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Three Officers Charged For Concocting a Story
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fl., — On Thursday, three Fort Lauderdale police officers surrendered themselves at the County Jail for being accused of lying about the car chase.
Criminal charges are filed against the three officers, 43-year-old Sgt. Michael Florenco and detectives Matthew Moceri, 29, and Geoffrey Shaffer, 32. The three are alleged to be concocting a story about what happened in the incident and gave a sworn statement in an attempt to cover their misconducts.
The incident started from a call made about a man stealing bottles of beer from Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina hotel on Southeast 17th Street.
Marked and undercover police vehicles pursued all the way from the hotel to the 1200 block of North Rio Vista Boulevard, where the suspected burglar's vehicle crashed.
The three officers filed police reports that 49-year-old Kenneth Post tried to run down two of them, slammed the side of the undercover and intentionally slamming head-on. However, the three violated the Department's policy that states unmarked vehicles "SHALL NOT engage in the pursuit of fleeing vehicles except when it is necessary to apprehend an individual who has caused serious bodily harm or death to any person."
No bodily harm or death was discovered upon investigation of the case.
Furthermore, the reports about the crash and damage they filed contradicted and did not align to the investigations done, instead, supported Post's claims.
Post said that the undercover police cars rammed his car from behind which resulted in his crash. His claims were supported by the results of the investigation whilst the officer's claims were not credible upon finding out that their undercover vehicle only suffered substantial damages.
Post added that he was hit by the police officers "unnecessarily" as he tried to surrender in the crash. The officers counters that Post gave a fight.
Post was initially charged by the arresting officers with attempted murder, but prosecutors filed 11 lesser felonies against him. Criminal charges that accused Post of fleeing and assaulting officers were dropped but he is still in jail and faces charges related to burglary and allegations of attempting to drive down a hotel security guard but missed.
The three officers were charged with four counts each of official misconduct and falsifying records. Florenco and Moceri are also charged with count of perjury, and one count of conspiring to commit official misconduct whilst Shaffer with one count of conspiring to commit official misconduct.
All three were booked to jail at around noon but was later on released on a bond before 8 in the evening.
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A beginner's guide to sushi
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Despite its fame, Japan's signature cuisine is still the subject of various misunderstandings in western countries. In my country, where not many have visited Japan, the first thing people think of when they hear the word "sushi" tends to be "raw fish".
Despite its fame, Japan's signature cuisine is still the subject of various misunderstandings in western countries. In my country, where not many have visited Japan, the first thing people think of when they hear the word "sushi" tends to be "raw fish". Of course, we all know that sushi includes raw fish, but not everyone in English-speaking countries realizes that the word "sushi" refers to the vinegared rice, and not to the raw fish toppings. Also, many don't know that sushi can include cooked toppings, or fillings in rolled sushi, such as egg, eel, prawn, etc. and numerous vegetables – yet still be called "sushi". Even in Japan, large diner-style sushi chain restaurants often put Parma ham, roast beef or tempura-topped sushi on the conveyer-belt menu.
The four main categories of sushi that you are likely to meet are as follows:
Hand-rolled sushi (Temaki-zushi)
This is probably the most common way to have home-made sushi. Japanese families and friends gather round the table and 'mix 'n match' from the selection of seafood, vegetables and other ingredients set out in front of them. The food is prepared so that everyone can help themselves and roll their own sushi by hand. This is done by taking half a nori (laver) sheet, spooning some rice and then your choice of fillings, before rolling it into a cone-shape in your hand. These are then eaten as is, or dipped lightly into some soy sauce, with or without wasabi horseradish paste.
'Garnished' or 'Decorated' Sushi (Chirashi-zushi)
This is another type of sushi that's popular at home. A bowl or bento box of rice is decorated with a variety of colorful ingredients that have been artistically prepared. Chirashi-zushi is often served at celebrations, or it can simply be a lucky child's lunchbox meal at school. The word 'chirashi' means 'scattered' like cherry-blossom petals or snowflakes, and the ingredients may be "scattered" (in reality, they are placed carefully) on top of the rice or mixed in to give a variety of appearances.
Rolled sushi (Maki-zushi) or Laver rolls (Nori-maki)
Although this type of sushi is made at home, it's also a common sight in professional sushi restaurants and differs from Temaki-zushi by its use of a bamboo mat for rolling, known as a makisu. It can be sorted into roughly two traditional categories, thin (hoso-maki) or thick (futo-maki) rolls.
Another category of rolled sushi is 'inside-out' rolls (ura-maki) in which the nori is on the inside and the sushi rice on the outside. There is also rolled sushi that doesn't use nori laver sheets at all, and which was invented by sushi chefs in restaurants overseas, then reimported back to Japan.
One other type of rolled sushi is called "Battleship" Roll (Gunkan-maki) and was designed as a way to hold toppings that could easily fall off. Gunkan-maki are smaller oval-shaped pieces wrapped in nori with toppings such as sea urchin spooned inside the roll.
Examples of traditional thin roll fillings include cucumber, known as Kappa-zushi, after the mythological imp-like creature from Japanese folktales whose favorite food was said to be cucumber; gourd strips (kanpyo-maki); tuna (tekka-maki) and pickled daikon radish rolls (takuan-maki).
Examples of traditional thick roll fillings include grilled conger eel, egg omelet, shrimp, gourd, cucumber and shiitake mushrooms.
Hand-molded sushi (Nigiri-zushi)
The most celebrated and representative type of sushi which developed during the latter years of the Edo Period (1716 – 1864) as a kind of fast food eaten standing outside. The toppings may be raw, marinated in vinegar or soy sauce, or lightly seared and are chosen according to when they are in season. The most common toppings are divided into red flesh fish such as tuna, white fish such as bream, silver-skinned fish such as mackerel, and other types such as squid and octopus, prawn and shellfish.
Some Sushi etiquette
Restaurant sushi may be eaten with the hand or with chopsticks, and may include grated wasabi horseradish or not, depending on personal preference. There are no formal rules for customers in sushi restaurants, but there are generally three ways to order. You can either leave it up to the chef, choose from an à la carte menu, or choose a set course, which also tends to be the most economical option.
Finally, it takes sushi chefs years of practice and training to get the size, shape, texture and taste just right, but if amateurs learn the tried and tested technique, they too can mold nigiri sushi with varying degrees of success. Fancy giving it a go?
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This trader has just fallen into a Limbic Learning – his survival instincts have kicked in and he has lost volitional control of his trading mind. It happens all the time. There is a great drama going on in your brain every time you risk capital. And within that drama, you have no idea what is going on. This is where the struggle between your Thinking Brain and your Emotional Brain takes place – beneath your conscious threshold.
If you are like most traders, emotionally illiterate, the crashes are only seen after the fact. And you cannot understand why your trading mind keeps getting emotionally hijacked – you're trying so hard. You are clueless about the way the brain makes decisions when exposed to uncertainty, risk, and potential capital loss. Fully more than 90% of the trading decisions you make are happening below the conscious threshold in the Emotional Brain. The coveted Thinking Brain does not even show up as part of the decision until after the fact. Traders fight this invisible enemy because they refuse to adapt the old survival programming of their primal brain for the rigors of managing risk in a world of uncertainty. This dilemma is why it is so difficult to produce success in trading. You are asking the brain to do something that it is not designed to do – and yet, you keep forcing the issue, thinking it will be different this time.
Trading forces you to really examine which mindsets work and which don't work. And what traders are continually forced to acknowledge is that the brain/mind they brought to trading simply does not manage probability well at all. It's nothing personal. But if you are to become consistently profitable, it is your responsibility to change what nature has given you. Your trading account cuts to the bone. It shows you, beyond all doubt, if the mind you trade with is working effectively or not in managing uncertainty and probability. In truth, the reason so many traders fail is because they refuse to adapt, despite the mountain of evidence that demonstrate the old way is not working.
In evolution and in trading, it is not the fittest or strongest (or the most knowledgeable) that make the survival cut. Wait, didn't Darwin say that survival belongs to the strongest? No, he did not. What evolves and moves on from the challenges of engaging uncertainty is being the most adaptive – this is the crux of creating success in trading. Failure to adapt is the biggest obstacle that stands between your idea of success and the reality of trading. People refuse to adapt even when overwhelming evidence indicates the pressure or need for adaptation is real and present.
In trading, extinction is not about a species dying off and disappearing from the gene pool. Rather it is about your capital being extinguished over time so that you are no longer contributing to the capital risk pool of the markets. The capital disappears as does the trader – another dead end trail because the trader did not heed the need to adapt. Adapt or perish. It's pretty simply in concept. So why is it so hard to do? Well, for starters, the brain you know so little about – your Limbic Brain – it dead set against your attempting to force logic upon it when Logic is not part of the calculus of its operation.
Your performance problems start with the great divide called your Thinking Brain and your Emotional Brain. The Thinking Brain is that part of you that thinks in language. It's analytical, rational, and solves abstract problems – like those found in trading. It also creates narratives – the stories we hear in our heads about us and who we are. You probably have heard the narrative Self Doubt erupt in your mind when trying to make a trading decision. The key to understanding this is to accept that you are not having thoughts about Self Doubt. Instead thoughts (called a narrative) are having you – creating your experience of managing uncertainty. And most people become so identified with these stories that the Thinking of Left Brain has created, that they believe that the stories are the truth. It never even occurs to them that these stories need to be examined. They are not you, but they are happening to you as a Historical Narrative of the way your Limbic Brain learned how (in another time and place) to deal with the short term survival aspects of uncertainty.
And that is the exact problem with trading. Because your trading account forces you (eventually) to start examining the stories that you are telling yourself about who you are. Many of the stories that traders tell themselves simply are not consistent with the unbiased news that their trading account keeps revealing to them. Typical stories are: "I'm a disciplined trader" (yet your trading account shows a lot of undisciplined behavior); "I'm a successful trader" (yet your trading account reveals a lack of success); "I'm a patient trader" (yet your trading account shows a lot of erratic and impulsive moments); "I only take trades that fit my rules" (yet your trading account shows that you take trades outside of your rules). The narrative and stories go on. These are only a few that show the inconsistency between the narrative produced by the Thinking Brain and its desire to be a winner and the clarity that the trading account reveals about the story that the Left Brain has created.
The brain simply does not want to let go of an organization of the Self that has already been constructed and feels true – even if it is not working in managing Probability. This is where the natural selection power of evolution will produce extinction if the trader resists change. What traders miss is realizing that the Left Brain has only created a narrative that supports what the Emotional Brain has already decided. Not only is the narrative a rationalization, or alibi, that the Left Brain has created to support the Limbic Learning (unconscious) of the Emotional Brain, but also the quality of thinking that comes out of the Left Brain is emotional-state-dependent. Rational thinking is not independent of emotion. It is deeply influenced by emotional meaning. This is the watershed moment that separates elite traders from the rest of the pack that struggle.
The Thinking Brain is a servant to the Emotional Brain. It is not independent. Nor is it in charge – it only looks that way in a trader's mindlessness. The conscious, language heavy, Thinking Brain really does not run the show – though it tells a story that it does. It is the Emotional Brain, that ancient brain that all social mammalians share, that dictates how you as a trader engage the uncertainty as revealed in trading. And until you master your emotional nature, you will find success in trading to be a roller coaster ride. Your Emotional and Thinking Brain have to work together. This is the elephant in the room that everyone denies is really there. It is also what keeps you stuck in present performance patterns.
Your Emotional Brain is primitive and primal. It does not perceive the way the Thinking Brain does. It is built to scan the environments for threats, risk, and safety factors. It does this from a short term survival perspective – literally survival in the moment. It does not think or evaluate. Information comes into the brain and based on history and what has been successful in the past, a lighting decision is made about how to react to the factor in the environment. As a trader you experience this primitive decision tree every time you feel fear of potential loss when looking at trade entry points. You also experience this survival, instinct-driven decision-making every time you experience a trade going against you and you feel the fear and anger which leads to revenge trading.
None of this involves thinking and evaluation on a logical level. Rational thinking and logic are way down the pecking order in decision-making under stress. Thinking and evaluation simply got pushed out of the way once fear, anger, or impulse blossomed into emotional force. Thinking then followed the emotion that triggered and then took over the mind. You also experience this sequence every time you feel FOMO – take the profit before it is taken away from you! The urgency to protect the skinny profit by the survival instincts of the Emotional Brain blows the Thinking Brain's desire to see that trade reach its target. Thinking comes in late to create an alibi for what the survival instincts of the primitive emotional brain already decided. There's that fiction, or storytelling, aspect of the Thinking Brain in action – late to the party but with a good excuse.
Under the stress of risking capital, this is how an untrained mind behaves. It is focused on survival in the moment, controlling outcome, being right, and not losing. The problem with trading (compared with other endeavors) is that the trader has to acknowledge his lack of control over outcome, that he is often wrong, and that he is going to lose often. When the brain is forced into accepting this new reality, "something's gotta give" – and what "gives" is impartial thinking. Fight/flight triggers because the uncertainty over the outcome has triggered the trader's brain to experience vulnerability. The feeling of vulnerability is directly linked to triggering of the fight/flight response to uncertainty – the very thing that the trader does not want to happen.
How Do You Get Out of This Fix?
When the Emotional Brain first engages uncertainty, it learns to solve the problem of short term survival presented by the stressor. This is called a Limbic Learning. This problem solution is amoral – it simply wants to find and incorporate a way of dealing with the potential threat of the uncertainty. If it is successful, that learning locks into neural networks and simply fires as a proven way of solving the problem. Much later a psychology of meaning moves the Limbic Learning (amoral in nature) into something new – an emotional belief. It is here that Trading Psychology develops.
Ultimately you need to change the beliefs that you, the trader, is projecting onto the markets. Those beliefs are reflected in the health of your trading account. However, those beliefs have now been encoded into emotionally reactive patterns supported by neural pathways. These emotionally reactive patterns have to be calmed down BEFORE you can get underneath – to the beliefs, assumptions, and biases that drive your performance under the stress of uncertainty.
In my work this process follows a sequence. First the trader has to retrain the body's triggering to emotion. The emotional triggering is a reactive pattern that fires and then takes over the mind. In Emotional Regulation you learn how to calm down the intensity of the emotional firing so that it does not hijack the trading mind. That's step one. Nothing else matters until you can regulate the emotion. The next step is learning Mindfulness as a way of slowing down your thoughts and then separating from them. In this step you learn that thoughts will always be there, but you do not have to identify with them and get carried away into that world of thought. You, instead, can step back out of the thought train and re-center yourself.
These are the two essential skills. And with Mindfulness you begin exploring the different aspects of your humanness and discover that your mind is a busy neighborhood. A neighborhood with some really great neighbors and some really bad neighbors. And you begin to discern them through Mindfulness. You discover that you have choice over what aspects of the Self govern the mind that engages uncertainty. This is where you really begin to get control of the mind that you bring to the moment of performance.
You learn to let go of the impossible task of trying to control outcome (that you never had control over anyway). And you begin to focus on what you do control – and this is big. You learn through applied mindfulness how to control the emotional programs that give rise to the quality of your thinking. Instead of a mind rooted in fear and/or aggression that engages uncertainty, you find that you can bring a mind rooted in discipline, courage, self-soothing, and impartiality to the table of trading. This is the psychological edge needed to produce the method edge you have, in theory. Now the emotional brain is your partner with the Thinking Brain. They work together as one unit. This is the Traders State of Mind needed for working effectively with the uncertainty of risking capital. This is the Probability Mind that has evolved from the fear based mind that you brought to trading. You have become the designer, rather than allowing natural selection to determine the mind you bring to trading.
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Vastaamo was a Finnish private psychotherapy service provider founded in 2008.  On 21 October 2020, Vastaamo announced that its patient database had been hacked. Private information obtained by the perpetrators was used in an attempt to extort Vastaamo and, later, its clients. The extorters demanded 40 bitcoins, roughly 450,000 euros, and threatened to publish the records if the ransom was not paid. To add pressure to their demands, the extorters published hundreds of patient records a day on a Tor message board.

After extortion of the company failed, the extorters sent emails to the clients whose data they had obtained, demanding that they pay ransoms in order to avoid publication of their sensitive personal data. These ransom demands were sent to roughly 30,000 victims. The company's security practices were found to be inadequate: the sensitive data was not encrypted and anonymized and the system root did not have a defined password. The patient records were first accessed by intruders in November 2018, while the security flaws continued to exist until March 2019.

In December 2021, the Finnish Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Vastaamo 608,000 euros for violating the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This cyber-attack became the biggest criminal case in Finland history. It also turned into an international scandal and a cyber-attack unprecedented in its scope due to the tactic called double extortion applied by the cyber criminals.

On October 28, 2022, the National Bureau of Investigation named the suspect behind the breach as 25-year-old Aleksanteri Julius Kivimäki. Kivimäki was charged in absentia at Helsinki District Court for aggravated data breach, aggravated attempted extortion, aggravated distribution of information infringing private life, blackmail, breach of confidentiality and falsification of evidence. A warrant was filed with Europol and Interpol against Kivimäki, who has said he was in Dubai. In 2015, Kivimäki, then a member of Lizard Squad, was found guilty on over 50,000 counts of computer crime.

Julius Kivimäki, a suspect in the Vastaamo data breach, was arrested in France on 3 February 2023. He was extradited to Finland on 24 February.

Background

Vastaamo was a Helsinki-based private psychotherapy center founded in 2008 that provided private mental-health services to its patients. It was a firm with twenty-five therapy centers throughout the Nordic country of 5.5 million people. Vastaamo operated as a sub-contractor for Finland's public health system. Ville Tapio, ex-CEO of Vastaamo first heard from the hacker on 28 September 2020. He immediately notified various government authorities, including the police. On 21 October 2020, Vastaamo announced that its confidential treatment records of approximately 36,000 psychotherapy patients and 400 employees had been compromised. The psychotherapy center received a ransom demand for 450,000 euros in Bitcoin. The leaked patient database contained psychotherapy clients' personal information, such as their full names, home addresses, email addresses, social security numbers, names of the clinics where they received treatments, and therapists' and doctors' notes from each session.

As the company resisted to pay the ransom, the hacker, using the alias "ransom_man," published the therapist session notes of at least 300 patients, including politicians and police officers, using a server called Tor, a public forum. The therapist session notes contained information about adulterous relationships, suicide attempts and pedophilic thoughts. The hacker approached victims of the security breach directly with extortion emails demanding ransoms of 200 euros paid in Bitcoin, with the amount increased to 500 euros unless paid within 24 hours. A 10-gigabyte data file containing private notes between at least 2,000 patients and their therapists had appeared on websites on the "dark web." Patient information was stolen during two attacks, which started as early as 2018. This first intrusion on Vastaamo's database took place in November 2018, and the systems were penetrated between the end of November 2018 and March 2019. PTK Midco, a holding company owned by Intera Partners, a Finnish private equity firm, which acquired a 70% stake in Vastaamo in May 2019. The company has asked for inquiry into acquisition and also requested that its acquisition of the company be cancelled and the purchase price be returned for failure to disclose hacking.

Ville Tapio was relieved of his duties as the chief executive of the psychotherapy center on 26 October 2020. Vastaamo was declared bankrupt by the decision of the Helsinki District Court in February 2021. In early March 2021, its staff and services were transferred to Verve, a provider of occupational welfare services. The company's patient database was not transferred over to Verve.

Impact
The security breach has shaken societal trust in Finland's institutions, violated sensitive systems, and damaged faith in online social networks that are supposed to be properly secured. Thousands of victims have suffered anxiety, insecurity, and stress from this traumatic event, and the psychological effects from the trauma are long-lasting. This created a national opportunity for public discussion about mental health issues. Additionally, weak security of health-care systems has been brought to the surface. This hacking incident had a wide impact on healthcare industry's obligations to secure their networks and increase their accountability. The security breach served as a wake-up call for Finland's cyber security who then increased preparation for digital attacks on medical healthcare providers and private education institutions.  Focus on balancing availability of information and data governance has increased along with investments in companies' computer security since the hacking incident occurred. As a result of the data breach, the Finnish Data Protection Authority (DPA) started taking the violations of the GDPR more seriously and increased enforcement activities. The outcomes of investigations of the security breach, and also any sanctions established, now serve as a reference point to any future legal assessments.

Responding to the hack
Immediately following the hack, the cabinets from the Finnish government held their regular Wednesday meeting to address cybersecurity issues, create new legislation regarding data security and identity thefts, and promise emergency support for the victims. More than 22,600 victims of blackmail in 2020 have visited The Victim Support Finland (RIKU), an organization that provides counseling and support to victims of crimes. Various Finnish organizations have quickly established ways to help the victims, including direct dial-in numbers to churches and therapy services. Organizations that provide victim support services include Finnish Red Cross, Mental Health Finland, Victim Support Finland and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Additionally, many companies working with social security numbers and debt collecting had taken action to help the victims whose identities have been stolen. In order to rebuild public trust in the government and authorities, the Finnish central government requested that government agencies make sure the processing and handling of personal information is secure to minimize the leakage of personal data. Additionally, ministries conducted reviews on what they can do better within their own departments and how they can assure the public about the security of their personal data.  The Finland's National Bureau of Investigation introduced an unprecedented Finnish criminal code, where a person can be found guilty of the privacy violation of the data subject when they process personal data, either intentionally or through gross negligence, and cause damage or significant inconvenience to the data subject. Furthermore, the Finnish government accelerated legislation that allowed its citizens to change their personal identity codes when there is a data breach that would involve high risk of identity theft.

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Even Surgery Can't Stop Me From Gaming
Said every gamer ever. I think every gamer secretly relishes a long illness as a chance to sit down before their computer/console and spend days wallowing in misery as they while away the hours consoling themselves by indulging in their digital diversions.
This was not one of those times. I unfortunately had to have a spinal fusion to fix a damaged nerve and herniated disc, the result of a breakdancing accident back in college (yes you read that right) which put me on bedrest for two weeks. I could not convince my wife to move my computer up into our bedroom for some cockamamy reason which my med clouded mind cannot recall, and so I could not play any computer games. I could not stay upright the time it would take to unbox a board game, much less actually participate in one.
And then. AND THEN. It was discovered that I was leaking spinal fluid, causing a pressure differentiation in my brain which was giving me terrible headaches and was the reason I was, even after two weeks of doing nothing but laying on my back, not recovering. Thus, I was the lucky recipient of a second spinal surgery, this one to put a patch on my spine to stop the leaking and thereby the headaches. The recovery after this procedure was much more strict. I stayed in the hospital much longer, and they measured the angle at which my head was in contrast to my body and made sure to keep it well below 30 degrees. I kid you not, they used a protractor to measure. Isn't there an app for that nowadays?
Needless to say, it was a very trying last couple of weeks for me. But, apart from my doting family of course, I did find a very robust game I kept coming back to, a mobile game at that. It can be played on smartphone, tablet, and computer alike. I am of course talking about Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.
When I say this game belongs to mobile, tablet, and computer gaming, I don't just mean it is playable on all three. What I mean is that it is seamless among all three. It is a deck-building game most similar in nature to I suppose Magic: The Gathering, in which you construct decks of creatures and spells and use those decks to battle other players. Your account is useable throughout the different platforms. Create a deck on your tablet, use it on your smartphone. It is a very nice touch Blizzard has added. Oh yes. I did not mention it, but this game is made by Blizzard. So the production values are through the roof.
But until now I hadn't given it much attention. With the sheer amount of games out there, tabletop, PC, or otherwise, mobile games usually take last priority on my list. And because I had first heard about it as a mobile game, that is the category into which I sequestered it away to be thought of at times and never really played. But lying on my back 24 hours a day for two weeks gave me ample opportunity to delve into Hearthstone, and I found a hugely engrossing game that consumed way too much of my time and probably prolonged my recovery due to stress.
In Hearthstone, you choose a hero of Warcraft, Blizzard claim to gold-mine fame. You can then use a prebuilt deck for that hero (oh, so nice of Blizzard to include that for us noobs who are terrible at figuring out good card combinations) or a customized deck built from the base cards of the prebuilt deck along with any cards you have purchased, received in packs, won during tournaments, received during promotional events, ones that were hand-stitched by your grandma. There are special cards galore, and the universe that the game draws from, that of Warcraft, offers a huge mythos to draw those special cards from.
Your heroes have health, and the first to reach zero loses. Cards range from creatures with attack powers and health points to spells that can do damage, add attack power, transform enemies into harmless sheep; the sheer variety of cards and effects is staggering. It is also deeply strategic, with every choice you make, even the order in which you play your cards, affecting how that turn ends up playing out for you. Best off, it's completely free to play, or free-to-play if you're a hyphen head. You can spend real money to purchase packs of in game cards, ala the glory-filled Pokemon days of our youth, but you can also purchase these same packs with in game currency you slowly accumulate through wins, objectives, and a various assortment of other methods. This method is of course slower, hence the appeal of purchasing them with real money.
But the game is most certainly not pay to win. In fact, I have heard tell of a player who achieved the highest rank status in the game using only the basic card sets, just to prove that it was possible. And that is to be applauded. It is the skill of the player using any cards he desires that wins the game, not the person buying the rarest card with the most sought after ability. The spending of actual money on the game is not "pay us money to get the cards that will help you win" it is "pay us money to feel that thrill of ripping open a foil container and discovering which amazing creatures and spells are contained within." In fact, whether you want to attribute that feeling first to baseball card collecting or, since you never really played a game with those, you could argue you can first attribute that feeling to Pokemon, where you spent however much money, ripped open that foil and hoped to find that holographic Charizard, not necessarily because he was the one card you needed to complete your perfect, unbeatable deck, but because he was cool to look at, and you could point him out to friends and say "I found him in a pack of cards next to a Rattata."
I'm not coherent enough to even attempt to call this a review; I could open up a pharmacy with all the pain pills I am on right now. I'm writing this to a) explain my prolonged absence, 2) highlight a game that I had heretofore five six overlooked, and thirdly to just put in a little plug for gaming, because while I was lying there in bed, 24 hours a day, my wife was my only source of companionship. And as saintly as she is, she can only stand to be around me for so long, and so I spent a good portion of my time alone. Playing Hearthstone allowed me to connect with other people while I was recovering. It allowed me experience a relationship with another person, albeit a short and fiercely competitive one. It didn't help me recover faster, I couldn't quaff one of those iconic red health potions and suddenly be restored to health, but it did certainly help keep me from going stir crazy and trying to chew a hole through my bedroom wall. Which is just one more reason I (and my insurance agent) love gaming.
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Grandfather clock radio, center front window dial, lower cloth grill with cut-outs, upper clock, 4 knobs.
From Kutztown PA Antique Radio Show & Swap Meet, September 20th, 2013.
This set has been retored electronicaly and comesticaly, with a new faceplate and clock machine.
Radio 119 of 244, id 25547. Current page is 118. Server IP is 74.208.58.114.


Our journey starts at Finca Paraiso with a picnic lunch, swimming, and exploration of the cave. Finca Paraiso is an idyllic and unusual tropical place, where thermal hot waterfalls cascade into a cool deep natural swimming pool. After this, we continue on to the Rio Dulce and check-in at our waterfront cabañas.
The 2nd day begins with a 45 minute boat ride, taking us to our kayaks. Once our gear is ready, we set off through the canyons of the lower section of the river to Livingston, admiring all the sights along the way. We will arrive at our hotel´s dock La Casa Rosada after paddling for about 3-4 hours. We then have the rest of the day to walk around the very relaxed and funky town of Livingston, Guatemala´s only Caribbean town boasting a vibrant Garifuna culture.
We will also make a visit to the Archaeological Mayan ruins of Quirigua, where we will explore the area with the largest carved stelas in the known Mayan world, a site which flourished in the late Classic period (around 800 AD).


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Made professionally with correct techniques. Sold to Natural Horsemanship trainers and students, endurance riders, horse studs and anyone who enjoys riding. We have a wide range of products including our own range of rope halters, lead ropes, rope reins and Rope Bridles available in a great range of colours, styles and designs.
Currently we have no Ozzy Ropes for sale in our store, however when they become available I will make a note on the NoBit Bridles Facebook page.


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The following is a list of the lieutenant governors of British Columbia. Though the present day office of the lieutenant governor in British Columbia came into being only upon the province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1871, the post is a continuation from the first governorship of Vancouver Island in 1849, although without the same executive powers as governors had. There were also colonial lieutenant-governors whose job was that of deputy to the governor.

Lieutenant governors of British Columbia, 1871–present

See also

 Office-holders of Canada
 List of Canadian incumbents by year

References

External links

British Columbia
Lieutenant Governors


If you are from California and are considering going on the Alien Encounters Tour, but you don't want to make the trek to Arizona for the start, we've set up a meet point for our California friends!
Our scheduled arrival time is between 1:30 and 2:00 PM. Even if you are meeting us there, please register for the ride here. This will help us ensure that we print enough stickers for everyone.


The Laurentian men's hockey team started their two game series against both of the Ottawa universities this Friday evening on a very snowy Sudbury night.
The Vees came out of the locker room with the same energy that has brought them on their two game and eleven goal win streak.
It did not take long for the Vees to put themselves into gear as Daniel LePage forced a turnover off a Carleton Ravens defender while applying pressure deep in the offensive zone. LePage would be the first player to score in the game with his unassisted goal just eight minutes into the first.
The Vees carried that energy into the rest of the period as just six minutes later Nicolas Dionne took the offensive reins and pushed the puck up the full sheet of ice and driving the net but his line mate Richard Therrian would be the one awarded with the goal, giving the Vees a 2-0 lead.
The second period was a very action packed period for both the Ravens and the Vees. Dionne extended his point streak as he managed to pull off an impressive hand eye coordination stunt as he batted a loose puck out of the air and into the net, giving the Vees one more goal and adding to their lead making it 3-0.
A Ravens offensive push ensued in the second period bringing them behind by just one goal. Jared Steege was the Raven who put them back onto the board and giving the Ravens some offensive hope.
The Ravens then added another one late in the second period as Brogan O'Brein was able to score an unassisted powerplay goal and the second period would close out at a 3-2 Voyageurs lead.
A tense third period ensued as the Ravens had a major offensive push that Voyageurs goaltender, Michael Giugovaz, would be able to fend off and would end the night with a total of 33 saves and providing the Vees with a win.
The Vees extend their win streak to three, their longest in three years. They will take the confidence into tomorrows game against a Ottawa Gee-Gee team that has lost only one game in a shootout.


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The 2023 Silent Movies Calendar: "Collector's Choice" Edition!
The calendar is ready for shipping!
I produce this calendar every year with generous contributions of photographs from collectors and institutions as a benefit for silent film preservation.
The Silent Movies Benefit Calendar features silent film artwork for each month, and on each date lists birthdays of silent-era film stars and personalities, as well as notable marriages, deaths, and film openings.
This year the theme is "Contributors' Choice." I asked my regular contributors to choose pieces from their collections that particularly had caught their eye, so the only "theme" is really "photos that the contributors liked." But this has resulted in a series of lovely photos, some familiar, others quite obscure.
I sell the calendars through PayPal, since it makes the shipping and accounting easy. You do not need a Paypal account to purchase.
To purchase one copy of the calendar, use this Paypal button.
To purchase several calendars in one shipment, use this button to add calendars to your "cart," and then check out through PayPal. You can also use this button to add items from the Mont Alto Orchestra's Recordings page if you like, to get them all in one shipment.
You can also order by check. Email me your address and let me know the size of the order, and I'll calculate shipping for you.
The 2022 calendar raised $1753.66 for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's preservation projects.
The 2021 calendar raised $2421 for for the Film Preservation Society for their Biograph project.
The 2020 calendar raised $1859 for Lobster Films
The 2019 calendar raised $2019 for the George Eastman Museum
The 2018 calendar raised $2024 for the UCLA Film and Television Archive
The 2017 calendar raised $2005 for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The 2016 calendar raised $1750 for Film Preservation Associates
The 2015 calendar raised $2300 for the Museum of Modern Art
The 2012 calendar benefitted the UCLA Film and Television Archive
The 2010 and 2011 calendars benefitted the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles California
The 2009 calendar funds supported an internship in film preservation through the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
The 2008 calendar funds supported the video restoration of Bardelys the Magnificent through Film Preservation Associates and Lobster Films
The 2007 calendar funds were donated to the George Eastman House.
The 2006 calendar benefitted Film Preservation Associates.
The 2004 alt.movies.silent calendar raised $1442.06, for two projects.
The 2003 calendar made possible a donation of $671.07 to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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This is the downside of e-publishing / indie publishing / self-publishing. Even - as it is in my case - if you're not self-publishing, an indie author still has to wear a lot of hats just to get a book out. If you're lucky, your publisher will hire a really good editor for you. But exceptionally good editors - the kind that can work for the Big 6 - is a rare breed, so most of the time even if you get your book published by X and Y, you still end up spotting a lot of mistakes. In the end, the whole lot still falls on your shoulders.
I don't earn a lot of money from publishing my books. You might think I do but no - really, I don't, and it mostly has to do with the fact that I'm from how my publishing contracts work, the fact that I'm from a Third World country, and really --- things just work differently here. So anyway, aside from writing full-time, I also have a day job - thankfully, it has to do with writing, too, which means it's NOT a crappy job at all but something I actually love.
Well, anyway, the thing is - I have a lot on my plate, and sometimes they just end up stressing me out - if I'm already sick (like now) I just get even sicker simply because I can't stop writing / working even though I should be resting. Case in point - NOW, it's 4am and I'm still up, wondering if today's the day I'll finally finish cleaning up PNV and SNF as best as I can. Fingers crossed that I do.
WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOU DON'T MEET YOUR RELEASE DATE?
Honestly, my first instinct is to run away and just continue working, writing, and editing until I'm all done with it. I'll get the book out more quickly that way. BUT as I've learned - readers are very, very forgiving BUT they want - need - updates. Any update would do. Just to know that the books they want to read will be out. I learned this the hard way with A ROYAL HEARTBREAK. That book broke my heart - so many things went wrong before its publication that I'm just really relieved it's finally out there!
And now, here we go again with Park and Violet and Suit and Fangs - I was sooooo happy about these two, I'm on schedule with everything then bang! I had dysmenorrhea, then the flu, then I had to make time for my Dad's birthday last May 30, we got really busy at my day job, and it just all went downhill from there.
Authors - you know who you are. A lot of my fave indie authors have - had - the same problems I did - do - and I saw that their first instincts were not much different from mine.
You see, it hurts so much to have a reader disappointed in you. It's almost like having your crush reject you - so really the instinct to AVOID confrontation is understandable.
BUT it's not going to fix things.
In the end, you just have to man up (woman up?) and admit that you're late with your release date.
But you should have good news to share, too!
It's the only way to make it up to your readers. Any good news would do.
Once they're out, I'll of course send the ebook copies I promised to Elizabeth and LaKesha and I'll also choose 2 more from my subscription list!
AAAAND for those who love Drawn: His Secret Toy, I'm currently negotiating as to which local publishing house would get to work on printing Drawn and have it available as paperbacks. I'll make sure you can order them online and keep delivery costs down!
P.S. I told my mom about Drawn getting published as a paperback. She saw the second cover of Drawn (the one with the couple) and she's like, naaah - she likes the illustrated cover better coz the other one's too...umm..."racy".
Pfft. If it isn't obvious yet, neither of my parents have any idea of what I'm writing. If Drawn's racy, what more (insert another title here)???


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New On-site ACCOMMODATIONS Will be available summer 2019.
In early 2018 we added a twelve unit building on-site that is fully furnished with 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a kitchen, and a laundry room. We plan to have these units fully operational by August 1st, 2018.
At G & M Family Farm we are working towards advancing the apiculture, and agriculture communities in Newfoundland. This is being done through the implementation of techniques such as instrumental insemination, and the development of temperature and humidity controlled overwintering rooms. We are also developing a covered outdoor apiary that will aid in protecting our hives from rain, snow, pests and high winds. The development of a quinoa growout site; a grain that has yet to be grown commercially in Newfoundland; is currently in progress. We have begun the process of re-purposing the second floor of our old barn to be used as a crop drying room for our garlic, onions, leaks, and quinoa. Follow the link below to learn more about G & M Family Farm and our ongoing projects.
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Last night Zoë slept fairly well. She woke up around 1:00 and I fed her (because I'm a pushover) but then she went back to sleep in her own bed, so we'll call that a success.
Sharing a bed with her is, oh, so fun. For whatever reason Zoë feels she must sleep perpendicular to traffic, making a nice letter H out of us all. It's great. Why she can't shoot for III is beyond me.
After refusing an afternoon nap for the past couple of weeks, she finally succumbed to one this afternoon and I've never seen a more beautiful sight—little cherub!
This doll really does seem to help her relax. It's actually quite soothing. I thought I would find it annoying, but instead I find myself matching the breathing patterns and drifting off to sleep. She tends to like to hold it. You can kind of "feel" the heartbeat when you cuddle it, which she probably enjoys, having spent most of her previous time sleeping next to momma's heartbeat.
I feel like we've reached a sustainable level of sleep, so that's good, and hopefully the Lulla Doll will get us to an enjoyable level of sleep.
It looks like a recipe for a kink in the neck. I guess I'll fish him out of there in a couple of hours. He got sick a while back with what I think is the same thing that caused Zoë's croup (because that means he's maybe outgrowing croup—yippee!) and suffered a bit of a potty-training relapse. He wet the bed several nights in a row because he was "just too sick/tired to get out of bed." Ugh. So I've started waking him up to use the potty in the middle of the night again.
He's really been doing so great in that department so hopefully he'll get back to his regular self soon!
The kids have really been enjoying all these car seat boxes! They've been forts and dog houses and rocket ships. While I was making dinner they were using the boxes for ninja training. Unbeknownst to me (until I heard the crashes and screaming) one of the training modules involved leaping from the top step of the bunk bed, across the bedroom, and landing inside one of the boxes.
As it turns out, this was a terrible idea.
After several minutes (twenty, perhaps) of nonstop crying, Miriam seemed to regain her spirits. She has a few bruises on her foot and I haven't exactly seen her walk normally yet (lots of crawling and hopping) but I don't think it's broken. We'll see how things are in the morning, I guess.
I mean...that was a terrible idea, children. Terrible. The worst.


Harriet and James first contacted me in January 2017 when they were planning their Wedding at Gosfield Hall and we had a meeting in Late March of that year.
I was so pleased when they commissioned me to film their Wedding as they are such a relaxed and happy couple who enjoy life.
To make sure they got the best possible Wedding Film they decided upon my two Videographer film collection and I was assisted on the day by Tomasz Kornatowski.
Harriet and James had Kevin and Sabrina from Pengelly photography as their Wedding photographers.
I just knew that it would be a 'fun' day and I was proved right, here is their 3 minute 'Teaser Trailer' ……enjoy !
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No one has contributed more to the Lindy Hop than Frankie Manning -- as a dancer, innovator and choreographer. For much of his lifetime he has been an unofficial Ambassador of Lindy Hop. Originally touring as a dancer and choreographer with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the 30's and 40's, he helped spread the popularity of the Lindy Hop through three continents. Once again, since the swing dance revival that started in the 1980s, Frank Manning has been a driving force worldwide with his teaching, choreography and performance. His own love of swing music and dancing has been as contagious as his dazzling smile.
Frankie Manning started dancing in his early teens at a Sunday afternoon dance at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem to the music of Vernon Andrade. From there he moved on to the Rennaissance Ballroom, which had an early evening dance for older teens with the live swing music of the Claude Hopkins Orchestra. Finally, Frankie "graduated" to the Savoy Ballroom, which was known for its great dancers and bands.
Manning, competitive as well as gifted, became a star in the informal jams in the "Kat's Korner" of the Savoy, frequently won the Saturday night contests, and was invited to join the elite 400 Club, whose members could come to the Savoy Ballroom daytime hours to practise alongside the bands that were booked at the Savoy.
Frank Manning's dancing stood out, even among the greats of the Savoy Ballroom, for its unerring musicality. Fast on his feet and with a keen ear, Frankie gave physical expression to the beat, the feel and the excitement of the swing sound played by the great Big Bands.
Frankie was inspired by first-generation Lindy Hoppers George "Shorty" Snowden and Leroy "Stretch" Jones. However, in order to beat these two great dancers in the intense competitions held at the Savoy Ballroom, Frankie developed his own unique style. He is responsible for many innovations of Lindy Hop step and style, including dancing at a sharp angle to the ground like a track runner, instead of in the upright, stiff ballroom position of his predecesssors. In a famous competition --really, a showdown-- Frankie Manning and his partner Freda Washington outdanced Shorty and his partner Big Bea-- and astonished the crowd of 2000-- with the first Lindy airstep ever done.
In 1935, when Herbert White brought together the top Savoy Ballroom Dancers into a professional performance group to be called Whitey's Lindy Hoppers , Frankie created the first ensemble Lindy Hop routines. This gave him an opportunity to expand upon his gift for transforming the swing music into exciting dance-movement patterns. When Whitey's Lindy Hoppers were in their heyday, Frankie was the chief choreographer, serving as what we today would call artistic director while Whitey was business manager.