Max Whitlock admits he will be disappointed to see the back of 2013 - but he equally can't wait for 2014.
Gymnast Whitlock, who won team and pommel bronze at the London 2012 Olympics, has continued his podium form this year, winning silver at the World Championships and claiming his first individual gold at the European Championship in the floor discipline.
And the 20-year old acknowledges the expectation on him is now sky high, especially following the retirement of Britain's most successful gymnast, Beth Tweddle, following last year's Games.
"The pressure has definitely changed since London," he said.
"There's now more of an expectation on me to perform well. I now want to go to every competition and try and stay as chilled as I can and enjoy the experience and hopefully show some good routines.
"This season has been amazing. The whole year has been unbelievable for me coming off the back of the Olympics with the results I got there. To get the British and the English championship titles was amazing, they're titles that mean a lot to me. And then the European and World Championships, to get medals in both of them was amazing.
"The bronze at London 2012 helped me a lot in confidence and experience. Every competition that I do I look to gain experience from it and hopefully I can use that in future competitions."
Whitlock made his major championship debut at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, winning team and pommel silver and taking bronze on the horizontal bars.
But he is taking nothing for granted, despite two years of proven podium performances.
"British Gymnastics is a strong team," he added.
"It's very very hard at the moment to even qualify for the team as the gymnasts are so strong but I'm hoping to go to the Europeans, Commonwealths and Worlds, so hopefully 2014 can be a busy year for me.
"I would love to get a gold at the Commonwealth Games. That's what every sports person is aiming for and I'm no different so hopefully I can keep working hard in the gym and prove myself.


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reply - 1: Hello, come from near Stralsund! Am 28 ssw and it will be a boy.
I am 22. Our mouse should be on 07.07. slip.
How are you doing in pregnancy so far?
reply - 5: @ Bea I think that's great. I was born in Stralsund :) but now live in Hildesheim.
But often I'm still in a grudge with the family.
reply - 6: Slowly it gets exhausting. I can not walk much longer. And the back hurts more and more. The little one is also very diligent, which is not always pleasant. And how are you?
Na Thomandra, that sounds great. I am 29.SSW and we will be a girl.
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Home Crime Gone Girl: The 1953 Disappearance of Stella Darlene Nolan
Stella Darlene Nolan
Gone Girl: The 1953 Disappearance of Stella Darlene Nolan
Joan Renner
Stella Darlene Nolan, Photograph courtesy USC Libraries – Los Angeles Examiner Collectione
On June 20, 1953, Ilena Nolan reported the disappearance—and possible abduction—of her eight-year-old daughter, Stella Darlene, in a Daily Bulletin. At that time a missing child would often turn up in a day or two, and the notice would be canceled in a subsequent bulletin. I couldn't find a cancellation for Stella, so I decided to dig deeper, and I couldn't believe what I found.
Stella disappeared from Auction City (in the Norwalk area), where her mother was employed as a clerk at a refreshment stand. Stella was a well-behaved child and checked in every hour with her mom, so when she failed to turn up between 8 and 9 p.m., Mrs. Nolan knew that something was wrong.
In the days following Stella's disappearance, the little girl had still not returned home. Her parents, who lived in a trailer park in Compton, were frantic with worry. In desperation, Stella's mom and dad revealed that they were not her birth parents and that even though they'd had custody of her nearly since birth, they had never legally adopted her. The cops quickly located Betty Jean Stalcup Eckols, Stella's birth mother. She'd moved to Texas, married, and had a three-year-old girl. She was swiftly cleared of any involvement in Stella's disappearance.
By early July, barely a month after she'd disappeared, Stella's 20-year-old cousin, William R. Nolan, an unemployed hospital orderly, was jailed on a technical booking in Long Beach as a key suspect in the case. Nolan emphatically denied any connection with Stella Darlene's disappearance. The L.A. Sheriff's Department dispatched several criminal laboratory technicians to check for possible blood stains in William's bungalow court apartment and in the trunk of his 1949 convertible. The techs didn't turn up a single clue. Nolan told conflicting stories regarding his whereabouts on the night that Stella disappeared, but he was cleared.
At least one crank caller phoned the Nolans to tell them that their little girl was alive, but nothing came of the call. The police became frustrated by the lack of movement in the case.
In mid-October 1953, a 14-year-old boy was brought in for questioning. Norwalk Deputy District Attorney Adolph Alexander and Inspector Garner Brown stated that the boy held the key to the girl's fate. While the minor was being questioned, two of his acquaintances, William R. Hardy, 22, and an unnamed 17-year-old, were taking lie detector tests in Pasadena.
The boys were proven to be liars, and one of them even made a false confession. They were not, however, killers.
At least 300 tips were investigated without succes.
On June 20, 1955, the second anniversary of her disappearance, the L.A. Times ran a follow-up story about Stella, but it didn't result in any further leads. The Sheriff's detectives reluctantly stated that they believed Stella had been kidnapped and killed by a sexual psychopath.
Mrs. Nolan told reporters: "We'll never give up hope until we're both dead."
Ilena and Owen Nolan struggled to get on with their lives in the wake of Stella's disappearance. Meanwhile, Sheriff's deputies and LAPD investigators continued to pull in every deviant who even looked cross-eyed at a child. They busted other child molesters, but they couldn't seem to get a break in Stella's case, which grew colder with every passing day.
In December 1955, Sheriff's deputies interrogated Robert Louis Kracker, 20, on suspicion of kidnapping a 3-year-old Baldwin Park girl, Cynthia Hardacre. Robert was guilty of the attack on Cynthia, but he was not responsible for Stella's abduction.
On March 6, 1970 a 51-year-old Sylmar construction worker, Mack Ray Edwards, appeared at the LAPD's Foothill Division station. He handed them a loaded handgun and then said he had kidnapped three Sylmar girls earlier that day.
Mack Ray Edwards, Photograph courtesy derangedlacrimes.com
Edwards, a native of Arkansas, was booked on suspicion of murder in the 1969 death of a 13-year-old Pacoima boy — one of the six cases he voluntarily discussed with detectives.
Edwards and an unnamed 15-year-old companion told the police that they'd entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cohen at 5 a.m., after the couple had left for work. The two stole a coin collection and other items from the house and then took the three Cohen children, Valerie (12), Cindy (13), and Jan (14) by car to Bouquet Canyon in Angeles National Forest north of Newhall. Two of the girls escaped, and the third was abandoned by Edwards and his accomplice—they told her they'd send a sheriff's car to pick her up.
It was during his confession to police that he admitted to kidnapping, raping, and then murdering 8-year-old Stella Darlene Nolan in 1953. The girl was allegedly his first murder victim.
In mid-March 1970, the skeletal remains of Stella Darlene Nolan were unearthed by a highway crew who worked from directions given to them by her killer. In addition to the slaying of Stella, Edwards admitted to murdering Gary Rocha, 16, in 1968, and Donald Allen Todd, 13, in 1960. He also admitted to three other murders of children. Edwards was a heavy machine operator and often worked freeway construction sites; it simply wasn't possible for the law to go around digging up Southern California freeways in an effort to unearth the other remains.
In Van Nuys Superior Court, Edwards entered a plea of guilty in three of the six slayings to which he had confessed. All of the murders were horrible, but Stella's was the most disturbing. Edwards had taken her from Auction City in Norwalk to his Azusa home, where he molested and then attempted to strangle her. After he thought Stella was dead, he threw her body over a bridge. Later that night he returned to the scene and found the little girl still alive. She had managed to drag herself about 100 feet. She was sitting up, dazed, when Edwards took out his pocketknife and stabbed her to death.
Edwards attempted to sell his surrender and confession as a guilty conscience. He said:
"I have a guilt complex. I couldn't eat and I couldn't sleep and it was beginning to affect my work. You know I'm a heavy equipment operator. That long grader I'm using now costs a lot of money — $200,000. I might wreck it. Or turn it over and hurt someone."
Edwards claimed to want a death sentence. Maybe he did; he attempted suicide twice during his trial. The third time was the charm—he successfully hanged himself with a length of TV cord in his cell on California's death row.
Edwards is suspected in the murders of more than 20 children between 1953 and 1970. In 2006, a letter written by Edwards to his wife while he was on death row implicated him in the 1957 disappearance of 8-year-old Tommy Bowman in the Arroyo Seco.
In 2011, the Santa Barbara Police Department took four teams of cadaver dogs to an area near a 101 Freeway overpass in Goleta that was under renovation, looking for the remains of Ramona Price, a 7-year-old girl who disappeared in August 1961 — Mack Ray Edwards had worked in the area during that time. Ramona wasn't found, but the search for other victims of Edwards continues.
Joan Renner is a writer, lecturer, and social historian with an expert knowledge of Los Angeles-based murders, corruption, and scandals. A version of this story originally appeared on her Web site, Deranged L.A. Crimes.
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(AP) Iraq's Ministry of Information suspended publication Wednesday of a newspaper owned by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's eldest son, accusing it of breaching publication laws.
"The paper was ordered shut down for 30 days for violating the regulations," an Iraqi official said on condition of anonymity. He declined to give further details.
Media is tightly controlled in Iraq, but this ban was unusual because the Arabic daily is owned by Odai Saddam Hussein, who wields considerable influence in the Iraqi hierarchy and was once thought to be the strongest candidate to succeed his father as president of Iraq.
Babil, established 12 years ago, is one of five Iraqi dailies. It has an estimated circulation of up to 25,000.
Odai Saddam Hussein is a prominent figure in Iraq, regularly writing anti-American editorials in Babil and appearing on television. His media interests include Youth TV. In 2000, he won election to parliament, claiming 99.99% of the vote in his constituency.
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Düsseldorf, Munich Whether for the development of new business models or the determination of CO2 emissions: data has become a central raw material for mechanical engineering. A new project should help the entire industry to make business processes transparent.
A consortium of SAP and German machine builders is developing a cloud platform for the manufacturing industry, according to Handelsblatt information. According to information from participants, this should facilitate the exchange of data. The model is the Catena-X alliance, in which companies in the automotive industry have joined forces. This can be seen from the name: Manufacturing-X.
"The platform is still under development at the moment, but we are making good progress," DMG Mori CEO Christian Thönes told Handelsblatt. As a technology leader in mechanical engineering, we feel it is our responsibility to contribute to this. SAP said it was in talks with the Federal Ministry of Economics and other companies. Laser technology manufacturer Trumpf is also participating.
However, many details are still open. For example, according to information from participants, the consortium is negotiating with the federal government for state funding. Catena-X receives 105 million euros from the state, which corresponds to 45 percent of the budget. There are also discussions with possible other participants. According to estimates from industry circles, Siemens could join in this way.
The digitalization of the supply chain concerns practically the entire economy. In the coming years, companies will have to create transparency due to legal requirements in order to prevent violations of human rights and to determine emissions during production, for example.
"The necessary data is in different companies and systems – it is important to bring them together," says Bettina Tratz-Ryan, analyst at Gartner. However, the exchange of data is not trivial. "It's not about Euro pallets, but the composition of complex products." In other words, the Manufacturing X consortium has a lot of work ahead of it.
Indispensable "Industry 4.0"
The use of data has become a key capability for machine builders and factory equipment suppliers in recent years – "Industry 4.0" is the buzzword. Companies network production and logistics, use algorithms for the predictive maintenance of machines and rent products "as a service", i.e. to the minute. Industry giants such as Bosch and Siemens have even made software and artificial intelligence their core business.
91 Percent of German industrial companies describe Industry 4.0 as "indispensable" in order to be able to survive in international competition, as the IT industry association Bitkom surveyed in the spring.
There is potential in reducing emissions in particular, with 81 percent expecting a contribution to sustainable production. The organization had 550 companies with at least 100 employees interviewed for the study.
While the degree of networking is growing, data exchange remains difficult. The machines and software products often use different formats that are not compatible with each other. The legal uncertainty is also great. In addition, there is a widespread skepticism in business to pass on information from their own business.
This is where the Gaia-X project comes in: a European consortium wants to create a basis for a "European data infrastructure" through which companies can "merge, share and use data in a trusting manner," as CEO Francesco Bonfiglio told Handelsblatt last year.
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As part of the initiative – and with government subsidies that the European Union allows in view of the "common interest" – several consortia are working on data rooms to facilitate the exchange of data. Manufacturing-X should also be based on these principles.
The policy aims to strengthen the sovereignty of Europe with Gaia-X. The concept is intended to give companies more control over their data through interoperability and high data protection standards. Also in contrast to the major American cloud service providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google, which dominate the data economy.
However, the development of such technology is complex. After extensive preparatory work, the first applications for Catena-X should be ready for the market by the end of the year, two years after the announcement.
Manufacturing-X is likely to be similarly complex. It is necessary to develop the technological foundations and a set of rules for data exchange. In addition, "Mechanical engineering is characterized by many medium-sized companies, which often have to catch up with digitization," says Gartner analyst Tratz-Ryan. "The auto industry is much further along."
New business models for SAP
SAP is one of the initiators of Manufacturing-X. CEO Christian Klein sees a great opportunity in the networking of entire industries on cloud platforms. "I want SAP to play a central role in such industrial networks," he told Wirtschaftswoche last year. For the manager, who has a reputation as a controller and optimizer, these collaborations are proof of the innovative power of the software manufacturer.
Catena-X is a prototype for such networks: the automotive industry is networking on the platform in order to digitally map its value chain. This is the prerequisite, for example, to record emissions during production and ideally throughout the entire life cycle of a vehicle or to facilitate the recycling of components.
SAP plays an important dual role in such projects: on the one hand, the programmers make a significant contribution to the development of the platform, on the other hand, the software from Walldorf maps central business processes of numerous industries. Important data, for example for the digitization of the supply chain or the calculation of CO2 emissions, are therefore already available in the Group's systems.
Siemens, the world market leader in automation technology and industrial software, is at least familiar with the project. It basically fits into the strategy, according to industry circles. However, the issue is still at a very early stage.
Siemens CEO Roland Busch relies heavily on cooperation and open platforms. "No one can do this alone," he said, referring to the digital transformation of the industry. For example, the group sometimes cooperates with AWS, sometimes with the chip and graphics specialist Nvidia.
There are already various cooperations between SAP and Siemens. By linking the software offerings, a kind of "digital thread" is to be created that enables companies to have a continuous data flow – from the design of a product to production to the experience in business operations.
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The Government of Uttarakhand has to reduce poverty by building strong institutions of the poor particularly the women under the DAY-NRLM (Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission) the flagship program of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. The current Technical Support project to the Department of Rural Development, Government of Uttarakhand is conceived to provide Sustainable Livelihood Approach that focusses on securing adequate and decent livelihoods that contribute to the wellbeing of people not only through income security but also by creating strong coping mechanisms that mitigate the vulnerabilities that the poor face. The programme consists of a comprehensive set of capacity building initiatives to strengthen the community institutions coupled with a range of support services to ensure the viability of the economic activities undertaken by the Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and their federations to include access to credit and financial services, business incubation and productivity enhancement services, business and financial management skills, livelihood or enterprise support, market linkage, etc.
The state governments are mandated to set up dedicated Mission Management Units at the state, district and village/community level for the effective implementation of the NRLM scheme.The mission provides regular hand-holding support to SHG/federations for a period of 5-7 years.At the end of a fully implementation cycle the SHGs/federations are well prepared to become resource institutions at the community level for providing evidence and support to other social initiatives.The programme focuses on agenda of inclusion of the poorest of the poor through transformation of the groups of rural women into empowered, self-reliant community organizations consisting of four stages of development (i) social mobilization, community institution and capacity building; (ii) financial inclusion; (iii) livelihood promotion/skill building; and (iv) convergence as clearly defined in the NRLM scheme document.
In order to operationalize the Project, UNDP is currently in the process of recruiting Mission Manager- Knowledge Management & Communications (MM-KMC) to support the nodal agency (State Government). The MM-KMC would be placed with the State Rural Livelihood Mission.
The MM-KMC will work under the guidance of the CEO, State Rural Livelihood Mission who will provide overall project implementation guidance.
Summary of Key Functions: The key results have an impact on the success of country programme within specific areas of cooperation. In particular, the key results will have an impact on poor and marginalized sections of the community and help in reducing poverty.
Help development of the Annual Work Plan through provision or relevant data. trends analysis. etc.
Coordination of data entry and file uploads into systems to be used by the Department on a regular basis.
Based on the work plans and budgets, guide staff and Implementing partners in preparing their progress reports.
Review monitoring reports, analyze these reports terms of problems and actions needed as well as for impact evaluation and to Identify the causes of potential bottlenecks in project Implementation.
Prepare reports on Monitoring & Evaluation findings, as required. working closely with financial staff technical staff and Implementing partners.
Excellent analytical skills particularly with social processes.
Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards.
PG Degree /Diploma in Mass Communication/Public Relationship/Knowledge Management /Journalism from a recognised University/Institute.
At least 5 years of experience in related sector after the completion of the Post Graduation.
The contract will be awarded for one year initially. Working days will be as per the State Government policy.
Travel within the state and districts would be required.
Consolidated Annual Consultancy Fee (Remuneration) of Rs 5,40,000/- (@Rs. 45,000/- per month) payable in equal monthly instalments, upon submission of monthly progress report certified by the reporting officer.
Consultant will be entitled for 2 days leave per month (non-encashable).
The incumbent will arrange to procure his/her own laptop. A monthly allowance of Rs 2500 will be provided separately for the laptop along with the remuneration.
Personal CV, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references.
Suitability for the assignment 15 Marks.
Those who obtain a minimum of 70% of total 70 marks above will be eligible to appear for the interview.
Interview for the shortlisted candidates would be either conducted face to face in Dehradun or by telephone / over skype. If face to face interviews are conducted, travel costs will be borne by the shortlisted Consultants. The contract shall be awarded on a merit basis.
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Q. What does it mean to be aggrieved or adversely affected?
A. The Indiana Supreme Court has recently decided what this means in Huffman v. Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication, et al. 811 N.E.2d 806 (Ind. 2004). You must state in your Petition for Review that you have suffered or are "likely to suffer in the immediate future, harm to a legal interest, be it pecuniary, property or personal interest." This means that you have to state how you personally have been injured by the IDEM action. This cannot be an injury suffered by a neighbor or to the general public.
Q. Do I need to have a lawyer?
A. No, a lawyer is not required, but you will be at a serious disadvantage if you do not know the law and how to present your case. If you are representing yourself and you are not a lawyer, you can place yourself at a serious disadvantage by not having the training and experience to know the law, how to present your case, and how to focus primarily on these tasks when you also might have very strong personal concerns about the case and other demands on your time which limit you from doing all that is required. The OEA cannot help you prepare your case. Be aware that the other parties may employ attorneys and an attorney will always represent IDEM.
Q. Can the winning party recover costs from the losing party?
A. No. Outside of extraordinary circumstances, the parties to an administrative proceeding must pay their own costs, win or lose.
Q. Can I recover damages from the other parties?
A. No, OEA does not have the authority to award damages.
Q. What if I lose? Can I appeal the ELJ's decision?
A. Yes, you can appeal through a process called judicial review. The procedure for this is found in IC 4-21.5-5. Keep in mind that there is a deadline for doing this.
Q. Can I go straight to my local trial court to appeal an IDEM decision instead of going through this administrative process?
A. Generally, no. Typically, you must first exhaust administrative remedies before you can go to a trial court. There are rare exceptions to this rule, but you would almost certainly need an attorney if you believe any of these exceptions apply.
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A. No, the ELJ will hear the case and make a decision based on the evidence.
Q. Will the ELJ make a decision on the same day as the hearing?
A. No. The ELJ must issue a written decision with specific findings of fact, conclusions of law, and an order. You and the other parties, will be able to give the ELJ an order which summarized how you believe the law and facts support the result you want in your case. The ELJ's decision will typically be issued within ninety (90) days after the hearing. If the hearing was for a stay, the decision will generally be issued sooner.
Q. If I file for judicial review or want a copy of the transcript, who pays for the transcript?
A. You are responsible for paying for the court reporter to transcribe the hearing.
Q. Can I look at OEA's files?
A. Yes, in general. OEA's files are public records and may be inspected and copied in accordance with IC 5-14-3. Some parts of the records, such as the ELJ's notes, may be exempt from public view, but most of the record may be inspected.
Q. What is a Motion for Summary Judgment?
A. When the facts of a case are not disputed—that is, all of the parties agree what facts happened in a case, but believe that the law applies to the facts to require a ruling in their favor, the parties can ask the ELJ to determine how the law applies to these facts.
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A. Yes. If you request it, the ELJ will typically allow you a reasonable amount of time to negotiate a settlement although you may be required to file status reports periodically with the OEA. Just as in a county court system, most cases before OEA settle.
Q. What is a status report?
A. If the parties are trying to negotiate a settlement, the ELJ will frequently ask, in the form of an order, for the parties to file a status report to keep the ELJ apprised of the parties' progress toward settlement. At times, the ELJ will order specific information to be included in the status report, and may set a deadline for filing the status report. However, a simple statement that tells the ELJ what is happening with the litigation is usually sufficient. It is not necessary to inform the ELJ of the details of settlement negotiations.
Q. What is mediation?
A. This is a process where a neutral third party tries to help the parties negotiate a settlement. You can request mediation, but all of the parties must agree to mediation in order for it to be effective. The ELJ will not typically order the parties to mediation if a party disagrees.
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Series: Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition RPG
Theme: Fantasy
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12+ 60+ minutes 2-5
Publisher(s): Hasbro, Wizards of the Coast
Waterdeep, the City of Splendors—the most resplendent jewel in the Forgotten Realms, and a den of political intrigue and shady back-alley dealings. In this game, the players are powerful lords vying for control of this great city. Its treasures and resources are ripe for the taking, and that which cannot be gained through trickery and negotiation must be taken by force!
Lords of Waterdeep is a strategy board game for 2-5 players. You take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder—or help—the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans.
Time: 60 or more minutes
Ages: 12 and up
5 card stock player mats
121 Intrigue, Quest, and Role cards
130 wooden cubes, pawns, and score pieces
Wooden player markers
Card stock tiles and tokens representing buildings, gold coins, and victory points
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by NevoGamer
An easy to teach, fun worker-placement game
Lords of Waterdeep (LoW) is a great game for 2-5 players. The game is set in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) universe, the port city of Waterdeep. The game is played in eight rounds plays in about an hour and there's absolutely a lot to like in this worker placement game.
First off, the components are wonderful. The agents (meeples), scoring pieces and Adventurer cubes (representing the standard D&D classes of fighter/cleric/wizard/rogue) are all wooden. The building tiles are nice and thick and contain a little cut out area in the bottom corner that allows the player that built the building to place an token to denote ownership. Even the money is cool... the one gold coin pieces are square with a hole in the center, while the five gold pieces are moon-shaped also with a hole in the center. The box comes with a nice insert to hold everything in place. Good stuff all the way around.
My only complaint with the components is with the Adventurer cubes. New players or those not familiar with D&D will typically say, "I'll take two orange and a black" instead of "two fighters and a rogue." While everyone will certainly understand what the player means by that, it just detracts from the theme of the game.
Fortunately, a couple of aftermarket options have shown up to help with this problem. One vendor sells small chips with an icon and the appropriate adventurer name (fighter, rogue, etc.) stamped on one side. An enterprising Canadian gamer is selling laser-cut wooden meeples which look very cool.
The rulebook is well written with lots of helpful illustrations, including an overview of each building. No complaints here.
The game board is nice and colorful. It looks great and features a very nice layout. The board has labeled spaces for where components are placed during setup. Everything is labeled clearly which makes it very easy to teach the game. A scoring track runs around the outside of the board. +1 for the game board.
LoW's gameplay doesn't really break any new ground. However, the gameplay is so tight and interesting that the game just flows. It's not uncommon to hear, "Oh, it's my turn?" as turns play out very quickly.
At the start of the game each player receives a card representing a Lord of Waterdeep. This card is kept hidden from other players and provides a scoring bonus at the end of the game. For example, one Lord provides six victory points (VPs) for each building the player owns at the end of the game. Another may provide four VPs for every type of a specific quest type the player has completed.
This Lord provides casual gamers with a much needed goal. Instead of having to fully develop a strategy to win, the strategy is provided. The player then can focus on executing against that strategy.
LoW is a worker placement game where the players take turns placing an Agent on the board and immediately take the action provided by that location. Some locations allow the player to recruit Adventurers (receive cubes of the corresponding color), while others may provide gold, allow the player to draw or play an Intrigue card, build a building or take a quest.
As with most worker-placement games, players contend when placing an Agent. Most locations will only allow one Agent to be present, so the first player to place an Agent there gets that action that round. Note that there is not a blocking mechanism in the game. The player who places the Agent has to be able to take the corresponding action or he can't place his Agent in that location. One of the locations (Castle Waterdeep), allows a player to draw an Intrigue card and become the first player in the following round.
After placing an Agent, the player has the option of completing a quest. Each player starts the game with two quests and completing quests will generally be one of the primary goals for players during the game. Quests are completed by discarding the appropriate types of the Adventurer cubes that the player has recruited (collected) on previous turns. Sometimes you have to cough up a few gold to complete a quest too. In return, the player will gain some combination of VPs, gold, Adventurer cubes and/or an ongoing effect (called a Plot Quest).
Plot Quests provide depth to the game as some of their effects align nicely with a Lord card bonus. For example, your Lord card may give you an end game scoring bonus for completing Commerce quests. One of the Plot Quests provides a two point bonus every time you complete a Commerce quest. Make sure to point these types of synergies out to new players.
Intrigue cards allow the player to receive some benefit or cause a negative effect on another player. Some cards "break the rules" of the game in a benign manner. Each player starts the game with two Intrigue cards. Additional cards are received as a result of Agent placement or completing a quest.
Buildings provide a new location on which players may place their Agent. The player who builds the building marks it as such, and this player receives a bonus any time another player places her Agent on that building. The bonuses are small but add up over the course of the game.
Quests are at the heart of the game. The quest cards all contain a name ("Deliver an Ultimatum"), an illustration (some cool, some meh), some flavor text, the quest type (Commerce, Warfare, etc.), the cost to complete the quest and the quest reward.
Quests are left face up so other players can see what you're working on and what resources (Adventurers or gold) you need. Once completed, quests are placed faced down on the player board. Plot Quests remain face up to help remind the player of the ongoing bonus that they provide.
After all Agents have been placed, that round ends. Play continues in this manner until the end of the eighth round. Players will get another Agent at the end of round five.
LoW is tremendous fun to play. There's enough player interaction with the Agent placement contention, Intrigue cards and the building bonuses to keep the game from feeling like he's playing a giant game of solitaire. There are no wonky rules and the game feels and plays very intuitively.
Complexity-wise, it's a step up from Ticket to Ride but a notch below Stone Age or Ninjato. LoW would be a great choice to introduce the worker placement mechanic to casual game players.
We love LoW at our house and it receives my highest recommendation for players looking for a fun board game to play with two to five players.
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She says that Aborigines have not ceded title to Australia. But they did not have to. Title to Australia was gained by right of conquest. If that right is of no consequence we should ask the English to go back to Germany, which is where they came from around 500AD. And all Arabs should certainly be ejected from Palestine
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With so many organizations serving information on the internet today, there is overwhelming demand for distribution systems to get that content to the people that need it. This is why content distribution networks, or CDNs, exist.
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import base64
import os
import subprocess

class BaseOSUtils(object):
    PROTOCOL_TCP = "TCP"
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HomeCarbon NewsICE Launches New Nature-Based Solutions Futures Contract, Rivals CME
ICE Launches New Nature-Based Solutions Futures Contract, Rivals CME
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. or ICE has launched new nature-based solutions carbon credit futures contract.
ICE is a Fortune 500 company that offers financial technology, data, and market infrastructure services. It operates exchanges, like the NYSE, and clearing houses to help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across asset classes.
ICE created its first nature-based futures contract called NBS future. It trades under the contract code NBT, which delivers verified carbon unit (VCU) credits.
ICE NBT futures have several certifications. These include Verra VCS Agriculture, and Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Projects. It also has certifications from the Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standard.
ICE Nature-Based Solutions Futures Contract
An entity can produce NBS carbon credits through various schemes like planting trees or protecting forests.
Each ICE NBS futures contract equals 1,000 carbon credits. And each credit equals one metric ton of emissions removed or reduced by projects that preserve natural ecosystems.
It has vintages covering January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2020.
ICE has listed NBS futures expiries in December 2022, December 2023, and December 2024.
They traded at $11.25 per tonne by 1109 GMT, according to data from the ICE website.
As per Gordon Bennett, Managing Director of Utility Markets at ICE,
"The NBS future is our first contract specifically designed to measure the carbon sequestration and storage capabilities of nature… we hope it to be an important valuation tool to conserve and grow the world's natural capital base."
The decision to launch this contract will help bring price signals to the carbon market. The firm also believes that it will incentivize efficient capital allocation to balance the world's carbon budget and hit net zero goals.
ICE has worked with environmental markets for about 20 years now. Over this period, it has traded over 100 billion tons of carbon allowances and over 250 million renewable energy certificates.
Moreover, ICE traded about 3 billion carbon credits, which is equal to over 1.4 billion Renewable Identification Numbers.
In 2021 alone, ICE traded around $1 trillion in the notional value of carbon allowances. This is equal to more than half the estimated global annual energy-related emissions.
ICE Futures Contract Supporters
A lot of large companies are supporting the futures contract. These are Shell, Chevron, Vitol, Trafigura, EDF Trading, Elbow River Marketing Ltd. (a fully owned Parkland Fuel subsidiary), the Macquarie Group, and Vertree Partners.
For instance, according to Bill McGrath from Shell,
"The launch of ICE NBS futures is a crucial milestone to scale the voluntary carbon market… In particular, it will help boost the flow of capital for developing nature-based projects."
Last year, Shell partnered with PetroChina to supply it with carbon-neutral LNG cargos. Their goal is to offset CO2 emissions generated across the LNG value chain with carbon credits from nature-based projects.
For Vitol, quality assurance and transparency of carbon credits are also vital. Michael Curran from Vitol said that the launch will grow investment in verified carbon mitigating projects. Plus, it will raise standards and price transparency across the carbon credit industry.
Whereas Hannah Hauman from Trafigura finds the launch of ICE nature-based solutions futures a crucial development in global carbon markets. And that it will help deliver transparency and liquidity for quality nature-based solutions.
Likewise, Elbow River Marketing thinks that it will also bring liquidity to the booming voluntary carbon market.
In August last year, CME Group launched its CBL Nature-based Global Emissions Offset (N-GEO) futures contract. It's also one of the top nature-based solutions (NBS) contracts available in the market.
CME's CBL N-GEO contracts consist of offsets from agriculture, forestry, and other land-use projects. They're verified to have additional climate, community, and biodiversity accreditation.
CBL N-GEO futures contract has the same rigorous certifications as ICE NBS futures. They are also both created to help create a more transparent and efficient voluntary carbon market.


Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 406 › Operating Engineers v. Flair Builders, Inc.
Petitioner union brought an action in June, 1968, seeking damages and injunctive relief for respondent's alleged breach of their collective bargaining agreement, charging that respondent had "continually violated" the contract since June, 1966, by refusing to abide by any of its terms. The agreement provided for arbitration "of any difference . . . which cannot be settled . . . within 48 hours of the occurrence." The District Court held that respondent "was bound by the memorandum agreement to arbitrate labor disputes within the limits of the arbitration clause," but found the union guilty of laches, and dismissed the action. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
Held: As the District Court found, the parties did agree to arbitrate and, the existence and scope of an arbitration clause being matters for judicial decision, the phrase "any difference" encompasses the issue of laches within the broad sweep of its arbitration coverage. Pp. 490-492.
BRENNAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which DOUGLAS, STEWART, WHITE, MARSHALL, BLACKMUN, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. POWELL, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which BURGER, C.J., joined, post, p. 406 U. S. 492.
In November, 1968, petitioner brought an action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking damages and injunctive relief for an alleged breach by respondent of their collective bargaining agreement. The complaint charged that, since June 1, 1966, respondent had "continually violated" the contract by refusing to abide by any of its terms, including wage, hiring hall, and fringe benefit provisions. The agreement, which incorporated the terms of master contracts between petitioner and a local contractors' association, provided for arbitration of "any difference . . . between the parties hereto which cannot be settled by their representatives, within 48 hours of the occurrence."
The District Court dismissed petitioner's action for failure to state a claim, and noted, but did not pass upon, two additional contentions of the company -- "that (1) no contract was ever created, and (2) . . . , if consummated, the agreement was subsequently abandoned by the union." No. 68-C-2091 (April 14, 1969) (unreported). The court suggested that the parties arbitrate the binding effect of their contract. When the company refused to arbitrate either that issue or "the subsequent issues of possible violations," petitioner filed an amended complaint to compel arbitration.
"if the employer consented to the alleged collective bargaining agreement, the laches issue should be decided by the arbitrator, rather than the federal courts."
"The master agreement contemplates initiation of arbitration proceedings if any dispute is not settled within 48 hours of its occurrence, and further provides that the Board of Arbitrators shall meet 'within six (6) days.' Yet demand for arbitration was not made in this case until April, 1969, almost five years from Flair's first alleged failure to comply with the contract and nearly three years from the inception of the alleged breach sought to be arbitrated."
of a dispute in a suit brought to compel arbitration with regard to the dispute."
"[o]nce it is determined . . . that the parties are obligated to submit the subject matter of a dispute to arbitration, 'procedural' questions which grow out of the dispute and bear on its final disposition should be left to the arbitrator."
Id. at 557. The Court of Appeals distinguished Wiley on the ground that the procedural question there concerned "intrinsic" untimeliness, relating solely to the requirements of the contract. Here, on the other hand, the question was one of "extrinsic" untimeliness, based not on a violation of contract procedures, but on the failure to give timely notice under the equitable doctrine of laches. Therefore, according to the court, the matter was within its province to decide, for "we are not indulging in the judicially unwarranted task of interpreting the collective bargaining agreement.'" 440 F.2d at 560, quoting Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Ironall Factories Co., 386 F.2d 586, 591 (CA6 1967). We granted certiorari. 404 U.S. 982 (1971).
"necessarily involves a determination of the merits of the dispute and bears directly upon the outcome and is accordingly for an arbitrator and not the federal court to decide."
the question as an integral part of the underlying contract dispute.
We need not reach the question posed by petitioner, for we find that the parties did, in fact, agree to arbitrate the issue of laches here. Although respondent denies that it ever signed a binding contract with petitioner, the District Court found to the contrary, and held that the company "was bound by the memorandum agreement to arbitrate labor disputes within the limits of the arbitration clause." That clause applies to "any difference," whatever it may be, not settled by the parties within 48 hours of occurrence. There is nothing to limit the sweep of this language or to except any dispute or class of disputes from arbitration. In that circumstance, we must conclude that the parties meant what they said -- that "any difference," which would include the issue of laches raised by respondent at trial, should be referred to the arbitrator for decision. * The District Court ignored the plain meaning of the clause in deciding that issue.
* Respondent's attorney admitted as much in the hearing before the District Court. Though contending that the binding effect of the contract was an issue for the court, and not the arbitrator, he agreed that "laches is another thing. I can go along on this being an arbitrable question, I suppose, if you have got a contract. . . ." App. 93.
Through the exercise of formal logic, the majority reaches a result that I believe is unjust. A full statement of the facts is necessary to put this case in proper perspective. Flair Builders, Inc. (Flair), is a small independent construction firm. The International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150, AFL-CIO (the Union), had a master collective bargaining agreement in effect with many contractor associations in Flair's area. On May 12, 1964, the Union and Flair signed a memorandum agreement which adopted the terms of the then-existing master bargaining agreement. The memorandum provided that Flair would be bound by any future master agreement entered between the Union and the contractor associations. Flair had only one employee at the time it signed the memorandum agreement with the Union. This employee joined the Union, but left Flair's employment about two weeks later. His job was filled successively by employees who operated the only piece of equipment owned by Flair. None of these successor employees belonged to the Union.
than four years, Flair heard nothing whatever from the Union.
"Should any difference arise between the parties hereto which cannot be settled by their representatives, within 48 hours of the occurrence, such difference shall be submitted to arbitration."
It further provided that the arbitrators should meet within six days after it was determined that the dispute could not be settled. Although Flair was not a party to the new 1966 master agreement, and received no notice of its execution from the Union, the District Court determined that Flair was "bound" by virtue of the incorporation provision in the memorandum agreement signed in 1964.
It is apparent that the Union either forgot about its 1964 agreement with Flair or considered Flair's small operation to be of no consequence. For a long time, everyone seemed happy, and things went well. Then, in June, 1968, four years after the agreement was entered, a Union business agent visited Flair. This was the first such visit since May, 1964. The business agent found that Flair's four employees were nonunion, and he also complained about their wages. Flair refused to recognize any obligation to the Union.
April 18, 1969, the Union had demanded "immediate arbitration," and that Flair had refused. In its answer to the amended complaint, Flair asserted various defenses, including abandonment of the contract and laches in asserting "any purported rights or claims thereunder."
Yet the phrase 'any difference,' if given its normal meaning in a labor contract, refers to disputes relating to hours, wages, fringe benefits, seniority, grievances, and to other issues customarily arising within the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. I cannot believe that this language was intended to include the arbitration of an equitable defense asserted against the enforceability of the entire contract. Indeed, the Union itself did not construe the language to cover arbitration of this issue, as it asserted no such claim until after the District Court suggested it. [Footnote 2]"
to a collective bargaining agreement which contains an arbitration clause may be so dilatory in making the existence of vaguely delineated disputes known to the other party that a court is justified in refusing to compel the submission of such disputes to arbitration."
440 F.2d 557, 559 (1971).
the power of the court to do so."
Church v. Hubbart, 2 Cranch 187, 6 U. S. 232 (1804).
The effect of today's decision on Flair seem fairly clear. The Court's opinion imposes on this small business the "extreme burden" that the District Court found would result from requiring arbitration. Mr. Justice Cardozo once observed that litigation is a rare and catastrophic experience for the vast majority of men. [Footnote 3] If Flair survives the long excursion to this Court, the arbitration that the majority requires, and a possible return to the District Court which already has ruled in its favor, it surely possesses more tenacity and better financial resources than the average small business. One may doubt whether many small businessmen would believe today's result possible.
The effect of the Court's decision also could be far-reaching in the law of labor-management relations. It appears that the long-accepted jurisdiction of the courts may now be displaced whenever a collective bargaining agreement contains a general arbitration clause similar to that here involved. If in such circumstances the affirmative defense of laches can no longer be invoked in the courts, what of other affirmative defenses that go to the enforceability of a contract? Does the Court's opinion vest in arbitrators the historic jurisdiction of the courts to determine fraud or duress in the inception of a contract? It seems to me that the courts are far better qualified than any arbitrators to decide issues of this kind. These are not questions of "labor law," nor are they issues of fact that arbitrators are peculiarly well qualified to consider. They are issues within the traditional equity jurisdiction of courts of law and issues which the courts below appropriately resolved. I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals.
It should be noted that this language was added to the master contract in 1966 without the knowledge of Flair, at a time when it had every reason to believe that the Union -- from which it had heard nothing for more than two years -- had abandoned the initial memorandum agreement of May 12, 1964. Flair had no union employees, and had received no demands or notices of any kind from the Union. But, whatever the situation may have been in 1966, the subsequent history of this remarkable performance corroborates the view that neither Flair nor the Union was conscious of the existence of a collective bargaining agreement or of a right to arbitrate anything.
Even after a union business agent visited Flair's jobsite in 1968 and discovered "a non-union employee operating a piece of equipment," no action was taken by the Union until a suit for specific performance and damages was filed some five months later. No demand was made for arbitration, and no claim of any right to arbitration was made in the original complaint. The District Court, not the Union, first suggested the possibility of arbitration. In these circumstances, and with all respect, I find no support whatever in the record for the Court's holding "that the parties did in fact, agree to arbitrate."
B. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process 128 (1921).


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The quality of media is very high. The users are not required to create accounts or make any sort of registrations to access the media contents. The user interface is quite plain and simple. Also, the added advantage worth mentioning is that this website is completely free of cost.
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