Ancient Egyptian garments were mainly made of linen. For the upper classes, they were beautifully woven and intricately pleated. Around 2,130 BC, during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, men wore wraparound skirts (kilts) known as the shendyt, They were made of a rectangular piece of cloth wrapped around the lower body and tied in front. By the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, longer skirts, reaching from the waist to ankles and sometimes hanging from the armpits, became fashionable. During the New Kingdom of Egypt, kilts with a pleated triangular section became fashionable for men. Beneath these, a shente, or triangular loincloth whose ends were fastened with cord ties, were worn.
In the Middle Ages, men and women preferred dress-like garments. The lower part of men′s dresses were much shorter in length compared to those for women. They were wide cut and often pleated or gored so that horse riding became more comfortable. Even a knight's armor had a short metal skirt below the breastplate. It covered the straps attaching the upper legs iron cuisse to the breastplate. Technological advances in weaving in the 13-15th century, like foot-treadle floor looms and scissors with pivoted blades and handles, improved tailoring trousers and tights. They became fashionable for men and henceforth became standard male attire whilst becoming taboo for women.
Skirt is a part of uniform for girls in many schools across the world, with length of skirt varying as per local culture. The pleated tartan skirt has been a component of girls' school uniforms since the early twentieth century in UK. In 21st century, skirt has become part of Western dress code for women and is worn as business casual and office wear, and also as sportswear (ex. in tennis). Skirt may also be mandatory as formal wear, such as for airhostesses, waitresses, nurses and military women.
Gored skirt, a skirt that fits through the waistline and flares at the hem. May be made of from four to twenty-four shaped sections. Dates from 14th century and much used in 19th century. Very popular in the late 1860s, mid-1890s, early 20th century, 1930s, 1940s, and now worn as a classic skirt style.
Inverted pleated skirt, a skirt made by bringing two folds of fabric to a center line in front and/ or back. May be cut straight at sides or be slightly flared. Has been a basic type of skirt since 1920s.
Godet skirt, (go-day'), a skirt with triangular pieces of fabric inserted upward from the hem to give more fullness. Popular in 1930s.
Maxi skirt, an ankle-length daytime skirt, popular with women in late 1960s as reaction against miniskirts.
Swing skirt, flared skirt, circular or cut in gores, fitted at hips with a wide flare at the hem. Popular in the late 1930s and at interval since. Very popular in mid-1980s.
↑ Fischer, Gayle V. (2001). Pantaloons & Power: A Nineteenth-century Dress Reform in the United States, page 138. Kent: Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873386821.
↑ Brown, Ian (2010). From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth, page 177. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0748644490.
↑ Driver, Maggie (21 April 2016). "The squaw dress: Tucson's controversial but unique fashion history". Arizona Sonora News. Archived from the original on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.


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What's in the Cards for American Tower (AMT) in Q4 Earnings?
Growth stocks & ETFs tend to outperform during an uptrend.
American Tower Corp. AMT is scheduled to release fourth-quarter 2018 results before the opening bell on Feb 27. The company's results will likely reflect year-over-year rise in its funds from operations (FFO) per share and revenues.
In the last reported quarter, this wireless communications towers operator surpassed its adjusted funds from operations (AFFO) estimates by 1.6%. The company generated total revenues of $1.79 billion, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.77 billion.
Over the trailing four quarters, the company surpassed the consensus estimate on two occasions for as many misses. It delivered average positive surprise of 0.33% during this period.
Let's see how things are shaping up prior to this announcement.
Factors at Play
The move toward 5G telecommunications technology is driving strong carrier spending. In the December-end quarter too, we anticipate higher investment on 5G deployment to have accelerated activity for tower companies like SBA Communications Corporation SBAC and American Tower.
American Tower generates strong recurring revenues from its long-term leases that have embedded rent escalators. We anticipate its predicable business model to have provided stable cash flows while rent escalators should have boosted organic growth in the fourth quarter.
Further, the company continues to expand its international presence on the back of acquisitions. In October, it closed previously-announced acquisitions of more than 700 sites in Kenya for nearly $172 million. These buyouts are expected to contribute to American Tower's growth in its international markets.
Other than an enviable national presence, American Tower has a significant footprint in India where new mobile user subscribers are expected to increase in the upcoming years. However, Indian carrier consolidation-driven churn continues to hinder growth in organic tenant billings and result in revenues lost from cancellations.
Also, the company has a concentrated tenant base, with most of its revenues being generated by top few mobile carriers. Hence, any unfavorable development in the customer's business or loss of any of its customers is expected to have impacted the company's top line during the quarter.
Lastly, American Tower's activities during the quarter could not gain adequate analyst confidence. In fact, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for fourth-quarter FFO per share remained unchanged at $2.30, over the past month. Nonetheless, it represents year-over-year growth of 44.6%.
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Here is what our quantitative model predicts:
American Tower does not have the right combination of two key ingredients — a positive Earnings ESP and Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) or higher — for increasing the odds of an earnings beat.
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Earnings ESP: The company's Earnings ESP is 0.00%.
Zacks Rank: It currently carries a Zacks Rank of 3 which increases the predictive power of ESP. However, we also need a positive ESP to be confident of a positive surprise.
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Hersha Hospitality Trust HT, scheduled to release earnings on Feb 25, has an Earnings ESP of +3.45% and holds a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
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This is an outreach program with Mountain Valley Horse Rescue, where small groups can experience volunteer work, learn relaxation, and build confidence.
Participants begin by learning about the way Horse Rescues work, what their purpose is, and current facts about unwanted horses in the US.
Next, everyone begins the mundane tasks that are needed every day on any horse ranch – which can include cleaning the pastures and stalls, feeding the rescue horses, moving feed or equipment around, or other maintenance at the Rescue. All activities at the Rescue are supervised and instructed as applicable.
After that, we share the stories of the individual horses, then a horse or two will be selected, and participants will halter and groom the horse(s), and even learn beginning elements of Equine Massage.
Following that, the group will take one rescue horse, and be guided through a series of visualizations and techniques for building confidence and relaxation, focusing on the horse.
The group is then guided in returning their experiences of increased confidence, relaxation, and healing to the same horse they have been working with through the whole exercise, guided by a trained expert all along the way.
At the end of the day, participants are invited to share their experiences with the group, and spend a little more unstructured time with the rescue horses.
The objective of Destination Rescue is to bring people into The Circle of Giving. The Circle begins when people come, and are of service to these needy animals. Then the group is then expertly guided into experiences of feeling more relaxed, confident, and connected to the world around them. The Circle completes as participants return the healing that they have received from these Rescue horses, helping the horses to heal even more.


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Miller has 31 saves as Canucks beat Blues 4-1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ryan Miller made 31 saves in his return to St. Louis and the Vancouver Canucks scored three times in the third period to beat the Blues 4-1 on Thursday night.
Nick Bonino, Linden Vey and Jannik Hansen all scored in the third period to help the Canucks (4-2-0, 8 points) snap a two-game losing streak. The Blues fell to 2-3-1 with their second consecutive loss.
The Canucks scored just 41 seconds into the game off a Blues turnover in the neutral zone. Alexandre Burrows' wrist shot from the left circle was knocked down by goalie Jake Allen, but Chris Higgins was there to put home the rebound for his second goal of the season.
The Blues tied the score with a power-play goal from Kevin Shattenkirk with 12:22 left in the second period after the Canucks were called for too many men on the ice.
Nick Bonino put the Canucks ahead to stay with 15:06 remaining in the third period, when he scored on an odd-man rush after a save by Miller on the other end.


On this very early Sunday morning, I am apparently late to the start of the Mother's Day festivities, at least the ones seen outside my window. Doe and fawn have just finished up a fine breakfast of quince tree tips and spring clover. The robins have already bathed and are singing a spirited chorus in surround-sound, with no corner of the garden absent of their cheer. The sun is up, but cloaked by clouds, while it patiently awaits the cue for a grand entrance just above the tree tops where dramatic streams of light and shadow will herald its arrival.
Roses from my garden for Mom: A bouquet awaits.
Our conversations of course center around what I'm doing, what she's doing, and have I talked to my siblings. My sister, brother and I call Mom our little Energizer bunny, never sitting still or idly wasting time. As a card carrying nap advocate, I encourage breaks and times of laying low and doing nothing. It's a challenge, but I think she's getting better at taking a break and time for herself.
About mid-conversation, we turn into Siskel and Ebert, and review our favorite television shows for content, plausibility and general what-were-the-writers-thinking disbelief. My Mom's favorite show is Blue Bloods, and now I too, am a fan. I think my Mom has a crush on Tom Selleck, but why wouldn't she; his character reminds me (and no doubt her) of my father, a strong, silent type with matinee-idol good looks and character to boot. Her favorite part of the show is when the family comes together for Sunday dinner. That in itself speaks volumes to the kind of woman my mother is. She puts others before herself and her greatest joy is being around her family and friends. So Happy Mother's Day, Mom, thank you for all the gifts you've shared throughout my life. Oh yes and rest up, because I've got our to-do list penned for this summer (between hammock naps that is).
Yeah, all that. Thanks for sharing your wonderful mother with us, Tom.
A sweet tribute to your mother!
Realllly nice, Tom. Your Mom is a sweetheart !
Thank you Tom's Mom for raising such a special son! It is certain proof the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Yea Tom, greetings from Spain!
Well said,We all treasure your mom, a very special lady.


We expect the president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, to remain in power in 2019-20, but the government's failure to tackle economic hardship has increased the risk of social unrest. The pick up in exports to China in 2018 may have eased some of the country's external imbalances. However, real GDP growth will remain weak in 2019-20, averaging 3.1%. Delays in the government's flagship infrastrcuture projects such as its gas pipeline to India are likely.
The travel ban imposed on Soltan Achilova is reflective of the government�s clampdown on civil liberties. We do not expect even a slight improvement in them in the forecast period.
The two sides are looking forward to implementing the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline project, in addition to other transport and energy projects.
Is Turkmenistan finally emerging from its crisis?
External balances have improved, but authorities face a tough domestic environment owing to significant shortages of basic food items and staples, such as flour and bread.
These cases highlight the difficulty of doing business in Turkmenistan owing to an uncertain regulatory environment, and will act as a major deterrent to foreign investment.


Education Station: What's Up with Whole Roasted Beans?
You're curious, so we find answers. Our education team fields lots of questions from our guests during classes, so we've decided to launch a series of monthly installments in which we tackle some of those questions and share the answers with the world. We call it The Education Station. This week, Robert addresses some questions about a product we sell in our cafes, and what to do with them.
At Dandelion Chocolate, most people know us for our chocolate bars, drinks, and pastries, but the one item our customers seem to be most curious about lately are whole roasted beans. We sell bags of them in our cafés, and after spending most of my time working at the Ferry Building as a cafe associate, I've heard a lot of questions about them: "Are those coffee beans?" or "Is that where chocolate comes from?" and of course, "What do I do with them?" Well, now is the time to grab a bag and come along to dehusk that question.
To start, Whole Roasted Beans (or as we often abbreviate, WRB) are cocoa beans. Yes, these are what we use to make chocolate. So nope, they are not coffee beans. After we finish hand sorting all of our beans—picking out the cracked, flat, and broken ones that might not taste good—we roast them, and then we crack, winnow and grind them down with sugar into chocolate. Roasting is a very important step in our flavor development process for two reasons: One, it helps bring out the flavors that we love in our chocolate and two, it's the 'kill step' that ultimately kills any possible pathogens and assures that our chocolate is safe to eat. For our WRB, we use Madagascan beans from Bertil Akesson's Bejofo Estate, and roast them a bit longer than we do if we were making them into chocolate. Why? The answer is simple. When roasted lightly, our Madagascar beans have the bright flavors we think taste amazing as a chocolate bar (after they've been conched and sugar has been added) but we don't necessarily love those flavors as much as a stand-alone experience. So, by increasing our roast time, we've been able to skim off some of the sharper acidic flavors, leaving us with a nutty, citrusy flavor profile that we think is more snackable. If you want to learn more about the roasting process for our beans, we have factory tours and classes available to answer any questions you may have.
So, how do I eat them?
One way people eat them is as a snack! You can squeeze one lightly and roll it between your fingers, just like cracking a peanut, to snap the skin and make it easier to peel off. You'll end up with two parts; a peel, which we call husk, and the solids inside or the "meat of the bean," which we call the nib. The nibs are what we refine down to make chocolate. This is the closest thing to eating 100% chocolate without the commitment. I often taste nutty notes in pure nibs, similar to a peanut or almond.
Using the nibs as a topping is always my favorite way to enjoy them. I like to have the crunchy texture and nibby flavor that it adds to things I already love. You can sprinkle the full nibs on top of yogurt, oatmeal, a salad or even ice cream! If you feel like getting creative, many people candy their nibs and use them as a delicious topping for desserts. Not only can you eat them as broken chunks of nib, but you can grind them up in a blender or food processor to make a nutty powder to boost your recipes. I suggest trying matcha soft serve, covered in ground nibs – yum!
Baking with chocolate is always fun, but with nibs, it's even better! My favorite is making chocolate cherry bread using nibs instead of chocolate chips. Roasted cacao beans also make a great substitute for nuts. You can easily make banana nut bread by replacing nuts for nibs. We use nibs in many of our recipes here at Dandelion, stop by either of our cafes to try how our kitchen team incorporates them into our pastries and drinks.
Although it's possible, I wouldn't recommend using these bean for home chocolate making. As I mentioned before, we developed a very specific roast profile that is intentionally different from the one we use for our bars, so we would hate for you to not get the result you wanted. If you're interested in making chocolate at home we have a book coming out in November where we go more in depth, but if you can't wait, sign up for our Chocolate 201 classes and let's make a batch of chocolate!
Are there any other experiments I can do with them?
Absolutely! The great thing about working at Dandelion Chocolate is all of the tasting and experiments we do here—from our chocolate makers developing new bar profiles to our pastry team regularly adding new things to the menu. Everyone works hard in learning and creating something they're excited about, so I wanted to share a couple of things that I made at home using my roasted beans.
If you want a quick, but slightly messy way to remove the husk off the beans, this has worked since the beginning of our chocolate journey. This is the same technique our founder, Todd, used when he was starting in his kitchen at home.
Put your desired amount of beans into a ziplock bag and make sure it's closed all the way.
Using a rolling pin to go over the bag and break all of the beans. What you will have in the bag is a bunch of broken husk and nibs, all mixed together.
Place all of the broken nibs and husk into a bowl. I found that using a strainer helped me filter out some of the bigger pieces of husk before putting in the bowl.
Then use a blow dryer to "winnow" the husk off the nibs. Since husk pieces are light, they should blow away and the nibs should remain in the bowl. This takes a little practice of angling the blow dryer just right to allow only the husk to fly over the edge of the bowl, while the heavier nibs remain inside. As a warning, make sure you do not do this in a place where pets could eat them. Theobromine is very, very dangerous for dogs!
If you're like me, and like things done at 110%, you can remove any remaining husk by hand. In our factory, we use the ten-minute rule: once you start picking nibs clean, cap yourself at ten minutes. Otherwise, you'll be doing it for eternity.
I also tried seeing how long it would take me to remove the husk by hand, bean by bean, and got through half of the bag before my hands were covered in cocoa butter and smelled like chocolate. It's not impossible, but requires more patience, a lot of podcasts, and may take longer than cracking and winnowing.
After spending some time working at the Ferry Building one of my favorite things to do was to make our Ecuador Cold Brew. So I went home and made some for myself in a French press.
Start off by grinding your coffee at a coarse grind.
Optional: Use a spice grinder. I tried to match the same coarseness as the coffee.
Pour the coffee into the French press first and then fill it about halfway full with boiling water.
Next, add the nibs and stir everything together before topping it off with more water.
Remember to put the lid on, but don't plunge it.
Leave it to brew at room temperature for 24 hours.
Plunge the coffee, and do it slowly so none of the grounds make it to your coffee.
Transfer to a jar and put it in the fridge to enjoy later.
This was probably the most exciting thing I got to do. I bought a cast iron waffle maker and was finally able to put it to use. If you were wondering, this is where I used those nibs I winnowed by hand!
Combine all of the dry ingredients into a bowl.
In another bowl, mix the eggs, buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla.
Brush each side of the waffle maker with sunflower oil, or another neutral oil.
Pour 1/2 cup of batter into the pan for each waffle.
Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until golden and crispy at the edges.
You can use maple syrup if you like, but I used strawberries as toppings since I wanted to really taste the nibs.
I love incorporating roasted beans into my overall diet, especially if I want to cut out sugar for a bit. The possibilities are endless, and if you ever see me at an event or class I would love to hear how you used your beans. Or comment your favorite ways below! Remember there's no right or wrong way to taste chocolate, so I hoped this helped answer some of your questions. There are lots more experiments that I wanted to try, like smoothies and candied nibs, so keep an eye out for another post soon.


A survey finding on Sunday showed that 65 per cent of Bangladeshi consumers were likely to embrace newer forms of digital payments, said a press release.
Visa, one of major players in digital payments technology, conducted the independent study, in collaboration with YouGov sampling over 2,000 people in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka this October, it said.
The survey finding indicates increased awareness, acceptance and adoption of digital forms of payments among Bangladeshi consumers, said the release.
One of the factors that surfaced as the key drivers of this adoption included the ease of transition to digital form factors of payments, as stated by 74 per cent of respondents.
Among those who have used less-cash currently than before, 54 per cent stated that the main reason to transit away from cash was convenience while 40 per cent emphasised efficiency and speed of transaction offered by digital modes.
The study indicated that among people for whom this adoption was tough, 69 per cent found insufficient modes of payments as a key barrier, 25 per cent found that merchants they went to only accepted cash and 25 per cent were worried about the security of their transactions.
The survey also showed that millennials are more likely to use digital payments for everyday essentials like shopping at supermarkets, online, department stores, fast food restaurants and taxis than other generations.
According to the survey, cash usage continues showing steady decline from over 52 per cent last year, to 49 per cent currently, and is expected to come down further to around 46 per cent over next 12 months.


Q&A: "Do both Twins have to Awaken to get to Twin Flame Union?"
These are very interesting questions, Ariella, thank you! I've encountered this a lot, and in my experience the answer is that no, it is not necessary for both Twins to awaken to start with. One Twin can awaken first and then help the other along. Many Twin Flame pairs actually pre-arrange the dynamic before incarnating together, ensuring that one will be the more spiritually attuned and is triggered to go through awakening sooner than the other; developing their spiritual understanding so that when the time comes for the two to connect that person can "pull the other along with them" and lead the way. This is something I've seen time and time again in my intuitive practice for Twin Flames.
Because the Twins' energies are of an identical frequency and the two share large parts of the same energy field, any work the "enlightened" Twin does to lift their vibration will inevitably impact the other Twin positively as well. So it is fully possible for one Twin to do the work required to bring the two into balance and ready their energies for Union, although most often the "non-awakened" Twin's higher self will be assisting in the clearing even if the person doesn't realize it on a conscious ego level. Even though a Twin Flame seems to be inactive on the surface ego level, there are always unseen forces at play spiritually.
The Twin Flame Union is above all an energetic merging; we can tend to think of it in terms of our earthly romantic relationships or marriage but really it's a coming back together of the two energies that were once a single nucleus. In one sense you could look at the Union it as becoming more each other – there is a sharing of energy made possible and this is why it is necessary for the two Twins' energies to be aligned beforehand. The union is a process, not strictly a one time single event, and functions to let the Twin Flame pair form a gateway of high vibration energy, helping to shift the lower vibrations of fear, conflict and anger away from earth and help society's evolution into a higher, cohesive and love-based consciousness.
This might sound daunting but the real truth and what's so amazing about this is that it happens effortlessly – when the Twins join together in love their mere being in love is a powerful influence on their surroundings. Therefore, you could say that the Twin Flames' true mission is to be in love, feel love, share love and impact others positively in this way – without "working" for this to happen: love is an energy that expands and impacts anyone around you automatically.
To touch on the last part of your question (which I'll go into in more depth in a later post) – a Twin Flame pair where one is not incarnate, can also join together in unconditional love. Therefore they too serve this purpose of bringing the high energies of love into the world. Twin Flame pairs might have other specific individual missions they are working on but this purpose of bringing the energy of love into the world in one way or another is universal.
When both Twins are "awakened" or "enlightened" the journey can become easier, but you would not have arranged for one Twin to help the other along if this wasn't feasible. Nothing is insurmountable – you've pre-planned your dynamic for a reason. And remember that you both have teams of guides assisting you in coming together, they are responsible for leading you to opportunities, information and tools that may help you along toward union – and they'll often communicate with you in the form of signs and symbols such as 11:11 which indicates that you are now in the process of Ascension and awakening; you are beginning to remember your eternal self and you are in the process of releasing past heaviness so that you may be ready for reconnecting and for Union.
As always, I'd like to add for certainty's sake that the timing of Union and the length of time and arduousness of the Ascension period depends from pair to pair, depend on what energetic "baggage" the two of you are carrying from previous life experiences, your upbringing and from past lives (if you believe in reincarnation), so for some Twins it can be a relatively easy and quick process whereas for others it may require more deliberate work and time.
This is why we made our Vibrational Alignment Course, to give as many Twin Flames as possible the tools to clear out the energetic baggage that comes up to be released during the Ascension process – so that as many as possible can come together without "running" and episodes of separation and hurt.
For an easy, fun way to manage your mindset, elevate your vibration, harmonize your journey and get to Union with your Twin, have a look at the Vibrational Alignment Program for Twin Flames here.
As always, I'm sending you love and light for your continued journey!


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Georgia Genealogy Research Books
Genealogy Book
I am sorry to report that my father, Tad Evans, died June 23, 2018. His family misses him more then I can say, but his death will also be a great loss to the genealogy community in Georgia. I do not foresee reprinting his books, so the book inventories that are listed on the website are all there will be.
Elizabeth Evans Kilbourne
Explore YOUR GENEALOGY and GEORGIA'S REAL PAST, extracted from Georgia newspapers and other sources. These are excellent research books and make great reading. Contained in these books are newspaper abstracts that can help trace your lineage or give simple pleasure by transporting you to a bygone day. Civil War News - Heroes and Villains - Slave Trading - Lynchings - Deaths -Marriages - Legal Notices - Fraternal Lists - Jury Lists - Elections - all of which are indexed by name. Newspaper clippings books: All books are hard cover, 8 1/2 X 11 inches and color matched by county.
To be sold, a very fine island, situated on a navigable creek between Whitemarsh Island and Augustine's Creek near Half-Moon Bluff, consisting of 334 acres of good indigo and corn land. (Signed) William Gibbons.
The subscriber intending to remove to Philadelphia has to sell two lots very pleasantly situated in the town of Savannah including a dwelling house and kitchen, store for dry goods and a counting room with fireplace, stable and chairhouse, well of good water in the yard, a wharf 140 feet front and 100 in depth, a crane house on each end, two pits. Also, a tract of land 12 miles from town and two from the river Savannah containing 200 acres of rice and 400 acres of very good pine. Another tract six miles from town and two from the river Savannah containing 450 acres. Likewise, a tract on the Ogeechee River, has a fine bluff, contains 250 acres nearly divided between rice swamp and high land. (Signed) Joseph Wood.
The high bred English horse Valiant will cover mares this season at my plantation near Savannah. Good care will be taken of all the mares that shall be sent. (Signed) William Smith.
By an inquest taken the 29th day of this instant March, on view of the body of one Alexander Crawford, found dead at the plantation of John Milledge, Esquire, on Little Ogeechee, the verdict of the jury was that the said Crawford was stabbed and murdered by a negro fellow named Scipio, the property of the said Mr. Milledge, which said negro has made his escape. A reward of five pounds sterling will be given by the owner of the said negro to any person who shall apprehend the said negro alive and deliver him to the keeper of the gaol in Savannah. In case he cannot be taken alive, thirty shillings sterling to any person who shall produce his head to one of the justices of the peace for the parish of Christ-Church. The said negro is a middle sized fellow, has his country mark on his left arm and breast. He is well known at the plantations about Little Ogeechee.


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Eiman Mirghani, an Afro-Arab filmmaker living in Qatar, sets out to make a documentary about a Sudanese beautician who, like many other Sudanese women today, bleaches her skin as part of her "beauty routine". After coming across challenges in making the film, particularly in which the woman becomes hesitant in speaking openly about the subject, Eiman begins to look inwards regarding this increasing trend. She looks to find answers towards her lifelong feeling of unworthiness and underrepresentation in a world that is discreetly but deeply intolerant.
Sudanese-Egyptian filmmaker Eiman Mirghani has always been interested in pushing boundaries through her works. Upon graduating with a BA in Media & Film Studies from the University of Nottingham in 2015, Eiman started working in Doha, Qatar. Her directorial debut in 2017 was the short film 'Is That All There Is?', a neo-noir, crime film which premiered in various festivals worldwide. Eiman's second short film 'The Bleaching Syndrome' was produced as part of the Doha Film Institute's annual Documentary Lab in 2018 which was led by world-renowned Cambodian documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh.


In 1798 -- more than five years before he led the epic western journey that would make him and Meriwether Lewis national heroes -- William Clark set off by flatboat from his Louisville, Kentucky home with a cargo of tobacco and furs to sell downriver in Spanish New Orleans. He also carried with him a leather-trimmed journal used to record notes about his exploits. In The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark, a new book by author Jo Ann Trogdon, she reveals William Clark's highly questionable activities during the yeas before his famous journey west of the Mississippi. Join us as Ms. Trogdon sheds new light on the complex life of one of our country's most intriguing icons.


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Madonna of Divine Love by Raffaello is now available for purchase.
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April 6, 2020 marks 500 years since the death of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. When he died at only 37 years old, he left the most beautiful paintings, particularly many of the Madonna and Child. One particular painting on canvas by Raffaello, for Leonello Pio da Carpi, but since then it was never seen again.
The Capodimonte Museum in Naples describes the 1518 painting on wood as the "Madonna of Divine Love" by Raffaello, but since the eighteen century many art historians believe that the painting on wood is by GianFranceso Penni, Raffaello's pupil, so where is the original painting by Raffaello?
This painting was not mentioned for almost five-hundred years. Where was it? Elma believed she had an original Raffaello painting, and she wanted to know whether the story told by her aunt Anna was correct.
Carla Nicole De Petris fell in love with this painting, and the story fascinated her. This story follows the history of the painting and the story of the research.
About The Paintings in Question
Since the late eighteen-hundreds, the Art Historians have debated if the 1518 painting on wood, in the Farnese Collection called "The Madonna of Divine Love" exhibited in the Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, attributed to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, is instead painted by Raffaello's pupil, Gian Francesco Penni.
Left: 1) painting on wood / Right: 2) painting on canvas
The painting on the left was painted on wood in 1518 for Pope Paul III, Farnese collection and in 1731 the collection was brought to Naples and the painting is registered as the Madonna of Divine Love by Raffaello in the catalog of the Capodimonte Museum.
Since 1850 many Art Historians believe that this painting is by Raffaello's pupil Gianfrancesco Penni, but in 2015 the Museum still attributed it to Raffaello.
The painting on the right is a painting bought in 1871 in Rome by an American Lady with the story by Monsignor Nardi at the Vatican that it was the 1514 original painting on canvas by Raffaello for Signor Leonello Pio da Carpi. Than it was in the collection of Taddeo Barberini and at his death, in 1647, his wife Anna Colonna Barberini entered the convent and pursued to build the Monastery where she brought this painting. In 1861 during the Unification of Italy the State sequestered the Monastery, that became a prison, and the painting was sold to the American Lady and it remain in the same family for more than one hundred years. In 1982 I had the request to research the history and find the answer if it was painted by Raffaello.
"My research is about the history of five important Dynasties of the 1500-1600 as the Pio da Carpi, Falco Pio di Savoia, Farnese and Barberini and to find the record of a 1514 original painting on canvas attributed to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino originally painted for Leonello Pio da Carpi with dubious historical records after 1564.
The story is, also, how I found the painting and how it was authenticated as an original Raffaello." ~Carla Nicole De Petris
It has been my quest to bring the attention to the art-interested public the story that was told by a Monsignor Nardi of the Vatican City to an American woman and show the similarity and the differences of the two paintings. The purpose to tell this story is to know what the public's opinion will be.
You are invited to respond to the ideas of Carla's book. Click here.


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Carrying off the Overall Winner trophy at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards requires an organisation to demonstrate all the characteristics and attributes of a world-leading supply chain; it must lead its sector through the creation of innovative strategies, display dedicated and inspirational leadership, encourage team engagement, and of course, prove exemplary execution of the strategy to the overall benefit and performance of the enterprise. But the Overall Winner must even go further than this. It must be able to prove that it is better than the winners of all the other industrial categories.
From left to right: Stephen Brooks, managing director of Akabo Media, Rachel Passey, Supply Chain transformation Lead, Severn Trent, Fulya Hinde – DST team manager, Severn Trent, Jay Barnett-Evans, warehousing team leader, Shelton, Severn Trent, Phil Donnelly – supply chain analyst, Severn Trent, Ema Yasenova – project manager, Severn Trent, Tomas Molenda, Warehousing team leader, Severn Trent, Chris Wand, Head of Supply Chain, Severn Trent, Jason Fletcher, Supply Chain Integration Lead, Severn Trent, Colwyn Griffiths, Warehouse Operative, Severn Trent, Stuart Thomas, Warehousing manager, Severn Trent, and host Sara Pascoe.
This year is no exception; the outright winner of the 2017 Awards demonstrates all the characteristics and attributes of a world-leading supply chain. But before revealing the winner, let's look through the top contenders first.
The process for determining the Overall Winner involves the assessment and comparison of each of the six Industry Sector winners. So shortlisted for the trophy were – Elval SA, Euro Car Parts, Lesara, McVities Carlisle – Pladis UK, Severn Trent Plc, and Turkcell İletişim Hizmetleri AŞ.
The scores for Turkcell were high and the judges were really impressed by the telecommunication company's vigour in taking on a major cost transformation programme aimed at making substantial cost savings on a billion euros a year global spend. The approach taken by the cross-functional project team to create a less-fragmented, re-designed procurement structure, supported by local subcontractors as well as global vendors, offered considerable savings and benefits to the business. The judges also liked the streamlined tendering process, involving a new negotiation strategy and a partner selection process, which greatly helped to enhance value. There was plenty for the judges to like and appreciate in Turkcell's entry, especially around the way the teams involved tackled the complex issues surrounding the hi-tech installation projects. This was an entry that deserved the praises of the judges – but did it have the scope and scale they were looking for in an Overall Winner?
Then there was the entry from McVities Carlisle – Pladis UK. This was another very strong contender for the world's most prestigious supply chain trophy. The biscuit maker stunned the judges with its startling performance in rebounding from a natural disaster, when in December 2015 its Carlisle factory was flooded during Storm Desmond. The production facilities were recovered in just four months and full production levels were regained within five months of the storm. What's more, the site achieved recognition of its high service levels from April to December 2016 by attaining BRC Accreditation A+, as well as taking second place in the Advantage Group Survey of all the major UK retailers. Not bad for an organisation that had been hit by disaster just a year earlier.
But the Pladis entry went far beyond this. They outlined their unique collaborative partnership with KP Intersnacks, whereby Pladis operate as a third party logistics provider for KP Snacks, managing the distribution of over 200 million cases per annum. They also impressed the judges with their excellent approach to customer service – expanding and up-skilling the customer and collaboration team to manage all UK export for Pladis and KP. The business was set on a journey of continuous improvement and the judges liked what they saw. Pladis were certainly excellent, however, there was one entry that went even further.
Severn Trent Plc took the judges' breath away with what they managed to achieve in just one year – a complete supply chain transformation using innovative techniques and well-placed technology. The sheer scale and scope of the project, along with the meticulous way the transformation was planned and executed – within such as short space of time – deeply impressed the judges. This was supply chain management at its best.
Severn Trent water is a FTSE 100 Company delivering critical services to over 4.5 million households and businesses – operating over 46,000 km of water pipes and 91,000 km of sewers. After a major review of the company's supply chain it was realised that a major restructuring was required. The judges admired the approach taken by the team to benchmark both inside and outside the sector, the extensive modelling undertaken and the full data analysis engaged in to create an exemplary supply chain operating model. The speed with which change was effected was staggering – the building of three new RDCs in under six months, the creation of a new internal distribution network to 65 key sites, the introduction of self-serve stores using vending machines, the implementation of bar coding at distribution centres and self-serve stores, the streamlining of van stock across 1,500 vehicles, to list just some of the individual projects.
The benefits to the business have been just as dramatic – a reduction of lead times for operational teams on critical parts by 75 per cent, improved asset availability, enhanced visibility and efficiency gains in managing inventory, a standardisation of the workstream which has driven a reduction of 70 per cent in unique items purchased, a 20 per cent cost efficiency from base spend, greater stock pick accuracy, consolidated invoicing, a reduction in obsolescence, faster access to materials for frontline teams, and standardisation on spare parts has resulted in cost savings of up to 75 per cent. What's more, the entire programme was delivered internally.
These were stunning results and the judges could not have been more impressed. The judges said, "This was a project that inspires – they have transformed a fragmented supply chain and have created a structure that delivers competitive advantage through enhanced visibility, transparency, and performance. This is supply chain excellence in abundance." The Overall Winner trophy for 2017 was deservedly awarded to Severn Trent Plc.


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Julián Castro Visits Flagstaff
Meet Julián Castro! 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate at Coconino High School on May 18th!
Doors Open at 10:30 AM
This is a Free Event, Please RSVP
Julián Castro's Schedule in Flagstaff:
11 AM: Coconino High School Speech and Q&A sponsored by Coconino County Democratic Party – open to the public
1:30 PM: Visit Fiesta de Mayo-Meet & Greet & Selfies!
This is part of the Coconino County Democratic Party's work to educate and inspire voters. This is not a candidate endorsement.
Castro was a member of President Obama's Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and previously Mayor of San Antonio, TX.
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Today we completed the third day of our Upwards Sports Toronto camp. It was a long hot day. The campers are tired, and so is our team. But God is so good and so wonderful to his children. He takes our feeble efforts and works and somehow uses them for his own glory. I am not sure how or why he uses the work of tired and weak human hands, but he does. And I am thankful for that.
I believe that the greatest work that God does during a missions trip is in the hearts and lives of those who go on the trip. Missionaries may benefit, buildings may be built, food donated, flyers handed out, evangelism may take place, and sports camps may be run, but in the final analysis, it is the participants whom I believe receive the greatest blessings.
God is working in our hearts today. For some, it is a challenge to firmly know that they believe what they say they believe. For others, God continually is giving them circumstances that they cannot control (but they so wish they could), and he challenges them to trust him and work towards an outcome that they cannot see and is not guaranteed. Still, for others of us, God uses trips like this to expose our weaknesses and prevent us from keeping some sins hidden.
Missions trips can expose in us a shallow biblical obedience, a high view of self, a disdain for others (especially those that are different), and a lightweight theology. When God exposes these types of things in a person on a mission trip, he often does it in a manner that involves trip teammates. In some ways, this can cause difficulty and tension, but also God can cause this to strengthen a person or people and to solidify a friendship.
Missions trips remind us of the necessity of evangelism, of how many don't know Christ and with how very few people we ever share the good news of Jesus Christ. And it exposes a hypocrisy that exists in many of us, that we are willing to tell someone of Christ when we are far from home, but often unwilling to share the gospel in our everyday environment and community.
Missions trips reveal how much of your 'normal' life you spend on yourself, and how much time you waste, and how little of yourself you pour out as an offering to the Lord. How much can be accomplished when one is away from the television and the computer. How much more preferred personal relationships are than digital ones.
While we are serving 11 unsaved students between the ages of 7-15, we are the ones that God is challenging, testing, and probing. We are the ones coming away with a desire to know God more and to drink of his Word deeply. We are the ones who understand that our prayer lives can be so shallow and that in a world of great darkness we must cry out to our Father more.
I ask myself if this city will even know that Grace Student Ministries was here this week? Will the light of Christ shine any brighter in Toronto because we came? I don't know, but I hope and believe it will in St. Charles.


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Q: Python strict CSV DictReader I'd like to test bad CSV input data but I'm not able to simulate it.
my code is:
dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(fd.readline(), delimiters=',;')
dialect.strict = True
fd.seek(0)
reader = csv.DictReader(fd, dialect=dialect)
for row in reader:
    print(row)

There is no difference if I use dialect.strict = True or dialect.strict = False on any my data files.
Can someone show me CSV data raising Error when dialect.strict = True and no exception when dialect.strict = False?
Python doc for a reference: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html#csv.Dialect.strict

A: Setting dialect.strict = True would make the reader raise an exception when the input data does not have a matching ending quote.
For example:
import csv
from io import StringIO

fd = StringIO('''a,b
x,"y''')
dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(fd.readline(), delimiters=',;')
dialect.strict = False
fd.seek(0)
reader = csv.DictReader(fd, dialect=dialect)
for row in reader:
    print(row)

would output:
{'a': 'x', 'b': 'y'}

But setting dialect.strict = True would produce:
_csv.Error: unexpected end of data

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The Temple Training- Love Initiation Online
20 September 2021, 10:00 am – 29 October 2021, 6:00 pm
THE TEMPLE TRAINING - LOVE INITIATION
Monday 8 February to Friday 19 March 2021
The Temple Training is a 6 week online immersion.
It provides the opportunity to learn and demonstrate together the next step forward in the anchoring of the modern Temple.
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Monday 8 February - Friday 19 March 2021
The Temples of the World Soul are Landing!
2020-2021 continues to unfold as a dynamic living fire.
The world soul is landing simultaneously all over the planet. Highden Temple is a Mystery School for soul initiation, leadership, magic and the creation of soul community and we are being called to break open the energy of what has been developed here. Just as the last Temple Training expanded from one residential mandala to multiple global mandala's around the world completing the cycle of 7, so this first Temple Training of the next cycle must also change form and vibrate its essence around the globe.
We learned so much from the last Temple Training about the power of mandala work both virtual and residential. Group soul activation forms a powerful archetypal bridge between the individual soul and the world soul and even more so when a group of people are vibrating around the globe in a portal at the same time.
We are therefore going to make this Temple Training available in an online mandala form so that people all over the planet can do their soul initiation work together and anchor the temple wherever they are.
Groups of facilitators and graduates from the first seven temple trainings will come together and support the global mandala's. Some will be on the ground at Highden, some in Australia and some in Europe. This will anchor the energy and provide a resource for the virtual temples. Some of these temples will be in virtual form. Others will be in smaller groups of people that gravitate together on land and communities, calling for this temple training transmission.
There is a massive energetic portal open at the moment that makes it possible for those who are deeply called at this time - to fully land their souls as well as calling in the temples as a global group, in resonance with the cosmic energy alignments available.
Is there something deep inside your soul stirring wanting to be a part of what is emerging from this global period of transformation? If this Temple Training is resonating for you; If this is how Wild Love is calling for you to emerge…then please join us in the fire.
Designed to cover all aspects of conscious sacred living. It is for those who have already made considerable progress on their path of liberation and embodiment.
The Temple Training provides the opportunity to demonstrate together the next step forward in the anchoring of the modern Temple.
This is not just an online workshop but an actual living experience in group soul - be part of the source code of creative, loving, shamanic, ecstatic community. ........ THE CURRICULUM Will focus on five major areas : Awareness: - Meditation, Cosmology, Astrology, Rayology, Soul Fusion, The Void Eros: - Life force Activation, Polarity & Magnetism, Tantric Sexuality, Magic & Rituals Community: - Love & Relationship, Group Soul & Group Initiation, Living as Organism Creativity: - Unique self & Life Purpose, Synergy, Money and the Economics of Love Earth:- Shamanism, Earth energies, Working with Devas, Planetary Kundalini, Initiations & Ceremonies
And....these are just guides. The real curriculum is the living current of life force emerging through each of us and between us as love reveals to us its next great unfoldment in planetary evolution and group transmission.
THE LOVE INITIATION The initial stage of anchoring of the Highden Temple took place over three and a half years and seven temple trainings. These were the seven sub rays of the first ray which is about initiating through the use of the will. The Temple has landed and so much has already been learned about the process of group initiation.
In 2021, we begin the second cycle of seven trainings whose core essence is the second ray of Love-Wisdom. In residence at Highden and simultaneously all over the world. On the Innernet, the Internet and fully Incarnate. The first training begins in February and combines the initiatory power of the first ray with the compassion and inclusiveness of the second. Now we fully open the Heart of the temple.
The Temple Training is a call from soul. A call that does not come from the mind, desire, or wanting to come the next workshop or the next thing, but from a deeper place of soul calling that has no choice but to break open to the love that is all.
This is soul initiation work and requires three things of you.
1.That it is a definite inner calling - a vocation to be available in service to the world through the deepest part of you.
2.That you make a real commitment of time, energy and money to the process. This will involve preparation work for an initiatory journey as well as making it a priority for the six week duration of the Temple. This will require a minimum of four hours a day, five days a week. Time zones may require you to break your normal routines.
3.That you are willing to be the fullest expression of your soul sovereignty while at the same time giving your consent in full surrender to the mystery that wants to dance us all.
Here is what you can expect; A deeply intimate and transformative journey of soul initiation over six weeks 8th Feb - 19th March ( plus a preparatory week starting on 1st Feb ) - You will join a mandala of no more than 24 and a pod group of four. - You will have daily ( Mon-Fri ) meditations, pod groups and mandala meetings. - You will have a live transmission each day from Janine Ma-Ree and once a week from Bruce Lyon and offerings from other guest teachers. You will be supported ( depending on your mandala ) by Winter Icely, Regan Pryor, Robbie Griffin, Taki'h Dyandeepa, Laura Deva, Sam Pemberton, Yvette Daniel, Andreas Dreki and many others in the wider field. - You will have daily practices, rituals and interactive group processes. - There will be regular temples and rituals for the whole field. - You will have relevant reading and resource material to support the teachings over six weeks. -You will have a copy of your astrology chart and human design. - You will have the support of the mandala on the ground at Highden as well as the more than 270 graduates of the Temple Training vibrating all around the world. - You will also be connected to other people in your time zones, geographical location and the possibility of local gatherings.
COST The exchange for The Temple Training virtual is US$1750 pp. ( Our In residence six week Temple is US$6250 ). We have made every effort to keep the cost as affordable as possible for this training. Applicants with financial constraints are encouraged to seek support from their communities. ENROLMENT There is an application process to ensure the group synergy is flowing and that the programme is suitable for each participant.
Fill in the application here: https://forms.gle/93Gi79qAaY9mWSRz9
highdenttt@gmail.com
with any questions.
What is Soul Initiation? https://www.brucelyon.com/post/what-is-soul-initiation
Landing The Temples https://www.brucelyon.com/.../landing-the-temples-and... "The temples are not just places of refuge for those fleeing a civilisation in decline or looking for an alternative culture within the prevailing system. They are more radical than that. They are the very breath of the new arriving. They are not a place to retreat but to advance in a new direction; towards the earth. Towards the earth, not as mother but lover. They are landed by free souls who have liberated themselves from the gravity of survival and necessity, yet have come back to kiss the ground, to co-create and listen to that which has been waiting in their own bodies and the earth itself, longing to be met with love and danced in freedom."
TEACHING TEAM Janine Ma-Ree will be holding the lead point supported by a teams of 7 for each mandala, made up of a triad of facilitators and 4 other support people. Bruce Lyon will be giving a meditation and consciousness transmission once a week for the duration of The Temple Training and holding point with Janine for the final initiation ceremony.
BRUCE LYON - BSc, Dip Clin Hyp, MSE, PhdE. Has been teaching in the area of esoteric wisdom, the tantric arts, cosmology and universal spirituality for over twenty years. He is on the wisdom council of ISTA, founder of Shamballa School and the author of many books. He first established an esoteric school at Highden in 2001 and has a deep connection with the land there. www.brucelyon.com www.schooloftemplearts.org
LEAD TEACHER - JANINE MA-REE Janine Ma-Ree has been facilitating transformational spaces for over 25 years. She supports people to live a life of Spiritual embodiment, shadow integration, wild innocence, and from an ecstatic resonance anchored in the dark. She has a passion for the mysteries of matter, the shamanic, the holy dark and the path of the mystic.
A few years ago, Janine founded Red Earth Temple, a living temple of activated wild land. The land is her teacher, her muse and co-creator. The acres of Red Earth, combined with the womb canyon through the centre, and the Wild Innocence of the untamed bush, create a potent shamanic field for deep immersion, ritual and session work.
She created the Shamanic Womb Journey work, is lead faculty at International School of Temple Arts and serves in Wisdom Circle, lead facilitator at Highden Mystery School, and creates/co creates other offerings as they emerge.
Janine draws on 30 years' experience in holistic health as a practitioner, presenter and facilitator as well as the many mentors, guides, teachers and experiences that she has been gifted on her life's path. www.redearthtemple.com
MANDALA FACILITATOR - WINTER JADE ICELY Winter is an international teacher who has been developing and facilitating trainings for the past seven years in the realms of the mystical arts, sexuality and dark embodiment.
Winter has been part of the core team and a guest teacher throughout the three years of the Temple Trainings. She is a member of Highden Governance and part of the Soul Education team developing the curriculum and teachings for the mystery school trainings.
Winter's work penetrates ideas of gender and sexuality and the spaces she creates are beyond constructs of duality, of him and her, heterosexual and homosexual to the deeper realms of soul, the singularity that connects us all.
Winter is a qualified social worker and holistic counsellor working with clients and groups through periods of crisis and soul development. She has a deep calling to bring forth the temples of the new earth, to create spaces that penetrate worlds, that merge spirit and matter.
MANDALA FACILITATOR - REGAN PRYOR Regan Pryor's journey has taken him through a deeply embodied and felt sense of the vast spectrum of life experience available to us during these beautiful and challenging times on the earth.
He has moved through an intensive investigation into the realms of relating, the domains of the corporate and creative industries as well as organic farming and permaculture lifestyle.
After a deep calling to integrate his life experience and share more with the world through his men's group and circle work, he discovered two great avenues to express his soul gifts and uplift and inspire the beings he came into contact with; Sacred sexuality and Youth work.
From this place of deep realisation and connection to his heart calling, Regan set out to run a retreat lodge in the Kaimais mountain range in N.Z. With seven years offering his space and holding space for youth work, week-long intensives, shamanic circles, sacred sexuality retreats and workshops, as well as festivals and community activities.
His passion for inspiring youth as well as his dedication to awakening life force through spiritual, sexual and shamanic practices lead him to a long standing relationship with the International School of Temple Arts (I.S.T.A).
MANDALA FACILITATOR - ROBBIE GRIFFIN Robbie has spent eight years delving into the deep mysteries and wisdom of ancient traditions in both Western and Eastern philosophies and practices.
As a mentor and counsellor, he empowers people to open their hearts fully and live a life of deep love and connection. Working with the deepest challenges of transmuting sacred wounding and distilling the essence as a gift for their souls' development.
Robbie is drawn to working with the dark, matter, density, Earth, shamanic subtleties and the merging of these elements within. He is dedicated to landing the temples, experimenting with radically alternative lifestyles and bringing together heart centred communities where we can live in synergy and synarchy.
Robbie first participated in Ray V and since has devoted himself to the intricate work and teachings. He was a co-facilitator for the landing of Ray VII and is honoured to be organising and co-facilitating the first iteration of the new cycle of Temple Training.


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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten
Book #10 of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
By Jonathan Strahan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Elizabeth Bear, Jeffrey Ford, Greg Bear, Neil Gaiman, Nalo Hopkinson, Alastair Reynolds, Genevieve Valentine, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Geoff Ryman, Ann Leckie, Ian McDonald and Kai Ashante Wilson
Published by Solaris
Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 10th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy from 2015. With established names and new talent this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the reader to the outer-reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.
Featuring Paolo Bacigalupi • Elizabeth Bear • Greg Bear • Jeffrey Ford • Neil Gaiman • Nalo Hopkinson • Nisi Shawl • Simon Ings • Gwyneth Jones • Caitlin R. Kiernan • Anne Leckie • Kelly Link • Usman T. Malik • Ian McDonald • Vonda McIntrye • Sam J. Miller • Tamsyn Muir • Robert Reed • Alastair Reynolds • Kim Stanley Robinson • Kelly Robson • Geoff Ryman • Nike Sulway • Catherynne Valente • Genevieve Valentine • Kai Ashante Wilson • Alyssa Wong
Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford (www.well-builtcity.com) is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, The Twilight Pariah, Ahab's Return, and Out of Body. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, A Natural History of Hell, The Best of Jeffrey Ford, and Big Dark Hole. Ford's fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies from Tor.com to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction to The Oxford Book of American Short Stories and has been widely translated. It has garnered World Fantasy, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Jackson, Nebula awards and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Greg Bear
Nalo Hopkinson
Alastair Reynolds
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente (www.catherynnemvalente.com) is the New York Times bestselling author of forty works of speculative fiction and poetry, including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times' Critics Choice, and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human.
Geoff Ryman
Publisher: Solaris (May 17, 2016)
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San Diego developers wonder when boom time will end
Panelists at the Bisnow: State of the Market event in Carlsbad. Left to right: Greg Williams, Stockdale Capital Partners; Brad Termini, Zephyr Partners; Paul Kaseburg, MG Properties; John Kenney, The Casey Brown Co; Seth Grossman, Meridian Capital; and Nathan Moeder of London Moeder Advisors.
(Phillip Molnar/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
By Phillip Molnar
It's been boom time for San Diego developers for several years, but how long it will last is up in the air.
Some of the region's top developers gave mixed answers about the future of real estate investment at an event Wednesday in Carlsbad to discuss the state of the market. Attended by about 150 people, the occasion was hosted by digital media company Bisnow and held at the newly constructed Create building.
In general, developers saw potential in bringing big tech firms to the region, especially in new office space. However, they were concerned with high housing costs pushing out potential buyers, as well as talented workers tech companies will need.
The region has also experienced several years of strong investment, but it is unclear if things will significantly slow down. Nathan Moeder, principal with real estate analysts London Moeder Advisors, said it was not surprising that some analysts predict real estate is at its peak, meaning things will go downhill from here.
"We really have reached maximum employment," he said. "We have reached maximum price evaluations."
Speculative Building
Developers said building office space in San Diego County means constructing new complexes with no set tenant in mind. It can be risky, because lenders typically would like to see a tenant already signed on before they finance a huge project.
Greg Williams, a managing director at Stockdale Capital Partners, said it's necessary for big projects in San Diego County to take a gamble on new office supply because tech companies are not completely sold on the region yet.
Stockdale is working toward a major speculative project — turning Horton Plaza into a tech campus. Williams said once the project is completed, it can have the effect of increasing office rents and demand.
"We are really having to work hard to convince tech companies that are in San Francisco how much talent there is" in San Diego, he said, "what the quality of life is like."
Williams said he was amazed how quickly Silicon Valley tech companies were willing to go out of state without looking at the value of San Diego.
He said downtown San Diego reminds him of Austin a few years ago, which has now seen a major influx of tech companies into its downtown. Like San Diego's downtown, he said many of Austin's businesses wanted to be outside the city center with a reverse commute of many residents out to the suburbs to work.
John Kenney, principal at the Casey Brown Company, said the future was unknown when it began work on the $40 million project to turn the former San Diego Union-Tribune building into high-end office space called Ampersand.
It started work on the project without a major tenant, but in September welcomed its first big tenant — Encore Capital Group, which takes up the entire third floor. He said the company was confident it would be a prime location for businesses, even if others weren't so sure.
"We took people on tours early on and people looked at the printing press and dirt everywhere and they were like, 'You are crazy. This will never work.'" he said. "I think to get people to buy into it, they need to see" the final product.
A lack of high paying tech jobs means the county's largest working generation, millennials, cannot afford new developments, said Brad Termini, co-founder of Zephyr Partners.
Zephyr is now selling condos at The Park development in Bankers Hill. Units start at $1.4 million. He said 75 percent of the building is sold, but only two buyers were under 50 years old.
"Our average buyer is 60 years old," he said. "That's a problem for our community."
Paul Kaseburg, chief investment officer at MG Properties, said a way to attract tech workers is having places to live in a place people want to be, like San Diego. That works well for real estate investment, but only if enough of those jobs exist.
He said the problem is younger, low-income workers are leaving the region because they can't afford high housing costs. That means a housing market that won't grow as much as lower cost places like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Benefits of San Diego
San Diego County's real estate market has been busy for years with high-rise residential, and the occasional new office or mixed-use building.
Seth Grossman, senior managing director at Meridian Capital Group, said its not as easy to finance a big deal as it used to be, but deals are to be had with enough effort.
"2011, 2012, 2013 2014: I didn't see a deal I didn't like," he said.
From 2015 on, he said things started to get a lot more expensive and the main complaint from his clients are that deals aren't penciling out to make a good enough profit. He said people are still getting deals done, it just is taking a lot longer.
Grossman said the economy is going well enough that investors have not lost their appetite and low interest rates are sometimes too good to pass up.
In many ways, the San Diego region is still cheaper than much of the West Coast, said John Kenney, of the Casey Brown Company. He said big projects, like the Ampersand project and the Horton Plaza effort, are beginning to change people's minds about what is available.
"There is starting to be the beginnings of opportunities for those type of larger projects to come into San Diego," he said. "There's a really good nexus of components coming together to make this an attractive place for capital to be placed."
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Customize Your Favorite Sony-Owned Tune into a Ringtone
By Amy Mayer
Sony Music Entertainment has reached a deal with mSpot to allow mobile users on Sprint, Verizon and AT&T's networks to download and customize selections from the record label's vast library. The tunes can then be edited into ringtones using the mSpot Make-UR-Tones mobile app.
The three other major music labels, EMI, Universal Music and Warner Music, already had agreements with mSpot. Some indie labels also partner with mSpot and the company's library now exceeds 400,000 songs.
To get stared, select a song from mSpot's homepage and then follow the simple steps to select the part of the song you want as your ringtone. Or, download the mobile app and do it all on the go.
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#include "jam.h"

#include "modules.h"
#include "string.h"
#include "hash.h"
#include "object.h"
#include "lists.h"
#include "parse.h"
#include "rules.h"
#include "variable.h"
#include "strings.h"
#include "native.h"
#include <assert.h>

static struct hash * module_hash = 0;
static module_t root;

module_t * bindmodule( OBJECT * name )
{

    if ( !name )
    {
        return &root;
    }
    else
    {
        PROFILE_ENTER( BINDMODULE );

        module_t m_;
        module_t * m = &m_;

        if ( !module_hash )
            module_hash = hashinit( sizeof( module_t ), "modules" );

        m->name = name;

        if ( hashenter( module_hash, (HASHDATA * *)&m ) )
        {
            m->name = object_copy( name );
            m->variables = 0;
            m->rules = 0;
            m->imported_modules = 0;
            m->class_module = 0;
            m->native_rules = 0;
            m->user_module = 0;
        }

        PROFILE_EXIT( BINDMODULE );

        return m;
    }
}

/*
 * demand_rules() - Get the module's "rules" hash on demand.
 */
struct hash * demand_rules( module_t * m )
{
    if ( !m->rules )
        m->rules = hashinit( sizeof( RULE ), "rules" );
    return m->rules;
}

/*
 * delete_module() - wipe out the module's rules and variables.
 */

static void delete_rule_( void * xrule, void * data )
{
    rule_free( (RULE *)xrule );
}

static void delete_native_rule( void * xrule, void * data )
{
    native_rule_t * rule = (native_rule_t *)xrule;
    if ( rule->arguments )
        args_free( rule->arguments );
    object_free( rule->name );
    if ( rule->procedure )
        function_free( rule->procedure );
}

static void delete_imported_modules( void * xmodule_name, void * data )
{
    object_free( *(OBJECT * *)xmodule_name );
}

void delete_module( module_t * m )
{
    /* Clear out all the rules. */
    if ( m->rules )
    {
        hashenumerate( m->rules, delete_rule_, (void *)0 );
        hashdone( m->rules );
        m->rules = 0;
    }

    if ( m->native_rules )
    {
        hashenumerate( m->native_rules, delete_native_rule, (void *)0 );
        hashdone( m->native_rules );
        m->native_rules = 0;
    }

    if ( m->variables )
    {
        var_hash_swap( &m->variables );
        var_done();
        var_hash_swap( &m->variables );
        m->variables = 0;
    }

    if ( m->imported_modules )
    {
        hashenumerate( m->imported_modules, delete_imported_modules, (void *)0 );
        hashdone( m->imported_modules );
        m->imported_modules = 0;
    }
}

static void delete_module_( void * xmodule, void * data )
{
    module_t *m = (module_t *)xmodule;

    delete_module( m );
    object_free( m->name );
}

void modules_done()
{
    hashenumerate( module_hash, delete_module_, (void *)0 );
    hashdone( module_hash );
    module_hash = 0;
    delete_module( &root );
}

module_t * root_module()
{
    return &root;
}

void enter_module( module_t * m )
{
    var_hash_swap( &m->variables );
}

void exit_module( module_t * m )
{
    var_hash_swap( &m->variables );
}

void import_module( LIST * module_names, module_t * target_module )
{
    PROFILE_ENTER( IMPORT_MODULE );

    struct hash * h;

    if ( !target_module->imported_modules )
        target_module->imported_modules = hashinit( sizeof( char * ), "imported" );
    h = target_module->imported_modules;

    for ( ; module_names; module_names = module_names->next )
    {
        OBJECT * s = module_names->value;
        OBJECT * * ss = &s;
        if( hashenter( h, (HASHDATA * *)&ss ) )
        {
            *ss = object_copy( s );
        }
    }

    PROFILE_EXIT( IMPORT_MODULE );
}

static void add_module_name( void * r_, void * result_ )
{
    OBJECT * * r = (OBJECT * *)r_;
    LIST * * result = (LIST * *)result_;

    *result = list_new( *result, object_copy( *r ) );
}

LIST * imported_modules( module_t * module )
{
    LIST * result = L0;
    if ( module->imported_modules )
        hashenumerate( module->imported_modules, add_module_name, &result );
    return result;
}

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« The Thing That Rubs Me the Wrong Way about the UFO Issue
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The Greatest Trick
June 8, 2021 //
Nearly every reference to "conspiracy" is stupid.
People use "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracist" often incorrectly, and with baggage from their benighted instruction in public schools and from the hectoring of major media news readers.
It is common to accuse someone of [unwarranted] belief in [non-existent] conspiracies at the first drop of the hat, upon almost zero evidence. Mere association of an idea with even the whiff of "conspiracy" taints it like the lingering body odor of Seinfeld's toxic valet.
The funny thing is, this inculcated fear of "conspiracy theory" is very likely the result of a conspiracy. Tales of Operation Mockingbird tell how the very term "conspiracy theory" itself was encouraged by the CIA to its cadres of news readers and reporters, to dismiss anyone who brings up critiques of the Warren Commission Report on the JFK assassination.
Are these tales true? That is, are the reports that the CIA directly told its moles within the news media to dismiss those who question the Lone Gunman Theory as "conspiracy theorists" true? We hear this a lot online, especially from . . . conspiracy theorists.
Wikipedia belittles the lore of Operation Mockingbird as "an alleged large-scale program" of the CIA, despite quite a lot of evidence for the operation's existence (most of it not mentioned), and despite the many, many links between the legacy media's news staff and the CIA (not to mention the dominant Ethnicity We Must Not Mention), but I have had enough run-ins with Wikipedia's editorial staff to understand that Wikipedia was long ago taken over by the same kind of propagandists who overrun most successful start-ups of influence-peddling. The history of non-profit foundations is littered with ideological takeovers. This shouldn't be surprising. It is more class-based than anything else, and much of what is condemned as "conspiracy theory" is actually some sort of class-based analysis.
But in American intellectual culture only leftists are allowed to engage in class analysis. All others are "conspiracy theorists" — and even the left is controlled, somewhat, by the obsessive implementation of the "conspiracy theorist" charge.
It is nevertheless the case that all conjectures about conspiracies should be judged on their factual merits, with recognition that conspiracies are evasive phenomena that do not present evidence in the innocent manner that we see the phenomena of the natural world. Clues of a conspiracy often appear first as evidence of a cover-up. Elementary praxeology should warn scientists of the danger of using the smell test in these areas, pro or con, for scientists generally do not have to fight against consciously withheld data.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled": successful conspiracies would hide behind a taboo against looking into conspiracies for the same reason that true, exploitative egoists would hide behind the smoke of official altruism.
Don't be a stooge. Reject the lore that says "conspiracy theory" must be the province of the psychotically paranoid.
For if "they" are out to get you, it is not paranoia to notice. And there are a lot of theys out there in the business of defrauding us, stealing from us, subjugating with us.
More importantly, we must not be shamed by the shameless.
To be a conspiracy theorist should be no more controversial than an "invisible hand" theorist. A conspiracy theorist is someone who has theories about conspiracies, and considers conjectures about conspiracies as legitimate subject for inquiry and disputation. Someone who believes in a conspiracy is not necessarily a conspiracy theorist. Someone who merely suspects a conspiracy lurks behind some observed events would better be labelled a "conspiracy conjecturer"!
The first question to ask an actual conspiracy theorist is not "what conspiracies do you believe in?" but "how can we learn which proposed conspiracies might be real?"
Categories conspiracy, Crime, information vs misinformation vs disinformation, Institutional Reality


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Neil Parish
A deposit return scheme will encourage more people than ever to recycle
Just before Parliament broke for recess, Michael Gove announced a consultation on a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for all single use drinks containers.
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NEIL PARISH IS THE CONSERVATIVE MP FOR TIVERTON AND HONITON AND HAS BEEN SINCE 2010
Earlier this year, the Government launched the 25 Year Environment Plan. The plan which will see the environment left in a better state than we found it. Just before Parliament broke for recess, Michael Gove announced a consultation on a Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) for all single use drinks containers.
His intention is to increase our recycling rates as every year nearly three billion plastic drinks bottles are incinerated, sent to landfill or left to pollute our countryside and marine environment.
The 25 Year Environment Plan is a demonstration of small changes we can all make to improve our environment. Through working together, we can all help improve, protect and enhance our environment, which is so crucial for the health and biodiversity of our country and our planet.
Many thousands of plastic 'nurdles' have washed up on Dawlish Warren beach
A DRS is another example of small changes we can make to protect our environment. Through paying a small deposit for single use drinks containers, whether it be plastic, metal or glass, we can dramatically increase our recycling rates. As a result, there will be less litter destroying our countryside.
DRS is used in a number of other countries. Germany being one example of a country which has an almost 100 percent recycling rate. To protect our planet the world does have to work together. But the introduction of a DRS would demonstrate Britain's commitment to protecting our environment, so that we can leave it in a better condition for our children and our grandchildren. It is possible that a DRS would change social attitudes, encouraging more people than ever to recycle.
It is because of my commitment to the environment that I would support the introduction of a DRS. It's all about the small things we can all do to make a difference.
Discarded drinks bottles are a 'graveyard for shrews and voles'
I will await the outcome of the consultation. But I am hopeful that a DRS, combined with other measures will help clean up our countryside and protect plant and animal species for future generations to enjoy.


As we all know Windows RT/8's IE Metro browser has limited flash support based on a whitelist. However a lot of sites are not (yet) whitelisted and hence do not work as desired. So I did some digging in the whitelist mechanism and found a way to hack it.
Open Desktop IE10 type ALT --> Tools --> Compatibility View settings. Now UNCHECK the last checkmark which says: "Download updated compatibility list from Microsoft". If you have done this, you will be able to locally change the whitelist without getting overridden.
WARNING: If this checkbox is checked IE will override your custom whitelist back to default on each rebout, so be sure to uncheck it..
And you are all set and done. Flash is now enabled in IE10 Metro for the websites you have added to the whitelist!
If the flash content is embedded as an iframe, be sure to also add the domain of the source of the flash content. E.g. be sure to also add the website where the iframe links to to the whitelisted sources, this is what will eventually determine whether flash will be activated or not for this website.
Does this method work for www.website.com?
If 'website.com' uses a standard flash plugin (e.g. if you can view the flash content on a normal desktop with just the standard adobe flash player plugin) it will work with this method. All this method does is activating the built in flash plugin for any website you have added to the whitelist.
I can not find the file "iecompatdata.xml"
If you can't find this file be sure to enable "show hidden files", this folder will show up now. Alternatively you can find it by searching C:\ for the query "iecompatdata", the file will now show up.
I have added www.website.com to the whitelist, but it does not work!
Be sure to delete your browsing history and refresh the page. If it does not work now, please be sure to check if you have added the website correctly (e.g. within <domain> tags).
After I have rebooted my computer, I have lost my custom whitelist!
Make sure you have UNCHECKED the last checkmark in "Compatibility View settings" which says: "Download updated compatibility list from Microsoft". If you have done this, you will be able to locally change the whitelist without IE overriding it automatically.
After more thorough testing, I found that a domain with a wildcard will not work i.e.
Does not allow flash to work on all .com sites... so this solution is out of the window, unless somebody knows if a wildcard in this list is supplied differently. I could not find anything in the documentation regarding the use of wildcards in this list, so most likely its not supported.
Alternatively, we could create some kind of "community" maintained whitelist, where anybody can just add any website and we will then point IE10 to download a whitelist from this community maintained source (instead of from Microsoft).
Thanks so much for this work. I remember u from ur past work on wp7/7.5 on here. Thanks again. I almost called MS lite to return my surface because of this stupidity. Are they like apple or what? Trying to decide what u can do and what u can't is a v.stupid idea and whoever decided this at MS should be fired. If I wanted a prison garden, I'd buy an iPad.
Now if I can find an easy way to block the ads ill be really happy. These ads are so invading. I didn't realize how much firefox with adblock was until I had to us IE for the last 3 days. quite annoying as it makes content loading so slow.
Your welcome. Glad it was helpful, yes I have been less active due to obligations at the univerisity. If we find a better solution we will let you know.
Some kind of adblocker is also integrated in Internet Explorer. Go to Manage add-ons and then to Tracking Protection. Now download a couple of adblock lists. It is not as good as chrome/ff, but it gets the job done for the most part!
And take some time to get used to your new machine, its a beautiful device and only yet people are starting to explore it and develop for it. It will for sure be a highly demanded device and will most likely reach a lot of developer/hacker interest.
The restriction against other browsers is equally disturbing.
Even Google, who loves to push their own brand name through Chrome, saw the wisdom of allowing the customer freedom.
Lets not forget what, in large part, created Android's success - people jumped ship from Apple because they saw Android as an OS that allowed the consumer as much or as little customization as you want - you want it simple - they present a good out of box experience - you want something more, you can make changes.
We don't need two walled gardens.
I am not sure if this adds anything to the discussion. I don't own a Windows RT machine, but I was in Office Depot the other day looking at their devices. They had a Samsung ATIV Smart PC on display. So, I messed around with if for a while. I had read that other browsers were forbidden on the RT. I thought, I wonder if Google Chrome will run? So I installed it off the internet and it worked.
My question is this: Is it just the MS RT the locks itself down? Why did the Samsung allow me to D/L and install Chrome?
the software restrictions should be the same, the other limitation is that you can't just download x86 software and install it on the RT because x86 doesn't run on ARM processors, are you absolutely certain you were on an ATIV tab running Windows RT or just a samsung tablet running Windows 8 with an x86 processor? If it was already possible to install chrome on Windows RT it'd be all over the internet.
it's the samsung smart PC running on x86 hardware? (clovertrail or i5) if it is, then it's running full windows 8 and you can install any legacy apps (like chrome/ff) to your hearts content.
not to go off topic too much, but as to the earlier comment about freedom and choice being the reason android gained so much marketshare so fast. it has more to do with the combination of cheap handsets and carrier penetration, at a time when the iphone was locked to one network in the US and blackberry was slowly falling out of the consumer mindshare. yes, people like us who frequent xda might have moved to it because of the openness of the platform, but the mainstream market really doesn't care about that.
Did anybody do an experiment with this compatibility list? Or tried to deactivate it in its entire? A systems admin or IT pro might no some more details on this?
I added several websites and it worked fine. I'm a bit bummed as I think MS will find a way to over write the xml file in a masquerade windows update. As far as deactivation is concerned, I thought about making a backup of the xml file, and completely deleting the original to see if it works at all. What do u think?


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Q: Migrating User to Cognito on Sign In I am trying to migrate users to Cognito when they sign in the first time. For this I wrote a lambda function that does call an API to check if the users exist in db or not ? if the user exists, it will be created in cognito but I am not sure how do I tell the application that user is created and it should allow the user to login .
Here is the code in c#:
    public async Task<Stream> FunctionHandlerAsync(Stream stream, ILambdaContext context)
{
      RootObject rootObj = DeserializeStream(stream);
      User user = new User(rootObj.userName, rootObj.request.password);

      ApiResponse apiResponse = await MobileAuthenticateAsync(user.UserName, user.Password);

    // Considering apiResponse returns "user authenticated", we create the user in //cognito. This is working.

    // How do I send response back to Application so it knows that user is // //created and authenticated and should be allowed to login.

    //Before returning stream, I am setting following 2 status.

     rootObj.response.finalUserStatus = "CONFIRMED"; // is this correct ?
     rootObj.response.messageAction = "SUPPRESS";

     return SerializeToStream(rootObj);;
}

A: You're pretty close.
You can see the full documentation on the Migrate User Lambda Trigger page, however in short you need your response to look like:
{
  response: {
    userAttributes: {
      email: 'user@example.com',
      email_verified: true,
      custom:myAttribute: 123,
    },
    finalUserStatus: 'CONFIRMED',
    messageAction: 'SUPPRESS',
    forceAliasCreation: false,
  }
}

Where:

*

*userAttribute: this is a dictionary/map of the user's attributes keys in cognito (note that any custom attributes need to be prefixed with custom:), to the values from the system you're migrating from. You do not need to provide all of these, although if you're using an email alias you may want to set email_verified: true to prevent the user having to re-verify their e-mail address.

*finalUserStatus: if you set this to CONFIRMED then the user will not have to re-confirm their email address/phone number, which is probably a sensible default. If you are concerned that the password is given as plain-text to cognito this first-time, you can instead use RESET_REQUIRED to force them to change their password on first sign-in.

*messageAction: should probably be SUPPRESS unless you want to send them a welcome email on migration.

*forceAliasCreation: is important only if you're using email aliases, as it stops users who manage to sign-up into cognito being replaced on migration.

If you respond with this (keeping the rest of the original rootObj is convenient but not required then the user will migrated with attributes as specified.
If you throw (or fail to respond with the correct event shape) then the migration lambda fails and the user is told that they couldn't migrated. For example, because they do not exist in your old user database, or they haven't provided the right credentials.


As we've been discussing the past few days, Jesus was condemned by the religious leaders in a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a trial. Then he was handed over to the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate, with demands that he be executed. Pilate eventually caved and ordered Jesus' crucifixion.