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Josette Norris Wraps Up Her First European Adventure in Zurich
Young pro runners often spend their summers competing in Europe. For some, like Norris, the racing and the travel are at a new level.
September 9, 2021 Hannah Borenstein
Josette Norris of the United States in action during the 1 mile for women race during the Wanda Diamond League 2021 Memorial Van Damme Athletics competition at King Baudouin Stadium on September 3, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images
The N1 ferry line departs from Lausanne, Switzerland, every hour and twenty minutes. It takes about 30 minutes to get to Eviana—a quaint French town, known for its eponymous brand of bottled water, that lies opposite Lausanne across Lake Geneva. On August 24, two days before Josette Norris went on to finish third in the 1500 meters (4:03.27) at her second Diamond League meet, she and her fiancé, Robby Andrews, took the nautical voyage over the lake for lunch.
"When I heard it was a possibility I told Robby to book the tickets immediately," she says. Andrews was prepared to take a nap, but Norris was overly energized, "How could I not want to go to France for lunch?"
The Diamond League is an annual series of track meets held mostly in European cities throughout the summer. Getting invited to those starting lines is prestigious and an important step in young track runners' lives, bringing the best from around the world to go head-to-head at various stops on the circuit.
After an exceptional break-out season in which she lowered her 5,000-meter time to 14:51.32 and her 1500-meter to 3:59.72, Norris, 25, got the call to head overseas. It's not just her first Diamond League campaign, but the first time she's ever left the United States.
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She seems to be coping with the novelties of training, racing, and embracing new cultural and culinary experiences, just fine.
We all sat down together in Lausanne after that first race, where she and Andrews, who is also a pro runner but not competing this season, began a slideshow on their phones detailing their French adventure. A few pictures of crystal boat ride views. Some with an engagement ring prominently displayed. They showed me one of Norris drinking an espresso, "I wanted an Americano but I didn't know how to say 'hot water,' so I just ended up drinking an espresso," she says.
They told me of a few other minor misadventures. She tried to order a crispy chicken sandwich with French fries and a salad, but because the café owner did not speak a word of English, that didn't work out as planned, either. She ended up with a veggie burger, but gladly ate it anyway. "Now I want to learn French," she says.
Athletes are always adapting, though, whether it's to linguistic barriers, unfamiliar cultures, or a new level of competition. And Norris's extended 2021 track season has meant welcoming novelty at every step.
She's been outspoken about her rocky road in the NCAA, where she struggled with injuries for extended stretches of eligibility. Then, she turned pro during a pandemic with few racing opportunities. In the spring of 2021, however, she ran her fastest 5,000-meter, becoming one of the top 10 fastest American women of all time in the event. She unexpectedly entered the Olympic Trials as a favorite, but had a disappointing performance in the final, placing eighth.
With Tokyo off the table, Norris quickly set new objectives for her season and she's gone on to prove she can mix it up with the best in the world. In Brussels, Norris finished sixth in a competitive mile, running 4:22.71 and securing her spot in the Zurich final. In the final on September 9, she finished an incredible third behind Sifan Hasan and Faith Kipyegon, in 4:00.41.
"I'm so happy," she said directly after the race. "My goal was to get third. I thought if I can get third behind two of the best milers in the world, that's gonna be a good day."
As new challenges and expectations arrived, she's adjusted readily by, for example, ceding control of her lunch orders in a foreign country.
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The Diamond League: A Shared Adventure
Norris is not alone, though. She credits her partner, Andrews, for helping her adjust to ever changing expectations, accompanying her on her first overseas trip.
"It's really cool to see her embrace everything," Andrews, 30, says. "When I first came over here to race I just stayed in my room the whole time."
He's helping her avoid some of his own early career mistakes, like arriving in Europe in the morning—exactly the wrong time for a runner who wants to quickly adapt to the time change. Andrews remembers that he nearly slept through his first race, just 21 years old at the time.
"I did not get third in either of those first two races," he says. It can be difficult to manage the business at hand while having fun abroad, but finding a sweet spot can yield results.
"I can't imagine doing any of this alone at 21," Norris says. "I'm just so lucky to have Robby here with me. Maybe I would have taken the boat to France by myself, but it wouldn't have been as fun."
Andrews represented the U.S. at the 2016 Olympic Games in the 1500 meters, and won the 2017 USA Outdoor title the following year. Since then, he has had a few unfortunate physical setbacks that kept him from the kind of training that would have been necessary for a real shot at another Olympic team. In the spring, he found the role of supporter a better use of his time.
"Being so far off the mark myself made it easier to just completely support her," Andrews says. "It was easy for me to say, 'I don't need to do all of this for me right now,' especially because I see and understand the prospect of what Josette was on the verge of, it was easy for me to focus on that."
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When he rhetorically posed the question, "Now, is it going to be like this forever?"
Norris jumped in, "No, definitely not." She thinks with another year of solid training, he can be back on top. In fact, Norris's fearless goal chasing has reminded Andrews of what's critical to succeed in track and field.
"She's taught me it's OK to have big dreams. I've had so much failure in the past three years, but to see someone not have the perfect NCAA career, or have the smoothest first professional year, but then watch her as her expectations and everything change… it makes me think 'It's OK, I can want to make my next Olympic team at 32,'" he says.
After Lausanne (and a brief trip to France), the couple headed to Leuven, Belgium, for a training camp ahead of the Brussels Diamond League meet. There, they set aside time for coffee and waffle expeditions in between training sessions. And after both races Andrews surprised Norris with different local chocolate milk after each race—for recovery and yet another chance to sample something both countries are known for.
After French-speaking Switzerland and Dutch Belgium, Norris encountered German-speaking Zurich in her final race of the track season, squaring off against the most elite field she has faced yet.
"My strategy was to stay way more patient and way more calm than in previous races to have a final gear. To finish the Diamond League final in third… what a way to end the season," Norris said.
Though her season is over, her European trip is not quite yet done. Norris and Andrews are heading over to Lake Como in Italy, to the town of Varenna, before heading back to the States—a well-earned set of new experiences without the pressure of balancing top-tier races.
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A third American is listed among the 150 people killed in the crash of a German airliner in the French Alps, where investigators are still searching for as second black box.
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Family and friends of the mother and daughter from Virginia, Yvonne and Emily Selke, who were killed in the crash of a German airliner in the French Alps described the victims as "caring, amazing" people.
Rescue workers sift through debris on the mountain slopes March 25, 2015, after the crash of the Germanwings Airbus A320 over the French Alps.(Photo: French Interior Ministry)
Evidence collected from the cockpit voice recorder of the crashed German airliner indicates one pilot left the cockpit before the plane began its descent and was unable to get back in, according to media reports.
The New York Times cited a senior military official involved with the investigation who described audio recovered from the black box recorder.
"The guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer," the investigator told the newspaper. "And then he hits the door stronger and no answer. … You can hear he is trying to smash the door down."
Agence France-Presse, citing a source close to the investigation, reported that the recordings picked up the sound of someone pushing a seat back and the door of the cockpit opening and closing.
AFP's source further noted that there was no conversation from when the knocking began to the time of the crash. An alarm indicating how close the ground was before impact could also be heard on the recording, the source said.
The reports raised grave new questions about the cause of the crash, which killed all 150 people aboard the Germanwings Airbus A320 flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf that went down in rugged Alps terrain of France. Officials said air controllers heard no distress call from the jet and that the pilots did not respond to radio communications as it descended into the mountains.
A third American was listed Wednesday among the 150 people killed in the crash. Investigators searched five acres of debris for a second black box they hoped would explain why the Airbus A320 made an unexpected descent, without warning, into the towering mountains.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki confirmed the additional American fatality but did not identify the victim.
Two Americans were listed earlier by French officials as among those killed aboard the plane that went down en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf.
They were identified as Yvonne Selke, a contract worker for Booz Allen Hamilton for nearly 23 years, and her daughter, Emily Selke, a 2013 graduate of Drexel University. They were from Nokesville, Va.
"Our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of Yvonne and Emily Selke," the family said in a statement. "Two wonderful, caring, amazing people who meant so much to so many. At this difficult time we respectfully ask for privacy and your prayers."
Emily Selke, a recent Drexel University graduate and her mother, Yvonne Selke, were among the three Americans presumed dead in the plane crash in the southern French Alps, according to the U.S. State Department. (Photo: 2013 photo by Xela Batchelder via AP)
Officials investigating the crash of the airliner said they have been able to extract critical audio data from one badly damaged black box and were anxious to locate the second box, which contains electronic data.
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Asked if there was any hints as to the cause of the crash from the scraps of "usable audio" on the cockpit recorder, Remi Jouty, director of France's aviation investigative agency, said it was too soon even to say whether the captain or the co-pilot is speaking on the recording.
Investigators and government officials, including at the White House, said they have found no link to terrorism but conceded that it was too early to make any determination about the cause of the crash Tuesday.
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"We cannot completely rule out terrorism, but it is not considered the most likely explanation at the moment," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French news media. "We need to let the investigation do its work."
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Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, likewise told reporters Wednesday that there is "no concrete evidence that third parties were involved in the causes of the crash," Reuters reported.
The mystery is particularly striking because the crew of the Germanwings plane, in the final radio transmission to air traffic controllers, did not indicate any problems with the aircraft that almost immediately began dropping from 38,000 feet to below 6,000 within 10 minutes over the towering Alps.
A photograph released by the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis shows the cockpit voice recorder from the Germanwings Airbus A320 aircraft. (Photo: BEA via AFP/Getty Images)
"We still cannot understand what happened yesterday," said Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa, which owns the low-cost airline."Lufthansa has never in its history lost an aircraft in cruise flight. We cannot understand how an airliner that was in perfect technical condition, with two experienced Lufthansa pilots, was involved in such a terrible accident."
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Among the victims were 72 Germans and 35 Spaniards. There were two victims each from Australia, Argentina, Iran and Venezuela. One each came from Britain, the Netherlands, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Denmark, Belgium and Israel.
Thomas Winkelmann, CEO of Germanwings, said the list is not complete because the airline is trying to contact relatives of 27 victims. He also said that the nationality of some victims is unclear, partly because of dual citizenship. The dead included two infants, two opera singers and 16 German high school students.
The list of nationalities was released as search-and-recovery operations resumed.
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"The accident site is difficult to reach," said Jouty. "(Five acres) is a lot but not immense. If we go through it carefully, we will find the (other) recorder. Those are designed to withstand serious crashes."
Despite conflicting reports, including one from French President Francois Hollande that at least parts of the second recorder had been found, Jouty said it was still missing.
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"We have not located the black box," he said."We have not found any debris of the black box. And in the history of air accidents, we know of boxes that are very damaged, but I don't remember any recorder broken into pieces."
Alps crash 'a picture of horror'
Lufthansa planned to fly relatives of the victims to a family assistance center near the crash site on Thursday. Spohr said the accident had caused "terrible pain."
French President Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy flew by helicopter to the operations base in the village of Seyne-les-Alpes near the crash site to pay their respects to the victims and to greet search teams.
Contributing: William M. Welch
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Kawkaba
Village Before 1948
Occupation and depopulation
Israeli Settlements on Village Lands
The Village Today
Kawkaba — كَوْكَبا
Subdistrict
Average Elevation
Distance from Gaza
1944/45 680 680
Land Ownership (1944/45) in dunums
1944/45 8386 156 8542
Land Use (1944/45) in dunums
Non-Cultivable & Built-up (Total)
Non-Cultivable 14 153 167
Built-up 40 40
54 153 207 (2%)
Cultivable (Total)
Cereal 8166 3 8169
Plantation and Irrigable 166 116
8332 3 8335 (98%)
Number of Houses (1931)
The village was situated on an uneven stretch of red-brown soil on the southern coastal plain. It lay on a highway constructed by the British during World War II, which paralleled and fed the coastal highway and passed through Gaza and Julis. The site was known during the Crusades as Coquebel. In 1596 Kawkab, a site identified with Kawkaba, was a village with 88 people. It paid taxes on wheat, barley, sesame, fruit trees, and vineyards.
The modem village was built around the middle of the nineteenth century on the site of a khirba that bore the same name. In the late 1800s, the village of Kawkaba had a rectangular layout along the above-mentioned road, and expanded north-south alongside it; it had a well to the west and a pool to the north. Kawkaba shared an elementary school with the villages of Bayt Tima and Hulayqat. Its houses were made of adobe and cement, and its shops were located at the village center, on the western side of the road. On its eastern lands were two water sources: a spring and a 70-m-deep well. The inhabitants of Kawkaba, who were Muslims, engaged in rainfed agriculture, cultivating grain and winter and summer vegetables. Toward the end of the Mandate they also cultivated fruits, such as figs and grapes, on all their lands except those to the west. In 1944/45 a total of 8,166 dunums was allotted to cereals; 166 dunums were irrigated or used for orchards.
Kawkaba contained an archeological site with a pool, cisterns, the foundations of buildings, columns, and severed capitals. North of it was Khirbat Kamas, which was identified with the Crusader Camsa and which yielded some archaeological artifacts.
Israeli historian Benny Morris writes that the villagers fled westwards to Gaza on 13 May 1948, as a result of the destruction of the nearby village of Burayr, which was carried out during Operation Barak . But some inhabitants seem to have remained in Kawkaba, for the History of the Haganah claims that the villagers left in October 1948, during Operation Yoav.
The war reached Kawkaba well before these events, however. The Palestinian newspaper Filastin reported that a clash took place on 11 January on the road outside the village. The clash erupted when an armed Jewish convoy was attacked by Arab fighters, who lost one man in the two-hour skirmish.
An Egyptian account complements the Israeli versions of Kawkaba's occupation, claiming that the village was first occupied by Israel on 14 June 1948, in violation of the first truce of the war. Egyptian author Muhammad Abd al-Mun'im writes that the villagers were expelled at this time. Relying on Egyptian official records, he adds that Kawkaba was recaptured on 8 July by the Egyptian Second Infantry Battalion, with the help of a Saudi company, just as the first truce was ending. It apparently remained in Arab hands until the end of the second truce, on 18–19 October. The New York Times reported that, on 20 October, the Israeli army announced the capture of Kawkaba, along with Bayt Tima and Hulayqat. Thus, the village changed hands no less than three times in the course of the war, and the inhabitants were probably displaced in stages.
The settlement of Kokhav Mikha'el was founded in 1950 on village lands, southeast of the village site.
The site is overgrown with sycamore and Christ's-thorn trees. The old road, as well as crumbled walls and debris in a wooded part of the site are clearly visible. The land in the vicinity is cultivated by Israeli farmers.
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The Princess Royal toured the Irish Lights Vessel Granuaile and some of Dublin's great Irish lighthouses including the Baily Lighthouse, Rockabill and The Kish Lighthouse, as well as learning more about Irish Lights' work providing vital maritime safety services and modern navigation aids at the organisation's Dun Laoghaire headquarters.


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Tuesday Highlands Round-Up: Boys Tennis Doubles Team to Play for Region Crown
Baseball Defeats Cooper
Contributed Photo. Highlands senior Peter Laskey made it to the state tournament driving to the 9th Region semifinals at Covington Catholic.
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The Highlands Bluebirds boys tennis team qualified has qualified one singles player and a doubles team for the state tournament so far in the 9th Region Tournament.
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The top-seeded Highlands doubles team of freshmen Eli Back and Eli Hornsby will take on Covington Catholic's Ryan Bosh and Andrew Kennedy in the region championship at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The semifinalists qualify for state at the University of Kentucky June 1-3.
Back and Hornsby beat third-seeded Kalei Christensen and Alex Yeager 6-4, 6-7 (7), 1 (3) to make it to the title game. In the quarterfinals, they beat a team from Ryle, 6-3, 6-1 and a team from Beechwood, 6-1, 6-1 in the second round to make it to the semifinals.
The second doubles team of seniors Matthew Erickson and Joss Finseth beat a team from Newport Central Catholic, 6-0, 6-0 in the second round, but could not get past second-seeded Villa Madonna's Joey Case and Matthew Marlette in the quarterfinals losing 6-4, 4-6, 1 (4).
Highlands senior Peter Laskey made it to state in singles. He took out an opponent from Conner, 6-0, 6-0 in the second round before beating an opponent from Dixie Heights by the same score in the quarterfinals. Laskey lost to the top seed in the tournament in Covington Catholic freshman Brady Hussey, 6-2, 6-1 in the semifinals.
Sophomore John Laskey won his second-round match over a Holy Cross opponent, 6-2, 6-4. But the third-seeded Jackson Poulos of Covington Catholic beat him 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals.
Highlands can not win the team crown with 11 points. Covington Catholic has clinched that with 13 points.
The Highlands girls continue the 9th Region Tournament on Wednesday. Junior Honor Valentine and Oliva Hoffmann play in the singles quarterfinals at 5 p.m.
Baseball:
Highlands 5, Cooper 1:
The Bluebirds (17-13 overall) won their fourth in a row at Highland Park against the struggling Jaguars (6-23).
"I wouldn't say it was pretty. But we made enough plays, made enough pitches and had enough hits," said Jeremy Baioni, Highlands Head Coach. "But it's still a win. You'll take it when you're playing 9th Region teams. When you're getting guys out there and giving them opportunities, you'll take a win whenever you can get it."
Senior Jake Gulley (3-1) pitched into the fifth inning before senior Dom Robinson finished it. Gulley struck out eight, walked four and allowed two hits and one unearned run. Robinson struck out two and allowed two hits.
"Our streaks have mainly come down to pitching," Gulley said. "You can tell when our pitchers throw strikes, our offense likes to respond to that, same with our defense. When we put that together, we're beating good teams."
Highlands made one error and left eight on base. Cooper left seven on base and made no errors.
The Bluebirds batted .217 (5-for-23) in the win. Gulley went 2-for-2 with senior Owen Carris going 2-for-4 with two runs batted in and a run scored. Senior Jason Noe scored twice.
Highlands plays host to Conner on Thursday. Game time is 5 p.m.
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February / March 1978 - catching up with mates - "Did you see Blondie on Top of the Pops last night?".
"Yes, gorgeous wasn't she".
Although the single, "Denis" I recall, was tremendous it was the fact that Debbie Harry was the answer to every young male's dreams which caused the stir.
"(I Am Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear", followed and Blondie were well and truly on the radar.
The same year, "Parallel Lines" was released containing a string of hit singles including "Hanging On The Telephone", "Picture This" and "Heart Of Glass"
Still one of my favourite albums. It also contains a cover of the Buddy Holly tune "I'm Gonna Love You Too" and the hypnotic "Fade Away and Radiate".
A friend managed to get us tickets in the tenth row at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1978 and every red blooded male thought that Debbie Harry was deliberately blinding them when she came on stage in a mirror-coat to sing "Fade Away And Radiate".
Keith Moon had just passed and I recall Clem Burke wrecked his drum kit in tribute.
More hits followed over the next couple of years.
"The Tide Is High", "Call Me", "Atomic", "Dreaming","Union City Blue" and perhaps most eye-openingly "Rapture", which proved that white girls can rap with the best of them.
In 1982, the band split due to the usual stuff - drug use, financial mismanagement and member implosion.
Debbie re-branded to Deborah Harry, and had a couple of solo projects.
Clem Burke became an in-demand session drummer and played for a while with the Eurythmics.
Chris Stein was looked after by then partner Deborah Harry during his trials with pemphigus (an auto-immune disease of the skin).
Nothing occured musically until 1997 when Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Jimmy Destri and Clem Burke reconvened.
The "No Exit" album appeared and from this a typically good Blondie single , "Maria" reached #1 - 20 years after "Heart Of Glass" had given Blondie their first chart-topping hit.
Still making music and touring, Blondie were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Unfortunately, a spat occurred between the current band members and original members, Nigel Harrison and Frank Infante.
Recently, Blondie released some more (generally pretty good) new material on "Ghosts of Download" which was packaged with an album of remastered remixes of the hits to celebrate their 40th Anniversary.
A magnificent 2014 appearance on the Other Stage at Glastonbury confirmed that Debbie Harry and Blondie still have "IT", which cannot be a bad thing.
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Crestview Tower is Making Waves
Broadstreet's first concrete structure, Crestview Tower, is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after rental spots in Campbell River, B.C. on Vancouver Island. Its Pacific Ocean views, mountainous landscapes, and quick access to some of the best outdoor activities in Canada make it a destination to be explored.
The Tower's 12-storey concrete structure features 80 two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartments, all with a beautiful, open-concept kitchen, a private outdoor patio, in-suite laundry, and access to an on-site gym, community lounge, community gardens, and a dog run exclusive to the rental community. Two levels of underground parking and spectacular views bookend this rental experience.
"On Vancouver Island, being outdoors is an important part of day-to-day life," says Chris Thompson, Broadstreet Marketing Manager. "Crestview Tower is not only located in the mecca of outdoor activity on the Island, but also offers a welcoming community feel. As the tallest building on the north Island, every suite offers its own outdoor space to enjoy views and soak in the fresh mountain air. It's a great way to experience the Island lifestyle."
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Were you in motion when you took this?
Yes. Some luck involved, but it's more or less what I was aiming for. That Kohl's is part of this big new plaza that is cloggin our traffic up and which made me sick. When they dig up virgin desert, the spores that float around can get in your lungs and cause Valley Fever, which can really screw you up. I didn't have a severe case, but my lungs still aren't healed a year and a half later. Anyway, the stores block what was once a great view, though you can still get glimpses. Thanks for the compliment!
You managed to capture a wonderful sky, in fact I hardly noticed the KOHLS. Maybe I'm desensitized to clutter like that, which is not necessarily a good thing.
Oh, the sky is marvelous. We get those a lot this time of year. I tried to get some straight "beauty" shots as well at other points on our drive, but that's the one that came out best. I like the way the sun and ridge peek out of the background.


Spending an entire weekend at home sounds like absolute bliss. That is exactly why we decided to have a "Staycation" right here at home last weekend. After a crazy busy Summer and a whirlwind first week of school, we were all looking forward to some downtime relaxing together and getting recharged for another full week.
Since I had already gone to Walmart to get all of my snacks, I wanted to get creative in what we had to snack on to keep the weekend fun even though we weren't really doing anything. The plan was "to have no plan" – and that is just exactly what we did.
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Mix together the egg, sugar, and Creamy Jif Whips. With floured hands, roll dough in to three balls – one large and two small. Place them on a lined cookie sheet and push down just a little bit – making sure to "attach" the ears with the dough.
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Measuring what Lib Dem members think the party is achieving in Coalition
By Stephen Tall | Wed 7th November 2012 - 7:55 am
Lib Dem Voice polled our members-only forum recently to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 550 party members have responded, and we're publishing the full results.
Party members split on Lib Dem influence achieved within Coalition
How would you rate the extent of the Liberal Democrat influence within the Coalition Government, where 10 is highly influential, and 1 indicates no influence. (Comparison with September's figures in brackets.)
Lacking influence = 51% (-2%)
Achieving influence = 49% (+2%)
This is the fifth time we've asked the party members who participate in LibDemVoice's surveys this question, asking you to rank on a scale of 1-10 the level of influence you think the party is exerting within the Coalition.
In March, Lib Dem members felt by a margin of 67%-31% that the party was achieving influence within the Coalition government. However, this has dropped significantly in recent months — most noticeably when the Conservatives went broke their pledge to introduce an elected House of Lords in July, but also as a result of the Tories' (and therefore to some extent at least the Government's) significant shift to the right since the reshuffle.
For the second successive month, Lib Dem members now feel the party lacks influence by a narrow margin, 51%-49%. The average mark Lib Dems gave was 5.7 out of 10. The modal mark was 7/10.
Over 1,200 Lib Dem paid-up party members are registered with LibDemVoice.org. Some 550 responded to the latest survey, which was conducted between 28th and 31st October.
Please note: we make no claims that the survey is fully representative of the Lib Dem membership as a whole. However, LibDemVoice.org's surveys are the largest independent samples of the views of Lib Dem members across the country, and have in the past offered accurate guides to what party members think.
For further information on the reliability/credibility of our surveys, please refer to FAQs: Are the Liberal Democrat Voice surveys of party members accurate? and polling expert Anthony Wells' verdict, On that poll of Lib Dem members.
The full archive of our members' surveys can be viewed at www.libdemvoice.org/category/ldv-members-poll
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g 7th Nov '12 - 8:49am
Averages hide the most striking observation – the distribution curve has two peaks.
Clear evidence of a strong divide in the party over the coalition.
Andrew Martin 7th Nov '12 - 10:19am
Not sure 5 should count as 'lacking influence' – in theory on a 1-10 basis it is in the lower half but psychologically most people think of it as a half-way marker.
paul barker 7th Nov '12 - 4:33pm
If we look at the 3 highest votes they are for 7, pretty influential, with 6 & 3 equal second. The top 3 on their own take nearly 3/5ths of the votes.
There is a clear split with the larger group going for more influence.
I agree with Andrew Martins point, this would work better if the scale were 1-9 instead.


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Ms. Zhenping Chen
Amnesty International campaign helps reunite mother and daughter amid daring escape
When Falun Gong prisoners of conscience are rescued from dire situations in China, it's usually thanks to the concerted efforts of overseas fellow adherents, rights organizations, and politicians.
After three years of intensive campaigning by her daughters and Amnesty International Taiwan Group 32, Ms. Zhenping Chen was released.
She escaped from China in 2015 and was reunited with her family in Finland.
Renewal and Persecution
Family broken, Ms. Zhenping Chen developed incurable liver cancer after her husband had an affair. Through practicing Falun Dafa, Chen miraculously recovered in half a year, improving her physical and mental state of being.
Her older daughter noted, "After practicing, the biggest difference was that her temper became gentle".
However, "Time and again [since 1999], I saw my mother get arrested, tortured, persecuted, and brought back when she was half dead," said her younger daughter.
The two daughters would also be intimidated.
Her older daughter, visiting her boyfriend in Finland at the time, would be labeled as an "anti-Chinese" force, and unable to return to China. Her younger daughter would be forced into homelessness and later have to flee China.
Chen's daughters recount the persecution of the family:
A Long Way Home | Legends Unfolding
Journey to Freedom
The story of Ms. Zhenping Chen's journey to freedom in Finland began in December 2012, when the Amnesty International Taiwan Group 32 took an interest in her case. In the three years that followed, the group applied constant pressure on Ms. Chen's persecutors while appealing to the Finnish government and media, as well as to the Chinese authorities.
Ms. Chen's first prison term began in 2003, when she was sentenced to three years in Henan's Shibalihe women's labor camp. There, she underwent force-feeding and was put in a specialized straitjacket meant to "transform" the Falun Gong adherents, that is, to force them to quit the practice and renounce their beliefs.
Women at the labor camp were routinely tied up in the garment, which is designed to tighten when the wearer struggles. One of Ms. Chen's fellow inmates died after spending a day in the straitjacket. Ms. Chen was tied up and hung from a window while in the straitjacket.
When Ms. Chen went on a hunger strike to protest efforts to transform her, labor camp staff force-fed her. After one particularly violent force-feeding event, she went into shock, and the authorities notified her daughter to take her home.
In July 2008, in anticipation of the Beijing Olympic Games, Ms. Chen was arrested and sentenced to eight years at the Xinxiang City Women's Prison. She was forced to work 18 hours a day in the prison's garment factory.
Ms. Chen's daughter, Jin Zhaoyu, who was by then living in Finland, brought the matter to international attention with the help of Amnesty International and Finnish media.
Countless letters demanding Ms. Chen's release were sent to those responsible for her abuse—officials at the prison, public security, and the judiciary. Often, the letters were addressed to individual wardens, prison heads, and guards, making the issue personal and letting them know that they would get no anonymity for their violence.
Ms. Chen was finally released, and in September 2015, she escaped to Thailand with the help of friends, before arriving in Finland. She and her daughter were reunited after seven years apart.
"Today I am finally standing on free land, the beautiful Finland," Ms. Chen said at the time. "I want to thank Amnesty International and the kindness of people who show their support to the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners who carry on in the belief of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance."
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Here's a delightful meadow of native wildflowers I discovered one morning in March of 2017. Winter brought abundant rainfall to the West after a prolonged drought, and the flower blossoms responded accordingly. This area of Riverside County in Southern California was remote countryside until recently; now this large plot of land lies amidst several new neighborhoods, and I fear its undeveloped days are numbered. The orange flowers are California poppies (Eschscholzia californica) with some Mexican gold poppies (Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana). The tiny white blossoms are chaparral gilia (Gilia angelensis). The unnamed hill to the north reaches 1,592 feet above sea level.


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Q: which is more efficient for buffer manipulations: python strings or array() I am building a routine that processes disk buffers for forensic purposes. Am I better off using python strings or the array() type? My first thought was to use strings, but I'm trying to void unicode problems, so perhaps array('c') is better?

A: Write the code using what is most natural (strings), find out if it's too slow and then improve it.
Arrays can be used as drop-in replacements for str in most cases, as long as you restrict yourself to index and slice access. Both are fixed-length. Both should have about the same memory requirements. Arrays are mutable, in case you need to change the buffers. Arrays can read directly from files, so there's no speed penalty involved when reading.
I don't understand how you avoid Unicode problems by using arrays, though. str is just an array of bytes and doesn't know anything about the encoding of the string.
I assume that the "disk buffers" you mention can be rather large, so you might think about using mmap:

Memory-mapped file objects behave like both strings and like file objects. Unlike normal string objects, however, these are mutable. You can use mmap objects in most places where strings are expected; for example, you can use the re module to search through a memory-mapped file. Since they're mutable, you can change a single character by doing obj[index] = 'a', or change a substring by assigning to a slice: obj[i1:i2] = '...'. You can also read and write data starting at the current file position, and seek() through the file to different positions.

A: If you need to alter the  buffer in-place (it's not clear if you do, since you use the ambiguous term "to process"), arrays will likely be better, since strings are immutable. In Python 2.6 or better, however, bytearrays can be the best of both worlds -- mutable and rich of methods and usable with regular expressions too.
For read-only operations, strings have the edge over array (thanks to many more methods, plus extras such as regular expressions, available on them), if you're stuck with old Python versions and so cannot use bytearray.  Unicode is not an issue in either case (in Python 2; in Python 3, definitely go for bytearray!-).

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Xbox Live is experiencing issues again today after there was a massive down time at similar point during yesterday. This time, the error code 0X87DE0017 has made it impossible to run any application or game, if you were planning to play anything today.
In case you aren't aware of this error code, this was related to some security breach earlier this month and was supposedly fixed by Microsoft. Unfortunately, it still hasn't been fixed at all judging from the past two days outage of Xbox Live.
If you are unable to open any application or any of your digitally purchased content on Xbox One, you are unfortunately helpless in this matter, and have to wait until Microsoft can fix this issue, like they did yesterday.
Microsoft has acknowledged the issue faced by users on the official Xbox Live status page.
Hey Xbox members, are you having an issue accessing your account such as payments, subscriptions, security or forum settings? We are aware and are working hard to get this resolved ASAP! Thank you for being patient. We'll post another update when more information becomes available.
There is no estimated time given for the fix so if you want to play any of your digital games or use any application, you will have to wait for a while. The disc-based games seem to work fine although Xbox Live is down meaning you won't be able to play them online.
Let us know if you are experiencing any issues in the comments below.


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For this violence to continue, the Khartoum government needs money. For the past 10 years, China has been the primary weapons supplier while providing the government with over 70% of its annual oil revenues. China is the host of the 2008 Summer Olympic games promoting the theme "One World, One Dream." Can these games truly represent "One World, One Dream" as China supports the government that funds the Janjaweed? Today, we ask you to sign a petition that will be delivered to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC next week urging them to use their position to end the genocide.
This action is a partnership between Dream for Darfur and Save Darfur.
This solution seems unlikely. Khartoum takes the position that they are suppressing rebels in outlying provinces. Beijing is also interested in suppressing rebels in outlying provinces. If they decided to take action against Khartoum they would be setting a precedent which would have implications for the "rebels" in Tibet and Taiwan. I'm not a poli-sci expert, but petitioning Beijing with direct signatures seems like a waste of time and resource. Beijing has historically shown know interest in popular opinion.
Oh.. I should have said, looking at the sources of funding is absolutely the right thing to do. For instance its probably impossible that the US sends troops to Sudan. With enough petitions the US could have economic sanctions. However since 70% of revenue is coming from China, this calls into question the power of US economic sanctions. This makes me wonder about the usefulness of petitioning US government directly.
I think it would be interesting to understand the complete money flow into Khartoum, since this will tell you where the pressure points are. Which governments and companies are sufficiently large chunks that you can put pressure on Khartoum. Of these, which are accessible to you. China, not likely. US, possible, but maybe not the best.
Need to think like a lobbyist. All of the people I know are in set X. All the people who can influence the action are set Y. Of these two sets, the people in Z are the intersection. Of Z, these 3 people can be bought or influenced.
Your goal is not to change popular opinion, your goal is to change the *right* opinions. Who's opinion is that?
I signed the petition. How can the games be called One World, One Dream? If China is supporting the Janjaweed, they should not host the Olympics. Anyone who supports genocide should not be allowed to host, join, or play in Olympics, they should be banned from all activities. If the nation shows their disapproval, maybe China would rethink their "support". If not allowed to host Olympics, China would lose mad money, that alone should be enough for them to end their support of these people therefor ending the genocide.
When searching for the beads for the bracelets, that were given to our friends, I wondered why Gab didnot want them to be China made beads. I understand now. Our family will definitely sign and send the various petitions and emails, in additon to boycotting China made products. It is a must!
You are right that Beijing does not have the cleanest human rights record. As the host of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, China has been hoping that these games will change popular opinion about their country and move their reputation forward. As a whole, the anti-genocide activist community decided to use the Spirit of the Olympic Dream as a way to pressure China to use their leverage. So far, China has responded very well.
Recently Chinese officials contacted Dream for Darfur (www.dreamfordarfur.org – a new organization focusing on bringing the Olympic Dream to Darfur and organizing symbolic relays this fall marking the 4 year date when Colin Powell declared Darfur a genocide) and asked them to meet about their campaign. China also responded to Steven Spielberg's letter urging them to meet with President al-Bashir. So China is listening, and while we have their attention with the Olympics approaching, the time is now to pressure China to stop weapons transfers, suspend debt forgiveness and step up in the Security Council making sure that the hybrid force reaches the ground.
For looking at money flow into Khartoum the Sudan Divestment Task Force (www.sudandivestment.org) is the best resource – for person and state divestment efforts, complete with a list of companies. Fidelity has been a big focus and they have divested from the NYSE but not the Tokyo Stock Exchange yet. Unfortunately, the US has little economically invested in Sudan, and not enough to make the most recent economic sanctions they placed on three leaders and 30 small companies really impact the money used to back the Janjaweed.
I completely agree with changing the minds of the right people! And I think all the Darfur activist community members are trying to find person Z! Sometimes that is our local officials, sometimes it's our UN Ambassadors, and now its Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea who is the UN Secretary General. But we need to find more creative ways to reach them since, as you noted, sometimes the petition and the letter are not strong enough. This fall all over the world and in the US there will be symbolic torch lightings to again pressure China to get their attention – to influence them through what is now their pride, hosting the 2008 Olympics.
We thank for your thoughtful comments James! I hope you can check out the websites also posted for this action as they are really helpful in determining what actions are right for each of us!
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View Proposed clearcut near pending expansion of protected wilderness area sparks concern by Emma Smith, CBC News Oct 09, 2017.
Chris Miller of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society "wrote a letter to DNR in July asking the department not to approve the proposed harvests because of the potential impact on the Tobeatic's ecosystem, which includes more than 100 lakes and habitat for several endangered species. Miller says he's yet to receive a response. He wants the province to have a more informed plan for how it makes decisions on proposed cuts near protected areas. "The concern is that this is happening sort of haphazardly, that there's no plan in place for it that deals with the particular impacts on the protected areas themselves," he said.
Map showing Protected Areas, Nature Reserves and approx. boundary for the Tobeatic Wildlife Management Area. Map modified from Nova Scotia Parks and Protected Areas Interactive Map; red patches are the proposed cuts.
That makes the harvest sound pretty trivial – 20 ha against 500,000 protected.
What the Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV) does not show is the location within the Tobeatic Wildlife Management Area immediately next to a designated addition to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area – see map at left.
Canadian Forest Service/UBC/Canadian Space Agency Satellite Forest Monitoring map showing harvest 2002-2011 in the Black Duck lake Area. The red patches are the proposed crown land harvests (inserted). Reference to the Global Forest Watch Interactive Map indicates there was not much cutting 2011-2015.
The combination of a location close to several Protected Areas (including Nature Reserves) and previous cutting – not to mention future cutting – should trigger concerns about buffer zones and connectivity and be enough to require selection cutting for any harvest in this area.
In fact, "Partial Harvest – Individual Tree Selection" is proposed for three (total 59.7 ha) of the five separately identified blocks identified for havesting; one additional block of 9.98 ha is identified as "Partial Harvest- Uniform Shelterwood" (classified as a clearcut in the federal system). Only one block is identified as "Clearcut- Overstory Removal" (20.2 ha) which I gather is the second stage in a shelterwood cut, so the newly proposed shelterwood cut will likely go the same way, making 30 ha of clearcut in total.
I am guessing that the rationale for these clearcuts is that the stands are 'not suitable for selection cuts' according to NSDNR criteria, but there is another option: NO CUT!
Unfortunately, this story is a repeating one, circumstances being almost identical to those related to clearcuts on Crown land close to the pending Shingle Lake Nature Reserve, not far away. Both underscore the apparent lack of landscape level planning for biodiversity conservation in Crown land harvest decisions.
Clearcut Nova Scotia, continued..12June 2017 Post, June 17, 2017 – Margaree River Watershed Protected Area and the Ruiss Noir Protected Area.
NS Environment. From the plan, page 20: "Management activities will be reported at an annual workshop and public information session, hosted by Nova Scotia Environment and Labour. The purpose of this annual event is to review activities, advise of anticipated projects, and identify emerging priority actions." I wonder when this last happened.
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Didier Deschamps' weekends have become really tricky in 2020. The France head coach wants to watch as many of his players featuring for their clubs every Saturday or Sunday, but the problem is that there are too many contenders now to make the squad that he and his assistants are struggling to watch everyone! They have to settle for highlight reels at times, though they do try to catch as much action as possible every weekend.
At a time when so many of the world's best national teams are in a state of flux, Deschamps knows how much of a luxury the depth of his France squad is. France have so much talent that, on top of being the current World Champions, they're the natural favourites for Euro 2020. There's certainly a feeling right now within the French setup and the local media that Les Bleus have a unique opportunity to build a football dynasty, one that could do even better than the great 1998-2000 generation and even emulate Spain's domination from 2008 to 2012.
France, who face Portugal on Saturday in the Nations League — stream LIVE, 2:45 p.m. ET, on ESPN+ (U.S. only) — have all the cards in hands to build on their 2018 World Cup success.
Two years ago in Russia, France boasted the second-youngest squad in the competition with an average player age of 25.6 years, just behind Nigeria (25.5). Only Brazil in 1970 won the World Cup with a younger overall team. Some players weren't in their prime — far from it, even — like Kylian Mbappe or Presnel Kimpembe. Going forward, they will get stronger individually and collectively, more experienced, more mature, more used to winning as well.
— UEFA Nations League: Portugal vs. France, 2.45 p.m. ET, Saturday 11/14, ESPN+ (U.S.)
The defeat in the Euro 2016 final against Portugal was a big learning curve for Deschamps and his players. They took a lot of positives with them on the road to 2018, working tirelessly on the things that didn't go well like their defensive solidity, game management and a lack of tactical versatility. At the end of 2020, France have more tactical tools than perhaps ever before. Deschamps has plenty of options: in the past 18 months, they have played in a flat 4-4-2, in a diamond 4-4-2, in a 4-3-3, in a 3-4-3, in a 3-4-1-2. Not one position — apart from right-back, perhaps, with just Benjamin Pavard and Leo Dubois — is not stacked with plenty of competition for places.
– Predict results in ESPN's English Soccer Pick 'Em!
Deschamps is very intelligent and has always been opportunistic. When he took over from Laurent Blanc in 2012, he didn't inherit a very talented squad. Les Bleus were in fact average at the time, apart from the likes of Karim Benzema, Franck Ribery and Hugo Lloris. Yet it wasn't a problem for the new head coach; if anything, it gave him a blank slate upon which to build his team and his squad like he wanted. And he was very much aware of the potential of the players in the France youth setup at the time.
The talent pool about to come through was exceptional. Back then, France had a wonderful U19 generation ready to shine. A year later, in 2013, they won the U20 World Cup and six years later, five of them won the real World Cup with Deschamps: Paul Pogba, Raphael Varane (although he missed out in 2013 through injury), Samuel Umtiti, Florian Thauvin and Alphonse Areola. That same summer in 2013, the U19s reached the final of the Euros with Benjamin Mendy, Anthony Martial, Adrien Rabiot and Aymeric Laporte. Deschamps was monitoring both competitions, even attending some matches, and he knew the next generations further down were pretty good too.
France coach Deschamps has an embarrassment of riches to call upon. There's enough talent, if managed well, to dominate world soccer for a generation. FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images
Among the U17 squad that was crowned European champions in 2015, Dayot Upamecano was the leader. In the U19 squad crowned European champions in 2016, France had a certain Mbappe in attack — Deschamps already had an eye on him, tipped by people at his former club Monaco that the Parisian was something really special. Marcus Thuram was also in that team. In the previous U19 team, Kingsley Coman, Lucas Hernandez and Pavard also played their part for a successful squad.
France were (and still are) stacked with talent in every age group, in every position, but they needed a coach who would actually bring the young stars through to the senior side. Deschamps is very good for that. His man-management skills are fantastic. Thanks to his past as a very successful player, his bonhomie and his sociable attitude, the players trust him. Equally, he knows how to put them in the best environment to succeed. Since 2012, he has handed a France debut to a remarkable 53 players! That's an incredible amount, and is also indicative of the depth at his disposal. The latest capped players include Eduardo Camavinga (18 years old), Upamecano (22) and Houssem Aouar (22).
Even after handing out all these debuts, Deschamps still has more players available to him. Look at the France U21 squad this month: there's Aouar and Upamecano, plus Jules Koundé, who has been fantastic with Sevilla and has yet to join the A squad, and Wesley Fofana, who has been superb in Leicester's defense whenever called upon. Moussa Diaby (Bayer Leverkusen) and Amine Gouiri (Nice) could soon be part of it as well.
Again, the list goes on and if you only looked at the centre-back position, it's even more impressive. Going through the years: Varane and Umtiti (born in 1993), Aymeric Laporte and Kurt Zouma (1994), Kimpembe and Clement Lenglet (1995), Hernandez, Pavard and Abdou Diallo (1996), Koundé and Upamecano (1998), Ibrahim Konate, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Malang Sarr, Evan N'Dicka, Boubacar Kamara and Jean-Clair Todibo (1999), Fofana (2000), William Saliba and Benoit Badiashile (2001), plus Tanguy Kouassi (2002).
Deschamps is under contract until 2022 and the World Cup in Qatar. If things go well, he could even stay longer, until Euro 2024. He will still only be 56 if he extends his deal and given what he's achieved already, he has a great opportunity to do even better.
Deschamps and his staff are already deep into planning for next summer's rescheduled Euros, but he knows how bright the future is. The pressure will be high with the talent he has although he is not getting carried away. Wednesday's 2-0 friendly defeat at the Stade de France against Finland showed that there is no room for complacency and that there's still plenty of work to be done. But Deschamps expects his players to go from strength to strength between now and the Euros, as well as over the years and tournaments to come.


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What will I be buying this year?
I will probably invest in some new leggings, potentially a pair of jeans and obviously will browse the shoes. Nothing crazy, as I have learned from the previous sales. One great thing though is order it and try it, then if it doesn't work, send it back for free and a full refund.
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