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package jetbrick.reflect;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.*;
import jetbrick.lang.ArrayUtils;
import jetbrick.lang.concurrent.ConcurrentInitializer;
import jetbrick.lang.concurrent.LazyInitializer;

/**
 * 构造函数和方法的公共基类.
 *
 * @author Guoqiang Chen
 */
public abstract class Executable {

    public abstract KlassInfo getDeclaringKlass();

    public abstract String getName();

    public abstract int getOffset();

    private final ConcurrentInitializer<List<ParameterInfo>> parametersGetter = new LazyInitializer<List<ParameterInfo>>() {
        @Override
        protected List<ParameterInfo> initialize() {
            Executable object = Executable.this;

            Class<?>[] parameterTypes = object.getParameterTypes();
            if (parameterTypes.length == 0) {
                return Collections.emptyList();
            }
            Type[] genericParameterTypes = object.getGenericParameterTypes();
            Annotation[][] parameterAnnotations = object.getParameterAnnotations();

            ParameterInfo[] parameters = new ParameterInfo[genericParameterTypes.length];
            for (int i = 0; i < parameters.length; i++) {
                parameters[i] = new ParameterInfo(object, parameterTypes[i], genericParameterTypes[i], parameterAnnotations[i], i);
            }
            return Arrays.asList(parameters);
        }
    };

    public List<ParameterInfo> getParameters() {
        return parametersGetter.get();
    }

    public abstract int getParameterCount();

    public abstract Class<?>[] getParameterTypes();

    public abstract Type[] getGenericParameterTypes();

    public Class<?>[] getRawParameterTypes(KlassInfo declaringKlass) {
        return getRawParameterTypes(declaringKlass.getType());
    }

    public Class<?>[] getRawParameterTypes(Class<?> declaringClass) {
        List<ParameterInfo> parameters = getParameters();
        int size = parameters.size();
        if (size == 0) {
            return ArrayUtils.EMPTY_CLASS_ARRAY;
        }
        Class<?>[] types = new Class<?>[size];
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            types[i] = parameters.get(i).getRawType(declaringClass);
        }
        return types;
    }

    public abstract boolean isVarArgs();

    public abstract Annotation[] getAnnotations();

    public abstract <T extends Annotation> T getAnnotation(Class<T> annotationClass);

    public abstract <T extends Annotation> boolean isAnnotationPresent(Class<T> annotationClass);

    public abstract Annotation[][] getParameterAnnotations();

    public abstract int getModifiers();

    public boolean isPrivate() {
        return Modifier.isPrivate(getModifiers());
    }

    public boolean isProtected() {
        return Modifier.isProtected(getModifiers());
    }

    public boolean isPublic() {
        return Modifier.isPublic(getModifiers());
    }

    private volatile String signature;

    public String getSignature() {
        if (signature == null) {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            sb.append(getDeclaringKlass().getType().getName());
            sb.append('#').append(getName()).append('(');
            Class<?>[] parameterTypes = getParameterTypes();
            for (int i = 0; i < parameterTypes.length; i++) {
                if (i > 0) {
                    sb.append(',');
                }
                sb.append(parameterTypes[i].getName());
            }
            sb.append(')');
            signature = sb.toString();
        }
        return signature;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return getSignature();
    }

}

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Dr. Riedel is a native of California. He graduated form University of California at Berkeley and received his medical degree from the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco. Following an internship at the University of Oregon, he spent three years in the United States Air Force. He then completed three years of eye surgery training including corneal and cosmetic facial aesthetic surgery at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Riedel is board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. He served as president of the East Bay Ophthalmic Society, past chief of staff at John Muir Medical Center and president of the California Association of Ophthalmology. He is a member of numerous ophthalmic societies, including The Pan American Association of Ophthalmology. He is actively involved with the Department of Ophthalmology at University of California at San Francisco as a board member of Beckman Vision Center.
Of special interest are humanitarian missions to third world countries, teaching and performing surgery on those unable to obtain sight-preserving therapies.


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JERSEY CITY | 401 Washington Blvd (Marbella 2) | FT | 38 FLOORS
New York Completed
MrVenaCava June 14, 2014, 10:53pm #1
Continuing the discussion from JERSEY CITY | The Waterfront Redevelopment:
Mack-Cali and Its Roseland Subsidiary Break Ground on 311-Unit Luxury Rental Building in Downtown Jersey City
Jersey City, New Jersey—December 5, 2013
Officials break ground on M2, the luxury high-rise in downtown Jersey City.
Mack-Cali Realty Corporation (NYSE: CLI), along with its Roseland subsidiary, broke ground Wednesday, Dec. 4th, on a project that will bring a brand new 38-story luxury rental tower to the ever-evolving skyline of downtown Jersey City.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop led a group of local officials, executives from Mack-Cali/Roseland, and other dignitaries in the ceremonious groundbreaking of the project. Known as M2, the new building will rise on the Marbella development site at 401 Washington Blvd. and will be connected to the existing Marbella rental tower via a shared parking garage. The new tower will be 38 stories tall and will include 311 studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments.
Garden State Development, Inc. and Prudential Real Estate Investors have partnered with Mack‑Cali/Roseland for the development of M2. JP Morgan Chase is the lead lender, with participation from Wells Fargo.
Marbella, the existing residential building on the property, is a 39-story rental tower with 412 apartments. It opened in 2004 and was the tallest residential building in New Jersey at the time. Marbella and M2 will share a 16,000-square-foot landscaped roof deck, with pool, which will connect the two buildings.
The amenities at M2 will be highlighted by a unique 1,200-square-foot resident event room on the 38th floor of the building, with an attached 800-square-foot terrace overlooking the Hudson River and the Manhattan skyline. Other planned amenities include a 1,700-square-foot club room with lounge and billiard table, conference room, fitness center with yoga studio, children's play room, and an on-site dog run. Most units will have floor-to-ceiling windows to maximize the spectacular views of the river, the Manhattan skyline, and Jersey City.
The exterior of M2 will consist of dark red brick masonry panels on concrete block back up with cast stone highlights, which matches the exterior of Marbella and several historic structures in the area. The building's architect, SLCE, has designed many other towers in the neighborhood.
M2 is projected to bring 400 new construction jobs, 18 new full-time jobs, and approximately 600 new residents to Jersey City. Roseland will oversee the leasing and management responsibilities of M2 upon completion of the project. Initial occupancy is scheduled for the first quarter of 2016.
20140603_140214 by drken10003, on Flickr
MrVenaCava July 2, 2014, 2:21am #2
New Construction in Newport - Jersey City,New Jersey by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
MrVenaCava August 9, 2014, 12:30am #3
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MrVenaCava September 20, 2014, 4:51am #4
Brandon Nagle
MrVenaCava November 6, 2014, 2:45am #5
Jersey City Rising - Marbelle M2 by Nexis4Jersey09, on Flickr
MrVenaCava December 23, 2014, 8:15pm #6
Urbanism vs Modernism
chris08876 September 6, 2015, 11:18pm #7
Pic by me
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chris08876 July 9, 2016, 1:35pm #8
This tower is complete.
Credit: http://m2.prospectportal.com/Apartments/module/photos/property[id]/188344/

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Online binary classification via Stochastic Gradient Descent.
loss: string denoting the loss function to use. Can be hinge, log, modifiedHuber, perceptron or squaredHinge. Default: log.
hinge: hinge loss corresponding to a soft-margin linear Support Vector Machine (SVM), which can handle non linearly separable data.
log: logistic loss. Corresponds to Logistic Regression.
modifiedHuber: Huber loss variant for classification.
perceptron: hinge loss without a margin. Corresponds to the original Perceptron by Rosenblatt.
squaredHinge: squared hinge loss SVM (L2-SVM).
Update the model coefficients in light of incoming data. y has to be either +1 or -1, x a numeric array of predictors. The number of predictors is decided upon first invocation of this method. All subsequent calls must supply x vectors of the same dimensionality.
Calculates the linear predictor for a given feature vector x. Given x = [x_0, x_1, ...] and model coefficients c = [c_0, c_1, ...], the linear predictor is equal to x_0*c_0 + x_1*c_1 + ... + c_intercept. For the logistic and modified Huber loss functions, supply probability for the type parameter to retrieve prediction probabilities.


Middle aged man covered in scars, who carries himself with military pose. Always smokes a cigar, except when he wears a helmet. There seems to be an odd aroma piercing through the smoke, a slight whiff of brimstone though sometimes, just for a moment, one can catch a terrible stench in their nostrils - the unique putrid smell of a drowned corpse. Combined with some odd traits of this man, such as his claw - like steel gauntlets, that seem to fit his hands perfectly and which he never takes off, and sharp, shark - like teeth, it give a certain odd vibe to his looks, especially combined with ever - present roguish grin, that makes his jagged teeth shine like a silver coin behind chimney sweep's ear. A long scar from a sword cuts the man's left cheek in two, making it look like he is constantly smirking a weird half-smile. He keeps his hair a bit longer, sometimes wrapping it in a tarred ponytail.
There's a tattoo on the man's back, just beneath the neck, depicting an eerily detailed, protected by a circle of Abyssal runes of binding, set of screaming in pain lips. In true form, the tattoo'd disappear, revealing instead a reflective surface of a pulsting with pale, smokey light, black crystal.
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Q: CSV insertion using SQLCMD, how to do it? I have been reading a lot of forums and tutorials where other users ask the same but the answer is almost the same always: use BCP.EXE (BULK INSERT) instead to import, and also export with BCP.EXE using native format.
But in some post I read that there is a (complicated) way to do it with SQLCMD, and my need now is strongly requesting me to to it through SQLCMD as the target is an Azure SQL DB. Does anyone know the steplist to follow? Or any useful resource that can share with me?
Thank you very much in advance.
I'm expecting to use only SQLCMD to insert the CSV data into an Azure SQL DB.

A: No, you can use SQLCMD to convert data:
sqlcmd -S ipdb -U sa -P "passwordsa" -d dbname -Q "select * from tabelname" -o "direktori/file.csv" -s"," -W -w 700

Or BCP to import data:
bcp Tablename in ~/filename.txt -S localhost -U sa -P <your_password> -d Databasename -c -t  ','

Why don't you use SSMS to import the CSV?

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McCartney has been involved in musical theater and community choirs from a very young age, and has since stayed heavily involved in music and theatrical programs, both in school and in the community. She has been in productions such as "Annie," "The Sound of Music," "Lost Socks," "Passing Go!," "Seussical," and "A Little Princess". While in school, She was a member of the all-region choir and band for four years, and afterwards attended College in Texas on a music scholarship. She was a member of four different musical groups; chorale, show choir, chamber singers, and concert band, and was elected section leader for the Texas All State Choir in San Antonio for two years.
Currently, she works both as a teacher at Shiloh house, and as a coach that lives and breathes Headliner Vocals. As one of the original coaches at Headliners, she's had a major role in coaching vocal group classes and private lesson students in the Headliner performances and concerts. She is constantly looking forward to seeing how much her students grow from one concert to the next! McCartney is thrilled to be a part of the Headliners team, and looks forward to helping you grow as a vocalist!
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Originally from the Bay Area, Jeevee has had the pleasure of working with many artist from different backgrounds of musical styles including Pop, R&B, Jazz, Classical, Musical Theater, Hip-Hop and Gospel. Jeevee has toured with the Diablo Valley College Concert Choir, the 9th St. Singers (runner up at Mile High Vocal Jam) and CU Denver's Musical Theater Ensemble. His performance credits include The Wiz, Godspell, Into the Woods as well as being a founding member of FIFTH (Fellas in Fine Tune Harmony) a R&B group based in the Bay Area. He has immense experience in gospel and has served as Music Director to various churches.
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You'll Never Guess What Taco Bell Has Added to the Menu at One Location
Image: Taco Bell
The bell in the name Taco Bell has taken on a new significance at the chain's store on the Strip in Las Vegas. Since early August, the sound of wedding bells has become a fixture there. The restaurant is the first of any fast food chain in the nation to perform honest-to-goodness marriage ceremonies right there on the premises.
According to Travel Weekly, the flagship Vegas branch kicked off its new service with a Love and Tacos contest for couples with imminent plans to tie the knot. The winning couple would be the first to be married at Taco Bell Cantina, and the cost would be on the casa.
Weddings at Taco Bell Cantina will set taco lovers back $600. The price includes a ceremony conducted by an ordained officiant (in the restaurant's private chapel, no less) and a reception held in a private area of the restaurant for up to 15 people.
And that's just for starters. The restaurant also throws in:
custom merchandise for the couple (may include a sauce packet garter and bow tie),
"Just Married" T-shirts,
branded Champagne flutes,
and a sauce packet bouquet.
Sauce packet bouquet (Image: Taco Bell)
And in case you're wondering about the catering, the couple receives a Cinnabon Delights cake and even a taco 12-pack to tide them through their honeymoon.
What could be more romantic?
You can find more information at Taco Bell's wedding page.
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We're starting our vacation Tuesday. At the crack of dawn. I'm serious. Our flight leaves at 820 so we're waking up at 5. As in 5 AM.
I am not a morning person so it's going to be painful. But I can try to sleep on the airplane and remind myself that we're on VACATION.
We're headed to Gettysburg. Then Williamsburg. And finally North Carolina to visit my husband's mom and sister. Part of the trip will be by plane. But the other part is by vehicle. And we have the kids with us, so that can cause me to be like..
I have ideas on what to bring when traveling with children and yes, alcohol is involved.
1. Headphones. For them. Having to listen to their ridiculous games on the iPod or YouTube videos can be irritating. Also, pick up a pair for you. The noise canceling ones are fabulous.
2. Earplugs. If headphones aren't for you, get some of these.
3. Booze. You know. If the headphones or earplugs didn't help. But never ever while driving. Obviously.
4. Chocolate. If you aren't into booze. Honestly, I don't drink much. I prefer the sweets. I'll eat my feelings, no problem.
5. A nanny. Pawn the children off on her. Or him. I'm not opposed to male nannies. Granted, I'm not Mariah Carey so I don't have the cash for a nanny. Sadly. But if I did, I'd be all, "Kids, you're going with Mary Poppins, see ya when we arrive at our destination!"
6. Entertainment. For them. For you. I usually buy new toys from the dollar spot at Target and hand those over to the kids. They also have Nintendo 3DSes so I get them a new game. This generally keeps them quiet. Entertainment for me means trashy magazines and books. I tell the kids not to bug me unless it's an emergency.
Omg I am so with you right now! We just got back from "vacation" with a 13 month old. I needed a nanny for sure!
Definitely need some booze! Hehe Have a great time!
Bwahahahaha. This is the best post packing tip post I have EVER read. You hit the nail on the head with all of these. I love my kids, but let's not sugar coat it. Kids can be awful sometimes.
I always pack twice as many outfits as I think I need because kids get dirty. I also bring earplugs to keep the noise out at night.
You need snacks for the kids to keep them quite and busy!! Hope the trip went as smooth as possible even at the crack of dawn!
Loved this post! I am currently on holiday with my own two so totally get this!
My daughter and her husband just got back from a cross country trip with their three boys - 5, 3 and 1. She's got nerves of steel, but I'm sure a glass or two of wine was in order each night after she finally got them all three to sleep.
I found small snack packs were great to pack too. I love the Dollar Store toy idea. Something new that they're not going to lose interest in right away would be nice.
Hahaha I love this!!! Have an amazing vacation!
I definitely agree with needing all of these essentials, especially those ear plugs! Whether with kids or alone, I never travel without ear plugs. They are perfect for crowded planes and noisy hotel rooms.
This is definitely a must have list!! I might have a few other things I'd add, but this is a great start!
Haha I wouldn't have an idea when to start packing with kids, but it sounds like the perfect start to a list for sure.
I think it's great that you travel with kids. And thank you for their headphones. Sometimes parents will blast their child's game or show in public places and I want to strangle them (the parents, not the kids).
Haha INDEED to all the above! Had me laughing from the start. So true too! Thank you!
Oh yes...plus lots and lots of snacks. My kids get HANGRY, so I need food readily available.
Entertainment is so important to bring when we go on a trip. I wish I could bring a Nanny along. I will have to try some ear plugs next time.
hahaha yes these are musts for traveling! Hope you get there with some sanity still intact!
These are too funny. I think you've got a lot of them right! Wouldn't it be nice to have a nanny all the time?
This post cracked me up. kids can be crazy; we need crazy ideas!
YES to headphones and entertainment!! I recently traveled for 18 hours in the car with my niece and the iPad and headphones were a lifesaver!
How fun to be heading off on a fabulous family adventure. Chocolate is the perfect pick-me-up for stressful travel situations. Booze - maybe. Hahahaa. But entertainment for the kiddos is definitely a must. Many good wishes for a wonderful vacation!
What a funny post. Gadgets are definitely lifesavers when traveling with the kiddos.
Chocolate is a brilliant idea. I always bring snacks for others but never think of myself.
Travel and kids aren't always things that go together. But the right attitude and a good set of noise cancelling headphones do wonders.
I love this list. Its accurate and totally honest. I'm loving the chocolate and earplug ideas!!
Sigh. A nanny. I was just thinking today how much I want one for mornings here. We still can't get it together and at least three out of four of us are fairly self-sufficient. No offense to Des, but he's.. five.
For us, bringing food and gadgets with headphones is a must. We also bring medicine just in case we get motion sickness.
I'm all for the headphones for kids with devices. It's extremely rude to allow children to blare their games in a confined area without consideration for people around them. I was on a flight one time where a parent refused to make their child mute their device - and the flight attendant refused to deal with it. By the time our flight landed, I had a serious migraine. I don't like it in restaurants, either. Thank you for reinforcing this with your kids.
Have an enjoyable trip! This is a handful list. Love to pack snacks and neck rest when travelling long haul.
I can only imagine all the challenges!!
Hahaha! I love traveling, even if it is a challenge at times. And, yes, don't forget the booze.
Ha! I'm like you - I don't drink much but you better give me my chocolate!! I HAVE to have it when I travel - and if I forget it, there's always those overpriced stores at the airport!
How funny! Booze and chocolates...are must haves for me! Thanks for sharing!
I love your post. I hope you guys enjoy your vacation and having headphones is a must for any trip. Thanks for sharing.
I am not yet a parent but I can relate to it for my friends kids. Haha Chocolates makes them hyper and iphones and gadgets makes them stay put over the rest of the flight then food alternate.
My father always travels with earplugs. It's not always for the noise.
My son is now a teen so no big deal for us when it comes to traveling. But even when he was younger, he was never a problem. Lucky me, I guess. :) Enjoy your vacay!
Booze. Booze. All the booze. LOL! Because booze helps everything.
So, so funny, and that photograph! I can honestly say on my last flight I got so fed up of my hubby and son that I actually found an empty seat and moved.
There's no way we couldn't be able to go anywhere without some entertainment. Thankfully my oldest is starting to get used to wearing headphones as well.


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William Shirer
Served as the foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service.
William Shirer American Journalist
The same Nazi circles which last August said that Britain and France wouldn't fight after the first Nazi-Soviet accord, tonight were sure that the two democracies would agree to stop the war now. They .may be wrong again, though I'm not quite sure.
Source: Shirer W. Berlin diary: The journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941. New York, 1942
I went to the State Opera tonight before my broadcast, George Kidd of U .P. suggesting it would be good for our nerves. It was the opening night of the season and the piece an old favourite, Weber's Freischiitz. I was a little surprised at the state of my nerves. I could not sit through it. I could not stand the sight of all the satisfied burghers, men and women, many of them in evening dress, and even the music didn't sound right. Amusing only was a special sheet of paper in the program instructing what to do in case of an air-raid alarm. Since there is no cellar in the Opera, a map showed me how to get to my cellar, which was Number One Keller. The alarm, the instructions said, would be announced from the stage. I was then to keep calm, call for my hat and coat at the Garderobe, and proceed to the cellar. At the all-clear I was to return to the Opera, check my hat and coat, and the opera would go on from where it left off. There was no alarm. Ribbentrop is in Moscow and we wonder what he's up to.
Photo: Vostock Photo
They buried General von Fritsch here this morning. It rained, it was cold and dark - one of the dreariest days I can remember in Berlin. Hitler did not show up, nor Ribbentrop, nor Himmler, though they all returned to Berlin from the front this afternoon. The official death notices in the papers omitted the usual "Died for Fuhrer" and said only: "Died for the Fatherland." See more
Yesterday after Goebbels had finished fuming, some of us correspondents gathered in the street outside and concluded that Fritsch was either shot by order of Himmler, his mortal enemy, or was so disgusted with life and the state to which Hitler had led Germany (disgusted perhaps too at the senseless slaughter by German bombs and shells of the women and children in Warsaw?) that he deliberately sought to be killed; that is, committed suicide. What, we asked, was a general of his rank doing in the front line outside of Warsaw, where the snipers have been picking off German troops at an alarming rate? Actually, I hear, he was killed while advancing with a small detachment of scouts up a street in a suburb across the Vistula from the capital. A curious thing for Germany's greatest modern military figure to be doing.
Video: Film archive Net-film.ru
Dr. GoebbelsGerman Minister of Propaganda convoked a special press conference this morning. We piled over to the Propaganda Ministry thinking maybe peace had come, or something. The little Doktor stalked in, snorting like a bull, and proceeded to devote his entire time to an attack on Knickerbocker, whom he called "an international liar and counterfeiter." The Doc said that he himself, as a journalist, had never defamed anyone in his life!
Seems Knick published a story saying the top Nazis had deposited gold abroad to guard against a rainy day in case they lost the war. This made Doktor G . furious . He revealed he had broadcast from the German shortwave stations Thursday night (September 21) a call to Knick offering him ten per cent of any sum he could prove the Nazis had salted abroad. A curious offer. He said he gave him until . Saturday night (last night) to prove it. Apparently Knick was at sea, bound for New York. The story around here is that Knick radioed back that as with all German ultimatums the time limit had expired before he received it .
Video: Onyx Media, Llc - Footage/Gettyimages.ru
Starting day after tomorrow, new ration cards for food. The German people will now get per week: one pound of meat, five pounds of bread, three quarters of a pound of fats, three quarters of a pound of sugar, and a pound of ersatz coffee made of roasted barley seeds. Heavy labourers are to get double rations, and Dr. Goebbels - clever man! - has decided to classify us foreign correspondents as heavy labourers.
Photo: Ullstein bild / Gettyimages.ru
Two bomb explosions in Berlin last Sunday night, one in front of the Air Ministry, the other in the entryway of secret-police headquarters in the Alexanderplatz. No mention of them, of course, in the press or on the radio. The perpetrators got away in the black-out.
If the war goes on, it is still a question in my mind whether the mass of the people won't swing behind the regime.
I have still to find a German, even among those who don't like the regime, who sees anything wrong in the German destruction of Poland. All the moral attitudes of the outside world regarding the aggression against Poland find little echo among the people here. See more
People of all classes, women as well as men, have gathered in front of the windows in Berlin for a fortnight and approvingly gazed at the maps in which little red pins showed the victorious advance of the German troops in Poland. As long as the Germans are successful and do not have to pull in their belts too much, this will not be an unpopular war.
In the Saar village of Ottweiler yesterday the Germans buried with full military honours Lieutenant Louis Paul Dechanel of the French army. His father had been President of France. He was killed leading a detachment against the Westwall. At his burial a German military band played the Marseillaise. The Germans took a news-reel of the ceremony and will use it in their propaganda to show the French they haven't anything against France.
Gdańsk, Poland
Today I have had a glimpse of an actual battle, one of the last of the Polish war, which is as good as over. It was going on two miles north of Gdynia on a ridge that stretched for seven miles inland from the sea. There was something about it that was very tragic and at the same time grotesque.
We stood on a hill called the Sternberg in the midst of the city of Gdynia under a huge - irony! - cross. It was a German observation post. Officers stood about, peering through field-glasses. Across the city over the roofs of the modern buildings of this model new town that was the hope of Poland we watched the battle going on two miles to the north. See more
The Germans were using everything in the way of weapons, big guns, small guns, tanks, and airplanes. The Poles had nothing but machine-guns, rifles, and two anti-aircraft pieces which they were trying desperately to use as artillery against German machine-gun posts and German tanks. You could hear the deep roar of the German artillery and the rat-tat-tat of the machine-guns on both sides. The Poles - we gathered from the sound of their fire, because you could see very little, even through glasses - not only were defending themselves from trenches and behind clumps of bushes but were using every building they held as machinegun nests.
After a half-hour, a German shell struck the roof of the school and set it on fire. Then German infantry, supported - or through the glasses, it looked as though they were led - by tanks, charged up the hill and surrounded the building. But they did not take it. The Poles kept machine-gunning them from the basement windows of the burning building.
Directly below us in Gdynia's streets, women and children stood about, sullen and silent, watching the unequal battle. Before some of the buildings, long lines of Poles stood waiting for food. Before mounting the hill I had noted the terrible bitterness in their faces, especially in those of the women.
Sopot, Poland
Drove all day long from Berlin through Pomerania and the Corridor to here. The roads full of motorized columns of German troops returning from Poland. In the woods in the Corridor the sickening sweet smell of dead horses and the sweeter smell of dead men. Here, the Germans say, a whole division of Polish cavalry charged against hundreds of German tanks and was annihilated. On the pier of this summer resort where just five weeks ago John Gunther and I sat far into the peaceful night arguing whether the guns would go off or not in Europe, we watched tonight the battle raging around Gdynia. Far off across the sea you could see the sky light up when the big guns went. See more
Dr. Boehmer, press chief of the Propaganda Ministry in charge of this trip, insisted that I share a double room in the hotel here with Phillip Johnson, an American fascist who says he represents Father Coughlin's Social Justice. None of us can stand the fellow and suspect he is spying on us for the Nazis. For the last hour in our room here he has been posing as anti-Nazi and trying to pump me for my attitude. I have given him no more than a few bored grunts.
I heard today on very good authority that Russia may attack Poland.
A few words on a dry subject. How does the Allied blockade affect Germany? It cuts her off from about 50 per cent of her normal imports. Chief products of which Germany is deprived are: cotton, tin, nickel, oil, and rubber. Russia might supply some cotton, but her total exports last year were only 2.5 per cent of Germany's annual needs. On the other hand Russia could probably supply Germany all the manganese and timber she needs, and - with Rumania - enough oil for military purposes at least. Iron? Last year Germany got about 45 per cent of her iron ore from France, Morocco, or other places from which she is now cut off. But Sweden, Norway, and Luxemburg provided her with eleven million tons. These supplies are still open. All in all, Germany is certainly hard hit by losing the sources of 50 per cent of her imports. But with the possibilities open to her in Scandinavia, the Balkans, and Russia she is not hit nearly so badly as she was in 1914.
One week after the Anglo-French declaration of a state of war the average German is beginning to wonder if it's a world war after all. He sees it this way. England and France, it is true, are formally fulfilling their obligations to Poland. For a week they have been formally at war with Germany. But has it been war? they ask. The British, it is true, sent over twenty-five planes to bomb Wilhelmshaven. But if it is war, why only twenty-five? And if it is war, why only a few leaflets over the Rhineland? The industrial heart of Germany lies along the Rhine close to France. From there come most of the munitions that are blowing up Poland with such deadly effect. Yet not a bomb has fallen on a Rhineland factory. Is that war? they ask. The long laces I saw a week ago today are not so long this Sunday.
Life here is still quite normal . The operas, the theatres, the movies, all open and jammed . Tannhauser and Madame Butterfly playing at the Opera. Goethe's Iphigenie at the State Theatre. The Metropol, Hitler's favourite show-house, announces a new revue Wednesday. The papers tonight say two hundred football matches were played in Germany today.
Have heard much talk today about peace! Idea is that after Germany's victory over Poland Hitler will offer the West peace. I wrote this rather carefully for my broadcast this evening, but the censor wouldn't allow a word of it.
It's just a week since the "counter-attack" began and tonight I learn from an army friend that the Germans are within twenty miles of Warsaw. A new decree today providing the death penalty for anyone "endangering the defensive power of the German people" - a term which will give Gestapo chief Himmler plenty of leeway. Another decree forces workers to accept new jobs even if they pay lower wages than jobs previously held.
The war is starting to hurt the average man. Tonight a decree providing for a surtax on the income tax of a straight fifty per cent and a big increase in the tax on beer and tobacco. Also a decree fixing prices and wages.
After midnight and no air-raid, even with the British and French in the war. Can it be that in this new World War they're not going to bomb the big cities, the capitals, the civilians, the women and children at home, after all? The people here breathing easier already. They didn't sleep much the first couple of nights.
On the feedback from New York tonight I heard the story of the sinking of the Athenia with 1,400 passengers, including 240 Americans, aboard. The English said it was a German U-boat. The Germans promptly denied it, though the German press and radio have been forbidden to mention the matter until tomorrow. I felt lousy talking from here at all tonight after that story and went out of my way to explain my personal position as an American broadcaster-that I had been assigned to give the news from Germany, that official statements such as the denial that a German submarine had torpedoed the Athena were part of that news, and that my orders from home were to refrain from expressing my personal opinions. The High Command has installed military censorship of everything I say, but fortunately the chief censor is a naval officer, an honourable and decent man. I have had some warm words with him the last couple of days, but within the limits of his job he has been reasonable.
I was standing in the Wilhelmplatz about noon when the loud-speakers suddenly announced that England had declared herself at war with Germany. Some 250 people were standing there in the sun. They listened attentively to the announcement. When it was finished, there was not a murmur. They just stood there as they were before. Stunned. The people cannot realize yet that Hitler has led them into a world war. No issue has been created for them yet, though as this day wears on, it is plain that "Albion's perfidy" will become the issue as it did in 1914. In Mein Kampf Hitler says the greatest mistake the Kaiser made was to fight England, and Germany must never repeat that mistake .
Hitler's "counter-attack" on Poland has on this Sabbath day become a world war! To record the date: September 3, 1939. The time: eleven a.m. At nine o'clock this morning Sir Nevile Henderson called on the German Foreign Minister and handed him a note giving Germany until eleven o'clock to accept the British demand that Germany withdraw her troops from Poland. He returned to the Wilhelmstrasse shortly after eleven and was handed the German reply in the form of a memorandum.


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Q: Does uk.co.threefi.kafka-connect-http support SSL connection I am using open source jar (https://github.com/thomaskwscott/kafka-connect-http) to create kafka http sink connector to write message to a third party system. I could see Bad certificate error in receiver's end. SSl certificate is not sent as part of request. Does this open source jar NOT support SSL connection?

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Unbound: All I Want For #CrowdfundChristmas
I love books. No surprises there. But what I love about them is not just their stories or even the writer's way with words. It's the physical thing. The words set in ink or pixels, the weight in my hands, the breath as I start a new page. There is something marvellous about books, they hold a kind of magic.
I also love to write. Again no surprises. But as everyone knows, writing books takes a bit of time, determination, and usually some serendipity in finding an agent and publisher. Writing, after all, is easy compared to seeing your words turned into a physical creation.
And so, this Christmas, despite in years past telling people not to try and fulfil my wishlist, this year I'm asking for something slightly different. I would like anyone interested in 'gifting' me something this year, to consider funding a book on Unbound. To spread a little bookish joy by helping authors to see their work in print.
Don't worry, I'm not suggesting you do this just for the warm fuzzies.
You'll get something in return too (karma works that way). For every pound of support you'll find yourself rewarded by the Unbound system (through books, access to the writer's 'shed', and if you're feeling very generous you might even end up at the odd launch party, rubbing shoulders with an author you've made happen, with a signed first edition tucked under one arm and your name in the book you funded).
Many of you will have heard me talk about Unbound before. And even those of you who haven't literally heard me talking about it, might have seen it mentioned here on the blog or across my various social media channels.
In summary: Unbound are a privately held international publishing house. They've adopted crowdfunding as their business model and are run primarily online. Allowing readers like us to choose what is published, Unbound offer a very simple solution to the struggle many writers face: finding someone to represent them.
This means it's super easy for readers to get involved in projects that intrigue us. Because through Unbound, the reading public come to represent the writing. If the book has enough backers to fund it through publication then it'll be published.
In my opinion, Unbound is one of the more exciting introductions to the publishing landscape in the last ten years. It's simple, innovative, and it's already seeing some impressive results (Paul Kingsnorth should be on all of your To Read Lists).
Below you'll find the books I'd love to see crowdfunded this Christmas – it's all non-fiction but maybe you'll find something you love. And if not, why not skip on over to the website and find something you do.
Books are now in your hands.
The House of Fiction
Take a tour through the many houses of Jane Austen and other literary heroes this Tuesday https://t.co/MMUxevMaVO pic.twitter.com/aVcCR3IMbU
— Unbound (@unbounders) November 17, 2015
Phyllis Richardson's 'The House of Fiction' comes top of the list for books I'd like to see funded for Christmas. And it's also the inspiration for this post, so I'm going to give it some TLC.
Summarised as a cultural exploration of Britain's most influential houses in literature, there's umpteen reasons for me wanting people to fund it.
For one, I would like to read it.
For two, the idea itself is lovely. Even the title goes back to one of those extended metaphors that resonates all the way back through literature, though perhaps most famously in the preface to The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, who built fiction into a house for the first time:
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million —a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable, in its vast front, by the need of the individual vision and by the pressure of the individual will. These apertures, of dissimilar shape and size, hang so, all together, over the human scene that we might have expected of them a greater sameness of report than we find. They are but windows at best, mere holes in a dead wall, disconnected, perched aloft; they are not hinged doors opening straight upon life. But they have this mark of their own that at each of them stands a figure with a pair of eyes, or at least with a field-glass, which forms, again and again, for observation, a unique instrument, insuring to the person making use of it an impression distinct from every other. He and his neighbors are watching the same show, but one seeing more where the other sees less, one seeing black where the other sees white, one seeing big where the other sees small, one seeing coarse where the other sees fine. And so on, and so on…
This is one of those insights into literature that stuck with me for the longest time. In part, no doubt because James Wood paraphrased it and then upturned it in How Fiction Works, the first book of literary criticism I used like a Holy Grail (oh, I know, lower your eyebrows ye Realism skeptics).
However, perhaps the biggest reason is just personal curiousity. Whilst most people think of houses in fiction as places like Satis House and Pemberly, as I finished my MA at Durham, one of the classes I took focused on literature and the supernatural. My interest, which was primarily oriented towards the medical humanities, was curious about the way physical and mental conditions underpinned many of ghost stories throughout history. Studying the links between science and supernatural, fact and fiction, lead me to Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. In the story, there is a curious fascination with the interior and exterior of buildings.
Jekyll's front door sits on a street that shines out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood. The backdoor, Hyde's entrance to the house, is an intrusion: 'a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained.'
Like the difference between the Jekyll and Hyde, the house reflects duality. It emphasises the mirage of success and the reality of squalor. Yet, of course, it also conveys that whilst there might be two men in appearance, they must inevitably share the same interior world.
Just from this one rushed and vaguely superficial reading, I hope you can see how the buildings are integral to the novel. How the house replicates something of the central conflict of Stevenson's novel.
If not, then you should probably invest in Richardson's book. She'll have much better insights than me.
The Sussex Devils
Can't wait to get stuck into this by the lovely @Marc_Heal available to order now at @unbounders #TheSussexDevils pic.twitter.com/fKGBIE3pMG
— The1971JB (@The1971JB) October 31, 2015
Fully funded and now in production, I would love to contribute more to this intriguing work of non-fiction.
The Sussex Devils by Marc Heal tells the story of The Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Part memoir, part mystery, it looks at the 'court case of a man named Derry Mainwaring Knight. He claimed that he was a senior member of a secret Satanic group operating at the highest levels of British society. Helped by a local priest, John Baker, vicar of the Sussex village of Newick, Knight had raised large sums from wealthy local gentry on the pretext of destroying powerful items of Satanic regalia and subvert the cabal from within.'
Heal, who some might know from his 1990s rock band Cubanate or the BBC World News series, Changing Fortunes, grew up in Sussex during the rise and fall of the 'Devils'. In fact, he was intimately connected to him, having been not only witness to the contemporary hysteria but subject to an attempted exorcism after his anxiety and drinking convinced several 'charismatic' Christians that he was possessed.
Small Town Noir
"In 2009, I bought a set of six mug shots. What made me interested in these particular photographs was that they came with criminal arrest records attached. Only very rarely do mug shots contain any information about the criminals they feature."
It might seem peculiar, but Diarmid Mogg, the writer of Small Town Noir, has collected over 1,500 mug shots from the long-forgotten Pennsylvanian town of New Castle. Described as 'an extraordinary collection' they cover one small American town from 1930-1960 and offer a rare and wonderful insight into 'the stories of grifters, drifters, the unlucky and the insane'.
As someone who has always found photography just that little bit eerie, and mug shots just that little bit fascinating, I really hope that more people move to fund this work-in-progress.
You can read more about some of the stories in the book over on Mogg's wordpress too!
Rebel, Rebel
Chris Sullivan & @johnmitchinson introducing Rebel Rebel on live on @sohoradio NOW http://t.co/r6eSrY0jjg http://t.co/oE2FJuOrKb #mavericks
— Unbound (@unbounders) September 16, 2015
Rebel Rebel: How Mavericks Made the Modern World is number four on my list. Written by Chris Sullivan, one of those self-styled mavericks whose been everywhere and done everything, I'm definitely drawn in by the blurb but mostly by his background.
So for the blurb, know that this is a book about otherness. About outsiders. Or atleast about people who thinking they're outsiders and 'others'. They're the people who self-ascribe weirdness and have somehow got away with it. Like Caitlin Moran.
But outsiders or not, I think the book sounds like the sort of romp through music, art and literature that I'd probably enjoy. And my dad. And probably my uncle. Plus, many of you will have heard of The Wag Club in Wardour Street. Sullivan was founder, host, director and DJ for 18 years at this place – one he calls 'a true home for outsiders and rebels – everyone from Prince to Lee Perry played live there.' So it's a book we could all enjoy.
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That Monster Called Anxiety
Almost all Scribblers suffer from the The Scribble Bug. It's an incurable condition, with common symptoms including bibliophilia, logophilia and a peculiar love of ink, paper and the smell of old books. And that's what this blog is really all about.
"A chance to drink time, not tea." ✨ . . Went to Somerset House yesterday for the 24/7 exhibit - described as a wake up call for our non-stop world, it attempts to hold a mirror up to our always-on culture and instead asks us to meditate, reflect and reset. Most of it was weird and challenging, decidedly multi sensory and some parts genuinely made me flinch, but I could have spent far far longer exploring all the different parts and highly recommend. . . #alwayson #artexhibit #somersethouse #time #sleep #artgallery #goodvibes #myeverydaymagic #alittlebeautyeveryday
Hazy lazy dreamy dazy and bemused - can I please be back in Antibes already?
Just drinking my best life 🌹✨ . . Back to the côte d'azure and the pretty little town of Antibes. Finishing Circe by Madeline Miller in the sun with a glass of Minuty in hand and the sound of the sea in my ear. It really doesn't get much better for a lazy wavy Saturday away. . . Plus, I'm loving all the books retelling and reimagining classical mythology right now, and reading in a bay, surrounded by blue mountains and lush Mediterranean coastlines definitely helps to set the scene for these stories of Ancient Greek witches and sharp-tongued Trojan women and wily goddesses. . . Which is all to say I quite like it over here and books are great and so is rosé and having salty skin and beach hair and holidays are magic. . . #roséallday #slayrosé #Antibes #mediterranean #travelgram #igtravel #iamatraveler #dametraveller #neverstopexploring #bookish #notallthosewhowanderarelost #positivity #suddefrance #voiledantibes #sailfastliveslow #pirateslifeforme #beachbabe #waterbaby #passionpassport #sheisnotlost #boatlife #beachlife #suitcasetravels #roseeveryday #minutymoments
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Despite the wet conditions we still had 11 turn up for the club session this evening!
We're getting over 20 regular attendees at our club nights.
Brampton Bicycle Club members cycling along the finish straight of the Women's Tour stage in Chesterfield.
Very sorry but we have to cancel this week's club session on 15th June. Three of our coaches have other commitments.
Club session on 22nd June will be our next.
We are starting again on Thursday June 8th and will meet every week until Thursday 20th July.


Encrypting files has become important in recent years as more and more cyber attacks are happening, and sensitive data is getting stolen. If you have not encrypted your confidential files yet, you should do so as soon as possible to prevent hackers from reading it.
In the following roundup we have listed six tools from our Software Discovery section that will help you encrypt files on your devices. Once encrypted, the files can only be accessed by you, unless, of course someone else knows your password.
FinalCrypt is a file encryption program that encrypts large files in a completely different way. It uses large cipher files, which can be any unique file like a personal photo or video.
Encrypto lets you encrypt files before sending them to friends or coworkers. Just drop a file into Encrypto, set a password, and then send it however you normally would – but this time with added security. It's free for both Mac and Windows.
Safe is an application that makes it easy to encrypt your files. When you encrypt your files with Safe, they are rendered unreadable to anyone who doesn't have your password.
Safe is cross-platform and currently runs on Windows and Mac OS X. It works with all applications and file types and can store encrypted files anywhere. It's also compatible with EncFS volumes.
CipherShed is cross-platform. It is available primarily for Windows, though Mac OS X and GNU/Linux users can compile the source code and use it on their OS.
Cryptomator provides transparent, client-side encryption for the cloud. Protect your documents from unauthorized access. Cryptomator is free and open-source software, so you can rest assured there are no backdoors.
It is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS devices.
VeraCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux, brought to you by IDRIX and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a.
The above apps should help you add a layer of protection to your sensitive files so they can't be accessed by unauthorized users. Our Software Discovery section contains many more useful apps that you can use to protect your files as well as perform a number of actions on them. Check it out and let us know your valuable feedback about it.
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from django.conf import settings

from rest_framework import serializers

from ..models import Schema, Table, Column, Function

class ColumnSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = Column
        fields = (
            'id',
            'order',
            'name',
            'query_strings',
            'description',
            'unit',
            'ucd',
            'utype',
            'datatype',
            'arraysize',
            'principal',
            'indexed',
            'std'
        )

class TableSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    columns = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    class Meta:
        model = Table
        fields = (
            'id',
            'order',
            'name',
            'query_strings',
            'description',
            'type',
            'utype',
            'columns'
        )

    def get_columns(self, obj):
        # filter the columns which are published for the groups of the user
        if not settings.METADATA_COLUMN_PERMISSIONS:
            queryset = obj.columns.all()
        else:
            queryset = obj.columns.filter_by_access_level(self.context['request'].user)
        return ColumnSerializer(queryset, context=self.context, many=True).data

class SchemaSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    tables = serializers.SerializerMethodField()

    class Meta:
        model = Schema
        fields = (
            'id',
            'order',
            'name',
            'query_strings',
            'description',
            'utype',
            'tables'
        )

    def get_tables(self, obj):
        # filter the tables which are published for the groups of the user
        queryset = obj.tables.filter_by_access_level(self.context['request'].user)
        return TableSerializer(queryset, context=self.context, many=True).data

class FunctionSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = Function
        fields = (
            'id',
            'order',
            'name',
            'query_string'
        )


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JetStyleManager: Styling Gutenberg Blocks with JetStyleManager
This overview describes the styling options that become available for you in the Gutenberg Editor after the activation of the JetStyleManager plugin.
Gutenberg editor doesn't have its own styling options. The only way to change the appearance of the page is to change the template of the whole website. JetStyleManager is a Gutenberg block styles plugin that adds the design customization block for JetPlugins that work with Gutenberg. Though the options in the Block Style menu are mostly the same as ones in the Elementor page builder's Style tab, users who have no experience with Elementor can be confused. This overview describes all the style settings to avoid that confusion.
Where could you apply the style settings?
JetStyleManager adds a "Block Style" button to the upper right corner of the editing window of the following blocks:
JetEngine Dynamic blocks (Dynamic Field, Dynamic Link, Dynamic Image, Dynamic Repeater, and Dynamic Meta);
JetEngine Listing Grid block;
All JetSmartFilters blocks;
JetFormBuilder plugin forms creation functionality;
JetFormBuilder and JetEngine Form block.
Block Style options
Mostly, the styling settings are similar for different blocks, so we will list all the possible options here in alphabetical order.
Children Offset Left
Field Content Alignment
Field Content Width
Field Element Position
Filter Position
Horizontal Gap
Icon Color
Icon Gap
Icon Orientation
Icon Position
Offset Left
Points Width/Height
Vertical Gap
Here you can select an alignment for the element on the page. It can be Left, Center, or Right.
This section allows you to choose the background color of the element. There are 12 default colors to choose from, or you can click on the "Custom Color" button and pick any you need.
In the separate pop-up window, you will be able to choose the color manually from the palette or insert the hex code into the Color value in hexadecimal bar. If you hit the "Change color format" button with the arrow-down icon next to the hex code bar, you can change the format of color code. There are also RGB and HSL formats.
By clicking the "Cancel" button, you cancel the formatting and return the background to the default color.
In some cases, this feature has several tabs, such as "Hover". It allows you to set the color of the element's background if you want it to change when the user hovers the pointer over it.
This section allows you to set the border around the element's edge.
Border Type. There are five types of border you can choose from – Solid, Double, Dashed, Dotted, and Groove. All the other border settings appear if you choose any of them;
Border Width. Here you can set the width of the border. If it has to have different width on different sides, click the "Unlink Sides" button under the "Reset" button;
Border Color. Defines the color of the border.
This option allows you to round the corners of the border to create a softer, curvy look. The bigger number you set here, the more rounded the whole element will be. By default, you round all the corners at once. If you want to set the different radius for different corners, click the "Unline Sides" button under the "Reset" button.
If the filter contains the parent and children options, this feature can help you select the width of the offset for the children options. Set the necessary value by moving the slider or entering the width in pixels into the bar.
Here you can choose how the list of options placed in the field will be shown to the user. The Horizontal option means all of them will be placed in one row, and the Vertical option will locate the items in a form of a list – in a single column.
Here you can select the alignment of the content within its box. It can be Left, Center, or Right.
In the case of the multiline text, here you can choose how it will be filling the block box. If you choose the Auto option, the text will be wrapped as it is, and if you select the Fullwidth option, it will be wrapped in the way to fill the whole box without leaving the gaps near the border.
In this section, you choose the alignment of the element within the page. It can be placed on the right side, in the center, and on the left side.
By choosing one of two buttons, you can place the filtering options in a line or into a column.
By moving the slider or typing the value into the bar, you can set the width of the gap between the rows of a Listing Grid.
Here you can choose the color of the icon so it matches the color of the rest of the content. There are 12 default colors; or, you can press the "Custom Color" button to choose the one that fits the design.
In this case, you can choose any color manually from the palette or insert the hex code into the Color value in hexadecimal bar. If you hit the "Change color format" button with the arrow-down icon next to the hex code bar, you can change the format of color code. There are also RGB and HSL formats.
By clicking the "Cancel" button, you cancel the formatting and return it to the default color.
Here you can define the width of the gap between the icon and the rest of the content. Move the slider to do it manually or type in the number. The width of the gap is set in pixels.
This feature allows you to define the positioning of the icon. The Horizontal option places the icon in the same row as the other content, and the Vertical option locates it above the other content.
Here you can choose the position of the icon relative to the text in the field. Before Label will place the icon before the text and After Label – at the end of the row after the text.
By using the slider or typing in a specific number into the bar, you can set the size of the icon in pixels here.
This number shows the width of the space between the edge of the element block and the edge of the section it is placed into. Setting it to the bigger value makes the whole section bigger.
By default, all the sides of the padding are linked, and you change the width of them all. However, if you need to create the padding that will have different widths on different sides, click on the "Unlink Sides" and "Reset" buttons. This will open an option to set every side of the padding separately. When you click on one of the bars to change the value, the square in the left corner will show which side you are setting here.
This feature allows you to set the gap between the interactive icon and its label in the Checkboxes and Radio filters. Change it via the slider or insert the necessary value in pixels.
This is the width of the space between the content and the edge of the block. If you set the visible background color, the bigger the Padding – the bigger the element will be. By clicking on the "Reset" button, you can roll the padding value back to default.
By default, all the sides of the padding are linked and you change the width of all of them. However, if you need to create the padding that will have different widths on different sides, click on the "Unlink Sides" and "Reset" buttons. This will open an option to set every side of the padding separately. When you click on one of the bars to change the value, the square in the left corner will show which side you are setting here.
The Range Filter block has two points, one for each of the scale edges. This feature helps you to define those points' height and width and can be set manually or via the entered number of pixels.
You can control the width of space between the options of the filter by changing it manually via the slider or typing a specific number into the bar.
This feature allows you to change the width of the Range Filter scale line. It can be set by moving the slider or inserting a number of pixels into the bar.
This option allows you to set the color of the text, which will be shown in the block. There are 12 default colors you can choose from, or you can press the "Custom Color" button.
Here you can define all the features of the text that will be shown in the block.
Size. You can choose the size of the font from 1 to 200 by moving the slider or typing the necessary value into the bar. By default, the size can be chosen in pixels (PX). You can also change the unit of measurement to:
EM – the size of the font is set according to the size of the parent element. In the case of font, you can set the size according to the size of the default font. So, if you set it to 10 em it will always be 10 times larger than the default font. This unit of measurement works best for responsive sites;
REM – this one is almost the same as the EM but sets the size of the font according to the size set in HTML;
VW – one unit of this unit of measurement is equal to 1% of the general height of the browser window. When the user changes the size of the window, the font will become bigger/smaller;
Line Height. By moving the slider or typing in the direct number, you can choose the height of the text line and, therefore, the spacing between the lines. There's also an option to change the units of measurement to PX or EM;
Letter Spacing. With the help of this slider, you can set the width of the space between the letters. The available range is from -2 to 20;
Family. In this drop-down menu, you can choose the typeface;
Weight. Here you can choose the boldness of the font from 100 to 1000. Besides that, you can select it to be Default, Normal, or just Bold;
Transform. This drop-down menu allows you to change the case of the letters in words. The Uppercase option makes all letters capitalized, the Lowercase option makes all the letters in the word lower-cased, and Capitalize option transforms the first letter of every word into a capital letter;
Style. Here you can choose the Normal, Italic, or Oblique style of the font or leave it Default;
Decoration. In this drop-down list, you can choose to add the line to the text. You can select the Underline, Overline, or Line Through.
By moving the slider or typing the value into the bar, you can set the width of the gap between the columns of a Listing Grid.
Those are all the main features of the Block Style in Gutenberg. You may meet some other, more specific options, but it will be easy to understand how to use them. Good luck creating great pages in Gutenberg and customizing their design.
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At Dexters we are London's property professionals and strive for excellence throughout our network of offices. Dexters opened its doors in 1993 and we have been selling and letting properties from the very beginning – so we know exactly how to sell your home. We as agents believe in supplying you with current market information and realistic prices – We pride ourselves on being honest, reliable, knowledgeable and of course successful.
When valuing your home it's all about local know how and how much local London property is really worth. Dexters provides this service free with no obligation market appraisal and guarantees you that our local experts will provide you with the best advice about selling your home whether it's because you're refurbishing or just curious give about the market.
We receive over 70% word of mouth recommendations to friends, family and colleagues about our service and have been selling and renting property since 1993. Over that time we have built up a reputation of being a local and trusted agent which is why more and more people are using us to sell or rent their property meaning we have thousands of properties, from boutique studio apartment, townhouses for growing families, centrally located apartments to riverside properties – you name it we deal with it. All of our Managers live in and around the offices they run. Our staff are trained rigorously on the latest legislation and how we can provide the best customer service to get the best price for our clients.


In this post, I will share with you, four best free web scraping tools for non-programmers who want to create insightful data-driven content without hiring a programmer. I'm frequently using them to fulfil my web scraping tasks.
I know there are many software tools out there but these four FREE software tools I consider to be the best for basic scraping of websites, Facebook and Twitter data into Excel spreadsheets.
This tool is simple yet very useful for quick single page data scraping into a spreadsheet, but you will need to have Google Chrome browser installed in order to use it.This tool will make you start loving data scraping.Let me show you how to use.
If the extension is successfully installed, right click on any page on your browser. You are supposed to see a window like one below with "Scrape similar" being one of the options.If you can't see it that means the extension is not successfully installed.
Let us put it into use and scrape some data.
For example, I want to scrape the page titles and URLs of Google search results page returned for a specified search keyword query.
Point the mouse cursor to the data (in my case page title) you want to scrape and right click then select Scrape similar .The scraper will return the scraped data with options to copy to clipboard or export to Google Docs.
This tool doesn't offer many options and sometimes it is not that efficient, but for simple tasks, it is very handy.You can make it more effective by using XPath,Columns and Filter on its interface.I will not cover how to use Xpath today.
You can watch below video to learn more how we can use XPath to make it more efficient.Also, you can refer to XPath Quick Reference document to find out more about XPath.
By using Facebook and Twitter APIs you can scrape massive amount of public competitor data and analyse what is working for your competitor or in your industry. API is an interface or way which allows third party software tools to access Facebook massive amount of Social Data programmatically.
Access to these APIs is mostly free. I created separate tutorials on how you can harness these APIs without you writing a single line of code.
Import.io is the web scraper of my choice.It is a very powerful tool.You can use it for crawling or data extraction.You can use it to extract data from multiple URLs and you can create APIs also for integrating into other web applications or to extract data again if the data source has been updated.
Magic – It's an online web data scraper tool – no setup whatsoever, you can get results in few seconds.
Extractor – Lets you choose the data that you want from specified web pages via simple point-and-click – precisely the way you want it.
Crawler – Explores the website to find all the data that you want from similar pages – handy if you don't know all the URLs.
Connector – Lets you record a sequence of actions, such as a search, within a website to get to and extract the data that you want – Extractor with a macro.
The service and data are 100% free. Forever.
This method above will let you extract only some few pages using Magic tool.To make it super efficient and obtain massive data you need to use Extractor tool.In my previous post, I have created a visual step by step tutorial Web scraping for dummies tutorial with import.io where I extracted all blog posts URLs and identified how much social shares each URLs has received.You can check it.
Kimono Labs is almost similar in functionality to import.io.
These four free tools will get you started with web scraping to suit your different purposes.They are clean and easy to use, and they have a lot of support tutorials online.Also, don't forget to check their blogs to learn different ways you can use them to do web scraping.
If you have any question or suggestion, please leave me a comment below.


If you're a music producer or songwriter, virtual instruments and software synthesizers are your best friend. And if you haven't already developed an unhealthy obsession with plugins, you will eventually! The only problem with the plugin game is that it's an expensive habit. Sure, you can try just about anything before you buy it, but sometimes there are pesky restrictions on features keeping you from getting the full experience. Before you spend hundreds on virtual instruments, take a look at some of the best free VST synth plugins from a variety of developers.
The Tyrell N6 was initially conceived to be a hardware synthesizer. Taking some cues from Roland's classic Juno 60, the idea was to incorporate quality analogue sound and a few novel features in a low-cost hardware unit. When the developers realized it would have taken them years to design it, they decided to turn it into a free plugin instead. You can download it totally free here.
Can load/save any DX7/TX7 sysex programs. It is also possible to save a single program into a different sysex file.
Interestingly, the actual Yamaha DX7 manual can be used as a reference for working with Dexed.
If you want to create your own drum sounds with filtering, distortion, and modulation, MiniSpillage is a great free option.
MiniSpillage is a free professional quality drum synthesizer plugin featuring high resolution 64-bit DSP processing. MiniSpillage includes 3 exclusive drum synthesis algorithms along with distortion effects and resonant filters.
"Bass Drum – Single oscillator bass drum synth with pitch sweep, internal FM and harmonic controls.
Wood Drum – Flexible wooden drum model synthesizes natural and synthetic timbres from log drums to toms.
LABS is an "infinite series" of user-friendly free VST synth plugins. They're developed by London-based musicians and released monthly at absolute no cost to users. Piano, guitar, strings, synth pads, choirs, and more are all available as standalone synths. The collection is fantastic, as is the entire premise of the project!
A user favorite, no doubt, thanks to its intuitive interface and record-ready sounds from the jump.
The best free VST synth plugins don't have to cost an arm and a leg!


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Imagine that Mick Jagger or Bono or Axl Rose or Eddie Vedder died and their respective bands decided to find a replacement and make another album. What are the chances that they would make not only the best-selling album of their careers, but also the best? That's the trick AC/DC accomplished with Back in Black. Released in August 1980, only half a year after singer Bon Scott fatally choked on his own vomit, hard rock's second-best-selling album of all time (after Led Zeppelin's fourth) is both fitting tribute and raucous wake. Like much of Def Leppard's back catalog, Back in Black was produced by the future Mr. Shania Twain, Robert "Mutt" Lange. But unlike Def Leppard's quintessential Eighties products Pyromania and Hysteria, the Australian quintet's follow-up to its 1979 breakthrough Highway to Hell still sounds thoroughly timeless, the essence of unrepentantly simple but savagely crafted hard rock.
From the vengeful death knell of "Hell's Bells" to the strutting finale of "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution," the rhythms on this album do not relent. Neither does the screeching of Scott's successor, Brian Johnson. Nearly everything is beat and scream, explosion and release. Unleashed while New Wave was reasserting rock as dance music, this monument of clean rock sonics and dirty impulses makes a strong case for headbanging, but a better argument for a full-body party.
Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young play their guitars in such close tandem that they seem synced by the same churning organism. As chords bang and pummel, bassist Cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd drag and push the beat with such steady fluctuations that the result is one continuous, well-oiled throttle.As titles such as "You Shook Me All Night Long" proclaim, Back in Black is a celebration of thrashing, animal sex. It's also a wince-inducing spew of mean-spirited sexism, particularly during the one-two bitch slap of "What Do You Do for Money Honey" and "Given the Dog a Bone." Johnson misinterprets Scott's sass as contempt, just as gangsta rap would turn thug love into something ugly. If Back in Black someday does sound dated, let it be for this sole mistake.
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HomePress RoomPress ReleasesSecond Generation of Black Knight's Rapid Analytics Platform Significantly Expands Data Marketplace and Team Collaboration Tools; Further Streamlines Workflow
Second Generation of Black Knight's Rapid Analytics Platform Significantly Expands Data Marketplace and Team Collaboration Tools; Further Streamlines Workflow
Supports critical business needs by streamlining workflows, significantly increasing the number of available datasets and providing easier access to Black Knight's robust data marketplace
April 6, 2021 Data & Analytics
The Black Knight Rapid Analytics Platform (RAP) is a unique, cloud-based data marketplace and decision-science studio that allows users to directly access diverse data assets and develop analytics strategies within a single solution
The latest version of RAP delivers a streamlined workflow experience, more intuitive navigation and an interactive data marketplace where users can easily view and explore the platform's wide variety of available data and analytics
The datasets recently added to RAP's vast repository include Black Knight's Collateral Analytics solutions, which provide a unique combination of the company's top-rated automated valuation models, and comprehensive property and market data.
The new features also improve collaboration within an organization, include pre-built workspaces and reports to address common industry use cases, and enable seamless interaction with Black Knight's RAP support team
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – April 6, 2021 – Today, Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) announced the release of the second generation of its Rapid Analytics Platform (RAP), which includes a powerful new design that delivers a streamlined workflow experience for users. RAP also now includes several additional datasets that clients can leverage to address a variety of critical business needs.
RAP is a unique, cloud-based data marketplace and decision-science studio that allows users to directly access Black Knight's massive, diverse data assets and create custom analytics within a single solution. Users can seamlessly source Black Knight data managed on the platform, connect to other data sources, execute queries, create advanced analytics and train machine-learning models.
"RAP had already changed the landscape for mortgage and housing-related data science by bringing together more primary-sourced data and advanced analytics than any platform currently available," said Ben Graboske, president of Black Knight's Data & Analytics division. "With this second iteration, we've significantly enhanced the user and workflow experience and increased the number of datasets available, while simultaneously boosting the power available to users."
RAP is used by forward-looking mortgage, real estate, and capital markets professionals for portfolio retention strategy; equity analysis and valuation; prepayment and default analytics; pre- and post-bid due diligence; performance benchmarking; and much more.
In addition to providing access to many of the industry's deepest and most granular datasets available, RAP also offers a growing catalogue of "out-of-the-box" analytics. Designed with transparency in mind, this exposed code allows users to get started quickly with a deep understanding of how the analytics have been developed. Users can also choose to build their own analytics, or they can leverage Black Knight's highly experienced professionals to develop and deliver customized analytics.
Additionally, workspaces have been added to help users create custom views of the RAP resources relevant to a particular data science strategy.
The datasets recently added to RAP's vast repository include Black Knight's Collateral Analytics solutions, which provide a unique combination of the company's top-rated automated valuation models, and comprehensive property and market data. RAP now also offers daily mortgage loan rate-lock data from Black Knight's leading product and pricing engine, Optimal Blue PPE, as well as daily forbearance, payment, and delinquency data and other Black Knight datasets.
"Our focus with RAP has always been to deliver enhancements and innovations that help clients gain the critical insights they need from within a powerful, unified interface," Graboske continued. "The enhancements in this version, including the new and diverse datasets available via the interactive data marketplace, are key to this goal, and will keep growing with time, so RAP can continue transforming how organizations leverage data and analytics."
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE: BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk, and operate more effectively.


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Our job is to periodically check the waste tanks to ensure that they are neutralizing acid waste as planned. If you encounter problems with the acid waste collection system in your building, please contact us immediately.