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Hey everyone, I'm really enjoying Eldritch Moon limited so far. Here are 3 archetypes that I've enjoyed drafted, along with some important cards for each archetype. Enjoy!
"Green-Black Delirium"
The Strategy: G/B Delirium revolves around utilizing the graveyard and essentially "grinding out" your opponent through valuable exchanges. Since Eldritch Moon has proved to be more grindy and slower than the Shadows Over Innistrad format, delirium is a strategy I've loved to draft these past few weeks.
Important Pick Ups:
Gnarlwood Dryad: Cheap creatures with deathtouch are always solid since they're able to put opposing large ground creatures at bay, and Gnarlwood Dryad does just that, and then some.
Grapple with the Past: As a way to reach delirium while picking up a creature or land, Grapple is a must-include for a strategy that utilizes the graveyard. I've also played games where I've fired this off on turn 2 or 3 just to insure I hit my land drops.
Midnight Scavengers: Scavengers fits great into any G/B deck, even if we haven't picked up a Graf Rats. It's a great way to buyback our Gnarlwood Dryads or Thraben Foulbloods or any other cheap creatures we've milled.
Crop Sigil: Although slower than Grapple with the Past, Crop Sigil is a way to consistently put cards into the graveyard and hit delirium. I don't like this card as much as Grapple or Vessel of Nascency, but if you're low on delirium outlets this is an auto-include in the deck.
Decent Filler:
Thraben Foulbloods: A 3/2 for 3 mana creature is always fine to include in any deck, but once delirium is active, Foulbloods turns into a real beater. If you're able to hit delirium early, you can find yourself pushing through lots of damage with this card. Also of note is its zombie creature type. It can trigger cards like Cemetery Recruitment, which is consistently relevant.
Rise from the Grave: Although when you cast this card on turn five you may not be hitting any large creatures, bringing back a Thraben Foulbloods or one of your opponents best 2 or 3 drops is fine. Rise from the Grave also gets marginally better as the game goes on and you have to deal with your opponent's larger threats.
Wailing Ghoul: 1/3's for 2 don't necessarily excite me, but Wailing Ghoul can help hit delirium and act as a reasonable blocker early on in the game.
Rares that Make the Deck Great:
Noosegraf Mob: I've found the G/B Delirium archetype to be the place where Noosegraf Mob really shines. In grindy games, being able to flood the board with 2/2's can be backbreaking, especially if you have a Grapple with the Past or a Cemetery Recruitment as a way to replay Mob.
Grim Flayer: Everyone's favorite G/B 2/2 in standard and modern proves to be just as powerful in limited, being able to set up delirium early on in a game or prove to be a powerful attacker once delirium is active.
"Blue-Red Spells"
The Strategy: Unlike the "U/R Spells" archetype in Shadows over Innistrad limited, which revolved around drafting multiple instants and sorceries to fuel a large Rise from the Tides, in Eldritch Moon this archetype looks to pick up spell-based creatures to get through smaller, but multiple amounts of damage.
Important Pick Ups:
Thermo-Alchemist: One of the bread-and-butter creatures of the deck, Alchemist can put through a lot of damage when your deck contains a good mixture of instants and sorceries, especially if you have multiple.
Ingenious Skaab: An upgrade to Watercourser, Ingenious Skaab acts as a solid attacker and blocker when your deck is packed multiple cards that trigger prowess.
Vexing Scuttler: In an archetype where spell-based creatures are vital to push through incremental damage, you won't find yourself adding a ton of emerge creatures to your deck. However, Scuttler is one I'm always happy to play to get back my Galvanic Bombardments or Chilling Grasps – a 4/5 is also just a solid body to attack or defend with.
Weaver of Lightning: Weaver is not only great at blocking creatures on the ground with 3 or less power, but can also pick off those pesky Tattered Haunters and Nebelgast Heralds. Weaver is just a great creature that helps defend while you push through damage with your Thermo-Alchemists.
Decent Filler:
Shreds of Sanity: Adding more fuel to the Thermo-Alchemist fire, Shreds can get back your Incendiary Flows and Chilling Grasps while also providing a madness outlet for any Fiery Tempers you pick up in your Shadows over Innistrad Pack.
Chilling Grasp: Although I don't like this card in every blue deck, Grasp can help you push through damage with your Thermo-Alchemists and Ingenious Skaabs while keeping your opponent's creatures locked down for a turn.
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader: Although I'm not usually in the market for 2 mana 1/1s, curiously enough this card has impressed me. Adding colorless to cast only instants and sorceries can be important if you're looking to fire off a Spreading Flames or Reduce to Ashes earlier than expected, and once transformed into Voracious Reader, a 3/4 with prowess for an initial investment of 2 mana is no laughing matter, and the ability to reduce the casting cost of your spells by 1 is exceptional when you're hungry for mana.
Rares that Make the Deck Great:
Nibils of Frost: When your deck is playing upwards to nine or more instants and sorceries, Nibils helps push through large amounts of damage while keeping your opponents most pressing creatures at bay.
Elder Deep-Fiend: Again, I'm not looking to include multiple emerge cards in a deck where spell-based creatures matter, but when you're pushing through small amounts of damage every turn of the game with cards like Thermo-Alchemist, Deep-Fiend helps put your opponent off from attacking or utilizing their mana for a turn and brings you one step closer to putting through the final point of damage with an Alchemist.
"Green-White Humans"
The Strategy: G/W Humans looks to go wide with solid attacking creatures. Certain builds of the deck can include cards like Lunarch Mantle to push through large amounts of damage with evasion and others can look to go wide with cards like Hamlet Captain and Borrowed Grace.
Important Pick Ups:
Courageous Outrider: A 3/4 for four mana is a fine rate, and one that can potentially draw a creature is even better.
Faith Unbroken: Although at uncommon, Faith Unbroken may be more unlikely to pick up compared to other white removal such as Choking Restraints and Sigardian Priest, this enchantment can really pack a punch when you're able to remove your opponent's best blocking creature while making one of your 2 or 3 mana creatures into a threatening attacker.
Hamlet Captain: 2 mana 2/2's with an upside are again solid pick ups and Captain is essential when you're looking to go wide with an army of humans.
Decent Filler:
Crossroads Consecrator: There aren't many cards in Eldritch Moon that payoff for drafting multiple humans, but Consecrator is a great way to buff up your humans in combat. However I don't like really including this card unless my deck is somewhat aggressive, 1 mana 1/2's aren't necessarily a great rate.
True-Faith Censer: Censer has always been a decent equipment to include in these low to the ground decks, and it's great at buffing up your Courageous Outriders from 3/4's into threatening 5/5's.
Faithbearer Paladin: Although on the surface a 3/4 with lifeline for five mana isn't essentially promising, when you're put into situations where you have to win a damage race, Paladin plays a great role at pushing through damage while keeping you at a healthy lifetotal, especially when you have multiple ways to increase its power with cards like Lunarch Mantle or Crossroads Consecrator.
Fiend Binder: Although I'm not looking to include this card in every white deck, this card fits great into a G/W deck that's looking to clutter up the board with creatures and attack.
Ironclad Slayer: 3/2s for 3 is a fine body, and when you're looking to get back a Choking Restraints to lock down an opposing creature or get back a Lunarch Mantle to suit-up one of your attacking creatures, Slayer can prove to be an important addition to the deck.
Rares that Make the Deck Great:
Heron's Grace Champion: 4 mana for a 3/3 with flash and lifelink is great, but when you're aiming to deploy an army of humans and be aggressive this card can act as a great way to pump your team and gain a significant amount of life in the process.
Collective Effort: I've sometimes found myself casting this card to be able to just put a +1/1 counter on my team or as a removal spell for an opposing threatening creature, but being able to pick off a Choking Restraints or Sleep Paralysis in addition to one of the other choose one effects can turn the tide. I also love that to add on any of the other choose one effects I don't have to pay any extra mana as is common with the other escalate cards.
Read my Pro Tour Eldritch Moon limited analysis here.
Eldritch Moon has been a blast to draft so far, and I've been having a great time drafting these archetypes. What are some of your favorite strategies to draft in this format? Let me know down below!
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California Water: A History
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The mid-19th century saw huge changes to the California landscape, both politically and figuratively, as Alta California was ceded to the United States following the Mexican–American War in 1848 and gold was discovered in 1849. The subsequent Gold Rush pushed the non-native population from 10,000 to over 100,000. It also brought about the practice of hydraulic mining, where water flow was concentrated through a series of flumes and penstocks and then used to blast away entire hillsides to expose the valuable ore. And from these activities came the need for laws to allocate water between various users and the impacts of that water downstream.
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During this same timeframe, these efforts to manage water in the state were being aided on a parallel track by the federal government, which was promoting the populating and development of the western United States. The cornerstone of these efforts was the Reclamation Act of 1902, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, that established the United States Bureau of Reclamation to assist in the reclamation of western lands, primarily for agriculture.
California also began looking outside of its borders for water, in this case the Colorado River that drains a large portion of the southwestern United States. The first effort to divert some of the flow of the Colorado into the Imperial Valley began shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, with the construction of the Imperial Canal. However, in 1905, upstream snowmelt and flooding caused the failure of a series of dikes and flooded the lowlands in the center of the Imperial Valley. By the time the river had been diverted back to its original channel in 1907 the ancient and highly saline lakebed had been filled to form the landlocked 343-square-mile Salton Sea.
The 1922 Colorado River Compact set forth allotments of the river's average annual flow to 16.5 million acre-feet (MAF) shared among Arizona, Nevada, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, along with 22 Native American tribes, parks and wildlife areas, plus Mexico. The annual allocation to California is 4.4 MAF flowing through the All-American and Colorado River Aqueducts. The 80-mile-long All-American, completed in 1939, was a replacement for the Imperial Canal; it carries 3.1 MAF into the Imperial Valley. Two years later, the 223-mile-long Colorado River Aqueduct began carrying its annual allotment of 1.2 MAF to Southern California coastal communities from Ventura County in the north to San Diego County in the south.
The state's largest water supply undertaking was the Bureau of Reclamation's massive Central Valley Project (CVP), which began in the 1930s and continued into the 1950s. The CVP delivers 7 MAF annually from a total of 18 dams and reservoirs, 11 hydroelectric plants, and 500 miles of canals and aqueducts that stretch from Lake Shasta in the north to the Bakersfield area in the south. In addition to delivering water for irrigation to much of the Central Valley (i.e., the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the adjoining Delta), the CVP provides some of the water used in the urbanized areas of the San Francisco Bay Area and Central Valley towns.
The final piece in California's surface water infrastructure puzzle is the State Water Project (SVP), which was built and is managed by the California Department of Water Resources. Constructed in the 1960s and 1970s, the SVP is anchored by Lake Oroville on the Feather River in the Northern Sierra Nevada. Behind Lake Shasta, it's the state's second largest reservoir. On average, 2.3 MAF are delivered via the SVP through the lower Sacramento River and California Aqueduct to the San Joaquin Valley and over Tehachapi to Southern California, with branches taking water to parts of the Bay Area and south-central coastal communities.
In total, there are more than 1,000 major reservoirs, of which the 200 largest have a storage capacity of 41 MAF. Eleven of these have a capacity of 1 MAF or more, with Shasta Lake the largest at 4.5 MAF. The larger reservoirs not only store water, but they also control flooding as well as produce on average 15% of the state's electrical power.
Groundwater Usage
Another vital component of California's waterscape is below the surface of the earth: its groundwater. In total, there is about 10 times the amount of groundwater as there is in all of the surface reservoirs combined; though not all of it is accessible or consumable. This hidden resource typically accounts for about 30% of the water used by urban areas and agriculture, and in drought years this figure can rise to 60%. By far the biggest users of groundwater are the agricultural interests, which use about 85% of the water brought to the surface from under the Central Valley. Groundwater is also at least a portion of the water supplies, as it is used by about 75% (approximately 30 million) of Californians. And for 6 million people, primarily in the Central Valley, it is their only source of water. Historically, it been treated as a "nest egg in the (water)bank" when surface flows are diminished. But groundwater is not a bottomless pit, and, just like other water resources in the state, its use requires careful management.
The groundwater under California's surface resides in beds (aquifers) of alluvial sediments that are made up of sand, gravel, and rocks, not large underground lakes as is often the public's perception. These aquifers fill (recharge) naturally from surface water by gravity through semi-porous surface soils and are trapped from below by impermeable bedrock. They can also be recharged through intentional efforts of over irrigating, percolation ponds, or pumping water back into the ground.
When more water is withdrawn from these aquifers than is recharged, the aquifers shrink due to compaction, with the result being less volume for storage and also the subsidence (sinking) of the land above. The largest groundwater aquifers in California are in the Central Valley, and these account for about three-quarters of the groundwater pumped for surface use. They are also the area of the largest subsidence recorded on the planet, with some areas having sunk 30 feet over the past decades. Other areas in the state that also experience subsidence, but to a lesser degree, are the Sacramento, Santa Clara, and Antelope Valleys. In all of these areas, not only is the groundwater potential reduced, but billions of dollars in damage to roads, canals, and other infrastructure have occurred.
Unfortunately, there has been little in the way of regulation for California's groundwater or incentives to better budget its use. As more water is pumped from the ground, the water table lowers and wells must be dug even deeper to reach it. In some areas of the San Joaquin Valley, where water was plentiful at less than a 100 feet below the surface a decade ago, wells are now having to be dug to 1,000 feet and at costs of up to $300 per foot. Not only are these deeper wells expensive, but they use larger amounts of energy to bring the water to the surface. A lowered water table also has ecological impacts, such as saltwater intrusion and increased concentration of manmade pollutants.
In addition to water for urban and agricultural uses, a significant percentage of California's water is designated for the "environment." This usage falls into three broad categories: water that is "wild and scenic," with flows that are unrestricted in rivers per state and federal mandates; water used to maintain specific habitats within streams and other watercourses for fish, migratory birds, and other wildlife; and water used to maintain water quality. In broad terms, this "environmental water" accounts for nearly half of the water that is potentially usable in the state.
A System Stressed by Drought
In total, California's water budget is used and misused by just about every group that has an interest in getting its fair share or blaming another group for using a disproportionate amount. In broad terms, about 200 MAF of water falls onto the California landscape as precipitation in an average year. From this total, 115 MAF are recycled into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, and another 20 MAF flow into the Pacific from the North Coast western drainages. Of the remaining 65 MAF, 35 MAF are used by agriculture, 21 MAF go to environmental balance, and the last 9 MAF are used by urban areas for human consumption and industry.
When things are flowing smoothly, all of the parts of California's waterscape run in balance, based on average uses. But in reality, this balance is severely tested during periods of droughts or floods. The current drought has impacted California for the past five years (2012–2016), with most areas of the state having a deficit equal to an entire years' worth of rainfall. This scale of deficit has broad reaching effects, impacting not just the water available immediately from the tap but also California's water over the long term. The reduced runoff from the wet season's rain and snow translates into a further drawdown of groundwater resources, subsidence, and the permanent loss of some groundwater capacity. Likewise, the resulting reduced water allocations can lead to a relaxation of environmental standards, higher salinity in some areas, and long-term harm to native species of flora and fauna. The recent drought is also responsible for a two-thirds drop in hydroelectric power generation, falling from 21% of the state's power in 2011 to only 7% in 2015. The resulting offset in power generation had to be made by increased natural gas–fueled energy generation with the associated costs and pollution.
Agriculture, California's largest user of water, was also severely impacted by the drought. The agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley was hit especially hard, with reduced runoff from the Sierra Nevada, reduced allocations from the Central Valley Project, and a dramatic decrease in economically available groundwater. Short-term annual losses directly to agriculture are estimated to be on the order of a billion dollars, but the impacts are far-reaching, with fallow fields and a downturn in the region's economy that includes double digit unemployment. In the long term, it will takes years for groundwater supplies to recover, but on the positive side, it has led to more sustainable irrigation practices for many crops.
Though it only accounts for about 5% of California's water use, the highly visible "urban water" sector has been asked, and in some areas mandated, to reduce consumption by 20–35%. In many communities, conservation efforts have seen both brown lawns and a switch to drought-resistant landscaping.
The most recent California drought also is being exacerbated by the climate change, and it may be a look into the future. Most global warming scenarios show the state's semi-arid climate becoming even more arid as the warmer atmosphere stresses water supplies.
Water has been a controversial factor in California from the days of its first settlers in the 18th century, as the myriad user groups have attempted to divide this scarce and valuable resource. These same dynamics will be at play in the 21st century, as the state's demand for water grows.
JAN NULL, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, is a California native, founder of Golden Gate Weather Services, a part-time faculty member at San Jose State University, and a former Lead Forecaster with the National Weather Service.


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As I described in my newsletter article, this past summer I had the honor of attending the annual council meeting of the International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED). The newsletter gives more detail about ICED and what it does, but I wanted to use this blog to share more about the experience of meeting with others who do the work we do all around the world.
The ICED Council, which is made up of the presidents of regional and national educational development networks, met for two days to discuss the work of ICED, talk about this year's ICED conference in Stockholm, and to plan future activities. The meeting was also attended by some former Council members, like POD's past president, Michele DiPietro.
On the surface, it was a meeting much like many other meetings of educational developers, but I quickly learned that we all work in very different contexts. Differences in such things as the role government plays in educational development, in the number of universities each network represented, and in the structure of development programs all made for interesting discussion and forced us to think outside our own experiences.
But developers are developers wherever they are, so it wasn't long before we had broken into small groups and then had a brainstorming session on a white board.
After the second day of the conference, we participated in the International Symposium on Educational Development in Higher Education, sponsored by the Japan Association for Educational Development (JAED).
After the larger sessions in the auditorium, we had small breakout sessions in which ICED members led discussions about educational development. It was a wonderful experience for me to listen to my colleagues from other countries speak about the work we do with the same kind of passion I hear from so many of my fellow POD members. At that point I knew that, despite all the cultural and political differences that impact our work, we share a common bond.
And what better way to strengthen that bond than by breaking bread together. Or, since we were in Kyoto, in sharing many wonderful, delicious meals of incredible Japanese food.
The woman in the front of the picture is Helen Guerin from Ireland, who was just elected the next President of ICED, and I'm proud to announce that beginning this summer I'll be representing POD as one of two Vice-Presidents of ICED, along with Allan Goody of Australia.
Our hosts also provided a lovely banquet, complete with students from the university performing on traditional instruments.
Luckily, we also had enough time to do a little sightseeing in this beautiful city. We were there during the Gion Matsuri festival, so the streets were full of these amazing floats of lanterns.
And we were able to tour three beautiful temples in Kyoto, including the Golden Pavilion, Rokuon-ji.
All in all, it was an incredible trip, and I look forward to helping build even more connections between POD members and our international community of developers. We have a lot to learn and a lot to share.
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Bruce Springsteen collects some odds and ends for his latest CD, "High Hopes."
"High Hopes"
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Bruce Springsteen may have titled his new CD "High Hopes" but fans should keep their expectations low.
It's not a genuinely new album, after all, but a collection of mutts and strays — pieces that had either previously been passed over for a disc, or required a strong rerecording to render them fresh.
It comes as no surprise, then, that the music doesn't hang together tightly. The songs date from different eras — though most come from the last decade — and they employ a wide array of musicians, including the late Clarence Clemons on two tracks.
To fudge a through-line, Springsteen leaned heavily on ex-Rage Against the Machine guitar czar Tom Morello. The agile axman has played on several tours with the E Street Band when Steve Van Zandt couldn't.
It turns out to be a ghastly match.
Morello, whose inventive guitar style dovetailed perfectly with the dissonance and metallic power of Rage, has a wholly different role in music this melodic. In some places, his solos sound like tacky hair-metal schmaltz. In others, his flights simply draw too much attention to themselves.
It's no mean feat to dominate the other players in a mix this thick. Nearly all the tracks on "High Hopes" are wildly overproduced and arranged, leaving no room to rock. In "Heaven's Wall" a faux gospel choir shouts righteously against a drenching string section while Morello's guitar squeals and wails with masturbatory absorption.
The same thing happens in the otherwise gorgeous "American Skin (41 Shots)," Springsteen's 14-year-old song about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo. The song previously surfaced on CD in a fine and direct live take. Here, it turns into a gaudy opera. "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a clichéd dirge that served as the title track of a 1995 CD, bloats to the grotesque at seven and a half minutes.
The album features some odd covers, including "Just Like Fire Would," from the Aussie band the Saints. As arranged, it sounds too much like John Mellencamp's "Small Town." The take on Suicide's "Dream Baby Dream" turns their abstract song corny.
The disc isn't a total washout. "Hunter of Invisible Game" glides on strings elegant enough for a John Ford western score. There's subtlety, too, in "The Wall," a 1998 ballad written to memorialize Walter Cichon, a Jersey rock idol of Springsteen's who died in Vietnam.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings mine retro sounds on "Give the People What They Want."
Otherwise, the only thing this disc of unclaimed pieces proves is that the Boss was right in shelving them the first time.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
"Give the People What They Want"
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The headline-making event in Sharon Jones' life has nothing to do with music.
Last year, she was diagnosed with bile duct cancer, which forced the cancellation of a planned summer tour and delayed the release of this, her sixth album with Brooklyn's Dap-Tones. Jones has since completed her treatment and was deemed fit by doctors to return to the road. (The band headlines the Beacon on Feb. 6.)
Jones finished the disc before her diagnosis, so her treatment had no effect on her singing and invited no reflection in the lyrics. But the music itself continues to present its own formidable hurtle.
Whenever you listen to any Jones recording, the past overwhelms the present. Her band's hard-pumping horns, flickering funk guitars, and "River Deep — Mountain High" echo dives into retro-soul with unwavering zeal.
This makes it impossible to hear the songs divorced from the era they so painstakingly evoke. Not that Jones wants it any other way. She never makes any apologies for her devotion to antique soul. In fact, at her age (57) this late-blooming singer considers the music she grew up to be an ongoing, thriving influence in her life.
That's fine for her, but it means listeners must unhear as much as they hear. There's no other way to unearth the individuality that lies below all the historic riffs and references.
Song after song on "Give the People What They Want" performs its title's function for anyone enthralled by the Stax, Philips, Motown and Okeh Records of old. The grand timpani has the melodrama of a Phil Spector teen-dream, while the brass mimics the brashness of a prime Muscle Shoals session. The backup singers echo classic 1960s roof-shakers like the Sweet Inspirations (who supported Aretha).
Luckily, the heat of Jones' performance, and the essential quality of the band's melodies, do manage an individual stamp. Never a subtle singer, Jones attacks her soul anthems like a blunt force instrument. That's fine, since nuance isn't called for here. Force is, and Jones has enough of it to thrill.
That still isn't enough to drag the Dap-Kings out of the shadows of their idols. But if they don't care about that, how deeply should we?


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Halo & Halo+ are ZigBee devices are in the process of being certified with multiple smart home platforms.
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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
When you don't have goals, you're like Alice, wandering around in a strange land.
Sometimes, however, we don't want to set goals because we've been disappointed by past shortfalls. Sometimes we want something different but we don't know what. We have long lists of what we don't want because it's easier to identify our pain than our pleasure.
It's important that goals be clear, and relevant to where you are on your journey right now. Perhaps at one time you had a goal to have a certain type of job – a senior executive position, top salesperson, or owning your business. Then life happened. You had kids, your spouse lost their job, you lost your job or got divorced, or you finally admitted that your chosen career doesn't light your fire anymore, if it ever did.
Goals should support you on your journey like a compass providing direction. They shouldn't make you feel bad about yourself or be what someone else wants for you, even your own self five years ago. Check in with your goals on a regular basis. I do this at New Years, but anytime will do.
Here are my three favorite tips for getting clear about your goals.
- Instead of thinking about what you want to do, have or accomplish, think about how you want to feel and work your way back from there. If you want to feel happy and energized in your job, it's possible you can create that feeling in your current situation perhaps by changing your perspective or taking on new responsibilities. Or it might become really clear that you'll never have that feeling in your current job so it's time to look for something new.
Put on your 'coach' hat and ask questions to peel back the layers.
For example: How can I reorganize my day so I have time to work out? That's a pragmatic time management question, and I can come up with lots of options that will look great on paper. If I dig a little deeper, I would ask: How can I reorganize my day to have the time to work out so that I enjoy it. OK, that's a different question and calls for a different answer. The time management answer probably had me getting up an hour earlier (which I hate), but when I require joy as part of the solution, I come up with options like finding a walking buddy or taking a class. Then I can tackle the time management piece.
- Plant a seed and let your brain go to work. Our minds are amazing computers, but to solve big problems they need time to process. In my corporate job my staff learned to bring problems or questions to me towards the end of the day. My brain was full, so I couldn't give them an answer on the spot, but once I got into the car driving home the answers would bubble up. So plant the seed then a break.
- Language is key. Have you ever tried to recall a dream and have it just fade away as you try to describe it? In my coaching practice I use assessments with all of my clients. They are an objective third voice that provides needed perspective, and they put language around vague concepts. The more you can put words and pictures around what you want, the more concrete and real your goals will become. I love dream boarding. I use a bulletin board and then rifle through magazines to find pictures and words that inspire me and convey what I want or how I want to feel. Try it! Using a bulletin board lets you easily make changes and improvements as you become more clear.
Try these tips work for both your personal and professional goals and share your comments below.


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Anna Cleveland has flown under my radar but she landed full and centre on the red carpet at the Met Ball Monday night. Wearing Comme des Garçons A/W 2015 she was fearless in her lace and bows.
The original runway outfit.
With her mother Pat Cleveland, Anna obviously has style in her DNA.


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Konark is one of the best known names that comes to our mind when we speak of Orissa. It is a small town in the district of Puri. Located at a distance of 65 km from Bhubaneswar and 35 km from Puri, Konark is easily accessible by all modes. Konark is famous for the magnificent Temple of the Sun, which makes this small town, a very big name in the world of tourism. Although Konark visited by tourists throughout the year, it still has a very clean environment and unhindered. The climate is very favorable in the past 12 months. Konark beach is also a major attraction for the city.
Konark is hosting an annual dance festival that takes place here each December. Here you will see all of India classical dances like Bharatnatyam, Odissi, Kathak in all its charm and balance. The performances are given by prominent dancers. The festival is organized with brightly lit temple of the sun as a backdrop. Konark dance festival attracts lovers of classical dance from all regions of the world. Another festival held here the Festival of the Sun or Magha Saptami. During the festival, devotees have holy dip in the sea before sunrise and worship the Sun God in the temple of the sun.
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I have seen many photo series on West Virginia and the decline of the economy due the collapse of the coal industry. Especially hard hit is Southern West Virginia. You could almost draw a line across the state and divide it into two sections, the demise and the rise of the economy.
I chose to do a series on the economical growth in Northern West Virginia. I work full time at a Morgantown Architectural firm and have see first hand the local economy growth and construction going on in this region.
It's a narrative of two West Virginias.


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Being in business for yourself can have many rewards, but it also presents interpersonal challenges in working with other co-owners. In a small closely-held company, the owners literally have a great stake in the business. It is natural for challenges to arise in making decisions about how to operate the business, how to supervise employees, and market your goods or services. These challenges do not need to turn into relationship-destroying disputes.
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Victorian Government joins SMF to save businesses thousands on energy
More small to medium enterprises will find out about Environmental Upgrade Finance with SMF's new collaborative agreement with the state Government.
EUAs now available in Hobsons Bay!
Commercial building owners and tenants in Hobson's Bay can now benefit from Council EUAs, financing a wide range of energy efficient and renewable energy projects to save businesses money.
ARENA and SMF Announcement
A funding partnership between the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and Sustainable Melbourne Fund (SMF) will help unlock investment into renewable energy projects within local councils.
Benefits of EUAs Expand Across Victoria as state-wide EUA legislation becomes law
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Melbourne businesses join the solar ranks
Melbourne businesses, fed-up with energy bills draining their cash flow, are now getting the sun to power their profits, joining 3.1 million Australians who already live or work under solar panels.
Negative energy pricing when the sun is out
Last week the carbon tax debate pointed the spot light on energy pricing and the costs of distribution and recent statistics indicate that renewable energy is playing a significant role
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We are very pleased to announce that last Thursday, the BetterBuildingFinance.com.au program was shortlisted for the National City Switch Partnerships awards held in Melbourne.
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Back home from sunnier climes and terrible mayhem, for a few weeks I again ponder the mysteries, neuroses and psychoses of professional football. After which it is back to the equal mysteries of Arabic and north Arabia until the December holiday. Footy of course still navigates the same narcissistic illusions and tawdry cynicism. Some things never change. After a century and a half only the tidal rate varies.
Nobody really knows why we support football (or any sport), not even trained psychologists. Sure, we all trot out our own delusion, but I have yet to meet a rational honest man not baffled by the experience. How many times have you come away from a match muttering darkly about a lousy performance, yet you still turn up next time? It has never been any different, and it will be thus as long as club spectator sports survive. Meanwhile, when shrinks and sociologists search for an answer they merely end up tying themselves and their subjects in sophistry knots. It can make an interesting spectacle, though.
Example, I recall an article in long-defunct Charles Buchan's Football Monthly in which a particularly one-dimensional psychiatrist claimed fans thought they were at war when they attended matches; it was bollocks of course, but I wager he got a peer award or two when subsequently the game was almost overwhelmed by organised thuggery. I suspect he was from the same school of propaganda as Milton Friedman, Patrick Minford and Henry Kissinger. There are many other contemporary examples. Sadly, at times some supporters do verge on or actually become obsessed sado-masochists. In fact football is a hopper into which we heave ourselves, and what comes out the other end is almost entirely a matter of conjecture and chance. And, where you can find it, good humour. There is no formula, which is what infuriates simpletons who tell themselves - and anyone daft enough to listen - they have all the answers.
Certainly football is not a brand or a product, whatever wet tripe is served up as hors d'oeuvres by bus-boy "market consultants." At its best it is an exhilarating and harmless escapist hobby, a game; all veteran fans know what it is at its worst. The last thing we need is the spivvery of "branding." Me, I have loved the game for my recorded time on this mortal coil, long before ha'penny barrow boys leeched off it and internet loonies ran amok. The last thing I need is a coked-up, arm-waving adman goon to inform me. Nor have kids ever needed a "presentation" spiel to be drawn to the sport. In human affairs some things are just inexplicable.
(It could be worse. If you think football has too much phony hype - and it has - I draw your attention to two tennis players emerging for a recent final through clouds of ice vapour strafed by trouper lights and strobes, or the farcical Hackney Olympics masque balls, or anything at the O2 Ripoff Arena, or hoodlum-owned boxing. It is impossible to exaggerate the banality and comic jargon of latter day Elmer Gantrys. Recently, and I shit you not, somebody on the BBC World Service referred in all seriousness to "Brand Beckham"......and that is one of the weakest examples. It would help our national culture no end if Yankified "marketeers" were nailed to a tree by their weenies, the tree set on fire, and they handed a pair of blunt plastic scissors. If you are a "market consultant" I mean nothing impersonal. Just do one to Las Vegas where you belong. And take Canary Wharf and London with you.)
Nevertheless, I have badly missed Everton footy while out of the country, and, atavist as ever, missed our beloved city even more. Sometimes, though, it is healthy to cut yourself off from football completely, as I have for a few months. Such catharsis can help when you again meet its worst sulks. But it would be a big mistake to think persecution mania will evaporate - it won't, because it is all some poor sods will ever have. Reverting to a lighter vein, nothing can replace live controlled athletic tribalism, even when Our Boys play with their jock straps filled with embryo hedgehogs. At such times I also miss post match ale-house laments, chin-music for togger addicts. However, there are limits; in our company surly fools are stood in a corner and deprived of spittoons and marijuana. One does one's best for the future of our species. But, really, almost all Brit ale-houses should be avoided, honourable exceptions apart. Mostly they are disgusting, sticky-carpet dives patronised by too many slurred half wits with the conversational ability of a moose head.
Fortunately Our Boys still appear to be playing rather well, only two league matches lost heading into December - four all calendar year thus far - and much justified fans irritation at too many draws. Pre-season, not even our greatest optimist forecast this marvel. I certainly failed to. I failed even to suspect it. It reminds me of a long-ago physics teacher and his endearing mantra to explain the origin of universe: "A fortuitous concurrence of atoms." Actually, our fortuitous concurrence of atoms is named David Moyes. Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Roman Abramovich (perm any one from nine managers), eat your hearts out.
So to get in the mood I watched a recording of the previous home game V Norwich. It was a mistake. A bad mistake. Even as a mere stream of electrons it was mostly a fragmentary spectacle with pisspoor refereeing to match in a typical cold, rain-sodden English November, and a scrappy Everton performance, especially from a makeshift midfield that almost vanished in the second half. The Old Lady seemed in one of its library-silent maudlin moods, the ninety minutes like three hours. Then yet another last minute equaliser conceded to a couple of ale-house footballers, Holt and Bassong, and another Tim Howard screw-up. In that position it is Keeper's Ball, no question. It was an awful goal to let in to another modest team we should yet again have seen off long before. No surprise if Moyesy did a post-match Greek Plate Dance in the dressing room. It seemed to underline, as if you didn't know, how the backup players (and one or two first teamers too) do not have the necessary oomph however hard they try and however willing to join the fray. It may yet do for us in the chase for top league positions.
Which is why I relished the Arsenal home game and the chance to restore team balance. We owed a pasting or two to the frenchified cockneys and their tortured vowels, as in "farst," "larst," "glarss," "gyme" and "fack." Whenever I hear Lahndan fans I get this surreal image of Dick Van Dyke porking Mary Poppins while exulting, "Gawd bless the Prince of Wyles!" during the vinegar strokes. Also, another distant memory flares of Terry Venables' inglorious brief encounter with Catalan, or the contemporary prospect of 'Arry Redknapp tackling Ukrainian. These, of course, are outrageous and unwarranted stereotypical generalisations. But if not quite true, then true enough for present purposes.
(There are two certain ways to enrage Brits, arguably the most close-minded of European people despite severe competition from the French. The first is to poke fun at his accent or speech. The second is to insult his self-imagined "class." It has been thus since the Norman invasion and certainly it will not change in your lifetime. So make the most of it. It can provide hours of fun, especially if the target is one of the new Daily Mail "middle class" in trouble with mortgage repayments. It has almost been worth the thirty years wait. Almost.)
Meanwhile, we can only guess what Arsenal's previous Calvinist manager George "Bunger" Graham thinks of their current reputed expansive playing style. Apparently some of their supporters, dull-as-algorithms contract IT clerks, are miffed at not winning a trophy in seven years, and at "lack of investment." Read that last quoted phrase again and weep for humanity; it is bullshit from an incoherent generation (bang-up job there, teachers!) raised on chewing gum, Rupert Murdoch tabloidese, phonetic spelling, texting, Yankee bang-bang, institutional fraud, bad lager, computer games, TV soap operas and imbecilic marketeering. Small wonder present manager ascetic Arsene Wenger lost his temper with them. These days he has the look of a man who just bit through a lemon he thought was a muffin. The last time I saw eyes as menacingly bloodshot was when Christopher Lee made teenage girls wee their pants in fear. Yes, it's that long ago. Well done, Arsene......surely the most unfortunate forename in footy. Pre-match he committed the unforgivable sin of telling the truth when he said Everton can never have the money to compete at the very top, which is quite true if unpalatable......until we get a new stadium. Trite cliché: a problem cannot be solved until it is admitted there is a problem.
Still, these are the times we live in. If you are not used to it you have failed to notice the last twenty years of rat-eat-rat football capitalism and its howls for instant success and instant boos for "failure," for which witness Chelsea or Aston Villa or indeed Arsenal. Always assuming you can avoid the puerile and useless arguments about what constitutes "a big club." Unchanged, it can end only one way, tearfully. The information is there in plain sight. Go find it. Do your own research. This scribe is bored pointing out the obvious, see archives. Radical improvement will come only when critical mass is reached, tomorrow or twenty years hence, possibly over some quite trivial matter.
Part of my relish was a chance to see Mikel Arteta again. Alas, he now wears the wrong colours for the wrong club in a disliked distant city subsidised by corruption and theft from the rest of the nation and owned by people like Rupert Murdoch and Roman Abramovich. He was a fine player who matured beautifully during his eight years with us, though he had a poor last season here and plainly wanted out by then, possibly by prior agreement. In the end it was a good deal for both parties, the sort of agreement possible only between consenting adults, agents, "investors," Max Clifford and bank managers. There is even a reasonable argument we got the best of the deal if you believe we paid £2 millions for him and got £10 millions when he left as a 29 years old, apparently taking a pay cut into the bargain. Thus proving human life is not static but dynamic. Still, as we all know, like Alan Ball and Wayne Rooney, the little Basque just doesn't look right in crimson ugliness. Mind you, nobody does. See, I can be as biased and visceral as the next peon.
Speaking of which, I got my old season ticket seat and assumed my position next to the usual lovable suspects. This was a boon because, despite my long absence, I am as used to their neuroses as they are to mine, which saves an awful lot of explanation time and leaves us free to watch the game instead of listening to expectorate bile from some grotesque paranoid goat with a shaved head. We got that out of the way in the pre-match ale house where (absent) Plewsy's "jokes" were mimicked by John in full flight; I have never before seen someone intoxicated on apple juice. It was pleasant to see everyone properly dressed for the freezing weather, which made a change to previous years. Maybe the penny has dropped that when November arrives so does Winter - if so, it will bring us in line with the rest of the Western world. So us peasant socialists went to watch twenty-two capitalist millionaires at play, actually not too different from shovelling ale-house profits into the pockets of gleeful brewers or coughing up £500 to watch pensioned-off Rolling Stones Inc. or keeping Hewlett-Packard neck deep in dollars. And cold it was, but dry and clear. Goodison looked and sounded wonderful, bright and noisy, crisp colours, not at all like the Norwich match (at least on the recording).
To the game, and a whiff of battle-camphor. We had Marouane Fellaini, Darron Gibson and Tony Hibbert back, which I thought would be worth something in the clinches. As it turned out, so it was. Arsenal, it transpired, just weren't that good, two giant centre back donkeys a la George Graham. For all their money and Rupert Murdoch Sky metro bullshit much of their play was vaguely like a sort of skilful Stoke, especially when they were under pressure in the second half. We were marginally the better side even with a change in formation caused by absent Mirallas. Still, we ended with yet another draw, again helped by the kind of refereeing you wouldn't see at a schoolboy match. It was wildly irritating in toto.
The average age of the side starting against Arsenal was just under twenty-nine and six were thirty or older, which serves to emphasise Moyesy's continuous problem. We have rescued so many games after falling behind it begins to look like the young bull and old bull in a field next to a corral of cows. Suddenly the corral gate swings open, the young bull drools and shouts, "Quick! Let's rush in and fuck one!" And the old bull drawls, "Nope. Let's stroll through and fuck them all." Such is the role of sex in history and football. This one was no different when we fell behind after less than a minute, just after I got my behind on the seat. You can imagine the colour of the air.
The goal was an illustration of what happens when you have a run of bad luck. The attack was innocuous enough virtually straight from the kick off, a simple enough diagonal run through the centre, right-to-left. Our right side was AWOL Hibbo's "support" and looked on as their man got a fortunate rebound around the left edge of the box and stuck it through to a wider left unmarked attacker, Tony threw himself in a desperate attempt to block the shot, it hit him and looped over Howard. Christ, here we go again. It was Arsenal's game for the next ten minutes, buoyed by the goal.
Then the tide began to turn and things got a bit nasty, no doubt fired up by Wenger's pre-match threat that the game would be "physical." They were particularly intent on hacking Steven Pienaar each time he turned inside; plainly, they were determined to do a George Graham-type number on him to slow him down. It succeeded for most of the match, too; try as he might, he couldn't go more than a few metres before he got downed. It was bound to affect him and the pattern of the game. So much for Arsenal's "passing game." Naturally, there was retaliation. Which meant the game was an entertaining physical battle without extended good periods of play, but every now and then there was a flash of individual lightning. It was enough to get the crowd going. Play soon evened out.
We had a few promising raids that didn't materialise into much until the half hour mark. A spiffy little through ball from centre mid right from Pienaar almost let in Nikky Jelavic but their keeper just beat him to it and rolled it out to their right. From there it was transferred to Mikel Arteta in the centre. By this time Peanuts was clearly pissed off at the treatment he'd been getting - almost all of which went unpunished by yet another truly awful referee - and he came charging in on our former idol. No prisoners, it was an obvious foul not called, and the ball bounced back to their centre right mid. Undeterred, Steven chased and fouled him too, and the ball got misplaced straight to Felli at our centre mid right just outside the penalty area. From whence, cool as you like, he hit a carefully controlled ground shot that bent slowly around a defender before making it inside their 'keeper's right hand post. Oh the irony. The cockneys were paid back in full coin. You had to laff, not larf.
Then a couple of minutes before half time, a piece of world class footy from Nikky. On the half way line, right side, a long air ball forward to Felli almost where he scored. He headed it on to Jelavic who had his back to goal. A brilliant instinctive back flick over his head completely flummoxed their big cow of a centre back and Jelavic was round him in a flash and hit it on the volley from left of the penalty spot. Sadly, it screamed over by at least five metres. Had it gone in it would have been goal of the season by some distance. But it galvanised our resident Croatian out of a fitful display - for a reason I cannot divine some idiots in the crowd have decided he is a new scapegoat - caused principally by a failure to play the ball to him the way that suits his style. Grant Holt he is not, fortunately.
The second half was almost entirely ours with some dangerous occasional breaks from the enemy. Most of our attacks of course developed down our left, where once again the Bainesy-Peanuts axis was well nigh unplayable without the enemy fouling one or the other. How they manage to create anything in a match and an opponent of their niggling type is little short of an athletic miracle. Then again, most of the Prem seem to have got the message and flock to our left like flies around a cow pat. Under normal circumstances this would make a little more room for our right side, but on the evidence of this match Steven Naismith is not a wide player. Maybe it will change when he is finally rid of his long term injury and can play more centrally. There's no question the team balance is a little awry with this formation, though Moyesy doesn't have many viable options. You have to make do with what you have.
The pace was hard and unrelenting all night, typical English stuff most of us wouldn't swap for ten Serie A or Eredivisie. There's an aesthetic price to pay if you want box-to-box play. We had a good call for a penalty when Mikky hauled down Pienaar - who else - on a left side run that had goal written all over it. Naturally the ref didn't give it, because as knob heads go he was an absolute purler. On another occasion, Bainsey - also, who else - got in one his brilliant dipping crosses and Sylvain Distin's header was clawed away. Either side of their 'keeper and it was a certain goal. Then Nikky got clear on the left and hit a fast killer cross nobody could get a touch on, ironically the kind of ball he lives off. Arsenal had a couple of raids that might have given them a late undeserved winner but even Lady Luck wasn't going to do us in yet again, so it ended all square; which on balance was just about right. One day we're going to get the breaks, and when we do somebody will be on the receiving end of an awful pasting.
In this game our midfield wasn't really up to it. Most of them scrapped when they had to but apart from Fellaini and Gibson they faded badly toward the end. We fared even worse when Gibbo had to come off or risk another injury or total burn out. Felli got a bit arrogant in the last ten minutes or so and started misplacing passes, one of which almost let the enemy in for a winner. The sooner we get a settled midfield the better. We should start winning again then.
We will soon see. Our next two matches are Manchester City and Tottenham. Sadly, I won't see either of them. My next match will be during the December holiday when I shall fly out of the place where all this Christmas nonsense started. As I said, oh the irony!


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The hotel has the convinient location near metro station "Prospect Kosmonavtov".
The distance from the airport is 24 km. The city transport: the bus №.1 or a share taxi №. 01 (express) to the railway station and further by the metro to the station "Prospect Kosmontavtov ".
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The school is closing today for the Easter break and we would like to wish the school community a "Happy Easter". Below is a photograph of some Easter treats baked by Ms. Mc Cormack's second year Home Economics class.
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Well done to our Parents' Association who recently raised €7,000 by organising a very successful "Tea Party" and the annual Easter raffle. Below are photographs of the tea party held in the concert hall. A huge "thank you" to everyone who supported these events.


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We believe in team work in the Sixth Form and therefore have a wide management team to ensure the needs of every student can be met.
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Shortly after the 9/11 attacks of 2001, the non-profit Ad Council put out the famous public service announcement "I Am an American."
Featuring pretty much every possible ethnic group on this continent, all join in declaring that they are, in fact, an American.
This ad thoroughly disgusted me when it came out and made me question what being an American actually means. American in my mind still stood for being a normal White person who can speak English. Little did I know it just means living here. I thought America was actually a country, not a great Lockean shopping mall.
But this commercial truly shows that this country no longer has an actual culture or people–it is simply one big strip mall where any person can be a part of. 9/11 spawned more "Diversity is our strength" rhetoric than any other could possibly conjure up. It was of course a sham, and our diversity led us back to our atomized society shortly after the dust settled and people went back to shopping.
The other "Diversity is Strength" moment I remember from the time period besides this ad was an episode of the MTV reality show The Real World where cast members took a break from arguing about who's fucking who to memorialize 9/11. The Real World was a show that celebrated throwing together diverse individuals into one house and letting the sparks fly. The show was driven by constant tension between cast members–rarely giving the impression that diversity led to any type of meaningful cohesion. After the 9/11 episode, the cast members quickly went back to being drama queens and bickering over each other's sex lives–showcasing how America quickly reverted to its old, divided self after the rubble was cleared.
While the updated ad claims we are still "one" 10 years later, that couldn't be further from the truth. E pluribus unum I think not. Without a real people and culture to go with America, we don't count as a real nation. When a whole host of people with absolutely nothing in common can say they are an American, that means being American doesn't extend beyond a piece of paper
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Continue from 2nd part; We went to Shibuya to find Hachiko ^_^. Then join the crowds at Shibuya crossing before heading to Ginza's Sony Building, Tower Records & lastly, Burberry Blue Label Shop :).
4th day = Odaiba & Nippon Budokan for YUI's concert
5th day = Yokohama, Kanagawa (teman Linda carik tempat YUI belakon Taiyo no Uta)
6th day = Back to Narita 😦
Sob..Sob… its time to go home. Bye2 Narita. Bye2 Tokyo. Bye2 Yokohama. I'll be back 🙂


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At Bauma Munich 11-17 April 2016, we launched 4 new products. One of them - the brand new MatTracker - generated a lot of interest at our stand. One to stop by, was World Highways.
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At Bauma 2016, TF-Technologies introduces a new ignition box for gas burner systems on road construction machinery that is the only ignition box on the market that will allow OEMs to legally CE mark their machines. The FCE60 Ignition Box is certified as a gas safety component to EN 298, and is the only ignition box to comply with all EU directives.
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Shaan and Zeba shared an ideal relationship; the kind that is usually found only in novels. The bond and connection they had between them definitely made a lot of people jealous. He used to surprise her with sweet presents every now and then; small things that brought more to the plate than money could ever get. She made it a point to cook something delicious for him every fortnight(cooking being one of her strong point). Those occasional dinner dates and long drives were icing on the cake.
It was one of those random dinner dates, but there was something usual about it. Shaan wasn't his normal self. He seemed a bit lost and blank. All of Zeba's questions were answered in nods and one word answers. It kind of scared her and out of concern she asked, "Are you fine?"
Am I fine? Do I look fine? Isn't it pretty evident from my face that I'm not okay? Can't you understand such a simple thing? I'm not even sure if I should bother with what's eating me up. Even if I do, I'm not sure how you'd react to this. How you'd react when I tell you my life is a mess. I'm about to lose my job just because of some stupid office politics. How things will be messed up when our parents find out about us. I'm so fucking uncertain about our future. I'm clueless how I'm going to manage things and people. I have no fucking idea what I'd do if I lose my job?
Why are our lives so fucking complicated Zeba? Why can't things be simple? Why can't we honest about everything? I mean I so want to tell you how things are, but I can't. Why don't right words come to you when someone asks you how you feel? Are we so bound by these social obligations that we can't even answer this? Why do you think one cannot answer how he feels when asked the same? Is it because of the fear that the other person might not understand him? Is it because he thinks he'll be judged? Is it because he's scared to lose them? Fuck, this is bad! Why Zeba why? What's the reason for all this??
Leaving all those questions unanswered, he simply smiled and said, "I'm okay, Zeba. It's just that I had a long day at work."
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North Korea says Sunday's launch was of a new type of "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead. Adm. Harry Harris Jr. "We don't have it done yet", Haley said. A North Korean diplomat, Ju Yong Choi, told the U.N. Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday that North Korea would "bolster its self-defence capabilities as long as the United States continues its hostile policies.