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The Wall Street Journal
The accelerating spread of nuclear weapons, nuclear know-how and nuclear material has brought us to a nuclear tipping point. We face a very real possibility that the deadliest weapons ever invented could fall into dangerous hands.
The steps we are taking now to address these threats are not adequate to the danger. With nuclear weapons more widely available, deterrence is decreasingly effective and increasingly hazardous.
One year ago, in an essay in this paper, we called for a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and ultimately to end them as a threat to the world. The interest, momentum and growing political space that has been created to address these issues over the past year has been extraordinary, with strong positive responses from people all over the world.
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A. KISSINGER and SAM NUNN
January 15, 2008; Page A13
Our inspiration
Mikhail Gorbachev wrote in January 2007 that, as someone who signed the first treaties on real reductions in nuclear weapons, he thought it his duty to support our call for urgent action: "It is becoming clearer that nuclear weapons are no longer a means of achieving security; in fact, with every passing year they make our security more precarious."
In June, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, signaled her government's support, stating: "What we need is both a vision — a scenario for a world free of nuclear weapons — and action — progressive steps to reduce warhead numbers and to limit the role of nuclear weapons in security policy. These two strands are separate but they are mutually reinforcing. Both are necessary, but at the moment too weak."
We have also been encouraged by additional indications of general support for this project from other former U.S. officials with extensive experience as secretaries of state and defense and national security advisors. These include: Madeleine Albright, Richard V. Allen, James A. Baker III, Samuel R. Berger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank Carlucci, Warren Christopher, William Cohen, Lawrence Eagleburger, Melvin Laird, Anthony Lake, Robert McFarlane, Robert McNamara and Colin Powell.
Inspired by this reaction, in October 2007, we convened veterans of the past six administrations, along with a number of other experts on nuclear issues, for a conference at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. There was general agreement about the importance of the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons as a guide to our thinking about nuclear policies, and about the importance of a series of steps that will pull us back from the nuclear precipice.
The U.S. and Russia, which possess close to 95% of the world's nuclear warheads, have a special responsibility, obligation and experience to demonstrate leadership, but other nations must join.
Some steps are already in progress, such as the ongoing reductions in the number of nuclear warheads deployed on long-range, or strategic, bombers and missiles. Other near-term steps that the U.S. and Russia could take, beginning in 2008, can in and of themselves dramatically reduce nuclear dangers. They include:
- Extend key provisions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty of 1991
Much has been learned about the vital task of verification from the application of these provisions. The treaty is scheduled to expire on Dec. 5, 2009. The key provisions of this treaty, including their essential monitoring and verification requirements, should be extended, and the further reductions agreed upon in the 2002 Moscow Treaty on Strategic Offensive Reductions should be completed as soon as possible. - Take steps to increase the warning and decision times. For the launch of all nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, thereby reducing risks of accidental or unauthorized attacks. Reliance on launch procedures that deny command authorities sufficient time to make careful and prudent decisions is unnecessary and dangerous in today's environment. Furthermore, developments in cyber-warfare pose new threats that could have disastrous consequences if the command-and-control systems of any nuclear-weapons state were compromised by mischievous or hostile hackers. Further steps could be implemented in time, as trust grows in the U.S.-Russian relationship, by introducing mutually agreed and verified physical barriers in the command-and-control sequence.
- Discard any existing operational plans for massive attacks that still remain from the Cold War days. Interpreting deterrence as requiring mutual assured destruction (MAD) is an obsolete policy in today's world, with the U.S. and Russia formally having declared that they are allied against terrorism and no longer perceive each other as enemies.
- Undertake negotiations toward developing cooperative multilateral ballistic-missile defense and early warning systems As proposed by Presidents Bush and Putin at their 2002 Moscow summit meeting. This should include agreement on plans for countering missile threats to Europe, Russia and the U.S. from the Middle East, along with completion of work to establish the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow. Reducing tensions over missile defense will enhance the possibility of progress on the broader range of nuclear issues so essential to our security. Failure to do so will make broader nuclear cooperation much more difficult.
- Undertake negotiations toward developing cooperative multilateral ballistic-missile defense and early warning systems, As proposed by Presidents Bush and Putin at their 2002 Moscow summit meeting. This should include agreement on plans for countering missile threats to Europe, Russia and the U.S. from the Middle East, along with completion of work to establish the Joint Data Exchange Center in Moscow. Reducing tensions over missile defense will enhance the possibility of progress on the broader range of nuclear issues so essential to our security. Failure to do so will make broader nuclear cooperation much more difficult.
- Dramatically accelerate work to provide the highest possible standards of security for nuclear weapons As well as for nuclear materials everywhere in the world, to prevent terrorists from acquiring a nuclear bomb. There are nuclear weapons materials in more than 40 countries around the world, and there are recent reports of alleged attempts to smuggle nuclear material in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. The U.S., Russia and other nations that have worked with the Nunn-Lugar programs, in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), should play a key role in helping to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 relating to improving nuclear security — by offering teams to assist jointly any nation in meeting its obligations under this resolution to provide for appropriate, effective security of these materials. As Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger put it in his address at our October conference, "Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?" To underline the governor's point, on Aug. 29-30, 2007, six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were loaded on a U.S. Air Force plane, flown across the country and unloaded. For 36 hours, no one knew where the warheads were, or even that they were missing.
- Start a dialogue. Including within NATO and with Russia, on consolidating the nuclear weapons designed for forward deployment to enhance their security, and as a first step toward careful accounting for them and their eventual elimination.These smaller and more portable nuclear weapons are, given their characteristics, inviting acquisition targets for terrorist groups.
- Strengthen the means of monitoring compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a counter to the global spread of advanced technologies. More progress in this direction is urgent, and could be achieved through requiring the application of monitoring provisions (Additional Protocols) designed by the IAEA to all signatories of the NPT.
- Adopt a process for bringing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) into effect. Which would strengthen the NPT and aid international monitoring of nuclear activities. This calls for a bipartisan review, first, to examine improvements over the past decade of the international monitoring system to identify and locate explosive underground nuclear tests in violation of the CTBT; and, second, to assess the technical progress made over the past decade in maintaining high confidence in the reliability, safety and effectiveness of the nation's nuclear arsenal under a test ban. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization is putting in place new monitoring stations to detect nuclear tests — an effort the U.S should urgently support even prior to ratification.
- In parallel. With these steps by the U.S. and Russia, the dialogue must broaden on an international scale, including non-nuclear as well as nuclear nations. Key subjects include turning the goal of a world without nuclear weapons into a practical enterprise among nations, by applying the necessary political will to build an international consensus on priorities. The government of Norway will sponsor a conference in February that will contribute to this process.
Another subject: Developing an international system to manage the risks of the nuclear fuel cycle. With the growing global interest in developing nuclear energy and the potential proliferation of nuclear enrichment capabilities, an international program should be created by advanced nuclear countries and a strengthened IAEA. The purpose should be to provide for reliable supplies of nuclear fuel, reserves of enriched uranium, infrastructure assistance, financing, and spent fuel management — to ensure that the means to make nuclear weapons materials isn't spread around the globe.
There should also be an agreement to undertake further substantial reductions in U.S. and Russian nuclear forces beyond those recorded in the U.S.-Russia Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty. As the reductions proceed, other nuclear nations would become involved.
President Reagan's maxim of "trust but verify" should be reaffirmed. Completing a verifiable treaty to prevent nations from producing nuclear materials for weapons would contribute to a more rigorous system of accounting and security for nuclear materials.
We should also build an international consensus on ways to deter or, when required, to respond to, secret attempts by countries to break out of agreements.
Progress must be facilitated by a clear statement of our ultimate goal. Indeed, this is the only way to build the kind of international trustandbroad cooperation that will be required to effectively address today's threats. Without the vision of moving toward zero, we will not find the essential cooperation required to stop our downward spiral.
In some respects, the goal of a world free of nuclear weapons is like the top of a very tall mountain. From the vantage point of our troubled world today, we can't even see the top of the mountain, and it is tempting and easy to say we can't get there from here. But the risks from continuing to go down the mountain or standing pat are too real to ignore. We must chart a course to higher ground where the mountaintop becomes more visible.
Mr. Shultz was secretary of state from 1982 to 1989. Mr. Perry was secretary of defense from 1994 to 1997. Mr. Kissinger was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. Mr. Nunn is former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The following participants in the Hoover-NTI conference also endorse the view in this statement: General John Abizaid, Graham Allison, Brooke Anderson, Martin Anderson, Steve Andreasen, Mike Armacost, Bruce Blair, Matt Bunn, Ashton Carter, Sidney Drell, General Vladimir Dvorkin, Bob Einhorn, Mark Fitzpatrick, James Goodby, Rose Gottemoeller, Tom Graham, David Hamburg, Siegfried Hecker, Tom Henriksen, David Holloway, Raymond Jeanloz, Ray Juzaitis, Max Kampelman, Jack Matlock, Michael McFaul, John McLaughlin, Don Oberdorfer, Pavel Podvig, William Potter, Richard Rhodes, Joan Rohlfing, Scott Sagan, Roald Sagdeev, Abe Sofaer, Richard Solomon, and Philip Zelikow.


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My own personal obsession with the cold stuff is driven in large part by habit. I don't have an iron deficiency, anemia, or teeth fractures (I was checked). My habit started 2 years ago when I was going through a stressful time. Now, years later, I still crave at least 3 cups of ice per day and for no apparent health-related reason. What's my problem?
Although I eventually plan to confront my addiction, in the meantime, let me offer a helpful hint on scoring ice. Most convenience stores won't charge you to refill a previously purchased glass. If they do, its usually a nominal fee like 25 cents. Of all the common addictions, at least our habit is cheap!

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Amazon Announces Prime Instant Video Licensing Agreement with A+E Networks
Amazon Announces Prime Instant Video Licensing Agreement with A+E Networks
Previous Seasons of Popular Shows from A&E, bio, HISTORY and Lifetime now available on Prime Instant Video — all Prime Instant Videos can be viewed by Prime members on Kindle Fire and hundreds of other connected devices
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NAS: AMZN) —Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing agreement with A+E Networks to add prior seasons of popular series from A&E, bio, HISTORY and Lifetime to the Prime Instant Video service. Prime Instant Video now features more than 33,000 movies and TV episodes for Amazon Prime members to stream instantly, at no additional cost, on Kindle Fire HD or any of the hundreds of compatible Amazon Instant Video devices, including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Roku, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and the Wii U. To start watching Prime Instant Video, visit www.amazon.com/PIV.
"In a year we have more than doubled the Prime Instant Video selection for our Prime members," said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon. "We remain focused on adding TV episodes and movies to Prime Instant Video that we think our customers will enjoy. A+E Networks has some of the most popular shows on television and we know our customers will love streaming the A+E content with Prime Instant Video."
The deal with A+E Networks will bring Prime customers more TV episodes from some of their highest rated television programming including Pawn Stars, Storage Wars and Dance Moms, which are also available for purchase through Amazon Instant Video.
About Amazon Instant Video
Amazon Instant Video is a digital video streaming and download service that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or subscribe to a huge catalog of videos. Customers can choose from more than 145,000 titles to purchase or rent and content ranges from new release movies to classic favorites, major television shows, entire seasons, or even day after air TV. Prime Instant Video is Amazon's video subscription offer—it includes more than 33,000 movies and TV episodes selected from the full assortment available at Amazon Instant Video. This subscription offer allows US Prime customers to stream as many titles from Prime Instant Video as they like, at no additional cost.
About Prime
Amazon Prime is an annual membership program for $79 a year that offers customers unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items including books, home and garden products, electronics, video games, clothing, and much more. Amazon Prime members also get access to unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV episodes and access to hundreds of thousands of books to borrow for free, as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates from a Kindle device. Customers who receive free Prime shipping benefits through our Amazon Student or Amazon Mom programs can upgrade to an annual paid membership to receive Amazon Prime's digital benefits.
About A+E Networks™
A+E Networks is an award-winning global media content company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television networks to websites to DVDs to gaming and educational software. A+E Networks is comprised of A&E®, HISTORY®, HISTORY en Espaňol™, Military HISTORY®, H2™, Lifetime®, LMN™, LRW™, bio®, Crime & Investigation Network®, A&E IndieFilms®, A+E Networks International™, A+E Networks Digital™ and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. A+E Networks channels and branded programming reach more than 300 million households in over 150 countries. A+E Networks is a joint venture of Disney-ABC Television and Hearst Corporation.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NAS: AMZN) , a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the most-advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% increased contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, extra-long battery life, and a thin and light design. The new latest generation Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle, now features new, improved fonts and faster page turns. Kindle Fire HD features a stunning custom high-definition display, exclusive Dolby audio with dual stereo speakers, high-end, laptop-grade Wi-Fi with dual-band support, dual-antennas and MIMO for faster streaming and downloads, enough storage for HD content, and the latest generation processor and graphics engine—and it is available in two display sizes—7" and 8.9". The large-screen Kindle Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and comes with a groundbreaking $49.99 introductory 4G LTE data package. The all-new Kindle Fire features a 20% faster processor, 40% faster performance, twice the memory, and longer battery life.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, www.amazon.it, www.amazon.es and www.amazon.com.br. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.
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It's the second week of new comics in 2018, and that means a whole new batch of X-Men comics books to help you catch up with!
This week brings five books with it – mid-arc issues of the two Ed Brisson old guy books in Cable #153 and Old Man Logan #33, the middle installment of Matthew Rosenberg's Phoenix Resurrection, a climatic turn of events in Cullen Bunn's X-Men: Blue #19, and an adorable pair of standalone stories in X-Men: Gold Annual #1.
None of these books are a must-read, but it's nice to read a week of X-Men that's solid across the board… well, except for one book, as you'll hear in just a minute.
Don't feel like reading right? You can watch the video version of This Week in X! This is not the same material as the full post below, although some of my opinions in the video overlap with the post.
Love the video? Love this post? Please let me know, because "This Week In X" is a pilot right now – there is no guarantee I'll continue it past the end of this month unless folks are clamoring for more! [Read more…] about This Week in X: Excalibur Returns (sort of) in X-Men Gold, X-Men Blue climaxes, and more!


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Hello, you are on the original site. The one where chickpea meets meringue for the first time. You do not believe your eyes? So, let speak your taste buds! 🙂
What's new ?
facebook : Vegan Meringue – Hits and Misses !
I publish your recipes ! Send me your recipes (based on techniques of this website) and I'll share!
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A propos du site
A new blog, again? Yes. But a blog that aims to make you learn the basics of vegetable cooking, especially baking. Why? First of all, because becoming vegan is not easy: you have to change food culture, which requires a real effort, and we are quickly lost and alone for many months!
Then, because I am passionate about it: reclaiming pastry happens to me through understanding. So I booked some "theory" to explain you what I know and how I managed to do without eggs, milk and butter without giving up the "magic" properties of those!
So here you learn how to do basic, ie wholesale, foam, emulsion, paste … and I hope you will master those quickly with recipes I am proud to have developed, and to my knowledge, do not exist anywhere else! (O vanity ^^)
Judge for yourself, I suggest:
- my succulent "Chaville" floating island, a true foam that can be cooked in the microwave (hey! it took me months to achieve that!)
- exclusive, easy moss to any kitchen with ingredients everyday! (almost)
I may also add a few words about me: omnivore as everyone, vegetarian by necessity and vegan by passion, that's the way! And like any journey, changing culture is a real mission, and like any priesthood, I make myself a duty to share my passion for pastry, which was well undermined by the removal of dairy products, butter and eggs … but. .. a passion that was reboosted by this major culinary challenge! You understand: I am an experimenter and have a small scientific training behind me witch says that yes, everything is possible and that no, the whole kitchen, even molecular, has not yet lived! Then delete the milk, butter and eggs, but never sacrifice the pleasure of sharing a meal, dessert, and vibrates our taste buds!
This site is a blog that is not expected to undergo rapid development, my ambition is primarily to provide the BASIS of all recipes to no longer use butter, milk, or eggs. I would love to talk with you, your alternatives, supplements experiments based on these new bases, and I will not hesitate to publish your great recipes, signed by you, of course!
I hope full attention from vegetarians and vegans, but also those who still forgot to buy eggs! (ok, it will also have to buy a plant or two for some fierce living little and lost places …)
Get cooking!
Joël R.
PS : I'm french, but please note that I can re-write every article till it's readable english… hope so… 🙂


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Later that week, I found my vintage kids sewing patterns and we picked out a pattern for a dress to make for her.
I used Simplicity pattern 2930 with some Heather Ross Underwater Sisters fabric from my stash. I bought this fabric before Olivia was born, to use in her nursery. I had some left over and had been waiting for the perfect time to use it.
I used some vintage buttons from my stash for the back.
Since kids grow so quickly and a lot of effort goes into sewing clothes, I wanted her to be able to wear this dress for more than one summer. I made it a little big in the waist but it ties in the back so the extra fabric gathers in the skirt when its tied. I also allowed a deep hem to let the skirt down as she gets taller.
I really loved this pattern and will probably sew another for her if she likes this one. I did not like the scallops....at all! The pattern instructs you to fold over a tiny edge of the scallop and somehow press it to get a perfect professional looking curved edge. Yeah, that wasn't happening. Instead of burning the hell out of my fingers and ripping the stitching out over and over, I cut out another piece just to fit the scallops, sewed them right side together, clipped the curves, turned out and pressed, then hand-stitched the scalloped edge to the dress front. It was time consuming but hand sewing is so relaxing and the finished results were well worth it.


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Coyote Makes Tentative Steps Onto Instagram
I have resisted Instagram for years because a) they only really allow photo uploads from your phone (not your pc) and b) none of my good photos are on my phone. It is just really difficult to take a photography platform seriously that only really supports the crappiest end of the camera spectrum (i.e. phones).
However, a couple of things have changed. One, Instagram is now a powerful social media platform and useful to my business given that I am trying to get young people to go to outdoors locations that are photogenic. And two, I have gotten comfortable with a couple of hacks to be able to use instagram from my pc (more in a second).
So if you are into Instagram, you can follow me now. My business instagram for our campgrounds and parks is @camprrm. My personal instagram mainly to be filled with travel photography is @coyoteblog. Actually the other reason I have come around on Instagram is that I wanted to follow my daughter Amelia who is a student artist, and instagram is THE way to advertise one's portfolio. She is at @meliameyer (see what she did there, millenials are much more clever with integrating symbols into an extended alphabet).
The two hacks I use are: 1) Convert the instagram account to a business account and then use the free version of hootsuite to post to it. Even works with scheduled posts. This works well for one account but is hard to make work for two. 2) Open and log into instagram via chrome. Right click on the white space of the web page somewhere and choose inspect. I think there is also a keyboard shortcut to do this, maybe cntl-shift-i. Once the inspect window pops up, click on the little icon in the upper left that looks like a cell phone. Poof, your browser is in cell phone sim mode and instagram should suddenly give you the + button (refresh page if it doesn't) that will allow you to post pictures right from your computer hard drive.


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This native perennial is a healthy and abundant wildflower, with several species that have proven beautiful enough to catch a gardener's eye. These species have been cultivated for garden use, and new, more beautiful forms have been produced with captivating daisy-like flowers.
Tickseed comes in shades of red, pink, or yellow. The blooms are generally 8-petaled and tooth-tipped, standing 9 inches to 3 feet high on wiry stems. The foliage is lance-shaped or thread-like and easy to care for, thanks to its natural resistance to drought, moisture, pests, and disease. Coreopsis bears the unfortunate common name "tickseed" because the small brown seed is supposed to look like a tick or bed bug, but the resemblance is not very strong, and the gory name is not very befitting this cheerful daisy-like flower. In containers, borders, or large drifts, coreopsis pops with brilliant colors, adding a warm glow to any garden space.


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Yorkshire Vikings down Durham Jets to continue revival and keep T20 Blast knockout hopes alive
One win from seven games had left them bottom of the North Group and facing yet another season of failure in the game's shortest format. Four wins from five matches later, however, and Alex Lees's men are a side reborn.
A 49-run win over Durham sent them fifth in the table, level on points with Durham in the last quarter-final position with two games to play. What a transformation it has been.
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Hide AdPrior to the win over Lancashire on July 1, which kick-started the revival, Yorkshire had looked as poor in T20 as in most previous years. One of their biggest problems was an inability to clear the boundary and a general lack of composure with the bat.
To watch them on Wednesday night, however, was to see a side striking the ball with renewed confidence, conviction and clinical power.
After Lees won the toss on a hot and humid evening, with a crowd of 8,076 making the most of the mini-heatwave, Yorkshire scored 223-6 from their 20 overs.
It was their highest T20 total, beating the 213-7 they made against Worcestershire at Headingley six years ago, and it was founded on a fabulous innings from Adam Lyth, who made a competition career-best 87.
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Hide AdThe left-handed opener is in purple form, having hit a double hundred against Surrey in the County Championship last week, which followed some particularly impressive contributions in the Royal London Cup.
And on a night when Yorkshire found the boundary no fewer than 31 times, striking 20 fours and 11 sixes, Lyth hit 11 of those fours and three of the sixes as he powered the hosts to a total well beyond the range of the visitors, who managed 174-8 in reply, Usman Arshad top-scoring with 43.
Lyth, whose previous T20 best was 78 against Derbyshire at Headingley in 2012, looked as though he was going to make Yorkshire's fifth hundred in the format only to fall in the 17th over, caught on the long-off boundary off Chris Rushworth.
"I was really happy with the way I played, but a bit disappointed with the way I got out and not going on to make a hundred," said Lyth. "Unfortunately, I just clothed the ball to the fielder, but I was really pleased to make a decent score, and there were a number of good contributions from my team-mates."
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Hide AdLyth was no doubt thinking of Travis Head, who struck 34 from 24 on his home debut; David Willey, who returned from illness to smash 32 from 14, and Jack Leaning, who savaged 32 from 11.
In prime batting conditions, Lyth and Willey gave Yorkshire a scintillating start with an opening stand of 64 in 4.4 overs.
Lyth injected impetus with three boundaries in the second over, bowled by Jamie Harrison, a feat emulated by Willey in the next over when Arshad was taken for successive offside fours and then straight driven for six towards the Football Stand.
When Willey sent the first of those boundaries scuttling along the ground through point, Vinny the Viking, the Yorkshire mascot, dived theatrically over the ball as it crossed the rope to great cheers from the sun-drenched North East Stand.
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But Willey was not so lucky when he sliced off-spinner Ryan Pringle to mid-off, Michael Richardson taking the catch on a night when Durham spilled seven chances of varying difficulty.
Yorkshire ended the six-over powerplay on 77-1, Lyth enjoying a couple of reprieves before completing a 32-ball half-century, his third in T20.
Lyth and Head added 83 for the third-wicket inside nine overs before the Australian hit Harrison to long-on, leaving Yorkshire 165-3 in the 16th over.
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After Bresnan conceded 17 from the first over of the Durham innings, the visitors were never in the hunt.
Forced into mistakes by fine bowling and fielding, plus an escalating run-rate, they lost wickets at regular intervals - five of them to spinners Karl Carver and Azeem Rafiq, who did a grand job, while Plunkett returned parsimonious figures of 1-13 from four.


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Castle Rd, Clevedon BS21 7AA
Clevedon Golf Club
Course overview
Clevedon Golf Club is a fantastic parkland course and PGA Euro-Pro host set in North Somerset. This well-established course celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2016 and has earned itself a reputation as one of the best courses in the County.
Set up high with fantastic views of the Bristol Channel and the surrounding Somerset countryside, the par 72 course provides an excellent test for all golfers and extends out to a length of 6,557 yards. The course has been situated upon the old castle farm since 1898 and boasts a fantastically well-kept course in stunning surroundings. During the early 90's the course underwent some considerable changes, with the introduction of 5 new holes, and the installation of 18 U.S.G.A. specifications greens.
Clevedon Golf Club is the most northern of our Somerset Coastline Golf Tour courses. If you are planning to visit the area, we strongly suggest adding this wonderful course to your Somerset golf break!
Visitor restrictions
- No visitors on Tuesday & Saturday
Distances and pars
Par: 72
Yards: 6,557
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Yards: 5,745
Course location
The local area
Clevedon is a beautiful seaside town and civil parish set in northern Somerset, just a short drive from Bristol. The town overlooks the Bristol Channel and offers fantastic views on a clear day. While visiting the town we recommend taking a trip to the historical Clevedon Pier & Heritage Trust.
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Founded in 2015, we are first and foremost the West Country golf travel specialists. We provide our clients with bespoke golf tours and stay & play golf packages for small groups and golf societies alike.
We are both a domestic golf tour operator working directly for our clients and regional golf DMC who act as an agent for international outbound operators hoping to have their clients experience the beautiful West Country and it's golfing delights!
We work closely with our venues to ensure our customers receive the best value and service available for golf travel within the region.
In 2023 we welcomed 2 new brands into the GSW family. Golf South East and Golf North West. Both offering the same expert service which our clients have come to expect from Golf South West, with experts in each respective region.
Which regions are covered by Golf South West?
Golf South West is the West Country's premier golf tour operator covering the regions of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Dorset, South Wales and Hampshire.
We also work with selected, popular golf resorts across the UK including those under the management of Marriott, plus 4 time Ryder Cup host The Belfry, Celtic Manor and many more.
If you are planning a golf break, we are the only call you need to make.
What is the best way to get in touch?
We are available by phone 0117 256 5966 (Monday – Friday, 9am to 5pm), WhatsApp, email, enquiry form or via social media channels.
Why choose Golf South West as your tour operator?
GSW is run by golfers and endorsed by golf professionals across the South West of the UK.
We are a fully insured, experienced and recommended golf tour operator, who are insured by an ABTOT bond, meaning your money is secure and safe.
We offer tours to a largely exclusive and unrivalled selection of venues across the Southwest of England and Wales, including some courses which can be tricky to access.
We are also proud members of Golf Tourism England and IAGTO, who only work with only the best and most reputable companies in the industry.
You can rest assured that as a client of Golf South West you will not only receive the best service, advice and choice, but you will also find the best value golf breaks in available in the West Country.
Who are ABTOT?
A name and logo you will very likely recognise if you have taken a holiday in the UK. ABTOT insure non-flight inclusive package travel.
ABTOT is an approved body (approved by Department for Business and Trade) which oversees the bonding process to ensure that ABTOT Members financial protection are at an adequate level to meet their insolvency requirements in the event of their financial failure as defined by The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018.
In plain English, ABTOT work closely with their members to ensure that we as a tour operator are keeping your money (as our client) money is safe and secure in the event of any solvency issues.
The rules for membership acceptance are stringent so you can rest assured that any tour operator displaying the ABTOT logo is a trusted company in their sector.
How do GSW keep money safe?
We are extremely proud of the service we provide and a large part of this is ensuring our client's money is safe. Our practices comply with the 2018 package travel directive meaning that your money is safe with both ourselves and the venues your choose to visit.
Our bond is provided under our ABTOT membership. The ability to display this recognisable and trusted logo does not come easily and only the most trusted tour operators pass the application. We are proud to be members of ABTOT and by booking with an ABTOT member you can rest assured that you are dealing with the industries finest and most trusted tour companies.
What happens if we can't go on our planned trip?
Holding deposits are non-refundable, but they are transferable* to a new date or break. We aim to be as flexible as possible and will treat each situation on a case by case basis. Full deposits are non-refundable so please only commit and pay for those in the party who are definitely able to attend the trip.
* Some venue restrictions apply. Terms vary depending on the venue and cancellation term booked. Phone GSW consultant can advise you of this.
Can we make changes to our break?
Managing a group can be a thankless task and changes to the group leading up to your break are an accepted element. We make changes as stress free as possible (just see our reviews for evidence of this!). Changes can be made up to 6 weeks prior to your break. Some changes are unavoidable so for legitimate reasons we will endeavour to make last minute changes after this period, but as we would have paid our venues at this point, this would be at the discretion of the venue(s) you are visiting. Please note a £25 admin fee will be applied for changes inside 6 weeks.
Why book with a tour operator?
Good question, could you not do this all yourself? The answer is yes you could. You are able to locate the ideal hotel with the accessibility you need to the clubs you plan to play. You could go back and forth with your target venues and line up the tee times. You could also contact each venue individually to advise them of group number changes and requests during the build up to your trip.
Alternatively you could;
– Talk to us about the trip you are planning.
– Receive quotes for perfectly crafted package meeting your ideal requirements.
– Secure the booking with small deposits staged in a way to make your life easier as an organiser.
– Have your funds fully insured and independently held by PTS, our client trust provider.
– Have changes made to whole tours with just one call or email.
– Receive exclusive extras such as free places.
– Pay less with our packages than going direct to venues.
Why can we do this?
Quite simply we have spent years (since 2015) forging strong relationships with hotel, golf club and golf resort venues across the South West. We are the expert tour operator for the region and are know for our high quality and personal service to our clients (just see our Google and TrustPilot reviews).
Who uses Golf South West?
The majority of our clients are UK based domestic travellers. We deal with groups of any size, from single travellers and couples, to large golf societies.
We also are the favoured golf DMC for the South West of England and preferred regional partner of Golf Tourism England. We regularly work with tour operators from Europe, America and elsewhere to provide bespoke tour packages allowing overseas travellers to experience the beautiful West Country.
How are package prices displayed on our website?
Prices on our our website are displayed in two ways. The first is on our Resort pages where pricing tables show the from prices for low, mid and high season golf stay and play package rates at golf resort venues.
The second is on our example tour package pages. There are often 4 prices shown here, two for low season and two for high season. The struck through price typically shows the highest price the tour can be and is often active over weekends in that season. The offer price is typically a mid week price.
Every tour quote we offer is bespoke and will vary based on a number of factors including the date, availability, group size, room type, time of day for the tee time, etc… Our package pricing is a guide to the cost of the package and is not a firm price. Please enquire for an exact cost.
We aim to provide as accurate a price as possible and therefore try to avoid using shoulder/mid season pricing or twilight green fee rates when displaying rates. You may find an intermediate price for breaks in months of April & October at certain venues.
Why are golf resort prices the same as elsewhere?
Put simply, all tour operators work from the same contracted rate card when it comes to stay and play golf resort packages. When it comes to golf tours, that is a different matter, but golf resorts are a level playing field.
If you find a vastly different price, it's likely you've been misquoted and usually this does come back to bite.
The question this poses is why book a stay and play golf break with Golf South West if you can book direct or with one of the large operators and receive the same price?
Benjamin Franklin once said "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after
the sweetness of low price is forgotten."We have a small team so booking through us means you receive a personal service. You are more than just a number to us, we are a tour operator where you will likely get to deal with the same contact throughout the process, who will get to know you and your group and respond efficiently to your queries.
We know our venues and the people who work there. This ensures a smooth process from initial enquiry to the end of your stay.
Financially you have an extra layer of protection as your money is securely stored in an independent trust account and is fully insured when it is released to the venue(s) you are visiting.
We are fortunate to have some exclusive "extras" with selected venues across the South West. We offer 1 in 16 free on most trips AND run an exclusive credit system to reward repeat bookers.
We often feel we add further value to our clients when it comes to our bespoke golf tour packages, but you can rest assured that when making a stay and play golf resort booking, Golf South West will offer you an extremely high level of service, financial protection and may even offer you a saving or an exclusive extra!


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The Canon Color imageClass LBP7780cdn , a workhorse color laser printer for a mid- to higher-volume workgroup, brings very good speed, solid output quality, and a decent feature set to this role.
The LBP7780cdn, white with an off-black top, is box-shaped with a curved front edge. It measures a hulking 15.8 by 20.4 by 20.9 inches (HWD), and weighs 78 pounds with toner cartridges in place; you'll want at least two people to move it.
It has a standard paper capacity of 600 sheets, split between a 500-sheet main tray and a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray; it has an automatic duplexer for printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. If you need more capacity, an additional 500-sheet tray is available ($325 direct), for a maximum 1,100-sheet paper capacity. To the right of the 5-line monochrome LCD on the front panel is a port for a USB thumb drive, allowing users to print PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and XPS files directly from a USB key.
In addition to Canon's host-based UFR II driver, the LBP7780cdn comes with both PCL and PostScript drivers.
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The LBP7780cdn can connect to a computer via USB or to a LAN by Ethernet (including Gigabit Ethernet). It also supports direct printing from an iOS device with Canon's mobile printing app. I tested it over a USB connection with its drivers installed on a computer running Windows Vista.
Printing Speed
Our standard procedure for testing business printing speed is to test using the printer's default settings. Canon is one of a small but growing number of printer manufacturers that makes duplexing (double-sided printing) the default on most of its recent printers. Thus, we did our official timings in duplex mode, which tends to be slightly slower than simplex (one-sided) printing. Ad-hoc testing in simplex mode bore this out for the LBP7780cdn.
In duplex mode, I timed the LBP7780cdn on our business applications suite at an effective 7.6 pages per minute (ppm). Running the same tests in simplex mode, I timed the LBP7780cdn at 9.8 pages per minute. Both speeds are in line with the printer's rated speeds of 28 pages per minute for duplex and 33 pages per minute for simplex printing. The rated speeds are based on printing text documents without graphics or photos, while our business applications suite combines text pages, graphics pages, and pages with mixed content.
While testing in duplex mode, the LBP7780cdn jammed several times when printing one particular multi-page document, and I had to redo our tests each time that happened.
The Editors' Choice HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color Printer M551dn ($1,895.00 at Amazon) , rated at 33 ppm for both color and monochrome printing, tested at 9 ppm in simplex mode. We tested the Lexmark C746dn , rated at up to 35 pages per minute in both color and monochrome, at 7.5 ppm in simplex, and the Dell C3760dn Color Laser Printer , rated at 23 pages per minute, at 7.9 ppm in its default duplex mode and 9 ppm in simplex.
Output Quality
Output quality was pretty typical across the board for a color laser. Text quality was good enough for standard business uses, though not up to demanding desktop publishing standards.
With graphics, the colors were well saturated. Minor issues included dithering (the tendency for solid areas to break up into fine graininess). Very thin colored lines were totally lost in one illustration. Graphics were good enough for internal business use up to and including PowerPoint handouts, though I'd hesitate to use them for documents meant to try to impress an important client.
Photos were of average quality for a color laser. There was banding (a regular pattern of thin, dark striations) in one print, and several showed dithering (graininess). Two prints showed a loss of detail in bright areas. Whether they're of a quality usable in a company newsletter depends on how picky you are.
Other Issues
Running costs for the LBP7780cdn are 1.8 cents per black-and-white page and 13 cents per color page, identical to the HP M551dn, and effectively matching the Lexmark C746dn. The Dell C3760dn has somewhat lower running costs at 1.5 cents for monochrome and 10 cents for color pages.
The Canon Color imageClass LBP7780Cdn showed good speed in our testing, particularly when we switched from the duplex default to simplex mode, where it's a little faster than the Editors' Choice HP LaserJet Enterprise 500 Color Printer M551dn. They have near identical paper handling and cost per page. But while the Canon has average output quality for a color laser, fine for internal and some external business uses, the M551dn's output quality is good enough for printing some marketing materials.
The Dell C3760dn costs less than the LBP7780Cdn, has somewhat lower running costs, and at 700 sheets has a higher paper capacity. Its output quality lags, though, with slightly subpar text and photos. The Lexmark C746dn is somewhat slower than the Canon (when both are compared in simplex mode), but has exceptional quality. Although the HP M551dn is still the workgroup color laser printer to beat, the Canon Color imageClass LBP7780Cdn has a good feature set, very good speed, and solid output quality and is well worth consideration in that role.
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The vision which I saw, my brethren, was of the following nature. Having fasted frequently, and having prayed to the Lord that He would show me the revelation which He promised to show me through that old woman, the same night that old woman appeared to me, and said to me, "Since you are so anxious and eager to know all things, go into the part of the country where you tarry; and about the fifth 79 hour I shall appear unto you, and show you all that you ought to see." I asked her, saying "Lady, into what part of the country am I to go?" And she said, "Into any part you wish." Then I chose a spot which was suitable, and retired. Before, however, I began to speak and to mention the place, she said to me, "I will come where you wish." Accordingly, I went to the country, and counted the hours, and reached the place where I had promised to meet her. And I see an ivory seat ready placed, and on it a linen cushion, and above the linen cushion was spread a covering of fine linen. 80 Seeing these laid out, and yet no one in the place, I began to feel awe, and as it were a trembling seized hold of me, and my hair stood on end, and as it were a horror came upon me when I saw that I was all alone. But on coming back to myself and calling to mind the glory of God, I took courage, bent my knees, and again confessed my sins to God as I had done before. 81 Whereupon the old woman approached, accompanied by six young men whom I had also seen before; and she stood behind me, and listened to me, as I prayed and confessed my sins to the Lord. And touching me she said, "Hermas, cease praying continually for your sins; pray for righteousness, 82 that you may p. 13 have a portion of it immediately in your house." On this, she took me up by the hand, and brought me to the seat, and said to the young men, "Go and build." When the young men had gone and we were alone, she said to me, "Sit here." I say to her, "Lady, permit my elders 83 to be seated first." "Do what I bid you," said she; "sit down." When I would have sat down on her right, she did not permit me, but with her hand beckoned to me to sit down on the left. While I was thinking about this, and feeling vexed that she did not let me sit on the right, she said, "Are you vexed, Hermas? The place to the right is for others who have already pleased God, and have suffered for His names sake; and you have yet much to accomplish before you can sit with them. But abide as you now do in your simplicity, and you will sit with them, and with all who do their deeds and bear what they have borne."
"What have they borne?" said I. "Listen," said she: "scourges, prisons, great tribulations, crosses, wild beasts, 84 for Gods names sake. On this account is assigned to them the division of sanctification on the right hand, and to every one who shall suffer for Gods name: to the rest is assigned the division on the left. But both for those who sit on the right, and those who sit on the left, there are the same gifts and promises; only those sit on the right, and have some glory. You then are eager to sit on the right with them, but your shortcomings are many. But you will be cleansed from your shortcomings; and all who are not given to doubts shall be cleansed from all their iniquities up till this day." Saying this, she wished to go away. But falling down at her feet, I begged her by the Lord that she would show me the vision which she had promised to show me. And then she again took hold of me by the hand, and raised me, and made me sit on the seat to the left; and lifting up a splendid rod, 85 she said to me, "Do you see something great?" And I say, "Lady, I see nothing." She said to me, "Lo! do you not see opposite to you a great tower, built upon the waters, of splendid square stones?" For the tower was built square 86 by those six young men who had come with her. But myriads of men were carrying stones to it, some dragging them from the depths, others removing them from the land, and they handed them to these six young men. They were taking them and building; and those of the stones that were dragged out of the depths, they placed in the building just as they were: for they were polished and fitted exactly into the other stones, and became so united one with another that the lines of juncture could not be perceived. 87 And in this way the building of the tower looked as if it were made out of one stone. Those stones, however, which were taken from the earth suffered a different fate; for the young men rejected some of them, some they fitted into the building, and some they cut down, and cast far away from the tower. Many other stones, however, lay around the tower, and the young men did not use them in building; for some of them were rough, others had cracks in them, others had been made too short, 88 and others were white and round, but did not fit into the building of the tower. Moreover, I saw other stones thrown far away from the tower, and falling into the public road; yet they did not remain on the road, but were rolled into a pathless place. And I saw others falling into the fire and burning, others falling close to the water, and yet not capable of being rolled into the water, though they wished to be rolled down, and to enter the water.
On showing me these visions, she wished to retire. I said to her, "What is the use of my having seen all this, while I do not know what it means?" She said to me, "You are a cunning fellow, wishing to know everything that relates to the tower." "Even so, O Lady," said I, "that I may tell it to my brethren, that, hearing this, they may know the Lord in much glory." 89 And she said, "Many indeed shall hear, and hearing, some shall be glad, and some shall weep. But even these, if they hear and repent, shall also rejoice. Hear, then, the parables of the tower; for I will reveal all to you, and give me no more trouble in regard to revelation: for these revelations have an end, for they have been completed. But you will not cease praying for revelations, for you are shameless. 90 The tower which you see building is myself, the Church, who have appeared to you now and on the former occasion. Ask, then, whatever you like in regard to the tower, and I will reveal it to you, that you may rejoice with the saints." I said unto her, "Lady, since you have vouchsafed to reveal all to me this once, reveal it." She said to me, "Whatsoever ought to be revealed, will be revealed; only let your heart be with God, 91 and doubt not whatsoever you shall see." p. 14 I asked her, "Why was the tower built upon the waters, O Lady?" She answered, "I told you before, 92 and you still inquire carefully: therefore inquiring you shall find the truth. Hear then why the tower is built upon the waters. It is because your life has been, and will be, saved through water. For the tower was founder on the word of the almighty and glorious Name and it is kept together by the invisible power of the Lord." 93
In reply I said to her, "This is magnificent and marvellous. But who are the six young men who are engaged in building?" And she said, "These are the holy angels of God, who were first created, and to whom the Lord handed over His whole creation, that they might increase and build up and rule over the whole creation. By these will the building of the tower be finished." "But who are the other persons who are engaged in carrying the stones?" "These also are holy angels of the Lord, but the former six are more excellent than these. The building of the tower will be finished, 94 and all will rejoice together around the tower, and they will glorify God, because the tower is finished." I asked her, saying, "Lady, I should like to know what became of the stones, and what was meant by the various kinds of stones?" In reply she said to me, "Not because you are 95 more deserving than all others that this revelation should be made to you—for there are others before you, and better than you, to whom these visions should have been revealed—but that the name of God may be glorified, has the revelation been made to you, and it will be made on account of the doubtful who ponder in their hearts whether these things will be or not. Tell them that all these things are true, and that none of them is beyond the truth. All of them are firm and sure, and established on a strong foundation."
"Hear now with regard to the stones which are in the building. Those square white stones which fitted exactly into each other, are apostles, bishops, teachers, and deacons, who have lived in godly purity, and have acted as bishops and teachers and deacons chastely and reverently to the elect of God. Some of them have fallen asleep, and some still remain alive. 96 And they have always agreed with each other, and been at peace among themselves, 97 and listened to each other. On account of this, they join exactly into the building of the tower." "But who are the stones that were dragged from the depths, and which were laid into the building and fitted in with the rest of the stones previously placed in the tower?" "They are those 98 who suffered for the Lords sake." "But I wish to know, O Lady, who are the other stones which were carried from the land." "Those," she said, "which go into the building without being polished, are those whom God has approved of, for they walked in the straight ways of the Lord and practiced His commandments." "But who are those who are in the act of being brought and placed in the building?" "They are those who are young in faith and are faithful. But they are admonished by the angels to do good, for no iniquity has been found in them." "Who then are those whom they rejected and cast away?" 99 "These are they who have sinned, and wish to repent. On this account they have not been thrown far from the tower, because they will yet be useful in the building, if they repent. Those then who are to repent, if they do repent, will be strong in faith, if they now repent while the tower is building. For if the building be finished, there will not be more room for any one, but he will be rejected. 100 This privilege, however, will belong only to him who has now been placed near the tower."
"As to those who were cut down and thrown far away from the tower, do you wish to know who they are? They are the sons of iniquity, and they believed in hypocrisy, and wickedness did not depart from them. For this reason they are not saved, since they cannot be used in the building on account of their iniquities. Wherefore they have been cut off and cast far away on account of the anger of the Lord, for they have roused Him to anger. But I shall explain to you the other stones which you saw lying in great numbers, and not going into the building. Those which are rough are those who have known the truth and not remained in it, nor have they been joined to the saints. 101 On this account are they unfit for use." "Who are those that have rents?" "These are they who are at discord in their hearts one with another, and are not at peace amongst themselves: they indeed keep peace before each other, but when they separate one from the other, their wicked thoughts remain in p. 15 their hearts. These, then, are the rents which are in the stones. But those which are shortened are those who have indeed believed, and have the larger share of righteousness; yet they have also a considerable share of iniquity, and therefore they are shortened and not whole." "But who are these, Lady, that are white and round, and yet do not fit into the building of the tower?" She answered and said, "How long will you be foolish and stupid, and continue to put every kind of question and understand nothing? These are those who have faith indeed, but they have also the riches of this world. When, therefore, tribulation comes, on account of their riches and business they deny the Lord." 102 I answered and said to her, "When, then, will they be useful for the building, Lady?" "When the riches that now seduce them have been circumscribed, then will they be of use to God. 103 For as a round stone cannot become square unless portions be cut off and cast away, so also those who are rich in this world cannot be useful to the Lord unless their riches be cut down. Learn this first from your own case. When you were rich, you were useless; but now you are useful and fit for life. Be ye useful to God; for you also will be used as one of these stones." 104
"Now the other stones which you saw cast far away from the tower, and falling upon the public road and rolling from it into pathless places, are those who have indeed believed, but through doubt have abandoned the true road. Thinking, then, that they could find a better, they wander and become wretched, and enter upon pathless places. But those which fell into the fire and were burned 105 are those who have departed for ever from the living God; nor does the thought of repentance ever come into their hearts, on account of their devotion to their lusts and to the crimes which they committed. Do you wish to know who are the others which fell near the waters, but could not be rolled into them? These are they who have heard the word, and wish to be baptized in the name of the Lord; but when the chastity demanded by the truth comes into their recollection, they draw back, 106 and again walk after their own wicked desires." She finished her exposition of the tower. But I, shameless as I yet was, asked her, "Is repentance possible for all those stones which have been cast away and did not fit into the building of the tower, and will they yet have a place in this tower?" "Repentance," said she, "is yet possible, but in this tower they cannot find a suitable place. But in another 107 and much inferior place they will be laid, and that, too, only when they have been tortured and completed the days of their sins. And on this account will they be transferred, because they have partaken of the righteous Word. 108 And then only will they be removed from their punishments when the thought of repenting of the evil deeds which they have done has come into their hearts. But if it does not come into their hearts, they will not be saved, on account of the hardness of their heart."
When then I ceased asking in regard to all these matters, she said to me, "Do you wish to see anything else?" And as I was extremely eager to see something more, my countenance beamed with joy. She looked towards me with a smile, and said, "Do you see seven women around the tower?" "I do, Lady," said I. "This tower," said she, "is supported by them according to the precept of the Lord. Listen now to their functions. The first of them, who is clasping her hands, is called Faith. Through her the elect of God are saved. 109 Another, who has her garments tucked up 110 and acts with vigour, is called Self-restraint. She is the daughter of Faith. Whoever then follows her will become happy in his life, because he will restrain himself from all evil works, believing that, if he restrain himself from all evil desire, he will inherit eternal life." "But the others," said I, "O Lady, who are they?" And she said to me, "They are daughters of each other. One of them is called Simplicity, another Guilelessness, another Chastity, another Intelligence, another Love. When then you do all the works of their mother, 111 you will be able to live." "I should like to know," said I, "O Lady, what power each one of them possesses." "Hear," she said, "what power they have. Their powers are regulated 112 by each other, and follow each other in the p. 16 order of their birth. For from Faith arises Self-restraint; from Self-restraint, Simplicity; from Simplicity, Guilelessness; from Guilelessness, Chastity; from Chastity, Intelligence; and from Intelligence, Love. The deeds, then, of these are pure, and chaste, and divine. Whoever devotes himself to these, and is able to hold fast by their works, shall have his dwelling in the tower with the saints of God." Then I asked her in regard to the ages, if now there is the conclusion. She cried out with a loud voice, "Foolish man! do you not see the tower yet building? When the tower is finished and built, then comes the end; and I assure you it will be soon finished. Ask me no more questions. Let you and all the saints be content with what I have called to your remembrance, and with my renewal of your spirits. But observe that it is not for your own sake only that these revelations have been made to you, but they have been given you that you may show them to all. For 113 after three days—this you will take care to remember—I Command you to speak all the words which I am to say to you into the ears of the saints, that hearing them and doing them, they may be cleansed from their iniquities, and you along with them."
Give ear unto me, O Sons: I have brought you up in much simplicity, and guilelessness, and chastity, on account of the mercy of the Lord, 114 who has dropped His righteousness down upon you, that ye may be made righteous and holy 115 from all your iniquity and depravity; but you do not wish to rest from your iniquity. Now, therefore, listen to me, and be at peace one with another, and visit each other, and bear each others burdens, and do not partake of Gods creatures alone, 116 but give abundantly of them to the needy. For some through the abundance of their food produce weakness in their flesh, and thus corrupt their flesh; while the flesh of others who have no food is corrupted, because they have not sufficient nourishment. And on this account their bodies waste away. This intemperance in eating is thus injurious to you who have abundance and do not distribute among those who are needy. Give heed to the judgment that is to come. Ye, therefore, who are high in position, seek out the hungry as long as the tower is not yet finished; for after the tower is finished, you will wish to do good, but will find no opportunity. Give heed, therefore, ye who glory in your wealth, lest those who are needy should groan, and their groans should ascend to the Lord, 117 and ye be shut out with all your goods beyond the gate of the tower. Wherefore I now say to you who preside over the Church and love the first seats, 118 "Be not like to drug-mixers. For the drug-mixers carry their drugs in boxes, but ye carry your drug and poison in your heart. Ye are hardened, and do not wish to cleanse your hearts, and to add unity of aim to purity of heart, that you may have mercy from the great King. Take heed, therefore, children, that these dissensions of yours do not deprive you of your life. How will you instruct the elect of the Lord, if you yourselves have not instruction? Instruct each other therefore, and be at peace among yourselves, that 119 I also, standing joyful before your Father, may give an account of you all to your Lord." 120
On her ceasing to speak to me, those six young men who were engaged in building came and conveyed her to the tower, and other four lifted up the seat and carried it also to the tower. The faces of these last I did not see, for they were turned away from me. And as she was going, I asked her to reveal to me the meaning of the three forms in which she appeared to me. In reply she said to me: "With regard to them, you must ask another to reveal their meaning to you." For she had appeared to me, brethren, in the first vision the previous year under the form of an exceedingly old woman, sitting in a chair. In the second vision her face was youthful, but her skin and hair betokened age, and she stood while she spoke to me. She was also more joyful than on the first occasion. But in the third vision she was entirely youthful and exquisitely beautiful, except only that she had the hair of an old woman; but her face beamed with joy, and she sat on a seat. Now I was exceeding sad in regard to these appearances, for I longed much to know what the visions meant. Then I see the old woman in a vision of the night saying unto me: "Every prayer should be accompanied with humility: fast, 121 therefore, and you will obtain from the Lord what you beg." I fasted therefore for one day.
That very night there appeared to me a young man, who said, "Why do you frequently ask revelations in prayer? Take heed lest by asking many things you injure your flesh: be content p. 17 with these revelations. Will you be able to see greater 122 revelations than those which you have seen?" I answered and said to him, "Sir, one thing only I ask, that in regard to these three forms the revelation may be rendered complete." He answered me, "How long are ye senseless? 123 But your doubts make you senseless, because you have not your hearts turned towards the Lord." But I answered and said to him, "From you, sir, we shall learn these things more accurately."
"Hear then," said he, "with regard to the three forms, concerning which you are inquiring. Why in the first vision did she appear to you as an old woman seated on a chair? Because your spirit is now old and withered up, and has lost its power in consequence of your infirmities and doubts. For, like elderly men who have no hope of renewing their strength, and expect nothing but their last sleep, so you, weakened by worldly occupations, have given yourselves up to sloth, and have not cast your cares upon the Lord. 124 Your spirit therefore is broken, and you have grown old in your sorrows." "I should like then to know, sir, why she sat on a chair?" He answered, "Because every weak person sits on a chair on account of his weakness, that his weakness may be sustained. Lo! you have the form of the first vision."
"Now in the second vision you saw her standing with a youthful countenance, and more joyful than before; still she had the skin and hair of an aged woman. Hear," said he, "this parable also. When one becomes somewhat old, he despairs of himself on account of his weakness and poverty, and looks forward to nothing but the last day of his life. Then suddenly an inheritance is left him: and hearing of this, he rises up, and becoming exceeding joyful, he puts on strength. And now he no longer reclines, but stands up; and his spirit, already destroyed by his previous actions, is renewed, 125 and he no longer sits, but acts with vigour. So happened it with you on hearing the revelation which God gave you. For the Lord had compassion on you, and renewed your spirit, and ye laid aside your infirmities. Vigour arose within you, and ye grew strong in faith; and the Lord, 126 seeing your strength, rejoiced. On this account He showed you the building of the tower; and He will show you other things, if you continue at peace with each other with all your heart."
"Now, in the third vision, you saw her still younger, and she was noble and joyful, and her shape was beautiful. 127 For, just as when some good news comes suddenly to one who is sad, immediately he forgets his former sorrows, and looks for nothing else than the good news which he has heard, and for the future is made strong for good, and his spirit is renewed on account of the joy which he has received; so ye also have received the renewal of your spirits by seeing these good things. As to your seeing her sitting on a seat, that means that her position is one of strength, for a seat has four feet and stands firmly. For the world also is kept together by means of four elements. Those, therefore, who repent completely and with the whole heart, will become young and firmly established. You now have the revelation completely given you. 128 Make no further demands for revelations. If anything ought to be revealed, it will be revealed to you."
Fifth. Sixth.—Vat. [Here is a probable reference to canonical hours, borrowed from apostolic usage (Acts iii. 1), but not reflected in written constitutions in Clements day.]
12:80[Compare Cyprians Life and Martydom, by Pontius the deacon (sec. 16). This is doubtless a picture of the bishops cathedra in the days of Pius, but, for the times of the Pauline Hermas, a probable anachronism.]
12:81[Ezek. i. 28.]
12:82[For justification and sanctification.]
13:83My elders. Perhaps the translation should be: the presbyters. [No doubt; for here also is a reference to canon law. See Apost. Constitutions (so called), book ii. sec. vii. 57.]
13:84[Heb. 11:36, 37]
13:85[Rev. xi. 1.]
13:86[Rev. xxi. 16.]
13:87[1 Kings vi. 7; 1 Pet. ii. 4-8. The apostle interprets his own name,—shows Christ to be the Rock, himself a stone laid upon the foundation, by which also all believers are made lively stones, like the original Cephas.]
13:88Others had been made too short, not in Vat.
13:89That … glory. And that they may be made more joyful, and, hearing this, may greatly glorify the Lord.—Vat.
13:90[2 Cor. xii. 1-11. The apostle is ashamed to glory in revelations, and this seems to be the reference.]
13:91 14:92I said to you before, that you were cunning, diligently inquiring in regard to the Scriptures.—Vat. You are cunning in regard to the Scriptures.—Lips. In some of the mss. of the common Latin version, "structures" is read instead of "Scriptures."
14:93The Lord. God.—Vat. [1 Pet. iii. 20; Eph. v. 26. Both these texts seem in the authors mind, but perhaps, also Num. 24:6, 7.]
14:94The building. When therefore the building of the tower is finished, all.—Vat.
14:95Not because you are better. Are you better?—Vat. [See note 90 on 2 Cor. xii. 1-11, preceding chapter.]
14:96[1 Cor. 15:6, 18.]
14:97[Phil. ii. 2, iii. 16; 1 Thess v. 13.]
14:98Are those. They are those who have alreay fallen asleep, and who suffered.—Vat.
14:99Cast away. Placed near the tower.—Vat.
14:100[Heb. vi. 6-8; xii. 17.]
14:101[Heb. x. 25. Barnabas (cap. iv.) reproves the same fault, almost as if directing his words against anchorites, vol. i. p. 139, this series.]
15:102 15:103Use … God. Then will they be of use for the building of the Lord.—Vat. [1 Cor. iii. 9-15. But, instead of circumscribed, let us read circumcised (with the Latin): with reference to the circumcision of wealth (of trees under the law, Lev. xix. 23), Luke xi. 41. The Greek of Hermas is ὅταν περικοπῇ αὐτῶν ὁ πλοῦτος.]
15:104For … stones. For you yourself were also one of these stones.—Vat.
15:105[Heb. iii. 12, vi. 8.]
15:106The words "draw back" are represented in Greek by the word elsewhere translated "repent;" μετανοεῖν is thus used for a change of mind, either from evil to good, or good to evil.
15:107[Perhaps the earliest reference to the penitential discipline which was developed after the Nicene Council, and to the separation of the Flentes and others from the faithful, in public worship. But compare Irenæus (vol. i. p. 335, this series), who refers to this discipline; also Apost. Constitutions, book ii. cap. 39. I prefer in this chapter Wakes rendering; and see Bingham, book xviii. cap. 1.]
15:108[Greek, ῥῆμα not λόγος. To translate this as if it referred to the Word (St. John i. i) is a great mistake. (Heb. xi. 3). Compare Wakes rendering. It seems a reference to the audientes, seperated from the faithful, but admitted to hear the Word. See Bingham, and Apost. Constit., as above.]
15:109[Salvation is ascribed to faith; and works of faith follow after, being faith in action.]
15:110[Girded rather, the loins compressed.]
15:111[Their mother is Faith (ut supra), and works of faith are here represented as deriving their value from faith only.]
15:112Regulated. They have equal powers, but their powers are connected with each other.—Vat.
16:113[Appearently for fasting, and to wait for the appearance of the interpreter, in cap. x.]
16:114The Lord. God.—Vat. [See Hos. x. 12.]
16:115Or, that ye may be justified and sanctified.
16:116I have translated the Vat. Reading here. The Greek seems to mean, "Do not partake of Gods creatures alone by way of mere relish." The Pal. Has, "Do not partake of Gods creatures alone joylessly, in a way calculated to defeat enjoyment of them."
16:117[Jas. v. 1-4.]
16:118Those that love the first seats, omitted in Æth. [Greek, τοῖς προηγουμένοις τῆς ἐκκλησίας καὶ τοῖς πρωτοκαθεδρίταις. Hermas seems, purposely, colourless as to technical distinctions in the clergy; giving a more primitive cast to his fiction, by this feature. Matt. xxiii. 6; Mark xii. 39; Luke xi. 43, xx. 46.]
16:119[Rom. ii. 21; 1 Thess. v. 13.]
16:120 16:121 17:122Literally, "stronger," and therefore more injurious to the body.
17:123How long. Ye are not senseless.—Vat. [Matt. xvii. 17; Luke xxiv. 25.]
17:124[1 Pet. v. 7.]
17:125His spirit … renewed. He is freed from his former sorrows.—Vat.
17:126 17:127Shape … beautiful. Her countenance was serene.—Vat.
17:128[As Dupin suggest of The Shepherd, generally, one may feel that these "revelations" would be better without the symbolical part.]


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iOS 6 Jailbreak Already Available with Redsn0w 0.9.13dev
The first beta of iOS 6 has only been in the wild a few days but has already been jailbroken. The DevTeam released a dev build of Redsn0w 0.9.13 to handle the jailbreak which works on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4G, though each device is tethered for the time being and there are a handful of major issues with the jailbreak that should prevent most users from attempting to use it on their devices.
As the versioning implies, Redsn0w 0.9.13dev1 is intended for developers only. There are many components that do not work, including Apple's default apps, many 3rd party apps, Cydia apps, and more. Furthermore, this version of the tethered jailbreak does not install Cydia. Because of all the caveats this is really a proof of concept and should not be widely adopted beyond those developing jailbreak tweaks or apps, but it does suggest that when iOS 6 is released to the public a jailbreak will accompany it rather quickly.
Download Redsn0w 0.9.13dev
For the brave devs that wish to try this, these are direct links:
If you're a developer and you wish to try this out, point Redsn0w at the iOS 6 IPSW file to jailbreak, and then boot tethered. As the Dev Team mentions, anyone attempting to use this version of redsn0w will need a registered UDID to activate their device.
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CloudKit provides schema-free, auto-versioned, RESTful JSON storage with optional OpenID and OAuth support, including OAuth Discovery.
CloudKit is Rack middleware. It can be used on its own or alongside other Rack-based applications or middleware components such as Rails, Merb or Sinatra.
The CloudKit stack provides an optional OAuth Filter with support for OAuth Core 1.0 and OAuth Discovery. Share your APIs with other web services, desktop apps, Open Social gadgets and more.
An OpenID Filter supplies authentication for browser-based clients. Both the OAuth and OpenID Filters collaborate to simultaneously provide login screens and auth challenges in a single HTTP response.
Discoverable, schema-free, auto-versioned JSON storage tracks each version of each JSON document to allow progressive diff/merge with decentralized or occasionally connected clients.


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A research team from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) have been awarded a new $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue developing a small robot that could one day be a huge aid to neurosurgeons in removing difficult-to-reach brain tumors. This NIH grant is one of the first awarded to a joint UMB and UMD research project under the collaboration between these two research powerhouses that is known as University of Maryland: MPowering the State.
Team members Jaydev P. Desai, PhD, associate professor of mechanical engineering at UMD, and Rao Gullapalli, MD, associate professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine, and J. Marc Simard, MD, professor of neurosurgery, both at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have developed their "Minimally Invasive Neurosurgical Intracranial Robot" (MINIR) prototype over a number of years and demonstrated its feasibility, supported in part by a previous NIH grant. The team has evaluated the device under continuous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). According to the researchers, work done on the previous NIH grant helped to uncover next level challenges that are the basis of this new NIH project.
The NIH grant will enable the team to develop MINIR-II, a fully MRI-compatible robot and demonstrate its safety and effectiveness. To accomplish this, MINIR-II will need to be under the direct control of the physician, with targeting information obtained exclusively from real-time MRI that uses active targeting methods with sensors embedded within MINIR-II.
"This technology has the potential to revolutionize the treatment and management of patients with difficult to reach intracranial tumors and to have a direct impact on improving their quality of life," says Desai. "This work is a result of exceptional collaboration over the years, between our two extraordinary institutions."
Brain tumors are among the most feared complications of cancer, occurring in 20% to 40% of adult cancer patients. Despite numerous advances in treatment, the prognosis for these patients is poor, with a median survival of four to eight months. Whether a primary (intrinsic) malignancy, or a secondary (metastatic) malignancy, involvement of the brain in a cancer patient is devastating, because it threatens the very personality and identity of the individual, and is invariably the most likely of all complications to directly and severely affect the quality of life. Currently, the optimal treatment is to remove the tumor(s) through primary surgical resection, then follow with additional therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy.
Unfortunately, in many patients the location of the brain tumor makes it too difficult to remove through primary surgical resection. This is especially true for tumors deeply embedded in the brain that may be difficult to access using conventional neurosurgical techniques. The poor general health of the patient can further complicate the matter.
A fully MRI-compatible MINIR could one day enable neurosurgeons to reach such difficult tumors and greatly improve outcomes for these patients. Furthermore, image-guided robotic surgery avoids the complications associated with brain shifts associated with conventional tumor resections, as the target tumor may move during surgery but will always remain within sight through the exquisite contrast available from real-time MRI.
Source: University of Maryland


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Wooden Railway Clickity-Clack 3" Curve Track
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Good condition, wear here and there.
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Thomas Wooden Railway
Thomas Wooden Railway is a line of wooden toy trains and playsets based on the Thomas and Friends television show and books by the Rev. W. Awdry. It was first introduced by Learning Curve in 1992, and it was later acquired by Fisher-Price, a subsidiary of Mattel. The Thomas Wooden Railway line features a variety of wooden engines, cars, and playsets that are compatible with each other. The engines have magnetic connectors that allow them to connect to the cars, and the playsets include tracks, buildings, and other accessories that can be used to create a variety of different layouts. The Thomas Wooden Railway line is designed for children aged 2 and up and is aimed to develop fine motor skills, problem-solving and creativity.
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Jobs for felons in web design is an industry that is in demand. Felon Employment can be readily available with jobs associated with the internet, computers and the growing mobile market. All of these industries are in need of web designers and do supply jobs for felons.
It can be difficult for felons to get jobs, especially in the down economy. This is unfortunate, as many times felons have turned their lives around. However, there are plenty of good opportunities out there, regardless of what your past might be like. Website design is a great example, as it is a job you can do from home. There are plenty of web design jobs for felons because you have the option to start your own business and work from home. Clients will not care about your personal history and will not ask whether or not you are a felon.
In order to be successful in website design, you need to be creative, hard working, and motivated. If you have these traits, then you will be able to thrive working for yourself at home. Potential clients will want to see some examples of work that you have done before hiring you, but that is all they will care to know. This is what makes web design jobs for felons such a great option. Of course, that is not the only benefit to the website design industry. You will be able to enjoy a career that has a very bright future and you will be able to make a nice salary.
New businesses will always need websites, and they look to talented web designers for that. What you charge per website is up to you, and whether you work out of your own home or an office is your decision as well. You can essentially set your own hours, and you will not ever have to worry about explaining your past mistakes to anyone. Few jobs can boast all these luxuries, which makes web design jobs for felons something to consider.
Many people are intimidated by starting their own business, and would rather work for a firm where they could count on a steady paycheck though. Even still, web design firms are not usually reluctant to hire felons because of the fact that they can work from home. As long as you can show them that you know how to design quality websites, they will most likely be willing to hire you. So while it can be difficult to find employment if you have a bad record, there will always be web design jobs for felons. Consider that career path, and you will be able to truly leave the past behind you.
Jobs for felons in web design are in demand and there the people with the skills are getting hired. This industry is not going anywhere and is actually expanding every year. If you have a knack for computers and enjoy art this may be a good career fit. If you have a criminal record and can't find a job, just know that there are web design jobs for felons out there.


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Kangaroo Pub Expo Pavillion
Client: | World Expo 1992 |
Location: | Seville, Spain |
Scope overview: | Design, fabricate, ship and erect an 1,800m2 tavern-style Australia pub for the World Expo 1992 site in Seville, Spain |
Project Description
Aussie pub a hit at World Expo 1992
Wiley was contracted to design, fabricate, ship and erect an 1,800m2 tavern-style Australia pub for the World Expo 1992 site in Seville, Spain.
- Managing the local authority bureaucratic processes
- Handling the logistics of prefabricating, shipping and erecting the pub in accordance with Spanish regulations
- Achieving a short construction schedule around the constraints and work practices of the Spanish environment.
- Strategic advice to achieve a facility that balanced high durability with a design life of only six months (the duration of the Expo).
- Innovative design to achieve modularisation and efficient transport and shipping from Australia to Spain
- Provision of all building and building services design disciplines
- Detailing that allowed maximum speed and efficiency during construction assembly on site.
- Expatriate supervision by a supervisor with Spanish language capability
- Contracting and supervision of all construction subcontract packages
- Tight construction scheduling to be ready for the Expo opening.
The Kangaroo Pub was an outstanding feature of World Expo 1992, presenting an unusual mix of Australian rural heritage, lifestyle and entertainment.
This facility was highly durable but designed for a just a six-month lifespan. It was completed in time for the Expo opening and attracted patronage well in excess of expectations.


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In order to cure the dreaded creative rut she's in, Livia ends up in Las Vegas by suggestion from her therapist. Oh and there's a catch. Livia's been set up to have a one night stand with a very handsome man who promises her freedom through submission. Can she surrender to more than just passion?
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Baboo: Rainbow Puzzle
Help the cute Baboo animals and complete as many rainbow lines as possible! Your task in this addictive puzzle game is to drag the pieces onto the field to make vertical or horizontal lines. Only full lines will disappear from the field. Be careful and don't fill up the screen or the game is over! Try to get a double rainbow for extra points and earn as many points as you can!