Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele at practice today at MTS Bell Place. Mark Scheifele may return to the Winnipeg Jets lineup Friday night.
This article was published 8/2/2018 (437 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
With all the excitement about Mark Scheifele likely returning to the Winnipeg Jets lineup tonight, it brings up the question of what to do when all the team's centres get healthy.
Should Blake Wheeler return to his regular right-wing spot or stay in the middle, where he's been since Scheifele went down in late December?
The old adage about icing a squad that's strong down the middle being the best way to build a championship team has a number of fans believing Wheeler should stay at centre.
With everyone healthy — Matt Hendricks and Adam Lowry are currently out — the Jets could have Scheifele, Wheeler, Bryan Little and Lowry as their pivots. No doubt, an enviable group.
Adding Mathieu Perreault, Patrik Laine, Kyle Connor, Jack Roslovic, Nikolaj Ehlers and Joel Armia to Scheifele, Wheeler and Little gives you three lines that can produce offence on any given night.
Lowry, Andrew Copp and Brandon Tanev (currently injured) were a strong shutdown line and could be reunited. Marko Dano might slot in here as well.
If the Jets added a forward or two via trade, this would be quite the collection. It also might lessen the price the Jets would have to pay for a centre, as comparable wingers are usually cheaper.
They've been winning with sophomore Laine and either of the rookies, Connor or Roslovic, playing with Wheeler — it's tough to argue with success.
However, moving from one's natural position often isn't easy on a player, particularly when you move from the wing into the middle.
The hardest part, to me, would be the defensive zone changes in various situations. You're no longer just making sure your point man (or high guy above the slot if the puck is on your offside) is covered when the opposition has the puck. It's not that difficult to get into position for an outlet pass when your team gains possession.
This is obviously dependent on the system, but it's much less complicated than playing centre.
For me, as a defenceman, knowing what the centre was going to do was imperative — faceoffs were important, but this reached into numerous situations.
Draws often turn into scattered play, where you need to have a both a coverage strategy and one to exit the zone. In most cases, you need to have the centre supporting wherever the puck is.
That's a long way from a winger looking to take off for a breakaway pass when your team grabs the puck.
There are too many other things to go into here, but I have an immense appreciation of what Wheeler has done.
While he's kept producing points, some underlying numbers have been less impressive. However, I give him the benefit of the doubt due to the youngsters he's played with while at centre.
Those same stats have some similarities to the ones he had with Scheifele earlier this year, yet they were lighting it up on the scoreboard.
For me, Wheeler's centre role is similar to Little playing with Ehlers and Laine earlier this season, with him having to make sure he was covering up for the young, offensive wizards but seeing his own numbers suffer.
With Perreault joining and revitalizing Little and Ehlers, that line has taken off. If Wheeler had the benefit of Perreault on his wing, his possession numbers and scoring chances likely would have jumped, as almost everybody's do when playing with Perreault.
All things considered, I think Wheeler is a good centre, but I don't consider him one of the NHL's best centres.
On the other side of the coin, I do put him in my top-five wingers in the league.
Why is Wheeler so much better on the wing?
Obviously his speed helps with the extra open ice he gets there, and he's an absolute bull whether rushing with the puck or forechecking.
A centre is often following the play after he's recovered the puck and moved it forward. It doesn't allow as many opportunities for Wheeler to unleash his best attributes.
While he possesses those power moves, his vision and ability to use his intimidating speed often causes hesitation among opposing defencemen. A quick stop and pass to a teammate who's in a scoring position is more easily done down the wing.
His ability to make adjustments is excellent. While it's not five-on-five play, I love how he confuses the opposition's penalty-killing unit enough to get a pass through to Laine on the power play, who has been ripping it.
Maurice has his preferred penalty-killing units, but I liked the Wheeler-Scheifele combo earlier this year. Always a threat to score, they also pressured the opponent's power play a bit, even when the Jets were still in sit-back mode. There's more pressure being applied by this unit now, so it should get even better.
As Roslovic has been keeping Scheifele's spot warm in man-advantage situations with Wheeler, this duo makes line continuity much easier. Laine is also on that unit and the trio has practised together as a line.
I'm still in wait-and-see mode as far as what Maurice will finally do with the captain.
It's possible he just wants Scheifele to be comfortable in his first game back. If they need assistance down the lineup, he can always flip Wheeler back to the middle until help arrives.
While there's a decent argument to keep him at centre long-term, it's an easy choice for me.
I'm taking an elite winger over a good centre all day long.


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Translation:I was thinking about a new job.
When I hear the "woman voice" say this, it makes me second guess what I hear.
Same here! "Myślałam" is the form to use if you identify as female.
Why is 'I was thinking about my new work' not allowed? It seems that often when a possessive determiner is omitted in Polish one can still translate it as such, in situations where it would be logical given the meaning of the sentence. This is the case for many of the questions here, where sometimes it is even the suggested answer. Why is it different here?
Well, it's not that clear to me that it's "my new work", it's just new work (about searching for a new work, I would expect), but I guess that it does make sense and there's no harm in adding. Mostly the sentences omitting the pronouns refer to family or some objects that the subject most probably owns. Here it's a bit more of an interpretation. But alright, added.
For the same reason... the new work?


In the past 31 days, I've managed to get the core functionality of MSan to work. This is an uninitialized memory usage detector. MSan is a special sanitizer because it requires knowledge of every entry to the basesystem library and every entry to the kernel through public interfaces. This is mandatory in order to mark memory regions as initialized.
Most of the work has been done directly for MSan. However, part of the work helped generic features in compiler-rt.
Changes in the sanitizer are listed below in chronological order. Almost all of the changes mentioned here landed upstream. A few small patches were reverted due to breaking non-NetBSD hosts and are rescheduled for further investigation. I maintain these patches locally and have moved on for now to work on the remaining features.
Move __tsan::Vector to the __sanitizer namespace. This move allows reuse of the homegrown Vector container in sanitizers other than TSan. I've implemented atexit(3) and __cxa_atexit() handling in MSan using this class.
I've added function renaming of the NetBSD libc calls to the common code of sanitizer interceptors (sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc). There have been 37 renames registered. In general, I don't intend to support compat code and focus entirely on newly compiled features, taking NetBSD-8 as the basesystem release. Therefore I support only the newest function version that is basically always used in new code.
I've disabled intercepting absent functions on NetBSD, located in the MSan specific code: mempcpy, __libc_memalign, malloc_usable_size, stpcpy, gcvt, wmempcpy, fcvt.
I've added handling of symbol aliases of certain POSIX threading library functions in MSan interceptors, namely __libc_thr_keycreate -> pthread_key_create.
I've reused the Linux/x86_64 memory layout for NetBSD/amd64. There is a requirement to disable ASLR to get a functional mapping of memory regions on NetBSD. The NetBSD PaX ASLR implementation is too aggressive for the MSan needs, and this is similar to the TSan/NetBSD case.
I've switched the strerror_r(3) interceptor for NetBSD from the GNU-specific to the POSIX one. They behave differently and are not interchangeable.
I've disabled unsupported MSan tests on NetBSD: ftime and pvalloc and tsearch. They ship with unportable function calls that are absent on NetBSD.
I've corrected execution of the ifaddrs, textdomain and iconv tests on NetBSD. They were adapted for the NetBSD specific behavior.
I've finished handling in the interceptors the TLS block of the main program. This is a continuation of the past month's effort, the new solution is now corrected and has been made machine independent. It's worth noting that NetBSD is the only OS that is handling the main thread TLS block with generic interfaces.
I've introduced dlopen(3) support fixes. I've corrected the retrieval of link_map pointer from the dlopen(3) opaque handler structure.
I've fixed the list of intercepting functions for NetBSD: disabling getpshared-specific functions from POSIX pthreading library and switching from UTMP-like to UTMPX-like interceptors.
I've disabled a MSan test verifying fgetgrent_r() on NetBSD, as this function call is absent.
By mistake, I've disabled handling of fstatat()/MSan on NetBSD, and I've enabled it again.
MSan is supporting all GLIBC strtol-like function symbols in the GNU C library. I've adopted this for the NetBSD case intercepting only the _l variations.
Implement the initial set of NetBSD syscall hooks for use with sanitizers.
in NetBSD awk(1) (patched nawk) and is compatible with gawk.
ASan, ESan, HWASan, TSan, MSan, TSan.
of them will be implemented in future when needed.
Introduce handling of 1200 NetBSD specific ioctl(2) calls.
with the existing ones (the same operation number).
Add a script that generates the rules to detect ioctls on NetBSD.
I've got a few more local patches that require cleanup before submitting to review.
Rename of a local function uname() in ps(1) to usrname(). This removes a name clash with libc. This situation is legal in the C language, but unwanted in the POSIX environment and it makes harder to reuse sanitizers with such code.
Removal of three unused and unimplemented legacy syscalls: sstk (stack section size change), sbrk (change data segment size) and vadvise (specify system paging behaviour). The sbrk syscall could be removed as the functionality is implemented in libc brk(2) in assembly.
I've detected and corrected a bug in the pipe2() syscall, as it was returning incorrectly two integers instead of the one with the status of operation. This was leftover from the pipe(2) system call behavior and implementation detail. I've introduced refactoring to address this and make the code cleaner.
Committed and fixed the jobs variable usage in sh(1) - by Christos Zoulas and K. Robert Elz - the first real (but harmless) bug detected and squashed thanks to MSan.
I've prepared a scratch port of TSan and MSan to the Go language environment. This code mostly works. However, there are remaining bugs that must be fixed.
Although, I've managed to pass more than 90% of tests in the check-msan target within approximately one week, the gap between passing most of the test and sanitizing real world applications - even the small ones like cat(1) - is large. This pushed me towards supporting most of the important NetBSD syscalls and NetBSD ioctls, and demands from me to support most of the libc, libutil, librt, libm and libkvm entry calls.
I can already execute cat(1) under sanitizers, and this milestone was achieved just at the end of the passed month.
test(1) - bug with handling isspace(3), still not understood.
sh(1) - bug with signal-specific function calls.
ksh(1) - clash with a libc symbol.
ps(1) - lack of libkvm(3) handling.
There are also general stability problems with signals and forks. This all makes MSan not ready for larger applications like LLDB.
I've helped the Solaris team add basic support for Sanitizers (ASan, UBsan). This does not help NetBSD directly, however indirectly it improves the overall support for non-Linux hosts and helps to catch more Linuxisms in the code.
I plan to continue the work on MSan and correct sanitizing of the NetBSD basesystem utilities. This mandates me to iterate over the basesystem libraries implementing the missing interceptors and correcting the current support of the existing ones. My milestone is to build all src/*bin* programs against Memory Sanitizer and when possible execute them cleanly.


I decided to do a look to wear today that was very blue with just a hint of gold so I got my Sugarpill out and played around. Hope you enjoy!
Wow that's gorgeous. Royal Sugar looks amazing on you. And the gold definitely make it.
Oh My god... that looks divine!!!
Sugarpill's New Loose Eyeshadow Shades!


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Caldwell Township may refer to the following places in the United States:

 Caldwell Township, Appanoose County, Iowa
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 Caldwell Township, Callaway County, Missouri
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Alister Spence / Satoko Fujii — Intelsat
(Alister Spence Music ASM007, 2018, CD)
by Peter Thelen, Published 2018-11-08
I've lost count now, but this is apparently the ninth (of twelve) releases that Satoko Fujii is releasing for her 60th birthday celebration / marathon. This is an improvisational duo with Australian keyboard player Alister Spence, who was part of the four-piece with Fujii Kira Kira who released Bright Force earlier this year. But don't expect a repeat of that one – Intelsat is a very different type of performance. First of all, there are no drums or trumpet here, secondly and more importantly this is a pure sonic exploration, with Fujii's piano and Spence's Fender Rhodes treated, effected and played in unconventional ways such that most of the time their instruments don't sound anything like one would expect them to, and that's what adds a truly interesting angle to this release, which was recorded at the Intelsat jazz club in Nishio, Japan, September 7th 2017. The seven tracks here are named for different moons of Saturn, and vary in duration from three to twenty-two minutes, each following its own unique direction into alternate universes. It's best to just kick back and enjoy the tapestry of sounds without trying too hard to decipher how they are made. There are some things that are somewhat recognizable, like electronic beeps and squeaks, piano played by strumming or picking the strings, something that sounds like muted bells in the distance and gamelan gongs on the opening track "Mimas." One track here, "Fenrir," does not feature Fujii at all, it's a solo piano piece by Spence that seems rather conventional compared to the other six, but comes at the midpoint of the album when the listener might need some respite from all the sonic abstractions. That said, every sound here, no matter how chaotic, random or mysterious is easy on the ears, nothing too noisy or grating. This one is definitely out there, one for the intrepid explorers among us.
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Related artist(s): Satoko Fujii, Alister Spence
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😆 I spent half an hour with a dnr officer while striped bass fishing. I think that cat fish is bigger then bass I caught and released.
I switched to much larger hooks. Less bites, more lost bait. Bigger fish. Other then bait fish and white perch, smallest keep in C.Bay are 8" blues. Not worth the effort, 20" for rock. Record is some where up around 70". Hope you took that one to official station to get checked for awards and or record books.
The big fish was a black drum.
I estimate that it was around 50-55 pounds.
I should wear my reading glasses more often. Excellent catch and release. After decades being to busy, just since Sept this year I've been fishing. I didn't recognize the drum for what it was.
Ive only been doing catch and release so far.
Measured my white perch wrong or it would have earned me an award.
I'm on a steep learning curve after all these years.
That drum is impressive. Not sure if I would have kept it either. I try to keep up to date on certain records by taking a few notes. So I can release most, except striped bass, blue fish, flounder, and larger white perch. I'm not one of those anglers you will see carrying home a bucket, 5 gallon, crammed full of 3" to 8" perch. If it's not big enough to stuff my tummy or big enough for an award or tecord it gets thrown back. I don't have a boat yet...so sizes of my catch are typically not legal.
The weather was horrible and we didn't do very well...except for this 38.5lb ray.
How ya doing Paul? You happy with the Texans? Since my elder brother's death, we do not get there very often. The other one lives in Midland, that garden spot is such a draw!
Our defense should keep us in every game and if we can (finally/ever) get decent qb play we might have a chance to win some games.
Like the other 31 fan bases in May..."SUPERBOWL BABY"!!
Like the other 31 fan bases in May..."SUPERBOWL BABY"!
He just finished building a pipeline near here from Crane to Pecos.
He's a Redskins fan now!
I figured he must work in the energy sector.
Jan, I know you're interested in ancient peoples and civilizations.
This doesn't really qualify but the next time you visit your brother you might want to check out the Stonehenge replica in Odessa.
AWESOME!! That's enough to make me look forward to visiting the grids in the desrt that are Midland-Odessa!


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All the goals from La Liga Matchday 2
1st September 2014 by tomw
A round-up of the weekend action as Real Madrid lost in spectacular fashion in Sociedad, and both Barca and Atletico struggled past stubborn opposition. There were also wins for Valencia, Sevilla and Getafe in the final week of La Liga before the international break. Friday 29th August Getafe 1 (Vazquez) Almeria 0 http://youtu.be/6mcOqbJISWQ?list=UUTv-XvfzLX3i4IGWAm4sbmA Valencia 3 (Alcacer, Piatti, Parejo) Malaga 0 http://youtu.be/CyG7uTqowEU?list=UUTv-XvfzLX3i4IGWAm4sbmA Saturday 30th August Athletic Bilbao 3 (Aduriz, Iturraspe, Muniain) Levante … [Read more...]
How La Liga stars got on in the World Cup play-offs
21st November 2013 by ashp
The international break has shown its face for the last time until March (thank goodness!) with plenty of celebration for the La Liga contingent in the World Cup qualifiers. Victory was around in abundance, none more so than in the Portugal camp where Cristiano Ronaldo was once again the shining light, after his late goal in Lisbon he grabbed a hat-trick in the second leg in Stockholm sending Portugal to the World Cup finals in Brazil. Pepe and Ronaldo's Real team-mate Fabio Coentrao also played a part in the thrilling match which finished 3 – 2, seeing Portugal victorious by a 4 – 2 … [Read more...]
La Liga team of the week – match week seven
6th October 2013 by faremi
Match Week seven, and it's still 7 for 7 for the top two as champions Barcelona and Atletico Madrid defy difficult situations to maintain their 100 percent streaks, club records for both sides. Time for our Team of the Match day here at La Liga Blog, and it's no surprises that the team has great representation from the 'big two'……yes, big two. … [Read more...]
La Liga team of the week – Game Week Six
30th September 2013 by faremi
Week six has come and gone and the biggest news was the flurry of controversial refereeing decisions made by Belgian-born La liga referee, César Muñiz Fernández in the game involving Elche and Real Madrid at the Martínez Valero. Barcelona and Atleti keep their 100 percent record while Espanyol record their first loss of the season. For us at La liga Blog, it's time to once again reward the top performers of the Matchday. Don't fret guys, Fernandez missed out! … [Read more...]
La Liga team of the week – game week five
The games are starting to come in thick and fast, as the men are being separated from the boys in La Liga. Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao rounded up matches for Week 5 on Monday night, and here at La Liga Blog, it's time for us to honour those players who covered themselves in glory and gave a showing worthy of mention, especially in a week laden with goalless games. … [Read more...]
La Liga Team of the week – match week four
The league has started to heat-up, as teams start to drop points, play some desperate football and have their character tested. Atletico Madrid and Champions Barcelona still maintain their lead at the top of the table after securing maximum points as Real Madrid and Villareal cancel each other out-resulting in their first dropped points of the season. … [Read more...]
Footballers and their cars: A look at Europe's finest talent and their taste in automobiles
29th July 2013 by andym
The summer transfer window or 'silly season' as it is more affectionately known is well under way with plenty of transfer activity to report. In Spain in particular there has been plenty of speculation to sink our teeth into. Like in Madrid for example where the Bernabeu vultures are preparing to circle in on White Hart Lane and take with them the Premier League's number one prized asset or in Barcelona where one influential midfielder could potentially be returning to the EPL itself, a league where he made his name as player in Arsenal colours just over half a decade ago. But as a complete … [Read more...]
Video: Brilliant strike from Duda maintains Malaga's unbeaten Champions League run
4th December 2012 by andym
Duda's fantastic first half finish was the main highlight in Malaga's 2-2 Champions League draw against Anderlecht this evening. The winger's brace extended his side's unbeaten run in the competition and with qualification to the knock-out stages already done and dusted, Manuel Pellegrini's side can take heart from this well-earned draw at La Rosaleda tonight. … [Read more...]
Lionel Messi wins goal of the week with a thunderous strike against Real Madrid
9th October 2012 by andym
After an exciting weekend of La Liga action in which the shares were spoiled in the all too anticipated El Clasico, we decided that Lionel Messi's second goal - a perfectly placed free kick to take Barcelona into a 2-1 lead in the second half of Barca v Real is our goal of the week. Barca fought back from a one goal deficit after Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring for Jose Mourinho's side in the opening twenty-five minutes. … [Read more...]
The top 10 La Liga players of the 21st century
22nd March 2012 by andym
In football terms, few would argue that the 21st century has so far belonged to Spain. The national side has risen from the ranks of perennial under-achievers to become undeniably the dominant force in the international game, winning the European Championship and World Cup tournaments in succession. European football fans have drooled over the sublime technical skills of Spanish clubs featuring stellar line-ups of home-grown talent mixed with modern greats of the game. Catalan giants FC Barcelona developed a side which has not only won every possible major honour in club football, but they've … [Read more...]


At UK, they taught us to scratch our heads and use resources to figure it out. That helped us connect knowledge to real life. I have realized that much more than many of my colleagues from other schools, I was prepared.
If you had asked Fadi Qutaish (BSMNG '12) 10 years ago where he would be today, he never would have guessed working as a mine engineer in the United States.
Born and raised in Jordan, Fadi received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Jami'at Al-Balqa Al-Tatbiqiyya in Salt, one of Jordan's larger cities. He began working as a mechanical engineer in the Royal Jordanian Air Force, and his career plan was to stay there and thrive.
Living in West Virginia, Fadi applied for jobs in the coal industry, but swiftly realized the need for a mining engineering degree. He asked colleagues for recommendations on the best mining program around and continually got the same answer—the University of Kentucky.
"Going to UK was one of the best decisions that I have ever made. When I came to the United States, I started from scratch. UK did an excellent job of providing me with everything that I needed as an engineer," he says.
After interning with Patriot Coal as a UK student, Fadi accepted a job offer from the company. He eventually became a production engineer at the company, giving him engineering experience in both mining and production. Over the past years he's added skills to his toolbox through various positions and now works as a lead mine engineer at Compass Minerals.
Fadi credits the University of Kentucky with preparing him for the real-life tasks he's encountered in the workplace. After his undergraduate education, he felt equipped with engineering knowledge but was unsure how to connect that to real engineering tasks.
He encourages all students to take advantage of any chance they get to work with their hands. Internships and practical skills have made all the difference for him by helping him assimilate and thrive in the US workforce.


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from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, exceptions
from django.conf import settings

from json import dumps

###################### Elastic Search 调用接口 ################

es = Elasticsearch(settings.ES_SERVER) # ES 官方的python客户端,可以调用一些基本方法
es_debug = False

def es_rest_call(url='/', method='GET', body=None):
    """
    用restful方式调用ES, 用来调用未写入官方客户端的方法

    @param url: 地址,相对路径
    @param method: HTTP方法,相当于CURL当中的-XGET XPOST XDELETE XPUT
    @param body: post时传入的参数对象
    @return: 成功返回服务器response,失败抛异常
    """

    if es_debug:
        print '='*20+'   ES call BEGIN   '+'='*20
        print 'req ==> [%s] http://%s%s, %s' % (method, settings.ES_SERVER, url, dumps(body, indent=2))

    status_code, response = es.transport.perform_request(method, url, None, body)

    if es_debug:
        print 'status_code <== %s' % status_code
        print 'res <== %s' % dumps(response, indent=2)
        print '='*20+'   ES call END   '+'='*20

    if 200 <= status_code < 300:
        return response

    raise Exception({
        'status_code': status_code,
        'response': response
    })

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Earlier this week, we kicked off the Shooter's Report section of our Nikon Df review, and now the second part has arrived. Imaging Resource reviewer Eamon Hickey has already shared his thoughts on the retro-styled, full-frame DSLR's unusual user interface. Now, he moves on to find out just how it shoots in the real world.
Eamon recently took the Nikon Df for a nighttime stroll down New York's Fifth Avenue, and as well as sharing some of his favorite shots from the evening, he also offers up some images taken on susbsequent shoots in Central Park and Washington Square Park. And the new Nikon Df gallery photos are matched up with Part II of the Nikon Df Shooter's Report, including thoughts on image quality, shooting performance, and battery life.
Watch this space for part three of the Shooter's Report, where Eamon will be taking a look at the camera's viewfinder, LCD monitor, optics, and more -- and in the meantime, read the Nikon Df review to get his verdict on Nikon's smallest FX-format DSLR to date!


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Hargrave church, Suffolk - open. Five other Suffolk churches - locked.
Yesterday a friend and I went on a trip visiting churches in west Suffolk (and straying over the border into east Cambridgeshire). The final score was:
Churches visited: six
Churches open: one
Churches displaying passive-aggressive notices telling visitors to go away: one
The good news first. Hargrave church gets a parsimonious eight lines in Bettley/Pevsner, but it's not only open - a rarity in these plague-ridden times - but rewarding to visit. To start with, like many of my favourite churches it's hidden away down a leafy little track (you have to leave your car and walk the last bit). When you arrive the view above greets you, which is I think you'll agree most attractive. Pause first to enjoy the colours and textures on display (all the better for the bright sun, the luminous blue sky with dapplings of white cloud, and the framing of early autumn foliage). The rich red brick tower, with a stair turret, stubby pinnacles and diagonal buttresses, dates either from 1460 (Historic England), Tudor times (Bettley/Pevsner), or, more precisely, the early 16th century (Statutory listing). The latter must be correct.
Then the rendered nave, with limestone and squared flint buttresses, and the flint chancel. The chancel is 13th century, but so restored that hardly anything original survives. The bifora (two-light window) in the nave is, like the coeval tower, made of brick. The drab slate roof is a disappointment, but you can't have everything.
The south doorway is very simple late Norman, say about 1200. If I remember correctly, the notice on the door effectively says that the church will remain open no matter what.
Walk through the door and you find yourself in an atmospheric interior, full of light (there's no stained glass). There's a friendly-feeling clutter of objects: an organ that once was perhaps the pride of a 1970s sitting room, a tubby Victorian heater in the 1868 north aisle, the old Commandment boards (previously on the wall in the chancel) now propped up by the chancel screen. There's even (maybe not quite so friendly-feeling) a cardboard box of human skulls and other bones on the window ledge under the tower (presumably recently dug up and awaiting a decision what to do with them).
The seven-canted nave roof is a fine sight; it's now ceiled with 19th century ribbed panels.
Bettley/Pevsner don't even mention the 15th century font, which is not, it's true, out of the ordinary, but surely it, together with its pleasing Victorian cover, deserves a look.
Not out of the ordinary, except this one of the eight panels. They're all identical, with a simple shield inside a quatrefoil, but on this side the shield has a distinct lean, as if about to topple over. Why? Was it just a mistake, or is there some arcane reason behind it?
The star attraction of the church is the 15th century chancel screen. From the nave it looks a bit shabby and much patched up, though attractive enough. You look at it before you walk through it into the chancel, and because screens are virtually always designed to be seen from the west rather than the east you hardly think it worth giving it a second glance from behind. However, if you fail to do so you're missing a treat.
In the spandrels are low-relief carvings, all quite spirited and engaging. The first one, on the left, shows a fox anticipating a tasty meal as he's just caught a goose, and some foliage.
The next one has an eagle, and a wyvern.
Here are two flat fish, and two wyverns. All the authorities I've consulted agree that a dragon features o the screen; however, all three of the dragon-like creatures look to me like wyverns as they have serpentine bodies and only two limbs (plus their wings), whereas dragons are four-legged.
The next shows a Pelican in her Piety (a symbol of Christ), and a unicorn. (A poor quality photo - sorry. At least it gives me a good reason to go back.)
A man (presumably a Turk) wearing a turban (you have to tilt it 45 degrees to easily make him out), and more foliage.
All this amounts to a wonderful gallery of late medieval folk art. But why is it on the back of the screen? A mistake during a restoration? This explanation doesn't really convince because if you look at the cusping at the bottom of the main arches on the front of the screen, it's more elaborate on the front, and looks as if it's always been intended to be on the front. Maybe the vicar at the time, who probably paid for it (he would have been responsible for the building, contents and upkeep of the chancel), decided on a whim that he wanted something to look at while he conducted services.
The rood beam, decorated with zigzag and billet moulding, also survives. On it once the rood would have stood - statues of the crucified Christ and attendant figures.
So Hargrave was the only one of the six churches we visited that was open. Actually, that's not quite true; the door of one of the others was wide open, but a meeting (not a service, I don't think, as they were holding clipboards) was in progress and they turned us away. Maybe they were discussing confidential issues, and they told us which days the church was open to visitors, so fair enough. One church I've visited before and found open in the past was locked this time, presumably as an anti-Covid measure.
Most of the locked churches had a sign saying when they were open 'for private prayer'. As I said when writing about Norton church recently, I'd have thought that a simple 'open' would do without specifying what it's open for, but, again, fair enough. However, Ashley church, just over the border in Cambridgeshire, displays this sign:
The first thing to point out about it is the amusing typo (maybe they mean 're-election'? - perhaps they're expecting a visit from Donald Trump). But, much more importantly, there's the attitude displayed, the tone of voice implying the very opposite of hospitality, welcome and friendliness that we might expect to find in a church. I particularly admire the way that the word 'only' is in capitals, underlined AND in italics, to drive home the point that people who just want to look around, and indeed anyone who's not a member of the right 'club', can piss right off. (Are they implying that non-believers are more likely to have the virus than believers?) More generally, the C of E has made a complete hash of the lockdown and its aftermath: surely there can be few safer places than country churches, and surely there's rarely been a time when churches were needed so badly.
It was understandable in the early days that everyone was nervous and over-reacted; it's obviously good to be safe rather than sorry. But surely there's no good reason now why most churches - certainly country churches - should be locked most of the time (which the great majority of them still are). The chances of more than one person (or small party) visiting a church simultaneously is small, and even if they do there's plenty of room for them to keep out of each other's way. The possibility of the virus being spread in these circumstances is remote. Surely churches should be open as often as possible, to provide comfort or just interest to believers and non-believers alike. When so many other places are shut, or hard to access, churches should be places everyone can go, to pray or be quiet or just have a refreshing, inspiring look around. The C of E has washed its hands (or applied bucketloads of sanitiser) of its responsibilities to the nation in this time of crisis. They had a chance to, in a small way, make churches visible or even important to people who don't normally visit them - why not a nationwide campaign with the slogan 'We're open!'? - and they blew it.
I think everyone who knows me would agree that I'm a pretty mild-mannered sort of chap, but, as you might be able to tell, this notice really made me cross.
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Which is better, over the counter Retinol products or prescription Retinol? It depends. Several factors go into this decision. We've tried many prescription and Retinol products at a variety of price points and report on the best features of each so you don't have to live through Retinol trial and error. To determine the best Retinol product plan for your needs, ask yourself the questions below.
Retinol is an absolute game-changer for many skin conditions ranging from acne to sun damage, scarring, discoloration, as well as wrinkles. Retinol, which in prescription form goes by the name Retin-A, comes in cream and gel forms. In the way, way back, Retinol was only available by prescription for severe acne, and in its' original form, it wasn't a pretty process. People tolerated the peeling, itching, irritation, drying and redness for months, waiting for acne-free skin to emerge. And eventually, it did. Meanwhile, many people noticed scars, wrinkles and age spots also disappeared. People wanted Retinol for anti-aging, not just acne.
Now Retinol is readily available, so available that it's difficult to know what to seek in a Retinol product. Key areas to examine are cost, the percentage of Retinol, ability to tolerate the product and its' active ingredients, buffering capabilities and ease of use.
Prescription Retinol brand name and generics are expensive, often $100-150 a tube. Insurance may cover this if you are under 35, but often only for the treatment of acne when prescribed by a dermatologist. If your insurance plan covers Retinol for free or the cost of a co-pay, this could be less expensive than purchasing an over the counter Retinol product.
Prescription Retinols can cost as much as luxury skincare products and often require powerful moisturizers to buffer its' irritating effects.
HOW MUCH RETINOL IS IN THE PRODUCT?
When purchasing a retinol, a good place to start is 2.5% retinol within the product. More than that can be too irritating without much extra benefit, less than that won't accomplish much. Many drugstore creams and lotions contain some retinol, but not as much as 2.5%. Some doctors only prescribe Retinol in very low doses, which won't provide much of a beauty boost. Some prescriptions are too much at 5%, which can irritate all but the hardiest of skin. Prescriptions above the 2.5% range best serve those with severe acne, not those with wrinkles or photodamaged skin.
WHAT ARE THE OTHER ACTIVE INGREDIENTS & DO THEY HELP OR IRRITATE MY SKIN?
Retinol does a great deal for skin, but it can also give a pretty nasty accidentally self-imposed chemical peel, and the results are not pretty. It's easy to give oneself an accidental Retinol chemical peel, because skin starts looking so good, that it is tempting to apply just a bit more. This works for a few days or weeks, until suddenly it doesn't, and your face goes from looking dewy and younger to looking like a bad, bad, bad sunburn.
Even if you only use the prescribed amount of Retinol, skin becomes more sensitive to Retinol after about two weeks. The reason is now the old, dead skin layer is sloughed off, but the new skin is more delicate. Yet the same amount of Retinol is being applied to the skin, and that new skin isn't ready to exfoliate yet. So instead, it becomes red and irritated. Some prescription Retinols come with a creamy base, such as Renova. This creamy base makes the skin surface seem flake-free and dewy, but underneath Retinol is still Retinol, and the skin can suddenly appear red and chapped.
The key to avoiding burning yourself with Retinols, prescription or over the counter, is buffering. To buffer either apply moisturizer first (if you're very sensitive) or after applying Retinol, and don't skimp. Buffering allows for the maximum frequency of Retinol use per week. If you still can't tolerate the peeling and dry skin, apply Retinol for twenty minutes to an hour, then wash it off before bed. This way you at least get some Retinol benefits.
But ideally, your Retinol product comes with built-in buffering moisturizers. We like Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer because it is SO emollient without being greasy. In fact, it's gentle enough to use twice a day every day without redness, irritation or dry, flaky peeling. You won't have to take days off Retinol use due to over-doing it, but it still packs a powerful 2.5% Pure Retinol.
Even if your insurance covers Retinol, the added ingredients in Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer make it an all-in-one product: Retinol plus Vitamin C serum plus moisturizing buffer cream in one easy to apply bottle. No need to wait for the Retinol to dry down before applying moisturizer in the morning or being left sticky by a Vitamin C serum. A product that has everything in one makes skincare much easier.
Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer combines the power of a prescription 2.5% pure Retinol with Vitamin C, Hyaluronic Acid, and several natural moisturizing agents that make it gentle enough to use twice a day with no irritation, peeling or redness. The Aloe Vera, Jojoba, Green Tea and Shea Butter nourish the skin while buffering. It dries down without being sticky, greasy or leaving a film-like residue, make-up and sunscreen can go directly over the cream. Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer also comes at an outstanding price point in a generous 2.8-ounce pump bottle.
We've all heard it: Retinol is a miracle worker of anti-aging, and we see it on the ingredient list in products ranging from cheap drugstore brands to luxury spa products to mass-market chains, dermatologists offices, and all the way to the cosmetic counters at Barneys, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs. What accounts for the differences in efficacy and price? Two factors: the strength of the Retinol and the products other supporting ingredients such as Vitamin C, Hyaluronic Acid, or Jojoba. These Most Valuable Players of skincare are the real test of how well any given Retinol will work for you and if it is worth its' price. Let's take a closer look at some of the ingredients you do – and don't – want to see on a Retinol's ingredient label.
Let's cut to the chase: Is there a Retinol that combines ALL of the good Retinol ingredient pairings? Yes. For an all-in-one Retinol product, we find Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer to be a highly effective combination of ingredients to best support the many skincare benefits of a good Retinol. It combines a prescription strength 2.5% Retinol with 20% Vitamin C Serum, Hyaluronic Acid, along with multiple buffering moisturizers including nourishing Jojoba Oil, calming anti-oxidant Wildcrafted Green Tea, calming Aloe Vera, Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter and many more.
How does each of these ingredients work in tandem with Retinol to increase its' overall efficacy? Here are some details about these key player ingredients.
It seems obvious, but there should be a respectable amount of Retinol in your Retinol product. Prescription levels begin at about 2.5% up to 5%, although some prescriptions are low as 1%. About 2% and up is needed for a Retinol to be effective, but not all Retinol products contain very much Retinol.
Vitamin C Serum is Retinol's BFF, a partner in crime, and all around pal. Vitamin C works in tandem with Retinol to accomplish the same thing but in different ways.
For example, where Retinol refines surface skin texture, Vitamin C builds collagen to strengthen and support the skin so it is as strong as it looks. Retinol fights acne by cleaning out pores and eradicating bacteria-trapping dead skin, Vitamin C reduces acne inflammation and fades post-pimple scarring. Both Retinol and Vitamin C promote collagen, but each is involved at different stages in the collagen production process. Together, they ensure the maximum amount of collagen is produced.
These reasons are why applying Vitamin C and Retinol daily is considered the best anti-aging topical program.
If you have old acne scars or sun damage and had to pick only one other ingredient for an active ingredient product with Retinol, it would likely be Hyaluronic Acid. Hyaluronic Acid is like your friend with VIP access. First, Hyaluronic Acid holds massive amounts of moisture to plump out wrinkles and fine lines while making skin look dewy and young. But more importantly, Hyaluronic Acid also can pull active ingredients deeper into the skin, including Retinol. The deeper these ingredients get, the better the supporting collagen structure becomes, and even older and darker scars fade.
Many treating active ingredients, including Retinol and Vitamin C, have molecules that are too large to permeate these skin layers, but somehow, Hyaluronic Acid can bind with Retinol and bring the Retinol into deep skin layers it could not access alone.
What does all this mean? If you have deep scars, wrinkles, discoloration, sun damage, sagging, or stubborn cystic acne, a Retinol product containing Hyaluronic Acid can assist Retinol to treat those deep skin level problems. When Hyaluronic Acid helps Retinol sink into the deeper skin layers, it helps eradicate uneven skin texture and tone, including sun damage and deep scars.
For all that Retinol can do, it can also give a pretty nasty accidentally, haphazard self-imposed chemical peel, and the results are not pretty. It's easy to give oneself an accidental Retinol chemical peel, because skin starts looking so good, that one might feel applying "more is better", which works for a few days, until suddenly it doesn't, and your face goes from looking dewy and younger to looking like a bad sunburn.
Even if you follow the directions and only use the prescribed amount of Retinol, skin becomes more sensitive to Retinol after about two weeks, because the old skin is sloughed off, and the new skin is more delicate, yet the same level of Retinol is being applied to skin that isn't ready to exfoliate yet. This leads to redness and irritation.
But ideally, your Retinol product comes with built-in buffering moisturizers. We like Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer because it is SO emollient without being greasy. In fact, it's gentle enough to use twice a day without redness, irritation or dry, flaky peeling.
Aloe Vera is best known for burn treatment on the skin, but it is highly nutritious to skin with numerous vitamins that the skin can use topically to enhance cell turnover and repair skin cells.
Shea Butter can be tricky in some products, as inorganic Shea Butters can tend to make skin breakout. Because of this, you may have had a bad experience with Shea, which is unfortunate since it can both feed the skin and overhaul the skin texture, even on deep burns. If you're going to apply a product with Retinol, make sure the Shea Butter is organic, such as is found in Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer.
Cocoa Butter has long been used for stretch marks because it helps skin remain resilient and elastic. Retinol is also excellent for stretch marks, whether they are in the new "red" stage or older "white" stage. If you're interested in Retinol for stretch mark repair, Cocoa Butter is an excellent pairing.
Vitamin B5 helps soothe and regenerate skin.
Vitamin E softens rough skin patches including scars. Retinol refines the texture and fades scarring, while Vitamin E makes the skin more pliable.
Organic Sunflower Oil softens the skin and is an excellent carrier oil. It works well with Retinol because it is so hydrating to the skin and can calm red, irritated skin when other products cannot be tolerated.
Propolis is a bee product, it fights infections and heals wounds. It allows for an aggressive Retinol and Vitamin C cell renewal program without skin becoming too red, irritated, flaky or raw. Some Retinol programs leave skin dry and peeling; the Propolis helps keep skin at its' best. If you are allergic to bee products, take note.
With a line up of moisturizing buffering ingredients like that, you can see why we use Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer. It is gentle enough to use twice a day without any irritation, even on delicate skin. That is an impressive amount of moisturizing ingredients!
There you have it, some of our favorite ingredients for boosting the efficacy of a Retinol product. Pairing Vitamin C helps Retinol do its' job best, Hyaluronic helps Retinol reach the deeper skin layers to fight sagging, build collagen, and fade deeper scars. Moisturizing ingredients that do not cause breakouts are vital to tolerate any Retinol program. The long list of high-quality moisturizing agents in Lordsbury Retinol+C Cream Moisturizer, paired with prescription strength Retinol and 20% Vitamin C makes it an ideal all-in-one product for your Retinol needs.


Amigurumis are a fun, and I must say, very addictive form of crochet. This form of crocheting, and sometimes knitting too, originated in Japan where things in miniature seem to be revered. The order is actually a composite of 2 Japanese words ami, meaning crocheted or knitted, and nuigurumi, meaning stuffed doll.
They are generally made using double knitting yarn with small hooks or needles in relation to the thickness of the yarn, thus creating a close, compact and sturdy fabric.
Jeans cotton blend yarn by YarnArt is perfect for making amigurumis as is Alize Cotton Gold Batik or the plain version of Alize Cotton Gold.
You will find lots of free patterns for a whole array of amigurumis from animals, to characters and Christmas decorations at Amigugmi Today, just click on the pictures below to get to the pattern.


Blanch, and pound in a mortar, half a pound of shelled sweet almonds till they are a smooth paste, adding rose-water as you pound them. They should be done the day before they are wanted. Prepare a pound of loaf-sugai finely powdered, a tea-spoonful of mixed spice, (mace, nutmeg, and cinnamon,) and three-quarters of a pound, of sifted flour. Take fourteen eggs, and separate the whites from the yolks. Leave out seven of the whites, and beat the other seven to a stiff froth. Beat the yolks till very thick and smooth, and then beat the sugar gradually into them, adding the spice. Next stir in the white of egg, then the flour, and lastly the almonds. Add the juice of a large lemon.
Put the mixture into a square tin pan, (well buttered,) or into a copper or tin turban-mould, and set it immediately in a brisk oven. Ice it when cool. It is best if eaten fresh.
You may add a few bitter almonds to the sweet ones.


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The Beckett of Botox, the Rabelais of Restalyn
All writers have one great subject. For Gigi Levangie Grazer, it's the smooth, hairless surfaces of Hollywood.
By Emily Yoffe
Illustration by Matt Kindt.
Gigi Levangie would be the perfect name—so mellifluous, such harkening to Collette's courtesan—for a heroine in a Gigi Levangie Grazer novel. You pick up a novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer precisely because she added that final surname when she married hugely successful movie producer Brian Grazer. The point of one of her Hollywood sagas, or at least the marketing of it, is the conflation of the creator and her characters. When she writes of their obsessive grooming, self-display, random sex—think of bonobos with mansions and Maseratis—she is welcoming you into her world.
As her characters find out in book after book, it's a cruel place for women. At least for women who define themselves by their looks and the man they are able to nab, which is the central drama of a GLG novel. But even when she was overseeing with her husband the building and decorating of homes whose cumulative square footage rivaled that of a sporting arena, Grazer cultivated the persona of a woman apart: a tart social observer who neglected her duties as keeper of his social calendar, who couldn't resist a cutting remark about herself and everyone else. Not long after the publication of The Starter Wife, about a smart, sassy woman abandoned by her jerk of a Hollywood-producer husband, Gigi was dumped by Brian. So it must have been delicious for her to type the opening words to her latest novel, The After Wife: "Hi, my name is Hannah … and I'm a widow."
This seems like the juicy setup for a real revenge novel. How much fun it would be to off a fictional husband who'd, say, sported an electrified updo and was extravagantly neurotic. Maybe she would have him die of anaphylactic shock after applying a new brand of hair gel.
But Grazer instead delivers, disappointingly, the most unlikely of Hollywood fantasies: The dead husband was the perfect man. John Bernal was a chef, a sensual monogamist who liked nothing better than feeding his wife because he adored her body so much he thought there should be more of it. He was a successful cookbook author cum stay-at-home father to their precocious toddler. He had an adorable little roll of belly fat and a chest full of hair. That last trait is particularly wondrous in L.A., which is, as Hannah observes, "a magical place where the men have less body hair than the women." (I will acknowledge this sent me to Google images where I found this photo of Brian Grazer's fat-free physique, his chest as hairless as a Xoloitzcuintli.)
One Saturday morning John wakes up Hannah, makes fabulous love to her, takes off for the farmers' market, and gets killed by a hit-and-run driver. Sure, this is a wrenching setup. But if you are planning to take this book to the beach, beware it might get your towel soggy; for almost 300 pages Hannah bawls, blubbers, wails, and weeps. A reader loses sympathy when the distraught widow describes her late husband's service: "With as much dignity and balance as I could muster on Louboutin stilettos (a funeral gift from Uncle Jay) I made the most glamorous entrance of my life, as though this were the movie version of 'My Husband's Funeral' starring Hannah Marsh Bernal."
Slate's Mark O'Connell recently wrote a piece praising artists who obsessively return to a theme, like Samuel Beckett writing about the same "insistent and bewildered" characters. Gigi Levangie Grazer is the Beckett of Botox, the Rabelais of Restalyn, the Rimbaud of rhinoplasty. The problem is that while she can give a follicle-by-follicle, pore-by-pore accounting of her heroine's surface, it's hard to find the blood and guts inside. A Grazer novel generally features, in addition to that Grazerian heroine—lovably flawed and sharp-tongued—a cadre of ditzy-yet-stalwart gal pals and a flamboyant gay best friend. I understand the purpose of Grazer's oeuvre is diversion, not depth. But couldn't the characters be recognizably human and not just a checklist of stereotypes (vegan, faux-Buddhist health nut; pushy, pneumatic bleach-blonde)?
I want a novel like this to be a lemon soufflé, an airy indulgence with a bracingly tart edge. But The After Wife is more like a bowl of cornstarch pudding. Winston Churchill once pushed away a dessert by saying, "This pudding lacks a theme." Grazer's pudding has a theme: Is a grieving widow in her early 40s too old by L.A. standards to ever find a sex partner again? (Spoiler: Not when the heroine so resembles the much-written-about Gigi Levangie Grazer.) What her book lacks is a plot.
There's the opportunity for one. While Hannah struggles with the downside of grief (crying makes her face looks puffy and old) and the upside (she goes down a dress size because she can't eat), she discovers that her loss has given her the ability to speak to the dead. First she hears from the elderly widow who previously occupied her home. Then it is John himself, floating near their avocado tree, not quite ready to give up the ghost. Premise established, Grazer then delivers a series of set pieces, many involving bodily manipulations: the high colonic, the vaginal steam, the tattoo parlor.
She nods at a story, but for much of the book seems to lose interest in it, in favor of more descriptions of crying and exfoliating. It turns out the cops have screwed up their investigation of the hit-and-run that killed John. From the beyond, John tells Hannah they've got the wrong man, an illegal alien who came upon the scene and comforted John, and who then fled when the cops arrived. John says a driver in a Land Rover was the actual assailant. This seems like a recipe for some desperately needed tension: a widow, aided by her dead husband, trying to convince the police they've got it wrong. Then I remembered that's basically the plot of Ghost, so maybe Grazer didn't want to appear to be cribbing.
I don't object to these travels into the supernatural—in the world of Gigi Levangie Grazer, the natural is not highly valued. But Ghost, The Sixth Sense, and other entertainments based on visits from the dead require that the writer create a world in which the implausible is believable. It's a lot easier to accept that Hannah can reliably call forth the departed and convey messages from them to their living loved ones than that Hannah, a reality-show producer now in dire financial straits, wouldn't immediately recognize this skill was more marketable than a Silicon Valley IPO. I kept wanting to scream at Hannah that she should star in her own television series—call it Talking Deads and set that precocious toddler up for life.
Grazer is clever and gets off some good lines. Hannah acknowledges she can be a little hard to take and says, "The men who found me attractive tended to be deaf in one ear." Later she notes a woman across the bar with "lips for miles," thanks to having her plastic surgeon on speed dial. "Age is just a state of blind in L.A." I started thinking Grazer's métier could be doing television commentary on the entertainment industry—she'd have a zinger about every cosmetic procedure, every sexual peccadillo.
Author Gigi Levangie Grazer.
Photo by David Hume Kennerly.
Grazer, who's in her 40s, hints at the terror behind the obsessively maintained surfaces. If you look at her photograph on her website—with her brow as smooth as a skating rink, her perfectly tousled espresso-colored hair, her dress that's an overgrown bustier—you get the sense she knows it well. Take Hannah's friend, Aimee, an actress as beautiful as Angelina Jolie who has spent her whole life, Miss Havisham-like, waiting for the role that will transform her from the woman in the shampoo commercial into a star. But now she's in her 40s, and she spends her dwindling money on ever more destructive methods of trying to stay young. Los Angeles is filled with such object lessons. Grazer uses her as a comic foil, her face constantly healing from some procedure. But she missed an opportunity to flesh out a character whose break never came.
It's too bad Grazer has made the search for romance her singular obsession as a writer. I know Hollywood's business is fantasy, but Grazer's happy-ending fairy tales are much less interesting than the real Hollywood she must know so well. The Hollywood where obsessive ambition, ego, and insecurity tectonically crash. Certainly Grazer has seen up close that every successful person there worries that the magic will disappear, that the audience will fall in love with someone else. Instead of showing us how desperate single women are, and how entitled that makes single men, she could have taken us inside the sometimes dirty business of creating reality shows. (She knows the territory, having appeared on some herself.)
Instead, Grazer has Hannah view her producing career as a slightly shameful way to make a living. But Gigi Levangie Grazer isn't embarrassed about writing lightweight chick lit. No one in Hollywood, after all, is embarrassed by success.
The After Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer. Ballantine Books.
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Mount Lewis Demographics (NSW) Local Stats
Mount Lewis (2190) is a suburb of Sydney, Canterbury/Bankstown, New South Wales. It is about 16 kms from NSW's capital city of Sydney. Mount Lewis is in the federal electorate of Watson.
In the 2011 census the population of Mount Lewis was 1,104 and is comprised of approximately 53.1% females and 46.9% males.
The median/average age of the population of Mount Lewis is 35 years of age.
53.1% of people living in the suburb of Mount Lewis were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 17.8% Lebanon, 3.2% Vietnam, 3.1% Greece, 2.7% Syria, 1.4% New Zealand, 1.2% Pakistan, 1.1% China , 0.9% Croatia, 0.8% Cyprus, 0.8% Micronesia, Federated States of, 0.8% England, 0.7% Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , 0.6% Italy, 0.6% Fiji.
44.3% of people living in Mount Lewis speak Arabic. The other top languages spoken are 24.9% English only, 8.5% Greek, 5.6% Vietnamese, 3.7% Language spoken at home not stated, 2.1% Other, 1.4% Cantonese, 1.3% Croatian, 1.3% Samoan, 1.1% Urdu.
The religious makeup of Mount Lewis is 36.9% Catholic, 24.2% Islam, 15.3% Eastern Orthodox, 5.3% Anglican, 3.8% Religious affiliation not stated, 3.4% No religion, 2.4% Buddhism, 1.8% Other Religious Groups, 1.4% Uniting Church, 1.4% Pentecostal.
53.4% of people are married, 32.0% have never married and 6.6% are divorced and 3.6% are separated. There are 39 widowed people living in Mount Lewis.
53.3% of the people living in Mount Lewis over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 25.8% are working on a part time basis. Mount Lewis has an unemployment rate of 10.2%.
The main occupations of people living in Mount Lewis are 17.5% Technicians & trades workers, 17.2% Professionals, 14.7% Clerical & administrative workers, 14.1% Managers, 10.5% Labourers, 9.3% Sales workers, 6.8% Machinery operators & drivers, 6.5% Community & personal service workers, 3.4% Occupation inadequately described/ Not stated.
The main industries people from Mount Lewis work in are 13.1% Retail trade, 12.0% Manufacturing, 11.7% Construction, 9.7% Health care and social assistance, 7.1% Inadequately described/Not stated, 6.9% Other services, 6.3% Professional, scientific and technical services, 5.7% Accommodation and food services, 5.1% Education and training.
The median rent in Mount Lewis is $313 per week and the median mortgage repayment is $2500 per month.
Check out FY 2013 Tax Stats for Mount Lewis postcode 2190
Nearby Locations Greenacre, Bankstown, Punchbowl, Wiley Park, Yagoona
Qpzm LocalStats New South Wales Suburb of the Day: Bellingen 2454 -> North Coast -> New South Wales


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As parents of identical twins will tell you, they are never actually identical, even though they have the same genes. This is also true in the plant world. Now, new research by the University of Cambridge is helping to explain why 'twin' plants, with identical genes, grown in identical environments continue to display unique characteristics all of their own.
Plant scientists at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) have built a gene expression atlas that maps the 'noisy genes' of genetically identical plants. The research, published today in Molecular Systems Biology, found that around 9% of the genes in otherwise identical plants are highly variable in the way that they behave. Interestingly, many of these highly variable (noisiest) genes help a plant respond to its environment, including genes involved in reacting to light, temperature, pathogens and nutrients.
This variation in gene behaviour could be useful in nature for populations of genetically similar plants to hedge against environmental stress such as drought, high salinity or extreme temperatures. This means that there will always a few plants in the population that are prepared to survive different stresses due to their variable gene behaviours (hedging their bets). But this variability can also be a problem, such as in agriculture where environments are more controlled and farmers want uniform crops that germinate and flower at the same time and respond equally to applications of fertilisers and water.
Dr Sandra Cortijo, from the Locke Group at SLCU, is researching how gene expression is regulated and what causes some genes to be expressed in unpredictable ways. To examine this, Cortijo took on the mammoth task of measuring global levels of noise in gene expression in a single plant species. Using genetically identical plants, she measured the expression of all their individual genes over a 24-hour period.
'For our model plant, we used seedlings of a small wild brassica relative, called thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), which is most commonly seen growing as a weed in the cracks of pavements,' Cortijo said. 'We performed RNA-sequencing on individual seedlings every two hours over a 24-hour period and analysed the variability for 15,646 individual genes in the plant's genome.
As part of the study, Cortijo also identified factors that might increase gene expression variability. Highly variable genes tend to be shorter, to be targeted by a higher number of other genes (transcription factors) and to be characterised by a 'closed' chromatin environment (which is an environment that allows gene expression to be altered by attaching additional molecules during the gene reading process (transcription) without actually changing a cell's DNA).
'These results shed new light on the impact of transcriptional variability in gene expression regulation in plants and can be used as a foundation for further studies into how noisy genes are connected with how plants respond to their environment,' Cortijo said. 'Plants are a wonderful system to work with when looking at how genes are regulated in response to environmental changes as they cannot move and thus have to continually sense and respond to environmental changes.
This research was supported by a fellowship from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The Locke Group is also further supported by the European Research Council.
AraNoisy is a web-based tool for accessing inter-individual transcriptional variability in Arabidopsis thaliana, throughout a 24-hour diurnal cycle. Gene expression variability for individual genes of interest can be viewed here.
Spot the difference: Genetically identical thale cress plants grown under the exact same environmental conditions show significant visible differences. Could this be due to variable gene expression?


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Die Waffenrüstung Gottes (griechisch ) oder geistliche Waffenrüstung ist eine Metapher aus dem sechsten Kapitel des Epheserbriefs. Der Autor ruft die Empfänger auf, sich sechs Tugenden anzueignen, um dem Bösen beziehungsweise den Angriffen des Teufels () zu widerstehen, und verwendet eine militärische Rüstung als Bild dafür.

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Die Teile der Rüstung sind von der Ausrüstung Römischer Legionäre inspiriert. Dementsprechend werden die Schuhe oft als Caligae interpretiert. Der Autor könnte den Text sogar in Gegenwart eines solchen Soldaten geschrieben haben, denn er bezeichnet sich in  als "Gesandter in Ketten" und der mutmaßliche Autor des Epheserbriefes Paulus war zeitweise in Rom im Gefängnis.

Fünf der sechs Teile dienen dem Schutz und der Verteidigung. Die einzige Angriffswaffe ist das Schwert, das für das Wort Gottes steht. Vorbild dafür war der Pugio der Legionäre.

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Der Prophet Jesaja schreibt, "[Der Herr] zog Gerechtigkeit an wie einen Panzer und setzte den Helm des Heils auf sein Haupt und zog an das Gewand der Rache und kleidete sich mit Eifer wie mit einem Mantel" () als Reaktion auf die Ungerechtigkeit der Menschen.

Das Buch der Weisheit, eine Spätschrift des Alten Testaments, enthält eine ähnliche Auflistung von Rüstungsteilen:

In  beschreibt Jesus sein Verhältnis gegenüber Satan und, dass er ihm dessen Waffenrüstung abnehmen werde.

Auch im Römerbrief fordert Paulus die Empfänger auf, "die Waffen des Lichts anzulegen", vorbildlich zu leben und "den Herrn Jesus Christus anzuziehen" ().

Das Wort Gottes wird auch in  und  sowie  mit einem zweischneidigen Schwert verglichen.

Rezeption
Entsprechend der evangelischen Perikopenordnung gehört der Abschnitt Eph 6,10–17 zu den vorgeschlagenen Texten am 21. Sonntag nach Trinitatis im Kirchenjahr. Die katholische Leseordnung enthält für Sonntage im Jahreskreis den Epheserbrief nur bis Kapitel 5, aber für Wochentage Eph 6,10–20 am Donnerstag der 30. Woche im Lesejahr II.

Die vollständige Waffenrüstung Gottes oder einzelne Teile wie der Helm des Heils oder der Schild der Glaubens sind vielfach in religiöser Kunst abgebildet, zum Beispiel in Bleiglasfenstern, Gemälden und Verzierungen von Portalen.

The Sword Project ist nach dem Schwert aus der Waffenrüstung benannt.

Während der Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten, wurden Bücher oft als "Schwert des Geistes" bezeichnet. Die Abteilung Schrifttum des Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda verwendete die Analogie für die von ihr von 1940 bis 1943 herausgegebene Schriftenreihe Das Buch ein Schwert des Geistes. Grundliste für den deutschen Leihbuchhandel.

Weblinks

 Literatur mit Bezug zur Waffenrüstung Gottes im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Einzelnachweise

Biblisches Thema
Epheserbrief
Perikope des Neuen Testaments