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HowTo: Windows XP PPTP VPN Setup
Setting up ItsVPN! access under Windows XP is simple. The following instructions go step-by-step through the creation process.
Open Network Connections
First, open the Network Connections by going to the Start Menu and selecting Settings->Network Connections. It may also be located in Settings->Control Panel->Network Connections.
When your control panel opens, double–click on Network and Dial–Up Connections.
Start Connection Wizard
When the Network Connections folder opens, double–click on New Connection Wizard. You should see the New Connection Wizard screen. Click the Next button to continue.
Select The Connection Type
Next, select Connect to the network at my workplace and click the Next button.
Select The Connection
Next, select Virtual Private Network connection and click the Next button.
Enter The Company Name
On this screen, type ItsVPN.com for the Company Name and click the Next button.
Set auto-connect
On this screen, click Do not dial the initial connection and click the Next button. (if you have to dial-up to connect to the internet select Automatically dial this initial connection: and select the connection you want to use)
Type in the name or the IP address of a HideIpVPN server. Check the info on your ItsVPN! account page. There you will find the available server(s).
Then click the Next button.
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Connect To ItsVPN!
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By Sigge Eklund
Meet Åsa, the desperately grieving mother trying everything to find her daughter and connect with the psychy of the person who took her.
…And Martin, the unfaithful husband, suspected of abducting his own daughter.
Who is Tom? A close colleague of Martin's or a obsessed stalker trying everything in his power to gain his heroes approval.
Where does Katja fit in? Is she an innocent school nurse or the keeper of a dark secret waiting to get out.
In the author's capable hands, these four voices are skilfully interwoven to give readers the clues to the story behind the abduction of a beoved daughter. Here, Eklund combines his proven talent for creating complex characters with his storytelling experience from Hollywood. The result is a pageturning thriller that will haunt its readers for years.
First published by Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014
292 pages
Australia & New Zeeland, The Five Mile Press
Brazil, Editorial Record
Bulgaria, Colibri
Chinese (complex characters), Crown Publishing
Czech Republic, Brana Publishing
Denmark, Politiken
France, Piranha
Germany, Dumont
Italy, Marsilio Editore
Japan, Hayakawa
Norway, Schibsted
The Netherlands, Meridiaan Uitgevers
Poland, PWN
Sweden, Albert Bonnier
"Into the Labyrinth's" prose exhibits an uncommon level of clarity and precision in its description. This enhances the chilling effect of the character's psychology Eklund reveals through his multi first-person narrative. It also gives the reader confidence that whatever shocking secrets lie ahead, the journey is one well worth taking
Sigge Eklund's "Into the Labyrinth" is sophisticated without seeming so — a deeply unsettling and compelling psychological thriller, that leaves much for readers to ponder about their own lives.
The novel is both dense and dramatic. The feelings are as powerful as in a play of Lars Norén, the characters are as depressed and desperate as in Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage". But this is no play. It is clearly a coherent novel, concise and precise and carefully packaged so that nothing gets lost.
Sigge Eklund isn't just meticulous in planning his novel –linguistically he is also exact. Some parts are incredibly dense, written in an effective staccato. The book clocks in at under 300 pages but counting what is written between the line you probably get twice that. A colder author would have been satisfied just making "Into The Labyrinth" a smart construction. Sigge Eklund however, has filled his creation to the breaking point with flesh, blood and uncomfortable feelings.
Sydsvenskan, Maria G Franck
It holds everything that people love to pay for today: an ingenious crime story, smart references to topical contemporary issues, vivid portrayals of Bromma [a Stockholm suburb], successful people whose lives fall apart after a terrible crime and a dark past catches up to the self-satisfied characters and shakes up their orderly existence.
"Into The Labyrinth" is an intelligent, well-composed and impossible to put down
Svenska Dagbladet, Isabelle Ståhl
It is a technically complex thing that Eklund has put together and I can absolutely admire the craftsmanship here. The fable in it self is suspenseful (a child has gone missing!) and the shifting perspectives relativizes the characters, damasking their false sense of self. Disharmony in the best way.
Expressen, Victor Malm
This thriller is super well written, the narrative is extremely well structured, (…) with a very deep understanding of the human psyche.
Stina, http://krimifan.dk/groups/ind-i-labyrinten-af-sigge-eklund/
These are ingredients in a novel that wants to say something about the educated people with middleclass jobs and all the possibilities for a good life in a time where self-absorption erodes the soul. It is not an irrelevant problem, nor is there anything wrong with finding your intrigue amongst the press clippings, authors have been doing this since the dawn of magazines, and Sigge Eklund writes well.
Dagens Nyheter, Ingrid Elam

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As each new week brings me more work to stress over, I'm amazed at how nearsighted my life becomes. In the days preceding assignments, I'm constantly triaging which of my classes needs my attention and which assignments can be distributed over a period of multiple days. However, after each due date passes and exam is taken, my focus is onto the next assignment- it's as if those recent short-term worries never existed. I'm too busy obsessing over the next hurdle to think about anything else.
After a few more months of these observations, my fixations on the little things have made one thing clear: it's hard, yet beneficial to see the bigger picture. As a senior applying to college, I know that I can reduce the stress of the college application process by recognizing the impact my future college will have on my life- it's not a make-or-break factor for success. The benefit of seeing the bigger picture can also be applied to other areas of our lives. To produce the many stories that you see on our website, the first step is always landing an interview. Unfortunately, this is much easier said than done; it can take up to 5-10 rejections to our interview requests before we meet an entrepreneur willing to interview. To get us through the constant rejection, we simply ignore it- our focus is fixated on interviewing those who say "yes." After talking with many successful entrepreneurs, I've also noticed that a common trend among them: they all see the bigger picture. They outsource tasks when their time is better spent on more important priorities and are always making business decisions based off of their central vision.
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Supreme Court Rules Human Genes Cannot Be Patented
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that isolated human genes cannot be patented. It's a semi-defeat for Myriad Genetics, a company that holds patents on two genes associated with an increased hereditary risk for breast and ovarian cancer, BCRA-1 and BCRA-2. The company was awarded patents on the isolated genes and diagnostic methods back in the 1990s, and claims to have helped nearly one million people learn more about their risk for cancers since then.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the unanimous court that, "Myriad did not invent the BRCA genes and should not control them. Because of this ruling, patients will have greater access to genetic testing and scientists can engage in research on these genes without fear of being sued."
The ruling is a huge breakthrough for medical innovation, as researchers can now test on these genes without fear of being sued. It will also improve access and lower costs of testing for patients. The technology for these types of tests has been around for some time, its only limit being the patent protection on the gene itself. Now, companies will have more freedom to offer affordable testing and may even manufacture tests that look for genetic mutations tied to a variety of other diseases.
The Court's ruling may technically be a defeat for Myriad Genetics, but the company claims to be in good shape. President and CEO, Peter Meldrum, stated in a press release that the company "believe[s] the Court appropriately upheld our claims on cDNA, and underscored the patent eligibility of our method claims, ensuring strong intellectual property protection for our BRACAnalysis test moving forward. More than 250,000 patients rely upon our BRACAnalysis test annually, and we remain focused on saving and improving peoples' lives and lowering overall healthcare costs."
Myriad lost five patents on the genes as a result of the ruling, but still has 500 claims in 24 different patents related to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that are "valid and enforceable." Click here to read the Supreme Court's full ruling.


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June 10, 2010
RE: Regulation of Commodities Futures Markets in the Reconciliation of the Financial Reform Bill
Dear Members of the Reconciliation Committee conference:
As you are well aware, in the momentous work ahead of you in reconciling the House and Senate versions of the Financial Reform Bill, probably the most contentious issue outstanding will be how to regulate the markets for derivatives. The undersigned members of the Economists' Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER) want to express our strong support for comprehensive derivatives regulation, including: Section 716 of the Senate bill, separating swaps desks from bank holding companies (with significant penalties for rule violations); strong anti-manipulation authority; strict position limits on commodity derivatives; and no systemically significant exceptions for particular industries and activities. In other words, we support a tight version of the Senate bill, which goes further than the House bill to promote stable derivatives markets that can effectively promote the well-being of consumers, farmers and other producers in the U.S. and throughout the globe.
Financial market derivatives include many of the esoteric Wall Street inventions that led to the near collapse of the U.S. and global financial system in 2008-09, including subprime mortgage-backed securities and credit default swaps. Other types of derivatives include what had once been plain-vanilla options and future contracts for commodities such as oil and food, which farmers and others have long relied on to help maintain stability in their business operations and plan for the future. But deregulation that began in 2000 with the so-called "Enron loophole" encouraged hyper-speculative activities by market players who had no interest in the underlying physical commodities being traded. This produced severe price swings for both oil and food in 2008-09 that destabilized business and household budgets in the U.S. and throughout the world. This experience led Gary Gensler, the Chair of the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) to observe at his February 25, 2009 Senate confirmation hearing that "I believe that increased speculation in energy and agricultural products has hurt farmers and consumers." The huge run up in food prices in mid-2008 also created a worldwide food emergency, causing about 130 million people in the developing world to face malnourishment as a result, according to a study by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Of course, the first issue at hand for your Committee must be: what regulations of the derivative markets are needed to prevent a repeat of the 2008-09 financial market disaster? But we believe that your Committee also needs to give careful attention to the question of how to return the commodities futures market to its proper role of promoting price stability for consumers, farmers, and other producers.
The version of the bill that passed in the Senate goes further than the House bill in reaching this goal. The Senate bill would require most standard derivatives to be traded on regulated exchanges, as opposed to unregulated, freewheeling over-the-counter (OTC) markets. It also imposes capital reserve requirements and business conduct rules on the most highly speculative derivatives, such as credit default swaps, and, in Section 716, prohibits banks that benefit from government deposit insurance, subsidies and bailouts from operating as swap dealers altogether. The House version contains comparable measures, but also includes a longer list of exceptions, including no prohibition on subsidies and bailouts for swap dealing banks.
The Senate bill is also stronger in a host of other areas. For example, the Senate bill narrows major loopholes in the House bill that exempt foreign exchange derivatives. The CFTC estimates that 90 percent of the derivatives market would be covered under the Senate version of the bill but only 60 percent under the House bill. Other provisions in the Senate bill that are stronger than in the House include: stronger fiduciary duty on swap dealers dealing with government entities and pension funds, stronger whistleblower protections, and provisions allowing regulators to prosecute persons who knowingly or with reckless disregard use false or misleading information to affect the price of any commodity such as food or oil.
The Senate version itself may also include major loopholes, especially, as Senator Cantwell of Washington has emphasized, the possibility that credit default and other swap market traders would face no punishment if they ignore the requirement that their deals be conducted in a transparent way through an organized clearinghouse. Such loopholes need to be closed in the reconciliation conference.
We know from recent experience that the U.S. government is capable of establishing and implementing largely effective regulation of the commodities futures market. Until 2000, the regulations guiding the CFTC—including oversight of clearinghouses, significant capital requirements for the clearinghouses, margin requirements for traders, and limits on the total amount of trading that any market participant could control—were reasonably successful at restraining commodity price volatility. But 2000 brought the so-called "Enron loophole," exempting over-the-counter energy trading undertaken on electronic exchanges from CFTC oversight and regulation. Enron quickly seized this market opportunity to create an artificial electricity shortage in California in 2000-01, which led to multiple blackouts and a state of emergency, and, finally, the collapse of Enron itself and its once-Big-Five accounting firm, Arthur Andersen.
Despite this experience, in the aftermath of the Enron debacle, the big market players subsequently exploited similar major loopholes—the "London loophole" for nominally foreign market trading and the "swap dealer loopholes," which permitted all swap trading to move into OTC markets. The overall effect was to enable the OTC markets to flourish alongside the regulated markets. In the OTC market, a period of rising prices can much more freely feed on itself to create a bubble, since upward price momentum is not restrained by trading limits or the need to the need to meet capital requirements or margin calls. This is the overall situation analyzed in the important 2006 Senate Staff Report, "The Role of Market Speculation in Rising Oil and Gas Prices: A Need to Put the Cop Back on the Beat."
By the end of 2007, the value of the unregulated commodities contracts had hit around $9 trillion, which was estimated to be more than twice that of the contracts on regulated exchanges. The impact of deregulation on commodities prices was dramatic. A 2009 study by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development reports that "the price boom between 2002 and mid-2008 was the most pronounced in several decades—in magnitude, duration and breadth." Just starting from the full year of 2006, the average price of crude oil on global commodity markets rose by 71 percent by mid-2008, before collapsing by 60 percent over the next six months. Similarly, the average price of a broad basket of food products rose by 43 percent on global commodity markets, before dropping by 23 percent over the next six months. Such major price swings are continuing up to the present.
Everyone in the U.S. recalls the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 a gallon at the pump. What brought gas prices back down quickly was the global financial collapse, leading to the severe recession, which in turn burst the global oil price bubble. If the economy does start recovering strongly out of the 2008-09 recession, and if, at that time, speculative commodity traders can still find ways to readily operate outside of CFTC oversight, we should not be surprised to see a rapid return to gasoline prices of $4.00 or higher at the pump.
Relative to the oil price spike, the impact of global food price volatility on U.S. consumers was less harsh. But the effects of food price volatility on U.S. farmers were severe. Of course, farmers like high food prices just as much as consumers like low prices. But wild swings in global market food prices makes it extremely difficult for farmers to manage their businesses.
Still, the most severely impacted victims of commodity price volatility are people in developing countries, where it is common for families to spend 50 percent or more of their total income on food. It is therefore no surprise that, as the U.N. study found, the 40 percent rise in average food prices in mid-2008 led to malnourishment for 130 million people. This food price spike also generated food riots and political instability in 33 developing countries at that time. Low-income people in developing countries have been further hammered by the fact that, even with global food prices falling sharply from their mid-2008 peak, they are still today, on average, about 20 percent higher than they were in 2006.
We should recognize that reinstating a viable set of regulations will not, by itself, ensure stable commodity futures markets. Even if an effective regulatory regime does emerge now from your reconciliation conference, these laws still must also be enforced. This means that the CFTC must be adequately staffed. Moreover, the staffers must be people committed to enforcing the letter and spirit of the new system. But the first step to reviving safe and stable commodities futures markets—that is, to bringing cops back on the beat in these crucial markets—will be to pass a legally tight version of the Senate's Financial Reform bill.
Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William Black, University of Missouri, Kansas City
James Campen, Americans for Fairness in Lending
James Crotty, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jane D'Arista, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gerald Epstein, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston & Roosevelt Institute
James Galbraith, University of Texas, Austin
Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research
Ilene Grabel, University of Denver
Stephany Griffith-Jones, Columbia University
Robert Guttmann, Hofstra University
James Kwak, Baseline Scenario
Michael Meeropol, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jennifer Taub, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Martin Wolfson, University of Notre Dame


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Telehealth visits for chronically ill patients have advantages compared to in-person visits such as providing visibility of patients' home environment.
For healthcare providers, telehealth is an opportunity to generate revenue and boost the quality of care when working with chronically ill patients, a chief transformation officer says.
Telehealth visits can drive value for chronically ill patients. Telehealth visits are not only more convenient for chronically ill patients than in-person visits, they also are far less expensive than a trip to the emergency room.
"Instead of going to the emergency room for an unneeded visit and a very large charge, patients can get on a telehealth platform and speak to either a physician or a nurse who bills through their insurance. Providers can bill through an evaluation and management code such as a 99213," says Janice Coffin, DO, a practicing family medicine physician and chief transformation officer at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University.
Conducting telehealth visits with chronically ill patients generates five primary revenue opportunities for physician practices, Coffin says.
- In value-based contracts, telehealth and remote monitoring for patients with chronic conditions enables physicians to achieve quality of care goals and lower unnecessary readmissions, which results in higher incentive payments
- Chronically ill patients with concerning health conditions can schedule a telehealth visit with their primary care physician rather than going to an emergency room or urgent care center
- During the coronavirus pandemic, chronically ill patients who are reluctant to schedule in-person visits are more likely to schedule telehealth visits
- Partnering with a chronic care services company that uses remote monitoring and telehealth provides a steady stream of revenue
- With telehealth, primary care practices and specialty physicians can reach out to chronically ill patients who are overdue for physicals or follow-up visits
"With the rules changing and Medicare giving a lot more leniency in terms of reimbursement for telehealth visits, now physicians can get reimbursed the same amount of dollars for a telehealth visit without having to bring patients into the office," says Debbie Fisher, chief operating officer for Augusta, Georgia-based NavCare, which provides chronic care management services to Augusta University.
There are five primary best practices for conducting telehealth visits with chronically ill patients, Fisher says.
- As is the case with in-person visits, clinicians conducting telehealth visits should use situation, background, assessment, and recommendations (SBAR) or other standard tools to document clinical assessments
- Clinicians should have a checklist for social determinants of health and the home environment, including an assessment of food in the home and checking for fall risks
- Recommendations to the patient should include a plan of care for clinicians or a chronic care management team to follow up appropriately
- After a telehealth visit, clinical protocols should be provided to remote patient monitoring or chronic care management teams, so that care and interventions can occur timely and appropriately
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Having visibility of a patient's home environment during a telehealth visit is advantageous compared to in-person visits, Coffin says.
"Patients can go into their kitchen and show me what they are eating. They can show me what medications and what dosages they are taking by putting their bottles upto their device camera. There is a lot of information that can be obtained when a patient does a telehealth visit because they are in their own living environment, which gives providers a better overall picture of the patient."
Christopher Cheney is the senior clinical care editor at HealthLeaders.
With Medicare now providing equal reimbursement for telehealth and in-person medical visits, telehealth has emerged as a revenue opportunity.
For physician practices working with chronically ill patients, telehealth revenue opportunities include diverting patients from emergency rooms and urgent care centers.
Best practices for telehealth visits with chronically ill patients include having a checklist for social determinants of health and the home environment.


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No Trump bump here: This company killed its holiday bonus
Telecom provider CenturyLink canceled its holiday bonus this year, even though some competitors are stuffing extra presents into employees' stockings.
CenturyLink (CTL), the $19 billion provider of broadband and networking services based in Monroe, La., told employees this week that it it won't be offering a holiday bonus, as it has before. Last year, the company gave unionized employees $200.
Here's the body of an email CenturyLink CEO Glen Post sent to employees on Dec. 18, one week before Christmas:
CenturyLink, which has more than 39,000 employees, just completed a major purchase of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, for roughly $24 billion. That deal gave CenturyLink access to Level 3's business customers around the world. The combined company offers broadband and networking service to residential, business and government customers throughout the United States. Purchasing Level 3 was meant to shore up a telecom business that's been struggling as competitors slash prices and offer faster service, and customers consider options besides broadband.
CenturyLink's services compete with offerings from AT&T (T) and from Verizon (VZ), Yahoo Finance's parent company. AT&T said on Dec. 20 that, if the Trump tax cuts go through in early January as expected, it will give as many as 200,000 rank-and-file workers a $1,000 bonus. Verizon has not announced anything similar. But other companies, including Comcast (CMCSA), Fifth Third Bank (FITB) and Wells Fargo (WFC), said they'd boost pay or issue bonuses if the tax cuts go through.
CenturyLink's finances have been suffering, as Post, the CEO, noted in his email to employees. Revenue peaked in 2012 and has been sliding ever since. Net income in the company's latest fiscal year was down by 50% year-over-year, and by 59% since 2012.
CenturyLink's stock price has struggled accordingly, falling by 31% so far in 2017. Here's how CenturyLink, in dark blue, compares with AT&T, Verizon and the S&P 500:
Yahoo Finance asked CenturyLink if it has any plans to reconsider the canceled bonus, given that other companies are moving in the opposite direction. "We decline to comment," spokesperson Linda M. Johnson replied by email.
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Brand marketer mobile budgets surged 142% between 2011 and 2013, according to Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) analysis of figures released in a new IAB study, which updates the landmark "Marketer Perspectives on Mobile Advertising" survey of 2011. This finding supports the prior study's prediction that brand marketers' mobile advertising budgets were on the uptick. In addition, the survey showed that the number of marketers who maintained annual mobile budgets exceeding $300,000 more than quadrupled, rising from merely 7% in 2011 to 32% this year.
According to the 2013 "Marketer Perspectives on Mobile Advertising" study of 300 top-level brand marketing execs, all of whom are currently using mobile in their media mix, 74% expect that their companies' mobile advertising spend will increase in the next two years – a similar number to those who anticipated an increase in the two years following the 2011 survey (72%).
Almost one in five respondents (19%) to the 2013 survey predict that their mobile budgets will increase by more than 50% in the next two years.
"Over the past two years, the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report has shown an impressive rise in mobile spend and this study establishes that marketers expect more vigorous growth to come," said Anna Bager, Vice President and General Manager, Mobile Marketing Center of Excellence, IAB. "These findings reaffirm that publishers need to make mobile a top priority in order to take advantage of strong brand marketer demand. In addition, it is a signal to all of us at IAB that we must continue initiatives, such as our HTML5 guidance for digital advertising, to fuel the mobile arena."
As with the 2011 study, the 2013 survey asked marketers about the key challenges facing mobile advertising. The results clearly demonstrate that while hurdles remain, greater marketer experience and ongoing industry efforts have allowed the earlier urgency to abate. For example, a highly important challenge in 2011 was privacy issues, named by 40% of marketers. Surveying marketers in 2013, a year in which the Digital Advertising Alliance released mobile privacy guidelines, that number nearly halved to 22%. Back in 2011, 39% of respondents said that device/operating system fragmentation was of high concern. Only 23% say the same today. In addition, progress has evidently been made in the area of standard mobile metrics, as 31% of marketers cited it as a highly important challenge in 2011, with only 13% noting it in 2013.
In addition to comparing and contrasting against the 2011 findings, this year's "Marketer Perspectives on Mobile Advertising" spotlights differences between marketers' perceptions about mobile from the B2C and B2B sides of the fence:
•41% of B2B marketers rate mobile as still "experimental" as compared to only 27% of B2C
•B2B marketers are far less likely to be looking at feature phones as part of their mobile efforts, with 45% saying that those devices are "not a priority" as compared to 19% of B2C marketers
•B2C marketers are generally more satisfied with their mobile efforts than their B2B counterparts (70% vs. 50%)


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NEW YORK–Former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft's defence lawyer called Canadian Maher Arar "clearly and unequivocally a member of Al Qaeda" yesterday – prompting guffaws from hundreds in a packed courtroom, including three incredulous judges.
"We'll make believe he's a member of Al Qaeda. That's a shocking statement for you to start with," said Judge Robert Sack, of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, as he scolded Dennis Barghaan, a lawyer representing Ashcroft.
Arar, a 37-year-old software engineer and married father of two, was detained at a New York airport in 2002 as he was changing planes to fly back to Canada from Tunisia after the RCMP mistakenly linked him to Al Qaeda.
U.S. officials then denied him legal representation and deported him to Syria, the country of his birth, where Arar said he was tortured for 10 months before being cleared of all charges.
Canada has cleared Arar of any terrorism links and Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a formal apology to him in January, with Ottawa paying him $10.5 million in compensation.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during a House foreign affairs committee hearing last month the U.S. government mishandled the case by not communicating properly with Canada. But she didn't apologize or offer to take Arar off the U.S. no-fly list, even though some congressional members publicly apologized to him.
Arar is suing U.S. officials and former officials – including Ashcroft and the ex-heads of homeland security, immigration and the FBI, along with dozens of other officials. He wants compensation for torture and an admission that what the U.S. did was illegal, immoral and unconstitutional.
The three-judge panel is trying to decide whether to revive the civil case after a lower court threw it out in February 2006 on the grounds that it could damage national security relations with Canada.
"It can take weeks or months before we hear their answer," said Maria LaHood, Arar's lead attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit group representing him.
This was the first case to challenge "extraordinary rendition," a U.S. program that gives Americans the right to deport foreigners suspected of being security risks to third countries that practice torture when interrogating people.
Extraordinary rendition, Arar's lawyers say, violates U.S. and international law.
"Torture is illegal in the United States, and it is illegal for U.S. officials to outsource torture," said David Cole, one of Arar's lawyers and a CRC board member, adding Arar was denied his constitutional right to see a lawyer while in the U.S.
The three judges on the Arar v. Ashcroft case must now decide whether U.S. officials can be held accountable for the torture of an alien on foreign soil.
"People should be held liable for torture when they send people to countries where they will be tortured," Cole said.
The defence maintained that U.S. officials can't be held accountable for torture that took place abroad, that the U.S. constitution doesn't apply to aliens abroad, and that, in any case, the U.S. officials enjoyed "qualified immunity."


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Court denies appeal for opponents of York Street supervised drug site
LONDON, ONT. -- An Ontario court has dismissed the appeal on behalf of opponents of a supervised drug consumption site on York Street.
Some neighbours and business owners are not pleased with the decision, including Denise Krogman, who owns a car lot next door at 448 York St.
"The neighbourhood that has been fighting the injection site heard that the court will not hear our appeal which is the second appeal that we have filed and they threw out the first one as well," she says.
Krogman is a part of a group called the Midtown Ratepayers Association that launched a petition to halt the move of the facility from 181 King Street to York Street.
Krogman has opposed the location since 2018.
But the new facility - if cleared for renovations - will more than triple the amount of clients it can host, opposed to its previous location on King Street that was meant to be temporary
Krogman argues her neighbourhood and business may be in jeopardy if the site is given the go-ahead.
"Our neighbourhood is highly populated with businesses and ladies who live alone and families and children. I'm not just speaking for two or three people, I am speaking for the majority of the neighbourhood."
Brian Lester of the HIV-AIDS Connection says there is nothing to fear and welcomes input from the community.
"The intention for the site is that it will be well designed, it has gone through extensive planning. We would actually like to consult with our immediate neighbours about the kinds of things like fencing that would be up."
Security will be monitoring the area at all hours of operation externally and internally and promises to notify London Police if any urban camping emerges.
Lester says that the medical officer of health and mayor Ed Holder stand behind the consumption site's location, saying it has a lot of wrap around support.
"That permanent location also provides wrap around services that are just more challenging where the current site is,"says Holder.
The Ministry of Health still has to make a determination as to whether it will support service to operate under 446 York Street.
Krogman says that she will not be backing down despite the two appeals being dismissed
"There's plenty of buildings available that are worth sinking into the money into to have the people off the street and get the proper help they need. Because it's sad to let them back on the street after they use drugs," she says.


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Golden Revenue, Nitro and Sey Properties Farmed Out
February 21, 2006
February 21, 2006 - ATAC Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ATC) announces that it has agreed to option its Golden Revenue, Nitro and Sey properties to Northern Freegold Resources Ltd., a private company that is in the process of going public. All three properties are gold projects located in the Carmacks area of central Yukon.
Under terms of the agreement, Northern Freegold has the optional right to earn a 50% interest in all three properties by making: a) cash payments totalling $185,000; b) share issuances totalling 1,000,000 common shares; and, c) work expenditures totalling $2,000,000 on or before December 31, 2008. Upon completion of earn-in, a 50-50 joint venture will be formed.
The three optioned properties are all situated within the Tintina Gold Belt and are part of a well mineralized trend that includes the Casino copper-gold-molybdenum deposit, the Minto copper-gold deposit, the Carmacks copper deposit, the Freegold Mountain gold deposit and the former Mt. Nansen gold-silver mine.
The Golden Revenue property is the most advanced of the three projects. It contains two main drill targets (Discovery and Nucleus Zones) within a largely unexplored 15 sq km area of moderately to strongly anomalous, multi-element soil geochemical response. The Discovery Zone hosts bulk tonnage and high grade gold mineralization, often accompanied by copper and tungsten. It has not received significant exploration since 1991. The most recent drilling on the property was done in 2004 at the Nucleus Zone. It partially defined a zone of near surface bulk tonnage gold mineralization and produced some of the best results from the property to date, including 1.35 g/t gold across 110.81 m. The second last hole in the program identified a new target west of the gold zone. This discovery is blind to surface and consists of porphyry style copper-gold mineralization. The inclined discovery hole intersected the copper-gold mineralization at a depth of 74.70 m below surface and continued for an intersected length of 57.83 m, producing a weighted average grade of 0.23% copper and 0.37 g/t gold. The hole was terminated for budgetary rather than geological reasons. The casing was left in the hole so it can be extended. The porphyry discovery is open to extension at depth and laterally in three directions.
The Nitro property is located 8 km west of Golden Revenue and covers a number of undrilled copper-gold soil geochemical anomalies. The Sey property lies 7 km east of Golden Revenue. It hosts gold-arsenic-silver soil anomalies that have never been drilled. In 2004 excavator trenching at the Sey property discovered a bulk tonnage gold zone and a higher grade silver-gold vein that yielded 3.25 g/t gold and 573 g/t silver across 1.8 m.
ATAC is a well funded junior mining company focussed on gold. It's business model entails acquiring quality gold prospects, advancing them to drill stage and then attracting strong partners to move them toward production. At present ATAC has seven properties under option and all are scheduled to be explored in 2006. The Company continues to research and acquire additional properties. It currently has three other projects considered to be drill ready and available for option.
More complete information regarding the Golden Revenue and Sey properties is available on ATAC's website at www.atacresources.com. To find out more about the Company or its various other projects, please contact Graham Downs at 604-688-2568 or 1-800-598-4155; or email moc.sercadron@maharg.
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Each year, our team analyzes business trends from various vantage points. As a keynote and workshop speaker, I have the good fortune to work with many of the world's leading businesses. We curate many different trends and then report on the ones that we feel have the greatest impact on growth in the coming year.
1. Subject Matter Experts Learn To Sell
Subject matter experts who understand and can help guide the sales process drive growth in top performing B2B companies.
There are three different buying personas: an order taker, a salesperson, and a subject matter expert (SME). The order taker takes an order and provides a price and delivery schedule. That function can be easily performed without human intervention. Amazon has this down to a science.
When I present these options to executives, they would willingly meet with the SME to gain insight.
The best organizations offer integrity-based sales training to build a sales culture within the organization and empower the untapped SMEs as keys to growth.
2. Crowdfunding Validates New Products
Globally, crowdfunding is trending to surpass venture capital by the end of this year.
According to crowdfunding and marketing expert Clay Hebert, "Smart companies are using crowdfunding to not only raise capital, but to validate products before making substantial investments in product development."
Smith & Bradley, Ltd., a U.S.-based tactical watch manufacturer has launched seven Kickstarter campaigns to validate new designs for their line of watches.
"When we wanted to produce our first watch, we used crowdfunding to raise the funds needed to go to market," co-founder Ryan Bradley said. "What we didn't realize was that we had also discovered a way to validate the market for a product before we went into production. Now, each new product idea has a crowdfunding component to validate the market. Based on the velocity or success of the crowdfunding effort, we shift our resources to meet market demand."
As Hebert often reminds us, "The best focus group in the world is the market itself."
Hebert offers a guide to determine if your idea is right for crowdfunding.
3. New Collaboration Tools Require Rethinking Email
Collaborative tools like Slack are replacing email for internal communication. Started in 2013, Slack surpassed 4 million daily users in October 2016. Though this does not mean that companies will abandon email all together, it does change how you need to think of email. (Lee Gomes wrote a nice piece about Slack)
As professionals shift to tools like Slack, they'll spend less time in email. As a marketer, you'll have even less time than before to make a positive impression with your email communication.
Smart companies will use precision targeting with social media tools to capture the attention of potential customers. Valuable content will attract, and self-serving hype will repel customers.
4. Narrow Segments Capture Attention
Marketing automation has been used for delivering the same message to thousands at a time. Leading companies have embraced one-to-one messaging.
In his bestselling book, Ask, Ryan Levesque illustrates how to narrowly segment your list to grow businesses at incredible rates.
Levesque says, "One of the biggest fears I hear entrepreneurs express in segmenting their market is that their different market segments are too small to be worth addressing individually. When you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing to nobody. Companies, both big and small, that are adopting a segmented strategy are thriving more than ever in today's marketplace."
By asking the right questions and producing narrowly focused lists of user interest, the best companies are delivering content and communication tailored to your preferences.
5. Millennials Groomed For Leadership
Millennials now represent the largest segment of the U.S. population, according to Pew Research. Just like past generations, millennials will emerge as the next set of managers and executives. Top performing companies will work to magnify their strengths and build systems to compensate for their perceived deficiencies.
According to Bard Szollose, cross-generational leadership expert in NYC and author of Liquid Leadership, "You can't put someone in a leadership role assuming they have the skills to lead, only to train them 10 years later. If you want Millennials to succeed, invest in their leadership development today."
Millennials represent the largest generation of our time, as illustrated in this Goldman Sachs report. They are going to lead, whether they receive appropriate training and support or not.
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What We Heard: The way Canadians work has changed
Aug 30, 2018, 10:23 ET
GATINEAU, QC, Aug. 30, 2018 /CNW/ - As workplaces evolve, so too must the labour standards in those workplaces. It's clear that ever-increasing global competition, rapid technological changes and socio-demographic shifts are fundamentally altering the way businesses operate and the way Canadians work.
Today the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, published the What We Heard Report on the results of consultations by the Government of Canada on modernizing federal labour standards to better reflect the realities of the 21st century workplace.
Federal labour standards establish the basic rights of employees regarding hours of work, holidays, leaves, wages and other working conditions in federally regulated industries, such as banking, telecommunications and interprovincial and international transportation.
From May 2017 to March 2018, the consultations heard from employers and employer organizations, unions and labour organizations, experts and individual Canadians about their perspectives on what a robust and modern set of federal labour standards should look like.
One strong message was repeated throughout the consultations: The way Canadians work has changed but federal labour standards have not.
Another message that emerged among employers and employer organizations was that federal labour standards should be more flexible to allow employers to operate nimbly, remain competitive and adapt to industry-specific realities. Unions and labour organizations, conversely, recommended that federal labour standards be raised to meet or exceed the highest standards in the provinces and territories.
The findings of the consultations also made it clear there were some areas where the government can take action quickly, while others require more in-depth review and discussion.
The Government of Canada is committed to bringing forward legislation to modernize federal labour standards and examining those issues that merit further study. The findings of these consultations will be carefully considered going forward.
"A modern set of federal labour standards will better protect Canadian workers and help set the stage for good quality jobs, especially for workers in part-time, temporary or low-wage jobs, many of whom are struggling to balance work and family. Standards that reflect current workplace realities will help employers recruit and retain employees while also improving their well-being. It's a win-win for everyone."
– The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour
Quick Facts
- The Government of Canada has already taken steps to modernize the Canada Labour Code, such as introducing stronger compliance and enforcement provisions; a right to request flexible work arrangements; new unpaid leaves for family responsibilities, to participate in traditional Indigenous practices and for victims of family violence; and limits on unpaid internships. These amendments to the Code received Royal Assent in December 2017 and will come into force as soon as the necessary regulations are in place.
- The consultations on modernizing federal labour standards resulted in:
- more than 10,000 visits to the online consultation page;
- 3,138 survey participants;
- 23 personal stories;
- 45 online expert discussion forum posts;
- four high-level roundtables; and
- 25 written submissions.
Associated Links
Modernizing Federal Labour Standards: What We Heard Report
Modernizing Federal Labour Standards Online Consultation News Release
Federal Labour Standards
SOURCE Employment and Social Development Canada
For further information: For media enquiries, please contact: Véronique Simard, Press Secretary, Office of the Honourable Patty Hajdu, P.C., M.P., Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, [email protected], 819-654-5611; Media Relations Office, Employment and Social Development Canada, 819-994-5559, [email protected]


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Embroidery and Dolls this post!
Here are some pictures from my hard working students at the Bristol Adult Education Service. They were fabulous - they created some wonderful first dolls - and even did homework between our sessions!
I'm sure Emily will love it!
The doll workshop looks to have been a great success - well done to all concerned!
Gosh Jules your workshop looks wonderful.I shall find out tomorrow (next Class) if my ladies have done some homework. The dolls look brilliant.Especially the yoga one.ReplyDelete
What a fun workshop! Everyone came up with a special doll.
Love the embroidery. You seem to make time for family and that is so important. I know you are appreciated for it.
Wow you are doing great job of teaching these dolls Jules. All of them are lovely.ReplyDelete
So lovely to hear you are a great aunt, congratulations Jules! ;-)
Bertie and Floss is a wonderful sampler and I especially like Bertie lying in the sun in his red trunks and shades... The stitches are perfect!
The dolls are quite special too. I wish I could go to your sewing classes, it looks like a very calm environment with a lovely work space.
Great to stop by and see your new work.
Spring blessings to you,
Jo. xx
The sampler is sweet.=) We call our toy bear Bertie and the lamb Flossy....!=)
Classes look great and your students did so well!=)
Your niece will love the embroidery! There are so many sweet small details and it is so beautifully stitched.
Your doll class looks like so much fun!
Waaaaaaaaaa...I want to take a workshop with Jules!!ReplyDelete


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Immigrant Homebuyers Are Lifting The Housing Market Across U.S.
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A new study shows that immigrant homebuyers are lifting the U.S. housing market. Over the last two decades, foreign-born home ownership has steadily increased. Immigrants accounted for almost 40% of the growth in homeownership from 2000 to 2010, while they account for about 13% of the U.S. population.
Between 2000 and 2010, immigrant homebuyers accounted for 82% of the growth in home ownership in California, 65% in New York, and about 40% in Florida and Texas.
Between 2010 and 2020, immigrants nationwide are expected to account for 32 percent of the growth in all households, including 36 percent growth in homeowners and 26 percent growth in renter households.
Buy A House, Get a Visa? No, Not Yet. Two senators have proposed a new immigration regulation which would encourage investment in the US and at the same time would not take away jobs from Americans and would not reduce the number of visas for those waiting to enter the US legally.
We stress that this is proposed legislation. It has not been passed yet. It is not a law yet. This bill would help the housing market, but we need to take a close look at what the Visit USA or "real estate visa" would allow.
If (repeat IF), this proposed legislation becomes law, foreign investors could obtain a US visa by purchasing real estate valued at $500,000 or more. This could be any type of residential real estate – a single-family house, condo or townhouse. Applicants can spend the entire amount on one house or spend as little as $250,000 on a residence and invest the rest in other residential real estate, which can be rented out.
Foreigners coming to the U.S. with the new "real estate" visa wouldn't be able to work here unless they obtained a regular work visa through the normal process. They'd be allowed to bring a spouse and any children under the age of 18 but if they sold their properties, they wouldn't be able to stay in the country.
What exactly is the new bill proposing?
· The foreign buyer must use at least $500,000 in cash to purchase 1 or more residences in the United States. Each property must be sold at more than 100 percent of the most recent appraised value of such residence.
· The foreigner must maintain ownership of residential property in the United States worth at least $500,000 during the entire period the foreigner remains in the United States as a nonimmigrant.
· The investor must reside for more than 180 days per year in a residence in the United States that is worth at least $250,000; and
· The foreigner's spouse and children under 18 can accompany or follow to join the alien.
This is a temporary non-immigrant visa valid for three years and renewable if the investor still owns real property(s) valued at $500,000. or more. It is NOT (repeat NOT) an immigrant visa or a work visa and it is NOT a path to citizenship.
The investor will not be granted any government benefits such as Medicare and Medicaid. They will not be eligible for Social Security; therefore they will not be able to work in the US, unless they qualify for a work visa separately from this visa.
The buyer must purchase real property (e.g. condominium, single family home, townhouse) with cash only. They will not be able to purchase a home by taking out a mortgage.
The proposal gives the applicant flexibility on how to spend his or her money. For example, $250,000 could go toward the purchase of one home and the other $250,000 to purchase investment income properties that could be rented out.
Clearing the inventory of foreclosures is essential to repairing the housing market in the US. Many congressmen believe that foreign investors are eager and willing to come in and buy up that inventory. International buyers still see U.S. real estate as an undervalued asset. They bought $82 billion worth of residential properties in 2010, up from $66 billion in 2009.
BTW, Korea offers Green Cards to foreigners who buy real estate valued at $500,000 or more. Anyone like to eat Kim Chi?
Q. 1. If this proposed legislation doesn't offer a Green Card, how is it beneficial to foreign buyers?
A.1. It gives them the opportunity to make money in real estate, while at the same time helping the US economy. It also allows them and their families to spend three years at a time in the US without needing to leave after 6 months, as is the case with most tourist visas.
Q.2. According to the proposed legislation, can the children of the foreign home buyer attend public schools in the US?
A.2. The children under 18 years of age can accompany the buyer and can attend US schools.
Q.3. How to provide evidence of the money transfer from abroad is legal?
A.3. Usually bank transfer is accepted and the source of money can be documented from income and/or proceeds of real estate transaction.
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Commentary by Dr. Don Newbury
A few days ago, my wife and I enjoyed a short road trip. Typically an hour's drive to Stephenville, this day it was twice that. It took 40 minutes to make it through Granbury, where folks–weary of "sheltering"–seemed happy to be in their cars again, perhaps looking for "essential places."
Stephenville friendships were renewed. One visit was "through a glass darkly." We peered through a therapy center window to see a smiling Dwain Bruner, who reported for work daily at the dealership until experiencing a stroke at the end of February.
The automobile executive–selling Chevrolets for 58 years and adding other brands along the way–soon will be 90. However, his smile is ever young–the kind car dealers flash when both parties are happy upon completion of transactions.
Dwain is getting daily therapy. Daughter Gwyn and son Greg are happy that his room is farthest from the therapy center, so he "gets additional exercise, coming and going."
We conversed by phone with Dwain, whose carotid artery procedure was "wedged in" at a packed Fort Worth hospital in March. Upon his admission, Gwyn and Greg "signed off" on being with him until the COVID-19 nightmare ends.
Thankfully, they can have "window visits," as we had. Phones are blessings!
Two other longtime friends have had unique phone experiences. One is AT&T's Regional Director of External Affairs; the other helped his granddad keep phone lines intact in rural Brown County around 1930.
The latter, Dr. Joe B. Rushing, begins his 100th year of life this month at his Lampasas home. He has "hitches in his git-along," but remains "tack sharp," this nationally-recognized higher education leader. He founded two junior college districts–Broward County, Florida, then Tarrant County College in Fort Worth.
Dr. Joe B. Rushing, left, and Dwain Bruner. Submitted photos
When his father died in 1928, Joe was age seven. That's when he and his mom, pregnant with his late sister Cordie, moved in with his grandparents. "We had a 'crank' wall phone activated by two long and two short 'rings.' After a rainstorm, I'd go with my granddad in his Model A to check on the lines, sometimes re-attaching the wires to fence posts on the roadside between our house and Blanket. We didn't want to miss important calls, usually from kin in Friona and Eldorado," Joe remembers..
The "phone pro" in the trio has been a part of AT&T for 53 years. Linda Caram–self-described as "Ma Bell"–is the "face" of area operations. Of AT&T's thousands of employees worldwide, she ranks number eight in tenure, longer than any other employee in Texas. Except for one in Louisiana, the six others with longer tenure are scattered on the left and right coasts. Her region includes all or parts of Denton, Parker, Wise, Johnson and Tarrant Counties.
Shown is unidentified lineman during Linda Caram's early years with AT&T. Linda is believed to be in the wagon seat, ready to set up her camera for a promotional photograph. Submitted photo
A public relations genius, she personifies her company as well as any person I've ever known. She's forever "on task."
"Taking one for the team" is the norm for Linda. Speaking at a retirement event for a friend, she decided to "dress the part," knowing the honoree was big on conservation and recycling. She gathered dead leaves fallen from her trees, gluing them on a big trash bag. She cut head-and-arm holes in the bag, and felt "ready to go!" Or so she thought.
Oh, no! Turns out, Linda was allergic to the leaves. Before ending her remarks, her eyes were watering and she was sneezing. Yep, she's a team player whose age and social security number are not revealed. (Word has it both are two digits.)
It was 33 years ago that AT&T urged us to "reach out and touch someone." Such helps when dealing with quarantine. As my old mom would have said, we "kept the phone lines warm." Much of our "time out" was refreshing, used to "reach out," including a visit to see a friend's bright smile–even if through a glass darkly–and reaching others by phone.
Dr. Newbury is a former educator who writes weekly and is a longtime public speaker. Comments/speaking inquiries to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Phone: 817-447-3872. Web site: www.speakerdoc.com Twitter: @donnewbury. Facebook: don newbury


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alright friends. i have admitted to you that I am not the best crafter. i think it has a lot to do with having a short attention span. anyways, i just hired my intern alex as my assistant, and one of her fun tasks is to run the new DIY column on the blog! i really hope you all like, and i know she'll love hearing your feedback and ideas!
this first craft is super simple, but also very awesome! i'll let her take it from here…
photos by jen gotch
hello, lovefesters! when bri and i first talked about this column, i got very excited and my head began to swim with oh-so many ideas on simple crafts that we could share with you. there is something about using your hands to create something beautiful that is just so…satisfying.
we wanted to kick things off with something uncomplicated, yet high on style. these paint-dipped candleholders require little more than spray paint and masking tape, and this technique can be applied to vases, bowls, trays, wine glasses…you name it! traditionally, dipped items are literally dipped in a bowl of paint, and hung to drip dry. however, the spray paint method is the way to go if you're looking for something quick to add a touch of color or interest to a simple household item.
what you'll need:
• something to paint, of course! we chose these ikea blomster candleholders that come in a set of three varied heights, but any white or clear item will do.
• spray paint (my personal favorite is montana gold) gold looks great against white, and any bright color of course! we went with bri's favorite – yellow.
• masking tape or painter's tape.
what to do:
• decide how far up you want the color to reach and tape off the area where you want the color to stop. we made ours slightly irregular to give even more of that dipped look.
• spray paint your item, pointing downward and well below the tape line in a smooth, sweeping motion. apply thin even coats until fully covered.
• allow the item to dry fully before removing the tape.
finishing touches:
• we styled our candleholders by making them into mini plant pedestals, but the options are really endless depending on which item you choose and what purpose it serves in your home. i picked up a tillandsia plant at a local nursury to just casually plop on top. these would also make a lovely centerpiece with some succulents and fresh blooms!
as bri said, i'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas, and any suggestions of things you'd like to appear in this column in the future. and if you make this project over the weekend, let us know how it turns out!
next week we'll be making something very festive for valentines day, and i can't wait to show you! (think glitter, folks.)


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Roughly two years ago this month, Colts punter Pat McAfee did something very stupid.
He got unbelievably wasted in the Broad Ripple neighborhood in Indianapolis and then, for reasons that only made sense to him, McAfee jumped into the Broad Ripple Canal in the wee hours of the morning, the water near freezing. McAfee then got out of the water and reportedly tried to climb into the car of a woman who was passing by. She sped away, called the police, and McAfee was arrested. At the time of his arrest, McAfee's blood alcohol level was 0.15.
When asked by the arresting officers much he'd had to drink, McAfee answered, "A lot 'cause I'm drunk."
The stunt got McAfee suspended for a game, and he was charged with a Class B misdemeanor for public intoxication. He received community service and was fined. FOX Sports listed him No. 3 in their Most Stupid Athletes slideshow that year. Fun times, fer sure, brah.
Recently, using Twitter, McAfee posted a story involving about a trip he and his bros took to Las Vegas, a trip that involved winning $9000 at a casino, going to a party with hookers & heroine, and, of course, getting wasted.
The story is titled "Cocks and Shots with Heroin and Coke."
I wish I had a witty retort for just how appropriate that title is for McAfee and his noted drunken adventures, but I don't.
The climax of the adventure is McAfee and his Vegas bros going to a porn party they'd been invited to. They walked into the shin-ding, and, per McAfee, "a 'BBC' was ramming a 'BBW' on the couch." While the sight of people having sex at a porn party got McAfee and his buddies excited ("Damn right doggie"), apparently the shock of seeing a woman McAfee describes as a "heroine ho" doing drugs in the back room was too much for Pat and is Vegas crew. They "couldn't get out of there fast enough."
I don't know how much of this story should be viewed as fact (Hard core drugs? Prostitutes? At a porn party? HOW SHOCKING! Let's get out of here before things get REALLY nuts!), but he seems to stand by the story details.
One especially elegant passage from McAfee's tweets regarding the "heroine ho":
I'd do heroine too I guess if I took things on and in places she does.
Pat McAfee. Empathetic NFL punter to heroine hos everywhere.
McAfee doesn't state when the trip took place, simply noting that it happened "when he made it to the league and had some money."
If you want to read the adventure, McAfee has it posted in seven twitter updates (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).


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We're no longer running around in playgrounds pulling on girls' hair or laughing at boys whose feet smell. But we still want to be able to tease every once in a while. How can we do it and retain some semblance of maturity? Where is teasing fun and where is it plain mean? Hint – it has a lot do with intention. Plus, we share when it's ok to get emotionally involved in an email. We rave about garlic and pruning plants.
Listen to this: The Art of Teasing
Some links from the show:
Lauren is RAVING how damn easy and tasty roasted garlic is
Maayan has a TIP on the philosophy of pruning plants


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Always Hot Cubes – play free without registration
If you are looking for simple handy slot machine without any complicated elements you can surely choose Always Hot Cubes – one of Novomatic newest productes. It has 5 fixed paylines which number cannot be changed throughout the game. Set of symbols which are all cubes and variable bet amount complete interesting and beneficial, as other free slots games.
Always Hot Cubes - How to get started
The only aspect that depends on player in the game's course is selecting proper bet size as the rest is all up to fortune. In Always Hot Cubes minimum bet equals 0.1 credit, maximum one is 20. It is regulated with "+/-" signs located from both sides of Bet/Line button. When the stake is set press Start button to trigger individual spins. To begin series of repeated spins press Autoplay.
Gamble option becomes active when any regular win occurs on reels. Then the player is suggested to take part in Risk game in order to double current win. If twinkling card colour is guessed right you get prize multiplied *2 but if you fail you lose it all. Paytable button opens section where all symbols and their payouts are displayed. It also contains game's rules and general description.
Always Hot Cubes Symbols and Payouts
The first group of symbols that can be checked in Paytable is dices of different colors and denominations. 3 alike Dices evaluated by 1 – 3 points landed in a line bring reward of 0.4 credits at the lowest wager size. Winning combination consisted of 5-6 point dices cost 0.8 credits while the most high cost ones are three types of cubes marked with Chinese symbols. 3 white cubes with red symbols inscripted on them grant 3 – 6 credits at minimum and maximum bet respectively. General game's rules can be expressed in following statements:
- amount of win credits always depends on selected bet. The higher your stake the bigger win you get.
- all rewarding lines are formed from one kind symbol combinations.
- all alike symbols are to be landed next to each other from left to right.
- wins are paid only on selected playing lines.
- wins from several paylines are summarized.


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DFCSS Board Number Shortages
Hi all
Over the past few years it has become very apparent that the society board does not have enough members in order to function as effectively as it might. This was borne in January when a meeting was called that I could not make and I couldn't get in touch with my fellow board members in time to postpone. The meeting went ahead but it did mean that those present did not form a quorum therefore no decisions could be made.
We discussed this at a full meeting last night 22/02/2017 and have realised that we need new co-opted board members urgently. A co-opted member of the board is no different to an elected member. Once formally co-opted a co-optee can stand for any of the board offices and has full entitlement to propose motions, speak and vote on any matter relevant to the society.
At the moment we are planning an AGM and it is at the AGM that individuals can stand for election to to the board. Coming on board as a co-optee is a good way to get a feel for the society board, what it does and what it has plans for in the future.
No formal qualifications are required to become a co-opted member of the board, although we will insist that you are a Dundee FC supporter. To stand for election to the board you must be a member of the DFCSS i.e. you will have been a package member or will have paid a £5 annual membership fee when membership was suspended.
If you feel this is something that might interest you please get in touch with me by email
I hope as many people as possible will consider this; I can't offer any reward unfortunately other than the knowledge that you'll be helping both the society and the club.
Category: 2017, Society Updates


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BE FREE – 9th of november 2018
After 2 years of traveling and living around the world, I found a place where I could place my bed again, or better said it found me. Michiel and Carina, two people I met in Norway, offered me to live in an apartment/loft in an old warf in Edam (NL). It would be taken down within 8 months, for a new project, until then it was all mine. In moved there in spring 2018. They told me I could do with the place whatever I wanted and so I did. One room transformed very quickly into an art studio, while the walls of my living room turned into murals.
The first couple of weeks of being back and having my own space again was pretty intense. After years of dedicated focus on spirituality and self discovery, going from one retreat to another, made me realize that my search had ended. Not because I was self realized or enlightened, but it dawned on me nothing in this world, no guru, no friend, no waiting for another mystical experience was going to help me any further. It was just between me and me. I had to break free from my own limitations of the mind, to live what I knew in my heart to be true, and that I had to go alone.
I was coaching a couple of people and 2 nights a week, I served tables at Italian Restaurant 'La Galera' to support myself financially. I loved working there and to serve people. It helped me get out of my hermit mode and to "land" on earth again, in a 'normal' world, with normal' people, living 'normal' lives. It helped me to ground myself and settle down a bit.
One day new menu cards arrived and they let me take the old ones home. The next day I turned on the camera and I started to rip the cards apart, and while doing so, for some reason, tears streamed down my face. Three days and nights later, BE FREE came to life including this video. As soon as I shared the video online I was getting requests of people if they could buy it. I sold it to an amazing Indian woman living in London, who described to me what this artwork meant to her. Her story about the freedom touched me.
I realized that this artwork was not just a quote I was inspired by just because "La Galera", means Jail in Italian. It was a crystal clear message to me and apparently a reminder for others.
Freedom is on the menu! The question is: Am I and are WE ready and courageous enough to keep on choosing it by trusting the unknown beyond the limitations of the mind?
What if I actually have no clue what my life is going to look like or think what it is supposed to become? What if I totally let go of all the ideal plans and ideas I have been working on for so long? What if the plans and ideas are the limitations that keeps me in the jail of the mind? What if I drop it all and deliberately choose for what wants to happen now instead of what I think is supposed to happen?
…A new beginning. And this artwork is the symbol of it.
If you are in living in the Netherlands or visiting the Netherlands. It's worth visiting beautiful Edam. Amsterdam, but then tiny. And of course have your Lunch or Dinner at Italian Restaurant La Galera. Delicious food and amazing people.


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What do marble races, scavenger hunts, and tower building have in common? They are all teambuilding exercises that Mount Gilead High School's teachers participated in during part of their two days of in-service during fair week.
While Mount Gilead students attended the county fair last week, their teachers spent time developing their skills in the classroom. Speaker Anthony Colannino from Mindset Works kicked off the professional development days Monday morning. Colannino taught teachers about how a 'growth vs. fixed mindset' can affect student learning.
After the morning session, the three buildings broke out into smaller groups. The high school teachers went to Mt. Gilead State Park for a potluck lunch and team building. Principal Deb Clauss, Curriculum Coordinator Christine Anthony, and J.O.G. teacher Gerry Hartman lead the teachers through a series of exercises where they learned firsthand about the challenges and struggles some students have in the classroom.
The teachers were divided into four groups to complete the team challenges. To mimic the real-life parameters students face in the classroom, some of the groups were given extra help when completing their tasks, while others had resources taken away.
English teacher Maureen Flora said, "I was reminded of the stressors that our students may experience during what I would think of as a simple in class assignment."