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London Port City – 200 years of London's docks in a new exhibition
Published 21 October 2021 by By Ian Mansfield London exhibitions	— 1 Comment ↓
London was founded on the Thames nearly 2,000 years ago as it was an ideal location for sea trade, and it's still the UK's largest seaport which is now the topic of a free exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands.
The exhibition looks at the past couple of hundred years, when trade took off and changed the very shape of London as huge docks were carved out of the landscape to handle ever-larger volumes of ever-larger ships. It was the age of Empire, and London was the centre of the world, as is shown on the huge poster that opens the display, showing the world with London in the heart of an Imperial trading nation.
Tie Up Loose Ends – Used to mean finishing off a project or task, this relates to the rigging on boats needing to be checked and secured before setting sail.
Apart from the obvious cargos, of sugar and spices, timber and tobacco, there were rather odd cargos some of which are included in the display, including a lump of whale poo – which was used to make perfumes of all things.
The docks were a mixing bowl of the rich Brits who often traded off the fruits of Empire alongside the sailors who came from across the empire, so statues of slave traders could side alongside homes for "lascars", as men from Asia and Arabia were known.
Skyscraper – The name given to the highest sail in a ship, long before it was applied to buildings.
Do look at the many drawings and early photos, and the docks were then as multi-cultural as the rest of London is today. Not that many people outside the docks would have known about the human melting pot that filled the docks, as they are sealed off from the rest of London, often with high brick walls and gates.
At their peak in the 1950s, there were nearly 31,500 registered dockers working within the fortress walls of London's docks.
The docks, although close to the City were often a total mystery to Londoners, and in a way, that remains true today. Although the docks moved east with the arrival of the containers that killed off the manual labour in the old docks, London is still the UK's largest dock in terms of tonnage handled, and yet most of us have no idea of the huge cargo handling facilities downriver.
Had your chips – Meaning your luck has run out, one theory is that this originates from dock workers being allowed to take home offcuts of timber, or 'chips', a perk that could be withdrawn if too many were taken.
The exhibition though is mainly about the pre-1970s decline, when the docks were a hive of humanity, and much of the exhibition is about the people who worked the docks, from the manual labour implements used to shift sacks of cargo to the "knocker uppers" who went around the streets in the mornings to wake up sleepy dockhands and get them to work on time.
Plenty of oral history is included here, along with lots of Pathe news film clips, and even in some boxes, replicas of dock smells.
Ton – A 'tun' was originally an English unit of liquid volume, rather than weight. Casks, known as 'tuns', typically held 252 gallons of wine – and this became a measure of a ship's capacity.
As an exhibition of dock history, it's pure eye candy to have a lot of maps of the old docks showing off the area before the 1970s decline, with vast snake-like lines of railways filling every gap that was left between the water and warehouses. Not just old docks though, as the gigantic London Gateway docks in the Estuary get a look in as well.
The London Gateway is roughly the same size as the Isle of Dogs, which is huge for something that isn't that well known.
On the other hand, while mostly filled in now, the Rotherhithe docks were so extensive that there wasn't much land left and the map on show makes it look more like an archipelago of small islands than part of London.
Cock-up – Meaning a mistake, the earliest theory of origin is in reference to leaving the yards of a ship (the horizontal bars which sails attach to) at untidy positions, 'cocked' at an angle.
The exhibition is based on the archives of the Port of London Authority, the century-old organisation that manages the tidal Thames and it's their archive that largely fills the display. Away from the stories of the dockers is the story of the Authority and how it promoted London's docks as the best place to trade goods from across the world, and commissioned classical art to show off the docks.
There's contemporary art here as well, as the docks have appeared in computer games, as well as so many movies that the list on display barely scratches the surface of what could have been chosen. A modern piece of art by Susan Stockwell looks at the things of trade, consumerism and empire, representing fleets of boats made from banknotes sailing on a sea of coins.
The cut of your jib – The shape of a ship's jib sail was used to identify its nationality, indicating whether it was hostile or friendly. Now the phrase is used to express a like or dislike of someone's general appearance.
Overall, the exhibition gives a really good overview of the history of the docks and each section in it could fill an exhibition in themselves so this is a good teaser of the depth of human history of the thousands of people who worked to supply London and the world, with food and goods.
With the news filled with stories about a shortage of freight lorry drivers and ships stuck outside seaports for a lack of space to unload, it's also an unexpectedly timely exhibition.
Laid out in a room full of old wooden cargo boxes, the exhibition, London: Port City opens tomorrow and is free to visit at the Museum of London Docklands in Canary Wharf until 8th May 2022. You should prebook free tickets to visit the museum from here in advance.
Aloof – Adapted by English sailors from the Dutch word 'loef' (windward), this meant to maintain distance from something by pointing the ship high to the wind. It has come to describe someone who is emotionally distant.
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Nicki Minaj obviously skipped out on the Grammy awards after not being nominated this year, but she still hosted a Grammy party for Church on Sundays at Argyle in L.A. last night. She was spotted leaving out with her boyfriend Kenneth Petty (above). We guess she saw the fall out with BET's Twitter while out partying.
Fast forward to this morning, chick announced she and Young Money are OUT of the BET Experience this summer. Oop.
Here's what happened: Once Cardi B. made history as the first solo woman to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys, BET applauded Cardi on her first Grammy win, while simultaneously dragging her nemesis Nicki.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft commented for the first time since he was officially charged with two misdemeanor counts of first-degree solicitation.
Kraft's court date is set for March 28.
Before that, the NFL's annual owners meeting will be held in Arizona, starting Sunday and extending through Wednesday. Kraft is expected to be present.


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Q: Unable to mount DVD - Ubuntu 14.04 I seldom use the DVD drive and this a 5 year old laptop. Today I load the DVD and it just keeps spinning but nothing mounts. After it spins and stops I checked:
dmesg | grep sr0

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I tried to manually mount with
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The DVD is good and readable on my Windows machine.
Any ideas on how I can get it working?

A: I also couldn't mount movie DVDs, and was having this error:
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VFS: busy inodes on changed media or resized disk sr0

The solution that worked for me was to edit /etc/fstab which I found in a mail-thread.
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and then I had to restart, since fstab is loaded on system start.

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Socialite Rebecca Grossman says she's the target of 'a lot of hate and anger'
admin November 26, 2022 Uncategorized
Socialite Rebecca Grossman says she is the target of a 'lot of hate and anger' and has contemplated suicide since she killed two young brothers with her Mercedes in an upscale neighborhood of Los Angeles in 2020.
Grossman, 58, is waiting a double murder trial for the deaths of Mark Iskander, 11, and Jacob Iskander, eight.
At 7.10pm on September 29, 2020, she hit the boys with her Mercedes.
She had been seen drinking earlier that day at a Mexican restaurant with retired Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson, but was not over the legal limit to drive at the time.
She insists that it was a terrible accident, but prosecutors are pursuing murder charges. One troubling aspect of the case is witness testimony that Grossman and Erickson might have been racing their cars in the street.
Grossman however insists this isn't true and says the accident was caused by a poorly lit, poorly signaled crosswalk.
Rebecca Grossman, 58, is shown with her husband, Dr. Peter Grossman, in 2017. She is awaiting trial on double murder charges for the deaths of two young brothers, who she ran over with her Mercedes in 2020
Mark Iskander, 11, and his younger brother Jacob, eight, were killed in the crash in 2020
The black box from her vehicle shows she was driving at 73mph at the time of the accident – well over the 45mph limit.
The boys had been with their parents and siblings at the time. The parents were able to stop their two younger siblings from being hit, but couldn't reach the boys in time.
Mark died at the scene and Jacob died in a hospital a few hours later.
In an interview with Los Angeles Magazine this week, she said she is misunderstood by the public and the police.
'There is a lot of hate and anger out there… and that hate stems from believing everything that's been put out there about who I am: that I have no remorse, that I'm this monster, that this hasn't affected my life, that I just go about my every day as if this never happened.
'That's just not true,' she said.
Grossman's Mercedes after the incident. The black box showed she was traveling at 73mph – well over the 45mph limit
Grossman in court earlier this year. She pleaded not guilty to murder charges and is now appealing to California's Supreme Court to have her charges reduced to vehicular manslaughter
Mark and Jacob were out walking with their parents and siblings when they were killed. The parents were able to stop their two younger siblings from being hit – but couldn't reach them in time
Karim and Nancy Iskander, the boys' parents, are shown at a court hearing in April
Grossman claims the accident was caused by a poorly lit, poorly signaled crosswalk. Above, the crosswalk
She insisted that she and Erickson are just friends and not lovers, as had been suggested by the boys' parents, and said she had become so tormented with guilt that she contemplated suicide.
Grossman and her husband are well known in Los Angeles and were regulars on the social circuit until the accident in 2020
'The thought of taking the easy way out crossed my mind. It still does from time to time,' she said.
Grossman's husband is famous L.A. burn surgeon Dr. Peter H. Grossman.
Together, they founded The Grossman Burn Foundation, where comedian Jay Leno was recently treated.
He told the magazine: 'She cries every day. She is in an emotional prison that she may never be able to get out of.'
Grossman's daughter has also set up a website to try to prove her innocence.
The family deny police reports and claims that she tried to flee the scene after the accident.
They say she doesn't deserve to be tried for murder, and previously tried to have her charges downgraded to vehicular manslaughter. A judge denied their request.
In addition for the crime itself, Grossman has been widely criticized for what has been perceived by some as an attempt to skirt justice.
Court proceedings have been delayed due to her failure to appear in court, her lawyer's death. She is free in a $2million cash bail.
Grossman is appealing to California's Supreme Court, claiming her rights have been violated with the murder charges. A pre-trial hearing has been set for January 10.
The Grossmans' $8million mansion in Hidden Hills, Los Angeles
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All faculty teach undergraduate courses in the University Core Curriculum and upper-division courses for philosophy majors, engage in research and publication, and perform departmental, college, and university service. Normal teaching load is 3 courses per semester.
The position, which begins August 2023, is part of a cluster hire across the College of Arts and Sciences, forming a new multidisciplinary initiative focused on the topic of "Race and Social Justice" as a line of inquiry in teaching and/or research. For more information on the cluster hire initiative, please see this description https://www.creighton.edu/arts-sciences/faculty
Hold a PhD in philosophy or its equivalent by start of appointment.
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FanDuel positions for Brazilian market access with fantasy sports deal
24th November 2021 | By Marese O'Hagan
Flutter Entertainment's FanDuel is to offer daily fantasy sports betting in Brazil through a multi-year partnership with local media giant Grupo Global.
The fantasy sports betting will be available through Grupo Global's Cartola FC fantasy sports business, under the Cartola Express brand.
"In Cartola FC, Grupo Globo has built a pioneer in the Brazilian fantasy sports market, offering millions of players access to a first-class entertainment platform which is integrated across a vast sports media portfolio," said Amy Howe, CEO of FanDuel.
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The deal has been struck as Brazilian lawmakers work to regulate real-money betting. Legislation was first signed into law in December 2018 by Michel Temer, who was Brazil's outgoing president at the time.
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Since there is an on-leash law throughout Cupertino, dog owners are getting ticketed for such off-leash dogs.
Due to geographic limitation such as small yards and condo living, pet owners need to get the City of Cupertino and our representatives on board to allow us the freedom to exercise, solcialize, and play freely but responsibly in our Jollyman Park an hour before and after sunset. Cities like Mountain View (http://www.mountainview.gov/depts/cs/parks/dogs.asp) and San Jose (https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Facilities/Facility/Details/140) already have this ordinance in place in some of their regular parks.
The goal with this petition is to raise awareness about the need for off-leash hours that will benefit all users of the park resources. We are asking the City Council to provide for off leash hours (one hour before and after sunset) at Jollyman Park in a safe and community oriented way. Jollyman park is uniquely suited for this, since the south west area of the park is already fenced in and reasonably secure for dogs.
Please attend and show your support!!
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Please mark your calendars JANUARY 4th @ 7 pm at CUPERTINO CITY COMMUNITY HALL, 10350 Torre Avenue, Cupertino !!!


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World cup – Game of Thrones style
Posted on June 12, 2014 by suesspiciousminds
(apologies to anyone who does not follow either football or Game of Thrones – the clue that this one may not be for you is in the title. No-Telly Neville, you won't get any of this, sorry)
With the World Cup looming, it is time to consider how the major Westeros sides are likely to do in the tournament, based on form, tactics, personnel and management style in our exclusive Betting Guide
Team Targaryean – hopes were high for one of the pre-tournament favourites – they have solidity at the back with one of the all time great defenders Barristan Selmy, the workman-like Sir Friendzone of Mormont, youth with Gray Worm, three fiery attackers and the man with "All the Flair and Too Much Hair" Daario. They also have a manager that the team will follow to the ends of the earth. What could go wrong? Well, whilst all of the other teams set up training camps in Miami or Brazil, Daenerys instead chose to base her team in Morocco, and so far has shown no signs of ever bloody booking a plane to Brazil where all the action is. When we interviewed her, suggesting that the World Cup was there for the taking and all she had to do was cross the narrow sea to get there, Daenerys instead set her sights on being in Algeria for the foreseeable future. Save your money and back someone else. 1/15 if they actually turn up 250/1 on the basis that they don't seem to have a transport plan to get them to the action
Team Black Watch – resolute defenders, certainly. Their defensive wall is second to none, and even the most creative free-kick taker is going to struggle to get the ball over a four hundred foot wall of ice and get it up and down fast enough to beat the keeper. There have long been concerns about whether they have any attacking presence, and our sources suggest that although they claim to have a World Cup squad of 100,000 players it might actually be about seven, one of whom is blind and about 160 years old and another is very fat. Talk is also that the manager, John Snow, knows nothing. They might get out of the group, but no further. 14/1
Team Stark – sigh. Such a promising team, ripped apart by injury – and in the case of their last two captains simply ripped apart. Rickon seems to just go missing, Bran wanders about aimlessly. Arya is a deadly finisher and Sansa might be turning into a genuine player. If you MUST have a flutter on Team Stark, it should be for their former jinky winger Bran scoring with a Hodor. (sorry) 28/1
Team Oberyn Martell – charismatic Latin flair, everyone's favourite dark horse. All the power, all the knowhow, all the tactics. However, some of us got badly burned backing him in the last semi-final, where he dominated Brazil for ninety minutes whilst never actually scoring a goal and then spent the entireity of injury time doing keepie-uppies and Cruyff turns in his own six yard box. 9/1
Team Lannister – the current holders of the trophy, rumours persist that they bought the previous three World Cups that they won (as though there could ever be financial corruption in a World Cup). They have had their own injury worries, with their star goalkeeper Jaime losing a hand. We have had Goldenballs at a World Cup before, now this is Golden-Hand. Most people's favourite player Tyrion, with his low centre of gravity and quick wits gives them a chance. Their manager Tywin is said to be a strict disciplinarian (other than when it comes to members of his team sleeping together). Joffrey, their captain, who often plays a sweeper role hiding behind the back of his mother Cersei is another doubt – he is said to have a bad cough at the moment. Fans of the WAGS (and the TV cameras) will be hoping that doesn't shut Margaery out of the tournament. 7/4 favourites
Team Stannis – dour, hard to beat, hard to break down. What they really need is a bit of magic. 9/1
Team Hound – we interviewed the Hound and his comments were "F**k the World Cup" – when we pressed and said that plenty of people like the World Cup, he said "Yes, plenty of C***s" – it is not entirely clear whether he is even intending to turn up. We don't advise risking your hard earned cash on a flutter
Team Theon – all the talk is that this team has lost something in the tackle department. 90/1
Team Littlefinger – most fans did not even realise that Littlefinger was playing in this tournament. Many of them didn't even realise he had a team. An outside bet, but he certainly plays that Andrea Pirlo role, pulling all the strings and making everything happen. The odds are against him, but frankly worth a punt. 180/1
Team White Walkers – terrifying presence, have the ability to take the players from the opposing side and make them play for Team White Walkers, virtually unstoppable – ice-cold blood in their veins, which would be useful if it goes to penalties. The one question mark is their absolute lack of pace – they seem to have made no forward progress in the last four seasons. 19/1
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Karen | June 12, 2014 at 9:40 pm
Excellent analysis. Looking forward to the final-e!


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Before you start producing anything at all, whether it's audio, video, images or writing – you've got to create a business case for your content marketing strategy.
This article has nothing to do with actually producing content.
Many people get all excited about the content creation stage, and they forget to do a very important first step: create a business case for your content marketing strategy.
They know they ought to be producing content, they have seen other people producing content, they've read marketing articles saying, "Quick, you should be producing content", and then they go, "Oh, well we'd better produce content too, let's go".
But they haven't stopped to think about why.
Why are you producing content, what do you hope to achieve with it, and how are you going to actually measure the effectiveness of your content marketing strategy?
Lawyers are in business – law firm marketing is a business exercise, not just a stroll in the park.
Content marketing and digital marketing is different from just doing stuff online. You need to actually have a business case for your content marketing strategy that allows you to put into place some ideas about how you are going to measure the effectiveness of your campaign.
You know whether you need to tweak (change up, pivot, or abandon entirely) some aspects of your strategy.
What Will your Content Marketing Strategy Cost?
Just because you're not writing a cheque, it doesn't mean that your strategy costs nothing.
In fact – it costs lots.
Content is generally produced by the professional lawyer. This means a few things happen.
First: the cost of production is lost in the overall scheme of things because you forget to measure it, or just lump it in with your overall "marketing" time codes.
As a result, the time is not captured and the value and cost that you are investing into the process isn't visible. You can't measure a return on investment unless you actually have measured the cost of the investment – pretty obvious, right?
Is your Content being Utilised?
Once you're actively measuring the cost, then you need to also measure the utilisation of your content.
A lot of content goes underutilised. It is produced, it is sent out into the world, and it is never used.
You need to have metrics in place to allow you to measure the utilisation of the content that you are actually producing.
How is your content actually helping you get what you were after?
How are you tracking and measuring its effectiveness and its performance as a marketing strategy?
The big picture for any content marketing strategy and any strategy for lawyers in the marketing space is to capture clients.
But if you don't have the necessary metrics in place to measure that sort of effectiveness, then you're never really going to know what's happening in terms of your marketing strategies.
You might notice some trends, you might have some anecdotal evidence – but that's about it.
It's a good idea to have a slightly tighter grip on how you're actually going to measure and track the effectiveness of your content marketing strategy.
The first thing in a business case is to start with a goal.
What is the actual goal of your content marketing strategy?
I want to become better known in my industry.
Those goals are fine and I understand them from a "big picture" point of view. They can also be a little bit nebulous because measuring your "personal brand" is fairly difficult, other than from a very broad viewpoint.
So I wanted to propose today three more specific goals you can consider, and a how you can measure the effectiveness of your content marketing strategy as it relates to each.
The first goal you might have is to engage with "early stage" clients.
Many lawyers skip this early stage buyer strategy and go straight to "you need a lawyer right now, therefore we are going to advertise to only you".
Fairly obviously that is not targeted to an early stage buyer, that is someone who is at the point of wanting to engage you as a lawyer.
And that's fine if that's your strategy and it's working.
But there is a big lost opportunity here. Your long term results will absolutely be there if you can engage people earlier in the process. They might not be anywhere near ready to actually engage a lawyer at all yet. People aren't always hunting around, ready to go.
They might need information first, they might need awareness of their rights first, they might need other valuable things you can provide them from a content point of view, before they're at the decision making point.
So if you can reach these early stage buyers in your industry, then you're going to have a better opportunity to ask them to come to you.
This is the part that so many people forget about, and as a result they are leaving so much money on the table.
This is the early stage buyer component, it's a huge body of people, and it's worthwhile investing in that area, but you need to track how you're going on it.
The next stage leads off from the first stage, which is how are you engaging new prospects?
It's all well and good to get traffic, but we want to actually engage new prospects with our content.
There's value in capturing early stage buyers, but only if they hang around. Only if they are nurtured and engaged until the point where they're actually ready to buy.
So after working to capture early stage buyers, you have to look towards engaging those new prospects with your content.
Of course the last thing you want to look at in my three goals that I've selected is the critical one: what is the percentage of people becoming clients, who would not otherwise have become clients.
Whether they joined you at the start of their buyer's journey when they had just a vague interest in things or they came in right at the point of sale – who are the people that you are capturing from your content and material, that you would not otherwise have converted?
You can look at that fairly easily but the best way to do it is to have ways in which you can track people all the way from the start of the journey to the end.
To do that, you need to get people on your email list.
Why is that? Because with the right email marketing software you can see right from the beginning: how they found you, what they engaged with, what they didn't, and what the point at which they were ready to engage with you as a client was.
Even ignoring all tech options, the easiest way to measure this is quite simple: when you get a new client ask where they came from.
A lot of people forget to do this.
If you ask how they first became engaged with your material, then, you can easily find out how you're actually going in terms of your content marketing.
Now, if they say I was referred by X, then the question is why did X refer them, was it X that was engaged with your material and they referred this person to you as a result, so it's good to drill down a little bit.
You might be surprised over time how many people say things like "I've been reading your blog for a long time" or "I've been following your work for ages" – those are the early stage buyers that I spoke about at the top of this article.
If you're only going to take one thing away from this it is this, you need to create a business case for your content marketing.
Even if your solitary goal is to build your personal brand then you need to at least have some metrics around those goals. How are you increasing your visibility, and is it having a tangible result?
Set some goals. Measure them. Pay attention to the results. See where people are coming from and pay attention to your strategy.
I'd be interested to hear how are you measuring the effectiveness of your content marketing strategy? Are you measuring at all? Would you like to know more? Don't hesitate to drop me a line.


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Q: Glue_version and python_version not working in terraform Hellow everyone,
I am using terraform to create the glue job. Now AWS Glue now supports the ability to run ETL jobs on Apache Spark 2.4.3 (with Python 3).
I want to use this feature. but whenever i am making changes it is throwing error.
I am using
aws-cli/1.16.184.
Terraform v0.12.6
aws provider 2.29
resource "aws_glue_job" "aws_glue_job_foo" {
glue_version = "1"
name = "job-name"
description = "job-desc"
role_arn = data.aws_iam_role.aws_glue_iam_role.arn
max_capacity = 1
max_retries = 1
connections = [aws_glue_connection.connection.name]
timeout = 5

command {
name = "pythonshell"
script_location = "s3://bucket/script.py"
python_version = "3"
}

default_arguments = {
"--job-language" = "python"
"--ENV" = "env"
"--ROLE_ARN" = data.aws_iam_role.aws_glue_iam_role.arn
}

execution_property {
max_concurrent_runs = 1
}
}

But it is throwing error to me,
Error: Unsupported argument
An argument named "glue_version" is not expected here.

A: This Terraform issue has been resolved.
Terraform aws_glue_job now accepts a glue_version argument.
Previous Answer
With or without python_version in the Terraform command block, I must go to the AWS console to edit the job and set "Glue version". My job fails without this manual step.
Workaround #1
This issue has been reported and debated and includes a workaround.
resource "aws_glue_job" "etl" {
  name     = "${var.job_name}"
  role_arn = "${var.iam_role_arn}"

  command {
    script_location = "s3://${var.bucket_name}/${aws_s3_bucket_object.script.key}"
  }

  default_arguments = {
    "--enable-metrics" = ""
    "--job-language" = "python"
    "--TempDir" = "s3://${var.bucket_name}/TEMP"
  }

  # Manually set python 3 and glue 1.0
  provisioner "local-exec" {
    command = "aws glue update-job --job-name ${var.job_name} --job-update 'Command={ScriptLocation=s3://${var.bucket_name}/${aws_s3_bucket_object.script.key},PythonVersion=3,Name=glueetl},GlueVersion=1.0,Role=${var.iam_role_arn},DefaultArguments={--enable-metrics=\"\",--job-language=python,--TempDir=\"s3://${var.bucket_name}/TEMP\"}'"
  }
}

Workaround #2
Here is a different workaround.
resource "aws_cloudformation_stack" "network" {
  name = "${local.name}-glue-job"

  template_body = <<STACK
{
  "Resources" : {
    "MyJob": {
      "Type": "AWS::Glue::Job",
      "Properties": {
        "Command": {
          "Name": "glueetl",
          "ScriptLocation": "s3://${local.bucket_name}/jobs/${var.job}"
        },
        "ExecutionProperty": {
         "MaxConcurrentRuns": 2
        },
        "MaxRetries": 0,
        "Name": "${local.name}",
        "Role": "${var.role}"
      }
    }
  }
}
STACK
}

A: This has been released in version 2.34.0 of the Terraform AWS provider.

A: It looks like terraform uses python_version instead of glue_version
By using python_version = "3", you should be using glue version 1.0. Glue version 0.9 doesn't support python 3.


Maybe I'm crazy myself, but here's my theory about why the offices of the president's personal attorney, Michael Cohen were raided this week, and documents covered by the lawyer-client privilege were seized. What else happened? What happened, that the Left felt they had to make such a drastic move a move immediately?
Next thing we knew, Flynn was out and replaced by HR McMaster, who views Islam the same way that Hillary Clinton does.


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Abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy resume in Texas, after judge blocks new law
Madlin Mekelburg
Abortion after six weeks of pregnancy resumed in some parts of Texas Thursday, hours after a federal judge halted enforcement of the state's near-total ban on the procedure.
For a little more than a month, providers had been forced to turn away patients seeking abortions once embryonic or fetal cardiac activity can be detected, facing the threat of litigation and significant fines for violations.
But late Wednesday, a federal judge in Austin temporarily blocked enforcement of the state's new restrictive abortion law.
Leaders react:Judge blocks Texas' new abortion law. How leaders reacted to the injunction
'It's a personal choice':'Texans join Washington protest of Texas abortion law
In the hours that followed, staff at Whole Woman's Health started to contact patients from a waitlist they have maintained since Senate Bill 8 went into effect on Sept. 1. On Thursday morning, the provider begin performing abortions that otherwise would have been prohibited by the law.
"There's actually hope from patients and from staff, and I think there's also a little desperation in that hope," said Amy Hagstrom Miller, chief executive officer of Whole Woman's Health. "Our staff and our community understands that this opportunity to care for people may be short-lived."
One hour after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman issued his preliminary injunction, state officials said they planned to appeal the decision to the conservative U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. From there, it could land before the U.S. Supreme Court, which previously declined to intervene and stop the law from going into effect.
Under SB 8, passed with overwhelming Republican support earlier this year and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, abortions are prohibited after six weeks of pregnancy, but the state is not allowed to enforce the prohibition as it would other state laws. Instead, SB 8 allows any private individual to sue abortion providers or any person who is seen as aiding and abetting procedures that violate the law. Successful litigants can collect $10,000.
What does judge's injunction mean for abortion clinics and providers?
Major abortion providers in the state, including Whole Women's Health and Planned Parenthood, said they were complying with the law after its implementation, citing concerns about protecting doctors and staff from what they see as lawsuits filed by vigilantes.
And even now that the law has been halted and some abortions have resumed, the future of access remains murky.
As the law is written, providers could be liable for procedures performed while under a court order blocking the law.
Dig deeper:Does the Texas abortion law protect victims of sexual assault?
Hagstrom Miller declined to offer specifics on how many people were on the waitlist, which clinics were resuming the procedure or how many patients had received care since the law was struck down.
She said sharing those details could allow "our opposition to sort of narrow down to any physician or any location, because we anticipate quite a bit of opposition here."
Leaders from across Planned Parenthood's Texas properties issued a joint statement on Thursday saying Pitman's order is an "important first step toward restoring abortion access in Texas, but the fight is not over."
"People seeking an abortion should call our health centers so we can discuss their options," the statement reads. "We are regularly assessing what's possible during this period of uncertainty but, given the state's appeal, our health centers may not have the days or even weeks it could take to navigate new patients through Texas's onerous abortion restrictions."
While SB 8 was in effect, abortion providers in Texas reported a decline in patients seeking care and said they fielded calls daily from people confused about the parameters of the law. Staff helped connect people with providers outside of the state, but appointment slots at clinics in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Louisiana quickly filled up.
Hagstrom Miller said Thursday that there were no open appointments in Oklahoma until November, and Louisiana clinics were booked for the next six weeks.


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I have to index hyphen when there is no space around it and not index it when there is space around it.For example:
To be Indexed : Lease-Rent as lease, -,rent, lease-rent
To not be Indexed :Lease - Rent as lease,rent
My settings is:
{
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How do i have to do this?


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Epigenetic inheritance of telomere length obscures identification of causative PARN locus
Chao Xing1,2,
Christine Kim Garcia1,3
1Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, Dallas, Texas, USA
2Department of Clinical Sciences, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
3Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Correspondence to Dr Christine Kim Garcia, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-8591, USA; christine.garcia{at}utsouthwestern.edu
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103685
Mean leucocyte telomere length (LTL) has been associated with cancer and several age-associated diseases. Common variants within or near genes known to be involved in telomere biology (TERT, TERC, RTEL1) have been associated with mean LTLs in genome-wide association studies (GWAS).1 ,2 Rare variants in these genes have also been found to cosegregate with short telomere lengths and lung disease in familial pulmonary fibrosis kindreds.3–5 Rare variants in an additional telomere-related gene, PARN (polyadenylation-specific ribonuclease deadenylation nuclease), were recently found by exome sequencing older adults with familial pulmonary fibrosis3 as well as patients with dyskeratosis congenita, a disorder of telomere biology generally affecting children.6 ,7 PARN has not been identified by GWAS studies as a contributor of human telomere length regulation. Here we determine if the PARN locus could have been identified using genome-wide linkage analysis of LTLs in one large familial pulmonary fibrosis kindred that has a cosegregating PARN nonsense mutation.
This study was approved by the institutional review board at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Written informed consent was obtained from all available family participants, who were recruited from 2006 to 2010 as previously described.3 A heterozygous loss of function PARN mutation (c.529C>T, Gln177*) cosegregates with pulmonary fibrosis in the kindred shown in figure 1A. The proband (III:10) died at the age of 43 of complications of progressive pulmonary fibrosis; his mean LTL (as measured by a QPCR assay3) was <1st percentile as compared with age-matched controls. …
Contributors Both authors contributed to the design of the study, performed genetic analyses and directed experiments.
Funding US National Institute for Health Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (HL093096 and UL1TR001105).
Ethics approval University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.


The crew at Holy Falafel, which is raising money via crowdfunding to begin franchising.
Making a donation to a crowdfunding campaign for a preordered gizmo or special perk is nothing new. But the Kickstarters and IndieGoGos of the world have a sophisticated new relative: equity crowdfunding.
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"Those changes, once approved, are going to make these intrastate laws more competitive. When you compare them to Title III, these intrastate laws are going to make more sense for companies raising capital for the first time from outsiders," said Zachary Robins, a Minnesota-based securities attorney who advises companies on equity crowdfunding projects.
Along with Title IV of the JOBS Act, which allows larger companies to raise up to $50 million (along with some arduous SEC regulations), and Title II that allowed companies to raise money via the Internet, there will soon be a slew of crowdfunding options.
"More than likely, there's going to be a counterpart law that will make sense for any company depending on their size," said Robins, of Winthrop & Weinstine.
The first step on any of the bevy of current or upcoming investment crowdfunding options is putting together a solid business plan and figuring out what owners want to get out of the chosen option.
"Start by doing the internal investigation about how much money do they need, what do they need it for, how much equity can they sell or are they willing to sell and at what price," said Charles Switzer, a lawyer with Faegre Baker Daniels in Indianapolis who advises companies on corporate governance.
He said there will be a sea change in some industries, but companies must be conscious about the nuances of raising equity capital, like the cost of capital and the corporate structure required to do a crowdfunding campaign. Then there's the legal exposure and proper disclosures.
"An attorney can help you craft the language in a way that doesn't put you in hot water with the SEC for having provided fraudulent or misleading information," said Switzer.
Proper disclosures will also protect against investors suing if the business fails. "The fear here is that you raise money, and the company goes bad, you go bankrupt and the investors turn around and say, 'You never told us about that risk or that pending lawsuit,' and then they sue for fraud," said Switzer.
Simply knowing which documents to file is a major part of the new crowdfunding landscape. "You're going to have a filing that needs to be made with a regulatory authority, be it either the state or the federal government," Robins said.
Once the financial picture is clear and the disclosures have passed legal muster, a business must go to a registered intermediary—although this could change soon. Laws written decades ago to prohibit companies from advertising across state lines never took outlets like Facebook or Twitter into consideration. Currently, no company can advertise the sale of securities across state lines, but an intermediary can.
There are some portals out there like ApplePie Capital, SeedInvest, Crowdfunder, EquityEats and others that offer group equity investments from accredited investors. While none has specific plans for expanding with smaller investors, there will be a surge of state and national intermediaries and likely changes among the leaders to include small-investor options.
Greg Ewasiuk at Holy Falafel just started franchising and is raising funds on another group equity platform called CircleUp to build a home office for an upcoming franchising push. The single-location restaurant in British Columbia, Canada, is in the sweet spot for equity group funding with strong sales, novel differentiators and a seasoned management team, but little by way of operating history. "Traditional lending partners and financial institutions are not so willing to lend money to small restaurants," said Ewasiuk.
But with one of the state or Title III crowdfunding routes, restaurants and other brick-and mortar companies will make attractive options for small investors. "Those businesses may be very profitable enterprises and return two, three, four times investment, but aren't going to attract venture capitalists who are looking for investments that are going to reap 10 times profits," said Robins.
Specifically for franchisees, raising equity capital via a crowdfunding round might become an attractive way to build brand loyalty while building a new location or embarking in a new territory with the help of an intrastate option.
Larger companies can get growth capital via the Title IV route (also known as Regulation A+) for a much larger raise if they can manage the slew of SEC regulations. And franchisors of all sizes can benefit from Title II and Title III rules to get small accredited and small investors nationwide via a crowdfunding portal.
Lastly, none of the SEC guidelines has rules barring other forms of financing. That means companies can do crowdfunding and still get a bank loan to fill out the capital table.


Commonwealth Games champion Janieve Russell was Jamaica's lone individual event winner on yesterday's second and final day of the IAAF Continental Cup competition after she produced a brilliant run from lane one to win the women's 400-metre hurdles at the Mestsky Stadium in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Russell's victory was among those that assisted the Americas team finishing on top in the four-team event.
She joined discus thrower Fedrick Dacres and sprint hurdler Danielle Williams, who won their respective events on Saturday's first day, as the victorious Jamaicans in individual disciplines. Dacres and Williams performances had earlier put the Americas team in the lead overnight.
Defending champions Europe took the lead midway yesterday, but the Americas team was too strong and tallied 262 points. That was 29 more than Europe's 233 points, well ahead of Asia-Pacific on 188. Africa ended fourth with 142 points.
Stephenie Ann McPherson, who was third in the women's 400m on Saturday, was part of the Mixed 4x400m relay team that won in a championship record, while Ronald Levy took second in the 110m hurdles. Middle-distance runner Natoya Goule was third in the women's 800m, Shericka Jackson was fourth in a close women's 200m, while Aisha Praught was fifth in the 3,000m steeple chase.
Women's shot putter Danielle Thomas-Dodd was sixth, while Yohan Blake, who was part of the winning men's 4x100m relay team on Saturday, pulled up in the men's 100m.
Colombia's Caterina Ibarguen added the women's long jump title to the triple jump she won on Saturday, repeating her IAAF Diamond League double, setting a national record 6.93m (0.8m/s) in the process.
Russell pulled off a mild surprise as she ran a well-timed race to win in 53.62 seconds just off her season best 53.46, beating her teammate American Shamir Little (53.86) to the line, with Europe's Anna Yaroshcuk-Ryzhykova, who ran a season best 54.47, to end third.
She came off the curve level with the leaders and took the lead at the ninth hurdle and got the finish line ahead of Little, who was expected to take the title, exacting a measure of revenge for her loss in the Diamond League race.
McPherson ran a blistering third leg on the Mixed 4x400m relay to overtake the European team that had dropped the baton and gave Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo a lead she would not relinquish as they won in 3 minutes 13.01 seconds.
Men's triple jump champion Christian Taylor and Luguelin Santos ran the first two legs for the Americas team.
Levy, the Commonwealth Games champion, ran his fastest race of the season, 13.12 (0.09m/s) for second place in the 110m hurdles, finishing behind Sergey Shubenkov, who won with 13.03 seconds, with third place going to Pascal Martinot Lagarde with 13.31.
Goule continued her best season ever with third place in the women's 800m, clocking 1:57.36 minutes, as Africa's Castor Semenya won easily in 1:54.77, ahead of Ajee Wilson of the Americas team who was second in 1:57.16.
Jackson was fourth in the women's 200m in 22.62 (0.1m/s), separated from Asia-Pacific's Edidiong Ofonime Odiong by a slender margin.
Miller-Uibo won the event in 22.16 from Europe's Dafne Schippers (22.26) with Africa's Marie Jose Talou third in 22.61.
Praught was fifth in 3000m steeple chase and was the last runner to be eliminated in the 'devil take the hind most system' used for some of the longer distance events, and while she did not finish the race, contributed four points to the team total.
The rules used for the Continental Cup starts eliminating runners, the last one across the line, with four laps to go resulting in just four runners left to contest the final lap.
Africa's Beatrice Chepkoech, who led from the opening gun, won in a championships record 9 minutes 07.92 seconds, ahead of Americas Courtney Frerichs (9:15.22) and Winfred Mutile Yavi of Asia-Pacific (9:17.86).
Thomas-Dodd, another Commonwealth champion had one legal throw, of 16.96m and failed to get past the first round, finishing sixth for three points.


With six weeks to go until the primary, the two candidates battle in the Republican primary to replace term limited Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi are ramping up the attacks.
Former Judge Ashley Moody drew heavy fire this week from United Conservatives, a group backing state Rep. Frank White, R-Pensacola, in the primary.
"Ashley Moody has a record of being soft on child predators as documented in court records and news outlets from her hometown. It is shocking that any judge would would give less than the maximum sentence for a criminal convicted of committing horrific crimes against children. Moody has made excuses for these monsters and even recommended an adult-aged child molester be sent to a juvenile facility. Florida's children deserve better and Florida's parents deserve answers," United Conservatives noted in a media release showcasing a mailer hitting Moody.
Moody's camp quickly fired back.
Moody looked to get her law enforcement credentials in order this week, including reeling in the support of the Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police which endorsed her at a media event in Jacksonville on Monday.


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LiAngelo Ball is very thankful for opportunity with the Hornets
Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports
August 7, 2021 4:26 pm ET
LiAngelo Ball has a chance to earn a spot in the NBA starting next week in Las Vegas for the summer league, in which he'll play for the Charlotte Hornets.
Ball spoke to the media following summer league training camp on Friday about his journey and how grateful he is for the opportunity.
"It just feels good being here and knowing that I have people behind me and they want to see me succeed," Ball said. "The coaches are reacting to me differently here. It's just a good environment all-around. The players play hard, the energy is great so that rubs off on me, so I just try to play my hardest when I go on the court."
LiAngelo signed to play with the Oklahoma City Blue of the G League in 2019-20 but COVID-19 had other plans before Ball was able to see the floor. Last season, he signed an Exhibit-10 deal with the Detroit Pistons but was waived following an ankle injury.
"It was tough for me. At OKC, we were getting into the flow of things and that's right when it hit, so I had to go back home and that reset everything," Ball said. "I had to work my way back up to get in Detroit and that didn't work out so I just control what I can."
For someone like LiAngelo, who has jumped around during his young basketball career, this opportunity, and really any opportunity, goes a long way.
"I'm very thankful for it and I'm not taking it for granted."
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Socialism Is The Gospel Of Abundance?
Reading responses to an article on the Christianity Today web site I came across a lady who asked, "Why not free universal healthcare?" Her question reminded me of children who ask simple questions such as "Why is the sun hot?" If you give them the physics of how the sun works, they don't understand it. So I tell them God made it hot to keep us warm. Of course, then they ask, "Why?"
I gave the woman a brief response from economics and she responded that her Canadian friends were happy with their system so there was no reason for the US not to have something similar. Of course, if we limit our knowledge to just what the woman's friends in Canada say about their system then without a doubt we should rush to the ballot box and vote for the most socialist Democrat candidates we can find. The problem with her logic is that she assumes her personal experience and those of her Canadian friends are all she needs to solve the problem of healthcare.
When I taught economics, I frequently ran into the same attitude in students. Their personal experience didn't match the textbook economics world so the textbook must be wrong. Hayek called that kind of thinking pseudo-reason or rationalism in his last book, The Fatal Conceit. Pseudo-reasoning says that for something to be true, the individual must be able to understand it completely and foresee all of the consequences. In other words, personal experience trumps all other knowledge.
People who determine truth only by their personal experiences forget the purpose of education. Why do we go to school, read books or watch the news on TV? We do so to gain knowledge from the personal experiences of others. When we read a book on physics, we get the benefit of the personal experiences of hundreds of physicists. Studying economics gives us the advantage of knowing the personal experiences of millions of people over centuries.
Most people in the West labor to remain ignorant of economics. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, urges his sycophants to abandon the "gospel of scarcity" (economics) and embrace the "gospel of abundance" (socialism). According to Wallis, God created the world with enough wealth so that all would be rich if wealth was evenly distributed. Of course, Wallis is ignorant of economic history in which the world suffered frequent mass starvations from the beginning of history until the advent of capitalism.
But why not have universal free healthcare? The simple answer is that the wealth of the world is limited. Socialists have no problem understanding that the world's physical resources, such as oil and copper, are limited. They continually scream that we're using them up so that future generations won't have any. We create wealth when we extract those resources from the earth and convert them into something people can use, Those goods are wealth, not money. We can print all of the money we want, but it won't create any more resources. The US has a limited amount of wealth regardless of what Wallis thinks and that applies to healthcare.
A world of limited wealth forces us to make tradeoffs. Economists call them opportunity costs: what am I giving up to get more of something else? If we want universal free healthcare we have to give up something. The most basic tradeoff in economics is between investment and consumption. Healthcare is consumption. So to increase it, we would have to give up investment in businesses that create jobs since we would have to tax wealthy people more. At its simplest, universal free healthcare would cost us many new jobs and increase unemployment.
The woman on the Christianity Today sight would simply respond to my economic logic by saying that people in Canada and Europe have jobs and universal healthcare. Her problem would be in looking only at the short run. In the short term, people see only money going to poorer people to provide healthcare. They would not see the reduction of investment and creation of new jobs. Those take time to become visible. After ten years of failing to invest in businesses and create new jobs while the working population grows, people would begin to notice the rise in unemployment, but they wouldn't be able to attribute it to free healthcare because of the lag in time. We would have walled out a whole generation from any hope of getting a job, as has happened in many European countries.
Americans would not be so enamored of Canadian and European "free" healthcare if they knew more about it. Economics teaches that we have to ration the use of scarce resources. In a free market, prices do the rationing for us. European and Canadian healthcare systems ration healthcare with long waiting periods and by refusing to provide many procedures Americans take for granted. That's why thousands of Canadians and Europeans visit the US every year to pay for procedures they can't get at home.
Why, then, are Canadians and Europeans happy with their "free" healthcare? The answer lies in envy. As Helmut Schoeck points out in his Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior, people envy most those closest to them in status. They rarely envy the elite who are so far above them that they have no hope of joining the elite. But a neighbor enjoying something that envious people don't have terrifies them and spawns resentment.
Envious people are never happy, but they're more content in a society with a small controlling elite and everyone else as poor as they are. That's why you'll find poor Cubans praising their "free" healthcare even though they suffer from a lack of medicine and diagnostic equipment such as MRIs. Canadians will praise theirs while travelling to the US to get better care or to avoid long waiting periods for care. Envious people will be most miserable in a free, prosperous society in which some people common folk are better off than others.
Why not free universal healthcare is a simple question. The answer is complicated and requires some understanding of economics. The basic answer it that it will create unemployment and lower living standards in the future by reducing investment.
But it doesn't matter because the motivation behind the question is envy, not concern for the poor. Envy is kryptonite to reason.