car's imagined/extended side lines may be detected late or not at all.
- The function's capacity to detect cyclists at dusk and dawn is limited - just like the human eye.
- The function's capacity to detect cyclists is deactivated when driving in darkness and tunnels - even when streetlights are lit.
- For optimum bicycle detection, the City Safety™ function must be activated, see City Safety™.
Collision Warning with Auto Brake & Cyclist Detection is a means of assistance.
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- cyclists in clothing that obscures the contours of the body or who are approaching from the side.
- bicycles that have no rearward-facing red reflector.
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Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai (Tamil: காஞ்சீபுரம் நடராஜன் அண்ணாதுரை) (15 September 1909 – 3 February 1969), popularly called Anna (which means elder brother in Tamil), was a former Chief Minister of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was the first member of a Dravidian party to hold that post and was also the first non-Congress leader to form a majority government in independent India.
Annadurai was born on 15 September 1909 in Kanchipuram (then called Conjeevaram), Tamil Nadu, to Natarajan and Bangaru Ammal in a dominant Sengunta Mudaliar caste. He was raised by his sister Rajamani Ammal. At the age of 21, he married Rani while he was still a student. The couple had no children of their own hence they later adopted and raised Rajamani's grandchildren.He attended Pachaiyappa's High School,but left school to work as a clerk in the town's Municipal office to assist with the family finances.In 1934, he graduated with a B.A. degree (Hons) from Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai. He followed that up with a M.A degree in Economics and Politics from the same college. He worked as an English teacher in Pachaiyappa High School. Later he quit the teaching job and began involving himself in journalism and politics.
He was well known for his oratorical skills and was an acclaimed writer in the Tamil language. He had scripted and acted in several plays. Some of his plays were later made as movies. He was the first politician from the Dravidian parties to extensively use Tamil cinema for political propaganda. Born in a middle class family of weavers, he started his career as a school teacher and then moved into the political scene of the Madras Presidency as a journalist. He edited several political journals and enrolled as a member of the Dravidar Kazhagam. As an ardent follower of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy he rose in stature as a prominent member of the party.
With differences looming with Periyar, on issues of separate independent state of Dravida Nadu and on inclusion in the Indian Union, he crossed swords with his political mentor. The antipathy between the two finally erupted when Periyar married Maniammai, a lady much younger than him. Angered by this action of Periyar, Annadurai with his supporters parted from Dravidar Kazhagam and launched his own party, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). The DMK initially followed ideologies the same as the mother party, Dravidar Kazhagam. But with the evolution of national politics and the constitution of India after the Sino-Indian war in 1963, Annadurai dropped the claim of an independent Dravida Nadu.
Various protests against the then ruling Congress government took him to prison on several occasions. The last was during the Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965. The agitation itself helped Annadurai to gain popular support for his party. His party won a landslide victory in the 1967 state elections. His cabinet was the youngest at that time in India. He legalised Self-respect marriages, enforced a two language policy (over the three language formula in other southern states) for the state, implemented subsidising cost of rice and renamed the Madras State to Tamil Nadu.
However, he died of cancer just two years into office and his funeral was the most attended one at that time, holding a Guinness record. Several institutions and organisations are named after him. A splinter party launched by M. G. Ramachandran in 1972 years after the death of Annadurai was named after him as ADMK (Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam).
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When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
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Then thou, whose shadows doth make bright
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"If he thinks that I just need to desperately get the fight to the ground he's got another thing coming." - Kyle Watson
After speaking to TUF 12 alum Kyle Watson (16-7-1), one comes away with the impression that the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor and UFC fighter is a man on a mission.
At 31 years old, he doesn't have time to bounce around from promotion to promotion. He's been there and done that. He is also aware that being a lightweight in the UFC, one of the most stacked and deepest divisions since the WEC merger back in December, means every fight is a must win situation.
"I feel like we're all in the position where we're all fighting for a job every time we step inside the Octagon," says Watson, who faces undefeated Canadian John Makdessi (8-0) April 29th at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada.
"There's so much talent and so many people waiting for their chance to prove themselves, if you slip up, just like Dana (White) says in a lot of interviews, 'It's like any other organization. If you're not playing your best you're going to be sidelined.' Obviously I'm not happy with it," says Watson. "I'd like to know I could get multiple chances, but it's the name of the game; you just have to go in knowing that and give it your best shot."
Watson has given mixed martial arts his best shot, and he's done pretty well.
A full-time jiu-jitsu and Jeet Kune Do instructor, Watson has been fighting professionally since 2003, and he's faced guys like Spencer Fisher and Bart Palaszweski long before The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV put him on the MMA map.
"I want to prove to myself, my friends and family and any critics out there that I'm not just a reality show guy," says Watson, who lost to season 12 winner Jonathan Brookins before winning a unanimous decision against a tough Sako Chivitchian on The Team GSP vs Team Koscheck Finale card.
"I don't want people thinking that I just got lucky and got on The Ultimate Fighter and got in the UFC that way," said Watson. "I've had a lot of experience before the show, I put a lot of years of hard work in, I've had a lot of fights and I'm just ready for the challenge now and I deserve to be here."
As if the pressure of being in a must-win situation on a card that has already sold a record 55,000 tickets -mostly to his opponent's fellow countrymen - isn't enough, Watson is set to be married April 9, just twenty days before the fight.
He laughs out loud when I ask him if he still plans to get married.
"Yeah of course I am," he says. "I'm not saying it's easy, but I'm a pretty organized person. It has been a challenge trying to balance what is one of the crowning moments of my life, my marriage, and training for my fight. I'm trying not to short-change my wedding, but at the same time I have to focus on my job. I don't want the UFC bosses thinking I don't know where my priorities are."
Watson will spend his honeymoon at an all-inclusive resort in The Dominican Republic, but he and fiancée Laura will wait until May to celebrate their nuptials.
"She's going to be in school until then anyway so it works out better for both of us," he said.
In Makdessi, Watson faces a tough striker who trains daily with the number two-ranked pound for pound fighter in the world and reigning welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre. The two trained together when Watson visited Tristar Gym in Montreal while he was part of Team GSP and training for the TUF Finale.
"The only training we did together was sparring and we didn't really ever go to the ground and do any wrestling," he said. "And honestly I came away feeling like I had the better end of it. I feel like I match up well. I don't by any means think it's an easy fight or am I thinking I'm going to get a quick submission or anything like that. He's undefeated for a reason and he looked really sharp in his last UFC fight so I'm definitely expecting to have a tough battle."
Stylewise, on paper, Makdessi is the better striker. He's knocked out six of his eight opponents in impressive fashion, and he handled Team Bombsquad's Pat "Awesomely Awesome" Audinwood fairly easily on the way to a unanimous decision win at UFC 124 in his Octagon debut last December.
"It's going to be one of those classic matchups of striker versus grappler," said Watson. "But if he thinks that I just need to desperately get the fight to the ground he's got another thing coming. I'm not a one-dimensional fighter. I'm not saying I'm going to walk in there and try to beat him at his own game, but if he thinks the ground game is all I got he's going to be surprised."
Watson enters tough company in the 155lb division. As champion Frankie Edgar prepares for his rematch with Gray Maynard and former WEC champ Anthony Pettis gets ready to make his UFC debut against Clay Guida, guys like Jim Miller, Melvin Guillard, Ben Henderson, George Sotiropoulos and Sam Stout are chomping at the bit to get their turn for the strap.
Watson has no illusions as to his place in the pecking order.
"I think it's one of the toughest and deepest divisions," he says. "Not only is it the biggest division with how many guys the UFC has on contract, but every single fight you get is going to be a tough match up. For example, John Makdessi – a lot of people have never heard of him but he's been with GSP's camp for a long time and he's really tough. So it's going to be really tough for me to climb the ladder but I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think I could climb that ladder. I love to challenge myself and prove to people that I belong in there."
"I just want to prove to myself that I can be a contender in the division, win some matches and if at some point it puts me into title contention, then that'll be my goal."
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Yangtze finless porpoise population nosedives to 1,000
Posted on March, 29 2013
The Yangtze finless porpoise population has declined to a mere 1,000 individuals, making the endangered species even more rare than the wild giant panda, the 2012 Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Survey Report reveals.
Wuhan, China -- The Yangtze finless porpoise population has declined to a mere 1,000 individuals, making the endangered species even more rare than the wild giant panda, the 2012 Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Survey Report reveals.
The population in the mainstream of the Yangtze River was less than half of what a similar survey found six years ago, with food shortages and human disturbance such as increased shipping traffic major threats to their survival.
The study also found that the rare species annual rate of decline now stands at 13.7 percent, which means that the Yangtze finless porpoise could be extinct as early as the year 2025.
The report comes after a 44-day and 3,400-kilometer round-trip research expedition on the Yangtze River between Yichang in Hubei Province and Shanghai. Led by China's Ministry of Agriculture and organized by the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, WWF and the Wuhan Baiji Dolphin Conservation Fund, the expedition first set sail on 11 November 2012.
The crew visually identified 380 individual Yangtze finless porpoise in the river's mainstream during the 2012 survey. Based on this observation, scientists determined through analyses that the population in the Yangtze mainstream is about 500, down from 1,225 in 2006.
In October 2012, research was carried out in two adjoining lakes, the Poyang and Dongting, where the population was about 450 and 90, respectively, according to the report. In a sharp contrast, 851 individuals of Yangtze finless porpoise were visually identified in the mainstream of the Yangtze during the 2006 survey. That research, however, did not cover the two lakes.
"The species is moving fast toward its extinction," said Wang Ding, head of the research expedition and a professor at the IHB. Attempts to find traces of the Baiji Dolphin, another rare cetacean and close relative of the finless porpoise, failed during the 2012 survey. The Baiji dolphin was declared "functionally extinct."
According to data captured by acoustic equipment onboard the observation ships, the largest numbers of finless porpoise were found in the river sections east of Wuhan, with 67 percent recorded between Hukou in Jiangxi Province and Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, the report shows.
There is a notable sign of scattered distribution pattern which could be the result of "shipping traffic that made migration harder, projects that altered hydrological conditions in the middle and lower reaches and habitat loss," said Wang with the IHB.
The report also cautions that small groups of Yangtze finless porpoise living in comparative isolation may have a negative impact on their ability to reproduce.
There are fewer finless porpoise in the mainstream of the Yangtze while more discoveries were made in wharf and port areas, scientists found.
"They may risk their lives for rich fish bait resources there. But busy shipping traffic close to the port areas poses a threat to the survival of finless porpoise," said Wang.
"Lack of fishery resources and human disturbances including shipping traffic are among the key threats to the Yangtze finless porpoise survival," Lei Gang, director of freshwater programme at WWF-China, said.
Researchers found dense distributions of finless porpoise in waters that are not open to navigation and attribute this to less human disturbance. Less optimistic was the discovery of illegal fishing practices in these areas, including traps that could affect finless porpoise.
A set of enhanced measures that include in-situ conservation and ex-situ conservation approaches are essential for efforts of saving the species from its distinction, said Lei. Given that, the report calls for all-year-round fishing ban for all river dolphin reserves, establishment of a national reserve in Poyang Lake and ex-situ conservation reserves along the Yangtze.
For further information:
Qiu Wei, WWF China, +86 10 6511 6272, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Benjamin Williams replaced Nathaniel Hynson as warden at the Maryland Penitentiary
On February 23, 1814, Nathaniel Hynson, warden of the Maryland Penitentiary since April 1812 and a prominent cabinet-maker, was replaced by a new warden Benjamin Williams. Williams' appointment sparked a conflict between the Inspectors of the Penitentiary (a group that included Hezekiah Clagget, John Hillen, James Kemp, George Lindenberger, Isaac McPherson, John Oliver, Henry Payson, George Roberts, Baltzer Schaeffer, Samuel Sterett, and Elisha Tyson) and Maryland Governor Levin Winder documented in a series of letters between the parties.
On January 27, 1814, Benjamin Williams wrote "with concern" to Col. John Thomas in Annapolis sharing that the Inspectors of the Penitentiary objected to his appointment and remarking "should the intrigue of the Inspectors succeed, it would be a ruinous stroke to me." On January 28, 1814, Baltimore judge Luther Martin wrote directly to Governor Winder, to note Williams' arrival in Baltimore and object that none of the Inspectors had any prior notice and remarking that Hynson's character and livelihood was affected by his removal.
The Maryland legislature established the state penitentiary in 1809 with an act declaring that "all prisoners convicted of any crime punishable by confinement in the penitentiary should be placed and kept in solitary cells thereof, and kept on low and [coarse] diet for such a time as the discretion of the court might direct." The same act also determined that the warden or keeper of the penitentiary "in addition to the salary allowed him by the Legislature, have five per centum on the sale of all articles manufactured by the prisoners in the institution, with the power to appoint his deputies and assistants." The keeper's responsibilities included providing "a sufficient quantity of stock and materials, working tools and implements for the employment of the convicts and to contract for the clothing diet and other necessaries for the maintenance and support of the convicts."
As a member of the Columbian Fire Company and a former member of the Baltimore First Branch City Council, Hynson was a well-known local citizen but likely still struggled from the sudden loss of wages from his position. Hynson may have returned to his trade as a cabinet-maker but, on March 14, 1821, he came back to the Maryland Penitentiary where he took over from Benjamin Williams as keeper until February 9, 1825.
Sources: Scharf, John Thomas. The Chronicles of Baltimore. Turnbull Bros., 1874. pp. 187, 203, 205, 251; Radoff, Morris Leon. The County Courthouses and Records of Maryland. Hall of Records Commission, 1955, p. 249.


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I have kept the spicing mild for the wee ones. Feel free to adjust.
- 3 tomatoes, diced
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp chili powder
- 1/4 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp coriander
- 1 2/3 cup cooked chickpeas (i.e. the rest of the can if you are making the naan triangles as well)
- 1-2 tbsp tomato paste
1. Place tomatoes, onion, garlic, and spices in a food processor and blend until smooth. Transfer to a saucepan and bring to bubbling over medium heat, stirring frequently. Simmer for 5 mins to allow the onion to cook and mellow a bit.
2. Add chickpeas and cook for 10 mins, uncovered, stirring frequently. Add in tomato paste until desired consistency is reached. Serve over rice.
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major macro economic indicators
2020 | 2021 | 2022 (e) | 2023 (f) | |
GDP growth (%) | -5.0 | -20.0 | -30.0 | 0.0 |
Inflation (yearly average, %) | 5.4 | n/a | n/a | 30.0 |
Budget balance (% GDP) | -20.0 | -21.0 | n/a | 0.0 |
Current account balance (% GDP) | -22.0 | -23.0 | n/a | 0.0 |
Public debt (% GDP) | 7.8 | 8.7 | n/a | 0.0 |
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- Potential for exploitation of commodities (including gas, oil and minerals)
- Development of transit corridors (Lapis-Lazuli linking Afghanistan to Turkey), launch of negotiations in late 2020 to revise the transit agreement with Pakistan and conclude a preferential trade agreement
- Development of regional energy corridors (TAPI gas pipeline, Central Asia-South Asia power line (CASA-1000), TAP power line and power line with Uzbekistan)
- International humanitarian financial support, including through the United Nations Children's and Food programmes
- No longer has access to international development assistance, mostly in the form of grants, since the Taliban took power
- The Taliban-proclaimed Emirate is Sharia-based and since 2016 has been led by Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, originally from Kandahar
- Dependence on agriculture (22% of GDP, 40% of employment), vulnerable to weather conditions
- Low credit (4% of GDP), fragile banking system (60% of loans non-performing in 2021) and dollarised (48% of loans, 61% of deposits)
- Difficult geography (landlocked and 50% mountainous) and vulnerability to natural disasters
- Inadequate infrastructure (energy, water, transport, health)
- High poverty (70% of the population), against a backdrop of informal employment (90% of GDP), unemployment (40%) and food insecurity (the 2021 World Hunger Index ranks Afghanistan 103rd out of 116 countries)
- Poor governance (corruption, restrictive regulations, weak rule of law) and authoritarianism, lack of experience in the new regime with respect to administrative and economic management
- Ethnic fragmentation
- Presence of the Islamist terrorist movement
Taliban back in power
Ejected from power in 2001 by the U.S.-led coalition, as part of their fight against Islamic terrorism following the September 11 attacks, the Taliban regained control of the country in August 2021. Following the process initiated in late 2018, the United States signed the Doha Agreement with the Taliban in 2020. This agreement stipulated a U.S. commitment to withdraw its troops in exchange for the Taliban's commitment to prevent terrorist groups from operating and to open talks with the Afghan government for a permanent cease-fire. On 13 April 2021, President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops by 11 September 2021. However, on 15 August, the Taliban seized Kabul and overthrew the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as President Ashraf Ghani fled. After overseeing emergency evacuation flights of foreign nationals and Afghans who had worked for the coalition, the United States officially completed its withdrawal on 30 August, when the Taliban declared victory. However, since then, a series of bombings, including by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), suggests that the Taliban interim government, established on 7 September, will have difficulty maintaining control and security in the face of both extremist groups and rebels. The Taliban regime has not been recognised by any state as at the end of 2021. In particular, it is accused of trampling on the rights of women, who are prevented from working, and of girls, who are deprived of schooling. The domination of the Pashtuns in the government and administration at the expense of other ethnic groups is also a grievance. This non-recognition is accompanied by the suspension of development aid, on which the country had broadly relied. One of the main consequences is the serious food crisis (60% of the population facing extreme levels of hunger according to the United Nations).
A severe economic and social crisis
Even before the Taliban took power, poor security, growing uncertainty and recurrent drought, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, had been undermining confidence and growth, while already high poverty and unemployment had been increasing. The abrupt halt in the flow of aid in the form of grants, including dollar banknotes (previously 40% of GDP), has led to the afghani depreciating against the dollar by 30% between the end of 2020 and the end of 2021. To address this, the government is auctioning dollars and has imposed a cap on cash withdrawals (USD 400 per family per week). The value of the currency is expected to fall further in 2022, until the economy stabilises at a much lower level of activity. Insufficient liquidity and the inaccessibility of foreign currency accounts domiciled abroad are crippling the banking system. This is compounded by soaring inflation fuelled by the depreciation of the afghani and falling imports: food and fuel prices more than doubled in 2021. Furthermore, the drought resulted in a 20% year-on-year increase in the price of wheat in 2021, a 30% increase in the price of flour and a 70% increase in the price of cooking oil. The purchasing power of Afghans is deteriorating: per capita income could fall by almost a third to around USD 350 by 2022. Many Afghans, especially in the public sector, are working for no pay (70% of teachers). Household consumption (80% of GDP) could then contract by 40%. The restriction of women's employment may inflict an additional economic loss of 3 to 5 percentage points of GDP. For their part, the Taliban launched a food-for-work programme in Kabul in October, offering wheat in exchange for work to more than 40,000 unemployed men, with the intention of gradually expanding it to other regions. Nevertheless, it is estimated that unemployment could double by 2022-23.
In the absence of a resumption of development aid, is the country heading for a sovereign default?
The authorities intend to curb the rising budget deficit in 2022 by adopting a 10% rate of VAT, which could generate net revenues of 1.2% of GDP, as well as phasing out pandemic-related expenditures. The Taliban are generating increasing revenues (up to 60%) from poppy cultivation and opiate trafficking (6.6 billion in 2021). Finally, the country is continuing to receive international humanitarian aid, the UN requested, in early January 2022, a record amount of USD 5 billion in emergency. The World Bank released in December 2021, a humanitarian aid of USD 280 million through the special fund for the reconstruction of the country (ARTF). However, the public debt, which has been mainly external and very low, is expected to increase because of financing the deficit with debt instead of grants. In addition, although the country received USD 10 million in debt service relief from the IMF in 2021, financing this could be complicated. A sovereign debt default cannot be ruled out. The inaugural Sukuk (sharia-compliant bond) issue, scheduled for early 2022, would enable the government to tap into large domestic savings and eventually catalyse the development of a domestic debt market. The current account deficit was largely covered by large inflows of grant aid. With the suspension and freezing of foreign exchange reserves by the U.S., estimated at over USD 9 billion (15 months' worth of imports), the country is now struggling to pay for its imports, and is being forced to reduce them. Expatriate remittances, once again authorised by the United States since 10 December 2021, are a welcome source of funding. The United States, China, Russia and Pakistan, as part of the Troika Plus, are holding talks with Taliban leaders, aware that a deterioration would have repercussions on neighbouring countries and beyond (terrorism, drug trafficking, population exodus).
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In doing some online research about the relationship between religious belief and charity, I found a statistic that makes a lot of sense in a desire-utilitarian framework.
People who, as children, are regularly taken into a social environment where the virtue of charity is praised and practiced are more likely to become charitable adults. Even if that child grows up to reject religion - to become an atheist - she will, on average, be a significantly more charitable atheist than the atheist raised by atheist or antipatheist (one who does not care whether a god exists or not) parents who never exposed their child to such an environment.
It is unfortunate that so many of those institutions that teach children the virtue of charity also teaches them contempt for others (homosexuals, atheists), encourages them to devote energies destructive towards their happiness, and teaches contempt for evidence and reason. However, those institutions are not to be faulted for their ability to teach charity.
These results are the results that desirism would predict. If you raise a child and expose them to an environment in which certain qualities are praised and others condemned, then the child will more likely (not guaranteed) grow into an adult who desires those things that were praised and who are averse to those things that were condemned.
The child who is taken religiously (pun intended) into an environment where charity is praised will become an adult who desires to perform charitable acts. The child who is raised by parents who stay home and engage in self-indulgence all weekend will more likely become self-indulgent adults.
Religions have been around for a long time. The vast majority of those religions that have been invented have since gone extinct. What we are dealing with now is a set of religions that have been tested and have proven themselves fit. These are the religions that have survived.
It would be irrational to look at the qualities that these religions have and reject all of them simply because they are associated with religion. Reason suggests that we take a look at what religion does, try to discover what it does that is worthwhile and what it does that is harmful, copy that which is worthwhile, and abandon that which is harmful. Reason suggests that we take those people who argue, "That is what religious people do, so we should condemn it," and look on them as people who are responding to the facts irrationally.
The practice of leading children on a regular basis into an environment where certain virtues are praised and vices condemned is one of the things that religions does well. Many of them to a particularly poor job of picking out what are, in fact, virtues and vices - identifying as virtues some traits that are not worthy of the title and condemning as vice some traits that should not be condemned. However, they do have a very effective way of passing those beliefs on to the next generation - and the next - and the next.
Which is probably one of the main reasons why we are still dealing with those institutions today.
It would be wise for atheist parents to set up groups that they drag children to (against the child's will) where the children are coerced into listening to lessons describing particular virtues and vices, where they will be expected to help participate in charitable behavior and other activities that exhibit virtues and warned against behavior that exhibits vices, and thus formed into adults who will be better members of their community than those children might otherwise have become.
These practices may very well explain why theists are more charitable than atheists on average.
It may also explain, in some cases, depending on the church, why they are more prone to hatred towards particular subgroups and why they share such a disrespect for reason and evidence. In all cases, these were the values that they were taught in this setting, and these are the traits that they carry with them into adulthood.
A similar institution that did a better job of distinguishing virtue from vice should be expected to have a better overall effect - raising children who not only become more charitable adults, but more tolerant and rational as well.


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Saturday March 26th, 2011
The Wagyu Dinner
Beef Nuta (Ribeye Cap)
Filet cured in the style of Bresaola, charred eggplant, and cucumber
"Curry Oxtail" terrine, carrot flowers, spicy vinegar
Picanha (Sirloin Cap Steak), blistered tomato, salsa criolla
Consomme, turnip, onion, paccheri
Rib steak, potatoes cooked in beef fat, breakfast radish, braised lettuce, bordelaise
Cheddar, backyard mulberries, pea tendrils (the mulberry bush), shortbread soil
Rosewater merengue
The bar for meal of the year was set very high this past Saturday night by Chef Jeffrey Brana and his Wagyu themed dinner (although I suspect Chef Mickey will put up a fight...) Big thanks to Ryan @ Miami's Restaurant Power Rankings for the 411 on the great food Chef Brana is serving at his "underground" dinners.
For those unfamiliar with Chef Brana, he was recognized as a "rising star chef" by Star Chefs in 2004. In 2005 he was executive chef at Norman Van Aken's original Norman's when they received a James Beard nomination for best restaurant in America. In 2006 he opened the short lived Restaurant Brana (closed for personal/family reasons) with his wife Anna who was marketing manager at Norman's for several years.
The Brana dinners are usually held on Saturday's at an initially undisclosed location in the Coral Gables/South Miami area. Seating is limited to eight to ten people. Dinners costs $85 with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Cancer Connections a non-profit the Brana's recently founded that focuses on the overall well being of cancer patients. An additional $15 donation is suggested but not required. This is a cause near and dear to the Brana's as evidenced by a quote of Anna's on their website "This project is a promise. A promise I made to my sister Gaby, who succumbed to cancer at a young age".
ChowP a/k/a The Chowprincess and I were very excited to attend the Wagyu dinner despite not knowing anyone attending besides Ryan. We were fortunate to be surrounded by a fun group of food lovers who shared great conversation although it did degenerate at one point to a funny Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian discussion.(and surprisingly it wasn't ChowP's doing)
Okay, enough of my banter, on to the main event, the food.
For my vegetarian followers, all two of you, Kobe beef is made from Wagyu cows specially bred and raised in the Kobe region of Japan. "Wagyu beef" refers only to the breed of cow.
Our dinner featured beef from the side of a single Wagyu sourced from a family farm in central Florida. The Wagyu was a purebred from traceable breed stock and 100% grass fed. According to sources most Wagyu in the United States is cross bred with Angus and thus only 50% Wagyu.
All vegetables, fruits, greens and herbs served by Chef Brana are regionally local. Chef Brana provided a great quote "don't want to preach about this, it should be assumed".
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I loathe taking pictures of my meals and rarely do but I must admit that I wish I had some to share with you from this truly outstanding meal.
Chef Brana started with a perfect jab to the palate. He hit us with one of my favorite cuts of beef, the ribeye cap. His "Beef Nuta" featured meat from in between the fat on the ribeye cap. It was cooked sous-vide and mixed with nuta sauce comprised of saikyo miso, sake, rice wine vinegar and Japanese hot mustard. I enjoyed the soft texture of the dish as well as the balance of flavors provided by the cap and the nuta sauce. There was a subtle sweetness to the dish that I assume was produced by the Saikyo miso. It was a combination Sugar Ray would be proud of and a nice introduction to the outstanding product.
Chef Brana connected again in round two with his filet cured in the style of bresaola. The tenderloin was cured for three days and served with young local eggplant charred on a plancha and pureed with sliced cucumbers and chive flowers. After seeing the plating of the dish and taking my first bite, I blurted "Wolfie's!!!" I doubt that Chef Brana was shooting for a riff on a Jewish Deli but that is the sweet spot this dish tapped into. The sliced beef, cucumbers and charred eggplant really reminded me of a deli sandwich minus the bread.(think mustard/pickles) Regardless, the beef and combined flavors were perfect.
Chef Brana came out swinging and connected with a right hook to the jaw via his "Curry Oxtail" Terrine. Chef Brana's version was braised with Caribbean curry and served as a chilled terrine with carrot flowers, mustard and arugula greens, spicy vinegar and dijon mustard. I'm a terrine fan and Chef Brana's version was a tasty vehicle for the tail.
A severe body blow was delivered next via the picanha. The picanha is a small muscle from the cap of the sirloin. Chef Brana's really tender and flavorful picanha was accompanied by a blistered Teena'a Pride tomato, salsa criolla and thyme flowers. This dish was so good that it sent me to the canvass for an eight count.
I was dazed at this point and trying hard to recover. I knew that the planned Chowfather rope a dope wasn't going to work. That said, Chef Brana decided to be kind this round and kept the Wagyu in his corner, sort of... He danced around the ring to the tune of a beef consomme. It featured a butter poached turnip cooked (sous-vide), a local spring onion that was cooked in the same pan as the picanha (great call) and pasta cut into rings. The pasta was probably my least favorite item of the night (due to the tough competition) but was served perfectly al dente. The consomme was obviously packed with enjoyably rich flavors. This dish was a nice change of pace.
Let the record be clear, Chef Brana doesn't fight fair. Just as the bell rang for round six, he pummeled us with a huge upper cut to the jaw. "Down goes Chowfather!!" "Down goes Chowfather!!" I didn't see the knockout punch coming. Rib steak, potatoes cooked in beef fat, breakfast radish, braised lettuce and bordelaise. What more can I say besides Delicioso!! Chef Brana used a whole ribeye roast which was cooked slowly and served with small potatoes cooked in beef tallow, butter poached breakfast radish and lettuce. The tender steak melted in your mouth. I tried to eat this dish slowly in order to savor every bite but that was impossible. KO
Once the fight was called, Chef Brana tossed in a cheese course featuring cheddar from Neal's Yard in England served with mulberries. There was also some "Blis" bourbon barrel aged maple syrup on the plate. This was a very enjoyable cheese course.
Although the gloves were off, Chef Brana didn't mind sucker punching us with a haymaker for dessert. I'm not a flan lover but his simple version was all about showcasing the smooth custard which was perfectly sweet. I was pleasantly surprised to find a piece of Wagyu in the middle of the custard. I kid, I kid. Flan de Wagyu anyone??
As we finished dessert I glanced across the room and saw a bunch of happy faces on guests who were in no rush to leave.
Before leaving, there was one more surprise which was a tasty rosewater merengue.
Chef Brana clearly has modern and technically precise cooking skills. He also has a much appreciated light hand and really knows how to treat and respect quality ingredients.
I HIGHLY recommend paying a visit to one of Chef Brana's dinners. Chef Brana is a heavyweight whose food should not be missed.
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Copyrights and Patents as Property?
Copyrights and patents of course share many features of property rights generally. . . . But for reasons I've detailed, and for other reasons I might add, copyrights and patents differ crucially from our natural rights to persons and property. Like a flat map of our spherical Earth, property theory illustrates some truths about copyrights and patents even as it imposes misleading distortions.
To better understand copyright and patent, we need other metaphors. I suggest, for instance, considering copyright and patent as akin to welfare programs. Like the welfare system, the copyright and patent system redistributes rights from members of the general public to particular beneficiaries: authors and inventors. And, like the welfare system, the copyright and patent system can lay fair claim to serving both equity and efficiency.
But, as with welfare, we should not forget that copyrights and patents represent, at best, necessary evils. We should always aim at a world where recipients of the public's largess learn to support themselves, relying not on special statutory protections but rather on the same general rights to persons, property, and promises that the rest of us rely on. We should, in other words, aim at ending copyrights and patents as we know them.
How Copyrights and Patents Violate Natural Rights
Copyrights and patents exist only at the expense of our natural rights to our persons and property. Copyrights limit your peaceable enjoyment of your printing press and throat, for instance, restraining you from publishing or singing in echo of another. Patents likewise constrain how you use your laboratory or machine shop. Copyright rights and patent rights thus do not come out of thin air. They exist only because the government has redistributed some of our natural rights to authors and inventors.
Such transgressions do not necessarily render copyrights and patents per se invalid. We routinely suffer violations of our natural rights in order to enjoy the fruits of government. Although it sometimes feels like simple theft, we forbear taxation because it serves such ends as national defense and public welfare.
Perhaps the rights redistributions effectuated by copyright and patent law prevent a looming market failure. We certainly enjoy a great abundance of expressions and inventions in the U.S., an effect to which copyright and patent law can plausibly lay claim. But let us not forget that we pay a price for such boons. And let us not forget that, once no longer necessary, a necessary evil becomes simply an evil.
I could—and in the Q&A part of my debate with Adam, did—say more about how copyrights and patents violate natural rights. We discussed several various accounts of natural rights—Lockean, Hayekian, Adam's, and mine—and I argued that none supports a natural right to copyrights and patents. We also discussed what the Founders seemed to have thought about the issue, and the legal import of that evidence. I don't know if I'll get around to recapping those points here. At any rate, though, the transcript published in the Journal of Technology Law and Policy ought to do the job.


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In a badly-needed boost to the rule of law and the nation's much-abused new health reform, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit today rejected two attacks on "Obamacare." In one case, Virginia v. Sebelius, the appeals court found that the Commonwealth of Virginia lacked standing to challenge the individual mandate provision and in the other, Liberty University v. Geithner, it ruled that a challenge to the plan's financial penalty for not purchasing individual health insurance coverage was not ready to be heard since the penalty constitutes a tax and taxes may not be challenged until after they have gone into effect and been paid. Both decisions by Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz are a breath of fresh air in a legal and political environment now polluted by partisan and ideological attacks on the health plan.
The decision in the Virginia case, brought by the state's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, was an emphatic victory for basic rules of federalism and judicial restraint. Judge Motz found that the court could not hear the case because Virginia lacked standing under long-established jurisdictional principles. As a state, Virginia suffered no "injury in fact" because of the individual insurance mandate it was challenging; the state itself is not "burdened" by it, state officials are not "commandeered" by it, and state sovereignty is not impaired in any way by it. Virginia asserted that it had standing because of a conflict between the new law and a state statute, the "Virginia Health Care Freedom Act," a statute which was transparently cooked up by the legislature for the sole purpose of creating a conflict with the federal health reform law. This state law simply declared that no resident of Virginia "shall be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance coverage." It had no enforcement mechanism and existed solely for purposes of organizing litigation against the national government. Judge Motz correctly found that, if this kind of metaphysical declaration were enough to create standing, a state could concoct jurisdiction to challenge any federal law just by writing a "not-X" statute. I recall that opponents of the health reform introduced the same meaningless legislation in Maryland and I took great pleasure in pointing out that it had no content. At any rate, Judge Andre Davis dissented from the decision, arguing that the standing problem was no big deal; he would have simply ruled that the individual mandate provision did not exceed Congressional power under the Constitution—and, on this point, he is clearly right.
The other decision, in the Liberty University case, was based on the significant new ruling that the individual insurance mandate is actually a form of federal taxation and the federal Anti-Injunction Act prevents the court from entertaining challenges to taxes until they actually go into effect and have been paid by the litigants. "A taxpayer can always pay an assessment, seek a refund directly from the IRS, and then bring a refund action in federal court," Judge Motz wrote, but the Anti-Injunction Act bars pre-enforcement actions. It is definitely of note that Judge Motz found that, under the Act, financial penalties and exactions are to be treated like a "tax." Both supporters and critics of the decision are noting that this may mark an effort to define and defend the individual insurance mandate as a legitimate exercise of the congressional Taxing power, but this may be over-reading into the court's interpretation of the Anti-Injunction Act, which does have its own body of rules and precedents.
It's not clear yet whether the disappointed litigants will try to take the case en banc to the full right-leaning Fourth Circuit or petition for appeal directly to the Supreme Court. All roads lead to the Supremes in this case since there is currently a split between the Sixth Circuit, which upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate, and the Eleventh Circuit, which struck it down. In addition, the DC Circuit will be hearing oral arguments in a healthcare challenge in two weeks, so it, too, may add its voice to the discussion by the end of the year. At some point next year, the justices will have to grab the bull by the horns and decide whether they want to fully revive the class-driven judicial activism of the Lochner period by knocking down laws promoting public health and welfare.


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Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Prevention
Molina Healthcare seeks to uphold the highest ethical standards for the provision of health care benefits and services to its members and supports the efforts of federal and state authorities in their enforcement of prohibitions of fraudulent practices by providers or other entities dealing with the provision of health care services.
"Abuse" means practices that are inconsistent with sound fiscal, business or medical practices that result in an unnecessary cost to the Medicaid/Medicare programs or in reimbursement for services that are not medically necessary or fail to meet professionally recognized standards for health care. It also includes recipient practices that result in unnecessary cost to the Medicaid/Medicare programs. (42 CFR 455.2 and as further defined in Welf. & Inst. Code Section 14043.1 (a).)
"Fraud" means an intentional deception or misrepresentation made by a person with the knowledge that the deception could result in some unauthorized benefit to himself or some other person. It includes any act that constitutes fraud under applicable Federal or State law. (42 CFR 455.2 W. & I. Code Section14043.1(i).)
"Waste" is health care spending that can be eliminated without reducing the quality of care.
Federal False Claims Act, 31 USC Section 3279
The False Claims Act is a federal statute that covers fraud involving any federally funded contract or program, including the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Act establishes liability for any person who knowingly presents or causes to be presented a false or fraudulent claim to the U.S. government for payment. The term "knowing" is defined to mean that a person with respect to information:
- Has actual knowledge of falsity of information in the claim;
- Acts in deliberate ignorance of the truth or falsity of the information in a claim; or
- Acts in reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information in a claim.
The Act does not require proof of a specific intent to defraud the U.S. government. Instead, health care providers can be prosecuted for a wide variety of conduct that leads to the submission of fraudulent claims to the government, such as knowingly making false statements, falsifying records, double-billing for items or services, submitting bills for services never performed or items never furnished or otherwise causing a false claim to be submitted.
Health care fraud is:
Health care fraud includes but is not limited to the making of intentional false statements, misrepresentations or deliberate omissions of material facts from any record, bill, claim or any other form for the purpose of obtaining payment, compensation or reimbursement for health care services.
By a Member |
By a Provider |
Using someone else's insurance card. |
Falsifying codes or records, or altering claims. |
Forging a prescription. |
Billing for services not rendered or goods not provided. |
Knowingly enrolling someone not eligible for coverage under their policy or group coverage. |
Billing separately for services that should be a single service. |
Providing misleading information on or omitting information from an application for health care coverage, or intentionally giving incorrect information to receive benefits. |
Billing for services not medically necessary. |
Alerting the billed amount for services. Altering the service date. |
Overutilization: Medically unnecessary diagnostics, unnecessary durable medical equipment, unauthorized services, inappropriate procedure for diagnosis. |
Other Provider Crimes
- Knowingly and willfully solicits or receives payment of kickbacks or bribes in exchange for the referral of Medicare or Medicaid patients. (Anti-Kickback Statute)
- Knowingly and willfully referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to health care facilities in which or with which the provider has a financial relationship. (The Stark Law).
- Balance billing - asking the patient to pay the difference between the discounted fees, negotiated fees and the provider's usual and customary fees.
Preventing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse is on the rise. Molina and state and federal agencies are working together to help prevent fraud, waste, and abuse. Here are a few helpful tips on how you can help prevent healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse:
- Do not give your Molina Healthcare ID Card or number to anyone except your provider, clinic, hospital or other healthcare provider.
- Do not let anyone borrow your Molina Healthcare ID Card.
- Never lend your social security card to anyone.
- When you get a prescription make sure the number of the pills in the bottle matches the number on the label.
- Never change or add information on a prescription.
- If your Molina Healthcare ID Card is lost or stolen, report it to Molina Healthcare immediately.
Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
You may report suspected cases of fraud, waste, and abuse to Molina Healthcare's Compliance Officer. You have the right to have your concerns reported anonymously to Molina Healthcare, and/or United States Office of Inspector General. When reporting an issue, please provide as much information as possible. The more information provided the better the chance the situation will be successfully reviewed and resolved. Remember to include the following information when reporting suspected fraud or abuse:
- Nature of complaint
- The names of individuals and/or entity involved in suspected fraud and/or abuse including address, phone number, Medicaid ID number and any other identifying information.
You may report fraud, waste, and abuse to Molina Healthcare through one of the following:
Call the Toll-Free number of the Molina Healthcare Anti-Fraud Line:(866) 606-3889 TTY/TTD:711
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Office of the Inspector General
Washington D.C., 20026
HHS TIPS Fraud Hotline: (800) HHS-TIPS
Additional health care compliance and anti-fraud information may be accessed by visiting the following website:
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
90 7th Street, Suite 5-300 (5W)
San Francisco, CA 94103-6707
For those who do not have access to computers in your home, Internet access is available at your local public library.
*Materials are also available in printed formats.


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Legendary Entrepreneur Carroll Shelby Passes Away
Carroll Hall Shelby, a man whose vision for performance transformed the automobile industry, has died at age 89. Mr. Shelby passed away on May 10, 2012 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Born on Jan. 11, 1923, Carroll Shelby was one of America's greatest success stories. Championship-winning racecar driver, "flying sergeant" wartime pilot, philanthropist, entrepreneur, car manufacturer and racing team owner, he embodied the ingenuity, tenacity and grit to overcome any obstacle. He is perhaps the only person to have worked at a visible level with all three major American automobile manufacturers.
Carroll Shelby founded Carroll Shelby International, a publicly held corporation involved in many industries. His licensing arm has agreements with industry giants, such as Mattel, Sony, Ford Motor Company and Electronic Arts. His car company, Shelby American, has a thriving parts business as well as a line of muscle cars including the Shelby GT500 Super Snake, Shelby GT350 and Shelby GTS. The Las Vegas-based company also manufactures a limited number of the 1960s Shelby 289 "street," 289 FIA, 427 S/C and Daytona Coupe Cobras.
Shelby considered his greatest achievement to be the establishment of the Carroll Shelby Foundation™. Created in 1992 while Shelby was waiting for a heart transplant, the charity is dedicated to providing medical assistance for those in need, including children, educational opportunities for young people through automotive and other training programs and benefitting the Carroll Shelby Automotive Foundation.
Shelby remained active in the management of each of his companies and the Foundation until his death, even though he endured both heart and kidney transplants in the last two decades of his life.
"We are all deeply saddened, and feel a tremendous sense of loss for Carroll's family, ourselves and the entire automotive industry," said Joe Conway, president of Carroll Shelby International, Inc. and board member. "There has been no one like Carroll Shelby and never will be. However, we promised Carroll we would carry on, and he put the team, the products and the vision in place to do just that."
Shelby is survived by his three children Patrick, Michael and Sharon, his sister Anne Shelby Ellison of Fort Worth and his wife Cleo.
Donations to the Carroll Shelby Foundation are encouraged in lieu of flowers. Information about the Carroll Shelby Foundation is available at www.carrollshelbyfoundation.org.


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Title: Ricochet: Locked and Loaded
(Ricochet, #1)
Author: Heather C. Leigh
Releasing March 29, 2015
Rick "Ricochet" Brennan served eight years as an elite Marine special ops Force Recon soldier. After an injury, and the terrible memories from that night, he retires and goes to work for his former Command Officer, Howard "Mack" McEvoy, at his training center in Atlanta.
Sanctum MMA appears on the surface to be a normal gym, training elite fighters to be the best. Except each trainer, hand-picked by Mack, possesses a special background that allows Mack to run one of the best-kept secrets in the country.
When twenty-four year old Quinn Wallace finally escapes her abusive husband, she turns to her father's old Marine Corps buddy, Mack, for help. Broken and skittish, Quinn finds herself surrounded by large, intimidating men— men who could easily overpower her. She avoids them the best she can, but when Rick turns out to be more than just a rough fighter with bruised knuckles, she finds herself wondering if she can allow herself to trust again.
Ricochet is a full-length novel to be released as three parts.
***This book contains hot sweaty men, sexy scenes for those over 18, and uncomfortable, sometimes violent scenes.***
Feeling ridiculous, Quinn ducked her head, turned, and practically ran down the hall to the break room. She shut the door behind her and sagged into it, leaning her forehead against the hard surface. "Shit," she whispered to herself.
"You do that a lot."
"Oh my God!" Quinn spun around to see the man with the striking aquamarine eyes, staring at her from his seat at the break room table. She choked, which made her cough, making it difficult to catch her breath.
Rick, his name is Rick.
The dark haired Adonis reclined in his chair, hands clasped behind his head as he smirked at Quinn. "You okay there?" She nodded, still unable to speak. "You scare too easily, doll."
"What?" Quinn rasped as she dug her fingernails into her palms to stop her hands from trembling. She was still recovering from surprise he gave her, otherwise she would have scolded him for the doll comment... maybe. If she weren't so frightened of the man.
"Every time I see you, you're cursing under your breath." Rick lifted an enormous bottle of water to his mouth and chugged down a third of it, never taking his sharp gaze off of Quinn's. She noticed the large hand he had wrapped around the drink, knuckles scarred and bruised from fighting. That's what all of these men did for a living, they fought or trained other men to fight. Those hands could hit… hard.
Danger! Her mind told her again. Quinn's heart was racing frantically, feeling as if it may explode in her chest.
She shivered in response, but not from the fear she should be feeling from being so close to such a dangerous man. No, Quinn shivered because he was so damn hot she couldn't stop imagining those large, rough hands running all over her skin. The way his lips surrounded the bottle and his throat working to swallow… she felt it in a way that made her uncomfortable. The fear mingling with desire had her flat-out confused.
Quinn unintentionally let her eyes roam over his broad chest, which was covered by only a thin, tight T-shirt that had the sleeves cut off and was damp with sweat. His sinewy arms were on full display, each muscle cut perfectly. The only mark on his beautiful tan skin was a black tattoo of a skull inside a circle with wings coming off of it and a knife or weapon behind. For a minute, she thought she recognized the tattoo, but she wasn't close enough to know for sure.
I would love to lick that tattoo. Oh my god, where did that come from?
Feeling her neck and cheeks flame up from her deviant thoughts, Quinn quickly gathered herself, remembering that this cocky man was poking fun at her. Dangerous or not, that made her mad. She narrowed her eyes at his annoyingly gorgeous face.
"Well, you like to sneak up on people. It's not nice. And, I'm not your doll." She crossed her arms over her chest, trying to look confident when all she really wanted to do was run out of here and hide, or maybe run across the room and straddle his lap. She was equally torn between the two. So what did she do? Nothing. Her feet were rooted to the spot.
"Sneak up on people? You came in here, remember?" Rick pushed his chair back and got to his feet in one surprisingly nimble move for such a big man. Quinn swallowed when she got a good look at how tall he was, having to tilt her head back to see his face. The last time they spoke, she had been sitting while he leaned over her desk, his muscular body hidden behind the half wall that separated her from the lobby. Now that they were both standing, she could see that he was much, much taller than her petite five foot four inch frame. Her subconscious kept screaming at her.
Quinn instinctively backed up, not stopping until she felt the kitchenette's countertop dig into her lower back. Rick continued forward, only halting when there were just inches separating his large body from hers. He put his hands on the cabinets behind her, one on either side of her head caging her in. A small whimper fell from her lips and her breath stuttered. Quinn balled up her hands, running a fingertip over the ridge on her right palm. She shuddered from the thought of that scar, but when she remembered how she got it, she felt somewhat stronger. It was her badge of courage.
"And," he said, close enough that she could smell him, a faint mixture of aftershave and sweat. It was potent enough to make her bite her lip so she wouldn't try to lick his neck or bury her face in his chest and inhale that masculine scent. "Lots of people think I'm nice… doll." Then he smirked.
Quinn's mouth fell open at his arrogance.
Attraction or not, frightened or not, his slick overconfidence grated on her nerves. Braver than she'd felt for the first time in a long time, Quinn smiled at the egotistical man with the hypnotizing eyes. She refused to be another one of Rick's groupies, and she was quite sure he had plenty of them falling for his easy charm and rugged perfection. "Yeah, well, those people that think you're nice? I'm not one of them."
Trembling, she ducked under Rick's arm, unable to keep herself from noticing how hard his abs were as she nudged by. Pretending to be fearless, Quinn snatched her purse out of her locker, and left without saying another word.
I loved this first part of the Locked and Loaded Series! I don't know if it's the #nerdgirl in me that enjoyed the guided reading part of school assignments, or if it's just my true reading personality, but when the fact that I HAVE to stop reading a part of a story and then HAVE to wait for more, just makes that story that much sweeter. Throw in a sexy, ex- Marine with some personal baggage and I'm a goner! And lucky for us, there are a few of these men hanging around. So when we meet Quinn, a strong woman who has forgotten that she exudes that strength and confidence and sex appeal be reminded by Rick "Ricochet", you can't help be sucked into their world.
In Ricochet Part 1, we are just introduced to Quinn and Rick with a little bit of their back story, but I can tell right away that we are heading into the suspenseful abyss and it's going to be a cat and mouse game. Rick maybe this strong Alpha male on the outside but I can tell he's hiding some deep rooted feelings underneath that exterior. Quinn, well, she's just hiding for a completely different reason and I can't wait to find out what happens next!!
Start reading Ricochet , Locked and Loaded with me and I will guarantee you will be just as hooked as me!
Ricochet: Locked & Loaded (Ricochet, #1)
Releasing April 5, 2015
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500 Years of Evangelical Reformation 1517-2017
When Martin Luther posted his "Ninety-five Theses" on the church door in Wittenberg in 1517, no one expected the breadth of evangelical reforms in Christian teaching and practice that followed. In every dimension of Christian faith a renewed trust in God's forgiving mercy replaced a reliance on teachings and practices that, like the sale of indulgences, were vulnerable to abuse and corruption.
Preaching a few years later, Luther said, "I opposed indulgences … but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. I did nothing; the Word did everything." When he began to propose reforms in worship, he wrote similar words. "This is the sum of the matter: let everything be done so that the Word may have free course."
Nearly 500 years later, the results of this evangelical confidence in God's forgiving and liberating Word are evident today in Christian communities of all types. In the years leading to 2017 ELCA members, congregations and synods will observe the anniversary of this evangelical reformation in a variety of ways with numerous partners. Please visit our website at www.ELCA500.org.


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To clean grout we normally recommend a good scrub with Tile Doctor Pro-Clean which is an strong alkaline product, in some cases however the staining cannot be removed completely and the only thing your can do with the exception of re-grouting is to re-colour the grout with a Grout Colourant which are available in ten popular colours.
In the case of this bathroom at a house in Paisley near Glasgow both the floor of the bathroom and the shower wall tiles were in need of a refresh and after a review of possible solutions is was agreed the easiest thing to do would be to re-colour the floor grout with a Light Grey colourant and the wall tiles with a White colourant.
Cleaning and Colouring Grout
The first step before grout colouring is to give the grout a good scrub with Tile Doctor Pro-Clean to get it as clean as possible before applying the colourant. The grout was then rinsed and then dried ready for the colourant to be applied. You may be surprised to hear but we often find the biggest cause of staining to grout are the dyes contained in soaps and shampoos.
Once the grout is ready it's a straightforward process of applying the colourant evenly along with thin coats along the grout line working the brush backwards and forwards whilst minimising the amount that gets on the tile. We were not changing the colour of the grout substantially so one coat of colourant was sufficient for both sets of tile.
With two colours being applied we were careful to ensure different brushes were used for each job to avoid any contamination and once the job was complete a damp pad was used to remove excess product from the tile surface.
As you can see from the photographs the difference was immediate, the other advantage of the colourant is it forms a barrier over the grout protecting it from staining and making it easier to clean going forward.
Source: Bathroom Tile and Grout Cleaning Service in Paisley