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Academic achievement is of the utmost importance for your future. The Greek community holds scholastic performance to high standards and encourages it's new members to do so as well. Greeks recognize the importance of academics with the endorsement of educational programs and resources to help members reach their highest potentials. Study buddies, tutoring programs and other foundations are found within chapters to sponsor a strong, supportive educational backbone. Sororities work to create balance with both academics and the social opportunities that make the college experience completely worthwhile. The Office of Greek Involvement requires a minimum GPA of 2.25 to be eligible for initiation, although some chapters require higher.
Leadership and Campus Involvement
At Stetson, Greek students are role models and leaders for the entire campus. Greeks have the opportunity to hold leadership positions not only within their chapters, but in outside organizations as well. Upperclassmen encourage new members to take on leadership roles to continue the tradition of involvement. The experience of having leadership roles throughout your college career can carry over into your life beyond the university. Alumnae connections within individual chapters can also become an asset when stepping foot into the changing world of today.
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Beyond what happens in the close proximity of Stetson University's campus, Greek men and women stretch their interests and attention to the larger community. Each chapter donates time, money and effort to a particular philanthropy associated with their national foundation. They host a multitude of events, drives and fun activities to support not only their national service outreach, but the local DeLand community as well. Service instills ethics that enrich student's lives and create valuable relationships within the community.
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After accepting a bid from a sorority, new members enter a time of new member education. This is a period of time stretches between the initial acceptance of the bid, pledging and initiation into full sisterhood. Usually, the new member process lasts a semester. During this time, you will come to know the sisters of your chapter, learn about the history of your sorority, as well as of the university, and become the best of friends with the other members of your pledge class. Your pledge class often works together on several important projects during the year. Within this group you will learn to promote sisterhood and work as part of a team. The new member process is a vital part of your sisterhood and will create bonds that last through college and beyond.
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Sorority life is a wonderful way to create a strong social network. The Greek community at Stetson provides the perfect balance to academic rigor, community service and leadership opportunities. Chapters hold social events throughout the year, including formals, socials and date functions. However, a simple afternoon spent with your sorority sisters is just as rewarding as a planned event.
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God of Iowa State athletics, Jamie Pollard, will be at Arrowhead Stadium tomorrow morning for a "major college football announcement." Kansas State Athletic Director Bob Krause will also be there. Rumor is the Cyclones and Wildcats will split a couple of football games in Kansas City, likely in 2009 and 2010. That's great news for Kansas City Cyclone fans. Not so great news for businesses in Ames (and Manhattan), with the possibility of losing a home game.
The last time the Cyclones played in Arrowhead -- a 38-31 loss to No. 3-ranked Florida State in the 2002 Eddie Robinson Classic -- was the most thrilling football game that I have ever witnessed.
Legendary Iowa State quarterback Seneca Wallace engineered what was almost the greatest comeback in Cyclone history, rallying from a 24 point deficit and nearly permanently retiring Bobby Bowden with a chest grabber.
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Thinly veiled threat: Mehdi Hasan on the niqab
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of the niqab and the burqa. Why have the Continent's political leaders, confronted by economic and social malaise, declared war on a piece of cloth?
By Mehdi Hasan Published 28 May 2010It has been condemned as sinister, frightening, misogynistic and oppressive. Indeed, nothing seems to provoke more suspicion of Europe's 15 million Muslims than the face veil worn by a tiny minority of women. Even many followers of Islam are keen to disown and denounce it. In heated discussions with my own father over the past few weeks, I discovered that he is one of those who take a sterner line, describing the face veil as "un-Islamic and unnecessary".
"If not for anything else," he told me, "it should be banned for security reasons." I am no fan of the face veil, but I disagree with Dad. Moves to ban it will surely backfire.
In recent months, several European governments have begun to legislate restrictions on both the niqab, a face veil that leaves the area around the eyes clear and is usually combined with a full body covering, and the burqa, which covers the entire face and body, leaving just a mesh screen to see through. On 29 April, Belgium became the first European country to impose a nationwide ban on wearing a full face veil in public. Just three days earlier, the five-month-old government of the Belgian prime minister Yves Leterme had collapsed amid bitter feuding between the political parties, but legislators in the House of Representatives found time to push through the bill with almost unanimous support. Hostility towards the veil has united a divided nation.
Anyone found flouting the new law, which will come into force after Belgium's general election on 13 June, will face a fine of up to €25 (£21) and possibly seven days in jail. For Fouad Lahssaini, a Green MP in Belgium who emigrated there from Morocco as a youth, passing a ban on the face veil is like "taking out a bazooka to kill a fly".
About 215 women "at most" in Belgium wear the veil, according to Edouard Delruelle, co-director of the Belgian Institute for Equal Opportunities. Others put the number as low as 30, out of an estimated Muslim population of just over 600,000 and a total Belgian population of 10.8 million. Most Belgians will never meet a niqab-clad woman.
It's a similar story in other European countries, but the anti-burqa cause is spreading. France, Italy and the Netherlands are also considering nationwide bans. The French security services estimate that 2,000 of the roughly two million adult Muslim women in France - 0.1 per cent - wear the full face veil, and a third of them are thought to be converts to Islam. Yet the French are planning "emergency legislation" to ban the burqa and niqab before the country's legislators go on their summer holiday in August. The National Assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning the face veil as "an affront to the nation's values of dignity and equality", and the French cabinet has approved a bill making it illegal to wear clothing designed to cover the face in public.
The penalties in France will be much higher than in Belgium. The fine for a first offence will be €150 (£130). And a man who is found to have forced a woman to wear a full-length veil by "violence or threats" will be punished with a fine of €15,000 and face imprisonment. The crackdown on the veil has come from the very top of the political establishment, with President Nicolas Sarkozy declaring that the burqa is "not welcome" in France and denouncing it as a symbol of female "subservience and debasement".
Such has been the hysteria that French politicians and pundits have whipped up over the veil that the country has been hit by "burqa rage". On 15 May, a Muslim woman leaving a shoe shop in Trignac, near Saint-Nazaire on the west coast of France, is said to have overheard a 60-year-old woman lawyer making "snide remarks about her black burqa". The 26-year-old Muslim convert later described to reporters how "things got nasty. The older woman grabbed my veil to the point of ripping it off." The two women allegedly traded blows before being separated by shop assistants and were then arrested by the police.
An officer close to the case said: "The lawyer said she was not happy seeing a fellow shopper wearing a veil and wanted the ban introduced as soon as possible." She is also said to have likened the Muslim woman to Belphegor, a mythical demon who frequently covers up his hideous features using a mask.
So much for a secular state protecting religious freedom. Yet the proposed ban may, in fact, be unconstitutional. The Council of State, France's highest legal and administrative authority, warned in March that "a general and absolute ban on the full veil as such can have no incontestable judicial basis", and that it could be rejected by the courts for violating both national law and the European Convention on Human Rights. As the Moroccan-American academic Laila Lalami, who has written extensively on the politics of the veil, pointed out to me: "The societies that already have coercive laws - Iran and Saudi Arabia, for example, which force women to wear headscarves, Turkey and Tunisia, which forbid women to wear face veils - are not known for their respect of human rights."
So, why pursue it? Polls suggest that a ban is popular, and Sarkozy's personal poll rating is at an all-time low. For François Hollande, the former head of the French Socialist Party, "the tactic is clear. It's about getting back a hold of a part of the electorate which has in part retreated into abstention or voting for the far right."
Yet support for a ban cuts across the left-right divide. In Belgium, the idea was first proposed by the Flemish far right; in France, it was pushed by a communist mayor. On the right, the veil is seen as a threat to European and in particular Christian culture; a symbol of a foreign, belligerent faith community, the "other" - even though few Muslim women wear it.
On the left, it is seen as a repressive garment that subjugates women and violates their rights. Yet not every Muslim woman is forced, under threat of violence, to wear the veil by a husband, father or brother; some wear the niqab or burqa as a matter of choice.
Despite the ban being sold by both left and right as a measure to liberate oppressed Muslim women, it is opposed by leading human rights groups. "At a time when Muslims in Europe feel more vulnerable than ever, the last thing needed is a ban like this," said Judith Sunderland of Human Rights Watch on 21 April. "Treating pious Muslim women like criminals won't help integrate them." The irony of using the threat of prison to freewomen from the so-called prison of the burqa is not lost on Muslim commentators, either. "The Belgians have a funny idea of liberation," says the British Muslim writer and activist Myriam François-Cerrah: "criminalising women in order to free them."
Amnesty International has condemned the Belgian move as "an attack on religious freedom", and Sunderland has said that "restrictions on women wearing the veil in public life are as much a violation of the rights of women as is forcing them to wear a veil". The award-winning Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, an outspoken critic of the veil, agrees. "It is surely a basic human right that someone can choose what she wears without interference from the state," she wrote in 2003.
But what else do we expect from the likes of Sarkozy in France or Silvio Berlusconi in Italy? Their co-opting of feminist rhetoric and the language of human rights cannot hide their abysmal form on gender issues - from Sarkozy's ex-wife Cécilia branding him a "stingy philanderer" to Berlusconi's string of alleged affairs with very young women. In the UK, Nick Griffin and Malcolm Pearson, leaders of the BNP and Ukip respectively - the only
political parties advocating an outright ban on the veil in this country - have similarly questionable attitudes to the advancement of women's rights.
Western male politicians have a long history of hypocrisy in this area. In her iconoclastic book Women and Gender in Islam, the Egyptian American feminist Leila Ahmed reminds readers of Evelyn Baring, the Earl of Cromer, who served as Britain's first consul general of Egypt between 1883 and 1907. Cromer believed Islam degraded women and that it was essential that Egyptians "be persuaded or forced" into abandoning the veil, which he described as a "fatal obstacle" to the Egyptians' "mental and moral development".
Back in Britain, Ahmed notes, "this champion of the unveiling of Egyptian women" was the "founding member and some-time president of the Men's League for Opposing Woman Suffrage". She concludes: "Feminism on the home front and feminism directed against white men was to be resisted and suppressed; but taken abroad and directed against the cultures of colonised peoples, it could be promoted in ways that admirably served and furthered the project of the dominance of the white man."
I am not defending the face veil. I agree with the 100 or so imams and Muslim religious advisers from 40 different countries at a recent conference in Vienna organised by the Islamic Religious Authority in Austria, who concluded that Islam does not make it a requirement for women to wear face veils. After all, the face veil is mentioned nowhere in the Quran, nor is there a Quranic injunction to cover the face.
Even in the traditions, or hadith, of the Prophet Muhammad, there is no explicit command for Muslim women to cover their faces - only their hair. In fact, Muslim women are forbidden from offering the five daily prayers and from going on the Hajj - the religious pilgrimage to Mecca - if their faces are covered.
Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall, the renowned English convert to Islam and translater of the Quran, observed in his 1925 lecture "The Relation of the Sexes" that the veiling of the face by women was "not originally an Islamic custom. It was prevalent in many cities of the East before the coming of Islam, but not in the cities of Arabia." Muslim leaders adopted the face veil for their women, he said, "when they entered the cities of Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia and Egypt. It was once a concession to the prevailing custom and was a protection to their women from misunderstanding by peoples accustomed to associate unveiled faces with loose character . . . It has nothing to do with the religion of Islam, and, for practical reasons, it has never been adopted by the great majority of Muslim women."
My own Muslim wife, of Indian origin but born and brought up in the United States, wears a headscarf (but not a face veil). She made the decision to wear the hijab at the age of 25, and it was a spiritual, not a political or cultural choice. I accept that, for many Muslim women, covering their face is not a choice, but is a ban the best response? There are many reasons to believe it is self-defeating.
For a start, state-imposed bans will poison relations between Muslims and non-Muslims even further. Bans often encourage defiance. In the words of the atheist writer Shikha Dalmia, of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, "this law can't help but inflame French Muslims, not encourage them to assimilate. Besieged minorities after all tighten - not loosen - their grip on their ways."
During Britain's own row over the veil in 2006, which was prompted by the then cabinet minister Jack Straw's revelation that he had insisted Muslim women remove their face veils at his constituency surgeries in Blackburn, Islamic clothing stores across the north-west of England reported a rise in sales of niqabs, burqas and other veils. One Muslim teenager I later met told me it had been Straw's remarks that prompted her to switch from wearing the hijab to the niqab.
Then there is the matter of enforcement. How will a ban work in practice? Will wealthy tourists from Gulf states also be prevented from wearing the niqab or the burqa as they shop along the Champs-Élysées? Or should the ban be limited to public buildings? If so, why the need for new legislation when a law already exists banning conspicuous religious symbols from public places such as hospitals and schools? Even Jean-Marie Le Pen's Islamophobic National Front has questioned the need for new legislation, saying "it should simply be a police regulation".
Most damningly, there is early evidence that a ban on the face veil could serve further to isolate and seclude the marginalised Muslim women whom it is supposed to help liberate. In Italy, at the end of April, Tunisian-born Amel Marmouri became the first woman to be fined for wearing a face veil when she was stopped outside a post office in the city of Novara. Marmouri was fined €500 - and her husband has said he will now ensure she stays at home so that she never again has to venture out without her veil.
Is support for a ban among Europe's political leaders, and the alarmist and vitriolic rhetoric that so often goes with it, really an expression of concern for Muslim women? And why, when confronted with a multitude of social and economic problems, including a debt crisis that could destroy its common currency, are they so obsessed with a small piece of cloth that so few women wear over their face? It is difficult to understand why so much political capital across the continent is being spent passing legislation to ban it, despite its minuscule impact on European societies.
In truth, the moves towards a ban seem primarily driven by a fear of Islam, the fastest-growing faith on the continent, and an inability on the part of Muslims and non-Muslims alike to discuss the future of Islam in Europe calmly. As the hijab-wearing British Muslim writer Fareena Alam pointed out in 2006, the controversy over the veil "has more to do with Europe's own identity crisis than with the presence of some 'dangerous other'. At a time when post-communist, secular, democratic Europe was supposed to have been ascendant, playing its decisive role at the end of history, Islam came and spoiled the party."
Or, as Isabel Soumaya, a convert to Islam and vice-president of the Association of Belgian Muslims, put it in an interview with the Washington Post on 15 May, Europe's politicians are "preying on voters' fears". The veil ban, she said, "is racism and a form of Islamophobia".
Mehdi Hasan is senior editor (politics) of the New Statesman. Read his blog.
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Eric, you´re a twat.
Though you seem completely unaware of this you are also a racist.
Read the piece again and see if you can gleam... well something would be great.
It's far easier for weak, old, white men to pander to the unjust and ignorant fears of the majority than it is for them to stand up for real freedoms and attempt to educate people above their misplaced concern.
I am sure women all over the world are breathing a sigh of relief that progressive europeans are taking a stand for their rights and freedoms by telling them what the are and are not permitted to wear. The fact that these self-righteous cowards cannot see - or worse do not care - about the repugnantly hypocritical nature of what they propose sickens as much as it despairs.
In times of economic crisis, it isn't unusual for politicians to distract the public by dividing them up on contentious issues like this one.
In any case, if the law really wanted to protect the woman's right to choose attire, then it would prosecute those who impose the veil upon her. But this law doesn't discern between a willing and coerced veil-wearer. Its just the veil it dislikes!
Dear Mr. Hasan,
I'm awfully sorry but I strongly disagree with you.
You put the argument of "rejection" upside down; when I want the face veil banned, I am not the one who rejects the other, I am the one who is rejected by somebody who thinks I, & my ilk, are so bad & dangerous that I am not good enough to see the missus's face. To see that face is a privilege reserved to a "happy few" but I am too gross, immodest, immoral, too impure in one word to deserve to see that face. And it's even worse for my men (husband, father, brothers, sons, etc) they are considered such awful predators that they will rape the poor soul on the spot if they so much as see her nose.
Thank you very much for such contempt for me & my way of life.
The burqa/face-veil wearers are the ones who totally reject the "Other", unless they are forced to cover themselves so, in that case they should be protected against what I consider an act of violence.
If they wear the burqa/face-veil of their own free will I have every right to fight against the scorn they feel for me & to tell them "I am good enough to see your face; you are no more a precious jewel than I am. Your posture is a posture of rejection which is unbearable."
Now I do agree with the rest of your article, Sarkozy uses that problem to divert our attention from some very real problems & the very reactionary solutions he wants to implement to "solve" them at the expense of the people.
Of course it is wrong to prevent someone dressing as they choose but perhaps that's not the issue.
There are a number of reasons advanced for wearing Islamic head dress. Firstly, there's fashion: it's just preference and has no significance. That's fine. Secondly, God has commanded it. Apparently She hasn't. Thirdly, it's just a religious tradition which gives an outward display of affiliation. There's nothing of interest there. Fourthly, it expresses views about the role of women and/or a belief about men's attitude to women. Now it's interesting.
Imagine if someone were to present themselves in public wearing a sandwich board declaring a controversial viewpoint. Their right to expression would be defended but they'd be inviting a counter argument.
Citizens cannot be allowed to express controversial views and then scurry in behind a shield of "religious tolerance" rather than argue.
I agree ONE HUNDRED PER CENT!
Very well argued and justified
Mehdi Hasan= voice of reason
The niqab should be worn only by ugly women.
Roy - Totally agree niqab should be mandatory for ugly women & men and optional for the rest (where's the nearest niqab store?- unfortunately, i'm in the ugly camp :( ...)
Keith - Muslim population in the UK is less than 5% - you are clearly a very scared little man...
Although very few Muslims wear the veil, and most insist it is not a requirement of their religion, they nevertheless defend the wearers.
Since it is not a requirement, it is definitely a form of subjugation of women, and it gives Muslims a bad name with the native population, it is about time Muslim leaders spoke out against it - both in the press and in the mosques - and refused admission to the mosques to those who wear it and their husbands.
If this were done, there would be very little talk about banning it, and Muslims and the native population would get on much better.


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Kiwanis Beach Dash set for Saturday
Lace up those running shoes and stretch those legs, the Port Aransas Kiwanis Club's seventh annual Beach Dash is set for Saturday, Feb. 26.
The fun run will be held between the Horace Caldwell Pier and mile marker 25, beginning at 8 a.m.
The race, featuring a two-mile walk, 5K and 10K runs and a Kids' Dash, offers door prizes, music and camaraderie for adults and kids alike. Many say it feels like a festival, according to event co-chair Jana Snow.
Jenna Ward will get things started with her rendition of The National Anthem, Pete Hartje and Karen Jones will keep things rolling with their DJ act, and live music by Goldie Oldies, Medicare Band and David Beane and Friends will energize participants.
The Kids' Dash, for children up to age 10, will be the first event. All Kids' Dash finishers will receive a medal and be entered into a drawing for beach prizes. A secure, monitored beach fun area also will be available for kids while their parents participate.
A professional chip timing system will be used at the event. Water stations will be positioned at start, finish and halfway points of the race.
An awards ceremony will follow immediately after the race, with winners announced in each of the categories. Awards will be presented to the top three finishers in the following age groups: 8 and under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69 and 70 plus.
Through tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 25, the entry fee for all events is $20, except Kids' Dash, which is $15. On race day, all events will cost $25. The first 300 registrants will be guaranteed a long-sleeved Beach Dash t-shirt, and in past years they have run out. T-shirts were still available as of press time.
This year's event design was submitted by Port Aransas High School senior April Sutter in an artwork contest. Her design depicts a crab untying the lace on a tennis shoe.
Packets for entrants may be picked up tomorrow from 4 to 8 p.m. at Park Road Storage, 2035 State Hwy. 361, or at the event on race day from 6:45 to 7:45 a.m.
Registration may be made today online at www.portaransas- beachdash.com, or at packet pickup on Friday, or on race day.
Beach dashers are invited to take advantage of a carbohydrate-loaded spaghetti dinner, benefiting Project Graduation, tomorrow in the H.G. Olsen Elementary School cafeteria, 100 S. Station St., from 5 to 8 p.m. Meals will be $5 per person.
Proceeds from the fun run will fund scholarships for graduating PAHS seniors as well as previous years' graduates who are still in school and in good standing.
Snow said, "Each year, every graduating senior who is going on to some sort of continued education, whether to pursue a medical degree or a cosmetology one, is awarded some sort of scholarship by the Kiwanis Club of Port Aransas."
Because students are the beneficiaries of the funds raised, they are involved in various capacities in the success of the event. Besides designing the t-shirt and poster art, students also create the pottery plate designs for top finisher awards, help market the event by distributing posters and registration forms and work at the event by manning water stations, playing music or singing the national anthem. Many participate by running.
The event, sponsored by Cinnamon Shore, also is held in hopes of heightening the awareness of the importance of strong physical fitness in our community.
"There's nothing better than witnessing someone who has set a goal to finish a 5K or 10K run or a two-mile walk, and has worked hard to prepare for it, come across that finish line, " Snow said.


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Romans 5:3-11
1Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.3And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; 4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. (Rom. 5:1—11 NASB)
The truth that believers are made righteous and acceptable to God by simple faith in the work of Christ on their behalf is good news. It is the gospel. Paul has shown that all men are sinful and cannot save themselves. He has demonstrated that even the Old Testament taught that Abraham was justified (pardoned and cleared of guilt) by faith. The gospel is consistent with all that God has said and done from ages past. In this passage Paul identifies three benefits of justification by faith. As believers we can rejoice in the hope of glory. We can rejoice even in our tribulations, as strange as that might sound, and we can rejoice in God without fear of His condemnation even though we can never measure up to His standard of perfection.
Vss. 3-5: When Paul says we can exult in, that is to say rejoice in, our tribulations, he is not referring to an escape from trials, rather to the basis for dealing with them. Why would anybody, how could anybody take joy in the fact that trials, difficulties, heartachess, and disappointments have come crashing down around him. The one who has no hope, no confident assurance of glory will falter when affliction comes to crowd out his joy; confidence in a glorious future gives strength for the present.
Paul goes on in this passage to explain how it is possible for us to rejoice even in affliction because we are justified by faith. He identifies a four-step process by which God uses tribulation to produce a good result in His children. Tribulation is pressure, and the pressure of our circumstances is like the potter's hands pressing in upon the soft clay to give it the shape He desires. God uses tribulation to mold His children into His image. Tribulation produces perseverance. The word "perseverance" literally means "to remain under." If we remain under the pressure that God brings into our lives, He will mold and shape us. If we resist the Potter's hands and hop off the Potter's wheel before the work is done, we have not persevered, and the shaping is not complete. In those who do persevere, who do remain under His pressure, He produces proven character, which means that we have been tested and proven. When we pass the character test, like Abraham did with his son Isaac, God gives us the hope that does not disappoint. We have confidence that all God's promises to us will be fulfilled because He has given us His Holy Spirit.
Vss. 6-8: The proof that God will do all He promised is demonstrated (shown) in the fact that Christ died for us. It is understandable that a man might give his life to save a dear friend or someone who is well-loved in the community, but Jesus died for His enemies. He died for those who were criminals and the rejects of the community. Since Jesus did that, then we know that he will finish all He has started on our behalf.
Vss. 9-10: In verses 9-10 Paul explains that if God reconciled us to Himself while we were His enemies, how much more will He be sure to save us now that we are His friends. He made us His friends while we were His enemies; now he will bring us to glory because we are his friends.
Vs. 11: Because we have been justified by faith, we exult in hope of the glory of God (v. 2), we exult in our tribulations, knowing that they produce godly character (v. 3), and we exult in God, even though we deserve to be consumed in judgment because of our sin. We do not need to fear before a holy God, but we can have joy in His presence. Because of the Lord Jesus Christ who died for our sins, we have received forgiveness, and we have been reconciled to God. There is no enmity between God and anyone who is trusting Jesus for salvation. This is the fruit of justification by grace through faith.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mississauga Marathon Launches Scotiabank Charity Challenge Fundraising Program Mississauga, ON – In an effort to raise additional funds for its charity partners, The Mississauga Marathon announced today a partnership with Scotiabank to run the 2013 Mississauga Marathon Scotiabank Charity Challenge. The new initiative allows participants to personalize their own fundraising page with a fundraising goal, pictures and videos, send emails to friends and family asking for their support, build a fundraising team and track donations. Participants can also share their personalized fundraising page with their social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. "We are thrilled to have Scotiabank and their very successful Charity Challenge program as part of the 10th Anniversary Mississauga Marathon" says Ben McCarty, Race Director for the Mississauga Marathon. "Each year, the Marathon strives to give back to the community while supporting local and national groups. With the support of Scotiabank and their program, we are excited to see the growth and success of charitable giving through the Mississauga Marathon and its supporters for many years to come." Participating charities include: Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada, United Way of Peel Region, CameronHelps, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada - Mississauga Chapter, The Mississauga Food Bank, Peel Children's Aid, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada, SickKids Foundation, Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation, Heart House Hospice Inc., Ronald McDonald House® Toronto, The Canadian Red Cross Society, MitoCanada Foundation, The Heart and Stroke Foundation, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Canada, Toronto Military Family Resource Centre, Arthritis Research Foundation of Canada, GlobalMedic (in collaboration with the Ontario Water Agency), Reach for the Rainbow and the Canadian Liver Foundation. For more information about these charities, to make a donation or to begin fundraising through the Mississauga Marathon Scotiabank Charity Challenge, please visit: www.mississaugamarathon.com/charities.shtml. The 10th Anniversary Mississauga Marathon will take place on Saturday, May 4th and Sunday, May 5th, 2013 and offers "A Run For Everyone": Marathon, Petrillo Law Marathon Relay, Recharge with Milk Half Marathon, Valeant Pharmaceuticals 10K, 10K Student Relay, Starbucks Coffee Hazel 5K and SUBWAY® Restaurants 2K Fun Run/Walk. A Runner's Expo is also part of Race Weekend, a mandatory stop for all participants to pick up their race kits taking place on Friday, May 3rd and Saturday, May 4th, at the Port Credit Memorial Arena, in downtown Port Credit. Prices increase on Wednesday, January 30th so sign up today at: www.mississaugamarathon.com. ###
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For some, the solution to what ails conservatism requires a sudden philosophical shift leftward to win back the last Rockefeller Republicans, presumably hanging on in nursing homes like stranded Japanese fighters who haven't gotten word World War II is over. Others argue that Republicans must shake off the heresies of moderation and compromise and accept the unalloyed true faith of 100 percent conservatism.
Unfortunately, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, you go into elections with the politicians you have, not the politicians you want. So the question isn't how to find better leaders but how to make the leaders we have better.
In July, Rod Dreher, the author of the memoir "The Little Way of Ruthie Leming," wrote a deeply insightful essay for the American Conservative on how the right has largely lost the ability to tell stories. Worse, many of the stories we continue to tell "are exhausted and have taken on the characteristics of brittle dogma."
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Kyriad Hotel Paris Porte d'Ivry1 Rue René Villars, 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine (Show map)
Review score
Score from 224 reviews
The location is quite convenient, close to metro station and right on the paris ring. Parking in a private garage with a quite low rate.
the hotel facilities
Santo Domingo
The price is generally OK
Close to metro, good breakfast, in room available tea, coffee and water boiler, wi-fi connection is good.
Good location, 7 mins to the metro and close to the moter way. The water boiler is very helpful to make some fresh tea and coffee. Clean & comfort bedding.
Its really great staying there, great staff, good location, and comfort
le personnel était tres aimable! et les chambres tres propres!
La gentillesse et la disponibilité du personnel.
Le Robert
le personnel sympa - et proche de la gare de lyon
La télévision,la baignoire,le style de la chambre.l'emplacement bien desservie par rapport aux métros.
Kyriad Paris Porte d'Ivry is located just south of Paris. It offers air-conditioned rooms with private bathtub or shower, TV with Canal Satellite and free Wi-Fi internet access. Guests are invited to enjoy a drink at the bar before dining on traditional and original dishes in the restaurant dining room or on the terrace. A daily breakfast buffet is also available. This Kyriad Hotel in Porte d'Ivry is just a 5-minute walk from the Metro which provides easy and quick access to the center of Paris. Hotel Rooms: 150, Hotel Chain: Kyriad Hotel. The most recent booking for this hotel was made on Dec 13 at 3:57 AM from France.
OutdoorsTerrace, Sun Deck ActivitiesNewspapers, Bicycle Rental Food & DrinkBar, Restaurant With Dining Menu, Buffet-Style Restaurant InternetFree! Wi-Fi is available in all areas and is free of charge. ParkingPrivate parking is available on site (reservation is not needed) and costs EUR 12 per day. Services24-Hour Front Desk, Baggage Storage, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Business Center, Souvenir/Gift Shop, Fax/Photocopying, Vending Machine (Drinks), Vending Machine (Snacks) GeneralNon-smoking Rooms, Facilities for Disabled Guests, Elevator, Safe, Heating, All Spaces Non-Smoking (Public and Private), Air Conditioning Languages spokenFrench, Spanish, English Check-in2:00 PM - 12:00 AM Check-out7:00 AM - 11:00 AM Cancellation/
Total Hotel Score:7
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The location is quite convenient, close to metro station and right on the paris ring. Parking in a private garage with a quite low rate.
Rooms are really small even for european standard.
the hotel facilities
the staff
Everything! The staff was extremely kind, respectful and polite, english spoken, room service includes cookies, milk, sugar, tea and instant coffee (with kettle), toiletries. Phone in room, TV, heating. Was close to the Piere et Marie Curie Metro station, in a very quiet area, plenty of useful stores around: laundry, market, bakery, bank, insurrance office, internet cafe which is able for international calls, cell phones and phone cards, printing and all the pc related stuff. You can really rest in this hotel due to its own environment and its soundproofing. 100% Recommended to everyone.
Using the safe implies a expense of 4EU/day, and a fine of 250EU if you lose its key. For using the phone in room you have to give a 20EU deposit in advance. The breakfast's cost of 10EU could be slightly expensive, but I was told that it's delicious and plenty of croissants, which in France, for me, are the best in the world :). Nothing negative I could point at. This hotel is great!
I was with my friend we booked the double room. The room was clean and comfortable. It's not very big but It was enough for us.It has hairdryer, shampoo, magazines, they offer coffee and water for free, also many french tv channels.The room cleaning personnel was very nice. The receptionists some of them were nice but some of them were not nice at all. It's not far from the centre, about 20-30 minutes by metro(line 7). Also it close to the Disneyland from the Porte d' vry you can take the train to the last stop of the train to Pte de Viencennes and get the metro St Mande (line 1) or walk till Nation metro (line 12). There you can get the train till Disnayland(line A). There is free wifi in the room, it's very good even the conaction isn't good.
The area isn't very good, at night time it is scared to walk fom the metro to the hotel. The window was too small. The ceilings were very low. The hotel was extremely hot. I don't think it would be a good idea to stay in this hotel in summer cos they don't have air conditioning. Some of the receptionists were not so nice. The transportation by bus is not easy since the bus stops for different buses are scattered all over the area. It is really bad for them to charge 5€ to keep your luggage for a few hours since most hotels do this for free.
The price is generally OK
The hotel is in rebuilding during our stay, it smells badly and people moving things everywhere and it is noisy even in the nights.
1. The hotel blocked the money on my credit card 4 days prior to my date of arrival and without any notice or my approval. When I realized they have done so, I asked why they did that at the reception and they first denied saying that booking.com blocked my money and then, that the bank blocked my money. That would have not been a problem if, when I arrived at the hotel they would have charged the money they had blocked, but they charged another amount, so now I had 413eur blocked and 413eur charged by the hotel. I called my bank and they confirmed me that the money had been blocked by the hotel and it will take 14 days before I could use them, that is if they are not charged twice by the hotel. Finally, after it took the reception desk 2 days to understand my problem, they gave me a letter stating they will not charge me twice, letter which I was able to send to my bank and unblock my money. I tried to call the Customer Protection Office in France but the hotel refused to give me the number and also to discuss the problem with hotel manager, but again I was refused. 2. Breakfast was the worst I ever had in Europe. Ham and cheese had absolutely no taste at all and the marmalade was very sour. 3. In the elevator there was a smell of sweat from morning to evening probably coming from other guests or the hotel employees. 4. The room was cleaned every day but it was extremely small. 5. The reception was not very friendly from the beginning and only 1 of their 4 employees was able to speak English well, the others were speaking "Franglais" or only French. All in all this hotel is THE WORST HOTEL I ever stayed in from all my travels in Europe and I strongly recommend to everyone never to stay there.
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Close to metro, good breakfast, in room available tea, coffee and water boiler, wi-fi connection is good.
from the bathroom came smell which was caused by curtains in the bath.
Good location, 7 mins to the metro and close to the moter way. The water boiler is very helpful to make some fresh tea and coffee. Clean & comfort bedding.
The staff was friendly, but was not very helpful when I asked whether I can a needle & thread to sow up my dropped button. said they don't have such a thing and she's new here
Its really great staying there, great staff, good location, and comfort
cold egg for breakfast
sickening food overpriced breakfast loud rooms uncomfortable bed far from the city centre
the room still had the smell of the last client
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le personnel était tres aimable! et les chambres tres propres!
La gentillesse et la disponibilité du personnel.
le personnel sympa - et proche de la gare de lyon
la proximité - les petits lits
La propreté générale de la chambre et des draps en particulier Le personnel d'etage bruillant, non poli et ignorant le client 10€ pour un petit dej: très mauvais rapport qualité prix Pas d'eau chaude à 23h pour une douche Nous avons eu froid dans la chambre + sdb Hotel 3* qui n'en vaut qu'une
La télévision,la baignoire,le style de la chambre.l'emplacement bien desservie par rapport aux métros.
Manque de linge de toilettes (gants de toilettes,gel douche)
Literie TB, Accueil très pro, calme. Prix très raisonnable aux portes de Paris
La moquette trouée à l'entrée de la chambre est peu engageante
Le parking a12 euros par jour
L'équipement des chambres avec la bouilloire et la sympathie du personnel (hôtelier mais aussi de restauration)
Le bruit des touristes étrangers à 6h du matin
De ligging en parkeren onder het Hotel, dichtbij metro-station. Engels sprekend personeel.
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Is G-d Really Loving?
by Reb Gutman Locks @ Mystical Paths
A Reader Wrote:
If you show me that G-d is truly benevolent, I'll love you forever.
Gutman's Answer:
If you would ask me, "Why did G-d create the world?" I would say, "To have someone to love." But that's just my way of looking at things. Some down-and-out people would say that He did it just to have someone to "beat on." This argument has been going on since Adam (the first man) was thrown out of the Garden.
But the Zohar tells us that, just like did G-d put man (Adam) in the Garden then, so does He put man in the Garden now, when he busies himself withteshuva (repentance), Torah, and mitzvahs.[i] The Zohar is telling us that this is a world of unimaginable beauty, of awesome ongoing wonders, of opportunities to grow and to give. The deeper you look at creation, the more amazed you become.
But what about the horrible things that we see going on in the world? Yes, they are happening. You see, we have a major problem here. G-d wants us to have free will, and then, after we exercise our free will, He gives back to us according to our actions. It's like a huge, free restaurant. You can order anything you want, but you have to eat whatever you order.
At first, He created a world like you would really love... only goodness… no sins… just angels. Angels do not have free will, so they do exactly what they were programmed to do. And G-d sat back and watched His magnificent, well-behaved angels go through their steps, always exactly as G-d wanted, always holy, and in tune with G-d's perfect will. But you know what happened? G-d looked at that world and said, "You're nice, I like you, but you're boring." So G-d created a world with man, and man is unique among all of the creation. Man has free will. He can do good, or he can do bad.
Now, if this is too "romantic" an answer for you, look at the word "love" in Hebrew. It has a numerical value of 13. So does the word "One." We can learn from this, when you love something you are somehow one with it. G-d is One, and He is All, and His Name equals love.
If that is too far-fetched an answer for you, let's try a logical answer. For every bad thing that happens in the world (and to you), there are hundreds, no, there are many thousands of good things happening. But those who cannot see G-d's love, see the bad things and ignore the good things. Why do that? In my life I am so, so thankful to be alive, and every day gets better. But, I didn't feel this way before I found out what we are supposed to be doing around here.
A young man came by for Shabbos last week and asked, "Last time I was here, a year ago, you told me that the main things that you have to do are, 'Be happy when you do a mitzvah,' and 'bring other Jews to do the same.' Has anything changed?"
"Nope" I answered. I was right, too. Do these things, and you will see that G-d is entirely loving--because you will be loving.
The examples of G-d's kindness are literally endless, but you have to look at things kindly to see them. For instance, the Torah forbids plowing with an ox and a donkey when they are yoked together.[ii] One of the reasons for this is that to harness them together would be unkind to the weaker animal. Well, if G-d has love and pity for His animals, how much more so does He have love and pity for His people?
G-d said to us, "You shall be holy because I am holy."[iii] An earthly king does not want to share his regal status with his subjects. He jealously reserves such things for himself so the kingdom will be in awe of him and respect him. G-d loves us so much that He says, "Come share in My holiness. Come be like Me."
If you look at the negative side of things, you will come to ask your kind of question. When you look at the positive side of things, you will answer it the way I did.
Have a great day. Really, it's a holy opportunity to experience love.
[i] Zohar 21a
[ii] Deuteronomy 22:10
[iii] Leviticus 11:44
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- Anonymous said...
very nice piece . difference between man with yetzer and angels with zohar piece thrown in . I find it intresting that the loftiest tzaddikim made amulets and kamias like chaim vital rashash arizl besht or hachaim ramez etc . A kamia is an attempt to put man back in touch with gan eden when made correctely .
- March 21, 2011 3:21 PM
- Anonymous said...
the ? is God really loving depends on us , our perspective more then his . If one were to "really" feel God loved him that man could work miracles it says many places in kabbalistic literature.
- March 21, 2011 3:25 PM
- yaakov said...
you showed us the key when you wrote: look at things "kindly".
thank you! - March 28, 2011 6:30 AM


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The Herald's Top 10
1. Palma: Being humbled makes you hungry.
2. Salinas: Facing a Terra Nova squad that beat Pioneer.
3. San Benito: Had a week off to heal a few injuries.
4. Monterey: Has allowed just seven points all season.
5. Seaside: This can be a dangerous team if it eliminates the mistakes.
6. Carmel: Connor Marden has not thrown an interception in 60 attempts.
7. Alisal: Has won three in a row for the first time since 2006.
8. Monte Vista: Is averaging 58.2 points through three games.
9. North County: Defense has allowed just two touchdownsl.
10. Pacific Grove: Off to its first 2-0 start in five years.
Teams that dropped out: Watsonville.
Game of the Week
At Seaside High, 7:30 p.m. Palma (1-1) at Seaside (2-0).
Quick hits
Seaside vs. Palma facts
· The Chieftains haven't dropped a regular season road game since falling 34-33 to Cardinal Newman in 2008 — a streak that has stretched to 18 games. Two of those wins came against Seaside.
· Coming off a loss to St. Joseph-Santa Maria, Palma hasn't dropped two straight games since 2003 when it fell to De La Salle and Serra.
· Seaside played Palma to a 21-21 tie in 2009, en route to capturing its second Central Coast Section Divisional title in four years. Last fall the Chieftains ran off with a 42-6 win over Seaside.
· The Chieftains have gone to the postseason 28 straight years. Last year Seaside missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
· Palma will be without starting linebacker/tight end Alex Rodoni, who broke his leg in last week's loss to St. Joseph. One of Seaside's offensive linemen is still nursing a sore knee.
· Quarterback Michael Turner threw for 368 yards last week for the Spartans, tossing four touchdown passes to four receivers, including his brother Ronnie.
· Palma gave up more than 300 yards on the ground last week for the first time since 2007 when Del La Salle did it.
Friday's games
All games at 7:30 p.m.
Palma at Seaside
Monterey at Pacific Grove
North County at Alvarez
Santa Cruz vs. North Salinas at Salinas Sports Complex.
Monte Vista at King City
Alisal at Aptos
Thurgood Marshall at Gonzales
Greenfield at Mission Prep
Salinas at Terra Nova
Saturday's games
All games at 2 p.m. unless noted.
Marina at Harbor
St. Francis at Stevenson
Byes: Carmel, Soledad,
Junior College Hartnell at Contra Costa
Los Medanos at MPC, 6 p.m.
Friday night lights: Keep up with the scores by following John Devine on twitter @johnjdevine.


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Kwacoco Bible
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7 people
1kg of macabo cocoyams
3 banaleafs (warmed in the sun or fire) (for wrapping)
200 grams of crayfish (around 1 cup)
500 grams of dried (boneless) fish (depending on taste)
1 tablespoon of mixed green spices (leaks, parsley, celery, cumanju)
1 teaspoon of ginger
1 big onion
5 cubes of maggi vegetable stock
10 tablespoons of red palm oil
1 tablespoon of salt
1 teaspoon of ground garlic
4 slices of soft coco leafs
0.25L of water (for mixing)
Clean the cocoyams with cold water and grate them.
Put all ingredients (except the banana leafs) in a medium sized pot and mix them together with a spoon.
Put the banana leafs flat on a plate and put a small quantity of the mixed coco inside it. Now wrap the leaves around the coco mixture in the shape of a bible.
Make 1 banana leaf wrap per person, so 7 in total. When done put all the coco wraps inside a flat pot.
Put the pot on the fire and add a cup of water.
Cover the pot for 10 minutes, after that add 1 liter of water.
When the water has evaporated the kwacoco will be done and can be removed from the pot.
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Note: you can keep the kwacoco for a maximum of 3 days.
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Actual Conversation With Wyatt This Morning
- Wyatt:Papa, you are a dragon and we are knights and we are going to fight you.
- Me:This dragon needs his coffee first... Hey, what if I'm a nice dragon?
- Wyatt:We will still fight you.
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If you're going to colonise a planet you need to make sure no-one's going to argue with you, and if someone's living there who thinks being 'first' means being 'right' you need to bring them round to your point of view!
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This Monthly Award is
"For the woman who takes risks, feels the fear, but does it anyway"
Ash Ambirge is the owner of The Middle Finger Project
Her Website and consulting business is about guts.
The guts to live up to your potential
The guts to do work that matters
And the guts to get out there & create something you're proud to call your own
Website http://www.themiddlefingerproject.org/
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Here is the story of Ash's Courage
Ash has been an incredible inspiration for me starting my own graphic design business. Her blog weekly delivers a strong kick in the butt to do my best work, quit whining and stay dedicated fully to ultimately live the life I have always dreamed of -
1. Do you remember the moment you decided to take the leap into owning your own business? How did it feel and what was it that made you take the leap?
Well, the first time I went into entrepreneurship was in 2006 after I quit my job in marketing – a decision I made primarily because I realized at a young age the precious value of life and its fleeting tendencies, and I couldn't stand to spend my life doing something I wasn't 100% engaged with. In a way, it was selfish of me, and it still is. But then again, they say that the best entrepreneurs have a bit of healthy arrogance. :) Anyway, at the time, I felt naively confident, and just certain that the universe would reciprocate. Turns out, I was overly confident, and I ended up broke and had to return to 9-5.
The second time I started my business, it just grew organically without my trying. I intended on just starting a side business, but ultimately I was so successful with it that I transitioned into full-time. That's probably what I'd recommend to anyone thinking about going into business for themselves right now.


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Time: July 15, 2012 from 7:45am to 11:30am
Location: Prices Bakery cnr The Grove and Golden Way's
Website or Map: http://www.bikemap.net/route/…
Event Type: social, group, ride
Organised By: Gemma B
Latest Activity: Jul 15, 2012
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Start/Finish: Prices Bakery cnr The Grove and Golden Way's 5125
Meet at car park of Prices Fresh Bakery Golden Grove at 7:45am for safety briefing for 8am roll-out.
Route: GG to Outer Harbour - 63km - mostly flat with a kicker hill back up to GG
The Grove Way
Golden Grove Rd
Montague Rd
Churchill Rd Nrth
Cormack Rd
Kapara Rd
Bedford St
Eastern Pde
Francis St
Port River Expressway
Victoria Rd
Lady Gowrie Drive
Semaphore Rd
Port River Expressway
Francis St
Eastern Pde
Bedford St
Kapara Rd
Cormak Rd
Churchill Rd Nrth
Montague Rd
Bridge Rd
Wynn Vale Drive (for Roger!)
The Golden Way
Will plan re-group spots and will have dedicated TECs that ensure no one is left behind. The regroup spots allow everyone to go at their own pace - never pressure on the slower riders.
We will be following the guidelines outlined in the .pdf here: http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/group/gully-grinders-north-east-cyclists/page/gully-grinders-group-ride-guidelines
This is a social group ride, all are welcome to join. Please RSVP on this event page.
Group page is here: http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/group/gully-grinders-north-east-cyclists
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Legs very tired after today's GW hills ride - want to ride with GG again and thinking we will join you somewhere on the route (thinking of cnr Montague and Mawson Lakes Blvd) - if we are not there don't feel obliged to wait.
Note to self, Dont stop at the Train Station Head to Roundabout. I'lll be there if no hail.
I have put myself down as an attendee - and I will attend unless it's really hissing with rain at 7-30 when I'll be due to commence the long mountainous ride up from Cobbler Creek.
been a bit slack on the early starts of late if it is not to wet and miserable might join you enroute again
No worries Terry, glad to hear that you are well. Take it easy mate!
Hopefully I'll get out to this ride even just to pester John Mills if he attends LMAO...
Oh and thanks guys for the well wishes from you all over the past few days. Lifted my spirits no end... No I didnt drink any :) although I was tempted to have a Scotch.
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MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. - Just days before learning his fate for raping a woman, a Pacific Grove businessman is charged with rape again. On Wednesday, the Monterey County District Attorney filed new charges against convicted rapist and registered sex offender Thomas Pollacci. Pollacci already faced 8 years behind bars; if he's convicted on these new charges he could spend another 24 years in prison.
Central Coast New found out Wednesday, Pollacci faces three more rape charges for raping two women. The alleged attacks happened in April 2007 and the Fall of 2008. A few weeks ago, a jury convicted him for raping a woman in April 2008. That means one of the new alleged attacks happened after the rape he was just convicted of. During Pollacci's three week trial, several women came forward and testified the registered sex offender raped them too. However, at the time Pollacci was only on trial for raping a woman in his family's liquor store in 2008. Pollacci pled guilty to sexual battery in 1992.
Wednesday night, Central Coast News tried to talk about the new charges with Pollacci's attorneys, but was told they aren't going to comment until they read through all the new charges.
Monterey County District Attorney Dean D. Flippo announced Wednesday that Thomas Pollacci, age 50, of Pebble Beach is scheduled to be arraigned on June 3, 2010 on three counts of forcible rape involving two victims.
Pollacci is charged with the rape of Jane Doe #1 in April 2007 and the rape of Jane Doe #2 which occurred twice in the fall of 2008. If convicted of all three counts, Pollacci faces a possible sentence of 24 years in state prison.
Pollacci had previously been convicted by a jury of rape on April 26, after a three week trial. Sentencing for that crime is scheduled for June 4, 2010 at 8:45 a.m. before Judge Russell Scott. Pollacci faces a possible sentence of eight years state prison for that crime.


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Tinnitus Research Uncovers Helpful Solutions Such As These
Tinnitus Research: Census
It іѕ surprising tο learn a tinnitus research hοw many suffer frοm tinnitus – especially whеn уου аrе thе one affected. Recent estimates note thаt unevenly 22,700,000 American adults hаνе gone through thіѕ fοr a period longer thаn 90 days. Sіnсе ten percent οr ѕο οf American adults hаνе suffered frοm thіѕ ailment, knowing thаt research continues іѕ comforting tο know. Whаt hаѕ research uncovered ѕο far?
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Finally, tinnitus research іѕ continuing tο look аt ways tο reset whаt іѕ known аѕ thе tonotopic map – whісh refers tο thе areas οf thе brain thаt respond tο different frequencies οf signal. Similar frequencies аrе responded tο bу similar areas οf thе brain, аnd research indicates thаt neurologists mау bе аblе tο hеlр thе brain re-systematize thіѕ neurological map.
Thе brain hаѕ bееn publicized tο re-systematize thе tonotopic map аftеr thе ears hаνе bееn exposed tο severe levels οf noise. Thіѕ hаѕ given knowledge thе thουght thаt methods саn bе developed tο accurately hеlр thе brain return tο normal, аnd thus dο away wіth thе ringing signal.
Although tinnitus іѕ nοt a life-threatening disorder, іt саn adversely affect thе quality οf life οf persons whο аrе suffering frοm іt. Thе constant ringing саn lead tο a poor attitude οr mаkе work nearly impossible tο accomplish. Thankfulness tο tinnitus research thаt іѕ being carried out, treatment options аrе οn thе horizon.


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'Transformers 3' continues filming on Wacker this weekend
Cars litter a service road as "Transformers 3" filming continues next to the railway lines south of the Art Institute. View more "Transformers 3" pictures. (Alex Garcia, Chicago Tribune / July 28, 2010)
Upper Wacker Drive between Wabash Avenue and State Street will be closed for "Transformers 3" filming from 8 p.m. on Friday through 5 a.m. on Monday. Wabash will be closed for filming between Wacker and Lake Street during that same period of time.
What can you expect? Well, some security guards will let you take pictures and some won't (would you guys make up your mind?). But besides that, I hear there will be gunfire, fireballs, explosions and smoke. Helicopters will be shooting the action sporadically from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.


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How to deal with a cheating husband
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hotklixed More than a Year Ago! Sixty percent of men have love affairs outside wedlock, and eighty percent of men would like to. We give these disturbing statistics to make it clear that you are not the only one whos been cheated on.
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