I live a little west of O Hare. Im trying to ditch my car and ride L when im in the city. CTA blue line. Fed up paying for parking at the Rosemont park and ride when I feel like there’s gotta be a piece of concrete I can use for 6-7ish hours while I take care of my business. Anyplace I could park close-ish to one of the CTA blue line stations? Safe and free/cheap?
Is this a crazy question to be asking?

Is a trip to Vice City in your near future? There have been many Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) leaks over the last few years, but the most recent suggests that players will return to a classic GTA location. Rumor has it that Grand Theft Auto VI may take place in Vice City.
This particular rumor started through the usual sources -- Twitter and Reddit. Twitter user Vector Hold, also known as Peter Brian Rice, claimed that Rockstar Games’ music rights representatives have been contacting Synthwave artists. Rice is a synthwave artist himself and has reportedly heard this information from fellow musicians. Rockstar Games hopes that the artists will contribute music for a radio station in the upcoming game. The tweet was posted earlier this week, but Rice has since deleted it.
There was also a reddit post that was created several months ago by user “markothemexicam.” The user claimed that their information was from their roommate. The roommate supposedly formerly worked for Rockstar North. They contended that GTA 6 will be set during an “unspecified” time in Vice City. This post has also been deleted, but has been saved elsewhere on the internet.
It would be tempting to discredit this reddit post as these kinds of claims are a dime a dozen on the Internet. However, another GTA leaker also recently suggested that GTA 6 would be set in a location familiar to players. Both markothemexicam and the GTA leaker have a fairly decent track record with regards to GTA predictions.
Other information on the internet suggests that the storyline of GTA 6 will be focused on drug smuggling. Players will reportedly travel between Vice City and Central or South America. This theory was originally suggested by YouTube channel “The Know” and has since gained quite a bit of popularity.
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It is important to keep in mind that all of this information is simply speculation. There have been plenty of fake GTA 6 rumors in the past. For example, a Twitch channel called "GTAVI" appeared this past spring. The channel promised it would provide information about the game during a livestream on April 1st. However, this channel turned out to be an elaborate April Fools’ prank.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. It was the best-selling game of 2002 and received a number of awards. 17.5 million copies of the game have been sold and it has now been ported to several other platforms. It is easy to see why so many players would be thrilled to return to Vice City. Unfortunately, we will know nothing for certain until Rockstar Games decides to make a formal announcement.

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Are your employees losing interest in your organization? Check out this article and follow these tips for maximum employee engagement.
The last few years have been disappointing for businesses worldwide. From the beginning of the global Covid19 pandemic to decreasing employee engagement and higher attrition rates to the growing demand for hybrid work models, the problems are countless for business organizations. Amidst all these challenges, employee engagement is at an all-time low, and organizations are exploring ways to optimize teamwork and collaboration.
With such high stakes, it is unsurprising that companies have started investing in team building training to keep their employees together. Further, it can help create a positive and productive work environment to build stronger relationships between team members. Team building training can improve communication, collaboration, and trust, improving problem-solving and creative thinking. Below are some tips that can help you optimize team building in your organization.

1. Focus on Teamwork and Collaboration - Do you know effective teamwork is essential for achieving optimum performance and productivity? Ensure that your team building training encourages cooperation and teamwork. By working together, employees can develop relationships of trust and respect that can foster a sense of purpose and increase motivation. Team cooperation also allows employees to learn from each other, share ideas, and gain new skills, which can boost engagement and job satisfaction.
2. Include a Healthy Blend of Learning and Fun - Gone are the days of rot learning, and organizations must focus on innovative and engaging learning methods to boost teamwork. Try using virtual reality, experiential learning, and other ways to focus on various team development stages and build a cohesive team. Further, ensure that your team building training is fun and engaging.
3. Establish Realistic Goals and Objectives - Goal setting allows employees to feel like they are part of an organization. With achievable goals and the right team building training, employees can work towards something they can attain, providing a sense of accomplishment when the goals are achieved.
4. Involve in Constructive Feedback - To encourage and help your employees to improve, it is essential to provide feedback after each team meeting, seminar, or session. This small activity will help them understand where they did well and which areas need immediate improvement or intervention. Further, feedback plays a crucial role during various team development stages and helps build a unified team for an organization.
5. Offer Rewards and Recognition to Your Employees - Employees love to work in an organization where their work is appreciated and rewarded. It may appear to be a small activity, but it will reinforce the idea that teamwork is essential and will make employees feel appreciated. Also, rewarding employees for their hard work demonstrates that the organization values their efforts and is helpful in the process of team building training.
6. Encourage Better Communication - Communication is vital to building an effective team for driving optimum results. Better communication can improve employee engagement by building trust, increasing transparency, and connecting employees and management. Good communication helps to create an environment of understanding, collaboration, and recognition and is a critical component of team development stages. Further, effective communication can build a community culture among employees and reduce feelings of isolation.

I just watched Ethan’s pathetic defense of Bobby Lee on YouTube and I have to point out what I thought he’s dead wrong about.

1. Ethan claims Bobby Lee said the victim looked 15 but wasn’t 15, because she was actually 12. Bobby Lee described the girls age as the same as Natalie Portman in the professional. Natalie Portman turned 12 on the set, filming the professional. If she actually looked 15 then why didn’t he say that the victim looked like Natalie Portman in the phantom menace? He described the victim as to looking like a 12 year old CHILD.
   
2. Ethan refers to the victim as a “15 year old prostitute” - there is no such thing as a child or underage prostitute - they are child sex trafficking victims, and should always be referred to as such.
   
3. Bobby Lee told Ethan that he told the story on only two podcasts - that’s a lie. There are 9 retellings of this exact story on 9 different podcasts. That we know about.
   
4. The reason we don’t know of many child sex trafficking survivors is because child sex trafficking victims rarely survive their childhoods. It’s as easy for traffickers to murder child sex trafficking victims as it is to sell them. Bobby Lee’s victim very likely did not live past the age of 25, as most victims don’t either. Because that’s around the age when their traffickers have no more use for them.
   
5. There are THOUSANDS of child sex trafficking victims in Tijuana. They exist. They’re very real and we must take Bobby Lee’s clear recollection of raping a child via the sex tourism offered in Mexico seriously. Ethan refusing to turn his back on Bobby Lee is disgusting behavior to see coming from a father.
   
6. If you think a disturbing recollection of raping a crying child is even within the same hemisphere of a joke, you are sick. Ethan excuses Bobby Lee’s story, where he recalls raping a little girl, as a joke. It’s not. It’s clearly a story told from memory. Anyone who listens to him tell the story can clearly see that.
   
7. Like Ethan said, the only source of the story is Bobby Lee. He told Ethan Kline who he is, so why wont Ethan Kline believe him? Ethan on Bobby Lee Tijuana
   

Hello fellow travellers of the interwebs!
I have recently just quit my full time employment in favour of adopting a new career that allows me the fulfillment of travel, new adventures and plenty of time to experience the great wide world!
After spending the last 6 years feeling less than fulfilled I have decided that I am going to start living for me and with that hopefully comes new people, friends and hopefully a little spice. I would love to meet some new people that share a love of travel, tattoos, books and movies! Even if only one of those things is your jam, then please feel free to slide on in to my mailbox...(not a euphemism.. 😂)
I love travelling and outdoor adventure! I will often take mini vacations to remote parts of the country, set up camp and enjoy nature with my dog and a good book. I also love photography and creating my own prints, which is weird because I would never describe myself as creative.
I'm an introvert that loves spontaneous eruptions of extrovertism! I'll get my social fix then ramble back to my cosy abode to recharge those social batteries.
Anyways, I like to keep a somewhat air of mystery around myself, makes for more interesting reading and conversation later. Or so I choose to believe 🤔.
Happy to swap pictures and move to another app should we hit it off 📸.
I Look forward to chatting with you 😊
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Day 3 ½ of medical detox. Sure, I feel like crap and I still need Valium to stop tremors and to sleep, but except for one issue last night (that I was able to work through and avoid relapse), I haven’t felt many cravings. I miss drinking, but I’m not sitting here think “I need a drink now”.
I know my problem is depression which I’ve been trying to fix, but is a six week residential program really the solution?
I will admit I’m terrified of the idea of the program (I’ve always lived alone or with partners so sharing a room with two other guys is daunting), plus the lack of freedom and the regimented rules is worrying. Plus only seeing my kids once a week.
For those who have done it, is it work it or am I better just seeing a psychologist?

So I've recently adopted a 2 year old cat. He's a very sweet and affectionate cat. However, he tries to kneed us while me and my girlfriend sleep at night. We live in a single bedroom apartment where the bedroom is the only room that is carpet. There is about an inch wide gap from the floor and bottom of the door which my cat tried to stick his paw under and claw at the door. It's been tearing up the carpet that's underneath it. Any advice on trying to prevent him from tearing up the carpet or sticking his paw underneath the door at all?

The first post about my life as a tutor in school got more popular than I ever imagined. So, I'm going to tell some more Tutoring Tales, that's how I'm going to call my series from now.
So, we live in a city in southern Germany. Our school has many rich kids, and so some of my tutoring kids are also very very rich. The kids who are very rich are often the ones who have Karens as parents.
So, a few of the kids play Clash Royale with me, a game where I am very good at, even though I always played Free2Play. One of the kids spent and still spends loads of money on the game as well as on other games. One time, during a rainy day in tutoring, we played a round of Clash Royale and he just randomly bought himself gems for 20 euros.
So, for my birthday, he brought me a Google Play giftcard for 20 euros. I never asked for any gifts or anything, it was entirely his idea. I asked him why he gave the gift card to me, and he told me that I should buy the Pass Royale for the next two months. I thanked him, a little confused, and actually bought the Pass Royale like he said.
The next time I tutored, three days later, my chef told me that a mother wanted to talk to me and had launched a complaint against me at the school. My chef and I scheduled a meeting with her for later this day. I was quite confused what was happening, because I had no idea why they wanted to talk to me.
I arrived at the meeting and the mother directly started accusing me of extorting her son. She evaluated, saying that I forced her son to give me a gift card, or else I would be mean to her son. She started screaming at me for literally 5 minutes, calling me things like a "mafioso" and a "embezzler". After this, my company, who is surprisingly calm about the things the Karens tell about me. We, again, talked to the kid himself and he told us that he never felt threatened and it was his own free will to give the money to me. I still gave his mom the money back, to be sure it wouldn't escalate.
So, that was Tutoring Tales 2, more are coming soon!

Day 3 ½ of medical detox. Sure, I feel like crap and I still need Valium to stop tremors and to sleep, but except for one issue last night (that I was able to work through and avoid relapse), I haven’t felt many cravings. I miss drinking, but I’m not sitting here think “I need a drink now”.
I know my problem is depression which I’ve been trying to fix, but is a six week residential program really the solution?
I will admit I’m terrified of the idea of the program (I’ve always lived alone or with partners so sharing a room with two other guys is daunting), plus the lack of freedom and the regimented rules is worrying. Plus only seeing my kids once a week.
For those who have done it, is it work it or am I better just seeing a psychologist?

Fans of Grand Theft Auto V, who don't already have the game on Xbox One, will be happy to hear about the latest news from Microsoft. The game has been added to Xbox Game Pass, so players with a valid subscription can play the game on the console. GTA V launched back in 2013 and remains a very popular game thanks to online content updates and a massive modding community.
GTA V is also one of the most viewed games on Twitch and is regularly in the top five games on Steam. Rockstar hit a home run with GTA V, and adding it for free to Xbox Game Pass may bring gamers to the franchise that haven't yet tried it out. For Xbox One gamers with an Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold membership, access to the frequently updated Grand Theft Auto Online service is included. One sad bit of news is that GTA V is only offered on the console; it's not available on the PC with Game Pass.
While GTA V is still wildly popular, fans are clamoring for the next installment in the franchise: GTA 6. GTA 6 details recently leaked from a claimed beta tester and enticed us with visions of the game. A new rumor claims that GTA 6 won't launch until 2021, however, nothing official from Rockstar has been offered about GTA 6 so far.
The leak from a few days back was posted on Reddit and was later removed by moderators there. It's unclear if Rockstar pressured them to delete the content, but the leaker claimed that the game has a huge map that covers two major cities, Carcer City and Vice City, said to be based on Boston and Miami, respectively. True or not, GTA V fans are looking forward to GTA 6, even if it is a year or more away.

As time marches onward, new developments and technologies come along, requiring the sunsetting of that which came previously. It appears that time has come for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, as Rockstar has announced the shuttering of Grand Theft Auto Online on December 16th for the antiquated yet beloved consoles.
Around 2005 and 2006, the original Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were revealed, bringing gaming into more people's living rooms. Then in 2010, both consoles got a facelift with a "slim" version that gave upgrades and fixes to both platforms. Three years later, GTA V and GTA Online released on both consoles, beginning the saga of one of the most played video games in current history. After being enjoyed by millions of people racing, stunting, and engaging in general shenanigans akin to the Achievement Hunter group of Rooster Teeth Productions, the game moved on to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 before more recently going to the Xbox Series XS and PlayStation 5.
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As we are now two console generations deeper, it is time to say goodbye to where we started the GTA Online experience. "PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of GTA Online, including website stat tracking via the Rockstar Games Social Club, will officially be shutting down on December 16th, 2021," says Rockstar's blog post. This is change comes because the company is "mov[ing] forward with updates and support for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions of Grand Theft Auto Online." Furthermore, Rockstar is working on "this Fall's launches of the new expanded and enhanced versions of Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series XS."
With this announcement, Rockstar states that it would "like to thank the GTA Online community for their continued support and look forward to seeing players continue their journey in Los Santos with us on new platforms." Though this may ultimately be a sad sunset, the future is bright for GTA moving forward.

I'm fortunate to live in a city with a lot of big banks and had the thought that in theory older banks might have better chances of older coins. But on the reverse these banks could be the opposite having ARP'ed and mint rolls being head banks. Anyone ever had much luck heading to big city banks or is it just a better idea to stay to local branches as I've had pretty good luck with them.

Recently I’ve been feeling quite low about how my life is going.
I’m in my mid 20’s (27M) and I’ve done okay. I’m a simulation engineer and work for a good company. I can wfh whenever I want. Can live wherever I want. I’m paid a little above average for my age but not loads. So I’m doing okay.
But. I’m lonely. I don’t feel I really have a tribe anymore. The friends around me are really heavily into drinking and do drugs on the weekends. The girls I’m meeting for dates are the same. It’s always raining here in the uk and honestly I spend a lot of time alone.
I’m starting to think I’d like to go abroad. Or move city in the uk. I don’t like the culture im around and I’d like to find driven people like me who want to go train in the gym, smash a career, make good money, improve.
I’d also absolutely love to find a girl who wants to do that with me. But I’m finding it nearly impossible to find a friend who wants that let alone a girl.
I find the people im around are really limiting my mindset as I catch myself telling myself this is just it. This is just the way my life is now. But I don’t want it to be
Any advice on how to change this and find what I’m looking for? Coz I don’t know how to anymore.
Tl;dr feel like I’m being brought down by the people around me. how do I find people more like me?

Hey everyone, thought I'd give a write up of the subtract gig as there's probably quite a few of you looking for more info and I've only seen a handful of posts go up.
Just to give you an insight into my point of view:
- I've been a fan of Eds music since before +.
- I've seen him live in stadiums, and smaller venues like Shepherds bush empire.
This is without a doubt some of his best work to date.
The lyrics are incredibly deep. The music is in some places slightly different from the Ed we've become accustomed to, likely due to the Dessner tracks he was given to work with, but definitely feels like Ed all the same. This album feels like Plus and Multiply mixed together. If you liked them, you will definitely like this album.
There are no real upbeat songs. Every song has a tangible feel of real grief strewn throughout it.
Onto the show:
I've been to lots of live gigs and seen lots of live recordings of shows. I have never seen or felt anything like the show on Monday. The room was incredibly intense. It was Ed clearly laying his feelings bare. He was breaking down by the third song, and I don't blame him. The room was thick with the emotion we were seeing and feeling.
I have a lot of past trauma and grief, most of it I've pushed into a box in my head and tried to forget about. By the first song ending, it was starting to spill out. I don't get emotional at films or music but this album broke me for a couple of days.
We got to see 14 songs in total. I'd say my favorites were Boat, Life Goes On, End Of Youth and Hills Of Aberfeldy.
Hills of Aberfeldy is like a slow version of English Rose.
If anyone has any questions, I'll do my best to answer them.

please help i cant take it anymore omg. i have this thing where i physically can’t sleep in a closed bedroom alone. i either have to have someone in the room w me or i have to sleep in an open space like a living room or garage. i can tell my friends are annoyed by me asking them to pick me up just to sleep at their place w them. its come to the point where im on tinder n bumble to act like i wanna hook up w a guy just so i can get there and say im not in the mood anymore so i can sleep at theirs. i did this a couple times this year n i feel so guilty i know its not right to do
anytime i accidently fall asleep in my room i wake up crying. i can’t do it. is there a term for this or is this caused by bpd?? literally every other symptom is managable for me except this. plz give me any advise at all. im a grown girl i cant be like this i just want to sleep bro 😭 my garage is too cold and its almost 5am here