On May 10th, 2016 I got the privilege to visit and taste wines at Hourglass Winery.
I was at Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen in Saint Helena enjoying happy hour at the bar. As always, I was perusing their ever-changing wines by the glass when I asked about the Hourglass Blueline Estate Merlot. Normally I would never drink a 2013 Merlot due to the huge amount of tannins, but I figured at 18 dollars a glass (which is fairly high) why not try a sip.
I asked the bartender about the Hourglass merlot and he said that the owner had been in and brought some that they could sell. He said it was really hard to get which, of course, peaked my interest. He gave me about an ounce in a glass. I could tell just by smelling it that it was no ordinary merlot. It had a nice oak hint on the nose that you would usually find in a cabernet. At first taste, it was a nice fruity balance with hints of oak and dark fruit. The texture was smooth with enough tannins to add structure but still nice and velvety.
I immediately ordered a glass (or two) and started plotting on how I was going to get on this list to buy wine. First I went on the Hourglass website and filled out a form to get on their waiting list for allocation. If you don't know about allocation, it is when a winery that makes low quantities of wine put people on a list and assign you a certain amount of wine every release. They don't have a standard wine club you can join. Normally there is a wait list and basically you can wait for years until someone leaves. I have a few that I have been on for 2 years now and still no word.
After going to Cindy's Backstreet a couple more times and drinking/buying all the bottles I could get my hands on, I figured the standard waiting list wasn't going to work for me. I wanted more Hourglass Blueline Estate Merlot and I also wanted to try their cabernet sauvignon. I mean if a merlot tasted this good, imagine what the cab would be like.
I, by no means, hold a grudge over merlot like most people. Just because Paul Giamatti said he hated merlot in Sideways doesn't mean I abandoned all hope like everyone else. (By the way, that was merlot he drank out of a paper cup at the end of the movie). I find that I like old merlots because the newer ones are always so tannic. That is until I tried the 2013 Hourglass Merlot.
I few weeks later I was visiting a friend who works at Elyse Winery, another small boutique winery with some very nice wines. I was telling her about the Hourglass and how badly I wanted it. She piped up and said, "I know someone that works there." She immediately sent an email and copied me saying that we lived in Saint Helena and that we really wanted to visit to the winery to taste some wine. After emailing a few times back and forth, I had a date set for the 10th of May. I was IN!
We sat down in this amazing cave for our private tasting of ALL the releases. I was thrilled to start the tasting. We started with the merlots and cabs. I had already had the 2013 several times and again it didn't disappoint. Still smooth and silky with the right amount of oak. What I wasn't expecting was that I would love the 2014 even more.
The 2014 was even more delicious than the 2013. I figured having just being released, it was not going to be as good as the merlot a year older. Apparently a famous wine critic (I won't name names) had apparently thought the same thing a few weeks earlier.


Wet day – No damp Spirits!
St Cuthbert's competed in the Town Interschool Athletics Tournament at Robins Park on Tuesday 11th July 2017. Weather was poor but most events were completed.
60+ students represented St Cuthbert's from Years 7 – 11 in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior competitions. There were some fantastic team and individual performances with one of the highlights being Mike C. Year 9 storming to victory in the 400m final by over 50 metres! Other individual winners included Cody R. in the Senior Girls and Chloe B. in Junior Girls.
All performers were amazing and amassed enough points to be second in the small schools cup, missing out on first spot by only 6 points - there's always next year!!


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Q: Get request Activities for strava v3 api python edit - as I couldn't tag this with Strava here are the docs if you're interested - http://strava.github.io/api/
I get through the authentication fine and gain the access_token (and my athlete info) in a response.read.
I'm having problems with the next step:
I want to return information about a specific activity.
    import urllib2
    import urllib

    access_token = str(tp[3]) #this comes from the response not shown
    print access_token

    ath_url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/108838256'

    ath_val = values={'access_token':access_token}

    ath_data = urllib.urlencode (ath_val)

    ath_req = urllib2.Request(ath_url, ath_data)

    ath_response = urllib2.urlopen(ath_req)

    the_page = ath_response.read()

    print the_page

error is
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\documents\strava\auth.py", line 30, in <module>
        ath_response = urllib2.urlopen(ath_req)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
        return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 389, in open
        response = meth(req, response)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 502, in http_response
        'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 427, in error
        return self._call_chain(*args)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 361, in _call_chain
        result = func(*args)
      File "C:\Users\JordanR\Python2.6\lib\urllib2.py", line 510, in http_error_default
        raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
    HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

the 404 is a puzzle as I know this activity exists?
Is 'access_token' the correct header information?
the documentation (http://strava.github.io/api/v3/activities/#get-details) uses Authorization: Bearer ?  I'm not sure how liburl would encode the Bearer part of the info?
sorry if some of my terminology is a bit off, I'm new to this.
answered this bad boy.
import requests as r
access_token = tp[3]

ath_url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/108838256'
header = {'Authorization': 'Bearer 4b1d12006c51b685fd1a260490_example_jklfds'}

data = r.get(ath_url, headers=header).json()

it needed the "Bearer" part adding in the Dict.
thanks for the help idClark

A: I prefer using the third-party Requests module. You do indeed need to follow the documentation and use the Authorization: Header documented in the API
Requests has an arg for header data. We can then create a dict where the key is Authorization and its value is a single string Bearer access_token
#install requests from pip if you want
import requests as r
url = 'https://www.strava.com/api/v3/activities/108838256'
header = {'Authorization': 'Bearer access_token'}
r.get(url, headers=header).json()

If you really want to use urllib2
#using urllib2
import urllib2
req = urllib.Request(url)
req.add_header('Authorization', 'Bearer access_token')
resp = urllib2.urlopen(req)
content = resp.read()

Just remember access_token needs to be the literal string value, eg acc09cds09c097d9c097v9

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Winter on Prince Edward Island can present some challenges if you don't enjoy cold temperatures, dislike shovelling, or need to drive on snow-clogged roads. Sometimes you just feel like huddling indoors and staying warm. But not always.
Recently, Nature PEI sponsored a bird walk in Charlottetown on a blustery day that featured plenty of cold feet and red cheeks. But with help of trip leader Brendan Kelly, participants got to see a kingfisher, wigeons, and many other common and rare bird species. Brendan even made sure that the feeders he maintains along the trail near Charlottetown Rural High School were full. Now that's dedication.
The highlight of the tour for me was a very common bird in a somewhat uncommon situation. It was a male downy woodpecker, our smallest member of this family. On this frigid day, it was in a nesting cavity in a small, dead white birch. These holes are mainly used during the breeding season, providing a safe space to lay eggs and hatch young. But at this time of year, many birds use the cavities for both warmth and protection. It must be a bit like finding a cave during a storm. Once out of the wind, the body heat in a relatively enclosed area helps ward off the winter. Black capped chickadees even go a step further, grouping together to provide an even greater heat source.
The downy woodpecker was just sticking enough of its head out of the hole to keep an eye on the group of birders. And it also was another example of why wildlife trees are so important in both our forested and urban landscapes.
The prevailing attitudes towards nature tend to favour neatness. Extensive lawns are just one example. I once walked in the woods with a property owner who was pushing over small dead trees, thinking he was doing something good for the forest. He did not know that even small standing dead trees can be important habitat for birds such as chickadees and nuthatches.
Most of us have lots to learn about living together with wildlife. We let our own associations of cleanliness being next to godliness frame our view of landscapes. One landowner I worked for was very excited about having so many chickadees and nuthatches around. In almost he next breath he was wanting me to remove the dead trees where these birds were feeding and nesting in. Again, once he learned how important they were, he started valuing the dead trees as well as the birds. They so often go hand in hand.
When you see a pileated woodpecker feeding on ants in a tree, or a common goldeneye flying out of a cavity, or a flying squirrel sticking its head out of a hole, then you begin to understand the connectivity between animals and habitat. Death in a forest is a natural condition. Those dead trees provide essential habitat for feeding, nesting and perching birds, and go on to become nutrients, water-absorbing sponges, and stored carbon. We don't want to see too many trees dying, or cut for that matter, but a certain number of dead trees is vitally important in a healthy forest. And even in an urban landscape.
Thanks again to Brendan for providing a great excuse to get outside and learn about nature. On February 10th, he'll lead a Winter Waterfowl Identification trip, meeting up at 8 am at the corner of the Grand Pere Point Road near the Lobster Shack in Cymbria. Enjoy your winter.


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Road to Rio 2016 greets and welcomes the next Olympic Games that will take place in Rio de Janeiro. Their program presents 28 different types of sports for a total of 42 disciplines. The research project on which the Haute Couture collection presented by the 3rd year Koefia Academy students for their Final Work 2015 is based, focuses in fact on the concept of Sport, a theme loved by all international fashion designers.
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'I've spent so much time making elements of the women's clothing appropriate for men's fashion, that I've realized that what I want is to remove the feminine and masculine aspects from my fashion', said brand's designer John Pepper.
This year, during the 39th edition of São Paulo Fashion Week, Brazilian label Amapô presented its Spring-Summer 2016 collection full of colors, energy and 80s style, combining references to Barbarella, Miami, aerobics and David Bowie. One really interesting mixture for both girls and boys!
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Definitely, Gisele Bündchen was the topic of the evening - she announced her official retirement from the catwalk. After more than a dozen fashion shows with Colcci, 34-year-old Gisele chose her last event as a runway model to be the same one, where she made her debut 20 years ago.
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Yesterday, during the São Paulo Fashion Week (April 13-17, 2015), Aqua de Coco by Liana Thomaz presented its Summer 2016 collection at the Candido Portinari Park in São Paulo, Brazil.
Mexican style for Spring-Summer 2015 by Lolitta
Brazilian brand Lolitta made its debut at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week on April 3, 2014 with its Spring-Summer 2015 collection and earned professionals' approval.
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Taking a look at the schedule of designers and brands, presenting their collections at Paris Fashion Week, you can see that foreign names prevail. About 25% are the real French designers and brands, such as Balenciaga, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Yves Saint Laurent, Hermes, Agnes B. etc. There are many Italian and Belgian designers and fashion houses that show their collections in Paris and among the other presented countries are Great Britain, USA, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Brazil...
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Adriana Lima gave birth to a second daughter called Sienna
Adriana Lima gave birth to her second girl on Wednesday, September 12. The 31-year-old supermodel announced the news on Twitter. The girl is called Sienna. The first daughter of the model and her husband, ex-NBA player Marko Jaric is Valentina, who was born in 2009.
"The best job in the world for me is being a mom. I never thought I could love so much. I always thought, does unconditional love exist? Now I know it does because I feel it.", said the supermodel.
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Gisele Bundchen will be the face of the famous swimwear brand Calzedonia Mare, reported BGNES.
Though she gave birth to son Benjamin less than five months ago the Brazilian supermodel is back on the fashion scene and showing off her stunning post-baby body in a new swimwear campaign for the Italian brand.
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Five nights of parades for almost 120,000 people singing together at bleachers, showing their joy and way of life.
Oi Fashion Rocks arrived in Brazil
Full of originality, Oi Fashion Rocks arrived in Brazil and brought international and national fashion and music shows in an unheard of arena in Jockey Club of Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian edition was the first one held in Latin America and the only one promoted in 2009. Oi sponsored the event, which besides gathering the best in music and fashion is ruled by its social concern.
In Brazil, Oi Fashion Rocks counted on famous brands dictating trends such as Marc Jacobs, Versace, Givenchy and Calvin Klein and several attractions of the national and international music scene, among them Mariah Carey and Puff Daddy.
Gisele Bundchen will teach her husband how to model
American football star Tom Brady, who married the Brazilian beauty in February, doesn't feel comfortable posing for photo shoots and hopes Gisele will boost his confidence in front of the camera.
He said: "When I am out on the football field I have so much confidence in what I am doing. With photo shoots, I don't know what I am doing. I'm at the whim of the photographer and the crew.
" I should probably ask her for some help. She does tell me to have fun and to approach it in the third person, almost like acting. She makes it look so easy."
Adriana Lima is pregnant
The Victoria's Secret model and her husband, basketball star Marko Jaric, have confirmed they will welcome their first baby into the world this winter.
Their spokesperson said: "Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are excited to share the happy news and start their family together."
The couple - who married in a small civil ceremony in Wyoming on Valentine's day (14.02.09) after meeting in 2006 - are currently planning a big summer celebration of their marriage in either Adriana's native Brazil or her spouse's home country of Serbia.
Gisele Bundchen has launched a new footwear line
The Brazilian supermodel presented her 'Ipanema Gisele Bundchen' eco-friendly shoe collection - which includes a range of summery, strappy sandals - at the Eurostars Madrid Tower Hotel in Spain on Wednesday (22.04.09).
The pieces are based around five 'Seeds' themes.
Botany, Fern and Bean take are best suited for evening wear, while the Leaf and Life designs were made for everyday wear.


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Michael Gunner Wiki, Age, Biography, Career, Wife, Education, Height, Net Worth
Michael Gunner is a popular Australian politician and he was the 11th and current Chief Minister of the Northern territory until he resigned in May 2022 after delivering the 2022 Budget. In this blog, we are reading about Michael Gunner's career and about his personal life. after this news came out people started searching on the internet for who is Michael Gunner and who is Michael Gunner's wife and what is Michael Gunner's family and so we are here to provide you the full details about Michael Gunner. Michael Gunner was born on 6th January 1976 in Alice Springs, Australia and Michael Gunner's age is 46 years as of 2022. In this article we will have a look at Michael Gunner's wiki, parents, age, height, weight, family, net worth, and social media.
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Michael Gunner is a popular Australian politician and he was the 11th and current Chief Minister of the Northern territory until he resigned in May 2022 after delivering the 2022 Budget, he is also a Labor member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. In 2015 Michael Gunner was elected leader of Labor in the northern territory and in the same year, he led the Labor to a landslide victory in the 2016 Northern Territory Elections. In the August 2016 Territory election, Michael Gunner led territory Labor to one of the most Comprehensive election victories on record at the state or territory level in Australia, and Labor won 18 seats in the 25-member legislative assembly on a swing of over Fourteen percent. On May 10th, 2022 Michael Gunner officially announced his resignation to the position of Chief Minister after he delivered the 2022 Budget. Michael Gunner was born on 6th January 1976 in Alice Springs, Australia and in 2022 his age is 46 years & he was raised in Alice Springs, Australia by his parents. Michael Gunner completed his college and graduated from Charles Darwin University.
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HIZZONER: The Problem With Nutter's Black Problem
by: PhawkerPosted on: January 4, 2011 November 12, 2022
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PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE: Who can blame Michael Nutter, though, for […] bristling at the fact that he was — again — being forced to publicly defend his authenticity as a black man?As the Mayor puts it to me, in an interview in his office a few weeks after the party, "I'm fully secure and clear about who I am, where I came from and what my life experience has been as an African-American." Then he adds, "The fact of the matter is, neither you nor anyone else has walked into Ed Rendell's office and said, 'Are you white enough?'" There is no question that John Street's remarks were deliberately inflammatory. He made them, he says, to try and gin up an opponent for Nutter in this May's Democratic primary. But however calculated the comments, they highlight a real problem for Nutter: Support for the Mayor among African-Americans is tepid at best. Last February, a Pew Charitable Trusts poll found that while 65 percent of white Philadelphians approved of Nutter, only 43 percent of African-Americans did. In August, a Municipoll survey found that 42 percent of black voters thought Nutter was a "good" or "excellent" mayor, compared to 53 percent of whites. More telling was the survey's finding that in a hypothetical Democratic primary between Nutter and former Republican Sam Katz, only 38 percent of blacks were sure they would vote for the incumbent, with 26 percent claiming they would vote for Katz. When Katz ran against Street in 2003, he earned hardly any black votes — in fact, some post-election analyses put his share at about two percent. MORE
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Q: How can I redirect admin and user to their pages? I have a problem with redirecting users to their pages. I tried adding something like this at the beginning of the code but it does not work at all.
session_start();

if(isset($_SESSION["loggedin"], $_SESSION["user_type"]) && $_SESSION["loggedin"] === true){
    $_SESSION["user_type"] = "admin";
    header("location: crud_form/index.php");
    exit;
}

The rest of the code looks like this and I dont know if maybe I should do some changes there also?
require_once "config.php";

$username = $password = "";
$username_err = $password_err = "";

if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){

    if(empty(trim($_POST["username"]))){
        $username_err = "Wprowadź login.";
    } else {
        $username = trim($_POST["username"]);
    }

    if(empty(trim($_POST["password"]))){
        $password_err = "Wprowadź hasło.";
    } else {
        $password = trim($_POST["password"]);
    }

    if(empty($username_err) && empty($password_err)){
        $sql = "SELECT user_id, username, password FROM users WHERE username = ?";

        if($stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $sql)){
            mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $param_username);

            $param_username = $username;

            if(mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt)){
                mysqli_stmt_store_result($stmt);

                if(mysqli_stmt_num_rows($stmt) == 1){
                    mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $id, $username, $hashed_password);
                    if(mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt)){
                        if(password_verify($password, $hashed_password)){
                            session_start();

                            $_SESSION["loggedin"] = true;
                            $_SESSION["user_id"] = $id;
                            $_SESSION["username"] = $username;

                            header("location: crud_form/index.php");
                        } else {
                            $password_err = "Hasło nieprawidłowe.";
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    $username_err = "Nie ma takiego użytkownika.";
                }
            } else {
                echo "Coś się zepsuło! Spróbuj ponownie.";
            }

            mysqli_stmt_close($stmt);
        }
    }

    mysqli_close($link);
}

I would be super happy if someone would tell me at lest where is the problem and what am I doing wrong.
Thanks!

A: if(empty($username_err) && empty($password_err)){
    $sql = "SELECT user_id, username, password, user_type FROM users WHERE username = ?";

    if($stmt = mysqli_prepare($link, $sql)){
        mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $param_username);

        $param_username = $username;

        if(mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt)){
            mysqli_stmt_store_result($stmt);

            if(mysqli_stmt_num_rows($stmt) == 1){
                mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $id, $username, $hashed_password, $user_type);
                if(mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt)){
                    if(password_verify($password, $hashed_password)){
                        session_start();

                        $_SESSION["loggedin"]  = true;
                        $_SESSION["user_id"]   = $id;
                        $_SESSION["username"]  = $username;
                        $_SESSION["user_type"] = $user_type;

Here i've fetched user_type from database, and made a session with
Second thing
session_start();

if($_SESSION["user_type"] !== "admin"){
    header("location: crud_form/index.php");
}


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'Spider-Man' Tom Holland Reveals the Awesome Souvenir Robert Downey Jr. Gave to His Family
Tom Holland is gearing up for the premiere of his third superhero movie, Spider-Man: No Way Home. And while talking about his experience in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the actor revealed the special gift Robert Downey Jr. gave his brother.
Tom Holland started his MCU journey as Spider-Man with Robert Downey Jr.
Holland landed the role of Spider-Man in 2015. He first appeared in Captain America: Civil War, opposite Downey's Tony Stark. Stark takes Peter Parker under his wing and helps him develop his superhero persona in the film.
Holland went on to star in several more films with Downey, including Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Downey wasn't in Spider-Man: Far From Home, but the film revealed that Stark left his legacy to Peter before his death. During a 2019 FanX convention, Holland revealed his dynamic with Downey is similar to Peter Parker and Tony Stark's.
"The amazing thing about RDJ is that he's arguably the most famous movie star on the planet or the biggest movie star on the planet," the actor said. "But he's always early, he knows every crew member's name, he always knows his lines. He's professional, he's kind, he's caring."
"I was sick on set one day and I didn't really know the guy," Holland recalled. "He was really sweet and he kind of looked after me and took me under his wing a little bit."
Tom Holland reveals the souvenir Robert Downey Jr. gave his brother
Holland and Downey share a friendship both on-screen and off. And in a recent appearance on First We Feast's Hot Ones, Holland revealed that Downey gifted his brother a precious MCU souvenir back in 2018.
"My favorite souvenir was actually given to me, well, it wasn't given to me, it was given to my little brother Paddy," he said. "When Black Panther was coming out Robert Downey Jr. was making Doctor Dolittle in London, and he was staying down the road from where I live."
"He invited us to a screening for Black Panther at his house," Holland added. "And Paddy comes running into the room, and he's holding the original Iron Man helmet, and Downey had given it to him as a gift.
The helmet from Iron Man is probably worth thousands of dollars. But for Holland, the souvenir's value lies in its significance.
"That's a really special one for me because I was very lucky enough to join the MCU, but I joined it very late," Holland noted. "And that souvenir, you know that's from the original film, that's the birthplace of this incredible world that Kevin Feige and Marvel have created, and Downey and [Jon] Favreau kickstarted. So to have something from that film is a huge honor."
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' isn't his last MCU project
For months, fans believed Holland's journey as Peter Parker would end with Spider-Man: No Way Home. But in recent weeks, producer Amy Pascal revealed the studio has plans to bring the actor back for three more Spidey movies.
"This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel – [this is not] the last Spider-Man movie," she told Fandango. "We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We're thinking of this as three films, and now we're going to go on to the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies."
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Yesterday, our own Scott Jehl had the opportunity to present our "Access-Oriented Web Design" methodology to the Web Publishing group (AKA WebPub) at MIT.
"Access-Oriented Web Design" is an approach we've been formulating for a while that describes our recommended approach to safely applying progressive enhancement in websites and applications so they deliver an accessible and functional experience to the widest audience possible.
This presentation builds upon our A List Apart article, "Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement", which details the capabilities testing library we've developed here at Filament Group.
The presentation was videotaped by MIT WebPub and is posted below. You can also view the "Access-Oriented Web Design" presentation slides in PDF format.

Downloaded the .pdf, looks pretty interesting. Will take a look at the video tomorrow!

Thank for publishing the pdf. I'm studying it.

That´s a fantastic content for those who works with Webdesign.

This pdf is indeed very helpful for all web designers. Thank you for sharing!

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We launch websites that launch businesses. And this is the real goal of all the services that are provided by us. As a creative agency we understand the importance of the four Ds - Discovering, Designing, Developing and Delivering. We closely monitor all the stages that go into developing a successful website. For us the relation with our clients does not end with the delivery of the final product, it continues as long as the clients use our designed product..

That's a fantastic information! It's a very useful information for those who work for web designing and developing. It;s very useful and informative information for me. Thanks for sharing.

This is the most comprehensive guide I have come across. Thanks for sharing this with us! There are many things even experienced bloggers can learn from this post.

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Extremely interesting presentation.  As a web designer and a real person I think a lot about the implications of the varying devices connecting to pages nowadays, and the limitations faced by small business budgets.  This is definitely an important consideration now and moving forward.

A very useful information for web developers.

I thing that this video is may be useful to each developer.. i don't have time to watch this in office timing. i have bookmarked this videos & downloaded the PDF also. any way thank you for this both tutorials..

Its an really intresting and useful PDF tutorial.Download it for future learning.And great thanks for the blog publisher thanks a lot for this kind of blog.

Very good guide for webdesigners. Thanks for that!

Very good and useful information! Thank you!

I  downloaded the .pdf file and handed it off to our coder who said it was interesting and had allot of good content.

Very good guide for webdesigners.


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It is a condition of entry that all players are required to purchase the official player's registration package.
Staff / Coach Package is the same as the Student Package above, but excludes 4 rounds of golf - Milnerton GC + Mowbray GC + Royal Cape GC + Durbanville GC.
Teams arrive and settle into their accommodation.
Optional practice round, followed by the Opening welcome function at The River Club Observatory, Cape Town, to include soft drinks & nger buffet.
First round of competition play in WSGC.
Second round of competition play in WSGC.
Rest day. Opportunity for teams to enjoy the exciting city of Cape Town or take a Cape Point excursion.
Third round of competition play in WSGC.
Final round of competition play in WSGC. Award ceremony and prize giving dinner closing function at Gold Restaurant Cape Town including soft drinks & upscale African buffet & drumming.


Robert Essig has collected 25 of the most blood curdling, unique horror tales in this anthology featuring some serious horror talents.
In the first story, "Taking out the Trash" by Philip Roberts, a dumpster can make things disappear, specifically bodies. A landlord starts stuffing his victims, tenants who don't pay on time, in the trash. I thought this was a great concept and that it worked well. He eventually gets a "Telltale Heart" type symptom and hears wailing from within the trash. But there's a monster in the shed; although I would have liked the story to be more drawn out and suspenseful with the monster, the ending is satisfying.
The second story, "Red Turns to Green," has a terrific first line – "I love to bleed." It's instantly engaging and makes you want to read on. The title, of course, means that he makes money (green) when he bleeds (red). This is the tale of a wrestler set in the past from what I could tell (there are references to long-since retired wrestlers like Dusty Rhodes), and it has a great, blunt writing style, which perfectly fit this story. "Red Turns to Green" displays the brutal side of wrestling; Chase Loveless, the main character, takes us on a journey that chronicles his experiences in the wrestling world, and introduces us to his protégée, Eugene. When these two eventually spar, the story hits its high peak.
Best Story: "Bad for Business." The Tooth Fairy is real. She eats teeth, and there's more than one of her. This delightfully morbid story continues to reveal that a dentist's grandfather kept a diary. Turns out good ol' grandpa ate children's teeth for energy. Then, inevitably, the grandson dentist succumbs to the same curse. But The Tooth Fairy is hungry, and the dentist, Roberto, is cruel. He deserves what he gets in the end. And believe me when I say that the fairies get sickening revenge.
"Margery's Alternative Therapies" was another standout story for me. In it, an elderly woman, Margery, refuses to let her husband get the lap band surgery he needs after he's had a heart attack, all because she doesn't want him to eat hospital food, and to eat only her own cooking. But she doesn't want him to eat any more food, either, because he's fat. So she decides to take matters into her own hands, and the results are fascinating but disturbing.
On the popular children's cartoon show, Arthur, which follows the exploits of a young mouse named Arthur and his family, his little sister, D.W., is the stereotypical annoying brat. On one episode, she dresses exactly like him and tries to imitate everything he does much to his annoyance. In "Nouveau Beaujolais," our narrator has this problem with a guy he knows, Justin. The twist at the end is shocking.
"Ana's Letters" is the uber-creepy story of a doomed teen romance with a suicide-committing girl. It's touching and twisted at the same time. Be sure to read this one.
Robert Walford's story is a powerful examination of what writer Hal Niedzviecki terms "Peep Culture" — the main character, Bishop, started a website for kids to post their suicide videos. The first video, dutifully depicted in the first part of the story, is truly disturbing. The twist in this story is also quite interesting and it turns out that the TV interviewer who speaks to Bishop, Garrison, isn't a saint either, although he pretends to condemn what Bishop is doing.
Stacey Longo has created one of the most terrible and fearsome old women in the form of Francine in the story "Goodnight, Francine." I mean bad. But I was very disappointed by the ending of this one, because I wanted to find out who was responsible for Francine's downfall. And it was done in such a creative, unexpected way, too.
Overall, this is a strong anthology with some great writers, all writers I'd never previously heard of, although some of them are established within the genre. This is a collection of modern tales, only one historical, but mostly contemporary horror that doesn't do much in the way of demons, ghosts, vampires, or werewolves, so you won't find those familiar tropes in here. Instead, you'll find bone-chilling tales that will stay on your mind a long time after you've finished reading them.


Stunning oversized one bedroom apartment well suited for the owner occupier or investor. In a refurbished 1890's warehouse this is a rare opportunity to purchase such a great space in a great location. Investors have a variety of investment options including Airbnb and for the owner occupier the size and security has strong appeal.
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Donald Trump Doubles Down on Anti-Equality Agenda; Hires Anti-LGBTQ Rick Santorum
Oops, he did it again: Donald Trump once again doubled down on his anti-equality agenda, hiring notoriously anti-LGBTQ politician Rick Santorum as an adviser.
Santorum is infamous for his anti-LGBTQ positions, including his long-standing opposition to marriage equality, beginning with a push to ban same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania. During his 2016 presidential effort, he said that "restoring" marriage would be the most important thing he could do in his campaign.
Moreover, Santorum believes that sexual orientation is a choice, supports so-called "conversion therapy," and opposes adoption by same-sex couples.
Trump has surrounded himself with anti-LGBTQ proponents, including Tony Perkins, Michele Bachmann, James Dobson and more.
Others who were named to the advisory council include Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, who earlier this year signed a legislative attack on LGBTQ college students into law. Brownback has also issued an executive order that encouraged discrimination against LGBT Kansans in the name of religion and rescinded non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ state employees.
Also named to the advisory council were Reps. Andrew Harris, R-Md.; Steve Chabot, R-Ohio; Mike Kelly, R-Pa.; and Sean Duffy, R-Wis.; all of whom earned scores of zero percent on HRC's Congressional Scorecard, which rates members of Congress on their support for LGBTQ equality.
Earlier this year, HRC released a video highlighting Santorum's record on a number of LGBTQ issues including his opposition to non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people and his support for harmful "conversion therapy." For more on Santorum's anti-LGBTQ record, visit hrc.org/2016RepublicanFacts.
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The Community Relations Council (CRC) will serve as a link between our College and members of the Carrollton community. We would hope that our CRC's primary function will include promoting the College of Social Sciences off-campus, supporting our initiatives through community outreach, and working to maintain good relations through information exchange.
Chad Houck '01 '03, Owner of Carrollton's Irish Bred Pub, presents about the importance of shopping local as part of the 2013 Community Leaders on Campus—Honoring Community talks.


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#include "lifecycle_management/lifecycle.hpp"
#include "lifecycle_management/lifecyclemanager.hpp"

namespace utils {

		/**
		 * Contructor which accepts entity for which lifecycle manager will be operating.
		 */
		LifeCycleManager::LifeCycleManager(LifeCycle *lifeCycleHolder) {
			this->lifeCycleHolder = lifeCycleHolder;
			lifeCycleState = NOT_INITIALIZED;
		}

		/**
		 * To be called when entity is to be created.
		 */
		LifeCycle::ActivityStatus LifeCycleManager::create() {
			LifeCycle::ActivityStatus activityStatus = LifeCycle::ILLEGAL_STATE;
			if (lifeCycleHolder != NULL) {
				if (lifeCycleState == NOT_INITIALIZED) {
					ROS_INFO("Creating %s...", lifeCycleHolder->getName().c_str());
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					if (activityStatus == LifeCycle::SUCCESS) {
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			}
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			if (lifeCycleHolder != NULL) {
				if (lifeCycleState == CREATED) {
					ROS_INFO("Starting %s...", lifeCycleHolder->getName().c_str());
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						lifeCycleState = STARTED;
					}
				}
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		}

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Carrot Fertility Raises $3.6M To Help Take IVF, Egg Freezing Benefits Mainstream
Clare O'Connor
Carrot's team includes, L to R: Max Radomsky, Tammy Sun, Juli Insinger, Arun Venkatesan.
When Tammy Sun worked at Evernote, she made the decision to freeze her eggs. She was only in her early thirties, but fertility testing had revealed an unusually low ovarian reserve. She approached her human resources team at the organization app startup; big tech companies have, after all, increasingly started offering fertility care as part of standard health coverage in a bid to attract and keep young talent.
"They tried really hard to find a solution," said Sun, who was Evernote's director of partnerships at the time. "We had great benefits -- all sorts of things that would help you be more productive and make your life better. But there wasn't anything that they could find that would help me with my fertility. So I ended up paying out of pocket for it. And it was an enormous amount of money. A shocking amount of money. I left the company to really look at the problem."
Fast forward two years of research in partnership with cofounder Dr. Asima Ahmad and a stint with startup incubator Y Combinator and Sun has launched Carrot Fertility, which aims to help all companies, regardless of size, offer employees affordable fertility benefits in line with what they might expect at Facebook or Apple.
On Thursday she announced the San Francisco-based company has raised a $3.6 million seed round led by SoftTech Ventures, with participation from Maven Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Sound Ventures, Sherpa Ventures, Core VC, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, and angel investors.
How Carrot works is simple: employees who'd like their companies to offer improved fertility benefits can sign up at the startup's website for instructions on how to make the introduction confidentially, if needed. Carrot then works with the HR team to customize and self-fund fertility care for their employees through a direct reimbursement model.
Once a company has brought Carrot in, workers can use a personalized dashboard to plan their care, including options to text, video and voice chat with fertility experts. Employees are offered customized recommendations and help ordering medications.
The company also corrects for what Sun described as an out-of-date traditional benefit model that limits many workers' access to fertility technology: to be covered for, say, embryo freezing, an employee needs to have a medical diagnosis of infertility. This has meant LGBTQ employees have, in many cases, been shut out of family planning coverage.
"The modern workforce has all different use cases for fertility," Sun said. "Gay and lesbian couples who want to use fertility technology for family-building may be looking for donor sperm and donor eggs, and they'll doing IVF without a medical diagnosis. Couples whether they're straight or gay may want to preserve embryos for future use."
The startup's launch comes as tech companies -- and those competing with them, including in financial services, media and law -- are increasingly implementing policies to improve diversity and inclusion.
"This allows you to walk the walk," Sun said. "If you say you care about women, if you say you care about LGBT people, have a fertility benefit that reflects that."
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MUNICH, April 22 – Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola faces a UEFA rap for wearing a t-shirt dedicated to the memory of an Argentine journalist killed at the World Cup.
The Bayern boss is being investigated for 'unsportsmanlike behaviour' for wearing a black t-shirt on Monday bearing the text #JusticiaParaTopo (Justice for Topo) before Munich's stunning 6-1 thrashing of Porto in their Champions League, second-leg fixture.
Jorge Lopez, nicknamed 'Topo', was killed when the taxi he was travelling in was hit by a stolen car being chased by police in a traffic accident while reporting at last year's World Cup in Brazil.
The family of the 38-year-old has launched the JusticiaParaTopo campaign to get the facts behind his death.
"Last week, the family sent me this t-shirt and when I woke up this morning, I knew that I would wear it," explained Guardiola in Monday's pre-match press conference.
But Guardiola's decision violates UEFA's rules against "using a sporting event for a non-sporting purpose".
Porto coach Julian Lopetegui is also being investigated by UEFA after he was sent from the sidelines by English referee Martin Atkinson in the dying minutes of his side's away defeat in Munich on Tuesday after a heated exchange with match officials.


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Inmarsat's pioneering GX Aviation and EAN connectivity solutions for the airline industry recognised at the World Travel Awards
Posted on 29, November 2019 by EuropaWire PR Editors | This entry was posted in Awards, Internet & Online, News, Technology, Telecom, Travel, United Kingdom and tagged accolade, EAN onnectivity, European Aviation Network, GX Aviation, inflight broadband, Inflight Service Provider', Inmarsat, mobile satellite communications, Philip Balaam, satellites, the World Travel Awards, TOURISM, travel. Bookmark the permalink.
LONDON, 29-Nov-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Inmarsat named the 'World's Leading Inflight Service Provider' for the third year in a row at the prestigious World Travel Awards. The world leader in global, mobile satellite communications was recognised for its pioneering GX Aviation and European Aviation Network (EAN) connectivity solutions for the airline industry.
The award was announced at a gala ceremony in Muscat, Oman, following a vote by leading travel and tourism executives from around the world.
Inmarsat delivered a major step-change in inflight broadband capabilities with GX Aviation, powered by the world's first and only globally available broadband network, and EAN, which offers unprecedented performance over Europe's well-travelled skies. With connectivity onboard at comparable speeds to land-based broadband, both solutions enable airline passengers to seamlessly browse the internet, stream videos, check social media and more.
Currently, almost 1,800 aircraft are under signed contracts for GX Aviation and EAN, with a new business pipeline of approximately 3,000 aircraft worldwide.
"This has been another remarkable year for Inmarsat, as the rollout of our advanced new inflight broadband solutions continued to pick-up speed worldwide with both existing and new airlines. GX Aviation and EAN are now installed on aircraft with customers such as Qatar Airways, AirAsia, Air France, Virgin Atlantic, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand, British Airways and many others.
"The feedback from airlines and their passengers remains extremely positive. The fact that the travel and tourism industry is also recognising our achievements for the third consecutive year at the World Travel Awards is another significant endorsement. This couldn't have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the talented team at Inmarsat, in addition to our global network of partners and value-added resellers," commented Philip Balaam, President of Inmarsat Aviation.
Inmarsat marks its 40th anniversary this year by outlining an ambitious development roadmap for its Global Xpress (GX) network, which commenced this week with the launch of its fifth satellite, GX5, providing focused capacity for airlines and business aviation over Europe and the Middle East. Scheduled to launch in the coming four years are seven additional satellites, making GX the most agile and flexible constellation ever built.
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jonathan.sinnatt@inmarsat.com
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Any evidence to support that? Or just a few friends?
Everyone I've ever met bar 3. One of them was a woman who had no choice but to stay where she was because she had a husband and children and was going as a mature student.
That must be more than 100 people.
I don't think I am. I think your views are the product of where you've studied and the friends you've made there - which is far from representative of this country's entire student population.
But quite representative of Oxbridge applicants seeing as they make up a large proportion of the people.
That was my point - you share the views of probably the majority of oxbridge applicants, but not the entire student body.
seeing as they make up a large proportion of the people.
Oxbrdige applicants actually make up a relatively small amount of the total student body - 6% in 2005, or 28,150 of 438,624 applicants (not individual university applications, which was over 2 million). Therefore I'd be more inclined to say that your views are those of the minority, not mine.
Yes, but we were discussing whether people might get rejected from Manchester if Manchester thought it was their third choice or lower on the list of universities when they had applied before the deadline and appeared to be applying for Oxbridge. Someone made the point that they didn't know where the applicant would rather go to, and I counterracted that point by saying that most oxbridge applicants would prefer Durham/ one of the London unis or Bristol or Edinburgh before Manchester, making it the third choice or lower.
The entire discussion was about oxbridge applicants.
I still think you make huge generalisatoins based on you're own and your friends' preferences, and then try to pass them off as fact.
^^ I agree with Ally here - we are talking about Oxbridge applicants, and very few of them have Manchester as second choice. Disputing that is pointless, because it's obvious.
I had a rejection from Bristol to study Geography but also applied to Oxford. I have AAAA at AS and predicted AAA a level. I couldn't have asked for better references and I think I explained my love for the subject in my personal statement. I cant see what more I can do. I have contacted them asking why no reply as yet. So I understand what you are going through. I don't think I will get into Oxford so Bristol was going to be my first choice.
Oxbridge applicants are god's gifts to mankind, you should know better.
Well, I know about 100 people from my school. I talked to about 15 who went on a law conference. I've spoken about uni choices to about 30 people at Oxford. I spoke to about 5 people applying to cambridge last year. I spoke to about 5 people who didn't get into Oxford this year. I know about 5 people's uni choices from the year above. I went on an oxbridge interview preparation weekend and spoke to about 10 people about their uni choices. Plus friends of the family, people I met randomly doing extracurricular stuff. There were 3 people who didn't go on league tables. One was my ex-boyfriend who started uni about 8 years ago, another was a friends' boyfriend who is doing a phD, and another was a friend of my mums who was already married with a kid when she started her degree so went local.
So out of a sample of 200 people, that works out at 1.5%, with special circumstances. Have you got anything better?
I went to Cambridge (1998-2001) and had Manchester down as my second choice. I happen to be from the NW of England and like Manchester.
This does not of course, prove anything.
There's arrogance, then there are facts. Students who go to Oxbridge get the best A Level results, by miles. Students who apply to Oxbridge tend to have excellent grades. They may not be excellent students, given A Levels these days, but as a general group, they are at the top of applicants.
'Maybe you just weren't smart enough' - true. But equally, maybe they didn't see the point of offering the place to someone who wouldn't go there, making it almost impossible to get the right number of people on their courses (it is not unusual for universities to wildly over and under offer).
But they don't know where you apply or what your preferences are, and they don't lose anything by giving someone who's amazing but who they expect to go elsewhere an offer.
It's not about being smart enough, it's about different universities looking for different things. That can be emphasis on PS over grades, or subjects over results, or it can be personalities, motivation, teachability, etc. that they look for. We don't know. Someone can easily be good enough to get into Oxbridge and not good enough to get into somewhere else, because the universities decide what's good enough on different criteria.
Fair point, durham for example seems to lay more emphasis on the number of A*s an applicant has achieved (in particular for history) than oxbridge. Therefore a very strong applicant may get into oxbridge due to a good interview, but not into durham because they dont have enough A*s at GCSE.
I was rejected without interview by Imperial last year.
Don't forget, although your grades are very good, a lot of people are now predicted 4 As, and playing an instrument etc. is unlikely to affect your application.
When i went to oxford for an open day, the tutor said he didn't understand why people put things like that in their personal statement, that it didn't matter what instruments you play, or what languages you speak, he said oxbridge choose the best people, and good extra curricular activities often come with that.
Exactly. Oxbridge generally has about 5 applicants per place, whereas Bristol often has 20. This 20 will include Oxbridge applicants (all the people you're up against at Oxford, for example, plus the people who have applied to Cambridge- remember you will be up against both sets of applicants) and lots of people who are predicted AAA+ but who didn't apply to Oxbridge. And it's true about lowering the offers...I had an interview at Southampton and the interviewer asked me if I would accept the offer and I said I didn't know because I liked Warwick a lot. My offer was really low, so maybe they were trying to tempt me away from 'better' universities.
To be quite honest, I don't really see why people are making such a fuss about being rejected when they weren't intending to take up the place anyway. The point of the application system isn't to get as many offers as possible, it's to get one offer you actually want to accept (and possibly a second choice in case something goes horribly wrong). I'm sure it's flattering to know that every single university you applied to is dead keen on having you, but in the end, once you've accepted one it won't matter how many other offers you got.
fact is..imo there is no such thing as being rejected for being "too good".
if i am correct..there are more applicants per place to read a subject at UNis such as Bristol than at Oxbridge (maybe wrong though).
also...a class mate of mine whos applied to Oxbrige, LSe , Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc (6A*, [email protected] GCSE, 7 A @ AS, predicted all A at A2, rugby squad, community service, own business which makes a profit, senior prefect etc etc) got offered BBB @ Bristol to read economics.
just shows you that if you are infact "too good" they will offer you lower grade requirements and not just reject you.
More applicants per place - true. But worse applicants, in general. No flaming please, look at the average grades of applicants to each uni.
And what's this you say?! 1 person you know with a pretty good application got in to Bristol? Thank god for that conclusive proof!
Of course not every excellent applicant is rejected by unis like Bristol, Manchester, Durham... but it happens. That's all.


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By Gidget Fuentes on	 April 23, 2012 Allies and training, Australia, III MEF, Marines, Pacific issues
Marines with Fox Co., 2/3 get a "Top End" welcome earlier this month in Darwin, Australia.//USMC photo by Lance Cpl. Ian McMahon
The recent arrival of a company of Hawaii-based Marines in Darwin, Australia, stirred up some unfavorable sentiments on the continent and around the region. Now comes former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who apparently is quite unhappy about seeing any more Marines Down Under.
Fraser, who led the nation-continent for eight years until 1983, complained that "over 20 years now we have given the impression of doing that which America wants. We seem to believe that our security can be best assured if we do what we can to win brownie points with the U.S. This is a mistaken assumption."
He reportedly outlined his frustrations in a letter to his government blasting the new Aussie-U.S. arrangement for unit rotations, the Sydney Morning Herald reported April 24. Those rotations and recent news that the United States wants to operate military drones from Cocos Island, a group of atolls west of Australia, will fuel more unsettlement about U.S. intentions, particularly as it concerns threats from China, and further risk Australia's own security, he argued in a letter submitted to the government's "White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century." Such level of U.S. involvement "sends the wrong message, not only to China, but to countries like Indonesia."
The rotations, which will send 2,500 leathernecks in six-month rotations to Darwin by 2016, are part of the broader U.S."pivot" refocusing on all things in the Asia-Pacific region. Top U.S.military officials have said no new permanent bases are planned in the Pacific region, where they already are looking at a reposturing of military forces. But Fraser doesn't buy it. "For America to say that 2,500 troops do not constitute a base is nonsense, indeed a fabrication," he wrote.
Meanwhile, the men of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, landed in the Northern Territory or the "Top End" as it's known locally earlier this month to start training with their Australian counterparts at military ranges in the area as military commanders with III Marine Expeditionary Force met with local leaders. Top-level visits to the region include Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, and members of Australia's parliament met with Marines and sailors aboard dock landing ship Pearl Harbor, currently deployed with 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group.
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Hey all. Please disregard the negative comments made by one of our ex prime ministers. I'm a member of the Aussie Air Force and we have worked with you guys forever, we get along great and what a politician says does not reflect our relationship at the coal face, or at the bar having a beer for that matter. Cheers, see you soon.!


There have been many ayahuasca books published during the last two decades. With its uncanny ability to evoke otherworldly visions, ayahuasca has summoned some beautiful books about the artists who daub their inner visions. But more than anything, ayahuasca has been discussed, in text, whether by people attempting to articulate the colorful journey of the soul, or by academics attempting to understand the mechanics of ayahuasca in the body, society and the mind.
Below is a collection of my top 15 books about ayahuasca, presented in no particular order.
This ground-breaking book is one of the first studies of ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon. It's lucid and very easy-to-read for an academic text. The author spent several years with vegetalismo ayahuasca healers. The book covers everything from traditional models of illness and healing to herbalism, indigenous tarot traditions and Western medicine.
The most prolific and influential indigenous ayahuasca painter is undoubtedly Pablo Amaringo. In this beautiful book, anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna joins with Amaringo to convey the visionary, spiritual and cultural scope of ayahuasca. Amaringo apprenticed in vegelismo shamanism and worked as a shaman for many years before becoming the world's most distinguished ayahuasca painter.
This is the second major book dedicated to the visionary worlds of Amazonian shamanism accessed by the mind's eye of Pablo Amaringo. Published posthumously after Amaringo passed away, the book contains high quality images of many of Amaringo's lesser known painting. The book is an incredible edition for any collection on indigenous art, ayahuasca culture, and the aesthetic wonders of humanity and the natural world.
Originally published in the year 2000 and recently enjoying a second edition, this book is essential for anyone wanting to dive deep into the discussion about ayahuasca. The collection contains seminal essays from leading anthropologists, ethnobotanists, writers, journalists, poets and others interested in ayahuasca. With essays translated from over a dozen languages, the book is a polished gem of ayahuasca literature.
The therapeutic utility of ayahuasca is only beginning to be understood by Western medicine, psychology and neuroscience. In this new book, psychologist Rachel Harris draws upon her personal experiences as a psychologist, ayahuasca drinker and researcher to weave a compelling overview of ayahuasca's associated risks and its medicinal effects and potentials. It's easy to read and a fantastic introduction for those new to ayahuasca as a medicine.
Anthropologists interested in ayahuasca should look no further. This relatively recent book presents the most innovative studies of the use and culture of ayahuasca. The book covers native practices and the complex intersection of indigenous ontologies in the modern marketplace of medical tourism. Topics include healing, sorcery, globalization, sexuality, gender, politics, identity and ontology.
Another cornerstone ayahuasca text for the academically inclined. This tome is empowered by a meticulous approach to studying the phenomenological effects of ayahuasca. Psychologist Benny Shanon draws upon the insights of Merleau-Ponty, Bergson and others to help bring the ayahuasca experience into conceptual focus. Covering topics such as visions, synesthesia, ineffability, intuition and the poetic imagination of the human soul, this ayahuasca book will keep you thinking for a few lifetimes and beyond.
In this fascinating book, medical doctor Joseph Tafur articulates in clear prose his journey living among ayahuasca healers in the Amazon rainforest. He explores the ability of ayahuasca to help heal the malaise of modern life. The book undertakes not simply a medical perspective, but also cultural and spiritual perspectives. At times academic, personal, experimental and spiritual, the book presents paradigm shifting insights about health, consciousness and the Amazonian vine of souls.
In 1941, Harvard professor of botany Richard Evan Schultes went to the Amazon rainforest on a profound journey into the plants of Amazonian shamanism. In the 1970s, he sent two students, one of them being Wade Davis, on a similar research project into the Amazon. This exquisitely written book tells the stories of Evan Schultes and Davis and their culture-bending and mind-opening encounters in the Amazon rainforest.
The influential American beat poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg had a romance that transcended definition, culture and consciousness. In 1953, Burroughs travelled to the Amazon rainforest where he drunk ayahuasca and sent letters with vivid descriptions back to Ginsberg. Their correspondence includes stories of ayahuasca telepathy, healing and animal consciousness. In this redux edition, editor Oliver Harris tells the fascinating story and includes previously unpublished elements of the Burroughs-Ginsberg ayahuasca correspondence.
A once student of modern history at Cambridge University, Jimmy Weiskopf dedicated 12 years to apprenticing in shamanic practices in Amazon rainforest. In this in-depth text, he presents a complex overview of the indigenous use of yage (the recipe of ayahuasca drunk in the Colombian Amazon). This sets the backdrop for his theories on how ayahuasca in the modern context fulfills cultural needs seeded by Western history. this book offers a fascinating look into the complex topic of ayahuasca's movements from the Amazon to the Western world.
Ayahuasca has withstood and enjoyed a complex history in Brazil. The brew transcended the indigenous world into the middle classes of Brazil during the mid 20th century, initially through two religious groups that mix Judeo-Christian, indigenous Amazonian and African Spiritist elements. This anthropological edition translates some of the best Brazilian research on this topic into English.
In recent decades, ayahuasca has become something of a celebrity in Western culture. This has unsurprisingly coincided with a proliferation of ayahuasca ceremonies and groups across the Western world. In this academic text, a dozen researchers examine ayahuasca in its new contexts of Europe, North America and Australia. They also consider how the Western context of ayahuasca is shaping native healing traditions.
On a shoe-string budget, gonzo-journalist Rak Razam ventured into the Amazon rainforest to drink ayahuasca with over a dozen shamans. Along the way he interviewed many vegetalismo shamans and Western ayahuasca neophytes and seekers. This book offers a great collection of insights into the modern culture of ayahuasca in Peru. It covers conversations about plant-spirits, healing, sorcery, consciousness, and culture.
Amazonian shamanism is no fairy tale. In this incredibly generous book, Steve Beyer shares his journey into the heart of vegetalismo ayahuasca shamanism. The book covers his personal apprenticeship with several ayahuasca shamans and includes insights from anthropology, history and science. Covering all the major elements of vegetalismo ayahuasca shamanism, any reader interested in ayahuasca should get their hands on this book.
If you have other ayahuasca books you'd personally recommend, please share them with us in the comments below!