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The Meaning of Life
On good days, this is something that I view as just another item on my maternal to-do list. Its something a "good" mom does. Breastfeeding. Check. Vitamins. Check. Yearly check-ups. Check. Absurdly over the top birthday parties. Check. Reading aloud every night. Check. Clean underwear. Check. PTA. Check. Requisite sporting activites. Check.
On the bad days, it is an imposition and a hassle, and I grudgingly shuttle them back and forth with ill concealed irritation, list be damned. But in either instance, I am smugly assured that I am doing all the "right" things.
These things are commonplace, mundane. Boring, even. Their place in my life has become so presupposed and habitual, that I forget to see them for what they are; all too fleeting moments of being the most important person in my kids' lives. Its a monumental privilege, which is hard to remember when they've driven me to lock myself in the bathroom with a novel and a pound of peanut butter fudge. But Jesus...it will be over so soon.
I've had cause to be particularly contemplative lately. Some of you reading this know why. So tonight, I found myself really looking at my kids; all the kids. I saw dirt streaked faces, gap toothed grins, and freckled noses. I saw holey kneed britches that some mom would be shaking her head over later. I saw an honest to goodness slingshot hanging from some kid's back pocket. I thought they outlawed those in 1978. I saw one kid do a puppy dog dance, backend wiggling with glee when his bat finally connected with the ball. The coach high fived him, and the grin on that kid's face lit up the quickly approaching night.
I saw one Mom on the sidelines biting her lips to keep from calling out a word of warning to her disabled child as he struggled to do what the others did so effortlessly. I saw one kid carefully gauge how hard he could throw to his disabled teammate, conscious of hurting him; not wanting to embarass him. And I saw the other kids congratulate him in earnest when he did well. I saw my own son looking to see if I had been watching when he made a good play, and then giving me a return thumb's up and a self-satisfied nod. I saw siblings roughousing on the sidelines, giggling and shouting, jumping and skipping...achingly joyous and carefree.
We all have those "what the hell am I doing" moments right? What's it all about? What's it all for?
Later, as they munched their snack in happy, exhausted contentment, I was struck by the utter goodness of what was before me. And it hit me...There is no big mystery, there is no profound truth. It's all right here in front of me right now. This is what its all about. These kids are happy. They will grow up knowing they are somebody's sun and moon. They will bloom because they had everything they needed to nourish them heart and soul. They will know, now and forever, that they can do anything. And one day, they will not need me anymore...if I've done everything right. Self-confidence. Check. Autonomy. Check.
I have been given a very short time in which I get to play the female lead in the lives of my boys. One day very soon it will be that cute girl with the dimples who sits next to him in class. Then it will be the one that takes his virginity, the one that bears him a child, the one with whom he chooses to grow old. My time is almost up, and I intend to make every moment count. Because it isn't about who worships whom, who loves whom, who elects whom, who hates whom and for what reason. Its about giving the world a happy and whole individual and knowing I did a good job.
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Editor's note: This is the third of three posts describing our reporting trip to a remote research station in the Amazon rainforest. Read the first and the second.
I've missed the Amazon rainforest since the moment we stepped onto the dock and back into civilization. Back in December, WIRED photographer Ariel Zambelich and I spent a week at a research center deep inside the Tambopata National Reserve, in Peru. We were there to follow a team of scientists as they attempted to document some of the region's incredible insects and spiders.
More From the Amazon:
We Went to the Amazon to Find What Makes These Weird Webs
Clever Spider Uses Its Web Like a Slingshot to Capture Insects
What's Behind the Mysterious Behavior of Macaws?
This Spider Makes Fake Spiders. But Why?Before the trip, I'd figured there was at least a decent chance I'd be heading into a world where everything wanted to kill me, ninja-style – quickly, and with as little contact as possible. It's true, some things might have – like the fer-de-lance pit viper – but except for a mysterious, stupidly painful welt and smelling like eight different kinds of jungle mold, I escaped unscathed.
In other words, I couldn't have been more wrong.
The rainforest is nature at its most raw and captivating. It's the wild, rambunctious product of genes and evolution, competition and symbiosis. The jungle, like everything else, is just trying to survive. And already, a variety of environmental insults have begun nudging this region of Peru into a precarious position.
We saw what's at stake every time we stepped outside the research center, where the forest boasts a richness of life that has already disappeared from much of the Earth. Here, the serenade of a billion insects vibrates the molecules of sticky, sweet air, the flowers beckon with their enigmatic, unfamiliar perfumes. As you press your boots into the reddish clays that nurture jungle vines and foreign fruits, there's time to find the frog whose song you're hearing, watch a stick bug hide amongst the brush, or search for something new and undiscovered.
While we were there, we checked up on a few spiders near the lodge and watched as scientists mostly solved the mystery of the silky web towers that had gone viral in September. But the rainforest offered up too many critters to track in just one trip. Among the things left undone: Shove a camera into a tarantula burrow and record how the giant spiders interact with their small, cohabitating helper frogs.
Even our brief night walks revealed critters worth studying, including, perhaps, some species that haven't ever been documented by scientists.
"It's easy to walk past these things and not give them a second thought," said Lary Reeves, one of the scientists. "Each species has its own little story. It's easy to take them for granted."
There are so many stories still waiting to be told. My hope is that the jungle hourglass hasn't yet been flipped, that time isn't running out.
But I know that's just a dream, even in Peru. Without the resources to crack down on mining, lumber and other operations that threaten its forests, the Peruvian government will likely be ceding larger and larger tracts of land (as it did in 2012), and the discoveries that wait there, to those seeking their fortunes.
Though the area we visited is protected and in great shape, danger lurks on its borders. Peru's government is strict about things like issuing permits for research inside the reserve and is quick to crack down on visitors (especially scientists) removing anything from the park. But for years, illegal gold mining operations have been gouging mud-colored scars into neighboring canopies. Mining operations have spread through the Peruvian Amazon on a scale that's larger than anyone expected.
Now, stanching the toxic mercury flowing through the region's veins is no trivial task. And that's not all. Illegal timber harvests (estimated by the World Bank to comprise 80 percent of Peru's logging exports) and deforestation threaten old-growth trees and the ecosystems they support. Trails used by loggers are turning into roads. And roads are cutting up the landscape and making it easier to exploit the area's resources, even as they bring prosperity to the nearby cities.
It's an ominous trend, and it's happening in one of the planet's most biodiverse regions, in a country that stated, in its constitution, an obligation to conserve biological diversity and declared its natural resources and ecosystems a national heritage. It's hard not to worry that in the coming decades, the protections set up by the government will fail. What a tragedy that would be. The Tambopata National Reserve alone is home to more than 1,200 species of butterfly, 600 types of birds, and 100 different mammals. Countless other critters – most of them still unknown to science – are yet to be discovered.
"It's like Jurassic Park sometimes – there's so much forest," says Annie Hawkinson, a volunteer with the research center's macaw project. "But instead of raptors you hear macaws."
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Marcel (マルセル Maruseru?) is a supporting character in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia. He is one of Wygol's villagers and a distant descendant of the Belmont Clan. He is a reporter visiting town.
Marcel was a writer for a sports magazine who was visiting the village when he got kidnapped. Later on, he reveals that he was fired for going for paranormal creatures rather than sports. He will give Shanoa a camera to take pictures of monsters around the world. He also hints at having some sort of interest in Laura. He's usually the best source of money, as taking pictures of the creatures he requests is generally easy.
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- He appears to be aware of Shanoa's power to use glyphs, but he mistakes this as witchcraft, and thus, initially calls her a witch. He then decides to be quiet of her powers in exchange for Shanoa to do his missions.
- Marcel is given an indirect reference in Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls. When Maria Renard comments on Shanoa's beauty, she expresses doubt about her claim, but admits she did meet with a journalist who asked to feature her in a piece.
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It's been a long time coming. Regulatory reform is on the agenda again and maybe it's real this time. Spawned by a quantitative "snapshot" of the state's regulatory text developed by researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Nebraska is embarking on a comprehensive review of its state regulations, including environmental regulations. EPA has also been directed to take a critical look at its regulations.
Whether or not one agrees with all the methods used or conclusions drawn by regulatory reformers, it's hard to disagree with the basic premise that the sheer amount of current regulation is daunting. Maybe the time has come to examine whether we can consolidate or even eliminate some requirements that have been on the books for years even though no one really knows why. Maybe the underlying problems that were meant to be addressed by many of our current regulations don't occur anymore. Maybe some regulations were developed based on worst case scenarios, oftentimes because there was a reluctance to leave anything to the discretion of the implementing environmental agency.
Process improvement and streamlining are hot topics these days in government circles, and I'm all for that! I do not favor being less protective of the environment, but I am for eliminating the complexity and multiplicity of paperwork, for making regulations easier to read and understand, for providing helpful guidance rather than just paraphrasing statutes, and for rethinking traditional paradigms and coming up with something more user-friendly. In short, it make sense to me to examine whether we need all the regulations now on the books and to think about streamlining and clarifying the regulations that we do need.
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Unfortunately the people in charge of protecting the environment at the federal level are clearly and unabashedly interested more in having the environmental legal and regulatory regime becoming , in your words, "less protective of the environment", than they are in "eliminating the complexity of paperwork" or "making regulations easier to read and understand". Sorry to throw cold water on your thesis. Don Stever
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What more can we say here that we have not said for 12 times in a row already. Retail investors are dunzo. The latest update from ICI shows that the week ended July 28 saw a record 13th consecutive outflow from domestic mutual funds as stocks bloody surged. Good thing the HFT algos can now essentially communicate with each other in the actual unique flow patterns of cancelled stock bids, thereby announcing to all other participants the plans of one which promptly become those of all, in the most under the radar concerted effort to "club" the market's HFT participants as one big trading force. As for retail: it is all over. We won't even chart the latest move. Figure it out: nearly $50 billion in outflows YTD as the market is well green. When the coordinated computerized front running game (of stupid carbon based lifeforms) in which one Atari machine sells to another, and repeats into infinity, while all book liquidity rebates, comes to an end and the theater is finally perceived to have been burning all along, watch out for the binary stampede.
But don't take our word for it. According to the FT, banks are starting to panic that as a result of collapsing trade volumes, profit target misses and massive layoffs are just around the corner.
US banks with Wall Street operations are bracing for a slump in trading profits this year after the third quarter got off to a poor start, with global economic uncertainty and Europe's sovereign debt woes leading to a slowdown in market activity in July.
Executives said volumes and profitability last month were even lower than during the sluggish second quarter, with hedge funds particularly reluctant to take big bets on equities and debt.
"July was a miserable month for trading," one senior banker said. "If August and September don't rebound sharply, banks will be forced to cut jobs."
The squeeze in trading profits highlights the rising importance of groups' consumer and commercial banking operations, whose performance is improving as the economy heals.
The lack of activity led many banks to miss internal targets for trading revenues in both fixed income commodities and currencies – a key recent driver of profitability – and equities.
John Brady, senior vice-president at MF Global, said: "A lot of the drop we have seen in trading volumes during June and July follows violent changes in markets during the preceding months."
Retail investors have also shunned stocks. US equity mutual funds have been hit by 12 straight weeks of outflows totalling $40.7bn, says the Investment Company Institute.
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I've been keeping a close watch on Democrats' strategic initiatives as the November midterms and the 2020 presidential election unfold. It's becoming clear that Democrats want to make health care — specifically, Medicare for All — the defining issue.
California Sen. Kamala Harris, increasingly seen as a 2020 presidential candidate, is in. So are San Jose Reps. Ro Khanna and Zoe Lofgren, both key players in bringing the tech industry on board. Khanna and Lofgren were part of a group of 70 House Democrats who announced Thursday the formation of the House Medicare for All Caucus that is designed to raise the profile of the fight for health care reform in Congress and voters across the nation.
I've studied and written extensively about health care issues for the better part of the past two decades. Here's some unsolicited advice for Democrats moving in this direction: Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime advocate, keeps focusing on the progressive, moral argument for Medicare for All. But in order to be a difference maker for voters, Democrats need to make a compelling economic argument, as well, one that will resonate with the business community as well as their employees.
That means a much clearer, detailed outline for how it would be financed. And a convincing case for how it would drive down costs while improving — or at the very least maintaining — health care outcomes for all Americans.
Here's where Khanna has the opportunity to play a key role in the debate. Khanna understands how business works, having taught economics at Stanford and written a book on the importance of entrepreneurs and manufacturing to America's business future.
Khanna believes that in order for the business community to buy into Medicare for All, supporters must make clear that expanding Medicare is a better investment than private sector premiums.
"Medicare for All has to be seen as pro-growth and pro-innovation," Khanna said in a telephone interview Friday. "The biggest competitive disadvantage in this country isn't labor costs. It's health care costs. Benefits are one of the biggest cost drivers in the United States. If you look at wage stagnation, it is almost entirely due to the rise in health care costs. If businesses could take the money they have spent on increasing health care costs and put it instead in workers' raises, you would have the normal increases for working families."
A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Education Trust makes that clear. The average worker, they say, paid $5,714 for a family health-insurance plan in 2017, or 30 percent of the total cost of $18,764. Five years ago that same worker paid $4,316, or 27 percent of the $15,745 cost.
But Democrats have yet to rally around a financing plan that makes clear the extent to which Medicare for All would result in savings across the board for taxpayers and the business community.
It's one thing for Democrats to argue that Republicans have no new ideas on how to solve the health care issue. It's quite another for them to agree on specifics for their own approach. The new House caucus must find that common ground.
Sanders' financing plan is a nonstarter. Eliminating private insurance altogether is a tough sell. How would he respond in a debate when Republicans argue that Sanders' plan means Americans won't get the doctor they want or be able to keep the private insurance they want?
The better approach is to allow Americans to retain their private insurance, if they so choose, while making Medicare for All an option for everyone.
"The 10-year cost projection for health care (under the current system) in the United States is $49 trillion, while Medicare for All is $32 trillion, so you could see $17 trillion in savings," said Khanna.
Businesses, he said, wouldn't be paying exorbitant health care insurance premiums and would see lower pharmaceutical drug costs, because the government would be able to negotiate substantially lower prices under Medicare for All.
The real test of Democrats running for president or a leadership position in Congress shouldn't be whether they are for Medicare for All. It's whether they can articulate a plan that both inspires the American people and resonates with the business community and the moderate voters who will decide the November and 2020 elections.


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Ex-Fortis global head sets up boutique
Benedict Peeters, Fortis Investments' former global head of structured business, has founded Finvex Group, an investment consultancy that will advise institutional investors on the design of customised, index-based investment solutions.
Peeters, who left Fortis Investments in October 2009, said the firm is working with a specialist quantitative development house in the development of customised, risk-optimised equity indices, which will be used as underlyings for investment solutions. "Our business has a three-fold strategy," said Peeters. "First, we will work on the creation of index strategies around sources of performance from the client itself. Second, we will create own sources of alpha such as quality and high-level, research-based quantitative strategies; and finally, we are working with another firm in the development of high added-value thematic sources of alpha. All these performance engines can be used as underlyings for transparent and true added-value investment products that combine elements of research/asset management and protection via derivative techniques."
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Gas engine heat pump supplies renovated residential complex
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The residential complex with a total of 149 apartments, which is owned by the GWG municipal housing association and is situated in the Munich district of Haidhausen, has not changed significantly since it was constructed in the 1950s. The primary energy consumption exceeded 300 kWh/m2p.a. Through the renovation, the GWG was aiming to reduce the primary energy consumption for space and DHW heating to less than half the value permitted at the beginning of the project for a new-build scheme in accordance with the 2007 German Energy Savings Ordinance (EnEV 2007). It was intended that renewable energies would generate or compensate for the residual energy required. It was also decided to equip tenants with simple and robust home automation systems that do not require active participation.
The facades were clad with thermal insulation with a thermal conductivity of 0.022 W/mK. Vacuum insulation was used to achieve high thermal protection on the basement ceiling and on the road side, which only permitted 10-cm-thick insulation owing to an adjacent pavement. The new windows are triple-glazed in highly insulated frames.
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Exergy describes the amount of energy that can be completely converted into usable work. Mechanical and electrical energy are energy forms with high exergy content. Thermal energy can only be converted partially into work or into another energy form. The closer the temperature of the thermal energy is to the ambient temperature, the lower is its exergy.
The approach of low-exergy systems (LowEx) is to use energy forms that have as little exergy as possible for heating and cooling, such as waste heat or environmental heat, and which thus work in a primary energy-efficient manner. A prerequisite for using such low-temperature heat is an energy efficiently optimised building envelope.
If environmental heat is not directly available at a temperature level that is sufficient for heating, a heat pump can help. Although this requires additional exergy (for example in the form of electrical energy), it causes the amount of generated heating energy to be several times higher than the amount of primary energy used.
LowEx building technology
The building complex was unable to be supplied with district heating. To generate heat, the GWG and the planners therefore decided to combine a groundwater-coupled gas engine heat pump with a gas-fired condensing boiler for the peak loads together with a solar thermal system. It was envisaged that seventy per cent of the heat generation would be met by the heat pump.
A feature of the heat pump type is that it can utilise not only the groundwater but also the cooling water from the engine and the exhaust gas heat as a heat source via heat exchangers. This enables it to simultaneously supply heat efficiently at two temperature levels – for low-temperature space heating and domestic hot water heating, which is a great advantage compared with conventional heat pumps.
The heat pump system consists of five interconnected hydraulic circuits. The primary circuit uses a groundwater well as the energy source. Via a heat exchanger an intermediate circuit is integrated that supplies the evaporator for the heat pump by means of a speed-controlled feed pump. The compressor then compresses the refrigerant in the condenser, which decouples the recovered heat and feeds it to a low-temperature circuit (maximum 50 °C). Most of the heat is used directly from there. The other part serves as a return line for the high-temperature circuit (60-70 °C). This is fed from the waste heat from the engine (cooling water and exhaust gas). The engine in turn drives the compressor via a direct coupling, which means that the heat pump and the engine always provide heat at the same time. The internal cooling circuit for the engine is always maintained at a constant operating temperature. The decoupled temperatures depend on the requirements made by the building control system. The compressor can be operated with a partial load as well as with a 20% variable speed.
Three series-connected storage tanks buffer the generated heat. Priority for the feed-in is given to the solar thermal system, followed by the heat pump, since this works more efficiently than the gas condensing boiler. Electronically controlled high-efficiency pumps transport the heating water from the heating centre to the apartment blocks. A decentralised system regulates the room-specific heating in accordance with needs: a micro-pump is installed at the return for each radiator. It runs only when heat is required in the room. An advantage of this system is that the heating system is hydraulically equalised in every operating condition by design. Window contacts stop the pump as soon as a window is opened to prevent excessive ventilation losses. The entire control is achieved by servers.
- Gas engine heat pump supplies renovated residential complex
- Experience with the prototype gas engine heat pump
- Heat pumps for multi-family buildings
Energy concept and Monitoring
Fraunhofer IBP
Prototype heat pump
BLZ Geotechnik Service GmbH
Energy concept
Ebert-Ingenieure GmbH
Legionella protection
Hydrosystemtechnik GmbH
ABS Architekturbüro Stocker
BINE-Projektinfo 09/2017
(PDF, 4 pages, 2,2 MB)
Annex 50
Research project LowEx stock
Info tips
Energy-plus concept tested on housing estate
BINE-Projektinfo 01/2016
Nichtwohngebäude effizient heizen und kühlen
BINE-Themeninfo II/2016
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Answer to the previous Catholic trivia question: With how many Sacraments is oil used, and which Sacraments are they?
It's been way too long‒ almost a year in fact‒ since I've updated the Catholic trivia question on this blog. 83 votes were received for the previous question. I thought it would be challenging, and indeed at least one vote was received for each of the four options. However, those who have been stopping by this blog know their Catholic facts well: The correct answer, "4- Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick," was selected 74 times, for 89.16% of the total votes. Good job! Two answers, "2- Baptism, Confirmation" and "4- Confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage, Reconciliation/Penance," got 4 votes (4.82% of the total) apiece, and one lonely vote (1.2%) was recorded for "3- Reconciliation/Penance, Marriage, Eucharist."
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Much like the 100m, the men's half lap is shaping into a battle between the rising US and South African sprints corps.
With world U20 leader Christopher Taylor opting for the 400m, US junior champion Eric Harrison is the fastest in the field courtesy of the 20.39 personal best that propelled him to the Big-10 Conference title on 13 May. He was nearly as fast when he returned to the same Bloomington track for the junior nationals, clocking 20.44.
Thando Dlodlo leads the South African charge as he arrives in Tampere with sprint double ambitions. He clocked a 20.41A personal best from the national championship in mid-March, but he's competed sparingly since, so it's unclear what form he'll be bringing to Finland. He'll be joined by 18-year-old Ruben Els, who also clocked his 20.70A lifetime best more than three months ago. But he too hasn't competed since April.
Meanwhile, Harrison will be teamed with Khance Meyers, a first year university student at tiny Hinds Community College in Mississippi, who equalled his 20.62 personal best at the national junior championships where he finished behind Harrison.
Australia brings Zane Branco, who clocked his lifetime best of 20.68 when taking the national junior title in March. Illustrating solid form more recently, he sliced a massive 0.23 from his 100m best with a 10.33 clocking in Jamsa, Finland, on 1 July.
Another nine entries have all dipped under 21 seconds this season, and all should be in the medal mix.
Great Britain comes armed with the nearly evenly matched Charlie Dobson and Jona Efoloko, who've improved to 20.73 and 20.79 respectively this season.
There's Bahamian Joel Johnson, who finished second at the Carifta Games in April improving his best to 20.90. He's displayed 10.31 100m speed this season, too.
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(as) sober as a judge
1. To be stoic and reserved, perhaps even somber. Anita has been as sober as a judge ever since she heard of Marshall's death. The coach stood at the side of the field, sober as a judge, as the clock counted down on his team's championship ambitions.
2. To be calm and rational. We need someone who can consider these issues without their emotions interfering—you'll need to be as sober as a judge from beginning to end!
3. To be not at all intoxicated. I haven't been drinking at all, I swear! I'm as sober as a judge! John's remained sober as a judge ever since the car accident three years ago.
a sobering thought
A thought or idea which is dispiriting, depressing, or traumatic. It's a sobering thought when you consider how many people go without clean water every day.
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
To urge one to rethink something. The phrase refers to King Philip II of Macedon, who made an unwelcome decision and was challenged with an appeal to "Philip sober." If you're unhappy with his decision, then why don't you appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober?
be (as) sober as a judge
1. To be stoic and reserved, perhaps even somber. Anita has been sober as a judge ever since she heard of Marshall's death.
2. To be calm and rational. He's usually as sober as a judge, so I'm confident that he'll make a sound decision.
3. To be not at all intoxicated. I haven't been drinking at all, I swear! I'm sober as a judge!
cold sober
Completely sober; not intoxicated to any degree by drugs or alcohol. I'm cold sober, so I'll drive us home. No, I'm not high—I've been cold sober from the day I started working here!
sober up
1. To recover from the effects of alcohol or drugs on one's body or mind. I need to sober up soon—I can't go into work staggering around like this! We decided to go take a walk in the cool night air to sober up a little before heading home.
2. To help or cause someone to recover from the effects of alcohol or drugs on one's body or mind. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "sober" and "up." Go make a pot of coffee! We need to sober Kevin up before his parents come back.
3. To cease being happy, merry, flippant, or distracted; to become serious or solemn. When the chief put the pictures of the victims up on the white board, the whole room sobered up.
4. To cause or compel someone to cease being happy, merry, flippant, or distracted; to make someone serious or solemn. We were all goofing around during practice until the coach threw a chair through the window—that sobered us up straight away.
5. To give up drinking alcohol or taking drugs as a means of dealing with or overcoming one's addiction. I sobered up ten years ago to save my marriage, and I haven't looked since. Instead of simply throwing everyone in prison, why not offer programs to help some of these addicts sober up and start leading productive lives?
stone sober
Completely sober; not intoxicated to any degree by drugs or alcohol. I'm stone sober, so I'll drive us home. No, I'm not high—I've been stone sober from the day I started working here!
stone-cold sober
Completely sober; not intoxicated to any degree by drugs or alcohol. I'm stone-cold sober, so I'll drive us home. No, I'm not high—I've been stone-cold sober from the day I started working here!
See also: sober
wanton kittens make sober cats
One who behaves wildly in youth often shows more restraint in adulthood. I wouldn't worry too much about your son's interest in partying—wanton kittens make sober cats most of the time.
*sober as a judge
1. Cliché very formal, somber, or stuffy. (*Also: as ~.) You certainly look gloomy, Bill. You're sober as a judge. Tom's as sober as a judge. I think he's angry.
2. Cliché not drunk; alert and completely sober. (*Also: as ~.) John's drunk? No, he's as sober as a judge. You should be sober as a judge when you drive a car.
sober someone up
1. Lit. to take actions that will cause a drunken person to become sober. some coffee ought to sober him up. He tried to sober himself up because he had to drive home. They tried to sober up the guys who had been out all night.
2. Fig. to cause someone to face reality. The harsh reality of what had happened sobered him up immediately. The arrival of the police sobered up all the revelers.
sober up
to recover from alcohol or drug intoxication. Barlowe had one hour to sober up and get to the station. It took him a while to sober up.
stone(–cold) soberand cold sober
absolutely sober. I am stone-cold sober, or I will be by morning anyway. I found the secret to waking up cold sober. Don't drink.
sober as a judge
Not at all intoxicated, quite clear-headed, as in Even after three drinks he was sober as a judge. Why judges should be equated with sobriety is not known, but the simile was first recorded in 1694.
sober as a judgeBRITISH, OLD-FASHIONED
If someone is as sober as a judge, they have drunk no alcohol at all. For five years I was as sober as a judge.
appeal from Philip drunk to Philip soberask someone to reconsider, with the suggestion that an earlier opinion or decision represented only a passing mood.
This phrase comes from an anecdote told by the Roman historian and moralist Valerius Maximus concerning an unjust judgement given by King Philip of Macedon : the woman condemned by Philip declared that she would appeal to him once again, but this time when he was sober.
sober as a judgecompletely sober.
(as) sober as a ˈjudgenot at all affected by alcohol: I was driving, so of course I was sober as a judge. OPPOSITE: (as) drunk as a lord
ˌstone-cold ˈsoberhaving drunk no alcohol at all: By the time I arrived at the party, everyone else had had quite a few drinks, whereas I was stone-cold sober. OPPOSITE: blind drunk
See also: sober
sober up
1. To have one's feeling of intoxication subside: I waited until I had sobered up and then drove home.
2. To cause someone's feeling of intoxication to subside: The jailer grabbed a pail of water and a cup of coffee to sober up the drunk. That nap really sobered me up, but I still have a hangover.
3. To overcome an alcohol or drug addiction: It wasn't until I had sobered up that I was able hold a steady job.
4. To become serious, grave, or solemn: Everyone sobered up and felt ashamed when they heard the bad news.
5. To make someone or something serious, grave, or solemn: The news of the disaster sobered them up. The accident sobered up the workers, reminding them how dangerous their job was.
(as) sober as a judge
mod. as sober (free from alcohol) as it is possible to be. Kelly—who was starched as could be—claimed to be sober as a judge.
sober as a judgeverb
cold sober
mod. sober; completely sober. (see also sold cober.) He had a fine head on and wanted more than anything to be cold sober and alert.
sober up
in. to recover from alcohol or drug intoxication. Marlowe had one hour to sober up and get to the station.
stone (cold) sober
mod. absolutely sober. I am stone cold sober, or I will be by morning anyway.
stone soberverb
See stone cold sober
sober as a judge
In full possession of one's faculties; not at all intoxicated. The equation of judges and sobriety was made long ago. An early appearance in print is in Terence Made English (1694) by an unknown author: "I thought myself sober as a judge." It remains current on both sides of the Atlantic.


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Traditional rivals Hobart Zebras and Olympia Warriors are set to meet under Friday night lights at KGV in a crunch game to kick off Round 13.
With the Warriors losing to Devonport last week, another stumble could see them falling too far behind the leading pair of Devonport and South Hobart in the title race.
The early pace setters, Hobart Zebras have already fallen 10 points behind and are now seemingly out of the title race, but they have the quality left in their side to play a major role in shaping the eventual champions. With a pronounced divide between the top 4 and the bottom 4 in the league this season, there simply aren't the frequent danger games to shake up the standings at the top, making these top 4 match up's all the more crucial.
The sides have met twice this year, drawing 1-1 in the league before Olympia claimed the Lakoseljac Cup Semi Final between the sides with a narrow 2-0 win that really could have gone either way. This game promises to be a battle of overcoming adversity with both sides set to have a number of regular starters unavailable due to injury and suspension.
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In this guest post, Procurement Leaders invites AudienceScience's Mike Peralta to explain 'programmatic' and its impact on marketing spend.
Put simply, 'programmatic' is the automated buying and selling of digital advertising (display, video, mobile etc) using advertising technology.
Originally it was used to buy 'remnant' inventory which is the lower value ad space publishers have left over after premium ad sales, but it is increasingly used across the majority of advertisers' digital advertising activity. eMarketer predictions suggest that more than half (59%) of display ads were traded this way in 2015. It is also projected that digital media will surpass traditional media spending by 2019, according to Magna Global.
The sheer growth in digital media spending should have the attention of procurement departments. These have tended not to be massively involved in negotiating advertising technology contracts as marketing departments have handed this role to their agencies as part of their overall media buying responsibilities. However, given the inexorable rise in programmatic there is a growing role for procurement to play in ensuring that their agencies are transparent about data, media, and technology costs in a way that delivers maximum value for the brand.
Transparency in costs is essential to maximising every pound spent on advertising. Programmatic deals based on a percentage of media spent can incentivise partners in the programmatic process to spend more, irrespective of the outcome it creates, rather than to optimise the impact of the spend. Procurement teams can help marketers determine the Total Cost of Ownership and benefits in securing advertising technology, similar to how they secure the services of other marketing technology platforms.
There are immediate benefits when brands hold the contracts for their advertising technology themselves. As a partner to marketing, procurement teams can help marketers realise the benefits of owning the contractual relationship with advertising technology platforms:
It is time for procurement teams to build up their understanding of how programmatic works and play to their own strengths in helping marketers better discern the appropriate programmatic approach as soon all media, including TV, will be addressable (i.e. targetable and personalised across tightly defined target audiences and also measurable). With programmatic driving the majority of these campaigns, marketing teams will need the help of procurement departments more than ever to ensure that their advertising technology delivers what they need at the right price – both in terms of cost and business best practice.
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Would you like to use open shapes in your presentations? They look hand drawn, look interesting and could add spice to your PowerPoint presentations. However, they don't come with PowerPoint, but with the use of Bézier Curve (Edit Points) feature, you can make this possible. It is not that well-known a feature because it's not on the ribbon but you can do everything using the right-click menu.
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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.
I. The History of the Fall of Jerusalem 1-2
1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
A. God's king was defeated
1. The loser, Jehoiakim, king of Judah
- Gladly served as vassal king to Egypt, and then to Babylon.
- To raise tribute to pay to Egypt's king, Jehoiakim used the forced, unpaid labor of his own countrymen.
- Could not be trusted, either by Jews or Egyptians, or Babylonians.
- Notoriously attacked anyone who suggested "bad news" to him. When he was read the writings of Jeremiah the prophet, (whom he later arrested and held prisoner in an empty well/cistern), he took out a pen-knife and cut up the Scriptures! (Jer 36:22ff)
2. The winner, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon
- "Nebuchadnezzar" = one of the most amazing, imposing military/ruling kings in the human history.
- Three deportations to Babylon: 605, 597, and 586 B.C. The Babylonian army destroyed Solomon's Temple in 586BC.
B. God's city was surrounded and sacked 1b
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
1. The loser, Jerusalem, capital of Israel
- "besieged it" = one of the three main attacks on the city of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. While the initial defeat happened in 605 BC, the city finally was destroyed in 586 BC.
- Deu 28: 49 "The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
- F.B. Meyer offers a poignant description of the siege and fall of the city of Jerusalem. After describing the influx of citizens from the country, and its horrible drain on the resources and infrastructure of the city's few, precious resources, he goes on to describe the final days of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
…So much for the earlier months of the siege: but as the days passed on, darker shadows gathered. It was as though the very pit of hell added in human passion the last dread horrors of the scene. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, lay by scores in the recesses of the houses, broken like earthen pitchers, the work of the hand of the potter! The women become cruel, and refused to spare from their breasts for their young the nutriment they needed for themselves. The tongues of the sucking babes become so dry and parched, that they could no longer cry. Young children, whose weakness constituted a first claim, asked for bread, and asked in vain. (Jeremiah—Priest and Prophet, F.B. Meyer, Christian Literature Crusade, page 143.)
- After the fall of Jerusalem in 605 BC, the nation of Israel did not exist as an independent, self-governing state for over 2,500 years, until 1948.
2. The winner, Babylon, capital of Mesopotamia
- There was a remarkable renaissance of learning, music, literature during the Second Babylonian kingdom.
- The city of Babylon itself would impress even if it existed today, for sake of its defensive walls, canal system, parks, gardens, palaces, temples, roadways, gates, and cavernous public buildings.
C. God's temple was pillaged. 2
2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.
1. The loser, Solomon's Temple… 2a
- Note: The Lord "gave" both the king of Judah (Eliakim) and the sacred utensils of the temple into Nebuchadnezzar's hand. [Arguably, Nebuchadnezzar also was given the youth of Judah—as had been prophesied to Hezekiah by Isaiah the prophet (Isa 39).]
- As horrific as the thought is, the texts argues that God's relationship with Nebuchadnezzar was much like that of an offended landlord hiring out a mercenary to forcibly evict His people off of the land, and out of the city of Jerusalem! Thus, it is more true to say that Nebuchadnezzar did not steal the Temple's treasure, but received it from the hand of the God of the Temple!
2. …the winner, the temple of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian gods 2b
- and he brought them to the land of Shinar, = (Gen 10-11: Nimrod settled and built a human-ruled kingdom, people settled, against God's will, Tower of Babel…)
- to the house of his god(s), and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god. "along with some of the vessels of the house of God…" = the symbolic humiliation of God, and the safe-guarding of the vast wealth taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. In the culture of the ancient Middle East, temples were also as banks–they were the safest place to store material wealth, such as the items that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem.
II. The hardest part of the story: It was the hand of God that handed over His people and their city! 2
2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.
- It is notable that the God here is Adonai—the personal, Hebrew name for God. Despite Nebuchadnezzar's presumption that he himself was responsible for the defeat of Israel—the text allows for no such possibility.
- Psa 44 12 You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale.
A. His means of destroying and pillaging His people: Nebuchadnezzar, God's "servant"!
- Nebuchadnezzar, "My servant" (!): Jer 25 8 "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' declares the LORD, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. = Like a boss paying a private contractor, God "paid" Nebuchadnezzar to defeat Israel.
B. His reason the discipline of His people: their disobedience
…because you have not obeyed My words…
- From Moses (Deut, Lev) to Solomon in the dedication of the Temple, to Isiah 39, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Ezekiel and Habakkuk, it had been made abundantly clear in their Scriptures that the price of persistent, unrepentant sin against God, and violation of His covenant with them would result in His forcible eviction of His people from their own land, for 70 years.
III. The (oftentimes hard) mystery of God's Hand in Our Suffering
A. Is God really the author of hardship? God is frequently named as the source of hardship and suffering in the lives of His dearest saints…
- It is Job crying out, " 17 "For He bruises me with a tempest And multiplies my wounds without cause. 18 "He will not allow me to get my breath, But saturates me with bitterness. (Job 9)
- It's Naomi complaining, after the death of her husband and both of her sons in a foreign land, "Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 "I went out full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the LORD has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?"
- It is Jeremiah saying, " 7 O LORD, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You have overcome me and prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long; Everyone mocks me. 8 For each time I speak, I cry aloud; I proclaim violence and destruction, Because for me the word of the LORD has resulted In reproach and derision all day long. Jer 20
- It is David saying, "He has weakened my strength in the way; He has shortened my days." (Ps 102) = "God, You've made me WEAKER, not stronger, and You've SHORTENED my life expectancy!"
- It is Psalmist who wrote, "You sell Your people cheaply, And have not profited by their sale. (Psalm 44:12)
- But it is also Jesus fervently praying to God that the experience of the Cross might be avoided, but that He would put God's "will" before His own, and go to that Cross.
- It is Jesus crying out with a loud voice on a dark Friday afternoon, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?!"
CONCLUSION: So where is there hope to be found in suffering?
THE CROSS! We don't always know what God is accomplishing in our dark nights, but we DO know what He accomplished on the DARKEST day of human history—the day Jesus hung on a Cross.
- From a historical point of view it was just another Roman crucifixion—just another case of a government used by religion to get rid of a Troublemaker…
- But in view of the hand of God in the crucifixion, something utterly amazing and marvelous happened… heaven's door was opened for sinners!
- The who, what, where, and whens of history will never bring us to the deeper meaning behind the things that happen to us–only God possesses the WHYs that we long to know. And despite the darkness that might best describe the present chapter of your life–believers are blessed to know the end of the "book," the whys of history–God is at work to bring about His own glory displayed in all creation, and the promised redemption of His people!
- Alas! and did my Savior bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head, for sinners such as I? By God's plan, YES!
- Hope is found when we press beyond the mere history of trouble to see the hand of God at work in our lives through the greatest hope—the Cross of Christ.
- Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.


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5/34 Wright St, Ferryden Park SA 5010 | Phone:(08) 7226 6591|
Open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 11am – 3pm & 5-9pm; Saturday 10am – 9pm | Website
Mai Kitchen is a large restaurant in the back streets of Ferryden Park. On the night that we were there, I would estimate that there were about 150 people there. The acoustics of the building are obviously good as despite the number of people, it was still possible to hear – a definite plus!
We went there for the vegan options and there are many quality and varied choices. We chose spring rolls, rice noodle stir fry, lemon grass chili, sizzling vegan beef, and vegan fried rice. All dishes were generous size, great quality, and beautifully presented. Including drinks, we paid about $30 per head – great value for money.
The service is friendly and welcoming. We we able to place our order quite quickly and there was a very short wait to be served the food. Unfortunately, there was no follow up service at all, and we had to go to the counter to ask for more bottles of water, drinks, and the menu to see if wanted to order anything else. While it was busy, there were plenty of staff and more attention to detail in customer service would have been appreciated.
Summary: food excellent; service good but could be better; value for money excellent. Worth a try? Absolutely – if you like Vietnamese food, you should enjoy the Mai's experience.


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Police are investigating after attempts were allegedly made to hack a nationwide patient database.
In an email obtained by the Otago Daily Times, Southern Primary Health Organisation clinical adviser Keith Abbott, of Dunedin, warned GPs and health organisations about the ''significant hacking attempt'' on September 9.
He said the hacker tried to gain access to DrInfo, which is used by health boards, including the Southern District Health Board, medical centres and GPs around the country.
''Starting at 11am on September 9, in one case continuously lasting for 12 hours, a single IP [internet protocol] address has made over 20 million attempts to guess the passwords of practices, PHOs and DHBs in New Zealand,'' Dr Abbott said.


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New to Traveling? Things to Keep in Mind for Airline Travel
I'm not going to lie, I get very envious of the different options that Americans (U.S. Citizens, not American Airlines) have to help make travel more affordable. Starting from higher credit card sign up bonuses, more competitive airlines fares, better perks and benefits associated with credit cards, etc. That being said, it doesn't mean that Canadians don't have a few options as well.
Today, I will list some of my top travel tips to consider when travelling:
Know the Baggage Policies
Know when you need to pay and when it's included in the fare. Also know the dimension and weight requirements to avoid any unnecessary inconveniences at the airport. If you can, sign up for a credit card that gives you free checked bags. Or just focus on using a carry-on only if you can get by without a checked bag.
Checking in your bag at the gate is a great way to avoid check-in fees.
One thing that I do is bring a carry-on one way to avoid the fee. And if I come back with a lot of souvenirs, I would pay a one way fee on the return flight.
Connect through the United States
This is especially true when booking an international award travel with Aeroplan. You are better off flying on United Airlines and connecting through the United States to reach your outside-of-North-America destination rather than flying with Air Canada. United Airlines has much lower taxes and fuel surcharges. I would take it a step further if you fly with Star Alliance partners often enough, you are better off signing up for a United Airlines MileagePlus account and banking your points there instead of Aeroplan. You can redeem your MileagePlus points for the exact same United Airlines flight as you would using Aeroplan points, and it will cost you less taxes and fuel surcharges.
Collect British Airways Executive Club Avios
There isn't much competition on which airlines we, as Canadians, can take advantage of to rack up points with large sign up bonuses. But one option, aside from Aeroplan is Avios. Mostly notably with RBC and American Expresss. Oneworld alliance have lots of great members to use your Avios with. What is great about the redemption schedule is that British Airways uses a distance-based chart to redeem a reward flight. As a result, you can get more value from Avios than from Aeroplan.
Know the Cancelling Fees
Ditching a flight could be cheaper than changing it. The cost of change fees can be really high, so knowing your options can help you avoid unnecessary fees. If you really want to change a flight, its often better to do it on the day of your flight for a heavily reduced change fee.
If you know that you need to cancel a flight, wait until closer to the last minute because sometimes they change the time of your flight and give you an opportunity to cancel or change your flight without any fees. This may happen even more often in the winter season.
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"Wherever I cause my name to be honored, I will come to you and bless you." Exodus 20:24b
Who We Are
The Concordia University Worship Arts Ensembles are a collection of auditioned worship music leadership groups open to student vocalists and students playing rhythm section instruments (such as piano, keyboard, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar, or drums). From time to time members of Wind, String and Brass ensembles are invited to play in with an ensemble.
What We Do
As a member of a Worship Arts Ensemble, you will rehearse weekly with a modern worship band and regularly provide music for daily worship services in the campus chapel. Members of advanced ensembles lead music for worship services at large regional gatherings and youth events, and also occasionally serve congregations and Christian schools throughout Michigan and surrounding states.
When We Meet
Worship Arts Ensembles (MUS 208) meet in three different sections on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9 – 10 am. Musicians are placed in ensembles by the Director to provide a balanced sound vocally and instrumentally. MUS 207 (Introduction to Worship Arts Leadership) is required for all first semester students in the ensembles. MUS 207 meets on Friday afternoons from 2:10 – 3:50 pm. MUS 207 and MUS 208 are both zero (0) credit ensembles.
Our Leadership
The Worship Arts Ensembles are directed by Professor John Boonenberg.
Audition Requirements
Audition requirements for the Worship Arts Ensemble include preparing a song that demonstrates your musical aptitude and aptitude as a worship song leader, and preparing a required song from the leadsheets available below. To schedule an audition time, please complete the Concerto or Cadenza scholarship application, or contact Julie Pierce [email@example.com].


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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD
Research FocusMolecular biologist Prasad Jallepalli studies the mechanisms that ensure accurate chromosome transmission in human cells.
EducationMD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Office Phone: 212-639-3252
- Lab Phone: 212-639-3250
- Lab Fax: 212-717-3627
- J. Maciejowski, H. Dreschler, K. Grundner-Culemann, E.R. Ballister, J.-A. Rodriguez-Rodriguez, V. Rodriguez-Bravo, M.J.K. Jones, E. Foley, M.A. Lampson, H. Daub, A.D. McAinsh, and P.V. Jallepalli. Mps1 regulates kinetochore-microtubule attachment stability via the Ska complex to ensure error-free chromosome segregation. Dev. Cell 41, 153-156 (2017).
- V. Rodriguez-Bravo, J. Maciejowski, J. Corona, H.K. Buch, M.T. Kanemaki, J.V. Shah, and P.V. Jallepalli. Nuclear pores protect genome integrity by assembling a premitotic and Mad1-dependent anaphase inhibitor. Cell 156, 1017-1031 (2014).
Selected Achievements
- Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University (1992)
- M.D./Ph.D. Fellow, Medical Scientist Training Program, Johns Hopkins University (1992-1999)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation (1999-2002)
- Scholar, V Foundation for Cancer Research (2003)
- Frederick R. Adler Chair for Junior Faculty (2003-2007)
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- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences (2003-2007)
- Louise & Allston Boyer Young Investigator Award (2008)
- Research Scholar, American Cancer Society (2008-2011)
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Apologies for the lack of recent updates.
Since the last update three and a half months ago we have seen 13 new polls: eight of the regular fortnightly polls from Roy Morgan, two from TV3-Reid Research, two from One News-Colmar Brunton, and one from Herald-Digipoll. The updated Kiwi Poll Guy polling averages have National on 52.0% +/- 1.7%, Labour on 33.3% +/- 1.6%, and the Greens on 7.5% +/- 0.9%, all virtually unchanged over the past three and a half months.
As usual, the two graphs below summarise the polling averages for the party vote after the new poll. The horizontal axes represent the date, starting at the date of the 2008 NZ General Election, and finishing on the present day. The solid lines with grey error bands show the moving averages of the party vote for each party, and circles show individual polls with the vertical lines representing the total errors.
As always, please check the Graphs page for further simulation results.
Also shown below are the updated Candidate Election Probabilities. Please click to embiggen. For an explanation of the methodology please see the original post on individual candidate election probabilities.
There haven't been too many big changes since the last update in September 2010. It's worth reiterating that these results are calculated from hypothetical party lists based on those used at the 2008 General Election, with a few common sense changes made to account for retirements and so on. The most recent change is the removal of Labour candidate Darren Hughes and a replacement with a dummy candidate, "LAB-41-Otaki," who will contest the Otaki electorate with a presumed #41 list placing. All other Labour candidates with list placings of #17 to #41 have been bumped up one place.
For ease of viewing, the results for candidates serving as electorate MP's in the 49th Parliament are also shown below, ordered by their electorate number.


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Andrey Arshavin's return to Zenit will not be heroic.
I had to reblog this, if only for 'Crisp eating bench polisher'!
Andrey Arshavin's return to Zenit will not be heroic.
I had to reblog this, if only for 'Crisp eating bench polisher'!
There are no words to describe this
Robin van Persie arrived at Arsenal's training camp this week with a few more grey hairs and without a new contract. Of course, one could have something to do with the other.
The club is hoping to resolve Van Persie's future before the Gunners begin their preseason tour in Malaysia this weekend. All the big clubs are hot for the Dutch striker, including Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Premier League rival Manchester City.
The fact that Van Persie is in camp and apparently in good spirits and good shape has Arsenal optimistic that the captain will re-consider his position, sign a contract extension and continue to call Emirates Stadium home. Van Persie, 28, is in the prime of his career and belongs at Arsenal where he led the Premier League with 30 goals last season.
If it is Van Persie's wish to win trophies, why not do it with the club where he made a name for himself? He can't possibly believe that winning a championship while riding shotgun with Messi would mean the same as winning one at Arsenal.
It's not as if the north London side is that far from being a legitimate contender. Arsenal finished third in the EPL and its manager, Arsene Wenger, is one of the best in the business at adding young talent.
Van Persie has every right to be concerned with Arsenal losing both Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri last summer. But Wenger has always been a proactive manager. He is looking to sign 17-year-old French forward M'baye Niang, who is being courted by both Tottenham and Man City. Arsenal is also trying to sign Theo Walcott to a long-term deal.
Locking up Van Persie, however, is the crucial move for Arsenal. Nearly two weeks ago, Van Persie released a statement after meeting with Wenger and Ivan Gazidis and sounded resigned to leaving before his contract expires in 12 months.
"This was a meeting about the club's future strategy and their policy," Van Persie said in the statement. "Financial terms or a contract have not been discussed, since that is not my priority at all.
"I personally have had a great season but my goal has been to win trophies with the team and to bring the club back to its glory days. Out of my huge respect for Mr. Wenger, the players and the fans I don't want to go into any details, but unfortunately in this meeting it has again become clear to me that we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal should move forward.
"I've thought long and hard about it, but I have decided not to extend my contract."
Van Persie sounded sincere but don't discount the fact that he could be a shrewd negotiator as well. Van Persie understands his value the team and could be looking for more money, more affection or both. I'll go with the latter.
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Arsenal is built around the Van Persie the way it was once built around his good friend Thierry Henry. And yes, Henry left for Barcelona when he was 27 but not before becoming the Gunners all-time leading scorer with 228 goals while helping Arsenal to two league titles and three FA Cups. It wasn't until Henry arrived in Spain before he raised a Champions League trophy.
He and Van Persie were teammates when Arsenal lost to Barcelona in the 2006 Champions League Final. Van Persie never stepped on the pitch that night and that loss still stings.
Stay at Arsenal and perhaps Van Persie will get that chance again. Winning one as Messi's sidekick just won't mean as much.
Frank Isola – Goal.com
Normally I place no stock in pretty anything that comes from the direction of Goal.com. Usually it is just the same story that everywhere else is running hacked to death by a 5th or 6th rate journo.
On the rare occasion when it isn't just churning someone else's story they normally present made up transfer rumours as if they were gospel.
On this occasion however I find myself in the odd predicament of actually agreeing with something they have published. strange or what!
Mr. Isola hits the nail firmly on the head for me with this particular statement
"If it is Van Persie's wish to win trophies, why not do it with the club where he made a name for himself? He can't possibly believe that winning a championship while riding shotgun with Messi would mean the same as winning one at Arsenal."
Good question, why exactly can't Van Persie win trophies with Arsenal? He says that the club lacks ambition but let us face facts here this is a team which reeling from the loss of two very good players last year plummeted as low as it's possible to go before bouncing back to finish third.
Agreed the squad lacks some depth in places but it would seem that Wenger and Gazidis have been working to correct that situation this Summer.
Giroud and Podolski have come in and if the papers are to be believed will be joined by at least two more signings. Add to that Lansbury and Bartley who have been promoted to the first team and the return of Jack Wilshere from injury and we look a bit better set up to maybe go the distance this year.
If they squad hadn't of been so thin last year we would have been better equipped to compete across all fronts without having to throw everything into securing champions league football and personally I believe we would have picked up a trophy, even if it were "just" a Carling cup or FA cup.
If Robin Van Persie is so driven and ambitious, then he should prove it. He is under contract for one more year, fair enough choose not to renew but see the remaining year out and show everyone that it really isn't about the petro dollars.
I was sat at home last night wallowing in self pity over the looming prospect of losing our captain and best player for what feels like the millionth season running. Well maybe it isn't exactly like that but it is certainly how it feels sometimes!
I decided that the best thing to do would be to play a little game with myself, no nothing like that ;). I decided to try and field the best XI I could dream up based on players that Arsenal have either sold or released in recent years.
The only rules I obeyed were that it had to be a 4-3-3 as that is what we are currently playing and all players have to currently have footballer as their job description.
Below is my attempt, I would be interested to see what others amongst you come up with
Not too shabby really, whilst it might not be a team that would win you the Champions League it would have a good go at competing!