AT&T has finally announced a blazing-fast internet connection for Kansas City, called "Giga Power". Giga Power promises to deliver 75-100 times faster internet speed than any other Cable or DSL service.
If any of you might have missed the news, Google has already launched its fiber services in Kansas City some time ago. Giga power is definitely a strong competitor for Google Fiber. The monthly subscription for both services is almost same. You can check Google Fiber services here!
Both services charged $70/month, but there's a catch when you are going to subscribe for AT&T services. An extra $29/month will be charged if you want to opt out of the company's "Internet Preference" program. Now, what the Internet preference program? It's a tracking system that tracks your activities like what websites you visit, the time you spend on each, the links or ads you see and follow, and the search terms you enter. In short, they will maintain complete logs for profiling their users.
Now, let say, you are spending $29 and opt-out the company's internet preference program, what's next? Well, AT&T works independent of your browser's privacy settings regarding cookies, do-not-track, and private browsing. If you opt-in to AT&T Internet Preferences, AT&T will still be able to collect and use your Web browsing information independent of those settings. Means, you wasted your $29 and still you will be served to the target ads by AT&T.
On the other hand, Google Fiber claims that it won't use or associate your account with any data from your Google Fiber use. Your internet activities are safe and will not serve to any third party, except with your consent or to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
The fact is AT&T is ripping-off its users. For an extra $50, AT&T is also bundling TV and HBO with its gigabit internet service. This $120/month is only for first three years, there may be changes in the packages later on. And, don't forget that $29 which you may pay for opting-out the company's Internet preferences.
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Corpora amylacea are associated with tau burden and cognitive status in Alzheimer's disease
Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2022 Aug 8;10(1):110. doi: 10.1186/s40478-022-01409-5.
Connor M Wander 1 2 , Tamy Harumy Moraes Tsujimoto 3 , John F Ervin 4 , Chanung Wang 5 , Spencer M Maranto 1 , Vanya Bhat 1 , Julian D Dallmeier 6 , Shih-Hsiu Jerry Wang 4 7 , Feng-Chang Lin 3 , William K Scott 6 8 9 , David M Holtzman 5 , Todd J Cohen 10 11
1 Department of Neurology, UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
2 Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
3 Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
4 Bryan Brain Bank, Department of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
5 Department of Neurology, Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
6 Brain Endowment Bank, Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
7 Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
8 John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
9 Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
10 Department of Neurology, UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. toddcohen@neurology.unc.edu.
11 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. toddcohen@neurology.unc.edu.
Corpora amylacea (CA) and their murine analogs, periodic acid Schiff (PAS) granules, are age-related, carbohydrate-rich structures that serve as waste repositories for aggregated proteins, damaged cellular organelles, and other cellular debris. The structure, morphology, and suspected functions of CA in the brain imply disease relevance. Despite this, the link between CA and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease (AD), remains poorly defined. We performed a neuropathological analysis of mouse PAS granules and human CA and correlated these findings with AD progression. Increased PAS granule density was observed in symptomatic tau transgenic mice and APOE knock-in mice. Using a cohort of postmortem AD brain samples, we examined CA in cognitively normal and dementia patients across Braak stages with varying APOE status. We identified a Braak-stage dependent bimodal distribution of CA in the dentate gyrus, with CA accumulating and peaking by Braak stages II-III, then steadily declining with increasing tau burden. Refined analysis revealed an association of CA levels with both cognition and APOE status. Finally, tau was detected in whole CA present in human patient cerebrospinal fluid, highlighting CA-tau as a plausible prodromal AD biomarker. Our study connects hallmarks of the aging brain with the emergence of AD pathology and suggests that CA may act as a compensatory factor that becomes depleted with advancing tau burden.
© 2022. The Author(s).
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As Facebook colonized the rest of the web with its functionality in hopes of fueling user growth, it built aggressive integrations with partners that are coming under newfound scrutiny through a deeply reported New York Times investigation. Some of what Facebook did was sloppy or unsettling, including forgetting to shut down APIs when it cancelled its Instant Personalization feature for other sites in 2014, and how it used contact syncing to power friend recommendations.
But other moves aren't as bad as they sound. Facebook did provide Spotify and Netflix the ability to access users messages, but only so people could send friends songs or movies via Facebook messages without leaving those apps. And Facebook did let Yahoo and Blackberry access people's News Feeds, but to let users browse those feeds within social hub features inside those apps. These partners could only access data when users logged in and connected their Facebook accounts, and were only approved to use this data to provide Facebook-related functionality. That means Spotify at least wasn't supposed to be rifling through everyone's messages to find out what bands they talk about so it could build better curation algorithms, and there's no evidence yet that it did.
Thankfully Facebook has ditched most of these integrations, as the dominance of iOS and Android have allowed it to build fewer, more standardized, and better safeguarded access points to its data. And it's battened down the hatches in some ways, forcing users to shortcut from Spotify into the real Facebook Messenger rather than giving third-parties any special access to offer Facebook Messaging themselves.
The most glaring allegation Facebook hasn't adequately responded to yet is that it used data from Amazon, Yahoo, and Huawei to improve friend suggestions through People You May Know — perhaps its creepiest feature. The company needs to accept the loss of growth hacking trade secrets and become much more transparent about how it makes so uncannily accurate recommendations of who to friend request — as Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill has documented.
In others, we'll have decide where to draw the line between what was actually dangerous and what gives us the chills at first glance. You don't ask permission from friends to read an email from them on a certain browser or device, so should you worry if they saw your Facebook status update on a Blackberry social hub feature instead of the traditional Facebook app? Well that depends on how the access is monitored and meted out.
The underlying question is whether we trust that Facebook and these other big tech companies actually abided by rules to oversee and not to overuse data. Facebook has done plenty wrong, and after repeatedly failing to be transparent or live up to its apologies, it doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. For that reason, I don't want it giving any developer — even ones I normally trust like Spotify — access to sensitive data protected merely by their promise of good behavior despite financial incentives for misuse.
Even if Spotify and Netflix didn't abuse the access Facebook provided, there's always eventually a Cambridge Analytica. Tech companies have proven their word can't necessarily be trusted. The best way to protect users is to properly lock down the platforms with ample vetting, limits, and oversight so there won't be gray areas that require us to put our faith in the kindness of businesses.
Verizon just released its first quarter earnings results, with adjusted earnings per share of 95 cents on revenue of $29.8 billion.
Revenue (minus divestitures and acquisitions) is down 4.5 percent from the first quarter of 2016. The numbers also fall short of what analysts had been predicting: EPS of 96 cents per share on revenue of $30.5 billion.


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Financial assistant Cleo raises $80m to support Gen Z
By Amelia Isaacs on Thursday 30 June 2022
The money app meets AI chatbot with "roast mode" and pizza cursors has helped more than four million young people manage their finances.
Image source: Barney Hussey-Yeo/Cleo.
Gen-Z "digital assistant" Cleo has raised $80m Series C to double down on the US market and continue helping young people's financial health and wellbeing.
The money management app is designed to support and empower young people to form better money habits throughout their financial lives, "from their first paycheque to their first home".
Cleo believes it can change the trajectory of millions of people's financial lives by reaching them at the start of their journey with clear and simple guidance.
"It's harder than ever for [Gen Zers] to get ahead – particularly as the price of everything continues to increase – and yet this audience continues to be neglected, or worse, exploited, by the traditional financial services industry," Cleo founder and CEO Barnaby Hussey-Yeo said.
"We're here to provide personalised financial support and guidance to these young people, giving them a helping hand as they seek to better manage their finances, build their credit profile and weather the storm caused by the cost-of-living crisis."
The investment will go towards Cleo's continued US growth, including expanding its headcount from 140 to more than 220.
Despite being a British startup, the company has focused on the US market since launching there in 2019.
Cleo says it has deliberately gone on a US-first growth strategy to "displace traditional US financial services providers that make excessive profits by charging customers unfair and unnecessary fees".
It now has more than four million users and annual recurring revenue of $30m.
"The goal is to build an enduring, trusted relationship with this audience – by speaking their language and giving them financial services support tailored to their unique needs and circumstances," Hussey-Yeo added.
"It's a huge market opportunity and one that, thanks to this raise, we're well-placed to capitalise upon."
The Series C round was led by Belgian investment company Sofina, supported by participation from existing investors including EQT Ventures and Balderton Capital.


Stop by the shop and meet Misty's puppies from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, September 26th. We are leaving the shop open a little later just so you can cuddle the cuteness a little bit longer.
You've been asking . . . We deliver. This club will use those fun jelly rolls to make various projects. We plan on making a quilt, table runner, bag and who knows what else! This club will meet quarterly for some great fun. Judy has made the first sample and it is up in the shop. Come and take a look. We have it kitted, but you are always free to pick your own. Cost for the entire year is $40 and, as always, includes refreshments. First club date is Wednesday, October 25th.
We are getting so much new fabric in the shop, that we need to make room for it. Stop by the shop and get a great deal on some gorgeous fabrics. All red tag bolts are 30% off. One yard minimum cut, please!
While Judy's at Fall Quilt Market, Betty's holding an in-store retreat on October 27th and October 28th. Call the shop or stop in to reserve your spot.


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Hatcheries, Frankenbucks, Disease: When Will We Learn?
Over a decade ago, I was hired to write a chapter for a book called Return of the Wild: the...
By Hal Herring | Published Feb 10, 2012 8:33 PM
Over a decade ago, I was hired to write a chapter for a book called Return of the Wild: the Future of our Natural Lands (if you've never heard of it, you are not alone). My chapter of the book was called "Marketing the Image of the Wild," and it was about game farming and about the (then) new boom in salmon aquaculture.
In short, the chapter was about the complications that arise when we try to manufacture and sell a replica of an animal or food that has its real value based in the fact that it lives a wild, free, and presumably healthy life in a natural environment. This was in the early years of the troubles with Chronic Wasting disease in the game farm industry, not long after the bovine tuberculosis epidemic on elk farms in Canada, and just before the shipment of the live, CWD infected domestic elk to South Korea crashed the Asian velvet antler trade. For a writer, interesting times indeed.
Partly because of all that was happening in the game farm industry, my work on salmon aquaculture did not make it into the final cut of the chapter–there just wasn't enough room. But the research for that story was one of the high points of my life as a writer. I spent a week or so traveling the coast northwest of Seattle, visiting a couple of the aquaculture operations, and talking with employees and managers–all of whom were top-notch, hospitable and hard-working people. I liked being there, and seeing the operations, and I would have probably enjoyed working there myself, out there on the cold saltwater, working with all those fish, it was kind of like the commercial fishing that I once loved.
Almost a month on the telephone (this was the year 2000, with dial-up internet: type in web-address, hit Enter, take nap) and a few hundred pages of studies and reports, changed my mind. The net pens that held the non-native Atlantic salmon produced the fecal load of a small city of humans, and the antibiotics used in the feed to prevent disease in the crowded conditions came out with the effluent, and entered the food chain. Each one-ton "plug" of fish meal pellets that fed the thousands of Atlantic salmon in each of the net pens was made of 4-5 tons of anchovies taken from the cold waters of southern Peru, where big steel-hulled bottom draggers mined away the foundation-fish of the oceans' food pyramid in one of the poorest parts of the world. In storms the net pens broke, and one farm employee told me a story of crowds of local people coming down to dip up the disoriented, newly freed Atlantics as they thrashed along the rocky shoreline.
Dr. John Volpe, a fisheries researcher from the University of Alberta who spent his days studying Pacific salmon by rocketing down freezing whitewater streams in a wetsuit, was finding the big escaped Atlantics on the spawning gravels of major watersheds like the Amor de Cosmos Creek. These fish were supposed to be sterile, but what would they do? Nobody seemed to know then. They still don't, even as the new genetically engineered super salmon (critics call it the "Frankenfish") awaits FDA approval, and, if approved, introduction into the net pens, and then the ecosystem. The diseases and parasites predicted to come from the net pens to infect the native fish stocks did come. Millions have been spent trying to address the challenges to native fisheries.
But I am telling this story of a long-ago writing job not to warn readers of the dangers of game farming and salmon aquaculture but to share a kind of revelation that I had, after all those months of research: Those who want to put in jeopardy the gifts of the natural world–too many to list, and each hunter and fisherman will have their own–always promise us that what they plan to take, or have already taken, can be replaced. Hatchery fish (paid for by license money and tax money) to replace the natives that once spawned on clean gravels there in the now-ruined headwaters, disease- and pest-vulnerable monoculture pine forests to replace the magnificently diverse hardwoods of the Southeast.
Farmed trophies, sold to the highest bidder, and fenced in on land that was once the range of healthy deer and elk herds that belonged to us all, animals that came and went as they pleased, lived and died according to their own wits, replaced by lumbering genetic freaks that are little more than glorified Holsteins. The feds will use taxpayer money to haul water to the community whose wells have been poisoned. The mine owner promises to pay for construction of a hatchery, at least at first. Plans will be made to feed the mule deer that once wintered in the gasfield. The Norwegian government will pay 300 million kronen to poison the iconic salmon fishing rivers where the flesh-eating parasites spread by aquaculture and hatchery fish have been found, and plant more hatchery fish to replace the lost native Atlantics.
Public money spent endlessly to try and fix or create a façade where once was a natural wonderland, taken for an all too fleeting profit. It's an equation so common, so ever-present in our existence that I missed it for decades. I had to revisit the aquaculture story from so long ago, to see what is still happening, all around us. In essence: we trade or allow others to trade, our birthright–in the case of salmon aquaculture; clean, mighty rivers, and salmon, living unimaginably wild lives in the open ocean, and returning to spawn in feeder creeks so small that we can step across them, for huge pens, anchored, polluting, protected, filled with facsimile-fish so weak, so pale compared to the real thing, that their very flesh must be dyed orange with harvested krill before anyone will purchase or eat it. The diseases and parasites that flow out from these operations imperil the very survival of the native species, and the economy and ecology that they support. When all we would have to do is protect the rivers and the fishery in the first place, and reap the treasure for all time. How many similar examples, from every nation on the planet, from our own local creeks and hunting grounds and communities, can we list?


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'Hearts of Stone' and 'Blood and Wine' expand the Witcher 3 with excellent new quests and characters
in Video Gaming | Game Reviews by MegaBearsFan
Compelling and thought-provoking new quest lines
Story pacing and stakes feel more appropriate to this sandbox experience
Blood and Wine adds a whole new, colorful region
That creepy song the children sing in HoS is stuck in my head
Adds a little multiculturalism
Monotonous boss fights that seem to break the game's own rules
No expansion-specific loading vignettes
Character upgrades are still obtuse
Overall Impression: A-
If only CD Projekt Red could program boss battles
as expertly as they can write quest and characters.
Note: This is a review of expansion content only.
Please click here for my review of the base game.
PC (via Steam),
PS4, XBox One
Original release date:
Hearts of Stone: 13 October 2015
Blood and Wine: 31 May 2016
ESRB rating: Mature (17+) for:
blood and gore, intense violence,
strong sexual content, nudity,
use of alcohol, strong language
Open world fantasy RPG
thewitcher.com
I just don't understand how CD Projekt Red can be such masters at world building and quest design, but are completely inept at everything that involves Geralt drawing a sword or throwing igni. I almost gave up on Hearts of Stone because the beginning of its main quest just put me into a controller-throwing rage.
Geralt is tasked with killing a mysterious sewer monster who has been killing women who go into the sewer hoping to find a toad who can be turned into a prince with a kiss. One of The Witcher III's long-standing annoyances for me is that it makes such a big deal about Geralt being so analytical that he prepares for every monster hunt with potions and so forth, but whenever a quest boss comes along, the game decides to just throw the player in with no chance to prepare. This quest provided no opportunity to investigate to learn what the toad monster is or what its weaknesses might be. When you hit an arbitrary point in the sewer, the game triggers a cutscene that just throws Geralt into the boss arena, so you can't re-equip yourself, respec, or otherwise prepare.
To make matters worse, the game checkpoints you inside the boss fight, instead of prior to the cutscene. If you die, you have to wait for the game's god-damned-bloody long-ass load times before having to go through the trouble of resetting your equipped potions or any other preparatory activities, only to survive for thirty seconds before the fracking toad kills you again and you have to sit through another two minutes of load screen before having to start it all over again. Just unacceptable, CD Projekt Red; absolutely unacceptable.
In order to beat the damn thing, I had to reload from an autosave earlier in the quest (fortunately, I didn't lose much progress) and use the Potion of Clearance to respec Geralt to take points out of my [currently useless] support skills and put them into abilities that buffed my attack, defense, and the two spells that are actually useful for this fight.
The boss fights in Hearts of Stone seem to break the game's rules, and frustrated me to no end.
To add insult to injury, this boss fight ends with a cutscene, and the next playable, non-dialogue sequence is another boss fight, this time a mage with an entourage of soldiers. Without any of my support or crowd-control spells, I ended up having to replay this fight several times as well (it didn't help that the mage seemed to have a one-hit kill area-of-effect tornado attack). At the end, I thought I would be able to respec my character back to the way I had him, but apparently that potion is only a one-time use. I had to fast travel around to several merchants to try to find someone who would sell another copy to me (because Kiera disappears after you finish the main story, so I couldn't buy it from her). It cost 1,000 gold! Then, after finding my way back to the original quest-giver, I got stuck in yet another obnoxious boss fight.
All three of these boss fights seemed to break the game's established rules. The first one kept hitting me with poison, so I tried using a potion that was supposed to allow me to heal from exposure to poison. Except the potion didn't work. Neither of the other two bosses were vulnerable to Yrden or to dimeritium bombs to block or negate their magic abilities. This all was incredibly frustrating, as one of my biggest pet peeves with video games is when the developers give bosses immunity to all the fancy support items and spells that the player has, which you've been saving up for just such an occasion - a boss being the one place where such tools are actually useful or necessary. On top of that, all three fights are needlessly long endurance matches that quickly devolve to repeating the same few actions a hundred times in a row. Absolutely, unforgivably terrible boss fights, the whole lot of them! Needless to say, this DLC did not get off on the right foot with me - much like the base game didn't.
Back to Oxenfurt
But I grit my teeth and played through the base game, only to find some of the most outstanding quest design and characters that gaming has to offer. So I would do the same with the Hearts of Stone DLC. And once again, I was rewarded for my patience with a quality storyline. This expansion brings back a mysterious character who you'd met at the beginning of the game and might have forgotten all about. The call-back was neat, and this strange man reveals himself to be much more than meets the eye, as he points you in the direction of Olgierd von Everec. Olgierd's quest is a sad and engaging tale about an arrogant man who makes a pact with the devil that doesn't end too well for him. It doesn't pull the heart strings nearly as well as the Bloody Baron's questline from the base game, but the "Scenes From a Marriage" quest was almost as heartbreaking.
Olgierd does not expect Geralt to actually complete these tasks.
Olgierd's quest will have you traveling all over the eastern half of the Novigrad map from the base game, using the city of Oxenfurt as your central hub, rather than Novigrad proper. I'm not sure if the major locations in this expansion (such as the Von Everec Estate) existed in the base game, or if they appeared out of nowhere when the DLC was installed. In any case, in addition to the quests given in this expansion, it also gave me the opportunity to explore this area of the map that I had neglected save for a few story quests. The eastern half of Novigrad may not have been a new area added by the DLC, but it might as well have been for me. While the boss fights were annoying, there were some quality non-combat and role-play quests. I don't want to spoil too much, but along the way to dealing with Olgierd and O'Dimm, Geralt got to be the life of a wedding party, and he got to plan a heist. Fun stuff.
But it isn't just that there's some fun, quirky, and creative quests to engage in. The lighthearted romps are tempered by some seriously deep and expertly-written explorations of heavy existential and metaphysical themes and pondering on life, death, and immortality. Again, I don't want to spoil too many particular details of the storyline, but it involves an immortal character struggling with the realization that he's experienced all that there is to experience in the world, has become numb to the entire affair, and just wants it to be over. On the other side of the coin, we have a different character who is dead, but whose soul is trapped forever in a painful memory. She is suffering eternally, but the only alternative is to truly die - to become non-existant - and she struggles with whether it is better to exist, but to suffer; or to not exist at all. And both of these characters' fates may rest with you, so you'll have to think about it too...
Hearts of Stone asks players to ponder life, death, immortality, eternal punishment, free will, and predestination.
Oh, and all of this is layered on top of some subtext regarding whether these character actually have free will, if their fates are predestined, and if their fates are deserved. Further, the fact that the player is interacting with these storylines and deciding some of these questions (either intentionally or through their own inaction) just makes the story's message so much more poignant. This is something that a non-interactive medium like film or books can't really deliver.
Another very interesting aspect of this questline's ludic structure is that it manages to solve the problem of the open world limbo that plagued the base game. Olgierd assigns Geralt with three tasks - tasks which Olgierd assumes are impossible. He doesn't expect Geralt to finish any of them, nor is Olgierd in any hurry to see these tasks completed. So the player is completely free to take your sweet time tackling these objectives. It's an elegant solution to the problem of properly pacing a sandbox story, but it isn't a universal solution. After all, this setup only works because the stakes for both Olgierd and Geralt are personal - there's no apparent world-threatening cataclysm this time.
Weapons can be enchanted.
Since you're in no hurry to complete Olgierd's wishes, you're free to pursue some of the side quests that the expansion adds. One such quest unlocks the ability to enchant weapons and armor at the Olfieri rune-wright. The new buffs have nice effects, but you have to sacrifice all three upgrade slots on the relevant weapon or armor in order to apply an enchantment. I'm not really sure if it's worth it. Maybe the very high-level enchantments are, but I never secured the extra 10,000 gold necessary to unlock those upgrades. Other quests will grant access to new weapons, equipment, potions, and so on, but the best armor and weapons in this DLC are frustratingly easy to miss (and you only have one shot to acquire each piece). The side quests weren't particularly impressive, other than an amusing bit in which Geralt gets audited by a tax collector. Even so, this all gave me a chance to finish up some other base game side quests that I'd neglected. For only $10, Hearts of Stone was a fun little ride, but the obnoxious boss fights almost ruin it.
To the colorful land of wine
The second expansion, Blood and Wine, is a considerably more substantive expansion. It's also a more costly one, at $20. With your $20 investment, however, you'll get a whole new, colorful map region to explore: the land of Toussaint. Basically, it's Witcher 3's equivalent of France. And the DLC will waste no time rubbing your nose in its French-ness.
Geralt will be immediately thrown into another slew of boss fights upon entering Blood and Wine.
Sadly, this DLC doesn't start much better than the previous DLC: it also begins with a gauntlet of boss fights, and in keeping with the mantra of being bigger than Hearts of Stone, there are four consecutive fights to win this time around. But hey, at least my bombs, potions, spells, and counter-measures actually work this time. Also, you'll actually be able to study and prepare for one of the fights, which is nice. However, the third fight of the quartet comes awfully close to being as obnoxious as the Toad Prince fight from Hearts of Stone.
You're thrown into an arena with an armored monster that rolls around the arena. You're supposed to defeat it by forcing it to roll into a wall and get knocked on its back, but doing so requires that the camera and targeting systems cooperate, which is always a minor miracle in Witcher III fights. This wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that the developers thought it necessary to put an idiot NPC in the fight as well, one who can die if not protected. And this NPC has no sense of self-preservation and loves nothing more than to stand right in the monster's way and tank hits - hits that he doesn't have the HP to endure. He'll even stand right in front of the monster as it performs a persistent area of effect attack, and he'll stand there soaking up the damage until he dies. He doesn't walk away or dodge or anything. Having to deal with this stupidity is almost enough to induce an aneurysm in this reviewer.
The bosses that introduce Blood and Wine are very hit-or-miss engagements.
Are the developers of this game actually proud of their combat mechanics, battle scenarios, and boss fights? If so, they shouldn't be.
The last chapter of the main quest elapses three days without you being able to do anything in between, before degrading into another terrible combat tunnel culminating in a terrible boss fight. The boss just keeps repeating the same three moves over and over again. You'd think that would make the fight easy, but since CD Projekt Red can't write a combat encounter to save their lives, the whole thing is a mess. The boss flies around the arena so that the camera won't stay focused on him, so I can't see where the attack is coming from or where it's going to hit. And even when I do dodge, I still lose half my health bar to damage anyway. In fact, I'm pretty sure that during the cutscene in which the boss transformed into phase 2, 2/3 of my health bar just vanished.
Maybe I should lower the difficulty level? But that just makes the combat encounters too easy and boring, and I don't want that either. I'm not complaining that they are too hard. I'm complaining that they feel broken. Seriously, just read this strategy guide. Here's a choice quote: "Even using the Quen Sign won't fully protect you. You can't avoid this attack completely but you can roll towards him to take less damage." And here's another: "When he dives into the ground start dodging continuously because he'll emerge in front of you and perform an AoE attack." That guide was the top result when I searched "how to beat Dettlaff" in Google. And it's advice is "you can't completely avoid damage" and "dodge continuously". It doesn't improve my opinion that the entire fairy tale adventure that immediately preceeded this fight was riddled with bugs.
Like the base game, Blood and Wine is at its best when your swords are sheathed.
Hearts of Stone avoided the problem by eliminating the final boss fight altogether and replacing it with a combined moral choice and riddle that was based on whether or not you investigated the situation thoroughly. Brilliant! Why couldn't Blood and Wine have done something like this for its final boss fight?
Sheathing your sword improves the game
But, once again, if you grind through these boss fights, you'll be rewarded with a long, complicated, and thought-provoking quest line. Like with the base game, and the Hearts of Stone expansion before it, Blood and Wine is at its best when Geralt's swords are sheathed, and the quests involve puzzles, meaningful dialogue trees, moral conundrums, and existential ruminations.
Aside from the boss gauntlet at the beginning, and the combat tunnel and cheap boss fight at the end, the main quest for Blood and Wine is fantastic and enthralling. It will send you on a long, complicated monster hunt with quite a few twists and turns. In the meantime, This quest (and its tangential quests) will have Geralt attending more costume parties, participating in chivalric tournaments, reuniting with old friends, frolicking through fairy tale land, and tracking down the missing penis of a marble statue, not to mention the standard monster killing. Ponderings about immortality will also return as a recurring theme in this questline, along with some in-depth discussions of the pros and cons of being a vampire.
Queuing in line at a bank is an example
of one of the more creative quests.
In addition to the main quest, Blood and Wine includes well over a dozen side quests, witcher contracts, and treasure hunts, not to mention all the monster nests and other ambient events that litter Toussaint. So when you need a break from hunting vampires (or you finish it and want more Witcher), there's a bevy of new tasks for you to complete. There's the typical monster hunts and exorcisms that Geralt's been doing all game long, and then there's also super-exciting new quests like ... waiting in line at a bank to fill out forms to make a withdrawl. Seriously. That's a quest! It just goes to highlight the level of creativity and variety that keeps me coming back to this game.
It's not all gold, though. A couple of these side quests are garbage. The worst offender is an emergent quest called "Extreme Cosplay", which I advise that you avoid at all costs unless you are considerably over-leveled. A combat scenario starts out of a cutscene with a horde of enemies, including two mages that start casting fireballs at you immediately. Each time I reloaded the checkpoint, I was hit by two spells (and sometimes a stab from an enemy spear) before the screen had completely faded in from black, and my health bar was half empty before the controller even starting accepting inputs. Geralt was dead within 4 seconds. I only managed to beat the quest by finding an exploit that allowed me to hide up the stairs and meditate, resetting the enemies (but not their health bars - this isn't Dark Souls), and allowing me to lob bombs on them from above. How this quest made it out of CD Projekt RED's QA, I have no idea, but they also let the final boss fight through, so ... whatever.
Writing is solid all-around, but seemingly-simple combat scenarios feel outright broken and unfair.
I find myself liking The Witcher 3 more and more...
Overall, both expansions are worth playing, and my opinion of The Witcher 3 just keeps rising. Both expansions offer more of what I love about the base game, and nothing here deviates tremendously. Both expansions are at their best when it's the writers flexing their muscles, rather than the boss designers.
Unfortunately, both expansions also carry over the same things that I hate about The Witcher 3. The combat mechanics still seem unresponsive, enemies get in frequent cheap hits, and controls often feel lacking or fidgety, and I can't get Roach to cross a bridge or walk through a gate to save my life. I was also dismayed by a lack of some bells and whistles in the expansions. For example, there's no expansion-specific load screen vignettes for either expansion. I guess it would be hard to set them up so that they don't interfere with the main quest vignettes (if you still haven't finished the main quest yet), and I guess you can always re-read the quest notes.
I'm also disappointed by the romance options. Blood and Wine allows Geralt to obtain his own home in the countryside and invite his lover to settle down with him to live happily ever after, but only the base game's Triss and Yennefer are available for this outcome. Both expansions add their own romantic partner (and corresponding T&A-inundated sex scenes), but neither one of them is an option for a permanent relationship. So if you blew it with Yennefer and Triss (which I had done, since the game wouldn't let me go back to Triss after I'd broken the love spell with Yennefer), you won't find anything other than some more one-night-stands (and no happily ever after) in the expansions either.
Though Geralt has new booty calls, none of them are more than a one-night-stand.
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A Diocese de Caratinga é uma circunscrição eclesiástica brasileira no estado de Minas Gerais. Foi criada em 1915. Pertence à Província Eclesiástica de Mariana.

A sé episcopal está na Catedral de São João Batista, localizada em Caratinga, no estado brasileiro de Minas Gerais. O bispo diocesano é Dom Emanuel Messias de Oliveira, desde 20 de maio de 2011.

Dados geográficos
A Diocese de Caratinga situa-se na região leste meridional do Estado de Minas Gerais, no Vale do Rio Doce e Zona da Mata. Faz parte do Regional Leste II da CNBB (Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil). Os seus limites são: ao norte e nordeste, Diocese de Governador Valadares; a oeste e noroeste, Diocese de Itabira-Coronel Fabriciano; a oeste e sudoeste a Arquidiocese de Mariana; a sudoeste e ao sul, Diocese de Leopoldina; ao sul, a Diocese de Campos/RJ; a sudeste, a Diocese de Cachoeiro do Itapemirim/ES; e a leste, Arquidiocese de Vitória/ES.

A diocese tem a extensão de 14.927 km² e está dividida em 54 municípios, sendo 2 em parte. Sua população, segundo o censo de 2010, é 674.954 habitantes.

História
A diocese de Caratinga foi criada pelo papa Bento XV, aos 15 de dezembro de 1915, desmembrada da Arquidiocese de Mariana, por meio da bula Pastorale Romani Pontificis Officium. Foi instalada aos 7 de março de 1920, com a posse de Dom Carloto Fernandes da Silva Távora, que governou a diocese assessorado por monsenhor Aristides Marques da Rocha.

Governo diocesano

O atual bispo diocesano é dom Emanuel Messias de Oliveira (desde 2011). Auxiliam ainda no governo diocesano os seguintes presbíteros, nas respectivas funções: Pe. José Carlos de Oliveira (Vigário Geral), Pe. Patrício Geraldo Fialho (Vigário Episcopal/Coordenador de Pastoral) e Pe. Bismarque Maciel de Oliveira (Chanceler e Advogado Diocesano).

A diocese é governada ainda sob o auxílio do Conselho Pastoral Diocesano. Cada forania tem um representante pastoral, o vigário forâneo. O planejamento das atividades da diocese é realizado nas Assembleia Diocesanas de Pastoral. A instância jurídica que oficializa as decisões é a Cúria Diocesana situada em Caratinga, sede da diocese.

Divisão administrativa

A diocese de Caratinga é composta por 54 municípios, sendo dois deles em parte: Santa Margarida e Raul Soares. Deste, fazem parte da diocese os distritos de Vermelho Velho, São Vicente da Estrela e São Sebastião do Óculo, que compõem a Paróquia de São Francisco de Assis de Vermelho Velho, e o distrito de Santana do Tabuleiro, pertencente à paróquia de Vermelho Novo (o distrito sede do município é também sede paroquial e o distrito de Bicuíba pertence à Paróquia Santo Antônio, de Granada, município de Abre Campo, ambas da Arquidiocese de Mariana); daquele, apenas o distrito sede do município pertence à diocese, sendo sede da Paróquia de Santa Margarida de Antioquia (o distrito de Ribeirão de São Domingos é sede paroquial e pertence à Arquidiocese de Mariana).

Dos 54 municípios, 8 não são sedes paroquiais, ou seja, fazem parte de paróquias com sede em outro município. Além de Vermelho Velho, outros 4 distritos (2 de Caratinga e 2 de Manhuaçu) são sedes paroquiais. As cidades de Caratinga, Manhuaçu e Carangola, possuem mais de uma paróquia no perímetro urbano: 6, 3 e 2, respectivamente. No total, compreende 58 paróquias, distribuídas em 6 foranias:

A Forania de Caratinga compreende um total de 14 paróquias:
 São João Batista - Catedral - Bairro Centro - Caratinga;
 Coração Eucarístico de Jesus (Santuário) - Bairro Santa Zita - Caratinga;
 São Judas Tadeu - Bairro Limoeiro - Caratinga;
 Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Bairro Centro - Caratinga;
 Nossa Senhora do Carmo - Bairro Esplanada - Caratinga;
 Senhor Bom Jesus (Santuário) - Bairro Santa Cruz - Caratinga;
 Nossa Senhora Imaculada Conceição - Distrito de Dom Lara - Caratinga;
 Santa Bárbara - Santa Bárbara do Leste;
 Santa Rita de Cássia - Santa Rita de Minas;
 São Francisco de Assis - Distrito de Vermelho Velho - Raul Soares;
 Nossa Senhora Imaculada Conceição - Vermelho Novo;
Santa Efigênia - Córrego Novo (e Pingo d'Água);
 Senhor Bom Jesus (Santuário) - Bom Jesus do Galho;
Nossa Senhora da Piedade - Piedade de Caratinga;
A Forania de Inhapim compreende um total de 12 paróquias:
 São Sebastião - Inhapim;
 São Domingos de Gusmão - Ubaporanga;
 Nossa Senhora do Rosário - Entre Folhas;
 São José - Vargem Alegre;
 Nossa Senhora da Penha - Ipaba;
 Santo Estêvão - Iapu (e Bugre);
 São João Batista - São João do Oriente;
Nossa Senhora Aparecida - Dom Cavati;
 São Sebastião - Tarumirim;
São Sebastião - São Sebastião do Anta;
 Nossa Senhora das Dores - São Domingos das Dores;
 Santa Ana - Imbé de Minas.
A Forania de Ipanema compreende um total de 7 paróquias:
 Santo Antônio de Pádua - Ipanema (e Taparuba);
 Santo Antônio de Pádua - Distrito de Santo Antônio do Manhuaçu - Caratinga;
 Nossa Senhora da Penha - Pocrane;
São Manoel - Mutum;
 Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Conceição de Ipanema (e São José do Mantimento);
 Nossa Senhora do Amparo - Chalé;
 Nossa Senhora de Nazaré - Lajinha.
A Forania de Manhuaçu compreende um total de 11 paróquias:
 São Lourenço - Bairro Centro - Manhuaçu;
São José - Bairro Bela Vista - Manhuaçu;
 Bom Pastor - Bairro Bom Pastor - Manhuaçu;
 São João Batista - Reduto;
 Nossa Senhora Mãe dos Homens - Martins Soares;
São Sebastião - Durandé;
 Santa Ana - Santana do Manhuaçu;
São Simão - Simonésia;
São Luís Gonzaga - Luisburgo;
 Senhor Bom Jesus (Santuário) - Manhumirim;
Nossa Senhora da Conceição - Alto Jequitibá (e Alto Caparaó).

A Forania de Santa Margarida compreende um total de 6 paróquias:
 Santa Margarida de Antioquia - Santa Margarida;
 São Sebastião - Orizânia;
 São João Batista - São João do Manhuaçu;
 Nossa Senhora do Rosário - Distrito de Vilanova - Manhuaçu;
 Santa Helena - Caputira;
 São Sebastião - Distrito de São Sebastião do Sacramento - Manhuaçu.
A Forania de Carangola compreende um total de 8 paróquias:
 Santa Luzia (Santuário) - Bairro Centro - Carangola;
 Nossa Senhora Aparecida - Bairro Triângulo - Carangola;
Nossa Senhora Imaculada Conceição - Tombos (e Pedra Dourada);
 Divino Espírito Santo - Divino;
 São Sebastião - Espera Feliz (e Caiana e Caparaó);
São Mateus - Faria Lemos;
Santa Bárbara - Fervedouro;
 São Francisco de Assis - São Francisco do Glória.

Dentro desse conjunto existem 735 igrejas filiais ou capelas, 884 Comunidades Eclesiais de Base (149 urbanas e 735 rurais, com 4.892 Grupos de Reflexão, e 1.161 núcleos de catequese).

Organização pastoral

A diocese atua com as seguintes pastorais: Pastoral Familiar, da Criança, da Juventude, Catequética, da Educação Religiosa, da Liturgia, Vocacional, das CEBs, e da Comunicação. Os movimentos e associações leigas presentes são: Sociedade de São Vicente de Paulo, Apostolado da Oração do Sagrado Coração de Jesus, Legião de Maria e Renovação Carismática Católica (RCC).

O setor vocacional conta com seminários: Seminário Diocesano de Nossa Senhora do Rosário (Caratinga), Seminário Propedêutico São José (Ubaporanga), Seminário Apostólico Nossa Senhora do Santíssimo Sacramento (Manhumirim), o Convento Nossa Senhora do Carmo - Aspirantado da OCD (Caratinga), o Convento São José - Noviciado da OCD (Piedade de Caratinga) e também uma etapa formativa da Congregação dos Sacramentinos do Santíssimo Sacramento (SSS) em Caratinga.

Os institutos religiosos com a presença de padres na diocese são: a Congregação do Santíssimo Sacramento, Missionários Sacramentinos de Nossa Senhora, Ordem dos Irmãos Carmelitas Descalços.

Meios de comunicação

Os órgãos de comunicação que são pertencentes ou parceiros da diocese são: periódicos (Revista Diretrizes, Tribuna do Leste, Jornais Vicentinos), emissoras de rádio (Rádio Sociedade A Voz de Manhumirim, Rádio Sociedade de Manhuaçu, Rádio Clube de Inhapim). As editoras são: Gráfica-Editora Dom Carloto, Editora O Lutador.

A revista mensal Diretrizes foi fundada em janeiro de 1958, por dom José Eugênio Corrêa e monsenhor Raul Motta de Oliveira. O periódico é impresso pela Gráfica-Editora Dom Carloto, também a serviço da circunscrição eclesiástica.

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Monday, 7th October, 2019 11.00 am
Agenda reports pack
OPTIONS FOR BUSINESS RATES POOLING IN 2020/21 PDF 511 KB
Welcome to Yorkshire Report (Redacted Version) PDF 251 KB
Printed minutes PDF 292 KB
Venue: Civic Hall, Leeds, LS1 1UR
Contact: John Grieve, Goverance Services, Telephone (0113) 37 88662
Present: Councillor T Swift (Calderdale MBC) - Chair
Councillor S Hinchcliffe (City of Bradford MDC), Councillor P Box (City of Wakefield MDC), Councillor R Cooper (Harrogate BC), Councillor J Blake (Leeds City Council), Councillor K Aspden (City of York Council), Councillor C Les (North Yorkshire County Council) and Councillor S Siddons (Scarborough Borough Council).
In Attendance: M McRae (City of Wakefield MDC), R Tuddenham (Calderdale MBC), M Greene (Scarborough Borough Council), G Fielding (North Yorkshire County Council), J Gedman (KMC) T Cooper (KMC) A Taylor (WYCA), M Pexton (LCC), R Ellis (LCC) and J Grieve (LCC)
APPEAL AGAINST REFUSAL OF INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS
To consider any appeals in accordance with Procedure Rule 15.2 of the Access to Information Rules (in the event of an Appeal the press and public will be excluded)
There were no appeals against the refusal of inspection of documents.
LATE ITEMS
To identify items which have been admitted to the agenda by the Chair for consideration. (The special circumstances shall be specified in the minutes)
The Chair accepted the inclusion of a late item onto the agenda "Options for Business Rates Pooling in 2020/21" (Minute No.21 referred). Members were informed that the information contained within the submitted report was not available at the time of agenda publication/ circulation and it was in the best interests of the Joint Committee and other parties concerned that the matter be considered without delay. The Chair also accepted the inclusion of an additional Appendix in respect of Agenda Item No. 9 - North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool Financial Report, which was accepted as Supplementary Information (Minute No.18 referred)
The Chair also acknowledged the receipt of an email from a York Citizen who had raised a number of issues in respect of the report relating to "Welcome to Yorkshire". The Chair requested that the email be circulated to all Members of the Joint Committee and asked that a draft response be prepared by officers.
EXEMPT INFORMATION - POSSIBLE EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC
To highlight reports or appendices which officers have identified as containing exempt information, and where officers consider that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information, for the reasons outlined in the report.
2 To consider whether or not to accept the officers recommendation in
respect of the above information.
3 If so, to formally pass the following resolution:-
RESOLVED – That the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following parts of the agenda designated as containing exempt information on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the press and public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information, as follows:-
That, in accordance with Regulation 4 of The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012, the public be excluded from the meeting during Consideration of the following parts of the agenda designated as exempt on the grounds that it is likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present there would be disclosure to them of exempt information so designated as follows:-
Appendix 1 & 2 to Agenda Item No.8 (Welcome to Yorkshire), Appendix C to Agenda Item No. 9 (North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool Financial Report and the Late Item (Options for Business Rates Pooling in 2020/21) in all cases these reports/ appendices were designated as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4 (3) because it contained information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) Minute Nos 17,18 and 21 referred.
To receive apologies for absence (If any)
Apologies for absence were received form Councillor S Pandor (Kirklees MC)
To disclose or draw attention to any disclosable pecuniary interests for the purposes of Section 31 of the Localism Act 2000 and paragraphs 13 -18 of the Members' Code of Conduct. Also to declare any other significant interests which the Member wishes to declare in the public interest, in accordance with paragraphs 19 - 20 of the Members' Code of Conduct.
Although there were no declarations of any pecuniary interest made at the meeting, Councillors: R Cooper and C Les brought it to the attention of the Joint Committee that they were Board Members of Welcome to Yorkshire, as Local Authority Funders. Councillor P Box informed the Joint Committee that he was a prospective Member of the Welcome to Yorkshire Board.
MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING PDF 212 KB
To approve as a correct record, the minutes of the previous meeting held on 27th June 2019.
(Copy attached)
RESOLVED – That the Minutes of the previous meeting held on 27th June 2019, were approved as a true and correct record
MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
To consider any matters arising from the minutes (If any)
There were no issues raised under Matters Arising
Welcome to Yorkshire PDF 134 KB
To consider a report by the Chief Executive, Kirklees Council which sets out:
a) The background to North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool Joint Committee funding of Welcome to Yorkshire (WtY).
b) The current position of Welcome to Yorkshire and the key issues
c) A report from the interim Chair of the Board of Welcome to Yorkshire
d) A recommendation for future funding of Welcome to Yorkshire
(Please note that Appendices 1 & 2 of this report are classified as Exempt under Schedule 12A Local Government Act 1972 and Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4 (3) because it contains Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information)
Restricted enclosure 5 View the reasons why document 17./2 is restricted
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The Chief Executive, Kirklees Council submitted a report which sets out:
In the discussion that followed Members were of the view that the region needs a successful strategic destination marketing organisation, but it must be one that upholds the same values and governance enshrined in the principles of spending public funds.
It was the view of the Joint Committee that it would only continue to support Welcome to Yorkshire if it was satisfied that significant progress had been made to strengthen its accountability, transparency and governance of public resources.
Members acknowledged and thanked Keith Stewart as interim Chair of Welcome to Yorkshire Board.
RESOLVED – That approval be given to the release of Business Rates Pool funding for £1m in 3 tranches in October, December and February conditional on:
(i) That a public report on progress of implementation of the recommendations be brought back to the Joint Committee in advance of future funding tranches being released
(ii) Recruitment to the Welcome Yorkshire Board be carried out immediately and the interim Chair arrangements cease with immediate effect, and for a period of 12 months, a public sector appointee becomes interim Chair and the new Board is in place no later than the end of the financial year.
(iii) A Chief Executive is recruited as soon as possible through a clear and transparent process.
(iv) Until the recruitment of a Chief Executive is complete, Jacqui Gedman, Chief Executive, Kirklees Council be requested to provide strategic support to Welcome to Yorkshire, including authority to draw down the approved Business Rates Pool funding, as required.
(v) Reports designated as exempt in respect of this item, be made available for public inspection, with the commercially sensitive information being removed in the first instance.
(vi) That a four month consultation process, led by the public sector, about the future of regional tourism be carried out.
NORTH AND WEST YORKSHIRE BUSINESS RATES POOL FINANCIAL REPORT PDF 351 KB
To consider a report of the Chief Officer Financial Services, Leeds City Council which sets out:
a) The latest income estimate for the North and West Yorkshire Pool in 2019/20;
b) The existing and proposed expenditure commitments for the Pool;
c) An allocation methodology for the remaining balance;
d) Applications from member authorities, supporting the allocation of funding;
Appendix A , item 18. PDF 234 KB
Appendix B , item 18. PDF 212 KB
The Chief Officer Financial Services, Leeds City Council submitted a report which sets out:
RESOLVED –
a) To note the latest estimated income to the Pool for 2019/20 at Paragraph 2 and Table 1 of the submitted report
b) To approve the commitments listed at Paragraph 3.2 and summarised in Table 2, noting the remaining estimated balance;
c) To approve the method used in allocating the remaining balance, as identified at Paragraph 4.2 and Appendix A of the submitted report;
d) To note the application process described at Paragraph 4.3 and Appendix B;
e) That the applications submitted by member authorities, referenced at Paragraph 4.4 and set out at Appendix C be agreed in principle, with final approval being delegated to the Chair
CLIMATE EMERGENCY EVIDENCE BASE PDF 204 KB
To consider a report which seeks approval for the allocation of £100,000 from the North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool for the project Climate Emergency Evidence Base, to be managed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in consultation with the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding LEP
Appendix 1 , item 19. PDF 43 KB
The Chief Executive, West Yorkshire Combined Authority submitted a report which sought approval for the allocation of £100,000 from the North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool for the project Climate Emergency Evidence Base, to be managed by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority in consultation with the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding LEP
In the discussion that followed Members were supportive of the proposal suggesting the project was worthwhile, but it may be beneficial if the projects were prioritised as a collective "doing it together could add value"
RESOLVED -
(i) To approve the allocation of £100,000 from the North and West Yorkshire Business Rates Pool to the West Yorkshire Combined Authority for the North and West Yorkshire Climate Emergency Evidence Base.
(ii) That following consultation with Members authority's project be priorities with a view to achieving the largest benefits
(iii) To endorse the proposed governance arrangements outlined in Appendix 1 of the submitted report
DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING
To determine a date and time for the next meeting of the Joint Committee
That the date and time of the next meeting be arranged in consultation with the Chair.
a) The current position with regardsto the future of pool's piloting 75% business rates retention of funding;
b) The characteristics of the 50% business rates retention scheme;
c) Options available to authorities for pooling in 2020/21;
d) Actions required if member authorities wish to change the Pool membership.
Restricted enclosure 16 View the reasons why document 21./3 is restricted
(a) To note the actions and timescales required in Paragraph 6 of the submitted report
(b) Members accepted that further consideration was necessary, but in view of the urgency required, final approval be delegated to the Chair following discussions with Members to identify an option for Business Rates Pooling in 2020/21


Volunteering comes as second nature to Patrick Sherwood '86, especially when it comes to his alma mater, University of California, Davis. Sherwood is currently the executive vice president and western region head of U.S. Banks Financial Institutions Group for Wells Fargo Bank. But as a dedicated volunteer, his day job makes up only a portion of his impressive involvements.
Sherwood served as the chair of the finance committee on the CAAA board of directors, formerly served as the executive vice president and president of the association. He also endowed a scholarship with CAAA. He joined the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Letters and Science in 2014, where he endowed an undergraduate scholarship in his family's name. Most recently, Sherwood has been named to the Global Campaign Leadership Council, where he will represent alumni in the university's next comprehensive fundraising campaign for the UC Davis Foundation.
"One of the highlights of my time working the CAAA board was when I became president. I really focused and strove to build more engagement between UC Davis, CAAA and alumni while also growing membership," Sherwood said.
In addition to volunteering with his alma mater, Sherwood is also the co-chair of the Conservation Society of California, which operates the Oakland Zoo, where he just finished his sixth year on the board of trustees. He says he's able to balance all of his roles thanks to lessons learned working on campus as an undergraduate.
While UC Davis helped build Sherwood's work ethic, he said it also provided him space to grow as a person through his studies, work and relationships.


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Río Seco (Spanish for "dry river") is a river located on the southern coastal valley region of Puerto Rico. It originates at
the Barrio Pozo Hondo of the municipality of Guayama at an elevation of  above sea level. The river has a length of approximately 8 miles emptying into the Bay of Jobos.

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Rivers of Puerto Rico


> I'd be interested.  Are you starting a list?
>> I just completed the design of my PiDP-8, a kit replica of the venerable PDP-8/I, after exhibiting the prototypes at the VCFeX.
>> Now, I'm gearing up to produce a batch of kits, and I'd like to collect expressions of interest in the coming two weeks.In other words, see how much interest there is, so I can determine parts volume and exact cost.
>> -> Expected shipping date is mid-July, payment required only when kits are done-> Expression of interest means you're not committing to buy now,      just indicate you're very likely to buy in early July.
>> If you already got an email from me today (or you registered your interest just today), then you're already on the list - in which case please ignore this message.
Why could it not be a PDP 11 or so?


Accrington Stanley have completed the signing of Bolton forward Connor Hall on a loan deal which will run through until January.
Bolton's Sky Bet Championship fixture at Aston Villa has been rescheduled for Friday 2nd November 2018, after it was selected for live television coverage by Sky Sports.
Reports on Friday suggest Bolton have lost out in their attempts to sign former Newcastle United forward Papiss Cisse.
Andy Davies will referee Saturday's Sky Bet Championship fixture between Preston North End and Bolton at Deepdale.
Former Bolton defender Gary Cahill has announced his intention to 'step back' from international football, as he instead shifts focus to extending his club career.
Phil Parkinson refused to blame Bolton's midweek game with Birmingham City for their defeat to Sheffield United, instead criticising his team's slow start.
Ben Alnwick lists Bolton's final-day survival of last season as the greatest day of his career, but says he hopes to avoid being in that position again.


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Rossioglossum williamsianum är en orkidéart som först beskrevs av Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av Leslie Andrew Garay och George Clayton Kennedy. Rossioglossum williamsianum ingår i släktet Rossioglossum och familjen orkidéer. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

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Orkidéer
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I think Quakers travel in twos because that's what we were told to do, biblically, to travel in twos. I think accompaniment helps the spirit have more access to the minister, and even sometimes where people trade the words piece back and forth, the other can provide that sacred grounding that allows the spirit to come through more fully.
I'm Elaine Emily. I'm from Strawberry Creek Meeting in Berkeley, California. I live in Berkeley, California and my Yearly Meeting is Pacific Yearly Meeting.
Elders are those who sense the movement of the spirit and can name that very early on, before it's much evident to other people. They see that and nurture that and cocoon that and call it forward. So some of the metaphors that might be helpful to people might be the metaphor of a midwife. The ministry is not ours but we know something about allowing that to come forward. So, attending to the minister and to the ministry as it comes out.
Another metaphor would be a kindergarten teacher, the best kindergarten teacher you can imagine, that knows just how to set everything out and create the environment for people to grow and blossom.
Elders are whoever has that gift, and that can come at any age. I've often traveled with people 40 years younger than I am, and that's been a delight. Many of us can do a passable job of ministering and eldering or recording or clerking or finances or any of those things, but some of us are more one than the other.
I've had the good fortune and blessing of traveling with many people in the ministry. Often I'm the person that's doing the accompanying. As I'm the person doing the accompaniment, there's a lot of pieces to that.
There's the before piece, preparing the minister. The more there is the resistance or more to be cleaned out, that often happens before. So it's spiritually accompanying the person beforehand.
Then there's the during, and often I'm sitting beside them, or in the audience, or something below the words. Sometimes I don't have any idea about what they said, and some of that is the deepest, sweetest worship I have ever had. It is all beyond words. There isn't words for that deep place.
Then there's afterwards; and some people don't have any problem afterwards, and for some people, there's quite some recovery time.
If I'm accompanying somebody and I know I'm accompanying them for a long time, one of the practices that comes to me is imagining them finished with their ministry and the gathered people—both the minister and those gathered—are just thrilled. They have this deep peace and connection to each other.
With regards to traveling ministry, "eldering" means providing grounding and spiritual accompaniment for someone who is doing something challenging and wants to be faithful. Have you ever provided this kind of accompaniment or had someone else provide it to you? What was the experience like?
Elaine Emily says, "Elders are those who sense the movement of the spirit and can name that very early on… they see that and nurture it and cocoon it and call it forward." Can you think of anyone in your meeting who plays this role?


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I am sitting at the press box at the way back of the Boise Center waiting for Mayor Dave to finish his breakfast and deliver his State of the City address.
And I have not had any coffee yet. Boise State Radio's Don Wimberly snagged a little cup off a table, but I got caught trying to scam some joe. If anyone is checking their PDA in here, we need some coffee in the press booth.
The mayor's advance press release indicates he is going to announce The Green House, a green business incubator in an old city-owned building at 5th and Idaho.
I'm pleased to announce this morning a plan we're calling The Green House: an incubator for local, alternative energy startups. Having seen the success of Mark River's WaterCooler buinsess incubator, in which the City of Boise was an investor, I'm going to propose that we use a City-owned building at Fifth and Idaho Streets to help a green-energy economy germinate and and grow right here in Boise.
We wrote about another local green business this week... you can read it while you wait for the big speech.
Bieter also plans to talk about a stimulus project to install 725 LED streetlights in Boise. Alloway Electric and Inovus, which builds the lights and is based in Boise, have already submitted a low bid for the project. Boise's old streetlights will be retrofitted with the new technology.
Bieter will brag on Boise's job churn, an indication of a spirited, innovating economy. Then he is going to hand out keys to the City to the folks who put together the Special Olympics.
That's just a preview... Ballet Idaho is doing a Patsy Kline Sweet Dreams routine, Ballet for breakfast. Uh, coffee.


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General World History Test
At some point in their lives, most people have had to study history. While you may not have studied history in a literal sense in quite some time, past (and current) events and people all over the globe have shaped the world we live in today.
Do you consider yourself worldly? Perhaps you enjoy history and would like to put your knowledge to the test...perhaps you wish you knew more and would like to see just how much you do actually know. This short quiz covers a range of times and regions of the world in varying depth and detail. Come test what you already know, and perhaps learn something completely new to you!
Created by: Adam
The system used during the Middle Ages that bound a serf to work the lands of his Lord & Vassal is known as:
Manorialism
Indentured Servitude
Vassalism
Peasant Farming
In what century did the English Civil War take place?
In what year did the First World War end?
From the early 14th century until their conquest by Spanish Conquistadors, led by Cort�©s in the early 16th century, the mesoamerican civilization that dominated the area that is now Mexico were the:
The Great Irish Potato Famine began in what year?
Who led the Red Army in the Chinese Communist Revolution?
The Qing Dynasty
An alliance of Shoguns
Yoshido
In what region of the African continent was the Zulu Kingdom based?
The Horn of Africa
The Nazi Army invaded Poland, triggering the start of WWII in what year?
Which of the following music composers was born first?
Which of the following US states was one of the original 13 colonies?
In what decade did Ireland leave the British Commonwealth to become The Republic of Ireland?
The Republic of Ireland is still part of Great Britain
The city of Babylon was located in what modern day country?
In what state/district were the first atomic bombs primarily researched and developed in?
Which of the following cities was the last city to serve as the US Capital before it was moved to Washington, DC in 1800?
In which modern day country was Christopher Columbus born?
Roughly how old do scientists estimate the age of our planet, Earth, to be?
between 4-5 billion years old
between 1-2 billion year old
between 800-900 million years old
World History & Geography 1 by nana
Are you an Anglophile? by Jordan Elton
How well do you know World History? by J.M.W.
How well do you know your music? by Christina
How much do you know about history? by myname


Congratulations you have applied for a role that requires you to complete your application on the Ovo Energy website.
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Learn more about us at ovoenergy.com/careers, and check out our Glassdoor reviews. We're delighted we came 20th in The Sunday Times' 100 best companies to work for 2017.
You will be responsible for product managing our platform teams (Identity and Comms), working with two amazing teams of engineers and a key part of our growing Product, Tech & UX community to continually push the boundaries of the Energy Industry in providing award-winning service.
Across all parts of the group platform, we need to ensure we're using product management techniques to solve our customers' problems and drive further adoption.
This is a key product for the business as it integrates with all of our essential customer journeys, and there is a lot of future expansion needed to keep up with the needs of the business. Our comms platform can be leveraged by our other products to send postal letters, email and SMS to customers. It's built with resilience, auditability and performance in mind.
We're just starting down a journey of consolidating identity management across the group. Dealing with authentication, authorisation and identity management, our identity platform leverages modern technology to enable product teams to easily manage their customers' identity. We are also at the forefront of security for the business and will be innovating on the login process for our customers across several energy brands, balancing this with usability.
* Able to work with people around the business to increase adoption of internal tools.
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Home Blog Trucker Dies in Dallas, TX, 18-wheeler Accident on I-635 Overpass
Trucker Dies in Dallas, TX, 18-wheeler Accident on I-635 Overpass
Dallas, TX -- February 2, 2017, a truck driver was killed following an accident in which his 18-wheeler careened off of an I-635 overpass.
Dallas emergency personnel were called out to the scene at around 2:00 a.m. at the I-635 and US Highway 80 interchange.
According to preliminary accident reports, an 18-wheeler was traveling northbound I-635. As he took the overpass ramp onto westbound US 80, the truck somehow lost control and swerved off the side of highway lanes. The truck crashed into the guardrail, going through the barrier and tipping over the side of the ramp.
The truck fell into the concrete ditch below to overpass. The driver was fatally injuries in the crash, and he died at the scene. His identity has yet to be released.
At this time, authorities have not indicated what factors might have caused the accident. Their investigations are ongoing.
This accident seems a bit a extreme considering the fall involved, but the truth is a lot of truck drivers are killed when their vehicle crashes off the side of the road. The common assumption with single-truck crashes is that the driver was at fault--most assume they fall asleep at the wheel. While this may be common, it's important to reserve judgements until all details are brought to light.
Our firm has represented truck accident victims in the past whose 18-wheelers experienced some sort mechanical failure or load-shift that caused their vehicle to lose control. Sometimes, hazards in the roadway can also caused a crash, and even tire blowouts are possible.
The main point here is that there are a lot of different things that can cause an 18-wheeler to crash. Only once a thorough, independent investigation can those affected determine the next best steps forward from the accident.
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Myeongbulheojeon (, lett. "Senza nome"; titolo internazionale Live Up to Your Name) è un drama coreano trasmesso su tvN dal 12 agosto al 1º ottobre 2017.

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Heo Im è un medico Joseon di medicina tradizionale coreana, specializzato in agopuntura. Ha lavorato alla clinica per i poveri durante il giorno e ha guadagnato una fortuna facendo visite segrete alle case di nobili e funzionari di alto rango di notte. Dopo aver acquisito notorietà per le sue grandi capacità, fu incaricato di aiutare a curare le emicranie del re. Sfortunatamente, la sua ansia ebbe la meglio su di lui e fu accusato di tradimento. Non volendo accettare la prigione, sfuggì alla cattura ma fu inseguito dai soldati. Alla fine fu messo alle strette in un fiume e colpito a morte da frecce e cadde verso la sua presunta morte. La morte non è mai arrivata e si è risvegliato nella moderna Seoul-Corea e si rende conto di aver in qualche modo viaggiato nel tempo. Perso e confuso, incontra Choi Yeon-kyung, un collega chirurgo cardiotoracico all'ospedale Shinhae e inizia un'improbabile relazione tra tempo e spazio.

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There is a power outage in the west side of Bay Village due to a downed wire. CEI has been notified. No ETA for resolution. The traffic light is out at Bradley and Wolf. Stop signs are deployed, please treat as a 4-way stop.
Power outage, west side of Bay Village. Traffic lights out should be treated as a 4-way stop.


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This course discusses the requirements of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. After completing this course, learners will be able to identify the Section 1557 requirements, who they apply to, and consequences for not meeting the requirements.
After this course learners will be able to recognize the rationale for section 1557 and what's covered under this rule. identify the requirements with which health plans must be compliant. identify possible consequences of noncompliance with section 1557. recognize possible strategies that health plans can put into place to adhere to section 1557.


Vermouth. This is not an uncommon subject for us at Mercat; we've dedicated a couple of blogs to it, we serve more than 10 different vermouths, and we make it in house [tire screech]. That's right; we age, fortify and blend our own vermouth! In case you missed our scenic tour through the Spaniard's liquor cabinet in previous blog posts let us rewind with a debriefing on this wonderful digestive!
Vermouth- originally designed as a digestive quaff, it's morphed into a wonderful palate teaser or cleanser- depending on the drinker's desires. Essentially, vermouth is white wine that has been deliciously altered by the addition of flora concentrates. Like a mad scientist, chef has gathered over 15 roots, herbs, seeds and spices and created concentrates of each by macerating them with a high-proof spirit for a lengthy time. Just one drop of black peppercorn spirit and your mouth burns. If you aren't familiar with wormwood, you will never forget it after a touch with the tip of your tongue. Now, add any combination or measurements of these distilled spirits to your white wine and Ole! You have vermouth. Fun vermouth fact- Red vermouth comes from the pigment of raspberries, not, red wine… FYI.
The point is, this project is complete and Mercat is officially launching its in-house vermouth program! We are the only restaurant in Chicago offering this unique experience. So while others are at the corner Oktoberfest celebration (i.e. – every street corner), slow down with a taste of Spain and sip on vermouth (or a Spanish lager if the German party in you won't be appeased without some fermented grains).