The Station Embankments: We're blessed to have acres of woodland in the centre of our town- consider the wooded land around the station!
Location: Meet Platform 1 Entrance to Hither Green Station on Springbank Road, opposite Duncrevie Road.
Under license from Network Rail, HGCA Volunteers have been working enthusiastically to improve the appearance of Station Embankment since 2009.
Improving biodiversity: For the past 4 years we have been planting saplings of traditional English trees to increase the visiting animal species. The embankments are largely a monoculture with sycamores having been planted thickly in the 19th century along Fernbrook and Springbank Roads and on the embankments flanking the Nature Triangle in the middle of the station.
Our aims: providing varied habitats and food sources for native British wildlife- mammals, birds and invertebrates, especially encouraging bees and butterflies and boosting the small hedgehog population.
We plant: oak, beech, birch, hawthorn, wild cherry, blackthorn, hazel, crab apples. Many of these are fruit and nut bearing trees and shrub species and they will create a secondary storey of food and habitats for birds and mammals under the mature sycamores.
Our volunteers can often be seen in their orange hi-vis vests tackling thorny brambles or planting woodland bulbs and wildflowers !
Back in 2009, great sackfuls of commuter rubbish were removed from the embankment- since then together with Network Rail staff, volunteers have ensured rubbish has never built up to any serious extent again.
The HGCA has been selected by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew as one of it;s 'Grow Wild' community sites. They are funding us to improve the quality of planting and habits around the station including the Fernbrook Road embankment which has been previously closed off.
Network Rail have recently granted us a work license for the Fernbrook Road embankment. Years of commuter litter plus the recent platform 6 extension have resulted in a dreadful mess, once contractors have put in an access gate we'll be going in to clear up the site.
We will be working with FUSS and the Hither Green Nature Triangle groups on this project. Sign up here to join the team of local conservationists who volunteer on the Hither Green Station embankments.
In a year or two, we'll have Fernbrook Road looking as great as Springbank Road!
Get Involved! There are regular monthly volunteer sessions at the Embankment and at the Community Garden – everyone is welcome! We supply boots, gloves, tools and refreshments.
Note: Sorry but no under 16s on the Embankment please. Health and Safety Induction talk and safety gear provided.
Tackling rampant sycamore, bramble, bracken and couch grass along the embankment.
Coppicing immature sycamore to encourage a more diverse under storey of mid height shrubbery.
Planting hundreds of native British bluebells, wood anemones and wild garlic.
Thank you to all our volunteers and also to Network Rail, SouthEastern Railways and Lewisham Central Ward Locality Fund for their support.
See more embankment photos in the Gallery.
Nature Conservation Lewisham blog and on Lewisham Gardens.


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Q: WebView loads email url, rather than opening Chooser Intent If the user of the application selects a certain icon, the WebView loads a url starting with 'mailto:'. I have included a method that attempts to fix this by launching a choose intent to access an alternative email app, but it is not working for an unknown reason. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
MainActivity.java

package com.example.zangle;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    public WebView student_zangle;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        WebView student_zangle = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.student_zangle);
        student_zangle.setWebViewClient( new YourWebClient());
        student_zangle.loadUrl("https://zangleweb01.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/studentconnect/");
        student_zangle.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
        student_zangle.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
        WebSettings settings = student_zangle.getSettings();
        settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        settings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
        settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
        settings.setUseWideViewPort(true);
    }

    public void downloadfileto(String fileurl, String filename) {
        String exception;
        try {
                FileOutputStream f = new FileOutputStream(filename);
                try {
                        URL url = new URL(fileurl);
                        URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
                        InputStream is = urlConn.getInputStream();
                        BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(is, 8000);
                        int current = 0;
                        while ((current = bis.read()) != -1) {
                                f.write((byte) current);
                        }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                        exception = e.getMessage();
                }
                f.flush();
                f.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        student_zangle = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.student_zangle);
        if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && student_zangle.canGoBack()) {
            student_zangle.goBack();
            return true;
        }
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }

    private class YourWebClient extends WebViewClient {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            if (url.contains("mailto")) {
                String mail = url.replaceFirst("mailto:", "");
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                intent.setType("message/rfc822");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, mail );
                return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
            }
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
        }
    }
        public void sendEmail(String email){
            final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            emailIntent.setType("plain/text");
            emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{email});
            *** startActivity(Intent.createChooser( emailIntent, "Send mail..."));
        }

}

UPDATE :
Still not working..
Updated YourWebClient Class and sendEmail method
private class YourWebClient extends WebViewClient {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            if (url.contains("mailto")) {
                String mail = url.replaceFirst("mailto:", "");
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                intent.setType("message/rfc822");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, mail );
                startActivity(intent);
                sendEmail(mail);
                student_zangle.goBack();
                return true;
                }
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
        }
    }
        public void sendEmail(String email){
            final Intent emailIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            emailIntent.setType("plain/text");
            emailIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{email});
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser( emailIntent, "Select application: "));
        }

A: The first step was to delete android:noHistory="true" in my AndroidManifest.xml file. Then, I deleted the sendEmail() method as well as the call to it in WebViewClient class (else the application would have prompted the user for an activity twice).

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The United Kingdom and Ireland in the White House: A Conversation on Historical Perspectives
May 3, 2018 8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration and light breakfast in Decatur House Parlors9:00 am - 9:20 am Welcome and OverviewThe Hon. Frederick...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
Presidential Sites Summit Schedule
Tuesday, March 15 12:00-6:00pm: Registration at the Adolphus Hotel 12:00-3:00pm: Optional Day Trip The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey...
White House History Table of Contents
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy's Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
The United Kingdom and Ireland in the White House Symposium Scholarly Contributors
Luncheon PresentersRandolph ChurchillRandolph Churchill was born shortly before the death of his great-grandfather, Sir Winston Churchill, in January 1965. After attending...
The Presidency and Historic Preservation Symposium Schedule
Decatur House 8:00-8:45am Light Breakfast 8:45-9:00am Transition to the Carriage House 9:00-9:15am Welcome Stewart McLaurin, President, The...
2022 Next-Gen Leaders
As part of the White House Historical Association's 60th anniversary celebration in 2021, the Next-Gen Leaders (NGL) initiative was announced. Th...
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Austerity tightens in Greece
philahistory / February 8, 2012
Parallels between ancient Greece and current Greece are not lacking in recent times, and the "Greek tragedy" has been served up in all journalistic sauces. In the country that invented democracy to put an end to debt slavery, the European bourgeoisie imposes its reactionary approach: even if the institution of slavery is not (yet) re-established, the poverty into which the Greek people have been plunged at a growing speed greatly resembles a modern slavery.
Every day, 2400 new workers are thrown into unemployment, which has officially reached 17.7% (12.4% a year ago), with 21.5 % of women affected and 35.3% of youth. Fifty percent of the unemployed have been out of work for more than one year.
Paul Tomsen—the best known personality of the troika (IMF, EU and ECB), today de facto in charge of the country's affairs—says on the one hand that the imposition over the last six months of the fiscal burden on a part of the population which can no longer pay is an error, and on the other demands two measures: the suspension of collective agreements (to impose flexibility and the alignment of wages with productivity) and the closure of a certain number of public enterprises (which in his view have ceased to fulfill the function for which they were created). Obviously, no question of asking the people for a democratic opinion on the utility of these enterprises!
The mobilizations by sector or enterprise are numerous and sometimes allow partial victories over the employer or the state. Numerous strikes have taken place in transport, a strike has broken out against the neoliberal university reform, and the taxis are on strike against the "opening" (to the big companies) of the profession and so on.
One of the most significant struggles currently concerns the audiovisual and press sector (newspapers, television, radio, magazines, and internet). Massive layoffs, brutal pay cuts have affected every company in the sector. Tens of thousands of workers are no longer paid or not paid on time, with most companies paying wages months late.
The television channel "Alter" has not paid its 700 employees for a year, and the big Athens newspaper Eleyfhterotypia stopped paying its 840 employees this summer.
However, there is resistance to this daily violence in the workplaces. After months of working for free, the workers at "Alter" decided to occupy the head office of the television and turn it into a center of solidarity (collecting food to organize their own survival) and beginning to broadcast programs (rudimentary for the moment), which have become a center of popularization of the struggle of several sectors and factories. Similar projects are now being discussed by the workers at Eleftherotypia.
The most emblematic struggle currently is at the steel factory of Halivourgia in Aspropyrgos, in the Athenian suburbs, against lay-offs and wage cuts. This struggle is led by workers linked to the pro-KKE union current PAME and is characterized not only by its combativity, but also by the very broad support it has received, including union and political support. For example, the intervention of our comrade Yannis Felekis, historic leader of the Greek section of the Fourth International, OKDE-Spartakos, was warmly received by the strikers!
> This is adapted from an article by Tassos Anastassiadis and Adreas Sartzekis on the Fourth International website: www.internationalviewpoint.org.
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Blushed/Secret Nudist Friends Split out! – Solos and Spontaneity
One of my favorite projects of 2018 is coming out this week – A split between two very promising Philly bands Blushed and Secret Nudist Friends. Come to their gig!! Buy their Split!!!
Weak by Blushed
I Can't Love Anyone by Secret Nudist Friends
What I really appreciate about both of these songs is their vocal performances. They both have different styles, but the thing that ties them together is that these two singers (Missy and Matty) both put a lot of effort into their delivery. Each of their many takes were pretty unique in melody, inflection, and dynamics. Not that they did something wildly different each time, but there was always some fresh variation, and the sum total of all of those moments delivered really compelling vocal takes that tell a story in of themselves. For Missy's vocals we used the Wunder CM7 to get the bright air-iness of her performances, and for Matty we used the AEA R44 to get a darker more vintage sound of the ribbon mic.
The one thing that Matty said as we were getting ready to work together was that he wanted some direction as far as his guitar solo at the end of "I Can't Love Anyone" was concerned.
I've always had a love/hate relationship with guitar solos. I think that some people are just fans of shredding; I am not. When I was a young kid I loved Ozzy Osbourne and Randy Rhodes, and whenever "Crazy Train" comes on in the supermarket or whatever, the solo reminds me of reading Guitar Player magazine in 7th grade, but thats about it. When I hear a band where the guitar player unleashes a cacaphony of noisey finger acrobatics, or a string of cliche blues licks, I'm just immediately turned off. When someone suggests "what about a guitar solo" to fill a gap in a song or arrangement , my response is usually lukewarm; it really just depends on the solo.
Here are two of my all time favorite solos.
Definitely a little "Dad Rock" I know, but c'mon, they're classics! What I think both of these solos exemplify are theme and variation, lyrical phrasing with an "off the cuff" spontaneous feel, emotional performaces, and organized in the sense that there is a Beginning, Middle, and End. I had a bass teacher who was an incredible jazz player who said he thought of solos like public speaking in that your solo must be organized in such a way that your audience pays attention and that you're not droning on and on.
So how does this translate into capturing a guitar solo as opposed to regular rhythm tracking? With rhythm guitars, I'm always looking for some amount of precision; either locking in with the drums, or another guitar performance. I might coach a guitarist through the parts or point out where they might be ahead of behind the rhythm. Whereas with guitar solos, I might just get everything set up, and without saying a word, hit record and throw the player in the deep end before they know whats going on. Often times (genre depending of course), i'm try to get a really abrasive or exciting guitar tone that will A) get the player pumped to let loose and B) be so distorted that any fast playing will be incomprehensible.
Here is the tone from the Secret Nudist Friends solo how it came into pro tools – no mixing (except a reverb tale to fill a gap in an edit)
http://theheadroomphiladelphia.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/I-can-Love-Anyone-SOLO.mp3
I don't totally remember the chain we had going from Matty's Guitar his amp, but it sounds like I took whatever modulation he was using (chorus maybe?) and really exaggerated the settings he usually used. Then, something I often do, is crank up the gain on the pre-amp (in this case it was the preamp that our Royer 121 ribbon mic was going into, probably the BAE since it has a pre and post gain staging) and find a sweet spot where the preamp starts to break up.
Usually a player will either nail some aspect of the solo in the first take or two, and then we run multiple takes afterwards and I'll compile a take much like I would a vocal – fitting different phrases together to create a sense of pacing. In the case of Matty's solo, we ran a bunch of takes until we could grab pieces that we thought worked well together since we were really figuring out the best approach. The keyboardist (and singer of blushed) Missy and I listened through everything and collaged our favorite parts together (Matty felt like he had no perspective, so he was glad to have some input). I think the end result feels like a totally spontaneous, crooked (in a good way), gnarly performance! The thing that Matty did really well off the bat was the really noisey part that goes over the Coda of the song, I think the take we used was from one of the first few passes. The part that we really had to figure out was working up the climax -finding a way to make the beginning and middle. With some experimenting and careful selection, we found takes that complimented the craziness that the solo eventually gets to!
This is a total non-sequitur, but the other thing that I thought was cool about the Secret Nudist Friends recording, was that Matty felt like the drums were too shiny sounding. So during mix recalls we just pulled the overheads out of the drums completely and relied only on the AEA R44 ribbon mic that was near the drummers head for the cymbals, and it gave the record a more muted/distorted midrange vibe. Its always great to work with artists that force you to buck conventions or get our of your own habits!
See You this Friday at the gig!!


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The White House Garden Tours
A Legacy of First Lady Patricia Nixon
Bob Bostock Curator of the "People Were Her Project" exhibit at the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library
How Long? 7 minutes
This photograph is of the South Portico as seen from the lit fountain on the South Lawn of the White House. White House photographer Karl Schumacher took this photo on the evening of December 1, 1970, during the administration of Richard M. Nixon.
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
When the White House gates open at 10:00 am on Saturday, April 13th, thousands of people will stream through for the start of the 2019 White House Spring Garden Tour. Few of them will know that this special tour – one of only two weekends each year that the grounds of the President's House are open to the general public – is part of the legacy of First Lady Patricia Nixon.
During her service as First Lady (1969-74), Mrs. Nixon undertook numerous initiatives to make the White House more accessible to visitors from across the country and around the world. Much of her attention was focused on the interior of the mansion itself – increasing its collection of historic furnishings, making it handicapped accessible, and developing special tours for blind and deaf tourists, among others.
But Pat Nixon didn't limit her efforts to the interior of the White House. An avid gardener, she was also interested in making the White House's historic gardens and grounds more accessible to the public.
First Lady Patricia Nixon leads Mayor-Commissioner of Washington, D.C. Walter Washington and a group of schoolchildren through the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden on April 14, 1973.
Her focus started with making it easier for the White House to be visible after dark. Unlike the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, the Washington Monument, and other landmarks in the nation's capital, the White House had never been illuminated at night. First Lady Patricia Nixon decided to change that.
She worked closely with the National Park Service, which is responsible for the White House Grounds, to develop the plan for appropriate exterior lighting. The cost of installing the lighting fixtures was covered by private funds remaining from those raised for the 1969 Presidential inaugural festivities. As a result of her vision, the people's house has been illuminated every night since Mrs. Nixon ceremoniously turned on the lights on November 25, 1970.
Mrs. Nixon also began the practice of keeping the American flag flying over the White House 24 hours a day, every day. Previously, the flag was brought down every evening at sunset and raised again at sunrise the next day. It took a Presidential Proclamation to authorize the change, which President Nixon issued at Mrs. Nixon's urging, on September 4, 1970.1
First Lady Patricia Nixon leads Mayor-Commissioner of Washington, D.C. Walter Washington and a group of schoolchildren along the South Drive on April 14, 1973. The students were winners of a poster contest sponsored by the Society for a More Beautiful Capital, an organization founded by Mary Lasker and First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson in 1964.
Mrs. Nixon next turned her attention to the White House Grounds themselves. Since 1878, the South Lawn had been opened nearly every year to young children and their families for the annual Easter Egg Roll. And throughout much of the 19th century and in the early part of the 20th century, people could stroll the grounds unescorted. Never before, however, had the grounds been opened for an informative tour that would, in Mrs. Nixon's words, allow visitors to "share with us their present beauty and past history."2
Mrs. Nixon planted the seeds for the first Garden Tour in early 1972. Michael J. Farrell, who headed the White House Visitors Office, outlined Mrs. Nixon's vision for the first Garden Tour in a brief memo. The tour would include the Rose Garden, much of the South Grounds, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. Visitors would receive a brochure that provided an overview of the grounds, and a military band would play during the tour.
The scope of the tour expanded during the planning process. Small groups of visitors would be allowed to walk through the Children's Garden, gifted by the President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson shortly before they left Washington in January 1969, and the Ground Floor corridor and the rooms on the State Floor of the White House would also be open.
First Lady Patricia Nixon points out and explains photograph displays along the South Drive on April 14, 1973.
Considerable energy went into making the first Garden Tour a success. Under Mrs. Nixon's direction, the Visitors Office coordinated the effort, involving many other White House offices. The photography office produced oversized photos of various events that took place on the grounds. The White House carpenters shop built the easels on which the photographs and signs highlighting special points of interest (such as commemorative trees) were placed. The Social Secretary's office arranged for music. And Irvin Williams (who served as head gardener at the White House from 1962-2008) and Bill Ruback of the National Park Service would be on hand during the tour to answer visitors' questions.
By the time the Garden Tour kicked-off, more than fifty different people were involved in planning and carrying out this first-ever Garden Tour. To show her appreciation for their effort, Mrs. Nixon personally inscribed and signed copies of the brochure for each person involved in creating this new White House event.
When the first day of the tour arrived, the sky was clear and sunny and the temperatures were cool – perfect weather for enjoying the White House gardens and grounds. Mrs. Nixon kicked off the tour, leading the mayor-commissioner of Washington, D.C., Walter Washington, and a group of local schoolchildren through the grounds. Among the students was, Duane Bolton, the first-place winner of a poster contest sponsored by the Society for a More Beautiful National Capital. Two families who were waiting in line were also invited to join the First Lady's tour.
Duane Bolton, first-place winner of the poster contest sponsored by the Society for a More Beautiful Capital, presents his poster to First Lady Patricia Nixon and President Richard Nixon on April 14, 1973.
Starting in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, First Lady Patricia Nixon escorted her group around the grounds. As they walked, she pointed out such historic elements of the landscape as the Jefferson Mounds, which our third president is said to have created to provide visual interest to the otherwise flat lawn, various trees planted by presidents ranging from an American Elm planted by the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, to a Giant Sequoia planted by California native, President Richard Nixon, and the colorful spring flowers blooming around the fountain.
After walking along the South Drive, the group entered the Rose Garden, where they were joined by President Nixon. As they entered the Rose Garden, they passed by the towering Southern Magnolia. According to legend, it was planted by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 as a tribute to his late wife, who died shortly before Jackson became president.
By the time the first White House Garden Tour concluded the next day, nearly 11,500 people had helped launch a tradition that continues to this day. In the 46 years since, as many as one million people have walked the grounds during the spring and fall White House Garden Tours. And over the years, the White House Grounds have continued to evolve.
President Richard Nixon speaks with Duane Bolton near the Rose Garden during First Lady Patricia Nixon's White House gardens tour on April 14, 1973.
The American Elm planted by John Quincy Adams in 1826 finally succumbed to old age. In 1991, it was replaced by a seedling raised from that tree, planted by First Lady Barbara Bush. In 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama planted the White House Kitchen Garden to provide "home-grown" fresh, organic vegetables for the first family. In late 2017, the Jackson Magnolia was severely cut back as its branches grew so weak they proved to be a safety hazard. First Lady Melania Trump made sure, however, that wood removed was saved and that seedlings were propagated that could, one day, replace the ancient tree. And every president since the first Garden Tour has added at least one new tree to the White House Grounds.
One thing hasn't changed, however. The tradition of opening the White House gardens and grounds to the public, started by First Lady Patricia Nixon in 1973, continues to delight visitors. Thanks to her vision, as visitors amble through the White House grounds, they are following in the footsteps of every president and first lady since President John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams became the first residents of the White House in November 1800.
To learn more about the White House grounds, see The White House Garden by William Seale, published by the White House Historical Association. Memoranda about the planning for the Garden Tour are in the collections of the Richard Nixon Presidential Museum and Library of the National Archives, Yorba Linda, California.
First Lady Patricia Nixon and President Richard Nixon walk through the Rose Garden with schoolchildren on April 14, 1973.
This article was originally published April 9, 2019
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The mutual recriminations reflected the deepening rift between Israeli and Palestinian leaders since the breakdown of American-brokered peace talks in April and the formation of a Palestinian unity government backed by the militant Islamist group Hamas.
More than 48 hours after the Jewish youths were last seen in the southern West Bank on Thursday night, there were no indications that Israeli security forces were any closer to finding them or identifying the group behind the presumed abduction.
Although there has been no credible claim of responsibility for the disappearance of the teenagers, Israeli officials said they believed that they were being held by militants hoping to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Israel holds some 5,000 Palestinians in its prisons.
A leaflet issued Friday and signed "The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria Palestine-West Bank" carried a claim of responsibility for what it called the abduction of the teenagers, but there was no confirmation of the statement's authenticity.
ISIS, a radical Islamist insurgent group, is not known to operate in the West Bank, but the name spoke to ISIS's new stature after its march through northern Iraq after the capture of that country's second largest city last week.
The leaflet said that ISIS operatives had carried out the kidnapping in response to the killing of three of the group's members by Israeli forces near the West Bank city of Hebron last November, and as part of efforts to free the Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli military identified the slain militants at the time as members of a "Salafist-Jihadi" group, a term for Islamic extremists.
The missing Israelis were identified as Eyal Yifrach, 19, a student at a yeshiva in the Jewish settlement enclave in Hebron, Naftali Frenkel, 16, a yeshiva student at the settlement of Kfar Etzion and a U.S. citizen, and Gilad Shaer, 16, a fellow student in the same institution.
An investigation found that the three were hitchhiking home at a highway junction in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc north of Hebron late Thursday night when they went missing, apparently after they got into a passing car. Israeli settlers routinely hitch rides on West Bank roads used by both Israeli and Palestinian motorists.
An Israeli police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, said that police were alerted by an emergency call from the cellphone of one of the teenagers at about 10 p.m., and though he did not speak, noises in the background indicated that he was in trouble.
Palestinians reported Saturday that Israeli forces were searching homes in Hebron and surrounding villages and that at least a dozen people had been arrested. Travelers from Hebron were barred from leaving the West Bank to Jordan.
Palestinian security officials in the West Bank were said to be working with the Israelis in an effort to locate the missing teenagers.


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Station Merkholtz (Luxemburgs: Mäerkels) is een spoorwegstation in de gemeente Kiischpelt in het noordwesten van Groothertogdom Luxemburg.

Het station wordt beheerd door de Luxemburgse vervoerder CFL en ligt aan lijn 1b.

Merkholtz is het op twee na laatste station op de korte (9,4 km) enkelsporige zijtak die bij station Kautenbach van lijn 1 afsplitst. Station Wiltz is het huidige eindstation op de lijn.

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Zeritis Group is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Konstantinos Karagiannis as Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective January 1st, 2018. He will succeed in the position the late Founder of the Group, Mr. Panos Zeritis.
Mr. Karagiannis overtakes after his successful tenure as Group CFO, where he was responsible for streamlining cash flows and leading strategic initiatives across the Group's countries of presence; previously Mr. Karagiannis has held positions in Retail, Wealth Management and Investment Advisory. In his new role, he will be overseeing all sectors and functions of the Group.
"After conducting a thorough analysis of our priorities and targets, we have decided to promote Mr. Karagiannis to the position of Group CEO. Mr. Karagiannis embodies the values of Zeritis Group and has guided its transformation throughout the last two years, understanding well the dynamics of the organization. This well-deserved promotion will enable us to put into practice a well thought action plan for the coming years. As Group CEO, Mr. Karagiannis will work alongside ourselves to position Zeritis Group for sustained success.


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Why News of Iraq Dropped
By Mark Jurkowitz
May 24, 2007 may not go down as a red letter date in the history of the Iraq conflict. But it helped mark a turning point in media coverage of the third-longest war in U.S. history.
On that date, Congress voted to fund the war without troop withdrawal timetables, giving President Bush a major victory in his months-long struggle with the new Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill. Journalists covering that struggle concluded that the White House had prevailed and the political fight over Iraq was no longer a hot story. "Congress Bows to Bush, OKs Iraq Funds," declared a headline on an Associated Press story.
From January 2007—when Bush announced the "surge"—through the end of May 2007, Iraq had been the dominant story, accounting for 20% of all the news coverage measured by PEJ's News Coverage Index. But from the time of that May funding vote through the war's fifth anniversary on March 19, 2008, coverage plunged by about 50 %. In that period, the media paid more than twice as much attention to the presidential campaign than the war.
All that helps explain another eye-catching statistic. In the first three months of 2008, coverage of the campaign outstripped coverage of the war by a margin of nearly 11-to-one (43% of the newshole compared to 4%). In an environment in which newsroom cutbacks and decreasing resources may make it more difficult for news outlets to stay atop two ongoing mega-stories, the media, for now, have made their priorities clear.
The PEJ's News Coverage Index divided overall Iraq coverage into three separate threads. The largest component in 2007, the Iraq policy debate, involved the Washington-based political fight over the war. The next largest component, events in Iraq, dealt with everything from the bloodshed to the political situation inside that country. The smallest thread, the war and the homefront, included the impact on the conflict inside the U.S.
Nowhere was the drop-off in coverage more acute than with the policy debate thread. In January 2007, with the media anticipating a fierce battle over Iraq purse strings between Congress and the White House, the Iraq policy debate alone generated 17% of the coverage. In the first three weeks of March 2008, with no prospect of any significant changes in U.S. policy until at least the November election, that thread is down to 2%.
But there is another key reason why the war has virtually disappeared from the headlines and talk shows these days—and that's the situation inside Iraq itself. The reduction in violence on the ground that began late last year has coincided with a significant decrease in coverage from the war zone as well.
Through the first half of 2007, about half the stories from Iraq examined in a PEJ study were about the continuing drumbeat of daily violence. From July through October, that number fell to a little more than one-third. In November, stories filed from Iraq began to take greater notice of the surge's success in reducing violence, even as the volume of coverage tapered off, evidence perhaps of the old adage that no news is good news. (So far in 2008, events on the ground in Iraq are accounting for only 2% of the newshole, but any sustained uptick in violence there could once again lead to an increase in coverage. )
With the violence down, some have criticized journalists for not producing other stories that would paint a richer portrait of life, and perhaps progress, in Iraq. The results of a PEJ survey last year of 111 journalists who have worked in Iraq reveal the extent to which basic security concerns limited the scope of their reporting. A full 57% of those journalists reported having local staff in Iraq murdered or kidnapped in the past year. And 87% said that at least half of Baghdad itself was too dangerous for a Western journalist to move around in. Unable to venture far, journalists identified the lives of Iraqi civilians and that country's economic and political situation as among the most under covered stories of the war.
"From the lack of movement, the countless inhibiting factors, it's constantly about trying to best put together the pieces of an inexplicable, intricate puzzle when you don't have all the pieces," one print journalist noted.
Finally, there is the inverse relationship between war coverage and coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign—an early-starting, wide-open affair that has fascinated the press since it began in earnest in January 2007. As attention to Iraq steadily declined, coverage of the campaign continued to grow throughout 2007 and early 2008, consuming more and more of the press' attention and resources. Moreover, the expectation that Iraq would dominate the campaign conversation proved to be wrong, at least to date, as the troubled economy emerged as a bigger election issue among voters than a five-year-old war with no quick resolution in sight.
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I've been making trail mix with peanuts, raisins, and white and semi-sweet chocolate chips. It started out as a snack on skiing days, but today I made it for after swimming lessons. I put some into a cup for each of the kids - Emmett ate all of his, but Luke and Henry didn't finish. Luke presented me with a cup with raisins and peanuts in it (and not a single chocolate chip). Henry, on the other hand, gave back a cup with some semi-sweet chips and raisins. I guess he has trouble finding the semi-sweet chips among the raisins - there's a pretty strong incentive for figuring this out, so I don't think it will be long before he does.
Emmett and Luke both had "firsts" today - Brighton has one lift, Milly, that's way off to one side that Luke hadn't been to yet (the classes don't go all the way over there). So in the morning they went to Milly so everyone has been on all of the lifts at the resort. And then in the afternoon David convinced Emmett to give Lower Pioneer a try (it's an easy black diamond). Everyone made it down just fine.
Today was probably the last good day of skiing this year - lots of fresh powder and temps near freezing made for good skiing, but the weather is warming up so the next few days will be slushy. Brighton's last day is Easter Sunday, and they have an egg hunt on the bunny hill, so we're planning to go and just have a good time. Who knows how much skiing will be done, but it will be a nice way to end the season.
Henry loves playing outside, and for the past few days he's been working on the tricycle. He'll often sit on it and push himself forward with his tippy-toes, but he's also been experimenting with pedaling. Today he's gotten pedaling down - he's riding around the driveway all by himself, looking very proud. He even steers!
Luke skied a black diamond run at Brighton on Friday. His instructor called it an "honorary" black diamond (I'm sure it's the easiest one on the mountain), but it's a black diamond! It was the same run (Lower Pioneer, I think) that David skied with an instructor who used a great deal of misdirection to get his class on it despite the black diamond label.
I'd been meaning to take the kids skiing all winter, but the thought was so daunting that we didn't get to it until 5 or 6 weeks ago on a beautiful Sunday when we went up to Brighton as a family to give it a try. It actually went well, so since then I've been taking the boys up any time our free days meet up with pleasant weather.
We've got a nice routine going. Luke takes lessons in the morning and afternoon, and Emmett usually skis with a friend, Eden, who lives near the resort. Henry naps in the carrier on my back and loves picking up ice from the ski school floor. He's made friends with some of the ski instructors and is universally proclaimed to be a cutie. Henry and I wander around the resort, taking the elevator and doing laps on the stairs. Emmett has been wearing a watch and is unbelievably reliable in meeting us at the correct time. We all have lunch together, then Luke does his afternoon lesson while Emmett skis with Eden again.
Emmett has had lessons a few times - he had a morning lesson the day we skied together as a family, one day when Eden wasn't available he took morning and afternoon lessons, and last Sunday when we went up with David he had a morning lesson again. He's gotten much more comfortable skiing and has ridden just about every blue and green run on the mountain - no black diamonds yet.
Luke can't ski independently yet. He can't always get up if he falls awkwardly, and he's too young to give a watch and have him meet us. Emmett isn't skilled enough to be his wrangler, so the Luke's been taking two lessons a day most days that we ski. Because of that, he may be the best skier in the family! He's also been all over the resort, and his instructor today said he could ski black diamonds, but probably would use a wedge not parallel turns (so it would be better to keep him on less steep runs until he's more solid with parallel turns). His instructor called him a natural skier.
David, of course, has only been up to ski twice this year. On the first day, he found it difficult to ski with Emmett because he was skiing slowly and it's hard work to go that slow down the mountain for a full grown adult. Yesterday afternoon he skied with Emmett and Luke. This time, the trouble was that they're so fast.
Brighton has lessons for 3 year olds, but Henry won't be 3 until the season is over next year. It may be possible to get private lessons - they have a parent/child option. It's too bad that David and I aren't solid skiers. One of the instructors recommended getting him skis, tip clamps, and a leash and just skiing with him, but I'm not sure we could comfortably do that. It will probably be another year of playing at the resort before Henry and I can start taking lessons.
A few weeks ago, Henry started really fighting when it was time to get on pajamas. After a couple of brutal nights, I was fighting him into pajamas early enough that I decided to let him run around naked for a while. After going through the nightly routine with Emmett and Luke, Henry was willing to get into his pajamas and Naked Time was born. Now, when it's time for bed, the first thing I do is undress Henry. Then I help Emmett and Luke get ready for bed, read stories, and finally put pajamas on Henry. Works like a charm.


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DUI/DWI Defense
Why Should You Not Just Plead Guilty?
Obviously, someone who just plead guilty would forego any chance to get better than the standard sentence, which in New Jersey would involve anywhere from three to twelve months for a first offense DWI depending on the circumstances, along with three to twelve months loss of license.
They would have to undergo twelve hours in an Intoxicated Driver Resource Center, and they would have to pay fines of about $650. There would also be subsequent yearly surcharges of $1,000 for three years.
Someone with a blood alcohol level of 0.15 on a first offense, could also end up with an interlock device which would be placed on the ignition of their car for a period of time before they could get their license back. It would remain even after the person got their license back.
The best and only way for someone to avoid some or all of those penalties, would be for them to defend themselves in court. There would be no real backdoor for avoiding the penalties. There would be no temporary license or work license and there would be no hardship exception to paying fines or surcharges. All of those would be mandatory.
A frontloaded defense would be the best way to make it easier or at least have the chance to make it easier on the person in the coming months and years after a DWI charge.
The Courts Have To Sentence People According To The Law For DWI
While they would not necessarily be unsympathetic, the courts and the prosecutors would be obliged to follow the law. From a prosecutor's standpoint, this means they would typically move forward with the DWI case if they felt they could prove the case against the person, and there would really not be too much discretion there.
The prosecution would oftentimes move to dismiss the charge if they found there were problems with the case, or they would perhaps insert a reduced charge in place of the original charge based on the evidence that came to light later.
People have the best chance of getting a better result if they hire an attorney. The prosecution usually does not like reinvestigating their own cases, which is why an outside person like an attorney would be the best person to bring up flaws before the date of a trial.
The judges are obliged to impose sentences based on what a person admitted to at the plea hearing. So for example, if a person admitted to the crime and the offer was to plead guilty to a standard DWI, then the judge would be obliged to impose a sentence of three to twelve months loss of license, fines, classes, surcharges and a possible ignition interlock device.
Timeline Of What Happens After Being Pulled Over For Suspicion Of DWI Until Sentencing
There would typically be an almost immediate request for an admission whenever someone had been stopped or investigated for driving while intoxicated. They would be asked if they had been drinking or if they had ingested something that might intoxicate them.
This would be followed up by a standardized field sobriety test during which the officer would get the person out of the vehicle to do the tests to observe the person's coordination and balance. This would typically be followed by putting handcuffs on the person and putting them into the back of a police cruiser.
The person would be then taken to the headquarters of the police station and at that point, they would be requested to give a sample of their breath and/or urine if the facts and circumstances dictated it. At that point, the person would typically be released into the custody of somebody else who could pick them up. The car would be held for 12 hours and they would then be released.
At that point, the person would be given a court date which would be the first appearance date. This is when the judge would tell the person what they had been charged with, what the potential penalties were and they would inform them about their rights to trial and their rights to counsel.
The person could then fill out an application for a public defender or they could ask the judge to adjourn the case so that they could retain private counsel.
When someone retains me before that arraignment date, as it is sometimes called, I would usually waive that arraignment date, explain the charges and penalties to my client myself and then begin working on the defense of the case. This would involve requesting discovery and possibly getting an expert to review the discovery and then I would talk to my client about our plan of defense.
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    else {
        // TODO eliminate this block once minimum version is OS X 10+
#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
        Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersionMajor, &osxMajorVersion);
        Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersionMinor, &osxMinorVersion);
        Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersionBugFix, &osxPatchFixVersion);
#pragma clang diagnostic pop
    }
    NSString *versionString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d.%d.%d", osxMajorVersion,
                               osxMinorVersion, osxPatchFixVersion];
    return versionString;
#endif
}

+ (NSString *) getOSType {
#if SNOWPLOW_TARGET_IOS
    return @"ios";
#elif SNOWPLOW_TARGET_TV
    return @"tvos";
#else
    return @"osx";
#endif
}

+ (NSString *) getAppId {
    return [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];
}

+ (NSString *)urlEncodeString:(NSString *)s {
    if (!s) {
        return @"";
    }
    return (NSString *)CFBridgingRelease(
            CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(
                NULL,
                (CFStringRef) s,
                NULL,
                (CFStringRef)@"!*'\"();:@&=+$,/?%#[]% ",
                CFStringConvertNSStringEncodingToEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)));
}

+ (NSString *)urlEncodeDictionary:(NSDictionary *)d {
    NSMutableArray *keyValuePairs = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:d.count];
    [d enumerateKeysAndObjectsUsingBlock:^(NSString *key, NSString *value, BOOL *stop) {
        [keyValuePairs addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@=%@", [self urlEncodeString:key], [self urlEncodeString:[value description]]]];
    }];
    return [keyValuePairs componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
}

+ (NSInteger) getByteSizeWithString:(NSString *)str {
    return [str lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
}

+ (BOOL) isOnline {
    BOOL online = YES;
#if SNOWPLOW_TARGET_IOS
    Reachability * reachability = [Reachability reachabilityForInternetConnection];
    NetworkStatus networkStatus = [reachability currentReachabilityStatus];
    online = networkStatus != NotReachable;
#endif
    return online;
}

+ (void) checkArgument:(BOOL)argument withMessage:(NSString *)message {
    if (!argument) {
        [NSException raise:@"IllegalArgumentException" format:@"%@", message];
    }
}

+ (NSDictionary *) removeNullValuesFromDictWithDict:(NSDictionary *)dict {
    NSMutableDictionary *cleanDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
    for (NSString * key in [dict allKeys]) {
        if (![[dict objectForKey:key] isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]]) {
            [cleanDictionary setObject:[dict objectForKey:key] forKey:key];
        }
    }
    return cleanDictionary;
}

@end