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Before heading to a Tri-Delta event at a bar in Ithaca, a now 20-year-old Doe drank vodka at her sorority house “until she was intoxicated,” the complaint said.

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The bar’s bouncer marked an “X” on each of her hands to signify she was under 21 but she was still served at least one drink inside, the suit says.

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Doe left the second bar alone and walked to the Chi Phi fraternity house to see a friend

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“When Plaintiff arrived at XI CHAPTER’s fraternity house, Plaintiff was visibly intoxicated as she had consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past 3 hours,” the complaint says. Inside, the suit alleges, the friend gave Doe a beer

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the friend and another fraternity member allegedly pressured Doe into snorting a substance they described as ketamine and gave her more alcohol

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Doe said she remembered consuming a “heavy amount” of ketamine, smoking marijuana and having “various things” poured on her body. She said she initially agreed to having drugs consumed off her body while feeling “extremely tired” but “couldn’t tell what they were pouring on me,” WCBS reports, citing the transcript.

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“I felt like due to my intoxication, they should have known how intoxicated I was based on how I was slurring my words,” the statement reads.

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This is maddening, for so many reasons. Ladies, you have agency over your own bodies. Period. Don't slam alcohol and head by yourself to a frat house, do a bunch of drugs, and then blame the guys for not knowing how drunk/high you were. By this logic, the guys were also drunk/high and couldn't make decisions either. It sounds like the guy who sent the text was also drunk/high. My eyeballs need a bath after reading this story.

I have to recommend Parrot Mountain as an option. It's a tropical bird sanctuary and nursery where your kids can feed and hold tons of birds. It was recommended to us and wound up being one of the highlights of the trip for our kids.

Parrot Mountain & Gardens

What everyone else has said so far is spot on. Lots of easy hikes and strolls and beautiful scenery. Have fun!

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If a tiger walks into your backyard, anxiety is considerably more useful than mindfulness. The problem is when the alarm keeps going off and there isn't a tiger.

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The problem is modern man doesn't have enough tigers, so we internalize minor inconveniences as threats, when even 100 years ago these things wouldn't even register because people were just trying to stay alive each day. These people didn't even have penicillin. Now we sit around and ponder every aspect of our lives and create tigers where they don't exist.

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Incredible, complete utter failure of our public school system.

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I agree with you in part, but if we look at how humans acquire language, it's a much harder job than it should be in certain areas. Babies are literal sponges of information, and there is a high correlation between not only the quality and depth of words being said around a child but also the sheer number of books in a home. In short, educated parents who utilize elevated vocabulary around their children create humans primed to learn to read when the time comes.

In addition, parents who read tend to have children who read. We started reading to our children once they could sit up. These were just board books, of course, learning animals and colors, but it eventually moved into stories. Our kids had hundreds of books read to them by the time they entered pre-k.

On the flip side, it's important to realize that the public schools are required to teach every child. The dregs of every society still get together and make babies. A child growing up with one parent (or grandma, aunt, etc.) in a crack house is going to have a much harder time. That, in my opinion, falls squarely on the parents.

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It’s a foundational tenet of our judicial system. It’s a tough one for sure. But you can also think of it less as trying to get a guilty person off and more of making sure the state meets their burden of proof. It’s a check on the government.

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Absolutely. The people who didn't follow the trial and want her buried under the prison are as bad as the pink sweater chicks who think she's innocent because of her hormones.

I went into this trial thinking she was likely guilty. During the testimony, a different picture came to light at the hands of the defense and the prosecution, to include inconsistencies in Patrick's own version of the events.

The truth is Lindsay was never questioned the night of the murders because she physically couldn't speak and was nearly dead. She woke up after several days in a coma handcuffed to a hospital bed and informed of what she had done. The police took Patrick's 45-minute absence from the house as a solid alibi and ran with it despite it being completely plausible for him to have done most of it before he left the house. The "facts" in this case don't gee-haw.

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I'm now hearing on the ground reports that THE smoking gun is fake Xanax

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This is what I've heard all day, but it could be the rumor mill, as usual. I've also heard 5 students from sources unrelated to each other down to where they were found, so it's hard to tell what's real and what's not.

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That environment was quite possibly one of the most hostile you could ever draw up. Put your pride away.. that environment was on par or maybe better than some of the loudest TS games in our history. You had their entire state from fans to the damn governor there yelling with hatred. Not to mention we had to face a 24 year old kid who is in the midst of a heisman like season.

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Correct. OM was out for blood in a way I have never seen, and our boys looked down right rattled. OM got in their heads bad at first and they couldn't get a groove. No excuses, obviously, but clearly they remembered who they were 2nd half.

I pay for Claude for and use the free version of ChatGPT. The free version of Claude is fine, but you run out of tokens quickly. If you use it a lot, that gets annoying fast.

We had to do it a few months ago, and it always surprises me how much it hurts. I mostly held it together at the vet, but the moment we walked in our house and she wasn't there, I bawled like a baby and then cried again every day for weeks. Dang, I'm tearing up even typing this.

Dogs are the gift we really don't deserve, but God gave them to us anyway. Our bond with them is such a treasure. I'm sorry for your loss, for sure. Getting another dog is a blessing, and dealing with a wild puppy makes it better (ask me how I know.)