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A French Atlas of the Gulf States
Philippe Cadène and Brigitte Dumortier, Atlas of the Gulf States. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Mapping as a French Academic Tradition and its Critics It seems that English-speaking geographers and urbanists publish many fewer atlases, and draw fewer maps, than their French and—at least until recently—German counterparts. In ... Read More »
Displaced Intentions
Write Down, I Am an Arab, directed by Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin. Israel/Palestine, 2014. Borrowing the opening line of one of Mahmoud Darwish's most famous poems, "Identity Card," filmmaker Ibtisam Mara'ana-Menuhin titled her latest documentary Write Down, I Am an Arab. The film, which had its world premiere at ... Read More »
Sympathy for the Devil: Palestine's Tragic Collaborators
Omar, directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Palestine, 2013. Omar, the most recent film by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad (of Paradise Now fame), opens with a traversing of obstacles—a prefatory homage to the resilient Palestinian spirit. Exuding youthful vigor, the titular character scales the portion of the separation ... Read More »
Understanding Modernity: A Review of the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
On 6 June 2014, the Kuwait pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia's 14th International Architecture Exhibition opened with a restaging of an event that took place three decades earlier: the ceremonial opening of the Kuwait National Museum. Under the heading "Acquiring Modernity" (responding to the overall ... Read More »
Do Not Compel Me to Sing
I Left My Shoes in Istanbul, directed by Nigol Bezjian. Lebanon/Turkey, 2013. Nigol Bezjian's I Left My Shoes in Istanbul begins with its protagonist protesting that he has no desire to go on the journey that lies at the heart of the film. It ends with the haunting voice of a singer, begging the listener, "Do not ... Read More »
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar in Translation
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, The Time Regulation Institute, translated by Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe, introduction by Pankaj Mishra. New York: Penguin, 2014. The verbal text is jealous of its linguistic signature but impatient of national identity. Translation flourishes by virtue of that paradox. ... Read More »
The House of Melancholy and Strength
House of Strength Performance by Nooshin Rostami Choreography by Merisha Mesihovic Industry City Open Studios, Brooklyn 26 April 2014 [House of Strength is a performance by the Iranian Brooklyn-based artist Nooshin Rostami inspired by the traditional Persian gymnasiums called ... Read More »
Israel and the Palestinian Territories Lonely Planet: Systematic Erasure and Casual Racism
Haifa is a picturesque city of hills, gardens, and trendy cafes perched along the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel. If the Lonely Planet guidebook is to be believed, Haifa is notable because Arabs and Jews live in "visible harmony," and residents consider themselves a "model of tolerance" for the region ... Read More »
NEWTON Summer Reading
As we head into the summer, Jadaliyya would like to remind you of some of the most creative and groundbreaking works in Middle East studies that we have featured in our New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) page during the 2013-2014 academic year. Whether you are an instructor thinking about texts for the fall, a student doing ... Read More »
Popular Neighborhoods and the Arab Spring: Elements for a Renewed Approach
Pierre-Arnaud Barthel and Sylvy Jaglin, editors, Quartiers informels d'un monde arabe en transition. Réflexions et perspectives pour l'action urbaine [Informal Settlements in an Arab World in Transition. Reflections and Perspectives for Urban Action]. Paris: Agence Française pour le Développement, Conférences et ... Read More »
Representing Hamas (Part 2)
Shlomi Eldar, Lehakir et Hamas ["To Know Hamas"]. Jerusalem: Keter, 2012. [Part one of this review can be found here.] The Military Complex Eldar structures his narrative around character profiles of Palestinian activists, mainly Hamas leaders, their assassination by Israel, and the broader Israeli ... Read More »
Embedded Poetry: Iraq; Through a Soldier's Binoculars
Critics and reviewers greeted Brian Turner's Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005) with effusive and unanimous praise. His poems were read as "dispatches from a place more incomprehensible than the moon. . . observations we would never find in a Pentagon press release." I read the poems back then and was not ... Read More »
Representing Hamas (Part 1)
Shlomi Eldar, Lehakir et Hamas ["To Know Hamas"]. Jerusalem: Keter, 2012. The latest book by veteran Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar, Lehakir et Hamas ["To Know Hamas], is a must-read for anyone interested in Hamas and the trajectory of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the beginning of the second intifada ... Read More »
A Creative Upsurge; Syrian Art Today (Part Two)
[Syria's Apex Generation highlights post-uprising art as an introduction to the rich history of painting in Syria. Featuring the works of Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Nihad Al Turk, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi, and Kais Salman, the exhibition and its accompanying publication explore a new school of painting in the ... Read More »
A Creative Upsurge; Syrian Art Today (Part One)
[Syria's Apex Generation highlights post-uprising art as an introduction to the rich history of painting in Syria. Featuring the works of Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Nihad Al Turk, Othman Moussa, Mohannad Orabi, and Kais Salman, the exhibition and its accompanying publication explore a new school of painting in the ... Read More »
Keep Your Eye on the Wall
There were an impressive number of Palestinians at the 19 May opening in Ramallah of Keep Your Eye on the Wall, a photographic exhibit. "The Wall" (aka Apartheid Wall, Separation Wall, Security Fence, Barrier) is such an omnipresent feature of Palestinians' lives, it is surprising they would voluntarily choose to look ... Read More »
The Black Box of French History
Andrew Hussey, The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs. London: Granta, 2014. In 2005, a series of disturbing events occurred in France. In February, the parliament attempted to pass a law to force schools to teach "the positive role of French presence overseas, especially in North ... Read More »
Revolution and Return: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon and the End of Politics
Diana Allan, Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2013. For some reason while reading Diana Allan's wonderful new book, Refugees of the Revolution, I had the idea that its title was Ghosts of the Revolution. I am not sure why. It may be because ... Read More »
In Performance: Undeniable Voices, Palestinian Agency and Marginalized Narratives
From 3-5 April 2014, I attended three notable theatrical productions that dealt directly and indirectly with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Diary of Anne Frank at Raleigh's Burning Coal Theatre, directed by the Artistic Director of Bethlehem's Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Society Abdelfattah Abusrour; a ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond
Valeska Huber, Channelling Mobilities: Migration and Globalisation in the Suez Canal Region and Beyond. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Valeska Huber (VH): The origins of this book lie in my general interest in the history of mobility, ... Read More »
Adunis, Mistranslated (Part One)
Adonis, Selected Poems. Translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010. Adunis (1930-) is one of the most influential and dominant Arab poets of the modern era and a perennial Nobel contender since the late 1980s. A number of his individual works have been ably ... Read More »
Les visages urbains d'un autre Téhéran. Perspectives comparatives sur la mégapole iranienne.
Livre recensé: Mina Saïdi-Sharouz (dir.), Le Téhéran des quartiers populaires. Transformation urbaine et société civile en République Islamique, (Paris: Karthala/IFRI, 2013). Réjouissons-nous de la parution de cet ouvrage. En effet, elle marque le renouveau des études francophones sur la capitale iranienne et des ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Leila Piran, Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policy
Leila Piran, Institutional Change in Turkey: The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policy (New York: Palgrave, 2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Leila Piran (LP): I wanted to write about democratization and political reform in a Muslim-majority country. Turkey represents a ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World
Zayde Antrim, Routes and Realms: The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Zayde Antrim (ZA): I was originally motivated by what I saw as easy dismissals of the relationship between Palestinians and the territory ... Read More »
Joint Statement Calling for Release of Arbitrarily Detained Journalists and Others in Syria
[The following joint statement was issued by the undersigned and published by Reporters Without Borders on 17 March 2014] Free Key Rights Defenders Government Arbitrarily Holds Darwish, Colleagues Despite UN Demands The government of Syria should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Niki Akhavan, Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Niki Akhavan, Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Niki Akhavan (NA): As an early and eager participant on the Iranian Internet, I was both excited and disturbed about the kinds of content and ... Read More »
Trente ans de recherche sur Tunis et les grandes villes tunisiennes
Recension: Morched Chabbi, L'urbain en Tunisie. Processus et Projets, (Tunis: Nirvana, 2012). Durant les trois dernières décennies, Morched Chabbi a mené de front deux activités: l'urbanisme et la recherche en sciences sociales, principalement sur Tunis et les grandes villes tunisiennes. Ces deux activités se ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za'atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking
Rawia Bishara, Olives, Lemons & Za'atar: The Best Middle Eastern Home Cooking. Lanham, MD: Kyle Books, 2014. Jadaliyya (J): What made you decide to write this book? Rawia Bishara (RB): Olives, Lemons & Za'atar has been a long time coming. My restaurant, Tanoreen, is now fifteen years old and I have been, in ... Read More »
Press Release: Where is Jamal Al Hammadi?
[The following press release was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 4 March 2014] Jamal Al Hammadi, a teacher of Islamic education from Khor Fakkan abducted on 20 April 2013 by state security services, was last seen 5 February 2014 in Abu Dhabi's State Security prison. A group of detainees recently transferred from ... Read More »
New Texts Out Now: India: Wounded States (Special Issue of Warscapes)
India: Wounded States. Special issue of Warscapes, edited by Bhakti Shringarpure and Aruni Kashyap. February 2014. Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this special issue? Warscapes (W): Since the inception of Warscapes we have had a stream of submissions from India that recount experiences of military ... Read More »
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Three stars for the recipe as written, but 4 stars with some modifications. The first batch I made (following recipe) was a bit bland, but okay. In the second batch I added a dash of cinnamon and clove, and doubled the amount of candied orange peel. It was delicious! Great winter flavors and color.
How can this be considered Vegan when butter is used? I know to use a Vegan alternative for butter. Just wonder if anyone has done this?
I made this for my uncle for Christmas using my own homemade candied orange peel. It was pretty spectacular! Nice fruity flavour. The only thing I changed was the baking time - I reduced it by about 7 minutes because the oats tasted toasty enough for me! I'm making it for the second time right now. I can definitely recommend it!
how can anyone review a recipe that they leave out ingredients? please if you leave out ingredients just leave out your review as well!
Could only give this 3 forks because I did not have the candied orange peel. I added walnuts and unsalted, roasted peanuts. I love the toasting of the oats beforehand. It seems a bit crunchy, perhaps I need to cut back on the baking time, or it could have been the brand of oats I used. Will make it again.


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The scene of the crash on the A47 Dereham Bypass this morning. Picture: Martin George
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A woman in her 20s was taken to hospital this morning after a crash on the A47 Dereham Bypass.
The woman was cut out of her car by firemen, and police and ambulance staff were also at the scene of the accident, which happened near the A1075 Tesco junction.
The red Renault Clio car was travelling westbound towards Dereham when it appeared to have spun and went towards the verge.
The roof of the vehicle was cut off to allow crews to get the woman out.
She was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with a minor back injury.
Steady snow fell around Dereham this morning but it is not known if it was a factor in the crash,
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There were also hold ups on Norwich Road as motorists have taken a diversion through the town.
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TOPEKA A panel of four Medicaid experts today talked with a crowd of about 120 people who gathered at the Topeka library to hear more about Gov. Sam Brownback's KanCare plan.
Among the concerns voiced by audience members as the event concluded:
Some in the crowd also said long-term care services for the elderly and disabled should not be included in KanCare, at least not until other elements of the governor's plan have been put in place and proven successful.
"We've already seen from this administration that they give no thought to consequences in the field," said Shannon Jones, executive director of Statewide Independent Living Centers of Kansas.
The state's independent living centers have faced a wave of other policy changes under the Brownback administration that have left them struggling.
Under KanCare, virtually all the state's Medicaid beneficiaries would be moved into a managed care plan overseen by one of three competing companies. State officials currently are reviewing the contract proposals tendered by five companies. According to the governor's plan, three of the five will be selected and each will be expected to operate statewide using current Medicaid providers but in new networks affiliated with the managed care companies.
Joan Alker, a featured speaker and one of the four forum panelists, said the Brownback plan was complex, far reaching and unlikely to gain full or quick approval from federal authorities. Alker is co-director of the Georgetown Center for Children and Families and a research associate professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
She began her talk by questioning some of the assumptions about the Medicaid program's costs. She said the current cost of Kansas Medicaid is slightly smaller as a percentage of total state spending (9.1 percent) than the national average (11.3 percent) spent by states on Medicaid and that the Kansas percentage was smaller even when compared to other Plains states.
Brownback officials have said their reform plan is necessary because without it the state's Medicaid spending would remain on an unsustainable upward trajectory, essentially taking money needed for education, public safety and other essential state services.
No need for waivers
Alker said the goals of better coordinated care sought by Kansas also could be pursued or accomplished without federal approval of a Medicaid waiver. She cited North Carolina and Alabama as states that have in place or are moving forward with Medicaid case management of the sort proposed in KanCare. But neither of those states sought or needed waiver approval to do it, she said.
A managed care pilot program in Florida similar to what Kansas officials propose to do statewide had been "fairly chaotic" because Medicaid beneficiaries were confused about their managed care plans and how to use them, she said. And extending managed care to include long-term services for the elderly and disabled, both relatively high-cost groups to serve, was a largely untested proposition.
"Managed care can be a good approach when done well," she said. "But I think when you're talking about vulnerable populations, you have to be very, very careful."
Furthermore, she said, research hasn't clearly shown that managed care saves money when applied to Medicaid.
"We don't have a great deal of evidence that managed care has saved money in Medicaid," she said.
Also, the KanCare plan seems to assume that there are a lot of duplicated or wasted services, she said. But from a national perspective, "there's not a lot of evidence of over-use in the Medicaid program. More often you see under-use."
If that is the case in Kansas, then it will be difficult to save money in the way the administration has outlined.
"I think a targeted and specific discussion about that would be helpful," she said.
Kentucky's experience
Jodi Mitchell, executive director of Kentucky Voices for Health, a consumer advocacy group, was another featured speaker.
Late last year, Kentucky expanded its Medicaid managed care to include all the state's counties. Mitchell said there had been significant problems implementing the changes, in part because the new plans were put in place so quickly. She said the Kentucky managed care contracts were bid, awarded and implemented in a relatively short span of eight months.
"We had a very expedited timeline," she said.
The three managed care companies selected in Kentucky are among the five vying for Kansas contracts: Coventry, Centene and WellCare.
Mitchell said having three companies involved meant a choice for some Medicaid providers in Kentucky but not necessarily for Medicaid consumers because many providers, particularly in rural areas, had chosen to work with a single managed care company. That left many consumers no real choice but to go with the provider and plan offered in their area.
She said the changes in Kentucky had sparked complaints about restricted access to some types of mental health drugs.
The main problems, however, had been "member confusion because of very quick implementation," insufficient provider networks and inadequate payments to providers, which she described as "a huge issue."
She praised a program called Community Connect that had been implemented by WellCare because it provided consumers an accessible database of all services locally available to them.
"I like to give credit where credit is due," she said. "They (WellCare) hope to take this model to all the states where they operate."
Also appearing at the forum as panelists were Scott Brunner, a former Kansas Medicaid director now working as a senior analyst at the Kansas Health Institute, and Jean Hall, director of the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies at the University of Kansas.
The forum was sponsored by the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition. Anna Lambertson, the group's executive director, said Brownback officials had been invited to participate, but none attended.
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Mary Pilon is a sports reporter at The New York Times. Focused chiefly on the intersection of sports with business and politics, she was part of the Times' reporting staff for the Summer Games in London in 2012 and is covering the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014.
Since joining The Times in November 2011, Ms. Pilon has authored a graphic novel about cage fighting "Tomato Can Blues," brought scandals in rhythmic gymnastics to the paper's front page and traveled to Africa to report a series on the origins of an unlikely runner.
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PROGRAMMING Humanoid hustler Joe accompanies young ''mecha'' David (Haley Joel Osment, above left) on his Pinocchio-like quest to find the Blue Fairy and become a real boy.
SPECIAL FEATURES Joe, who struts to his own soundtrack of old love songs, can alter his hair color and his accent according to the whims of the client he's, um, servicing.
MEMORABLE LINE (Talking to David about humans) ''They made us too smart, too quick, and too many. We are suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that will be left is us.''
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Hannaford Supermarkets is having a Gluten Free Eating tour and sampling of goodies at two of their Glens Falls area stores this month:
Monday, November 19, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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I also picked up a copy of the November-December 2007 issue of Hannaford's in-store magazine, Fresh, which is free with every $25.00 purchase (oh so easy to spend when you have to buy gluten-free). The magazine had a cover article on wheat-free desserts which caught my eye and I have also discovered that you can access the three yummy sounding dessert recipes online at this link. They include Apricot-Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies (make sure oats are not contaminated with wheat), Chocolate Fudge Cake with Raspberry Coulis and Spiced Honey Cake with Autumn Compote.
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Now if only Price Chopper would get with it. My husband and I live in downtown Troy and don't own a car, so getting to a Hannafords is difficult. Luckily we have a wonderful little health food store that keeps us stocked with rice based products.
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The second full length film from the Grindhouse crew filmed between December 2011 and April 2012 in France, Austria, Finland, Canada, USA and Scotland. Made on a shoestring budget and apart from 2 weeks with one camera. Riding from: Will Smith, Jon Addison, Matt Macwhirter, Tom Guilmard, Andy Nudds, Ben Wall, Tom Honey, Billy Neilson, John Weatherley, Ollie Dutton, Chris Chatt & Andy Laird.Read More
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Mr. Benitez is a co-founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). The CIW is a grassroots, membership-led organization of migrant agricultural workers based in Florida that seeks justice for a range of human rights abuses and promotes the fair treatment of workers in accordance with international labor standards. Its membership consists of over 4,000 workers, who are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants.
Mr. Benitez has been called "one of the most visible farmworker leaders in the U.S." (Los Angeles Times), and "the Cesar Chavez of the new millennium" (El Diario, New York). He has won numerous national and international awards for his exemplary leadership, including: the Rolling Stone Magazine "Brick" Award for "America's Best Young Community Leader"; the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award; and, along with two co-workers, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, for innovative work in combating modern-day slavery.
As remarkable as these achievements are, they are all the more remarkable given Mr. Benitez' background. He came from a poor family of Mexican farmworkers, and he worked for over 9 years throughout the Southeastern United States from Florida to North Carolina harvesting tomatoes, oranges, and other crops. The abuses that he witnessed and experienced as a farmworker led him to begin participating in organizing efforts in Immokalee. The CIW began as a small group of workers who met after work to reflect upon the extreme poverty and brutal mistreatment that the workers suffered. In those early years, Mr. Benitez was one of the community leaders of actions focused in Immokalee, including 3 community-wide work stoppages, a 30-day hunger strike, a campaign against violence in the fields, and a 230-mile march across the state of Florida.
Mr. Benitez has also been central to the CIW's Anti-Slavery Campaign, uncovering and investigating multi-worker, multi-state forced labor operations, and assisting federal authorities in prosecutions such as US vs. Cuello, US vs. Ramos, and others. In the course of such work, Mr. Benitez helped workers to escape from a labor camp where they were being held against their will, located key witnesses, and helped victims recovering from slavery.
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I have a French paper due tomorrow and a law test. I am baffled and confident I'll fail.
Cops is on television.
Carrington and I have been fighting like cats and dogs. He makes me upset, I don't know what to do. I know I don't want o be without him, but I can't take it. He is being rude, crude and it playing games.
I feel so alone. Alone in a romantic way, not in life. We have been together for over two years and he just wants to be a jackass all the time. Ugh.
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
1:25 am
I keep making journals, and never keep up with them. I honestly hope to change that.
Updates with me? Carrington and I are still together. He pisses me off more than occasionally, but we have been great for the last week.
I am swamped with school. Between exams and papers, I don't know what to do.
I finally joined a club at school (Legal Professions Association) and I am SGA Alternate. It is not much, but it is something to put on my resume. I have started to work out atleast two days a week for two hours.
My mother was sick for quite some time, but now she is out of the hospital and progressing beautifully.
I want to do alot of things. Mainly, I want to just throw myself out there and get my hands dirty and do it. I have exposed myself to two movies I normally wouldn't see (
Hollywood Land
The Black Dahlia
. Both exceptional in more ways than one. But,
Hollywood Land
was better. I am an Adrien Brody fan.
Life is okay in general. I am content knowing how things have turned out after the last month.
P.S. My hair smells.
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
11:45 pm
i had forgotten
I'm so in love with Carrington. More than I ever had anticipated, but it's what I did dream of.
He somehow lands on my last nerve at times, but it never last long. He is absolutely my heart.
I want us to work things out completely and I want him to be the one I wake up to everyday. I want to have a fall wedding with him and I want to raise a family with him.
I want to be honest and better myself for him and I would like for him to think of me in that same light.
He's it and I simply don't want to be without him.
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Thursday, May 19th, 2005
10:33 am
I contacted Bryce. He is still with his girlfriend and I told him that I was dating. He wants to hang out, but for a few reasons, I don't want to. One, I'd rather be with Carrington. Two, I'm fat. Three, I'm busy and he leaves friday.
I love Carrington so much. I really do. Almost a year of arguments, frustrations, misunderstandings, silence, and other menial things..and I couldn't love him more. Well, I could and I know that's coming.
I always had said that the guy who gave me my first orgasm would be the one I married, and it was him. So, I guess he's "it".
For the last week, the sex between us has been the best it's ever been. I'm losing inhibtions a bit because I'm so confident that he loves me, no matter how I look under clothes. So, I want to try more things, like being on top or giving him oral sex.
Sunday night, we were in his bedroom. We were going at it hard, so the bed was making noise. We decided to get on the floor in the bonus room that was over the garage. We were going at it again and he said that he was about to come, and I told him no. He stayed while I kept going, and then out of no where..I orgasmed. It was the most ridiculously feel-good feeling that I have ever encountered.
After we were finished, I had the worst toothache of my life. But, worth it.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
4:42 am
bryce c.
It's 4:42am and I am still up. I have to wake up at 7:30a to be on time for work by 9a.
Today (yesterday) was surprising. I went into work and Frank (a co-worker) told me that a person inquired about me earlier. I asked if it was a guy or a girl and he said that he believed it was a gentleman. He wrote his name down as Bryce.
My eyes shot open wide. I was excited.
Bryce was a guy that came into the dealership, driving an RSX, one Saturday while I was working. It was only weeks before Christmas and he was in town visiting his father.
He was very attractive, tan, nineteen, seemed honest and wasn't from the area. We began making small chat about Greensboro and the area that he is from (New Bern) and slipped in that he had a girlfriend. I was disappointed, but still intrigued because this was when Carrington and I were problems and going through our "off" period opposed to "on.
When it was time to leave, he sat into his car, shut the door and looked at me through the glass. I didn't mean to stare back, but I did. I hoped that it would be like a scene from a movie and he'd come back in and talk to me again..and he did just that. He climbed out of his car, came back in and told me that he was going to buy Christmas presents for his girlfriend and wanted to know where a shopping center was, and what I should buy her.
I mentioned in a coy way that I wasn't like other girls, so that was a tough question. He said that I seemed very fun to be around and that he wouldn't mind hanging out with me since he was so new to Greensboro. I gave him my number and he left. I was very excited and in a weird way, I felt like he could have been perfect boyfriend material. I never saw or heard from him, until today.
Frank said he had asked if I still worked there and when I would be coming in. He said he waited four hours until he left. He took his number just in case. I thank Frank for that.
I plan on calling after work tomorrow, just to catch up. Very exciting.
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Wow. I forgot that I even had this.
My name is Andria. I'm three months shy of twenty-one and I have no idea what I'm doing.
I'll keep adding as I go.
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We hope that you will join us for our weekly chapel service every Wednesday morning at 10 AM on the St. Davids campus in the Gymnasium. Open to the Public.
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Wednesday August 27: Prayer & Praise
Sunday August 31 at 10:30 am (McInnis Auditorium): FIRST Weekend: Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians
Wednesday September 3: Area Churches Day: Dr. Joseph B. Modica, University Chaplain, Eastern University Introduction to the Series on the Devotional Classics: "Preparing for the Spiritual Life"
Wednesday September 10: Dr. Tony Campolo, Professor Emeritus, Eastern University
Thursday evening September 11th at 8:00 pm (Men's Baseball Field): Annual 9/11 Commemorative Service & Candle lighting
Wednesday September 17: Compassion International Chapel: Olive Aneno
Wednesday September 24: Communion Chapel
Wednesday October 1: The Prayer-Filled Life (The Contemplative Tradition) Dr. Margaret Kim Peterson, Associate Professor of Theology, Eastern University
Wednesday October 8: Homecoming Chapel Dr. Jeanne Bundens (EU 1989), Professor of Chemistry, Eastern University
Sunday October 12 at 10:00am (McInnis Auditorium) Homecoming/Parents' Weekend Worship Service Rev. Christian Nickels (EU 1997), Pastor at Spring Mount Mennonite Church
Wednesday October 15: Celebration Chapel
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Wednesday October 29: The Virtuous Life (The Holiness Tradition) Dr. Walter Huddell, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Eastern University
Wednesday November 5: Dr. Willette Burgie-Bryant, Chaplain, Palmer Theological Seminary
Wednesday November 12: The Spirit-Empowered Life (The Charismatic Tradition) Teresa Nevola Moyer, Professor of Music, Eastern University
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Judah P. Benjamin, son of English Jews was born at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in 1811.
Around 1816, the family moved to Charleston, South Carolina, as the English had abandoned the island in 1815, leaving it to the Danes.
Believing in a genuine quality education for their son, he schooled at a well known academy in Fayetteville, North Carolina, afterward getting in two years at Yale College, at which time his father could no longer support him.
So, at around seventeen, Judah moved to a New Orleans job, continuing his education in a study of law, adding French and Spanish.
He worked-in teaching as a private tutor.
Benjamin was admitted to the bar in 1832 and in 1833 married Natalie St. Martin, a good looking and well-educated Creole lady.
National attention was gained in 1842 with his brief entitled Creole Case.
Being very successful as an attorney, Judah bought an interest in Bellechasse, a sugar plantation below New Orleans, moving there and dedicating himself to studying new and better methods of cultivating cane, manufacturing sugar, and the science of sugar chemistry.
It paid off in winning first prize for his sugar at a state fair.
But Natalie was evidently unhappy with plantation life and moved to France with daughter Ninette, never to return. Judah built her a home in Paris and visited every summer.
Life can throw you a curve every now and then.
Turning Bellechasse over to his mother and sisters in 1847, Judah moved back to New Orleans and continued a career in politics, a career in which he never lost.
Elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1842, he was a delegate to the framing of a new state constitution in 1844 and a constitutional convention in 1852.
A state senate seat was also won in 1852, leading to his election to the Senate of the United States, where his oratory skills stood out in debates there.
Benjamin's Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate on Feb. 5, 1861, when his state opted for secession concludes with, "the State of Louisiana has judged and acted well and wisely in this crisis of her destiny."
Hearing voices stating his state had no right to secede, being a bought province, Benjamin responded with a Jefferson quote, "the Government assumed to act as trustee or guardian of the people of the ceded province, and covenanted to transfer to them the sovereignty thus held in trust for their use and benefit, as soon as they were capable of exercising it."
It was generally understood and stated by many that the states were sovereign and had the right of secession, but, the South now had to defend the rights and freedoms handed down by the Founding Fathers against the oppression of a majority, including the right of secession. Benjamin rightly referred to Jefferson's Declaration of Independence as "our declaration of secession from Great Britain."
There is no freedom without the right of secession.
If not, sovereignty has been stood on its head.
Was our Declaration of Independence a one-time-only declaration...or is it an everlasting statement, should like-conditions arise again at any time?
It is up to us to decide and the times seem similar to those of 1776.
By the way, after Judah Benjamin's resignation from the U.S. Senate, he was appointed attorney general in the Confederate Cabinet, then secretary of war in 1861, and secretary of state in 1862.
After the war, he began all over again in England, successfully so, before moving to the Paris home he had built for Natalie, and passing away in 1884.
May Yahweh God through Yeshua, Christ Jesus, King of the Universe, bless and keep us, his sovereign creations.


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When mob hitman Jackie Estacado was possessed by the demonic force known only as The Darkness a few years back, his life changed dramatically. His boss tried to have him killed. His girlfriend Jenny, who he'd known since childhood, was murdered in front of him. And in the end, he gave himself over to The Darkness completely, becoming its puppet in the name of revenge.
Since then, Jackie's regained control, bottling up The Darkness and emerging to lead the crime family he once served. But nothing good ever lasts, and after a violent run-in with a shadowy group known as The Brotherhood, The Darkness reawakens – and once again, Jackie's in way over his head.
If you're a fan of the original Darkness (and have touched it recently enough to remember how it plays), The Darkness II might be a shock at first. Where the original had a starkly realistic look and an unusual, strangely fluid approach to shooting, the sequel has an almost cartoonish look (its developers call the art style "graphic noir"), and a firmly grounded, linear, almost conventional approach to shooting. Well, except for the tentacle-like demon heads, of course.
As before, when Jackie manifests The Darkness (something can only happen when you're standing in shadow, meaning you'll shoot out a lot of lights over the course of the game), it shows up as a pair of dragon-looking heads that take up a big chunk of the screen. This time, however, they're a lot more versatile, and – once you get used to using them in tandem with Jackie's guns – they can turn you into an unstoppable dynamo of horror that tears effortlessly through everything stupid enough to stand in your way.
The head on the right is used for slash attacks, and can slice enemies and obstacles in half. The slash technique (hold down a button, push the right stick in a direction, release the button) takes a little adjustment and can be easy to forget in the heat of combat, but there isn't much more to it than that. The head on the left is more interesting, as it can grab objects and enemies. Grab a car door, for example, and the arm will hold it in front of you as a shield – and then hurl it like a sawblade when you're sick of it soaking up bullets for you. Stray pipes become impaling javelins, propane tanks become hurled explosives, and locked doors become kindling.
That's nothing compared to what happens when the arm gets hold of an enemy, though. You'll need to stagger the thugs to get a good grip on them, either with a couple of bullets or a quick demon-arm swipe, but once you do, The Darkness will hold up their helpless forms and give you the choice of either throwing them at their friends, or executing them messily. The latter option results in some of the game's most vivid gore; depending on how you grab them, goons can be sliced in half, decapitated in close-up, ripped to pieces and – once some of the more elaborate executions have been unlocked – get their spines yanked out through their asses. There are a lot of these to watch, they're all insanely brutal (in spite of the odd plasticky sheen the art style puts on the gore), and somehow they never quite get old.
Executions aren't just about nasty ways to put down enemies, though; along with eating the hearts of dead goons, they also refill your health (or have other positive effects, as you unlock more of them) and give you Dark Essence points, which you can put toward unlocking and upgrading new powers. Fill up enough slots on Jackie's skill trees, and you'll eventually be able to imbue your bullets with Dark Essence (and shoot through walls), stun your enemies with locust swarms, grow protective armor or hurl miniature black holes, which spawn randomly in place of hearts in the chests of dead enemies.
Once Jackie's sufficiently powered up, he feels damn near unstoppable. Again, though, he has one big weakness, and that's light, which causes The Darkness to retract and throws everything into blinding black-and-white. Usually this can be remedied by shooting out whatever nearby light bulb is endangering your life, but some lights require following a wire and blowing up a generator before they'll go out. Then there are the handheld spotlights and flashbangs wielded by the Brotherhood (who are generally more competent and militaristic than the rival mafia goons you'll kill in the game's early stages), which present their own problems.
Luckily, you're far from defenseless when the lights are on, because Jackie has access to a small but impressive assortment of firearms that work just fine even when he's cut off from the rest of his cool powers. Able to carry three guns at a time (one rifle or shotgun and two sidearms), Jackie can dual-wield pistols and submachineguns, or single-wield for more accurate aim. It doesn't really get much more complicated than that, except to say that the guns all pack a satisfying kick, and that you'll rely on them an awful lot, considering the demonic powers at your disposal. Especially in later stages, when the game starts piling on tough, armored Brotherhood commandos by the truckload and swarming you with them.
So that covers the basic gameplay, but inasmuch as The Darkness II is a fun shooter to stomp through, the series didn't become a cult hit just because of blazing guns and flying viscera. Like its predecessor, Darkness II centers around a surprisingly strong, character-driven story that's part mob drama, part surreal comedy and part supernatural revenge romance. And once again, the whole thing is narrated by the vicious-but-charming Jackie, who speaks to us through monologues in a dark room about his history with the mob, with The Darkness and with his dead girlfriend Jenny, who once again winds up at the center of the story.
Jackie and Jenny are the focus, but they're far from the only memorable characters, and we're frequently treated to lengthy conversations and incidental dialogue with his lunky henchmen and lieutenants (most of it around Jackie's freely explorable penthouse), who end up surprisingly endearing despite being kinda moronic. They're joined by Jackie's tough old Aunt Sarah, a skittish occultist named Johnny Powell (who takes most of his behavioral cues from Woody Allen) and The Darkling, Jackie's ever-present, likeably foul imp sidekick. For the most part, the characters are cleverly written and well-acted; if they weren't, it wouldn't mean quite as much later in the game, when the emotional hits start pounding home and the game pushes us to start questioning Jackie's sanity.
It's not a plot that produces anything as weirdly striking or moving as that unforgettable moment in The Darkness when Jenny cuddles up next to you on the couch and falls asleep, but it tries. Oh, how it tries. And it comes close to succeeding, delivering a fantastic narrative wedded to around eight to 10 hours of gruesomely satisfying action in the process. Sure, it all leads up to an annoying cliffhanger of an ending, but until then it's a great ride.
If the game's ending leaves you cold, take heart: there's more. The four-player co-op Vendettas mode tells a self-contained storyline that runs parallel to the central game's plot, focusing on four creepy mercs who work for Jackie (but never show up in the single-player campaign). Each of these has a weapon powered by "Dark Essence," and each has one of Jackie's powers. Mossad agent Shoshanna, for example, uses a pistol that fires charged shots and can use Jackie's Darkness-powered bullets, while voodoo practitioner J.P. Dumond carries a Darkness-imbued staff and can open up black holes. Street-samurai Inugami wields a dark sword and has Jackie's locust-swarm ability, and Scottish stereotype Jimmy can summon Darklings and wields a mean axe. And they've all got custom executions, some of which can get pretty nasty.
Their story cuts a fairly straightforward swath through armies of thugs, although it culminates with a boss fight considerably more epic than anything in the single-player campaign, and it's an enjoyable extension that'll tack at least a few hours onto the experience. (It's especially fun if you can find teammates who don't go berserk destroying the health-restoring hearts from your kills, leaving you in constant need of revival – although if things get too hot, the host can always adjust the difficulty on the fly.)
Above: Mikel Reparaz and Hollander Cooper run through 49 minutes of the game and explain their scores
The Darkness? Yes, but that comes with a sacrifice. Darkness II is unquestionably a more coherent and more focused (and also more conventional) shooter, but at the same time it loses a lot of what made the original Darkness special, like the open-world structure, unusual gunplay, gritty visuals and watchable TVs. Story-wise, however, it still presents a smart, nuanced continuation of the first game's narrative, and fans won't be disappointed.
Bioshock 2? No. Bioshock 2's action, plot and mythos are more fully formed and intriguing than Darkness II, and its story is oddly more personal for not having a very clearly defined main character. Darkness II's Vendettas multiplayer is a lot more compelling than Bioshock 2's Plasmid-infused deathmatches, though, so there's that.
Aliens vs Predator? Yes. It might seem weird to compare them, but Darkness II actually has a few things in common with 2010's AvP. Sure, it's a cut above the three-way sci-fi/horror shooter in terms of production values, writing and action, but Jackie Estacado combines traits of all three of AvP's protagonists into one charismatic package. He can't turn invisible or climb on the ceiling, but the gore, guns and brutish unstoppability are all there – and the overall experience is a lot better.
While it lacks some of the openness and emotional pull of its predecessor, The Darkness II is a highly polished, immensely fun shooter that delivers a stellar mix of over-the-top gore, furious action and clever, character-focused storytelling.
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Sixth Circuit Real Property Cases
Rent, Lease, and Ejectment Cases, Dockets and Filings
Cases filed
Cases 1 - 10 of 182
GTP Structures I, LLC v. Wisper II, LLC
as 1:2014cv01317
Plaintiff: GTP Structures I, LLC
Defendant: Wisper II, LLC
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Contract
Providence Coal Reserves, I, LLC v. Hopkins County Coal, LLC
as 4:2014cv00115
Defendant: Hopkins County Coal, LLC
Plaintiff: Providence Coal Reserves, I, LLC
Cause Of Action: Diversity-Breach of Contract
Nakharath v. Vathananonh et al
as 2:2014cv02135
Defendant: Mr. Pongsavanh, Jeff Blanton, Bounpone Vathananonh and others
Plaintiff: Kouth Nakharath
Cause Of Action: Fed. Question
Simmons et al v. Towers at University Town Center et al
as 2:2014cv13965
Defendant: Mark Schlepp , JPI Management, Towers at University Town Center and others
Plaintiff: Kristyn Journe, Stacey Simmons
Bass v. Schnurer
as 1:2014cv00803
Defendant: Richard E. Schnurer
Plaintiff: Steven J. Bass
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal
PTJ Properties, LLC v. Mikesell
as 1:2014cv00602
Plaintiff: PTJ Properties, LLC
Defendant: Robert Mikesell
Cause Of Action: Petition for Removal
Wieszciecinski v. Pergande et al
as 1:2014cv12159
Defendant: Joseph Pergande, Jack Pergande
Plaintiff: Patricia L Wieszciecinski
Flake v. Group Five Management et al
as 2:2014cv11447
Defendant: Group Five Management, Robert M Weiss
Plaintiff: Tristan Renard Flake
DDR-SAU Jackson West Towne, L.L.C. v. Peters et al
as 3:2014cv00909
Defendant: Judy Peters, Nicolaas Peters, Rajesh Aggarwal and others
Plaintiff: DDR-SAU Jackson West Towne, L.L.C.
Cause Of Action: Personal Injury
Keesey v. Sutton et al
as 3:2014cv00301
Defendant: Ms. Alice, Scott Sutton, Ms. Amber
Plaintiff: Robert L Keesey
Cause Of Action: Civil Rights Act


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After the slow moving period of a year, the luxury segment of the city's property market. . .
Viijcon Cellandine Pune's an awesome residential opportunity to cherish the comfort and relax in lavishness of a dream home sited at Hinjewadi, Pune. Discover recreating happiness in homes by Vijicon group, the project proffers 2 & 3 BHK apartments complemented by a full array of modern lifestyle amenities and quality specification. In a congestion-free environment,Viijcon Cellandine Pune located at Kasarsai of Hinjewadi will discover revel in refinement and people will stay closer to nearby destinations like Kasarsai, IGI Pune, Jambe, Nere, Punawale, IIMS Pune, Wipro and Evita Township. Enjoy the expanse and every feature that adds a dash of fineness and elegance. Viijcon Cellandine is creating an ambience of bright, airy coziness and lush environment, people would really feel great to opt for these homes. Hence, come and revel in refinement of living that also assures you to get closer to lifetime happiness with no obstacles. So, you always come home to the luxury of comfort, leisure and contentment
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Bharat Jadhav (Pune)
Oct 22 2013 08:42 PM
Hi I have bought flat in this project,its upcoming area untapped by builders,Life republic,Xarbia Reply (0)
Patil (Pune)
Jul 25 2013 11:40 AM
This is wonderful project. This is premium project of this builder, so they are paying lot of attention to this project. The minimum size of 2 BHK is 937, so total cost (including everything) is around 37 lacs. Reply (1)
Santosh (Place:)
Oct 03 2013 05:11 AM
Just a suggestion, please check how much far from the "Solid Waste Management Plan" proposed near Punawale. Reply (0)
Shriram (Pune)
Jul 03 2013 05:52 PM
I have bought flat in this project. Reply (2)
Mrs. Apte (Pune)
Aug 21 2013 04:16 AM
Hi Mr. Shriram,I'm working with Infosys. Am planning to buy a 3BHK flat in this project. Wanted some inputs from your end before finalizing the deal. Can i know your contact no. and suitable time so that I can call you.RegardsDeepti Apte Reply (0)
Naresh (Pune)
Aug 19 2013 06:02 AM
Hi Shriram - Can i get your contact number, i am interested in this project Reply (0)
Mar 04 2013 02:57 AM
Hi, how far is this site from Hinjewadi IT park. what may be possession date for the flats here, capital appreciation ?, rental income? how reputed is the builder, any other projects by them in Pune which are complete Reply (2)
Sunny (Pune)
Jun 03 2013 05:40 AM
this developers first venture in pune..apart from that area is quite far from daily nessecities.. Reply (0)
Abhijit Patil (Pune)
May 06 2013 03:56 PM
Hi H B, this is 7.2 KMs from Mezza9 hotel in hinjawadi. The builder is new and they already have a site for which construction is going on (village residency1 in Chandkhed). Possession i am not sure about, appreciation chances are good as this is 36 meter sanctioned road (as of now, the road is not that good). I have bought one flat in this builder's another project which is just near this project. Reply (0)
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